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TRIwEIKYEIN WINNSBORO, S C., M,AY 20 189.ETBLhD18).\ "Warm-Handers." The article in the Youth's Compan. on of Jan.. 10, 1S95, on the introduction of lucifer-matches and the fire-making and fire-keeping means which preced ed these Lseful little articles, has call. ed out an interesting account, from the Rev. H. C. Hamilton, of Richwood, Ohio, of a device which was employed In his family, in his youth. In those early and matchless days, every boy learned well the art of so coverina fire in the ashes that it would not gc out over night. But nevertheless it sometimes became necessary to "bor row fire," or carry it to a camp; and in such cases the ordinary method In which It was done is thus described by Mr. Hamilton: When one of us boys wished to carr. dre to the sugar camp, or with us on a hunt for rabbits, opossums, or coons, we would get as much tow from a hogshead in the barn as we could carry In one or both hands. We would flatten this out Into somewhat the same shape as that of one of our mother's shorteikes, lay the tow on the hearth, and then drop into the center of it a good solid coal, about the size of a hen's egg. Then we gathered the tow up into a knot, with the coal in the center. This made a tow-ball, with a livt .oal in the center of it. We prevented the tow from burning by the pressure of the hand; and in this way could carry a live coal for several hours. When everything was ready to star s fire, we opened the tow-ball and thus gave the fire air; and the result was that the tow took fire, blazed up, and set fire to the kindling provided. But we had another use for our ball if fire and tow. We called it a"warm tiander." When the weather was cold, and our mits were bad, or we had none, we would make these tow-balls and carry them with us as we went from place to place. We could put our bands, in whic, we held the balls, in our pockets, and thus. have a miniature stove in our "wampus," or our trousers' pockets. Our hands were thus protected from the cold, and we were ready at the same time to start a fire at a mo ment's notice. I am sure that I could carry a bal if fire and tow with me a distance of sixteen miles, and then start a fire 1i two seconds from the time I arrived, and in the meantime have a tiheap device that would put a lady's muff to shame as a meafg otecting thi hands from cold. Where,-the Giants Come From. Nearlyevery race has contributed to fiantisra, but the English has furnished far tld largest proportion, partly, per haps,4because the English have always been; fond of seeing giants and paying for ;the privilege, thereby drawing the t of physical bigness, which has always been modest, out of its unde served obscurity. Next to the Eng ish, the Irish have supplied the largest number, but the Irish giant Is rarely grown nowabays, since that stock has been drawn upon so heavily by Ameri ca. Germany and the United States have supplied, each, eight or nine men who have won publicity and fame by their exuberant physique. It seems to be the Central and Western States that supply the American giants, and our war records show that In these regions, together with Maine and Vermont, the average stature is the highest. There have been French and Italian, Negro and Arab giants, but the number is few, and it is evident that the tem perate zones and the large races sup ply the most cases of giantism. It is a curious fact that since Biblical days there have been no giants among the Tews. The Secretary of the Interstate Deep Harbor Committee. which some years ago took hold of the project to secure a deep harbor at Galveston, reports that the work is nearing completion. Two jetties are built, having lengths of six and one-eighth and four and one-quar ter miles. They now are over the crest of the bar and are being extended sim ultaneously, with an excellent prospect that the scouring by ocean water will keep the channel open after it has been formed. The work will also result in free docks and free railroad facilities at a point on the main land known as Texas City, which is being built on high land across the bay northwest from Galveston. The contract has been let to a Chicago contractor to construct for $260,000 a sixteen-foot channel f romn the Texas City docks to deep water. Another contract is let for dredging the harbor area in front of the Texas City docks, which are to be improved 50C feet into the bay and 2,500 feet along the shore. The total wvater front is six miles. The wharf improvements at Galveston and the terminal facilities now extant have cost up~wards of ten mIllion dollars and other contemplated Improvements will cost several mill ions more. A bridge company has been or-, ganized to build a bridge across the bay to accommodate newv roads deosir lng to enter Galveston, this to cost a million dollars, and it is proposed tc charge $1.50 per car for all trafii over it. Those who are sure of going to Heaven want to take the whole world with them. Tragedy has the great mo~ral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. Give a man thA world and he will try to kick other planets out of exis tence. Idleness is emptmess; the tree in which sap is stagnant rer..ains fruit. less. It is a wise political boss who re alizes in time that he has only a passmng show. Researches in the Air. The air of a meeting room, tested II Afferent places at different times dur .ng the progress of the meeting, show !d numbers of micro-organisms vary .ng from 135,000 to 3,500.000. The air near the ground contained fewer than :he air near the ceiling. For example, :he air some four feet from the ground xontained 270,000 before the meeting tud at the end of the meeting 400,000, while near the ceiling the amount at the )eginning of the meeting was 3,000,000 Lnd at the end of the meeting this had been increased to 3,500,000. Air near . burning jet of gas showed the larges figures of all. Thus, in the immediate vicinity of a bunsen flame the gigantic anumber of 30,000,000 was found In a :ubic centimeter, or 489,000,000 per cu blic inch. In Mr. Aitkin's own words: 'It does seem strange that there may be ts many dry particles in one cubic ineh )f air of a room at night when the gas s burning as there are inhabitants in xreat Britain; and that in three cubic .nches of gases from a bunsen flame there are as many particles as there ire inhabitants of the world." Possi bly tests on the air of smoking rooms would reveal still greater numbers. Mr. Aitken has not yet tested such air, but he found that a cigarette smoker sends 4,000,000,000 particles, more or less, into the air with every puff he :iakes.-The Gentleman's Magazine. The Cautious Carp. In the second act, scene 1, of "Ham. et." we find Polonius saying of Rtey naldo, "See you now; your bait of false hood takes this carp of truth;" whicb would seem to imply that your carp was a gullible creature; such, how ever, and alas! not being the case, at any rate in these days. Nor was this fish regarded as an easy prey by the skilled anglers of 250 years ago. Writ Ing about thirty years after the death f our Immortal subject, Master Izaak Walton says: "The carp is the queen of rivers * * * a very subtle lish * * if you will fish for a carp you nust put on a very larg.nieasure of >atience. * * .Y~ Elsewhere, with pain, one notes un late 'rig reference to Cyprinus, which Xaniere lauds thus: "Of all the fisLi that swim the watery mead.-not one in cunning can the carp exceed." Buffou was so impressed with its extreme cau don and williness that he designated it 'the fresh-water fox;" as for Walton, to that which we have already quoted. there Is appended the remark, "He is hard to be caught." Now, whatever may be thought of old Isaak as a nat ralist, it must be admitted that as re gards deluding coarse fish he was de idedly "all there."-The Gentleuan's agazine. Social Adoption. Either a Swede or a Dane (I think a Swede) told me that in his country adoptions of this sort are common, and for a singular reason-so singular that I mention it on tihe chance that some of your readers may be able either to confirm or refute it. My informant, if understood him rightly, said that mong the genitlefolk of his nation it is tought ill-bred to pronounce tihe pro oun "you;" tile full name or title of he person addressed ha~s to be given, nd to be often repeated. But though hey may not say "you." they may saly thou." Therefore, to avoid the more umbrous form, tutoienment soon be ins among friends. But tutoieament, my informant saik volves a sort 'of adoption, and the nse of Christian names. "What thlen." asked, "is done when there is a great isparity of years?" "In that ease," e replied, "the younger friend ad resses the elder as uncle or aunt." he matter a'nd manner of this recital ad an old-fashionled flavor, which at tracted me to Scandinavians and their ways.-The Spectator. Novel Dust-Testing Apparatus. A.~ new and novel instrument is the zon ,gope, or dust-testing appar'atus. t Is not a complicated scientilic ma rhine, being solely intended for esti ating in an easy and simple manner the amount of pollution and number f dust particles in the atmosphere. he action of tile instrument is based n certain color phenomena associated with what is called "cloudy condensa tion of air,"' and which can be pro !ced by steam jets, high or low tem >erature of the air, tile increased num. er of dust-nuclei, etc. In working the oniscope' the air is drawv into the ap aratus by means of a common air mp, andl~ quickly passed to the "test ubes," which are fitted with glass at both ends. When the tube thus charged is hek oward the light various colors, from pure white to nearly black-blue-ac ording to the purity or impurity of the sample under test-are Indicated. The dust particles also form an im >ortant factor in these tests, thle var'ia on in their numbers causing thle miir ror to throw all the colors of the rain bow. Lovely concord and1 most saered peace dloth nourish vitte, and fast friendship breed. It is a dangerous bnsmness f,-r men nd women to lie to each other until they are married. As long as there is life there is hopP, is a truism that everyone on the eve of suicide should remember. When you think about a law suit, hesitate and consider the advantage that may lie in compre mise. It is by attempting to reach the top at a sin gle leap that so much misery is produced in the world. Do no talk about the lantern that holds the lamp; but make haste, un~ over the light and let it shine. Powder PuIs. The airy powder puff is heavy with :he lives of slaughtered innocents. It Is stated that as many as twenty thou sand young swans-cygents, as they are called-are killed every year to supply this dainty fluff, to say nothing of innumerable young birds of the elder duck and wild goose variety. One cygnet will make nearly a dozen average-sized puffs, which show how many women must be, to a greater oi less extent, addicted to the use of powder. The puff trade;is highly prof. itable, as may be judged from the fact that the down of a cygnet costs little more than 25 cents, the poor creature often being plucked alive so that it may bear another crop, while the puffs are sold at from 75 cents upward, nicely mounted in bone, and blue or pink satin, which adjuncts amount to comparatively nothing. Hoot, Toot, Hue and Cry. Hoot is to make the noise of a&. wl, huette or chouette; as howl is owl aspirated, ululare. Hoots, or hootes, plural, requires only the addi ion of ium as a common ending to make hutesium, and we get the very word wanted in Borel, huz-crierie. If we write it hu-tes, we have only added A euphonic "e." To hoot brings us to toot, and the tooting horn of the old mail coach, and so to the hootes and huz above arrived at To toot is to hoot through the lon& iorn; to tout is only another spelling of :he same word, meaning to advertise by blowing a horn. In "hue and cry" It is further cut down still, but it brings us back, all the same, to the common law and vivid description of a hasty pursuit. "with horn and voice." It is not often that the law is so picturesque and verisemblable.-Notes and Quer. eM. A Slight Difference. Binks-Did I understand you to say that Swillem rushed the growler-it old Soak:*- nLl?-- - Winks-Not at all. I remarked that he helped carry the bier.-Life. Reprehensible Language. Wife-The language you used when vou came home last night was some. -'.ing dreadful. Husband-But Wife-Don't try to deny it. I am as positive as I am that I sit here that -vhen I sad: "Who's there?" you said: -Me."-Detroit Tribune. He Stood the Test. An English vestryman about whose -onduct some questions arose, was asked: "Did you not swear at the child who opened the door to you?" "No," was the reply. "I never swear at any Ime." "Not when you knock your head against a door?" asked Mr. Turner. "No," answered the officer. "Then you must be a good man," said Mr. Turner; and the guardians, feeling that it would be waste of time to improve upon this philosophy, shortly afterward ad lourned. Evonti on IThe theory of evolution has revohti Ionized botany. We look now up~on a lower, not as an independent creation, but as a form which began centuries ago in a more primitive outline, and has adapted its shape to the present We look upon the flower from the point of view of structural botany, and then trom that of the philosophical botany, or what we may call the Darwinian point of view. Food forThought. Some of the dearest things on earth do not cost us a cent. The world cannot afford to do with out reasonable pleasures. If you would be a sage among fools never express an opinion. Let France have good mothers and she will I ave gooid SODS. We can do more good by being good than in any other way. No amount otflnair oil will make ideas grow in an empty head. Be more cautions in lending your influence than ro'ir money. Experience is the name men give to their follios or their sorrows. Some men tell lies because it is their only means of getting quoted.. .tiealth is the first censi'leration after all, for what is wealth without it. In daily living it is as wise not to kow as to know. A million dollars in gold can't bny meal for a hungry heart. Capid doesn't fatten on a steady diet of corn beef and cabbage. Courtship is seldom a training school for what comes after. Some men put into their pockets mch more than their money. Only actions give lite strength: only moderation gives it charm. Natare is to thin a screen; the glory of the one breaas in every where. 'The less we parade our misfortaines, the more sympathy we com...and. Strength is born in the deep silence : of long suffering hearts: not amidtst jy. A man does the most of the fussing, b ut his wife has her own way jusit the same. The man who m akes his own Gol ha one that drives him with an iron whip. Di iking water neither makes a man sick nor in debt nor his wife a widow. It is marvelous how long a rotten post will stand, provided it be not shaken. EKXVe DR TALMA6! LIE BROOKLYN 1DTVINR'S SiN . DAY SERMON. Subject: "Salvation." TFrT: "Seek yr the Lord while He may be found. "-Isaiahi iv., 6. Isaiah stands heai and shoulders abov, the other Old Tesuament authors in vivid do scriptivoness of Christ. (;: br prophets give an outline of our Saviour's features. Some of them present, as it were. the side far-e o Christ, others a bust of Christ, but Isaial givrs us the full len::th portrait of CMbit Other Scripture writers exre in aomo thini -Fzekiel more weird. David more pathecic, Solomon more epigrammnatie, Hfabakk'ia more sublime-but when you want to sne Christ coming out from the gatet of prophe. cyin all His grandeuranl glory you involun. tarily turn to Isaiah. so that if the roaphe eles in regard to Chri-t might be cailed the "Oratorio of the M'ssiah" the writing oi Isaiah is the "falleluial Chorus," where all the batons wave and alI the trumhpets come i. Isaiah was not a man pl'ked up out ol insignificance by Inspiration. He was known and honored. Josehs, an-l Philo and Sirach extolled him in their writin:. What Paul was among the apostles Isaiah was among the prophets. My text finds him standing on a moun tain of inspiration, looking' out into the fu. turo, beholdin:- Christ advantcing and anx lous that all men might know Him. H1i voice rings down the ages, "Seek ye the Lord while He may be found." "Oh," says some one. "that was for olden times." No, my hearer. If you have traveled in other lands, you have taken a eircular lettee ol credit from some banking house in Ncw York and in St. Petersbiirg or Venice or loma or Melbourne or Calcutta. you pre sented that letter and got llnaiiaela help im. mediately. And I want you to understand that the text, instead of being appropriate for one age or for one land, is a circuiar let ter for all ases and for all lands, and where ever it is presented for belp the help come-s. "Seek ve the Lord whilo iHe may be found.'' I coine to-day with no hair spun theoriet of religion, with no nieo distiuctions, witt no elaborate disquisition, but with an urgent call to personal religion. The gospel o1 Christ is a powerful medicine. It eithei kills or cures. There are those who say: "I would liko to become a Christian. I have been waiting a good while for the righi kind of influonees to come," and still you ae--wetfi - n ae-iser in worldly things than you are In xeligious things. It you want to get to Albany. you go the Grand ntral Depot or to the steamboat wharf, and having got your ticket you do not sit down on the wharf or sit In the depot. You get aboard the boat or train. And yet there are men who say they are waiting to get tc heaven, waiting, waiting. but not with in telligent waiting, orthey would get on board the line of Christian influences that wouk' ear them into the kingdom of God. Now, you know very well that to seek a thing is to search for it with earnest endeav or. If you want to see a certain man in this city, and there is a matter of $10,OOC oonneoted with your seeing him, and you qannot at first ind him, you do not give up the search. You look in the directory, but eaunot find the name. Yra go in circles where you think perhaps heanay mingle, and having found the part of tre city where he lives, bu4 perhaps not k:. :ang the street, you go through street aftf - '.,et..and froma block to block, and you Xcep on searching for weeks and for months. You say, "It is a matter of $10,000 whetho: I sae him or not." Oh, thmt men were :u persistent in seeking for Christ! Had yor one-half that persistence you would long agc i.-avo foind irm who is the joy of the for. givn spirit. We may pay our debts, wem may attond church, we may relieve the poor, we m ay be publie benefactors. and yot all our lift disohey the text, never see God, never gain heaven. Oh, that tho Spirzt of God would help me, while I try to show'you-, i.) carrying out the idea of my text. fist how to s-e' .hw Lord and in the nest place when to teek Him. - I rem nk. in the first place, you are to scek the L'rd through earnest and helievin:: prayer. God is not an autocrat or a despoi0 setae on a throne, with His armas resting os braz.'n lions and a sentinel pacing up mad [bwnx at the foot of the throne. G'd is a lather seatedI in a bower, waiting for Irk chil tren to come and climb on His knee and get Iis kiss and ils benediction. Prayer is the co, wit h which we go the "fountin, of living waler" andl dip up refreshmenut for our hirsty soul. Grae does not come to the eart as lv" set a cask at the ea'rne'r of the house to catch the rain in the shower. It is a puliey fastened to the throne of God, whieb ve pll, b:inging the blessing. I do not care so much what posture yT.L take in prayer nor how largem an aont ol oico you uso. You might get down on our face before God, if you (lid not pray right Inwardly there would be no response. ou might cry at the top of your voice, and nless you ha~d a believing spirit within your ry would not go further up than the shout f a plowboy to his oxen. Prayer must be elieving, earnest, loving. You are in your ouse some summer day and a shower comies ulp, and a bird, affrighted, darts into the window and wheels about the room. You elze It. You smooth Its ruffled piumag'. ou feel Its fluttering heart. You say, "P'oor hing, poor thung!" Now, a prayer goes out f the storm of this world into the wilndow f God's mercy, and He catches It, and lie' es its fluttering pulse, and lHe puts it iu is own bosom of aiceetion and safety. rayer Is a warm, ardent, pulsating exereise. t is an electric battery which, touc'hed, brilts to the throne of God. It is the diviniq >ll in which we go down into the depths oif od's mercy and bring up "pearls of great ,rice" There was an instance where prayer ade the waves of the Gennesaret solid as tole pavement. Oh, how many wond~erful ~hngs prayer has accomplished! Have~ yo ver tried it? In the days whmen the S:'ote ovenanters were porSecutedl and the anme ore after them one of the heal min amn:.;I he Covenanters prayed: "Oh. Lir-i, we be. Sdead mn unless Thou shalt-helIp us! Oh, Lord, throw the lap of Thy cloM: ov-'r the por thingsi" And Instantly a Sct':h mis~t levelo ped and hid the perseenmted' from tihl Mrsecuto-the promrise literally fulfilled. *While they are yet speaking I will hear." Have you ever tried the power o'f prayer~I lod says. "He is loving and faith ful and p :et." Do you believe that? You are told hat Christ came to save sinners. Do0 you elieve that? You are toll that all you havg o do to get the pardon of the gospel is t ask for it. Do you believe thamtl? Thien om o hilm and say: "0 Lordl. ? know Thou anst not lie. Thou hast told me to come for pardon and I could get It. I come. Lord. eep Thy promise and liberate my captive Oh, that you might have an altar ini the mrlor, In the kitchen, in the store, in the arn, for Ghrlst will be willing to comae agair. o the manger to hear prayer. He would~ ooime to your place of business as He con, rnted Matthew, the tax comnmissioncr. I: a measure should come before Congr:-ss thai ou thought would ruin the Nation, how you would send In petitions and remnonLtranices. nd yet there has been enough sin in youu eart to ruin It forever, and you have nevem rmonstrated or petitioned against it. Il our physIcal health failed and you had the eans. you would go and snend the summel In 1erma~ny and tnle winter in Italy. and you ould thinik ii a very cheap outlay if you ad to go all round the earth to get back your physical health. Have you made any sifort, any expenditure, any exertion for your immortal and spiritual health? Oh. that you mIght now begin to scelq after God with earnest prayer! Some of you. have been working for years and years fot the support of your families. Have yom gtwan a-half Aar to the workinfr out 01 euvaa wira rear ana rremoung Yon came here with an earnrst purpose, I take it, as I have come hither with an earne4 purpuse, and we meet face to face, and I tel rou, first of all, if you want to find the Lori 7vu must pray and pray and pray. I remara again. you must seek the Lori th rough Bible study. The Bible is the new est book in the world. "Ob." you say, "it Was made hundreds of years ago, and the larned men of King James translated it hundlreds of years ago." I confute that idea by telling you it Is not fivb minutes old when God by His blessed spirit retranslates it into thie heart. Ir you will, in the seeking of the way of life through Sripturc study, implore G;od's light to fall Upin the pago, you will Tnd that these pronii<s are not cno second >ld, aid that ihey drop straight from tht ;hrone of God into your heart. 'ihere are :many pcoplo to whom the BibIt J--s not :mrnoant to much. If they merely looa el ths outsido bauty. why. it will no miore lead thom to Christ than Washington's hxarwlI address. or the Koran of Mohammed. Dr the Shaster of tne Hindoos. It is the In' u'ard light of Gol's word you must get. I vent up to the Church of the Madeleine in 'aris and looked at the doors, which are the most wonderfully constructed I ever saw, &ad I could have staid there for a whole week. but I had only a little time. So, hav Ing glaned at the wonderTal carving on the loors. I passed in and looked at the radiant &'tars and the seulptured dome. Alas, that 5o many stop at the outside door of God's holy w rd, looking at therhetorical beauties Instead of going in and looking at the altars -f sacrifico and the dome of God's mercy and :alvatioa that hovers over penitent and be leving souls! When you come Into the religious etrele, some only with one notion and only for one 2urpose-to find the way to Christ. When I ie people critical about sermons, and riti ral about tones of voice, and critical about ;"rnioie delivery, they make me think of a nan in prison. He is condemned to death, xutan ofileur of the government brings a :pardon and puts it through the wicket of :h pri.-onand says: "iere is your pardon. "owauw'nd get it." "What! Do you expect nor to take that pardon offered with such a Voice as you have, with such an awkward anner as you have? I would rather die -han so compromise my rhetorical notions." Mi, the man does not say that. He takes it. [t is his life. He does not care how it is talided to hin. And if to-day that pardov from the throno of God is offered to our souls abould we not seize it regardless of aY ionessentiais? But I come now to the last part of m3 :ext. It tells us when we are to seek the bord, ",adTh ~Ho.may be found." When is Tr' Old age? You may not see old age. ro-morrow? You may not see to-morrow. ro-night? You may not see to-night. Now! Dh, if I could only write on every heart in three capital letters that word N-0-W-nowl Sin is an awful disease. I hear people say %vith a toss of the head and with a trivial manner, "Oh, yes, I'm a sinner." Sin Is 4n iwful disease. It is leprosy. It is dropsy, it is consumption. It is all moral disorder in one. Now, you know there is a crisis in a disease. rerhaps you have had some illus. tration of it in your family. Sometimes the physician has called, and he has looked at the patient and said: "That case was sim ple enough, but the crisis has passed. If you had called me yesterday or this morning, I could have cured the patient. It is too late now. The crisis passed." Justso itis inth. ipiritual treatment of the soul-there is j 3risis. There are some here who can remember in stances in life when, if they had bought & certain property, they would have become very rien. A few acres that would have cost hen almost nothing were offered them. rhey refused them. Afterward a large vil. lage or city sprung up on those acres ol ground, and they see what a mistake they made in not buying the property. Then was an opportunity of getting it. It nevei came back again. And so it is in regard it a man's spirtual and eternal fortune. There Is a chance. if you let that go, perhaps i4 aever comes back. Certainly that one neve ones back. A fentleman told me that at the battle a Gottysburg he stood upon a height looking c Upon the conflicting armies. Ho said it WLS the most exciting moment of his lifa Now one army seeming to triumph and nom the other. After awhile the host wheeled is 2m.h a way that he knew in five minutes thd whlom question would be decided. He said the emotion was almost unbearable. Thern Is just such a time to-day with you-the forces of light on one side, the forces of dent) en the other side, and in a few moments the matter will be settled for eternity. There is a time which mercy has set fot !eaving port. If you are on board before that you will get a passage for heaven. If you are not on board, you miss your passage for heaven. As in law courts a ease is some time's adjourned from term to term and from year to year till the bill of costs cats up the entire estate, so there are men who are ad journing the matter 2f religion froru time to time and from year to year until heavenly bliss is the bill of costs the man vili have to pay for it Why defer this matter, oh, my doarhearett [lave you any Idea that ein will woar out; that it will evaporate; that It will relax its genrsn; that you may find religion as a man iteildental ly flatis a lost pocketbook? Ah, no! No man ever became a Christian by ac cident or by the relaxing of sin. The em barrassments are allithe time increasing. The hosts of darkness are recruiting, and the longer you post pone this matter the steeper the path will become. I ask those men who are be fore me now whether in the ten or fif teen years they have passed in the postpone ment of these matters they have come any~ nearer Godc or heaven? 1. would not ber afraid to challenge this whole audience, so far as the7 may not have found the peace of the gospel, In regard to the matter. Your harts, you are willing frankly to tell me are becoming harder and harder, and that if you come to Christ It will be more of an undertaking now than It ever would have been before. The throne of judgment will soon be set, and If you have anything to do toward your eternal salvation you had bettor do it now, for the redemption of your soul is preciocus, and it ceaseth forever. Oh. if men could only catch one glimpse1 of Christ. I know they would love Him! Your heart leaps at the sight of a glorious sunlrise o'r sunset. Cant you be without emo tien as the Sun of Righteousness rises be hind Calvary and sets behinid Joseph's sepnl cher? .Ae is a blessed saviour. Every Na tion has its type of beauty. There is Ger man beauty, and Swiss beauty, and Italian beauty, and English beauty, but I care not In what land a man first looks at Christ he pronounces Him "Chief among 10,000, and the one altogether lovely." The diamond districts of Brazil are care fully guarled, and a man does not get In there ex'ept by a pass from the Government, but the love of Christ Is a diamond district we may all enter and pick up treasures for eternity. "To-day, if ye .will hear His voice, harden not your hearts." Tatke the hint of the text that I have nc time to d well upon-the hint that there is a timne when IHe cannot be found. There was a man in this ctty eighty years or age who saidl to a clergyman who.came in, "Do you thinuk that a uman eighty years of age cant get parone?" "Oh, yes." saidl the clergyman. The o,1d moan said: "I can't. When I was tw'nty years oinage-I am now eighty years -the Spirit of God caime to my' soul, and I felt the importance of attendinag to these things, but I put It off, I rejected God, and since then I have had no feeling." "WVell," said the minister, "wouldn't you like to have me pray with you?" Yes," rep lied the old man, "but It will do no good. Youi can pray with me if you like to." The minister knelt down and prayed and commended the ama's soul to God. It seemed to have no effect upon him. After awhile the last hour oif the man's life came, and through his delirium a spark of intellige'nce seemed to flnsh, anul with his last breath he said, "I shall never be forgiven." "Oh, seek the Lord while He 'mayhb foundi" CHEMIST RY IN THE FUTURL Bow It Wil Warm and Feed MankInd i the Year 2000. The Paris correspondent of th London Daily News writes about remarkable address by M. Bertheic at the banquet of the syndical chan ber of chemical prcduct manufactui rs recently. M. Berthelot's subec was "The World in the Year 2000. After saying that he looked t chemistry for deliverance from pre, ent-day social evils and for the poi sibility of realizing the socialisti d. eams, that is if a spiritual chemis try could be discovered to chang hunan nature as deeply as chemica science could modify the globe, hi continued: "This change w.ll b creatly due to cbemistry utilizing th1 heat of the sun and the central hea of the globe. The latter can be ot tained by shafts 2, 000 or 4,000 meter in depth. Modern engineers ar aoual to the task of sinking. Thei the water down so deep would be hol 3.and able to keep all possible machin ary going. By natural distillation i1 would f rnish iluld free from mi crobes and would be an unlimitet source of chemi al and electrica energy. This could be everywhe:4 ieveloped, and thousands of year might pass without any noticeabb4 ilminution. With such a source o: heat all chemical transformation wil be easy. The production of alimen Lary matters will be a consequence This pro(luct:on is in principle re solved, and has been for forty years, by the syntheses of grease and oils l'hat of hydrates of carbon is voing Dn, and that of nitrogenous sub stances is not far off. When energj :an be cheaply obtained food can b made from carbon taken from car bonic acid, hydrogen taken from water, and nitrogen taken from the air. What work the vegetables have 3o far done science will soon be able to do better, and wlth far greatei profusion, and independently of sea sons or evil microbes or insects. "There will be then no passion to iwn land, beasts need not be bred for slaughter, man will be milder -and more moral, and barren regions may be preferatle to fertile as habitable places, because they will not be pes tiferous from ages of manurIng. The re gn of chemistry will beautify the planet. There w:ll under It be no need to disfigure it with geometrical works of the agriculturist or with the grime of factories and chimneys. It will recover its verdure and flora. The earth will be a vast pleasure gar len. and the human race will li've In peace and plenty. But it will not b idle, for idleness is not happiness and work Is the source of all -virtue. in the earth renewed by chemist y, people will work more than ever, but acco ding to their special tastes and faculties and from high and noble motives. The great object will be then to develop more and more the esthetic and the intellectual facul ties." M. Berthelot ended by dr.nk ing "To work, to justice, and to hap iness of humanity." "May we all see yo..r dream realized," was the answer. "The year 2000 is so n3ar, and yet it is so far off, since none of ,.s can hope to see It dawn." Very Diffneult to Be Suited Clay Clement (ame to rehearsai ane morning in a bad humor. Gen erally a manager gets relief from this malady in iroi ortion to the amount o.' trouble and annoyan e he can cause the mu h imijosed ul on pro;erty man. '.t he play they were rehearsing require:1 a storm effe 4 and to work this the i roperty-man ha-1 been statione-J at the thunler-sheet in the wings. At a ertain cue he was to rattle the thunder. Over and over again the poor boy tried it, each time the rehearsal coming to a Lead stand still, while Mr. Clement, in rags, ielled out: "ihot a bit like it; haven't you sense enough to jerk 3tbat thunder 'heet right?" A~ter this hal been enacted a dozed times Mr. 0. said: "Get away from bere. Go stan.1 oif while the staze manager gives the cue for the thunder and I'll 1:ull the sheet;~ then ice if you can work it like I do." This was all done. Then said Mr 3lement: "Now, sir, see if you can do that just like I did; but wait, I will go sit down in the auditorium and see it it sounds all right down \here." He then took a seat in the audi toriur# The long-suffering pro erty mad took his ;ost at the thunaer sheet. In the meantime a real storm hal su-idenly commenced outside, but the actors had not c.is overed it. The stage manager gave the cue, a bursting real of real thunder was heard. This sho ked the prorerty boy so he forgot to jerg his thunder, but Mr. Clement, not knowing but what the boy ha.I caused this thunder and determined not to be satisfied, lasbed up and down the aisle. "Not a bit like it. Not a bit like The proverty Doy calmly retorted. "Even the Almighty can't make thunder to suit you:" Unmeasuret iwas. The gas mian called on the dentis1 to have a tooth extracted "Do yoi want to take gas?" asked the LA D. S "How much will it requied" "Oh don't worry ahont that; I'm not go ing to measure with the meter you 'ise on me."-Detroit Free Press. A New Eindof creditor. "My dear," said a lady to her hus band, as she was looking over the newspaper, "what are preferred cred. itors?"~ "They are the-the-the creditors who never send in their bills. Leastways that's the kind ) , aratang iotes &umg;i eWacase. W:a9 e ~~~entaeca - -' e LOST opportk A nity finds its waY back. 40 ~' You began your eternal lift at your birth. A PROFANM tongue plays the devil's music. CROOED steps -are the most apt to be noticed. U N REPENTED Oin is a promissory note to the devil. I DATH only changes the surround ngs not the eternity. WHEN you use an oath you defy God and serve the deylL. Most people believe in the total de pravity of somebody else. THE day that does not begin witb prayer does not begin right. GoD's peace is only for those who do not fear the devil's war. THERE is nothing the devil is so much afraid of as the truth. SIN may try to hide its head, but it cannot cover up its tracks. A DROP of dew tries as hard to'do God's will as a thunderstorm. VIPRTUE never stops paying divi dends because the banks break. THE man who tries to deceive oth ers is himself deceived by the devil. A LIE feels easy only when it for gets that It has a truth on its track. Too MANY Christians pay the Lord in promises, and the devil in spot .3ash. PHILosOPHY may keep a man from doing wrong but it cannot make hin better. THE Pentateuch seems to trouble some men to-day, but John 3:16 de ies a criticism. RELIGION has begun to starve whenever it begins to walk with its 'lands in its pockets. WE are all living under a sentence of deati. Sooner or later the son 'fence will be enforced. You can generally tell how muct religion a man has by measuring It with his own half-bushel. THE Bible speaks of the bottom less pit, to show that all lost sinneru will fall to the same depth. Tz man who dues no good with his money helps the devil every time he puts a dollar in his socket. IO you are over 70 years old you are liying en an extended aa.", It way fall due at any 1nomeh, Do xoT fool yourselft If the first man was made with eyes and ears his Maker can both see and hear. TmE isn't any use in going into the church to work for the Lord. if you let the devil hold your purse. THE reason so many Christians are lean in soul is, so few of them hun -Ter and thirst after righteousness. THERE would be more success in life if more of us were willing fo, God to tell us where and how 4 work. IT is a bad moral atmosphere where vulgarity passes for wit and humor, and men are entertained ":y i. IF you love your enemies and do good to those who despitefully use you, you are on the right road to Heaven. Sham Knowledge. 1t is easy enough to learn what the gypsies would call the "patter" oi various professions One can die-. course learnedly, on leaving a concert hall, concerntg the value of the ma sic he has heard, or hie may criticise a picture, with the proper reference to "foreshortehing," "highlights," "middle-distance," &nd the rest of it "It is a fine poem; yes, a very fine poem," said a would-be critic friend to an author, "but you will excuse me for saying I don't think you have a perfect understanding of the sonnet form. The pause hardly comes in the 'ight place." The author bowed and smiled mer :ily, and afterward a common friend said to him: "You seem to take criticism very :heerfully, Fred." "Bless youl" said he, "that isn't critclsm, but it amuses Tom to de liver it. The poem he was talking abont isn't a sonnet at all, it hai nineteen lines," Agassiz was once asked what he abhought of an attack made on his scientific position by a certain scholar and thinker who had a bo'1a knowledge of the different theories advocated by the representatives of science, and decided that Agassiz must be ranked in the second or third class. He1 burst into a roar of! laughter. "Why, just thing of it," he said, he undertakes to fix my place among zoologists, and he is not a zoologist himself. Why, he has never eves been an observeri" it otten happehs that the men yhb.. really know a subject from beginriL to end, so far as a human being mian are those who have least time to tailk whout it. So there are long silences to be filled by the Ieople who tre content with seeming to know, and - few of them have the self-control t'e resist the temptation. A WEsTERtieditor thus allude to a contemporary: "He is'young yet, but he can sit at his desk and brui-h cobwebs from the ceiling with hit GOODn biniranhy should -not be .aH