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... .1 1 . IKE END OF TIME. AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON, ^ The Angel Thet Stood With One j Foot Upon "he Land and 04:o Upon j the Sen. j v "New Yoek City.?The Rev. Dr. David ' Tames Barrel!, pastor of the Marble Voile- , ifiate Church, Fifth avenue and Twenty- v ninth street, preached on '"The End of r tTime." He took his text from Revelations j at: 5 and 6: "And the angel which 1 saw i atani! upon the sea and upon the earth . 1 1 1 ' 1 *nr? swarc UILM II]# IIISS UIUIU vu uvaivu, ~ ty Him that liveth forever and over, who c created heaven, and the things that.therein | c art, r.nd the earth, and the things that I n "therein arc. and the sea, and the things j ; "which are therein, that there should Le j _ time no longer." c Our theme is a trifle threadbare, but per- j f lane none the less protitable on that ac- I t count. It is an easy matter to make a j ( fcomily 0:1 tim?. but not all homilies are ae v much to the point as that of the court jeste? Jaccaear* : ""Oood morrow. fool." quoth I. :i "So. rir," quoth he; J "Call me not fool till heaven hath sent me ' lortnoe.'' v lAnd then he drew a dial from his poke, I .And, looking on it with lack-luster eye, c f?avs very v.l-cly, "It is tea o'clock; * 'Jiics may we see," quoth he, "how the '' world wags; a *BV_ 1 * 1 ??f xt-fic ninP' i I' - 11* fi'-.t i. 'i . ajiv jiuiv iv And after one hour more 'twill l>e eleven; j 1 Ami so. itor.i hour to hour, we ripe ?r:d : * ipc, ! ^ And then, from hoar to hour, we rot and ; -v rot; ( ,, And thereby lianas a talc." j^rt this Tue!r.-.c!;D.'y '"tale" engage us for j y * while. The issues of interminable aeons ( ;j s ay depend upon the attention we give to I t the circling hinds on the dial. He who learns aright the lessons of time is ready v to me;t the responsibilities of eternity. ^ t But wlia.. is time? "Time is money," n the y say. So far so good, if we would real- i j ize it. A man went into Benjamin Frank- t lin's book store and inquired the price of a volume. "One dollar," was the clerk's a Answer. "Call your employer," said the c uould-be purchaser. When Franklin was t a&teci the price of the volume he answered, f ^One dollar and a quarter." "Why, your t clerk asked only a dol'ar." "To be sure, c but you called me from my printing prc<s t and I am charging you for my time.' The V man argued and remonstrated in vain, j IYesentl.v he said, "Xow. Mr. Franklin, t Tea'ly wliat is your lowe?t figure for this j booli?" "One dollar and a half." "Pre- s - posteroui*! Yon only asked me a dollar t and a quarter." "Yes, but my time is valuable, and every minute sends the book \ up." This was sound philosophy and good f business. If our days and hours were all t markea with a price in plain figures we ] uhould probably be less profligate of them, t We have no aucb scruple about wasting f time as we would have in throwing gold t cacles into the sea. r Bnt time is more than money. 1^ is "the ' stuff that life is made of." It stands for g privilege, opportunity, resnonsibibty. judgment, heaven or hell. You may throw 1 -away -a dollar and earn another, but no r two moments overlap. The last one said \ farewell forever: the nest is?already gone! a Time is a talent, a talent of gold stamped v wffch the image and superscription of the I King. God made it, as He made the trees c And mountains, and He owns it. He has t entrusted it to us. to be put at usury for r Him. "Will a man rob God? Yet ye have f robbed Me. sa'th the Lord of hosts." The n ? - A / mimpprupriillioil ur IIIHUSC U1 uuis auu 1' hours and momenta is as really dishonest d ai the tapping of an employer's till. This o a serious matter, and gives us sufficient t for thought, if our question were I pushed no further. But we cannot stop v here. ii I asked an aged man with hoary hairs, ti "Wrinkled and curved with many worldly a - cares, Time is the warp of life," he said, "0 tell T The young, the fair, the brave to use it u well." h c I asked the mighty angel and silver}- " spheres, ? Those bright chronometers of passing c d years; "They answered, "Time is but a meteor's a glare," e And bade me for eternity prepare. o I asked th*-mighty angel who shall stand a Ope fqpbon sea. the other on the land; ^'Mortal," he cried, "the mystery is o'er; lc Time 'was.* fime is, but time shall be no , more!" * t< j i A step further brings us to the inquiry, 1 What js,1i"\p<i.for? or to what end has this n momentous trust been reposed in us? Let ? it be understood th3t time is not for us to J": live in. Wo are not ephemera; we live for- y -?ver. Time is given us tor preparation. ' Th's is oniy the antechamber of life, where P wa efsrrl umifinflp until fKo rlftrtr nfiPHC flnrl ^ ;we pau in. Death is the angel that opens J "the door. The only reason why we fear *J death is because we know that as time * leaves us eternity finds us. Death ends ^ probation. We cross the line with our P characters chrystalized: "He that is unjust, ls let him be unjust still; he that is holy, let w tim be holy still." These are our school- ^ days; death is "commencement." Here .we sen-evan apprenticeship; death is going to work. * "The other day a young newspaper re- is porter said to me, on my refusing an inter- A view: "I wish you would help me along, tl I'm on probation, and whether I get an tl engagement or not depends upon my sue- P; ?ess in this sort of thing." I wonder how g some of the people who are now wasting G .their probation can expect to be taken v into service in the kingdom of God. What tl can they do? Let the great Employer ask them, What can you do?" How will it seem to answer, "I can sell dress goods; I w .can lead the german; I can make money or n speml it; I can drive a bargain; I can sail ? '? schooner or run an engine; I can 're- g' ceive' and 'entertain;' I can make money?" ^ .These may be good as far as they go, but, g 1 'in all soberness, how far do they go as a si preparation for the tasks of heaven? Do " gog know, friend, how to comfort the grief- P Tgfricken and rescue the wandering? How tto minister to the need of the wounded " traveler op the Jericho road? How to give J th? cup 01 cold water to one of God's little ones? How to point a penitent sinner to the lamb of God? How to speak the praisea of the One altogether lovely? How f' to sing "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Al- a mighty?" ff not, what a bewildering sort ? rtf nlace heaven wtsuld be to vou! What k re you fit -for? Heaven is no place for i' nnskil ed labor. What can you do? Time t is given you for this very purpose, to get t ready for the things farther on. y But how much time have we? Enough; a mo more, no less. Jt is distributed ''to v every one according to his several ability, s A. short life is long enough, and the long- ? est life is short enough for what must be 1 <3one in it." Seneca said, "We complain t of the shortness of time and yet we have o more than we know what to do with. Our y 'lives are spent in doing nothing at all, o nothing ttj the purpose or nothing that we h ought to do. We are ever complaining S that our days are few and acting as if they were without end." r We have time enough for work. An "'eight-hour day" is a purely artificial d thing. God never made it. "Arc there I now twelve hours in the day?" God's clay 1 in which "man goeth to his work" is from r morning until evening, and there is not too d much of it. ? We have time enough for recreation. No v ana.i is at liberty to overwork or to work d 'without relaxing. "All work and no play" a -makes Jack not only a dull but an unprof- 1 liable boy. No business should ever be ao 1 ibsnrhis.- as io c.t or e' ? hat contribute to the !: It?i ,= I syinineof It;**, More mo.i *.:e ui a "ot'iclj nisch" tliin 01 int.. N?: ' . >n the husks of harried uovo.mn. 'Coo n\<y, too busy!" and the trimr >t sounds! We have bice enough for physical rest. The niftht is for sleep. "tired nature's moot restorer, balmy sleep." V'or is the ii;:!it too Ions. Ihcttsh many p.cojtic act at f vhev thoasht it so. Wo ha\c time enough for devotion. .VI he days are Hod's days. but ?. one it w vritten. "Tiie Lord Messed the S.ihbatii lay and hallowed ic." ] have known a nan to curtail hi- rest si:; pi- hts in tJit vck and recuperate on Minuny. i ns is obbinc God. The nicht and the Fabbatii lave separate uses. Christ -aid. "Tiie Sab>ath was made for man." it was made to ?ihs?wve our highest interests as children if God. It is not enough that we should lose the shop; we must open the windows if ou- souls toward God. The Sabbath is ; "hallowed" or holy dav. The Lord knew iow busy we would be on the secular days -so busy that we are likely to give little >r no thought to spiritual things?whercore He said. "I will give them a day for heir souls; when they nay come up into he mountains and bicathe the clear air mil Me." So Tie has gben ns time divided and adus.ed to our n^eds. and it behooves u.; 4o nake an economical use of ic. Some people re always in haste; others are always bclind time. It was a wise saying of Fiaeh. "To come before the opnortunity is o come before the bird is hatched; to cime after the opportunity is to come afci the bird is flown." Kvcry day. every lour, every moment strikes its own ha?nce. Postponement is profligacy. Proractii ation is a spendthrift as veil ns a biejf. It was Jxrnl Chesterfield, one of he worldliest of nun, who wrote to his on. "Never put off until to-morrow what evi can da to-day." But the worst of all capital crimes is killing tunc." The phrase is significant? ignificant of murder most foul. The onth who seeks to quiet memory and an ineasy conscience by plunging into dissipaion; the old social campaigner who wanlers about with a worn-out stomach and a vi::ene(^ heart in search of pastures new; he devotee of fashion, whose idle days re spent in recovering from worse than die nights?these all are chronocidcs, aud hey are moral suicides as well. Oh. the waste, the frightful, irrevocable taste! Dreaming empty dreams, building ast'es in the air, lighting specters and vindmills. entertaining vain regress and oolish hopes, brooding on old grudges, earing characters to tatters over the tea ups, borrowing trouble, writing books hat never will be published nor ought to >e. groaning over imaginary aches and >ains, crossing bridges before we come^ to hem?what a large part of life these fill? Vnd every moment lost this wav is lost to elf culture, lost to humanity, filched from he service of God. The world is full of commonplace people vho have squandered their birthrielit and alien short of all the large possibilities of heir being through the misuse of time, rhey sit tilted back in their chairs and widdling their thumbs while Waterloo is >eing fought, and they wake up and begin o fret when nothing is going on. They iever catch up with themselves. The 'more convenient season" leads them a tern cbasp year in and year out. One of the valuable secrets of success is mowing how to economize the fragments if time. An hour seems a little matter, iut you can read twenty quarto pages in n hour, and an hour a day for four years rould carry you through the Encyclopaedia iritannica. Ten minutes are hardly worth onsidering. yet Longfellow in his youth ranslated Dante's "Inferno" in the ten ninutes day after dav. while he waited or his coffee to boil. ''Gather ut> the fragile tts that nothing be lost." While Proessor Mitchell _was in charge of a division Inriner thp Civil War ho cnid in n vniira fficer: "You excuse vourself on the ground ] hat you are onlv a few minutes late. Sir, i have hern in the habit of calculating the i alue of a millionth part of a second!" It ] ? the loss of time, a little here and a little here, that makes life a failure and eternity n irremediable disappointment. Will there be an end of time? Aye, rhen eternitv begins. The life beyond is nconditioned by the falling sands of the ; our glass. At the sounding of the sev- | nth trumpet John saw an angel arrayed I a majestv, with one foot planted on the j ?a and the other on the land, who pro- j laimed the end of the present cycle, ! There shall be time no longer!" But to I 11 intents and purposes death marks the i r.d of time for overv mah. Probation is j ver. .once for all. The present probation ! rould. indeed, be a farce, if there were i nother after it. The fabric is lifted from : !ie loom and there is no gathering up its j >nse ends. School is out and life begins. Wherefore, whatsoever thy hand findefh j > do. do it with thy might, and do it here j nd now; for there is no work, nor device. | or knowledge, nor wisdom on the grave j hither thou eoest. It is a true saying of ! imerson's. "No man ha9 learned any- j ling rightly until he knows that every ; ay is doomsday," for every day and every our has the issues of eternity wrapped up ! * it. In hoc momento pendit eternitas. ; he time to will, to choose, to act is now. f s>n i? to be repented of, repent now. If hrist is to be accepted, accept Him now. 'ow is the accepted time and to-day is the ay of saltation. "The golden dportunity never offend twice; seize thou the hour hen fortune smiles and duty points the ay." God's Opportunity. Some one has said that "each human life I i another opportunity for God to display j [is grace aud power." So it is and the j lought will grow upon you as you mcdilte upon it. Just think, "I am God's op- j ortunity!" Isn't it wonderful! Isn't it ! loriousf When we look at others whom I od has richly blessed and honored in serice we can see how it is, but do we ever link of ourselves as God's opportunity? Every one that responds to God's call, Come!" gives God a large place in the orld. Every one who obeys God's c.omland, "Go!" assists God in gaining a largr place in the hearts of men. Every reenerated heart and life is a new garden in hich God plants His seeds of love and race; a fountain out of which flow conMint streams of healing power. Take it ome and say to yourself, "I am God's < portunity." Be that, and your life will beime unutterably grand, and your cxper nce unspeakably sweet. ? Presbyterian ournal. Making Others Happy. When you rise in the morning form a esolution to make the day a happy one to fellow creature. It is easily done; a leftff garment to the man who needs it, a ind word to the sorrowful, an encouraglg expression to the striving?trifles in hemselves light as air- will do at least lor j he twenty-four hours. And if you are i oung depend upon it, it will tell when you I re old, and if you are old, rest assured it I rill send you gently and happily down the ! trerni of time to eternity. By the most j imple arithmetical sum look at the result, f yon send ore person, only one, happily hrough each day. that is 365 in the course f the year. And supposing you live forty ears only after you commence that course f medicine, you have made 14,600 beings iappv, at all events for a time.?Sydney Imitb. ' The Brand of Drink. T Sin sets its seal upon the human face as listinetively as righteousness, says the Jnion Signal. An article in a New Oreans paper states the fact that expeienced barkeepers can tell what a man Irinkj by the peculiar discoloration of his kin. 1'here is. it appears, a livery of dusky, of brandy, beer, absinthe, each ona Icing its deadly work with strict individuility. In no little corner of the creation is aw inoperative, whether it be the law of ife or tne law of sin and death. 1 | tmtiL f The Drain. ! A drain thai is slopped up is one | tli.it is not oriy unserviceable, but a ' menace to health. Wii"n foul there i is always a disagreeable stench therefrom, ami, being always damp, sub. stances deeonipo.se euiekly. Not him* i Is more important than to frequently I examine the outlets of drain pipes and i ditches, in order to have a free II ow of water in them. lYepd Sped* in (train. Several hundred samples of timothy, ttlsiko and red clover on sale by local dealers in different provinces have I been analyzed at Ottawa. Out. In I some ten to thirty per cent, by weight ! of sand was found; sixty-three per ! cent, of the samples contained over | 20CO weed seeds per pound: forty-four ! per cent, over ."000 and twenty-five per j cent, over 10,00ft. Not more than two j per cent, of the samples were found i free from weed seeds. These facts j are in line with a recent complaint from a Massachusetts fanner in regard ! to the rapid spread on his farm of a j "new weed with white blossom and a l hot. bitter taste." Investigation showed ! the presence of wild carrot, that pest oi rue liny nciu m so many iui-auun. The weed had first appeared in quantity along the borders of a field of oats. Better for the farmer to have paid double price all the rest of his life for the best grade of seed oats from a reliable dealer than to have Introduced such n weed in cheap gain seed. It costs more to raise pedigree seed and to raise it on clean land, but the result is worth the difference. Better raise oue's own seed on the farm than to buy hap-hazard at the store. . Tools For Winter Pmnlnc* In trimming trees, we want something that will make a good, smooth wound. The advantage I find with my saw Is that it has a stiff back, making the blade perfectly rigid, which can be brought up with a set screw, j That will make a good close cut where | the saw will not get a chance to wol>! ble. Of course, the teeth of the prun| Ing saw are fine and well set. so that j It cuts rapidly. There was a blade on ! the end for jabbing, but that is a very j poor tool, because you will make one ! or two strikes before you hit in the right place, and those make two or three wounds, and you get two or three suckers to heal over those wounds. The saw is in all cases the best tool to prune with, and nakes very little Injury to the cambium in cutting, and that is the important part of th'e tree, I for that is the part from which we get all our growth, and want to take the greatest care of it. Some might say, "What about the pruning shears?" They are all right under certain circumstances for smaller limbs, when there Is not much resistance in cutting it off, but take the limb of an apple tree where the wood Is hard, in order to get that limb off you have to work the shears often, and you will work the bark off there, bruise the cambium for an inch, and the wound heals very slowly. We use a long handle on the saw for high trimming. It is not necessary to pare wounds, because you want to have the inner bark protected as much as possible, and if you pare down it will allow ^the frost to get to the inner bark.?W. N. Hutt, in American Cultivator. Best Fertilizer* For Tomatoea. Fertilizer tests of interest are reported in Bulletin 92 of the Indiana station. The experiments were carried out during the seasons of 1899 and 1900 on moderately heavy clay loam that would naturally yield about tweutyrfour bushels of wheat or fifty bushels of corn per acre. The fetilizer formula followed in the main was that recommended by Voorbees, viz., nitrogen 4.7 per cent., phosphoric acid 7.2 per cent, and potash twelve per cent., applied at the rate of 500 pounds per acre; and was composed of muriate of potash, nitrate of soda, azotin and acid phosphate. This mixture cost (fOO 4/vn a enm a nlofc Ann nuuui pel i\Jiim v/i.c cvujt jijii 10 vii\, or more of the fertilizers was omitted, and the amount applied on the different plats also varied. Barnyard manure applied on clover sod at the rate of twelve to fifteen two-horse loads per acre formed one plat in 1900. The best results were obtained by usin.tr a complete fertilizer In liberal amounts. The use of nitrogen alone, either in the form of nitrate or organic nitrogen, was unprofitable. The yield on the barnyard manure plat was the largest obtained with any of the fertilizers. This fertilizer had a tendency to delay and prolong the ripening period, but the total yield was very near double that obtained from any other plat. On the whole, the use of the commercial fertilizers considerably increased the yields and hastened the maturity of the crop. The results also indicate that on lands of the type used where clover is grown in the rotation, a fertilizer made up of three per cent. r% rvnr /?ont QVfltlflhlo cutu J/Cl VVUW phosphoric acid and twelve per cent, potash would more nearly meet the requirements of the tomato crop than the Yoorhees formula, and would be about $5 per ton cheaper. Earlier experiments at the station indicate that sulphate of potash gives a better quality of early tomatoes than the muriate. Practical ?*t Boxes. The accompanying drawing illustrates very well the Improved nests designed and successfully used by William Proctor, of Massachusetts. They are very easily made, and the plan of construction is as follows: | Take three boards, one inch thick by I twelve inches wide and of any conI venient length. The boards are placed I > I. j far enough apart to admit of two ccsta j1 side by side. ; Strips two inches wide and one inch j ; [ thick, represented in tiie diagram as : ' j 1> b. are nailed across both top and j ! bottom to hold the uprights in place' and make the frame tint). Supports J j for the nest boxes are wires, desk;-! j natcd Lv c c in til? diagram, and to | j put them in place holes are augured j j through nil the hoards, which is best j I done before the rack is put together, j Strips might well be used in place of I .. , ^ i.^ ~ m - ? * M TsiT Tiir I 1 simple and convenient nest boxes. I the wires arid would give additional strength. If wire is used, it will prove most satisfactory if kept tight. The nest boxes are made of halfinch lumber. They are eleven and a half inches wide, twelve incl">s long and five inches deep. The bottom is made to project six inches, providing a step for the hens to alight on. The space above the boxes would depend partly on the breed of poultry, but with boxes five inches high a fourteen-inch space between wires will be sufficient. The improved nest boxes have the advantage of being light, easily made and readily cleaned.? American Agriculturist, - * Ettriy Spring Plowing. _ The plowing of the land in spring Is an ordinary matter to farmers, yet it is the most important work performed, for the reason that the growth of the crop and the yield depend on the first preparation ot the soil. The amount of moisture, warmth and supply of plant food is regulated according fo the capacity of the soil to absorb, retain and yield to the crops the desired elements necessary to complete growth. The time has been when potatoes were planted in the sod. first laying off the rows and cultivating the crops after the plants appeared above ground, and it may be added that good crops have been secured in that manner. Nevertheless, better results have been obtained when the land was plowed and then worked over until it became fine. In proof of the fact that the careful preparation of the soil increases the yield, it is well known that a garden plot will produce more than a field, although the land of the field may be fully as rich in plant food as the garden plot, but the difference is that the preparation of the soil for a garden is usually complete, and when the field is treated in the same manner it will not fail to show the effects of the bet ter preparation. The foundation upon which all good crops are built Is the land, and the beginning of the crop is when the land Is plowed. Plowing the manure In is one method of working it into the soil, but nil farmers do not plow their lands the same depth or turn under their manure in the same manner. If the manure is put under too deep some time must elapse l>efore the roots of tlje young plants will get down to It. It will not be very long before the plants will find the manure and utilize it, hut early in the year it is very important that such a crop as corn should get a good start, and the loss of a week at the beginning may have an Injurious effect on the crop should the season come on dry. If the manure is spread on the surface and then worked into the top soil with a harrow, the young plants will be enabled to use them from the start, and the harrow will also render the soil fine. Two objects will be accomplished by so doingfirst. the manure itself will be made finer, and, second, the fineness of the soil will result in better disintegraIt - a 1U. IM null Ul lutr iiiiiifiiu triciiitruLS rAiauu^ therein, independently of the manure, thua providing the plants with available food at the beginning, and also throughout the growing season. Manure that is plowed under will be very useful at the time the plants are maturing, but the more rapid the growth of the plants when young the greater their root power and feeding capacity. No crop should go Into the soil until the ground is warm enough to germinate the seed. Corn that begins to grow and is checked by cold rains, on cold soil, will be thrown back In growth a week or two, or perhaps more, and It is, therefore, better to wait a few days for the soil to become warm than to lose more valuable time in growth later. The warmth will depend upon the depth and fineness of the soil and Its dryness. A wellplowed field, that Is properly drained, will become warm several days sooner than one which has been plowed in a careless manner. The air enters a porous sou, anu iuc iieai. guts ?iicic?ci. the air can enter. If the soil is fine the surplus water can be more easily carried off, as it passes down to the subsoil and reaches the under-drains sooner, but if the moisture remains near the surface, by reason of shallow plowing, the land will be cold until the season opens very warm, at which season corn should then be well under way. The rule should be to plow as early as the soil will permit, and keep it loose with the harrow. It is an old remark that no farmer can harrow a field too often. It may add to the expense for labor, but the crop will be better en- < abled to derive plant foods, moisture and warmth, as the fine soil stores water that would be lost in summer on hard soils and gives it to the plants j when It is most required.?Philadelphia Record. w ^ ? i Qv&Budget j OF MuMOPx. j T\M,Arn TTa Vai1A,1 IIo '.mild hull or bear llie market, As lie chanced to be inclined. Men bv thousands wrought responsive To this magnate's master inind. There were ships upon the ocean. There were trains upon the land. That were stopped or set in motion By the turning of his hand. He had but to nod or beckon And the things he willed were done? That is, till it came to dealing .With his harum-scarum son! ?New York Times. Evidences of Affluence. "Why do yon think he is a millionaire?" "Because he spends so little money and his son spends so much."?Chicagp Post. Encouragement. "Ah, how do I ficd you this morn iug ."My breath,doctor?is getting shorter and shorter." - - . #, t ...?"Oh, don't worry; I'll stop that."? New York Times. . , ., 1 . Georjfe'i Kind P?rmi?Ion. "Mary!" her father called downstairs, "just ask your yoifhg man if he doesn't think it's pretty near bedtime." "Yes, papa," replied the sweet girl, after a pause; "George says If you're eleepy go to bed by all means."?Toledo Bee. Onlj blTeralon * "I hope you do not descend to malicious gossip," said the woman with serious ideals. "No," answered Miss Cayenne. "No one that I know gossips maliciously. They do it merely for fun."?Washington Star. Work Would Ajrrrarale It. "You say you're hungry," said the jedestrian who had just been halted. "Well, why don't you.go to work?" "Because I'm afraid that would make my appetite more troublesome than ever, sir." replied the tramp in a dignified manner.?Syracuse Herald. Hi* Little Mistake. Nodd?"I shall have to postpone that dinner for a week." Todd?"Certainly. Nothing wrong, I hope." Nodd?"Ob, no. But when I asked you. I was under the impression that'it was the cook's night in."?Harper's Bazar. Unnecessary. The barber had about finished shaving the man In the chair, and, passing his hand over his chin Investigatingly, leaned forward and said: "Shall I go over the chin again?" "No, thanks," replied the customer, cheerfully, "I think I can remember everything you said."?New York Times. In tlio Wrong Place. "I hear your engagement with Miss Boodle is off. How did It happen?" "In strict confluence, my rriena, sne got mad because I stole a kiss." "I don't see why that should provoke her?when you were engaged." "Well, you see, I stole this kiss from another girl."?New York News. Not Everything. Mrs. Wickler?"Did you ever see how all the necessaries of life have gone up?" Wickler?"No, they biiven't all gone up." "Well, I should like to have you mention one thing that hasn't gone up." "Certainly; my salary."?New York News. Transients, Suburbanite (showing house)?"This is a spare room for cooks' trunks." His Friend?"What! Has she four trunks?" Suburbanite?"You don't understand. These are the trunks of four recent vtin wwii 1/1 n't atnr hprp and. not yet having found places where they will stay, have not sent for their trunks."?Puck. The Abient-Mlnded Profetsor. feel something cold down my back, rhat means a cold in my head to-morrow, sure."?Meggendorfer Blaetter. _ A Broken Record. Young Dunderhead's proud mother tells her friends that he has certainly broken the record. Only four years cut i of college?that is, of course, he didn't \ gra~..:iiv\ bet he ieit four years ago, you know?and here he is purchasing ^ agent for International Ivory at a salary of $12,000. She say3 she has often remarked to her husband, who has the controlling interest in Internationa', that she does not believe there was ever such an instance of rapid advance ment of the young man under the regime of competition. iiov'i tliln? We offer One Hundred Dollars Regard for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cared by Hail's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cazxer 4 Co., Props., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have kno wn F. 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