The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, March 12, 1903, Image 2
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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
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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. . ,
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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.
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The man -vyith one foot m"the grave
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A lawyer who has charge of the
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? *v? Ana. .Ma woo rare-ntlv visited
UU ILIC caob otuv *?* ? v. ?,
by an old Irish woman, who, after
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The lawyer's office was on one of the %
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After the rent had been paid and the
receipt given, the old woman was
shown out into the hallway by the
office boy. The lawyer found her in
the a few minutes later, when he had
occasion to go out. She was wandering
about opening doors and otherwise
acting in a strange manner.
"What are you looking for?" asked
the lawyer. ^*2
"Shure, I'm looking for the little
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