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1 CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY OCTOBER 17, 1S91. LESSON OF THE PYRAMID "WHAT I SAW CONFIRMATORY OF THE SCRIPTURES." Dr. Talmag llrglna n Nvrlri of Nrrmnnt on llli t)l(iirtloin In lin Kwalrrii I tanril Thn Wotulrrfiil I'.rrnmtd nf nitvli nml Itin l.a.on. II Tntrtim. HllOliKl.VN, Oct. 18. The vnst roiiKriW ilon nt the llrnnklyuTfthi'ruiiohi this nuirn Iiik wm (U1IkM'I by nn nxquMtn render ItiK, by l'mfwwor Ilftiry Kyro Ilrowni', mi thr now orK'Oi, of Denler's second milium In O, Dr. Tulumun'n sermon wns the. IItfI of n series ho Intend preaching mi his wwtern tour.cntltled, "From the Pyramids to the Acroiwll, or Wlmt I Siv In Kyi't nml Greece, Coullriuiitory of tho rVilp turcs," Ill text wiw ImIiiIi xlx, III, '.M. "In tlmt ilny shnll 1 1 10 10 Im nu nltnr to tin1 Iird In tho iiiliNtnf the lund of KKypt, Aiul n (llllnr nt tlin Intnler thereof to tin Iord. Ami It shiill Ihi for n kIku nml for n WltHCM." Isnlnli no doubt hero refers to thu jtrent pyrnmlil itt (llr.eh, thn chief pyramid of Kuypt. Tho tt'Xt Kpt'iik of a tillhtr In Kuypt, nml ThU N thn k reMtoit plllur over lifted; mid thn tnxtsity It h to ho nt tin Intnler of thu Innil, nml this pyrnmlil U nt tho bonier nf tho Inml; nml thu tcxtsnjH li nlinll Iw for n wltue, nml thn object nf thin sermon Into toll wlmt this pyrnmlil wlttifxtitM, Thlx Kormnu In thu llrst of n outirsc of sermon entitled, "Fnint the X'jrrniiiltln to thn AcropoIlN, or Wlmt I Saw InKtfyptnml Orw'o Conllrmntory of the Bcrlitun." Wu lmd.oii a mornliiKof December, ISM), IniiiU'il In Africa, Amid thu howling limit men nt Alexandria wu hail coimi iiNhoru nml tnkon tho rail train for Cairo, Kwypt, along tho hanks of thu most thoroughly linrnmiril river of nil tho worlil tho river Nile. Wo hail nt uvvnthlo entered tho city of Cairo, thu city where Christ dwelt whllo NtnyltiK in Kypt dnrliiK the Herodlo per necutlnu. It wan our Unit tiluht in Egypt. No destroying iiiiko! sweeping throuuh ns once, hut nil tho atnrs were out, nml tho sklrs weru tilled with aiiKeln of beauty nml atiKelt of Unlit, nml the ntr wnn halniy hi an American .Tunc Tho next morning wu were early nwako nml nt the window, look leg upon palm tree In full Klory of leaf tie, nml ukiu Harden of fruit nml flow era at tho very seusou when our home far way are canopied by bleak skies nml the last leaf of tho forest has koiio down In the equinoctials. K1H8T VIKW OK TIIK PVItAMII). But how can I decrlbu tho thrill of ex pectation, for today wo nro to seo what nil tho world Im seen or want to ace the pyramid. Wo nro mounted for nn hour atidnhn.lt' ride. Wo pan on amid ba canrt stuffed with niK ami carpet, nml curious fabric of nil sorts from Smyrna, from Algiers, from Persia, from Turkey, and through streets whero we meet people of all colon nml all gitrbs, carta loaded with Harden production, priests In (towns, women In black veils, Iledouln In long ami seemingly supcrlluou appnrel, Janis aarlcs In Jacket of embroidered ((old out mud on toward tho great pyrnmlil, for thoiiKh there are alxty-nlno pyramid tlll tamlltii, tho pyramid atGlreh is tho mon arch of pyramid. We meet camels (runt tag under their loads, and see buffaloes on cither side browsing in pasture fields. The road wo travel Is for part of tho way under clumps of acacia and by long row of ayenmoro and tnmerUk, but after nwhlle It la a )wth of rock ami snml, ami wo find we have reached tho margin of the desert, the great Sahara desert, and wo cry out to the dragoman a wo see a huge pile of rock looming la sight, "Dragoman, what is thatf" His answer Is, "The pyramid," and then it seemed as if we weru living a century every mlnuto. Our thoughts ami motions were too rapid nml lntvnio for utterance, ami wo ride on in silence until wo come to the footot tho pyramid spoken of In tho text, thu oldest structure, In nil the earth, four thousand yearn old nt least. Hero it is. Wo stand under tho shndow of a structure that shuts out nil the earth and all the sky, and we look up ami strain our vision to appreciate tho distant top, and are overwhelmed whllo we cry, "Tho pyramid! The pyramid!" I had started that 'morning with the de termination of ascending tho pyramid. One of my chief objects In going to Kgypt was not only to see the Itase of that gra nitic wonder, but to stand on the top of it. Yet the nearer I came to this eternity In atone tho more my determination was shaken. Its altitude to mo was simply appalling. A great height has always been to me a most disagreeable sunsntion. Aa we dismounted at the base of the pyra mid, I aaldt "Others may go up it, but not I. I will satisfy myself with a view from the base. Tho ascent of It would be to mo ioolhs.ru undertaking." Iiut after 1 had given up all idea of ascending, I found my daughter was determined to go, and I could not let her go with strangers, and I changed my mind and we started with guides. It cannot bo doue without these helpers. Two or three times foolhardy men have attempted it aloue, but their bodies came tumbling down, unrecognisable and lifeless. Each person in our party had two or three guides or helpers. One of them un rolled his turban and tied it around my waist and he held the other end of the tui bau aa a matter of safety. Many of the blocks of atone are four or five feet high and beyond auy ordinary human stride un less assisted. Iiut, two Arabs to pull and two Arabs to push, I found myself rapidly ascending from height to height, aud on to amiuuea terrtne, and at laat at the tiptop we found ourselves on a level space of about thirty feetsquare. Through clearest atmosphere we looked off upon the desert, and off upon the winding Nile, and off upon the Sphinx, with its features of ever lasting stone, and yonder upon the min arets of Cairo glittering In the sun, and yonder upon Memphis in ruins, and off upon the wreck of empires and the battle fields of ages, a radius of view enough to fill the mind and shock the nerves aud overwhelm one'a entire ixdng. A STAItTLINO AIltUY OF FIOUKEB. After looklug around for awhile, and a kodak had pictured the group, we de scended. The descent was more trying than the ascent, for climbing you need not see the depths beneath, but coming down it was impossible not to see the abysms be low, Iiut two Araba ahead to help us down, and two Arabs to hold ua back, we were lowered, "baud below hand. UMil the ground was tut Iti ugly near, and aaaUUhe Jargon of.the Araba we were safely Imaged. Then cameoueof the most wouderful Hats of. daring and agility. Que of the Arab solicited a dollar, aaylag he would run up w4 down the pyramid la aavtw niinuteo. We would ratfctr Law gy,t felui a dollar sot to go, but thliaHceRtM dvacent in eves minutes he was determined ou, and o ky'the watch in aeveu minute he wvnv teste top aa4 was back again at the base It wm a bloealar411uK apectacle. I aM tb doettVM color of the pyramid wm jeny, feat ! Wn llbu u aMma t0 shake off the gray nf centuries and become a blond, a'ld tho silver turn to tho gold en, It covers thirteen acres of ground. What an nnthiiltyi It wn at least two thousand year old when tho baby Chrltl wn rnrrled within sight of it by hi fugi tive parent, Joseph nml Mary, Thu storm of forty centuries have drenched 11,1x1111' Imrded It, idinitowed It, Hashed upon It, buttheru It stands, ready to take another forty centuries of ntmospherlo nttack If tho world should continue to exist. Tin oldest building of tho earth nro junior to this great senior of thu centuries, Herodotus say that for ten year prepa ration worn being madu for tho building of this pyramid. It has eighty-two mil lion ono hundred nml eleven thousand cubic feet of masonry. Ono hundred thou Mind workmen nt ono tlmo toiled in itK erection. To bring thu stono from thu ipiarrle n cuusuway sixty feet wldu was built. Thu top stones were lifted by ma chinery such a tho world know nothing of today. It I seven hundred mid forty six feet each slilu of thu sipinro base. Thu structure U four hundred and fifty feet high; higher than thu cathedral of Co lugno, Striishurg, Koiien, St. Peter's ami St. Paul's. Nosurprlsutoinotliat.lt wn put nt thu head of thu seven wonders nf thu world, It ha a subterraneous room of red gruultu called thu"klug'M chamber," nml another room called thu "ipieeii's chamber," nml tho probability Initial tli"r are other room yet unexplored. Thuuvlileut design of thu architect win to make thesu room a Inaccessible as possible, Afterull tho work of exploration and nil thudlgglng nml blasting, If on would enter thesu subterraneous rooms, you must go through n passagu only three feet eluveu luclie high nml lesHthuufnur feet wldu. A sarcophagi! of red granite stands down under thl mountain of ma miury. Thu sarcophagus could not have iM'en carried in after thu pyrnmlil was built. It must have liven put there before tho structure wn reared. Probably In that sarcophagus oncu lay n wooden colli u containing a dead king, hut tlmo has de stroyed thocolllu and destroyed tho last vestige of human remain. For three thousand yearn thl sepulchral room wn unopened, nml would have been until today probably unopened had not a superstitious Impression got abroad that thu heart of tho pyramid wan filled with silver ami gold and diamonds, nml under Al Mamoiin mi excavating party went to work, ami having bored mid blasted through a hundred feet of rock, they found no opening ahead, and weru alxnit to give up the attempt when thu workmen heard a stone roll down Into a seemingly hollow place, aud encouraged by that they re sumed their work and came Into tho under ground rooms. Tho disappointment of tho workmen in finding the sarcophngu empty of all silver and gold and precious stone was so great that they would have assassinated Al Ma mouu, who employed them, had ho not hid In another part of tho pyramid a much silver aud gold iih would pay them for their work nt ordinary rate of wage and In duced them there to dig till they to their surprise camo upon ndequato compensa tion. WAS TltH DKHKIN (lOIl'S OW.Nf I wonder not that thl mountain of lime stone and red granltu hits Ih'oii tho fascina tion of scholars, of scientists, of Intelligent Christians in all age. Sir John Herschel, tho astronomer, said ho thought it had as tronomical significance. Tho wise men who accompanied Napoleon' army Into Kgypt wont Into profound study of tho pyramid. In 18(15 Professor Smyth aud hi wife lived In thu empty tomb near by tho pyrnmlil that they might bo as continuous ly ns possible closo to the pyramid which they were Investigating. Tho pyramid, built more than four thousand year ago, being a complete geometrical figure, wlso men havo concluded it must have ln-eu divinely constructed. Man camo through thousand of year to lino architecture, to music, to painting, but this wu perfect at thu world' start, and God must havo directed It. All astronomer aud geometricians and scientists say that It was ocicntlflcully and mathematically constructed beforo sclencu nml mathematics weru born. From thn Inscription on tho pyrnmlil, from It pro portions, from tho point of the compass recognized In Its structure, from tho direc tion in which it tunnels run, from tho relative position of tho blocks that com pose It, scientists, Christian and iulldela have demonstrated that tho being who planned this pyramid must havo known tho world's sphericity, and that Ita motion was rotary, and how many mile It was In diameter aud circumference, aud how many tons tho world weigh, nml know at what point lit tho heaven certain star would appear at certain period of time. Not iu the four thousand year since tho putting up of that pyramid has a single fact In astronomy or mathematics been found to contradict tho wisdom of that structure. Yet they had not at the ago when tho pyramid was started au astron omer or an architect or a mathematician worth mentioning. Who then planned the pyramid I Who superintended ita erection? Who from its first foundation stone to it capstone erected everything? It must have been God. Isaiah was right when he said In my text, "A pillar shall be at the border of tho laud of Egypt ami it shall bo for a sign and a witness." Tho pyramid la God's first Hlble. Hundreds, if not thousands, of year before the first line ol the Hook of Genesis was written, the lesson of the pyramid waa written. Well, of what Is this Cyclopean masonry a sign and a witness? Among other things of tho prolongation of humau work com pared with tho brevity of human life. In all tho four thousand years thla pyramid nas only lost eighteen feet In width; one side of it square at the base chauged only trom seven imndreil aud sixty-four feet to seven hundred aud forty-six feet, and the most of that eighteen feet taken off by architects to furnish stone for building in tho city of Cairo. The men who con structed the pyramid worked at it only a few years, and then put down the trowel, and the compass, aud the sipiare, and low ered tho derrick which hail lifted the pon derous weights; but forty centuries has their work stood, and It will bo good for forty centuries more. All Egypt has been shaken by terrible earthquakes and cities have been pros trated or swallowed, but that pyramid has defied all volcanic paroxysms. It has looked upon some of the greatest battles ever fought since tho world stood. Where are the men who constructed it? Their bodies gone to dust and even the dust scattered. Even the sarcophagus in which the klug's mummy may have slept la empty MEN'S WOUK SUUVlVEa THEM. 8o meu die but their work Uvea on, We are; abounding pyramids not to last four thousand years, but forty thousand, forty million, forty trillion, forty quadrillion, forty quintlllloQ. For nwhlle we wield the trowel, or pound with the hammer, or measure with the yard stick, or write with the pen, or experiment with the scientific battery, or plan with the brain, and for a while the foot walks, aud the eye sees, and the ear hears, aud the tongue speaks. All the good word or bad word we speak are spread out Into one layer for a pyramid. All tho kind deed or malevolent deed we do mo spread out into another layer All thn Christian nr tiii-Chrlstittn example wo set I spread out In another layer. All thu indirect Influence of our live nro spread out In another la) or. Then tho tlmo soon come when we put down the Implement of toll nml pas away, Iiut tho pyramid stands, Thu Twentieth century will not rork It down, nor thu Thirtieth century, nor i:.e Onu Hundredth century. Thn earthquake that rock this world to piece will tint stop our Influemu for good or evil Vci modestly say, "Thai Is true iu regard t.j tho gnat worker for good or evil, mid of gigantic geniuses, Mlllonlan or Tnll- rnudlnu, hut not of me, for I llvunml uoii. on a small truly. " My hearer, lelneiiiln'l that those who built thu pyramids t common workmen. Not ono of ih-i could lift onu of those great stones. 1 took a doen cf them to lift onu stone, ir others Just, wielded a trowel, clicking It thu hard edgu or smoothing thu mortar I . tween tho layer. Onu hundred thoiisMn' men tolled ou those sublime elevations. If one of those gruuitu block that I J' tolleh with my feet ou this Deceml, t morning Iu IhMin thu two Arabs pull n i nml the two other Arab push me, con .i speak out ami tell It history It would .i "Tho place of my nativity wn down In the great clone quarry of Mokattam or . swan. Then they licgan to horn nt ui) sides, and then to drive down great Iron wedges, crushing ngnliist mo till thu whole quarry quaked nml thundered, Then I wn pried out with crowbars mid levels, scoreMof men putting their weight on tho luvurnge. Then chain weru put around mo ami I wn hoisted with wheel that groaned under tho weight, nml many workmen had their hands ou thu cranks mid turned until thumuscleaonthelrnrius stood out. In ridge, nml thu sweat rolled from their dusky foreheads. "Then I wnsdruivn by long teams of oxen, yoko after yoke, yoke after yoke. Then I wa put ou an Inclined piano and hauled upward mid how many Iron tool, aud how many human arms, mid how many beast nf titlrileti u-i-i i. inlitfivi.il tn iri.t ,mi 4., l,lu --- -.- v...,.... .. ... n, v llu , ....r,, place no one can tell. Then I had to ho measured nml squared nml compassed nml fitted Iu Iteforo I wa left hero to do my silent work of thousand of year. God only know how many hands wero busied In getting mo from my geological cradle In tho quarry to this enthronement of Innu merable nges." My henrerH, that I tho autobiography of ono block of thu pyrnmlil. Cheops didn't build thu pyramid. Some boss mason In thu world' twilight didn't build tho pyramid. One hundred thousand men built It nml perhaps from first to last two hundred thousand men. So with thu pyramid now rising pyra mids of evil or pyramid of good. The pyramid of drunkenness, rising over since tho time when Noah got drunk on wine, although there wn nt hi tlmo such a mi porahuudauceof water. All thu HidoonlstH of tho age lidding their layer of ale cask and wluo pitcher mid rum Jug until thu pyrnmlil ovundmdows tho Great Sahara desert of desolated home aud broken heart and destroyed eternities. And a tho pyrnmlil still rise, layers of human skulls idled ou top of human skulls mid other mountain of human bones to whiten the peaks reaching unto thu heavens, hun dreds of thousands of peoplu nro building that pyramid. So with tho pyrnmlil of righteousness. Multitude of hands nro tolling on thu steep, hands Infantile, hand octogenari an, masciilino hands, female hands, strong hands, weak hands. Somu clanging a trowel, some nulling n rone, some meas uring tho side. Layers of psalm books on top of layer or sermons. Layers of prnyuis on top of layer of holy sacrifice And hundreds of thousands coming down to sleep their last sleep, but other hun dred of th'jtisiiml going up to take their plates, nml thu pyramid will con tinue to rise until the millennial morning gilds tho completed work, nml tho tollers ou these heights shall takuolT their aprons mid throw down their trowels, crying, "It Is finished!" nuii.ni.xo rem ktkiixitv. Your business nml mine Is not to build a pyrnmlil but to Iwono of tho hundreds of thousands who shall ring 11 trowel or pull a ropo or turn thu crunk of a derrick, or cry, "Vo, henvot" whllo lifting another block to Its elevation. Though It Ihi seem Ingly a small work aud a brief work, It Is a work that shall last forever. Iu tho last day many u man and woman whoso work has never been recognl.ed on earth will cqmo to a special honor. Tho Kciiincnlcal council, now In session at Washington, lu delegate tho honored representatives of fifty million Methodists iu all parts of thu earth, will nt every session do honor to tlm memory of John Wesley, but I wonder If ! any or tliem will think to twist a garland for tho memory of humblo Peter Holder, the Moravian, who brought John Wesley Into tho kingdom of God. I rejoice that all the thousands who have been tolling ou thu pyrnmlil of righteous nes will nt last in) recognized and re warded the mother who brought her chll dren to Christ, the Sabbath teacher who brought her class to tho knowledge of the truth, tho unpretending man who saved n soul. Then tho trowel will Ihi more hon ored than the scepter. As a groat battle waa golug on the soldiers were ordered to the front and a sick man Jumped out of an ambulance in which he was being carried to the hospital. Tho surgeon asked him what he meant by getting out of tho am bulance when he waa sick and almost ready to die. The soldier answered: "Doc tor, I am going to the front. I had rather die on the Held than die in an ambulance." Thank God; if we cannot do much wo can do a little. Further, carrying out the idea of my text, the pyramid Is a sign and a witness that big tombstones are not the best way of keeping ono's self affectionately remem bered. This pyramid ami tho slxty-nlne other pyramids still standing wero built for bepulchers, nil this great pile of granite and limestone by which we stand today, to cover the memory of a dead king. It was tho great Westminster abbey of the ancients. Some Bay that Cheops was the king who built this pyramid, but it is un certain. Who was Cheops anyhow? All that the world knows about him could lie told in a few sentences. The only thing certain is that he waa bad, and that he shut up the temples of worship, and that he wa hated so that the Egyptians were glad when he was dead. This pyramid of rock seven hundred and forty feet each side of tho square base aud four hundred and fifty feet high wins for him no respect. If a bone of his arm or foot had been found in the sarcophagus beneath the pyramid, It would havo ex cited no more veneration thau tho skele ton of ttCAn.il bltML'tui Oc t!. Libyan desert; yea, less veneration, for when 1 saw the carcass of a camel by the roadside ou the way to Memphis, I said to mytelf. "Poor thing, I wonder of what It died." We say uothiug agiilust the marble or the bronxeofthe .ecropoli. Let all that sculp ture and fiomceuce and arlMirescetice cu lo for the j luces of the dead be done, If means will allow It. Hut If after ono is dead there U nothing left to remind tho world of lit in but somo piece of i-tone, (hero is hut little left. Some of tho finest monument nro over people who amounted to nothing whllo tliey lived, whllo somo of the worthiest men nml women havo not had above them i stone big enough to tell their name. Joshua, tho greatest warrior thu world ts er saw, no monument; Moses, thu greatest lawyer thatcver lived, no monument; Paul, tho greatest preacher that over lived, no monument! Christ, the Saviour of tho world mid tho rapt lire of heaven, no monu ment. A pyramid over scoundrelly Cheops, but only a shiuglu with n lend pencil epi taph over many n good man' grave. Some of the finest obituaries havo been printed nbniit thu worst rascals, Today nt Hrus sels there in n pyramid of flowers on the grave of Houlanger, thu notorious libertine. Vet It I natural to want to Imj remembered. MOSTMKNTH MtlllK KNIIUIIINHTItANMAUIIt." Whllo theru seem to bo no practical use for post mortem consideration later than thu time of one's great-grandchildren, yet no onu wiiuts to bo forgotten n soon in tliu obsequies nro over. This pyramid, which Isaiah say Is u sign mid it witness, demonstrates that neither lime stone nor red grnnlto are competent to keep onu affectionately remembered; neither can bronze; neither can Parian marble; neither can Aberdeen graul'o do tho work. Hut (hero I something out of which to build an everlasting mon ument ami that will keep ono freshly re mciuhercil four thousand year yen, for ever mid over. It does not ntnnd In nuir blu yards. It Is not to bo purchased at mourning store. Vet It I to bo found In every nulghlHirhood, plenty of It, Inex haustible quantities of it. It I tho great est Muffin the universe to build monu ments out of. I refer to tho memories of those to whom wo can do a kindness, tho memories of thosu whoso struggles wo may alleviate, thu memories of those whoso huiiIn wo may save. All around Cairo and Memphis there nro tho remains of pyramids that havo gone down under tho wearing away of time, and this great pyramid of which Isaiah In tho text speaks will vanish If tho world last long enough; aud If tho world does not last, then with thu earth's dissolution the pyrnmlil will also dissolve. Hut the mem ories of thosu with whom wo associate nro Indestructible. They will bo moro vivid tho other sldoof tho grave than till side. It Is possible for mo to do you a good nml for you to do mo a good that will bo vivid lu memory as many years uftcr tho world i burned up as all tho sands of tho sen shore, mid nil thu leaves of thu forest, and all thu grass blades of thu field, and all tho stars of heaven added together, and that aggregate multiplied by all tho figures thntnll tho bookkeepers of nil time over wrote. That desire to lie remembered after wo nro gone I n divinely implanted deslro and not to on crushed out, but, I Implore you, seek something totter than tho Im mortalization of rock or bronze or took. Put yourself Into tho eternity of those whom you help for both worlds, this nml tho next. Comfort a huudred souls mid there will bu through all thu cycles of eter nity at least a hundred souls that will bo your monuments. A prominent member of this church was brought to God by somo ono saying to her at tho church door lit tho closo of service, "Como ugnlnl" Will it be possible far that ono so invited to for get tho iuviter? A minister passing nlong tho streetovery day looked up nml smiled to u baby in the window. Tho father and mother won dered who It was that thus pleasantly greeted their child They found out that he was tho pastor of a church. They said, "Wo must go mid hear him preach." They went mid heard him and both wero con verted to God. Will thero to nny power lu fifty million years to erase from tho souls of those parents the memory of that unit who by his friendliness brought them to God? Matt how Cranswick, au evangel ist, said that ho had thu names of two hun dred souls saved through his singing the hymn, "Arise, my soul, arise!" Will nny of those two hundred souls In nil eternity forget Matthew Cranswick? Will any of tho four hundred mid soventy-nlno women mid children Imprisoned nt Lucknow, In dia, waiting for massacre by tho Sepoys, forget llavelock and Outran) mid Sir David Heard, who broke iu and effected their res cue? To somo of you who havo loved nml served tho Ionl heaven will to a great picture gallery of remembrance. Hosts of tho glorilled will never forget you. Ah, that Is the way of building monuments that shall never feel tho touch of decay. I do not ask you to suppress this natural de sire of tolng rememtored after you nro gone, but I only want you to put your me morials into a shape tlmt shr.ll never weak en or fade. During tho course of my min istry I have toon intimately associated in Christian work with hundreds of good meu nml women. My memory i hung with their portraits', more accurate and vivid than anything that Iteiubraudt ever put on canvas: Fath er Grlco, Do Witt C. Moore, Father Voor bees, K. P. Hopkins, William Stephens, John Van Iteiisnelaer, Gasherlo Do Witt, Dr. Ward and hundreds of otliers, all of them gone qut of this life, but I hold the memory of them and will hold them for ever. They cannot escape from me. I will remember them just as they looked on earth, and 1 will remember many of you after tho earth has toen au extinct planet for ages luflulto. Oh, what stuff the mem ory ia for monument building! An KtclihiK in Fun. "Why do you work for a living?" It waa Claro de Macgllllcuddy whoapoke these fateful words. And Clare was rich. Hlch toyond the most resplendent dreams of the dozens and dozens who sought her hand. Hut she loved a man who was poor. And he was resjicctable. Hespectablo beyond tho limit of reason. Because he would not avail himself of his opportunities and orgaulzo a matri monial combine with Clare, permitting hei to put up the capital. He was a rauk outsider, ho was. And lie apparently wanted to stay there. He was in love with hi work. That was another evidence that he had mental ntorratlou in half a dozen place. "Algernon," she cried, in passionate, pleading tones, "tell me, why do you work for a living?" He had not answered her when she had asked this the first time, but he could not refrain longer. "Clare," he said, aud thero was that In his voice which makes tho heart grow sick aud echoes through the Interminable corri dors of despair, "listen to me; I work for a living because ttie darn tiling won't work for me." Clare uttered a piercing scream aud flung herself Into his arms. Algernon was a funny man on the local newspaperl Aud she was on to him at last. Detroit OIL HEATERS Hot Air Furnaces. RUDGE & MORRIS, 1122 IN STREET. u NOT WORTH $5,00 TH9 SHOeS Wc offered Inst week for $5.00 were worth more money, but wc couldn't get over $5.00 for them became DAS1UTES will not wear $600 shoes THE SHOES wc offer this week are not worth $s.(X so wc ask $3.00 for them. m 1015 O STREET. 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