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THE THEATER HAT.
Her hst she took within her hand.
Just oa the sett before me;
Xte'lclously the act was pianc.e?.
So as to cot Ignore me.
X knew the girl who cares for those
"Who hare a seat behind her
fafcst have raro virtues to disclose
in tny heart I twined her.
X rot what others lost that day.
The fc:a,re s perfect vision;
X saw the actors und the play.
And all the scenes ciysiaa.
X could have written in her praise
A string of sugared sonnets;
So few the girl at niatir.ees.
Who dare take ctZ their bonnets.
At last I sought, with fancy free.
My aucel U discover;
And made her five her heart to rae
And now I am her lover.
Joel Henton. in Truth.
Thursday, July 30th.
Mr Pear .Miss Ukow.ninv.:
T h e bache
lors are to give
a cotill on on
Moiidav even-
ing next, and
each has the
privilege of in
viting' a part-
u e r. May 1
have the pleas
ure of dancing
with you?
Trusting that
you may grant
me this hoaor, I
Sincerely yours,
llVGIXAirj II. Westox.
Au-ust Oth.
My Pr.An Miss Luz.vr.Enr.
That sail yesterday was s awfully
jolly.
Can't we trv another, day after
to-morrow?
say y e s!
Da
I
A v.
trust vou did
;.
cot take cold
Monday night
y on w c u 1 .1 n't
have anything
aroun J you. you
know, so if you
did tike cold it
Wis nil your
own fault.
I'ltase doa't
ay any more
about the flow
ers they were rot half as f.ne as I
hould like them to have been not
half worthy of the recipient!
Legging you to agree to the sail,
am. Faithfully.
KF.tiIAI.I II. W.
i
August IZtli.
Peak 11e.sie:
You d jn't mind, do you?) You made
me too happy last evening! Iid you
really mean all
ww$:i.ir" .. A, "V yt u said out on
the arch? I
Jfr-SA1-1 the hotel in a
Z'- fj trance. I
J. JV:72J? dreamt all
L Ylr5 A ' V night of a pair
Vf. 0 ft brown
eyes
and
Wautl'ul Cower-'
ike face.
and this morn
ing the remern-'
iirauce
them is
distinctly
fore me.
o f
still
be-
You
don't mind my saying all this? Surely
uot. after the way you looked iq.'
veninrr!
Mar I come arrain to-niht? Io, do.
lt me. for twentv-four hours will
have elapsed since I have seen you.
Impatiently,
Ueoiai.t.
August 0th.
r HA lit st Hess:
J)o J Ijx yu? Of course I do. With
all the stronir love of a strong mane
heart, and what
Is more. 1 do
cot believe that
.cjonf else
ever loved in
quite the same
vay! You are
never out of raj
xnind an iu
Blunt' If vou knew
how happy I
was all morn
ing out there
on the rocks.
holding your dear little hand and
listening to vonr voice! Eiht hour
have elapsed since then und yet the
music of that voice is still in my ears.
And vou ask if I love you! Itearest.
yes, I love you, love you, love you!
'ow, are you satisfied?
Devotedly yours.
" Ih II. W,
August 27th.
Mr Dear Mifs Uiujw.mjco:
It was easy to see at the grdf match
yesterday afternoon that you and Tom
Harry 'found me
in the wa'! 1
regret exceed
infcly to have
inconvenienced
you by my pres
enee. and shall
take care that
the thing- does
not happen
aain. I have
your welfare
too much at
heart to be
J:?!K-'r vou any annoy
ance.
Uy the way,
made moiselle.
did you ever happen to hear the little,
veri:
-Swret: Thou hast trod on a heart
ftktn'. There's world full of men.
Aud women as fair tAov art
i r . . . . . i , . V. ...
Alwara tout friend and well-wisher.
jiiw r.ut'.uu luitki uuw aim .urui ,
JL 1L Wemtqx.
6-
remain.
id )
.
( mmm
4m
Beptember 8.
ForgriT jon my darling, little girl!
Of course, I do.vrithall my heart! Your
note makes me
almost forget
what it was all
about!
And bo you
hate poor Ilarry ?
Why, dearest.
he's a rery
decent sort of
chap, only it
drove me mad
to have you
even look at an
other fellow!
And I have
made you suffer?
Oh! my sweet
heart, it cuts me
to the heart to
think of Dnt
I was suffering so myself, that I really
didn't know what I was doing:.
1 am a brute! A perfect brute, and
it is I who ask Your pardon. I shall
be around, darling-, inside of an hour
ana ineu x auisii o uunu uu luv i urn
and humbly kiss the hem of your
garment. With my heart's dear Ioto
and trusting that I may not sue la
Tain, I remain
Your contrite, adoriuc
IlEOOIK.
September 10th.
11elovf.i or Mt IIkakt!
To say that I am the happiest man
in the world is drawing- it mildly! I
am lifted from
the dull limits
of subl u nary
happiness into
the exalted
realms of th
sublime!
To think that
y ou are mine!
All miue! That
you wear oa
your dear
finder the gold
en circlet and
tra usparcn t
le m which
bind 3ou to me
with the most
sacred ties! Oh,
myantrel! lean
scarcely realize
my joy! Words
are a poor me
dium to express such feeling a mine.
Darling-, how easy it will b for me
to promise to lore and to cherish. In
sickness and in health! What ft
blessed privilege! And what a life
ours will be! A honeymoon from be
cicnias" to end, with never a prosaic.
thought, for, n you say. dear wne, we
are both so replete with romance, and
so affectionate- The only tbinjr,
sweetheart, I shall never suffer you
out of my siht for a moment, oner
you are mine. Here, l nave not neen
you for twenty minutes! It is an
eternity and I casnot stand it! The
messenger is awaiting this note; I
shall follow immediate It.
I kis you fondly, my own. ani with
the most rapturoua devotion. I am.
Yours, until death do tis part,
Ilr.ooic
TEAS LATCJL
AujTUvt 15th.
Dear Liz:
Stay a Ion a you like iont Tt
in any hurry to 'jet home. I like tu
quiet. It's a fjreat relief from 21eg,g,ie
howls.
The bntcher' bill came in to-day
it's forty-f vr for on month: do yom
thick I am maae of mouev?
No; I didn't mutch the worsteds and
don't intend to. What does a man
know itbout nuch thine? Have Mat
the crimper. lira.
js
Y. Truth.
ExUaiponntom Prayer.
The dancer of extempore" prayer U
that it mar degenerate into the lu
dicrous. Take, for example, th
preacher who said in his prayer: 'W
thank Thee, oh. Lord, for the poodly
congregation here to-nlht. and that
Thou, too, oh. Lord, art here, not
withstanding the inclemency of the
weather."
A Texas minister once prayed aa
follows: "Oh. Lord, I never did see
such a day as it was yesterday, and X
don't believ You ever did either."
Still another prayed: "We thank
Thee, oh Lord, for Thy great bounty
we thank Thee for the fine weather?
we thank Thee for the beautiful har
vest and tha.t Thou hast enabled us to
rather In the wheat throughout this
district with the exception of Farmer
MilU' little three-cornered patch down
in the hollow, not worth mentioning.
Texas Sifting
Htab End of Tbouftit.
One drop of scandal will Bpread oTer
a whole lifetime.
it is not hard to forgive a lie told
with pood intent.
It is said the rood die young". It is
known that a Treat many adults are
still with ufi.
If we. did as much (rood aa we want
other peopto to do, the millennium
would be next door.
It makes an honest property holder
nervous to hear a fir bell ring".
A full jail is a better eign than tV
empty one.
iJon't-fctrike a man when he is down;
and don't laugh when somebody else
trikes him.
An old bachelor is the tramp of so
ciety. A man's will Is a woman's won't
T -troit Free Press.
The first bits of India rubber that
were sold in London f erasers
! brought about
seyentyflve cents
I oubia inch,
( 41 K. J
-y7
X.
FOLLY OF THE SUGAR TRUST.
Thv IlMh ltlufT if a Irtectioii-rosterel
Monopoly.
Tho threat of the RUfrar trust to
close its eastern refineries was char
acteristic of the methods of that
monopoly. It va:i made by Mr. II. ().
Iluveineyer. the president of the trust,
within u few days of the meeting of
congress, and Mr. llavemeycr based
the pretendctl necessity for closing
the refineries und turuing- thousands
of men out of employment on the
probability of the pasae of the free
Mijrtir bill, which, havinfr front through
the house of representatives at the
last session of conjrresa. is pendiri'r in
the senate. At the time when this
I thr -at was uttered there was smull
J probability that the free-suar bill
t would W passed by tho senate. There
was then no evidence, so fur as the
public knew, that the hoU of the trust
on the senators who compelled the
! surrender to its demands was weak
ened. Hut Mr. llaveiuewr's interview
the
, ,.,;) it
arouseu
! a widespread indignation against the
! trust, w hich, coupled with the popu-
iar venuct in n.c cuw...,
t . 1 ! a I t.
pecially in his own
his own state, has com- i
I pelled even the- obstinate urid cynical
Sex:attr Smith to denounce the friends
by adherir.jr to whom last summer he
: incurred much deserved Klium.
' The threat was elear- ill-timed, and
'otherwise indicative that to Mr. llave
nieyer. as to other men who hare been
cleverly and astutelv- defiant of the
public sentiment in favor of morality,
and whasf success in corruption or
sci !:! jrreed has seemed unbounded,
there has come a time when folly has
taken possession of him. So cruel and
, u:::uce-.-ary was his threat that the
president felt constrained to mention
it in hi mesae, und to express u
willingness, in view of it. that the
especial protection enji-ed by tho
trust should be repealed.
Mr. Havemeyer apparently thought
that he had only to drive his worhii;
x:ien into the streets to staj- toe hand
of the a IViHrates of free si::rar. Hut he
forgot, 'or never realized, t!.e alm st
universal hatred which his own iirui
his associat-s conduct in WashinfTton
h:ui ins;ireL lie and tae- were amo:;
tite most potent factor-? of democratic
tlefeat. The couatrv believe the tust
purchacd protection from the sen
ate, und that tioman, lirice. Smith ami
S'me other? were practically it-agents.
It knows fr-.-m the teslin.'nj- f tht
two Ilavemeyen. an 1 Searles t!iat,the
trust habitually c rrupt-J both jHdit
ical parties. It ha re a so r; to Unor
j that the trust is amply protected,
an t that if it has lost money or
.failed to make it in the last lhr.-o
months it i Weause it was too cor.u
I dent in its power to postpone the o ;
j atior: of the act until the Ut f Jan
uary. More important than all else is
the knowledge that the business of re-
tin in su;
:;"urar is Conducted i:: this conn-
try more cheaply t!an anywht.
ia the world, ami that t!e t:
re ris"
can
actual! v pav som :utv n it, raw n.a-
aIU pav som .utv n it
terial aiul Ntill eo:nete with the tier
man and Hnlish relineries in t!ic i;jar
kets of the world. It knows fnr&
Iler.ry ( Ilavetaeyer's own tet:m
"iven in I". that Amerian refiners
do not need protection..
The izu'-inaDt t.utcry with which
Mr. I lavrtuey cr"s threat was greeted
was followed by tii return to the
redneries of the lew wurliir.Kifti
who were discharged. This was a con
fession that, instead of Iti::;- uudcr a
stress of civil circumstances, the trust
could not afford to stop production
even for a few days, und for the pur
pose of preventing" the uwre of the
frecsuar bill.
The result of all thisouhl to inspire
the senate to do somethin towards
curin one of the trrossrst s,rar.iia!s tht
ever tainted it- The differential ilutyut
least should In- alol;shed- If this much
is accomplished the country will 1
prate iul for Mr. Iiavemeyer s f jilj-.
Harper's Weekly.
SUGAR
3tonofuljr
TRUST
SENATORS.
Crratnl ami
Sopiortrcl lr
Itptablran.
Ily a vote of twenty-three to twenty
seven, the United States senate re
fused to strike out the discriminating"
duties iu favor of the suar trust- The
vote showed clearly the friends and
the enemies of the trust. Of the
Tweniy-mree to;?i v siriKc oui me
difTerential duty in favor of the surar
! trust, twenty-two were democrats. Of
the twenty-seven vots a 'ainst slrik-
in" out, twenty-four were republicans
and populists.
Tne monopoly of the sujrar trust
war, lun by republican legislation.
It was one of the essential features of
the McKinlcy bill, which ma le a high
discrimination in fuvor of the sug"ar
trust. That discrimination was re
duced by a hard fiht. and the effort
to abolish it entirely received only one
republican vote.
The surar trust makes a profit of
ten million dollarsa year by its privi
lege of laying a tax on the people of a
fraction of a cent ou every pound of
sugar they consume.
The United States porcrnmcut au
thorizes the sarar trust to collect
from the people an annual income ten
times us largv as that which it costs to
run the whole jfovernment of this cit3
While on one hand the United States
favors the sugar trust by its protect
ing tariff, on the other hand it per
mits the sugar truit to oppress it la
borers and to close its refineries and
Ptill more to raise its profits from the
people.
The test vote of the senate shows
who the friends of the sugar trust arc.
Albany Argus.
No more interesting; paper has
been issued from the government at
Washington during" recent years than
the annual report of the secretary of
agriculture, Hon. J. Sterling" Morton.
Not the least interesting feature of
this valuable paper is tho titutcmcnt at
the outset that six hundred thousand
dolla:s of the appropriation for the de-
Cartmcnt for the last Csca! year have
en covered back into the treasury,
being twenty-three per cent, of the en
tins nmount, and that 'economy haa
not diminished eCiciency." Kansas
City Timcj.
POLITICAL HERESY.
W'ltat a Ilcpubllcan Journal Say of Mc.
blnleyibm.
The defeat which prohibitory pro
tection has iust sustained in the re
publican congressional campaign com
mittee is significant. It came on the
epiestion of continuing the committee
Headquarters and the maintenance of
its literary bureau until March 15
next. This was the proposition of
Chairman llabcook and the other lead
ers of the moderate win? of the part'
and it was opposed b3 the hiph protec
tionists under the direction of
Houtelle of Maine. The moderates
were successful by a lare majority.
For three months more the head
quarters will be kept open, and dur
ing1 this time literature on the tariff
questiou will be sent out to republic
; tins or others who ask for it and the
campaign of education be continued.
Just what happened in the congres
sional committee would happen in
' caucus if the matter were brought be
; fore the entire republican delegation
' of both branches, llijh protection,'
! the protection which is understood b3
I the term McKinleyism. would be
i beaten four or live to one on a vote of
th wliole biv of retmhlieaii members !
. '. ti-i. i ...: .
oi congress. icivinie ism uenotes
hijrh protection protection in some
place very close to the prohibitory
point, und in many places much nearer
that point than is necessarv for the i
producer, fair for the trovcrnment. or
just to the consumer. The term is con
crete and specific, and the wuvfarinr
man. though a fool, will know precise
ly what it means.
L "Ai't.f v ' " u
in doctrine
and never was. I'ndoubteily if the j
republican masse s of the country were ,
permitted to vole on the McKinlcy ,
bill Just after it was put into shape
they would have rtjc'f.1 iiinl oiii!' iuikJ
it by U vote of fot least three to one. ;
A man can be a sound and consistent
protectionist without lM-lievir.; taut
the highest duties ure always the best
duties. All the protection which the
really representative men of the party
ever wanted was that which would oll
sel the lower warres paid a'., road.
j There are. it is true, in the republican
! party, as there were in the win; party,
j men who think that nothing whatever
should be admitted to the country
which can be made or raised here, no
matter wnat the prce Here is. nut m
the whi" ilay those men were never
uilowt-d to ilictate tariffs. The re
publicans. tv. kept them in the back
ground until recently. The- hatl no
hand in the frauiiugr of the Morrill bill
which passed the house in lid und the
senate in February. 1 -'-5 1- The duties
j iu t:;at act. o: course, were sue
! qucntly increased, but that was during
! the war. when an impost was pat on
t evcrvtninc t.'iat a tax--ratnerer couia
reach. Alter trie war tne tiui;es
After
started downward, and they kept on
i e;oin down untii lsJ. Then the im- j
j ort ciclusionists und aUtliti oni-ts
ITot control
committee.
of the ways
framed the
and means
McKinley
; tarifl.and the party w us overwhelming
' ly and deservedly In-aten in that year
I and in l's: as u eonseuence. No
i turiff will rtcr n-ala 1h- frame! oa
, the lincv There is an irrcpressi
I ble conflict bet ween McKinlcy i-sni and
' rpubiicauism. McKir.lcvi:a i a
relic of barbarism, a survival of the
dark arres. It is political h.ercy.
economic lunacy. I'hmese statesman
ship. The republican party wdl
to it that the McKinlry.s-n res;:rrec-llo:;il-s
be sent to the rear and k-pt
there. St I.ouik Ulobe-Iem(s:rat
trep,).
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
1-vcr v dollar that Steve KlLius
will spend in buying the West Virginia
senators-lip represents honest Ameri
can sweat, not a drop of which has
been sweated by Ilikins himself. How
lon will the people allow the plutoc
racy to flv its red flag over the senate?
N. Y. World.
Kx-Ireaident Ienjamin Harrison
has permitted it to transpire through
a friend that he has not authorized
anybody to say that he is not a candi
date for tite republican nomination for
president in isyc, nor thut he is a can
didate. Hut he says for himself
(through his friend) that he does not
desire the nomination and would ac
cept it ouly "under extreme pressure."
It is easj- to sec, however, that he con
fidently expects to feci the "pressure."
Chicago Herald.
"No tariff will ever aain be
framed on the 1600 lines," says that
outspoken republican journal, the St
Louis lilobe-Democrat. "There is an
irrepressible conflict between McKin
leyism and republicanism. McKinley
ism is a relic of barbarism, a survival
of the dark ages. It is political her
esy, economic lunacy. Chinese states
manship. The republican party will
see to it that the McKinleyism resur-
i rectionists be sent to the rear and kept
1 t hiT- Loti isvi II Ciinriip..lniimnt.
A four-dollar rise in one daj- in
the price of sugar trust stock! This i
to be traced us directly to the fact
that every republican voting" in the
senate voted against taking" steps to
remove the duty from which the sujrar
trust benefits us effect was ever to be
trueed to cause in un3 quarter. The
de mocrats contributed a mite to aid it
also, but it is only fair to them to say
that the greatest bulk of their sena
tors went the other way. The repub
lican leaders easily control their party
and make it a unit in the interest of
monopoly, while the democrats are
helpless for efficiency in the other direction.-
Iloston Herald.
McKinleyism is thoroughly dis
credited even in his own party. Tho
hih priest of the faith will have to
modify his views or cease to be a pres
idential possibility. As speaker of
the hotis Heed will concentrate the
public raze ami attention, lie w ill be
u much more conspicuous fi.'ure than
tho governor of Ohio or the distin
guished citizen of Indianapolis who
delivers lectures and practices law.
The czar's way to the nomination
seems an easy one, but the antagonism
which he has created and which he
will create when again he is speaker
makes the question of his selection
cutirely a different matter. Detroit
Free J'rc&s.
I religious matters. !
MERRY. MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Oh? 'Merry. Merry Christmas,"
ISUtbly let us sine.
Ana -Merry. Merry Christmas.'
Let the chun h l-eli riujj;
1: tUe little fitrariKcr,
S:iilhiii; in the nia:ik'T.
In I tic Klif of Kiu?S.
Oh! "Mrrrj-. Merry nirlstmas."
Weave In frxj-ran creeii.
Aud -Merry. Merrr Chri.stcias,
la L(lly-berrles sheen.
Ol-ned l!eaen'ii ixrtaiS,
Ti.at by favored mortals
Anjrels niifht be teea.
Oh! "MTry. Merry Christmas
Carol bright und cuy.
For Merry. Merry Christmas
Is the Children's Day:
Mornlnjr s.ars revealiaj?
Shepherds numbly krieedrjf
Where luf Christ CaiU icy.
Oh' "Merry. Mirry Chrlstia,
Day of sacred j.irth:
Oh! -Merry. Merry Ciirtstnias.
Slap the Saviour birth.
ChrlM. the birh and holy.
Once so xxieck atid lowly.
Can.e from lieuven to earttk
Ofc! "Merry. Merry Cbristma!'
Shout the happy sound.
Till '"Merry. Merry Christmas,
Spreads tho world around.
Wonderful the story.
Untot;od my Rlory
Hverriore Ht.ound.
Carine L. Ituse. in Goo3 IloueVeeriinf .
THE HEART OF CHRISTMAS.
What Thl (ilad Smuin haa flrnnsht Into
th- World and the Ilantati Heart.
Christmas i the great living, eternal
protest against pessimism. The star of
Itcthichcm is a threefold star, the star
of faith. b'H ami charit-. the triune
light of all living that is not mere ex
isting. We of to-day can hardly imagine
what a genuine civilization could be
without Christmas. Its inspiration lias
so subtly permeated our life in all its
various phases and activities that we
are bnf.led in trying to part its rightful
claims fro.u those of what we call in a
general way "the progress of civiliza
tion. It is a tusk too delicate for the
linest analysis. We only know that
when, at the birth of .Tesiis. the three
stars of faith, hope und charity were
set in the dark sky of human destiny,
to illumine with steadily growing
bea:i:s u course before e roping
guesswork, theirs was a light winch
was to light every man who eometh
into the w rid. Noiuau is so w retched,
so sick at heart, so tilled w ith "faint
perplexing dread. fo pessimistic, so an
tagonistic even to the claims of Jesns
and of the supernatural, that at the
Christuiastide he does not catch some
thing of the Christmas inspiration,
pluck up new courage, and take fresh
heart. From the universal spirit of
charity, of good w ill to men. can not
but spring, by a natural reflex impulse,
that personal hope which shades off
imperceptibly into jei-soual faith.
There arc many who would be the last
to acknowledge the claims of Christ
mas who are indebted to it the most;
for they need it the most. It i a prac
tical, though uncounted, force in their
lives, giving them an unconsc ious intel
lectual and moral vitality, like the
ozone of a strong, clear air which, in the
fretfulnevs of ill health, we may imag
ine to l filled with noxious germs.
This bracing tonic of Christmas,
whkdi comes to us so breezily and
healthfully every year, not to leave us
until the return of Christmas, is the
special antidote of the morbid essim
ism everywhere atmut us, in essays,
novels and oetry, often where we least
exjH-ct to meet it. In the absorption
of our intensely practical and scietitie
life we do not always recognize it. but
it secret influence does not abate for
that. It is transmitted with all the
; noisele.vsness of the electric current,
i and circles our world with the same
unbroken continuity. Its name now
most in vogue is "realism. professing
I to concern itself with minor adjust
i ments of permanently unsatisfactory
; conditions as the chief end of a transi
tory being, or to devote itself U the
elaboration of the disgusting and the
sensual as the chief end of a
disillusioned art. Uut whatever its
name or .professed purpose. it
robs effort of nobility, achievement
of satisfaction, aud life of faith or
hope, and in the end of charity. Taken
at its lcst, and this world is but a
makeshift, while the other is a misno
mer. Taken at its worst, and both are
a hell.
This is no exaggerated picture. Ad
mit once a reasonable basis for pessim
ism, banish from the heart all the
blessed inspirations of Chr.stmas hope
and faith, and there remains for an
earnest human soul but n stoical deter
mination to meet and defy Fnte Fate,
so finely described by Swinburne :
Kate 1 a ea without shore, atd the seal Is a
roe that abides;
But her curs are vexed with the roar, and her
face with the foam of the tides.
Hang the two pictures side by side.
Let one be the soul possessed by pes
simism, as depicted in that powerful,
terrible poem of Henley :
Out of the nUrht that rovers rae.
Itiark as th pit from pole 10 pole.
I thnnk whatever pods mav t'C
For my unconquerable soul.
2a the fell clutch of circumstance
I have art winced nor cried aloud.
Undr th bludgeoning! of caanoe
My head is bloody but unbowed.
Iyoud this place of wrath and tears
Ixmmi but the horror of the shade.
And yet the menace of the year
Kindt and (.hall tind rae unafraid.
It matters not how strait the irate.
How charged with punishment the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my sou!.
Let the other picture ie the soul pos
sessing faith and hope, as depicted in
the familiar, beautiful lines from Whit
tier's "Uternal (loodness:"
And so beside the silent sea
I wait the muffled oar;
No harm from 11 im ran come to mo
On oceuu or on shore.
I know not where His islands lift,
Their fronded j;ulms in air;
1 only know I cau not drift
lleyond His love and care.
And c.:-'4.0 Lord! by whom are een
Thy cre:xs as they be.
Forgive mo if w !loje I Iran
lain human heart Taee.
Christmas was given tn us to save us
trout the one, and to blcsa ui with the
r":rArt,mr Kced K!mbaU-
THE SOUL'S IMMORTALITY.
From Whenre Kwrft A a ran re Cine t&
m Troubled Heart.
I think there has been no book writ
ten on the immortality of the soul
which I have not read. I have pursued
them, bought them at great prices,
studied them with great earnestness,
seeking tr construct a satisfactor3
theory to my own mind, seeking to
master that great argument. I have.
spent thirty years at it. hoping some
day that possibly, by diligent study
and prayerful earnestness, I might Ik:
able to convey the argument, to pre
sent it - with more .'orce, and to make
its impression stronger upon the mind
and heart of the world. Hut when
death ccu.e tn my home and struck
down my tu'rlings: when I went and
looked into their graves, I saw noth
ing but utter darkness; I looked up
into Heaven with a hunger I
can not describe, with an an
guish 1 can not express; I
went out on a dark night into
the deep woods, and looked up into the
great vault a'ove, and leat upon my
breast, and cried to my Father, and to
tiie spirits which inhabit those distant
and unseen realms, and prayed until
my heart was crushed and brofcen;
until my tears were exhausted, and my
tongue almost clave to the roof of my
mouth; and in peechless silence, with
my face uton theearth. to see if I culd
not i.car them; but I found that it was
dark and silent; not a ray, not a voice.
I went and sat down by the philoso
phers whom I before ircagincd had edi
lied me, but now I found they gave me
nothing but husks. I read their argu
ments which had cheered me, but now
they broke my heart. They had noth
ing in them, not even enough for me to
hang a con jeet ure upon. 1 was desolate"
with an utter desolation. I sat down
and wrung uiy hands in an agony I could
not descrile. Nor did I ever find relief
until 1 heart! a voice coming through
the gloom, and out of the darkness and
Mience. witn more man neaveniy
j music and sweetness in it, and it said:
j "I am .lesus. the resurrection and the
! life; thy dead shall live again: and
! upon that single idea, that single
j thought. I found that I could rest my
I hope and my faith, and upon none
j other. lie lias broug-ht life and im
mortality to light: he h'is revealed that
great doctrine: He has established the
truth which the world sighed and
longed and wept and prayed for. but
which ever eluded mankind till He
came down out of Heaven. and told the
story of the fatherhood of God, and the
immortality of His humnn children.
"Glory Ik to the Father, and to the
Son. and to the lloiy Ghost: as it was
in the iK-ginninr. is uo-.v.and ever shall
le. world without end." Amen and
amen! Illshop II. S. Foster.
LASTING
INFLUENCE.
Why W
Should It Cirffu! That
It I
I.iertrd fur t. ood.
It was a striking remark of a dying
man. whose life had been, alas! but
jHorly spent: "O that my influence
could be gathered up and buried w ith
meT It could not 1-e. That man's in
fluence survives him; it still lives, is
still working on. aud will live and
work for centuries to come. He could
not, when he came to die and saw how
sad and deleterious hi influence had
leen. he could not p-..; forth his dying
hand and arrest that influence. It was
too late; he had put in motion an
agency which he was altogether pow er
less to arrest. His body could le
shrouded, and cofliced, and buried out
of sight, but not his influence: fcrthat,
alas! corrupt and deadly as it is. there
is no shroud, no burial. It walks the
earth like a pestilence like tlu angel
of death, and will walk till the hand
of God arrests and chains it
Let us be careful what inflnenee wf
leave lehind us. For good or for evil
we shall and must live and act. on the
earth, after our bodies have returned
to dust. The grave, even so far as
this world is concerned, is not the end
of us. In the nature of things it can
not be. We are, every one of us. doing
that every day. every hour, which will
survive us, and w hich will affect, for
good or for evil, those who come after
us. There is nothing we are more
prone to forget and disregard than our
influence upon others: vet there is
nothing we should more dread there
is nothing for which we must hereafter
give a more solemn accouut. Christian
Work.
Knowing; When to Stop Spakln.
If preachers have the credit nf never
knowing when to stop speaking it is
probably because they speak more than
other men, and not because they are
indifferent to the rights of ethers or
because they are lacking in judgment.
And yet, it is a great thing to know
just when -to stop speaking. United
iresby tcrian.
HIS SATANIC MAJESTY '
Points From th Rant's Horn Concerning
Thin Weil-Knowu I'ertnnace,
Yon can disappoint the devil in one
way by keeping out of debt.
The more polish you put on a mean
man the Wtter the devil is suited.
It is hard to get the devils slave to
Wlicve that God is his friend.
You need not be civil to tho devil in
order to show that you are no bigot-
The devil wins mauj a battle by get
ting God's troops to tire intoeach other.
The devil has both hands on the man
who will not follow his honest convic
tions. If you say "good morning" to the
devil he will offer you his arm to take
a walk.
The man who swears has something
in his heart that the devil wants to
stay there.
The devil never gets a chance to rest
in the neighborhood of the man whom
God pronounces perfect.
The devil lays down his gun when
ever he hears a preacher begin to apol
ogize for preaching the truth.
If 3'ou let the devil go home to din
ner with you, you will have to tak
him for a regular lrarder.
If the devil can persuade yon to take
one step, he will make an unanswera
ble argument as to why you auould
1 take anpther