TALMACE'SSERMOJ.
Dr. Taluiage chose tlie following
texts for his sermon: "Coine," Jeu.
:18, "Come." lievelatio ,22:17.
Imperial, tender and .ill persuasive is
this word "Come." NX lmudred and
seventy-eight times is it loimd in the
icriptures. It stands at iae front cate
f the Uible as iu my first text, invit
ing antediluvians into .Noah's ark, and
i stauds at the other gate of the liible
is iu my second text, inviting the post
liluveiaus into the ark of a Savior's
mercy. "Come" is only a word of four
otters, but it is the queen of words,
tad nearly the entire nation of English
rocabulary bows to its sceptre. It is
in ocean into which empties ten thou
taud rivers of meaning. Other words
irive, but this beckons. All moods of
feelings have that word'-Conie." Some
times it weeps and sometimes it laughs.
Sometimes it prays, sometimes it
tempts, and sometimes it destroys. It
louuds from the door of the church
and from the seraglios of sin, from the
fates of heaven and the gates of hell.
it is confluent and accrescent of all
sower. It is heiress of most of the
(jajt and the almoner of most of the
future. "Come.'" You may pronounce
it no that all the woes of time and eter
nity shail reverberate in its own syl
lable. It is on the lip of saint and pro
fligate. It is the mightiest of all soli
icitants either for good or bad.
You must remember that in many
;ases our ' Come" has a mightier "come'
to conquer before it has any effect at
slL Just give me the accurate census
the statistics, of how many are down
in fraud, in drunkenness, iu gambling,
iu impurity or in vice of any sort, and
I will give you the accurate census or
statistics, of how many have been slain
by the word '"Come." 'Come and cl ck
wine glasses with me at this ivory bar."
''Come and see what we can win at
this gaming table." "Come, enter with
ine this doubtful speculation!" "Come
with me and read those infidel tracts
on Christianity." "Come wiih rue to a
place of bad imusement." "Come
with me in a gay bout through under
j.rouiid Js'ew York." If in this city
there are twenty thousand who are
llowu iu moral character, then twenty
thousand fell under the power of the
word "Come." I was reading of a wife
whose husband had been overthrown
by strong drink, and she went to the
saloon where he was ruined, and she
said: -Give me back my husband."
And the bartender, pointing to a maud
lin and battered man drowsing in the
;or:ier of the bar-roorn, said: "There
e is; Jim, wake up; here's your wife
;ome for you." And the woman said:
"Do you call that my husband? What
bare you been doing to him ' Is that
the manly brow ? Is that the clear
lye? Is that the noble heart that 1
married? AVhatvile drug hare you
given him that has turned hi in into a
Send ? Take your tiger claws off him
Uncoil those serpent folds of evil habit'
;nai are crusmng mm. uive me back my
inutbaud, the one with whom I stood at
the alter ten years ago. Give him back
to me." Victim was he, as millions of
others have been, of the word "Cornel"
Was ever the blasphemer stopped in
ids oaths by denunciation of blas
phemy ? Was ever a drunkard weaned
from his cups by the temperance lect- J
urer's mimicry of staggering step and
hiccough? No. It was: "Come with i
me to church today and hear our sing-:
ing;" "Come and let me introduce you
to a Christian man whom you will be
Hire to admire;" "Come with me into
associations that are cheerful and good
tad inspiring." "Come with me into
Joy such you never before experienced."
With that word which has done so
much for others I approach you today.
Are yon all right with God? "No,"
you say. "I think not: I am sometimes
alarmed when I think of him; I fear 1
will not be ready to meet him in the
last day; my heart is not right with
Hod." Come then and hare it made
right. Through the Christ who died to
tare you. Come! What is the use in
waiting? The longer you wait the fur
ther off you are and the deeper you are
down. Strike out for heaven! You re
member that a few years ago a steamer
called the Princess Alice, with a crowd
ef excursionists aboard, sank iu the
Thames, and there was an awful sacri
fice of life. A boatman from the shore
put out for the rescue, and he had a
big boat, and he got it so full it would
not hold another person, and as he laid
hold of the oars to pull for the shore,
leaving hundreds helpl.ss and drown
ing, be cried out. "Oh, that I had a
bigger boat !" Thank God I am not
thus limited, and that 1 can promise
room for all in this Gospel boat. Get
fej; get in! And yet there is room.
Roosn In the heart of a pardoning God.
. ttoom in heaven.
It will take all eternity ta find nut
!be namber of business men who hare
bsea strengthened by toe promises of
Uod, and the people who bare been fed
by tew raven when other resources
gar out, and be men and women who
going Into battle armed only with needle
Mr saw, or axe, or yardstick, or pen, or
lyy or shovel, or shoe-last, bare gained
k vtetwjr Oat made the bearen resound.
MtiMmoreet of God prom
ft. f Twwry xtssaey, bo one need be
1 --.sws
i C3 WMt 4 eoodotaoee the
i C "HX Viz K attempts to con
dole: The plaster they spread does not
stick. The broken bones under ttvir
bandage do not knit. A fanner was lost
in the snow storm on the prairie of the
far west. Night coming on and after he
wa almost fantie from not knowing
which way to go, his sleigh struck the
About Reading.
A'l active minded boy or girl
find out a great deal about the won
we live in by the habit of atteut
i
I on.
looking ar und; and he or she pan '
much inspiration form the example
frond men ind women, Hut this know
ri.fin,' It "IrUiil.l
I never see "iMU'-iiiaiin-n
und it waits to ,! " ,',r' '!
tuter which )ht -,iK ttJ4
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I rut of another sleigh and lie said, I hedge c&l e added to indefinitely t lgaw jB .M i'iri;h n!iir.u- ''
j will follow this rut, and it will take me uing, ard people will read if they j ' .nin nosf d,- pi";.
j out to safety." He hastened on uu'il nave a genuine desire to know tiling, j m jj w. auH(-t,d ' i! .
jbe heard the be'Js of the precediug and are not, as we say, "too lazy to live.' d juwl ,0 '' jt. i:a-ii.-v
horses, but, coming up, lie found that ) when I bear a boy say that he d. ' ' i: ,rv
liiai, uiau m ww I tint l-nnw What M IVHIl I WOllUer II l. ..... ,.. r It;.! -
" : . , named "HflU III OM.'r.
has no curiosity is there not.,,,. . alld Mr. I
that he wants to know aUmlr , ,.,, .. WO!iM tin-
children ask questions. i,,,,.,,,. that tiw r, w au-
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)e 1 reii;i si.lil-
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tendency of those who are thuscoufust-d
in the forest, jr on tha moors, they
I were both moving in a circle aud the
I runner of the one lost sleigh was fol
lowing the runner of the other lost
sleigh round and round. At last it oc
cured to them to look at the north star,
w hich was peeping through the night,
and by the direction of tnat star they
got home auain. Those who follow the
advice of the world in time of preplex
ity are in a fearful round, for if it is one
bewildered soul following another be
wildered soul, aud only those who have
I in such time got their eye on the morn-
ing star of our Christian faith can find
.1...:- ...nn ... l... n.w..wl. t.i
men w ay uui vi 5uuui( cuuugu iu
lead others with an all-persuasive invi
tation. "IJut," says some one, "you Christian
people keep telling us to 'come' yet you
do not tell us how to come." That
charge shall not be true oa this occa
sion. Come believing! Come repenting!
Come praying! After all that God has
been doing for 0,000 years, sometimes
through prophets, and at last through
the culmination of all tragedies on
Golgo. ha, can any one think that God
will not welcome your coming?
"But," you say, "there are so many
things I iiave to believe and so many
things iu the shape of a creed that I
have to adopt, that I am kept back.
No, no! You need not believe but iwo
things, namely, that Jesus Christ came
into the world to save sinners, aud that
you are one of them. "Hut," you say
'T do believe both of these tilings." Do
you, really, believe them with all your I
heart? "1'es." Why, then, you havej
passed from death into life. Why, then
you are a son or a daughter of the Lord
Almighty. Why, then, you are an heir j
cr an heiress of an inheritance that will
declare dividens from now until long
after tiie stars are dead. Hallelujah,
l'riuce of God, why do you not come
and take your coronet? Princess of
the Lord Almighty, why you do not
mount your throne ? l'ass up into the
light. Your boat is anchored, why do
you not go ashore ? Just plant your
feet hard down, and you will feel under
them the Hock of Ages.
"Come," has sometimes brought many
souls to Christ, I will try the experi
ment of piling up into a mountain and
then send down in an avalanche of
power many of these Gospel "Conies."
' Come thou and all thy house into the
ark;" "Come unto me all ye who labor
and are heavy laden and I will give you
rest ;" "Come, for all things are now
ready;" "Come with us and we will do
you good;" "Come and see;" "The
.Spirit and the Itride say 'Come' and let
him that heareth say 'come' and let
him that is athirst come." The stroke
of one bell in a tower may be sweet,
but a score of bells well tuned and
rightly lifted and skillfully swung in
one great chime fill the heavens with
music almost celestial. Aud no one
who has heard the mighty chimes iu
the towers of Amsterdam, or Ghent, or
Copenhagen, can forget them. Now it
seems to me that in this Sabbath hour
all heaven is chiming, and the voices of
departed friends and kindred ring down
the sky saying, "Come!" The angels
who never fell, bending from sapphire
thrones, are chanting "Come!" Yea;
all the towers of heaven, towers of
prophets, tower of Apostles, ' tower of
evangelists, tower oT the temple of the
Lord God and the Lamb, are chirring,
"Come! Come!" Pardon for all, and
peace lor all, and for all who will come.
It often happens that the jierson.-
they aik cannot answer the qut Jtious.
Now, it is the purpose of books t d
just this thing w hich the particular
person asked car not do. And that is
about all there is in reading. Of
course it must be borne in mind that
curiosity is of many kinds curiosity
about facts, about emotions, about
what happened long ago, about what
is taking place now, about the people
who lived ages ago, and the people win
know about others and about one's self.
So it happened that one w ants to read
science and poetry and history aud bi
ography and romances and the daily
news. St. Nicholas
OliVCrS.
The olire tree in its wida state is a
thorny shrub or small tree, but when
cultivated becomes a tree twenty to
forty feet higli, with no thorns. It
lives to a good age. T e leaves re
semble those of a willow; the flowers
are small and white and grow iu clus
ters as grapes do, and the fruit is green
ish, whitish, violet or even black in
color and generally oval in shape. It
is produced in great profusion, so that
au old oiive tree becomes very valuable
to its owner Olive oil is much used as
an article of food in the countries in
which it is produced. Tickled olives
are very mush liked by most people
though to many they are disagreeable
at first.
Among the Greeks the olive wai
sacred to Minerva, the goddess of wis-"
dom; it was also the emblem of purity.
A crown of olive twigs was the highest
honor that could be bestowed upon a
Greek citizen. An olive branch was
also the symbol of peace, and the van
quished who came to beg for peace
bore olive branches in their hands.
The American olive is remarkable
for hardness of its wood, it is found
as far north as Virginia. Its fruit is
fit for use and its flowers are fragrant.
The fragrant olive of China and
Japan has extremely fragrant flowers,
which are used for flavoring tea. De
troit Free Press.
A Soft Answer.
A young newspaper man, who is
somewhat of a wanderer, found him
self iu Whitman county, 500 mi le from
his base of supplies, and "broke." Iu
the midst of his adversity he was fort
unate enough to find a farmer w ho
wanted a hand. The young man was
put to work plowing furrows for pota
to planting. The horses were not very
well trained, and the driver was far from
being an exceptional one. Asa result
the rows were not parallel. In fact
they looked as if they had been made by
some monstrous spider, which had been
by an upheaval of nature partly buried
in the soil, and whose terrific struggles
to extricate himself had left his zigzag
leg prints on the ground. .
In the evening the farmer happened
around that way, and somewhat testily
criticised the wopper-jaw appearance
of the rows. The newspaper man felt
that the time for his departure was at
hand, but not wishing to capitulate
without a protest, replied: "1 know
the rows are rather crooked, but . the
sun was exceedingly hot today and it
warped them." The answer turned
away the farmer's wrath, and, instead
of being discharged, the newcomer was
given an easier and much pleasanter
Job, and is now the farmer's son-in-law
-Walla Walla Journal
Louis Fsgan, master of prints in the
British museum, is on his way to this
eountry on a tour of the worn. He
will lector oa to treasures of the
British museums walla on bit tiwrala.
Chlcago'N Steel Steamships.
Two twin steel steamships stand on
the stocks at the yards of the Chicago
Shipbuilding company at South Chica
go. They are nearly ready to be
launched into the Calumet river. These
1,000 tonhers are being built for the
Minnesota Steamship company. ' As
the lirst steel vessels built so far west
as Chicago they are of special interest
They represent the first season's suc
cessful work of a pioneer shipbuilding
company. The vessels, as they now
stand, are 309 feet in length over all,
with a keel of 3fsl feet. The beam is 40
feet and the depth 25 feet. At present
they do not contain single stick of tim
ber. The main deck, however, will be
floored with lumber and the hold ceiled
with t'ae same material. The vessels,
when complete; will have cost 8210,000.
The carrying capacity of each will be
2,500 tons. They are bein ; fitted for
the Lake Superior iron trade. Chicago
Tribune.
hell
Queer New Year Superstition.
"Dont take a light out of the house
before one has been brought in," is the
solemn injunction on New Tear's night
of the peasantry of Lincolnshire.
Death is certain to result if this advice
is not followed.
To permit a wo.ian to enter the
house first on New Year's day is said to
be a sure forerunner of eviL The same
results are said to follow the throwing
out of dirty water, ashes or any kind of
refuse.
In sweeping the house the dust must
be swept from the door to the hearth
or death will be the consequence. A
custom largely observed at present is
after making the fire iu the morning
to spread the ashes over the threshold.
If in the morning there is an impres
sion of a foot leading from the house a
death in that family is so firmly be
lieved in that preparations are made
for it, but if the footmark leads toward
the house a birth during the year is
sure, and preparations are m:nle accord
ingly. Philadelphia Times.
The Manufacture of Piu.v ;!,.
The casting table of a plate glass f ac
tory is about 20 feet long, aud 15 f,.et
wide and 7 inches thick. Strips of iron
t- : j - cr i i -
oil cucu niuo auuru h waring ror the
rollers, and determine the thickness of
the plate to be cast. The molten glass
is pourea on me glass to a uniform
thickness. The glass, after cooling
rapidly, is transferred to the annealing
oren, where it remains several days
When taken out it is very rough and
uneven, and in that state is used for
skylights and other purposes where
strength to desired rather than trans
parency. The greater part of the glass,
howyer togroond, worthed and p5
lahtd.-NrT York Commercial Adr.
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i.,,.il hi.'l spent
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v i.-. I L". f i ii-nis t
I'.ty h"i...-.
, Aii-1 thus .Ml-'T r'L'iiiCi-d
i;. .-ton, in -1 a I'"'1 "'"'"S
Mlil I.U ho.-'.
t tirsioisr coiii.tr j man b
'v.h.tt ,o do with l..ins.!f ft tl.ewondi-r-;
,,,.'v l.i.ieti mlif. H: relative. oUetv
'. . I., him:
,1:2 Ms i.e-:,;n"'ii, fuur1'" "
! "limit l.e backward.
' mu V,t' t" j'i-t v.hl.t ou
r What an Indian CanSiaoo
! To show what au Indian c an
rt-u he has to 1 lua tell of nn it.;
dent which hapixrn d during the
ter I wan wi.h t&ui aajs a writer k
I he Ifc-troil pi) 1'iaa. Toward erta.
ing Hi a v ry cM! winter day, when If
was snowing just a little and drifting i
treat deal, an li.ritan came to the
Louse with a Jug half full of h'uh
and with lifs title. 1 im.-ioinnl
' . 1 k, v
jug had been entirely full of ,ivt, I w V
j i lieu he started, and by the tin 1 !
got to the house he was iu rather i 1 TfwlV,
ike.
other of tiie many workbin.u -i
flooding the country.
He therefo e determined to revers.
the title, and to ber linn out ill this 1
.. ii untt-r A lohir and
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pleasant correspondence toon l-uxf " " , ' a
ween Mr. L.ppmeott and l la sit-Uir.-pted a waiter to bring h.m
Uanie, Kaj., ihe former supposing the ite f ip cr-am.
il , ,!. -nu:,U" never eor- The '' cream was l-rougM and the
.mwv vw t - , ... I. 1.1...
a long; gentleman ' ' """" """"
ih-h of wallops.
u !- in
at a l.o'tl . Joliy condition. The jug and the i, U
j were taken away from him, and 1
,r,l' knew was ordered to eel to his wiimam
quick as he could before diirktita aaAr
came on. He left and was supper mtt 1
to have gone to the camp, but Of
Alner, help 'next morning bis squaw appeared tl U
and for
ftt.tnt l... . .... .rucun .11
laitU 1(1 Jlli J r.r -I...".-, - ,
:.. ....i;i Mi. 1 ii.iiinriitlV while he lini.ieil a
subsequent visit to Kurope-did the j Aimer looked up and saw the .H- irate
publisher believe that "Ouida" was a j looking masn in the plale not Ur art.,)
i -i.f hi friends remind It '.vas tempting, and he reached lorlli
him todav of his eiithu-iasiii over "the , and took it. lie had put a si-Hrtiltil d
new mi. ai-mss the water- whom he 1 the frozen mixture into his
had di-covered. - Kdward W. llok's was hesitating between surpris.
letter. i delight, when the gentleman opposite
ra'her abruptly and no: very pic nan i-
poke
mouth, and
au 1
Why the Sea Is Salt.
There are hundreds of queer myths
and traditions given to account for the
fuct that the sea iH sat. '1 he Arabs
say that when the lirst pair sinned they
were living in a beautiful garden on a
tract of land joined to a mainland by a
narrow neck of isthmus. When it le-
came kuown to the Jloly Ono that hisi
people had sinned he went to the gar
den fur the purpose of tlrivi :g them out
and across the narrow neck of laud in
to the patch of thorns and brambles on j in
the other side. Antic piting what ; pordinir to the Herald, was preparing to
would be tlie consequence of their hein
ous crime, they had prepared to leave
ell, luy friend, that's what I should
call decidedly cool:"
"Vaas," responded Aimer, innocently
hen h5 had swollowi-l a frigid morsel,
"it's about the coldest pudd'n 1 ever
tas'-l. I swan to man! cf I don't be-
I hevu it s reallv Uclifd with frost.
tiavp it Itiir-lnr
Miss liertie liewey, a
Her ( aril.
girl employed
a dry goods si ore in I.os Angehs, de
leave her home when p!k heard a sus
picious noise, and grabbing a largn
their beautiful garden, and had actually ; carving knife which lay on the dining
eone so far as to send tlie children and i table she went to her In-other s 11-
goats across into the thicket.
When the Holy One appeared on the
scene the lust pair started to run, but
the woman looked back. For this the
man cursed her, and for such a crime,
was almost immediately turned into a
block of salt. Compare with (lenesis
xix, 2'i. The woman, more forgiving
than her husband, stooped to pick up
the shapeless mass of. salt, when im
mediately the narrow neck of land hi
gan to crack and break. As she
touched what had once been her com
panion, she, too, was turned to salt just
as the neck of the laud sank and the
waters rushed through. From that
day to this, the Arabs say, all the
waters of the ocean luvve rushed
through that narrow channel at least
once a year, constantly wearing away
the salt of what was once our lirst pa
rents, yet the bulk of the two salty ob
jects is not dimished in the least. -St.
Louis llepublic.
room and saw two met. on the outside
altemptiug.toget in. They had the
window raised from the bottom six
inches or more, and one had grasped
the (.'listing inside and was just in the
act limbing in.
The young lady was alone and un
protected, but to decide w hat to do
was the work of only an instant. She
crept up to tlie wimbw and with her
big carving knife gave him a rap over
the knuckles with ail the force
she could command iu her des
peration. The man, who up to this
time seemed not to notice her presence.
gave an unearthly shriek, mid with his
companion made good his escape, roar
ing with pain. The young iady then
finished her friilct and proceeded to her
uncle'n.
the hous-i and said lie had not
home that night, and as the night u
cold she had been anxious about him.
Then the search for the lost Indian 1
gan.
lie was found In one of the shedi
near the barn under a heap of drifted
snow, and thu chances are that the
snow that was above him had helped
to save his life. Ti.e searchers for tho
Indian had gone in different direr-.
Hons, and it whs his own squaw h,
with true Indian instinct, had tracked
him out, and she was alone when si
found him. Apparently the Indian
was a frozen corpse. She tutnhM
him out of the snow bank and pulled
off his blankets, and dragged Liu
down to the creek, where a deep holt
was cut in the ice for the purpose of
watering the rattle. Laying the Ind
ian out on the snow she took the pan
that was beside the hole, and, filling it
repeatedly, dashed pailful after pailful
of ice water over the body of the lad
iau. liy the time the other uns access-
fill searches had returned she had Un
old man thawed out and seated by thr
lire w rapped up in blankets. There u
no question that if he had been found
by the others, and had been taken in
the house frozen as he was, he would
have died.
X
F
Humor on a Sick lied
While reading one of the humorous
papers a few days ago I came across a
sunnv siorv which curled rue back lo
months ago when sitting in my room
one evening, I was summoned by mes
senger to the sick bed of a friend, lie
is perhaps one of the best known funny
panigraphers in the country, and his
Mrs. Clara S. Cochrane, w ho was re
cently ordained to the ministery nt
Bath, X. H pursued the regular course
of study in the theological seminary at
Meadville, Pa., in company with her
husband, llev. L. D. Cochrane, who is
now pastor of the Unitarian churcli at j linds a ready sale wherever off-
Littleton. I ercd. t poi, arriving at the loom of
t. I IM-V frp'"l I found him in a high fever.
He AV as a tiood Man t,miuu 011 a M of ,,frf,(.t ()iy J
A tall, thinnisl, man, with silky pale had not sat long by his side when, turn
brown hair, worn long and put back I ing over, he said to rut: "ilv dear fel
behind his ears, the high tops of which j low, my 'copy' is due toworrow inorii-
uc,it lUMvcuu a mile unuer me weight, imr at the oil ce of . UWi ,,.
nad thus took on the most remarkable j take a pad and write down Home ;',r,.
attention to J graphs at inv dictation V"
: set far out I I took a nad and fur -a h:.if j.
friend dictated to me a coiitiniious
No One Need Drown Now.
An Italian has just arrived in Lou
don with an "instantaneous, slf ex
panding, life saving belt," by which lis
expects to enrich himself from tho
pockets of the people who are nervom
at sea. It has already been adopted by
the principal steamship companies of
Italy. The unique feature of this ties
life saving belt is that it may be won
around the body while promenadint
about the decks during the day, and ii
not even taken off in bed. It weiglu
about twice as much as one of the or
dinary canvas or leather belt sold f
general use.
Iu its finished state it is about til
last thing In the world that a prudent
man would place confidence in if in
was to attempt to jump for hi hfs
from the deck of a sinking vessel iut$
the sea. Hut the moment tA belt
touches the water two chemical swh-
stances contained in it are instantly
united, and it begins to inflate with
gas. hat these substances are i tlm
inventor's secret He claims that one
belt will keep the most heavily clothed
ifrsoii afloat for forty-eight houn.
For ladies the belts are made of silk,
for men of canvas. Boston Transcript
will
way
air of paying incessant
everybody and everythii:
in front of these as though it did not
wish to be disturbed by what w as heard
a white, wind splitting face, calm,
beardless and seeming never to have
been cold, or to have dropped the kind
ly dew of perspiration; under the serene
peak of this forehead a pair of large
gray eyes, patient and dreamy, being
habitually turned inward upon a mind
toiling with hard abstractions; having
tithin him a conscience burning al
ways like a planet.
A bachelor, being a logician
lino bhcci, lemperea, never I
sipped the sour cup of experience
Uiere-
...t,.:.. ... ma,
tiiiiik ..I Junes, many oi inem so luiuiy
that I could scarcely repress laughing
myself. One story I esjcial!y remem
bered as exceedingly bright and witty,
and yet it was dictated between groans,
There are indeed j eople in this world
who suffer lo make others laugh.-,
Kdward W. liok's Letter.
111. OrjflBorricMdtlljr.
n article of wearing apparel
soineliuies lead into out of the
piaces. i-or instance, the collar wu
once called piccadel, or pickadill, and
and Iliggins, a tailor in London, mailt
so much money out of it that ho was
enabled lo build a great number of
houses in a certain street, which (row
that time came to be known as Piccad
illy Clothier and Furnisher.
A ISruve Texas Girl.
V telegram from Sin Antonia. Texas
gives this remarkable slorv of frr.mtur
j bravery, the heroine being Pauline Co!-
ing covertly at womankind fro, , i , . trsoll,'l ' hildress, in the
'.li'SAM.''.-
.mm me uencate veil of unfarnilinrit v
that lends enchantment; being a bache
lor and a bookworm, therefore already
old at forty, and a little run down in
Ins toilets, a little fraved out nt the
elbows and the kn-es, a lim,. mmy
a'ongtheback.alitilcdelicieii! at the
Heels, in pocket poor a! ays and always
the poorer because of a spendthrift
habit in the matter of secret charities
kneeling down by his 8iuh1 lmrd b( (j
wry morning and praying that dur
mi the day his logical faulty mi ,,t
tscharge its function morally, nd
. -v .... ,UIrtl ,,,,'uuy mm ,ljs(.h
i s function logical! anU that overall
""T"""' a" Us other faculties
lie might fmd heavenly grace to ' , "
:ise both a loeical and ,..... .. .
nueeunguown again to ask
iorffiTeiipua Hint ,1 . .
caUoglcian. an erV nJ""':
(tathering philosp ?r 'hut
making, al.n,t a perTt ul1'"'r" ?
i-ooiMcueciiiiury. Nie is a pupil iM
Childress hchool and, although she lives
ten miles from that town, makes the
trip back and forth each day or a spir
ited '1 exhs pony. One morning recent
ly she left home at an Variy hour, and
was riding leisurly along when she en
pied an enormous catamount (North
American tiger, immediately in front
"flier, crouched in the short rairi
11 r I'mmrr.
Theie are but two epochs in a msii'i
life. The lirst that of hope and youth
ful illusions, when he wears his hw
brushed Iwhind his ears and leaves il
wildly florting of the breeze. The sec
ond when, gloomy and dejected, he liai
liiiully subscrilml to Solomon's edict,
vanitas vanitorun, and pulls bit
thinned lot ks mournfully over his eje-brows.-.
Judflre.
A Mlner'M Itellefiu Pr.iyrr.
Luther Laflin Mills: I was comam
in from Itcuver not long ago and Ml
in with one of th'we great, big-hearted
fellows who live out in the western
country. 11 told me lie was on Ills
way to Switzerland to raise l.5i.'H
for (he purpose of opening up son"
valuable mines In Colorado. He w'J
naoy ,r me ratal spring, u'ith I tin-re was a great deal of Idle capital in
U""MW P1"'" " 'ind Miss Col. swi'.erh.i.d w.it.i... rr ,.ha.... to U
-a u. mnui Hanging at her sad
dle bow, and with great dexfenfv .i.
aniinars neck was encircled with the
ucaaiycoiL At a word from jt Inis.
( I'KwU ft... .... I
pony wiucii ju,,,, ('(lllj(,r
rale sprag away at a gallop, drag,;,,.
tlm UAiua l...i i -i . " H
"" uei PK-RS lnoi,t..r ..
- ' I""1 Coining saiisiie,! that
tl-e savage brutes life was extinct, the
yonnglailyuniMtha nq. from'(i(,
fn"w of her saddle, leaving ie
stretched po the prairi. ,.,
"T. J r.-ee,lig 0II ,1W w t
nirt several cowboy, Ll
Jjr nor. They went to the
l're the dead panther lay .llu
-trimloff its hide, which will
made into a robe ami Dr-1.i
courageous girl. The nanth, ,.7-i Z
invented. He was a nlous man. too.
He said to me, having explained nil
tnissiou ns I have Just related, and "
answer t-, a question I bad asked ait
what hiqw he had success:
"1 am bound to succeed, sir. Tlif
are people who are prayln, for my
cess, and 1 11111 not idle in that ren01.
My wife and cbiklrenre praying l
me am they will continue to pray l
me as long as I am gone. The
people of Ine church of which I am
member are praying for me. Aixf
when I have succeeded and the niowf
begins to reap n profli I am going w
build a fine churcli for those pl
tnystlf. I fit wasn't for the faitn 1
hare Iu tlie prayers or all those peof
I couldn't go to HwiturUud aud "
'1
u 4iin iu Harper's.
lonnd.-Farm. Field , "T
111:111 -
for what 1 am going to ask, no raM'
bow much Is in tM
