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The Board of Trade in a Tennessee
town, in a recent memorial to the leg
islature, lemont rated, according to
the Engineering Magazine, thai bail
roads were costing Hie pple of that
commonwealth more $7.i.
annually Prof. W. W. ( -aix.il, uf the
University uf Tennessee, afier careful
Investigation, found the average cost
of hauling to tlie Knoxrille market by
wagon to le $7.."o jmt ton - aggregating
fl.iVi.im a year ou the toial tonnage
hauled. He maiiitaine.l that thin haul
ing coul.l have Ix-eu )ne for half the
sum over good dirt road and for one
sixth of it over good macadam road,
saving $l.ii.s.i annually, Prof. Rich
ard T. Kly. of the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity and secretary of the American
Economic Association, affirmed that
Por roads cost thin country over $1M
horse, and Prof. Jenkw, of Knox Col
lege. Illinois, thinks 15 a horse a low
estimate for this loss.
ondisturbed. and was occtifded by
prolmbly the saute pair of bird for
several seasons, one spring they re
turned and ai appeared prosperous
until one day tt was noticed that a
number of swallows were engaged In
nailing up the entrance of this old
neat.
This work, as well ai the outline of a
new nest over tha old, wtt soon com
pleted. Tha closed nest was tben brok
en open, and within was found the
dead body of a swallow.
The bird had probably died a natur
al death, and the friends, tielng nnable
to remove the body, and knowing that
it would soon become offensive, adopt
ed thlg method of sealing It up.
TALM AGE'S SEIiMOX.
The Coat ut Macadam.
The cost of building roads has lwen
greatly reduced within three years lu
Sow Jersey, as the width of the conn
try roadways first laid was not less
than 1H feet, now 12 feet wide, stoned
10 to 12 inches deep. Another style of
oud for heavy travel is only 10 feet
wide, stoned 10 to 12 Inches in depth,
with grass wings on the sides. Such a
aoadway has been iu use three years
and Is in good order, even where loads
f five tons are transported over it.
On roads where there is no heavy trav
el the width may be only H feet, stoned
0 to 12 inches, with wings 2 feet oji
each side, stoned (i inches. It has. been
ascertained that the cost of a telford
road is uo more than a macadam.
suougti at first contractors charged
from 10 to 12 cents more per square
jard for telford.
In Camden County in ls'M it cost
to lay a square yard of 12-iuch
tone road, but in ls:i4 the cost of the
aame was only 7'J cents. For o-lnch
tone roads In Camden County In lWi
H was ,so cents; lu lsi4, 42 cents, and
In Gloucester County : cents a square
jard. This reduction lu the cost would
ie It jssibie to have stone roads In
Jaay sections where before they could
aot be- had. Vet, in justice to some por
tions of the State, Mr. Burroughs, the
Public Road Commissioner, thinks the
present laws should be amended so as
to allow hard materials other than
stone to be employed In road Improve
-':ui ne aiso tu-Heves that In the
tature-say. fifteen or twenty years
national assistance will be
well as Slate. Exchange.
Two Old Clergymen.
Many norten are told of the happy
faculty of saying a word in season,
siss(sed by Dr. Hall, an old clergy
man of I'rtnceton, X. J., years ago.
At one time a difficulty had arisen In
the Presbyterian Church at Cranberry.
The presbytery coureued to hear and
adjust the matter. They met at Cran-Ix-rry,
and the discussion become so
very hot that a good deal of unpleasant
feeliiA; was discernible in the tones
and faces of those who were carrying
on the arguments. Just at the most
critical Kilnt old Ir. Hall rose to jtour
oil upon the troubled waters, as was
his Invariable custom.
"Mr. Moderator," said he. in his gen
tle voice, and with no suspicion of a
smile on his tine face, "Mr. Moderator,
I rise to offer a resolution, which is
that a little sugar te put into this cran
berry tart."
The effect was Instantaneous; the
laugh came at just the right moment,
and the bitterness that bad begun to
gain ground was checked then anil
there.
Another old New Jersey clergyman
of the Presbyterian denomination was
Itominie Comfort, who was known as
a man of great drollery out of the pul
pit, as well as a most excellent preach
er ami much loved pastor.
On one occasion the well-known Pr.
Cannon, professor of theology and
church history in the Theological Sem
inary of the Reformed Dutch Church,
heard Dominie. Comfort preach at
Kingston.
"Brother Comfort," he remarked at
dinner. "1 heard an old lady say this
morning that .the dominie's sermon was
very comforting."
"Only a uatural consequence, my
good brother," replied the dominie, mod
estly. "But how remarkable when we
hear of comfort coming from acannon'g
mouth."
the photographer' iirti. H ts.k
picture from it ten or twenty frmrt gj.
You ik him now for a picture from that
in negative. He opcci the sreat cfcet
A KINDLY TALK TO BEGINNERS i containing the black negative of lvC or
IN LIFE'S BATTLES.
iio, an J reproduce tne picture,
luung men, your memory i made up of
the oegatiir of an immortal photography.
Ike tsonl, the Body, the Intellect, the
Aspiration, the Goal and Glance
Ahead -4a Inspiring and Forceful
Sernion to the Young.
Word to Young Men.
In hit audience at the New York
Acadetny of Mueic Dr. Telnmge nirvt
many hundred of youiig men fruui differ- '
eut part of the I'niou and reiireeniiiiU ' Jr after the utar on which we now live
almost every calling and profession iu i l"iVe lropied out of the constella-
yoa go at rour work on the nonut fun
re expected and atop at the firf minute
it i lawful to quit. The greatly uwful
and succettful men of the iiet century
will be those who t.gan half an hour l
fore they Mere required nd worked at
least half an hour after they might have
quit. I uleti you are milling sometime
All that you .- or hear .- into rour to work i.ir. ,.t .i, A.. m-i'l
"uj u.e nciuree lor ine luiure. i ou
will have with yn till the judginent day
the negative of all the bad picture you
have ever looked at and of all the debauch
ed scenes you have read about. Show me
the uewiaier you take and the hooks
you read, and I will tell von hIisi in
I your prospect for well being lu thi life.
aii'i hat will be your reideii-e
given as
Tha .1 a ...
. .. wiiiurm oi .lltiens.
The ball was a universal plaything
i.iuj me cnmiren or old Athens. Ag
ttey grew older ttere came the hobby
"f. tne game with- dice, and spln
topg both in the house and in the
tB air. Toys and go-carta and "mud
PUm" engaged the interest of Athenian
children as of all European nations.
Tnen followed at a somewhat more ad
nced age a game which consisted In
uiruwiug tiauungiy into the water
small amooth stones, and counting how
maDy leapa they made before sinking
iwnicn we call "skimming" or "duck
nd drakes"), bllndman'g buff, trund
ling hoops, and all kinds of games with
the ball, walking on stilts, leap-frog,
Ilte-flylng, see-sawing on logs, gwlng
ag, etc. Girla had dolls made of wax
ar clay and painted. Blindman s buff
wg played thus: The boy with his eyes
naaged moved about calling out, "I
will catch a brazen fly." The others
mrwered, "You will hunt It, but you
won't catch It," all the while striking
ldn with whips rill he managed to
tavtcn one of them.
Intelligent Swallows.
Xfc- F. H. Kuowlton, of the Smith
unian Institution, has published an
account of observations made on the
habits of the common eave or cliff
wallow, which show that this bird
fotwesseg a remarkable degree of in
teEigence. Eate swallows, as Is well
taowB, usually select the eaves of a
wilding for their nesting site, and
ometlrnea as many as a hundred neats
may be observed under one projection.
Doctor Knowlton'a observations are as
follows:
Within my collecting grounds la a
ansed open only on one side, where for
any years cliff swallows have attach
ed their nests to the sleepers of the
Sft In the spring of 1878 they re
turned as usual, and soon began, re
fBiring old nests or building new ones.
One day It was noticed that one bird
SMisHlned In her half-finished nest, and
M6 not npiear to be much engaged.
moo a neighbor, owning a nest n few
ilwt way. arrived with a fresh pellet
Ofay, and after adjusting It In a snt
factory manner, flew away for more.
K sooner was she out of sight than
to- quiet bird repaired to the nelgh
W nest, appropriated the fresh clay,
MfJ molded It to her own nest.
Wbrn fhe plundered bird returned,
m Botfce was taken of the theft, which
mm repeated as soon as she waa out of
CM. The moTsnents were repeat
as7 tlmea, wltk the result that tn
Ht f tk aUy-at-boms bird graw
ptaet a aaa rMwioad
Taking the ead as Socialists.
The most active socialists In New
York just now are Russian Jews. Some
of the most vigorous and courageous
of the socialist agitators in this city
are English Jews, and In the develop
ment of the socialist party here Or'
mans, as leaders, have gradually been
falling In the background. A very con
siderable number of the Hebrew social
Ists ou the East Side are anarchists
as well. A majority of them are of
Russian birth or lineage, and their hos
tility to established government and
the forms of legal authority is based
on conditons which exist in Russia an
have no existence here. It used to bn
said a few years ago that tne railvin,
point of the red flag socialist In New-
York was always a German lager beer
saloon, and the establishment of Ju
lus &cfiwau bis Deer tunnel In 1st
street came Into great celebrity In con
sequence. But nowadays one does not
look in New York for anarchists among
tne Uermans, but among the Russian
Jews on the East Side, and the same
is true of socialists. Several small
papers, published in the Jewish Jargon
on the East hide of town, keep alive th
sentiment of hostility to established
forms of government, and have recent
ly largely added to the number of so
cialist recruits. New York Advertiser.
An Alpine Iake.
Medical Lake, so called on account of
the remedial virtues f its waters, situ
ated on the great Columbian plateau
in southern Washington, at an alti
tude of twenty-three hundred feet
above the level of the Pacific, Is called
the Dead Sea of America. It Is about
a mile long and from a half to three
fourths of a mile In width, and with
maximum depth of about sixty feet
The composition of the waters of this
Alpine Lake Is almost Identical with
that of the Dead Kea of Palestine, and
like its Oriental counterpart, no plant
lias yet been found growing In or near
Its edges. It Is all but devoid of inimnl
life, a species of large "boat bug," a
queer little terrapin, and the famous
walking fish" being its only inhabit
ants. This walking fish Is an oddity
really deserving of specl.il note. It is
from eight to nine Inches long, and has
a finny membrane extending from
head to tall, even around both the up
per and lower surfaces of the tail. It
Is provided with four legs, those be
fore having four toes, the hinder five.
KX tw
Cont of the Queen's Holiday.
It has leaked out that the rent paid
by the Queen for the Hotel Clmlex is
somewhere In the neighborhood of II -
GOO a fairly moderate sum, as rents
for villas fit for royal occupation go.
The rent paid, however, Is an Inslgnlrt
cant Item In the cost of these annual
trips to the Kotttli. This year, for in
stance, it is estimated that the expenses
of the Queen's spring holiday will not
fall far short of the respectable figure
of 20,000.-I-ondon Figaro.
Holland's Queen May Marry.
It Is nnderstood In Ixindon that
Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh,
Is likely to be betrothed to the young
Queen, Wllbelmlna, of Holland. Th
younf Queen waa born at The Hague,
on Auguat 81, 1480, and the young
Prince waa born In London on October
15, 1874. The mother of Queen Wllhel
mlna la regent of Holland during the
alaorttr of tha Queen.
life. To them he specially addressed hi
discourse last Sunday afternoon, the sub
ject being "Word With Young Men."
Eajette, O.
Reverend Sir-We, the undersigned, be
ing earnest reader of your aerinons, es
pecially requet that you use a a sub
ject for some one of your future sermon
"Advice to Y'oung Men." Yours reiect
fully. H. S. Miliott. F. O. Millott, J. L.
Sherwood, Charles T. Rulsrt, M. E.
Elder. S. J. Altinan.
Those ix young men, I suppose, repre
sent innumerable young men who are
about undertaking the battle of life, and
who have more Interrogation oiut in
their mind than any printer' case ever
contained, or printer' linger ever set up.
But few people who have passed fifty
year of age are capable of giving advice
to young men. Too many begin their
counael by forgetting they ever were
young men themselves. November anows
do not understand May time blossom
week. The eaat wind never did under
stand the south wind. Autumnal golden
rod make a poor fist at lecturing about
early violets. Ceiierally after a man
ha rheumatism in hi right foot he is not
competent to discus juvenile elasticity.
Xot one man out of a hundred can enlist
and keep the attention of the young after
there I a bald spot on the cranium.
I attended a large nnvting iu Philadel
phia, assembled to discus how the Young
Men' Christian Association of that city
might he made more attractive for young
p-ople, when a man arose and made some
auggestions with such lugubrious tone of
voic e and a manner that seemed to deplore j
that everything was going to ruin, when
an oio trieiin of mine, at 70 years as
young in feeling a any one at 2, arose
and said: "That good brother who has
j'ist addressed you will excuse me for aay
ing that a young man would no sooner
go afid iend an evening among such
funereal tones of voire and funereal idea
of religion which that brother seem to
have adopted than he would go and spend
the evening in Laurel. Hill Cemetery."
And yet these young men of Ohio, and all
young men, have a right to ask those who
have had many opportunities of studying
this world and the next world to give
helpful suggestion as to what theories of
life one ought to adopt, and what dan-
gera he ought to shun. Attention, young
men.'
The First Step.
First, get your soul right. You see,
that Is the most valuable part of you. It
is tha most important room iu your house.
It is the parlor of your entire nature. Put
the best pictures on its wall. Put the
best music uuder its arches. It is imiior
tant to have the kitchen right, and the
dining room right, and the cellar right,
and all the other rooms of your nature
right; but, oh. the parlor of the soul I
Be particular about the guests who enter
it. Miut its doors in the faces of those
who would desis.il and pollute it. There
are princes and kings who would like to
come into it, while there are assassins
who would like to come out from behind
it curtains, and with silent foot attempt
the desperate and murderous. Let the
ling come in. He 8 now at the door.
Ixt me be usher to announce bis arrival
and introduce the King of this world, the
King of all worlds, the King eternal, im
mortal, invisible. Make room. Stand
back. Clear the way. Bow, kneel, wor
ship the King. Have him once for your
guest, and It does not make much differ
ence who come or goes. Would you
have a warranty against moral disaster
and surety of a noble career ? Head at
least one chapter of the Bible on your
knees every day of your life.
The Kccond Htep.
Word the next: Have your body right.
"How are you?" I often say when I meet
a friend of mine in Brooklyn. He is over
70, and alert and vigorous, and very
prominent in the law. His answer is "I
am living on the cnpltal of a well-spent
youth." On the contrary, there are hun
dreds of thousands of good peonle who are
saffering the result of early iD. The
grace of God gives one a new heart, but
not a new body. David, the Psalmist! had
to cry out, "Remember not the aim of
my youth." Let a young man make bi
oooy a wine cloaet. or a rum inn or .
whisky cask, or a beer barrel, and amoke
poisoned cigarette until hi hand tr.m
Dies, ana fie i black under the eves, snrt
nis cneexs lan in, and then at some i-hnn-h
seek and find religion. Yet all the praying
ue tan uo win not milder the nhva cai con
sequence of natural law fractured. You
aix young men, take care of your eyes
those windows of the soul Take care of
your ears ana listen to nothing that de
praves. Take care- of your Up and see
that they utter no profanities. Take cure
of your nerves by enough sieen and avoitf
ing unhealthy excitements, and bv tliin
outdoor exercise, whether by ball or skate
or horseback, lawn teunis or exhiliarat-
ing Dicycle, it you sit upright and do not
oin mat throng of several hundred thou.
sanus wno !y the wheel are cultivating
cr.)oked backs and crninued cheat, ami
deformed bodies, rapidly coming down
towaru an fours and the att tuda of fh
beast that perish. Anything that bend
body, mind or soul to the earth is un
healthy. Oh, it is a grand thing to be
well, but do not depend on pharmacy and
the doctor to make you well. Stay well.
The Third Hie p.
Word the next: Take care of rour Intel.
lect. Here come the flood of novelettes
Hi out of 100 belittling to every one that
opens litem. Here route depraved news
papers, submerging good and elevated
American journalism. Here come a
whole perdition of printed abomination.
dumped on the breakfast table and tea
tame and parlor table. Take at least one
good newspaper with able editorial and
reporters columns mostly occupied with
eiptui intelligence, announcing mnr-
riage and leatbs snd reformatory and
religious assemblages, and charities be
stowed and the doing of stood neonle. and
giving but little place to nasty divorce
eases and stories of crime, which, like
cobras, sting those that touch them. Ob,
ror more newspapers that put virtue in
what Is called great primer type and vice
ib nonpareil or agate Ion have all
tiou. I never travel on Sunday unless It
be a case of net-easily or tnerc-y. But last
anrntnn I was in India in a city plague
slruik. By the hundred the siple were
down with f.-arful illness. We went to
the potheeury's to get some preventive
of the fever, and the place in crowded
with invalids, aud we had no conlidem-e
in the preventive we purchased from the
HmdiMMt. Tlie mail train was to start
Sabbath evening. I said, "Frank. I think
the lnrd will exc use us if we get out of
this place with the first train." and we
took it, not feeling quite comfortable till
we were hundred of mile away. I felt
we were risht in flying from the plague.
Well, the air in many of our cities i
truck through with a worse plague the
plague of corrupt and damnable literature.
(iet away from it a oou as possible. It
ha already ruined the bodies, uiiml aud
souls of a multitude which, If tood in
olid column, would reach fr5in New York
Battery to Uolden Horn. The plague!
The plague! '
The Fourth Step.
Word the ncit: Never go to any place
where you would be ashamed to die.
Adopt that plan, and you w ill never go to
any evil amusement nor be found iu com
promising surroundings. How many star
tling case within the past few year of
men called suddenly out of thia world,
aud the newspaper surprised u when
they mentioned the locality and the com
panionship. To put It ou the least Impor
tant ground, you ought not to go to any
such forbidden place, because If you de
part this life in ui h circumstances you
put ollii inting ministers iu great enibar
russment. You know, that some of the
ministers Itelieve that all who leave this
life go straight to heaven, however they
have acted In this world or whatever they
have believed. To get you through from
such surroundings is an appalling theo
logical undertaking. One of the most ar
duous and besueatiug effort of that kind
that I ever knew of was at the obsequies
of a man who was found dead in a snow
bank with his rum jug close beside him.
But the minister did the work of happy
transference a well as poasihle, although
it did seem a little inappropriate when ho
rend: "Blessed are the dead who die lu
the Ixrd. They rest from their lalsirs,
and their works do follow them." If you
have no mercy upon yourself, have mercy
Usin the minister who may be called to
ofliciate after your demise. Die at home,
or in some place of honest business, or
where the laughter Is clean, or amid com
panionships pure nd elevating. Remem
ber that any place we go to may become
our starting point for the next world.
When we enter the harbor of heaven and
the officer of light comes aboard, let us
1e able to show that our clearing pnpera
were dated at the right port.
The Fifth Htep.
Word the next: As soon as you can. by
industry and economy, have a home of
your own. What do I mean by a home?
1 menu two rooms and the blessing of Cod
on both of them one room for slumber,
one for food, its preparation snd the par
taking thereof. Mark yon,-I would like
you to have a home with thirty Diortis, all
upholstered, pictured ami statuetted, but
I am putting it down at the minimum. A
husband aud wife who cannot be happy
with a home made tip of two rooms would
not be happy in heaven if they got there,
lie who wins and keeps the affection of a
good practical woman has done gloriously.
What do I mean by a good woman? I
mean one who loved God lief ore she loved
you. I mean one who can help you to earn j
a living, for a time comes in almost every
man' life when he Is flung of hard mis
fortune, and you do uot want a weakling
going around the house whining and snif
fling about how he had it lsfore you mar
ried her. The simple reason why thou
sands of men never get on In the world is
because they married nonentities and
never got over It The only thing that
Job's wife proposed for hi boils was a
warm poultice of profanity, sajung,
"Curse God and die." It adds to our
admiration of John Wesley the manner
In which he conquered domestic happi
ness. His wife bad slandered him all over
England until, stauding in bis pulpit in
City Road chapel, be complained to the
people, saying, "I have been charged with
every crime in the catalogue except drunk
enness, when his wife arose ill the back
part of the church and said, "John, you
know you were drunk last night. Then
Wesley exclaimed, "Thank God. the cat
alogue is complete." When a man mar
ries, he marries for heaven or hell, and
it is more so when a woman marries. You
six young men In Fayette, (J., had better
look out.
The Siilb Htep.
Word the next; Do not rate yourself too
high. Better rate yourself too low. If
yon rate yourself too low, the world will
say, "Come up." If you rate yourself too
high, the world will say, "Come down."
It is a bad thing when a man gets so ex
aggerated an idea of himself a did Earl
of Buchan. whose speech Ballantyne, the
Edinburgh printer, could not set up for
publication because he bad not enough
capital I's among bi type. Remember
that the wjild got along without yon
nearly 6,(K t) year before you were born,
aud unless some meteor collides with u
or some Internal explosion occurs the
world will probably last several thousand
year after you are dead.
The Heventh Htep.
Word thu next: Do not iostMjne too
long doing something decided for God,
liuiiiaoity and yourself. The greatest
things have been done before 40 year of
age, Pascal at 10 year of ago, Groliu
at 17, Romulus at ). Pitt at 22, White
field at Bonaparte at 27, Ignatius
Loyols at '.VI, Raphael at 37, had made
the world feel their virtue or their vice,
and the biggest strokes you will probably
make for the truth or against the truth
will be before you reach the meridian of
life. Do not wait for something to turn
up. On to work and turn it op. There is
no such thing as good lurk. No man that
ever lived has bad a better time than I
have had. Yet I never had any good luck.
Bat Instead thtreof a kind Providence
has crowded my life with mercies. Ton
will never accotaollsb much aa long as
remain on the low level. nd your lift
will le a prolonged hnmdruuL
lh MBhth Ptap.
Word the next: Remember that It !
only a uiall part of our life that we are
to pas ou errh. lks than rour fiiurer
nail compared with your whole body is the
life on earth when compared with tue '
next life. I suppose there are not more I
than half a down people in this world !' f
year old. But a very few people In mi i
country reach hit. The majority of the
human race expire before 30. Now, what
an equiMise in such a consideration. If
thing go wrong, it 1 only for a little
while. Have you not enough moral pluck
to stand the Jostling, and the injustices,
and the mishap of the small parenthesi
Itetween the two eternities' It is g'sid
thing to gi t ready for the one mile this
side the marble !ab, but more luior!iit
to get fixed up for the interminable miles
which stret.-h out into the distance be
yond the marble slab.
The Mutb Htrp.
Word the next: Fill yourself with biog.
ra rliies of men who did gloriously in the
business or occupation or profession you
are sIk.ui to choose or have already cho
en. Instead of wasting your time on dry
essay as to how to do great things, go to
the biographical alcove of your village or
city library ami acquaint yourself with
men n ho, in the sight of earth ami heaven
and hell, did the great thing. Remem
ber the greatest thing are yet to tie done
If the Bible lie true, or as I had better
put it, since the Bible is beyond all con
troversy true, the grestest battle i yet to
be fought, and compared with It Sara
gossa and Gettysburg and Sedan were
child a play with toy pistol. We even
know the name of the battle, though we
are not certain a to where it will be
fought. I refer to Armageddon. Th
greatest discoveries are yet to be made.
A scientist ha recently discovered In the
air something which will yet rival elec
tricity. The most of things have not yet
been found out An explorer has recently
found In the valley of the Nile a whole
fleet of ships buried ages ago w here now
there is no water. Only six out of the
WiO grssses have been turned into food
like the potato and the tomato. There
are hundred of other styles of food to
be discovered. Aerisl ttaiigation will yet
le made a ssfe as travel on the solid
earth. Cancers and consumptions and
leprosies are to be transferred from the
catalogue of Incurable disease to the cura
ble. Medical men are now successfully
experimenting with modes of transferring
diseases from weak constitutions which
cannot throw them off to stout constitu
tions which are able to throw them off
V orlds like Mars and the moon will be
within hailing distance, and Instead of
confining our knowledge to their canals
and their volcanoes they will signal all
styles of intelligence to us, and we will
signal all style of intelligence to them.
Coming times will class our boaster! nine
teenth century with the dark age. I'n
der the jMiwer of gospelixation the world
I going to be so improved that the iwurd
and the musket of our time will be kept in
museums as now we look at thumb screws
mid ancient instruments of torture. Oh,
what opportunities you are going lo have,
young men all the world over, under ,'!0.
How thankful you ought to be that you
were not born any sooner! Blessed are
the cradles that are being rocked now.
Blessed are the students iu the freshman
class. Blessed those who will yet lie
young men when the new century comes
in in five or six years from now. Thi
world was hardly fit to live In In the
eighteenth century. I do not see how
the old folks stood it. During this nine
teeuth century the world has by Chris
tianizing and educational influences been
fixed up until It does very well for tempo
rary residence.
A Look Ahead.
But the twentieth century! Ah, that
will be the time to sec great sights and do
great deeds! Oh, youug men, get ready
for the rolling in of that mightiest and
grandest and most glorious century that
the world has ever seen! Only five sum
mers more, five autumns more, five win
ters more, five springs more, and then the
clock of time will strike the death of the
old century and the birth of the new. The
then more than l,700,'l0,fs0 Inhabitants
of the earth will hail its birth and pray
for it proierity. Its reign will be. for
100 years, and the most of your life 1
think will be under the sway of its scep
ter. Get ready for it. Have your heart
right; your nerves right; your brain right;
your digestion right. We will band over
to you our commerce, our' mechanism, our
arts and sciences, our professions, our
pulpits, our inheritance. We believe in
you. We trust you. We pray for vou.
We bless you. And though by the time
you get into the thickest of the fight for
tiod and righteousness we may have dis
appeared from earthly scenes, we will not
lose our interest iu your struggle, and If
the' dear Iord will excuse us for a little
while from the temple service and the
house of many mansions we will come out
on the battlements of jasper and cheer
you, and perhaps if that night of this
world be very quiet you may hear our
voices dropping from afar us we cry, "Be
thou faithful unto death, and thou sbalt
have a crowu!"
T 1 sassaW ,t
A Si.rlii Hoog.
Mcado-dreamv meadow. frtch!o'
far away:
Tinkiin' o' the dew-drop on the diies
etery day;
An' the cloud are lookin' whiter, an' the
sup is in the sod.
An' the sun i b. iiiuin' brighter an' 1 col-
orlu' the clisi.
Kingin' of the mnckin'hird where wild
the blossoms blow ;
Fifty million rose iu a perfect torm o'
SfK'tt !
An' sll the troves reioicln', an' all the
greenin' hills
A -lookin' ttlnd and giddy with the rattl
o' the rills!
There's a twinkle in the maples, there's
a uhisper in the pines.
An' the huinmin' bird Is huntin' for th
morniu'glory vines.
There'a a thrill of lifp penadin' all the
mountains an' the dells.
An' music's in the breezes when the rattl
shake their bells.
Oh, the country's growin brighter. n' th
world in glory rolls;
The sunshine's streamin' whiter through
the windows of our souls;
The Lord's unlo kel Iln storehouse, with
all He' got to give,
An' if life would last forever we'd jet
live, an' live, an' live!
Frank L. Stanton iu Atlanta Constitu
tion. The Spectre Kldcr.
The north wind htoweth hitter,
The leas are lust In mow;
The pine are black upon the height
The river black below;
While swift across the wsy of night
The spectre riders go.
Their path is paved with artire
And lit with lamp of gold;
They revel in the stormy roar,
7 bey glory In the cold;
Alsive, beneath, the seas of air
In frosty wave are rolled.
Their steeds are shod with opal,
Of pearl each bridle rein;
And like the new moon's silver fio
Each tosed and tangled mane;
As subtle aa pur dreams they are,
mat change and change again.
But, oh. the spectre rider!
No mortal eye may see
Or form or face, the while through space
1 hey guide their courser free:
Intangible they are as Ilisth,
Whose courier they be.
Clinton Kcollard in Islie' Weekly.
I'roverb.
Practical wisdom avoids big words.
It 1m easier to break silence than to
mend It
To-morrow's advertising may be d
day too lute.
Nature never hurries, never halts
aud never fails.
Folks are sometimes sorry to get
what they pray for.
Effeminate men are ridiculous, mas
culine women repulsive.
A title is something that can kick on
American tomiy with Impunity.
I he church cannot help you to trade
tenement houses for heavenly man
sions.
There would be more murders If
men luiu-d persons a 4 ferociously as
they do opinions.
The more la ws the more pettifoggers.
He that can reason with a child can
argue with a sage.
Compensation.
If Helen love me, she doe so
After the cautious modern fashion.
And usages like linkhoy go
To light the progress of her passion.
Say mine estate should dwindle; say
j ne nreatti of scandal fogged mine
honor.
Helen would weep her love away,
Ana ma me tmnk no more upon her.
Sny I fell 111, or lame, or blind.
Ibe counsel of her friend would move
her,
Regretfully, to prove unkind.
And seek a less unlucky lover.
But these things happen not, that la.
Not In such sort aa frighten Helen,
Whereaa her dear small prudenclee
Make me a fenced demesne to dwell In.
Slumber Rong.
Silently, tenderly, stilly night
Clothe her with quiet sleep;
Pale star, marking the daylight' flight,
Watch o'er my loved one keep,
Croon to her slumber songs, ' Dov of
Peace,
Tell her of popple and mnrm'rtng bees.
Whisper of sleepsome thing.
Sing to her, lgh to her, lisping leave,
Lullable oft and low;
Mingle your music, O rustling beave,
Fitful and faint and low.
Cradle her softly until the morn
In at ber lattice peep;
Hushed by all voice until day dawn
Hush! for my darling sleep.
New Y'ork Tribune.
The Breath of Morn.
I like a cow' breath In sweet spring-
I Ilk the breath of babi-j, new born!
A maid' breath Is a pleasant thing;
But oh, the breath of udden moral
The new photograph of tha beavena
which la being prepared by London.
Berlin and Parisian astronomers shows
48,000,000 aUra.
Of sudden morn when every port
Of mother earth 1 pulsing fast
With life, and life seems spilling o'er
With loveliness too sweet tn !.
Joaquin Miller In Chip.
A Hose to the Uvlnar.
A rose to the living I more
Thsn sumptuous wreathes to th. a. a.
In tilling love's Infinite store '
A rose to the living Is more
If graciously given before
I'he hungering spirit has fled
A rose to the living Is more
Than sumptuous wreathes to tha a..-a
Nixon Waterman in Overland Monthly!
A I'nbjue. Huggestlon.
An admirer of Edgar Allen Poo sug
gests as a means of increasing the con
trlbuUons to tbo fund for the poet's
monument In Baltimore, that roses be
grown on bis grave and be sold at
fancy prices. ,
Some old fashioned women who have
no "book learning," have some knowl"
edge gained by eiperience which wonld
make the books appear insignificant
The women do a good many thlnaa
becauaa of Ita "Influence" on tha men!
Tha men are not "Influenced" by wo
mb aa much aa woman i r sarins.
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