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14 lm&t. jLmt 1 i M AST?. m m m They were. I think, the happiest couple It was ever my goKl fortune to meel Margaret and Paul Fischer. They were so completely absorbed In each other that tliey seldom took the trouble to Income acquainted with strajjgers, not filling the need of rara-.i panloimh'p. Hut. as good luck would have It, they did allow me to come to ire them, and when 1 had know n them long enough to dare to speak on per onal matters I remark ed upon the per fect harmony that existed between them. Then Margaret told me their tory; anl this Is the romance as she gave it o me' "I will tell vol' my side of the story and then Paul can tell you his. "As you may have discovered. I have dabbled somewhat in occult matters. I have always been a natural musician and I play without difficulty any piece of music which 1 may pick up, although I have never laketi a lesson or prac ticed one hour during my lifetime. When I wnii u child 1 had only one playmate he was a little older than niywlf-and I was satisfied if I could hide away sun, e where and wait for him to come. The peculiar part of the matter wan that no otic else was aide to -mo him, and as for myself, I never know where lie came from, nor did 1 ever see him untii I looked up suddenly and found him Inside me. Another pe culiar fact whs that he always carried an odd Instrument, similar to a harp, and we would lt side by side for hours, he playing. I listening entranced, until suddenly the music would cease nnd 1 would look up to find the player gone. Then 1 would go Into the house nnd play the music o er again on the ptnim. This went, on fo: years ami people con sidered me (in -r. if not iilte eray. "I never could talk with my play mate because he used a language which I could not understand. As I grew old r 1 drifted away from him. inner af fairs tiikd my mind and it was but sel dom 1 would have a vision In which the lame form always iippean-d, but seem ing to grow older even as I was. "1 btgan to .siudy occult sciences when I was oi-ottt IN years old. I at tended jlrtl u.iii-tn" seances and final 1 took li i tne study of thcosopliy. Never, however, had I received a ho called test, ami miy deductions 1 made were of necessity founded upon the ex periences of other people. "One night, after I hud attended a meeting, hiu dow n by I he table at home; and, idly picking up a pencil, started to draw a portrait I who had never In my iiie been able to draw a straight Hue. The picture resulting represented a young man with dark eyes and hair i ombed straight back from a wide, h It'll forehead. The fea tures were tlr!'atey molded and the mouth was partially covered by a mus tache." (Hen- she looked admiringly t her husband and then resumed the thread of her narrative). "He seemed 23 or 24 years old. and wan decidedly handsome. I iiilerneatli the portrait I wan Impressed to write: This Is Paul . You will coon see his face.' I was told soon afterward that Paul Fischer was a spirit and was the same little boy wi'h whom I had been ac ipinlnted In my i-hlldlewsl. I was told ulso that lie u.:s Itorn In Alsace Lor raine and had never been outside of his ow n country. I treasons the portrait I had obtained. It had a great fanei na tion for me, but so much occupied my thoughts that I had no time,' as a rule, to think much of the original. Kit years passed by and 1 found It necessary to go to a strange city. I touched th town early In the morning nnd, hunt Ing up a boarding house at once, I set tmmm MCTUa RKI'UKHKM f t) A VOi;a MA. tlnd dowo for a rest be for commenc ing th bnslneiv which had brought me to to place. "At I waa folng to dinner that nlfht I waa face to fare, In the hail, with I'auL 1 tarted and no did he. Then with, 'I bet" your pardon, madam,' be ateod al4 to allow to to paaa. I waa too much disturbed to be able to eat oak. aai I fait Ma ? wora wtoa ROMANCE. w Ing me nil the time, so I soon left Uie table. "In tho evening Mrs. Porter, the wo rn a u at whose house I was staying, knocked at my door and naked me to come Into the parlor. I hesitated, but went and wan Introduced to Paul Ilacher- the man of niy dreams the man of the iortrnil. I recognized the fare, the voire, the way In which the hair was arranged, In fact, every detail corresK'iidel with my pre-concelvod Ideas of how he would look. But my head was In a whirl. My Paul Fischer was supKsed to lie a yplrit, 1 1 1 thin Paul Fischer was decide lly material. "It wan Just one week before the problem was solved. I did not intend to solve It for you -Paul will do that. To nuke matters short, however. I will say that I found that he was my Paul ts 1IIK HALL WITH MAK'JAUIiT. Fischer. It was Just one month from the lime I mul him until we were mar rfiol. On our wedding day Paul brought out a portfolio and ask-'d me to look through It and toll him what 1 thought of hi drawings. The tirt sheet 1 picked up showed a portrait of myself. I was represented sitting by a table sketching a titan's head, ,,nd Die date was the same on which I had done uiy first and only drawing six yurn before. Hut Paul must tell you the rest." "When I was a little ly In the old country (I was horn In Alsa e i.or ritltiej, people regarded me na being very peculiar. I would wander olT by myself for hour where no one could find me, carrylng my harp along, and when 1 returned I w ould have a picture in my mind of a little brown-nyed, brown-haired girl, w ho listened to ray music and reproduced everything which I played on an Instrument dif ferent from any I had ever sioti. I know now It was a piano, but then I had no knowledge concerning It. Some times I would have long fainting spells and while I was unconscious would kibble away about the little maid who could not understand what I said, lc cav she talked a different language fiom my own. Finally It began to be whispered about that I was pos sessed of a devil and my father was forced to send me away In order to protect me. "1 came to America when I was IS years old, and going to the far West I amassed quite n fortune, 1 did not see the old friend of my childhood so fre juently as I grew older, because In creasing wealth brought Increasing 'ares, and I had no time to mske the customary visits. Still, once In a while, the old fainting spells would i-ome over me nnd when I returmsl to ion wclousness I would bring with me the memory of a smiling face ami gentle, brown eyes--.i face that si-cuied to grow older with my Increasing years. "One night 1 sat In my room late. As 1 supposed I fell asleep, but when I awakened I found before me ttie por trait of a young women w ho was sit ting beside n table sketching, and the portrait she had finished was of my self. I put the picture carefully away, taking It out at long Intervals In order to familiarize myself with the features, for I felt that some time, somewhere, I should meet her. "One night about six months ago 1 was late In leaving the oltlce and iisn reaching my home I hurried down to the dining room In the hall I enme face to face with Margaret, the friend of my childhood, the sweethi-nrt itt my dreams. 1 could not eat- I was too ex cited -and I begged Mrs. Porter to call 'he newcomer Into the parlor to Intro duce u. The longer I talked with her the more convinced I Is-oajne that aha wai the one woman In all the world whom 1 could love. I waa mrloma to find out w hether she had any concep tion of tha peculiar clrcutnataacaa '''-, letf-'' J-.SL.Y I: 1 which drew me to her and I questioned her adroitly lu regard to the matter. "Then dh. who bad puzzled her dear little bead In vain over the matter, told me all her eierience, and when wo eorufsnred notes we decided that, aa heaven had meant us for each either from the beginning, there was no rea son why we should wait for our hap piness. So we were married and llvwd happily ever after, as they say In Lot fairy stories. "Now, I luyself do uot pretend to glva an explanation of thU, but Margaret, who Iihji studied these matters closely, says that my astral body must bava detached Itself from the material form and Ked across the sea to Join her, drawn by some Inexplicable, Invisible attraction. That may be the eate. Jt Margaret says bo 1 am willing to ac cept It us truth But this I do know: Khe Is a dear, sweet little woman, the sweetheart of my waking and Bleeping hours, my alter ego, the center of my universe." Utlca Globe. THE FLABBY BUNDLE. (experience of a Doctor's Wife Wbi Disliked the I'rofc-nloii. The wife of a weJl-known physician tells an amusing story ol one of her curly exiM'ricnces oon after her mar riage. "When I wa a girl," she sti'd, "I had the greate-sit dltJlke of the medtlcal pro Jon, and always said that I would never In &nj drx-iuimLancea irmnry a doctor; and, of co43-se, it was my fate to fall Jn love with a medical studeait who waj blucply absorbed In his profes sion. "A.fter a long eogn geuie nit, durlag which time Or. S. had graduated, end esitjiblished a fairly good practice, we were nutrried, and I moved to my new home, where there was quite a flour lslUug nwdical college, lb bead of which was an Intimate friend of my husband. My dislike of the profession in general still continued, and. when ever the two men were shut up In the library together, 1 always Imagined that they were d1iusifing 'horrorV as 1 Uippaully culled the gcientjillc ro sea relies. "Due afternoon, when Dr. S. was oft on his rounds, a s,nuill boy presented hiiiiM'If with a curious-looking olAorug package, with my husband's litmi-e on t he wrap)s.r. 'Or. 15. sent this,' said the Imp, 'arid I was to say It oughter be put on Ice immediately.' " "Good gracious,' I though, 'what la that dreadful Or. 1? sending to uiy hus band which ought to be put on Ice at once?' And as I took the package I f'dt a thrill of instinctive terror run through my frame, for It was not fina and comfortable like an ordinary bun- die. but felt flabby and yielding. Like a human arm! I niKklenily thaught; ami, with a cry of flight, I droiped tine thing on the hall floor. "My first Impulse waa to call one of the maids; but, naUying my.slf end feliug ashamed of my silly Imagination, I approjchi-d the long Uatof ul-Jooklug package, which liuvertheleM poesseewed a sort of horrible fasclnatloiu. for me. "With shrinking fiQ-era I picked It tip by the told which was around It ttttd carried it over to the table; nrml then growing bolder, 'How absolutely IlJy I a in,' I said to myself, 'as if Jack would have legs and arms sent to him In f.Ws casual fa.-hJon" Takiny out a lia!rpln--Lh;it universal worusiii's Im plement-- 1 ww-U'bol a little hole In otic ened of the bundJe. "Horror of horrors, It waa flesh! I gave a loud scroex'h, which brought the two m:i!d.s and my husband, who had just driven up, all on the aceno; atwl then I distinguished myself fry galiiig off into my first and only attack of hysterics. After much difficulty Dr. 8. ascertaini'd Uie cause of my fright; then lie o;s'tied the susplcloiL broking bundle ami held up iK'fore my mortl lled vii!eti an uncommonly fine fluh. The hoie. 1 iiad made in the paper Just happened to expose the smooth fleah like portion between the gills and th eyes." l'botograplts of t'elebrlili. The enterprising photographer Is well aware tluit whenever a person Incomes popular the public wants to know how he or she looks, and keeps a close watch upon rising celebrities with a view to putting money In his purse. Wheik, for example, a player has achieved some popularity, he Is approached by pho tographers who make n spis'lalty of the work with polite request that he sit for them. Nothing will le charged for the. poMug. and he may have any rea sonable iimub.-r of pictures free, the photographer depending for his profit entirely upon the money which the sale of the photographs will bring. How lunch tlu.t prod t may be Is largely a matter of guess work, for the popu larity of stage people fluctuates con stautly. As a general rule, pictures of actresses sell far better than tboss of actom. Any new star, of home or for eign origin, creates a brisk demand, which may last for weks or even months. A successful play stirs up a great trade In the pictures of all th well known members of the cast, with the leading man and woman at th head of tha list. With persons who have becorhe prominent In olhr walk of life, much tho same conditions apply as those which govern players. Tha President, Congressmen, Oovernors, Mayors, and other well known In po litical circles are approached by pho tographers, who desire to take them, cither free or at a merely nominal charge, for the put-jsise of selling theti picture. Few photographers sell di rectly to the public. They have regu lar ngenta who make a bualnisss of deal ing in "photographs of eelebrltiea.' Wa have an Idea that tha real crata In heaven arc tbosa who from tha affects of aa operation. Boma ma act Hko boa, and thara an oOmh waa do aat aaad to aoL Dl;. TAI.MA;E in this discourse ills the roll of faithful men and noble women in all departments who are unrecognized and unrewarded rind sounds encouragement for those who do work in spheres inconspicuous; text, P'.iniins xvi., 14, 1", "Suliite Asyuerit us, Pldegnn, Hennas. Patrobas, Ilcruii b, Phi lolegus suil .lulia." Matthew Henry, Albert Hurries, Adam f'lnrk. Tlioni.is Kcott and all the com mentators puss by these verses without uny especial remark. The other twenty people mentioned in the chapter were dis tinguished for something and were there fore discussed by the illustrious exposit ors, hut nothing is said about Asyncritus, Phlegin, Hennas. Patrobas, Hermes, Philologus mul Julia. Where were they bora? No one knows. When did they dip? There is no record of their de ceant. For what were they distinguish ed? Absolutely nothing, or the trait of character would have been brought out by the apostle. If they had Is-en very Intrepid, or opulent or hirsute or iiuisicil of cadence or crass of style or in any wise anomalous that feature would have t n caught by the apostolic camera. But. they were good people, because Paul sends to them his high Christian regards. They were ordinary people moving in ordinary sphere, attending to ordinary duty and meeting ordinary responsibilities. What the world wants is a religion for ordinary people. If there be in the 1'nit t.i K'f.Xi's 71 1,1 M K" MfiO people, there are certainly not more than 1,(kiKiii extra ordinary, and then there are fMMXKi. OtKl ordinary, and we do well to turn our hacks for a little while upon the distinguished and conspicuous people of the Hible and consider in our text the seven ordinary. We spend too much of our time in twist ing garlands for renin rkubles and build ing thrones for magnates, and sculpturing warriors, and apotheosizing pliilaatlirnp Ists. The rank and tile of the Lord's sol diery need especial help. Th Mediocre Many, The vnt majority of people will never lead an army, will never write a state constitution, will never electrify a senate, will never make an important invention, wilJ never introduce s new philosophy, will never decide the fate of a nation. You do not expect to; ouu do not want to. You will not be a Moses to lead a nation nut nf bondage. You will not be a Johiia tn prolong the daylight until you can shut live kings in ii cavern. Yon will not br a SI. .loliii to unroll an Apocalypse. You w ill nut be a Paul to preside oyer an apos tolic coll. ire. You will not Is' a Mary to Mother a Christ. You will more probably lie A.iyiH-ritus or Plilegoii or Hennas or Piitrolias or Iieruies or Philologus or Ju lia. Many of you are women at the head of households, '.'ivory morning you plan for the day. The en li miry department of the household is in your dominion. You de cide all questions of diet. All the sani tary regulations of your house are under your supervision. To regulate the food, and the apparel and the habits and decide the thousand questions of home life is a tax upon brain and nerve and general health absolutely appalling, if there be no divine alleviation. It diss not lo-lp you much to be told that Plizabetli pry did wonderful things amid the criminals at Newgale. It does not help you much to be told that Mrs. Juilsoii was very brave among the iior nesian cannibals. It does not help you very much to Ik- told that Florence Night ingale was very kind to the wounded in the Crimea. It would be better for tne to tell you that the divine friend of Mary and Martha is your friend nnd that lie sees all the annoyances and disappoint ments and abrasions and exaserations of mi ordinary housekeeper from morn till night, and from the tirst day of the year until the InM day of the year and at your cnil he is ready with help anil re-enforce lliellt. They who provide the food of the world di " iUe the l.culih of the world. You have only In on some errand limid the tav erns mul the lintels of the Tni'ioil Stall's li ad Ci'e.t I'M-iiai'i lo appreciate the fact t vast multitude of the human race are slnnrlitered by incompetent cookery. , Tlioitsh -i young woman may have taken ' e--ons in music and may have taten h-s sons in painting and Ic-snns in list rnnnin y, , fhe is not well educated unless she Ii.mn taken hssnns in dough! They who de- . i ide the apparel of the world and the food of the world decide the endurance of the wrld. Murtjrsof tlie Kill tu n mid N nrHcrjr. All unthinking man may consider it a matter ol little Importance the cures of th" household mul the economies of do-, li'cvtii.- life- but I tell you the earth is HroHU wilh the niMi'lyrs of kitchen mul li ii r j". The hc'iillh shattered woman-j I ml of America cries out lor a Ibid who ran help ordinary women lu the ordinary 'liilies of housekeeping. The wearing, I ( nulling, unappreciated work goes on, but t ii' same Christ who stood on the bank of C.ililee in the early morning and kindle') the lire ami had the tish ulready cleaned an I broiling when Hie sportsmen stepped j ii-hore, chilled and hungry, w ill help every . woman to prepare breakfast, whether by In r own IihiiiI or the hand of her hired , I, i lp. The (iod who made Indestructible eulogy of Hannah, who made a coat for Siiiiiuel, her son, and carried It to the tem ple every )ear, will help every woman In I repnring the family wardrobe. The flud who opens the Ilible with the story nf Abraham's entertainment by the three angels on the plains of Mature will help every woman to provide hospitality, Imw f,er rare and embarrassing. t is high time that some of the attention wo have been giving to the remarkable women of the Hiblereninrkuhlc for their virtue, or their want of It, or remarkable for their ilevds- Dvbortb and Jaaebel and Llero- diss and Athalia and I'orcas and the Marys, excellent and abandoned it is high time some of the attention we have been giving to these conspicuous women of the P.ible be given to Julia, an ordinary woman, amid ordinary circumstances, at tending to ordinary duties and meeting or dinary responsibilities. Then there are all the ordinary busi ness men. They need divine and Chris tian help. When we begin to talk about business life, we shoot right off and talk about men who did business on a large scale, and who sold millions of dollars of goods a year, and the vast majority of business men do not sell a million dollars of goods, nor half a million, nor quarter of a million, nor the eighth part of a million. Put all the business men of our cities, towns, villages and neighborhoods side by side, and you will find that they sell less than $lK),IXij worth of goods. All ihese men in ordinary business life want divine help. Yon see how the wrinkles an- print ing on the countenance the slory of worri inciit and care. Premature Old Ace. Y'ou cannot tell how old a business man is by looking at him. Gray hairs at 30, A man at 4"i with the stoop of a nonoge narian. No time to attend to Improved dentistry, the grinders cease because they are few. Actually dying of old age at 40 or 50, when they ought to be at the me ridian. Many of these business men have bodies like a neglected clock to which you come, and when you wind it up it begins to buzz and mar, nnd then the hands start around very rapidly, and then the clock strikes " or JO or 441, and strikes without any sense, and then suddenly strips. So is the lindv of that worn out business man. 'It is a neglis-ted clock, and though by J some summer recreation it may be wound up. still the machinery is all out of gear, i The hands turn around with a velocity that excites 1 1n astonishment of the world. Men cannot understand the won derful activity, and there is a mar and a buzz and a rattle about these disordered lives and they strike 10 when they ought to strike 5, and they strike 1-! when they ought to strike tl, and they strike 40 when they ought to strike nothing, and suddenly they stop. Post mortem examination re veals the fact that ail the springs an.l piv ots and weights and balance wheels of health are completely deranged. The hu man clock is simply run down. And at the time when the steady hand ought to fie pointing to the industrious hours on a clear an 1 sunlit dial the whole mniliiht't'y of TioiTy, mind and earthly capacity stops f.irever. flak Hill and Greenwood have thousands of business men who died of old age at 'M, .".o, 40, 45. Now, what is wanted is grace, divine grace, for ordinary business men, men who are harnessed from morn till night and all the days of their life harnessed in business. Not grace to lose $100,000, but grace to lose ,$10. Not grace lo super vise li.'iO employes in a factory, but grace to supervise the bookkeeper and two sales men anj the small boy that sweeps out the store. Grace to invest not the S-S0,-000 of net prolit, but the $2.."n) of clear gain. Grace not to endure ihe loss of a whole shipload of spices from the Indies. but grace to endure a loss of a paper of cellars from the leakage of a displaced shingle on a poor roof. Grm-e not to en dure the tardiness of the Ameri'-aii Cou-gn-sH in passing a necessary law, but grace the tardiness of an errand boy stop ping lo play marbles when he ought to de liver the goods. Such a grace as thou sands of business men have, to-day keep ing them tranquil, whether goods sell or do not sell, whether customers pay or do not pay, whether tariff is up or tariff is down, whether the crops are luxuriant or a dead failure calm in all circumstances nnd amid all vicissitudes. That is the kind of grace we want. Heroes at fiomr. Millions of men want It, ami they may have it for the asking. Somi; hero or heroine comes to town, and as the'proces siyn pasM-s through the street the busi ness men come out, stand on tiptoe on their store step and look at some one who in arctic clime, or in ocean storm, or in day of battle, or in hospital agonies did the brave thing, not realizing that they, the enthusiastic spectators, have gone through trials in business life that are just i as great before (Sod. There are men w ho j have gone through freezing arctii-s and burning torrids and awful Marengos of experiences without moving live miles frntu their doorstep. I Now, what ordinary business men need Is to realize that tin y have the friendship of that Christ who looked after the reli gious interests of Matthew, the custom house clerk, and helped I.ydia of Thyatira to sell the (!r,v goods, mid who. opened a baker? and hNli market in the wilderness (d Asia Minor to feed the 7,0on who had come out on a religious picnic, and who counts the hnirs of your bend wilh as much particularity as tnoiign tney were : the idumes of a coronation, and who took the trouble to stoop down with his linger w rit;..g en the ground, although the lii t shiilllo of fi-ci obliterated the divine cnl g- I niplij, and who knows just lunv ninny locusts there w ' .' c I': : . .igyptiari plague and knew just how many ravens were nece-sary to supply Klijah's pantry by the brook Cherith, and who, as Mors! com mander, leads forth all the regiments of primro-es, foxglove", daffodils, hyacinths and lilies whb h pitch their tents of beau ty anil kindle their ..ttiiphres of color all around ihe hemisphere- that that Christ ii lid that Cod knows the most minute af fairs of your business life and, however inconsiderable, understanding all the af fairs of that woman who keeps a thread and needle stoic an well as all ihe affairs of a IIotliM-hiM and a Paring. Then there are all the ordinary fann ers. We talk about agricultural life, and we immediately shoot olT to talk about Ciiii-inn.-iius, the patrician, who went from the plow to a high posit ion, ami after lie got through the dictatorship in twenty-one days went back again to t lie plow. hat encouragement is that to or dinary farmers? The vast majority of them none of them wil', bo patricians. Perhaps none of them will be senaiorN. If any of them have dictatorships, it will be oM-r forty or lilty or loo acres of the old homestead. What these men want is grace to keep their patience while plow ing with balky men and to keep cheerful amid the drought that destroys the corn crop nnd Hint enable them tn restore the garden the day after the neighbor's cattle have broken in nnd trampled out the sirs berry bed and gone through the Lima bran patch and eaten up the w r corn . . . . . -. J in inch large quantities tLat they mua be kept from the water lest they swel up and die. Everyday Grace. Grace in catching weather that enables them, without imprecation, to spread ou the hay the third time, although again and again arid again it has been almost nadv for the mow. A grace to doctol tie cow w ith a hollow horn, and the sheeg with the foot rot, and the horse with th4 distemper and to compel the udwiIIIjH acres to yield a livelihood for tie family and schooling for Ihe children and littls extras to help the older boy In businesa and something for the daughters wed ding outfit and a little surplus for tn time when the ankles will get stiff wits; uge and the breath will be a little shoH and the swinging of the cradle through the hot harvest field will bring on the old man's vertigo. Better close up about Gin; cinnaius. I know f00 farmers just ai noble as he was. What they want is t know that they have the friendship oj that Christ who often drew his simile from the farmer's life, as when he said, "A sower went forth to sow," as whed he built his best parable out of the seen of a farmer boy coming back from his wanderings, and the old farmhouse shook that night with rural jubilee, and who compared himself to a lamb in the pastur held and who said that the eternal God U a farmer, declaring, "My Father is th husbandman." Those stone masons do not want t hear about ChrisUipher Wren, the archi tect who built St. Paul's Cathedral. Tl would lie better to toll them how to carry the hod of brick up the ladder without slipping, ami how on a cold morning with the trowel to bmooth off the mortar and keep cheerful, and how to he thankful to God for the plain food taken from tfm pail by the roadside. Carpenters stand ing amid the adz, and the bit, and th plane, and the broadax need to be told that Christ was a carpenter, with his own hand wielding saw and hammer. Oh, this Is a tired world, and it in an over worked world, and it is an underfed world, and it is a wrung out world, and men and women need to know that ther is rest and recuperation in God and in that religion which was uot so much in tended for extraordinary people as foi ordinary people, 'because there are mor of them. Come, now, let us have a religion foi ordinary people in professions, in occupa tions, in agriculture, in the household, la men-hatijise, in everything. I salute across the centuries Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hennas, Patrobas, Hermes, Pbilologtut and J ulia. First of all, if you feel that you are or dinary, thank God that you are not ex tra ordinary. I mu tired and sick and bored almost to death with extraordinary people. They take all their time to tell us how very extraordinary they really are. You know as well us I do, my broth, er ami sister, that the most of the useful work of the world is done by unpreten tious I'tPple. who toil right on by peopls who do not get much ajiprgjal and no Qi seems to say, 'T-iint is well trone." ttiw. nomemi are of but little use. Things thart are exceptional cannot Ik- depended on, Hotter trust the smallest planet thai swings in its orbit than ten Cornell shooting this way and that, imperilim the longevity of w orlds attending to then own business. For steady illuminaUoB better is a lamp thim a roccet. Then, if you feci that you are ordinary, remember that your position invites tlj less attack. Conspicuous people ho they have to take it! How they are mi represented and abused and shot at! Th higher tho horns of a roebuck the easiei to strike him down. I mention tliesi tilings to prove it is extraordinary peopii who get abused, while the ordinary e cape. From Jlumhle Homes. i Then remember if you have only what is called an ordinary home that the greal deliverers of the world have ull come froa such a home. And there may be seated, reading at your evening suuid, a child wiio shall bo potent for the ages. Just urv roil the scroll of s"2 si's'y la cbufca and state, and you will tind they nearly fill cjiuie rtTmi log cabin or poor home Genius almost always runs out in thf third or fourth generation. You cannoj tind in ull history an instance wLere th fourth generation of extraordinary peoplj amounts to anything. In tills couulxy w had two great men, father and son, botli Presidents of the United Stales, but from present prospects there never will be U that genealogical line another President for a thousand years. Columbus from i weaver's hut, Heuiosthenes from a cub ler's cellar, Hlooiulield arid Misnionarj Gurey from a shoemaker's bench, Ark w right, from a barber's simp and he whos liume is high over all in earth and ail and sky from a manger. Let us ull be content with such thing! as we have. Cod is just as good in what he keeps uwny from us uj iu what In gives us. liven a knot may be useful ii it is al the end ol a thread. At an anniversary of a deaf and dumb asylum one of the children wrote upon (tie blackboard words us sublime as tin "Iliad," the "Odyssey" und Uie "Diviiu Coiiinieilin'' all compressed iu one para graph. 1 he e.-.umincr, iu the signs of tin mute language, usked her, " ho Uiadi the world V The deaf und dumb girl wrote upon the blackboard, "In the be ginning ton! created (lie heaven and tin earth." The examiner asked her, "Koi what purpose did Christ come into tin world'.'" The deaf and dumb girl wroU upon the blackboard, "'lliis is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners," The examiner said to her, "Why were you born deaf and dumb, while I licar and speak'" She wroti iilioii Ihe blackboard, "liven so, Father, for so it seenieth good in thy sight." Oh, that we might he baptized with a con tented spirit. The spider draws polsot out of a tlower, the toe gels honey out ol a thistle, but happiness is n heavenlj elixir, and the contented spirit extructi It not from the rhododendron of the hill but from the lily of the valley. Copyright. IH'H. LATE NEW INVENTIONS. In ii new bicycle saddle a fluid-tight cushion Is filled with glycerine or simi lar sirup it ltd inclosed by a leathci covering lo make a flexible sent. Cuilsm sticks for arc electric light are made with soft cores placed closs to one side of the stick for t lie purio of throwing a stronger light In one dv rectlon. A recently patented jacket for ladles has slits under the arms filled with eya leta for lacing, so the armbola can bt euJsrged for ta pas of larp slceva. Is 1 a r 3