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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
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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
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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.
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