NOTHING IS WASTED:
"TREE OF THE DISMAL NIGHT."
VALUE OF CA8T-OFF THINGS IN
INDUSTRIAL WORLD.
Htu of Utilising Articles that
ysraserly Wcat to Wte, Provided
By &cienca, Basalt in Great Profit
Soaa TktaB Worked Over.
Little Is wasted In the industrial
world. Men of science are ever at
work tearing by-products and waste
materia! to pieces, to regroup the ele
ments into new material which has a
commercial or industrial value.
Old Iron Is worked over Into new
Iron. Linen rags are reincineratcd and
live as paper. Woolen rags are shred
ded and made into shoddy. Bones are
made into bone black, to clarify sugar
syrup. Old rubbers, bits of garden
hose, exploded bicycle tires and any
castoffs in which rubber is a part are
made over into new rubber. Worn
teel rails are rerolled Into lighter sec
tions. Old rusty pipe is drawn down
Into bright new pipe. The tin cans
which are gathered up in alleys and
from garbage boxes are melted down
nd cast into window sash weights and
counter weights for bridges.
Rags and old carpets are cut into
trips and woven into handsome rugs.
The list of old castoff things that are
rescued from ash piles and garbage
dumps to be born again can be ex
tended for columns, and the list would
never cease growing, for every day
some new use ftr some wasted product
Is discovered.
There was a time when tons of blood,
fresh from slaughtered cattle, flowed
unheeded through the sewers under
the stockyards In Chicago. To-day this
blood is saved, put through several
processes and comes out as a fertilizer
or in the form of cakes, which are sent
to sugar refineries to assist in clarify
ing the sweet liquor. Some of the
handsome buttons worn on new dresses
once ran as warm blood through the
Teins of fat steers.
Heat and hydraulic pressure are the
agents which separate the water from
the albumen In the red fluid, and pre
pare the dried blood for the.pulverlzlng
process which fits It for use as a fertil
iser. After btsng boiled down, pressed,
crushed and ground to a powder, the
dried blood is mixed with potash and
phosphoric add and sent out as a com
plete fertilizer.
Shoddy is a useful product of waste
material. It Is never used alone, but In
combination with new wools. The wool
en rags from which shoddy is made
are first thoroughly dusted by machin
ery before they are sorted. Any cot
ton which may be in the rags is got rid
of by dipping the rags In a boiling
mixture of sulphuric acid.
Long experience has demonstrated
the exact proportion of the acid re
quired to eat out the cotton fibers wlth
ut destroying the wool The effect of
lipping the rags Into the water and
acid Is to rot the cotton so that the
woolen part of the fabric falls to pieces
sully. After being dried the rags are
run through a machine that removes
every bit of dust, leaving the pure,
clean wool. The woolen rags and cloth
are dyed, and then run through a ma
chine whose thousands of steel pins
not only shred the rags, but split the
threads so that the rags which enter
the machine leave it In the form of
wool fibers.
The. wool Is put through a carding
machine. Which thoroughly combs out
the woolen particles, mixes them and
turns them out In the form of long
uffy rolls, which are packed In bales
ready to be shipped to the woolen mills,
where the shoddy Is mined with new
wool.
While woolen rags are sent to the
shoddy mills, Rhen rags naturally
start from the ragman's storeroom to
the paper mill, whence they issue as
line linen paper.
The "old Iron" which forms half the
burden of the ragman's song Is the
basis of a business whose output Is
valued annually In millions of dollars.
Every piece of old iron, wrought or
cast, rusty or clean, can be utilized.
The old cast iron la sent to foundries
and puddling furnaces, the old wrought
Iron, bars, sheets and plates, is sent
to the rolling mills. Cast Iron sent to
foundries is re melted with pig iron, and
begins a new life ot usefulness under
new forms and shapes. The wrought
iron goes to the scrap plies In rolling
mill yards.
A profitable business has been found
in the redrawing of old iron pipe and
boiler tubes. Most of this waste ma
terial la thickly covered with rust when
It arrives at the factory, and the rust
la removed by the simple process of
heating the old pips to a cherry red
and plunging It into water. The sodden
contraction loosens the net scales, and
the pipe la sent to the Mating furnace
eiean and bright A good welding beat
prepares the pipe for the redrawing
process. This constats in polling the
white bofatpe taroagh n dls, which not
Ml? redness its diameter but makes
HaoiM. It Is heated again and drawn
tkroagh a smaller die, and the process
la canttasM ontll the trine is down to
the required diameter. Than the new
le la straightened sad Is ready for
btMfkst
It was not ao many years ago that
Ca eas4 tar which hvprodaoed la the
r is eaa&ML a4 somatbfartc si a aafr
) jt at ttet tat the chess lata and
c rMateSati get aoU sf the ataS.
J s BMtctattai has asd of tt
y caagTtr rmtastU by-prodact.
'i wd tar la a mmrrCam Material.
I ft ecrt tagaCM tjm. iteep-
ST.X tSitSdjaT MaMsMaVaV
On Jane 30, 1520, Hernandez Cortes, fleeing with his troops from the City of
Mexico along the old Aztec causeway of Tlacopan, passing the spot known to
this day as "The Loop'of Alvarado. (Pedro Alvarado, one of Cortes' captains
having there saved his life by his agility), crossing numerous waterway, losing
la his mad flight the priceless jewels and treasures of gold and silver confiscated
from the natives, arrived about midnight at the village of Popotla, situated
seven miles northwest of Mexico, where he hid at the foot of the giant cypress,
the "Arbol le la Noche Triste" (tree cf the dismal night), pacing the hours in
weeping. This tree is unquestionably the oldest living historical landmark on
the American continent. Notwithstanding the march of civilization has changed
materially all ancient conditions about the "Noche Triste," nearly 400 yours hav
ing elapsed since that memorable night, we hear to-day the same tongue spoken,
see the descendants of the same people passing to and fro in their picturesque
garb or resting beenath the shade of it spreading branches, as did the great
conqueror in those early days of conquest. Standing, grand, sublime, in its
gnarled strength, the "Noche Triste" is a u imposing historical object. Who can
foretell the future races destined t.WaTail themselves of its protecting arms;
who write the history of their achievements on life's immortal scroll'
stroyers, and saccharin, the sweetest
substance known.
The scores of chemicals obtained
from coal tar are produced through a
process of distillation which Is almost
perfection. For Instance, when the tar,
after the tar water strong In ammonia
has been drained off. Is heated In a
tank' that serves as a still to a moder
ate temperature, say 1C5 degrees, ben
zine is prod need. When 100 more de
grees of temperature have been added.
other light oils appear, and then comes
the carbolic oil from which carbolic
acid Is made. Creosote is given off at
a little higher temperature, and then
comes anthracite oil, the "raw mate
rial" of many products.
Some of the well known drugs which
are secured from the several distilla
tions of coal tar are antlpyriDe, phena
cetlne. sulphonal, antifebrin and ace
tanilald. Saccharin, which is almost
300 times sweeter than cane sugar, is a
tar product.
Colors and dyes of every tint and
hue are made from this one-time waste
product. Aniline, one of the best known
of the tar products, was discovered as
far beck as 1856, and when it was
learned that from aniline beautiful col
ors could be made a new world of in
vestigation was opened to chemists.
and 6lnoe then every color that can
t produced by vegetable or animal
matter has been made from coal tar.
TOURINQ BY LABELS.
Knterprlalag Phllstdelphiaa Covers
"Lanage" with Proper Tag.
In Philadelphia an enterprising indi
vidual finds a brisk trade In furnishing
labels for travelers' trunks and valises,
so that when a piece of baggage Is
finally turned out of his shop iu owner
has apparently Indisputable document
ary evidence that he has toured the
world or such part of it as may have
seemed fit The convenience of this
method of travel, it will be seen at a
glance, fits in very well with the Amer
ican idea of saving time, while as for
money it of course saves large lumps.
Thus you can go out and hide in the
country somewhere at 5 a week until
the proper time and then reach town
tn travel-stained clothes, coincident
with the arrival of some steamship,
with a trunk pasted all over with la
bels showing where you have been.
The trunks will be marked "Hotel"
and the smaller pieces of baggage by
this time you will be calling It "lug-
gags" will be marked "Cabin." And
as you gaze on these labels yon will of
coarse become reminiscent of the little
Swiss hotel (ass that label down in the
corner!) where yon met the Prince So-
and-Bo; the P. sad O. steamer, where
yoj encountered the British nobleman
who turned oat to be a distant connec
tion; the hotel la Egypt see any guide
book where yon met the swell Ameri
can girl from Oshkosh, Wis., and so
forth and ao forth ad libitum, accord
ing to roar Imagination.
Watts cheap enough, however, this
fjsthod of travel la not without some
aught exposes. The labels moat be
well aid far. bscaose the labaler will
tall ysa that all his wares are genuine
tad it la ao easy thing to get such little
nieces of printing from far-away bo-
tX railroad stations tad steamboat
Seas, aad f ass at once that be Is
Indeed, If you have any of the so
phistication that travel ought to give
you, you will suspect that many of the
labels offered you are made on the spot
and you have an uncomfortable feel
ing In being panted for an entire route
that some of the hotels named on the
labels do not exist or that their loca
tions may have got mixed In a way to
confound you some time when you may
be at the very best point In your rem
iniscences. This suspicion is rather In
creased, says the Philadelphia Times,
by the curious fact that a tour of Cuba
cost more than a less popular tour of
the same extent. In Europe, and you
wonder if It Is not because the Cuban
labels are too well-known to be bogus.
MEAT AND VEGETABLES.
Men Should Eat Greater Variety of
Pood.
Let it not lie assumed that the short
ness of the meat supply and the high
price of steak Is nn unmitigated evil.
On the contrary, it Is a probable bless
ing. If meat could be raised to a price
that would make it prohibitory it might
still be of good result, because it would
teach those who depend entirely upon
It to widen their dietary and learn to
enjoy many good things of which they
are now Ignorant
To many, eseclally In the cities,
there are only three foods meat, pota
toes ami bread. The weary monotony
of this program, the unsatisfied long
ings for a widening of It, affect the
apietlte arid surely affect spirits and
temper. The lalorer goes to his work
filled with meat, potatoes and bread.
At noon he finds cold meat and bread
In his dinner pall and at night he Is
confronted by meat and itatoes, some
times separate, sometimes combined
Into a greasy stew, sometimes chopped
Into hash. This kind of thing fills
him, but In a finer sense It can hardly
Is? said to feed him. Physicians have
discovered that a limited and unchang
ing diet lowers vitality and health.
At such a time as this, there hi a
chance to find what things the world
contains which are at least as digesti
ble as beef. There Is a wide range of
sea food, farinaceous products can be
served In a hundred forms, as well as
bread, and as to vegetables, bow sel
dom does the housekeeper give a trial
to them.
A hearty and sustaining meal can be
made from a vegetable soup, followed
by potatoes, onlont, turnips, parsnips,
egg plant with two or three kinds of
bread; then by asparagus, spinach or
dandelion, afterward by a fresh and
cooling salad, as of lettuce, cucumbers
or tomatoes; then by cheese, pudding,
fruit and coffee.
Meat eating Is largely a habit, says
the Brooklyn Eagle, and to some per
sons It Is a habit acquired wltb diffi
culty. If to vegetables, fruit and con
structions made of flour and sugar are
added eggs, butter, cheese and milk, a
range of diet becomes possible that
makes one Indeoendent of animal fond
lf$nan do no harm to those who con
sider themselves the gainers In health.
as well as In pocket
Let a girl rave about romantic poet
ry, if sbe likes; la a few years sbe will
care for none bat that with a nursery
jingle, suitable to say for a "speech"
la school, i
PROSPEROC8 YEARS.
Br Her. Daniel M. Overton
If they hearken and serve him, they
thai! ii,d their days in prosperity and
their years iu pleasantness. Job xxxvi.,
11.
We have here in the text the condi
tions laid down for prosperous days nnd
pleasant years, and we notice, first, why
condition are necessary.
Nearly everything that is pood is con
ditioned. We fultill the conditions nnd
we get the good. The greatest and lest
promises of God have on "if in them
that concerns us. We take care of the
"if and God takes care of the fulfillment
of the promise.
There are some blessings that ore for
all without distinction. God's rain falls
and his sun shines upon the just man's
field and upon the unjust man's as well,
lint there are other blessings that come
only to the just man, and which the
unjust man mioses altogether because he
does' not fulfill conditions. It is well for
us to learn this fact, and to have it so
firmly fixed that it shall no.t escape us.
Things do not go by chance and haphaz
ard even in this old world, which seems
sometimes so badly out of joint. Things
go and come by law, and the law of their
coming or going can be quite definitely
fixed. Effects argue causes and causes
produce effects. The seen hds us back
to the unseen, and the unseen becomes
real in scon results.
Prosperity is not a fickle, capricious
dame, as she so often is pictured to be,
who smiles on a few and frowns on all
others. She has smiles for all if only
they knew it, and knew how to win them.
All seek her smiles, but they do not know
how to win them, and many turn smiles
into frowns because they do not know
how to use them.
Prosperity is a product of firmly fixed
and knowublc laws and conditions. Those
laws known, those conditions fulfilled,
prosperity comes to man or nation, nnd
it is for all who will know, follow, or ful
fill laws and conditions. What makes
these years prosperous years in our na
tion? They are not by ctmnce. They
can le traced to well-known causes, and
to fulfilled conditions. Fertile fields?
Yes. but to fertile fields well tilled. To
tariff laws fixed for the time at least, and
to confidence in all lines of business, born
of confidence in government. When for
any cause there is a lack of faith in the
honesty and permanency of government
or in our national policy, confidence de
parts, and business becomes duM and for
tune frowns iastead of smiles.
Happiness; is not happcwiess. Happi
ness does not happen. It 1b not a gaudy
toy that we get by a blind grasp from
the world's grab bag. It is a resultant of
fundamental forces and fixed functions.
It is born of holiness, and it is not sorae
thing for the few, but for all those who
will seek it in the right way.
Holiness is a condition of happiness,
and if a person seeks to be holy be will
have all the happiness that i good for
him. 1 know that it is true that all are
seeking happiness and few are finding it,
but it is not because happiness is a "will
o' the wisp" or a false fire along life's
way. It is bwanse the many are seek
ing it where it cannot be found, and try
ing to get it In ways that cannot produce
it. They are trying to be happy without
"trying to be holy," and happiness does
not grow on that tree. The eternal law
of happiness and the one great condition
is holiness. Who seeks holiness is hap
py. Success the highest, best success Is
not the laurel wreath or crown for the one
winner, and won only by the genius, the
ten-talented man. It is within the reach
of all who will fulfill the conditions of
the race and run bia best for the prize.
Every man cannot win what the world
calls success, but every man can win suc
cess if he will. What is success? What
is the greatest, highest success? It is
the making of this life the' fittest begin
ning of the endless life. Who doe this
succeeds. Who does not do this fails.
But I claim all can do this. It is In the
reach of all If they will fulfill the condi
tions and carry out the law. I say this,
too. well knowing that the many are
.'ailing and the few succeeding, but real
success is nevertheless within the reach
of all who are willing to have it and get
It Iu the right way.
With these thoughts In mind we are
not at all surprised to find our text start
ing out with sn "if." We are not sur
prised to learn that prosperous and pleas
ant years are conditioned. They are re
sultant of certain woses. Tbey come by
fulfillment of certain conditions. I be
lieve the years should be prosperous and
happy as they pass. I believe God In
tends that they should be, but I know
that be has conditioned their prosperity
and happiness, sad that we must fulfill
tneae conditions to get the prosperity and
pleasantness. What, then, are the condi
tions ?
Plrst Attention te God. "If they
hearken." We must hear sod heed God's
voice pes king to us day by day snd year
by year. That year Is most prosperous
which is moat full of God. Time is moat
important and rich when it Is moat full of
eternity and of eternal things. The world
is fuH of God. "The heavens declare
his glory." etc. "The whole round year
U full of him." lie is calling as la the
common things snd com moo tasks of life,
as he called Moses to do a great work
for him. Ws most beer and we most
heed If we would succeed if we would
succeed with the beat saccess and be proa.
peroas with the best prosperity. Atten
tion is the grest condition of prosperity
snd success in ill walks of life. No msn
succeeds without attention to his task.
Ho- no man can bsve success In Christian
work without attention to God.
Hervice is the second condition of pros
perous and pleasant years. "If they
will hearken snd serve him." First the
call of God to the task, then the task.
First the rail of God to service, then the
lovio. loyal service. We are here to
serve. "If tny man would be great
rnonc you let him serve."
God works are Important everywhere,
Tbey are nowhere more Important than
in God's kingdom. I believe prosperity,
happiness, success Is conditioned on ser-
iri..j mum than on anvtjlins else. There
Is no genius' like the genius for work.
The men who are succeeding are iueu
with the talent for toil. This is true in
the world-' work. This is true In God's
work. Attention and work these are the
conditions for prosperity-'and pleasant
years. Would we have prosperity and
pleasantness as the years come and go?
Ix't us attend unto God, let us serve him
iu sincerity and truth.
GREATEST OP MIRACLES.
Br Her. A. If. SrrpSens.
The gospel of Jesus Christ has filled
the world with wonder and amazement
at the things that have happened. The
day of its experimental stage has long
since passed, and it is now part and
parcel, warp and wool, of the life of the
best civilizations on the face of the earth.
Its sacrifices. Its benevolences, its trials,
toils aud triumphs are written upon the
pages of the most enduring history.
Its inception was recognised a mira
cle by its founder and His earliest follow
ers. One of them says that His apostle
ship "was not of man, neither by man,
but by Jesns Christ and God the Father."
No Christian can with impunity "ome
short of the Pauline conception of the
source of wer. The healing of a crip
pled man filled Jerusalem with wonder
and astonishment. It was indeed a large
miracle to heal the body, but it was a
larger miracle to heal the soul. It was
beautiful and blessed to cast out evil dis
ease, but it is more blessed to cast out
evil spirits.
This gospel is also a miracle in its ex
pansion. No man ran account for it on
the basis of the natural. The weapons
of its warfare have never been carnal,
but they have nevertheless been mighty
through God to the pulling down of
strongholds.
With its message of peace and of truth
it has supplanted some of the most an
cient of the paganisms. Its Pounder told
His followers Wiat they were not quali
fied to become witnesses of His truth un
til a iteculiar. divine, but real, power had
come upon them. After that thvy could
with promise of success bear His truth
to the uttermost part of the earth.
This gospel is miraculous, not only in
its inception and expansion, but also in
its victories. The victory that overcomes,
that comes over the world is faith in its
divine Head, coupled with the activity
that strong confidence always brings.
The largest miracle of to-day is what
God liHth wrought. Evil prophets in all
the centuries have arisen to predict all
sorts of dire disaster, defeat, extinction,
annihilation, but the old truth goes grand
ly on from conquering to conquest, ever
winning fresh virtorii-t and gaining fresh
laurels, in the face of the world, the flesh
and the devil.
It has infused itself into the young
blood of the nations, and Its tide of en
thusiastic service among young people is
rising higher and higher. This gosel has
been the foster mother of every reform,
of every charity, of all progress. It has
been the friend of the lowly and of the
oppressed, its teachings have become the
basic principles of the administrations of
civil governments, and with its benedic
tions Presidents have been inaugurated
and Kings have been crewned. Verily,
we behold the colossal miracle of thr
ages a Christian civilization.
WORLD OWES POOR A DEBT.
Br Her. H. Keene Ryan.
The only sure basis of social advance
ment Is the progress of the common peo
ple. In days gone by philosophers and
leaders argued that the only way to ele
vate the toiling multitudes was to
strengthen and elevate the patriciau
classes, exalting to leadership tike sons
and relatives ot geniuses and generals.
With the coming of Christ a new and bet
ter epoch was ushered in. Prom the mo
ment that Christ came preaching the
"rise and the reign of the common peo
ple," the generations felt a new miaulae
and passed under a new Influence.
Prom peasants' cots and workmen's
humble thatched homes have come great
artists like Correggio, Corot and Millet,
and musicians like Mozart, Mendelssohn
and Beethoven. The history of inven
tion snd inectmnSeal science is one of the
most tragic this old earth contains, be
cause it is wholly and entirely composed
of "The Annal f the Poor."
Froin the ranks of the pampered rich
and the arrogant patrician class has
come no single instance of Invention that
has alleviated any suffering or ameliorat
ed any of the intolerable ills of human
ity. Prom the poor have come the great in
ventors like Watt, Stevenson, Edison,
Bell, Berliner, Morse and Pulton. On
sea and land the victories achieved in
war's awful havocs have been all won
by the humble snd honest, the brave and
the gallant sons of toil. In science and
in medicine, In astronomy and education,
the discoverers and heroes have ever ball
ed from the ranks of the bumble poor.
"God must love the poor," said Abra
ham Lincoln, "because He created so
many of there"
Then I pray this prayer: Godspeed to
every church in the world to-day, to every
labor Union, to every organization of any
kind In existence anywhere whose ulti
mate aim and objact is the amelioration
of sin snd suffering, the elvvation of mor
als, advsnnvment of education, relieving
distress, visiting the sick, burying the
dead and raring for the orphans, the aged
and Infirm.
I
SERM ONETTES
'
Awaited by the Grace.-Wben we
came Into the world we were awaited
by the grace of our Lord Jesus fcbrlst
The divine purpose and grace was giv
en us.-Kev. J. Ilerron, Presbyterian,
Akron. O.
Perfection. The Idea of perfection
depended on the definition which Is giv
en to the word. In order to be success
ful the young man must be energetic
snd perseveBtng.-Rev. Dr. Patton,
Presbyterian, Princeton, N. J.
There are 244 establishments, em
ploying 9.8S) glovemakers, in the Unit
ed Xtates.
The executive council of the Ameri
?an Federation of Labor recommends
mass meetings on Labor Day to pro
test agalnsi the -la junction abuse.
One of the strongest organized na
tional bodies of labor In the Vnlted
States is the Brotherhood of Carpen
ters and Joiners. Its annual conven
tion will be held In Atlanta next Sep
tember. The Brotherhood of Pointers, Ieco
ratora nnd Paper Hangers of America
Issued eighty-three charters fur the
quarter ending March 31, 1!''-, ranking
the total number of locals under Its
banner ;21.
Bagprage smashers of Chicago have
organized and the next thing will )m
union labels on freight nnd baggage
to insure safe transportation. The un
ion has formally aflillated with the Na
tional Brotherhood of Railway Em
ployes. President liufllngton of the Illinois
Steel Company In announcing a 10 per
cent Increase of wages for the work
men employed nt the Juliet mills said
that the action of ttte management Is
"In recognition of the advanced cost
of living."
Prom the first of the year up to June
Kt.tsHj Japanese laborers had been sent
to Hawaii. It is reported that advices
have been received from Hawaii to the
effect that no more emigrants should
be sent for the present, as there are
fears of the emigration net being en
forced. The South Is keeping up with the
procession of trusts. A combination of
cotton yard mills Is being organized
with a capitalization of
The object Is to fix prices, regulate pro
duction and float trust botids In New
York and New England while the fe
ver for such Investments Is on.
The work of organizing the retail
drug clerks of Baltimore Into a union
to affiliate with the Federation of La
bor has begun. It Is said that Balti
more and lliilnilclpliln are the only
two large cities in the country where
the clerks are not organized. An eight
hour work day will lie demanded by
the union.
The striking machinists of the Allls
Chalmers Company at Chicago return
ed to work. They gained about 4 per
l-ent increase in wages over the amount
offered by the company before the
Strike was inaugurated. Under the
terms of the settlement the men will
work ten hours except Saturday, when
jthey work five hours, making o flfty-live-hour
week. The union has paid
but $.T,.0i0 in strike benefits, suffering
has Iteen endured and human life sac
rificed. The comiiny has returned to
it ten-hour day, but this condition Is
iikely to be temporary.
ACCOUNTED FOR HIS PLANK.
Stogie Man Telia a Btorr of Those Who
Seldom Mpeak Truth.
"Speaking of llurs," began the stogie
(nan, lighting his abomination at the
lamp on the end of the cigar counter,
when the man with the checkerboard
Itrouxers, who stood next to the meek
tnan In the "line-up," murmured sotto
voce:
"And we weren't saying a word'
nbout him when he came lul"
The meek man rhokeL but the ora
ile, having obtained his light, walked
majestically down the room and took
up his usual powltlou, not deigning to
glance In his Interrupter's direction.
"Speaking of liars," lie repeated,
"ubout the coolettt and most refreshing
member of that profession was a fel
low of r-ither doubtful reputation who
used to live In the town where I was
Urn. He was on his way home one
night nnd came across a pile of planks
'which for some reason had been un
loaded before lJeneon killings' door.
Reckon the deacon was building a new
shack of some kind.
"Well, anyhow, the fellow couldn't
Teslst the t'niptatloii to appropriate
one of those planks to his own use a
plank comes In handy any time, except
after election; then we try to forget
em."
"Political jokes tabooed;" remarked
the broker's clerk, but the atogle man
went on:
"He couldn't go through the vlllag.
with the board, so took a cut across
the fields. By and by, In the dork, h
wandered Into a bog bole and sank
waist deep In the mire. The more h
straggled the deeper he sank until,
getting scared, he yelled blue murder,
and the deacon, who was out bunting
a stray heifer, heard blra. The old
man, who had labored oft and again
with the rnihogged citizen, r- down
with a lantern.
H'WaL Jonas, he said, eyeing the
man and the plank suspiciously, 'what
does this mean? Haow In the name o'
goodness did you come beref
" "Wfiy, deacon,' said the erring one.
'I was In aech a hurry ter gtt bum
that I cut ercroas lota, an' got Inter this
'ere bog. Th' more I tried ter pull my
self aout, th' deeper I got In, an' fln'ly
I went back ter the road and got this
plank ter see If I couldn't get myself
aout wltb It! "-New York Mall and
Express.
Whenever a woman Is slighted, and
doesn't get Invited to a picnic, sbe woo
den If It la her duty to aik the Lord
to sand rain for the crops.
