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STOBIES IN PASSING.
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Long engagements are the rule but
once in a white quick work in, th it lino
occurs and proves a mighty good thing
in the long run. Such was the case
with a friend of mine. He had. been a
mortorman in Omaha for a year or more
and then lost his place and was idle for
several months. Then through an ac
quaintance he learned that thero was a
vacancy in the telephone office at Fair
mont and went after that.
"Are you married or unmarried?''
asked tbo director at the general office
of the Nebraska Telephone Company in
Omaha.
"Unmarried," replied the young man.
"I'm sorry but you won't do," said the
director, "you 6ee Fairmont's to big a
town for one man to attend to the work
by himself and isn't large enough to
hire two men. So wo aim to get married
men for such places, along with his
wife, the operator can run the office
very nicely."
The applicant felt rather crestfallen
at this unpleasant statement. He was
not only not a married man but did not
have a ghost of a chance of ever getting
married, that he coula see.He never had
had much to do with young women in
fact there was just one young lady he
knew and that slightly. She was a
stenographer in the city somewhere, a
plain, sensible girl who boarded where
no did and withwhom he had had some
co a vereation.
"Say, will j ou give me a chacca at
that place until noon? I'll be back by
that time,"he finally said to the director.
Yes, I'll keep it open until noon,"
was the reply.
In two hours the young man returred,
radiant and happy, a young woman on
bis left arm, a grip in his right hand.
"It's all right, you can givo me the
place,"' he explained to the director.
"This is my wife; just married twenty
minutes ago. The tram leaves at one
o'clock and we are ready to start at
once.'"
The couple had charge of the Fair
mont office three years. Ihen the
young man was sent up to the Hastings
office and has now worked into the gen
eral office at Omaha.
One family hid their Christmas pres
ents in a very effective way this year.
The father brought home a big stack of
empty pasteboard boxes and piled them
up in the main hall. The children
searched them all and repeated the
operation again in a day or two. After
that the boxes stood unmolested. All
the presents were put in the bottom
boxes and remained untouched until the"
Recent Sermons.
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WAR.--The world Is coming to un
derstand more and more the absurdity
of maintaining a warlike attitude and
supporting In times of peace great
armies. The sentiment against war la
steadily gaining. Rev. A. Z. Conrad,
Congregatlonallst, Worcester, Mas3.
CHEERFULNESS. There is no t.30
to be down In the dark, damp cellar
when there are light, and warmth, imd
comfort In tho parlor. Consistency b
a great essential or a Christian life.
There is too little of it In the lives of
Christian people. Rev. J. I. Paxton,
PreabyterJan, Philadelphia.
WOMAN. I am ashamed to say that
for 6,000 years man has been a petty
tyrant and lordling as far as woman
has been concerned. Every Intelligent
student of history knows this to be
true. Rev. E. F. Wright, Congrega
tlonallst, Gardner, III.
CHZENSHIP Good citizenship de
mands first the recognition of God as
supreme governor. As citizens men
have no more right to ignore God than
as individuals. If our bodies and souls
belong to Him so does our state. Rev.
C. A. Van Anda, Chicago.
GOVERNMENT. God deals with
governments as with individuals.
Where righteousness reigns there Is
blessing. Where it is ignored thero
cometh destruction. Rev. J. L.
Weaver, Presbyterian, Philadelphia.
SOCIAL ETHICS. As Columbus die
covered a neglected hemisphere, so wo
are just discovering a neglected hemis- x
phere of church work the hemisphere
of social ethics. Rev. W. F. Craft,
Presbyterian, Washington.
PA AIOTISM. True American pa
triotism lies in fulfillment or American
ideas rather than in calculating upon
American Interests. It Is the sound,
patriotic American spirit to hold duty
higher than interest, to hold the citi
zen's obligations at least as sacred a3
his rights. Rev. J. F. Brodle, Congre-gat-ju
1st, Salem, Mass.
THE STATE. The state is a moral
organism. One man is not altogether
man. Human nature cannot manifest
Itself wholly in the individual. It doe3
not develop in isolation. Hence emergo
of very necessity out of the soul of hu
manity Itself family life, social life, re
ligious life, political life. Rev. N. Luc
cock, Methodist, Pittsburg.
POLITICS AND RELIGION. Ju3t so
long as good men walk one way In
their religion and another in their pol
itics and join in the foolish cry that
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Ghriatmas tree was prepared, while the politics has nothing to do with religion.
little folks ransacked every other
of the house in their eearch.
part
"What did 1 gat for Christmas?" said
a little seven-year-old girl to a lady
friend, "oh, I got a doll and a bible.
Mamma gavj ma the bibb. She wants
me to be a missionary, She aays that
any family that tal'fj as much as we do
for mission; and gives as much as we do
to the missionaries, ough to have one
among 'em anyway. There don't seem
to be any of the rest of the children that
want to go, so I guess I'll hare to b9 it
I always did want to sae tho30 funny
little Chinee3ars eat with stick;, and
then it must be nice to rids on the big
ocean and have the whole church pray
in' for you."
so long will bad men with selfish
schemes and unscrupulous methods
control affairs. Religion must be mixed
with politics, buslnesn. Industrial, and
Eoclal life. Rev. F. B. Cherington,
Congregatlonallst, Spokane, Wash.
CHRISTIAN PATRIOTISM. Tho
gospel of Christ applies to the great
questions of tariff and finance and im
migration, to the recognition of Cuban
belligerency, or the settlement of the
Venezuelan boundary, or the defense of
American citizens in Crete or Armenia,
just as it does to the questions of tho
immortality of the soul or the destiny
of the impetftent. Rev. G. A. Cleve
land, Baptist, Riverside, Cal.
A Squirrel's Capacious Mouth.
A Dummerston (VL) man wished to
cscertain how many kernels of corn a
The boy of a neighbor across the way "T:" Tr' , ,. a
who delights to hoar "big folks talk ThJrtv kernel3 were pjaced 0Q a board
heard a gentlemen telling that old story A squirrel carried them all away at
of being "glad t) shake the h3nd of the onetime. Forty-five kernels were "then
man who shook the hanJ of Sullivan." placed in position, and chippy got away
Then at dinner he quite paralyzed the with all of them at that trial. Seventy
family by telling his brother of a man k?niels were put on the board for a
who was "glad to shake the hand of a "Jarf Thelttle striped anlmaS
t. v. 1 .1. 1. j c 1 v was heaten this time, but succeeded in
.man who shook the hand of Solomon.' rarrying fl,tv.elght ;. the kerae
H. j. fcHEDD. ,S mouth. Boston Herald.
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