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1 l-^TV i&t rtaptonJte R. C. DUNN, Publisher. Terms:2.00 per year in advance. =0T Square fingers show great reasoning powers, order and regularity. They are often found on the hands of law yers. A wealthy American, anxious to oc cupy a grand mansion in London, has leased Arlington house at a rental of $10,000. Only a silver king, a pork butcher or a plumber could afford to pay so much rent Millionaire Bookwalter, the flying machine enthusiast of Ohio, isn't dis couraged because he has had to spend so much money on impractical schemes of balloon navigation. He has another model under way. One hundred tons of cats' tails were recently sold at once for the purpose of ornamenting ladies' wearing apparel. This means that, assuming an average cat's tail to weigh two ounces, no fewer than 1,792,000 pussies had to be lulled. One of the peculiarities of the cocoa nut palm is that it never stands up right. A Malayan saying has it that: "He who has looked upon a dead mon-. key he who has found the nest of a paddy-bird he who hath beheld a straight cocoanut, or has fathomed the deceitful heart of a woman, will live forever." A discussion concerning the longest words used In the English language has recalled to one of the participants that "disestablishmentarianism" was used by many English and Irish newspapers at the time of the disestablishment of of the Irish church, about 1871, and found its way into the house of com mons. A singular illustration of the persist ence with which the Japanese adhere to their family vocations is soon ha an announcement in a Japanese newspa per that a certain celebrated dancing master was to hold a service in honor oi the 1,000th anniversary of the death of his ancestor, wbo was the first of he family to take up the profession Tramps who honor the tjwn of Birmingham, Ala, with their presence have anew scheme for securing money. They put caustic on their arms, thus making a sore which presents a terri ble appearance then the injured mem ber is bandaged up and the tramp goes on a begging tour. Tt is said that a death had already occurred from this barbarous scheme. There is a falling off in the value ot both the imports and exports of France during the last year. The imports were to the value of 4,412,390,000 francs, against 4,767,867,000 franoh in 1891, and the exports 3,562,909,000 francs, as compared with 3,569,737,000 francs in 1891. In many countries the rainbow is spo ken of as being a great bent pump or syphon tube, drawing water from the earth by mechanical means. I parts of Russia, in the Don country, and also In Moscow and vicinity, it is known by a name which is equivalent to "the bent water pipe." It is quite possible to make sugar from carrots and, indeed, carrot juice con tains more than 90 per cent of sacchar ine matter. As carrots are expensive abroad, foreign sugar manufacturers prefer beet roots. Very few people know that cow's milk contains about 5 per cent of sugar. Von Bulow, the insane pianist, is a man of small physique and testy tem per, and has the manner of a discip linarian. wears a heavy mustache and a pointed brown beard. is said to I most averse to meeting strangers, and he has a violent dislike*of hctels. is a fine Greek scholar and bears the degree of Ph. D. given him by Jena In 1863. The chalk under London can noin longer be looked upon as a source of great additional supplies of water. This is already utilized by upward of 200 wells, and while at the commence ment of the century the water, when tapped, rose in many places to the sur face, it stands now at a level of about forty feet below Trinity high water mark. It is considered that the rate of depression now varies from one to two *eet per annum. A lady writing to the London news papers from a fashionable west end address urges society dames to abstain from drinking champagne during Lent and give the money thus saved to the IMor. The appeal is a curious one, and the assumption upon which it is confidently bas is scarcely flattering to the rich women of England. A discussion concerning the longest words used in the English language has recalled to one of the participant* that "disestablishmentarianism" was used by many English and Irish newspapers at the time of the disestablishment of the Irish church, about 1871, and found 44s way tnto the house of commona, DIGEST O THE NEWS FROM ALL PARTS O THE WORLD. All Importent Occurrences of the Past Week, Boiled Down and Arranged for Rapid Reading. n* Washington. Josiah Quincey of Masaschusetts will be assistant secretary of state. There will be DO extra session of con gress, it seems. '**'$* Sixty-one naval officers will be remaid tired during Cleveland's term. There were thirty-six nominations by President Harrison that were not con firmed by the senate, among them that of Judge Hanchett to the United States circuit court. The United States supreme court has sustained St Louis in its claim to the right to charge the Western Union Tele graph company for the use of streets stringing wires. The treasury department is informed that numerous fraudulent papers have been presented by Chinese upon the Pa cific coast and Canadian border claim ing to be merchants with right to domi cile in the United States. I view of this state of affairs Assistant Secretary Spaulding has instructed collectors of customs to disregard all such papers and refuse entry unless it is proven satis factorily that the persons presenting them have the right to land. Accidental Happenings. Two towns in Georgia were wiped out by a cyclone and several persons were killed. The works of the Kirkham Art. Tile and Pottery company at Barberton, Ohio, were destroyed by fire. Loss, $240,000 insurance, $165,000. Fire in the Colonial flats at New York did damage amounting to $50,000. Many women and children were carried from the building by the firemen. A seven-year-old son of Henry Cook of East Selkirk, Man., hanged himselt while at play. When the chim's mother found the lad life was extinct. H. V. Temple, president of the First National bank of Lexington, Neb., and his wife are in a dying condition from eating meat on which one of the children had spread rough on rats. A fire, in which Mary Miller, a disso lute woman, was burned to death, oc curred at Newcastle, Wyo. The origin of the fire is not positively known, but it is supposed to be from an overturned lamp. Personal Mention. Congressman M. Harter has an nounced that he could not accept the nomination for governor of Ohio. Col. Weber, superintendent of emigra tion at New York, has sent his resigna tion to Secretary Carlisle. Mrs. Cleveland is the latest addition to the opponents of crinoline, and de clares that she will never wear or coun tenance it. A dark-skinned young man in New York, who says he is a Long Island Indian named Nacatansee, is about to make his stage debut as Othello. One of the oldest of British noblemen is the duke of Northumberland, who is nearly ninety. He has been a member of five cabinets, and sat in parliament twenty years before he secured his title. Four years ago Grover Cleveland rode to the capitol sitting on the right of Ben jamin Harrison. This time Mr. Harri feon sat on the light of Mr. Cleveland during the ride. Gen Horace Poiter, president oC the Grant Monument association, says that money enough has been raised to finish the monument, and that work will ,be lesumed at once. Neal Dow, the veteran prohibitionist, is strongly opposed to the bill now pend ing in the Maine legislature -which pro vides for the treatment of habitual drunkards at the expense of the state. Mr. Dow's idea is millions for pre\ention, but not a cent for cure. Among the Wicked. Frank a Page of Corry, Pa., sui cided by shooting at Niagara Falls, N. Y. Charles Cronea, last of the a Fitte* freebooters, died in Chambers countv. Tex. The residence of Gov. Stone of Mis souri was robbed of several articles of jewelry and a small sum of money. F. C. Lucas, a prominent business man of Los Angeles, Cal., committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a loco motive. Jssse Jackson, who led the gang that robbed a train at Wharton, I. T., last November, was arrested near Eufala. I. T. During a fight between the Morrison and Ross factions at Whitewell, Tenn., Roy Morrison, Taylor Morrison and Wiii Ross were fatally stabbed. Mr. Solomon is under arrest at Lin coln, .111., for selling postage stamps to business men. He had a large quantity his possession, and it is believed they were stolen. Oliver Johnson, colored, thirteen years old, murdered Stanley Hott, white, aged five, and threw the body into the Scioto river at Columbus, Ohio. Johnson was arrested and confessed. W. C. Jones, a well known horseman, was arrested at Nashville, Tenn., charged with larceny in securing horses to Chautauqua county, N. Y., under false pretenses. In a hand-to-hand fight at Sedalia, Mo., between W. H. Hogg, a clerk, and P. H. Haley, a traveling salesman, both were badly wounded. A pistol was used, oach securing possession of it alternate ly. Haley's wife was the cause of the trouble. H. Nash, farm instructor on theHills Piegan Indian reserve, fifteen miles west of MacLeod, Man., heard* a disturbance among the horses and went out to in vestigate. saw two Indians, who walked up to him, and when within arm's length one pointed a revolver at him and fired. Nash threw up his arms, and lost the middle finger of his right hand. The body of O'Brien, a pack ped dler, who mysteriously disappeared from Havana, HI., last November, has been washed up from the Illinois river, at the bridge at Havana, The body was not I badly decomposed, but the neck was broken and a deep gash was found ou one side of the neck. It'is believed that O'Brien was murdered. Lewis Furman has been arrested at Birmingham, N. Y., for the murder of Richard Poote, OIL Friday, Oct 30, 189L, At the recent trial of Mrs. Foote, whel was charged with the crime of murder ing her husband with an ax and~burn ing his body in the barn, the fact was developed that the crime was committed by Fiuman. J~ &'\&&&&'?%&>. \Mi At Chicago Frank Eck, formerly a fireman at Wichita, Kan., murdered his wife by cutting her throat, and then committed suicide by slashing himself from ear to ear. Mrs. Eck had for two weeks been employed as a chamber at Stafford's hotel, having come from Wiehita to escape from her hus band, who, she said, was so insanely jealous of her that it was impossible to live with him. ^xjjf^ Gossip of the Sports. Pitcher Duryea wants another trial with the Washingtons. Mark Baldwin's re-signing with Cin cinnati sugegsts that the Homestead real estate market has received a chill. President Young has decided to give ex-Pitcher Eddie Seward a chance, at least, as substitute on the league umpire staff. Labor Items. A 10 per cent reduction in wages is announced by -Jhe American Tube and Iron company of Youngstown, Ohio, em ploying 600 men. Doniinick McCaffrey intends to re enter the ring if he should lose his posi tion as instructor at the Manhattan club. Charley Mitchell is the man he wants to fight. will also fight Mike Dono van for $5,000 a side. Elmer E. Sutcliffe, for many years a professional ball player, having played with the Detroits, Chicagos, Omahas, Kansas Citys, and last season with the Bajtimores, died at his home in'Illinois Feb. 15. Oliver S. Campbell of Brooklyn, who has*won the lawn tennis championship of America in the singles for the past three seasons, will not defend his title at Newport next August owing to the pressure of private business. An organization to be known as the Newark Athletic club has been formed in Newark, N. J., for the purposes of giving professional boxing matches. A purse of $2,50Q is offered by the cldb for a fight between Bill Plimmer and Danny McBride. Foot ball has been resumed under very favorable auspices at Oxford and Cambridge. At Oxford success attended each team, the association players beat ing the Royal Arsenal, while the Rugby devotees defeated Roslyn Park team. The Cambridge teams were equally suc cessful in annexing their games with the Old Etonian and East Shoon players. Railroad Items. 'The Vanderbilts have secured posses sion of the New York & Northern rail road. It is announced that S. Clark will resign the presidency of the Union Pacific and will return to the Missouri Pacific. Vice President Rteinhart, of the AtchP son, Topeka & Santa Fe has been chosen to succeed the late President Manvel. From Other Shores. Favorable news from America was re ceived with great enthusiasm at Hawaii. Landslides wrecked many houses at Sandgate, Eng. Tame, the celebrated French writer, is dead. The senate of Dublin university voted to petition parliament to defeat the Irish home rule bill. Signor Agazzi, cashier of the Bank of Rome, was arrested for having embez zled 100,000 francs two years ago. M. Collet, an accountant for a firm which owns collieries at Charleroi, Bel gium, committed suicide at Brussels by shooting himself with a revolver. Dynamiters are still operating in Rome. Two dynamite bombs were discovered in the house of Signor Brin, minister of foreign affairs. Another bomb was found in front of a local prison. Queen Regent Christiana of Spain has conferred upon Rear Admiral Ste phen Luce, U. S. N., the order of naval merit in recognition of his serv ices as United States commissioner at the Columbian exposition. Irish embroidery and laces \o be sent to the Chicago world's fair were ex hibited recently at the house of the earl of Aberdeen. The work on vestments for Roman Catholic prelates in the United States is especially fine. The trial of ex-Minister and Deputy Antone Pruse, Deputy Duge du La Fau connerrie, Senator Berat, ex-Deputy Go bron and M. Blondin on charges of cor ruption in connection with the Panama lottery bonds bill has been commenced at Paris. Miscellaneous Item. E. C. Campbell, president of the Gil bert Car company, died at Troy, N. Y. C. Wallbridge is the Republican nominee for mayor of St. Louis. O. Overholt, grain and lumber, failed at Assumption, 111., owing $30,000. The Akron, Ohio, Queensware Pottery company failed, owing $25,000, and with $50,000 assets. Two chattel mortgages amounting to $420,471.92 have been given locomotive builders by the Reading to secure claims. James Gibson, a church deacon of Bloomsbnrg, Pa., lost $4,000 in a gam bling game. The funeral of Vicar General Brady at St. Louis was attended by several thousand Catholics. ^-C1 A solid gold cube worth $300,000 will be exhibited at the world's fair by Black mine owners. The New Jersey senate confirmed the nomination of ex-Gov. Abbett as asso ciate judge of the supreme court. The Keystone brewery at Reading, Pa., has failed. The assets are $70,000, and the liabilities about'the same. A movement is on foot to raise a 'fund in Maine by subscription for the erec tion of a statue of James G. Blaine at Augusta. The Rev. George Tompkins, who was dismissed from /Calvary Baptist church at New York, sues i former congrega tion for $200,000 damages. pppfl* fr|lill Jf^fel^f ^^^S^^ SsSfiPj THE BERIODS 0FM2LIFE. A SERMON FORYOUNQ,MIDDLE- f? AGED AND OLD FOLKS. IMMWtM -& ?H is $ The Plans of the Twenties, the Dis ^appointments oe the Thirties, i!|the Discoveris of the For-, *$B& J%t$* of the Fifties. Brooklyn, N. Special.Dr." Tal mage's subject was "From Twenty to Seventy." The text selected was Psalm xc, 10: "The days of our years are three score and ten." The seventieth milestone of life is here nlanted as t thlwwi ^iwl. SernTines eSSed^? iSTearf by the name of Thomas Parr lived 152 years. Before the time of Moses people lived 150 years, and if0you guided You make Sa^*^^affl^^^*i& ^^^y^^^f^^gCP ijpjPgf^sS "arvest he t,es an A Greek, by^aw of SfaSvJSE ^tton lived to 132 years. Ail Englishman ^f^ far enough back they lived 50 yearso. Wellpnmitrth tha was necessary, because the story of the world must come down by tradition, and it needed long life safely to transmit the news of the past. If the generations had been 5 Oh. the twenties! "Twenty" is a great word in the Bible. Joseph was sold for twenty pieces of silver. Samson judged Israel twenty years. Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities Tho flying roll that Zechariah saw was twenty cubits. When the sailors of the ship on which Paul sailed sounded the Mediterranean sea it was twenty fathoms. What mighty things have been done in the twenties! Homulus founded Rome when he was twenty Keats finished life at* twenty-five. Lafayette was a world renowned soldier at twenty three. Oberlin accomplished his chief work by twenty-seven. Bonaparte was victor over Italy at twenty-six. Pitt was prime minister of England at twenty-two. Calvin had completed his immortal "Institutes" by the time he was twenty-six. Grotius was attorney general at twenty-four. Some of the mightiest things for God and eternity have been done in the twenties A long as you can put the figure "2" be fore the other figure that helps to de scribe your a"ge, I have high hopes about you. Look out for that figure "9" Watch its contiuance with as merctwenties. on all the men and women in $S?Ll .SiL^K J*^ ^SSSsb WmW much earnestness as you ever watched and sure enough th* fact is established anything that promised you salvation beyond all disputation. Sixty! Now or threatened you demolition What a your great16danger is the temptation critical time, the twenties! While they too fold up your faculties and quit continue you decide your occupation You will feel a tendency to reminisce' and the, principles by which, you^ are if youlrt 5 Almighty, for Jesus Christ's sake, have 111 the promotion and the increase in sal- .^j^ ^ZJ^t^SS 8 expected a occupy ien the firm has not te i ^jSt**^*** V*" could not have expected. I some re spects the hardest decade of life is in the thirties, because the results are generally so far behind the anticipa tions. I is very rare indeed that a young man does as did the young man last Sunday night when he came to me and said, I have been so marvel ously prospered since I came to this country that I feel, as a matter of gratitude, that I ought to dedicate my self to God.'* Nin3-tenths of the poetry of life has been knocked out of you since you came into the thirties. Men in the different professions and occu pations saw that you were rising and they must put an estoppel on you or you might somehow stand in the way. They think, you must be suppressed. From thirtIy to forty- is an especially hard time for young doctors, young young doctors, young um ua ney A*ew tro bVS j lawyers, young Sever iJXh it 1 ,aV multltudes merchantsyoung 101 1accost Aex decad tn ma fnr Ko^L- *1,~~ IS~J r-n\ the diSCOVOl'Vf nf vonrvplf "Wf man past I the generations had been short lived, the story would so often have changed lips that it might have got all astray. But after Moses began to write it down, and the parchment told it from century to cenury, it was not necessary that people live so long in order to authenticate the events of the past. If, in our time, people lived only twenty-five year*, that would not affect history, since it is put in print and is no longer dependent on tradi tion. Whatever your age, I will to day directly address you, and I shall speak to those who are in the twenties, the thirties, the forties, the fifties, the sixties, and to those who are in the seventies and beyond. First, then, 1 accost those of you who are in the twenties.. You are full of expectation You are ambitiousthat is, if you amount to anything for some kind of success., commercial, or mechanical, or professional, or lite rary, or agricultural, or social, or moral. If I find some one in the twen ties without any sort of ambition, I feel like saying: "Mv friend, you have got on the wrong planet This is not the world for you. You are going to be in the way. Have you made your choice of poor houses? You will never be able to pay for your cradle. Who is going to settle for your board? There is a mistake about the fact that you were bom at all But supposing von have ambition, let me say to all the twenties, expect everything thiough divine manipulation, and then you will get all you want or something better Are you looking for wealth? Well, re member that God controls the money markets, the harvest, the drouths, the caterpillars, the locussts, the sunshine, the storm, the land, the sea. and you will get wealth. Perhaps not that which is stored up in banks, in safe deposits, in United States securities, in houses and lands, but your clothing and board and shelter, and that is about all you can appropriate, anyhow. You cost the lord a great deal. To feed and clothe and shelter you for a lifetime requires a big sum of money, and if you get nothing more than the absolute necessities you get an enor mous amount of supply. Expect as much as you will of any kind of suc cess, if you expect it from the Lord you are safe. Depend on any other resource and you may be badiy chag rined, but depend on God and all will be well I is a good thing in the ensi* of life to have a man of large means back you up. I is a good thing to have a moneyed institution stand be hind you in your undertaking. But it is a mightier thing to have the God of heaven and earth your coadjutor, and you may may have him. am so glad that I meet vou while you are i the twenties You .-.re laying out your plans and all your life in this world and the next for 500,000,000 years of your existence will be affected by those plans. It is about S o'clock 'in Hiehair morning of your lite, and jou are just starting out Which way are go ing to start young far- niers, young mechanics mlnis rti? S i S monerattT O the forties. Yours is of discovery. I do not discovery of the outside, but tho discovery of yourself. No man knows himsel until he is forty overestimates himself that time he han learned what he can do, or whatc hf cannot do. thougho he cajmot wna omfi do- thought he ercial geniusH a enough be- come a millionaire, but now is satis fied to make a comfortable living. thought he had rhetorical power that would bring him into the United States senate now he is content if he can successfully argue a common case before a petit jury. thought he had medical skill that"would make him a Mott or a Grosse or a Willard Parker or a Sims now he finds his sphere is that of a family physician, prescrib ing for the ordinary ailments that af fect our race. was sailing on in fog and could not take a reckoning, but now it clears up enough to allowT him to find out his real latitude and longitude. has been climbing, but now he has got to the top of the hill and he takes a long breath Is half-way through the journey at least, and he is in a position to look back ward or forward. has more good sense than he ever had. knows human nature, for he has been cheated of tei enough to see the bad side of it. and he has met so many gracious and kindly and splendid souls he also knows the good side of it Now, calm yourself. Thank God for the past, and deliberately set your compass for an other voyage You have chased enough thistledown. You have blown enough soap bubbles You have seen the un satisfying nature of all earthly things. Open a new chapter with God and the world This decade of the forties ought to eclipse all its predecessors in wor ship, in usefulness and in happiness "Forty" is a great word in the Bible God's ancient people were forty years in the wilderness. David and Solomon and Jehoash reigned forty years. When Joseph visited his brethren he was forty years old. Oh, this mountain top of the forties! You ha\ now the char acter you will probably have for allnished, time and all eternity. God, by hiswas grace, sometimes changes a man'after the forties, but after that a man never changes himself. Tell me, oh, men and women who are in the forties, your habits of thought* and life, and will tell you what you will forever be. I might make a mistake once in a thou sand times, but no more than that in proportion.- My sermon next accosts the fifties. ow queer it looks when, in writing your age, you make the first of the two figures a ."5." This is the ,decade which shows what the other decades have been. If young man has sown wild oats, and he has lived to this time, he reaps the harvest of it in the fifties, or if by necessity he was com pelled to overtoil in honest directions he is called to settle up with exacting nature sometime during the fifties. Many have it so hard in early life that they are octogenarians at fifty. Sciaticas and rheumatisms and neural gias and vertigos and insomnias have their playground in the fifties A man's begins to whiten, and. although, he may haAre worn spectacles before, now he asks the optician for No 14' or No. 12, or No. 10. When he gets a cough and is almost' cured, he hacks and clears his throat a good while afterward. Oh, ye who are in the fif ties think of it! A half century of blessing to be thankful for, and a half century subtracted from an existence which, in the most marked case of longevity, hardly ever reaches a whole century. By this time you ought to be eminent for piety. You have been in so many battles you ought to be a brave soldier. You have made so many voyages you ought to be a good sailor. So long protected and blessed, you ought to. have a soul full of doxology. My sermon next accosts the sixties. The beginning of that decade is more startling than any other. I his chro nological journey the man rides rather smoothly over the figures "2" and "3" and "4" and "5," but the figure "0 gives him a big jolt. says: "It can not be that I am sixty. Let me ex amine the old family record. I guess they made a mistake. They got my rame down wrong in the roll of births."' But no, the older brothers and sisters remember the time of his advent, and there is some relative a year older and another relative a year younger, diiu. duuuia iciauvc a. vear younser, tf fo 0 all that was neeessary for success u^er the accumulatedj lights was to put on your shutter the sign of physician or dentist or attorney or Q^a pas more memorable sixtie mak Go yo do not look out you will begin most abiding almost everything with the words, friendships. YoOUVarrange your home "When I was a boy." But you ought the Next I accost those in the thirties. You are at an age when you find what a tough thing it is to get recognized and established in your occupation or ed enough mistakes in life to make profession. Ten years ago you thought God and the truth than the fifties the fortiemorer the thirties. You ought to do during the next ten years than you did in any thirty years of your life, because of all the experi ence you have had. You have commit- yo wls abor you a umor No ve broker or agent, and yoru wouldsh havfe the sixtiestfoldbefore.'esWhen don busines and indolencnee which Ienergyaand surrenderingns our fo ^J^ an In commercial life you have not had waited in vain, three persons only md God generally takes the man at know-God, your wife and yourself. Us wor the farm, with which you expected to sup- j^g port yourself and those depending on yo fer les anticipated, or the prices were down, g^p^ or special expenses for sickness made of your experimenting, work fofr enough igostt i he devil man i up hi feel and Jets die right away. braln hat under the tension of wor wa ^whethen ny T*.^ Pteceyou shrivels Meng, theg retirye fro u^m secular or religious work, general- ly retire to the grave. No well man a sphere beyond the reach of tele a rignt to retir mad The t* worf frhere rema The mUi on ^*^W^^Md J* Waterloo-was ineth a tary charge that de- greatest battles of not made until 8 o'clock in the oven-?f| ing, but some of you propose to go ^J^ into camp at 2 o'clock in the after-i?*^^ noon. RA'PID READER. Men Who Could Gather he Meaning of Page at a Glance. The death of Justice Lamar recalls a trait or faculty which he possessed in a remarkable degree. I has been said of him that he was able to read a newspaper article or a page of a book at what seemed to the observer to be but a glance. Manifestly this fac ulty or capacity gave him great advan tage over ordinary men. was able to devour books as if he were a liter ary glutton, with the difference that his powerful memory enabled him to digest at leisure what he had absorbed in haste. Macauley possessed the same faculty, periiaps in a yet higher degree. would take up a volume for an even ing's intellectual enjoyment, and be fore he had retired had the contents fully impressed upon his marvelous mind. Dickens was another of those remarkably rapid readers. George El iot's "Adam Bede" came to him one day. Before his ordinary bedtime be had read it, and had pronounced this remarkable dictum: "That book was written by a woman." Others required days of leisure to read it, and the ques tion of authorship was the riddle at the time i literary circles. Charles Sumner was another man who pos sessed this happy faculty. A book, whether it was a volume of law or diplomatic correspondence, or a work of fiction, passed under hi$ eyes as if by a quick succession of glances. I twas the same with Daniel Webster, who himself stated to a friend that when in college he read "Don 1 Quixote" In a single night. In the case of both these distinguished men what they-read in .this way reappeared in a new dress in their speeches and in their writings. Of course a retentive memory was necessary to render the results of this rapid reading available, but it is plain that in their capacity to read rapidly they possessed an enor mous advantage over their fellow men, and the question arises, is it possible to develop this faculty and make it more generally useful in the vast mul tiplieation of books?Augusta Chrou Ide. mjtii Jff} My subject next accosts those the -i-i seventies and beyond. My word to then^ is congratulation. You have got nearly, if not quite, through. You have safely crossed the sea of life and are about to enter the harbor. You have fought at Gettysburg and the war is over. Here and there a skirmish with the remaining sin of your own heart and the sin of the world, but I guess you ire about done. There may ue some work for you yet on small or large scale. Bismarck of Germany, vigorous ha the eighties the prime min ister of England strong at eighty-ftur: Haydn composing his oratorio, "The Creator," Tt seventy years of age: Isocrates doing some of his best work at seventy-four Plato busy thinking for all succeeding centuries at eighty one Noah Webster, after making his world-renowned dictionary, hard at work until eighty-hve years old Rev. Daniel WTaldo W praved my pulpit a 100 years of age Humboldt producing the immortal "Cosmos" at seventy-six years William Blake at sixty-seven learning Italian so as to read Dantf in the original, Lord Cockburn at eighty-seven writing his best treatise John Wesley stirring great audiences al eighty-five William C. Bryant, with out spectacles, reading in my boup "Thanatopsis" at eighty-three years of age. Christian men and women in all departments serving God after becom ing septuagenarians and octogenarians and nonagenarians prove that there are possibilities of work for the aged, but I think you who are past the seven ties are near being through. How do you leel about it? A man got up in a Nn York prayer meeting and said. "God is my part ner. I did business without him for twenty years, and failed every two or three years. ha v.* b" doing busi ness with him for twenty years, tmd ba^e not failed once." Oh, taketh supernatural into all your affairs. I had such an evidence of the goodness of God in temporal things when I entered aethe life, I must testify. Called to preach at lovely Belleville, in New Jersey. I entered upon my work Bu there stood the empty parsonage and not a cent had I with which to furnish it. After preaching three or four weeks the officers ot my church asked nu if I did not wt.nt to lake two or three weeks' vacation I said "Yes!" for I had preached about all I knew, but I feared they must be getting tired of me. When I returned to the Milage after the brief vacation, they handed me the key of the parsonage and asked me if I did not want to go and look at it Not suspecting anything had happened, I opened it, and there was the hall completely furnished with car pet and pictures and hat rack, and I turned into the parlors, and thev were furnished, the softest sofas I ever sat on, and into the study, and found it furnished with book cases, and I went to the bed rooms, and they were fur and into the pantry, and that furnished with every culinary ar ticle, and the spice boxes were filled and a flour barrel stood there ready to be opened, and 1 went down into the dining room, and the table was set and beautifully furnished, and into the kitchen, and the stove was full of fuel, and a match lay on top of he stove, and all I had to do in starting housekeeping was to strike the match God inspired the whole thing, and if I ever doubt his goodness, all up and down the world, call me an ingrate I testify thai I have been in many tight places, and God always got me out, and he will always get you out of the tight places. But the most of this audience will never reach the eighties or the seven ties or the sixties or the forties who passes into the forties has gone far beyond the average of human ltfp Amid the uncertainties take God through Jesus Christ as your present and eternal safety. The longest life is only a *mall fragment of the great eternity We will all of us soon be there Eternity' near it rolls. Count the va^t \alue of your souls. Beware and count the awful cost What the\ ha\e gamed, whose SOUIK are lost 1