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* I?? A SERMON FOR SUNDAY [? A STRCNC AND JFLiPTiNC DISCOURSE i BY THE REV, DONALD S. MACKAY. ] * j akjrrt : "A IMea For the *lmpl? UU"1 Duly of thr Pulpit to Son nil a Win* lac Note Id Regard to Modern Extran- ) < kmc* la LWIag. ' Nkw York City. ? At the Collegiate Church, Fifth avenue and Forty-eighth , Btreer. Sunday monutii;. the minister. the i Rev. 1" Donald Saw M u kay. presented a i strong ?ertnon oti "A l'lta for the Simple Life. The text was from Maithtw vi: 31*32: ''Take no thought nyini, "What I shall we eat? or AVha: i-kill we drink? or Wherewithal ahull ne be clothed? For voiir heavenly Father knoweth." Dr. L. ifaclny ?aid: I m .Ta-t MO year* ;:^o. in 1S03. William |< W Wordsworth, the gr*u: Knglish poet, then r a young iran and comrtaratively unknown. P wrote a sonnet entitled "Plain Living and High Thinking I: i* so sigr.ificant that I 11 L |uote it in full: f "0 friend. 1 know not which tray I must look | For eomfort. beinjr ?? 1 nn oppre?t To think thAt new on.- life ia.oniy drest For ihow; mean handiwork of crait*maii. cook, Or groom? We nr.wt run glittering like a brook V In the open sunshine. ?-r we are unblest! I The wealthient man an:"ng us i? the beatf I No grandeur now in nature or in book . 1 Delight!! us. Kapifie. avarice, expense? f* Thin is idolatry, and tiic>t* we adorr. Plain tiring aud hicii thinking are no more? Hbe homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone?our pencc. o-.ir wimple innocence. And pure religion, Ireathiag kcuAhold i laws." The remarkable thing about these line# Is that although dcxcub.ng the follies of . 100 years ago. they .ue exactly applicable to the conditions' of iife to-dav. What Wordsworth critical ?o forcefully in 1803 is still prevalent in 19H3. In spite of the vaunted progress of th? nineteenth ceng tnry, notwithstanding the enormous ad * vance la every spnerc 01 ouman nruvnj, it is a sad commentary on our civilization that ts-day we are jnat an much the slaves of vulvar ostentation r.? our fathers were when the last century stiil was younjr. 1 seed scarcely remind you how power- , fully this same criticism oi our over-elaborated life has been net forth in that remarkable little book by Chcrlc* Warner, "The Simple Life." Everybody is reading it and ; admiring it, hot not every one. I fear, is ( ready to accept its teaching. Wagner is s Protestant pastor in Paris, a man of keen ( sensibility, a prose poet, a shrewd philoso- , ^ana trenchant critic. In this latest . of his, "The Simpk* Life." he has put i * forward a plea to hi* fellow Pariaians pre- , t eisely as Words worth did to hi* contempo raries a century ago. Like Wordsworth, j Wagner sees in the elaboration and complexity of modern life not merely a menace , /_ to the stability of tbe state, but to the in- , tellectual and spiritual life of the individ- ( ?-v nals who compose the state. Nowhere, < surely, is this complex life of luxurious , pleasure seeking extravagance so visible . as in this metropolis of tbe New World. Everywhere the drags are off. and the wheeis of com merer an l society nre run- 1 nine wild. When the s;4)t>iiase will come, , | as com* it vast, or hour it will comc, no I I one eta tell, bat that thin career of estrav1^ agoncc in living, which Mew York has been followinr. especially fur I !ie prut five years. W i< bound to end in caUutrophc. coral and r aocial, unless sanctified common sense interpoees, it needs no pronhet to predict. 'Already the shrewd, bard-headed men in |WaU street an scenting the approacbins danger from the commercial standpoint. TWy tell as that the limit of over-capitali-1 , nation and headstrong speculation is reached. and the reacticn, unless it corner gradually and under proper control, will and] panic from the Atuntic to the Pacific. How true that may be an a commercial predictioa I do not know; tut from the standpoint of religion, in the interests of moral ity. the ceil results of tiiis over-elaborated mode of living, common even among the poor a0 well as the rich, are already with m. Oat does not reqn re the vision of a 9 aeer to reeocnize them. It it in the face of snch conditions that ? the pulpit of to-day. if it be brave and true I < W to its duty, is called upon to sound forth a I warning not*. It is indeed a thankless task 3 for the preacher. He must say things, es 1 peetaDy id a pulpit such as this, that will I , I tnt sharply the feelings, if not the con sciences, of those whom be addresses. NevB erthrlsss, because there is still a residuum B of good ssuss even in the most eztravsX gant uf us, I venture this Lenten Sundav 3 morning, in the name of Jesus Christ, to > E bring before you this plea for "plain living | _My JM remark" is an obvious inference. I, Wain Kwtnst 4m mat aWlntn nf ki?k m l*Hi HfMIK W Ml IMWIWW WMUIblVU VI Ul(^ll >.thinking. Stannous thinking cannot come from pampered living. There can be no life of worthy thought where existence it faded down with the vulgarities of luxury. Thought, which is the life of the sou), not only deteriorates, it die* when we make the earn of the body the be-all and the ?n4?all of oar days. The two most illiterate dams in society to-day are the abject poor, who bv necessity must think of the needs of the body, and. therefore, can think of nothing use. and the idle rich, who by choice devote every hour of the day to the trivial problem of what they shall eat and what they shall drink and wherea Withal they shall be clothed. "The body it V fa," mys Bossoet, the great French preach * or, in one of his sermons, "which drags us down from the loftier levels of thought. f which chains no to the earth when we oegfat to bo breathing the pure air of heaven." 80 it is that to-day we are putE ting an undue emphasis upon the merely ontward Kft. Wo are elaborating the mere framework of the picture, ornamenting the gilded trappings, indifferent to the e*aeuHals whin alone give lasting beauty to life and character. What are some of the causes of this over- . elaboration in the material comforts of life? ; Primarily, there is the passion for luxury itself. We are to-day essentially a luxurious race. The pitiful thing is that we are v proud of it. We boast about our luxury no something that lifts us above other na- J tions. Ton meet people, for example, who < go abroad, and when they return what is < the burden of their conversation? Not to 1 tell you of beautiful scenes of nature which they have visited, but to complain that. having gone abroad confessedly lor changc. tbey did not find anything exactly the same k ana iuat m comfortable as at their own ? faeside. Tbey critiriae the temperature of i tlx hoaaea and vividly describe to you the iMMTora of ahivering in a temperature a little below the fever heat in which they live at home. Tbey denounce the cooking and complain becauae at an altitude of 2000 feet in the A1 pa tbey did not find the delic.icic? which they were able to enjoy six month* before the aeaaon in their own New York bone*. Wt may entile at such things, and yut it ie tbia craving for luxury that is destructive of bub thinking. It produce* a ?ital imbecility which ia unable to appreciate those trutha which give dignity to * , fere and add strength :o character. 11 What is luxury? It may be defined as whatever is coetly and superfluous And it ia juat this craving for what is costly ami aupsrfluoua that ia making tbia city a hot bed of extravagance. ft# course, not evervthin* is sunerfluout whi'.h is costly. Luxury m to be distinguished from rood taste, and it is certainly ; not to be cooniounded with high art. There ; it a sense in which things once recorded as , luxuries ere to-day rightly looked uoon as , necessities. This is so because life h.is adrancid rationally and ita outward wants j have so far bccome more varied. Ar Kng- ; b?h writer, for example, in 1577. denounces ; the effeminacy of his age because people were introducing chimney* instead of allowi jog the amoks to escape by the door, and \ were beginning to use vessels of earthenware in place of the old-fashioned wooden | utensils. "Formerly," he says. "house* , "" ** f wIIIaw anil man tvofn nf iial * tmu'* 6j adays booses are of oak and men are of jRj$ 53Kr .* Sfi Bat nevertheless tbe fact remain* that in ; 9 *fci? foolish craving for thing* which arc both costly and superfluous lies one fertile R cause of the low-toned intellectual life of |fl oar time. Our passion for luxury is a Hb mighty barrier in the way of "plain living S and high thinking." BR A second cause of this elaboration of life < 9 Jn oar time is the spirit of social com pet iH tion. Class vie* with class for sccnl *uSI mematy. There is a vulgar ambition everywhere to "go one better' in the matter of HP* functions and entertainments. Take, for i KT tnst~~r* the ease of a young married i B | tovfe n s?od society. who bare a certain l imited income. One or (wo eoorscs i? open :o then), either to give up a!) needless exrav.igance and devote themselves to building u|> a quiet home, or to give up the t?Ies?inps i. home life an 1 hang on to the luxuries and i-'easures ot their set. Too of- . (en. under the spur of social competition, ] it is the lati*:- course that is followed. ; Home life is delibi-ratelr. yes and eriminillv, sacrificed for sot. .1 life, and social life, m> chosen. becomes the vestibule through | which many a young ht;?band passes into the prison hou?e of debt. Unconsciously I often, such a man enters ? rac? w:t!i his fashionable associates, and they, not his own personal comfort", create his standard of living. He must dies* as well as ihev; he must entertain as lavishly a? they: he mu*t keen i?n the same pace as they. Ar.d meanwhile these associates of his are cc:nneting with another set just a littl; higher in the social scale, until society In-rom^s a I'u'jrar. feveri?Ii comj?etition, in which every bid for notoriety is pampered. nnd very tinp feeiins i? sacrificed. One has hut lo read the *o-cul!ed society columns of any daily new?paj>er to witness the disgusting spectacle of this competitive snirit in the strueglc for social supremacy. What place, under such conditions. i? there lor "plain living and high thinking." A third cause for the elaboration of t!io material side of lite in our time is tii? un<I:ip cravine for plen-urc. The emphatic w?r?i? arc undite craving. I am nnt advocating a Koi.r puntani*m or crabbed asceti* r; .ii. I'la- ure ha*, of course. its essential place in the scheme of right livinc. and to deny that place create* a reaction which, however ruinous. i. inevitable. But in osir time pleasure ha* become a tyrnnny. Its despotism has invaded every day oi the week. It has no rcspect for time or masons. It appeals to every passion of the goul. and by veiled suggestion*^ desecrate* the holiest emotions of life. New York becomes everv evening a vast Vanity Fair, where irrational and too often degraded p!e..sure lures men and women by the thousand to its gilded rhrine. and before that shrine "high thinking and plain living" are nightly immolated. These are some of the thinirs which stand in the way of the simple life here in New . York. What are some of the perils which mint inevitably result? This life of luxury and extravagance intensities class distinction. The poor man, unable to share in these wauton extravaEinces, chafes beneath the restrictions, and atred of his pampered betters bites at the rope* of separation. In Kurone. where a certain hereditary distinction between the rich and the poor is recognized, this class bitterness is not so keen, out in n republic like tors, where every man feels himself as rood lis another, these ostentatious di-pinyj af luxurious extravagance become a hotbed of di?content in which anarchy ana communish ferment, Some years ago a friend of mine vm driving past one of the bcauti fill old homes in rural England, standing in its at a toy park. He asked the driver who lived there. "Oh." said the roan, "we used to have l"t? of aristocratic company there. Fhev had plenty of money and they spent it frcclv. We poor folks were well of! , then, llut now the place belongs to a | tvonian. and she is a Methodist, and every- . tMng is going to the bad." # So spoke the ; -ountrym.in, and from his little view this ; loss of luxury and extravagance was all j wrong, even for the poor roan. But mean* * vhile there was another side to the picture. ! That estate also included n large tenement j district i" ine of the worst )>ortions of London, in wretched hovels surrounded by saloons and low resorts the miserable >eopIe paid their rents, exorbitant for such quarters, and these rents supplied the funds for the luxurv and extravagance of > the former owner, llut now what lias hap[>ened? The lady who owns the estate to- j lay is tuing her revenues, not for her own , luxury, but in bettering these homes, in driving out these saloons, and in creating , t new spirit of respect and love between ber and her tenants. A few country yok- | ?ls get less to siiend for drink, but a great i rity population has more real joy of living, I ind the better class distinction between wealth and povertv is at an end. A tccond )>enalty that we must pay for : our extravagant mode* of life is that they j rente'unnatural appetites. The essence of . in unnatural anpetite is that it demands a j ron<lant stimulus. It needs to be pamp- I ?red by new sensations, and in the effort to satisfy this faise and unnatural appetite, ive ^re inventing forms of amusement so foolish that even pagan Rome might ex- < hum with wonder, "Behold how these ?hrist>'ans amuee themselves!" Under snch ' roaditions. who care* for the simple manna i if th<-' wilderness. even though it come iown from God. if he cau fill himself with the flrub-pot* of Egypt, even though he nake himself a slave to do so? i Once more, one other penalty must be paid, and that is the heaviest of all. This node of life is absolutely at variance wjth :he spirit of the teaching of Jesus Christ. ! It is pagan, not Christian: it is barbaric, ' lot ctvilired. No man who is honest in ; >i? effort to follow in the foots tern of Jesus ' Jhriit can live a life whose only thought i to ratisfy the merely sensuous desires. ! What is the one dominant note in the ex* ; imu'.e of Him who when He walked this srth had not where to lay His head, bnt . :bis: that we should live simply, that ws ' ihould deny ourselves daily, taking no ??) ?** n-o ak?Tl AP wK.lt VA . kuuu^aiv v* n uuv nv ?uuu v?? v. ?.... - ? ? . hall drink or wherewithal we shall be | :lothed, for our heavenly Father knoweth. ; The way of the cross is the way of simple . ife; not the wsy of self-indulgence and vul- | ;ar cxtravacance, but the way which He i .talked with bleeding feet is the path f ilong which we alone can find the joy of >!ain lining and high thinking. For some of us this secret of the simple I ife cannot be learned. We have dwelt too : ong in the cellar of oar appetites, and the i reek of the kitchen is in our brain*. We J mu?t die as we have lived, in the tyranny ! >f those tastes which our surrounding* lave stimulated. Fur such of us, plain livnsr ar.d high thinking are both alike 5mpossible. But there are our children. Please i [.'od we need not. unles* our imbecility I ia* iierome epidemic, condemn our oitinring to thin nightmare of extravagance vliicn has so shriveled our own intellij^nce. We can at leant ask God's grace to help us :o train the new generations in 'That homely beauty of the goad old cause, in simple innocence And ij>urc ^religion, breathing household j l'or them at least we can make the beauty J i?f the simple life no poet's dream, but a . livine evangel for the generation yet to ;u;uv. Maklac Llf?. Matin? a life in a larger thing than maVng a living. Many a mail ha* made a good living who ha* made a poor life. Some men have made splendid lives who liavc made n very moderate or even scanty liv- j ing. Such wan Goldsmith's village preach- j tr. who was "|>assitig rich on fortv pounds , i year." Such was the citizen of Germany, j ind of the world, who earned hardly $300 in anv single year of hi* journey here, yet Few men have ever had more of life than Martin Luther. It behooves us. therefore, to conrider how we may add to our making >f a living the making of a life. So to mnkc ? living as to make also the ca|iability nf enjoying a living, of using a living after we have made it, so to make a living as to mske also a character, a faith, a hone, a soul?thin is to add to the making of a life. ?Sunday-School Times. Joy la S?lf-Sacrifice. Have yna ever made a supreme sacrifice For the *akc of anotlier without knowing a joy that made your hlooJ flow quicker to rour linger tip*? Tlie mother drinks of that draught of life a? she watches for necks over the little child tossed to and Fro on the margin where the sea and the <atids meet. The father drinks of it wiien | lie keens plodding on in his business, that ! IIlH lioy ir.ny II.UV <? Miiv.ai a ruuranuu auii in* prepared for great woik in the world. The pirl drink* of it when ihc saves every |?ennv she can' spare out of her scanty [Nirnings and sends it to help the stmg(flinty widowed mother. It in the choice tvinc of life, which makes the siul dixzy with it* warm glow. Did not our Lnril irink?may we not say it with reverence? ?when for the joy that was set In-fore Ifim He endured the cross and despised the shame.?F. B. Meyer. roixlTMHI. It would l?e well for us to study and takft (o heart the lesson of forgiveness. Those who foster jealousy and envy arc their own oittercst enemies, and the heart that i<? free irorn those things experiences a feeling of freedom, for it belongs to (Jod. With our hearts free from envy and anger we know what peace and contentment an tod become more Cbristlikc. Bevcnge is a sin that makes him who entertains it unhappy and miserable. * THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR APRIL 26. Au^Ject: PidI'i Jonrney te Jerusalem, Act* Ml.. 3-13? Gol'lfn Text, Aeti *xl., 14?Memory Ver?e?, 11, U?Comirtnta? on tbo Uay'a Union, 3. "Landed at Tyre." At Patara Paul found, in a vessel bound o>'er the open sea to Phoenicia, a favoring providence by which hi* court?e to Syria wan hastened. The 340 miicn to Tyre was run in about two days. Here tnc vessel tarried for even days for change of cargo. 4. "Finding disciples." Here Paul found a email company of Christian disciples, with whom he remained in happy, hclpfuj fellowship, ministering the word. W?ien in atroftge cities it is always well to look for and associate with the people of God. "Should not go." That is, if ne had any regard to his own safety or personal welfare. or to their affectionate * .licitude on his account. They were informed by the Spirit that bonds and affliction* awaited the apostle at Jerusalem, but it was not revealed to them as the will of God that he should changc his purpose to proceed thither. 0. "Brought us." "Here is a beautiful and impressive picture of the harmony of Christian communion and the strenctn of Christian affcction." "And prayed. As at Miletus, so here, tiny prav before they separate. The meeting and parting of Christians should be seasons of prayer and praise. "Taken our leave." While farewells arc sorrowful occasions, yet among Christians they are illuminated with a glorious nope. 7. "Finished our course." lly the same vessel that sailed southward thirty miles to Ptolemais, the modern Acre. Hei? the sea voyage ended. At Ptolemais Paul remained one day with the brethren, and the next day traveled by land the remaining thirty-six miles to Cae?area. t>. "Philip." After a silence of twenty year*, following upon Philip's minis! ry in Samaria and to the Ethiopian treasurer (Acts 8: 5-40), we meet him at Caesarca, which had ever since been his home. This seaport, built by Herod the Great, and named in honor of Augustus Caesar, was fifty miles northwest from Jerusalem, and was the residence of the Koman governors tlio nmrinno nf .Tiwlon ''Onn fsf Ka seven." One of the seven deacon* appointed at the same time with Stephen (chap. 6: 5). He should be distinguished from rhiiip tbo apostle. 9. "Four daughters?did prophesy." The house of the evangelist l'hilip became, in consequence of the fulfilment of the propheev in Joel 2: 28, the honored central Sint of the Christian congregation of esarta. His four daughters, who had received the gift of prophtcy and of interpretation, furnish new and clear evidence that all believers alike enjoy the privileges of Christianity, and even the earlier instances of the prophetess Miriam. Deborah, etc., prove that there is no difference in the kingdom of grace between male and female. To prophesy is to speak "to edification and exhortation and comfoit" (1 Cor. 14: 3). Where these young women prcached, "whether to women only, or in private houses, or to public assembles." we do not know. The statements of the New Testament clearly show that God calls women the same as men to preach His gos* peJ. 10. "Many days." The Greek word for many means some or several. They remninn/1 Imiffrr tKnn Paul's desire was to reach Jerusalem in time for the feast of the Pentecost, but he had arrived at Cacsarea earlier than he exI*cted. and now had more than a week to rpare. which time he spent at Ccetaren. Agabus." This prophet we have met before (11: 27-30) ax the foreteller of famine in the reign of Claudius. He comes now, from the interior hill country, to warn Paul of as.?ault and arrest at Jerusalem. In imitation of the excessive pymbolic acting sometimes employed by the ancient Jewish prophets (Isa. 20: 2; Jer. 13: 1; Kick. 4: 1), this Christian prophet took Paul's girdle and with it bound his own hands and feet. Using the prophetic form of the Old Testament. "Thus saith the Lord," yet changing it to suit the new dispensation of the Spirit, he cites the Holy Ghost as explicitly announcing Paul's capture and imprisonment in Jerusalem. This prediction was fulfilled not many days after. 11. "Girdle." The loose, flowing robes worn in Eastern countries are bound about the waist with a sash or girdle. Girdle* trere quite iurge and made ot linen or leather. "So shall the Jews," etc. This prophecy was not fulfilled in the letter, bnt while the Romans actually pot the apostle iin chains they did it at the instigation of ithe Jews. "Shall deliver him." etc. Thi? prophesy was stnctly fulfilled in every particular. At Jerusalem Paul was delivered into the hands of the Roman soldiers end was sent back to Caesarea a prisoner. He remained in prison at Caesarea about two years. and was then taken to Home, where ne was kept two years longer. During these long years of prison life we bear no repining word frorfl Paul. He is always rejoicing and seems to forget bis own afflictions in bin effort to comfort others. Some of Paul's best and most helpful epistles were written while he was under bonds and chained to a Roman soldier, but the word of God was not bound. Out of our afflictions God brings a blessing not only to our* selves, but also to other. Examples: Bunjran in prison, John on Patmoti. 12. Besought him." The correctness of the previous prophecy of Agabus, and the vivid symbol whereby he now impressed this prediction, produced in the minds of tho Christian disciples a deep conviction of the certainty of future evil to Paul at Jerusalem. Under this conviction they unitedly besought him not to go to the pliice of danger. They interpreted the mission and intimation of Agabus as a warn* ing given to avoid, and so avert the peril. But Paul understood it better. Long years before he had learned from his Lord what "great things he must suffer for His sake." Experience had verified this word, imd mule its meaning familiar, to that these new, more specific and intense premonitions of coming trial, clearly intimated by the Holy Ghost, carried their full weight of meaning to his spirit. 13-16. Paul's companions saw the dan* gvr, he saw his duty. Had they seen for themselves the same duty and the tame cause, doubtless they, too, like him. would have moved on to danger and death. for it is a company of rare spirits wlfo arc here clustered around this holy apoxtle. When these true-hearted disciples could prevail nothing thev accepted Paul's decision as the i/ifl of the Lord and censcd nil further /tnn/uiifinn Tliov t Vir?n (nnl im th#??r "mr mgc?"?meaning "baggage" 'R- V.?and west up to Jerusalem. Deirrllwl Hia Own f>*ath. Dr. Micoud. who wm medical officer on the steamer Lro*. of the Menagerie* Maritime*. has met with a tragic death, write* the Paris correspondent of the London Express. By mistake he gave hiin-elf an injection of atrophine instead of morphia. Almost at once he discovered what he had done, and. going on deck, informed two army nut-goon* who were passenger* that he tva* about to die. He lived an hour and was coitions to the last. During the whole of thin time he described his sensations to the surgeons. who took till! notes. The surgeons consider hw *tory to be of great value Not Adapt"<l For War Ships. The que n of the adaptability of fue, on jor yteamins jiurjmMm uu ha* been <!<*ci?lc<l unfavorably. it hrintj maintained that thin i<< haHljr pnvticab'e, owing to the fact that kuc-Ii ve???el?i rarely piv between fixed imrt*. In the cave of the icfHisnt marine, where fixed route* and Milin-zs are jjMcra!. there i* noditfirnltv about ?ccuriug ample oil supplied at the house port*. American Railroad In Franc*. American*, it is averted, have secured franchiucs which call for the con*truction of 275 miles 01 electric railroad, connecting Lille and Kouliaix in the French coal regions, which, if carried out. will entail an expenditure of about $7,000,000. Blake's Book Bro?(ht S38.OO0. William Blake's "Illustration* of th? Book of Job" was no!d at auction in London for $28,000. The hook was published in 1825, and contains the forty-three original proof impressions of engravings and original designs in colors. _ . A Htorj of manutm* HJonx?o?. One day while in Norway an opportunity was given to me. says a writer in the Cosmopolitan, to liave verified the statement that the name of BJorason means as much as the Norwegian flag. A battalion of Norwegian and Swedish cavalry. Infantry and ar1 tlllery, between three and four thousI and strong, were returning from their ! maneuvers to their post in Chrlstianla. ! In passing Aulestad. the general in command sent his adjutant in advance ! ?.o beg Bjurnson's permission to bring j him an ovation. With his family and guests .issemi bled about blm on the veranda, the ! monumental figure stood with bared I head to receive the military greeting. ' As each regiment passed in review be' low, presenting arms as to their chieftain. there went up a deafening shout ' of personal salutation from each of the ' soldiers, who then joined In singing the national hvmu. to whose author they were offering this spontaneous salute. There was the unique spectacle of a ! man in private life being accorded a military, spontaneous demonstration by the nation's army which a king j micht envy. The love of the Norwegians for their poet and writer has its origin in the ' warm heart of the man himself. "Bjornson Is so close to U6." snld a j Norwegian one day. "He is in all our , learts, and we feel that his own heart . inrt artps are open to us always. Both ! pood arid great, he would never do anyj thing that wns net good and noble, and ! we must love him." Thus do the hearts j 3f the people po in the direction of i ?KaU Vnt.?!>a?n llmtl* W inmutftPTlP | IUV44 41VI U1VIU KTiai, |UVIt A ? An Incorporated Family. j The s<-ale business being prosperous I md leaf-lnrd in br!?k demand. the I rribe of Fairbanks thought itself wari ranted in holding a reunion last Anj rust at the Fairbanks homestead in j Dedham. Massachusetts. Jonathan j Fairbanks was tlie orlpinal American ! mcestor, and from him are descended ' 1000 American families. The rennior. j turned out to be interesting and sue| 'cssful. and one of its result* is the ! recent Fairbanks Family in America. as a society for historical purposes, to i hold property, preserve records and > objects of family interest, and promote I the education of its members in subI }ects relating to their family history, j The society frill buy the Dcdbam j homestead, and make that its head quarters. and will doubtless raise as ; large a fund aR is necessary to provide j a sufficient annua! Income to carry on work. TIip nrolect seems adapted j to furnish n jroo:I deal of lawful and j innocent entertainment at small cost, j and lf? likel.v to commend Itself to \ .ither families that are scattered over ! the United Statfs.?Harper's Weekly. | Weak? " I suffered terribly and wis extremely weak for 1 i years. The doctors said my blood was all turning to water. At last 1 tried Ayer*s Sarsaparilla. and was soon * feeling all right again." Mrs. J. W. Fiala, Hadlyme, Ct. No matter how long you have been ill, nor how ! poorly you may be today, ! f- o ?-IU 1. Aycr s oursttjjjuiti* is mr, j best medicine you can | take for purifying and enI riching the blood. | Don't doubt it, put your whole trust in it, throw I away everything else. SI-MakatUa. AOflragxMs All yoar doctor what ba think* of AyW> hmpwlUi. He kaowaall about thla pun old faintly modlrI db. Follow bla iMm utd v* will bo tit fled. J. C. A TVS Co.. LowiU. Xmo. Oar Frtvndi. j Some men are jour friends only bo j long ok tbey can use you.?New York j Herald. The missing link from Fashoda to Ujiji, in tlie telegraph line from Cape Town to Cairo, will be supplied by wireless instruments. ATLANTIC CITY. A Uniqoo City by-the-B*?. Atlantic City baa no aeaaon. It ia nerennial. It haa broken a tradition: that a aeaahore rerort ia neeeaaariiy a tummer resort. It took daring and imagination : on the part of the tint man who decided . i _ t ?,1 ; 10 spenu dim winter vmuuu m ? i>?iu?.-w ' summer place, and even more of the name j qualities on the part of the hotel keeper | who decided to keep his house open and ' provide lodgings for who*o might follow 1 in the trail Glazed by the daring innovator. The exjieriment succeeded a decade ago. The Gulf Stacai" made it bo. (ieographirally Atlantic City is the most favored resort on the North Atlantic Const. It* great temperature regulator is the GuH Stream, which approaches the land nearer at thiii point than at any other place north of the Carolina const. Thus the ocean winds that come bm-ring out of the east | are tempered to the winter sojourner and : made almost balmy and free from chill. Put a piiK.* in your mouth, jam your hand* snugly into vour pockets, and tike n turn along the hoard walk and notice the crowd*. But for the absence of the litfht summer dresses, duck trousers and straw hats, it might be a cool morning in early summer. Business men. University i>f Pennsylvania undergraduates, trim voung women in lifrht furs and smart wraps, invalids in roller chairs, convalescents unking slow progress on the arm of at: attendant?all taking ndvantage of the invicorating o<-ean breeze*. There are fun and amusement a plenty for the person who is socking recreation and not health. The Casino has an excellent ballroom, and a commodious white marble swimming pool of ?ea water, wanned to n comfortable tcmi?erature for Imthinv. no matter what lhe season. There are howling alleys and sun parlors with commanding views of the ocean and espnnade. Three long ocean piers are additional places of resort and amusement. They are kept comfortably heated when the tem|>crature demands. For the large contingent who devote their time to outdoor si?orts there are the wlf 'inks, of which llarry Vardon. the Knjrli?h champion. spoke so hiifhlv. The course i< owned Iiv t fi?* Country Cluh, hilt it* courtesies arc rxlc'iilcil hotel vuests. A well-equipned is mi the ground* of the i!uli. Fishing is kept ut> throughout tlit? winter. The Horse Show draw* thousand* of visitors. To speak of the hotel* i* hardly nm? nary. They range from huge structures equipped with every convenience that luxury can command to quiet villa* and Warding house*. They ?Unil to ?nti?fy the varnrie* and demand!) of any applicant.? New York Pout. The New ,ler*ev Central ha* a double H*itv ncrvice to Atlantic City from New York, leaving the latter citv from foot of Liberty street at 9.40 a. m.. .1.40 p. m. Send to C. M. Burt, Heneral I'.-weneer Ajrent. New York, for illustrated booklet and time table. It's free for the asking. WOMAN ESCAPEI C CATARRH BY I f Strength Like Sp Spring Fever* j HOW A BEAUTIFUL SPRIN Nothing Robs One ol j; ist^55Sfi^3l?P^3if ii ii ?w?S:c5L' 7i->?.. : , ; '"A _ ' ]; MISS HELEN M:u Helen Whitman, 308Vj Grand Avenu " There ( nothing like Peruna /or mo ambition for work or play. After a / /eft unable to regain my health, but / der/ul change and restored me to per; your blood in good condition yon are a | the veins iclth pure heallh/ul blood. 1 Have you got nerves? Well, you ought I to have nerves. But they ought to be htrong nerves, good nerve*. Docs your y hand tremble? You are living too last, c Does your heart flutter at times. You had o better call a halt. Americans live too fast, k They crowd too much into a tingle day. " Tliey have too little leisure. The hospital* * and insane asylums are filling up. The v quiet, pactora! scenes of yore arc becoming b rare. It's time that we quit this sort ol h I business. d Hnnaurnl For Two ParpoMi. j Sir John Cave was in Glasgow in j 184)7. at a time when the populace bad H j it In mind to honor Kelson with a s, monument. Sir John attended a pub- hi liw dinner one evening whereat the w monument came in for a good deal g{ of dlscn??lon, and many opinions were c< (idvanced as to the style of the in- r( scription that should grace the stone. j0 Finally the visitor was asked to fa- ? vor the company with his views on 0, this matter. c] "I think," said 8ir John, "that the f( style of the inscription should be emi- w ncntly simple aud plain. What I should put on the monument would be tl just the words. 'Glasgow to Nelson.'" tl it ...1*1. nnld 1 U?ri*i* wiiu iuc ki-uucluuu, puiu an aged Scot, arising, "but I would lfl make an addition. We all know that h from the town of Glnsgow to that of Nelson is six miles, and therefore I w would affix to the monument, after the ^ words Glasgow to Nelson, the addendum. 'six miles.' and then oar monu- | ment would serve two purposes."? . New York Tribune. b Not Acqalrod. ki Wisdom, my dear youth. Is that Intel- al licence which you possessed before you 8< began to learn.?New York News. H F The first elcctrlc railway was that 3 of Siemens of Berlin in 1879. Ii JrSjfc\:f Delicately formed and ge VjlsBT/ in all the seasons of their live ers, that the one simple, wh 21} gently and pleasantly and r used with truly beneficial e when the system needs a la> is well known to be a simple and carminative principles < a'.: matic liquids, which are agr \ taste and acceptable to 1 cleansing is desired. VMany of the ills from whic yy( . sient nature and do not cor * Y-j and it Is pleasant to know ti '?> the beneficial effects of Syri tyfjK) more than a laxative is nee \{ | ' family physician and to avok OJK loudly advertised nostrums C,Z |V one needs only to remove th U gestlon, or similar Ills, whic Z/?V' condition of the system, use f / Syrup of Figs?and enjoy fi the aches and pains, colds a to Inactivity of the bowels. Only those who buy the gei .K. to get its beneficial effects a \ cellence of thrt rf?m*?Hv th^ i lv?r' Calffornia Fig Syrup Co.?i? Y package and without it any /(cf Figs is fraudulent and s\ who know the quality of offer of any substitute. wh< //\4v' for. is always resented by some first-ciass drug esta \\VV not recommend, nor sell t remedies. The genuine ar reliable druggists everywhere 1 / Jflk fTAiir?RNl i\m-: * - *yp^ ; WHITMAN. ' ;! le, Milwaukee, Wii., write*: that tired, feeling, tekich give* you prolonged ill nets about a year ago, our bottles of Peruna made a wonted health. Am long ?i you keep ill right, and Peruna eeeut* to JIU thoroughly endorse it." ?HISS HELEN WHITMAN. fate to Get Strong Nerve*. First, repair the injury already done to our nerve*. The nay to do this is to do xactly as did Mattie B. Cuftis, Secretary f Legion of Loyal Women, Hotel Salem, totftou. Mam. She said in a recent letter: I suffered for over a year with general realaness and debility manifested in seere headache and backache. I took four ottles of Peruna, and for two months ave been entirely free from these malalea." Th? (.hiIIh IIpI,i?? of Maw York. While being. perhaps, the lending lebrew jf New York, Jacob Henry rblff is excef-dingly cosmopolitan In Is Ideas, and bis benefactions are ide-reachlng. Not many of Wall treet's captains of industry are as mscientions as he is in the matter of >liglon. It is well known that he fol>ws strictly the old Mosaic law which lpulates that a man shall give up ae-tenth of his income each year to Parity and good works. Mr. Schiff >llows this out to the letter. Those ho know him best decline that he ?els be would be virtually stealing tat amount of money if he did not irn it over to his poorer brethren. He hns veil away millions of dolirs, a large part of which the public pars nothing about. There are ser*al monuments to his generosity. with hlcb his name will always be clowly lentifled. Among them are the Mon? flore Home, which it may be said mt he founded; the Jewish Theologal Seminary, which seems likely to ?come the greatest Institution of this ind In the world, the Semitic Museum t Harvard University, and the Nurses' pttiement on the New York East Side, [e is a trustee of the Barod de Hirsch und. and he has been treasurer of arnard College.?From 'Tnptalns of ulustry," In the Cosmopolitan. ntly reared, women will find, s, as maidens, wives, or mothtolesome remedy which acts laturally, and which may be ' ffecis, under any conditions, J! lative, Is?Syrup of Figs. It 94 t combination of the laxative of plants with pleasant, aroeeable and refreshing to the he system when Its gentle h women suffer are of a tran- g>X ne from any organic trouble lat they yield so promptly to ii\\ ip of Figs, but when anything & \* ded it is best to consult the i the old-time cathartics and of the present day. When 3j|&' e strain, the torpor, the conh attend upon a constipated IVT^-v the true and gentle remedy? reedom from the depression. nd headaches, which are due fiulne Syrup of Figs can hope yfc .nd as a guarantee of the exfull name of the company? B ?printed on the front of every . ? ** \ preparation offered as Syrup >ould be declined. To those ^tU/v.. this excellent laxative, the '^vVv ?n Syrup of Figs is called ./ ; *" a transfer of patronage to ? !-!!_ ?I ?l uiidiiiiiciii? wi:erc uicy au % false brands, nor imitation-V tide may be bought of all : at 50 cents per bottle. : 1 V *?5 ?? ? I JSE OF PE-RU-NA. ivj ring Catarrh? u w9(/& iii^ wauii i ii? SrrvouM Prostration. Thousands of cases might be quoted ia which Peruna ha* been u*ed to rescue people from the perdition of deranged nerve*, and put them on the good, aoTid founda' ti<?n of health. The County Auditor of Erie County, New York, Hon. John W. Xeff, in a recent letter written at Buffalo, New York, stated: "I was persuaded by a friend to try a bottle of your great nerva tonic. Peruna. and the results were so gratifying that I am more than pleased to recommend it." * A Spring Tonic. Almost everybody needs a tonic in tb* spring. Something to brace the nerves, invigorate the brain and cleanse the blood. That Peruna will do this is beyond all question. Every one who has tried it baa had the same experience as Mrs. D. W. Timberlake, of Lynchburg, Va., who, in a recent letter, made use of the following words: "I always take a dose of Peruna after business hours, aa it is a great thing for the nerves. There is no better spring touic, and I have used about all of them. Catarrh in Spring. The spring is the best time to treat c? tnrrh. Nature renews herself every spring. The system is rejuvenated by spring TUi- ? 1 ?? - " wvabMv*. xmm iciiucn mraicinei morr ? fective. A short course of Psraas, assisted bv the balmy air of spring:, will cor* old, stubborn eases of catarrh that have resisted treatment for years. Everybody should hare a copy of Dr. Hartman s latest book on catarrh. Address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Lulu Larmer, Stoughton, Wis., ays: "For two years I suffered with nervous mo*%?? ??%%?%?%% trouble and stomi * ach disorders viti) i iBr^^ ' it seemed that there 11 wT J was nothing to oi ! Aa ; but a bundle of i' Wl W 1 nerve*. I was very 11 JaL ?;' >| # irritable, could not t sleep, rest or comj fyio?^l pom myself, and i was certainly unfit I to take care of a t household. I took i * W * nerve tonics and II Mrs. Lulu Larmer. } pills without bene ""? m. " ncn i ucgao taking Peruna I grew ttcadily better, my nerve* grew stronger, my rest was no longer fitful, and to-day I consider myself in perfect health and strength. My recovery was slow but sure, but I persevered and was rewarded by perfect health."? Mr*. Lulu Larmer. If you do not derive prompt and aatiafactory results from the use of Peruna writa at once to Dr. Hart roan, giving a full state- . raent of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartrosn. President of Tha Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, 0. A Living Imqo. The small, poorly fed boarding bouse family was gathered about the boarding bouse dining table to light over tha frugal dinner. There was one vacant chair that was usually occupied by struggling young author. His absence suggested to the other boardera a ' theme for discussion. They talked of his personal appearance, of his man* ners. and finally of bis writings. "Do you think he has written any* thing that will live'/" was the conundrum offered by one of the boardera, a clerk In a dry goods store, who posed as a literary critic. , "I hope so." replied the lady of tb# house; "the gentleman in question owes me a large board bill, and gave me something on account this morning. I want the check that he wrote to lirauntll it Is cashed." And then silence fell upon the group* broken only by the clatter of the bar* gain counter knives nnd forks.?New York Times. Owing to tbe wonderful strides of tb? American cotton industry, tbe consumption of tbe raw staple in tb? United 8tates bas Increased sixty-ona per cent. In ten years. It flatters every man to have aom? one follow bis advice. N. Y.?15