PASSES 5
In theDays c
If it were poa Bibi o for men lo be of
fered the privilege of rettotning to
their childhood and living their life
over again, how many would eare to
accept it? We f anoy that the number
would not be very great since few have
such exceptionally happy lives that
they would desire to repeat them. By
the time we reach old age so muon
bloom has been rubbed from life that,
it hus lost its fascination for us. We
arc conscious of the many mistakes
we have made, and we remember the
sorrows and disappointments we have
had, and, although they may have lost
much of their keenness, yet we recall
with a pang of pity the 'pain they
gave at the time to that younger self
-that almost seems someone else new
so greatly have ve changed. It is
true there were mauy joys intermin
gled with these, but as we recall them
we probably conclude that it would
not be worth while to go back and
live life over again simply for the
sake of the few pleasures we have en
joyed.
It is amazing how the velocity of
time increases as we advance in years.
In youth the months that intervened
between suoh marked periods as one
Christmas and the next, or one birth
day and the next, seemed almost in
terminable; but in age they fly past so
swiftly that we think a year b it half
gone when the anniversary oomes
again. We realize that more fully
when wo think of some past event and
try to fix the time at which it occurred
without having any positive date to
go by. Invariably we find it waa many
more years ago than -we believe possi
ble. We older people think and speak
of the war between the States as an
event of comparatively recent occur
rence. To the young people of to
day it is much on a par with the wars
of Napoleon or the American Revolu
tion. They all happened in the far-off
misty days before they were born,: and
they are equally' au old, old ?tory to
them.
Speaking of Cicero's discourse upon
old age, a recent writer remarks: "Be
evidently sat down to indite as many
fine things about old age as ho could" |
remember or invent, and the result
could hardly have carried con
viction even to his own heart. The
Roman orator, we may be sure, loved
youth and strength and hope as all the
world loves them, and his cold enco
miums upon th? final stage are almost
enough to make one shudder." Argue
about it as we may, and.extol the wis
dom and beauty of a serene old age,
there is after all nothing which com
pares with youth. Experience and
knowledge are doubtless very fine, but
they hardly compare with the fresh
ness of youth and the delight of an
ticipation as we stand upon the
threshold of everything.
It is not in tbs oomic opera alone
that "When love-is young all the
world seems gay?" We have all pasB
ed through that season when we were
easily amused by everything, and
when the laugh was never
far from our lips. But nothing is
rarer than a really hearty, merry laugh
-ono in which there is neither pre
tense nor bitterness-from aman or
woman who has passed the meridian
of life. The old are often impatient
with the merriment of the young be
cause they have long since learned
that there is but little to laugh at in
life. It has ceased to afford thom
amusement, and they can hardly be
lieve that any ono oan. find gaiety in
it. They forget it is as uatural for the
young to laugh as for birds to sing, or
lambs to frisk or kittens to play, and
that they require as little excuse for
it. It is simply the effervesoonae of
youth, health and high spirits finding
expression that way. Sn? youth has
its tragio side as well' as its gay side,
for it takes, everything so rauoh to
heart. Sorrow is unbearable in youth
-it darkens heaven aed rar th and it
seems impossible that life oan ever be
the same again. Any disappointment
espeoially in affairs of the heart, falls
with crushing foroe upon the young,
because their imagination pictures a
long, life of wretchedness and vain
tonging. They have not yet learned
that no feeling, however earnest, is
unchangeable. That the strongest
love and tho bitterest hato cai: both
pass away, and that after a while they
will be able to smilo at tho things
which Beom so tragio tq-day.
It is in a very different vein from
that of Cicoro that George Barrow,
the English novelist, writes.of youth.
Ho says: "Youth is the only season
of enjoyment, and the first twenty-five
years of one's lifo are. worth all the
rest of the longest lifo of mao, even'
though thoso twenty-five bo spent in
penury end contempt, and the les? la
tho possession of wealth ??honors ant*
SWIFTLY
?f "SPhy Youth.
1 certniuly stating the ease very strong
ly, and putting a high premium on
youth, and we think that perhaps the
truth lies somewhere between the two
extremes. Of oourse the delight of
the first impressions belong exclusive
ly to youth; no after enjoyment is
quite the same as the surprise and en
thusiasm we feel in beholding beauti
ful soenery, in hearing exquisito mus
i?, or in scenes of social pleasure en
joyed for the first time; tho novelty,
freshness and excitement all cast a
glamour over things that fade as we
become familiar with them. As years
go on we begin to remember and com
pare, and a touoh of disappointment
mingles wilh our enjoyment as we
wonder why thia, or that is not so
beautiful as we thought it long ago.
No old musio but has its minor sote,
which sends a thrill of pain to the
heart; it recalls other scenes and
voioes long since hushed, and
never again is the fanoy so charmed
as it was the first time we heard the
strain.
But, on the other hand, there is also
some pleasure in looking baohward
through a long vista of years and in
living over again the joys o'? long ago.
This is particularly the ease if one has
the happy faculty of dropping out of
mind what has distressed one. We
cannot really forget, but by dent of
ignoring the disagreeable as much as
i possible we oan succeed in banishing
it almost completely from our
thoughts. Age, too, has broader sym
pathies than youth, ssd is not so
j harsh in its judgments of the faults
and foibles of others. It has learned
to take things oas it finds them,
and not be always trying to
make the world over aga'.u in accord
ance with its own ideas of what it
should be.
There is an undeniable advantage
wbioh youth has over age in tho pros
pect it offers of a long life. When we
look forward from our second decade
to three score [and ten what an im
mense way off it seems! But one
birthday follows another with ever in
creasing speed, and at forty we know
we have rcaohed the summit of the
hill and that henceforth our path
slopes downward-to the grave. In
surance companies issue little cards
with cables of disagreeable statistics
made to show how the chances of life
vary at each successive period, and it
is unpleasant to find how quickly they
diminish after one reaohes the meri
dian. We have a habit of wilfully
blinding ourselves as to the rapidly
approaching end of our career, and
these statistics awake us from our
dream of security to the realization
that we probably have only twenty,
fifteen or ten more years to live-and
the last ten have passed so rapidly'.
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- A Massachusetts legislator has
entered i bill to provide that all en
tertainments given OD the Lord's day
must be proved to be of a sacred char
acter. This will bar some of the so
called "sermons" of the up-to-date
preaohers. ^ _ _
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"I haqo taken a groot many differ
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- A New Jersey woman, aged 32,
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The Fashion in Burial.
Fashion's fancy hts penetrated the
undertaking business frith almost as
much vigor as it has the social cirolo.
"John Brown, Undertaker," is rapidly
disappearing, and in its stead has come
"John Brown, Funeral Director."
The change of words has been accom
panied with a long list of innovations
in the busineaa, some trivial, others
important, but all designed to smooth
the sorrov: that attends a burial.
First of all, fashion deoreed that
the coffin had to go. The word was
distasteful to many and in its otead
has como the "casket." In the high
est eiroles even this word has been re
jected and "burial ease" substituted.
Undertakers say the choice of words
depends entirely upon tho financial
standing of the deceased. They use
th? designation befitting tho case.
When a funeral direotor is summon
ed to a home he takes with him a cata
logue showing the various caskets,
plates, etc. ? person no longer has
to promenade up and down tho under
taker's shop to pick out a "casket."
The gruesomeness of the whole thing
is lessened by viewing the plates in a
oatalogue. Instead of the old screw
top, the work of fastening, whioh usu
ally grated on the nerves of mourners,
the "caskets" of to-day have a glass
slide, whioh exposes part of the body.
Then, too, the "hearse" is no longer
so called, but is designated the "fun
eral car." /
The old-timer attending a funeral
nowadays would hardly, it is said, re
cognize the vocabulary of the modern
funeral director. The deceased is no
longer encased in a "shroud" or
"robe." It is oalled the "wrapper."
Nor is "crepe" hung on the outer door
casing. Instead, the funeral direotor
puts out the "door badge." The
preaoher, too, is not known by that
name. He is the "religious direotor"
or "ministar." Nor is he assigned in
these days to the carriage with tho
principal mourners to assuage their
grief, but is furnished either with a
private carriage, or rides in front of
the "procession" with the funeral
direotor.
Ofttimes poverty, it is said, pre
cludes the engagement of a minister
to go to the cerne-.' ry. His place is
then taken by the funeral director,
few of whom, it is said, are not capa
ble of pronounoing the solemn words
that aocompany the resounding echoes
of the first earth thrown upon the
"casket."
For those who oan afford it a shelter:
at the grave for the mourners is also
furnished by tho funeral direotor. It
is a light wooden frame work, covered
on top and on three sides, and is
erected3* to the windward of the grave
to protect during inolement weather
those who listen to the service. A
plank flooring also is provided and
canvas strips or planks laid from the
carriages to the grave.
It has become customary, too, to
hide with evergreen boughs the ugly
heaps of earth, which were so sugges
tive and distressing a sight to mourn
ers. These boughs are placed in the
grave after the coffin is lowered into
it, and so soften the sound of falling
earth that was another repellent fea
ture to sensitive persons.
The method of preparing a body for
burial also haB ohanged considerably.
The old-time "freezer," or "ice box,"
is relegated to the past, and embalm
ing is generally adopted. The injec
tion of formaldehyde into tho arteries
of the body is the chief method em
ployed. This process, it is claimed,
will preserve the body for a long time.
When the corpse is taken to church
before burial another innovation has
been adopted of late years. The fun
eral direotor furnishes a sort of car
riage upon whioh to roll the "casket"
tb the altar rail, instead of having the
pallbearers to carry it.
The best of undertaking establish
ments in these days also are provided
with an ambulance Sentiment alone
has been responsible for this introduc
tion. Ofttimes a person dies away
from home and the relatives objeot to
the removal of the body in the "dead
wagon." The use of an ambulance, it
is said, smoothes somewhat the repel
lant suggestiveness of a "dead wagon."
The average funeral director, while
ho oarries about with him a sad and
woful face, feels inwardly little of the
sorrow of the mourners. He ha? seen
too muon of it and, like a surgeon who
dissects bodies, beoomes. calloused.
Mort ?vcr, he is a mau of. business,
and must attend punctually to tho de
tails of tho funeral arrangements.
He cannot afford to lose himself in
contemplation.of the uncertainties of
life or yield to the promptings of emo
tion.-Philadelphia Times.
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which is never overcrowded; there are
.10,000 to perdition, and all have rapid
transit problema. , {
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An Olive Experience.
There is a brand new story in town,
say? tho Kew York correspondent of c
the Cleveland Plain-Deader. A rich c
Irishman decided io try Delmonico's t
for the first time. As he sat down his ?
attention was attracted by a man at t
tho next table who was reading a a
newspaper and eating from a dish of c
olives. When three or fonr had dis- <
appeared the new comer turned to the t
waiter and said: 1
"What's them he's eating?"
"Olives, eir." <
"Bring me two dozen." I
When they came the Irishman slap- i
ped two of them into his mouth and t
began to ohew. Suddenly he spat <
them out, stones and all. He looked J
at tho man, who was oalmly eating i
away. Then he went over to him and 1
touched him on the shoulder and I
said:
"Exouso me, sir, but do you like
thom things?"
"Yes, sir."
"You's a liar."
The Sinful Brother.
It was at a certain churoh meeting,
and the good Bishop was calling for
reports. He had a rather atom, sharp
manner whioh sometimes * jarred a
little on the nerves of the more timid.
By and by he oame to Brother B., a
lay delegate.
"Brother B., what is the spiritual
condition of your churoh?" demand
ed the Bishop briskly.
"I eonsider it good," said the broth
er.
"What makes you think it is good?"
went on the Bishop.
"Well, the people are religions.
That's what makes me think so."
"What do you oall religion? Do
tilmy have family prayers?"
"Some of them do and some do
not."
"Do you mean to say that a mar-,
may be a Christian and not hold fam
ily prayer?"
. "Yes, sir; I think so."
"Do you hold family prayer?"
"Yes, sir," returned his brother,
quietly.
"And yet you think a man may be
a Christian and not hold family pray
er?"
"I have a brother who is a better
man than I am who does not hold
family prayer."
"What makes you think he is a bet
ter man than you are?"
"Everybody says so, and I know he
is."
"Why does not your brother, if he
is Buoh a good man, hold family pray
er?" thundered the Bishop.
"He has no family," meekly an
swered the brother.-Harper's Maga
zine. _y _ _
- Some men will spend all their
money aV*? fhe beBt years of their
lives tinting the end of their nose
and then make remarV? about a wo
man who stands two minutes before
a mirror applying a rouge to her faoe.
- The preparation of the first vol
ume of the reports of the twelfth cen
sus, just completed, required a foroe
of 2,000 people during the latter part
of 1900 and of more than 1,000 during
the greater part of this year.
- Wife-"When wo go anywhere
now we have to walk. Before mar
riage you always called a carriage."
Husband-"That's why wo have to
walk now."
Fumigating for Bedbugs.
D,
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I will try to give my "short aod
taey method" for ridding tho house
?f bedbugs and other vermin, for tho
)ene?t of those women-and thoro
ire many of them-who livo in houses
hat have become infested with them,
ind no amount of whitewashing will
jowplotoly destroy them. This is
(specially true of log houses, where
?hey hide in tho cracks and it is itu?
possible to reaoh them.
Before beginning the regular house
sleaning, I fumigate thoroughly and
then you can proceed vi th the clean
ing at your leisure, feeling assured
tho vormin aro all destroyed. Every
thing in the rooms should bo SJ ar
ranged that tho fumos will penetrate
through and around thom. Article.i
of furniture should bo pulled out into
tho middle of tho room and thc bed
ding and clothing spread out ou chairs,
otc. Then plnco a pan (I uso an iron
heater) containing sulphur in tho cen
ter of each room aud pour a little tur
pentine over it. Make sure every
orack iu tho rooms is stopped, set firo
to thc sulphur, como out and shut the
door and leave tho rooms closed for
Home time. After which you can
open them up and air them, whoo the
smell of tho sulphur will f a disap
pear. If this is dono each ye?r there
will nover be any trouble with "bugs."
- Up in Pennsylvania the other
day Joseph Ziegler hugged Miss Nollie
White, but squeezed her a littlo too
hard and broke one of Miss Nellie's
ribs. When tho doctor's bill was pre
sented to the rib breaker for payment
he refused. The young lady was in
dignant and sued him for damages.
The lady squeezer was glad to get out
of the difficulty by paying attorney's
feo, doctor's bill and all other expen
ses connected with the suit, to stop it.
- To spare tho ono she IOVCB a pin
scratch the average woman would tor
ture all humanity._
Poison oak
poison ivy
are among the best known
of the many dangerous
wild plants and shrubs.
To touch or handle them
quickly produces swelling
and inflammation with in
tense itching and burning
of the skin. The eruption
soon disappears, the suf
ferer hopes forever ; but
almost as soon as the little blisters and
fmstules appeared the poison had reached
he blood, and will break out at regular
intervals and each time in a more aggra
vated form. This poison will loiter in the
system for years, and every atom of it
must be forced out of the blood before you
can expect a perfect, permanent cure.
?g^?Natape's Antidote
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^pt^P^Naiure's Poisons,
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Ivy, and all noxious plants. It is com
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is the time to get the poison out of your
system, as delay makes your condition
worse. Don't experiment longer with
salves.washes and soaps-they never cure.
Mr. S. M. Marshall, bookkeeper of the Atlanta
(Ga.) Gas leight Co., tras poisoned with Poison
Oak. He took Sulphur, Arsenic and various
other drugs, and applied externally numerous
lotions and salves with no benefit. At timts tho
swelling: and inflammation was so severe he was
almost blind. For eight years the poison would
break out every season. His condition was much
improved after taking onebouis of 8. 8. 8., and
a few bottles cleared his blood of the poison, and
all evidences o? the disease disappeared.
People are often poisoned without
knowing when or how. "Explain your case
fully to our physicians, and they will
cheerfully give such information and ad
vice as you require, without charge, and
we will send at the same time an interest?
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either Note OA* Account, we must have the money
or 301U0 satisfactory arrangement in thc next few
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of our Attornoy for collection.
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YES, we have disfiured tho Hayes Stock considerably the past B?X weekB?
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