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In a recent issue of a London paper, "Professor Sheldon goes on record quite stoutly against the practice of working butter, and commends warmly the work of the Bradford drier and molder. in the use of this invention the butter is churned se usual, washed in the granular state, and then "brined." Af ter remaining in the brine half an hour, the granular butter is ladled out and put in muslin lined tin molds of any desirable size-for pounds, half-pobnds or other weight packages. The filled molds are then placed around the Inner periphery of a wheel that is revolving at high speed, and the centrifugal mo tion drives out the water in the form of spray and also packs the butter in the mold without injury to the grain, so that in two minutes' time the dried anu molded butter Is ready for the wrapper or package. The butter Is perfectly granular, and breaks freely on slight pressure, being somewhat crumbly ano on that account possessing-so it is claimed--an Aroma and flavor that can not be retained under the crushing of the rollers of the butter-worker. Americap Farmer. FOR THE LITTIE ONES. A "split" sunbonnet is made estrip ed and checked ginghams, and is de lightfully quaint over round, serious little faces. A washable material for sailor col Iurs and revers of cheviot, serge and fannel suits is a thick linen canvas that comes in white and color. Sunbonnets for small girls are more than ever plentiful this season, as are allo dainty frilled and lace-trimmed aprons in all degrees of dressiness. For everyday summer use there are the usual delicately figured and striped linen lawns, cambrics and percales that, come weal or woe, appear every year. 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TALMAGE The Noted Divines Sunday Sermon Subjects "Kindness for Another's Sake.", TEXT: "Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kind r ness for Jonathan's sake? * " * So Mep r hiboshath dwelt in Jerusalem, for he did eat " continually at the king's table and was lame on both his feet."-II Samuel ix., 1 and 13. Was there ever anything more romantic and chivalrous than the love of David and Jonathan? At one time Jonathan was up y and David was down. Now David is up and Jonathan's family is down. As you have often heard of two soldiers beforegoing into battle making a covenant that if one is shot the survivor will take charge of the body, the watch, the momentos and perhaps of the bereft family of the one that dies, so David r and Jonathan had made a covenant, and ,, now that Jonathan is dead David is inquiring t- about his family, that he may show kind ness unto them for their father Jonathan's sake. a Careful search is made, and a son of Jona than by the exceedingly homely name of Mephibosheth is found. His nurse, in hisin fancy, had let him fail, and the fall had put both his ankles out of place, and they had never boon set. This decrepit, poor man is 4 brought into the palace of King David. David gazes upon him with melting tender ness, no doubt seeing in his face a resem blance to his old friend, the deceased Jona. than. The whole 'bearing of King David toward him seems to say: "How glad I am to soe you, Mephib-ieheth! How you remind me of your father, my old friend and beneo feacor[ I made a bargain with your fathers r good many years aco, an I I am going to s keep it with you. What can I do tot you, Mephibosheth? Inm resolved what to do I will make you a tich man. I will restore to you the eon~ulc. property of your grand. fat her Saul, and u shall be a guest of mine as long as you live, and you shall be seated at my table among the princes." It was too much for Mephibosheth, an'l he cried out against it, calling himself a dead dog. "Be still," says David; "I don't do this on your aoount; I do this for your father Jonathan's sake. I can never forget his kindness, I c remember when I was hounded from place c to place how he befriended me. Can I ever forget how he stripped himself of his courtier apparel and gave it to me instead of my shepherd's coat, and how he took off o his own sword and belt and gave them to me instead of my sling? Oh, I can never forget him! I feel as if couldn't do enough i for you, his son. I don't do it for your i. sake; I do it for your father Jonathan's sake." So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusa lem, for he did eat continually at the king's ie table and was lame on both his feet." g There is so much gospel in this quaint in e iedent that I am embarrassed to know where r to begin. Whom do Mephibosheth and David and Jonathan make you think of? ,r Mephiboeheth, in the first place, stands for e the disabled human soul. Lord Byron de. scribes sin as a charming reoklessness, as a gallantry, as a Don Juan; George Sand de. r, scribes sin as triumphant In many intricate 4 plots; Gavarni, with his engraver's knife, y always shows sin as a great jocularity; but is the Bible presents itas a Mephibosheth, lame on both feet. Sin, like the nurse in the con d text, attempted to carry us and let us tall, ýr and we bave been disabled, and in our whole moral nature we a e decrepit. Sometimes theologians haggle about a technicality. They use the words "total depravity," and at some people believe in the doctrine, ani e some reject it. What do you mean by total depravity? Do you mean that every man is as low as he can be? Then, I do not believe it either. But do you mean 'r that sin has let us fall; that it has sarl y fel and wounded and crippled our en tire moral nature until we cannot walk straight and are lame in both feet? 0 Then 1 admit your proposition. There is is not so much difference in an African jungle 1- -with barking, howling, hissing, fghing quadruped and reptile and paradise, with its animals coming before Adam, when he patted them and stroked them and gave item names, so that the panther was as tame as the cow and the condor as tame as the dove-as there is between the human soul disLbled and that soul as God originallycon structed it. I do not care what the senti mentalists or the poets say in regard to sin. a In the name of God I declare to you to-day that sin is disorganization disintegration, ghastly disfiguration, hobbling deformity. I- Your modern theologian tells you that d man is a little out of sorts; he sometimes thinks wrong; he sometimes acts wrong; in deed, his nature needs a httle moral surgery, an outside splint, a slight compress, a little e rectification. Religion is a good thing to o have; it might some day come into use. Man is partially wrong not all wrong. He is lame in one foot. Bring the salve of divine grace and the ointment and the pain extrao e tor, and we will have his one foot cured. Man is only half wrong, not altogether wrong. In what is man's nature right? In e his will, his affections, his judgment? No. y There is an old book that says: "The whole head is sick and the whole heart faint." Mephibosheth lame in both feet. Our belief Sof the fact thatain has scarified and deformed h our souls increases as we go on in years. d When you started life you thought that man was a little marred by sin and he was about one tenth wrong. By the time you had gone through the early expe~Ience of your e trade or occupation or profession you be Ilevel that man was about half wrong. By the timeyou came to midlife you belleved ' that man was three-fourths wrong. But I, within these past few years, sinoe you have been so lied about aud swindled and cheated you have come to the conclusion that man ,, isaltogether wrong, and now you can say with the prayer book and the Bible "There is no health in us." Now you believe with a the prophet, "'The heart is deceitful, above all things, and desperately wicked." What ever you may have believed before, now you n believe that Mephibosheth is lame on both r feet. a Agata, Mephlbosheth in the text stands for the disabled human son" humbled and re h stored. When this invalid of my text got a 1- command to come to King David's palace he 1. trembled. The fact was that the grandfa'her h of Mephibosheth had treated David most shockingly, and now Mephibosneth says to himself: "What does the king want of me? Isn't it enough that I am lame? Is he going to destroy my life? Is he going to wreak on me the vengeance which he holds toward my grandfather, Saul? It's too bad." But go to the palace Mephiboeheth must, since the L king has commanded it. With staff and crutches and helped by his friends. I so MIephlbosheth going up the stairs of the palace. I hear his staff and crutches rattling on the tessellated floor of the I throneroom. No sooner have these two i persons confronted each other-Mephib. oshoth and David, the king-than Moep hiboeheth throws himself fiat on his face be fore the king and styles himself a dead dog. In the east when a man styles himself a dog he utters the utmost term of self-abnegation. It is not a tenrm so strong in this country, Swhere, if a dog has a fair chance, he some L times shows more nobility of character than a some human specdman that we wot of, but the mangy curs of the oriental cities, as I Iknow by my own observation, are utterly - detestable. Mephibosheth gives the utmost Sterm of self-loathing when he compares him self to a dog. and dead at that. Consider the analogy. When the com e mand is given from the palace of heaven to the human soul to come, the soul begins to tremble. It says: "Whast is God going to Sdo with me now? Is He going to destroy me? e Is He going to wreck His vengeance upon me?" There is more than one Mephlboebeth trembling now because God has summoned Shim to the palace of divine grace. What are S eou tremblins about? God has no ple·rue Sn te death ol a sinner. He does not sesad . for youn to hurt you. He sends for you to de you good. A Scotch preacher had the fol Slowing clraumstances brought under his ob. servation: There was a poor woman in the Sparish who was about to be turned out be cause she could not pay her rent. One night he heard a loud knooking at the door, and a she made no answer and hid herself. The rapping eontinued louder, loader, loader, but she made no answer and continued to hide herasellf. She was almost frightened un S to death. bShe said, "That's the ofleer of Sthe law come to throw me out of my home" A few days after a Chrlistan phlanhthrist met h. in thestrneet sad sad: "My Swoman, Where were you the other sigh9 S came round to you noise to pay your rent5 Why dida't~ g let me Iat W you at bs "Wag, I eo "h "w thn7r11 *7 thatL(*(OgP ai of-my home." 0 soul, that loud knocking at the gate to-day is not the shesiff oometo ut you in jail; it is the beet friend you ever ad come to be your security. You shiver with terror because you think it is wrath. It is mercn Why, then, tremble before the King of heaven and earth calls you to His palace? Stop trembling and start right away. "Oh," fyot say, I can't start. I have been so lamed by sin and so lamed by evil habit I can't start. I am lame in both t." My friend, we ome out with our and sympathlesl help you up to she alace. If you want to get to the palace, you may get there, Start now. The Holy Spirit will help you. All you have to do is just to throw yourself on your face at the feet of the King, as Mephibosheth did. i Mephibosheth's canintal comparison seems a extravagant to the world, but when a man has seen himself as he really is and seen how he has been treating the Lord, there i is no term vehement enough to express his self condemnation. The dead dog of Mephibosheth's comparison fails to describe the man's utter loathing of himself. Mephibosheth's posturing does not seem too prostrate' When a soul is convicted, first. he prays upright. Then the mcusles of his neck relix. and he is able to bow his head. After awhile, by an almost superhuman ef fort, he kneels down to pray. After awhile, when he has seen God and seen himself, he throws himself flat on his face at the feet of I the King. just like Mephibosheth. The fact is, if we could see ourselves as God sees us, we would perish at the spectacle. Yoi would have no time to overhaul other peo p. Your cry woul be, "God be merciful to me, a sinner." And again, Mephiboshdth lt my text stands for the disabled human soul saved for the sake of another. Mephibosheth would never have got into the palace on his own account. Why did David ransack the realm to find that poor man and then bestow upon him a groat foitune and Contnland a farmer of the name of Ziba to culture the estate and give to this invalid Mephibosheth half the proceeds ovewy year? Why did King David make such a mighty stir about a poor fellow who would never be of any use to the throne of Israo;? It was for Jonathan's sake. It was what Robert Burns calls for "auld lang syne." David could not forget What jona than had done for him in other days. Three times this chapter has it that all this kindness on the part of David to Mephib oshoth was for his father Jonathan's sake. The daughter of Peter Martyr, through the vice of her husband, came down to penury, and the senate of Zurich took care of her for her father's sake. Sometimes a person has applied to you for help and you have refused him, but when you found he was the son or brother of some one who hal been your bene factor in former days, and by a glance you saw the resemblance of year old friend in the face of the applicant, you relented, and you said. "Oh, I will do this for your father's sake." You know by your experience what my text means. Now, my friends, it is on that principle that you and I are to get into the King's palace. The most important part of every prayer is the last three or four words of it, "For Christ's sake." Do not rattle off those words as though they were merely the finishing stroke of the prayer. They are the most important part of the prayer. When in earnestness you go before God and say, "For Christs a sake," it rolls in, as It were upon God's mind all the memories of Bethlehem and Gennesaret and Golgotha. When you say before God. "For Christ's sake," you hold before God's mind every groan, every tear, every crimson drop of His only begotten Son. If there is anything In all the universe that will move God to an act of royal benefaction, it is to say, "For Christ's sake." God is omnipo tent, but He Is not strong enough to re sist that cry, "For Christ's sake.' If a little child should kneel behind God's throne and should say, "For Christ's sake," the great Jehovah would turn around on His throne to look at her and listen. No prayer ever gets to heaven but for Christ's sake. No soul is ever comforted but for Christ's sake, The world will never be re deemed but for Christ's sake. Our name, however illustrious it may be among men, before God stands only for inconsistency and sin, but there is a name, a potent name, a blessed name, a glorious name. an everlasting name, that we may put upon our lips as a sacrament and upon our forehead as a crown, and that is the name of Jesus, our divine Jonathan, who stripped Himself of His robe an-d put on'our rags and gave us His sword and took our broken reed, so that now, whether we are well or sick, Whether We are living or dying, it we speak that name it moves heaven to the center, and God says: "Let the poor soul come in. Carry him up into the throneroom of the palace. Though he may have been in exile, though sin may have crippled him on this side, and s'rrow may have crippled him on the other side, and he is lame in both his feet, bring him up into the palace, for I want toshow him everiast ing kindness, icr Jonathan's sake." Again, Mephibosheth in my text stands for the disabled human soul lifted to the King's table. It was more difficult in those times even than it i now for common men to get into a royal dining room. The sub jects might have come around the rail of the palace, and might have seen the lights kin died, and might have heard the clash of the knives and the rattle of the golden goblets. but not get in. 8tout men with stout feet could not get in once in all their lives to one banquet, yet poor Mephibosheth goes in, lives there, and is every day at the table. Oh, what a getting up in the world it was for poor Mephiboshethl Well, though you and I may be woefully lamed with sin, for our divine Jonathan's sake I hope we will all get in to dine with the King. Before dining we must be introdouced. If you are invited to a company of persons where there are distinguished people pres ent, you are introduced: "This is the Seon tor." "This is the Governor." "This is the President." Before we sit down at the King's table in heaven I think we will want to be introduced. Oh, what a time that will be, when you and I, by the grace of God, get into heaven, and are introduced to the mighty spirits there, and some one will say: "This is Joshua." "This is Paul." This is Moses." "This is John Knox." "This is John Mil ton."'' "This is Martin Luther." "This is George Whitefle!d." Oh, shall we have any strength left after such a round of celes tial introduction? Yea, we shah be potentates ourselves. Then weshnall sit down at the King's table with the sons and daugh ters of God, and one will whisper acrosas the table to us and say, "Behold what manner of love the Father hath beetowed unoon us that we should be called the sons of God!" And some one at the table will say: "How long will it last? All other banquets at which I sat ended. How long will this last?" and Paul will answer, "Forever!" and Joshua will say, "FPorever:" and John Knox will say "Forever!" and George Whitefield will say, "Forever!" And the wine at that banquet will be old wine. It will be very old wine. It will be the oldest wine tof heaven. at Will De tue wine that was trodden out from the rod clusters on the day when Jesus trod the wine press nino. Wine already more than eight een centuries old. Aind no one will deride us as to what we were in this world. No one will bring up our imperfections here, our sins here. All our earthly iknperfeo tions completely covered up and hid den. lrephibosheth's feet under the table. Kingly fare. Kingly vesture. Kinog. ly companionship. We shall reign for ever and ever. I think that banquet will mean more to those who had It hard in this world than to thoeb who had it easy. That banquet in David's palace meant more to Mephibosheth than to any one else, because he had been poor and orip pled and despised and rejected. And that man who in this world is blind will better appreciate the light of heaven than we who in this world had good eyesight. And that man who in this world was deaf will better appreciate the musicto of heaven than we who in this world had good hearing. And those will have a higher appreciation of the easy locomotion of that land who in this world were Mephlbosheths. IIO mysoul, what a magnificent goespel! It takes a man so low down and raises him so high! What a gospell Come now, who wants to be banqueted and implaced? As when Wilberforee was tryin9g to get the "emanolpation bill" through the British. prliameat and all the Britsh isles were anxious to hear of the passage of that '*nemanipatlon bill," when a vessel was cor. ing into port and the captain of the reasel knew that:the people were so anxious to get the tidings, he stepped out on the prow of the sip and shouted to the people tong before he got up to the dock, "Free!" aad they eried it, nd they shoated t, and they se it all h lead 'See, trees An tadw I la to aedi the nw of tt mLt i;m| awPtm eth to eome ap. am nhere to-ay to tel you that-God has a wealth of kindanesto bestow upon you for His Son's sake. The doors of toe palace are open to reeeive you. The cupbearers have already put the chalices on I the table, and the great, loving, tender, sym. pathetic heart of God bends over)on this moment, saying, "Is there any that is yet left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan'S sake?" TKIPZnAWC t NEWs iAND IOTs. It does not take the last drink to make a drunkard. Sometimes the first one suffices. Doctor Speyer says that one-eighth of the insane in public asylums were sent there I alcoholism. About ono-half of Norway is now under absolute prohibition; the other is likely to become so at the election of this year. "Mamma," said a little girl, "you know the story in our realer about the king who never smiled again?" "Yes, dear." "Well, does it mean that he signed the pledge?" The solons of Plainfield, N. J., have do. creed that cider is an intoxicating beverage, and several people have accordingly been arrested for selling it as a noxious liquor. . In the little German principality of Wal deck a decree has been proclaimed that a license to marry Will not be granted to any Individual who is in the habit of getting drunk. "Too much beer for the head of the family and too little bread for the rest of the fam ily." That is what someone says is the cause of much of the labor trouble in this country. Our duty as Christian women, says a fe male advocate of thea.guse, is to keep strong drink from our children, teach them the harm of drinking and prevent others from tempting them to drink. A Chicago writer gives the following rea sons why there is now so much poverty, crime and misery in that great city: "There lives but one baker to every seventy famil ies, one grocer to every eighty-nine famlies and one liquor saloon to every thirty-five families." In answer to letters of inquiry addressed to the wardens of the penitentiaries, these figures were received, showing the propor tion of crimes caused by strong drink: Sing Sing, N. Y., ninety-two per cent.; Boston, Mass., eighty-five per cent.; Jackson, Mich. seventy-eight per cent. w1HAT oasaID o0i so's PALLt. I ¶.e following incidents which is related r by a writer in Onward, carries its own moral with itt A story is told of a father who was 1 in the habit of taking every night a glass of whisky and water. Sometimes he took a piece of sugar out of the liquor and gave it to his little son, with the words: "Here, t Jac, have a bit of sugar, boy." The boy took it willingly, and though at first the taste of the whisky was unpleasant, he soon overcame this anit began to like its flavor, Still at last the father was persuadeti by the r boy to give him a sip out of the glass. One a evenIng a sister of the boy was standing by, and the father offered her a piece of sugar t from his glass. Fortunately at this moment the mother entered and said: "No; stop. Whatever you give to the boy I cannot al low you to give it to the girL the shall not learn the taste of Intoxicating drinks." Many years had passed away, and the father had grown old and bent, when he was called upon to perform a most unpleas ant duty. He had to visit his son in prison. How 1 changed was the opce bright, happy boy. Eis face haggard. his eyes sunken, dressed in the meager dress of the convict, he wai lle out to see his father. He did not wel come him, !ut looked at him angrily. "Ah," he said, "you see me in my shaame and pun Ishment. You think me a bad son, but re member it was your fault that 1 am thus placed. The sips out of your glass led me to love drink and that love has been the cause of my crime. I am here oeeause I was taught by you to becom 3a drunkard." The father felt the truth of what the son said. It was an arrow that pierced his heart. He hung his head in sorrow. He had no reply. Surely we should take warning and shun the t beginla of eviL IOYXSTRIZG !OR DaRIwNas TO THING ABOUT, r A celebrated doctor of France has rocentl) e disceovered something which all drinkers oughtto know. He has found out that alcohol k in every shape, whether of wine or brandy e or beer, contains paratitlo life called bacillus potumananl. By a powerful microscope these living things are discovered, and when you take strong drink you take themn into the stomach, and then Into your blood, and than, getting into the crimson canals of life they go luto every tissue of your body, and your entire organism is taken possession of y by these noxious Inlinteslmals. When in e delirium tremens a man sees every form of Sreptilian life, it is only these parnsites of the brain in exaggerated size. It is not a hallueination that the victim is -uffering from. He only sees in the room what is no tually crawling and rioting in his own brain. o Every time you take strong drink you swat a low these maggots, and every time the ir. biber of alcohol in anyshape feels vertigo or e rheumatism or nausea. it is only the jubilee of thee maggots. Efforts are being made for the discovery of some germicide that can kill the parasites of alcoholism, but the only thing that will ever exterminate them is ab. Sstinence from alohol, and total abstinance, to whloh I would before God swear ali men, young and old. BAnooss is s8a raasoraco. S Ban Francisoo last yearoutranked any olty of its size in the number of its saloons, hav ing 6039. This year the revenue report show Sthat the saloons have increased so that there are now a trifle over 7000, or one saloon for Severy fifty persons in the city. The linquor lioense is low, and new sa8loons are being' Sconstantly opened, as no business promises surer profits. Nearly all the corner grooeries sell beer and liquors, and the rule is that these places keep open until midnight. The result is lthat they are the greatest source of Smisery among workingmen's families, even Soutside the tenoment districts, for the men spend their evening and most of thetr wages in the grooery barroom." The inarease in Sall revenue over last year was 1500,000, the Stotal belhg over $2,000,000. 'vuar sueor vTuIs. It is said that when anewly-enliited soldier first faces gunpowder, he imagines every gun Is pointed at himself, but the veteran Sexperiences much less concern, having learned that to kill one man in battle a man's weight in lead must be shot away. It Is not so with the shots fired by the alcohol Sfiend; every one of these tells. The sun never sets upon a man who Indolges in Sstrong drinks without leaving him in worse condition than did the setting son of theday before. These shots may do their work slowly, hut there are only a few drinking men, comparatively speaking, who are not ~ beIng all the while nndermined In physIcal, Smental and moral strength by what they a fondly fancy to be the best substitute known Sto man for the fabled waters of Lethe. S-arroTWne rnaz a5r on0. In a recent publication Mr. James Whyte, Secretary of the Unlted King.iom Alliance, - asserted and proved by statistics that intem Sperance was most rife among the well-to-do classes, and that the adult male population Sof Great Britian, more then forty years of I age, is deprived of the increased expectation Sof life due to sanitation and otherbenoflcent t circumstances. In commenting on the article, Sthe London Times has admitted that it can not deny that teetotalers have an advantage in ponlat of healtb. fsfTARTLIG TEMPEAAlW LrseON. Dr. Paul Gamnier, of Paris, who has been Smaking a speciall study of the children of habitual drenkar.s, comes to this concl s lon: '"There is a flaw In the very nature of theseyoung wretches that thlpysohologist sees cleearly and notes with apprehension Sthe absence of affectlonate emotion; and when they do not become lunatics they show t insensibility and pitilessness." Here is -a Stemperaneoe leson of Startling power. 5 InowKD SIN 5n3s. "-,.-. Among the "monjiks," or peassanls, who were killed at the Czar's fatal coronation t feast for the multitudewere several who got drowned in the big vats of beer in their Seagerness to get at thei beverage. What a side light does this whole terrible business afford on the nobility of man in the elvillsed at mophere ot modern Earopean moarCbhy! - -Patthinder. AI.coooL's vmaur'a. roacI , Thamas of giat frme ero lwhee befor. BILL ARP'S LETTER. IMAKING- HIMSELF USEPUL IN H13 OLD AGr. The Philosopher Has Reaehed His Seventieth Mile Post. "How many. miles to Milybright? Three meore and ten." Now, since I have just passed my seventieth year on this mundane sphere, I can't keep that old refrain out of my mind. Three score and ten I It follows me about, and seems to say: "Your time is out, old gentleman. Every day you live now is dei gratis-a favor-an extra allowance that was not promised and is not deserved. So, be thahkful and prudent, and don't drink too much ice water this hot weather.' A young man's majority is twenty-one, an old man's seventy. Twice he crosses the Rubicon, if he lives that long, and then comes another river-a dark one -and like Caesar he may say, 'Jacta eat alea'-the die is cast." I was ruminating about this seventy years-this magical sacred number that is man's allotted age, Seventy learned men translated the Old Testa ment 300 years before Christ, and sev enty disciples were sent out by Him as missionaries to preach the gospel and establish His church. It was Moses who wrote that the days of our years shall be three score and ten, and yet he lived to'be one hundred and twenty years-nearly twice the allotted age, and half of which was labor and sor row-working with a vexatious and ungrateful people. It is curious how gradually the age of mankind dropped down from nine hundred to one hund red and twenty in the ten generations that succeeded Noah; then it dropped to seventy in the next ten, and there it stands. There has been no change for 4,000 years. The long suffering of the Creator seems to have been ap peased. Well, of course these seventy years are not the fixed limit for any man or woman, but they are certainly the allotment of human longevity. But few go beyond it. The wagon breaks down all over. It can't be patched up any more. For several years it has been sent to the shop occasionally for repairs, and been doing light work, but the time will surely come when wheels and axles and hounds must all collapse. This is no misfortune nor fault nor penalty, but, as Judge Ham mond used to say, "It is the law of this case," and there is nothing so very sad or horrible about it. It is just such a change as all nature is going through, and if a man lives right, he has no reason to lament its coming. Every seed of tree or flower is a sym bol of our own resurrection. Old age has its rewards as well as its infrmities. Moses said that the young men shall stand up and honor the faces of the old men, and many of the prom ises are a good old age-a full age-a ripe old age, as a shook of corn in its season. How considerate are the child ren to their aged parents, and bow loving are their grandchildren. They run our errands and comb my back hair and black my shoes and go to the postofflee. The years from seventy to eighty are not always years of labor and sorrow-sometimes they are the best of all. Sydney Smith said: "I am seventy-four years old, am at ease in my circumstances, in tolerable health, a mild whig, a tolerating churchman, much given to talking, laughing and noise. I am, upon the whole, a happy man-have found the world entertaining, and am thankful to providence for the part allotted me in it." Much depends on a man's surround. ings, but more depends on his philoso phy. One poet says: "The world is very lovely. Oh my God, I thank Thee that I live." Another say.; '"1 would not live alway, I ask not to stay Where storm after storm grows dark'o'er the way." Bryant writes beautifully about life end death and lying down to pleasant dreams. Dr. Holmes pokes his irre seistible humor st old age: "But now his nos is thin And it r.sts upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back And a melAnrholy crack In his laugh; But I know it is a sia For me to sit and grin At him here." And it was. He shoulfl have risen up according to scripture and tipped his hat to the poor old man. But she bears are extinct in that region, and the doetor knew it. Mr. Shakespeare is somewhat sar castio himself, for he makes Prince Hal say to Falstaff: "Are you not written down with all the charters of old age? Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an inereasing corporosity ? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with an tiquity?" That is a vile slander upon the three score and ten of this generation. Look at the stalwart forms of many of At lants's notable men who have long since passed the Rubicon, such as Dr. Alex ander, George Adair, Chess Howsrd, Redwine and Lawshe and big Jim Duan lap. "BigJim" says he is just the age of Bismarok and Gladstone, the three greatest living otogenarlans and there is no melanoholy crack in his laugh. George Adair is still a Scotch Irishman fronm away back, and if he hadn't have fallen down stairs at the "Old Village School" show, would be taken for aboutthree score and five, and no more. And Dr. Alexander is not even a sixty-five-year suspect. In foot, old age carries itself better now than it used to. People take more pride in their personal pp ,arance, es pecially the women. I was just thiik Sing about a neighbor whose visits are always welcome-who comes with a smile and never says a bitter or a fool. ish thing. She is said td be old, buht bsh still is beautiful, and asits in her chair with the graceful ease of a young matron of the olden time, She hu had trouble, baut hides ita he he~. Iad JIswlsea lJ alpaad ereaes Wett. I tht we suld anll Pow old u p s' Mhlss 45o a FA .. . u " But some folks are bora to 120141 as the sparks fy upward, and I owm eU of them about these times The old oow.wanted grae, and it has all dried up, and so she broke into my potato patch and eat off an the vinet; and the Colorado beetles got into another pateh and just cleaned up all the leaves before I found it out; fad the dog scratched a bed between the madeira vines and the wall or the veranda, and it hasent rained enough in nine weeks to run in the road, and my garden has dried up, and the city fathers won't let me irrigate any more because wate is getting searce. The penality is $50 fine, but the mayor told me eonflden tially that I might irrigate on the sly, but I musent be caught at it. Like the hegro preacher told his ongregas tion that they must never be eootehed stealing chickene. So, now when I steal water I do it darkly, at dead of night, with one eye on the hose and the other on Sandy Wikle, the water man. But my comfort now is in nursing and amusing our little grandchild. Her mother has gone off on a fishing excursion for a few days to recuperate her health, and she gave me the child. I say gave her to me because she loves me better than anybody, and that makes her grandma jealous and fatters my vanity, and satisfies me that I am neither old nor ugly, nor is my voice broken nor a melancholy crack in my laugh. In fact, I can still sing "Hush, My Dear," and "Julianna Johnson" with saufficient melody to put the little darling to sleep. I can answer that old song, "What Oan an Old Man Do But Die?" by saying that he can take care of the grandohildren while the mother has gone a-fishing.--Bur Asr, in Atlanta Oonstitution. A Song of Sweet Days. Sweet are the days of the pastime, But they come no more to me; por the best time Is the last time That brings my heart to theel To thee, my sweet, And may God greet The time that you and I shall meeti Sweet are the days of pastime, Sweet with the morning's dew ; But the best time is the last timo, When I kissed farewell to you I To you, my sweet, And may God greet The time that you and I shall meeti -Frank L. Stanton. HUROBOUS. The trouble seems to be that when a man has a good scheme, it is not his move. First savage-Isn't .she' just too sweet for anything? Second savage Yes. I'll trouble you for the salt. Higgledy-Does happiness consist in having everything yPu want? Pig. gledy-No, it consiste entirely in the ability to get more. "Why, he yawned three times while I was talking to him." "Perhaps he wasn't yawning. He may have been trying to say something." City Man-How far is your house from the station? Suburbanite (heel tetingly) - Well; that depends on whether you are running to catch a `train. Mr. Woodbie Puasenger (in railroad station at Poughkeepsie)-Here, you, what time does the next train go to New York? Mike-Be jabers;'tis just 1 gone, sor. "Oh, dear," said the girl with the X-ray glance, as she looked at her basehful lover. "Here's Jack eome again tonight and not brought his backbone with him." A tramp begged for bread at a oooking. sehool door; A girl gave him oake she had made fjaust b-. tore, The tramp took a bite; then saitd he, with a groan, I asked you for bread and you gave me a stone. "Most extraordinary man.""In what way?" "I think he's the only man in the oountry who has a manufotaturing. plant of any deeoription and hasn't be gan to mnke bicyoles." Judge-Have you anything to say before the judgment of the court is Spassed upon you? Tough prisoner SBeggin' yer honor's pardon, hey ye heard the score, judge? Our Bairnies-"children, I hope you peeled the apples before eating Sthem'?" "Yes, mother,dear." "What have you done with the peelings?" S"Oh, we ate them afterwards." "A child," said the ormoular youunag Sperson, "can ask questions that a wise man OanDOt answer." "There's one Ssatisfacotion," said the man of family, "ie osan't ask very many of 'em with. out getting sent to bed." Sunday-shobool tesoher-Don't for get, my children, that you mare all Scalled upon to do penance. Of coaurse you know what the word penance means? Bright scholar-Yes, sirl Pennants is what the league fellers a play for. "Just think, Mr. Wright," said the young woman who was trying to be I pleasant, "al the children in the tneighborhood are repeating that I poem of yours that appeared in last month's magazine." "That is flatter ing. Very." "Yes. They are usinLg Sit for a counting-6nt rhyme,you know I -dear little things." The State Reformatory' at Coaeord, uMass., is eredited with permasantly reforming fifty per oent. of tbhoe wo have been its inmates during the twelve years of itb un*i n Siwm t tes tthlm s A MINISTER'S_ WIPE. he. Wrask Statement O~ tlhe ise a ts Bethel Cameb. Prom fs Adrtissuer, 'lsdra, l. 1e Da. WUrh.-Dear Br.-Iyi wife ha been a suferer from rheumatsum sr fWo than three yest., sufering at time wi t" iNble pains i her limbs, sad other tme with a severe "orisk" in s bask wl*t •ea great agony. She spent muck Ir physicians and medicins, but seared eaf temporary relief; finally she conelaudd W try Pink Pills. e has takens glht b nd I eDn say from tJie At one s hasim proved until now she is almost eantbelt as from pain, and has grown maucr and fes oonfldent that, by the nbli God, tl will effect a permanent ure. W take great pleasure in reommesdiag two to our friends. R=&2td B. JB. Buoxua., thel A. X. IL Church, lair, lew Tort Dr. Williams' Pink Pills cstate, ia a OW dlesed form, all the elements ae rsmry to give new life and rzohnea to the blood sma restore shattered erves. They are as us tailing specific for such disease as leseter ataia, parutidal p t. Ths' es sciatiea, aenunrheemells, sear w hda ,the elect of is pe pal. pitaion othe eart and 9 ose S forrr o welnr e in a or t female. PinkPlls amhys l a dealers, or will be sent p tpd a of price, 580 ents oot, o bosos Ly adrealnDr.wfiUams' md tisisOes pany, Schenectady, N. ! ALPALFA FOR BHO S. It will sustain life and produce seoat growth in shoats. It will not mahe them fat, but it will keep them in eor* ditlon to make good use of a little es-. tra feed. One acre of good alfalfa, with a dividing fence in the middle, a that as soon as one part is eaten down the pigs may be changed to the ot et, will support twenty pigs from the mid die of May till the first of October a a little later, providing the land L properly irrigated and the worl O done systematically. Counting U pel alfalfa to furnish the sustenance Sl tion. the addition of grain will prdee good, heavy porkers, which will itau a good profit, providing the price In I vember is four cents or upward. Al falfa is also of great value in wihtelago brood sows. If the leaves which deg off in the mows, and which are unAt foe horse feed, be saved 'and mixed with bran or slops, they will be eaten greed' ily with good results making a val• able saving of other feeds.-Amerieas Agriculturist. An Anomalous "Bruliser." Couper, "the ex:prise fighter and as. thor," who was one of the enrolled go lice force during the troubles at Jo hnnnesburg, formerly enjoyed a great reputation in n South Africa, by deteOt ing a local Gollath im Kimberley. Blag then he has done a great deal for ath letics p South Africa, and has wrntig a book-en exceptional acsompilb ment for a prise fighter, brt not 1,. prising in Oouper's case, since be I s well-educated man and, Indeed, in met matters a complete contrast to the a$ eepted type of "bruiser." Gladness Comes WAJith a better derstanding dt st v transent nature of the mawr pbhy alills which vanish before pp fort-gentle efforts-pleant sa r rightly directed. There is eotart the knowledge that so many orme s sickness are not due to any aeta di ease, but simply to a eonatstoa tiUo of the 8afem, which the plesee family isis 8yuof Figs,prcmiQ lyremoves. IiJ s why fisheeQaV remedy with millions of fain U5 everywhere esteemed a ogp rll who value'good health, a efeets ar cduoto the hfact, that it i the one remedy which promates Interna cleanliness, without debilitatling the orsanson whichitdets. It istherefowre allimportant, in order 4t get Its beae* iCial efects, to note when you per chase, thatyon have the genne atll which is manufatured bytheel Fig Syrup Co. only, and old by all np If in the enjoyment of good bhteLt and the system is regular, then lane tives or other remedies are not needed. If aMl1etedwith any actual dl eae may be commended totho m~slllte physians, buitif in need of a leaxate then one should havethe best, and with the well-informedeverywhere, Figs stashighest anh d h s mosta as~ a gives moseenera -ow fluine lOiliers, MILL AND MIRING SUPPLIES. OLD MAOHIIIEY REPAIIED. write or ries. 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