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TALMAGE'S SERMON.
A Discourse on the Inevitable Se
quences of Good and Evil Deeds.
< ire le» as the Type of Perfect ion—All
Things Moving in Orbits, a Departure
from Whic h Means Ruin—The
Nemesis of Sin.
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, in a recent
sermon at "The Hamptons'' chose for_ his
subject "The Sequences of Good and Evil
Deeds," taking for his text:
It is lie that sitteth upon the circle of the
earth.—Isaiah xi., 22.
While yet people thought that the world
was flat, and thousands of years before
they found out that it was round, Isaiah
in my text intimated the shape of it, God
sitting upon the circle of the earth. The
most beautiful figure in all geometry is the
circle. God made the universe on the
plan of a circle. There are in the natural
world straight lines, angles, parallelo
grams, diagonals, quadrangles; but these
evidently are not God's favorites. Almost
every where where you find him geometriz
ing you find the circle dominant, and if
not the circle then the curve, which is a
circle that died young. If it had lived
long enough it would have been a full orb,
a periphery. An ellipse is a circle pressed
only a little too hard at the sides.
Giant's Causeway in Ireland shows
what God thinks of mathematics.
There are over thirtv-five thousand
columns of rocks—octagonal, hexagonal,
pentagonal. These rocks seein to have
been made by ruleand by compass. Every
artist has his molding-room where he may
make fi fty shapes, but he chooses one shape
as prçferable to all others. I will not say
that the Giant's Causeway was the
world's molding-room, but I do say out of
u great many figures God seems to have
selected the circle as the best.
It is He that sitteth on the circle of the
earth.
The stars in a circle, the moon in a cir
cle, the sun in a circle, the universe in a
circle, andtho throne of God the center of
that circle.
When men build churches they ought to
imitate the idea of the great Architect and
• put Ihe audience in a circle, knowing that
the tides of emotion roll more easily that
way than in straight lines. Six thousand
years ago God flung this world out of his
right hand; but. He did not throw it out in
a straight line but curvilinear, with a lease
of love holding it so as to bring it back
again. The world started from His hand
pure and Edenic. It has been rolling on
through regions of moral ice and distem
per. How long it will roll God only
knows; but it will in due time mnke com
plete circuit and come back to the place
where it started—the hand of God, pure
and Edenic.
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The history of the world goes on in a
.circle. Why is it the shipping in our day
is improving so rapidly? It is because
men are imitating the old model of Noah's
art. A ship carpenter gives that as his
opinion. Although so much derided by
small wits, that ship of Noah's time beat
the Etruria and the Germanic, of which
we boast so mach. Where is the ship on
the sea to-day that could outride a deluge
in which the heaven and the earth were
wrecked, landing all the passengers in
safety, two of each kind of living crea
tures, thousands of species? Pomology
will go on with its achievements until
after many centuries the world will have
plums and pears equal to the Paradisai
cal. The art of gardening will grow for
centuries, and after the Downings and
Mitchells of the world have done their
best, in the far future the art of garden
ing v ill come up to the arborescene of the
year 1. If the makers of colored glass go
on improving they may in some centuries
lie able to make something equal to the
east window of Yorkminster, which was
built in 1290. We are six centuries behind
those artists, but £he world must keep on
toiling until it shall make Iho complete
circuit and come up to the skill of those
very men. If the world continues to im
prove in masonry we shall have after
awhile, perhaps after the udvance of cen
turies, mortar equal to that which 1
saw in the wall of an ex
humed English city, built in
the time of the Romans, 1,600 years ago—
that mortar to-day as good an the day in
which it was made, having outlasted the
brick and the st me. I say, after hun
dreds of years, masonry may advance to
that point. If the world stands long
enough we may have a' city as large as
they had in old times. Babylon, five
times the size of London. You go into the
potteries of England and you find them
making cups and vases after the style of
the cups and vases exhumed from Pom
peii. The world is not going back. Ob,
no! but it is swinging in a circle and will
come back to the styles of pottery known
so long ago as the days of Pompeii. The
world must keep on progressin x until it
makes the complete circuit. The curve is
in the right direction. The curve will
keep on until it becomes a circle.
Well, now, my friends, what is true in
the material universe is true in God's
moral government and spiritual arrange
ment. That is the meaning of Ezekiel's
wheel. All commentators agree in saying
that the wheel means God's providence.
Buta wheel is of no use unless it turn, and
if it turn around it moves in a circle. What
then ! Are we parts of a great iron machine
whirled around whether we will or not,
the victims of inexorable fate! So far
fiom that I shall show you that
we ourselves start the circle of good or
bad actions, and that it will surely come
around again to us, unless by divine in
tervention it be hindered. Those bad or
good actions may make the circuit of
many years; but come back to us they
will as certainly as that God sits on the cir
cle of the earth. Jezebel, the worst woman
of the Bible, slew Naboth because s.he
wanted his vineyards. While the dogs
were eating the body of Naboth, Elisha,
ihe prophet, put down his compass and
marked a circle from those doge clear
aronnd to the dogs that should eat the
body of Jeiebel, the murderess.
"Impossible!" the people said, "that
will never happen."
Who is that being flung out of the palace
window? Jezebel. A few hours after
they came around, hoping to bury her.
They find only the palms of her hands and
the skull. The dogs that devoured Jeze
bel, and the dogs that devoured Na both!
Oh, what a swift, what an awful circuit I
Bat it is sometimes the case that this
circle sweeps through many centuries.
Jfce world started with a theocracy for
government; that is, God was President
and Emperor of the world. People got
tired of a theocracy. They said:
"We don't want God directly interfer
ing with the affairs of the world; give us
a monarchy."
The world had a monarchy. From a
monarchy it is going to have a limited
monarchy. After awhile the limited mon
archy will be given up, and the republican
form of government will be everywhere
dominant and recognized. Then the world
will get tired of the republican form of
government, and it will have an anarchy,
which is no government at all. And then,
all nations finding out that man is not
capable of righteously governing man,
will cry out again for a theocracy, and
say:
"Let God come back and conduct the af
fairs of the world."
Every step—monarchy, limited mon
archy, republicanism, anarchy, only dif
feient steps between the first theocracy
and the last theocracy, or segments of the
great circle of the earth on which God sits.
But do not become impatient because
you can not see the curve of events, anil
therefore conclude that God's government
is going to break down. History tells us
that in the making of the pyramids it took
two thou and men two years to drag one
great stone from the quarry and put it
into the pyramids. Well, now, if men,
short-lived, can afford to work so slowly
as that, can not God in the building of
the eternities afford to wait? What
though God should take ten thousand
years to draw a circle? Shall we take our
little watch, which we have to wind up
every night lest it run down, and hold it
up beside the clock of eternal ages? If,
according to the Bible, 1,000 years are in
God's sight as ono day, Ih n, according to
that calculation, the 6,000 years of the
world's existence has been only to God as
from Monday to Saturday.
But it is often the case that the rebound
is quicker, and the circle is sooner com
pleted. You resolve that you will do what
good you can. In one week you put a
word of counsel in theheartof a Sabbath
school child. During that same week you
give a letter of introduction to a young
man struggling in business. During the
same week you made an exhortation in a
prayer-meeting. It is all gone; you u i l
never hear of it, perhaps, you think. A
few years after a man comes up to youand
says:
"You don't know me, do you?"
You say: "No; I don't remember ever to
have seen you."
"Why," he says, "I was in the Sabbath
school class over wh ch you were the
teacher. One Sunday you invited me to
Christ. I accepted the tffer. You see that
church with two towers yonder?"
"Yes." you say.
He says: "That is where I preach."
Or: "Do you see that Governor's house?
That is where 1 live."
One day a man comes to you, and says,
"Good morning."
You look at him and >ay, "Why, yon
have the advantage of me; I can not place
you."
He says: "Don't you remember, thirty
vears ago, giving a letter of introduction
to a young man—a letter of introduction
to a prominent merchant? '
"Yes, yes. I do."
He says: "I am the man. That was my
first step toward a fortune; but I have re
tired from business now, and am giving
my time to philanthropies and public in
terests. Come up to my country place
and see me."
Or a man comes to you, and says: "I
want to introduce myself to vou. 1 went
into a prayer-meeting some years ago. I
sat back near the door. You arose to
make an exhortation. That talk changed
the course of mv life, and if I ever get to
heaven, under God, I will owe my salva
tion to you."
In only ten, twenty, or thirty years, the
circle swept out and swept back again to
your own grateful heart.
But sometimes it is a wider circle and
docs not return for a great while. I saw
a bill of expense for burning Latimer and
R dley. The bill of expenso says:
One load of fir fagots......................3s id
Cartage of four loads of woods...........2s
Item, a post.................................Is Id
Item, two chains...........................3s id
Item, two staples........................... fid
Item, four laborers.........................2s 8d
That was cheap fire, considering all the
circumstances; but it kindled alight which
shone all around the world and abound the
martyr spirit; and out front that burning
of Latimer and Ridley rolled the circle,
wider and wider, starting other circles,
convoluting, overrunning, circumscribing,
overarching all Heaven—a circle.
But what is true of Ihe good is just as
true of the bad. You utter a slander
against your neighbor. It has gone forth
from your teeth. It will never come back,
you think. You have done the man all the
mtaebief you can. You rejoico to see him
wince. You say:
"Didn't I give it to him?"
That word has gone out, that slanderous
word, on its poisonous and blasted way.
You think it will never do you any harm.
But I am watching that word, and I see it
beginning to curve, and it curves around,
and it is aiming at your heart. Yoa had
better dodge it. You can not dodge it. It
rolls into your bosom, and after it rolls in
a word of an old Look, which says:
With what measure ye mete, D shall be
measured to you again.
You maltreat an aged parent. You be
grudge him the room in your house. You
are impatient of his whimsicalities and
garrulty. It makes you mad to hear him
teU the same story twice. You give him
food he can not masticate. You wish he
was away. You wonder if ho is going to
live forever. He will be gone very soon.
His steps are shorter and shorter. He is
going to stop. But God has an account to
settle with you on that subject. After
awhile your eye will be dim and your gait
will halt, and the sound of the grinding
will be slow, and you will tell the same
story twice, and your children will won
der if you are going to live forever, and
wonder if you will never be taken away.
They called you "father" once; now they
call you "the old man." If vou live a few
years longer they will call you "the old
chap." What are those rougu words with
which your children are accosting you!
They are the echo of the very words you
nsed in the ear of your old father forty
years ago. What is that which yon are
trying to chew, but find it un
masticable, and your jaws ache
as you surrender the attempt?
Perhaps it may be the gristle which you
gave to your father for his breakfast forty
years ago. A gentleman passing along
the street saw a spa dragging his father
Into the street by the hair of his head,
The gentleman, outraged at this brutal
conduct, was about to punish the offender,
when the old man arose and said :
"Don't hurt him: it's all right; forty
years ago this morning I dragged out my
father by the hair of his head."
It is a circle. My father lived into the
eighties, and he had a very wide experi
ence, and he said that maltreatment of
parents was always punished in this
world. Other sins may be adjourned to
the next world, but maltreatment of par
ents is punished in this world.
Tho circle turns quickly, very quickly.
Oh, what a stupendous thought that the
good and evil we start come back to us!
Do you know that the judgment day will
be only the points at which the circles
join—the good and the bad we have done
coming back to us, unless divine interven
tion hinder—coming back to us, welcome
of delight or curse of condemnation?
Oh, I would like to see Paul, the invalid
missionary, at the moment when his in
fluence comes to full orb—his influence
rolling out through Antioch, through
Cyprus, through Lystra, through Corinth,
through Athens, through Asia, through
Europe, through America, through the
first century, through live centuries,
through twenty centuries, through all the
succeeding centuries, through earth,
th-ough Heaven, and, at last, the wave of
influence having made full circuit, strikes
his great soul! No one can tell the u i le
swe p of the circle of his influence, save
the One who is seated on the circle of the
earth.
I should not want 1o see the coun
tenance of Vollaire when his influence
comes to full orb. IVhen the fatal hemor
rhage seized him at eighty-lhree years of
age his influence (lid not cease. The most
brilliant man of his century, he had used
all his faculties for assaulting Chi is
tianity; his bail influence widening
through France, widening out through
German}', widening through all Eg'
rope, widening through America, widen
ing through the 101 years that have gone
by since he died, widening through bell;
until at last the accumulated influence of
his l ad life in fiery surge of omnipotent
wrath will beat against his destroyed
spirit, and at that moment it will be
enough to make the black hair of eternal
darkness turn white with the horror. No
one can tell how that bad man's influence
girdled the earth, save the One who is
seated on the circle of the earth—the Lord
Almighty.
!
"Well, now," say people in this audi
ence, "this in some respects is a very glad
theory, and in others a very sad one; we
would like to have all the good we have
ever (lone come back to us, but the
thought that all the sins we have ever
committed will come back to ns fills us
with affright."
My brother, I have to tell you Go l can
break that circle and will do so at your
call, I can bring twenty passages of
Scripture to prove that when God for
Christ's sake forgave man, the sins of his
past life never come back. The wheel may
roll on and roll on, but you take your p si
lion behind the cross, end the wheel
strikes the cross and it is shattered for
ever. The sins fly off Irora *he circle into
the perpendicular, falling at right angles
with comple'e oblivion. Forgiven! for
given! The meanest tiling a man can do
D, after soma difficulty has been settled
to bring it up again; and God will not be
so mean as that. God's memory is mighty
enough to ho'd ail the events of the ages,
but there is one thing that is sure to slip
his memory, one thing he is sure to forget,
and that is pardoned transgression. How
do I know it? I will prove it.
Their sins and iniquities will I remember
no more.
Come into that state this morning, my
dear brother, my d >ar sister.
Blessed is the one whose transgressions
are forgiven.
But do not make the mistake of thinking
that this doctrine of the circle stops with
this life; it rolls on through heaven. You
might quote in opposition to me what St.
John says about the city of Heaven. He
says it "lieth four squire." That does
seem to mitigate against this idea, but you
know there is many a square house that
has a family circle facing each other and
in a circle moving, and I can prove that
this is so in regar 1 to heaven. St.John
says:
I heard the voice of many angels round
about the throne and the beast and the
elders.
And again he says:
There was a rainbow round about the
throne.
The two former instances a circle; tht
last either a circle or a semi-circle. The
seats facing each other, the angels facing
each other, the men facing each other;
Heaven an amphitheater of glory. Cir
cumference of patriarch, and prophet, and
apostle. Circumference of Scotch oove
nanters, and Theban legion, and Albi
genses. Circumference of the good of all
ages. Periphery of splendor unimagined
and indescribable. A circle! A circle!
But every circumference must have a
center, and wbat is the center of this
Her,venly circumference? Christ. His all
the glory, His ail the praise, His ril the
crowns. All Heaven wreathed into agar
land round about Him. Take off tho im
perial sandal from His foot, and behold
the scar of the spike. Lift the coronet of
dominion from His brow, and see where
was the lacerations of the briars. Coma
closer, all Heaven. Narrow the circle
around His great heart. O Christ, the
Saviour! O Christ, the man! O Christ,
the God ! Keep Thy throne forever, seat
ed on the circle of the earth, seated on tha
circle of the hpaven!
On Christ, the solid rock, I stand;
All other ground is shitting sund.
The Cockney of the Crematory.
I Buffalo Courier.]
The pronunciation of the [average cock
ney differs materially from that of liin
brother Englishman and occasionally pro*
yokes a laugh where laughter is most cut
of place. An amusing instance if this oc
curred the other day at Buffalo's new
crematory, which is in charge of a young
Englishman, who acts as cicerone to the
many who flock thither to gratify their
curiosity regarding the new institution.
The party of inspection one day last week
comprised two ladies, who expressîd them
selves as gratified by what they .had seen
until they reached a point where theoblig
ing, if somewhat loquacious, guide ex
claimed: "'Ere, ma'am, is where we turn
the ladies into the hash, and then the hash
is collected and put into a burn." This was
enough; the curiosity of the party seemed
to be amply (satisfied, and they beat »
bsvty retreat
MISCELLANEOUS.
—Mangum has been selected as the
county seat of Greer County, Tex., the
county which has been the subject of
so much interest of late, because of the
attempt of several persons to have it
declared Government land and opened
to settlers.
The common milk-weed may be
come a profitable staple, as thread is
now made from its blossom that has
the tenacity of imported flax or linen
thread. The liber is long and easily
carded and spun and has the smooth
ness and luster of silk.— N. Y. Mail.
Prince Bismarck has seventy-six
decorations, but lie says he is prouder
of a little silver medal which was
given him for rescuing a soldier from
drowning while he was a sub-Lieuten
ant in a cavalry regiment than of all
the rest put together.
—Probably the largest rock in the
known world is the south dome of the
Yoscmite, which rears itself, a solid
rocky leaf, six thousand feet above the
ground, a sheer precipice over a mile
in height. No man ever trod the top
of tills dome until last year: then, how
ever, after thousands of dollars had
been expended, several persons found
their way to the top.
When a word is taken from some
other language and embalmed iu the
English tongue the original spelling is
preserved, though the pronunciation
may be altered. It is different with the
French, with whom beefsteak becomes
biftek," and roast beef "rosbif." The
letter c in pocket is dropped or rather
transferred to poker (the game), the
words looking odd when they appear
respectively as "poket" and "pocker."
— Chicago Herald.
—In weight the salmon of the Cana
dian rivers average between twenty
and twenty-live pounds. A thirty
pound salmon is very large, and a forty
pound fish will be talked of throughout
the season, although it is said that sal
mon weighing fifty pounds have been
caught in the Restigouehe—one. in
deed, was said to weigh fifty-four
pounds.— Chicago Tribune.
—A j'oung tornado went through a
Danbury (Conn.) hay field the other
day. It was only about eight feet in
liameter, but it caught a young man
on its outer edge, carried him several
feet and dashed him to the ground,
l'lien it seized a good-sized haycock
fairly in its clutches, turned it upside
down, and then carried it, spinning
like a top, at least 150 feet into the air,
landing it on an adjacent hill.— Hart
ford Courant.
—The blind men of Brooklyn are in
thg main self-supporting. All are en
gaged either in commercial pursuits or
else work at trades. Piano-tuning is
their favorite pursuit. Nearly all are
married and have families. None have
married wives similarly affected, and
the total number of blind men in the
city, which is less than one hundred,
are friendly and aid each other in time
of need. One of them is worth $100.
000 and a dozen more arc worth half
that amount.— N. Y. Sun.
—The following unique list of wed
ding presents appears in an exchange:
From father and mother of the bride,
one Jersey calf; from bride to groom,
hair wreath made from hair of her
entire family; also, six fine shirts; from
brother Elias, one book of poems, one
dream book, one 'Polite Letter Writer'
and a dog; from Aunt Harriet, six hens
and a rooster; also, one jar tomato cat
sup; from Cousin Sarah, one poem
made up by herself on bride and groom,
fifteen verses in all. —Boston Herald.
—Cork is the bark, not the wood, ol
the cork-oak. The bark comes from
Spain and Portugal, where they keen
cork woods. It doesn't kill the tree to
take its bark away, and it can be
skinned every six or eight years. About
$1,000,000 worth of the' raw bark is
brought to this country every year.
The cork is steamed before it is cut.
Cork stoppers are made in thousands
of sizes and grades, six hundred sizes
being kept in stock. None of the bark
goes to waste. In a granulated state it
is used as roof-packing.
A MUSHROOM TOWN.
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How a Lively Colorado Village Disap
peared In About Two VF eeks.
"Away back in 1876 I was ont in
Colorado," remarked a man from New
England. "It was my first visit and
the scenes and incidents made an im
pression on me that time will not efface.
To begin with. I had the mountain
fever as soon as I got anywhere near
the Rockies, and that little affair is cal
culated to make a man rem-mber it for
several days. I struck La Junta, which
is pronounced as though it was spelled
with an li. This was the last station on
the branch of the Kansas Pacific that
ultimately ran into Pueblo. At that time
La Junta was a busy settlement. A hun
dred ft - so wooden buildings lined each
side of the main street, including three
hotels, a dozen boarding houses, im
mense stores, where the freighters into
Old Mexico got their loads, and ten or
twelve dance halls and saloons and
gambling places. Every thing was
wide open. The only thing the settle
ment did not have was a grave-yard.
This fact was commented on most
favorably by everybody who resided
there. 'It shows what a healthy place
we've got,' said any of them when ap
proached on the subject, 'and it also
shows what law abiding fellers we are
—for here we've lived for three or four
weeks and nobody has died with his
boots on.' This latter was a polite way
of informing the stranger that no fatal
rows had occurred within that time.
Everybody was on the make and the
hotels all charged at'the rate of four
dollars per day. The hotels, by the
wav, were not more than two stories
high and were not fitted up with any
great style or elegance. As soon as I
got well enough to travel I went down
to Trinidad, and was there just two
weeks to a day, as I got out just as soon
as I possibly could. In returning East
I took the Kansas Pacific east from
Pueblo. We passed La Junta—or at
least where it had been—and not a
single house remained. It was an un
broken prairie, save where posts had
been left. It seemed that as soon as
the branch was finished to Pueblo La
Junta disappeared from si»ht, and^al!
in the period of two weeks.
Globe,
a
-SU Paul
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UNNECESSARY WORK.
Words of Caution to Over-Industrious ut
Over-Worked Women.
A sensible writer in an exchange
says: "I am convinced that at least
one-quarter of the work performed by
women is unnecessary, and that the
world would get along quite as well
without it." Iam inclined to go fur
ther still and put it at one-half. "]
never find time to read," said a lady,
at whose house I was calling, and al
the same time she sadly threaded a
needle with chenille, and remarking
that some people had so much leisure,
she continued her work of embroider
ing impossible yellow peaches on a red
plush mantle scarf. It had not even
the merit of economy, for the materials
were as expensive as they were hide
ous. Any work that serves to make
home a charming and lovable place ia
a sacred duty to a wife and mother;
bnt that which contributes to no com
fort or enjoyment, frightful fancy work
that has not even any artistic merit, is,
indeed, a waste of time and energy—
"busy idleness."
Husbands undoubtedly like to fee.
that their wives are good housekeepers,
but husbands are very human, and
once let a woman sink the wife into
the housekeeper, and lier husband will
very likely fall into the same error.
The "over-clean" woman is a nuisance
to her family and friends. I once over
heard a conversation between two
gentlemen in a car, whose wives be
longed to the above class, and, though
estimable women, were about as close
to godliness as cleanliness could take
them. It wag during the season of
that annual horror—"house-cleaning,"
and they were condoling with eacii
other upon its miseries. They both
voted it an entirely unnecessary evil,
and one of them said that during its
progress at his house every thing was
so wet that he always felt as if there
was an incipient flood, while his friend
said he could endure the water, it was
the smell of yellow soap that he
objected to.
A woman should never allow herself
to become a mere household drudge,
and when she finds that she has no
time to read an occasional good book,
to write a letter to a friend, to read a
story to the children, or to walk or
talk with her husband, she may con
clude that there is something wrong
somewhere in her domestic economy,
and the more quickly she recognizes
and remedies the evil, the better it
will be for herself and family. If she
is obliged to do her own family sew
ing, every tuck or ruffle that she puts
on her ciiiUlren's clothes is a crime.
The hour or hours spent in making an
elaborate dress that baby will look
"lovely" in, is a waste of energy that
a mother who does her own work can
not afford. Baby will look quite as
lovely in her eyes in a plain slip, and
if he has only' his elaborate dress to
recommend him to the eyes of others, lie
might rather pass unnoticed. Give the
matter serious thought, oh ! tired house
keeper; and see if you do not daily
take many unnecessary steps, and do
much that yon might, withont injury
to any one, leave undone. Rest your
body and improve your mind keeping
your face and heart as fresh as possi
ble, as you value the love of your
husband and children.
Since this is a chapter of quotations,
1 will end it with the remark made by
a sarcastic gentleman: "Women seem
to me to be divided into two classes,
the over-industrious and the over-in
dolent, and of the two evils, I would
choose the latter as being the least."—
Cor. Rural New Yorker.
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TOUGH WORK.
Impressions of a Scribe Who Happened to
See a Farmer Shave.
To witness a farmer shave is one of
the most painful operations ever wit
nessed outside of downright butchery.
For some reason away beyond the
rlepth of present knowledge, the man
a
out
its
I
a
who breads the country always has a
beard like a new hair' brush and he j
never could loam how to sharpen a
razor.
He gets on the back stoop with
his
shaving utensils, and after rubbing the
razor over the strap in an awkward
fashion, until whatever trace of edge
it may have had has been destroyed,
he hangs up his broken glass and Likes
a position alongside of the kitchen
door where the old lady will be sure to
jostle his arm when slie goes out to
empty her dish-water.
With a brush that has but little
handle remaining he manages some
how to stir up a lot of lather from soap
that would raise a blister on the bottom
of a boy's foot in dog days, with which
he coats his face till nothin» but his
eyes and the back of his head are visi
ible. With a cob dipped in warm water
he goes over the stubble with a vigor
that makes the flesh creep, until ho
feels that all the reasonable precau
tions for comfort in the subsequeWt op
erations have been taken.
Taking up the razor and looking at
it suspiciously over, the top of his
glasses, he runs his thumb along the
edge, fails to draw blood as he had
hoped, and then witli a sigh like leav
ing town in a hurry, he grabs himselt
by the nose, shuts his eyes and gives a
scrape that makes his hair stand on end
as a bunch of be*>rd seems to come out
by the roots.
'But once at it a terrible desperation
seems to nerve him, and with teeth set
he goes right on with a determination
to get the agony over as soon as pos- i
sible. Howls of woe break from him !
now and then, as an expression that •
poisons life steals over his face and
stays there till the last nerve has been
mi flail one. r,f a no L-«t hv ihnt terrible I
giving, and joyfully throws his shaving
paper into the'swill barrel near by.—
Western Plotoman.
During a thunder-storm at New
Richmond two thunderbolts went
' through a pillow, one at each end. A
! young lady's head reposed on the
pillow, and her hair was singed and
ruined. Next time she will hang her i
hair on the back of a chair in a distant :
part of the room, where a thunderbolt
can get at itwithoutscorehingher face, i
-r-NorristowH UeratcU |
FARM and fireside.
—Keep insecticides and scythes oat
of the reach of children.
—The best market for any man. pro
vided he has one, is the home market.
He who "is near" to his market is bet
ter than he "who is far off."— N. r-"'
Telegam.
—A beautiful quilt for a present to a
baby may be made of nun's Veiling,
lined with white sateen, with rosebuds
embroidered on the turned over
corners.— Cincinnati Times.
—Gooseberry Jam: A gill of water
to each pound of ripe fruit; boil for au
hour. Then add the s.igar, three
quarters of a pound for overy pound
weight of the fruit. Cook slowly for
another hour.— Bhiladelphia Call.
—We are asked if in planting pota
toes it is best to turn the sprouts up or
down. Practically we do not believe
that it makes any difference, certainly
not enough to warrant going to any
special trouble about the matter__ Trog
Times.
—Cheese and Egg Sandwiches: Grate
the cheese, and to each cupful add the
yelks of three hard-boiled eggs minced
tine; rub to a paste with a teaspoonful
of butter; season to taste witli salt and
pepper and spread between buttered
bread or crackers. These are nice
made of graham bread.— The Caterer.
—For graham wafers, take two
thirds graham and one-third white tine
Hour. Rub in a saltspoont'ul of salt,
one-Jliird of a small cupful of butter
and a tablespoonful of brown sugar.
Mix with fp.-sli spring water enough to
moke a stiff dough, which should be
rolled out thin and baked quickly__
Toledo Blade.
—Sweet-apple Indian Pudding: Scald
thoroughly one cup of Indian meal and
one cup of chopped sweet apple in a
quart of boiling milk (sk miued), add
two-thirds of a cup of molasses, a tea
spoonful of salt and one of ginger, also
a pint of cold milk. Bake in a covered
dish from three to four hours. This
eaten with sweet cream is delicious— .
Exchange.
—Lady Fingers: Four ounces of
white sugar, yelks of four eggs, mix
well, four ounces of flour, mix again,
and if too thick add ono whole egg,
and one-half teaspoonful of extract of
lemon or rose. Beat the whites of the
eggs to a stiff froth and stir in hist..
Squeeze through a funnel made of
white writing paper. These are used
for Charlotte Russe and are very nice.
— The Household.
—Raisin Pie: Grate the yellow from
one lemon, discard all the white rind
and seeds; chop remainder of lemon,
and ono cup stoned raisins. Add to
these a little salt, piece of butter size
of walnut, one haU'-cup molasses, one
cup brown sugar, two cups water.
Boil all together live minutes, then
thicken with five tablespoonfuls flour.
Bake between two crusts. This makes
two medium-sized pies.— Boston Bud'
get.
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TWO FARMERS.
Two Ways of Investing the Profits From
the Farm and Garden.
Two farmers we know own two
farms which join. One farm contains^!)
acres, the other 110. The farms are
In New England. Farmer A. with Ms
60 acres has time to go to church, to
the picnic and Grange. Tims and
again, w'hile out riding with his family,
he passes by farmer B, toiling in tbe
field wiLh never a thought for any thing
but labor. Fanner A's wife has a horse
of her own, which she mm drive as ihe
likes. The boys and girls have books
and magazines and the time to read
them. Mrs. B. has to bèg fôr days for
a horse, and then must take the old
mare that can only be induced to hasten
out of her slow walk By a thorough ap
plication of the stick.
Every rod of the smaller farm does
its work. Manure is a respected
friend. The crops raised are those '
that sell'for cash. The sqil does not run
out because the farmer makes a busi
ness of keeping it up. On the larger
farm there are weekly n««teres. Tho
j manure is put into small strips of. the ,
best land. The grass is never fertilized,
The soil is expected to make up in area
what it lacks in quality. Farmer B- ;
makes money, for he never spends any. ,
He looks across at his neighbor and
sneers. .I>o these extra horses, those
books and papers pay? Not a cent in
cash. Farmer A."puts it like thri:
"Neighbor B's idea'of tme profit is
different from mine—that's all. Ho
wants his in hard cash; I'm ready to .
spend a part of mine in comfort I
can't spend my money to a better add
vantage than in making my family. con
tented. I could Save this money lino
buy more land, but I like my JUlla >
farm. I feed it and it keeps its strength.
Why should I spend the best part dt
my "life in continually grubbing foB< i
money that will never benefit me?"
Now, friends, which plan do you like
best? Which are you following?
What is your idea of true prolit? I»
your money in the bank, or is it invest
ed in happiness? Think it over.—
Rural New Yorker.
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this compound for.manj^onths with
? ut fant * m 8
imposed upon by a subs .lute fix' c«JM
Wk. It was only the tber day thej,
made the discovery, as Hu» imitation m
doteel
at
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tation for the man who knows all
about cow's milk to take much ."toe*
in this story, for it is hard enough to
keep genuine milk tasting like
without trying to imitate
a foreign compound. It is easy
enough to make a white insipid stu
that resembles milk in color and co ■
IMITATION MILK.
In obnoxious Fluid Composed of Potasn.
Glycerine and Other Chemicals.
The air is so full of rumors of frauds
practiced in the dairy business, or
rather on it, that credit is now given to
the story that San Francisco lws been
the victim of imitation milk made from
nitrate of potash, glycerine and other
pleasant chemicals. It is said the peo
ple of San Francisco have.been fed on
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itsell
it with
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sistency but there the likeness en ^
and the taste soon tells that something
is wrong about it, though, of course,
the unaided taste can not always ten
just what the matter \a.—A(jncultu>*>