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POINTED PARAGRAPHS. There is a woman at the beginning of all great thing! l .. Tb© way of the world is to maka laws, but follow customs. To rule one’s anger is well; to pre vent it iB still hotter. The' man who never gives away any thing cheats himself. Character building is bigger work than building railroads. Most people believe in the total de pravity of somebody else. It isn’t always the brightest girl that casta the most reflections. Poets utter great and wise things whWh they do not themselves under stand. A wedding ceremony Is never a suc cess unless there is a hitch in it some where. How little a man knows of hie coun trymen —unless be lives In a country village. The top round of the ladder is an Imaginary one; nobody has ever reached it yet. A wise man is never confounded by what he can’t understand, but a fool generally is. I am no herald to inquire of men’s pedigrees; it eufflceth me if I know of their virtues. 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Mi UilUJlilg.,Wa.-.Ii.P.C. i Thompson’s Eye Water. \ THE PIECE THAT WAS LOST. | It was a midsummer morning. The grasß was waiting for the scythe, but after breakfast Silas Rogers took down the old bible that had been bis moth er’s dally companion for over eighty years, and they sat reverently down to worship. The reading was that ten der lesson of the wandering sheep, and the lost piece of silver, and ended with the heavenly rejoicing “over the sin ner that repenteth," and after the earn est, though homely prayer, they were ready for work. Abner, the hired man. and Reuben, the boy, as they started out of the house, almost stumbled over a woman sitting in the doorway, ab sorbed in though:. Silas looked at hpr. but did not stay to question her. And when they were gone, 3he rose abruptly and said, "Will you give me some breakfast?" Mrs. Rogers looked at her. She was a tall and not uncomely woman of about thirty, but with something in definably evil about her face. The hard mouth, the bold, defiant eyes, repelled her, yet it seemed as if at any instant they might break into scornful tears. "Who are you?” asked the good wife coming nearer, with a pan of bread in her hand. Again the face darkened and lightened, grew hard and yield ing, with the sudden declaration, “I am the piece that was lost.’’ Martha Rogers had not a particle of poetry in her nature, but she had the most profound reverence for the Scrip ture, therefore the words both puzzled and shocked her. But she was not the woman to refuse bread to the hungry; so she placed food upon the table, and motioned the woman to a chair, say ing. "Set up and eat.” All the time that the woman was eat ing—and she did not hasten —her eyes followed the mistress and Hetty, the bright young daughter, until Martha Rogers grew nervous and sent Hetty to "red up the chambers.’’ "Will you give me work to do?" she demanded rather than asked. "Who are you?” asked Mrs. Rogers again, simply to gain time. "I thought you knew. lam Moll Pritchard; they have turned me out of my house, burned it over my head,” and her eyes grew lurid. "What can you do?” asked Mrs. Rogers. “Anything that a woman can do, or a man. I can work in the field with the best of fliem; I have done it many a time; but I should like to do what — to be like other women.” "Are you a good woman?" The question came straight and strong, without any faltering. She had heard of this Moll Pritchard, a woman who lived alone In a tumble down hut below the sawmill, and won a meager living by weaving rag carpets, picking berries for sale, and, it was suspected in less reputable ways; but Martha Ro gers took no stock in idle rumors. If she had not the divine compassion, she had something like divine justice, which is altogether a sweeter thing in its remembering of our frame “than the tender mercies of the wicked.” The woman lookedat her curiously— at first with a mocking smile, then with a sullen, and at last with a defiant expression. IAA ”1 AM THE PIECE THAT WAS LOST.” “Is it likely?” she said fiercely. “A good woman! How should I be a good woman? I tell you, I’m the piece that was lost, and nobody ever looked for me. If I was a good woman, do you •uppose 1 should be where 1 be —only 28 yean* old, well and hearty, and every door In the world shut In my face? I tell you the man who wrote that story didn’t know women; they don't hunt for the piece that’s lost, they Just let it go. There’s enough of them and don’t get lost.” Poor Martha Rogers was sorely per plexed, all the more that her way had lain so smooth and plain before her that she might have walked into it blindly. If she was a lost piece of silver, it \vas not she who lost It; but what if it were the Master's, precious to his heart, and a careless hand dropped it and left it to lie In the dust? And w hat if he bade her to seek it, and find It for him? Should she dare re fuse? On this very day, when she seeded so surely the help which she had so looked for in vain, had not this woman been sent to her very door, and was it not a plain leading of Prov idence? It ts a bleaaed thing for us that we are usually driven to act first pnd theorize afterward, even though Ihe after-thought sometimes brings re pentance. The bread was ready for the oven and the woodbox empty. "You may fetch iu some wood,” said Martha Rogers, and the woman promptly obeyed, filling the box with one load of her sinewy arms, and then stood humbly waitiug. Hetty came iu to the kitchen and began to clear the table, but her mother said, "Go upstairs and fetch a big apron and one of our sewing caps, and see if you can finish up your dress.” Away went Hetty, her light hoar! bounding with (he unexpected release; and the mother turned again to tho woman, furnished her with a coarse towel, and sent her to the wash house for a thorough purification. Half an hour afterward, with her hair hidden in the muslin cap, her whole figure en veloped in the calico apron, a comedy woman was silently engaged in house hold tasks, doing her work with such rapidity and Bklll that the housewife drew a sigh of relief. "There’s a handful of towels and coarse clothes left from the ironing; you might put the irons on, Mary, and smooth ’em out.” The woman turned a startled face upon her, and then went quickly for the clothes; but something was it a tear? —rolled down her swarthy cheeks, mingling with (he bright drops she sprinkled over them. When had she ever hoard anything but Moll? Not since among New Hampshire hills a pale woman had lain her hands upon the tangled curls of her little daugh ter and prayed that some one would watch over these wayward feet, lest they should go astray. It made Moll shudder to think of it. What did she know about joy in heaven over one sinner and repenteth? * * * * Silas Rogers listened t© the day’s story as he sat mending a bit of har ness with clumsy fingers, and among his other thoughts he grasped the idea that his wife had secured a valuable aud much-needed helper. "It seems a risk to run.” said Mar tha, anxiously, "and I don’t know but it's presumtuoue; there’s Hetty and there's Reuben ” “And there’s the Lord," said Silas, stopping to open his knife. "Yes,” said Martha, with a little start, "and I quite can’t get rid of what she said about the 'piece that was lost,’ though, to be sure, the woman that lost it ought to hunt it.” “She never does; folks are always losing things for somebody else to find; ’taint many of them can say, ‘Those that thou hast given me I have kept,’ right straight along.” "But if you lose your own piece look ing after other folk's " “Well, there’s the.rinks, as you say, but I’d rather take a risk for the l-<or<i than agin him." Martha Rogers took the risk for the Lord, and he abundantly justified and rewarded her faith. For the piece that was lost becomes “my piece" to the heart that finds it again in the Mas ter’s hand; and locking the story of the wanderer in her own breast, it was oni.v to the angels that she said, "Re joice wih me." And when years afterward the wom an herself said before the committee of the church, "I am the woman over whom there is a great joy in heaven,” there was not wantiug those who thought she was presumptuously claim ing to be a saint.—Emily Huntington Miller. A flood Advertising Medium. A glance in an Atlanta book store yesterday made this striking truth stand forth: Death is sometimes a big advertise ment. In no department of human effort do men put forth such terrific energy as in their attempts to catch the public eye. Men rack their brain for ingeni ous schemes to attract public attention. The good advertiser is the rarest and richest of successes. But some times ail the cleverness and ingenuity of these brain workers are beaten —and unexpectedly. Du Manrier’s death last week was an advertisement for Harper Bros, which no idea they might dig out of their brains could excel. It has started a great rush after last month’s Har per’s, which contained the first install ment of "The Martian,’’ Du Manner's new story, and a third edition of the number is now being fast exhausted. Those who cannot find the magazine are investing in "Peter Ibbeteon,” and if there happen to be any who have not read "Trilby” they invest in that. The book dealers will tell you that In the past four days there lias been a won derful demand for Du Maurier’s works. This great author who has added thousands to the cofTers of the Har pers by his life, is adding thousands to their profits by the mere fact of his death. —Atlanta Constitution. The Spirit of Modern Athena. Modern Athens, which recalls in ao many ways the Athens of ancient days, has inherited from her the privilege of being beautiful and enriched by her children. The public treasury was not always very well filled in those times any more than in the present, but wealthy citizens who had nlade for tunes at a distance liked to crown their commercial career by some act of lib erality to the mother country. They endowed the land with superb edifices of general utility—theaters, gymna sia, temples. The modern city is like wise full of monuments which she owes to such generosity. It was easy to ob tain from private individuals w'hat the state could not give. The Olympic games had burned with so bright a lus ter in the past of the Greeks that they could not but have their revival at heart. —"The Olympic Games of 1896.” by Baron Pierre de Caubertin. in the Century. A Mure Sinn. “I saw Muggins on his front poicu this evening smoking a cigar; it must be that his wife is away.” "What makes you think so?” “Why, when she’s at home he smokes a brier-root pipe and tries to look eco nomical." —Buffalo Express. Rev. John Wier, after nine years of continuous labor In Japan, is soon to return with his family to this country. SACRED CONFIDENCE, j No Woman’s Letter Published i Except by Request- Mr*, rink ham** Tmdrr Hr Ist Inn* With ( the Suffering of Her Sex—Wolat* Who Cannot Hide Their Happiness. There is a class of women who. from iheir own experience, sympathize with their suffering sisters, and in order that such suffering may be lessened, no bly pet aside false I modesty und in £ heartfelt gratitude J' yf women, iter and has J JVnV requested J lkUr us to pub- f if u facts in her l//Ib Al case, other- BB // if ( I wise it would W 1 I jj) \ not be done, as J / uil such evidence is treated in sacred confidence, unless publication is requested by the writer. She says to Mrs. Pinkham : —“ I wish you would publish tlie circum stances of my case, in order that other women may be benefited by ray expe rience. “ I doctored nearly all the time for two years. 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