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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1894-6-7, Page 3• MISCELLANEOUS READING 6/11AVE AS WEI144 AS .GAT. Reading For Leisure Moments for Old and Young„ Interesting and Prolita- ble. The Ruling Passion. He had $10,000,000 And when he died and went •, Some otherwhere, they gave him This simple monument, $ $$$ $$$$$ SUM $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ODDITIES IN NAMES. Strange Cognomens Unfortunate Per- sons Have Had to Carry. The erratic Mr. Rose, •who named his daughter Wild, had probably never im- agined the possibility of her marrying a man, named Bull, as we are told she did, but this is only one of many •peculiar cases of "what's in a name ?" phiksophy. Royalty indulges in a numbei• of cogno- mens, and this example has been copied in Alabama, where a pretty colored girl bears this euphonious string of titles : " Fair Rose Beauty Spot Teniptation. Touch Me Not." This is only exceeded by the ingenuity of a Mr. Pepper, who namecl his unfortunate daughter after every letter in the alphabet, so that she has twenty-six:names, Ann Bertha Celia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Hypatia Inez Jane Kate Louise Maud Nora Op - belie Quigley Rebecca Strange Teresa Ulysia Venus Winifred Xenophon Yetty Zeus Pepper. It was an Englishman who named his son Arthur Wellesley Wellington Water- loo Victory Cox, and his counterpart is founcl in another parent who christened.a small and fragile daughter Fanny Amelia Lucy Ann Rebecca Frost O'Connor Dow - all Luck HolbeiTy Daffy Ostler Hill, which diatribe has a Chartist flavor in its nomenclature due to a certain. period in English political history. There are names that have a personal gnificance, such as One -Too Many John, Who'd Have Expected It Harry, Mei seem to relieet upon the owners as they had been indiscreet in coming into he world sari demanding a name at all. Not Wanted Tames, for example, must be a young man. very sensitive to his eon - Won in life—that of the superfluous an. Happy Go Luery Smith will in- -Tire a warmer sentiment of welcome pen he announces himself by name, but rover After Tones has not much in. his -le to recommend. Wisconsin a young woman. named yd married. a Kr. Wyffe. He died, 3. his successor was a Mr. Widdow, the ring woman having accomplished tho whole destiny of woman in being maid, wife and widow by due process of matri- monial la w. . • The man named Arden, who had his son baptized River, was more pious than wise, but he had more reason for his pe- culiar choice in the etymeogy of names than the man named Dew, who called his offspring Morning. • The Welsh have many 'peculiar names in. their n.omencla,tine, or possibly a pe- culiar way of using names, as in the ease of a Welsh storekeeixar, who had on his sign the names, John Mary Williams. This is a relic of an old custom when Maria was a name shared by both sexes, as Jean Maria Farina. It appeared that a Mr. Williams, a man of position, had. in his household a woman servant named Mary, who was known by her master's family name, Williams. When the wo- man married. she kept the names by which the was best known, and added to them her husband's Christian name, John, a bit of diplomacy in the way of trade. Her husband was always alluded to as John Mary Williams. In ancient times the Welsh were known by perfonal peculiarities as the American Indians are at the present time, Hook Nose, Squint E,yes, Black Beard, Crooked Tooth and Fast Foot being the only cognomens bestowed on them. Then come the Hebrew names, whieh the Welsh people employ in their most poetic form, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and David, being softened and sublimated by the ancient Welsh spelling and pronuncia- tion. These people are very fond of tho Old Testament characters, and, althcaigh a purely Celtic race, they love the grand old names of God's ehosen people, and bestow them on their children from gen- eration to generation. There are a few Welsh names that are favorites with people .01 all countries. Llewellyn, for example, or Hugh„ which is not so distinctively Welsh. • The &etch aro great sticklers for clan names, as this story testifies : A beggar« who was starving asked for alms at a public house where there was a great gathering of Scotchmen, and was refrued. Re then demanded in God's name to know- if there were any Christ- ians present "Deed no, we're a' just Grants' and Prasers here ;ye1Ireaybe And the Christ- ians in some ither town," was the eller- acteristic response. Bishop Goodenough preaehed before the House et Lords at London. Whereupon some wag wrote these ; "'Tis welt enough thet Goodenough Before the lords should preach, For sure °Dough they 're bed enough • Be undertakes to teach." In the time of Cromwell the Cavaliers who Were opposed to the proteetorate Used to drop a erainle into their wine as they drank it with the adjuration, "God send that Crumb -Well down." A newspaper rhyme on queer names was published la a Loudon journal some years ago: 0 Mr. Barker Is mute as a fish la the sea ; 1Vriles never goes ou a journey; Mr, Gotohed site up 5111 half after three; makepeaeo was bred an attorney. Mr. Gardner cant tell a :dower from a root ; • Mr. Wild Is as tame as a hack ; Mr, Rider performs all his journeys on toot, iVir, Foote on a Toon horse's back," The eolored people, who once had only such names as their employers choose to give them, they being by law entitled to no others,are fond of high-flown, high- sounding patronymics, such as George Washington Henry Olay Daniel Webster •Jefferson :Smith, all these heaped upon one infant, who goes through. life by the single appellation of Wash. Bible names are not always judiciously applied, A. man in the west named Grass, had his son endowed with the long-syl- lablecl handle of Nebuchadnezzar. The Roman maidens were generally named for flowers, and Flora was their goddess. The Greeks drew their names from the surroundings, and. the Latins had names that denoted physical defects, such as Claudius, lame. Parents should know the meaning of the names they bestow on their children. Marah, bitter, is not a desirable sugges- tion. Rhoda, a rose, is more pleasantly signifioant, and Lois, an old-fashioned Bible name, means better. EMI, the name of the little girl at the White House, signifies contentment, and that of her baby sister, Esther, means "a little child hidden." There is a quaint story told. by Barrie of a child named Davy, who mak-es a brief appearance in one of his novels. and takes much of the interest of the story with her when she goes. For Davy is a girl. And this odd name was an accident at the christening. The minister looked sternly at the father and said: " The child's a boy, is it not?" He had already beeu given a paper with She name written:upon. it, but when the confused father answered " yes " to the query as to the sex, the dominie respond- ed: "Then I cannot christen him Mar- garet, sol will call him David. The mother felt very badly, but the only excuse her husband gave was that he dare not contradict the minister. Gave Jack s Sister the Cold Shoulder. "Oh, Bessie, I'm so delighted to see you. OM bursting to toll you a joke on some of the girls in the club," and as she grab- bed her :friend near the handkerchief counter, each girl clerk within speaking distance held her breath to hear the joke on the "iris in. the club." "Oh, Kathrine, you delieioue thing, tell nte thiii instant," and Bessie hung on her friend.'s words. "Well, you know, yesterday I was out making calls. I called first on that hor- rid Miss Mackintosh. I never dould bear her, but, of course, one 1111.1St return first "Of Course," assented Bessie. "Well, honesely believe she kept me waiting three quarters of, an hour, but when slie appeared she was glorious! She had on a veep swell tea gown. Oh, it was beauti- ful. But I wish yon could have seen the look she gave me.I didn't know what was the matter, but finally she said, in hor very sweetest way: "Oh, Miss King, is it you—that is—I mean—won't you be seated --I'm very glad to see you.' But her looks belied her words. Well, I didn't stay long, you Can Make sure, and when loft she said more sweetly still: 'How is your brother?' I said: 'Thank you, jack es very well.' "I went to three more places, and actu- ally every one of the other girls kept PIG waiting—oh, ever so long—from fifteen to forty minutes, and. I must say I never saw a handsomer array of tea gowns trot- -bed out in one afternoon. Well, finally I discovered the secret of it all," and here Miss Eathrine went oft in a series of the most contagions giggles, and the clerks all smiled from sympathy and her friend gave her a little shake to bring her to. "What was it all about—don't keep me in suspense. I'm consumed with eUri0S- i by." "Well—you know I called last at Flos- sie's as I always clo and get five o'clock tea. She didn't keep me waiting five minutes. She came running down; blit when she saw me she gave a little squeal. I said, 'What's the matter, Floss?' and she said, 'You arn't yew: brother,' and I said, 'No; I soneetirnes wish I wore; but why did you say that?' " "She showed me the card I had sent up, and on it I read: Dat. JOHN B. KING. : And, Oh, Bessie! I had been using Jack's cards all afternoon and didn't know it. You see, we were calling together the evening before and I had some left in my ear(' case and didn't know it. Wasn't et a fine joke? Anyway, I never saw a prettier array of house gowns in any life." 'What the Philosopher and the Dog Man Thought of latch Other. "Do you know, my friend," said tho Profound Looking Man to the Dumb Lookingrellow, "do you know that there are tendencies at work in this country which, vampire -like, are sucking the life blood of our institutions?" "Naw," said the Dumb Looking Fel- low. "Did you know that the artistic and cesthotic sense of our population is being strangled by a sordid and cross material- ism ?'T "Dime," said the Dunab Looking Fel- low. "Ah, then, in3r friend, you do not ap- preciate the dangerous and materialistic trend which air social, political, literary and artistic affairs htvve taken?" "Naw," said the Duanb Looking Fol- lw. "Do you meen to say," asked the Pro- found Looking Straoger, "that you are not War() of the baleful influences that are a,t work, the moult, but no leso. dead - 17, agencies which antagonize our .inte- gral perpetuity'?" "IN aw," said the Dumb Looking Fel- low, "Are you not alarmed, then, my friend, lest these agencies undermine and over- throw this glorious national edifice which our fathers have bnilded, and for which statesmen have wrought, and yeomen have toiled, and patriots have died?" "New," said the Dumb Looking Fel- . low. Just then a man MITI 0 from the rear of She car, held out his hand to Via Duenb Looking Fellow and said: • "Hullo, Jim. How's your dog?" ' "Gosh! Bill, you oughter see that dorg," said the man, who looked dumb no longer. "You ought to see him. There never wuz a dorg like that dorg, sence the fust dorg wuz built. He's got more senee tha,n you an' Ian' this ere dood together," and he pointed his thumb over his shoul- der toward the Profound Looking Strang- er, "Marc sense then all onus, Set ham on traok of a rabbit—nose to the groun', tail up, eyes' squirtin.' lightnin', howlin' like a good un, he's a sight vela travel - in' rum' the worl' to see. You know Vera the train run into my wagon, w'en my wife wuz carryin' the dorg up to the don; doctor to cure his fleas? Wall, sir, I saw the train a oomin', an' sez I, 'My wife's jest fool 'noeglinte rxt.n agin tha,t train an' kill that dorg.' An' sure 'nough the train came smash. into 'em, an' my heart sunk down into my boots. I thought the dorg was dead.. But wasn't I glad ey'en I ioun' he was all safe. Yes, sue all safe an' souri'. Not a hair of him hurt. Wall, sir, I wuz the happiest man in town thet night. Course 'twas too bad the train killed my wife, but then that dorg was safe. Base dorg you ever see. Got a brain. on him like Daniel Webster; got an. intellee like George Washington, but, Good Lord! he's got fleas. Say, stranger," and he addressed the Profound Looking Man, "do you know what will cure a dorg of fleas?" "No, sir," replied the Profound Look- ing Stranger. Don' t know any kind of 'intment, nor nothin' thet'll kill 'em off?" sir." "No dorg-wash, nor anything er that sort?" "No, sir." "Take .no interes' in dorgs?" • "Not the slightest." The train stopped here, and the Pro- found Looking Stranger got out. "Stupid. clown!" said he to the conduc- tor,' as he glanced at the man of dogs. The man of dogs burned to his friend and said: "Diva fool, The Cost of a Labor Strike. Fire, Rood, and shipwreck are not the only inetheas of destruchion of property. The stoppage of production is quite as effective as either of these, almost as speedy and quite as costly. For, in a world that lives by work, property which would be created if work went 011 as usual is as surely destroyed when work is stopped as if it had been produced and burned up or thrown into the sea. The idle producers keep on consuming, and when they begin to find work again they the world poorer by just so much as they naiglit have produced, and. them- selves poorer by so =eh as they have used from their savings in meeting the cost of living. 15 ±0 even worse than this; for our industries in these days of speciali- zation are so dependent upon each other Shat, when one of themstops, others which use their products must either stop also or go more slowly, and the loss in the products of labor stretches out far and spreads out widely. The great lock- out at the Homestead steel works in.Penn- eylvania took place on She second. day of Rely. Nearly four thousand. workmen ceased work on that day, and tlee and furnaces were shut down. Figures are now given showing approximately how much has been lost by this stoppage. There is'first, the loss by the men in wages. which is set at $150,000 for the month. The company has spent as 111.1.101 as this in the endeavor to get more men to take their places, and by the idleness of the mills $1002000 is the estimated loss. No account is taken of the expense of hiring Pinkertons, but the State of Pennsylvania will have a bill of about $320,000 to pay for the services of the militia. Add to this the loss in wages and in products by the "sympathetic" strike of the workmen at Beaver Falls, Duquesne, and Pittsburg, and the sum will reach one million dollars. All this has been sacrificeft without suffering or desbitution among the workmen. Many of them had money laid by, on which they have drawn for the support of their families during this period of idleness. Others who might have felt the pinch of want have been cared for by assistance from the treasury of the Amalgamated Association. There has been nothing like starvation or misery; only a delibe- rate scattering of a million dollars which would have been saved if there had been no interruption of the industry at Home- stead. In this calculation account is not made, of comae, of the loss of life and the bodily injury sustained in the riot with She Pin.kertons ; nor is any estimate, Made of the indirect loss sustained in other industries dependent upon the pro- duct of the Homestead works for their material. It is a clear and clean million chargeable directly to the Homestead lockout. Officiousness Rebuked. "Move along, don't stand there." He was a big policeman, and the person he addressed was a little pickaninny about four feet high who was standing 111 She entrance to a fashioneble jewelry store. The avenue was thronged and there were people all around the entrance Waiting for the Coxey parade, and there did not appear to be any particular rea- son why the small colored urchin should. be especially picked out as an. object of attack. It clid seem to make a very ma- terial difference to a young man with a tall, athletic figure,. standing near by. "Why do you pick that boy out for abuse?" asked the young man. "All of us are in the same position here," "Well, you move along too, then, said the copper. "I will if you dismise the crowd." "I'll arrest you, anyhow," was the cop- per's reply. ' "No, you won't," replied the erowd. The copper looked at the angry faces about him and walked on down She street amid the jeers mid hisses of the more dar- ing spectators. Follow InStrnotions. There is a man in this town who bas a maio servant who is more faithful than any dog that was over born.. He neYer questions an order, If the man was to tell him to Walk down to the foot of Ran- dolph street and, inn:1p off qa (leek he would' do the walking and the jumping with a simple and unquestionable faith. The other day a friend of the man came into his office and asked the maxi to lend hint his servant for a short time. The friend wantelt a pa.elabge which he had left alt his hones. The package was too valuable to be intrusted to a messenger boy and he was too busy to go after it himself. The man loaned the servant and his friend gave him these instruc- tions: "Now, Men, I want you to go up to ray house and walk right up the front steps. The door will be open and you go right up,tairs. You go in and you will find a big package on my dresser, That's She package I want, and. if you get back in an hour I will give you a $1." The male servant listened. attentively and said that he understood his instruc- tions. He hustled out and in less than an hour returned with the package, He was not in very ,good shape. His face was bruised and. Ins coat was torn. One of his eyes was blackened and the skin was off the knucldes of his right hand. . "Holy Moses'John I" exclaimed. his employer, "what have you been doing?" "Been in a fight," replied John grimly. "What have you been fighting about?" "Fellow up at that man's house." "With whom?" "Why," said. Sohn in the most matter- of-fact way, "he didn't want me to walk up the front steps, They had just been painted." "Well, why ilia you walk up them, then?" John looked reproachfully at his em- ployer. "Didn't you tell me to go up the front steps for that package" he asked. "Yes, but—" "They hain't no but about it. Yon told. me to go up them front steps, and I went up 'em, paint or no paint. I had to fight She coachman, but I went up." "He seems to have given you. a pretty hard fight," ventured the employer. "Hugh!" sniffed Sohn, contemptuously, "it wasn't a patch on the one the house- keeper and charal ermaicl gimme," The man began to get alarmed. "Do you mean to say you fought everybody in that house?" he asked, severely. • • "1 danno," replied John, gravely. "I licked the coac,hma,n, a ad the housekeeper, and the chambermaid, ancl«the cook. If they was anyone else I didn't have no truck with them, but," he added., trium- phantly, "I got the package and I done what I was told, and P11 go back and Hole She rest of the folks if you say so." The Value of Time. One morning when Benjamin. Franklin was busy in the press room on his news- paper a lounger stepped into the book- store and spent an hour or more looking over the books. Finally he seemed. to settle upon one, and asked the clerk the price. "Ono dollar," the clerk replied. • "One dollar," echoea the lounger. "Can't you take less than that?" "One dollar is the price," the clerk -an- swered. The would-be purchaser looked over the books a while .and enquired: "Is Mr. Franklin in'?" " " Yes ; he's basy in the printing office," She clerk replied. "'Well, I want to see him," said. the manh Te clerk told Mr. Franklin that a gen- tleman was in the store waiting to see hint. Franklin soon appeared, and the stranger said: "What is the lowest, Mr. Franklin, that you can take for that book ?" "Otto dollar and a qaarter," was the prompt and decisive answer. "Otto dollar and a quarter ! Why. your clerk only asked me a dollar just now." "True," replied Mr. Franklin, " and I coald have better afforded to take a dol- lar for the book than to leave my work." The man seemed surprised, and, wish- ing to end a parley of his own seeking, said: " Well, come now, tell your lowest .price for this book." " One dollar and a half," "A dollar and a hall! Why, you offered it yourself for a dollar and a quar- ter." "Yes," said Mr. Franklin. coolly, "and I had better have taken that price then than to take even a dollar and a half now." This was a way of trade which took this man quite by a surprise. Without another word he laid the money on the counter, took the book and left the store. What Happened a Much Absorbed Young Lady. Coining up in the evening train to White Plains on Friday evening was a big strapping fellow, who wore a heavy overcoat. Occupying the other half of the seat was a young lady to whom ;he seemed very much attached. The pass- engers were willing to bet that it was a clear case of a mutual character. When the conductor called. out this station, among the first to move towards the door was this pair—the lady in advance of her escort. She was little, dainty and trim, and as she moved forward she was the cynosure of many admixing eyes; so was he. Just when they reached the door he spoke to her and returned to their seat for a forgotten package, She clid not hear him, but proceeded. to the platform, think- ing, of course, he was following closely behind. When once on solid ground, in the semi -darkness she slipped her hand through the arm of another stalwart young M(1n back of her, who also wore a heavy overcoat. She nestled close up to him and began a confidential chat about an interesting matter. They had gone together belt a few steps, when, wonder- ing at the silence of her companion., she looked up into his face and discovered her mistake. Oh, horrors! With an ember - used "Pardon mo, excrise nae" she fled back to the right fellow, who, eoming out of the car, had seen her depart, arM ±11 arm, 'with another person and could not quite understand what she was up to. Her explanation was perfeetly satisfae.- tory. I3ut the young lady has since been thinking of that confidential conversation svith the stranger. and how much of it he will give away. Wreetling Needed at Home. • Mrs. Slimson—My bitble boy has been very wicked te-clay. He got into 0 light and got a black eye. Rev. Dr, Drowse—So I perceive, Wil- lie, come into the other room and I will wrestle in prayer for you, Willie —You'd better go home and avrestleiti prayer for your own. little boy. He's got two_blackeyes. It a stail'e head be out off and the ani- mal placed in a eool, moist spot a hew head will be grown. FOR SA1313011 READING. CURRENT R1lLI(.4191US TAX« Trite and Wise Selections of the Ablest Me» of the Day on Morality analfte. Ugion for Ilotne Reading. Elty 1 lfov 1 Ain Blind. I would receive iny sight; my elouded eyes Miss the Wed radiance of the morning sun, The changing tints that glorify the Wes With roseate splendors when the day is clone ; Th e shadows sat and grey, the pearly light 01 summer twilight deep'eing into night. cannot see to keep the narrow way, Aria so I blindly wander here and there. Groping' amidst the tombs, or, helpless, stray Through pathless, tangled deserts, bleak and bare, Weeping, I seek the way I cannot find— Ope n my eyes, dear Lord, for I am blind. And oft I laugh with some light, thoughtless • lest. Nor see how anguish lines some face mord dear, And write my mirth, a mocking palimpsest, On blotted sciolls of human pain and fear ; ArarneVer seethe heartache interlined— Pity, 0 Son of David I I am blind, I do not see thelnain my light words give; The quivering, shrinking heart I cannot see ; So, light of thought, midst hidden griefs 1 live, And mock the "cypressed torahs with slightest glee Open my eyes; ltght. blessed ways to find— Jesus have mercy on me, I am blind. My useless eyes are reservoirs of tears, Doomed for their blind mistakes to overflow; To weep Mr the thoughtless ways of wandering years, 13ecause I could not see—did net know. These sigldless eyes—than angriest glance less kind— Light of the world, have pity ! I axo blind. Sinning makes you leave off praying, and praying reak•es you leave off sinning. To belong to God is the sum of religion; 'the correlative is to serve him. Those are the best prepared for the greatest monies that see themselves un- worthy of the least. The prayers I make will then be sweet indeed, If thou the spirit give by which I pray, My unassisted heart Is barren clay, That of its native self can nothing feed. 4, Go open up the hidden preciousness of the promises; we neea a mine of experi- ence, and to gain this last a man needs an exhaustible mine of grace. Our adversity, so called, oftenturns out to be our prosperity. Jesus is the alpha not only, bnt the omega also, in all pro- vidence. Wait till you see the end before you complain against God. When the song is gone out of your life you cannot start another while it's a -ring- ing in your ears; but it's best to have a bit of .silence, and out o' that maybe a psalm'll come by an by. God's promises were never meant to ferry our laziness. Like a boat, they are to be rowed by our oars; but many men entering forget the oars, and drift dowza. more helpless in the boa t th an if they had stayed. on slier°. Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret -hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life and mixes itself with action, is the fruit, of those sacred, solitary moments when we meet God alone. Christian living is not wrapping one's self in a holy web in the sanctuary, and then coming forth after a twilight medi- tation to say : " There. I am 'consecrat- ed." In going out into the world and taking all our advantages as trust funds —as confidential debts owed to God. Unload your sins at the Cross of Christ. There only ean they be washed away, and your SMil be made safe. roloaa your spirit of neglect. Opportunities enough have been lost. Lose 130 more. Undo all wrong as far as can be, and start on to win a new reputation—ono for fidelity to Christ and to every Christian duty. God, by his providence, says to each of us to -day : "I give yon a cleaninew book Write your biography." What will you write? The world. is full of literature, hornes full of desolation, hearts full of misery, prisons full of victims.. the graves full of corpses to show that wine and strong drink are not good for man. Why do they take it ? Because they are not wiee, —are fools, in short. Man loses his power to see evil, his will to resist it, his regarcl for wife, children, self, country, and God. How much man remains? He is dead. while he lives. Manhood is gone, only foolishoess is left. Patience is a virtue for which there is no substitute. There is often no other way out of a difficulty than the way of patience. But this really is a mese grad- ates way, when the sufferer finds it. Nor is it a way which any one need be asham- ed. to take, for our Lord recommends ib "In your patience ye shall win your souls." He knows that there is often nothing left us but this one thing— patience. We niust use ib; We must win our sotils, oar very lives, by it. He who would preaeh Christ inust live Christ. There is power in a life that re- presents ,Christ, and that witnesses for Christ. Many a man who is proof agaenat ell arguments for Christianity in formal discassion, cermet fail to reeognize the force of a Christ -like Character lived. be- fore his eyes. Said Richard Cecil of the dark days of his unbelief "Thre was otte argument I Could not resist, and that was the consistent example of a godly mother," Eeen if one is held back front speaking for Christ to another, he need net be hindered from living for Christ consistently.. If there be no fixture life in Christ the motive power of Christianity is taken away, Our preaehing is based en. the doetrine of immortality. If Christbe not risen there appears no logical groand for hope beyond the grave. The resurreetion of Jesus iS essentially related to our re- generation, and suggests other-worldli, nese. The Gospel reconciles us to our providential lot in the preSent life, se Oat we are encouraged:to endure patient- ly and labor assiduously -without prospect of immediate recognition or reward. If we forego present enjoyments because we have hope in Christ, and he is not risen, we live limier a delusion, and of all men are the most to be pitied. We find this record concerning Daniel and his companions : "In all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found thern ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers." Dr. Pentecost writesunaler this head: " Cortaiely those nations known as Christian are vastly superior superior to those whiele are guided by the excesses and superstitions of heathenism. In this great emeire of India, where I am now preaching the Gospel, we see a little handful of Englishmen dominating two laindred and seventy millions of people, both in politics and material seienee. The well-known superiority of the Anglo- Saxon race is due most of all, and first of all, to the influence of the Gospel of jesuS Christ." Three Forms of Death. In the solemn scenes grouped together on Calvary we have all of the three pos- sible form of death. We have the death of the Sinless; we have the death of the sinner who repents, and we have the death of the sinner who puts away re- pentance. Which of the three shalt yours be? It cannot be the death of the Sinless. That belongs to Jesus alone. Therefore your death, as that of a sinner is limited to two possibilities—that of the, penitent and that of the impenitent. How awful is that of the latter, close be- side the former, and Christ as near to the one as the other, only to be put and as far as we see, hopelessly away. In that other criminal, as near as the open fountain, as weloome, had he asked it, to the living water, no conversion is seen ; in his last end there is no testimony and no prayer, and if he believed not that Christ was He, must he not have died in his sins? It is as fixed as destiny, but it is fixed by choice. Were it not for the equal promise re- vived by bhe record of all the great sin- ners whom the cross has saved, we ehould all despair; but as it is we may, and if we believe it, must hope. He, who re- menabered the penitent in his own hour of mortal sorrow, will not forget us, now that He has entered into His kingdom. Prier:Gs. It has been said that the brighteA rays in the sunshine of one's youth are one's friends. When the mind is young and. impressionable the influence or friends does much to shape it and direct its course in after life. Many careers have depend- ed on the power of friends; many a great name would now be unknown bnt for the influence and self-sacrifice of some friend. who has fallen into that very oblivion froen which his companion has 'been sav- ed. Elizabeth Barrett Browning once asked Charles Kingsley for the secret of his life. "Tell me," she said, "that 1 may make my beautiful. too." His reply was a noble tribute "I had a friend." he said. It was a friend, undoubtedly of his younger days, when ties of affection are strongest and character is the most easily molded. This friend exerted his greatest endeavors to 'bring oat the be.st that was in the writer, not to retard him with the worst that was in himself. So it is with all true Mends. Their cardinal virtue is unselfishness. They never fc-el the sting of jealousy, and each is always ready to rejoice in the success and prosperity of the other, and to prove a sqpport and com- fort to him when sympa.thy and encour- agement are most needed. It is a truth as old as. the mountains that "a friend in need is a friend incleel," and it is well that occasionally there be a need, other- wise we cannot know upon whom to rely when the hour of darkest trial is upon us. In many ways it is unpleasant to 000 - template -11m few of tlane who call them- selves our friend5 will :MCC° ,411.11y with- stand the test. Yet epee farther con- sideration of our apparent misfertuee in being obliged to say, as an old man once said, that wo could fili a chru•vb with onr acquaintances, but could pack our real friends into a pew, is in its best sig- nificance aa encouraging trath.• It is m.uch bettor to place your reliance upon a few who share your oonficiences and un- derstand your life, rather than to dissi- pate ie among a large number. Con- centration is force, energy; in friendship it is the mobive power of lire and the developer of character, If faithful friends ware not difficult to find eve should not appreciate their value. We straggle to win them, we endeavor to hold them, As She machine is injured by frietion aused by the introduction of extraneous matter, so a geed friendShip is often marred by misunderstandings which should never be present, but which will creep in from the most unsuspected causes. The proper course in such a case is not to set itside so valuable a possession, but to stop short, as the meehinist would stop his maehine, and remove the matter that canses the disturbanee. Then everything is as good as new, and a vatuable lesson has been learned for faun profit.