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MOUNT AALYAatY'S SUE
3)ESQ7lll3E.0 1311 '.CAIALSGE IN AN
.GLOQLJEN7.' SE1tION.
^Overpowered by Emotion, the Tabor
natio Preacher Broke Down WiulQ,
Attempting to Road the Nineteent!
Chapter of St. Joint to Iris Party on
tite Mount,.Mount,.
the carnage. Yonder a group of gain -
biers are pitching up asto who ishall
h coatof
have the c a the dying Saviour.
There are woocea almost dead with grief
among the crowd, his mother and his
aunt, and 60111e whose sorrow He had
comforted, and whose guilt He had pare
_ cloned. Here a man dips a sponge into
sour wino, and by a stick lifts it to the
hot and cracked lips. The hemorrhage
of the five wounds has done its work.
The atmospheric conditions are such as
the world saw never before or since. It
was not a solar eclipse; such as astrono-
mers record or we ourselves have seen.
It was a bereavement of the -heavens!
Darker ! Until the towers of the temple
,were no longer visible. Darker ! Until
the surrounding hills disappeared. Dark-
er! Until the inscription above the
middle cross is. illegible. Darker ! Until
the chin of the dying Lord falls upon the
breast, and He sighed with His last sigh
the words, "It is finished 1"
As we sat there, a silencetook posses-
sion of us and wo thought : This is the
neater from which continents have been
touched, and all the world shall be mov-
ed. Toward this hill the prophets point-
ed :forward. Toward this hill the apostles
and martyrs pointed. backward. To this
all heaven pointed downward. To this
with foaming execrations perdition point-
ed upward. Round its circles all time,
all eternity, and with this seen°, painters
have covered the mightiest canvas, and
sculptors cue the richest marble, and or-
chestras rolled their grandest oratorios,
and churches lifted their greatest dox-
ologies, and heaven built its highest
thrones.
Unable longer to endure the pressure
of this scene, we move on, and into a
garden of olives, a garden which in the
right season is lull of flowers, and here is
the reported tomb of Christ. You know
the book says, 'tin the midst of the garden
was a sepulcher." I think this was the
garden and this the sepulcher. It is
shattered of course. About four steps
down we went into this, which seemed a
family tomb. There is room in it for
about five bodies. We measured it and
found it about eight feet high and nine
feet wide and fourteeon feet long. The
crypt where I think the Lord slept was
seven feet long. I think that there once
lay the King wrapped in His lastslumber.
On some of those rocks the Roman gov-
ernment set its seal. At the gate of this
mausoleum on the first Easter morning,
the angels rolled the stone thundering
down the hill. Up these steps walked
the .lacerated feet of the Conqueror, and
from these heights he looked off upon the
city that had east Him out, and upon
the world He had coins to redeem, and at
the heavens through which He would
soon ascend.
Bit he must hasten back to the. city.
There are stones in the wall. which Solo-
mon had lifted. Stop here and see a
startling proof of the truth of prophet
In Jeremiah =xi., 40, it is said that
Jerusalem shall be built through the
ashes. What ashes, people have been
asking? where those ashes just put into
the prophecy to fill up ? No ! the meaning
has been recently discovered. Jerusalem
is now being built out in a certain direc-
tion whore the h round has been submitted
to chemical analysis, and it has been
found to be the ashes cast from the sacri-
fices of the aneient temple, ashes of the
wood and ashes of bones and animals.
There are great mounds of ashes, ac-
cumulation of centuries of sacrifices.
Yonder is a curve of stone which is part
of a bridge that once reached from Mount
Moriah to Mount Zion, and over it David
walked or rode to prayers in the temple.
Here is the walking -place of the Jews,
where for centuries almost perpetually
during the daytime, whole generations of
Jews have stood putting their head or
lips against the wall of what was once
Solomon's temple. It was one of the sad-
dest and most solemn and impressive
scenes I have ever witnessed to see scores
of the descendants of Abraham with tears
rolling down their cheeks, and lips
trembling with emotion, a bookof psalms
open before them, bewailing the ruin of
the ancient temple and the captivity of
their race, and crying to God for the
restoration of the temple in all its origi-
nal splendor. Most affecting scene ! And
such a prayer as that, century after cen-
tury, I am sure God will answer, and in
some way the grandeur will return, or
something better. I looked over the
shoulders of some of them and saw that
they were reading from the mournful
psalms of David, while I have been told
that this is the litany which some chant :
Blt001{LYN, Nov. 4.—Dr. '1'alinage has
•se:ected his sermon for to -day from the
text "If I forg,t thee, 0 Jerusalem,
let my right hand forget her cunning."
Psalm exxxvii., 5.
Paralysis of his best hand, the wither-
ing of its muscles and nerves, is liar° in-
voked if the author allows to pass out of
!his mind the grandeurs of the holy pity
where ono he dwelt Jeremiah, seated
'by the river Eaphrahes, wrote the psalm,
and not David. Afraid I am of any-
thing that approaches imprecation, and
.,yet I can understand how anyone who
has been at Jerasalern should, in enthus-
ism of soul,ery whether he be sitting by
'the Euphrates, or the Hudson, or the
Thames, '`If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem,:
may my right hand forget her eunni,'gn'
You see, it is a city uulike all others for.
topography, history, for significance, for
cstyle of population, for waterworks, for
•ruins, for towers, tragedies, for memos=
able birth -places, for sepulchers, for con-
flagrations and famines, for victories and
,defeats.
I am here at last in this very Jaru-
salem, and on a housetop just after the
•dawn of the morning of Dec. 8, with an
old inhabitant to point out the salient
features of the scenery. , `Now," I said,
-"where is Mount Zion ?" "Here, at
your right." "Where is Mount Olivet?"
""In front of where you stand." "Whore
is the garden of Gethsemane?" "In
,yonder vallev." "Where is Mount
Calvary?" :Befaare he answered I saw it.
No unprejudiced mind can have a mo-
ment's doubt as to where it is. Yonder
I see a hill in she shape of alcuinan skull,
and the Bible says that Calvary was the
'' `place of a skull." "Not only is itskall-
•shapon. but just beneath the brow of the
hill is a cavern that looks like ey.aese
'sockets. Within the grotto under it, is
the shape of the inside of a skull. Then
the Bible says that. Christ was crucified
outside the gate, and this is outside the
gate, while the site formerly selected was
inside the gate. Besides that, the skull
hill was for ages the place where male-
factors were put to death, and Christ was
•slain as a malefactor.
The Saviour's assassination took place
beside a thoroughfare along which
people went "swagging their heads,"
and there is the ancient thoroughfare. I
saw at Cairo, Egypt, a clay mould of that
skull hill, made by the late General
•Gordon, the arbiter of nations. While
Empress Helena, eighty years of age and
imposed upon, by having three crosses
exhumed before her dim eyes, as though
they were the three crosses of. Bible story,
-selected another site as Calvary, all re-
cent travellers agree that the one I point
out to you was, without doubt, the scene
of the most terrific and overwhelming
'tragedy this planet ever witnessed.
There were a thousand things we
wanted to see that third day of December
and our dragoman proposed this, and that
and the journey, butt said : "First of all
show us Calvary. Something might hap-
pen if we went elsewhere and sickness or
accident might hinder our seeing the sac-
red mount. If wo see nothing else we
must see that and see it this morning.
'Some of us in carriage and some on mule
back, we were soon on the way to the
most sacred spot that the world has ever
seen or ever will see. It was called Jere-
miah's grotto, for there the prophet wrote
his book of lamentations. The grotto is
thirty-five feet high, and its top and side
are malachite, green, brown, black, white,
red and gray.
Coming forth from those pictured sub-
terraneous passages we begin to climb
the steep sides of Calvary. As we go up
we see cracks and crevices in the rocks
which .I think were made by the convul-
sions of nature when Jesus died. On
the hill lay a limestone rock, white but
tinged with crimson, the white so sug
gestive of purity and the crimson of sae
orifice, that I said, "That stone would bo
beautifully appropriate for a memorial
wall in my church now building in
America; and the stone now being
brought on camel's backs from Sinai
across the desert, when put under it, how
significant of law and the gospel! And
those lips of stone will continue to speak
of justice and mercy long after our living
lips have uttered their last message." So
I rolled it down the hill and transported
it. When that day comes for which
many of you have prayed -the dedication
°of the Brooklyn tabernacle, the fourth
immense struetare we have reared in
this city, and that makes it somewhat
difficult eing the fourth structure, a
work sash as no other church was ever
called upon to undertake—we invite you
in the main entrance of that building to
look upon a memorial wall containing
the most suggestive, and solemn, and
tremendous antiquities ever brought to-
gether ; this, rent with the earthquake
at the giving of the law at Sinai, the
other rent at the crucifixion on Calvary.
It is impossible for you to realize what
our emotions wore as • we gathered, a
group of men and women, all saved by
'the blood of the Lamb on a bluff of Cal-
vary, just wide enough to contain three
crosses. I said to my fancily and friends :
"I think here is where stood the cross of
the impenitent burglar, and here the
cross of the merchant, and here between,
I thins stood the cross on which all our
4 ''hopes depend." As I opened the nine-
teenth chapter of John to read, a chill
blast struck the hill and a cloud hovered,
the natural solemnity impressing the
spiritual solemnity. I read a little, but
broke down, I defy any emotional Chris-
tian man sitting upon Golgotha to road
aloud with unbroken voice at all the
whole of that account in Luke or John,
of which these sentences are a fragment :
"They took Jesus and led him away, and
he bearing his cross went forth into a
tlace called the.v lace of a skull, where
he y crucified Him and two othes with
Hien, on either side one, and Jesus in the
midst ;�" " Behold thy mother ; " "1
thirst. This day shalt thou be with
me in Paradise;" "` Father
forgiveive
then,
they known0t what they dor'"If it be
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'possible, lot this cup pass from me.j.
'What sighs, what sobs, what tears, what
tempests of sorrow, what surging oceans
of agony in those utterances!
While we sat there the whale scene
came before us. All around the top and
the sides and the foot of the hill,• a mob
rages. They gnash their teeth, and
shake their clonehed,fists at Him. Here
-the cavalry horses champ their bite, and
;paw the earth, and snort at the smell of
" For the temple that lies desolate ;
We sit in solitude and mourn;
For the palace that is destroyed,
We sit in solitude and mourn;
For the walls that are overthrown,
We sit in solitude and mourn
For our majesty that is departed,
We sit in solitude and mourn;
For our great men that lie dead,
We sit in solitude and mourn ;
For priests who have stumbled,
We sit in solitude and mourn."
I think at that prayer Jerusalem will
come again to more than its ancient
magnificence ; it may not be precious
stones and architectural majesty, but in
moral splendor that shall eclipse forever
all that David and Solomon saw.
But I must go back to the housetop
where I stood early this morning, and be-
fore the sun sets, that I may catch a
wider vision of what the city now is and
once was. As I stood there on the
housetop in the midst of the city I said.
"Oh Lord reveal to me this metropolis of
the world that I may see it as it once
appeared.;' No one was with me, for
there are some things you can see more
vividly with no one but God and your-
self present. Immediately the Mosque
of Omar, which has stood for years on
Mount Moria, the site of the ancient
temple, disappeared and the most honor-
ed structure of all the ages lifted itself
n the light and 1 saw it—the temple,
the ancient temple ! Not Solomon's
temple, but something grander than
that. Not Zerabbabel's temple, but
something more gorgeous than that. It
was Herotl's temple built forthe one pur-
pose of eclipsing all its architectural re-
eeessors. There it stood, covering nine-
een acres, and 10,000 workmen had been
orty-six years in building it. Blaze' of
magnificence ! The temple . The temple
Doxology in stone ! Anthems soaring in
rafters of Lebanon cedar ! From side to
ide and from foundation to guilded pin-
mole, the frozen prayer of all ages !
From this house -top on the December
fternoon we look out in another direr:
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a .I see the king's spalace cover -
ng
, „ a hundred and sixty thousand square
feet, three rows of windows illuminat-
ng the inside brilliance, the hall way
ainscotod with all styles of colored
marbles surmounted by arabesque, ver-.
million and gold, looking down on
mosaics, music of waterfalls in the
arching outside answering the music of
ho harps thrummed by deft Angers in-
ide banisters over which princes and
rincesses leaned _ and talked to king
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem ! Mountain city !
City of clod! Joy of the whole earth !
Stronger than Gibraltar or Sebastopol,
surely it never could have been cap-
tured.
But while standing there on the house-
top that December afternoon, 1 hoard the
crash of the twenty -throe mighty sieges
which have come against Jerusalem in
the ages past. Yonder is the pool of
Hezekiah and Siloam, but again and
again were those waters reddened by
human blood. Yonder are the towers,
but again and again they fell. Yonder
are the high walls, but again and again
they were leveled. To rob the treasures
from her temple and palace, and to de-
throne this queen pity of the earth, all
nations plotted. David taking the throne
at Hebron decides that he must have
Jerusalem for his capital and, coming up
from theouth at the head of o hun-
dreds c w
and eighty, thousand troops, he
captures it. Look, here comes another
siege 'of Jerusalem ! The Assyrians under
Sennacherib, enslaved nations at his
chariot wheel, having taken two hundred
thousand captives in hisone campaign,
Phoenician cities kneeling at his feet,
Egypt trembling at the flash of his
sword, Domes upon Jerusalem. Look,
another siege ! The armies of Babylon
under Nebuchadnezzar come down and
take a plunder from Jerusalem suck ae
no other city had to yield, and ten thou-
sand of her citizens trudge off into Baby-
lonian bondage. Look, another siege !
and Nebuchadnezzar and his hosts by
night go through a breaoh of the Jerusa-
lem wall, and the morningfinds some of
them seated triumphantly in the temple,
and what they could not take away be-
cause too heavy, they break up -the
brazen sea, and the two wreathed pillars
Jachin and Boaz.
Another siege of Jerusalem! and
Pompey with the battering-rams which
100 men would roll back, and then a
full run forward would bang against the
wall of the city, and catapults hurling
the rocks upon the people, left twelve
thousand dead, and the city in the clutch
of the Roman war -eagle. Look, a more
desperate siege of Jerusalem ! Titus
with his ten legions on Mount of Olives,
and ballistas arranged on the principal
of the pendelum to swing great boulders
against walls and towers, and miners
digging under the city making galleries
of beams underground, which, set on fire,
tumbled great maeses of houses and hu-
man beings into destruction and death.
All is taken now but the temple and Ti-
tus, the conquerer, wants that unharmed;
but a soldier, contrary to orders, hurls a
torch into the temple and it is consumed,
Many strangers were in the city at the
time and 67,000 captives were taken,
and Josephus says 1,100,000 lay dead.
But looking from the housetop, the
siege that most absorbs us is that of the
Crusaders, England and France, and all
Christendom, wanted to capture the holy
sepulcher and Jerusalem, then in posses-
sion of the .Mohammedans under the
command of one of the loveliest, bravest
and mightiest men that ever lived, for
justice must be done him though he was
Mohammedan—glorious Saladin! Against
him come the armies of Europe, under
Richard, Closer de Lion, King of England;
Philip Augustus, King of Prance ; Tac -
ren, Raymond, Godfrey and other valiant
men, marching on through fevers and
plagues and battle charges, had suffer-
ings, as intense as the world ever saw,
Saladin in Jerusalem, hearing of the
sickness of King Richard, his chief ene-
my, sends him his own physician, and
from the walls of Jerusalem seeing King
Richard afoot sends him a horse. With
all the world looking on, the armies of
Europe come within sight of Jerusalem,
At first glimpse of the city they fall on
their faces in reverance, and then lift
anthems of praise. Feuds and hatreds
among, themselves were given up, and
Raymond, and Tancred, the bitterest ri-
vals, embraced while the armies looked
on. But Saladin retook the city, and for
the last four hundred years it has been in
possession of cruel and polluted Moham-
medanism !
Another crusade is needed to start for
Jerusalem, a crusade in this nineteenth
century greater than all those of the past
centuries put together. A crusade in
which you and I will march. A crusade
without weapons of death, but only the
Sword of the Spirit, A crusade that will
make not a single wound, nor start one
tear of distress, nor incendiarize one
homestead. A crusade of gospel peace!
And the cross again be lifted on Calvary
not as once, an instrument of pain, but
a signal of invitation, and the mosque of
Omar shall give place to a church of
Christ, and Mount Zion becomes the
dwelling place not of David but of Da-
vid's Lord, and Jerusalem, purified of all
its idolatries, and taking back the Christ
she once cast out, shall be made a worthy
type of that heavenly city which Paul
styled "the mother of us all " and which
St. John saw, "the holy Jerusalem de-
scending out of heaven from God" Some
of us before we reach the heavenly Jeru-
salem may be as tired as that, but an-
gels of mercy will help us in, and one
glimpse of the temple of God and the
Lamb, and one good look at the "King
in His Beauty" will more than compen-
sate for all the toils and tears and heart-
breaks of the pilgrimage. Hallelujah
Amen !
Some Points About Pins.
Thorns were originally used in fasten-
ing garments together. Pins did not
immediately succeed thorns as fasteners,
but different appliances were used, such
as hook's, buckles and laces. It was the
latterhalf of the fifteenth century before
pins were used in Great Britain. When
first manufactured in England the iron
wire, of the proper length, was filed to a
point, and the other extremity twisted
into a head. This was a slow process,
and four or five hundred pins was a good
day's work for an expert hand. The
United States has the credit of inventing
the first machine for making pins. This
was in 1824. The inventor was one
Lemuel Wellman Wright. Many re-
markable improvements have followed,
and the machines of the present day send
off, asif by magic, whole streams of pins,
and these fall so nicely adjusted for the
papers pricked for them that two small
girls can put up several thousand papers
in aday.
He—Why doalways you have your
dog
you when I call
?
She
(demurely)—For protection, of
course.
He—Ih what way?
She-We111 if mamma heard anything
she might think I was kissing Fido.
Scientific cleanliness is to be promoted
in Frond], schoolrooms py boiled drink-
ing water, damp cloths Instead of dry
clusters and brooms and an antiseptic
cleaning once a week,
TWO PROMINENT PHYSICIANS
CURED OF
TWO ALLEGED INCURABLE DISEASES BY
Dodd's Ki
Can a Higher Tribute be Paid to a Remedy ? Medical Men Not Only Prescribe•
Dodd's Kidney Pills, but use them as a last resort, AND ARE CURED.
The Doctors' Letters Over Their Own Signatures:
A. G. McCOR1VIICR, 1VI.D.
CURED OF
BRIGHT'S DISEASE.
RICHMOND, QUE., Oct. 5th, 1894.
To the Medical Profession and to the Public :
I believe it is my duty, not only as a member of
the medical profession, but as a citizen, to use every
means that lie within my reach to restore health,
and with it happiness, to my fellow beings. Actu-
ated by these sentiments, I do not hesitate to give
my experience with Dodd's Kidney Pills.
About two years ago I was taken ill with what
I supposed to be a bilious attack, and following
this came La Grippe. I recovered, however, par-
tially, but being far from well, I examined my case
thoroughly and found. that I was a victim of that
dread destroyer, Bright's Disease of the Kidneys.
I consulted other medical men, and used all means
at my disposal to restore my health, but was doom-
ed to disappointment. I kept gradually growing
worse until I was compelled to keep my bed. In
March my attention was called to the many re-
markable cures made by Dodd's Kidney Pills. That
of Dr. Rose particularly interested me. I at once
decided to give them a trial. My improvement was
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taken about a dozen boxes, which resulted in a
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fore commencing the use of the pills I had been
confined to my room for four months. At the pres-
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Another peculiar circumstance in connection
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pepsia for 21 years. Since taking Dodd's Kidney
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For the benefit of the large number of people
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this communication wide publicity.
E. A.ROS 7 M.D.
CURED OF
DIABETES.
Portland, Ont., Oct. 30th, 1893.
Dr. L. A. Smith & Co.,
Toronto, Ont.
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public at large, did I not make it
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are subjects of kidney disease, Dodd's
Kidney Pills should be appreciated
and are well deserving of the large
sale which they now enjoy.
Dodd's Kidney. Pills absolutely and positively cure all diseases of the kidneys and.
urinary organs. Are sold by all dealers.
A NAUTICAL KNOT.
Ilow it Differs From a Nautical Mile—
Origin of the Word.
A nautical knot is frequently confound-
ed with a nautical mile. The length of a
nautical knot is 50 feet 8 inches, no more
nor less ; that of a nautical mile some-
times as long as 6,107 feet 10 inches, and
at other times as short as 6,046 feet; for
a nautical mile has to conform to a line
measuring one minute of aro of the
earth's surface at sea level, and as the
earth is not a perfect sphere the radii
differ so:must the arc. But the length of
a standard nautical mile, according to
the United States coast and goedetie sur-
vey is 6,080 feet Si inches, that being the
length of one minute of arc of a great
circle of a true sphere whose
p surface area
is equal to that of the earth.
In the earlier days of navigation the
method of determining the distance a
vessel sailed at sea was by what was
called "heaving the log." A three -cor-
nered board with a lead attached so as to
float on its edge that it might not drag
through the water was attached to a long
line and about 100 feet from the log or
three -cornered board a knot was made in
the :line, and when the log was thrown
into the water as the vessel sailed away
from it, the line was drawn out of the
vessel by the log, which remained sta-
onary in the water. As soon as the
knot passed out over the rail or stern of
the vessel a half -minute sandglass was
turned to denote et
the ti
mean
d the sand
carefully watched until the last grain
dropped into the lower bulb, and the log -
line was then instantly stopped at the
rail, the distance was measured on the
line as it was hauled in from where it
was stopped at the rail to the knot before
mentioned, and as a half -minute glass
denoted the 120th part of an Hour, so the
distance on the logline was the 120th
part of the distance the vessel would sail
in an. hour. To rnn?ee the computation
more easy knots were place on the log -
line every 120th part of a mild of 6,080
feet, which placed the knots 50 feet 8 in-
ches apart, and the number of those
knots which the vessel sailed in half a
minute were, therefore, equal to the
number of miles that the vessel would
sail in an hour if she continued at the
same rate. The knot received its name
from a simple knot tied in the logline,
and isnot equal to a nautical mile, but
is the 120th part of it.
Forms of Religious Music.
Besides the opera there is only ono de-
partment of music in which Schubert has
not in some of his efforts reached the
highest summit of musical achievement.
His sacred compositions, although very
beautiful from a purely musical point of
view, usually lack the true ecclesiastic
atmosphere—a remark which may be ap-
plied, ,in a general way, to Haydn and
Mozart, too. To my mind, the three
composers who have been most successful
in revealing the inmost spirit of religious
music are Palestrina in whom Roman
Catholic music attains its climax Bach,
who embodies the Protestant spirit, and
'Wagner, who has struck the true ecclesi-
astic, chord in the Pilgrims' Ohorus of
"Tannhaeuser," and especially in the
first and third acts of "Parsifal," Cora-
pared
ompared with these three masters, other
composers appear to homemade too many
concessions to worldly and purely magi-
cal factors—of course, not without ex-
cetions.
Oneof
n those ex
pce tions is
s
Mozart's "Requiem," especially . "Dies
Tree," which moves us as few composi-
tions do and attunes the soul to rever-
ence and worship. Such exceptions may
also be found among Schuberts sacred
compositions. ' `i' Ciriam's Song of Vic-
tory" is a wonderful work, as are some of
his masse . In the Psalms, too, lie has
achieved great things, especially the. one
for ,female voices in A flat major, which
is celestial without worldly admixtures,
It mist not bo forgotten, too, that the
notions as to what is' truly sacred in mus
sic, may differ somewhat among nations
and individuals, like the sense of humor,
He Solved the Problem.
`Marian," he said, gloomily, as he took
his seat at the dinner table. "I have
been doing a little figuring to -day and I
have made up my mind that we must
economize. Our household expenses are
altogether too heavy,"
"Yes, dear," she replied doubtfully.
"We try to pile on too much luxury
and we must stop it," he went on. "I
think we should begin by discharging
the girl. I'm sorry,ebut it is a pure mat-
ter of economy. 1 want to get ahead in
the world."
"Of course, John," she said slowly, "if
it is really neeessary I can do the house-
work."
"No doubt about it," he returned
briskly. "We must put up with some
inconvenience for a while. We must
learn to help ourselves."
"But the girl has been in the habit of
looking after the furnace, John, and I'm
not strong enough for that."
"No -o, that's so," he admitted. "But
then that tau bo easily arranged. You
leave that to mo."
"Of course," she exclaimed, brighten
ing up, " can sort of divide the work
until we are a little more prosperous.
I'll do the ordinary housework and
"I'll hire a man to look after the fur.
.dace an keep tee the
pan. Yon
P u
needn't worry about that."
SVhon Baby was Sisk, to•e ggYs her C*storis.
When she wase Child, elle cried. for Castoris..
`When she becw,c Miss, she clung to Castor's,
When chi had Chiidfiu, 8110 gave %Obi Csstoria.