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could get it. I eerie, Lord, Keep thy
Promise, and ilbeinte my captive Rena,"
Oh, that you might have an nitar in OW
SennOn by Rev. T. De Witt Tainiages parlor, iu the kitohen. in the atom, irt the
Oa. barn, for Christ will be willing to write
again as the manger to amt. prayer. Ile
Rev, Dr. Talmage again preacite4 to a nosila coo to your pla00 of business, as
he confronted Mattbesv, the tax commis-
sioner, If a IttnaSnre Sh011ifl come before
Congress that you thouglat would rubs the
great audience, in the Academy a music.
As usual, many were {aimed away for aaek
Of seats. The sermon was on " Salvatiou,"
the text seleeted being Isaiah 56, 6, "Seek nation, how you. weeld send in. petition,
.ye the Lord while He may be found," and remoustranees! A.nd. yet there hae
Isaiah stands head end shoulders above been enough sin In your heart to ruin it
the Olci Testament authors in YiYid de- for ever, and you have never remonstrated
lerlPtiteuess oS Christ, Other prophets or petitioned against it. If your phYisohl
give an outline of our Saviours' features. health failed, and yea bad the means, you
Some of them present,^as it were, the side would go and spend. the summer in Ger-
face of Christ; others a bust of Christ; many, and the winter in itaay and you
'but Isaiah gives us the au11-length portrait woul1 think it a very cheap outlay if yen
of Christ, Other scripture writers excel' in had to go all round the earth to get betels
•sonie things. Ezekiel more weird, David Your physical health. Have you made any
more pathetic, Solomon more epigram- effort any expenditure, any exertion for
mane, Habakkuk more sublime; but Yana immortal and spiritual health,
when you want to oce Christ coming out Oh, that you might now begin to seek
from the gates of prophecy lis all :Ma after God with earnest prayer. Some of
grandeur and. glory, you, involuutalily turn 1 you have been working for years and
to Isaiah. So that if. the prophecies in re- I years for the support of. your familiea
gard to Christ might be called the "Ora- , Have you given one half day to the work-
t,orio of the Meselah," the writing an ng out of your salvation with fear and
Isaiah is the "Hallelujah Ciaoaunal where 1 trembling? You came here with an ear -
the batons NVEITO and all the trumpet e i• nest purpose, 1 take it, as 1 hay e no
oome in. Isaiah was not a man picked UP I hither with an earnest purpose, and, we
out of iusignificance by inspiration. He / raeet face to face, and 1 tell you flat of alit
was known and honored. aaTosephus, and 1 You want to find the Lord,you must pray,
Philo, and Sirach extolled him in their and pray and pray.
writings. What Paul was among the n romans again, you must see ;no Lora
through Bible study. The Bible as the
newest book in the world.. "Oh," you.
say, "it was made hundreds of pasta ago,
and the learned men. of King James trans-
lated it hundreds of years ago." I confute
that idea by telling you it is not lave min-
utes old, when God, by His blessed Spirit,
retranslates it into your heart. If you
will, in the seeking •of the way of life
through Scripture study, implore God's
study,light to fall upon the page, you vrill
find that these promises aro not one second
old, and that they drop straight from the
throne of God into your heart.
Apostles, Isaiah was asnong the Prophets.
My text Ands him standing on a moun-
tain of inspiration, looking out into the
future, beholding Christ ad.aancing and
•anxious that all men raight know him;
his voice rings down the ages :—" Seek- ye
the Lord syhile He may be found." "Oh,"
says soma one, "that was for oldeu times."
No, my hearer. 11 you have travelled in
other lands yakhave taken a circular let-
ter of orodit front a banking house in New
York, and in St. Petersburg,or Venice or
Route, or Melbourne, or Caloutta, you
resented that letter midget financial help
mmediately. And 1 want you to under- There aro many people to whom the
attend that the textanstead of being appro-
priate for one age, or for one landns a eir-
•oular letter for all ages and for all lands,
and wherever it is presented for help, the
.iselp °braes :--" Seek ye the Lord while He
may be found"
1 come, to -day, wit. no hair -spun
theories of religion, with no nice distinc-
tions, with no elaborate disquisition; but
with an urgent call to personal religion.
The Gospel of Christ is a powerful xnedi-
oine; it either kills or cures. There are
those who say, "I would like to become a
'Christian. I have been waiting a good
while for the right kind of influences to and the sonlptured dome. Alas, that so
-corae;" and still you. are waiting. 'Yon many stop at the outside door of God's
are wiser in worldly things than you are Holy Word, looking at the rhetorical
In religious things. If you went to get to beauties, instead of going in and looking
;Albany, you go to the Grand Central at the altars of seeable° and the dome of
Depot, or to the steamboat wharf, and, God's meroy and salvation that harms
haring got your ticket, you do not sit over penitent and believing souls!
'down on the wharf or sit in the depot you 0, my friends! If you merely want to
.get aboard the boat or train And Yet study the laws of language, do not go to
there are men who say they are waiting to the Bible. It was not made for that.
get to Heaven—waiting, waiting, but not Take 'Howe's Elements of Criticism' '—it
with intelligent waitng, or they would get will 'be better than the Bible for that If
•ou board the line of Christian influences you want to study metaphysics, better
that would bear them into theadngdom of than the Bible will be the writings of
'God.
Now you know very well that to seek a know how to ha,vo sin pardoned, axtd 1st
thing is to search for it with earnest en- I last to gain the blessedness of heaven,
deavour. If you want to see a certain man search the Scriptures,"for in them yehave
In this city, and there is a matter of $10,- 1 eternal life."
000 connected with your seeing him, and .
t When people are anxious abont their
you cannot at first find hint, you do not
souls there are those who recommend good,
books. That is right. But I want to tell you
that the Bible is the best book under such
circumstances. Baxter wrote "A Call to
the Unconverted," but the Bible instate
best call to the unconverted. Philip Dod-
dridge wrote "The Rise and Progress of
Religion in the Soul," but the Bible is the
Bible does not amount to much. If they
merely look at the outside beauty. why it
will no more load there to Christ than
Washington's farewell address or ICran of
Mohammed, or the Shader of the Hindoos.
It is the inward light of God's Word you
must get. I went up to the Ch,ureh of the
Madeleine, in Paris, and looked at the
doors, tvihch were the most wonderfully
constructed I over saw, and. 1 could have
stayed there for a whole week; but I had
only a little time, so, having glanced at
the wonderful carving on the doom I pass-
ed in, and looked at the radiant altars,
; William Hamilton. But if you want th
give op the search. You look in the cb.rec-
tory, but cannot find the name; you go in
enrolee where you think, perhaps, he may
mingle, and, having found the part of the
city where he lives, you go through qtreet
after street, and from block to block, and
you keep on Beaching for weeks and for
" months. best rise andprogress. John Angell jranes
You say :—"It is a matter of $10;000
wrote " Aolvice to the Anxious Inquirer,"
whether I see him or not." Oh, that men
but the Bible is the best advice to. the
'Were as persistent in seeking for Christ!
Had you ono -half that persistenee you anxieus inquirer'
would long ago have found Him who is
the joy of the foagiven spirit. We may
pay our debts, we may attend church, we
may relieve the poor, we may be publio
benefactors, and yet all our life disobey
the text, never seek God, never gain
Heaven. Oh, that the Sdirit of God. would
help me, while I by to show you,in carry-
ing out the idea of ray teat, flrst, how to
;seek the Lord, and in the next place,when
to seek him.
I remark in the fitst place, you are to
task the Lord thorugh earnest and believ-
ing prayer. God is not an autocrat or a
despot seated on a throne, with his arras
resting on brazen lions, and a sentinel
,pacing up ands down at the foot of the
throne. God is a father seated in. a bower,
waiting for his children to come and climb
on his knee, and. got a kiss and his bene -
;diction. Prayer is the cup with which we
go to the "fountain of living water," and
.dip up refreshment for our thirsty soul.
Grace does not coxn.e to the heart as we set
•a cask at the corner of the house to catch
the rani in the shower. It is a pulley fast-
ened to the throne of God, which we pull,
bringiug the blessing. -•
I do not care so much what posture you
take in prayer, nor how large an amount
of voice you use. You might get down
on you face before God, it you did not
pray right inwardly, there would. be no
.response. You might cry at the top of
sour voice, and unless you had a believing
spirit within your cry would. not go
further up than the shoat of a plow -boy
to his oxen. Prayer must be believing,
,earnest, loving. You. are in your house
;some summer day, and a shower comes up
..and a bird tinfrigbted, darts into the win-
dow and wheels about the room. You
seize it. You smooth its ruined pluraage.
You feel its fluttering heart You say,
"Poor thing!" Now, a prayer goes out of
the storm of this world into the Window
, of God's mercy, and he catches it, and he
feels its fluttering pulse, and he puts it in
his own bosom of affection and safety.
Prayer is a warm, ardent, pulsating exer-
cise. It is an electric: battery which, touch-
ed, thrills to the throne of Godit is the
tiivingasell in which we go down into the
depths of Gods mercy and bring up
"pearls of great price,." There was an
inetalice whero prayer made the waves of
the Gennesaret solid. as stone pavement.
Ola how many wonderful things prayer
has accomplished! Have yoii over tried it?
;In the days when the Scotch Covenant-
ers wore perseouted, and the enemies were
after them, one of the head men aniong
the Covenanters played: "Oh, Lord, vat.
be as dead mea unless thoti shalt help us!
Oh, Lord, throw the lap of thy cloak over
these poor thinsg 1" And inotantly
SoOtch mist enveloped and hid tho pereecut-
ad from their persecutors—the promith
iltoraIly lulfillecla "While they are yet
speaking I will hoar.' '
Have you ever tried thepower of prayer?
God says: "Ile is loving and faithful and
patient," Do you. believe that? Yon are
told that (Theist came to save stealers. Do
you believe that? You ate told that all
you have to do to get the pardon of the
Gospel is to Ask for it Do yea* believe
ihat? Then come to him WA say: "Oh,
Leta! I know thou &lest not lie. Thou
hastatold ine to oomo fat pardon, and 1
0, the Bible is the very book you need,
anxious and. inquiring soul! A. dying
soldier said to his mate: "Comrade, give
me a drop !" The comrade shook up the
canteen and said: "There isn't a drop of
water in the canteen." "Oh," sad the
dying soldier, "that's not what I meant;
feel in my knapsack for my Bible, "and
his comrade unbound the Bible, and read
him a fevv of the gracious promises, and
the dying soldier said: "Ah, that's what
I want. There isn't anything like the
Bible for a dying soldier, is there, com-
rade?" 0, blessed book, while we live!
Blessed book while we die!
I remark, again, we must seek God
through church ordinances. "What," say
you "can't a man be saved withant going
to churoh? I reply there are men 1 sup-
pose, in glory, who have never seen a
church; but the church ix the ordained
raeans by which we aro to be brought th
God; and if truth affects us when we are
alone, it affects us more mightily when we
are in the assembly,—the feelings of others
emphasizing our own feelings. The great
law of truthathat would take hold. with
the grasp of a sick roan beats mightily
against the soul with a thousand heart-
throbs.
When you oome into the religious circle,
come only with one notion, and only for
one purpose—to find the way to Christ.
When 1500 people critical about sermons,
and critical about tones of voice, and criti-
cal about Sermonic delivery, the xnake me
think of a man in prison. Hats condemn-
ed to death, but an officer of the govern-
ment brings a pardon and putt it through
the tvicket of the prison, and says: "Here
Is our pardon. Come and get it " "What!
Do you expect me to take that pardon
offered with such a voice as yOu bave,vrith
such an awkward manner as you have? I
would rather die than oo compromise my
rhetorical notions!" Ah, the man does
not say that; he takes it! It is hie lifn
He does not care how *1 18 handed to him.
A.nd if, tosday, that pardon from the
throne of God is o ffered to our souls,
should we not seize it, regerdlees a all
non -essentials?
But I come now to the last part of my
text. It tells us when wo are to seek the
Lord: "While He may be found." When
is that? Olcl ago? You. may not see old
age, To -morrow? You, may not see to-
morrow. To-nighb? You may not the to-
night. Now! 0, tf 1 could only learnt on
every heart, in three cepital Raton, that
Word N-O-W—Novs.
Sin is an awful disease!). 1 hear peeple
say with a toss of the head, and with a
trivial Manner: "Oh, yes, I'm a minuet."
Sin 10 au await' disease It is leprosy. It
is dropsy. It it consumption. It is all
motei disorders in one. Now you ktiew
there is a crisis in a disease. Pex.alms yeti
have had scene illustration of *0 1* yout
fasnily Sometimes the physician has
called, and he has looked at the patient
and said; "That ease was simple enough;
but the CriSifl has passed. It you had
called me yesterday, ot thiS /homing, I
could halo cured the patients It id too
late now. The crisis hs pease." just
eck it is In the spiritual treatztuatt a the
soul—there 10 a crisis.
Theft are some here Who can aernsanbet
instances in life when, if they had bought
a eortain property, VIOZ WOLK have b
come vex)! rich. A few acres that wou
have cost; them calmest nothing Were offe
sal them. They ref ased them. Afterwards
a large village or city /mating up on those
acres of ground, and they see what 0 na
take they made in not buying the
peaty. 'Mune was an opportunit
ting it. It never muse beak
so it te in regard to a inton
eternal fortune, Thomas a Si
lot that go, perhaps it Maser
Certainly that one never, cos
A gentleman told me that
of Gettysburg be stood upon a
lag off upon the confiloting ar
said. it was the most exciting Moment
his life; now one army seeming to
tarumph, and now the other. After a
while the host wheeled in such a way that
he knew in five minutes the whole ques-
tion would be decided. He said the onto-
tSo.n wm almost unbearable. There is suck
time to -day with you. The forces of
light on one side, the forces of death on
the other side, and in a few moments the
matter will be settled for eternity.
There is a tinae which mercy has nit for
leaving port. If you are on board. before
that, you will get a passage for heaven.
If you are not on board, you will miss
your passage to heaven. As in law courts,
a case is sometimes aajourned from term
to term, aud from year to year, till the bills
of costs eats up the entire estate, so there
are men who are adjourning the matter a
religion fr0311 time to tame, and from year
to year, until heavenly bliss is the bill of
oaths the man will have to pay for it.
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"MONEY TO BURN."
One Version of the Origin of the slang
Phraso Now Very Popular.
Slang words and. phrases many of them
destined to become parts of language pro-
per, aro more difficult to trace to their ori-
gin than the world -old words- which have
come to us through the changes of a score
a languages. Some of thenr are the
chance expressions of a happy thought;
some aro resurreotions in strange form of
obsolete spec:oh; same are mistakes or slips
of the tongue made in public places which
have sprung into sudden popularity by
'virtue of the amusement which they
created; others are combinations of other
slang, such as the word kidnap, which is
merely an abbreviation of the phrase to
nab (lay hold of) a kidnchild).
Other slang is the outcome of a deter-
mined effort to force a new word into the
language, as in the case of the word. quiz,
which, en the a wager in Edinburgh, was
put *0 the mouths of all niezt sbnply by
making it up and causing it to be posted
on all the bill boards of the city. Still
others of these fomullings of language are
the outcome of an originally legitiraath
description of some peculiar event coming
in time to acquire a meaning greatly
broadened. Of this class is the phrase
"money to burn" now so common.
The origin of this phrase, or at least one
origin of it, was a consultation over a
business transaction hex Rochester
some years ago. One of the parties inter-
ested was Mr. Ea prominent merchaut of
that city, who was so well known for his
sound judgement and business ability, To
these qualites he joined a simple, straight-
forward nature and a hearty dislike et all
z• ostentation. To Mr. P. there came Smith-
WM, a promoter, with a scheme in which
he had. interested many of the wealthy
New Yorkers, and in which he much de-
sired Mr. F.'s support. The merchant
listened to the pronaoteri s rather borabastio
desoriptions of the future sure to result
from the carrying out of his project and.
offered him a cigar. Smithson twirled the
(agar between his fingers as he outlined
the profits winch would accrue to Mr. F.
If he would invest a certain sum.
'You will need. a large suns of money
to start with, observed the merchant.
"Oh, yes," replied the promoter in an
offhand way, "I expect to put M a big
proportion on my own account.'
"Then you have anougli now to begin
with?" asked alr. F., extending a lighted
match to his visitor to light his cigar. The
visitor declined the match with a gesture,
and, putting his hand. in his pocket, palled
out a handful of bills one of which he
twisted up and thrust into the gas light
Then he lit his cigar, held the bill until it
was burned down and tossed it on an ash -
receiver.
"You nee how nmob money counts with
us," said he grandiloquently.
The merchant rose. That was a $10
bill, wasn't it?" he asked. •
"I believe so," replied the promoter.
"Been in Rochester long?" asked Mr. P.
"Not very," said tbe promoter. "Why?"
"This is a hard. winter," returned the
merchant. "Many people are without
susnalent food and clothing. Our hospi-
tals and charitable organizations are
crowded and in debt. And. with these
things so, you consider money no more
than to make a foolish andwicked display
with it. Youcan do no business with me.
I bid. von goodnight."
' The crestfallen promoter's expostula-
tions were courteously but firmly put aside
and he left the place. When it became
known that Mr.F. refused to invest in his
project others withdrew and the plan fell
through. Ayear later Mr. F. was dining
at one of the hotels in this city when
Smithsoa entered with a gentleman whom
Mr. F. and the others with him know.
This gentleman brought Smithson over to
the circle and introduced him. When he
came to Mr. F. the xnerchaut said:
We need no introductSon. I know Mr.
Smithson. He has money to burn,"
It so happened that the proinoter had
only a few days before come into posses-
sion of a large sum as a number of the
men pregiont knew, and the phrase "he has
money to burn" struck them at once.
They were from all parts of the country,
and the saying went with them to Boston,
St, Louis, Chicago, Washington and other
offies,to drift back eventually, as all slang
that has anything more than. a local mean-
ing does, to this city, whate it was heard. in
the is:teats, read in the newspapers and
spoken from the stage. It was altered to
exprese it superabundance of azty com-
modity, such as "bonds to burn," "infer-
mation to burn, "o r anything eiso, whether
inflamsnable or not, "to burn," • and in
some losalities wag aitered and came but
in atoll a guise as "he has money to singe
a wet dogs" Bat it all came from the ill-
timed braggadocio of the promoter with
the $10 bill.
nigating-Ilex,
baits are entarely
leserae Inset, the
the problem of getting
always an easy ono, on ao-
of a place in whieh to fumi-
aeon Our illustration shows
a convenient box in arhicit may be placed
plants infested with aeon nee while a
smudge of tobacco is being given. Taere
is a piece of zine in the bottom of the box,
to prevent its taking fire from any drop-
ping coals. On this set throe flower pots,
and. on these the dan containing the leaves.
The pan should have a hole *0 1* the size
of an ea, to give anfacient draught that
the leaves will be all consumed. In start-
ing the smudge, place a few shavings first,
then the tobacco leaves slightly moisten-
ed. Those leaves termed sand leaves" bY
the growers are best, but stems may be
used, and are much oheaper. The shelf
over the sraudge-pan should be full of
holes, or inad.e of lath, in order that the
fumes may rise. .A. large dry goods box
will answer the same purpose if it is not
desirable to be at the expense of a special-
ly -made box, but it should be quite tight,
in order to retain the smoke. Many plants
will not bear a very strong fumigating,
an example- being the heliotropes and
einerarlas ; but if these be sprinkled before
fumigating, it will decrease the danger of
their being injured by the smudge. After
a trial one will readily learn about what
quantity each plant will stand.
Simple Well -Tackle,
A tackle af the kincl shown in the en-
graving can be rigged. and put in use in a
very short time, and out of material
which is altogether at hand. Snout, sound
poles are lashed togother,forraing a tripod,
and a common pulleyablock is attached
where the poles are joined, another one
Teaching the Accent.
Yon Gan sell almost anything if you only
kilo* hora A young Englishman in Bos-
ton, anxioud to increase a somewhat Mit-
res* income, left Word at several teachers'
agencies that he woold unclettake to teach
the tare English went to 13catoniatte am
billow! en bettoting their speech. IIe aota.-
ally °Mailmen tato pupils. One of them, a
grata, toiddleatged. team quit his sinclies
after isire leSSOAS beneath of a disagree -
Mont with the •th,acher. The other,
young girl, who was deadly Mix:taus that
hth parents thould tot know of hoa new
line et stadia wee for some time a source
profit to the teacher,
being fastened to a firmly driven or plants -
ed stake at the foot of one of the pieces.
It is better th use double pully -blocks
rather than single ones, as more power is
obtained and there is less danger of acci-
dent. When wells are to be dug, or dean -
The IlaplesSness ot Ileseklah.
I don't know any one for whe I am sor-
ries than. I am for flezeklah Reston.
Iiezikiali is a good fellow and always
was, but he nevex seemed to have the luck a
real good man.should have, ana very often
does not,
.13tit 1 have been partieularly sorry for
lam since that laitta Olone affair. Kitty
was by all odds the prettiest girl in town,
liezeltiala like most of tae other
courting men in thet vicinity, fell in love
with her. She was tawny naired, with
snappiag black eyes and a tongue that was '
as sharp as a two-edgeti razor, but she was
as bright as a dollar in a basket oi chips.
and she had only to smile to have a re-
tinue of men at her 'back and nod at once.
I stood. closer to Rezekiali than any man.
in town, aid. praetleally knew his iumost
thoughts. In fact I was the only oue he
confided in after the kitty Clone affair.
Kitty, before that, being a little nearer to
him, he thought, than 1 was,
He couilded the whole sad story to me,
and. 1 cannot retrain from telling it now.
For some subtle pueposo, not at the time
apparent, Kitty had indicated very plain-
ly her preference for Idezelsiala and a hap-
pier man no ono ever saw in our town.
13nt prefevence, m.orely, was not what
Hozekial sought, and he let her see that
quite early.
It began to happen oue raooalight night
on her father's porch, where the honey -
ambles clambered over the roof and the
sweet wild rose vine entwined the corner.
Through the trellised. Tines, the silver
shafts of tne moon shot that soft night
In June and fell in sifted strands over
Kitty and Hezekiali sitting in the mellow
shadows. If the nightingale had. been in-
digenous to that section, I am sure it
would haste added, its liquid notes to the
musk: in Hozekiah's heart but their was
no nigtIngale, and Elezekiah dud not miss
it. Kitty was enough for him, and Kitty
sat close beside him, and every word he
spoke was a bird song to him.
"Did you know, Miss Kitty," he said
tentatively for Hozekiah was not a brash
lover, end he had. not mentioned the sa-
cred subject et love to her, although he had.
thought up a thousand. ways by which he
might, and had thrown them all aside
when the time came. "Did. you k:aow
that 1 have something to say to you?"
"Well," she twinkled," I should hope
you had, Mr. Heston, I'm sure 1 dos't
want to do an the tensing."
"I could listen to you au day If you did,
I am sure," he replied with a halting help-
lossuess of manner that.. men have some-
times in the moonlient
"That sounds so mach like sweethearts'
talk," she twittered. as she shook tne gold
of her pretty hair out into the line. of the
silver light with its scent of houeysuclsies
and roses.
"Perhaps it is," he ventured doubtful-
ly.
"But I am sure you don't want to talk
such nonsence to me," she prostested.
"Why not ?" ho asked so promptly that
he frightened. himself.
But not Titby ; oh no. .
"Because," she answered, "we have
known theb other so long that it would.
sound silly for you to say such 'UM ngs to
ed out, or deepened, on the farm, this
cheap, simple contrivance will be found
to be the"right thing ba the right place."
Outlet for Tile Drains.
Farmers spend time and money on tile'
or stone under drains, and then leave the
outlet of the mein 'wholly unprotected.
Consequently, in a year or so, the cattle
or other el ock and the action of the frost
displace the drain, and partly or wholly fill
up the channel. If the fall is but slight,
the whole work sometimes proves worth-
less. For a proper outlet lay a large fiat
stone, two or more feet square, above the
tile, making it firm and strong. Place a
number of small stones mob side to aid in
supporting the stone i0 a proper position.
If stone can not be had., use a vride piece
of plank about three feet long. It wil last
much longer if the surface is first charred.
If stones can not be obtained for the side
supports, use blocks of wood or even
whole or broken sections of tile. After
heavy rains, or at least several times a
year, exaimne the outlet and remove all
accumulations of mud or gravel.
A Forest Convenience.
The engraving represents what is known
among woodsmen as a "brake," and is
made to take the place of a vise to hold a
stick while it is hewed or shaved. It con -
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gists of a forked pieee of tisnber supported
as shown in the engraivng. The stick to
be worked is inserted in the fork and is
held fast by its own weight, aided if de-
sired by pressure ou the outer end. It 10
used for sharpening posts and similar pur-
posee.
Ice to Oure Colds.
The latest idea of lineneh playsiciane le
to cane colds by applying 100 to the spine.
Just now, when the abrupt changes lathe
Weather have brought influeuza, bron-
chitis, and some kindred, trouble, ono ie
always glad. to hoar of setae new remedies
for the "old." But few, we imagineswill
be darlog enough to apply this one. Yet
the inflammatory sore throat that a feW
rats ago most people tesaten by poultice!
and warmth is now quieldy eared br
Slacking ice and keeping the viotim in a
low temperature and in a really feverish
°bid ice might bo of genuine use.
me. 0
"Must a man select a stranger if he
wants to confide to a woman all that is in
his heart?" he inquired with a gravity
that made her laugh.
"Oh, I suppose not. Still it doesn't
seem quite natural for you to make love
to me."
"la 1 did what would you say ?"
"I really don't know, Mr. Heston," she
said, tucking her head down and. blush- ,
r "Oh, dear mol who Cali that man be?
ing, perhaps, though it was not visible in.i His face seems so familiar that I must
she shadows of the porch. know him, but I can't place hire."
"You know," he went on with much 1 "He looks—well, rather showy," said
courage, now that he had made the start, : the girl with the lorgnette. "I don't linen/
"that I have reoently come into a little i where you could have met him."
fortune of something like $10,000, and— / "Oh, well, perhaps he is one of these
"I thought it had come into you, she 1 rough diamonds her brother Edgar had
interupted with a chuckle. i been bringing into the house since he came
Hezekiali was just stupid and slow bach from the West," said the girl with
enough to be delighted with such flashes mountainous sleeves.
of feminine wit, an]. Kitty's brighthess in "may be that was it. He looks as if he
this respect was always a charm to him, kuew rae. Oh, dear he will think 1/10 Be liked. it now, but with a shade of sedex fully rude ! Girls, shall I speak to him ?"
actiop, for the flash of it had dazzled him, "Why, of course, if you are sure that you
when he was on the path to telling her , really Imam him, Lulu," said. the girl
what was in. his heart. 1 vrith the lorgnette, "but do be c,areful, for
"Isn't it just the same ?" he asked with you. know you are.—"
a laugh, half of admiration and half a "A.bsont-minded—oh, I know it ! 1
nervousness. ' shall certalnly have to take one of those
"Oh, of course, but what were yon courses of memory development, or what -
about to say? Excuse me for interupting aver they ere.,,
you." ' "Re is looking at you awfully hard,
"Do you want moto say it 2" he asked, . Lulu," said the girl with the rammthinous
so eagerly that she laughed at him again. sleeves.
"Row do I know? It may be some-'
speak."
"0, 1 mu.st lmow him. 1 shall have to
thing dreadful."
"It is something about the sweetest
1 She leaned forward. and gave the flash -
thing in the world," he said. bravely to i ily-dressed young man. at the end of the
her.car a charming nod and smile.
"Frank Moore said I was that," she j "I had, to be more friendly than I vvould
anwered, with a demureness that was dis-
s otherwise have been, because I did not
trHacetzinokig.ah"Igt
soituapbeoontamweint?"ed to the edge
" 0, yes," returned the girl with the
speak at first," she observed,
of the porch. He looked. fiercely .up at, mountainous sleeves, "you know I never
the moon as in he thought there ought to : can remember names, and I am always
.,0 blood. osa it, but their wasn't, and the ' perfectly lovely to people when 1 can't
think what to call them."
"Yes, for then they may not notate it,
and—"
"Girls," interupted the girl with. the
alai take iny pla0e. I'm sure fit*
wili welcome you with epee arms, a;
words 10 that Olfeot,"
"Why, ltir. Reston," protested Mies
"scat aro really brilliant this even-
ing. Who taught yon how ? onset be
an acquired habit. I'M sure it isn't stea-
m,
:11,00ra ztti“iiCa, t 1,1118 pleasant vend -
tinge ta Kitty's. alyerybody laughed at
1-C1ty's wit, except the vietlins of it, but
un this oeuesion, even the viegia laughed,
Per lie amid. yet feel the eestaey ofKitty's
hand clasping his, and the wade, "Come
toaatarow eight."
Of course Mr. Moore apologized for dis-
turbing their tete-a-tete, and said he nad
merely di:amid in for a minute, but rem
are given to that kind. of palpiating pre-
varieation and he sat down in the moat
comfortable ,place he entild find, before
Ilezekath baa left the porch.
Reaekiali did net tarry long after this,
but Mr. Moore remained for hours, °hat-
ing with Miss Kitty. and then they sepal.-
ateti, leaving the moon, the,honaysuekles
and tho roses out in the June night alone.
Time st rs twinkled in the silver blue sky
the fragrance of the flowers filled the air,
aud far down the quiet street, Hezekitili
sat by tho open window dreaming the
night away, and there was a smile on his
face as if an angel had come in the glory
of the moonlifiht and. touched him with
the breath of June.
And the next nigh it mined.
But there was surishble, an.d the moon-
light and honeysuckles and roses and
'Tune in Ilezeklah" s heart, and he was
promptly isa piquant Kitty's pretty parlor
early osa the aight of th.e morrow which
had promised so muck to him.
Alas 1 how easily things go wrong and
so forth.
They quarrelled and Rezekiah went out
into the night, gloomier than the night..
All the musto of her voice was a discord.,
and the dank, dark air was filled with an
odor as of deacl honneysunales and. roses,
and a decaying .Tune.
But the neat eight was perfect again,
and once more 11- ozetaah sat with Miss
Kitty on the porch and the moon was flood-
ing tile valley -with the yellow light that
marks it as it rests upon the distant
mountain tops.
"Kitty" said Rezekiali in the voice of
a penitent, "can you forgive 100 ?"
I can. Mr. Heston, but will I ? she
answered, not mikindly.
"Won't you t" Ixo plculed.
" I do ?" elle asked. with a coyness
that charmed him.
You will nia-rry me," he said so firm ty
that she trembled.
"Then I'll forgive you," and. her suety.
fitect wasi 171.1TiCsa in ale coat front, and
the gold et her tresees, threw a suft light
into his face that gave it the look of a
seraph's.
And it came to pass according to the
prophecy of Ethzekia.h.
That's why l'm so sorry for liezekiab
'
Reston. lan Hozelsiali Heston, and Kitty
has been my wife for twenty yeses, ad. her
; hair is no less tawny, nor is her tongue
loss sharp, than when the honeysuckles,
the roses, the moonlight and the June
threw their gentle glamour o'er the scene.
OIL THESE GIRLS.
If She Could Have Called Inis Name_to
Hind in Time.
She was a very absent-minded young
person, and the two girls who were with
her in the car were not at all surprised
when she leaned. over and whispered :
s seet odors of the night were wafted. to
h :71 on the silently stirring breeze, and he
w s soothed.
"Whatever is the matter 2" she askad,
in the querulous tone of young women lorgnette, "do look at him 1 He has
under similar circumstances, maim turn- spoken to that awf-ul-looking person with
I el to her again. him and they are nudging each other and
1 "Kitty," he said, dropping the polite staring at us. They evidently fancy that
title of young-ladyhood, "
is ine, too. Both of us," he added re,gard-
it is you and it weetroehtttrtuacut ,t,hositreranIttyenrtieemnanr'4ed
the girl with the i'nountainaus sleeves,
,,wtoaonitzedh
lea of syntax.
"Who ever said you were the sweetest "I want you to think whether you really
Shing in the world, I'd like to know ?" know that man, and. if so who he
S se laughed, and Hozekitth thought he Then Lulu gave a. little scream. "Good
could sea dm keen edge of her tongue flash gracious, girl ; stop the car 1" she ale&
in the moonlight. 'I do know now just who he Is. He—he
"You never did," he replied, in the sur- is the young man who used to conic to see
liest manner.,our cook 1 No wonder his fade is familiar,
" Oo"' she crooned to h
language of the cradle, "has de ittle tootsy and. we had to discharge her on that ac-
im softly in the for he Inmg client the kitchen all the time,
w easy pinches], 1xi b'essed ittle tun an count. Oh, gilds, let me outflast or I shall
Hezeklah went to the edge of the porch faint,"
again and was about to shake his fist at
the n10011 when he saw someone open the
gate from the street and. come up to the
walk toWavd the house. It was the hated,
Prank Moore and Rezekiah had, only a
minute to make his peacto with the sarcas-
tic goddess.
"Kitty," he exclaimed desperately, am
he came back to her, "these COMeS Moore.
:It's only 0 o'clock and he will stay here all
evening. I can't son all 1 Want to
bet I can say this natich---1 love you.
Ratty, anti 1 want you to be my wife. Will
In his excitemen he had taken her hand,
and she had risen to his side.
"Come to -morrow night," she said hi ;
the softest whisper, and the gentle pros- '
sure of her hand spoke a sweeter language
to him thaa even the music of her lips.
"Ala Frank," greeted Hezekiah, as his
late riVal came up. "I'M glad to see you,
real glad," and he was speaking the sol.
emit tauth, fox glove is no telling how
much time he would have Wasted if Moore
hadn't come jtigil AS he did. "1 wee about
goilig, and it looks like a pity to leave
Miss fatty an alone amidst this bowee of
hotieystailtles, ntoottshine, Voses and Jane,
1
Things To 'Forget.
youwouid increase your haphiess and
prolong your life, forget your neighbors
faults, Forget all the slander you have
heard. Forget 5ht7 temptation. Forget
the faultfinding, and give a little thought
to he cause which provoked it. Forget
the pectaiarities of your frientas mud only
remember the good Define whichmake
you fond ea them. Forget all personal'
quarrels at histories you may haye heard
by accident and which, if repeated, would
seem Is thousand times Wets° then they
are. Blot out, as far as possible, all the
disagreables of life ; they will come, but'
they will only grow larger when eon re-
member them, and the emastant thought;
of the acts of Meattness, or worse Still,
inalioe, could Only tend to Make you More,
familiar with them. Obliterate everything
disagreeable from yestorday,start out with'
o clean Sheet for te-day, and write upon i5!
for sveeet melnory's sake Only these selteita',
ed things which are lovely and lovable.
It is exported to this country and England
from Frauce. Spain and Holland.