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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-3-5, Page 7THE SICKLE OF 'HIE BIBLE to turn the earth into a paradise. An old will be a different kind of struggle. You. ' artist painted the Lord's Supper'and be go into that battle, and all hell is against wanted the chief attention directed to the yen, and you are alone, and you fight and face of Christ, When he invited his ' you Sight, weaker and weaker and friends in to 'criticise the picture, they admired the chalices more than they did thp face, and the old artist ,said. "This picture is a failure In and he dashed out the picture isf the cups, and said: "I shall have nothing to detract from the face of the Lord; Christ is the all of this pie- ture." • Another powerful sickle for the reaping of this harvest is Christian song. I know in many .churches the whole work is delegated to a few people standing in the organ loft. But, my friends, as others cannot repent for us, and others cannot die for us, we cannot delegate to others the work of singing for us. 'While a few drilled artists shall tale the chants and execute the more skilful music, when the hymn is given out let there be hundreds and thousands of voices uniting In the acclamation. On the way to grandeurs that never cease, and glories that never die, let us sing. At the battle of Lutzen, a general came to the king and said: "Those soldiers are singing as they are going into battle, Shall I stop them?" "No," said the king. "men that can sing like that can fight." Oh, the power of Christian song! When I argue here you may argue back. The argument you make against religion may be more skilful than the argument I make in be- half of religion. But who can stand be- fore, the pathos of seine uplifted song like that which we sometimes sing: Show pity, Lord, 0 Lord, forgive! Let a repenting rebel live! Are not thy mercies large and free? May not a sinner trust in Thee? TALMAGE'S APOTHEOSIS OF THE SIMPLE REAPING -HOOK. It Has Produced the Wealth of Nations -- The Gospel Harvest is Ready and the Sickles of Christian Song and Prayer Are Mighty Reaping Instruments. Washington, D.C., Feb, 23.—A change has taken place, Dr. Talmage, when first corning to Washington, preached only Sunday evenings, but so great has been the demand for his services that he now preaches Sunday morning and evening, -and takes charge of the Thursday evening nieeting. The throngs are immense. The subject of the sermon for to -day was, Bringing in the Sheaves, the tent being Joel, ilL, 18: "Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe," The sword has been poetized, and the World has celebrated the sword of Boli- var, the sword of Cortez, and the sword of Lafayette. The pen has been properly eulogized, and the world has celebrated the pen of Addison, the pen of Southey, and the pen of Irving. The painter's pencil has been honored,and the world has celebrated the pencil of Murillo, the pen- cil of Rubens, and the pencil of Bierstent. The sculptor's chisel has come in for high encomium, and the 'world has celebrated Chantrey's chisel, and Crawford's chisel, Mad Greenough's chisel. But there is one instrument about which I sing the hest panto that was ever sung—the Sickle, the sickle of the bible'the sickle that has Ireaped the harvest of many centuries. I Sharp, and bent into a semi -circle, and glittering, this reaping hook, no longer than your arm, has furnished the bread • for thousands of years. Its success has produced the wealth of nations. It has bad more to do with the world's *grass than sword, and pen, and pencil, and chisel, all put together. Christ put the sickle into exquisite sermonio simile, , and you see that instrument flash all up and down the Apocalypse, as St. John swings it, while through Joel in my text God commands the people, as through his servants now be commands them: "Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe." Last November there was great rejoic- ing all over the land. With trumpet and cornet and organ and thousand -voiced psalm we praised the Lord for the tem- poral harvests. We praised God for the wheat, and rye, the oats, the cotton, the toe, all the fruits of the orchard, and all the grains of the field; and the nation never dues a better thing than when in the autumn gathers to festivity, and thanks God for the greatness of the bar - vest. But I come to -day to speak to you o/ richer harvests, even the spiritual. How shall we estimate the value of a man? We say be is worth so many dol- lars, or he has achieved such and such a position; but we know very well there are seine men at the top of the ladder who ought to be at the bottom, and some at the bottom who ought to be at the top, and the only way to estimate a rhan is by his soul. We all know that we shall live forever, Death cannot kill us. Other craftmay be drawn into the whirlpool or shivered on the rooks, but this life within us will weather all storms, and drop no 'anchor, and ten million years; after death will shake out signals on the high seas of eternity. You put the men- dicant off your doorstep, and say he is only a beggar: but he is worth all the gold of the mountains, worth all the pearls ut the sea, worth the solid earth, worth sun and moon and stars, worth the entire material universe. Take all the paper that ever came from the paper mills, and put it side by side, and sheet by sheetand let me p with fleetest pens make figures on that paper for 10,000 years and they will only have begun to express the value of the soul. Suppose I owned Colorado,and Nevada, and Aus- for reaping this gospel harvest, the sickle tralia; of how much value would they be of Phannr! to me one moment after I departed this It does not make so much difference life? How much of Philadelphia does about the posture you take, whether you Stephen Girard own to -day? How much sit, stand or kneel, or lie on your face, or of Boston property does Abbott Lawrence in your physical agonies lie on your baok, own to -day? The man who to -day hath , It dees not make any difference about a dollar in his pocket bath more worldly the' physical posture, as was shown in a estate than the millionaire twho died lest hospital, when the chaplain said, as he year. How do you suppose I feel, stand- ; looked over the beds of the suffering: ing here surrounded by a multitude of ; "Let all those wounded men here who souls, each one worth more than the ma- ; Would like to be prayed for lift the Owlet universe? Oh, was I not right in hand!" Some lifted two hands; others saying this spiritual harvest is richer lifted one hand; some with hands am - than the temporal harvest? I must putated could only lift the stump of the tighten the girdle, I must sharpen the arm. One man, both his arms amputat- sickle, I must be careful how I swing the ed, could give no signal except to say. instrument for gathering the grain, lest ; Met me!" Oh, it does not make any one stalk be lost One of the most pow- difference about the rhetoric of your erffil sickles for reaping this spiritual prayers; it does not make any difference harvest is the preaching of the gospel, If about the posture; it does not make any the sickle have a rosewood handle, and it difference whether you can lift a hand or be adorned with precious stones, and yet have no hand to lift. God is ready to It cannot bring down the grain, it is not hear you. Prayer is answered. God is much of a sickle, and preaching amounts waiting to respond, to nothing unless it harvests souls for Lift up your eyes upon . the fields'for God. Shall we preach philosophy? The they are white already to harvest!" How Ralph Waldo Einersons could beat us all many have you reaped for God? Do you at that. Shall we preach science? The ask me how many I have reaped for God? .Agassizes could beat us at that. The I cannot say. Now, can you say how minister of Jesus Christ, with weakest many you have reaped? I hope tIse:e are arm going forth in earnest prayer, and some who have been brought into the wielding this sickle of the gospel, shall kingdom of God through your instrument - find the harvest all around him waiting ality. Have there not been? Not one? for the angel sheaf -binders. Oh, this You, a man thirty-five, forty, fifty years harvest of soulal I noticed in the fields of age, and not one? I see souls coming that the farmer did not stand upright no to glory, Here is a Sunday school when he gathered the grain. I noticed he had to stoop to his work, And I noticed ire order to bind the sheaves the better Another mighty Sickle for the reaping of the gospel harvest is prayer. What does God do with our prayets? Does He go on the battlements of heaven and throw them off? No. What do you with gifts given you by those who love you very much? You keep them with great sacredness. And do you suppose God will take our players, Qffered in the sincerity and love of our hearts, and scatter them so the winds? Oh, no! He will answer them all in some way. Oh, what a mighty thing prayer tel. It is not a lone rigmarole of Vohs" and "ahs," and "for ever and ever. Ainens." It is a breathing of the heart into the heart of God. Oh, what a mentioned among gond calories. The mighty thing prayer is! Elijah with it reasons why I like Giant Pascal are be- cause it is very productive arid a vigorous grower. Nese it is of high quality and it is a good keeper. With me it Seldom or never rusts. The red celery is a little finer in quality—has-more of that rich nutty flavor, but it is, as a rule, not as good a grower nor so productive. I set is out on well pulverized and well fertilized soil, without trenches, and simply cultivate it through the growing season—never earthing it up at all. I have access to plenty of water from the village waterworks, and with a garden hose I keep it thoroughly supplied with water, that indispensable requisite for successful growing. Late in the season, when heavy freezing is at baud, I take it up with a gelding fork, trim n off a few of the worthless outside stooks, leaving roots with n little soil adhering, and pack it In barrels and boxes, with two inches of soil on the bottom—pack it close, stand- ing upright. The packages are then put in a dark cellar—cool, and if possible a little damp. In two or three weeks it begins to blanch nicely, and is soon fit for the table, and I have no trouble in keeping it. I rooistet the roots about once in three weeks, pouring the water through a short piece of hose, to &void wetting the foliage. The method is, simple, the success complete and I have a generous supply. weaker and weaker, untie at Ian you fail, and the powers of darkness trample on your poise But in the other case you go into the battle, and you fight stronger and stronger and stronger, uatil you get the victory through our Lord .Tesus Christ, Oh, °time out of your sins! Have you not been bruised with sin long enough? Have you not carried that load long enough? Have you not fought that, battle long eneueh? I rattle the gates of your sepulchre to- day. I take the trumpet of the gospel and blow the long, loud ,blast, Roland went into battle, Charlemangees mmy had been dirven back by the three armies of the Saracens, and Roland, in almost despair, took up the trumpet and blew three blasts in one of the eseentain passes, and under the power of those three blasts the Saracens recoiled and" fled in terror. But historynays that when he had blown the thirdblast Roland's trumpet broke. take this trumpet of the gospel and blow the first blast: ," Whosoever will." I blow the second blast: "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found." I blow the third blast: "New is the accepted. time." But the trumpet does not break. It was handed down by our forefathere to us, and we will hand it down to our children, that after we are dead they may blow 'the trumpet, tellies the World that we have a pardoning God, a loving God, a sympathetic God, and that more to Him than the throne on which he sits is the joy of seeing a prodigal put his finger on the latch of his father's house. An Amateur Celery Grower. I have always been 'very fond of ornery. When I was obliged to get my supplies in the market, much of the time I was obliged to eat a very poor article, erne` go without. Since I have become the possessor of a garden, though aernall one, I grow all that isused at my home, save a little in the early season before my crop matures. I have tried several kinds, but have finally settled down for a choice to Giant Pascal, aild any one of the pink' coteries. I tried the White Plume thorn oughly and discarded it because of its poor quality. At its best it is not to be reached up to the clouds and shook down the showers. With it John Knox shook Scotland: With it Martin Luther shook the earth. And when Philip Melaaothon lay sick unto death, as many supposed, Martin Luther came in and said, "Philip, we can't spare you!" "Oh," said he, "Martin, you must let me go; I am tired of persecution and tired of life. I want to go to be with my God." "No," said Martin Luther, you shall not go; you must take this food and then I will pray for you." "No, Martin," said lielano- then, "you must let me go." Martin Luther said: "You take this food, or I will excommunicate you." He took the food and Martin Luther knelt down and prayed as only he could pray, and con vaiescence came and Martin Luther wont back and said to his friends: "God has saved the lifeof Philip Melanothon in direct answer to my prayer." Oh, the power of prayer! Have you tested it? Dr. Prime, of New York, in his beauti- ful book entitled "Around the World," described a mausoleum in India which it took 20,00e men twenty-two years to build —that and the building surrounding—and be says: "Standing in that mausoleum, and uttering a word, it is echoed hack from a height of 150 feet; not an ordin- ary echo, but a prolonged music, as though there were angels hovering in the air." And every word of earnest prayer we utter has an echo, not from the marble cupola of an earthly mausoleum, but from the heart, of God and from the wings of angels, as they hover, crying "Behold, he prays!" Oh, test it! Mighty sickle teacher bringing ten or fifteen souls. Here is a tract distirbutor bringing in forty or fifty souls. Here is a man you have never SW had to put his knee UpOn them. And hehrd of who has been very useful in s as we go forth In this work for Gad we bringing souls to God. Be comes with cannot stand upright in our rhetoric, and our metaphysioa and our erudition, We have to stoop to our work. Ay, we have to put our knee to it, or we will never gather sheaves for the Lord's garner, Peter swung that sickle on the day of Peneecost, and three thousand sheaves came in. Itichard Baxter swung that elokle at Kidderminster, and IneCheyne at Dundee, and vast multitudes name into the kingdom of our God. Oh, this is a mighty gospel! It cap- tured nob only John the lamb, but Peel the lion. Men may gnash their teeth at , its apd clinch their nets, but it 'is the power of God and the wisdom of God unto salvation. But, alas! if it is only pteached in pulpits and on Sabbath days! We must go forth into our stores, our shops, our banking houses, our fac- tories, and the streets, and everywhere preach Christ. yg e stand in our pulpits for two hours on the Sabbath, and commend Christ to the people; but there are 168 hours in the week, and what are the two hours on the Sebbath against the 1613? . Oh, there comes down the ordination of God this day upon all' the people, men who toil 'with head, and hand, and foot— the ordination comes upon all merchants, Upon all mechanics, upon all toilers, and God says to you as He says to me: "Go, teach all nations. 'He that belleveth and Is 'baptized than be saved, and he that believeth not shall be damned!" Mighty gospel let thaw hole earth hear it! The story of Christ Is to regenerate the tuitions, it is to eradicate all wrong, it is one hundred and fifty souls. They are the sheaves of his harvest. How many have you brought? Not one—can it be? What will God say? What will the angels say? Better crouch down In some corner of heaven and never show yourself. Oh, that harvest is to be reaped now! And that is this instant! Why not be reaped for God this hour? "Oh," says some man, "I have been going on the wrong road for thirty, forty or fifty years; ,I have gone through the whole catalogue of crime, and must first get myself fixed up." Ale you Will never get yourself need up until Christ takes you in charge. You get worse and worse, until , he comes to the rescue. "Not the righteous; sinners Jesus Christ came to call," So, you see, I take the very worst case there is. if there is a man here who feels be is, all right in heart and life, I am not talking to him,. for he is probably a hypocrites I will talk to him some other time. But if there is a man who feels himself all wrong, to him I address my- self, Though you be wounded in the hands, and wounded in the feet, and wounded in time head,and,wounded in the heart, and though the gangrene of eternal death be upon you, one drop of the elixir of divine life will dare your sopa Though you, be soaked in evil indulgences, though your feet have gone in unclean places, though you bade companioned with .time .abandoned, and the lost, one touch of divine grace will save your soul. I do not say that you will not have struggles after that, Oh, not But they GOOD KIDNEY WORK. ,,GOOD HEALTH—LIFE ITSF,LF DE- FENDS UPON HEALTHY KIDNEYS. Striking an Average. For five minutes the questions were answered clearly, promptly and correctly. Finally, Tommy White, the colored boy, was called. "Now, Tommy," began Miss Smart, smiling benignly, "what is en average?' "Something you hin " was the ready answer. The teacher was surprised, but she succeeded in stut terin "Wh-wbat did you say?" "Why, it's something you hit." "Nonsense, Tommy. What ghve youthat idea" "You, yourself." "I?" Yes, you. I heard you tell the muster yesternay that you'd been striking an average, and I wondered it you were talk- ing about baseball or a prize fight" Texts Per Bicycle Sermons. "A wise king seattereth the wicked and bringeth the wheel over them." (Prey. sta., 26); "Or the wheel broken at the cis- tern," (Ewe all, (I); "The appearance of the wheels and their work," (Ezek. 1, 16); "As for the wheels, it was, cried unto them in my hearing, 0, wheel!" (Ezek. x, 13); "He wrought a work on the wheels," (Jot. xviii, 3); "And his wheels as burning fire," (Dan. yin 9. 'What Can a Boy Do A recent poem in the children's page asee "What can a boy do, anyhow?" Well, by the proper use of a tack he can make his pa talk in four different lang- uages; by dropping a little ammonia on her baok he can make the family cat drill a hole through the woodshed; by his free and disingenuous conversation to his sister's best young man he can make 'that Sister cherish pessimistic feelings toward the universe. What can't a boy do?— Minneapolis Journal. She AN as an Observer. "You have brought new sunshine into my life," he said rapturously. "Do you mean that?" she asked timidly. "Of 'course I Mean it. Can you doubt me?" "Oh, of course I know you Wouldn't intentionally misrepresent. But you know a young man so often thinks a girl has brought 'Sunshine into his life when innreality it's only moonshine." Only "Sheep" Lightning. DOTA'S father bad told her that there was no danger in what .is familiarly called sheet' lightning and that she need not fear it. A few nights later Dora was on the porch with her little brother when the sky was suddenly illumined by lightning, "Now, Tom,"she she said assuringly, "that's nothing but sheep lightning. Don't be afraid, it eannot hurt you" And she quickly drew him indoors. Mr. Hustle (of Chicago)—You are go - lag to be married, I hear. Mr. Movesiow—Yes. Mr.Hustle—Well, why don't you beetle hip about it? Mr. M,oveslow — I haven't enough money to get married on, Mr. Hustle—How much have you got? Mr. Moveslow—Only a hundred dol ars. B prone —Only a hundred dellars? Why, T'ne known'men Out west to get married a dozen times on that amount. — Truth, Lessone of Experionee—Tbeinsande A SHARP-WITTED CAT. How He Cot Rid of a Dinner Which Didnit Suit His Taste. A correspondent of the London Specta- tor reports a clever trick ot a black Persian net, by the eame of Prin. One of his pectinnes /nia disrelish of meats Have Learned and Testified -,Dodds unless they'are roasted. The cook under - The' Kidney Pills Never rail in (Suring took to break him off this foolish whim. Kidney Diseaee. Each particular organ in the body is put there to do a special work. The lungs, the liver and the kidneys all have their functions. The stomach and bowels receive and digest the food on which we live, Not everything in the food should go into the blood as blood material. There is a separation effected by these organs. poisonous attlha em aothierleinmitawy hihaahowe agueltdmws wreck life if once in the blood, so it must be on Saturday, when the potboard under the taken out. dresser was „cleaned, the Onelr, found lu The kidneys are at once and always one of the steWpanS the bailed meat',. which bad remained three days in Prin's Nineteen times out of every twenty saucer, The cat had been too sharp for when we are sick, it is because of weak her. kidneys., If anything goes wrong look to "I know this story to be true," cote the kidneys -arse. Fast living, overwork, eludes the ooreespondent. In short, she determined to starve it out of him, She set before hint a saucer of boiled meat. Prin turned awey from it in dis- gust, nVery wen," mid the cooe, ` it ie that or nothing." For three days th; ecat went hungry, the boiled meat remaining untouched. But on the fourth morning the cook found the saucer empty. "Ab, Prin," she said, "so you have come to your meat." That day the cat fared sumptuously I onroast beef with plenty of gravy; But. colds, or injuries may any of them weaken the kidneys ee that they do not perform their important—their indispen- sable work.. It has been found that Dodd's Kidney Pills at such a time are exactly what is wanted to help the kidneys. If you have headache, restless feeling, tired feeling, skin,aching actress the loins, coated tongue, rheumatisrincloudy urine,, loss of flesh, ehortnese of breath.' Then you will find that one box of Dodd's Kidney Pills is worth more than its weight in gold, for they always cure. MULTUM IN PARVO. Features—the great soul's apparent seat. —Bryant. Heaven, the treasury of everlasting joy. —Shakespeare s Of all vain things excuses are the vain- est. —Buxton. Idleness is the burial of a living mans— Jeremy Taylor. A. man's best friend are his ten fingers.— Robert Collyer. Thoughtful, disciplined, intended in- action.—Jonn Randolph. • The shortest way to glory is to be guid- ed by conscionce,—Ilome. Fashion must be forever new, or she be- comes insipid.—Lowell. ' THE FUNNY PLATYPUS. An Egg-naying Mammal From the Wilds of Australia. One of the oddest of the many queer and unique creatures that Inhabit the antipodean wilds is an animal about time shape and size of the American raccoon. iI • tn---entseees. Hale not a curiosity on account of his shapeeaoearn size,dlIveers biencau Australia,sehe e wmhealreas tahl el nature is topsy-turvy, but because of a re- markable habit the female of his species ha,s' of laying eggs and hatching tbem The virtuous home is the basis of all after. the -manner of birds. This queer national prosperity, --Anon. ' egg -laying animal, the only creature of Be more prompt th go to a friend in ad- the kind on earth, so fax as the etiologists versity than In prosperity.—Chno. • • • Hope writes the poetry of tha boy, but memory that of the man,—Emerson. knoweis called a platypus. It lubabits the deer ferests of the Aver bottoms of both Australia and New Zealand, and, it is NERVOUS TIEADAOTIE. A TROITEIsE THAT RENDERS THE • s, LIVE on MANY nisOtilEN A Sufferer for Twelve Years Whose Trouble Was Aggravated by Kidney Disease Tells flow to Regain Wealth and riainsiness. From the Smith's Falls Record. Sine° the Record began to publish ac - chants of the ceres by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink PtIle'its representatives n have found that half wonderful cures effected by this medicine have not yet. been given to the public. Women as well as men who have found Tenet are eager to let the facts be known for the bepefit of other sufferers. Among them is Mrs. James Cotnam, of the township of Wolford, The lady referred to was fon twelve STJTEERBD FROM SEVERE ffeertenurs years a oonstant sufferer from nervous- ness, headache and kidney trouble. Having read so much about Dr. Willi/mast Pink Pills she determined to gine them a' trial. Their use for a short time brought a great improvement, and after taking them for about a month the ner- vous headache and kidney trouble left her. The degree of thankfulness felt by one who receives such benefits as the above can better be imagined than described. Here are Mrs. Cotnam's words: "If you could only know or if I could but tell of the , intenee suffering which I 'have' endured anti the many sleepless nights I have spent In mental and physical agony, you would riot wonder at the degree of thankfulness I feel for my restoration to health." Her trouble was a continual dread to her, and for a long time prevented her from doing any work. Since using the pills she is as well as ever or to use her own words— "fully restored." In this housebold Pink Pills are now looked upon at one of the The fruit d necessaries. As is the case with every good cause sweetest of all pleasures.--Vativenargues.which,distinguish th beaver tribe. The has many of the characteristics spurious articles have been placed on the derived from labor is the said Pink Pills have much to contend with; of energy and iuduetry.—D. G. Mitchell. platypus' tacommoneanimal even in There is no genius in life like'the genius . is , market, and, though in appearance and ing Justice is the constant desite and effort its native haunts and it is yearly beacon - color they may resemble the genuine. to render to every man his duce—Justin. rare, beer/use on the War which has bean Waged against it on account of the the system. The writer was once In a store they have an altogether, different effect on I know no such thing as genius; it is creature, because its habits deviate so continuous dread of the harmless little when Pink Pills were salted for by a cus- tomer. The dealer hadn't them but said widely from those generally noted in fur - covered, fourdooted creatures. nothing but labor and diligence.—Ho- garth. No one will dare maintain that it is bet- • tette. A FAITHFUL DOG. sorted to by some store keepers It should be borne in mind that Dr. Williams' ter to do injustice than to bear it.—Aris- By nature's laws, immutabee and inst Sent to Hein a Dying Man tie Perform; Pink Pills are a specific for all diseases , . Kis Duty. enjoyment stops when indolence begins,— The intelligenee of the shepherd dog I arising from an impoverished condition Pollee. . of the blood or a shattered condition of strated in a remarkable way in cannon The innocence of the intention abates and his faithfulness to man were demon- the nervous forces, such as St. Vitus nothing of the mischief of the examinee—. tion vsith the death of Charles Gillen, a dance, locomotor ataxia, rheumatism, Robert Hall, native of Providenoe,R.I.,who was killed paralysis, sciatica, the after effects of la grippe, loss of appetite, headachnt dizzi- ness, , Montana two months ago by the dis- ness, chronic: erysipelas, scrofula, eta. They are also a certain cure for the troubles, peculiar to the female system, correcting irregularities, suppressions and all forms. of female weakness, building anew the blood and restoring the glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. In the ease of men they effect a radloal cure in all cases arising from mental worry, overwork or excesses of any nature. Sold only in Incalculably less value than the smallest convenience of traveling to get checks ' boxes bearing the firm's trade mark and. spark of charity.—W. Nevins.cashed. He ; wrapper (printed in red ink), and may be 1 had taken some $6,000 With There is but one temple in the world, I him on this trip, and for protection oar- i had of all druggists or direct by mall and that is the body of man. Nothing is tied a revolver. Some two miles from from Dr Williams' Medicine Company, , „ ll holier Mian this nigh form.—Novalis. 1 the nearest ranch he had occasion to ' Brook -yule, Out,, or Scheneetady,N.Y.ast- Irresolution is a heavy stone rolled up amake a stop in the sage ' brush. His -ro- 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $e 50. volver he had dropped into one of his TOUCHED MANY HEARTS. bill by a weak child, and moved a little up just to fall back again.—W. Rider. / "chaps," as the hip boots worn by the , The way to fill a large sphere is to glonl riders in that country are called. As he ' A Little Living Picture Wins the Sympathy for Two. you are your sphere.—Edward Braislin. i ' discharged Be had dropped the pistol 1 I p remounted his horse the revolver was 1 and Pie and Cane He sat on the lowest step of the Park ify a small one. There is no large sphere; The gain of lying is nothing else lint'n lace station stairs,nen picture. not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed -ammer Jilt against the horn of the sad- by nthellloHis face was wondrous 2—e the "chape" with the muzzle up, and the wondrous pale. No man has come to true greatness whor groin, and, passing upward through his ale A ball was sent up through his It almost seemed transparent in the light disisevelled yet picturesque in tangled of the electric lamp. His long hair hung when we say the trath.—Sir W. Raleigh. ' ' has not felt in some degree that his life body, came out behind one of his curls clustering around his olive neck. belongs to his race.—Phillips Brooks. i shoulders, He fell to the ground, but 'had fallen to the stone, and he i rallied, and, mortally wounded though His Cap There can be no excess to love,to known he was he once more climbed into the slept the sleep of utter weariness. edge, to beauty, when these attributes are saddle, was, could not sit on his horse. I Wayfarers hastening up and down the considered in the purest sense.—Emerson. ! Fainting from loss of blood, he tumbled stairs paused and gazed on the sad picture Many historians take pleasure in pun ' out of the saddle a second time. When with pity. They looked at the drooping Mug into the mouths of princes what they he revived his shepherd dog was over figure, the ragged clothes, all bedraggled have neither said nor ought to have said, him, acting as though fully aware of the by' the rain and fog, the shoes five sizes —Voltaire.serious nature of what had happened. 3 arger than his feet, the little beadle of When I find a great deal of gratitude in Time dog was one of two which Gillen had wet and useless papers beneath his arm. a poor man I take it for granted there trained to herd horses and cattle. Beetle- norne dropped nickels into his lap. would be as much generosity if he were ing that Ise was probably into -tally wound- 1 Others put pennies or dimes into his rich.—Pope. ed, and that prompt assistance must be gaping pocket and passed on, smiling to obtained if the slightest chance be had of think how sly their charity had been. surviving was to be. made the most of, But time lad slept on, unconscious, ap- Gillen told the dog to "go to McVey's patently, that he had stirred up the best ranch." This was the nearest ranch, and emotion that humans know, the sweet well -spring of sympathy and fraternity. one from which he might expect help to be sent as soon as they could know of the Presently another newsboy whisked accident. There were other ranches in the around the corner of Church street s "Whist, Cheesy!" be said. ' surrounding country, but assistance Inurillo's boy opened one eye cautious - might be obtained more quickly from this one. The dog whined and cried, and ly and then the other. Showed a desire to stay by his master's "Hi, Bonesey!" he replied, in a sthge side, but Gillen scolded and told the dog whisper, "anything wrong?" to run the horse to McVey's. Finally the "Cheese is, de cop)" dog started the horse ahead of him, and The boys scuttled away in the sleekness made a bee line for the ranch mentioned, and found shelter in a doorway half way dow,Anntlysellbllaohpoko. asked the newcomer. "'Grand!" said the pale sleeper, with the clustering curls. "Bully chee I dans de best racket I ever tried. Beats weepin' all t'ell. Day jes come retain' like a. storm of heitstuns. Let's count up de house an' see." The boys took stock- of the pennies, dimes and nickels which, withone silver quarter dropped in the pocket by a gentle- man whose sympathy was tinged with ruin, made a total of nearly a dollar. Then whistling blithely the little reseals tossed away the remliantS -if their paper stock and started off to find some mid - eight Yowler of pie or crullers, with which to feast their strange little stomachs, which knew no such enemies as indigestion or fear. that he had something "just as good." The public) are warned against this "just as good" scheme which is too.often re- • Any feeling that takes a man away from his home is a traitor to the household.— H. W. Beecber, God oft descends to visit to men, unseen/ Butte • City. Be bought a lot of sheep and through their habitation walks, and cattle, and was going further into mark their doings.—Milton. the country to visit other ranches. He All our actions take their hue from the usually paid for his purchases with complexion of the heart, as landscapes 'checks, but when he went to ranches so their variety from light.—Bacon. far from business centers he could mate The brightest blaze of intelligence is of better terms for oath, because of the iu- • charge of his revolver, On May 2 he went out on a buying trip and was in the Big Hole country, 110 miles from VERY PLAIN WORDS. THE CLAIM OFA GREA.T TREAT- NIENT—"FOR 'KIDNEY DIS- EASE ONLY." Ninety Per tient. of All Sickness Due to.Fauley Kidney Work—If Uncer- tain as to an Aliment tree Dodd's Kidney Pills. The truth in a few words is always On the way the horse fell in with a band easily understood. of fifty other horses, but the clog out him The litstural, the most effective kidney out and ran him at full speed to the treatment ever known is Dodd's Kidney ranch. On arriving in sight of the ranch Pills. "nor kidney disease only" is very plain and to the point,. This has been oar motto from the first line ever printed concerning Dodd's Kidney Pills. But where do kidney diseases begin on the list? What proportion of the , diseases that kill adult persons are really kidney dis- eases? One of the most eminent and well- known doctors in the world answers this question and says: "Ninety per cent. of all serious disease arises from imperfect kidney work." Then, if this be true, a good way to de- oide an uncertain ailment would be to take.Dedd's leidney Pills. For,you see, that nineteen timee out of twentseyou would be cured, while you were deciding what it was that ailed you. In this way a great many people have been cured and only know their trouble to be kidney ditease by being cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills, • - • But having decided on kidney treat- ment, do not make the mistake, so easy now to make, and buy any of the many substitutes or imitations of Dodd's Kid- ney Pills. the dog began barking to attract atten- tion, and when the dog and riderless horse arrived at the place the people,knew something had happened to Gillen. As soon as the dog saw the blood on she sad- dle was noticed he turned and eecitedly manifested a desire that the ranthmen 'should hasten back to where Gillen lay. 114s oorrsseeme eWenhe atidu i de kifnl yo Youinnted'neePainndg tt hhee dog insight; so great was the animal's haste to return to the side -of his wounded master, Gillen was still alive when his friends reached him. • An Ingenious Arrangement. Open a book at random and select a word within the first ten lines and with- in the, tenth word from the end of the line. Now double the number of the page, and multiply the sum by 5; then add 20; then add the number of the line you have iseleated then add 5; multiply the sum by 10. Add the number Of the word ;in the line. From this subtract 250, and the remainder will innicitte in the unit column the number of tho Word, in the ten column the number of the line and the remaining figures the numbet a the page. s Overdoing It. Now, I maintain," said Miss Streng, "that thieve is no place filled by man which a woman cannot nil: Is that com- prehensive enough?" ' "It is very comprehensive," replied Northside, "But X am prepared to gosstill further in advocacy of woman's "Are you?" "Yes, lam., On the seat of a street oar, for instance, she can fill two men's s places. ''--Pittsburg Chronicle -Telegraph.