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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-8-31, Page 7RELIGION IN TRADE Rev., Dr. Talmage Shows How Business Trials Refine the Spirit. • The Merchant Finds His Office a School of Industry, Patiencei, Integrity and Upright Living --The Martyrs of the Counting Room. • _ Washington. Aug, 27,—In this ells- Years 6f rnY1if g.tting iy 111°4111°4' course Dr. Talmage argues that eeligion 'tfirthatIrtbetalig %se. uf 1:0 netaeesislasty6t goaratel my be taken into all the affairs of life, toil sines. There came a time when I and instead of being a hindrance, as said to myselt, 'Snail 1 now retire from many think, is a re-enforeement Te business or hall I go on and serve the text is Romans x1,11, "Not slothful in Lord in my worldly occupation?' " business; fervent fe'eu j.spirit; serving the said: "X resolved on the lattssr, and I have been more indostrious. in conirneas- Industry, devoutness and Christian services -all commended in that short texts What, is it possible that they shall be conlained? Oh, yes. The ro Is no War between religion and business, between ledgers and Ilibles„ between churethes ad counting houses, On the contrary, reli- giros accelerates business, eherpons men's mate, sweetens Acerbity (if diepositton, fillips the blood of phlegmatic's and; throws more velocity into the wheels of tilamlaull 1"$ these great here achieved a fortune could see it their bard work. It gives better mnancing to duty now to do all business for Christ and the alleviation of the world‘suffer- that, in whose honesty yon Ond complete confidence. but placed in certain of temptation they went overboard. Never so many temptations to scowls sirolism as now. Not a law on the statute book but has ene back door through. which * miscreant can escape. Ali, bow many deeeptiono i tho fabric ot the eoods! Se much plundering in comn*s*O- lal that if a man talk about living We of complete commercial integrity tilers, are those who asoribe it to greens miss and lack of Mot. More need of bons este now titan over before—tried h.onesty, complete honeaty—toore than Hi those tine a wheri bi1tes WAS a plain (Weir A FAIR DEMONSTRATION. Mark Twain manes One of Har Chore aeterissic Speeches. Merle Twain and his friend. the Rev. ,roeeph E Twitchell, once planned a bicycle rider non Hartford (their home) and 'woollens were vroollens, and oaks , to Boston, and wrote beforehand to an were silks and men Were men, acquabstanch in the latter city, telling /tow many Men de yon suppose there MIA their line of route and what tiree are in commercial life who could say he might expect to see them arrive. truthfully. "In all tbe sales I have ever The appointed dav was an ideal one for made I have never overstated the valeta s e • was an of goods; In all toe sales I have ever a long Mil, and the two friends started quite early in the morning. But neither made I have never covered up an imper- feation in the fabric; in all the thousands of them was accustomed to long rides, of dollars 1 have ever made I have not So, after 12 or 15 miles had been rd - taken one dishonest farthing?" There are den, it became apparent that reach <4 men, however, who can say it, hundreds she riders ras . :liting for tbe other to who eau say it. thousands who can say say somethiw. Finally Twain ,aid a led circlethan 1 ever was beferes and it. They are more hamlet than when they since that how 1 have never kept a far- sold their first tieroe of rice. or their Orst thing for myself. I have thought it to be ' firkin of butter, because their honesty a great shame if I couldn't toil as hard and integrity have been tested, tried. and for the Lord as I had toiled for myself, come out triumphant. But they remain - and all the products of my factories and 1 beg a time when they could have robbed ny commeroial establistanents, to the a partner, or have absconded with the lest farthing. have gone for the building funds of a bank, or sprung a snap jedits of Christian institutions and supporting moms, or marl° a false ossignment, or tho church of ecul." Would that the borrowed illimitably without any efforts game energy put forth for the world at payment. or got e man into a SIAM could be put forth for Ciod. Wold that A potheradfleeced him. But they oever took one step on that pathway of hell Are. They can say their prayers Witinfat hearing the chink of dishonest dellars. They can read their Bible without think - bag of tan time 'where with a lie on their GOAT In the custom house they kissed the book. They can think of death and the judgment that seines after it without any fling•—thift (lay when all charia, taus and cheats, and jookeye and frauds shall he doubly damned. Its sloes not make their knees knook together, and it does not make their teeth chatter to read "as the partridge sittetle ou eggs and hatobeth them not, so he that gettath rachea. and not by right, shall leavo thorn in the midst of hie slays, and at his end shall as a fool." What a $C11001 of integrity business life is! If you have over been tempted to let you Integrity cringe before present advantage, if von have aver wakened nu in some embarrassment and said. "Now, step a little aside from the right path and no aim will know in and X will come all right again, it is only once." That only once base ruined tens of thousands of men for this life and blasted their souls for eternity. SlaVo's Mossar.o. the Sudgment, more strength to the will, more nausele to Industry and throw a into enthusiasm A more consecrated fire, You cannot in all tate circle of the world show acne a man -whose honost business has We despoiled by religion. The industrial olasses are divided lute three groupe—produeere, manufaeturers, traders. Prodocere, Ruth as farmers( and minors. Manufacturora, such as those who turn corn into food and wool and flax into apparel. Traders, such as make profit out of the transfer and exchange of all that wisioh, is produced and mann- ., business man Mal( 'WOO; tO any, one or all of these classes, and not cleala independent of any other. When the Prince Imperial of France fell on the Zulu battlefield because the strap fastening the stirrup to the saddle broke as he clung to it, his comsades all escaping, but he falling under the lances of the savages, a great many people blamed the Empress for allowing her son to go forth into that battlefield, and others blamed the English Government for accepting the sacrifice, and others blamed the Zulus for their barbarism. The ono liiOn to blame woe the harness - maker who fashioeed that strap of the stirrup out of shoddy and imperfect material, as it was found to have been afterward. If the strap bad held, the Prince Imperial would prohably have been alive M.Mus. But the strap braise. No prince independent of a harness maker! High, low. wise. ignoraut, you In one ocoupation, I in another, all bound together, ma nisi:minis or Work. So tbat there must be ono continuous line of sympathy Nvith eaoh other's work. Lut whatever your emeation, if you have a multiplielen of engagements, if Into your life there come losses and annoyances and perturbations as wall as percentages and ilivitionds, if you are pursued from tionsley morning until Sam urday night, and from January to Janu- ary by ioxeorable obligation and duty, then you are a businee3 man, or you are a business woman, and my subject is appropriate to your Male. We are under the, Impression tbat the moil and tug of buelness life are a prison into which a Mall lS tartlet, or that it is an unequal strife where unarmed a man goes forth to eontend, I shall show you this morning thea business life was intended of God for grand and glorious education and discipline, and if X Abell be helped to say what I want to say X shall rub soine of the wrinkles of care ont of your brow and unstrap some of the burdens from your back. I am not talking of an abstraeleon. Though never having been in business life, I know all about business mea In my first parish at Belleville, N.J., ten miles from New York, a large pmsion of my audience was made up of New York merehants. Then I went to ymouse, a place of immense commercial activity, and then I Went to Philadelphia and lived long among the merohante of that city, than whom there are no hotter men on earth, and for 25 years I stood in ray Brooklyn pulpit, Sabbath by Sabbath, preaching to audiences the majority of whom were business men and business women. It is not an abstraction of which I speak, but a reality with which I am well acquainted. In the first place, 1 remark that busi- ness life was intended as a school of t' ergy. sod gives ua a certain amount raw 3-naterial out of which we are to 'Ow our oharacter. Our faculties are to be reset, rounded and sharpened up. Our young folks having graduated from School or college need S. higher education, that which the rasping collision of every- day life alone can effect. Energy is wrought out only in the fire. After a man bus been in business activity 10, 20, 80 years, bis energy is not to bo measured by weights or plummets or ladders. There is no height it cannot scale, and there is no depth it cannot fathom, and there is no obstacle it cannot thraN9. The 3Itt:iniog of It. Now, my brotber, why did God put you in that school of energy? Was it merely that you might be a yardstick to measure cloth. or se steelyard to weigh flour? Was it merely that you might be better qualified to ()leafier and higgle? No. God placed. you in that sohool of ,venergy that you might be developed for Christian work-. Si the undeveloped tal- ents to the Christian churches of to -day were hrougot out and, thoroughly horn - weed, I believe the whole earth would be converted to God in a twoMemonth. Timmer° so many sleets streams that are A school of Patisoos. Again,1 ronsark that business life Is a salmi of patienors In your everyday hfo how many things to annay and to din, quiet! 13argains will rub. Commercial n will sontetimea fail to meet their engugements. Caehbooks and money drawer will sometimes quarrel. Goods ordered for a special emergency will come too late or be damaged in the transporta- tion. People luteudiug no harm will go shopping without any intention of purs ehase, everturnieg great stooks of goode mad insisting that you break the dozen. More bad debts on the ledger. More eouuterfeit hills in this drawer. More delete to pay for other people. Moro mean- nesses ou the part of partnere in busi- ness. Annoyance after annoyanoo, vexas tion after vexation, and lass after lass. .A.1.1 that process will either break you down or brighten you inn It is a 01%901 of patience. Yon have known men under the process; to become petulant, and api- aries and Awry, and pagneeiouss and °roes, and sours sued queer, and tbey lost their oustomera, and their name became a detestation. Other men have been bright- ened up under tine process. They were toughened by the exposure. They were liko rooke, all the more valuable for be Ing blasted. At first they had to choke down their wrath, at first they had to bite their lip, at first they thought at some stinging retort they would like to mako, but they conquered their hope - biome. They have kind words now far sarcastic flings. They bave gentle behav- ior now for unmannerly customers. They aro patient now With unfortunate debt- ors. They bave Cemistizso reflections now for =Idea reverses. Where did they get that patience? By hearing a minister preaoh concerning it on Sabbath? Oh, no. They got it just where you will got lt—if you ever get it at all—selling hats, discounting notes, turning banisters, plowing corn, tinning mots, pleading causes. Oh, 'net amid the turmoil and anxiety and exasperation of everyday life you might hear the voice of God saying: you patience possess your soul. Let patience have her perfect werle." A Revere $choolra across remark again that business life is a sobool of useful knowledge. Merobants do not read many books and do not study lexicons. They do not dive into profounds of learning, and yet nearly all through their occupations come to understand questions of finance, and politics. and geography, and jurisprudence. and ethics. Business is a severe schoolmistress. If pupils will not learn she strikes them over the bead and the heart with severe losses. You put $5.000 into an enterprise. It is all gone. You say, "That is a dead loss." Cb, no. You aro paying the school- ing. That was only tuition, very large tuition—I told yen it was a severe school- mistress—but it was worth it. You learn ed things under that preemie you would not have learned in any other way. Traders in grain come to know some- thing about foreign harvests; traders in fruit come to know something about the prospects of tropical production; manu- facturers of American goods C0190 to understand the tariff on imported arti- cles; publishers of books must conse to understand the new law of copyright; owners of ships must come to know winds anti shoals and navigation, and every bale of cotton and every raisin oask and every tea box and every cluster of bananas is so nauoh literature for a business roan. Now, rny brother, what are you going to do with the intelligence? Do you suppose God put you in this school of information merely that you might be sharper in a trade, that you might be more successful as a worldling? Oh, no. It was that you mighttake that useful inforraation and use it for Jesus Christ. Can it be that you bave been dealing with foreign lands and never had the 3nissionary- spirit, wishing the salvation of foreign people? Can it be that you have become acquainted with all the outrages intioted in business life and that you have never tried to bring to bear that gospel which is to extirpate all evil and correct all wrongs and illuminate all and save men for this world and the world darkness and lift up all •wretchedness to oome? Can it bo that, understanding all the intricacies of business you know nothing about those things which will last after all bills of exchange and con- signments and invoices and rent rolls shall have crumpled up and been con- sumed in the fires of the last greae day? Can it be that a man will be wise for time and a fool for eternity? It Teaches inteurity. I remark also that business life is a school for integrity. No man knows what he will do until he is tempted. There are thousands of men who have kept their integrity merely because they never have been tested. A man ores eleoted treasurer of the State of Maine some year. ago. He was distinguished for his honesty, usefulness and uprightness, beet before ono year bad passed be had taken of the public funds for his own private use and was hurled out of office in disgrace. Distinguished for virtue be. . . turning no mill wheels and that ar3 barnessed to no factory bands. Now, God demands the best lamb. out of every flock. Ho demands the richest sheaf of every I:arrest Ho demands tho best men of every generation. A cause in which Newton and Locke and Mane field toiled vote and I can afford to toil in. Oh, for fewer idlers In the cause of 1 Christ and for more Christian workers, mon who shall take the same energy that from Monday morning to Saturday ' night they put forth for the achievement of a livelihood or the gathering of a fortunes and on Sabbath days put it forth to the advantage of Cbrist's kingdom and the /Winging of men to the Lord. • Dr. Duff visited a man who had 1n. A. merchant in Liverpool got a £6 Bank of alinsland note, and, bolding it up toward the light ho sow some Inter- lineatione in what maned red ink. Ile finally deciphered the letters and found out that 5110 writing had been made by A slave In Algiers, saying in substance, "Whoever gets this bank note will please inform my brother, John Dean, living near Carlisle. that I am a slave of tbe Bay of Algiers." The 3uerchant sent word, employed government officers aria found who Ibis man was spoken of in this bank bill. After awhile tbe roan was mimed, who for 11 years had boon a slave of the Bey of Algiers. He was immediately onsanoipatcd, bus was so worn out by bar'lship and exposure bo soon after died. Ob, if thine of the bank bills that coma through your bands could tell all the scones through which they hem passed, it would be a tragedy eclipsing any drama of Shakespeare, mightier than King Lear or Macsbethl As I go on in this subject, I am im- pressed with the importance of oar hay- ing more sympathy with business men. Is it not a shame that we in our pulpits do not oftener preach about their strug- gles, their trials and their temptations? Men who toil with the band are not apt to be very sympathetio with those who toll -with the brain. The farmers who raise the corn and the oats and the wheat sometimess aro tempted to think that grain merchants have an ease- time and get their profits without giving any equivalent. Plato and Aristotle were so opposed to merchandise that they deolared commerce to be the curse of nations, and they ad- vised that cities he built at least ten miles from the seacoast. But you and I know there are no more industrious or highminded men than those who ni0V.S.,3 in the world of traffic. Some of them carry burdens heavier than bode of brick, and are exposed to sharper things than the eastmind, and climb mountains+ higher than the Alps or Himalayas, and if they are faithful Christ will at last sayto them; "Well done, good and mitleful servant. Thou bast bean faithful over a few things. I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord," Our Everyday Alartyre. We talk about the martyrs of the Pied- mont Valley, and the martyrs among tho Scotch highlands, and the ;martyrs at Oxford, There are just as certainly mar- tyrs of Wall street and State street, martyrs of Fulton street and Broadway, martyrs of Atlantic street and Chestnut street, going through hotter fires, or bay- ing their neck e under sharper axes. Then it behooves us to banish all fretfulness from our lives, if this subject be true. We look back to the time when we were at school, and we remember the rod, and we remember the bard tasks, and we complained grievously. but now we see itwas for the best. Business life is a school, and the tasks are bard and the chastisements sometimes are very griev- ous, But do not complain. The hotter the lire the better the refining. There are mon before the throue of God this day in triumph who on earth were cheated out of everything but, their coffin. They were tilled, they were imprisoned for debt, they were throttled 13y constables with a whole pack of writs, they were sold out by the sheriffs, they had to com- promise with their creditors, they bad to make assignments, Their dying hours were annoyed by the sharp ringing of the doorbell by some impetuous; creditor who thought it was outrageous and im- pudent that a man should dare to die before he paid the last half I had a friend who had many raidort- unes. Everything went against him. He had good business oapaeity and was of the best of morals, but rte was one of thee.) men mole as you have sometimesmen, men, for whom everything smile to go wrong. His life became to him a plague. When I heard he was dead, I said, 'Good —got rid of tbe sheriffs!" Who are those lustrous souls before the throne? When the question is asked, "Who are they?" the angels standing on the sea of sham weapon& "Them are they wise cams out of great business; trouble and had their berited a great fortune. Tho Mall said to foreDistingulahed for crime afterYou robes weighed and made white Oa the 1 hiw "1: adhto be vory busy they came in sight of the railway etas tion in a small town they had eettered, "Let's take the train the rest of the way." Of course Mr. Twitchell agreed. and so the acquaintance in Boston was tar - prised by seeing the two friends walk up to hie door about 1 o'clock in the afternoan. Ile had net expected them Ull evening, bet he greeted them warra- ly, and, addressing Ur. •Twitchell, Feel, "Well, you made pretty goad time, didu't you?" 'Ola fairly good time for novicesl" WAS 'OW reply.me ',What tidid you leave Mix tferd ?" he asked of Mr. Clemena, "Aboet 7 a. tn." "What! Yon (lon' t mean to say that you have ridden all the way from guts ford to Boston on your biey:clesi" "No." replied Mark Twain, "hut we rode far enough to demonstrate that. it could be done," • for =AO eon cell over the names of men itst like lowed of IN 14019.4.)i. 1 . • . • . . • . . . • . •-• • • •• • - ..• ' • • ••• • • • • , I • I . • • re... .. • • Watts In a wontere liiagistrate—What'e your IMMO? Prisoner—Right Magistrate—With a W Pristincr--Snre, Magistrate—Well, Na Wright-- Prisoner—My name ain.'t Wright. -2illsgistrateCome, don't be funny. You said your name was Wright. .Prieimer—No, I didn't. Ztiagistrate—You sari said, "What's your name t" and Prisoner—That's correct, llagietrate—.Hem? Prisoner—that's I say it. INIagietrato—What's it? Pri.soner-Watts.—Catholio Stand- ard. Suppressing a Bore. "What a large bead yon have," re- marked the loquacious barber to an Itieh customer. "Why, it's twice as large as mine, " "That Oi suppose you're ether folnd- in thot hod of yorirs large enong/s, tbongh?" queried the Irishman. "Sure," repied the tonsorial artist, "It suits me kill right.'" "Av coorse," said the son of Ehin, "Phwat's the -ase a,v a man havin a big trunk whin he has no clothes to keep in it, 1Di "—Chicago News, Explained. "Could yon tell me," inquired the passenger who was waiting for them to change horses, "why every thorough- fare in this town bears the name of some war hero and the smallest, dusty street should be called Dewey?" "%es," responded Anther Pete, "we oiled that thor little street Dewey be - cense it's modest, it's away off from the others, got more grit than all the others put together." Too ellgh bl Balm A t a recent party in Shepherd's Bnsh a young lady began a song, "The au- tumn days have come, ten thousand leaves are falling." She began too high. "Ten thousousand"— she screamed, and then stopped. "Start her at five thousand!" cried an auctioneer who was present.—Tit- Bits. A 'Windy City StveH. Ethel—He told me he made his money in wheat. Edith (trinraphantly)—I felt sure I had seen his face before. That'sthe fel- low that leaves us our bread mornings in the city.—Leslie's Weekly. A Paradox. "I notice those women of the inter- national congress spent most of their time running down the men." Yes; the trouble with them is that they can't catch any." — Cleveland Plain Dealer. Stained. City Niece—The windows in our new church are stained. Aunt—Ain't that a pity? Can't they get nothing to take them off ?—Chicago News. Parts of Speech. ••••• •••• leseageroxiss. "Gee! I wish um wouldn't try te stbrow things at the eat when I'm in the roorest"—Nesv Writ Journal. SettlIng an Old score, Young Wife -1 am ging to make a. race steak and kidney sondsling, for sup- per tonight Young linsband (with recollection of the last one)—A.1nm! (lid intend to being a friend home tonight. Yonws Wife --Well, much. the bete ter, Tire more the mr. errie Young litisbatel—All right. I will feteli him along. lie served. me mean .trick himself -once, Tit -Bits. "Good morning, Rosie! Shall I find your mother at home or is she gone out ?" "No'ni, she didn't been. I saw she at the window when I was a wentin. —Punch. Joy to Spare. The folks that live in Greenland have joy enough to spare. They ride about on icebergs when we're melting over here. They never know of summer, they never sow and reap. With icebergs for their pillows, on banks of Aloe/ they sleep. Oh, that's the chosen country, and that's the hap. py land! Who'd swap their icy mountains for India's coral etrand2 They never know of summer and burning winde that sweep, Out, with icebergs for their pillows, on banks of aaow they sleep. ' —Atlanta Constitution., Art Americom Doehees. "Adorable creature, be miner be pleaded. For an instant Geuevieve was per- plexed. :She knew his heart was cold, yet these, his words, were very warm. Feat suddenly it all came to ber as by inspiration. "Flamed mouth:" she exclaizned, with all the hauteur she could sum- on.—Detruit Joureal. .4. Delicate Matter. "No," said Miss Cayenne, "I 'on't think I should care to vote, Public af- fairs are too difficult for me." "Yon used to say they were very simple." "I have changed my mind. It seems to be almost as hard to determine whew you Oswald Klub in politica as it is in society. "—Wasisiaeloa Star. In tbe Poetry allusineen.i, A correepondent, writing from Tex- arkana, says; "1 have two eons in the poetry busie is ea They can write it by the yard oa just OS needed. I don't know how you measure it But what would you give for five or six yards? My boys aro hardworking fellows, and they need the money. "—Atlanta Constitution. • Con oceans ent. "How did the burglars happen ta miss your jewels?" "Only yesterday morning something told me they were not safe in the to. mato can 111 the cellar, where I usually kept them, and I had accordingly con. cealed them in a jewel case in ms room. "—Detroit Jot -anal. Appalling n 1'oet. The Beauty—I've had lots of poems written to me, but I have only kepi those that were humorous. The Poet (tenderly)—And why did yon not keep the serious ones? - "Oh, because they were ridiculous!' —Brooklyn Life. Ms Remark, Miss Sharp—Chollie made such an in- teresting remark last night, Miss Short—What did he say? Miss Sharp—He told me he would be compelled to leave at 9 o'clock.—Cleve' land Leader. MAKING WALL PAPER. s The interesting foresees* Briefly and tnestructevely Beeerinem The manufacture of wall 'paper 10 singularly interesting. Fient, a web of blank paper is set in a reel' behind a blotching =Whine; two cylinders bring cthhe-freeen ine,af whereQarothellerpwapoerrkinillgthtbe n incolon pan puts a large quantity of Wier upon the paper in blotches. Then a set of fiat brushes, called jiggers, brush quickly back and forth, thus spreading the col- oring matter evenly over the surface of the paper. As the paper comes from the blotch- ing machine a workman takes one end of it. wraps it armada stick and places the stick across two parallel endless chains, and the paper is thus carried up an incline. Wben 18 feet of it has run out, the chains take ap another stiok that lies across them and carry it up as they did the first stick. A third atick won follows the second, and thus the work continues until the entire web of paper has been run out of the blotching machine. The chains in their working hang the paper in loops aver a system of steam pipes, and it is thus thoroughly dried before it reaches, the end of the chain - work, where it is again wound into web form. Wall paper designs are first sketched on paper and then transferred to rollers of the size required It is necessary to prepare as many rollers us there are colors in he design. Thus, if the de- sign requires printing in sight colors, eight rollers must be prepared. When all of the rollers are ready, the artist direct:* his workmen, and each one is given a color. A workman to whom that color has been given takes a roflcr to his beech, sets it firmly in the grasp of a vise, and, witb hammers, files, brass ribbons and brass rods, goes to work. Every bit of the design that "sito be in green is traced ont for him, and be carefully reproduces it in relief an the roller. When his work is gntsbo4, the roller bearo on its face, in raised brass, green stems, leaves, etc., and at the proper time and place will put the green color- ing and shading just where the design - es intende1 it ehoul.1 be. In like man- ner the other are made ready far use, and they are then taken to a press that has a largo cylinder of the width f ordinary wall paper. There are grooves around the sides and the bot- tom of this cyliuder, into which are At - ted the rods on the ends of the rollers, and when in position the faces of the rollers just touch the cylinder. An end- less cloth band comes to each of the rollers from below (each band works in, a color pan), which contains in liquid form the coloring matter to bo carried on the roller to which the band belongs. Each roller is placed in suck position that the part of the design upon it will, strike exactly in the spot necessitated by the relative position of the other rollers. When all is ready, the paperthat has passed through the blotching machine is placed between the cylinder and the first roller, the cylinder and the rollers revolve rapidly, and soon the paper is beautifully printed. At each of the end- less cloth bands there is a steel scraper called a doctor, and it is the doctor's duty to prevent too much liquid from the other pans from getting en the rollers. The wall paper press throws off ten rolls of paper a minute, and each roll contains 16 yards. It is said that stamped paper for walls was first man- ufactuted in Holland about the year 1555. Some of the very costly wall pa- per in use nowadays is beautifully em- bossed and hand painted.—Philadelphia Times. Accentuating Misery. "Just think of 151" sighed the girl in blue the morning after her arrival at an inland resort "Three hammocks and not an eligible man on the prem- ises."—Chicago Post. His serenade. "That dog of mine is a poetical mar. When he howls at the moon, it sounds as if he were making rhymes." "Doggerel, I suppose. "—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Itis Position. "Me mild man an yer ould man fought soide be snide. Larry." "Maybe they did. Dinny, but 01'11 bet me ould masa wuo on top. "—Chi- cago News. Plenty or It. "Has she a voice of much volume?' "My dear boy, it's a three volume voice, illustrated and printed in col- ors."—Chicago Post. The Kissing Bug. Olt, the kissing bug is coming, lie is sailing to the west, Ti And he'll mutilate your kisser Like a yellow jacket's nest. j To a man that's young and handsome Fie will let his kisses gush, ,pe. Por the kissing bug is coming, And he'm coming with n rush. 'I Oh, the kissing bug Is coming, Ile has terrorized the east, And he's whetting up his kisser k For his Windy City feast, And you've got to feel his kisser, And you've got to feel his bite, For he's a substittae of 'Hobson, Who has lust dropped out of sight! --Cameo New& How Kallenite Explodes. Tests made with the new explosive, kallenite, show that it has some proper- ties of marked superiority to dynamite. Instead, for example, of being largely composed of au incombustible, baselike, infusorial earth, eucalyptus leaves and three bark are used, these containing a large quantity of gas and their com- bustion adding to the force ofthe ex- plosion. The whole compound, in fact, is explosive, and this, it is claimed, in- creases its efficiency and economy at the same time. In some experiments at Sydney, as noted in The Mining Journal, four holes were drilled to a depth of 16 feet, and each was charged with 12 pounds of the kallenite; the charge was fired by electricity and dislodged with com- paratively slight upheaval some 200 cubic yards of stone; there was little noise and hardly any perceptible smoke or fumes. These qualities, it is thought, indicate that kallenite is a desirable explosive for military as well as for mining purposes. “Lend Me Your A.ntri.” A plague of small ants is worrying the good housekeepers in the lower part of town. The little pests get in the sugar bowls, play havoc with cakes and pies and drown themselves in the jelly and fruit preserves It is well known that the large black ants devour the lit- tle red ones, and one bright lady intro- duced several of the big black ants into her home in order that they might- eat the little ones np. The black ants did their work nobly, and now the house is free of the small pests. Since the bright woman made her successful experiment her neighbors frequently run over and ask: "Mrs. —, will you please lend I me your big black ants for a day or sot I want to borrow them to eat my little ones."--13reckinridge News. Stamps on Poster*. France is trying bard to surpass Ger- 1 many in the matter of red tape. Adver- tising posters mast bear revenue stamps, varying in value according to the size of the poster. A man who affixed a 15 j centime stamp on a poster which should have had only a 6 centime stamp has just been fined 125 franca, or $25, for the offense. . eee, 'e.e..-seeSeeeeleSileettineeeesieneaYnYel