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SPaal iALVJO
EVIL OFBD
Rey. Dr. Talmage Speaks on the
Choice of Friends.
EARNEST AND KINDLY WARNING,
•'Mama Who Voluatarity Amisociate Wit• h
thi Id h udInt:it/US Will Sn1.13'
Morals and i•grtcy-The Tempta.
Lions ni 6reat 1itk4 Depiet,d,
Washington, March 4. — In this
•dlscourse Dr. Talmage speaks on a
theme which all men, young and old,
will be glad to see discussed, and the
eStindly warning will no doubt in
imany eases be taken.; text, Proverbs
NW, 20, "A companion of fools shall
be destroyed.''
"'Ma' it please the court," said a
vonvicte,d criminal whee asked by the
• ludo what he had to say why Sea-
eesesee.
combed on toepi 110 W. Death wlll
CO4le up, and this ebteptic will say
GO him; tti ettenot die. 1 cannot
die." Death will say: "You muse
die. You have but ton geeonde.more
to live our ioul—give it to me
right away. . our "Oh,
lno" say n the ..skeptic., "Do not
breathe that 'eoid vr into. Iner face.
You crowd 41,0 too hard. It is get-
Ung
dark in the Nem. - Here-44hp
my rings and :take all the pictures in
the recen, but lee erna
says Death,: our soul! Your
soul Then the dying 'skeptic
be-
gins to Say, tiOdt" , Death -says,
" Y on .declared ettere was no God."
Then. the dying seeptic says, "Pray,
for -eue;" and Death says: -It is' .too
late to pray; you have only:thtTe' pee -
ends more to live, and I will count.
then n off—one, two, three: Gone 11'
Where? Where? Carry hi* out .and
lay him down beside' his eldfather
and mother, who died under the de-
lusions of the Christian religion sing-
ing the. songs of victory.
Again, avoid the Wiens that is,
those people who gather around the
store or the shop .or the factory. and
try to eeduza you away fronayour re-
gular calling and in .your business.
hours try to sedate.. You. away.
There Is nothing that wouldplease
them so well as to have you give up
your employment and eonsort with
them. .
These idlers you will find standing
around the engine 'houses or standing,
at noonday or about noon o11 the
steps of 'some hotel or fashionable re-
set -tercet -it, giving the idea they have
dined there. They have not dined
there. They never dined there, 'Be-
fore you invite a young than into
your association ask him plainly,
-Whet do yea do for a living?''
he says; "Nothing; L ani ia gentle -
Man," look out for him_ I care not
howsoft his hand or how elegant his
apparel or how high sounding, his
family name, his touch is death.
idleness is the next door to vil-
lainy. When the police go to find
criminals, Where do they go to find
them? They find them among the
idle—those who have nothing to do,
or, having eoracithing to do, refuse
to engage in their daily work. Sairie
one came to good old Ashbel Green
and asked. him Why he worked at SO
years of age when it was time for
him to rest. -Oh," he replied,
work to keep ,out of mischief." And
no man, can afford to he .idle. I care
1101 ho W strong his moral character,
he cannot afford to be idle.
But • you say: "A great many peo-
ple are suffering from enforced idle-
ness. During the hard times there
were a great maray people out of em-
ployment." I know it, but the time
of dullness in Misiness are the times
when men ought to be thoroughly en-
gaged in improving their minds and
enlarging their hearts. The fortunes
to be made 20 years from now will
be made by the young men who in
the times when business was dull cul-
tivated their minds and improved
their hearts. They will get the for-
tunes after awhile, while those men
who hang around their stores, never
engagingin any useful occupation,
will be as poor then as they are
IOW. It is absurd for a Christian
man to say he has nothing to do.
I event into a, store in New York
where, there were five Christian men,
and they said they had nothing to
do. The whole world 'lying in sin.
Poverty to be comforted, sickness to
be alleviated, a Bible in the back ofe
' tenet) of death should not be pronoun-
ced upon' Lila, -may it, please the
court, bad company has been my des-
truction. I received the blessing el
•good parents and in return therefor
promised to avoid all evil associates.
Had 1 Rept my promise I should have
avoided this shame aud the burden of
guilt Wh 1011, 1 i1e a vulture, threatens
to drag me to justice for my many
crimes.. Although 1 once moved in
high circles stud was eaterte,thed by
distinguished men, 1 ain lost. Bed
icompany did the work for me." Only
one out of a thotteand illustrations
was that of the fact, that "a cono
pardon of fools shall be destroyed."
It is an invariable rule.
Hero is a hospital with a hundred
men down with the ship fever. Here
ele a healthy man wilt) goes into it. lle
does not so certainly catch the dis-
ease as a good man will catch moral
distemper if he eonsents to be shut,
up with the -vicious and the aban-
doned. In the prisons of the olden
time it -was the custom to put the
prisoners in a, cell together, and 1
am sorry to say it is the custom
etill in souse of one prisons; so that
when the day of liberation coulee,
the men, instead of being reformed,
are turned out, brutes, not men, each
one having learfuel the vices of all
the rest.
We may in our WOl1d1y o c cite i on
be ohlie;ed to talk to and commingle
with bad people, but lie Who .volun-
teeny chooses that kind Of associa-
tion is carry ing on a co lir ip with
a Delilah tvhich tvill shear the locks
of his strength, and he will be trip-
ped into perdition. Look over all
elle millions of the race, and you can-
not show me a single instance where
a, mien voluntarily aesociated with
the bad for one year and maintained
his integrity. Sin is catching; it is
infectious; it is epidemic.
A young mati wakes up in one of
our great cities knowing only the
gentlemen of the firm into whose ser-
vice he has entered. In the morning
he enters the store, and all the
clerks mark him, measures him, dis-
cuss' him. The bad clerks of that
establishment, the good clerks of
that establishment, stand in some re-
lation to him. The good clerks will
wish him well, but they will wait
for a formal in trod uction., and even
after they have had the introduction
tioduction they are very cautious as
' to whether they shall call him into
their association before they know
'him very well.
but the bad young men in 1 hat
establishment all gather around him.
They patronize him, they offer to
show him everything that there is
in the city on one condition—that he
will pay the expenses, for it always
happens so when a good young man.
. and a bad young man go together to
-a place of evil entertainment — the
, good young man always has to pay
• the charges. just at the time the
• ticket is to be paid for or the cham-
pagne bill, is to be settled the bad
young man will affect einbarrassment
and feel around in his pockets and
say, "Well,. well, really I have for-
g,otten my pocket -book.",
In 48 hours after this innocent
young man has entered the store the
baci young men will gather around
hi in, slap him on the shoulders With
familiarity, and, .if he is stupid in
not being able to take certain allus-
ions, will say, "Ah, my young friend,
you will have to be broken in." And
forthwith they go to work to "break
him in." '
Oh, young man, let no fallen young
man slap you on the shoulder' fam-
iliarly!. Turn around and giye a
withering glance that evill make the
wretch cower in ;vole- presence. There
Is 110 monstrosi ty of wicicedness that
,oan stand tIefore the. glance of pur-
ity fi,nd honor., Ond keeps the light-
nings Of heaven ill his own scab-
bard, end no hernan hand can reach
th e m , but God gi IS to every young
man a lightning ti hich 'he may uee,
and that is tho. lightlitng of an hon-
est eye. A lesib o cly that d ers Lands
the temptations of our great cities
'knows the use of one .sernion like
this, in which I try to enforce the
th ough t. that "a companion of fools
-shall be destroyed:**
Ain!, first, .0 elenige you, avoid the
,skeptic ---that is, the young man who
puts his 1,huinli in his vest and
swaggers ahoet; echillng at your old-
fashioned geliei on, then taking- out
• the Bible and eureing over to sham
mysterions 1)0111111 '1) aria saying: "Ex-
, plain that, in,v , friend, explain that,
used .to think- j1.151 ELS you do. My
father atel mother used to think just
as you do. 1101, you can't 50.411e xne
about teM fittere., I used to believe
In thos things. hot Deei got over
Yes,' he has got over it, and
,you Wil 1 get over it if you stely in his
-companionship. much longee. .For
,ftwhile he may not bring one argil -
Meat, agotese our holy Christianity.
lie Will, by seen and jeers and car -
ice terc9. destroy your faith in that
' -religion which WaS the, eotrifort ,ol
your father in his declining yeaiis and
the' pillow bri which your old mother
• lay' asclyIng.
That brilliant young ekeptie
after- awhile have to die, and his Mee
•
Then you will be ono of them. oh,
my' friende, befoee you go with these
pleasure seekers, these men whoee
entire life is fun and amusement and
recreation, remember while after a
man has lived a life of integrity and
Christia,n consecration, kind to the
poor and elevating to the world's
condition, when he comes to die, he
has a glorious reminiscence lying on
his death pillow, the mere pleasurist
has nothing by way of review but a
torn playbill, a ticket for the race,
an empty tankard or the cast out
rinds of a carousal. And as in delir-
ium of his awful death he clutches
the goblet and presses it to his lips,
the dregs falling on his tongue will
begin to uncoil and hiss with the ad-
ders of an eternal poison.
Again, beware of Sabbath breakers.
Tell nie how a young ma,n spends his
Sabbath, and I will tell you what
are his prospects in business, and I
will tell you what are his prospects
for the eternal world. God has
thrust into our busy life a sacred
day when •we are to look after our
souls. Is it exorbitant after giving
six days to the feeding and the cloth-
ing of. these perishable bodies that
God should demand one day for the
feeding and the clothing of the im-
mortal soul? Our bodies are seven
day clocks, and they need to be
wound up, and if they are not wound
up they run down into the grave. No
man can continuously break the
Sabbath and keep his physical and
mental health. Ask those aged men,
and they will tell you they never
knew men who continuously broke
the Sabbath who did not fail either
In mind, body or moral principle.
Oh, rny friends, keep the Lord's
day. You may think it old fogy ad-
vice, but I give it to you now: "Re-
member the Sabbath day, to keep it
holy. Six days shalt thou labor and
do all thy work, but the seventh is
the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in
It thou shalt not do any work." A
man said that be would prove that
all this was a fallacy, and so he said,
"I shall raise a Sunday crop." And
he plowed the field on the Sabbath,
and then he put in the seed on the
Sabbath and - cultivated the ground
,on the Sabbath. -When the harvest
was ripe, he reaped it on the Sab-
bath, and he carried it into the mow
on the Sabbath, and then he stood
out defiant to his Christain neighbors
and seed, "There, that is my Sunday
crop, and it is all garnered" After
awhile a storm come up and a great
darkness, and the lightnings of
heaven struck the barn, and away
went his Sunday crop. Beware, young
man, of all Sabbath breakers.
Again, I charge you, beware of as-
sociation with the dissipated. Go
with them and you will in time
adopt their habits, Who is that man
fallen ago i nst the curbstone, covered
with bruises a,nd beastliness? He
was as bright faced a lad as ever
looked up from your nursery. His
mother rocked • him, prayed for him,
fondled him, would not let the night
air touch his cheek and held him up
and looked down into his loving eyes
and wondered for what hige position
lie was being fitted.. He entered life
With bright hopes. The world beck-
oned hen, friends cheered him, but
the archers shot a,t him; vile men set
traps for him, bad habits hooked
fast.to hitie with their iron grapples;
his feet slipped en the way, and there
he lies. Who 'would think- that that
mic,omlied hair WaS once toyed with
by a father's fingers? Who ' would
think that those bloated cheeks Were
ever kissed by a mother's lips'? Would
you guess that that thick tongue once,
made a household glad With its inno-
cent pre I, tle.? U t ter 110 hareh words
in his ear. Help him up. Put the
hat over that oitee manly brow.
Brush the duet from thee met that
once, covered to generous heart, Show
him the way to the home thet once
rejoieed al, the sound of hisfootstep,
*id with gentle words tell his chils
fine, every opportunity of mental cul-
ture, spiritual culture; every induce-
ment to work, yet a Christian man,
sworn before high heaven to conse-
crate his whole life to usefulness, has
nothing to do! If you have not any
business for this world my Christian
friend, then you ought to be doing
business for eternity.
People go to Florence and to Ven-
ice and to Rome to see one of the
works of the great masters. I think
I can show you the picture of one
of the great masters. 1 went by
the field of the slothful and by the
vineyard of the man void of under-
standing, and, lo, it was all grown
over with thorns, and nettles had
covered the face thereof, and the
stone wall: thereof was broken down.
Then I saw and considered it well.
I looked 'upon it and received instruc-
tion. Net a little sleep, a lttle
slumber, a little folding of the hands
to sleep. So shall thy poverty come
as one that travoieth and thy want
as an arniecl inane' There le no
niore explosive passage in all the Bi-
ble than that. It first begins to hiss
like the fuse of a cannon and then
lsursts like a 54 pounder. The old
proverb was true. ''The devil
tempts most men, but idlers tempt
the devil!" • `,.I'llerefore seek some-
thieg to' do. If no orldly business
offers, then, in the name of the Lord
Jestits Christ, go out on Christian
toil, and the Lord will bless you, and
the Lord will help you.
Again I counsel you, avoid the
pleasiire seeker, the man etthose en-
tire business it is to seek for recrea-
tion and amusement. I believe 10
the amusements of the world so far
as they are innocient. I cOuld not
live without 1110141. Any tnan of
sanguine temperament. must hilve re-
creation or die. And yet the amuse -
num ts and recreations of life must
achninister to hard svm•k. They are
only • preparative for the occupation
to evhich God has (tailed us.
God would 114)1, hitve given us the
capacity to lageloiflic <lid not sonic -
times intend us to indulge it. ,God
bath hong in sky and set in 'wave
and printed on grilse many a, 1-011311(10-
1113. But all the music .atid the
brightness of the natural tvorld,\vere
entirely intended to fit us for the ear-
nest WOr IC, of life. The thundercloud
hes edges exquisitely. purpled, but it
jars the mountain ns it says,
coolie down to water the fields." The
flotvers standing eihter the fenceloole
gti,y and beitutifel, hut they say, "We
stand here to refresh the husbanchnen
at the nooning." The, brook.- frolies
and speritles and 1001110, bat it says:
"I go to baptize the moss; I go to
shake, the thiest of the bird; I turn
the wheel of the 111111; in Illy crystal
cradle I reek unicicshaw ttncl water
11/3(1 1 play, lnit 1 -work,"
Theee mere ple,aeurists will come
around you While you are engaged in
your work and they will try to
Mond Will flash no splendor into • the take you away. They have lost their
0 of death, His hair will lio un- iels.ces, Why not 'you lose your place?
ttren to stand back as you le p
through the hall.
011, if I had smile art by which
could break the charm of the
tempter's bowl and with mailed hand
lift out the long serpent of eterual
(teepees zind shake out its coils and
cast it down and crusll it to death,
Shake off the Sabbath breaker. Oh,
turn your back upon these men.
Shake off the sceptic Shake off 01 e
idler. Shake off -the pleasurist. You
may do this work of ejection in 'po-
liteness, but you may do it firmly.
You are not under any circumstances
to lose all the remembrance of the
fact that you are a gentleman and
must always act the gentleman. A
young man said to a Christian Quak-
er, "Olcl chap, how did you get your
monee?"
"Well," said the Q-uaker, "I got it
by dealing in an article in which
thou mayest deal if thou wilt—ci-
vility."
Be courteous, be polite, but be
firm. Say "No" as if you meant it.
If you say '''No" in a feeble way,
they will keep on with their implore;
don and their temptation, and after
awhile you evill stand in silence, and
then you will say, after they have
gone on a little longer, "Yes," and
then you are lost.
Oh, turn your back upon the ban-
quet Of sin! I call You to a better
feast to -clay. The promises of God
are the fruits, The harps of heaven
are the music. The clusters of Es-
chol are pressed into the tankards.
The sons and daughters of the Lord
Almighty are the guests, while stand-
ing at the banquet to pour the wine
and divide the clusters and command
the music, awl welcome the guests is
a daughter of God, on her brow the
blosstans of paradise and in her cheek
the flush of celestial summer. And
her name is Religion. "Her ways
are ways of pleasantness, and all her
paths are, peace."
feces,. reed.
Mexico Ines a elever bird called the
inelancii•pes, which lias discovered a
new use for the telegraph pole. At
the foot, of the, ji0St thiS bird makes
it large hole, in which it rears its
family. Somewhat higher up the
post it makes an observatory, for
which bored holes permit it to ob-
serve the horizon in every direction.
Still higher this sagacious bird makes
its storehouse, mild thus the pole ser-
ves as its house, fortrese and ware-
house.
When Trees Go to Sleep.
Trees and plaids have their regelar
times for going to sleep as well as boys
and girls. They need the same chance to
rest from the week of growing and to re-
pair and' oil the machinery of life.
Soule plants do all their sleeping in the
Winter while the ground is frozen and the
Beebe are bare of leaves, in trcpical
counteies, where the SilaW never falls nod
it is always growing weather, the trees
repose during the veiny season or during
tne periods of drought.
They always choose the most UrifaVirit-
ble WOrking time for doing their, sleep,
;just as man chooses the night, when he
cannot see to work.
The t3uneriovi1y taf Man.
"Were the pipes fleizeie dear?" asked
Mrs. Benefield' when her, husband return-
ed from a long executive eeesion in the
cellar.
"No," replied Mr. Benefield; "the wa-
ter in the pipes wns frozen- That WAN
all."--sPittsburg Chronicle -Telegraph.
THE HAIR.
Best Nelms of Keeping It In Good
Condition.
Comparatively few women realize how
much the hair is benefited by being al-
lowed to hang hose so that the air may
pass through it freely. It should be left
floating upon the shoulders a little while
every day, and if it is fair sunshine will
additionally improve it, but dark hair
sometimes is faded by sunlight. It is a
very bad plan to wet the hair when dress -
tug It daily. It should be thoroughly
Why, indeed?
"That's a fenny habit the ostrich has
of sticking his bill in the sand," remarked
the Monkey.
"Yes," snickered the laughing hyena.
"It he bas and cm -High to cover the bill,
why doesn't he pay Ittc-rialladelphia
Press.
The Lollipops Coasting.
Here are the Lollipop children
Sliding down Sugarloaf 01111
Fun by the sledfull Dear me, thottele
One of (hem's in for a spill!
RECEPTION GOWN.
washed occasionally and dried quickly by
warm air, but should never be sopped
with water so that it is dank and clammy
and so allowed to remain until the
warmth of the head dries it. The comb
should be used as little as possible, as It
drags and breaks the hair, and a fine
comb is always to be avoided. A stiff
brush with long bristles will clear the
hair as well as a comb without doing it
injury, and the friction stimulates the
scalp and removes dust. The hair should
be left free at night or at tnost loosely
braided, and any covering were on the
head which induces perspiration tends to
cause the hair to fall.
The cut shosvs a reception costume of
white crepe de chine. Around the foot
are three scant circular ruffles. The bod-
ice, which is fitted at the back, is draped
in front and closed at the side. The yoke
of shirred wlaite mouseeline de soie is en-
circled by a bertha of white mousseline
de soie. The sleeves of elbow leugth are
of wrinkled mousseline de soie and are
finished with a frill; Bows composed of
loops of white satin baby ribbon eve
placed at the shoulders. waist and el-
bows. The belt is of white satin.
alsole efTOLLET.
1. Tnrit nod Ilisilloiber.
The strongest sentiment oe the Turk
Is his reverence tor his motile!. He nt-
tveYs elands' in her presence teen 1111'! Lod
10 Sit down, a 00111p11111011 11 he pays to no
else else.
A Stage 1Pr13t11.
SiCIlit---So that homely elise Witherupp
Is not to anneal' le yew' private theatrie-
ale after all?
elella---No. She was fraid she might
stiffer from stage fright. •
Stel,!a-lt 'seems' to me the andience
would have suffered >nest from Chit
cause if she had gone on.-Philatlelphia
Press.
Apparently the Case.
Indulgent elothet-You mustn't be too
hartl on Johnny 00 aceouut of his catie-
less dressing,. He'll get over it as he
grovvs older. It is only a habit he has
fallen into.
Faetidious Vather (inspecting hlm)-
Yes, he looks as lf he had fallen Into the
habit he has on now. --Chicago Tribune.
Track, track, track. below there!
Over the bumper she goes!
There! Dkl she get a big tumble
Right on her lollipop nose?
-Primary Education,
How Much?
Mira, aged 4, went into a drug store
the other day and, stepping up to the
proprietor, said in a half whisper, "Sup-
pose a little girl hasn't any money, hove
much chewing gum would you give hoe
for a cent?"
THE WEST
A Galt Hotel Man Has a Wort; .
to Say About Dodd's
Kidney Fills.
rianeOeh, of the Iroquois, Grateful..
Cured of Pains in the Back of Loag
Standing -Says Thanes Are Due
to Doti d's Eittue y
Galt, Feb. 20..—Mr. H. Hancock, of
this lively town, is known by the
travelling fraternity all over the coun-
try as the joint peoprietor with Mr.
Wm. Sadler, of one of the finest dol -
las -a -day hotels in the Dominion a
Canada, and he is known further as
one of the most genial and go-ahead
hotel men in the country, his house
being the equal in comfort and ap-
pointments of the average hotel of
double the rates. it -will interest
travelling men to know that Mr. Han-
cock thoroughly endorses Dodd's Kid-
ney Pills.
Some time age guests of the Iro-
quois raig,ht-; have noticed that Mr.
Hancock seemed to be troubled with,
backache. Indeed that gentleman,
often complained with great vigor
about the pain and inconveniencOl
it caused him. 'Toll, all that is now
of the past. Mr. T-tancock is bap'
to =ounce that, Dodd's Kidney Pills
have cured him.
:it cannot be too often impressed
upon the minds of those • suffering
witli backache 13114111 111 is the kidneve
that are affected. The kidneys are
internal, and exdorital treatment can-
not do any good, Liniments and oilm
can only soft -oil the muscles, they (le
not reach the kidneys. Dodd's Kid-
ney Pill, have ct-trecl more cases of
baelmzhe than any other medicine in
the world simply because they ac,t oo
t he kidneys.
Mr, liancook, of the Iroquois Hotel, -
Galt, writes:
"I have been troubled for one year
with severe' pans across my back.
Nothing T. tried would relieve ,the
pain until I used two boxes of DodtPe
Kidney Pills. r.t.lhe pains have now
left me, 13(1 all thanks aro to the
credit of Dodd's Kidney Pills. 1 have_
no oWeetions to allowing this state.
ment to be published for the benefit,
of the many otherd who suffer With\
brieknohe,"
' I
li d 9 t tS dli u.„, 99
ana a s Gre es ee o c e
This picture (printed in beautiful colors) may be seen in the
stores of leading merchants from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
3939 A GUIDE TO BUYERS WHO WANT A GOOD GARDEN --SC14-,-,
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Then you will be ono of them. oh,
my' friende, befoee you go with these
pleasure seekers, these men whoee
entire life is fun and amusement and
recreation, remember while after a
man has lived a life of integrity and
Christia,n consecration, kind to the
poor and elevating to the world's
condition, when he comes to die, he
has a glorious reminiscence lying on
his death pillow, the mere pleasurist
has nothing by way of review but a
torn playbill, a ticket for the race,
an empty tankard or the cast out
rinds of a carousal. And as in delir-
ium of his awful death he clutches
the goblet and presses it to his lips,
the dregs falling on his tongue will
begin to uncoil and hiss with the ad-
ders of an eternal poison.
Again, beware of Sabbath breakers.
Tell nie how a young ma,n spends his
Sabbath, and I will tell you what
are his prospects in business, and I
will tell you what are his prospects
for the eternal world. God has
thrust into our busy life a sacred
day when •we are to look after our
souls. Is it exorbitant after giving
six days to the feeding and the cloth-
ing of. these perishable bodies that
God should demand one day for the
feeding and the clothing of the im-
mortal soul? Our bodies are seven
day clocks, and they need to be
wound up, and if they are not wound
up they run down into the grave. No
man can continuously break the
Sabbath and keep his physical and
mental health. Ask those aged men,
and they will tell you they never
knew men who continuously broke
the Sabbath who did not fail either
In mind, body or moral principle.
Oh, rny friends, keep the Lord's
day. You may think it old fogy ad-
vice, but I give it to you now: "Re-
member the Sabbath day, to keep it
holy. Six days shalt thou labor and
do all thy work, but the seventh is
the Sabbath of the Lord thy God; in
It thou shalt not do any work." A
man said that be would prove that
all this was a fallacy, and so he said,
"I shall raise a Sunday crop." And
he plowed the field on the Sabbath,
and then he put in the seed on the
Sabbath and - cultivated the ground
,on the Sabbath. -When the harvest
was ripe, he reaped it on the Sab-
bath, and he carried it into the mow
on the Sabbath, and then he stood
out defiant to his Christain neighbors
and seed, "There, that is my Sunday
crop, and it is all garnered" After
awhile a storm come up and a great
darkness, and the lightnings of
heaven struck the barn, and away
went his Sunday crop. Beware, young
man, of all Sabbath breakers.
Again, I charge you, beware of as-
sociation with the dissipated. Go
with them and you will in time
adopt their habits, Who is that man
fallen ago i nst the curbstone, covered
with bruises a,nd beastliness? He
was as bright faced a lad as ever
looked up from your nursery. His
mother rocked • him, prayed for him,
fondled him, would not let the night
air touch his cheek and held him up
and looked down into his loving eyes
and wondered for what hige position
lie was being fitted.. He entered life
With bright hopes. The world beck-
oned hen, friends cheered him, but
the archers shot a,t him; vile men set
traps for him, bad habits hooked
fast.to hitie with their iron grapples;
his feet slipped en the way, and there
he lies. Who 'would think- that that
mic,omlied hair WaS once toyed with
by a father's fingers? Who ' would
think that those bloated cheeks Were
ever kissed by a mother's lips'? Would
you guess that that thick tongue once,
made a household glad With its inno-
cent pre I, tle.? U t ter 110 hareh words
in his ear. Help him up. Put the
hat over that oitee manly brow.
Brush the duet from thee met that
once, covered to generous heart, Show
him the way to the home thet once
rejoieed al, the sound of hisfootstep,
*id with gentle words tell his chils
fine, every opportunity of mental cul-
ture, spiritual culture; every induce-
ment to work, yet a Christian man,
sworn before high heaven to conse-
crate his whole life to usefulness, has
nothing to do! If you have not any
business for this world my Christian
friend, then you ought to be doing
business for eternity.
People go to Florence and to Ven-
ice and to Rome to see one of the
works of the great masters. I think
I can show you the picture of one
of the great masters. 1 went by
the field of the slothful and by the
vineyard of the man void of under-
standing, and, lo, it was all grown
over with thorns, and nettles had
covered the face thereof, and the
stone wall: thereof was broken down.
Then I saw and considered it well.
I looked 'upon it and received instruc-
tion. Net a little sleep, a lttle
slumber, a little folding of the hands
to sleep. So shall thy poverty come
as one that travoieth and thy want
as an arniecl inane' There le no
niore explosive passage in all the Bi-
ble than that. It first begins to hiss
like the fuse of a cannon and then
lsursts like a 54 pounder. The old
proverb was true. ''The devil
tempts most men, but idlers tempt
the devil!" • `,.I'llerefore seek some-
thieg to' do. If no orldly business
offers, then, in the name of the Lord
Jestits Christ, go out on Christian
toil, and the Lord will bless you, and
the Lord will help you.
Again I counsel you, avoid the
pleasiire seeker, the man etthose en-
tire business it is to seek for recrea-
tion and amusement. I believe 10
the amusements of the world so far
as they are innocient. I cOuld not
live without 1110141. Any tnan of
sanguine temperament. must hilve re-
creation or die. And yet the amuse -
num ts and recreations of life must
achninister to hard svm•k. They are
only • preparative for the occupation
to evhich God has (tailed us.
God would 114)1, hitve given us the
capacity to lageloiflic <lid not sonic -
times intend us to indulge it. ,God
bath hong in sky and set in 'wave
and printed on grilse many a, 1-011311(10-
1113. But all the music .atid the
brightness of the natural tvorld,\vere
entirely intended to fit us for the ear-
nest WOr IC, of life. The thundercloud
hes edges exquisitely. purpled, but it
jars the mountain ns it says,
coolie down to water the fields." The
flotvers standing eihter the fenceloole
gti,y and beitutifel, hut they say, "We
stand here to refresh the husbanchnen
at the nooning." The, brook.- frolies
and speritles and 1001110, bat it says:
"I go to baptize the moss; I go to
shake, the thiest of the bird; I turn
the wheel of the 111111; in Illy crystal
cradle I reek unicicshaw ttncl water
11/3(1 1 play, lnit 1 -work,"
Theee mere ple,aeurists will come
around you While you are engaged in
your work and they will try to
Mond Will flash no splendor into • the take you away. They have lost their
0 of death, His hair will lio un- iels.ces, Why not 'you lose your place?
ttren to stand back as you le p
through the hall.
011, if I had smile art by which
could break the charm of the
tempter's bowl and with mailed hand
lift out the long serpent of eterual
(teepees zind shake out its coils and
cast it down and crusll it to death,
Shake off the Sabbath breaker. Oh,
turn your back upon these men.
Shake off the sceptic Shake off 01 e
idler. Shake off -the pleasurist. You
may do this work of ejection in 'po-
liteness, but you may do it firmly.
You are not under any circumstances
to lose all the remembrance of the
fact that you are a gentleman and
must always act the gentleman. A
young man said to a Christian Quak-
er, "Olcl chap, how did you get your
monee?"
"Well," said the Q-uaker, "I got it
by dealing in an article in which
thou mayest deal if thou wilt—ci-
vility."
Be courteous, be polite, but be
firm. Say "No" as if you meant it.
If you say '''No" in a feeble way,
they will keep on with their implore;
don and their temptation, and after
awhile you evill stand in silence, and
then you will say, after they have
gone on a little longer, "Yes," and
then you are lost.
Oh, turn your back upon the ban-
quet Of sin! I call You to a better
feast to -clay. The promises of God
are the fruits, The harps of heaven
are the music. The clusters of Es-
chol are pressed into the tankards.
The sons and daughters of the Lord
Almighty are the guests, while stand-
ing at the banquet to pour the wine
and divide the clusters and command
the music, awl welcome the guests is
a daughter of God, on her brow the
blosstans of paradise and in her cheek
the flush of celestial summer. And
her name is Religion. "Her ways
are ways of pleasantness, and all her
paths are, peace."
feces,. reed.
Mexico Ines a elever bird called the
inelancii•pes, which lias discovered a
new use for the telegraph pole. At
the foot, of the, ji0St thiS bird makes
it large hole, in which it rears its
family. Somewhat higher up the
post it makes an observatory, for
which bored holes permit it to ob-
serve the horizon in every direction.
Still higher this sagacious bird makes
its storehouse, mild thus the pole ser-
ves as its house, fortrese and ware-
house.
When Trees Go to Sleep.
Trees and plaids have their regelar
times for going to sleep as well as boys
and girls. They need the same chance to
rest from the week of growing and to re-
pair and' oil the machinery of life.
Soule plants do all their sleeping in the
Winter while the ground is frozen and the
Beebe are bare of leaves, in trcpical
counteies, where the SilaW never falls nod
it is always growing weather, the trees
repose during the veiny season or during
tne periods of drought.
They always choose the most UrifaVirit-
ble WOrking time for doing their, sleep,
;just as man chooses the night, when he
cannot see to work.
The t3uneriovi1y taf Man.
"Were the pipes fleizeie dear?" asked
Mrs. Benefield' when her, husband return-
ed from a long executive eeesion in the
cellar.
"No," replied Mr. Benefield; "the wa-
ter in the pipes wns frozen- That WAN
all."--sPittsburg Chronicle -Telegraph.
THE HAIR.
Best Nelms of Keeping It In Good
Condition.
Comparatively few women realize how
much the hair is benefited by being al-
lowed to hang hose so that the air may
pass through it freely. It should be left
floating upon the shoulders a little while
every day, and if it is fair sunshine will
additionally improve it, but dark hair
sometimes is faded by sunlight. It is a
very bad plan to wet the hair when dress -
tug It daily. It should be thoroughly
Why, indeed?
"That's a fenny habit the ostrich has
of sticking his bill in the sand," remarked
the Monkey.
"Yes," snickered the laughing hyena.
"It he bas and cm -High to cover the bill,
why doesn't he pay Ittc-rialladelphia
Press.
The Lollipops Coasting.
Here are the Lollipop children
Sliding down Sugarloaf 01111
Fun by the sledfull Dear me, thottele
One of (hem's in for a spill!
RECEPTION GOWN.
washed occasionally and dried quickly by
warm air, but should never be sopped
with water so that it is dank and clammy
and so allowed to remain until the
warmth of the head dries it. The comb
should be used as little as possible, as It
drags and breaks the hair, and a fine
comb is always to be avoided. A stiff
brush with long bristles will clear the
hair as well as a comb without doing it
injury, and the friction stimulates the
scalp and removes dust. The hair should
be left free at night or at tnost loosely
braided, and any covering were on the
head which induces perspiration tends to
cause the hair to fall.
The cut shosvs a reception costume of
white crepe de chine. Around the foot
are three scant circular ruffles. The bod-
ice, which is fitted at the back, is draped
in front and closed at the side. The yoke
of shirred wlaite mouseeline de soie is en-
circled by a bertha of white mousseline
de soie. The sleeves of elbow leugth are
of wrinkled mousseline de soie and are
finished with a frill; Bows composed of
loops of white satin baby ribbon eve
placed at the shoulders. waist and el-
bows. The belt is of white satin.
alsole efTOLLET.
1. Tnrit nod Ilisilloiber.
The strongest sentiment oe the Turk
Is his reverence tor his motile!. He nt-
tveYs elands' in her presence teen 1111'! Lod
10 Sit down, a 00111p11111011 11 he pays to no
else else.
A Stage 1Pr13t11.
SiCIlit---So that homely elise Witherupp
Is not to anneal' le yew' private theatrie-
ale after all?
elella---No. She was fraid she might
stiffer from stage fright. •
Stel,!a-lt 'seems' to me the andience
would have suffered >nest from Chit
cause if she had gone on.-Philatlelphia
Press.
Apparently the Case.
Indulgent elothet-You mustn't be too
hartl on Johnny 00 aceouut of his catie-
less dressing,. He'll get over it as he
grovvs older. It is only a habit he has
fallen into.
Faetidious Vather (inspecting hlm)-
Yes, he looks as lf he had fallen Into the
habit he has on now. --Chicago Tribune.
Track, track, track. below there!
Over the bumper she goes!
There! Dkl she get a big tumble
Right on her lollipop nose?
-Primary Education,
How Much?
Mira, aged 4, went into a drug store
the other day and, stepping up to the
proprietor, said in a half whisper, "Sup-
pose a little girl hasn't any money, hove
much chewing gum would you give hoe
for a cent?"
THE WEST
A Galt Hotel Man Has a Wort; .
to Say About Dodd's
Kidney Fills.
rianeOeh, of the Iroquois, Grateful..
Cured of Pains in the Back of Loag
Standing -Says Thanes Are Due
to Doti d's Eittue y
Galt, Feb. 20..—Mr. H. Hancock, of
this lively town, is known by the
travelling fraternity all over the coun-
try as the joint peoprietor with Mr.
Wm. Sadler, of one of the finest dol -
las -a -day hotels in the Dominion a
Canada, and he is known further as
one of the most genial and go-ahead
hotel men in the country, his house
being the equal in comfort and ap-
pointments of the average hotel of
double the rates. it -will interest
travelling men to know that Mr. Han-
cock thoroughly endorses Dodd's Kid-
ney Pills.
Some time age guests of the Iro-
quois raig,ht-; have noticed that Mr.
Hancock seemed to be troubled with,
backache. Indeed that gentleman,
often complained with great vigor
about the pain and inconveniencOl
it caused him. 'Toll, all that is now
of the past. Mr. T-tancock is bap'
to =ounce that, Dodd's Kidney Pills
have cured him.
:it cannot be too often impressed
upon the minds of those • suffering
witli backache 13114111 111 is the kidneve
that are affected. The kidneys are
internal, and exdorital treatment can-
not do any good, Liniments and oilm
can only soft -oil the muscles, they (le
not reach the kidneys. Dodd's Kid-
ney Pill, have ct-trecl more cases of
baelmzhe than any other medicine in
the world simply because they ac,t oo
t he kidneys.
Mr, liancook, of the Iroquois Hotel, -
Galt, writes:
"I have been troubled for one year
with severe' pans across my back.
Nothing T. tried would relieve ,the
pain until I used two boxes of DodtPe
Kidney Pills. r.t.lhe pains have now
left me, 13(1 all thanks aro to the
credit of Dodd's Kidney Pills. 1 have_
no oWeetions to allowing this state.
ment to be published for the benefit,
of the many otherd who suffer With\
brieknohe,"