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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-1-29, Page 3ALLURING AS HONEY REV. QR. TALMAGE ON TRAPS FOR THE UNWARY. The lieneybee and Tts Work--Tempta- tiou That is Delicious and Attraettve, butbamaginK aml Destriictive- Am- hrei.in and. Nectar ter the Soul, copyriglit 18$8, by American r refte von." Wasbiagton, Jam 23,-1)r, Talmage here starts evitli an oriental scene, from which he tiraws praetieta lessons as to the allurenteute which entrap the unwary, and the discourse will put many on their guard. Tiee text is 1. Samuel xiv, 43, "I did but taete a little honey with, the end of the rod that was 177, my loud, and, lo, 11717$6 die." The honeybee is a attest ingenious architect, a Christopher Wren among in- sects, geometer drawing hexagons and pentagons; a freebooter robbiug the fields ot pollen and aroma, wondrous oreature of God whose biography, written by Hu- ber and tewanueerilam, is an enchant - ;nem for any lover of nature. Virgil cele- brated the bee in his fable of Arietaeus, and tLose' and Samuel and David and Solomon and Jeremiah and Ezekiel aud St. John used the delicacies of bee man- ufacture as 0, Bible symbol, A. miracle of formetion is the bee. leie eyes, two talegOes, tbe outer liming sheath of prowetion, lieirs on all Ades et its tiny body to lirneh up the particles ot fieWer.9, its Might so etraight thee all the world knows of the bee line. 'I:he honeycomb is a palace emit to no one but tied could, plan and tbe honeybee construct; its Cells itometimes a dorraltory and sometimes a cemetery. Tiwse winged toilers ill'St make eight strips et VAX and by their ituten- nate whieh are to them hionmee and chisel and sctuare and plinoh line, fashion tbem for WO, Two and two dim werkers shape tho wall. it zu . aeoldent bappens, Uwe' put tfp buttresses of extra IMMO to remedy the damage. When about the year 1776 an bisect be- fore unk,nown in the atightthee attaeke4 the beehives ell over Europe and the men 'who owntel them were iu an trylug to plan sone:0)10g to le•ttep OUD the invaeer that wee the terror a the beehives of the continent, it WAS found that everywhere the bees had arrauged for their OWn pro- tection and built before their honeyeembe an esperial wall of wax, with portholes through whieh Elie bees might go to and fro, but not large enough to Admit the winget conthatani, called the Sphinx atropos, Do yon know that the warming of the bees is divinely direeted? The mother bee Marts ler 4 new home, and beceuee of the+ the oilier be of the hive get into en exeltienent which raises the l'at of the hive some four degrees, and they must die unless they leave their leetted apartments. and. they follow the leather bee and alight on *ha braneh Or tree, and cling to °auk other and hold on until a 00141Mitteo et tWO or three hee.e. hes gee telligent man or woman and. ask for. list of books that will be strengthening' to your mental and moral mu:dame Life is so short and your time for liu protement so abbreviated that you eau, not afford to 1111 up with busks and cinders and. debris, In the interstices of businees that yoteng man is reading that which will prepare him to be a inerchant prince, and that young woman is tilling ber mind with an intellie,euee that will yet either make her the chief attraction of a good man's home or give be an in- dependence et elweeteter that will qualify her to build her owe home and maintain it in a happiness that requires no augmenta- tion frtan any of our rougher sex. That young man or young woman eau, by the right literary and trioral iMprelrellimat of the spare ten minutes here or there every day, rise head and sloanders in prosperity and character and influence above the loungers who read nothing, or read, that whieh hedwarfs. See all the forests et good American literature dripping with honey. Why piele up ehe honeycombs that have in them the fiery bees widen Will sting you with an eternal poison while you taste it? One book may for you or me decide everything for this evoidd and the next. It was it ranting pointwith me when in a bookstore in Sytneuse one day cards? Is there any harm in a game of /a9keee up a ba,24 cool ., The Bmities whist t:r euchre?" Well, I know good other etyle,s ot genies witheutiow wagers. I had a friend who played cards with his wife and ehildreu and then at rhe close said, "Come, now, let us bave prayers," I will not juilge other metes conseiences, but I tell you that cards are he ley mind 50 nseocieted with the tempered 44Ild Spiritual rIlin eplendie young urea that svould as soon say to my fetully, "Come, let us bare a game ot cards," as woUlti. go into a menagerie and me "Come, let us have a wow:, of rattle - world teelay there are busy hives of +Makes." or into a cemetery mei sitting telligenee oeeupied. by authors and 414^ down by 4 In`trble s`q to the gr4"- thorosses free: whose pens drip a diddle -gorget diggers, "Come, let ns have g Zion wideli is the very nectar of heaven, skaile," Censelentieue ronng ladieS are awe soy 1.631 yen tarest your reel oe ailently eityleg, "Do you 0111114 Card play - wagers. It is abserd for those of 'us who have never felt the faseination of the wager to speak slightingly of the tempta- tion. It has slain a multitude of intellect- ual and moral giante, men and W0111011 stronger than you or I. Down tmder it$ power went glorions Oliver Goldsmith, end Gibbon, the fainOus historian, and Charles roX, the renowned statesman, and. in olden times senators of theVnited States, alto used to be as regularly at the gambling house all night as they were in the bells of logislittion by day. Oh, the tragedies of thelaro table! I Intow per- sona who began with a slight stake in a ladies' parlor and elided with theseeelde'S InStel at 'NOW* Carlo. They played with the square pieces of bone with black, marks on them, not knowbag that satan WAS playing tor sa tbeir bone at the nte time. andwes:sure to sweep all the stakes off on his side of the table. State legisla- tare$ have again and again Sanctiened tbe Might( evil ItY teeming 'awe in de- fense of race tracks, and many young men hey° lest all their wages at such se- minal "meetings," Everyman who 'voted. for such iafamous bills has on his heeds and forehead the blood of these souls. But in this eoneection someyoung eons vexes say to me: "Le it right to play of Raskin." It was only a book:: of ex- men who play whist and euchre end treets, but it was all pure henee, and I was not satisned until 1 purchased all bit works, at thee time expensive beyond an elsy capacity to own them, and with what delight I went ehroligh reeding hii "Seven Limes of Architecture" «And his "Stories of Venice" it is impossible for mero deicribe except by saying that it gave me 4 nipture or good Woke end ext everlasting disgust tor deereple or im- moral books that will Met me while my life !este All aremie the church and the gelsvenese into the death1111 waccharine Ing will do Ally eerie?" Perhape not, ef perditionbut hew will you Seel if in the greet dew retemleatbw liquids also come alto tbe of eternity, when we are uslieel to give an category of tenmettion deueerne, bet account of our influence, some Mal/should deathful. You say, "1 centime bear the say " "1 was IMPL;Hineela to Pm" or taste or iutoeteekeerkg liquar, mei bole any chance In the year 1SII3 ht your house, num eau nee le Is to me an unutemeleuth, and I went on from 'Out sport to some. welt, don, 110 (Ted TOR you Oleg more exeiteig, and went on dawn I tossed in this squall, but all outrode the storm except one, re width Shelley and hi* twee friends were sailing. That Lever , 007710 Aden% but the bodies of two of the ' oompants were washed up en the beech, one of them tbe poet. A funeral pyre was bent oil the seashore by some classio • friends, and the two bodies were con- sumed. Poor Shelley! Ile would have no God while he lived, and I fear had. no God when he died. "The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way a I the ungodly shall perish." Beware of the 1 forbidden homy!. I do llet take it. Do DOD 177,4g about year 11.130 last -WY inaSine-is, and lost my total abittuence, because It la net iroin 3.4°1.415) 4041 lest luy soul, and these ens primly% that you rota mccatonsal, chains that you see ou wriste and feet bn4 for tit") reat;on hto you eau rasa" are the chains a a gamester's down, and cort4du styles of tood—you shwa,. don't, WA Oil my way te a gambler's hell." lUro tbe ilsta oe tbeut lent multitudes oi Roney at the start, eternal catastrophe at people lutee a natural foutincee ftn.. all . tile 14.1t* , Midi of intoxicants. thee like It +39 StOtikMOGAling rtnite'i WO the ennle that it makes them smack their lips to catalogue. It must he very exhilarating knee at it. They are Are:Witt, and they , to go into the Meek nierizet and doposi- 31 to aid, digestion; or they are annoyed Mg a email euati of money rim the chance by lusentnia, and they *eke it to produce of taking out fortWitt. Mane' men are sleep; or they are trouleed, and they tate doing ;An holiest and safe huelnees in the te morn them teeteerne; oe they real StOek. Market alai yea aro ignommus happy, and thOY znui eiehrme ebeir if you, do moz know that it IS jilee as mites. They begin Whitusintjtzlep Stalked legit haat° to deal in ',looks as it is to through ewe errawe on the Long Branch tie in coffee wtgar But hearlY pie= and end in the Meet. easing •from nil th° eut5hier?" wh° g° Ow" an a "au" tug te neat. war Larose= eee east Wel eXeltrAlfill 10S4 all. 1110 old spiders whieltey. They not may like it, bite it is eat up the unsuepe.tiest Ilia, I had as • 1 11 vauttt*fling ItI011 of bed • meta friend, who put les bend ell his hip poo afilJA plated the region and tested the hollow of mid sent. teed efter awhile harekilt and said tallre„ have bore it th07 a tree ur 'rook not far frelll A stream of will, though one Wino glir5S of it should. • the value uf teakettle" His home is to - water, and they hero set up a new colony cost the temporal anti te weal deetruetiou day Denolleee. Whae Wai the Matter? and. ply their armada induetriee end of themselvee and ail Weir famines aud ' Smelt gunbling. Of the vest majority give theniselvee to the inattufaeture o bus whole hinaall raco. They would saY. who are victimized you hear uot one the Saccharine edible. But who can tell "1 tun sorry it is going to cost me and wonl. One greac %PO; firm goes down the chemistry of Out mixture of ewees. lay family awl all. the world's population and whole columns a newpapers discuss ova part at it the life of the ileldsi lies, end now lee it roll over my parched lireseuted with their ft.:aerie end their Plenty of this ltlecions produot was tongue anti down my heateil threat, the biography. But were 0,0e sleet internee haeging in the woods of Butleiven dur. sweetest and most inspiring, the 'nest firm sinks 500 unknown men sink meth Ing them. The greet steamer goes down aed ehe time of Saul andJenathare Their dole:ions drat thet ever thrilled, a human framo.'"ro oura the habit, before it comae all the little boats are swallowed in the army was lu pursuit of an enemy that by God's command must be extermuutted. The soldiery were positively forbidden to stop to eat inlything until the work was done, If they disobeyed, they were ao. cursed. Coining through tho woods they found a piece where the bees had been busy—a greet honey manufactory. Honey gathered in *.he hollow of the trees until It had overflowed upon. the ground in great promilon of sweetness. All the army obeyed orders and touched it not save Jonathan, and he, not knowing the military orders about+ abstinence, dipped the end of a stick he had in his hand into the candled liquid, and as yellow and tempting it glowed on the end of the stiok he put it to his mouth aud ate the honey. Judgment fell upon him and but for special intervention. he would. have been slain. In my text Jonathan announ- ces his awful mistake, "I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my band, and, 1o, I must die." .Alas, what multitudes of people in all ages have been damaged by forbidden honey, by which I mean temptation, de. liolous and attractive, but damaging and destructive! Corrupt literature, fascinating but deathful, comes in this category. Where one good, honest, healthful book is read now there is a hundred made up of rhe- torical trash constuned with avidity. When the boys on the cars come through with a pile of publications, look over the titles and notice that nine out of ten of the books are injurious. .A.Il the way from here to Chicago or New Orleans notice that objeotionrtble books dominate. Taste for pure literature is poisoned by this scum of the publishing house. E'Vezy book in which Ian triumphs over -virtue, or in evhich a glamour is thrown over dissipation, or which leaves you at its last line with less respect' for the mar- riage institution and less abhorrence for the paramour is a depression of your own moral character. The bookbindery may be attractive, and the plot dramatic and startling, and the style of writing sweet as the honey that Jenathan took- up with his rod, but your best interest++ forbid it, your moral safety forbids it, your God forbids it, and one taste of it may lead to such bad results that you may have to say at the close of the experiment or at the close of a misiinproved lifetime, "I did but taste a little honey with the rod that was in my hand, and, lo, I naust die." Corrupt literature is doing more td -day foe the disruption of domestic life than other cause. Elopements, roaritel intrigues, sly correspondence, fictitious names given at postoilice windows, clandestine meetings in parks, and at ferry gates, and in hotel parlors, and con- jugal perjeries are among the ruinous results. When a woman yelping or old gets her head thoroughly stuffed with the modern novel, she is in appalling peril. But sonae one will say, "The heroes are so adroitly knavish, and the heroines so bewitchingly untrue, ancl the turn Of the story so exquisite, and all the characters' ao enrapturing, I cannot quit theni.", 'My brother, my sister, you can find styles of eliterathre just as cherming that will elevate and purify and ennoble and Chris- tianize while they please. The devil does not own all the honey., Tliereis a wealth of good books coming forth from, our pub- ' telling lioueee that leave'' no excuse for the olionie of that which is .debauching to body, mind and soul. GO to some in - mess, part or rt the eery me of tee bee 81) very etuct, bOre VW; tO 707 their fraud or them di -ester, and, We WO to its last stages varime plans were toed szznze onguinnenr. ohloa times. Thi -4 plan was meow- Gambling Is gambling, whether In mended in the books: Wben u man -want- stooks or breadstuff:: or diee or lace horse ed to reform, lie put shot or bullets Into betting. Exhilaration tte the start, but a the cup or glass of strong drink—unu raving brain and a shattered nervous additional shot oe bullet each day that system and, a siterilleed property and a displaced so nuich liquor. Bullet after destroyee soul at the last. Young luau, bullet added day by day, of course the buy no lottery tickets, porteutee no prize liquor became less anti lees until the bul- lets would entirely 1111 up the glue and there was no room for the liquid, and by that time it Wee said the inebriate WOUld be ured. Whether any one ever was (lured in that way I know not, but by long ex - packages, but on no baseball games or yacht raciug, have no faith in luck, an - Myer no mySterhati circulars proposing great income for small laveetment, drive away the buzzarde that hover +trotted our hotels trying to entrap revengers. Go out poriment it Is found. that the only way is 1 and. make an 11.01:01:0 living. Have Coil on to stop short off, and whezi a man does your aide and be a emendate for heaven. that he needs God to help him, and there Remeraber all the piths of sin are banked have been more eases than you am count with flowers at the start, and there are when God has so helped the man that he plenty of helpful hands' to fetch the gay left off the drink forever, and I could I charger to your dime anal hold the stirrup count a score of them, emu° of them pit- while you mount. But farther ou She late in the house of God. horse plunges to the bit in a Slough in - One -would suppose that men would extricable. take warning from some of the ominous The best honey is not like that which names given to the intoxicants and stand Jonathan took on the end of the road off front the devastating influence. You and brought to his lips, but that which bave noticed, for instance, that some of Gat puts on the banqueting table of the restaurants are called The Shades, mercy, at which -we tire invited to sit. I typioal og the fact that ib pats a Inan's WAS reading of a boy among the menu- leputation in the shade, and his morals tains of Switzerland ascending a danger - in the shade, and his erosperity in the ous place with his father and the guides. shade, and his Wife and children in the The boy stopped on the edge of the cliff ellade, and bis immortal destiny in the and said, "There is is flower I mean to shade. Now, I find on some of the liquor get." "Come away from there," said the signs in all our cities the words "Old father. "You will fatl off." "No," said. Crow," mightily suggestive of the carcass he. "I must get that beautiful flower." and the filthy raven that ewoops upon it And the guides rushed toward him to pull "Old Crow!" Men and women without him back when, just; us they heard him numbers slain of rum, but unburied, aud say, "I almost- have it," he fell :3,000 this evil is pecking at their glazed eyes, feet, Birds of prey were seen a few days and pecking at their bloated cheek, and after circlingethrough the air and lower- peekieg at their destroyed manhood and Ing gradually to the place where the womanhood, thrusting beak and claw corpse lay. Why seek flowers off the edge into the mortal remains of what was once of a precipice when you can walk knee gloriously alive but now morally dea& deep amid the full blooms of the very "old Crow!" But, alas, how many.take paradise of God? When a man may sit at no warning! They make me think of the king's banquet, why will be go down Caesar on his way to assassination, fear- the steps and contend for the refuse aud ing nothing, though his statue in the bones of a hound's kennel? "Sweeter hall crashed into fragments at his feet than honey and the honeycomb," says and a scroll containing the natraes of the David, is the truth of God. "With honey conspirators was thrust into his hands, out of the rook would I have satisfied yet walking right ou to meet the dagger thee," says God to tbe recreant. Here is that was to take his life. This infatuation honey gathered from the blossoms of trees of strong drink is so mighty in many a of life, and with a rod made out of the man that, though -his fortunes are crash- wood of the cross I dip •st up for all your ing, and lis health is crashing, and- his souls. domestic interests are crashing, and we The poet liesiod tells of an ambrosia hand him a long scroll containing the and a nectar the drinking of which would names of perils that await him, he goes make men live forever, and one sip of the straight on to physical and mental and honey from the eternal rock will give yoa moral assassination. Inproportiou as any eternal life with God. Come off the mai- style of alcoholism is pleasant to your arial levels of a sinful life. Come and taste and stimulating to your nerves and live on the uplands of grace, where tnie for a thee delightful to all your physical vineyards sun themselves. "Oh, taste and and mental constitution is the peril aw- see that the Lord is gracious!" Be happy ful. Remember Jonathan and the forbid- now and happy forever. For those who den honey in the woods at Bethaven. take a different course the honey will Furthermore, the gamester's indulgence turn to gall. For many things I have must be put in the list of temptations de- admired Percy Shelley, the great English liolous but destruotive. You who _have poet, but I deplore the fact theta seemed °missed the ocean many timea have a great sweetness to him to dishonor God. noticed that always one of the best rooms The poem "Queen MeV has in it the has, from morning until late at night, maligning of the deity. Shelley was im- been given up to gainbling prat:laces, I pious enough to ask for Rowland heard of men who went on board with Surrey chapel that he might denounce enough for a European excursion who the Christian religion. Ile was in great landed without money to get their bag- glee against God and the Meth. But he gage up to the hotel or railroad. To many visited Italy, and one day on the Medi - there is a complete fascination in games terranean with two friends in a boat of hazard or the risking of money on pos- which was 24 feet long he was conaing sibilities. It seems as natural for them to toward shore when an hour's squall bet as to eat. Indeed the hunger for food, struck the water. A gentleman standing CURIOSITY OF MONKEYS. 0*. Wile Was Inquisitive In Regard to Florae -Brewed Ale. Curiosity seems to be the great failure, 01 virtue, ot monkeys. .& story is teld. of an Englishman who bad a South .A.fri- can monkey whieh had traeeled with hine around she world. Whin his bachelor days were over he took bis young wife to A 103101y OICI manor house in the south a England, and, Rnglisheaanlike, kept sev- eral barrels of good "horee-brewed" ale in the cellar. On returning from church Int Sunday morning he noticed that the cellar door was open, and started on a tour of havestigatien. As he went down the steps Jenny, the monkey, melted ee and he found thshe lead eet all the spigots running. The door bad been in- advertently left open. and Jenny„ doubt- less, went prying into the sena-lighted Place. Turning one spigot on produced suele a rushipg stream that she tried the othere also, much to the waste at the licluoY It may be Added that when the Englielmenee iarst born appeared and. menepolized attelltien Jenety got suoh, !It ot jealousy that she was at once sent to the seeluded butmore congenial society to be found in the monkey house of the London Zoological Gardens. i ft o or o ored by the n f en shore through a glass saw mane boat,e S 0 ell p la ger 07 . SHE SQUELQHED HIM. S he Rad Berried Neve and. Told Bias Why It happened "Untle Josh" ,Perkins, a well known New Englaed tin peddler, whose obeery face awl -well stocked cart are feenlor features of the landscape between the Berkshire hills and Boston, tells the fol- lowing good story, in evbich he for once in bis life got the worst of the erg -unmet: In a certein town on my route lives a W inte W110$0 1711S17011.4 i$ decided brueette, or, in other words, a full blood- ed African. "1 was in blissful iguoreece of this somewhat mixed state of affairs, b.owever, and One day I sold the lady in q,uestion a quantity of tinware from my cart, ie paymeet for which she teedered We a Ve hill. I happened to be a little ehart of change, mid she saisl it I didn't mind step- ping out back of the bare, where ber hus- band was at wort. he PrOlaahlY would change the bill for tee. "I did& t mind in the least, and I stepped out there, but presently came back with the bill in my hand and reported that I WAS meable to find her husband. " 'Sure he wasn't therer asked the wows's+. 'I'll tohe 333y oath to it, xneateu,* said glibly. looked all around, and tbere was nobody out there but allele coon back in the lot a ways digging povatoesh "Coos, eh? I want you to understand that the gentleman to whom you thus re - ter is my lawful husbandle SliapPed ShO indignantly. something about Sails, eastev Koltbe, writing about Seine Queer Craft, seys be tbe St, Nicholas: A plete of wood whittled to a point for tbe hull, a slender chip "stepped" In a slit for the mast, a bit of palter for the toil, and we have the small boy's typical beat. Simple as it is, it is interesting, because, by be/itself, the boy bas adopted the square of the Northere races—e sail so typical of these that it was doubt- less part et the rig of the Viking ship. Sometimes a boy will jab les malt through two Phke05 of paper—a larger one, svith A smeller oue above it for a tomeil—uneouselettsly adopting the char- acterictie rig of the Norwegian Coeeter. The first sign of disaster to the small bee's boat is the wetting of the sell AS the miniature wane, break over the deok, When the lower part at the sail becomes water-saelicil ante there is danger ot foundering in imiti-pend orpuddlo. To avoid this very (Mega on the real omen, Shut portion ot the Norwegian coaster'p sail most expoied to a Aveteing is fasten- ed to the rest by bands or "bonnets," end can he entirely removed wheu the taecessity GO reef erlsee The Sionthern 114410114, front the Medi- terrauean to the tropiee, with their eye for the pieturesque and eheir love of no - Sure, copied the wing Of A bird and adopted the pinion -like lateen pail, with its great curving yen!. and forward raking tuese—the "gibbotie or trim sail -wing of the South." as it Le yelled You can see gaudily painted home rigged with lateen sails along the levee of the Mississ- ippi, off the old Fneleb :tittreet at New Orleans --and these we owe to the Italian truck-gerdenere. who (terry their produce to nuirket in time pieruresquellttlo crate AU stills are vale it lens n f one er another of these two great types—the square and the lateen. The use of the former in barks and brigs tied other square-rigged vessels is plain. And we oan readily see, too, the fact Oar the fore-aud aft rig (jib and maiusailt, which, because it is easier to handle, le rapidly supplanting the square, is an adaptation of the lateen, the forward rake of the mastbaving been increased until It became a bow -sprit, while the great yard became the gaff of the mainsail. The etteon sail is remark- able for its lifting capacity, and the jib possesses this quality to an even greater degree. Didn't Irant a Fifth. The young 211011 with the swell suit and gold -headed. cane was myth,* to flirt with the girl opposite, wben the old man on his left nudged him with his elbow and hoarsely whispered: "Young Man, pause and reflect!" "Are you speaking to me, sir!" de- manded the young man. "Yes, right to you, but I've "got such a hard cold that I cannot say much. Let me repeat that you should pause and reflect" "What for?" "You are trying to flirt with that young gal, sir!" "And is it any of your business?" "It is, sir. Exeuse my hoarseness. I klcked the bed clothes off the other night and got cold I want to say to you, sir, that it is my business, sir I Suppose that you succeed in attracthe that gal's atten tion?" "Well, what of it?" "She might be flattered and fiirt back, though I don't think she's very flirta- tious. It might lead to a case of love, and love to marriage." "You'd better attend toyour own busi- ness, sir!" replied the young man. ' "That's what I'm dein', sir! 'Scuse me while I blow my nose. Yes, sir, I'm at- tendin' right to my business." "Then let mine alone!" "Then you let mine alone! Dna that gal's tatherl" "Oh! You are!" "Yes, I am, and I don't want no more foolio' around! I've got four sons-in-law jest about your shape, and am supportin' the hull gang of 'em, and afore you sad- dle me with a fifth you'd better pause and reflect. It might be the last straw, and I'd turn the hull crowd out to dig fur fodder under the snow banks!" Evidently Be Wasn't Married. An author who was his own publisher advertised a book of his as follows: "Send $1 tor my new book with auto- graph." Shortly afterwards he received this order from a rural reader: 'Ill inclose $1. If the autograph Is one o' them talkie? rnachiues, send it on by freight. I don't want She book." "Your bealsboaaa a gasped in aseou, Islinient. 'Surely you don't tnean it?' "She assured use that she cerminly did Olefin it, se there Was nothing left for 100 te do but apologize, and I promptly did so in my most eiaberate and abject style« "I had things nicely smoothed over, and then like at blundering numbskull thee was I had to go to work and spoil It all by asking a glee -Akin tbat popped line my head just thee. Said. I: " `Excuse ane, madam, but just out of curivuity I'd like to knew how an intelli- gent, geed looking white woman like you came to marq a vuo—I sheuld soy coleys.] nlan'es "Her eyes nuelied fire far an instant; then a eareastie twiulde Crept into them, and after +Jowly looeing rue over frete bead to foot, she replied; " 'Well, mister, seeleg you are E0 terri- ble curious about the mutter, tell you how it happeued Wlieu was a young women, 1 bed nay choice between ni41Ty. leg a lin peddler and a coma, as pm ex- press In and I tads the cooler "I've tuieeled around considerably in nw thee," (*mewled 1:nele Josh, with a rentinieeent sigh, "and I've crossed wite with everybody and. unebtely that e41110 illong, bin I never Was coraoletely lind thoroughly equeleheil as I was on that ose. Ca4410u. I collected uty bill and got my tin peddluee cart under fileti011 without ask - Ing any more queetions, yen can Wt."— Will Gldley New Yerie Smelter World. Dr. Jobuson and the Widow. In the book "Love Aintirs of Some ra. mous lelen" the story is reealleti of Dr. Johnson end the widow whom lie etude his wife. De le:Nosed to tho exebauge of prenuttrimoulal eoulitleuce in regard to disegreeable teattere, so he told her plain- ly Tina 110 WaS Of hatable extraction; that ho bed net money, and that one ot his un- eles had been hanged. The sensible wom- an xespoutled cleverly tbat she hail 'no enore money thau he. end time though none of her relatives bat' been haeged, she bad several who ought to be. No Cause for Congratulations. Wilkins--:DOes your baby wake up often during the night? Popleigh (with a tired look)—Nol it never wakes up. • Wilkins—I congratulate you, old man! Poploigth—You need') 't ! My baby never wakes up, becauso, he never goes to eleepl —1.pu c I. CAST AWAY . FOREVER. Paine's Oelar9 CoMpoUnd Ban- ishes Rh N.Imatism and 7;1atiCa. • when They See the Barber. "Yes," admitted the dealer, "the price of bair mattreeees is a little high now, but it won't be long before there will be more hair thrown on the market than we know what to do witb, and then we'll have the regular annual slump." "Whet occasions it?" "The close of the football season, of courso."—Chicago Record. Tho Uoy From :the Eamili Plat. Teaeber—Willie, that is not the Way to spell "emperor." You should not and the word with an "e -r." If you will notice, all titles denoting power and greatness— at least most of them—end with 'Willie—Oh, I see! Just like "jut:titer," —Indianapolis Journal: A Heavy Load. "The coroner and six men sae on him for two hours," read Farmer Jones from the newspaper. "Well," exclaimed bis wife, dropping her knitting, “if he ain't dead by this thee, be orter be!"—.Atlanta Constitution. A. Dangerous Blunder. "NO man can know everything," said the high minded youth. "Between you and xne," replied Senator Sorghum, "that's a fact. Bub there's no excuse for a num's making the mistake of owning up to it."—Washington Star. Mr. Beecnincr Was in a Terrible Co ulition. Could Not W.tlk or Put His Hand te His Mouth. A Hit. "Did you snake a bit with your special- ty?" asked the first actor. "Sure thing," said the other. "I struck the manager tor a raise of salary the see- ped week."—New York Sunday World. Sitt Bottles o Natures '14Ied1ginie Effect a Complete Cure, A weetoepe Axle seceerexticeNta %MITA* Wreaerac Recetafteeee Ce. 1)6.411Sehe fsaP 1r years I suffered. Inn* Pelestleat end Idlnelb being so hati tllot ou fad not walk er put, Toy how' to my motet If I 'attempted toe eis otty work 'vault'', 7'4? crippled tor voolo. took medleal reattnent, Turkish and 'elinexed baths,. b all failed to effect MT We. SOWe ci I, tried. PesineheOeiery Compenne, and ester iteleg six bottlee I feel like i new unit, and. Can de A -bard 44es work and f 1 3-44710 the worse for It, I have also gaille. in weight, and On Ian; perratmentle cured. Yours. deity, J. liteenteleteles Shiite); Oos. Enterprise. "What! You begging here too? I saw you only a little while ago begging Oil Schiller place." "Yes, I have a branch establithment there."—Fliegende Blatter. Wanted. Irascible Englisbnian—Aw, look here! You needn't poke fun at Punch. :Amiable American—Why not? It's the very thing it lacks.—Biooldyn Life. A. Misplaced Confidence. Guess—Came over to me, my child. "No, mvannin, said 1 should sit on this chair so as to cover up the hole in the silk. "- -Flieueede Matter. Wonder -W rking DimondDyes. ••-, ,•--- Theueande of la :es in Canada know well that Dinanot Dyes eserabbae im- Meese variety, nun r ;nal great beeuty. Thesewendelework ng dyes are prepared In forty-eight at t' e hest standard. color" fer woe'' silk and :eatitere• With It'Pecha dyefor coloring oaten and all en/BA goods. Minute and full direetiens go with (*oh peekage of the Diet:lend Dyes, So that the west inexperieneed perion tan CIO as good work as the swore...toyed dyer. Remember that imitators are trying to copy the style and I:visage ot Diamond Dyes. When you bee tlyes for home dye- ing see tbat your dealer gives you the "Diamond"; no other make of packege dyes will do your work with profit and satisfaction. Send to Wells es Rielurelson Co., Mont- real, P.Q„ for valuable hook of directions - and sample card ot colors; post free to any address. e COURTSHIP IN ZUNILANO, Waimea Do the Wooing and Pop the Per- ilous Question. The powers freely extended the women ef Zuni are many, being partioularly fa- veritble to them in doinestio matters and everything pertaining to the borne, These peculiar liberties are manifest before mar- riage as well as after, for the alleged priv- ileges of leap year hold rule couttnuouslf In Zuniland. 'When one of the daughters of the tribe takes an amorous liking for a young man, she very frankly confesses it, and her parents are informed of her choice of a prospective husband* If they approve, the interesting information is imparted •••.•*,,,eset due time to his family. and. if the as yet perhaps unsuspecting subject of the selec- tion Is suited, in turn be makes, through the mutual ;events, an engagement to visit his admirer at her home. Be is re- ceived somewhat formally by the maidett and her family, wizen something like the following laconie conversation ensues be- tween the young people, while the father and mother, evith the other members of the bousehold, sit apart, amiably pretend- ing not to listen: "Thou contest," she says. "Yes. How be ye these many days?" he answers. "Happy. Gather and sit." And she mo- tions him to a seat near her. As a never failing hospitality on the part of a hostess when a visitor enters a Zuni home the places food before Mm, and bids him "loosen his belt and lessen his hunger." But he appeats preoccupied and partakes quite sparingly, to give the po- lite impression that he is a light eater—an important point in favor of a prospective to:s:yo‘u‘,1fraltihlye.;?" as sehethttiCirinsselen. aleharaetntthpinerk- to become his se a-kia-ni-na, or "his to aplyro?us's'liyeb?hl,ye,.askws eneouragingly. "I don't know." "Indeed! You must be mistaken," plexity to the family group. - for tlie Erst time, and after due considera- be," and from that time on they are as de- rei)Sihieest. hen appears to poeder the matter Itu,s,bIainody.e you., ft, audicarpeds persists - dining off little more than a bird's rations. thinking of something. What have you "Thanks. I ant satisfied," he says after voMd to each other as are lovers in any "As you wish, my child," her parent "I'm thinking of you," in a whisper. tion of the inomentous question consents olime.—Woman's Home Companick. • , "Then do you love me?" "Eat enough. You must have come "Oh, yes, you do. Tell nee," she coyly Anety Chloe—Po' ole ellegah I Dun los' hereoloe the hoe, an kyarn't be saved. Mistah' Mose—Wien g 1 Why kyarn't she? Aunty Chloe—Bow kin she gjt nigion , et the kearn't hollow?—Now York Jour- 1 nal.