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The Exeter Advocate, 1898-9-9, Page 7THE WORK OF TO=DAY. We Shouid Always Live for Our Own Time and Generation. Practical Ways and Means of Serving the Human Race—God's Part Has Been Done, It is Our Turn to Act, The Pay and the Deed. Washingtou, Sept, 4.—In this discouree surtelteng ot ourselvee Until we cannet I De, Talmege changes our lifetime from a chole doom another orinnle of cake and sneeniuglees generality to precitical help- begin elle supple et others' oecessities. So fuleess to the people now living; text, far Worn itelpIng Appease the evorld's Acts xiii, 30, "David, atter lie bee served hunger are those whew Isaiah describe!' bis own gener409.4 Iv the will ot QQ.daa grinding the, faces of the poor. You fell an sleep." nave ;teen a farmer or a 111001141110 put a '1'het is A text which bag for a long scythe or an ax on a grindstone while time been running tlerough ote' mind. some one watt turiaing it round and Sermons have a time to be born as well round and the roan boleing the ax bore es a time to die—a credle as well AS a on it 'larder and harder, while the water grave. David, cowboy and stone stinger dropped trom the grillestone, and the and tighter and dramatist and blauk verse edge of the ex from being mundand dull writer and prophet, did his best for the got keener and keener. So I have seen people of lee tilos, and than went eine men Who were 'me against the grinestone laid deem on the southern Ian of -tern- et hardship, and while one turned tba 'Alert! in that Mout slumber wItioe note- cralek, anotner would press the unfertuo- tug lint au arebangelle bleat ean startle. ate harder flown and harder down until "David, after be hl served hie own geue he was ground away thinner and thinner Oration by the wIll a God, felon sleep." —his comforts thinner, Mb prospecta Tt was bis own generetion tbat he had thinner -and is face thinner. And Iealah tetved—thet is, the Peonle living at the shrieks out, iieebm mean To t-4044,0 grio time be livod. And have you tiler thought the levee ot tho poor?" thet our respousilillithei are ehletly with Pills an AWfill thing to be bningr,e, II ehe people now *walking AbTOISS Of US? la AO KW thing fee us to be in gond There are About four generations to a Muller with all the world when we have einatney now bat in olden elm° life was no leek. Dalt let hunger take full posses. longer, and there was vellums only one son of us, and we would ell turn into generaiden to A ceneury. 1,Oileing tbese barbarigns And eareilbele and Rend& fame into the celeulation, I make a veggie Soppoeo that some of the energy we are guess- and say thet there have been at leest 180 generations at the humeri Dy. With referenee to them we bave. no Xespanitilility. We teunot tefteli ellen), we reennot, ettrroct their oust -Awe, we, cannot soothe Ition, serreeve, We, teionm heal their evolinds. Their teen/eller:1 are itelf and timid) to anything we might sly ie them. °Ilie last regiment ot that great arrly .1145 pessed out of slehr. We might helloe ai loue as we could; not one of them would avert his head te seet whet wa went el. I admit thee I am in syntrighe ‘eith the elide wbeitt father load ..mitlenly klie4. arid Whet in her riztle evi nine prayer wanted to continuo to pray for her father, al- though he hal gone iuto heaven, and no mere needed. hee power., and, looking op bite he mother's:eye seiti: "Oh mother. 1 eennet leave him edl out Let no sey Mode God that I Led o good Lather mace. so 1 ean neep him in my preyere." The emulate tetzleratione. But tho lee generations have passed off. Pasted up. led down. thaw fore aver. Then there aro geneetitione to eallie aftor our earthly eel -gene° hart ceaetel. We shall not see them, we shall not hear any of their voices, wo will tako no part In their convocations, their eleetions, their revolutions. their etitastrophee, their triumphs. We will In nowise affect the lee generations gone or the 180 genera- tions to come, exeepe as from the seller - les et heaven the former generations look down and rejolee at our victories or as We May, by our behavior, sten influences, good or bad, that shall roll on through the Advancing :meg. But our business is, like David, to serve our own generation, the Peente new living, those whose longs now breathe and WhOSO hearts now beat. And, mark you, it is not a snout proces- sion, but lnoving. It is a "forced marOh" ati•.:4 miles a day, emit hour 'being a mile. Going with that celerity, it has got to be a quite: sorely') ou our part, or no service at all. We not only cannot tetioh tbo 180 generations past and will not see tbe 1e0 generations to come, but this generation DOW on tho stage will soon be off, and we ourselves will be all with them. The fact is that you and I will have to etart eel": Mon for our work, or it will be ironical and se/nestle for any one after our exit to say of us, as it was said of Daviel, "Atter be had served his own generation by the will of God be tell on sleep." Well. now let us look atouiadearzamtly, prayerfully, in a common sense way and see what we can do for our own genera- tion. First of all, let us see to it that, as far as we ean, they have •enough to eat. The bunaan body is so constituted that three tines a (lay the body needs food as ranch as a lamp needs oil, as lnuon as a locomotive needs fuel. To meet this want God bas girdled the earth with apple orchards, orange groves, wheatfields and oceans full of fish, and prairies full of cattle. And notwithstanding this, I will undertake to say that the vast majority of the human family are now suffering either for lack of food or the right kind of food. Our civilization is all askew, and God only can set it right. Many of the greatest estates of to -day bave been built out of the blood and bones of unrequited toil. In olden times for the building of forts and towers the inhabitants of Ispa- han had to contribute 70,000 skulls, and Bagdad 90,000 human skulls, and tbat number of people ware compelled to furn- ish the skulls, But these two contribu- tions adeed together made only 160,000 skulls, while into the tower of the world's -wealth end pomp leave been wrought the skeletons of uncounted numbers of the Lalefed populations of the earth—millions of skulls. Don't sit down at your table with five or six courses of abundant supply and think nothing of that family in the next "street who would take any one of those five courses between soup and almond ants and feel they were in heaven. The lack of the right kind of food is the cause • of much of the drunkenness. After drink- ing what many of our grocers call coffee, sweetened with what many call sugar and eating what mazy of our butchers call meat, and chewing what many of our bracers call bread, many of the labor- ing class feel so miserable they are tempt- ed to put into their nasty pipes what the tobacconist calls tobacco or go into the drinking saloons for what the rumsellers call beer. Good coffee would do Emelt in driving out bad rum. tee, friends and your asseeiates, The way you go they vvill go. It we are not saved, we will never save any one elm How to get saved? Be willing to accept Christ and then accept him instantano- ousle anti forever, eet on the roee first, and then you will be Able to help others upon the same rock. Men and Women have been seven quicker than I have been talking about le, What! Without A pray - e? Yes. What! Without time to deliber• ately think it ever? Yes. What! Witinete mart Yes. Believe; that ie all, Believe what? That Jesue died to save you from sin and death and hell., W111 ,you? Do YOU? You have. Something inakes, me think you have. New light has, committee Mir countenances. Welcome! Welcome! Wail! Weill name youreelves, how are you, to. sae others? Be testimony. Icor Thi* freneraeion. I confess te you theti inay one wish is to serve this generation, not to antagonize it, not to damage in not to rule it, but to SOTEe it, I woeld like to 4o something toward helping unstrap ita load, to stop its tears, to balsam Its wounds and eo induce it to pt root on the upward road that has at its terminus acoleination rapturous and gates peerline and gerlAnds Amer:outline and fountains rainbowed and dominions enthroned and coroneted, tor I cannot forget that lullaby in the eloeing Words et my text, "Dowel, after he bad served bis own generation by the will of Clod, fell On sleep." Whet a lovely eleep ie was lendlial Abotlogi did not trouble it Ambitious Adonijah did nob worry it. Prosecuting elaul did 001 bor- row it. Exile did not till m wieb night. mare, Since A redheaded boy, amid his father'," flocks at Night,. he had not bad eueb a good elev. At 719 eeare of age he laid down to it. Ho heti had many a trOtabled *imp. A4 in the caverns of Adel - leen or in the palare Ea the thee his eine unee wore attempting his eapture, but this was ft peewee,' eleep, s ealm sleep, a metful sleep. n glereme '.imp. ...After he expenelug 10 useless and eatevelling talk bad eeeeee hie generation by the will of about the bread question should be ex- °ea' he fill slI"t"; • vended in merciful alleviations have oh, whatin a goad thing 44 swop atter reatl that the battlefield On which mere ear.7 day's wore! It mime all the aching Some Pracrical Methods. HOW Can we serve our generation with enough to eat? By sitting down in em- broidered slippers and lounging book in an armchair, our mouth puckered up around a Havana of the best brand, and ; through clouds of luxuriant smoke read - Ing about political economy and the philosophy of strikes? No, nol By finding out who in this city has been living on gristle and seneing them a tenderloin beefsteak. Seek out some family who through sickness or conjunction of mis- 'fortunes have not enough to at and do for them what Christ did for the hungry mettle:ides of Asia Minor, inultlelYing your family will cross with you, and your tmnoR root than ett aue °Otte in ;be enr 4t thohe3d nlet all tha 4"V worlit's history was the battrefleld of of the lintlie and ail the emitrting our ot Leipsie—leo,orie men under Napoleon, the eyet. Froze it W0 1.,1. 0 in the !nothing, 24e.000 men ueder telawizett Worn. ae,114 la n now werel, and if we, like. no! 'rho greettest :poi mese renege beetle arteid, serve our generitieu WO W111 At now twine fought all the veiled over. Ilfe's atte have lewd desicehle and re - et ee the ewe, foe mead. The drogue, freetnizg bleep. In 1; wiii vaa1 our last time of the lineu. rettage in one of the tategue ot hoily. nar lee wont -tient of ereet ;limited mew .rnieees, the artist luind. out lee% ten -new et sold. Te the says, was sugeeeteti to 'hire by the cry of (.1wcri'llee 1"2`/Z7 tir4t...tva4 with rafet‘ the hugaty opuJ tt vgdigt, as the Ing fame, se that the king rade tbrough end they et/levee, be' tewer for keep on the 'blankets, it "Bread! Give ue breed !" Ane en through itt the cael 4'11 To thete who aro t,h,, great herneaniet peueleat toweenett thin blooeed and shivering with aguee it en and eereeerai woe the datugg the istil be the warm. eitegi, ehrito who, genund tone, the Irsig,..13., of nneeamed benewse ot pint -lee! dieordere. were terri. multitudes, who with sireamingeyee awl 1//I Iv" Illgbt 1:s1('"gi will h5 the vein cheeke anii braket: lieerte in beltelf drct,"ra"4,q 1"12'; anti 4°,14-4.! themedeei and tbecle faloneeare /dead, ;elm moteere who were weieenee nano,: ing for bread. every hour of the nigh; thrwe to whom they ministered or oven whom they .t Look Around re. 1 Icitehtnt It will ea tee wel'elorte: Let Us take another limit areend to Re ti..:.einhe could'. not. ;et talb:tiieteril abow s rnalrivasiervvv..Tirslig:ittvhrzat!ion...4.,T1,13.uttli:, bore n g it and met riee early In the . 1 v morning end before gettuig, reeted, it enough to wear. Gee leolet ',mon the mi- nim) ram and know, jug; bow many In- habitants the world hes. tthe StittiStiefi of the world's eopulation are carefully taken In civIUzt tango and Geary few years ()Ulcers of government go through the right with the king of terrors. It will the land nnd count hew niauy people he going to sleep. A friend, writing me from Illinois, says that Rev, Dr. Wingate, President of Wake Forte's collie:le North Carelir.a, after a most useful life, found hie late (lee on earth his happiest day, it -mist be a wild guess. Net woe knows1 one thee in his Inet inernente be seemed the exact tiumber of people on our planet, te be personally talking, with Christ, as and he bus made anon h apparel for emit d ihti s o01 hew do - will he the long skew. Away with all your gloomy talk ainut tieparting from tide werid: If we have served our generation, it will nor lie put- ting out into the ht. akers. It will not he there aro in the mei! etates or Lug - land, and great Accuraey is reached. Rut wizen people tell u, hew nieny tants there are in Asia or Afrivi at best g , rlen W t r on( , ay ng: 1, mid if them be fifteen hundred million, lightful it bit I knew you would be with fifteen thousand, fifteen hundred and fif- me when the time mine, and I knew it teen people, then thatle enough apparel Would be sweet, but I did not entity it for ilf teen hundreil niillion, fifteen thou- would be as sweet as It Is." The fact was sand, fifteen hundred and fifteen. Not he had served his generation in the gavel slimohy appare:, not ragged apparel, riot ministry, and by the will of Clod be fell ineuillelent apparel, but aPProleriate apt asleep. When in Africa, Matwara, the pant. ekt least two euite for every being servant, looked into the tent of David on math, a thornier suite and a winter Livingston and found him on his knees. suit A good pair of shoes for every liv- He stepped beak, not wishing to disturb leg mortal, A. good coat, a good hat or a Min in prayer, and seine time after Welt good bonnet and a goad shnwl anti a in and found him in the same pasture coniplate 111aSOUllno or femitone outfit of and stepped book again, but after awhile apparel. A wardrobe for all nations, Went in and touched him, and, lo, the adapted to all olimee, and not a string or great traveler bed finished bis nut jeer - a button or a pin or a hook or an eye neY, and he had died in the grandest ana Wibnutit,Itgamightiest posture a man ever taktis—on lasi where are the good clothes his knees!. lie bad served his generation for threcefourths of the human rat.e? The by unrolling tbe scroll of a centinent, other one-fourth have appropriated them. and by the will of God fell on sleep. In The faot is there needs to be and will be the museum of Greenwich, England, a redistribution. Not ny anarchistic vice, there is a fragment of a book that was lance. If outlawry had its way, it would found in the Arctic regions araid the rend and tear and diminish, until instead relics of Sir John Frauklin, who had of three-fourths of the world not proper- perished amid the snow ad ice, and the ly attired, four -fourths would be in raga. leaf of that piece of a boo g was turned I will let you know how the rediatribu- down at the words, "When thou passest tion will Mko place. By generosity on through the waters, I will be with the part of those 'who have a slirelnse thee." Having served big generation in and increased industry on the part of the cause of scenic° and discovery, by the those suffering from deficit. Not all, but will of God he fell on sleep. the large majority of cases of poverty in this country are a result of idleness or A Glorious Awakening. drunkenness, either on the part of the Why will you keep us all so nervous present sufferers or their anoestors. In talkieg about that which is only a dorm - most cases the rum jug is the maelstrom itory and a pillowed slumber, catopied that has swallowed down the livelihood by angels' wings? Sleep! Transporting of those who are in rags But things will sleep! And what a glorious awakening! change, and by generosity on the part of You and I have sometimes beee thor- the crowded wardrobes, and industry and oughly bewildered after a long and fad - sobriety on the part of the empty ward- guing journey. We have stopped at a robes, there will be enougb for all to friend's house for the night. and atter hours of complete unconsciousness we weGlaord has dbne his part toward tee dress- have opened our eyes, the high risen sun ing ofethe human race. He grows a sur- full in our faces, and before we could plus of wool on the sheep's back and fully coiled our faculties have said: flocks roam the mountains and valleys "Wbere am I? Wbose house is this and with a burden of warmth intended for whose are these gardens?" And then it transference to human comfort when the has flashed upon us in glad reality. shingles ot the factories, reaching all the And I should not wonder if, after we way from Chattahoochee to the Merri- have served our generation and, by the limo, shall have el= and Woven it. In wile of God, have fallen on sleep, the white letters of snowy fleece God has been deep sleep, the restful sleep, we should writing for 1,000 years his wish that awaken in blissful bewilderment and for there ii.ielit be warmth for all nations, a little while say: "Where am 1? What Wh Is meets are discussing the effect of palace is this? Why, this looks like hes- high or low tariff or no tariff at all on von! It is„it is. Why, there is a builditg wool you and I had better see if in our graeder than all the castles of earth wardrobes we have nothing that we can heaved into a mountain of splendor—that spare for the suffering or pick out some must be the palaoe of Jesus! And look poor lad of the street and take Lim down there at those walks lined with foliage to a clothing store and ilt him out for the mete beautiful than anything I ever saw season. Gospel of shoes! Gospel of hats! before and see those who Ara walking Gospel of clothes for the nakedl down those aisles of 'verdure. From what The Dividing Line. I have heard of thein those two arm and arm must be Moses and Joshua, him of Prescott, the blind historian, tells us Mount ellnai and him of the halting sun how Pizarro saved his army for the right over Gibeen. And those two walking arm when they were about deserting him. in arm must be John and Paul, the one With his Sword he made a long mark on so gentle and the other so mighty. the ground. He said: "My men, on the north side are desertion me death; on Never More to Part. the south side is victory; on the north "But I must not look any longer at side Panama and poverty; on the south tbose gardens of beauty, but examine this side Peru with all its riches. Choose for building in which I have just awakened. yourselves. For my part, I go to the I look out of the window this way and south." Stepping aaeoss the line one by that and up and down, and I find It is a one his troops followed, and finally his mansion of immense size in whioh t am whole army. stopping. All its windows of agate and The sword of God's truth draws the its colonnades of porphyry and alabaster. dividing line Wedgy. On one side of it Why, I wonder if this is not the 'house are sin and ruin and death; on the other of many mansions' of which I •used to read? 11 18, it is. There must be many of side of it are pardon and usefulness and happiness and heaven. You cross from my kindred and friones in tine very the wrong side to the right side, and mansion. Hark! Whose are those voices? Whose are those bounding feet! I open the door and me, and, lo, they are corn - tag themigh all the corrhlors and IP and donut all the stairs, our long absent kindred. Why, there is father, there is mother, there are the children! .411 Well egein, all young agoin, all of ue togetner again, and as we embrace each other with the cry: 'Never more to part! Never more to parte the arches, the Alcoves, the ballways, mho and re-echo the wordst 'Never more to part! Never more to parti' Then our glorified friends say, 'Come out with us and see beaven,' And, some ef them bounding ahead of us antesome et them el:sipping beside us, we stare down the ivory stairway. Ancl we meet, corning up, one qf tbe eines of ancient 'steel, somewhat small of stature, bat baying a countenance radiant with a tholisond yictories, Am/ as all are look- ing obeimeee to this great orteeot heaven I cry mit, 'Who is be?' And the answer Woes: "Teis is the greatest ef all the leIngs. It is David, wbo, after he had served his generatiqo by the will of God, tell 011 aleapo Why reople Roiet oo to Chtkrelt• "So YOU are not glebes to church this morning, me son? "Ab, yes! I see. "lhe tousle is net good,' ebat's what you go to church for, to teem' the mnsic, And the boa we pay the better music we, demand - 'And the pews are Ant, corafortAbleti That's tea bad—the les!! wO do throne* the week the more rest we clamor for on Sunday. " 'lhe chtexcla Is so far away; it Is too far to walk, and you detest riding on a streee car, mid tbey're always Crowded On Sienciael That- is indeed elletressine; eentetimee WIWI I think bow much far - Veer beavene OAR ehurob, and time there aro no vonveyeuces et any descrip- tion, 1 wonder bow some of us are going to got there. 'And the sermon is so long Always.' .All these things are, indeed, to be regret- ted, I would regret it more slucerely, tun boy, did I not inoow that you will often squeeze into a stuffesl ear with buttered ether men, hie:tithing an ineellse of telliettet- beer one tobaceo, hang 011 e strap by your eyelid.; for two miles and teen pew fifty cents for tile privilege ef aiteing on 0 rough heard in the broiling to for two hoar; longer, while in the lnterT 'le of the pinles a seratela band will blow tilt, erdene thinaler out of 4 dozen "stir horns right into your ears, and ;Elmo to tellt the rest of the feraily 0 woo of aural Far:0751e about tho st game over played on elm my toyl ran aee weet staying away from church seem It develops the habit cf lyiug. There isn't oue man in a hundrei who could go On tho witness stand and give, under web, the sarae reasons for not going to church that he gives re bo family every Suuday morn- ing. 19 you don't think you aught to go, you would not make any excuses for not going. :Co man apologizes for doing right, "Yes, toe bot to go to church," was the derided exclamation of Mrs. Doolittle, the other Sunday. Oh, but she went up town ori Monday to attend e fire sale of goods, and, indeed, the crewil Was so great and the weather so hot that several ladles well nigh faint- ed before they could got relief, but Mrs. Doolittle erowded in and stood for two hours welting to got a chance to buy ttvo smoked -up, soiled hundlterchlers at ten cents apiece which formerly were sold at fifteen rente, and indeed, she came home and made three mile upon her neighbors' to tell them how 'heap things aro selling up at the Jiro sele.—le.d. Burdett°. the loaves and the fishes. Let 09 quit the The Dig Man's Toys. Just think of having one's own rail- road end being oue's own ongineerl How delightful it must be, 'whenever emu want to take a train, to just step outand build your own tire, and when the steam is up, step into your own tender and start off, stopping when you like and Where you like! And this is just what the Mar- quis of Laindowee is able to do. Be is very fond of engines and railroads, and he has had built an engine width can travel at the rate of forty miles au bout. The railroad is complete. It has switches and signal -boxes, exaotly aa any railroad would, althougb it is but a mile and a half in length. The little engine burns two hundred pounds of ooal a day. Be- sides this engine and railroad, the Mar- quis 'bas a model of a Great Eastern Railway engine five feet in length, per- fectly fitted up, and this runs througb his conservatory, a distance of a quarter of a mile. You badly ever think of a big man haying toys, but you see men do play, If they are sound men, all their lives. A fast horse is to a good man what a lawn tennis racket is to a healthy boy. It is a means of amusement and exercise. A good healthy inan never forgets how to play; when be gots unhealthy. then be does not value play. To know how to play well, good-humoredly, to play fair, is to be sound and healthy in body and soul. THE SCieNCE OF DRESe, For Men as, Well as for women—Whe Clothes' a bigo of the mite'. One Should always put on fresh apparel for dineer or tbe thetare or Any soelal gathering. It the busies suit is worn to (barter, opera or party, 400's inliiintrwl• Sh011ia be laid aside and forgotten iu order that business shoeld he better at- tenclea to the next day. One :should al- WaYs bo taetefuily and neatly dreeted, as zutich so in the priettcy of one's.' own bottle as in public., for she who feels bee' self tastefully attired will cowry on her Mee the impress and result of such dress- ing. So the exereseion of the face lin- proves througb pereistent, tasteful, dress- ing; the whole body znoelds itself accord- ing to the Mootts oe mental setae of the spirit. If slovenly liable of attire predoni• imites, the eeu,e expression in some torm wilt mould itself upon the face, because the face will shape its expression in nt- curdanoe with the prevailing mood of mind. In ereesing. one generally oheeses the color or comoinatitet of colors most ex- pressive of the mental conditions. If a man's life is entirely without alto or mirpoie, he will wear anetbind 'which gonieshand.7—Parte of diffeeesetts thrown on withoet regard to becoming - nos, and evert if he boys itew clothing he will allow toe dealer to fit him orat 10 pateliwork. If he is verging on what Is celled the down grade of life, and feels its36.1.0u1'aless l% Paste he Will probably wear elaen—po-elher rusty black—tbe color ITO mace ufneael by men and wo- ruee wile nave ternee their fares towerile the eeepontlent one "'owed 'views ot life, to whom gaiety end love ot color are folly, The lustreless, black is the cater of eregnetion end de",-, ecientiets deeleeel lience weo 1. -lieve in death as the simmering of ail ti hetweert us and the (eeperted reit on letek as the Wee of mourning eel eepeeeenese, while the Cbloese, wire it -I', it eith to be only the lasi ;I frvi7 WeAt white. In - lie -give re reeo it cry sadness, Avenug thee 5e^4 ftienee, oaiingli not seee 'with the oheoleel a Li near thein tie ever. elven EF 3:11:ii0;^.3 cannot afford to NVC1W0 nete fed if loellei at frem the riget stele:we:zee for retract; ereeeing 14if% et teve Or the recessaey Keen tort:Int; tho 6°4114'4' faiii fashion of oneei deeee A ••••3.ifr a eallee goyim, tell ne felielreeil at. eat the mental condition ot the wow, r. A evell-Imeeta (derider said: "The mieece of' ere', it, well understood hy eeeh et ner rt, and he noows the moment he ;el cow: at a customer just wbut he can elea. Thore JR a milli:al Aire tvho iterzwe la ene orders most ex, petis;ve gerieents, then grumbles bemuse he never bee the epee:trance of being, well alreseel, while the I terk who waits upon him broke like .0 pranceIti a 81.5 Ault. We 'cannot tell him it bi beeaute be does not !mow how to wear hie teethes, and the difference iu their appearance ti the thelight put Into Mon," Ouu should alwae'a Wear stiltable ap- parel for every eeeunation. An aetor feels more his part when he weave the costume Atiapeol to that part, especially when he has playod it lunny time, for he then beeoinee permeeted with the thought peculiar to the part. It you nut on the rags of the beggar you will for tho same reason feel the cringing Mental core tiltion of the beggar. A "swell" who (lemma tbe coarse garb of a worltingnum wIte the intention of teeing up the life for the (=parlance 11 would give him, in speaking of id raid: "I was surpneecl at the difference in my fealties almost immeniately after stepping into the street ie the: garb," 1 -low often ono says: 'Why, that hat, or gown, looks like So-and-so!" Showing that the phraeo "wearing the mantle of another" has more truth in it than ono would suppote, for the garment once worn by another has absorbed a certain part of that person's thought or self, and such thought can be reabsorbed by the person to whom it Is given. Our clothes eau be rested as our bodies are, If a gar inent Is hueg out in the sunshine and wind for a time, when again brought into use it has a feeling of mat about it. One should always dross with cou- scious care and precision, as one Is then enabled to go about tinily duties with no further anxiety as to appearance. Farmers Can Make Good Itoads. John Gilmer Speed, writing on "How to Have Good Country Roads," in the Ladies' Home journal, proposes "that in each county there be founded a Road Improvement Association, which shall have a one or two days' meeting in the autumn of each year. 'To the membership and to the meetings all the farmers should be invited, while all those in the county acting as road overseers, or road supervisors, should be 'urged especially to attend. At these meetings special, defin- ite, practical instruction should be given In maintaining and repairing dirt roads. Competent men to give such instruction can be seoured without cost to such soda - time for the United States Department of Agriculture has a Road Bureau, and this bureau will always supply a competent instructor to tell the people just exactly what they need, and how to do the work as it should be done." Mr. Speed also urges that school children be interested In the work and tauglit the rudiments of road -building and road -keeping." A Short Sermon. Tlae shortest sermon ever preached was perhaps the sermon whith Dr. Whewell was fond of repeating from the text, "elan is born into trouble as the sparks fly upwards." The sermon occupied barely a minute in delivery, the following being a verba- tim report: "I shall divide this discourse into three heads: 1, man's ingress into the world; 9, his progress through the world; 3, his egress out of the world. "Firstly his ingress into the world is nakea and bare, Secondly, his progress through the world is trouble and care. Thirdly, his egress out of the world is no- body knows where. To conclude—If we live well here' we shall live well there, and I can tellyou no more if I prea„h a whole year." CANADA'S DAIRY. The 1,44tuxher and Output of ORT er•all- eries end Cbeeso reactorlere Returns cempiled by Mr, Oeorge John,* rote thew thee there are in canada 558 creameries, 2,050 oboes° facteries and gOa rectories producing both Mater ante cheese. Tee census of 1871 showed the* there were in the Dominiele then 353 &teem factories, The ceneus of 1881 gave 70e obeese factories, thee of 1891 gave 1.565, and. the returns ef 1897-98 shoW that, ieoloding the 208.. there aro $1769 factories producing cheese. Comparing 1597 with 1871 the return, ot the num- ber of factories does no& show all tbe de. virlooment there has been. Tele average ootput of 1891 was valued at 0,20 Per fmtory, and in 1871 it was $4,70,, The average value per factory for 1897-98 Johnson estimates at $8,070, or about $1,000 more then in 1874, but $080 Jese thee in 1891, giting an output in 180T of aboet $15,800,00, agaiese an output in 1991 of $9,780,000; in 1881, of $,460,- 000, and in 1871 of. $1.609,000. In 1871 the Dominion bad no oreameries for ehe nianufaeture of butter, Is wee ell boom. Made. By 1881 there were 40 oreammies be the Domineer', all but one in Outwit! and Quebec. Hy 1891 these bad increased 10 170, and by 1898 there were 559 cream- eries, Xn 1891 the output frer factory was 0.400. At the same rate the ontplet itt 1897-e8 would be about $3401840004 an In- crease of over ee,000,090. ince 1891 Nova Scotia hos irwreesed the number of it* creameries and chetree factories from 10 to 06; Ontario from e3e to 1.317; Prince =ward Island, from 4 te Menitchee from 31 to 60; Ma :,s;ortbsvf‘s; Tweet -ivies, from 7 to 39, and ilritieh Coluicabise troto 1 to 4. A. Dog's Adventure. Dorothy's dog Jack had a friend of his In the garden for a romp the other day, a lively little fax terrier named Tipple. Jack and Tipple were rolling on the grass, barking lustily at each other. They finally became so engrossed in their play that they did not notice just where they were rolling to until suddenle, with an awful howl, Tipple fall 040WD an open sellar window. This greatly surd prised Jack, and be stood at the open' window peering down into the collar with a very puzzled expression on his face. It so happened tbat be saw a very funny sight below, for right under the window were the stationary washtubs. and in one of them the girl bad been hitt- ing the clothes. Into this poor Tipple had tumbled, and instantly his nice white coat was °hanged to a vvishy weshy blue, The girl had to go down, fish hini out and give him u good wash, Jack and Tipple were soon romping ttWay on the grass e,gain, but they were careful not to get too near the cellar window. .ft.n Even Exchange. Chief Baron O'Grady evas once , tryine a ease in an assize town where the cour't house abutted on the green. A fair was in progress, and just outside the court a number of asses were tethered. As conn • sol was addressing the court one of tbese began to bray. Instantly the chief baron stopped the speaker. "Wait a eminent, Mr. Bushe," he said, "I can't hear two at once." The court roared, and the advocate grew red. But presently, when it came to summing up, tbe judge was in full swing when anoteer ass struck in, whether by the counsel's contrivance or not, who shall say? Anyhow up jumped Mr. Bushe, with his hand to his ear, and said: "Would your lordship speak a little louder'? There's such an echo in the court." Beep Tab 00 the Ministers. Every time a Rnssian Minister lea's'es town his colleagues are notified of the journey, besides the Council of the Eni pire, the Cabinet of the Emperor, the Enipire'S Co En p tr oil er and Secretary, tilt. Sacred Synod, tho }emperor's Military Secretary, the Empress, the Governors of Moscow, Varsovie, leieff, etc., ad inflni- tem to all appearance. When he returns the same minute notification performance is gone through. wongs tor tho 0.o1h4fl seesere Captain Dalai Dalten. omelal instal:me or of et. Y. Sian 111* Sving eons. nisei) he following adviee 08 re Natio/gee Don't go in ewileming if you are tired out bicyciewitline n,witn a lone walk, Deret 'go out farther then a depth mettle It) your men height if you taw lieble to lieare failure. Don't swim away from the crowd Id Toil aro not certain you ere an weepe swimmer. Don't Way in the woe: a minute after yen have !weenie t eeenel or chilled. Don't let gear freeele dere :MU to swim 'much ferther then yen hew swum etfere. Don't attempt to revue enetber pereme from drowning oniese you aro a geed winning eoureelf. Don't teal that your duty de:Aimee thee you plunge in after geet7 perigee who is liable to be drossreelr remember thee e, drowning man is a ilnatie generally and Is liable to drag you to your own death unleei you are capalete of floating wlth heevy load under all circumstances. Don't plunge Inte the water to save a drowning person without first shooting for help. Don't toe your equilibrium bemuse a felloWnewirnmer is in danger of drowning; confused heads eatew mom drownings than inability to swim. Dou't throw yourself into the water to rescue another if a rope or boat is within reasonable reach. Don't lose your courage or yourbead le you happen to end yourself too far out to swim back yourself; simply turn on your broke place your halide under your back, paddle *Nobel your feet, and above all, breathe eaturally. Don't yell at A man In danger of drowning, The best swim- mer will drown if subjeeted to any sud- den fright. Don't get frightened if you have cramp, a cramp alwa.ys comes in an arm or a leg, so simply raise the cramped wire out of the water, float easily and rub the. cramped part for n few enoments, 'when you will ba all right again. Don't stand on the bank after a swiin until you have had yourself dried off with a towel. Don't go In swimming within three hours after eating. Don't push another person Into the water with the foolish but popular notion that you can thus teach biro to mini; the best way is to let a 'person first got accustomed to being in the water, gradually going &little deeper, Don't come in front of a drowning per- son to nem' him; approach him Irons the rear and grasp him by both biceps, and tbe more be struggles the more aid does be unknowingly give you to help hien ashore. Balancing Accounts. A thiek-set, ugly looking fello'w was seated on a bench in the public park, and seemed to be reading scene writing on a sheet of paper which be held in bis band. "You seem to be much interested ia your writing," I said. "Yes; I've been iiguring my account with Old Alcohol to see how we stand." "And he comes out ahead, I suppose?" "Every time; and he has lied like sixty." "How did you come to have dealings with him in the first place?" "Tbat's what I've been writing. You gee, he promised to make a man of me, but he made me a beast. Then he said be would brace me up, but he has made me go staggering round and then throw me Into a ditch. He sale I must drink to be social; than he made me quarrel with my best ftiends, and to be the laughing -stook of my enemies. He gave me a black eye and a broken nose; then I drank for the good of my health. He ruined the little I had, and left me 'sick as a dog."' "Of course." "He said he would warm me up; and I 'was soon nearly frozen to death. He said he would steady my nerves; but in. stead he gave me delirium tremens. Ile said he would give me great strength; and he made me helpless." "To be sure." "He promised me courage." "Then what followed?" "Then he made me a coward, for I beat my sick wife and kicked my little child. He said he would brighten my wits, but instead he made me act like a fool and talk like an idiot. He promised to make a gentleman of MO, but he ham made me a tramp." Interesting Antiquarian Discovery. An interesting antiquariao discovery has been made in the small church of Radanita, in the BUcovine. It consists of a rich tapestry, embroidered in gold, re- presenting the death of Christ. It is in an exoelleut state of preservation, and the inscription is perfectly legible, and states "that this tapestry was the gift of Alex- ander the Good, Prince of Moldavia, who, In 1108. built this church at his own ex- pense.", A. Splintered Face. "Why, Clara," said the mother of a bright little miss, acted three years, "aren't you going to kiss papa goodby? He will be gone a iveok." "I don't wine to tis him," was the reply, "Mc nlm's dot tinwieters in hitn's