AGE REY. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMGH. The Brooklyn Divine's Sanday Sermon, Subject : “A Plague «f Infidelity.” Text: “Let God be true, but every man «¢ fia) .— Romans ili., 4. That is if God savs one thine and th hoe human race savs the opposite, Pau Jould accept the Divine veracity. But ther fo many in our time who have dared arraig the Aimighty for falsehood. Infidelity # not only a p.ague, but it is the mother of plagues elt seers from what we hear on all sides that the Christian religion is a huge blun der: that the Mosaic account of the creation #s #n absurdity large enough to throw al sations into rollicking guffaw; that Adam md Eve never cxisted; that the ancient {lool and Noah's ark were impossibilities; that there never was a ay that th Bible is the friend of cruelty, of murder, of polygamy, of all forms of base crime; that the Christian religion is woman's tyrant and man's stuitification; that the Bible from lid to lid is a fable, a eruelty, a hum bug, a sham, a lie; that the martyrs whe jed for its truth were miserable -dupes mt the church of Jesus Christ # periy gazetted as a fool; that when ‘Thomas Carlyle, the skeptic, ssid, **I'he Bihle is a noble book,” he was dropping into imbecility: that when Theodore Parke declared in Music ball, Boston, *“*Never s boy or girl in all Christendom but was grofited by that : reat book.” he was be ming very weak minded; that it is some ing to bring a blush to the cheek of very patriot that John Adams, the father tf American independence, declared, “The ible is the best book in all the world;” d that lion hearted Andrew Jacksor furned into a sniveling coward when he said *That book, sir, is the rock on which our re gublic rests;” and that Daniel Webster ab dicated the throne of his intellectual power and resigned his logic, and from being the reat expounder of the constitution and the trem lawyer of his age turned into an idiot hen he said, “My heart assures and reas ures me that the gospel of Jesus Christ must be a divine reality. i rom the time that af my mother’s feet or on my father's knee ) first learned to lisp verses from the sacred gritings they have been my daily study ane Hiiant contemplation, and if there is anv sing in my sty.e or thought to be commend the credit is due to my kind parents in in iliing into my mind an early love of the criptures;” and that Williaa H, Seward, he diplomatist of the century, only showed Ris puerility when he dec.are’, whol ope of human progress is suspended on the ver growing influences of the Bible” and bat it is wisest Lor us to take toatl book from fhe throng in the affections of unc od multitudes and put it under our feet $0 be trampled upon by batred snd hissing contem; and that ‘your old {ather was hoodwinked and eajoled nd cheated and befooled when he leaned on his as a staff alter his hair grew gray, and nt hands were tremuls and bis steg portened as he came up to the verge of tue grave; and that your mother sat with a pack of lies on her lap while reading of the better sountry, and of the ending of all her aches and pains, and reunion not only with those of you who stood around her, but with the children sbe had buried with infinite heart sche, so that she could read no more unti she took off her spectacles and w.ned from thera the heavy mist of many tears that for forty and fifty yea bave walked under this ft under their pillow when in the back room, and asked from the vile page mig! tomtstone un eouniry meeting house fio ay walling tor a resurrection that aever come This book, having deceived them, and hs ing mig Jeet past, may all iarger, mtellec “Tha us, " £ i i Alas &y shou and bad r lay a-<dying st some wor v th rs 1h delusior is er the s wheres deceived tan inte nt be wed to deced ization of der the | Out with | together allt the fam st of them ail together of : Wi 4 ort You the for + & these w mie turned t fet us them, warm our cold eriticism, and after ¢ ander witl » pl bare of publi pation t To i shew of that joat adultes , cruel and death which i : agonistic to man’s liber and and the hapg N Hy proposes : res, and the attack the Bible is ¢ by great j and there is bar su ts about w more mirth is kindl an about the | I like fun: no man 8 ever buiit with s keener appreciation of There is health in laughter instead of harm--pt mental health, moral heaith, soir bea ~provided laugh at the right thing The morning is jocund. The Indian with it own mist baptizes the cataract Minnehaha or Laughing Water, You have not Ke your eyes open Cr your ears alert if you have pot seen the sea smile, or beard ests clap their hands, or the orchards in blossosr week aglee with redolence But there is laughter which has the rebound of desouir It is not healthy to giggle about Ged op chuckle about eternity or smirk about { things of the immortal soul You know what caused the ace ago on the Hudson River Raiiroa an intoxicated man who for a joke pulled te string of the air brake and stopped the trai t.. the most dangerous point of the journey. Fut the lightning (rein, not knowing thes was any impediment in the way, caps down, crushing out of the mangled victims the im mortal sonis that went speeding instantly tc God and judgment. It was only a joke. He thought it would be suc: fun to stop the train. He stopped it. And so infidelity is chiefly anxious to stop the long train of the Bible, and the long train of the churches and the Jong train of Christrian influences while coming down upon us are death, judg ment and eternity, coming a thousand miles a minute, coming with more force than all the avalanches that ever slipped from the Alpe, coming with more strength than all the lightning express trains that ever whis tied or shrieked or thundered across the con tinent, Now in this jocularity of infidel thinkers 1 cannot join, and 1 joposs to give you some reasons why I cannot be an infidel, and so | will try to help out of this present condition any who may have been struck with the avful plague of skepticism First, 1 cannot be an infidel because infi delity has no good substitute for the conso lation it proposes to take away, You know there are millions of people who get their chief consolation from this book. What would you think of a crusade of this sort) Buppose a man should resalve that he would organize a conspirncy to destroy all the medicines from all the apothecaries and from ull the hospitals of theearth. The work i done. The medicines are taken, and they are thrown into the river, or the lake, or the wn. gy of distress, and wanis an anodyne oh: ais the jue, Phy ancdines are all : we have no drops to give beat matend of that I'll read you Ebook 0 the absurdities of morphine and the abwur “I'll continue to read you some d wmodynes, the erusities of anodynes, the lecencies of anodynes, ere in the hospital is a jongiened ih hopin ha or ether | Oh, tor chloroform” the, fer. Tl read yon a pamphlet awainst James Y. Simnson, the discoverer of chloro. form as an anmsthetio, and against Drs, Ae- | mew and Hamilton and Hosack and Mott i pod Harvey and Abernethy.” But” savs tha man, “I must have some anmsthetios.” “No,” says the doctor, ‘they are all de. | gtroyed, but we have got someth ng na creat (: is that? “Pun.” { Jun about medicines. Lie down, atl ye pa- | tients in Bellevue Hospital, and stop your groaning, all ye broken heartel of all the cities, and quit your eryiug; we have the patholicon at last, Here is a dose of wit, here is a stren~then- ng plaster of sarcasm, here is a bottle of ribaldry that you are to keep well shaken up kod take a spoonful of it alter each meal, and if that does not cure you here is a solu- tion of blasphemy in which you may bathe, and here is a tincture of derision. Tickie the | skeleton of death with a repartee! Make the | King of Terrors cackie! For all the agonies { of all the ages a joke! Millions of people | willing wish uplifted hands toward heaven, | to affirm that the Gospal of Jesus Christ ig { full of conso ation for them, and yet infidels | ity proposes to take it away, giving nothing, | absolutely nothing, except fun, Is thereany greater heizht or depth or length or breadtly | or immensity of meanness in ali God's un.< | verse? | _ Infidelity is a religion of “Don't know.” Is there a God? Don't know! 1s the soul immortal? Don't know! If we should mest | each other in the future world will we rec yg | nize each other? Don't know! {of “don't know” for the relizion { know,” | “I know that my Redeemer hveth.,” Inf | delity proposes to substitute a religion of i Yieal better.” “What of positives, snowing right before us a world of | reunion and ecstacy and high companionship and glorious worship ani stupendous vie- { tory, the mightiest joy of earth not hich | enough to reach to the base of the Himilava of uplifted splendor awaiting all those wna on wing of Christian faith will soar iit Have you heari of the conspiracy to put i out all the lizhthouses on the coat? Do vou know that on a certain night of : | Eldystouel { Bherryvore highthouse, Montauz lighth { Hatteras lighthouse, New Londou light house, Barpegat lighthouse, ani the 64) | lighthouses on the Alias and Pacifia | coasts are to extinguished? “Oh,” sav, "what will become of the 8 10% On 3 night? What will be the fate of the ong { million sailors fol z the s=a? What will | be the doom of Hhons of passengers? Who will arise to lown such a conspir- acy? Every man, woman and child in America and the world But that is only a fable, is woat infidelity is trying ta co rathou«ws on the con r next tnonth, house, Bell Rock lichthouse, YAS, be all the ii o s soul go up the *N ieath w.th no light, no comfort, prace—all thai ¢ versed with the t ness of instead of wworm of wit, a fis io yon 10 eternity, the 3 no mst © AOK~ tae gr house, ity. ager house? What a mission {nfldelity h The : breakin th ihe Itket for firefly nv exting i , the turning your child's grave inl Walter Scott’ ! bani, went nid t's thraoush t thas a sand two 1 of ths Bibi { wive wont |} When race Ha ie MIR MAUD aphet one wite trond fave . Lrond ‘ in Lev than profibition San Tue wile God permitied He permits to arson and all these things, az ¥¢ not sanciion taen He sanctions them? Vreddents of the United States have permitted poly- gamy in Utah, you are not, therefore, to « vitide that they patronized if, that they proved it, when, on the conirary, they nounced 5. All of ancient Israel knew that the God of the Bible was against po yramy, for in the four hundred and thirty years of their stay in Egypt there is only one cas of polygamy recorded--oniy one, All the mighty men of the Bible stood aloof from polygamy excspt thoss who, falling into the crime, were chastized within an inch of their lives. Adam, Aaron, Noah, Joseph, Joshua, Samuel, monogamists. Bat you say, | “Didu'tDavid and Solomon favor pologamy?” i= t { 1 ’ : lays nds of urcer ar ori Kt Who wou ¥ 3 wall i dare to say ¥ eonuse the he Aw Hig iodd's it | will come to the conclusion that all the at | tributes of God's nature were against their | behavior. David suffered for his crimes in ments of Zikiag sickness after him, Absalom after b m, Ahithopel alter him, Adonijabh aiter him, the Edomites after him, the Hyrians after The poorest ried to the plainest Jewess was happier than the Kinz in his marital misbehavior. How Read his warnings in Proverbs: read his self, disgust in Ecclesiastes, He throws up hi hands in loathing and cries out, “Vanity o | vanities, all is vanity.” His seven hundred wives nearly pestered the life out of him. Solomon got well paid for his crimes well id. I repeat that all the mighty men of the Beriptures were aloof from polygamy, save as they were pounded and failed and cut to ! ves for their insult to holy marriage. If # Bible is the (riend of polygamy why is it | that in all the lands w the Bible pre Pol all over China, all over 1 all f pd yp Sg holing hg pnll iil m ! i i 7 ne Dole, AND AES WHICH Dictures ars toe nore honored. Here is Eve, a perfect woman; as perfect a woman as ewild be unde by a perfect God. Here is Deborah, with her womanly arm hurling a host into anttle, Here is Miriam, leading the Israel tish orchestra on the banks of the Red Be:, Hers is motheriy Hannan, with her own loving band replenishinz the wardrobe of her son Samusl, the provhet. Here is Abizail, kneeling at the foot of tha nountain until the four hundred wrathful nen, at the sight of her beauty ani prowess anit, halt—a burricans stoppad at the sight of a water lily, a dew drop dashing back Ni. wgara, Hereis Ruth putting to shame all nodern slang about mothers-in-law as she ‘urns her back on her home and her country, ind faces wild beasts and exile, ani death that she may be witha Naomi, her hosban i's nother. Ruth, the queen of the harvest felds. Ruth, the gran mother of David. Ruth, the ancestress of Jesus Christ. The itory of her virtues and her life sacrifices is ibe most beautiful pastoral ever written, Hero 18 Vashti defying the bacchanal of a thousand drunken lords, and Esther will ng to throw her life away that she may leliver her people. And hers is Dorcas, the sunlight of eternal fame gilding her philan. ihropic needle, and the woman with perfurae m a box made from the hil's of Alabastron, pouring the holy chrism on the head of Christ, the aroma lingering all down the corridor of ine centuries. Here is Lydia, the merchan- ss of Tyrian purpla immortalized for her hristian behavior. Here isthe widow wit iwo mites, more famous than the Peabodys iants an‘ with especial honor and high favor, eaning on the arm of inspiration, one wh % the joy and pride of any home so rarely one, an old Christian Who has nore worshipers to-day than any being that ever lived on earth except Jesus Christ! 1 For what purpose did Christ perform fary. iis first mirac.e upon earth? To relieve the A § st the falling short of a Leverage. fid Christ break up the sil snd tear off the shroud, an bareave Why snes of the tomb, I rip up the rocks! mont of the tw tethany Far whose comlort was arist most anxious in toe hour of d sxeruciation’ For a woman, anold w A wrinkie faced woman, a woman ther days had held Him in her arme rst friend. His last friend, as it is very apt 10 be, His mother mthos of the ages sompressed into one “Behold nther.” Does the antagor woman? If the Bible is so antagonistic to woman, 30W do you account for the differen woman s condition China a Alrica, and her Eng America® T « Bible makes it was to stop the Eilers Ying man, who in 1 iis of " i here is no dif she 1s | 1 i¥ i OWS, indescribable indignit ina private apart ¢ mu ailnd ns th Do we abe st be « “RB st now that Aine Lie al Pres the WW 01 merciful y and in We tations it ¢ Princet t Cambridge m from which Do you univers % 8% PXOBD you that all the German i positive under e University Eis no finan I have to iail today =, fre exoant a the rufllanly students Lon t re. wher other as a matter of pride instead of infamy Do you mention Girard College, Philadelphia, as an exception, that colle established by the will of Mr. Girard which forbade re ligionia fustruction and the entrance of clergymen within ils gates. My reply & that [ lived for seven years near that college and I knew many of its professors to be Christian instructors, and no better Christian influences are to be found in any college thas in Girard College. There stands Christianity. infidelity. Compare what they have done Compare their resources. There is Chris her brow; both hands full of help for all whe for the oppressed, the blind, the sick, the for the bringing back of the outomst: the! mother of thousands of reflormatory institu. tions for the saving of the lost; the mother | of innumerable Sabbath-schools bringing That & Here is infidelity ; no prayer on her lips, ne | benediction on her brow, both hands clenched | what for? To fight Christianity. That & the entire business. The complete mission | Where i ars her schools, her colleges, her asylums of | mercy? Let me throw you down a whole | ream of foolseap paper that you may fill all of it with the names of ber beneficent in i stitutions, the colleges and the asy ums the | institutions of mercy and jesrning, founded | by infidelity and supported alone by infidel | ity, pronounced against God and the Chris | tian religion, and yet in favor of making the | world he hr say, “a ream ol paper is too much for the names of those in. stitutions.” Well, then, I throw you a quire of paper. Fill itall up now. 1 will wail until you get all the names down, " you say, “that is too much.” Wall, then, 1 will just band you a sheet of letter paper. Just fill up the four sides while we are talk. ing of this matter with the names of the merciful institutions and the educatioual in Stitations founded auposs you count them on your ten fingers, “Oh,” you say. “not quite s» mueh as that” Well, then, count them on the fingers of one nd, “Ob,” you sav, "‘we don't want quite 1 much room as that.” Bunpose, then, vou alt and ecrint on one finger the nama of any nxtitation founded by infidelity, supports t mtire'y by infidelity, pronsunced arainst dod and tns Christian relizion, vet toil. ng to make the world better. Not one! Not one! Is mfidelity so poor, nean, so useless? (Get out, you missrable pauper of the universe! Crawl inte some rathole of everlasting nothin rpess. Infidelity tanding to-day amid the suff rin z, groaning, iyinz nation, anl yet doing absolutely aothing save trying to imoede thoss who are tolling natil they fall exhiusted into their rraves in trying to makes the world better, Gather up all the work, all the merciful work, that nfl lelity has ever done, add it ull together, and there is not so much nobil- ity in it as in the smallest bead of that sister of charity who last night went us the dark alley of the town, put a jar of jelly for an invalid appetite on a broken stand, and then knelt on the bare floor praying the mercy of Christ upon the dying soul, Infidelity scranes no lint for the wounded, ba'tes no bread for the hungry, shakes up na pillow for the sick, rousssno comfort for the bereft, gilds nc grave for the dead. While Christ, our Christ, our wounded Christ, our risen Christ, the Christ of the old fashioned Bible—blessed be His glorious name forever our Christ stands this hour pointing to tie hospital, or to the asylum, saying: “I was sick and ye gave me a couca, I was lame and yegavemo a crutch, I was blind and ye physicianed my eyesizht, I was orphanasd snd ye mothered my soul, I was lost on the mountains and ye brought me homes: nas much as yo did it to one of the least of these, ye did it to me.” But I thank God that this plague of inf delity will be staved. Many of those wae { hear me now by the Holy Ghost upon their | hearts will cease to be scoffers and wil be { come disciples, and the day will arrive when | all nations will acoept the Beriptures | book is going to keep right on til t of tie last day are kindled will bagin on one sides and some on the other | side of the oid They will not find » bundie of loose manuscripts easily consumed * tinder thrown into the fire. When the last day are kindled, some wil burn on this side. from Genesis toward Revelation, and others will burn on this side, {roan Revelation toward Ge 5% sn lin ail their way they i not find a sinzle *hapter or a single verse out of place. Tan w first we can afford to do without the Biles, What will be the uss of the book of Gen. os, descripti bow this world was male when the destroyed? What will be the use " when they are ail f1 Ls i ison ins desorption of Him 1 to fare’ What will be the use of His photograph when we Him in glory? What will be the the book of Revelation, standin 4 1 : gn glarve'ine, so Th 16 fires Some of them nun book ihe % Of i be the time # ve Of world is wiil 5 angels C * su hrist when we sos 268i of toe oy § anit ¥ of SY Save met ue of OL on the glassy inging harp, an a eleraal oof And the Deryl dash sapphire, and ti it on the fire azninst a and 1 stand a ih is ng in peand sunset —————— How Some Goods Are Sold talkin iN a leading sveragz res . two or Lhree weeks BIO We ¢ “ 1 s 14 OF Cash ~ 4D BX understa not have cle u may readily low one BE 9 i or we would ie goods we placed in stock, mark. them in three different grades, viz and $5. We ad hem in the daily p old over 1500 of this ‘spec every one of which was a bargain “‘Now,' we said, ‘we have made idsome profit on those already sold, We will create a little excitement on the balance and stand a loss ourselves.' § we advertised 500 silk umbrellas at 81 each. Every one of those we put in this ¢pecial sale was worth from 82.50 to §5 at retail, “The morning the sale took place the people flocked in as soon as the doors were opened, and in one hour and twenty drive,’ a bs of. We sold one umbrella only to each individual purchaser at this low figure, and consequently placed this bargain with upward of 500 different persons. “The actual loss to us on this sale was several hundred dollars, but oz the whole handsome profit; besides making our. special customers into the store who, it is American Tea. Mr. Gill, an expert on tea, shows from careful calculations made in China, Indie from 5} to 4} cents a pound. China, he tells us, which formerly enjoyed a mon- opoly of the trade, now produces less than half of the tea used in Europe and America, and he maintaing with great show of reason, that tea may be grown in large areas of the Southern States as successfully and profitably as anywhere else in the world. A rich, sandy loam of good depth and drainage, and a moist climate, are the two essential requisites, dnd the tree or bush will stand a con- siderable degree of cold.—New Orisan Picayune. Reising Forests, The ministry of imperial property of the Czar of Russia are making efforts to lant forests in the meats of Batik hatr boy, Bamars and Tools. Last year over four thou. sand dessyatins (about twelve thousand acres) of steppe were converted inte forests, This year the work will con. tinue in the governments mentioned and : i Pots a or a eth pu of va, em Chicago Jowwts i PRESSED DEFINITIONS. S—— A rousing time.—4 a. country, m. in th A besstly bore—The hole made by dull augur. Under, done—The bottom doz at th end of a fight, Always at pa value—The daughte 3 of a rich man. A wise saw—To gee out of a scrape. Whe spill the mustard, The poultryman’s “Spring chickens.” your way clea The English Hunter's Point— ing an American heiress, Marry peal of the wedding bells. In apple pie order—The stomach, three times a day. Untenable evidence—The counterfei $10 bill you offer for security. Made of the missed—What you win on your opponent's bob-tail flush A fargone conclusion—The nove that skips from America to Africa ir its last <hapter. —~When your neigh The lap of eart ips over your be bor's line fen i meadow a foot or so h-~ ce kt ® i i Lowering thie Lugging down report from the topmost s for “Under re You Coneres helt. niOiG Grounds debate—1Tnele i de lil: hes am de ie bait 1 knows.” ie: SAVE ; we bus bes’ groun’ foh « A pen and (k You make w of “fuzz” 8 ihe of | JINK BK Hen vour ink for you ia on pen 1o cat ——— A Patriotic Redskin, { Neb. i account of the death of } Un 2 No Flesh at the | Pine Ridge Ham as the land bil ‘No Fl {1 HT, ndian to I Fe iT Ww ln RAVE: 5 #s not parti om other Indians in a ¢ iden believed him ing bef iter inten i even for an ) Thi agent that he had son ird to hb an i Tg r about Will Have to Wait, A German, ke Aho left home vears of thereby evading service in the to the English manication received from in ‘the Fatherland” in answer ng resident in London al twent army, has sent papers a co the authori ties her ere he died wa and visit his {a by rejoinder, fine of $3113 « § arising and all means,” & in effect the austere but 4 14 HL |i ., undergo weeks’ pend six months in {i was too much for the correspondent’s insting “It would have been a great Joy to me to have geen my father,” he under these circumstances meet no more.” Bix vf Wiress, i filial gave, “but we shall The City Paid It, The European residents whose prop- erty was destroyed in the recent revolt in Chian-King, China, have recived as indemnity 140,000 taels, or £175,000, It is rather remarkable that this sum was paid by neither the ment nor the province, but by the offi- ed $60,000, the governor of Shang- hai the same, while the minor officials paid the remainder in proportion to their rank. house was entirely demolished, receiv- ed £30,000, se —————————— A Big Stafr, An explanation of the profusion of eolonels in Kentucky is to be found in part in the governor's privilege to ap- point colonels on his stall’ ad libitum. Governor Blackburn appointed sixty in Louisville alone, with proportiona- ble numbers for the back counties. It is believed that no governor of Ken- tucky ever had his entire staff’ together at one time. There is no public hall in Kentucky big enough to hold it The Texas method is simpler still, You have only to drink with the mayor to be named colonel on the spot, OR A I AALS, SANS All Doctors. Or. James H. Gordon, of Greenville, Il. is seventy-two years old and the father of twenty-two children. Seven of these were boys, and, with one ex. ception, all became physicians and attained more than ordinary sucoess. The exception was a son who was ac cidentally killed while a student at the St. Louis Medical College. To take the place of this one, t s there is an only Lving son-in-law who is a med: foal practitioner, AS IN | 0 I ls SOA, How te Control Him, How to control man is a nice but no adificelt problem. The average man, and it is folly to waste time on one below average intelligence and culture, is mentally and morally amenable te improvement. Ie fs a well meaning Pig-headed, thoughtless creature, bu he is fearless, loyal and responsive to good influence, Civilization has made man a warring animal, aggressive and domineering. It was once = measurement of physical strength between man and man, now it is a {| measurement of brain brain, | 5 a © r r against | themselves and that for which they stood reviled and abused, Men are used to opposition. Antage onism spurs them on, rouses the fight. - | Antagonism only hastens the evil it i would avert, Men are unused to | kindness, Admiration tickles them | and praise bewilders them. The man | who goes to battle mighty in the ar- { mor of his wrath laid low when | his enemy burns incense instead of | powder. The foundation of matri- { monial comfort must be laid at the | very beginning. Nowhere is delay so 1 | Hangerons. Bolomon, to whom we are { all indebted, never said a wiser thing, { than “Whoso ruleth his spirit is greater than he who taketh i Conse | quently a quick and ex Ou, is t 1 i 4 a city. acting or a jeal- must lose an irritable Praise at the he right thing is This it be thrown, i selfish or silly 4% and put up wit t | and indiffercs: bash and for OW woman - | the ds h tf £2. wht { the praise, ho | out indis { It must be | minced fish for eral With a quarter i i Just as much + 1s the rule. time i Ke ret i ' wever, mu ni i riminately or in id chunks, and delicate] One does not of beef. can grasp sat % 3 i one 4 A { {tween herse il must hold bé- If and : velvet + shield of silence and pat , bat she | must i 4 Kliken Being ty fi 18 flatier CATANCce, | encircle lnsso of | unused A Fi 0% man on his momen i conscious Wo hs des elogw d the {he masher. LESUre him ts not an you. sk ness of other grateful von ft you 1 Of good | MORCT OT I ii~ oh ROS 8 Teason~ late, don’t have suffered. y betray in this ill be con- ramble back destal,.—Wash- How Women Rest. Herently ms nd women ins called a down rest hus- Casy chair, and feet n another chair. whole body i half hour ork, and the cives that i rect help of occupa- ell ber that bhorizon- ion, as a change from standing work prove more t v of her make- shifts at resting. woriien have a habit of keeping feet just as long as they can, in spite of backaches and warning pains. As they grow older they see the folly of permitting such drafts upon their | strength, and ire ake things | easier, let what will pen. They say, i { “I used to think 1 must do thusand so, and learned to | but I've grown wiser ght things.” The first years of housekeeping are truly the hardest, for untried and unfamiliar cares are slimost daily thrust upon the mother and home | maker. sit and the arin § The result is that grains the full bene he ali wife only ¥ yws himself Iv red i which comes from ch tion. faking even ten minu tal posit or ange $4 i: 1 A physician won mn sitting at . would benefi han an ¥ yIRY ial to her a on their leart to 1A 5 i s wii Very Peaceful. | A gossip writes that a New London Society.” The | freak is “The Peace | members assemble for tea in fashions- | ble studios, languidly look through | collections of sketches and as languidly | listen to music, and then, with contin- | ned languor, discuss questions for bane lishing ideas of war from the vouthful (mind. One ideas is to treat war as | merely an incident in the text books of history. This is the society which, | some tume ago, began its self-appointe ed mission by recommending the bane ishment of drums amd tin soldiers rom the nursery. 1 a IO AMAA How to Arrange a Raid, Municipal dignitary (to police ofs ficiale) Order the foree to have j everything in readiness for a descent on the gambling houses to-night.” Police Official (to subordinate offi wil ~4‘Tell the men to get ready for a raid on the gambling places to-night,” Subordinate officer (to squad of po- lice)—+Boys, be around here about eleven o'clock. We are ordered to make a haul of the gambling houses.” Policeman (to gambler )—sJerry, we're goin’ to raid ye about midaight. Tell the byes.” I Ms SAAN Scientists say that the orange was origivaliv a berry, and its evolution bas been gaiag on for more than a thousand years, The United States has more miles of railroad Shan all Europe.
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