A arave Matter. _. A couple of gentlemen were stroll: ing through a cemetery, when one drew his companion’s attention to a stone on which was Inscribed, *Little Johnnie, aged 3.” “You may hardly credit 1t,” was the remark, “but Master Johnuale, before his demise, did me slap out of $800 a year, not to speak of a charming wife.” “How on earth could a child of 2 manage that,” asked the other. “In this fashion: As you are aware, I am quite bald, and wear, for ape pearance sake, a wig. One hot day, being alone with the took the thing off and gave it to him to play with for a few minutes. Well, I had proposed tc and been accepted by the child's mother's sister—a splendid girl, possessed of property bringing about $800 a year. We were just op the eve of getting ried. rying Jobnaie, suddenly began parent reason. and the little chap to howl for no He could bot, grief, but made signs hold him cause of his that he wi shed me to When 1 took the child the imp instantly grabbed wig and pulled it off. loved perceived that the luxu chestnut curls which she had 89 of admired were not my own, and nearly fainted. Next morning 1 at ten man with a hal I heard sub pever marry a bare as a billiard ball. sequently of cease. I didn’t require to handkerchief. 1 assure you." 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There is intenss ex of Zikiaz, ier Pie is men ars bidding goodby to their fan Milas nnd are off for the wars, Inthat little village of Ziklag tha do- fonsaioess ones will be safe until the warriors, flushed with victory, come home, But will | the defensaléss ones be sale? The soft arms of children are around the necks of the | bronza warriors until they shake themselves free and start, nad handkerchiefs and flugs men vanish beyond the hills, men soon get through with and start’hom ward. David and his thair Every night on their way home uo soonar does the soldier put his head oa tho knapsack than In his dream hears the welcome of tho wife and the shot of tha child, Ob, what long =» Si they will hay their fam {Hes ¢ of Ww the yp ticax, and Hh 1 wilt roll show the halt led quick step, men, dodoead the bate With ¢ David and wound they march on, for they are marching} coms ap to the last hiil lag, and they expe dwelling 1 look, and the untari whi tina asasx turns p aie, thelr hand inv on tha hilt of sis Zikiag? Where are Alas, the « curing and down Fume athe of Hagen and and the wives, a his men in riors stand horr ar othe woot a the go em { mi ‘wept until But soon bey apt viel is ¢ up in years D6] ORT the hands David and they come by thes brook ¢ th wh d the raen sick an a incon {0 travel, the jewels and the robes and sil kinds of treasures are inl am sick as will as anon wall, Su lame anf exh austal the treasures, Hers faced warrior. Hers dying map. Here wre stad ng the g the rely the t to haves sone of is . rohe for nu pale- is a pillow for this i= a han iful of gold for I really think that these men who fainted by th may have endured as mu’ who went into the batting lows obj yt #d 10 the siek the spo 1 did not ry oh 2 Pp heart, rep jos, down to ih 8 tarrioth by the stuf.” Thissub Thank G 2 on 6 journey and be gone weeks and months and come back and ses his house untouched of fncandiary and have his family on the step to greet him if by telegram he has fore- told the moment of his coming, Bat there are Amalekitish disasters. there ars Amalp kitish disensss that so petimes couse down fipon one’s home, making as devastating work na the day when Ziklag took fire, There are families you repressat broken up. No battering ram smote in ths door, no leonociast crumbled the status, no flame leapasd amid the curtailing, but so fur as all the joy and merriment that oases helouge! I 68 those msn Bome mean fel. ones having any of he ob; yrs said, Uheee mon wid, with a magnauimoas “As his part is that gosh departed efness of the srenesonriet fevers or Jew: risies or consumptions or tndelned disor: of that family and carried them away. lag in aahies! fet back your loved oues as much as David and his men wanted to despoiled households, Ziklag floma of you went off from home. counted the days of your abasuce, day seemed ns long as a week, Oh, how gind you were when the time came for you to go aboard the steamboat or railroad and start for home! You arrived, You went up the street where your dwelling was, ani in the night in put your hand on the doorbell, and, behold | it was wrapped with the signal ol bersavement, and you found that Amalaikitish death, which has devas tated a thousand other households, had blasted yours, You go about weeping amid the desolation of your snes happy home, thinking of the belght eyes Po § and the noble hearts stopped, and the gentle hands ed, and you weep until you have no more power to weep. Ziklag in ashes A gentleman went to a friend of mine in the oy or yaa ah on id vaaiahip. 0 oO m he fn oonsy to me Toroigh port, My friend said to What do want to go away from your ome for into a foreign * { i across fitda andienoce? Why is it that In al- most every assemblage black is the predom- inant color of the apparel? Is it beocanse you do not like saffron or brown or violet? Oh, no! Yousay: *“T he world is not so bright to us aa once ft wns,” and there is a story of {lent voices, and of still foet, and of loved | ones gone, and when you look over the hills | expacting only be anty and loveliness | find only devastation and woe, ashes! One day, in Ulster C N. Y., the vil- | Inge church wns decorated until the fra- { granes of the flowers wns almost bewiider- ing, The maldens of the village tied the place of lowers upon of alt ar. One of their number wa i 6 ministér of Christ, who | he ir to his own home, ida eongratulatory | were taken, In three days | ons of those who stood at for heaven, into the Ziklag in anty, aMlansed to had come to ou lience, the vows the altar ex The walding funeral dirg re, There wera not eno ngzh fow rs now for t coffin lid, becausa théy had all ) WL Tha de iinister of | ht 10 another from the bafore in his strength ; feless, Tho broug He had gona out weak m less than a now hoe comes whols church bewalisd Tha salemn procession moved around to look upon the still face that once had i od the messages of salvation, Li i on were lifted up to look at him, Ax fthose whom he had ecomt i f sorrow, when they passed that silent made the place dread with their | Another village o d of its soma of tl tin . others put inthe his 1mm, ortoed ino § Boge Tales of wo Poge Past thls sown They shal \grer this sa » 5¥ wwaend & $11 Ma, y Mare, EVE Wasp AiR ha are those junstion was asked, r Ars tribulation and have pads them white in ths oloo yo Lam Oar iriends went Uy a path of tears glory. De not sarprised it we have to travel IWay. I remark again, if wo waut io win the so. elety of our friends in heaven, we will not nly have to travel a path of faith and a path of tribulation, wa will aieo have to tively battis for their companionship, David and his men never wanted sharp swords, and invalnerable shields, an i thick Lhreastpintes ti as they wanted them on the day shen they came down upon ths Amaiikites, If they had loat that battie, they never would haves got their families beak, suppose that one giance at their loved ones in captivity huriel them ints the battle with tenfold courage and enargy., They said © “We must Everything deponds upon it, Let of spear or sword, Wemust winit," And 1 Rave to t=il you that between us and coming into the companionsaip of our Joved ones wio are departed thers Is an Ansterlitz, there isa War with the world, war with the flesh, war with the devil, We have either 1o conquer our trog- bles, or our troubles will conquer us. David will either slay the Amalekites, orthe Anule- And yet fs not the fort 1o be taken worth all the pain, all the peril, all the beglagoment? Took! Who are they on the bright hille of heaven yonder? There they are, thos: who sat at your own table, the chair now vacant, There they are, those whom you | rocked in intaney in the eradle or hushe t to sloap in your arms, There they are, those in whose life your life was bound up, There they are, thelr brow more radiant than ever before you saw it, their lips waiting for the kiss of heaven!y greeting, their cheek roseate with the health of eternal summer, their bands beckoning you up the steep, the feet bounding with the mirth of heaven, The falior of their last sickness gone out of their 0, Bevermors to he siek, nevermore to congh, novermore to limp Nevermore to bw old, nevermors to woop, They are watehing from those heights to woe {1 through Christ you ean take that fort, and whether you will rush in upon them-—viotors, They know that upon this battle depends Whines you will ever join their sogiety., U Strike harder! oe bt bra 5 pike feol distress under tha altar? and ths response out 7 Cedy they lolthel no but Oirmie #a ma families nway from you, how long would Wi taka bofors we resolved to go alter themd Every weapon, whether fresh from the armory or old and rusty in the garret, would { bs brought out, and we would urge on, and coming in front of the foe we would look at | them and then look at our families, and the | ery would he, “Victory or death!” and whep the ammunition was gone wa would take the { eaptors on the point of the bayonet or under the biresech of the gun, It you | the getting bay would make such a str 24! a ion wir earthly friends, will h strugele for the gain. companionship of your On, yes, must join in ther them the the trinmg Lot in haaven that out with braver of thelr earthly arth than we to ns muo toranl friends? ! We must mat ine ol heavenly wea wit holy with with them on énrth or id and his men pushed We ming must calabrate it nover b Davy SONY shy, y to'd friends fora fs w raf our vied You gay t! ut all this impiles that our de. fan friends nro alive, Why, had 1 any Es they wern dead? They have If you should go on the 21 of houss where © your friends would not GATS OR dad any m ved, ’ ns ol lival and find him gore, you wid Inguire next door where he ha 10. parted Christian friends have only othar house, The sesrst is that they har than they o and wha si dence, y is dond. Ww 1 mic wi can alford a drank out of 3 drink from chuline, ‘Jone t yot alive ™ him. Living, ; oan Hive in this wire, and are 1 SnD aibdla ly aan bescing al- r Ob, King's Jacob will go 1 way? Why, noaven near dead nk that Fred 8 nenr dead year, he head an the soarid find u think u as when an his ¢ you Hts the who and wusulp of enters] the he STOR iand have AVEn.Y into rean a to tarrieth yor A River «Sea Serpent.” Austin Rice, of East Deerfiold, a plain, unimaginative farmer, who for nearly fifty the sevenuly years his life has resided in his quiet home banks of the Connecticut River, said a fow « “‘I was near the bridge, a little over a week ago, when I ieard what seemed to me like a grunt followed by a splash, 1 looked into the river, and, not more than twenty- five feet away, 1 saw a big snake. “Ita head was out of water, and its body raised some six or seven feet At the neck the snake was about ss Iarze as a man's log at the thigh, and the body was about ss large as an or dipary stovepipe. His eyes were as large as those of a horse, and his month, which was open, was nearly » foot morose. The color of his body was black, and a white stripe around his mouth extended down to his paunch, I followed the snake, trying to keep alongside of him. At one of of 3 ¢ on tae Of days RIO. His power of locomotion was so strong that he had When he got alongside a boathouse where some noise and raised himself about ten to the water and disappeared.” Mr. Rice's 1 for veracity among his neighbors and sequaint- ances is good. — Boston Herald, I Celebrated Christmas 150 Times, Golonr MeCrain, who died on the Isle of Jura, one of the Hebrides, in the reign of Charles I, is said to have celebrated 180 Christmases during his lifetime. There were records in the MeCrain family which proved that the old man was past 180 years of on the of his death, which won make his of lite at least thirteen bien greater than other man who rss— extravagant, of them to go as of £4as. 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