FIGS AND THISTLES.
IN repeated puts
out the eye of con-
science,
’ religions, but only
one Christ,
Our place in
eternity ig to be
decided by whom
we love.
If dust settles
on your Bible, sin
will get Into your
heart.
Thinkers have their hands on -the
wheels of the world.
Our weakness becomes strength
when we take it to God.
Tact wins where great gifts without
it would fall flat.
If we are afflicted, it Is Because God
sees a good reason for it.
Is the burden heavy? Don't try to
bear It. Glve it to Christ.
God can say a good deal in a flower
to those who know Him.
The less we have, the more angels
wonder when we give.
Gold never stops looking bright be-
cause somebody calls it brass.
The money made on whisky and vice
is the devil's working capital.
The preacher may be locked up, but
his Bible can't be kept in prison.
While Joseph was wearing the iron
chain his golden one was being made.
When the church is cold it can only
be warmed by fire that comes from God.
God needs every man who knows
Him, and knows every man who needs
Him.
The lazier a man is the greater things
he Is going to do when to-morrow
Comes.
Make your life a ministry of love, and
angels will take an Interest in your
work.
You take something from the burden
of sorrow when you give it something
to do.
If God gives you a rose, thank Him
for it. If He gives you a thorn, do the
same.
The Bible begins to grow the moment
we begin to live up to the Bible
know.
we
It is only
the Lord always, who has a m
moving faith.
an who can rejoice
union
», and you will find
rought a large and
il alms at the man
1 of faith is |
tained
speak transf
A stereotype
be better
down fire
The danger
repe
may
nature as som
1
there would have been
A revival meeting is
when
gure to
3 ; '
people can see CICAr across
house that the preacher is not
expect-
ing much.
The reason all things work together
for good to them that love God is
cause joy always the gaine
ag teste
There is something
piety of a religion
never attracts any attention outside the
church
wrong
Christian whose
The Lord is not helped any by the
shouting of a man who only pays twen-
ty-five cents a vear to help take the
world for Christ.
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Big Forg ng.
The largest steel plate ever rolled,
not only in this country but in the
world, was turned out recently by the
Wellman Iron and Steel Works, at
Chester, Pa. The dimensions of the
plate are 450 inches long by 130 inches
wide, avd 14 inches thick. It is in.
tended as n rudder plate for une of the
new “ocean greyhounds” CONtracton
for by the International Navigation
Company with the Messrs, Cramp, the
Philadelphia shipbuilders,
nisin «
No Wonder,
When a man Is informed there are
triplets in ifs family, lie can hardly be-
lieve his own census. —Itichtnond Dis-
satel.
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GOV. RICH IN A PULPIT.
“Applied Christianity” in Politics.
At the Lansing (Mich.) Universalist
Church recently, Gov. Rich discussed
“Applied Christianity.” It was declared
to be the. duty of every good citizen not
only to attend caucuses and vote at “he
polls, but to use his influence in favor
of good government and the enforce-
meat of the lnws. A law, In the opinion
of the Governor, should either be en-
forced or repealed. It was also de-
clared to be the duty of every citizen
to openly and publicly encourage ofil-
cers in the discharge of their official du.
ties. After a citizen has done all in his
power to select a proper man for office,
le is as much obliged to acquiesce in
the result, whatever it may be, as he is
to ald in the cholce,
As those who possess the most of this
world’s goods are required to contrib
ute most from their substance, 80 may
they who, by reason of natural ability
or education, are able to accomplish
the most good, be required to make the
largest contribution of effort and influ-
ence. The Governor maintained that
the college professor or president owes
more to society than the man who has
none of the advantage they have en.
Joyed,
Gov. Rich maintained that any per-
gon who In any unfair or Improper
an Incorrect canvass of votes cast at
an election, is morally as much guilty
of treason as he who gives ald and com
fort to the public enemy. There Is
something wrong in public sentiment,
he declared, when men who are the per-
sonification of honor In any business
transaction will do or permit to be done
in polities that, which under the very
laws which give them the protection
of every right they hold dear, 1s a mis-
demeanor, and in many cases a felony.
Attention was called to the fact that it
Is difficult to conviet anyone of what is
popularly known as a political offense,
although these offenses strike at and
undermine the very foundations of the
Government,
The voter is sometimes met with the
alternative of voting for the principles
represented by man personally ob-
Jectionable,
opposing candi-
wrsonally
ate, although inobjectiona
ble, represents principles antagonistic
In such cases no rule of
action can be Ian!
individual must
i
]
3 for hims
to his views.
but that each
r respectful lary
when
ariel
aaa
respect! ii i
United States is to 8
ly of the o«
X i the
everything 1
improve
must
A Hen's Brood of Quail,
le Mr. 1. T Stuart, a prosp
noxville,
this sum
ad of a hen
r
was setting on Lhe nest
woken egg shows d that the eggs wonid
$ been hatehied in ; fow days A
little daughter of Mr Stuart's took the
carefully put
eres and
them under n
hateh In a
lay or two. Fourteen of the quail eges
hen's. For
Young quall went
hen at night, as the chick-
ens did; after that they
corner of the coop by themselves,
The little girl fed and looked after
them, and they seemed to have no fear
of her, but would come and Jump in
ber hand. The moment anyone
came about they would run and hide,
Their favorite hiding place was under
the- chickens, and sometimes two or
three would try to get under one chick.
en, and in thelr efforts to hide would
completely upset it. After they could
fiy fairly well they took up their abode
in the garden, but would always come
to the little girl's eall of “Chick, chick,
chick,” and if at a distance would fly
and alight at her feet. When they were
quite small an old cock gquall came for
several days aud tried to toll them
awidy, but they would not go with him,
They are now full grown, and all nre
Heing but one, which killed Itself
Against a wire gate only a few days
ago.~Forest nnd Strenm.
ICH, wh BE CUES Were to
hatched and sixteen of the
a week or tw
under the
roosted in one
else
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NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Junge IxeranaM, of New York
city, was quite right in recommitting
to the workhouse a woman who had
money in eizht hanks, yet had been
found begging. The judge said that
a person wandering about
a vagrant, even
and beg-
ging is if worth a
million.
Tne Russian government has taken
entire charge of the sale of
ting liquors in the four eastern proves
inces of the ire, im-
moderate of drink, a
new experiment is being tried, which
attracting people away
palaces by organizing
and amusements
intoxica-
em To preven:
consumption
consists in
from the
other recreations
for them.
ir
gin
A areAar deal depends upon the
point of view. The kine of Butari-
tari, one of the Gilbert islands in the
Pacifie, recently annexed by Eng-
land, made an edict that everybody
go to church on Sunday un-
der penalty of a fine of $5 for absence.
The English commissioner repealed
this, but made a similar law looking
toward compulsory education,
should
IT is announced that Japan has
ordered two modern first class battle
ships of English The
is significant us an intimation of the
position which Japan
take as one of the world’s great naval
powers. Japan has the advantage
of being able to afford these
inasmuch, as we presume,
will be expected to pay for them.
make, news
expects to
luxuries
as China
AX American in Germany was sur-
prised to find a number of
the tia
fessors, men whose hich
learning makes them
world over One Berlin
wheeled into his lect
day, and there are i
though for the m
among celebrated co
ullv aflicte
fully afflicted.
he fact ti
regime of
Acco i
he Weste
pan i
a
collec $1,000,000 la
v
r {«
Fi
asons
matrimony.
He nol
A Wasuinaros dispateh
noted that Japs
for tw i
buliding programme of last year pro-
vided for
0 new batiie
battle hips, « TIO.
two
tected erniser aud one dispatch ves.
i
sel, and negotiations begun
their © The
cruiser is to be built at the home
navy yard, at Yokosuka, and work
has really been begun upon her. She
1s to be of the Euglish Apollo type
and of 2 0 ‘fons dispia emoent.
Were
ooking to snstruction,
nt The
two battle ships are to be of 12.950
tons displucement each and of the
type of the English battle ship Royal
Sovereign. The contract for one lias
been given tu the Thames Iron Works
and Ship Building company, Binck-
wall; and the contract for the other
has been awarded to the A rinstrongs,
of Elswick, England,
Writniad RR. Crowpen
Greencastle, Ind So does William
Fisher; and so does a hog, valued at
$7, owned by Crowder. One day
Crowder let his hoz out. Almost
simultaneously Fisher loft the gute
open. As it was the hog's day off it
seen and so it strayed into Fisher's
hogpen. Just afterward Fisher de-
cided to close his pen, which he did,
remarking: ‘Great Scott, I've got a
hog! Well, findin's is keopin's .”’
Pretty soon Crowder demanded his
hog. Fisher replied: “I ain't got
yer hog" and the hog, with that in-
gratitude characteristic of his spe-
cies, granted approval. Then
was hung. Costs on Crowder, $89.
Nothing daunted he brought suit
ngain. Beveral lawyers and about a
hundred witnesses on both sides:
also thumping big costs. The trial
lasted threo days. Finally the jury
brought in a verdict of one cent and
the hog for Crowder. Fisher and his
friends are mad; so also are Crowder
and his friends. The only being that
seems to he contented is the hog.
rooms at the nation’s capitol, se-
ment publications and the accumu-
lated dust of years, tie many precious
papers and books, whose existence is
forgotten, or at unknown,
Not long ato one of the file clerks of
the House of Represeutatives found
eight autograph letters of Washing-
ton in midst of a pile of old
records which his superior officer
thought he ‘might ns well get
rid of.” At another time he dis-
covered in a pigeonhole the original
of the letter Martha
wrote in response to a resolution de-
least is
the
just
Washington
claring it to be the sense of Congress
that the father of his country should
be buried in the erypt of the capi-
tol, in which she gives her objections
tojthat plan. Last summer the assist-
ant librarian of the Senate discovered
on the top of a a dark
store room a dozen volumes of official
reports that could not be duplicated
for money, and were sup-
posed to be our of existence, Theres
are doubtless other books and manu-
scripts of equal in the dust
and dark that should be carefully
preserved, writes a Washingtion cor-
respondent. It would be a good
thing for Con to employ some
who k all about
aings to go through the files and
select the chafl from the wheat. The
rubbish can go to the paper mill, but
the important records should be ar-
ranged for preservation. As it is now
every new clerk that comes in, and
changes are made frequently, over-
room
what he
bockease in
love or
fis
yvaiue
"
ress
Nnows sucl
man
hauls the files and makes the
by throwing out
considers useless,
he needs
An Unexpected Gift.
in Havana.
tounging listliessly about
gives one the
landed at a ini
a commercial
tH)
ression
litary post
seaport
It requi
to get away from tl ipression,
Almost every fifth man one
meets wears a military dress of
sort: barracks and fortresses are
strewn about the city and its out-
skirts ad libitum, and bands of
marching men and the sounds of
martial music are encountered from
morning to night.
of some 250 ~
people res some time
' :
SOmo
A Question of Costume.
They object to the new woman in
certain quarters because she imitates
man. She tries to dress like him.
Well there was a time when men
imitated women and did it very
little research
into the history of costume, into the
throws flash light glimpses {nto the
hidden causes of great social move-
ments,
pire the sexes started about fair in
the matter of clothes.
ic ancestors adopted a costume which
was almost the same for men and
women, and corsisted of two main
garments, the Roman tunica and
toga. The tunica was virtually a
buckled at the waist. Tho men wore
it reaching to the knees and the
women to the ankles. In ecoldor
northern latitudes the men, as a
great innovation, added trowsers, but
these were looked upon in the light
of a distinct extra and were not
considered obligatory in hot weather.
There seems to be no doubt that the
blouse of the modern European
peasant is a direct descendant of
the tunica,
1s so important that you should be sure “YI was all broken down in health,
to got THE BEST. Hood's SBarsaps- so weak snd nervous I was hardly
rilla has proven its unequalled merit by able to ba np. I had severs pains in
its thousands of remarkable cures, and [my eide, and headache. I would often
the fact that it has a larger sale than { have to stop when going up-stairs om
any other ssrsaparilla or blood puri- account of palpitation of the hesrt.
fier shows the great confidence the I had no appetite and a distressed feels
people have in it. In fact it 18 thc! ing in my stomach. I resolved to try
Spring Medicine, It cures all blood | Hoots Sarsaparilla. I took two bot
diseases, builds up the nerves and! tles’ and hava not hala spell of mek
gives such strength to the whole system headaches for four months, feal well,
that, as one lady puts it, ‘“It seemed to | work all day and eat heartily. My
make me anew.” +friends remark how well I am looking.
If you decide to take Hood's Sarsa- | I think all n arvois, ran down people
parilla for your Bpring Mediciae do ought to take it, especially nursing
not buy any substitute. Be sure to get | mothers.” Mas, 8, Asnwozrs, Eaton, O,
- 2 Last your wo somnmmenest on sistorete pam of adv
ovular bul Lefer we were baif throw’, 018 ADYEKTISEREN
nis 2 DAAVFRARKD. Why! Seconse WE WERE OY BAW HELRED
WITH BUBSIABSE, There wes but sme Ling to G0 wilhigaw
Ue advertising sad Cevete every encrgy Ww filing the vedere
with whieh, we were Bovtied. This we 0id, and her died with
ressonslie prompiness a mast Bn pressdented your's bosses.
WITH kALanorn FACTORIES, INCHES aBED VF ciLITIES,
AFD TWENTY BRANCH WoishS FEOR WHH TO BS.
THIBLTE OUR GOO, WK CAN BOW CARE FOR AML WHO
COME. Lat your we sould pot reduce Prive: because we were
fom god bed in pose way 10 Limit the demand for Aermotor goods.
We would have boon atonfied with | prices, bat why oreste
6 demand which we sould A puppy We hase made the
htaviewt purchases of ston] and sasierial bought in Amerie Seis
Fear, and of so pressdented prices, snd have made terms to
Sealers whieh enable them to wake we freoedented prio,
In haracter, riety, Sand, and sovessileiny te
we mre without! competitors
In our plan of advertising last yous, we proposed 1s furnih &
fond vutter wader sertsin sondilions for For reasns of stad
whore we Sid not ousmpinie The advert sing, and the feed cote
i owl We now propose to meskes sends in
the fallowing manner We will » war
nueeses in Lie paper
FEW ALLSTREL TERY SUPERION FEED CLTTEN, WORTH
»
Bieveling i« becoming very
Mrs. Winslow's Eoothing Syrup for ehfldren
Zic. » bottle
* wing oolle,
tm the banks in
Gold is being with
an Francisco,
one person, he to
bers who oaghd 16 have some
inf ormeiion re
Cowlion pos wgoing paying
i oseifite. The bompie
the gure? 5 the ; © onervharpe is
$0 added vo 4 pr fhe legitimate
20 chen graft te the
omit wou pot the
vie, sovite we of
be prviented We
in dow prices
r fnetories we
snd
a
rma hom
tos 8, wie
. bot POLE LAVOE WISHRILL COMERS ARE NU YING
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ENJOYS CAUSE WE RAKE THE OXLEY ABST Y
Save TOWER BECAUSE THEY Cay BLY oy
THLE THEY Cas BLE BECATSE WE ain
FARED 70 CALVANIEE EYERYIHING 4958s
FLETEE, AP CORPLETE EYERYIHING Kia
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d and results when
is taken; it is pleasant
Zz to the taste, and acts | rus
y on the Kidneys,
vela, cleanses the EY 8.
lds, head-
abitual " ne by 5 Ta . y i. these a
ralliviu a eerie mr # ® career
17 1% oon
LY RIeMT,
may of
f sop
your
Those sonomrna
oh Lhe best
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peg tore wh
5 good 1
ABrmotor Co. 17h, Reskwell & Plliscers fis NE ——
There is no
Mystery Herc:
Tabules
Fist. who grodients hai any good 3 2
will pro- * pros Drspe -
y one who
accept any
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n
DoucLAS
5 IS THE BEST.
Las FIT FOR A KING,
28. COR DOVAN,
FRENCH 4 CNAMILLED CALF,
14585 Fine Caur AKANGAROR
$3.50 POLICE, 3 soLes,
§oncn 02. WORKIN .
$2~ “EXTRA FINE: Ns,
$2, 51.72 DovS SCHooL SHOE,
LADIES
g3 5250 %2.91.78 -
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THE VITAL DIFFZRENCE
However, is this: Flas plavsl
n's advice is worth sa conn
oldoliars and vou pay the dra
Gist half a dollar mors lor fitie
Ng the prescription, walle the
Unbules cont oniy Jv conto
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The "'LININIL* are the Dest and Mow Peonomi-
onl Collars and Cullis worn. they are sonst of fine
cloth, both sides fin‘siod alile, and ben Teresi
bin, one collar ts equal to two of any of ber kind,
They 5it well, wear well and look well, A bog of
wear the Ten Collars or Five Pairs of Cufls for Teeaty-Five
Ww. iL. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes oA Bam lo Collar and Pale of Cu + wsnll for Six
sme style and spe. Addre
All our shoes are equally satisfactory REVERSIBLE COLLAR COMPAXY,
They give the best value for the money, 7 Franklin St, New York. # Kilby Si, Boston.
They equal custom shoos In style and fit, } S—
Ther wearing qualities are unsurassed,
The prices are uniform, eeestamped on soley
BesTP
Bx vill
1f your dealer cannot supply you we can,
on Hand
when you try to wash
without Pearline. - Your
hands show the hard
work; your clothes
show the wear.
Pearline is harm.
less to the hands or
fabric. It saves the
Rub, Rub, Rub that
wears ; it saves the work
that tires. It is cheap, safe
and convenient. Get the best,
when you get something to wash
with, San has been but
Pearline is.
Spare Pearline
Spoil the Wash
Work
ns