REV. DR. TALMAGE. ——————— THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON. Subject: “From Conquest to Con- quest.” Text: ‘Behold the days come, saith the | Jord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper,”—-Amos ix., 18, ¥ Faetare of a tropical! clime, with a season 80 prosperous that the harvest reaches clear over to the planting time, and the swarthy husbandman swinging the sickle in the thick rain almost feels the breath of the horses on Eis shoulders, the horses hitched to the plow preparing for a new crop. ‘‘Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the plow. mean shall overtake the reaper.” When is that? That is now, That is this day, when hardly bave you done reaping one barvest before the plowman is getting ready for another, w that many declare that Christianity tiapsed ; that the Bible is an obsolete that the Christian church is on the I will here and now show that the | it is true, ide was leading a French in- $ a desert, and ever and anon the ¢ wouid get down in the sand and er awhile as the Arab ol his prayers the infidel you know there Is any God?’ got up said, “How do I know that guide said : and a camel passed along our tent last | the | 1 I know it by the footprints in 1 you want to know how I God? Look tstep of a man?" And was you and I have come to that this book is the footstep of know of us sea et us see whether the Bull Rur haversacks strewing eat English historian, learning and slergyman, but an FY pos~g s 2 5 . oe. OCS in one year 1881 he New Test Ament ¥, the earth is like an : twenty gates and a park ler down every gate. Lay hristendom and see how bheathen- ng surrounded and honeycombed b i by this all conquering gospel. At the beginning of this century there were only 150 missionaries ; ndw thers are 25,000 issionaries and native and ev ® AY the a, entry there were only 50,006 heathen converts ; now W id eas dom. There is not a seacoast on the planet but the battery of the gospel is planted and ready D march on-—north, south, cast, west, You | know that the chia! work of an army is to be batteries. It may take many days These batteries | ng the seacoasts and y take a good while to and they may do all thelr work They will, Nations JAY. Jat just come back to and recognize the fact that ast ten "WIS A&8 many people elves with evangelical t i themselves with the first filly years of this cen- Hing back, and the ming an obsolete urt, and wherever | or a clerk's desk I find book could there be y of an oath? What in the trumk of the res for city life? The ad in nine out of every The Bible. In nine ou in Christendom? The Bit the prophecy that the Bible ir ¢ nineteenth century would be. The century is nearly gone, and as ther ve been more Bibles pub- lished iz atter part of the century than in the former part of the century, do you think the Bible will become extinet in the next six I have to tell you that the room in which Voltaire wrote that prophecy not long ago was crowded from Soor to esiling with Bibles from Switzerland, Supposs the Con- gress of the United States should pass a law that there should be no more Bibles printed in America and no mores Bibles read. If there are 40 000.000 grown in the United States, thers would be 40,000,000 peo- Pie in an army to put down such a law and defend their right to read the Bible. But suppose the Congress of the United States should make a law against the reading or the publication of any other book, how many people would go out in such a crusade? Could you get 400,000,000 people to go out and risk their lives in defense of Blake Speare's tragedies or Gladstone's tracts or acaulay's "History of Eagland?” You know that there are 1000 men who would dis in defense of this book where thers i» not more than ons man who would die In defense of any other book, Suit my common sense by telling me the Bibie is fading out from the world, It is the most popular book of the century, How do Lknow it? I know It just as I know in regard to other books umes of that book are published? Well, you say, 5000. How many coples of that book are put lished? A hundred thousand, Which is the more opular? Why, of course the one that kas 100,000 circulation, And if this book has more copies abroad In the world, if there are five times as many Bibles abroad as any other book, does not that show you that the most popular book on the day is the word of God? , say peoples, ‘the church is a colles- tion of hypocrites, and it Is losing its power, anf it is fading out from the world." Is it? A bishop of tha Methodist church told me that that denomination averages two new churches every day of the year. There are ot least 1500 new Christian ehurches built in America svery year, Doesthat look asthough the church were fading out, as though ft were a defunct institution? Which institu. tion stands nearest the hearts of the people of America to-day? Ido not oars in what village, or in what hr. or what neighbor. hood Jou go. Which institution fs 7 Is it the posicfiice? Is it the hotel? Is it the lecturing ball? Ah, you know it is not, You know that the institution whish stands near. est 10 the hearts of the Amerioan people js the Christian chureh, If you have svor seon oa church burn down, Jou have seen thous sands of people standing and looking at it =people who neve go into a ehurchthe ter come ¢ TRAY people and | at that | hethor (Hl | whether the Bible isn | snacted now as was enacted retreat, | dis- | artillery | | Seriptures, there are 1,700,000 converts from heathen- | All split up—you eannot find two of them | Oh, it makes me siek to see theses It. | | alike, | heard the voles of are to be How many vol | tears raining down their cheeks, The whole story is told, You may talk about the church being a collection of hypoorites, but when the diph- therin sweeps your children off whom do you send for? The postmaster, ths attorney. general, the hotel-keeper, alderman? No; you send for a minister of this Bible region, And if you have not a room in your house for the obsequies, what building do you so- Holt? Do you say, “Give me the finest room in the hotel?’ Do you say, ‘Give me that theatre?" Do you say, “Give me a place In that public building, where I can lay my dead for a little while until we say a prayer over it?" No. You say, “Give us the house of God." And if thera is a song to be sung at the obsequies, what do you want? What anybody want? “God Save the Queen?” Our own national alr? No. They want the with which they sang thelr old Christian grand mother into her last sleep, or they want sung | the Sabbath-sehool hymn which their little | girl sang the last Sabbath afternoon she was | | out before she got that awful sickness which broke your heart, I appeal to your common sense, You know the most The infidels say, ‘‘Infidslity shows its sno- cesses from the my Iriends, infidelity is not half so blatant in our days as it was in the days of our na ridin ’ reanah | I8thers, Do you know that in the days of our ord. It disgusted the French | fathers’ there were pronounced {nfidels in | publie authority and they could get any! { of the Bible | the secular press? political position? Let a man to-day declare himself antagonistio to the Christian re- ligion, and what city wants him for mayor, what State wants him for governor, what nation wants him for president or for king? Let a man openly proclaim himself the enemy of our glorious Christianity, and he | | exnnot | in any { America. got a majority of votes in any State, Do you think that such a scone could be in the days of when a shameless woman was elevated as a goddess and was carried in a golden ehair to a cathedral, where incense was burned to her and peoples bowed down bafore her as a divine being, she taking the piace of the Bible and God Almighty, while ler of that cathedral were en- ich scenes of drunkenness and de- : y and obscenity as has never been witnessed? Do you believe such a thing ly ocour in Christendom to-day The police, whether of Paris k, would swoop en it, infidelity makes a good deal of ur day. It is on the principle that mp overboard from a C £98 More excitement Robesplerre, inard than all plethat stay on the decks. But the fact that he jumps overboard—does that to Nir : op the ship? Does that wreck the 500 A880 ! It makes great jumps froe excitement J n the le m the pulpit in f tha Bible and the ir millions of passen tists, and they say this book can be true, Science is going to throw it overboard.” Do you believe that the Bible account of the origin of life will be overthrown by infidel scientists who have fifty different theories about the origin of life? If they should come up in solid phalanx, all agreeing upon one | sentiment and one theory, pethaps Christian- | ity might be damaged, but there are not so many differences of opinion inside the eburch as outside the church, People used to say, “There are so many different denominations of Christians—that shows thers is nothing in religion.” I have | to tell you that all denominations agree on | | the two or three or four radical doctrines of | | the Christian religion. They are unanimous | 1 1ufard $o Jesus Christ, and they sre unanimous ia regard to the divinity of the How Is it on the other side? i erary fops going along with a copy of Dare win under one arm and a ease of transfixed grasshoppers and butterflies under the other arm, telling about the “survival of the fit. { test." and Haxley's protoplasm, aad the nebular hypothesis, I'he fact is that some naturalists Just as soon as they find out the difference between the feelers of a wasp and the horns of a beetle begin to patronize the Almighty, while Agas- siz, glorious Agassiz, who never made any pretens ns to being a Christian, puts both his feet on the doctrine of evolution and says, “I see that many of the naturalists of our day are adopting facts which do not bear observation or have not passed under observation.” hese men warring against each other—Darwin warring against La. marche, Wallace warring against Cope, even Herschel denouncing Ferguson, They do not agree about anything, hey 10 not agree on embryology, do not agree on the gradation of the species, What do they agree on? Herschel writes ns whole chapter on the errors of astronomy. Ia Place declares that the moon was not put in the right place. Ho says that {f it bad been put four times farther from the earth than it is now there would bs more harmony it universe, hut Lionville comes up to prove that the moon was pat ia the right pia @ the How many colors woven into the light! Seven, says Isaac Newton. ‘Three, says David Brewster. How high is the surora borealis? Two and a half miles, says Lias Ons hundred and sixty-eight miles, says Twining. How far is the sun from the earth? Seventy-six million miles, Eighty-two million miles, says Humboldt Ninety million miles, says Henderson. One hundred nly a little difference of 28,000,000 miles ! All split up among themselves-not agreeing on anything. They come and say that the churches of Jesus Christ are divided on the great doetrines All united they are, In Jesus Christ. in the divinity of the Berip- | ropose to | om agree | tures, While they come up and render their verdict, no two of t on that verdiet, "Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed on & verdiet?” asks the court or the clerk of the whole night in deliberating. If the jury says, “Yes, wo have agreed,” the verdict fs says, “I think the man was gullty of mur. manslaughter in the second degree.’ and another man says, “I ‘hink he was guilty of | assault and battery, with intent to kill," the Judge would say : “Go back to your room and bring in a verdiet, Agree on something, That is no verdiot.” Here these infidel selentists have impan- | eled themselves as a jury to decide this trial between Infidelity, the plaintiff, and Chris. tianity, the defendant, and after belng out for centuries they coms in to render their verdiot, Gentlemen of the jury, have you on a verdiet? No, no, “Then go back for another 500 years and deliberate and agree on something. There is not a poor, miserable wreteh in the Tombs conrt to-mor- row that could be condemned by 8 Jury that did not agres on the verdiat, and yot you ex. pect us to fre up our glorious Christianity to please theses men who cannot agrees on anything, Ab, my friends, the shureh of Jesus Christ instead of falling back, is on the advanes | | am eerinin it is on the advance, 0 Lord God, take Thy sword from Thy thigh and ride forth to the victory! I am mightily encon hecause I find among cther things thet while this Chris. tianity has been bombarded for centuries ine | deity has nov destroyed ome church, or erippled one minister, or uprooted one verses of one chapter of all the Bible, The church all the time getting the victory, and the shot and shell of its enemies nearly exhausted, 1 have been axamining thelr ammunition doos | “The Marseillaise” hymn? | hymn | endearing in- stitution on earth, the most popular institu. | { tion on earth to-day is the church of the! i Lord Jesus Christ, fact that it Is everywhere | | accepted, and it ean say what it wil.” Why, | that truth to the millions, | papers on that subject, city, in any county, in any ward of | | ereature impress the Creator?” Ob, just in time | ime why I says Laealle, | the jury as they come in after having spent iaflusnos, | nenses, to be a friend of the Dib | thumb In your vest, as young men sometimes have utterly exhausted thelr ammunition in the battle against the church and against the Beriptures, while the sword of the Lord Almighty is as keen as it ever was, Wo are Just getting our troops into line, They are coming up in companies, and in regiments, and in brigades, and you will hear a shout after awhile that will make the earth quake | and the heavens rimg with “Alleluia! It will be this, “Forward, the whole line I" And then I find another most encouraging thought in the fact that the secular team for the proclamation of the gospel, Every Wall street banker to-morrow in New York, every Btate street banker to-morrow | in Boston, every Third street banker to-mor- row in Philadelphia, every banker in the | United States, and every merchant will have in his pocket a treatise on Christianity, a | eall to repentence, ten, twenty or thirty passages of Beripture in the reports ol ses- sion pronched throughout these oities and throughout the land to-day. Chicago, 80 In New Orleans, so in Charles. ton, so in Boston, so in Philadelphia, so everywhere, I know the tract societies are doinga grand and glorious work, but I tell you thers is no power on earth today equal to the | factthat the American printing press is tak- ing up the sermons which are preached to a few hundred or a few thousand people and on Monday morning and Monday evening, in the morning and evening papers, scattering What a thoueht itis! What an encouragement for every Vhristian man ! Besides that, have you noticed that daring the past few years evesy one of the doctrines eames under discussion in Do you not remember a few yoars ago, when every paper <n the United States had an editorial on the sub- ject, “Is There Such a Thing as Future Pun- ishment?"” It was the strangest thing that there should be a discussion in the secular but avery paper in Christendom dis. the United States and in | cussed, ‘Is There Such a Thing as Retribu- tion?" I know there were small wits who made sport of the discussion, but there was not an intelligent man on earth who, as the result of that discussion, did not ask himself the question, What is going to be my eter. nal destiny?" 80 it was in regard to Tyndall's Prayer gauge. About twelve years ago, you remember, the secular pap srs discussed tl at, and with just as much earnestness as the religious papers, and there was not a man in Christen dom who did not ask himself ti “Is there anything Ian prayer? & question: May the what a the secu. yf the y BAILS y ity fact, orinting printing what a glorious fact press you bave talked that they are g§ dissatisfied philetophy and science as a matler comfort, They say it does not amount to anything when you have a dead child in the house, They will tell you, when they wera sick and the of the future seemed opening, the only comfort they could find was in the Gospel. Pe are baving demonstrated all over the land that science and philosophy eannot solace the trouble and woes of the world, and they want some other religion, and they ars taking Chris. tianity, the only sympathetic religion that ever cams into the world, 4 05 door le have never seen Christ crowned In the heart, and they do not believe it is ever done, There is & group of men who say they have neve! Christ ; they have never heard the voles of God. They do not believe it ever trapapirad or was ever heard that anything like it ever occurred. 1 point to 20.000 000 or 1.000.000 who say, “Christ was erowned in our hearts’ afleo- tions ; we bave seen Him and felt Him in our souls, and we have heard His voloe ; we have heard it In storm and darkness ; we have hoard it again and again.” Whose testimony will you taze? These men who say they bave not heard the voles, have not seen the coronation, or will you take the thousands and millions of Christians who testify of what they saw with their own eyes and heard with their own ears? Yonder is an aged Christian after fifty years' experience of the power of godliness in his soul, Ask this man whether, when he buried his dead, the religion of Jesus Christ was not a consolation. Ask him if threugh the long years of his pilgrimage the Lord ever forsook him. Ask him If, when he looks forward to the future, if he has not a peace and a Joy, and a consolation the world ean not take away. Put this testimony of what he has seen and what he has leit opposite to the testimony of & man who savs he has not seen anything on the subject or felt anything wn the subject, Will you take the testimony of people who have not seen or peopis who have seep? You say morphia puts one to sleep. You say in time of sickness it is very useful, I leny it. Morphia never puts anybody to sleep; it never alleviates pata. You ask say that, have never teled it. I mever took it I deay that morphia is any soothing to the nerves or any quiet intime of sickness, I deny that morphia ever put anvbody to ysonle peo} : : | sleep, but here are twenty persons who say and four million miles, says Mayer | they have all felt the soothing effects of a physician's prescribing morphine, Whose testimony will you take? Those who tooz the medicine or my testimony, [ never hav ing taken the medicine? Here is the Gospel of! Jesus Christ, an anodyne for all trouble, the mightiest medicine that ever came down to earth, Here Is a man who says: “I don't believe in it. Thers la no power in it." Hore are other people who say: “We have found out its power and know its soothing It has cured us” mony will you take in regard to this healing medicine, I feel that I have convinesd every man in | recorded, but suppors one of the Jurymen | this house that it is utter folly to take the y | der,” another says, ‘I think he was guilty of | Ratimony od thott Whe have fever ria the You try to in| Gospel of Jesus Christ in thelr own heat and lle. We have tens of thousands of wit. I bellove you are ready to take thelr testimony. Young man, do not be sahamed do, and swag”r about talking of the glori. ous light of fie ninstesuth century and of | They bave | there being no need of a Biole, the light of nature in Indiaand Chins and in all the dark places on earth. Did you ever hoar that the light of nature gavel fort for their trouble? Th cut and jugaernauts 10 orush, but no come fort, Ah, my friends, you had better stop your skepticism, Huppose you are put ia this erisis © Oh, father, your child Is dying. What are you going to say to her? Colonel Ethan Allen was a famous Infidel in his day. His wife was a very conssorated woman, The mother instructed the daugh- tor in the cruths of Christianity, The daugh- ter slokonad and was about to die, and she sald to her father: “Father, shall I take your instruction, or shall I takes mother's in struction? Iam going to die now, I must have this matter ided.” That man who had been oud In his infidelity, sald to bis dying daughter, “My dear, you had better take your mother's religion.” My advice 1s the same to you—oh, young man, you had better take your mother's religion. You know how it comforted her, You know what she sald to you when she was dying. You had better take your mother's religion, se —————— The spring, or bundle of reed in the prototype of the bagpipe. pon rioting | press and pulpit seem harnessed in the same It will be so in | Whose testi. | i God of oe. Do not put your | SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON APRIL 1, s———— “ Jacob's Prevailing xxxil.,, 9-12; 24 Text: Gen. Commentary. Lesson Text: Prayer,” Gen. S30 Golden xxxil., 26 9. "And Jacob sald, o God of my Inther Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saildst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal wall with thee Jacob Is now twenty years older than when God appeared to him in the vision at Bethel (xxxi., 41), and having ben instructed to return to his own home (xxxi,, 8,18), ho is now on his way thither, The angels of God have met him, and he has sent messengors to Esau to seek his favor, The messengers have returned, saying that Esau is coming with 400 men, Jacob is afraid, di- vides the people and flocks and herds into two bands, and then gives himself to prayer 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the nercies and of all the truth which Thou he showed unto Thy servant, for with my [ passed over this Jordan, and now I an . n God , ping a i 14 sinfl two bands He ealls up if his fathers, ti ovenant with them ommand to return a of protection, and now he iter unworthiness and thinks trast between now and twenty | ' JIL the God His « God's « hen he 1 fakes ‘ Hd Lr] 8&8 INArys is Kin great twithsianding his 11 Deliver wit in God 1ifthe r nothing for us or wit} 3s ti are : troken down Our wisd and strength aro always hindrances He giveth power to the aint, and to them that have no might He Increases hh strength” (Isa. xl, 29). When humbled and | Weare at our wits snd (all our wisd be. Now, there are some men who say they | - Blom Ingeswaliowsd up), thea He delivers and shows His strength on our behalf (Ps. evil. 2 margin). he difficulty Is to bhreak us down 26. “And He said, Let Ma go. sreaket) And he sald, | will not Rr except won bE da LOW T'eals _ » his weakness heiplosgnons or the day clinging masing will ferael in Egyptian it the Jordan, af the story see } the 1} aE Nl sasider the aud see tf sin is 1} aither the 4 (the tw od when : a ) : pargia it ssid to mean “A prince how suggestive aro the words wer with God and with man And Jot the secret of this pewer made plain the in ' the lesson the 3 of character and helpless holding on to God 29. “And Jacob asked Hiw and sald, Tell me, 1 pray Thee, Thy name, and He sald, Wherefore is it that t} fost ak after My name? And He blessed bi thers When Manoah asked Him His « He as it was ssoret or wonderful (Jude, XL, 1 margin), reminding us of His name ju laa, ix... 6 The Messing of the Lord upon the land of Israel mada it bring forth in one year fruit for throes years ( Lev, xxv. 21 I've blessing of the Lord maketh rich. and toll addeth noth. ing thereto (Prov. x. 22 Consider tha name of the Lord in Ex. xxxiv., 5-7, and hear our Lord Jesus bs His prayer. “1 have manifestod Thy name, 1 have declared ant them Thy name’ (Johan xvil,, 6, 26 30. “And Jacoh called the me { place Peni, for 1 have seen wl nd preservsd In Ex ad that the elders saw the saw God ant 4d emt Ex, sxxiti,, 11, it is written spake unto Moses face te few, on a moan spraketh nasto his irien 1, and yet Jn versa 20 the Lord says, I'hvou cans not soe My in for there shall bs Bo mn woes Mos min 1 lew It is prolmdde thst the wx planation hes ont radi tions wn John IN, wheres we loars that Cod nanifestend Hine dt lu His Son it in this verse : lent on floss) the fre Le Hie =» we ry they fave, xiv, 10 my i, Isranl and drind In that the Lord pen ing LLL E LE 2 38 Lesson He ———— The Pension List I'he deoregse In the number of alalms ra solved daily ar the pension bursan at Wash. ington is shown In a statement prepared at the department, The number of pensioners an the rolls « now approximately 968.000, against 952.000 for the corrmponding week of last ywar. The number has, Bowsver, diminished since the 1st of September, The number of cass now pending the action of the axamin sre ju 634,160. This is a decrease of over #1900 in the standing namber during the year. Thurs is niso a deorsass of 981 In the number of cases allows! during the wook and an increases of BY0 in tas canes pe od. Tae claims now Aine ars divided elusaes an follows : OF war, 3557 : Indian wars, 3777; servios since March 4, 1861, 208. 405 ¢ net of Jane 27, 1897, 16,701 atditionsl to prior apolicaitons va fe under former nots, 109 437 , Inoresen, 300,509 ; inarsase ani accrued widows, 5887, and army nurses, 670, FOR CGireat Britain has 186 lady doctors. The old fashioned corn color is one of the new shades, Blouses and shirt waists will be a very important feature of summer ont. fits The Italian Queen tion of being the best dres in Europ« New edge % of the sed has reputa- Woman embroideries looped color, with KPrays of vari colored flow Ie The disdem of the Russian Empress Auna contains dismonde and & ruby valued at $600,000 large A586 f A girl is considered of marriageable at twelve in Bwitzerland, ¢, Hungary and Portugal Rue Spain, Crred Thirty women are stored in the Yale Croan reg post-graduate artment, an io hat their nerve a children’s h in Jerusalem, established in 1872 through the generosity of Mary, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg. Ower 300 children are sheltered and surrounded with Christian influences every year MpDItal It is complained of English female y America that thes CATT nurses who come are altogether too gentes and their sense of superior ab ft with n offensive greatly Ww nner as § has just been ted a life fe British Imperial Institut [here are only twenty other and she is the the United States She ' ha : » Ooniy wom The Philos CN pl yf Heid ymen sinden versity « ta « that w y Lhe Gottingen, rmitted, snd two English ladies, stadied are attending degree of doctor thers aise, similar facilities are wh AVE AiTendy mathematics at ] | Cambridge, ther } admit ted to its ranks the twenty-five vear old daughter of the late Lord Lytton and granddanghter of Bulwer, Lady Constance Lytton is said to inherit the family talant, and has long been editor of an amateur newspaper which the Earl started for his children’s amusement London journalism has just Worth, the man milliner, is not the dilettante that is generally supposed While he 1s not a robust man, he is fond of manly exercises, and sperds much of his spare time in a gymans- am, He is arbitrary in his business relations with his customers, and will not permit the selection of any ma | terial that he does not think is ‘be. coming" and will not reflect credit on hin establishment Although French women's legal and eivil rights are extremely ecirenm seribed, it has always been advanced | in their favor that they are absolute | mistrosses in their own domestic eir- ele. Therefore, it is with a leeching almost amonnting to consternation that they learn that, in the matter of wemissing servants, it is the husband slone who hiss the er. A oases in point eame before the courts the other day, and the ruled that legally a wife cannot dismiss her ser. vants without her lord and master's consent, WISE WORDS, is not French Nae Impossible’ pole On. Anger manages everything badly. Stadius, He had a face like 8 benediction | Cervantes, Past all shame, so past all truth Bhakespeare, Architecture is Madame df Stael, When all else is lost, remains frozen music the | still Ambition is the Nir W. Davenant For the mina s will and not the gift Lessing sh they Walk boldly and + hou hast thers In the How Aluminum Has Grown, minum was the rd A four ut fakir's trump made of it was » have an added charm for the purchaser The few displays at the Fair grounds, far from complete, st- tracted a great deal of attention. While a year or two ago this metal was simply a curiosity, regarded mere ] the light of lities by commer to-day MALG- the ton, iron and souvem 14 Mi iy in its possibi inl world, turers are using it by ipally as an alloy for 4 castings, So empiloved, a super:- produced ‘very smooth beaten out a thickness This by dee I painters In J ve It has the advant i Bliver sitions 1t t CARE RISD In the latter shape rsimmons and Crab Apples on a Tree, Chere is a curiosity in the tree ar Cohutta, Ga bears persimmons on one side and crab apples upon the other. Of ¢ matter of fact, there ar trees, but it takesa very close exam on to at It is a tree whi AE BA ns that there They have grown so ellos COnvinee a person iy 1O- gether that each bas lost ite ide ntity, #0 far as appearance is concerned, and the people in its neighborhood insist that it is but one tree Che persim side is the most fruitful, sad prodaces a fairly good yield of fruit, which is not in the least affected by the presence of the crab apples. The other side does not bear very well, and it is only during an occasional year that there is a yield of crab apples, hut both mdes have been known to bear good crops in the same Year [he roots have never been ex- amined. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat, mon — - Men Neatly Classified, One of the ladies who addressed the committee of the Legislature on the | snhjoet of women's sullrage made the following classification of the haman Kind: I divide mankind into four classes: First Those who do not know and do not know that they do not know; those are fools leave them, Seecond-«Those who do not know aud know they do not know ; these are children teach them. Third<Ths se who know and do not know they Know; these are asleep uronse them. Fourth Those who know and know they know; these are wise men fol- low them. This is cortainly a very wise olassifl- oation and everyone oan satisfy him- soll as to which division he ought to fall into. «Cleveland World.
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