ONE WITH OUR COUNTRY. Shadows and shadows, but hope for the Shadows and shadows, but still the stars best; stream ; We're one—under heaven—from east unto We are one with our country, in gloom and west. in gleam ; To live for our country, or sleep on hor To live in her light, or to dream the last breast, dream, In the beautiful sunlight of Freedom ! 'Neath the fair, flaming flowers of Freedom! —F. L. Stanton, in Atlauta Constitution. frvvvvvvvvvvwyvvvvTVTvvv»if< "You see, Cynthia, it is like this. I can't make much of a living here, and BO I have decided to—go out west and see what I could do." "Well, I can't blame you, Jack; Jennie's a good girl,and some who go west do v/ell. I don't know how I shall ever get along -without you, though." And the loving heart of the sister asserted itself in a burst of teai'3 at thought of the coming separation. Jack looked at her regretfully. "I bate like everything to leave you, Cynthia, but I suppose I must. We're going right away, too," be added, looking out of the window to avoid tbe rare audpiteous sight of his strong, bright sister in tear i. Cynthia Lee swallowed her grief as best she could, restoring her brother's self-possession by a few commonplace words; then he went out, and she worked on with nimble Angers, shell ing beans for dinn r. Soon the outer door flew open, im pelled by the eager hands of a young girl. "The Bartlett pears are ripe, Cyn thia; see these," rolling some beauti ful specimens of the fruit mentioned across the table.. Tbe fruit did not call forth anv en thusiasm oil Cynthia's part, and the younger girl, seeing that something was wrong, began to shell the beans, her face disturbed by frowns. She, like her brother, had an un pleasant communication to make this morning,but the time seemed scarcely favorable, judging by Cynthia's face, Tiiore was a long silence, broken at last by Cynthia. "Tessie," she said, "Jack is going to leave us; how shall we ever get along without him?" "How—he is?" stammered Jessie. She had known it for weeks. "Oh," she went on, "there's no use beating about tbe bush, Cynthia; I knew Jack was going, and I am going, too, at the same time he goes." Cynthia turned a pale, stern face toward her sister. "You do not mean it, do you, Jes sie?" she said, with a quaver in her voice. "Why, I promised mother never to let you out of my sight till | you were grown up. able to——" "Why, Cynthia! I'm 17, and lots of girls marry even younger than that," interrupted Jessie, impatiently. The expression of Cynthia's face changed once moie. "Marry!" she exclaimed. "In the name of mercy, whom are going to marry?" "Why, Frank Bailey, of course. Jack knew it, aud I should think he might have told you and saved me the trouble. I should think you might have seen how things were going and been prepared for this and saved get- | ting yourself so worked up over it," grumbled .lessie in an injured tone. "Whv,l did know pretty near about Jack, but you—you're only a child," said Cynthia, drearily. "Well,l'm engaged to Frank Bailey, any way, and I'm going to marry him and go west with him and Jack and Jennie and his folks, and you will have to get along the best you can. You ought to be glad Jack and I are doing so well. Cynthia thought that time would prove whether they were indeed doing well, but she did not say it. "Then I must live nil alone," she said. "Oh, 110! You have the two dogs and six cats and Moolv and the hens. And yon know how to manage the place. Wasn't it lucky that father left it for your share aud gave the money to me and Jack?" Cynthia listened to the end of Jes sie's speech, then dropped her fa -e into her hands and laughed and cried hysterically, till Jessie left the room with nn air lialf-iudignant, half-sor rowful. Cynthia did not harrow tbe feelings of her brother and sister by any more displays of grief. She set cheerfully about preparing outfits for the two yonng emigrants, and before the time for their departure had arrived there stood ready, looked and corded in the hall, two big boxes for each of them, containing, as Jessie well knew, the lion's share of the household linen which by right belonged to Cynthia. Soon the time came when the double wedding, the good byes and tbe de parture were all events o f tbe past,and Cynthia was alone. She felt indescribably miserable as she turned togo in after watching them out of sight, and tbe dogs, look ing into her face, knew that some thing was wrong and plainly showed it by their atl'eetionato demonstra tions. "You dear old boys!" she cried, re turning their caresses. "We must light it out alone now." Cynthia's nature was not easily crushed. It bounded up from the pressure of ill fortune's iron heel as does a child's toy of India rubber on which it has set its tiny foot to see the rebound. She missed the brother and sister naturally, but when two years passed and they had not written to her more than half a dozen times, she could not but feel less desire for their compan ionship than at first. Indeed, search ing her mind, she found little in it but content. She had worked hard indoors and out, and as a result she found her self, in addition to her contented mind, possessed of perfect health and a bauk book. Still, on that second anniversary, it seemed to Cynthia that she would have given much to see her young brother and sister walk in and seat themselves at her lonely dinner table. For the first time since their departure she gave way to a fit of crying that was childish in its intensity, as she sat waiting for her dinner to cook. Two cold noses were thrust inquir ingly into her face, and the tide was turned in a measure. She placed a hand 011 each beautiful head and looked in the honest eyes. "How can I call myself alone when I have yon dear, faithful creatures?" She was still caressing them when they suddenly left her side and rushed out of doors with short,quick barks of alarm. Jumbo was a very large dog and Saracen rather particular as to who came 011 the premises; so Cynthia has tened after them, for fear the visitor might be frightened. When she reached the big gate post, Saracen was growling in a way to terrify a stranger. At first Cynthia saw no one, but al most immediately a battered sun hat came into sight,followed by the entire figure of a little girl. "Please, ma'am, may I come iu a minute?" she asked, her voice trem bling with fear. "Why, surely," Cynthia replied. "Come right along; the dogs shan't hurt you. Be good now, boys; dou't you see how little she is?" Thus there entered into Cynthia's domain the palest, slenderest child she had ever seen. She had tbe appear ance of a child of 10, yet, as Cynthia soon learned, she was nearly 14. She was ragged and dirty, with the look in her eyes of a "starved ani mal." "Mv poor child, who a e you?" asked Cynthia. "I'm Annie Gray." "Where did you come from?" "New York." "How did yon get here?" "I walked, ma'am. I've been walk ing three days anil sleeping under sheds, stopping along asking for a place to stay and work; please,ma'am, have you anything 1 could do?" "Come in, child, come in. We'll see about the work later. Dinner is just ready to take up. and we must attend to that first." The little girl stepped inside the door with alacrity. Cynthia hastened to set the table and serve tbe warm, substantial meal. Then, while they ate it together, she listened to what the child had to say about herself with warm interest. "I'm sorry my clothes are not nicer, ma'am, but they aro all I have, so I could not wash them very well. 1 washed my bands and face, though, in the beautiful brooks all along the way. Oh, that was so nice! I was al ways clean before my mother died. You see, ma'am, it was like this," she continued, with a mature manner that did not sit strangely upon, her, spite of her delicacy. "I stood it with father as long as I could. He got wild after mother died and seemed to hate me. I wanted to stay and keep house for him, but—see this, ma'am, and this"—exhibiting purple spots on her arm and shoulder. "But, dear me,he didn't know he did it. It -was all that awful drink." Seeming to see Cynthia's horror and disgust for the man she was ex cusing, her loyalty took alarm. "Indeed, ma'am, you mustn't think my lather was bad. He was always kind to .mother and never struck me a blow till after she died and he began to drink. Oh, I feel so sorry for poor father!" Cynthia was doubtful as to so much sympathy being deserved by the man who could so forget his duty to his motherless child, but somehow she could not find it iu her heart to say what she thought to the loyal little daughter who sought to defend him. Indeed, she saw to it that the hun ger of the girl was satisfied; then she took her upstairs to a chest contain ing many things that Jessie had out grown or cast aside because she tired of them,and when the little waif again descended to the kitchen she was so transformed as to be hardly recogniz able. And so it came about that at last Cynthia had a companion and assistant. For she kept little Annio, who seemed to feel as if a paradise had opened to her. Tbe dogs, without withdrawing any of their loving; allegiance from Cyn thia, found loom in their big hearts for the child, and they were the best of friends. Three years passed, and Annie had drained the fount of knowledge at the village academy, and it was evident that she still thirsted. Consequently, she must be sent to a good boarding school for a time. After that it might be that she would go still further, for she was developing rare intelligence as well as beauty of character and per son. 111 consequence of all this Cynthia found herself,one bright fall morning, watching the departure of hor only human companion and turning, as she had tnrned years before, to the love and companionship of her animal friends, who never failed her. A year slipped by, nnd then there caine into Cynthia's life another change. She and Henry Lester, a stranger in the village, met in October, and before the end of November she had promised to marry him, and tlie time for the wedding was decided upon. Cyuthia could not help feeling many serious misgivings; she felt drawn toward this sad looking man with the brown eyes that always seemed searching for something ex cept when looking at her; then they were fall of peace and restfnlness and deprecating love. Deprecating Mas the word that seemed to lit his manner toward her. Cynthia sometimes felt pained by it, and wondered if nothing would ever change him in that respect. Too much humility was not to her taste, and good and reliable and handsome as ha was, that way of his which al ways seemed to be saying, "Forgive mc, please," grilled upon her frank,in dependent nature in spite of all she could do lo drive the feeling away. Speaking of Annie as her adopted daughter, Cynthia had mentioned her as a possible obstacle to their engage ment. He turned to her eagerly. "Trouble your mind 110 more about her, Cynthia. She shall be as my own child.'" Then ho became lost in that dreamy maze which seemed sometimes to en velop him. One day late in December there was a quiet wedding at the minister's house in the village, and then Cyn thia found herself going swiftly tow ards home, her mind tilled with strange new thoughts and conjecture as to how Annio should receive the news that that home would hereafter own a master —that they two would no longer be all in all to each other. For some unexplainablereason Cyu thia had never written Annie regard ing her coming marriage, and as the hour drew near for the ustounding disclosure she felt very nervous. It was now near at hand. There ; remained but one day before Christ- j mas; Annie would certainly be home : for the holidays, and tomorrow wouhl, j in all probability, bo the day of her | arrival. Tlie morning of that day was cloud- j less. All the morning Cynthia flew about tlie house making pleasant prep arations tor the holiday. Everything i was done at last. She had finished ! her simple toilet and stood at tlie j window, watching with loving eyes the , rollicking romp of her husband and tlie dogs in the feathery snow, when up the road came a team from the railroad station with Annie waving her handkerchief from the depths of the roomy sleigh, her cheeks so red that Cynthia saw the color from her win- ! dow. Then her heart jumped into her throat, it seeme Ito her,for as the j sleigh stopped Annie sprang out with a shriek that terminated in the word, , "Father!" and after a second's he«ita- i tion Henry Lester hail taken the few I steps that lay between himself and the girl and gathered her in his arms. Cynthia looked upon the scene with dazed eyes. It was evident that the introduction she had been dreading was not needed; but what did it \ mean? While her whirling brain was re gaining its balance her husband and Annie had entered the house. Annie immediately hastened up to Cynthia's room. "What is it. Mamma Cynthia? My father tells me to come to you to tind | out why he is here." Cynthia took the girl in her arms | and held her in silence for a moment, i while many and varied thoughts ran I through her mind. At length she , said: "The explanation is very simple, | dear; lie is here because lie is my litis- ! band." Annie raised her head and kissed ! Cynthia's Hushed face again and i again. "I am very giad," she said. "Some time you will tell me how it came about, won't you? It seems such a strange thing to happen." "Strange indeed!" thought Cynthia. "I cannot tell the child that if I had known who Henry was it would never have happened." Then, together, they descended to the kitchen, where they found Lester sitting dejectedly by the tire, a dog on either side of him, anxiously awaiting the appearance of his wife and daugh ter. Cyntliia hardly knew how to meet him. He did not leave her to face the difficulty, but rose and held out his hand to Annie. "Come here, Annie," he said, "and plead for me with your—mother. Tell jier, dear, from me, that I have never tasted liquor since the day I returned to our poor home and found you pone. I have been searching for you ever since. I have worked hard and saved all I earned, thinking to tind you and make a home for you, but had grown discouraged and had given up hope of pleasure in life till I met her. Assure her, dear, that she shall never repent having taken the step she has, for I loathe the man I once was as much as she possibly can, and I did not mean to deceive her in any way. It was not necessary to give her the details of my degradation, I thought, since that was a'l in the past. I cannot be lieve that since she has learned my story she can harden her heart against me." He held his disengaged hand toward her, his face full of anxious pleading. The gentle brown eyes that had at tracted her at first spoke well for him now, and shefelt that she loved hiinin spite of all. She took his offered hand in both of hers and kissed him. "We three will begin life together as if the world were new and we the only people in it," she said. "Stir the nre,please, Henry; I must get our little girl some dinner, or she will be gin to think it a sorry home-coming.'' A long-drawn sigh of contentment from Anuie denoted anything but sorrow, and over the face of the mau who listened as to a repeal of a sentence of bauislunent, there crept a look of peace that confirmed Cynthia in her belief that she had decided wisely and well. And the dogs, looking on and listen ing to the tones of their beloved mis tress' voice, settled comfortably down at the feet of him whom they had al ready learned to love. OUAINT AND CURIOUS. A Loudon general omnibus is sup posed to earn $95 per week. Aut hills in West Africa sometimes reach the height of fifteen feet. Five feet is the minimum height of the Russian and French conscript. The Romans used a circular fan on occasions of state and the Greeks made fans of the flat leaves of the lotus. In the towns of Chile most shops are open till.midnight, and during tho hot afternoons, when everybody takes a siesta, they are locked up. A recent landslide in China revealed a pile of money equaling in value 7,000,000 coppers. The coins were made about the middle of the eleventh century. The king of Kiam has a bodyguard of female warriors—i. e., 400 girls, chosen from among the strongest and most handsome of all the women in the land. In northern China one of tho prin cipal occupations is raising dogs for their fur, which is fine and dense and much used for clothing. They cost only 40 ceuts apiece. With a piece of string and a little sand and grease some Hindoo convicts recently sawed through an iron bar two inches in diameter in five hours and escaped from jail. Just a 5! a letter was being read in a Farinington (Me.) household from a daughter in California announcing her good health and well being, a telegruni came announcing her death. Garlic came from Asia and has been used since the earliest times. It formed part of the diet of the Israel ites in Egppt, was used by Greek and Roman soldiers and African peasants. The quaint little chimney sweepsadd to the picturesqueness of Charleston, X. ('., where they are still in constant demand to clean chimneys of the soot from the soft pine wood so largely in use. The skin of the reindeer is so imper vious to the cold that any one clothed in such a dress, with the addition of a blanket of the same material, may bear the iutensest rigors of an Arctic winter's night. As soon as a man falls into debt in Siain the creditor can seize his person and keep him as a slave. Should the debtor run away, bis wife and chil dren, his father, or other relatives are liable to be seized. The Gallas tribe in Africa is reported by a Belgian authority to regard it as n sacred duty to kill cows on every possible occasion, with a view of dis covering a certain volume of sacred lore which a cow ouce swallowed. About 10,000 pounds of eiderdown are collected annually in Iciland,7ooo being exported to foreign countries. Formerly the peasants used to receive about a pound for it, but the price lias now fallen to half that amount. Denmark's kings for 384 years have nil been named Christian or Frederick. This is not the result of accident. It is the law of Denmark that Christian must be siicc o led by Frederick and Frederick by Christian. To attain this and without the changing of names iu case of death or other reason every Danish prince, no matter what other names he may receive, always includes Christian and Frederick among them. ItKv«*r in Ariznn:i. "There is a river out in our terri tory called the Hassayampn, which is typical of Arizona," said Mr. J. ('. Adams, the mayor of Phoenix, Ari zona, and one of the most progressive citizens of that lively town. "This river will run along for a few miles as a broad, beautiful stream, and, nar rowing suddenly, disappear through the sands, only to crop up again a few miles further on and run along as plac idly anil beautifully as a well-regu lated stream should. There is a legend connected with this river that any on • who ever tastes of its waters can never afterward tell the truth. The mine. s in the country through which it flows are called 'Hassayampas,' and from them como most of the weird, wild stories of adventure that people iu the east expect from Arizona, the erst while home of Alkali Ike and Cactus Bill. This water can be bottled and brought east, so that an Arizoninn who K'omes here on a mission can take a smnll nip and then tell his friends about Arizona."—Washington l'ost. Crab* in tho Suiixliino. Crabs bury themselves in the mini p.nd sand in the winter, and when taken out they are, in cold weather, numb and motionless. But if they are left in a :,unuy, sheltered place in a boat or elsewhere they will come to the power of motion again. There was a curious illustration of this, the other day, in a lot of crabs lying on n stand in front of a downtown fish market. There might have been '2OO or 300 crabs spreadiug over an area of three feet in diameter. The sun shining down over a building on the opposite side of the street, fell across the stand in front of tho market in such a way as to bring half the crabs into the sunlight and leave the other half in the shadow. The crabs in the sunshine were lifting up their claws and showing signs of life; those in the shadow >ere motionless.—New York Sun. SERMONS OF THE DAY. RELIGIOUS TOPICS DISCUSSED BY PROMINENT AMERICAN MINISTERS. Rev. Georjce 11. Ilepwortli'ft Sermon In the New York Herald Is Entitled "Nothing In Small*'—An Adilrens by KvangelUt D. L. Moody on lilble Texts. The New York Herald publishes the com plete result of its recent competition for prize sermons printed In its columns. Tlie first prize was awarded by the Herald it self, and the second, third and fourth prizes were decided by the votes of its readers. The successful competitors were as follows: First prize, SIOOO, to the Rev. Richard G. Woodbridge, pastor of the Central Congre gational Church, Middleboro, Mass. Sub ject, "The Power of Gentleness." Second prize, SSOO, to the Rov. W. S. Perkins, pastor of St. Paul's Universalist Church, Meridan. Conn. Subject, "Burden Bearing." Third prize, S3OO, to the Rev. John D. Long, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Babylon. L. I. Subject, "The Good Side of Life." Fourth prize, S2OO, to the Rev. Edwin P. Parker, pastor of the Second Church, Hart ford, Conn. Subject, "Law of Kindness." I)r. Hepwortli on "Nothing is Small. TEXT: "Thou hast been faithful over a few things, 1 will make thee rnler over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."—Matthew xxv., 21. I know of* no part of Scripture which Rives mo more good cheer tiian this. It contains the kindest and most encouraging statement of fact that ever fell from the lips of Christ. 1 oftentimes wonder what circumstance suggested this subject—what Impelled Him to put a gentle hand on our shoulder, as though to say, "Be not trou bled." To do things well is to do God's work In God's way. Nothing is trivial that Is worth doiug at all. It is true that not all can bo great in the sight of men, but every man may belong to heaven's nobility. There are men in the humblest walks of life who will wear cov eted crowns in the hereafter because they did their simple duty in a simple fashion. When we got into the other world wo shall be profoundly surprised to find that the Lord's standnrd of value is very differ ent from that to which wo have boon ac customed. We regard social position, wealth, intellectual culture as of prime im portance and rather imagine that the Lord will hesitate to condemn any one with these three enviable possessions. But it is clear that we and Ho do not agree, for with Him a pure heart and a sweet, placid and gontle life are worth more than all else besides. Not oven God can mako either your heart pure or your life sweet without your assistance. Nor can you make a pure heart or a sweet life without His assistance. Theso desirable results must como from a close association of God with man and of man with God. When your weakness, moved by a divine ambition, is commingiod with His omnipotence, then and then only can the ideal soul be produced. He can make wealth, He can give you the genius which will mako you famous, but It is ab solutely necessary for you and Him to work in holy partnership before the thing which heaven prizes most can bo attained. When we step across the border we shall find that many of our earthly ideas of value are either mistakes or prejudices, and that lives are acceptable and profit able only in proportion to their spiritual symmetry and beauty. The more a man does for others, therefore, the more he does for himself, and it he cares only for himself, to the neglect of others, he will have togo Into the primary class in heaven and learn what true religion means. Someone said to mo recently in despair ing tones, "My life amounts to so little. I live tlm humdrum days in a humdrum way, and if I should drop out of existence it would mako no difference to aDyono." If that were true it would lie very sad. But this man was to my mind one of the world's heroes. I knew his environment, and knew what he had done with it. how much he bad made out of it. Yes, he was a manual laborer, and his hands were grimy with toil. Ho was a saint in over alls. He was the guardian angei of an aged mother who thought herself in heaven long before she went there because the son was so like Providence. He strained every nerve to glvo his boys an education that they might be fitted to do hetteTwork than he had done. You say "All this Is a matter of course." Then I ixld, and God's blessing Is a matter of course. That was a narrow life? No; it was as wideas God's love could make it, and as noblo as an archangel's. Ho who does the little duties of lifo with a large heart makes himself great in soul. You can bettor afford to stand before God in honest rags than in tho purple and fine linen of dishonesty. The important question to bo answered is not. Who aro you? but What are you? Your pocket book does not weigh as much as your moral principle In the scales of God. It is rank heresy to say that your life is worthless If you are doiug your work well. Heaved Is full of princes who found it hard to pay the rent of their earthly houses. Never allow yourself to say, and espe cially to feel, that the work you are doing is insignillcant or the place you will fill is of no importance. To do that is to make an uncalled for criticism on the Lord, for you hereby declare that the duty He has set you to do is not worth doing. If there Is a mistake anywhere it is in your opinion of tho value of things and not in His judg ment as to what He needs to have done. You have no right to hold any such opinion, uud if you do It is because your ideas are based on false principles. No matter how humble your sphere, (111 It full by pouring your best anil noblest qualities of character into It. A pool of water is a thing of beauty when the moon shines on it, and the smallest soul that over breathed is a miracle when tho spirit of God is reflected therein. It requires many hands to mako a watch. If one of tho hands which fashions one of the eogs of one of the wheels does Its work badly the watch will never keep good time. If tho whole is to be perfect every part must bo perfect. So it is in the universe. You do not know, but God knows that unless you take pains to make your cog of the wheol with fidelity you may do a damage which cannot easily bo repaired. Little things done well make a great soul, and small duties arc always great duties in the eyes of the angels. GEonoE 11. HEI'WOBTH. ADDRESS BY MOODY. The Famous Evangelist Speak* In New York on the Value of Bible Yexta. "I believe in my heart that the bost thing on this earth is "the Gospel of the Son of God. I said last night that tho keynote of this mission is the saying of Christ, 'tho Son of Man is come to "seek and to save that which was lost.' To-night I will tako an other test to follow it. And I want yoii'to remember that the object of tho sermon is to drive home tiie text. I would rather have one text of tho Blole than all the ser mons in the world. There nre ouough of them preached in New York every week to save tho city ten times over. In John 1., 29, nre tbo first words recorded by tho evangelist as having been spoken to him bv Jesus Christ. They are, 'What seek ye?' It may have been sixty years after John heard those words that ho wrote them •town, but they had made such an Impres sion on him that he remembered tho time and the place. With another who after ward became a disciple he had gone to look at Christ, and asked Him the question, •Where dwellest Thou?' 'Come and sec.' answered the Saviour, and the two disci ples went, and never left Him. "It Is very evident that these two men found more In Christ than did a good many others of their time. And do you know that there are a good many in Now York the same way. It is recorded in the gos pels that many of those who followed the Saviour left Him, and there are many who follow 'Him to-day who say they are disappointed. Why? I think I ean tell you. When the crowds followed Christ in the Holy Land they did so from various motives. Some of them wnntod to see Him perform miracles. They wauted to see the devils cast out and the lepers cured, and so they were always say ing to Him, "Master, show us a sign." Others thought He was going to found an earthly kingdom, and wanted to get into oluco when Ho founded it. Others thought that they might entangle Him into saying something against the Mosaic or Roman laws which would lead to His condom nil tlon and death. Others followed just from morbid curiosity to see tho crowd and hour something new. Others Ho Himself accused of being after tho llshes and the loaves. They did not care about His mes sage. "All these people soon got tired of fol lowing Christ; but I can vouch for one thing—that no man for eighteen hundred years who has followed Jesus Christ for what He is has ever been disappointed. He is all that you make Him to be. Soma make a littlo Saviour, beeauso they think little of Him. "What seek ye, you that are hore to-night? Come, tell me. I could go through the crowd and ilnd just the same motives actuating you as those who followed the Lord In Palestine. There are some mon hack thoro who came to see tho crowd. Another has come because his wife has been nagging at him for the last three weeks, and ho promised to come. An other man is here because he has nowhere else to go. He says that If ho had a good comfortnble home you would not ilnd him here. Another one comes to hear the singing. I'm glad he wanted to hear something, anyway. Although some of you have come with low motives, thauk Ood you have come at all, and you may change your mind before you're through. I'm glad to have a chance at you, what ever your motives for being here mav be. "Here is another text I want to read: 'Reek ye flrst the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.' So many people think that they wiil attend to temporal things Ilrst, and after they have made a comforta ble fortune and settled down they will at tend to eternal things. God says, 'No. You must fir3t seek tho Kingdom of God.' I think If this were really done you would never come to want. "I have been beßought on all sides to preach sermons on capital and ialjar and similar subjects. My friends. I believe a3 long as you start right and follow text you will turn out right in the end. I be lieve so many don't get on becat.se the Kingdom of God comes last, not first, with them. You can't tell what may happen be fore tho morning. Christ would net oven allow a man who followed Him to h\jry his dead father before he had obtainud the Kingdom of God. I believe there aro thou sands and tons of thousands of young peo ple who have written on the flyU aves of their Bibles by somo loving father or mother the toxt I have quoted, Mat thew vi., 33. "If Moses should suddenly appear here what do you supposo would be the Ilrst words he would say to you? If you usked him to come to tho platform and takn my place ho would say: 'Tho choice Iti be tween life and death, Chooso life,' I! Hezeklah were to come here what would he say? I think ho would ask you. 'How long halt ye between two opinions?' Ii Solomon should appear ho would say, 'Whatever thy hand ilndeth to do, do it with thy might.' Suppose that little tent • maker, Paul of Tarsus, were here. He would shout, 'Now is tho accepted time, now i» the clay of salvation.' And if Jesus Christ were to appear among us Ho would say, 'Seek ye Ilrst tho kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.'" HOW TO AVOID YELLOW JACK. Professor Kick Snvs It lg Easy to AvoiJ the Germs. Undo Sam has only to issue an order to his troops to "cook your food and boil your drinking water" to render the wholo American army immune from yellow fever, according to Professor Edwin Klok, of Rush Medical College, Chicago, an ac count of whose discovery of yellow fever germs was published a fortnight ago. Tho Spanish soldiers iu Cuba, among whom the mortality from yellow fever ha* been great, have eaten and drunk cooked and uncooked food and water Indiscrimi nately. It is Professor Kick's theory that if tho simple precaution of boiling and cooking had been followed tho army would havo boon practically immune from the disease. Iu the event of war with Spain the American troops sont to Cuba would bo forced to depend largely on food canned in tho United States, which would lessen tho danger considerably. It is Professor Klek's belief that the familiar Injunction of tho Chicago Health Department to "boil the water" would complete the safety of tho troops from the disease, whos»! ravages are more to bo dreaded than Spanish bullets. THE SAN JOSE FRUIT BUG. New Jersey Is Its Eastern Home, AccorJ. ing to Entomologists. The Agricultural Department has just Is sued a bulletin 011 tho Sail Jose scale iu I<V.IG-97, prepirod by Entomologist L. O. Howard. It Is of much interest at this time because of the recent edict of tho German Government prohibiting the im portation of living plants, fruits, etc., on account of the alleged discovery of scale on peas shipped from California. The bulletin says that in the fall of 1835 the Insect was reported as being in twenty State.), but Iu comparatively few localities in each, with the exception of No.v Jersey, which wis overrun by it. In ISU6-7 actual lle'd in Virginia, Maryland, Illi nois, Ohio, Georgia and several other States showed t latin them the iusect was almost as widespread as In New Jersey, whilo twolve States uud the District of Columbia have been added to the number containing infested poluts. A list of Ilfty-flve fruit and shade trees nnd ornamental shrubs affected by the post is given. Considerable space is devoted to a discussion of the remedios suggested to kill the pest. FILLED CHEESE EVIL. Its Exportation to England Has Caused Injury to American Tratle. United States Consul Nottingham, England, ha sentj t j J ' Department, Washington an report upon the quantif y JlUi , cheese sent to Great Br. tain by Arnica in It he points a moraU.a f l COUVHys awiirn ing to exporters who h(lvo b(Hm (q (h(> bahlt of sending lllle cheese" to foreign ports Instead of the -pure product. The re sult of this kind of '.raud has cost American cheese dealers thojusauds of dollars In trade ' lost during the last few years. Canada Has gained v*«at we have relinquished. TmS gradun J'l'ingu of relations has been golng\ou s 0 That year the United States •" England nearly 148,000,00i> pouuds of fiSO . Our product was then at tho top 1 -j° British market. Th? "'ought In California. Stock rai# rs of Fresno, Cal., are circula ting a uetit'P" which is to be forwarded to President MjKlnley. The unprecedented drought haspeeu very hard on stock nnd In the petltliP the President will be asked to proclaim tV" stock may graze on certain portlous of til Yoseiulte_ Park reservation i during the coM"c 112 * a
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