A iu,mr (-hrlataals.
rf nwDiipers Just now are
ihA Incidents of the Boers, most
far from flattering. On of
felateg that In a Dutch church
la not Ion rro ther appeared
I itolld-looktng fnrmer'a wife,
broujtht her bahy Into town
ctened. Before loafing bomu
had written the names It
!orldrd to nv the Infant on one
lj.per and tho list of the house
, i ulreroent" on another, and
,c t carefully folded and put in
,j 1 leather pnrso ahe carried.
ti proper time arrived the fond
.iandert tip a slip of paP" t
' .Iter, who rend nnd reread It,
, i remarked that Koftle Itljst
nernhrr KomftJIt were rather
c, - for tbo child, and ones
ijfcht prove nmbarraaslng to the
. V at omo future tlmo. Then
, atlp of pupor was produced
InatlOBi followed.
Itoioa anil Violets.
ent 'of-the awtetcst rosn lie
' ixlous and tlio humble violet
be scowling up at you from
, ' ( eyebrows when you l.now
j" flowers Brut tlielr fellows are
1 to the dcuilly mlfnihrs for
M ra and ai-nnts. The delicate
T'
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(w An Vwir Ktdnei-a
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C.a.8lrllu HuimlyCo..UliliaiiowN. V.
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I i
I I ow, dbllltAt1 or enliHimteileiiinl
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,fU HI. I'lillmluliiliia. I'mimlml 1h;i.
''s oil output is 1.1,000 barrels a
s:.
Too UowaU With CHnnti,
ilhartlo, mire conatipation forever,
t U O. O. nit Orugtflata retuod money.
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" JJ.OOO out of Iterations lu the
slnw'a Soothlnc Syrup for ehtlilran
"ftena tlitiiiii.reiiiiiiiiiKlultAmm
I l- palu, uurua wfuil uoliu. mj. a botllu.
,''wibi1 Hebrew ofllcurs nni ou tlio
reserved lists of the Aiihtriuu
; i
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t-Cnimlw mid t'olila.- M th. JI. a,
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Ktrypt to Ween nwuy uiowpiltoB.
lnr IVnwtlpntloti roraTr.
Eeareu Candy L'nthartle. lOoorEo.
iIrJll ic euro, urugisu rufuod money.
aftn new cotton mills have been
tiouth during tbu paat twelve
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f Can poor, ycA, thin blood
jflrf tusUin the physical system.
fitfh of newts dnd muscles there
ill pure, rich, vigorous blood,
krstparilla is established as the
f preparation for the blood by its
Utrkble cures.
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lu CVatU'i'ubaooo llublt.
f'leiillflcallymarto
.ereiuie tub ukst.
Iho UothschlM rose Is coin-
'.ho bodies of tlioimiuls of the
microbes which bring death
consumption to fo many of
, 'da end relations. The violet
t,f get their odor from the ean
sr be, the tulip from the gout
jotl the gfrahlum from the scar
(. boclllus, l.lltrwlne, every
i, Inhale the scout of auy flower
In reality Ritlpiug down
eJ after mouthful of some ter
ljtse. There Is no way of dla
p flowers, as they nre actually
of microbes, and If you tiiko
0 J away no flower U left.
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8,:Mity I Plood Deep,
'5 lood mecna a rlenn akin. ICo
bout it. Cwcareta, Candy (Jatltnr-
5 i"our blood and keep it clean, by
the lar.y liver end driving nil im
am the body, llcgin to-dny to
"-iplea, boils, blotches, blscklicada,
ckly bilious coinplciiou by t-kine
ij -bcouty for ten cents. All rliutf-
1 Action cnaranlecd, 10c, Sc, 00c.
six smokeless Mwiler manufae-
ni. ..
0 afnaai Cannot Its Curad
. pltoatlona, a thof ennnot raarh tha
ll:rtioD of the nar. Tlinn is only one
H-l dftafueaa, and ttint ia liy oonatttu
dtM. I"af noiw fa oiniHcd by an tn
r:dtttoa of tho luuooua linlntc of tho
le I Tuba. When tlila tul gi'ti in
. ,'bave a rnmlilinir aounit or iuipcr-3-g.
and whxn it is nnttroly clnaoil
I the rnaiilt, and unlena the inflam-
B be taken out. and this tune ri
et t norinivl eondiU in, hearinK will be
to brever. Nlne.vianaoutof ten are
MiUrrti. whlrh Ih imtbinK hut au In
Litton of tho milium aurfiioea.
6 If.' Olio Hundrc I Uiillara for any
i.viafcS (oaiiai-d iy catit-rhlthittoau-
tllKl by Hall's C'sUi-rh (Jura. 8oud
er , free.
, F. . I. Cnr.tK & Oo Toledo, 0
J'iruptlKt. IIS.'.
liluity Pill are tlin bost.
:s f ' """ "'
1 rds which the people of Tuiliniwip
ade for iroHiitHtiun to (inniTiil
s SU now bo presented to his widow
n.
!jd fruit acids will not dlnimlor
"' d wlih fursaH Kaiisi.ivs Urns,
it druggists,
of Atierc-rn lias supplied tho
" d Cross Hoolnty with 00 dozen of
l ift pocket hitiidkoriihlrs and 100
cm wraps.
ompson'j Eyt Water
REV. DIWALMAGE.
THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Suhjeet! New Year Thonctits Wa BUonld
Maka the Moat sf Oar llrler I.ith
Infldelltjr the Sonrea nf Much Woe
Clirlat'i Matrliteaa Rtorlea.
Ooi'yrltfht, txiuU Kloich. HX.)
WAaniNOToit, P. C In this diseourse Dr.
Talmage takes tlin opportunity of offering
some very practical and useful suggestions;
tent, Taalms o., !), "We spend our years
as a tnls that Is told."
The Israelites wBro forty years In the
wilderness, nnd riurliuf t 111 rty-til k'ht years
of the forty nothing Is recorded of them,
nnd, I suppose, no other emigrants hud n
duller or more uninteresting time tbnn
they had. Ho they got to telling stories
stories concerning themselves or concern
ing others; storlea about the brick kilns of
Egypt, where they hud tolled In slavery:
storlos about bow the waters o( tho P.riil
Hea piled up Into pnlhiidea nt their cross
ing; story of the liuitern hung in the heav
ens to guide them by night; story of Ibises
destroying the lepiilea of t he wilderness;
storb's of personal encounter. it must
huve been nil nwful thing to liuvu hiiil noth
ing to ilo for thlrly-eltht your exuept to
get lost every time tliey I rleil to escape
from the wilderness. Ho Uwv whllfd nwnv
the lime In story telling. Indeed, there
were persons whose one business wns to
luirrilte stories, nnd they were puld by
snoli trifles ns they eould 'nick up from the
surrounding listeners. To sin-h instiiuces
our texl refer wlum it uys. "Vi spend
our yenrs ns a tale that Is told."
At tills treineililoua i;ts:tl.-n from the
year IHUI) In the' year 100:1 It will do us all
good to cousldor that our whole life Is n
story told a good story or a bad story, a
tragic story or a, mirthful story, a wise
story or a foolish storv. a nlean story or a
filthy story, n story of success or a story of
failure. "We spun I our years as a tale
that Is told."
In the llr-t t bioo, I remark that every
person's lite is n very In'orestlng story,
My text dons not depreciate "a tali) that Is
told." We have all of us been entertained
by the story toller when snow bound In the
rail train, or In the group a winter's uiglit
In the farmhouse, or gathered nround a
blazing heart Ii with some hunters at tho
mountain fun. Indeed, It Is a praiseworthy
art to Impersonate n good story well. If
you doubt the practical nnd healthful and
Inspiring ue of such a story, tukn down
from the library Washington Irvine's
Tales oi a Traveler" or Nathaniel Haw
thorne's "Twice Told Tales." Hut ns In
teresting as any of these would be the
story of many an obscure lifo If the tale
wore as woll told. Why do we all Ilka
biographies and autobiographies? He
cause they are storlos of eminent human
lives. Hut the story of the life of n back
woodsman, of a man who looks stupid, of
one about whom yon never heard a word,
must bejuat ns thrilling ou a small scnlo
ns on a large scale Is a life of a Cvrus. or a
Cirsnr, or a I'lzurro, or a Mark Antony, or
a Charlemagne.
If yon get the confidence of llinf very
plain man Just come out of thu backwoods
and cun ludiicu him to give the stirring ex
periences of his llfo, be will tall you that
which will make your blood curdle and
your hair stand on end; that night when
anther disputed his pathway on the way
ome; that landslide, when the mountains
seemed about to come down ou his cnbtu;
that accident to his household and no sur
geon within tifteoii miles; that long storm
that abut thorn in and the food was ex
hausted; that contest nt Ids doorway with
bandits, who thought there might be with
in something worth taking; that deathbed,
with no one but hlmsolf to count the flut
tering pulses.
Oh, yes, while "wo spend our yonrs as a
tale that Is told," it Is an interesting story.
It Is the story of an immortal, and that
makes It Interesting. lie is launched on an
ocenn of eternal years, In a voyage that
will nevor terminate. lie Is striking the
keynote nf nil anthem or u dirge that will
never come to Its but bar. That is what
makes the devotional meetings of modern
times so much more Interesting than they
used to be, They are tilled not with dis
courses by laymen on tho subject uf Justi
fication and sniiotlflcntion, which lay dis
courses administer more to tho facetious
than to the edifying, but with stories of
what God has done fur the soul bow every
thing suddenly ehauged; how tljo promises
became balsninlo In times of laceration:
how he was personally helped out ami
helped up mid helped ou. Nothing can
stnud before such u story of personal res.
cue, persoual transformation, personal
Illumination. The mightiest and most
skillful argumeut against Christianity col
lapses under the uiigrnmmatlcal hut sin
cere stiitemont. Tho atheistic professor of
natural philosophy goes down under the
story of that backwoodsman's conversion.
All that elaborate persuasion of the old
folks of the folly of giving up active lite
too soon moms nothing as compared with
the simple incident you may relate to
them of the fact that Dnnjiimin Franklin
was Oovernor of Pennsylvania at eighty
twoyoarsof age nnd that Oandolo, of Ven
ice, nt ninety years of ago, although his
eyesight had been destroyed through be
ing compelled by his enemies to look into
a polished inntnl basin under the full blnr.a
of the suu until totally blind, yet this sight
less nouiigeunrlau leading an army to the
successful bohlegeinant of Constnntluoplet
When an old man bears of such incidents,
he puts asidu his staff and ear trumpet and
stmts auew.
The New Testament suggests tho power
of the "tale that Is told." Christ was tin!
most effective story teller of all the ages.
The parables nre only tales well told.
Matchless stories! That of the traveler out
up by the thieves and the Hnmnrltaii pay
ing his board hill at the tavern ; that of the
big dinner, to which the Invited guests
sent In llctlllous regrets; that of the shop,
herd answering the bleat of the lost sheep
and all the rural neighbors that night help
ing him celebrate the fact that It was safo in
the barnyard; that of the bad boy, reduced
to the iwines' trough, greeted borne with
such bnuipietlng and juwelry that It rtufTed
the older sou with jealousy and disgruutle
ment; that of the Pharisee full of braggn
doLdo and the publlcau smiling bis breast
with a stroke that brought dowu the heav
ens lu commiseration; stories ubout lep
rosy, about paralysis, about catalepsy,
about dropsy, about ophthalmia stories
that He so well told that they have rolled
down to the prosent and will roll down
through tho autlro future.
I beard Haulel linker, the wonderful
evangelist of tils time, proach what I sup
posed whs a great sermon, but I remem
ber nothing of It except a story that lis
told, and that, I judge from the seeming
effect, may that afternoon have brought
huudreds Into the kingdom of Ood. I
heard Truiiiiiu Osborne preach several ser
mons, but I remember nothing of what he
said In .public or private except a story
that he told, and that was, among other
things, tlio means nf my salvation. Tbu
lifelong work of John It. (lough, the great
est tnmuuranco reformer of ull time, was
the victory of anecdote, and who can ever
forgot bis Btory of Joel Htratou touching
him on the shoulder or of Deuuou Mosi'a
Grant at Hopkiusoii, or of the outcast
woman nicknamed "Hell Fire," but re
dueiued by the thought that she "was one
of usV" flwlght I., Moody, the evangelist
of worldwide fame and usefulness, whe re
ountly passed to his great reward ou high,
during his valuable labors in tlio pulpit
wielded the anecdote for (lod and heaven
until ull nations have beou moved by it.
K you have had experiences of pardon
nud comfort and dlscutlirnllmeiit, tell of
It. Tell It In the niOBt pointed and dra
mntio way you cau manage. Tell It sonu,
or you may never tell It at all. Oh, the
power of "tho tale that Is told!" Au hour's
discourse about the fnot that blasphemous
behavior Is sometimes punished lu this'
world would not Impress us as much as tho
simple storv that Id a town of New Vnrk
Male nt the close of I no lust century thirty
six profane uinu formed themselves into a
club, calling themselves "Hociety of the
Druids." They mut regularly to deride
and. damage Christianity, due night in
their awful meeting they burned a Dibit)
and adiulnltlcred tho sacrament to a dog.
Two of thorn died that lilght. Wlthlii three
days three wore drowned. lu live years all
the thirty-six csmo to a bad end. liefora
Justices of the pence it wasswi.ru that two
were starved to death, seven were drowned,
eight were shot, (Ivn onmniltlud suicide,
soven died ou the gallows, one was frozen
to death nnd thrue.lled accidentally. lucl
louts like that, sworu to, would bulk any
proposed Irreverent and blasphemous be
havior, lu what way eould tho fact that Infidel
Ity will not help uoy one die well be ao
powerfully presented us by the Incident
eoucorulug u mnu falllug ill lu Parts junt
s'ter the death ot Voltaire, woaii si profes
sional nurse was ealled In, and she n-ked,
"Is the gentleman a Christian?" "Whvdo
you ask that?" said the messenger. The
nurse replied, "I am the nurse who attend
ed Voltaire In his Inst illness, and for all
the wealth of Kurope I would never see nn
other infidel die." What discourse In its
moral nnd spiritual effect could en mil a
title like that?
You might argue upon the fsct that those
fallen nro rmr brothers ami sisters, but
oould we Impress nny ono with sueli n truth
so well as by tbo scene nenr Victoria Tark,
London, where innn were digging u deep
drain, and the shoring gnve way and n
great pile of earth fell upon the workmen,
A man stood therewith his hands In Ills
pockets, looking nt those who were trying
to shovel nwnv the earth from those who
were buried, but when some ouesnld to the
spectator, "lllll, your brother Is down
there," tnen the spectator threw otf his
root nnd went to work with nn agony of
earnestness to fetch up bis brother. W hat
course of nrgiiment could so well as that
Incident set forth that when we toil for the
salvation of n soul it is n brother whom we
nro trying to save?
A second rending of mv tet reminds me
that life Is not only u story told, but that
It Is a brief story. A long narrative
stretched out Indefinitely loses Its Interest.
It Is generally the storv that takes only n
minute or half a minute to rehearse that
arrests the intention. And that gives ad
ditional Interest lo the storv nf our life. It
is a short story. Subtract from our lire nil
the hours of necessary sleep, all the hours
of Incapacity through fatigue or Illness, all
the hours ot childhood nnd youth before
we get fairly to work, and you hnve nbbre
vlated the story of life so much that you
can appreciate tho psalmbt's remark when
he siiys. "Thou hast made my days us a
hand's breadth," and can appreciate the
npostle .lames' expression when he com
pares life to "n vnpor t lint nppenreth for u
little senson nnd then varlsties away."
It does not take long to tell all the vi
cissitudes of life the gladness and the
griefs, tbo arrivals nnd the departures,
the successes and tho failures, tho victor
ies and the defents, the nps and theilowns.
The longer we live the shorter the years.
We hardly get over the bewildering latlguo
of self etlng gifts for children and friends
nnd see that tho presents get off in
time to arrive on the appropriate day
than we see another advancing group
of holidays. Autumnal fruit so sharp
ly phases the summer harvest, and the
snow of the white blossoms ot spring
time come too soon after the suows of
winter. It Is a remark so oitou made
that It falls lo inako any Impression mid
the platitude Mint calls forth no rcplv,
"How rapidly time goes."
F.very century Is n big wheel nt years,
which makes a bundled revolutions and
breaks down. Every year Is a big wheel of
mouths and makes twelve revolutions and
then censes. Geologists ami theologians
Into elaborations of guesses as to bow
long the world will probably Inst; how
long beforethe volcanic forces will explode
it. or meteoric stroke demolish it, or thu
cold of along winter freexennt Its popula
tion, r the (Ires of u Inst eonllagralioit
I urn it. 'flint Is nil very well, but so far
as the present population of thu earth is
i tmceriied the world will last but a little
longer. We begin Ufa with a cry and end
it with a gronu, nnd the cry and the groan
are not far apart. Life. Job siiys, is like
the flight of a weaver's shuti'le, or, as
David intimates in my text, a story quick
ly told and laughed nt mid none ami ills
placed by another story as a "talo that is
told."
We talk ahont public life and private
life, but there is no private life. The storv
of our life, hnwofer itislgnlileiiiit It innv
seem to bo, will win the applause or hiss
of a great multitude that no man can num
ber. As a "talo that Is told" among ad
mirers or antagonists, celestials or paii.lc
inoulncs, tbo universe is full of listening
enrs us well as of gleaming eyes. lr
we say or do the right thing, that is known.
If we say ordothe wrong thing, that Is
known. I suppose the population r.f the
Intelligences in tho air Is more numerous
than the population of Intelligences on the
earth. Oh, that the story of our life might
be tit for such uu audience in such an au
ditorium! God grant that wisdom ami
lldellty and earnestness and truth .uuy
characterize tho "tale that is told."
Through medical science the world's
longevity may be greatly Improved In Die
future, as It has been in the pint, but it
would not be well for the people to live too
long. Home of them would, through tbeli
iklll at acquisitiveness, gather too much.
nd some multimillionaires ivould become,
.billionaires and trlllloiiiiires, and some
would after awhile pocket a hemisphere.
No. Doath Is useful lu its lliianclal limita
tions, unit then all have enough sorrows
nud annoyances and sufferings by the tlmo
they become noniigonarlnti:. or centenur
Inns to make It desiruble to quit. Ilesbles
llmt.lt would not bo fair so lung to keep so
many good old people out of heaven. Ho
It Is well arranged that those who staud by
the deathbed of the nineteenth century
will not ho called to stand by the deathbed
of the twentieth century.
Oh, crowd this last year with pravers,
with hnsaiinas, with kind words, with help
fulness. Make the peroration of thecen.
tury tho climax of Chrlstllke deeds. Closo
up tho ranks of God, and during this re
maining twelve months charge mlghtilv
against the bost of Abaddon. Ilavo no
reserve corps. Lot swiftest gosrnl cavnlry
gallop, and heaviest moral artillery roll,
mid mightiest evangelistic batteries' thun
der on the scene. Let ministers ot the
gospel quit nil controversy with caeii
other and in solid pbaliinx march out
for the world's dlscnthrallmeiit. Let
printing presses, secular and religious,
muko combined movement to instruct nud
emancipate tho world. Ou ull the hills let
there buKIIJuhs praying for "a groat rain,"
and uu every contested Held Joshuas to
see that Until victory Is gained beforethe
suu goes down, nud every moiintuiu be.
uomo a truustlguratlnii, und every Galilee
a walking place of Him who can hush a
tempest. Let us be jealous of every month,
of every week, of every day that pnssea
without something signillcuut and
glorious wrought for God and this sin
cursed world. Let our churches be
thronged with devout assemblages. Let
the chorals be more like grand marches
than requiems. Let the coming year sen
the Inst wound nf Transvaal und Philippine
conflict, and the earth quake with the
grounding arms of the last regiment over
to be marshaled, ami thu (uruuees of the
foundries blaze with the tires that shall
turn the last swords Into plowshares,
And may all those whose lives shall go
out lu this last year of a century, ns many
will, meet lu tlio heavenly world those who
lu thu morning and noonday of this hun
dred years toiled and suTored for the
world's salvation to tell them how much
has been accomplished for the glory ot
Him whose inarch through ull thu coming
centuries the Herlpture describe us going
lorth "conquering nnd to conquer." Oh,
the contrast between that uplifted spoo
tacle of denial triumph In tho pn'sclioo of
God and the Lamb and these earthly
scenes, when) "we spend our years us atalu
that is tub!."
THE 8AJWATII SCHOOL
Hut lloncui- IViu Kallalied.
A Frenchman of title und an Kngliuli
colonel of dragoons had a deadly qtiur
fcl; blood only could wash out tho In
sults tbnt had pataed between them.
Uoth men were eccentric to a degreo,
pud they agreed that lota should bo
drawn, and that tho loser tihottld at
once proceed to some retired upot and
shoot himself. Tha next morning tho
opponents ami their stsconda met nt a
fiinu.ll cafe outside of the town. Lots
were duly dtawp., the Frenchman prov
ing tho winner. Tho colonel took tils
bad fortune calmly, lie wrote a fow
lines upon tt pleco of paper which he
handed to his second, took an affec
tionate farewtill of nil, and graciously
forgave Mb more fortunate adversary.
He then, accepting the loaded pistol,
moved steadily Into an adjoining
room, and closed the door, Tho oth
ers remained breathlessly awaiting the
sound which wits to convey to them
the ending of the tragedy. At Inst It
came. Kagerly they ran to the door of
the fatal chamber, when It was thrown
open, and the supposed defunct Btooil
on the threshold, grasping tha smok
ing weapon, "Gracious, gentlemen!"
excluimed he, blandly, "la It not un
fortunate?. I have missed myself!"
INTEFUMTIONM. LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JANUARY 7.
r.ti)eli The l.lrtli or .lesn, l ake II., I.
HI liolden Teat: Malt. I., II Mem.
ory Versos, ! t iiiimientnrr nn Ilia
Das 'a Leaaoii.
ISTiiom.TTtos. Six months pass nwav
after the birth of John, the forerunner, and
then comes the birth of Jesus, the .Mes
siah, the most Important event in the
world's history. Our lesson begins with
great majesty ns it refers to the Emperor
Augustus, "at whose feet lay tbo whole
known world; and to whose command
obedience was rendered in every country,
aiidcby. nnd village." It then descends
lo tell of the obscure birth of nn Infant, in
one ot the most obscure towns, In nu ob-M-iire
province; but It rises again Into
(.tenter majesty as It describes the multi
tude of heavenly visitants who nnnouucu
theglnry and groutuoss of the child.
I. "In those days." That Is about the
ti ne John tho liaptist was born and the
events took place ns telatod In the pre
ceding chapter. "Cii'sar Augustus." Tho
first of the I'.oman emperors. "All the
world." All of tho Itmnnn world. At that
time tlio ltoinnn empire extoudc l further
than over before, or than It has since, and
was called "the empire of the whole earth."
"Taxed." Knrollod, or rcgl itnrod, probubiy
with n view to taxing.
'J. "First made." It seems there were
two enrollments. "Cyrenlus." Or Qulr
laius, There is a chronologlc.il dlulouHy
here. Oulriiiliis was Governor of Hyrln in
A. I), ft, ten years later than this, ami at
that time he took n census to which Ht.
Luke refers In Acts C: 37. Many explanu.
lions have been suggested, Tho most satu
factory expl'tiinllmi uf the matter scorns to
be that Q'llrlnlus was twice Governor of
Syria, lu U. C. ns well ns In A. 1). 6. This
seems to be a well established fact.
!1. ' Into bis own city." The P.oman
custom was to enrol persons nt the place of
residence, but the Jewish custom required
the enrolment to take place lu the native
city.
4. "Went up." From dallies to the
much more elevated region of llethlnhnm.
Citv of David." Where David was born.
f. "With Mary." It is uncertain who. bar
her presence was obligatory or voluntary,
but It Is obvious that, after what she had
suffered (Matt. 1:19), she chose to cling to
the presence and protection of tier hus
band. "Espoused wife." Hotter, "who was
betrothed to lilm."
. "While there." Cnur Augustus was
but an instrument In the hnnd of Provi
dence to f ti lllll the prophecy of Mlcah
(ehup. 6:'J) with respect lo tho birth-place
uf the Messiah.
7. "Her llrst-born son." That excellent
and glorious person, who was the flrs'-boru
of every creature, ami tho heir of all
things; whom all the llrst-born In the Old
Teslnment prelered; whom the angels
adore(Heb. 1;C); nud in whom those that
believe become the Hrst-born and the llrst
Iruits of God's creatures. "In a manger."
Probably some ca7e or grotto used for
sheltering cnttle, and perhaps belonging
to the same shepherds to whom tho"(liid
tidings" were llrst brought. "God and
mini; the old and new covenants; heaven
end earth, meet In u manger." The only
person who had the prlvlloire of chocslug
Ilia birthplace chose to he born in a man
ger. "lu -inn." "A square erection,
open Inside, where travelers put up, and
whose rear portions were used as stables."
H. "tfiune country." Near, probably not
n mile away. "Shepherd." It was very
proper that t lie announcement should bo
made to shepherds. Abraham mot, David,
i o whom tho promise uf the Messiah was
llrst mnde, were shepherds, and now tlio
Ohlef Shepherd la about to appear nnd the
shepherds are the llr-t to recsive the ulad
news. "Ill the Held." They undoubtedly
had tents or booths under which they
dwelt. "Keeping watch.... by night." Or.
"keeping nlghtwutehos." I'hay watched
by turns, against wild beasts and robbers.
The fact that the shepherds wore In the
llelds alfords no ground for concluding
thnt the nativity could not have taken
plueo In the winter. The nverage tempera
ture at Jerusalem for live youn was, lu
December, II ft y-foil r degrees,
9. "Angel." Divine messenger, "(,'nme
npou thum." Stood over them. "Glory
of the Lord." That extreme splendor in
which tho Deity is represented as appear
ing to men, and sometimes called tlin She
ehlnahaii appearance frequently attend
ed, as in this case, by n coal puny of angels.
It Is likely that the nugol appeared In the
air at some little d 1st inns above them, and
Unit from Him the rnys nf the glory of the
Lord shono round about them, as the ruyi
of light are projected from the suu. "Sore
nrrald." "I'orriiled with the appeunnce
of so glorious a being." There Is no proof
here that the sheplmrds were morally Im
pure ami afraid that divine justice was
about to be moled out to thorn. Even holy
men tremble when they come In contact
with the Mipernnturul.
10. "Good tidings." "The literal mean
ing of Gospel." 1 urn come to declare tha
loving-ltlndiiess of the Lord. My message
will cause irrout Joy. It Is a message to you
(Jews) llrst, and It also reaches to "all'tbe
people," II. V. To the whole human rnco.
Seo, Gen. 1J:.'I; Mutt. at:19; Luke S:31-:iS- ill
4rt. 47; (!ol. l:'Jl 2i.
II. "U born." Isn. 9:0; John 1.14.
"David's greater Sou begun his earthly
career In his ancestor's home. Seven hun
dred years before, n prophet had predicted
the Messluh'a birth at Jlethleliem. Mle. S
11." "A Savior." ( 1) A deliverer. (2) A
restorer. (S) A preserver. Matt. 1:21.
"Not .shall be n Suvlur.but 'horn a Savior.'"
"Christ." Tim Anointed One. Christ Is
the Greek word corresponding to the He
brew word Messiah, la ancient times pro
phots, priests and kings were anointed
with oil when ml apart to their sacred
worn. "Christ was anointed for these holy
unices, which we may share with Him by
Ills anointing us with the Holy Ghost."
"Christ is siilllolently qualified to sustain
these unspeakably Important oflloes
because Ho is "The Lord." Ood, as well
lis man."
12. "Aslun." The very tiling that would
have caused them to doubt wns mnde the
slitu unto them. Any fonr as to whether
thoy may approach the now-born King and
olTer Hlin tlielr homage ia dispelled by the
intimation or His lowly condition, while
their carnal views of the nature of Ills king
dom nro thereby counteracted.
lit. "A multitude." They descended to
honor the 1'rluce of Peace. "Heavenly
host." The army of nngnls which is renre.
son led as surrou itllng the throne of (tod.
Bee I Kings 22:19; I'sn. 103:20,21; 14s:2.
14. "lilory....lu the highest." Christ Is
the highest glory of God. "On earth peace."
Peace to muu; peace with God; peace of
conscience, "Good will." (tod bus shown
His good will by soudlnir the Messiah.
15. "Let us now go." There is no time
to lose. Let us go now. "This Is tho Inn
gunge of nbedlonae, desiring to receive as
surance and strength," byseeiug for them
telves "tills thing whlcu'ls come to pass."
1(1. "With baste." Filled and thrilled
with holy Joy they could not linger. "And
found." "It Is probable that by cnmmuul
' tiling tlielr experiences lo each other tUeli
lailh was greatly strengthened,''
Tea-Drinking In Kom i,
Tha Russians drink enormous quan
tities of tea, EUfllclent to frighten any
Englishman or American. The poor
people and the Russian people are
tho poorest In existence use the so
culled "brick" tea. This l the cheap
est sort, being mixed with stems, and
compressed by some adhesive gum Into
dry cake of various sites, resembling
In Its appearance "plug" tobacco. This
tea, which would probably prove pols
ououa to any one else, Is consumed by
the Russian worklngman at the aver
age rate of about twenty stakans (or
tumblers) a day, the Russian stakan
being qulto equal to five of the Utile
thimbles of cup used In America at
afternoon teas. Taking Into considera
tion that black, bout or bitter, brick
like bread, raw onions, garlic, dried
leather-flsb and strongly salted herr
ings are usually the chief articles of
food-of tbo people at large, one must
not wonder at tho enormous quantity
of hot tea needed to quench a Rus
sian's thirst and help on bis digestion.
I GOOD ROADS NOTES.
New fork's Iteatl Material.
The Slatd of Now York ayijojs ont
decidoil advantage in the Work ot con
strnctiup; improved roa Is in the fact
that it contains, within its own limits
ami pretty well distributed through
out its area, an ampin supply of Urst
rate raw material. There- nro doubt
less other .States as fully blest iu this
respect, ami ihcro nre certainly many
otheri not thus blest. Ou the whole,
it is doubtful if any other State with
so groat a proportionate extent of
levol nnd arable land has so abundant
nnd woll distributed it supply of road
making material.
There are few counties in tho State
in which quarries of p;ood road stone
are not now iu operation, uutl there
are still fewer in which such ijiinri ios
might not profitably bo opened. On
Long Island there is, wo believe, no
quarry, strictly speaking, but there
nro Humorous deposits of gravel and
bowlders, which may be utilized for
rondinuking with ndmirable resnlts.
The Hudson River region is thickly
dotted with quarries of limestone,
granite and trap. Iu the Catskill and
Hhnwaugunk mountains and along tho
Delaware and Susquehanna rivers and
their tributaries blitestone is plentiful,
with a liboral admixture of sandstone
nnd limestone. Along tho Mohawk
Valley and the line of the Erie Canal,
olear to Lake F.rie, snudstotto and
litneatotio nbotiud, ns thoy do north
ward, on Luke Ontario and the St.
Lawrence River. In tlio lake region
and the Southern Tior sandstone is
the chief material, with here and
there an outcropping of blnestoue.
We are not Hiiro that thero is more
thnn one county iu tho State outside
of Long Island in which there is not
n quarry of ono of these kinds of
ntoiie iu oporatiou. And wherever
such a quairy exists nothing is noedod
but a stone crusher to enable the out
putting ot llrst rate material for im
proved roads.
Tile value of these different sloues
for roadinnking vurios, of course, but
they are all good. Trap and granite
nre, ut doubt, the best, the former
because of its nnrivulod binding or
self-oeuientiug qualities, and the lat
ter beoaitso ot its hardness and dura
bility. Limestoue has fine binding
properties, but ia too toft to with
stand heavy trafllc. Blitestone and
other varieties of sandstone are not
particularly hard, and have almost
no biudiug qualities. It is evident,
however, that those less desirable
stones tuny profitably be combined
with other kinds, and that, thus a road
may bo" made which will be better
than auy of any singlo kind of stone;
while of course the poorest of them,
used alono, will make an incompara
bly better road than mere clny uud
loam. New York Tribnue.
The I.nsae-a We Kuller.
"It must bo plain to any one who
gives tho matter thought that we suf
fer enormous losses each year as tho
result of bad roads," says Otto
Doruer, chairman ot the League of
American Wheelmen Highway Im
provement Committee. "Rut what do
these losses really amount to, and how
much would bo saved, if we had uni
formly good roads? We may say that
it doesn't cost the farmer anything to
market his crops, because he does all
tho hauling himself. True, but iau't
his time worth something? Suppose
tbnt in plaoo ot every ton of wheat or
'lay or potatoos loaded ou his wagon
he was able, as n result of good roads,
to loud tip two tons and to market the
sntire crop of his farm with just half
I he labor and in just half tho time
which is required nt presunt, wouldu't
'.ho amount of time he could savo bn
worth something, and wouldn't it bn
worth saving? Labor is the farmer's
iv in king capital, which ho is continu
ally seeking to make as productive nt
oossible."
A Forward Look.
Iu speaking about good roads the
)lher duy Colonel Albert A. I'op
aid: "It iu estimated that iu Now
York City there are twelve thousand
'.rucks, carrying ou au average a load
if a ton aud a hull for three milos on
each of tho business days of the year,
md with uu average daily cost of fj!l
'or enoh truck. This means sixty-five
uilliou tons transported one mile in
svery year for $14, 000,000, cr about
twenty-two cents a ton a mile. This
'rausportation cau be done by rail at
Mx-tenths of a cent a milo. When
1 1 f highways have been so constructed
'.hat draught animals cau haul the
maximum load at the minimum price,
trhon the lowest freight rate and
greatest freight convenience have
been combined, or, in short, whon wo
have secured a tree interchange of
.oni modi ties throughout the civilized
world, wo shall have insured 'peace
tu J good will among the nations.'"
What Might lie Saved.
The office ot road inquiry in tha
Departmaut of Agriculture has esti
mated that ovor $1100,000,000 might
he saved aunuallinthe UnMed States
by the construction of good roads.
The statistics of the Department ot
Agrioulture show thu total amount of
all kinds of gruiu raised iu the United
States. The amount consumed on the
farms was estimated ns being offset by
a large amount of other articles
hauled by farmers on tho public roads.
I!y reduoiug this all to tons nud usiug
their inquiries into the cost of haul
ing one ton as a basis, it was found
that tho total cost of haulage amouut
od to $910,41 Lfiflu, and that two
thirds ot this enormous amount might
be saved each year.
A Strll.lii Katluiate.
Tt is estimated that it would be nec
essary to build about 1,000,003 miles
of tnaoadumizod roads in the United
States in order to have as good a sys
tem as ia fonnd in several Europe t
States. At $1000 a mils this would
involve au outlay of $1,000,000,000, a
pretty large sum. Rut it one-half ot
the draft animals oould be dispensed
with by the building of anon roads
there would be an annual saving of
$700,000,000 in the food bill. Conse
quently if road bonds were issued
bearing three percent, interest 0,000,
1)00 miles of macadamized road oould
bo built without increasing the annual
eipauaei one dollar.
A New Zealayder has patented a
(laid for marking cattle which will do
away with the necessity 0f braudiu.
The "Ivory" is a favorite shaving soap because it
makes a profuse rich lather, which softens the beard to
be removed and leaves the skin unharmed.
It costs about one-fifth as much as the so-called
shaving soaps and many who have used it for Ih'ts
purpose for years, will not have any other.
The vegetable oils of which Ivory So.ip is m;tde, fit It for many special usra
for which other soaps are unsafe or unsatisfactory. '
coevaiGHT laea av ths ssocTin a gamble go Cincinnati
NUTS AND DATES.
The cultnra of tho pistnebe nut 13
likely to prove of very considerable
value In California, Arizona and New
Mexico. With the exception of the
blme-consumed product of a few Iso
lated trees, the entire quantity now
used in this country Is imported und
Its use is limited almost exclusively to
Ice cream and confection flavoring,
says the Scientific American.
Along the Mediterranean, where the
choicest walnuts and almonds are
raised, the plstache Is considered tho
very brst of all nuts for table use. It
Is very nutritious and fattening and of
a delicious flavor of Its own, aud
should soon come to be a leading arti
cle of Its kind in our markets. Mr.
Bwlngle, who has been investigating
foreign plants and fruits, perfected ar
rangements by which some choice
gra'ts will reach this country next
spring.
While able to withstand considera
ble frost In winter, the date palm mqst
have a very dry and exceedingly hot
climate at the time of the ripening of
the dntes. The sandiest nnd, generally
speaking, the poorest soils produce the
best dates; while It will yield In nny
soil, it takes most kindly to otherwise
utmost worthless land, even that
which is white with alkali suiting It.
Still, an abundance of water Is at cer
tain periods of Its maturing quite nec
essary. Arizona Is thought to be a
good field for date-growing.
An Inriliaualiblfl Subject.
From the San Francisco Wave: Dr.
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Ureenacre Chautauqua in Maine, be
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tending the recent summer session of
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lecture well?" asked tho doctor. "Not
at all," answered his friend, "he sim
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"Ah!" queried the doctor, "then he Is
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