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Holiday, , township charge of by John xe Peace leged his een pun- was cut. isted and ting scuf- h. ear his one-year- | and cut bled pro- leath re- wo other * rom sim- » seventh has died ‘a minor cord. records broken ~ handed nismated submit- on testi- oners. A. Bow- byterian signation 1 health this city ceedings, Seward ard Coal to Blair $75,000. erations ing em- NV. Pear- byterian ified his ccep ——— 1 A pn apa SRngeSnunted, Te THE PULPIT. A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY REV. W. T BEST. 5 Theme: Well Doing. Text: “If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.” —Gen., 4:7. : ~The farmer and the shephed both bidught an offering unto the Lord. We look at Cain’s offering and we say, the Lord will certainly bless Cain. What a costly offering he is presenting and how much hard work it must have taken to get it ready. Early and late has he worked through the long summer days. In the sweat of his: face he has plowed, and har- rowed, 'and sown, and cultivated, and now Providence has blessed him with a bountiful harvest. Look at the choice vegetables and the delicious fruits that go to make up his offer- ing! Surely the blessing is his. ¢ Abel selected a lamb from his flock without spot” or blemish; he cuts its throat; see the blood gush out! How cruel! God will certainly reject Abel. But God had respect unto Abel and his offering, but unto Cain and his offering he had not respect; Why? ‘Had he not worked hard and faith- fully? Hadn’t he acknowledged di- vine Providence? Yes, all this is true, but his heart was not right. His offering was .one of self-righteousness and good works. Abel came in God’s way, not by works, not by self-right- eousness, but by the blood. ‘Without the shedding of blood there is no re- mission of sin,” for ‘‘it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.” God taught our first parents this great lesson when He slew the animals to get coats of skin to clothe them. Abel had faith in God, and coming in God’s way, he believed God would receive him, so God testi- fied to his gifts that he was right- €ous. When Cain saw that Abel was ac- cepted he was wroth, and his coun- tenance fell. ‘And the Lord said ‘unto Cain, Why art thou wroth; and why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and. if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door.” What a warn- ing this! As if the Lord had said, ‘Cain I am no respector of persons; if you do right I will bless you just as willingly as I did Abel; but if you don’t do right, why, then, sin like a wild beast of prey ‘is crouched at your heart’s door, and is only wait- ing for a good opportunity to leap upon you.” Instead of heeding God's warning, Cain watched for an oppor- tunity, and as scon as it presented itself, he rose up against his brother and slew him. ‘‘And wherefore slew he him, because his own works were evil and his brother’s righteous.” Here are two young men both ‘en- gaged in good occupations and with equal privileges. One made a suc- cess of life, the other a failure. Up to the time of our text, if we look at Cain from the standpoint of this world, we would say he had done well; but it was he that did it. God’s word says, ‘by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.” “Salva- tion is not of works, lest any man should hoast:” Cain lived long enough *o make a mark in the world; but instead of making a mark in the world, God had to put a mark on him lest the world shoyld kill him. Even to this day he is despised as the first murderer. Abel’s life was short compared with that of Cain, yet it was long enough to be successful; and he is honored more to-day than ever before. Jesus Christ said, “Blessed are the meek; blessed are _ the pure in heart; blessed are, blessed re.”” Here we are distinctly told that t is not what a man has, not yet what he does, that obtains for him God’s blessings; but what he is. Sol- pmon said, “Keep thy heart with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life.” Well-doing is dependent on well-being. I. The first step in well-doing is to give one’s heart to God. If a man does not do well in this respect what is the result? He may have ever so good an opinion of him- self, all his ways may be clean in his own eyes, he may think he is better than anybody else; but God says his heart is deceitful and desperately wicked above all things, his throat is an open sepulechre, the poison of asps is under his lips, his mouth full of cursing, his feet swift to shed innd- cent blood, destruction and misery are in his ways, no fear of God be- fore his eyes. How can he escape the damnation of hell? ‘What worse error ‘is there than to suppose a man can do well with a wrong heart? We make an awful mistake if we suppose that religion is simply for the church and Sunday school.’ The farmer needs it to run his farm. The merchant to run his store. It isineeded by every individ- = that expects to make a success of ife. But remember that when a man’s heart is right with God he is just in a position to do well; the doing is still before him. Salvation is in three parts, an act, a work, a state. A man repents of his sims, accepts Christ by faith and salvation is to him an act of God’s free grace whereby he is saved. But how many there are that suppose that this is all there ‘is to salvation. The fact that a man was saved five years ago is no proof that he is saved to-day, or that he will be finally saved. From the day of a man’s conversion until the day of his death salvation is a work and he must “work it out,” or be forever lost. After death salvation is a state. II. The second step in well-doing is to take the Bible as one’s guide. It is doubtful whether there would be such a country in the world as the United States of America, were it not for the longings of Christopher Col- umbus to spread the knowledge of this book. To it we owe the immor- talization of the Mayflower and the sublimity of Plymouth Rock. The command rolled from bow to stern on the grand old Puritan vessel. “Pull down that sail, let not an oar touch the water, this is the Sabbath Day!” When the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Newburyport, they put down the old Bible and said, “We are going to build a nation on this Book.” It supported George Washington, the father of this country, and purchased for us our freedom, It made Daniel Webster the Biblical Concordance of the United States Senate and Patrick Henry and James Otis, like untc the Hebrew prophets, and now if you wish to understand one of the great- est events in our history, look at this picture. It ig that of a Kentucky youth, his arms are tired after chop- ping all day, yet he sits up till the midnight hour, and as the snow-wet logs crackle on the hearth and blaze up the chimney, he reads from this grand old Book, the Book, that in after years made him a leader, whose administration subdued a rebellion 8f eight million people, and the emanci- pator whose pen struck the shackles from the limbs of four million slaves, neither in this country nor elsewhére in the world shall ever dies the mem- ory of Abraham Lincoln. I heard Rev. John Mavity say one time that in his younger years he used to preach that if a man had a right heart every thing -else he did would be right; but, said he, ‘of late years, I have concluded that a man needs not only a right heart but a right head.” There is some truth in this statement. Isaiah tells us, we must “learn to do well.” Paul says, “Study to show thyself approved of God.” . ‘While I would say to every young man and woman, you ought to have the very best education possible, I would also say, let the Bible be to you the Book of Books. Nearly all the great men of the past owe their greatness to this Book. It is almost impossible to name any rule by which men have succeeded in life that has not its foundation in the Bible. The Book of Proverbs is especially full of such rules. John Quincy Adams made the Bible his constant companion. Amos Law- rence, the millionaire merchant of Boston, had inscribed on his pocket- book, the text, “What shall it profit a man-if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” No wonder he gave thousands of dollars to the cause of Christ. But what about the men who reject the Bible? Why, sin lieth at their door. The superstitious life of Byron, or the dying words of Voltaire will prove this statement. III. The third step in well-doing is to be honest. Your Book, the Bible, says, “Thou shalt not steal,” or in other words be honest. 1. Be honest with God. You have accepted Christ as your Saviour, and taken His Book as your guide; the Book tells you what is ex- pected of each one of His followers, and He tells you just the work what He wants you personally to do. Have you met both these requirements? 2. Be honest with yourself. You have a soul to save and a body to care for. You will be rewarded ac- cording to your works. 3. Be honest with your fellow- man. A man would steal a dellar on the same principle that he would steal a pin. Watch the little things; a gnat choked Pope Adrian; a nail turned a ship out of its course; a fily by walking from tree to tree revealed to the onlooker that the supposed dis- tant landscape was only a picture. Said a wholesale merchant to a customer, as he pointed to one of his clerks: ‘That young man, sir, is my banker, he handles every cent of money that passes through the store. He could cheat me out of thousands of dollars every year if he wanted to, but I am not afraid to trust him, he has proven himself to be strictly hon- est.” : * Said a merchant to one of his clerks: “Why didn’t that lady buy those goods?” ‘Because, sir, she wanted Middlesex cloth. “Why did you not show her the next pile, and call them Middlesex?” ‘‘Because, sir, they were not Middlesex.” “Well, said the merchant, if you are as par- ticular as all that vou will never do for me.” “Very well,” said the young man, “if I have to lie to keep my po- sition I will lose it.” When Abraham Lincoln had charge of Orfuts’ country store, he walked two miles to give a lady sit cents that he had overcharged her by mistake. Another time he made a mistake and sold a quarter of a pound of tea for a half pound. As soon as he discov- ered his error he could not rest till it was made right. After he was ad- mitted to the bar it was said of him that he would never defend a person whom he believed to be in the wrong, even if they offered him a large amount of money to do so. He undertook the Paterson trial, believing the man accused of murder to be innocent; but when. the trial was half through he changed his mind and dropped the case, refusing pay for his services. When the time came in our ‘history as a nation that the people began to distrust the corrupt politicians who were governing in the interests of slavery, the only hope of saving the ship of state was to place an honest man in the Presidential chair. Hon- est Abe Lincoln was the man selected. From a spiritual point of view we are debtors to all men, let us try and pay this debt, not only by our lives but by giving our substance to the cause of Christ throughout the world. IV. The next step in well-doing is to be men and women of Tact, Push and Principle. J Upon these three qualities depend the success of every man or woman from a business point of view. Sam- uel Budgett, the great English mer- chant, attributed his success to them. 1. Tact.—Tact is nothing more nor: less than the use of common sense, and it is so common that very few people possess as muck of it as they ought to. Many so called often speak of the ‘“‘hayseed from the country.” some of them when they visit farmer show themselves to be de- ficient in this quaiity of tact. Said one young man to his farmer friend: “What kind of a bird do you call that?’’ ‘‘A goose,” was the reply. “O, I see; you keep that to get gooseber- ries with.” A young lady from the city of Ottawa asked a friend of mine which of his cows gave the butter- milk. Every one who has heard or read Dr. Price’s address to young peo- ple will remember his apt illustration, “Tabby, why don’t you get up?” 2. Push.—Many people have tact enough to succeed, if they only had push enough to go with it. They can sell a book, or a bill of goods, but it takes them so long to do so, that there is no profit in it. Many of the greatest victories in the world’s his- cultured people farmer as the But the tory have been won by men while yet young in years. David, Luther, Alex- ander and the world’s Redeemer Himself are illustrations of this truth. 8.—Principle.—Tact and push would be a detriment to a man if he were without principle. An employer promised a clerk higher wages if he would treat the customers now and then to a glass, in order the he might sell them 3g bill of goods. The young man replied: “I thank God there is a poorhouse in my native town, and I will go there and die before I shall do such dirty work.” That was Principle. Nicholas Biddle, the first president of the United States Bank, requested ‘his employes at one time to work on Sunday. One young man lost his position rather than do so. That was Principle. When President Lincoln was re- nominated for the Presidency it be- came necessary to call for 500,000 re- cruits to reinforce the men at the front. His friends everywhere ad- vised him not to issue the order as it would endanger his re-election. He went personally before the congres- sional military committee where a similar attempt was made. With the fire of indignation flashing in his eyes he replied: “It is not necessary for me to be re-elected, but it is neces- sary for the soldiers at the front to be reinforced by 500,000 men, and I shall call for them: and if I go down under the act, I will go down like the Cumberland, with my colors flying.” 0, for more men and women of tact, push and principle. V. The fifth step in well doing is to be a man or woman of faith. When Thomas A. Edison first con- ceived the idea of the phonograph, he said: ‘I can make it.”’? During nine long years he never lost faith, though at times it seemed utterly impossible for him to succeed. And so it has been with nearly all of his great in- ventions; through faith he has pledded on night and day, sometimes forgetting to eat or sleep, vet ever confident that he was going to suc- ceed. The whole history of our country has been largely one of faith. From the day that Columbus crossed the Atlantic to the present day, near- ly every great move has appeared un- reasonable from a worldly standpoint, but has been undertaken through faith. And what shall I now say, for the time would fail me to tell of Gid- eon, and of Barak, and of Jephthae, and of the wonderful things they have accomplished through faith. The man or woman who lacks this quality of faith is of all persons most miserable, yea, sin lies at their door and wreaks vengeance upon them. They don’t enjoy their meals because they cannot trust the cook. The rail- way conductor is liable to run’ the train off the track, so what is the good of traveling? The very earth itself is liable to open up at any mo- ment and swallow them, and as for the Bible, it says, “He that doubteth is damned.” VI. Be men and women of cour- age. Perhaps there was never a time when we had so many examples of courage as we have to-day. When the ports of Europe closed against the Asiatic Squadron there was nothing left but to go to Manila. Many of our people feared the re- sults. But Ensign Dewey was a man of courage. By the forts, over the mines and into the harbor he sailed. The Spanish fleet was destroyed, many of the forts captured and finally Manila taken, 3 : .Hoébson was no less courageous when he sunk the Merrimac in the very centre of the enemies’ fire. The Plattsburgh boys while storm- ing the hills of Santiago sung in the very hottest of the battle: “ ‘Tis the star spangled banner, Oh! long may it wave, O’er the land of the free And the home of the brave!” We need more young people to-day who are not afarid of the fiery fur- nace, or the den of lions; young peo- ple who shall go out and meet Go- liath in the name of the God of Is- rael. VII. The last quality I shall name is Perseverance. Perseverance is the “long pull, strong pull, and pull altogether’ on “the home streten.” President Lincoln said of General Grant, ‘‘He is not easily excited, and he has the grip of a bull dog. When he once gets his teeth in, nothing can shake him off.” Jacob said to the angel, “I will not let thee go unless thou dost bless me.” The unjust judge said, “Though I fear not God, nor regard man, yet be- cause this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.” The King- dom of God suffereth violence, and the violent take it hy force. Robert Bruce made several unsuc- cessful attempts to possess his king- dom and crown. While seeking con- cealment from his foes'in a shattered barn: “He flung himself down in low despair, As grieved as man could be; And after a while as he pondered there, ‘I'll give it all up,’ said he. “Now just at that moment a spider dropped With its silken cobweb clew, And the king in the midst of his thinking Stopped to see what the spider would do. “ "Twas al long way up to the céiling dome, And it hung by a rope so fine, That how it would get to its cobweb home, King Bruce could not divine. “It soon began to cling and crawl Straight up with strong endeavor, But down it came, with a slipping sprawl, As near to the ground as ever.” Nine times the spider tried to reach its cobweb home, but every time it seemed to fall still lower. “ ‘Sure,’ cried the king, ‘that foolish thing Will strive no more to climb, When it toils so hard to reach and cling, And tumbles every time.” “But up the insect went once more, Ah me, ’tis an anxious minute, He's only a foot from his cobweb door, Oh, say, will he lose or win it? “Steadily, steadily, inch by inch, Higher and higher he got, And a bold little run at the very last pinch, Put him ‘into his native spot. “ ‘Bravo, bravo!’ the king cried out, ‘All honor to those who try; The spider up there defied despair, He conquered, and why shouldn't £2’ “And Bruce of Scotland braced his mind, And ps tell the tale, even as I follow Christ. That he tried once more as he tried before, And that time he did not fail. “Pay goodly heed, all you who read, And beware of saying, ‘I can’t;’ "Tis a cowardly word and apt to lead To idlness, folly and want.” I am now going to make a state- ment that I do not want anyone to. misunderstand. I would not have you think for a moment that I don’t believe that Christ is our example in all things, but Paul said follow me I am now going to hold up before the young people two persons who accepted Christ as their Saviour, His Word as their gtlide, and on the qualities named made a success of life. Let me first speak to the young men. England has given to the world some of the greatest men .in all branches of learning. To-day we place in the front ranks William Ewart Gladstone. He was born of wealthy parents and with royal blood in his veins. Instead of becoming dissipated as many a young man in such circumstances would have done, or instead of depending upon his so- cial standing, he took the course that I have already laid out in this sermon and by so doing “he being dead yet speaketh.” As a Christian he said, “‘Christ is the hope of my poor wayward life.” He never missed service on Sunday when well enough to attend. As a student he was graduated with high honors from Oxford, at the age of twenty. His library contained twenty-four thousand volumes. He is the author of a number of very im- portant works; several of them are on the Bible. He was one of the greatest orators and statesmen of his time. To be familiar with his life is to know Eng- land’s history for a period of sixty years. Before the young women I would hold up as the embodiment of the principles I have referred to in this address, one of -the greatest reforms- ers that has ever blessed cur coun- try. When her funeral car drew slowly into the city of Chicago, as many as 30,000 people turned out midst falling snow and sleet to take the last look at one of their greatest benefactors, Frances Elizabeth Wil- lard. They came from the North, South, East and West to pay their last tribute of respect. A wreath of flowers was sent by a young lady who had met Miss Willard but once. She was then on the correspondence staff of a city paper, and had been sent to interview Miss Willard, who was sick at the hotel and unable to fill her appointments. Miss Willard was seated in an easy chair, but when she saw the young lady’s pale and ema- ciated face she said, ‘Dearie, you have this chair, you look so tired.” The young lady said, #1 never forgot those words. She was the only per- son that had spoken a kind word to me since I said farewell to mother and the dear ones at home.” Miss Willard was true to Christ, denying herself every pleasure or: comfort that she might fill the posi- tion to which He had called her. Her influence is giving to the youth of this land a portion of knowledge that cannot fail to prove beneficial to them. Her honesty as well as her patriot- ism may be seen in the fact that dur- ing her visit to England, when: strained political relations existed be- tween England and this country, she said: “I am first a Christian, then I am a Saxon, then I am an American, and when I get home to heaven, I ex- pect to register from Evanston.” Her tact, push, principle, faith, courage and perseverance may be seen in the great organization known to-day throughout the world as ‘“The Wom- an’s Christian Temperance Union.” An army of heroic women who are battling for God and home and na- tive land." : In conclusion, let me say, life is to each one of us a great battle, and we must either win or lose it. Which shall it be? Let us take unto our- selves the whole armor of God, fight the good fight of faith, and endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ. The Captain of our salva- tion has never lost a battle. mn. “The Ideal Minister's Wife.” The following description is from one of the Methodist papers of Lon- don: ‘ The ideal minister's wife is queen in her home, ruling her affairs with discretion and looking well to the ways of her household. She has a keen interest in her husband’s people and spares no pains to get to know them. TUnselfish as regards her hus- band’s company, because of the many claims made upon him, she waives what seem to be her rights and finds ers. She practices the happy art of adapting herself to circumstances, and is able to converse easily with the intellectual and the unlearned. : Her manners are perfectly natural and entirely free from any tincture of patronage. Her dress is becoming, without dowdiness or loudness. She is not oversensitive to criticism. She fs discreet with her lips and thor- oughly good in heart and loves to sec- ond her husband's efforts in all the church work. She avoids being the leader of any clique, but acts in such a way that all feel they can approach her easily and confide in her perfect- ly. She listens to the sorrows of the people and feels with them and re- joices in their joys. She knows howtoentertain and how to be entertained. Shekeeps abreastof the times in reading and delights in self-culture. Knowingfor what special branch of work in the church she is gifted, she devotes herself to it with all her heart. Amiable, bright, pa- tient, tactful, ever striving to unlock human hearts with the key of love that she may lead them to the Divine Lover, she finds the minister's wife's lot though “onerous and difficult,” yet delightful and blessed, and the ‘“‘heart of her husband [and his peo- ple] doth safely trust in her.” “Who is sufficient for things?” and what minister is worthy of such a wife? ‘There is nothing said about who takes care of the chil- dren while the minister's “ideal wife” | is doing all these things.—-Christian Advocate. The Uses of Trials. I always fear lest trial might leave me as the wind which passes over the rock leaves it, hard and dry as before. -—H, Bonar. | | ing Gentile church in Antioch to their these | 1 IR. V.) her joy in knowing he is helping oth- | much in the way of persecution or | «This is just the place for Saul. T INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- MENTS FOR APRIL 25. Subject: The Gospel in Antioch, Acts 11:19-30; 12:25—Golden Text, Acts 11:26—Commit Verses 22, 23—Commentary on the Lesson. TIME.—A. D. 42, 43. PLACE.— Antioch. ya EXPOSITION.—I. Great Revival at Antioch, 19-21. It took years for them to learn that the Gospel was for men of every nation. But while these early Christians had not. as yet learned all things, they had learned some things well: (1) what to preach —*“the Word;” (2) how to preach— “speaking the Word” (R. V.). "They just talked the truth in a natural, un- stilted, conversational way. (3) Who ought to do the preaching—the rank and file of the church, for ‘“they that were scattered abroad” were not the apostles (comp. ch. 8:1). God had led on step by step; first, Jews, then Samaritans, then Jewish vroselytes, but at last genuine Gentiles. The first missionaries to the heathen were just ordinary lay Christians, wh» had gotten so full of the truth as it is in Jesus that they could no longer fcl- low the slow lead of the authorities in the church, but were forced to break the bonds of Jewish prejudice and narrowness and speak out to the perishing Gentiles. The movement was of God and soon carried the whole church with it. The word for preaching in v. 20 is not the same as in v. 19. It means ‘‘telling good tid- ings.” Those good tidings which they told are summed up in three words—*‘the Lord Jesus.” ‘They did not expend their strength in attack- ing heathen superstitions and immor- al practices. They told the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ. There is no proof that these men had the hand of bishops, presbytery or council upon them, but they had ‘the hand of the Lord with them.” The great secret of success in Christian work is here indicated. The outcome of the hand 6f the Lord being with them was, “a great number believed and turned unto the Lord.” State- ments similar to this abound in the Acts (v. 24; 2:47; 4:4; 5:14; 6:7; 9:31, 35, 42; 12:24, ete, etc.). We would do well to ask why the Gospel does not make the same uniform headway to-day. The answer, in part at least, is suggested in Acts 2:42; 6:4; Acts 1:8; 8:4. The faith of those converts in Antioch proved its genuineness by its effect — they “turned unto the Lord.” What is meant by turning unto the Lord is in- dicated by 1 Thess. 1:9; Acts 26:18, 20. We have in these verses a very clear setting forth of God’s part, the worker’s part, and the convert’s part, in repentance and conversion. The workers preached the word, the Lord Jesus (vs. 19, 20). ; II. Barnabas Follows Up the Work, 22-24. As soon as tidings of the Gentile revival at Antioch reached Jerusalem there was great interest there. They sent one of their best men to investigate and co-operate. “Ie was a good man.” Itis far more important that a man be good than that he be brilliant if he is to edify young converts. He was also “full of the Holy Ghost.” He was also “full of faith,” and no man that is not need , undertake the work of instructing and developing young converts, espe- cially converts from heathenism so dark as that in Antioch. He was free from the love of gold (ch. 4:36, 37). He was free from personal ambition and jealousy in his work (vs. 25, 26). He was very sharp-eyed to see the sincerity and promise of a young con- vert (ch. 9:27). “When he was come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad.” Barnabas was in sympa- thy with God and His work. It is sad to say that not a few who see the grace of God wrought through other hands than their own, are mad, and try to belittle it. Note the character of the working of God’s grace in An- tioch: it was a grace that could be “geen.” We need more of this visl- ble grace in our churches to-day. Bar- nabas knew just what to do. Exhor- tation was Barnabas’ forte (ch. 4:36, His exhortation was precise- ly that which should be’given to all young converts. It is not enough to “turn unto the Lord,” they must «cleave unto the Lord’ or continue in the Lord. This must be done with “purpose of heart.”” There is always worldly allurements of one kind or another to drew a Young convert away from the Lord, and unless they cleave to Him with fixedness of pur- pose, there is little hope. III. ‘The Ministry of Barnabas and Saul at Antioch, 25-30. Barnabas showed his largeness of spirit in still another way. He said to himself, will go get him.”” For a whole year Barnabas and Saul worked together in Antioch, and their work was great- ly blessed. Their ministry consisted largely in teaching, systematic incul- cation of revealed truth. The disci- ples got at this time the name by which they .are best known since— Christians. The name was given to them by others (perhaps in contempt, cf. ch. 26:2%: 1 Pet, 4:16). 1 wos a glorious name and they clung to it. The real prophetic gift was mani- fested in the church (vs. 27, 28; ef. ch. 21:10, 11). The self-sacrificing love of this young but rapidly grow- Jewish brethren in Judea is very touching. No sooner did they hear of the hard times coming than they determined to send relief ‘“‘unto the brethren that dwelt in all Judea.” J. Ogden Armour lays it down as | a rule that “when corn is high meat | is high.” It is his opinion that the price of corn will go down soon, and that the change will make meat cheaper. 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Thinking One’s Self Old, If at 30 you. expect te be an old man or woman at 55 you will be one, because the mind makes the material correspondence of whatever ‘it sets itself permanently upon.—Hearth Record. A CURE FOR FITS. ; ‘ The Treatment [Is to Accomplish What Science Has Beer ni n gling to Attain for Centuries. The intense interest that has been mani- fested throughout the country by the won- derful cures that arg being accomplished daily by epilepticide still continues. It is really surprising the vast number of people who have already been cured of fits and nervousness. In order that-everybody may have a chance to test the medicine, large trial bottles, valuable literature, History of Epilepsy and testimonials, will be sent by mail Liolutely free to all who write to the Dr. May Laboratory, 548 Pearl Street, Hew York City. ie epilepticide cure is creatin: pavlie interest, as well as amon ing tudents, Hospitals and visiting hysicians. Some men are so busy being lazy that they haven’t time for anything else. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens the gums, reducesinflamma- tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25¢ a bottle. EE lf Life in the Country. There are hardships in the country; struggles are necessary to wrest a livelihood from the soil or from busi- ness in a small community. But every stroke can be made to count for permanence. The food and the air are better; man’s independence is more real, where he can own the roof that shelters him. and the ground upon which he can grow his provi- sions. Every cow or horse added to his holdings is an increase of his cap- ital. Little by little, year by year, he can, with industry and good judg- ment increase his store of worldly goods and give to his children a tan- gible inheritance, a foothold in. their own land, an anchorage from which the shifting tides of trade cannot dis- lodge them. And while such a family is living its own life, solving its own problems; it may enjoy the same lit- erary and artistic pleasures, and the same general advantages that § the city family has.—Columbia State. Waste of Pine Timber. According to the best general esti- mate there has been cut and utilized in a very wasteful manner about 35 per cent of our coniferous or pine for- ests. About 15 per cent more has been wasted, leaving about 50 per cent of the total original supply for future use and waste. * Fine Steel. Sheffield turns out the finest, hard- est and most perfect steel the world produces; but even Sheffield can not turn out a sword- blade to compare with those the Saracens made and used hundreds of years ago. “COFFEE DOESN'T HURT ME” Tales That Are Told. “I was one of the kind who wouldn’t believe that coffee was hurting me,” says a N. Y. woman. “You just couldn’t convince me its use was con- nected with the heart and stomach trouble I suffered from most of the time. “My trouble finally got so bad I had to live on milk and toast almost entirely for three or four years. Still I loved the coffee and wouldn't be- lieve it could do such damage." “What I needed was to quit coffee and take nourishment in such form as my stomach could digest. “I had read much about Postum, but never thought it would fit my case until one day I decided to .quit coffee and give it a trial and make sure about it. So I got a package and carefully followed the directions. “Soon I began to get better and was able to eat .carefully selected foods without «the aid of pepsin or other digestants and it was not long before I was really a new woman physically. “Now I am healthy and sound, can eat anything and everything that comes along and I know this wonder- ful change is all due to my having quit coffee and got the nourishment I needed through this delicious Postum. ® “My wonder is why everyone don’t give up the old coffee and the trou- bles that go with it and build them- selves up as 1 have done, with Postum.” Easy to prove by 10 days’ trial of Postum in place of coffee. The re- ward is big. “There's a Reason.” Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human interest.
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