Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1891 — Page 3

The Man of Letters and the Burglar. A man of letters, reading late at night, became aware that a burglar was breaking through the wall of his house. He happened to have a teapot full of boiling water standing beford the fire, and this he took, placing it by the side of the wall while he waited for the burglar. Now, when the burglar had made an opening, he thrust his legs through first, whereupon the man of letters grasped them firmly and drenched them with boiling water. The burglar uttered a piercing cry and begged for mercy. But the other, continuing to pour oht the water, replied gravely: “Only wait till I have emptied my teapot?” • THE WABASH LIVE. H-andsome equipment. E-legant day coaches, and W-agner palace sleeping cars A-re in daily service B-etween the city of St. l<ouis A-nd New York and Boston. 8-pacioqs reclining chair cars 11-ave no equal L- ike those run by the I-ncomparable and only Wabash. , .K-ew trains and fast time E-very day in the year. “■ From East to West the sun’s bright ray. Smiles on the line that leads the way. MAGNIFICENT VESTIBULE EXPRESS TRAINS, running free reclining chair cars and palace sleepers to St. Louis, Kansas City, and Council Bluffs. The direct route to all points in Missouri, Kansas. Nebraska, lowa. Texas. Indian Territory. Arkansas, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming. Washington. Montana.and California. For rates, routes, maps, etc., apply to any ticket agent or address F. Chandleb, Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, Bt, Louis. Mo. Coen Hunting by Electric Light. It is stated that at Big Stone Gap, Va-, the electric lights are used in a novel way. The town, as laid off, is two miles wide and five miles Jong, and all this space is lit up by electric lights, so that the people hunt ’possums and’coons in the woods by the light of the electric lamps. Money the tear Round. Miss Smith says: “Can I make $25 per week in the plating business?” Yes. I make $4 to $8 per day plating tableware and jewelry and selling plates. H. K. Delno & Co., Columbus, 0., will give you "Tull information. A plater costs $5. Business is light and honorable arid makes money the year round. • A Readeb. She Has Arrived. She comes late, but the type-writeress is here. She advertises in a Kansas City daily in the same column with a “female lecturers,” and we may now expect to see the card of a “doctress” in some paper that makes such niee distinctions. Tydia Pinkham’s warning to mothers should be heeded by all. and "Guide to Health and Etiquette" heeded by every .Mother and Daughter in the civilized world. A Sad Mistake. 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A SERMON IN WISCONSIN THE AWFUL NECESSITY FOR CHRISTIAN EARNESTNESS. Dr, Talmage Illustrates the Opportunities of the Hour by the Example of Esther In Saving Her People—The Great Need of Aggressive Faith. Dr. Talmage preached at a Chautauqua assembly on the banks of Monona Lake, Wis. His text was Esther iv, 14, “Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom tor such a time as this?” Esther the Beautiful was the wife of Ahasuerus the Abominable. The time had come for her to present a petition to her infamous husband in behalf of the Israelitish nation, to which she had once belonged. She was afraid to undertake the work lest she should lose her own life, but her uncle, Mordecai, who had brought her up, encouraged her with the suggestion that probably she had been raised up of God for that peculiar mission. “Who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Esther had her God-appointed work; you and I have ours. It is my business to tell you what style of people we ought to be in order that we may meet the demand of the age in which God has cast our lot. If you have come expecting to hear abstractions discussed or dry technicalities of religion glorified, you have come to the wrong place; but if you really would like to know what this age has a right to expect of you as Christian men and women, then I am ready in the Lord’s name to look you in the face. When two armies have rushed into battle the officers of either army do not want a philosophical discussion about the chemical properties of hujtqan blood or the nature of gunpowder. They want some one to man the batteries and swab out the guns. And now; when all the forces of light and darkness, of Heaven and hell, have plynged into the tight, it is no time to give ourselves to the definitions and formulas and technicalities and conventionalities of religion. What we want is practical, earnest, consentrated, enthusiastic and triumphant help. What we need in the East you in Wisconsin need. In the first place, in order to meet the special demand of this age, you need to be an unmistakably aggressive Christian. Os half and half Christians we do not want any more. The church of Jesus Christ will be better without ten thousand of them. They are the chief obstacle to the church’s advancement. I am speaking of another kind of Christian. All the appliances for your becoming.an earnest Christian are at your hand, and there is a straight path for you into the broad daylight of God’s forgiveness. You may have come here today the bondsmen of the world, and yet before you go out of these doors you may become the princes of the Lord God Almighty. You know what excitement there is in this country when a foreign prince comes to our shores. “Why? Because it that some day he will sit upoi£a throne. But what fs all that honor compared with the honor to which God carts-'you—to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty; yea, to be queens and kings unto God? “They shall reign with Him forever and forever.” But, my, friends, you need to be aggressive Christians, and not like those persons who spend their lives in hugging their Christian graces and wondering why they do not make any progress. How much robustness of health would a man have if he hid himself in a dark closet? A great deal of the piety of the day is too exclusive. It hides itself. It needs more fresh air, more outdoor exercise. There are many Christians who are giving their entire life to self-exami-nation. They qje feeling their pulses to see what is the condition of their spiritual health. How long would a man have robust physical health if he kept all the days and weeks and months and years of his life feeling his pulse instead of going out into active, earnest, everyday work? I was once amid the wonderful, bewitching cactus growths of North Carolina. I never was more bewildered with the beauty of flowers, and yet when I would take up one of these cactuses and pull the leaves apart the beauty was all gone- You could hardly tell that it ever had been a flower. And there are a great many Christian people in this day just pulling apart their Christian experiences to see what there is in them, and there is nothing attractive left. This style of self-examination <is a damage instead of an advantage to their Christian character. I remember when I was ■’ boy I used to have a small piece in lUu garden that 1 called my own, and I planted corn there, and every few -days I would pull it up to see how fast it was growing. Now there are a great many Christian people in this day whose selfexamination merely amounts to the pulling up of that which they only yesterday or the day before planted. 'Oh, my friends, if you want to have a stalwart Christian .character, plant it right out of doors in the great field of Christian usefulness, and though storms may come upon.it and though the hot ■sun of trial may consume it, it will thrive until it becomes.a great tree, in which the fowls of Heaven may have their habitation. I have no patience with these flowerpot Christians. They keep themselves under shelter, and all their Christian experience in a small, exclusive circle, when they ought to plant it in the great garden of the Lord, so that the whole atmosphere could be aromatic with their Christian usefulness. What <we want in the Church of God is more brawn of piety. The century plant is wonderfully suggestive and wonderfully beautiful, but I never look at it without thinking of its parsimony. It lets whole generations go by before it puts forth one blossom. So I have really more heartfelt admiration when I see the dewy tears in the blue eyes of the violets, for they come every spring. My Christian friends, time is going by so rapidly that \ye cannot afford to be idle. A recent siatistican says that human life now has an average of only thirtytwo years. From these thirty-two years you must subtract all the time you take for sleep and the taking, of food and recreation; that will leave you about sixteen years. From those sixteen years you must subtract all the time you are necessarily engaged in the earning of a livelihood; that will leave you about eight years. From those eight years you must take all the days and weeks . and months—all the length of time that is passed in childhood and sickness, leaving you about one year in which to work for God. Oh, my soul, wake up! How darest thou sleep in harvest time and with so few hours in which to reap? So that I state it as a simple fact that all the time that the vast majority of you will have for the exclusive service of God will be less than one year! “But,” says some man, “I liberally support the Gospel, and the church is open and the Gospel is preached; all the spiritual advantages are spread before men, and if they want to be saved let them come to bo saved; I have discharged all my responsibility/’ Ahl is that the Master’s spirit? la there not an old book somewhere that commands us to go but into the highways and the hedges and compel the people to come in? What would have become of you- and me if Christ had not come down off the hills '• - • .•

of Heaven, and If He had not come through the door of the Bethlehem caravansary, and if He had not with the crushed hand of the crucifixion knocked at the iron gate of the sepulcher of our spiritual death, crying, “Lazarus, come forth?’’ Oh, my Christian friends, this is no time for inertia, when all the forces of darkness seem to be in full blast; when steam printing presses are publishing infidel tracts; when express railroad trains are carrying messengers of sin; when fast clippers are Jaden with opium and rum; when the night air of our cities is polluted with the laughter that breaks up from the ten thousand saloons of dissipation and abandonment; when the fires of the second deafth already are kindled in the cheeks who, only a little while ago, were mcorrupt Never since the curse fell upon the earth has there been a time when it was such an unwise, such a cruel, such an awful thing for the etinreh to sleep! The great audiences are gathered in temples of sin—tears of unutterable woe their baptism, the blood of crushed hearts the awful wine of their sacrament, blasphemies their litany, and the groans of the lost world* the organ dirge of their worship. Again, if you want to be qualified to meet the duties which this age demands of you, you must on the one hand avoid reckless iconoclasm, and on the other hand not stick too much to things because they are old. The air is Tull of new plans, new projects, new theories of government, new theologies, and I am amazed to see how so many Christians want only novelty in order to recommend a thing to their confidence; and so they vacillate and swing to and fro, and they are useless, and they are unhappy. New plans—seculer, ethical, philosophical, religious, cisatlantic, transatlantic. Ah, my brother, do not adopt a thing merely because it is new. Try it by the realities of a judgment day. But, on the other hand, do not adhere to anything merely because it is old. There is not a single enterprise of the church or the world but has sometimes been scoffed at. There was a time when men derided even Bible societies; and when a few young men met near a haystack in Massachusetts and organized the first missionary society ever organized in this country, there went laughter and ridicule all around the Christian Church. They said the undertaking was preposterous. And so, also the work of Jesus Christ was assailed. People cried out, “Whoever heard of such theories of ethics and government? Whoever noticed such a style of preaching as Jesus has?” Ezekiel has talked of mysterious wings and wheels. Here came a man from Capernaum and Gennesaret, and he drew his illustrations from the lakes, from the lilies, from the sand, from the ravine, from the cornstalks. How the Pharisees scoffedl How Herod derided! How Caiaphas hissed! And this Jesus they plucked by the beard, and they spat in His face, and they called Him, “this fellow!” All the great enterprises in and out of the church have at times beefi scoffed at, and there have been a great multitude who have thought that the ■chariot of God’s truth would fall to pieces if it once got Out of the old rut. And so there are those who have no patience with anything like improvement in church architecture, or with anything like good, hearty, earnest church singing, and they deride any form of religious discussion which goes down walking among everyday -men rather than that which makes an excursion on rhetorical stilts. Oh, that the Church of God would wake up to an adaptability of work. We must admit the simple fact that the churches of Jesus Christ in this day do not reach the. great masses. There are fifty thousand people in Edinburgh who never hear the gospel. There are one million people in London who never hear the gospel. There are at least three hundred thousand souls in the city of Brooklyn who come not under the immediate ministrations of Christ’s truth; and the Church of God in this day, instead of being a place full Os living epistles, read and known of all men, is more like a “dead letter” postoffice. “But,” say the people, “the world is going to be converted; you must be patient; the kingdoms of this world are to become the kingdoms of Christ.” Never, unless the Church of Jesus Christ puts on more speed and energy. Instead of the church converting the world, the world is converting the church. Here is a great fortress. How shall it be taken? An army comes and sits around about it, cuts off the supplies, and says, “Now we will just wait until from exhaustion and starvation they will have to give up.” Weeks’and months, and perhaps a year pass along, and finally the fortress surrenders through that starvation and exhaustion. But my friends, the fortresses of sin are never to be taken in that way. If they are taken for God it will be by storm. You will have to bring up the great siege guns of the gospel to the very wall and wheel the flying artillery into line, and when the armed injantry of Heaven shall confront the battlements you will have to give the quick command, “Forward! Charged’ Ah, my friends, there is work for you to do and for me to do in order to achieve this grand accomplishment! Here is a pulpit, and a 'Clergyman preaches in it. Your pulpitis thebank. Your pulpit is the store. Your pulpit is the editorial chair. Your pulpit is the anvil. Your pulpit is the house scaffolding. Your pulpit is the mechanic’s shop. I may stand in this place, and through cowardice or through self-seeking may keep back the word I ought to utter; while you, with sleeve rolled up and brow besweated with toil, may utter the word .that will jar the foundation of Heaven with the shout of a great victory. Oh, that to-day this whole audience might feel that the Lord Almighty is putting upon them the hands of ordination. Every one, go forth and preach this Gospel. You have as much right to preach as I have, or as any man has. Only find out the pulpit where God will have you preach, and there preach. Hedley Vicars was a wicked man in the English army. The grace of God came to him. He became an earnest and eminent Christian. They scoffed at him, and said: “You are a hypocrite. You are as bad as ever you were.” Still he kept his faith in Christ, and after awhile finding that they could not turn him aside by calling him a hypocrite, they said to him, “Oh, you are nothing but a fanatic.” That did not disturb him. He went on performing his Christian duty until he had formed all his troop into a Bible class, and the whole encampment was shaken with the presence of God. So Havelock went into the heathen temple in India while the English army was there, and put a candle into the hand of each of the heathen gods that stood around in the heathen temple, and by the light of those candles, held up by the idols, General Havelock preached righteousness, temperance and judgment to come. And who will say, on earth or in Heaven, that Havelock had not the right to preach? In the minister’s house where I prepared for college there was |man who worked, by the name of Peter Croy. He could neither read nor write, but he was a man of God. Often theologians would stop in the house—grave theologians—and at family prayers Peter would be called upon to lead, and all those wise men sat around, Wonder-struck at his rt* ligious efficiency. Wheii he prayed he reached up and seemed to take hold of the very throne of the Almighty, and he / t f '

— ■■■■ 1 ; talked with God until the very Heavens were bowed down into the sitting-room. Oh, if I were dying I would rather have plain Peter Croy kneel by my bedside and commend my immortal spirit to God than some heartless ecclesiastic arrayed in costly canonicals. Go preach this Gospel. You say you are not licensed. In the name of the Lord Almighty this morning I license you. Go preach the Gospel—preach it in the Sabbath schools, in the prayer meetings, in the highways, in the hedges. Woe be unto you if you preacla it not. I preach this sermon because I want to encourage all Christian workers in every possible department. Hosts of the living God, march on! march on! His spirit will bless you. His shield will defend you. His sword will strike for you. March on! March on! The last despotism will fall, and paganism will burn its idols and Mohammedanism will give up its false prophet and the great walls of superstition will come down in thunder and wreck at the long, loud blast of the Gospel trumpet. March on! March on! The besiegement will soon be ended. Only a few more steps on the long way; only a few more sturdy blows; only a few more battle cries. Then God will put: the laurel upon your brow, and from the living fountains of Heaven will bathe off the sweat, and the heat, and the*dust of the conflict. March on! March on! For you the time for work will soon be passed, and amid the outflashings of the judgment throne, and the trumpeting of resurrection angels, and the upheaving of a world of graves, and the hosanna of the saved, and the groaning of the lost we shall be rewarded for our faithfulness or punished for our stupidity. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting, and let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen. A Problem in Mathematics. “I am stumped,** said little Willie Bulltriger the other day, as he mournfully laid his slate and arithmetic on his teacher’s lap, and he rubbed his throbbing brow with the knuckle joints of all his fingers. “What’s the matter, Willie?" said the mistress in her kindest tones. “Which one is it!” “Oh! —it’s that’n about the eggs and the old hen and bad boy.” “Oh! I see. ‘lf a hen lays two eggs a day for seven days, and a bad boy breaks one each alternate day for two weeks, how many eggs will be left in the next!’ Why, that is not difficult to understand, Willie. That is easyl” “Yes. Part of it’s easy enough; but I can’t get the rest of it through my head. The boy can break the eggs easy enough; but I can’t understand the rest.” “Now, Willie if the hen lays two eggs each day for seven days, how many will there be in the nest, if nobody bothers them ?” “Why, fourteen, of course.” “Yes. Well, now, how many days are there in one week ?” “Seven.” “That’s easy. Now, if there are seven days in one week, how many are there in two weeks ?” “Fourteen.” “There. You are getting on nicely. Now if a bad boy breaks an egg on each alternate day, he will break just half as many eggs, as there are days, in two weeks, will he not ?” “Yes’um.” “Therefore, he will break how many eggs?” “Seven.” “That is right. Now, if there are fourteen eggs in the nest, and seven are broken, how many will remain?” “Why, seven.” “That is right, Willie. You see it is a very easy problem.” “Naw ’taint. That aint where I was stumped. I got it that way before. I understand that part; but the part about the hen’s what bothers me.” “About the hen?” “Yes. . Ma says no hen in American can lay two eggs a day.”— Through Mail. Parlor Game. The new game of “Bean bag” is becoming very popular among our socially inclined young people, and “Bean bag” parties are all the rage. The game is quite a novel one, and considerable skill can be developed in playing it. One of the best features is that it can be home made without expense. For ‘he benefit of those who would like a uew game to help pass away the winter evenings the following directions for manufacturing the apparatus may not come amiss: First, a board three feet long and one and a half feet wide, smooth on one side (if a board of the desired width can not be found two can be cleated together on the under side). One end of the board rests on the floor and the other is raised about nine inches by means of a prop, so it presents a sloping surface to the player. Nine inches from the top a hole six inches square is cut. Next make five cloth bags six inches square (when finished) and loosely fill them with beans, and one bag (called “Jumbo”), size six by ten inches. Each player stands five to eight paces from the board and throws all the bags, trying to make them go through the hole. Every bag going through the hole counts the player ten; 'those landing on the platform count five each, and all falling on the floor discounts ten. “Jumbo” must be thrown last and counts or discounts twice as much as one of the smaller bags. Any number of persons can play, but if the party is a large one captains may be appointed and sides chosen. The limit of the-game is usually five hundred.— Terpsichore. Preaching to a Small Congregation. • The country congregations of that day were largely made up of the best people in Georgia, and compared favorably with the congregations of the present day. Some, of course, were uncouth in manner, but hearty in hospitality. The smallest congregation I addressed during the first years of my ministry consisted of six persons, three men and three women. One March day afterward I rode ten miles through a drenching rain to Flatrock Chapel, in Putnam County, only to find two I persons there—a man and a boy. I was wet to the skin, and benumbed. After waiting a few minutes, and no additions coming, I said: “We might as well leave here as there will be no congregation.” The man quietly responded: “Through five miles of pelting rain I have come to hear preaching.” I saw at once my duty and replied, “You are right; you are entitled to it” For one hour I addressed my little congregation and was never listened to with more attention.— tiecollections of Bishop Pierce, of Georgia. Sincerity is an openness of heart; ’tis found in ft very lew people; and that which we see commonly is_not it/ but ft subtle dissimulation to gain the confidence of others.— Charron.

MARY ANDERSON NAVARRO. •* - - When She Arises and How She Spends the Hoy. Mary Anderson’s day begins early. She is up with the lark in the morning, and, dressed in heavy apparel and thick boots, goes swinging along the road with her husband by her side for a constitutional before breakfast, or she may vary it by a gallop on horseback or a drive in a wagon, but she begins her day by taking exercise, and after breakfast she plays tennis or croquet or visits or reads or writes letters, as the case may be. After luncheon there is another walk or ride and then an hour or so of painting or writing. Just at present both Mr. and Mrs. Navarro are busily engaged in furnishing a new home at Tunbridge

Wells. They have taken the lease of a place for seven years and are ransacking all England for antique furniture and pretty fixings. After an early dinner there is a gathering in the little drawingroom aud perhaps some game is played for an hour or so. By 10 o’clock the room is in darkness, and the next day the nappy couple begin again to ride and walk and visit or receive friends. Occasionally they go to London to see some new production at the theaters, for Mrs Navarro has not lost her interest in the stage to the extent that she can not enjoy a good play. Sometimes she comes down to London for dinner, but not often. If she accepted all the invitations she receives she would dine six nights a week from her own home. Her life just now is one long, restful holiday. She is enjoying every moment of it, as well she may. Her health is perfect. She is happy in her husband’s love, and her bank account is ample. She need give no thought for the morrow. All is peace and pleasure. “And you may say that we are both still Americans,” says Mr. Navarro, as he bids me good-by. “There is no more loyal American in the world than my wife. She would fight for the stars and stripes. In a little while, perhaps, she will go to America for a visit It will always be home to us!”— Philadelphia Press. How Fishes Breathe. The severe frost of last winter froze many rivers and lakes in England that are usualh open all the year round, and a gentleman who found small fishes dead wrote to Nature to ask, “How is it with the fish in countries like Siberia ? Do they desert those parts of the rivers which are frozen over, or are the currents more rapid, so as to transfer air beneath the ice from unfrozen parts, or, as in some glacier streams, are fish altogether absent?” Any one who has caught fish through ice three feet thick on Maine ponds will understand that fish live very comfortably so long as any part of the pond remains liquid. The waters of Siberia are likely to be abundantly stocked with fish, which will be found in the best condition when their house is sealed with frost. It is not necessary to suppose that air is carried under the ice from open places in the brooks. There is air enough in the water at all times to answer the purposes of the fish. The presence of air is best discovered by allowing the water slowly to become warm in a vessel of tin or iron. The air, which is held in the water very much as water is held in a sponge, is expanded by the heat, and may be seen gathering in small bubbles attached to the surface of the vessel. This must be a ipatter of common observation. It is this air that supplies the fishes with breath. It may be thought by some persons that fishes breathe water, for the writer has heard this statement; made; but such a view is not correct. The fish has no power to decompose water and get the needed oxygen from that source. As he is constituted he needs very little air. He is furnished with but little blood, and this is sufficiently oxidized by coming in contact with air in the water forced through his gills, which are his breathing apparatus. The effect of the air is seen when the fish is taken from the water. The gills suddenly redden. This is due to the rapid oxidation of the blood. The fish is killed by the excess of air. In the water he gets only the proportion that he needs. Altogether the fish must be very comfortable upder the ice during our hard winter. Street Car Etiquette. Rafael Joseffy, the pianist, is reputed to be one of the highest livers in town. As is usual with people who indulge in choice dishes, his disposition is merry. Mr. Joseffy boarded a Six Avenue car last night. Trouble was not on ibis mind. When a lady, a gentleman, a boy and a pug in arms boarded the car he felt so exuberant that he immediately arose and offered the lady his seat The lady accepted the maestro’s offer and sank down with the dear pug in her arms. “She was tired, poor thing,” mused Mr. Joseffy. The car proceeded a few blocks when a person sitting next to the woman arose to go out Mr. Joseffy essayed to occupy the vacant seat The woman, however, had seized the coat of her escort and given it to him. “A mistake,” muttered ’Mr. Joseffy, “she forgot that I had given her my seat” Five blocks farther on the woman’s vis-a-riggftrose signaled the conductor to stop the car. “•At last,” thought the pianist, and he moved towards the seat Before he reached the ccweted space the woman he had befriended touched the boy with her arjn, and he sat down where Mr. Joseffy had thought to seat himself. Joseffy did some very hard thinking, but, of course, he said nothing. At 34th street the person beside the boy arose. The woman leaned over towards Joseffy. “There is a seat,” she said, beaming at him. / “I beg pardon, madam," answered the artist, “I get off at 85th street, Give the seat to the pug."— New York World. , \ Ohosß quarters—twenty-five bent pieces held by a miser,

j |Blats oat Shoveling. Nearly all the annoyances of winter, ■ays the Philadelphia Call, arise from the fact that people do not know how to meet and manage them. Os these, getting the snow cleared off the pavement is the most troublesome, and causes no end of late arrivals at places of business and an untold amount of suffering from headache. All this can be avoided by attention to a few simple rules, based on scientific, mechanical, and anatomical facta: First, borrow a shovel. Next procure a pair of warm mittens, a neck-wrap of some kind, a bottle of arnica, and a chest protector. Now you are ready for work. Open the front door and push some of the snow from the front step. Now, having donned overshoes, which we forgot to mention, slip out and close the door after you, being careful to fix the dead-latch so it will not look. Take the shovel in your right hand, the thumb upward and the fingers clasped firmly but not too tightly around the handle. Many persons cramp their fingers by taking too close a grip, a practice which also tends to irritate the tender skin on the inside of the palm. Rest the steel end of the" shovel on the step and, placing one foot a little behind the other, let the handle sink of its own weight to an angle of forty-five degrees. Be careful about this angle, for up to this time the principle of a pivot is being used, and if the angle is more acute than . forty-five degrees it will be a sign that you are obtuse. Now bring forward the left hand and gently grasp the handle just two-thirds of the way from the top, raising the implement about seven and a half inches into the air for that purpose. If you take hold too low you force your right arm to do double work, as the left hand is merely a movable fulcrum. If too high the evil is increased, The shovel, if properly made, will nearly balance when the left hand is in just the right spot, aud after a few experiments this point can be determined and if necessary indicated by a pencil mark. It is well now to slowly swing the shovel back and forth in the air, with the hand in the positions indicated, until you acquire the proper motion. Next in order, not to get out of breath, rest the shovel on the steps, straighten your back bone, throw back your shoulders, and inhale the exhilarating, antiseptic winter air. Now look up and down the street until you see a boy. Beckon to him. "When he comes strike a bargain with him; give him the job and go in to breakfast. The Ruggedest Path in Life, If it be but irradiated by good health, is shorn of half its distasteful features. Hosts of distinguished men and women have uttered regrets for a past when young, full of vigor and hope, though battling with obstacles that seemed well-nigh insurmountable, their pulses beat, their veins tingled with the glow of joyous health. Chronic invalids, would you once more feel that glow, would you—as of yore—sleep, eat, digest perfectly? Then use, with persistence, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, foremost among tonics, most reliable of vitalizing medicines. Nervousness, dyspepsia, =hypochondria, a loss of appetite and,sleep, this grand reparative of a debilitated physique and impaired constitutional vigor speedily prevails against. Rheumatic and neuralgic ailments, malarial disorders, kidney troubles, and the growing infirmities of age are successfully combated by this benign specific. ’Twas In a Retired Nook. He was a stranger in Detroit, the guest of a city official who had been showing him around for two or three days. As they entered the City Hall recently they met a florid-faced gentleman of comfortable proportions whom the city official stopped to introduce to his friend. “This,” he said, “is Aid. So-and-Sc. Aiderman, this is my friend from Ohio.” "So you’re one of the aidermen, are you?” queried the Ohioan. "Guess we haven’t found your saloon yet” There was nothing in his countenance to indicate whether he spoke facetiously or in the honest belief that all Detroit aidermen own saloons. — Free Press. bead Booms. Os over 100 Western towns which boomed real estate up to S4OO a foot on “prospects,” not one of them has held its own m the last year, while in the case of some the same property has gone back to S6O per foot. It is estimated that California values have shrunk $50,000,000 in eighteen months. E. A. ROOD, Toledo, Ohio, says: “Hall’s Catarrh Cure cured my wife of catarrh fifteen years ago, aud she has had no return of it. It’S a sure cure.” Sold by Druggists, 75c, Trade of Japan. 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