Ligonier Banner., Volume 32, Number 22, Ligonier, Noble County, 2 September 1897 — Page 7

HOT ENOUGH FOR HIM,

Ballor Ben sat in the sun when the maiden came that way. - “Hot enough for yeu, Uncle Ben?”’ was what I heard her say. - : “Wa’'al, yes,” the vet'ran made reply; ‘““that is, it’s warm somewhat, But folks that live round here about hain’t seen a day that’s hot. What do you say? It’s ninety-six! Why _ that ain’t nothin’, child; If you'd a-seen the day I did 'twould fairly make you wild : With thinkin’ what you hed been through, an’ that you’re still alive. Ah, yes! how well I recollect, 'twas eighteen fifty-five ; ; When Cousin Abe an’ Sime an’ me all went an’ hed our wish, - Runnin’ away on a mac’rel sloop to Newfoundland to fish. .

“That day? Oh, yes, I'll git to that; 'twas August on the banks, Aloft hung the sails all lifeless, an’ on our deck the planks : Was twistin’ an’ warpin’ an’ curlin’ up with the scorchin’ heat, ’ An’ none of us walked acrost ’em fur fear of blistered feet. ; But we had some ocmpensation, I guess you will agree; We ketched some nice biled mac'rel out of the steamin’ sea, Our ham an’ aigs we put on deck an’ let’em lay awhile; They soon got fried, an’ we eet ’em, miss, in reg’lar hotel style. All seams b’iled out pitch an’ oakum, an’ the sailors scraped off some Fur sech as were out of tobacker to use as chawin’ gum. {

“How did we live, did you ask me? T swan, I sca’cely know. ; We was all packed in ice an’ pickle, under " the decks below; As it was, Abe lost his whiskers, an’ Sime’s mustache come out, An’ as fur my hair, I hain’t it, fur I shed it all about, Same as the rest of thet crew did, endurin’ all that heat, Fur we was roasted through and through, Ssame as a piece of meat. How high was the thermometer? Oh. please don’t ask sech stuff; We hed a glass mos’ four feet long, but 'twasn’t long enough, So we—ah, you're goin’, be you? ‘Wa’'al, I think you will agree That the day we hed on the banks was quite hot enough fur me.”’ SHe went, and the sailor muttered: ‘“That’s eighteen times to-day I've been asked that same old chestnut; now, what'll a feller say?”’ —Will Templer, in Orange Judd Farmer.

WNWHNWWVWWWMWWNH% Che Light Beyond, £ . z BY FLORENCE A. MUNROE. fi %MKM\‘.MWWMMMAMW!& b NY of the fellers on this ranch A goin’ to cross the alkali soon?” “Yes, Tenderfoot Dick and me be goin’ to-morrow. Why?” *“Here's a bundle for Si Warner, who is blastin’ in the hills near Humboldt, an’ if you'll take it over I can get to ~Ogden ’fore night.” ' “Well, leave it. I'll take good keer of it “All right, Jake. Good-by.” _ “Good-by.” . I stood in the cabin door an’ watched the stage rattle off. 'Fore sunrise next, mornin’ we started. I'd ruther of taken anyone else but Tenderfoot, for he was lockin’ kinder done out. But the others were busy an’ I couldn’t go alone. The ponies were fresh an’ the ajir sweet with the perfume of the flowers. I kept my eve on Tenderfoot, for I saw he was dreamin’ again. A queer look used to come over his face sometimes an’ he would shut his teeth hard, as though he was tryin’ to keep somethin’ back. Soon the sun shot up over the edge of the prairie. Then he turned in his saddle, an’ said: :

“Jake, I'm glad you took me with you, for there’s something I want to teli you. This is my last trip. I'm going east when we get back to the ranch.” “Well,” 1 says, “you ain’t so welllecokin’ lately. What’s the matter? Den’t the fellers on the ranch treat you good, Tenderfoot?” - “It isn’t that. DBut somebody I love is waiting for me beyond that edge of light yonder, and I'm going back to her.” ¢ “Your mother?” -

“No; another woman.” ; - It was most noon now, an’ we wera gettin’ out of the grass land into the suge near the alkali. The glare of the sun was awful an’ the water in the cans hangin’ to the saddles was gettin’ hot. But we pulled our hats down over our eyes an’ keepin’ the ponies’ heads due uorth pushed on. The bundle for Warner was tied with a lot of other stuff to Tenderfoot’s saddle. Pretty soon he says to me: ' ; : “Jake, what’s in the bundle?? “Powder for Warner who is blastin’ in the hills.”

“Why didn’t you tell me! It'sdangercur work carrying it out in the open under a sun like this. Where did you get it?” :

- “Michals on the stage gave it to me yesterday. I've taken it ’fore. Give it to me if you're scared.”

“No,” he says, kinder slow; “you ought to know if you have done it before. T'll keep it right here.” Then he got to dreamin’ again. Iwas gettin’ tired of waitin’ for him to tell me what he promised, but didn’t like to speak up an’ bring it ’bout. When twilight came over the Humboldt hills, five miles off, we halted. I built a great smudge to keep way the flies an’ mosquitoes, an’ Tenderfoot got the supper. Then we lit our pipes. We had to wait for the moon to rise ’fore we could push on. The wind began blowin’ pretty hard an’ Tenderfoot’s pony was runnin’ loose "bout 100 feet from him with the bundle still tied to the saddle. Once I got up to take it off—but there wasn’t any danger. I'd taken the stuff ’fore. But it wouldn’t take much. A spark from the smudge! Lo alee T

Tenderfoot had emptied his pipe an’ was sittin’ on the other side of the fire, his eyes lookin’ into mine. “Jake, I never told anybody on the ranch much about myself, but it’s just six years ago to-night since I left home and I'm going to tell you why,” . “I can guess. It was that other woman, wasn’t it?” “Yes. The same old story; drink and cards. One day she says to me: ‘Dick, this is your last chance, I can stand the liquor, but the cards I won’t.’ I promised her I'd stop, but the next night went home worse than ever, She met me at the door, her eyes all red with erying, and says: ‘A woman can’t put up with everything, even if she does ~love a man. I am tired of trying to bring you out of the ways of darkness into the light, but I can’t. Dick, you and I had better part. But I loveyou, Dick! I love you!’ I didn’t wait for her to finish that sentence, but rushed ~out of the house and never stopped (#ill I got to Bryce's, where I used to A e S e ;i"'p: i M

play. And that night I did play. By midnight I lost every dollar I had. Then I staked the home and lost that, too. Then, Jake, I put her father’s name on a piece of paper and it went with the rest. The fellow who had it all says: ‘You’d better get out of Cartersville by morning, or they’ll put you behind the bars for this.’ .

“If I had been all right I would have stayed and braved it out, but I was a coward. The worst kind, Jake, because I was afraid of myself. A freight had pulled in at the station and I had got on.and rode as far as Chicago. From there I worked my way to this ranch. But I am going home now, with all the money to pay those debts; going back after six years of darkness into the light beyond the prairies—back to the woman I love.” : It must have been a hawk that fright= ened Tenderfoot’s pony. I saw him give .a jump, then turn and make straight for the fire. I tried to stop him. But Tenderfoot was ahead of me an’ grabbed him by the neck to push him back. It was too late. The sparks tlew in every direction, an’ somethin’ seemed to hit me in the head an’ I was fallin’, an’ I couldn’t stop myself. The next thing I knew the sun was once more kissin’ the eastern edge of the prairie. In the dim light I could see a horse lyin’ dead not far from me. A little further on lay Tenderfoot. I tried to pull myself up, but I was too sore an’ stiff.

“Tenderfoot,” I says, “wake up. It’s time we were goin’ on.” ' No answer. - : Then I tried to crawl over to him, but couldn’t. By and by 1 kinder come to myself. It was gettin’ clearer now. Tenderfoot was tellin’ me the story as how he was goin’ out of the darkness into the light an’ 1 was listenin’. But my head was on fire inside. ‘“Tenderfoot,” I says, an’ a big lump come in my throat, *it’s all my fault. But you needn’t be scared now for 'm watchin’ an’ won’t leave you ’lone.” I must have fallen asieep again, for when I come to myself the sun was high. Two hawks was circlin’ ’bove us. Nothin’ else was in sight. I got up an’ looked ’round. First I looked to where Warner was blastin’ in the hills five miles 'way, then up at the hawks an’ then down to Tenderfoot, who was ly=in” so white and still, an’ I says: “I heard what you said, Tenderfoot, an’ T'll go back to Cartersville with the money to square things up. An’ I'll tell the woman that you can’t go to her; but you’re waitin’ for her on the prairies just beyond the light.” I wrapped my blanket 'round him an’ lifted him as though he was a baby an’ I started to walk across the alkali to where \Warner was blastin’ in the hills. But how I got there, God only knows.—Detroit Free Press. - NOT SYMPATHETIC ENOUGH, So She Ilroke Her Engagement with Charley, Who Lacked 'T'hat Merit. “I've broken the engagement,” an= nounced the sentimental girl, sadly, and her companion looked up in surprise. “Why, Alicia Angelia Martin!” she exclaimed breathlessly, *l'm too astounded to speak. 1 thought you told me only yesterday that you loved him better than all the world, and couldn’t live without him.” -

“So 1 did,” responded the sentimental girl, sighing like a furnace, “but I had to do it, just the same. You know how my nature craves and neceds sympathy —our new minister says I’'m one of the very few women he knows who would starve, spirituglly speaking, without affection—and I've never fancied that Charlie was quite as sympathetic as he might be. He was always saying something which jarred on my nerves just a little, you know, and yesterday I made up my mind that after we were married it would be torture, and that I’d better end it. . Our minister—he’s only 26, my dear, and the nicest boy you ever saw —had just been talking to me about the solemnity of getting married and all that, you know, and he was perfectly lovely. We were sitting on the front porch, in the shade of the big vine there, and I had on that lovely black chiffon frock of mine. Charlie hates it like poison; but I knew the minister thinks it’s lovely, and 1 really do look nice 1 at.

*“Well, just as he finished his nice little sermon, who should come in at the gate but Charlie—who’d been away for a week-—and I just flew down the path to meet him. Mme. Farroni says I run very gracefully, and I knew that the dress would float out beautifully.

“*You look like a dear little blackbird,” Charlie told me as we came up the steps, and the minister bowed and said, with the sweetest smile: ‘Not a blackbird, surely, Mr. Browne, but a sweet little dove.” -

* ‘No,” answered Charlie, who hates the minister worse than a mad dog, ‘like a blackbird, as I said, or—’ seeing that I was frowning at him, I suppose sate dear little bat. :

- *Now, what do you think of that? A bat! And when the minister had just said I looked like a lovely white dove. I just made up my mind, all in a minute —I wasn’t mad, either, and you needn’t think it—only determined—that Charlie and I would never live happily together, anyway, and—and—l gave him back his ring. The minister? "Oh, we —we—we're going tandem riding tomorrow.”—Chicago Times-Herald.

A Scat on the Platform.

‘During the ten years he was in Australia as bishop of Melbourne, Dr. Moorhouse, the present bishop of Manchester, made himself very popular by his geniality, tolerance and common sense, One night the bishop was about to lecture in a little township perched on a plateau gn' the Australian Alps. The hall was packed, but a young bushman, attired in a striped shirt and moleskin trousers, and wearing a flaming red comforter, was determined to push his way to the front. He thought he saw a vacant seat on the platform and made for it. “Would you mind shoving up a bit, missus?” he said to a quiet, pleas-ant-faced lady. *“No, no, you mustn’t sit there,” interposed a local clergyman. ‘‘That’s the bishop’s wife.” “Nonsense,” said the bishop, who had overheard the remark. “Squeeze up a bit, Mary.” Mrs. Moorhouse laughingly obeyed, and the young bushman in many-colored attire sat by the side of the bishop’s wife throughout the leeture.—Youth’s Companion,

~—All the fish deserted the Spithead waters during the naval review on account of the number of boats present and the firing of the guns, ;

WOMAN AND HOME.

TEACH THEM EARLY.

Children Should Be Made to Understand the Value of Money. :

One of the most serious problems that meets us in life is that of the proper use of money. Profess indifference to it as we may, it is the great factor in human existence, - without which, at the present day, nothing can go on. It seems curious that, in the face of social matters as we find them, no more attention is paid to teaching children the value of money. How much misery would be suved were this little precaution taken! A father dies, and suddenly a family accustomed to live at the rate of a thousand a year, discovers that there is little or nothing left for them.

If the boys and girls are so fortunate as to procure positions that bring in a living income, how ditficult do they find it to live on the amount, simply because they have never been taught the value of a quarter. They " have had the use of an allowance as children, but no idea of its expenditure has ever been given them. When they ran short and required more than they had for some coveted pleasure they supplied the deficiency by borrowing of a more careful relative, promising to pay on next allowance day, thus establishing a bad precedent. Children should not be taught to be niggardly, but if a sufficient income is allopved them, they should be taught to malke it sufficient. They should be taught to reflect before spending their money, so that it may not all go for taffy the first week, leaving a long blank of days when the glories of marbles, kites and other toys brighten in proportion to the impossibility to obtain them unless some obliging relative makes a loan. '

A girl should know the proper use of her income as well as should a boy, and a boy should be taught to scorn as unmanly and unworthy ‘“a squire of dames,” borrowing for his own amusements money which his more careful sister has saved. To do otherwise, is to permit him a selfishness which may develop into a carelessness of the feelinge of others (particularly the women of his family, be it wife, mother or sister), so long as his own wants ure supplied. ' : . Money and its handling is the keynote to the human character, therefore to its spending should more serious thought be given than has hitherto been universally considered necessary. —Emma Churchman Hewitt, in - Ladies’ World. :

NEW MASSAGE ROLLER.

Electric Beautifier Removes Wrinkles nnd Blemishes. :

A new beautifier which is warranted to produce a perfect complexion, removing wrinkles and all facial blemishes, is an electric massage roller. This roller is ready for use at any time and does not require recharging. It is formed like the blotter rollers and used in the same way. It is far more ornamental than any device yet produced for a similar purpose, being furnished in silver and gold. It is said to be most effectual in building up the muscles and tissues as well as reducing unsightly corpulence. Its work is not confined to the face alone, but will do

& ,/z_\ ~)"’). 3 D G : \V/f SO\ ( AN | o \\lm% ) 6/ e MASSAGE ROLLER. good to any part of the body to which it is applied, developing or reducing as desired. The inventor does not state whether there are any better results to be obtained from the use of the gold cure than the silver cure, but it may be inferred that the roller which brings the most money into his pocket is possessed of far better properties in all sorts of disorders. At any rate it is a very pretty addition to the toilet table.—Chi€ago Tribune. WALL DECORATIONS. Latest Wall Papers Show an All-Over Watered Moire Ground. The latest development in wall paper shows neither flower, nor figure, nor stripe, nor circle. It is simply an allover watered or moire ground, like a picce of silk or satin moire, and is brought out in all satisfactory tints and shades. Panels of this moire paper used perpendicularly on a calcimined wall surface, the panels being defined with “a narrow gilt molding, afford an effective treatment for a drawing-room. A sample lately seen was in leaf green moire paper, put on in up and down panels three-quarters of a yard wide on a wall surface tinted in a paler shade of green. The gilt moldings that edged the panels were chased and ornamented, and not even a very close observer would have discovered that the moire was paper and not silk. : Other new papers show the delicate exactness and finely wrought figures and flowers of the Louis XVI. broches and draperies, but most of the lately set up papers have large, bold patterns, either in scrolls or conventionalized designs. A new treatment for these large flowered papers is to have a very deep dado and frieze of narrow striped paper of the two main colors of the pattern. A room decorated in lavender paper, in which fleurs delis on an ivory ground formed the main coloring, had a very deep dado of lavender and cream striped paper, marked by a white molding and a frieze of the same striped lavender and white paper above. By using dados of either striped or plain colored cartridge paper the boldest patterns in flowered or figureéqd wall paper may be employed successfully without detracting from the size of })%,e room.—Chicago Tribune. : : %

When Teapots Were Invented.

Teapots were the invention of either the Indians or the Chinese, and are of uncertain antiquity. They came to Europe with tea in 1610, }

FUN ON THE BICYCLE. The Gymihana Is Rare Sport for Skiliful Woman Riders. The gymkhana is a sort of bicycle tournament that English women, and men, too, began to indulge a year or two ago. The word is Indian, and implies our idea of circus. The feats of the *“‘gymkhana” can be performed in the open or in a large hall. It is not warm fun for a scorcher. It is a graceful and temperate sport, more like a quadrille than a handicap. The men taking part may wear white knickerbockers, red coats, red and white jockey caps, red stockings and white shoes, the girls white duck skirts, red and white 'striped shirt waists, red leather belt, white sailor hat with red band, red stockings and white shoes. To carry out the effect the costumes should be identical.

The entertainment opens with an overture by the band, followed by a musical ride by 16 ladies and gentlemen, mounted on wheels, which have been decorated with red and white ribbons. They circle slowly around the hall once, then down the center in twos, . (A “ i PR T A =~ @ ¢ Pl \ ./\. L | sl = N \ \ N ',\ ¥ \‘\ \ > T % N v AR N i @TR o 4 /f/ 41 R 0 4\l ‘L’:fi;fi,'fi’ N U =D J) \ L S . =K TILT IN THE BICYCLE GYI\IKHA}IA. then in fours, then eight in a row, and lastly 16 straight across. @ When the lines are kept true the effect is delightful. Then they wind like the letter S in single file from the top of the hall down and back, then the ladies start from one corner, the gentlemen from the opposite, and they cross each other, one at a time, near the center, forming a letter X. They end by forming a ring in the center and winding in and out until the leader has been to the center and out again. Then they ride out to the dressing-rooms and that completes the musical ride. Next may come a potato race. The leader comes out and places at intervals down the hall three potatoes on thke right and three potatoes on the left, the same distance apart. When the signal is given a girl on a bicycle starts down the right side, a man rides down the left side, until they reach the potato which is farthest down the line. They dismount, pick up the potato and carry it on their wheel back tc the leader, dropping it at his feet. They turn, ride back, dismount for the second potato, ride with it back to the leader, and so on, until they have each gathered up their row.. Usually a girl will mount more quickly than a man, and is, therefore, iyimre apt to win in a potato race. Two more couples try their skill in this direction, and then there is a final heat for the winners.

Next comes an overture by the band, when fancy riding may be introduced, and a clown and possibly a stuffed figure tied on to his bicycle will make a little extra fun, ‘ The fifth feat might be the winding of a May pole by 12 little girls in white dresses and garlands on their heads, and their bicycles also bedecked with paper roses. Then follows an obstacle race. Two long benches are placed across the hall, another at the extreme end of the hall, on which rests a box of soda crackers, and at the upper end of the hall a table containing several glasses of lemonade. When all is ready a signal is given and four young men on their wheels ride down the center, lift their bicycles over the intervening benches, mount again, ride up to the cracker box, dismount, eat one cracker and return as them came, pausing at the table to drink a glass of lemonade, after which they make a complete circuit of the hall before the race is ended. Next the lancer is “danced,” if one may be allowed that word, by 16 men and maidens on their wheels. They form in two sets and go through the figures of the lancers, circling around each other instead of *turning partners,”” and ending with the grand chain, making one of the prettiest items of the evening. gt The thread and needle race consists of four young ladies riding down the hall and each presenting a young man with a spool of thread and needle. He must thread the needle while she waits on -her wheel. When it is returned to her she rides back with it to the leader. Tilting at the ring is the most difficult feat for the amateur bicyclist to attempt. It means being able to carry a long spear while riding at full speed and putting this through a series of rings, which are suspended from a gibbetlike arrangement, over the rider’s head. This can be arranged in three heats, with a prize for the winner. If one has tried to see how slowly one can go on a wheel without actually talling off one will know how difficult it is to win in a tortoise race, where the victor is he who comes in last.

How to Protect Bread.

The practice of wrapping each loaf of bread in oiled paper when it is taken from the oven and sealing the knot of the string holding the paper, as is done in a few first-class shops on the other side, is desirable for protecting bread when the loaf has to be handled many times in the process of delivery. The bread is protected from dust and handling as well as the possibility of bacilli, and the paper prevents the moisture in the bread from escaping and keeps the bread f{resh. :

‘A Victim of Imagination. A London physician recently fell from his bicycle, but no serious injury was sustained, so far as could be determined. He progressed well for two weeks, when he suddenly said: “I know 1 am going to die of tetanus next Sunday.” There was no indication of disease, but he insisted upon having antitoxin treatment. On Thursday the disease developed, and on Sunday he died from itq{ effects. This is supposed to be a clear ecase of the disease-produc~ iug power of imagination, .

THE SUNUAY Conupl. international Lesson for September 5, 1887—Gentiles Giving for Jewish Christinns—ll Corinthinns 9:1-11. [Arranged from Peloubet’'s Notes.] GOLDEN TEXT.—For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.—2 Cor. 8:9. : THE SECTION includes the passages referred to below in connection with alms for Jewish Christians, and the whole of 2 Corinthians, especially chapters 8 and 9. TIME.—The secend Epistle to the Corinthians was written in the autumn of A. D. 57, or nearly in 58, a few months after the first Epistle. : : : PLACE.—Written to the church in Corinth, from one of the churches of Macedonia, probably Philippt. EXPLANATORY. ‘ 1. The Need of Liberal Giving.—Vs. 1, 2. 1. “As touching the ministering to the saints:” Paul refers to the collection he was taking up in Macedonia and Greeco for the poor at Jerusalem. The Jewish Christians were, as a rule, from the poorer classes. The opposition to them as Christians made it difficult for them to obtain work for their support. A large number of the Jewish Christians were proselytes from various distant countries, and without their natural means of support. “Itis superfluous for me to write to you:” I do not need to press upon you a duty you are so well performing (v. 2). But there were brief remarks and suggestions to be made concerning it.

11. The Power of Example in Giving. —Vs. 2-4. 2. “I boast * * * that Achaia,” Greece, of which Corinth was the chief city, and where was the principal church, “was ready a year ago:” (2 Cor. 8:10). They decided to raise the: money, and began with great enthusiasm, but apparently their zeal had cooled a little, and the collection had moved slowly. “Your zeal hath provoked:” In a good sense, “stirred un,” awakened similar interest in other churches. 3. “Have I sent the brethren:” Titus and his two companions mentioned in chapter 8:6, 16, 22, who were about to proceed to Corinth to attend to this matter. ‘“Lest our boasting:” Our glorying, our praise of your generosity. “Should be in vain:” What a slur upon them, what an, evil example to others, what humiliation to himself, if their generosity sheould be but wind and clouds of promise, without the rain of good deeds! “That * * * ye may be ready:’” Prepared with the money, collected from week to week, as the Lord had prospered them. 4. “If they of Macedonia come with me:” DPaul was attended from city to city by traveling companions, who conducted him on his way. As he was now in Macedonia, it was in accordance with the usual custom that Macedonians should attend him to Corinth. 111. Liberal Giving will be Systematiec.—V. 5. ‘“Necessary to exhort:” to entreat, ‘““the brethren:’® Titus and his companions. It was work they did not like. They would rather preach the Gospel and aid Paul than to go about raising money from those who should have given it freely. ‘Make up beforehand:” DPut fully in order, complete. “Your bounty:” Literally, “your blessing,” expressed in your gifts. “Ye had notice before:” Not announced to them, but announced concerning them. IV. Sowing and Reaping. One Great Principle in Giving.—V. 6. “He which soweth sparingly:” This is the universal law, observed on every hand. “Bountifully,” “with blessings. The plural denotes a variety of blessings.” —DBeet. The two laws of sowing are, first, we shall reap what we sow, or what naturally grows from the seed. If we sow to righteousness, we shall reap righteousness; if we sow to the happiness of others, we shall reap that happiness. The second law is: That we shall reap in proportion to the sowing, only more abundantly. If we do little for others, if we give little for the progress of the world, if we spend little time or effort in growing good, or doing good, the results will be small. V. The Cheerful Giver.—V. 7. “As he purposeth in his heart:” As his heart decides that he should give. “Not grudgingly:” Literally, out of sorrow, constrained to give when he would rather not, as he would takea disagreeable medicine, or have a tooth pulled. “God loveth a cheerful giver.” There is no mistaking its import. God loves a whole-souled giver—one who is not ashamed of the cause for which he gives—one who, with a strong, buoyant, joyous confidence in the cause, in the men who are working with him for it, and, above all, in the God who directs the work, gives freely, heartily and with a swing. ' VI. The Divine Rewards of Liberality.—Vs. 8-11. 8. “God isable to make all grace abound:” Grace—favor, gift, whether temporal or spiritual, the means of giving, as well as cheerfulness In the act. “That ye# # #*having all sufficiency:” It is the state of mind which, needing nothing but the barest necessaries, regards all other things as superfluities, to be parted with whenever the needs of otherssrequire them. “That ye ¥ * % may abound to every good work:” God has dealt bountifully with us that we may be able to be bountiful in helping others. 10. “Now he that ministereth,” i. e., God. “Both ministers:”- This is nota prayer, but a statement of fact. “Bread for your food:” He will take care that your own wants are cared for. ‘“Multiply your seed sown:” Your means of liberality, of doing good to others, and the results and harvest.

THE WORK-A-DAY WORLD.

Paris has 48,000 artists. Japan has 2,000 newspapers. There are 15,000,000 miners. Japan has 300,000 unionists. ; Dublin has 600 union dockers. Hamburg has 12,000 union dockers. Congressman De Graffenreid was once a brakeman. Signalmen and shunters employed by a railroad in Scotland wish shorter hours and higher wages. The wages asked for are from 25 shillings to 30 shillings,with rate and quarter.for overtime. In the Transvaal republic in South Africa, wages of mechanics and miners vary from three to four per day, while bread is sold at about six cents per pound; milk, 24 cents per quart; potatoes, five to ten cents per pound; bacon, 30 cents; beef, 16 cents. The Belfast employers have voluntarily (as a “Jubilee” mementi) reduced the week’s work to 52 hours per week, instead of 54 hours. Dublin printers are thinking that they could also do with a similar working week, and will shortly demand this conR TGRS O SO RE B A o Sy e R

CURED OF CHOREA. How a Well-Known Young Lady of Du Page Was Freed from St. Vitus’ Dance. ; From the American, Newark, O. : Miss Francis E. Barber, daughter of Mr. Franklin C. Barber, of Du Page, Ills., who is one of the best-known citizens of Du Pa%q, for the past year has been in a pitiful condition from chorea, commonly called St. Vitus’ dance. Miss Barber is a music teacher, and overwork and a hicfhly nervous temperament brought on the disease. The best physicians were called but th((eiy could do nothing for the young lady, and she got so bad and the spasms became so fierce at times that it often required three or four persons to hold her. The contortions of her face at such times were fearful to behold and filled those who saw her with horror. While Miss Barber was thus suffering, with no seeming prospect of relief, the distracted father and mother heard of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and as a last resort they determined to try them on the daughter. e After taking less than one box of the g)ills the s;l))asms ceased and the twitching of the face became less and less violent. Before four boxes had been used all siins of St. Vitus’ dance had gone, her health was restored, and to-day she is one of the healthiest and rosiest girls in Du Page. : In six months from the time Miss Barber began to take the pills she was able to resume her occupation as music teacher, and never has felt the slightest symptoms of the old malady. The ioung lady is the niece of R. E. i"!arber, {squire, the well-known lawyer of Joliet. ; Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are for sale by all dm%gists; or may be had by mail from Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., for 50 cents per box, or six boxes for $2.50.

_ A Sick Church. ¥ They dedicated a church in a certain New York village a few days ago, and shortly after the incident the daughter of a citizen living over the way was heard to say to her mother: “I wonder what’s the matter with that church. Ma, do you know %" “No,” replied the mother. “Why do you think there is anything the matter with it ?”’ S ~’§ause,” answered the child, “T heard ’em day it was medicated.”—Boston Courier. , St et Prosperity of Farmers in Tidewater, ; Virginia., . There is cause for rejoicing among the farmers in Virginia. The crops of melons, potatoes, peanuts, general grain and truck have been unsurpassed and the prices obtained in the Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York markets have been the highest ever paid. . On the first and third Tuesdays of each month Settlers’ tickets will be sold 'fromi Chicago and the. Northwest over the Big Four and the Chesapeake & Ohio Ry., al fireatly reduced rates. For particulars and escriptive pamphlet of Virginia, address U L. Truitt, N. \{l7. P. A., No. 234 Clark St., Chicago. |

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