Ligonier Banner., Volume 44, Number 51, Ligonier, Noble County, 10 March 1910 — Page 2

Jon S 5 ASOR

B i (.‘mmx., Rl b Pecs somm . : f‘*w!uu"».r: Viamers g v/ I IN JALOB AS- \' 3 loF Wias 8B nt a , : i ’ il fan:iy that 4 2 ' had migrated : Ao tn Jeidsd _ ‘ ] by from o Ant ;';-. A ®erp Ahroggl 53 Mo strange {ToRK : il stgvigy the In ther of the hoy bred back ond was Heate o jess 0 8 slons e Lave e wiiey e was 8 Ltoier by ¥ de nothe Httie town of Waldar! T ok frome Hoidgeitary % hite ety husitienn thes o 5 S trave] aroutid and Kl the pet pig W oehesn pr o cnw fhal v'ﬂ?v' tenger hearted ownees dire oot harm The Bulcher was 3 pariah. oA sort of uwn Whieisl indysirhil Banginan ; Inhn lacob Astor was Ihe youcg ext of four sans and as mwany daah TR Tha brothers ran away oarly b life and went o seR or jeined the sewmy (e of thedr haiys came ta Ameriea and folinwed bhis father's tradte of bulcher jaroh Astor. the Rappy father of tohn Jacobh, used to take thé by with him on fie plr killing vapedi s ThiK fOF tes reasolis o one st the ng ‘W&n»;}v} fearn oa trade . Al d the ket 0 aks sure that the bay did st ran awRY : “The pastor of he locxl 1 utheran ehureh ook Gty an thia tuy. wiho had such Mugust for Kix fathers trate and Kired Lim 1o work in his Earden and TOR errands ' 1 nder the RKindly care of tha 51 - ~ Inges arsG Foahin laooh Erew i 1 netnd and thugds Blw estaty w ‘l‘-@‘ to i e luter. When Be wan 17 bis fa ther rale i Ihe parsonsge and Gade a formal demand for bis ser Yl ew 's,""«*‘ YOGNE man must faka

up bhis fﬂ:h»r"u work of butchering That night Jobn Jaroh walked out of Waldor! by the wan light of the woon, hosdedd for Antwern. He eareied a big red Laod ketchief in which i worldly goods were knotiod He ronchod Antwerp in a 4 weak There Le got 8 lob on the dorks &8 a laborer ~ The next day he wWas prowioted 10 elieckeraff The captain of 8 ship asked bim ta go (o fxandon and fgure P the maniiexts on L way. e wont o 2 The oaptain of the ebip recammended him o (he vinpaty in Landon and the ???-3 wWag piiing - up weanth at the rafe of 8 guinen a month . : | In September. 183 came the news to London that George Waghington hasd surrendered In any ovent prace had Been declared Cornwallis had forced the ise e, w 0 the Amerieans had stopped fehiing A Jile dater i was given out that Fregland had given up her American colonies and they were frig Intuitively Jokn Jaeoh Astur Gt that the “pew worid”? was the place foF At He boueght passage by a sailiang ship bound for Haltinore, at 4 cost of five pounds He then fastened five pounds in s helt around bis wais! and with the roet of hix money -after sending tan pounds home (o his father, with a letter of love ~bought a dozen Gorman flutes, : : . He had leamed to play on this ilnetrument with profictency and In Ameries he thought there wounid be an opening for mustelans and musical instriments : Jokn Jacob wis then nearly 20 years of age -~ On board ship he met a German, 20 vears older than - Wimsell, who was a fur trader and had been homs on & visit. John Jacob plaved the fluteand the German friend told storfes of fur trading among the Indians " Young Astors curiosity was exeited The Waldort Astorin: plan of flute playing was forgotten. Je fed on fur trading. . : Arriving in Baltimore, he was dizappointed to learn. that fhere were no fur traders there. He started for New York ¢ : ‘There he found work with a certain Robert Bowne, a Quaker, who boueht and sold furs ' Young Astor set himself 1o jsarn the business--every part of it He was always siting on the doorstep hefore the owner, carrying a big kay to open the warchouse, got around in the morning: He was the last to leave at night - : The qualities that make a youth a good servant dare the basiec ones for mastership. Astor's aleériness, will ingnesa’ loyalty and ability to obey deliversd his emplover aver into his hands. . : .. Robert. Bowne. the good old Quaker, insisted that Jacob should eall him Robert, and from boarding the young man with m nearby w.xuf widow wlho took cheap boarders, Bowne took voung Astor to his own house and raised bis pay from 32 a week to 8% : Bowne had made an annual trip to Montreal for many vears. Montreal was the immetropelis for furs. Bowne went (o Montreal himself because he did not know of anvone bhe conld trust to carry the message to Garela . Young Astor had been with Bowne only a year He apoke imperfect English, but he did not drink or gamble and he knew furs and was honest BRowne started him off for Canada with a belt full of gold; his enly weapon was a German flute that he carried in his hapd. , . John Jacob Astor ascgnded the Hudson river to Al bany and then with pack on his back struck -north, alone, through the forest for lake Champlain. As he approached an Indian settlement he played his flute. The aborigines showed no disposition to give him the hook. He_hired Indians to paddle him up to thé Canadian bor der. ‘He reached Montreal. e The fur traders theére knew Bowne as a very sharp buyer and so had their quills out on his approach. But young Astor was seemingly indifferent. His manner was courteous and easy. He got close to his man and took his pick of the pelts at fair prices. He expended all of hts money and even bought on credit, for there are men * who always have credit. - Young Astor found Indian nature to be simply human rature. The savage was a man and courtesy, gentleness sad fairly good flute playing scothed his savage breast. Astor had beads and blankets, a flute and a smile. The Indians carried his goods by relays and then passed him ou with guttural certificates as«to character to other red men and at last he reached New York without the loss of a pelt or the dampening of his ardor. : . Bowne was delighted. To young Astor it was nothing. He had in his blood the success corpuscle. . ~ He might have remained with Bowne and become a partoer .in the business, but Bowne had business limi-

SKY PILOT OF THE LAKES

Rev. W. H. Law's Parish Is 1800 Miles Long and 300 Wide, and iis ‘ ‘ Membership Large. A parish 1800 miles In length and 3006 miles in width fs m charge of Rev. W. H. Law, known from Buffalo to Duluth as the sky pilot of the great lakes. : = v The membership of this parish runs into the thousands and the great me-

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tationg and Astor badn't i = S Hencw, after a three vears' apprenticesbip, Astor krew all that Bowne did and ail he himasll could Imeg e bexhivs Ry e resigned. : : ; I 1986 Jokn Jacoh Astor began buginess on his own Revount on Water street New York : tator had made friends with the Indians up the Hud san clear te Albany and they were acling as recruliing sgents Tor him flaving collected peveral thousand dollars' worth of furs he shipped them to London and embarked as a passenpor in e KLOETARE : ' i London furs were becoming a fad. Astor sorted and sified his buvers, as he had bis skins He himself dressed In a suit of fur and thug proved his ability as #u advertiser. He pleked his men and charged 81l the traffe would bear Al of the money he recoived for his gkins he invested in Tindian gﬁ)‘f‘dﬁﬂ"{‘f'tt'ﬂfﬁd eloth, beads DBlankets, knives axes and musical instruments _ ilis was the first store in New York that carried a gtoek of pusteal (pstruments These By sold to savages and also ho supplied the stolid Duteh (e best of every: thirg in this particolsr line, from & bezoo to a Stradi Yarius : ' ’ . When he got back to New York he st once struck 00l through the wilderness to bity=furs of the Indians, or, Better still to interest them in bringing furs to him. He knew the value of friendship in trade as no man of the time did Bin ; In 1:90 John Jacod Astor married Sarah Todd. Her mother was a Rrevoort and it was brought about by Rer coming to Astor to buy furs with which to make hersel! & coat Her ability to judge fuis and make them up bßrought young Astor into “the l');ﬂ;«t Dutch New York goclety,” @ combination that was quite as exclusive then f 8 now & ; < ‘This marriage was a business partnership as well as marital, and proved a success in every way. Sarah was a worker, with all the good old Duted gualities of patience. persistence, industry and econbmy. When her ‘hugband went on trips she kept store. : . Capt. Cook had. skirted the Pacific eoast from Cape ¥arn to Alaska and had brouglit to the sftention of the fur dealing and fur wearing world the sea otter of the ‘porthern Pacilic He alsp gave :\4?&3‘(?}3{}!():‘;{‘3l prophetie glimpse of the insidious sealskia sack. In 1790 5 ghip from the Pacific brought a hundred otter sking to New York. The skins were guickly sold to Loudon buyers at exorbitant prices. i . © The nobility wanted sea otter, or "royal American erinine,” as they called it. The scatelly boomed: the price. Bhips were quickly fitted out apa Qispatehed. ~ . Astor evocouraged thess expeditions. But at fOrxt invested no money in them, as he considered them “extra haznrdous.” He waz pot a speculator. L'ntil the year 180¢ Astor lived over his store In Water street, but he then moved to the paain and modest house at 223 Broadway, on the site of the gld Astor house, Here he lived for 25 years, L . The fur business 'was simple and vefy profitable, " In 1800 Astor owned three ships, whith he had bought g 0 as absolutely to control his trade. Ascertaining that london dealers were reshipping furs to China, early in tke century he dispatched one of his ships londed with furs directly to the orient, with explicit written-instruc-tions to the captain as to what the cargo should be soid for. The money was to be invested in teds and silks. The ship sailed away and had been gon® a year. No tidings had come from her. : Suddenly a messenger came with the mews that the ship was in the bay. We can imagine the interest of Afr. and Mrs. Astor as they Jocked their slore and ran to the Battery. Sure enough, it was thelr ahip. The profit on this voyage was §70,060. : g By 1810 John Jacob Astor was worth 32,000000. He began to invest all his surpius money in New York real estate. He bought acreage property im the vicinity of Canal street. Next he bought Richmond Hil, the estate of Aaron Burr, It consisted of 180 asres just about Twenty-third street. He paid for the land a thousand dollars an acre. People said Astor was ersavy. ~ln ten years he began to sell lots from tde Richmond ~ Hill property at the rate of $5.000 an acte. Fortunately for his estate, be did not sell much of the ‘and at this price, for it is this particular dirt that maxes up that vast property known as “the Astor estats.™ o . | During the revolutionary war Roger Merris of Putnam county, N. Y., made the mistake of siding with the Tories and expressing himself too freesy A mob col~lected and Morris and his family escaped, taking ship to

jority of the parishioners never wor: ship twice in the same locality, for services are held mostly iz woving ships. Some are held in lonely lighthouses far from other humen habitation. g No wedding has ever taken place in this parish, no christening of a baby, no services for the burial of the dead. This sky pilot seeks his parishioners in a gasoline hoat 22 feet in length

Beside carrying the messag\le of the Gospel to these men he takes to them books, magazines, papeis and news of the outside world. L His visits are looked forward to by the lighthouse keepets and the lightship crews, for his territory is so large that he is unable to visit them more than once during the season. He maintains a smnll circulating library of not more thaa 70 books. He also carries with M a ptenograph with records of the jnost popular dymns. iRI

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Just 22 vedrs after this bout with Cupid Gen. George Washington commanderinchie!f of the coutinental army, oceupled the Roger Morris mansion as headquar ters, the occupants having fled. 1t was Washington who Tormally confiscated the property and turned it over to Ahe state of New York as contraband of war. “The Morris estate of about 50.000 acres was parceied out and sald by the atate of New York to settlers. 1t seemis, however, that Roger Morrie had oniy a life fnterest in the estate and this was a legal point o fine that it was entirely overlooked in the joy of wontiscation. John Jacob Astor accidentally ascertained the facts He was convinced thatl the heirg could not be rebbed of their rights through the acts of a leaseholder, which, legally, was the status of Roger Morris. Astor was a good real estate lawyer himself, but he referred the point to the best counsel he could find. . They agreed with him. He next hunted up the heirs and bought their quit clatms for $lOO.OOO, : He ther potified the parties who had purchased the land aud they in turn inade claim upoen the state for . protection : ‘ ¢ : " After much legal parleving the case was tried aecord. {ag to stipulation., with the state of New York directly as defendant and Astor and the occupants ss plaintiffs Daniel Webster and Martin Van Buren appeared for the state and an array of lesser legal Jights for Astor The case was narrowed dowd fo the plain and simpie point that Roger Morris was not the legal owner of the estate and that the rightful heirg could not be made 1o suffer _for the ‘‘treason, contumacy and contravention” of an other, Astor won and &8s 8 compromise (he state issued him. %0-year bonds bearing six per cent, ‘nterest for the neat sum of $500,000. ‘ ‘ . - Astor took a deep interest in the Lewis and Clark vxpedition. He went to Washington to see Lewis and guestioned him at great leagth about the nerthwest . Washington lrving has told the story of Astoria at ~lepgth. It was the one finuncial plunge taken by John Jucob Astor ; : : And i spite of the fact that it fail d the whole affalr does credit 1o the prophetic brale of tstor i “This country will see 8 chain of growing and pros _perous cities stralght from New York to Astoris, Oregon.” «aid this mun in reply to a doubting Questioner He lald his plans before congress, urging a line of ‘army posts. 40 miles apart, from the western eéxtremity of Lake Superior to the Pacific. “These forts or army posts will evolve into cities,” said Astor, when he called on Thomas Jefferson, who was then president of the United States. Jefferson was interested, but non-com-mittal. Astor exhibited maps of the great iakes and the country bhevond. He urged with a prescience then not possessed by any living man that at the western extremfty of Lake Superior would grow up a great city. Yet “in 1876 Duluth was tidiculed by the caustic tongue of Proctor Knott, who asked, “"What will become of Duluth when the Ilnmber crop is cpt?” ; : - Then Astor proceeded to say that another great eity would grow up at the soutbern extremity of Lake Michigan. Gen. Dearborn, secretary of war under Jefferson, ‘had just established Fort Dearborn on the present site of Chicago. Astor commended this and said. “From a fort you get a utdmgmt and from a trading post you will get a city."| v ' = ~ He pointed out to Jefferson on his map of the site the Falls of St. Anthony. “There you will have a fort some day, for, wherever there is water power there will grow up mills for grinding grain and sawmills as well. ~ This place of power will have to be protected and so you will have thers a post, which will eventually be replaced by a city * Yet Fort Spelling was nearly 50 years in the futurs and St. Paul and Minneapolis were dreams undreamed. = . Jefferson took time to think about it and then wrote - Astor: “Your beginnlng of & city on the western coast is ‘a great acquizition and 1 look forward to a time when our population will spread itself up and down along the

! Some of the lighthouses visited are | i far frem the mainland and the trips | '|to tuem are bazardous. Standard | -iropk light for instance, is nearly 50| “{impiles out from Marquette, on Lake | "1 Superior. It is erected on a small but | 1 dangerous reef which resembles a | | whale’s back. = 3 The light is 105 feet in height, and | - rests on crib work, which is encircled | |by a railway, and for weeks at a time | | the weather is so bad that it is dan- * {gerous for the keepers to venture out of #oors. Betwezl the izbt and Ke-|

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Roger Morris i known in history ae the man who mar . ried Mary Philipse, . And this lady Hves in history because she had the felicity " of having been proposed to by George Washingion. The . lady pleaded for time, which the fa- -~ ther of his country declined to give. A © small oquarre]l fol "lowed and George saddied his horse and rode on his way to fame and fortune.

weenaw point there is a depth of 1008 feet of water. On his travels the sky pllot visits 300 lighthouses, 15 lightships, and 60 life saving stations. - Mr. Law does not outwardly resemble a minister of the Gospel. He is big and healthy and has a roiling gait like a sailor. He preaches simply to the sailors, with whom he is very popular—New York Sun. _ ' : No, Cordelia, all sharp men are not in the sharper set. : -

whole Pacific frontage, unconpected with us excepting by | ties of blood and common interest -and enjoying. like us, the rights of self.goverment ” . e A company was formed and two expaditions set out | for the mouth of the Columbia river, one by land and | the other by sea. = The land expedition barely got through alive it was & periloys undertaking, with accidents by flood and field | But the route by the water was feasible. G The town was founded and soon became & conte? of | commercial activity. Had Astor been on the ground to take personal charge a city like Reattle would bave bloomed and blossomed on the Pacific 50 years ago There came a gracd grab at Astoria and i 1 was each | for himself and the devil take the hindermost; it wes a | stampede. System and order went by the board The strongest stoie the most, sx usual but all got a Itle | And England's gain in citizens was our loss N Astor lost a million dollars by the venture Hae amfed | calmly and sald, “The plan was right. but my men ¥ere weak; that s all. The gateway to China will be fPow the northwest. My plans were right Time will vizdi | cate my reasoping ™ : When the block on Broadway bounded by Vesey and Barclay streets was cleared of {ts plaln twos"ory bhouses, preparatory to huildiog the Astor house Wise men shook thetr heads and said, “"It's too far up town ™ | But the free 'bus that met all boats solved the 4im. culty and gave the cue to hotél men all over the woarid L Astor was worth ten million, but he took a personal de | light in sitting in the lobby of the Astor house And watching the dollars roll into this palace that bis bPain | had planved. ; : Astor was tall, thin and commanding {8 appearsdce He had only one hallucination and that was that he spoke the Eglish lacguage. The accent he possexsed at 30 was with him in all its pristine effulgence at 85 "No - pody vould know 1 vas a Cherman—aind’t {t?" he vged to say Yet where John Jacodb wrote it was English ?ith out & flaw. : o S in all of his dealings he was uniguely homorabie snd upright He paid and he made others pay -Hiz word was his bond. He was not charitabie in the sense of indiscriminate giving ‘To give something Sr no®ing i 1o weaken the ghver,” was one of his favorite sayings That this attitude protected a migerly spirit it ta ®asy to say, but it {& not wholy true. In his later years he carried with him a book contsining a 8 record of hix posscastons, He would visit 8 certain plece of propysrty and then turn to bis book aid see what it bad cost Him teni or Iwenty years before. Ta realize that his wro phetie vigion bad been correct was to bim a great so®ree of satisfaction . ' . L ‘ His habits were of the best. He went to bed at fine o'clock and was np before six. At seven he was at his office. .He knew enough to eat spariogly and to walk, s he was never sick Milllonaires ss a rule sre woefulb

ignormant. Up ta a certain sum, they grow with their acqguisitions . Then they begin o wither at the Beart The care of a fortune {s a penaliy. | advige the gentis reader to think Iwice before acounmuialing ten millions John Jacoh Asgtor was exceptional in his combined jove of mosey apd love of books, Fllzdliresn Halleck wae his private gecretary, hired on a basls of literary friendship. Washington Irving was a cloge friesd, too Astor died, aged % It was a natural 4%ath—a thing that very seldom occurs. The machinery 8 ran down at once. : . - : : Wiiliam B. Astor, the son of John Jocod, pras brought up in the financial way he should go. He %as studious, methodical, coonservative, and had the good sense to carry out the wishes of his father. His sop. John Jacob Astor, was very much like him, only of siore neutral tint. The time = now ripa for another genius in the Astor family. If William B Astor lacked the courage and initlative of his parent, he ‘had more culture and spoke English without an accent. . The son of John éaecb Astor, second, is Willlam Waldorf Astor, who peaks English wifh an English accent, yol know. | . John Jacob Astor, besides having the f'-st store for the sale of musical insfruments in Ameri a, organized _ the first orchestra of over 12 players. He srought over a leader from Germaany and did much to foster the love of music in the New World. - Every worthy Maccaenas imagines that he is a grea: painter, writer, sculptor or musician, side tracked by _cares thrust upon bim by unkind fate. John Jacob As tor once told Washington Irving that it was only bus‘ ness responsibility that prevented his being a novelist: and at other times he declared his intent to take up music as a profession as soon as he had gotten all of his securities properly tied up. And, whether he worked out his dreams or uo!, there i 3 no doubt but that they added to his peace, happiness and length of days. Happy 'is the map who escapes the critics by leaving his literary masterpiece in the ink , ‘

Another Good Old Tar Heel Word. Besides Sampson county, Onslow comes forward as a shipper of Jerusalem oak seed. “The seed, in moiasses, as an old-time domestic remedy,” we are told, “can be swallowed more mellifluously under the name of ‘Juzelymake,' "—Cbharlotte Observer. ; Good Thing to Remember. 4 “Talk,” said Uncle Eben, “is supin’ like rain. A certaln amount is wel | come an’' necessary. Bu: doggone ® 1 :dalu‘e!"

§ : ? : : 3 i e s st z Three in Crusade Against Com- | pressing Their Bodies. s tism————— Helena of taly, Alexandrs of England, - ang Elizabeth ¢f Roumania Take Action Which May Spread ! . s America. ‘ | ,: \'r'ﬂb York A cursel sirike DAY €9 tage the silentinn of the woanen aller they bayy Baished with the et CELriRe, Tor 5t is oW oonsldered T guoe™ 187 o po withoyt the expepsive aivl oaiiortable sdarrnoenis aseordil Lo Iniormalitans reveived here Pesides, st 83 Coey 'y are potling ® ng 1t i» vt ¢ ik 10 vl Ay ¥t will 14 visg that. And the Maiger ihey gaake fhem 18Y ' $ Ahwy 3 Ay murried WA exn =2O 3 that the § st 7 crseds Das RKeptl pacs % Ehe ¥ ‘__'. coat ol Deying : But Ihe wisin thing ! t orew & thrl ciuded & triple alliznce £ st the ierget % Throe Srgae T e a 4 Ly beat. In sddition ta Dus Fiizatwi) there are (uves Alviandra of o nnd and Queen Heleoa of faly are bons fide gucenz: w? a 2 Woa? what they gileass nd aWasd ¢ o for I and Ksve a vast burden of " eligueile 1o mALREs Queen Vllzabeth 10ld ber court ad abogt 8 A davy r tm Sbhe e cetved B Witer from Queon Alexsndr® saAYing the giler had decided hat 2 L woinan 8 fdreds sl 4 1 w her st ural lines Even i thess Uies sv fuartistic that "is oo resson why 8

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e ERVEe RWAY Al el corseis——Ooue for eyery gown—and wrote to Queen | Elizabeth as follows: z “1 am Oppused to the corset on i principle, because I think {t un i hygienic and directly infurious (o : women, particularly to - mothers, }.’Wmm»n who have studied the fune { tious of the body will refuse to weat %mrsma Only theughtiess mothers Cwill imitate the habits of women still | more giddy and allow their bodles §w be squeezed tightly and their or i gans 1o be distorted” : ie e : | ~ Good Work Goes On. | Willlam Rendell, for 40 years of the ! Roryal Boclety for the Prevention of "Cruelty to Animals, says that within | his tenure public opinion on the | pruper care and treatment of animals | has so changed thst instead of two { acts of parllument there are now upéward of twenty which deal directly { with cruelty o aunimals. The branches ; of the soclety have increased from 20 [to 620. The business of selling old, { worn-out horses has been attacked for i years by his society single-handed, but he now feels more hopeful. “We want - spurious gports to be made illegal, private slaughter houses to be abolished, cruel exhibitions of performing animals to be stopped, with increased supervision to prevent overloading” | he says. ¥

Soul of British Empire, - The city of London proper, which lies in the heart of Greater London, has a living population of but 35,000 by night, although 300,000 people do business there by day, while all of the currents of Britlsh life pass through fts portals. Here is the soul of the empire, with its population of 400 000,000, and of its area of 11,400,000 square miles, or more than one-fith of the population and area of the globe.—Seribner’s. Weil for Tourists to Remember. Cuba is vigorously enforcing colleetion of duties on the personal effects of passengers landing at amy port of the island. This is a pointer for tour ists to Cuba.

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estine The and!f fecling, !’,‘/‘,e- doesira to help, the ipereased skill, which spring up under Christianity as flow: ers grow In the sunshine, have made Christ's works through s people greater than those he wrought on i earth. They are not miracles, byt are | better than the power of mirdcies, as . the prolonged sunshine is bhetter than ' a flash of lightning. : : Making It Stick. . One of the reasons why we so easily | forget the teachings of ihe Hible is be‘cause we do not pu! them into pracitice. Dr. James 8. Gale tells of a . Korean who learned the whole of the ! Sermmon on the Mount and then | walked a hundred miles in order to reieite it to his pastor Whten he had | inished he was told that he must { practise the teaching. Fe replied: | “That .s the way I learned it. [ tried 3 to memorize it, but it would po: stick, 'soo | hit on this plan: [ would memfgorize a verse and then find a heathen | peighbor of mine and practisc it on ihim. Then [ found it would stick.™ | All of us would knew muct more Scrip- | ture than we now know, and the ?howledgo wouid be of far greater | value to the world, if we would follow | the Kotean's method of making it ! stick.—Cumberlan< Presbyterian.

A Prayer. lord, we hear thy loving voice ever calling us to come unio thee and find rest unto our souls. The burdens of life bear heavy upon us and trials beset us rcund zbout, but thy strong arm hast ever upheld and will sustain to the end. We thank thee for the manifold proofs of thy love and care we experience day by day. Debtors to thee for all good, help us to live out our.thanks to thee in service to thee and to our fellowmen. Give us the all-conquering love which draws humanity closer tc Christ and teach us the fulth which trusts thy grace even wheya2 we may not see. Implant withfn all hearts the eternal hope which leads onward and upward into heavenb}oyswlththeehtherednzoflovt