Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 35, Petersburg, Pike County, 7 January 1898 — Page 6

m .mm m IT PRESENTS ITS PLAN. Main Points in the Report of the Monetary Commission. presenti What It Considers to Me Defects In Onr Present Currency System, and Snncits How It May Be Reformed. Washington, Jan. 3.—The following M an abstract of the report of the monetary commission appointed under authority of the convention of business men held in Indianapolis last January which has just been made public: •> It retains practically unchanged the existing metallic money. The existing gold Standard on which business jhas been done since 1S79 is, of course, maintained, on the ground that industrial interests demand certainty as to what the standard shall be. For the steady employment of labor, factories and mines must be constantly operated; and constant operation. In thejudg- | (Blent of business men. Is Impossible so long as there is uncertainty as to the standard on which prices of goods and orders are baaed. And to this end. It Is urged that the United States should remove all uncertainty as to the meaning of “coin” in its obligations, thereby saving the taxpayer by the ability to borrow at a lower rate of interest. Place for Sliver. No attempt Is made to remove the existing silver dollars, nor to change their legal-tender quality; on the contrary, a place Is provided for them In the circulation by forbidding the issue of any paper money ether than silver certificates In denominations below ten dollars. The silver currency, which will be in the hands of the people, must be kept on a parity with gold, as is now provided by'law, and this should, be done by requiring the treasury to give gold for a silver dollar on demand. Consequently, when It is known that a sliver dollar can be exchanged for gold It will M circulate freely (in the form c* certifl- ■ cates), and our metallic money, without bem Ing diminished, will be unified on a certain ' basis. And. as all this silver currency will . be needed to meet the demands for large change (when other paper below ten dollars Is retired), it will not be presented for redemption at the treasury, and it will create no strain on the gold reserves But no more silver dollars should be coined. Reirrre Too Slender. The commission contend that the ten different kinds of money now in use create an anomalous and confusing situation Moreover, the whole—fabric rests on too slender a reserve of gold. It is urged that the -demand obligations of the government sftbuld not be used as money, because they mnfi be, and have been, presented for gold to the injury, of the nation's credit. This causes grave doubts as to the standard on which the business operations of the country vest Everything which,, by experience. ' creates uncertainty and hurts trade, binders prosperity and should be.remoyed. Hence the fiscal affairs of the treasury relating to the receipt and disbursement of I public revenues should be entirely separated from the monetary functions deal- ! lng wit the. exchange and redemption of I the currency. By establishing a separate division of Issue and redemption In the treasury. It will be impossible tolake away funds set apart for the protection of our I monetary system and use them for current i . expenditures. Fraught wllh Danger. Above all, It Is regarded as dangerous to maintain the present practice of using government demand obligations as money. Our ^fathers never made anything full legaltender money except gold and silver: but In the stress of civil war. confusing the fiscal and monetary functions of the state, forms of debt due on demand were used as money not as the result of deliberation but of, emergency conditions. They were Issued exactly because there were no resources In |he tressury: and so they depreciated. drove out gold, furnished a fluctuating standard. Increased the national debt enormously, caused a change In prices whenever the credit of the paper standard fluctuated, reduced the purchasing power of wages, and by Causing unexpected changes in the level of prices gave rise to^extraordlnary speculation, increased thejseverlty of commercial crises, and placed the sfriall producer^ a disadvantage with the large operator For 17 ^ years (1S62-1879) the government paper was a falsified promise, and our standard was based on this lie. Trade and industry became speculative., Men of large wealth can take care of themselves; but men of small means should be protected from the evils arising from such uncertainty of the standard. If the demand obligations of the government are used as money, reserves must al- ” ways be kept on hand to redeem them. They are not therefore a loan without interest;. and the expense of keeping up these reserves has made the paper money a very great burden to the taxpayer by an Increase of the public debt. These gold reserves are necessary, unless the government permits its notes to go. to protest. The mere credit of the-L’nited States behind its notes Is too vague a thine, its power to tax Is too remote, to provide ca«h on hand for Instant use; So far as expense Is concerned, this debt could have been more easily borne by changing it into low Interest-bearing bonds.

Mi on in nr iumar>n«. For these and other reasons the rommlsston strongly urge the. esvrrnmrnt to withdraw it* demand obligations now used as money. decline to provide gold for exporters and put the burden.and expense of maintaining a redeemable' paper circulation upon the banka In order to meet the demand obligations, the present reserve* Of gold In the treasury furnish a beginning to be set aside in the division of issue and redemption: and to meet possible contingencies the secretary of the treasury is authorised to sell bonds whenever the reaerves need replenishment. In this way. or from surplus revenue, the demand obligations (that is. United States notes and treasury notes of ISW) can be gradually removed, and the cost to the country can be reduced, while this process will also give the Inestimable advantage of ceasing to use demand debt*,as money, of simplifying our currency, and of adding to confidence in the certainty of our standard. r ' By tho plan of the commission, government paper la°withdrawn in the first five years only as fast as the banking currency ex- ' panda, so that contraction cannot possibly take place; If United States cotes are canceled their place will be taken by the gold paid out for them, or by the expansion of bank notes (under the new system proposed); and in the following five years all the remaining United States notes are to be retired. Bank Mote In Lauded. The NJetnand obligations of the United States were put forth solely because there ■were ho funds tn the treasury to redeem them. The notes were only evidence that property had been received and -used up for services or «upplte» or public building* <no longer available assets) -The government by the nature of the operation did not retain. As the notes went out,/any property Immediately convertible into coin with which to redeem its demand issues They were not a money based on property: they were only a debt. On the other hand, n bank note is never Issued (fraud, of course, excluded) except fora consideration In negotiable property of equal or greater value. The bank note comes forth as the sequel of a business transaction, and is based on the active property of the country which la passing between producers and consumers This property is always negotiable and always equal to the duty of i meeting the note liability Bank notes are as sound as the' business transactions of the country The currency ofghe country, moreover, should Increase as the transactions of the country increase; hence the rigid unchanging issues of the government ■sake them an inelastic cart of :ht cir

eolation, while by the very process of the** Issue bank notes alone can be automatically adjusted to the changing transactions of the business community. The Commissioners’ Plan. In view of the scarcity of United States bonds they cannot long be regarded as a basis for circulation. Moreover, any bond security of a higher character yields a low rate of interest:, and in time of stringency, when borrowers need loans and the market rate of interest is high, there is no inducement to buy these bonds to increase circulation. Hence, under the present system. when notes would be most needed, it is least profitable to issue them. While providing for a partial use of bonds for securing notes (25 per cent of the capital) i the commission proposed that notes beyond this should be Issued on all, instead of a part of, the resources of a bank: and after I ten years that po special bond securi*jr j should be required. Banks may Issue notes up to 60 per cent, of their capital without restraint: for issues beyond 60 per cent j apd up to 80 per cent, they pay a tax of t*o per cent.: <sfor those bfcyond 80 per cent, and up to 100 per cent, they pay a tax of six per cent These notes would be a prior lien upon all the resources of the bank, and, in addition, upon the stockholders' liability. Moreover, all banks issuing notes contribute five per cent, of their circulation as a permanent guaranty fund. For daily redemptions, banks should keep a five per cent, redemption fund In the hands of the comptroller of the currency. Banks of 525.0OQ capital may be established in places of 4.000 inhabitants: and branches of banks are also permitted. Safe and Uniform Currency. It is apparent that the security to the noteholder under the proposed plan Is greater than usually supposed. If notes should be issued by all national banks to the amount of SO per cent, of their present capital, the security in the form of total assets (omitting consideration of stockholders* liability or a guaranty fund) Is more than seven dollars to one dollar. In the 5,276 banks outside the reserve cities, th6 protection would be 56.10 to one dollar of notes. The greatest number of failures of banks occurred in IS33; and yet the notes of these failed banks which did not reklixe at least SO per cent, of their capital out of their resources formed only one-eighth of one per cent, of the proposed circulation. Had SO per cent, of the capital of all national banks been issued in notes upon the proposed plan, since the beginning of the national banking system in 1863, an assessment upon the banks annually of only one-fortieth of one per cent, would have been necessary. Moreover, instead of a tax on circulation, a tax of one-eighth of one per cent, on capital and surplus is proposed to cover the expenses of the system. Such a plan in general would furnish a safe, elastic, uniform and expanding currency based on a fixed and certain standard. ; ^ ~ .... Child's I’rojer to Satna. A llrixton clergyman vouches for the following- incident, which, he thinks, is a touching instance of youthfujorthodoxy. He writes: “A little girl, about nine rears of age, was obliged, for some time, to endure the nagging annoyances of a maiden aunt, ihe chijd puzzled her little mind as to the best means of getting rid of her tormentor, and at last hit upon a plan w hich, she thought, would have the desired result. She spent the whole of one^ morning writing a letter, and having finished it she .disappeared in the garden. In the course bf Ihe afternoon her mother a sited the gardener what Alice had been doing, and was surprised to learn that she had: dug a deep hole, and put a letter in if. A search was made, and the following epistle \vas discovered, addressed to the potentate o,f the nether regions at his official residence: ‘Dear Mr. Satan—-Will you kindly come and take away Aunt Jane. She is a very fussy person, and does worry me so. Alice.’ Who will say. after this, that children are not orthodox?”—London Telegraph. ~

Krrptog Out the Dark. Sunny lock's used tp have an insatiable desire to look at choo-choo cars, and j whenever his papa could do so he would take the little boy down to the track to see the trains rush past. One day a naughty fireman shoveled a lot of coal | into the furnace of a passing locomo- j tive, and the wind blew a big. black j cloud "of smoke over toward Sunny- j locks, and some of it got into his eye*, j After that be w'ould press his face i against his papa's c^eek whenever an j engine rushed along* because he didh*t j like the black smoke. But as yet Sunrylocks doesn’t seem to have^a very ! thorough understanding of the nature I | and composition of smoke. The other j night, when he was being carried D(hj stairs to bed. he pressed his face j against his papa's cheek, as he did j whenever he saw an engine. “Why are ■ you doing that?” he was asked. “I must keep my eves shut so de • dark won’t get in them.’' said Sunnylocks.— Cleveland Leader. ^ N HantInc'* Sy*tcm. The late Princess Mary of Teck became in her middle life, enormously stout, and*tried many means to reduce i her flesh. Having heard much of Bant- j j ing. she sent for him. She was sur- ; j prised to see that he was still extremely j i bulky, and after a few civil preparatory j j remarks, she said:. “But your system i has not made you very thin. Mr. Bant- ! iog?“ “Allow me. madam.” saiu Bantirg—and proceeding to unbutton his j coat, he disclosed a large wire struc- J ture OTer which the garment fitted, j Inside wa* the real Banting, incased in another coat. “This, madam" said he, pointing with pardonable satisfaction to his cage, “was my size before I commenced dieting.** He then nimbly disembarrassed himself of his framework, and stood before the royal lady exhibiting hislelegant figure!—San r^ranciaco j Argonaut. _ The Clerk’s Notice. In a smalt village in Gloucestershire the clergyman was oiit visiting. bat was expected back to preach on the .Sunday. Early on Sunday morning, however, the parish clerk received a message from the clergyman to say he would uot be able to preach, as be was going to “officiate- for another clergyman, As the service time dret* near the clerk rang the bell, and when the time was np and the people were assembled, be went into the pulpit and)addreased them | thus: “This is to give notice that the parson will not be able to preach here t<«day. as he is gone *a-flshing along j with another paraon.”—London Spare Moments. . ; _ She Decline*. Boarder—How would you define a crank. Mrs. Hashton? v Landlady—1 don't care to indulge in , personalities, Mr. Jones.—Puck.

HOUSEKEEPERS' TRIALS. Rev. Dr. Taim afire Preaches Upon a Homely Subject. Wovds ot Chwir for Wlvos and Mothers from On* Who Understands Their ■y?- Troobloo - Itawnrdn They Itaserre lund WIU (tat. In the following sermon Rer. T. DeWitt Talmage traverses well-known paths, and gives words of cheer to all wives, mothers, daughters and sisters. The text is: 'Lord, dost Thou rot care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? hid her, therefore, that she help me.—Luke x , 40. Yonder is a beautiful village homestead. The man of the house is dead, and his widow is taking charge of the premises, this is the widow, Martha of Bethany/ Yes, 1 will show you also the pet of the household. This is Mary, the younger sister, with a book under her arm, and her face having no appearance of anxiety or care. Company has come. Christ stands outside the door, and, 'of course, there is a good deal of excitement inside the door. The disarranged furniture is hastily put aside, and the hair is brushed back, and the dresses are adjusted as wfell as in so short a time Mary and Martha can attend to these matters. They did not keep Christ standing at the door until they were newly appareled, or until they had elaborately arranged their tresses, then coming out with their affected surprise as though they had not heard the two or three previous knockings, saying: “Why, is that you?” No. They were ladies, aud were always preseu table, although they may not have always had on their best, for none of us always has ou our best; if we did, our best would not he worth having on. They throw open the door and greet Christ. They say: “Good morniug, Master; come in and be seated.” Christ did not come alone; He had a group of friends with Him, and such au influx of city visitors would throw any country home into perturbation. 1 suppose also the walk from the city had been a good appetizer. The kitchen department that day was j a very important department, and 1 j suppose that Martha had no sooner j greeted the guests than she fled to that ; room. Mary had no worriment about | household affairs. She had full cou- J fldeuce that Martha ecu Id get up the i best dinner in Bethany. She seems to j say: “Now let us have a division of ! labor. Martha, you cook, and I’ll sit > down and be gopd.” So you have often I seen a great difference between two sisters.

x iiere . is jiui tuu* uuru-wurttiujj» painstaking, a good manager, ever, inventive of som< new pastry, or discovering something in the art of cookery and housekeeping. There is Mary, also fond of conversation, literary, so engaged in deep questions of ethics she has no time to attend to the ques- j tioos of household welfare. It is noon. Mary is in the parlor with Christ Martha is in the kitchen. It would have been better if they had divided the work, and then they could have divided the opportunity of listening to Jesus; but Mary monopolizes Christ while Martha swelters at the fire. It, was a very important thing that they should have a good dinner that day. Christ was- hungry, and He did not often have a luxurious entertainment. Alas me! if the duty had devolved upon Mary, what a repast that would have beeu! But something weut wrong in I the kitchen. Per.iaps the fire would j not burn, or the bread would not bake, or Martha scalded her hand, or something was burned black that ought only to have been made brown; and Martha t lost her patience, and, forgetting the • proprieties of the occasion, with be- • sweated brow, aud, perhaps, with pitcher in one hand and tongs in the I other, she rushes out of the kitchen j into the presence of Christ, sayiug: | “Lord, dost Thou not care that my sis- i ter hath left me to serve alone?'’j Christ scQlded not a word. If it were j scolding, I should rather have His scolding than anybody else's blessing, j There was nothing acerb. He knew Martha had almost worked herself to dentil to get Him something toea,t, and ; so He throws a world of tenderness into His iutonation as He seems to say: ; “My dear woman, do not worry; let the dinner go; sit down on this otto-' man beside Mary, your younger sister. Martha, Martha, thou art careful aud j troubled about many things, but oue thing is needful.’’ As Martha throws j open that kitchen dbor I look in and see a great* many household perplexities and anxieties. First, the»e is the tnal of nouappreciatioo. That is what made Martha so mad with Mary. The younger sister had no estimate of her older sister’s fatigues. As now. men bothered with the anxieties of the store, and office, and shop., or coming from the stock exchange, they sav when they get home: “Oh, you ought to be in our factory ai little while; you ought to have to manage eight, or tea, or twenty subordinates, and then you would know what troubles and anxiety are!” Oh, air, the wife and the ■ mother has to conduct at the same time a university, a clothing establishment. a restaurant, a laundry, a library, while she is health officer, police. and president of her realm* She j must do a thousand things, and do i them well, in order to keep things go- j ing smoothly; and so her . brain and ■ her nerves are taxed to the utmost. , 1 know there are housekeepers who are, so fortunate that they j can sit in an arm chair in the library, > lie on the belated pillow, and throw j off all the care upon subordinates,who, j having la’rge wages and great expe- j rieuce, can attend to all the affairs of ' the household. Those are the exceptions. I am speaking of the great mass of housekeepers—the women to whom life is a struggle, and who, at 30 years of age. look as though they were 40, and at 40 as though they were 50. and at 50 as though they were Oh The fallen at Challona. aud Austerlitz, and Gettvsbarg. and Waterloo are a small

number, compared with the slain in the freat Armageddon of the kitchen. You go out to the cemetery and yon wifi see that the tombstones all read beautifully poetic; but if those tombstones would speak the truth, thousands of them would say: "Here lies . a woman killed by too much mending, and sewing, and baking and scrubbing, and scouring; the weapon with which she was slain was a broom, or a sewing machine, or a ladle.” You think, 0 man of the world! that you have all the cares and anxieties. If the cares and anxieties of the household should come upon you for oue week, you would be fit for the. insane asylum. The halfrested housekeeper arises in the morn* ing. She must have the morning repast prepared at an irrevocable hour. What if the fire will not light; what ii the marketing did not come; what if the clock has stopped—no matter, she must have the morning repast at an irrevocable hour. Then the children must be got off to school. What if their garments are torn; what if they do not know their lessons; what if they have lost a hat or sash—the> must be ready. Then you all have the diet of the day, and perhaps of several days, to plan; but what if the butcher has sent meat uumastieable. or the grocer has sent articles of food adulterated, and wha| if some piece of silver be gone, or some favorite chalice be cracked, or the roof leak? or the plumbing fail, or anj* oue of a thousand things occur—you must be ready. Spring weather comes, and there must be a revolution in the family wardrobe; or autumn comes, and you must shut out the northern blast; but what if the moth has preceded you to the chest; what if, during the jrear. chitdreu have outgrown the apparel of last year; what if the fashions have changed. Your house must be an apothecary's shop; it must be a dispensary; there must be medicines for all sorts of ailments—something to loosou the croup, something toeooi the burn, something to poiiltice the intiainmatiou, something to silence the jumping tooth, something to soothe the earache. You must be in half a dozen places at the same timevior you mpst attempt to be. If. under all this wear and tear of lile, Martha makes an impatient rush upou library or drafting room, be patient, be leuieut! bn. woman, though I may fail to stir up an appreciation in the souls of others in regard to your household toils, let me assure- you, from the kindliness with which Jesus Christ met Martha, tfiat lie appreciates all your Work from garret to cellar; and that the Cod of Deborah, and Hannah, aud Abigail, and Graudmother Lois, and Kiiizabeth Fry, and Hannah More is the God of the housekeeper! Jesus was never married, that He might be the especial friend and confident of a whole world of troubled womanhood. I blunder: Christ was married. The Bible says that the church is the Lamb's wife, and that makes me know that all ChrisLiau women have a right to go to Christ and •tell Him of their annoyances aud troubles, since uy His oath of conjugal fidelity He is sworn to sympathize. George Herbert, the Christian poet, wrote two or three verses on this subject:

The servant by this clause Makes drudgery divi ne; Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws. Makes this and the action tine. A young woman of brilliant educaticm aud prosperous circumstances was called downstairs to help in the kitchen in the absense of the servants. The door-bell ringing, she went to open it and found a gentleman frieud, who said as he came in.:«®.*T thought that 1 heard music; was it on this uiauo or on this harp?” She answered: “No; I was playing on a gridiron, with a frying-pan accompaniment. The servants are gone, aud 1 am ie^rniug how to do this work.” Well don^s^U'lieu will women in all circles find outtiKU it is honorable to do anything tupft ought to be done? Again, there is the trial of severe economy. Nine hundred aud ninetynine households out of. the thousand are subjected to it—some under more and some under less stress ot circumstances. Especially if a man smoke very expensive cigars aud take very costly dinners at the restaurants, he will be severe in demanding domestic economies. This is what kills tens of thousands of womcn-^-attempting to make $5 do the work of ST. A young woman about to enter the married state said to her mother: “How long does the honeymoon last?” The mother answered: “The honeymoon lasts until von ask. your husbaud for money.” How some men do dole out money to their wives. “How.mueh do you waul?” “A dollar.” You are always wanting a dollar. Cau't yon do with 50 cents?" if the husband has not the money, let him plainly say so. If he has it, let him make cheerful response. remembering that his wife has as much right to it as he has. How the bills come in! The woman is the banker of the household, she is the president, the cashier, the teller, the discount clerk; and there is a panic every few weeks! This thirty years' war against high prices, this perpetual study of economics, this life-long attempt to keep the outgoes less than the income, exhausts innumerable housekeepers. Oh, my sister, this is a part of the Divine discipline. If it were best for yon, ail you would have to do would be to open the front windows and the ravens* would fly in with food; and after you had baked 50 times from the barrel in the pantry, the barrel, like the one of Zarepath, would be full; and the shoes of the children would last ap long as the shoes of^he Israelites in the wilderness—to years, llesides that, this is going to make Heaven the more attractive in the contrast. They never hunger there, and consequently there will be none of the nuisauces of catering for appetites. And in the land of tha white robe they never have to mend anything, and the air ^n that hill-country makes everybody well. There are no rents to pay; every man owns his own house, and a mansion at jgSsEi

that. It will not be so great a change for yon to have a chariot in Heaven ii yon have been in the habit of riding in this wqjrld. It wyll not be so great a change for you; to sit down on the banks of the Hirer of Life, ii in this world you had a country seat; but if you hare walked with tired feet in this world, what a glorious change to mount celestial equipage! And if your life on eartfa was domestic martyrdom, oh, the joy of an eternity in which you shall hare nothing to dp except what you choose to do! Martha has had no drudgery foi 18 centuries! I quarrel with the theologians who want to distribute all the thrones of Heaven among the John Knoxes, and the Hugh Latimers, and the Theban Legion. Some of the brightest throues of Heaven will be kept for Christian housekeepers. Oh, what a change from here to therefrom eke time when they put down the rolling-pin to when they take up the scepter! If Chatsworth park and the Vanderbilt mansion were to be lifted into the Celestial City they would b»i considered uninhabitable rookeries, and glorified Lazarus would tie ashamed to be going in and out ol either of them. There are many housekeepers who could get along with their toils if it were not for sickness and trouble. The fact is, one-half of the women of the land are more or less invalids. The mountain lass, who has never had an ache or a pain, may consider household toil inconsiderable, and toward evening she may skip away miles to the fields, and drive home the cattle, and she may until ten o'clock' at night till the bouse with laughing racket; but, oh, to do the work of wlife with wornout constitution, when whooping cough has been ragiug for sH weeks in the household, quaking the _ night as sleepless as the day —that is not so easy! Perhaps this comes after the herves hare been shattered by some bereavement that has left desolation in every/ room ol the house, and set the crib in the garret, because the occupant has been hushed into a slumber which needs uo mother’s lullaby. Oh, she could provide for the whole group u great deal better than she can fojr a part of the group, now that the rest are gone! Thotigh you may jtell her God is taking care of those who are gone, it is motlier-like to brood both Hocks; and one wiug she puts Over the liock in the house, the other lying sae puts oyer the flock in the graye. There is nothing) but the old-fash-ioned religion of Jelsus Christ that will take a woman happily through the triads of home life. At fi "st there may be a romance or a ppvelty that will do for a substitute. ^The marriage hour has just passed, ant^ the lerplexilies oJ the household are more than atoned by the joy of beiug togetheyf“£i&fr by the fact when it is late t icy do not discuss the question as; tc1 whether it is tiuje to go! The mishaps of the household, instead of being a matter of anxiety aud reprehension, are a matter of merriment—the loaf of bread turned into a geological specimen; the slushy custards; the jaundiced or mea-sley biscuits. it is a very* brightsuulight that fails ou the cutlery and the mantel ornaments of a new home.

uiauuc 13 ail gone, aad then there it. something to be prepared for the ‘able that the book ealleJ “Cookery Taught in Twelve Lessons’- will not teach. The receipt for making it is not a handful of this, a cup of tuat, and a spoonful of something else. It is not something sweetened with ordinary condiments, or flavored with ordinary flavors, or baked in ordinary ovens. It is the loaf of domestic happiness; *^and all the ingredients cum: dovvh from Heaven, and the fruits are plucked from the tree of life, and it is sweetened with the new wine of the kingdom. and it is baked in the oven of home trial. Solomon wrote out of his own experience. He had a wretched *11i“T1111 d man nn not be hapDy with two wives, much less t; JO; and he says; writing out of his cwn experience: “Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.” .. One of the most affecting reminiscences of my motile- is my remembrance of her as a Christian housekeeper. She worked very hard, and when we would come in from summer play, and sit dowu at the table at noon, I remember how she used to come in with beads of perspiiations along the line of gray hair, and how sometimes she would sit down at the table and put her head again.*.t her wri nkied hand and say: “Weil, the fact is, I’m too tired to eat.’-’ Long after she mig^ have delegated this duty to others, she would not be satisfied unless she attended to the matter herself. In fact, we all preferred to have her do so, for somehow thinps tasted better when she prepared them. Some time ago, in an exp -ess train, I shot past that old homestead. I looked out of the win4ow, ani tried to peer through the darknes:. While I was do* ing so, one of my old schoolmates, tvhom 1 had not seen for many years, tapped me on the shoulder, and said: “DeWitt, I sea, you i.re looking out at the scenes of jour boyhood.” “Oh, yes; I replied, “1 was looking out at the old place where my mother lived and died.” Tuat night, in the cars, the whole seen ; came back to me. There was the country home. The re was the noonday table. There were the children on either aide of the table, mont of them gone never to come bad l. At one end of the table, my father, with a smile that never left his countmance, even when he lay in his coffin, it was an 84-years’ smite—not the smile of inanition, but of Christian courage an d of Christian hope. At the other end of t! le table was a beautiful, benignant, h und-workiug, aged Christian housekeeper, my mother. She was very tired. I am glad she has so good a place to rest in. • "Blessed are the dead who die in the liord; they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.” When a railroad nan is lame, be says hi has a flat wheel.—At chiaon Globe. j

Hood’s Sarsaparilla Absolutely cures scrofula, Salt rheum, Dyspepsia, rheumatism. Catarrh and all diseases Originating in or promoted By impure blood. It is The great nerve tonic, Stomach regulator and \ Strength builder. It Is to Be Hoped So. ‘ Hogan—Oi wonder who will be th’ l»«t manonairth? Grogan—Oi dunno annv more than von. But it is hoped that he’ll be an oondertaker, so he will know how to bury himself dacently.—Indianapolis Journal. All kinds, little or big. St. Jacobs Oil Surely cures aches and pains.* ' No man ever had as many suspenders as he^wanted—Washington Democrat. Cowing Leads to Consumption. Kerfijds Balsam will stop the cough at onee._/Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Large bottles, 50 cents and $1.00, Go at ores; delays are dangerous. How silly jt makes one feel to reach ont tof shake hands and not be noticed by the other fellow'.’—Washington Democrat. Sudden weather changes bring rheuma- " turn. St. Jacois^DiI makes prompt cure. Unbidden guests give they go.—llam's Horn. . pleasure—when

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