Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1892 — Page 3

MOTHER OF ALL.

Dr. Talmags Presents a Novel View oi the Divine Love, rh« Old Standard* in Urammir Bare Lad To ° Many to Thlnt at QodatPWfclT— Masculine—Divine Attributes Are Feminine Also and Motherly. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Subject: “The Mother of All.” Text, Isaiah Ixvi. 13. “As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I support you.’> He said: The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a parent to a child, and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages. As there may be fifty or sixty nights of gentle dew ‘in one summer that will not cause as much remark as one hailstorm of half an hour, so there are those who nre more struck by those passages of the Bible that announce the in dignation of God than by those that announce his affection. There may come to a household twenty or fifty letters of affection during the year, and they will uot make as much excitement in that home as one sheriff’s writ, and so there are people who 'are more attentive to those passages which announce the judgment of hod than to those which announce his mercy and his favor. God is a lion, John says in the book of Revelation. God is a breaker, Micah announces in hisijroph 'cy; God is a rock. God is a king. But bear also that God is love. The text of this morning brnds with great gentleness and love over all who are prostrate in sin and trouble. It lights up with compassion. It melts with tenderness. It breathes upon us the hush of an eternal lullaby, for it announces that God is our Mother. I remark, in the first place, that God has a mother’s simplicity of instruction. A fiither does not know hoy? to teach a child the ABC. Mon are uot steilTfuTfri the primary department, but a mother has so much patience that she will tell a child for the hundredth time the difference between F. and G and between I and J. Sometimes it is by blocks; sometimes by the worsted work; sometimes by the slate; sometimes by the b >ok. She th us teachp- the child and has no awkwar nzss cf condescension in so do ng. So God, our Mother, stoops down to our infantile minds. Though we are told a thing a thousand times and we do not understand It, our heavenly Mother goes on, line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little. God has been teaching some of us thirty years and some of us sixty years one fvord of one syllable, and Ve do not know it yet—faith, faith ! When we come to that word we stumble, we halt, we lose our place, wo pronounce it wrong. Still God’s patience is not exhausted. God, our Mother, puts us in the school of prosperity, and the figures are in sunshine, and we cannot spell them. God puts us in the school of adversity, and the letters are black, and we cannot spell them, if God-Were merely ,n kinghe would punish us ; if he were simply a father he would whip us ; but God is a mother, and so we arc borne with and helped all the way through. A mother teaches her child chiefly by pie-tares-.- K she-wants to- set forth to her child the hideousness of a quarrelsome disposition, instead of giving a lecture on that subject she turns over a leaf and shows the child two boys in a wrangle, and says, ** Doe s not that look horrible ? ”- If ■lie wants to teach her child the awfulness of war she turns over the picture book nud shows the war charger, the headless trunks of butchered men, the wild, bloodshot eye of battle rolling under lids of t£ime, and she says, “ That is war 1” The child understands it. In a great many bosks the best parts are the pictures. The style may be insipid, the type poor, but a picture alwuys attracts a child’s attention. Now God, our Moth r, teachss us almost everything by pictures. Is the divine goodness to be set forth ? How does God, our Mother, teach us ? By an autumnal picture. The barns arc full. The wheat stacks are rounded. The cattle are chewing the cud lazily in the sun. The orchards are dropping the ripe pippins into the lap of the farmer. The natural world that has been busy all summer seems now to be resting in great abundance. God wistaos to set forth the fact that in the judgment the good will bo divided from the the wicked. How is it done? By a picture, by a parable —a (ishiug scene. A gipup of hardy men, long bearded, geared for standing to the waist in water,sleeves rollod up. Long oar. sun gilt; boat battered as though it had been a play mate of the storm. A full net thumping about with the fish, which have just discovered their captivity, the worthless mossbunkers and the useful flounders all in thd same net. The fisherman puts his hand down amid the squirming fins, takes out the mossbunkers and throws them into the water and gathers the good fish into the pail. So, says Christ, it shall bo at the end of the world. The bad he will cast away, and the good he will keep. I remark again that God baß a mother's favoritism- A father sometimes shows a sort of favoritism; Here is a boy—strong, well, of high forehead and quick intellect. The father says, “I will take thatboy into my firm yet,” or, ,l I will give him the very 1 best possible education.” ,There are instance? where for the culture of the one all the others have been robbed. A sad favoritism, but

that is not the mother's favorite. I will tell von her favorite. There is a child who at two years of age had a fall. He has never got heart scarlet fever mtiSigd was. That child has caused the mother more anxious nights than all the other children. If he coughs in sleep and goes to him. The last thing she does when going out of the house is to give a charge in regard to him. .The first thing on coming in is to ask in regard to him. Why, the children of the family all know that be is the favorite, and says: “Mother, you let him do just as he pleases, and you give him a gre-at many things which you do not give us. He is your favorite.” The mothers smile; she knows it is so. So he ought to be, for if there is any one in the world needs sympathy more than another..'it *is an invalid child; weary on the first mile of life's ourney; carrying an aching head, a weak side, au irritated lung. So the mother ought to make him a favorite. ■ God, our Mother, has favorites. “Whom the Lord loveth lie chasteneth”—that is, oue whom he especially loves he chasteneth, God loves us, but is there one weak and sick arid sore and wounded and suffering and faint? That is the one who lies nearest and more perpetually on the great loving heart of God, Why, it never coughs but our Mother—God—hears it. It never stirs a weary limb in the bed but our Mother —God —knows of it. There is no such a watcher as God. The best nurse may be overborne by fatigue and fall asleep in the chair; but God, our Mother, after being up a year of nights with a suffering child, never slumbers nor sleeps. , “Oh,” says one, “I cannot under-, stand all that about affliction!” A refiner of .-diver once explained it to a Christian lady, “I put the silver on the fire, and -1 keep refining it and tryingit till I cans e my face in it and then I take it out.” Just so it is fee *ps his dear children in the furnace till the divine image may be seen in them, then they are taken out of the lire. “Well,” says some one, “if that is thi way God treats his favorites, I do not want to be a favorite,” There is a barren field on autumn day just wanting to be let alone. There is bangjat the .bars and a rattle of whiffletre.s and clevises. The field says, “What is the farmer going to do with me now?” The farmer puts the plow in the ground, shouts to the horses, the colter goes tearing through the sod and the furrow soon reaches from fence to fence. Next day there is a bang- at tire bars and the rattle of whiiffetrees again. The field says, “I wonder what the farmer is going to do now?” The farmer hitches the horses to the harrow and it goes bounding and tearing across the field. Next day there is a rattle at the bars again, and the field says, “What is the fanner going to do now?” lie walks heavily across the field, scattering seed as h' walks. Ater awhile a cloud comes. T'he field says, “What, more trouble!” It begins to rain. After awhile the wind changes to the northeast and it begins to snow. Savs the field, “Is it not enough that I have been trampled upon and drowned? Must I be snowed under?” After awhile spring comes oeft of the gates of the south and warmth and bandages the gashes of the wheat field, and a July morning drops a crown of gold upon the head of. the “Oh,” says the field, “now I know the use of the plow, of the harrow, of the heavy foot, of the shower and of the snow storm. It is well enough to be trodlen and trampled and drowned and snowed under if in the eud I can yield such a glorious harIvcst.” ■ When I see God especially busy in troubling and trying a Christian I know that out of that Christian's character there is to come some especial good. A quarryman goes down into the excavation, and with strong-handed machinery bores into the rock. The rock says, “What do you do that for?” He puts powder in; he lights a fuse; there is a thundering crash. The rock says; “Why, the whole mountain is going to 1 pieces. ” The crowbarnr plunged; the rock is dragged out. After awhile it is taken to the artist’s studio. It says: “Well, now I have got to a good, warm, comfortable place at last.” But the sculptor takes the chisel and mallet, and he digs for the eyes, and he cuts for the mouth, nnd he bores for the ear, and he rubs it with sandpaper, until the rock says: “When will this torture be ended?” A sheet is thrown over it; it stands in darkness. After awhile it is taken out. The covering is removed. It stands in the sunlight, in the presence of ten thousand applauding people. as they greet the statue of the poet, or the prince, or the conqueror. “Ah,” says the stone, “now I understand it. I am a great deal better off now standing as the statue of a conqueror than I would have been down in the quarry.” So God finds a man down in the qarry of ignorance and sin. How to get him up? He must be bored and blasted am} chiseled and scoured and stand sometimes in the darkness. But after awhile the mantle of affliction will fait off and he will be greeted by the one hundred and forty-four thousand and the thousands of thousands as more than conqueror. Oh. my friends, God. our Mother, is just as kiud in our afflictions as in our prosperities. God never touches us but for our goo I. i if a field clean and cultured is better off than a barren field, and if a stone

that, has become a statue is better ofi than the marble in the quarry, then the soul that God chastens may be His favorite. I remark that God has a mother's -capacity for attending to little hurts. The father is shocked at the broken bone of a child, or at the sickness that sets the eradleon fire with fever, biit jt takis themother to sympathize with all the little ailmen ts and bruises of thaolrild. -If the- child have a splinter in its 1 hand it wants the mother to take it out, and not the fathfer. The father says, “Oh, that is nothing,” but the mother knows it is something, and that a little hurt is sometimes very great. So with God, our &.'o her; a'l our annoynn < 3 are important enough to look at anti sympathize with. Nothiug with God is something. There are uo eipheis In God’s arithmetic. And if we were onTy good enough of sight we COulcl see as much through a microscope as through a telescope _ Those that iriuv .be impalpable and intlnitessimal ’o u> may be pronounced arid infinite to God. A mathematical point is deflned a; having no parts, no magnitude. It is to small you cannot imagine it, and yei a mathematical point may b?a start ing point for a great eternity. God's surveyors carry a very loug chain. A scale must be very delicate th it can weigh a grain, but God’s scale is so delicate that he can weigh with it that wh'ch is so small that a grain is a million times heavier. I remark further that God has a mothers patience for the er» ing. If one does wrong, first his associates in life east him off ; if he goes on in the wrong wav. his business partner casts him off ; if he goes on, his best friends cast him off—his father casts him off. But after all others have cast him off, where does he go? Who holds no grudge and forgives the last time as well as the first ? Who sits by the murderer’s counsel all through the long trial? Who tarries the longeit at,the windows of a culprit’s cell ? Who, when all others think ill of a man. keeps on thinking well of him ? It is his mother. God bless her gray hairs if she be still alive, and bless her gray hairs if she be gone! And bless the rocking chair in which she used to sit, and blessthe cradle that she used to rock, and bless the Bible she used to read ! So God. our Mother, has patience for all the erring. After everybody else has cast a man off, God, our Mother, comes to the rescue. God leaps to take charge of a bad case. After all the other doctors have got through the heavenly Physician comes in. Human sympathy at such a time does not amount to much. Even the sympathy of the church, I am sorry‘to say, often does not amount to much. I want to say finally that Go ! has a mother’s way of putting a child to sleep. You know there is no cradle 9ong like a mother’s. After the excitement of the evening it is almost impossible to get the child to sleep. If the rocking chair stop ft moment the eyes are wide open, but the mother’s patience and the mother’s soothing manner keep on until after awhile the angel of slumber puts his wing over the pillow. -Well, my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, i the time will come when we will bo wanting to put to sleep. The day of our life will be done, and the shadows of the night of death will be gathering around us. Then wo want God to soothe us, to hush us to sleep. Let the music at our going not be the dirge of the organ, or the knell of the church tower, or the drum ming of a “dead march,” but let it be the hushof a mother’s .uUaby. Oh,: the cradle of the grave will be soft with the pillows of the promises! When we are being rocked into that last slumber I want this to be the cradle song, “As one whom a mother comforteth, so will I comfort you.”

Not the Committee.

Detroit Tribune. It was u hkleus night. The manner in which the wind soughed the trees settled the matter. Now and then a drop of rain fell upon the dry leaves like a tear from the feverish eyes of a distressed nature. It was a corker. The solitary horseman with a heavy military cloak started violently when fourteen shadowy figures leaped from the underbrush and confronted him with vawninft shot-guns. “Your money,’’ they shouted in hoarse, lawless tones. The horseman drew himself to his full height. “Not a red cent,” he exclaimed. The leader of the assailants strode forward. “Yield or die,” he hissed. “"What do you propose to do with the money?” suddenly demanded the solitary horseman. “Buy bread.” There was a convulsive movement beneath the military cloak. “Then—” The horseman's voice was wonderfully soft—“you are not the campaign committee soliciting funds?” “No.” “Take what I have and welcome.’ After some further interchange o r civilities the rider put spurs to his horse and with a pleasant farewell disappeared. The city, of London covers 087 square miles. The Emperor of China order 200 pair of boots at a time. There are thirty townß called I Washington in America. Most papers in Germany are I owned and edited by Hebrews. | The St. Louis new water tower is said to be the highest in the world.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Goshen is overrun with crooks. Rushville threatens its gamblers. Evansville had a heavy snow storm on the 9th. William Ramsey, aged eighty, of near Sunman, Ripley county, was attacked and bitten to death by a hog Thursday. Andrew Ferrad, of Prescott, while walking on the railway track, was overtaken and killed by a Big Four train. Huntington county wants to be placed in a separate Judicial district, and Grant county demands to be freed from Black* ford. The treasurer of Madison county is again stirring up the Midland Railway Company for delinquent taxes, and several locomotives have been levied upon. The postoffice at Cope will be abandoned December 13. This office pays less than it costs to run it. The postmaster, shortly after the election sent in his resignation, setting out the disadvantages, and it was accepted with the above result. There have been 488 cases of diphtheria reported to the Terre Haute Board of Health since the latter part of August, with ninety-five deaths, and a few weeks ago two of the schools closed down temporaraily.. Markleville is without a saloon. Several have been opened in that village, but the sentiment against the liquor traffic is so pronounced that usually they are shortlived. If not starved out, then the torch seems to have been applied with consuming effect. Cal Husselman, the populist candidate for Congress in the DeKalb district, taking umbrage at remarks made during the campaign, hunted up editor Little, of that county, and thrashed him. Husselman will be tried at Angola. Frank Forrest, Boonville man, who was arrested by the Federal authorities for forging money orders, was identified largely because be could not spell. He attracted special attention to his forged paper by spelling the name of State’s capital “Indianopolis.” His letters were signed “Very Respectifully.” The Connor-Starke slander suit, tried at Greencastle on change of venue from Montgomery county, resulted in a verdict of $1,000 for plaintiff. It was a compromise verdict, some of the jurors standing out for the full measure of the claim. Miss Emma Connor, the plaintiff, is the school teacher near Ladoga, who was advertised far and wide in 1891 because of her plucky defense of the national colors, which had been cut down by Starke, one of the patrons of the school. Tills drew upon her the venomous tongue of the defendant, who made free with her good name, and accused her of scandalous conduct with one of her pupils, a boy thirteen year sold. The plaintiff is thirty-five. The teacher then instituted suit for damages, and Starke took a change of venue, claiming he could not get justice in Montgomery county. Three days were occupied in the trial. The plaintiff is the daughter of a dead Union soldier; Starke is a Bourbon Democrat. The greatest sensation ever known in business and social circles of Clinton came out Monday, it was learned that William R. Blanford, one of Clinton’s prominent and popular business men, and implement and stock dealer, had left for parts unknown. He left last Thursday, but no suspicion was raised about it, as it was announced that he had gone to Indianapolis on business. It has since developed that he took a hasty flight to avoid arrest for forgery and the hypothecation of a large number of notes. His business has totally collapsed and is in the hands of the sheriff, including a large implement store and a livery stable. His liabilities will amount to $20,000, and the accounts and goods on hand will not pay over 20 cents on the dollar. He had left a large number of notes on the farmers of this vicinity at the bank. Nearly all have been raised in various sums, some from $18 to 218, and others from smal amounts to $600. The amount inyolved in this hypothecation is not definitely known, but it is enormous. Monday a great many farm ers came in to attest their notes, and great excitement prevailed when they discovered the trick by which they had been victimized. The bank is supposed to lose some, but is generally believed to be safe His father will lose $8,000. County Auditor Hamilton loses $1,250. Outside manufacturers will lose from $500 to $2,000. Blanford had a bold, energetic manner that won him many friends, and he was a prominent leader in all social matters, being a member of the Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias. He was treasurer of the latter society, and has absconded with the funds, some $200 He is known to have had a large sum of money with him when he left. He is supposed to have gone to Mexico. A reward of $1,200 is offered for his capture. The immediate cause of his downfall was the loss of nearly $2,000, which he bet on the election. He took money from his business and was unable to recover.

POLITICAL.

,-' - i One of tbo Weaver electors was elected In North Dakota by a plurality of 17. Wyoming will probably have two Lcgls* latures tbls winter. All tbo Weaver electors In North Dakota aro elected by majorities ranging from 15 to 88. The official plurality of Oovornor Russell. of Massachusetts, is 2.531. Harrison carried the State by 25,000. Astor a long tight tbo home for disabled and indigent Confederate veterans has been accepted by the Georgia Legislature. Candidates for Speaker of tho next House, as announced, are J. N. Flppcu. Tipton: J. B. Curtis, Indianapolis, and Samuel N. iiench, of Ft Wayno. There Is talk of a movement among somo of the Democrriic politicians in Indiana. says the Indianapolis News,to fora an organization after the fashion of the State couimittco, but entirely separate from it It Is said that those who liuvn been copsidering a plan for such an fanlzatlon beliovo It wonld be valuable in perpetuating In power In the State the Democracy. If the new organization Is formed It will bo patterned after Tammany

Hall, cf Now York, and its ambition will be to become as great a factor 'in Indiana politics as Tammany is in New York affairs political. The idea of SncU an ordianapolis soon after the eioction. It is “understood that leading Democrats over the State have been communicated with Tn Teforeii'cri to die movements Trie now organization, if its plan Is understood by those who have been approached On the subject, dors not in loud to interfere with the work of the State committee, bat will act as assistant. Tho originators of the scheme design to bavo the orgapizition exert its greater influence in tho dominating con tba party. It is said that the plan will bo perfected during the session of the Legislature. Quite a stir has been created in political circles. The Reform Clnb, of Now Yorkgavo a banquet. Saturday night, at which President-elect Cleveland aud many of the notables of tho party, including Speaker Crisp, were present. The latter says ho was iuvited to make a speech, which' ho prepared and in advance gave it so "the Associated Press, Much to his chagrin t however, hewasnot called upou.aitd itow all the politicians are talking about It Tho President of the Reform Club sayshn was not inyiiod to speak, or If lie waAlia docs not know who invited him. In any event Mr, Crisp, while ho says little, is clearly mortified over his position. 2 Tho alleged snub of Speaker Crisp at the Reform Club banquet has precipitated the Speakership fight, aud not unfavorably to Crisp. A special to the Indianapolis Sentinel of the 13th, says: As tho morning slight imposed upon Speaker Crisp and strengthened the impression that it was intentional and designed for popular effect throughout the country, the noussi itself look early and effectual means to resent the indignity which had been offered Us presiding officer. As tiio clock iu the hall in the House indicated 12o'c!ock and the Speaker entered to nip the house to order there was au instant clapping_of hands, and as Mr Crisp mounted tho stand the demonstration increased iu vuluino until it amounted to au ovation. For nearly a minute the applause, which swept over tho entire House aud were confined to no faction or party, continued with great vigor; the Speaker’s face flushed with evident satisfaction and wsmHe of gratification crept over his features. Whcu si. lence was finally restored, and after the chaplain’s prayer, many members mounted the rostrum and grasped the Speaker by the hand and congratulated him upon the esteem in which ho was evidently held by the house. It is doubtless a matte 1 ' of great gratification to Speaker Crisp tha t among those who most emphatically condemn tho inhospitailty of the Reform Club are many members who were not oven his supporters in the famous spoakersbip contest. - - - • - - -

Another Heat-Prodnce.

French chemists have demonstrated that it is possible to produce beat without fire, and the dieovery is to be utilized on the railways and street cars of the country. The device consists simply of a block of acetate of soda, which is plunged into hot water. As it solidifies after the immer sion it gives forth as much heat as a coal lire for the space of five or six hours. ——— mammmmmmmmmmmmmKmmmmmm

THE MARKETS.

IndiaSAro lis, Dec. 4 IBSB. Quotations for Indianapolis when not specified GRAIN. Wheat—No. 3 red, 63(<c; No. 3 red, 63c; wagon wheat, 07c. Corn No. 1 white, 41c; No. 3 white, 41c; white mixed. 41c; No. 3 white, 4»c; No. 3 yellow, 38c; No. 3 yellow, No. 2 mixed, 38c; No. 3 mixed, 37Xc; car, 3734 c Oats—No. 2 white, 36C; No. 3 white, 24 Wc; No. 2 mixed, 32'£c; rejected, 2Jc.| Hay—Timothy, choice, $12.00; No. 1. •11.50; No. 2,0; No. 1 prairie, *7;r>o; No. 8. $5.50: mixed hay.s7.oo; clover,Si.OO. Bran $ll.OO per ton. i Wheat. | Corn. Oats. | Rye. Chicago 2 r'd 78 43 30 Cincinnati.... 2 r’d 70‘» 48 35 51 St. Louis. ... 2 r'd 6811 3X 31 V, 41 New York 2 r'd 77(4 SOU 30 % tO Baltimore.... i. 71 48 43 5H Philadelphia. 2 r’d i 6 -SO - 40- Clover i Seed. Toledo I 74‘i 4H4! 31 76) Detroit 1 whilst 43 I £7 Minneapolis.. 08 CATTLE. Export grades vr*rso@s z~, Good to choice shippers 3 '. <) <i4 3:, Fair to medium snippers 3 3503 70 Common shippers 2 6503 10 Stockers, common to good 2 0003 ir> Good to choice heifers 2 7503 25 Fair to medium iieifors 2 2502 <:o Common, thin heifers 1 5002 00 Good to choice cows 2 6503 10 Fair to medium cows... 2 00.&2 40 Common old cows... 1 00<ti 75 Veals, good to choice 3 50 $5 S 3 Bulls, common to medium.... 1 50 i 2 75 Milkers, good to c-hofco 35000360) Milkers, common to medium... 120003000 lIOG.S, Heavy packing and shipping.. $0 00,36 20 Lights 5 75<<§j} 05 Mixed 5 HXWi 15 Heavy roughs 4 WO3 75 SHEEP. Good to choice $4 0004 40 Fair to medium: 3 •jsjg} 53 Common to medium 3 50 u 3 25 Lambs, good to choico 4 0003 30 POULTRY ANI) OTHER PRODUCE. Poultry—liens.,7c V fi>; young chickens 8c turkeys, fa> ciioice liens, Oc It. ducks, 7c y n»; ge05e,3.40 for choice. Eggs—Shippers paying 2 :c. Mutter—Choice country buLter. IPSICc; common, 8010 c; creamery, retailing from store at 33c. Cheese—Now York full cream,t2ol2Wc; skims, fx.«.7c V lb. Mobbing prices.) Feathers—Prime goese 40c V lb; mixed duck, 20c V lb. Beeswax—Dark, 15c; yellow,2oc (selling) Wool—Flue merino, lfVgltSc; unwashed combing,2lc; tub washed, 31033 c. HIDES, TALIAJW, ETC. Hides—No. 1 green hides. 3c; No. 2 green hides. 2)£c; No. 1 G. S. hides, 4;>; No. 2G. S. hides, 3)<jc: No, 1 tallow, 4c; No. 2 tallow, 3>*c. Horse llldo*-$2(95'.\23; 3 'allow—No. 1,4 c: No. 2,3>4C. roase—White, 4c; yellw, '3?jc; brown, 3c. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. Potatoes—s2.so.o23l3 V brl. » Sweet Potatoes-Jerseys, $1.53. iAiroons—Choice, $G.5w $ box; fancy, $3.00. Paars—Kiefer. 12 • bushel. Onions—s 3 V brl; Spanish, 91.39 per crate. Cabbage—MichiganJ2®s2.23 perbrL

PACKIG THE TRUNK.

Midsummer Pock.

I. “If you will only exert yourself, William you ean get the lid down far enough to look it.—

it. Can't you nossibly get it down any further?

ill. My added weight will’probably do it. No?

225 I\*l £ That’s right, Clara. Your hundred and twenty pounds will do it, I’m sure.—

That's it, Edwin. Every littl* helps. Now, all togetherl—■

VI. Eureka! Eureka! I told you we could do it, William,”

:—. XT. Husband aud bather (feebly)— Where’s the key.? Edwin—l saw it in the—

VHT. —bottom of the trunk.

The Amiable Landlady.

Mrs. Hasbcroft —You must regret losing Mr. Gildersleeve.You had him so many years. Mrs. Small— Yes, indeed. He was the only boarder I had who really liked stowed prunes. “Will you have another cup of coffee?” the landlady asked the boarder. He shook his head. ‘’The spirit is willing,” he said, “but the coffee is weak.” New Boarder (at Mrs. Be Hash’s estaolishment) Somebody's I been through my room. Star Boarder—Steal anyping? “Neurly half a box of cig'-.iwl had there.” trn soq “Ah! Now T understand wwr we had vegetable soup for dinner." Elder Berry—Joblets takes t> good deal of stock in the miracle if the man who was ordered to take wp his bed aud walk. Dr. Thirdly—Does he belieVi Elder Berry—Yes; he say*, them are beds where the boards tbat 6 would trot right along behind without waiting to be carried. *