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26 TF EARN $7 DAILY SELLING Finest and cheapest on earth. Write for special agents and dealers terms. DR. HAUX SPFfTArr p rn n?i? - ?.* _ ?? JUUA l>0 LXJU13, CIO. SOME EXPENSES IN 1851. An old memorandum book has just come to light, in which some interesting prices are recorded. They make us groan, says the "Brooklyn Eagle." As we read them we begin to believe what the old people tell us ?that former times were, indeed, better than these. The woman who kept this account lxrok paid, to be sure, $3.25 to go from Weslfieid, Mass., to New York, and $3 more to go from New York to Philadelphia, but she paid only twenty-eight cents a dozen for her washing?beautifully ironed and brought tc her door? and ten dollars a month tor her board, and says that it was good, 1 >o. She had her daguerreotype taken, a single picture, and paid $1.50 for It. (We can improve on that price.) She bought a pair of shoes for $1.25 and had a dress cut for thirty-seven and one-half cents. The accounts bristle with half and quarter cents, 'things cost sometimes a "fip," sometimes a "levy." The former was six and one-quarter cents, the latter twelve and one-half cents. She bought a pair of rubbers for eighty-seven and one-half cents, and wrote them down as "gums." For her pew rent at church she paid sixty-six and twothirds cents a quarter. Her gowns were made of "debage," "delaine" and "mull," and she paid $1.75 for the fitting and making of one. She wore congress gaiters, and paid the exorbitant nHea ??# $2.25 for a pair. She bought a copy of "Agnes; the Key to Her Coflin," a book which many of us remember to have seen lying on parlor tables even in the 70'b. It was considered a wonderful book in its time, and most conforting to those in affliction. For teaching school eleven weeks th's woman received $82. . She paid thirty cents to go from Westfield to Springfield, and one dollar from Spiingfleld to Hartford, with carriage hire. She usually went from Hartford to' New York by boat, but the makes one entry: "Hartford to new York, across me tana," and then neglects to record the price. She has a tooth drawn and pays twenty-five cents. We reflect that this was before the days of anaesthetics. She burned in her lamp "fluid," a highly inflammable oil which preceded the safe kerosene. Those seem primitive and homely days to some who read these lines. It is true that life was simple then, but in Now " " ?'o??uu aiiu Eiitmeni ?ew l OTK ailO the vicinity, there may have been higher living, in many respectR, than now.? The Presbyterian. IE PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOI | Library ! Virginia's Attitude Toward Slavery and recession, oy Beverly B. Munford, published by Longmans, Green & Co., New York. The preface to this volume of more than three hundred pages announces that the work is designed as a contribution to the volume of information from which the historian of the future will be able to prepare an impartial and comprehensive narrative of the American Civil War, or more accurately, The American War of Secession. The author maintains that the assumption that the people ui Virginia were moved to secession by a selfish desire to extend or maintain the institution of slavery, or from hostility to the union, is at variance with their whole history and the interests which might naturally have controlled them in the hour of separation. To present the true attitude of the dominant element of the Virginia people with respect to these subjects is the work which the author has taken in hand. Abundant citations from numerous sources are made to sustain the author's contention. Any fair-minded reader will be not only instructed and entertained, but conclusively convinced. The volume is a worthy companion of "The Confederate Cause and Conduct in the War between the States," by Dr. Hunter Maguire and Hon. George L. Christian. Among the latest books published is one of especial interest to Christian people, namely, "Short Stories and Poems," by Nellie H. Owen. The authoress has for some years been a resident of Richmond, Va., and Kentucky being her native state, she has dedicated her new work to the States of Kentucky and Virginia. This new book contains several short stories and nearly forty poems, all of which are complete with diversity, interesting, entertaining and beneficial. The book is handsomely bound in green silk, bearing the title in letters of gold. A Rifhmnn/1 nooiAn 1 imou/i umncs lut; lunuwing comments on this new book: "The stories are short, entertaining, and peculiarly tender. You will need your handkerchief as you read. * * Human affection and religious aspiration are the vital air of the lovely little poems which occupy most of the pages. Get it, read it, and enjoy it." From My Youth Up.?Personal Reminiscences by Margaret Sangster. Illustrated. 332 pages; cloth, $1.50, net. F. H. Revell Co., New York. ' Mrs. Sangster has just passed the" line of three-score-years and ten and she has ~ 1 - uau a iuhk me, a i/nriHtian lady, who has seen much and used her pen in song and story all the time. She has much to tell of her memories of the years past and of many men and women of note and attraction. She lived in Norfolk, Va., for % JTH. November 10, 1909. a number of years following the war. She has a grateful appreciation of the noble character and service of Dr. George Armstrong. Her book is good reading, charm ing ana entertaining throughout. Under Three Tsars.?Liberty of Conscience in Russia, 1855-1909. By Robert Sloan Latimer with illustrations and maps. 244 pages. $1.50, net. Third in the story of the struggle of evangelical religion is the Russian Empire in modern times. It is a narrative of the advance, since the Crimean War, toward the ideal of personal liberty in matters of religion. It tells of the religious conflict of "The Old Believers," the Molokans, the Stundists, the Radstsch Awakening, Count Tolstoi, and the pres ent evangelical agencies. The Laymen's Missionary Bulletin.? Throughout the National Missionary Campaign a weekly bulletin will be issued by the Laymen's Missionary Movement. The first issue will appear during the last week in October. The subscription price is 50 cent3. This bulletin will contain the freshest and most authentic news from all the seventy-five conventions to be held, as well as interesting items of development in the campaign as a whole. Orders for the Bulletin should be sent directly to the headquarters of the movement at 1 Madison avenue, New York. The general secretary of the movement promises that this bulletin will be the juiciest, spiciest and neatest missionary literature ever prepared for masculine consumption. The life of faith is a continual revelation of God. As we trust him day bv day for guidance and for help, we find an ever increasing supply of peace, love and Joy?a foretaste of the blessedness of his eternal presence. When things * around the home need oiling? use Household Lubricant. You'll be sure then of perfect lubrication. It's an oil that's compounded especially to meet all requirements found in the average household. Never rancid. Never rusts, corrodes or gums. _ For typewriter, Jl sewing mnchine, bicycle, revolver, 11 gun, grindstone, wheel barrow, [I carpet sweeper, clock .hinge.tools, || baby carriage.etc. Evenlhfag^^ NeHS 8m* urfffiii ILi a1 riTisSL4