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The Heard Cointv Citizen.
VOL. I. NO. l±
Fieri art iar Ei’ie Lmer pad
She Ito* a caa^c prawn toi tews;
Star mpgr-i K umtenMur^ *' iteaa—
A-rr I. a bmupri-r .art a •uvj,
Forthwith pracestai to arae
Mr wseet.- ami dm' .a» mot;
B« era I per < nut J acta
I OK « owe a ob!« hear:.
Ab* Wbes her afamy p<tai ear?
Mehr _way tar Irzzn why .tray
■tar wewagrU barb be taaoa ar . iak
T,» ^aa are comfit* -e rhe dp?
JU ri — arban -v— stood apart
Ast wove tie <tawy cto. ah' vae
■mu.' wota her leech the aajv heart
tel gprs toe ItetLex sat? Lu ate.
\ LOST AND FOUND, ri
r ( ■. fn atwomi. ) —— •
aae sax on the soars at tbs sea aad
M< threw pebbles taro the surf. Is
it beat up the recta aad alsix»t
washed her feet
The aua was going town tn a mam
st lurid red ciouds. the eastern
breese was tresheoia? along the
bluffs. and now ana then a stray drop
at rain fell m her
Geraldine Vane drew her shawl
doser around her. with aa involun
tary atatver. semetfung there was m
the night casing aro'-ni which re
minded her of a dead day. ,
Her amid went back to the tifae
with a throb cf pain. She would
gladly have avoided the retrospect—
but who can centroi thought?
Eleven years ago site was sixteen.
What aa old. old woman she mux
be grown now* She stretched oat
her hned through the shadows aad
looked at t- earnestly half expecting
to see it wrinkled and withered like
<ud Grand mo tiler Hotts. ani she was
"upward of ninety
Eleven years ago she had walked
these very sands, just as golden -ow
aa then—just so the summer waves
had broken their hearts in music on
the shore, just so the salt sea-breeae
k. i swept her eaeek and towed the
rocks cutside the harbor.
But thee Thane Bichmucd was be
side her. and youth, and hope, and
tore were hers, to say nothing of a
trust which was perfect. What more
uouM a wnsfat ask for’
They were a pub: of tawert Just bo
tpahhwtrtovt^ each other aa no other
lovers had ever loved bsfoxs—so they
staff and thought, aad It was vary
twat to them, aad wondrous sweat, aa
* always to when the dream to new
Bat. after all. there was sone
casse at sadness; ant when would
lore be tore if there were not*
Bichmoad was co leave her in a week
fc: China, to be absent three years:
for bis future was yer to make, and
he was too proud a lad to aeeept a
wife whose poosessions were greater
fkaj: his own. Geraldine was aa
heiress. ao it was out of the question
to marry aothmg. and live on cheese
parings and kisses in a vine-cottage,
as bach the young neopie would have
been glad to do
Colanei Varley. G-ra.4iae s father,
was a high-bred oM fellow, and he
had said to audacious young Thane
Ric !i mood when he bad asked him
for his daicit- -
’ See here, young man' Money to
the thing needed nowadays, aad my
daughter has always worn her dia
monds and nddeu in her camagw
S&e must noc marry beneath her
When yon --an mme to me with a
fortune sußrtent to support a wife
and keep her in the gewgaws that a
woman ftnds necesßarr now. Gerald
ine is yours, that to. if see has not
ehanxed her mind xxd married some
body with a fortune ready-made "
AH of which was very cruel in the
Mflilßpaxher-.c parent, but the nar
■Nßkof heroines have always been
e-ra scuT. you know
■ik was decreed that Thase Kieh
agga|B abouid go cs F ind seek ha tor
taaa* tononz he Celestials, aad <jer
aldlne was to go to Parts and Satoh
her eduear.cn
But they were to write —so very
often—twice or t’ nee a week, which
was very mo .erate tor lovers and
besttie the sea. with the dim light of
the stars around them, me night in
fuse they said their farewells aad
vowed tn be true
The lonely woman sitting there to
night oa the shore, and going back
over the ways she had traveled, drew
a sigh—something of the -enderness
at that olden time lingered with her
MiH- and flashed her pule cheek with
X^^^^^rfght crimson
reruns
I Meo years af’e;- Tribes 'ie
w inters ba..! ■ ? z --x-.ir.
had sa-isfled tie sear* cf
■ to who had loved i.'n. and
W® itoa ut a hundred no matter
how loyal and tender, can write a
letter of love which will ;nst sneer
the regwirements ofa loving weans
nature without being silly
‘ ■» the end at this time the letters
sMßked Xo word of explanation—
aß*:3g to break the dull suspense
wMfch to always so hard to bear
fhraldtne. proud though she was
■ wruts to Thane to ask the cause of
his strange sile-ree She received in
return a tew brief Enes' he war
weary at a youthful totty. asked her
to fsrgto him and vuinateered tie
FOR THK PBOPLE OF HEARD FIRfIT, L.AOT AND ALL THE TIME.
Ttw CAMn HeAflTVw .
Aad mu •» tedy lemtnw were
All awrt an>i A—» mi pet aw^v,
Aad we vcr>dM bawd m bawl ai-mg
The mw bar st to w at day—
We tamed upea the r—i. rad
Te watch the nvwieto beiew
Amar -jew auoHee in the trad
(M the pete nounhgnt * elver glow
Ta- sight the Itote rmtr heart
I aad among wv rieeiei i
A wmetteau ■a rvil ib ’ k an i niw
To me »bs mm pwradnae
A -aata Mart, a geMim trow
Al! as my sa«en gnliv twine
Tae W&aa etof vita wdl -areae.
Mx L.ps they wtai -Sweetheart ai ™ra ’
—H-.reev Seymour Kofler.
11 mfacmaxiou that be was soon to be
i married to the daughter of an at
tAche oC Aatericaa at
Fekin.
i Well, such breaks an thto are hap
i! peeing all the time around ns; they
> • are common as births and deaths.
► I and excite about as macs attention.
1 xe world does not suffer the aagutoh
t ‘ of heart which sometimes routes of
- ' them to people so unfortunate as to
i ■ be possesped of feelings, aad ao the
- J world wags on as ever.
Geraldine was one of those
> wretched women who cannot irans
-11 fe. their affectmas as we would
. I transfer a bowse or other piece of
, property, and in consequence abe suf
.! sered deeply.
l; Loring once with aer was loving
;' far all time and though she had sait
t srs by the score—as what beautiful
; and wealthy woman has not*—she
i i turae-l from them oil tn quiet coid
i cess?
After a while Cotowi Varley took
I the matter in hand. No daughter of
' bis should pine her life away for a
> beggarly rases' like Thane Richmond,
i h said, and Geraldine was command
f ed to marry Archibald Vane. « that
i time the wealthiest and mask de- \
rated of her admirers. She ke
- marred. Sbe uM Maae plainly that
I aha should never lose agata; but be '
t risk anything ter vtoe sake at tan
—■lag her.
So they wars aarstedt
r Hr. Tame’s wtte was the aanf aad
r admiratioc • aB the reentry roaad
t about Teen pleaaore. Hat howae ^ran
> a palace—everythiag sheet ■ wan
superb to its appointmeato; she had
r I om a wtoh nngr irifcd. aad her hao
l' bead was as derated ao a tower
Bur Geraldine never varied from
t! the raid stareiinese. which had fbltan
i on her like a nsaat'e at the altar
I' Otten aad often the kind, heater
i heart of her husband ar bed for oae
-' toviag ward from the cold lips wbaee '
i i kisses be would have died tor . bet <
I he was true to his agreement—he.
-: never compiained. and be did not try .
, ! to force her love.
»' * hen her child—her beaattfwl lit- j
Ue Annie—was born, she sefteaed
.' toward a-r bxebaxd in tome aiigfir
• ■ iegree. The new and wonderful hap
t. ptness which motherhood brought
i her made her kinder to the father
*of her ehiid. Aad poor Vane was
I raised -> a feiwity alt gather an
> ’ known to Tim when die put the little
- girl in bis arms aad suff red him to
kiss the waits cheek he bad dared
draw to r»st against his shoulder
i As Annie lived and developed char-1
• acter. she was the strangest at ail ;
i chttdr-a (Md far beyond her years. '
- lovely in face and gentle to temper ,
t full of quaint sayinga. and ariag ter
- no playmate but her moUier
As Geraldine sat there on the sea- ■
• shore, thunking over these things I 1
-1 have told you. sometn:ng crept up be
i neath her shawl ia the '.mni. roan-,
lag way one sees sometmies ia a pec
- animal
Mrs. Vane folded her arms around
-, the little creature, and ktoaed the ep
l turned white forehead
'What to it. my dar .ng* looking
r' down at the serious, qaestioning face
1 Lifted to hers
"Mamma, tell me truly m there
f : anything in d-earns*
i My love do not mother yawr little
I , head witn sock idle things Why do
i you ask’’
- । "Because, when you left n» asleep.
11 mamma. I dreamed at staking ships,
r i and sh. p rocks that tore the great
« timbers apart, aad then they went
r' down. auwn. down. and. oh' mamma.
i! I heard i cries of the frowning
I men. and I saw their dead, pale
faces, aad papa s among them’ And
I screamed, aad nurse woke me and
. ■ told me I had only bera dreaming?"
1 1 In spite of herself Geraldine shad
-1 : dered She was not ia any degree
r scperstittous. but there was always
i ' something about thir child's weird
t I fancies which impressed can She
> i held the slight form closer to her
side, and even as she did so. far off
s over the waters came the dull boom
-of a gan*
t j "It to the skip f And they will be
drowned” cried Annie, starting up
i See. see' It is on Ire aad ft u
t floating in on the rocks below Egg
i st me light”
The rhHd spoke truly A great 1
r ship—an ocean steamer —wrapped m
e Same aad smoke, was dnluag thore-
FRANKLIN. GA- WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 19. 19« S.
L A projecting point wa? loaf
x then hid the suanrat pm-riußS
trow view.
Anai- sprang forward down Ute
rocks The a rat from one roeh to
another, until she —as yards frmmritfeh
shore, and the laromirg ridit. amtot
growing Screw and angry, wac. awnh
ing around her Geraldinw fnUxtw*
wnh terror tn her heart
Drenched with spray, thw <sBK
was digging to a pointed rock.. Ihmtol
tag owr wt: wM. fanrisata£ MW]
fixed ow the burning ship
It to my dream over agx-Jk" ain
said, solemly
Geraldine carbered ths ehiM an tear .
arms, and all uamindfal that On |
tide was cutting them hopeto HT aC
from the shore, she watched tt• £axad
ship
One mass of land Same, her
scorching sides hung with fated tea
man beings: even there she cxraM
hear their vain cries for asstotamav.
Suddenly the blaring hulk rewtad
and shuddered, for an iuataad *h»
flames seemeu to die away, aad the i
smoke towered its blood-red banar; <
then all waters tor fathoms asDuwd
seemed o scintillate with liquid tri*
One fearful plunge forward the ship
gave, one cry of mortal despair WWW! |
up to the black heavens, and the tide
rushed tn like squadrons of viß«
horses, each ea/Jer to win the rmae?
It was all ova aad the waters were
full at I ■epaft tag, dying men £gh>-
ing vainly for that which was tent to
them farever—fte
Toward the rock where GeraMtow
and her child still ituag. drifted ewe
of the ill-starred vessel s poanengKS.
Oue arm disabled by a Mow !.a*
use of the burning rigging, he was
fist toeing strength to battle with the
waves, and death was very near taken.
The woman tore off her silken seaaff
and tung it -oward bias Fate pnm>
mitted him to catch ft. aad she dsww
him to the rock?
It wte yet light enough » see. and
on that narrow sbeif at raek. growtmg
narrower every mnaasar. far the flirut
time in eleven years Th see Kfath
mnait aad Geraldiae Vase stood take
Bech were gate—both were dsmlHy
ralß. He held out hto right haosß.
aad toe to^hod K Bgtoly wtoh hash. ;
bad been pamed only a lay. **«—- ?
pensh bme. Lm ** tom gas-?
tet.us»iß^^u^^f<»u tbe *ght
“Tas’
"Tun were tnrisiwd. I tasew^F
wO bohewe what I say Aa BtagßHß
lady at rank dht aw the haear as
prodar sm. aad she k was wim. fasrs
■ag at nr fasu far you. Inr n tagfad
sar tetters, wrote the creel aste at
reaenemtiea which sa tratved^ and
showed aae the notice sf year mar
r*awe Seven weeks tgs she diedl
confessing all her dupiietty aad than
day I left China to seek you aad tME
you the truth. '*
“I am mamed”
"Tee I know ft; but now it Crit
ters little Another momrat
we tool* be washed from the rogfex.
It cannot be wrong now* Surely srof
Look :n my eyes G- raid.-n--. ua-t tH
me that tn all thes-' years year ferart
has been miae. as mine tax hens
yours
She looked ia his eyes, aad bowed
her r-ad Srowly. h*r face rr'. rmar:lng
•ven there, with d-ath so near Ter
A sharp votes ax he- side irovaghr
her back to hersML She saw het
husband by the side of the ra^. kai
anctng hiameif m a frai. boat. wflOdS
fc seemed every dash of the ravw
would break m twam
Owe glance al his pule, sec face
■bowed Gerateftae that he recncxlied
sec old love But Ricitmaad gin an
word at saluxariou His la.'ur—f arts
was bleeding fast his •treugth was
ebbtag his bend fail on bto brmtaU
aad bet for the t-ewEed head of Ger
aMtem he would have been ew-p’
away by ’be tide, wfarta now bote
over the roek
A -rhlha.l Vane s voice was cooi.
rn-tc aad dtslteet
"I saw you from the shore. Ger
aldine. ' be said, and one tc the
rescue My boa: wtll hold out two
Ton have never loved me. bat I Sure
lived ia lov ax you I witt prove k”
He rear he 1 over and lifted th’
limp body into the boat. Them he
put Geraldtae beside him. and gave
her the oars.
Yow ran steer * be said "Tiro
wCI be saved—you aad he’ I wtt
save our little Annie if it Ues ri man »
power If not Heavens win be
done”
He leaned over aad kissed the
white hand his wife stretched oug tc
toward •‘im in wild entreaty
The boat shot away on the lade;
the words she uttered were all un
heard by Archibald Vane. as. clasp
ing his child to his breast, be dxjwd
the fury of the waves’
They found him a mile furtter
down the ’to in the early moratz^.
a smile oa his white face, and litter
Annie lying against his heart. Ttey
had died together
Geraldize s boat eached the snare,
and both she aad Thane Richsond
were saved.
It was weeks before she knew poßc- refaction in order to keep the
aught passing around her. for ths groat ’-I* uumomers in line for
shock of Annie s death bad been tan *:«. «^ •■ order that uo one
much for her »• B»P T tong four new bar-
When she remembered tt all. pur- bora have been added to th- staff.—
baps she was nearer to towrig Ar* HttPbx.-g ChruaKie-Teiegrapa
' Su’d Vaag then she had ever been be
I tero.
■tadhmaad went away, and wws
I *>oe two yeant He owed that mueh
> fa the an wary of the man wbo had
i toted Ms Ute in prefer-no to bis
' fax
Aad when he cause back could the
World blame Thane and Geraldine if
«te-y mods each other’s life happy:—
Hew Turk Weekly
jnunmts v& fvh.
Bb the Hase hivos Aorta Rabbit u 1
fHtouß toe "hark" Woo.
AH the weraiag the four staunch
’ ter« had been pulling the heavy
Stare touch over a sandv desert in
aoucnern Tc_aa Bach the driver and
Myself were drowsy, aad aodded from
the effects of the eeorchigg sum
maidenly the lead horses jumped out
at she rand, which brought us to our
BSfatea A large western redtail bawk
' ®U was drcilng over our beads, had
; SOK its passing shadow on the san.
' fffc^tiy before the horses, causing
them ta shy.
We cammented o- the rather sing
ular coincident and watched the Mj
I bird as. In large rirclea he graee
thQy Bnated through the air. with
scarcely s movemest of the wings.
Suddenly a ' jack-rabbit.’ startles',
by the rattle of the stage. jumvAd
flrom to sower in the aitade of a yucca
SdOM aad shook to legs over the
onady euge-*^ to leaps fully lift—a
toot iparf. It had not made ten
foatps when the hawk spied ft. and
half railing, 'alf tvmbimg through
the a r W deareaded to within fffty
Mot of tH^sarth aad started in p
salt. The "Jock'' had gained a good
load efoee it dierovered that ft was
beta* -based, -wt on weing the haw k.
it Hout every ruseie tn to sinewy
tags ■ aa effert to outstrip to as-
MBa- .
Grsfuu. y the bawk drew near
add se wed shaoer over the ’jack.'
then. iowiag his wtegs. he dropped
t Wto -h the ate like a falltag BMteor
WRB foot extraded aad talons out
steettred. be eat abaut to saatch up
Haw jny, wSwW ÜBffs JtoKm
Mart aad sgsutui* dot aa the sand.
I The hawk oetrohM too mark a tax
tw rartag baciu
---
a shat from a
ff - k hod totesd tetey Bfty yards
b-to-3 ths hawk sowtash it and
again anaehod R. Ones more the
- jaefc" sitsded the charge tn the same
By this tlnse the chase ted become
to nrttiag that the driver baited bto
her we aad we both stood up oa the
sear. Htegisg to erch ether aad
-at.'Ung with bated breath the out
tea- at the straggle
"Tha 'jack can * keep that pace
u* unb tooger. R s pretty wdi tu x
ered »at now The hawkll catch ft
tout ttSM our-. ' exclaimed the driver
aa -be aombstantu gradually drew
near But before the hawk had a
chaaee aga.u to swoop down, the
"jack" rescued a bunch of chaparral,
where R took aheit-r
The bawk circled over the boshes
aad thaw dove headlong mto them,
bet be "jack mov-d its position as
the '.rd was about to strike tt and
agai_ estaaaed fatal
The “jaek’ evidently tnoegh* it
safer *a tatat ia the open than in the
buah-K ter aa the bawk arose ft
anr' -t off again, that rime heading
far a inarh of rattle that was feed
t- - iWU two hundred yards away.
The .swh made bls 'oo—b unsuc
osssf .. attack while the dlstaaee was
being --aw id by the hare, but before
he was rsady for another ivep the
’Jacs had sutstr-.pped his pursuer,
and tatat up to oae of the Beu.
Mrte-t tasiiu us front aad hind
'.aga and Shipp»d There it remained.
The hawk seemed to be completely
octw-xafa. He circled about a few
tlmev then, as if thoroughly dm
gm«e: sailed off xad was soon lust
Os view.
The “Jsek was still under the
Jack’ was Kill wtr tae
Kaer *kea we drov- on It was
;aire -wMaat to oa that tile .ack '
late*: *d to ear the Keer for a skteid
from ka ■w>n- that K left tke
ekapa -al. bat whether tt did so be
easse t thoosht that the hawk would
be atr iM at so lar. e an an.mal as a
rwer >r berann the ereatare afford
ed b«-- ar trateetioa from otuias<hu
frost baee. la a yaeatioa that the
reader will have to aoive for nm
jelf — r*rom Kata.-'' aad Science is
St. X;
Fwr Ham-M«.
X ’A »off. a South Side barber,
will o» ■■ to seeoad annual free hair
cuttir psrfod next Mooda? morn
ing. and ail boys and girls aider six
teen ate need not want for a hair
cat. ‘Wka* aad his assistants cut
thn hair nt SM< children last year.
It is posted that the rash will be
•wan r -ater this year The test day
last year * eras necessary to provide
SatecriptiM. Si.oo hr Ynr ii Atao.
THE GREAT DESTXOTER
SOXF STARTLING FACTS tri ITT
Tak VltE OF KTEflin^TlN. r.
•Jlo' Ei Travel on ( ret. l ev srvf AU
Should Art Cautiously — TT»e
Drcakanl on Crutches at Weed
Was No Ewefaisa.
At the doo- of a drinking sal'ftu
in Park row—the «jn reads Audv
H irn's" — the usual much: I crowd
gathered watch’m ia un'or- pa e
creature upon the crojad
ft was not a woman, fortannte”.
that the crowd was watching but a
nr He was gray aaired past tt~r.
in fairing he bed dropped bis wooden
cratches
Two m*n at ktadly impulse lifted
him to his feet aad tried to balance
his unsteady body and bran upon
the crutches once more
In the crowd a .-yateal voice said
"Wouldn t vou think a man oa
crotches would ba e sense enough
sot to drink
That is tb* text of this edf’orial.
We are all on erutehes and rhe
be»* of ns .s balanced none too well
M e have risen recently from barbar
ism aad brutality. Os ail human be
ings on earth now a great majority
are still savages tn every way And
those that call themselves "civUfced**
are far more than half animal tn
their nature Lynching crowds.
rnaeAghts. auiekerv for the unhappy
drinkard aad a thouannd other dally
S’xhri prove that we are onlv animals
stiiL
We are trying to walk as decent
men.
Oir eratebra are kindnraa on one
Saad and justice on the other.
These crutches bare beea recently
manufactured by onr brain
Whatever interferes With the brain
knocks the crutches from under U
FWIy made that poor. gray-haired
san drink wb*u he knew that he 1
needed all of his mad to rontrol
these wooden erstekea Nobody
knew what dtove hrs to drink at the
risk of physical d-saster 4
How nwi more foolish are other
men who know they need all of their
siad to balaar- tb-tr moral cratches’
Drink destroyed the balance of the
man with wooden cruteken and threw
him to the ground
More surety will drink destroy ths
moral ha tones aad throw down the
mental ms trim that uph-wd n all
Thia* this out tor yourself to ds- ,
rar-
Wat of the mas whneto rwasask
hhto ter hto dsutefoe tai hto family ’
aad te tko publie writer*
Eton A yen know that drink mak-s
•n-k a mam tntttkrent t* all duty’
It to rssiilkl» far a man on wooden
<-rawhen to dnak aad still keep the
• n<rt»s under him. Ton may if.
orrastanany. a drunken man keep
Ms kalaare on crutches sr a wooden
log
But It in not possible for a man tn
be a druakar-i and keep the balance
that his m>ri cm-rhes rice !ua
That remark. Wouldn't you think
a man on ertrehes would base sense
enough not to drink” applies to
•eery man aad. moat of all. to tho
most m->ral men.
We hare rrutebss for the mad—
moral erntch-s— as we hace wooden
cratches for the body
Rem-mber th at the desperate thin*
about drunkenness to that It knocks
tie moral cratches from under as.
throwing us back to the nr-wt-ate
brutal animal eondittan of the past.
Remember that a man with i3te : ’f.
menee who deliberately allows drunk
enness to deprive him of moral force
is Lnllnl’ely more to Mame —because
he is more mrsntgent — than that
poor old man who allowed drink to
sot the better of h’s wooden sup
ports —Arthur Brisbane, in W R.
Hearsts New York Sven.ng Journal.
Alroholiem and l»Miity
AVoboliem too had taken on
er H-moos proportions Not tkot the
auetents did nor drink but rather
taut pure alcohol had not yet been ’
tr.-reduced while in the Middle Ages
it .awed 'rom one of the moot -Sr>-
ca is remedies — aqua vita, iiring
water Dr B-ard has made a most
hsdfaloas observation in America
which 1 have been able to verify tn
iScily—that there most be a very ad
vanced degree of ririHaatioo. or rath
er of ieg-c ‘rar .- produced by eiviH
iatioa. tor inebriety to be trans
formed into that sggzwgarion of dis
asters. especially of the nervous sys
t-m which to called alcoholism. Now
we have not alcoholism only, but
morphinism cocainism, all rim oil at
the nervous system, which are used
by barbarian* as potent excitants,
but not to the point of producing sta
ble alterations except tn rare lases.
like the amuck of the Malays.
And now. we all of ns. at least tn
•he capitals aad the great centres,
tin 1 ourselves wMnnel by a fever
ish activity which makes mind la
bor mien more than si ire intended
it should. tad-- which is produced
tMk mass of neurasthenics, bye- 1
t ‘rlcato. betides the mal'itudes of :
moral tnsapc. profoundly egotistical '
pe-soos. wt-hont alee-Jon and wholly ,
direrred by a powerful pa« on for
Soil, for which they saertSre every- i
thing, even salvation.’— ft >m Inaane
<Tiaracferv tn Fr- -xu and the Drama. '
by Cesare Lombt'iso. tn Appleton’s '
Popular Science Monthly. ।
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Plenty of Scotch
There to always a bount.' il supply
of Scotch whisky provide- for the
British He use of Cosnm.is. There
are <T» m-mbers. aad the hur - rat
wa - contains their whisky contu ns
S” • galloisa. specially distilled tor
them. The contents of the vat are
never pera-tted to fall beluw a cer
tain level It is reSHei two or three
t.mes durinc every poriiaateotary
seoaion.
TTjoUCHTS FpRoTHt
oui Vtouk
-FOK Tms THING. TOO. SHAU
PtaS*
I ba-e endured n sr. . of pww ms ' wn.
O hope dnuei 'impp-H-t aen: fare:
Ea.< wmtbmei w sixa- a -rue <«» »
downpour
The howt'ng sales ssd the rmgh riltemC
t.n.
i L’^na the «ev oi life. «eiv •• -row
atsru-eenr. mnyhap to nately to the
! store.
Thor I a tor sad — unt those iM
at raaa
Ent is the Ann that bora sway the drasu
I So eartro now wheu rrtiirr-nu r( nA
•Trcht.
। Ast btong db aou!-wesewaag tan to
pert—
I W Sen e'en the very tains mto
turned to teneo
Wks ’tmvrrmg hmoa tot try handa
eirwubad tot
I still esn smile aad cry. Hare cnwnqfa
Sear:.
Font not. «and toot, for thw thmfa
ton. *aa'l peas'"
—Locrda C Ftoe. m Chnatto R w—trr
—
Seißsb and Cnwrtifab Prayer.
My brother, take heed to that for
whirh thou prayest* There Ues the
diC-reace between the pions and thu
impious mind It is not thy praying
that makes th«e good—not even thy
sincerity tn prayer. It is not iky
sense of want tha* makes thee good
—not even though exprnmd tn ab^
jectness It to nor thy feettng of dta
petadence that makes thee good—not
even thy feeling of dependence oa
Chris ft is the thing for which
thou prayest. the thing for which
thou bwngerest. the thing for which
thou depend*** Every man cries for
bto grapes of fcbcoi the difference
to not in the cry. bur in the grapea
It « possible for thee to ask from
thy God three manner of things.
Thou mayevt ask thy neighbor s vtiSe
yard; that is bad Thou mayest ask
thine own rtebes. that to neither bad
nor good; tt to secular Or tbou
' mayest ask to be made unseldsb;
that to holy It is not thy prayer that
thy Father prtaes; tt is the direction
of thy prayer.
Dori thou deem thy child a kero
because ke asks thss for a hoMsF?
Nay. tknwgk ke sought it snrlowing
aad with team But iftotaahs thss
to Ist him sham kia
er or stater. then tho*
glad. then thou saywst.'SkMNMHHP
mm do w«h thy FaA^fli^XE|
- tHI than ertest far a । I'WW fe fah
'■o’agte. stghsoT^T
gersst for HU heme, faintest far Hto
footfall, cailest for His compemy. tar
nest fur Hto tread, asekear, tor ths
mgn of Hto coming TW win to
thy Father s hi<hest Joy — George
—
Indorse i st Heart Tpoa Mfad.
Real broad minde-inees implies
•vmpathy A man to as wide as hto
aymparhtos the world to as big as a
man » heart—no bigger, for him If
mustr or oalnting. or literature, ha d s
no answering chord in my heart. I
am narrowed by just so much If
the thrill of pstri-Mism to lacking,
the ion; :t»t of the natfon s kernes,
the songs of battle, deeds of valor,
are as nocking to me A tosa is nar
rowed at every point where his inter
est and s-mpatby stop. You can Aad
men and women who are interested
tn Just one thing—their business or
themselves
The writer has in mim! a typical
man who to interested in om mill,
one tamily. horses i partueulariy
four>. yarhts ’particularly one’ aad
one chore#. This man will tell yon
that he is a Liberal, that he believes
tn totting tn-n alone; they may vote
as they pietoe. they may be godly or
ungodly as they please, read what
they phrase, and think what they
pleas* He to dangerously near the
popular conception of brand minded
n*wi As a matter of fart, his is the
meat dasg-rous type of narrow mind
riaeu. Wha' be calls tolerance is
aetually Indifference. So-called toi
eration of an-r her man s conduct and
beliefs to far oftener indifference
than sympathy. — Sunday - School
Times.
A Fountain of Living Trnuh
The essential truth of the Bible
never chances Our interpre'atiwas
are in constant need of restatement.
Because of the changeless truth con
tained therein, "the mission of the
Bible to not ended." it cannot end In
Um - Because of all the length and
breadth and height of -his book, be
cause of its sweetness and grandeur,
been ise of Its mevsag • so terrible m
its truth aad so comforting in its
love, because of tta work in Bl -m
--tur-. tn government, la indtviaual
life, because of its close union w ‘.th
human destiny, therefore, were it
well worth oar while to opea .tn
pages m->re often aad to real zoru
clearly therein.
Th~ Bible can never be o itgrosr*
by man It is the b->ok not of dea'h.
bu' of life. .As the river seen in the
■ prophet i ssntag out as thw
saactuary of God was a besding Sood
and a life-giving stream, upon the
banks whereof grew trees with fruit
for meat and wua leaf for medicine,
so the Bible sent f irth from th* Al
migh ■ bribes hea.uig and Ide wh. A
emeever it comet*. — Dr. George R.
Dunn m CarU laa Intelligencer.
lid 1 ri-m a NecA
Human nature, in order to sap-ort
fts daily burden, needs us believe that
it j not fully recoin.-nse-i by ton
»i; ; - Th- greatest service that can
be rendered to it to w Ikwttu^atly re
mind It that Man data not live ay
. brvad -.ju- "^-Scottish R*’.:mer.