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NLW \EAh PRESENTS FOR THE PARSON
NEVER POSTPONE A WEDDING.
THE REV. SPURGEON
How a Macon Merchant Lost and a
Railroad Conductor Won a Bride.
Americus, Ga., special to New York Sun.
The unexpected marriage of Miss Georgia
Laramore, of tiiis city, to Mr. Ward Holt, con
ductor on the Southwestern road, has made
quite a stir here. Mr. Holt being aware that
On Prayer and Healing the Sick.
So much has been said on this subject in re
cent times, we give below Mr Spurgeon’s re
marks on the subject, which we consider timely.
Like everything else from him, they are full of
truth and common sense, and we fully indorse
VOL. X.
J. H.&W. B. SEALS
ATLANTA, GA, JANUARY 10, 1885.
Terms in Advance} single'coi , a\ < 5c.
NO. 483
WASHINGTON CITY.
Reminiscences of Distinguished
Public Men.
Incidents Which Have Transpired at
the Aatiunnl Capital.
It w Y>#r ill Washinslon
New Year’s day lias always been eelebrnted
at the national capital in the style which presi
dent Washington had inaugurated when tin- fed
eral government was Ineated at New Ymk. The
foreign ministers and the government dignita
ries go in state to i ay their legiieets h, rlit- pre
sident, after which I lie old Knickcrbcckcr cus
tom of visiting friends was kept up. Yule logs
blazed on ample hearths; sideboards were cov
ered with decaliters and how ls containing potent
beverages, and, as night came on. there was
dancing to the voice of negro violinists.
Card-playing was then a fashionable anil pop
ular amusement, and the Gnelphs and theGhib-
ellnes who withstood each other in debate,
would meet fraternally at whist tallies, enlivened
by their “keen encounter of Ails.” Grave polit
ical questions were often discussed while the
shuttling and dealing was going on, by the class
of Congressmen who Imped that by robbing their
opinions together a light might he struck at last.
Refreshments were usually served at nine
o'clock, and midnight seldom found the players
out of bed.
Sunday, in the olden time, was religiously ob
served at Washington. The prominent dennm-
inatioiis had, by collections taken up through
out tlie country, raised funds for tlie erection of ■
churches dedicated to their respective creeds,
and the Unitarians had been especially well
cared for by their New England brethren, who
had not only aided them liberally in the erection
of their place of worship, hut had given them a !
line-toned bell. During the sessions of Congress '
there was some divine service on Sunday morn- ;
lugs 111 the hall of the house, the chaplains of
the two bodies officiating alternately. Sunday ,
afternoon was a favorite time for dinnerparties,
followed by political conferences. Howto elect '
or how to defeat Gen. Jackson, was the subject '
of prolonged discussion among the interested on j
the -roe aid-; or the other.
. ~ ‘l ft AUwit J V '
'he “ ir clo £ *Lat had been termed “good so-
Cu..y,” at Washington, bad been, and was then,
very limited is its extent and simple in its hab
its. Few senators or representatives brought I
their wives to cheer their Congressional labors,
and a parlor of ordinary size would contain all '
of those who were accustomed to attend social i
gatherings. A few diplomas, with the ofllcers
of the army and navy stationed at headquarters,
were accompanied by their wives, and there
were generally a few visitors of social distinc
tion. The most friendly and cordial intercourse
prevailed, and those who met at dinner parties
and at evening entertainments, were like mem
bers of one family in general sympathy.
The costume of the ladles was classic in its
scantiness, especially at balls and parties. The
fashionable ball dress was of while India crepe,
and live breadths, each a quarter of a yard wide,
were all that was asked for to make a skirt,
which only came to the ankles, and was elabo
rately trimmed witli a dozen or more rows of
narrow flounces. Silk or cotton stockings were
adorned with embroidered “clocks,’’ and their
slippers were ornamented with silk rosettes and
tiny buckles.
Those gentlemen who dressed fashionably
wore “Bolivar’’ frock coats of some gay-colored
doth, blue, or green, or claret, with large lands
and gilded buttons. Their linen was ruffled,
their "cossack" trousers were voluminous in
size and were tucked into high “Hessian” boots
with gold tassels. They wore two and some
times three waistcoats each, of different colors,
and from their watch-pockets dangled a ribbon
with a bunch of large seals. When in full dress,
gentlemen wore dress-coats with enormous col
lars and short waists, well-stuffed white cam
bric cravats, small clothes, tight-fitting panta
loons, silk stockings and pumps.
One of the leading belles was the daughter of
Gen Adair, a stately Kentucky beauty, who
had married Col. Joseph M. White, the delegate
from Florida, and was known as “Florida
White." Visiting Europe afterwards, site was
received in the highest circles, and among other
characteristic stories told of her is her attend
ance at a fancy ball given by one of the Bona
parte family. On receiving the invitation, she
called on the hostess and asked what she should
wear. “Why,” replied the princess, “wear an
American costume. Have you no original Amer
ican costume?" “Oh. no," said Mrs. White,
‘•we follow your fashions.” “But," answered
the princess, “you are a Kentuckian. Have
you no Indians in Kentucky?” Mrs. White
took the Idea, and appeared at the ball as an
Indian girl, gay with beads and feathers, with a
quiver at her back and a bow in her baud. Her
tall, stately and graceful figure never appeared
to greater advantage, and she was afterwards
known as "la belle sauvage."
Gea. Brockrnridge.
John C. Breckenridge came to Congress In
December. 1851, from the congressional district
in Kentucky so long represented by Henry
Clay. Garrett Davis. Thomas F. Marshall, and
other distinguished Whigs. He defeated, by a
majority of 530 votes. Leslie Coombs, who was
very unpopular, and he came to Washington
with a high reputation as a public speaker and
a gallant officer In the Mexican war. The next
June Mr. Clay died, and among the eulogies
which were spoken in the House that of Mr.
Breckenridge was particularly noticeable for
eloquence and directness. His concluding
words were as follows: “Sir." he said, “stand
ing by the grave of this great man, how con
temptible does appear the mere legeidemain of
politics! Wtiata reproach in his life on that
false policy which would trifle with a great and
upright people? If I were to write his epitaph
1 would inscribe, as Hie Ugliest eulogy on the
stone which shall mark his resting place. ‘Here
lies a man who was in the public service for
fifty years, and never attempted to deceive his
coimtrvmen.Y’
Ke-efeoted he had a personal difflcultv with
Francis B. Cutting, a Democratic representative
from New York, which was settled in accoid-
auce witli the code witliout a lecourse to arms
In 1856. at the earlv age of thirty-seven, he en
tered upon his office of Vice President, and
presided over the Senate with a dignity and •
courtesy which made the older senators forgei
that he was the youngest man who had ever oc
cupied that position. Nominated by the South
ern seceders from the National Democratic
Convention in 1860 he received a large vote, and
having meanwhile been elected a senator from
Kentucky, he took his seat on the floor of the
Senate when his term as presiding officer ex-
f it red. He was regarded|by many as devoted to
he Union, but was drawn into secession by
those who had supported him for the presidency
and he served gallantly Id the field until the last
year of the conflict, when he was made Secre
tary of War of the Confederate States. After
the surrender he went to England, where lie
remained until 1868. when he returned to his
home at Lexington, and died In 1875. having
taken no part In national or State politics.
Clay and Cuthbert.
Henry Clay made a brilliant speech In the
Senate early In February, 1835, on presenting a
memorial from the remnant of the Cherokee na
tion In Georgia. He recited the ueatise by
which the possession of their lands had been
secured to them by this Government. The
faith of tills nation had been pledged that they
should continue unmolested in the enjoyment
of their burning grounds. In defiance of tliese
sacred stipulations. Georgia had claimed iuiis-
d let ion over them, had parcelled out their lands
and disposed of them by lottery, denied them
all the privileges of freemen, and rendered their
condition infinitely worse than that of the Afri
can slave. For it was the inte rest as well as the
pride of the master to provide for the heaiih and
comfort of his slave, but what human being was
there to protect and to care for these unfortu
nate Indians. As Mr. Clay warmed in his re
marks, and dwelt, more in sorrow than in an
ger. upon the wrongs and outrages perpetrated
in Georgia upon the unoffending aborigines
within her borders, many of liis bearers were
affected to tears, and lie himself was obviously
deeply moved. The occasion was rendered
still more deeply interesting by tin* presence of
a Cherokee chief and a female of the tribe, who
seemed to listen to the orator with iutense in
terest.
After Mr. Clay had concluded Ills remarks
and submitted some resolutions, to which a full
and perfect report can alone do justice, Mr.
Cuthbert, of Georgia, arose and attempted to
throw ridicule upon them, by alluding to what
he called the theatiieal manner of the speaker.
"What new part will Koscius next enact?” said
Mr. Cuthbert, coming forward from his desk
and standing in the area of the hall. He was a
man of about the ordinary height, with a round
face pitted with the smallpox, small dark eyes
and a full forehead. As lie spoke he twirled liis
watch key incessantly with his right hand,
while liis left was flung about in the most un
meaning and awkward gestures. He twisted
liis body light and left, forward and backward,
as if he were a Chinese mandarin, going
through a stated number of evolutious before
liis emperor. In fact, he had “all the contor
tions of the sybil, without her inspiration.”
Imagine this individual, evidently hastily made
un by one of nature’s journeymen, rising in his
place and flouting at Mr. Clay because of the
manner of liis eloquence, which was as far from
lieing theatrical as Mr. Cuthberfs was from
being natural.
As soon as the senator from Georgia had fin
ished liis observations. Judge White, of Ten
nessee, entered into the discussion. The most
important feature in liis remarks was bis plain
avowal of the nullification doctrine, in respect
to ttie right of Georgia to exercise unlimited
jurisdiction over the Indians within her bor
ders.
Mr. Clay, in rising again to speak, said that
he bad a few remarks to make in reply to the
arguments of the gentleman from Tennessee, as
those which were alone worthy of notice.
The Fist Figlit in (be I(ou«e.
In the scrimmage tn the House of Representa
tives on Saturday morning. February 6.1868, the
prominent Southerners engaged were Messrs.
Barksdale. Lamar and Reuben Davis, of Missis
sippi; Burton Craige. of North Carolina, and
others. Un the Republican side were the three
brothers, Washburne, Kellogg and Lovejoy. of
Illinois, and Potter, of Wisconsin. This hitter]
gentleman was a host in himself. He struck '
light and left with both arms, and left liis mark
wherever his blows fell. He had the reputation
on that day of having "floored" no less than fif
teen. most, if not all of whom, were the next day
occupied in uursing black eyes.
U was most surprising of all to see the vener
able Richard Mott itlie Quaker member from
Ohio) in the thickest of the fight. Possibly he
was there as a peacemaker, and I would not like
to affirm that 1 saw him strike a blow. The
most amusing sight was to witness the personal
passage between Washburne, of Maine, and
Craige, of North Carolina. The former was a
little dapper man of some five feet, four or five
inches, and the latter a tall, gaunt giant, six feet
and a half. While the first mentioned was just
tall enough to plant his blows effectually in that
region of Ills opponent's person where he was
supposed to have carried his dinner, the last
was compelled to stoop in order to reach liis an
tagonist at all, and thus gave him an additional
advantage.
Barksdale, of Mississippi, lost bis wig at the
first attack, and having recovered it. placed It on
his head In a reversed position, much to the
amusement of the spectators, Davis, of Missis
sippi. who made the rabid speech a few days
previous, accounted for the sable setting around
nts eye by avowing that he accidently stumbled
over a chair, but Potter, of Wisconsin, thought
he knew who had a "hand in it.”
every word he says.
“Prayer itself is one of the appointed means:
‘For all these tilings 1 will be inquired of. saith
the Lord.’ There must be the conscious be
seeching, the outgoing of the heart’s desires to
God in supplication, coupled with a confidence
that, if it is in accordance with His will. He will
give it. No man can say of a certainty that a
temporal advantage may not be a curse rather
than a blessing; therefore, one prays upon such
matters with great care. The doctrine that
prayer always heals the sick, of which we hear
so much, logically carried out would banish
death from the world; for none of us ever comes
to die but there is some one who would pray for
liis recovery. It is absurd, therefore, to expect
that everybody is to get well for whom we pray,
for then nobody would die. Man cannot dictate
to bis Maker; otherwise a mortal would wield
the resources of omnipotence, and unless he had
omniscient judgment as well, he would soon
put the world into a terrible state. We are not
able to drive the chariots of the sun. All pray
ers must ever be accompanied by the desire,
uttered or unexpressed, that the prayer may be
rejected if it conflicts with the divine will.
Sometimes there is given toman a strong in
ward assurance that a certain thing is in har
mony with the divine will, and prayer for that,
if made in faith, is always answered—provided,
of course, that a man’s life be right before God.
It is only those who walk in the ways of right
eousness, and w hose life is ordered according
to the divine law, whose desires or prayers are
brought to pass. Faith in God is essential, and
It olten takes men a long time to find out what
faith in God really is. Often men mistake for
faith in God faith in themselves, or faith in their
fellow-creatures, and these are very different
things.”
Two Nebraska Girls.
TFrom the Queen Bee.]
A beautiful cow-girl lives near Murkel county,
Neb. She owns some stock, which she person
ally looks after. At a recent round-up her daz
zling beauty and graceful horsemanship were
wonderful to behold. A yearling broke from
the herd which three cow-boys failed to confine,
when the beautiful girl dashed out after it. roll
ing it on the second circle, and pulled it by the
liom of her saddle into the herd. The boys
shouted, wept, and never ceased to love.
John Sergeant, of Montrose county, it may be
added to this, has a fifteen year-old daughter,
Niss Nellie, who has been bred in the saddle,
and has been accustomed to ride with her father
all over his range. In addition to the young
lady's graceful horsemanship, she can handle a
lariat and branding iron, and oan ride a bucking
horse with as much skill and grace as any cow
boy that has been on the range since boyhood.
Nellie Sergeant is dowered by her father with
one-third of the increase of Us herd, and when
she chooses to marry her husband w ill be a cat
tle king.
Miss Laramore was to marry a prominent Mar-
con merchant in a day or two, stepped over to
the hotel veranda where she was standing and
congratulated her. Holding up a letter, she
said:
“Do you see this? It is a request for a post
ponement. which I have granted.”
“Why. replied the conductor, w hose train was
now ready to leave, “I would not have agreed
to that. Do not postpone a wedding. If he is
not ready I am. and you know I love you. Will
you marry me?”
She dropped her head.drooped her eyes, and
the next moment raised them to his, and al-
th uigli filled witli tears, the answer was plain.
The conductor delayed his train for five min
utes, procured his license from an ordinary who
was within call, and in less time than it takes
to tell t. the two were made one. The con
ductor then pulled out with his train, having
first telegraphed to Macon for a conductor to
meet him midway. The relief arrived at the
place designated', and Mr. Holt returned to Us
bride. The bride’s letter of postponement to
her jilted lover, by the kindness of the post
master, was withdrawn from the mails.
He Got the Babies-
From the Omaha Bee.
“Where’ve you been. Frank f”
"Down to St. Louis.”
“What doing?”
“Running a potograph gallery.”
"Did it work?”
“Work! I should say ft did. First day I
hung out a sign: ‘Babies iaken without prior
notice,’ and the next morning I found four on
my doorsteo.”
A country merchant In Wood county, Ohio,
set a spring gun in his store every mgbt for
thirteen years without being fowarded, but the
otber night she blazed away and brought down
two robbers. Patience will get there in the end.
One reason why pure olive oil Is difficult to
procure Is because of Its large consumption by
atlk manufacturers. Not In slands. exclusively,
but as material for ioading their fabrics.
ECONOMICAL PASSENGERS-
What a Car Conductor Says of the
Honesty of Mankind-
New York Telegram.
A conductor on a Broadway horse-car has
adopted a novel way of studying human nature.
After a little more experience he believes that
bis services will be valuable to bank directors
who may have reason to suspect that the cash
ier is meditating a trip to Canada. Even now
he believes that be can tell if a bank official has
an ambition to live in the British Possessions.
“Every trip I neglect to collect the fare from
some passengers." Said the ingenious knight of
the bell-punch. “I pass the person by as if I
overlooked him. I generally choose some one
who has already taken Hie money out of Us
pocket. When 1"pass him I watch and see him
slip the money back again, while be looks the
picture of innocence. When he starts to get off
the car I stop him and ask for the fare. 1 find
that nine times out of ten the passenger either
flatly claims that he has already paid or else
asks if he had not already done so. I find that
not one person in twenty will voluntarily tender
their fare. Of that number two-thirds are wo
men. Of men. laboring men give me the least
trouble. The best dressed people are generally
the ones who would like best to save their
fare.”
What She Will Be and WhatlShe will
Not Be-
“We honor the woman of the rast and admire
the woman of the present, but it is to (lie com
ing woman that we turn for the fulfillment of
our ideals. We see the follies and mistakes of
women, but we also see the gloriouspossibili
ties that lie before her, ar.d < n 11 ese are built
our hopes for the woman of the future. The
coming woman will be a self-reliant, self-sus
taining, symmetrically develoj ed l i man being.
Her emotional nature will be under the control
of her intelligence, and her usefulness will be
greatly increased because lier head, hands and
heart will work together. Possessing a harmo
niously developed mind and body, she will be
equal to the affairs of a household or the affairs
of a nation. She will have a definite purpose in
living in the world, and will work in accordiance
with it, steadily and persistently. If marriage
comes her she will not fall into it as into a well,
I'M i?l’ e " accept it as one of the great respon
sibilities of life, to be faithfully dischaiged. She
will not be a household drudge, but she will un
derstand the woik of a household in all its de
tails and will create a home. She will be to
her clnleren a judicious, loving mother, and to
li(*r husband a friend, companion, wife and
guide—giving him the aid of a trained intelli-
genee, loving heart and willing hands, and in
spiring him by the beamy of a pure and lofty
soul. Her work will not be bounded by four
alls, hut will he found wherever humanity is
in need-her charity will not be limited to k
money, but w ill lead her to nurse the sick, help 1 ^JLL K
the poor, encourage the lame, and reprove the 6 °? a ,V
lazy. Wickedness will not flourish near her.
for her righteous scorn wili kill it. She will
teach the highest morality, both by word and
example, and lier influence will befell through
out the world. All this the coming woman will
do, and in the doing she w ill become the finest
BfECHEB TOJIS PtBPlt.
Defending! Himself -For [His
Course in the Camoaign.
His Ideas of Liberty, Courage ’and
the Purity of the
The Frceelicr Tliiuhs lie Can Al
ways Far» a Living.
Biiooki.yn, December 28.—Mr. Peccher had
aveiy large audience this morning, notwith
standing the had weather. In aunonnring the
annual collection for ilit- Amelin n Missii n.-uy
Association he spi ke of the good woi k done by
tiiis society among the Indians aid Chinese,
and especially among tie Southern negroes.
The instruction they’liad rcceivtd was hugely
initialed and carried on I y this mission. “And
1 am glad to believe,” he added, “that now in
most sinceie earnest the best people of tlie
South are in sympathy with eveiytling that
shall make the colored people intelligent voters
ami intelligent and virtuous citizens. ’
Mr. Beecher’s text was the passage contained
in the 37th Psalm, 3d to 8ili verse, inclusive:
“Trust in the Lord and do good. So Shalt thou
d • oM in the laud and verily thou slialt be fed;
Ur.”
-That is good sound advice,” said Mr. Beech
er, “if it did come down to us from thousands
of years iw. It fits us as if we were measured
for the suit.”
There aie two capital elements for considera
tion—trust and activity. What do we mean by
trust when times are distempered and the earth
seems moved out of her place? It is such iaith
in God’s interest in tiiis woild and in His care
of men that you may rest in him. And when
you have seen as far as you can and done what
you can, that you may lie back in tlie bosom of
God’s providence and sav. “Let him do what he
pleases, it is wel’ ”
The Anxiety of A Little Child
In its cradle, w-liat it shall do for its shoes, its
dress and its food, is such folly that we hardly
even think of it. But it is wisdom itself com
pared with the anxieties of grown lip ntenjn re
gard to their rendition here and uf ‘ *
when everything goes u eU, and doubt when w*
have nothing but faith left. The moment things
don’t go according to our planning we are at sea
storm. We do not live by faith, but by
sight
ii ast in the Lord and do good. Mark the
conditions. Do not sit down in despair. You
may be old or verging toward old age, and sud
denly the ground may be taken from under you,
and all the machinery of life whicn you have so
carefully organized may break down. And be
ing so, old men may say it is too late to build
again, and may be filled with despair. No. bro
ther; no. For while age brings with it stiffen
ing limbs and dimmed eye, and a less vigorous
hopefulness and springiness; it brings also ex
perience, and wisdom and patience, and when
men are in old age suddenly overthrown out
wardly they ought to build themselves up in
wardly. All their past life has been, as it were,
encyclopaedic, and a man ought to be more a
man when all operations fall away through tlie
infirmity of Us hand or some sweeping disas
ter. His manhood stands achieved, and that is
the best use to which all prosperity can come,
namely, to make a man more a man and more
manly
But although lie may or may not in old age go
on on the same scale that lie has, let everj man
stand when God has put him on the verge of
poverty—accept the position and make 1 lie
most of it. Bring to it tlie courage, the faith,
tlie trust in God. It is not necessary that you
should tiave so large a scope. The mlscl let of
your very business is often that the score is too
great. It is not necessary that all the great
ends of life should have large properties.
There arc Very M..ny JlerdiN
connected with that, but there is a great deal of
life outside of that. Indeed the majority of men
are obliged to find all their happiness without
tlie meditation of large properties or ambitious
schemes, and it is infidelity indeed when a man
says that any outward condition of tilings is nec
essary to liis happiness. He lias the hope of im
mortality and tlie presence of God. and the min
istration of the spirit, and tlie confidence that
lie is nursed on the arm of God and in His provi
dence. Do not mourn then or complain, or pity
yourself, which is the most contemptible of all
inflictions, I think. One of tlie most disagreea
ble tilings connected withsic-kness in weak folks
is talking about their sickness and their sjnip-
toms. The world derides the seeking of admi
ration or compassion by exhibiting bodily infir
mities, but it is a great deal woise when one
pleads lor themselves: “I was not always
obliged to work; I have seen better days.” Folks
will know that if your better days did you any
flower of modern civilization.
While ex-Prestdeiit Grant is compelled, or
thinks he is, to become, for third or fourth
time, the great American Gift-Taker. Grover
Cleveland. President-elect, refuses all gifts
and orders numerous ,ii tides sent to him to be
turned over to hospitals, cburcli fairs, and other
charitable organizations. A significant con
trast marking anew and stupendous era in no-
litical life.
A man that is pitying himself needs pride,
wholesome pride, tlie pride of conscience. Tiust
in tlie Lord if you are poor. He has got so used
to taking care of the poor that He can take care
even of you. And since tlie ages the race has
been obliged to look to God for comfort under
just such circumstances. And if you had been
up and bad a prospect from tlie '.op of tlie moun
tain, and have to go down into tne valley again,
remember what you have seen and thank God
there is a valley where you can be sheltered
from rude winds. Then be bold and manly in
accepting the inevitable. It is not disgraceful,
having had wealth that you should have ceased
to have it. But to keep up appearances, in any
such way as shall sacrifice tlie truth or violate
in you confidence in God, all that is unchris
tian.
I think some of the noblest examples of
womanhood 1 ever met have been the noble souls
that, being cast down into poverty, never appear
ed so noble, wide and reverent as in that pover-
Tiiikle, Tinkle.
[Jingo.]
Soon the cutter, seated single.
Flashing sleighbells’ rhythmic jingle,
Over hill and darksome dingle
The crackling snow will cieak
And grind.
Nestling in the downy pingle.
Laughing at the Winter’s tingle.
Softest words two fools will mingle,
Ne’er dreaming there’s a small boy
“On behind.”
A society belle owns a pair of shoes which
cost her five hundred dollars. They are made
of white satin, and were embroidered with
pearls at Tiffany's. But as she can scarcely
wear them on a rainy day, I flo not see what
good they are to do her. Another girl who has
just been married bad a shoe bill lor a thousand
dollars, and that did not Include the foot gear
worn at the altar, which came from Worth with
the rest of the bridal costume. Pleasant sort
d girls these for wives.
Women with pretty teeth open wide their
mouths when they laugh. Women with prettv
hands like to shake hands with their friends . .
Women with pretty eyes look you straight in *>’• For the wax candle that burns in the palace
the face. Women with pretty evebiows and gives just as true a light when jou take ft from
lashes like to look languidly on tile floor \Vo- I the golden setting and put in an iron or tin
men with pretty arms naturally stand with the i candle-slick. It gives light all the same, and I
elbows akimbo. Women with a musical laugh sometimes think
fill the air with silver-sprayed tones Women — . .. . ,, , . _ . ,
of modest mein boldly display their rich crim” i Cod s *‘ lN nis Noisiest Info Trouble
son blushes. | and poverty to teacli tlie world by their example
what true faith in God is, and how lovely one
“les. brethren.” says the clergyman, who ’ can be. I don’t despise garden flowers, the pro
fs preaching the funeral sermon, our’“deceased duct of skill and art, but now and then when I
brother was cut down In a single night—torn spy In some plain garden a gracious blossom,
from the arms pf his loving wife, who is thus tlie seed of which perhaps a bird brought, or it
left a disconsolate widow at the early age of was blown from its parent, in all the garden
twenty-four years.” “Twenty-two. If you there is not a more beautiful flower, and tlie
please,” sobs the widow. In the front pew honeliness of Its surroundings surprises and dc-
emerging from her handkerchief for an instant’ lights us. So I have seen in the most unfavora-
: ' file circumstances a radiance of faith and a vis-
Sarah Bernhardt being a dutch sublect anri Ion of the future and of hope that maketh not
Monsieur Damala a Greek?and their tnarriaee ash:in,p(J - Then when trouble comes accept
having taken place In Undo", there Is no m-fr g,kI ' s d ‘‘ cree and c'r.cumserltve yonr wants,
rlage under Frenco law. and consequently there ! It is amazing on how_little a man may live
<*an ho nn Hivnroo avun f J
when lie sets about it. But do not as many dot
begin to retrench on charity, on hooks, onnews;
I papers, depriving yourself and children of whole-
The House Committee on Appropriations has some knowledge and mind food. Do not draw
agreed on a bill setting aside $60 000 ooo for the back from moral activity. Did you ever try that
payment of pensions during the next fiscal year golden remedy, whenever your mind is disturb-
: ’ ed. if you can throw light upon tlie disturbed
If every woman resolved to mind of some other one. yon lose your own
without paint” we should won have a trouble a *. we11 */ help S’"!; BTel » b f««y is R>ad
among the druggists nave aiamine ^ see the face of one who has a genuine sympa-
6 I thv for them. Take your staff and hat and visit
„ . _ T * ‘ , ! the sick, and you will come back a great deal
It makes a young man feel rather cheap to better. Don’t say I could onee have done a good
hear Ms sweetheart singing, as he approaches I
the house, “Nobody loves me.” | [Concluded on eighth page.]
instinct print