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VOL. X. THE WANDERER’S SCUI. Oh, nhy should I weep because men weep! For me fierce winds are singing, And past the mists and veils of rain, A blithesome Soul, I’m winging. And past moon, with her pool of dreams And her ruin’d hills, forlorn, ] geek the tale she has long forgot, And I hear Orion's horn. Orion hunts with the laughing dead; And, down the thundering skies, They point my little grave to me Where wet in the field it lies. —Anita Fitch, in the Atlantic. JOIN WOll 3w/TNr,xr MAN Li y/ oj> r Tiv.rWA) IT was not long ago that a Chicago woman caused comment, some merriment and a great deal of serious thought by advertising that she would give 81000 to any business man who could within a stated time prove to her satisfaction that ho had been always and in every least detail of his business transactions scrupu lously honest. The money, it is be lieved, is still in the hands of the woman who made the offer. This does not go to show that Chicago business men are less honest than those driving bargains elsewhere, but those who followed the course of things at the time that the competition for the 81000 was at its height came to the conclusion that the woman believed that there was a difference between < onitnercial honesty and personal hon esty, and, ns a matter of fact, not a few came to loo!: on the thing in the same light. All tiiis is apropos of the story of a commercial transaction which went through in Chicago the other day and where a big Southwestern business man lost one of the chances of his life because lie had not hewed straight to lire line of personal honesty. It is doubtful also if anyone would be will ing to stretch the limits of commercial integrity sufficiently to include his case. Twelve years ago a Chicago whole sale grocery firm, one of the largest in the world, received an order from ilie Southwest for 4<X> hags of sugar, 100 pounds to the bag. The merchant who ordered the sugar is for present purposes named John Fox. The firm that sent the sugar was Wade, Scales & Cos. •Tolm Fox had many dealings with Wade, Scales & Cos. prior 1o his sugar order, and after it as well, until a short time ago. Fox was, and is, a success ful business man. He is rich, but there is to-day one fly in tlio commercial ointment. Fox has moved his great establishment into Chicago, but he is I I\l f te# Vi4^S&* \ ■ p "WE don't NEED TO WORDY ADOPT THE MIS 'AKE.” not occupying the big Quarters in the tine business district that he had picked out for himself. Instead of plenty of light, air, room, elevator ser vice and the other things that lie had expected to acquire, lie is in cramped quarters and is making less money by a large amount each day than he would be making if he could have secured the place for a business home that he had set Ids heart on. One day recently a man with a som brero on strolled into the office of ado. Scales &Cos. To the first man ho met he said: “I want to see the boss. I hay® something of importance to talk about.” Will you send in your name?” asked the grocery employe. The visitor took the blank slip of paper offered him and wrote this on it: 'Mr. Nobody, from Nowhere. Tills i* niy name until after our conversa tion.” 'live that to the boss,” lie said, ‘‘and tell him I think lie'll be glad to sco nio - and that if lie talks right 1 11 give him niy right name and where I came from.” ’ uriosity more than anything else h'd the staid and dignified Mr. M ade to allow this unconventional visitor a 'bailee to get into his private office, •ttice there Mr. Nobody said: ‘‘lf I’ll show you where there is stoOO due this firm and easily collectable, a SISOO ’bat you know nothing about, what "ill the information be worth to me?” "I don’t see how it's, possible,” said Mf- Wade, “that even with our great business there could lie that large •'’mount due us and we know nothing about it.” Tcil me what it's worth to nit* if m.v information is correct—and I'd Prove to you by your own books inside 01 flvo minutes that it is correct—and 'bin we’ll proceed to business." 'lnformation that lliis firm is so fool :ls not to know that an easy eol lectable SISOO is due it is worth .50 *° any man who will prove it. Show 11,0 ’bat we are such business idiots, and I’ll givp you SSO light out of my own pocket. More than that, if by ’be faintest chance it hat you should DADE COUNTY SENTINEL. euy should prove to be true and we can collect the 81500, I'll give you a third of it." The sombreroed stranger went down into an inside pocket. “Go to your books, September 12, 1889,” he said. Mr. Wade went to ills books. There after the stranger had mentioned an invoice number they found what iu a nutshell was this: “Shipped to John Fox, Bioknell, Ariz., 400 bags of sugar of 100 pounds each—4o,ooo pounds.” “Now turn to your books of January 14, 1890,” said the stranger, adding, "this is easy money for me." It did not take Mr. Wade and his bookkeeper more than a minute to find out that instead of wending a bill for 40,000 pounds of sugar to John Fox, they had sent him a bill for 400 pounds, a bill which he had paid promptly. A receipt had been sent Mr. Fox, and the transaction closed, and through one of those absolutely unexplainable bits of business mistakes that will occur in houses doing trans actions of millions a year the error had never been discovered. There was due the firm of Wade & Scales from John Fox SISOO and interest thereon for something like twelve years. “You see,” said the visitor, "I was Mi - . Fox’s bookkeeper for years and years. When the bill for 400 pounds of sugar came in I called his attention to the mistake, and he said: ‘l’ll pay the bill as it stands, and if they ever send a bill for the remaining 3000 pounds I’ll pay that, too, but I guess we don’t need to worry about the mis take.’ The other day John Fox kicked me out of his employment for a trivial mistake--kicked me out penniless at that. What I am doing now you may consider a piece of revenge. So it is laregly, but I also need money.” The Westerner left the place with SSO iu his pocket and the next mail took a bill to John Fox for SISOO, plus the interest for twelve years. Actuated by curiosity to know how the man would explain the matter, Mr. Wade inclosed with the bill a query as to why, having received 40,000 pounds of sugar, Mr. Fox had sent on pay for only 400 pounds. Within a week a check for the full amount of the bill and interest was re ceived. John Fox was too good a busi ness man not to know that he must pay instantly, but as far as his dis honesty was concerned, this is what lie said in his letter, the only bit of writing that appeared except the name and figures ou the check: “I make it a point never to pay until bills are presented. You never sent the bill for the extra 3000 pounds. “JOHN FOX.” Was Fox a thief or simply commer cially shrewd? Iu the years that had passed John Fox had become a multi-millionaire. Recently he wished to open a great establishment iu Chicago. A. real es tate agent found him a finely located building near the heart of liie busi ness district. Fox came way on to look at it. • lie went to the agent's office and found him looking somewhat downcast, as a man might look who was out a fat commission. “Mr. Fox,” said the agent, “I was utterly dumfouuded Iliis morning when informed by the owners of the building selected for you that they would not let you have it under any circum- stances. The owners are a firm of wholesale grocers. When I pressed them for a reason for refusing to let (lie property to you, Ihe head of the firm handed me a slip of paper and said: ‘I understand Mr. Fox is to come to see you to-day? When he asks you for our reason in declining io rent to him, simply give him this piece of paper.’ 1 have the paper here, but, Mr. Fox, I am free to confess that I can’t find anything in it that even iiints at a reason why the grocers should decline to rent to you.” John Fox held out Ids hand and re ceived tlie slip of paper from the agent. He unfolded it. He saw that it was one of his own letterheads, and below the printing lie read this, writ ten in his own hand: “Wade, Mealies & Cos.: Gentlemen— I make it a point never to pay until bills are presented. JOHN FOX.” —Chicago Itecord-Herald. America Demis in Astronomj. “America is doing more and better work in astronomy than tlie whole of Europe combined. S. H. Burnham is the greatest double-star astronomer that lives or ever lived,” says Mir Rob ert Ball, professor of mathematics and astronomy at Cambridge University. “In astronomical matters,” lie said, “we in Europe all look to America. The primacy of America in these mat ters is largely due to the climate, which is favorable to astronomical observa tion, but much more to the wealth of the American people and tlie large sums of money that they devote to as tronomical apparatus. I must admit, however, that it is also due in part to the superior talents of the American astronomers. Both tlie Yerkes tele scope and the Lick telescope are larger than anything in Europe. It may sound like fulsome flattery, but it is a cold fact that America is doing more and better work in astronomy than the whole of Europe together."—Chi cago News. Finding; a Town’s Ace. Anew method for the use of anti quaries is suggested in a recent report on the magnetic survey. One of its exploring parties was able to tell about wliat year an old town liad been laid out by the amount of deflection of its street lines from the true north and south. They knew at what time in the past that had been the variation of the compass in that part of the coun try, and their surmises as to the age of the town proved correct.—Youth’s Companion. . TRENTON. GA. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 7.1902. BILL ARP’S LETTER Qaestion of Liquor Traffic Is a Hard Problem to Solve, SCRIPTURE IS LIBERALS QUOTED From the Beginning cf the Ages the Drink Proposition Has Faced Mankind—Dispensaries are Discussed. , I was ruminating about this littie unpleasantness that is going on amongst our neighbors at Rome. My comfort is that it is not as big a thing as they think it is and will soon pass away. After the electon is over the leaders will apologize all round and make friends and the dear people will have time to reflect and wonder what fools the leaders made of them. A friend writes me that there is nothing ir it but ring politics—who shall run the machine, who shall have the of fices. Whisky is in the background, but the main thing is office. As Leon ard Morrow once said at a public speaking: "Boys, don’t let ’em fool you. They are just side wipin’ round huntin’ the orthography of a little of fice.” Carlisle said, "England has a population of 30,000,000—mostly fools.” and just so there are enough fools in every county or community to elect a man if he can get them all. He is pretty safe if he can get a ma jority of them. “Dispensary or no dis pensary,” that is the question that is now stirring Ron, id Floyd county. Well, we know ah „ ,ut it here in Car tersvilie, for we tried the saloons for years and they did so much harm we abolished them and they will never come back here again—never. Now we are trying tbe dispensary; in fact, we have two of them, one in Rome and the other in Atlanta. We wouldn’t have one in our town or county for anything. The farther off the better. The easier whisky is to get the more will be drank. Dawson, in Terrell county, has had a dispensary for near ly four years. The sales for the first year were $26,000. The second year were $39,000, the third year $56,000, and the present year it will probably run to $75,000. You see it takes the boys some time to find out how easy it is to get it, but the consumption goes on, increasing and tlio people take comfort in that the profits in crease their school fund and lessen their taxes. No matter if it impover ishes the poor and makes drunkards of their young men, that is of no con sequence. Now, our dispensaries are most too near. I wish that the consumers had to get their supplies from Cincinnati or Baltimore. That would cut the jug business down one-half at least. The common people couldn't wait so long and nobody but common people would get any hardly. It would be a long time between drinks, as the governor of North Carolina said to the governor of South Carolina. There is bound to be some drinking going on if they knew that the world was going to be burned up tomorrow. “Ail we can do,” said a good man to me yesterday, “is to make it hard to get and regulate its sale and consumption.” This man had had experience with young men who drank on the sly. He used to drink habitually himself, but found the habit was growing on him. He wanted it oftener and more of it, so he quit short off two years ago. lie said “that there was but little differ ence between open bar rooms and the dispensary, so far as the better class of young men were concerned. A dol-„ lar bottle in a room with three or fo*tr friends was about as bad the the dol lar for drinks in a bar room.” But the barrooms are a nuisance in any town and a disgrace to its refine ment. If they are allowed at all they should be on some side street where ladies do not frequent or have to pass. Keep them out of sight and out of smell. Of course, the drinking habit cannot be stopped by law’, nor can the sale of whiskey be stopped as long as the government allows its manufacture. Our people can drive over to Cherokee and buy what they want from the government distillery. There is no such thing as prohibition and never will be until the dawn of the millennium. This thing began with old Noah and had its ups and downs , all through the Bible history. It nevei I was sanctioned. It never was prohib ited except to the priests in the tab ernacle. “Drink not in the tabernacle lest ye die,” saith Moses. All of those oid-time peop't kept some on the sideboard. Joseph and his brethren drank together and were merry. Da vid speaks of- wine that makoth glad the heart of man. Solomon says, “Give strong drink to him that is ready to perish and wine to those that be heavy of heart.” But when he was sobering up from a spree he said: “Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, for at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an ad der.” I heard a judge of our circuit say that the wind up of a spree was the most wretched and forlorn mental condition that could befall a man. Said he, “Away in the dead of night I have gotten up and gone to the well in my night shirt and drank and drank the cooling water until I could hold no mere. I wanted to bite a branch two and swallow the upper end. Nabal got drunk and became as a stone; Benhadad and thirty-two kings all got drunk together after a battle. . Official Organ of Dado County Jeremiah the prophet, tried to make the Rechabites drink wine with him, but they would not, for their fathers had enjoined them, and Jeremiah blessed them for obeying their father, and said, “Thus saith the Lord the house of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, shall not want for a man to stand be fore me forever.” Zachariah seems to have winked at the indulgence, for he said, “Corn shall make the young men cheerful and new wine the maids.” I wonder if that was sure enough corn liquor. The aged women were enjoined not to drink much wine, wherein is excess. King Ahas utrus got drunk and ordered Queen Vashti to come before him and she refused, and did right and the old ras cal deposed her. llosea saith that wine takes away the heart. Isaiah was hard against it, and says, "Their ta bles are full cf vomit and filthiness and there, is no place clean upon upon them.” Habakkuk says, “Woe un to him that giveth his neighbor drink and putteth the bottle to him.” But this is enough of scripture. From that day to this the excessive use of spirituous liquors has gone on in ail nations, carrying ruin its its train, degrading kings and disgracing presidents and neither law nor pre cept, nor preachers nor the pleading of women has been able to stop it. The dispensary is more respectable in its surroundings than the saloon. There is no gathering of roughs aud toughs at its door and women can walk by without being insulted or dis gusted as they pdss. I do not believe that it lessens the use or abuse of whiskey. Nothing will do that but home influence and religious training and public opinion. It takes every thing to combat it and keep it in check. I have before me th-e last of ficial statement of the dispensary bus iness in South Carolina, and it is amazing to see how it is growing. It is now the largest and most important business in the state —its aggregate sales for the past fiscal year being a little over $2,000,444 and over $500,000 net profits, and of these profits and the stock on hand the school fund is entitled to $611,354 and the state has on hand $640,000 of stock. The prof its pay hundreds of officials good sala ries, besides accumulating an enor mous school fund. I have traveled a B°oj&oo*over the state and found public opinion much divided upon the questionable morality of the system. But it pays financially and the ques tion of educating the negro with taxes from white people does not raise such a protest as long as the sale of vhis key pays it, especially when the negro is the dispensary’s very liberal cus tomer. What about the part that woman is taking in this liquor business? What does all this mean that Bishop Cole man, of Delaware, has recently assert ed in a public sermon preached in New Jersey. He says that the whis key habit is actually decreasing among the men of the north, but it is rapidly increasing among the women, not only the fashionable women, but among the middle classes. His assertion caused a committee to be appointed who quietly frequented the hotels and eat ing houses and ladies’ restaurants and a large majority of the women took wine or beer or whiskey or cocktails with their meals, and very no meals and ordered driMujHnly. The committee that the bishop's assei-jar iv* the truth. If this be hep the country. Our will be ail that wdll When 1 m "Student in college at Aih the wonderful discov ers' oFj^,v,. | Tong and his use of anaes thesia f Ms the talk of the town, and our fijwfessor of chemistry, Dr. Le- Goiile, made it the subject of a lecture Vo Iris class. In 1846 a dentist by the of Lombard came there and pro posed to extract teeth without pain by the use of what he called mortous. lethean. He extracted a jaw tooth for me and it was a success. But it was whispered around that Morton had stole Dr. Long’s discovery and pro cess, and as he was a Boston yankee, the friends of Dr. Long were very in dignant. Enough of this for the pres ent. I only wished to say how grati fied I was that the committee appoint e dto select our two greatest Geor gians have given Dr. Long the first place. The medical world has done him honor in all countries and Morton and Jackson have been relegated to the rear, where they belonged. They were pirates. But about the second place the com mittee had better go slow and consid er carefully when they meet again. They had better consult the old men and especially the veterans of the civ il war. Some things are forgiven, but not forgotten. The veterans would not presume to say who should be se lected, but only who should not. —Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution - ■? ~ SCHLEY VISITS "HERMITAGE.” Adimral and Wife Have Look at Jack son’s Old Home and His Tomb. A Nashville, Tenn., special says: Admiral and Mrs. Schley braved the cold Sunday for a visit to the tetmb of Andrew Jackson. The trip to the Hermitage, twelve miles out on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad, was made in a special train. The party was taken in charge by a committee from the Ladies’ Hermitage Association and escorted to the old brick church where Jackson worshiped and where services were held. After wards the historic mansion and tomb were visited. _ She is an odd girl who Isn’t always trying to get even with some other girj, DR.TALHACiE’S SERHON The Eminent Divine’s Sunday Discourse. Subject: The Milestones of l.ife—Dulles i:l Trial# Which Belting to tlio Differ ent Decatles—Ail vico to (lie Twenties— The Waiting Age—The Last Haven. W'AstnxcTox, I). C.—From nn unusual /tandpoint Dr. Talmaje in this discourse looks at the duties and trials which be long to the different deeades of human life; text, I'palms xe, 10, “The days of our years are threescore years and ten ” The seventieth milestone of life is here planted as at the end of the journey. A few go beyond it. Multitudes never reach it. The oldest person cf modern times ex pired at 100 years. A Greek of tee name of Stravaride lived to 132 years. An Eng lishman of the name of Thomas Parr lived 152 years. Before the time of Moses peo ple lived 150 years, and if you go far enough back they lived 900 years. Well, that was necessary, because the story ot the world must come down by tradition, and it needed long life safely to transmit the news of the past. If the generations bad been short lived the story would so often have rhanged lips that it might have got all astray. But after Moses began to write it down and parchment told it from century to century it was not necessary that people live so long in order to au thenticate the events the past. If in our time people lived only twenty-five years, that would not affect history, since it is put in print and is no longer depend ent on tradition. Whatever your age, I will to-day directly address you, and 1 shall speak to those who are in the twen ties, the thirties, the forties, the fifties, the sixties, and to those who are in the seventies and beyond. First, then, I accost those of you who are in the twenties, You are full of ex pectation. You are ambitious—that is, if you amount to anything—for some kind of success, commercial or mechanical or professional or literary or agricultural or social or moral. If I find some one in the twenties without any sort of ambition, 1 feel like saying, “My friend, yoil have got on the wrong planet. This is not the world for you. You are going to be in the way. Have yon made your choice of pool-houses? You will never be able to pay for your cradle. Who is going to set tle for your board? There is 4 mistake about the fact that you were born at all." But supposing you have ambition, let me say to all the twenties, expect every thing through divine manipulation, and then ycra will get all you want anil some thing better. Are you looking for wealth? 'Well, remember that God controls the money markets, the harvests, the droughts, the caterpillars, the locusts, the sunshine, the storm, the land, the sea, and you will get wealth. Perhaps not that which is stored up in the banks, in safe deposits, in United States securities, in houses and lands, but your clothing and board and shelter, and that is about all you can ap propriate anyhow. You cost the Lord a great deal. To feed and clothe and shelter you for a lifetime requires a big sum of money, and if you get nothing more than the absolute necessities you get an enor mous amount of supply. Expect as much as you will of any kind of success, if you expect it from the Lord you are safe. De pend on any other resource, and you may be badly chagrined, but- depend on God and all uill be well. It is a good thing in the crisis of life to have a man of large means back you up. It is a great thing to have a moneyed institution stand be hind you in your undertaking. But it is a mightier thing to have the God of heaven and earth your coadjutor, and you may have Ilim. I am so glad that I met you while you are in the twenties. You are laying out your plans, and all your life in this world and the next for 500 million years of your exi'tence will be affected by those plans. It is about S o’clock in the morning of your life, and you are just starting out. Which way are you going to start? Oil, the twenties! “Twenty" is a great word in the Bible. Joseph was sold for twenty pieces of sil ver; Samson judged Israel twenty years; Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities; the flying roll that Zeehariah saw was twenty cubits; when the saih'rs of the ship on which Paul sailed sounded the Mediterra nean Sea, it was twenty fathoms. What mighty things have been done in the twenties! Ilomulus founded Borne when lie was twenty; Keats finished life at twenty-five. Lafayette was a world re nowned soldiet at twenty-three; Oberiin accomplished hi3 chief work at twenty seven; Bonaparte was victor over Italy at twenty-six; Pitt was prime minister of England at twenty-two; Calvin had com pleted his immortal “Institutes” by the time he was twenty-six; Grotius was at torney general at twenty-four. Some of the mightiest things for God ilnd eternity have teen done in the twenties. As long as you ctMjmt the figure 2 before the other describe your age l have hiahjdr -toi' -ut him. Look out for that liguw?. - h continuance vv.h aa muclJlarnesrWss as you ever watched anythin#that promised you salvation or threat#ed you demolition. What a criti cal tjJp—the twenties. WMTIe they continue yon decide your oc jßation and the principles by which Jy ill be guided; you make your most friendships; you arrange your home fWe: vou fix vour habits. Lord God Al rmighlv, for Jesus Christ’s sake, have mercy on all the men and women in the twenties! Next I accost those in the thirties. Yon arc at an age when you find what a tough thing it is to get recognized and estab lished in your occupation or px-ofession. Ten years ago you thought all that was necessary for success was to put on your shutter the sign of physician or dentist or attorney or broker or agent and you would have plenty of business. How many hours you sat and waited for business, and waited in vain, three persons only know— God. your wife and yourself. In commer cial life you have not had the promotion and the increase In salary you anticipated, or the place you expected to occupy in the firm has not bren vacated. The produce of the farm with which you expected to support yourself and those depending on you and to pay the interest on the mort gage has been far less than you anticipated, or the prices were down, or special ex penses for sickness made drafts on your re sources that you could not have expected. In some respects the hardest decade of life is the thirties, because the results are generally so far behind the anticipations, It is very rare indeed that a young man does as did the young man one Sunday night when he came to me and said. “I have been so marvelously prospered since I came to this country that I feel as a mat ter of gratitude that I ought to dedicate myself to God.” Nine-tenths of the poetry of life has been knocked out of you since you came into the thirties. Men in the different professions and occupations saw that you were rising, and they must put an estop pel on you or you might somehow stand in the way. They think you must be sup pressed. From thirty to forty is an especially hard time for young doctors, young law vers, young merchants, young farmers young mechanics, young ministers. The struggle of the thirties is for honest and helpful and remunerative recognition. But few old people know how to treat young people without patronizing them on the bne hand or snubbing them on the other. Oh. the thirties! Joseph stood before Pharaoh at thirty; David was thirty years old when he began to reign; the height of Solomon’s temple was thirty cubits; Christ entered upt n His active ministry at thirty years of age; Judas sold Ilim for thirty pieces of silver. Oh, the thir ties! What a word suggestive Of triumph or disaster! Your decade is the one that will prob ably afford the greatest opportunity for victory because there is the greatest ne cessity for struggle. Read the world’s his tory and know what are the thirties for good or bad. Alexander the Great closed his career at thirty-two; Frederick the Great made Europe tremble with his ar mies at thirty-five; Cortes conquered Mag ieo at thirty; Grant fought Shiloh and Donclson when thirty-eight; Raphael died at thirty-seven; Luther was the hero of the reformation at thirty-five; Sir Philip Sidney got through by thirty-two. The greatest Reeds for God and against Him were done within the thirties, and your greatest- battles are now and between the time when you cease expressing your age by putting first a figure 2 and the time when you will erase expressing it by put ting first a figure 3. As it is the greatest lime of the struggle. I adjure vou, in God’s name and by God’s grace, make it the greatest achievement. My prayer is for all those in the tremendous crisis of the thirties. The fact is that by the way you decide the present decade of your his torv you decide all the following decades. Next I ar-cost the forties. Yours is the decade of discovery. I do not mean the discovery of the Outside, but the discovery of yourself. No mart I;nows himself until he is forty, lie overestimates or underes timates himself. By that time lie ban learned what he can do or what he cannot do. lie thought he had commercial genius enough to become a millionaire, but now ho is satisfied to make a comfortable living, lie thought he had rhetorical power that would bring him into the United States Senate; now he is content if he can suc cessfully argue a common ease before a petit jury. He thought he had medical skill that would make him a Mott or a Grosse or a Willard Parker or a Sims; now he finds his sphere is that of a fam ily physician, prescribing for the ordinary ailments that afflict our race. He was sail ing on in a fog and could ndt take a reck oning, but now it clears up enough to allow him to find out his real latitude and long itude. He has been climbing, but now he has got to the top of the hill, and he takes a long breath. He is half way through the journey at least, and he is in a posi tion to look backward or forward. He has more good sense than he ever had. He knows human nature, for he has been cheated often enough to see the bad side of it, and he has met so many gracious and kindly and splendid souls he also knows the good side of it. Now, calm yourself. Thank God for the past and de liberately set your compass for another voyage. You have chased enough thistledown; you have blown enough soap bubbles; you have seen the unsatisfying nature of all j earthly things. Open anew chapter with ! God and the world. This decade of the | forties ought to eclipse all its predecessors in worship, in usefulness nnd in happiness. The world was made to work. There re maineth a rest for the people of Gcd, but it is ill a sphere beyond the reach of tele scopes. The military charge that decided one of the greatest battles of the ages—the battle of Waterloo —was not made until S o’clock in the evening, but some of you propose to go into camp at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. My subject next accosts those in the sev enties and beyond. My word to them is congratulation. You have got nearly if not quite through. Y’ou have safely crossed tile sea of life nnd are about to enter the harbor. You have fought at Gettysburg, and the War is over—here and there tt skir mish with the remaining sin of your own heart sin of the world, but I guess you r rkiW,out done, There may be some work for you yet on a email or large scale. Bismarck of Germany vigorous in the eighties. The Prime Minister of England - strong at seventy-two. Haydn composing his oratorio, “The Creation,’’ at seventy years of age. Isocrates doing some of his best work at seventy-four. I'iato busy thinking for all succeeding centuries _at eighty-one. Noah Webster, after making his world renowned dictionary, hard at work until eighty-five years old. Rev. Daniel Waldo praying in my pulpit at 100 years of age. Humboldt producing the immortal “Cosmos” at seventy-six years. William Blake at sixty-seven learning Bal kan so as to read Dante in the original,. Lord Coekburn at eighty-seven writing his best treatise. John Wesley stirring great audiences at eighty-five. William C. Bryant, without spectacles, reading in my house “Thantaposis” at eighty-three years of age. Christian men and women in all depart ments serving God after becoming septua genarians and nonagenarians prove that there are possibilities of work for the aged, hut I think you who arc l passed the seventies are near being through. How do you feel about it? You ought to be jubilant, because life is a tremendous struggle, and if you have got through re spectably and usefully you ought to feel like people toward the close of a summer day seated on the rocks watching the sun set at Bar Harbor of Cape May or Look out Mountain. I am glad to say that most old Christians are cheerful. Daniel YY ebs ter visited John Adams a short time before his death and found him in very infirm health. He said to Mr. Adams: “I am glad to see you. 1 hope you are getting along pretty well.” The reply was: "Ah, sir, quite the contrary. I find 1 am a poor tenant, occupying a house much shattered by time. It sways and trembles with everv wind, and what is worse, sir, the landlord, as near as I can make out, does not intend to make any repairs.” An aged woman tent to her physician and told him of her ailments, and the doc tor said: “What would you have me do, madam? I cannot make you young again.” She replied: "I know that, doctor. \\ hat I want you to do is to help me to grow old a little longer.” The young men have their troubles before them; the old have their troubles behind them. You have got about all out of this earth that there is in it. Be glad that you, an aged servant of God, arc going to try another life and amid better surroundings. Stop looking back and look ahead. O ye in the seven ties and eighties and the nineties, your best days are yet to come, your grandest associations are yet to be formed, your best eyesight is yet to be kindled, your best hearing is yet to be awakened, your greatest speed is yet to be traveled, your gladdest song is yet to be sung. The most of your friends have gone over the border, and you are going to join them very soon. They are waiting for you; they are watch ing the golden shore to see you land; they are watching the shining gate to see you come through; they are standing by the throne to see you mount. What a glad hour when you drop the staff and take the scepter, when you quit the stiffened joints and become an immor tal athlete! But hear, hear; a remark per tinent to all people, whether in the twen ties, the thirties, the forties, the fifties, the sixties, the seventies or beyond. But the most of you will never reach the eighties or the seventies or the sixties or the fifties or the forties. He who passes into the forties has gone far beyond the average of human 'life. Amid the uncer tainties take God through Jesus Christ as your present and eternal safety. The long est life is only a small fragment of the great eternity. We will all of us soon be there. Eternity, how near it rolls! Count the vast value of your souls. Beware and count the awful cost What they have gained whose souls are lost. tOopyriKht, 19CC, 1.. Klopsch.l Many a man who is honored with a col lege degree would find it necessary to do some reviewing before he could pass a civil service examination. NO. 113. - imiAiShsimm In I lie Market Place. Success is like a greasy pole That tall and taperujg stands, And few—alas, how very few!— Succeed in crawling upward who Disdain to soil their hands. —Chicago Record-Herald. A Troublesome Witness. Mother (angrily)—“Did he dare to kiss you more than once? ’ Daughter (evasively)—“Well, main ma, I know it wasn’t less than once. l’uck. His X. “What! lie a man of mark? Why, be doesn’t look as if he knew enough to write his own name.” “He doesn’t.”— Chicago Record-Her ald. Her Comment. “I see that our friend promises to distinguish himself at college.” “Really!” replied Miss Cayenne. I wasn't aware that he played football. —Washington Star. The Saddest Pari of It. “Too bad she. was drowned just on the eve of her wedding.” "Yes, and lost out there in her ordi nary clothes, too, when she had such a lovely going-away gown just finished.”—Chicago Record-Herald. Insinuating:. “Lady,” raid Meandering Mike, "would you give a starvin' man some thin’ to eat?” "Perhaps. But you’re not starving.” “I know it, lady. But an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, ain’t it?”—Washington Star. Regret. “Have you ever clone anything for that cold of yours?” asked the solicit ous person. “Yes,” answered the miserable man; “I have tried every remedy that was suggested to me. I am now so full of remedies that it would be a relief to get hack to a plain cold.”—Washington Star. He Didn’t Have to kneel Down. Flora—" What a lovely ring; and it's a lady’s ring, tod® Horace—“ Yes, I thought you would like It.” Flora—“ Why, is it for me?” Horace “You are a lady, aren't you?” Flora—“Oh, dear’. This is so sud den!”—Chelsea (Mass.) Gazette. A|ipeo ra,lccß That Were Deceitful. Sant Jones—“ Blame it all! I haven’t come across a bear track this winter. All I see is the prints of my own weary Jt* % . . cu*-*e Mr. Bear “Say, this is great. I haven’t led such a peaceful life for years. All on account of these old hoots I found in Sam Jones’s barn.” — Judge. Dlmntng the Man, of Course. She “Do you remember bow you said, when you were courting me, that if 1 would marry you I would have nothing to do all my days but sit about and look pretty? And how different it is now.” He—“ Well, it isn’t my fault if, you can’t look pretty any more.”—Tit-Bits. Foolish Mrs. Newcomb. Mr. Newcomb (examining the gro cery bill, one item of which was tea, $lO, reprovingly) “My dear, we can never use so much tea before it spoils.” Mrs. Newcomb—“l know it: but you haven’t seen the dear little china plate I got for buying so much. It’s worth at least a dollar, and the tea we don’t use we can throw away.”—Judge. Went to Both Extremes. “Yes,” said the person who had at tended the party, “Miss Keepcunder was there, and we had to beg and heg her m play.” “And did she play?” “Oh, yes. I thought for a time that we would have to beg and beg her to stop.”—Baltimore American. Willie anil His Coats. 1 Willie had just passed the age of kilt skirts and shirt waists and takeu on knickerbockers and waistcoats "just like papa’s.” He was out of sorts the other day, and his mother, calling him to her, said; “Let me see your tongue.” The boy did as he was told*and the mother then remarked; f "Why, Willie, your tongue a coat on it!” W “Has it got two pockets in it. mam ma?” the little fellow inquired.—New Yolk Times.