Sermonleaa Sermon.
If the church abandon ta- sermon,
ft abandons direct Instruction of adults.
Even the churches with the most elab
orate liturgies have never yet done
that They have always recognized
that the ieopie should not only be call
ed to worship, but that they should
also be given reasons for worshiping
and counsel that might sustain them lu
their faith against the trials and temp
tations of the world.
To ask people to attend church ser
vices without Instruction and devoted
Wholly to prayer and praise would be
like asking them to attend political
meetings at which there wouid be no
speeches, merely to hear the band play
and the quartet sing and see the can
didates sit on the platform.
The sufficient answer to all such silly
suggestions is that the preachers who
really preach who realize that It Is
neither necessary nor desirable now
adnys that a Christian minister should
be a scientific suinmarlzer, or a literary
reviewer, or an art critic, or a "socio
logical" Investigator, or anything but
Just a preacher of the Gospel of Jewus
Christ to sinful men, never lacks for
hearers.
The preacher who presents that Gos
pel full and round, with It bones of
positive doctrine as well as its flesh of
aspiring emotion, and who presents It
with the authority which belongs to ev
ery man who preaches because he can
not do anything else without feeling
himself a false man and a traitor to
the truth, has no need to ask why men
do not come to hear him.
They are here, hanging upon his
words, taking his thoughts Into their
souls, knowing why they are there
and glad to be there, because they And
there the food for which they are hun
gry and by which they are made strong
to live lu righteousness and to die
without fear. Chicago luter Ocean.
Where God and Man ltfeet.
What is our Bible? It is aian In con
tact with God. It Is mountain-top
vision. It Is Sinai, Hermon, Calvary,
Olivet and Patmon. It is God stirring
In the hearts of earth's lowly. It Is
' the shepherd being sliepherded, and the
potter being molded." It is the wall of
Ihe penitents. It Is the hand of doubt
appeal! ngly stretched fortli and made
Into the hand of faith and action by
jbe grasp of that of the fatherly Al
mighty. It Is light. It Is the music of the
epheres siing lu the darksome places
of earth. It Is the earth cry of the uni
versal heart and the heaven answer of
the suffering compasslou and the eter
nally glad. It Is the united hallelujah
of the pilgrims of the night moving
Into the light of everlasting day. It
Is God and man coming to a blessed
understanding.
The Bible baa been, Is, and ever
more Bhall le. These great facts are
beyond the reach of any molester. They
are of the Inner sanctuary. Christian
Century.
The Power of Love.
Everything becomes possible to those
Who love. The commands of the liord
are no longer grievous, for the soul
that loves Is gifted by that love with
fresh energies; It discovers In Itself un
Buspeetcd possibilities, and is suiplled
with ever-flowing currents of new
vigor. We shall be enabled to do so
much If only we love. We live by lov
ing, and the more we love the more we
live; and therefore, when life feels dull
and the spirits are low, turn and love
God, love your neighbor, and you will
be healed of your wound. Ive Christ,
the dear Master; look at Hts face,
listen to His words, and love will wak
en, and you will do all things through
Christ Wlio strengthened you. Henry
Ccott Holland.
"Forgive Vm Oar Uebte."
Our blessed Saviour llkeiw our sins
too debt which stands ngnlnst us with
Ocid. , How does the prudent niau of
tho world act with regard to money
matters, to his debts, and to bis spend
ing? Ioes he let them rim on without
taking any account or knowing lww he
stands? Does ho suffer them to mount
up till the nines Is too great to be ex
amined Into, anil he has forgotten all
About many things ho finds wnut put
ting straight? We all know folly
must eud lu ruin. But, strange to say,
men are content to be far more care
less In their heavenly concerns than In
their earthly. They will balance their
accounts with men; they neglect to do
eo with God. Bishop Walsuum How.
May Love Be Mine.
I shall not pans this way again,
But far beyond earth's Wltere and When
May I look lmok along a road
Where on both sides good aerd I sowed.
, I shall not pass this way again.
May WUJoin guide my tongue and pen,
And Love be mine that so I may,
Plant roses all along the way.
I Khali not pat this way again.
May I be courteous to men,
Faithful to friends, true to my God,
A fragrance on the path I trd.
Claranee Urroy.
The Path, of Trouble.
There Is a time appointed for weak
ness and sickness, when we shall have
to glorify' God by suffering, and not by
earnest activity. There Is no single
point In which we cnu hope to escape
from the sharp arrows of affliction; out
of our few days there Is not one secure
from sorrow. Beloved reader, set not
jour affections upon things which art
and the thief breaketh through, but
there all Joys are perietual and eter
nal. The path of trouble Is the way
home. Lord, make this thought a pi
low for many a weary head !
AS HUMANS SLEEP.
On Writer Thinks Scientists Shoal
Teach Art of "Relaxing-."
Man Is the only animal that sleept
on Its back, says the New York Press.
Many animals sleep on their sides, but
most sleep prone that is, face dowa
bogs never dream when prone, but In
variably do so when sleeping on theli
ilde. All of us from the country havi
een Bung the hound chasing rabbits Id
his sleep. An animal would be per
fectly helpless if It slept on Its back.
And so Is man helpless In that position.
If some other fellow wants a for
tune let him Invent a pillow that will
allow a man or woman or child to sleep
face down without having to twist the
neck nearly out of Joint We will style
It the "back-up cure" and Introduce it
In all homes. There Is no excuse foi
lying on the back and keeping the
spine hot all night, while the front ol
the body the abdomen, the stomach,
the chest, the throat, etc. Is allowed
to become chilled. A hot spine Is a
disease generator. And, on the othei
hand, a cold spine Is death.
Snoring Is an Infernal nuisance fa.
every one ex;ept the snorer. People
who sleep on their fronts never snora
Those who sleep on their backs Invaria
bly do. The palate as we know it ii
the roof of the mouth and the floor oi
the nose. Some Btyle It the hard pal
ate. Back neap the throat Is the sofl
palate. When you sleep on your back
this gets down about the breathing ap
paratus and you snore. Some snorei
are worse than the midnight howl of a
hyena. Never marry a woman that
snores. Ask her before you propose II
she is addicted to snoring, and If she
says "yea" avoid hef.
It Is much easier to relax when sleep
Ing on your front than when sleeping
on your back. And what we all need
after touching the bed at night is re
laxation. It Is a billion pities thai
some scientist cannot teach the art ol
relaxing. Our strenuous life, of course,
Is not blameless In this matter. We go
to bed In excitement, and the nervei
(not all but some, as Bryan would
say), are strung all night That Is to
say, we go to bed in full tune, like a
piano, and cannot possibly let the
strings down. Therefore we do no!
rest. Could we relax perfectly we
could sleep four or five hours and arise
refreshed ; but as we cannot relax, wo
groan and dream and sweat and roll
over and have remorse for eight oi
nine hours, and get up with a swelled
head.
Every man and woman In this coun
try was brought up with the notion
that if the feet were higher than tho
head In sleeping all the blood would
rush to the head and cause strangula
tion. This Is the veriest rot Advanced
physicians now advocate the elevated
feet for the cure of Insomnia, Hang
your legs over the footboard, get rid ol
your pillow, and go to sleep like an in
fant. You are on your feet all day and
half the night Stand on your heed ths
rest of the night and let the blood cir
culate the other way. Maybe your
brain needs It
Where Animal Beat Men.
','Nnture faking aside," said the boo
"keeper, "mice won't eat oleo. It Is a
fact. Lay o pat of oleo and a pat ol
butter side by side and In the morning
the butter will be gone, but the oleo
will remiilu untouched.
"Oh, yes, some unlmals are Incredi
bly nice about their food. The otter,
when living wild, will only eat one
piece, one mouthful out of ench fish
he catches. He will land a beautiful
trout, but only one bite of It from the
back, Just behind the neck, Is good
enough for him. The rest he tosses
aside. This epicure often kills a dozen
tine, big trout to make one meal.
"Chlmpauzees have very delicate
tastes, A banana of a pine apple that
to you seems delicious to a chimpan
zee may be revolting. Ills taste la
keener. Grapes grown In hothouses
where sulphur .fumes ore used as an
Insecticide taste all right to a man, but
a chimpanzee will have none of them.
"The Ichneumon loves eggs. He can
tell a fresh from a stale ono simply
by tapping the shell." Los Angeler
Times.
Krlendahlp.
friendship, this beautiful relation oi
life to life, soul to soul, Is of most se
rious Import. It sometimes mnkes our
warmest friend lu reality our worst
enemy. . Bad qualities In a friend are
false lights they lure to evil. Many
of us are constituted so that It Is easy
for us to form friendships. Let us be
careful of those thus brought under
our influence and power. Let u keep
them unsolled. Let us feel that grave
responsibilities He In our friendships
and that they also enshrine glorious
opportunities.
A Card of Warning.
"Did Mr. Borem ever call upon you?
asked Miss Knox.
"Yes, he called last evening," said
Miss Wise. "I was quite delighted
when the girl brought up his card."
"Delighted?"
"Yes ; you see, If she hadn't brought
up his card I might have gone to him,
thinking It was some one else." FM1
adelphia Free.
Adrlo Thar Hd.
"Yea; I'm going abroad at once, I
gotta go."
"Oh, you mustn't let the doctor
scare you
"I got this from a lawyer."
Rank Among- Children.
We noticed the other day a para
graph floating through the press that
' exploited the eldest child in the family,
! Milton, Byron, Shelley, George Eliot,
! George Sand, Charlotte Bronte,
Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton
; and a number of others were grouped
j together to show that the eldest child
' Is the superior intellectually to those
'hat follow.
But now some equally Ingenious Jour
nalist has taken the trouble to combine
the youngest children and they make a
showing that Is at least equal to the
elder children's group. George Wash
ington was a younger son. Napoleon
was the eighth child of his parents.
Coleridge was the thirteenth child.
Franklin was the sixteenth child of
his family and was the last
Among musicians the record Is yet
more remarkable. Richard Wagner
was the last of seven ; Mozart the last
of seven; Schumann the last of five;
Schubert the thirteenth of fourteen.
Among artists, too, the younger chil
dren excel. Rubens was the last of
seven ; Rembrandt was the last of six ;
Sir Edwin Landseer the fifth of seven ;
and Sir Joshua Reynolds was the sev
enth child.
Coming down to our pwu century,
Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant
were both younger sons, while George
B. McClellan and Stonewall Jackson
were eldest sons.
An Ingenloua Plctare.
This picture was drawn without re
moving the pen from the paper. Can
you do It?
Are Yon ThU Kind of Boy.
A larger boy was scolding a smaller
one, at the close of a summer vacation,
because a certain task remained unac
complished. "You promised your mother," said
this youthful mentor, with severity,
"that you would study your arithmetic
at least fifteen minutes every day, and
you haven't studied ten minutes all
summer. You've had lots of time. Why
didn't you do It?"
The little boy shuffled his feet and
rtjoked miserable. At last he whined:
"I ain't had such an awful lot of
time as you think. I wanted to get
along in my 'rithmetlc 's much as she
wanted me to."
"You wanted to!" sniffed the elder
boy, contemptuously.
"Yea, I did want to."
"You might as well not have wanfed
to. You didn't want to enough."
The Mlnnte.
0, the little minutes O the minute, ev
ery one,
Are the tiny steps that I go climbing with
the sun ;
Up the stairways of the day, we glancing,
dancing go,
And I'm happy climbing with the little
minutes, 0.
0, the little minutes but they're big
enough to find
Step by step I climb them, till I leave a
day behind.
They're the easy steps upon the stairways
of the day,
Guiding, leading, through the lovely gold
en lands of play.
Frank Walcott Ilutt
Sed-Carrrtng Blrda.
It Is almost beyond belief how birds
tarry the seeds of plants from one
country to another, and even from one
continent to another. Darwin says
that he found on the feet of ducks and
geese killed in England the seeds of
plants peculiar to Central Africa. More
specifically, he found In six grains of
dirt removed from the feet of a plover
three different kinds of seeds. Cattle
carry seeds on their feet too. It Is said
that a man In New York, by means of
the microscope, found the seeds of six
kinds of weeds and grasses In the mud
that a Texas steer brought on Its feet
from that far distant State. All this
may seem to have been accidental, but
students of nature attribute It to a
peat and overruling design. '
Cool Inptlnn.
The editor was sitting In a trolley
car the other day, when a nice-looking
man got in, accompanied by his wife
M bis bey. The boy waa set more
than eight or nine year eld. but ho
looked nnsually bright In fact he
had the air of being what is called a
"spoiled child." The mother found a
seat opposite to the editor, and as
there was room for one more beside
her, the boy sat down without cere
mony. This left the. father standing,
as there was no other seat vacant The
boy, with a look of Indescribable arch
ness and mischief, looked up at his fa
ther and said :
"Well, papa, you'll have to hang oil
to a strap, or sit In mamma's lap,
whichever you like." ,
In spite of the cool Impudence of the
youngster, everybody laughed, for It
was one of the most exquisite specl
mens of the kind ever seen In public.
POWER FROM THE WEND.
Sail Tjaed InoGerracfir to Generate
EleetrlcUr.
The utilization of wind power for the
generation of electricity continues to re
ceive attention in Germany, and we
learn from the Electrotechnische Zelt
schrlft that Herr Gustave Couz, the
electrical manufacturer In Hamburg,
has been experimenting in this direc
tion with promising results. A wind
motor has been erected at the works of
the company in question which has
a diameter of 40 feet and an effective
sail surface of 1,470 square feet The
motor works at the rate of about elev
en revolutions per minute, which speed
Is regulated by automatic modification
of the direction of the sails to the
wind, with this motor an output of 1
horse-power to 80-horse-power and
more may be obtained, according to the
force of the wind, which power Is trans
mitted to a 80 horse-power shunt-wind,
Ironclad dynamo, designed to give "120
amperes at 100 volts terminal pressure
when running at 700 revolutions per
minute. .
The current generated by this ma
chine la conducted to a switchboard
and thence to a battery of accumulat
ors having a capacity of 66,000 watt
hours, or may be delivered to electro
motors. So soon as the wind has at
tained a velocity of 8 feet per second
the dynamo may be brought up to Its
full terminal pressure. With an In
creasing wind force the charging of the
battery may be commenced. Automat
ic cut-outs for the dynamo were proved
unnecessary with the arrangement
adopted. The eletro-magnets of the
dynamo are permanently excited by the
battery, the plus pole being connected
with the battery, while the negative
pole Is connected to the charging
switch. By this arrangement automat
ic regulation of the dynamo voltage Is
secured. An automatic battery-dis
charging switch serves to maintain the
line of tension of 110 volts constant
both during the charging process and
when discharging.
Small motors are conected to th
lighting circuits, but larger ones are
supplied by separate circuits branched
off from the terminals of the generator.
CHICKEN-HEARTED MEN.
Every On of Group Dreaded to Hear
of Some Iajurjr,
"I could hear the bone in his wrist
snap," said a man who was describing
an accident to a group of men.
"Oh, cut It out for heaven's sake!"
called out one of the group. He was a
big fellow, but he was as white as a
sheet
The speaker laughed Jeerlngly. "x
didn't know you were so chicken heart
ed," he said. .
The big man began to explain. "I'm
not what you would call a timid sort
of person, but the mention of any In
jury to the wrist always turns me
faint. I can stand seeing blood flow
or hear thrilling tales of broken limbe
and smashed heads, but I can't stand
any wrist stories. I don't know the
reason. It seems to be merely a mat
ter of temperament."
A quiet little man came to the res
cue. "I know Just what you mean,"
he said. "You're not the only one whe
has a peculiar aversion to a certain
sort of injury. Now, my particulai
aversion Is on account of trouble wltb
the eyes. Immediately I begin to blink
and wink and my eyes smart until 1
can't stand It I'd rather hear an ac
count of a brutal murder than any de
scription of an eye disease."
The man who had Jeered at the big
man had been thinking. "I have one
of those aversions, too, now I come tc
think of It," he said. "It Is accounts
of paralytic shocks, to which I particu
larly object. I feel myself growing
numb all over when I hear such tales,
and I always make an excuse to get
away as soon as possible."
His remark was a signal for a uni
versal confession.,. One acknowledged
that the sight of blood gave him a sen
sation of extreme nausea ; another said
that reading or hearing of a fracture
of the skull gave him "a gone feeling
at his stomach," and another said he
shivered so his teeth chattered every
time he heard an account of an opera
tion for appendicitis.
The big man was triumphant "Well,
I'm not such a big baby after all," ho
said. New York Tribune,
The Owe Sheridaaa.
Richard Brlnsley Butler Sheridan,
the great Irishman, was all his life
long In dire straits for money, and
when he died in 1816 the bailiffs were
actually in possession of his bouse.
Sheridan's forbears had been O'Sher
ldans. "Why," ssked on one occasion his
little son "why have we not the O'
as well as theyT
"Heaven, only knows," was the fath
er's reply. "We ought to hare It, for
we owe everybody." v
The religion of the average man la
spasmeWH
"lie's engaged to a widow." "now
did he meet her?" "He did not meet
her. She overtook him." Philadelphia
Inquirer.
"When a bird can sing and won't "
"Yes?" "It isn't half the trouble as
a bird that can't sing and will." Bal
timore American.
"One woman," remarked the mere
man, "Is Just as good as another If
not better." "And one man," rejoined
the fair widow, "Is just as bad as an
other If not worse." Chicago News.
"Where have you been, Sam?" "I'se
been up to ma two ears jn work, sah."
"Up to your two ears In work?" "Yes,
sah." -"'What doing, Sam?" "Eatin
a watahmellion, sah I" Yonkers States
man. Tommy Ma, baby is naughty, He
cried because I wouldn't give him any
of my cake." Mamma Is his own cake
finished? Tommy Yes, ma; and he
cried while I was eating that, tool
Punch. "Don't I give you all the money you
need?" her husband complained. "Yes,"
she replied, "but you told me before
we were married that you -would give
me all I wanted." Chicago Record
Herald. "You seem to find that book very in
teresting," said Mrs,. Henpeck. "Yes,"
replied Henry, "It's delightful I've
glanced at the ending, and the hero and
heroine don't get married after all."
Washington Herald.
Miss Kreech Some authorities be
lieve that the practice of singing will
keep a person from getting consump
tion. Mr Knox. Yes, but most au
thorities believe in "the greatest good
to the greatest number." Philadelphia
Press.
Rural Citizen (to son engaged In
strange exercises) Jabez, what In tar
nation be yer tryln' t' do? His Son
It's that thar correspondence school,
dad. I got a letter from the sopho
mores yestlddy tellln' me to haze
ni'self. Puck.
"Who Is this fellow Rush you spoke
of?" "Oh, he's a well-known chauf
feur." "A well-known chauffeur?"
"That's what I said!" "Why, I never
heard of him." "Well, you would if
you were a court clerk like I am !"
Yonkers' Statesman.
"Gracious! my dear," said' the first
society belle, "I do hope you're not 111 ;
you look so much older to-night" "I'm
quite well, thank you, dear," replied the
other, "and you how wonderfully Im
proved you are! You look positively
young." Philadelphia Press.
Casual Caller (to one next him) I
was Introduced to that squint-eyed,( red
haired woman over there as Mrs. Some
body or other. Don't you think the
man was an Idiot that married her?
Next One (meekly) I can't just say.
I'm the man. Baltimore American.
"You enjoy going to the theater?"
"Yes," answered Mr. Meekton. "But
you don't care much for musical
plays?" "No. What I enjoy Is to take
Henrietta where there is a whole lot
of conversation going on In which she
ant say a word." New York Tribune.
"Tomklns has got more nerve than
any man I ever met." "What now?"
"lie came over to my place yesterday
to borrow my gun, saying that he want
ed to kill a dog that kept him awake'
nights." "Well, what of It?" "It was
my dog he killed." Milwaukee Senti
nel. "Does your honor wish to charge the
Jury?" asked the legal light, when all
the evidence was In. "No, I guess
not," replied the Judge. "I never
charge .'em anything. These fellows
don't know much, any way, an I let 'em
have all they can make." Harper's
Weekly.
"Do you think," asked the sweet
girl's mother, "that Mr. WHklns Is se
rious?" "Serious? Ma, he's worse
than that He stayed here till nearly
12 o'clock last night, and any one who
had studied his face might has thought
he was sitting up with a corpse." en
cago Record-Herald.
Father I wish you'd invite- that
young man of yours up here to-morrow
night Daughter (surprised at the re
quest) Why, father, I thought you
said you had no use. for him? Father
So I did, last summer. But to-morrow
I'm going to put up the stove. Detroit
Free Press.
"What does your father do to earn
his living?" asked a New York princi
pal of a pupil who was being admitted.
"Please, ma'am, he doesn't live with
us ; mamma supports me." "Well then,
how does your mother earn her living?"
"She gets paid for staying away from
papa," replied the child, artlessly.
Harper's Weekly.
The Scholar.
Dr. Evans, a witty member Of the
Parliament at Melbourne, was an old
man, and the other members Jokingly
spoke of him as belonging to the era
'of Queen Anne.
Once, while making a speech, he re
ferred to Queen Anne and was greeted
with cries of "Did you know herr
"What was she like?"
"Yes, sir," retorted the doctor, "I
did know her. The scholar is contem
porary with all time."
No person, man or woman, who cant
look on the bright side should ever be
permitted to enter the marriage statai
STREET CAR ST03Y.
box of Candy Waa Bag of PPPr
and It Dropped.
ne boarded a Troost avenue car at
5:30 o'clock last night with, a paper
package under his arm and sat down
with an acquaintance, according to the
Kansas City Times.
"Same old story,, eh?" said "the ac
quaintance, -glancing at the package.
"Four order clerks call at the door
every morning and two telephones In
the house, but your wife calls you up
Just as you're leaving the office and
.wants you to bring home "
I "Oh, no, not at all," broke In the
bearer of the package, hastily. "I got
over that years ago. They can't ring
me In for a packhorse at my age. I'm
too old a bird. This or this little
package Is a box of candy for my
daughter. I er I wrap it up this way
to fool her, that's all."
He tucked the package closer under
his arm and became absorbed in bis
newspaper.
The vestibule was crowded when he
started to leave the car at 2Cth street
As he squeezed his way through to the
steps the "candy" was Jostled from un
der his arm and fell to the floor.
"Ker-chooJ" This from the conduct
or, as he grabbed his nose.
The crowd in the vestibule decided
the conductor's act was admirable and
worthy of emulation. "Ker-choo, ker
choo!" they said. Then everybody In
the car took it up. "Ker-choo, ker
choo!" was the watchword.
Two young women who had been dis
cussing lit-er-a-toor (In four syllables)
cut it out and reached for their hand
kerchiefs. "Ker-choo!" they both said
(In two syllables), with the "ch" sound
retained.
"Ker-choo ! Pepper !" gasped the con
ductor, as he kicked the bag Into the
6treet and gave the motormau two bells.
JaWING CAPITOL GROUNDS.
It has always been a problem how to
keep the capitol lawns at an even
height, and it was thought to be solved
in the purchase of a steam mower;
however, it toolt from a week to ten
L. ' ll ! I .. i . - LlllA . ji
. !i '.-a
r- - t- : mawaim 1.4... JmMHi..1 . w
iPrrmsT.
: liiilil:;;.:!:.;)!!,.
AN ELECTRIO UOWKB Ar W OBK
days to cut the lawns. ;The new mo
tor mower, which has a 20-h. p. gaso
line engine, is quite rapid, being equal
to the efforts of fifteen to twenty men
with lawn mowers. Its wheelB roll as
well as cut the grass. .
Queer Position of Hearta.
There Is one curious fact which no
everybody notices about the common, ;
finger-long, green caterpiljars of our )
larger moths. Their hearts, Instead ol
being in front, are at the back of the
body and extend along the entire
length of the animal. One can see bo
heart distinctly through the thin eikin
n rr nnn earn foil Ito dlnw Kan f ' W'h
starts at the tail and moves forward
to the head. Hearts of this sort reach
ing from head to tail are not at all un
common in tne simpler creatures, xno
earthworm has one, and so have most
worms, caterpillars and other crawl
ing things. Hearts in the middle of tho
back also are quite as frequent as
those In what seems to us to be tho ;
uuiurui uiace. lunuv nuiuiuis, we iuu- .
ster for example, and the crayfish and
the crab, which have short hearts like ,
those of the beasts and birds, never-
I lit J i-3 nil c luciu yiav.vu ju.il uuua
the shell in what, in ourselves, would '
be the small of the back. St. Nicholaa
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Striving and Falling. ,
Life Is not designed to minister to
a man's vanity, lie goes upon his long
business most of the time with a hang- ,
Ing head, and all the time like a blind .
as It Is so that to. see the day break, '
or the moon rise, or to meet a friend, or
to bear the dinner call when he is
hungry, fills him with surprising joys
this world Is yet for him no" abiding j
city. Friendships fall through, health !
falls, weariness assails bim ; year after
year he must thumb the hardly varying ;
record of his own weakness and folly. ";'
It is a friendly process of detachment
When the time comes that he should
go, there need be few Illusions left
about himself. "Here lies one who -meant
well, tried a little, failed much"
surely that may be his epitaph, of
which he need not be ashamed. Robert
Loots Stevenson (1830-1894).
Very Trae.
"Here, you !" growled the cranky
man In the reading room, "you've been
anoring horribly."
"Ugh! hey!" gurgled the drowsy one.
"If you only kept your mouth shut."
went on the cranky one, "you wouldn't
make so much noise."
"Neither would you," replied the oth
er. Catholic Standard and Times. .
- Ifs a sure sign of age to feel tired
after a picnic
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