Published by Roanoke Publishing Co. "FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH." W. FLKTCHER AUSBOIT, EDITOR. C. V. W. AUSBOIT, BUSINESS MANAGER. VOL.111. PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1892. NO. 47. CONSECRATION. Though Pate my ow,Tname had decfeel Imperishable, , high enrolled, The human heart is one indeed. -My own heart's throbbing life hath told; v T u " ueart oeats rree ana bold; J o thee, O-sorrowing world, I'll live, . Jfk tb,laurel-leaf and gold I aH isthxao I have to give! ThoughJPjove with measuraieM rich mee J ot &iht and warmth my life enfold, CouTj l forget thy bitter need. y world, whose unbiased lips are cold Poor world, like unkinged Lear of old, Ca.n Love thy shameful state retrieve, Thysdaufchter's heart shall nourhfc with hold! ' AD, all is thine I have to give! OraceE.Channing.in Youth's Companion tt LEGAL MORTGAGE. ST. MAr.I B. SLEIGHT. . O douht the place is yours by good rights, ain't it, Jason?" The woman that asked this question, though P a s t Ber rirl- -sSTbood, was stilt young, and there jvw hen Jason rSands, in the in jif atuation of youth, had thought her nret- tj; but her mouth to day had a shrewish . fcoak, and there was a vindictive soap in fcer small black eyes. Her, hair was twisted so tightly . that the wind was powerless to ruffle it, and in her starched calico gown and gingham apron there -was a grim tidiness unrelieved by collar or ribbon. She had been to the garden, Kind she held in her hand a stalk of rhu bard, from which she was pulling in a " preoccupied way the silk red peel. "Oh, I've got a sort -of a lien on it, but that ain't ownin' it,", Eaid the man, without looking up. He was raking the front yard. "You hoi', the mortgage, d&i't you?" said the woman, biting off a bit of the rhubarb j 'S'pose,rT do?" . "Why, the int'res' ain't b'en paid for ' three Tears'. You know that thout my tellin' you." . . . "Well?" said tbe man, indifferently, r "WelU" repeated W wife; sharply, "howlong you goin'to let it run on so?" . 1 .Jason stopped raking, and looked at ner, uneasily. "You- don't mean. Mi- randy, that you want me to foreclose on my own father and mother?" "Why not? Business is business, re lation or no relation: an' if you did that. the place'd bo ours to do as we please ? . , WHO. ' ; , r, I am t so sure about that. It's down in black an' white that, whether the int'res is paid or not, father's al'ays to have a, home here. Uncle Richard use' to hoi the mortgage; an' when he died. some five or six years ago, father got me to taKe it, so s it wouldn t go out o' the family; but 'tain't ever be'n changed." i ; "Then 'twas made out 'for he married agin?" said Miranda. "Well, what o that?" "Nuthin'i only in that case she ain't , counted in. An sh ain't your mother, ' any way." ; -. ( "ones the only mother I ever knew anything about,' Mirandy. She's be'n a mother to me ever since I was three year ol' a right-down good one, too; an' as for her not bein' counted in, she's jus' as much rigtt here a if she was; .'cause after father gpjt hurt in the brickkiln, there was , a good many years that he wasn't able to do much, an all that time ehe kep' the inures' paid up out of her own pocket. Uncle Kichard tol' me so. " . Miranda, who' 'had stood nervously nibbling the rhubarb stalk, made haste to change her 'tactics. "Ob, of course, Jason, I'd al'ays : expect you to be good to her. But you know yourself 'tain't very pleasant bavin . two heads to a house; an' so -long as Mother Sands thinks she owns it all, I dasn't say a word-even if everything goes to rack an' ' ruin. Besides', "she's" gittin' too ol' to have the care." .. .. , v . r Jason listened .with a. sort of helpless patience. He-.--was - an : easy-tempered man, ready to yield almost any point for the sake of peace,, and his wife was well ; aware of his weakness. It was to please her that he bad sold his farm; and though at the time he fully intended to buy another, before he could decide on one Bne : naa persuaaea mm to take a place that had been offeredliim by a city . friend as drummer in a wholesale grocery store. : It was a business that seemed to her much more "genteel" than farming. Meanwhile he had accepted his mother's invitation to bring his family home for a visit. "Jus' Jill I can get time to look up a house,"' be said. But Miranda had always coveted the pretty cottage, and before they had been in it a ' week she had de termined. to get possession of it. Jason had never told ; her of the mortgage. V Knowing that the place would eventually belong to him, be had not been troubled by the fact that tae interest was not always promptly paid ; neither did he want the bid folks trqubled, and it vexed him that Mir.inda had chanced to find the papers. But her reasoning in regard to the housekeeping seemed very plausable. His mother was past seventy, it was time she had a rest, and she could hare it as Veil as noU if she would only consent to let "Mirandy" take charge of things for a while. "I wish you'd ppeak to her 'bout it," said Miranda. "She'd be a good deal more likely to do it if you perposed it 'an if I did." , Jason did not covet the task, but he knew the penalty of refusing. "She's in the kitchen," Miranda re marked, with another nibble at the rhubarb stalk. "No hurry about it," grumbled Jason. But presently, with an air of forced sur render, he laid , down his rake aud went into the house. lie found his mother making bread..,, . , ; "You see, mother, you'ro gettin' kinder along in years," he argued, "an' you'd ought to let somebody else do the heft of the work. Why don't you let Mirandy, long as she's here? She's a firs'-rate housekeeper, au' she'd rutber do it 'an not." 4 The little old lady lifted her head with a troubled look. "Why, I shouldn't know what to do with myself, Jason, if I hadn't something to keep me busy. I've al'ays be'n the' to it," you know. But," she added,' drawing in her lip, and slowly patting the loaf she was knead ing, "if Mirandy wants to take a turn at it for a while, she can. I won't hiuder her." ' The daughter-in-law accepted ' this concession with secret triumph, aact she so soon managed to get entire control of the kitchen that the deposed housewife, missing the homely cares that for so many years had occupied, her hands and thoughts, would have been in a sad strait had it not been for tbe children. "I loves gramma," said little Delia one day, as she mounted her grandmoth er's knee, i r "Me do,, too," chimed the baby, clambering up beside her sister. "Makes me think, flesba," said her husband, a . sudden mist dimming his glasses, "of the times you use' to sit holdin' Jany an' Ruth." Hesba's eyes also grew misty, for there were two little graves in the far corner of the garden ; but the prattling children on her lap left her no time for reminis cence. ' ' "Do put 'em down, an' let 'em 'muse 'emselvss. You coddle 'em too much," fretted Miranda. "Oh, I like to have 'em 'round me," said IIe3ba. , But Miranda frowned. "They're git tia' 'mos' as bad as Jason," she com plained to herself. "They think there's nobody like that ol' woman." Jason's new business often took; him from home for weeks at a time, and it was while he was off on one of these expeditions that Miranda improved the opportunity to carry out a long cher ished project. "Seems to me, gran'ma," ehe began, warily, having ioinea her mother-in-law in the sitting room, armed with her knitting work, "you re lookin kinder peaked. If I's you, I'd take a little trip somewheres. Jason says you've got a brother livin' oer in Connecticut. 1 should think it 'd be nice for you to go an visit him. Why don't you, now?" "Well, I don' know. I never was much of a ' ban to go visitin," said Hesba, as unsuspicious as a baby . "And though I don't doubt brother William 'd be glad to see us; he's got such a family of his own, I should feel as if we's iinposin on him." "Might as well impose on bim as on folks that's no relation to you." And Miranda's needles clicked viciously. Hesba.. looked at her in wonder. "What do you mean, Mirandy. I didn't know's I was imposin' on anybody." -. "I don' know what else ycu can call it," said Miranda, with merciless delibtra tion. 't'You know well enough that' the int'res' on the mortgage 'ain't be'n paid for years, an' Jason could turn you out to-morrer if he wanted to." "Turn us out V repeated Hesba. "Oh no, Mirandy, . he couldn't do that, 'cause father's to have a home here as long as he lives; lie's got that down in writin'l" "Yea; but you an' father's two dif ferent persons. Your name ain't put down on the paper, an' I's on'y say in' what we could do if we wanted to. But I'm expectin' comp'ny from the city next week, 'twould obleege me coneid'rable if you'd jus' go ovej to your brother's an' stay a. spell, 'cause while you's away father could. sleep on the cot in the hall bedroom."'- "Go an'" leave father! Is that what you mean," Mirandy?" "; "It.waa pitnul to see how wnite and tremulous she grew.5 "Why, you wouldn t want to take him with you when your brother's got such a family already? What'd be the use?" said Miranda. She was very willing to have the old man stay; she dependil on him to bring all the wood and water. Hesba tjmed to the window to catch her breath. Outside, gray clouds were lowering, and spiteful gusts were .sending little coveys of brown leaves scurrying through the air. But Hesba saw only the tall gaunt figure in the potato patch, and throwing a shawl over her head she hurried out. The old man dropped his hoe and went to meet her. "If you go, Hesba, I go too, you can depend on that," h said hotly, when she had told, her trouble. But after talking it over, they decided that unless Miranda herself brought up the subject they would ' not mention it again. Perhapa before the week was out Jason would be home. And bv-and-by Miranda, "who had taken Hesba's place at the window, saw them coming up from the potato patch hand in hand, the oln man walking very erect, his hoe across his shoulder, and the little -old wife clinging to him like a child. "I s'pose they think they've got it all settled," muttered the woman; "but, we'll see." Two days later a letter came to Hesba from her brother. "She'a ben a wrltin1 to him," blurted the old man, clinching his fist. Hesba took no notice of the remark. "He says," she began, following the lines slowly with her dim eyes, "that he'd like vory much to have a visit from me, aa' he hopes I'll come right away, 'fore cold weather sets in. But he's 'fraid I'll have to put up with sleepin' with one o' the children, they're so short o' room." 'Then o' course that puts an end to father's goin," said Miranda, coming in noiselessly from the kitchen, the door having been lett ajar. I "An' to her goin', too, I guess," an swered the old man. "Oh, you shouldn't say that, father," said Miranda. "It '11 be & real nico lit tle trip for her, and do her lots o' good." :: The old man scowled, and : thumped the floor with his cane. "She ain't go in to stir a step, sot with my consent," he cried, angrily. 'Sh-sh, father," whisper his wife. "Don't let's have any words about it." Miranda put her apron to bet 'eyes. "I'm Bure I don't want to have no words," she whimpered. Hesba stood up with her hand on her husband's shoulder. "We won't say anything more, Mirandy. I'll go to William's as Boon as I can get my things ready, an' stay till your company's gone." Miranda walked out of the room with out answering. She had , gained the day, and there was nothing more to be said, but she still held her apron to her eyes. ' ' The old people bad seldom been sepa rated even for a day, and during the time that intervened they would sit, hand in hand, by the hour, trying for lornly to find some way of escape from Miranda's plan. . "It's no use,' father," sighed Hesba. "She's made up her mind to have me go, an' to go 'fore Jason comes home, an' she won't res' till she gets me out o' the house." . "Well, she'll repent it," said the old man, shaking his head. "Don't, father," entreated his wife. "'Tain't for us to make her repent it." It was hot until the time came to say good-by that the children began to com prehend that she was going away. "Gramma mustn't do," cried little Delia, clinging to Hesba's skirts, and then the baby set up a wail, and refused to be comforted. Hesba strained the little creatures for a moment to her bosom. "I don't want any harm to come to you, Mirandy," she said, turning to her daughter-in-law, "but I can't help fearin' that separatin father an' me as you're doin, the Lord may see fit to separate you from some o' them you love." That was her farewell word. When Jason came home the following week, it was an easyinatter for Miranda to make him believe that his mother had gone of her own free will to visit her brother, the old man, obedient to his wife's entreaty, keeping silent. She took much credit to herself for having man aged it so well. Her visiters came and went, but she said not a word about Hesba's coming home. Not even the old man's pleading eyes could move her. One morning in November, while Mi randa was busy in the kitchen, little Nan wandered into the yard, and amused her self for half an hour chasing the chick ens. The ground was covered with slush, and that night the child was seized with diphtheria. For three days the lay tossing and moaning,and almost the only words that passed her lips wera, "Gamine! I ont gamma. Baby can t have gran ma. Gran ma s gone," said Miranda. "Mummer's here .. But she was not skilful at nursing. Nan grew rapidly worse, still moaning for "-ramma;" and death came with the suddenness characteristic of the disease. Jasou reached home the day before the, funeral. He was almost heart broken. "You'd ought to sent for mother," he said at once. "I don't know what for," Miranda protested, in an injured voice. "The doctor an' me did everything that could be done, an there wouldn t be any earthly use sendin' for her now." A day or two later little Delia, came and leaned against her knee as she sat sewing. "I want my gramma," said the child, with a long-drawn sigh. I want ber to tell me stories." "Delie seems to think she hoi's a mort gage on mother," said the old man ; "an I guess it s legaler an trie one some other folks hoi'." v Miranda winced, but she was too wise to make him any answer. "Go to gran' pa,V fche said to Delia. "He'll tell you 'bout Jack the Giant-killer." 1 "I doesn't want to hear 'bout Jack 'e Giant-killer," said the child, perversely. "Gramma she tolled me stories 'bout little chillen love one anuver, Her grandfather took ber on his knee. "That was said for grown-up folks as well as for little children," he remarked, looking furtively at Miranda, "an' it means that everybody ought to be lovin' an' kind to each other." " Gramma was lovin an kind," said Delia. Tbe old roan laid his cheek against hers, but he drew back with a startled fac. . "Why, Mirandy, this child's sick!" he exclaimed. "She's got a ragin fever." Miranda threw down her sewing, and snatched the child away from him. Celia was her idol. "I want gramma," repeated the little one, drowsily. Just then Jason came in. "Go telegraph for mother," cried Miranda. "Tell her not to wait for anything." When the doctor came the next after noon, he found his little patient nestled in Hesba's lap, while close beside them, his chin on his cane, and his face beam ing like a lover's, sat the old man. "Ah, she is better," said the doctor. "She is getting on finely." "We're all better," piped the old man, blinking behind his glasses. "We've gotour gramma back," said the child, contentedly. -Harper 'a. Bazar. SELECT SIFTINGS. Arabs never eat catfish. ' Arsenic is extensively used in making ice cream. The pendulum was first attached to the clock in 1658 by Huygner. India has a priest who is drawing' a pension and is in his 152d year. The "heaviest" woman in Europe has just died in Bavaria. She weighed 550 pounds. The number of Government employes in all department is' said to be about 150,000. The Burmese, Karens, Hangere and Ghans use lead and silver in bullion for currency. ' A man in Sydney, New South Wales, has $250,000 invested in city property, all of which was made out of pigs. Hundreds of fish are still alive in the royal aquarium in St. Petersburg, Rus sia, that were placed there more than 150 years ago. Carriages were first introduced in Eng land in 1380 and were for a long time used only for the conveyance of the sick and of ladies. ; A fall caused the heart of Mrs. Ann Barr, of Vincennes, Ind., to shift from the left to the right side. This is tbe opinion of her physicians. A young woman in Philadelphia, Penn., is said to be able to address let ters faster than anybody alive. She can moisten with her tongue and affix 3000 stamps an hour. . - Should a man in China be unfortunate enough to save the life of another from drowning, he is at once saddled with the expense of supporting the survivor for the remainder of that person's life. 'John W. , Wise, a grandson of John Wise, a miser who lived in Kansas and died without revealing his hoard, found $35,000 while digging a foundation for a house, also a will leaving him all the property. A Kings City (Col.) man recently, after a severe illness, entirely forgot the combination' of bis safe. None of his clerks knew it, and after a long delay he was finally obliged to send to a distance for a man who had been formerly in his employ to open the safe. Det Lunn is the name applied to Heli goland by the natives of that island. It is a small island in the North Sea, about thirty-six miles northwest of the mouth of the Elbe, fifty-four degrees eleven minutes north latitude and seven degrees fifty-one minutes east longitude. A local reporter on the Chico (Cal.) Chronicle-Recoidl got into trouble by making a wrong heading over a marriage notice. The groom's name was Avery and the bride was a Miss Small. The , heading was set up "A Very Small Wed ding." The groom, who is a muscular young rancher, is now looking for the reporter, who is absent from home on a vacation. A blacksmith in Belfast, Me., relates that forty years ago, when he was an apprentice, his employer bought a super annuated horse for fifty cents, ordered him to shoe the animal, and sold it, with its four new shoes, for seventy-five cents. The appi entice was so incensed at having his work valued at only twenty-five cents that he took : an oath then and there never to shoe another horse, and he never has, although he has been in the black smith business ever since. The Bongo people of Africa have an iron currency having the shape ofta spade, with a handle and an anchor-like end to it. This they call loggo colluti. The largest iron coin circulating there is of size and shape ot a large plate, being one foot in diameter. These treasures are piled up in the warerooms of native merchants just as the silver or gold bars in other lauds. For ten iron platea of two pounds weight each the love-lorn Bongo swain-buys his inamorata of her papa. When he can't get ten of such iron plates he has to be satisfied with, an elderly beauty. A Novel House Stove. One of the most recent novelties is a house stove introduced in England. Tbe grate is swung on trunnions and . can be reversed. After fresh coal has been added at the top, the reversal is made, and the green coal is thus brought to the bottom in an easy manner, to answer tbe purpose in question, namely, the gases from the coal, passing upward by means of this arrangement, through tho red portion of the fire, previously at the bottom, are almost consumed before reaching the chimney. Brooklyn Citi zen. ' '..' The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's San day Sermon. , Subject: " Religion's Refuge." Tkxt : "A aoodly cedar, and under it ahall dwell all fowl of every wing."Eio kiel xvii., 23. The cedar of Lebanon 'is a royal tree. It stands six thousand feeet above the level of the sea. A missionary eounted the concen tric circles and found one tree thirty-five hundred years old long rooted, broad branches, all the year in luxuriant foliage. The same branches that bens in the hurri cane that David saw sweeping over Leb anon, rock to-day over the bead of the American traveler. This monarch of the forest, with its leafy fingers, plucks the hon ors of a thousand years and sprinkles them upon its own uplitted brow, as though some great halleln jah of heaven had been, planted upon Lebanon andtt were rising up with all Its long armed strength to take hold of the hills whence it came. , Oh, what a fine piaoe for birds to nest in I In hot days tbey come thither-the eagle, the dove, the swallow, the sparrow and the raven. .There is to many of as a complete fascination in the structure and habits of birds. They seem not more of earth than heaven ever vacillating between the two. No wonder that 'Audubon, with his gun, tramped through all of the American for ests in search of new specimens. Geologists have spent years in finding the track of a bird's claw in the new red sandstone There is enough of God's architecture in a snipe's bill or a grouse's foot to confound all tbe Universities. Musicians have, with clefs and bars tried to catch the sound of the nirhtin. Kale and robin . Among the first things that a child notices is s swallow at the eaves, and grandfather ' goes out with a handful of crumbs to feed the snow birds. The Bible is full of ornithological allu sions. Tbe birds of the Bible are not dead and stuffed, like those of the museum, but living birds, with fluttering wings and plu mage. "Behold the fowls of the air," says Christ. "Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among tbe stars, thence will I bring thee down," exclaims Obadiah. "Gavest Thou the goodly wings unto the peacock f says Job. David describes his desolation by saying, "I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert; I watch and am as a sparrow alone upon the housetop." Yea, the stork in , the heaven knoweth her ap pointed time; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe tbe time of their coming; but my people know not the judg ment ot the Lord" so says Jeremiah. Ezekiel in my text intimates that Christ Is tbe cedar, and the people from all quar ters are the birds that iodce among the branches. "It shall be a goodly cedar, and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing." As in Ezekiel's time, so now Christ is a goodly cedar, and to Him are flying all kinds of people young and old, rich and poor, men high soaring as the eagle, those fierce as the raven, and those gentle as the dove. "All fowl of every wing." First, the young may come. Of the eigh teen hundred and ninety -two years that have passed sines Christ came, about six-' teen hundred have been wasted by the good in misdirected efforts. Until Robert Raikes came there was no organized effort for sav ing the young. ' We spend all our strength trying to bend old trees, when a little pree ure would have been sufficient for the sap ling. We let men go down to the very bot tom of sin before we try to lift them up. It is a great deal easier to keep a train on the track than to get it on when it is on. Tbe experienced reinsman checks the fiery , steed at the first jump, for when he gets in full swing, the swift hoofs clicking fire from the pavement and the bit between his teeth, his momentum is irresistible. It is said that the young must be allowed to sow their "wild oats." I have noticed that those who sow their wild oats seldom try to raise any other kind of crop. There are two opposite destinies. If you are going to heaven, you had better take the straight road, and not try to go to Boston by way ot New Orleans, what is to be the history of this multitude of young people around me to-day t I will take you by the hand and show you a glorious sjmrise. I .will not whine about this thing, nor groan about it, but come, young men aud ma 'dens, Jesus wants you. His hand is love.Hia voice is music, His smile is heaven. Religion will put no handcuffs on your wrist, no hopples on yourfeet, no brand on your forehead. I went through the heaviest snowstorm I have ever known to see a dying girl. Her cheek on the pillow was white as the snow on the casement . Her large, round eye had not lost any of its luster. Loved ones stood all around the bed trying to bold ber back. Her mother could not give her up, and one nearer to her than either father or mother was frantic with grief. I eaid: "Fanny, how do vou feeir "Oh f" she said, "happy, nappy! "Mr. Talmage, tell -all the younz folks that religion will make them happy." ; As I came out of the room, louder than all the sobs and wailing of grief, I heard the clear, sweet, glad voice of the dying girl, "Good night; we shall meet again on the other side of the river." The next Sabbath we buried her. We brought white flowers and laid them on the coffin. There was in ail that crowded church but one really happy and delighted face, and that was the face of Fanny. Oh, I wish that now my Lord J esus would go tbrougb this audience and take all these flowers of youth and garland them on I His brow. The cedar is a fit refuge for birds !of brightest plumage and swiftest wiug. 'See, they fly 1 they fly I "All fowl of every .wing." Again, I remark that the old may come. You say, "Suppose a man has to go on crutches; suppose he is blind; suppose he is deaf; suppose that nine-tenths or his life bas been wasted." Then I answer: Come with crutches. Come, old men, blind and deaf, come to Jesus. If you would sweep your hand around before your blind eves, the first thing you wonld touch would be the cross. It is hard for an aged man or woman to have grown old without religion. There taste is gone. The peach and the grape have lost their flavor. They say that somehow fruit does not taste as it used to. Their bearing gets defective, and they miss a great deal that is said in their presence, - Their friends have all gone and everybody seems so strange. The world seems to go away from them and they are left all alone. They bein to feel in the way when you come into tbe room where they are, and they move their chair nervously and say, "I hope I am not in the way." Alas! that father and mother should ever be in the way. When you were sick and they sat up all night rock in? you, singing to you, administering to you, did they think that you were irr the way? Are you tired of. the old peopie? Do you soap them up quick and sharp? You wilt be cursed to the bone for your ingrati tude and uokiodness! ' Oh, how many dear old folks Jesus has put to sleep! How sweetly He has closed their eyes! How gently folded their arms I How He has put His hand on their silent hearts and said: "Rest now, tired pilgrim. It is all over. The tear will never 6tart again. Hush! hush!" So He gives His be loved sleep. I think the moat beautiful ob ject ou earth is an old Christian the hair I white, not with the frosts of winter, but th blossoms of the tree of life. I never feel sorry for a Christian old man. Why feel sorry for those upon whom the glories of tbe eternal world are about to burst? They are going to the goodly cedar. Though I f . 1 . . " J .L - 11 iceir wings are uoavjr wita gv, uruu tnau renew their strength like the ea?le. and ttev hall make their nest in the cedar. "Ail fowl of every wing." - Again, tbe very bad, the outrageously sinful, may come. Men talk of the grace of God as though it were so many yards long and so many yards deep. People point to the dying thief as an encouragement to the sinner. Mow much better it would be to point to our own cas3 aud say, "If God saved us He can save anybody." There may bo those hers who never bad one earnest word said to them about their souls. . Consider me as putting my hand on your shoulder 1 lw,,. i mnnf mtra ftvl hna HaaTI CTfwi to you. xeni ask, "How do . you know, that? He bas. been .very hard nn me." . "Where did you come from?" "Home." "Then you have a home. Have you ever thanked God for your home? Have you ? children?' '.'Yesr "Have you ever thanked God for your children? Who keeps them safe? Were you ever sickr" "Yes." " W ho-, made you well? Have you been feed every day? Who feeds you? Put your band on your pulse. Who makes it throb?, . listen. . to the respiration of your lungs. TTho helps yod to breathe? Have you a Bible in the IU1U 11WHii.J , .u .v.". vjv, v - nouse, spreading ueiui e wo mnu. Who gave you that Bible?" Oh, it has been a story of goodness and mercy all the way through . You have been one of God's pet children. Who fondled you and caressed you and lov ed you? And when . you went astray and wanted to come back, did He ever refuse? I know of a father who, after his son came back the fourth time, said, "No; I forgave you three times, but I wiU never forgive you again." And the son went off and died. Bat God takes back His children the thousandth time as cheer fully as the first. As easily as with my ' handkerchief I strike the dust off a book, God will wipe out all your sins. Again, all the dying will find their nit in this goodly cedar. It is cruel to destroy a bird's nest, but death does not hesitate to destroy one. There was a beautiful nest in the next street. Lovingly the parents brooded over it. There were two or thrne little robins in the nest. The scarlet fever thrust its bands into the nest, and tbe birds ., are gone. Only those are safe who have ... their nests in the goodly cedar. They have over them "the feathers of the Almighty." Oh, to have those soft, war or, eternal wings stretched over us 1 Let the storms beat and the branches of the cedar toss on the wind -no danger. When a storm comes, you can see the birds flying to the woods. Kre the storm of death comes down, let ns fly to tbe goodly cedar. .... made up. There come men who once were hard and cruel and desperate in wickedness, yet now, soft and changed by grace, they come into glory, "All fowl of every wing." And here they come, the children who were reared'Jn loving home circles flocking tbrougb the gates of life, "All fowl of every wing." These are white and came from northern homes; these were black and ascended from southern plantations ; these were copper colored and went up from Indian reserva, "tions "All fowl of every wing." So God gathers them up. it is astonishing now easy it is for a good soul to enter heaven. A prominent businessman in Philadelphia went home one afternoon, lay down on the Innnra unti iniri . "It in time for me to irn. He was very aged. His daughter said to him, "Are you sick?" He said: "No; but it is time for me to go. Have John put it in : two of the morning papers, that my friends may know that I am gone. Good-by;" and ,' as quick as that God had taken him. It is easy to go when the time comes. . There are no ropes thrown out to pull us ashore; there are no ladders let down to pull , us up. Christ comes and takes us by the" hand and says. "You have had enough of this mnM lln hitrhAr " Do vou hnrt a lilv when you pluck it? Is there any rudeness when Jesus touches the cheek, and the red , rose ot health whitens Into the lily of im- moral purity and gladness? When autumn comes and the giant of the woods smites his anvil and the leafy sparks fly on the autumnal gale, then there will be thousands of birds gathering in the tree at the corner of the field, just before departing to warmer climes, and they will call ana sing until the branches drop with the melody. There Is a better clime for us, and by and by we shall migrate. We gather in the branches of the goodlv cedar, in prep-, aration for departure. You heard our . Voices in the opening song; you will hear them in the closing eong voices good, voices , bad, voices happy, distressful "All fowl of every wing. OJ suu uy buou ire nuuo. . If all this audience is saved, as I hope they will be, I see them entering into life. Soma . have had it hard; some have had if easy. ; Some were brilliant; some were dull. Some f were rocked by pious parentage; others have had their infantile cheeks scalded with the tears of woe. Some crawled, as it were, into the kingdom on ttieir hands and knees,' and some see tried to enter in chariots of flaming fire. Those fell from s ship's mast; these . were crushed in a mining disaster. They are God's singing birds now. No gun of. huntsman shall shoot them down. They, gather on the trees of life and fold their wings on the branches, and far away from frosts and winds and night they sing un til the hills are flooded with joy, and the skies , drop music, and the arches of pearl send back the echoes "All fowl of every wing." Behold the saints, belovel of God, . Washed are their robes la Jesas't blood. Brigt-ter than angels, lo! tbey shine, Through tribulation great they came: Tbey bore tbe cross and scorned tbe shame; Now. In the heavenly temple bleat; With Ood they dwelt; on Htm they reat. While everlasting angels roll , Eternal lovs ahall feaat their soul. " ' And aeenea ot bust, forever new Siae In succession to their view. i Street Here bants. ' It is a noticeable fact that street merchants, better known as "fakirs," are steadily increasing in number, not onlj in the large cities but in the smaller towns. The terra "fakir," by the way, with . its suggestion of' knavery, Is a most unfortunate desig nation for this class of men, a large proportion of whom are reputable and honest men, doing a perfectly legiti mate business. : Many of them have become identified with certai n loca tions, and are known and respected by all the business men in the neigh borhootl. But it must be admitted that a good manyof the venders are frauds of the first water, who do only a fake business. And this suggests an etymological question. Why do we call such men "fakirs," when wc really ought to call them "fakers," that is men who 'fake?" The -fakir' , of the Orient is a religions ascetic or begging monk.Kew York Tribune.

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