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This Fearful Dissase.
tion of a humor in the blood of terrible
Eczema which in more than skin-deup, and can not be reached by local appli
cation of oinrmenu, nlves, etc., applied to the surface. The disease itself,
tl.e rcnl cause of the trouble, is in the blood, although all suffering is produced
through the skin ; the only way to reach tho disease, therefore, is through
the blood. 6
Mr. Phil T. Jones, of Miiersville, Ind., writes:
"1 had Eczema thirty years, and after a great deal
of treatment my leg was no raw and sore that it gave me
constant pain. It finally broke into a running sore, and
began to sprend and grow worse. For tho past five or
six years I hnve suffered untold agony and had given up
ell hope of ever being free from the disease, as I have
been treated by Bonie of the best physicians and have
taken many blood medicines, all in Tain. With little
f.itl; '.'it J U'zan to take- S. S. 8., and it apparently
i.'.jn'.e : the Eciemt worse, but I knew that this was the
v-iiy the remedy got rid of the poison. Continuing
S. ! SJ., the mre healed up entirely, the skin becami
clear .;:u .'month, end I was cured perfectly."
Eczema is an obstinate disease and
only a tonic. Swift's tfpeeitic
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much attention ii often Daid tu tha
flrit symptoms u( Edema, but it ii not lung
before the little redness begins to itch and
burn. This is hut the beginning, and will
to suffering and torture almost unen
durable. It ia a common mistake to regard
a rtnihiif h and redness of the akin as
merely a local irritation ; it ia but an indica
can not be cured by a remedy which ii
THE BLOOD
W. W.KAY.
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Lips, Wines,
CROCERIES AND CICARS.
Why not cull on W. W. Kav. as he it
open both night and day. Keep the fol
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"Old Oscar Pepper,"
(lump's 0. P. R. Hye.
Stamp Straight,"
"(jotdon llaltiinorc Kyo"
and other brands
I sell O.irrett & Co.'s pure Chocko
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I keep (he best of every thing in my
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west side H R. Shed.
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The Little Blind Boy.
A TOUCHING INCIDENT.
Til K I.ITTI.K FKI.I.OW S MtSlC llltnl'IIIIT
TEAIIHTO THE t.YKS OF Al.l. TUB
I'A.SKENUKUS.
An incident of a peculiarly tuuchin
character occurred yesterday in one of the
elevated lailroad trains, (hat brought tears
to the 1 yes i f the passenucn The train
hadj'ist left One llunil ednnd Tweuly
filih si reel when the passeneis saw en
u rinj; 1 lie car a iiulu l)-y about six jearx
old, half cairied by an older buy, evident
ly his broi her. Ii .th were well dressed,
but at first glance it was seen that the
little iillow was blind. (Ic haJ a pale,
waD face, but was MniliiiL'. A quick
look of sjmpatliy passed over I he face uf
the passt ngers, aod an u!d gray-baired
gentleiuau got up aud gave his seat to
the two. The "I ig brother," who was
a'uiiit eleven )ear. old, t uderly lifted up
the link' blind b )' and placed him on his
kO'U.
"lluw's thai ? ' he a.-ked.
"Nice," said the litilc el.ap. "Where's
uiy uiHiih'a .
'I his puzz'ud Mime of the passengers,
and several turned to see what the child
meant. lint I he "big bruiher" knew,
and immediately drew out a small mouth
liirmonica and plaoed it in the little
fellow's bands. The little fellow took
the instrument iulo his thin hands, ran it
acruss bis lips, aud begiu to play Bnftly,
"Nean r my li.id, to Thee." Tears came
into the ejes of the old gentleman wl o
h id given up his seat, and as the little
fellow played on, ruuuiug iuto the "Rock
of Ages" and "Abide with Mc," there
were many moist eyes in the car.
The train rushed along, the passengers
listeued, and the little fellow played on
tirelessly, never missing a note of "Annie
autie" or "Home, Sweet Home.''
Finally the "big brother" leaned down
and told the little cue to uct ready lo
cave, as the train was Hearing their
station, linn, as it he knew he had
won a whule carload of fiieods, the li'lle
blind boy ijuickly changed "The Suw.ince
River" into "Auld Ling Syne," and with
one accord I he iia-isegers burst into a
round of applause, while the "big
bruiher" carried the little one out of the
ci'. New York Tillies.
7 It IF Li: .SLOW.
Fir-t American Laugh, ami the
world laughs with yuu.
Second American All but ill
;lisliman, Life.
Kn-
If the blood in sufficient quail
tity lt-aves tlir body because uf
wound or hemorrhage of thx
lung the icsult Is death.
Ufe depend on the blood
bt-caune the blood carries to all
part of the body the nutritive
elements necessary to sustain it.
What if these nutritive ele
ments are absent ?
What if they are supplanted
by poisonous, effete matter and
disease germs ?
The first result is disease par
tial de.it h The final result in the
same as from loss of blood.
All disease is traceable to im
purity or weakness of the blood
and that i the reasun
" l.oltKo Mvdical Discovery "
cures so many different diseases
it purifies and vitalises the
blood makes it rich, red and
healthyfills it with nutriment
for the starving nerves and
tissues.
Consumption Is properly a dis
ease of the blood so is scrofula
so is rheumatism. They look
like different diseases but one
medicine will relieve alt three.
" 1 am using a good many of your
medianes in my practice," writes
lr tteph Fike, of Lost Springs,
Marion Co.. Kansas "Ten yeain
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ffcttfil with that dreadful disrase;
scrofula. Her mouih antt ihnmt
were In an awful condition anl
there were lumtiton thrtHilM.le be
low the Jaw the site of a hen's egg.
Other donor aaid ft win fatal cs
1 felt om h.t en t that none of my
remedies would benefit hr any It
came to my mind that lr I'lerre a
C.oloVn Medical IHaeovery wat rev
ommended for such caws, ao I gave
it to her aa directed Five hotdrs
cured her and the ia well ten la v.
She is marrirtl now and baa three
healthy children."
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WZSTIDERE RS.
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Wliut minlit have Ixeu ! Dear heart, we'll
put it by,
Weure too brave U) murmur yon anil I.
Like tlioiihtteHa children we have lost
the way;
If we had been lew blind wecoulit not ntrav
Into a tangled wildertletu like this,
Where is the pleasant pathway that we
miss?
We cannot all retrace the steps that led
t's fnnn the broad, smooth walks where,
overhead,
The elm IhhiuIis arched mid birds haiik
blithe and clear,
And Uitted (invly by. The night falls,
dear;
The stars are softlv gleaming in the sky
Their light may tell us where the home-
ways lie.
This path is narrow We must walk alone.
O love, your strong hand's touch ujion my
own,
The dauntless trust I read in your dear
eyes
I sorely need. My life's hope circle lies
Within that light. But here we must not
stay.
Lead on--lmt call back through the dark,
I pray.
The Lost Jewel.
HOW IT CAME BACK.
A SOFT LITTLE KNOCK ON THE PANELS
Ok' THE HOOK A KH EST ED Ilia ATTEN
TION JUST AS HE WAS ABOUT TO COM
MIT SUICIDE.
Huw did such a great rouh monster as
I am come to marry a delicate liltle J ii-v
of a French gitl like Pearl Trillaru?
Well, it is tjuite a story.
I had just come home from a two
years' sojourn in the diamond fields ol
1'ort Natal. All the diamonds that ever
flittered in the valley of Siodbad the
Sailor would not make such a place as
that endurable. I hadn't any home to
speak of, and yet I was homesick the
whule time I was at Port Natal.
At first I had no gieat luck to speak
ot. The fields wora crowded wild seek
ers as eager and persistent as myself, und
after four or five months I bcun to feel
almost like despairing.
Hut I resulveo to stay on, aud il was
well that I did, for on Friday, May 17,
H70, I found a great stone that looked
like a rough, dirt iDcrusied pebble at
first, but the second glance told uie
it was a diaiuuod such as is found only
once iu years.
Silently I dropped it into my pocket
and strode off h omcward, slouching list
lessly along, as I always did.
'Hello!" cried a wiry little Cape Cod
man, "Uenslcya played out, Why,
Dcoslcy, it ain't noou yet by tie heat
chronometer in Uostou."
"I don't care," said I. "I am going
home."
"Shaw! I thought you had more
pluck. Faint heart never won big dia
mond yet. Don't give it up, man."
Bui I weut back to the colony, won
dering thai they did not hear tho con
fused beating of my heart, which seemed
to fill ihc tropical silence with a noise
like a reveille.
When t was alone, i drew oul the
great stone an 1 feasted my eyes ou ils
proportion". I d;in vd sang, in short.
I had been seeking it a score of yean. I
had louud il at last.
Well, I said nothing of mjf discovery
and oaiu' Imuk 10 (be slates, with ill'
diamond in little leather sack stitched
on the waist of (he flinnel shirt I Wore
underneath the linen on '.
It seemed rather necessary (hat 1
should civiliz myself a little, ao I dropped
into the first furnishing store which lay
in my way.
The young girl b.'hiod the counter
truck my eye pleasantly, as a Sower or
asumei or a star sown sky might havi
done. She wis tall and slight, very pale
with gnat sltuoad shaped eyes, a mouth
like scarlet c r il, and an abundance ol
dead black hair that seemed to weigh
her head down with ils heavy duskiness.
I Was clu usy and did uot know what
I waotel. I'earl Trillard did. She told
me plainly whit was necessary and wlui
iu not. So bought my uj 111 and
paid fur it and weut b imj with a part
under my arm the rest was to be sent
borne with Teari s biack aim ml stupe i
orbs still haunting iu ',
It wis January, and a fire In I j'l.l
been lighled on the bt-.rlh of the roiai
bid engaged.
I sat down in ft out ol il when supper
was over and took out my pocketbmk
to ihe iooer ooiupartuient uf which,
since my arrival ia port, I had Irsnsfened
the little obauioia leather sack which held
my fortune :o have a luik at th' prec
ious stone.
There was no sack there.
I searched through and through the
faded leather Saps of the wora pxielj
book.
1 shook out the skirts of my coat'
even got down oo my knees lo search
the A wr beneath, but the dutnonJ and
its receptacle were gone.
For i minute or two it seemed as if
the whole room was ia a whirl around
me. My heart stopped pulsing, my
blood grew ohill and a deadly sickness
stole through my whole being.
The diamood ithe dum m l for whieh
1 h 1 toiled sod striven and waited anil
I cannot falter if your voice's tone
But reach me for thai very sound alone
Would warm my heart though it wire
chill in death.
And stir mil blood and make me catch my
lit eat h-
tiivering In balance between joy and
pain,
Lest chonls so tensely sweet sound not
again.
l-o I will follow on the path o'ergrowu,
Through darkness, dear, iuto the way un
known; I 11 in i iil 1 11 1 of the th in.s that prick and
sting
The rough, uncertain footing everything
But ol your presence, dear though never
more We see the home-light through the open
diHir.
At last I At last ! how we have blundered,
dear,
Not dreaming that the right way lay so
near '.
How good to he together good to see
The gracious glow that waits for you and
me;
Though we aro late yet all life's glad
maybe
Is ours. Before us, fear's gray shadows
flee.
suffered the diatuoud, it was g me.
I believe I was for the moment iusaur.
I rose and staggered blindly toward the
pistol which I always carried in ll.e
breast pocket of my outer coat, wiih
soiiio vague idea of putting an end to the
lile which had been such an utter failure.
When there came a soft little kmuk
on the panels of tho dior. I sunnose I
must have answered "Come in!" for ll.e
door was pushed open, and I'earl Trillard
stood there, with a little boy her broth
el, as I learned at her side.
"I found a little paper on the counter
this afternoon after you had left," she
said. " 1 here is on v a Hi e eh !!ir Kli.no
in it, but"
Aud then so Pearl so subsenuentlv
told me I fell like a log to the floor.
She nursed me through the fever that
followed. There was do one elan to dn
it, and but for her care I never should
have been alive to tell this story.
And she fully believed that a part of
my fevered faith was the faith that ihe
"little stone," as she called it, was a dia
mond.
It was uot until after our marriage
that she saw it, cut and polished und
glittering as if a thousand spliutered
ruinbows were prisoned in its sparkling
facets, I myself, who was used to dia
monds, scarcely recoguiajd the radiant
jewel, and I'earl uttered a cry of rap
turous admiration.
Aud the money for which that solitaire
sold bought me this western farm, and
that's bow it all happened Kxchaoge.
HIMOVlCIt kll'TV VUAHS
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for over fifty years by millions of
mothers (or children, while toothing, with
perfect success. It soothes tho child,
soliens the gums, allays all pain, cures
wind colic, and is the best remedy tor
Diarrhoea. It will relieve the poor liltle
sufferer immediately. Sold by druggists
in every part of the world. 25 cents a
bottle, lie sure and ask for "Mrs. Wins
low's Soothing Syrup," aod take no oth
er kind
MANY AM) FEW.
' Uncle Jim, what's the difference In
tween a politician and a statesman?"
"A politician is a man who can talk,
and a slatckiuan is a man who van hold
bis t.itiL'ue." Chicago Kecnrd.
Why were, 25.000 BOTTLES OF ItOB
EUTS' TASTELESS Hoc. CHILL TOXIC
sold the first year of its birth ? Answer :
Because it Is tho BEST AT ANY PltlCE,
guarantood u cure, money refuuded if It
(alia, pleasant to take, 2,'h) per bottle. It
Is sold and guaranteed by
W. L Cohen. Druggist,' - Weldon, N C
.1. N Brown, haliiai.; Jackson IrugCo.,
.lacksiiii
STKICTI.Y HOVKST.
"So you tlnok he is strictly honest,
do you? '
" There isn't the least doubt ab nit it.
Kvery time -i elect i m approaches ho is
ti'kcd of as ihe onfy man who oould
iiuiie ihe ill If rent factions of his psity.
and lb n s imebody else is nominated."
Chicago News.
iiik m;r l'Ki: kipiion
For el. ills and fever is a bottle of Grove's
Tasteless ('bid Tonic. Never fails to
cur., why iben experijient with worthless
imiiaii .us? Trice 3D cuts. Vour money
back if il fails to cure. For sale by W.
M. Cohen, Wcld.,0., N. C.
TIIOl'GIITFl'L.
Mrs. V mng uau's husband was always
so consi leraie of hei."
"I know it. Why just before he died
he n i icsied her not to put on mourning
ior nitu, an oecause neknew black was
ao hard on her complexion, 1'hila.del
phia Bulletin,.
ll.HK COI. II IN OM G I) IV
Take I.n.iiive Bromo Quinine Tablets.
All diiiiigisls refund money if ils fails to
cure. 25e. The genuine has L B. Q.
on each tablet. For sale by W. M. Cohen
Druggist, Weldon, N. C.
OABTORIA.
stalls
Christian Growth.
A FUNDAMENTAL LAW.
"UK SHALL HE I.IK K TH E TIIKE PLANTED
IIY THE ItlVEHS Of WATElt, THAT
HIIINdETII KOIITH II IS Htl IT IN SEA
SON." firowtbis a lutidauicutal law which
permeates every part of God's creation.
W hen we see a tree which docs not grow
we promptly conclude that there is some
thing wrong with it. And au iiamiua
lion usually reveals ihe fact that there is
something wrung with it at the heart.
And so it is said of the Christian, ' He
shall be like Ihe Iree planted by the
rivers of water, that bringelb forth bis
fruit in hii season; his leal'a'so shall not
wither; aud whatsoever he doelh shah
prosper."
The livuleis far up the mountain side
join others as ihey go rippling down,
and soon they grow into a creek, and
then into ihe nvcr, growing broader aud
deeper as it wends ils way ouwaid, but
it bee nues broadest and deepest at the
point where it is ready to empty iu the
great sea. This is but oue of ualure's
impressive pictures of the genuioe Chris
tian life. True, there are those whose
lives are like the rivers of South Africa,
which, proceeding from the mountain
freshets, are broad and deep at the be
ginning, but grow narrower and shallower
as they advauee. They arc simply ab
sorbed iu ibe sand. Tho farther they
run the less there is uf them, until they
are lutt from si 'hi. But this is not the
figure oft he "life bid with Christ in
liud " But like the rivulet growiug in
deplb aud power in its ouward sweep,
giving life aud vitality to all about il, ao
the Christian life, constantly filling up
from (rod's fouutuin of grace and love,
is accumulative iu ils Christian graces
aud potency for the glory of God, "till
we all come iu uuily of the faith, aud of
the kuowledge of the Son of God, unto a
perfect man, unto the measure of the
stature of the fulluess of Christ."
TKY YOI U WINGS.
A friend of miue, who told me the
story, bad au eagle. He caught it wheu
il was young, and had brought it up, us
far us he could, like a dnucsiio fowl.
Having, iu God's provideuee, lo go to
the other side of the world, be was
selling etf everything He wondered
what be should do with his eagle, aod
the happy thought came to him that he
Would u.it give il to anybody, but Would
give it back tu iiself be would set it
free. And he thuu opened the place io
which it had been kept, und brought it
to the back greeu. How be was aston
ished ! It walked about, feeling as if
this were rather bigger than its ordinary
run; but ibat was all. lie was disap
pointed, and, taking the big bird in his
arms, he lifted it aud set it up oo bis
garden wall. It tut nod aod looked down
at him! The sun hud been obscured be
hind a cloud; but just then the cloud
passed away, uud the bright, warm beums
poured out. The eagle lifted ils eyes,
aud pulled itself up. I wonder what it
wasthiuking? Can an eagle recollect
the crags and cliffs, the reveling ia the
tempests of long ago, the joyous thunder
ing and ibe flashing lightnings? l'ull
iug itself up, it lilted one wing and
slieiehtd it cui "by prayer and suppli
cation" aud it lilted, the olher wing
"with thauksgiviu "and outstretched
it. Then it gave a scream, and s on was
a vauUhing speck away in the blue
heavens. Anxious, disturbed Christian,
you are an eagle living in an old hen
bouse ! Try your wings !
Till: CYNICAL It.VC'UKI.Oll.
People who marry at leisure olien re
pent in baatc
Il ibe average woman could be born
a widow she wouldu't get ui .rriid
By the lime a mau really knows en
ough to get married bethinks he knows
enough not to
At twenty a man marries for love; at
ihiiiy he uiarnes lor ujuuey; at forty he
marries tu have som 'body to take care of
his linen; at filly he marries because he
doesn't know what else to do; at sixty he
marries booause he is a fool.
HUTKAYKI).
She Why haven't you told me that
you,had been married?
He Who said I was married?
She I cau tell by the way you take
all the umbrella for you,rsclf. Indianap
olis Journal.
A tact, points Heavenward when it
means most mischief. It has many hu
man imitators.
Proof of the pudding Ilea In the eating
of IL Prw.f of ROBERTS' TA8TELES8
CHILL TONIC Ilea In the taking of IL
COST JiOTUlNO U U falat to oure. 85
veuts per bottle If It curea. Bold strictly
on Its merit by
W. M. Cohen, Druggist, . Weldon, N. C,
i. N. Brown, Halifax; Jackson Drag Co.
Jackson, N. C.
The Minfl Cure.
A PERPLEXING QUESTION.
WHETHER THIS COOK IS A WAG
MIND-CURE CONVERT.
OR A
"I don't stipposo my wife would be
happy unless she had some sort of a fad
to occupy her mind," said the man who
was telling the story. "Her latest is
mind cure.
"She picked it up at some lecture she
atteuded the olher day, and wiih the zeal
of a new convert she started to convert
the whole neighborhood to her way of
thinking.
"She literally filled the house with
books upon the subject, and having at
last flooded the entire neighborhood she
started in to convert Mary, our cook.
"Hour after hour she labared with
our commander of the kitchen. She
read extracts from books and propounded
her theories until the poor girl's head
must have ached.
"She even lent the girl her best bon
net on the promise that she would attend
a lecture to be held on the subject, a
promise by the way that the cook failed
to keep, as I saw her promenading with
ber bow when she was supposed to be
at the lecture.
"The climax came the other morning
at the breakfast table, when a steak was
placed oo the table that would have dis
graced a third-rate boatding house. It
was burned to a cinder and as tough as a
piece of flint.
"My wife's eyes snapped when she
saw it, und with a sharp ring of the bell
she summoned the cook.
" 'Mary,' she demanded, when the
cook stood before her, 'what do you mean
by placing such an example of Hottentot
cooking before us?'
" 'Why, mum,' exclaimed Mary in
surprise, 'what is ihe matter?'
"'Matter!' snapped my wife, 'don't
you sec that that steak is burned to a
cinder ?'
" 'Well, mum,' answered Mary apolo
getically, 'I did lhi,.k when I look it
from the fire that it looked a little
burned, but when I thought of what you
said that everything was imagination,
and all that you had to do was to think
it was all right aod that would make it
all right; so I just said to myself that it
was all imagination about the steak be
ing butned, and let it go. All you've got
to do, mum, when you eat it is to think
it is an no in aod it will melt in your
mouth. Sure, mum, the new faith is a
blessing to a hardworking gurl.'
"My wife fell back with a gasp, and
Maty escaped to the hitcheo.
"I haven't quite made up my mind
whether Mary is a wag or whether she
is only a faithful convert to the mind
cure craze." New York World.
HANDLING A CIGAlt.
When you see a man grip a cigar be
tween his teeth and hold it fast, careless
of whether it burns or not, you can set
him down as an aggressive, calculating
and exacting, not to say canny, individ
ual.
If a man smokes a cigar deliberately
just enough to keep it lighted, aod de
lights io takiog it from his mouth and
watchiog the blue smoke from it curl up
ward, he is likely to be an easy-going
man, good-uatured and honest.
There is another fellow who smokes
intermittently, takes a puff aud then
rests and fumbles his cigar. He ia apt
to have little decision of charaoler aod to
to be easily affected by circumstance.
A man may be nervous and fumble bis
cigar good bit, and in this event he is a
would-be swell, vain and frivolous.
lie iuvariably tilts his cigar upward,
bile sensible, level-headed fellow will
hold it straight out from the mouth.
When you see a man chewing up an un
lighted cigar and twistiug it about he is
nervous, but ot great tenacity.
A man who cannot keep his cigar
alight has a whole-souled disposition, lie
has a lively nature, i a hail-lellow-well-
tnet, glib of toogue and usually a good
story idler.
HAKDLY.
"Consistency's a jewel."
"That's all right; but you can't work
u off on any girl instead of a diamond
ring." Chicago Record.
THE RIVALS.
Stealthily bis aroi stole around her
waist. She gave do sign of displeasure.
He murmured something in her dainty
ear. Her pretty blows oontraoted and
she bit her lovely lip. At last he had
roused the womanly spirit within her.
"Slop I"
It was a command, and he could but
obey her.
"Stop I Make Ibat waist nineteen
If that De Style girl can wear it ao shall
I, if I never take long breath again in
y life.
And the ladies tailor did at ibe had
bidden him.
Baarttka
Bifutan
llw liid fan Hm Mrt (ought
Beautiful Words To A Bride.
BIRTH. THE BRIDAL THE BURIAL.
FLOWERS SENT TO ADORN THE DYINQ
MOMENTS OK A SINOI.E LIFK.
The following beautiful letter was
wrilteu several years ago by I gentleman
to a biide on receiving her wedding cards:
"I am holding some pasteboard iu my
bands, Addie ! three stately pluekings
from ihe bush of ceremony I I am gat
ing upon a card aud a name a name
wiih which your life began, a name wiih
which your heart was lost.
" There is nothing slrunge about that
card. The maiden sign still looks up
from it, calm, customary as it looked on
many a formal basket I am gazing, too,
ou a card where the nearer parent tells
the world she will be -At home' one day,
and i lial is nothing new !
"But there is number card, whose
mingling ihere puts a tongue of fire into
ibis speechless pastebourd, enamelling
late on commou-place. It tells us Ibat
(ale is maturing iuto destiny, and that
these cards are but tho heralds of a com.
iug crisis, when a hand ibat has pressed
friends' hands, aud plucked flowers, shall
close dowo oo him to whom she shall be
friend and flower.
"I have sent you a few flowers tu
adorn the dying moments of your tingle
life. They are the gentlest types of
delicate and durable friendship. They
spring up by our side when others have
deserted it, aod they will be found watch
ing over our graves when those who
should cherish have forgotten us.
"It seems to me that a past, so calm
and pure us yours, should expire with
kindred sweetness about it; that flowers
and music, kind friends und earnest
words should consecrate the hour when a
sentiment is passing into a statement.
"The three great stages of our being
are the birth, the bridal, the burial. To
the first we bring only weakness, for
the latter we have nothing but dust 1 But
here, at the ultur, where life joins life,
the pair come tbrobbiog up to the holj
man whispering the deep promise tha
arms each with the other's heart, to
help on the life struggle of care aod duty.
"The beautiful will be there borrowing
new beauty from the scene. The gay
and the frivolous, they and their flounces,
will look solemn for once. And youtk
will come to gaze oo all its sacred
thoughts pant for;and age will totler tip
to bear the old words repeated that l
their own lives have given the charm.
"Some will weep over it as if it were
tomb, and some will laugh over it as if
it were a joke, but I wo must stand by it,
font is fate, not fun, Ibis everlasting
locking of their own lives t
"And now, can you, who have queened
it over so many bending forms, can you
tome down at last to the Irugal diet of
oue single heart?
"Hitherto you have been i clock, gir-
ing your time to the whole world I Mow
you are a watch, buried in one particular
bosom, warming only his breast, marking
only bis hours, aod ticking only to the
beat of his heart where time aod feel
ing shall be in unison, until these lower
ties are lost io that holy wedlock where
hearts are united around the Great
Central Heirl of all.
"Hoping that calm sunshine mar hal
low your clasped bands, I sink silently
into a signature."
HOW TO TUKN.
There are some flowers which alwayt
turn toward the sun. There wag a little
potted rose bush in a sick room which
I visited. It aat in the window. Ont
day I noticed that the one rose on the
bush iij looking toward the hVht. I
:(rt ,1 'i ii, and the tick womao said
that her daughter had Inrned the rose
around several liaes toward the dark Deal
of ibe room, but that each time the little
flower had twisted itself back, solil again
its face was toward Ihe light. It would
not look into the darkness. The rose
taught me a lesson never to allow my
elf lo look toward any gloom, but in
stantly to turn from ft, N?t ICCtSCCt
should we permit our eyes lo be ioolioed
toward anythiog sinful. To yield lo on
moment's sinful act is to defile the soul.
The Bible says in its every rerse, "Tur
from the wrong, Ibe base, the low, the
unworthy, to the right, the pure, th
noble, the god-like." W ihoald not
allow even an unholy thought lo stay
moment in our mind, but should lura
from its very first suggestion, with face
full toward Christ, the Holy Ooe. But
we should train ourselves to turn, also,
from all shadows aod discouragement!.
There is also a bright side, and we should
find it. Piseouragement is full of dan
ger. It weakens and hurts ibe life.
Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D.
IN A TAN OLE.
Tell me, do you like ibe color of my
hair?
Indeed I do. My dear madam, yow
oould not have made a belter ehoioe,
Fliegenda B'aetter.
Even i poor man may be riok Ugoo
work.
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