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TALKING TO OUR FATHER.
A Paretic Incident of tli8 Comfort of
Prayer.
RZJII2E THE FATHERH08D OF GOD.
(Youth's Corrvpanion.)
On the shore of Lake Superior
stands a little cottage, whitewashed
tiiii it is very white, wherein lies a
lumberman, dying of spinal tubercu
losis. His has been a life of labor and
hardship, cf exposure and accident,
for life in the North Woods is not
without its privations and perils.
In one of his mishapi he lost all his
left hand except the thumb; and the
storms and jolts of forest life have
given disease its fatal opportunity.
A rough man, but never dissipat
ed, he loved fcis home; and when he
could no longer work, he came back
to the shore of the great lake and
berran his hopeless fight.
Attended by his wife, and caressed
by his two small children, he grew
thhner and pales, but gentler also,
and more submissive, although life
looked inviting, and the helplessness
of disease meant defeat and humilia
tion and uncertainty.
Last summer his wife said to him
that she had heard there was a min
ister spending his vacation over on
the island.
"if you don't mind," she said,
"I'd like to have htm come and bap
tize the children."
The sick man consented, and the
minister was sent for. He came a
kindly, tactful, sympathetic man.
And first of all he said to them that
such an act as they proposed, what
ever it might come to mean to the
children in future years, could mean
little now, unless the father and
mother dedicated themselves, as well j
as their children, to the service of
God. To this they assented; for this
vrixs indeed what it meant to them;
and to the mother it meant the for
vkA acceptance by her husband of a
definite act of faith.
"L,et us pray," said the minister.
"You pray," said the father. "I
can't. I don't see the need of it."
"My friend," said the minister,
gently, "would it not be a pity if
these two children never came to
you just to tell you what their joys
and sorrows are, even though you
knew them already; and what their
wants are, even thouach you have
provided for them in advance?"
The sick man looked bewildered
for a moment, and his gaze turned
from the face of the minister to the
faces ol his two children, and he
said, "Mabe you're right. I hadn't
thaught of it just that way."
He covered his eyes with his stump
of a hand, and the tears crept out
while the minister prayed.
Before the pastor left, the sick
mnn said to him:
"Do you think that would be pray
er, just for me to lie here and tell
God hat He knows already how it
hurts, and all my disappointment,
and my anxiety for the future of
these children and my wife and
everything just to tell Him?"
"I think it would," said the minis
ter. "I think it would be prayer of
a very real kind."
The summer was near it end The
minister called but once more, and
then returned to his work in the
city. When he returns to the great
lake next summer the sick man will
not be there. But if the closing days
of pein find a little more of solace,
and the inevitable ending of a strong
life finds new strength near its close,
it will have been well that the lum
berman found his suggestion of the
value of prayer through his know
ledge of fatherhood.
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By Day.
(By Morgan Shepard.)
I wonder where the Days all go,
And what makes Other Days?
Some hurry by, and Some are slow,
But not One ever stays.
I wish I knew a way to keep
A long and Happy Day ;
But when I sleep they always creep
So silently away.
I'd like to keep a Day with me
The One that was the best ;
It would maybe just let me see
What happens to the rest.
If I could only hide behind
The Day I loved, and peek;
It would's mind if I should find
How Days can make a week.
And I would take him by the hand,
And he and I would go
To Sunrise Lands where Days all
Stand
Just waiting in a row.
And I would see the Hours grow
To make my dearest Day ;
And then I'd know why Some are
slow,
While others rush away.
ANOTHER USE OF COR.
Is the Field Prodiot to Furnish the Fa
tere Fuel?
From "What-to-Eat"
Thus it is seen that corn not enly
occupies a most important place in
the food supply of man and beast,
but it enters into the manufacture of
an enormous variety of useful com
mercial products.
And this is not all, for the indica
tions are that corn is to furnish the
future fuel of America, the fuel that
will give us our future light, power
and heat. Rapidly are our coal fields
and our forests being exhausted,
and when they are gone we must
turn to denatured alcohol, made
from corn to supply this greatest of
needs.
E. W. Wagner, an expert on the
subject, says: "Corn is the greatest,
readiest and best producer of alcohol
in the world. Alcohol is the best and
cheapest available source of ligh,
heat and motive power in the world.
Light, heat and power are the three
agents closest allied to the civiliza
tion, develpment and advancement
of the industrial world and the com
fortable existence of mankind."
Hon. James Wilson, Secretary of
Agriculturesays:
"It is becoming an interesting
question in what direction the peo
ple will turn for heating and light
ing, considering the increasing price
of coal and the diminishing supplies
of wood. An acre of land which
produces 50 bushels of corn, nearly
2800 pounds, will furnish 1960 pounds
of fermentable matter; that is, starch
and sugar together. Forty-five per
cent, of this will be obtained as ab
solute alcohol, namely 882 pounds.
A gallon of absolute alcohol weighs
6.8 pounds; therefore an acre of corn
would produce about 130 gallons of
absolute alcohol: Commercial alco
hol is about 95 per cent, pure, so
that aproximately an acre of Indian
corn producing 50 bushels would
make about 140 gallons of commer
cial alcohol.
"Our coal mines are difinite quan
tities and are being rapidly used up.
Our forests are disappearing and
many of them have disappeared.
The same is true of the source of
mineral oil and natural gas.
"It seems to me that through the
medium of alcohol agriculture can
furnish in the most convenient form
for the use of man this absolutely
necessary source of supply.'
Watched Fifteea Years.
"For fifteen years I have watched
the working of Bucklen's Arnica Salve ;
and it has never failed to cure any
sore, boil, ulcer or bum to which it
was applied. It has saved us many a
doctor dim,'- says A. ilardy, of East
Wilton, Maine. 25c. at E. T. White
head & Company's drug store.
Taft sounds mightily like graft
and graft spells "pie" among Morth
Carolina Republicanins. Look out
lor tne growling and snapping.
How Is YeuFDigeslion.
Mrs. Marv Dowlinc nf n 99S Rtv.
Ave., San Francisco, recommends a
remedy for stomach trouble. She says:
"Gratitude for the wonderful effect of
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best remedy on the market to-day.-'
This great tonic and alterative medi
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the blood and is especially helpful in all
forms of female weakness. 50c. at E.
T. Whitehead & Company's drug
store.
DRAWING AND HOLDING.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke Tells About a Lay
man Ke Knew.
ONE AGENCY DRAWS ANOTHES HOLDS.
(Selected.)
There is much unwise talk about
drawing preachers. We do not dis
parage the ability to draw a large
congregation. It is an art well worth
studying and acquiring. But it is
not right to lay the entire responsi
bility for drawing the community
into the church upon the preacher.
Has the church no duty in this case?
Are there not churches that can hold
the people when drawn there by the
minister? Are there not church
members who do more scattering
than drawing? We have known
leading members to drive away some
whom the minister had drawn to the
house of the Lord.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke tells about a
layman who came to his study, from
one of the churches in the Murray
Hill neighborhoods inquire about a
pastor to fill the vacant pulpit. He
asked Dr. Van Dyke if he could re
commend someone. The doctor told
him he could recommend a dozen.
The gentleman seemed surprised at
that, for he could hardly believe
there were a dozen ministers in the
land fit to minister to so important a
congregation. Dr. Van Dyke named
one after another; to each one the
preacher-hunter objected. One had
weak voice, another wore a black
car vat in the pulpit, another had a
disagreeable delivery. At last the
gentleman said, "We want in our
church a minister that will draw,"
"Oh, no my Chirstian friend, "said the
doctor, "what you want is a church
that will hold. You haven't got it.
Twenty congregations have passed
through your church because you
have not had a church that will hold.
You want a church that will hold the
people when they get to it. The
ministers cannot hold them. Sue
cess depends not half so much upon
the minister as upon you, the
church."
Every church member should be a
drawing card. By the magnetism of
his spiritual personality, by the effi
cacy of his prayers, by the power of
his sanctified effort, he should draw
the people from all classes to the
house of the Lord. Let your light
so shine that others may see your
good works and glorify your Father
which is in heaven." Then shall the
church of God prosper greatly and
Mount Zion shall rejoice.
rieasant, sure, easy, safe little liver
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It is stated that Taft may go to
Asheville to recuperate some months.
He will not find the air too Demo
cratic this year. Buncombe went
Republican. We prefer that Bun
combe have all the honored guests
rather than be afflicted with Repub
licanism.
Woman loves a clear, rosy complex
ion. Burdock Blood purifies the blood,
clears the skin, restores ruddy, sounds
health.
Don't let the election leave a bad
taste in your mouth. Forget it all
and do nobly your part in the great
battle for moral, educational and in
dustrial supremacy.
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"I have had seven years of proof
that Dr. King's New Discovery is the
best medicine to take for coughs and
colds and for every diseased condition
of throat, chest or lungs," says W. V.
Henry, of Tanama, Mo. The world
has had thirty-eight years of proof that
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remedy for coughs and colds, lagrippe,
asthma, hay fever, bronchitis, lierao.
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Rheumatism.
Backache.
Pain inchest.
Distress in
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Sleeplessness
Keep Up the Farm.
It is of the greatest importance
that we keep up the fertility of our
farms. No good farmer will try to
sell off everything produced on his
farm unless he purchases large quan
tities of fertilizer, because he knows
his land will become exhausted by so
doing. The farmer who sells off his
hay and other- crops, keeping little
cr no live stock and returning noth
ing to the soil, is pursuing a very
shortsighted course and will soon
find that his farm will produce noth
ing to sell because the soil has be
come exhausted.
Let Her Boom.
(Greensboro Record.)
"Now see business boom," cries
the Taft man. All right; we are
with you. We saw it go down un
der a Republican administration and
we are eager to see it go up again.
But it had as well be understood
that the man who has plenty of
money will get more, while the man
who has little will have less, and it
will always be this way until the
tariff is shorn of its robbery.
Badly Needed.
(News nd Observer.)
Mr. Taft promised that his election
meant ' 'return prosperity. ' ' Let her
come, Mr. Taft. It is badly needed.
The Roosevelt panic has seen most
cotton mills shut up and a lower
price of cotton. Now let the wheels
move and the price go up!
Know Biro Best.
(News and Obserrcr.)
Nebraska people know Bryan best.
The sweeping Democratic victory
there is much consolation to him and
to every man who voted, for the Ne
braskan. The tribute was largely a
personal one, more personal to Bry
an than political.
It is now in order for the "I-told-you-sos"
to surrender the floor.
WTho said build an opera house in
Scotland Neck? We can certainly
furnish an elegant location.
My dear "Hitchy": Please tell us
how much it cost you to "ware us to
a frazzle." Wasn't it rather fa
tiguing and "oxpensive"? Honest
now?
There's nothing so good for a sore
throat as Dr. Thomas' Eclectnc Oil
Cures it in a few hours. Relieves any
pain m any part.
rresiaent rtooseveir, declares we
have wore them to a frazzle." He
has certainly done this to the Con
stitution of the United States, and
should have said "worn it." News
and Observer.
Mind Your Business.
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of liver and bowel trouble if you take
Dr. King's New Life Bills. They keep
biliousness, malaria and jaundice out
of your system. 2oc. at E. T. White
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limited to return November 29th.
The greatest foot ball games of the
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. Gen. Pass. Agent.
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ly colored, very frequent in action, com
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