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a _ A CARPING ELDER BROTHER sic arlene Ready to T ake Every Advantage ey ~ Over His Fellow Men. Entered according to Lay ofthe Par- Jieinent of da, im year Une Thousand Pr ine Hundred and 'hree, by Wi. ety: of Droreato; at the Departinen of fs Aaricele ure, Ottawa.) A despatch fon. Chicago says: Rev. Frank De Witt Talmage preach- ed from the CHORE text: Luke xv, 28, "And he was ther? "y be: Ping the respectable heard work . nyd on the farm and then has. the i extreme pleasure of sceing all the |}? young girls run after. his dissolute younger brother merely becnuse that brother is driving fast and sowing his 'wild brother is the 'sober and yet receives se not extra dollar from his parents the aranben son angry.' Who was the prodigal's Ges ol bro- now, kn o ""T see On "amo if t piodder he | S€' that if his brother is back the returni which ey belongs give part of my rightful perty."' So the to let the them and will not allow received as equals in th house. 'They see or heir own their spiritual debase whl crowd him out of some He says himself: deiakes loafer of a boy. taken his wed allo t ng prodigal mm) THE FATHER'S FORGIVENESS. ortberé is that He has . one-half of the property; inheritance eat up th back, te be a vampire upon my pro- selfish clder brothers many of our large churches refuge prodigais come among them to be eir Father's m to think that the and outca anes agers nt. st sisters the ex-c¥mvicts that many a repen liberately living in no other way. The other day a person asked me what I considered the most beauti- ful sentence This found in the good father's dealings | | but with the he servant ~ the 00d father a peremptory command to his son to come to him at once, as he my answer : "It is not to be it had a righ > " = [ vant, be inte Mohs Uanaane ball: "He any old b soil will answer for favs Aa Sead ima err ok grr Went out into the darkness of the = caengie i iw ee. ee nash eee apc aap 'end. t Ast small ach . : . , eee te ee att saan "elie [tot cal 7. be preety peace | Rene cael Be found, iene ee as he answered in a pleading yearn- Ms core ae all means f meta te eens cg aise th ing voice, *'Son, thou art ever with The ideafjrst for the sitting hen | "0 ip ait ' hi = = d. "itt ; me, and all that [ have is thine.' sad crea flat that the eggs roll griginel eee ike ies th hard What is we winch we to say; "Me. © vecome chilled, and yet'| {@™™ ot for sale, the ore 5 t so co' that the eggs roll to.| Will ie a@ source ef profit to the far- Nearly every class of people. mist have their attention calied to buckwheat, about a. Hage ration, is hens to lay. added to the daily ra- 'y of exercise for the k will ensure fertile profit in the production of crops. yg 3 bload for. THE ORCHARD, secured this spring young bir ¥al next year may be purchase of eggs watch 'the row and judge of their Some pebple appear to think that tles that doe one or other of His titles, but it is a portrait so wonderful that one cannot fail to qeccenes the likeness The Lord can do no (Rom. vii, 18; John xv, 5). - thus bec we are born again and ome Exeter cai have the grea rupted roof-line in the Charles Herbert killed in a fight in the rae Tat Reigns Supreme in the Com- -* mercial Werld. is believed to t length of uniaser- kingdom. The King has conferred the Core- A. T. Pric- Chief Constable of FPorts- Wadsworth at Chelsea arising out of a quarrel started by a i cussion on knot-tying. The cold bath is somewhat going out of roped Few people, states a contemporary, now break the ise in their morning tub. William Money, an ged inmate, of Work-house, him- para- fin lamp, a butcher's shop was ce stroyed by fire and a woman burned to death at Ewell, Dover. reward, whi of he dcasteatle pharis- i rt) ot t ue ren G ' the farily os continually receiving | ie epirit. of "the elder brother be to do you any injustice. I shall not en weet ese vibe wien et ee SEE oa a . i th ata "the se So "tbe parish ehureh for the extra money te get-his eageee a Fa conspicuous ep uve away any of i itance. | to break mar ais papslias esses KRUGER'S WHIPPING. nah chariot please God" (Rom. viii) | prospero fishing season onl a of pawn, so that he may ha an-/ 5 me of your modern Sunday school/ All that I have is yours. What pe i other start in life. The "elder is the classes? "Oh," say the well drtssed | jong for is f the love and the Bhan nothing in it, but we Received = While oe in ee thak ine conus an ce seats number ol_fabermen..were Dre: 'good boy' upon 'whom the- mother | young girls of that class, "'you are| purity of my children. I want my \y old-fashioned ay outh Africa li ts 1 ney depends to help give his srsters new) hot roing to put that poor girl in/two boys to be always by my side. ching eggs wrapped in iba coun erieee eee ast ivi' sj hile cleaning the windows of the beam for, the winter parties tiour clas "Why, it will ruin the | Coie; iny child ; come back to your babstcenay TE _ Ae abee DONS |. Belween chiry énd"torty elephants iv, B, 16), Not hi tt 1 C od T.| Lom eee tiie Weta, mit a he never has a party given for Sian, |whole class! You can't expect the| father's love. Come back into the more it hei to maintain a uniform | five hippopotami and five lions have L lot oth Ore He. Ore Sepent | Cricklewood, Harry Watson, fell" a He nave had a fatted calf killed daughters ot millionaires to associ-/ old homestead which I have prepared Haye Ste to prevent the loss|fallen to the gun of Mr. Kruger, oft Cer. peor and contrast Gal. distance of sixty feet, and was ia- that he might entertain his friends, | ate wk sewing girls even in a Sun-/¢or you,' ' Oh, that answer to me ° hafed gt evaporati the former president of the South ii, 2 ; 10, Not I, but /stantly k killed ; though for years ne has cared for |day school'? Where can you find @) jg peautiful | That answer is the ast; e through the large! African Republic. He also killed | Christ who liveth in me ; Not} Lying whimpering on the breast the cattle by day and has seen that | mo: i 1 spirit |ewentest. gentlest, most loving and number o ues of poultry and | one rhinoceros, which he hunted in|J+ but the grace of God which wasjof an unknown whore body they were properly milked/at night. | than in the mivgionary life ef some vet anne pleading rebuke - ever weppite received at this office, | company his ee dete with me." |was found in a Swansea park, was a He is the 'good boy' who never had! of our large city churches? There are z ' reveals ct that there has and thereby hangs a talé, h Mr. gi e sufiereth long and is little dog, which could scarcely be » spoken iv the spe of any of the' a wonderf@ improv d Gait Shes kind ; 1 victh : ve a fine ring put on his finger many large and wealthy churches) oo ractors of the Bible. That is aly, e provement in recent) Kruger hus told in his Sey pub- | Sind ; love envicth not ; love vaunt-/| induced to leave its dead master. folks laughed at his horny fingers, that:are supporting missions in the . sa ff ecding tee woe Ss . years in literary form and in} jished '"'Memoirs."' The oung ed not itself, is not puffed up, doth Bedford has ared in the reeent which were knotted from handling|foul slums. of the city, yet whose Re: sty kG ten into Father' the amourgof information they im-| en had agreed that if either be-| Ot behave itself ] eeketh |orders for ugricultural implements the plow and wielding the hoe and) members would not for one instant oo a dé nestio akcard ais os "his part. haved recklessly or in a cowardly provoked, thinketh no evil. for South Africa. On tober 16th the ax. His fect were never mens-/allow the poor to sit in their own ae e and nestle | a. in his If yo uses are warm and manner ho should receive a sounc What a perfectly beautiful section|an order was received by Messrs. ured for dancing slippers because his|pews or kneel at their communion <p a ;; nl. f the birds #11 not have the roup,"| ip ashing from the other. With this, We have in these four verses, two of | Toward -- 5,000 sets of harrows. gundals were always soiled and dirt/tables, And, mark you, thfs phar- mt. ACerS Pee Tost: 1m ressive | writes a cire We ean not relimina: the hunt began, As) Which we have quoted. Such love} Mr. Uriah Duf, seventy-twe, begrimed. He was always working |isaical spirit of old is not only part cf the cl *r brother's history | endor without qual-| ? sid nde! vast evar mrade| Was never fully seen on earth except | late sergeant of the ed a, " $n the fields. The drunkards, the) found mong the rich, but also pr Dongs rat gy Rigas the ra gr most carefully guard- the 'lattes called. so zi "lin Christ Jests, and on ly as lie dan i Crimean vete has Praniaaces, a tiie LEED ere ot among the poor, -- xa ete gon aa ones No abane fea cata Spear ayia ere bos F 't dismount in front of the/fills and lives in us can re | died in af ya s onpital from Tea secmnanione are the ones Who,| he ae hee toa the repentant prodigal was able to/their vici pl this for the| beast ! She's awfully wild and can barter SD ee eo We bac -- sustained in a street - then they reform, have the smiles £8 tolenjoy the rest and the home plea- rs of careful poultry | *U" like anything.' eee | nt, ar an en bs athed eae ene rear 40 satisfy the divine cravings of his sures. of the father's house. ut| keepers anfnot for ee athes Kind, Mr. Kruger did not pay much aie or look or act unkind, never in any| Matthew Lewis, dealer, cf Merton, pps t os reine yee Sete or father's love. I. have no sympathy | how about that cynical, self satis- tention to the warnings knowing his | V8 jealous or self seeking, never | was bound over at the Old Bailey lave Guar done any wrong." dey some of-the excuses that are! fied and complaining elder brother ? brother-in-law to ather cau-|Under any circumstances rovoked on a charge of the mmnslaughter of m0 KINDS OF FAULTS. made for that prodigal son. I have | Did he osk forgiveness of his father? MAKING#. STRAWBERRY BED. | tious, but jumped on his horse (R.V.), ver thinking or saying his 11 months old child, whose skull : + mpathy with those who de | pid he co into the banquet -- whert sttavberry requires a deep, | Tan obliquely past the rhinoceros. jevil of anyone, rejoicing only he accidentally fractured with a But neither of athe brothers ie por-! clare that young men are led astray |the feast. was being celebrated 2? I|rich soil. --Prepare the ground thor-| "She had scarce caught sight of | things true and lovely and always broomstick in striking the mother. trayed as xample, Both ba iad be the far country of sin because|}dy not know. F cannot tell, The | oughly bef planting, as this me,'* writes Mr, Kruger, "before she | @tekly bearing, patiently enduring) Canon Henry William Haygarth, bad, though' in different ways j they have generous impulses and! paratle ends with the earnest plea /important best results. After | was in hot pursuit. I allowed her to end ever hoping for the best, with a jvicar of Wimbledon, is dead, at the easily see the faults of the vouinge® | atmoraial affections and therefore! of the father. We must take the rest | planting di sit let your cultivating ;*eme within a distance of three or firm faith in God. It is too alto-! age of eighty-four. During .his long brother ange en - Pee | cannot say no to the tempter. That|as we will. Personally I have * my |be with + object of keeping the|four yards. When I fired only the gether lovely to come from earth, | Vicari te he saw Wimbledon grow sacssbrey Tig NoNoreust rected ad prodigal was an ingrate, every" way | quutts about the salvation of that | weeds output cultivate to keep the/| percussion cap exploded, and there nd it is not of earth ; it is wholly | from a mere villuye to a town of byt Wifal conduct, are not, so cas sily | 5O" take him. Ho'. was ~@ sclduh, jelder brother, It is sometimes far | groum pse me age and the|was no time for a second trial, The| heavenly. It is a description of /44,000. He was an 'hon. canon of y Se he Sae hand contemptible, dissolute rake. No' gusier for the sinner down in the | Weeds will pave no chance to gain a imal was close upon me, and there Him who came down from heaven, | Rochester -on God's nee we-have to: ask. not Lone is large hearted who will take @/ ciiums to come to Christ than for | foothol setting the een do was nothing to do bu to turn| Who while he lived on earth for} Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., has isoued only what a man hen done, but att \friend 'to a saloen or open a bottle | ¢ he rich son living in a luxurious} Bot spread roots near the round and n for dear life. over thirty years was at-the same ja stat nt in respect to the nmum- he 46.) Modimese and: unbrothe Fines | Wine ata club when in order to palace. A ndon missionary was nor them into a wed, But "In attempting to do so, my foot time in heaven torn iii, ioe of|ber of unemployed at present im the and cruelty in the heart deface a do it he makes his own children go! one nicht called up to go to a dying | spread thg® out and allow them to/struck against some thorn rags and| Whom it is written, "Yea, He fs al-jcountry, whi e@ estimates at a man's character s inde ibly us| hungty and dress in rags. No gen-| mirl. This wayward child at the | Treach ght down into the il|d.came dow on The tagother lovely"(S. of Sol. v, 16). nimum of 500,000--"out of k - open iniquity. They make men, as | 7OU8 he rted young man wil 'time was living in a dissolute house, | @nd_ pri he Seen earth solid) beast was upon me. The deneirnee Love never fuileth, but whether |through no fault of their own.'* Christ said, like "whited sepulchers, = the far country 'of sin and sieste- | sis the missionary entered the | against . Fr It is a goo0d/horn just missed back. She ohare be prophesies: they shall fail ; A connected young Woman which indeed appear beautiful out- ossly' squander his anmopey when at! room, he found a sinful sister hold-! jpn to the 'lower -- of the| pinned me to the ground with -- her | Whether there be tongues they shall/named Hobbs, of Walthamstow, was ward, are within full of dead the sathe time he knows that his old ling in her arms the head of the dy-; befom Start | csnout, intending to trample me cense ; whether there be knowledge /at Newbury. c itted for trial, men's bones and of all uncleanness." = ther is Weeping at home, with his|jng girl, and she was saying : "Jen- new: cupping death. -But at that apctigas I turned | it shall vanish away. charged with cancealing the birth of Therefore 1 place my chief e:npnasis a fountain of vars : but, /nieit is all right. Put your love/ zy © under her, and got the tents of| He says: "'I _ the rd. her child, wh dead body was. upon the sinful life of the elder bro- thoug h that younger son was a sel-'and trust in Jesus. He d done by inesperienced | the second barrel mais fae onli change not" (Ma i, 6). He who found in a train at Reading. ther, to show:that the so-called sl _ "Geapicatle character, the elder|jast such sinful girls as we are blade, right into ber heart. says "'T will never leave thee nor| 'The Co-operative Society at 'Cowes Epectable sins of self righteousnes just as despicable, When the} Jennie, put your faith in Jesus titodes plant early) the rhinoceros e.g away from forsake thee" is t nly One w has issued a writ anion "The ure of all sins the mast to be read | elder brotker heard the music which! Christ." Yes, we can all feel nd cultivate | 6 put fell down dead a few yards aid, 'I have ee with 8n | 'Tradesman and Shopkee r ed and that it is the duty of the Spe the parental joy over the! Qprist died for the prodigal son real ay. I owed my life to not letting | Cvorasting love."" And He is the | gan of the aac Association "in ppoasber to warn his hearers against /repentant prodigal's return ; when | pu t it is awfuby *a go ,my hold the guy during pas s yes to-day and forever/the -- stru terete thier si go Pig hn cag mat int "1 yy sinful cee '<f takn PS | danzerdus adventure. ": mie BiBE te8 ere | trader and the Co cpeaive Union. The elder brother is the modern with love and jto feol that wns necessa ate runners) "My brother-in-law hurried up as | Will be more 1 'ed of p CY. | James Buckley, a private in the Pharisee, who thanks God that he ing with a holy thankt Iness "he | Jesus Christ to die for them | and! pvroot.. Parly rooting |; as he could, for he thought I tor every prophecy sball has. been! trish Guards, was publicly thanked is not as other the He complac-| would have rpjoicéd for bi father" a | tale sins. My elder brother in sin, | runners make the best plants for hod been mortally wounded b fulfilled. There shall be but one by the Marylebo meiot te for cently looks upon the drunkard and/sake if he had not been selfish an re you going to stay out of your | next year's: fruiting. If plants are es : ta endiy shat: be - he | a0guase, and all we now know i 'es hee . rene t = K the social outcast. and the pauper| would not have tried to stab the | 1 ie vther's house 2? Are you_going to SS ae from rooting in early sum- gun _ is. ed "~ at. nen he the word' of God winil be actually eS ng ee hell: hed mace of a ve. co and says to his friends: "Just look old man 'to the heart. Did NOL refuse to put your faith in Christ: ™me™ they are_.more liable to injury | 52¥. however, } cosas i. x ing | replized in the kinrdom, an W: A ac "ee set eae he at me. I never had aw , ad-fsay in effect we shall drive | oni come into the marriage banquet een the white grub, insects or .| up oe a. " too his 9, 10. For we know in part and 7 a een s in out barf vyntages than those people bave! that dissolute debauchee baek to his |g 2 GQuet cidents and each t destroyed |Siambok, und, according to con-iwe prophesy in part. but when that ie addington had. was of a highsteung, impe-; swine trough. The we ave | | leaves a skip in the row, while if tract, began to belabor me soundly.! which is perfect is come, then tha a first meeting at Taunton of | to his mind, the pti of Mr.. Alfred Napier, tueus nature, t I never wou my evil desires get the be tter of me. T*have w os a frequenter as goad opinion of my moral attuin- vivial rapa can let | the: pleasure of secing father again j the floor through gh | bid h ot Want to hear that dear iold, gentle, forgiving father agair nioan over his : yas that elder son atege had been the | oe - TO GIVE TIUe SACK. Two noblemen in the reign of | Maximilian 1L1.--1564--150%--one a | German, the other a Spaniard. ¥ho | bhad each rendered a grea vice to! the emperor, asked the Band of his irunners are allewed to root done if the original | plant is injured. Cover the 'fall when freecing weather comes or if that is leug delayed, any time in | November is all right and a light covering is safest. . Panereve eer earmassiene THE COMING CENTURY. Events Supposed to Oceur in the Year 2002. - HORSE ETALK. A writer for the London Outlook because I { recklessly in disregarding his warr- ing.' oor le and opt and height that we shall never while pede i Signs fully all that there is in rr, ance of the Spirit We ei is well say concerning all have as yet ef no occupation, a grandson of the . eighth Lord Rien the assets weee £20 and the deticiency Debtor attributed his srapieade to losses, on: the stock ex- chan The Exchequer returns coe. April at to December 13th were :--Re- eipts, £87,959,074; £199, 474.314; balances, £5,876. In the corresponding period ot, last year the: receipts were £81,003, 769; expenditure, pete ,045,906; and bal- ances, ATA. For the fens time in. succession ecpacaitune: 29, 3 Company ower gordens et their stations the Reading pied has just awarded to Treacher, the sta- tion master 'Theale. near Read ing: -------- A CITY OF SALT. re of the most remarkable eities Ta- salt mines, and all the streets and houses are of the purest white im- inable. Gne of the most famous in salt and 1 when the it, tricity. and Deemarsiese visited cleven years o. he was so fascinated with the magnificey® effect of the light upon the crystal walls that' he cross. Suc thing as infectious disease is aHMnOWR in Kelburg ; in ments as Prince Bismarck a of! sight kind of atsor, he would have daughter in marriage. Waximilian| I for any reason you can not ex-|has been amusing himself and his/learncd, "Lo, these are A By out- his skill in statesmanship. When coon what joy came into the father's said that as he es --- Ahem both ercise your driving horses regularly! readers by a long sine into the|skirts of His ways, and small some one. & Iron Chancellor jeart' at the retura of his repentant | alike it was impossi to choose' and still do not-wish to turn them | future, and made a ord, the | a whisper do we hear we Him"? (Job who he ---- =e the Forcier sen, He would have inimediately | between them, and 'aavoines their OUt for the winter, substitute wheat) form of a diary or steal report, of | xvi, 14, R. V.). '"The path of the atatesman in all ee sMATC' | id : 'What diflerence does money lown prowess must decide it. but, , bran for a@ good part>of the grain! events supposed to occur in the year|just is .as the shining light that Singer mee eee Meare make . I can only make father | be 'ing unwilling to risk the loss. of | "ation poled 2002. : As will, be seen, his im ae shineth mon anal more unto the pe er- then I might have to mention my | barry Away with the question of either by engaging them in deadly . It will make them more a" i ation is of a scientilic order and his | fect day (Prov. iy, 18). I serfectly wili- | Cours and cents if niy brother's re- combat. ordered a large sack ¢ eep them _ from becoming feveri mind under the spell of modern in- 1, 12. For now we see through a own me, _ Bent i D stavl ture is only a true return.' ev- brought, and declared that he who and still they will be ready for use | ventions. glass darkly, but then face to 'face; ing bd = oe agreed pte ery Christian to-day, if the should put his rival into it should /@29 & full grain 'ration when needed A gentlenian, he says, recently un-|'how I know in part, hut then shall dh aciaaioig val E : ' Othe right kind of a Christian, doos not have tis © fair Ifelena. And this They should ave some exercise |dertoek to walk on his electric boots | I know even as also I am vided statcsman ~ she. whiatiex seat ink about the social condition of whimsical combut was actually per- | ¢¥ery day, however. aaa in uw pud-! through the passenger tunnel from] When once the glory and light of Id : b ther nemay be uN eceal t his repentant fellow mun. He im formed in the pregence of the im-| dock or by the halte jover to Calais within an hour. He} heaven shine in our souls, the things elder bro , 3 S : mediately says, when the public A aa | Thorough grooming "and plenty of| accomplished 'the feat in something| which once occupied and interested moral attainments, but au sure | y { wan ' nerial court and lasted an hour. The rubbin lor way in keeping j over fift t he dari % th - { childhood "there in nO superier ir all she world | bows at the mercy seat yh, the gunhanpy Spanish nobleman was first the h [4 Ke a lo A ae over he ge minutes. fares br us seem as e toys of childhood, to any humble self." ok of ga age Pits tga isi vercore, and the German succeed- | if vor nee very warm on tion ring tale questo "the ai ra Bee eed cur tink oe thee 'Set Arh . »on my a ather's fy ¢ ' "mye ime z > sack * " ; A DEFECT IN CHARACTER. 'pom cual a oa _ Pi: os in envelopes -- be rn - coming in the stable put on a blen-/|tance baving been accomplished by!doth not yet appea t we shall Eider brethers, you 4 nO 4; dad waves of sound. js rofling! Se nee ea ey , one ket, and when he has steamed out/ the boots alone. all our knowledge is but partial. It ground for priie if the restraint] tpigugh the golden boulevards of him the eniperor's feet Vhis |take the blanket of, which wttl be! A curious accident happened to a be, and no ill He shell appear that has kept you from ree Tk ie the NeW Jerusalem. the auneite comical combat is said to be -- found to be wet, and put on a Cry/ gentleman in Kensington yesterday. | shall we be like Him (I Jobn ifi, 2). i3 itself a defect of charact it voi oa in" huaven Which. are acon origin: ef the phrase Kive him rj one, after giving nine a good rubbing | 7 was weariug one of his usual, The question is oft sked. Shall rig? that you have not pane aol as shouting the glad tidings : sack,"" so common in Ure literature | with a twist of Ss eck's supply of the well-known; we know each other in heav 1s a prodigal inte a far country. You a ~ prodigal has returned to hi ind Of courting. Never leave a bain -- on all! as ates brown-paper overceats t the answer found here? We do have --_ siven a midnight banquet Father's' house!' There ought to| ; night. he tails of the coat yee fire in|not know any one fuliy here, but we your youny seh 001), joy on earth as well, as joy in| . > Rub the legs dry. ithe street, and u t shall know them fully there, a the bey to a drunkard's gra f Venton ave one sinner that re-| light in the morning, feed purned to the waist, ike the fire-|those whom we know here we shall pein sad on of bury "these penteth. There ought the: THE TRUE NELSON aTtrrupe, |!sht at neon. _|{ proof impregnation took effect. No surely know better there. It refers ips in the rm poison of the wine same joy th good shepherd ! \ "One-hailt of the grain ration for doubt some careless workman had le as well as to truths. As cup. You been too stingy for 'Gk whin he found Rls sheen . i In a speech made by Lord Wer- the day shoukd be fed at night. i" mitted to dip the tails of the coat. | Peter knew Moses and Elijah with- that; you may have been so YHRON | as lost ¢ the gaitt a at 40 ae wick at » banquet in England last| Give plenty of bwiding und have it} The other day the government in-; out an introduction, so I believe it and stingy that that there is no | omen feaaitie '¥e te Oe eet oa uw fall, he quoted a lotte rie Nelson, | well shaken up and clean. spector found that the ninc-year-old | shall be. « fear that you would drink a glass of rag a al siacapla ani , a hen which was publi aban to = world for | If your horse has a tender mouth, son of a Mr. Brown was one inc 13. And new abideth faith, hope, sist 22 saat &, ae salene oe 8 hick was art = -- eeddieg he tr vs written to th ne | use a large, sinvoth bit short of the stundard ee nied eh these three, but the greatest of one t Lord son's time n -- jwas accordingly put in tbe electric is love. ciple that saves some mien Hoke go- | dow reply which sucerested a new | > T7? "OR ECGS elongator. Lut | unfortunately hej" Faith looks to the great sacrifice | ing -to destruction by the broad "ne LACK OF FAITH. piece™ , gniflennt REPS WORSE Fsh 7 er forgotten, und when taken out! for pardun, love to ay ven Ch st | presented highway of dissoluteness, but pe-! The elder brother's conduct also! phrase in the ot 'inal 'letter was une | a keep hens portly because * ike ee was found to have Qeeu stretched | gives us fellowship with Him in ie the cathedral with a jewelled altar nuriousness They hold on to every shows a jack of faith in his father, derlined with h, arth is a char- jt see them around, but principally | ix feet. He iS now in e@ very 'fering end service, while hope sued dollar they have and are too stingy | He refuses to believe that his Di-| acteristic bit ot self-revetatio lin order to have a supjly of fresh. bell state, and' some time must! to His coming again. In 1 Thess. to spend a eent. money as long as they can and nev- a friend unless ble:and upright pharisaical friend, though you are not a prodigal, you may be a usurer, an extortioner and a silanderer. You may be robber the poor widow's mite and a contemptible tyrant in your dealings with your debtors and your employes. evil reports and a murderer of your neighbor's reputation. You may be! ane of those keen, cold automatons without one pe of human kindness in your hear You may be so mer- ciless in you dealings with man- kind (hac: ee: will not stop for one moment to consider the sad causes which led your friends into sin or in- to financial difficulty. And, elder brother, if your faults are mean- ness and avarice,. though you may have never violafed the criminal codo of your staté, you are ot heart a sinful monster, a financial tyrant; you are at heart a merciless calum- nintor, God despises your unre- pented sins just as much a de- spises the sins of the prodigal In the far country. A DESPICABLE SPIRIT. The elder brother thi You may be & peddiler of! 8? pel, can pardon sin. eve that Ch jeder brothers' 'great. wid, sinfu their - practical four winds. out : loafer into the like other decmiarde he may get some meney hint out at once, orhouse, where he ten the y: dissolute life wants to lea life, instead of finding arms of forgiveness held by her elder sisters she the shut doors of a co that Divine Father's house is mor ig. ¢ 'ough to hold" two gons. fcels ° vy prodigal. woman with a repenting for a little while so rebuke. ? use m-} older sisters do not believe that black ve Infidelity often intrenches it-| obliged for the faver of your lette er, vine Father's love is powerful en-|"s ough to chanze a sinner into saint self in the pe whine the ehurch Some church mem-} they | profess to. believe that Jesus Christ | They profess to he- Christ can transform the | seven deviled Marys into t the Marys! place w here such an experiment at his feet! skeptical | oOo the; by | their ideal spiritual theories to the When the reformed drunkard comes y cry "What: is the|- letting that unprincipled house ? He is just out of us and go forth on another spree. Drive Let him go to the belongs.' young girl who has led a' da the willing out to her finds only ntemptuous the cynical a past _ 1208. Me Mx Dear Lord. much | and altho igh lam not atpood judge} of mechanism, yet i dere say your invVeution for nawt.inmt capnon P their shots farther then et ones Su on iwill ansversvour expectations, and lon shore, in perticular, it will be most useful. Woolwich is.the only c be plainly tried by scientific men. On beard ship our wish is to get a: pt # as possible to thre enemy. I alk: WAYS ER deaver to incutrate the eee trine, "Get. close, and ycu will be the victor.' RCN Leeann WHY MEN SEE SNAKES, A gk ig a accounts for the fact tha seen b; those suffering from delicivin craton, as follow "The lanes blood - vessels in ihe retina of t the squirming of serpents." But the sufferer from delirium tremens a. anything from lice to elephants, and a case is recorded in which the sufferen mar- tialed régiments of balloons. Coul these come from moteS in a, F¥ench-) man's eye? eggs and poultry at all seasons of | |elapse before he can be subject Re year amd incidentally, writes Mr. Hess j the contractor "treatment, Parker, I try to take on -Mr. Electrisimus Smith was mar-/ pole for their keep. I have tried @) ping to Miss Algebre Jones on Tues- diferent breeds of hens lin the past 40 years that T have} ibeen keeping poultry, end have set- led down on the Barred Piymouth | yi;, ; goed many day. The happy couple started im- mediately after the ceremony in cago as the best ai-eound hen for! 4 jmy use, have been very unfortu- |. -- oX Reece eons with white hens of any breed, | AWKWARDLY EXPRESSED. woman and not some, but | Still, the b land have no use at a white hen of} ~~ was a large any kind... I belie n the survival | t you would call hand of the fittest, and it a hen can't live 'ane she was an heiress. and make herself useful under jdesigning youth might managetnent she is no hen for I waste no time doctering them, no money providing them with fancy nests, ete, ced them twice a day, such food as I think best adapted to them " he said, when he; thought it' was about time to ring | matters to a head--'Sarah for months past my thoughts and '<ul ations have been centered on one great objec She smiled preggo ] bi -- need say it? You are that pa object!" sSirt!' ine HOG MANURE. Hog Manure is very rich and con- animals live t a F later the » dejectedly nd a few moments would-be suitor crept the) fr fran the house. dust | Tup n'-- 'My watch is one f slot } ae cheapest makes, butsit hasn't mom Ja isd ee three é, en especi Spread or rubbish of any kind over the and scrape all"together w wanted | var ys for application to the feed. "he | sant 8. : ipa cmpeiee. very rapidly and | almost incredible, aeeets: t it?' Tup- some Other kind) man "Oh, I don't Rowe! about Ra the valua-|that! It stopped the first day {the horse bought it, and basn't gone > aince."? ry earth or ae absorbent fs at ' escape. ' am! three-roomed acroplaue for the Bra-! have been |'* #, 9,10. we ste how they turned ei | |God from idels, to serve the living | and' true God and to wait for His Son from er and so we read of 'their work c faith, labor of love! and patience of hope. The love of | | God the greatest thing we ever) ea of, the greatest thing ever pon on earth (Jehn Bia 16: I H ° ili, nd yet of th hings the least | se er | I a bi ig love is the foundation of { is written ww al believed the love (If John Hate): xi, 6). our faith, known God hath to us" ---- -- FAMOUS DRUMS. drums used by the Scots South Africa have just bee and in soma cases they fetched between $300 ~ and $350 apiece, a price which is nearly eight times as' much as_ they originally cost. WORTH A FORTUNE. A portion of one of the walls an old-fashioned residence in Alban, Y., is adorned with wallpaber valued at $200,000. It is com- posed of very rare revenue stamps, each of which would sell readily for fact, the es iets of the inhabitants die of old ----__-s---_--_---- ROQUEFORT CHERSE, About the faino Roquetort icheese, the following een nd is toki,: A shepherd lad having more lun- cheon thar laid a cheese upon a natural shelf in one of the caverns near by. He forgot fall about it until several onths me Jater, when he found the ee in- aioe of beings rotten, reak- ei greenish-blue veins. Ue shared his piece Of cheese with others, and the villagers were qui to nize the improved texture and qual- ity. Henceforth all their cheese were peers to nea Sigshies to ripen. aves are ow a staiene, who epics sh "hundred women to tend the cheese. PRAYING AS A BUSINESS. Judge Dick, of Columbus, Ohio, has discharged Eva le, man who was prosecuted for accepting x fee to pray. at the bedside of a declared $100. besie av tte a el Cie eee NO te