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The Home and True Society.

True society begins in the home
When two young people love each other
and marry, they restore the picture of rh
Apostolic Church. They are of one hear
and one soul: neither do they say that
anything they possess is their own. but
they have all things in common. Their
mutual trust in each other, their entire
confidence in each other, draws out all
that is best in both. Love is the angel
who rolls away the stone from the grave
in which we bury our better nature, and
1t comes forth. Love makes all things
new; makes new heaven and new
earth; makes all cares light, all pains ca
sy. It is the one enchantment OF human
life which realizes Fortunio's purse and
Aladdin's palace, and turns the 'sArabian
Nights" into mere prose, in comparison.
Think how this old story of love is re-
peated forever in all the novels and ro--
mances and poems, and how VIC never
tire Of reading about it; and how, if there
is to be a wedding in the church, all man
kind go, just 10 have one look at two
persons who are supposed, at least, to be
in love and so .supremely happy. But
this, also, is not perfect society. 1t is TOO
narrow, too exclusive. It shows the pow
er of devotion, trust, self-surrender, that
there is in the human heart; and it is a.
so prophecy of something larger thatis
to come. But it is at least a home. and
before real society can come, true homes
must come. As in the sheltered nook in
the midst of the great sea of ice which
rolls down from the summit of Mt. Blanc
is found little green spot, full Of tender
flowers, so, in the shelter of home, in the
warm atmosphere of household love,
spring up the pure affections Of parent
and child; father, mother, son, daughter
of brothers and sisters. Whatever makes
this insecure and divorce frequent, makes
of marriages not union for life, but an
experiment which may be tried as often
as we choose, AMI abandoned when we
like. And this cuts up by the roots ali
the dear affections of home; leaves CHI
dren orphaned. destroys fatherly and
motherly love and is virtual dissolution
of society. I know the great difficulties
of this question, and how much wisdom
is required to solve them. But whatever
weakens the permancnce of marriage
tends to dissolve society: for permanent
homes are to the social state what the
little cells are to the body. They are the
commencement Of organic life, the cen
tiers from which all organization proceeds
REQ James Free..n1, Clarke.
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Social Culture.

1t has been the fashion to complain of
the dreary isolation of jewellers in rural
localities But the complaints have been
made most frequency by those who are
entire strangers to the matters upon
which they write SO freely. Country
folks are in general so fully occupied
with affairs that they have no time to dis
cover how lonesome they really are. So
far as this is concerned we think it a
misfortune. We are too busy. We work
We read and think too little, and do not
spend sufficient time in social culture
There is no reason why those who pillow
the soil, or ''whose talk is of bullocks,"
should not experience the retinements
which are the result Of formal social life.
In business. at bargains, in pursuit of
dollars, n man is seen at his best. He is
thorny, spiny, with his back up as a
porcupinc might be at his business. Let
one doff his working clothes and enter a
room full OF his neighbors-- men, women,
young men and maidens-and he is
man of another kind. He naturally falls
into the ways of all intuitive kindness,
which Is really the truest politeness, the
doing to his companion what he would
that he should do to him. He ''lets him
self OUT to please, and, after an evening
spent in social converse, he retires with
many rough corners and asperities toned
down. For few day the influence re-
mains. It would be permanent if it
could be reinforced now and then, and
the good results would be most agreeable
and useful.
There is no difficulty in bringing these
good influences to bear. Two or three
persons, with energy and some magnet
ism about them, can put them in motion
with ease. Now is the time to begin the
effort A book club is one excellent
means to effect IT. A mutual improve
ment association is another. These two
naturally grow out of, and belong to
each other. They are quite enough for a
beginning. Let a dozen persons, or less
or more, each name book or a magazine
and subscribe the money to purchase
them. Each of these books is made to
20 the rounds of the members; so that
for the price of one book each member
has the reading of several, and, at the
end, may possess this book permanently;
or, sold and the money applied to the
purchase Of new ones. Every week let
these people meet, and talk over and
discuss some question CT interest to them
all, which one has made a special study
for the purpose of introducing it. Or let
those who have a taste for it, entertain
the others with q reading Of selections,
poems Or q well chosen drama or play.
The book club and the improvement
association are then started, and once
the ice is broken, will float along smooth
ly and pleasantly.
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A Husbands Hobby .

From the Alta California
5UMr Waite is model husbald-th is
to say, in good many respects. He
neither drinks, smokes nor chews, STAYS
home at evenings, never CANDLES and
gives his wife all the money that she
wants. It is said that ali men have
some idiosyncrasy or hobby. Mr.. Waite
has his. It is deep-rooted mania for
auction sales and buying articles of every
description, a la Toodles, without regard
as to whether they will ever be of any
practical or imaginary use to him. As
long as he gets them at a bargain, he is
satisfied. A good joke about this pc
culiarity of his was related to me the
other evening by friend of his. Mr..
Waite went on to an auction sale of a
dealer in sporting goods. He bought 900
dumb.bel!s at twenty cents pair and
carried them home in triumph. He
stored them in the cellar, where they re-
NAMED for six months or so. Mrs. Waite
got tired of seeing them occupying so
much space, especially as she wanted the
cellar for some purpose of her own. So,
imagining that her husband had forgotten
all about his novel acquisition, she sold
the dumE-bells for mere song to an
auctioneer. That evening Mr.. Waite re-
turned home with hand-cart. His face
was flushed, but triumphant.
"What have you got in the hand-cart,
my dear" asked Mrs. Waite.
"Dumb-bells, darling"
WHAT"
"Dumb-bells. Bought two hundred
pairs at thirty cents a pair. Paid more
for them than for the others I got, but,
you know it will never do to let the price
of dumb bells drop"
Mrs. Waite took one look ct the arti-
cles. Her worst fears where realized.
They were the same old dumb-bells that
she had sold in the morning. Mr.. Waite
had CHANGED to be III attendance at the
sale where they had been offered. ana
had bought them at one-third advance
over the price he had first paid for them.
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Helping the Foor.

Some weeks since youth began saw
Ing up his pennies to help the poor when
winter came, and he exhibited SO much
enthusiasm in the good work that his
|ather was liberal with small: change.
The lads savings footed up about three
dollars, when, the other noon, the father
anne to dinner to find fruit peddler's
wagon Just leaving the ally, and such q
sack of muskmeloHs in the back yard
b never saw before.
l'What does all this mean2" he inquir-
edofhis son. whose dancing eyes betray-
edths good feeling in his heart.
Ire bought ;em--bought the whole
pill br four cents apiece" was the re-
ply.
"You havea Why, thought you were
swing up money for the poor"
s'7hat's what was doing, butnow I've
ire,ted it for 'em! I'm going to keep
thsc melons down cellar till New Years,
al then I'm going to carry 'em around
az give the poor a surprise! Won't
thy feel boss, thought
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Laps at Plcnics .

The lap is unquestionably most use
full and admirable organ. When expand
ed, the lap will hold fifteen quarts OF
chestnuts, peaches. apples or other desire
able fruit, and there has been women
whose laps would hold the entire SUNNY
of hairpins required for their back hair,
though. of course, laps of these enor.
nous dimensions are somewhat rare. II
is, however, at picnics and tea parties tina,
the splendid capabilities of the female
lap are especially displayed. It is an
easy matter for a lady, while engaged on
a picnic, to hold plate of salad, another
of picked oyesters, a third of ice crem,
and fourth of cake, together with Gun
of coffee on her lap at one and the
same time. In feats of this kind the
female lap is unique. The young man
who undertakes to hold food on his
knees invariably comes to grief. The
utmost he can hope to do is to balance
for brief period, a plate of salad on the
ridge of one Of his legs, from which il
sooner or later slips, with the most pain.
full consequences.
As for holding tea-cup or a coffee
up W AAAo AASSos hS ACSOS11LtS luG utter
impossibility of the thing. His only re-
sources is to deposit it on the floor, or on
the gross close by his side, after which he
usually steps on it, Or at least kicks it
over. This indicates in the clearest pos
sibie manner that man is not by nature a
picnicing animal.
Without laps picnics are dangerous to
the integrity of trOWsers and Loco ond
there is no way in which art can remedy
the masculine deficiency of lap. Let
women go to picnics if they choose. They
can go SO without doing violence to their
clothing; but man is flying in the face OF
nature when he undertakes to sit on the
grass and to manage six different kinds
OF food. 1t is true that picnics consist.
ing OF women alone would not be popu.
lar. Young men are needed, both to cal
the legs of chickens, and to go mile
and half in the hot sun to bring waite,
for lemonade.
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A Lawyers First Address.

0There arc few mental tortues more ter
rible than that which young lawyer,
constituticnally timid, suffers when for
the first time he rises to address the court
and jury. No nightmare is more fright
full than those twelve men, honest and
true, presided over by the frowning ma
jesty of the bench. They are, then and
there, all the world to him, and horrible
world it is to his brain, bewildered by
the sight and natural diffidence.
Mr.. John P. Kennedy tells Of such a
scene which was turned Tito triumph by
the will -power of the young man and the
sympathy of the court. he said: 81 re-
member the agony with which the con-
fused novitiate arose second time, hav-
ing been but moment before compelled
to take his seat, in the hope to collect
his routed thoughts. His second essay
was not more fortunate than the FIRST.
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he is again. shouted the driver With -.

he is again" shouted the driver with the
same breath, as the same masked robber
sprang from behind the same bush and
prancen before the horses shouting, Yes,
here ! am again. throw up your hands. >
etc. The surprise of the gentleman on
the box can easily be imagined. In fact.
there Is decidedly ludicrous side to this
"stage OF the game" or game of the stage.
or the same stage robber, or-but mcre
serlou incidents follow The mail sack.
and express box were thrown out. The
man on the inside lost about IS; but Mr..
Miller was more unfortunate; he wae
obliged to give up his pocket book which
contained about 1926.
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Female Beauty in Uganda.

3 IF beautiful women of the sable COM
ple1ion are to be found in Africa, it must,
I thought, be in the household of such a
powerful despot as Mtesa, who has the
pick of the flowers of so many lands.
Accordingly, looked sharply amongst
the concubines that I might become &C
quainted with the style of pure African
beauty. Nor was quite disappointed,
though I had imagined that his wives
would haye all been of superior personal
charms. But Mtesa apparently differs
widely from Europeans in his tastes.
There were not more than twenty out of
all the five hundred that were worthy of
a glance of admiration from white man
with any eye for style and beauty, and
certainly not more than three deserving
of many glances. These three, the most
comeiy among the twenty beauties of
Mtesa's court, were of the WaIuma race,
no doubt from Ankori. They had the
complexion of quadroons, were straight
nosed and thin, Tipped, with large, lust,
rous eyes. In all the other graces of a
beautiful form they excelled, Hafz might
have said with poetic rapture that they
were straight as palm-trees and beauti-
full as moons" The only drawback was
their hair-the short crisp hair of the
negro race-but In all other points they
might be exhibited as the perfection of
beauty which Central Africa can produce,
Mtesa, however, does not believe them
to be superior or even equal to his we'll
fleshed, unctuous-bodied, fat-nosed
wives. in6ecd vhon y,n;ntad thor,
out t. him one day at q private audience,
he even regarded them with a sneer
Spoke. if I remember rightly, de-
clares that fairness IN womankind is
synonymous with beauty in Uganda
This may once have been the case, but
it is certainly not SO now, for in few
women regarded with favor by Mtesa OF
his chiefs haye seen any gross corpu
lence of bedy. Naturally, where there
IS ar abundance of good, digestible food
and the climate is agreeable, humanity O.
the respectable class will generally b.
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sunhowers For Fuel.

I find it has been said BY Minnesota
farmers that "two acres of sunfowers
will supply family with fuel through /.
long winter" Is this hoax or q practi-
Cal truth? Does it burn in an open fire
or is it necessary to use stove or pratee
How do they cultivate 1t for fuel, and in
what manner is it stored away for usef
! am a subscriber and reader of your Pc
per. l live on large and fertile black.
waxy prairie, and am hauling my wood
TOR winter use seven miles-tourteen
miles going and coming; and cutting a
load OF wood during the heat of the day
is hard on man and beast Besides. IL
we do not clay in" an ample supply of
wood during the dry months, we have to
grin and bear it" without during the
wet ones, as you can hardly pull an
empty wagon over our roads when thew
are muddy. Wild sun-fowers grow on
our prairies here, and if the cultivated
sun flower will furnish fuel sufficient tn
mitigate the horrors of Minnesota win
ter, it would be ample for all PURPOSES
IN our delightful climate, as our principal
use for fuel is for COOKING purposes and
only during "Ne rther" do we find it
necessary to 'house up and fire upn in
our section. hope you will answer me
fully either In your paper or privately
and tell me all you know on this sub
ject.
lAYLoRsyILLE, TEXAS. j. A. G., JR.
Ansuer: In some regions of the far
west timber is so scarce that the inhabi-
tants are obliged to use extraordinary
means sometimes for fuel. We suppose
an acre OF sunfiowers would furnish fuel
equal to about two cords of wood. The
seeds is sometimes used for expressing its
Oh, and. in this case, it might pay for its
cultivation. We should prefer to burn
suntlower stalks as fuel rather than bay.
straw, etc., and yet this latter has been
done. We should much prefer to haul
wood seven miles Ito trusting to either.
We do not think two acres of sunflowers
would go far towards keeping family
warm through Minnesota winter.
When suntlowers are cultivated thew
are planted and cultivated precisely like
corn. When ripe the seed heads are cut.
hauled, and the seed threshed out. The
stalks are cut, bundled and prepared in
to suitable lengths for burning. It burns
freely both as to its stalks, seed heads or
seeds. but will not be found satisfactory
when other fuel may be obtained. It
will burn freely either on an open fire
CRATE or In stove, but if used, would be
better burned in furnace, such as is
used by the Mennonites for straw. We
think you would have to travel far in
M Minnesota to find a farmer who depend
ed upon sunfowers for fuel.--Ciicaoo
Prairie Farmer.
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line. Yet the blue eyes and flashing teeth
are attractive as Of old. I hear that her
voice has suffered as her beauty, having
lost its exquisite and subtle sweetness,
that diamond-like quality that was its
greatest charm. From that, or for some
unexplained cause, the glory OF the great
prima donna's career is waning, and she
does not draw as once she did Yet she
has abated no jot of her pretensions, and
consequently the managers tghtshy Of
her, as witness her non engagement in
London last season. Yet she is but little
over thirty, having barely reached the
age at which the powers ola great singer
should be at their prime. Lucy Hooper's
Letter.
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What a Squirrel Revealed.

h the banks of the "Blue Juniata, >
in huntington county, stands the quiet
lite town of Alexandria. Years ago in
ant about the village, lived wild and
evi man, the terror of the country,
kn@n as ssLewis the robber.r Many q
nigt traveller lost bis gold, and many a
wosner on the old Pittsburg and Phila-
dellia pike was bereft by force of his
ltbls 8. Recently two gentlemen were
out hunting on Short Mountain, q mile
or tp west of town. They shot SOUR
rel Sich, wounded, ran into the trunk
of atrge oak. What was their surprise
wheigrasping into the hollow trunk for
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"Here l am Again."

The Florence (Arizona) Citizen says
Once more the stage from Tucson has
been stopped and plundered by single
high wayman. The stage left Tucson
with two passengers, and as it happened
Arthur Hill was again the driver. John
Miller, one ofofthe passengers, was sitting
on the outside, and as they neared the
point of the mountain he asked Mr.. Hill
to show him just the place where the
coach was robbed on July 81. Mr.. Hill
replied that it was only a short distance
ahead, and he would point out the spot
They reached the place. ''There," said
Mr.. Hill, sthe robber was hid behind that
bush." Mr.. Miller nodded, sand there
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He stood silent for brief space, and at
the end was enabled to say, Gentlemen,
/ declare to Heaven that if / had an en-
envy upon whose head would invoke
the most cruel torture, could wish him
no other fate than to stand where l stand
now
Seriously enough, the sympathy
which this appeal brought him seemed
almost instantly to give him strength. A
short pause was followed by another eff
fort which was completely and even tri-
umphantly SUCCESSFULLY
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Guide Me in the Path Of Right.

Father, all my soul goes out
In prayer OF trust to thee!
Still the longing and the doubt
Which do now abide in me.
Weak my strongest efforts are,
Vainly seek for the light
That for me doth shine afar:
Guide me in the path of right.
Guide me, Father, lest stray
Far from thoughts of heaven and thee
Keep me in the narrow way,
Howe'er rough that way may be.
What care Though feet may bleed.
Ii at last gain the light
Unto which the path doth lead?
Guide me in the path of right.
Father, ever be my guidei
Then, whate'er my trouble be,
Peace will still with me abide.
Clearly my way will see
BE thou as cloud by day,
AS the flaming fire by night
Ever pointing out the way
OF the Christians path of right.
Father, how my spirit thrills
AS speak thy hallowed name!
can bear the myriad ills
That beset my earthly frame;
can put the tempter's wi.es
And his every snare to flight.
Ii the Father on me smiles,
Guiding me in paths OF right.
Eliot RydeT.
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How we Hate to Rest.

OOur seasons Of rest are so few and SO
short that many hard workers have for
gotten how to enjoy them. Some men,
long worked hard must go on working.
There is no other chance for them. To
sit down is to break down; to rest is to
die. Indulgence is in one respect like
indulgence in strong drink. Having got
into 1t you must go on; otherwise there
come manifold morbid and painful ex-
periences. There are those who tell you
that once they could be moderately hap
Ply when resting, now they dare rest no
more. They may try to make work less
urgent, less feverish; but it will not do to
stand still. They are kept sane and SER
viceable only by giving the mind per-
petual occupation. Every one remem-
bers how Luther said, II rush out among
my pigs rather than sit still and do moth
ing" 1t is sad, but it is true, that hui
man beings, not much like Luther in any
other characteristic, are like him in this !;
that they dare not have a quiet think.
Hence, the sorrowful resort to achohol,
opium, choral; hence the craving for un-
consciousness. which is temporary ami
hilation.
If pigs can help you, as they helped
Luther, be thankful. Some folks. both
clever and good, need more than any pig
can do-even such an animal as poetic
breeder, proud Of its age and dimensions,
called his Aud Lang Swine. In any
case, few minds are self suficing. All
human beings who have attained middle
age must be buttressed from without. 1t
may be sacred Nature, green grass, green
trees, gardening, pigs, horses, human
companions, worry or quiet occupation I;
bat the longer live the more assured I
am that most men live in mortal terror
of themselves. Years ago, short years
but a good many. when this hand was
young, it wrote discourse Of sAlichael
SCOTS Familiar Spirit" which Gas the
legend gocs) demanded that its master
should provide it with constan work or
it would tear him to pieces. Thus in the
parable, is set forth the educated mans
relation to his own mind. You must find
it ceasless occupation, or it will make
you miserable. The little girl of seven
years has found this out, who cries: 60
read me stoIy to make the time pass
quick" People find it out waiting three
quarters of an hour at country railway
stations. They will diligently read all
the advertisements stuck about the squat
i'd shed rather than sit idle. They will
read right through the leading article of
the Little Peddlington Courier. One saw
all this early. One sees it yet more
plainly now.--Fraser's Kaoasine.
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Ne1lssOn.

Christine Nilsson, in plain gray cos
tune and hat shaded with gay plumes
claim more than apassing glance. More
for the sake OF the past, however, than
for that of the present, for her beauty
once so real and so winning, is sadly
faded, and the passage Of years has &C
centuated the marked points in he1
countenance, such as the high cheek
bones and the general hardness Of out
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their game to discover an old Dutch oven
full Of Spanish doubloons, Mexican dol
lars, English sovereigns and other coins,
all dated previous to the year 1920.
Several packages Of paper were found
which crumbled to dust as soon as
touched. Their gltttering wealth, which
they divided between them, amounted to
several thousand dollars. 1t is supposed
that all this wealth was deposited in the
tree by "Louis the robbcr"- Altona (Pa.)
Tribune.
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A Late Garden.

In my autumn gardenI was fain
To mourn among my scattered roses:
Alas for that last rosebud which uncloses
To autumn's anguid sun and rain.
When all the world is on the wane!
Which has not felt the sweet coDstraiDt OF
June,
Nor heard the nightingale in tune.
Broad-faccd asters by my garden-walk,
Your but coarse compared with roses;
More choice, more dear than rosebud which
uncloSes
Faint-scented, pinched upon its stalk,
That least and last which cold winds balk;
A rose tits, though least and last of all,
A rose to me, though at the fall.
Christina q. Rossetti.
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found we'll clothed in flesh, be it in
Uganda or in England, but it is some
what unreasonable to state that the re-
spectacle class therefore consider super
fuous rotundity to be an element of beau
ty.-Stanleys Book