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ssIS what condition was the patriarch
Job at the end of his life 2" asked Sun
day-school teacher of quiet-looking
boy at the foot of the class. Dead,
calmly replied the boy.
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4 HOUSE painter falling from the third
sto-y of a house in Maine, where the
prohibition law is enforced, and being
given a glass of water to revive him,
pitously asked "How far has fellow
gotto fall before you let him have brandy
Ia his town."
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Truth and soberness.

What is the best family medicine in the world
to regulate the bowels, purify the blood, remove
costiveness and biliousness, aid digestion a2d
stimulate the whole SYSTEM Truth and sober
ness compels us to answer. Hop Bitters. being
pure, perfect and harmless. See Truths in
another column
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DRUeGIsrs and physicians recommend and
prescribe Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound for all female complaints.
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..Thc ends IIeIp

those who help themselves" and Nature inya-
riably helps those who take Warner safe hid
ney and Liver Cure.
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uENRy,S CARROLTC SALVE

Is the BEST sALvE for Cuts, Bruises, sores, Ulcers,
Salt Rbeum letter, chapped Hands, chilbiaDs, cof-,
and al kinds Of Errtons, Freckles and Pmples.
Get HENRY's CARBOLIc sALvE, as all others are
counterieits. Price y cents
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rats. cats. mice ants. lies, insects, cleared out
bv "Rough on Rats" 15c., druggists.
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II ADY Agents wanted ia every state and Comfy Tor
i Rubber Speciaes for ladies' quick sales; cool
Tgoft. Address q. Brinker hod, G42 Fulton IT NY.
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pr, MOTIFS LIVER Pills are the best cafnnriio
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,,, oonol,,sior of tba ceremony =

KIpSEY-WonT always relieves and cures the
worst cases of piles and constipation.
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prENo,s cATARRH SNUFF cures all affections OF the
nnlcuous 1nenbrnns Of the head and throat.
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best remedy for Dyspepsia Bilions"eSs Malaria,
Indigestion and Diseases Of The Blood Khneys, Liver,
Skin, etc.
Sharp County record., 1881-06-23

nice time" began Katy apologetic,p..
but her father stopped her.
Hush! Where have you been9n b.
said, sternly. Your mother all alor' ~
with the work and the baby? Loot !.
her tired, red face" "Butthis renyoo. !.
stopped Just here, forthe tired red fsoe o,
suddenly grew ashen white, and Katr;''
weary motherwa unconscious.
Months have passed since then. bn.
Katv's heart is still sore. Her mother :
a patient invalid, without the ability n
walk a step. Every night as KatT'
head falls upon the pillow, she lOok,
about her rooms pretty belongings
mothers love and taste breat6in,
through them all-and thinks of WE5s,
that gray-hared doctor said months
ago, as he looked pityingly at her jss,
mother. Looking at her thoughts,
little Katy, he said, Mother has 6,i
towork too hard this hot, close dav: sbs',
too delicate for such prostrating work I
suppose You help her all you can
'Ah. but that's the troubled | didn't
help mother all l could: that's WHY nv
pillow pricks So"
Poor Katy! don't you all pity herr
S. 5. Times.
Sharp County record., 1881-06-23
Concentrated Feeding Stuffs.

More than thirty years ago it was re
iated of prominent farmer who had
been experimenting with mineral fer
tlizers prepared under Liebigs theory
of mineral fertilizing, that the time
would come when the manure for
a crop of wheat could be car
ried to the field in hand-basket.
But that time has not yet arrived, and
without better knowledge we are not
looking for it to come very soon. In a
similar manner there have been ethu-
si&stic persons who have believed that
animals could be fed on three quarts a
dav OF cOnccnIrated food as easily anu
much more conveniently and cheaply
than on hay and meal together. These
persons have made the same mistake
as was made by the deluded farmer
mentioned. 1t is very easy to make
such mistakes and 10 delude ones self
In this way. 1t is easy to be too san
guine, and we are apt to jump at con-
elusions TOO readily. We forget that
we have certain fixed and unchange-
able conditions to meet which cannot be
SET aside. In feeding animals we must
consider their digestive capacity and
their powers of ASSIMILATION, or Of CON
Sharp County record., 1881-06-23
An Aged and Gigantic Tree.

For the last 5000 years. it is said,
there has stood in the immediate neigh
borhood of Sparta a gigantic cypress,
the very same tree which of old found
mention in the pages of Pausanias and
other antique Greek historians. 1t
reared its stately head to a height of
100 feet above the ground. and its dark
foliage overshadowed a space nearly
800 feet in circumference. 1t was a
source of profit, as well as of pride, to
all the inhabitants of Sparta, for its
worldwide fame annually attracted
hundreds of curious tourists from all
parts of Europe. whose temporary So
iourn in its vicinity brought no small
amount of grist to the Spartan mill.
Only the other dav this venerable sylvan
patriarch was ignited by a band Of gyp-
sizes while cooking their midday meal
under the shade OF its leaiy branches,
and burned to the ground. despite stren-
uous efforts made to save it from anni-
hilalian-- -ItAXnuld- -annear1h hat grieXQuS
accident is regarded BY the Greek pop
ulace rs of evil omen to the enterprise
in which the Hellenic nation is just now
embarked.
Sharp County record., 1881-06-23

or might best have college course IN
order that he have the fairest start.
Emphatically should the disposition
TO go into store be discouraged
Producing is not attractive enough; dis
trimming and selling are very TAR too
much so. The editor Of a commercial
journal in this city recently advertised
once for youth to help in statistical
work. at eight dollars a week, and re-
ceiyed nearly 800 replies before noon;
an advertisement for an assistant book
keeper brought 347 letters in the next
mornings mail; an advertiser whG
wanted a clerk, very recently, was con-
siderate enough, two days later, to IN
sert q request TO please excuse replies
tonotice OF SATURDAY,; l, ,5I2appllcatIoAs
received q Denver firm had LEty re-
plies to call for clerk, but not q SIN
gle reply to subsequent advertise
ment for GOOD wOOd-Jurner. These
are but random and ordinary illustra-
tions of the almost terrible pressure to
get hold of mercantile lie at any point.
The reasons for this are probably an
altogether mistaken idea OF the prollt-
ableness and agreeabIeneSS OF such
life and an equally mistaken one Of the
social position OF farmers and mechan-
les. The merchant is imagined to be
the man of success and standing; the
mechanic is imagined to be one who
works ten hours a day, with dirty hands,
for twelve dollars week. Like most
sweeping geIeralizations, this is widely
astray. Really successful trades, al
though many, are the exceptions;
their ranks are always choked with
competition; all the changes Of the
last quarter century have tended
to narrow the profit margins, in
crease the strains and demands, and
lessen the probabilities Of success in
trading. By principal, also, 1t must be
an error to rate the dealer in any re-
spect above the producer; and expe-
rience confirms this. The farmer and
mechanic, moreover, is not fixed in the
groove where he is conyentiOnally sup
posed to run; he is what he makes him
self; and he is making himself. Agri-
culture by new lands, new products,
new processes, new appliances and an
enormously increased and increasing
use of knowledge in land-culture, offers
broadening field for young men who
have a grip and the character to achieve
success. In manufactures, too, the op-
portunities are even greater. The me-
chanic can afford to risk the neat
ness of his fingers; he is the discoverer
of material wealth now and there are
path and a place for all the real teehnic-
al ability the country can produce.
Recognizing and helping on this fact are
the technical schools, through which
the youth of to-day have facilities in
mechanical education that would have
seemed like visions to their fathers.
All the preceding is merely hint and
suggestion. Its sum is that knowledge
is knowledge, whatever its field and
however won; that whoever is worthy
of it will get it; that identically the
same is true of success; that the more
promising fields for the boys are the
newer ones, through agriculture and
manufactures rather than the chOked
paths of trade; and that-in the old
phrase, never truer than nowhere
there is will there is a way.-JuLIus
-s'sicoG, IN Christian at Work.
Sharp County record., 1881-06-23
Easter Pilgrims at the Jordan.

The earliest scene of the immersion
was in the Jordan. That rushing
river. the one river of Palestine,
found at last its fit purpose.
Although no details are given OF
the external parts Of the ceremony, a
lively notion may be formed Of the
transaction by the scene which now
takes place at the bathing of the pill
grims at Easter. Their approachtO to the
spot is by night. Above is the bright
Paschal moon, before them moves a
bright flare of torches, on each side
huge watchtires break the darkness of
the night and act as beacOns for the
successive descents Of the road. The
sun breaks over the Eastern hills as the
head of the cavalcade reaches the banks
of the Jordan. The sacred river rushes
through its thicket Of tamarisk, popular,
willow and agnus-castOrS with rapid
eddies, and OF a turbid, yellow color,
like the Tiber at Rome, and about as
broad. Phey dismount, and set to work
to perform their bath; most in the open
space, some further up among the
thickets; some plunging in naked; most
however, with white dresses, which
they bring with them, and which, hav-
ING been so used, are kept for their
winding sheets. Most of the bathers
keep within the shelter of the bank,
where the water is about four feet in
depth, though with a bottom of very
deep mud. The Coptic pilgrims
are curiously distinguished from
the rest by the boldness with which
they dart into the main current
striking the water after their
fashion alternately with their two arms
and playing with the eddies, which
hurry them down and across as if they
were in the cataracts OF their own Nile;
crashing through the thick boughs of
the Jungle which on the eastern bank of
the stream intercept their progress, and
recrossing the river higher up, where
they can wade, assisted by long poles
which they have cut from the opposite
thickets. 1t is remarkable, considering
the mixed assemblage of men and
women in such q scene, that there is so
little appearance of levity or indeco-
rum. A primitive domestic character
pervades in singular form the whole
transaction. The families who have
come on their single mule or camel now
bathe together with the utmost gravity,
the father receiving from the mother
the infant, which has been brought to
receive the one immersion which will
suffice for the rest Of its life, and thus,
by q curious economy of resources, save
it from the expense and danger of a
future pilgrimage in alter years. In
about two hours the shores are cleared
with the same quiet they remount their
camels and horses, and, before the noon
dav has set in, are again encamped on
tho 5T1r tasff u = G3fT f7r0T c.
they may be seen at the dead of night;
the drum again awakes them for their
homeward march. The torches again
90 on before; behind follows the vast
multitude. mounted, passing in pro-
found silence over that silent plain; SO
silent, that, but for the tinkling of the
drum, its departure would hardly be
perceptible. - -Staniey's Christian LHStj-
tuti0HS.
Sharp County record., 1881-06-23
Great Giants to Be Fought.

"Iwish 1 were a knight, and couli
kill some great giant said Frank
after a long conversation with h,
mother on the knights of the oldeT
time and the giant-killers of other dsys
well, YOU can be, Frank, | am
sure" said the lady. There are still
giants to be fought"
Where are they, and where will
get suitable armor?' he asked.
. "My son. replied mis- mother
There is the giant of Sloth, the giant
of Impatience, the giant Of Revenge
and many other very ugly monster
against whom you might wage uncess
ing warfare. "
''Oh, but they are only imaginar7
giants. and | do not feel 50 anxious 70
engage in imaginary warfare. l wan
to do real fighting, mOther;n and
Frank gave an imaginary swOrd-thrua
at an imaginary foe as he spoke.
"Are you quite sure about the in. :
aginarv nature of your giants?" asked
the mother. 1T is not many days sna !.
a smaller boy than YOU came to Mdd
mother in anything but imaginaT I
dread. His brother threatened to d,'
him grievous injury because he m !
meddled with some of that brothers /
curiosities. l thought then that GiM :
Revenge was anything but an imagi !,
nary being. <
"Imight relate an incident" COL, !
tinued the mother, "to prove the Veg
serious existence of Giant Sloth, whhb,
it is only yesterday that a son Of niHT
bid fair to be carried captive by Gisr o,
hnpatience. Perhaps you happen !,
remember a certain boy who exclan n q
ed. quite fretfully, oh, do so has;,
Latin; wish Latin had never bee Z,
invented, and the Latin grammar mn
shut up in a manner that added decda .
emphasis to the remark. ,e
There S another thrust at me, 81 !,
Frank. Upon my word, one woul !
think l was the giant, mother, and alar
You were the giant-killer intent uN,h,
slaying me-" III
Not at all, my son; | do not VIZ On
even to wound your feelings; but Ter,
seemed so desirous to become knigte
and Il hero, that l thought | shdl zee
like to show you how easily You colgi]
enter upon a warfare, in which all YErr /
bravery and martial feeling will he
needed to insure your triumph p''
course, you will need armOr, and * |
lesson at prayers this morning will 9itc
gest how you may secure that l,ha
remember it was taken from the Ep1, h
to the Ephesians, and the M1ne
chapter. yht
"Well, Unjust try, mother-indes o
must-to attack these great giants 1ully
L remember Just now the WOruS to {
so often quotes: He that is SIoFs.
anger is better than the mighty, and,ow
that ruleth his spirit than he The
taketh a city. ~ Y ObSsrv@ ned
Sharp County record., 1881-06-23
What Shall be Done With the Boys.

With parents who have boys to rear
and see started in life, this is one of the
most perplexing OF the practical ques-
tions which occupy the after-bedtime
talks and carry themselves on into the
hours due to sleep. If the young bird
does not readily leave the nest, the old
one, instinct-taught, shOves if off, for
the young have only one simple thing
to do. But in human life are MANY
paths and places; the round people are
continually getting into square holes
and Cice UerSG; mistakes about ones
calling are as common as they are seri-
ous, and experimental knowledge is
like q lamp held behind us-mOst clear
after we have ceased to need it. Par
ents' difficulties in what direction to
push their fledglings are the greater
because of two facts: first, that the
choice of boys as to what they ''Would
like to be" is ordinarily too shallow to
suggest anything for guidance; second,
that while the natural bent of mind, in
very rare instances, is shown early and
indomitably in a specific direction, or
dinarily OurbOVS donOt show characteriS-
tics positive enough to make their line of
work clear. But what shall be done
with them then? A newspaper article
has not space, even had the writer the
ability to answer the question definite
"; no more can be attempted than to
indicate some considerations which may
help the family council to deal with it.
First of all, let us assume that the
spread of common sense has nearly OBJ
liberated the notion that one of the BOYS,
for the family reputation, must 90
through college. Collegiate education,
like travelling abroad. is now so COM
mon that it confers no dist .nction.
Liberal education as it was called,
once meant only the college; an "edu-
Gated" man was one who had passed
through the curriculum. But the esti-
mate placed upon this as essential for,
or even as aid to success and usefulness
in life, has lowered greatly, and Justly
so. This is not so much because many
leave the college, and accomplish moth
ing, and many others, without it, do
memorable work. as because people are
discovering that education is as broad
and many-sided as Gods kingdom. 1t
cannot be forced into those who have no
capacity for it and reject it, but those
who want it will have it; the genuine
learner, athirst for knowledge, will
draw it in at every pore Of his being,
conquering difficulties in the way.
Hence, not to have collegiate education
is not really the deprivation it was once
esteemed to be.
In the strict utilitarian view, which
TsV''UTI II55IJTI CIo UIIIo,
the same is true. The value of an ac-
quirement must be ratedby what it will
produce for its possessor. Ald while
probably a larger class Of college grad
yates than formerly enter business life
instead of the three "learned profess
sions," on the other hand it is equally
true that collegiate education is as much
q hindrance to the success of the battle
Of life as help. Space does not allow
drawing these distinctions very nicely;
all said here is not meant Us disparage-
ment Of the college, but only to oppose
the proposition that the boy must have,
Sharp County record., 1881-06-23
The Bird That Has No Nest

The cuckoo and her mate have
home Of their own; but that does
seem to trouble them. They peep
and there among the leaves, unIll'
find the nest of some other bird-alA
perhaps, or a thrush, or a yellOw'l
mer; and, if the owner Of the ne,
away, Mrs. Cuckoo leaves within
small egg.
There are some birds that can
care of themselves almost as SOOl
they are born; but Mrs. Cuckoo y
leaves her eggs in their nests. Ol
she chooses a nest in which the Y
birds are well cared for by their u.
ers, and fed with food on when
young cuckoos thrive best. .
Why she is too idle to bulld nS
nest, no one knows. Some peop,..
it is because she stays so short ~
in the same country that her yoODss' \
would not get strong enough \
away with her, if she waited 70 y y
her nest. Others think it IS V'',
she is such a great eater that SUI sls
not spend time to find food !"
children. ai
But the kind foster-mOthers, tnsD
and the thrushes, care for the ess
the cuckoo leaves in their hou.T
though, if any other bird leaves Vi
they will take no care OF 1t az ~
roll it out upon the ground
The Scotch word for cuckoo'
means, also, a foolish person
think they ought rather to nave a,
it a wicked person; Tor tng ya.S
cuckoo is so ungratetul and seln' s
he often gets one of the oln'i I'm :
birds on his back, and then' "a
to the top of the nest, throws M
the edge. These are tle
cuckooS of which l have oesn IL
you. am glad to say that tneE i,r J,
can cousins take care OF 'H'' 2
children.-N1rSsry. Z
Sharp County record., 1881-06-23
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Bishop Merrill has organized the
Methodist missions in Italy into an an
nual conference.
The Khedive is about to erect al
his own entire cost, a school IN caro-
for the education Of girls OF higher
classes.
The sum Of 8I9.oOO,OOO has been
giren by private individuals in this
country toward the cause OF education
within the past fifteen months.
Bishop Paddock. who so recently
left for Washington Territory has met
with a terrible atfiictiOn in the sudden
death of his wife. most active, earnest
and noble Christian woman.
Nine members Of the neWly-elected
CITY Council Of Toronto, the Mayor OF
the city and eight Aldermen, are sun
dav-school Superintendents, and several
others are active Sunday-schOol work
ers.
1t is now seventy years since the
first Hindoo baptism by DR.. Carey
There are in India. Burmah and Cey-
lon 500, 900 persons OF the native popu-
lation protesting and ranking them
selves as Christians.
The National Conference of Second
Adventists, recently held in Worcester,
Mass, adopted declaration OF faith,
the chief features Of which are the near
second coming of Christ and the ami
hilation of the wicked.
There are 1,578 ministers among
the Tunkers, or German BaptistS. OF
these 300 are in Pennsylvania, 248 in
Indiana, 227 in Ohio, 142 in Illinois and
1873 in Iowa. The denomination is rep
sented in twenty States.
Among the Commissioners elected
to the Presbyterian General Assembly,
which meets in Buffalo, is the venera-
bic DR.. Musgrove, of Philadelphia. He
first appeared in the General Assembly
in 1881, just fifty years ago.
The average cost of education in
Massachusetts during the past year was
$3.50 per pupil, while in the year 1850
it was but S7.41. In the same time the
average pay of the Boston teachers has
increased from S31.50 10 S60.17 per
month, and throughout the State gen.
orally the pay has doubled.
Information has reached this coun-
try through DR.. Nevins, that he saw,
during a tour in China. eighty-four
grown persons and thirteen infants
baptized, and also many inquirers. The
number of stations reported by him
where Christians meet for worship num-
Der twenty-five, and in seventy different
villages were either Christians or in
quirers. These stations extend 200
miles from north to south and seventy
miles from east to west.
The latest statistics show 41,678, 900
school children in the world, so far as
the census takers were enabled to as
certain These have about 1000, 900
teachers First in proportion to popu-
lation comes the United States, with
1913, 195 pupils and 271.144 teachers.
Both here and in France the school chill
dren form one-fifth of the population.
Prussia, with 4,007,776 pupils and 81, 936
teachers, takes the third place. Next
corae England and Wales, where, as in
Prussia, school children are one-sixth
of the population. Austria then flies
into line. In Japan there are 2,l62, 1862
school children, but the total popula-
Sharp County record., 1881-06-23
fnr puung Readers.
4 NOBLE BOZ

He was very little boy,
Btft as ne passed me by
1smiIed TO see the brave. bright IooA
That sparkled in his eye.
The basket on his slender arm
Was heavy. quite, as he;
1--WE got TO take it way up town,
He, laughing, said TO me.
"Idou't believe you can, said 1;
The loads too large for you.
"WelI. anyway said ne. IN try
And see what 1 can DO.
"We're very. very poor. said he.
Ny mother sews all day;
like TO work. because, you see,
Ii helps 10 pay our way
ats Jolly fun to get a job
When mother dOesn know,
And carry something home TO her;
like to 'sprlse her so.
"Idon't mind if the work is hard.
I'll do il. if | can.
For mothers sake" he bravely SAID,
And on his errand ran.
God bless the boy who loves to help
HIS mother pay the way
A little hero, young in years
In heart, man to-day. 90. H.,
-E66R Z. RCrfOrd, IN Golden D1gS'
Sharp County record., 1881-06-23

The Philadelphia NeJCs says when
a young violinist serenades his sweet
heart all the neighbOrs know that there
is a woman at the bottom of that scrape.
Sharp County record., 1881-06-23

DR. r. G.. StanwoOd, VINO :,
ously disappeared from D Dir =
Me-, last summer and BUS
turned up in Brunswick, U'';' S;ls
was run down by a yacht Wnls ~.
his boat and knocked senSelTU1li ID
blow from man on board , e. e
came to he was in Savannah y :
from there walked to BrunS"Us, /
case is a very remarkable oh', n
mystery surrounding it by n
cleared up. =,
Sharp County record., 1881-06-23

Sad case: The Girl who was locked
in her lover arms for three hours eX-
plains that it wasn't her fault. She
claims he forgot the combination.
Sharp County record., 1881-06-23

The inventor Of the submarine tele-
scope, a woman, has received $4,000
for her invention
Sharp County record., 1881-06-23

"A New Orleans fashion u 4
grief is to place the chair OIL or: 4
member of the family IN 2 CUn' ~
place in the parlor and drap'
purple.