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Fall OVerc0atS for Men.

6 FALL OVERCOAT is what needs these crisp days Our
lA display overcoats in Mems Clothing Department includes
NV all the popular styles and weaves
Foremost in favor the fancy herringbone stripes and
cevos Goats made the lengths slightly orttng
deep ape self velvet collars variety of
plain and fancy fabrics select from.
Prices, $500 to $4,000.
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Handsome BrOadclOthS.
-rN ERF1APS the most sought of all Dress Fabrics
HIN is Broadcloth. The perfection of this peerless
llt>> goods is ~~-
SDot=Proof Chiffon BroadclOtf,

exquisite of gown materials. It extremely light
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needle black and coorsal the shades ap-
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blues London browns taup elephant gray
These charming lightweight broadcohs guaranteed not to
spot leading of Europe and con-
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Alice Chiffon BroadclotF (spot=proof), made i'm
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Brussels Chiffon Broadcloth (spot= proof) made
inn Belgium. 81 inches wide, $3.50 the yard
Cleopatra Chiffon Broadcloth (spot=proof), the
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Broadcohs black the fashionable shades $oo the
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Blanket Department

Blanket Department
Showing the best foreign and do
mestic makes in
Patent Satin and
Imported Marseilles Quilts
Beautiful, soft and lustrous, and
ready for immediate use. Sizes for
cribs, single, three-quarter and dou-
bic beds.
Special:
so Down Comforts
Filled with pure white down and
guaranteed. Covered with figured
japanese silk on one side, plain sat-
cen on the other, and finished with
border of plain silk. .4.. :. -. -.
$500 each.
Regular price, $1,000.
Flannel Department
Offers the following special value:
1000 Yards All=wool
French Flannel,
embroidered all over in dots of vari-
Gus sizes. White and the leading
colors.
soc. per yard. 81
Regular price, 85c.
Second floor, Eleventh st.
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visited West Point on Wednesday.

visited West Point on Wednesday,.
Dr.. W. K, Gatewood is attending the
Southern Railroad Surgeons Convention
in Charleston. S. C. His daughter, Mary,
accompanied him.
Miss Leonard. OF Connecticut. is tho
guest of Mrs. Charles ]. Holt.
Miss Anna Lumpkin. Of Manchester, is
the guest of Mrs. Samuel Bland.
Mrs. W. P. Bray and daughter, Miss
tAnabel visited friends In town Wednes-
day
Miss Mary Sue Dew, Of Richmond,
who has been visiting her grandmother,
Mrs. DR.. Fauntleroy. Of King and Queen
county, passed through West Point on
Tuesday en- route to her home she
will 20 to Hollins Institute next week to
take the A. B. degree OF that institution.
She graduated with honor there some
years ago. when 1t was not the custom to
confer the A. B.. degree. Post-sraduates
who Gubnlit the required essay. can
now obtain this degree.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Nelson, of Richmond,
visited their sister. Mrs. w w. Gary.
this week. Mrs. Nelson will remain In
West Point week or more.
Mrs. ]. L. Mostly. who Is Mt the Uni
versty of Maryland Hospital under the
trea tment OF DR.. Mason Hundey, is I'M
proving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Morgan Treat have re-
turned from trip to Cincinnati.
Mr.. F. M. Kendall. OF Orange county.
had severe fall about ten days ago,
which Is feared will prove fatal. Mr..
Kendall married Miss lisa Stark, of this
town.
The election OF mayor and town council
to be held June 18th, is causing much
interest In the town. The present mayor
stands for reelection. He will be opposed
by Mr.. J. H. Gary, who Is now justice
OF the peace The fight bids fair to be
warm and interesting. The present coun-
Gil will probably be reelected.
Mr.. j. r. Gary has withdrawn from
the contest In favor OF Mr., A. Julian
Bagby. prominent lawyer and we'll
known In insurance circles. The follow
Ing new men have come out for the co,n-
Gill; Messrs. Ed. Mnrvitz. II. Wilkinson,
William Fl. Bell, s, II. Gault. John D.
Elms and A, j. Walcott.
Mrs Beauregard Turner and children,
Of kentucky" about five miles from
West Point, visited friends in town this
week
Miss Lizzie Evans has returned from
m extended trip to baltimore. where she
was called by the illness of her niece,
Miss Butler.
Miss May Owens left Thursday for
Washington. D. c.. her former home, to
visit friends
Rev Kirby, who recently bought prop
erty here. coming here from Gloucester
county. has fitted UP q neat store in
front of his dwelling and put In n stock
of groceries.
The Weekly News. OF West Peint has
Just Installed In the mechanical depart
ment Mergsnthaler Linotype.
r DR., G. " Waugh left Thursday on the
Baltimore steamer to attend Sunday
school convention at Union Church. Glou-
gcester county, He will roturn Sunday In
time to Fill his pulpit here.
The lumber Is In place fort Christian
Church. to be built on D Street on the
corner nes> The Masonic HsA ,,Zhe old
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Tuesday and Wednesday, June 9Th ana n
9Th: Tho cadets are now in the midst 1
of their final examination, and the resi-
suit of examinations shows that asplendlds
work has been done during the year.
The commencement exercises will be.i
gin with banquet given by the MIL.
lionaires' Club Of the school on tuesday,
evening. to which all their friends ana \
guests of the school will bei1nvited.
On Tuesday evening at o'clock thai
officers ball Will take place In the pa
wilton. Wednesday morning ut II o clocas j
the annual commencement exercises VIM
take place Congressman John #. Rlxey.ii1
nm "old Bethel boy, will deliver thasss
usual commencement address. In the af-is
ternoon the final drill and the presen ia a
ton OF commissions to cadet officers viii 4
take place on the parade ground s
1t night the final ball, the most Inns L
pnrtants. social function Of the year, 5kIlli
take place in the pavilion. This functlonl
IS attended by number of people 'front.'
nearby cities, as well as FROM sWarrentona
nv inf ilEgqNT
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Morris Garter, william catln, Marie

Morris Garter, william catlin, Marie
Tinberlake.
sixth Grammar tsecond honoro--clay.
ton Holiday, Hazel Rnry, Louise Mar.
shall. 1aoy Allen, Edith Allan.
Fifth Grammar tnrst honor)--Harold
Wilder Clifford Ritchie. Second honor
Dorothy Brown, Bessie Anderson sam
Marshall, Charlie Cross, Claire Skater.
Fourth Grammar Second honor) Lem
Gary, I3lnnch HUFFMAN, Gordon Brown,
Roy Bowman.
Second Grammar (arst honor)-Frank
Yarbrough. Frank Richie. George Cary
Eenora Enslow, Irving Tragic. Second
honor--Hnrry Carter. Harry Moore, Nil.
ton Williams, Carter Taylor, Annie Al.
len, Hunter Christian, Josephine Wood
all, Elizabeth spratley.
Eighth Primary (nrst honor)-Herbert
Bahlke, Thornton Know. Rodophil Cat
K lin. Emily Huxter, Leslie Bradley. Sec.
ond honor-Ruth Bowman, Flora Good
win, Mildred Cowardin, Sue s,arke,.
Sixth Primary (nrst honor) -Florence
Bowman. Ruth Yarbrough, Marie VIII
llams, Katie Davis. Marguerite Bahlke
Mary ONeill. Bessie Taylor Ethel Mick.
elboro, Iva Tyler, Violet Burton, Alvinia
Frtzsche. Helen wilder, Clinton Peers,
Thomas Ratclffe, Russell Satterwhite
Logan Richie, Rufus Quarles. Prescott
Brown, Herbert Parrish, James Rennie,
William Know, jain Wiley. Second
honor-Frank Nelson, Harold Ratcl,ffe,
Colston Royal. Pauline Frtzsche, Geo
Subtell, James Gallespie. Willie Gaines,
Richard Halter.
Fourth Primary tffrst honor>-Bessle
Cross, Eula Gary, Ruth Wyatt, FANNIE
Sale. Adeine Bayne, Lucina O'Neil,
Mary Lee, Ragland Layne, Annie Tyler,
Harvic Devine, Johnny Hcelmnn, Ham
den Burton, Alvin Ncisz Linden Harri-
son, Willie Carter. Second honor-Rob-
ert Parrish, Cora Lynne Woods, Earle
Ray, Lillian Wright. George Richie, Joe
Allen. N
Second Primary (nrst honor)-Katie
Radcliffe, Mamie Flemming. Louise DAB
ney. Mary Dabney. Lois Yarbrough, Mary
Moore. Olive Griffeith. Louise Bufont,
James Goodwin, Oliver Devine, Lee
Williams. John Allen, John Taylor. Cur.
tbs Carter. Robert yernibra. Second
honor-Walker Huxter.
Mrs. = Q. Stacy. OF Highland Park,
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Murray,
Of New York. Before her return home
she will spend some time in Atlantic
City and Asbury Park.
Miss Marion Starke. OF Highland Park
who has been quite sick for the past
week. is improving
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SOCIETY.
CONTINUED from Second page.)

J.. Smith, Mrs. a. II. Bolts, Miss Mary
Green, Mrs Arthur Thornton, Mrs. nj.
NJ. Lewis. Miss Lizzie Kelly, Mrs. Times
Taylor, Mrs. ID. ID. IN.eeler, Miss Mary
Braxton Mrs. John Nj. w. Green, Mrs
Sam Wallace, Mrs. G. u. racket, Miss
Parker 11crndcn.
May Queen Repeated.
The May Queen FESTIVAL given on May
23d and oath under the direction of Mrs.
Mark A. Peyser, will be repeated by re-
quest on next Thursday evening. May
81st, IN Corcoran Hall, corner Broad and
Z Twcnty-nrth Streets. The entertainment,
as before, viii be for the bencflt Of the
Church Hill Auxiliary, Retreat for the
Sick.
Called Meeting.
called meeting Of the board Of man
ayers Of the Virginia Home for Incura-
bles, will be hsld Thursday morning, May
B1st Mt II O'clock In Tue ladies' parlor
at Murphy's n Hotel. All members are
urged to be present tsy..
The Confederate Memorial Literary So
ciety will meet Tuesday at ii a. NJ.
Personal Mention.l
Miss Alice and Miss Julia Swanson and
Miss Hunter of Pittsyvania county; Mrs.
Henry Swanson. Of iDanvlle. VA, and
Miss Bessie Treadwny, Of Chatham, are
the guests Of Governor and Mrs. Claude.
a. Swanson, at the; Executive Mansion.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Alexander Graham. OF,
New York. sailed last Thursday, by tho
steamer 1lcllg Olav to spend rome time
IN Europe. They will land first at Stock
holm, Sweden Mrs. Graham lis most
pleasantly recalled in Richmond as Miss
Mary Florence, the niece of Mrs. Anna
II. Reynolds of this city. t@
MIS-. Joseph Noel, who is the guest of
friends In Norfolk, Va, will visit Mrs.
Axel Gustav Mathiason, In Trenton, N. j.,
before she returns TO Richmond.
Mrs. John S. NNlncc, accompanied by
her sons, Mr.. ohm Gillian M,,nce and
Masters George and Marshall Munce,
Will sail for Europe on Saturday, June
I'd, for a three-months' trip.
ST. Johns Circle Will meet in the home
OF Mrs. j S. Moore, No: 2aO7 East Broad
Street, Monday, May 18th, at 4:30 p. NJ. A
prompt and full attendance Is requested.
Miss Annie w. Gibson left last Monday
for New York. to visit her cousin. the
Rev. John Howard, who enjoys fine
reputation as n preacher and author.
Mr.. and Mrs. John v. Moriarty, who.
with their infant son, Vincent, have been
visiting the latter's parents, Mr.. and Mrs
G. H. Beal OF No. 23l6 East Marshall.
Street, have returned to their home in
New iork city.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey L. Jones, with
their little son. Cameron. haveAeft for
Wilmington, Delaware to make that citv
their future home, Mr.. Jones having ac-
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WEST POINT, va.
Especial to The, Times Dispatch

VEST POINT VA. May 26-Mr. o. NJ.
Chandler Of Chestnut Grove New
Kent, has been doing good deal Of sur
veying in this section. He has been SIR.
veying the Brick House Farm of New
Kent. belonging to Mr.. Houston, OF New
York. who was ex-treasurer OF tho
United States under President Harrfsonl
Mr. Chandler has also been straighten-
Ing out the tract known as Plum point.
Just across on the New Kent side. which
was laid out for town some years
ago. The lots were sold all over the
country, home people never recorded
their deeds and some lots have grown
up In grass and underground. Ten white
families have built houses and settled
there and quite @ number of negroes
have settled there. q.
Rev. Boyd Hudson, who was marr,ed
to Miss Cheatham. of Manchester. on
Thursday. arrived that evening and ia
boarding with Mr.. and Mrs. James Shell.
ton.
Rev. and Mrs. Forsythe, Of Richmond.
were the guests OF Mr.. Charles j. Holt
Tuesday. Rev. Mr. Forsythe conducted
services In the Episcopal Church Tues
day evening. The church was left With
Out rector by the death OF Rev. Charles
]. Holt few weeks ago.
Mrs. Holt and family will leave West
Point June 18th Mrs. Holt will visit
friends and relatives in Gloucester coun.y
ty before she settles permanently
M1Hs Lillian Parks. daughter OF Com
mander w. N. Parks. u. s.. ~. Is visit
Ing her aunt. Mrs. Herbert I. Lewis
The telephone line from West Point to
King and Queen Courthouse is in opera
tion: stations have been established at
Little Plymouth and True Heart.'
Mr.. W. G. Garrett. of Beulahville. was
the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. j.. u. Fagg
several days this week.
Mrs. II. w. B. Williams (nee Clara
Denmead, with her little son. Basil. is
the guest of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs
James Denmead, Mrs. Williams is from
Colonial Beach. Va.
Mr.. Thomas ]. Hughes. for long time
a prominent merchant in West Point.
now OF Renceverte. w. Va, is greeting
friends here this week and visiting his
brother. Mr.. P. B. Hughes. He left
Thursday for Renceverts.
Miss Marie Hargrave, after visit OF
several weeks to friends in Baltimore,
has returned to her home here
Mr.. Elmo Brown and Mr.. Brantly Bray
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church was burned in the fire three years

church was burned IN the fire three years
ago.
to a party Of friends on Thursday. Among
them We're his sister Mrs. J.. Powell.
Garland; his mother. Mrs. A. P. Rich.
ardRn and Mrs. Judge Gunter.
Mrs. Charles Cabe entertained In honor
OF Mrs. r. w. Eubank, Of Essex, on
Wednesday, from to 6 p. M.
DR.. George w. Richardson and family
and Mrs. B. L.. Farinholt (hirs. Richard
sons mother). will leave by June LIST,
to spend the summer in Saluda, N. c..
They will be met there by DR.. May Far
Finhot,Jones and, Miss Crystal Farnholt.
Miss Farinholt spent the winter in Co
lumbus, Miss, with her sister. Or. Jones.
who is resident physician in the Indus
trial School in Columbus. Miss.
Miss Jane Bngby is on the sick list.
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.cepted a position as craftsman with the
Harlan and Hollingsworth Company
sass
Mrs. Julian Tyler, who has been under
going treatment at Memorial Hospital, Is
very much improved. z 3
Mrs. Garfield, widow OF the late .Presi-
dent James A. Garfield, Is tho guest of her
son. Commissioner of Corporations James
r. Garfield. in washington.
Mrs. Lillian B. Hess and little son. Of
Hellertown, Pa, are on visit to Mr..
and Mrs. c. B. Hess.
Misses Lucille and Virginia Clarke. Of
Baltimer, Md, formerly Of this city,
were among those receiving at an elab-
crate tea given Wednesday afternoon
May I'D. by Mrs. Clarence D. Pruden.
In her apartments at the Rochambeau
in Baltimore. The guests OF honor were
Lieutenant and Mrs. Daw. OF Texas.
Miss Nellie Gordon. Of this city, who
is visiting friends in Norfolk. was one
OF the guests at luncheon given FRI
day evening at the Country Club by Mr..
James NJ. Thomson.
Miss Jennie Hopkins. Of Lexington, is
the guest OF friends in this city.
Mrs. Guy Davis. OF Norfolk. is visiting
relatives in the city.
Mrs. J. Shelton Horsley and children
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CHESTNUT HILL AND
HIGHLAND PARK

: I I. . I'D u . / . ~ L =. . .
Mr.. Douglas Clarke, OF Boston, Mass,
is spending some time with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Garland II, Clarke, Of
Chestnut Hill
Miss Oracle Fitzsche OF Chestnut Hill,
left several days ago to visit friends in
fredericksburg,
The dance which was given at North.
side Hall last Thursday night, for the
benefit, OF tho Home for Incurahles,
proved quite success. Tho "Iiighland
Park" school closed Friday, and the
following is the list of honor pupils
Intermediate a (frst honor)-Bettle
Radcliffe. Maud Tier. Bertha Marshall,
Roy Cross. Emily Cross, Bessie Carter,
Edith Yarbrough JUROR A-+Fannie
Gray, Gertrude Royal, Keeling slsson,
Marie Todd, Lynn 5nslow, Lizzie Bow
man, irene Dunn, Alma Vaughan. Irene
EITitzsche.
Junior b FIRST honor Mac. Brown.
! Second hon Connie Cary, jamie Gaines.
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This offer only holds good for Is
days more, then the price will be-
$1.0Q Why Because We cannot at.
ford to sell our remedy tor less You
who have been made we'll by Fuller's
Ozone know that 1t is worth $4,000 a
bottle. Tell your friends about it.
help them to be cured also.
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BETHEL MILITARY ACADEMY

WARRENTON, VA, May 26.-!The COM
mcncement exercises at Bethel Military
Academy will take place this year on
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Nadinola : ss :; :s'sss'

the very worst cases and btautify tie
complexion in twenty days.
Mrs. Edward Jones, Of Mount Sterling,
Kentucky, writes.
II feel II my duty TO tell you the beneSs
Nadinoln has been to me. had suffered
untold modification with frcckles, since child.
mcndcd creams and lotions, with much
hcsitancy. bought your entire treatment
After giving It a fur trial I most heartily
gold to any woman having freckles. Your
Nadinola Is the only thing have ever used
with SUCCESS. Your Nadine Pace Powder II
am sincerely"
! Price 50 cents and st.o0, BY leading
druggists OF mail. Prepared BY the
National T oilet Co.. Paris. Tenn.
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PERSONALS.

The Rev. Dr. A. M. Frazer, of Staun-
ton, is assisting DR.. j. M. Wells in pro-
tracted services in the First Presbyterian
church, Wilmington, N G.
Dr. Henry A. Converse, of Louisville,
has been elected professor of mathema-
tics in Davis and Elkins College, Elkins,
w. Va.
The Interior says this of DR.. Hover
ton and Montreal:
DR.. ]. R. Howerton believes enough in
Montreat-the Southern Winona which
he has projected-to give up the pas
torate of his great church at Char
lotte, N. c.. and make a business of
realizing his beautiful mountain dream.
DR.. Dickey, we should say, had no better
prospects than those now before Mon
treat when he threw his life into Win
ona, and he has never had reason to doubt
the wisdom of his choice. We trust it
will be so with DR.. Howerton. The orig
inal stock in the enterprise was oversub-
scIibed fifty per cent, and nearly all by
Southern people.
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BRIEFS.

There was a man and some did count
him mad;
The more he gave away, the more he
had" John Bunyan
Words are among the most solid and
enduring things which the wit of man
has invented.
There is such thing as a worldly
spirit and there is such a thing as an
unworldly spirit; and, according as we
partake of one or the other the SAVIOR
OF the sacrifice of our lives is ordinary,
commonplace, poor, and base, or elevat-
ing, 1nvigorating, useful, noble, and holy.
Dean Stanley.
Before we can bring happiness to 9TH
ers, we must first be happy ourselves;
nor will happiness abide within us I'm
less we confer it on others. If there
be smile upon our lips, those around
US viii soon smile, too, and our happi-
ness will become the truer and deeper
as we see others are happy.-Maeterlinc
trouble and perplexity drive us to
prayer, and prayer driveth away trouble
@uu perplexity.- Melancthon.
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FROM THE PAPERS.
The Belfast Witness:

The Belfast Witness:
:, Inc only rulers who also preach are
Tue Kaiser and President Roosevelt of
tue TWO we greatly prefer the President,
A 1al american Presbyterian paper says
resident Roosevelt has only one text
aoI all his sermonizing, and when he
SPoKe on a recent Sunday at the bi-centen-
la la OF Christ church at Oyster Bay, he
ttSau' as usual, four or five verses from
e end of the first chapter of James,
p'it' as usual, he talked on conduct
d 1ut nobody can fairly say that the Presi-
sI is a preacher of a mere gospel of
1oou works. He knows quite we'll that
MI GOODNESS of behaviour is worth praise
Sit{'ss 1t is the outfower of character
MIN Min the man. One of the best of his
cbu uy strong sentences in the Christ
fifth address was this-'We cannot CON
lo,,o'e as Republic, we cannot rise to any
nesa Oh true greatness, unless that great
bieI 70 based upon and conditioned by a
Wo,itSa ana brave type of spiritual life"
seertu mat we had on this side some
E'ered preachers of that type.
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MINISTER'S PLACE.
REALITY IN PREACHING.

In preaching, today we ask for great
er simplicity and more directness. We
put up with an absence of decoration
for decorations sake. Or, rather, we
are glad to be rid of 1t. Men demand
of a preacher that he be supremely
honest. If he can say what he means
less rhetorically, more exactly, be moro
honest, in short, by writing, than by
unrestrained extemporary speech, they
are careless as to his method-only,
they want the man, and the mans truth
the note of joyous reality in all he
says, They ask too, for the entire
preservation of a mans personality in
his utterance; that there be no more
Dretense or affectation or acting in the
pulpit than in the club; that Pau be
Paul, and Peter not try to be John.
They'd rather have young Evan Roberts
come from the Welsh mines, to talk
for seven minutes in his own way, with
the touch of God upon him, than to
have him try to put on the classic robe
of Richard S. Storrs. Say your saw
from your soul, and leave the issue with
GOd-that's their ideal of preaching!
Think of the varieties of personality,
and their unity in this, the note of re-
ality; from Phillips Brooks freely rush.
ing like a mill-race, or impetuously
glancing through his translucent manu-
script, to Dwight l.. Moody under the
pines on Round Top in Mortified. with
the silent college boys about him; simp-
ly telling them there in the twilight of
God and prayer, and the great Hand
laid on their hands. Those fellows did
not care so much what Moody believed
they cared very much what he was!
And when he talked of God to them,
they were ready to trace it back to his
early morning watch in "the upper
room" of yOnder farmhouse, alone
with the Book and Godfrey. DR.. A.
E. Cross, in a recent sermon at the Old
South Church. Boston.
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STORY CORNER.

At Phillips Exeter Academy there
used to be a most absent-minded in
structor.
This mans wife fastened in to him
one morning as he sat in his study
marking exercises.
oh" she cried, "oh, I've swallowed
a pin! Oh, John, what shall I do?"
The instructor smiled
Don't worry about it, my dear" he
said in a soothing tone. cts of no
consequence. Here"-he fumbled all
his lapel-"heres another pin"
Secretary Wilson, of the department.
OF agriculture. tells a story of a Connec-
ticut farm hands methods of weather
prophecy.
''This farm hand believed he could
foretell the weather infallibly," said
Secretary Wilson. "On a walk with me
one afternoon frog croaked, and he
said:
We will have clear weather for
twenty-four hours. When a frog croaks
in the afternoon you may be sure of
twenty-four hours Of sunshine Wa
walked on, and in twenty minutes or so
heavy shower came up, and we were
both drenched to the skin.
You are a fine weather prophet.'
said I, as we hurried homeward through
the downpour. You ought to be a.
shamed of yourself
"'Oh, We'll said the farm hand. tho
frog lied. It's to blame, not me. Am
1 responsible for the morals of tb at
particular frog?'"