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NH "Certainly. ‘Why not !" replied the good parson.â€"Hamilton Spectator. A miserly English noblemianâ€"Lord Bathâ€"who live many years ago owed his tailor some eight hundred pounds, which he utterly refused to pay. The tailor sent him many letters stating that he had himself paid out a good deal of money for cloth, velvet, and trimmings of all sorts, and could not afford to give so much away; but the dishonest nobleman never even answerâ€" ed him. He called and told Lord Bath how many troubles he bad; bow hard times were, and that nothing but necâ€" essity would ever make him press his bill. Lord Bath promised to pay him shortiy, but only to get rid of him, «*With that I jumped out of the buggy and stood waiting for my brave Baptist. He looked at me doubtfully, then glanced at the ice and shivered; and then looked at me, but said nothâ€" i1g. 1t was the first time I had ever seen him taken aback. * *Come on,‘ I said, ‘I am in earnest,‘ "He s11d the proposal was an insane one. . He‘d catch his death. of cold. He was sure it would bring on his rheumatism. In short. he flatly refusâ€" ed. Then I climbed back into the bugay and drove on. . For a while neiâ€" ther of us spoke. 1 tell you I enjoyed the luxury of his silence. _ At last he said, in quite an humble tone. ‘"You are not going to tell any of the folks about this, are you? I promised I‘d keep mum if he never mentioned the subjectof baptism to me agrin. He promised, and‘ he kept his word. This was years ago, and the man isn‘t in these parts now, so it does not matter my telling it." 6 ‘"Suppose that man had taken you at your word, Father Geoghegan, would you have dipped him? asked one of the company. «on it. I pulled up my horse, and said; ‘Now, I‘ll take you at your word. Here is our opportunity. _ We‘ll just get out here and go over to that pond, and I ean bave you dipped comfortably in two minutes.‘ "*With that I jumped out of the "One mornmingâ€"it was late in Noâ€" vember and their had been a hard frost the night beforeâ€"I was driving along the road when this man hailed me and asked to be taken up. I took him up, and braced myself for the torture. It came, of course. ‘When he came to (his tenth or twelfth argument, a bright ‘though‘t came into my bead like an in: spiration. _ I interrupted him suddenly "Tom,‘ said I, ‘do you really . mean to say that your opinion on the subject of baptism is the only thing that stands in the way of your joining the Church of England? * That‘s what I say,‘ he replied. **And If you could be immersed would you join ? "*Of.course I would,‘ he said. ©**Well, suppose I should offer to Ammerse you, you wou d consent would you not? "He said he would. "By this time we had reached a {large pond by the side of the road. It had been frozen over the nighs before, and I suppose there was an inch of ice _ â€"*When d was.in Flamboro,".continâ€" med |Father \Geoghegan, «‘there was a manin.my.congregation who bothered me a _ great deal. _ He avasn‘ta.member «of the church, but his wife was, and ishe was very anxious that he should he «confitmed. â€" This man avas.on great arâ€" gument. (He‘d go without his dinner any day to get into~an arzument, and he‘d tallk all night if you‘d tallk wich bim. Mle.used to tackle me on the subject .of baptism. Once be had velong ed to the Millerites.or some such sect, and although he had left them he proâ€" fessea to bave carried away with him an intense belief in baptism by immerâ€" sion. My own opinion is that he had no convictions at all on the subject, but just took up that hobby in order to have a subject of debate with the parâ€" son. Well, I used to argue the matter with him. _ Many an hour I wasted in vain discourse with him, for he profesâ€" sed that it was only his hovror of infant baptism and his convietions on the subâ€" ject of unmersion that prevented him from joining the church _ At last I got tired of going over the same old ground with him time and time again, aud usâ€" ed to avoid him. But he never tired of the subject, and would lie in wait far me and pounce upon me and prod me with his rusty old arguments until I was in mortal terror of him, .. He reâ€" garded me as his legitimate prey. â€"‘The company immediately sprang to :attention, {for everpbody knew that a .goodâ€"story was;rcoming. One of the best cf. Rev. Father Geoâ€" ghegan‘s many good stories was told by him a day or tsao before he sailed for the old country. iThe old subject of gonversation waeâ€"church union and the idoctrinal wbstweles in the way of that wishedâ€"for ~consemmation. _ Somebody said that: the , Baptists «would never a gree to unite wit» the other denominaâ€" tions unless the »»ecessify . of baptism by. iammersion were admitted, and that form of the rite generally practiced. ""*Ldon‘tâ€"see why that: showd stand in : the way," â€"said tFatheri Groghegan, "Tf.a man «wants to be dipped,awhy not dip hiny? â€" That.reinds . me of 1 livtle incident.in my ownâ€"axperience." How a Tailor Got His Money Finally the tailor grew angry. He One of Father Geoghegan‘s Stories. Rev. Father Geo Of course, you must forbid Fannie‘s suitor the house if his morals are deâ€" cidedly bad, or plead with John if he has chosen some one who is quite unfit for him.. But don‘t say *‘no" because you do not like the young man‘s grâ€"ndâ€" father, or because there was trouble twenty years ago about that acre of marsh land, or because there was an argument between your Aunt Priscilla and that girl‘s second cousin Sally which ended in their not speaking to each other, and in saying a great deal against each other to make up for it. Old feuds, old prejudices, old superstiâ€" tions of the stupidest sort have parted many a pair whom the angels evidentâ€" ly intended to join together. And there are sour old maids in many & homestead and wicked old bachelorsin many a town who might have been good, dear old conples now if some othâ€" er old couple in the past had not interâ€" fered without good reason. _ MKD. One who watches street life in a great city will often witness amusing cases of absentâ€"mindedness. One day a young girl came tripping down the steps of her New York home. In [her hand she held an elevated railroad ticâ€" ket and a letter to be mailed, _ She bastened to a letterâ€"box, dropped in her ticket. and walked hurriedly to the nearest elevated station. _ What she did there we cannot say. _ Not less forgetful was the man who, after buyâ€" ing & dollars worth of elevated railroad tickets, tore off one, which he put into his vest pocket for future use, and and dropped the other nineteen into the box. n a Staten Island boat not long ago a young man was seenito take a cigar from his pocket. He seated himself comfortrbly on deck with his evening paper, struck a match and lit A life hardly ever goes quite right that is cut down. as are some roseâ€" bushes by florists, to the very roots,and allowed to grow again. However it may be in the garden, the rose in the rosebud garden of girls never gets her sweetness back. She is coarser, less charming, and life is not the old life to her. Men get over these things betâ€" ter, but the first love is the only woâ€" man to whom a man is ever really true or whom he ever makes entirely happy and contented. To The ‘*Old Folks," W hen your son‘John goes a courting, or some young man surprises you by paying attertion to the girl you have alway thought of as little Fannie, pause awhile before you decide on jopâ€" posing their desires and thwarting their hopes. ~And do not set your face against the match, and make the young people miserable, unless it is really right that you should do so. There is so much sweetnes in the continuance of one‘s first loveâ€"In havâ€" ing nothing to look back uponâ€"no reâ€" grets, no old loveâ€"letters to tear up, or locks of hair to put in the fire. The rector, in bis high pulpit, heard nothing of all this, but the people in the pews all about were staring. Those home truths, perhaps, touched the misâ€" erly nobleman‘s couscience, _ At the conclusion of the benediction he reâ€" quested the tailor to call on him the next morning, and on his doing so, his lordsnip gave him a check for the full amount of his debt. "There now, my lord. See where you‘re likely to go to, my Jord. See what is to happen to you if you‘re too fond of your gold to be honest, I wouldn‘t risk it, my lord, if I was you. The parson ought to know, and you see what he thinks of you." And when, in his peroration,? the clergy man waxed eloquent, the tailor, lifted his voiee higher than he had before, filled each pause with an earnest; . "Ab! that‘s you to m certainty, my lord. He‘s got you pat, my lord. That‘s Lord Bath that never pays his debts, and sits in church with honest men " The clergyman hinted, as preachers of all denominations were apt to do in those days, at the probable fate of the miser, and the tailor behind Lord Bath breathed, with great apparent earnestâ€" ness, in his ear such words as these. ear "I want my money," he whigpered. When in the course of the service the congregation arose, those at a distance who noticed the tailor, only saw @ resâ€" pectable man seerringly joining in the responses; but fevery time he opezed his mouth the tailor whispered: Singularly enough, the sermon was on avarice. ‘The tailor pointed every moral by whispering: *‘Just like you my lord." \Lord Bath shifted his seat; ghe tail or followhd hign. "You callyourself a Chrissian, and cheat a poor &ailor, do you ?" iFinally jhe followed Lord Bath to Church ome morning, and seated himâ€" self in the pew hehind hiss. As the nobleman «at erect, leaning a little backward, shere came a shasp whisper in his ear: stood in the entrance way of Lord Bath‘s residence when he had company and cried : The servants turned him away. He followed his Lordship to.places where he visited, forced his way into the hall and insisted on being paid. The hosts had him arrested several times, and he was chatged with being insane "I want my money. The clothes you ‘heve on are not paid for.‘ s "Pay me my money," in Lord Batii‘s Abscntâ€"Mindedncss, commend to public approval the California liquid fruit remedy Syrup of ‘Figs. It is pleasing to the eye, and to the taste and by gently acting on the kidneys, liver and bowâ€" els, it cleanses the system effectually, there by promoting the health and comfort of all who use it. Few people are aware of the difficulâ€" ties that were surmounted in the manâ€" ufacture of the cormmon lead pencil. In the first place, the graphite of which it is made is rarely found sufficiently homogeneous to allow pencil lead to be cut from it, so it is always ground to powder and then pressed into blocks. The great difficulty was to press the blocks funtil tho graphite was hard enough to use, and for many years every effort in this direction was deâ€" feated by the crumbling nature of the material. Finally a device was emâ€" ployed that exhausted the air, after which the blocks were again pressed, and when this was done the material was found to be as hardfas when taken from the quarry. But thousands of pounds were spent in experiments beâ€" fore the result was reached. "Oh, I have been preaching whereâ€" ever I go. _ Whether on a stage, where a painted buffoon has capered the night betore, or on the head of a barâ€" re!, or from the tail of a cart, I preach the Gospel of God the father of us all and all men brothers." "It was on ten pages of foolsenp, and I may use that very statement or parts of it when I come speak in Chicago on the Church‘s attitude toward the social problem, It is the pure religion, the single tax. Ib is the very essence of religion, because it teaches the fatherâ€" hood of God and the brotherhood of man. Obristianity believes in giving every man a right to seratch out a livâ€" ing for himself, and the moment you give any other man or set of men conâ€" trol the opportunitics of scratching out a livingâ€"for that is a‘ll that land is, the storeâ€"house whence comes everyâ€" thing that we have, the conglomoration of all opportunities to make a livingâ€" just that moment you go against the doctrine of the brotherhood of man ana the fatherhood of God, for you make a man the lord and giver of life. Itis against God‘s will, and we pray every day: "Thy will be done.‘ "I havo been speaking lately on the politics of the Lord‘s Prayer. The very first sentence is full of politics. It is "Our father.‘ You can work out what] that means. _As there are poliâ€" tics in the Lord‘s Prayer, so there is religion in the preamkle of the Declarâ€" ation of Independence. It is really a conclusion of faith. ~_"I am to make two addresses in Chicago in August, one before the World‘s Congress of Religions. _ In one T shall talk about the Church and the other about economies. I am always preaching, _ My lectures are but thinly disguised Bermons. _I may speak with more freedom about the Church‘s attiâ€" tude towards the economic prob‘em now that the statement of my views and teachings has been carefully read over by Delegate Sato!li and four learâ€" ned theologians, and by them declared to contain nothing contrary to Cathoâ€" lic truth. Some people thought that the single tax was contrary to the Catholic faith; but I did not, and the delegate and the four learned doctors who read my statements did not, The Single Tax Law Championed by an Em« incat Advocate. In an interview the other day in New York, Rev. Dro McGlynn, the popular antiâ€"poverty lecturer, said: It has been estimated that the firing of a stewl pistol sets free about 600 footâ€"pounds of energy, while a watch consumes only about 1â€"54,000,000 of a horse power. The energy of a bullet would be sufficient, therefore, to keap the time for two years, One heat wnit equals 772 foot pounds and the heat that must be extracted from one pound of water to convert it into ice squals 109,624 foot pounds. All the blood in the body makes the entire round of the circulation in twenâ€" ty seconds, so that three times in every iminute all the red globules of the blood which are the oxygen carriers, must each have its fresh mediam of oxygen. A German g that there are miles of the en habited. The earth has theee | its axie, round the «un sun and solar systear The moon gives out heat enough to affect a thermometer acd make a differâ€" ence of two or three degrees. A German geographer has calculated that there are still 1,700,000 square miles of the earth‘s surfrce face uninâ€" Scieagific Drops. @nre square foot of glass will lose as much heat as six «gquare feet of 12â€"inch brick avall. â€"Take H. C. C. for coughs, colds »roup his cigar, which, with a ponchalant | toss, he threwâ€"over the railing, rPt,»\in-: ing .the burat match between his fingâ€", ers. He opened his paper, his lips nl-l sa, then, casting A hurried alanee about to see who had witnessed the mistake, | beat a hasty metreat. In this case hP‘ made the best possible disposition of | his«oigar.â€"Cowreqn/ional&t. ' REV. DR McGLYNN The Lead Pencil Its Excellent Qualities theee motionsâ€"round e sun and with the Waterloo County Chronicle. The trouble of taking a vote in deliâ€" berativa assemblies has been lessened by a Japanese inventor. _ He has conâ€" structed mechanism by which each perâ€" son, by pressing a button on his desk, records his vote." "Indeed," said the clergyrean‘s wife, quietly. _ "I am surprised to bear it, as all these buttons were found in the colâ€" lectionâ€"bag. I thought I might as well put thein to some use." _ Before she bad finished speaking the visitor hastily avose, and said she must be going. Thereupon she began to turn them over, and suddenly exelaimed : "Here are two buttons exactly the same as those my husband had on his last winâ€" ter suit, I should know them anyâ€" where." Too Many Buttons, A clergyman‘s wife was mendiog clothes for her boys, when one of her neighbours called in to have a friendly chat. It was not long before the visitor‘s eye was attracted by a large basket more than halfâ€"filled with buttons. The lady could not help remarking. that there seemed a very good supply of butâ€" tons. Mollieâ€""So you and Harry are enâ€" gaged. Have you seen much of eâ€"ch other ?" Cathieâ€""Well, yes ; we met first in the surf at the seaside. \_ Have mery on your cook in your !arrangpuxvnt of meals for hot days. |__Press towels folded as usual, through ! vour clothesâ€"wringer and save your | Iaundress. ! Allow double the amount of time in eatching boats and trains that you do 'in winter. To wash summer silks remove all grease or other spots with soap and water before proceeding. _ Make a soâ€" lution of a teaspoonful of ammonia and a little soap in a pail of water and in this dip the silk again until the dirt is removed. . Do not wring out, but press between the hands. Rinse in water from which the chill is goue, and hang in a shady place till partly dry, when lay between two cloths, and press with a hot iron.â€"Ladies‘ Home Journal Fond motherâ€""Nell, my dear, did the Duke propose ?" Daughterâ€""Not formally, mamtoa, but he asked me if papa was as rich as he is reputed to be." Do not make too many visits, and where you go be sure that your visit is a convenient one. Do not entertain too generously ; summer should be a time of rest, and it is difficult to rest with a house fuil of guests, Before going for a midday sail rub your face, neck and hands with simple cream, and powder with cornstarch. Wipe the powder off, and on returning wash the complexion well in warm waâ€" ter and castile soap. _ Camphorâ€"ice and butterâ€"millk both give relief from sun burn. Place a large dish of water in a room where heat is very oppressive. Change once or twice and the temperature will be perceptibly lowered. Give your children water to drink during the hot weather. They need this to make up for the loss from persâ€" piration. ¢ In washing frocks, if the color runs put half a cupful of s«lt in the last rinsing water, Bathe daily. Save your steps. Drink milk slowIy. Sponge your bodies with cold water at bedtime. For insomnia in summerâ€"time take a eold bath at bedâ€"time. 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