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Show -- LI SERMONS TO THE PURITANS. Them! IT W : M w laugh: wo weep; love; w droop: wo die! I therefor do we laugh or woeyt Why do wo live or die? bo knows that secret deep? Uas, not I! . Wrongod IT th Not JLoefl-- . Wm Preaching At Lorlmer hall. Tremoot tempi. Von da evening, at th monthly me , lug ofth Congregational club, Ieo 't 11. Vincent (poke on "Kings of the Colonial Pulpit,' giving a Stator? of the Mather family and their habits. Ho sad the Puritan were alwaya Craving tor learning and wisdom, and that they had no aooner landed li America than they began making " books." Tbe 'continual atudlouaneen of the Puritans, aald Mr. Vincent, In y arbat make New England the e great hive of book and authors. etudylog the Puritan apenf their a pa re time in persecuting hero tics and drinking strong drinks, but the CBly habit of the- three that has to their descendants la that of clung - reading. sermons The were and la an hour the minister usually only got started; An old record says; "Mr. Hooker preached two hours and seventeen minutes white not feeling weU. How long he would have talk ed If he was In good health! A liar-war- d student wrote of n minister that to the students: preached "He preached two hours, and much to our .regret, he had to stop." The people paid to hear sermons on th tacit condition that the preacher would speak a certain length of time. The audience would look at the sand glass to see that they got their money's worth. Mr. Vincent said Cottoa Mather was probably th smartest boy In th family, and nt the age of eighteen he had received his degree from his own father, Richard, President of Har-nrd- . Th subject of his thesis was "Hebrew, Vowel Points are Dlvln U Origin." People In those days did not consider fasts as great hardships. At on fast certain men prayed a number of hours, and then biscuits were distributed sod three different kinds of liquor were drunk. Cottoa Mather went fishing one day and fell Into soallow water. Mather was very superstitious, and .as soon as he got out of ths water he cried, "May God help me to know what la th meaning of ell this!" He spent three days In his room trying to maks his peace with God. Boston Herald. Thought V '"I he rose to a sitting posture, but th exertion was too much and be sank hack with a gasp. "Yes, you git a hundred. I brought you the money." Burk counted out' one hundred dollars from th roll that fairly made th eye of the boys water. There was a suspicious moisture in his own are bora; is Why doth tho violet spring Unseen by human eye! Why do the radiant aeaaons bring eel thoughts (Bat quickly fly! Why do our tond hearts ding Te things that die! f . f THERES o f NO to DELAY. - Water? Blllleran Perhaps. bis hands lovingly over the money and then handed it to Ben. You can git de brace now. I guess We loll through pain and We always load your teams promptly. 1 wont last long, but you can We light smd fly; git, de Wi love; we lose; and then, ire king. brace, anyhow." Load them with mmmmmmmm COAL, of course, for Stone-dea- d we lie. The lump seemed to be rising O Lite Is .all thy aoagi r r again. So It had Ml been for the sake Endure and die?-our stock In trade. of th little cripple. Burk was suffer Bryan WUer Procter. fng as he had never suffered before Rum had dulled tbe edge of other hut this was the- - kind of a CAME OUT. sorrow, AT THE. The little, thing that would last pinched , face of BU!ie, the newsboy, would haunt his dreams - forever: By W. CALVES MOOSE. would rise up between him and polYou will find constantly the best icy yes, now was the time to close th shop. (Copyright, 10. hy Dally Story Publishing do.) COAL, and as for prices, note the Did you bring a slip so I pould see 1 numbers?" tbe the to a ever. limit row eves There Put dat nickel on 4 bread ' Billie'S voice was weaker and the physical endurance of a newsboy. Cat" room seemed to be growing darker sotlced was absence Billie's You quickly goto up against "What, Billie! and darker. Tbe gnawing pain had by the older players. "Whs th wheel again? him left he one and te't very comfortable one 1L asked lie of tor thn steer gone?" Tea,. I got a straight ' and drowsy; oh, o drowsy. , , sure. Creamed about bread last night evening. No, 1 forgot it. said Burk, pre"Oh, he's sick," answered 1 young and aee a big pile of It at de baker's to- tending to searqh fu els pocket, Tll was who fellow chews busily tils tnornln'." you one In it-- morning." It was not the first time b bad bacco. and spitting at regular inter- bring Yes Inthe mo.Ulng." said Bilvals. b- played policy, Tbe waif of the streets "In the morning." lie, asked his been "You of Patroaize a Home Industry. gamrunning play? begins to Indulge la this form When morning came it found the was the first Bllll questioner. and an age, at early bling "Yes, I was just goln to Li tbs little cripple sitting sadly by the bed. on of those 11UJ city sparrows whose He Would get the brace for his poor, obIn slip up to him when you asket" origin Is more or less clouded matter with his. any- weak back, but hi, friend was gone, the What's to raise taken been had He scurity, and the roll of green paper In his how?" f by an Irish washerwoman who had band seemed to mean so little after succumbed to a too strenuous life alL a very wa still when her protege small boy. 0000000000000-000000000000- 0 KNEW HE COULD REACH Bllll did not become a public t-j charge. He started out lu life by sellWonderful Nerve of a Player in a ing newspapers tor the other boys, University Baseball Team. and It was not long before he bad his Some five years ago a group of colto get along own bundle and wa able lege men, in which were many memvery well to r a newsboy. . With th bers of the Yale and Princeton basebeen had which tame charitable spirit ball teams, was discussing the game foster such a pronounced trait of his of the next day, which was to decide mother, he had undertaken a trust the championship. "Slugger" Kelly, an with met On of hie competitors the hardest bitter on the Jersey nine, accident which rendered him a helpWhen You are in need of predicted In the course of the conless cripple. When Ben was brought home would a he that versation, get he said back from the hospital Bllll run In the coming game. The Yale could "sell tor both," and so tbe thing pitcher turned toward him and asked was settled. He had succeeded In how certain he was of that home run. was for both" so well that he THE RAILROADS OF AUSTRALIA "selling Kelly replied that he was sure to the able to lay by a little money occasionextent of fS.OOO and the Yale pitcher AND: to very had grown ally, and the hoard remarked that he was convinced of There Seema te Be Something Wrong comfortable proportions. . the opposite to a like degree the two With the System. Billie's savings wer not th sc- Not long ago the state railway an players shook hands on the wager and The of an embryo miser. . went home to bed. During the first thoritlea In Melbourne, Australia, had cumulations said that Ben must btivs to Investigate a case of a guard's Jeav doctor had eight Innings Kelly came to the bat BUiie and back his hoped It-five times and five rimes he got his his van, walking along th foot- a brace for to have enough money to buy one at Go to on base the Yale man taking balls, end the plates, clambering up engine, Christmas. care to send In no ball that Kelly get a hundred!" Bllll making a furious assault upon th would carry In the evening Billie . shrieked. could touch. driver, the train going nt full speed from their garret "Dun no. Just kind of fagged ost When the "slugger" came to the nil the while. They ere now Inquiring bla friend down street and weak like a sick cat. Don't think bat In the last half of th ninth ther Into another curious incident in this room to th noisy favorThe boys bad become great , hell ever live to see It come out" were two men out end an eager tiger case somebody forgot to fix tbs coup sod also. with : ""Been: itktrtr htraelf to mak' hi was 'hovering off - first base.-ites players, wltbtba ' " Kelly . :' ngk' betwtea'.'Ui engine and the COALVILLE, UTAH Burk, who was the "proprietor play, like a not' knew that it was his last chance to train. When the signal was given the Jack d Btrk was a little th of place. Takln "What? sick a from a as and ball hit ball the first the pitchsteamed play of the out station by engine Irishman with a big grey Itself, leaving carriages and passes-- mustache and the Inevitable .swagger kid?" asked a mao who felt jubilant ed came flying down far to one side over the winning of a few doJlarj, of th plate the "slugger' stepped gers In the lurch. Guard, Itarionmas-ter- , that accompanies prosperity. s ttlWl& away across the rubber and his bat "Next, thing U'U be like and spectators yelled, but porters PUl!e, bad. a period of bad luck. gins, who played the rent row tlU'she met the ball with a sharp crack. The without effect. The engine ran total did not sell as readily hadnt no money left fey rent and got next second the broken bat was lying It was discovered that It No' spapers should have, and day followed put In the street the dat afore It come on the ground and Kelly was flying had nothing behind it. The most dis- as they without any addition being made out" around the diamond. He reached home quieting feature of the incident was day bis hoard. The brace seemed faranecdote appealed to his tjear-rs- , with th winning run about a second This that It passed several signal boxes to when he had a sudwho joined in a load guffaw.-Al- l before the hail landed In the catchers without receiving any warning to ther off than ever, He would .go up den Inspiration. Burk. Burk, who laughed at hands, and as he brushed the dust except stop against the wheel." A few Tilts" anything and everything, dropped hla from his Bhlrt he calmly remarked would give him all the money he need- cigar - and followed the young man "I knew I could do it." Midocean, ed. Then came the dream. who had gone into the shop. Without entering into the question Is them bo symbol If ths land to be, He would have been entitled to rewood, somo broken, atrug-lin- g , A floating "Say, Mack, whats all this about of the morality of betting, that sort of had numbers bis branch ceive five dollars it Billie by the spirit is what is needed Nothin to break tho solemn round as-- - appeared among tl ose drawn that - hes sick and Ive beep run some"Why,man to wants who accomplish pans did not ap- nlng his Of this unending, deep-husNot the conceit of the man awful sea! evening. But his number play for him, Burkie." thing. five "How heavy Is the kid playing?" pear and the, next tay he staked who deludes himself with a magnified Bravo ship to sail upon ths unknown cents In the morning and theaame "Half a dollar flat picture of his own abilities, but th track! no with In tb amount again evening "The deuce you say I Well, IH b calm certainty of the one who Bravo souls that dare, brave hearts greater success. He continued to blowed." that longing wait, knows what he can do and intends to Thouch storm and wind assail ship, turn pity twice dally, ui til tbe winning of The young fellow opened hi eyes do 1L -- The world 'trusts the man who not back. reimwould have only life dollars and muttered his astonishment wider trusts himself. Let ns go one with faith o'srtoppiag bursed him tor the sum of hit stakes; hi breath. It was not the profanity fats. Promptly-Execut- ed then he Increased tbe amount of the that caused his surprise. No, it was Thirteenth Their Quarrel. Hew tearful Is this scenel Tot many a take to ten cotits. The possible th expression; on his employer's They bad been married three months time on this wa soon almost ab- face, and he could see no reason thy and were having their thirteenth quar- profit town Tv London known an hour Is rose , amount ar the sorbed, and frop Burk should "go daft at a mors drear. rel an unlucky number, by the way. Amid starved souls, and laces dark wits ten to fifteen, from fifteen to twenty, flat1 You only married me ' for my . crime, and from twenty to twenty-fiveI guess I'll go up and" see Mack, money," he said, with exceeding bitHave felt such heartache as on knows Billie became anxious, ... th kid, myself.' terness. not here. The weeks passed by rapidly; He The dusty stairs creaked out their Whet loneliness skin to that whits stare "I didnt do anything of the kind, It ss he ns was not bad.been. sturdy Of hungry faevs, hurrying God knows misery, a Burk climbed to thf top she retorted. whersf more difficult floor of the tenement house. On of was becoming more and William Ordwsy Partridge. "Well, you didnt marry me because the women told him that nothing you loved me." more could be done for Billie, and I know I didnt" Tossed Coin for a Brida. AT there was a lump in his throat hs he 'In heavens name, what did yon About two years ago a Boston entered the dingy little room, c marry me lor, then? he cried In de- beauty was beloved by two men, one "Why,' It's Burkie! Hello, Burkie! spair, for he had not expected this. a lawyer, the other a. clergyman," How are they knocking you?" called 'Just to pake that hateful Kate Both had asked her hand, but she Billie. one which to Scott you were engaged to cry her to give her knew sot Jack Burk was "Burkie" to every eyes out because ehe had to give you two tohearLAccldent.bnuht-.th- hut- - the friendly- - tone la which one, dinner-parta and at had?" the up and see me get you.""' gether wae uttered, the note the We have the veiy best Coal there is nickname He fell down on the white bear rug frankly told her swains she could sot of welcome and pleased surprise fro at her feet and rolled over on It nn- - j decide between them, and then, with ' on the market for domestic or his victim, made that lump jn his til he looked like an animated snow-bal- L a laugh, ehe asked if either had u throat grow larger and morebstl-nate- . silver quarter lu his pocket. If so steam purposes, He crossed over to th bed toss and rest Caesar, woman! he shriekthe up "0 winner ehe might they and down. Billie feebly reached sat would merry. No sooner said ha "what have you done? Why, I out his hand, Burk took it and then ed. dene and the coin rang" down on th married you Just because she threw released it with a shudder. &mld - - . table. Th lawyer won and she marme over," mm that little bunch of bones, such this era ried him. In twelve months he died And by the rim dinner waa ready be th hand bones, of really one were a boy? sweet young hearts and recently the lady's friends Ills eyes became accustomed to th their WeU Screened Domestic, cards announcing her marriage more so full of sunshine that awnhalf light, and he aaw that the hand were absolutely necessary. Stray to the minister. ings was that of a little skeleton-likLump find Stove Mixed crew PER TON. who bad. without doubt, been Stories. hire The Idea ef Cold." the newsboy. Billie, Autumn Twilight Maurice Oau teHa a story about a Well. Billie, they aint doin' a low wind lounds a million drowsy sheriff froth Dawson City, who crossed whole lot. that is, not many of them Th lUtP(. with fcftn from Europe recently, A Th yellowing sunlight on tho hmldo aint" smoking cabin group wa discussing fails; make a hit?" asked Bib "Somebody aloud, on lingering robin Bute th eccentricities of the American c&glon. from There is no shoveling or waiting, as lie, seeing the implication. jid mate. This was resented by the Shei bad of Billie had. a .period luck, me. Yes. hit me and hit you callsIran -- Iff. r we have a carry his cl ar.;o dowjs to th street too." season that she loved et old. I "f don't understand," he remarked, to the Th'a I "What! hit your f Sometimes ho brought food to Ben gaging With dWkensjleyett!!atAuM "why Americans persist in talking and vat quIrriTby-Vhit- e It was eaten. b?ea!prow. lumn turned SPECIAL CHUTE FOR LOADING their a a country. U glrea He "didn't fe-against wasn't had he or homesick heart out part th evening you? hungry," Hr on tbe other side a very .persons' gohl. "Yes," cried Billie, excitedTyr "eaten his on the, way up." If Billie TEAMS wrong impression. Why, everywhere gadiy to somo old homo for which sh i. but knew it would come out Here m yearned. , I went I was asked about the Intense went to bed tr.iry, then nobody Bilie was. to brrry the wiser. A the play. Fifty flat" cold In the Klondike. I contradicted -Its more than come out,,'ailj Gry hills end Norland homral perhaps ' pile of savli t (toiedied away, his I.ved there nearIt of course. I have who wa not going to underIn Burk, on ; tbe It of "eattr way habit her own home b had not long ly ail my life, and 1 assure you that in ' Tbe up" act hi part, J fit's come .out iff both creased hungry 1 propariprstcly, to wait; seldom more than 71 dewinter H v w heels." maw of rvhc;. nr-- over open and re; O .venlntr stars that waken la th west, grees below.' "Both wheels! Then 1 git k haa. O happier worlds, earn sh your way qulred for V a fi.t ns often as Ben; - too" lateT Billie dred!" .shrieked.' His eyes , This condi es for him , vfi 3. Stringer In Alnsle True valor. knows when to run. Arthur not continue for- - bulged with the surprise ht it 11, thd tion of thirgr i . o T - . to-da- eye. thats Be-aid- Wasatch Mine WHEN THE BREAD ROW ' . . long-winde- LUMP . stove; i e WEBER COAL. Do You Wa.nt Some? & DRY GOODS GROCERIES . g CASH BARGAIN STORE r -- dark-skinne- Good Job Work..... , r Is whsvt people wa.nt, and at E6e Times office is fust the place where you can get it at prices that will suit everone. to-da- y , -- ...All Work half-doll- " - ' GRASS CREEK COAL o) (o o) (o o GRASS CREEK MINES (o in - $1.75 d e -' Yra-wa-ptart- $ GRASS CREEK t v r:; j COAt CO. O2G,'5o25oQo'sO('3'0vvg,'o'332''3 . o) ' f (O c) ms (O' ( ) o) (o K : ( o) (o e ( o) a o) o c) o cl w- - |