Show survday EVEE iver CLIMBING the heights by great men reached and kept were an not ot attala attained e a by i but they while abe their lr companions slept were toiling tolling upward in the ight standing un what too long wo we bore with shoulders bent and downcast down cast foyes wo we chay discern unseen before A path to higher destinies dostin les longfellow FOWEE POWER AND tenderness f in tho iho vegetable ege table world we ive have 0 tho the oak which withstands the hurricane and we have bave the lily which ie is destroyed by one breath of A the e though so different Terent di they pare are both of value in human life we have the man whose whoso quality ia is strength and we have the man whose quality is ten der nesi let us not ecoff scoff at one because he is rugged nor at tho the other because be he is sensitive in the di vine economy of lature there is room for both tenderness and power MANS mins some man with a tender heart beat t says say there are few prophets in the world few sublimely beautiful women tomen fp few ew heroes 1 can not afford to give all my love and reverence to such ra ritia I 1 want a great deal of those feelings for my iny everyday every day fellowmen fel especially for the few antho in the foreground of the great multitude whose faces I 1 know whose hands I 1 touch for whom I 1 have to make way with kindly courtesy LAOK LACK OF i the vices of some men are aro but good qualities run wild trained trimmed and abd cultured like the gardener cares for his choice plants these qualities would fill a life with beauty but r rioting 1 in all their luxuriant growth for unrestrained they fill nei with such a tangled mass as tu see becu n like loathly weeds THE GREATEST misfortune it id not 4 e jeung t mans greatest present misfortune t to obe bo surrounded by poverty nor to belk be deprived of influential friends nor to have a daily self denying struggle for e every very step of advancement but it ie is to abnee once gel get the idea that thero there is is an all easier easier way of living than by bard hard work THE BLESSING OF or DUSTEy IN Y ira if a person gailli more knowl knowledge e and intelligence in this life through his hii and obedience I 1 ence than another he be will have js 0 much the advantage in tho the world to come comer jr J oseph 8 ep h shuh m t aih THE SPONGE it was henry if enry ward baecher er who said there are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week air defor reformers mers carried the election in jacksonville florida the other day by open and notorious bribery ot voters the tho former evils must have been decayed past handling if ballot buying is deemed a welcome reformation 4 bends send its est es t sweetest swee teet and plum peet peat girl grad bates as missionaries lea to the fidis this is showing entirely too much defer deference nee to tho the ap appetite petita of the Hea heathen ihen though b only 45 yeara years old looks to bo be not less than 80 women who are disposed dispo eed to vear wear the breeches should ta tako ke earning warning TUB T vital question bisno is not 1 Is life worth but it I 1 11 thi this ie is death worth dying v |