SEED AND Harvest. Duncan J. McMrxuan, Pastor New York Presbyterian Church. "Be not deceived; God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap."--Galatians, vi., 7. "Be not deceived." 'This is the pro position. It conveys the lesson which the apostle desires to teach. The rest ef the passage only illustrates an en- forces the injunction. Our text strikes at a common, every+ @ay cin. The weakness that lies at tho bottom of every sin is self-deception. A: wan could never get his own consent to dn if he did not first deceive himself er allow himself to be deceived. And eo Paul is striking at the tap root of @he whole business of sin. 'The prin- @iple that underlies it is the indis- soluble connection between present con- duct and future experionce; between the @hought which we indulge and the state end habit of mind which result ;between the principle we cherish and the-per- manent character which will be evolved. 'As surely as the nature of the seed in- heres in the plant that grows out of it, so surely will the nature of the thought and action which we indulge determine the character which they produee. Na- ture is pitiless and inexorable. This faw which we are considering is as rigid as the law of gravitation. God has eternally fixed those laws by @hich righteousness brings its own 're- ward and sin its approprist» puns ment. Paul says do not deceive yourself by supposing for one moment that this law will somehow not operate in your case, or that God will cut the connection be- ¢ween cause and eiTect fur your special benefit. Against such a delusion Paul hurls the words, "God fs not = mocked." is @ law startling it ef nature that the reaping | tng shall correspond to the sowing. Lt | is impossible for men to break the di- | wine order established in the very na- ture of things. He that sows cockle | shall reap cockle. He that sows thistles | must not expect to reap wheat. We understand all that as it applies | to vegetable life. We may also see it plainly working in human affairs. Com- mercial industry tends to commercial wealth. "Seest thou a man diligent in | business ? He shall stand before Kings." | The law applies also to the intellect- eal life. It is only to the diligent stu- dent that culture comes. And it is only to him who exercises the virtue of trua effection that loyal friendship is return- ; ed. It would be vain to expect that, money would buy learning or refine- tment. And it would be equally vain to suppose that learning and refinement would lead to wealth. for there is no connection between them as cause and effect. Koch pursuit has its sonsequences according to its own na- ture. Thus we see in the boy the pro- phecy of the man; in the spendthrift | the prophecy of coming penury and want; in the budding genius the pro- mise of future glory, and in a careen of careless Hiving and disregard of God's lawe the inevitable consequence of dis- | aster. One who habitually breaks the Babbath cannot expect the fruits of Sab- baths well spent. So the law applies to spiritual sowing | and reaping. God rules the two worlds ef matter and spirit upon the sama, principles. Like produces like. Na- tural laws rule in the spiritual world, | The future depends upon the past and | the present. Our conduct is shaping our j destiny. ;! If these things affected only the body, then the pampered body might perish with transitory things and so come to anend. But they affect the soul also, for soul and body are intimately con- mected. What affects one affects the ether. How disappvintment in business prostrates a man! How the failure of our plans in sociu«! and domestic affairs, @s wel] as in business, depresses the | spirit! So the scul is afected, deq | pressed or elated, by suecess or failure. | And, moreover, it becomes refined and rificd by holy exercises or corrupted i evil hatits or thoughts, according to its-faciui- ties may become dissipated and decayed. So that sowing to the flesh affects wot enly the flesh, but the mind and the the same laws of causation. soul also, and produces moral rotten- ness and spiritual death. In spiritual affairs, as in material, mo one need expect or hope to sow one thing and reap another. Those who reck- lessly sow to the flesh must reap their harvest of blighted fortune, shattered fiealth, disappointed hopes, soured tem- per, infamy and shame. God leaves us free to sow whatever wort of seed we will, and no one can blame the Almighty if, having chosen the kind we prefer 'to sow, we rea our own harvest. It would not be liks God to thwart us by giving any other kind of harvest than that for which we have chosen to sow seed. od Do not expect consequences which the Jaw of sowing and reaping does. not justify. Do not bt. surprised if bad men who are industrious are prospered in That is just what they have are dili- | word. ; Successful column. | eral slight engagements with the enemy, | in-chief substan, | Alex McDonnell, uncle of the ' lived. men who do not sow wisely nor work diligently are unfortunate in hein business. affairs. That-is also-- in-ac- cordance with the same jaw. Each reaps as he sows. "Be not deceived," you meed not expect a material harvest from spiritual seed-sowing. "Be not deceiy- ed," you will never reap a spiritual har« vest from selfish and material sowing. Novy determine the kind of harvest you want, then sow that kind of seed and you wil reap in due season ff you faint not. ------------------------------------ Mainly About rcopie. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was once giv Ing a piece of advice to a roomful of young men in a little village on*the sub- ject of matrimony. "When you marry," the said, "choose a woman with a spine and a sound set of teeth." "Good gra- cious! Mrs. Stanton," remarked one of her listeners, in alarm, "do they ever tome without spines?" Professor Powers of Cornell's political economy department was discussing changed attitude that people have as- sumed (and in his opinion rightly as- sumed) townrd the conveniences and the luxuries of life. "At a Methodist church convention," he said, "the delegates were talking on that subject, when an old graybeard arose and exclaimed angrily to the presiding bishop: 'I sup you came heré in a private car? Vee? the bishop answered; 'do you know any way more comfortable?' " When Labouchere was an attache of the British Ambassador to the United th pompously, seating himself. At the end of half an hour came the query, "When --er--do you--er--expect Lord Lyons back?" "Oh, in six months or so," said the ever-obliging attache. "He left for Europe this morning. But you said you'd wait, you know." A manufacturer not one hundred miles from the city tells a good jeke on him- self. He is credited with being extreme- ly disagreeable to his employees. A man just arrived in this country called on him one day to ask for work. "Have you a re- commendation of character?" he asked the stranger. "No," he replied, * have friends in the village who will give me one." Putting his bundle on the floor, he left. In the course of half an hour 'he returned, took up his bundle |} and was leaving the oflice without a "Did you get your character?" asked the manufecturer. The = man, without halting a moment or raising his eyes, suid: "No, mister, but I got yours." Kitchener's scathing sarcasm is well | illustrated by the reply he is said to have sent to the leader of a not over- This officer had sev- mainly consisting of flinging a few shells | at them at long range. After each en- gagement he wired to the commander- jially: "During action several Boers seen to drop from their saddles." The thing was becoming tire- some, for Lord Kitchener's rule was that | only those actually "gathered" should be counted. He soon thought of a remedy, and sent back to the officer this polite : "I hope when they fell they , telegram , did net hurt themselves." The Scotch of Glen are largely, probably mainly, of " og faith," and this story told by Semtor MoMillas, touches upon that fact, and also intro duces one of the old-time giants of thas county. This particular giant was Big bishop the same name. "Big Alex," the sena- tor began, "was peooey the only man who went over the Chaudiere F; and Shortly after his escape he vis- ited his uncle, then a simple priest, and 'iis marvelous escape, with the incident of hanging desperately to a floating crib while being tossed about in the turbu- lent watcrs, formed the subject of coen- versation. 'It must have been a great comfort to you to know that the saints were with you in your peril,' remarked the priest. 'Oh, yes,' responded Alex, but it was also a comfort to know I was a tamn good swimmer,' " The following incident occurred at an entertainrient in a large provincial town in England. On the programme a cer- tain vocalist was down to sing. "The Miner's Dream of Home," and to add special effect to the song he, having a riend a fireman at+the fire station, about three minutes' walk from the hall, ran out and borrowed his topboots. His turn on the programme came around. He appeared on the stage in all the glory of | a blouse, slouch hat, white breeches and | His rendering | of the song was a great success up to | the middle of the second verse, when a | {the fireman's) topboots. commotion was heard at the entrance of the hall. Then a hot and eager fireman forced his way through the audience up to the footlights and bawled out at the top of his voice: "Bill, you've got to come out of them 'ere boots if you value your life. I'm called to a fire!" ~~» Her First Night at the Theater. A lady who resides at Streatham Hill, according to an English exchange, has a girl in her service fresh from some re- ae far removed from the inking to give the girl a treat, and knowing that she had never been to a theater, the lady purchased a ticket for & play at Balham Theater. The girl went,and returned before nine o'clo hat is the.matter? Did you not like it?" asked the mistress. "Oh, I liked it, mum, it was fine." "But," enquired her mistress, "why have you returned so soon? Surely you didn't see it aH." "Yes, mum, I did. I went in, eat down and looked at the i ing hat didn't concern me, 80 seed--}. theater. | come away. But I enjoyed Ld just the same c exac as good-looking, in the same ectly regular way, as she ever was." Theatergoers have al ways wondered how this popular actress contrived to retain her beauty, despite the flight of time, und so they will read with-interest-her-artitle on "The Sécret of How to Keep Young," which ap in a recent number of "Collier's Wi ly." Miss Russell declares that. it is a com- paratively simple thing for any person | to keep fresh and youthful-looking with- | out the aid of cosmetics, apitaal dyes | and other mineral or vegetable sub- | stances which may serve the purpose for | a time, but in the end leave fre user all | the worse for the g 1 pounce She adds: | "There is nothing like exercise and diet | to promote the good health which is a- necessary accompaniment of--in fact, the | vital principle that serves to preserve-- youth and The average woman of to-day is apt to sacrifice a!l things to her comfort. Exercise is a bore; dieting is troublesome and almost painful; be- cause effects are not at once apparent, | she dispenses with any little reform in the mode of living which, in a contrite spirit, sh: may have taken up. I have known-women-who-made firm resolves to undergo ales ra course exercise and followed it up religiously for a few days, meanwhile scanning their glags eagerly to note results. None developing at once, they have veted the whole thing a fraud, and gone to the old rou- tine of pleasure and indolence. The wo- man who is really im earnest about Fiaeg serving her beauty and youth will fiad, in a short time, that the few simple Tules to follow soon a source of ager pleasure. I say rules, but that not to be taken literally. There are no set rules to be followed; one must be guided by cemmon sense, and eater thoroughly inte the spirit of the thing, for mind has as much tu do with aecom- plishing results as the actual training. The woman who aesignsa to herself the task and them goes Shoat it in a desul- tory fashion, with half-hearted hopes of achieving ends, would better not make the attempt at all." The system of exercise which Miss Russell follows may, to some, seem al- most heroic; to her it has now become a sort of se nature. "In the first place," she says, "when I awaken in the morning I drink at least two cupfuls of hot water. Then a plunge inte a warm bath is followed by a thorough massage, and I take a few minutes of rest before eating breakfast. This meal consists of a piece of dry toast and, perhaps, a eup of weak tea. If it is summer-time, a game of tennis or practice with the medi- cine-ball is next. All the muscles are brought into play, and at the expiration of fifteen minutes I am in a profuse . spiration. But the game is enjoya le and I continue until thoroughly -- Then into the bath-tub again and ano er rub-down, and I am ready for break- fast No. 2, which consists of a lean chop and toast--but nothing of a liquid na- ture. If the day is 'fine, a spin on mj bicycle ig next in order. For this | wear a medium-weight sweater ever my regular costume, and the ride is never less than ten miles and at a pretty good pace. Reaching home, and after anothex rub-down, I don some leose costume anit read or otherwise pass the time until lunch. This meal is also very simple,-all starchy or fattening feods being relig: iously excluded. Allowing a little time for digestion, seme other game is in- dulged in--gych as tether-bal |, or perhap? golf. ert carriage drive follows, That takes me up to dinner-time, when usually I eat what my fancy dictates. That is the one meal of the day in which I do not stint myself, although I avoid, so far as possible, any foods which have a fattening tendency. The evenings, too, are spent in quiet relaxation, as I con- sider I have done enough for the day. "The following - morning," concludes Miss Russell, "the same plan is followed, and I take genuine pleasure in carrying out the schotla laid out. There is noth- ing hard or disagreeable in what I do. In the winter, when bicycle-riding is out of the question, I play ping-pong, or row a few miles in an indoor boat. The punching-bag, I find, is a grand form af exercise, and I am becoming an expert | at that. The care of the skin is, of course, am important factor. The sim- lest forms of emollients, used in cennec- tion with facial massage, I find are the best. But they are of little use without the exercise which brings the natu glow of health to the cheeks. The hair | should be carefully looked after, as noth- ing 80 much tends to make a woman look youthful or pretty as her eco | glory" Frequent shampoos, combin with persistent brushing, will do all that is necessary im that line. with a bath and massage at the finiah |- Up to Date. Great Publisher--Mr. Quill, your novel is a very good one Mr. Quili--Then lish i Jreat Publisher--Yes, if you will only make a few slight changes. Just change the marriage of your heroine to death on the eve of the bridal; kill your hero in a railroad accident; and close the book with the funny man stan between two graves in the twilight, it's a go you are going to pub- The Use of Logic. A great deal is/said in these about the value or valueclessness of In the main, indeed, logic is not a pro- ductive tool so' much as a weapon of de- fence. A man building up-an intellectual stem has to build like Nehemiah, with e sword in one hand and the trewel is the other. The imagination, the cen- structive quality, is the trewei, and ar- gument is the sword. A wide fe or of aetual intellectual affairs lead wos cenctusion that it? + is valuable aa a weapon where r ee eee stery. I arrive at my working-den at 9.45, and read my letters. The rest oi the day is much as follows: - i. 10. Put on writing-coat; find a hole i; ° 5 | elbow. : 0.03. Light pipe, and sit down in 'urge arm-chair by the fire. 10.165. Who the deuce can write a story ona beastly day like this? (It was quitc nice weather, really--that's the artistic temperament.) 10.45. | must think about that: con founded story. Besides, I don't believe she aineant anything, after all. 11,15. I wish the--these--people hadn'! asked me io write for their--paper! 11.45. Iinlio! Will that do? 12. Hang it, that's no use! 12.30. I suppose if I happened to hav a head instead of a turnip I could write that story. 12.40. Yest No! By Jove, yest Whero's that pen? Oh, where the--f All cight, here it 13! Now then. (Seribble.) 1, Lunch! Good, I believe it's going. 1.30. Now I'll just knock it off. (Scrib e. 2.15. Well, I don't quite see my way to--_ yea, I do! Good! That's noi so ba ; 3. Oue, two, three -- three huadre? words, @ page. Well, I've put that in iy good time anyhow! Where's that- pipe' 3.15. I think I'll fetch 'em. Pitched ix passion, by Jove! 3.40. Oh, I say, look here! I've onl, got about 1,200 wor and I waat 2,00. What the deuce shall 1 do? 3.50. I inust pad it, you know. Sh mustu't take him yet, that's all. 4. She can't take more than a pag. 'ecnyting the foel, though; it's absurd vou know. 4.15. Oh, confound it! 4.45. Now let's see--two, four, si even. Good, 'm-iu the straight now! 5. Thank Heavor, that's dove! Now 'uppose 1 must read the thing over. new it's awful rot. Well, that's' the: »okout, they've bought it. 5.08. It's not so bad, though, after al 5.11. I rather like that. I don't know ut it seems rather original. 5.15. H'm! Vve read worse storic- than this. ; 5.20. No, I'm hanged if I touch a word fit! [t's not half bad, 5.25. Pretty smart ending! 5.30. Well, if there are a dozen men in 'Sngland who can write a better stor\ then that, I should like to see 'em, that' t 5.35. Puff, puff, puff, puff! Well, sha'g't touch a pen again to-day. _ "There it is--How a Story is Writte ty One Who Has Done It'. . Tha -emark about the 'dozen men in Eng ind' represents a momentary phase ¢ 'eeling, not @ reasoned opinion,' In answer to a request to tell his read' ers how he worked, Mr. J. NM. Barri: vhose new book, "The Little Whit: Sird," has just been published, wrete th ollowing on a crumpled piece of pape. 'hawt had evidently once contained ti wacco: Journalism. Fiction. SB PIPOB ...ccsecscereccceese +» 1 ounc: 7 ounces A writer in "Chambers' Journal" de scribes how a crime was traced to the criminals by an exceedingly cunning ex pedient: "The Mr. Elliott I have mentioned in herited no small amount of his father's courage and energy. On one occasion armed with nothing but +a horse-pistol he faced an infuriated Madras crowd. He also, with great cleverness, detected the perpetrators of a daring robbery. Ali the plate of a leading hotel had been carried away, and as the loss was Beri- ous, the police were eager to apprehend the thieves. For some time they were quite baffled; but at last. suspicion was concentrated on an eating-house nea: the shore, chiefly frequented by sailors Having made his arrangements, Mr. El- liott entered this house one day in the costume of a naval officer, and ordered a dish of curry and rice. f was soon placed before him, but accompanied by nothing better than a peste spoon. This was precisely what had been ex- pected. Handling the spoon with a con. temptuous air, he asked if they expected one of her Majesty's officers tu cat with such an article as that. Searcl.. looks were then directed to him; but he suc- ceeded in maintaining an appearance ol ingenuousness and simplicity. Then, af ter a short delay, a silver spoon was brought bearing the\mark of the plun dered hotel. A few quick steps took the sate--for such he was--to the and a low whistle brought the :: subordinates; then the landlord, landlaciy and servants were seized, an the wi.vle of the plate recovered." ~ ~ Our Language, Yet another humorous story anent the idiosyncrasics of the English language is current. A Frenchman came to ° land with the object of making himself master of the tongue, and the following sentence was given him: "The rough cough and cape. i plough me through." The teacher told him the first word was proneunced "ruff." He thereupon sai is: "The ruff cuff and hiccuff pluff me thruff." . "No, no--the second word is pro nounced 'koff'!" : "Then, be the rofl coff and { me throff." some one fifth words were explaiged with seme result, which: the reader may repeat for : i /* said the Frenchman, "it must |. hiccoff plo CATARRH OF CAT it makes a man ridicu- . fous, it makes him an offensive nuisance and ft makes him_ dangerously sick. Catarrh is not a luxury or a necessity. _ It is pretty sure to bring on con- sumption, paeumonia, or at least, bronchitis. You cannot afford either. Vou can afford the cure for it. A: cheap cure that has never failed. It is Dr. Agnew's Catarrhal Powder. It relieves a cold or catarrh, or cures a headache in ten minutes, it entirely heals up the catarrh-wasted surfaces, No other remedy can count noses: with us--cured noses. C, E, ZIMMERMAN, of the staff of the Roan- eke World, a sisson -- "Pr. ew's Catarrh Ctre is the only remedy that has ever given me any permanent relief, aha more than fifteen years Dr. Agnew's Heart Cure first looks to the main spring of life and health, sets up the heart' * in new streagth, feeds the nerves and fills other organ with life. Cured thousands : will eure you, in Eo and 2 Pole .hag- ays a horse. Full of sak The gypsy opened has showed a ten-rouble note (valued about & guinea). "But isn: ery cheap?" "No," said the gypsy, "he is dead lame." , The gentleman then sought out the Pole and said: "So you have given ten roubles for @ lame lorse?" The Pole, however, with a knowing look, said: "Lante! He's as sound as you are. [ saw he was badly shod, and only limped in consequence." The enquirer returned to the gypsy and reported what the other said. The former gave a tremendous and most sig- nificant wink and whispered: "He's as lame as a two-legged stoel. F bad him badly shod on purpose to make pent believe that that was the cause of his limping." . When this was communicated te the Pole he seemed for the moment taken aback, and hung his head; then, with a little sigh and a shrug of his shoulders, he said, quietly: it's all right; it was a bad " "Ah, well, ten-rouble mote! - A Savage Pun. William Penn was obviously nerveus while signing his treaty with the In- dians. "J am efraid that redskin over there may make a snap shot of the occasion," he explained. "No fear," rejoined a friend; "he has already done his worst. He just re- marked the Penn was mightier than the sword." Moved to wrath, the great Quaker went forth and founded Philadelphia, thus making many innocent people suf- fer for the sect of «' "unwitting savage.-- New York "Tribune." 2 ae er te ee ee "Colonel," asked the Northern under- taker, "do you people of the South be-' lieve in cremation?" "Sometimes, suh," replied the colonel, "when we think plain lynchin' wouldn't begin to fit the crim suh."--"Catholic Standard and Times." ONE SPOONFUL Will build for you good health, through good nerves, by using South American Nervine Almost all disease is the result of poor nerve action. Without good . greatest tonic known, a cure for dyspepsia and all stomach ail- ments. PR rye (yh Bong ape BCL, Gare is tp only ope that has not snghe case record. Cure withia thres days; relief instantly. mh: