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The people have gone into the mountain and have cut off tree branches and put them on their shoulâ€" Gers, and they come forth now into the streets of Jerusalem and on the house tops and they twist these tree branches into arbors or booths. Then the people come forth from their comâ€" fortable homes and dwell for seven days in these booths or arbors. Why do they do that? Well, it is a great festal time. It is the feast of taberâ€" nacles, and these people are going to celebrate the desert travel of their fathers and their deliverance from their troubles, the experience of their fathers when, traveling in the desert, they lived in booths on their way to the land of Canaan. And so these booths also became highly suggestive Now, if we are toâ€"day going to sucâ€" ceed in building this gospel arbor we put go into the mount of God‘s blessâ€" Ing and fetch the olive branches, and whatever else we must have we must have at least two olive branches, peace with God and peace with man. When I say peace with God, I do not amean to represent God as an angry chieftain, having a grudge against us, but I do mean to affirm that there is no more antagonism between a hound and a hare, between a hawk and a pulâ€" let, between elephant and swine, than there is hostility between holiness and sin. And if God is ali holiness and we are all sin there must be a treaty, there must be a stretching forth of olive branches. â€"â€"1 will not say they are necessarily typical, but highly suggestiveâ€"of our march toward heaven and of the fact that we are only living temporarily here, as it were, in booths or arbors, en our way to the Canaan of eternal rest. And what was said to the Jews literally may be @aid figuratively to all this audience. Go forth unto the mountain and fetch olive branches and pine branches and myrtle branches and palm branches and branches of thick trees to make booths. Yes, we are only here in a temporâ€" &Ary residence. We are marching on. There is no use in our driving our stakes too deep into the earth; we are On the masch,. The generations that have preceded us have gone so far on that we cannot even hear the sound of their footsteps. They have gone over the hill, and we are to follow them. But, blessed be CGod, we are not in this world left out of doors and unsheltered. They are gospel booths Or gospel arbors in which our souls are to be comforted. Go forth unto the mountain and fetch olive branches and pine branches and myrtle branchâ€" €s and palm branches and branches of thick trees and build booths. There is a great law suit going on now, and it is a law suit which man is bringing against his Maker. That law suit is now on the calendar. It is the human versus the divine, it is iniquity versus the immaculate, it is weakness versus omnipotence. Man began it. We assaulted our Maker, and the sooner we end this part of the struggle, in which the finite atâ€" tempts to overthrow the infinite and omnipotentâ€"the sooner we end it the better. Travelers tell us there is no such place as Mount Calvary, that it is only a hill, but I persist in calling it the mount of God‘s divine mercy and love far grander than any other place on earth, grander than the Alps Oor the Himalayas, and there are no other hills as compared with it, and I have noticed in every sect where the cross of Christ is set forth it is plantâ€" ed with olive branches. And all we have to do is to get rid of this war between God and ourselves, of which we are all tired. We want to back out of the war, we want to get rid of this hostility. All we have to do is just to get up on the mount of God‘s blessing and pluck these olive branchâ€" es and wave them before the throne. Peace through our Lord Jesus Christ! Oh, it does not make much differâ€" ence what the world thinks of you, but come into the warm, intimate, glowing and everlasting relationâ€" #hip with the God of the whole uniâ€" verse! That is the joy that makes a balleluiah seem stupid. Why do we want to have peace through our Lord Jesus Christ? Why, if we had gone on in 10,000 years of war against God we could not have capâ€" tured so much as a sword or a cayâ€" «iry stirrup or twisted off one of the wheels of the chariot of His omâ€" mipotence. But the moment we bring this olive branch God and all heaven come on our side. Peace through our Lord Jesus Christ, and no other kind of peace is worth anyâ€" thing. stap!" You are a pretty Christian. When would this world be saved if | Christ had not taken the first step? | We were in the wrong. Christ was in the right, all right and forever | right. And yet He took the first | ptep. ‘And instead of going and getâ€" ting a knotty scourge with which to whip your antagonist, your enemy, you had better get up on the radiant mâ€"unt where Christ euffered for His enemies and just take an olive Branch, not stripping off the soft, branches of Dooa.,- It seems as moored. The the mountain branches and Gers, and the the streets of house tops a: But then we must have that other olive branch, peace with man. Now, it is very easy to get up a quarrel. There are gunpowdery Christians all around us, and one match or provâ€" ocation will set them off. It is easy enough to get up a quarrel. But, my brother, do you not think you had better have your horns sawâ€" ed off? Had not you better subâ€" mit to a little ‘humiliation? "Oh," you say, "until that man takes the first step I will never be at peace with him. Nothing will be done unâ€" tll he is ready to take the first | But my text takes a step further, and it says, go up into the mountain and fetch olive branches and pine branches and palm branches. Now, the palm tree was very much honored by the ancients. It had 360 Gifferent uses. The fruit was conserved, the sap was a | beverage, the stems were ground up for ' food for camels. The base of the leaves : was turned into hats and mats and : baskets, and from the root to the top iot the highest leaf there was usefulâ€" , ness. The tree grew 85 feet in height sometimes, and it spread leaves four and five feet long. It meant usefulness, ‘and it meant victoryâ€"usefulness for ; what it produced and victory because . it was brought into celebrations of triâ€" umph. And oh, how much we want tKe palm branches in the churches of Jesus Christ at this time! _A great many Christians do not amount to anything. You have to shove them off the track to let the Lord‘s chariots ‘ come along. |_ Usefulness is typified by the paim | tree. Ah, we do not want in the ,church any more people that are | merely weeping willows, sighing into | the water, standing and admiring their long lashes in the glassy spring. No wild cherry, dropping bitter fruit. We | want palm trees, holding something for | God, something for angels, something for man. I am tired ‘and sick of this flat, tame, insipid, satin slippered, nambyâ€"pamby, hightyâ€"tighty religion! i _ But my text goes further. It says, "Go up into the mountain and fetch olive branches, and pine branches." Now, what is suggested by the pine branch? The pine tree is bhealthy, it is aromatic, it is evergreen. How often the physician says to his inâ€" valid patients: "Go and have a ibu'eat-h of the pines. That will invigâ€" orate you." Why do such thousands | of people go south every year? It is |\ not merely to get to a warmer cliâ€" i mate, but to get the influence of the pine. There is health in it, and this Jplne branch of the text suggests the | helpfulness of our holy religion. It \ is full of healthâ€"hbealth for all, | health for the mind, health for the soul. Iknew an aged man who had no capital of physical health. He had | had all the diseases you could imâ€" , agine. He did not eat enough to keep | a child alive. He lived on a beverage | of hosannas. He lived high, for he | dined every day with the King. He | was kept alive simply by the forte . of our holy religion. It is a healthy ‘religion, healthy for the eye, healthy !for the hand, healthy for the fect, | healthy for the heart, healthy for | the liver, healthy for the spleen, healthy for the whole man. It., gives a man such peace, such quietness, such independence of ciroumstances, such holy equipoise. Oh, that we all possessed it, that we possessed it now! I mean it is hea‘lthy if a man gets enough of it. Now, here are some people who get just erough religion to bother them, just enough religion to make them sick, but if a man takes a full, deep, round inhalâ€" ation of these pine branches of the gospel arbor he will find it buoyant, exuberant, undying, immorial health. But the evergreen of my :oct a‘so suggests the simple fact tha: religion is evergreen. What does the pine branch care for the snow on its brow? It is only a crown of giory. The winter cannot freeze it out. This evergreen tree branch is as beautiful in the winter as it is in the summer. And <that is the charactoristic of our holy religion. In the sharpest, coldâ€" est winter of misfortune and disaster it is as good a religion as it is in the bright summer sunshine. Well, now, that is a practical truth. For suppose I should go up and down these aisles I would not find in this house fifty people who had aal no trouble. But there are some of you who have especial trouble. Ged oniy knows what you go througia with. Oh, how many bereavements, how many poverties, how many persectâ€" tions, how many misrepresentations! And now, my brother, you have tried everything else, why Jo you not try this evergreen religion? It is just as good for you now as it was in the day of prosperity. It is better for you. Perhaps some o° yeu feel almost like Muckle Backic, the fisherman, who was chided one day because he kept on working, although that very day he buried his child. They came to him and said, "It is indeâ€" cent for you to ve mending that boat when this afternoon you buried your child." And the fisherman looked up and said: "Sir, it is very easy for you gentlefolks to stay in the house with your handkerchief to your eyes in grief; but, sir, ought I to let the other five children starve beâ€" cause one of them is drowned? No, sir. We maun work, we maun work, though our hearts beat like this hammer." You may have had accumulation of sorrow and misfortune. They come in flocks, they come in herds, upon vour soul, and yet I have to tell you that this religion can console you, that it can help you, that it can deliver you if nothing else will. Do you tell me that the riches and the gain of this world can console you? How was it with the ecclesiastic, who had such a fondness for money that when he was sick he ordered a basin of gold pieces to be brought to him, and he put his gouty hands down among the gold pieces, cooling his hands off in them, and the rattling and rolling of these gold pieces were his amusement and entertainâ€" ment. Ah, the gold and silver, the honors, the emoluments of this world, are a poor solace for a perturbed spirit. You want something better than this world can give. A young prince, when the children came around to play with him, refused to play. He said, "I will play only with kings." And it would be supposed that you would throw away all other solace before this regal satisfaction, this imperial joy. cool, fragrant leaves, leaving them all on, and then try on them that gospel «switch. It will not hurt them, and it will save you. Peace with God, peace with man. If you cannot take those two doctrines, you are no Christian. io w 27 toc t i1 ul ts Bke 'ZF",""’ ;Z‘ Rv iC®3 C k "GL has his eye on us, he wants to keep us. But word comes from our Father that if we will try to break loose from this doing of wrong our Father will help us, and some day we rouse up. and we look the black tyrant in the face, and we fly at him, and we wrestle him down, and we put our heel on his neck, and we grind him in the dust, and we say, "Victory, victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ!" Oh what a grand thing it is to have sin under foot and a wasted life behind our backs. "Blessed,is he whose transâ€" gression is forgiven and whose sin is covered." Some one says: ‘"How about the fuâ€" ture?" Whiat, says the man, I feel so sick and worn out with the ailments of life. You are going to be more than conqueror. But, says the man, I am so tempted, I am so pursued in life. You are going to be more than conâ€" queror. I, who have so many ailments and heartaches, going to be more than conqueror? Yes, unless you are 80 selfâ€"conceited that you want to manâ€" age all the affairs of your life yourâ€" self instead of letting God manage them. Do you want to drive and have God take a back seat? "Oh, no," you say, "I want God to ‘be my leader." Well, then, you will ‘be more than conâ€" queror. Your last sickness will come, and ithe physicians in the next room will be talking about whiat they will do for you. What difference will it make what they do for you? You are going to be well, everlastingly well. And when the spirit has fled the body, your friends will ‘be talking as to where they shall bury you. What difâ€" ference does it make to you where they bury you? The angel of the resurrecâ€" tion can pick you out of the dust anyâ€" where, and all the cemeteries of the earth are in God‘s care. Oh, you are going to ‘be more than conqueror, mist ? 6 Belleâ€"She thinks when she writes a letter and puts "In haste" on the corner ol the envelope the postal auâ€" thorities almost break their necks My texit brings us one step further. It says, "Go forth into the mount and fetch olive branches and pine branches and _ myrtle branches and paim branches and branches of thick trees." Now, you know very wellâ€"I make this remark under the head of branches of thick treesâ€"that a booth or arbor made of slight branches mwould not stand. The first blast of the tempest would prostrate it. So then the booth or arbor must have four stout poles to hold up the arbor or booth, and hence for the building of the anbor for this world we must have stout branches of thick trees. And so it is in the gosâ€" pel arbor. Blessed be God that we have a brawny Christianity, not one easily upset. The storms of life will come upon us, and we want strong doctrine; not only love, but justice; not only invitation, but warning. It is a mighty gospel; it is an omnipotent gosâ€" pel. These are the stout ‘branches of thick trees. _ EAâ€"Naw, whe ain‘t. _ She‘s callin‘ "Eddie.‘ If she was mad she‘d be callâ€" in‘ me "Edward." Well, my friends, you see I have omitted one or two points not because I forgot‘to present them, but because I have not time to present them. I have shown you there is the olive branch of peace, here is the pine branch of evergreen gospel consolation, here the palm tree branch of usefulness and of victory, and here are the stout branches of thick trees. The gospel arbor is done. The air is aromatic of heaven. The leaves rustic with the gladness of God. Come into the arbor. Come into the booth. I went out at different times with a fowler to the mountaings to catch pigeons, and we made our booth, and we sat in that booth and watched for the pigeons to come. And we found flocks in the sky, and after awhile they dropped into the net, and we were sucâ€" cessful. So I come now to the door of this gospel booth. I look out. I see flocks of souls flying hither and flying thither. Oh, that they might come like clouds and as doves to the window. Come into the booth. Come into the booth. "Wheeler geems to be stuck on that new doctor of his." p fY . Touchy, isn‘t he ? does not want to be useful. When are we going to begin? Ledyard, the great traveler, was brought before the Geographical Soâ€" clety of Great Britain, and they wanted him ito make some explorations in Afâ€" rica, and ‘they showed him all the perâ€" ils, and all the hard work, and all the exposure, and after they ‘had told him what they wanted him to do dn Africa they seaid to him: "Now, Ledyard, when are you ready to stant?" He said, ‘"Toâ€"morrow â€" morning." The learned men were astonished. They thought he would take weeks or months to get ready. Well, now, you tell me you want to be useful in Christian serâ€" vice. When are you going to begin? Oh, that you had the decision to say, ‘‘Now, now!" Oh, go into the mount and gather the palm branches! yer, ank I bet she‘s mad. Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.â€"Dryden. to rush it through. -vio;;éugfic;fiiidly. At least, not to the extent of $5, for I‘ve tried But the paim branch also meant vicâ€" tory. You all know that. In all ages, in all lands, the palm branch means victory. ‘Well, now, we are by nature the servants of satan. He stole us, he "Yes, he‘s so upâ€"toâ€"date. When Wheeler was sick in bed the doctor sald : ‘Oh, we‘llâ€" have you on your pedals again; in a few days.‘ " him, It is worth nothing for this world, and it is destruction for eternity. Give me 500 men and women fully conseâ€" crated to Christ, and we wiil take this city for God in three years. Give me 10,000 men and women fully up to the Christian standard. In ten years 10,000 of them would take the whole earth for God. But when are we going to begin? We all want to be useful. There is not a man in the pews that K G you would create something you must be something.â€"Goethe. Willle_â€"Say. Ed, yer Mom‘e callin‘ Walker â€" Queer â€" fellow, Jenks, Nellâ€"Why do you call her an optiâ€" WISE AND OTHERWISE. Thine heart shall utter forward thingsâ€"When men or women indulge in the use of strong drink they let down the bars to every sin that folâ€" lows in the train. spond to this. NMineâ€"tenths of all the brawle and fights, quarrels and misâ€" understandings are traceable to drink.â€"Pentcecost. Who hath babâ€" blingâ€"Thi@ refers to the tendency of strong drink to foolish and incessant talking, revealing #ecrets, vile conâ€" versition and noisy demonstrations, which are common in diiferent stages of drunkenness, Wounds without caugeâ€"Wounds received in wholly unâ€" profitable disputes, such as come of the brawls of drunken men.â€"Lange. Redness of â€" eyesâ€"Bloodshot, blurred or bleared eyes.: Gen. xlix. 12.â€"Wheâ€" 34. As ho that lieth down in the midst of the seaâ€"To make one‘s bed on the waves of the sea would be to be swallowed up in death. S8o is the drunken man.â€"Pentecost. Upon the top of a mastâ€"The drunkard is utâ€" terly regardless of life. He is as one falling asleep clasping the masthead. ~â€"Clarke. Woes of Intemperance.â€"Prov. 23: 2â€"35. Commentary.â€"29. â€" Whoâ€"A divine commissgion to every man to investiâ€" gate the prevailing cauge of woe and eorrow and strife, and thus be deterâ€" red from taking the wrong coursge in life.â€"Smith. Hath woeâ€"What epace would be needed 1w record the named of all who could truthfully eay "I" to thise question! Woeâ€"Direful dis tress ; both the condemnation for & gin committed, and a certain awful condition of euffering. Who hath sorâ€" rowâ€"The Hebrew word meane, first poverty and thenm misery. Who hath contentionsâ€"Those who responded to the first two questions wili also reâ€" 30.â€"They that tarry long at the wine.â€"This answers the _ above questions. They that goâ€"To places or among people where intoxicating drinks are made or stored or used. â€"Beecher. Mixed wineâ€"Spiced, drugâ€" ged, medicated wine, the intoxicatâ€" ing power of which is increased by the infusion of drugs and spices. â€" Muenscher. 85. They have stricken me .........and I was not hurtâ€"With consciences seared and selfâ€"respect gone, the drunkard boasts of the things which should make him blush with shame. They have beaten me ......... I felt it notâ€"Angry companions have done their worst to end my life, says he, but their blows did not affect me. When shall I awake? I will seek it agalnâ€"Rather when Ishall awake I will seek it again.â€"Cook. _ Selfâ€"conâ€" trol is all gone. The drunkard is a slave to appetite. ; PRACTICAL SURVEY. Possessions. In this lesson are enuâ€" merated the possessions, all of which are often given to a single individual. He who deals out such bounties never deals spariogly. He makes the first instalment call for another. They are like links in a chain. Through f#eceitful attractions Satan has made his victim possessor of the firstâ€" named bounty, and thus put his seal upon him and claimed him as his rightful heir. Woe, sorrow, contenâ€" tions, babbling, wounds, redness of eyesâ€"ah, are these the possessions that Satan bestows upon his followâ€" ers? Do we have witnesses to the truth of such a thing? Alas, too many ! t polan ce 31. Look not thou upon the wineâ€" This prohibits moderate drinking. Do not put yourself in the way of tempâ€" tation. When it is redâ€"The bright color of the wino gives it an atâ€" tractive look and adds to its fascinaâ€" tion _ and its danger.â€"M. When it giveth its color in tho cupâ€"Literâ€" ally, itg eye, the clear brightness, or the beaded bubbles, on which the wine drinker looks with pleasure. â€" Plumptre. When it goeth down smoothlyâ€"This verso pictures the attractive side of wine, when it lsee;ns perfectly harmless to sip a ittle. 38. Thinae eyes shall behold strange womenâ€"The loving wife will be forâ€" gotten and her goodness despised, and evil desires spring up to fill her placa with others, or to go from her with others who have fallen into the same pit of drunkenness as yourself. 32. At last it biteth â€"The pleasure will be attended at last with intolâ€" erable pains. Cy(CY oH Possessors. How men come to be in possession of the above misories is made known. There is a cause for every effect. Results are the develâ€" opment of some former acts. Eo here the woes of the drunkard are mentioned and we learn how men become drunkards, how they take into their own lives the miseries summed up in the six possessions. We may trace the steps that lead to this awful estate. "They will tarry long at the wine." Then wine is an enemy. We cannot trifle with it and be safe. When once men test its power they find it has inâ€" fluence. They are not casily able to withdraw from further associaâ€" tion with it, and so they tarry long. Time and opportunity lose value to men who tarry at the wine. _ Virtue is trampled under foot. SUNDAY SCHOOL The names applicd to the various sizes of roolingâ€"slates are very curiâ€" ous, being all founded upon feminine titles. Thus, slates 16 inches long by 8 inches wide are called "ladies"; "countesses" 18 in. by 10 ; "princessâ€" es" 22 in, by 12 ; "Queens," 26 in. by 14. These names were given to slates by General Warburton, the proprieâ€" tor of one of the largest North Wales slate quarries, about a cenâ€" tur’. ago. 40408 ts Koi l INTERNATIONAL LESSUN NO. Xi1. SEPTEMBEER 22, 1901. Prospects. There is something to which the drunkard may look forâ€" ward. "At last it Liteth like a serâ€" pent and stingeth like an adder." Ho gets his portion. He must live with snakes and scorpions. _ Home, family, friends, business, reputation and prosperity were flung aside at the entrance into this way. He is a walking advertisement for saloons, and he does not know it. He knows just enough to find the way to the grogâ€"shop, and he puts no protecâ€" tion against his life. He is at home as much at one place as another. He thinks not of the personal apâ€" pearance. He is not in search of life, but hurriedly running toward death. o4 Roofing Slates; Their Names. The same Argument applies to reâ€" form. Where does all true reformaâ€" tion begin ? It must begin at home. I have emall patience with the inâ€" And for what purpose do nations exist? Why do people form a govâ€" ernment, band together in a counâ€" try P:} ... 3 Merely to establish an order which they believe will be conducive to happy moral home life. _ Bo it seems to me when I turn my time and talents to any discussion which will help men and women to be botter husbands and fathers, wires ard mothers, friends and lovers, that I am working wisely for the ultiâ€" mate welfare of my country. "Politics," Webster tells us, is "the science of government ; that part of ethics which hbas to do with the regulation of its safety, peace and prosperity ; the augmentation of its strength and its resources, the proâ€" tection Of its cit.zens in â€" their rights, and the preservation and improvem>nt of their morals." t He‘s an Ostrich and He Aitends +¢ § Strictly to Business. i 4080984488884 0488004088888088488488848 844444888 884840444 44 "Why, love, marriage, counsel to husbands wives, lovers, parents and childrcn," he replied. "There are other topics of far more importance which you are able to discusse." "What are they ?" I queried. "Wel. political matters, reforms, econom‘es, re.igion,. morals, etc." he rep‘lied. it â€"But are these subjects more imâ€" portant than those designated â€" as domestic ? Now, upon what foundation does a nation rest ? Upon its homes, The moment the new life of alani is destroyed or undermined, that moment the degeneracy of the naâ€" tion begins. We have but to glance back over history to know that. "What do you mean by domestic gubj>ets?" I queried, i A MODEL HUSBAND: There is not a model husband in Buffalo wWhose domestic virtues can outshine those of the male ostriches on the Midway. Not only are those pewerful creatures able assistants in housekeeping, but they bear the brunt of the nursery cares. Mrs. Osâ€" trich is a Tucky bird. In this faraway land the ostrich continues the habits and diet which have made him a celebrity. Both he and his wife have rather peculiar tastes in the gastronomic line. Their regular «Giet consists of stones, orâ€" anges and leather, besides corn, oats and barley. For dessert they take dainties like gimlets, corncob pipes, or a yellow jJournal. They are as eager for afterâ€"dinner gravel as a clubman is for anteprandial cocktail or 4 canary bird for a fish bone. The ostrich is monogamus and uxorious ; a doughty defender of his nest and netlinfs. There never yet was a lyrd, little or big, that felt gelfâ€"sufficient enough to build _ a nest alone. That form of conceit they leave to the featheriess bipeds of earth. But of all the bird world, not one male in the whole lot is as willing as theostrich to tuck up his tail feathers and go to work. Mrs. Ostrich is not allowed to exâ€" ert herself too much in the preparaâ€" tion of the house. Her criticism and advice are highly respected, however, so she usually stands near, ready to be of assistance, if needed. Stage Managerâ€"When the heroine says to you " Do your worst!" that doesn‘t mean to act that way. ; was a problem â€" only experience could solve. The matter of acclimatâ€" ization has been slow "and difficult, but judzging from the flourishing conâ€" diiton of the ostrich farms at Fullerâ€" ton, Cal., Phoenix, Arizona, and Jackâ€" sonville, Fla., it seems to have been finally accomplished. " Stage Managerâ€"Now, Mr, Stormer, listen to me a moment. Barnes Stormer (the villain)â€"Well, gir. "That settles it, Danks. Our landâ€" lady has been reading about Loeb‘s salt cure." * What now ?" "We‘ll get salt herring breakfasts every morning until the berry seaâ€" KHandsome fellows they are, standâ€" ing from seven to ten feet in their claw, and weighing from 250 to 400 pounds in all their plumes. Most of their height and weight comes in neck and legs, but in that respect they are merely upâ€"toâ€"date. They are quite Gibsonesque. Under British rule the ostriches in South Africa may develop into benchâ€"legged little bantams like Johnny Bull himself, but the ostriches of Southern California, with Uncle Sam fjor an ideal, will probably keep to the old lines, Native American ostriches are raâ€" ther a novelty. They were an experiâ€" ment, in the first place, the success of which it took fifteen years to prove. With all his strength and airs, the ostrich Is rather a delicate bird. How he might stand importation An ostrich‘s nest is really a dugâ€" out, just the kind of abode suitable for a country where wind and sand frequently get mixed up together. The ostrich digs his home with his strong breastbone, kicking the sand out behind him. It takes strength and patience to do hus work well, for he does not count it finished until he has hollowed out a hole about four feet in diameter _ and one _ foot _ deep. Fometimes his strength fails before the nest is done, and then Mrs. Ostrich, like a good wife, comes to his aid and lends a helping breastbone, till he gets his wind again. _The nest ready, Mr. Ostrich conâ€" ducts his mate gallantly to â€" her Wit and Humor. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO If I can inculeate a sonse Of jus=« tice and fair play into the mind of & husband, or wife, or father, or: mother, I f2el I have put a spoke into, the wheel of progress aml helped to: strengthen the nation more effectual=‘ ly than % Iinfluenced a fow votes: far the election of some man to & temporary office. f [4 ‘The bad husband, th> bad father, the bad friend, can never institute a lasting reform for humanity. _ , a lasting reform for humanity. ( We have too many #hining lighte in ; the political, social and artistic‘ firmamonts, who are orbs of darknesa, in the domestic sky. k Then there is the subject of re«, ligion. I enjoy writing on rellzon..‘ because I believe I am filled and‘ possessed with the best and most‘ satisfactory religion possible for a human soul to enjoy. 4 But, like politics and reforms, reâ€"‘ ligion must begin at home. When I tell a miserly husband to give his‘ wife an allowance, or affection, in‘ place of criticism, I am teaching him the religion of the Golden Rule ; and< when I advise a nagging or jealouns‘ wife to replace her disagrecable qualities with loving ones, I am but!| repeating the Master‘s words, ‘Love one another.‘ As roon as the full number of egge« is laid he takes his turn sitting on, the nest. With the _ unselfishness‘ that is always peculiarly beautifel| in the strqng, he takes upon himâ€" self the harder task. His is the night watch from 4 o‘clock in the after=â€" noon until 9 o‘clock the follawing, morning. Mrs. Ostrich, refreshed by a good night‘s eleep, takes possesâ€". sion of the infant incubator at: that hour in the morning. Her shift lasts until 4 o‘clock in the afterâ€" noon, but her mate, with commenda«> ble thoughtfulness, relieves her for an hour at noon, so that she hbhas a chance to snatch a bite of old boots and shake the kinks out of her legs. . My critic suggested morals as & topic worthy of my pen. What are morals for ? ) You make good men and womeBg. | Where are they most needed t : In the homes of the land. t Therefore, it seems to me when we come to analyze thoese subjects proposed by my counscellor, that in discussing so minutely domestic life, in all its phases, 4 cover every topic proposed by him. This daily programme is followed~ for fortyâ€"two days. With such skill: do the old folks poise their huge todias over those comparatively‘ small eggs that not an _ eggshell cracks before its time. When the youngsters are ready to come into the world, they begin to telephone . their intentions, pecking with their beaks on the inside of the shells. Then the old bird knows it is time to press with all her weight on the thin shell. Often the proud parâ€" ents are observed to look over their progeny with a critical eye, plucking the pieces of sticky shell from their backs. i , _ _ Domestic life is the foundation upon which they all rest. And without a firm foundation tha most beautiful strusture fails, All the time that Mrs. Ostrich is performing her delicate duty Mr. Ostrich keeps watchful guard _ of her, Woe be to the unhappy crea= ture, be he brute or human, who tries to come near. One blow of his foot can dangerously injare;, one cut of his sharp claw fatally. pierces. As defender ol his Samily,, Mr. Ostrich is always on duty. He never stays out late at night or, even leaves his spouse to spend a lonely evening while he swaps stor» ies with the other birds. 6 An ostrich is worth from $30 to $60 a year in feathers, and as most: of them live to the patriarchal age, of three score and ten, a fNock of ostriches is a valuable adjunct to: seat of honor there. Mrs. Ostrich, having a proper sense of her obli« gations to the world and the ostri« culturist, proceeds to lay in the warm sandy nest a big white egg which weighs about three pounds and a half. Every other day she lays one, until twelve or filteen are side by side in the hole in _ the ground. She and Mr. Ostrich look at them very fondly and ofteny and as a protection against the inâ€" tense heat of the sun, thoy scattep a little sand over the tops of the eggs. From this thoughtful act arises that ancient superstition that the eggs of the ostrich are hatched by the sun, without the bird‘s help. The young birds are never so hand«» some as their parents. The father of the family is always the beauty of: the nest. His wing feathers are & beautiful black and white; his wilfe‘s are a mixed drab, and the babie@‘ ar>o a mixed white and yellow. = Every eight months the birds are plucked. The feathers ripen about that often, and would fall off in the courso of nature, if not extracted by the skilled operator. The white feathers of the wing are the most beautiful and valuable. . Capital can do nothing without brains to direct it. ®; An American boy counts one, lon@‘ before his time to vote. We can‘t help the past, but we can look out for the future. Give the young man a chazee ; this is the country of the young. Hope is pretty poor security to go to a bank to borrow money on. A woman has no use for a mas who is without charity for othee women. She wants a monopoly in that particular line horgoll, 4 4 Good men are not cheap Auy 4.4