The superintendent of schools in Stoneham, Mass., is alarmed over the smoking of cigarettes by high school boys. After carefully studying the subject, he announces it as his conclusion that a boy who becomes addicted to the cigaret habit might as well give up the school—the two do not go together. He asserts that “a boy is physically, mentally, and morally doomed to destruction so long as the cigaret habit is upon him.” That is pretty strong language, and it comes from a strong source; and when it is remembered that the conclusion has been reached only after careful observation and slow deductions, it must give concern to those who see the cigaret-smoking lads around them.
Just what it is about the cigaret which produces such results is not generally known. All sorts of reasons are assigned, and no doubt there is truth in many of them. But the fact that the cigaret does dull a boy’s intellect, and weaken his physique is unquestioned. Tobacco in any form is a disturber for a growing person, and those who would put themselves in the “pink of condition” physically omit its use. All of this is admitted. It is unnecessary to know the reason so long as we know the fact. Yet boys seem to regard the cigaret habit as one of the signs of developing manhood. Boys are queer creatures from fifteen to twenty years of age; then they believe that they know more than they ever afterward believe that they know, save in a very few instances. But the lad who is up to making the best of himself, and to profiting by his opportunities, will accept proven facts as a base upon which to rest action. Such a lad will drop the cigaret business before it becomes a habit. As this school superintendent says, unless he does so, he is doomed physically.—Westerly Sun.
IT'S HIS CUSTOMER.
A New York merchant called to a little bootblack to give him a shine. The little fellow came rather slowly for one of his guild, and planted his box down under the merchant's foot. Before he could get his brushes out another large boy ran up, and calmly pushing the little one aside, said:—
“Here, you go sit down, Jimmy.”
The merchant at once became indignant at what he took to be a piece of outrageous bullying, and sharply told the newcomer to clear out.
“Oh, dat's all right, boss,” was the reply. “I'm only going to do it for him; you see he's been sick in the hospital for more than a month, and can't do much work yet, so us boys all turn in and give him a lift when we can.”
“Is that so, Jimmy?” asked the merchant, turning to the smaller boy.
“Yes, sir,” wearily answered the boy, and as he looked up the pallid, pinched face could be discerned even through the grime that covered it. “He does it for me—if you'll let him.”
“Certainly; go ahead;” and as the bootblack plied the brush the merchant plied him with questions. “You say that all the boys help in this way?”
“Yes, sir. When they ain't got no job themselves, and Jimmy gets one, they turns in and helps him.”
“What percentage do you charge on each job?”
“Hey?” queried the boy—“I don't know what you mean.”
“I mean what part of the money do you give Jimmy, and how much do you keep?”
“Bet your life I don't keep none; I ain't such a sneak.”
“You give it all to him?”
“Yes, I do. All the boys give up what they get on his job. I'd like to catch any feller sneaking it on a sick boy.”
The shine being completed, the merchant handed the urchin a quarter, saying:—
“I guess you are a pretty good fellow, so you keep a dime, and give the rest to Jimmy.”
“Can't do it, sir; it's his customer. Here you be, Jim.”
He threw him the coin and was off like a shot after a customer for himself—a veritable rough diamond. There are many such lads, with warm and generous hearts under their ragged coats.—Selected.
Contentment in Doing Well
REST satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.—Pythagoras.
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MISSIONARY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA. NO. 5.
By G. W. Reaser
A QUESTION of paramount importance concerning the evangelization of Africa is, Who should go as missionaries, to carry the Gospel of salvation from every form of slavery by which sin has claimed the human family, and from the ultimate result of sin’s dominion, even eternal death?
The first qualification that a missionary should possess is a heaven-born love for perishing souls, a burning zeal which only death can quench. He must be sure that his calling is divine, and not merely at the request of man; that his anointing for service is within; that he is filled with the Spirit, whether “by the laying on of hands” or otherwise, as it pleases God.
It may be wise to have the general supervision of mission work laid upon individuals of mature age and experience, but, as a general rule, persons should be selected for the African field who have not reached the age of thirty years. Costly experience has proven that the great majority of successful missionaries in tropical lands have entered upon their life-work before reaching the age of twenty-five.
Only those who possess robust health should be advised to go to a tropical or sub-tropical climate. Every such climate has a tendency to lower vitality, to reduce energy, and to bring a greater tension on the nervous system than a temperate climate. Then, too, persons of vigorous health can more readily resist the ravages of disease than can those of less vigor of body. Fever has easy victims in those who possess small vitality.
In the estimation of the writer, the best choice that can be made of missionaries for the African field is young married couples who possess good education, and who are willing to sever all ties which bind them to home and native land, that they may, by-and-by “see of the travail” of their souls, in the blood-bought throng around the throne, “and be satisfied.”
The reasons for this selection are, first, wherever such a couple go they can have at least a simple home; they can comfort and encourage each other in trials and labors, and minister to each other in case of sickness. If children are born to them, it will be a period of perhaps ten years before they will have to receive education aside from that which can best be supplied in a true missionary home. Such children will not know, and therefore can not recall, the associations in the native land of the parents. The rearing of children who by experience know of the pleasant associations in the home-land is sometimes extremely trying to parents, and may have a strong influence in leading them back.
Young persons can more readily adjust themselves to new conditions and strange environment, than those in more advanced life; and language can be acquired much more readily by the young than by those older. The advantages of a good foundation education will be apparent. Perhaps the principal work of the missionary is to teach others. He is best qualified to teach who has been taught, and whose mind has been trained to study. Then, too, missionaries should become able to translate, grammatically, into the native languages. One with a good education has every advantage in learning a new language, but yet he must not depend on book-study alone for this purpose, for there is no agency so potent in acquiring a new language, as constant association with those who speak the language desired.
Probably there are none, who fill the foregoing qualifications, better calculated to go as missionaries to Africa than the colored people of America. Naturally, if converted, they should have a deep interest in the salvation of their own race; and it is a demonstrated fact that such are received more readily by the Africans than are Europeans. It is a marvelous thing among the tribes of the interior of Africa, to see and hear an educated man of their own race and color.
There is, however, special danger to the cause of truth in sending colored Americans to Africa as missionaries. Some of this class have gone there, under the auspices of various denominations, and, seeing their own people ruled firmly by a small European population; seeing also that under such rule it is impossible for the African to attain to a recognized equality, in any particular, with their rulers, they have mistaken their mission and joined in what is known as
“The Ethiopian Movement,”
which means “Africa for the African.” This movement, if followed to its legitimate conclusion, would result in dispossessing the whites of all the valuable property which they hold in Africa, including the richest gold and diamond mines in the world.
Naturally all foreign governments which have been ingrafted in African soil seek with the strong arm of the law to suppress this movement; and he is an unwise missionary, whatever his race or color, who will manifest any degree of sympathy with it. His work is to preach Christ, and, while teaching loyalty to all earthly governments, make citizens for the kingdom of heaven. Naturally one of African blood would be more deeply stirred over this movement than a European, but the moment he takes any part in this mistaken mission, that moment his work is in danger of being suppressed by the government. Thus his voice would be silenced from preaching the Gospel.
It is doubtless true that the Gospel has more free course in Africa under European rule than it would have under the original rule of the native Africans.
Who can doubt that He who ruleth “in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will,” has ordained that Africa should be ruled by Europeans, to the intent that “the everlasting Gospel” should be proclaimed in this generation, “to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people”? The one who joins in “The Ethiopian movement” may be found even fighting against God.
By their unsaved condition, if not in very actions, more than two hundred millions of perishing souls in “Darkest Africa” are pleadingly holding out their hands to you, my Christian friend, for that which you hold within your grasp—the knowledge of salvation. Many of these souls, for whom our Saviour gave His priceless life, will shine as bright stars in some soul-winners’ crown. Will you, by the dedication of your life and your possessions to God’s service, wear a worker’s crown, bedecked with some of these brilliant stars? Will you have the privilege of associating throughout eternity, in a sinless, painless, deathless world, with those that you have been instrumental in saving from death’s cold embrace? May the reader and writer be faithful soul winners. G. W. REASER.
THE WORLD'S HARVEST.
By Mrs. E. C. Ellsworth
Servants of Jesus, the day is at hand,
Fields for our labor invitingly stand;
Mark ye the signals, they widely diffuse
Tokens of the coming harvest; joyful the news.
Work is abundant, the promise is great,
Few are the reapers, in sadness they wait;
Patiently toiling, yet daily they cry,
Pray ye that our Lord and Master, reapers supply.
Men who are faithful are fainting to-day,
Worn with their labors, they fall by the way;
Fill ye the ranks, and with heart and with hand
Gather in the blessed harvest, Christ gives command,
Hasten the time when the reapers shall sing,
And with rejoicing, their sheaves homeward bring;
Saints with the angels together shall meet;
Glorious and blessed meeting ’round Jesus’ feet.
Pray for help, Christian, pray, pray, pray,
Yes, pray for help in the fields white to-day;
Gather the sheaves, bring the world’s harvest home,
Glorious and blessed harvest, come, Saviour, come.
—Mrs. E. C. Ellsworth.
“THE LABORERS ARE FEW.”
This is especially true in what is known as the “regions beyond,” or “mission fields.” A contributor to the Examiner (Baptist) sums up the situation in part as follows:—
The Church of England Missionary Society has issued a “Call” for an increase of its income from £2,000,000 per year, to £2,500,000, within the next five years, and asks for 500 new missionaries within the same period. As might be expected, the call has awakened questions and some criticism. The Indian Witness has been making careful inquiries as to the need for any great re-enforcement in India, and prints the table which I quote to show how very far, even in this oldest mission field, we are from meeting the needs of the field. And no account is made of villages, yet India is a land of villages rather than of large cities. These villages very rarely have a missionary resident, but are commonly classed as “out-stations.” Only cities of over 100,000 population are mentioned.
Cities
Population in 1901
Missionaries
1. Calcutta
844,604
150
2. Bombay
770,843
75
3. Madras
509,397
76
4. Hyderabad
448,466
6
5. Lucknow
263,951
16
6. Benares
203,095
14
7. Delhi
208,385
31
8. Mandalay
182,498
7
9. Cawnpur
197,080
10
10. Bangalore
159,030
24
11. Rangoon
232,326
38
12. Lahore
120,058
22
13. Allahabad
175,748
23
14. Agra
188,300
28
15. Patna
135,172
2
16. Poona
111,385
80
17. Jaipur
159,550
3
18. Ahmedabad
180,673
14
19. Amritsar
162,548
25
20. Bareilly
117,433
6
21. Meerut
118,642
14
22. Srinagar
122,536
12
23. Nagpur
124,599
16
24. Baroda
103,782
6
25. Surat
118,364
5
26. Karachi
105,407
8
27. Gwalior
104,083
3
For yet another contrast let me take the Kongo Free State. The population is estimated in our Missionary Union “Hand Book” at 39,000,000, but the very lowest estimate I have ever seen puts it at 20,000,000. Now the State of Pennsylvania has 6,500,000 people living within its borders. In all the Kongo Free State there are but 214 missionaries, men and women. Pennsylvania has 651 ordained Baptist ministers, and thousands of other workers. There are nearly 5,000 ordained ministers of the evangelical denominations in the State. Of the 214 missionaries in Kongo there are some fifty-five ordained. In 1902 the twelve ordained Baptist missionaries in Kongo baptized 590 people, an average of nearly fifty each; the 651 Baptist ministers in Pennsylvania baptized 4,144 in the same year, an average of six each. These figures show at once the need and the hope of the work.
The scarcity of Gospel missionaries in foreign fields is further emphasized by the fact that only a few, a very few, of those accredited to these countries are preaching a full Gospel—“the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” The last great three-fold message that must be proclaimed to “every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,” just prior to the coming of the Lord, will develop a people of whom it will be said, “Here is the patience of the saints; here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.” See Rev. 14:6-12. But a very small proportion of the missionaries, either at home or abroad, are laboring with this end in view. Truly “the laborers are few.”
OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
THE West Virginia Conference is now in session at Parkersburg, to continue till the 30th inst.
AT the last quarterly-meeting of the church at Darbyville, Iowa, five members were added.
As ONE result of a general meeting recently held at Wrights, McKean Co., Pa., five persons were baptized.
FOUR candidates for baptism in Buffalo, N. Y., is the report of Brother A. O. Burrill in the Indicator of the 4th inst.
THE brethren at Cedaredge, Col., are preparing to build a new house of worship. Brother G. O. States is in charge of the work there.
BROTHER H. H. DEXTER and wife, formerly California laborers, but more recently of Maine, have changed their field of labor to New Orleans.
BROTHER J. L. LOUGHBOROUGH arrived in this city on the 4th inst., after an absence of about four months, during which time he attended camp-meetings and other meetings in Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri.
BROTHER J. W. BOYNTON, who has been laboring in Alberta, Canada, for the past two years, reports to the Central Advance that they have four organized churches and several smaller companies in that new field. They have one church school.
THE Minnesota Worker of the 4th inst. says: “Last Friday evening seven who have lately accepted the truth under the labors of Elders Stone and Steen, were baptized at the Lake Street church, Minneapolis. Six of these have united with the Scandinavian church.”
UNDER date of Shanghai, October 24, Brother J. N. Anderson writes: Drs. A. C. Selmon and W. H. Miller, with their wives and two nurses, Miss Simpson and Miss Erickson, reached Shanghai to-day, where, according to previous arrangement, they were met by the writer. They report a favorable voyage, and all seem strong and well prepared to enter upon their work. After a brief stop here, all will proceed up the Yang-tse about six hundred miles to Hankow, where Brother Pilquist will meet us, and escort us to our mission station in Honan.”
As in ordinary callings, so in the work of the Lord, keeping at it is what counts. Brother F. E. Painter says, in the Atlantic Union Gleaner: “Many of the most prosperous canvassers I have ever known were men of ordinary ability. Nothing particularly brilliant about them or their work, except the quality which kept them at it, while some of their more talented fellow workmen were taking it easy at home under the pretense of writing letters, or with some other equally good(?) excuse. They never have any remarkably large report to send in, but they always have a report as regularly as the week rolls around.”
TO THE WORKER’S BULLETIN Brother John Hoffman, writes encouragingly of the work in Finland. Of their annual meeting, held at Helsingfors, September 25 to October 4, he says that about forty of our people were in attendance. A good interest was manifested by a few outside of our own people, and Brother A. C. Anderson was left to conduct a further effort. The laborers have been blessed with good health, altho the climate is very severe. They are getting out a Finnish song book, and are printing 15,000 copies of the special Finnish paper. Those who know of Finlanders in this country should order this number of the paper sent to their address.
WRITING to the Atlantic Union Gleaner concerning the work in Bronx, New York City, Brother George A. King says: “The plan of using periodicals freely is working well. Since January 1 about three hundred yearly subscriptions have been obtained. During the tent season of this year nearly one hundred subscriptions were taken for the SIGNS alone. The work in the Bronx is a healthy and growing work. During the last eighteen months thirty-two have been added to the church. Others will be baptized and unite with us at the first opportunity. Scores are interested, and we are overwhelmed with openings for Bible work. The members of the church, forty in number, are using tracts freely. They also take a club of SIGNS amounting to three hundred and seventy-five copies each week for missionary work.”
Two SPECIAL appeals come to us from the South. One is from Brother N. W. Allee, president of Tennessee River Conference, asking for a small printing plant to be set up as a feature of the school at Hazel, Ky. He says, “If any of the friends of the cause of education in our Southern field have such an outfit, and would sell at a reasonable price, or, better still, donate it, a worthy and needy cause would be greatly benefited.” Address Prof. C. L. Stone, Hazel, Ky., or N. W. Allee, 1025 Jefferson Street, Nashville, Tenn. In connection with this call, we have another from Prof. B. E. Nicola, principal of Oakwood Industrial School, Huntsville, Ala. He, too, is anxious to install a small printing plant, and a blacksmithing outfit in order to increase the efficiency of the school as an industrial institution, and incidentally to help defray expenses. So far the school is dependent upon charities for support.
FROM BRAHMINISM TO CHRISTIANITY.
SOME years ago a Brahmin named Gangadharam lived in North India, where there is a sacred place which takes its name from the temple of the idol of Jaganath. This man, having implicit belief in Jaganath as a god, worshiped his image continually. He one day bought a little book treating on Christianity, and read it. His anger rose when he found it stated that all idolatry was sinful and unserviceable and that Jaganath was not a god. His anger, however, by degrees gave way to doubts by reason of the arguments given in the book. He read it again, and prayed that God would show him what was right.
His doubts increased and were followed by deep sadness and reflections on the grace and sufferings of Jesus Christ, the meritorious guru (priest). Being much disturbed in mind he resolved on purchasing the ramrod of a gun. Sharpening the point at one end, he waited for nightfall, went silently into the temple and sat down immediately behind Jaganath; and, tho filled with fear and in a bath of perspiration, thrust the sharp end of the rod into the image, with a view to test the power of Jaganath. Seeing that nothing evil resulted from his bold act, he ran round the idol, striking and stabbing it repeatedly until he was perfectly convinced it was nothing but a block.
He issued forth from the temple, accepting Christ as his Saviour, publicly avowed his faith in Him, and subsequently became a preacher of the Lord Jesus Christ, bring large numbers of his countrymen to the feet of Christ.
Books and tracts are the means, in the hands of the Holy Spirit, of working revolutions in heathendom.—India Watchman.
THE GREAT PROVIDER.
By Isaac Watts
I sing the goodness of the Lord
That filled the earth with food;
He formed the creatures with His word,
And then pronounced them good.
Lord, how Thy wonders are displayed
Where’er I turn my eye!
If I survey the ground I tread,
Or gaze upon the sky!
There’s not a plant or flower below
But makes Thy glories known;
And clouds arise, and tempests blow,
By order from Thy throne.
Creatures that borrow life from Thee
Are subject to Thy care;
There’s not a place where we can flee
But God is present there.
—Isaac Watts.
A NEW BAPTIST MISSION.
On June 4, 1903, it was decided by the Foreign Board of the Southern Baptist Convention to open a mission in Argentina, South America. Argentina comprises the southern portion of South America. It lies south of Bolivia and southeast of Paraguay, Brazil, and Uruguay. Chile separates it from the Pacific Ocean. The area of the country, including Patagonia, is estimated at 1,125,000 miles. The population is nearly five millions and is mostly white. The schools are fairly good, and the main products are cattle and wheat. The metropolis and capital of Argentina is Buenos Ayres, the greatest city of South America. It is the commercial, educational, social, political, and religious center of influence of the Republic. The government is Republican in character; the religion is Roman Catholic, tho not of as severe a type as in other South American countries. In many cases the people have turned against the tenets of Catholicism and into infidelity and indifferentism. Any religion is tolerated. The American and the British and Foreign Bible Societies have been doing a great work, giving out God’s Word to the people. The Methodist Episcopal brethren have done a great work. The Salvation Army has also done a good work. By opening work in the Argentine Republic we extend the lines of our South American missions about fifteen hundred miles. We now have stations from Manaos, 900 miles up the Amazon, to Sao Paulo, a distance of about thirty-five hundred miles. To take this full 5,000 miles and strengthen and re-enforce it, is a mighty task.—Foreign Mission Journal.
(4) “And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place: a thousand burnt-offerings did Solomon offer upon that altar. (5) In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give thee. (6) And Solomon said, Thou hast showed unto Thy servant David my father great loving-kindness, according as he walked before Thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with Thee; and Thou hast kept for him this great loving-kindness, that Thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. (7) And now, O Jehovah my God, Thou hast made Thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child; I know not how to go out or come in. (8) And Thy servant is in the midst of Thy people whom Thou hast chosen, a great people, that can not be numbered nor counted for multitude. (9) Give Thy servant therefore an understanding heart to judge Thy people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this Thy great people?”
(10) “And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing. (11) And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life, neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies, but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern justice; (12) behold, I have done according to thy word: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there hath been none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. (13) And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee, all thy days. (14) And if thou wilt walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days. (15) And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream: and he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.”
Golden Text.— “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” Prov. 9:10.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
(1) To what place did King Solomon go? For what purpose? What was the extent of his offering? Why did he go to Gibeon to sacrifice? Verse 4. Note . (2) Who appeared to Solomon at Gibeon? In what manner? What did the Lord say to Solomon? Verse 5. Note . (3) What had God shown to Solomon’s father? According to what? And what had been kept for him? Verse 6. (4) Now what had the Lord done for Solomon? What did Solomon say of his qualification for the position? Verse 7. Note . (5) What did he say of the people over whom the Lord had placed him? Verse 8. (6) For what, therefore, did he ask the Lord? How did he emphasize his own inability? Verse 9. Note . (7) How did the Lord regard this request? Verse 10. (8) What reason did He assign for the answer He was about to give to Solomon’s prayer? Verse 11. (9) Then what answer was given? To what dignity did this raise Solomon? Verse 12. (10) What other gifts were added? In what comparison with those of other kings? Verse 13. Note . (11) Besides these endowments, what conditional promise was made? Verse 14. Note . (12) As Solomon awoke what did he realize? Then where did he go? And what did he do? Verse 15.
Question Corner
1447.—Conversion, Baptism, and the Lord’s Supper.
Please tell me in the Question Corner if it would be wrong for a truly converted person to partake of the Lord’s Supper before being baptized, he not having had any opportunity as yet? Was Peter converted, and had he been baptized before the Lord’s death? J. D.
The regular Gospel order is conversion, baptism, the Lord’s Supper. Baptism is the outward ceremony whereby the individual puts on Christ and is married to Him. Gal. 3:27; Rom. 7:4. That it would be wrong to follow a different order, we do not know. Each soul must be conscience for himself. For ourselves, we would prefer to follow the order indicated in God’s Word.
Yes, Peter was doubtless converted a great deal better than many modern Christians before the Lord’s death. See Matt. 16:15–17. The disciples of Jesus were evidently baptized when they became His disciples. See John 3:22, 26.
1448.—Forgiveness and “the World to Come.”
What do you understand Matt. 12:32 to mean? Is there forgiveness in the next world, or age? What world is here referred to? L. L. W.
Verse 32 is evidently referred to. The word rendered “world” comes from aion, age. The age to come may refer to the age then beginning under the fuller development of the Gospel, in contrast with the Jewish age. The meaning of the expression, “It shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world [age], neither in the world to come,” is a strong expression meaning that there is absolutely no forgiveness. See Mark 3:29, “Hath never forgiveness.”
It is true that many persons die who have sinned against God unwittingly, even as Abraham and others in their marriage relations, or as others who have not kept the Fourth Commandment. They have walked in all the light they saw, and God accepted them, not because of their errors, but in spite of them. In the great judgment day, in the age to come, when their cases are called, there will be the record of their errors; but as the heart was perfect toward God, the error is forgiven, and Christ’s perfect righteousness stands for the child of God. But he who sins against the Spirit of God till he no longer knows it, and attributes its working to the devil, is past all hope. His sin is no longer repentable. It is not a sin of ignorance; but against the light and power of God.
Holiday Numbers of Foreign-Language Papers
Holiday numbers of the German paper, Christlicher Hausfreund; Danish-Norwegian paper, Evangeliets Sendebud; and Swedish paper, Sions Väktare, will be published the last of November.
These papers will contain twenty-four pages, and will be fully illustrated. The price will be five cents for single copies, and three cents each when ordered in lots of ten or more.
Would it not be well for those speaking these languages in your vicinity to have the truth as it is contained in these papers?
Orders may be sent direct to the International Publishing Association, College View, Neb.
Cheap eggs are as good as cheap lamp-chimneys.
By Macbeth
MACBETH.
If you use a wrong chimney, you lose a good deal of both light and comfort, and waste a dollar or two a year a lamp on chimneys.
Do you want the Index? Write me.
MACBETH, Pittsburgh.
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