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sent him already that he never thinks of 

 reading them — in fact, he could not. A 

 clerk, or a number of them, read these let- 

 ters, and decide to the best of their ability 

 where money will do good instead of harm : 

 for it is true that money given without 

 some sort of equivalent not only very often 

 does harm, but it is almost sure to do so. 

 In giving to libraries and to schools and 

 colleges, the money usually does good be- 

 cause it helj)s the poor ambitious boys to 

 get an education with but little effort on 

 their jwirt. In the same way money given 

 for the spreading of the gospel and mission- 

 ary enterprises also helps. 



While I dictate this, there are men and 

 boys wanted in hundreds of places. Farm- 

 ers everywhere want help — that is, if they 

 can get efficient and intelligent help at a 

 reasonable price. If this is not the case in 

 your locality, let some of your bright boys 

 and girls push out into the world where 

 they are wanted. I say girls, for girls are 

 now getting almost if not quite as good pay 

 as boys. But we want girls and boys who 

 have been carefully brought up, who are 

 capable and willing to work. 



There is an item now going the rounds 

 of the press telling about a man who lives 

 on 25 cts. a week. When somebody said 

 it was an impossibility I ' replied, "My 

 friend, 25 cts. will buy a peck of good whole- 

 some wheat; and if you grind it in a coffee- 

 mill, and then cook it a good while in a 

 farina-boiler, it will make not only a most 

 wholesome food, but a most delicious one." 

 Such a diet will make you well and keep 

 you well; and it will not hurt you, but, on 

 the contrary, it will do you good to go with- 

 out a lot of things (as Terry does) that most 

 people — yes, many poor peojile — think they 

 ■must have three times a day or they 

 will starve. May the Lord help you, dear 

 brother, to get out of that coal-mine and out 

 into the open air, and raise chickens, and 

 set a good example before your family of 

 ten children. 



PARCELS post! PARCELS POST! 



We clip the following from the Postal 

 Progress, published by the Postal Progress 

 League, Boston : 



1. Why does our Postoffice Department charge 

 one thousand per cent more for carrying parcels 

 than does the German government ? 



2. Would not the establishment of a parcels post 

 throughout the whole country reduce the cost of 

 living, and benefit every consumer and producer? 



3. Why does the Government charge 16 cents a 

 pound, and limit the weight to four pounds for 

 packages destined to any postofflce in the United 

 States, while it receives parcels weighing eleven 

 pounds at the rate of 12 cents per pound for deliv- 

 ery to almost every other country in the world ? 



4. If you favor a parcels post, what are you doing 

 to bring it about at this session of Congress? 



Yes, sure enough. Why does our own 

 postal department carry 11 lbs. clear over to 

 Australia cheaper than it will carry it to 

 our next-door neighbor? Is there any offi- 

 cial connected with our postal department, 

 from the Postmaster-General down, who 

 dares undertake to give any sort of answer 

 to this question ? 



BILLY SUNDAY; WHAT HE DOES WITH HIS 

 MONEY. 



Now, I do not know what he does with 

 all his money; but I can tell you w^hat he 

 did with some of it. During his evangelis- 

 tic work in Lima, Ohio, a banker, while 

 looking over the jiledges that had been 

 handed in at the end of the meeting, made 

 the remark that a pledge for $20.00 from a 

 poor hard-working woman was more than 

 she could afford, and that she should not 

 be allowed to make such a contribution, es- 

 pecially as her little home was mortgaged, 

 with very little ho])e that the mortgage 

 would ever be lifted. Sunday agreed with 

 the banker, and w^as anxious to know how 

 she came to make such a free-will offering. 

 Investigation brought out the fact that her 

 husband was converted the night before, 

 and publicly announced that he had started 

 out to lead a new life; and his good wife, out 

 of gratitude to her heavenly Father for hav- 

 ing thus answered her prayers of many 

 years, gave the twenty-dollar pledge. Mr. 

 Sunday asked the banker to get the mort- 

 gage. It was for the sum of $800; where- 

 upon Mr. Sunday paid off the mortgage, 

 and sent it to the devoted praying woman, 

 telling her that he did not mean to be out- 

 done in gratitude to his heavenly Father by 

 a i)oor woman who had heretofore been the 

 wife of a drunken husband. See page 610 

 of our last issue. 



APPLES FOR supper; OR, ONE MEAL EN- 

 TIRELY OF FRUIT. 



Dr. Miller, in his Straws in this issue, 

 tells us he has pears for breakfast instead of 

 apples for supper as I do; and I suppose it 

 does not make very much difference which 

 one of the three meals during the day is en- 

 tirely of fruit. President Taft has his fruit 

 — apples, if I am correct — in place of his reg- 

 ular dinner. Well, I want to tell you that 

 for some time of late I have been having 

 my apple supper at four o'clock instead of 

 five. Then nothing goes into my mouth 

 after this apple supper except water, until 

 bedtime. I sleep very much better at night, 

 and feel better and fresher in the morning, 

 by having the process of digestion finished 

 and out of the way as much as possible 

 when I go to bed at nine or ten. Another 

 thing, years ago Dr. Salisbury told me to 

 be sure to have my nap during the day 

 before dinner instead of after it. Dr. Kel- 

 logg, of Battle Creek, recently gave me sub- 

 stantially the same instructions. Now, we 

 hear a great deal about an after-dinner nap; 

 but it does not work at all with me. A nap 

 before dinner rests and refreshes me; but 

 when something prevents a nap before 

 the meal, and I take a nap after dinner, I 

 feel distressed, my mouth tastes bad, etc. 

 The point that both doctors make is this: 

 One should be thoroughly rested and re- 

 freshed before sitting down to any meal; 

 and the process of digestion seems to go on 

 very much better, especially in my case, 

 while I am moving about and doing actual 

 work. 



