—
HIS TRUE WORTH
Fate threw him a sop in the shape of
some pelf,
And®straightway the man fell in love
with himself;
Grew arrogant, boastful, looked down
on mankind;
Imagined, poor fool, he had greatness
of mind. = :
The world paid him homage, its doors
opened wide;
He swaggered and strutted, all swelled
up with pride;
“The world recognizes my value,”
he.
see,
her string:
Then, tired of the sport, she gave him
a fling,
cash,
trash.
Herald.
In (he Chances of War.
BY MARGARET SEYMOUR HALL,
Tis not possible to disguise the fact
I that it was a distinct shock to the
family when the heir of all the
Van Stuyvens announced his intention
of enlisting for the Spanish-American
War; not only announced it, but did
s0 with an utter absence of the
apologetic preface which ought prop-
erly to have accompanied such a be
trayal of their hopes. Far otherwise
had been their plans for his summer,
and closely connected with a Gilded
Heiress lately imported on a visit from
the Far West. The Heiress had been
f& schoolmate of his sister's, her
beauty was patent; also, were a
certain Western vigor and breadth of
horizon, which, under other circum
stances, might have been viewed with
distrust. But this
doned since the gilding
tioned; for, truth to tell,
in the course of generations
growing as thin and tarnished with
the Van Stuyvens as was the gilt of
the frames of the old Stuarts aud Cop
leys and Smyberts that looked down
pon them from the walls of the din
ing-room, where the family were as
sembled at breakfast when the bomb
of the son's announcement burst lo
their midst.
“After all, it is In the line of our
traditions,” sald Honoria Van Stuyven,
the eldest daughter, and the embodi-
ment of pride of ancestry, which
caused her to shine out resplendent on
certain days with golden decorations
of patriotic orders; and as she spoke
she glanced from the portrait of Gov-
ernor Jan Van Stuyven on a military
charger to the Revolutionary sword of
Captain Stephen Van Stuyven, who
fell at White Plains.
“But at his years to bear such a
burden!” sighed his mother. (The
command of a regiment is a terrible re
spoasibility for a young man.”
At this moment there became ob-
gervable a remarkable phenomenon
upon the face of the Van Stuyvens'
English butler. If the same facial
aud
sO,
energy was con
WHS Ungues-
tl had
this last
less perfectly trained and
tarbable than Simmons Mrs. Van
Stuyven would have called it a grin.
Even though after a moment she felt
played her false she was conscious of
something of the uncomfortable
amazement that must have filled the
mind of the prophet Balaam when his
versation. For the first time she was
vaguely reconciled to the hought
that, from motives of economy, she
had been obliged to give Simmons his
dismissal, and that he’ was about to
be replaced by a maid, a blow which,
to bear.
“1 don’t suppose I shall quite enter
as 4 colonel, you know, mother,”
modestly explained her son,
sition belongs to O'Reilly.”
“My dear,” said his mother, “what
a name!
family.’
answered her son, provokingly; and
here, for the first time, the Gilded
Heiress joined in the martial conver-
sutlon.
“We know who Colcnel O'Reilly is
in the West,” she sald. “I don't won-
der you want to go twith him. He has
done some magnificent Indian-fight-
ing, and was ralsed from the ranks for
courage.”
Mrs. Van Stuyven shuddered.
“Raised from the ranks! Not a West
Point man? How can my son wish to
serve under him?”
“But he doesn’t seem to look at it
quite as you do,” insisted the visitor.
“Julius, I regret to say,” explained
the mother of the errant one, “has
never seemed to care as much as we
would wish for his line of descent, but
the rest of us possess very strongly
the pride of ancestry. I suppose you
do not have it in the West.”
“Yes,” sald the girl, thoughtfully, “1
think we have, though perhaps we do
not realize it, and we don’t often talk
about it. I'm afraid, somehow, people
wouldn't like it. But our town was
founded by a Swedish miner who ceme
over with nothing but a pick and his
two hands to help him, He made lots
of money in silver, and he was a real
fine man, doing a great deal for the
town.
his pick-axe in his hand, and the fam-
ily are thought a great deal of.”
“lI don't think we mean quite the
same thing” answered her would-be
mother-in-law, with not a little stiff
ness, “No doubt he was a
man, but it was not like the feeling
that comes with gentle blood,
care to dwell on it, but certainly It
must be a satisfaction to know
one's ancestor who first came over was
a man of rank and not an
peasant.”
“And I suppose he was ever so much
wiser and better than the poor labor
them, and
and advise
wrong? Yes, that is fine.”
The other coughed slightly,
were certain state records not
There
uneon
had never cared to dwell at
length.
“Well, not exactly,” admitted.
“But he came from a noble house.”
“And perhaps it was made
courage and bravery? 1 can
too."
any
she
80
under
The older lady conghed again, It was
a well-known fact that the title and
fly through an ancestor who married a
lady of the court second
were
Pil
’
Ol
the
standards
Mayflower
grims.
In the midst of the the
heir of the Van Stuyvens departed for
the armory. His mother and sisters
wept, and the visitor wrung his hand
warmly, while for the first time Te
discussion
shining in her brown eyes. He, poor
lad, bad been only too ready to fall
head over heels In love with this
breezy Western beauty, the belle par
excellence of a town where all the
girls were belles; and where ten men
to each girl was the usual ratio De-
tween the sexes. But the visitor had
80 far shown a pleased Interest In
everything and everybody save In him
for whose sake she had been expressly
imported, and he had felt that his case
was hopeless.
Perhaps it was net altogether
patriotism that had driven him so early
to the ranks of Uncle Sam, where, in
was accorded but a scant
Instead of the ready and
his heroism
deed, he
welcome,
grateful of
which his mother's mind
ing, it actually seemed as If there was
a doubt as to whether his country
wanted him on any terms, even as the
The Doctor,
a plain sort of fellow whom Van Stuy
ven wouldn't bave voted into his club,
put him through a searching physical
examination, in the course of which he
offered a number of personal remarks
that made the subject of them long to
punch his head. Van Stuyven heard
that his eyes were defective, his knees
weak, his chest not broad enough for
his height, and after two hours was
recognition
was pictur
await judgment.
In dejected silemce he retired frem
the examination-room, and heard the
in its tone, “There's a chest and an
arm; I wish I could enlist a regiment
like him! Served in the Seudan, did
you? Six years? Promoted to cor-
poral? Here, Captaln, here's your
man! Meant for a sergeant! He'll
help drill your raw recruits!” and so
on.
Late that afternoon the Van Stuy-
vens, with their guest, arrived at the
armory, prepared to see their pride and
hope in all the glory of command, The
main body of the building was filled
with marching men; at one end the
drill, at the other men were signaling
colors, The visitors’ gallery was
thronged with people, some of whom
were crying and some clapping, but all
were following with their eyes each
movement of the men in the hall be
low,
“But where is Julius? asked his
mother, after her gaze had traveled
over each officer in turn.
she caught sight of the
squad.
it was, it actually was, Sim
But it was a new, a trans
Simmons—Simmons
mons!
formed
issued sharp, peremptory orders to
ble!
But the Gilded Heiress, with flushed
cheeks and dewy eyes, was leaning
forward across the balcony, gazing at
the manual, and as she turned there
was a new light in her face.
“Do you see that?” she sald to those
beside her. “1 did not think he had It
in him! I did not believe he was In
earnest! I'm proud of him, I am! Yes,
Mrs. Van SBtuyven, he asked me and 1
refused him, but [ won't again; and If
he comes back”-a sudden choke
“he'll find me waiting for him, even If
it's for years!”
And that is bow Van Stuyven came
to win his commission and add another
to the list of the family's brave offi-
cers. And all his family talked of ‘he
Alliance, which, however, was delayed
for two years, and then took place in
San Francisco, where the transports
landed those who were Invalided heyne
from the Philippines. But Van Stuy-
ven, whose wife had pursed him oack
to health and strength, always main-
taing that he owes it all to Simmons, —
Woman's Home Companion.
The Earl of Minto is the presen
Governor General of Canada. His sal-
ary is $50,000 a year.
FIVE REAL ROMANCES,
Cood Luck of Poor Girls Who " Caught”
Mi lionaires.
From England come five romances In
real life, yet like the fairy tales of
childhood days where the Prince mar-
ried Cinderella and they both lived
happily ever afterward. The first story
girl who was a
weaver in one of the mills near Brad-
some
For years
iradrord. After she
went away this boy sweetheart of hers
He
and
TFORe
grade to another finally from a
All this
had
HOAs,
the woman who
Bradford ower
when he was rich and famous he
him of “‘'t mill lassie”
to America
her back old Bradford as his
The man is knighted now and
his lady lives In a magnificent man
that is part of a reudal castle,
young
tut
“be
came
10
sion
|
around it, while the most
of her relatives, except those whom she
has helped by her bounty, keep an eat
prosperous
Yorkshire as “the four o and t'
two of pudden”
A young inventor in Lancashire who
worked for many years as an ap
tice at £3 a devised a
that in ten years wus bringing him
over $400,000 a year in royalties alone,
for it was applied to countless indus
tries. The juventor on-
tirely changed by his rapid to
wealth, One day he was in a chem
ist's shop his town,
pale, pretty nursemaid of
years of age rushed in carrying in her
arms a child, the charge of another
nursemald, who, hysterically weeping
and walling, followed behind
pretty nursemaid had the
dent befall the charge of the
nurse, and flying to the rescue picked
the child up and carried it to the chem
ist's and worked with it until it had
partially recovered and could be taken
The young imventor was
struck by the in that
out the nurse girl and eventually mar
ried her, but not until a few days In
fore her marriage did she know that
her future husband was i
inventor
A millionaire member of Parliament
from fashionable
of
pie
order.
week,
young was
rise
when na
in own
about 1
The
seen
nee
other
home, #O
dent he sought
the wealthy
Lancashire took
rooms in the West End
Looking down from his window one
into the courtyard beneath, he
noticed an extremely beaatiful girl
not much past 20, who was apparently
the governess to the children
landlady. After a time he sought an
introduction to the governess in
a short while the acquaintance had
ripened into love, and the marriage fol
lowed soon after
At a popular resort om the south
coast of England a young nobleman,
the descendant of a long race of bank
ers, and himself wealthy, fell In love
with the young girl who acted as as
sistant at the village library. They
married and the young woman is now
in the peerage, although the Euglish
paper relates In the most solemn horror
that “her parents keep a small shop.”
A lady's mad to the wife of a
London
day
af his
and
with her mistress, attracted the atien-
tion of a young man who was a guest
on board the yacht. The two were
married, but on the voyage home the
young man died, leaving his widow a
fortune. On her next voyage. this
time as a widow and in her own yacht,
she was left by mistake in a foreign
port. While there she met a nobleman
of ancient title, and before her sailing
master had returned with her yacht, to
take Lier the widow was
gaged to the nobleman, and the mar-
riage took place soon after the return
of the two to England Chicago Tri
bune.
away, en-
Unexplained Accident on a Battleship
While the Thunderer, battleship,
was on her way from Pembroke dock
her guns, the cause of which Is so far
unexplained. The vessel left Pem-
broke about 0 a. m., and when she
put out for firing practice, the 10-inch
A projectile had been placed In one
of the guns and the electric
turned on, when there was an explos-
fon quite different from that which
ususlly sccompanies the discharge of
a prejectile, Nothing came out of the
gun except a few fragments of the
projectile, which were thrown some
distance from the ship. The base
plate of the projectile was left in the
gun, as well as a portion of the frame,
and when the plate was afterwards
removed the pressure of the gas left
in the gun caused a portion of the
projectile to be expelled with some
force from the breech end of the gun.
When the second gun was fired a hole,
between two Inches and three inches
in diameter, was blown through the
projectile, the outer part, tegether with
the base plate, being left In the gun.
In this case the base plate was sepa-
rated from the rest of the projectile.
#uch a thing is believed never to have
occurred in any ship before. The only
explanation so far suggested Is, either
that the powder in the projectile was
damp, or that there was a quantity
of water In the guns, A east will be
made of the Inside of each gun, to as
certain whether either has been dam-
from the
sound. London
COT BACK HIS THIMBLE,
The Experience of a Younz Milliner With
Chicago Highwaymen,
A young man, who, by the way, Is a
milliner, was caught Ly highwaymen
the other night on hls own doorstep,
One man held the gun while the other
pointed significantly to the young
man’s pockets, “Give ns all you've
got!” he demanded gruffly.
Now, the young man made no pre
being a hero—he didn't
have courage to resist nor even to cry
for help. He just put his hands quiet
ly into his pockets and gave up all he
hada silver watch and chain, $7.90, a
pearl-handled knife and. a gold thim
ble
The highwaymen laughed when they
80 thimble and the man
was encouraged by their mirth to plead
to
the young
“It's a thimble I've had for twenty
years and I think a deal of it,
If you could just spare it 1 would let
you have the rest without a but
it does seem too bad to lose that thim
ble after all
Just let me keep the thimble? 1
it in my I'm a
When the highwayvmen
oH wl
Care,
these years Can't vou
need
business milliner."”
heard
laugh
“It geems too good to
young man was a miiliner they
ed rome
be
more
true.” sald one of them
“Bat it is" protested the
man, who was very much in
The tallest of the
there is always a tall
“It's too bad to deprive 8 m
thimble—shall
highwaymen
ae hesitated
we do It,
neked
il looked Car
10 see that no one ¥
looked, the
in his
ut
hand
ton,
¥
before
seem k nd of
$0 generou
Mow Foxes Cot Rid of Fleas,
n ol oy d nat
fleas
narrati cks xlowly
stream with a portion
pelt of a rabbit in his month,
fox I
The
fox's
and
fur, aml
meal
water drives the fleas
and
ally out
po then toward
then the fox drops the
his pests are done for
The local hunter and naturalist
ferred to, strange todsay, had never
heard or read this story when he told
of actions of a fox which he
served the other day In the waters of
the Patapaco river. The little
he stated, ba river
ly. with =0 much
wondered what It meant It carried
something, he did know what, it
fta mouth, and dropped the something
re
the ob
animal,
ked into the slow
deliberation that he
not
0
when out in deep water.
Then fox hurried
ohjeet floated
er, and havled it
stick literally
through which
to be a Lit of raw rabbit fur The ob
server had a puzzling ox
plained to him, He says his admira
for the shrewdness of the fox
more and more he grows
older and learns his ways Ialtimore
Sun.
the
feft
he
Fleas
the ohiect,
aw The
pear to the obaery
with a
swarmed
found
ay
ashore
Wis
mystery
tion
as
A Model Girl,
A Kansas girl graduate, de
serves a place in the Hall of Fame,
was given the time-worn theme, “Be
yond the Alps Lies Italy.” and produoc
ed the following:
“1 do not care a cent whether 1thly
les beyond the Alps or in Missouri. 1
who
with my future career. 1 am glad that
I have a good, very good, education,
but 1 am not going to misuse it by
ture woman. It will enable me to cor-
rect the grammar of any lover | have,
ghould he speak of ‘dorgs’ in my
presence, or say he went ‘somewhere.’
or ‘seen’ a man, It will also come
handy when 1 want to figure out how
many pounds of soap a woman can get
for three dozen eggs at the grocery.
Bo 1 do not begrudge the time 1 spent
in acquiring it. But my ambitions
do not fly so high, I just want to mar-
ry a man who ean ‘lick’ anybody of
his weight in the township, who can
run an S80-acre farm and who has no
female relatives to come around and
try to boss the ranch. I will agree to
cook dinners for him that won't send
him to an early grave, and lavish upon
him a whole lot of wholesome affec.
tion, and see that his razor has not
been used to cut broom wire when he
wants to shave, In view of all this
1 do not eare if I do get a little rusty
on the rule of three and kindred
things as the years go hy”
The distance from Philadelphia to the
Philippine Islands by the sh
REV. DR, TALMAGE,
THE EMINENT DIVINE'S BUNDAY
DISCOURSE,
Bubject : A Way Over Jordan « Ths Lord
Will Send a Bost « From the Other
Shore It Will Come to Transport the
Falthful to Eternal Life,
[Copyright 199. |
Wasmixaron, D.C,
incident of olden time Dr. Talmage in this
discourse draws some comforting and rap-
turous lessons. The text is 11 Samuel xix,
18, “And there went over a ferryboat to
carry over the king's household.”
Which of the crowd is the king?
short man, sunburnt and in fatigue dress
It is David, the exiled king. He has de-
feated his enemies and is now going home
to resume his Good! 1 always
like to see David come out ahead, But be-
tween him and his komme there is the cele
brated River Jordan, which has to be
assed. The king is sccompanied to the
nt of the river by an aristocratic old
gentleman eighty years, Barzillai by
name, who owned a fine country seat at
Bogelim. Besides that, David has his fam
ily with him. But how shall they get
across the river? While they are stand
ing there I see a ferryboat coming from
the other side, and as it cuts through the
water | the faces David and his
household up the thought of
mn getting home. No sooner had the
ferryboat the shore than David and
his fan and his old friend Barzillai,
fromm Hog 3, get on board the boat
Either bing oars at i
wit wEhing #101
wilh one Ig AL Lhe
paiace,
of
Bes of
brighten at
BO BOM
struc)
Lhe or
stern of the
they LY eastern bank of the
and start for the western bank.
western bank is black
le, who are waving
the Xi
from the other side! Transporiation at
ast for our souls from the other shore;
everything about this gospel from the oth-
er shore; pardon from the other shore;
mercy from the other shore; pity from the
other shore; ministry of angels from the
other shore; power to work miracles from
the other shore; Jesus Christ from the
other shore, “This is a faithful saying
and worthy of all acceptation that Christ
Jesus came into the world to save zin-
ners,” and from a foreign shore 1 see the
coming, and it rolls with the
the dead adjust their apparel so that they
may be fit to come out, That boat touches
the earth, and glorious Thomas Walsh
gets into it in his expiring moment, say-
“He bag come! He has come! My
beloved is mine, and J 2m His” Good
Barah Wesley got into that boast, and as
she shoved off from the shore she cried:
“Open the gates!” 1 FE
the boat came from to
take David and his across so when
we about to die boat will come
direction. God fortnd that
anything that
bless God
the
men
the
that
other shore
are
1 should
starts from this side
Again, my =u
WE Cross over the last the King will
be on board boat :
Bible times was in its infancy. The boats
were not skillfully made, and I can very
imagine that chi
dren of the king's have
nervous
afraid that tl
might give
be dashed
boats
then 1 eo
startling
“Oh,
ing down!
board the
ever {rust
to
sugpests that when
the Bhip carpentry in
CasLY the women and
household might
going th boat,
carsman or the bhelmsman
that the 1
rocks,
Leen about on taal
and
the
oul
on
wi
family
ashore
there
much
it excitement
it
prot
ike
arziliai
e the
iy
irs
aged
h other neve mee! again
eir Lipe met as King
Lal, atl Lhe prow of
rever
River Jordan,
all languages,
ihe Doundsry earth
yet when, on a former ocea
preached 0 you about the Jordanu
11
au
een
between
in
ages
has the sym
line
2
G heaven,
e 1 have no doubt that some of you
i ngly said: “The Lord might have
ded Jordan for but not
rae Cheer up! I want to show
you that there is 8 way over an
well as through it. My text says, “And
there went over a ferryboat to carry over
the king's household.”
AH our cities are fasuiiar with the ferry
boat. It goes from San Francisco to Oak
land, and from Liverpool to Birkenhead
and twice every secular day of the week
multitudes are on the ferryboats of our
great cities, so that you will not need to
bunt up a classical dictionary to find out
w I mean while I am speaking to you
about the passage of David and his family
across the River Jordan
My subject, in the first place, impresses
me with the fact that when we cross over
from this world to the next the boat will
have to come from the other wide. The
tribe of Judah, we are iaformed, sent this
ferryboat across to get David and his
I stand on the eastern wide of
the River Jordan, and I find no shipping
at all, but while I am standing there |
see a boat plowing through the river, and
as 1 hear the swirl of the waters, and
the boat comes to the eastern side of the
Jordan, and David and his family and his
Joshua
JOT
Jordan
mightily impressed with the fact. that
when we cross over from this world to the
tie
wvety day 1 find people trying to ex.
temporize a way from earth to heaven
They gather up their good works and some
sentimental theories, and they make a
The fact i» that
skepticism and infidelity never yet helped
one man to die. I invite all the ship
carpenters of worldly philosophy to come
and build one boat that can safely cross
1 invite them all to unite their
skill, and Bolingbroke shall lift the stan:
chions, and Tyndall shall shape the bow
sprit, and Spinoza shall make the main
topgailant braces, and Ravan ghall go to
tacking and wearing and boxing the ship
All together in 10,000 years they will never
be able to make a boat that can cross this
Jordan. Why was it thet Spinoza and
Blount and Shaftesbury lost their souls?
It was because they tried to cross the
stream in a boat of their own construc
tion. What miserable work they made of
dying! Diodorus died of mortification be
cause he could mot guess a conundrum
which had been proposed to him at a
public dinner; Zeuxis, the philosopher,
died of mirth, laughing =t a caricature
of an aged woman, a caricature made by
his own hand; while another of their
comapany and of their kind died saying:
“Most I leave all these beautiful pic
tutes” and then asked that he ight be
covers to tatters. This
idly philosophy helps a
iagara Falls said to me,
t rock down in the rap-
Yes” “Well” he said,
Arg On
r branches
uggests
over
at the
ding
than the
vet
piace
withing to
and nothing handle
» taste then I will langh, too
float about in ether
about your hands and
air discriminately, ons
centre of the sun
to
4%
going to
EWIinging
forever,
} the
beaven. Dissatisfied
with John's matersalistic heaven, theologi
eal tinkers are trying
en that will
heard of
pt St
to patch up a heav
do for them at last. 1 never
any heaven | want to go to ex:
John's heaven
believe 1 shall hear Mr Toplady sing
and Isaac Watts recite hymns
end Mozart play. “Oh,” you say, “where
would you get the organ? The Lord
will provide the organ. Don't you bother
about the organ. 1 believe I shall vet see
David with a harp, and I will ask him to
sing one of the songs of Zion
I believe after the resurrection I shall
see Massillon, the great French pulpit or
yet
ator, and I shall hear from his own lips
how he felt on that day when he preached
the king's funeral sermon and flung his
whole audience into a parosysm of grief
and solemnity
And so you and I will be met at the
landing. Our arrival will not be like sten
ping ashore at Antwerp or Constantinople
among a crowd of strangers. it will be
among friends, good friends, those who
are warm hearted friends, and all their
friends. We know people whom we have
never seen by hearing somebody talk about
them very much We know them almost
ag well as if we had seen them
And do you not suppose that our par
ents and brothers and sisters and children
in heaven have been talking about wus all
these years and talking to their friends?
So that 1 suppose, when we cross the
river at the last we shall not only be met
by all those Christian friends whom we
knew on earth, by all friends.
They will come down to the landing to
meet us. Your departed friends love vou
now more than they ever did :
You will be surprised at the Inet to Sind
how they know" about all the affairs of
vour life. Why. they are only across the
ferry. and the boat is coming this way,
and the boat is going that way. I do pot
know but they bave already asked the
Lord the day, the hour, the moment when
you are coming across, and that they know
ow, but 1 do know that you will be met
at the landin The poet Southey sid he
thought he should know Bishop Heber in
heaven by the portraits be had seen of
him in London, and Dr. Randolph said he
thought be would know William Cowper,
the poet, in heaven from the pictures he
had seen of him in England, but we will
know our departed kindred by the por
traits hung in the throne room of our
hearts.
On starlight nights you look up—and 1
suppose it is so with any one who has
friends in heaven-—on starlight nights you
look up, and you cannot help but think of
those who have gone, an suppose they
look down and cannot but think of
vantage of us.
u au they have the »
e know not w their werld
jov is. They know when we _ of
But there is a thought that comes over
me like an electric shock. Do 1 belong to
the King's household? Mark you, the
Jext que, “And Shete wont ove a ferry.
earry over ng's honsehold,
household
and none but the king's
belong to t
their