JUST A GIRL, AMany a throne has had to fall For a girl, Just a girl; Many a king has had to crawl For a girl, Just a girl; When the hero goes to war, He may battle for the right, But ‘tis likelier by far That he sallies forth to fight For a girl, Just a girl. When the doctor turns to say: “It's a girl, Just a girl,” Papa murmurs with dismay: “What! A girl— Just a girl?” Ah. but why the sadness there? Why the bitterness displayed? Some day some strong man will SWear That the made great round world was For that girl Just that girl. Why did Adam take the bite? For a girl, Just a girl Why was Troy swept out of sight? For a girl Just for nn girl would heaven still bright, And would any good man care To achieve it, if he might Never claim forever there Just a Glorious --Chicago 0, be girl girl? Record Herald. “Do The began being toward her the darkness of pose “Perhaps if he knew told me.” He hesitated brave and strong and noble small you think Malabar will run?” girl did not reply but her lips to tremble. The face of the man dark, but it was of pur Brew despair, not have “Malabar He would what you is not stoop to a deed.” “1 promised him with year that he should run for me at the green corn dance. I—I did not know then)” looking piteously into the gloomy, deli- above her. “Malabar to a small de no not 1al ie | it the new would But be He purpose a saw some- crush him great war- cate face not stoop this is known that he will run for me not turn fro breadth in front that would and it right for a Ankona, but it is hard.’ “We will fly, White E deepest fastnesses of the would hair's is he cried where even Malabar's would be " But White Egret only with sorrowful e hoarsely powerless Yas are Seminoles, made But and a better He h and will “You stern o no. no as taste wrartsl a 1h Rar + ywertul e, an a figure dark, towering and implacable stepped from the shadows. “I shall not fall black dranght. It wonld not be a fi ling for a war rior White and bowed his head “You heard all?’ strained An" gathering before the her head Ankona Egret th: hack vg ria regarded ow him steadily he questioned in a voice, . “It was t} ui calmly tie. I shall run White Egret, for have I not said it, and has she not made her promise? It is only when we forget our promises that we become weak and childish Ankona is young yet, and should be humored. 1 will let him run the race with me, and 1 will give him one-third the distance start as due his weakness, iiidigh prat- for in to go'"” They went, with a single despairing glance toward each face was bloodless with pride knowledge other and crushed, of utter Ankona's bloodless set with inability to cope with this man of iron will and strength. Better be crushed than al lowed to exist by sufferance, Other forms were appearing from the forest- and leggins, carrying the guns had purchased from white traders: squaws with camp equipage, medicine aot fore ly, with eyes bent upon the ground: children and dogs, some from the camp on White River Bay, some from Okee- chobee, some from the shifting camp among the keys-—all coming for the great annual green corn dance, whera tribal laws were to be made, marriages celebrated, and criminals punished. These criminals were now moving unwatched, unnoticed, in many cases unknown among the others. Whatever crime they had committed duricg the yaar had gone unpunished at the time, but now tribal honor brought them here to expiate their misdeeds. On the morrow they would be placed in closely shut tents and almost suffocated with steam made hy pouring water upon hot stones. And after that they would drink of the black draught. If they died, they were guilty. On the other hand, if they were strong enough to survive, their innocence would be clearly established. Later the racing for wives would take place. Malabar was known to every one revered, feared, honored. All knew that he was to race for a wife, and even, that before the race he was to drink the dreaded black draught. Ordinarily they would have scoffed at such ab surdity. If a man drank and would be a notable proof of strength; but to drink and live and then race for a wife! As to his crime, it was only brave enough-—he had killed a man! True, but he had been provoked must punished, for that was the jaw, but they did not wish him harm And they all knew Ankona, the gen. tle one, and though he none of them revered If he and hearts. Egret for him in their race with White they would be glad. win it so. tribe stood furtively the eyes in the closed tent about silent, with 3 watching the point whence the demned would walk forth innocent be brought forth guilty. At length the tent flap and he staggered out. For a moment stood there in the sunlight, his to his head, swaying blindly Then they saw him throw his 1d con. or was raised should one to cast Slow ly was strong enough the weight of all things he turned away from them and strode to be by himself. That, Malabar's until the was Not Way maidens were brought “1 will called race for in a my voice that White tho tnt her one-half the d cause also will gi be CAUSH she is a the him he is them be placed The Ankona, to and woman iil and | tance Let enter with me the di man race third half a ve one but stared and gasped enter spectators his rival the race the dis to one-third Egret. the fi one-half! No one apped and be given tance, ed, could And Maiabar? He swept them with his glance “I shall hecause at. foot to thus handic vet confidently, him with drew Ones Egret to her place, he hurried to his « position And space after the sig | was given i for a they ware les he would speed had i catch SQUAW willingly And he tu and strode bs York Times not come from the ra » farost A Victim of Pride. It has been said that the of Nap he thought The sleon’s defeat was simply thi he could New York Mail a conversation ov be defeated. re ard on a how a Na not and Express erhe which tell barn.yard was poats suburban train poleon of the ed. “Pride conquer. von." I tell his thing fo 8 a terrible remarked a passenger seat. mate “You?” said the other man, good-na turedly. “Yes fellow" —point even the This young a news despatch in the ing paper—"cutting away from other side of the world just the girl made a fool of him me of the Langsham rooster we to reminds had “That's natural,” responded the oth. man. “Well, the rooster el grew his left eye out in plain view of the whole flock. You never saw such hu- miliation in your life, “It wasn’t the loss of the eye that hurt so much as the loss of prestige. He never was himself again. Every rooster in the yard made fun of him; the hens strutted by without paying the least attention to him, and even the chickens sauced him. He pined away, his feathers dropped and Lecame a regular outcast, round by himself to pick up stray graing of corn when the rest of the fowls had finished feeding. “One day I went out to get a plump ken for dinner. 1 laid the hatchet on the block where | usually cut off the heads of chickens, and was moving around to plck out a fat one, when my wife called me to look. And, sir, lying flat on the block was that old rooster, He had hopped up there and put his head down close to the hatchet and was waiting for me.” Swedish Co-operative Societies. Sweden has 324 cooperative socle. ties, with a membership of over 8.000, POLITENESS ALWAYS PAYS, A Fresh Illustration of an Old Maxim in Business, They were discussing types of people whom tney encounter in their the York Mail the con by six treatment lost the various travels, relates and Express, and expressed “white” drummeaors was that that is, politenes was never exerted on a traveling man The house, “This of a littl 4 ott who represented 2 floor he, “reminds me that occurred last was taken suddenly to to until got I was strange but | reached of There the had rival and to which man had th talk sald neident Hopkins the firm of SEARON ill, and COver a ent word his Naturally me part route he in shap again the got along Seattle, to country and the people; fairly well There | until 1 found a firm a lot 3 Urs there which ' ba ir had ‘ infor 1 tic firm had been in m uid Iwo letter introductio Were for a bargain firms had gotter Il was to use my firm I “It was a I had been buying them Kins should tra for ng noy rience me accustomed to sell furs naturall i importance It wi a matter of ut $26.1 the would examin them I even such a fine ¥ y be glad you’ received Renting Stuffed Animals stuffed animals the approach we 1 1 On i don't trade in got er with of the iay #OA meat by Sirest 1 gaid a William taxider tint We »1 beasts in we are sell ste of ing md are not We never do sell ’ herds at this time of year, but our renting list swells rodigionsly People whose ed businesaa requires them to use ato animals and birds as advertisements general or dog or bear cdded { two to their stock for a month preceding and following Christ mas. A trade mark of this kind, rood quality. costs anywhere from $5 to $75, and as those that are used marely as ‘supers’ are needed only a few months in the year, it is cheaper them than to buy them out Almost every merchant in of high or low degree, makes an extra splurge at this season by en hibiting a polar bear or some other festive animal, consequently our rental amounts to a rather nice income fome seasons we do a pretty thriving business with theatrical companies also, but this year the drama seems toc have become too realistic to rely upon stuffed art for its effects, and our orders for property fowls and quadrupeds aave been few.” New York Times or of Diplomatic Minister Wu. On the eve of Minister Wu's depas ture from Washington a young woman of his acquaintance said to him that the hoped to visit China some day, as what he had told her about his na tive country had been zo interesting. “But yon have never explained,” she added, “why Chinamen take four or five wives,” With a grave bow the Griental diplomat said: ‘My country. men take 0 many in order that they may find in all of them the beaution end accomplishments of one such young lady as you." When the struggling poet gets all his versa back, don’t wish him many happy returns HOW THE DOUKHOBORS LIVE. INTERESTING STORY OF THEM TOLD BY A REPRESENTATIVE. it Was Mainly Through the Agency of J. 8. Elkinton That These Simple- Hearted Russian People Settled in Canada——Easy to Impose on Them, eph 8 be resentative bors it that pgottied Klkinton, of Philadelphia, regarded at the American rep of the Russian Doukho was mainly through his gimple-hearted peo may thege agency in Canada, and it w his agency that land—a free gift them the And Mr , Jr, has tudied the Douk ofoundly has yzraphs of them out th horrible ple tirely through 1,000 acres of were be stowed upon by Canadian Government on, Joseph hobor madi pr and has writ Hence that havi ten a bool ac the em count of stor interest what G00 acres in all he three done y have they about to are ft fr Can yf their a8 a gi om danger « yiling everything ‘hes falge prophets, headed Jodjansky 18 Alexander ment of the Te ukhoborse into Bod jans] man of intelligence and education never What as a rile. not for the Doukho but for the furtherance of salfish end of his the Doukhobors now Canada to California “These good people have been living liglous excesses but does gincere he bors’ good own. to move world has ever seen. Their gs and herds and horses have been pride of Canada. Their crops three years they point of owning fertile and profitable and well-stocked farms Their good and humanity have made them no- table Joseph Elkinton, Jr, has written a took called “The Doukhobors,” that woot. It ia a sect 150 years old, and Mr. Elkinton’s volume, which will ap- pear in January, contains many {lus trations and much matter that was hitherto inaccessible to students, “The present craze and fanatical outbreak of the Doukhobors only af- festa a fractional part of their villages and is very unlike anything that has been known among them previously,” he said. “1t will wear itself ont in a short time and it should be known that the 2 000 Saskatchewan Doukhobors have had no part whatever in this delusion, which has spread only ameng the Yorkton colonists, “It was my privilege to visit both gett. waents last summer, and (rom a personal acqualcisnce with their rep- resentative men and women [ can say virtues are unusual” Joseph Elkinton, Jr. his Doukhobors, thelr own expense a school The given hese Society of has people $300,000, —Philadelphia Req AN IDEAL twit the Werkimen Share Profits With the Millionaires. Qa p afi # re rat ¢ A successful c= speratiy Where has been in operation i 4 few miles from b community from it pop employees of onaire Gave the Reason y villages within ens) another boast each to min of a } "nd glend » curatee recent vii 14d Th thay ah r that they sh i change pulpit Th wt to oblaining mission Accordingly. at fir the subject was broached to the appeared, however, more as to the expedie Tha the pportunity ¥ CAT Ww no than "ney of Curats i the 1 vas anxious to § objection “Well” oxplaired the vicar ' fr just thiz If Jones to my pul pit and preaches better than you do he will attract a con fo his if he worse not to preach at all! "Tit now the ground Comoe portion of my church; and wall, he ought Bits, — —————— a ——— One Way to Catch Fish, In France a novel method of catch ing fish is being tested by anglers. A tiny mirror is attached to the line near the baited hook. The assumption is fish is trying to carry off the bait, and will make haste to secure the tempting rorsel tself, the result being that it will speedily be caught on the relent. lors hook, From experiments which have been made there seems to be ome foundation for this assumption. At any rate, some anglers say that they catch more fish when they use the little mirror than they ever caught before. THE SABBATH SCHOOL . international Comments for January 11. Lesson Suciect: Christian Living, Phil iv., 1-13 — Gold. en Text, Phil. iv., 4-Memory Verses 6-8 Commentary on the Day's Lesson. Phd im iV. r 10-13) “But newed of their re sent by Epaphrodit a holy joy. They like a tree putting They had helped him before had never ceased their car they had for a long time tunity of manifesting it 11 ‘1 arned,” ete. Ti does not say he had not been in want, 1} be had Jearned to meet adversity w cheerfulness which the grace of Go heart can give 12. “I know how Than) 10 proof CUR awoke wore their forth Ir have learn "ete. He had been poverty and want, and again he h abounded with blessings. He knew ti two extremes, and was not cast down the one ar elated in the other. He toe whatever came as from the Lord 13. “I can do.” etc St. Pb passes from knowledge to power ability came through faith in Christ. Followed Naturai Woodsman. When President Roosevelt was on a turkey hunt in the neighborhood of Bull Run battlefield a couple of weeks he and a Mr. Hayden, with a guide, left the turkey run and plunged nto a stretch of woodland, After they had walked some miles Mr, Hayden maid to the guide: “You've lost your way.” “Not a bit of it.” was the reply ‘Oh, yes, you have. The sun is in the LEO should be going due cast.” Mr. Roose velt said: “1 always follow a man who steers in the woods by the sun or stars. I'll follow your leadership, Mr Hayden.” He did so and reached hie destination in & bee like, to the guide's deep dizscomiiture, Some Parisian restaurants charge » shilling extra for the use of the table cloth.
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