The Upper Room. In my house of life Is an Upper Room, f A small and garnished place; And there 1 dreamed in the mist: gay gloom, And I looked my soul in the face. (O Upper Room ‘with your dréams where | my friends, ing by!) Let unwept, go pass. tried the door, voice came through my But the door was barred called my name, And the steps went down the stairs, (And yesterday at the door 1 A toy and a trampled ground.) love child's 1 heard it Once prayerg-—- when rose on the And my pravers were heard, for with toll my grown, house empty, grea’ Room 1 see ind my gate, room with though Upper rowds gather aroun (From my U rom my pper years go I have Hush! they fought my the I have run; I have won But I sit and 1 dare eves To look my soul in (For the A toy and a ground.) Mary Roberts Rinehart, in “Sue cess Ma bring Drize—— the race! not lift the face; found on the door 1 trampled vesterday at rose : ”" gazine BESTS RIRGRIHS TI RIRGRONOR Down By The Brook ster § By Susan Perry Peckham MEME PEPIIPNPE IR PUPPY PEPYS PUPP IPE SEPP PN Bob said at the ‘Now, you be almost five years been four and a and Dorotny seven, and--I thing, daddy.” “Well his fatl aer, know, time; want to 0M e~ ask you don't you paying attentior “It's so importa ft in bed till 1 thinking “For pity's sake'” “You can get tired Bob, “can't you?” “Yes,” said his it all about?” “1 want to know yo Dorothy father sald father. “Wi oat was let by t See, woul below the go own we, Do wo Slay “Do youn think begin if we wo “No.” children ng any fus quite their father’ some time; Bob “Couldn't you try us “No,” sald his father Dorothy and Bob sat straieht opened their eyes wide—"1'll tell you. If your mother would go with us. and If she would give us some luncheon for the picnic, I would come home before lunch today, and the whole family would go down to that brook.” wa “Whoo-oop!™ shouted Bob “Hi! 1 aever thought you'd do that'” “Can't always tell,” said his father. “It's a grand morning,” said Mrs. Mason. “lI think that be love ly.” And Dorothy bounced up and down on her toes and grabbed her father tight around his neck He stood up and lifted her so high from the floor that she didn’t dare to let herself drop. Then he said that he must ba off, and kissed them good bye, out called back, “I'll be here by twelve, sharp.” playing uld he sald Mr. Mas But both looked at him wit ma k- they weren't be a joke in They walted said, — once, hout 8, because sure--there migat 8 mind then even ?™ “Bat'-= up and time will thy and and their mother ready, Peggle, too. Peggle son's Boston terrier only one of the lunch-basket to carry,—too little she was, and too lively, sverybody in the family loved Peggle, and sho loved them, Mr. Mason had two baskets and Dorothy carried some of too, was Mrs, She was the and Bob with, “Fall into line!” 80 they started. into line very well they went and on past the stable, then down hill through thick grass with big clovers and with hundreds of grasshoppers: then over a fenco and through a rough potato patch and a field where there wasn’t much bo sides pumpkins scattered around and two nen putiing thom into a eart By the lowest part of that fleld ran the brook,-the folllest Brook! live ly, making a good deal of noise sald Mr. ry glad to see the family, “I never gaw such a good brook as this one!” scréamed Nob, “No more ad 1, Bob sald his father. There were big stones and little, and bushes with red berries; and there was every kind of pretty ferns and things, it seemed, growing aloge the banks and even in the middle, and so many stepping stones that you could walk on them right across the brook In some places. And the sunshine was so bright! The mother and father for awhile. Then they all out the luncheon: and and Bob made a small rock and heated things. some time over the Bob was planning a mind, a bridge from stone in the about it, down * four Mr. camp sat spread on a took but They He Dorothy sald would help. They had splendid fun work: lge. And what do as they mother and told she brook, she think! Just were their father to see it, and she and . right that she squirrel, water after a into the $0 hard almost to pleces. Dorothy they con! felt as if was pretty bad of 1idn't were so disap int they and that they Bob Say 1 ery. It but of better Anyway, just then along and said: ig | course she know have bridee, fi 8 one the . 5 ve double part this there and from land down ghort to athar from the and across shore, over ‘thoi 1e¢ very How they you car ull a Of much finer brids have a big man to hy had She i work! cour if you Work some often car. bridge : its and on a rock and the dolls id . that Ba Bakitd, funny build a better one Peggle * sald her father. gs tell, can't always tell ell, Peggle,” sang Bob, around with Peggle wi thinking in bed daddy, wish. you'd us come to the thought about ime as this—course not do such a time Dornthy and 1 other together, This is a Peggle? And it afternoon, right up to stian Regis COST OF STAGE COSTUMES. The Prejudice of One Manager Against a Brown Color-Scheme Cost Him $1,500. oblema of the I was ing let 1 never $ We when children, are dandy pienle, was so the sunset never have only or fsn't it, whole —Chri even One pro- show ch for In a builtaup » BiX Or sev and there nge his 80 AS rus time changes show his are In a ance ewer than five are ch anes wera there usually {f the play Is modern, 1 a walking<ireas $75, which doesn’t include a 330 hat, and about $7 worth of shoes, to say nothing of silk stock ings. Then there are two handsomer gowns that range from $150 to $350, the average being easily $250 Some. times a group of girls will wear $500 For men as well as women one of that will average gowns the musical It cost ing clothes modern ones, a man in even thing The shows the more to put are than in any elge on the stage. $125. minor principals two changes, unless they dresses for themselves, while the star is likely and her gowns average about cach Though the bizarre costumes don't cost so much as the others they mount up. There are the wigs for one detail. They range from $10 to $15 for the ordinary ones, up to $30 for the powdered ones, and it is unusual for a group of girls to wear four different wigs in one pro duotion, ever wears is about The only they are all ready to go on the stage, For instance, “The Gay White Way" which was practically a failure in rehearsed for where, was were never finally given. Lee Shuber! one get of costume changes, « cause he doesn’t happen to like brown. His prejudice cost about $1, 500. Hartley Davis, in Everybody's. MAKING A TIGER SIT DOWN. SL ——— odg Used to Train the Beast for Show, Fifteen feet of slack rope were per animal as the trainer dl him onee more to the seat and more he falled to understand. the order to holst was given, as the men pulled, the tiger rected once Then and, Hig head gradually was lifted up, un til his fore legs left the ground and he pranced on his hind paws With tha fear of strangulation and the in. stinet of self-preservation his brain became a mental mudpaddle. HH» beat the afr with his fore paws, whirled, squirmed, and wriggled, In a vain effort to get out of the col- lar that clutched his throat. Every movement of his body brought hi. nearer to the seat ovér which hung the block and tackle. When he reach. ed it an assistant’ grabbed his tail through the bars of the cage and pulled him toward the little stool, while the trainer punched him against it with iron bar “Swing him clear of the ground,” he called. "We'll make him that seat. All together now!” and as the men laid their combined weight on the rope, the big cat was hoisted un- til his hind legs dangled two feet above the floor, dancing a madman's fiz. The hel; choking brute fought the useless fight of a fish out of water. Had not the muscles over like solid rubber tires strangled as he curled coll, trying to es- that hung from his the take less, he would have his body into a the welght neck. With much pushing and hauling the struggling beast finally was landed on the but moment sup under feet he leaped for He was met by the trainer, loped the sensitive nose Pe handle of his whip, this up firing the burn. of a blank cartridge the nostril The tiger trainer ye¢ boys,” and as the on fore le and he goat ; the ort his who wal the followed powder straight Into to run, him, sore, 10d but the “Lift threw their s head the for a crew weight the rope the and ‘EE were ground, pranced few steps with only ind feet the momentum of along the his the touchis ng When carried body lear of sm A spenaGe Hke than yd-filled beast and sinew From Everybody's. THE ELEPHANT. Jungle to Show-Ring Course of Education Is Not What Might Be Called Easy. SCHOOLING His ant, two domeati- cated ! mahout fre ity, a moven Mn powerful ents placed about his neck for training pur emove this around his above the feet, in readily is necessary fix immediately * he may be Iron ¢ more arrival at traini fo the quarters, who has the getting ac- school term begins consists in teaching down. To the iron his legs Bach of tied to A annot move ng livered man been ordained to two sper 1d a few ¢fore days In The first lesson the elephant fetiors to lie that are attached ropes is #0 that the iable distance in encircle strong ropes securely beast any dir been en the bonds have r tested and it is certain » trainer cat scemg the brute to {to do the ¢ requests phant ref upon th uses to lle dow: puts a litt trainer hook it tough hide red blood ber then he on the sharp through the tive flash and the The ®&lephant trumpets, squeals—i( an elephant squeal, and The 3 even sharp enough trainer pulls a bit maybe‘ the blood spurts he to break away and, failing reaches, murderously inclined, his trunk his tomentor ions attempt is met by half inch of must learn on the primer that Kas to fight Finally, becomes unbearable, hoa kneeg and clumsily on his side. Similar methods are brought play to teach the tand animal's fore legs are that he cannot move, an hen are tied around hind quarters. These ropes are passed pulley overhead and, the trainer, the beast the air until he is in and nat upon his and always it is i and beast tries for Each an ad the steel, for firs: ditional animal pi ho chance who pain “head ropes his is tlited urally sup ports himself trunk fore legs. either do a “head stand” feeling of being hoisted ~Maurice B. Kirby, In Everybody's. ————————— A. Hl Col, David Brenner Henderson, Colonel delighted to recall an incident Twelfth Jowa at the battle of He noticed a soldier whose $0 that it to work. “You darson, infernal fool,” shouted Hen forgetting conventionalities for thé moment, “here, why don" you pick the tube out with a same as you do when you're shool ing prairie chickena?” The word prairie chicken, In he ear of this native of lowa, sounded | so good they i immediately brought | him to himsd! He at once cleaned At the end of the battle the who had eloaned out his gun had been shot In the Lip. When the two happened to mes! afterward, Colonel Henderson sald: “Well old boy, saved your life, If It “didn't your hip."—New Tork Telegram, COMMERCIAL COLUMN. Weekly Review of Trade and Latest Market Reports. Bradstreet's says; Continued | warm, ungeasonable | weather and the approach of the | national election tend to hamper dis- tribution of seasonable merchandise, the puchase of any On balance, slightly more active, some branches of the iron trade having increased forces, while building is more brisk; but, at the same time, drouth or low water in various fitreams tend to affect such as coke, waterway navigation paper mills, Rallway and current gross enterprises, time in the Summed but past 10 months. up, caution still prevails confidence is very strong, and, natural conditions, 8 marked degree of expansion R. G. Dun & Co, Review 's Weekly Moderate ted in Improvement is indica- reports of current trade from the country, with Although many large undertakings held back in the fron and steel pending the result of the election numerous small contracts are placed and specifications on ¢ld orders involve a considerable ton- Progress is slow, but, there is a distinct in} week, export business COn- liberal. Wholesale Markets. York. — Wheat Receipts, 31 1.00 y . ~ ish. ; exports, 11,072 Spot easy; No. 2, 1.06% @ 1.08134 elevator; No. 2 red, tinuing New 20R. B00 1.09% Northern afloat 9. hb. No. 2. afloat. 811% to ar- un- Spot easy; afloat Wea and ember col rive Option market was ure by longs, net lower Det May, § gpa May Receipts, 7.500 bush mixed, 246 8 ural white, while nat clipped Alive chickens, 131%; keys, 14 ern spring weak; fowls, 3%. Dressed irrejul lar; 13 keys, sprin ch Kens spring tur 20 20 Butter creamery a" 3 “iy. Easi¢ receipts, specials, 28; extras, held specials, 26% GG 27; common to finest, 184 2¢€ Philadelphia, — Wheat contract grade, October, 1.02 3%5¢ Corn for local Oats—Dnll: %« white, natural, 534% Butter—Firm tra op nearby pri Ezgs Firm syivania and ot Cases, SHC. at Dull; trade, Le lower B51 @ 86 lower Western nts, 31 good demand her nearby firsts, mark; do., current re. mark; Western fres Lars cases, 20 Cheese York full crea: fair to good, Poultry , Fowls, 12@ 14¢.; old roo 10 Baltimore. —Flour-Dull changed: receipts, 123,612; 4.261. Wheat Weak: 1.01% @1.01 5%; Western, 1.03% @1.03% October 1.015% @1.01% November, 1.02@ 1.02%: December, 1.038 1.03%; steamer, No 2 red, 68% @98% ; re peipts, Southern, by sample, 3 Souther n, on grade, 08 receipts, weak "1@ and ters, and exports spot, contract No - 66% @ 667%; receipts, 266; South: Corn—Easier; year, January, 66% @ 664%; Southern white corn, 80 @ 86; ern yellow corn, 85@ 87. Oats—-Quiet; No. 2 white, 5315; No. 3 white, 52@ 53; mixed, S51@51%; receipts, Rye--Steady; No. port, 834% @ 84; receipts, Butter-——Firm; fancy imitation 22@ 23; fancy creamery, 29%@ 30; fancy ladle, 20@ 21; store packed 16@ 17. Eggs—Firm, 26@ 27. Cheese—Steady ; new large, 13%; 14,034, 5.415. Live block. New York.—-Beeves—Receipts, 1. 481: feeling unchanged: dressed TR @10% 6@ 7%. Calves — Receipts, 116; veal: steady; Western calves in poor de mand and weak: common to good voals, 5.00 @ 8.75 per 100 1bs.; dress od calves steady; city dressed veals, 84 14 per ib.; country dressed, T@ 12%. Sheep and Lambs-—Receipts, 3. 488; sheep, firth; lambs, 15@ 26¢ sheep, 3.004.256; lambs, 5.00@ 6.50. Hogs—Receipts, 3,044; barely steady; a few mixed hogs sold at 5.60. Chicago.~Cattle— Receipts, esti mated about 6,500; market steady to | strong; steers, 4.40@ 7.75; cows, 3.254 5.26: heifers, 3.000 4.25; bulls, 2.50@ 4.50; calves, 3.50@ 9.50: stockers and feeders, 2.609 4.65. : Hogs-—Receipts, estimated about 18,000; market 6@ 106. higher; cholee heavy shippers, 6.00@ 6.15; butchers’, 6.00@ 6.15; light mixed, 5.408 5.55; cholce Nght, B.60@ 5.80: packing, OB.35@ 5.85; ins, 1.506 5.15; bulk of sales, 5.609 6.00. feeling State So —-— 5 — ——— in the World, ; .i THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST . . . . our life see HE HOME case of death between the tenth and twentieth ears re. turns all premiums paid in ad- dition to the face of the policy. 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New York Branch (Mee ir fi Justrated Jeol HY rest 4p ms, $3 a ON THE DESERT. difficult to compre © 0 9 e water, or rather shaping 1 and y arid Ye on food for periods Or even other regions hard as long years, and noth ir behavior Indicated that ever took liquid in any form hunted deer and peccary in which the of water was to be found in regions in only so in the domestic regions ying without even bands of the arid acqul KE. however, is the poorly rigors of the may go from until some hour of the next, nidsummer, and neither he us danger, this kind are nu- is afoot, ab. armed desert A : day » cont es his Journey norning his sufferings irb his mental balance unable to evening of that 0 something drink- not recognize the his way, and in- not unknown in which from thirst, have forded ms waist deep to wander out on + dry plain to a grisly death Some estimate may be made of the | tual amount necessary from the t that the writer during the course an ordinary day in May at Tucson, 3 be ome i may ream in Aare walk of three or four miles was tak- en, but no especial muscular effort beyond this was involved. A march across the desert in would double this quantity. such circumstances, a canteen of less capacity than a gallon is a toy, and one of real usefulness, should con- tain at least twice that amount. The most pector, hunting for a “lost mine” near the old Camino del Diablo, or trail from Altar to Yuma, who made camp safely after being out for eight days with a supply sufficient for one. This experience is not likely to be duplieated soon, although it is re- ported that Indians often go as long as four days without water.—From “A Voyage Beldw Sea Level,” by Dr. D. T. MacDougal, in The Outing Mag- azine, No Chinese Alice, her No one has been able clearly to ex piain how the United States could pos sibly hope to profit by joining hands with China. If Japan is bellicose, the big, flabby neighbor will be one of the first to suffer, not the modern, well armed, inexhaustibly resourceful pow: er across the Pacific. 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