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If we could her the grasses grow;
If we could hear the flowers bloom: °
Bf all their music we could Know,
AS we are consclpus of perfume,
Hew would our souls enraptured be
With thelr transcendent melody’
If all earth's grief could smite the saz,
Could utter all its grim despair;
U human anguish we could hear,
Transmitted into dirge and prayer,
Oh, with what boundless sympathy,
Our hearts would know griel's bitter plea
And God does know—He made the ear,
| Each opening bud—He hears it sing;
! Each vibrant thought shall He not hear,
Whose hearing hath no limiting?
He hears, through discord, sweetest chime,
And we shall hear it 50 sometime
- Frank A Breck, In Chicago Advance.
A THOUGHTFUL GIFT.
Glad for a Whole Year on Their
Lonely Foreign Field.
i out to the fleld for the first time last
friends,
locke Corbin
from China to the Chicago Advance.
{| Toward the close of that evening one
| of the 4adles produced a laundry bag
of blue denim and handed it to the
young missionaries. The bag was
found go contain 52 packages, each
one bearing a dalg and the name of
the giver. Beginning with the week
when the young missionaries sailed
from their native shores, one package
was to be opened each week. Each
packet ‘contained a little gift, a book,
8 pretty handkerchief or collar, a
photograph, or similar remem-
brance, ofttimes uding a helpful
message from the giver. The bride
immediately dubbed it, “The Wonder
Bag.” Only those who have been Ia
like conditions can understand what
joy this gift brought (wo young
from their pative land. Each week
the day when the “Wonder Bag” pack-
ow livefiest anticipation.
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| given with a personal touch
| made them doubly precious. This
| thoughtful gift is spoken of in the
hove that other churches may take
Looked After in the An-
thracite Region.
| young missionaries happy.
BITS BY THE WAY.
| complete mastery.
| Never is happiness more clear thaa
| when founded on clean-heartedness
{ There is more worship in the musie
of the heart than in all the art of
music.
Chronic self-conceit la more fatal
than either measles or mumps — United
Presbyterian.
Some people never think of being
grateful for one meal until they are
hungry for the next
Death is only the one who has gone
to get the home ready coming to take
us to it—Ram’'s Horn.
As a countenance is made beautiful
by the soul's shining through It, so
the world is beautiful by the shining
through it of a God. —Jacobl,
If the mind is kept fully occupled
with good thoughts there will be no
room for evil ones. The cell that is
full of honey has no room for anything
else. —United Presbyterian.
We are apt to forget that the de-
velopment of the inner life is not per
fect unless it issue’ in such going about
doing good as was the flower and fruit
of our Saviour's thirty years. — Rew F.
B. Meyer. -
No one of my fellows can do that
special work for me which [ come into
the world to do; he may do a higher
work, but he cannot do my work. 1
cannot hand my work over to him, aay
more than [ can band over my ree
sponsibilities or my gifts. —HRuskin,
To love is better thas (0 be great,
it is Detter than to be refined, it ls
better than to be wise. Love takes
precedence of sll prophecy, of every
kind of knowledge, and of the gift of
; Jove is higher than bope or
1 and is the very royalty of God.
—Belected. _
Guard within yourself that treasure,
kindness. Know how to give withoud
hesitation, bow (0 lose without re.
gaged in other lines of engineering
the mechanical details
of mine hoisting cannot fail to be of
Interest, says R. V. Norris, in En-
gineering Magazine [t is here shown
thal they are vital to the sucess of
the majority of coal minirg Industries
With many, the mining of coal Is
tlassed among the roughest kind of
mechanical operations, in which the
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prominent part—an idea which bas
survived (he era of primitive mining
operations. Modern mining, however
Bas been brought to a stage of en-
gineering refinement never dreamed of
by the ploneers of the |ndusiry. To
the lav reader the condensed pres
entation of the state of the art as
now conducted, even so far as it re
lates to the Ilifting of coal from Jt
normal level to the surfacg. Is a
revelation, such, as without expert in-
structions, could not be gained eve:
by a tour of Inspection throughout th»
anthracite alstricts. The manner of
obtaining the groat supply of fuel
which is so intimately reiated to th:
progress of civilization, of which sup-
ply the Pennsylvania anihracite m™
gion are one of the most Important
soyrces of supply, will ever continue
{0 possess an interest superior to that
of many industries to which coal-get
ting is commnerclally vital
The facts given Illustrate the impor.
tance of skillful engineering to miner
hoisting. and serve to place in a
strong light the great advancement
made during the last 25 years by cars-
ful study and skillful construct'on. Yt
will be seen that even the smallest
detalis have received attemtiong and
that what might seem of small mo.
ment to those unfamiliar with the rc.
quirements of coal hoisting prove
upon examination to be far otherwise
Eligible to Matrimony.
The bachelor who doesn’t smoke, and
daofn't drink. and doesn’t play poker,
and doesn’t bet on the rales, and keeps
away from the stock market, is almost
good enough Lo get married.
Ancient System.
[dentification by finger. print Is gen-
erally supposed to ‘be quite a modern
European detective device; but it ap-
pears that iL was employed in Korea
1,00 years ago.
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The Bad Boy Finds Germany Very
Mucu Like Milwaukee—He Plays
Mumblety Peg with the German
Princes—He Entertains the Royal
Family with “a Trick.”
EY HON GEORGE W PECK
Ex Governor of Wisconsin, Former Editor
of Pecks Bun, Author of “Peel's
Lad Boy.” Etc)
(Copyright 1485, by Joseph B Bowles)
Berlin, Germany. —My Dear Old
Pummernickel ~-Now we have got
pretty near home, and you would en-
Joy It to be with us, because you
coulda’t tell this town from Milwaukee,
except for the military precision with
which everything is conducted, where
You never take a glass of beer without!
cracking your heels together like a sol
dier, and giving a military salute tg
the bartender, who Is the commander.
in-chief of all who happen to patronize
bis bar, everybody here acts like he
was at a picnic in the woods, with a
large barrel of beer with perspiration
oozing down the outside, and a spigot
of the largest size, which Alls a
schooner at one turn of the wrist, and,
every man either smiles or laughs out
loud, and you feel as though there
fIAPPINESS EVERYWHERE
was happiness everywhere, and that
heaven was right here In this greatest
German city. There is laughter every
where, except when the empervr drives
by, escorted by his body gua: d, on the
finest horses In the world, then every
citizen on the street stops smiling aad
laughing, all stand at attention, and
every face takes on a solemn, patriotic,
almost a fighting look, as though each
man would consider it his happiest
duty and pleasure to walk right up
to g4he mouth of cannon and die In
his tracks for his pale-faced, haggard
and loved emperor. And the emperor
never smiles on his subjecis as he
passes, but looks Into every eye on
both sides of the beautiful street with
an expression of agony on his face
but a proud light in his eye, as though
he would say, “Ach, Gott, but they are
daisies; and they would fight for the
Fatherland with the last breath In
their bodies.”
The pride of the people tn that
moustached young man, with the Jook
of suffering, is only equalled by the
pride of the emperor in every German
In Germany, or anywhere on the face
of the globe. There Is none of the
“Hello BIIL" suf as we have in
America. when the president drives
through his people; many of them
yell, “Hello Teddy,” while he shows his
teeth and laughs and stands up in his
carriage, and says, “Hello Mike,” as
be recogulzes an acquaintance But
these same “Hello Bill" Americans are
probably just as loyal to their chief.
wherever he may be, and would fight
as hard as the loving Germans would
for their hereditary emperor
I suppose there is somebody working
in Berlin, but it seems to us that the
whole population, so far as can be
seen, Is bent on enjoying every minute,
walking the streets, In good clothes
giving military salutes, and drinking
beer between meals, and talking about
what Germany would do to an enemy
if the ever-present chip on the shoulder
should be knocked off, even adeldent
ally. But they all seem to love Amer
ica, and when we registered at ‘he
hotel, from Milwaukee, Wis. U.S A
citizens began to gather around us and
ask about relatives al our home. They
seem to think that every German who
has settled In Milwaukee owns a brew
ery, and that all are rich, and toat
some day they will come back to Ger
many and spend the money and fight
for the emperor
We did oot have the heart to tell
them that all the Germans In Mil
waukee were goluk to stay there and
spend thelr money, and while their
hearts were still warm towards ‘he
Fatherland, they loved the Stars and
Stripes and would fight for the Amer
fcan fag against the world, and that
the younger Germans spoke the Ger-
man language, if at all, with a Yankee
accent. Gee, but wouldn't the people
of Berlin be hot under the collar if
they knew how many Germans In
America were unfamiliar with (he
make up of the German flag. and that
they only see il occasionally, when
some celebration of German days takes
[ place. ?
Well, when dad raw (he German
emperor. drive down the great street
and gol a look at his face, he sald
“Hennery, | have got to see that young
man and advise him to go and consult
a doctor,” aud so we made arrange-
meats to go Lo the palace and see the
emperor of Germany, like’ you do when |
you visit royalty in Turkey and Egypt, |
for a good frock coat and a silk hat |
will take you anywhere in the lay
time, and a swallow-tall is legal ten-
der at night, so dad put on his frock
coal and silk hat, just as he would 40
£0 and attend an afternoon wedding
a! home, and we were ushered into
a regular parlor, where ‘he emperor
was baving fun with his children, and
the empress was doing some needle
work
Dad supposed we would have to talk
to the emperor and the prince through
an Interpreter, and we stood thers
walting for some one to break the ice,
when some one told the emperor that
an American gentleman and his boy
wanted to pay their respects, and the
emperor, who wore an ordinary dark
sult, with no military frills. took dae
of the young princes he had been play-
ing with, across his knee and gave
him a couple of easy spanks, in fun.
and the whole family was laughing
and the spanked boy “tackled” the em-
peror around the legs, below the knee
like a football player. and the other
princes pulled him off, and the em-
Peror came up to dad, smiling as
though he was having the time of his
life, and spoke to dad in the purest
English, and said he was glad to see
the “Bad Boy' man, because he had
read all about the pranks of the nad
boy and bid dad welcome to Germany
and he didn't look sick at all
Dad was taka all of aheap, and
didn't know what (0 make of the Ger-
man emperor talking English, hut
when the ruler of Germany turned to
me and sald, “And so this is the cham-
pion little devil of America.” and
patted me on the head, dad felt that
he had struck a friend of the family
and he sat down with the emperor and
talked for balf an hour, while the
young princes gathered around me
and we sal down on the floor and the
boys got out their knives and we
played mumblety peg on the carpet,
Just as though we were at home, and
all the boys talked English, and we
oad a bully time. The princes had all
read “Peck’'s Bad Boy.” and I think
the emperor and empress have encour
aged them in their wickedness for the
boys told me of several tricks they
bad played on their faiNer. the em
perur, which they had copied from the
“Bad Boy.” and it made me blush
when they told of Initiating thelr
father Into the Masons, the way my
chum and 1 laitiated dad into ihe
Masons with the ald of a goat
I asked the bays how their dad took
it, and told them from what we in
America heard about the emperor of
Germany, we would think he would kill
anybody that played a trick on him,
but they sald he would stand anything
from the children, and enjoy it. but
if grown men aitempted to monkey
with him, the fur would fly. Tae
crown prince came in and was Intro-
duced to me, and he seemed proud w
see me, ‘cause nis uncle, Prince Hen-
ry. had told hin about being in Mil-
waukee, and how all the women in
that town were the handsomest he had
ever seen in his trip around the world
and he asked wwe If It was 30. | re
ferred him to dad, and dad told aim
the women were the greatest in the
world, and then dad made his usual
break. He sald: “Look ahere, Mister
Prince, you have got to be married
some day, and raise a family to hand
the German empire down to. and my
advice to you is not to let them saw
off on to you no duchess or princess
as homely as a hedge fence. with no
ginger In her blood, but you skip out
to America, and come to Milwaukee,
and I will Introduce you to girls that
are =0 handsome they will make you
toe the mark, and if you marry one
of them she will raise a family of
healthy young royalty with no humor
in the blood, and you won't have to
go off and be gay away from home
‘cause an Amerikan wife will take you
by the car if you show any signs of
wandering from your awn fire side
like lots of your relatives have done."
Gee, but that wade the emperor hot,
and he sald dad needn't instil any of
his American ideas into the German
“AND SO THIS 18 THE
LITTLE DEVIL
CHANPION
mobility, as he could run things all
right without aay help, and dad got
ready Lo go, ‘cause the atmosphere was
getting sort of chilly, but the emperor
soon got over his huff, and told dad
pot to hurry, and then he turned to me
and sald, “Now, little American bad
boy, what kind of a trick are you go-
lug to play on me ‘cause from what
I have read of you | know you will
never go out of this house without
giving me a beaefit, and all my buys
expect it. and will enjoy it, the same
as | will, now jel er go"
I felt that it was up to me to &
something to maintain the reputation
I had made, so | sald, "Your majesty,
I will sow proceed (0 make it inter.
esting for you, if you and the boys
will kindly be sealed In a circle
around me.” They got Into & eirvie,
all laughing, and I took out of my
pistol A Dalf plut flask
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PRICE ONE
one of the royal family,
“Ene-mene-mony-my,” and open
flask in front of cach one, and
soon they all began to get
and scratch themselves, and
peror slapped his leg and pine
arm and put his fogers down his
and scratched his peck, and the
prince jumped up and kicked hls
and scratched his back, and
"Bay, kid. you are pot hyn
are you” and | sald, *
mony-my,” and kept on touching
Stopper. :
By and by they all got (0 se
and the emperor turned sort of p
but be was going to see the 8
through to the end, as long as he
a ticket, and he sald, “What I§
joke, anyway?" and | kept on say t
“Ene-mene-mony-my,” and walk
around in front of them, and dad
gan tof dance around, loo, abd |
under his shirt bosom and seratch
leg, and they all scratched In
son and laughed, and a little
Kin
DAD LEANED AGAINST A
AND SCRATCHED.
asked bow long before F
know what it was all about, and |
my ene-mene, and looked solemn,
dad sald, “What you giving us
I sald, “Never you mind, this Is
show and | am the whole push,”
everybody had raised up out |
chair and each was scratching for
that was out, and finally the y
sald, “1 like a joke as well ag
body, but | can’t laugh until T'K
what 1 am laughing about” and
told dad to make me show what
in the bottle, and I showed the bot!
and there was nothing in it, and
they ‘stood scratching themselves,
[ wld dad we better excuse oun
and go, and we were going all
enough when-dad sald, “What Is
you are doing.’ and as we got 0
to the door 1 said, “Your m 3
have distributed, impartially, I
in the royal family of Germany, a hs
a pint of the hungriest fleas that Bg
can produce, for they have been
that flask three weeks with nothing to
eat except themscives, and 1 estimates
that there were a million Cairo fleas
in the flask, enough to set up house-
keeping In your paiace, with enough to
stock the palace of your crown
when he is married, and this Is
you may remember the visit of Pack
Bad Boy and his dad. Sa
The emperor was mad at first,
be laughed, and when we got out ¢
the palace dad leaned against a
post and scratched his back,
to me, “Hennery, you never of
have did it,” and [ sald, “What
a poor boy do when called upolh
dealy to do something to enlerthl
alty
“Well,” says dad, “I don't
myself, but this thing is apt
on International complications.” and
said, “Yes. it will bring Persia into
‘cause they will have to use IN
insect powder to get rid of them,
then we went lo our hotel and
fleas all uight, and thought o
sleepless night the royal family
having. £8
Well, so long, old Pummernickel.
Yours truly,
HENNER
SMALL PARISH IN LOND!
Consists of But Twenty-Five §
and Is Located in the Heart
of the City.
A parish situated within the
of the precincts of the Bank of Es
has reason to be. proud of itself
is the happy position of St: Chi:
le-Stock, which has an area of bl
and eight-tenths acres and apo
of but 25 souls, ae
The population is a gradually ¢
ishing quantity, though there
a notable Increase of one d
past four years. The, figures
are as follows: 1811, populatio]
1831. 72; 1841, 16; 1851, 45; 1881. 8
34; 1904, 24; 1905, 26,
There are only three inhabited
in St. Clristopher-le-Stock, Ini
church of St. Christopher-le- XK
pied the ground upon which thy
house now stands. The nae Ww
rived from its proximity to the
market, which was theg held
neighborhood of Change alley,
church was demolished in 1781.
The graveyard, according
lished reports, was
garden within the
Peace of the XMeart
If quiet and peace could only be
by withdrawing from the duties nd
cupations of active life, then :
pesce for most of us could never
is not In our power to iy fo
still retreat, in whose guiet
cape the evils and troubles
the corner will never ba for
world where care and evil