"RISK UP AND RUN." Kt you wanti to reach de riches . What somers waits fer you, IW'en de bright sun say. "Good mawnin'," You muat tell 'im "llowdydol" Dia I v 1 11 ain't no fun Da race ia ter lie run! Wan de bright aim aay. "Good mawnin'," Rise up, en run! Ef you wants ter reach de hilltop 'Fo de atara come out ter de night, Be reaily fer de runuin' At de breakin' er de light! Hear me talk, my son - De race ia ter be run! Wen de bright ami aay, "(Jowl mawnin ," Rise up, en run! Atlanta Constitution. PrassrasasasHgasHbribcLbiJbdasa p Devon For ten years Mr. O. Hemlng Magnus had boon a writer for the lesser magazines. He wrote short stories and essays nnd sent them to the editors In the hope they would be accepted. His stamp bill was very large. Still, perseverance, a mild Inten tion, and knowledge dug from the encyclopedias will tell in time. His accepted manuscripts Increased in number. This perked him up. Ha started a hank account, of moderate dimensions. Nothing makes a man so brave as a bank account. And he Joined two or three "lit erary clubs,'' wherein ho was a "Hon." Pale, bespectacled ladles with yearnings assured him that they had read his articles in the Ladles' Fire side Instructor on "Every Woman Her Own Sandow," Rnd it was "love ly." This pleased Mr. Magnus al most as much as did the editor's check. He was a slender man, with droop ing shoulders, mild blue eyes and a sandy Vandyke beard. When "lionized" he used to twist this beard into a sharp point and stab himself upon his shirt front. Though his legs were wobbly and his feet large, his "heart was in the right place." This he knew from the fact that when startled by a sudden noise it "beat thick and quick, like a madman on a drum." A boisterous doctor came up be hind him, slapped him on the shoul der and howled: "Maggy, old man, how're the bru tal editor men?" The heart, which was In the right place, begnn thumping. Magnus wheeled and faced him. wrath in his pale eyes. "I do so hate to be called 'Maggy,' 'lie snapped. "It really is not mja name." Then his thin delicate hand went to his left side. "It's all right, Magnus," the doc tor said. "Beg pardon. You look overworked. Take a bit of free ad vice go away somewhere and rest." It was early summer and the mem bers of the literary clubs, the fash ionables and the preachers were Hit' ting. The bank account was healthy. Magnus looked over the papers. Among a thousand advertisements of places "with all the comforts of borne," his eye was caught by the mention of Matfield. He asked about it and was told It was in a good country, with pure air, farm foods, trout fishing and cheapness. That seemed to suit. Next afternoon he alighted from a dilapidated cart in front of dene" farmhouse. A river rolled grandly south. The hills were blue, save upon their sunmtiis, which were crimsoned by the dying sun. From afar came the drowsy tinkle of a cowbell. A slow wind brought tho scent of fresh fields and flowers. Looking from his window over the sweeping river Magnus said: "Here is rest. I do not want hu man companionship a cultivated mind needs only itself. Surrounded by these eternal bills, amid which dwell a simple people, solitude should bring happiness. Their ways are not my ways, their souls are half-developed, but we need not clash." He fell readily into the habits of the household. It consisted of Mrs. Loudoun, a silver-haired widow, her grand-daughter, Elfreda Loundoun, a brown-eyed girl of eighteen, with a delicious figure, a mass of brown hall, and a frank smile, and a man or all work, who ate enormously and never said a word. The two women gave him no con fidences, for which he was grateful. He was forced to admit that their manners were perfect, but set this down to Innate female refinement. They made no effort at all to enter tain him. He paid his moderate bills and kept to himself. He discovered a boat In a small house which stood bytbe river, and UBed to pull laboriously a half-mile up the stream of evenings, then float lazily down. The heart which wus In the right place began to show some disposition to stay steady when sudden noises came. In two weeks, however, he real ized that a cultivated mind needs something more than itself. He was bored. Furthermore, his conscience oppressed him'. He told himself that he was ungenerous in withholding himself from these two lonely wom en, who knew nothing of books, so ciety, cities, or tho great world with out. He was not conscious of a desire to alleviate the loneliness of Mrs. Loundoun, but he thought the girl would Improve mightily by converse with a man of his cultivated abili ties and experience. She was plump, and her weight in the boat made the rowing more difficult, but he endured the extra labor tor the pleasure of watching her Intellect expand like a flower. He noticed that In the half-light of the evenings sho was a slngulurly pretty girl, nor could he see that she lost any of her attractlveuess In the lull light of day. She listened to his talk of nooks "Grass- to the with every appearance of Interest. He found all her comments apt. and some of them shrewd. He felt the unconclous charm of her Innocence. I One evening, three weeks after the beginning) of their friendship, she assumed guidance of the conver sation. It was done In a spirit of mischief, but the eyes of Magnus did not see It. He lacked the per ceptive faculty. She astonished hlra much by a sound, if not brilliant, monologue upon the Elizabethan poets as com pared with those of the earlier era, and, in a mild discussion of the re puted authorship of the Shakes pearean plays, she worsted him bad ly. She said they were the work of Sir Walter Raleigh during his eight een years of confinement In the Tower of London. Next day she Invited him Into a part of the house he had not visited, Introduced him to a sitting-room, furnished plainly but In perfect taste, seated herself at an old but ' ' "lano, and played for him, with feeling and force, selections from Beethoven. Mozart, Mendels sohn, Chopin, Verdi, Donnlzettl, Wagner, De Koven, Millard, Sulli van. "Dave" Braham. The town man dimly recognized that ho might possibly have been guilty of underestimating the simple farming family. A little later he began to hold her In his thoughts and to speak of her. when on his rambles, as a "Devon rose." This was a bad sign. In all his thirty years he had seen no one like her so simple, so unaffected, so sympathetic, so beautiful. This was a worse sign. He measured mentally the height of his bank account, und found it sufficient. This was the worst sign of all. He laid his approaches with what he conceived to be consummate art. In his story "Heart to Heart at Eventide," published in the Beacon Light, there was a scene In which Lord Ranald de Cholmondeley had said to Lady Blanche de Courtney "I love you wildly, madly, pas sionately. Your being has entered into my being. As the dewdrop trembles In the flower chalice, so trembles my soul in your beauteous presence. Be mine be mine and there shall be no sun, nor stars, nor the opal-tinted heights of heaven, nor the crimson abysses of hades. There shall be in the wide universe only you." He thought this rather fine, and wondered how it would sound if softly, yet intensely, spoken amid the murmur of the river down-rolling to the Bea. It wa3 late in September. There was a slight chill in the air. The girl, wrapped in fleecy light stuff, sat. as was her custom, in the stern of the boat, which made no sound as It drifted. In the moonlight her brown eyes shone like jewels. Be low them shone the windows of the farmhouse. Not a word had been spoken for half an hour. Then he said: "Miss Loudoun, when I came here I thought you ignorant country folk. I know now what a fool I was. I must go to-morrow, and ir makes me sad. I can't bear to think I may never see you again. I have never told you that I love you, but I do sincerely. You must have seen it. Will you marry me?" She did not answer. She had grown suddenly pale, and was star ing intently at the landing-place not a hundred yards away. Suddenly she clasped her hands, and a wave of crimson rose in her face. A happy smile curved her Hps. Then she gazed earnestly at her compan ion. "I have not noticed," she said, gravely. "Forgive me, Mr. Magnus, but I cannot marry you." In slleuce he pricked up his ears. The prow of the boat grated upon the shore. As the girl stepped light ly to land she was taken into the arms of a tall, young fellow in khaki uniform. She stayed there a full five minutes, while Magnu? stood akwardly by. Then she turned, saying: "This is Mr. Landorf. He has been to South Africa. We have been engaged for two years." w Next spring the great author, O. Hemlng Magnus, wrote a book which' is in its 150th thousand. His heart has gone into it; its name is "Queen Rose of a Devon Garden." Illus trated Bits. ttra tomca of dinni.m.. Gladstone Took the Wrong Hat. By assuming a paper cup In raising a point of order, Mr. O'Hare has ere ated a Parliamentary precedent and added to the gayety of the national talk-shop. This hat question Ib al ways a puzzle to new members, and even an old Parliamentary hand liku the late Mr. Gladstone could not in variably remember when he should cover or not. Ou one occasion he de sired to address the Cuair, as a di vision was imminent, aud rose to bis feet with bare head. "Hat! Hat!" shouted the members, but Mr. Glad stone's hat was not available, and he gladly borrowed a neighbor's. Now, Mr. Gladstone, big in most things, was also big in the head; he took 8'a in huts, and the borrowed article, not being an 8, perched on his crown much as the negro at the Derby wears his tiny "topper." The House roared, and the habitual dignity ot the G. O. M. was at a discount rintil he completed his remarks. Pall Mall Gazette. British Patriotism vs. Trade. Until much less than a century ago there were no potteries ot any con sequence In this country, and our gvar.Jn-.sthcr: Bmai.-grandmoth-ers used tableware made in England. With au eye on this growing trade with the young States, certain pot tess of Staffordshire began decorat ing dishes with American scenes. The idea "took," and historical und political subjects followed. It It amusing to note to what extent the lust tor trade swallowed up the poli tical animosities of those British pot ters. I have seen a pitcher bearing a print of the surrender ot Cornwal 11s, au event that even to-day Is treat ed by some British historians as sj mere Incident ot a somewhat unfor tunate period. Country, Life lu America. How to Graduate Your Supplica tions With Infinite Finesse. Most of us have, for MM reason or another, left bills unpaid at times. From puro carelessness, pei haps; or the determination to give a tradesman who has treated us badly "a run for his money:" pos sibly even a lack of cash. So that there are few, who do not deal on a strictly cash basis a class that Is so rapldy diminishing that It threat ens to become an aristocracy who have not received requests for pay ment of "that little account," an Imploring, in persuasive. In mlnn tory terms. For there are more varieties of dunning letters than there are even of the "puff." which Sheridan analyzed In The Critic. If the tradesman Is left to him self, he may possibly, even probably, not graduate his applications with sufficient finesse. It Is here that the expert steps in and reduces tho thing to an exact science. The scheme was no doubt Invented In America; It bears inherent evidence of that fact, and It was, equally, no doubt, the necessary corollary of the instalment system, which the United States, after developing, handed over to us, with all Its peculiar beauties. So the tradesman lacking scholar ship or diplomacy buys a selection of "Gentle reminders for overdue accounts." They are beautifully printed on labels, which are gummed at the back, so that they can bo affixed to a bill form. You may have a red ground, or a heliotropo ground, or a yellow ground, or a black ground. Black Is only em ployed In practically hopeless cases, and has a pleasant air of mourning, about It. The inscription in every case stands out in white letters, which cannot fall to catch the eye of the most evasive debtor. Number one gently reminds him that "A remittance for the amount of his account, together with fur ther orders, will be esteemed a fa vor." "Favor," it will be observed, without the ti. There are variants of this, which read "Your esteemed order for above goods is now ready. Kindly forward balance of cash and oblige;" or "Pleahe note: This account, is sub ject to per cent, discount it paid before ." Supposing you are heedless of discounts and dates the next label in the collection, white lettering on a red label, is brought into play. "This account appears to have escaped your notice. The fa vor of an oarly settlement will oblige." If this fails to achieve its object, any further pretence about your absentmindedness is useless, and you receive the following: "As this account is much overdue a re mittance per return is requested." Your long-suffering creditor is evi dently becoming impatient, so that you will not be surprised when a warning In black and white con fronts you. "If the amount of this account Is not paid within seven days legal proceedings will be taken for the recovery thereof without fur ther notice." There the series ends, and evidently with good reason. For it is quite useless to keep ou firing colored labels Into a person who shows no sign of being hit. The ammunition Is inexpensive, 6d per 100, or 4s 6d per 1000. But no credit is given. London Chronicle The New Hampshire Se.iate-elect has but one lawyer In t.'a mem bership. CBllfornians buy more base balls and bats, proportionately, than the people of any other State. Of the twelve members of the new French Cabinet, eight have been regular writers for the Paris press. More than 90,000,000 ties were bought by railroads In the United States last year, involving 3,000, 000.000 to 4,000,000.000 feet of sound timber. It will require 3.DO0.OOO feet of lumber to build the whest ware houses and sheds on the new dock of the Great Northern Railway Com pany at Everett, Wash. Tho authorities of Clacton, a lead ing British seaside resort, grant li censes for donkey riding only on the stipulation that the owners of the donkeys don't beat the animals or use any bad language. Germany's revision of its railway tariff involves a multiplication of tickets. It Is said that a traveler with a small family going from MuK hausen to Basle- not a long Jour ney, by any means Is furnished with sixty tickets, in addition to numerous luggage checks for his impedimenta. The oyster Is the most valuable of the fishery products. The crop for 1905 was 32.000,000 bushels, valued at $15,700,000. The high Boa fisheries for cod. haddock, hali but, mackerel and herring brought 7,500.000. The Great Lakes yielded over $2,700,000. Peculiar British Isles unci Empire. Our fleet Is tho grea est in tho world, not because we ire In any sense au aggressive State, or because we waut to coerce our r eighbors by sea power, but simply a. id solely be cause of the peculiar geographical disposition of the British empire. We are a sea-sundered empire in the first pluce, und, tharefore, we can only produce unity through the possession of sea power. Again, we stand in this extraordinary position. The United Kingdom, the centre of the empire, has become in effect a city with large parks that is, a com munity which caunot feed Itself, but is, like a city, depandlug upon exter nal supplies. There is no other com munity of the modern world which absolutely depends upon sea trans port for its livelihood. Unless the paths of the sea are kept open to our corn ships and cattle ships we roust literally dia of starvation. London Spectator. Singular uml Plural. It is a question of taste and fancy whether one should make two bites of u cherry, but we all really make two bites of the word "cherry" when we use it in the singular. The orig inal English version of "cerise" was "cherls" or "chiris," which was mis taken for a plural, so that "chert" or "chirl" was soon manufactured as a singular. "Exactly so has "pea'' come into betug as a falso singulur obtained from the supposed plurul and true singular "pease." "Sherry" for "sherris" la another case, and "shay" from "chaise," "Chinee" from "Chinese," and "corp" from "corpse" are others In vulgar speech. Simi larly, "riches" is really a singular, of which "richesses" was tho old lural. London Chronicle. To Abolish BUlbo.4i'ds. "Tax the billboards out ot exist ence'" will be the battle cry ot the American Civic Association for the next year as u result ot plans decided on at its annual convention in Mil waukee. Aggressiveness against bill boards characterized all the addresses before the convention. Secretary Clinton Rogers Woodruff In a paper 'said that when President Roosevelt on June 29, '1906, signed the act for the preservation of Niagara Falls he elgned the Magna Cbarta of the civic Improvement movement. The next great reform would be to stop the desecration of our landscapes. Texts For the Times. Take de fatted cat en part de veal amongst you, en gimme u crust er bread en peace In do household. De good things er dls earth dont always lay on de surface; you got ter dig way down through dust en rocks ter find de purest gold. Et de pluce whur Satan lives at is only a place for eternal fussln' eu quarrellu', it'll be too hot ter bold i v n de man what raised en born tor nro. Atlanta Constitution. GOOD t ROADS. The Swedish city of Orsa, In the course of a generation, has sold $5,750,000 worth of trees, and by means of judicious replanting has provided for a similar income every thirty or forty years. In conse quence of the development of this commercial wealth there arc no taxes. Railways and telephones are free and.se are the school houses, teaching and many other things. When leaving their old home each boe fills her honey sack so as to be provided for the journey. When the cells are finished and nearly filled with honey, they are allowed to re main open a few days that the extra water may evaporate and the honey be properly cured. They are then sealed or capped over with wax and the work Is done. The wonderful regularity of the honey-comb is a beautiful tribute to the skill of the tiny worker, while its slight irregu larities 3how It to be the work of in telligence rather than an unreason ing machine. TOWN BUYS WOMAN A HAT. How city Attorney of Indianapolis Forestalled a Suit For Damages. The city of Indianapolis, as a mu nicipal corporation, bought u woman a hat the other day. Merely for convenience she ivay be called Mrs. Smith, because for the sake of her feelings James D. Pierce, the Assistant City Attorney, vho made the deal, would not divulge her name. A contractor who was at work on a street improvement left some bricks In the street. Mrs. Smith, with iicr husband, was on her way to tbu theatre and' as luck would have It she stumbled over those bricks und fell quite heavily. Her husband helped her to her feet and half carried her back home. The next day a report of the accident reached the office of tho City Attor ney. No claim had been filed for damages, but the lawyers who loole after the city's legal business be lieved that there would be one. so Pierce decided to see Mrs. Smith. That noon, which was the first of last week, Pierce hurried out to the North Side flat where the woman and her husband and her mother live. The young woman came to the door. He was ushered lu and after being informed that the woman be fore him was Mrs. Smith he began to talk. Mrs. Smith did not want to go to court. She did not want to sue the city and have ull the papers say that she stumbled and rolled over and over In the street. She did not waut to face a Jury und have a dozen law yers firing questions at her. "The city will buy you a nice new hat of your owu selection and wi will call the thing square," said Pierce. "But I had better see my bus baud,'' said the young woman. "He would not wear the hat." said Peirce. "No, that's so," she said and she smiled. "Well, we'll do that," sho imid She signed a release. Her hus band came a moment later. He signed, too. That afternoon the young woman bought her hut and paid tor It with a ten dollar bill Pierce had given her. ludlanapolls Star. What "Laughter" Means. Is Irish wit completely dyiug out? We ask because of the extraordinary banalities which seem to be rugurded as gems of humor ou the Nationalise benches. Yesterday, for instance, Mr. Flavin, desiring to retort upon au op ponent who had raised his ire, shout ed out, "Go and get your hair cut!" That Mr. Flavin should scintillate after this fashion will be no surprise to bis acquaintances. What Is aston ishing, and, in n sense, reully melan choly, is that the remark, which even a geuulne guttersnipe would regard as too devoid or origlr.alUv and point for use in a street brawl, nould have been received with shouts of laughter I from the Nationalists. Do they really ' think that kind ot thing funny i Loudon Globe. Chert For County Itnuds. One of the papers read het'oro tite Alabama Good Roads Association at the Birmingham meeting related to the use of chert on county roads. It is a material found In nearly every part of this district, and experts agree In considering It the best of nature's material for road building. It Is one of Alabama's natural endowments, lying In great beds near Florence, Fort. Payne, Birmingham. Leeds. Bes semer, Anniston, Jacksonville, and perhaps a dozen other North Ala bama towns. While perhaps It is better in the larger towns to employ In road mak ing former material, yet for use In the smaller towns of this. State and on the country roads chert Is the best possible material. It Is easily mined, requiring no preparation whatever. It wears well and smoothly. Chert roads that are scientifically construct ed call for practically no repairs, and this caunot truthfully be said of roads constructed from any other ma terial. The time Is coming when a great demand for chert wdl spring up in this State and In the surrounding States. The good roads movement Is .constantly widening and deepening, and when every county wakes up to the value and true economy of good roads the Alabama chert will be in demand. The present demand is con siderable, and the transportation companies are beginning to give It the attention It deserves. Chert f. o. b. cars In this county Is worth about sixty cents a ton, and any locality can. with this price be fore It. quickly calculate the cost of a needful supply. Contractors stand ready to supply it. The quantity de posited here Is practically Inexhausti ble, and so Is need ot good roads throughout the South. Birmingham Age-Herald. GOOSE SEASON IS OKKMANY. A Chicago-New York Thoroughfare . A Chicago-New York national high way may be an issue In the next Pres idential campaign, according to Dr. Gardener S. Chapin and H. Sargent Mlchoels, two Chicago good roads en thusiasts, who stopped In Utlca en route to New York. "..1th them was Wallace Busch, also a Chlcagoan. Mr. Mlchoels talked of the pro posed highway, and asserted It would be a general benefit to the people along the route, to farmers no less than others. The plan was to make It free to all except automobllists, who should pay a toll for the use of the road, the proceeds to be used for maintaining the land. Mr. Chapin and Mr. Mlchoels are making a survey of the proposed route from Chicago to New York. They use an instrument which they devised and which will show a fac simile of tho ground to be covered. They started out with a camera and two hundred rolls of films. Tb,ey are using the camera In making their survey and taking many pictures of the route. They make notes of the various conditions of the soil, I he lo cation of grades, stone quarries, sand pits, etc. Mr. Mlchoels believes that a na tional highway will Increase 'he val ue of property in the rural districts. He says that the highway w mid be of Inestimable value in such contin gencies us war, strikes ou railroads and other disturbances. He is con vinced thai wlthiu five years farmers will convey their produce to the mar kets by means of vehicles operated by gasolene. He estimates that a good macadam road, forty or fifty feet in width, can be constructed at a cost or irom uuuu to ssuuo a mile, and the distance from Chicago to New York by the proposed route would be a little more than 1100 miles. The route would be directly East from Chicago and would pass through Toledo, where there would be a feeder to Detroit and to Cleve land, with three feeders rtinninr; out of that city to Erie, Buffalo, Ro chester, Syracuse, Utlca, Albany and dowu the Hudson River to New York. New York Herald. Doing Good Work. Partnerships between the Slates individually and their counties are doing the good work und have bjen at it for years. Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, and Punnslyvanla are among the commonwealths that have already got a good start In the right direction. Illinois and Missouri are hopefully following the exam ple. Many years and an enormous outlay will be required to give the rural regions ot the United States model roads; but, little by little, year after year, that will be accom plished. Meanwhile the abolition ot grade crossings by steam and electric roads, auotber gigantic task, will go i'u.v.'ard. Washington Post. A Hard Luck Klsir. Albert KelplinKer, a workman in the Inland Steel Mills at Hammond, tried to kiss the wife of his -ml. Charles Long, and nothing Out miBtortuue has followed him since. Mrs. Long screamed, her hus band ran downstairs uud pummeled Kelpllngor, swore out a warrant, and the amorous Kelpllnger was fined for ! trliialm, ufllhlll tliu II U lit m fill ll . il v I limits. A few days later Keipllnger s right hand was cut off while at work. Yesterday he was sued for ollenatlug Mrs. Long's affectious. Chicago Kecord-Heruld Bird Highly Prized For the Mey Ways In Which It Can Be ttlli.d. There Is great Joy In Germany be cause geese have not gone up in rice, like all other forms of flesh and fowl. The Gorman goose season Is supposed to begin at Martinmas, No vember 10, and all through the win ter goose Is a .favorate dainty with 11 classes of the people. Millions of them are eaten every year. The supply comes originally from Russia, but the birds are lean and bony when they cross the border Into the Fatherland. They are fat tened principally in Pomeranla and along the valley of the Oder and sold In the Berlin market for distribution over tho country. The supply is exceedingly plentiful this season and the price Is hardly above the average of recent years, despite the enormous increase In the prl?e of meats in general, which Is worrying German economists this year. The popularity of the goose in Ger many is historic. Gilberts aus Alto tetten, a writer on cookery and house keeping in 1682, has a Ions article on the goose. In all the long succession of cook books since then the goose occupies much space. It has also attracted considerable medical attention. Next after the hog. the goose Is prized by German housekeepers for the many ways In which It can be turned Into palatable dishes, and also for the thoroughness with which It may be used up, bo to speak, almost evey part ot the bird having some use to which It can be put. It can be made into all sorts of stews and salamis; it can bo roasted, and for roasting it can be stuffed with apples, potatoes or chestnuts. It can be disjointed, pickled and smoked. It can be made into sausage or pre served in jelly. In Pomeranla they grate up to gether raw goose fat, onions and thyme with salt and pepper; the mix ture is called Pomeranian caviar. The giblets make delicious soup; the drumstlckB, gizzard and pope's nose can be devilled with telling effect. The goose grease can be used for frying potatoes or dressing vegeta bles. Finally when the bird is eaten down to the bones the windpipe can be made into a rattle for the baby by putting peas or shot into It. The breastbone, by cutting away part of the projecting process, makes a cap ital mask for the boys. The oval holes at the upper erd are the eyes and a mouth and teeth can be marked on it with cochineal and ink or char coal. The leg bones can be cut Into ex cellent cigar or cigarette holders or mouthpieces for pipes. New York Sun. WORDS OF WISDOM. Fame usually costs more than it is worth. Some men are born leaders and most women are born drivers. At the age ot sixteen a girl knows a lot more about men than a man at the age of sixty knows about wom en. An accomplished gossip is one who tells stories which sound cs if they might be true. This kind is danger ous. Very good women are rarely witty, but they often have a happy faculty of seeing the funny side of things. Wit wounds, but humor disarms. Raising the wages will never settle strikes. Bath rooms, button hole bouquets, reading rooms uud ragtime don't touch the sprt. Hu man nature never sts enough, and never will. Morally, motoring is probably a good rather than au evil. People who live In constant danger of their lives are usually much more honest and fearless than those who dawdle through an existence of uneventful safety. My son, I have paid out a good deal of money to learn that when the deacon borrows money from you, ask security on his note, just as you would from an ordinary sinner. Some people are so busy with the promises of heaven they forget all bout their promises here on earth. From the Sunshine Philosophy of Ralph Parlette. Rich Old Uncle Sain. Some European nations which are obliged to face huge deficits in the national exchequer must look with envious eyes upon the bursting con dition ot Uncle Sam's Treasury. So plethoric Is the situation at Wash ington that it now Beema probable $117,000,000 of public debt will be wiped oft the books next July. That It can be erased with ease there now appears to be no doubt. It Is estimated that, allowing for another Panama Canal bond Issue of $30,000,000, the United States Treas ury can pay off the maturing four per cent, bonds and still have a wof-k-Ing balance of more than $60,u00, 000. To cancel a ninth of the entire funded debt of the Nation at one clip would be a notable achievement. It would be mure gratifying to the country when it is remembered that the money has been accumulated out of ordinary revenue after making outlays lu a broad spirited fashion. Philadelphia Press. Gentle Doortups. A story of extraordinary deafness was unfolded at a recent meeting of a medical society In Philadelphia. Au elderly woman, exceedingly hard ot hearing, lived near the river. Ono afternoon a war-ship fired a salute of ten guns. The woman, alouo in her Httlo house, waited until the booming ceased. Thou she smoothed her dress, brushed her hair back in a quaint mauner, and suld sweetly, "Come In." Harper's Weokly. Residents uf Engluud have $550, 000,000 Invested in mortgages lu for oign countries. Those Investments annually briug lu about $27,600,000 In gold. Printing by Automobile. The electric motor which is used to drive the press lu the office of the Staten Island Advance in Broadway, ,West Brighton, Richmond, broke down yesterday afternoon and au expert from Manhattan found that It could not bu repaired without being sent to Philadelphia to be rewound. John Crawford, Jr., the editor, found that no other office In Rich mond Borough could print the sixteen-page paper last night, so he took is 35 horse-power direct drive auto mobile up alongside the building, had a bole knocked through the side of the wall and the shaft ot his press run out through the building A belt was then adjusted to the shaft of the iautomoblle und last night the paper 'was being run off successfully New York Bun. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL T.FSSOV OOHf. ME NTS FOR JANUARY 20 BY THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Subject: Man's sin and God's Prom ise, flen. S:.fl. 1.1-1 ft Golden Text. 1 Cor. 18:22 Memory Verse, 1.1. This lesson, which Is termed Man's Sin and God's Promise, might better be termed "the result of disobe dience." When God put Adam and Eve Into the Garden of Eden to dress it nnd to keep It. the Lord God com manded the man, saying. "Of every tree of the Garden thou mayst freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thon shalt not eat of It; for in the day that thou eatest thou shalt surely die." God gave this command unto the man and the woman because He desired to teach them the lesson of obedience. If the story in Oenests tells us anything It clearly tells us that. The mau and the woman being gifted with the power of free moral choice were to be tested as to their fitness in this demand of God that they obey Him in this one thing. Strictly sneaking the Genesis story tells us that the man alone was definitely commanded of God to obey. But in God's plan It is preposterous for us to assume that the woman was not as conscious of the divine decree as was the man. It Is noticeable that God gave to the man and woman in the Garden of Eden absolute freedom save in one particular. Their test of fitness lay In their ability to obey one simple solitary command. The results of that disobedience we have read. The age long consequences of this first disobedience and of centuries of sin we know. Wherever man Is commanded to obey and disobeys the demands ot God there trouble comes. So long as Adam and Eve obeved the will of God so long were they happy. And in like fashion In our day and genera tion joy only is to be found In the service of God, in the keeping of His eternal commandments, in the doing of His divine will. 81n Is disobe dience. Adam and Eve were sinners because they willed to disobey their God. Disobedience brings for us as it brought to them Inevitable, inexor able, vicious consequences. If we are to enjoy life to Its fullest we must as individuals and as a society obey God. And If we shall decide by the exercise of our own free wills to disobey the voice of God as He speaks to us In our soul's life we must expect logically, consequen tially and Inescapeablv to endure suf fering and sorrow. That is the law of life. But thanks be to God we have the promise that however great may have been our disobedience true re pentance will meet with divine favor and human sins will be nullified by the grace of God in Christ. Listen ing to His gospel, accepting His reve lation of the redeeming and sanctify ing love of God, taking Him as our guide and our Saviour, we may enter into eternal happiness and become the possessors of eternal life. The following speciul notes may prove of some value: Vs. 1. "Serpent," represents sin and evil external temptation. With out much of an imaginative stretch we might consider it the symbolism of inner self will. "Yea said." a subtle implication that the command was nonsensical. "Any," but God hadn't made such a prohibition. He had commanded abstinence from but one. Vs. 2. "Fruit eat," the woman with a greater fidelity to the truth corrects the erroneous statement of the serpent. Vs. 3. "Touch, but with a lax ity of expression that was possibly born of not the best of motives, she herseir makes an addition to the di vine command. God didn't tell them not to touch It. Vs. 7-12 inc. are skipped in the lesson, but they ought to be under stood. Especially is it wise to call attention to verse S. The man and the woman In their sin "heard the Bound (R. V.) of the Lord God walking in the garden." They didn't have to see Him to know the depth ot their disobedience. They had merely to hear Him in order to be come frightened. The leBSon is ob vious. In passing the man's un munly excuses are worth noticing. Vs. 13. God passes over the man's excuses and addresses the woman for an explanation. Vs. 14. "Belly." It would seem that at some time the serpent moved upright, as anciently he was some times represented. "Dust," the ser pent was supposed to eat dust. Vs. 15. "Bruise," better "crush." Of course we all understand that the heel is the part of a man's body a snake can reach quickest. And we are also aware that our first instinct is to crush a snake with the heel. But aside from other meanings it seeniB as though there is a deeper, meaning in this verse. We are tolr by reliable commentators that "this verse is regarded as the first an nouncement of the gospel of redemp tion. The seed ot the woman is Christ, who crushes the serpent's head, 1. e., destroys the power of sin and Satan, although He Himself suf fers In so doing There Is nothing to Indicate that juch ideas were in the mind of the writer, but the- con test between mankind and the ser pent naturally became the symbol ol the conflict between good and evil, in which good triumphed in the person of Christ, but conquered through suffering. Moreover, ancient readers ot this story knew parallel narra tives, lu which the serpent was an evil god and his antagonist a divine redeemer, and would naturally Bad similar meaning here." The t old shoulder. At a reception in Washington some time ago one ot the guests, a mau with a poor memory for faces .and. In ijdltlon, a little near-sighted, took the host aBide and spoke to him In a confidential whisper. "You see that tall man standing by the door?" he asked. "Yes." "Well, I was talking to him awhile ago about the terribly cold weather lu Nebraska last year, and he yawued in my face." The host smiled. "Don't yon know who he lb?" askod he. "No." "That's Lieutenant Peary, the Aro tic explorer." Harper's Weekly. BEGINNING AT THE BOTTOM. Father "You must bein at the bottom." Sou "Hub! What's the use Of crawling uuder the auto till it tops?" New York 8uu.
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