O
JACK OF
ALL TRADES
By BELLE MANIATES
D
a
(Copyright, 1911, by Aiioclated Lllerury
rreu.)
Jim Chalmers wag tinkering with
lila car while his chauffeur Btood
apathetically looking on.
"There!" said Chalmers, with a last
triumphant turn of the wrench. "She'll
83 trim ag a trigger now, and you can
Just run me down to the Stone build
ing. Langley bet that I couldn't do
this Job of repairing myself."
As he walked through the lobby of
the building to the elevator he looked
ruefully down at his clothes. Ills
tiousers lacked creases. A soft dark
flannel shirt, and old cap and work
ing gloves were not the mnke-up that
might be expected for one In his posi
tion, but it was his favorite working
regalia.
The elevator was down, the door
open, but no operator was to be seen
Chalmers stepped within. A few mo
ments later a young woman, tall and
with Imperious benrlng, entered.
"The tenth floor," she said, In a
musical voice.
Chalmers accepted the situation,
slid the door shut, and In nn Instant
the car shot up with such speed that
the successive numbers of the floors
looked like a sum In addition. The
passenger looked a little startled, but
did not lose outward composure. As
the elevator stopped at the tenth floor
with a Jolt she turned to him.
"Would you mind waiting for me I.
I will he gone only a moment, and I
am In great haBte."
"Certainly," was the courteous re
ply. Chalmers watched her meditating
ly us she walked down the corridor
with easy grace. At the door of a
studio of music she knocked and then
opened the door. One minute two
three four. Meantime the elevator
Tinkering With His Car.
bell was peeling forth a regular
clilme, but Chalmers complacently
waited. She came out of the Btudlo
and down the corridor.
"I had no idea," she said depre
catlngly, "that you would wait ail
this time."
He assured her gravely that It had
ben no trouble to wait. This time
he realized that nn automobile and
an elevator wdre run on a different
plan, and the descent was comfort
ahly gradual. In the lobby an angry
crowd waited. The Ire Increased
lien the operator stepped out and
walked down the lobby. Tho young
e."i.m came hurrying after him.
"Take this, please, and thank you
for waiting so long."
She handed him a quarter of a
dollar."
"Thank you," he said.
Sho hurried out of the building.
The youth who ran tho elevator came
breathlessly In. In his wake came
Langley, whose entrance recalled to
Chalmers his errand. A few moments
Inter they were whirling away In
(.'haliners's car. '
"Have you met Miss Randall yet,
Jim?'' asked Lungley In tho course
f the conversation. "Sim Is visiting
hero from Pittsburg."
''No; and 1 probably shnll not have
the opportunity to meet her. I un
derstand she told Mrs. Wllmerth that
e did not care to have me pre
ented." "Bo you want to know why."
"I confess to an averngo amount of
curiosity."
"Mrs. Wllmerth set you forth In
Blowing colors. Said you belonged to
the Idle rich, who despised working
People or nny one who looked to
rt for a livelihood. I overheard
the
conversation myself. I am
go-ex-
'"6 to take It upon myself to
piiun to Miss Randall"
"No. pray don't," said Chalmers
Quickly, "i ghnll doubtless meet. her.
0 the course of events, and I think
Jlrno nml circumstances adjust errors
"ecr tl'an explanations."
Chalmers was tho Inst arrival at
the little dinner given for Miss Ran
aall that night. ,
"You know everyone here, Jim?"
FKid his lumtess ns he came Into the
""wy. "Miss Randall"
"Yes, I ,ave met Miss Randall," he
replied grnvely. looking full Into the
"tonlshed eyes of the young women
landing near. Then he crossed the
ora to flnd the young mntron be
iV l''le In to dinner.
fl"ss Uandall Bat opposlto him at
nn(,r, nml he felt from time to time
r Btolei, uncomfortable glances In
hf direction.
W1".1;' puke Overly suddenly
ra 'e end of the table, "have you
m your ti.i,i..
machine
tnlshnp?"
Yes;
1 Put her In
tuyvi " 1 111 running oraer
1 took the entire morning.'
"Oh.
Mr fl...i I, , i ..
tr,nn i , """'lurs, saiu inw wo-
Sllli. ,!. ,. . .
"nechani,.,.. Q
II '" ho replied, laughing, "I be-
thi, " J',ch or ail trades. Only
jer,.. 1 a" uuty as nn elevator
f',,,, ln e Stone building."
t us about It," pleaded his host-
s S
' i be eievuior boy was noi at his
post aud I stepped Into await bis
coming. A young lady entered and
asked me to take her to the tenth
floor. Of course I did so. Then she
asked me to wait there a moment.
Her moment proved to be the pro
verbial woman's moment. Tint she
graciously and generously bestowed
upon me a fee which I shall always
keep. It Is the first money I ever
earned by manual labor."
He looked coolly and directly at
MIbh Randall. . Her face was flushed,
but In the dark eyes that met his
there was a look of such pained con
trition that Chalmers felt ashamed of
big palpable hit.
"I don't gee how any one could mis
take you for an elevator oporator,"
said Mrs. Wllmerth, Indignantly.
"If you had seen him at that time,
Mrs. Wllmerth," laughed Langley,
"you would have wondered still more.
I nover saw such a disreputable look
ing object." i
"Well, I never supposed that dress
made the man entirely," Chalmers re
marked. He was the first man to enter the
drawing room after dinner. Ills ho:'
ess at once Joined him.
"Jim, Miss Randall says you are
mistaken that you have never been
presented to her."
They went up to Miss Randall who
stood apart from the others. After
the Introduction the hostess left
them.
"Why did you say you had met me,
Mr. Chalmers?" she asked.
"Because," he said slowly and
meaningly, "from something I had
heard I thought you would be pleased
to avoid an Introduction."
"1 think, Mr. Chalmers," she said
frnnkly, "that you were maligned to
me. I beg your pardon for a foolish
remark."
"Oh," he laughed.
Dentley came up to them, and
Chalmers had no further opportunity
to speak to her during the evening
until she was leaving. He asked to
ee her to her car. Tbty found her
chauffeur standing beside the car.
Ills face was white ar.d drawn.
"I have wrenched my arm," he ex
plained. "I fear. It's broken."
Chalmers quickly called to his
man.
"Here. Lane, take this man In my
car to the doctor's and see that he's
fixed up all right and then take him
home. May I drive you home?" he
asked Miss Randall.
'You certainly are a Jack of all
trades," she said ns they drove home
from fie doctor's office where she
had Insisted on going. "Do I dare
offer you another fee?"
'Not now," he said slowly. "Some
day when I have earned the right I
am going to ask for more than a
fee."
REALLY COULDN'T STAND IT
Wages were Satisfactory and Work
Easy, But the English Was
'Orrlble.
Col. Goethals, chief engineer of the
Panama canal, Is' naturally a person
age of some little consequence on the
Isthmus, and must maintain a digni
fied establishment. Not long ago, ac
cording to a story told by a visitor at
Panama, the colonel had a paragon
of a butler a negro from the Island
of Jamaica, with tho very best Kng
llsli training, air, and accent.
One day this pnragon appeared be
fore Col. Cioetbals and In his best pro
fessional manner informed him that ho
found It necessary to leave. lie took
the step with deep regret, he Slid, but
ho must go.
"What's the trouble?" asked tho
colonel, "Don't I pay you enough?"
"My salury, sir, Is entirely satisfac
tory. "Is your work too hard?"
"The work, sir, Is quite easy."
"Then what In blazes (or words to
that effect) are you quitting for?"
snapped the colonel.
"If you Insist, sir," the paragon re
plied, "I will tell you. Rut I fear, sir.
It will offend you."
"Let's hear It, anyway," said the
engineer.
"Well, sir, since you will have It, sir,
It Is the 'orrlble language you spenk.
I cannot bear to hear the English
tongue mangled and butchered as I
am forced to do In this houso. I de
sire, sir, to seek service with some
English family."
UNCONVENTIONALITIES.
"Is that a new hat, Mr. Slowgo?
Plense put It on and let me see how
a rear view of It looks."
"Of course, I'll review your new
book If you wish, Mr. llorus, but I can
tell you without reading it that It's
rotten."
"Mr. Means, you know perfectly well
that I am marrying you because you
are rich and In feeblo health."
"This little delay In cashing your
counter check, sir, Is to give the pay
ing teller time to ascertain your bank
balance and to And out whether or not
the signature is genuine."
"You oughtn't to talk so much.
Blobbs; your voice Is disagreeable and
your conversation bores me."
"Yes, sir, 1 remember your face quite
veil; I was in hopes I never would see
It again." ,
"You don't look a bit like your
younger sister. Miss Tiggle; she's
handsome."
Different Circumstances.
Daughter delightedly) "And did you
really consent?"
Father "Consent? My stars! I had
to. The man demanded your hand
like a highwayman holding up a coach.
Consent? My good gracious! 1 be
lieved from the way be looked and
acted he would have knocked me down
If I hadn't."
Daughter "Oh, It can't be! You
must have been dreaming. Why, when
he proposed to mo he trembled so
that he could hardly speak, and
he looked so weak and nervous I had
to hurry up and say 'Yes' to keep hlra
from faluttng."
To Prevent Bird Extermination.
A law bus been passed In Australia
snd New Guinea to prevent plumes,
skins or eggs of birds being Bent out
ot the country. The bird of paradise
iu iJew Guinea and the lovely lyre bird
in Australia have been threatened with i
extermination by the petty bird mur
deters utter nionty.
AEROPLANE BUILT ESPECIALLY TO
IBP zCOjW
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KCOUMZINO tho great Interest
aeroplane designed especially to
strength are said to be its chief characteristics, and It offers ample accommodation for on or two femlnlno passengers.
PIG ENJOYS ITS RIDE
Dressed as Baby Is Taken From
Newark to New York.
Owner Carries Little Porker in Her
Arms and Successfully Deceives
Conductors Stifled Squeal
Betrays Secret.
New York. If It hadn't been for a
stifled squeal and a very piglike wrig
gle the taxieab driver would nover
have known that one of his fares
wasn't human. In fact, the chauffeur
rubbed his eyes Several times before
it finally dawned on him that Mrs.
Mario Watson's traveling companion
was a pig instead of a baby.
Tho chauffeur wasn't to blame for
being deceived, for several conductors
bad made the same mistake. They
don't know even now that the bundle
Mrs. Watson carried so tenderly In
her arms was not a baby at all, ln
spite of its baby cap and fluffy little
coat and the milk bottle which Mrs.
Watson produced every now and then
on her ride from Newark. x
Mrs. Watson, ns almost every vaude
ville performer knows. Is the wife of
Sam Watson, who has a barnyard cir
cus. One of the star performers was
a wee pig, but It got so fat. that Mrs.
Watson decided that another pig
would hnvc to Join the show, one that
she could hold In her arms without
Btraining her muscles.
After some correspondence she
found what she wnnted In the pig line
on a farm Just outside, of Newark.
The pig's owner agreed to sell free
on board at Newark, but not Manhat
tan. Mrs. Watson and her husband went
Into conference to decide how to get
the pig here.
"Leave It to me." said Mrs. Watson.
"Ml Just bring the pig over on the
train."
Her husband suggested that pigs
were not allowed on passenger trains.
But Mrs. Watson knew what she was
talking about.
"Leave It to me," she repeated, and
Mr. Watson did so.
Mrs. Watson made the trip to New
ark the other day and met the fanft
tr and his pig. Mrs. Watson whis
pered a few words of pig language In
tho little fellow's ear and proceeded
to dress him up in baby attire. The
cap was a rule affair of muslin and
baby chiffon, with a near-blue ribbon
at the tip. The baby coat was also
blue, as waB a blanket which Mrs.
Watson had provided. When the
dressing was finished the farmer de
parted chuckling over the transforma
tion. With the pig In her arms Mrs.
Watson proceeded to the Newark sta
tion of the Pennsylvania railroad nnd
boarded a train for Jersey City. The
pig wasn't making a sound. Perhaps
It was because of those few whispered
words of pig language of which Mrs.
Watson says Bhe has a smattering.
Perhaps It was a bottlo of milk which
the pig tippled now und then. Anyhow
no one on the train Imagined that It
was anything else than a very quiet
niicl well-behaved baby that Mrs. Wat
Bon was carrying In her arms.
At Jersey City Mrs. Watson and her
TWINKLING STAR MEANS LIFE
Prof. See of Naval Observatory at
Mare Island Talks to American
Philosophical Society.
Philadelphia. That planetary sys
tems similar to our own revolve about
all the fixed stars and that these plan
ets are habitable and Inhabited like
our own planet, which revolves about
the Bun, wns the declaration of Prof.
T. J. J. See, government astronomer In
charge of the naval observatory at
Mare Island, Cal., made tho other day
before tho American Philosophical so
ciety at Its annual meeting. He Bald
life was a perfectly general phenom
enon In the universe and that living
beings exist wherever a star twinkled
In the depths of space.
His discoveries ln cosmlcal evolu
tion lead to tho development of an en
tirely new science, the science of cos
mogony, Pioloss-or See asserted.
Among the results announced was a
link ln the chain of reasoning estab
lishing the laws of the evolution of
th solar system, showing that the
that women are taking in aviatimi, Llmr.
carry members of the fair sex up to the
charge proceeded to the Hudson Tun
nel station. While waiting for a tun
nel train nn elderly man suggested to
Mrs. Watson that she had belter stand
well hack from the edge of the plat
form. "Vou know these drnfts are very
bad for babies," said the elderly gen
tleman. Mrs. Watson smiled and
thanked the solicitous old man. Never
once during the trip to Manhattan did
the pig betray himself.
At Thirty-third street Mrs. Watson
hailed a taxieab, and In this the Inst
lap of the Journey was made. At the
theater Mrs. Watson alighted and
paid her fare. The movement of get
ting into her purse n-ust have dis
turbed the pig, for there was a sudden
pqueal and n very vigorous wriggle.
Tho baby cap slipped back, displaying
a very piglike face. It was then that
the ihauffeur began rubbing his eyes
and pinching himself.
In a few days the little pig will
take the place of the elderly porker In
tho barnyard scene. He is now un
dertaking tho necessary preliminary
training.
CARING FOR "ONLY" CHILD
Vienna Professor Finds Only Thirteen
Out of One Hundred Are
Fully Normal.
Vienna. After a Mudy of the prob
lem of the "only child" extending over
several years, Prof. J. Frledjung of tho
Society of Internal Medicine and Pedi
atrics has made public the result of
hl-i observations. He had under ex
amination 100 "only" children, of
whom 41.-1 were boys and So girls.
They rnnge in age from two to ten
years.
Each hail been raised In a family
where there were no other children,
SEE SAHARA
Doctor Slegert Hopes to Prove That
"King Solomon's Mines" Are Not
Entirely Legendary.
Heiiln. Doctor Slegert Is actively
engaged In preliminary preparations
to cross tho great desert of Sahara In
n dirigible balloon. Prominent geog
raphers and meteorologists are help
ing li I in In his scientillc calculations
and his choice of nn nirship. Count
de la Vaulx, tho famous French
aeronaut, had tho same purpose a
few years ago, but gave It up because
airships had not sufficient protection
against the sun's rays. Doctor Slegert
confidently expects to make the trip
ho has laid out about 950 miles In
31 hours. Ills aerial vessel's engines
will give tho craft a speed of 18V4
miles an hour; besides, Doctor
Slegert Is counting on 12 miles an
hour more by the wind.
To the unimaginative the Sahara Is
only an Illimitable, nnd waste, but
from it have come legends of burled
cities of Incalculable antiquity nnd
tales of Immense, hidden hordes.
Doctor Slegert wishes to clear up the
mystery surrounding the expedition of
Browne, the English explorer of a
planets originally were small bodies
forming at a great distance from the
sun, and that their masses have been
Increased by gathering up all manner
of lesser bodies from meteoiites to
satellites.
Professor See outlined the process
by which the planets bad been built
up out of mntter once circulating In
our nebula as,comets, and said the de
struction of the comets was still caus
ing 6howers of cosmlcal dust tonll
upon tho planets, ns witnessed ln the
celebrated Btar showers of 1799. 1833
and 1SCC.
"Our system wns once literally filled
with comets, and Kepler was right,"
he said, "when he declared there was
as many comets ln the heavens ns
there was fish In the sea. And Just
as the planets hnvo been captured and
added to our sun from without, so also
the satellites have been captured nnd
added on to their teveial planets.
Eviji our moon Is a planet which
cn:re to us from the heavenly s-pm-e,
:.rd ns never thrown out uf ilia Pa
CARRY WOMEN
linn Invented and built an
clouds. Lightness, roominess and
and therefore had been subjected to
the kind of domestic Isolation that ac
companies thoho conditions.
Of the 100 children 18 were severely
neuropathic and C!) manifested less
marked symptoms of nervous Instabil
ity. Only IS of the youngsters, accord
ing to Dr. Frledjung, were fully nor
mal. Ho set off theso observations
against another set of studies made
among fan: 111pm consisting of several
offspring. Of these only 31 showed
neuropathic symptoms.
Fear was the strongest symptom In
75 of the 87 neuropathic "only chil
dren." They were hysterical In their
nature. Forty-nine had restless sleep
and 8 were subject to more marked
symptoms.
rmisiial mental ability and way
wardness, the professor reports, seem
to go hand In hand In tho caso of chil
dren Of the neurasthenics, 32 showed
malnutrition to a remarkable degree.
The "only" child, says Frledjung,
gets its morbid manifestations from
the excess of tender care lnvlshed up
on It. Its parents spoil It, they take
away Its sentiments of self rcilanco,
ami In this way they unconsciously
encourage tho child never to develop
unduly. A certain amount of knock
ing about aud hardships and necessity
for self ivllanre is imperatively de
manded, this Investigator says, other
wise a child will grow Into a namby
pamby, a nervous molly coddle.
On this account, as well as because
of the menace to the race through the
limitation of population to "only"
children. Frledjung urges tlint every
family should possess several children.
Taboo Girl Shoe Shiner.
Kansas City, Mo. Contending that
shoe shining is a work morally unfit
lor women, the city oll'uials have re
insert to grant a license to a shoe shin
ing parlor which advertises on a sign
that "pretty girls will shine your
shoes." A city ordinance Is being pre
pared to prohibit women from shinlng
Bhoes.
IN DIRIGIBLE
hundred years aio, and to Investigate
the romantic story of ftholfs, who
found traces of a great road running
out in the desert until the sand ob
literated them. What lies beyond
that Inst track? Whither did that
great highway lead, nnd of what char
acter were tho people who construct
ed It?
These questions, which have been
put so often, are supposed to have In
spired the plot of Rider Haggard's
romance, "King Solomon's Mines;" at
any rate, they appear to Doctor
Slegert to bo well worth answering.
The headquarters of this expedition
will bo in the Nile valley. From It the
airship will sail about 310 miles to
the oasis district In tho desert. In
nn oasis a depot will have been pre
pared with cylinders of gas, spare
screws nnd other fittings everything
needed to repair any damago thnt
may have been or may be done to the
craft From the depot the dirigible
will start on her real flight of more
than COO miles over the "undiscovered
country." Having traversed It, Doctor
Slegert will attempt cither to reach
the coast or to return to the Lyblan
oasis." The expedition's cost Is esti
mated at $250,000.
elflc ocean, as was formerly taught by
Lord Kelvin, Sir George Darwin, Iloln
cure and their followers."
Rare Disease Kills.
Philadelphia. After three years' Ill
ness from a disease so rare that it is
said to have been tho nineteenth case
In the history of medicine, James M.
Rhodes, Jr., widely known socially and
a former guard on the Princeton foot
ball, team, died the other day at Villa
Nova, near here.
The disease is known to physlclnns
as blastomycetes, and is manifested
by a malignant vegetable growth, which
attaches to the Intestines.
Farm for Social Work.
Flrhklll. N. Y. A gift of $100,000 to
the University settlement of New York
city from the widow of General How
'and. II. S. A., Is announced here. The
gilt Includes the entire Howlund es
tate at Flshklllon the Hudson. The
property constats of about 250 acres,
and It Is underptood that the fettle
uent wlil establish n model farm and
-mcmer camp there as a part of iti
wo'k.
The Center of
Things
By DR. FRANK CRANE
I have discovered tho center of th
unlvei'Mc. It Irf very wonderful and
comt'ortlng. I am the center of th
universe, in a minute thin morning;
this flanlred om me, and the puzzle of
the ages was solved.
No more dispute as to whether th
earth goes round the sun, or the sua
round tho e:irth, or both round the con-,
stvllation of Hercules, for tho wbola
busiuess revolves about me. I am th
axis.
Whin Proctor Knott extolled Du
luth as tho spot where tho horizon
comes down at equal dlstanco In every
direction, ho spoke the sober, Ood'i
truth. I wrlto these lines on a ship a
thousand miles at sea: all around Is
water and sky; and rlsht In the exact
geographical center of everything am
I and my ship. Come to think of It,
this has always been the caMo all my
life.
My father and mother existed for
the purpose of bringing mo Into the
world; my brothers being by-products.
I be old Third ward school houso In
Springfield, III., was bulk tlhat I might
attend there, and (It has since been
torn down) learn to spell; Indeed, the
"iitlre educational system catuo into
being In order that I might go to that
ichool.
Emperors die In China, and kings
'ire upset In Portugal; earthquake
sliaKe Sicily nnd panics Wall street
itul all simply that the news thereof
ti ny be laid before me at tho break-
fast table.
The big and little dippers whirl
ibout tho pole star, Antnres winks
ind Venus glows, and llalley's comet
?omes and goes for me.
And in all this there Is no egotism,
For In saying I am the center of th
osnios I do not at all imply that you
llso are not the center of the cosmos,
In fact, you are.; everybody Is. There
ire as many ciiiters as there are ron
melons beings. The mistake we have
made all along Is in supposing there
ran be but one csnter. If you look
'hrough a window pane covered with
raln drops or frost crystals at a point
if light, you will notice that any way
vou move your head the light always
-emalns the center of innumerable con
eiitrlc rings formed by tho glistening
'(flections. It Is even so in life, as you
nove the center moves
There are as many worlds as there
ire creatures. As Xangwill says: "The
icent world of dogs, the eye world of
Mrds, the uncanny touch world of
hats, the earth world of worms, the
water world of fishes and gyroscopic
world of dancing mice, the flesh world
of parasites, the microscopic world of
microbes, Interest ono another liiex
lilcably and with an Infinite Inter
lacing, yet ench Is a symmetric sphere
if being, a rounded whole, nnd to lta
Iciilzens the sole nnd self-sufficient
cosmos.
. The account of creation ns given In
'he Pentateuch Is therefore psycholog
.calif and essentially correct; OoJ did
make the sun and give man light by
Jay, and the moon and stars to shine
pn him by night, as fur as man Is con
?ernod.
If the ftlble had been written for
ungela It might have stated tho case
fltTerently. When the penitent at the
mourner's bench is told that ho will
never find peace until ho believes thnt
tho son of Ood came to save htm per
tonally, he Is told the plain truth; the
meaning of which Is that he Is to move
In from tho suburbs Into the center of
rrentlon.
For It Is only w hen a soul feels the
stars rise nnd fall about him orderly,
angels nnd devils tugging nt him, nnd
ill creation recognizing bis geocentrlo
vipremacy, that he gets poise and
'cases to be eccentric. Eccentric means
having tho point about which a wheel
revolves at one side of the center.
Thero are so many discontented, tin.
nappy people in the world, simply be
rauso there are so ninny eccentric, lop-i
ilded, bumpy, flat-wheeled, Irregular
wills. Move In! Move In! Oeriipy
lour due place In the spotlight of des
tiny! Worms do It, why not you?
Philosophers have ridiculed this
'lomocentrlc theory. Ooetho turned
'mm It In disgust. Pope wrote causti
cally: "While nuin exclaims, 'See all things
for my use!"
e man for mine!' replies the pam
pered gooso."
Hut tho Instinct of humanity is
wiser than the wisdom of the learned.
Homer breathed truth when he repro
"nted the gods fighting for and
igainst Troy. The Old Testament is
-Ight when It shows Jehovah actively
interested In the chosen people. Kvery
people Is n chosen people, and there Is
no Ood but our own peculiar Jah or
Flohlm.
And Jesus wns most right and true
of all when he had us appropriate,
each one of us, tho special care of the
Father of All. There Is no Pi-ovldenoo
that Is of any mortal use to me but
Special Providence; If It is only gen
eral It had ns well not be t.t all. It is
precisely because he clothes the lilies
of the Held that ho will also clothe
vp, O ye of little faith. Pocauso he
notes tho sparrow he will note you.
You hnvo an Inalienable right to
vour centticlty. Occupy It. You can
not believe In Cod unless you bellevo
lie Is yours. The on'y real Cod Is my
"oil.
Union With Christ.
In the Fplstle ut tho Kpheslans Paul
rs.'s four llgures to explain the union
between Christ and his church. The
I'i'sl Is the temple and Its foundation,
suggesting structural union; the sec
ond Is the head and the body, sug
gesting vital union; tho third Is tho
husband nnd the wife, picturing nffec
tlonnl union; and the fourth Is the
poldier armor, si.ggi htlug a union for
service. Ench presents a beautiful and
helpful phase of the Christian life, ln
these four figures we have a full and
perfect Idea of how Christ and the
Christian nre one. Jteware lest tl.ls
union be obscured or linpurcd. Ex
change. The greatest g'ry of' a fieeborn
people is to transmit that freedom to
heir children. William Harvard.
SONG OF THE
VINEYARD
Sanday Scbool Uuoa far Miy 21, 1911
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I.KH.VIN' Ti:.r- Inaliili 6.1-12.
MK.MUIIV VKItKi:-ll
GOI.DKN Ti:.T-"Voe Unto Thorn
Dial Are Mighty in Jirlnk Win, and
Men of Htrcnirth to Mingle Htrong Drink."
- Ih, f,.::-.
TIMK-l'rolmlily near the beginning of
tnuliili H ni. Uf,. nq ,r,,,li,.t, n-Mcti wa4
InauRiii-iitcil In the y.-iir when King U
tlnli ilh-il. H, c. (lt.-ei li. ri, or 11. C. 741
tfluiitingHi.
M.Ai'K IhhIiiI priiphe-iled In Jerusalem.
Kl.i;s -In Israel, Men.ilieiri; In Aanyrla,
AnKlnir diinn III.
J'KOIilETS-Moaea, Ml.ah.
Isaiah, like all great teachers, was
obliged to speak ninny stern warnings.
Individuals and nations are best
pleased with leaders that praise and
flatter them; but such men are ene
mies ra!hr than friends, demngoguei
rather than statesmen. In our own
nation we have many braggarts, and
many easy-going, over snngulne citi
zens; but the wise men are like Isaiah,
clear-eyed to perceive national and
personal sins. Vigilance against
these is the only price of liberty ln a
nation and peace In an Individual. The
old Greek maxim, "Know thyeelf," Is
still the foundation of true Knowledge
and wisdom. In our lesson the great
prophet worns his nation against three
national ivlls: National Ingratitude to
Clod; the menace of ungodly nnd un
philanthinpic wealth; intemperance
the gnat peril of the nation.
We can look bacK over a history full
af deliverances. America was settle!
by men escaping from civil and relfc
rIous oppression. Tim colonists ha4
'iiany marvelous dellvprnncei fmtn th
Indians and other foes. The 1'nloa
lias been saved by the aieatest civil
war ln all history. We have h;id
among our lewlcrs some of the world's
chief men Washington, Lincoln.
Grant, Jefferson, Franklin. The world
greatest oceans preserve our country
from attack. We have a vant territory,
wonderfully rich In minerals and pro
ducing harvests abundant enough for
us and for other nations.
The natural fruit of a vineyard,
carefully prepared line, cultivated
grapes, nnd a full crop; that Is, ho ex
pected obedience to bis commands,
nnd love and gratitude und worship.
Instead, ho got nothing but wild
grapes, small, sour nnd hard such re. -suits
as a nation might show that had
received no special benefits from Je
hovah. Isaiah next conies to particulars
the two great fundamental sins of bis
people, and of all nations. It Is with
remarkable persistence that In every
(ivHIatloii llie two main passions of
'.he li il man heart, love of wealth and
love of pleasure, the Instinct to gather
and the Instinct to squander, have
sought precisely these two forms de
nounced by Isaiah In which to work
their social havoc appropriation of
tho sell nnd Indulgencn in strong
drink. Kvery civilized community de
velops sooner or later Its land ques-
luii and its liquor ntiestlou.
Is the land question an American
question also? In Its essentials, yes.
Hut what, back of the land question.
Is the fundamental dllllculty? The
menace of ungodly and unplillanthroplo
wealth, ln any form land, or rail
roads, or mines, or mills, or houses to
rent, or stocks and bonds or money to
nd. There Is more than one Ameri
can whose Income Is more than a mil
lion dollars a month.
What Is Isaiah's second "Woe?"
Against drunkenness and Its accom
panying evils, nnd the Irrellglon that
goes with them.
Would Isaiah pronounce this woe
'upon our nation. If ho werti living to-
lay? lie certainly would. To be sure,
there Is the most drinking late at
eight, especially after the theater per
foiinances are over; i.nd for that rea
son the temperance reformers try
everywhere to pnss laws closing the
aloons by II o'clock nt night. Still,
It is very common, In our cities, to Bee
drunken men staggering around the
streets In the morning. In the midst
Of n "spree" (hat may last for daya.
Modern men drink many fiery, dis
tilled liquors unknown to the ancients.
They have added the common uso of
many drugs, Mich as opium and co-
alne. whose physical and mental ef
fects are more terrible and swift even
than those of alcohol. And still the
iiloon Is the center of all other sins
against society licentiousness, mur-
er, gambling, graft, political misrule.
all are closely connected with the
a'.ooii. Kx -Governor I Ian ly of Indi
ana, In his final message to the legis
lature, January 8, 1000, said: "Alcohol
miiBt be held responsible for about
t'oiir-llftlis of tho propensities that
make necessary the huge parapherna
lia of police systems, criminal courts.
Jails, prisons nnd reformatories that
oust it tito so serious a blot upon pres-
nt-dny civilization." This ruin of na
tional character and of individual
lives Is the Indirect cost of the drink
traffic, and by far the heavier even In
dollars, In spite of the fact thnt the
direct, cost of the saloon, our national
rink bill, reaches the Incomprehensl
le sum of more than two billion dol
lars every year.
If our public schools are to give the
scholars a practical preparation for
life, certainly no subject Is of greater
Importance than temperance. Laws
milling scientific tempVrnnco In
struction have 'hereforo been passed
In all the state and by tho national
veinment, nnd more than forty tem
perance pnysioiofiii;, lor an grades,
have been written. Nearly a million
essays on temperance themes aro wrlt-
n every yenr by school children.
he universities, colli ges and normal
schools are tnklng up the study.
It Is never enough to pnss a tem
perance measure. 1 he open saloon at
once becomes a secret saloon, a "blind
tiger." "Near beers" and other drinks
nre concocted, containing Just enough
alcohol to escape the law, nnd sold
penly. Saloons spring up on the edge
the prohibition territory. Patent
medicines with a large per cent, of
alcohol are used as drinks. Worst of
til, the United States laws allow the
Xvoss companies to carry liquor Into
pio'illitlou territory, nnd thus far con
gress has not been persuaded or com- '
peMed to take action to prevt-nt th
trailic. ,