Care of Children’s Ears.
In the proper care of the ears in
childhood two things have to be con-
sidered—the local conditions of the
ears, and, what is equally important,
the general state of the child's health.
As to the care of tle ear itself, it must
always be remembered that the hear-
ing apparatus is a piece of very deli-
cate mechanism, no more suited to
rough treatment than is the ball of
the eye. It can be easily injured by
the introduction of a foreign body, or
by a blow from the outside. Small
children sometimes push things into
their ears by way of experiment. In
this case the child’s guardians should
keep perfectly cool, and send for a
physician at once. The child must not
be shaken and punished until the ob-
ject is removed, and above all the
nurse or mother must not grope for
it with a hairpin or tweezers, for that
is the way to push it farther in, or to
wound or even rupture the delicate
drum membrane—an accident which
may be followed by complete deafness
and even death, should a serious in-
flammmation ensue.
There is, perhaps, one exception to
this rule of leaving a foreign body
alone until the doctor comes. Occa-
sionally insects fiy into the ear, and
cause great anguish by buzzing and
fluttering about. They can be speedily
disposed of by dropping in a little
sweet oil or lukewarm salt water.
As to the injury from the outside,
children should be carefully guarded
against any games which include
loud shoutings directly into the ear,
and it is surely needless to add that
pulling the ears, and, above all, boxing
the ears as a form of punishment
should be held a criminal offense. It
may induce partial and temporay deaf-
ness, complete deafness and even
death, and if indulged in by a teacher
should be followed by arrest and pub-
lic rebuke.
The care of the general health as it
affects the hearing is most important
in young children, particularly as re-
gards the subject of ventilation, espec-
ially at night. Many children who get
enough fresh air in the daytime are
kept half suffocated at night. Nursery
windows must be kept open, nurses
must rot be allowed to close ventil-
ators without permission, each child
must have its separate cot, placed out
of the draft, but with good wide
breathing space all round it, and the
more signs a child gives of being con-
stitutionally disposed to ear trouble
the more stringent should be the ob-
servance cf these rules.—Youth’s Com.
panion,
Helped Her Husband Save.”
Mrs. Helen Moore writes thus of her
experience in earning money on the
principle that “a penny saved is a
penny earned.”
“My husband is a generous man,
and has been as liberal as his means
allowed, in giving me money for my
own use, and, best of all, I never had
to ask him for money. One day he
explained to me a business transaction
he had under consideration and said:
“It will take every cent I can raise,
and I fear I cannot carry it through
unless you go without pin money for
six months. I do not like to ask you
- to do this, and if you do not care about
doing it I will call the deal off’
“1 saw what a good thing it was for
his interest, so I cheerfully agreed to
get along without any money. I was
so cheerful about it that he said: ‘I'll
tell you what I'll do. I'll stop smok-
ing, I'll shave myself, I'll buy no more
magazines, I'll walk to and from
work and will go to the theatre only
once a month instead of once or twice
a week. All the money that I would
have spent I'll put into a fund for you.
Our gas bill has averaged $5 a month
and you can have all you save on that.’
“I was delighted with this arrange-
ment. At the end of six months I
found I had earned $118. But I re-
ceived only eighty-two cents.”—Cleve-
land Leader.
Sweet Peas.
Sweet peas are delightful for bou-
quets—by themselves. But I know of
no flower that can be arranged with
them without seriously detracting
from their beauty. It is the same with
nasturtiums and pansies, says Eben
Rexford, in the Ladies’ World.
If I were going to arrange a vase of
sweet peas for the table or the parlor,
I would go into the garden and cut my
flowers with the longest possible
stems, bunching them lightly in my
hand as I cut them, but without trying
to produce an effect. I would simply
bunch them. I would not cut more
than a dozen or fifteen stems. Then I
would drop them into a rather tall,
slender vase of clear glass, of an un-
obtrusive eolor, give it a little shape,
and lo! the blossoms would have ar-
ranged themselves far more satisfac-
torily than I could have done it by
putting them deliberately together,
Tact.
An indispensable endowment of the
popular girl is the tact, which, you
know, is only touch, only feeling very
quickly and surely the poise of a situ-
ation, only never treading on people's
corns, or hurting them in a sore spot,
or saying the wrong thing, says the
Ladies Home Journal. If a girl have
the best education that the finest col-
lege in the land can give, and the pret-
tiest face in the town, and the most
graceful figure in five counties, and
have not tact, she will go blundering
through life, making enemies, losing
friends, and laying up for the future
a store of regrets. Tact is inborn with
some, but it may be cultivated. To
succeed in winning regard and keep-
ing affection a girl must be tactful,
must hold her impulsiveness in check,
learn self-control, and be on the alert
to do and say kind things at the right
moment,
Woman's Beautiful Age.
Tt is said that if a woman lives in
harmony with the laws of nature she
will grow more beautiful as she grows
older. She should be more beautiful at
forty than at sixteen, if she is not a
victim to the ravages of disease. Most
of the world-famous beauties reached
their zenith at forty. Helen of Troy
was arst heard of that age. Cleopatra
ras considerably more than thirty
when she first met Antony. Aspasia
was twenty-three when she married
Pericles and was still a brilliant figure
twenty years later. Anne of Austria
was thirty-eight when pronounced the
most beautiful woman in Europe.
Catherine of Russia ascended the
throne at thirty-three and reigned
thirty-five years. Mlle. Recamier was
at her zenith at forty.
Queen Hobbies.
The Empress of Russia has a passion
for caricaturing and the collection of
caricatures. The hobbies of Queen
Wilhelmina, the ‘girl queen” of Hol-
land, are skating and riding, but from
childhood she has devoted herself to
the raising of poultry. The Queen of
Norway and Sweden, outside of her
family and public life, is devoted to
religion. The Queen of Greece is a
yachtswoman. The Queen of Italy
has chosen shooting and motoring as
her principal hobbies. Portugal's
Queen, who is said to be the busiest
woman in Europe, is an expert physic-
ian and has raised her amusement to
te dignity of a »rofession,
Real Lavender Perfume.
The delicate blue lavender may be
grown by carefully protecting the
plants during the winter, but it quite
repays one for the trouble, says Coun-
try Life in America. No wedding chest
is complete without the pale lavender
silk bags filled with gray-blue sprigs,
whose perfume adds the last tcuch of
romance to a dainty trousseau of lace
and linen.
Umbrella Style.
The up-to-date girl carries an unbrel-
la to match her street frocks and has a
number of handles, any one of which
may be adjusted to the one umbrella.
Old-fashioned delaines are among the
daintiest flowered effects.
For outing wear there are natty
coats of white duck with cape-like
sleeves.
Deep cuffs or yokes of natural
tinted thread lace figure are on some
of the best blouses.
The shirt-waist suit of shimmering
taffeta grows more and more con-
spicuous on the street.
A color like the full-blown Ameri-
can Beauty rose distinguishes the
smartest veiling gowns.
A new wash braid for adorning
“tub” shirt-waist suits Las a narrow
thread of gilt that is warranted to
withstand water.
For sashes one of Madame la Mide's
smartest fancies is a wide white
taffeta ribbon, with chrysanthemums,
carnations or roses in natural colors
trailing over it.
Our old friend, the collar rnd cuff
set, still is with us this summer, and
really much of the style of a shirt
waist suit is gained from these acces-
sorics. Those of broderie a la Anglaise
are very smart, and Hardanger em-
broidery or flat stitch is just now much
in vogue.
Ribbon decorations for sheer sum-
mer frocks are shown in abundance.
Floral garlands, vines and bouquets,
softened with a silvery sheen are new
ideas. Persian Pompadour, gauze,
etamine and velvet ribbons are all to
the fore, and in clever fingers offer
great possibilities.
The deep girdle is among the dress
accessor es in greatest favor. No mat-
ter of what fashion or for what pur-
pose it is worn, each gown has its
deep girlde. Girdles of dainty ribbon,
with floating sash ends and knots of
rosettes at intervals are worn with
diaphanous gowns,
INDIAN MOUNDS.
Those im Northwest May Have Been
Built by Sioux.
Warren Upham, Secretary of the
Minnesota State Historical Society, in
an address at Indian Mounds Park
yesterday before the Minnesota Con-
gregational Club, expressed the belief
that the 10,000 mounds scattered
throughout Minnesota are not the work
of the so-called prehistoric mound
builders, but are the handiwork of
Sioux Indians who created the mounds
as receptacles for the bones of their
dead. He cited as authority for his
belief J. V. Brower, of St. Paul, and'N,
H. Winchell, of Minneapolis, men who
have spent years in the fascinating
work of delving into the history of the
long forgotten past.
Mr. Upham’s address was the feature
of the twenty-sixth annual meeting
and outing of the Congregational Club.
It was in part a formal address, but
Mr. Upham included in his talk inter-
esting data relating to the mounds in
Indian Mounds Park and also informa-
tion as to the mounds so thickly dot-
ting certain localities in southeastern
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Ohio.
He declared that there are not less
than 10,000 of these Indian burial
mounds in the North Star State, while
Wisconsin and Ohio are credited with
an equal number of the silent wit-
nesses of the existence of past genera-
tions. On the Cannon River in a dis-
tance of ten miles east from Red Wing
there are not less than 1000 of the
aboriginal mounds, and one square
mile contains not less than 500 of the
mounds. The park where the outing
was held originally contained eighteen,
but the works of man have reduced the
number to seven.
He said that unquestionably the
mounds were erected by the Sioux In-
dians on the Indians who preceded
them in the occupancy of Minnesota as
burial places for their dead. There
were no enclosures such as exist in
Ohio and Wisconsin, the Minnesota
mounds being simply heaped up earth
in a conical shape,and in these the
bones of head men of the Indian tribes
were buried.
Investigations had shown that often
the mounds contained bones of human
beings, and the speaker expressed a be-
lief that these were not deposited in
the mounds until the elements had de-
stroyed the flesh and the bones more
easily dissolved by chemical action.
The investigators have found in some
mounds Indian arrow heads, musse!
shells, ashes and charcoal. Recent ex-
plorations had been made by T. H.
Lewis and Alfred J. Hill, the latter
now deceased. Both these men were
residents of St. Paul while engaged in
the work. ., The most notable mound in
the country, Mr. Upham said, was near
St. Louis, and World's Fair visitors
would find this an interesting spot
while at St. Louis.—St. Paul Globe.
Queer Tastes.
Speaking of mysterious tastes, that
of the gentleman who was before
the magistrate at Greenwich is not
very easy for explanation. Three
weeks ago a legacy of £130 was left
to him. The first thing he bought, it
seems, was a set of billiard balls, and
he now has nothing else left to show
for the £130, which has disappeared
at the rate of £43 6s. 8d. weekly.
Why billiard balls? It is a singular
and rather interesting form of craving.
It is perhaps true that a billiard ball
is one of the very few perfect objects
produced by man. It is all of a piece,
it is thoroughly homogeneous as re
gards material, and it is, or should be,
faultless in form. Yet only a strong
strain of mysticism in the character
would account for a man hungering
and thirsting for billiard bails above
all other earthly things.—London
News.
Wed in Front oi a Church by a Squire.
Yesterday just as the minister was
reading the lesson for the 11 o'clock
service at the Presbyterian Church,
Mr. Robert Broom, of Mecklenburg,
gnd Miss Lizzie Reid, of Iredell,
stopped in front of the church and
called for Esquire C. V. Voils, who
had been seated in his accustomed
place. The Squire responded promptly
and the bride-elect presented the
proper license to make him and his in-
tended man and wife, and requested
that he perform the ceremony. While
seated in their conveyance they were
promptly and lawfully made husband
and wife. The Squire was liberally
rewarded, and returned to his pew in
time to make a generous contribution
to the call for contingent expenses.—
Moorsville Correspondence, Charlotte
Observer.
A Record Trip.
The champion wager of the moment
is possibly that upon which one Herr
Schweigerhausen has entered to the
amazement of less ‘active and less
imaginative Europeans. He is to cycle
70.600 miles in five years; he is to come
in contact with three kings, to kill a
wild animal in each country, to write
100 articles, take 1000 photographs and
deliver 100 lectures.
Pacific Silk Worm.
Prof. E. W. Woodsworth, of the de-
partment of entomology of the Univer:
sity of California, has for some time
been interesting himself in the culture
of the silk worm on the Pacific slope
He is trying to determine whether
silk worms can be raised in California
on such a scale as to make the venture
a commercial success.
Great Turtle.
When Mauritius was ceded to Great
Britain in 1810 there was a gigantic
turtle in the court at the artillery bar-
racks at Port Louis which is still there,
although almost blind. It weighs 330
pounds and stands two feet high when
walking. Its shell is eight and one:
half feet long, and it can carry two
men on its back with ease.
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED.
“UNFINISHED THINGS.”
The Rev. A. H. C. Morse Bases an Inter-
esting Address Upon the First and
Last Words in the Scriptures—Be Not
Impatient, God Has a Flan.
BrookLYN, N. Y.—In the Strong Place
Baptist Church Sunday morning the pas-
tor, the Rev. A. H. C. Morse. preached
a strong sermon on “Unfinished Things.”
He said:
My sermon this morning is based upon
the first and the last words in the Secrip-
ture: “In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth,” “Even so, come
Tord Jesus.” And between these texts
there is an immeasurable distance. The
first deals with the beginning of things.
The last closes the Bible oe a note of
incompleteness. The first takes us back
to the moment when the. shining worlds
were hurled from the battlements of heav-
en by the hand of the Creator. The sec-
ond points forward to some ‘‘far off divine
event to which the whole creation moves.”
It would solve many troubles in our
thinking if we remembered that we live in
a world of unfinished things. This earth
is not al finished product. It is rather the
sum of all the forces with which it was
stored in the beginning. It is what some-
one has called an expectant creation. It
stands with shaded eyes looking toward
the future. Hidden behind all its move-
ment there is a divinely appointed end.
Men may correct ail their false ideas of
evolution in the light of this single truth.
But in the beginning they must posit God.
Life is an unfinished product. Whoever
saw a finished life? In a great workshop
we must look for noise and dust and tu-
mult and confusion. We also look for the
finished product, but it is not there. As
soon as a product is finished it is removed.
Its place 1s not there in all that dust and
dirt. This world is God’s great workshop.
Are we startled at the noise and confu-
sion? Human beings are in process of be-
ing formed and perfected. But the end is
not yet. ‘It doth not yet appear what: we
shall be.” No one is perfect to-day. And
what we call the best is made up of un-
finished and incomplete products. If this
world has ever seen the perfect, it is only
that it would be removed. Life is a great
school. What man is, or'does, after grad-
Cy has not been told us yet with any
etail.
We are appalled at the evidences of so- |
cial wreckage. They tell us there is noth-
ing good in all the world, that the whole
earth is a vast madhouse, her inhabitants
are drunk with delirium, the fields are be-
coming bankrupt, and the harvests are
well nigh ‘exhausted. They tell us that the
strong trample the weak to death in their
cruel greed and hunger. Now this seems
to me like a false interpretation. The
world is filled with madness. It does reek
in cruelty and greed. But still I am
taught that this world is God’s, and that
it is working for a divinely appointed end.
It manifests along its course one great in-
tention.
Who, then, are the pessimists? They
are the disappointed whom fortune seems
to have shaken from her skirts. Here is a
man you used to know. Then he was
bright and keen and vivacious and ener-
getic. In those days his eyes were bright
with the gleam of far-off fire. But now we
meet him and the light has faded from his
eve, and the spring has departed from his
step, and he has joined the great army of
the disappointed. He had set his heart
upon obtaining something which the pass-
ing years have said he could never have.
And his life has failed and his possessions
have taken flight. Now what does this
mean? It simply means that he has been
displaced by the very progress of the
world. When an army is marching for-
ward and it quickens its pace, the weaker
soldiers must fall by the wayside. But the
army has gone to valiant duty. And the
very fact that the world is sweeping on-
ward means that some must be dropping
every year. They are flung backward be-
cause the race is hurrying forward.
This world is an incomplete world be-
cause it is divine. If life, as we know it,
were complete, if this were the end, then
we should have to-day the ultimate stand-
ard of success. Our judgment of ourselves
and of others would be final. But is that
50? Who of us dare judge another? Do
we not rather look at this life as part of a
whole, whose greater part lies beyond the
vision? There isn’t room in the longest
human career to develop all we hope and
love and long for. And so we say that the
most encouraging thing about this life is
that it is not yet complete. The basis of
hope is the possibility of growth—mnot in
the perfection of attainment now or in the
immediate future.
Shall I be misunderstood if I point out
that the earthly life ot the Saviour par-
took of this same incompleteness? His ac-
tions, His parables, His whole teaching
constitute a promise of the future. His
life led to His death, His death to His res-
urrection, His resurrection to His ascen-
sion, His ascension to His throne of glory,
and that again leads to His second coming.
“Even so. Come, Lord Jesus.” It is as
though the lines of life projected far be-
yond our farthest ken, and could be fol-
lowed only by an infinite hope. Why was
not Jesus one of the disappointed? If ever
a man had a right to be a pessimist it was
He. He found that the world did not
want Him, the rulers of the state had no
place for Him, the church of Judea that
God had been training for 1500 years to
look for Him did not know Him. Why
was He not in despair? Because He had
in Himself the wells of joy. Not the joy
of indifference, not the joy of Him who
sees and does not care. But the joy of
Him who sees all, and through all to the
living God. Just as in one of Corot’s pic-
tures you can see in the foreground the
gnarled and blackened trunks, and be-
vond all and behind all the clear shining
of the sky.
The gospel with its mission still unac-
complished is another instance of that
thought before us. In the world, in the
church and in the soul of the believer the
. gospel sees not yet all things put under it.
And that for the simple reason that this
is a world of unfinished things. And even
this may come to us with inspiration, for
unlike the dwellers in the Orient we live
in the midst of unfulfilled prophesies. Nor
shall they ever be fulfieled here. Other
conditions and other circumstances are
needed. From this incompleteness -one
might gather the largest argument for our
immortality. This world is in accordance
with a divine purpose, and cannot be ex-
plained unless it tells of a fulfillment in
the ages, yet to come, when this earth shall
have been replaced by a new earth where-
in dwelleth righteousness. Then He Him-
self shall be satisfied.
The old philosophers used to represent
all things in a state of continual ilow.
They stood by the river whose dark wat-
ers, fed from some hidden source, stole
past in voiceless mystery. They saw the
same mysterious flow in the seasons, in
the harvests, in human life itself. And
they posited motion as the substantia in
the world of things. Now the world is in
a state of flow because it is a state of in-
completeness, and that again because it is
expectant. There is something yet before
us. God has not made men who can long
and love and hope and struggle and deny
themselves, only that they may fall into a
hole in the grass.
For what, then, does this whole creation
wait? Paul tells us in one plaee that it is
for the revealing of the sons of God. Isn't
that worth the time that is past? Isn’t it
worth all the struggle and suffering and
tears of our fathers? Isn’t it worth all the
pain with which joy and sorrow have pol-
ished us into shapeliness?
And who again are these sons of God?
“As many as are Jed by the spirit of God,
they are the sons of God.” It is for these
that creation waits, and without them the
universal process halts. This world began
with the fiat of God, and the mechanical
forces with which the stars were flung in
their orbits. But in the process of time
God said, Let us make man, and it was at
that point the purposes of the universe
became personal and human and spiritual.
And now, Oh, matchless wonder! the next
step cannot be taken without the help of
man. “We are laborers together with
Him.” Not even God Himself can de-
velop the possibilities He has bound up in
us unless we give Him leave. His final end
is reached not by law, but by His sons.
ow, then, are we to swing things on
from this first to this last? From creation
to the coming, and then again onward to
the glory that shall yet be revealed? Only
by finding the way of God, and being
caught up in the mighty sweep of His own
purposes. Here is % vessel longing for her
port, and the wind is blowing favorably
above. But she does not move, she cannot
move till men shall run up the sails and
they shall catch the wind: And then the
ship that has lain like a lifeless thing be-
comes a thing of life and hurries on her
way. And so it seems that the time is
come when the crises of history are hinged
upon the work of man. The gospel, for
instance, has been committed to the hands
of men. And, as I understand it, the sec-
ond text cannot be fulfilled till this gospel
of the kingdom is preached in all the earth.
I dwell upon the subject of unfinished
things, because it gives to us an interpre-
tation that enhances the value of life. One
thinks of his own life in comparison with
the circling orbs, and says it is an unim-
portant thing. It is not useful, it influ-
ences no one. Why keep up this awful
struggie with heat and cold, and pain and
privation? Why strive to do better? Why
not go with the tide that sweeps away to
the dark? The real danger is not that we
shall think too much of ourselves, but that
we shall count our lives as worthless
things. We cannot afford to lose sight of
the place we hold in the purposes of God.
A man’s life taken by itself is an insignifi-
cant thing. But when we think of it as a
part of a great whole it becomes of infinite
value. It is as vast as all the schemes of
which it is the part. This is an instance
where the part is as large as the whole.
In his college sermons Dr. Peabody uses
a beautiful illustration of this very
thought. He refers to the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of
Harvard College. The students marched
in torchlight processions with transparen-
cies and banners. The freshman class,
then only one month old, had this for their
motto: ‘“The university has waited 2350
years for us.” And that he says was a
profound truth. All the institutional life
had been slowly evolving for these light-
hearted boys, and on their conduct now
rested the destiny of the future. I wonder
if it is possible that this very world has
been waiting for us. And if there are
some things yet unfulfilled that are wait-
ing for the way we use these days. If so
that makes life vastly insignificant. Of
course, it does not mean that we_ shall be
notable, or great, or prominent. Not that
other generations shall know our names.
But that our little lives are of eternal
meaning.
Mr. ¥. B. Meyer has said some beautiful
things. I remember hearing him say one
time that we are God's “poem” (Gods
workmanship). And you know that a
poem is something very different from all
prose. It contains a thought that could
not be put in prose. To paraphrase it is
to dull its beauty.. It fiashes the idea only
in that form, just as a diamond gives that
gleam only from that side. So we are
God’s poem! And a poem contains a
thought. And to express that thought
has meant to the writer a great effort.
And every syllable is of value. And so
with God’s poem. He is working upon us
that in the ages to come He might show
forth the exceeding riches of His grace.
Can any life be insignificant?
, Give no place, then, to impatience. God
made this world in the beginning, and to
this present He has sustained it by a well-
formed plan. The present finds us here.
What place shall we take in this world of
unfinished things? For myself I take a
place of joy, and effort, and hope. I reach
out lame hands of faith-for the way of
God, and lift up a voice that is half a
prayer and half a shout, “Even so, come,
Lord Jesus.”
Success For All.
True success is within the reach of all
men. It is to know and to do God's will,
to learn and to follow in His way. It is to
put our hand cheerfully to the pen or the
plow, whichever God’s providence sug-
gests. In the reckonings of eternity to
have been a good mason will count for
more than to have been a bad monarch;
to have walked worthy of the vocation of
servant will be accounted better than to
have been a selfish sovereign. Lives that
upon earth were despised, but which were
well lived, and laber that was counted me-
nial, but which was well performed, will
bear the stamp of divine approval for eter-
nity. Success will be defined in the lexi-
con of heaven as it seldom is in any lexi-
con of earth. As for the dollar mark, it
will not be used in the world of bliss.
¢ Stretch Forth Thy Hand.”
“Stretch forth thy hand.” You with
that weak hand shortened by the hard cir-
cumstances of your life, stretch it forth!
You with that hand drawn up by love of
self; and you with fingers warped by
thoughtless, unkind words and deeds,
stretch them forth. With honest purpose,
with unfaltering will, whatever may be its
weakness or its need, “Stretch forth thy
hand.” And the Christ will look upon it.
He will pity its weakness and deformity
and lo! as you stretch it forth it will be-
come whole—restored, that you may bless
with kindly deed many a needy one who
waits and waits—perhaps for you—M. M.
Slatterly.
Earnestness.
Take life earnestly. Take it as an ear-
nest, vital, essential matter. Take it as
though you personally were born to the
task of performing a noble task in it—as
though the wgrld had waited for your
coming. Take it as though it was a grand
opportunity to achieve, to carry forward
great and good schemes, to help and cheer
a suffering, weary, it may be, a heart bro-
ken sister. The fact is, life is undervalued
by a great majority of woinen. It is not
made half as much of as should be the
case. Now and then a woman stands aside
from the crowd, labors earnestly, stead-
fastly, confidently and straightway be-
comes famous.
Wateh Out.
Be on the lookout for mercies. The more
we look for them, the more of them will
we see. Blessings brighten when we count
them. Out of the determination of the
heart the eyes see. If you want to be
gloomy, there’s gloom enough to keep you
glum; if you want to be glad, there's gleam
enough to keep you glad. Say, “Bless the
Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His
benefits.” Better lose count in enumerat-
ing your blessings than lose your blessings
in telling over your troubles. “Be thank-
ful unto Him, and bless His name.”—Malt-
bie D. Babcock, D. D.
Obedience and Faith.
It is well to have a map or description of
the way, but it is better to have the lov-
ing companionship of one who knows the
way by personal experience. And this
Christ is to every disciple a loving and ex-
perienced leader, trusting in whom we |
neither sorrow unduly over
suffer apprehension over that which is be-
fore us. Obedience for to-day; faith for
to-morrow—and let the Guide supply that
knowledge which we lack!
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INDUSTRY.
To the ant, said the bee,
“Have you noticed that we,
Each day without fail,
In fable or tale,
Are held up to youth
To illustrate the truth
"T'hat work without rest
Is of all things the best?”
“Well, yes,” the cnt said,
As she nodded her head,
“And it’s all very well;
But if truth 1 must tell,
1’m tired of the trick,
And it makes me just sick
To work and to work
iNith no chance to shirk.
’'d far rather play
Or do nothing all day,
Like that gay butterfly.”
Said the bee, “So would I!”
—Carolyn Wells, in Life.
Scribbler—“Have you read my last
novel?” Cynicus—*"I hope so.’—Phila-
delphia Record.
“The rank injustice of the thing,”
Said the centipede, ‘makes me sick.
Here I am with a hundred feet
And I can’t use one for a kick.”
—Chicago Tribune.
“De world owes every man a iivin',’”
said Uncle Eben; “but he's got to
hustle to prove de claim.’—Washing-
ton Star. .
He—“At what time in a girl's life
should she be engaged?’ She--“Just
pefore she is married.” — Yonkers
Statesman.
Patience—*“Does she ever speak of
her family tree?’ Patrice—'No; ¥
think it was one of those shady sort of
trees.”—Yonkers Statesman.
“Did ye hear that Casey were in an
accident?’ “Phwat! Did he git mar-
ried?’ “Whist, no; not that bad; he
only hed a leg took off.” —Princeton
Tiger.
Wigg—“I am satisfied that retribu-
tion will some day overtake the coal
man.” Wagg—*“Yes, his scales are now,
lying in weight for him.”—Philadelphia
Record.
“I see they have made a new rule on
the New York street cars.” “What's
that?’ “They go by you on the near
instead of the far side.”’—Coilier’s
Weekly. >
“Pedestrians have to travel in twos
now.” “Twos?’ “Yes; one to look at
automobile numbers and the other one
to get run over.”—Cincinnati Commer-
cial-Tribune. :
“He boasts that he is a confirmed
pachelor.” “Perhaps he makes a vir-
tue of necessity.” “Perhaps, and yet,
necessity may be its own reward.”—
Town and Country.
“What did the broker say when old
Tightwad told him he wanted to buy
an interest in a comic paper?’ “Oh,
he said he didn’t deal in laughing
stocks.”—Yale Record.
“Are you carrying all the life insur-
ance you want?’ “No, sir; I am not.
[ am a baseball umpire, and I should
like about— But the agent bad
slipped out.—Chicago Tribune.
Edith—“Belle is insanely jealous of
you.” Sadie—“Do you think so?”
Edith—“I am positive. She is telling
it all around that you will never be
able to support Cholly.”—Town Tepics.
A war correspondent named Guido
Was struck by a flying terpedo;
A Red Cross brigade
Which came to his aid
Found only a sleeveless Tuxedo!
—Milwaukee Sentiner.
“That man has studied political
economy.” “Maybe so,” said Senator
Sorghum, “ but the injudicious way he
spends his money at an election looks
to me like political extravagance.”—
Washington Star. : |
Naggus— ‘They tell me you have
written a problem play. Would you
mind telling me what the problem is?”
Borus—‘ ‘Just at present the problem is
to find some manager who will stand
for it.”’—Chicago Tribune.
“Mrs. Dunkleton doesn’t seem to be
satisfied with her new husband.” “No.
She’s discovered that he deceived her.
He's one of those iellows that want a
forty-horse-power tonneau sweetheart
to settle down and become a mere rune
about wife.”—Chicagzo Record-Herald.
Big Things Found in Alaska.
Alaska is a big country and it has big
possibilities. It has the biggest bear,
the biggest moose, the biggest moun-
tain sheep and the biggest salmon «nd
grayling in the world. All of these
are plentiful and can be taken under
United States regulations.
Time was when Alaska and Siberia
were thought of by many as synony-
mous, and without an idea of just
what was meant by either naine. That
has all changed in the last few years,
and now Alaska is not so very far
away from Seattle. Moreover, it has
been found to be anything but an in-
habited and unihabitable country. It
is without doubt the greatest game
country on the globe to-day, because
it is the newest, and the conditions
are right for the maintenance of game
animals and birds.
The biggest mountain on the North
ern American Continent is in Alaska
and is well named Mount McKinley.—
Field and Stream.
His Substitute.
Quite a touching story comes from
Crefeld. A student of that city was
summoned before a Magistrate on
Monday for brawling. He happened
to be reading for an examination, and
found he had no time to attend. So
he sent his fiancee instead, in a suit
of male clothes. Unfortunately, the
astute authorities were not taken in.
The lady is now working out a sen-
tence of one month for ‘‘Justizrathsper-
sonenbeleidlung.”
Theatre Fire Tests.
Theatre fires are to be studied ex-
perimentally in Australia by building a
theatre one-fifth of the normal size
and subjecting it to various tests.
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