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Outing Hats.
Irelt ‘hats for outing wear have ap-
peared in the shops... Most of them are
on -the broad flat sailor order, bird-
trimmed and mostly white.
Another style is mannish or foreign
looking. These have round crowns
like buns ‘or overturned bowls. The
brim is bound with leather, and the
crown spanned by a leather. belt.
One had a crown of seal brown and
a rolled and twisted brim of tan en-
circled with folds of brown and orange
velvet, finished with an orange pom-
Doll, :
To Keep Young.
Simple diet, plain living, active out-
door work or walking and absence of
worry give conditions that will devel-
op the best physical and moral possibil-
ities within one. We are all prone to
exhaust nerve force over petty cares.
We get excited if the rooms are not
properly dusted; we put too much of
ourselves into our household work;
we do not want: to learn to simplify;
we do not always take the *forty
winks” early in the afternoon. These
are some of the causes of age, and we
can avoid ‘them just as we can’ learn
to sometimes be idle and at all times
be reposciul.—Housekeeper,
—_—
Good Times For Perfumers.
“The perfumery business was never
better,” said. the perfume. dealer the
other day. ‘I sell more perfume than
I ever did before and I think
i heavy
sales are due in a large part to the au- |
tomobile craze,
“You know the ddor emanating from
those gasoline autos is not pleasant.
- Lovely woman: does her best te over-
‘come it by using lots of perfume, Just
take notice the next time an auto
hizzes by you and see if you 'don’t
get a good, strong whiff of perfume
with the gasoline if there is a smartly
‘attired ;woman in the machine, |
“Women may be going in for athlet-
des more than ever, but they are going
in for perfumes, too, and the most ex-
pensive kind. a
“It would surprise you, though, to
know how many men have the perfum-
ery habit as well. I think the new
fancy silk handkerchiefs ' may have
something to do with that.”
For Children,
Guimpes are an important item in
the small girl’s wardrobe.
White dresses are especially desira-
ble for children, for no other “tub”
frock launders so satisfactorily.
Berthas of lace and of the material,
with bands of lace insertions and edg-
ings, are always becoming.
Ribbon sashes add a pretty touch to
frocks for dressy occasions, and under
those of very thin, fine lawn or mull,
in white, there may be worn a colored
silk or lawn slip, preferably of pink
or blue. ;
For the small girl there is no more
charming mode than the French dress,
- with a deep bertha or collar in scol-
loped lower outline and having an at-
tached full skirt.
The strap or suspender dress is one
of tha season’s most popular styles
for small girls, giving the effect of the
shirt waist and skirt.
Mohair, In. plain or checked weave,
{fs a smart and practical material for
girls’ dresses.
The Benefits of a Hobby.
How often does one hear the expres-
sion, “Ol, that is so and so’s hobby,”
‘spoken rather disparagingly. It is the
tendency of the average mind to re-
gard a person who has a pronounced
enthusiasm as a species of harmless
lunatie, rather to be pitied. The truth
of the matter is, however, that any one
who has any especial fad is greatly to
be envied, as it probably provides
more interest and amusement for its
possessor than anything else. Any de-
cided interest in life, whether it is dig-
nified by the name of an occupation,
or is simply an enthusiasm, or even
mentioned slightingly as a fad, is emi-
aently desirable,
“I have never seen a genuine collee-
tor that is not happy when he is al-
lowed by circumstances to gratify his
tastes,” remarked a student of human
nature, ‘and a bent in that direction
should always be encouraged. It is a
curious phase of our humanity that we
will work diligently to make provision
for our material needs when we are
old and quite neglect to store up men-
tal resources that will intérest and
amuse us until we are called heace.”’—
{ndianapolis News.
How Woinan Can Develop Herself,
In the Woman's Journal, Charlotte
Perkins Gilman urges wornen to take
more leisure for their own develop-
ment. She suggests the formation of
aeighborhood clubs. With what de-
inite purpose? Nothing more definite
than the keeping alive of the individ-
aal soul.
It might grow into something de-
finite as the weeks went on. Begin-
aing with a comparison of the best
thoughts that had struck them during
a week’s miscellaneous reading, they
aright form into little groups and take
certain kinds of reading together,
spreading indefinitely that way.
One might suggest, as a vital sub-
ject for most women to study, “Their
>wn business;” to learn, for instance,
whether it is really necessary for so
nany more to be sick; whether it is
eally ne y for each lonely woman
¢ spend her lonely life in doing licuse-
essary
husbands are best cared for and made
happy by the present system of house-
keeping; whether, in short, united wo-
manhood cannot de better and more
easily -vhat separate womanhood finds
so hard and does so ineffectually,
Giving Away Clothes.
There are two ways of giving away
old things, a rioral and immoral. Those
who are guilty of the latter are the peo-
ple who use the poor as a sort of gar-
bage barrel, something in which to
dump everything that is useless. They
are the people who give to their wash-
erwoman old ball frocks and soiled
white satin slippers and things too
ragged for any human being to make
use of. They are the people—it seems
incredible, but it is true—who careful-
ly cut off all the buttons on any gar-
ment that is to be given away, and
never think of mending anything. With
such persous giving is not a virtue, but
a convenience. They feel they can
rid themselves of much rubbish and
yet obtain a reputation for charity. A
ray of illumination on this subject was
obtained by one woman on seeing a
busy house mother darning some old
stockings. ?
Tatter. “I want to send them down to
Mrs. (mentioning a pensioner) to-day. n
“You don’t mean to say youd darn the
stockings you give away! ‘exclaimed
the visitor.
“Why, of course, 1 do,” ‘was the, res
ply. “They are generally too” busy or
too careless to do it themselves.”
Two Neglected Duties. *
“My top bureau drawer and my let.
ters are the two ends of my ‘duties that
are oftenest neglected’ wrote a clev-
er busy woman to a long-suffering cor-
respondent, “the reason being, I sup-
pose, that they are the two things that
would not turn over to any one else.”
One of the many excellent Victorian
traditions which a more forward and
careless generation is beginning to dis-
regard is the sacredness of correspond-
ence, it having always been one of the
shibboleths of every well-born, well:
bred British female that she should
sit down at her “Davenport” directly
after breakfast for an hour or so and
answer her notes and letters. Victoria
the Good certainly had her young wo-
mankind in good training, an infiu-
ence which extended itself to the leis-
ure class of America, and it is a great
pity to see so many of the excellent
precepts and habits which used to be
an integral part of the best develop-
ment of a young woman of the better
class falling into disuse. It is rather
the fashion to say nowadays that the
strict conventionality of the Victorian
era that kept everything within its di-
rect bounds was narrowing in the ef-
fects; but it is greatly to be questioned
whether the ‘go as you please,” latter
day methods produce as desirable re-
sults.—Indianapolis News,
Skirts, while plainer in treatment,
are fuller and more extended than
ever. Bice! % ¥T ha
Figured ‘piques are making mart
little outing* “dresses for women who
know. . ;
The finer the fabric ov better ‘the
blouse will look if made into the tiniest
tucks. .
The Greek key design in braiding or
embroidery is much! favored by French
dressmakers.
Dove gray chiffon wads over silver
gauze combines beauty and service in
a summer frock.=“-’
Mits are not’ universally worn, but
many fashionable women have taken
them up for wear with elbow sleeves.
Many of the new gloves are lined
with contrasting color or have a frill
of lace set on with shirred ribbens and
falling over the glove tops.
Sleeve frills have lost caste because
of excessive popularity, and turned-
back cuffs of direcloire suggestion are
having great vogue as a sleeve finish.
The bird of paradise waves upon Aa
majority cf the handsomest directecire
hats worn by Parisiennes. It will
probably Le adopted here in the ag-
tumn,
The new coaching purusols are cf
very heavy silk in plain color, with e=-
ceedingly long wooden handles matcl-
ing the silk in colet -and tied with a
big bow of silk like the ccver.
The indications are that the. pew
shades: called mulberry will be.popular
colorings in the autumn, and thet the
warm browns and reseda greens. will
renew their last season’s sueeess.
“Cretes” are onerof the latest dewvel-
opments of 1830 trimmin They are
merely scalloped friils of silk: shirred
and set on upside down, so that they
stand up like exaggerated headings. :
One of the latest innovations in om-
bre or shaded elects is shown in the
shaded s es, whieh are of faintost
hue about the waist, but gradually
deepen to a k shade of the same
color at tlie eads,
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AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY THE
REV. JOHN BALCOM SHAW, D. D.
Subject: The Ash-Can Bible—History of |
a Volume of Holy Writ That is Unigne
in Church Annals—Warning' Against a
Common Type of Family Deterioration
NEw YORK CiTy.—The following splen-
i sermon: was preached Sunday morning
by. the Rev. John Balecom Shaw.” Tt is eq:
titled” “The® Ash-Can Bible.” - His text
“was! Che: word of Ged awhieh liveth and
abideth, forever—L Peter 1:2
3 This book, Tather than tie words t have.
read from it, is my text. “Not the Bible in
general as’a theme to-be digemssed, but this
particular Bible consisting of paper,.print-
ing and binding, as an object lesson to be:
taught,
his’ Biblé has a history: Tt was a gift
to the ‘church under the uniquest condi-
tions. Indeed I doubt. if there 1s another
church in the whole world that. c.me by
its pulpit Bible in the same or in’ anything
like a similar way.
This is its history. .One morning last
spring a woman, a ‘pewholder, but not a
member of this church, came into the min-
ister’s office, where I was keeping the pas-
toral hour, and handing me a package
neatly wrapped and tied, -asked me if
could make use of its contents in any way.
Opening the package and finding this beau-
titully bound Bible inside, 1, of course, an-
swered affirmatively, and "suggested that I
hand it on to some mission church or
poor, struggling congregation, for use as a
pulpit Bible
_ She then told me its story. That morn-
ing upon coming out -of the apartment
where she lived she spied an elegantly
bound book on the top of the ash-can that
stood awaiting the coming of the garbage
cart. Feeling it was a shame to allow so
fine a book to be disposed of in that way,
she went to the ash-can and turned its, title
round toward her. What was her amaze-
ment, her “horror, her sense of desecration,
to find it" was a copy of the Holy Bible!
She opened it and found that several leaves
between the Old Testament and. the New
had been. cut out, and the explanation
came to her at once, an explanation which
thé janitor aftersvard fully confirmed.
spectable and well disposed, had. moved
away from the apartment house the day
before, and desiring fo throw away ev éry-
‘thing for which they had nd use and which
incréased * the uikiof their effeets, Ix
seized. upon..the family, Bible avhicl had
been in their home for years, as a thing
that could be” as easily got “along withoue
as anything else; had &ut: out: the fami.
record" that it. aight mat. bg lasts, and sent
the book down, to th Janitor as rubbish to
_be thrown away, fio either because he
‘had failed "td Tecognize it or ‘because he
‘had’ a “low “estimate ‘of ‘the. Bible’s value,.
had deposited i$ in the ash-can, and, was
looking for the city’s cart to come at any.
moment, and take it away.’
A new intersst immediatély’ attached it-
self :to the Bible. I put if into the minis-
ter’s room; to await some providential op-
portunity, to dispose, of it. That opportu-
nity was not’ long in’ coming. When this
new pulpit” was set in: place upon my ’ie-
turn 1t ‘was found that not one of the
three pulpit Bibles that had been previous:
y presented to’ the church would fit its
book board. “T then went to the-minister’s
room and brought out this ash-can Bible.
[t was just the thing. Besides being of
the right size, its gold “edges and richly em-
bossed covers made it peculiarly. suitabl e
to mount this pulpit, and here it will stand
1s itself a memorial—the pulpit a meme ia]
‘0 a family who loved the Bi}
their lives for fifty years in this ‘commu-
aity by its counsels, and sent forth into it
streams of Christin n influence that will
never run dry; the] Bible which ri upon
this pulpit speaking to us of a fam yovho
flitted into this neighborhaod, and after a
restless sojourn of a few’ months, fore
arobably of not more than a few weeks
ditted put again without having done a
thing to help it, and who thought so little
of God and goodness, desired so faintly,
not only to light the road heavenward for
thers, but to have it lighted for them-
selves, that they threw away their family
Bible ‘and moved on to drag down the ve-
rommunity.
Robert; Browning, in his creat ‘noem,
“The Ring and the Book,” tells the story
of finding a rare bobdk at a stall tn the
Square of Ilorence, and, aiter repor ting fits
ings upon the life, ‘character and history
of the persons figuring within its narrative,
punctuating- with marks: of exquisite
strength and beauty the lessons of their
lives.
This strangely discovered Bopk starts no
poetic strains within me—I have no
strings to vibrate—but it does set my soul
to musing, and those musings seem to me-
to take the path of likelicst tact and truth.
“hey car 5 me back over the carlier hi
Yory ‘of this book. .It may have been, it
doubtless Jae, a wedding present, given
robably. by a pious father and mother
long since Yii the sainted dead. Tt
Had been in the home through all the years
of their family history, and had become as
familiar an gbject as the silyer on Sigh
table or the “pictures upon their walls.
Again‘ and “again they had. gone WE 1
through the passing years to inseribe wit
in its .sacred pag the records of their
home. With the daintiest touch they had
put in their’ own names while the honey
moon was still on. Later when that lit-
tle life came to them, their first born, and
the glow of parenthood flushed their souls
as with a baptism irom ‘heaven,’ they
a ved the pen as if into some love fluid
2g wrote out with pride the dear little
A newly chosen name.
A few years passed and the angel came
and took the sweet soul away. The fun-
eral over, the father one eveni when
they were alone and the house Ww siient,
went through into the parlor, unknown to
his wife, and put in the record, leaning
over the open book till the tears began to
s0il the page, and then turning over a few
pages into the book that adjoine
ord, he read over and over
dear and holy words, ‘Suffer ii
dren to come unto Me, and forbid them
not, for of such is the kingd dom of heaven,”
and those other words so it iseparably asso-
ciated with them, “Their angels do
always behold the face of My Father.” It
was the Bible, too, out of which [the mi
ter had read at the little one's fun
ng
{ and in this and a hundred kati a ways it
had- taken on a hallowedness-and built it-
self into the whole life of: the home.
Sut five years ago the family moved into
New York, and the’ decay ‘of ‘their home
life” began. * Sentiment. association, mem-
ory, though sacred and tender, could not
Fun a race with the evanescent, migratory
life” of the metropolis. They had moved
ayy and every time they moved they
had left something "of their home life be-
hind | them. ; Age ceased to give a
its value; it was the ease with whicl
could be ~ fransported which determine
that. Their religious life had declined,
and they never opened the Bible of late.
"Chey had even neglected to record the last
death that bad taken place in the family.
They had been weaned from the church
through frequent removals, and religi
thought and feeling had become strange
to their hearts.
Their consciences had been dulled, and
what had once séemed impossible to them
was now second nature.: They used to
think they could never allow the Sunde
paper in their home, but now they read
>mselves and allowed their chile
it without “the le qualm ‘ of con
0 stay away. om cl
was a i v years ago an act of bac ssliding,
but tl had not long been in New Y
before whole months p
p the sacred
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY.
It seems that a: family, apparently rex|
iigious tone and te mperature of some other |
contents, he gives rein to his poetic mus- |
iren to |
rch once |
gave them no compunction whatev~t; Time
-was, and not leng since, when they were
most punetilious about sending their’ chil
dren to Sundag-gchool. The wildest wind
and the foulest: weather would, not pass
with them as an excuse for allowing the
boys and girls to stay at home. There was
no such strictness these last years, but
weeks of Sabbaths went by and failed to
record a single present il for any of the
children on the rolls of the Sunday-school.
Therefore, sentiment gone, association
and memory ring loosened their grasp,”
their religiots life having become = thing
of the. past, and their consciences, having
grown sggil, they Yad no thoté ‘use for
tiie 8d" Book. It was too bulky..-tp. moves.
$hey would ke eep the family record, but the
sacred pages and ecovers'which had given
it its. inclosure and sstting they woul
throw away.
Were there ever a sadder storys It
makes one weep to think of it. And yet it
is the story of a thousand homes in this
community, of a hundred thousand homes
in this city. Tt is what seme of you are
coming to. dear friends, unless you take
warning. Let this Bible give vou such a
warning to-night. May it ever be a warn-
ing to every family of this church.
As often as the eyes of. those worshiping
here shall rest upon it, may it speak to
| them its solemn message with a voice that
cannot be drowned—let not the fire burn
low on your hearthstone, but keep up the
fireside glow. See that your home is in
touch with the church. Suffer not your
family altar to become a ruin. ave a
family Bibie and use it. Take care that
mildew spots, lilie those which I find here
that are alway = signs of disuse, are not al-
lowed to mar Read the Old Book to
vour children. Read it to your own soul.
Without it your home life will grow hols
low and unholy, your children will deter-
iorate, your own soul shrivel up and die.
hus this Bible shall stand as a memo-
rial to a typically deteriorated New York
home, and as a warning to the families
that ‘have not likewise “deteriorated, but
shall it not also be at the same time a
memorial to something higher’ and more
inspiring—to the glorious character and
ministry ‘of the word. of God as an abiding
.and ever expanding power among men?
Here is a fountain that was long sealed,
‘but it has begun to flow, and its streams
shall ‘water not one home but a thousand.
This book so seldom used before shall be
| opened with every recurring service within
this house of prayer, to be read, expound-
ed and’ applied ‘to the multiplying hun-
dreds that shall worship here. * This Bible
was disowned, desecrated, cast out as. rubs
‘bish into the street, only, to, be recovered,
‘honored, stt in a high, place, elevated to a
pubife throne from swhich 16 will dssue a
vérdiet -of -condemnation upon, this home
andiigvery home in this city «that has
turned God from. its: dpa, but will speak,
comfort, hope and strength 4o those with-
inwhich the: word of (God dwells.and exer-
cizes its heavenly dominion. | While this
‘boolg ;shall utter its admonition, ithen, let
‘it also speak forth its ‘word of entouracze-
ment ‘and -triuntph, telling all avho shall
henceforth behold it that the word of God’
liveth and abideth forever; that however
much men may.attack it and seek to de-
stroy. it, it shall come out of every baitle
a ‘thousand fold stronger than before, and
light’ a eirele that extends far beyond its
former perimeter of influence.
$A’ glory gilds the sacred page,
Ma; cstic as the sun:
It gives a light to every age;
1 iveth, but borrows none.”
" Alone With God.
This is the quiet hour in which TI sit
alone with (lod, writes Charles Edward
Martin, in the New York Observer. He
h ts my whispered plaints and listens to
Te maketh me happy in my love,
th out to Him as quietly
and const: tly as the river flows or the
star shines.
This is the hour that I talk with the lov-
ing Father about myself, of victories won
in the open field, when He was my deliv-
erer and my strength, and of the sorry
failures and defeats which were mine
when I sought safety within unstrength-
ened ramparts of my own construction. I
acknowledge His marvelous strength ‘and
own my own wavering weakness.
was too impetuous, too impatient. I
would rush headlong and heedless, follow-
ing my ‘own plans to my own shame and
nor. It would seem that I could not
But I will mow learn the value of
om of taking time to do all
lience to His plans, and to do’
my love,
In this quiet hour I will tell Him all.:
But «1: will not speak of my plans. Alas
for me! [I have too many plans! I ‘will
vy and humbly -ask for His love and
hi ce just for to-day. To-morrow I
may ‘be with Him i in paradise. 1 will say:
Hida ving One, Thou who
i ctions of the
yselt to Thee.
Thy myster-
i piy my task with
ess 7d - care, Let Thy
, Thy approval, be my re-
. teach me to understand Thy
“Make me to love Theé more and
Thou wouldst have
- more, Mx ike me as
me, dear Father, and I shall be satisfied.
| Thy wavs shall"be my» 5. Widen my
| narrow thousht. Unchain the self-made
‘atters that cramp and fret my heart.
ch me that true and lasting happiness
comet only Ww those, things which are
pleas nte >," T.ead me in those
holy foots Stor a bear the print of the
nail!
What the Bible Is.
Fone writer gives the following analysis
bf the “Book of books,” the Bible:
0 is a book of laws, to show the right
from the wrong.
{t 1s a book of wisdom,
foolish wise.
it is a book of truth, which detects all
an errors.
is a book of life,
[ avoid everlasting death.
| it is the most authentic and entertain-
ing history ever publishe
t contains the most remote antiquities,
the most remarkable events and wonderful
OCC urrenc eS.
t is a complete code of laws.
1t is a perfect body of divinity.
1: is an unequaled narrative.
t is a book of biography.
1t is a book of travels.
t is the best covenant ever made, the
est deed gyer written.
Tt is the best v ever excuted, the best
testament ever signed.
It is the learned man’s masterpiece.
Lt is the young man’s best ‘fompanion.
1 is the “schoolboy” s best instructor.
Iv is the ignorant man’s dictionary and
every hi an’s directory.
ses an eternal reward to the
fait hind, oR believing.
jut that which crowns all is the Author.
He 1s without partiality and without hy-
pocrisy, with whom there is mo variable:
ness, neither shadow of turning.—Religious
Intelligencer.
that makes the
and shows how to
‘The Way of Peace.
In proportion as the perfect obedience ot
the life of Christ comes, through humility
and prayer and thought, to be the constant
aim ol all our effor ts; in proportion as we
try, God helping us,
to think and speak
through all the
1C Him in our
growing hope and
st in grati-
our are not
hout the earnest of their rest in an
ernal harmony; 1t through them there
grading more ore. the echo of a
He who loves
e can ever make
ill silence in us
e; that our
_the consen
ange Is —Fra
‘News
0 { son.”’—Cincinnat
Their Habit.
Mary had a little cook
I'm told that it was so—
" And évérywhere that Marytwent
The: cook -was sure to g
—New York
Sun.
it ‘01d at’ the Game, © i-
SetasTaivedyon learned to: savim
yer?’
Ethelo:: Not. this season.
Locality Makes a Difference.
"—Puck.
“Is it true, pa, that Storks can fly 100
miles an hour?” . 1
“Well, not in: Utah: they have too
many stops to muke.’—Town Topics.
Not a Bad Reason.
“Why don’t you shave yourself?’
“Because, I can’t find -that there is
any more satisfaction in cutting my-
self than in having a barber cut me.”
—Chicago Post.
Professional Amends.
“Dr. Blimber -gave Jim Frisbie an
overdose the other day.”
“How did he square himself?”
“Said he’d knock a dollar off the
bill.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer,
What the Other Gets.
“He's going to take the stump for
one of the candidates.”
“The stump. eh? Then I'll bet the
other candidate gets the balance of
the tree.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The. .Sarcastic Editor.
Poet—*“You say you found nothing in
my poem. Did you consider it well?”
Editor—“On the contrary, 1 consid-
ered it afflicted with an incurable mal-
ady.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
But Quite Strong.
Waiter—“Roast beef or cured ham,
wir?” 5 x
“Bring me some beef. The last cured
ham I ordered here was only convales-
cent.”. —,; Cincinnati Commercial-Tri-
bune.
The Younger Generation.
Judge—"Can you prove an alibi, Cas-
ey 7;
Casey—*“No, Your Honor, I can’t,
but me bey Patsy can do it for ‘ye.
He's all t’hough his aritmetic and way
up in algebray.”—Cincinnati Commer-
cial-Tribu:.e,
Sure of Tee
Kn,
“How do you know it was a safe in-
vestment?”
“Well, I.never
could get anything
cout of-it.”—New York Journal,
Better Than Hatchets.
“Do you think,” queried the old lady,
* “the time will ever come when all na-
tions will get together and bury the
hatchet?”
may : bury the hatchet,” re-
who had been reading
“but they will never
guns.”—Chicago
“They
plied the man,
the war news.
inter the rapid fire
By Teeth.
Squire (to rural lad)—"*Now, my boy,
tell me how do yom know an old part-
ridge from a young one.”
Boy—* ‘By teeth, sir.”
Squire—*“Nonsense, boy! You ought
to know better. A partridge hasn’t
got any teeth.”
3Joy—*‘No, sir; but I have.”—London
Tit-Bits.
Persiflage.
“Well, I see the meat strike is set-
tled,” said the lady presiding over the
wants of the boarders at the breakfast
table.
“Now,” remarked the thin, funny
man, looking from one end of the ta-
ble to the other, “I suppose you'll be
able to make both ends meet?’ —Yon-
kers Statesman.
High Finance,
Ficks—“1’ve got to borrow
somewhere.”
Wicks—“Take my advice and borrow
$300 while you are about it.”
Hicks—"But I only neci $200.”
Wicks—“That doesn’t make any dif-
ference. Borrow $300 and pay back
$100 of it in two installments at inter-
vals of a month or so, Then the man
$200
‘that you Lorrow from will think that
he is going te. get the rest of it."—
“Somerville (Mass.) Journal.
A Soft Answer.
Johnny—*“Sa3 papa, passing coun-
terfeit money is unlawful, isn't it?”
Papa—“Yes.”
Johnny—“Wge papa, if a man was
walking LN pi street and saw a
$100 counterfeit bill upon the sidewalk
and did not pick it up, wouldn't he
be guilty of passing interfeit mon-
ey, and couldn't arrested and
put in jail?”
asy-
Papa—*“More likely the lunatic
lum, - Now ms i 1
feet ih perpendicular height.
TT
WONDERFUL NATURAL BRIDCE.
Solid, Argh Over Three Hundred Feet
Wide Spanning a Utah Canyon.
Here, across a canyoil measuring
three hundred and thirty-five feet
seven inches from wall to wall, na-
ture has thrown a splendid arch of
solid sandstone, sixty feet thick in the
central part and forty feet wide, leav-
ing underneath it a clear opening 357
~The lat-
eral walls of the arch rise perpendicu-
larly nearly to the top of the bridge,
when they flare suddenly outward,
giving the effect of an immense coping
or cornice overhanging the main strue-
ture fifteen.or twenty feet on each. side
and extending with the greatest regu-
larity and symnetry tire whole iength
of the bridge. A ‘large rounded butte
at the edge of the canyon wall seems
partly to obstruct the approeh to the
bridge at one end.
Here again the curving wails of the
canyon and the impossibility of bring-
ing the whole of the great structure
into the narrow field of the camera,
except from distant points of view,
render the photographs unsatisfactory.
But the lightness and grace of the arch
is brought out by the partial view
which Long obtained Dy climbing far
up the canyon wall and at some risk
crawling out on an overhanging shelf.
The majestic proportions of this
bridge, however, may be partly real-
ized by a few comparisons. Thus its
height is more than twice and its span
more than three times as great as those
of the famous natural bridge of Vir-
ginia. Its buttresses are 118 feet fur-
ther apart than those of the celebrated
masonry arch in the District of Column-
bia, known as Cabin John Bridge, a
few miles from Washington city,
which has the greatest span of any
masonry bridgé on this continent. This
bridge would overspan the Capitol at
‘Washington and clear the top of the
dome by fifty -one feet: And if the
“loftiest tree in ‘the Calaveras Grove of
giant sequgia in. Cs aliforni. stood in the
bottom of the g¢anyon ‘its topmost bough
would Jack -thir ty-two feet of reaching
the under side of the arch.
This bridge is of white or very light
sandstone, and, as.in the case of ,the
Caroline, filaments of green and or-
ange-tinted lichens run heresand there
over the mighty ‘buttresses: and along
the sheltered- crevices under the lofty
cornice, giving warmth and color to
the wonderful .picture.—I'rom W. W.
Dyar’s “The Colossal Bridges of Utah,”
in the coomiy
yu
r WORD ’S Sr _ WISDOM:
Evil is not eliminated by a synonym.
New light ‘does not mean a new sun. -
Only the truthful can know the truth.
Religion is more than a daw; it is a
life: *
Divine fear delivers from
fear.
The
honor,
The world is a fearfully noisy place
to the man who is waiting for a chance
to blow his own horn.
If we eXpeet to appropriate the;
“svhatsoever” of his’ promises. wel
ust try to comply with the **whatso-
ever” of his commands.—Samuel B.
Randall.
There are some persons hom tos
meet always gives one a greater cour-
age and hope, as if there were more no-
bleness and high purpose in the world
than one thinks.—C. L. Brace.
all other
lowly in heart: are lifted in
Seeds of the
Some of the Indian tribes of the Uni-
ted States still cling to their primitive
forms of food. A notable instance of
this is the continued use of wokas by
the Kiamath Indians. This tribe occu-
pies the Klamath reseryation, which is
a part of the territory originally occu-
pied by them before the arrival of the
white men, and lies in the southern
part of Oregon. The land has but a
small annual rainfall, but, on account
of its situation at the foot of the east-
ern slope of the Cascade Mountains, it
is well watered with streams and con-
tains two considerable bodies of water,
Yellow Water Lily as Food.
One of these, Klamath Marsh, is par-
ticularly . rich in plants, and couse-
quently in animal life. Occupying
about 10,000 acres of this marsh there
is a solid growth of the large yellow
water lily, Nymphaea polysepala. Im
the old times the seeds of this plant
were collected by the Indians, and, un-
der the name of wokas, furnished their
principal grain supply, filling the place
of the corn used by some other tribes.
To-day these seeds are still collected
and regarded by the Klamath Indians
as a delicacy. The lily seeds are har-
vested in August; the wokas aatherers
uses a dugout canoe, and poling herself
around among the dense growth of
stems and leaves, picks offs the falls
grown seed pods.
Matrimonial Reform in Afghanistan.
It is stated by a correspondent from
Peshawur that the Amir has ordered
that the people of his State should have
no more than four wives, and this is
to be strictly carried out by the Afghan
Sardars. It is stated that the Amie
himself has divorced his additional
wives, and that under this order Sap-
dar Abdul Kudus Khan has divorced
eight and :Mir Ata Ulla Khan thirty,
wives. —Lahore Tribune.
Germans in Samoa,
he German occupation of Samoa
does not appear to be a success. The
landed proprietors, unable to make
money out of their estates, are emi-
crating to America, and the heavy
£ rates, and import t i
serious matter to the smaller
people.