I feel over very thing, chil« n't it yeople Sr oi Le! I ~J every have most ‘ant. 2. arly 8 y yet. ave it ar.” - e she other- hour.” iT. have a > audi- de his 1e oth- 1d the 111 had st him r. 3 queted 1 am ut the shall I 10w to n the Speech r that le isn’t it-Bits. IELD. ho had nd the one of \lways > Eng- ‘wrong or 2” 2d Mr. no le- I'd ad- '—Chj- AN ELOQUENT DISCCURSE ENTITLED, never will He answer accedingly the de- At a recent meeting of the British . cee. ——. # ” MENT: 1 II ON NDAV self ip silloamtia against the brightness orf aD TT CHILDREN'S DEPART Ndeo : A SERMON FOR SUNDAY Ny Masters Si gd. power Xe sense of A (L f DO .THE JoRAYS EXi517 = 4 ee - righteous self-depreciation will be overpow- Pty : : a . A eringly strong. But never yet did Jebus, x Vf fhetr Being Callen nto Question by fr : Noted Scientists. i A RIDDLE. Five vowels, three T's, two S's, N, B, Only these letters, as plainly you'll see; Yet out of the same you can fashion one wor That for magic or power is—well, simply absurd! The way thdt it governs and changes af- airs, Folks, and their projects—perhaps un- ' __awares; Decides who shall stay and, as well, who shall go; Secure in its fiat, its bold “thus and so,” Such havoc with wiils, or with heirs, I may say— Such sudden o’erturnings to some other way! Well, to work it all out is to lead you a . ance, . Till you turn yourself into another, per- chance! : It only is stable when harnessed, I'm told, oY a big dictionary, both careful and bold; Yet none of them differ—these books born of Babel; Though always ’tis changing, none to . change it are able; ’Tis a very hard task, and admits of no shirking. Beware, lest it change itself while you are working! —M. M. D,, in St. Nicholas. THE DOG'S COMPASS. A friend writes us an interesting ac- count of a dog brought from Plymouth, Mass. to Cambridge, Mass., some for- ty miles. He was kept tied up two days, then untied and started for his old home in Plymouth, where he ar- rived safely. This is one of thousands of similar cases, in some of which the dog has traveled hundreds of miles. ‘We remember one in which the dog traveled up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to a Northwestern State. What sort of a compass dogs carry have never yet been ascertained.—Our Dumb Animals. THE SEA KING. This game can be played by any num- ber of children. They proceed by first choosing one of the party to act as the Sea King, whose duty it is to stand in the centre of a ring formed by the players seating themselves around him. The circle should be as large as possible. Each of the players having chosen the /mame of a fish, the king runs around the ring, calling them by the names which they have selected. Each one on hearing his name called, rises at once and follows the king, who, when all his subjects have left their seats, calls out: “The sea is troubled,” and seats himself suddenly. His ex- ample is immediately followed by his subjects. The one who fails to obtain a seat has then to take the place of the king, and the game is continued. HOW BANANAS GROW. The Cuban children like bananas as tvell as Americans do. Their mothers bake green bananas in the oven. If you should prick the skin of a banana with a fork and bake it forty minutes, 1 think you would like them as well as the little Cubans, If bananas could talk, this is what they would say: I came from Cuba. While I was liv- ing near the top of a tall tree with its ‘great, broad leaves, I saw a banana farm planted near us in the swampy woods. The trees were left standing to shade the men from the hot sun while they cut away the brush. They .measured the farm with long ropes six yards apart. This rope was stretched along the ground + and small shoots from banana trees were planted at every red tape. Next week the men came and cut down the forest trees. The shoots were left to grow for six months, then the grass and weeds were cut down with machetes. A machete has a long steel blade with a bone han- dle. Soon the sprouts were grown trees, and at the end of one year big bunches of bananas were packed into the cars and sent to the New York boats waiting at the wharves. The man who owned the farm only got thirty cents for a large bunch and fifteen cents for small ones... When the boat reached New York the best bunches were sold for $5. There are many kinds of bananas as there are * varieties of apples. If you should ask any boy or girl which kind they like the best, ten to one he or she would answer, “The biggest kind.”—Indianapolis News. CAUGHT AT THE PICNIC. Willie Star and Johnny Williams lived in a country town among the mountains. It was a very quiet place. The air was so iresh and the grass s6 green that many eity people came every year for their vacation. One of the boarders named Nelson took a great fancy to Willie and Johnny. Every year there was ghe big picnic over in the woods. The money earned at the big picnic was used to keep the sidewalks of the town in repair, so big people and little people were all eager to help. On the day of the big picnic Willie and Johnny met Mr. Nelson at the gate of his boarding house. “Here, boys, is something to help you celebrate at the picnie,” he said, slip- ping a bright silver half dollar into the | Neither of the boys had ever had so much money before. They thanked Mr. Nelson and ran away, shouting with delight, to where the bus was ready to start. + ing to buy ice cream,” said hand of each. be a fish pc * said Johnny Williams, “and | 1d over there, 100. | crease fron You know what that is, don’t you, Wile lie?” “Course,” said Willle. You fish over a curtain for a package and you don’t know what's in it till you open in? . When they reached the picnic grounds the fish pond was one of the first things they visited. A little girl with a bow of pink ribbon in her hair handed them the fishing rods and took their nickels, Just as the boys threw their lines over the curtain Mr, Nelson slipped in behind it. I don’t know just exactly what Mr. Nelson did. but the boys felt a jerk on their rods and when they drew them up there was a big box of candy on each hook. Among the pieces of candy each boy found a pretty whis- tle. It was no trouble to keep track of Willie and Johnny during the rest of the day, for wherever they went you could hear the sound of their whistles. —The Little Chronicle. THE TOAD. According to a recent bulletin issued by the National Government the toad is a gross feeder. He sallies forth usu- ally after sundown in search of his prey, which includes pretty nearly every variety of insect and worm, and experiment proves that in twenty-four hours he wiil consume insect food of a volume fourfold the capacity of his stomach—in other words, he can fill up four times. Of angle worms he does not seem very fond, though his glut- tonous habit extends to them if they are too temptingly abundant, as after the earth has had a good wetting. Ants appear to be his chief delight, with cutworms and thousand-leggers next in order. Then come caterpillars and beetles. Grasshoppers and crick- ets furnish but a small part of his bill of fare, and spiders stili less. He has no use, apparently, for dead prey, but when an insect or worm comes near him in motion he makes for it eagerly. A cutworm which has discretion enough when in his neighborhocd to keep curled up may easily escape, but as soon as it begins to crawl let it be- ware. His method of capturing a bug is to dart out his tongue, which, by the way, reverses the usual order of nature, it being fastened in front and loose be- hind. It is coated with a gelatinous secretion, and when it strikes an object it fastens firmly to it and conveys it into the toad’s mouth. If the object, like a big worm, for instance, is too large to go unassisted into his gullet, he uses his forepaws, like a greedy child, to stuff it down. Most of the viands which the toad loves are, in their living state, pests of. the farm and garden. It is hard to say just where to place ants in this classifi= cation. Nearly all students of nature, as well as persons who have nothing but the traditions of their childhood to guide their judgment, have acquired a certain affection for the ant. Its seem- ing intelligence, its artistic or mechani- cal instinct, its untiring industry, its courage, its care for its dead and wounded, its nice domestic economy and its habit of providing against the “rainy day,” all tend to give it a sort of human claim upon mankind. Still, the fact cannot be ignored that the ant is an active distributor of plant lice; that it destroys lasvns, spoils gars den walks, infestsdwellings and makes itself a common nuisance in the kitch- en and pantry, driving the dainty housewife almost to distraction. In the same category with ants, as to hu- man regard, might be placed honey bees, which the toad will eat when he gets a good chance, One of his tricks is to station himself at the entrance to a hive and capture the belated homecomers. As the toad does mot spring into the air for his food, however, any apiarist may avoid this danger by raising his hives well above the ground. Reference has been made to the toad’s consumption of food as being out of proportion to his bulk. But what he can actually do at a sitting is best told by figures derived from exe periment. His official record shows one case where he ate ninety rosebugs without being satisfied; another where he snapped up eighty-six house flies in less than ten minutes. In one toad’s stomach were found seventy-seven thousand-legged worms; ‘in another sixty-five gypsy moth caterpillars; in another fifty-five army worms, and so on. On the basis of his being able to fill his stomach four times in twenty-four hours, it requires a simple mathemati- cal calculation to discover how many of each variety of winged or crawling nest a single toad might get away with in a day if he kept at it and the eondi- tions were favorable, and multiplying this product by ninety, as representing the days in a summer—for Mr. Toad is no respector of Sundays or holidays— we can measure his potential capacity for good as the gardener’s friend, Revival in Car Building. during the two have been } about 800 cations point to and he: ced tor GO Se business and o s for rolling s “PETER’S RENUNCIATIONS,” The Rev. Dr. John Humpstone Draws a Lesson From a Chapter in the Life of Simon Peter—He Gave Himself Unre- servedly to Jesus Christ. BROOKLYN, N. Y.— Dr. John Hump- stone, pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, preached Sunday morning a sermon on “The Life and Character of Simon Peter.” the special subject being “Peter's Renun- ciations.” The text was from Luke v:S. 10, 11: “When Simon Peter saw it, he fell me; for I'am a sinful man, O Lord. And Jesus said unto Simon, Fear not; from henceforth thou shalt catch men. And when they had brought their ships to land, they forsook all and followed Him.” r. Humpstone said: > It was the second decisive day in the life of Simon Peter—a day of destiny. Months ago in Judea he had followed his brother into the presence of Jesus; for the first time he then saw and heard the Mes- siah. With Peter, to see and hear was in- stantly to decide. He became a disciple, forthwith. In the interval, Peter has been some of the time in company with his Mas- ter; but much of it at his business, toiling and trafficking; meditation his constant avocation; to testify of the Christ to oth- ers, as he met them in the contacts of the strand or the market, his habit and his pleasure. No laggard, half-hearted disci- ple would Peter be, we are sure. His zeal and enthusiasm would lead him rather to overwork the role of ‘advocate: to uree men with heat and energy to accept the Messiahship of Jesus, even before they were ready. There is an unwritten chapter of Peter's life as only a disciple, which would be well worth the reading, if we had it. After its perusal we should be less disposed than now we are to think that usefulness in Christ’s service is necessarily connected with ordination thereto as an exclusive calling. There could hardly be a more effective showing of shat a mere disciple can do for his Master and his fel- low men than this lost leaf of Peter’s bio- graphy would furnish. If this were not the case you may be sure Jesus never would have called Peter this day to the continuous opportunities of the ministry; nor, later, to the weightier responsibilities of the apostolate. For an incipient crisis had been precipi- tated in the career of Jesus as Messiah. His rejection at Nazareth was the cloud, no bigger than a man’s hand, that, neverthe- less, portended the final distant storm burst of hate unto death, from which there would be no escape for Him. Re- jected by “His own” after the flesh, it was time He was gathering “His own” after the spirit and preparing them to be His erpetuators and interpreters. So He left azareth to take up His residence at Ca- pernaum, that He might be near the most prominent and promising of the group of His carly disciples. What though these were only a quartet of fishermen! The Lord saw not as men saw, but with the in- sight of one who “knew what was in man, and needed not that any should testify of man.”” He knew the time had now come to separate unto Himself and the service of His kingdom the founders of His church. His eye saw every precious possibility in their nature. He discriminated them one from another, appreciating the individual- ity of each, and yet discerning their com- plimental temperaments and qualifications. With Him to feel was to act; when His “hour” had come He never deferred. In the carly morning, therefore, He be- took Himself to the lake’s shore. There He found the multitudes already astir. The people were abroad, as the manner is in the East, with the break of day; taking the air, hasting on their errands, following each his beat. But soon Jesus became the centre of their interest and attention. The fame of Him was already everywhere. To see Him was to wish to hear Him, with an eagerness that would not be refused. Ac- companied by a continually enlarging crowd He reached the place where the men He sought were washing and mending their nets after a night of unrewarded toil on the lake. The boats were drawn up on the beach, in the midst. Entering the one that belonged to Simon Peter, He asked him to ‘“‘thrust out a little from the land” that He might use the boat for a pulpit, from which to address the crowd. It was to Peter He turned His first thought when He set about the business of selecting His future ministers. Whatever pre-eminence afterward belonged to Peter was deter- mined by the Lord Himself from the be- ginning. He knew the qualifications for leadership that were in him. He knew also every abatement of his fitness to be first. But the elements that indicated his gift of precedence outnumbered the weak- nesses which continually threatened his primacy. So it was Peter’s boat He elected to enter. It was around Peter’s personal- ity, chiefly, that He chose to nucleate the incidents of His calling of the four whom He would now detach from their business, that they might henceforth give all their time and thought to Him and to His mis- sion. Two distinct preparations He arranged for the issuance and acceptance of the call itself. he first was a sermon from the boat to the multitude. Alas! that the dis- course is unrecorded. What a lesson it would be as to what preaching is at its best. Sitting in the shadow of his Master that day, watching now the Speaker. now the audience, Peter got his first introdue- tion to the science and the art of public discourse for religious ends. When, by and by, he became himself a preacher, we may be sure that his discourses roilect the Lord’s manner and copy His methed. . The sermon finished, followed a miracle: itself a symbol of the aim and end of preaching: “Launch out into the deep and let down the nets for a draught,” was the peremptory word of Jesus to Peter, when His discourse was done. Then followed Simon’s characteristic exclamation (Peter- esque to the uttermost): “Overseer, we have toiled all night and have taken noth- ing; nevertheless at Thy word I will let down the net.” As if he should have sai “Thou, Lord, art the one to commar to obey. I have not seen too much of ‘I power and presence to refuse. But I have my own idea of the uselessness of such a proceeding under the conditions. Expe- rience is worth something, especcially in fishing.” Over went the net, at last, and in came the fish as it was hauled. So many were the eaptives that both Peter’s boat and John’s, suddenly summoned to help, were filled almost to the sinkin-: point. ’ . > The effect upon Simon Peter was instan- taneous and overpowering. As in a flash of thought he saw, as he never had seen; felt, as he never had known, the differ- ence between his Lord and himself. Over against the Master's divine power his own helplessness and ignorance stood forth a< a black blot on a white surface. He who had but just now assumed that air and professional superiority, slight though it was; who had hesitated to trust implicitly and to follow without question or protest the wisdom and the precept of his Master —how was he fit for discipleship? In the down at Jesus’ knees, saying, Depart irom | d * ® # momentary anguish of his spirit. awed by the vision first of his Lord, then of him- | self, he proposed to renounce hi iar | and personal relation to Je am not worthy that Thou s my boat or I in Thy fellow Peter even as he clasos h “oo forth from me, O Lor sinful man.’ But this is pre tion that i die, and to be r { : v3 | live.— Rev. Ye spairing, desperate cry of a soul thus searched and scorched by the sense af’ the contrast between himself and, his Lord. For He is come not to cal! the self-approv- ing in their vain confidence, but sinners in their penitence and humility to a better knowledge of themselves and of Him. He who could see where the fishes swarmed in their multitude in the hidden deep knew also the innermost heart of His disciple, and saw under al! his frailty the firmness of’ his rocklike constancy and the fixity of his nascent faith. No man need expect Christ to leave him because he knows him- self sinful. he moment when he is most painfully and abasingiv conscious of his weakness and inferiority is the instant in His disciple’s experience when Jesus is eurest to turn encourager and restorer, of His own. ? the worst of ourse’'ves He is busy making the best of ms. When we think, such is our sense’ of unworthiness, that He and we must part company. then He is most resolved never to leave nor to forsake ‘us. “Fear not.” rings out His word of cheer. “This is the beginning of richer life and wider service. Henceforth thou shalt catch men.” For the knowledge of self and the distrust of self it arouses. and the knowl- edge of Christ, with the confidence in Christ it awakens — these are the first shoots of spiritual growth and the first foundation stones in the edifice of a dis- ciple’s usefulness. Spiritual sensitiveness is the condition of ministerial effective- ness. It is the man who knows he is not fit to minister whom Christ can make so. Therefore, when the boats with their marvelous reight of fish, had been brought to land, did Jesus ask of Peter an: his partner that surrender of themselves to service, which involved the separating of themselves from every other interest and occupation to exclusive and continuous companionship. with Christ, and to con- stant work for others, under His direc- tion. Then and there, as one of four, did Simon Peter make that supreme renuncia- tion, which, because it was made at his own command, and was the manifestation of. faith, and the proof of love, the Tord accepted. and forever after blessed: ‘“They forsook all and followed Him.” It was a sacrifice of ecensecration which only those who have dome the like are fit or compe- tent to judge. If we are ready to put our- selves in Peter’s place. to face the indeter- minate future as he faced it, that day: to think of the kind of interest in his busi- ness a man of such energv must have had, and the enthusiasm for his occupation as fisherman which evidently, to the last. he felt: if we are observed to note the latent evidences in the gospel story that the busi- ness hitherto had flourished and pros- pered, so that Peter and his associates dwelt in comfort, bordering on the edge, at least. of competence, estimated by the standards of that land and age—then we shall know what a venture of faith and ex- pression of confidence in his Lord Peter made when he left all for Christ, giving up the chance of future gains and binding himself to the sacrificial use of present possessions for the common good. Tt is frequently said, disparagingly. of Peter's renunciation of the world and its good. “It was a little all that he left,” and Peter has been criticised, for himself, ve- ferring, at a later day, to the sacrifice he, with others, now made—‘“a boat, a few nets, dirty and old. an occupation espe- cially laborious and in some fe2tures of it repellant {o men of ordinary refinement,” was what he left, we are told. Well! per- haps it was so; more likely it was other- wise. But whether the “all” were little or much. Peter left it; left it instantly, utter- lv and without regret. e transferred himself in profoundest faith and liveliest gratitude to -Tesus Christ and His service exclusively, forever. For Christ's sake, the work’s sake, the world’s sake, he re- nounced his former life and ambitions, to give himself and all he had unreservedly to Jesus Christ. And Christ welcomed, applauded and has abundantly rewarded the sacrifice. It is a surrender not asked of every disciple, but in proportion as any disciple approximates its spirit of faith and consecration, in that measure will he realize his completest spiritual life. It isa sacrifice completer even than is asked of every disciple called to an exclusive min- istry; but only to the degree that the min- ister of Christ can detach himself from the world, and its spirit of gain getting, will his largest spiritual power and widest in- fluence be realized. Here stands Peter's noble example of renunciation for Christ’s sake, upon the pages of scripture, summon- ing us all. from our vain seeking for ma- terial good as the all of life; and from our disposition to keep what we have gotten as exclusively as our own. Christ’s disci- ples belong to Christ. and all they have is His: whether they are called to use it all in His more immediate service or not. Let every servant of Jesus beware of los- ing his life in the effort to save and cher- ish it. “For what is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lost his soul?” Surely the incentive to such sacrifices is not wanting in’ the light of Peter's subse- quent career. On that later day, when the rich young ruler had gone away sorrowing because he had great possessions, and was therefore unwilling to make the renuncia- tion, which, in his case, Jesus had asked to save him from the cancer of avarice, which was eating out his life, Simon Peter, after the Lord had discoursed a little on the deceitfulness and hindrance of riches unduly loved, said, “Lo, we have left our own and followed Thee.” Whereupon Jesus replied, “Verily I say unto you, there is no man that hath left house. or wife. or brethren, or parents, or children, for the kingdom of God’s sake, who shall not receive manifold more in this time, and in the world to come eternal life.” And has not that promise been abundant- ly fulfilled in Peter's case? One thinks not so much of the eternal distinction that has come to him in the veneration of mui- tudes who think of him as the foremost apostle of the church; nor of a memorial to his name so magnificent as that which rears its lofty, graceful dome to the Ro- man sky, but of the unfolded fulness of his spiritual life as registered in his epistles; of the influence he has exerted upon men from the Pentecost onward: of that pecu- liar effuence of heln and cheer which he ever has exhaled through his individual need for painful discipline and his equally triumphant realization of a purified and ennobled character, grown strong and lux- uriant out of the very soil of its many in- firmities. Surely the renunciation of Si- mon Peter was not in vain, either for him- self or for the world. What that little life of his might have remained to be. or deteriorated to become, in its narrow Sy- pian round, if he had refused the call of Christ, who can adequately say? Dut the imagined contrast between what he would then have been and what he now is suf- fices to move us to the swift acceptance of ‘every proposal Christ makes to us, and the speedy answer to every call of His for ourselves and our service, at whaatever nresent cost that answer must be given. Seeing Christ. When Simeon went into the Temple and saw the infant Christ he said, * rd, now on lettest Thou Thy servant depart in pe What was his reason? “For mine eyes have seen Thy it 22 shat is it. To see Jesus is to se ion, and to sce God's s > giow When we ‘ave determined to say | During the past year the Imperial Cancer Research Fund discovered thirty cases of cancer in fish. The baby Chego just added to the London Zoo was caught in the African Gaboon, and is regarded by naturalists as coming between a gorilla and a caimparzee, An armor-plated motor-car carrying a auick-firing field gun is being con- structed at the Daimier works, in Wie- ner-Neustadt. It will te so arranged that it can be fired in all directions, even over the head of the driver. Professor Garcia, of Madrid Univer- sity, has invented an instrument which may solve the problem of wireless telephony. He states that he has been very successful in reproducing the sounds of various musical instruments at a distance of over 1500 yards, but he has not yet been able to make the sounds of the human voice sufficiently distinet to- be intelligible. The difh- culty lies in finding a sufficiently pow- erful microphone. A new system of laying asphalt roads is being adopted in London. Instead of paving the road with one homo- geneous mass of the paving material, which means the closing of the thor- oughfare for a proionged period, the asphalt is laid in slabs, in the sane manner as paving stones. The asphalt slabs are previously hardened, so that all it is necessary to do is to lay them down on the prepared foundation, and cement them into position with tar. By this system a road can be reopened for traffic as rapidly ‘as it is paved, while a further distinct advantage is ob- tained, as owing to the use of the tar at the joints, the surface of the road- way is less slippery than in the case of large unbroken stretches of asphalt paving. . The Country Press. One of the finest tributes to the country newspaper that has ever been rendered was contained in a recent ad- dress by Senator Chauncey M. Depew before the New York Press Associa- tion. Mr. Depew said: “I pay my re- spects to and express my admiration for the country newspaper and the country editor. His lines are not cast in places of the great and profitable organs of the metropolis, whose profits are reckoned often by the hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. But the country editor lives in and is part of his community. His virtue is not so: much in what he prints as in what he refuses to print. He could easily destroy the peace of the community Ly admitting to his paper the scandals and gossip of the neighbors. But he stands as a censor and a guardian of public morals, and I know of no con- ditions under which the pubiic is ap- pealed to in a certain measure where the utterance is so free from criticism as *the general tone of the country press.” Old-Fashioned KRemedv, In the schoels of a Connecticut town measures were taken recently to test the children’s eyesight. As the doctor finished each school he gave the prin- cipal a list of the pupils whose eyes needed attention and requested him to notify the children’s parents to that effect. One night, soon after the opening of the fall term, a little boy came home and gave his father th> foilowing note, duly signed by the principal: “Mr. Dear Sir—It becomes my duty to inform you that you soa shows decided indications of astigmatism, and his case is one that should be attended to without delay.” The next day the father sent the fol- lowing answer: “Dear Sir—Whip it out of him. Yours truly, ——."—New York News. Not So Absent-Minded. In his “Scottish Reminiscences” Sir Archibald Geikie tells of a Scottish workman who, when the ticket-collect- or came around, began to fumble in ail his pockets for his ticket. The official, when his patience was exhausted, said he would return tor the ticket in a few minutes. When he came back he noticed that the man, who was still fumbling in his pockets, actually had the ti be- tween his lips, and he angrily snatched it away and departed. “What an absent-minded must be,” said a fellow-passenger, to. remember that you had the ticket in your mouth.” *No sae absent-minded as ye wad think,” was the retort. “I was just rubbin’ .oot the auld. date wi’ my tongue.” man jyou not Zola, “I,” and Hairpins. When Zola was last in London he instances the egotism of the capital “1” in. English as significant of KE lish character; the number of waif and stray hairpins to be seen on the pave- ment was another. On this last subject Mr. Vizetelly, who told the story, has returned to the charge. An an of some pigeons’ nests in London revealed the hairpi architectural m as one of the stock Association for the Advancement of | Science a discussion of the so-called | N-rays took place which was remarke ; able in that their existence was prace | tically denied by the German and | British physicists present. The Ne Lays, it will be remempered, are a | form of radiation first noticed and de- scribed by Blondlot in 190%, and pro- ' duced in many and curious ways, such as by the nerves of the human body, by plants, by incandescent burners, nd are detected by an increase in the iumiposity of a fluorescent screen on h4éh they fall. The experiments of Blondlot were repeated auu extended by a number of French scientists, and have been officially noticed by the. French Academy. On the cther hand, remarks Harper's Weekly, British and German investigators have uniformly failed in their attempts to detect the new radiation, and believe thac the phenomena ore for the greater part subjective, and depend entirely on the observer. This brings about a most curious state of affairs, as we find the scientists of one nation defending a certain group of investigations, which are disputed by those of other nations. Nevertheless, the French physicists are persisting in their work, and with further experiments they may be able to convince even the foreign doubt. ers. WISE WORDS. Gratitude helps to kill greed. The preacher’s life is the life of his preaching, Divine favor makes a feast of a bare ren board. : The lights of men never think lights ly of men. Borrowing is not much "better than begging.--Lessing. A woman whom we truly love is a religion.—Emile de Girardin. Not until we know all that God knows can we estimate to the full the power and the sacredness of some one life which may seem the humblest ia the world.—John Ruskin, ’ Dinner With Austrian Emperor, The Emperor Francis Joseph has a rule of life which greatly perturbs some members of his court. He dines every day at half past 5, and he has done this since the beginning of his reign. As that hour does not suit eve erybody. it follows that the personages who are honored with invitations to dine with the Emperor find it very dif. ficult to muster an appetite for dinner at tea time. They suffer in silence for the most part, but it is said that a cer tain great lady resolved to act. She was invited to dine with the Eme peror, but she sat at table and ate nothing. The kindly sovereign feared she was indisposed. No, she was quite well. Then why did she send every dish away? ‘Sire,’ she answered, “I never eat between meais.” The re. partee has had a success at Vienna. But the Emperor still dines at half past 5, without the society of that great lady.—London Chronicle. Missouri Girls to Carry Pistols. ‘A number of young ladies of Joplin are forming themselves into a very unique club, the purpose of which will be to protect themselves from mashers, with which the town is overrun. The club will not have a flowery name and a set of beautifully worded by-laws. The girls, profiting by experiences they or their friends have had recently, are intending to carry pistols when forced to be out at night unattended, and in the future when some fair one has a hand shoved deeply into her coat pocket or beneath her jacket she may be clasping the handle of a weapon, which may become dangerous in the hands: of one so strongly deter. mined to learn how to use it as the girl who enters the new club. The club is composed of girls who are employed in stores, business and telephone offices and others who are forced to be out late at night.—Joplin Correspondence, Kansas City Journal Reason For Extravagance. George H. Daniels, of the New York Central Railroad, knows a man “up the State” who bears a local reputa- tion for extreme stingines. One day the man of frugal tenden- cies was met by a friend, who observed that the other was rigged out in his best attire, including a silk hat that was taken out of itst*box on oniy the most festive occasions. The stingy man said: news?” “No. What is it?” “Twins!” he exclaimed, jerking his thumb over his shoulder in the di- rection of his domicile. The friend began to understand. “I congratulate you,” said he. “That ex- plains the holiday make-up.” “Sure!” responded the close-fisted man disgustedly. “What's the use in my trying to be economical ?’—Sundav Magazine. “Heard the Up-State Attorney’s Fees. There is a good story going the rounds about a brace of popular young attorneys whose shingle adorns the front of an office on State street. They were retained to defend a man whose business is dealing in dogs, and they carried his case to a successful issue, Imagine how they felt when they sent } him a bill for legal services and in re- sponse he called at their office and formed them that they would take their pay in pups. The; but it was a case of take bow-wo i ind they settled on the bas- { is of two bull pups, a black ang t and tw iels. The oO + Spal
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