TO THE LOHD OF HOSTS."
BT EDWARD GLMFATJrt BPERCEB.
PImmhI tm Tahwf h mr strength,
Which tMiclMth 017 hamlii to wsr,
My Buffers to Unlit. Pnalm 144:1.
0 Lord of Hosts, whose dreadful power
The warring tribes of earth invoke,
Before thy face the nations cower.
And sink beneath thy cruel yoke.
The iron casque is on thy head,
The unshenthed sword is in thy hand,
Thy toot is where the trampled dead
Insensate grip the glowing brand.
The crackling torch before thee flares,
Fierce flumes leap hissing in thy wake,
Upon thy reeking altar-stairs
The wavelike legions surge and break
Thy censor is the smoking plain. '
A swing between the rocking hills;
Thy sacrifice the foemen slain;
Thy saving grace the hate that kills.
The brazen-throated cannon roar
Their stormy paean in thy praise;
On littered sen and ravaged shore
The hurtling missiles trace thy ways,
To thee, grim-visnged god of war,
1 lift no voice of plaint or prayer;
Before Life's solemn judgment bar
Thy crimson seal 1 scorn to wear.
The service of my stainless hands,
The worship of my guiltless heart,
keep for llini whose wisdom brands
With felon Bhame liendisu art.
HER FIRST BALL.
By C. V. lUAITLANI).
I" "Norah, my dear."
The girl turned around, as a hand
was laid on her shoulder, and her
mother's voice was saying:
"I will leave you to welcome to
your first ball our latest guests. Mr.
Hamilton, Mr. Brown, my daughter,
Miss Norah Grahame."
Norah looked up, with a sudden
tart, at the two gentlemen before
her, the faint rose-flush burning to
crimson in her cheeks and temples;
then she dropped her gaze, with a
flash in the violet eyes, and the faint
est scornful curve of the red lip.
And this is what she saw, before
.the long black lashes drooped, and
she had bowed her acknowledgment
of the introduction:
Two gentlemen the foremost
why had not her mother given him
the name of Brown? for, omitting
the part his dress-tailor had in his
make, he certainly was the quintes
sence ot whlty-brownlshness, from
the topmost wave of carefully adjust
ed hair on the head which was on a
level with Norah's own to the point
of the mild little moustache. Brown,
by all that is fair; but, then, mamma
said "Mr. Hamilton." And Norah's
Hp took that haughty curve again;
for the name of Hamilton waB not
unknown to her as the great parti
of the season; and sho had, too, the
mot very pleasant conviction of being
brought out this evening, on exhibi
tion as me uraname Deauiy, in
mamma's hope of pleasing the con
noisseur taste of Mr. Hamilton, or
"Mr. Half-a-mlllion-of-money," as
Norah was saying to herself.
"He'll not buy many words from
rme, the popinjay!" she was adding,
ivoicelessly, with more decision than
elegance, as, after a commonplace
phrase or so, she turned to her other
guest still Btanding silent somewhat
'In the rear.
"I wonder whether anything but
one's first ball looks so much like a
kaleidoscope?" she said, gayly. "My
head Is quite dizy with looking at the
Whirl of bright dresses and faces."
"Would It be any dlzler," Mr.
Brown answered, with a smile, "it
ffou were to join in the dance, in
stead of watching it from here?
Listen that is the most waltzable of
waltzes. May I not have the pleas
ure?" The violet eyes brightened eagerly
then fell again.
But mamma told me I was not to
dance the round dances."
He smiled.
' "I wonder what a first ball is for,
If it is not to disobey one's mamma
' lor once? One can be very obedient
afterward, you know; for a first ball
never comes again."
Half frightened, half " persuaded,
: Norah looked up at him. Now, if it
were only Mr. Hamilton at whose
bidding she was about to be disobe
dient, she knew the fault might be
easily forgiven; but to break through
her stepmamma's rule in favor of a
, Mr. Brown, even though that Mr.
Brown had good sis feet and cordial,
. merry brown eyes and
"Miss Grahame."
Hamilton's thin vntra irai of tto
elbow; Hamilton's faultless kid glove
v was presenting her with the handker
chief she had let fall.
; She took it with a how; then hnr
Tledly put her hand in the arm Mr.
Brown was offering her. Anthing to
get out of the way of that Hamilton's
appraising gaze. Anything to escape
from the feeling of being up for sale
price, half a million of money!
"I wonder what a first ball Is for,
Jf It is not to disobey one's mamma
for once?"
,. ;.. The words came into Norah's mind
more than once throughout the even
ing, with a little rush of terror for
the reckoning to come. But certainly
this first ball would never come
again; and certainly it was charming
beyond all school girl dreams of balls.
And Norah waltzed with Mr. Brown,
and galloped with Mr. Brown, and
redowaed with Mr. Brown; and alto
gether might have been in a brown
study, for all the attention she yield
ed to her other guests.
After supper the heated, crowded
dancing rooms were not quite so
pleasant as the little balcony, which
bung out from the end one over the
May-blossoming flower garden and
1 mndar the misty May stars. At least
to thought two, apparently, who had
passed out through the open French
window, and who now stood on the
balcony, leaning against the balus
trade, and half shut out from the
glare within by the laco curtains fall
ing between.
They were not speaking much
only a word falling now and then
nnd Bhe had drawn her hand coyly
from his arm, and was plucking at
the climbing woodbine leaves which
fringed the railing. But some one
else was speaking, presently, just in
side there, with a woman's shadow on
the window curtains. Norah had not
heard the first words, but the last
caught her attention:
"The Grahame beauty's debut.
What do you say now of Mamma
Grahame's angling for our million
aire, with her dainty morsel of fresh
bait?"
If there were any answer, Norah
did not hear It. And when, after a
pause, she raised her head defiantly,
the shadow was gone from the cur
tain, and the eyes Bhe encountered
were two dark ones fixed earnestly
upon her.
A quiver passed across her mouth,
and she bent down 'her head again,
plucking at the leaves as before, and
as if there were nothing else worth
looking at beneath the balmy Btar
light. But her lip quivered again, in
spite of herself, and a tear glittered
on the lowered lashes.
"Miss Grahame " began Mr.
Brown.
"If you would leave me alone," she
interrupted passionately "I am low
ered enough in my own eyes not to
need humbling in any one else's.
And when I have tried to keep out
of the man's way all the evening,
too! When I hate him, and wouldn't
look a second time at the old whity
brown article, for all bis halt million
of money! A dainty fresh morsel of
bait. Indeed! I wish it might strangle
him if he ever catches it!"
There was a puzzled expression in
the eyes bent on her, which presently
gave place to a twinkle of suppressed
amusement; and then to something
softer, as he said:
"You are hard on poor Hamilton;
and yet he might care- little for his
half million in comparison with a
kinder word from you. Will he never
have it''"
"Never!" she repeated, with rosy
lips firm set.
"Poor Hamilton! But, Miss Gra
hame "
She tapped her foot Impatiently
upon the floor.
"I assure you I think him quite a
fine fellow, Miss Grahame Brown
went on, with the old twinkle in his
eyes; "and I fain would recommend
him to mercy. If you will parden me
for saying it, I am sure he has fallen
in love with you."
Her eyes flashed as she lilted them;
but they fell again as suddenly before
something in his. That something,
which set her pulses throbbing wild
ly, made her also strive to respond
lightly and carelessly:
"Have some mercy, Mr. Erown!
Do you suppose you are sounding Mr.
Hamilton's praises for the first time
In my ear? Would it be very rude
to say that, when a tale Is told for
the hundredth time, it becomes Just, a
little wearisome?"
"But when Mr. Hamilton tells his
IBM
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The Set of
: One ship drives east and another drives west, :
: While the self same breezes blow; :
: It's the set of the sails, and not the gales, :
: That bids them where to ga. :
: Like the winds of the sea are the ways of the fates, :
: As we voyage along through life; :
: If s the set of the soul that decides the goal, :
: And not the storms or the strife. :
HIIMItlMIHMHtHIHMlUIHHHIMIHHim!
for the first time ah, Miss Norah!
did you ever hear ot Highland Nora?"
She bit her lip until the blood
came; but she mastered herself to
reply, coolly:
"The end of Highland Nora is a
myth, sir. But it is very true she
said:
"For all the gold, for all the gear,
For all the lands, both far and near,
That ever valor lost or won,
I would not wed the Earlle's son."
And without vouchsafing Mr.
Brown another glance, she gathered
the train of her dress in her hands,
and would have swept by him, and
into the ball room again. ,
But some one was standing I- the
way, before the window some one
who turned and said to the man at
Norah's side:
"Ah, Hamilton, you there! I was
Just looking for a vls-a-vts in the
LancerB. May I depend on you?"
"Certainly I'll follow."
And then, as his friend moved off,
Hamilton, alias Brown, looked round
at Norah, who had shrunk back into
the shadow on the balcony.
"Miss Grahame Norah!"
She did not move; and he went to
her, and drew her hands away from
her burning face.
"Norah, are you angry with me?
It was all your own mistake. Shall
I go and Bend the veritable Brown
to you?"
She was laughing now, in spite cf
her confusion. She was trembling,
too, for all he kept both her hands
firm in his.
"Is the end of 'Highland Nora' a
myth?" he was saying. "Do you know
the last two lines of the poem sound
to me like a prophecy of blessed
truth:
" 'Nora's heart is lost and won
She's wedded to the Earlle's son.' "
It was rather a bold prophecy for
a first evening of acquaintance; but
then he had said he was quite sure
Hamilton had fallen in lo -e at first
sight. Perhaps Norah took this into
consideration for, though Bhe man
aged adroitly to flit away from him,
and into the ball room, as the last
words left his lips, yet, as her place
was beside Mr. Hamilton, when he
was vis-a-vis to his friend in the
Lr.ncers, it is fair to suppose she was
not very angry.
And it is fair to suppose, too, that
Hamilton's prophecy did turn out the
blessed truth, after all when, one
bright April morning, as the last ot a
long train of carriages drove off from
before St. Paul'B Church, a lady, com
ing down the church steps, said to her
neighbor, as she raised her parasol:
"Ah, yes. I knew how it would be,
from the very night of the Grahame
beauty's debut. Mrs. Grabame knew
what she was about, when she baited
her hook .with such a dainty little
creature as that."
The Kniser in Business.
Those "in the know" are perfectly
aware that for many years now the
German Emperor and various mem
bers of his family have been quite ex
tensively engaged in trade. The
Kaiser's personal interest in the
products of his pottery factory may
be Judged from the fact that no ar
ticle manufactured on a new design
may leave the factory without Its first
having been presented for His Majes
ty's inspection.
It is no uncommon thing for the
Kaiser to arrive at the pottery
works at 6 o'clock in the morn
ing, greeting IHb employes with a
cheery "Good-morning, workmen."
A chorus of "Good-morning, Your
Majesty," is heartily uttered by all in
reply. The Kaiser then makes his
tour of inspection, watching the men
at work and checking accounts.
From M. A. P.
The Time of George IV. '
Probably at no time in our history
was the education of woman general
ly at a lower point than In the time
of George IV., whether as regent or
king. Dancing, the merest smatter
ing of drawing, French and muslo
were generally all that was taught a
girl. ,
As for more solid accomplishments,
they were, generally speaking, utter
ly neglected. An album fifty or sixty
years old Is of all dreary things the
dreariest. Trumpery verses, puny
little copies of a drawing master's
stock-in-trade of flowers, fruit and
impossible cottages make it up.
New York Press.
Retailers' Profit.
There are some large profits made
on goods sold in New York City, but
the greatest percentage goes to the
retailers of Jewelry that has Imitation
precious stones in Its composition.
The profit is often one thousand
times as much as the goods cost To
get $40 for what cost forty cents Is
quite usual.
the Soul.
Tampering wi
Rv CHffnrd Howard.
iRBCEJNT act of the Illinois
A
the heartless landlord who prohibits children in apanmem,
houses, seems to have aroused very general applause through
out the country. How1 much of this popular satisfaction Is due
to the pleasure ot eeelng the villain hit over the head, and how
much of it springs from our love of the human lamb with its
..J riavnurlnir hnfhltn wa need not now dlBCUSS. BUI-
flee it to know that the stork has scored a point 6he feels hereelf a bird
onoe more In Chicago and Kankakee and other centres ot Illinois civiliza
tion she now holde a card of admission to Tllte society, and it there la any
hesitation on the part ot the host she is privileged to knock the door down
and ootne in anyhow. .... , . ...
But let us for the moment take the part of the skeptic and ask in all
seriousness, Oul bono? To what end shall the ponderous machinery of a
State legislature be set In motion, in order to enable an Innocent 'babe to
break 4nto an apartment house? Every sensible person knows that a flat
not the right sort of a giarden in which to grow children. The modern apart
ment house came into being only for the accommodation of those progres
sive folks who have discovered that time is too precious to be wasted on
infants, tout must be devoted solely to their own culture, save for the occa
sional upbringing of a poodle. But while thus serving its narrow purpose in
the economy of society, the apartment house in its opposition to baby life
may have a more exalted and more comprehensive function in the mechan
ism of human destiny. Cowper put a great truth into verse when he Bang,
"God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform." Who, therefore,
shall say that the apartment house, with its child-hating landlord and Its
fussy old-maid tenants of iboth sexes, may not be a means designed by provi
dence for turning the faces of parents toward the country the open air, the
sunlight, the flowers, the -woods, the breath and the magic of real life? The
intolerant flat may be to the coming nation what an Intolerant church was
to the making ct Amprlca. Had the Separatists, the Puritans, the Quakers,
been granted unmolested asylum In En?land, where would be our Plymouth
Rock, our Harvard University, our Independence Hall? There Is potential
good In everything.
The anartrneiit house has Its p!.n"e. So hiae the Jail. Neither,. however,
is designed for the upbringing of children. We do not plant acorns in a
conrervntory. If It be that rrovldon"! has made admittance to the flat dif
ficult for a 'child, it has colncldenta'ly made the suburban home easy of
access. Rapid transit, electric lights, gns, telephones, and ell other comforts
and conveniences, tosether with the lure ct the garden and the song of the
wild bird, are all Invitations for the child to come to its rightful place.
If any other State legislature has It in for the landlord, all well and good.
Tt tickles the people, and mine host will survive It. But the State had better
think twice before it fallows the example of Illinois and attempts to take
down the bars that now prevent unthinking and selfish parents from immur
ing their offspring within the confines ot a flat and denying them their birth
right of mud pies and exuberant monkeyshlnes In unabashed companionship
with worms and heaven. When we Bhall learn more thoroughly how great
an asset In our nation's welfare 1s a healthy, sun-kissed child, we may yet
Join hands with the burlv landlord of the flat nd give him a law to enforce
his prohibitions asalnst the admission of children. At all events, let us not
be hasty in condernnlne him at present. To criticise man is ofttlmes to
criticise God. LIppIncott's.
Emancipation of Woman.
By Prof. James M. Hagerty,
of Ohio University.
mmL n1- ciiiauvipttLluu Ul wuuieu HUB 1WU ill BUlut) qucDuuunuio
w I I jclal conditions. When she is educated she marries later in life
I "and is lees inclined to marry. When she marries later in life
she has fewer children. If this means an improvement In qual
ity rather than an increase in number, the outcome is rather
wholesome. Problems are introduced which as yet have not
been solved. All we can do is to state them. It is claimed that
the better educated, the higher developed a woman Is, the less inclined she
is to have loffsprlng, and, when she is a mother, the offspring are not as
healthy and vigorous as those ot other women.
The kitchen is practically the sole survival of the old industrial aspects
of the home, and one result has been that the children have been individual
ized and relieved of the obligations of household duties. The Sunday school,
the prayer meeting and the church have to a great degree assumed the for
mer religious functions of the home; the kindergarten, the school, the play
ground and the social settlement have usurped the home's education work,
and the State has taken over, to a great extent, the responsibility for the
education of the child. Leslie's Weekly.
t&
Why Schools Should
Encourage Team Games.
By Malcom Kenneth Gordon.
SCHOOL should encourage team games such as football, base
I ball, rowing, etc., rather than allow the more individual games
JgjL I t0 kvo flrst P'ace fr In team games a boy's character shows
up In a truer way than in any other phase of school life. A
KfrjSXI boy of low moral character will not ring true in a team game,
Kia2SaaJ and a selfish one seldom helps team work, which teaches a boy
to work with his fellows and to forget himself. All these ad
vantages and disadvantages must be followed up or checked. Teachers, not
professional coaches, should be In the games with the boys. In playing with
boys as an equal, a man has open before him a field for influencing the boy
of which one who has not tried it has no conception. The Century.
z& &
Play for the Love qf
Playing.
By Malcolm Kenneth Gordon.
TIE: plan of using them (games) as an invigorating influence on
T
mind and body has not been worked out. Speaking generally,
the harmonious development of all parts of the body alike has
been neglected by the school, and the college has not power to
correct the evil. Commercialism, vast expenses of teams, mul
titudes of rules governing play and eligibility of players, have
well night mined some of our bast games, so that the masses
cannot play them. The individual prizes and the false adulation of star ath
letes, the striving tor records, and, lastly, the most serious abuse, the stren
uous rivalry with other schools, haie eliminated play from the life of most
schools and have reduced athletics to a cut-and-drled work for the few, who
are expected to pose as champions for their school and to work as though
eternity depended upon their winning. We do not as a rule, play for the love
of playing. The Century.
The Dignity tf Our Courts.
By Senator Depew.
HE wonderful Inventions, the discoveries and the evolutions ot
liberty in various parts of the world are the distinction of the
last halt century above all Its predecessors. But, in a broad
way, there has been no change in the courts. They have, hap
pily, through the mightiest revolution of modern times, through
an Industrial development so marvelous as to radically change
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54
the lounaauons oi Dusiness ana alter tne relations of the indi
vidual to the Btate and of the corporation to the government, lived their of
ficial lives and Judicial activities with a calmnesj and Berenlty as undis
turbed as that ot the goddess of Justice, their patron saint The decisions of
Chief Justice John Marshall which made us a nation, with the court the
keystone of the arch, have stood during all these wonderful civic and indus
trial changes unchallenged tor more than a hundred years. Leslie's Weekly.
Sailors as 8eamstrestes.
There la little idleness among the
seamen on the big battle ships, ac
cording to recratting officers at the
local station In the Federal building.
"A recruit in the navy Isn't lazy
long," said A. J. Jerrior, a gunner's
mate, recently. "He soon catches the
spirit ot (the sea and 'Jimmies' around
in his spare time. Some write let
ters and keep 'logs.' A tew carve
wooden fLturas. But most of the
Providence.
legislature, providing ipunisnmeni xot
men do fancy work with canvas and
silk. Besides embroidering and
drawing threads, they weave belts,
purses and mats. There are sailors
In ithe navy who are as deft with a
needle as many seamstresses." Kan
sas City Times.
Crepe meteor makes smart gowns
for evening wear especially when
trimmed wHh beads and embroidered
with heavy silk,
m m m r top
iWhv JOHN vou M.wvsil.y-
Wf, UKED THEM YOU MUSTlL fj
V BE LOSING YOUR T
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and 25c sicca. If tod need medical ad
vice, write Monyon's Doctors. They will
advise to the best of their ability abso
lutely free of Charge. MTJNYON'S, I
ad Jeffersaa St., Philadelphia, Pa.
Longest Masonry Span.
The longest masonry span in the
world is said to be the Grafton Bridge,
now being completed by the city of
Auckland, New Zealand. It is 910
feet long and 40 feet wVle, and the
middle arch has a span of 320 feet
and a roadway elevation of 147 feet
above the lowest part of the valley
which It crosses.
To Cure a Cold in One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets,
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure,
E. W. drove's signature is on each bos. 25o,
At 27 John Calvin wrote his "In
stitutes of Christian Religion;" Top
lady, "Rock of Ages;" Napoleon led
his brilliant campaign, and Ell Whit
ney Invented the cotton gin.
Mrs. WinsIoVs Soothing Syrup forChfldren
teething, softens thegums, reduces inflamma
tion, allay s pain, cures wind colic, 25o a bottle.
12
Where They Worship Noah.
It a lecture before the Royal Geo
graphical society, Captain Bertram
Dickson said there is a large sanc
tuary at the top of Jebel Judi, where
every year In August is held a great
fete, attended by thousands of ener
getic Moslems, Christians and YezidV
Is, "who climb the steepest trails for
7,000 feet, In the terrific heat, to do
homage to Noah. This mountain
seems to have been held sacred at all
times, and certainly it has a wonderful
awesome fascintation about It, with
its huge precipices and Jagged, tangled
crags watching over the vast Mesopo
tamlan plain. The local villagers
can show one the exact spot where
Noah descended, while in one village,
the Hassana, they showed his grave,
and the vineyard where he is reputed
to have Indulged over freely In the
Juice of the grape." The owner of
this declared that the vises have pass
ed from father to son ever since.
London Evening Standard.
Old Ohio Orchards.
The Ohio Agricultural College has)
scored at least one praetloal hit which
bears directly upon the current prob
lem of high prices. A discouraged
farmer was on the point of allrwlng
an unprofitable apple orchard te be
cut down for firewood. Officers ot
the college secured from him the priv
ilege of taking an acre f this orchard
for a year and giving It a loientlflo
treatment, which meant Mttle more
than careful pruning and spraying.
The result was a net return, ever all
expenses, of $475. What a little ap
plied intelligence did for this orchard
might readily be done for thousands
ef others now given over to the rav
ages of Insect pests and disease."
New York Evening Post
A LITTLE THiNO
Changes the Home Feeling.
Coffee blots out the sunshine from
many a home by making the mother,
or some other member ot the house
bold, dyspeptic, nervous and Irritable.
There are thousands of cases where
the proof Is absolutely undeniable
Here Is one.
A Wis. mother writes:
"I was taught to drink coffee at
an early age, and also at an early age
became a victim to headaches, and aa
I grew to womanhood these head
aches became a part of me, as I was
scarcely ever free from them.
"About five years ago a friend
nrged me to try Postum. ' I 'made the
trial and the result was so satisfac
tory that we have used It ever since.
"My husband and little daughter
were subject to bilious attacks, bat
they have both been entirely free
from them since we began nslng Pos
tum Instead of coffee. I no longer
have headaches and my health Is per
fect." If some of these nervous, tired. Ir
ritable women would only leave off
coffee absolutely and try Postum they
would find a wonderful change In
their life. It would then be dlled
with sunshine and happiness rather
than weariness and discontent. And
think what an effect It would have on
the family, for the mood ot the moth
er Is largely responsible for the tem
per of the children.
Read "The Road to Wellvllle." to
pkgs. "There's a Reason."
Brer read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, trve, and fall of homaa
tntereaC
NDIGESTION MVKFS k MAN I
r TO LIVE WITlTMIlNvnlH I