A SE SI A SEE A Snr - romans ‘ORDERLY AND NEAT. ‘wHiGH six 8 BEST ENTITLED to | = BE SO CHARRCTERIZED] | "The Testimony of Those Mere Quoted Fa- ‘or rs about the ankles of man. York avenue and admired tRe perfect fted excellent taste and judgment of the .4hdmy. But suddenly there came asmud- “her cloak and bomnet irreproackable, bu} the waist she wore was inexensably “hreakfast table. the filth of a ‘‘smoking ear’’ in which ! said, “swhich, 1 fear & not a SHlitary _ leeper was ill, and I weat in poraon te - been reared in homes of cultare and wolk : beem overturned on. the velvet carpet, ~_ ‘combings’ protruded from a pasteboard receptacle like a Jast year's bird nest. . were discovered 87 dresspins, fons hat- pins and two lacepins contdining jew- "Wheeler Wilcox in Chicago Record. f * wors the Men—What Somes Ladies Have i to Say on the Sulfect—Diseouraging ¥x- | . | putiences With Women Guests. : : } A bachelor said in my presence a year | ar two ago: ‘‘Wamen arg not by natare | ar habit so clean or erdsrly as men er! 1 #0 Bclicate in their ideas of small mat- ters. 1" : 1 comhated the assertion, with indig- | pant protests, and asored the speaker that only a disappointed bachelar, whom ‘some waman's perfidy Mad soured, evuld make snch a statement, : | pies 1 set about stwdving the habits of the sexes in those pespects. and | I began to question people who had wide | ‘opportunitivs of judging such matters, | an@l the result has not bean w holly com- | plimentury to my sisters. i t, I noticed the dress of men and | wahen in public eonveyhneex It is) rarely indeed one ses a Man, with any | elajms to respectable attire, who dis- | lays eoilel collar, cuffs er shit front. $ I have observed soiled lates about &he neck of pamy an otherwise richly | and fashionably attired woman, and soiled white gloves are woefuMy in evi- depce and ruin scores of handsome #oi- dee. - 1 do net think I have ever geen fringes It seems to bb an understood law ‘smgng the most ordinary types of re- -si#ectable mem that the first raveled seam ar ripped lining shall be attended to by thre tailor before the garffient is worn agajn. But wemen who earry fortunes. oh their backs display torn Sounces and ragged laces frequently ca the street ergasings or in alighting from vehicles. Only a few weeks mgo I walked bb- a young lady in a promment New fit Jf her brand new promenade costume and the exquisite details, which exhib-’ wearer or her modiste, Hut, gloves, and wrap dhd vgil wera in har dy crossing. The lady lifted her dress and showed a.charming foot elegantly | booted ; but, alas, above it a silk petti ooat, with three rags hanging from it. The harmony wes rodned Fy pu discond, Just as 1 was ghout to exnerge from a | Bprkish bath establishment ome day a | youhg woman who speaks three lan- | qs fluently and whe belongs to a mi inflaential family entbred and | oft an expersiye cloak, display a faded silk waist which wae ont at | elbows and badly soiled about the Her skirt was trim and mbdish, shabby. 1 could not help but wonder if she had appeared in this garment at the Pprbaps in similar intimacy men may see similar martidiness amdng members of $heir own sex; but I doubt it. @n the other hand, where is the wo- man who could endure for ten minutes refined men pass hours? THe recollecwon of passing through ane by accident to reach a parlor car is sufficient to on- nerve thy avemge woman. : - Talkitg with a lady*'who has a large ceutftry home, where she entertains ex- tensively, I asked her opinion on this subject. She gage it as follws: : “1 will tell yon cur etperiencs,’’ she i script, and | putble Nines te refid elas I write ”’ "| counter, - | in a newspaper office. | makes a Diu@ at doing it,” | departineut ado; with ‘the bicycles, one. It so happened that twe your la- dies and two young gentlemen kad been | passing i week under my roof, and the | morning of their departure my house. superintend the cleaning of the pooms which they had occupied. “The youmg ladies, mind yon, had leariing and werp to all appearance Blainty and sefingd specimens of their sex. Yet this was the condition of the which they had oceupied for a “The handsome dresser cloth was stained and spattered by toilet creams and washes. * A box of face powder had and the print of a small slipper toe had tracked it about the room. A large, un- sightly roll of mixed blond and brunette Three toilet bottles were minns their stoppers. Four cambric handkerchiefs and one glove were found under the bed, and in the sweepings of tho room ‘When the room just vacated by the men was investigated, the only souve- pirs remaining were tyo half burned cigars, a small heap of cigar ashes on the mantelpiece and one quill toothpick on the floor. ol : . % ‘Sqre, and I'd rather clean up after tin gintiemen than one lady any day,’ remarkéd m§ servant, and in view-of. the contrast between the two rooms I eould not rebuke her.’ : Another hostess whom I consulted on this subgeet said: ‘‘I do not know that I have found men guests neatér than women, but I have found them more delicate minded in regard to many mat- ters. For instance, the seemingly best bred girls and the. richest are often ex- ceedingly cafeless in small matters. They will borrow a wrap from a hostess when they have mislaid their own or it is inaccessible, and they will leave this garment on a veranda chair or in a boat “ducter.”’ - cago Post, © epced.’’—London Paper. : Charles Dickens, bat after mumbling a with a reckless disregard of conse- quences.” : Another lady said : *‘I think men bathe much more than women do and are. more particular about the details of | their clothing and dres&. I think it is. more than balanced by many of their | unclean habits — smoking, chewing, ‘drinking and the like. In fact, I think i men are internally less clean and ex- | ternally cleaner than women. ''—FElla = A TOMTE! ANECDOTE. Treated a Publisher Whe > whe Koow Him. i The fe mg characteristic little story of thed aboentrioc genins, Count Leo Tolstod, is sodmmunicated to our Odessa | oorres by a Moscow journaiist. a ie one of his recent short | works the coh went in search of a new publisher. appeared one foreneon in the pub office of a magazine where bb nally unknown. He was the manner of a better Row the Ay ! class and the chief of the es. tablish dul bably given to judging | from a. was not over polite or patients in Betesing to the count’s re- west to day Ris sketch published, at) fhe same theme taking the manuscript from hig ol HOR yg the ymblisher, ‘I really 3 | cannct be bélbercd It js nw nse my Yook- | ng Ie sketch: We have hundreds ; Sid ars ave reals of such thing in band and have r 1 | no tinie to. del with yeuss, even though vd were 3 i poco to guarantee th { cost, which ry wigs doabt. Tolstoi dew ¥ rod: 1 up his manu: acing it in his poeket ob- | served : : : HY mnst he apprehension. oring vader some mis- have heen told that the “The javulMe likes vo read what yon write!’ etclajepéd the publisher, closely | gerutiniz a. ‘Whe are you? What ne namo 38 Leo Tolstoi.”' The _astoriigbed and atashed publisher was ins ep the other side of the pedsing the most profuse apologies and emtreating the count to do | him the Giskimgnished honor of permit. | ting. im to puBlish the sketch. Tolstoi | quietly butemad up his coat with tha | manuscriph a his breast pocket, saying: | “You have m9 time, you say, having 59 | many hondeelds of these things in hand. | I must find a publisher who has time, | and one whe will not yeirs a gonaran- tee. Dasvidanya!’’ And the count walk- ed off in big wswal nonchalant manner. —Loudon News HE WANTED TO KNOW. But the Spesimg Editor Found the Ques | : fva be Deep For Him. : 1s this @he place where they answer questions?’ afeed the rough ooking! man as he entered the little back room “There's a man on the staff who! said the sporting editor, ‘ “but he isn't here now. ” “Oh, well, maybe you'll do,” said the stranger. : “We don't amv or verbal questions,’”| protested she eporting editor. “Write | your gueesians owt and send them in. * “It isn't sweh of a gnestion, and I thought | ¥ yon''— “Oh, 1 fen’ Enow where the refer- | ‘ence books are,’ interrupted the mews- | paper inan. : “They woulda't do yon any good any- way,’’ said the stranger. ‘This isn't a book questiam; it's an up to date, mod-' ern one. It's sanely, you understand. ’’ | “Well, them, fire ahead. I may know | something sheut it. '' “It’s aboud dee new woman’ '— Btap there!" cried the sporting edi- | tor. ‘That's elear out of the sporting department. ’’ ~ Y'Nu, it imm’s,”’ protested the stran- ger. ‘The blwsmier girl belongs to that deosn't she?’ “Maybe she de, ’’ replied the sport ing editor. I haudm't thonght of that Ga ahead.’ “Wall, you seg, I'm a street car con- “Yin. “And I weap to bow if the bloomer girl will pet of tho car kward like! the’ -— : j Bus tie meaesing editor had thrown ap both hands #8 cn intimation that the | problem was elear' beyand him. —Chi- | Tae. Banavia Flea. All tourists Mm the highlands know | Banavia. ¥hey may not know why nl lobster is, in tha west highlands, called | “a Banavia flees.” Fuom a book referred | to we gather that a good many years’ ago an American was stopping at the Banavia hotel, and he made himself very dbnoxious by his contemptuous ro- | ‘marks on ®cottizh scenery. ‘Ben Nev- | i8,”' he said, ‘‘do you call that a moun- tain? You should see our mighty Rock- | ies! Loch Litmhe! Do you call that a! lake? You should see our Lake Supe- | rior!” amd ge om. The highland waiter | was exasperatod, and procuring a live lobster he secreted it, in requital of the i 8 ® wrican’s bed. Ho jo insults, in the American's bed. Hardly by the enormous mass of iron on the | had the American gone to sleep when | the lobster caught him firmly by the | toe, and he jumped ont of bed with a yell and rang for the boots. “Boots,” he said solemnly, rubbing his toes as he | spoke, ‘‘you may not have such big! mountains and big lakes here as we | have in the stites, but you have the | most tarnation big fleas I ever experi- ; Shy Great Men. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe tells two new | —one of Hawthorne, of whom such an- | ecdotes are common, and the other of | Irving. Irving, she says, attempted to make. a speech. at a dinner given tc | few words indistinctly lia remarked, “1 | ean’t go om,” amd sat down. Of Haw- thorne’s timidity. she had a glimpse | while calling with her husband on Mrs. Hawthorne in €oncord. While they were | in the parlor they saw a tall, slim man | come down the stairs, and Mrs. Haw- | thorne called out: *‘ Husband, husband! | Dr. Howe and Mrs. Howe are here.’ | | Haavthiorne bolted across the hall and | t out through the door without even look- -ing into the parlor. At the Boarding House. i Boarder— What's that noise out there? | Semebaody beatimg a carpet? ; Landlady's Haugband—No, it's Jones | trying to beat his board bill, and my | wife is eato him. —Detroit Free Press. : : mer. : | up theriveras far as Pittsburg. ‘Know | charge of the wheel of his boat at any | ¢ s lS Ns | hour of the day or night at any psa on | as be Rr ve oldey, and in old age he i goes 11 po pleces, | down a boat may go on ona side of the | piver. Coming back it doesn't go with- | The Book Buyer. | trade, and if there be such a person as | Mulvaney he cannot be. | anecdotes of the sliyness of literary men English un. Oneof ihe oficers Search: {ed out Welch's old mother in her poor, \ wen of the Church of England. MUST KNOW THE STREAM. The Information & Western River Pilot Must Carry In His Head. : At the season of the year when the river excursion business is at ifs height and hundreds of boats ame carrying thousands of pecpla toand fro along the entire length of the Ohio river from | Pittsburg to Cairo many persons who ordinarily never give the subject a thought are impressed with the wonder- ful way in which navigation on our beantifal stream is carried on. The first thing noticed generally 1s the aecnracy with which the pilot handles the boat, avoiding the bars, which are near the surface of the water in the summer, go ing from (me gids of the river to the other, and finally, withemt a jar, land. ing them all safely at their destination. When the excursion. business is over, Lege same men assume sivgilarpozitions on packets and towboats, earrying bun- dreds of tons of freight ed thousands .of bushels of coal on every trip with the game accuracy with which they handled the exenraon steamers during the sam . ' A large number of the pilots ranninz omt of Cincinnati know the river from - here to New Orleans, others from here to Memphis, and others atill to points the river.'’ This phrase means much. | For instance, a man running from here to New Orleans must be able to take the river and on any stage of water | He must be able to tell at a glance actly where the boat is at any 4g ©! this long stretch of 1,513 mites must now every bend and chute. «or by day the different points by which to | steer, such as houses, barns, trees, fences and even haystacks; by night every light placed by the government in con- | spicuous places as well as the hills and their shape. He must know exactly how long to hold the boat to one light or ob- ject before changing to another. When the Mississippi river is reached, a new feature presents itself im the shape of the constantly changing channel. To work here requires more skill and great | er judgment probably than all the rest | i i i of the difficulties combined. Going | in two miles of that place. When these things are appreciated—and they are ‘only a fiw of the things a pilot must know —then it is that the pilot gets! credit for what he does. —Cin®innati | Commervial (dazetta. Kipling’s Mulvaney. The statement published in various, . newspapers to the effect that the orig- | | inal of Mr. Kipling's inimitable Mud- | vuney is now living and tai in ban | Francisen under the pas of Mollanas, has called out a pleasant leiter from the author. It is addressed to the editor of “In. raply to your letter,’’ Mr. Kip- ling writes, ‘1 ean only say that I know nothing of the Private McMauns mentioned in the cutting yeu forward. ~ **At the same time, I should be loath to interfere with a fellow romancer’s Private McManus, and if he believes | a4 stage fright among surgeons,” he ro. plied. "‘Fhere are two kimis of stage | | fright, or, rather, there are two 4 ferent | getaperaneents among doctoss, aad the fright. rlttiengh in itself porhaps. the | same, has a & ferent seeming, ifdctod | as it is hy the anarerial through which it | : iE » A . a eougratulat ry word or two. As he ‘NERVES OF SURGEONS BUFFER STAGE FRIGHT WHEN FAC- | ING A DIPPICULT OPERATION. Two Ways In Which It Affects Them—A Young Pregomii Fir/. . Amputation. Threaded 8 Neadle to Steady Hie Nerves. Operating on a Friend. : “Ix there such a thing as stage fright among Mevgeons?’ a suocessfal New York murgeon was siked. Though the term stage fright with reference to sur- gery was pechaps a misnomer, tae sur goon wnflerstoed the question. Oh, yom, indiend, theve is gach on thing passes. The first is the surgeon 51800 ¢ ur auxiggs to perio no dificakics in the way and. noth but a soccessful termination. Hin rest i= not dlaturbed by reflections upon emn plications which may arise. Everythinz is lovely wmtil the putient is before him. Tien his hand begins to shake if he | | meets with $10 enlties which he had not | eganted npn ; his nerveanineis inoréases | | out caril. Indeed they seem positively t to like it. I think the Americans’ atsi- he hurries, perhaps with a fatal resid’. In the case of tlds man he grows worse “Yee is uk acr temperanent of | this order. From the time this urgeon co. | mpcognizes that an operation is nocossary | there pass through his mind all the | complications which could possibly | come np, and he wonders if thera are pot mow which he has not thoaght of. | He is by no means sanguine of a happy | rasnlt. He fears this and that and the other thing. As the hour appronches he ‘dreads to commence his work more and more. But when he is befcre the sub- ject his mervousness leaves him. He commenees intelligently, reflecting npon what might arise. He does not hurry or get excited, but he is intensely interest ed, wholly absorbed by what he is do- ing. I renvember witnessing an opera- tion hy one ef the most celebrated sur- geons 1 eyer knew. It was a most diffi- cult operation, and the amphitheater | was filled with dactors who hl come to gac it performed. A fer motrents be fore the surgeon was to comrence he was prasented by a friend to wo doe 2 | tors who had come from a distance to see him operate. He bowed very polite ly and spoke a few words. Shortly after that he commenced operating. “The operation was of considerable length, and when it was finished ‘the two gou'léra to whom the surgeon ¥e 0 3 bygriny Lr58 vi dont Bry PE “ry bi re Te 1 did not appear to recognize them, his friend presented them again. He ex pressed his pleasure at meeting them withodt the slightest recollection that ho Kad met them,” “Do you recall the first operation youn ewer performed yourself?’ : “Indeed I remember it very well. IT. ‘was in a hospital where there were 3.500 beds and 33 surgeons in charge. I wa the operatiom; sces | padva ! to know why before they do as they arn | be right, and so I was ready unhesitat- himself to be the origmal of Terence Mulvaney, and can tell tales to back his! If am operation was necessary in any of | the wards, it was our duty to report it claim, we will allow that ha is a good | enough Mulvaney for the Pacific slope ; aud wait developments. ‘“At the same time I confess his seems | ts me rather a daring game to play, for Terence alond of living mon knows the i answer {o the question, ‘How did Dears- - ley come by the palangunin?’ Tt is not one of the gnestions that agitate the eiv- | jlized world, but for my own satisfaction | tion. “Thea,” sax] the sar: 1 come amd operate if Ican. il not, yoo’ eo afraid many of our field efficers would I would give a good deal to have it an- swerod. If Private MceManus can answer | it without evasons or reservations, he | will prove that he has some small right | to be regarded as Malvaney's successor. here is but ous i Terence, and he has never set foot in | America and never will’ | | | | Died With His Chum. In the reminiscences of General Sir - » 3 ov . ' . . : x ‘ i 5 Evelyu Wood, himself a brave English dreaming of i in my sieép. The next soldier, a touching instance of courage ‘and self sacrifice is given. One June day hands and feet were cold. When it caine in 1885 a detachment of English ma- | time to commences the operation, I eonld | { rines was crossing the Woronzow road | only steady my nerves by threading i | to the gargeon in charge, wha then por { formed the operation if he chow. 1 xe ported to my surgeon the necessity of {an amputation of a great toe. The sar goon cane and locked at the man and | . Never let them (the roughs) go away ‘conenrred with my opinion that an on- | putation was necessary. I win directed | to get everything ready for the opera: Never mind if they are bad people, " 1 <5 3 go on and perform the cpenition ¥ | ’ . 3 . Y self. “1 told my yeung assoriat order, and tRey sd: ‘Well yom 3 apa get ready, but he won't come, will have to do the operation yours i ‘And that was the way it tuned ‘Rhe operation was to be at 2 o'cloc what I intended to do in ny mind and day I craild not eas my lencheon. My. { under fire from the Ruossian batteries. | needles. I said: ‘Give rae tho needles to! All 6f the men reached shelter in the | thread I ars very paricetar about my trenches except a seaman, John Blewitt ‘As he was running a terrific TOAr Was | poking at the eve. In afew goconds nmy i . heard. His mates knew the voice of a thread.’ I took aneedle and com menced i huge cannon, the terror of the army, | steady fs i ¢odfld wish. 1 performed the and yelled: “Look out! It*is Whistling Dick!" But at the moments Blewitt was struck | knees aad thrown to the ground. He called tis his special cham: ‘Oh, Welch, save me!” The fuse was hissing, but Stephen | | Welch ran out of the trenches, and seiz- ing the great shell tried to roll it off of his comrade. * ao It exploded with such terrific force | that not an atom of the bodies of Blewitt i or Welch was found. Even in that time | when ¢nch hour had its excitement, | the worst that ean happen to him is af | this deed of heroism stirred the whole | trial for heresy. But if the surgeon In a | home and undertook her support while & | she lived, and the story of his death ‘helped his comrades to nobler concep | tions of a soldier's duty. A Sure Sign, Her Brother—Awfully bad news, sis ter. - The Sister— What? : Her Brother— That count of vonrs ix a bogus one. The Sister—How did sou find that out? Her Brother—I was telling him to- day how hard up I was, and he actually | offered to lend me £100. —Ryracuse Post. At a supper recently given to some ‘vagrant sandwich men in Loadon 7 out of 12 guests had been ordained clergy- Oats were not known to the Hebrews or the Egyptians i i ‘| operation suocessfurly. Afrerthat [ went | | darkness. with the bundle of papers | which betoken her errand. | on performing a great many ¢perations, but it was years before { could take a 1 Lo'elock. “From the conscientious scientific | | hands extended in protecting and bless- mau apprehension never departs, for he | things. And then, again. he takes in | acoentnates the wrong werd or halts in | his lines, the worst that can come 1s a minister proaches heterodox doctrines, dangerous operation makes but tae flightest mistake it may result in death for which there is mo remaly. Mang i and many a tune on the night previcus | i to a serious operstion have I awakened | myself from an anxious, troubled sleep | ‘by performing the -eperation in. my 1 dreams. It is alse very munch more try ing to a surgeon to operute (na friend | ! may save sonls."— New York Sun. than on a stranger. It is hard to tell in 1 this case who i= more to be pitied, the | - surgeon or the patient. I think the lon ger a man operates the less cestain he 18 1 of the outcome of any olotation. A frail little worman that ope wonld almost say a breath of wind wonld blow awav wiil | > Z » * . - $ survive the most paintal and dangerags operation where a rough, stocky and ron bailt peasant woman that one would think could snrvive almost ary possible | i operation will is not, as a rule, c die from something whicn nsidered dengerous.”’ Vee NeW YOK SGLL ~The Dakota river wes 1 by the Indians Chaussan, ‘‘the tambder.” was ono of the young assistant sargeons. | All the gighs before I was 1ehearsing | L sung and seid that you wonld—ROW | here's a chance J | the worst: then perhaps he that would t Jose his life shall save it."’ Ai h 1 = il. | hand obeyed gny will and ‘hecame as | o'clock loncheen if I had so operate at 2 | x . i kuows that it is impossible to foresee all | tin the gloom. his hands'a holy hu:ian life. If anactor | Pariginal of this was dene in black nod become ha A SALVATION LASS. sg MUST OBEY ORD-I'S EVEN TO FACING MURDER IN THE SLUMS. This Comes Hurdor to the American Than to the English Soldier—The Romance of the Ftolem Anzel Which Is Exnected to "Co ne Baek With a Story. : ““ Americans take less kindly to dis- eipline of the Army than the English do,’ said Capta'n Elma Vickery of the Salvation Army. Captain Vickery is a Bosionicn aud has been canfideritial greretiy to Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth since Mrs. Booth first came to Ameriea. “Jug what does ‘discipline of the Ariny' mean?’ was asked of her. “Doing am one 1s told—ihedienes 1 without question, whieh is the duty of every solaier in tee nies ef the world. digginlins ie a wondenfnl training (LiFeltill 1S a wollen training, rediiicen watching its effet upeom tiomisds,. OF conrse ohadmenes 18 A wit, like faith, that grows mors. and ve exopeising it. Now, in the case ricans we find always much dis- position to question. They always want wid. It becomes nead{ul to explain ali the reasons very fully te thesn, While English people accept directions with- tnde in this respect is doe to the pro- pensity of all my country people to seek to impress themselves individually npon their environment, whatever and wher- ever it may happen to be. DidI feel in this way myself? No, but I will tell you why not. I had the greatest admi- ration for and faith in Mrs. Booth, and as I was entirely under her direction the inflaence of her personality subjected me completely. I folt she must always ingly to carry out all her commands. When a Salvationist is not sustained by this strong personal feeling for the efii- cer whose orders must be obeyed, it & sometimes not easy to sabmit-—when one ‘WATER FOWER. 2, It In » Large Way. ol The standard American method of utilizing a large amonnt of water power has hitherto been to distribute the wa- ter to the several consumers or mill owners by means of a system of Lead races, so called, with facilities for ite discharge at a lower level, to va utibized as the owner or lessees saw fit, and gen- erally on his own premises. This led to long head eana¥y and to in<ignificant tail races, whereas the Niagara planteon- gists of a commen tail race, a mile and a half long, with comrarativel cant head races. The old tise water power compan gold or leased the right to draw a definite grantity of wate af defmed timex, with the privilege of dis chargimg it at a lower level and the “mill owner did tho rest, whereas at charge a definite quantity of water into the tail race tunnel, with the mr vila of drawing this quoaniity from the head eanal, or from the river. Int over and above this the produ ipower —may be contracted for at Niagura Falls, deliv- “ered on the shaft. : Th create a large gronp of mill sites of the older sort thers was neccseayy, in the fisst instance, » large, continuous purpose. If this cond not be benght ap secretly, and in largs blocks, the whole water power enterprise would fail to several sneh enterprises came into béimg to primarily buy trasts of land sch as have been deseribad. This was done by establishing central power tations nedr the dam, or head canal, and then trans mitting the pewer produced, instead of the water to produne it, to the consn- ‘mers or mill owners Up to within, say, plished by means ¢f wire rope frans- of the utilization of a large water pow is told to go out and call War €rys, for | A he zo : instance. That is what I have to No this | *® therefore alreacy in existence, any afternoon down in the slams. You see, | are building, but among them w»ii ne. I have on my slum ¢lothes,”” an old | ene is probably sn celebrated and is st calico frock and a dejected looking straw | bonnet. “The slam work,’ continoved Captain Vickery, * safeguard. It keeps us downto the lavel whers we feel therd 138 most need to do | God's work. Mrs. Booth says the great | danger in this country for the Army | lies in its tendency to work upward | among the higher classes. We are sent | to the lost sheep. To reach them the methods often condemned and génerally misanderstood ars the most eficacions.”’ In suorors of thera methods Captain Vickery produced ‘Orders and Regula- tions Fer Field Officers,” the handbook | of tactics which is provided for the guidance of all Salvationists im eom- mand. It is a rather ponderous volume, | , speed reaches 38 or 116. 4 feet per sesond. ‘bound in scarlet. The contents are care- fully indexed, and there seem to be in- " onds, the length 400 or 425 feet. and gtructions set doawvn for every possible contingency. Page 254 treats of ‘‘Roughs—How to | Reach Them.’ This is part of the eounsel given : “Be friendly with them. Make them i feel that you care for them. Make every mesting, 2s far as may be, interesting | to them. | want things to be condueted without Jot the precise poop, who Jaise or excitement, go eliewhera for their sermons, psalms and proprieties. without some kind word from you. The Samar tan woman at the well was py } * § 1 1: 3 i} » # very donatinl ha of character Iam have been ashamed to he sol SPEAKIRG {tn her in pnblie, but the Master was nod: v > : i 3 above uoticing hey The possilility of violence at: the "| hands of the rough element is noted in i these words: ‘Bat what if they kill you? “Wall, you must die. Yon have often 3 1.3 Make ap your mind to Captain Vickery is a rather Helieate looking young woman, with big, ear- nest eves. a lovely smile and low, sweet ¥ }4 | voice. As she spake of selling War Crys in the shams it was impossible not to associate her with the pietnrs on the wall above where she was sitting. It represented a Salvation lassie coming down a dismal, narrow street in the Every line of the slender figure and ‘delicate face extresses the brave constan - ey of the maiden. Beliind her, with fag. follows an angel, the source of Light Captain Vickery explained that the white by a well known magazine lines slight damage to his reputaiiom. If a | trator, Miss (iA. Davis, who presext- ed it to Mm Booth. - A plate was made from the picture to be used for the eust- ern supplement of The War Cry. As the ! picture was on its way back to Mrs, t Booths aftire 1 5 be restored to {ts place above her desk it was stolen off the ex press wagon. A rewird is now offered for its restoration, and the slum visitors gre instructed to search the pawnshops, ' x +f wm eomvinerda tha our angel will viy as With a story.” said Captain Vickery ‘Even a stolen anged Positively No Credit. “f trust,’ began tie seedy custinner argumentatively El dot. vatport cisively Somehow the conversation languished after that. — Albany Argus. ded the prover doe- A Mesallinnee, Shei the it a miesalliance? He— Decided ls quarter of a milion, and the coust owes three times as much as that — London Tit-Bits, : ; eo ) RENCE : aunt's relatives consider The gir] haz enly a th | Magazine. ‘is onr great stronghold and | er a great impotas Mory snoh phate tracting the atfantion of all inedlBgent raen as this at Niagera Falle.—Ohetfbr's BIG OCEAN WAVES. Careful Pata Ehew Thom to Fe Je @ver Thirty-two Feet Higa. An article queted in Current Betors ture gives this imteresting information on ocean waves Ir. G. fchoty, as the result of studying the fora and height of the waves of the sea, claims that nn- der a moderate hree ze their velooiey wag 24.6 feet por second, or 12.8 miles an hour, which is hut, the speed off » mod- ern sailing vessel : As the wind rises the size and speed their length rises to 260 feet and $heir Waves the period of which is mee soc- the speed 28 nsuticnl miles per hoew are produeed omly in storms. During a southeast orm in {he southern Afamtic > he measured waves 800 feat long, and this was not a maximum, for ga lnakeade 2% degrees south aud lopgiitilo ie de- grees east ha obsorvad waves of 5 seo ends’ period, whith we ro 1,139 feet long, with a velauity ot 8.7 fded per seeand, or 16% rartical miles pn how. Dr. Schott dees not think shat the MAXMuoIe height of the waves is gery great. Some olwervers have estimated it at 30 or £0 feat in a wind of tae fee represented by 11 on the Reanimt sea ay the highest number of whichis 12, PITS | Dr. Scott's mipximam is just 43 faa He bedieves that in grat tempests waves of more than 60 fest are ype, snd that even those of 30 fou vp banal In tha ordinary trade winds the height ix 5 3 or 8 feet. This rato of lw ight fo ongth ~ iz abont 1.93 na modeanin waite, 1 in a strong wind nd LIT 18 a sear i 4 x 13 3 LP 3 & yo from which 11 follows taal bie Maslin: : y a cEh wrk ¥ x gt tion of the wave 13 repectivaly abo © 10, 11 degrees. The ratio of the heap of the waves 86 the force ¢f wm wind varies greatly, Double Duty. : A capital stary was gros fi Id of the Rev. Thomas Fanr, oc LE Laser ance orator, who vas woll know i in whe early wistory of the Wroming valley. He was a somewiat etaonire mn, has possessed of rersariany [riek wits, which stood him a goud Stead on any occasions. : - i sta ring the Cl : entibed in cue of the regime: t= sty raived in the valley and sorved as chaplain.’ One day in the very Lorcesti« "fhe hak frout of too yeni A boa tle a major rode nr ment. and. seeinjr warhe” A 82 the Leud of the rans quired 1h 2th Ge t } ! : IE ag EW napa ri awed 3 ‘What sm I ¢ atanch old manister cuuckly, Tim eles ing the hearts of the Lrave and wash ing the heels of the cowards! He was evidently performing’ this double task so well and th rochly wat the major condd find po fanic wiih hin and les him to his sell hproiited chisrge. —Yourh's Compaaion. . The Same Thing, Maior John 3 service Magazine 1 1 betwen | tara ke saw the waters Zaiek employ * I OX TEPe mi thd Re had I when {He tirana the : Trying It On. m. (disuprointed In over—Well, his settles Hi. Por the remainder of my days 1 aad! live the bife of a hens. 2 Jack—Dun't say thai, old man. Why ‘BOL. COMPrMINISS 04. BRHVING over to Bn w York Herald Ameriesn and Evropenn Mothods of Dring iv Pwiemifle Niagara Falls the right is leased to dis hody of lemd, properly located for the come to fruition. Ia Enrope, however, in spite of the inability of the projectors five years, this hid alwars been aecom- naissions of power, and it is eusy £0 gee that the invention of the clectzicul trans- mission of powar would give this form. of the waves increas In astrong Breese | ab a Ie SE Bs pgp isn mass ABE) Fug i l id, SoS a a Sm ps a Cn 35
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