The New York Bible Society last
year distributed 60,124 Bibles and
Testaments in this city. Some idea ol
the cosmopolitan sides of the greater
pity may be gathered from the fac
that the books distributed were in
twenty-four different languages, not
dialects, but basic languages.
A man in Paris finds a profitable
business in collecting bad debts by
stopping at the debtor's with a wagon,
around the top of which are these
words: "This buggy only stops iu
front of the houses of people who will
not pay their debts." Everybody, ami
particularly business people, dread
this man's buggy so much that they
pay promptly.
The editor of the Murfroesborc
(Tenn.) News thus accounts for hard
limes: "We let our timber rot and
buy fencing. We throw away oui
ashes and grease, and buy soap; w<
raise dogs and buy hogs; we raisi
weeds and buy vegetables; we catcl
five-cent fisli with four-dollar rods
we build school houses and send on:
children off to be educated, and, lastly
we send our boys out with a forty
dollar gun and a ten-dollar dog to bun
ten-cent birds."
"Dnm-dum"' is the curious name o:
n new bullet of which the British Gov
eminent has been making a test. Ex
periments would seem to justify tin
title: for this small-arm missile pro
duces u wound which is more fatal an<
terrible than the old bullet of si owe
velocity. A bullet that makes a large,
exit than entrance, even after wreak
ing havoc within, would certain!;
strike a soldier dumb-dumb. Ii
America has recently been invented
however, a secret solution by whiel
leaden bullets may be coated so as ti
render them superior to steel-casec
bullets. At a distance of thirty yard,
some of these coated balls pierced ai
ax blade and others bored through i
flat-irou.
According to the New York Tribune
Mr. Lorrillard, the rich New Yorke;
who lias been living in England som
years, "seems to be talking at ran
dom. His assertion that Englishmec
will not invest money iu America ever
at twenty per cent, income is wild,
and his prediction of a currency
panic here is still wilder. Is he await
of the fact that gold in the Bank o
England would be below the dangei
line to-day but for our leniency, anc
that foreigners will probably owe ui
on trade balance at the expiration o!
the year $o00,000,000? Is he no!
aware that we sell to Europe what slit
must have, and buy from her nothing
that we must have? Political econ
oiuy is not taught on English ract
tracks."
Savs Harper's Weekly: "While th<
English language is spreading over
the face of the globe wherever liberty
is possible, it is sad to mark the ap
parent incapacity of the noble Germar
tongue to conquer new territory oi
even to maintain itself within its owi
legal limits. In Bohemia it is rapidly
disappearing. In Hungary it has been
exterminated within the last fifty years
The eastern provinces of Prussia have
been in German hands more than ll)(j
years, vet the people there are as lit
tie Prussian to-day as when Kosciusko
laid down his life for personal liberty
The Danish provinces were conquered
more than thirty years ago, yet the new
geuerntiry speaks Danish and hates
the very name of Prussia. In Alsace
Lorraine, men who were babies ic
1870 have now served their time in tlu
German army, and are nominally Ger
man subjects: yet the German lan
guage finds there a resistance insur
mountable, even with the aid of a vas
army of spies, gendarmes, officials
and 60,000 troops. A large Massa
chusetts manufacturer passed througl
the province this summer, and had oc
casiou to visit a machine shop ai
Muhlhauseti, employing some 8001
workmen. As an American the man
ager treated him with frankness, and
gave him aii opportunity to convince
himself that the workmen were Freud
at heart in spite of the years that art
past. The Baltic provinces of Bussis
were German in 1891, but since then
Buss ideation has set in with a thor
oughness comparable only to the South
African rinderpest, and before lonp
German linguistic expansion on thai
frontier will be as effectually checked
in it is in Bohemia, in Posen, in Al
sace-Lorraine and on the borders ol
Denmark. Nor is the German lan
guage faring better in the German
colonics, for the simple reason that
German emigrants prefer almost any
colonial Hag to their own. The official
press of Germany clamors for moie
warships, iu order to protect alleged
German colouists in far-away tropical
swauip.s. Territorially, Germany has
almost 1,000,000 square miles of col
ony, but land without population is
like a harbor with no commerce."
, jjl
WHERE IS IT?
"Too much money In the country"—
That's what some folks say;
Wish they'd please locate it for us—
Send it down this way!
If they've got it. and don't prize it,
Reckon we could utilize it!
"Too much money in the country"—
Talkin' jest like that!
Wish they'd tell us in a whisper
Where that money's at!
If they'll tell us where they hide it
We'll be wllllu' to divide it!
"Too much money iu the country
Everywhere you walk!"
Wish they'd stop their tongues a minute,
Let that money talk!
If they've got it. and don't prize it,
Reckon we could utilize it!
—Atlanta Constitution.
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ffcai , jV E had settled down
to housekeeping in
. V the town of D ,
where Jack, who
i was a lawyer,hoped
M to win fame and
gk fortune,
f* Our house wns
large and old-fash-
ioned.andal though
built half a century
ago was still iii
yt good repair. A
broad, well-kept
lawn sloped away to a shaded carriage
drive on the west. On the opposite
side, the flower beds bloomed blight
and beautiful, a genuine delight to nie
from the appearance of the first snow
drop to the last chrysanthemum. A
heart-shaped bed of pansies, purple,
white, velvety black and yellow, looked
out with old-fashioned primness and
dignity_from the centre of the front
lawn at the passersby. At the back of
the house were the kitchen garden,
with its trim box hedges, and the old
ham or carriage house, a sorrowful
remuaut of better days. The latter
was now untenanted save by a few de
predatory swallows and a family of yel
low-jackets, who had taken up their
abode in the vacant hay loft.
Our family, besides Jack and my
self, consisted of two boarders, Mr.
Prince and Mrs. Fellis and our two
servants. Mr. Prince, who was get
ting on in years, was extremely digni
fied, always dressed in respectable
black; he came and went about the
house as he pleased. He had been
with us for some time and Jack and I
had become very fond of hira. He was
quiet and good-natured, went on oc
casional errands, and never failed each
morning to carry in the mail and lay it
beside Jack's plate at the breakfast
table. He had, however, two fault 3,
which in my eyes were very grave.
He would never wipe his feet before
entering the house, andalthough Iliad
admonished him several times for his
lack of thought. I had been unable to
break up his careless liabit. His
favorite lounging place was the broad
Turkish couch, with its numerous pil
lows, which occupied oue corner of
our cosy library. He would stop in
the doorway, look cautiously about
him, and finding the room tenantless,
would throw himself down among the
pillows; never failing to rest his tin
wiped feet upon the prettiest oue of
the number.
One day, finding him there, my
wrath overcame my courtesy nnd I un
ceremoniously dragged the pillow
from beuenth his feet. My heart
smote me immediately for my harsh
ness as he awoke, left the couch and
walked out of the room without even a
glance iu my direction. His wounded
feelings soon healed, for a day or two
later I found hiin comfortably en
sconced in his clil place.
Our other boarder was a pretty
young widow, Mrs. Fellis by name.
Jack had known her before we wore
married, but somehow I never felt
jealous of this acquaintance. She was
gentle and affectionate but excessively
nervous. Her dress was always of
the softest gray. Black she detested,
as it was decidedly unbecoming to her
small figure. She would sit for hours
iu a large old easy-chair in the library,
| where she and I spent most of our
; time. X always fancied that she had
1 a good voice, though I had never heard
! her sing. She had an exasperating
habit of humming a certain monotonous
j tune in u low key at all hours of the
I Jay.
Toward Jack and myself she was
j friendly and affectionate, though never
demonstrative; but when in company
with Mr. Priuce she preserved a frigid
dignity, and met all his overtures of
friendship with n cold rebuff. She
had peculiar fancies and queer fond
nesses for odd places. The old barn
was a favorite haunt, and here she
would spend hours at a time, revelling
apparently in its solitude and dilapi
dation. It was untenanted, as I have
said, except for the swallows and
wasps who built their nests beneath
its rotting eaves. Occasionally a tramp
would stray in under cover of dark
ness ami claim its hospitality for the
night. What Mrs. Fellis fancied in
the place we never knew, hut Jack
and I seemed powerless to prevent j
her from going there.
It was at the close of a hot August
afternoon. Mrs. Fellis anillsat upon !
the broad piazza behind the thick
curtain of woodbine, attempting to
keep cool, ft was too warm even for
conversation. I dozed over my hook
at one end of the piazza and Mrs. Fel
lis nodded drowsily at the other. Mr.
Prince lay stretched at full
length beneath one of the huge
maples on the lawn. He was in a
bad humor occasioned by the appear
ance of a tramp et the gate half an
hour previous. Mr. Prince was dis
tinctively snobbish. To poorly dressed
people he was barely civil, while
tramps were his special aversion. He
had dispatched this last, specimen
with small ceremony, and now lay
panting from his exertions.
The heat was intolerable, not a
breath of air was stirring. The leaves
drooped, dusty and motionless, and
over all hung that peculiar, ominous
calm which betokens the approach of
an electrical storm. Soon we heard
mutterings of distant thunder, and in
a few moments the storm burst upon
us. The rain fell in torrents, the
wind roared furiously, and blinding
Hashes of lightning followed each
other with startling rapidity.
At the first sharp peal of thunder,
Mrs. Pel lis, whose nerves were never
strong, and were now completely shat
tered, gave one wild glance around,
sprang from the piazza and tied to the
barn. In vain I called to her. No
sooner had she disappeared within its
doors than above the howl of the wind
and roar of the thunder came a loud
crash, followed by screams ol' distress.
The old barn had fallen in. Paral
yzed with fear at the thought of Mrs.
Fellis's fate. I was about to rush alter
her when Mr. Prince, who had taken
refuge on the piazza when the storm
broke, dashed by me and disappeared
among the ruins. Very carefully he
clambered over loose boards and raft
ers, and in a moment or two reap
peared, carrying the much frightened
but unhurt Mrs. Fellis. He deposit
ed liis burden at my feet and once
more returned to the ruins.
Satisfying myself that no harm had
come to the little widow, and quieting
her fears as well as I could, I saw her
safely seated in her favorite armchair,
and throwing on a cloak, the storm
having now abated, I went in search
of Mr. Prince. I found him furiously
tugging at what seemed to be a bundle
of rags pinned under the falling tim
bers. A few more vigorous tugs and
the bundle was dislodged, and there
before us, white, and trembling with
fright, stood the tramp whose appear
ance early in the afternoon had roused
Mr. Prince's wrath, and whose
screams of terror we had heard above
the crash of the falling building.
Finding he was unhurt, and not liking
the attitude which his rescuer now
assumed toward him, he picked his
way carefully over the debris, and lost
110 time in getting clear of the prem
ises.
When Jack returned an hour later
I narrated the stirring event of the
afternoon, proudly telling of Mr.
Prince's coolness and bravery and
Mrs. Fellis's narrow escape from a
tragic death. Jack listened with de
lighted interest, and when I had fin
ished caught Mrs. Fellis iu his arms,
patted the hero of the hour lovingly
on his shaggy black head, and vowed
that ho should have the handsomest
collar the town could produce; for if
ever a dog deserved to be rewarded
Prince did, and if Mrs. Fellis failed to
love and respect him forever after, she
would indeed be an ungrateful cat.
Wls E WORDS.
Do good constantly, patiently and
wisely, and you will ntver have cause
to say that life was not Worth living.
Do not esteem too lightly the small
things of life, for the whole universe
of God is made up of insignificant
atoms.
Life is rather the state of embryo,
a preparation for life. A man is not
completely born till he has passed
through death.
Work touches the key of endless
activities, opens the infinite, and
stands awe-struck before the im
mensity of what there is to do.
Obstacles which seem to hinder our
course afi'ord the best opportunities
for developing the courage and ac
cumulating the power which we need
to pursue it.
Affectation in any part of our car
riage is lighting up a caudle to our
defects, and never fails to make us
taken notice of, either as wanting
sense or sincerity.
How mankind defers from day to
day the best it can do and the most
beautiful things it can enjoy, without
thinking that every day may be the
last one, and that lost time is lost
eterniiy!
It is the united action of the brain
and the eye that forms the action to
close observation. We must think
about what we see if it is to be a per
manent impression. When the mind
is vacant the eyes are robbed of half
their value.
True piety is of the heart rather
than of pretension. The closest stud
ents of human nature have found that
it is the tragedies and sorrows of life
that are the real tests of religion.
Most anybody will do that which is
profitable. Few are faithful to their
own shame and loss.
Tvudall once concluded an address
to the students of a London university
thus: '"Take care of your health.
Imagine Hercules as an oarsman in a
rotten bout: What can he do but by
the very force of every stroke expedite
the ruin of his craft ? Take care of
the timbers of your life boat."
TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE.
The two kinds of poopl< on earth, I ween,
Are the people who lift and tlio people
who lean.
Wherever you go you will find the world's
masses
Are always divided in just these two classes.
And, oddly enough, you will find, too, I
ween,
There is only one lifter to twenty who lean.
In which class are you? An- vou easing the
load
Of overtaxed lifters who toil down the road?
Or are you a leaner, who lets others bear
Your portion of labor and worry and cars?
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
SHARP INDIAN PACKERS.
CARRYING MINERS' OUTFITS OVER
THE MOUNTAINS TO THE KLONDIKE.
strilthiu Coaliiiiw* of tho Native Alaskan*
Who Kiikiikh in tho TrniiHportiitlon
JuslneMl>t>gA 104 Assistant*—l'nckerß
Are Untrustworthy and Hard Traders.
Arrangements for packing are raaile
(at Dyea) with Isaac, "Chief for the
Chilkoots," as the sign reads above
| his cabin, but outside men can bo
hired. The Indian men's dress is
picturesque. Some wear the gayly
colored Mackinaw jacket; others a
blue denim garment, half shirt, half
coat; others still a loose coat of blan
ket, the sleeves or a patch across the
back being made of the striped ends,
and as the blankets used by these In
dians are of the most brilliantly as
sorted colors, tlie color effects are dis
tinctly striking. For head-gear they
wear little common felt hats or bright
wool toques or a colored kerchief. All
possess rubber hip-boots, but when
packing they wear only moccasins
outside of "Siwash" or blanket socks,
and sometimes an oversock to the
knee. Indian fashion, dogs and chil
dren, men and women, crowd into
their dirty abodes, which smell of
spoiled fish.
The dogs are not so numerous as I
expected, nor yet so quarrelsome and
noisy. The Indians train them not so
much for sledge-drawing as for pack
ing small loads 011 their backs, and it
is not unusual to see an Indian with
one or two medium-sized dogs, with a
little pack on each side, sagging near
ly to the ground, trotting along with
bis luncheon.
When an Indian is packing he ties
his single small blanket upon his back
under the pack. A stout stick to bal
ance with and to assist in climbing
completes his outfit. Twenty or thirty
Indians will take up packs and put a
whole outfit over at one lick. They
are not trustworthy aud are wholly
unscrupulous. They do nothing even
for each other without a price, and I
have carefully noticed that they make
no distinction between themselves and
whites even for the same service. If
one engages them at a cortain price
and some one offers them more, they
lay down their packs and take up the
new ones; or if ou the trail they hear
of a rise in the scale, they stop and
strike for the higher wages. Some of
theiu speak good English. Indians
from Sitka say these fellows are wild
Indians, and look upon their ignor
ance of letters with some contempt.
But if ignorant of letters, they are
shrewd, hard traders, who are making
money fast aud saving it. They have
a strong predilection for gold, hut at*
the same time, as our silver friends
will be pleased to know, silver is in no
less favor with them. In fact, it seems
to he hard money they want. I knew
an Indian to declaro solemnly lie could
not change a five dollar bill, showing
the only two silver dollars he had.
But when a gold five was offered in
stead, he fished a whole handful of
silver out of his pocket. They are
taking all the small change out of cir
culation. They come to the traders
several times a day, make a trifling
purchase to get change, and then store
it away. The small-i-hauge problem is
indeed a serious one. There is not
enough small currency in this country
to do business with. The gamblers
and the Indians are getting it all.—
Harper's Weekly.
Hydrophobia Without a llite.
The death of Mile. Sautasiero from
rabies should be a lesson to ladies who
kiss lap dogs aud let them lick their
faces. Mile. Sautasiero is the daugh
ter of the former chef of Queen Isa
bella, who keeps a well-known res
taurant where one can have Spanish
and Neapolitan dishes. The only
daughter, aged twenty, had a hull ter
rier named Boh, of whom she was very
fond. Bob two months ago fell ill.
His mistress nursed liirn and lavished
caresses on liim. He showed his
gratitude in lickiug her face and
hands. He then ran away from her
and howled if she went near him. The
poor brute may have felt an irresisti
ble desire to bite, and so wanted not
to have that easy opportunity. How
ever, he grew worse. He bit, some
days ago, two customers and a man
who was furnishing ice. They
went to the Pasteur Institute,
and seem to be doing well, but Mile.
Sautasiero, whose foot lie attempted
to bite, fell ill last week. She thought
she had a cold, and kept on saying:
"Boh did not bite me." Certainly
his teeth had not pierced the shoe
leather. Fever supervened, and then
convulsions. The doctor said she was
suffering from rabies. When her
mother went to kiss her she cried,
"You must not, I only kissed Bob,
and see, I have this distemper." For
two days her convulsive state was
dreadful. The third day was quiet
till just toward the end, when conges
tion supervened suddenly and she
died. No trace of a bite could be
found on her foot or any other part of
her body. The dog's saliva, it is
thought, must have been absorbed as
lie licked her face. —Paris Telegram to
the London News.
Where Mimlachei* Are Unxafo.
Men exposed to the rigors of tlie
Alaska winter never wear mustaches.
Tliey wear full beards to protect the
throat, and face, but keep the upper
lip clean shaven. The moisture from
the breath congeals so quickly that a
mustache becomes imbedded in a solid
cake of ice and the face is frozen be
fore a man knows it.
A Muslriil Upholsterer.
Signer Tosti, the Anglo-Italian com
poser, after a hard day's work, either
teaching his many royal pupile or of
composing, seeks recreation at his fa
vorite amusement of upholstering.
The greater part of the chairs, and the
whole of his wife's boudoir have thus
been upholstered by Signor Tosti.
BEE MOUNTAIN.
Crevasxo Filled With Honey and Occupied
by Hnakes.
About twenty miles from Cleburne,
oil the Brazos river, is Bee mountain.
On one side it rises several hundred
feet above the country r.round and the
other fronts the river and rises per
pendicularly for 500 feet. On tlio
perpendicular side are several crevas
ses or caves, in which places are mil
lions of bees and tons upon tons of
honey. It is impossible to scale the
dizzy heights from below, although
the rocks are wornout places that look
like steps had been made to climb
this mountain ages and ages ago, and
it is believed by some that aborigines
scaled this cliff to procure honey for
their primitive meals.
Within the memory of man, how
ever, parties have been daring enough
to have themselves suspended with a
rope and let down to where the bees
enter the rocky bluff, aud the tales
they told of the vast amount of honey
would sound like a story from the
"Arabian Nights."
One man, a cowboy, who worked on
the old Abe Wilson ranch, whioh was
quite famous here in an early day,
had the temerity to have some of his
co-laborers let him down with a rope.
Where the bees entered, he said, tho
crevasses were not large enough for a
man to enter, but a little south of that
point was a hole about four feet high
and eight or teu feet wide, which he
entered. What he saw simply struck
him dumb with amazement. There,
hanging from the top of the cave,
which seemed to extend for a quarter of
a mile hack, were great combs of honey
twenty or thirty feet long and from
four to six feet wide. They looked
like a great lot of fine silk lace curtains
hanging in some grand old hallway.
The humming of the bees sounded
like the noise of many spindles in a
great factory. He had a hunting
knife with him and sliced off a piece
of the honey aud ate it, and was just
about to slice off more to bring to bis
companions on the mountain above,
and who were waiting to pull him up,
when his attention was drawn to an
other direction. On listening closely
ho detected a hissing sound and one
unlike* that made by the bees. Pre
sently, from (he direction from whence
the sound proceeded, he saw at least
100 serpents coming toward him, their
little beadlike eyes shining in the
glare of the torch he carried. To use
n street phrase, he "tore oat," leaving
his hunting knife and the Klondike of
honey behind. When his friends had
pulled him up he had fainted from the
fright. When he recovered he told
them what he had seen. At first they
laughed at him. but finally it became
an accepted fact that in Bee mountain
there are tons of money, but no one
since that time has ever been reckless
enough to venture in that cave, where
not only millions of bees and tons of
honey are to be found, but where a
den of serpents greets the intruder.
Alderman Tom Childress has a sum
mer home whioh adjoins this mountain,
and is going to tunnel into the side oi
it and try to arrange to exterminate
the serpents and have this wonder to
exhibit to his friends.—Galveston
News.
Oiesoii's Christian Martyr*.
"Eleven years of tlie united life of
Dr. and Mrs. Whitman had passed,"
writes George Ludington Weed of Dr.
Whitman's patriotic achievement in
saving Oregon to the United States, in
the Ladies' Homo Journal. "In all
his labors she had been an inspiration
and a support, sometimes the only one.
But the life of romantic beginning was
to have a tragic ending. Whatever
the causes of that endiug, direct or
remote, or whatever their relative
force, the result was one of the sad
dest in American history. In it Dr.
aud Mrs. Whitman must ever be re
cognized as the Christian patriot
martyrs of Oregon. The fatal day was
November 29, 1847, just half a cen
tury ago. The full tale of its
horrors need not here be told,
though tho iucidents are at hand. The
partly-lifted curtain reveals enough—
Dr. Whitman's fall by the tomahawk
at the age of forty-five, and Mrs. Whit
man's by the rifle at the age of thirty
nine. There was a shallow grave in
vaded by wolves, and then a deeper
one, which until now has been with
out a monument. Twelve others of
their household, butchered with them,
share their grave. But the memory
of the long-forgotten hero is being re
vived. A bronze statue is being
erected near the spot in the region of
his triumph aud martyrdom. As in
palace car I was hurried through it,
where his lone wagon had tediously
sought the way, he seemed every
where present, and each mountain a
monument recording his deeds.
"The Oregon saved from falling in
to the possession of the English by
Dr. Whitman's heroic efforts means
the Washington, Oregon and Idaho ol
to-day, a territory of two hundred and
seventy-one thousand square miles,
equal to New England, New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, West Virgiuiaaud
three Connecticuts."
Wild Animals in India.
Very liberal rewards are given to
the natives of India for the slaying of
wild animals and venomous snakes.
But in a recent report of the Govern
ment of the Central Provinces it ap
pears that the number of wild animals
for the destruction of which rewards
were paid increased from 1471 to
156G, while the number of snakes
killed fell from (1845 to 1837. Of tlid
cattle killed, tigers were responsible
for 7(14, and panthers for 694. Thd
number of tigers killed during thi
year was 323, as compared with 225
in the previous year. This iucrensd
in tiger killing is said to be due main-'
Iv to the greater activity on the pari
of European and American sportsmen!
and, perhaps, also to their improved
j marksmanship.
I PSALM FOR THE BIBLE,
POSSIBLE RESULT OF A DISCOVERY
IN AN EGYPTIAN RUIN.
Papyrus Hook* Which Contained
the realtor Complete—One I'sulm
Which IH Absent From the King
JmneA Vemlon ot the Bible.
A new psalm may be added to tlie
Bible now in use in Christian
, churches. It will be known as the
! 151 st.
The new psalm has just been dis
i covered as the result of exploration?
made in Egypt. Two years ago, while
certain Egyptian peasants were dig
ging up and carrying away the lighl
| soil which is so much valued foi
i dressing, from the ruins of an ancient
; Coptic church, their tools struck o
slab of stone. The slab was pried up,
and it was found to be the cover of a
stone box. In the box were a lot ol
books wrapped in coarse linen cloth.
The books were of papyrus, but
■ bound in linen covers.
[ Those who found the ancient papy
rus books sold them to the British
Museum, where they have been the
subject of closo investigation. They
were found to contain a copy of the
Psalter written in Coptic, the language
spoken by the Egyptians during the
time of Christ. Not only was the
Psalter complete, but it contained one
psalm which does not appear in the
King James version of the Bible. It
is known as the 151 st psalm and reads
as follows:
1. I was small amont* my brethren, and
youngest in my father's house. I tended
my father's sheep.
2. My hands formed a musical instru
ment and iny lingers tuned a psaltrv.
3. And who shall tell my Lord? The
Lord Himself, He Himself hears.
4. He sent forth His angel and took me
from my father's sheep, and Ho annolnted
me with the oil of His anointing.
5. My brothers were handsome and tall;
but the Lord did not take pleasure in
them.
(. I went forth to meet the Philistine;
and ho cursed mo by his idols.
7. But I drew his own sword and be
headed him, and removed reproach from
the children of Israel.
This psalm iH supposed to have been
written by David after his combat with
Goliath. Its beauty aud vigorous
language resemble that of the others
in the Psalter.
If you will turn to your Bible you
will find that the Book of Psalms con
tains only 150 of the Hebrew hymns.
The new psalm just discovered may
add another to the list. Many bibli
cal scholars have previously contended
that this 151 st psalm should be in
cluded iu the version used in the
churches. Theologians in former
times had disputes upon the prints
and it was finally agreed that it should
be treated as spurious.
But this discovery may lead to a
general acceptance of its authenticity
by all who revere the Bible. For the
manuscript is the oldest complete
manuscript of any biblical book known
to be in existence. Its exact date is
difficult of determination, but it is
certainly earlier than the seventh cen
tury.
Dr. E. A. Wallis Budge, keeper ol
the Egyptian and Assyrian antiqui
ties, in the British Museum, has trans
lated the Psalms from the ancient
Coptic, and is now prepariug a his
tory or the manuscript which will he
published by Kegan Paul, French,
Trubner & Company, of London. Dr.
Budge, whose reputation as an Egyp
tologist is world-wide, is confident ol
the authenticity and antiquity of the
book. In his preface he recounts the
history of the discovery and tells of
his reasons for belief in their truth.
"That these volumes had lain iu the
box for several hundred years," says
Dr. Budge, "there is no possibility of
doubtiug, but there is no way of as
certaining the exact period when they
were first placed in it. It is the opin
ion fof some that the church and
monastery which once stood upon the
site where the books were found had
been iu ruins for some centuries, and
the general appearance of the place
supports this view. Thero is no rea
sou for supposing that the books were
buried along with the body of any ec
clesiastical official or monk, for it is
certain that they had been expressly
written for use iu the church of the
monastery, aud that they were not the
private property of any member of it.
"It would seem that at some period
of trouble or persecution an official of
the church carefully prepared the box
in the event of its ever being neces
sary to hide books, and that when the
need arose he wrapped these volumes
in linen with the greatest care, and
(laid them in it. Their wonderful state
of preservation testifies to the wisdom
of the choice of a hiding place and the
thoroughness with which he carried
out the self-appointed task.
"The matter of dating the Psalter
Ks one of considerable difficulty, for
we have no fixed points iu Coptic
paleography to serve for purposes of
comparison. The shape and size and
general appearance of the pages of the
older portion in every respect suggest
that the volume cannot have been
written after the end of the seventh
century r>f our era, hut it seems to me
that the date when it was written lies
nearer the beginning than the end of
that century; it may. indeed, quite
well be placed at the end of the sixth
century.
"When the book had been in use
for some time it was put aside for some
purpose, probably because of its de
fective vondition, and it was not
brought into use again until after it
had been repaired and rebound; the
stylo of the covers, I am informed,
suggests the eleventh or twelfth cen
tury as the period of the general re
pair of the book."—Chicago Times-
Herald.
During the past year 1920 acres ot
laud were planted to canaigree in Ari
zona, and the acreage will be much
larger the coming year.
WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE.
He looked at my tongue and he shook hi!
head—
This was Doctor Smart—
J Ho thumped on my chest, and then ha
snid:
I "Ah, thero it is! Your heart!
; You mustn't run—you mustn't hurry!
i You mustn't work—you mustn't worry!
, Just sit down and take it cool;
You may live for years, I cannot say;
• But, in the meantime, make it a rule
I To take this medicine twice a day!"
! Ho looked at my tongue and he shook his
head—
This was Doctor Wise—
"You're liver's a total wreck," he said,
"You must take more exerciser
You mustn't eat sweets,
You mustn't eat meats.
You must walk and leap, you must also run;
You mustn't sit down in the (lull old way;
Get out with the boys and have some fun—
Aud tako three doses of this a day!"
He looked at my tongue and he shook his
head—
This was Doctor Bright—
i "I'm afraid your lungs are gone," ho said,
"And your kidney isn't right,
j A chaugo of scene is what you need.
Your case is desperate, indeed ,
! And bread is a thing you mustn't eat-*'
| Too muoh starch—but, by the way,
I You must henceforth live on only meat-*
j And take six doses of this a dayl"
Perhaps they were right, and perhaps they
knew,
I It isn't for me to say;
; Mayhap I erred when I madly threw
! Their bitter stuff away;
But I'm living yet, and I'm on my feet.
And grass isn't all that I dare to eat.
And I walk and I run, and I worry, too,
But, to suve my life, I cannot see
What some of the able doctors would do
If thero were no fools like you and mo.
—S. E. Klser, in Cleveland Leader.
PITH AND POINT.
College Maxim: Initiation is the
sincerest flattery.—Life.
A superfluous man is now alluded
to as a third wheel to a bicycle.—
Puck.
Every woman wonders why the news
papers don't have more recipes and
less sporting news.—Puck.
"Did a servaut come to the door
when you rang?" "Heavens, no! It
was the cook!" Cincinnati Commer
cial-Tribune.
The true sailor is like the ocean—
however great a roll lie luay have at
sea, he breaks when he strikes the
shore.—Puck.
A man feels hurt if his wife is not
interested in his business; but, often
times, he doesn't know the color of her
last new dress.—Puck.
"It would be just like a woman," re
marked the observer of m#n and things,
"to go around with the chip pinned ou
her shoulder."—Detroit Journal.
"You want to be careful of Geezer.
He don't pay his debts." "Thanks for
the tip. You see, I owe him some
money."—Philadelphia North Ameri*
can.
"Plumpton says he is very jealous
of his reputation." 4 • Well, he has
reason to be. I wouldn't trust it for
a moment if I had it."—Chicago
News.
Sunset Simms (drowsily)—"Dey say
de Prince uv Wales never wears a suit
of clothes more dan once." Weary
Willy—"Well, neederdo we—only it's
a longer once."—Puck.
When a woman says her acquaint
ance's new bonnet is "just horrid,"
the chances are that she will have one
exactly like it in the course of a week
or so.—Boston Trauscript.
Boresum—"Seems to me I have
seen you somewhere." Grumpington
—"Very likely. Why don't you go
there and hunt for me if you want to
see me agaiu?"—Boston Transcript.
Hungry Higgius—"As fur eight
hours being enough fer a day's work
man who'll do a day's work orter git
six months."— Indianapolis Journal.
Mrs. O'Flaherty (to Nellie, aged
nine) —"And what is the good in git
ting you a French governess if you
goes and says Fido has the mange, in
stid of the menage?"— Harper's Ba
zar.
"Can I change here for Bristol?"
said the old lady for the fifteenth time
on the journey to the guard. "You
can if you like, ma'am," said the of
ficial, cheerily, "but you'd better not
if you want to get there."—Tit-Bits.
Perambulating Florists' Shops.
One of tho new wrinkles in trade is
the perambulating florist sbop, and it
must be confessed that it is a capital
means of throwing temptation in the
face of the flower buyer. Who can
resist these deoorative plants when
brought to your very door? Not every
one has the knack of cultivating
flowers in the house, yet, according
to the new scheme of furnishing, it is
necessary that palms or some flower
ing shrubs should enter into the in
terior decoration. In our steam-heat
ed rooms the delicate green house
beauties soon wither and die. A few
hardy plants like the rupper tree, sage
palm and ferns may be preserved
through one season, but even their
freshness mußt be renewed by visits
to the florist or gardener. At this sea
son, too, appear all sorts of flowering
chrysanthemums. Therefore, when
one beholds this floral wagon, loaded
with their splendid blooms, it is im
possible to say them nay. House
plants add greatly to the cheerfulness
of an apartment. If you can't set np
a cat or a dog or a bird, then you must
have something that will need tender
oversight aud care. What's the mat
ter with a baby? Well, a good deal.
With all due respect for the light in
fantry, it is much easier to watch the
growth of a little Japanese lily.—Bos
ton Herald.
Three Wild Turkeys ut One Shot.
Henry Smith, of near Denmark,Va.,
while out hunting squirrels, camo
across a drove of wild turkeys which
were so intently taken up with fight
ing among themselves that they did
no see him, and he filed into the drove
and bagged three with one shot. Mr.
Smith is more than eighty years of
ago.—Baltimore Sun.