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A LITTLE BROTHER OF THE RICH, Sto put new shingles on old roofs ; tEbuglve old women wadded, skirts; *St> treat premonitory coughs Wita seasonable uanna! shirts; Tb soothe the stings o? poverty And keep the Jackal from the door These aie the works that ocupy The Little Sister of the Poor.. . , ; She carries, everywhere she gees, Kind words and chickens, jams and .'. >?ca?s; lattices Xor corporeal woes And sympathy fur downcast souls; Her currant jelly-her quinine The lips of fever move to bless. She makes the humble sick-room shine With unaccustomed tidiness. A. heart or hers the instant twin And vivid counterpart is mine; j I also servo my fellcw men, Though in a somewhat different line. The poor and their concerns she has Monopolized, because of which .It falls to we to tabor as A. JUittlc Brother of the Rich. ' -,. Var their sake at no sacrifice Does my devoted spirit quail; I stve their horses exercise', ^As ballast on their yachts I.sall. Upon their tallyho's I ride Ard brav? th? chances, of av storm; ?I even use my own inside To keep their wine and victuals wann. 'Those whom wc strlv? to benefit _ ?ax to our hearts soon grow to -be; I love my Rich, and I admit That they are very good to me. succor the Poor, my Sisters, I, . While Heaven, shall still vouchsafe me i health Will strive to share and mollify The trials of abounding wealth. -Edward Sandford Martin, in Life. :\ '?., ,>.,.. . . ,,"> . wi'' \\ ' The Deserters By Marion Porter Sam BraJey had his aching feet up on the railing of. the piazza, when Jerry Todd went by, and lt may be that Jerry, for ali he looked so stub born, saw them and felt sorry. . Sim knew where Jerry was going and hl3 own face settled Into lines that were meant to be ver j'- determined, but "?rere not much of a success, after alL It was zo odd io sse Jerry pass with out a word-Jerry,; who had played ?with. Sm 50 years ago in that very street and who had grown up to he dearer to Mm than his own brothers. It was odder yet to see that Jerry was wearing a. new coat and to know that it was the first coa: that he had worn ?ince Siri had started tallering in the lattle shep in the village that' was not fashioned with affectionate care by bis old friend. Sim peered af ie; Jerry into the summer twilight. "It doat fit," he sighed, "and no ?oat that's made in this town will fit unless I make it Jerry's stout and xxo one can give him a figure but me." Sim rise then and walked into the bouse? shaking his head. The thought Of that ungainly coat troubled him, ?st he moved about, his tight, "7 -Tmrj-.., Hight,'' ronrrrocied Sim sadiy7~^"d~nrT think that alter SO years Jerry should ? be wearing a ccat that don't fit and I should l>e wearing .shoes that hurt, ? ,?bn account of a woman. I hope," said Stat, ralaer .tremulously, "I hope it's ^worta it." He had been sure it was Tm&tza be saw that coat The fart was that Jerry and Sim, ;at 60 years of age, had both fallen vic: . tims to the .charms of the widow Par raras, who bad come to spend a win ter ndfh her sister, and showed her cself ?net at all averse to accepting the ^atlont??ns of both" Sh* haa another 'dover, too, by! iieither Jerry nor Sim rainded about lim, for he was only. Tbcu?as Green, who was a, clerk in the Upper Village, and a per:-cn cf no note ?whatever. " Sim loved Mrs. Parsons ie was perfectly sure of that-and yet oa the following day he went about still thinking of that ill-fitting ccat. Toward night stime new goods came in. - and he; hung lovingly over one par ticular cul of dark smoothly finished suiting, which he could almost hear Jerry ^pronounce was exactly his' ?hoice. He reached numbers cf times fox nhl saaears, but he did not take tn?rn np. Thai night he went to sea the widow and though she looked un usually -well, and though her conver sation -?as sprightly and enlivening, and though she made no secret of tha fact timi she was pleased to see him, Ixe still could not help thinking.of that coat. Ee- left early and went home thinking hard. The next day he sat down hhnggW and cut out a coat, the measure of which he did not have to look at bis hooks to find. He rang In Ids ccscked voice as he worked at it, lovingly, anxiously, doing his, best, and tint night's sleep was the sweet est he had known since the widow had come between him- and Jerry. Three days, later the ccat was fin ished, but even then he did not give it to his old friend. Twice ho tried to give it to his old friend. Twice he triied to get up his courage, but he could not. Of course it meant giv ing np the widow to Jerry, and it also meant th& humiliation of-owning that his fiiend, even when he had turned from him, was dearer thru anything else. So Sim hesitated and longed and leapt on making' himself uncom fortable for almost ii month. Then one day as he passed Jerry's store ho could not resist looking in, as he had used to look, for a sight of Jerry. And 'as his eyes traveled wistfully from window to window, he -suddenly be came aware of a pair of eyes staring hack at him. Eyes in which the wist fulness of his own reflected. It was Jerry himself standing with a shoe in Ids band, befoie an impatient custo mer, forrpciful of business and of time and of differences as he looked at his. frieati. Sim vent t>7 hurriedly, but he nev er slopped ?rntil he reached his own barratt There he took the beautifully macht coat from a hanger and put it neatly Into a box Supper was ready and ?ailing when he went down and Jw M'ja absently. Afterward he put on frgg ijfct firmly, drew a long breath and ptai-fed oat with the box. T-;-'-; . , -:-r But he did :aot have to go far) foi he and Jerry met at the garden gate, ?nd Jerry had," a bundle on his arm which he held ;out' to Sim with a sob!.' "I began 'em that night I saw you' with your feet on that railing," he said.. "I knew those shoes hurt-I knew they- did-and I went home anil made 'em and I never had the courage to give 'em to you until now." In spite of his weight and his dig nity and his CO years he flung his arms about .Sim and held him close. "If you want the widow Parsons," he cried, "you go and gst her. But don't let her stand between us that have played and worked and joyed and sorrowed together all-all our lives." . "I don't want her," said Sim, pat ting jerry's broad back as tenderly as if it had belonged to the widow her self. "The only person in the world that I can't get 'alcng without is you." 1 After a while they sat down child ishly . upon Sim's s?eps close together and the bundle and the bcx changed hands. Jerry tried on the coat and said it wc_s thc handsomest he had ever seen. ? Sim immediately made a present of his J^riuring shoes, to the gardener. It grew dark but still the old fellows sat there, close together. When it became known that Jerry and Sim had deserted the field of ac tion as far as the widow was con cerned^ that lady immediately an nounc?d her engagement to Thomas Green of the Upper Village, and gave cut with much emphasis that she had never cared about either of her other j suitors. -w.^?i- i.;!' i "It was just kind of fun to see tv/J j old men quarrel about a woman," she was reported to have said. But Jerry and Sim when they heard were not distressed. They looked at each other placidly, and smiled.-3cston Post COIN UNDER MAINMAST. Ancient Custom Responsible for Val-' uable Finds in Old Ships. Custom decrees that a gold coln, or at the very least ,silver; shall be put under the mainmast of each new ship launched. The coil bears the date of the year when the vessel is completed, a fact -well known to col lectors, who keep an eye on snip3 that are likely to be the depository or numismatic prizes. Thus at Liverpool some years back a ; derelict Yankee schooner, bought fer a song, yielded an 1S04 dollar, the rarest and most ' eagerly sought after, df all American coins. It sold readily for ?1,500 (?C,000), and would be worth today at least double that sum, for it was in perfect preserva tion, having rested in its cotton wool wad beneath, the hollow "stepping" of. the mast since the day it was first placed in position. Its recovery was the result of fore-. Scottisfi sTirnrnnroTTTTi when these coins were in circulation used, with characteristic national thriftness, to put one of them b^eatl each mast they "stepped," in prefer ence to the more valuable group. Owing to their small size, however, Combined with their well nigh in-1 finitesimal value regarded simply as money, most doits that were in cir culation were speedily lost, leaving those that had been placed beneath the masts to become from the collec tor's point of view of extreme value.-? Pearson's Weekly. Washington Rock. According to the latest variant cf a report published some time ago Washington rock, at the top pf Wat?h ung mountain, between Plainfield and Dunellen, is in great danger of being destroyed. A New York syndicate is said to have bought a hundred acres of land, including the rock, and is about to establish a stone crusher there. The inference ls that the his toric rock, from which Gen. Washing ten jls said to have watched the move ments "of the British troops in tho Raritan valley below, is to be crushed up into road metal and utterly de stroyed. There is not the slightest doubt that ' any New York syndicate that would destroy the beautiful Palisades would destroy Washington rock if money could be made by such vandalism. There ls no more sentiment in a stone crushing syndicate than there is in a .blizzard on inauguration day. There isn't a particle of patriotism in a rock breaker, and nothing but the law will protect even the most sacred and beautiful piles in the world.-Newark News. ! The Penaty of Folly. Methuselah, Jarah, Larai-'-m '.nd the others had gone to the Old Settlers' reunion near Aarat. It was Methuse lah's 900th birthday, and he capered around like a kitten, throwing balls of ophir wood at the rag dollr taking chances in the grab-bag conducted by the Canaan Congregational Church, and acting a perfect hog about the pink lemonade barrel and the candied popcorn stand. / "Better be careful, Meth," Lamech warned him. "You'll overdo yourself, old man." But the ancient cut-up paid no heed, and proceeded to ride on the/ merry go-round with a woman of the Tubal ites. ' Alas, how fondly foolish ls age! In sixty-nine fleeting years the old man was dead.-From Puck. A Spicy Volume. . Clerk-Here's an entertaining book "What He Told .His Wife." Mr. Smith-J want something spicier. Clerk-Then how about "What He Didn't Tell His Wife?"-Philadelphia Bulletin. Fifty years ago there were 23,000 dis tilleries in Sweden, but . that number has now been reduced to 132. eumong Diamond Gossip and Gen? Sir Martin Stumbles and W.th Him Falls Hope of Am-J ^ encan Admirers. Epsom, England. - King Edward's ! brown colt, Minoru, justified his name, which 1s Japanese for "success," by ! winnnng the derby, which will be re membered always In the annals of ! Epsom as one of the finest ever run I on that historic track. W. Raphaels Louvlers, with France's' star jockey, Stern, on his tack came under' the wire so close an attendant on Minoru that the spectators were undecided which led until the king's number was displayed on the black board. Lord Michelham's William the Fourth was a good thiird and half of the 15 starters were well bunched be hind. But one horse was seen follow ing the field riderless. It was the American bred colt, Sir Martin, which every one had reckoned as MInoru's foremost rival. He had been crowded out of his stride just beyond the Tat tenham corner, about the middle of the course. Jockey J. H. Martin shot j mm 224?TJE7VT..S7?>jc ov*r his mount's head to the ground, as Sir Martin stumbled and with Mm fell the hopes of hundreds of confi dent American onlookers and many thousand American dollars were lost. To Englishmen, even those who had staked their money on some other horse, the king's success was inspir ing as a victory in a great interna tional contest . and compensated for the rain which drove across the field, making a wallow of mud under foot. On every side it had been asked whether, if he won his majesty would consider it compatible with his ex halted position to lead his horse from the track, as the winning owners have done for more tuan a century. There was no precedent for that be cause no king before had ever won the derby. King Edward, however, with the prince of Wales following him, lived up to the custom and in the minds of Englishmen clinched his claims to the title of a thoroughbred sportsman. Only the accident to Slr Martin and the rain - marred the day. Electric Boy? apparently was the horse which crowded the American colt, which at tho time was well up to the'fore and running strongly. Louis WInans, his owner, said that it was a regrettable accident but nothing more. To many Americans at the race track and on both sides of the Atlantic it will seem a calamity^ judgdng from the amount of money which some estimate at $300,000, was put on the Kentucky bred colt. This large amount placed on Sir Martin sent his price to 3 to 1, and made him a nominal favorite for a time. At the time of the accident Brook land's was leadle?, vl'.h Louder." close up. and Slr M-rtia. Minoru. Bay ardo and Valens, formed the second flight. Jockey Martin was badly dazed from the fall and his forehead was gashed in several places. Richard Croker, who wandered about the paddock alone, with his hands in his pockets and bowler cap drawn over his eyes, must have con trasted the tumult with the silence that fell over the stand when he led ir. Orby II, the winner in 1907. The king entertadned GO members of the Jockey club at the annual dinnor at Buckingham palace. Reports from aJl ?ectlons tell of enthusiastic scenes when the news of his majesty's good luck was received. CONNIE MACK TALKS. Connie Mack says: "The Eastern: teams, excepting Boston, made such] a miserable showing 4n the West lastj season that I am anxious to see how they will fare this year before I will venture a prediction. I believe, howj ever, that we will all do better thltj season. Washington is far off hot stride. I know what lt means when a team gets to going poorly, for I had that experience last season. They get to going poorly, and there ls nc way of remedying matters until the change r?mes itself." LANGFORD KNOCKS O?T HAGUE ENGLISHMAN IS SLOW-RIGHT ON CHIN SETTLES HIM. London.- Sam ^Langfor d, the. color ed heavyweight :."Cf< "Boston, knocked out Ian. Hague, ?he-heavyweight cham pion of" EngTaid; .In the fourth round at the National Sporting ..club, London. The fight, which was for a purse of $9,000 and the. 'championship, was scheduled to go 20 rounds. The ring generalship which he had picked up in many battles enabled Langford to score a comparatively easy victory over. Hague, and the fourth round- had barely commenced when the burly Yorkshireman was floored by a well-directed blow and counted out. Langford was at a disadvantage as regards weight,-height and reach, but his superior kind of ring tactics and hl3 quickness overcame this, and what was expected to be a long con test proved to be a- very brief one. In the first round Hague was slow to start. Langford had a shade the better of it until the end of the round, when Hague reached him with a hook to the jaw. Thds'seemed to encour age the Britisher, and, although no damage was ? done in the second round, he showed more cleverness than the colored man.* Langford opened the third round j wirh a. hard left to the face and he fi u c H .fruies io Tpenttua^^-J ness in 1862. Lajoie's] name pi spelled ''iiash-way.'' The fink regular ever playied waa at June 19, hur?. WANT A REHEARING Tennessee Officers,- ' Charged With Contempt, FiZe Petition to That End. Washington, Special.-In the cases of former Sheriff Shipp and his depu ty, Jeremiah Gibson, and of Luther Williams, Nick Nolan, Henry Padgett and William Mayes, all of Chatta nooga, Tenn., charged with contempt of the Supreme Coiirt of the United States, in connection with the lynch ing in 1905, of a negro named Ed Johnson, the court Tuesday postpon ed the passing of sentence to permit the prisoners to file petitions for a re hearing. The cases therefore go over until next term, the prisoners remain ing out on bond. Solicitor General Bowers, repres enting the Department of Justice, moved for sentence, but j Messrs. Chamlee, Clift and Shepherd, of counsel for the men, called attention to the fact that they had only seen the opinion of the court a &w mo ments before and asked leave to file a petition for a rehearing. The request was opposed by the solicitor general, .?mt Chief Justice Fuller .announced that the court would take the request under advisement. Thereupon the justices withdrew for a conference at the end of which Chief Justice Fuller announced that it had been de cided to grant the request, thirty days being allowed in which to file the petition._ In Honor of Jeff Davis. Biloxi, Miss., Special-With a ball, a banquet and several receptions, exercises attendant upon the pres tation of the silver service to the battleship Mississippi were brought to a close here Tuesday night. Toucbiug upon thc matter of th8 portrait of President Jefferson Davis, engraved upon one of the principal? pieces of the silver, Governor Noel, in his address at Pascagoula said that the valor of Jell Davis as a sol dier of the United States army, as well as his record as Secretary of War during ante-bellum days, enti tled him to recognition by the Feder al government. . "However," continued the Gover nor, "'we would, no doubt, have had the picture placed on the service if nothing but the memory of. Jeff Davis as President of the Confederacy re mained. Jeff Davis, like the men of Mississippi and the South, both then and today, stood only for what he thought was right. If you condemn him, you must condemn us." Lieutenant Commander McCormick, who accepted the silver service in the name lo? Captain Fremont and the officers and the men of the bat tleship, responded to Governor Noel in the same vein. "We shall not deny the memory of your departed chieftain the homage thatjs due him." "--p-iio battleship jvere INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM? MENTS FOR JUNE 13. Subject: Heroes of Faith, Hebrews 11:1-40-Commit Verses 24, 25 -Golden Text, Hebrews 11:1 Commentary on Day's Lesson. TIME.-Uncertain. PLACE-Un certain. EXPOSITION.-I. What is Faith, 1-3. Faith looks at the Word of God, sees what He promises and rests assured that it will all come to rpass just as-He says. It puts it to the test by acting as if it were so. It asks no questions, but believes what God says will come to pass and obeys what God commands. To be lieve God is to rely upon or have un hesitating assurance of the truth of God's testimony even^.though it is un supported by other evidence, and to rely upon and have unfaltering as surance of the fulfillment of His promises even though everything seems against such fulfillment (cf. 1 John 5:10, R. V.; John 5:24, R. V.; Acts 27:22-25; Rom. 4:3, 19-21; Heb. 11:13). It was in faith that "the elders," the heroes of the past, obtained a good report. Believing God they went ahead and did as Ho said. Faith in the certainty of God's Word lay at the foundation of all their achievements. It is by faith that we understand how the worlds were made, i. e.t by the mere word of God. n. Four Heroes of Faith, 17-22. Abraham stands out as the first and pre-eminent hero of faith in the Old Testament (Gal.. 3:7-9). It was by simple faith in God and His word that he left his country and kindred and went out, not knowing wither he went (v. 8; cf. Gen. 12:1-4). By simple faith in God and His Word he saw his seed as the stars in the heavens and sand on the seashore innumer able (Gen. 15:5; H?b. 11:12), and "it was counted to him for righteous ness" (Gen. 15:6). By simple faith in the certainty of God's Word, when he was commanded to offer up Isaac for a burnt offering he did so. Whether he was to actually slay him he did not know (Gen. 22:7, 8), but he stood ready to do even that ( Gen. 22:10), accounting that God was able, if necessary, to raise him up even from the dead. Abraham's faith stopped at no sacrifice. True faith never does. It was only v/hen his faith was tried that his faith shone forth (1 Pet. T:7). It was through the trying of his faith that Abraham's name came down for ad miration throughout the ages. The sacrifice that God called upon Abra-? ham to make, God Himself made (Gen. 22:2, 16; cf. John 3:1S). So Abraham became a type of the Fath er and Isaac a type of Christ. There had never been a case of resurrec tion before Abraham's time, yet Abraham accounted that God was able to do It, though he had never heard of such a thing. Isaac's return home with his father was like a res urrection from the dead. Abraham rould return with Isaac walked in 1 The Put/oIFX ..??Ort? Theme: Regeneration John 3: "Ye must be born again." This is fundamental in the teaching pf Jesus. It lies at the root of all Christian experience. It Is as true fis it is terse, as philosophic as it is pungent, ?s timely as it.is insistent. No man can know the joy of the \ Christian life until he has been born anew. This statement of Jesus to Nicode mus was startling. It was .both a challenge and a rebuke, a bit. of sage counsel and a quiet though, terrible arraignment. Nicodemus came in the ?ame of the class whose representative his torically he has been and immediate ly he was. In their own eyes they held the essence of wisdom unto life eternal. "We know that Thou arta teacher come- from God."" "We know." In their opinion it was nec essary for all the world to becomo regenerated in the bonds of Judiasm before the world could enjoy- a sav ing knowledge bf the only true God. They were God's people, His chosen, the sons of Abraham. They were quite familiar with the idea of a new birth, for they 'declared that tho world ' would have to be born to a knowledge of their spiritual ( posses sions before the world could'possess the gift of the divine favor. No doubt Nicodemus thought ho could instruct Christ. In all likeli hood he had little prescience of the reception he would receive. It ls quite probable that he considered himself a flt challenger of .Christ. Behold the challenged is the challen ger, the representative of the wisdom of Israel a pupil of a despised Naza rene. It is not to be wondered thai Nicodemus was amazed. Jesus declared strong doctrine. "Ye must be born aga:n." "Ye," the leaders and righteous of Israel! "Ye," teachers and priests and pre lates, learned and intellectual, who have tithed mint and cummin and anise and forgotten the weightier matters of the law, "ye" must be born anew! If He -had said that the Greeks and Romans, barbarians and foreigners, Gentiles, without tho pale, had to be born again, .there would have been no "How can these things be?" But, "ye!" And yet lt was quite correct teach ing and most sublimated thought. As truly as it is necessary that a man ' must be born to enjoy the exercise of physical faculties in a physical world so truly is it requisite that In the world of the Spirit he shall undergo a process of spiritual "horning. It ls necessary that a man snail enter the world before he can experience the varied activities of physical life. He must become alive to the intellectual' environment of humanity before he can have experience therein. . Not otherwise ls it wi in the world of the Spirit. We must be born. Born to another and a larger as a higher planerof living; born again. There is nothing permissive about : lt YeJimust" It is the law of the -of ne ?SS ito s