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k / ^ ^ ISSUED SEKI-WEEKL^^ l. m. grist's sons, Publisher.. } ? dfamilg JUtrspapcr: <J[or the fromotion o)f thf fditol, goriat, &jgrimltttral, and fljommtqrial gntmsls of the $eop!e. {TmsaJS^?coW, ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1905. NO. 30. ? ?? - Ir= THE GF i I FRANCI c=== (Copyright, 1904, by Tbo CHAPTER VII. THE SENTIMENTALISTS. Kent's time from Alameda Square to the capitol was the quickest a flogged cab-horse could make, but be might have spared the horse and saved the double fee. On the broad steps of the south portico he, uprushing three at a bound, met the advance guard of the gallery contingent, down-coming. The house had adjourned. "One minute, Harnwicke!" he gasped, falling upon the first member of the corporations' lobby he could identify in the throng. "What's been done?" v 'They've taken a fall out of us," was the brusk reply. "House Bill Twenty-nine was reported by the committee on Judiciary and rushed through after you left Somebody engineered it to the paring of a fingernail: bare quorum to act; members who might have filibustered weeded out, on one pretext or another, to a man; pages all excused, and nobody here with the privilege of the floor. It was as neat a piece of gag-work as I ever hope to see If I live to be a hundred." Kent faced about and joined the townward dispersal with his informant They parted at the entrance to the Camelot club, and Kent went two squares farther on to the Wellington. Ormsby had not yet returned, and Kent went to the telephone end called up the Brentwood apartments. It was Peneiope that answered. \ "Well, I think you owe It," she began, as soon as he had given his name. "What did I do at Miss Van Brock's to make you cut me dead?" "Why, nothing at all, I'm sure. I? I was looking for Mr. Ormsby, and?" "Not when I saw you," she broke In flippantly. "You were handing Miss Portia an ice. Are you still looking > for Mr. Ormsby?" "I am?Just that Is he with you?" "No; he left here about 20 minutes ago." Kent hung up the receiver, and when he was asking a second time at the clerk's desk for the missing man, Ormsby came in to answer for himself. Whereupon the crisis was outlined to him in brief phrase, and be rose to the occasion, though not ? without a grimace. "i n not sure jobi now wen you i know Mrs. Hepzibah Brentwood," he demurred; "but it will bo quite like her to balk. Don't you think you'd better go along? You are the company's attorney, and your opinion ought to carry some weight." David Kent thought not; but a cautious diplomatist, having got the idee, well back into the back part of his head, was not to be denied. "Of cou?se, you'll come. You are just the man I'll need to back me up. I shan't shirk; I'll take the mother Into the library and break the ice, while you are squaring things with the young women. Penelope won't care the snap of her finger either way; but Elinor has some notions that you are titter to cope whii man i am. After, If you can give me a lift with i Mrs. Hepzibah, I'll call you in. Come on; it's getting pretty late to go visit- 1 ing." Kent yielded reluctantly, and they took a car for the sake of speed. It was Penelope who opened the door for them at 124 Tejon avenue; and Ornisby made it easy for his coadjutor, as he had promised. "I want to see your mother in the library for a few minutes," he began. "Will you arrange it, and take care of Mr. Kent until I come for him?" Penelope "arranged" it, not without another added pang of curiosity, whereupon David Kent found himself the rather embarrassed third of a silent trio gathered about the embers of the sitting-room fire. "Is it to be a Quaker meeting?" asked Tenelope, sweetly, when the silence had growu awe-inspiring. Kent laughed for pure joy at the breaking of the spell. "One would think we had come to drag you all off to jail, Ornisby and 1," he said; and then he went on to explain. "It's about your Western I'al * ciflc stock, you know. To-day's quoia- | a tions put it a point and a half above * your purchase price, and we've come to persuade you to unload, pronto, as the member from the Rio bianco would Bay." "Is that all?" said Penelope, stifling a yawn. "Then I'm not in it: I'm an infant." And she rose and went to the piano. * "You haven't told us all of it: what has happened?" queried Elinor, speaking for the first time since her greeting of Kent. He briefed the story of House Bill Twenty-nine for her, pointing out the probabilities. "Of course, no one can tell what the precise effect will be." he qualified. "But in my opinion it is very likely to be destructive of dividends. Skipping the dry details, the new law, which is equitable enough on its own face, can be made an engine of extortion in the hands of those who administer it. In fact, I happen to knowthat it was designed and carried through for that very purpose." She smiled. "I have understood you were in the opposition. Are you speaking politically?" ^=3 >AFTFRQ i/.Lir x ? i\ J >y S LYNDE . ^ J Bobbtt-Marrill Company.) "I am stating the plain fact," said Kent, nettled a little by her coolness. "Decadent Rome never lifted a baser set of demagogues into office than we have here in this state at the present moment" He spoke warmly, and she liked him best when he put her on the footing of an equal antagonist "I can't agree with your Inference," she objected. "As a people we are neither obsequious nor stupid." "Perhaps not But it <s one of the fa Hurts of a popular government that an honest majority may De controuea and directed by a small minority of shrewd rascals. That Is exactly what has happened In the passage of this bill. I venture to say that not one man in the ten who voted for it had the ff.intest suspicion that it was a graft*." "If that be true, what chances there are for men with the gift of true leadI ership and a love of pure justice in their hearts!" she said half-absently: and hj started forward and said: "I beg pardon?" She let the blue-gray eyes meet his and there was a passing shadow of disappointment in them. "I ought to beg yours. I'm afraid I was thinking aloud. But it Is one of my dreams. If I were a man I Should go into politics." "To purify them?" "To do my part in trying. The great heart of the people is honest and woll-meanlng: I think we all admit that. And there is intelligence, too. But human nature is the same as it used to be when they set up a man who could and called him a king. Gentle or simple, it must be led." "There is no lack or leadership, such as it is." he hazarded. "No; but there seems to be a pitiful lack of the right kind: men who will put self-seeking and unworthy ambition aside and lift the standard of Jus[ tics and right-doing for its own sake. Are there any such men nowadays?" "I don't know," he rejoined gravely. "Sometimes I'm tempted to doubt It. It is a frantic scramble for place and power for the most part. The kind of man you have in mind isn't in it, thuns it as he would a plague spot." She contradicted him firmly. "No, the kind of a man I have in mind wouldn't shuu it; Le would take hold w:<th his hands and try to make AWtMtm V* r? nil t fka ool. li 11 ucun , uc ttvuiu pvii vuv uvi flsh temptations under foot and give the people a leader worth following? be the real mind and hand of the well-meaning majority." Kent shook his head slowly. "Not unless a motive stronger than the abstraction which we call patriotIsm." "I don't understand,"she said; meaning, rather, that she refused to understand. "I mean tl^t such a man, however exalted his views might be, would have to have an object more personal to him than the mere dutiful promptings of patriotism to make him- do his best." "Rut that would be self-seeking again." "Hot necessarily in the narrow sense. The old knightly chivalry wa? a beaut-ful thing In its way, and it gave an uplift to an age which would have been frankly brutal without It: yet It had Its well-spring in what appeals to us now as being a rather fantastic sentiment." "And we are not sentimentalists?" she suggested. "No. and it's the worse for us in some respects. You will not find your ideal politician until you find a man with somewhat of the old knightly spirit in him. And I'll go further and say that when you do find him he ' . * - - * * a .1 - -1 1? wiii i?e at neari me cuauipiuu ul iuc woman he loves rather than that of a political constituency." She became silent at that, and for a time the low sweet harmonies of the nocturne Penelope was playing filled the gap. He turned upon her suddenly. "Did yon mean to reproach me?" he ashed abruptly. "How absurd!" "No, it isn't. You are responsible for me, ?n a certain sense. You sent me out in to the world, and somehow I feel as if 1 had disappointed you." " 'But what went ye out for to see?'" she quoted softly. "I Know," he nodded, sitting down again. "You thought you were arousing a worthy ambition, but it was only avarice that was quickened. I've been trying to be a money-getter." "You can be something vastly better." "No, I'm afraid not; it is too late." Again the piano-mellowed silence supervened, and Kent put his elbows on his knees and his race in nis nanas, being very miserable. He believed now what he had been slow to credit before: that he had it in him to hew his way to the end of the line if only the motive were strong enough to call out all the reserves of battle-might and courage. That motive she alone, of all the women in the world, might have supplied, he told himself in keen self-pity. With her love to arm him, her clear-eyed faith to inspire him He sat up straight and pushed the cup of bitter herbs aside. There would be time enough to drain it farther on. There came the sound of a door opening and closing, and Ormsby stood looking In upon them. "We needn't keep these sleepy young persons out of bed any longer," he announced briefly; and the coadjutor said good-night and joined him at once. "What luck?" was David Kent's anxious query when they were free of the house and had turned their faces townward. "Just as much as we might have expected. Mrs. Hepzibah refuses point-blank to sell her stock?won't talk about it 'The idea of parting with it now, when It is actually worth more than when we bought it!'" he quoted, mimicking the thin-lipped, acidulous protest "Later in an evil minute, I tried to drag you in, and she let you have it square on the point of the jaw?intimated that it was a deal in which some of you inside people needed her block of stock to make you whole. She did. by Jove!" Kent's laugh was mirthless. "I was never down in her good books," he said, by way or accounting for the accusation. v If Ormsby thought he knew the reason why, he was magnanimous enough to steer clear of that shoal. "It's a mess," he growled. "I don't fancy you had any better luck with Elinor." "She seemed not to care much about It either way. She said her mother would have the casting vote." "I know. What I don't know Is. what remains to be done." "More waiting." said Kent, definitively. "The fight Is fairly on now? as between the Bucks crowd and the corporations, I mean?but there will probably be ups and downs enough to scare Mrs. Brentwood Into letting go. We must be ready to strike when the Iron is hot; that's all." , The New Yorker tramped a full square In thoughtful silence before he said: "Candidly, Kent, Mrs. Hepzlbah's little stake In the Western Pacific Isn't altogether a matter of life and death to me, don't you know? If It comes to the worst, I can have my broker play the part of the god In the car. Happily, or unhappily, whichever way you like to put It, I sha'n't miss what he may have to put up to make good on her 3,000 shares." Da\id Kent stopped short and wheeled suddenly upon his companion. "Ormsby, that's a thing I've been afraid of, all along; and It's one thing you must never do." "Why not?" demanded the straightforward Ormsby. "YOU CAN BE SOMETHING VASTLY BETTER." Kent knew be was skating on the thinnest of Ice, but his love for Elinor made him fearless of consequences. "If you don't know without being told, it proves that your money has spoiled you to that extent It is becan.<p vnii have nn richt to entraD Miss Brentwood into an obligation that would make her your debtor for the very food she eats and the clothes she wears. You will say she never need know: be very sure she will find out, one way or another; and she would never forgive you." "Um," said Ormsby, turning visibly grim. "You are frank enough?to draw It mildly. Another man in my place might suggest that it isn't Mr. David Kent's affair." Kent turned about and caught step again. "I've said my say?all of It," he rejoined stolidly. "We've been decently modern up to now, and we won't go back to the elemental things so late in the day. All the same, you'll not take it amiss if I say that I know Miss Brentwood better than you do." Ormsby did not say whether he would or would not; and the talk went aside to less summary ways and meana preservative of the Brentwood fortunes. But at the archway of the Camelot club, where Kent paused, Ormsby went back to the debatable ground in an outspoken word. "I know pretty well now what there is between us. Kent, and we mustn't quarrel if we can help It," he said. "If you complain that 1 didn't give you a fair show, I'll retort that I didn't dare to. Are you satisfied?" "No," said David Kent; and with luai iiiejf sepaiaicu. to be oontint7hd. The Judge's Coubse.?The man up for larceny had admitted his guilt when apprehended, but at the trial his youthful counsel defended him with great obstinacy and unnecessary brilliancy. "Gentlemen," said the judge, regarding the jury with a benevolent smile, "the prisoner says he is guilty. His counsel says he Is not. You must decide between them." Then, after an effective pause, the judge added: "There is one thing to remember, gentlemen. The prisoner was there and his counsel wasn't."? Green Bag. iHisctllanwus heading. CRIMINALS' FAVORITE DEFENCE. Trials In Which Attempts Were Made to Prove Alibis. The proof that an accused person Is somewhere else at the time that a crime is committed has always been a defence in which advocates have taken special delight. Nothing can be more satisfactory, says Answers, provided that the alibi Is a good one. "If I prove to you, gentlemen!" said a young barrister addressing the Jury In a case before Mr. Justice Hawkins, "that my unfortunate and estimable client was a hundred miles away from the scene of the burglary at the time that that foul deed was committed, then, I presume, that fact will be sufflfnr vnil M "Of course, I cannot speak for the Jury," Mr. Justice Hawkins broke In In gentle tones, addressing the advocate, "but I can assure you that I m. self shall not be particular to a mile or two. If you can show that the prisoner was even a mile, or half a mile, away at the time I will give him the benefit of the doubt" The alibi has always been a favorite defence with calculating criminals. It has, on the other hand, in hundreds of cases extricated the innocent from the meshes of a net of circumstantial evidence which must otherwise have Inevitably dragged them to unmerited doom. In the famous case of Rush, executed for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Jermy and their son at Stanfield Hall, the assassin endeavored to establish an alibi by means of his housekeeper. Upon the night of the murder Rush slipped out of the house in disguise, effected his horrible design and returned. His housekeeper declared at first, upon examination, that Rush had come home to tea at 6 o'clock and had then taken off his boots for the night. About 9 he had left the room In which they had been sitting, and was absent about 10 minutes. After that he went out no more. Under a severe cross-examination she broke down and admitted that the statement she had made had been dictated to her by Rush himself. The alibi was false. Sfrte burst Into tears, and sobbing, described to. the court how Rush had been absent from the farmhouse Just at the time of the murder. Clocks have played an Important part In these defences. Lives -?ave depended on their accuracy or inaccuracy. In the case of a man named Hardy, who was accused of having taken part In a murder with others, one of the murderers. after~*lhe ctlme' was committed, made his way home as fast as possible. It was night and there was no one In his house but a servant. Putting the clock In the hall back two hours, the man went to bed, and rising shortly afterward awoke the servant and ordered her to go downstairs and see what was the time. The girl did so. and once more retired to her room, when the murderer, stealing softly downstairs In his bare feet, once more put the clock right. The unsuspecting girl's evidence that the prisoner was In bed at the time when the crime was committed secured his acquittal on his trial. The truth was made known by a deathbed confession some years later. Witnesses who come forward to prove alibis by the clock sometimes proved very unsatisfactory. In a murder case at the Central Criminal court two witnesses swore most persistently to the prisoner having been in their company at the hour when the prosecution contended he was engaged in the crime. "Are you quite certain of the exact time?" asked the counsel for the prosecution. "Certain." replied the first witness. "How are you so sure about it?" [asked the barrister. "We were in the Bear iJlibllc house, and I saw the time by the clock In the t.AnlIo/1 tho wltrtttflO "It U'dR 27 minutes past 9." "You saw that time yourself?" asked the counsel. "Yes." One of the detectives engaged In the case here whispered something to. the barrister, and he turned to the witness once more. "You see that clock," he said, pointing to the clock In the court. "What Is the time by it?" The witness turned ghastly pale, scratched his head, gasped, and was silent. He could not tell the time. The prisoner was condemned. A remarkable case of Innocence being vindicated occurred at Exeter some years ago, when a young naval officer was charged with having presented at a Plymouth bank a forged order for payment In the name of the paymaster general. The order was cashed and the presenter disappeared. From the description of the man given by three of the bank clerks, suspicion attached itself to the accused, the son of an admiral, and the clerks Identified him out of other naval officers as the presenter of the forged checked. Fortunately for the accused he was able to bring forward a small army of his comrades to prove most positively that at the hour named he was in their society, and that he could by no possibility have been at the bank as the clerks described. Justice Crompton found the exculpating evl dence so conclusive that he suggested to the counsel conducting the prosecu* tion that It was useless to proceed,^ and the charge was withdrawn. In this case the really guilty presenter of the forged order must by some strange chance have borne a striking resemblance to the unfortunate officer charged. Baron Piatt used to declare that the worst falHe alibi to demolish was one In which the witnesses for the defence all spoke to actual facts, but to facts that happened on some day other than the one actually in question. In the case of two men charged at the Central criminal court with housebreaking, a remarkable alibi of this kind was presented. The men were accused of having broken Into a house upon the night of a certain Sunday, and they were positively Identified by three persons who swore they saw the prisoners going to and coming from the house In a trap drawn by a brown pony. On the other hand, numerous witnesses were called for the defence ta show that the prisoners were at home and remained there all night. All these witnesses agreed in their details of what happened during the evening, ana me nereem enuria ui me counsel for the prosecution failed to shake them In any particular. In reply to a question as to what was the state of the weather on that particular Sunday night, the witnesses unanimously declared that It was dark, rough and wet. By an almanac that was brought It was shown that there was a full moon, but none In court could remember what the weather had been. The Jury returned a verdict of "not guilty," and the prisoners were released. Subsequent Inquiry proved that the night In question, when the housebreaking had taken place, was flne and bright, but that the night of the previous Sunday had been all that the witnesses described. Their evidence had clearly related to the wrong Sunday. A case In which an Innocent man was able to establish an alibi and refute a mass of extraordinary circumstantial evidence against him was that of the Cannon street murder. Sarah Mllsom was the housekeeper to a large firm, with premises In Cannon street. In which she lived. Upon the night of the murder, a man, whose duty It was to lock up the building after the hands had left, closed the place and duly delivered the keys to Mrs. Mllsom. The housekeeper and a woman who acted as cook were now the only persons In the place. Th^ cook, In her evidence, stated what happened. Mrs. Mllsom was sitting in the dining room and the cook was In the bedroom when, about ten minutes past 9 there came a ring at the door bell. The witness was about to go down to answer It, when Mrs. Mllsom called out to her: "Elizabeth, the bell Is for me. I will go." The cook stayed In her room, but later on went downstairs, when she was horrified to find Mrs. Mllsom lying dead In the corridor, Just inside the door. She had been killed by a terrible blow with a crowbar that was lying close by the body. An arrest was made, and the prls oner was defended by Sergeant Ballantyne and Mr. Montague Williams. The defense was able to prove, by the evidence of witness after witness. that the prisoner was at Eton and Windsor upon the night of the murder at times which rendered It Impossible for him to have committed the crime. A bootmaker and the bootmaker's son. for whom the accused worked, had seen and spoken to him there. The alibi 'was incontestlble, and the prisoner was acquitted. The murderer has remained undiscovered to this day. A young girl who lived with her parents In a lonely part of Kirkcudbright was one day left alone In their cottage while her father and mother were harvesting. On their return the girl was found murdered. A surgical examination revealed the fact that the Injuries Inflicted must have been the work of a left handed man and the police discovered In the soft ground around the cottage the Imprints of the boots of a running man. These Impressions corresponded exactly with the boots of a young laborer named William Richardson, who was acquainted with the dead girl, and who was also left handed. Richardson on being asked where he was cn the day of the crime, declared that he was employed the whole day In the work of his master, a farmer, some distance away. This fact was borne witness to by the farmer and Richardson's fellow servants, and the police were baffled. The alibi. In spite of all the other suspicious circumstances against the prisoner, appeared so strong as to be unassailable. But the police persevered, and at last one of the detectives dlcovered that Richardson and his fellow servants had that day been employed In driving their master's carts. These carts had been driven In a direction which took them close to the scene of the crime, and while they had been passing through a wood Richardson had requeste" ? Is comrades to stop a few minutes while he ran to a smith's shop and back. They did so, and one of the drivers remembered that Richardson when he returned had been absent half an hour by his watch. This was ample time for him to run to the cottage, commit the murder and run back again. He had not been to the smith's shop. The alibi, thus broken down, Richardson was found guilty and, before his execution, he confessed the Justice of his sentence. A l??Anl/\uo ovotom r\f nrAl'l nCT fin alibi was that of a man named Gorton?at least, that was one of his 20 names?convicted of various clever frauds In the north of England. He had a twin brother, and while he was engaged In a robbery the twin kept himself In prominent evidence In another far removed place. When Gorton was arrested, the persons who had met the twin trooped Into the witness box to relate how they had met and conversed with him elsewhere at the hour of the crime. Their evidence was of course given In all honest belief that It was perfectly correct, for they had not the slightest suspicion of Gorton having a double. The arrangement broke down at last, however, through one of those little oversights that even the most cunning rogues will fall Into, and the Ingenious twins came to their deserts. The Gortons were criminals of the kind that, as that clever detective Llttlechlld once remarked, "make detectives gray before they are old." JAPAN AND THE JAPANE8E. Thirty-Two Important Facta About These Interesting People. Japan has nearly 60,000,000 people, more than half as many as the United States. The word "Mikado" signifies something like "the Sacred Gate" or "the Sublime Porte." The name of the reigning mikado Is Mutso Slto. The name of the empress Is O Haru ?"spring." The name of the crown prince is tr w < TTUa I UVI1I ?11IU. European dress Is worn at all court functions. Rice Is the common food of the common people. Sixteen cents a day Is now good pay for unskilled labor In Japan. Ten years ago it was 6 cents. Japan has very few millionaires and practically no multi-millionaires. Tokia Is a hundred years older than St. Petersburg. The lovely Japanese cherry trees produce no cherries. On the Japanese stage male actors play the female roles. . ' There Is only one Japanese aj-Vv-sa ?Mme. Sada Yacco. Danijlro the gr?at Japanese rragedlan, is also the most skillful dancer of Japan. Japanese dead are bulled In a squatting posture, chin upon knees. More than 10,000 pilgrims, mule and female, ascend Fujiyama every year. The Japanese people, even the poor, travel much In their own country. Modern Japanese coins and banknotes bear legends In English as weil as in Japanese. Semi-nudity is common in rural Japan, and furthermore it Is respectab'e and healthful. The average Japanese is better bathed than the average Britisher. Wrinkles are poetically' termed by the Japanese "waves of old age." It is quite proper, even complimentary to ask a lady's age in Japan. The Japanese "Hello!" at the telephone is "Moshl moshi!" or "Ano me" with the accent on the "nay." The Japanese farewell. "Sayonara," means something like "If It must be so," or "If we must part thus, so be It." Kissing and shaking hands are rare ly practiced In Japan. Japanese 'mothers do not kiss their children, though they may press the Up to the forehead or cheek of & very young baby. Sewing on buttons Is not a wifely duty In Japan?there are no buttons. Japanese inns furnish fresh toothbrushes every morning free to every guest. The brush Is of wood, shaped like a pencil, and frayed to a tufty brush or fibre at the large end. -All of the food served to a guest at a Japanese banquet and not consumed by him at the time is taken to his home by the servants of his host. Japanese chop-sticks are delivered to the guest in a decorated envelope. The two sticks, already shaped form one tong-shaped piece of wood and are broken apart by the guest. Japan has one of the largest steamship companies in the world, with service to the United States and to England by way of Suez.?By Burton Holmes. HUNDRED YEARS OF WEATHER. Cold Days In Gsorgia and 8outh Carolina For a Century Past. The following interesting clipping from an old file of the Chronicle shows the cold days in Georgia and South Carolina for the past one hundred years. It will doubtless be read with particular interest during the present cold snap. 1304?Cotton killed in May. 1816?The cold summer. 1818?Great drought, cotton 32 cents per pound. 1827-28?Mild winter. Leaves and cotton not killed. 1830?Great drought. 1835?February 7, the cold Saturday. 1840?"Harrison freshet" In May. 1844?Another cold summer. 1849?Great sleet April 15th, kills cotton and corn. 1851?January 21. second coldest day known In the south. 1855?Fine crop year. Hot summer. 1860?Largest cotton crop to that date. Hot summer. 1862?Great fruit crop. 1864?Cold summer, no fruit. 1866?Hot summer, no fruit. 1867?Great crop and great decline In prices. 1875?March 20. great cyclone. 1880?December 30. temperature at zero In Middle Georgia. 1882?Largest oat crop ever made in Georgia; corn and cotton crop large. 1884?Long fall drought, nearly three months. 1886?January 3-14, intense cold; Savannah river at Augusta solidly 1887?Hot summer; temperature at 100 In June and July and heavy rains. 1888?Wet summer; poorest crop year In many years; no fruit; great freshet In Augusta; September 10th, higher than ever known. 1889?Frost In upper Georgia, June 1st, and abnormally cool In southern parts; drought In May greatly retards crops; much cotton not up June 10; great peach crop, first In several years. ?Augusta Chronicle. tir Where the Bible does not get worn the heart soon gets weary, it*" When you have an affection for the golden rule you will not need to advertise the fact. VALUE OF COURTESY. People Who Would 8ucoo?d Must Bo Considerate. Chicago Record-Herald. Be ye kind, tender-hearted.?Eph. 4. 1. Courtesy has its commercial value. Some years ago two business men from New York were breakfasting at their hotel in Paris. One of them was commenting upon the millions of money that Americans were pouring Into the coffers of Paris, the city of beauty, art and pleasure. He Insisted that this golden riiver ought to be turned upon the fields of American Industry and commerce. Ho urged that' his own store offered advantages as many and great as the shops of Paris. "uo you want to know why our Americana spend their money here in Paris?" said his companion. "Come with me for an hour and I will show you the reason." Then the lawyer and the merchant went Into a shop. The July morning was hot. but the French merchant and his wife understood the law of kindness and courtesy. The lawyer said he wished to look at some gloves, some silk ties and some laces. "But first of all. you must sit down and rest." So madame brought an easy chair and the shopkeeper Insisted on bringing a fan and a cool drink. Very soon the stout merchant forgot his heat and long walking. After a little he apologised to madame for the trouble he was making her. "It is n trouble; it Is a pleasure." No courtesy could have been more thoughtful. In that hour kindness oiled all the wheels of trade. Good manners made buying and selling a pleasure. The big, prosperous merchant quite forgot himself and he bought with openhanded generosity. Nor did ho remember his discussion until he reached the street, when he began to understand the laughter of his companion. "Well," said the merchant, "Paris has taught me one nhing? the law of courtesy. When I fret back to New York I am going to have the heads of departments organise my clerks into classes, with lectures on kindness and good manners." The law of courtesy nas a commer- j [ cial value. Courtesy will not inake an ignorant man wise nor a stupid, lasy clerk successful, but the youth of good parts will find that kindness and courtesy are large additional assets and will do much to promote his sue cess and good feeling among his fellow workers. ' 2. Courtesy and kindness betoken the well-bred gentleman. What culture is to the scholar and what perfume is to a dower, that courtesy is to. a gentleman. Kindness makes the youth a happiness maker. Courtesy is a delicate exhalation that sweetens the atmospnere. Good will diffuses Itself in a ;jenlal glow. It Is said that a gentleman is for his companions' minds what an easy chair and a warm Are are for the body. It makes the youth consider the rights of others; and once the law of kindness Is fixed in the heart, it manifests Itself in good^ fellowship, wholesomeness, cordiality and those reflned attentions that go to make a youth popular among his companions. One day a friend anked a freshman in Harvard college why the boys always cheered a certain professor. Now the freshman had never considered that point before and he jumped at an answer and he gave the right one: "Oh, he is so kind it always seems good to have him around." Some people call courtesy a minor grace, but how can that virtue be little that lirtea a professor to a throne and made him loom large above his fellows? Remember that roughness is a sign of weakness. Some men are so harsh that their softest word Is a blow. There are blunt, brutal men who ride rough-shod over their fellows and companions, and they say: "Oh, you mustn't mind me! It Is away I have!" Suppose a porcupine were to say: "Don't mind my quills; It's a way I have." A hedgehog has Its way, but the way Is very bad. Bad manners, sarcasm and disregard of the rights of others are great faults. Remember that one yellow stain ruins a marble, one black spot In the celling ruins the fresco and one great fault, like the absence of courtesy, can Injure character, threaten prosperity and halve one's Influence and success. 3. The law of courtesy forbids harsh criticism. The word "criticism" Is like Satan, who fell from heaven?It Is a fallen word. It began as the artist's word and meant to select the beautiful and essential elements in a great painting that should be lifted up for admiration and praise. This glorious word Is like a seraph that has been dragged down until Its pinions drag In the mud. We all know the type of man whose tongue Is a flail. Here Is the teacher who Is always praising the bright scholar end when the slow one stumbles exclaims, "You stupid fool!" And yet the boy has worked twice as faithfully. uio fniinra an th? other one ucspuc llio iaiiuici ? and earned his master's admiration did his teacher but know it Ours Is a world that Is harsh In its judgments and cruel In Its criticism. Young man, restrain your tongue. Be kind. Practice courtesy. Keep the ideals of Sir Walter Raleigh's gentleman ever before you. Don't pelt the unsuccessful with words like stones. Consider that what the north wind cannot do to produce a harvest the south wind blowing softly, can easily accomplish. Hate Is as powerless as a blizzard. Love Is as omnipotent- as the sunshine. Distribute Joy^by your daily kindness. Qo out like a sower and sow benefactions like a prlnoe. Live with the courtesy of one who feels himself to be a natural king. Test yourself by Jesus Christ. He scattered benefactions and exhaled kindness. Be kind, tender-hearted and forbearing If you would reap the sweetest harvest for practical success. Nbwhll Dwioht Hnxie.