Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TME NOBLEST LOVE. are many kinds of love, as many kinds of light, everv kind of love makes a glory in the -iht. re is a love that stirs the heart, and Icre that gives it rest, the !ive that leads life upward is the n est and the best. -Henry Van Dyke. A IERY ORDEAL f'bert W. Tolman. o RlIZZLED and scarred, but Swith the excite a 0 mient of the fight he had so often waged. Thomas Jen kins, veteran fireman on the London force, thrust the zZTh into the hands of Arthur Scot .. bis new recruit from Yorkshire. o- er they had dragged the hose the snow up the narrow alley the burning building. until, ierds from the street, a brick arrJ their progiess. Then, be e water caie. .lenkins had ed a window with is ax, and l'd directed th' increasing thre-:ghi the shattered sashes t the rear of a long stairway. closet beneath which the zamaes ;egiEng to burst. tI her there, *d: Il be back Ti-!" he shouted in the deafened -..is subordinate, and was off ,he a:ey to head an attack from quarter upon the fire. exerience had made him fa with every foot of his district, wi:h the coolness and sagacity of practiced fire-fighter, he saw in an stant what needed to be done. The scr-.e of battle was in South r. not far from London Bridge. in f-ur-story brick building, the upper t of which was a pasteboard box factory. When the engines arrived the flames were already '>ursting through the windows. The only exit from the factory was down three straight, but steep and narrow flight of stairs, one directly over the other. up which flame and smoke were already surging. On the ground floor beneath the last fight. the small closet filled with paint and oil lent ready fuel to the confla graticn. Scot: was to hold the fire at this spot in check. The lirst thing to do was to make sure that every one of the imperiled lives in the three upper stories was saved. The smoke drawing up the Estairway had deterred all but a few of the women and girls from attempting to descend. Up the steps dashed the firemer. and began to bring down the half-smothered workers. Lives first; the building afterward! - Down in the gloom of the narrow alley Scott stood like an artilleryman at ls gun. Before, behind and to his left rose the brick walls. He was at elose ouarters with the foe. It took all his strength to hold the ncozzle in its place, directing the rush ing .water to the spot where it was most needed. He heard with satis "waction the. torrent hissing on the wood. The volumes of smoke told him he was doing good service. in the street at the end of the alley - T~ose the stack of the shaking engine, filling the air with sparks at each hoarse. tremendous puff. That and the spot ef flickering red through the win dow in front of him were the sole bright puints in the hoseman's field of .vimon. Presently a gust of wind drove the smoke down round him, and it r-ow ritchy dark in that narrow, brick ,walledl canon. The engine disappeared. and even the lurid spot before him dimmed and blurred. As Scott stood awaiting further or - ders, he felt impatient to be actively at work inside the building. His mates had the inspiration of each other's presence and help. They could move :about. He was chained to a single place. He could hear the shuffling tread of feet, and now and then the .,mothered shriek of a woman. as men, bearing heavy burdens, passed down the stairs. He could hear the crashing of wood, as doors and partitions gave way under the swinging axes of his fellows. On the front of the building he knew that they were raising ladde'rs, and he longed to be in the thick of the fight. But, as he stood there, holding the flames in check, he was the pivot on which all turned, the link without which the life-saving chain would be nseiess. .Tenkins knew men: and be felt sure that in the young Yorkshire recruit he had a subordinate whom he could trust. From the street came a shrill w-histling. Intermittent orders were shouted hoarsely beyond the smoke barrier: "This way with your ladders:" "More water!'' "Steady, everbody!" Scott heard it all, but could see noth ing. Hie was enveloped by black, roll .ing clouds, that at times hid even the building from him. The broken win dow had hitherto been fairly clear, but now :t puffed out a chokIng flood of smoke full in his face. Still he kept the- nole~Z unflinchingly pointed through the - w. Bnt hi':i " the hoseman's head was gatherIng a danger of which he did not dream. As is the case with many of the older buildings of that district, the valleys on the roofs were lined with sheets of lead, which melted in thle intense heat, and be~gan to tricle lown the steep channels in' gleaming threads. Svoon these threads grew to silvery streams. which filled the gutte's. over Ilowved them. and poured dowvn toward the sniw-eovere'd glud. SMot was rit bewi''h tihe end of a vallay dolwn whin one of these str:u~s camec dart pat tered bside' him lie did not noice. for his cye., were glued to i dull red :l ra unr the stairwayi. int the heart of whi pw w.:s~ dircting~ the .it of stream falling two feet from his righi shoulder, and at once appreciated the danger that threatened him. The first leaden driblets disappeared under the snow, sending up a column of steam. Then the volume of the rill increased. forming a little lake of metal, into which the stream fell with a heavy, guttering splash. With shrinking, sickened fascina tion Scott eyed the gleaming cascade. Let its course swerve ever so slightly, and he might at any moment be cov ered with molten metal that would sear and blind and eat through skin and bone. Besides the danger to himself, the growing leaden lake portended another perif. It was only six inches from the curve of the host: if it spread a littlc farther it would burn a hole through the cloth and rubber, and he would nc longer be able to hold the flames in check. He did not dare to attempt tc move the line unaided, for fear that lie might lose control of the fire. Yet, imperiled as Scott was, the thought of abandoning his post never entered his brain. No material bonds held him there. He had but to drop the nozzle and step aside; three or four paces would carry him sa fely beyond the reach of the searing stream. In that thick darkness no one would bc the wiser for it. But the invisible tic of faithfulness to the duty entrusted to him chained him to the spot with bands stronger than steel. To desert his post now would- mean to allow the fire to gain headway be neath his comrades, as they labored to save the scores of fainting women above. The only exit was by the stairs. The fire threatened them. He held the fire in check. If he blenched, human lives would pay for it. Al though his ruddy face grew pale' he did not move. Surely by this time the factory musi be almost emptied of its workers! The sound of feet upon the stairs came less frequently. Jenkins might appear at any minute to order him elsewhere. Scott hoped with all his heart that his chief would come quickly. Scattered drops, hardening into shot pellets as they fell, pattered down round the fireman. Occasionally one struck his helmet or shoulder. Three or four burned through the hose, and fierce little geysers blirst through its closely woven texture. A circle of snow about six feet in diameter was .showered by the dropping lead. Scott could not see the roof from which it started. le did not dare to look up, fearing lest he might be struck in the face. The stream veered. Without warn ing a gush of seething liquid fell on his helmet. The polished- leather hat turned it aside, and in a second it lay on his right shoulder. Before he could shake it off it had caught fast hold and sunk through his clothing to his skin, burning him frightfully. The Yorkshireman writhed in agony. Both hands were busied with the nozzle, and he could make no motion toward brushing the lead away. He shook himself and shrugged his shoul ders, but he did not lift his hands from the cold steel pipe. Oh. that some one might come to relieve him! But not an inch did he retreat. On three sides the high, solid brick wall rose blankly. hemming him in: on the fourth stood the invihibic wall of duty, higher and firmer than that of material brick. The cascade dwindled to a mere trickling thread. Then a final deluge of white-hot drops burst over tire head of the new recruit. raining down like fiery hailstones, eating through his clothes- and burning ~him cruelly in a dozen places. The limit of his en durance was almost reached. Sick with pain, he reeled, about to fall. For the last time the thought of his duty brought him back to conscibusness. As he stood there. faint, staggering, suffering excrutiatingly from his burns, but still directing the nozzle into the broken window, a shout reached his ears, and a black figure burst through the smoke. It was Jenkins. "It's all right. Scott:" cried he. "They're all out:" The strength of nerve s 'd muscle that had carried the hosern.an through his trial vanished. when no longer needed, and he collapsed in a dead faint. He came to just in time to hear Jenkins telling the story of his vigil to an interested group. The last sen tence of his captain was the one that pleased Scott most: "We'll keep him on the force, if we have to make an extra place for him." -Youth's Companion. Why Soap-Eaters Eat Soap. Mr. Charles S. Howe. the General Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said at a dinner of scientists: "False science, the pseudo-scientific method.,'with its explanations that ex plain nothing and help us in no wise. may be illustrated. perhaps. with a little episode that I heard of the other day. "A student went to his instructor arid said: "'I am informed, sir, that people are sometimes born with a de:sire to cat soap.' "'That is quite true,' the instructor answered. "'What is the cause of it?' asked the student. "'These people,' was the reply, 'arc the victims of sappessonmarnia.' "'What does sappesomaania mean, professor?' the student said. "'It means,' the professor answered, 'a desire to eat soap.' "-Buffalo En Iquirer. --- Stf1 in the Stone Age. Thre Eskimos of Arctic Alaska arE still in the stone age. The nmanufac ture of arrows and spcar Leads fron: nlint is a living inrdustry.. Stone 1 lS stone haninners andl ehi~s.s anmd te som.e extent stone knives. are still ii Iordinary use amriong t hem. Fishr liues and nets and bird snares arc still maad< of whalebone, sinrw, or ravwhide. Ar rows, spears. nets and traps are umsed in munt inm, although improved b reech loadig ars are birng introdluce( amon tihem. arnd wvill soon supersede for :h.e larger gamn. tiheir' own nmort prmtv weapons.-T he 3..etropolital Tihe Lightning Cure. e'sa -tory of a amn who wa en..i of 'rhuatismn by being struel - JauntyWhite Coats. Jaunty little coats of white serge and of white Panama. made in reefer, sack I or close-fitting form and strictly tail ored. are valuable additions to the girl's wardrobe, and a tailored linen i coat of the same description is a desir able thing with thin morning frocks. The fashionable tailored coat has a coat sleeve of only moderate fulness and with no extreme features, but the I dressy wraps show large picturesque 1 draped sleeves, in most instances vary ing but little from last season, or, as is the case with a majority of the full lit tie wraps, faling in with the body ful ness so as to be hardly separable from i the body of the coat.-Newark Adver tiser. Foulards Again to Fore. Foulards will be much worn this year-not the cheap grades which did much to kill the popularity of these silks last season, but an expensive and wholly charming quality called ra dium. It is difficult to distinguish this much-talked-of radium silk from the old foulards, except in the matter of designs and a certain opalescent qual ity. There is no sign in the new silks of the old conventional scroll patterns always associated with this. material. These have been superseded by tiny checks and pin line stripes, the latter scarcely more than their own width apart, so that the general appearonce is that of a solid color. All the best couturiers are making up 1 their foulards and radiums very simply ] and softly. The skirts on the dressy I gowns are in many attractive instances laid in tiny stitched tucks, while at the hem a favorite ornamentation is waved I valenciennes frills set on with narrow I strappings of the silk. In delicate col orings, several of these radium frocks are serviceable additions to the sum mer trousseau.-Indianapolis News. ,Ihngerie Waists. A waist "pattern"-that is, the mate rial in its proper sections, is a very simple matter, though those who know nothing of the dressmaking may be at a loss to portion out the linen. The following very elementary suggestions will make it possible for a novice to prepare the pattern for the dressmak er. The waist requires three yards of linen one yard wide. Cut twenty-nine inches for the front, twenty-two for the bazk breadths (one widTh makes the two backs), twenty-two inches for each sleeve. This leaves a piece from which can be era a three-inch strip for the collar and two pieces nine by eleveni and one-half inches for the deep cutTs. Care should he taken not to set the design on the front too high up; one does not realize how much goes I into the shoulder or how deep the neck must be cut out; an ample allowance must he made. On a hand-embroidered waist the tucking should be done by hand. A combination of machine - tucks and hand embroidery is never . happy. Hemstitched tucks are pretty. as inm our examples of the coarser linen wast and the one with the peacock design.-Harper's Weekly. c English Wedding Veils. . The English have much sentiment about wedding veils, and that worn by Lady Shrewsbury, who at thirty-six was a grandmother, was also worn by her three daughters, Muriel Lady Helmsley, Lady Gwendolen Little and Lady Londonderry, and by two grand daughters, Mrs. Gervase Beckett and Lady Helen Satordale. The latter bride also had in her wedding boquet a. bit of myrtle grown from a slip t'~ in 1875 had formed a part of Lady Londonderry's bridal boquet, and which was planted immediately after ward. Lady Lou-Helen was married in 11902, or twenty-seven years from the date of the planting of the original sprig. The Jerseys have an exquisite lace veil worn by the celebrated Sarah Lady Jersey in 1804, and this. just 100 years later, in 1904. adorned Lady Du sany, daughter of the present Lord and Lady Jersey. The Hon. Mrs. Benja min Bathurst wore a wedding veil that had also been worn by her grandmoth er, Lady Northwick, and her mother, Lady Edward Churchill. Miss Olive Van der Meulen, now Mrs. Thorold, wore at her wedding a lace veil for merly the property of former Queen Isabella of Spain.-New York Times. - The American Girl. Marie Corelli has made another at tack upon the vulgarity of wealth and society in a series of essays just print ed, which she calls "Free Thoughts." She also has a few observations to make on the American woman. Miss Corelli does notaltogether admire the American women, but she holds that they are popular in England because they make themselves popular. Miss Corelli says:I "As to the American girl, she is 'all there.' She can take the measure of a man in about ten minutes, andt classify him as though he were a botanical specimen. She realizes all his limita tions. his fads-and she has the uncom monly good sense not to expect much of him. She would not 'take any' on the lily maid of Astolat. the Fair Elaine, who spent tier time in polishing the shield of Lancelot. and who finally died cf love for that most imimoral, but fr.scinating kni.:ht of the round tble. No, she wvoukdn't polish a shield, vonm bet .She would make Lancelot no ilh it himself for all he was worth. and polish her owni dear' little hoots and ioes for tier into the bargain. T.hait is one of the secrets-masterfulness or. let us say. qucenliness, which sorn better. The lord of creation can~ do nothing in the way of ordering her 'about, be.ause, as the lady of creation, she :pects to order him aliout-and sh does." - Londoa Corresp)ondence Gleix-Democerat. Well Dressed womnan, Pockets being as inaccessible asee, eery well dressed woman eariesa 2xand bag-a reticule, or, as5 it is here: clea r'idicule. Trhmese 1:eful little artifl"es are to be ha nal id of H AI o fR v IU Th National Aid Proposition. HEN what is known as the Browiow Good Roads bill liT was first offered in the I-House of Rfepresentatives it was regarded by some as proposing a dangerous in novation in our economic affairs. but when studied in the abstract it is found to be strictly within the line of well-established precedent and clearly written constitutional I limitations. GoV ernment aid to good roads was entered upon under the auspices of President Jefferson, who set forth the policy vith great spirit. Had not the aibor ity been in the Constitution, it w ould not have hald his sanction. There is nothing in the Constitution inhibitin national aid to good roads. There is abundant authority in the Constitution for such aid. The doubt about this no longer exists. The paramount qlue tion at this time is. have we in the nited States satisfactory highway :-onditions: are the means of cominuni ration between town and country ade Iuate to publie necssity: are thn high ways creditable to our advanced intel igence and civilization: do we need better roads, and can they be had in iny other way than by national atid. y Government co-operation -with the tates? Every intelligent being within he bounds of the Union knows that ( lie average wagon road is for perhaps ix months of every year a community orror and a State and national shame. t is just as well to use plain speech I dealing with practical facts. When arefully collected statistics show that .nly five per cent. of the wagon roads e good, we know by the same token Iat ninety-five per cent. are bad; and t e questions just asked are answered t a once. Can these unhappy condi t ons be corrected by the States? There -e all the years of State experience road making to prove the negative. fnee the earliest organization of the t - ates the country has experimented th roads under local systems. and yet t e average wagon road to-day is but it tle better than when first blazed out in the forest or laid along the plain. It is this that has convinced advanced tb inkers that effective road construe titnin the States is only possible thlough Government aid and co-opera- t ti n. The reasons for this are not far t to seek. Good roads-roads that will C . t-ean only be built upon scientific s pl. us. There are but four or five 3 tes in the Union wealthy enough to inugurate such a plan. If scientifical l constructed roads will benefit the I oltinties they will benefit the States n 1 ation. This is a self-evident de u( tion Then there shiuld be co-op rationi of the Government with i-he strj tes and counties. Another thing: Tie Government ow-us property in all .hStaltes upon which it pays not one t of taxes. It has taken charge of pu~ tblic roads for the transaction of ts rurail mail business, upon wrhich it agsfixed charges upoii the peCople vbhb built these roadls without its~ aid. [t jughit in mere justice to be willing o golp better the roads for its own seg. even if it had no concern in the welfare of the people. In addition to its >ostoffiees, custom houses and court ouCSs in all the States and Teriritories, he Government possesses lands, parks th:uer property. It has a direct in-e terem~ in the advancement of .every .omunity- and the reciprocal obliga tion~ of Gorernmenit is to protect and I foster the natural interest of each in-r diviltual. These obligations will not lsl jultilled until the Governnmenltas-K sits in improving the public roads. I~is proper for the Goverunment to id in the improvement of its wrater ores for tihe extension of commerce .wihich courses must ever carry a smalpecetage of the total commerce Of thie'Nation-then, it is surely the luty; of the Government to aid in the imprv ement of the land, or primary,t mees of transportation over whicht Dinefy-fire per cent. of all products must- be moved before it reaches a rail-t way, or steamboat. The proposition ft,r Government aid to good roads is right. and we hope to see it enacted into law, as it will be if the people keep rafter their Senators and Represen tativs. in Congress. English Roads. t good roads they have in E~ng Look at the piles of broken for repairs, stored in little niches ng the way; see how promptly ref ully every hole is filled up andt break mended. andyou will unt-i nd how a small beast can pull a load in this country, and why g draught-hor-ses wear long andy d work. A country with a fine c of roads is like a man with a I irculation of the blood: the labor becomes easier, effort is reduced asure increased.-From "A Day r tile Quantock Hills.'. by .Dr. I van Dyke, in Scribner's. A Fatiretic Story. thetic story of the~war is told apanise coi-reipondent at Kobe. Chesnetzky, a young Russian was taken -to the Red Cross . 1 at Matsuyama riddled with l. All his limbs were ampu-r nd after the operation, to the 1ent of the doctors, Chesnetzky< or eight months, lying quite ~. Hie we s attended by NurseC uchi. and lie beccame so much 1l to her that he would cry like -hen he could not see her. Her 1 ndt tenderness were such e scnrcely left him for eight anld she was with him when Do a Snake Eat Grass? t you to submit a question and controversy for inc. Is a snake arian-: D~ocs he cet fruits. oots and the iLo? Sonme say eats nothiing but birds. ins.-cts forth. Iserver takes great plheasure ng tihe iuestion. and he-re is hat sonme one who knows wiill rompti~ly. :estion in platin old North Caro glish is: "Dio a snake- cat Chantt Observer '79 eatier or silk. Some quaint hand bags re made in cut steel or jet, and in va ious brocades, the pattern being larned into the material with gold or ilver thread, and set with stones. The eticule has a long ancestry., being de cended from the little net carried by 'oman ladies and called reticulum. Mittens are to be much worn this -ear, and now that long sleeves have een ousted by long gloves, mittens vill be acceptable. To many, and more specially to the possessors of pretty iands and costly rings, the mitten will )e welcome, indeed. Few realize what L delicate and difficult task is the con ;truetion of the mitten, the fit of a mit en being so important, far more im >ortant even than the fit of a glove. 4ittens will be made of the finest lace, he costliest specimens being closen. mitations in every shape or form will e rigorously tabooed. In jewelry the most unlikely stones re now used in conjunction. It is uite usual to see a sapphire framed n rubies or even a combination in ru )i0s and emeralds. In fact, stones of very possible color are now blended, nd it is not an uncommon sight to see Ls many as four:or five different stones n a single setting-and with charming esults. Children Should Have Loose Cloihes. Children should never wear tight hoes, bands, collars, garters or gloves. Eight clothing injures any part of the )od3, but most especially the chest. t prevents the proper expansion of the ungs and, while there are millions of ir cells in our lungs, we need the use if every one of them to keep the blood ure. Pressure on muscles cripples or )revents their action and unused mus les grow weak and atrophy, so that he act of respiration, which is carried in by the chest muscles, grows more md more shallow. Tight clothing may ause compression of the soft, bony hest wall of the child, thus mechan cally preventing the air from entering he lungs. The larger our lungs and he more we breathe, other things be ng equal, the longer we will live and he more power and vigor we will ave. When we remember how the >rething affects the whole life it is asy to understand how constriction of he chest always brings ill health. onstriction of the chest also inter eres with the action of the stomach, eart and liver. A baby's waistband nay be so tight that it cannot retain ufticient food on its stomach. and the other wonders why it grows thinner nd thinner. Tight clothes interfere with the cur ulation of the blood, and equilibrium f the circulation is necessary to the roper development of the child. With eferenee to the equilibrium of the cir ulation, the distribution of the cloth ng on the body is very important. As usual thing the parts of the body he extremities-needinlg the most pro eetion, receive the least, and the parts ontaining the vital organs. where the irculation is always active. are too eaily clothed. Babies especially are ften found clothed in this manner. ly using the one-piece garment, the iod:: can be more evenly clothed. The his head should be protected from old in winter and from the hot sun in ummer, but children take cold easily f the head is kept too warm.-Boston raveller. Srge seems to be the favorite mate 'ia for tailor suits. Pink and blue combinations are ream nisent of Watteau. Soft, supple cloth is in great favor or reception dresses. Shaded roses and shaded straw ~verything shaded, except feathers, is ood. Short coats are being worn by all the uartest women, as a relief from the ong jacket. Brussels collar and cuff sets are com eting with Irish crochet - they' tout the same prices. Chemisettes are very popular 1most every sort of dress. Th lest are made of embroidered There is quite a decided f resent for the princess gown, fternoen gowns and for so oveliest of the evening gow Hats are all more or he id are peorched on the ffect at coquetry thatt ast summer could nov For theatre wear, ~oats, and even dre rully popular. Irish vith sheer embroid enciennes lace, is m f the softest, palest A new shade of g 2eived enthusiastical sennes-called alxno ;een in a number of t pale one to a deep. ri zomes out beautifully (olar and cuff sets ting-and deeper-evi ad( openl embroidery. la s:all phy' imnporta making. and bits of e ese drawn work are it of the prettiest. TIhe Judsgnent of There no end to the Young.. decision of udge h' lv lound1 its w the lor ojf Lords, an held. A sllow-beneher Tmpie marked toL see that judgment of y thle casel "has been a -o se of Lords."' "It in ' that," dryly replied th broadest Dor'is.-Westmi Tte Fr'en'h GovernmelC [PlTH LEA[ [ESS[NS SUNDAY. JULY TWENTY-THIRD. Preparing for Our Heavenly Home. Phil. ::. *:. 21: IHeb. 11. S-10. 1 :-1. The iiiive'rsai instinct is for one tohi ter L' :- condition. That ex ;lais the sueemire migrations which have popuilared the carth. The Old Tesiament worthies felt tLy they vee "strangers and p-ilgrims" here, :hat their hom- was in heaven. They inheritead a lamd of milk end honey, -er fAlt that they- were dest.tined to ibid- here only a brief time and then ,o "hon." Wti is there in the heavenly lind vhich should cause these old heroes o "desir- it"? Why shoul. we. to iay. ha ve a thought anl car- for that rerme it is a hetter country. We i% .i an ie whb- the temporal is 1ml; '. Th' '-onuitions of life are 6e" so ;mm anId plas..nt that we ire In -:r of forg2:ting this great 'nt. Hea. v . is a imiter country than tie aode of satisfaction. Xe -re ton bi-z for this world. We rm .er i:a&isfied here, nor ought we o be. We w:il b satisfied when we nake in His likeness. It is the asy urm of life. Death reigns here, but ior there. It is the seat of rest. lesless here, there we shall have 'ternal rest. Now. our l'sson represents a desire 'or iaven an in-tjx of character and >!easig to God. Why? Surely all noen deCire heaven.Yes. in a sense, mt not in the sense meant here. ,hat ate the characteristics of a rue desire and preparation for heav n? A desire for that which is supreme n heaven. This is a holy character. Ve are to desire heaven not for its -est, its haupiness. -its pleasures; but or its holiness and purity. The ob ect of desire is always a touchstone if character. Why do you desire riealth. knowledge. power? Tell me hy. and I will tell you your charac er. Why do you seek heaven? If a rue child of God it is because there 'on will be. like Jesus. A Godlike horaeter is the real objer. of the bristian. An intense desire is necessary. Not he man who has a lazy, lanquid wish or heaven is commended to God, but he man who earnestly strives for It. )nlv the man who really longs for realth. knowledge, or fame gets It. )nly the Christian who is ready to acr'ifice everything for heav'n and oliness; secures these. It :.ust be also an unselfish desire. Ve are to seek heaven not simply o enjoy it. but to realize its charac er. Not to sit down and be happy nly, but to be prepared f ,r heavenly e'vice. is to be the thot ht -f the listian. A preparation aeaven ; to he had with the tho- at that .11 eternity is to be fMiled with ser ie for God. HDISTIAN [E Yl NOTE I SUNDAY, JULY 23. >reparing for Our Heaverly Home. Phil. 3: 20, 21; Heb. 11: 8-10, 13.16. The best way to prepare for heaven s to be in Heaven, to walk, and talk, .ndl act in heaven now. If we would have bodies fashioned .fter the divine body, we must not .11ow the bodies to do anything that s not divine. One of the chief joys of the heaven. y city is that it has foundations .verything in it is founded, is per' rinent. If you want the best description of eaven that has been revealed to ien, th'ink of the best country on arth. and say of heaven, "It is bet er still." Suggestions. There is no better: way to prepare or your heavenly home than to cake your earthly home a heavenly llace. Christ has prepared our heavenly tome; we need only prepare for it. The preparation needed for heaven s the preparation of desire-to want he things that God wants, for those hings are what we shall have there. There would be no use sending the nheavenly to heaven, for it would e unheaveraly to them. If you were going to France to ve forever, would you not learn the rench language? Then learn the anguage of heaven. When one moves into a new home, here is always the work of discard ag old possessions. Why not begin t once to throw away the things we annot take to heaven? When we move into a new house, rhat a fitting over of old carp~ets here is! But in heaven everything s new. If you are removing to a new lace, how much more joyous it is if ou have friends therei Make friends n earth of the heavenly-minded peo Quotations. Some men talk about entering :ato est, but what are they go'ing to est from?-A. J. Gordon. One should go to sleep at night as iomesick passengers do. saying. Perhaps in the morning we shall see he shore."-Becher. Heaven's gates are not so highly rhed as princes' pialaces: they that nter there must go upon their kes -Webster. kes Hie who seldom thinks of heaven is ot likely to get thither; as the only ay to hit the mark is to keep the ye fixed upon it.-Bishiop Horne. Every Endeavorer must have his wn conscience in pirayerful exercise. ut tihe lookout committee is to help imi keep his conscience in work'ling reier. W\hatever form of pledge your so icr:y aiop:s. the comamittee sicubi e to' it tiat no one joins the so ev without an earnest determina ion to live up to the pledge in letter' d in spirit. Elephant Fights With lIs Ears. A new form of injury was treated n New York the other night. A youth lad attempted to ride the bucking slephant at the new hippodrome, and :he beast. enraged beatuse she could to shake him off. flapped at and truck him with her ear's. An ele. hant's ear is said to be "some hard." xt all events the bioy had a cut head mdr one of his ears was all but off as roof of what the elephar-t could gc :onishl with her ears. A VETERAN OF THE BLACE HAWK, MEXICAN AND THE CIVIL WARS. ---rie E -r Kn- c R-m------ou . . ......... ............. ....X: ~.......... -''A" ~ ~ X... CAPT. W. W. JACXSON. Sufferings We're Protra e i and Smre -Tried Everif Knowim .flm.'yl~i it ho ?4 Relief-Serious Stomach Trou.We Cured by Three Bottles of Peruna! Capt. V. W. Jackson. 705 G St., N. W.. Washington. D. C.. writes: "I am eighty-three years old, a veteran of the Black Hawk. Mexican and the Civil Wars. I am by profession a physi cian. but abandoned the same. "some years ago I was seriously affected with catarra or the stomn oA. Mu suf;-erinrs were protracted and severe. I tried erPry 1c#&wan remedy without obta.ining relief. -In desperation 1 began the uwe of your Perana. I began to realize immediate though gradual improve ment. "After the use of three bottles every appearance of my complaint was removed, and I have no hesitation in recommend ing it as an infallible remedy for that dis order."-W. V. Jackson. Address Dr. S. B. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. So. 29. COLORADO HAS A SODA LAKE. Remarkable Discovery Made In the Heart of San Luis Valley. One of the most remarkable dis coveries ever made in the region is that of a lake of liquid soda in the in *Ocessible desert between Crestone, bl., and Hooper, in the San Luis valey. The lake is an acre and a quar ter in extent and lies at the bottom of a little basin valley in the desert On its surface soda crystals have collected to a depth of eighteen 'nches: the whole lake having the appearance of a body of ice with a hard snow covering. A recent examination by the state schocl of mines shows that these cry stals are 37 per cent pure soda, puret than most of the commercial soda offered on the market. A Denver man. E. M. Falke, has secured a lease of the land eontaining the lalfe and is now inst::lling machinery which will eca ver:. :hc nauire crystals into nar-:0 able forn. There are 4,000 tens ir. TEL e ':col of mines cxperts say tha:. the s:>da is a creation cf feld spar. The granite mases of the Sangre de Cristo range stand sentinel on two sides of the little valley. The feldspar in the granite, undergoing decomposition, collects in the lake basin. where'it is held in check by an Impervious clay, and proper ccndi tions are furnished for concentration and evaporation. Banks as Public Benefits. Many people who deal with banks every day do not really understand the proper object and purpose of bank Ing. Banks can not create money, but they can gather small sums which are distributed among the peo ple and thus create an aggregate which can be' made available for im portant business operations that pre viousy would have been impossible. Individuals, each possessing a few hundreds or a few thousands, invest It in stock in a bank, and thus a fund of $50,000 or $100,000 is established in a town or community as a great aid to- the business activity and pros perity of its people. There is no more money in the community than there was previously, but it is' In a form where it can be made to assist In the successful conduct of five times or ten times the amount of business than its actual sum stands for.-New Orleans Picayune. IN DEEP WATER. "Mind you." observed the party who was talking, "I'm speaking meta phorically now." "Ah!" rejoined the other, "I thought you were getting a bit mixed."-Chi cago Journal. COMES A Tl!~E When Code Shows What It Ilas Bleen Doing. "Of late years coffee has disa.greed with me," writes a matron from iome, N. Y., "it's lightest punish~ment was to make me 'logy' and dizzy, and it seemed to thicken up my blood. "The heaviest was when it upset my stomach completely, destr-oying my ap petite and making me nervous and irri table, and sent mec to my bed. After one of these attacks, in which I nearly lost my life. I concluded to quit and try Postum Food Coffee. 'It wvent righit to :Le sot: I found it not only a most palatable anud rere ig beverage. but a food as well. "'Al my ailments, the 'ioginess' an~dJ dizziuess, the unsatisfactory condition of my blood, my nerrousness and irri tability disappeared in short order and my sorely afihicted stomach began quickly to recover. I began to rebuild and h-ave steadily continued until now. Have a good appetite and am rejoicing in sound health, which I owe to the use of Postum Food Coffoe.'' Name givn by Postumn Co., Battle Creek, Mich. There's a reason.