University of South Carolina Libraries
L_ H JANcTTc'S HAIR. ?y~" CHAuLE^ O. IIALPINE. M nv i n. i ,1.., T-. |.vii, luuseu tue biio-ju tuo-t y<ju wou, ?? * ' nette, ILct me tangle a h-ini in your hair, my i pat, !For the world to rn? !: :d no daintier sight ITh^n your brown l::iir veiling your shoulders white. ! !As 1 tanzled a hand in your 'hair, my j pet. It was brown with a golden pr'.oss, Janette, Jt was finer than xi!k of the floss, my pet, *Twas a beautiful mist falling down your waist, Twas a thins to be braided, and jeweled, ". and kissed. I 'Tw.is the lovelio--.: ii.iir in the world, my * pet. r~ Ms m was th? arm of a clown. Janette. a cinou'V hricHati ;?r>H hrftwn. mv net. I But \varmly and softly it loved to caress lYour round, white neck and your wealth t : of tress. t iTour beautiful plenty of hair, my pet. * I lYour eyes had a swimming: glory. .Janette. Stevealing the o'J, de.ir !t:ory, my pet. Jlbey were gray, with lhat chastened tinge of the sky, 5Vhen the trout lean? <iuiekest to snap the fly1 And they match with your golden hair, /? my pet. TYour lips?but I have no words, Janette? ...?A frtA f tho Hirrla wcit? ncau a? uiv ?ni?w* v*. v.?v 'i my pet, {when the spring is voung and the roses are L wet |VVi th the dewdrop* ir. each red bosom .?s.t, I And they suited your gold-brown hair, ^ my pet. jOh, you tangled my life in your hair. Janette, Twas a silken and go'.den snare, my pet, put, so pentle the bondage, my soul did ^ JThe right to continue your slave evermore, .Wita my fingers enmeshed m your hair, ^KThus ever I dream what you were, Ja^ iWith your lips, and your eyes, and your Hg| hair, my pet; ^Btn the darkness of desolate years I moan, jMlAnd my tears fairbitterly over the stone That covers your golden hair, my pet. Iff a SKETCH. || Ihis price for |g his soul. | I By F. M. Newland. jjj| Hil ONEY. money, money!" gBa w-jf )( hummed the electric wires to ]\/| O overhead. ^ "Money, money, money!" sang the sleigh bells in iB'' :Ao Stonhon Rnnn trnrl hoflrilr nlnnc I he snowy pavemenc. his very footall seemed to shout?"Good?hardrash; Good?hard?cash!" He gazed into the cold, night sky tnd saw what seemed to him a great thining, silver dollar, sailing serenely n the heavens. As he paused a moment before a wtker's shop, he saw the baker's boy n cap and apron placing a plate of lomething that looked to him like imnense copper pennies, brown ami emntine. in the* window. I Turn whichever way he would. Itephen could see nothing but money. iear nothing but money, think or talk f nothing but money. His was a aoney-cursed life. And yet it was ot the possession of money that had uined him, for he was a poor man. loney had cursed him because he >ved It, longed for it. dreamed of it y day and night, envied those who ossessed it in abundance and deposed those who did not. I "Money, money, money! shouted a tranger standing on the street corer. "Money to sell, money to give way, money to throw away for the lati who wants it! Money, money, Stephen stopped and gazed at the lan in sheer amazempnt and then ounded forward, his heart beating rildly. In his fearful haste he knocked own women and children, nor paused > see what hurt he had done. He Iras not tne oniy one in uie nurrying rowd who hastened to the side of tie strange magician who shouted the trange cry. But no sooner had Stehen reached uim than the magician miled as though he recognized him, nd gazed into his eyes as if to read is inmost soul. Stephen bore this scrutiny with the reatest impatience. Presently, a leigh dashed by and the bells rang I at ? a perfect avalanche of silver! it this Stephen could restrain himelf no longer and timidly reminded be magician of hi< lavish offers. "Oho!*' laughed he. "you want loney. do you? How much do you rant?" Stephen hesitated. Visions f great wealth danced before his yes. A sudden ambition for unmitcd possessions mounted large in is brain. *'I want all I can gr>t," he finnlly asped out. "I want hundreds of thouands?millions!" II "How earnestly do you desire it?" [sked the magician. ''More than anything else in the forld," replied Stephen, eagerly, his roice trembling with excitement. The magician smiled and his voice eas sweet as music when he spoke gain: "You can have your wish. You will Ind money everywhere. It will lie a your path as you walk along, yours or the taking. You can begin gatherQg it to-night and before you reach fiome you may have every pocket ^lled?all this oa one condition." "What is the condition?" demanded Itephen impatiently. "I will only ask you for a little of our time. You must give me one ear?a mere nothing to one so youug nd strong." "A year of my life?" cried Stephen, huddering. /'You may call it that if you like." 1 ~*3 tli/y rvi.> irioi'l 11 "hilt ftthpfS h?VP I ItpilCU mc UiUt,iv?%%?, willingly given much more and have eceived less than I have promised ou." As he spoke he produced an ccount book which he opened, showag Stephen page after page. Ou ach was the form of an agreement uly signed and sealed. Some of the tames were familiar to him. "Here's Judge Bribes," said the maIciaD. '"He has signed five years jray *b<1 receives 5fty thousand."- _ "Yes. I know him well. Ho is an older man than I." murmured stepuen. "Here is Bond, the broker." continued the magician. "He has signed away ten years and I have givcu him a million." Stephen wanted to hear no more, but reached for the book with trembling fingers. "I am young and strong." he cried. "I have every prospect of a long life. My father Is an old man. My grandfather lived a hundred years. I'll sign away one year, just one year." He wrote his name with fingers that shook with a wild joy mingled with a nameless dread. "I will hold you to your part of the bargain." he began haughtily, looking up. But the sentence died on his lips. for the magician had disappeared. In his surprise and bewilderment he was tempted to imagine the experience of the last hour nothing but a dream. However, as he started he stumbled and reaching down he found his foot had struck a bag bursting with gold and sliver coin. Laughing with delight at this evidence of the magician's sincerity he quickly gathered up the treasure aud hurried on. This was but the beginning of his good luck. Again and agian on his way home he found money till his brain grew dizzy as he tried to calculate the wealth of that one night's gathering. At last he stood on his own doorstep. "The last night in this miserable cottage." he said haughtily to himself. "To-morrow a palace! The last night of meanness and obscurity! To-morrow I will be known and envied as a rich man." "The last night, indeed!" n sad but stern voice spoke out of the darkness. "Who are you?" demanded Stephen proudly. "I am the Angel of Death. You must come with me." "But I have signed only a year, only a year," cried Stephen, gazing into the darkness with horror-stricken eyes. "It was the only year you had to live, though you knew it not You lnnst nsv the nrice?a year of life for a handful of gold."?Ram's Horn. ? Octopus-Fishing. The octopus is so repulsive a creature that one would hardly think of its being edible. Italians, however, have a liking: for it, and with them oc? topus fishing is a considerable industry. In a report by a United States Consul on the trade in Southern Italy, there is an interesting account of the method of capturing the eight-armed monster. At the end of a long bamboo pole is hung a line baited with a piece of red tag; and this, dangling in front of the rocky hiding places of the octopus, is sufficient to tempt him from his lair. In his efforts to get near the bait the creature is enticed toward the boat, in which the fisherman awaits him armed with a^rident. and at the right moment the octopus is impaled in its spikes. At night a bright light is used to attract the prey, and this in past times would take the form of an iron cradle full of resinous pine, which was carried at the head of the boat. Now science has stepped in. and the fishermen employ an acetylene lamp, which seems to be as attractive to the octopus as a red rag. Unusually large catches have been made since this form of light was adopted, and although its pioneers tried to keep it secret, they did not succeed in doing so, and now so many octopi are being caught that there is thought to be some danger that the coast will be overfished. That, however, is not likely to be the case, for the octopus comes of a very prolific race. tr^ An Ideal Trapper. Among Iredell's game trappers Is Mr. W. H. Boovey, who operates along the banks of Third Creek. Mr. Boovey was in town Saturday and sold to Messrs. Brawley & Henry nine mink hides, receiving $18.90 for them, or $2.10 each. Since the season opened in December Mr. Boovey has worked forty-two hides. The season for trapping minks is during the three months of December. January and February. Owing to such cold weather this winter, hides will be good until the middle of March. Mr. Boovey uses a smooth jawed steel trap for his business, and says during all his trapping experi truLtr utr unj uut twauwu uut uuu uiuiu. to gnaw off its foot and thereby release itself. It is not necessary to bait the trap at all. The trap is set in a mink path and is covered over with a shallow coat of sand so as to deceive the mink. Mr. Boovey scatters his traps about and some mornings it means a fifteen mile walk to go around to all oJ them. He sometimes starts out in the morning, sets traps along his route, and by the time he locates the last one, he is so far from home ttat he spends the night at the ether end of the line and returns home nest morning, bagging the night's catch as he goes. When a neighbor is bothered with minks, he sends for Mr. Boovey as he would for the thresherman in harvest time. Mr. Boovey moves his traps to his neighbor's place and is generally several mink hides to the good when he leaves.?Statesvilie (N. C.) Landmark. Living No Longer Cheap iii Asia. During a recent tour in Asia of nearly sixteen months, from February, ltHJl, to June, l!n)2, in which I visited Japan, Korea, China, the Philippines, Cochin China. Siam anil Laos, the Straits Settlements, Burmah, India, Syria and Palestine. I found everywhere a deep interest in the changing economic conditions. The common people in Asia care little for politics, but the price of* food and raiment touches every man, woman and child at a sensitive point. Almost everywhere the old days of rhpnn living ai'ii rvjcvinor .uvut Stmim. v"vl"f " * *"C3 ^ ers, railways, telegraphs, newspapers, labor saving machinery and the introduction of Western ideas are slowly but surely revolutionizing the Orient. Shantung wheat, which formerly had no market beyond a radius of a few. dozen miles from the wheat field, can now be shipped by railway and steamship to any part of the world, and in consequence every Chinese buyer has to pay more for it. In like manner new facilities for export have doubled, trebled, and in some places quadrupled the price of rice in China, Siam and Japan.?Century Magazine, j TIMBER SUNK IN RIVER BEDS. j Forttioo AvwaitA the Inventor of & Bfctliod to Recover It. 1 "If some scheme could be devised." j ;aid George VV. Noble, of Stillwater. at j the Plaukinton, "by which the sunken j i togs which fill the beds ol" rivers and ; :-reeks iu tlie logging sections of this country could only be recovered, iui- ( aiense fortunes would be made. Along '.he St. Croix waters it is estimated I '.hat logs enough are embedded iu the < s.md of river bottoms to keep the mills rimlpi- nresent con it!iiimi? i-v^i - - 4 _ litions the loss is total, for no success- [ fu! method has ever beeu devised to jfifect this saving. I "Occasionally logs cut years a so are forced by the washings ot' floods from ' their sand beds and driven upon the ; j shores, where the action of sun and J i wind dries them out sufficiently so that they will float down stream, but j the precentage of logs recovered is j ' small, and millions of dollars' worth | i of property is lost beyond recovery uui fil some enterprising genius invents a , ' machine or process to recover the tim- I ber. j "At Stillwater logs occasionally come I i to the sorting booms bearing marks in j i use half a century ago. and when they appear the old lumbermen grow reminiscent of men who have long been ? nrOI.^ imnortant I . (.WgULLCU, vui. ! operators In the pioneer logging days of Wisconsin and Minnesota. , I "Xo possible estimate can be made . of the amount of timber thus lost, but i lumbermen estimate that the rivers , of Wisconsin, in the value of the logs | , buried iu their sands, have fortunes of J millions of dollars if the logs could be i recovered. Of the billions of feet of : logs floated down your principal streams year after year, a percentage | are lost annually, finding graves in the sand. Wisconsin has been one of the big pine States, and your Chippewa, Wisconsin. St. Croix and Menominee ( rivers and their tributaries contain forj tunes in sunken timber. "Strange as it may appear, the value of the timber is not lessened, even ; after it has been submerged for half : or quarter of a century. Efforts have been occasionally made to recover sunken logs. At otie time a company was organized at Stillwater to dredge streams and thus recover some of the i timber, but the plan did not work with any great degree of success, this j IDGtDOQ oeiri? luuiiu iw caiicuoitt. Some one will come along some day with a plan, and this immensely valu| able product, now lost, will be reI covered."?Milwaukee Sentinel. % A Wonderful Motor. Details are published of a wonder} ful new motor, iuvented by Peter j Thornley, an English engineer. This ! invention is considered of such importance that its development may result j in express railway engines running at j twice their present speed at only half the cost and in Atlantic liners crossing ! from Liverpool to New York in three days. j It is almost smnU enough to be car ried in a typewriter case. The new I motor is capable of developing fifteen . hundred revolutions a minute, giving i fifteen horsepower under a boiler pres| sure of 200 pounds to the square inch j In even the best railway locomotive ; the steam is admitted after the piston j has moved from five to eight inches | along the cylinder. Mr. Thornley has j devised a valve which will admit a i given quantity of steam at every comj mencement of the stroke, and so nicely j adjusted that the expansive force of | the steam admitted is just sufficient ! to drive the piston at the end of its I journey. : j By the most modest estimate the saving in coal is twenty-five per cent., while the simplicity of the motor is such that the initial cost is much cheaper than existing types.?New I York commercial. ITalclng It Upon Horaelf. I A young woman of resolute appearI ance from one of the back townships i presented herself at the County Clerk's office in the town of M . "Is this where they take out licenses for gittin' married?" she inquired. "Yes, ma'am," replied the clerk. "Well, I want one." "For yourself?" "Course. My name's Mandy Sikes. j His is Rufus Millsap. I'm twenty-three 1 and he's twenty-seven, lioth of us i lives in Hick'ry Holler." The blank was properly filled out and handed to her. "How much?" she asked. j "Two dollars." She took two silver dollars oat of a i pocket in lier dress. "That's what I told him it'd be." she remarked, passing the money to the j clerk through the little window. "It ain't me that's payin' for this. It's j him. He was too bashful to come and git the license himself, and I wasn't going to let 110 man's foolishness spile : a weddin'." Carefully folding th? document, she j placed it in her pocket and took her departure..?Youth's Companion. The Mirror Never IlatteM. Be happy, girls, you are prettier than you think! Every girl who is dissatisfled with ! herself should remember that she is ! better looking than the kindest of looking glasses bids her believe. A mirror cannot flatter a face that is iu its natural state?that is. not i "made up." Even the very best plate j glass has a pale green tinge, which ! reflects a color a trifle less clear than 1 the original. Hair also has always a more glossy i sheen than the glass shows. If it is ! wavy, the glass never shows the best of the waves, and if it is straight, the ' glass increases the straight appear j ance. v More important and still better to be J remembered and carefully treasured, i no one ever looks at the face so closely or so critically as the owner of it looks at the reflection in the glass. Blemishes that are a grief to a girl may pass quite unnoticed by her friends.?Pittsburg Dispatch. 800,000 Worth of Cocaine. The United States is buying 30.000 ounces of cocaine a year, at about $3 an ounce. Of this only a small proportion is used legitimately. Some States have forbidden its promiscuous sale, but the laws have not been enforced. It robs tlYe victim of his mental faculties and destroys his moral responsibility in briefer time and in greater degree thaa f-ay ?ther drug. i mm n I'll' * 1 1? -' g* New York City.?Short coats are the 'avorites of the season for handsome suits and promise to still further in?niid c-/i flrnln ifA(Tim ThSo ft T .? *t Vf.intrm .icaou l. UT; 1L VUgUU. X li IO lUUJ J1UUIVU BLOUSE ETOtf. >ne is peculiarly smart and includes ttoth a novel yoke collar and wide ileeves finished with flare cuffs and falls of lace. The model is made of mixed gray cheviot, with threads of white and of blue, and is trimmed svith white cloth and blue velvet to ;ive an exceedingly handsome as well i?"-/>vel effect, but all suiting materials are appropriate and trimming can be varied again and again. Braid of all sorts is in style and numberless oandings are shown. The flat neck is specially desirable and the box pleat jffect at the back, produced by the elongated yoke, is as becoming r.s it Is new, inasmuch as it does away with the broad back apt to result from i plain blouse. The Eton is made with fronts and back and is fitted by means 01 suuui3er and underarm seams. Over it is arranged the yoke collar, which droops aver the shoulders, and both neck and front edges are finished with a shaped band overlaid with pointed tabs. The belt is full and arranged over the lowA Late Design 1 .^wsaaeaei er edge, closing with the coat at the front. The sleeves are made in one piece each, are tucked above the wrists aud are held by the cuffs, the pointed bands concealing the seams. The quantity of material required for the medium size is four and one-half yards twenty-one inches wide, three and seven-eight yards twenty-seven inches wide, or two and ono-eighth yards forty-four inches wide. The Fad For Laces. The fad for gold lace is shown in - ** * ? 'J? ^ many or tue trimmings, n. wiue gum. ribbon has a band in the centre of solid embroidery ia pastel green. The same with violet, blue, red, etc, is also shown. An eighteen-inch imitation crochet lace, for yokes, or other trimming for waists, is inset over its surface with open medallions worked with colored silks, showy, but beauti* ful. Bands to match are to be had. A. kind of Spanish lace flouncing ia very effective, the white flounce being '' 1 ? ? ?^1 * larfro nro r_ appuqueu uyy?iau..Y ?n,u lands and knots of line black laco. As a matter of fact, the white and black are woven together. Something: New in Apronfl. Pretty things in the way of aprons are to be seen in the shops. One of them is made of wide sash ribbons in pretty flower designs, joined by insertions of lace, and with a lace edging across the bottom to match. There is a little round bib, trimmed with the ? i-~ ? ia.ce auu wiut' nuvuu. iu jluul^u iuc color of the flowers in the ribbon, to fasten around the waist Inexpensive Trimming. A new and most inexpensive as well as effective way of trimming undergarments, shirt waists, sofa pillows and children's clothing is the brier ditching, which can be easily, accom ' / jff> '$>/ # i , plished by tL-e woman who has deft tingera. The garment should first have' a pattern traced lightly on it with a pencil, then tiie worker may proceed to feather stitch with lustre ' rioss or any ot' the wash silks. 1 Feminine Waistcoats. ] Crossed waistco.' fronts of ermine ] represent a novelty which is winning j \ a good deal of favor at present. The I ( bodice is cut away to srhow the wnole | , front, the fur being confined to the , waistcoat alone, and it is a point to be noted that this particular style of garment is in the form of a complete 1 dress and not a removable coat and > waistcoat. A dark blue velvet gown with white spots was treated in this fashion, the sleeves being finished with shirred frills of batiste edged ( with Valenciennes. Wa3hable Glares. , In the matter of small but important accessories of dress, the new washable gloves are cordially indorsed. Mohair Shirt Waists. Mohair makes up well in shirt waists. This material has almost taken the place of the flannel waist so long a favorite. Crepe Gowns. Crepe gowns are considered very smart for indoor purposes when trimmed with deep silk fringe. Misses' Military Coat. All things that suggest the military are dear to the girl's heart and certain to find favor In her sight. This smart little coat, designed by May Manton, includes a novel cape, that is laid in pleats over the shoulders, and the severe standing collar that is characteristic of the style. As shown it is made of military blue cheviot, with bands of black braid and gold buttons, and is --* W..4. I single breasted witn iuu sieeve?, uui various cloaking materials are appropriate and the cape can be omitted in favor of shoulder straps, and the coat >y May Manton. j caa be made double breasted with ! plain sleeves substituted for tlie fuil ; ones when desirable. The coat is made with fronts and backs and is fitted by means of shoui""J"".!""! on/1 nanfl?a hficlf RPfllllS. UCI, UUUCIULUI auu v^guuv. ? the underarm seams being left open for a short distance at the lower edge to provide flare. The cape Is circular and is rendered specially graceful by the pleats which are stitched for a'part of their length only. The full sleeves are made in one piece each, gathered and held by the cuffs, but the plain ones are made in regulation coat style. The quantity of material required for the medium size is four yards twenty-seven inches wide, two and seven-eighth yards forty-four inches wide, or two and one-half yards fiftytwo inches wide when cape is used; misses' military coat. three yards twenty-seveu, t;vo and one-eighth yards forty-four, or one and three-quarter yards flfty-tm) inches .wide when cape is omitted. ' SMALLPOX KILLS INDIANS tribes of Natives Have Spread ths Scourge Bioadcast. Sixty Deaths Reported in the I*le De Cross District Froin the Di Hease?? ICelief Expedition Sent Out At Winnipeg, Manitoba. ? It has been known all winter that the Indians in & the far North have been suffering from [ smallpox, but it was not considered seAi rious until a message arrived at the Indian Department stating that during the last few weeks more than sixty deaths have occurred in the Isle de Cross district from smallpox, aided by starvation. w The Catholic mission at that point, under the Rev. Father Simonin. has been making heroic efforts to stop the g, spread of the disease, but has met with but poor succAs. The mission is usually well stocked with medicines and provisions, but owing to the severe . winter had run short at the time the disease broke out. I> The disease has extended on all sides of the settlement, owing to the flight H of the natives, who spread the smallpox everywhere they went. Dr. Mc- A. Culloch will remain in the district uutil the smallpox is entirely wiped out. and he has been given orders to vaccinate every person he meets while away. A Antoine Marcelin, a well-known trader. has arrived in Winnipeg, and also A gives information of the seriousness of the outbreak. "This is a revival of T an outbreak they had several years ^ ago, only this is on a far larger scale, and has nearly wiped out the entire settlement." he said. "These people are a branch of the Crees and call themselves Chipewyans, but in French we call the tribe Montaenais. The set tlement was getting very short of food when I was there a few months ago. b Owing to the severe winter the Indians ? have been unable to get'-oat and attend V to their hunting and fishing, and I can " quite believe the reports that they are ? starving. Symptoms of the smallpox c have never left the district since the b outbreak there several years ago." ji Commissioner Laird, of the Indian ? Department, announced that an expe- ^ dition provided with medical comforts * and guarded by a detachment of North. ? west mounted police has left for the y scene. Dr. McCulloch, of Battleford, c accompanies the expedition, and soon y after he started a message was re- * ppivprt from him statine that every one I on the way north is talking of the dis? ease, which is far worse than was at ' first supposed. He considered-that Jhig stock of vaccine was not nearly, sufficient, so sent for more. DIED FROM POISONED CANDY. Iowa's Governpr Refuses Extradition of Woman Suspected of Crime. Pierre, S. D.?After a week of intense suffering Miss Rena Nelson,-the victim of poisoned candy sent from Boone, Iowa, is dead at her home, six miles from Pierre. From the first the at? tending physician held out no hope. Des Moines, Iowa. ? Mrs. Sherman Dye. of Boone, accused of sending nnisnn^d randv to Miss Rena Nelson, at Pierre, S. D., of whom she was said j to be jealous, cannot be extradited for the crime. Neither can she be tried for murder in Iowa. Governor Cnmmins say: "The ruling I am compelled to make upon this application exhibits a grave defect in the law. "The holdings in this opinion are i clear and explicit to the effect that to , warrant extradition the persons accused must have been personally in the State where the crime was committed, and must have fled therefrom after the commission of the crime. [ "Mrs. Dye was not in South Dakota, i and therefore could not have fled from ) that State." : j SENATE INCREASE'POR' FORTS. 1 Bill Reported With Appropriations of $500,000 More Than Provided. Washington, D. C?Senator Perkins, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the Fortification bill with a net increase of $506,000 over the bill as passed by the House, and making the total of the bill as reported to the Senate $7,637,192. The principal increases are: For purchase of submarine torpedo boat for use of school of submarine defenses, $250,000; for ammunition for machine and automatic guns. $100,000; for ammunition for seacoast cannon, $150,000; for construction of seacoast batteries in the insular possessions, $200,000. The appropriation in the House of $200,000 for sites and defenses of the Hnwaiifln Islands is eliminated. BULLET MISSES STATE SENATOR Leader of Bate's Canvass in Tennessee Has a Narrow Escape. Knoxville, Tenn.?An attempt to assassinate State Senator W. L. Ledger- , wood, leader of the advocates of United t States Senator William B. Bate for re- t election in this county, was made as he * was coming to this city on the dummy c train from his suburban home. The dummy was crossing Anderson c street, in the northern part of the city, v when a bullet was fired from the out- i side and crashed through the window v where Senator Ledgerwood was sitting, I within a few inches of his head. His ' hat and clothing were showered with ? bits of glass. There were only two ? ** ?I? 4-Krv /iaaaH an/1 flmv OUUBr [Jiisseugers in cut- tumu, ?uu were seated in the opposite end of the car. Mining Expert Arrested. The Hon. Martin Buckley, former ] member of the Montana Legislature, < .was arrested at Butte on a charge of < 'criminal libel preferred against him by 1 the Hon. Marcus L. Hewitt, general 1 (manager of the Cataract Copper Min- j 5ng Company. j Berlin Eanker a Suicide. Hugo Brendel, a partner in the bank- | ing firm of Brendel & Co.. at Bremen, . Germany, which suspended a few days j ago, committed suicide. Sporting Brevities.The St. Louis Nationals have picked 1 Houston, Texas, for their training ] .ground. j Jim Jeffries is training industriously s in New York in anticipation of a battle ? with Jack Munroe. "Young Griffo" wants to go to Aus- j tralia, and friends of the once great .j boxer may raise a purse to send him < back to the Antipodes. President Tebeau. of the Louisville Club, has announced that he will carry . ouly sixteen men this season. Tweuty- ^ Ave are under contract faj viivuw m jftrcajtfelsl i jfefjebirfe Tlie Lovo of Go4. ! ; first I prayed far light;, could I but see the way, i )w gladly would I walk to everlasting asked the world's deep law before my. eyes to ope, id let me see my prayer fulfilled, and ' . 3 realize my hope. But God was kinder than my prayer, jj And darkness veiled me everywhere. I aa next I asKea ior etreiiguu, mat, * might tread the road rith firm, unfaltering pace to heaven'? serene abode; # iat I might never know a faltering, failing heart, # . it manfully go on and reach the highest part. ^ But God was hinder than my prayer, i And weakness checked me everywhere. | * nd then I asked for faith; could I bat trust my God, d live in heavenly peace, though foe? were .aIt<abroad. 'is light thus shining round, no faltering should I know; nd faith in heaven above would make A ~/i, heaven below. 1 But God was kinder than my prayer, ? And doubts beset me everywhere. j nd now I pray for love, deep love to God and man? . love that will not fail, however dark His plan; hat sees all life in Him, rejoicing in Hi* power, .nd faithful, though the darkest clouds of gloom and doubt may lower. And uod is Kinder tnan my prayer, , ? Love fills and blesses everywhere. 7 ?Ednah D. Cheney, in Christian Work* Criticism and Work. It is both natural and easy to criticise, ut as George Eliot used to say: "It is isier to criticise'.than to be correct.". The indency to? coti&pe is always strong with1 ns, but never is it stronger than in the ears when our eyes are keen and fresh, ays Wellspring. As time goes on we beome accustomed to stains and blotches, to lemishes and blunders, and they do not ir upon us as they do when yet unspoiled v r calloused; we measure all things by the igh ideals which God plants in hearts raich are young. It is not wise for young eople to suppress entirely their critical acuities or to smother the hot indignation vhich they feel in the presence of suffering >r wrong. The world is never so fine aa oung folks expect it to be, and the church tever turns out to be so good as young >eople first dream that it is. The disap ointments of the disillusioning years, the mperfections of men, the defectti of mati utions, .?aa tne out-or-jointness or tilings a general sometimes drive the critic from tne mood to another until he becomes )oth sour and' skeptical, and takes his )lace in the seat of the scornful. A man _ ..p. vho sits down in; his scorn is known as a :ynic?about the' most useless and moat xitiable of all the descendants of Adam. ' s Do not allow yourselves to become blind ;o defects, or to be satisfied with things is they are. Alas for the man or woman who submits so completely to the world Iaaab <-hA /loaiM 4-a molrn l1- VtaffAi*! l/Uats liU iuoca bUC uc^iiu w uiua^ iv uvwek * [n the words of a wise Scotchman: "The irst open look of young eyes on the condi* tion of the world is one of the principal regenerative forces of humanity. Keep pour keen eyes and your exacting con* science, but be careful to work as well as A critic who degenerates into a chronvo / Fault finder is a nuisance aud a curse, Criticism is never sane unless accompanied by honest work. The old I^atin poet Lucretius spoke truly when ho said: "It if x pleasant thing to stand upon the shore find see ships tossed upon the sea, to stand in the window of a castle and watch a bat* tie on the plain below." It may be plea*- ant, but it is base to hold one's self aloof from the Christian church, criticising ita blunders, but doing nothing to settle it# problems or .lighten its burdens. . . / ? J Oar Bellcion. J % iris A reader of the Old Testament moat be impressed, if he be a thoughtful student of what he reads, with the fascination which novelty in religion always possesses, jays the Chicago Interior. It is difficult for us to conceive what charm the cults ol Egypt and Assyria possessed, b?it thft faithful in Israel had. continually to lift up their voices agaiostjyie priests of Apis, tha {jropirets of Bs^l, ajnd ev*n tne votarlST&I the still- grosser tqrms of idolatry practiced by the Canaanit^s. The same spiritual phenomenon exhibited itself at Rome, tvhere the worship of the Egyptian Isis at one time threatened to replace that o| Jove, and later, the mysteries of Mithra, From Persia, drew after them practically cue WDOlt? paujuiau uieuus. xw uia&co au vuv difference in the-world whether our rel* rion is a home or a habit, a roof tree that oas sheltered us or a costume that has merely pleased our fancy. We resent' change in what is dear to us as much ' we hate aamene^ in what is simply a con- . mention. A religion which is merely for* anal, external, becomes as tiresome as an jut-of-date garment, but for a religion v ' which goes down by its roots into the heart jf life, men will eo to the stake. A new Faith, or an old'iaith, revamped, will oft* times spread like wildfire, just as a new :ut of a gown will, and for the same reason: because we possessed the former, but it never possessed us. But a religion which enters into all our ways, continuing >ur aims, sanctifying our affections anq iominating imagination itself, is ours till leath. No strange god can be set up in the ;emple which the Shekinah of His presence :ompletely "fills" with its glory. The Crime of Complacency. . * No man has a right to be satisfied witb vhat he has done. A famous artist wai iflce found by a friend gloomily contemdating his last painting. "I see nothing vronz with it," said the friend. "Neithel lo I. replied the artist. "I'm satisfied, ind?I shall never paint another great pic* ure." The same truth was in the mmd if a grand old veteran in Christ's causa, vho said, when congratulated on the manfold achievement of his life: "It is not vhat I've done that I think of, but what ,'ve left undone." As .Robert Browning vTote: 'Life has no place for satisfaction in well* doing. On the earth the broken arcs; only ut heaven a perfect round." , Finding: the Gold. How fond we are of thinking about what re have not, instead of about what we have! [t has b^en well said that "some people's :ast-ou napmneas, uue tueir ctui-uu :lothea, woufd make some other people rery happy." The cheeriest lives are not :hose that have the most, but those that appreciate the most. Every one of us bu i gold mine of unworked joy close at hand. But gold needs searching for?are you findng yours??Sunday-School Times. j Poverty. To many a test of character ? lodged in. poverty. ? Rev. Dr. Adams, MethoaVst, rooklyn, N. Y. A Useless liurdea. It has been well said that no man ever iank under the burden of the day. It u ,vhen to-morrow's burden is adde* to the burden of to-day that the weight is more :han a man can bear. Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember thi*:| t is your doings, not God's. He begs you :o leave the future to Him and mind the aresent. What more or what else could fte do to take the burden off you?-* Jeorge MacDonald. ,/ Forsctfulness of God. Forgetfuluesa of God is the path that eads to manifold evila.?United Pre*by:erian. is