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CHArTER XIII. 13.
Continued.
It "was past eight when Katharine
.Tvoke up. Mile, tie Samarie was stand
ing before Her.
"I?I?I beg your pardon," said
Katharine, "I bave been asleep."
"You've slept for three hours and
more, Miss. Pretty tired you must
Lave been to sleep in all this racket."
"I've been walking about all night
because I had no money."
"Have you. now? All night? Just
think! And a lady. I should say?we'll,
now. miss, if you'd like to brush your
hair and wash your face and make
yourself tidy upstairs, you can."
Was there ever a tetter Samaritan?
Katharine followed her. She would
have cried again, but that she was
stronger, being no longer hungry. But
she kissed tbat woman of Samaria
when she came away, and when For
tune smiled upon her once more, she
sought her out. and shed tears when
sue luuLin nun mt; &vi/u vic?uu'; ?u.i
gone, and that no one knew where she
was to be found.
Then, refreshed and strengthened,
tnd with renewed hope, and with six
pence out of the policeman's shilling
in her hand. Katharine went forth
again for the third day's tramp.
She thought that perhaps if she went
back to St. James' Park she might
find Lily waiting there for her, or per
haps Dittmer Bock.
Katharine walked slowly up and
down the whole ,ongth of the walk.
Dittmer Bock, she now remembered,
must be in the cit~ at his office. If
she only knew where that office was!
There was no sign of Lily anywhere.
She left the walk and went into the
park. There she sat down, and tried
to think what war. to be done next.
She thought that she would go to
Doughty street and see her old friend
Mrs. Emptage again. Perhaps there
might be some help even from that
poverty stricken household.
She walked all the way from St.
James' Park to Dou^'ity street. It is
a good step. You go along Long Acre
and Great Queen street and Lincoln's
Inn Fields and through Gray's Inn.
For a girl who has been walking about
all night it is a longish walk. For
tunately she had eaten a good break
fast, but it was at five in the morning.
When Katharine arrived in Doughty
street she found that the Emptage
family had gone away, and they had
left no address.
/ It was about eleven o'clock. Kath
arine turned away wearily. By this
time she had fallen into that strange
, state of mind when nothing seems
to matter. The Emptages were gone,
and they had left no address. This
Intelligence affected her very slightly.
one saw mat nitre was ?i gaic vu
the left Land side of Gray's Inn open,
and that it led intn n < ivion where
there were trees and grass and seats.
She turned in. took the first bench,
and sank down upon ic. At the other
end of the bench sat a young lady
dressed in deep mourning.
f "You look tired," said the young
lady, presently; "you look ill?are you
III? Can I be of any service to you?"
Katharine turned upon her in reply
eyes so haggard, a face so worn, so
full of despair and misery, that this
young lady started and shuddered,
"Tell me." she saitl, "what it means.
Tell me what is the matter with you."
Katharine tried to speak, but she
was past speaking. Her head dropped,
and she would have fallen forward
upon the ground but the young lady
caught her in her arms
CHAPTER XIV.
The Nubian* Desert.
There was an encampment at the go
ing down of the sun in the desert.
The great Nubiar. Desert is a ter
rible desert indeed. It covers a weary
waste of country which, if you will
examine ibe map, you will find lying
between the Nile?that part of it where
the Second and Third cataracts are
marked?and the Red Sea. It is re
ported by those who have been across
this desert?the number, for certain
reasons, is now much greater than of
old?that there are mountains in it, all
arid and bare, level plains covered
with sand, rocky passes, and low hills
surrounding small plains of sand. The
sand is everywhere. It is a hot and
thirsty country; those who live in it
are a thin, parched, and dried-up peo
ple, who are said to regard their abom
inable country with affection.
When the sun sets over the great
Nubian Desert he paints the moun
tains and rocks all manner of colors,
but especially those which have to do
With purple, crimson, and yellow; he
places the same colors, only paler, in
the sky, and he condescends to light
up the level sands with the most beau
tiful and wonderful mirages. This
evening, for example, those of tbe peo
ple who cared to look for it might have
seen in the southwest, and apparently
within easy access, a most inviting
oasis if verdure and beauty incom
parable in any climate. Saw one ever
such green grass, such bluo lakes, such
waving palms, such a suggestion of
hnhhlinff cnril1P"S "I'PfMl sllfldp. fratr
e?-? r?- T c
ranee ot' flowers, balmy rest, and uni
versal delight? Yet there were two
in this encampment who gazed upon
the scene without Joy ami without ad
miration.
"There it is again, Tom," said one
of tisem: "'a very creditable image.
You would swear that it was real,
wouldn't you?"'
"Ay. Tb's. is the Land of Tantalus.
We are always thirsty, and there are
always dangled before us the water
and the fruits which we may not
drink."
It was not a luxurious camp; the
water the peopl?? had to drink was
warm and brackish; the only protec
tion they had against the night dews
was the cotton sheets which by day
the men wore as mantles or wrapped
rouud their bodies; the food iiiey had
II
? Ri/v
i %
R BESANT ^ <
to cat consisted chiefly of dates. TTie
men were armed, for the most part,
with spears and shields, though there
were old guns among them. One would
certainly not think the tribe or the en
campment worthy of the notice of his
tory save for the fact that right in
the middle of the camp there were
sitting, witbov.t any protection of
white cotton tent, the two English
men whose remarks on the mirage you
have just heard. They were prisoners
of war, whose iives were spared when
the Egyptians wer all speared. Why
they were not massacred with the
rest lias never been found out. Fer
uaps it will remain a secret forever.
They were pretty ragged by this
time, having been prisoners and on the
tramp for six months. Their coats
hung upon their shoulders in long
strips, which they would have torn
off but for the protection afforded
against tlii sun: the legs of their trous
ers had been mostly torn off in strips
in order to provide bindings for their
f6et, from which the boots had either
dropped or had been taken off. To
walk barefooted in the African sands
ic? TPnorlich faof vortr TiOfil'iV thp
same thing as to walk upon ten mil
lions of sliarp pointed needles all red
hot. Even the eleven thousand British
virgins of Aachen had only one pin
for the whole Jot +o dance upon. But
suppose they had been ordered to
dance upon ten millions of pins apiece!
Their flannel shirts were in strips; as
for watches, revolvers, glasses, water
bottlss, belts, and everything else.
uiese .nau jout; smutr uceii iii&cn uuiu
them. Of all tbeir kit they preserved
only their helmets, "which, as bound
in common gratitude, had in return
preserved their owners' lives against
sunstroke. Their hair had grown long
and matted, like the black ringlets
of their captors; tbeir faces were cov
ered with thick beards, and six
months' wanderings in the desert on a
diet principally composed cf dates and
brackish water had taken the super
fluous fat from their fingers, sharpened
their features, given tbeir eyes a
peculiar brightness and eagerness un
known in countries of civilization,
where the human eye is apt to swell
with fatness, and doubtless added ten
years to their lives should they ever
get home.
The scene before them, apart from
the mirage, "was a landscape of low
hills and rolling ground; everywhere
was gray sand, with, for vegetation,
tufts of dead desert grass. The two
Englishmen sat side by side in silence.
There was nothing to say. When a
man has been made a tramp, without
aim or object, for six long months,
during which he has had no news of
the outer world, and has been all the
nri/1 })fi i C Tint
LI Li It; UUU^IJT UJUVi luaoij, Aiv MV?
inclined to talk. To-night the two men
were so tired with the day's march
that they sat without speaking a word,
until one of their captors brought them
supper, consistiug of some bread and
dates with a draught of water.
"Tom/' said one of them, "is the
finest beverage at the club compar
able with a good pull of warmish
water in such a place as this and after
such a day's march?"
Tom was at the very moment tak
ing that pull.
When they had eaten their supper
they began to talk.
"Tom." said the first, resuming the
conversation of the preceding night,
"my opinion remains the same. We
have 'coine back somewhere near the
place where we started."
"You see," said Tom. "that if you
should happen to be wrong, our goose
is cooked without the least doubt, and
we shall either starve in this infernal
desert or be captured again, when we
shall most certainly be stuck."
"Yes,?but 1 am sure that I am not
mistaken. I remember the outline of
those hills the very first day we were
brought in. when we expected to be
killed every instant."
"It may happen any minute as it is.
These fellows are not in a hurry, be
cause we are always in their hands.
As for me, I very well remember the
funk I was in. but I forgot the hills."
"Tom, it is the same place," the other
man repeated, earnestly. "I am sure
it is. We are within a few hours of
the Egyptian fort. I believe they
have come back here in the hopes of
meeting other tribes and getting up
another massacre, if the Egyptians can
be lured outside their walls. Tom"?
he lowered his voice to a whisper,
though not one'could understand what
they were saying?"within half a day's
march is freedom, if you want to win
it. Do you understand that?"
"* ---A - ^1/1 Ac
"II IS nut U UclX'K SilJ Hip, viu iiiau.
for my wanting to win it," he replied?
"you're a soldier. Take the command,
and tell me what to do. I will obey
if it leads lo death. McLaucblin, on
the hare chance of getting out of
this."
"We will wait until they are all j
asleep. They have left off setting a J
watch. Then we will quietly slip
away and make for the coast. I am
sure we are near it. I can smell the
sea; though it is only the Red Sea. If
we are lucky we shall sigbt the fort
and the ships."
"And suppose we take the wrong
turn, and go north, instead of south?"
"In that case, Tom, we shall travel
round the whole world, twenty-live
thousand miles, or thereabouts, before
we get to the fort. At twenty miles
a day it is only twelve hundred days,
or four years, allowing us to rest on
Sundays."
"T should give up trying for the fort
and strike off liortnwesi. wnere iaih
don is?ami Katfcerine," said Tom, with
a curious catch in his voice.
"I've sot a Katherine, too," said the
man called McLauehlin. "I'd ?;p north
west with you, old man. Oh! Tom"?
hp laid his hand on the other's shoulder
?"to he free again! To go home and
tell them w? are not dead after ail.'
Do you sometimes think of them cry
ing over usV
"ITave I thought of anything else
during the whole of the time? And
my girl, you see, has got no one. and
now she uiust be friendless. All day
long for six months I have heard hei'
sobs. If we do get away from this
prison?if ever there is a real chance of
freedom again. I will tell you about
her. 1 couldn't here "
joui s;wu uu limit*.
The snn went down at last with an
undignified bob. as ono wLo is long in
making lip liis mind to go, and only
goes at . last because he is obliged.
Immediately afterwards the color
went out of the sky and out of the
hills, and then, because there is not
much twilight in the great Nubian
Desert, the night fell, and the children
of the desert ceasing to chatter and to
scream and to quarrel, lay down upon
the sand, still hot with the day's sun,
and were all asleep in a few minutes.
Presently Captain McLauchlin touched
Tom's shoulder, and they arose and
looked- around them. Only half a
days' march to freedom! But sup
pose McLauchlin had made a mistake?
Suppose he had been deceived by the
outlines of the bills? Then, as Tom j
truly prophesied, tbey would either |
starve slowly?it is a lingering com- |
plaint, including the torture of tlie
burning heat of tlie sun and a mad
dening thirst?or they "would be re
captured. and then they would be cer
tainly speared for good. Freedom,
However, is worm some nsu, iui ius |
sake of freedom men have run the
chance of many deaths, and those even
more cruel than hunger and thirst in
the desert.
A fortnight later tbe same two men
lay in two beds in the hospital of the
friendly fort, now garisoned by Eug
lish as well as by Egyptian troops.
The half day's march had in facf
turned out to be >a march of two or
three days, with no food and no water,
because, you see, they did take that j
wrong turning. When the fugitives
were picked up by accident and a good
way from tbe fort, they were very ter
rible to look at, black and gaunt and
fierce-eyed with thirst and hunger and
the heat of the desert under the fierce
sun and the glare of the water, be
cause they were upon the shore of the i
Ked Sea. Already they seemed to
hear the flopping of the vulture's
wings and the bark of tbe jackal,
when they were rescued by a party of !
English officers come out to shoot.
At first nobody knew them. They
were brought in and put to bed, and
for a week or so they could not even
tell their story. When that story was
fully heard those that listened mar
veled and were sore astonished, be- J
cause their escape and return to their j
friends was like a resurrection from
the tomb. Lone since, it was sup
posed. their bones had been bleaching j
upon the sands with the bones of the 1
poor Egyptian soldiers who could not
run fast enough to get away. Mc
Lauchlin had been gazetted as killed.
Tom Addison, war correspondent, was
reported killed. By this time their
friends would even be going out of
mourning.
"Six months. Tom," said McLauchlin
this afternoon, the room being quiet
and shaded, and the pain well-nigh
gone out of their feet, which had
swelled up and behaved in a most
abominable manner, and inflicted dis
gusting torture upon them?''six
UJOIUUS, -IUI.LI, LUUJ gu il lUUe naj j
make a. fellow forgotten even by his
girl. They've got the telegrams now, !
and by next week or thereabouts they
will have the letters. I wonder "
"So do I," said Tom. 1
" Whether Katharine will have
forgotten ?"
"Just what I was going to say," said
Tom. "There's been a good many odd ,
things happening in the last six months
or so, old man. When they brought
us in, and my head felt like one in
flamed balloon, and my chest like
another, you began to talk of your
Katharine, and I began to think we
got mixed up somehowi You've got a
Katharine and so have I. They can't,
I suppose, be the same girl, by any
accident?"
"Mine is named Katharine Regina." j
Tom fell back on his pillow with a
groan.
"So is mine,"' he said. "We have got !
mixed up."
"Katharine Regina Willoughby, j
mine is."
"Katharine Regina Capel is mine," j
said Tom. "There's a chance for us (
yet. But isn't it odd that there should 1
be two girls christened Katharine
Regina ?"
"Perhaps they are cousins. There
ic nin-ovs n Tvnthnrinf Reiriiifl is the
Willoughby family. Who are your ;
girl's people?"
(To be Continued.)
The Dutch Succession.
The question as to the future occu
pant of the Dutch throne occupies a
writer in Le Figaro of Paris. A re
vision of the Constitution has become
necessary for the reason that should
the present Queen leave no heir the
throne would pass to a German prince.
Naturally the Dutch are distrustful of
German princes, and particularly of
this one, "of whom nothing is known
except that he knows nothing of the
country." Meanwhile the fear pre
vails that whether a German prince
succeeds or a republic be proclaimed,
the Kaiser will and some excuse to in
terfere and gain a footing in the coun
try.?New York World.
Hazing Denounced.
President De Witt Hyde, of Bow
doin, in a recent address to tlie stu
dents denounced hazing in a vigorous
manner. He called the bazer the
greatest coward and most consum
mate scoundrel on eartlj. He said
hazing was devoid of fair play?always
six to two or three to one?and he
asked Bowdoin undergraduates to up
hold themselves as gentlemen and to
keep their college clean. The essential
cowardice of the hazer has not been
sufficiently dwelt upon. It takes not
only a coward but a brute to be a good
hazer.
Huntli'sr Artnada Treasure.
After an interval of nearly two years
the duke of Argyll has resumed liis
search in Tobermory Bay, off the isl
and of Mull, for ihe sunken treasure
among the wreckage of the great Ar
mada galleon, tl;e Florida, which went
down in 15SS. The operations are be
ing conducted with the utmost se
crecy in boats hidden from sight by
canvas awnings.
The geysers of New Zealand sympa
thize "with the Vesuvius eruptioa.
throwing streams of mud and boiling
water hundreds of feet into t'f3 air.
Pt is asserted by a scientist that
without birds the insects wo.uld in
crease so rapuwy mat me miiuuu mcc
could not exist for longer than nine
years.
Compressing 300,000 newspapers by
hydraulic machinery, an Austrian ge
nius has constructed a yacht of the ma
terial thus obtained. It is sixteen feet
long, and every part, including the
D?asts and sails, is paper.
Cold storage is utilized for preserv
ing eggs for incubating purposes as
well as for family use. Should eggs
freeze their vitality will be destroyed,
but at a temperature of between thirty
two and forty degrees eggs five months
nM hflvft heen successfully hatched. It
is not known how long, exactly, vital
ity can be held in suspense under s?ch
conditions.
Of the very latest type of freight
steamers is the British ship Bellerphon,
built without masts, instead of which
she has four pillars, two abreast fore
and aft. for derricks. The hold is made
especially to accommodate heavy ma
chinery and other bulky consignments
for the China and Japan trade. Twen
on/i rlot-rififcB r>nn he
IJ "SI A W iULilCO UUU VM
worked from tlie deck.
Regarding the use of slag meal re
cent investigations have indicated that
liberal dressing of this material, al
though containing no nitrogen, serves
to increase the nitrogen in the land.
In one thirteen year test the amount of
nitrogen collected altogether per acre
in six inches of surface soil, including
that removed in the hay during that
time, amounted to almost as much as
contained in a ton of nitrate of soda. .
If the announcement recently made
from Norway is substantiated?namely,
that in that country there has been per
fected a method of extracting nitro
gen from the atmosphere by mechani
cal and chemical means, and utilizing
it for the manufacture of nitrate fertil
izers?it will certainly herald a revolu
tion in agriculture, since it will mean
unlimited quantities of fertilizing mate
rial at low cost. The next important
advance will be the devising of a
method of using water for fuel?that is,
of course, decomposing it. and applying
the oxygen, which forms eight-ninths
nf 44-c. Tpoirrht tn Assist in the Drocesses
of combustion.
BULKHEAD DOORS NEEDED.
Naval Expert Assert* Ships Cannot Do
Without Thein.
As a result of the efforts made to
surround the British battleship Dread
naught with the greatest secrecy, a
number of misleading guesses have
been made as to features of her con
struction. One of these reports was
to the effect that the Dreadnaught had
no bulkhead doors.
"** 1 ? - ovmoT-f Tl-hn
W. J3. UOWIBS, U jiaia 4
came to Boston to deliver an address
before the post graduate students iu
marine engineering at the Massachu
setts Institute of Technology, says that
he has every reason to believe this is a
misstatement. "It is plain to every
seagoer," Mr. Cowles said, "and es
pecially to those who have duties be
low decks, that there must be a few
doors connecting the large compart
ments or it will be impracticable to
perform necessary duties."
The report that the battleship Kan
sas had no bulkhead doors was made
awhile ago. This was denied by Chief
Constructor Capps. The Kansas, like
all the new ships of the navy, has
electric power doors, which in time of
danger can be closed from the bridge
of the vessel. Mr. Cowles said that he
believed power doors are the only so
lution of the problem of how to cut
out the one weak spot in the subdivi
sion of ships?the holes in the bulk
heads. The "Long Arm" power doors
now in use on our war ships, Mr.
Cowles claimed, had reached a point
where they are entirely successful in
accomplishing ^his result.
With power doors, it was explained,
?nt oTrnlrilnfr
tfie means una mcuiuu ? n
catastrophes at sea were very different
from the impracticable elimination of
means of passage from one part of a
ship -to another. "When the ship is
going into action or known to be enter
ing a fog or any dangerous locality,
the officer of the deck closes all the
doors from the bridge by means of
the emergency station there. This
emergency closure does not in any way
affect the easy opening of the doors
locally by power when any of the
crew wish to pass through. Anyone
can open the doors locally by the same
means and just as easily as if the
emergency station closure had not
been made. After passing through the
door in such a case it closes auto
matically.
"The whole operation of these elec
tric power doors means practically
that the ship is made safe In time;
that the ship is always running with
her doors shut while in a dangerous
locality, and that, therefore, she is in
an unsinkable condition when the on
expected happens."
Silenced a Harbef.
Judge John D. Lnwson, dean of the
law department of Missouri Univer
sity, tells how he quieted a barber
who had a lotion for sale. The bar
hor hn/i inqf- shaved him, r.nd, before
letting liim up, wanted, to sell him the
lotion to use on his face when he
shaved himself. "Is that what you
use on your customers?" said the
judge. "No,1" replied the barber, "it
Is so expensive I cannot afford it."
"If you can't afford it whep you get
ten cents for sbavi.jg a man," replied
the judge, "how do you e^ect me to
afford it when I shave myself for noth
ing?" The barber was nouplussed
and gave up (he sale.
Patentee of Cas.
Phillipe Lebon, who took out pat
ent in 1801 for the use of gas for
lighting purposes, is to have a statud
erected to his memory in Paris. Ho
vas murdered in 1804.
IS an esiuuijsueu luvume iui uie juuug
girls as well as for their elders and
suits them singularly well. This one
is simplicity itself, yet smart in the
extreme, and is adapted both to suit
ings and to the separate wrap of gen
a little later tbe model will be foimd
a most desirable one for tie pongees
trimming of silk banding, and Is fin
; lshed with stitching of belding silk and
| eral wear, although as shown it is
i made of reseda Panama cloth with
with little gold buttons and silk cords
down the front. For Immediate wear
the many mixed suitings are admira
ble as well as Panama cloth and all
of various sorts and the linen suits
that will be so generally worn.
The coat is made with fronts, side
fronts, backs and side-backs, fitted by
means of the seams that extend to the
shoulders, giving most becoming lines
j to the figure. xne sieeves are rue mv
orite ones in three-quarter length, but
are treated after a quite novel fashion,
being laid in one box pleat each at the
lower edge.
The quantity of material required for
the sixteen year size is two and three
eighth yards twenty-seven, one and
seven-eighth yards forty-four or one
and three-eighth yards fifty-two inches
wide, with four and oue-half yards of
banding.
Tucked Blon*e or Shirt Waist.
The blouse that is made in lingerie
style is a pronounced and well de
Correct Elbow Glove*.
Long tan gloves will be worn a great
deal this spring, but no other colored
ones are fashionable. This wearing of
long gloves on all occasions is an ex
pensive fashion, especially as white
must be worn with nearly every cos
tume. Black gloves are seen only with
a black or a black and white gown; tan
! !UI" l\*tA?trn fitul /lfivlr I
IS permissiujt; mm ui<?>.. ?
blue, but with all dark shades white is
considered smartest. Glace kid, al
though more expensive than suede,
-wears better and can be cleaned until
absolutely worn out, as It never grows
rough and shabby.
Aigrettes Are Expensive.
Everything is ostrich feathers and
enormous aigrettes. These latter are
terribly expensive, and so perishable
in wind and rough weather that they
are doubly extravagant to buy or to
wear.
lteantlfnl Cornacre Ornament.
a trt-nnn nf fprii-likp minis carried
out in diamonds set in platinum is
sliown in a novel corsage ornament.
I
served favorite, and is to be found in !
the pretty thin silk and wool materials
as well as in lawn, batiste and the
like. This one is trimmed after an en
tirely novel fashion, giving most be
coming lines to tbe figure, and is
shown in handkerchief lawn with trim
ming of Valenciennes lace and embroid
ery executed by hand, the lining be
ing omitted. When silk or wool le
used, however, the foundation will be
found an improvement. The embroid
ery gives a peculiarly chic and dainty
touch, but where it is not possible to
expend the time required, little medal
lions of either lace or embroidery can
Be substituted for the hand work, ex
ceedingly charming ones being offered
on all sides. The Valenciennes lace is
a pronounced favorite, but Cluny and |
baby Irish are close rivals, and both J
can be found in a variety of bandings.
The waist consists of tbe blouse lin
ing, tbe front and tbe backs. Tbe backs
are tucked from shoulders to waist
line, giving a tapering effect to the
figure, while the fronts are tucked at
the shoulders only, providing soft ful
ness below, and the trimming is applied
over indicated lines. The sleeves are
among the favorites of tbe season, witb
fi+tor? mifpo nhnvp whirh thpv are
moderately full. If tbree-quartei
length is desired the cuffs can be
omitted and the sleeves finished with
bands that fit the arms.
The amount of material required for
a woman of medium size is three and
three-fourth yards twenty-one, three I
two yards forty-four inches wide, with j
i and one-fourth yards twenty-seven 01!
Ribbons, Raffles and Tacks.
Skirts are ruffled with bands of nar
row ribbon trimming tbe ruffles, they
are pleated around the hips and
trimmed with tucks around the bot
torn; they are gathered upon the band,
ami the lower part of the skirt is dee
orated with draped flounces, caught Id
place here and there with ribbons
elioux and with handsome lace medal
lions. And this is the way the skirts
of summer are to be trimmed.
Choker Revivers.
The slock of llie hour is very high.
Ear-tickling heights have been reached
by the up-to-date collar, which, at its
best, is shaped at the top to point up
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suit the cliin.
Hracelctf of Mosaic.
The better kinds of beads used in I
necklaces are also made up with links
or small beads of gold a? bracelets.
There are mosaic bracelets, too, a tine
band of the mosaic work being set in
heavy gold.
Why should we cloud the sunshine
God sends to us to-day
"By fearing that to-morrow
May have a sky of gray?
Whv should we mar the blessingi
The present has in store
By longing after others
Or wishing thene were more?
Look on the bright side always.
What better plan than this?
Since fretting never changes
What we trunk's gone amiss.
Let's take things as we find them
And make the best of life
By thinking of its blessings
And not its wrong and strife.
Enjoy each hour of sunshine;
God gives it all in vain
If foolishly we waste it,
Foreboding future rain.
Look on the bright side alwayB.
And watch the blessings grow
'As flowers do in the summer?
God likes to have it so.
Take what a good God sends you
With thanks for what istgiv'n,
And trust Him for to-morrow
Just as you trust for heaven.
Aye. make the most, my comrade,
Of time that flies so fast.
By gathering up its gladness
"Before the chance ie past!
Look on the bright side always.
And sing when skies are gray,
And little ills and worries
Let's laugh them all away.
?New York Tribune Sunday Magazine,
Sentiment. ( (HI
Keep thy heart with all diligence, fo*
out of it are the issues of life?Pror.*'
iv., 23.
The soul hungers for companionship
and cannot live happily wituout it,'
When any one is inclined to withdraw*
from the society of his fellow-menf1
when he shuns the family, friends and
the world, we feel that he is becoming
abnormal.
There lurks a feeling in the human
breast that attaches us to a pet animal,;
a favorite flower or landscape, that ^
makes us prefer one being to another,
that fills us with pity tot the suffering
and the weak, with admiration for the
hero, with love for home, our neigh
borhood, our city, our country. Sentt>
ment rules the greater part of our ilves, ,
It conditions our thoughts and action*,
makes the difference between one per
son and another, creates interest and
enthusiasm for one person and one
cause in preference to another. What
is this mysterious element of the eoull
Is it magnetism, personality, eharm? |
amiability? It-is perhaps divinity seek"
ing expression through man?
Sentiment, truly, is everything. II
paints the best pictures, writes the best
books and plays. It gives that "touchl
of human nature tfiat makes all the
world kin." The busy throng hurrying
on in the mad rush of ambition stops
for a moment to comfort a crying babe'
that has lost its way or to aid some
poor blind man tottering helplessly*
Napoleon stopped in his march to battle
to turn over a turtle that was strug
gling on its back on the roadside.
Men touched with the fire of emotion
tave wrought wondrous deeds. The
master minds of the world have been
born of great love or intense hate*
Moses, the shepherd, becomes a re
deemer of men at sight of the burninfe -
bush that was not consumed?at the ^
thought of the great wrong done to
Israel by the Pharaohs of Egypt TBe
love of liberty, like an irrepressible
avalanche, swept tyrannous kings o$
their thrones and gave us the great re
publics of the world.
We seem, however, to have lost
something in the course of our modern
progress. We have cultivated the mind
at the expense of the heart. Mental
culture has repressed the emotions so
long that the heart has become atro
phied. Business is reduced to a cold
science of supply and demand. Poli
tics is a scramble for office and spoils.
Society is a series of formal entrances j
and exits. Groups are formed to be
broken up, friendships cemented to be
dissolved, marriages contracted to be
severed. Fire only can weld steel. So
only the fire of lov* can weld hearts.
Only the flame of human sentiment
can drive out of the various activities
of modern life that selfish coldness that
chills every endeavor.
But sentiment cannot be taught. It "
is spread not through precept, buti
through the contagion of example. The
watersheds of a country are on the'
hills or mountain tops. There the "wat
ers divide and flow thence down to the
valleys below. The homes are the firg{ .
sources of right living. Influences that
there are generated pervade the va
rious members. The great men and
women of a country are its moral wat
ersheds. If the great leaders of the na*
tion will cherish the sentiment that
makes for a love of the true, the beanur
ful and the good; if tl'e Congress ana
State Legislature will listen to the *
feeling that prompts men to love their,
fellow men. to do justice and walk)
humbly before God, then that senti
ment will distill through the various
layers of society, will transform poli
tics and business with the wand of
Iova Into rentre of activitv for the
common welfare and so regenerate so
ciety as to bring nearer the day of uni
versal brotherhood.?Joseph Silverman,
D. D., Rabbi Temple Emanu-El, NeTO
York, in the Sunday Herald.
To Eicape Suffering:.
The readiest way to escape from our
sufferings is to be willing they should
endure as long as God pleases.?John
Wesley.
Dl?conrace Beer Drinking.
The Bavarian Government does not
dare to forbid its railway employes to
drink beer; but systematic efforts to^
discourage beer drinking are made by,
providing coffee, milk, lemonade, and
mineral waters at cost price.
Coat of the German Thir?t.
The Germans spend on drink in a
year about $700,000,000, which is three
times the cost of the army and navy
combined, or seven times the cost of
primary education to the country, a lift
almost equals the national debt 1
a iweive iune rente ror ?neep rHmarm
F. S. Pearson bus completed the pur
chase of 4000 acres of land in the
towns of Great Barrington, Alford
and Monterey, Mass., and AusterlitzJ
N. Y. The property will be enclosed
with a wire fence twelve miles long
and seven feet high^ closely meshed
to keep out docs. Mr. Pearson has
bought CKKK) high-grade Shopshire an<
Dorset sheep in England aud lias en
gaged Scotch shepherds.
1
Opium Kills Chinamen.
It is estimated that opium kills about
100,000 annually in Cbinn. . ..
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