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IN THE FX) Ixv / 'y?-s ? < ' * * \ -T- i - i> " <-^ ALBERT SI A FAMOUS AMER There must be something in sporting blood that produces the musical temperament when the two most talented of young American musicians, Geraldine Farrar and Albert Spald " ? V. fViA ohiMrnil n f fomnilCI lug, aic uuiii Luc ^unuivu w*. ?? baseball players. Tlie distinguished soprano Is the daughter of Sid. C. Farrar, long a member of the Philadelphia Nationals, ?;nd the greatest of American violin virtuosos is the son of Al. G. Spalding, whose career and fame are too well known for repetition here. Mr. Spalding is a violrnist of the most extraordinary technical powers. He has a beautiful sensuous tone," great warmth of conception, joined with a comprehensive mentality which enables him to put these qualities to the best use. Spalding has in his artistic makeup that which appeals to both layman and professional; his warm, singing, soulful tone will always please a miscellaneous audience, while his maBtery of the violin, his sterling musicianship and his exquisite taste in all things pertaining to interpretation must win the admiration of connoisseurs. Spalding's technique is high-ly developed; it is I fluent, it is reliable and clean cut. Whiit- matps Snalrtinsr's art nartic- I ularly attractive are the above mentioned qualities of his round,- noble, Tinging tone, which recalls Wilbelmj's, and a temperament filled with youthful freshness. ^lbert Spacing was born in Chi cago in 1888, and began his studies at an early age with Professor Chiti in Florence, where he lived in the winter, studying in the summer in his own country with the Spanish master, Professor J. Bultrago. When he was 1 RACE SUICiDEf Applicant For Position?"No, mi dren; up to now I've always worked i have none."?Illustrated Bits. Head Rest For Bed. An adjustable head rest for beds that will be found very useful in hospitals or sick rooms has been inventpri hv an Illinois man. It can be fixed at any height or anglo that will ! L_J l.'OtllU JU Oiv-rw nuUm. the patient comfortable. Brackets rise fro.n the sides of the bed near the head. There bracket are notched in the back and can themselves be adjusted to different angles. A rotable head rest frame is r>>voted o.i these bracket's arnd this frame naturally * . i *3LIC EYE, * ^ D ^ *' ' '' **'^*'"5 .'9HB^H|^9BHH^B|^^^HKnMjjHm9>f^ &P ?Hi ? Hi . I^B^PflBMgUHljBByBMBBMMHiflftBrfl!^H^^^^K-%l&* ^^BHi^HKaSBt2ra0^HH^9HSM?3ffi5?aH^B<" PALDING, ICAN VIOLINIST. fourteen he took the first prize of the | Bologna Conservatoire, and finished J his studies in Paris with Lefort. I !. Making a Paper Aeroplane. A very interesting and Instructive ! top aeroplane can be made as shown in the accompanying illustrations. A sheet of paper is first folded, Fig. 1, then the corners on one end are doubled over, Fig. 2, and the whole piece finished up and held together j with a paper clip as in Fig. 3. The i oanor oiin to hp used should be like I v"f ? ? . ^ \ F.? I " n . Fi? 3 A I Folding the Paper the one shown in Fig. 4, writes J. H. ' "* " - ?"> ? n/r 1 ? Tf tjrawiora, 111 jroyumr uiecuuuiva. m one of these clips is not at hand, form a piece of wire in the same shape, as it will be needed for balancing purposes as well as for holding the paper together. Grasp the aeroplane between the thumb and forefinger at the place marked A in Fig. 3, keeping the paper as level as possible and throwing it as you would a dart. The aeroplane will make an easy and graceful flight in a room where no air will strike it. In 300 balloon ascensions there is, on an average, one fatal accident. GOOD FORM. iu the best families, where they don't i will take any inclination. It can be fastened in one position or can be left free to move with the movement of the patient. While the rest is designed primarily to support the head and shoulders, it can be used as a foot or leg support in cases where a man's leg needs to be raise I from the bud or kept ?n a fixed position. Ot course, the device may be used by persons who are not. sick if they feel the need of some contrivance to change their atttude in bed.?Philadelphia Record. Staid Awake. "I want to thank you," said the orator, "for the manner in which you :ave attention to my remarks. Your ;ittitudo was gratifying!}- different from the others." "Yes," replied the auditor; "but J don't want any credit that is not due me. 1 have had insomnia for weeks.'* ?Washington Star. A year's fishing in this country amounts, in value of product, to about $64,000,000. HOIVrE MADE. I do not yearn for terrapin or salmon steak-or trout Or venison or quail or ennvasback Or lobster a la Newburgh or a dish of devilled crab Or mushroom# or traffics rich and black, Bnt n>7 hearts go- harking backward o'er tne beat en path of years To places where 1 once was wont, to roafri. Ana again 1 see before me on a china platter piled The shortcakes that they used to bake at j home i They went, into the oven, just a dozen to the pan. Like little halls of light and fluffy snow. And they issued forth like cobblestones or prehistoric flint, Or any substance far removed from dough. But 1 think of them with longing and t wish for them once more When I go to fish for tarpon in the foam, For I'd like to take one with :me for a sinker on my line, l*he shortcake that they used to make at home. ?Minna Irving, in the New York Sun. "Quite a large sign there, 'Post No Bills. So it is. I wish my tailor could see it."?Birmingham AgeHerald. "He's got no license to talk the way he does." "Oh, he's got a license, all right. What he lacks is a muzzle!"?Cleveland Loader. "Why do you think the milkman is selling us condensed milk, dear?" ''Because two quarts of it justs fits a quart jar."?Houston Post. "Papa, Mr. Blitheringtoa says he will kill himself unless you let him have me." "Does he say that as a threat or a promise?"?Chicago RecDrd-Herald. Uncle Bill?"How much money have you got in your bank. Tommy?" Tommy?"Not much. The depositors have fallen off awfully since Vio- _ let got engaged."?Judge. The breeze that sweeps the waves serene Removea the dust, And keeps. I trust. The ocean clean. Him?"I was confused for a bit, I confess, but it took me only a moment to collect my wits?" Her?"Yes, It couldn't take any longer than that. Go. on."?Cleveland Leader. The Count?"Ah! Do net refuse me, sweet angel of my dreams, for [ cahnot live without you." The Heiress (reflectively)?'^That's just what I was afraid of."?Life. Husband (to wife, packing trunk) ?"But how am Ir?oing to get my things in?" "Wife?**I don't see that you need to take mnclf, my dear; You look very Swell as you are."?Life. Jones (to friend who is showing bis collection of "old masters") ? "How do you know they are origin- ' ? i_o>? Tiron fr\rv <jmnr+ ! dis ; JL' I jLUULU. Vli, x nwu vvw v , to play into the hands of a dealer. I bought 'em myself right on the spot." ?Judge. The Maiden Aunt?"No, sir! No traveling second-class on the continent for me. How do I know with what strange man I might be locked into a compartment?" "That's so. But the man wouldn't know what was coming to him, either."?Life. The joker bid? ub laugh our fill And be exceeding gay; But when one turnK -up in a bill We seldom feel that way. She?"Did you see where some man declares that women are not honest He?"Well. herfsl'ritgh.t.in say- , ing so." Sho (fierce^)?"Wnen'did you*-4ver know me*to do a dishonest i thing?" He (tenderly)?"When you robbed me of my peace of mind and stole my heart, you dear little thief!" ?Baltimore American. Artemis (gazing into the crystal) ?"I see rolling downs?crowds?po- j lice?horses. They are racing. The horses round the bend?the jockeys lash them. They near the post?two read neck and neck?a dead heat? i no?one o? them dashes ahead and I wins." Client?"Yes, yes, but which? What are the winner's colors?" Ar- I temis?"Alas, I cannot tell you! I | am color-blind!"?Punch. The President antf the Magazines. Talking with more xiian. one visitor, the President expressed himself very freely on the subject of the attitude of the magazines rfnd newspapers. Mr. Taft does not accept this criticism as sincerely made. He attributes the antagonism of the magazine writers chiefly to the demand for muck-rake copy. He feels it the more keenly because the magazines are the recipients of what he calls a subsidy from the Postoffice Department. Lt appears to him gross ingratitude for the periodical press to attack the , Government, which annually con- j tributes millions of dollars to its support. Conscious of the rectitude of his purposes, he finds it impossible to understand how persons so well informed as are the political wrrters for j the magazines and the correspondents of the daily papers can impugn his motives or give to political news the representations which he reads in the press.?William Bayard Hale, in i worm s^vorK lor June. ? KiHjr George Coins and Stumps. Every time a king or queen dies in England the coins' and stamps are changed. George V. is said to be authority on stamps, so all new designs will be handed in to him to bo looked over and O K'd. After Queen Vic- I toria died it was about a year before any notice was given out about new j coins and ?.amps, and some old issues of postageptamps bearing the picture of King Edward wore only last week put on sale, and this is the first, time any new stamp has been given out right after the death or a sovereign. These stamps are snven pen ay grays, about fifteen cents apiece. King George's coins will have his profile looking to .the left, while those of Kiag Kflwara iook to tne rigru. i^uecn Victoria's were to the left. King Edward prayer books arc evon now cfjt of the market, the new King George > cVlition having just hc?n put on sale. J Perhaps a million of the Edward VIr. | prayer books are in the hands of printers and book Kellers?dead loss to holders.?New York Press. In Norway the average length of life is greater than iu any other t country. M 1 ? i ! THE PULPIT. A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY REV. LYNN HAROLD HOUGH. Thome: The Theologian's Task. Brooklyn, N. Y.?In the Summerfield M. E. Church Sunday morning the pastor, the Rev. Lynn Harold Hough, preached on "The Theologian's Supreme Task." The text was from II. Corinthians 10:5: "Bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ." Mr. Hough said: The theologian has a multitude of tasks. His world has room for many a Hercules. In its vast fields there is a summons to infinite toil and there is opportunity for high and varied achievement. In his hand the theologiau holds a book which he is to master and to interpret. This is no simple achievement. The work enlarges and divides itself until this book becomes the creator of vocations.Sometimes the theologian is a student of detail. With the microscope of his scholarship he applies himself to the mastery of the words weaving arrnsa Hip nacres nf the hook. Noth in? about their life or history is too small to claim his attention. For this work he needs large resources. In the Old Testament field, all the Seraitic languages have aid to give him. In the New all Greek literature ma7 be laid under tribute. A grammarian with eye alert for the slightest shades of meaning, he toils with patience through the years. He builds libraries and grows gray?whole generations of him have grown gray?in accomplishing this task. Sometimes the theologian is a situdent of the problem of authorship, weighing the evidenceof useof words, of point of view, and the historical background pre-supposed- in particular portions of the Scriptures, and so rescuing btftied documents from the Hexateuclii'or discovering the unknown prophet' of the Exile. Sometimes he is a Biblical theologian in the more formal sense, studying the theological outlook of different periods, and scientifically setting forth the teaching of the various authors of the book. At his summons the prophets once more walk before us: Amos, with his passion for rightor?nonosr TTnsea. thft nrODhet of the suffering love of God; Tsaiah. stalwart statesman prophet in the nation's crisis; Jeremiah, against whose bent bare life the awful blasts beat in fnry, and the sunrise prophet of tho Exile, with face aglow with light aiid heart athrob with His great message of vicarious suffering; these, with all the other figures of that wonderful Old Testament life, and out of it all God, with His high righteousness and tender love, engaged for generations: in the training of a people?a great, divinely guided hisiory pointing more and more clearly forward to a Coming One, who is to be at once its explanation and its goal. The ideas of the variotls men who spoke to the nation.. the outlook of different periods, and the way of looking at life and the things of God which in a general way characterizes the whole Old Testament time, the Biblical theologian: makes clear to us. Then at last the New Testament fife?the majestic figure of the Spotless One, wii:h the winsomeness of brother humanity, and the awesomeness of the divine?the great Redemption Deed, before which we hide c ur faces?a deed in which infinite love, infinite woe, infinite rightsousness and mtinue nope speait lorever iu ue world. Following Christ, the ni'?n with lives struck into flame from His, their words and work as redemptive begin their conquests in history. Then, ere we close the pages of the book, a glimpse of the "light, never seen on sea or land," from Jerusalem the golden. From all this pageant of great figures and great deeds, with its one supreme figure and one supreme deed, the meaning is extracted so that the teaching about life which comes from Jesus and which is given by the various New Testament authors. Is set systematically before us, and at last continued in such fashion that we come to see and appreciate the New Testament point of view. Sometimes the theologian is: a historian tracing the life of the church through the burden-laden years, or the movement of its thought as it has ceaselessly grappled with tho problems of the faith. The ages become articulate through his tMl and the past comes before us, flung warm from his pen. There are great and necessary tasks, and master minds have been devoted to them. There are great tasks and stepping stones to a higher ?the supreme tasu: or an. There comes one great demand to the theologian. When the wonder of the book shines out and the power of its teachings is felt?as the past becomes real?then the present stand.* waiting. This past must be poured into the life of to-day. The book? the Christ of the book?the faith of the book, must be interpreted to the life of now. And this interpretation is not to be a placing of Christianity in some mere section of life. Every thought ig to be brought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. Christianity is either the explanation of all life?the key to it?or it is nothing. And to show that "The acknowledgment of Gcd in Christ, Accepted by Thy reason solves for Thee, all questions in the earth and out of it" to construct a vital, organic view of life, dominated by the e3sentials of Christianity, this is the superb work to which the theologian is called. We nceu to xaco the fact that the world cannot permanently accept a religion which is smaller than life. To refuse like the distinguished Ger man theologian, Albrecbt Ritschl, to relate Christian truth to scientific, truth, is to s:'.gn the death warrant or the faith. Does it seem an ambitious thins to demand a Christ dominated and a cross - dominated universe? Anything less means that when the fog has lifted from men's thoughts there will be a Christless universe and a hopeless universe. To take a metaphysically divine Christ, an atoning death, an actual resurrection, a trinity of rich and perfect personal Cod life, an actual salvation from actual Bin; a new life for men, a great ultimate goal in Christ, and with these to unlock every door in this universe ?this is the supreme task of the theologian. What is to he his relation to men'' He is to be a student of all life and of all literature. lie listens?ch, so eagerly!?to every voice of humanity. T- -' ' 'o- -'"'onllu itu flnorlc! in nrrlci Jit; otituivra iuicun,f ~ %?.v?v. to understand what they all mean. Thus he discovers that the very structure of life, as it is, demands what Christianity offers, and that without it, life is a hopeless enigma. His great apologetic is that the closer you eet to the centre of human F.ife. the closer you get to the need of Christ. The real in life and literature cornea at last to one great yearning?sometimes an unconscious vearniny-, but a yearning still?for Christ. What is the theologian's relation to Christian experience? This is the central fact of his life and thought. The faith has brought tc him and to others salvation, and in the radiant light of that, fact he interprets it. To express in all its relations the philosophy of the total Christian experience of the church, is a brief way of defining systematic theology. This inner life of the church is a power in deciding the great problems of theology, and a necessary guide in the interpretation of the Rible. The theologian ever studies Christian consciousness that he may adequately express it. What is his relation to the Bible? It has a vital, but not a mechanical authority. The Bible is not his nope. Tt vindicates its authority as God's Word, as God's unique revelation, because it, and it alone, brings the message which gives complete peace and leads humanity to its goal. The theologian must be true to the whole Biblical message about Redemption. He must be true to it because it requires all of it to meet fully the needs of men. Reverent criticism has no terrors for him. He gladlv accents its justified results, but builds his own work far below all criticism on the j,reai rocs 01 certainty, me iuei neeu of the race, which criticism cannot touch. A tentative criticism may seem to put in doubt some fundamental. The ultimate criticism will confirm them all. What is the theologian's relation to philosophy? He accepts the philosophical system which seems moat perfectly to explain the data of existence. But he demands that his philosophy shall be as large ae all life? all the Christian facts, aj well as all the other facts of life. His passion for reality saves him from a one-sided adherence to any philosophical system at the expense oftruth. What is his relation to science? As a classification he accepts and uses it. When it presumes to call a classification an explanation, when it insists that what is merely a description of the method in which God works is a self-sustaining process, he parts company with it. He knows that science can classify, but cannot ex- 1 plain. Explanation is the task of philosophy and theology. Now can we get a conception of the greatness 01 me systematic meoiogian's work? Christian experience, the Bible, human life, the best philosophy he can attain?these he relates, combines and fuses, and constructs a living world-view. "He sees life steadily and sees it whole." Phillips Efooks defined preaching as giving truth through personality. The interpreter of Christianity is to give theology through personality. All of it is to be passed through his own life?life of head, heart and will, and is to come forth as a personal messago to the wprld. Thus it is.to be set on fire, and so blazing and shining with power il will secure the attention and eager interest of men. The theology of the graveyard has i no message fo rany age. A dynamic, living theology has a message for every age. Our own age is busy and trilliant, but it is doubting, suffering ani sinning far all that. And when the theologian speaks in a voice ringing with reality, it will listen to him, and will be guided to the Christ, who alone can give it peace. A Word Fitly Spoken. ' J A lady once writing to a young man in the navy who was almo^ a stranger, thought: "Shall I close this as anybody would; or shall I say a word for my Maste/?" And lifting up her heart for a moment she wrote telling him that his constant change of sc=ne and place was an apt illustration of the words, "Here have we no continuing city," and asked whether he could say: "I seek one to come." TremMingly she folded it and sent it off. > Back came the answer: "Thnnk you s" much for those kind words. I am an orphan, and no one has spoken to me like that since rry mother died long years ago." The word, like aa arrow shot at venture, reached its mark, and the young man shortly after rejoiced in the fulness of Go3pel peace.?Pittsburg Christian Advocate. It is God's Work; Net Ours. Remember this: If that bit of work which you have undertaken is for the love of God?and it must be that? and for the glory of God, then it cannot fail. There is no such thing as failure in real Christian work. We may make mistakes, but it cannot fail, for it is God's work; and if it is done for God, when we have done our best He will take it and make use of it, perhaps so that we can aee it, if not, we shall see it in the light of the world to come. He will take us as we are and our work as it is, and in the time to conn perhaps make use of our very mis? takes and build upon the work whicS we began in humble faith and quiet hope?the very work we wanted to do, but were too clumsy. There never has been yet a work for Him that ' failed.?BishoD of Thetford. Why Wc Do Not Pray Better. One reason we do not pray better, i I suppose, is that we are afraid of being answered. It is a very serious thing to pray, because we may be I t-iken at our word. We must consent that God should order the answer. I For instance: I pray In the morn- | ing that God will make me very use- i ful to-day; it is a hazardous prayer; , I may be taken at my word. Within an hour I may be called to a very great usefulness, that will take a i hundred dollars from my bank account. Now, if I don't want to take ' that money if it is called for, I have made a mistake in my prayer. Let us say what we mean.?Alexandeu McKenzie. A Searching Question. Are Ave living, habitually, in such j nearness to the Lord Jesus that the ; gentlest intimation of His wish comes , to us with the force of a command, ; and with a consciousness that some i way or other it is possible to obey, 1 and that we shall be carried through in any service to which He calls us? i ?J. Hudson Taylor. Silent Victories. Our boldness for God before tho world must always be the result of individual dealing with God. ia secret. Our victories over sin, and'celf, and the world, aro always first fought i where no eye sees but God's.?Whit- i field. Kliotv J heiii tiie Door. There are some sorrows which, be- | cause they are lingering gueets, I ! will entertain but moderately, know- ! ing that the more they are made of ' the longer they will stay.?Bishop i , Hall. ! BITTER WAR ON INTEMPERANCE1 SOLDIERS FIGHTING THIS CURSE GREATLY CHEERED. The Scientific Basis. The primal basis of the present war against the liquor shop, whether legalized or not, is neither religious, political, moral nor financial. It is, first of all, scientific. If alcohol i3 useful as a beverage, or even if it is no worse than harmless, there can be no just war against it on any of the grounds above suggested. But if its use is injurious to the human mind and body, if it is destructive of human happiness, if it impairs a man's usefulness, if it destroys the peace and purity of society, then society in selfdefense must make war upon it. The determination of this matter is a scientific problem. If science decides against alcohol then the whole > problem of the manufacture and use of liquors as a beverage becomes a religious, moral, political and financial problem and society must deal with it in all its phases. Let us then look first for the Verdict of Science.?Rapid strides in recent years in scientific investigation has demonstrated that alcohol taken into the human system is never a food but always a poison. Different poisons attack different organs of the body. Alcohol first attacks and injures the brain. More and more emphatic becomes the verdict of sci+V? r? f oIaaVia! It* aron cm oil niton- i CUV/C tuui/ aiwuui iu vr vu 4uuutities is a poison and that only temperance is total abstinence. Professor Kraepelin, one of Germany's greatest scientists and formerly a moderate drinker, says: "I became a total abstainer only as| the result of scientific investigation. Even if a single dose of alcohol had a ! favorable effect upon body or mind, nevertheless in the face of ^the everywhere recognized alcohol evil we must exterminate it, root-ahd branch, because thote is no other salvation from our misery." One hundred German university professors of medicine, many of them having international reputation, recently issued an anti-alcohol manifesto urging their countrymen to labor for total abstinence, and closed 1 i>y saying: "The practice of mod' erate drinking remains the ultimate source of f'intemperance." The voice of the scientists of all nations is rapidly approaching unison in thft alcohol Question. We see. iherefore, the scientific basis on which It is possible to explain all the misery, crime, poverty, wretchedness and j Inefficiency that result from the use Df alcohol. The Problem Enlarges.?The fact that alcohol is a poison and its use impairs the moral and religious faculties instantly makes it a moral and ! religibus ifroblem and requires thau the church shall deal vigorously with It. Because It destroys a man's earning power and increases the burdens of society in caring for its victims it becomes a question of finance. Because it interferes with the right3 of society it becomes a political problem. Thunder it out from the pulpit and the press, in the home and in the school, in the mine and the factory; ' thunder it out everywhere and all the [ time that King Alcohol is our bitter ! enemy and the time has come when he must be dethroned.?The Keystone Citizen. Striking Testimonial. A striking testimonial as to the beneficial effects of abstention from olnnViaI (a f 11 rnioKaR Mp PorHoQiiv UIWUl/I AiJ \JJ JJA.A , VW?UV?*UA| the British Commissioner for Somaliland, in his latest report to the Colanial^Office. He mentions that one ' Df the considerations which materially affect the public health of that countfy is that the population i3 practically entirely Mohammedan, and therefore total abstainers from all alcohol. The consequence is that the country has been free from any case Df malignant, disease during the last ten years. He also refers to the very marked difference shown under anaesthetics by the Somalis as against both the European and other races, addicted to the use of this ttimulant. Serious respiratory trouble.is prac1 tically never met with among the Somalis, and struggling while going under is quite unusual, yet the people are of 3, both nervous and excitable temperament. i I ? ' A Remarkable Letter. The following letter of Justice J. r, KYishio who was a r.antain in the Civil War and later Minister to Nice, France, is self-explanatory: "To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the City of Hillsdale, Mich.: 'Gentlemen?I hereby most respectfully tender the resignation of my sommission as Justice of the Peace of the city of Hillsdale, to take effect March 1, 1910. Causation: County Prohibition (local option), no drunks, no vagrants, no disorderlies, no business to further make the office desirable or in any way profitable. Really there is no use for more than one justice of the peace in the city of Hillsdale under present conditions."?Philadelphia Record. Real Cause of High Prices. A leading butcher of Cincinnati asserts that whisky is the real cause of high prices. He says: "It's the farmer's fault that meat, and princi- " pally pork, is as high as it is, and the | people can blame whisky. The farm- j er will not raise hogs which he has ( to fatten with corn when he can sell ; his corn to tho distillers for a much j greater profit than he could realize ' by putting it into his hogs. It natur- I ally follows that the demand for pork , becomes greater and the supply less, hence the advanced prices." Tcinpcrance Xotes. Recently 130 of the saloons of r> ;worn T^oriOnt/a/I rmf nf U1U11U1UUU, ? U.# IIV1V fcv0?ui..w^ vv?w - I existence Intemperance is increasing among ! women in London. It is stated that : 8900 women in that city have each j been convicted o? drunkenness more ; than ten times. I s'pose you might say, look'm' at It one way, that liquor's great stuff to sort of even up things. Of course it takes shingles off a man's barn, but then it puts patches on his panis. Aaron Skinner, of Barton, Vt., whe died about two years ago, made this j provision in his will that the residue ? of his esiato after tho other bequesti j were paid, should go to that good or* . ganizatiou, as he called it, the W. C T. U., and l is executors turned into the hand of the State treasurer $ 1G9G.CG. ! In Tennessee there is a law under ' which owners of property on which liquor is illegally i,old may be lined f ana imprisoned. Axiorney-ueuerai McCairn, of Nashville, has sprung a iiomb under the violators o? the law ; in that city by giving a week's notice i to property owners that he intends | to prosecute under this statute. I 1 f Sobered jbrrbe f logmrHoi^l THY WILL BE DONE." Laid on Thine altar, 0 ray Lord Divine. "* Accept my gift this day for Jesus' sakej I have no jewels to adorn Thy shrine, Nor any world-famed sacrifice to make* But here I bring within my tremblinj hand. This will of mine, a thing that aeemetk small, f Yet Thou alone, O Lord, canst understand How when ? yield Thee this, I yier mine all. X w?33 Hidden therein, Thy searching gaze can set Struggles of passion?visions of delight, All that I have, or am, or fain wonia be. Deep love, fond hopes and longings ia finite; . It hath been wet with tears, and dimmed with sighs, Clinched in my grasp, till beauty it hail none; Now from Thy footstool, where it van . , . quashed lies, The prayer ascendeth, "May Thy yr& \ be done!" Take it, 0 Father, ere my courage "fail, And merge it so into Thy own will, that e'en . If in some desperate hour my cries pro vail, ' ' And Thou give back my gift, it maj have been . 80 changed, so purified, so fair, have grow^ So one with Thee, so filled with lovl ' ) divine, I may not know or feel it as my own, Bnt gainiug back my will, m&y find it >*? Thine. ?Pittsbnrg Christian Advicate. ;j ?:?- . Living For One's Self. For none of us liveth to himself* ami no man dieth to hlmseW.?-E? mans 14, 7. Nobody Is independent. All^hw ; 5 man lives are inseparably jomfHt Things we said yesterday win .japcra. . called with pleasure or pain by body twenty years from now. Wlial we did last week will make somebodj better or worse when our bodies hlhr#' 1 "V turned to dust. Life is rather solemn business. No body is so insignificant as to be with* out influence. Most of us would bt > filled with horror if we could read the record of our lives and see how r word we spoke carelessly started some oue on the way to .ruin, Aid would fill us with a bliss that is Ilk* heaven itself if we could see thai thene are persons who date alV'th* ?? good there Is in their lives to eom*kindly deed of ours done simply frcton . 1% impulse. However much we may wish ai times that we could do as we pleas* without our deeds affecting the live! *fi of others, yet a moment's thdtighi will make us glad that human live* are thus boirad together. There I* dignity in life when we feel that a hundred years from now men may b? ^ better for our having lived. , And oc the other hand, there Is responsibility % In living, since after we are gone mcr may be worse for our misdeeds. It . fa doubtless would be more pleitfhigr tf our goodness mignt oiess outers wipa* mec out our badness cursing them. ..Baf you cannot have one side withautTthe 'rv.'i other any more than you can -hare ?3 light without shadow. If It (a rigb?v:<3B that men should be able to belft one V ; another, it must be right, becn'se it if part of the same arrangement, thai they should be able to hurt one an* other. j] . Sometimes we intentionally influence people, as when we argue with ? ' -j man to bring him to oar views, but perhaps the mightiest influence is exerted unconsciously. As the iceberg chills tftyvpir (or miles around it or as the ticmeysnckle makes the alt . v about it heavy with fragrance, so mto ' J radiate helpful or hurtful influences. Our character, whatever It may-be, it-^'contagious. , It was said by a man who wa$ dying, "Oh, that my influence might be gathered up and buried with me." ; That cannot be, however much we [ >' vyish it. Our influence goes on bless* ing or blasting people forever. 01 'J another man it was said, "His pres- I ence always made men better." What a fine thing that is?to have such a character that when you meet people you make them wish to be nobler? purer, truer!?Frank M. Goodchild, 'i In the Sunday Herald. God Chooses Our Opportunities. God has brought us into this time; He, and not ourselves or some dark demon. If we aro not fit to cope with that which He has prepared for ' us, we should have boen utterly unfit for.; any condition that we imagine for ourselves. In this time we are to 1 live and wrestle, and in no other. Let us humbly, tremblingly, manfully look at it. and we shall not wish that the sun could go back its ten de- J grees, or that we could go back, with v it If easy times are departed, "it ia that the difficult times may make us -v more in earnest: that they may teachv u3 not to depend upon ourselves. If . . easy belief is impossible, it is that we may learn what belief is, and ia j whom it is to be placed.?P. DMaurice. /, V ' r | Trust and Obey. . Do not Icok forward to tne cnanges of this life in fear; rather look to ';} tnom with full hope that, as they, arise, God, whose you are, will deliver you out of them. He has kept y.,u hitherto?do you but bold fast to His hand, and He will lead you safely through all thing3. Do not look forward to what may happen to-morrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you to-day will take care of you to-morrow, and every day.? Francis de Sales. Garni eats of God. Sorrows are often like clouds which, though black when they are passing over us, when they are past ( become as ff chey were the garments of "God thrown off in purple and goM along the sky."?Henry Ward -: Bey.her. Happy Confidence. May we live in Thy world with no ,p.i*vHo and degrading fear, but with the happy confidence of the dutiful child ac home?Charles G. Ames. ftoy in Thrilling Flight. Clyde Heckle, eighteen years old. juaue <* turrii>ius six lhuusliuu ieet balloon ascension at Lincoln, Neb., clinging for a part of tlio the time to a clutch rope. Hj landed in tbe middle of a shallow lake, uahurt. Adolph. Weibers had made preparations for an exhibition trip and Iicckle was helping to hold the ropes. The boy had asked to he allowed to make Ibe ascent, hut was refused. Just as Weill erg, seated in his parachute attachment, called to be let go, Heckle, with, n. knife, severed the two ropes holding the aeronaut, grasped the clutch ropa fend shot up almost like a rocket