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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 "
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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
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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
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ICAN VIOLINIST.
fourteen he took the first prize of the |
Bologna Conservatoire, and finished J
his studies in Paris with Lefort.
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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
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Folding the Paper
the one shown in Fig. 4, writes J. H. '
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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
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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- '
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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
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worm s^vorK lor June.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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