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NO BROTHERLY LOVE FOR HIS Percival Was Anxious to Be Forgotten After Listening to Clarice's Treatment of Wiegan. At last he realized that she was really in earnest about rejecting him. "At least," he said sadly, "at least, love me as a brother." "Yes," she agreed sweetly. "Yes, Percival, I'll do that. I'll love you always as a brother." At that moment little Wiegan, her kid brother, came into the parlor. "Hey, sis, did ya see me kite any wheres?" he said. "Get out of here, you little hem stitched, devilish, scheming, sneaking brat!" she cried shrilly. "You know you're sneaking around to see what you can see and hear what you can hear! Beat it, you double-jointed, cloven-: oofed freak!" Wiegan withdrew. "Clarice," he said, after a thought ful pause. "Percival," she responded softly. "I've changed my mind," he said. "Don't love me as a brother. Just forget me."-Detroit Free Press. Helping Some. "Please give me something to eat," asked the tramp at the back door. "I haven't anything *or you to eat," replied the up-to-date woman; "but if you'll come in I'll put you next to the electric current, for I read that a theory has been advanced by a French scientist that electric currents can be made to take the place of food in sus taining life to a considerable degree." Judged by His Actions. "What do you say to Mr. Twobble when he lingers in town after office hours?" asked Mrs. Dubwaite. "Oh," replied Mrs. Twobble, "that depends on what he lingers for. If Mr. Twobble is exceedingly gay when he comes in and addresses me as 'old girl,' I deliver a short lecture on the evils of intemperance." That's Different. Mr. Bacon-This paper says that it is estimated that $10,000,000 worth of gold is destroyed annually by a Chi nese custom of burning small pieces of gold leaf on certain anniversaries. Mrs. Bacon-And yet on the anni versary of my birthday you never seem willing to burn a nickel. Surely. Bacon-Somebody says that the man who doesn't smoke or drink is a sore trial to the doctors. They don't know what to tell him he will have to give up. Egbert-Why, the doctor can tell him to give up two dollars easy enough, can't he? NOT NOTICEABLE. Ee Laze-Well, I think I must be moving. Miss Bordwon-Perhaps so, but lt is not perceptible. Very True. "Isn't it strange why people don't live as long now as they UBed to in the old days?" "No; nothing strange about it. Provi sions are so high now that nobody can afford to live long at the current prices." Her Reason, 'ls lt because she lacks nerve that she declines to wear her dresses decol lete?" "Oh, no! Quite the contrary! She really hr.s too much backbone!" Best Remedy. Tramp-Lady, I'm suffering from in digestion. Lady cf House-What can I do for you? Tramp-Gimme something to digest Take Hold of Today, for lt May Prove to You the Day of Salvation. Pharaoh said, "Tomorrow!" Paul said, "Today." The difference is be tween the mun who knows the value of time and the present, and the mau who does not. A recent writer says: j "Tomorrow is the hurvest time of good intentions. It is the day when every juan does his duty. The sinner expects to he a saint. The dishouest mun intends to he honest. The im moral niau will be moral, and the selfish ninu benevolent." Tomorrow evil habits will be overcome, evil tempers curbed, und rebellion against God will be put down. Christ will be enthroned. Self will be dethroned. Tomorrow we will be all we ought to be and do all we ought to do. Tomorrow is the slogan of the dreamer. Today is the battle cry of the doer. Of. course we have heard and admired and even used for con venience sake the old maxim, "There is no time like the present," and that other watchword of industry, "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today." But usage has worn off the glitter and familiarity has bred contempt. These sayings are extreme ly useful in connection with our busi ness interests and pleasures, and all sources of material and immediate gain. As Hugh Black says in his book, "The Open Door", "Men dream of a time when things will be easier for them, when the strain will be re lieved and they can get breathing space to come to some definite de cisions. As they are securing the means of living, life itself Is slipping away from them. Those who halt, standing first on one foot and then on the other, do not really count in the game. The greatest question ever asked of man was, 'What shall It profit to gain the whole world and lose the soul?' But men are every where losing the soul. It is worse than tragedy, lt is farce !" Today ls the Time. Work ls today. Play is tomorrow. .Today we are to set in motion those forces that make the miracles tomor row. If we earnestly desire to be Christian men and women, we must do those things that will make us Christians. Grace is a growth. Right eousness is a process. Character ls an evolution. Today we must fill our lamps and trim our wicks. Tomor row we must enter Into privilege. The man who is ready Is the man who has done those things which make him ready when the call comes. There Is a waiting time to every opportunity. It is to be spent in get ting ready. The bridegroom is on the way. Let us prepare for his coming. There is ' an outer court to every throne room. It Is here that we put on the wedding garment. Eternal life begins In this sphere. Immortality becomes a certainty when the soul surrenders to God. Life is continuous; the Christian life can not be divided between a- "Now" and a "Then.'' Death, to be sure, is some thing in between. As Emily Dickin son wrote: "Death is hut the porter of my Father's lodge, or the hired man to let down the bars for the tired flocks to come under the Shepherd's care, to the securest fold, their wan derings done, their bleatings at un end." To her a marble stone was a "guide post." So, when we make the great decision, we are heirs of Im mortality. Life is no longer a "fitful fever," with dunging discords, confus ing elements and chaotic mixtures. We shall face the future with calm. We shall look toward the dark un afraid, because we are facing the light. We shall walk the new road to secur ity because we are walking in the way. We shall not grow faint or weary ht* cause we are finding sustenance in the bread of life. Pilgrims, Indeed, but like unto him who is going home. The mnnsion is waiting. The place is pre pared. "If it were not so I would have told you." Thus is the dictum and assurance of the Master. Call for Decision. No one ever drifted to the eternal life. We must decide; we must array ourselves on the one side or the other. There is no neutral ground. "He that is not with me ls against me, and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad." The world is dying in its sins. Let us hasten to bring the Great Physician.' Multitudes are In want. Let us not linger in some delusive dream of to morrow in going to the rescue. Hearts are breaking; we must not tarry with the balm of Gilead. Burdens are being borne; let us apply the yoke that is easy. The messengers of God must not loiter in the halls of Vanity Fair. When we refuse the great commis sion committed to our keeping, we are holding back that which the world needs. "The king's business requires haste." Jesus said: "I must do the works of him thnt sent me while it ls called today, for the night cometh, when no man can work." What If he had put off until some tomorrow the business of redemption? What if all men and women, everywhere, of all time, who have helped make the world better, had said "tomorrow"? What If missionaries, apostles, sages and re formers had said "tomorrow"? "To day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts."-Rev. Richard Braunstein. It is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move In charity, rest In providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.-Bacon. PRETTY GIRLS AND OTHERS After All, the One Who Is "Nice" lt Apt to Be the Most Popular With Everybody. We all know the old joke of the pretty girl who is presented as saying to the homely girl, "It's too bad not to be good-looking, isn't it?" and the homely girl's response: "Yes, because one has to be nice, and that's hard; did you every try it?" Of course we enjoy the reply, espe cially as we know how much greater the impression that is made by being nice, the Milwaukee Journal observes. The pretty girl who doesn't think this necessary is away behiDd the homely girl who has really learned to be what we describe so satisfactorily and in definitely by the word "nice." But do we ever think of this as one of the definite accomplishments of life that can be acquired, not so easily per haps as a knowledge of algebra or his tory, but just as surely? Every day we meet someone, often several per sons, whose lives exemplify the beauty of being nice. Very soon we learn to know them and we are ready almost without thinking to go a little out of the way to seo that we do meet them. They are not all homely girls; some of them are pretty, and many of them aren't girls at all. Most of them al ways seem to be "nice" by nature. But anyone with an atom of justice in | his reasoning knows that at some time I and probably often, there has come j to these persons who make life bright ! er the question, "Does it pay?" Maybe they never really proved that it did That doesn't matter so much, for they have kept on with the cheery ! look, the pleasant greeting, the friend j liness and graciousness that are the world's greatest Joy bringers. And j that is enough to make them far better j remembered and far more beloved j than if they had been named the reign i ing beauties of their day. : LAZIEST OF ALL THE BIRDS Feathered "Weary Willie" Sleeps All Day and Absolutely Refuses to Go After Food. Laziest of birds is the frogmouth. i He sleeps all day, and instead of flying I about in search of food he sits still on a limb and literally waits for the In- ' sects to come and feed him. He's such a sound sleeper that you can j knock him off his perch with a club j and he'll not wake up. He inhabits' the islands of the Indian ocean and Australia. He's about the size of the whippoor will and gets his name from his wide mouth, which also serves as his insect j trap. Too lazy to fly for his food, like I other birds, he crawls along the limb of a tree, opening his wide mouth and snapping it shut, catching what flies and gnats come within his range. At night he's found perched with his mate on the roofs of houses, on : fences or stumps. Only after the sun goes down does he show any inclina tion to move about. All day he sits, feet glued to the limb of a gum tree, indifferent to rain, tropical sun or the call of the woods. 1 One species of frogmouth has tufts of hair rising from the top of his head like ears. Birds Cannot Understand Glass. It has been frequently noticed that no wild bird can understand the prop erties of glass, and great numbers, ranging in size from a pheasant to a titmouse, are killed by flying against the windows of country houses. If a room possesses a large mirror reflecting the view seen through an open window birds are particularly lia ble to be deceived, and especially if frightened into thinking that they can fly through iL Sparrow hawks will sometimes chase their intended victims into strange places. Some years ago a member of this species pursued a small bird through the open window of a railway carriage In motion. In its blind determination to secure the panting fugitive it entangled its claws in the meshes of the hat rack and waa ignominiously slain by an astonished passenger with an umbrella. Before and After. The members of the club were tell ing yarns when a quiet man in the corner was asked to contribute. "Well," said he, "I once entered a restaurant where they weigh you be fore eating and then after eating, and then charge you by weight. I got a good feed and was charged five shillings. The next time I went I took in my pocket bricks, weights, old iron and such like. I was weighed and then went upstairs and had a ban quet three times as big as the lasL After getting rid of the ballast I went down and was weighed again, but they couldn't make it out." He paused. "Couldn't make what out?" asked the club members. "Why," answered the quiet man, "they owed me four-and-tuppence." London Tit-Bits. Poor Hubby. The young bride was doing the fam ily marketing for the first time. She stopped at the fish stall and looked over the array of sea food. "All perfectly fresh, mam'am," said the dealer, ingratiatingly. "Oh, dear," exclaimed the bride. "That's what everybody says. I wish I could find some stale fish. You see, my husband has indigestion, and the doctor won't even let him eat fresh bread. I'm sure fresh fish would be even worse for him." SUPREME AT CHESS BOARD Paul Charles Morphy, American. Was One of the Greatest Players the World Has Ever Known. Paul Charles Morphy, the famous American chess player, is classed as "perhaps the most remarkable chess player of modem times." He was boin in New Orleans in 1837, and was notably precocious as a child; he showed his precocity particularly in games of chess, and before he was thir teen had defeated many -well-known amateurs. For several years he stud ied law at the College of South Caro lina, and played chess only occasion ally. But in 1857, at the first Ameri can Chess congress, held in New York, he easily defeated the best players that could be brought against him. In 1S58 Morphy went to England, and there defeated Loewenthal, Boden, and Bird, and performed the most astonishing feats in simultaneous games without the board. When he was in Paris, the same year, he won five out of eight games with Harr witz, and gave many exhibitions of blindfold playing. It was these last that wore responsible for the early breakdown of his health. After his return to the United States, in 1859, he defeated the visiting German ex pert, Anderssen, in seven out of eleven ?scies. He was admitted to the bar, and I began to practice law in New Orleans. ' But the strain of his blindfold <\>n tests had been too great for his mind, and he was forced first to give up chess altogether, and then to abandon all mental occupation. . He lived in retirement until his death, in 1884. His activity thus covered a compara tively short space of time. Morphy's skill is described as inexplicable. He never was a close student of chess. He played his ?games easily and quick ly, with no preparation and little hesi tation. Yet his combinations were "remarkable for finesse, depth, ele gance, and soundness." He also pos sessed a phenomenal memory. WHY CHILDREN HATE MUSIC Too Often They Are Taught With Lit tie Regard to Capacity of Their Understanding. Why do children hate music? asked an English contemporary some time ago, and then proceeded to answer Its own propounded question by saying, acording to the Musical Leader, that: "The truth is that children are too often the helpless victims of Incompe tent or ill-trained teachers, whose chief idea seems to be to stuff their luckless pupils with such knowledge as they themselves possess, forgetting that the child ls, in this respect, but a baby, who needs foods specially adapted to its digestive powers. Con sequently Indigestion follows and the IjMld'B musical health suffers. "We believe that nearly all children enjoy music. It is natural to them to love singing, and it is through sing ing that their musical sense should be developed." But not through such singing as we noted some three of four years ago in some of the public schools. As the English writer says: "If children 'hate music,' lt ls be cause they are so often taught un psychologlcally and with so little re gard to the Intellect." These same children from the public schools who were singing driveling piffle parrot wise are the youm- peo ple of today who should be attending our great concerts given by the or chestras and choral societies, and yet how many can be seen at classical concerts and fine recitals? Here is a question for the head of the public school music system. 'Tis about time music for children got out of a rut. Both Were Trying. "Well, well," exclaimed the million aire, "what do you want this morn ing?" "I've come again to ask you for your daughter." "Haven't I told you six times over, on as many different days, that it is out of the question?" "If I seem to be more persistent than circumstances warrant, you, sir, are to blame." i "I!" shouted the indignant man. "There," said the man who loved his daughter, as he pointed to a motto over the banker's desk, "ls my excuse for coming day after day, 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.' Do you not believe in that sentiment?" After he had scratched his head a while, the mean plutocrat said: "Yes, I believe in that. I haven't suc ceeded yet in making you understand that my daughter shall not become the wife of a fool, but I am going to keep on trying till I do? Good morning!" Couldn't Read. They were discussing the rights and wrongs of a strike, and stout and strenuous were the arguments on ei ther side. "Look here! Say I ain't tellin' th' truth! Look there," said Bob Pellett, producing a newspaper, and flourish ing it under Joe's eye. But Joe ignored the proffered liter ature. "I don't want to see no newspaper," he said, loftily. "Wot I knows, I knows." "And that ain't much," said Bob. "Don't want to see the newspaper, 'e don't. Why? 'Cos 'e can't read. Unedicated-that's wot he is." 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