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I'M ONLY A LITTLE GIRL" 0 Palling Eyesight Responsible Tor an Old Man's Mistake?Rebuke ^ Hardly Effective. f< jk certain group of youngsters In an Sslualye West Sldo residential sec- t n had been very noisy throughout s * the forenoon. a The children were still doing their t Utmost to Imitate a bedlam, when a very angry old man appealed at the door of a nearby apartment bouse. He Pas quite old, and it was evident that t his eyesight was not the best, but he i Anally succeeded in picking out a youngster who was aiding very stren- a uously in the noise making. The aged man walked over to the back to the apartnment. When he reached the doorway he turned to the t child and said: e "Don't you know it's against the law to make so much noise?" a j "Yes, sir," was the meek reply. "Well, don't you know that you'll t be arrested and put in jail and then n you can never be president of the tynlted States?" "Please, sir?" 'replied the child, "1 don't care; I'm only a little girl."? New York Mail. i I A HIGHER TRIBUTE. Sam?Dat Miss Snow flake, she am a ( peach. I Pete?G'long! She am a watahmtt j lion! Slow Travel. Down in Oklahoma they have a r ailroad called the Midland Valley, w'jich is noted for its slow trains. It is told that a young man cf Tulsa asked the hand of a daughter from her parents \ and was refused on the ground that ' the daughter was too young. "My daughter is going to Pawhuska tomorrow for a visit," said the father, J who is a traveling man, "and if she doesn't remain more than a day or two * S" e will be old enough when she gets ck." "But she may be an old maid by that time." protested the young man. ?Kansas City Star. I Vogue In Outer Garments. According to the Dry Goods Econo a mist, at the present time retailers are featuring wraps of charmcuse and p satin. The best sellers are the medium-priced numbers retailing from $10 $o $30. These are usually attractively lined in some bright color, giving a . pleasing contrast. Lace collars and cuffs are often used as a finishing touch and are very effective, while white lace is used largely for this pur- v pose. Some garments are shown 1 trimmed with blacit lace, which is cut way to show the lining underneath, j A ConfessionStartled by convincing evidence that they were the victims of serious kid ney and bladder trouble, numbers of prominent people confess they have \ found relief by using KUR1N Kidney and Bladder Pills. For sale by all ( medicine dealers at 25c. Burwell & , Dunn Co., Mfrs., Charlotte, N. C. J A Hint. ! Knicker?Did you explain basebal ! to your girl? Bocker?Yes; she said she under stood all about diamonds. t ! For HEADACHE?Hick** CAPI DIIfE Whether from Colds, LI eat, Stomach 01 .Nervous Trouble*. C'apudlnt will relieve you. It's liyutd?pleasant to lake?acta immediately. Try it. 10c., ST>c.. and 50 cents at dru? loresWhat has become of the old fash toned girl who used to chew "wax?" For rears Garfield Tea has been on the market. 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ETCAN: j The record of the Kellam H< spital Is without para.le: In history, has ing cured to mat eared permanently ! witbont the use ol the km:? or A-Itay over *0 pei , cent, of the many liun lrn ( suffer.ts frcm cancel < , which It Las fr-ated ilnr.r,' the ja?i fifteen years Wetaf?bnn edorsslb; the senate and lev'slaturo of Virginia. Me tiuaruniee OurC'urvs 1 PhyslaSanm trcaiiti froc. KSLLA&! HOSPITAL. 1917 IV. M*tn flfchmwi*, V* ; * Reading maketh a full man. So loes the wine when it's red. The old frlcDd Is better than the new. rartieltl Tea Is not only old but tried and ?und true. Made of pure wholesome Herbs. Hundreds of people who would be iorror-stricken at the suggestion, of , uicide by the rope-and-rafter method, ire daily killing their best selves witb he poison of self-pity. Destined for Many Trips. "I have written a short story," said he amateur literary person. "What s the first step to take in selling it?" "Buy ten dollars' worth of stamps,'' .dvised the old hand at the business. A Fine Distinction. The friend of the city editor was ieing initiated Into the mysteries of nodern journalism. "How large a staff have you?" he sked. "Let me see," mused the city edior. "We have about fifty meD, five vomen and three society reporters." -Judge. Heard on the Waterfront. Some ancient mariners were sitting n a seaport tavern relating their ex>eriences of fogs. "Ah!" said one old salt. "I've seen tome pretty thick fogs In my time. Vhy, off the coast ot isewiounaiana iu? > og was sometimes so thick that we , lsed to sit on the deck rall-and lean igainst it! We were sitting one night is usual, with our backs to the fog. vhen suddenly the fog lifted, and we ill went flop into the sea. A bit thick, vasn't it?"?San Francisco Chronicle. The Only Way. An elder while baptizing converts it a revival meeting advanced with i wiry, sharp-eyed old chap into the vater. He asked the usual question, vbether there was any reason why he ordinance of baptism should not )e administered. After a pause a tall, jowerful-looking man who was lookng quietly on remarked: "Elder, I don't want to interfere in rer business, but I want to say that his is an old sinner you have got hold )f, and that one dip won't do him any ?ood; you'll have to anchor him out n deep water over night."?Life. Easily Answered. "These kids I teach arn't a bit slow," observed a school teacher yeserday. "In fact, I'm afraid they read he papers. The other day I proposed the following problem to my , irithmetic class: "'A rich man dies and leaves $1,-j 100,000. One-fifth is to go to his wife, ' >ne-sixth to his son. one-seventh to lis daughter, one-eighth to his broth>r and the rest to foreign missions. Vhat does each get?' " 'A lawyer' said the littlest boy in he class."?Case and Comment. The- Worm's Way. "The Hon. Stephen Coieridge. the Inglish anti-vivisectionist," said an nti-vivisectionist of Philadelphia, "is j ellghted with the recent English viviection report, which promises to bolish even the use of the live bait in ishing. "Mr. Co'eridge once argued here in 'hiladelphia about the cruelty of fishng with worms. " 'Oh,' his opponent said, 'the mere act that a worm writhes and wriggles then impaled on a hook is no proof hat it is actually suffering pain.' "'No. oh. no!' said Mr. Coleridge,! arcastically. 'Beyond doubt that is I ust the worm's way of laughing at icing tickled.'" Law of Life. Two men were out walking one day u sun-kissed California. Suddenly, kiss ng time being over. It began to rain n torrents and they were miles - 1 T. r.A rora me car line. uue man lau^u^u. long and loud. The other wept bitterly. "Why do you laugh?" he asked bis chuckling companion. "Because I am paying meter rates on water. But why do you weep?" "Because 1 lm paying $10 a day for climate," replied the tourist. "One man's mea/ is another man's meat bill." ON A BUSINESS BASIS. N " ^ yo'.: i nickel if you'll be good and not jothor when Mr. Softly calls tonight. Jack?All right, sis, and for a dime ?xtra I'll promise not to put dad wise 3at he's there. WELL POSTED. \ California Doctor With Forty Years Experience. "In ray forty years' experience as fi :eacher and practitioner along hyjienic lines," says a Los Angeles physician, "I have never found a food o compare with Grape-Nuts for the >enefit of the gene~al health of all Masses of peorle. "I have recommended Grape-Nuts 'or a number of years to patients with he greatest success and every year's experience makes me more enth.usias I/* ?-*>ororr1in cr itc llflp IVt,?*u.u0 "I make it a rule to always recom iiend Grape-Nuts, and Postum in place )f coffee, when giving my patients in | structions as to diet, for I know both | Irape-Nuts and Postum can be digest- | ?d by anyone. "As for myself, when engaged in nuch mental work my diet twt<e a lay consists of Grape-Nuts and rich Team. I find it just the thing tc lulld up gray matter and keep the jrain in good working order. "In addition to its wonderful effects is a brain and nerve food Grape-Nuts ilways keers the digestive organs in nerfect. healthy tone. I carry it with aae when I travel, otherwise I am al nost certaii: to have trouble with my stomach." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Strong endorsements like the ,tbovc From physicians all over the countrj aave stamped Grape-Nuts the most scientific food in the world. "There's a reason." Look in pkgs. for the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." Ever thi< tth-ive let t erf A t> o?jo nnrw:"'* i?''n thue to time. They nr* arenulue, true. nnd full of bvunas ictfrrsr, ( T rf A Woman of Her Word i i __ 1 i By Clara Inez Deacon Mm yjjj? jjgj ' (Copyright, 1312, by Associated Literary 1 Press.) Ellsha Ridgeway was a simple man of forty and lived on a farm alone 1 and made his own bed and did his own cooking. Time after time he was asked why he oldn't marry, and time 1 after time his reply was: "Mebbe I orter and mebbe not. I dunno 'bout It." But there came a time when he did know. It was about a year after the 1 death of farmer Baker. Elisha had { known him and his wife for ten years. For twelve months he went over and helped the widow out as a duty, but one day he stopped his horses at the plow and rubbed his chin in a reflective way and said to himself: "Gosh all fish-hooks, but I guess I ought to marry Nancy! That hired man of hers needs a man to boss him. and some of her cows are always allln' or the hogs havin' the cholera. Elisha Rldgeway, it's your duty." That evening he went over to see the widow. He was more quiet than usual, and by and by she took notica and asked: "'Lisha, anything on your mind?" "Jest a leetle," was the reply. "'Tater-bugs ain't come, have they?" "Haven't got a squint of a single one." "Didn't lose any turkeys, by the last cold rain?" "Noap. What's on my mind, Nancy, is gettin' married." "For the land's sake!" "Yes, I thought you'n me would get married." "Hear the man talk!" "Yes, I'm a-talkin'. Thought it all over this afternoon. Better set the weddih' day." Elisha Ridgeway was a good-natured man and meant well, but he made a mistake. He made it because he was an old bachelor. It did not occur to him that a woman must be won. Even a cross-eyed, lop-shouldered woman isn't going to be picked up and lugged off to the altar without enough hanging back to save appearances. Had Elisha been courting for even a month s in era mjchf hn\-f? hf>pn different, but lliiu^u ? V _ he hadn't courted at all. He had simply sat on the porch with the widow and talked crops and country gossip. There had been glorious sunsets and silvery moons and songs by the whlppoorwllls, but not so much as a sigh from him. And there was something WV'MJ "Yee, Llsha, Them Are the Very Words." else to obstruct the way. The widow looked at him for a moment and then said: v "'Lisha, there ain't goin* to be no weddin* day!" "But why?" "In the first place I'm all eat up with astonishment, and in the next you must have heard what Sarah Jones said the day my husband was burled?" "Don't remember." "But I do, and so does a heap of other folks. She keeps quiet for a minute and then nods her head and says: " 'You Jest put it down in black and white that Nancy Baker will marry agin as soon as the year Is up.'" "Yes, 'IJsha, them are her very words, and mo'e'n a dozen women have got 'em v.*rit down. D'ye think I'm goin' to let the words of that old grasswidow come true? No siree! "But it's over a year," he protested. "Yes, it's thirteen months, one day and two hours, to be exact, but Sarah Jones would giggle Just the same." "I thought from what Jim said when he found he'd got to go that he expected us to get married." "Mebbe he did, but we ain't gtlin' to ?not yet, anyway. 'Lish, I'm a woman of my word. When I heard of what Sarah Jones said I said to myself that I wouldn't marry agin under five years at least, and I'll keep my word." There was a groan from poor Elisha that touched her heart, and her voice was sympathetic as she said: "I ain't sayin' that I don't like you, but I'm sayin' you'll have to wait four years more." Another long-drawn groan. Hard to Gel Charles Rann Kennedy, the playwright. holds the American and English record for talking, according to the New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star. .Mr. Kennedy glories In talk. He revels in u. ne can talk more on any given subject than any other playwright on earth, i He can talk without a subject. He will furnish his own topic or talk on yours. It makes no difference to him. All he asks is a listener. He has all tho rest of the works. Once Mr Kennedy's manager dropped his watch while visiting the playwright. "Lev me have that watch." said Kenn? rv. "I know a fine watchmaker, and I'll fake it to him f< r repairs " A week later the manager dropped in. Mr. Kennedy began to talk. By and by ti e manager made a few futile movements of his 1 .nds waved his hat in nd!o;: and went away. Ti e next day the manager called on Mr. Kennedy again Mr. Kennedy began to talk. The manager said at In "But you come over and court ?ourtin" Is next to marryln'." Elisha groaned some more, but the widow Baker was Implacable. Four rears more If It killed her stone dead! [t was a lonely man that went home :o a lonely house. The very next day, while he was at !be plow again, he heard the widow calling for help and started on the run to the rescue. A couple of tramps Sad invaded the farmhouse and were making threats. Elisha went for them like a locomotive running away. He banged them and slammed them, and slammed them, and booted them, and when they had crawled away to the road the grateful widow said to him: " 'Lisha, I hate to break my word, but we'll take a year off them four and make the time three." The old bachelor sighed over It, but went his way. Three yearB ?tn w Jong as four, no matter what almanac one had in the house. Luck is erratic. She will Blam-bang a man one day, and let him find a fat wallet In the road on the next. In this case, she didn't slam-bang at all. She lust cuddled up to Elisha and told him to go ahead and she would back him. Two days after the tramp episode the widow Baker raised a ladder beside the house to tie up a growing vine, and by a bit of carelessness she lost her hold and hung head downwards. It was Elisha that came to her rescue again, and it was the woman who, after drinking a pint of hard cider to steady her nerves, looked up at him with grateful eyes and said: " 'Lisha Ridgeway, I'm a woman of my word, but I'll be snummed if I don't take a year off them three, leav Ing only two for you to wait! But for you I'd be a dead woman now." Elisha thought of the two long years and sighed and went his way with a feeling that Luck might keep things going. She did. Only three days later, when he went to carry back a borrowed hoe, he found the widow Baker in the well, where she had been for three long hours, and was chilled through and throngh. In drawing a bucket of water she had leaned too far over the curb. "I was praying for you to come," she said with chattering teeth as he looked down at her. "You tie the end of the rope around you when I let it down. Stop! Does this take off another year?" " 'Lisha, you know I'rr^ a woman of my word," was the reply. "You are, Nancy." "I said four years and then three years, and now, though I know how Sarah Jones will giggle. I'm goln' to knock off still another year." "Good for you! Come ud!" One year now?only one! ElfBha wondered if Luck was going to turn on him or continue being good. If he 1 u Vi r\f roar I could oniy gmasn umi umci j, He had his opportunity. There came a thunderstorm one midnight, and the bolt that struck the widow Baker's house and set It aflre raised him out of bed and sent him running. The rain, aided by a few palls of water, doused the flames, and some more hard cider brought the widow clear of the shock. She had given herself up for dead. After she could talk Ellsha seemed to expect her to say something. She realized that he did, and therefore led off: " 'Llsha, I'm a woman of my word! I said five years, and then four?three ?two." "And now, Nancy?" "Sarah Jones Is goin' to giggle." ARMOR IN COLONIAL AMERICA Worn Not Infrequently In the Early Days and Was Richly Wrought and Decorated. "Armor worn, worn for service, In America! I don't believe It." This from a distinguished visitor who stood in front of one of the cases In the Metropolitan Museum of Art "Why, my dear fellow, we never had these mediaeval people in our country." But the fact is, none the less, that we did wear armor not Infrequently In the early days, and that in some Instances, at least, the armor was richly wrought and decorated. Bays a recent lBsue of the Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was, of course, only in the earliest Colonial times that armor was worn regularly. In the Spanish colonies It was in constant service during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Indeed, it was due to their complete panoply that Plzarro and Cortez, with their handful of adventurers, routed hostile armies. That horse armor was then used, and largely used, is Incontrovertible, and the condition of panic + Vk A T rt /I S a n C V? TT f Vl O Jn. It has been said that Post Toasties are the most deiiciously flavoured particles of cereal food yet produced. One can rendeT an opinion upon trial. I " The Memory Lingers" Sold by Grocers Postom Cereal Company. Ltd. 1 battle Creea, Micb. m i? i?i i in i UaUDCU 0UIUU5 luo i tiumtio w/ vuu vulnerableness of the Spaniard cannot be given too much weight In the etudv of the conquest. With armored horses the invaders rode down masses of natives, and the invention of the stirrup of the conquJstadores had its grim use in such a struggle. It was a stirrup of great weight with wide flanges at the sides and base, and the horseman could swing it fatally as he galloped through crowded squares. This type of stirrup survived In a decadent form until the early nineteenth century; its projecting flanges were retained only as space for decoration, and it is more than probable that those who later rode with 6uch a stirrup knew little of its ancient use. Woman an Active Politician. Rough and Ready, Cal., is lucky enough to have for registrars of voters Miss Mamie Morrison, an expert horsewoman who is highly popular, and she has made a new record by hunting up every voter in her bailiwick. spending ten hours a day in the saddle. She takes her book to county dances, too, and not a man or woman escapes without registering.?Indianapolis News t in a Word torvals: "Rut. I say " Being an Englishman. he had difficulty in getting unllmbered. Mr. Kennedy is also an Englishman, but he has no trouble with the limber. The manaeer did not complete his sentence. The third day the manager called again. They spent f ???? 1 1 n nlo'icint nnn forco Kt* \fr I II l i.utun iu I'ivuijuui ' v.i.vicv u; .?i?. Kennedy At the expiration of that period tlie manager rose, put on Ms !.a* and withdrew a typewritten paper from his pocket. "What's this?" asked Kennedy. "A summons" I remember " Mr Kennedy spent a few minutes in profitable and pleasing remini srenee In the midst of it the man ager fied. howling like a wolf. When he had gone Mr Kennedy looked at he pel er It contained these words: "Whore did you take my watch to be fixed? I've been trying to ask you this for three days '" Man is the only animal which cher iahes a perverted appetite. CONSTANT DRAIN ON NATION Cost of Tuberculosis and Other Preveritable Diseases Has Been Put Into Figures. While state commissions and other bodies are trying to find a method for reducing the cost of life insurance, Prof. James W. Glover of the University of Michigan demonstrates that every policy-holder of a $10,000 ordinary whole life policy could save about $20 a year on his premiums if tuberculosis and typhoid fever were eliminated Tuberculosis alone causes a loss to such a policy holder of from $16.70 at twenty to $17.50 at the age i of sixty. At age of twenty, with the ! present high death rate from tuberculosis, this one disease alone shortens the complete expectation of life by two years and 158 days. While the 1 death rate from tuberculosis seems to be declining, the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis says that the combined effort of every man, woman and child , is necessary to bring about a radical , reduction in life insurance rates as , Professor Glover has indicated. . i , NICE MAN. i |?> j ; QftfHtr TTTz-vn'f mn o-ltro m a nnnlhpr WViH/ ITWU b J V/U (,l(V tub UMWV-W dance? Miss Charming?Really, Mr. Softly, you've had nearly all so far and? Softly?Yes; you know, It's just to spite Miss Lovely. We've had a quarrel. Not Reliably Informed. The gentleman who wore evening clothes and the remnants of a jag at 9 o'clock in the morning was clinging to the footboard of a crowded surface car in Chicago. As the car rounded a sharp curve with a Jerk the person in incongruous apparel fell quickly and heavily to the cobblestones. He was picked up by the strong hands of the conductor and about twenty passengers. "Collision?" he asked in a dignified tone of voice. "No," said the conductor. "Off the track?" further questioned the victim of the accident. "No," said the conductor. "Well," concluded he of the jag, "If I had known that I wouldn't have got off."?Popular Magazine. Oddities of Justice. That the whole theory of penal codes is practically unsound and opposed to the modern conceptions of the relation of the state to crime, is the contention of Eugene Smith of tho New York bar, writing in the May number of Cast and Comment, the lawyers' magazine. Illustrating the absurdity and disparity between pen a'?ty for crimes in different states, Mr. Smith says: "The average sentence for perjury in Florida is ten years, in Maine one year; for larceny, * *v-1 ? ? *? I? V* ?~i TUcfrlol in ueiawure itrn jeois, iu iuC uion.v. of Columbia ten months; the penalty for arson in Pennsylvania is twice that of burglary, but in Connecticut the guilt of burglary is twice that ol arson: the guilt of counterfeiting in Ohio is twice that of perjury, but in Rhode Island the guilt of perjury Ij twice that of counterfeiting. Delicate Point. They are a happy Sewickley couple, t They haven't been married very long In fact, the honeymoon has barely waned. An elderly friend met the bridgegroom downtown yesterday and slapped him on the back. "Well, happy as a lark, I suppose?" "Oh, yes." "Oh, yes." "How's the cooking?" "I have one trouble there. It's Just this, my wife has been preparing angel food every day for dinner." i "You must be getting tired of it." "I am. Yet I feel a hesitancy about saying anything. How soon after the honeymoon would it be proper to ask for beefsteak and onions?"?Pittsburg Post. Piecing Out "Writing a storythe caller asked the busy author. "Yes; in dialect." "I didn't think you ever made use ' of dialect." "I don't, as a rule, but I have to now. Several letters are broken on my typewriter." In the Growth of Corn I there's a period when the kernels are plumped out with a vegetable milk, most nutritious. As the corn ripens the "milk" hardens, and finally becomes almost flinty. Post Toasties Are made from this hard part of choice selected com. It is carefully cooked; treated with sugar and salt; rolled into thin bits; then toasted to an appetizing brown ? withi out a hand touching the food. Mqmtional SunmSchool Lesson /By E. O. SELLERS. Director of Evening Department, The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) LESSON FOR JUNE 16. CHRIST'S WITNESS TO JOHN THE BAPTIST. LESSON TEXT-Matt 11.M9. GOLDEN TEXT?"Among them that are born of women there is none greater than John; yet he that is little in the kingdom of God is greater than he."? Luke 7:28. This Is the last lesson with the exception of one that we are to have upon the character of John the Baptist. Following the Imprisonment of John by Herod, Jesus, for diplomatic j reasons, made Capernaum his head- i rjuarters, and It was In Galilee that bis . great popular ministry was performed Meanwhile John is shut up In the fort Teas at Machaerus, on the east side or the Dead sea. For one who had been so Intensely active to be obliged to sit Idly by and wait while another'^ j name and fame Increases daily was a severe test of faith. His prototype. Elijah, had to meet a similar testing (1 Kings 19: 3, 4); why, therefore, need we wonder that doubts should arise in the mind of the greatest "born of woman?"' Not one of us at all familiar with the experiences of life and the subtllity of temptation will be surprised when under these circumstances we read of John's question, v. 2-6. This doubt Is so natural that It bears upon its very face the stamp of being genuine and that the record was not fabricated. It Is noticable in the form of John's question that he had no doubt as to the character of Jesus, the genuineness of his miracles, nor any question but that he was sent of God, but sllll he questioned. "Is this the Messiah?" "Is this the one whom all the prophets from Moses to Malachi said was to come, or do we look for another? I frankly disclaimed being the Messiah, you are a truthful man. and I am willing to accept your word, are you the Christ?" John was not envious (John 3:27-36). he was too great a man to be that, but yet Jesus had not wielded the ax as he had expected, hence the meserr?r ir\ Toeno onH thfa f rn n U nilPS tion. John sots us the good example of taking his doubts to Jesus, and Jesus In a most tender way answers his doubting and at the same time turns It to his own advantage In confirming his claims as the Messiah. John Sought Not His Own Glory. The second half of the lesson Is the tribute of Jesus to the life and character of John the Baptist. Jesus has, as we have Just seen, sent his word of comfort and cheer to John when he turns to the multitudes with a highly eulogistic testimony as to John's work, his worth and his greatness. True, his faith seemed to be shaken for the moment, but John was not a "reed sha- , ken of the wind," Indeed not. John was not. a man seeking his own glory (Luke 3:16) nor his own comfort (Matt. 3:1, 4). He was not clad sumptuously (Luke 7:25). No, John was a prophet, a man sent, commissioned, Inspired of God. He had authority to speak for God (Luke 1:16, 26) In declaring God's will to man. Yes, John Is all of this and more, for he was himself the subject of Old Testament prophecy (Mai. 3:1, etc.). This John was chosen among all men to go before his face and to prepare a highway in the minds and hearts of Israel over which Jesus the Messiah might enter and begin the establishing of this newkingdom. It was In performing this service that John filled one of the highest offices ever filled by mau. In this eulogy we need to recall the difference In the miraculous births of these two men. John supernaturally born of natural parentage, Jesus supernaturally born of woman but conceived of the Holy Spirit, hence the words of Jesus are to be understood that among purely human beings "none greater was born of woman." Went to Christ Himself. Jesus' words In verse 15 are tremendous with import. Literally he says: "I have told you these things about John and about my kingdom, now you who have ears have an obligation resting upon you because of what I have told you." There was need of their understanding and accepting an important teaching, but the unreasonable Scribes and Pharisees would accept neither the austere John nor the more social Jesus. John would not join in their gaity. Jesus mourned not but led a more Joyous life, yet they rejected him also. This "Son of Man," not of a man nor the man but son of man. of humanity, known ns friend of the needy and the outcast, is himself cast out by the religious leaders of his time. Nevertheless in thd wisdom of God (Luke 11:49) both John the Paptist, and Jesus the Son of man and of Mary, have been sent and the results of their lives and of their teachings prove them to be a part of God's wise plan. God's wisdom is justified (v. 19) by its workings or as some trans late it by its "children." Great as was John the forerunner, yet he that is in this newer kingdom Jesus came to establish is vastly greater than the old Hebraism. John in the old would seize the kingdom by force and contrary to all human conceptions of kingship. His work was apparently without program or policy, it was devoid of army, and this very method was at variance, at violence, with the natural pride and prejudice of the human heart. One of the six Panama commissioners was, a few years ago, a cub reporter at five dollars per week, and during that time was much perplexed th? nroblems of the Christian life and tormented by his doubts. Four successive nights he discussed the matter with his pastor; on the fifth he came with radiant face to inform his pastor that all his questionings were settled for, said he, "I went to Christ himself." "Whole" and "Holy." "Whole" and "holy" come from the I same root. A holy life should be not a narrowed life, but one in which all life's Impulses are made whole by being brought into harmony and made to serve its highest purpose.? The Christian Register. In science read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature Is always modern. New books revive and redecorate old ideas; old books suggest and Invigorate new ideal.?Lyttoo. / t BIG FORTUNE WELL HANDLED Millions Left by ?he Late Russell 9ag? Are Being Expended for the Welfare of Humanity. While the late Russell Sage was in the flesh he was one of the most prudent, shrewd and persistent moneygrubbers in Gotham. The astute fl"ancier never plunged nor risked any money in wild-cat schemes. He was a "sure-shot" operator in Wall street, and when he died be left in the hands of his lone widow a fortune of something like $75,000,000. Since becoming possessed of this enormous fortune she has worked as persistently and assiduously in scattering the money as her husband did in gathering it. The scriptures tell us that the miser is the man that "heaps up riches and cannot tell who shall gather them." 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