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"Things just seem to come to other people, but we get up in the morning and go to bed at night, and I sometimes think there isn't much use in it all." Mr. Blvins waited until he had sliced the ham before he remarked: "You are the best cook in the county." "Well, a boiled dinner doesn't require much skill," said- Mrs. Bivlns, but her plump figure relaxed a little. "I Just wish we could "have something different to eat." "Now what has happened to upset you, mother?" Mr. Blvins asked. "It ain't Inst vour day's work that has got you all worked up like this." "No, It ain't." Mrs. Blvlna admitted. "I got a letter from sister Jane, and they're going to get an automobile? arUl It Just semed as If?well, as If we never bad anything." Mr. Blvins helped himself to cabbage thoughtfully. "We've got each other," he ventured. "Of course we have," said his wife sharply, "and you know I wouldn't give you up, Thomas, for all the automobiles In the world. But, gracious, I could have you and something else, too." Mr. Rlvlns cut another 6llce of ham. Some men would have felt hurt, but he knew his wife. It was not her husband but fate which she blamed. When Mrs. Blvins rose from the j table she pointed to the ham. "Look at all that." she moaned, "we'll have to eat and eat to make any impression on It." "Please," said a voice from the open door. "I wish you'd let me try to make an Impression on it." The Blvlnses turned, and beheld a travel-worn little creature. She had 5 on a dust-colored coat and a dustcolored hat end a dust-colored veil, ..-.A and you couiun i we mo tmui ui hair for the dust. "I'm starved," she said, "my automobile broke down and I've walked two miles." She dropped into a chair, and Mrs. Bivins flew to help her. "Why, poor lamb," she said, distractedly to her husband, "she's faint. ili? i Jip t " N; "Please," Safd a Voloe From the Open D<for. Get a glass of water, Thomas, and I'll | untie her veil." Relieved from her wrappings, the little lady proved to be daintily beautiful. She had on an exquisite white gown, three diamond rings and silk stockings. All this Mrs. Bevins told her husj band while the little lady washed in the best bedroom and smoothed her hair. "And I said nothing ever happened." said the excited Mrs. Bivins, "and here cornea a fairy princess right to our door, and I do believe she's . running away from somebody." "Well, now," said the amazed Mr. Bivins, "did you ever?" The little lady at the table ate with zest. "We never have anything in town which tastes' quite like a country ham, and -your home-made bread and Jam?oh, Mrs. Bivins, do you know I am almost starved!"'Mrs. Bivins' face sjione.' "Well, now," ?he said, "I'm sorry to have to ofTer you a boiled dinne^." . The little lady looked-at her reI proachfully. "A boiledf- dinner--;?" she sair. "why, Mrs. Bivins, if you it thnt I should have Iiauil t vuuvu .% ...... - said It was ambrosia." K Thomas Blvlns chuckled. "You see, mother," he said, "I always said you were the best cook in the country." Mrs. Bivins held -up her hand. : "Hush." she flaid, "I hear somebody coming." The little lady started to her feet. "Can't you say that you didn't see me " she began, then as a tall figure loomed in the doorway she turned white and whispered: "It's too j late." : "Well," he .said briefly, "I've found i you." She semed to brace herself to anHe Belonged # Told What He Was Looking For In the Way of a City Apartment. "1 am looking for a fiat where ' there's room for mother's hat and a : place to pit the baby when he bawls. I am searching for a ^lace that can look me in the face whfn I glance up at the paper on the walls. "I am looking for a Jhome brighter fbnn n eatacomb. where the sun upon 1 occasions will appear: with a parlor | close at hand that will hold my baby I grand without crowding on the kitch| en at the rear. "1 would like a little trap where a happy married chap, needn'ttblush because unhappily he snores, and cm do it every night without thinking of the plight of the folks who ilve upon the upper floors. "I would like to pass my life, **ith my baby and my wife, in a spot where we can "talk of what -we do, without fear that somebody we don't know and * 'v Bwer. Then suddenly a smile curved her lips. She waved her hand over the table. "Come and have something to eat," she coaxed. The ham Is perfectly delicious?and oh, Georgle, you never ate such bread and Jam." Mrs. Bivlns buBtl^d forward. 'Til set a place for j*ou." The man hesitated, then capitulated. "Gee, but I'm hungry," he 6ald, boyishly, and Mrs. Bivins heaped his plate. The two old people sat together on the back porch and watched the little new moon over the tops of "'the* trees. Within the man said, "For heaven's sake, Beatrice, what made you do it?" "Run away?" she asked. "Oh, Georgie. I was tired of it all. Tired of the rush and whirl?I can't stand it?I can't stand being separated from you by^our clubs and my bridge parties. I made up my mind that you didn't care what I did, and so I had Otto drive me as far as the main road went, and then I left the machine and came over here, and I thought that? that if you didn't find me?I'd get something to do somewhere?and you could go on having good times?and flirting." Her husband interrupted her with a savage exclamation. "Stop," he said. "Did you think I could love any one but you? Don't you suppose I hate all the things that pull us apart? But a man doesn't talK about what he feels like a woman does." Their voices floated out to the porch, where the old couple sat. .Mrs. PlvlnB leaned forward and looked. Into her husband's face. "Are you like that, Thomas?" she demanded. Her husband nodded. "But If I had dreamed," the voice went on within, "that you were growing desperate?that you suspected me of?not caring?oh, girl, why didn't you come and tell me? Didn't you know? didn't you know?that you're mine? that no one else " Outside Mrs." Blvins' cheek was against her husband's coat. "I'm going to-cry, Thomas," she said, and the old man took-out his handkerchief and wiped her eyed gently. A half hour later the two young people appeared In the doorway."Thank you so much for?your bread and Jam," said the little lady, shyly. The young man laughed joyously. "Thank you for more than that,"} he: said. "I've caught a runaway, Mrs. Blvlns. and she wants to go back with me. But we want to come, again? for a week at a time, now and then. Do you think you could put us up when the whirl of town gets too much for us?" Could she? "I can put you up," Mrs. Blvlns said, trembling with rapture, "for more than a week at a time. Thomas and I can't tell you how glad we'll be." But she didn't know the full extent of her good fortune. For almost miraculously after that surprises came to them. Once It was a wonderful box of candy tied with pink ribbons and with a gold seal, and once It was a silk coat with a wide lace collar, and once It was a aigninea nai wun wnuc lilacs under the brim. "It Just seems as if they can't do enough." said the excited Mrs. Bivlns as she baked cake and roasted chickens and made little balls of cream cheeBe for her expected gitfstu, "it just seems as if they couldn't do enough." But Mr. Plvins took It calmly. "You needn't ever say that nothing ever happens now, mother," he said, contentedly; "it seems to me that these two young folks are the kind that make ihings happen. And they are so happy themselves that they can't be satisfied until they've made us happy, too." What Would the Lawyer Do? The damage suit was on. and nildad's chauffeur was testifying for the jjlalntlfT. "Now, you .sav," said the pompous lawyer for-thcffdttendant, "that at this point the two cars, traveling at the rate of thirty miles an hour, came together head on. Then what did you do?" The witness gazed wearily at his questioner. "Why," he said, "I turned to my wife, who was brushing the baby's hair in the tonneau, and I Baid that I thought the dumplings must be done by this time?" "Bang!" interrupted the judge's gavel. "Stenographer," said his honor, "strike that fool answer from the record." "And doesn't the question go with it, Judge?" asked the witness, meekly. "Sure!" said his honor, forgetting the dignity of his calling for the moment.?Houston Post. Rat-Catching Woodchuck. A pet woodchuck at the homo of Johnnie. Hughes of Cascade, Pa., catches mice and rats with the sue cess and ngnuy 01 a cai. u ?ao no association with a cat that taught the chuck to become a "ratter." The eye of the animal and its scent appear to be more acute than even a cat's. It will Ho for half an hour at a rat-hole and v ait. for the rat to appear. It Is generaly sure death to the rat when the chu^k makes a dive. New Bridge to Be of Steel. "The city of Cologne," writes Consul 11. J Dunlap, "has decided to build a new steel bridge over the Rhine, in place of the pontoon bridge which has been in use from time immemorial. It has not yet been determined whether the new bridge shall be built on pll? lars of stone or whether it shall take .the suspension form, as in Budapest, Hungary. The bridge will provide for double street car tracks, general wagon traffic and foot passengers." in Matteawan cannot see overhears our conversation through a flue. "I would like a quiet spot, somewhat bigger than a slot and no smaller than a kennel or a stall, where a cook can cook a steak or a rabbit or a cake, without standing with both feet out in the hall. "And I'd like a janitor who is not an emperor, but a man?a chap with honor in his soul; with a truly honest ring, quite above small pilfering when it comes to cream an.I scuttlesful of goal. "And I want it at a rent I can pay and save a cent?say, three thousand plunks per week," he rattled on. First they thought it was a game, but Just then the keeper came, and they led him sadly back to Matteawan.?Horace Dodd Gastit in Judge. Weighing the Rainfall. The weight of one inch of rainfall on an acre of land exceeds one hun dred tons. * + y HOMES Of AUTHORS" j Some Live Within the Haunts They Write Of. But Arnold Bennett Pictures the Black Midlands from Fontainebleau; Hall Caine Surveys Isle of Man From Greeba Castle. London.?London may be the literary center of the British Isies, but our leading authors prefer to live and work .somewhere on the circumference. Most of the novelists, at any rate, escape beyond reach of the moi tor-buses. Some of them have chosen to breathe the atmosphere of I their own books. J. M. Barrie's postal i -jj?? ivtrHpmuir. which is the i huuixdd to i name that map-makers give to Thrums. Thomas Hardy and Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch likewise dwell among their own people, the one in Wessex and the other in the Delectable Duchy. Hall Caine surveys the Isle of Man from the windows, or possibly. the battlements and loopholes, of Greeba Castle. Others are widely scattered over the shires. Rider Hag-. gard is a country squire in Norfolk. Mrs. Steel lives in North Wales, Mau"rice Hewlett at Salisbury, Mrs. Humphry Ward in Herts, J. K. Jerome and ' G. K. Chesterton in Bucks, Joseph Conrad in Kent, atfd-W- W. Jacobs in Essex. No one would ever guess where. Arnold Bennett, has been making his home for'some years. His studies of life in the Black Country qf the English Midlands have been written at Fontainebleau! Though oajy a day's Journey distant, he has thus been practically as much In exile from hfs Five Towns as Stevenson was from Edinburgh when in Samoa. He has now finally put aside all temptations to belong to other nations, and has ) Rider Haggard's Beautiful Home. taken a bouse at Rottingdean, in Sussex. That county has already more than its fair share of distinguished writers; notably Henry James at Rye, Rudyard Kipling at Rurwash, and Sir Arthur t'onan Dovle at Crowborough. ASTRONOMER'S MIND BLANK Professor Pipes of Iowa Doesn't Know What Became of Auto and Telescope. Kansas City, Mo.?His mind a blank since Friday, Professor M. Pipes, 60 c ,ilit nn nvtrnnnmor who has been stopping at 817 East Eighth street, Is unable to account for tho disappearance of his motor car and u : faithful dog, and a telescope which | was his means of livelihood when ' the skies were not cloudy and people wished to take a look at the stars while he told them what they were seeing. Professor Pipes came to Kansas j City about six weeks ago and he, his motor car, dog and telescope were inseparable until Friday, when a patrol- | man found Pipes in a dazed condition. The man was taken to the Flora avenue police station and was turned over to J. C. Greenman, Investigator of tho insane, who placed him in the custody of a friend. The astronomer lives at Nora Springs, Iowa. His wife nnd( daughter, who are there, have been notified of his condition. He has been traveling with bis motor car. dog and telescope for a couple of years. Colo; nel Greenman released him in the r ? r_j 1 UUMUU.I UI rt I I ltTllU. SPARROW CAUSES BAD FALL Attacks Painter, Who Tumbles Fifty Feet From a Scaffold and Breaks His Arm. Lawrenceburg, Ind.?An iLnglish sparrow mother bird, worked up to ft state of excitement, made a fierce attack on \\\ Holman Morton, aged P.C years, a painter, when he destroyed its nest built under the eaves of the building which he was painting. The bird struck Morton several times on the head and attempted the pick his eyes out, lie struck at the sparrow and, losing hia balance, alighted on the cement pavement, fifty feet below, escaping with a l?oken left arm and a sprainel right ankle. A number of spectators witnessed the strange attack and accident. Lovers, Disturbed, Stop Jail-Break. Meeker. Colo. The next time Andrew Comstock. a convict, seeks freedom through the window of his ceil, he will keep a sharp watch for sweet| hearts. Sawing at his cell window ! bars, he disturbed a pair on a shady porch near the Jail. The disgusted swain, seeing the head of the conj vict coming through the bars, objected to a third party and informed the warden. Airr3 at Burglar and Hits Goat. I/Odi, N. J.?Chief of Police Pads ! saw a burglar climbing a ladder lead1 ine to the bedroom window of Robert j Boesch. He blazed away with his re! volver, but instead of hitting the thief, he struck Blue Bell, the pet goat of j James It. Martlne, which was ptnce| fully sleepinp in the back yard. Girls Use Stocking for Publicity. Atlantic City. N J.?The pirls of the nigh school here are advertising a minstrel show by wearing one white and one black stocking. SEVEN YEARS OF MISERY How Mrs. Bethune was Re? stored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Sikeston, Mo. ? "For seven years I suffered everything. I was in bed for four or five days at a ^me eveIT month, fev and so weak I could Ma * hardly walk. I had ^VbJ^ cramps, backache |$$| / and headache, and f+'A -=-=l W . was so nervous and . j'-. '' weak that I dreaded f? see anyone or have anyone move in V|t the room. The docmmm m ^?rs ?ave me medi wfuri.f cine to ease me at those times, and said that I ought to have an operation. I would not listen to that, and when a friend of my husband's told him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg- | etable Compound and what it had done for his wife, I was willing to take it Now I look the picture of health and feel like it, too. I can do all my own housework, work in the garden and entertain company and enjoy them, and can walk as far as any ordinary woman, any day in the week. I wish I could talk to every suffering woman and girl, and tell them what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done for me."?Mrs. Dema Bethune, Sikeston, Mo. Remember, the remedy which did this was Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It lias helped thousands or women wno have been troubled with displacements, inflammation, ulceration, tumors, irregularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing down feeling, indigestion, and nervous prostration, after all other rr.eam have failed. Why don't you try it? /ft 1/An A I/O and High Grade / 0 IVUllAfVO finishing. M.ul ; orders given Rpc- ' Wfililff clal Attention. Prices reasonae!*. Service prompt. 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Sold by all medicine dealers. 25c. With the Lid Off. "Mother," asked Hob, with a hopeful eye on the peppermint-Jar, "have I been a Rood boy this Afternoon?" "M-m-yes," answered mother, dubiously, recalling a certain little rift within the lute. The four-year-old diplomat looked anxious. "Please," he begged, "say a wide open yes!"?Harper's Bazar. AN APT SCHOLAR. [Wr ?Mrs. Deacon Streete?I'm Kind your uncle left you some money, but please, Norah, don't call It a legacy. Say limbacy. It Is very Improper to say leg; always say limb! Norah?Vis, ma'am, an' shall I warrum oop thot limb o' mutton for dinner, or will ycz hov It cowld? GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP No Medicine So Beneficial to Brain and Nerves. Lying awake nights makes It hard to keep awake and do things in day time. To take "tonics and stimulants" under such circumstances Is like setting the house on fire to see If you can put it out. The right kind of food promotes refreshing sleep at night and a wide awake Individual during the day, A lady changed from her old way of eating Grape-Nuts, and says: "For about three years 1 had been a great sufferer from Indigestion. After trying several kinds of medicine, the doctor would ask me to drop off potatoes, then meat, and so on. but in a few days that craving, gnawing feeling would start up, and I would vomit everything I ate and drank. "When I Ftarted on Grape-Nuts, vomiting stopped, and the bloaied feeling which was so distressing disappeared entirely. "My mother was very much bothered with diarrhoea before commencing the Grape-Nuts, because her stomach was so weak she could not digest her food. Since using Grape-Nuts food she is well, and says she don't think she could do without it. "It Is a great brain restorer ana nerve builder, for I can sleep as sound and undisturbed after a supper ol Grape-Nuts as In the old days when I could not realize what they meant by a 'bad stomac. ' There is no med! cine so beneficial to nerves and brair as a good night's sleep, such as yoi can enjoy after eating Grape-Nuts." Name given by Postum Co., Battle : Creek, Mich. Look In pkgs. for the famous little book, "The Road to Wellville." F.vrr rend tlie above letter? A nrn : one npprnr* from time to time. The} : are Kcuninr. true, and fall of homai ' interest. l\nm\noN\i. SONMTSCnOOL Lesson (By E. O. SELLERS, Director of Evening Department, The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) LESSON FOR JULY 14. THE SEED IN FOUR KINDS OF SOIL. ( LESSON' TEXT-Mark 4:1-21GOLDEN TEXT?"Receive with meekness the Implanted word which Is able to nave your souls." James 1:21. Jesus tells us plainly why he taught so much by means of parables (Matt. 13:10-1.1) viz., to teach the truth to those who sought It, and to hide It from those who refused to receive It. I The truth had to be taught, hence the parable, that those to whom It was given to know the mysteries of the kingdom might know and understand but that to the others It might be hidden (Mark 4:11-12). We have in this lesson one of the best known of the master's many parables. Like all the rest Jesus draws his picture from the common experiences of life. Jesus uses the fields, the home, etc., while Paul In his preaching and teaching drawB from the city, the army, the markets, etc. We have In this picture the seed, the sower and the soil. We must turn to the parable accounts In Luke and Matthew to get the full and the complete picture. What Is the seed? Luke records that Jesus told the disciples that the I seed Is the word of God (Luke 8:11). Mark also tells us practically the same J thing In v. 14 of the lesson. A great' deal is being made today of seed selection and some wonderful results j have beeu obtained. How much more Important for us who deal with Immortal souls that we select the best, viz., the word of God. Sought Not Adulation. Next the sower (v. 4). Notice he went forth not to S-O-A-R, nor Is It recorded that he was S-O-R E. He did not have a grouch nor did he enter Into his work that he might receive the adulation of men (Matt. 6:2). It Is however the roll that seems to be most emphasized In this lesson, both in the direct teaching and also In the explanation of the parable. There are four kinds of soil and It Is also very significant the manner by which the seed came Into contact with each kind of soli. "Some fell by the wayside." The path was well trodden, the ground was preoccupied, e. g., used for other purposes rather than to yield a harvest. It was hard to be broken and hence It was an easy matter for the birds of the air (Satan v. 15) soon to pluck It away. We need to remember that if men receive with meekness the Implanted word there will be of course no such opportunity for the evil one. The trouble Is that In this case the word was not Implanted. Thus it is that one-fourth of the seed is lost. That the result is a deplorable one Is shown in Heb. 2:1-4. The seed In this case fell "by" the 1 wayside, In the next it fell "on" the , rocky ground. The first is the picture i of the heedless, this Is a picture of Vin cnrvrflrMnl ones. Oh for a time ' they did run well, they even received J the word with gladness (v. 16) hut they had no stability; they lacked the: element of persistence; their surroundings were superficial, there was no chance for the seed to get a real grip upon their lives. Luke tells us what the master taught about the man who, before building a tower sat down to consider the cost. We cannot build I except upon a rock If the structure Is to be a stable one. We must not play at our religion, 'tis a grim reality, a glorious abandonment. It must reach the bottomless deeps of our 6ouls. All else must bo eliminated. Three Fourths Lost. In the third place Jesus speaks of J seed that fell "among" the thorns. Here In this worldly soil It Is not so i much the character of the soil as the character of that which already occu* j pled the soil ere the sower sowed the seed. The cares of this world, the deceltfulnoss of riches and "other things" (v. 19) had bo entered In that the good seed never had a real chance In the soil of that human heart, hence It was choked and yielded no fruit. There was no real grip of the will, no whole-hearted surrender. How often these thorns, "the cares of life," keep tho housewife, or the business man away from the word. How often the "deceltfulnoss of riches" snare men so as to choke the word thnt at one time gave such promise In their lives. And then the "lusts and other things" which the evil one so well knows how to use that he may keep us from tho word, for he knows that by it we may be saved (Luke 8:12). We have thus seen three-fourths of the word lost. Of the remaining fourth which fell "into" (R. V.) the good soil, not all yielded the same return. If all brought forth (v. 7) it all yielded, it all sprang up. but not all In the same ratio. We ought to remember at this point that this parable plainly teaches us that we who receive the implanted seed, we who receive and obey shall in turn become the seed of the kingdom. If. as Luke records, we receive the word in good and honest hearts, if we hear it. hold it fast. It will bring forth fruit. The process will not necessarily be rapid, we will bring it forth with patience (Luke 8:15). God speaking by the mouth of Moses exclaimed: "Oh that there were such an heart In them, that they would fear me and keep all of my commandments always that it might be well with them and their children forever." (Dent. 5:29.) What is it to receive the word with meekness? Clearly it is a volitional act. ui>on the part of him who hears. He allows the word to act. He does not furnish the life germ of the seed but does furnish the proper soil conditions whereby the germinating principle of the seed may bring forth fruit. It is a definite submission of our lives i to the active principles of the living word. With resoluteness we submit ourselves to its requirements and peri mlt it to do its work of saving. There are three distinguishing feat ures or tnis i?bi ? m--o v. ^ They "hear" the word. 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A literary lady at a society dinner was given a seat next to a noted scientist whose views were very materialistic, and at some remark he made on the origin of mankind, the lady found her temper tried beyond all bearing, so that she retorted: "I really don't care what you say. I believe in the Bible, and there we are told that Adam waB the father of all living." "I really think you are mistaken," oai,i with n smile, and so the sub Ject dropped. A few days later the lady, writing to a bosom fripnd, told her of the occurrence and added: "I am too mortified, for I have looked the matter up and It only says that Eve was the mother of all living, and fo I don't know whether to write to the professor or not." Willing to Oblige. A story comes from a town where firms advertise to sell fish direct to small purchasers. The glowing ad vertlsementB asked for the sending of half a dollar with a list of the va rietles of fish preferred. 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An English earl, lately deceased I who had no family, was notorious for ' his hatred of children, and on on? j occasion he engaged as lodge keeper I an army pensioner named McMicken. > Some few months later McMlcken's i ; wife presented him with a son and heir. On learning of the occurrence ; his lordship rode down to the lodge In i a terrible rage. "I hear," said he to Mr. McMicken, : "that your wife has a son." . ; "Yes, my lord," said the man proud-1 ly. i "Well, now, look here, McMicken; ! when I put you here. It. was to open i and shut, a gate, but by the Lord Har? r A WELCOME ARRIVAL. " n Mr. Collier Down?Intelligence has 8 Just renrhed me. 0 Mrs. Collier Down?Thank heavens, r it has cnn-e nt lonf _ __ du are justified in cussing, sets your appetite to fussing; your soul and shock the neighbors? es and go singing to your labors. rlttrn by W. J. MUSGBOVE. Tempe, Ariz. Pnxtutn Co., May (