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Sulphur Compound and Ointment are
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"I wonder if Diogenes could find an
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"Certainly. In the poorhouso."
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Whom She Preferred.
A lady suspected her two sons of
carrying on a mild flirtation with one
of the servants, a bonny Scottish lassie.
In order to arrive at the truth of
the matter Bhe pressed the bell, and
when tho girl answered it spoke to
her.
"Tell me, Jane," she said quietly,
"which of my two sons da you prefer
?James or Albert?"
"Weel, ma'am," replied the blushing
Jane, "they are both nice, though
I think of the two I prefer James; but
for u real guid spree gio me tho master."?l<ondon
Tit-Hits.
Skyscraper Cities.
Opposite the postofflce, in lower
Broadway, New York city, there has
Just been completed a building 780
feet high, which will provide working
quarters for 10,000 people. If all the
men and women employed in this one
"skyscraper" should uttempt to go
uptown by the subway at the end of
the day it would tnke the ten-car ex- J
press trains, running ut the intervals I
now established. 15 minutes to haul ;
them awny. Though this happens to >
be the highest structure in the city,
there are others nearly as large; it
is ono of the dozens that accommodate
4.000 or 5,000 people each, and
one of hundreds that accommodate
more than a thousand each. The number
of these great buildings is steadily
growing.?World Work
CUBS' FOOD
They Thrive on Grape-Nuts.
Healthy babies don't cry and the
well-nourished baby that is fed on
Grape-Nuta is never a crying baby.
Many babies who cannot take any
other food relish the perfect food,
Grape-Nuta, and get well.
"My baby was give'' up by three
doctors who said that Hie condensed
milk on which I had red her had
ruined the child's stomach. One of
the doctors told me thut the only
thing to do would be to try Grape- j
Nuts, so 1 got some and prepared it us i
follows: I soaked 1 Vi tablespoonfuls
In one pint of cold water for half an
hour, then I strained off the liquid and !
mixed 12 teaspooufuls of this strained j
Grape-Nuts juice with six teaspoonfuls
of rich milk, put in a pinch of salt and .
a little sugar, warmed It and gave It
to baby every two hours.
"In this simple, easy way I saved
baby's life and have built her up to a
strong, healthy child, rosy and laughi
ing. The food must certainly bo per1
feet to have such a wonderful effect.
1 as this. I can truthfully say I think
It Is the best food In the world to
raise delicate babies on and is also a
delicious healthful food for grown-ups
1 as we have discovered In our family."
Grapo-Nuts is equally valuable to the
strong, healthy man or woman. It
stands for the true theory of health.
"There's a reason," and It Is explained
in the little J>ook, 'The Road to Well
vlUe." in pkgs.
Ever read the above letterT A aev*
I Me appear* from time to time. Tbe>
are peaalae, tree, aad (all of fcnraaa
'. la tec eat.
jm ' 7 ' ?H
ROMANCE BEGINS
IN CHS; ENDS
IN OLDNEW YORK
Metropolis Has Real Soldier of
Fortune, and He Married
the Girl to Whom He
Owes His Life.
HERE IS ONE OF FEW
WHO ESCAPED CASTRO
Recent Wedding of Prospector and
Pretty Spanish Salesgirl Revealed
Charming Love Story That Had Its
Inception In Venezuela and Ends in
Four-room Flat on the West Side
of the Big Eastern City.
George Morrow Smith, white. tWrtyone,
prospector, New York city, etc.
Maria llioida, white, twenty-seven,
sales girl, Venezuela, etc.
THAT'S the way it appears on the
marriage license record at city
hall. New York. And at flrBt
glance you, would have a hard
time imagining a real, dyed in the
wool, soldier-of-fortune, heroic-maiden
romance behind the wedlock of George
Smith, prospector, irtid Maria llioida,
salesgirl, liut, have patience.
Tho George Smiths?yes, Maria's
Mrs. George now?live in a four room
flat on the lower weBt eide, happy,
contented, comfortable, quite settled
after two weeks of matrimony.
Goorge, though he still gives his occupation
as prospector, is just now
working as a draughtsman in an engineer's
office. Hut it's not with the
domestic affairs of the George SmlthB
that thlB story deals. ' It's with the
pre-nuptials, decidedly speaking, and
those began In Caracas, Venezuela,
JubI before tho overthrow of Cipriano
Castro by the revolutionists almost
Ave years ago.
George Smith told a clerk in the
marriage license bureau something
about it two weeks ago when he and
Maria Ailed in their application blank,
which was the first step toward becoming
Mr. and Mrs. George Smith,
and the clerk had a good memory.
And here it is as George Smith told
it, with the help of Mrs. George.
Captured and Jailed.
"I sailed for South America from
New York because I thought there
AfKn
No One Remembered the Name or
Whereabouts of the Former Keeper
of the Caracas Prison.
might be a chance for some fun. The
revolutionists were 'raising roagh
house' and Castrp seemed to be on
his last legs. Some of us made a mistake
about Castro, though; you could
never tell when he was on his last
legs.
"I made up my mind to that after 1
had Joined the rebels a little while
and had been captured outside of
Caracas.
"YVlth a batch of Spanish-talking
Venezuelans, they hustled me Into the
city and threw us Into prison. I
think they picked out the deepest,
dirtiest 'pen' they had for me. It was
a single affair, with no windows, and
the entrance through an iron grated
door. Luckily It waa too dark to see
the food I was eating, and in time a
fellow's taste gets dulled, so I managed
to live.
"The hole they kept me In was
reached by a long, slanting hall that
ran to the upper grouud outside the
' city prison, In which were confined
most of the prisoners taken by the
government. At the top of the runway
there was a sentry, but there waa
none at the door. They couldn't
stand it down there.
"After a while I found out that the
sentry above was one of the regular
prison keepers, and not one of Castro's
paid soldiers. He used to bring
my food and water to me once a day
and shove It through a scrt of grill
in the bottom of the cell door, which
war battened on the outside with u
bar. The grill was about 14 inches
square, and I spent a long time trying
to got at the outside bar to slide It
back. Could 1 do that, 1 often thought,
I could work myself through the opening
and have a chance to get free.
Hut it wasn't any ubc.
Captor Teases Prisoner.
"Sometimes when the inan came
down with my food I'd ask him In
Spanish, of which I'd picked up a little,
what was the news above ground,
and he'd toll me how many rebels had
been killed that day by the government
troops It seemed to please him
a lot. for the reason, I guess, that be
believed It would be dishet..'teulng
news to me. Once or twice he told
me that prisoners had been taken up
to be shot by the dictator's order,
and I wondered when it would come
my turn.
"I had lost track of the exact number
of days I had been in prison?
one does sometimes?when one morning
the old keeper did not come down
with my pan of food. In his place
came a native girl. 1 tried to crack a
Spanish joke with her and got mixed,
and finally fell down on it and she
laughed. Man alive! You don't know
what there was in that laugh. It was
low and rippling, and?and?" And
George Smith broke off in confusion
and shifted hlB feet awkwardly on the
brand new red and white rug in the
living room of the George Smith flat.
"You see," he explained, "it had
been the first laugh 1 had heard in
Venezuela. They didn't laugh in the
revolutionist army, and in the prison
nobody laughed?as long as they
Biayeu sane. rm not counting that
other kind of laughter.
"So it sounded pretty good and
cheering to me to hear that girl giggling
at my bum Spanish. And when
Rhe came the next day I tried pretty
hard for that laugh again, and got It.
After that she always brought my
food down mornings. And in time I
began to think by the taste that 1
"I Started Through the Grill and
Stuck Half Way."
could have borne to look at It?and
still eaten.
Smile Charmi Him.
"I learned she was the daughter of
the sentry np above. And the dampness
of the dungeon made him cough,
so that was why he sent her down In
his stead. And one little thing led to
another, and?you know how It is
with a girl, even when you're in
prison and wondering if you're to be
led up to be shot that day or the next
morning.
"I shall never forget how It happened.
Lord, it was hot that day!
sne Drought in the pan of food and
Bbe opened the grill In the door, and
?then she forgot to slide back the
bar, and giggled. 'Tomorrow,' Bhe
said In Spanish, 'the rats will eat your
dinner.' And then, before I could
speak, she was gone.
"Well, all that day I waited. The
old keeper had let her come down
with the food because ho thought the
grill was too small for a man to go
through. If It hadn't been he would
have not dared, fearing I might dash
through as she opened It to admit
the jfkn. And he wasn't far wrong.
When night came, hot and stilling and
black as those southern nights can
be, 1 started through the grill and
stuck half way. For an hour I worked
back and forth, twisting and turning,
and then, with the flesh rubbed off
in places and the blood running down
Inside my clothes and my head bursting
in the heat, I slipped through with
a jerk and was clear.
"I went up the incline on hands
and knees. I knew the night sentry
would be on duty. The girl had told
1 me he was a young man. 1 had
thought she had turned crimson, but
I wasn't sure in the darkness outside
the dungeon door. If It had been the
old fellow, her father, I would not
have worried. It would have been
easy to shut off his wind, but?it was
a young man.
Helps Him to Froedom.
"I came level with the ?iirtnco nt
the earth. There he was, not five feet
distant, looking at nte. He moved
swiftly toward me and I gathered myself
for a desperate leap for his throat.
And?my heart stopped. Through the
darkness low and muffled came the
sound of a musical little laugh.
"It came to me In an Instant then.
And I knew that that blush of hers
had been real. She had lured him
"I Bent Down and?and?" "Kissed
Me," Said Mr*. Smith.
away, sent him on some fool's errand,
herself promising to hold his watch
until he returned. And with the way
of men when women speak, he had
taken the risk. Then I bent down,
and?and?" again Mr. Smith stumbled
In embarrassment, but Mrs. Smith,
with that quaint accent of her race,
shouldered the burden for hint.
"Kissed mo," said Mrs. Smith, simply.
"Yes," Mr. Smith admitted, "and I'll
never forget It." with another reddening
of the temples, "and then I started
to get clear of the rest of the prison.
The section where I had been confined
was separate from the main
t t
tiers of cells, set off by itself in an
i inclosure surrounded by a low atone
wall. There were two sentries on the
i outside, but I got by them and out
beyond the city.
"I did not know Just where the revolutionary
army was. and so I held '
northward, traveling mostly at night,
until I reached Cura. There I got a
mule and continued on a long trip to
Orumaco. 1 thought 1 would try and J "
cross the Gulf of Maracalbo, to Mara- ;
caibo itself, but decided it would be
safer for me to try to reach the Dutch ?
island of Curacoa. Finally I got passage,
and after several months worked
my way back to lioston.
"Once there 1 tried to get in touch '
with the girl who had helped me out
of what 1 learned afterward would
have been certain death, as one by r
ono tho prisoners were taken up and 2
shot, and it would have been only a
matter of time till the arrival of iny : (
turn. I wrote letters, but 1 did not j
know her name, und of course, as I f
j should have known, they were never J
| HpI i UPrtiH TlL'ft VPI.M 1" "- **- ? I
vm. * ??w j tut o iairi ? IICU 111*3
trouble was over 1 made another trip
to Caracas, and tried to find some
trace of her, but with no bucccbb. No
one there remembered the names or
whereabouts of former keepers of the
Caracas prison, and after two weeks
of futile search 1 gave up the quest
and shipped back to the United States.
Finds Her In New York.
"Since then I have worked at engineering
jobs In various parts of the
country, and though I never expected
to see her I never forgot that low
laugh In the dark at the dungeon entrance.
It was not until three weeks
ago, when 1 went into a store to buy
some handkerchiefs, that I froze in my
tracks. There, leaning over the counter
looking at me. w as the girl.
"She knew me at once, and?she
laughed, Just as she had laughed as
Bhe let back the bar at the grill, and
as she stood thus that black tropic
night when she was all that lay between
me and freedom. And? and 1 j
asked her right there, and?well, here
we are."
Hut there Mrs. Smith took up the
story. !
"I>o you know," Bhe Bald in good
English, though with a soft accent,
"he did not even know my name.
Imagine asking a girl to marry you i
whose name you did not know. Hut
Just the Bame," she added naively. "1
accepted. j
"You Bee," she went on, "after the (
overthrow of Castro my father was
forced to leave Caracas, and not long
afterward he died. 1 had no mother, j
Arturo," and here Mrs. Smith blushed,
"would have married me, but 1 did not
love him. You know he was the one? \
the night guard whom I sent to the j
city stores to bring me some fruit as
I
A 0^
1 ^ I;
She Glanced With Dark Eyes at Her
Husband?"I Am Very Happy." | *
1
I soon as I heard Mr. Smith get through | c
the hole In the dungeon door. I i
"Why did 1 help him to get free? 1 f
loved him: why should I not?" I f
She shrugged her shoulders. "1 came t
to America." she said, "and I went to j
work. See, I have learned much of t
English in the two years 1 have been g
j here. And now?" she glanced with
| dark eyes at her husband?"I am very \
happy." a
i And as she laughed that low, whla- ?
; perlng little luugh. It was not hard for f
tho reporter to see in the thick dark j
of a tropical night a tall man emcrg- ' 1
' ing from an underground passageway c
and bending swiftly over a sentry in 1
skirts who held up a mouth to meet ]<
> him. j
j (
Eggs and the Empire. t
A writer in London Opinion bewails | e
me destruction by vigilant pure food c
authorities of three and a half tons of c
eggs. Ho thinks a shade of sadness r
will invade many a heart at this appal- '
ling waste of valuable material, and s
says that had a general election of the s
antique pattern been a-foot theso eggs li
would have been valuable. To this he v
adds: "The majority of laws on tlio 1
statute book of Great Hrltain and Ire- r
land have been built on rotten eggs, f
They were the most forcible and pun- | 2
gent political argument less than half o
a century ngo, and few orators stand- n
lng on hustings could withstand their C
aromatic appeal. We may swank s
about our naval supremacy and dance a
flattering pas souls of satisfaction be- j
cause we rule the waves. Your egg b
Is the true empire builder. Without ' n
that?aided and abetted by Its life-long n
pal the rabbit skin?the faces of our ! j(
laws and law books would assume a ; ]j
completely altered expression." a
n
New Source of Electric Energy. p
An Kngllsh electrical experimenter, j,
J. A. Hnrker. has made the announce- 0
ment that when two highly heated car- w
bon electrodes are placed in the fur- a
nace at points of relatively different a
temperature a flow of electric energy j,
may be detected. v
intmational '
SONMTSOiOOL
Lesson
By E. O. SEEDERS, Director of Evening
Department, The Moody Btblo Institute,
Chicago.)
LESSON FOR JULY 13
MOSES PREPARES FOR HIS WORK.
LESSON TEXT?Ex. 2:11-25.
GOLDEN TEXT?"mossed nro the
neck; for they shall Inherit the earth.**
ilatt. C:5.
Meekness does not imply any lack
>f aggressiveness; it does not imply a
nildness of temper. Moses, we judge
rora a study of this chapter, was not
is yet "meek above all men."
In last week's lesson we considered
he birth, salvation, nursing and trainng
of Moses as child. After Jochebed
lad nursed Moses (v. 9) ho was retimed
to Pharaoh's daughter and "be ame
her son," thereby obtaining all
he rights, privileges and training of
he Egyptian court.
I. His Qualifications. (1) He had a
;odly parentage and an early godly
raining. Do we appreciate the trenendous
advantage of the child who is
veil born and well trained? True, environment
is not all-sufficient, but it is
i great asset. The psalmist emphaii7.es
this when he exclaims "thou hast
jiven mo the heritage of them that
ear thy namo." Ps. 61:5.
(2) Moses had a knowledge of the
conditions. Horn and nursed in a
ilave's home he knew of the oppreslion
mt Israel. Reared in Pharaoh's
ourt, ho knew how the Egyptians
eared these same Israelites (Ch. 1:9,
0). Moses saw (v. 11) the burdens
orne by those of his own race.
Heart of Sympathy.
(3) Moses had a heart of sympathy
v. 11). Seeing an Egyptian tasknaster
evilly entreating a kinsman
doses' heart rebelled and at once he
lew to his support and defence. Our
.ord was "moved with compassion."
t. like righteous indignation impelled
he Master to drive the money
changers from the temple and to de
lounce the hypocritical Pharlaeea.
doses had not, however, learned selfestraint,
and that he should express
lis sympathy at the proper time and
n the most effective manner.
(41 Moses was brave and zealous,
r. 12. Hut he acted before God told
lim to act. He "looked this way and
hat," but he did not look upward.
(5) Moses was educated. We have
ilready seen how he was taught by his
iwn mother and that he received the
raining of the Egyptians, Acts 7:22.
lelng brave and mighty in deeds was
lot enough; he was "mighty in words ^
ind deeds." Thus he was prepared to
itand before Pharaoh (not tho father
>f his deliverer, but another Pharaoh,
r. 24), meet him on an equal footing,
ind intelligently combat his religion
vitb that of Jehovah. ,
(6) Moses had assurance. True, ha
lad not as yet received God's call (see
^h. 3) for particular work and his reiance
upon force, his tit-for-tat policy
vas not God's method of working delverance.
But Moses was obedient,
ind as he obeyed, God honored each
itep of his faith.
Moses' Mistake.
(7) Moses was meek. e. g., teachible.
To us this was his greatest aslet.
A man may be well born, well
rained and know tho needs and the
esources at his command, but if he
ack a teachable spirit he is doomed
o failure. Moses made a mistake
vhen he slew the Egyptian. At a later
late when he had learned of God he
indertook the same task and no dificulties
daunted him. The change
rom a prince's position at the court
o one of nn humble nhmihopH o <ino
>ised calling, was as essential as had
>een those 40 years at the Egyptian
ichools.
II. His error. Moses endeavored to
vork relief by the strength of his own
irm, a mistake many Christian work rs
are constantly making. Our warare
is not with carnal weapons,
doses had no warrant for killing the
Egyptian. He was not obeying any
ommand other than that of impulse.
The life of Moses had been miracuously
spared, nor had he been subect
to slavery. Yet he did not know
lod'8 method nor was it God's opporune
time to strike tho blow for delivrance.
It is true that the sufferings
t the Israelites increased and that no
>ne seemed to heed their cry. But God
emernbered.
III. His pilgrimage. Some one has
uggested that Moses entered another
chool of patience which would cause
lim to exercise all of his meekness
.hen he married Zipporah, Ch. 4:20-26.
t is true that his father-in-law was
nore generous and proved a bettor
riend than his daughter, Ch. 18:137.
Moses gave evidence that he recUt/.
~n 1? -i
KU1I.CU 1119 pilftl Mil (.-IliiruCltT in IDA
ames ho gave to his sons, v. 22 and
'h. 18:3, 4. The Christian needs contantly
to be reminded that ho Is but
pilgrim and a stranger here below.
IV. A summary. Again we have
rought before us God's wonderful
method of preparing his chosen instrument
for tho carrying out of his prom- ^
sea. Not all, of course. Is recorded. A
ife is saved and preserved. It receives
brief period of instruction at its
most critical stage from the hands of
:s own mother. lie becomes proficient
i all of tho learning of a rich and
pulent court. Then comes a time
'hen a definite crisis of responsibility,
sense of persons relation to the poor
nd oppressed of his own blood, forces
lm to make a choice. He Is coninced
of his own Incompetence.