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THE SAIL IN fjk STORM. 1UOV. DR. TALMAOU'* LHIfiON <6v 1MOIDUNT ON 9B3A, OK tiAULBK, cnaiitT xiiisiiiNO WMl'MNT flUOBllirY fOH CIIHMT / ? On (h? lluugli Vo r??e of I.lfe ? !*oll?? lag to U? Vtlfht?u?d About. NeW York, 8ej)t. 22.-- In his sermon for today KnW. Dr. ^CalmugO diBcouruM) ou a dramatlo Incident during tho Ba vlor'a Ufa atnoug the Galilean fisher men and draw# from it a striking los son for the meu mid womon of the present day. Tho aubjeot waa "Hough bulling," and tho text Murk iv, 36.37, "And there were also with him other Utile ships, and there arose u great storm of wind." Tiberius, Galilee and Geniiosarot were threo names for tho game lake. It biy In a scene of great^ luxuriance. Tho surrouudlng hills, hjtfh, terraced, sloping, gorged, were bo many hung ing garden* of beauty. The streams rumbled down through rook* of gray aiul red limestone, and Hashing from the hlllaido bounded to tho .Boa. In the tlmo of our Lord the valleys, head lands and ridges were covercd thlok If with vegetation, and so great waa the variety of climate that the palm trvo of tho torrid and tho walnut tree < of rigorous climate were only a little way apart. Men In vineyards and olive gardens were gathering up the rlohes for the oil press. The hills and valleys were etari'ed and erlmaoned with flow ers, from which Christ took his text, and the disciples loarned lessons of patlonoo an<y trust. Jt seemed as 11 God had dashed a wa.vs of beauty on all the scene until It hung dripping from tho rooks, the hills, the oleander?. On tho back of the Lebanon range tho glory of the earthly aoene trjfca carried up as If to set It In range with the hills of heaven. A Smooth Su*. No other gem ever had so exquisite a setting as beautiful Gennesaret. The waters vere dear and sweet, and thickly inhabited, tempting innumer able [nets and affording a livelihood for gre^ populations. Dethsalda, Chora sin and Capernaum stood ou the bank, roaring /with wheels o? trafllo and ' flashing with splendid equipages, ana shooting their vessels soross the lake bringing merchandise for Damascus and passing great oargoes of wealth> product. Pleasure boats of Roman gen tlemen and flshlug smacks of the coun try people who had como down to -east a net' there passed each Oilier with nod and ahQut and welcome, or Side by aide swung idly at tho moor ing. Pajgco and luxuriant bath and vineyard, tower and shadowy arbor, looked off upon the calm sweet Bcene as tho evening shadows began to drop, and Hermon, with its head covered with perpetual ?now, la the glow of the setting sun looked like a wh& beareded prophet ready, to ascend ^ a chariot of lire. I think we shall have a quiet nightl Not a leaf winks in the air or a ripple disturbs the surface oi Gennesaret. The shadows of the great headlands stalk clear across the water. The voices of dVeningtlde, how drows ily they strike tho ear ? the splash of the boatman's oar and tho thumping of the captured llsh on tho boat's bot tom, . and thoso Indescribable sounds which fill the air at nightfall. You hasten the beach of the lake a lit tle way, and there you find an excite ment as of tfh embarkation. A flotilla is pushing out fromi tho 'western shore ( of the lake ? not a squadron with dead ly armament, not a clipper to ply with valuable merchandise, not piratic ves sels with grappling hpok to hug to death whatever they oould seize, but a flotilla laden with messengers of light and mercy and peace. Jesus Is In the front ship; his friends and admirers are In tho small boats following after. Christ, by the rocking of tho boat and the fatigues of the preaching ex erclses of the day, is Induced to slum ber, and I see him in tho stern of the boat, with a pillow perhaps extempo rised 'out of a llsherman's coat, sound asleep. The breezes of tho lake run their fingers through the locks of the wornout sleeper, und on Its surface there xiseth and fallelh the light ship, like a child on the bosom of Its sleep lug mother. Calm night. Starry night, licautlfui night ltun up all the sails and ply ar!i the ears and let the boats, ? ho big boat ana the small boats, go gilding over gentle Gcuucsarot. Cnlntliitf (he Sen. The sailors prophesy a change In l he weather. Clouds begin to travel up the sky and congregate. After awhile, even tho passengers hear the moan of the sturm, which conies on with rapid strides and with all the terrors of hurricane and darkness. The boat, caught in the sudden ifury, trembles like a deer at buy, andd the wild clangor of the hounds, /it-eat patches of foam are llting through * tho air. The loosened sails, Happing In tbe wind, craek like pistols. The small boats poised oil the white elilT of the driven sea tremble llko ocean petrels, and then plunge Into the trough with terrific swoop until a wave strikes them with thunder crack, and overboard go the cordage, the tackling, and the ma*ts, and the drenched disciples rush Into tbe Htcrn of the boat and shout nulld the hurricane, "Master, carest ' Thou not that we perish 7" That great Personage lift.il his head from the fisherman's coat and walked hut to the prow of, the vessel and looked upon the storm. On all sides were the small boats tossing in helplessness nnd from them came the - fries of drowning men. 11 y the Hash of lightning 1 see the calmness of the uncovered brow of Jesus and the spray dripping from ills beard. He has two words of command- one for tho wind, tho other for the sen. lie looks Into the tempestuous heavens and lie erics, "Peace!" and then lie looks down into the infuriate waters and lie says, "Be still!" Tbe thunders l>eat a retreat. The waves fall Hat on their faces. The extinguished stars rekindle their torches. Tho foam melts. The storm is dead. And while the crew are untangl- ! Ing the cordage and the cables and ball ing out the water from the bold of the ship, the disciples stand wonder struck, now gazing Into the calm sky, now gaslng Into the calm sea, now gazing Into the palm face of Jesus and whis pering rfne to another, "What manner of qtmn is this, that even the w lnds and tbe sea obey Him?" Okrlai (he Ship. 2 | learn, first, from this subject that ?ifrT" you are going to take a voyage of 3* kind you ought to have Christ in dblp. The fact Is, that those boats woold all WtTWoni to the bottom if OklktM ?Q?l%ihere. Now, you are gknt Co voyage ^>ut into some saw MtoMHrtt sons mm bweUw re- , m- m |U. great matter of protit. I hope It la bo. if you are content to go along in the treadmill course and plan nothing new, you are not fuJlilliug your mission. What you can do by the utmost tension of body, mind and soul, that you are bound to do. You have no right to be .colonel of a reglmeut if <l<?d call* you to commuud an utfny. Vou have uo right to be stroker hi a steamer if (iod commands you to bo admiral of tAe navy. You have no right to engineer a ferryboat from river bank to river bank if (iod commands you to engineer a Cunarder from New York to Liverpool. Hut whatever enterprise you uiidertake, ami upon whatever voyage you sturt, be till re to take Christ in the ship. llero are men lagrely prospered. The seed of rt ainall enterprise grew into an accu mulated and over nil a dowvsi ftyeceaa. Their oup of prosperity is running over. Hvory day ace* a commercial or u mechanical triumph. Yet they are not puffed up. They acknowledge the (lod who grows the harvest* and kIvcs them nil their prosperity. When disaster come* that destroy* others, t^<y are only helped Inro higher experiences. The coldest winds that ever blew down from snow clipped iloruioii and tossed (tenuosuret into foam and agony could not hurt them. l/?t the wind* blow until they crook their cheek* . lx>t the breakers boom, all Is well Christ in In the ifhlp . llero are other men, the prey of uncertainties'. When they succeed, they Ntrut through tho world In groat vanity and wipe their feet on the sen *iii veneris of olhors. Disaster comes and they are utterly down. They are good sailors on a fair day, when tho sky la clear and the sea Is smooth, but they cannot outride a storm. After awhile the packet la towed abeaiu'a end, and It seems a? if she must go dowu with ull cargo'. Tush out from tho shore with life-boat, long-boc$ shallop and pinnace. You cunuot save the crew, The storm twist* off the masts. The sea rises up td take down the vessel. Down she goes! No Christ in that ship, I speak to young people whose voy ago In life will be a mingling of sun shine and of darkness, of arotlo blast and of troploal tornado. You will have many a long, bright day of pros perity. The skies clear, the sea smooth. The crew exhllarant. The boat, stanoh|, will bound merrily over tho billows. Crowd on all tho canvas. Heigh, hoi Land aheadl But suppose that slokness puts Its bitter cup to your Up^; suppose that death over shadows your heart; suppose misfor tune with some quick turnV of the wheel hurls you baokward; suppoBo that tho wave of trial atrlkcs you athwari^shlps, and bowsprit shivered, and halliards swept Into the sea, and gangway orowded with piratical dis asters, and the wave beneath, and the sky above and the darkness around are filled with thp clamor of tho voices of destruction. Oh, then you will want Christ in the ship. Sluriui Will Come. aoTn\'L dOelple. found out SSf S-.-y.'JS Id Have you over noUoed how they ?*??*-. '?* JSuiip "? itsr? *??? hatted? rCkVa. SMITES hi" "rah"' da.hed ou? S^sf-rrr SSf AiX"? ?*? SK-Srrft.'?5 rhrrs-uu^r^^Moy in that store laugh ut him, and when ho lo?e. h!B paU.noo ^ey 'ay' * ??Vir r?oin??"he,pxhho? hour by hour. ""- today who ST'.- toVuy lowing Chrl.t one does no ^ chrlB_ llt,d Bl"?? I^ her )i0m0 they do not \Z Christ. She ha. hard work to got a .""r CuK.InopWpo?d ',?o religion.5 prayers. . . rellKlon. lirothera Mother opposed to religion The and Bisters opposed to rel b . ,-.?,ri?tlnn Klrl dues not aUajs nnu 11 ?moo tTsafun. when .he Mo. .0 to. 81,1 . i?. of wood heart. As IOafareTs 'when winds are d<ad ahead. ^ sTtt ng the ship on starboard tack , i .he yar.ls, m:ike tho wlnda and bracing c V jho J<hlv) S5S^?w might h%ve rocked and sung you to i mid while dreaming of the des Mncd Jon o( heaven you eould no have heard the cry of warning and would have Bone crashing breakers. The World Mo*m. ?,)? .object teaebc. me that ?<-'??< f ;z:tS ^Zr ??. rn of the vctisel and woke Christ up. awrssttSS Home 'S!?i"n mnnf "t'l^'lnfldel maga ninny foreign error., the church of Uod ta going to 1* !"?'? the .hip l? g"">? '? rounder. The .hip I" ??"?? ?*? | What are you frightened about? A nod lion kuos Into his cavern to take a sleep, l ho lies down until his shsggy mane begin to spin webs over the mouth of his oavern and ssy. "That Hon cannot break out through this web," and they keep I on spinning the gossamer thread* until J they get the mouth of the <<av<*n covered over. "Now," they s a*. "th<> ,lon " Ao?' the lion'* done." After a while the lion awakes and shake* himself, and he walks out from ttys civern, never know ing thero were nny spiders webs, an with his voice he ?hskes the nrnunt*hv Let tfco infidels and the sceptics of ??? day M on spinning their webs, sp inning their1 irtfidel gossamer theories, them alKover the piaee where CM* seems to aleeplng. They can never come oot; the wort to dona.^ He ?U? ?* ***** fc*k*1 w?b we h/ive been spinning." The day will COUH-j when the Liou of Judah'a tribe will rouse himself and come forth and tdiuko mightily thw^Mtions. What then all yuiir gotituimer threads? What in a spMer's/W'eb to mi aroiiaed lion.' l>o not fro t, thfu, it bout tft* world's hark ward. It la going forward. I stand Oil ihw bunk a of tho sea wn?'ii tho tide* Is riving. Tim uloiamic Maya I ho tide ia riaiiig, buf tho wa"ea iii* to a certulu point, ami then it rot'odea. "Why," you aoy, "tho tldo la going hack." No, it ia not. Tho next wave cornea up u littlo higher. and it goes hack. AgAln you atty the<Jide ia going out. And the next tlmo th<Nl*ave comes to (i higher point, thou to a high* er point. .N'otwithatauding nil these re ciusion*, ut luHt all the shipping of the world knowa it ia IiIkIi tidy. Mo it ia with the cause of Christ in tho world. One year it comes up to ouo |?oirit, mid wu are Rrcutly eucouragwl. Then it seeiua to k'o back next your. We aay thin tide la going out. Next year It coiutw to a higher polut and falla back, und uext year it cornea to a atill higher polu t aud falla back, but uU the tliue it ia advancing, until it shall be full tide, "aud the earth Hhall bo full of the knowU edge of Uod aa the waters All the sea." G'hmt a Clod. Aku1h, I learn froiy this subject (hat Christ lit Uotl and man in the Haute por tion. I go into the back part of that boat, aiul I look on Christ's Bleeping face and Hoe in that face the Htory <f nor row ami weariness, and a do<*j>er nhadow comes oTer his face, and 1 think ho nuiat be dreaming of the crow that ih to come. As 1 stand on the back part of the boat looking on his face, 1 any: "He ia n man! He is a mnn!" Hut when 1 Met- him come to the prow of the boat, and the sea. kneels in his presence, and the wind* fold their wings at his commamL/T 'say : "Ho ia Qodl Ho is God!" 'Jlfle hand that set up the starry kiillara *f tho universe wiping away the toars of an orphan! When 1 want sympathy, I go into the back i>art of his bout, and 1 look at him, and I say, "O l<ord Jesus, thou weary one, thou suffer ing one, have mercy on me." "Ecce homo!*' Behold the man! But when 1 want courage for the conflict of life, when I want some one to beat down my euoiuies, when 1 want faith for the great future, then 1 come to the front of the laiat, und 1 ace Christ standing there in all his omniiK>tence, and 1 say: "O Christ, thou, who couldst hush the storm, can hush all my sorrews, all my tompta tloua, all my fears." "Kcce Dens!'' Be hold tho (Sod! lIuMhliitr tho Tenipe?t, I 1 wiin from this Bubject that Christ van hush tho tempest. Homu of you, my. hearers, have a heavy load of troubles. Homo of you have wept until you can weep jio more. Perhaps God took the Bweetest child out of your house, tho one Unit asked the most curious questions, the ono that hung around you with great est /ominous. The gruvedlgger's spade cut down through your bleeding heart. Or perhaps it wan. the only one that you bad, and your soul ban ever since been like a desolated castle, where the bird* of UurtniKbt boot amid the falliiiK towers and {ftlong the crumbling stairway. Or perhaps it wan an aged mother that was called away. You used to scud for her when you had any kind of trouble. She was in your home to welcome your child ren Into life, and when they died bIio was there to pity you. You know that tho old band will never do any more kind nesses for you, and the lock of whito liair Mint you keep so well In the casket- of the locket does not look so well as It did on tho day when she moved It back from the wrinkled forehead under the old fash ioned bonnet In tho churhoh In the coun try. Or perhaps your property has gone. You Haid, "There. I have so much in bank stock, bo much I have in Iiouhch, so much I have In lauds, so muah I have In securi ties." Suddenly It Is all gono. Alan! for tho man who once had plenty of money, but who has hardy enouKh now for the morning marketing. No storm ever swept over Qennesnret like that which has gone tTampling Its thunders over your quaking *<oul. Hut you atroko Christ in the back part of tbe ship, orylnR, "Master, carest thou not that 1 perish?" And Christ rose up and quieted you. Jesus buying the tempest. There is one storm into wbloh we must all run. When a man lets ro this life to take bold of the next, I do not caTe how much Rraco lie has. he will want it all. j What !* that out yonder? That Is a dying I Christian rocked on the surges of death. Winds that have wrecked magnificent flo. tillas of pomp and worldly power come down on that Christian soul. All the spirits of darkness iteem to be let loose, for It Is their last chat}ce. The walling of kindred seems to mingle with the swirl of the waters, and tho scream of the wind, and the thunder of tho sky. Deep to deep, billow tn billow. Yet no tremor, no Kloom, no terror, no sljrhinf? of the dyliiK Christian. Tho fact is that from tbe back part of the boat a voice sings out, 'When thou paasest through the wa. ters, I will be with thee." By tile* flash, of the st arm the dying Christian sees thnts the harbor Is only Just ahead. Fron/ heavenly castles voices of welcome come over the waters. Peaco drops on the aiiRry wave as the storm soIm Itself to rest llko a chibl falling ttsleep amid tears and trouble. Chrtot hath hushed the tempest . Things She Didn't Know. . 1 am going into a stock company, Emily," Mr. Rising announced with pardonable pride. "Will you like that, John?" Mrs. Rising's question was given with a tone of surprise. "Well, rather," returned Mr. Rising. "I shall be on officer." "Oh, John, that's splendid. Will you wear a uniform?" Mrs. Rising asked with Interest. "No, ICm'ly, tho olllcers don't wear uniforms," replied Mr. Rising. "How did you get to be an officer, John?" Mrs. Rising asked a moment later. "A majority of the stock elected me," Mr. Rising answered. "Will we have to live In the country, John?" "What put that In your head, Em'ly ?" "I'd like to In tho summer, and thought It might be better on account of the stock." "That's a carious notion, KmTy, The stock's all right, A. No. 1: Np water In the concern. They want me here at headquarter*." "Why, John, I didn't suppose there was any gtock without water." "Precious little In these days. but this ranks first class on the market, and they let me In on th? ground floor. Hello, there's the president now. I'm off," and Mr. Rising joined his busl* ness associate in the street. "It beats me," said Mrs. Rising, as she weftt about h<p- houehold duties. "I don't think John'rf mind is affeot ed, but if stock can vote, and offloers not wear uniforms, I'd like to know what the world's coming to. I suppose he meant city water would do as well as the country, but men are e rack brained on some things. I'm thankful I don't have to worry about business. It's ?U I can do to look altar tkree ,m?ate a 4ay.M? CMoago Tim Itmli. '* ' 4 * -A v " RELAPSE OF fl NEW WOMAN. Aunt Maria wan to be a new wo- I mart, bhe had decided that tor herself. Ju the carrying: out of her destinies Anna Marie had out her hair oft ahort. Hhe also made a specialty of very mannish costumes, and outwardly at least, became as virile *? a woman could be with a make-up the basis of which was bound to be a skirt. Anna. Marie was motherless and at the a*e of nineteen, wh*n she bad dc t?rmlti{4 Jo bA*v3?/??? ? now woman, had no advice hut her father's to depend on. When she discussed an adoption of broador and more masculine meth ods on her girlish part with her fath er the old gentleman looked puuled, and said: "Well, my dear, I've great eonfldenoe In your Judgment. There Is nothing like experience, so go ahead. You will find, however, before you have gone ffr to ward becoming a man, that you labor under many atruotural defects. The Oreat Arohtteot didn't lay you oui for a man, Anrfk Maria; you are not built right for suoh a fata." However, Anna Maria kept on. She was looking for a fuller liberty and a wider field. She was too delicately, too accurately determined In her tastes, to be a fWrf to cigarettes or awept down in a current of profane swearing. Bad language and tobaooo ahe wouK) leave to the real man; for her career aa a new woman noth^pg"?o 'vT?oioue was needed. But men did other things; had other freedom*, and from ttyU long male Hat of liberties Anna Marie proposed to plok out a lin# of liberty for herself. Bhe had got enough of that pent-up Utloa which oonflned the oonvontlonal woman. What ahe wanted waa more room; that la, of a proper, deooroua sort. Of oourse, m Anna Marie proceed^ uo the long trail to masculinity It was SStiS 67 Mr wltlo. that .he .till ?>n tlnued essentially feminine as to many common male accomplishments. She could not throw a stone WW*1" jjjjj vague pawy overhand '^,hlo"?UB^ with females whl0^. CO"'?rJorce' -nd missile neither direction nor force, .no when Anna Mayle ^easayed to run ttlll put everybody In mind of a cow trvlns to keep an engagement. But while others noted these s i &jM5iasr^ ed with long, deddtd stride. Anna Marie rode a bike, and at a. decided to don blooI"?rB ^Z mony. She came to , the bloomer det' ion hesitatingly, hut made up ' at last. Sectfetly she regarded bl^m ers as the Rubicon. It was bloom. ?* which flowed between herself and lie new woman In full. Anna Marie had broken on the "orW In this bifurcated costume sho JJ? foel herself graduated and n> longe i of school to her destiny* J . Therefore ttaero dawned a ? Anna Marie came down .he Avenue hearth ? Caesar, who must conquer or dle COn the blke-bloort*r occasion Anra Marie was weak enough to jju"7* j nut her unbrllded ste#d to fullest. spae J and flashed by the onlookers like unto a two-legged meteor. . She blamed self afterward for being such a c?ven, but concluded that by Btlckl?J "> bloomers she v >uld acquire he*rt end -est"" r. "r; ot r-v ?n i ZT became dejectedly. yet fully drunk. 'Nor did she wist that a nervous person w.s so attected by Jhe awfu, tout ensemble of herself, bike am l bloomers that he repaired to St. . fBUj* beth's and sternly demanded admls No* Anna*Marle rode all to a 'ri**|t ened and too fast to reap these truths. Still. sh?r**nlght have not altered hur system if she had known. As affairs stood, bent as Anna Marie was on her completion as a new woman, ? ?JC / aolved to inhabit bloomers and ?W? h r two-wheel vehicle even into a *r*y old age. How else, indeed, could ihe VJrtwSf wb'o had ..o,d appa.. ?d ailh. vigor Of Anna Marie a.ked hai* ah to tim blooinw? ? _ ??They are good things," dbs.rvtd if -i? "There Is a comfort in d"r? ieep lu"'8 -not in the '.angled .lld,.rn.M of th. ot. dlnary .klrt. Their only fault U that In. donning bloomer, one does not pu them on over one", head. It', a great j d??ed?Ve ??aV "ant of the'day la bloomer, which one thrust. " .?farm, and head In the . ? cf h AnnalMa'rlo had a brother Oeorge. This youth was twelve years of age. ?,?>? essentially mascul.ne. ^n??MaHe couW see that, ond It ^ame to her as a thought that in the course of her becoming a new wo, nan of fullest feather a good, rlpo would be to study Oeorge. Should she do as George did? Youn* she was sure to succeed. George would do from Instinct what she must do by imitation. Anna Marie felt these things without really and deflnlte^y thinking them over. 3 inna Marie without telling Geo*#*. Anna Marie began to take thl* -yputh for * 8^?' pToiopher. and frlerid: and all with o?u really knowing it ^herself. Unconsciously, Oeorge lovedJie'a^ the better therefor, and moved by a warm mgenuous lack of years began To take Anna Marfhlnto his confidence like a true comrade. Anna Marie C?oXndeda^?e." said Anna Marie one ? _ v "whenever you are about to do anything peculiarly boyish and Inter est^ aWs tell me so I can Join you '"aeorge'sald he would, and he did. u w&s what befell one day as the fruit of this comradeship with whioh changed the channel of Anna determination and caused her to abandon the role of a rw woman. This Is the story, and it all taught Anna Marie with the 'rUh^^Und^d.th.t^ow^^. sr..:"* Shi. to th. ^wom^BntO-Mo^ "Ann* ???** *" 252? on her on* ?ay wM. ers, wbsrs t* W aMygftial wut n a Mart*, ?? *** w "What 1? it deo/geT" aeked Anna Marie. "We're going to bail* a dog out back of the barn," explained george. "Mfcs, and lillly are going to be the jury and wo want your for judge. Hurry up now, that'* a good fellow." Anna Marie f*lt a sfcoek at the mere thought of taking tbe life of anything. Her tlret thought waa that George was a brute, a mere animal himself. Hut Anna Marie uuiokly reflected that whatever Qeor ge might be at lsast ble hardened aax wu the Axtory a new wuman muat steer by, a/ fhe put down tbe half-patohed bloomer* and ?ought the aoene of oanlne trial. "You eee, Aiftna Marie," explained George, pointing to a yellow dog who stood wi\h bla dolorous tall between his legs and looked very repentant,/ "he murdered a kitten and we're go~\ ing to 'try, oonvlot and hang bim. So you sit dow& the? by the feriee and the trial won't take a mluute. Billy and me have got cur minds made up snd we won't take v> time to deolde. There'a tbe rope and we're going to ha*g bim to the limb of that maple." Anna Marie felt worried.. Still abe -allowed herself to be installed, and the trial proceeded. It was very brief. George produced the defunbt kitten, which looked indeed, very dead, with the- remark: "Say, you yellow dog, you're charged with murdering this oat; have you got anything to say against being hungt" The yellow our feebly wagged- his disreputable tall, and looked at Anna Marie in a fashion of sneaking appeal. He said, a*/ plain aa words: "Save me." "I wouldn't hang the poor thing, George," said Anna Marie, and she be* gan to pat the felon yellow our. ' i "You're a pretty judge, " said George, Indignantly. "It ain'^ for you to de cide; It's for me and Billy. We're the Jury. We're in favpr of hanging him; ain't we, Billy t" Billy nodded emphatically. "But, George," expostulated Anna Marie, "it's so oruel; so brutal." "Brutal!" scoffed George, "don't they hang folks for murdor every day? You wear bloomers and talk of being a new woman and having the rights of a man. I've heard you with that Han ford girl. And now you come out here and try to talk off a yellow dog who is guilty of murder, and admits it by his silence. You'd act /Uoe if it was a real man and a real murder case. Come on, Billy, let's string him up." Here George seised, on the yellow vidirer^of lynch law and started for the mame, where the rope already dangled jfor its prey. Anna Marie be came utterly feminine at this and Into tears. Her nineteen years Jr progress toward a new wo manhood did hot save her. In her tears she turned to ' the -othQt; member of the jury. Billy Sweet, at the age of twelve, was an ardent admirer of George's sister, and meant to marry her in ten or fifteen years, when he grew up. At present he playeu with George and kept a loving eye on his future bride. Anna Marie knew of Billy's partiality. So she cunningly turned on this admirer like a true daughter of the olden woman. "You think as I do, don't you, Billy?" And Anna Marie's tone had a caress in it which made Billy's ears a happy red. "Yes, ma'am, said Billy. George was disgusts^ "You're "the kind of Juryman," said George, full 6t contempt, "that makes me tired. There Anna Marie, take your yellow dog. But don't try to play with me no more. You're too soft." Anna Marl&^|lt that some vast de posit of good, hahftt^nse lay hidden in George's last remark: her way to the house she did a good deal of thinking, as girls whose mothers are dead do now and then. The de^lopr ment of her cogitations was told in a remark to her girl friend. "It's so' tiresome, this being a new woman. I'm going to give it up. I'm afraid, as father, says, 'I'm not built right.' ? / And so It ended. Anna Marie Is ex ceedingly, the olden woman now. She has l&aten her sword into a /pruning hook; her bike into a spinning wheel. She no longer walks with a long stride and a swagger. She is a ifoman in all things, and- will scream and chase a herdio as if It were the last going that way for a week, like the tsnderest and frailest of her kind. She has retracted as to bloomers, and over the window of her sewing-room the renounce (^gar ment Is festooned in a sort of horrid lambrequin to keep^ Anna Marie In mind that she has' returned to the agency, apd forever abandoned the warpath of a new and manly woman hood. ? Washington Post. The Orlgla of an OM i-ivln*. fit Is a curious bit of literary exer clfc^to take a eotnman saying trace it back to its origin. Take the com mon saying, for Instanoe, "All that glitters is not gold." It is found in current literature everywhere and in a doxen different forms. Dryden ren ders it, "All, as they say, that glitters is not gold;" Spencer says, "Gold all is not that doth golden seem;""L<ydgate has the same idea in the words: "All is not gold that outward showeth bright;" Chaucer expresses it in some what different phraseology; Mlddleton has it, "All Is not gold that glisteneth," and Shakespeare says, "All that glis tens Is not go}d." Go a little further back and tlffe same expression Is found in the monkish collection of proverbs, and there Ik no doubt if a classical scholar were to set to work with the determination to hunt the proverb down, no matter how long |t took, he would find It In Latin, Greek and most other ancient and dead languages. It is a natural outgrowth of sarcasm as ap plied to fictitious show an? is no doubt as old as the science of 'metal work ing.? St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Pretty Bird Story. Hradford Torrey, the' naturalist, told a pretty atory some tlfne since to a party of friends, of a tryst at bis with a black cap. Ha ww the bird for the Oast time or.e 15th of May. in a corner of his garden, and,. bappeuiug to look at bit watoft^no. ttced 4he kowi M was- 1 o'clock. H# spoke to his family of this first encounter with the little ereature^ and waa led bj^ a whim to return to the same spot o^^na following 15th of May. and a^J^Hrcloch. A gala he saw the blackoap fly down upon hla "rookery" as he sttod waiting f6r It. TS?en the tale was told about among his acquaintances, and. la the nest, year, at <Im same day and hoar, he persuaded one of hla family to accompany him to the .tryst. Mr. Torrey acknowledged that he felt nervooa and alatft dreaded to put the ex mage ootaotdooco more 4a the tast. They weat down Wihe pUe of rooha and mow. and. taking oat their watche% stationed thwassfl aa la the oM flpo*. J oat as the glocfe straefc 1 there y a gutter of wtsgisto the haShei: the bJbekeaa flew forth, fai?mr ibetwwe - \ ouu irons v&om ftVKivwasita, Neay, the middle of * white oak log three feet In diameter which waa.sawod the other dajr?u itlauuhester, Ov wore H^e figures 1780. >t la suppaoed they were carved when the tree wen young end that the wood grew over them without effacing the oarved Indentation*. i It ie said that Queen Victoria h?a paint* ed a portrait of Kmpero? William. the j likeneaa being excellent. / Aocordlng to Prof. Slix Muller, the "ill* Veda" la the book io the world. The ; Japanese use paper towela and napkins, and wrap their packagoa up in olpth. Two brothers who hud be?n separated 47 yearw ww? reunited In Womelsdorf, Penn.. the other day. They are Adam and Henry Valentine, and the latter, supposed to bo dead, turn* out to be a. We^ltgy Indiana farmer. Two Ohinamen of Itelfaet, Me., have paid the poll taxes assessed against them as Cbluaman No. 1 and Chinaman. No. >2, They refused to give their nainqs to the aasesf.orti. and <he uxea were asa^ssed as above. A Mlnuesota girl of 15 can distinguish no color, everything being white to tier, and alio Is compelled to wear dark g)assee to protect her eyea from the glare. l^ike Superior la In danger of losing it* distinction of b*lng the largest fresh watJr lake In the world. African ?v plorera begin to think lake Victoria Nyansa la larger. Tiie servants In a schodl for girls In Connecticut, while oleaning up the rooma after the echool closed, discovered 8,878 wada of ?hg*Wg gum stuck about in various pfcqra. It Is eaM that if two tuning forks of the same pitch are placed facing each other, the one souudtng and the other silent, in a few seconds the silent one will be giving out a distinctly aualble note. TIm? Mot Mr CarrUc* U tka Tfo?Uw. The atftomobile oairlmge hu already been found well adapted for use In hot climates, whei^p horses sometime* suf fer greatly froia exhaustion from heat. The first journey In India on a petro leum carriage has Just been made by an English army officer. The vehicle consists of a four-wheeled dog cart, with accommodations for four persons and two portmanteau^ It travels at' a speed erf from fifteen to twenty miles an hour, and the cost of petroleum con sumed is 1 oent an hour. There Is no smoke, heat or smell, and the carriage runs smoothly and without oscillation. Steering apparatus Is provided, and the brate power allows of stoppage within the distance of a yard. There was great excitement among the na tives. The Indian coolie has hardly yet become accustomed to the sight of a bicycle, but when the dog oart was seen daBfrtoyalong without any sign of motfta-jpower, and the occupants were sittlf(g quietly at ease, he was convince# that it came from the evil one, and* might at any moment go up In a Hush and a cloud of smoke. ? St. Louis Olobe-Democrat. LOTS OF FUN. Bat It Wmib'( duit* Whrtt the Boye K*pect?d. "That's all right about them Brit ishers," said a Ions-legged Western man to a group of reporters, yone of whom had told a story ortow kn Eng lishman haa been fooled by some Americans on a train., in the far West ^by a cry of train robbers. "Yes, but they don't- Uke the robber business a little bit," asserted the re porter. . "I reokon not," admitted the West erner, doggedly, "leastways, after what I seen and felt I shpuld say there was one, anyways, that didn't like It overly." "What did they do? Scare him out of a year's growt^pjfci "Well, no," was tnc hesitating reply, "I reckon it wusn't quite as much as tVat'V' . O us about it," put in an impa tient listener. . ' "It was this a-way," said die West erner, in a tons of Stml-sadness. 'There wM Stewrt-a dw en of us tellers goia' through Texas in asleepin' car. and the only stranger in' the lot Was a strappln' big Englishman,, with a voice on him like a b/kss drum. We got him out in the sm cuter, and it wasn't mor'n eighteen minutes till we was loadin' him up to the nedk with storiea of train robbers and' that sort of thing. At first, he kinder quieted down a bit, because we didn't tell no kind of yarns but blood curdlers, but It wasn't long till he had his second wind, and purty soon he was braggin' what he'd do if robbers happened to sUbp any traht he was on. "That's J 1st where we wanted him at and It wasn't long till we had the Jbb put up with the oonduotor and the rest of the gang td?stop the train and skeer that Britisher plumb to death and back ag'in. It was about 11 o'clock 'at night, I reckon, in a mighty lone some place, when the train came to a stop and we heard a shot- outside. That was the sign fer me^atd I jumped up> and yelled 'robl^nr Bo did the other fellows, except two that somehow wasn't around.fe.The next minute a big chap with his face masked stepped In where we was and stuck his gun right at its. I throwed up my hands 'and so did the otherf, and we begged the Brit isher not to kill anybody, but do like we done, and put his paws up like a baby. "Then another masked man took the place of the first one, while he went through us for our valuables. Which we handed out, all but the Britisher. I neyer knowed Jlst how it happened at this p'int, but {he flnt thing 1 knowed the Britisher let his two lists go,, and the two masked men went down in a pile, and on the next lick, I jlned 'em with another feller on top 1 of me, and the dern Britisher sat flak down- ou the accumulation and called for .the real of *he gang. Leastwise that was what I afterwards heard he said, fern didn't know anything fer two hows, and we had to git a doctor fer the/: first two be hit. 1 thought a mule lacked me, and ?they told me afterwards they thought Ughtaln* cleaned htm out of about H,800 in aJ sh oft him, end he didn't give us time to yio^any sluggln'." y...?Jysslni Crlap, Oa iu?m, / in ceply to a question from aa Atlanta/ Constftutlon reporter as to whettf^r Mat Cisp had modified his views ojr tf?e ?llver question Km Speaker Replied: 1 "No, I have not. I have spokes out plainly for the free coinage of silver^ I shall be very busy fer tee neat feeMrecfcs, bat before returning to Washington I shall take ocoaetoe to make a\ few ?pisehes la response to maay' mmHs la which I hope to put the flnanfeuc Issue plainly before the people. 1 hats' ifcMK view* upon the subject.' Wss Is had bselth *feiu Qpngress a4J?anM and wss oosspelled to fake along rest. New 1 am la perfect health again, aai as sssn aa I have oeaelnded sosse private hnaiaess; which ' carries me North I shell "comply) with essse of the reqneats mads e? a* m wmUi mm? mms* l/Uiv . * > ' M-.. la bu?iae?a U always to fivo you lull value tor your iu ouey. Wo ataka Poor*. Saab, MJnda, !.??? ber, Shingle*, and ail otbtr ki?da of woodwork. By (Ivljitf atten tion to the detail* of our butiitm wo have made a uame at loadera iu our iiue. aud if we abould do aAytfeiiigfor you we psoealao tha^t. your order* will have the aau^ care which haa made for uy4? waoy p4c?*ed cuatomera apd frieoda. | AUGUST A LUMBER CO. / AOUVBTA, CM. 'Boy of Mm Hoker." ?rr~r We Pimm Tfcto W my Mmi 0?ee. # We have not passed thU way before, And we shall not ptil again; Make the moat of time, the moat of life; - And mind not the mingled pain. , ? '' . If the path is bright ao0 flower-strewn. ? Tak^ in all the fragtanee eweet; ThaoA God for the Joy that comes io you In path* marked out for your feet. N Ir round the hearth unbroken band Make up the olrole of home, - Oh. love them today and love thai* well* Eire the angel of dea*h ahall dbme. ? Y^u Will not pa** tM* way again; He euro that you. pass not by The old and tired, the sick and weak. And thoae not ready to die. .<-? . , ;? ' liook out for flower* along the way, And heed not the stinging thorn;' There are start above the da*ke?t night, And eure la the ooming matu, And If the gathering atorm V; heard. " And the wave* beat wild a&A high,,, liook up for help to the far-off hills. Ami watch for the rifted sky. Look up through tears, far on beyond ' Ie the gleaming, golden eh ore; We can bnftvely bear a little while, For we pass this way no more. ? ?Mrs. H. P. ' Thomas. Although a woman's age !a unde niably her own, she doea not o* a It. DR. J.J. NIcEVOY. SPECIALIST. ?~ Eye, Ear, Nose and Throa Diseases. 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