Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE COUNTY RECORD, Published Every Thursday at CINGSTEEE, SOUTH CAROLINA, b r LOUIS J. BRISTOW, ^ Kdltor and Proprietor. With Gladstone and Bismarck gone the Twilight of the Gods seems darkening into night. Alotor cars are about to be tried, in ortmo narts of EuroDe. for carrying OVU4V fmmm ?? ? J. _ the mails, where horse ami gig have heretofore been used. ^Ve do not hear much about the bicycle as a war adjunct iu Cuba. There were a few wheels used by invidual officers at the beginning o! operations around Santiago, but the roads were soon so cut up by the nr tillary and Army wagons that bicycling was ipipractibable. Doubtles; there are conditions when the bicycle can be made extremely useful in armj operations, but unless the condition; are exceptionably favorable the wheel is likely to be disappointing to thos< who have beeu prophesying such greal *V>,"r,ore it i< tl,<> oninion of tlif """s" "" "t -I -- Boston Transcript. A. watchmaker of Lincoln, 111., lias just completed one of the largesl globes ever made, which he intends tc exhibit at the coming Paris Exposition. It is about fifteen feet in circumference, and has occupied SoOC hours of the watchmaker's time. The maps and atlasses employed iu setting forth the geographical details which i presents cost $800. It shows mouu tain ranges and river courses, the tracks of ocean cables and ocean cur rents, sailing-ship routes, as well a every railroad and canal of any iin portance which exists in the world Its owner hopes to sell it to some great library or museum. The .authorities of Toledo, Ohio, have given to a company the right tc "rail-ivurrnnc" nil tllft street CRT ""O tracks. These wagons are constructed with a double set of wheels, and car be drawn on ordinary roads or or street car tracks, the shifting from om set of wheels to the other and tht mounting on the rails or the dismounting therefrom being quick ami easy. The farmers can load thest wagons and drive them to the trollej line, where a motor car will pi-k them up, one after another, and haul them to the city. As this is to be done almost wholly during the night time it wil^ interfere little with city traffic. It was ia 1813 when the London Times said: "The fact- seems to be too clerly established that the Ameri oans have some superioi mode of tiring, and we cannot be too anxiously employed in discovering to what circumstance that superiority i&. owing." II is in 1898 when the London Spectatoj remarks: "The lesson of all our conflicts with America was that the American soldiers and sailors shot markedly better than our own and won astonish ing victories. It looks a* if the eld lesson holds good to-day." It was because the Confederate cruiser Alabama was largely manned by British sailors that the superior gunnery of the American crew of the Kearsargo won the naval duel off the coast of France. We don't wish to crow over our very affectionate British cousins, but it is well to remind them that oar part in the proposed interuational friendship will include a sure eye that can send to its mark with unerring certaintj either a thirteenth-inch projectile or s nickel-tipped bullet, says the New York Mail and Express. " The highest courts in Texas and Minnesota have lately held, according to the New York Law Journal, thai bicycles may be seized, under the statutes, which in general exempt from the levy of eiecution upon the property of a judgment-debtor the imple ments used in his trade or profession. In the Texas ease, an architect, whc -was a single man, claimed that in place of a horse, which would have been exempt from the Sheriff's lev, he used a bicycle in getting from place to place rapidly according to the exigencies of his business in superintending the erection of buildings. The court said that granting the bicycle tc be a useful mode of locomotion, and that the statute exempts a horse be cause it is a necessary means ior locomotion, it would invade the domain oi legislation to engraft upon the statute an exemption as to a machine because it serves the same purpose. Convenience and usefulness is not the criterion as to exemption, but necessity, as for instance, the cases to the printer, the awl to the shoemaker, the anvil to the blacksmith, and the saw to the carpenter. As well might e physician or a drummer claim exemp tion for a bicycle as an architect. I FIELDS OF ADVENTURE. ! THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARINC DEEDS CN LAND AND SEA. II o it it Bed Cross Mail Took Ilpvenje nt "Bloody Bend" During the Fight Before Santiago?Killed a Sharpshooter Hid in a Tree? A Brave Apprentice Boy Sergeant McAuarney, of Company A, Tenth United States Infantry, who is a celebrated rifle shot, killed a Spaniard in a tree in the American lines before Santiago during the great fight on Friday, July I. The fellows in the trees seldom fired at soldiers who were close to them. To do so would have made their de tection easier, so they shrewdly chose spots from 200 to 500 yards from the main road. Three hundred yards was the favorite distance, but they were indifferent marksmen. Another proof of their cunning was that as often as f possible they shot when volley tiring , was going on. Thus the report of their weapons could not easily be singled out from the others. Some, however, were three or four miles be( hind the American firing line, and . they could not employ this device. . Some fastened leaves and bark to their clothing, for better concealment. A 1 few were captured in American unit forms, stripped, no doubt, from the ) dead. . Surgeons and litter-bearers, passing as they did constantly between the front and dressing stations in the rear, were repeatedly fired on from trees. Many more would have been wounded ? than were but for poor marksmanship. One man couuected with the surgical 4 -x i" 4l? A nvmvr T1- r? O ell a! of ^ UUJJUl lilitTLIL ui lno MIXIJ u ao ouvi t*v several times while passing a particular spot near the "bloody bend," at the ford of Sau Juan River. Finally I he got tired. Taking the red crass , from his arm as a sigu of temporary r resignation from that branch of the ' service, he borrowed a Krag-Jorgeusen ' from a soldier as a sign of enlistment as a private. Then he dived into the s uuderbrush near where the bullets had crossed the road. The ex-Red Cross mau made his 1 way carefully along the ground. lJe knew that discovery might mean unpleasant consequences for him; so he . exerciseu every precauuuu. xiuuuy bis gaze was arrested by a movement in the branch of a tree. His experience had taught him that a breeze always stirs the outer leaves of a tree first. The inner twigs move later. Yet here was a shaking of a branch near the trunk, while the outer leaves were quiet. Close watch showed, too, that the branch, instead of swaying from side to side, moved up and stayed there. Soon a second branch was pressed down aud kept there. Then it was clear just what was going on. The Krag-Jorgensen was aimed in careful fashion. Its report was followed by the crash of a heavy body through the tree and to the ground. There was no call for the marksman to attend to any professional duties there. He hurried back to the "bloody bend," gave back the rifle to its owner, pinned the red cross to his left sleeve again and went on dressing , wounds. 5 I'luck of a Mnn-o'-\Var Lad. Not long after the United States cruiser Atlanta went into commission ' an apprentice boy who fcad been dubbeu by his companions the man o'-war equivalent of a natural born i fool put the whole pack of them into the shade by a sudden exhibition of nerve. A gun's crew, including several of the boys, and this slow-witted boy in particular, were engaged in breaking - out one of the after magazines. Two of the men were down in the magazine and fastened cans of powder to the hoist hook,][and the rest of the gang w ere at the head of the magazine hatch hand. ling the ammunition as it came up. i The Atlanta wasn't fitted with electric lights at that time, and the gunner's mate in charge of the job swung a 1 closed lantern in his hand at the head ! of the hatch. He was swinging it somewhat carelessly when the lantern , struck against one of the sides of the hatch, and the lamp, already loosened, fell frotn the lantern down the liatch' way. It fell squarely on the top of a I can of powder a twenty-five pound > can. The men down in the magazine i had gone way forward to get another can of powder, and they weren't on hand to pick the lamp off the powder eau and extinguished it. The heavyhcaded apprentice boy was at the top I of the hatch, though, and he was the r only one of the gang who wasn't paralyzed with fear. While all of the others stood waiting for the ship to go ' into the air, he slid down the hoist i chain like a cat descending from a tree. He grabbed the lamp, the wick of . which, still'ablaze, was heating the iron can, and blew it out. Then he clutched the handle of the powder ' cau with oue hand, took a firm hold s 011 the hoist chain with the other, and l yelled: ( "Shoot me up out 0' this, you fellows above there, quick!" The lad with the can of powder in his hand was at the top of the hatch in 110 time. He ran for ttie poop as , soon as he made the spar deck, and ehueked the cau, the lid of which was ' hot from the wick of the lantern lamp, ^ over the side into the water. The lad I carod lii<j shin from heinn l/CI Ol. ? ' r ^ . blown up. The skipper didn't pun. ish the boy for wasting Government ammunition, as may be taken for ' granted. Iustead, he commended the > lad so highly in a letter to the depart. ment that the boy received a special , letter of praise from the Secretary oi the Navy. A > C. ??ta/wl ?. MU.AP j .'? Dfill Our|?iiBrn u <.*i. v?. 5 M. J. Burns recently visited Trout Lake, British Columbia, to record assessment work on the Copper King i for the ensuing year. The Copper King is situated near the head of Tenderfoot Creek, almost on the summit of the mountain, and the silver tip and cinnamon bear seem to be uncommonly plentiful and vicious in thai section. Hairy Craven was helping Mr. I Burns with his work and they were ! sinking a shaft on the ledge. There is a large stump alongside the shaft, I and as Burns crawled out of the hole ' one evening and stepped round the ?L 1 1.1 | slump ne wits suuueinj cuugui iuuuu ! the waist in the loving embrace of a large silver tip bear, which evidently ; had been sitting on the fallen tree j watching their work. I Burns had an eight-pound twohanded hammer in his hand, but was . I unable to use it at such close quarters. J Craven came out of the shaft immediately behind Burns, with a sharp pick, and seeing the bear ho came to the J i assistance of Burns and struck the ! bear in the neck with such force as to 1 break the pick handle. With a loud roar the bear released his hold on Burns and made a swipe i at Craven, but missing bis mark he , 1 lost his balance from the force of the : attack, and falling off the log, on i which he had been standing, rolled j down the steep side of the bluff, ! which is about sixty feet high at this j point. Burns and Craven did not wait to ( see what disposition the bear made of ( himself, but started for camp. Mr. Burns got off with a lnme back, which ! confined him to his bed for a day or 1 so, and Mr. Craven has a couple of i scratches on his forehead, where the j bear's paw scraped him. The ex- . tent of the bear's injuries is not known. S?Tf<l by Hi* Suspenders. Few meu have faced death in a moro awful form than E. F. Pope, of Mc- . ' Lean, 111., who has just reached ( I Baldas, Alaska, from a trip up the ; Low River. In company with a party , of United States soldiers Pope at tempted to run the rapids of the river j on a raft. For some miles the stream , passes between cliffs 1500 feet high ^ and runs like a mill race. , ] In one of the rips the raft over- ( i turned and Pope and his companions ; were thrown into the icy water. Au , ! eddy carried Pope to a little shelf in ^ I the rocky cliff upon which he clamb- , , ered. The ledge was only about one j i foot wide and five feet long. There, i for two days, he crouched, thrasuing ( - l-iol'inrr ln'e 1 nrvc in HID niliiS U11V1 UIO IV from freezing. j On the morning of the third day he , noticed a clump of bushes a few feet ( above him. Knotting his suspenders , into a rope he managed to climb to it. ^ Then slowly, using bushes, his improvised rope aud every crevice his j hands or feet could find, he crawled , ; to the top. The next day he reached ; : Baldes and fouud the soldiers, whom . ; he supposed to be dead, safe. They ] 1 had been carried further down to a , j beach. ( i Killed in n Tiber's Case. A terrible tragedy occurred at the 1 Ilamstead circus before a vast audi- , i enoe at Adelaide, Australia, Juue 17. , John Isaacs performed nightly with a j I vicious tiger aud several lions, '/he | | tiger had u reputation for attacking j j : his trainers, and when Isaacs bcust- j ingly stated that instead of a club he |, : would use a bamboo rod aud dispense , j with the hot iron used in checking the assault, the manager attempted topersuade him to take the usual precau- ' lions, but lie slipped past him aud | ! into the cage. Scarcely had he entered , when the tiger became stubborn, and Isaacs hit the crouching beast with ( ' his bamboo rod. With a tierce growl j the tiger sprang upon its wainer, and j seizing him hy the neck, dragged him } around and around in the cage. The , screams of women and the shouting j j and cries of the panic-stricken audi- ( enee attracted the tiger's attention for J a moment, and turning around the beast gave Isaacs an opportunity for j j slipping out of the cage. He was ( taken to the hospital, hut cueu tue next day. , I'luck in tlie Mines. In the Kalgoorlic shaft in Xew ' I South Wales, recently, two mates, Wall and Symouds, tired a shallow 1 20-inch hole and got in the bucket. : ; But the edge caught, and Wall fell about twenty-five feet. Symonds signalled first to stop, and then to lower j (he was down 225 feet), and got to the | bottom in time to nip out the fuse and save his mate. It was all the pluckier [ i because of the shortness of the fuse and the certainty that at best he could have only a few seconds to spare. Devious Definition*. .Tunctiou A place Where two roads j separate. i Conceit Often the true term for * exaggerated humility. I Expert A man who doesn't get | confused when cross-examined. i Villagers People who wear abbre- i viated clothing in comic operas. i Miserly People who don't spend | their money as we think they should. < Nervous The sensitive state of < some people induced by the nerve of < others. < Love The thing that makes a girl | think as much of a man as she does of j j herself. ' "T> TKa Iwirrlif fViincra tua a 1 - { I "*i ICO XUO I'lijjuv tuiu0^ ... , ways think of after tlio occasion for j saying them is past.?Chicago News. A Iteautiful Sight. One of the most beautiful sights in j the world is the annual migration of ' butterflies across the Isthmus of Tan- i I ama. Where they come from or ; : whither they go no one knows, and i I though many distinguished naturalists have attempted to solve the probi-.? I. o+ill ->< stmniTfl n. nivstprv fis ICLU, IV AO OU?i U>> ~ j j j it was to the tirst European traveler who observed it. Toward the end of June a few scattered specimens are ! discovered flittering out to sea, and as the days go by the number increases, until about July 14 or 15 the sky is : occasionally almost obscured by myriads of these frail insects. A Pretty Serge Costume. A smart white serge costume is made with a plain but well cut skirt. The blouse bodice has a deep, square collar, held Hat to the shoulders by means of straps to the waist, of white silk braid piped with royal blue silk; over the full vest of silk net is a sailor tie, lined with blue, and studded with tiny gilt buttons. To Set the Color in Gingham. To set the color in gingham, the gingham dress may be dipped in a bucket of cold soft water before wash- j iug. Madras may be treated in the ! same mauner, which frequently will | set the color. A better way, however, i is to try a piece of the dress by dip- j ping it first into salt water, then j washing it, next time dipping it into nn nr>i<l water before washing. In whichever way the color seems best preserved the whole garment may be I washed.?Ladies' Home Journal. The Well-DregseU Woman. The well-dressed woman is not only j well gowned, but all the small details , of her toilet are given consideration. I Her hair, skin and nails show evi- | tlences of care and painstaking, and | her clothing has not only been well | made, but is well kept. There are j 3ome women who think it almost sinful , to pay much attention to dress and personal care,andtolook well dressed and stylish is quite beneath their ambition. Knt believe me. there is no sin in al ways tryiug to look your best, and that the gauie is well worth the candle will show in the influence upon your home, husband and children. The well-dressed woman is not the one who dresses the most extravagantly, or^employs the most fashionable dressmaker; nor is she the one who affects all ulra-styles and fads in dress; but it is she who is always consistently dressed with regard to time, place, occasion, age and the size of tier husband's or father's income. The ever-bright jewel of consistency is never more beautiful than when shown in the matter of dress in these days when so many showy and pretty baubles are designed and offered for woman's adornment.?Woman's Home Companion. Elizabeth Harrixon a llelle Already. # Miss Elizabeth Harrison, daughter if ex-President Harrison, is a dainty, .'aptivnting, sweet little creature. She * -M- 11 us tiny as sue can weu oe, wnu sinaii i noles anil small but very pretty fearares. The best of all, perhaps, is lhat she is in perfect health, although lot a robust, hearty chihl. Of course, ihe always monopolises the attention if every one when she is present, but >he never iloes it with shrieking or lulling or the displaying of any illlireeding. She does it with little sofr, ;entle ways, aud sweet little questioning looks. Her cooings (for she is inly a little more than a year old) are just musical little noises with a rising inflection at the end. She is too dignified to cry. A society woman once jaid she had been a visitor in the Harrison house for two weeks last winter, mil never once heard the baby cry. Jne can readily understand that. The ;hild is well, is never allowed to get | lungry, aud is never neglected even j or live minutes. Mrs. Harrison is the most devoted nother imaginable. She always puts he baby to sleep, and always gives ler her daily bath, although there is i nurse for Miss Harrison and a maid or Miss Harrison in the house all the ime.?"Washington Capital. The Secret of Ueaaty. "The mogt helpful and agreeable jath is that of tepid water," writes duth Ashmore in the Ladies' Home j rournal. "Few people can stand absolutely eold baths, and no matter how itrong one may be such a bath should ! lot be indulged in unless a thorough j nibbing be taken afterward. To speak | ilaiuly, it must be remembered that ! vhilo a cold bath may be more or less | UVlgOraim^I II' IS UUI i;icunsiu^j. j. VUU | jasily understand the desire of every vomau to have a clear, beautiful skin, iut I confess to being provoked when t think of the amount of money spent )n lotions, creams and powders to be ipplied externally, and which have aothing like as good an effect upon the skin as a tepid bath with good 3oap taken at least once a week. The condition of the skin depends almost entirely upon the care given to the general health. The girl who is up late at night, gives no care to her diet, indulges in various stimulants, bathes but seldom, and exercises less, is certain to have either a dull, muddy-looking skin, or one covered with disagree able-IooKing oiacK ana rea spurs. uue should avoid many sweets and much pastry, and not allow herself to become a slave either to tea or coffee any more than she would to some vicious drug or strong stimulant. She should also remember that, nnless she is in good condition internally, she will be anything but a pleasant object to look upon externally." A Wouihii or "Faculty." "While you are speaking of what omen can do to help in time of war," * "n 1 t ((l.i aid a .>ew JLngianu wuiuau, iet me j tell you of how a Massachusetts woiaau during the Revc'ution fed a whole | company of soldiers at a h?lf hour's ' notice. llliit "It was the morning after the battle of Lexington that Mrs. Pond, the wife of Colonel Pond, of West Dedham, was greatly astonished at seeing a company of about one hundred men stop in front of her house. She soon discovered that they were totally exhausted, having marched all night, aud that on empty stomachs. "They were ia|great haste for something to eat, but Mrs. Pond, not having expected them, was totally unprepared. With a woman's wit, however, she rose to meet the emergency. With the aid of a woman and a hired man she tilled an enormous kettle full of water and placed it over the fire tc boil, so that she might make some hasty pudding. "There was a store not far off, and here some of the soldiers helped themselves to earthen dishes aud pewter spoons, wliile others milkecl 31rs. Pond's teu cows and still others stirred the pudding. The two servants meanwhile collected all the milk available around the neighborhood. Within ar hour the meal was served and the soldiers, refreshed and cheered, marching on to their destination."?New York Tiibune. The Phenomena ol Fashion. Fashion as well as nature produces its phenomena, and a few have been onnnranl nt flip wotflrinsr nlaces re o i cently. For instance, who can explain the fascination of ruffling only the rear flounce of a skirt. There is a large clacs of admired, and therefore influential dresses of silk, lawn and gingham, which rustle out their little day on Casino verandas in flounces set on the perpendicular of the skirt. Truly, they are caught in with the three back seams of the skirt, and 30 fall in a jabot effect. Of course they are wider at the foot than near the waist, and they are far prettier than those that run in a tier of six, set horizontally on the rear widths. They don't venture further forward on the skirt than a line that falls straight from the hips, and they, too. are deeper at the foot than I tin u-niaf rorrinn Another DUZZle to the simple souls is the handle of the very costly parasol that the rich woman carries It is a shaft of ivory and finished with an astonishing )Japauese cai ?ing, representing either a caged nightingale) or a handsome prickly dragon of gold, no bigger in the body thad a slate pencil, who ties himself in intricate bow knots behind a pagoda-shaped cage in ivory. How do the Japadeso manage to do such things, and why will a woman buy so valuable a bit cf bric-a-brac to put on the end of a fragile net sunshade? Still more inexplicable is the plain parasol handle with all manner of small trifles dangling from it. A change purse, screw pencil, minute memorandum book and face 2)0W'der bag are some of the things to be ,w liniKrinir hv fine erold or silver threads from a painted or natural wood handle. At the seashore a quota of women carry stable umbrellas covered with striped canvas. Of course it is of au especial weight to insure comfort in its use, and a gay red fringe finishes the edges. The same woman who carries such an umbrella also wears, hanging from her belt, a silver whistle, which she signals her caddie with, when on the golf links. New York Sun. Fasliion Notes. Buckles remain a prominent part of dressy gowns. The lawn shirt waists are pretty and dressy over silk or muslin waists of red, pink or blue. The pretty duck costumes in white or colors, in plain or fancy effects, are in greater vogue than ever this year. Plain colored poult de soie and very lovely tinted taffetas are likewise among the favored autumn fabrics for evening toilets. Tinted horse chestnut blossoms are very prettily worn on biege-colored beach hats of Milan braid trimmed with ficelle lace and brown satin ribbon. The sailor suit for boys is still the favorite, the full knee trousers fastened at the knee with a band and buckle. A hat to match completes the UU? o l<UOtUiuv. Very smart anil pretty are some of the new French bonnets for youthful wearers, made of white straw and trimmed with white satin ribbon of good width, white lilac sprays, and a Rhinestone buckle. For a figure not too tall, a skirt of tine, sheer cashmere, accordion plaited its entire length, in black, gray or cream white, is a very pretty and graceful one to select to wear with fancy waists of every kind and color. Plaid muslins are found in lovely nnmliinilinna no -ninlf nnd apple green and white, and black and white. Two beautiful and uncommon designs recently seen were a pale heliotrope with two shades of pink, and a deep yellow containing a touch of orange combined with cream. A stylish dress has the skirt plainly made and fiuished at the hem with a ten-inch-wide trimming of plaid silk. The waist is made of the same silk and has a yoke, collar and cuffs of heavy guipure. There is a belt of the material and little jacket skirls that are stylish, although somewhat patchy in effect. (i 4 < UOxVS MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. In Fog and Mint Sollled Thing* Con? Dieting Opinions Christ is a Mettled Thing 'When I.lfe Change* A Prayer for (Jufetnra*. Morning gray as any nun, Not a hint of coming -tin. ^ Fug and mist across the dawn, Have their heavy curtains drawn. Dripping branches, bare and brown * Shall we smile or shall we frown? Hear the voices faint and far: "All unsightly as we are. Every tree heart holds within Faith in Nature's discipline. So we welcome skies like these. Welcome all her mysteries." Hose trees, shrouded in the gloom, Do you ever hope to bloom? "What of.dreary mists outside? Happy secrets do we hide. All the glory of the rose Do our folded buds enclose." ltobin, in a world forlorn, Do you frown away the morn? Shake of wing and swelling throat "Nay. I sing my gayest note; Dear old world, it needs my lay Under skies so dull and gray." Shall I. then, when clouds arise, Meet them with despairing eyes? Let my heart forget its faith, Ami my hope go down to death. While the world, the clouds among. Needs all faith and hope and song? A. E. Woodworth. in Advance. Settled Tilings. Some things are settled. Though this is emphatically a period of transition, though more than ever before theology is in the making, and the great doctrines of the Christian faith are being melted down and recast, yet amid all the questionings of our time mere iire some iuiug? ui nuiuu nu uwi, only be sure, but more sure than ever before. The Bible is h settled thing. Men of education and culture, whatever their religious faith, or want of faith, no longer sneer at the Bible. Conflicting opinions as to the authorship of certain books are of little moment save for the claims of scholarship. It does not matter whether David wrote all the Psalms or a few, whether Solomon is the author or the compiler ot the Proverbs, whether such a man as Job ever lived, whether there were two lsalabs or a dozen. The great spiritual truths which these books contain are truo in and of themselves, and the researches of scholars from now to doomsday cannot touch them. It maybe that Bacon wrote some of the plays that bear Shak? speare's name, but whether those wonderful creations spratijj-^from the dome-head of the play-acjo?~'or from the learned judge, we have vfieplays. Jewish tradition ascribes the tfooks of the Old Testament to this man or io that man, and sometimes Jewish traditfon is right, una sometimes it is wrong. Gi?d never guaranteed that every book of th^ bible, any more than every play of Shakespeare, was rightly credited, and God is a^ot to be held responsible for the opinion^ or blunders of Jewish scribes. Whoever w wrote them, we have the books, and thaw is enough. Sin is a settled thing. It mat be the earmarks of our brute ancestors/ which in the progress of the race have not A'et been outgrown: it may be the uecessarjy corollary of free will; it may be an indispensable tactor in the education of the radfe. How long it will be allowed we do no^know. The millennium still gleams ntj/yart the sky, but it is a pnle and distant st&u: which guides no wise men to a Bethlehem* Jim thatJUs and what it is wo do not know'^Rw^BHWcurse that ever came . of all oilier curses the cause, the blight upon God's beautiful world, the thorn with tne rose, the serpent with his slime and hiss. Yet we can trust that the trail of the serpent will Haze the path to a fairer Eden in the soul than any garden of the past, that the golden age lies not behind but before, and the perfect pair are yet to be. Retribution is a settled thing. When for any particular sin it wiil come, here or hereafter, we know not: in what form we cannot predict; how it will affect us. harden or soften, we cannot say. Judas did his sin and the punishment was suicide. Peter did his aud the loving look of Jesus brought tears of repentance. But that in this world of never failing law. of cause and effect, retribution is sure as the rising of tomorrow's sun we do know. We know it from experience, personal and general, all history declares it. It is not only a world but a universe of law. We know from the motions of the heavenly bodies that the same (rod aud the same law that govern this planet govern the planet Mars, so that in this world not alone but in any world, in this life and in every life, sin brings suffering. Christ is a settled thing. The war of words has ceased. Beline Him as one wiil, every heart that longs to be pure, every life that wants to be strong, must look up to Him as the leader of the race, the hope of mankind, the prophecy to be fulfilled in all who wish to be like llira. To us ne is me oon 01 uuu a* none other ever was; in His revelation of the Father of us all we place implicit confidence; to His matchless life and unselfish death we would ever turu our eyes as to the sweetest and the best the world has known; in His spirit of forgiveness, in His boundless charity. in His surpassing lovo we can imagine nothing better for humanity in all the ages yet to come. What we need is not to dispute about Him. but to imitate Him, to catch His spirit, to make our human life divine and ttius ourselves become in the truest sense sons of Clod. From a seruion by Rev. Walcott Fay on "The Faith of Today." When I.lfe Changes. A curious mental experience sometimes comes to us. It is as if we were taken up on to a high hill from which we can survey all the surrounding country. No longer down on the road along which we have been walking, we arc so far above it that we see it in a changed light. Things assume new proportions and we discern their relative value with wonderful clearness in this purer at mosnhere. How small really are some of the ob tacles, some of the barriers, which troubled us so loDg! And other landmarks. which we have heretofore thought of little value, we now see are of the greatest consequence, It may be some great sorrow or some great shock which lias put us on this mental elevation. It may be separation from one we love which has opened our eyes to this wonderful inward seeing. Whatever was the cause, the changed new aspect of the chances and changes ami conditions of life is something wo can never forget or ignore. We may go back to the jog-trot of every-day existence, but our whole point of view of life and its joys and sorrows has changed. Our body performs its daily functions?the eating and drinking, and working, and marrying, and giving in marriage go on as before. Our mind sits in its new cou'imuus, nu'i w?m startled, opened eyes reads the wonderful meanings written under the daily show? sits and reads and wonders its former blindness.?Harper's Bazar. A Prayer for Quietness. Nothing, O Lord, is like to thv holy nature than the mind that is settled in quietness. Thou hast called us unto that quietness and peace from out of the turmoils of this world, as it were, from out of storms into a haven, such a peace as the world can IK'l C1VO SLU IU3 .... ..._... Grant now. O most merciful Father, that, through tbine exceeding goodness, our minds may yield themselves obedient unto thee without striving, and that they may quietly rise into that sovereign rest of thine above. Grant that nothing may disturb or disquiet them here beneath, but that all things may be calm through that peace of i thine. Amen.