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m Why Nations Historians Scientific . By Frederick Brelthi NCIEXT Greece was tin 1 V ( were of the greatest, a 1 unsurpassed. The geni I 5T I as strong to-day as win I N Oiu UllW "lis vuv VI I a ^ I of art. drama. philoso] I m which the world has y Now all is changed Greece is one of th< nations. She has no philosophers, no and forever. Why this change? Because the rich young blood of \ aoll in warfare. Old Greece, with its art and philos< ~~ for truth, was robbed of its strength of her sons were sent forth to shed t Those young minus, killed off in the f In the paths of their fathers, followiui I Where is Greece to-day? Sapped the descendants of the weak stay-a1 stands, never again capable of resuni of the earth. u So much tor ureeco. Bp And what shall we say of Rome' ? Rome was the ruler of all the w sea. The Romans were a practical 1 v few. The Greeks built temples: the !?rrote philosophy; the Romans wrote Where are those Romans who : their strength? What has dissipated c Rome went down for the same rot Generation after generation, the 5 ?f her strength, courage and endttran thrived while her best went out to pa These suicidal wars worked their says Seeley, "perished for want of m< . Spain's history shows a repetition 1 "This is Castile." said a Spanisl them." There you have it! Precious too good, ruthlessly cast away. Is there any wonder that our youi so handily disposed of poor, weak, b she no longer breeds the Spaniards t doom. Blood which is spilled can nev The Value of In< By Herbert N. Cars> OW it may be in the c W but it certainly is a i I in the United States 4* I In spite of the I> I I coming mythical, th< 9 IJ I tirely dependent and K 1U1LUS ill 1 CC|K> I I but deliberately trie ^ neighbors. There are seven r Germany, but in this country there i political questions. There are two p between them is that while the one i There are many religious sects in of controversies between them on r which they take any Interest is tha more property. There are many colleges, but not Of its finished products. At all the feasor who is in danger of l>eing disch prhfessor who has a life job. The it kelopment of a nobler brand of men theater number of the present inferio In fact, in this Mutual Slavery As appears who Is truly independent, v nothing for the crowd, every one at 01 eheme out of which more money ca It Is becoming my strongest eonvi all the co-operation of world-mender fuatlee and to promote moral and few score of independent and fearle like giants amid the SO.OOO.OOO human ?New York Evening Journal. The Artistic 1 By George Harvey. OMEBODY has recent! old-style doctor, with disappeared, or is me | ?^- ? type who has learned I front whom he may e?. Without going too di ? that the ethics of the 2 I have been actually rej J belong to a man of g ail(* nowhere more so >1 Of true geniuses and by no means have all of these i honor of a Harvey or a Jenner, how where, they were chaacterizcd by t lack of pretense, which demands no their modesty and sympathy for the world a more habitable place and generations. False geniuses, like false prophc among doctors, but it is needless to decried them anil refused them reeog; pretentious quacks who demand for t matters involving standards of taste a sake" forms no part of their creed. \ Inevitable result?viz.. a perfect lack and that disobedience to every main lutely bigoted and unscrupulous can s The eccentric may lie detined as rives bis chief inspiration from his tircly a self-centred person whose long, shaggy hair and English trou: most impossible pattern. Whether urt or not we do not know. but. in a Js harmless enough, and so easily dia attention. The Old School seldom produced the refined gentleman, and in this lies lis disciples were brusque, sometimes insult, yet beneath it all lay the lcim life spent in the service cf mankind, doctor of long ago who. summoned inonia, let us say. would ride a doze iiis patient most unceremoniously, ai reetions to the attendants, with a p:i gets worse." But times have change meu liberally educated in our univers with unequivocal politeness. The ] ranks, and there is less occasion fc to-day than ever before. The entir idiosyncrasy and of ignorance in ma Fail. Neglect the Explanation. it. e leader of the world, ller philosophers Her sculptors and architects are still us of her pre-Christian sons shiues forth en they lived. The whole atmosphere of truth and beauty, ller temples, works [thical conceptions were all the greatest et produced. ? weakest and most unproprossive of the makers of art. ller leadership is gone, Greece "was poured out upon the brown >phy. its creators of beauty and searchers and depopulated by warfare. The best heir precious pore on the tields of battle, ull tlush of youth?what if they had pone e the gleams of beauty and of truth? of all her virile manhood, with none but :-honies for her survivors, desolate, she ing her former place among the nations t orld. Tier empire stretched from sea to ot. They had no art: philegophers were ' Romans built aqueducts. The Greeks laws. swayed the world? 'Whence has gone their power? tson that Greece did. oung men who were the representatives ice were sent forth to die. Her weakest int the soil with their red blood. inevitable result. "The Roman Empire," ?n." of the experience of Greece and Rome, i knight; "she makes men and wastes i life, in a world where the best is none jg, strong, bloodful America should have loodless Spain? Her real blood is gone; hat lived of old. Spain's wars wore her er be replaced.?New York American. (2? an dependent Man. a. ither nations of the world I do not knew, fact that there is nothing more lacking than independence. eclaration of Independence, which is bei average American has become an ensycophantic creature, who not only con?t to the opinions of the stupid majority, s to make himself the chattel of his >olitical parties in France and a dozen in s practically no difference of opinion on arties, it is true, but the only difference s in power the other is out. the United States, but no one ever hears natters of belief. The only struggle in .t for more members, more money and one has ever dared to hold an exhibition large colleges it is the independent proarged. It is the timid and non-committal leal of all our universities is not the deand women, but the manufacture of a ' r sort. (.AAlntiAn TT-n /%oll CAOlftfr if fl DlflP SUUaiiVU ^ UiVU n c V it ii cwv.v?j, ?. v? - ; ho swings on his own pivot and cares ace believes that his course of action is a n be made than by conformity, ction that all the plans of social reform. , s, would do less to establish industrial intellectual improvement than would a ss men or women who would stand out grasshoppers that populate this country. & emperament in Medicine. ? !y raised the question as to whether the his queer, curt, stern manner, has really rely superseded by a spirit of the same to lie politic among those of his patients peet a good consideration for his services. ?eply into particularities, it seems to us profession have not merely improved, but generated. The artistic temperament can cuius, but this is exceptionally the case, than in the medical profession. ??* niA/lutmA ltorn nr\t o fr-xv attained the distinction and received the ever worthy; but, like great men everyhat unobtrusiveness. that altruism, that praise and has need of none. Such, by weaknesses of mankind, have made the have set aloft noble ideals for future >ts hi general, have ever been plentiful say that the profession, as a whole, has uition. Of such are the obstreperous and hemsclves undeserved encomiums, and in re absolutely incompetent. "Art for art's vhile selfishness and avarice produce the cf sympathy for the foibles of humanity [late of conscience- which only the also how. an individual of average ability who deown self-glorv. Consequently, be is enlove of the conspicuous is manifest in ?ers of the greatest possible width and there be such who practice the healing uy case, the delusion as to his greatness gnosticated as to be unworthy of serious the scholar, and almost never prorln -rd i its chief distinction front that of to-day. boorish, and often abrupt to the point of illy spirit and the generosity begot by a Some of us can remember the country at midnight to a severe case of pnoun miles through mud and slush, upbraid hi then proceed to give the minutest diirting word to "send for rnp again If lie d. The New School demands the best? ities. who can combine absolute firmness polished gentleman is coming into the ir the artistic temperament in medicine e question is one of encouragement iu ttcrs c/ taste.?Harper's Weekly. TILLMAN ON STAND. n-f._j._i ?_ r iv uueiuani iu i uuiuu> v.a>c ?mit? in liis 3wn Behalf. MUCH INTERESTING TESTIMONY. Stood the Odeal of Cross-Eximination With Fortitude and Spoke in Firm Voice. Lexington. S. C.. Special.?In the Tillman trial Wednesday the defense first renewed the ruction to have t.?;e jury instructed to disregard ail testimony relative to the possession of a weapon by the defendant a day or two prior to the shooting, contending that no connection ha-' been shown between that and the shooting. The court ruled that the testimony was competent in view of the testimony given by witnesses for the State. Editorials from The Columbia S:atc relating to J. H. Tillman were th<*n r?ad and affirmed in evidence by the defense. In ruling on a point in controversy affecting the introduction of editorials the court stated that the purpose of the editorials being admitted was to show the feeling existing between the defendant and N". G. Gonzales. Fairly good progress was made Wednesday in the examination of witnesses for the defense. The first witness called Wednesday it - ? - ? t? n wci *.-u 1 ?,k < Dy tne aeiense was x. u. .uuvucn. ??j?i was a resident of Columbia in 19v2. He was asked if he had had any conversation with N. G. Gonzales in 1902 in which the name of J. H. Tillman was mentioned. He replied in the affirmative. saying, "I think it was some time in September, just after one of these editorials in his paper was published." He said he met Mr. Gonzales in the street, and, asked by counsel to detail the conversation, said among other things that he asked Mr. Gonzales if he didn't think it was about time to let up on Jim. Giving Mr. Gonzales' reply, the witness stated he said: "I can slap his face and he would not resent it." The witness further stated: "He said if he ever bats his eyes at me I'll fill him so full of lead he can't tote it off." The witness said he told Mr. Tillman of the conversation. On croasexamination he said he never had any other conversation with Mr. Gonzales than tbiB. On further cross-examination witness said he knew Mrs. Gonzales by sight, but never was introduced to him, and further that he had told a few days after the shooting that the conversation would be good evidence for the defendant. He said he had sympathized with Ambrose Gonzales. J. E. Flowers, a street railway conductor in Columbia in 1902, in answer tc counsel for the defense, said that in 1902 he had heard a conversation between Mr. Gonzales and two or three others riding on his car in Columbia. Asked to state the conversation, the witness said: "I had a big load of nsssoneers and was coin? around col lecting fares and helping the ladies and children off, and I got pretty close to them collecting fares, and they were discussing politics, the three men and Mr. Gonzales, and I just overheard what I did hear." Mr. Nelson: "He was not talking to you?" "No. sir," the witnes replied. "I heard him tell them that if he did not succeed in defeating Mr. Tillman for the Governor's office that he would never be seated, because he would kill the rascal." He said he did not think anything or me remark at the time and on crossexamination said it was not until two months ago that he told this, and in answer to further Questions said he w rote to the defendant. The letter was introduced by counsel for the defense, and in it the witness said he would appear as a witness if he could be ol any service. He was a member of Col. Tillman's regiment. P. W. Hughes, of Warrenton. said he was in Columbia in 1902 and while walking down Main street with four men whom he named, they met Mr. Gonzales. A Mr. Stroud of their number, be said, was asked by Mr. Gonzales about the mill vote. He said he asked Mr. Gonzales if he did not think he had done Mr. Tillman a great injustice, to which he said Mr. Gonzales replied that he "would get greater injustice after election and it ought to be lead." On cross-examination the witness aid he had only told this four months ago. August Blalock testified that he was with Mr. Hughes at the time and that ' he heard this conversation. N. B. Cheshire, a printer on an Anderson. S. C., newspaper, was asked to state what he told Mr. Tillman at a meeting in Anderson in 1900. Objection was raised by counsel for the State on the ground that the statement was not made by Mr. Gonzales and consequently hearsay. The jury was ec-nt out, when the witness said: "I told him q represntative of The State i newspaper) told me that Gonzales carried a gun for him and that be had hetter not jump cn him with a stick for if he did he would get h shot cut of him." After a lengthy argument by counsel extending beyond the dinner recess the court ruled that the testimony was competent when the witness made the statement before the jury. The representative of Thp Sta^e rrferred to. he said, was Mr. Grier subscription solicitor for the paper. and he said the conversation with Mr. Grier occurred on a tra;n between Newberry and Anderson. Thp witness v.as in Col. Tillman's regimt-ai. and on cros^-examination said he pr'd particular attention to the sta'.?*n;enT. as ho wanted to tell Mr. Tillman what was said. He said when he toll the defendant that he looked as if it hurt horn and th;*t he made no rep'.y. The witness detailed the conversation which led up to wha-c suited was said by Mr. Grier and which he said began with an inquiry as to whether the "soldier boys' were going to supjjwrt Mr. Tillman. Henry S. Hoad. of Augusta. Ga.. sa'd he waa in Columbia cne year ago this month and that he was around with Mr. Tillman, and that after parting with him and while in company with H. B. Simnm. a man whom he did not know, but whom he wis subseguemiv told was N". G. Gonzales, met them and thai Mr. Gonzales asked him if he was ti e man who was out rid.ng with Mr. Tillmnn. "I told him I was." witness said, adding: "lie asked me where hi was at. I told him 1 left him stand'ng at the transfer station." II. B. S.mns. of Cranitcvilla. gave similar testimony. R. S. An krson. of Edgefield, an employe of the United States Sena.o. afer stating that he was in Edgefield 'rrine the summer of 1902. denied that ' o ha-! brlJ any conversation with Mr. Tillman in a livery stable :n Edgefield, in which the express on "get at hlca" vn9 used, or that he had engaged in toy conversation with Mr. Tillman retarding Mr. Gonzales, as testified to in the trial. James Davi9. the last witness called, tad but begun his testimony when Judge Gary ordered an adjournment, :hat the sick juror might not be o.ertaxed. James II. Tillman was on the stand Friday over four hours, a witness in his own behalf. For full one hour he was subjected to the fire cf cross examination by counsel for the State. But one other witness was placed on the stand by the defense, after which the defense rested. Witnesses in rebuttal placed cn the stand by the Plate were heard during the closing hours. Splendid progress was made toward the conclusion cf the trial, which has already consumed nearly two weeks. The defer.'ant resuming h's testimony, was asked as to the impress:-' a made upon him as to Mr. Gonzaie-' feeling toward him by tne editorials, a number cf them being indicated by title, and replied that they impress? i him as intensely bitter. He said ho did not make threats in Edgefield or on a train. The defendant waa asked with reference to statements attributed to hint while engaged in conversation In n;s ream in a hotel in Columbia on August 20 or 21. of last year. He said: "The conversation Dr. Adams referred to took place when a number of my friends were In the room and it - ffinnrol punrfTsitio;i. was a i uuiuuf, ^.uvkui Sometimes I would be talking to one and sometimes to another; sometimes three or four would be talking to me. Somebody came in th? room and told me about some new rumor as to what Mr. Gonzales would do to me. and I made the remark that if he attempted to do that?I don't think I said as Dr. Adams said, 'SnufT his light out,' but ' him, I would kill him,' I think.' He said further: "I had been told in at least a dozen places in South Carolina that Mr. Gonzales stated that I dare not ccme to Columbia and say about him what I had said on other stumps in the campaign." He said the i different statements were made in , connection with rumors of threats re- , ported to him. The defendant said further that it had been reported that the Opera House in Columbia, where a campaign : meeting was to be held was to be j packed and that he was not to be let, cut alive and he stated that he said if that rumored threat was carried out, "It would be one of the d? tragedies , in South Carolina." When closely quostloned he stuck to his original statements. . James Davis, the first witness for the i defense today, said he was riding on a train with the defendant from John- ; ? 4- vJic attpntirm was aiuil t'J v^vtuiuum. ?I4W called to the testimony of Mr. Terrell, j one of the State's witnesses, relative j to a conversation the defendant was ; said to have had with 0. D. Black, a J liagman. cn the train relative to Mr. j Gonzales. The witness said he did not | hear Mr. Tillman make any threats; gainst Gonzales. On cross-examination he said he did not know Mr. Terreli or Black. Col. L. Blease, who said he has been a member of the Legislature and that he was with the defendant throughout the campaign of 1902. was asked if he was present in the defendant's room in a hotel In Columbia on the night of tim 20th or 21st of August, 1902, at the time Dr. Adams was there. He answered that he was and said he was reading some editorials from The State, that he might be in position to reply to them in his speech. His attention was called to the testimony of Dr. Adams relative to a conversation that took place in the room. The witness said that part of the conversation was directed to Dr. Adams and part of it to side remark addressed Mr. Tillman. Witness then in answer to questions. said Dr. Adams advised Mr. Tillman "to go dowr to The State office and fight Gonzales." and that the defendant said "he was Lieutenant Governor and could net afford to have a difficulty; that he would be impeached" and. added the witness, "somebody about that time made a remark about something which Gonzales had said about what he would do to Col. Tillman. Col. Tillman said: "You need not be uneasy about that?you boys needn't be uneasy about that; if he undertakes to attack me I will snuff his light out with this." Asked with reference to another statement attributed to defendant, the witness said that when that part of an editorial referring to mock theatricals T\as read, what Mr. Tillman said was that "if he attempts to carry out one of his threats I will make it the d tragedy that has ever happened in South Carolina." The witness when asked with refer, ence to the pistol in Mr. Tillman's hand at the hotel in Columbia, said it was there "because we expected trouble at the opera house." adding, "we expected Col. Tillman to be attacked by Mr. Gcnzales." J. A. White of Edgefield. a doorkeeper in the State Senaie at the last session of the Legislature, said that while he was sitting in the lobby o! the senate a man whom he did not know came up to him and asked where Mr. Tillman was. and. among other things, the witness said Mr. Gonzales said he had made Mr. Tillman show the white feather twice and would do it again. He was told by Mr. Holsonback. who was present, he said, that the stranger was N. G. Gonzales. The witness said he told the Lieutenant Governor just what had been said. He said Mr. Tillman had appointed him a doo'-keeper. Richard H. Holsonback, also of Edgefield, told of the conversation which he said Mr. Gonzales had with Mr. White, relative to making Mr. Tillman show the white feather. The wit ! ness said he told Mr. Tillman that night what had been said. Witness said he was just behind Senator Talbird. Lieutenant Governor TillI man and Senator Brown, as they approached the transfer station in Columbia cn the way down town from the State House on January 15. He said aa be crossed Gervais street he saw Mr. Gonzales coming in the Opposite direction on the out3idp cf the pavement. He said Mr. Gonzales crossed obliquely to the left. He could have passed on t'nc outside, be said, instead of cutting diagonally ac-^ss to the in3ide. Witness said he heard Mr. Tiilman say. "I got your messaye. no sk.i.i uiat hji. Gonzales thrust his hand down deep in his pocket and added that he thought Mr. Gonzales was going to shoot Mr. Tillman. He heard tee shot, but said he did not see where Mr. Tiiimati drew the pistol from. He sz.sd Lieutenant Governor Tillman was in the .middle. The witness wzs clczely questioned and on cross-examination. with special reference to co:tain conversations with prrsons named. M. C. I.orick testified that he was s'nr.ding on the street across from the transfer station; that he saw Mr. Gonzn'es coming up Main street: that he raw Mr. Tillman and two other men " mlnrr in the opposite direction. He mi t that when Mr. Gonzales got within f i;r or fi e steps from Mr. Tillman he changed his course obliqely. Witless salt! Mr. Gonzales had his right land in his pocket and acted as if lie 7.zs trying to get it out He heard a report, he said, and saw a pistol In the lefendant's hand. On cross-examination the witness >aid it was on the opposite side of the street from where he was that Poilmpcan Boland arrested Mr. Tillman. Mrs. M. A. Evans testified that she ;vas passing down Main street from the State House on January 1.5 and that is she passed the transfer station sue ?tw Mr. Gonzales coming >c the opposite direction. She said that because of something she heard in .he lobby of the State House she took particular notice of his attitude, manner and expression. and said his facial expression W3s strained. Mr. Mahaffey. a member of the Legislature from Spartanburg at the last session, said he noticed the neck of a bottle sticking out of the defendant'9 pocket at he State House the day be:nre the shooting T TT mm V. !,/? J. n. illlLuOU, W UCU UC vwik I.i.w stand was asked by Mr. Croft to explain this and that incident, to which reference has been made daring the trial. After giving his explanation of the South Carolina Club incident he was asked ^ith regard to any message he may have sent to Mr. Gonzalc3, saying that he had sent a verbal message to him by George S. Legare asking him (Gonzales) to meet him in Georgia. He said Mr. Gonzales wanted the invitation put in writing, but he was afraid it was a trap. He said also that he did not want to violate any of the dueling 1 >vs of his State. Answering further questiens the witness said that when he was correspondent in Wash- I ington for some Southern papers. Mr. Gonzales was applicant for the posi- : tion of consul general to Shanghai and that he wrote his papers that Mr. Gon- i zales would not be appointed and said he had some hot words with him in a hotel lobby in Washington. As to the cigar incident, he said that on the next day hi went up to the hotel cigar stand and bought some cigars and turning around offered them to those standing there. He noticed Mr. Gonzales then, he said, and saw he had made a mistake. Asked as to Mr. Gonzales' attitude j toward his military career, he said: "It; has always been bitter toward me since 1 I was 21 years old." The question of his military career end the comments of The State was then taken up. Mr. Tillman stating among other things that Mr. Gonzales wanted him court-martialed because of an incident which he related. Relative to the organization of a company of Indian scouts, which has . been referred to, the defendant said he wanted to organize such a company to j take to the Philippines, but that President McKinley and army officers in Washington opposed it. Asked how he was treated by Mr. Gonzales in his campaign for Governor the defendant replied: "I think those editorials are fair! samples of it." He denied that he had ever been a ; traitor to his uncle and said he bad : not intentionally been discourteous to j the Senate. He was next asked what | had been the attitude of Mr. Gonzales toward him prior to 1902, to which he replied: "I think the paper has been pretty well devoted to me since 1890," and in answer to a further question said the editorials in The State had been extremely abusive of him. CASE GOES UP FOR ARGUMENT. | Lexington, S. C.. 'special.?The last witness to be heard in the trial of James H. Tillman, charged with the murder of Editor Gonzales, left toe stand at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon, j onnAln/llnor fho tolMncr nf tpfttl- ' uiua VUUtlUUIIlf, VUV iuik.uD v. mony in what promised to be a much j longer trial than this will be. On Mon- : day and Tuesday counsel will address the jury, seven hours being given to each side for arguments. On Wednesday morning Judge Gary will charge the jury, and place the case with it for deliberation and determination. The programme was decided upon by ; court and counsel and announced by ! the court just prior to adjournment today. Counsel for defense proposed that the case be submitted to the jury without argument, the State suggesting that three hours be devoted to each side, but the court proposed a day each which was accepted by the attorneys on both sides. The employment of expeditious methods has materially hastened the end of this important case. A vast number of witnesses have been heard and a great volume of testimony for and against the defendant ha3 been placed before the jury for its consideration. Never was a case In this State more closely contested than this one has been. The testimony of character witnesses offered both by the State and the defense and arguments by counsel on disputed points consumed the time of the two sessions, only ono witness being on the stand at the afternoon session. One of the witnesses for the X . ?V . State was asked as to hfs support for a certain Republican candidate for Congress. The State objected. Gen. ^ Bellinger saying in the course of his remarks that that was calling attention to his political standing. Judge Gary, in ruing that the question was competent, said: ' Generally speaking, Mr. Bellinger, I think your view the correct one, but, lin/^oc * r? nr?r>nl I o ? /? ntvn lure, it ma;* effect a mans character." The State placed wi r.esser. on the stand today attacking he veracity of two witnesses for the defense. W. H. Geer, a traveling representative of tne State, said that he did lot make the statement that Mr. Gonzales had a pistol for Mr. Tillman and that ne (Tillman had better not tackle him with a stick because he would g-:t ? shot out of him. a remark which a witness for the defense testified he made. By agreement cf counsel it was admitted that Mr. Gonzales' eyesight was defective, and that he habitually wore glasses, thus rendering it unnecessary to put on witnesses from Columbia. The State offered in evidence certain records of the Street Railway Company to show the nours during which J. Flowers, who testified that he overheard a conversation by Mr. Gonzales, had run car3 in the aummer of 1902, but, on inspection, finding that the record sustained him as to time, they were asked to be with- . drawn. The defense, in rebuttal, put oa upwards of twenty witnesses to testify as to the gocd character of R. H. HolI senback, one of their witnesses, who j testified relative to the shooting. In fixing the programme so as to 1 send the case to the jury Wednesday morning, Judge Gary said he did so that the Jury would have a full day before*it for the consideration of its verdict instead of sending it out at night. Court adjourned short?" before 9 p. m. until 9:30 a. m. Monday. GENIUS SHOWN IN BEGGING. ' Vhy V/crk When Ycu Can Secure Gcod Money Without It? i It Is hard to beat the beggar game i o Italy. A fleet-fcctcd urchin grabi icd a girl and bounded lite a chamois ver an Intervening short cut, headng us off at the next turn. He and tls maiden fell into a fcx-trot by the , dde of the carriage. "Look, noble gentleman!" he began,, cok, beautiful lady! See the little agazza?the poor girl?have pity on ler! Sec, noble sigcor?you can not efuse to give her something?your leart is too gcod?you are too genirous, tco noble, too handsome, to re"use. Have pity on her dreadful state, for look?she has one gray eye ind one black one!" We stepped the carriage. It was xue. The maiden had Indeed part':olored eyes, in addition to which she ejoiced in a most appalling squint. 1 ! gave her one copper. Hereupon her escort set up a howl it being ignored. "But why should you have anyMnjr?" T J>skf>d "You ought to give me two eopjers," he replied with a twinkle, 'for i have two black eyes, and she has inly one." I was ^inquished. I gave him his :wo coppers. I don't believe in begfars, but I think he earned them.? .\rgonauL Told Cut of School. The infant terrible is always with as, and in making trouble runs a rloso race with the wagging tongue of scandal. Accompanied by her young hopeful a woman was calling on & friend who happened to live in one of 1 row of houses of exactly the samo ippearance. "The great objection to living in a row of houses," remarked the hostess, Ms the liability of making a mistake. Do you ever have any difficulty, my iear?" "Oh. no." replied the little fiend. breaking in unexpectedly. "Ma says she can always tell your house by :ha dirty windows." , RAM'S HORN BLASTS. fHE heart without the offering is better than the offerness can never be built out of anothYou cannot prevent the rise of sin, but you can prevent Selling goods is only a sin when a man sets his soul out on the countc-. A man's religion in the shop iz worth twice his religion in the church. The pious prodigal may wander as far in nis love as the other did in his life. A prayerful hearing of the sermon is as important as its prayerful pre paratioii. Men who would scorn a thief in the penitentiary fawn on him in ^Lo legislature. How qnickl7 ite wjr'.J would be reformed if men were at anxious to be right as they are to prove others" wrong. Keeping up with piearurc's procession means fleeing from the great white company. The common people do need the saloon?if they desire to be kept thoroughly common. If you can trust God for eternity you ought to be able to leave this moment with him. Work for the love of it may be good for the servant, but it is bkd for those who are served. The preacher who has a good conceit of himself will not produce strong conviction of sin in others. When a man gets to thinking that he is top-heavy with science he is likely to trip up for the lack of a little sense. c M 4