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It might not W difficult to leai mmm "While the array cheered behind It might be rather easy, with th To forget the bite of bullets and |^^B > But to be a scrubwoman, with Babies or more Every Jay, everv dav setting y On the rack,' And all vour reward forever no Bra a fun biff HV Of bread for your babit.s. Say! H In the heat of ^B _i You might be a hero to h-^ad a bi B But a hero like her? I'm afraid V It might be very feasible to fore B To saddle public passion and to W It might be somewhat simple to m Because a second shout broke out But he who, alone and unknov F To his view. f Unswerved by the crush of the Blatting crowd. Unwon by the flabby-brained, I Which he sees Throned and anointed. Say! At the height o You might be the chosen to cant But to stand all alone? How loi ?Edmund Vance Cooke, ^ 5* * * M lOI A Strai ?*!S t i vi *e?9K*-*aefc*^)?6K* jJtOJC. T'S all settled. Kit." cried )[ m Jg a slim, beautiful girl, in a ?To hard, despairing voice that I*she herself knew was Voif| strange; "no more poverty, and no more pinching. iWe're had our share and enough of it, and now we'll have no more." The speaker drew off her gloves leisurely, and held her hands to the ruddy ^ -blaze. She looked wondrously beautiful as he bent there, her eyes a thousand miles a way through the glowing coal, and with the firelight playing around | her aquiline nose and perfect lips. And |L as she stood, her sister watched her in j? the gathering twilight, and thought W: she never saw her look so beautiful, *.^nor yet so truly strange. | ^ "Oh, Mabel, have you rea'ly accented ' the darling old millionaire at last? How truly delightful!" Kitty jumped up from the sofa and clapped her hands, her face expressing intense delight. Oh, how beautiful t? have just as much money as you want, and everything you can set your mind on it! Truly, the prospect was grand, and Kitty laughed with her seyeuteen-year-old laugh, and danced prettily with all the abandon and jollity of seventeen years. She completed the circuit by hairing at her sister's side, who still gazed Into the firelight, with her face filled lfrith an odd mingling of iove and bitterness. Kitty knew full well what was passing in Mabel*.5: mind, and she, but yet seventeen, could not. feel or bad not lived long enough to l'eel, "What it was or what it meant. And yet she was Just a little somber. !Just a little dsiprrfSed. as she put one bandafi^jrfer Aster's and the other Ss-W??dH*sboulders. "Poor7lJab!" she said; "how sad you I***!" I "I baye reason to be sad." responded MaheiJ with a short, hollow lanah: " tl'rf ehosen the road that's to be mine tiii death!" A little catch In her voice that vras npt natural to Mabel caused Kitty to -dfratir her closer and comfort her as ; heat she could; and as she thought of it meant, and all it would bring to them both, she burst into a reckless laugh that became seventeen years so "You have chosen just what I should HNvealth. Oh, think of it. Mabel! ^VThiuk vrbut our future will be when Vjou are mistress of Mr. Johnson's V lovely mansions ^nd fortune! Bur. I W knew you'd do it, Mabel I knew you ^jrould. It's just what I should have don e mvs^lf.'' . Kih\don't," pleaded Mabel, fu a voice, so mjained and sad that Kitty looked up atffrmedu "ypu don't know what you're saying, and you don't know what you mean. You have never been called upon by stern netesKJty to sacrifice your own true lore, ho is* all the world to you, to marry n old man's millions." J|5So, I haven't," replied Kitty, quickrT with all the determination of her experience, "but if I had to I would. I shouldn't hesitate a single minute between the young love without a c'ol.JJar, and millions?and especially if *tae owner of the millions chanced to be "* - such a fine-looking man as Mr. Johnson is, and you know," she went on, coloring a llttlej "he is really handsome,-Mabel, and he is only forty. I .wish it was me be was going to marry, | and not yon." E A smile overspread Mabel's features, L and she laughed outright. The idea of ^ such a charming slip of loveliness as K Kitty being the wife of a middle-aged ft millionaire! It was too absurd. * H "inririirMntinn?d TCittv fpsl'.nr jBfhat something was expected of lier in NBttenoation of her conduct, and pout[ Tng a little, "yon sliould take it more ! happily. It isn't right uot to." ' And than. as Kitty turned to the te:* things on the table, the hunted, psiued ftti swept back !uto Mabel's pate Mcfacev and she sighed heavily. "How thoughtless she is." she murJBaured, "and cruel. It seems a light ^Bhlng, this, to give up my love for pelf her sake. Yes," she said, half f^Rvagely. "for her sake, not mine. If were not for her his money would f^Have been as dirt to me. I know what I ^poverty is, but the bitterness is sweet Compared with a life without love, . without him. And he comes here tonight, and, God forgive me. I must tell him." and a shudder shook her frame. "Mabel," cried Kitty, as lightly and a? happily as though ill-starred loves had never come her way. "tea's all ready," and then Mabel tried her best to look pleased and happy, ana told ^^Kitty what happened to her in her ea HBpty as daily governess, and Kitty ^^BF some new story tb^^l of dear, ^^Bightful Mr. Johnson, BB*Dear, darling Mab," tMaBt Kitty, her eyes reste<Ffondly vKM her sister. *Tve never had a tKJuble yet, i bless her dear old heart, but what she V hasn't helped me out of if; aml now she's going to lift us^gbt yut of the worst trouble of all-thie ?rid provr i zr T v 1 the light brigade, I yout and the hfes and bugles played; e waV-shriek in your ears, the taste of blood and tears, tour t our back t quite i the day igade, ! I'm afraid! v a fcitai rcivrin. ride upon the storm; ignore the roar of wrath. . to cheer you on vour path, en, is true t mutton-browed blinking eaa. if the fray, a in the throng; 11 g? How long? in Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. w. ige Temptation. 1 * ? * Sidney Murray. ^ XQIGIGIOIQ?QIQIOIOIGIOK And later, when Rudolf Turner. Mabel's handsome, manly lover, came upon the scene. Kitty ran off to spend her evening with Ada Brown, who hu^ the flat below. \ "Poor chap." thought Kitty, eommis-f eratiugly, as she saw the hopeful lovelir.il. In Mr, nnn. -- K <--* %.i_ I Mill Xiia rj w utr HTffltfa U15> ?UZt? upon nil he loved in the world, "you'll be sent away to-night. I know; I'm awfully sorry for you. but, after all, it can't be helped. What is lave, anyway. when it means everlasting proverty? She'll forget all about it when she is Mrs. Johnson. Why. it'll be just like fairylaud after this!" And pretty Kitty, worldly because she had never felt the fire of love, went off to Ada Brown. And those two? They remained together. with all they both loved, in that small room. She had kept him hoping on for weeks, trying to decide the bitter struggle that raged in her breast. Now that it was all over, she knew her course, and he was to hear it tonight. How she told him she knew not: a dull clutching held her heart, and ^|he was conscious only of those words which would keep them apart for evermore. As through a curtain that seemed to hide from her the fearful wrong she wrought, she saw his face become deadly pale, and his eyes darken with a strange despair. "And this is the end!'' he said, in a low, hoarse voice that sought her heart, and stilled it; "this is the end I dreaded! These are the last of those enchanted dreams that kept me for you, and you for me?crushed beneath the feet/"of the woman I worshiped, the woman I loved with all my heart and soul, better than life itself?ruined and scattered by you?" "Don't. Rudolf, don't reproach me," she sobbed. "I don't reproach you. Mabel; why snouia i: Accoramg to tue worm, you have done wisely. You have chosen what is worthy of beauty such as yours?and what matters it that you have walked over one man's bleeding heart to gain it?" His answer was her sobbing and her 1 quivering frame; and he rose. Could she lose him like that? "Rudolf," she said, "it is for Kitty's sake?not mine?don't, oh, don't judge me harshly." "For her sake! What of mine?" he said, with a hard, cold, laugh?and he was gone. . The nest day the millionaire's betrothal ring, a magnificent circlet of diamonds and rubies, glistening on Mabel's lovely hand. and. urged by her fiancee and Kitty, she consented to an early wedding. Mr. Johnson was a constant visitor at the little flat, and Kitty, whom he treated as a petted sister, was never tired of expatiating at great lengths on | his charms to Mabel. She thought he was absolutely the most delightful man she had ever met, and how stupid it was of Mabel not to fall in love with him! Mabel smiled when she listened to these extravagant comments, and, except when alone, contrived to keep hgr face so bright and so radiant, that it was little wonder Kitty only half guessed what a sacrifice Mabel was making. The days rolled on. and it was just a week before the day appointed for the wedding, that Mabel, while on a shopping tour, came upon an old friend of her schooldays. "And do you know, Mabel." she s^iid at parting, "that Rudolf Turner is seriously ill with brain fever. They tell me it is some love trouble. Poor fellow, I hope he gets over it." All that evening and the next morning Mabel was lost in her own dismal thoughts. It was late in the afternoou , when she suddenly spraug up, nud, white and resolute, flung away her sewing, the light of passion firing her eyes. "Kitty, I can't and won't stand it an hour longer!" she cried; "Rudolf Turner is perhaps dying, aud he is mine! I am going to him." "Mabel." said Kitty, "are you mad?" "I have been, but I'm san: once more! My heart is Rudolf's, and he alone shall have it!" She wrenched away her betrothal ring, and thretv it into her sister's lap. "There!" she said: "give it back to Mr. Johnson, if he comes, and tell him the marriage is not to be." And, before Kitty could find words, she was alone. Long after, when Mabel returned, her face held such exquisite happiness that Kitty started up in wonder. "Oh, Mabel, how happy you look! 1 know you are now." "Yes, dear, I an. happy, and so is Rudolf; and he will get well, and then " But she bethought herself of what she left behind and her face flushed | with pain. "Did he come? Poor boy!" f'Don't be sorry, Mab," returned Kitty, very demurely, and yvith a sole him." "Kittyr* >ralK*l stared T\-itb amazed | eyes at the pretty hushed face. "Why, ; you little rogue, I believe you were in love with him all the while!" "I believe I waV replied Kitty, simply. There were two weddings n little j later from the flat. end. immediately i after, Mr. Johnson presented Mabel i with a cheek for ten thousand pounds. ! "Will you have it?" he asked, "as a j wedding gift front your brother and sister? Kit says it includes both love and pelf."?New York Weekly. Tho proposed bore-hole :welve miles deep has brought out the objection that the great pressure of forty tons per square inch would cause a viscous flow of rock material, making the feat impossible. The Hon. A. C. Parsons replies that this idea can be tested by subjecting a piece of quartz rock to a pressure of one hundred tons per square inch in a close-fitting cylinder ( having a small hole through its centre, j This pressure is that expected at a : depth of tliirty-eight miles. The value of evidence has been tested experimentally by M'lle Marie Borst. Her subjects were twelve males and twelve females, and within a period of six weeks there were shown five scenes from daily life, which they were afterward required to describe in writing, Vnd about which they iyere then in} twrogated orally. Statements under oath were required. The results show that accurate evidence is rare, that evidehce improves by practice, that the evidence of women is more faithful and complete than that of men, but that one-twelfth of the sworn statements are incorrect. The bioscope of De Gaspnris, which constituted a late sinning exnioit in j Naples, is a microscope of very long | focus, the rock-mounted tube contain- : ing a system og achromatic objectives and an eye-piece of wide Hold. The magnifying power is somewhat more than twelve diameters at a distance of twenty inches. The new instrument gives revelations that are marvelous, as it shows the actions and emotions of such creatures as ants, spiders and dies in their ordinary undisturbed life, gives wonderfully clear views of the doings of aquatic animals, and enables the medical man to peer into the larynx and other body cavities as never before. It opens a new era in the study of na ittre. Museums of latlguage will b(i|)f great importance to the future historian. The idea was suggested in Vienna six years ago, but has only recently taken shape, although it has already resulted in a collection of -100 phonograph records on durable metal. The purpose is to record the languages of Europe, and eventually of the world, the music of the different countries and speeches of notable personages. The collection now cmbrflces the Slavic. Servian, modern Greek, Portuguese and Brazilian languages. with songs and dialects of na- ' tives of India and of Arabians and Be- ' dotiins. An expedition under Dr. Poech has penetrated New Guinea to reproduce tlie speech of the Papuans. An extraordinary use of the same sleeping quarters by diurnal and nocturnal animals is recorded by a naturalist of Ceylon. Barberyn Lighthouse Island, Xhirty-flve miles 'south of Colombo, is inhabited by day by fruit bats or flying foxes, and at night by crows, and at sunrise and sunset maybe seen the curious spectacle of .two immense flocks flying in opposite directions across the strait separating the island from the mainland, the flying foxes at a greater elevati n than the crows. The cross migration lasting about half an hour, is attended bygreat chattering of flying foxes and cawing of crows. Ambmudor Meyer end King Victor.* ' Roman society has suffered a double 1 loss lately in the appointment to Paris ' 'ot both the British and American Am- * bassndors, until now accredited to the 1 Quirinal. < Mr. George von Lengerke^ Meyer, the ' Transatlantic representative, has won ' golden opinions ior nimsen nere as u. | sportsman and an all-round "good fellow," being a favorite with the King and a great friend of the Duke d'Aosta. His motor ear is one of the best known in Rome, and so far has never killed any one! One day he took the King out in it, and feeling that law as well as majesty was at his side, kept well within the speed limits. His majesty said nothing -at first, and then Intimated that they were taking some time in arriving. Mr. Meyer made one effort to escape responsibility and hinted that if they outdistanced the royal bicyclists the King would be without protection. "Not at all," said King Victor, drawing a small revolver from his pocket, "with this I can defy any one!" The bicyclists arrived half an hour after, draggled, worn and out of breath. Mrs. Meyer may be said to keep open house. The Brancaccio Falace seems made to show off her charming personality and the delicate beauty of her compatriots. It is an embassy at which society expects?and is never disappointed?to meet'youth aad beauty, see the latest thing in gowns, admire the most gorgeous jewels, eat the season's greatest delicacy and dance the newest dance.?Rome Correspondence ? in London Pall Mall Gazette. * > t Canned Milk Preferred* ^ It was her first visit to the country. , She never before had been out of Chi- ^ cago. Everything she saw was a fresh delight. Eve in the garden could not j have found it more novel._ The cows t especially interested her. ( At milking time she cIumTso closely j to the hired man that toBree himself \ he gavf.her a cup of neuBmilk, warm i and frothy from the pai# She took a t deep draught. w t Then such consternat^n was pictured j in the pretty, piquant^^ge that her f mother cried: "What is it/^^othy?" j "Oh," she sobbed in disgusrand dis- s appointment. "I don't like cow's milk. ^ It's horrid. I like milkman's milk."? Chicago Record-Herald. { # One Way to Boiltl. ^tQie* T the convention of American Iioad Makers, which O J\ O met In Detroit, Mr. George jf JR Burns, the labor leader and TtfOJw President of the Michigan Labor Union, advocated the use of prison labor, either in building roads or in preparing material to be used for hardening their surfaces. He is the first labor leader to advocate this course, although it has been suggested by many speakers and writers on this question during the past ten years. Mr. Burns sees that it would be clearly 1.1 ih/v /vf neiOAti I.ilt/w in mi* iiiicir^i \jl auiu pu.?vu iuuvi and also in the interest of free labor to have the great army of prisoners, now in the jails in the various States, who are doing no good for themselves and adding nothing to the common wealth, applied to the road proposition in some form or other. Many people object to a suggestion of this kind because they say that the use of ! such labor for such a purpose would I have a contaminating influence in the community where the work is done. But to avoid such a result Mr. Burns showed how this labor could be applied in the preparation of material, either brick or broken stone, where the priseners could be worked in inclosures fs they now are. The products so proiuccd would not come in contact with free labor as the articles generally produced by such labor do: conseqncntlytby this course you avoid competition with tlie manufacturer who aflfe^^or sale the manufactured arlielof or competition witli the free laborer who works to produce these j irticlcs. and at the same time the prisoner is receiving more useful instruction. having more healthful exercise and adding greatly iu the course of years to the common wealth. If Mr. Burns' idea, which is undoubtedly a sound and wholesome one.' should be adopted by the labor unions of the country generally, it would bring to the road cause a very great and muchneeded aid. The great meeting of the Automobile .Manuiacrurers or America, iieiu m Chicago soon after this Detroit convention, developed the fact that all of the automobile manufacturers of America are heartily in fitvor of some genpral plan of road building that shall be applicable to all the States in the Union. Being unanimous in this view, they adopted a resolution indorsing the passage of the Brownlow bill which provides for a system of National. State and local ec-operation in the permanent improvement of the public highways. It is very evident from the logic of events that the tine is rapidly approaching when the friends of the good roads cause will be able to unite many forces in favor of tlie general plan of road improvement lliat have heretofore been either indiflf(Tent or hostile. The labor leaders generally have been hostile to the idea of applying the prison labor to this work, but now one of the most progressive leaders of organized labor has come forward and indorsed in the most hearty and intelligent way the idea of applying this labor to the general welfare of the community by building up the public roads. In order, however, that this shall be made possible the road-building authorities, in the various States and counties, must be provided with funds of money in Drder to obtain the proper machinery, engineering skill and expert labor, so is to make use of the army of prison ?rs who would be put at their disposal j under the new plan. In ordei to secure I this necessary fund it is more and more evident that the aid of the National Government should be called n to supply a portion of the money. This is all provided for by the Brownow bill, which was not only indorsed >y the Chicago convention, but also i>y the Detroit convention of American [toad Makers.?Hon. Martin Dodge. Coo<l Road* Preservation. Your recent editorial 011 "Good Roads," quoting a Rochester paper, was quite apt. Embodying self-helpFulness. but not intended to diminish self-reliance, the good roads law was in amplification of the county roads law, under which, notwithstanding our earnest efforts, the counties failed to move; and it expressly provided the roads, so soon as built, should be turned over to the counties and be thereafter ma'nfained as county roads. But, in furtherance of the home rule principle, was added, "But the Beard >f Supervisors may apportion the expense as they may be empowered by aw," thus allowing any to do within neir jurisdiction as uhkui bcujii urai therein, but I hoped that the main oads would become a flat county 'barge, as most j'ust and equitable. For such arterial system in each county is equally the interest of the city is well as the town. These roads irarerse the towi% to be sure, but are a jurden beyond it and of more general nterest. With main roads as a county charge, the towns will be better able to care 'or the lesser roads, and should, as juid pro quo, in the general Interest llso. Some suggestion has been made by hose now more prominent in the good oads movement since it has become >opular than they were in the long aud Ilfficult period which paved the way ind secured the legislation. The zeal >f new converts is proverbial. But here is in the archives of the State ~)cnnrtment a delizlitful letter from fames Russell Lowell, then Minister o Spain, to Thomas F. Bayard, Secreary of State, exemplifying the disadrautages of disregarding the wholelome doctrine of ne quid nlmis in maters of State concern. Having provided the good roads leglsation affording State co-operation to in Initial and limited extent to the o-ntie? and towns by the two compler.f tary statutes of 3S9S and their per'ec on since, without impinging upon oc 1 option, home rule or the admlnisra.lve entity of the counties and the owns, but preservative of the same, et us so conduct matters that the Rate's contribution and co-operation itop with this half share in first conduction in justice and equity.?John L C. Wright. * Make a virtue of necessity. \ \ Wp iNTF.RNAlOlBBUMrMMEf march 12. V j Subject: Th? Slavery of Sin, John 31-40?Golden Text, John vili,, : Memory Verses, 31, 32?Comment on the Day's Lesson. I. The test and blessings of disciples _ oi oov oi tiTi :J T - ? 1 vs. 01, oi). 01. Alien cam uesus. j tcr, as R. V., "Jesus therefore said," cause many had believed on Him aftpr declaration that He was the Light of world, and after His answers to the Pli sees, and now Jesus directed His remt to these new disciples. "Which bclievi The term "believed" applies here to disposition, openly expressed, to ackn< edge Jesus as the Messiah. "If ye abi (R. V.) Not a fitful, intermittent r tion. but thorough, intense and continue "In My word." If ye obey My cortvna ments and follow My teachings careft Our spirits must drink in Christ's wc as our bodies inhale the atmosphere, man is worth listening to on question! faith and doctrine who is not himsel reverent listener to Christ. Abiding God's word must become the perman condition of our life. "Disciples." A ciple is a learner; one who accepts and lows another as teacher and master. T disciples are real representatives of Chi who live a holy life before the world. 32. "Shall know the truth." Shall kr it doctrinally, spiritually, experimenta not as a mere theory, but as a living p er; shall know the reality of things, i shall know Christ Himself, the embi ment of truth (John 14:1). The rulers j spoken of knowing the law. Jesus spe of knowing the truth. This is a spe j of learning infinitely transcending all ! guesses of doubting scientists and snee: philosophers. "Make you free." Inti I gence is not sufficient. A learned mat still a wicked man under the bondage sin unless he has been made free. Knc edge appears as the fruit of faith, and fi dom as the fruit of knowledge. Christ sociates liberty always' with the tn which He is Himself, and so presents truth as the cause of liberty as the effec ' II. Freedom offered from the slaverj sin (vs. 33-36). 33. "They answere Many commentators refer this "they," to the many who believed (v. 30), but the other Jews who had not believed. 1 little episode of verses 30-32 is thus held a pleasant parenthesis, and the believ are all allowed to be genuine and perh permanent. The words cannot be sdo! of the simple people who had already lieved, but to the carping, caviling Fh; sees. "Abraham's seed." They had Al ham's blood in their veins, but not faith in their hearts. "Never in bondag This answer was not more true than language of pride ordinarily. Politica the seed of Abraham had been in bond to Egypt, Babyldn, Persia, Greece, Roi Spiritually, they bad been in bondage idolatries in past times, were now to rabbis, who were literalists in interpn tion, and without spirituality or svmpai (Matt. 23:41. "How sayest Thou." Uj what possible principle dost Thou prom to us that which we already are proud possessing, viz., glorioui liberty? We ready possess as our birthright what T1 art offering to us as the full result of < cipleship. 34. "Verily, verily." A solemn decla tion enforced by these words. "Whc ever committeth sin." In these wo Jesus utterly expels the political quest from His scope. He states first the prii pie and then the application. He spoke a more degrading bondage and a hig freedom than they imagined. He wn tendency and habit is to commit sin. who makes choice of sin; prefers the v of wickedness before the way of holine who makes a covenant with sin, enters ii league; who makes a custom of sin; v walks after the flesh and makes a trade sin. "Is the servant of sin." Is the sla the bond-servant of sin. He does the w< of sin, supports its interests and acce its wages. He cannot dismiss sin at pic ure; the moment he attempts it he fii s?Viainff ^P9tm TVoam nnfc freedom while under the mastery of yi desires. Temperance instruction may be brouj in at this point. No bondage is grea than the bondage to strong drink. Sei tude is repulsive to all men. In our 1^ of freedom men demand their rights business, yet there are hundreds of n and boys and sometimes women who j themselves under the bondage of the dri habit. 35. "The servant abideth not." 1 reference may be to Hagar and Ishm and Isaac?the bond and the free. T1 had spoken of themselves as the seed Abraham. Jesus shows them that tb may be of that seed two kinds: the s properly so call, and the slave. Th Jews might be the seed of Abraham, a yet, not Being his spiritual children, mi| not abide in his household of faith. 2 many years after this their capital and tion were destroyed, and the Gentiles t< their place in the kingdom of God. Thi not to be made free from sin by the ri and ceremonies of the law of Moses, Moses was but a servant and had not tl parental authority in the church which bon had. "The Son abideth" (R. V.) ] comparison here is, between any son am bona servant, and son should not be with a capital. Sinners are slaves, Ch tians are sons and heirs. 36. "If the So Christ now refers to Himself. The Son God alone has power to liberate those v are slaves to sin. Jesus Christ is the h< and has full authority and ability. 1 Father hath given all things into His ha (John 17:2). "Free indeed." The Jc boasted of an imaginary freedom, but liberty which Christ offered was real t lasting in its effects. It would have sai the nation from the bondage of captiv to Babylon centuries before; it wo save them from bondage to the Roma What freedom they had under the Romi was due to what they had learned a practiced of the word. Jesus knew ti deliverance from the Roman yoke was geat work expected from the Mesai e therefore spiritualized this hope. III. Jesus shows the character of wicked Jews (vs. 37-40). 37. "Abrahai seed." Christ admits their claim that tl are tbe natural descendants of Abrahi but denies that they are his children 39) in the highest and best sense. "S to kill." That they desired the death Abraham's truest Son is proof that t; are not true sons of Abraham. Their rr derous intent proves that they are child of the devil (v. 44) instead of Abrahi "No place in y<\u." You do not allow word to enter your hearts and lives. "I speak," etc. The Son existed with Father during past eternity and He rep< the things He had seen. "Ye do," i Their fatner was Satan (v. 44), and t were instructed and led by him. 39, The argument here is that toey were true children of Abraham because t were not like Abraham in character i setioos. Abraham's life was wholly uu The Motor De Luxe. Railway traveling, observes T Tatler, is getting old fashioned; t up-to-date millionaire goes eve . J.... KM mAfnr M wnere nowaunys uj mmui. Mackay, Che widow of the Silr King, claims to have the moat perfi machine yet invented in which she tends to make the long journey fr< I^aris to Rome this month. This m velous car i6 fitted with every imag able convenience, including revolvl chairs and movable tables, so t1 meals can be served while on 1 road. Mrs. Mackay is also credit with having the most beautiful 1 in Paris, if not in the world. It c ers tne center floor of one of the 1 buildings in the Bois, and the s cious hall is like the gorgeous ir rior of some Eastern palace, w priceless treasures in every nook t corner. The great drawing room in the French style, with Louis J gilt furniture and Aubusson carp the "white dining room Is hung w crimson and paneled with wonder tapestry, whilst the prevailing toi in the bedrooms are pale blue i j pink, each being fitted with a mar ' bathroom. / i "x Americmt? i Review0' No > of The more Magazine f a * en" Indispensable is The dis- ~~~~~~~~~~~~ fol- " Indispensable," "The one ma 'rue world under a field-class," " Ai '13t? . current literature."?ihcse are soc jow people who read the Review of Revie jjv more necessary is the Review of Review ow- is in all the mod important monthlie and I periodical literature that nowadays pc< adi- j with it is to reid the Review of Review ^d id jng section, it has more original maiter a a. 8 the most timely and important articles p t^e fl Probably the mod useful section of al jng f ress of the World," where public eventi elli- || esp'ain-d in every issue. Manv a subs ? is B worth more than the price of the magi ?f B depicting current history in caricature, ,wl" B 2eviev/s covers live continents, ar B Men in public life, the members of ( ,[], H captains of indudry who must keep "i the H women all over America, have decided d?" |K" TO?REvS!^FlR not I 13 As tor PUi 1 as ' i FIGHTS THE DIVORCE ari- u >ra- , ;ehl" Wife of Buffalo Bill Gives Direct Re* the "j. plies to Questions of the Court age | me. SHE DID NOT ADMINISTER POISON !ta* . < thy lise Wife of the Wild West Showman De- 1 of # ?jt nies on the Stand That She Ever ( lou Gave Her Husband "Dragon's Blood" to Make Him Love Her ra,JO More and Other Women Less. rds ion * ( lci* North Piatt, Neb., Special.?Mra. , , of Louisa Cody took the witness stand Thursday in defense of her character jje and good name, which have been aArray sailed by W. F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) ia ss; his petition for divorce. Mrs. Codty ' nto emphatically denied that she had ever 1 "ho attempted to poison her husband. She fof was asked: "u "Did you ever administer 'dragon's I pts blood' for the purpose of making the < tag- Colonel love you more and other wo- I ids men less?" of "No, sir, and I don't know what \ 3ur 'dragon's' blood Is. Never saw any and j .. never heard of such a thing." "Did you ever give the Colonel any- j vi. thing to make him sick?" 1 ,nd "No, sir." in Mrs. Cody declared she had never ien .r?irt \irs Roeers (a witness for the Pu' plaintiin or any person that she had ' inic ever drugged her husband to make him , Tje love her or gain control over him so J ael that he would sign certain papers for iey her. She also denied that she had ever of poisoned any of the Colonel's dogs in- J erc tentionally. ? on? Mrs. Cody denied that she was ever c intoxicated, as had been testified by i witnesses for the plaintiffff. She never ^ Jot drank liquor except for medicinal purna poses, she said, and never used pro>ok fane and obscene language. ^ ink "Do you still love Col. Cody?" asked j*8 the attorney. hat "Yes, he is the father of my children, the and love him still." ~ ^ fhe "Do you desire a reconciliation at s i a this time?" gin "Yes, I do, but I think the Colonel "8: ought to retract the poisoning accusa- c n-. tion." 1 ;ho Mr8, rec*te<1 'he incidents of >ad 'he funeral trip from Spokane to Roch- 1 '?ae eater, N. Y., when they buried their 1 tnd daughter, Arta. ' !ws "Did you at that time threaten to j the denounce Col. Cody at the grave of ( - - * * 1 ...,Ur0rr' j I jour daugnier as oeing uci uuiw>? . I "No, sir." ujj "Did you ever send hi ma threatening n8. telegram in conqpction with the mat- ( ana ter?" ind "I wired him that I thought he had < [>at been the cause of breaking Arta's i 'heart" a A pathetis scene occurred here when * the Attorney Wilcox introduced a letter l m's and asked Mrs. Cody to identify it i bey Tears streamed down her cheeks, And , im, between her broken sobs she said it was 1 t a letter from her daughter Arta three ! \ e?*j days before she died. i [,ey Among other things written by Mrs. | ,*ur. Thorpe (Arta) was the statement that ; r ren the bringing of the suit for the divorce am. by her father had broken her heart J, My J t'he' Blaze on Passenger Steamer. # >rtf San Francisco, Special.?Fire broke a Ptc out in the cargo of the steamer Ore- a gon Tuesday, when the ship was about no( 15 miles southwest of Crescent City, g hcj on her voyage from San Francisco to t and Portland. There were 56 passengers <] Like on board the Oregon besides the crew, c but the passengers were safely transferred to the steamer Del Norte, and v taken to Crescent City. The Cregon be proceeded to the harbor under her ? he own steam, the flames having been . L. ry- put under control. The Oregon left rs thi? nort Sunday with a cargo of gen- | fer er&l merchanidse and passengers. * " 3ct When the steamer was about 12 miles * . southwest of Whale Rock, which is J but a few miles off Crescent City, Cap- * 3111 tain Warner discovered that the Are *r* had broken out in the after freight .in- deck, and was rapidly spreading. He ng made directly for Crescent City, and iat attacked the fire in every manner pos- ( he sible. The sfeamer took a decided ed list, and while she was in that plight 1 fiat Captain Payne, of the Del Norte, 1 a steamed to her rescue, and transferred < ov" the passengers to his vessel. The Del j b,S Norte then entered the harbor at Cres> pa- cent City, followed by the burning ' ite- Oregon. . _ < ith t ind < J* THE USUAL WAY. ] Beatrice?Wha^ did you get for < Christmas? 1 1 Penelope?Horrors! Don't ask me. J Beatrice?Why, my dear, what's up? nes Penelope?Writing a dozen letters, ind aaying they were "Just I want- 1 ble ed. '-jJudge, y A t / "r_ V ' X , > there are, the mor Review of Reviews gasine I must take," "The -> g^Iuearion in public af."air3 and le of the phrases oae bears from noted mts. The more magazines ;h-re are, the s, because it brings together the best that t of the world. Such is the Good of jple say that the only wry to keep up s. Entirely over and above reviewad illuflratiodk than mo? magazines, and rioted in any monthly. 1 is Dr. Albert Shaw's illutra^d fl 1 i and issues arc authoritatively and lucidly H B criber writes, " This depsrtment alone is . ? |. ?1 une.**v The unique cartoon department, B I; A .9 is another favorite. The Review el fl l. ? I td yet is American, firft and foremoA. I I Congress, professional men, and the great I up with the tunes," intelligent rccn and fl >. , 11 that it is "iwfispensabie." M L> II EVIEWS COMPANY a 1 ? II NEWSY GLEANINGS. i . ' A municipal museum has been opened in Chicago, HI., in the Public Library Building. Pennsylvania has a population of \I^H over 150,000 negroes and New York and Ohio about 100,000. * Diphtheria antitoxin fs to be tried in p V_JM Beilevue Hospital, New York City, in ' cases of cerebrospinal meningitis. H Control of the International Traction Company, of Buffalo, X. Y.t has passed > to Henry J. Pierce aud his associates. jr.'tfS of that city. '< t jH The mail steamer Ventura, Bailing L M from San Francisco. Ca!., cafrieu $25.- I m 000 worth of deer, elk. geese and ducks for New Zealand. The Vanderbilt interests were report- 1 ; ed to have purchased for the New York I \ Central a majority of the stock of the I / Boston and Maine Railroad. 1 * It was decided at New York that 1m- I porters must pay full duty-on wines I and liquors from abroad, witboutre- I ?ard to leakage or breakage. t * t, -? - ... ? . ... V ine committee 011 wtDercuiosts or the New York Charity Organization Society severely condemned sanitary conditions in the general post office ^ building. ^ l| By voting to table an amendment to i :he bill prohibiting Sunday baseball ' * tames and theatrical performances the Missouri House killed the bill after ; leveral attempts were made to amend } Margaret Connolly, fifteen years old, H vho confessed to forging checks on the S tstor National Bank, New York City. H vas committed to the Asylum of the fl Sisters of St Dominic to stay until she fl s eighteen years old. The Executive Committee of the B ioard of Trade and Transportation M inthorized the appointment of a ?ne- . rial committee of five to push the n Albany, N. Y? for a Legislative inrestigation of the Telephone Trust NEWS OF THE FAR EAST. Russian scouts have again come a# si 'ar south as the neighborhood of Jougjin. y The Pekin authorities have senf or- 4,* iers to General Tsaug to suppress the januus. v The line of communication between J Xyongsong and Vladivostok is strong- ? ' ! y guarded. A telegram from Haunsbnn said that \ be gradual forward juarch of the en- A. >my continued. w Advices from Tokio said that Genera! Xuropatkiu was massiug large forces <*' >n the Russian left. Kuropatkin tried wide-sweeping operations on both Japanese flanks, but jot a bard pounding. The third Russian Pacific squadron vas reported off Langelanu, escorted >y a Dutch torpedo boat and.a German ronclad. General Kuropatkin telegraphed that wenty Japanese torpedo boats and one varship have been sighted off Vladi ostok. t _ : Large numbers of Russian troops are eported in the extreme northeastern >art of Korea, 011 both sides of the rumen River. Russian scouts, disguised as Cbinauen, came within 500 yards of the Japmese position at Tutaiise. The Japmcse bred and the Russians retired. Reports reached Tokio that the Rusiian army In Manchuria was becoming iisorgauized, and that there was wide ? listrust of Kuropatkin among bis generals. Russia's latest cause of alarm is over rhat will happen when the deceived eeasants find the story untrue that the fzar will proclaim a division of lands lext month. A Russian raiding party under the ommand of Colonel blensmldt blew op eveuty feet of the bridge south of lai-CJieng, about ten miles east of tew-Uiiwaog. . i Receiver for Lumber Company. Valdosta, Ga., Special.?Judge Em- / , >ry Spear, of the United States Disrict Court, has appointed J. But- fa er, of Macon, and J. P. Coffee, of , Jlympia, joint receivers for the Minlesota Lumber Company, which has arge milling plants in Colquitt and y Clinch counties. The receivers were lppointed upon petition of the receiver of the First National Bank, of Faribault, Minn., which holds claims jf 1110,000 against the lumber company. The company's assets are giv;n at $160,000 and liabilities at $140,- . )00. The per capita drink bill of the / United States Is increasing. ^ ^ i' / ' /'."VI