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Irom the clatter of- the linotyjic machine,
What a world of worthy niaiter we can
glean!
From the merry Yuletide atorv
To the bra lie song of glory;
From the hymn of joy and gladness,
To the tale of woe and sadness.
In the clatter, clatter, clatter, in the never
ceasing chatter,
- ' < In the chatter of the linotype machine!
Hear the rattle! ?
Hear the rattle, rattle, rattle,
lake the musketry of battle.
As it tells of surging thousands on the
frozen Asian sands?
As it tells of shrapnels' sh-ieking,
A9 it tells of camps' dire reeking.
As it speaks of warring columns in the
Oriental lands.
i nunaenng louder, louder, louder,
Till you seem to smell the.powder.
ISeem to see the soldiers flying.
Falling wounded, bleeding, dying?
Begging for a cup of watei All
is told?the cheers, the slaughter,
In the rattle of the linotype machine.
Then the singing!
Then the gentle, gentle singing
Of the little children bringing
Gifts to many hungry humans in the gruesome
laucs and ways!
Tu the offal-crowded centers.
Where no sunlight ever enters.
Where little ones arc born in vice, and
vicious end their days.
We can hear the childish singing
From the pure hearts biithly springing.
As the matrices are dropping from the
slotted machine,
\ Like the sound of water fallingLike
a feathered songster's callingla
the singing of the linotype machine.
Then the laughter!
Then the dear, contagious laughter,
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>101*, ARRY Ellen Hosiuer!
|( Hj | Marry a perfect beggar!
? M ? Why, Herbert de Lisle,
~K are you a fool, or crazy,
or what, that y ;u dare to
talk to me about that girl?"
Antl old Kalph de Lisle brought his
clinched fist down on the r.arble-top
table beside which he was silting with
nn energeuc movement quae uhumjui
to him. while his low brow contracted
and his spare, bloodless face grew
purple with rage.
"Then you will not consent?" said lie,
-calmly.
"Never!" and the old, white-haired
father fairly roared the word. "Have
I toiled and economized all these years
to see my money thrown away on a
pauper? We shall see about that, sir.
I always said yon had not r. particle
of the de Lisle pride. You are Randall
all over. There's your mother, now;
I've no doubt she would rejoice to see
yon tied for life to that girl. I considered
my promise to her dying father
fulfilled when I brought her home to i
feejLand clothe her, and it was no plan
~~v""r&P'iiM^ihat she should be educated i
and taugnCS^fill a daughter's place in
-the family, where, by rights; she should <
-haTe been only a menial. Still. I did
not object as I should, and now the un;
grateful minx wants to step in as the
future Mistress de Lisle, does she? ;
Away from me! and remember, Isabel
.Denver is the woman you are to
marry; and mind, too, that you have j
, nothing more to say to that bs by-faced i
. creature of my bounty."
Herbert moved toward the door in 1
- scornful silence, which but aggravated
lbe old man the more.
? Springing to his feet, he exclaimed,
Tebemently:
"I shall watch you, sir. There must
'be uo more billing and cooing, I can
tell you that. If you but so much as
speak again to that girl. I will cut you
'off with a dollar!"
For a moment an angry tide swept
^ across the face of the younger do (
Lisle.v When it passed, his face was
1a trifle paler than before, and his lips
were slightly compressed, but there
' was a mocking gleam of mischief in his
eyes as he answered:
- "Father, I shall marry Ellen yet, and
With your full permission."
! The old man was more than ever enraged,
and bis voice sounded hollow
and sepulchral, and every word be uttered
was cut off with a pugilistic ges
tore of bis clenched nst.
"When I give my consent to your
marriage with Ellen Hosmer I shall
he either an idiot or a lunatic, and she
shall be at once installed mistress of
de Lisle Hall."
Ralph de Lisle was not to be hoodwinked
by any pretty devices of the
young man or his mother. He followed
Herbert about the bouse like
his shadow. Mrs. de Lisle was vexed;
her son was angry. ?
"As old as I am," he muttered?
"nearly thirty?to be followed about
like a baby that's in danger of tumbling
into the fire."
Ellen grew morbidly sensitive under
this constant espionage, ami! would
run away whenever she saw Herbert
approaching.
If Mrs. de Lisle took Ellen under
her wing for a walk, and glanced casually
on departing at her son. the old
man understood perfectly well that the
glcnee "meant something." and Herbert
was kept as closely under his eye
as a cat ever kept the prey she had
doomed for her dinner.
Rut after a time Mrs. de Lisle desisted
from her strange maueuvres.
Herbert gave up all attempts to converse
privately with Ellen, and began
absenting himself from the house
ior whole days at a time.
Not long after this, Ralph de Lisle's
?ft-repeated assertion that El'eu was
lickle and volatile seemed to meet
with corroboration, for a new wooer,
who came in the loose garb of a sailor,
mid who constantly wore a broadbrimmed
hat, seemed to have completely
turned the young girl's head.
How or whence he came Ralph did
not Know, wis wire assured cun xuar
the sailor had been properly introduced
by a mutual friend, and he .was too
rejoiced f the turn affairs had taken
to ask many questions. Hew glad
the old man felt that his son Rtayed
away from home so much. He was
uneasy every time he saw the sailor's
broad hat o^shadowing Ellon's little
sundown in the garden, lest Hert>ert
should return and impede the
progress of this, to him at leost, desirable
courtship.
. The sailor's devotion to Ellen became
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sotVpe.
Faster, faster, ever faster, like a pelting
summer rain!
Merry words, in leaden matter,
Speak to us above the clatter?
Laugn away our morbid fancies and the
demon darts of pain.
Speak not of fair Luna's phases,
But of daffodils and daisies;
Of some happy situation, of some mirthprovoking
scene,
Till our hearts east out the hateful
And we're trulv, truly grateful
For the lauuhter of the linotvne machine.
Then the dirges!
Then the solemn, mournful dirges,
As the plunger deftly merges
In the molten, unskimmed metal in the
superheated pot!
Lo! it tells in sombre measure
Of the fleeting life of treasure.
Tells of visions of that land the joy of
which magi knoweth not.
Who has passed thro' death's dark
portal, ..
Who must stand before nis Maker with a
soul uneouthly mean.
His had been a record gory.
And we marvel at the story
In the dirges of the linotype machine.
From the clatter of the linotype machine,
What a world of worthy matter we can
glean!
As the skillful operator.
With a mystic sort of ease.
Nimbly passes o'er the keyboard,
With its symbol-written keys;
How the matrices come dropping.
And the spacebands. never stopping,
Like a scented summer shower
In a leafy elfin bower?
Oil, the mighty, mighty power in the linotype
machine!
And what thoughts we gain each hour
From the clatter, clatter, clatter,
From the never-ceasing chatter.
From the chatter of the linotype machine!
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more and more apparent, and Herbert
absented himself more than ever, and
made no attempt to regain Ellen's
wandering affections when he was at
home.
Mrs. de Lisle watched the progress
of the sailor's love-making complacently.
and the old man was perfectly delighted
both with Ellon and her suitor,
and began contemplating purchasing a
certain cozy cottage he knew of as a
bridal gift to his ward.
Ralph de Lisle was seated in his library
one evening, thinking delightedly
how, with Ellen married, it would
be an easy thing to bring about the
much-desired match betwben Herbert
and Isabel Denver, when a servant entered
to say that Miss Ellen's beau
wanted to see him.
The sailor entered and bowed awkwardly
enough to the dignitied man
who rose to receive him. The broadbrimmed
hat. which not .one of the
family had yet seen him remove, kept
its place even in the august presence
of Ralph de Lisle, who wondered mentally
whether he wore it in bed. and
concluded that custom on shipboard
U1UM liuve UWU lUt' L'UliOlflilt *> irtuiiij,
of his hat a habit with the sailor.
"You ward, Miss Ellen, is Aery beautiful
and good," began the young man,
stammeringly, and no doubt blushingly,
though little of his whiskered face
was visible.
Old Ralph rubbed his hands together
gleefully, and determined to help the
embarrassed lover.
"That's a fact," said he: "she is
landsome, and a better girl never lived.
You wish my consent to marry her?"
The sailor hung his head.
"Yes, if you please."
"She's the same as a daughter to us.
rou'see, and we shall miss her terribly.
But her happiness is the main thing.
If the dear girl loves you. and wishes
to marry you, I haven't the least objection.
Sailors are good, whole-sonied
fellows, I know, and you'll be kind to
our darling/*
"I'll try my best to make her happy."
said the lot-er, in a mumbling tone:
"but I'm not a sailor, as these clothes
make you think. I got them under
price, so I bought them. I am poor,
and have to economize. But I am
young and strong, and will take care
that your ward does not lack for the
comforts of life." Then, after a short
pause, he added: "I feared you might
withhold your consent on account of
my poverty."
"Poverty! Nonsense!" said old Ralph,
magnanimously, "Not consent because
you are poor? Why, riches
should never be weighed against the
heart and Its affections: and if you are
not a sailor, as we supposed, you are
a noble fellow, I am sure; and let you
be who you will, I believe you are
worthy to be Ellen's husband, and you
shall have her, too, since you are
both agreed, in spite of poverty or anything
else. So you see, I have great
confidence in you."
"H'm!" muttered the young man.
and with a repetition of his Awkward
obeisance, he left the room.
Ralph "de Lisle, through his wife,
supplied Ellen's purse handsomely for
the purchase of her wedding trousseau,
but as she was to marry a poor man
she preferred not to spend money so
foolishly, she said. So her bridal dress
was simply a white mull, and very
sweet and pretty she looked, as with
her eyes cast down and her cheeks redder
than the reddest rose, she stood in
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Hall in the presence of a very few
friends of her own and the family's,
who were met to witness the marriage.
The bridegroom gave her loving
glances from under the inevitable
broad-brimmed hat, which he shocked
Ralph de Lisle by actually getting married
in.
"It's the most outlandish thing 1
ever heard of. and some one ought to
tell him," muttered old Ralph, as the
ceremony was about to be performed;
"but if Mrs. de Lisle and Ellen can
stand it, I'm sure I can. But he don't
go to the table with that thing on his
head, if I have to knock it off with my
eaue. I'll teach the ignoramus a little
decorum."
The words were pronounced which
made Ellen Mrs. Somebody?old Ralph
neither knew nor cared what her new
name might be as long as she was
well out of the way of his son.
As the little company were about
being led to the dining-room to partake
of the wedding dinner. Ralph stepped
up to the groom and said, as politely
as his rising cbolor would let him:
"You will oblige me, sir, and bestow
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a trifle more respect on your bride am
tlie company present, if you remov
your hat."
"Certainly, sir. What a forgetfu
fellow I am, and what a boor the;
must all think me," returned the new
made husband, in a tone which startle*
Ralph strangely.
Iii a trice the great, unsightly ha
was off, and the beard which had com
pletely concealed the lower part of thi
quandom sailor's face was gone, am
Ralph de Lisle looked into the pro
vokingly calm face of his son. Befor
the old man, in his amazement am
chagrin, could utter a word, Horber
had taken him by the arm and drawi
him aside.
"Now, father," said he, with comien
gravity, "don't say a word that wil
make it unpleasant for my wife in he
new capacity as my wife. You knov
I married lier with your consent, an<
besides you know that 'riches shouh
never be weighed against the hear
and its affections.'"
Ralph de Lisle came near choking a
first with rage and disappointment, an<
we are very sure that the quantity o
good things provided for the weddiiu
feast was not much diminished or theii
quality appreciated by the gloomy-vis
aged "head of the house," but he fol
owed his son's advice and said nothing
and soon learned to listen to his wife'i
oft-repeated rehearsal of the old adage
"What can't be cured must be en
dured," with something like acquies
cence in the decrees of Hymen.
In a short time he became more thai
reconciled to his son's choice, and whei
he heard of the marriage of Isabel Den
vcr he went so far as to say that In
actually felt sorry tor her husband, a:
Usabel was such a Tartar, and in n<
way comparable to Ellen, his scii'i
wife.?New York Weekly.
r?QE^TIFIC^
The University of Washington pro
poses to establish a permanent inarini
station at a point to be decided on. a
Puget Sound. During the present sum
nier a temporary station was estab
lished nt Friday Harbor, in charge o
Professor Trevor Iviueaid and Dr. T. C
Frye.
The Westinghouse-Parsons 000 horse
power steaui turbine engine at tin
World's Fair ran from June 20 to De
ce-.aber 2 without once stopping, nt i
speed of oGOO revolutions a minute
Wkei taken down the engine shown!
signs of wear from this remarkabh
performance.
Dr. Charles Waldstein gtfe a lecture
recently at the Royal Academy, sayf
Nature, of London, on Hereulaneuu;
and the proposed international excavation.
Mr. Waldstein remarked thai
from Heroulancum many beautiful
works might be expected. The citj
aud district of Herculaneum were
overwneimea who voicanic material
but this is not the impenetrably hard
lava commonly supposed. Geologists
have shown that, apart from actual
contact with air. the material Is perfectly
friable and manageable for the
excavator.
Among the most interesting ethuologic
exhibitions at the St. Louis
World's Fair was a group of pygmies
from the Wissmann Falls region of the
Congo Free State. Although they do
not look as small as the imaginations
of many readers of books of African
travel have perhaps pictured them,
yet they plainly belong to a diminutive
race of mankind. A writer in Science,
comparing the various measurements
of these pygmies, and others allied to
them, arrives at the conclusion that the
average height of these small men is
o Jittlrv inn thnn fnnr piffllt
inches. or about one foot less than thai
of the normal man.
Attacks of fits may appear bnt a few
times in a long life, or they may number
hundreds and even thousands in
twenty-four hours. There are four
chief forms, viz.: (1) a sudden severe
fit. with loss of consciousness and muscular
control; (2) a mild fit, with partial
unconsciousness; (3) a spasm in a
single leg or arm or group of muscles,
and (4) a temporary blank in the memory.
Feebie-mindeduess usually follows
epilepsy, instantly developing in
fully twenty per cent, of the cases,
Considering the oft-claimed relationship
between genius and epilepsy, Dr,
W. P. Spratling, a specialist in epilepsy,
contends that the disease always
impairs the mental powers, and thai
Caesar, Napoleon, Mohammed, Swedenborg
and other great epileptics
must have become affected when their
strength was on Ihe wane.
Actual Cost of Protection.
"Would you be willing to pay some
thing to know of a sure plan for eir
cumventing a robber when he comes
into your place of business late al
night and tries to hold you up?" asked
a man in a suit of faded black, wlic
had stepped into a north side drus
store.
"Sure." said the druggist, staring al
him with good humored incredulity.
"Well, I have devised a method thai
can't possibly fail. I'll tell you all ol
it but one particular, and if it looks
promising you pay me a dollar, ami
I'll give you the whole scheme. If il
doesn't look all right you can say so
and save your dollar. There will be
no harm done. Does that sound fair?"
"Yes; go ahead."
Tho nallot- n-hicnoroU in his f>flr for
the next two or three minutes.
"That's all but the final and most
important part of it," he said. "Is it
worth a dollar to know the rest?"
"Yes; here's your money." the drug
gist responded, handing it over and
listening with entig^atisfaction to the
unfolding of the ^ Re plot.
What was this Jm's device for out
witting the murderous thug who boldlj
invades your sto^ or office and robi
you while you ^Tit?
This is the question you ask, per
haps.
Dear friend, do^^you see that tc
give it away in the plblic prints would
not only forewarn the hold-up men
and thus defeat the ends of justice
but would be taking the bread out ol
the mouth of a man in a suit of faded
black who is trying to earn an honesi
living??Chicago Tribune^
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The Kins'* Bo?lno?* Urgent.
PIUWJ E are ambassadors of c
rrent npnnip.
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they are justly entitled.
If continuous lines of improved inter
state highways are to be constructed
where shall the beginning be made'
Minnfestly should It not be two great
est cities of this continent, New Tort
and Chicago, be first joined In this tie
that binds?
The greatest good to the greatesl
number is a principle we can never ig
no|e, and since there is more traffic
travel and communication between
these two cities than between any othei
two cities on this continent, it is manifest
that this great highway?we will
call it the king's highway?should firsl
of all be the one constructed.
When this great highway shall hnvf
been so constructed, it will stand
through the ages as an enduring monu
ment to the cause of good roads, bringing
renown to the great cities thus
, linked . together, and reflecting honor
, to this great nation within whose do,
uiain it was constructed.
, Who will say that this highway was
, not in the mind of the aged Hebrew
, seer, when, standing on J^idea's bills,
looking with prophetic vision down
the centuries, he exclaimed: "Prepare
, ye the way and make straight the highway;
let every valley be exalted and
| ever?* mountain and hill be made low:
, let the crooked be made straight, the
, rough places smooth, and let a highway
be there that the wayfaring man,
though a fool, shall not err therein."
From the securing of such continuous
lines of improved interstate highways
we pledge our time, our means and the
best efforts at our command.?From a
cnn/i Pn-iHs fVmvpntion SDeech, nuotcd
in the New York Tribnne.
Pro~re?? of the Movement.
! Mr. Martin Dodge, the good roads expert
of the Department of Agriculture,
lias reviewed the progress recently
made in the movement for better high*
' ways, and the showing is a most satisfactory
one. Maryland, the Virginias,
the Carolinas and Alabama are the
' Southern States that are making good
' progress in the movement. Mr. Dodge
explains that the growth of the rural
' free delivery has forced attention to
the farmers and county authorities to
J the imperative need of road improve
ment, a need that has been felt for
many years, but which has been neg'
lected until supplying it was made one
of the requisites in the establishment
of the rural mail service. Deep interest
is being taken in the question, now
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way. an^countyand State associations
are being formed in nearly every State
in the Union for the consideration and
adoption of the best plans for road Improvement.
In this work the Federal
Government has taken an active interest
and lent every assistance possible
with the limited funds available for the
purpose. Experiments have been con
ducted and the results explained to the
local and State associations. The de
partment has made a study of soil conditions,
rainfall and Other elements that
must be considered in different loeali
ties in the work of permanent road
improvement, and the demand from
all parts of the country for information
of this character emphasizes the inter
est in the subject. Several railroads
have joined in the work by sending out
t special trains, carrying expert road
; builders and modern road maKing ma
' chinery, and constructing sections ol
model roads at different points along
their lines. Farmers have taken keenest
interest in this work, and the ef:
forts of the railroads are greatly ap
predated by the department. The
cor itry roads of the South, excepting
oco - sional well kept turnpikes between
1 cities and larger towns, have long beer
alm<?-?t a disgrace, retarding the develops
at of farms and plantations and
about doubling the natural cost ol
! transporting products of the farm tc
the market. It is gratifying to know
* that radical relief Is promised*
E British officers can. not take a course
I in ballooning unless they are "good
t sailors" and not over 100 pounds in
.weight.
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T We are liere as ambassn
dors of the great king, and
1 ^ (uTz. that king is none othei
than the common plain poo
pie of these United States, and in thif
IImanTier
of securing continuous lines ol
^ improved interstate highways we >af
tirm that the king's business demands
j haste.
The day of parleying and temporizing
is past, and those in authority who at
tempt to thwart the will of the people
or who are indifferent to this great
project of road improvement will be
swept from power with the besom ot
"* destruction in the hands of an outraged
r people as effectively as did the Mastei
when lie drove from the temple thos<
who were profaning the holy pia.-e,
and the places that know them now
* shall know them no more forever.
It has been said that the present Con
grass is a "do nothing Congress.*' I!
this bo so, we demand that this "d<
nothing Congress" awake from its letli
1 argy and get its car to the ground thai
1 it may hear the groaning of the lam
unelerftthe burdens of these barbarous
| mud^hads, which are compelling th<
" I po^e?the burden bearers?to mnk<
] i brftks without straw, and then we asl
5 j them to look up that they will be wise
i enough to hear and heed the demand
: of the people and forthwith pass a bil
creating a bureau of good roads in tb<
Department of Agriculture carrying :
sufficient appropriation so that those
i' now in authority in the public roads
! inquiry office may be able to meet tin
I demands of the people and build foi
! them with their aid and co-operatioi
continuous lines of improved interstate
? highways, that the vast capital in
[ rested in agriculture may be relievei
of the heavy burdens of transporta
tion?which now so heavily oppress it
r that the rural districts may enjoy the
benefits of intercommunication, bettei
' educational, social and religious privi
leges, in fact, every advantage ane:
blessing which continuous lines of im
^ proved interstate highways would
norenlft tn fill C\f wlllct
= ??RTH IUE LESSONS
MARCH TWENTY-SIXTH.
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The Missionary Call.?Matt. 28. 1?;
Acts 1. 8: 1 Cor. 16. 9.
The work of the church is not selfexistence
and perpetuation only, but
world-wide conquest. The early
church ?so understood it, and in the
1 first century went out to the uttermost
parts of \thc world as they knew it.
The gospel belongs not to one race.
' nor to any one nation, but to "all
" nations." In apostolic days they were
witnesses "in Jerusalem, in all Ju
; dea, in Samaria, and to the uttermost
\ parts of the earth." The apostles
. literally and speedily obeyed the
; great commission. The last selection
has reference to the open doors of
, opportunity, which were never so sig
' nally hiviting as to-day. The whole
world is open now to the missionar
? ies. Not only docs the miss.' >nary
' call come to us from the Word, but
? Providence has opened every nation
' and laid on the Protestant church thj
I responsibility of going to the ends of
: the earth as an evangel of Christ.
. But as in Paul's day there are
"many adversaries." Opposing forces
1 face the church; but the promise of
victory is with us. Let us hear and
heed the missionary call!
\ Many in our modern churches have
1 no vivid personal conception of the
} missionary call. They do not believe
that their duty is to evangelize the
t world. They need missionary con
I viction. Bisjiop McCabe always in?
sisted when missionary secretary
that everyone needed a second con
version, a conversion to missions.
Not only are many unconvicted, but
many actually oppose the work of
missions. They need to study this
great commission. One imperative
need in church and in League is to
? get our people to really believe in the
i missionary idea, to hear the miss>
lonary call.
3 There is a pressing duty tq get
> under the burden and to give some
. fairly creditable answer to this call,
j Instead of giving a thoughtless dollar
and imagining our duty done, we need
to give by tens and hundreds. Instead
of playing at missions we need
I to get down to business and do some
thing worthy of a great church of
large ability. We would not deprecate
what the church is doing, but
surely we have not yet measured up
. to opportunity and ability. Thousands
1 of our best young students need to
be sent to the foreign field. Many
. churches could support alone a mis1
sionaryjin the field who are now giv1
ing only a few dollars. If we are to
really obey this call we must multi
ply by the ten, twenty, and hundred
. fold our offerings for missions. We
? must push this work. Organize mis
sion study classes! Circulate mis:
sionary libraries and literature!
? Talk missions, think of missions,
dream about them, get really in
t earnest, and then we hope to lead
' the church to obey the great commission.
We trust that this lesson
may be a real inspiration to every
1 cnapier. i?ook ai me open aoor
" Consider your duty. Do it quickly.
! CM MM TOPICS.
t MARCH TWENTY-SIXTH.
i "Christian Endeavor Comradeship:
With Other Churches at Home and
with Distant Lands." Acts 17^2428;
John 17:20, 21.
Scripture Verses.?Mai. 3:16; John
13:35; Acts 1:14; 2:1, 42; Gal. 6:10;
' Eph. 2:19; Phil. 2:3-6; 1 Thess. 5:
11-13; 2 Thess. 1:3; 2 Peter 1:1, 2.
Lesson Thoughts.
It is an unnatural and an unfortunate
condition when there is l?.ck of
| happy comradeship and sympathetic
fellowship among members of one
family; but God "hath made of one
blood all nations of men."
What tie binds us more closely in
1 family fellowship than that of de1
pendence upon and love for a com!
mon parentage. In God we all live
and move and have our being,
i Selections.
No distance breaks the ties of blood;
Brothers are brothers evermore;
Nor wrong, nor wrath of deadliest
mood
' That magic may o'erpower.
So Is it with true Christian hearts;
Their mutual share in Jesus' blood
An everlasting bond imparts
, Of holiest brotherhood.
> 0 might we all our lineage prove,
[ Give and forgive do good and love,
By soft endearments in kind Strife
I Lightening the load of daily life!
, ?John Kelbe.
| One of the most beautiful things
about Frances Wilhird was her calm
way of Ignoring differences of belief
in all those that were working in any
' way for the good of the world. When
! some worker would differ from her
she would say, "Never mind that, we
can go a long way together." That
would be a good motto for all Christians
for their relations with one another.
?| Men never can be Joined in brotherhood
by good plans, nor can they
be Joined by a common gain they are
I seeking; they can be joined together
only by having some common oDjecc
| of admiration and affection. It Is
those that love God and wonder at
His gracious ways that love one another.?Kingsley.
? Bishop Hurst suggests that there
can be true union only as each part
that enters Into the union is at its best,
t The anchor Is not held by the chain,
but by each link of the chain, and
I the anchor falls If a single link Is
i imperfect.
i
An Office Idyl.
. Sing a song of shorthand,
' A notebook full of "pi";
t Four and twenty letters
[ To be written by and by.
When the Girl Is ready.
' And the keys begin to sing.
What a pretty pile of work
? She to the Man will bring.
The Man is in his sanctum,
Trying to make money;
. Talking to a customer
In tones as sweet as honey.
> The Boy? Ah, he's a pirate,
' r\..? ?? v?o dtnrmv sea.
UUl Vll V,4?\. ,
1 The Girl is basy with her worlq.
i As hapny as can be.
Alas for life's swift changes!'
I The Man no sale could make.
His heart is very heavy
! And his looks would make you quake.
> The Boy has hid the story
On which he fondly dotes,
The Girl is on the verge of tearsShe
cannot read her notes.
.?c. O. L. in Cincinnati Commercial
k Tribune.
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i No man's back breaks under t&e
burdens of otbera,
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I THE SUND AY SCHOOL
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international lesson comments
for march 26.
; (terlcw of 1he Twelve Prtctdlns Lessons
For the Kim Quarter? Uead John !.
35-J1 ? Golden l'ext, John xi., 31?
Summary.
I Lesson I. Topic: The wonderful divine
j Saviour. Place: Ephesus. John's gospel
j was written between 80 and 90 A. D. John
was the only apostle living at that time.
He refers to Christ as the Word oi God;
all things were made by Him; He was the
life ami the light of men; reference is made
to John the Baptist, the forerunner of
j Christ; He was "not that light, but was
sent to bear witness of that light;" Jesus
was the true light.
II. Topic: 'ihe believers true attitude
toward his Lord. Place: Bethabara. A
crisis had arisen in John's ministry; the
Sanhedrin sent a deputation front Jerusalem
to ask John who he was; John said he
was not the Christ, nor Elias, nor the prophet
about wholn Moses had written, but
~ ? npvine fmm flio tdla
derness, "Make straight the way of the
Lord." John baptized with water; Christ
would baptize with the Holy Spirit; John
testified concern ins; Jesus and called Him
the Lamb of God; John did not know
Christ until the time of his baptism when
the Holy Gnosl in liie form of a dove
cume upon him, and the Father said,
"This is My beloved Son in whom I am
I well pleased."
III. Topic: Jesus wins His first disciSles.
Place: Bethabara. John pointed
e?us out to two disciples who followed
Jesus; Jesus turned and said. "What seek
ye?" They asked. Christ where He dwelt:
Jesus said. "ComeVpd see;" Andrew found
his brother Simon and brought him to
Jesus; it is supposed also that John found
his brother James; Jesus found Philip;
Philip found Xathanael; when Philip told
Xathanael that they had found the Messiah,
Xathanael raised an objection; Xathanael
was soon convinced that Jesus
was the Messiah.
IV. Topic; Christ's first miracle. Place:
Cana of Galilee. A wedding feast was being
held: Christ's mother had been invited,
and Christ and His disciples were invited;
they needed wine at the feast; Christ's
mother called attention to the fact;
He instructed the servants to fill six water
pot3 with water; they were then told to
draw out and bear to the governor of the
feast; the governor praised the wine; in
this miracle Christ showed forth His glory;
the disciples believed that He was the
Messiah.
V._ Topic: Gateways into the kingdom
| of God. Flace: .Jerusalem, rucociemus
came to Jesus by night; the subject of miracles
was introduced: Jesus said, "Ye
must be born again;" vtfieodemns failed to
understand; Christ brought an illustration
of the wind; also referred to the serpent
Moses made in the wilderness; said that
the Son of Man must be lifted up that
whosoever believeth in Him should have
eternal life.
VI. Topic: Vital laws of spiritual work.
Place: At Jacob's well in Samaria. Jesus
goes through Samaria; stops at Jacob's
well; meets a woman; asks a drink; she
expresses surprise; Jesus speaks of the gift
of God?iiving water; she desires it; Jesus
asks her to call her husband; she says she
has none; has had five; calls Jesus a prophet:
asks about place of worship; true
worship must be in spirit and in truth.
VII. Topic: Christ's power to restore
to life. Place: Cana in Galilee. The Galileans
received Christ gladly. A nobleman
of Capernaum heard that Jesus had come
into Galilee and hastens to Him to entreat
Him to come and heal his son; Jesuj
told him to return and that his son was
healed; the man believed Christ's words;
the son began to recover at the very hour
Jesus had said, ''Thy son liveth."
VIII. Topic: The Lordship of Jesus
Christ. Place: Jesus went to Jerusalem
to attend the feast of the Passover; Jesus
saw an infirm man at the pool of Bethcsda,
who had been sick thirty-eight years;
asked him if he desired to be made whole;
the man replied that he had no one to put
him into tne poo!; Jesus told him to nse,
take up his bed and walk; the man did as
u- 1?,J
hc ?aa v.uiuuiaiiucu.
IX. Topic: Jesus supplying human need.
Place: Near Bethsaida on the northeast
shore of the Sea of Galilee. Jesus and His
disciples went into a desert place to be
nlone; great multitudes followed them;
Jesus taught them and healed their sick;
in the aftenoon the disciples suggested that
the multitude should be sent away to buy
food; Jesus decided to feed them there; a
lad was found with five* loaves and two
fishes; five thousand men were fed besides
women and children.
X. Topic: Jesus proves Himself the
God-Saviour. Place: Jerusalem. It was
the last day-of the feast of the Tabernacles:
there wa9 a great ceremony in connection
with bringing water from the pool
of Siloam; near the close of the ceremony
Jesus cried. "If any man thirst, let hin
come unto Me and drink;" He spake of the
gift of the Holy Spirit.
XI. Topic: Christ's teaching respecting
sin. Place: Jerusalem. Jesus delivered
four discourses during His stay in Jerusalem
at the time of the feast of the Tabernacles;
this discourse was delivered in the
court of the women, and may be divided
into two parts: 1. Christ is the Son of
God. 2. He has supreme authority even
above Abraham. Those who accept Jesus
Christ will know the truth, and the truth
will make them free. The world-Saviour's
doctrine respecting sin. 1. Sin leads to
hypocrisy, deceives men, is slavery, is contranr
to God. 2. It is cured by the word
of Christ, by the truth of Christ, by the
blood of Christ.
XII. Topic: Jesus Christ the light of
men. Place: Jerusalem. Jesus saw a blind
man; the disciples asked Christ who had
sinned, this man or his parents; Jesus replied
that neither this man nor his parents
had sinned: makes clav of SDittle:
anoints the blind man's eyes; commands
the man to go to the pool of Siloam and
wash- he obeys; comes back seeing; his
neighbors are stirred; he gives an account
of his healing; is taken to the Pharisees;
Jesus accused of desecrating the Sabbath.
The world-Saviour is the life and light of
men. The lesson shows that light (1) is
needed. (2) is offered. (3) is received by
some, (4) is rejected by some. (51 should.
be clearly reflected by those who have it.
Feeding Wild Animals.
Of the animals that we can coax
about our houses the gray squirrels
become most friendly. Put nuts in
convenient places and they will make
frequent trips for supplies, but only
on comparatively mild day3 will they
remain long outside their comfortable
winter quarters, where they
usually have plenty of food stored.
In Central Park, New York, the gray
squirrels have become so accustomed
to being fed that they have, to a great
extent, given up storing food and rely
chiefly on what they can pick up each
day. Red squirrels can be coaxed by
means of food, but they are very
questionable fellows; in fact the general
opinion is decidedly against
them, owing to their partiality for
eggs and young birds. Chipmunks
hibernate in their underground homes,
so we cannot count on them for winter
visitors. The cottontail will condescend
to accept dainties In the form
of green vegetables (though one seldom
has such luxuries in the winter),
but as he comes almost entirely at
night he is not a very interesting
guest.?Country Life in America.
People who had dreams a few
years ago of becoming millionaires
by extracting gold from sea water
may now dream again in view of the
report from London as to the success
of the new process, says the New
York Tribune. Still, it is doubtful
whether it will fee possible to extract
as much gold from sea water as has
already been extracted from the water
used in stock operations
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Ine voyage.
Each night I launch my caravel
Upon the soundless sea of sleep;
My sails with freshening breeses swell,
I cleave a pathway through the deep;
And, sick of mind, I leave behind ' ' J
The old world, weary grown, and sad, v i
And on and on I sail to find . . i;c.
The stranger coast, the Islands glad!
At morn the voyage ends?I wake! ,
Look through my cabin window. (That'i
Right near my bed! The sun doth breafc
In silver splinters tluough the slats!)
What strange new land lies there at
hand!
What gladness fills the wondering
sight!
What leagues of sea I must have spanned
From that old world of yesternight!
?New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Beyond Reason.
A Scottish singer named Wilson,
who was being trained for professional
work, sang a love-song with
exquisite quality of voice, hut with in*
sufficient passion and expression.
His teacher told him he must put
more feeling into it, and sing as if
he were really in love.
"Eh, man," he replied, "hoo can I
do that and me a marriet man?"?
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EXC UHSIOJV
To HAVANA. CUBA. March 2930,
1905.
Seaboard takes pleasure In announcing
another personally conducted excursion
from North Carolina points to Havana. '
Cuba, and return March 29th-30th.
Rate of one fare plus J2.C0 for the round y\.
trip, including meals and berth while
on steamer, will apply. Tickets will be
sold for trains on Murch 23th, good leaving
Port Tampa on steamer the ni^ht
of March 30th. final limit to have Havana
April ttth, allowing passengers until Aprilf^
19th to return to destination.
Biop-overs will oe auoweu ruuui vi
Jacksonville, which govern the atop-over
of regular Winter Tourist ticl*?ta.
As this execursion Is limited to 150 people,
parti is should advise at once relative
I to securing their Pullman accommodations,
as no one will be permlttedd* on
same without first having made reservations.
For time-tables, rates and reservations,
apply to
[ CHAS. H. GATTIS,
I Traveling Passenger Agent.
RALEIGH, N. C.
| J AS. KER, JR., C. P. A., Charlotte, K.C V