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t * -r x ' ^ ? the noblest love. There are many kinds of lore, as many kinds of light, And every kind of love makes a glory in the night. There is a love that stirs the heart, and love that gives it rest, Hut the love that leads life upward is the noblest and the best. ?Henry Van Dyke. Tfi FIERY ORDEALY I By Albert W. Tolman. j VtOK RIZZLED and scarred, but ' {ho excite" O |y o nient of the fight he had so X often waged, Thomas Jen "WOW kins, veteran fireman on the Loudon force, thrust the nozzle into the hands of Arthur Scott. Lis new recruit from Yorkshire. Together they had dragged the hose through the snow up the narrow alley behind the burning building, until, twenty yerds from the street, a bric-Jg wall barred their progress. Then, before the water came, Jenkins had smashed a window with '.is ax, and later Lad directed the increasing stream through the shattered sashes against the rear of a long stairway, from a closet beneath which the flames were beginning to burst. "Hold her there, lad! I'll be back presently!" he shouted in the deafened ears of his subordinate, and was off aown me aney to neaa an attack irom another quarter upon the fire. Long experience had made him familiar with every foot of his district, and with the coolness and sagacity of a practiced fire-fighter, he saw in an instant what needed to be done. The scene of battle was in Southwark. not far from London Bridge, in a four-story brick building, the upper part of which was a pasteboard box ^ factory. When the engines arrived the flames were already bursting through the windows. The only exit from the , factory ay as down three straight, but steep and narrow flight of stairs, one directly over the other, up which flame and smoke were already surging. On the ground floor beneath the last flight, the small closet filled with paint and oil lent ready fuel to the conflagration. Scott was to hold the fire at this spot in check. The first thing to do was to make sure that every one of the imperiled lives in the three upper stories Avas saved. The smoke drawing up the stairway had deterred all but a few of the Avoinen and girls from attempting tn T*n tlio stone /Incliofl tho firemen, and began to bring down the half-smothered workers. Lives first; < the building afterward! . Down in the gloom of the narrow , alley Scott stood like an artilleryman | "at his gun. Before, behind and to his left rose the brick walls./ He was at ; close quarters with the foe. i It took all his strength to hold the | nozzle in its place, directing the rush- ? ing water to the spot where it was < f most needed. He heard with satis- t Taction the torrent hissing on the wood. ] The volumes of smoke told him he was f doing good service. t In the street at the end of the alley } Tose the stack of the shaking engine, t filling the air with sparks at each f hoarse, tremendous puff. That and the spot of flickering red through the win- t <low in front of him were the sole ( bright points in the hoseinan's field of < vision. 1 Presently a gust of wind drove the ( smoke down round hin, and it grew < pitchy dark in that narrow, brick- ( walled canon. The engine disappeared. ^ aiwl Avon tho lnriil Qnnt hr*foro him * dimmed and blurred. 1 K As Scott stood awaiting further orders. he felt impatient to be actively $ at work inside the building. His mates 1 had the inspiration of each other's \ presence and help. They could move ( about. He was chained to a single t place. He could hear the shuffling tread of feet, and now and then the smothered shriek of a woman, as men. bearing \ t heavy burdens, passed down the stairs. ] He could hear the crashing of wood, ] as doors and partitions gave way under j the swinging axes of his fellows. On , the front of the building he knew that i they were raising ladders, and he t longed to be in the thick of the fight. j But. as he stood there, holding the flames in check, he was the pivot on ] which all turned, the link without . which the life-saving chain would be useless. Jenkins knew men; and he felt sure that in the young Yorkshire recruit v be had a subordinate whom he could trust. i From the street came a shrill whistling. Intermittent orders were shouted hoarsely beyond the smok^ barrier: "This way with your ladders!" "More water!" "Steady, everbody!" Seott heard it all. but could see nothing. He was enveloped by black, rolling clouds, that at times liid even the building from him. The broken window had hitherto been fairly clear, but now it puffed out a choking flood of smoke full in liis face. Still he kept the nozzle unflinchingly pointed through the window. F.ut high above the hosemau's head was gathering a danger of which he did not dream. As is the case with many of the older buildings of that district, the valleys on the roofs were lined with sheets of lead, which melted in the intense heat, and began to trickle down the steep channels in gleaming turenus. Soon these threads grew to silvery streams, which filled the Ratters, overflowed them, and poured down toward the snow-covered ground. Scott was right beneath the end of a valiey down which one of these streams came darting. The first few scattered drops that pattered beside him he did not notice, for his eyes were glued to the dull red glare under the stairway, into the heart of wlAh he was directing the jet of water.\ Suddenly a fiery drop fell on the back of the hoseinan's right hand, and sank, hissing, into fthe flesh. Startled by the pain, the Yorkshireman invofcintarily snatched his hand away, changing the direction of the torrent that poured from the nozzle. .Instaiifly the flames burst forth afresh. Recalled to his duty by the sight, Scott turned his hose again toward the -.window; but he now saw a thin white r w y stream falling two feet from his right shoulder, and at once appreciated the danger that threatened him. The first leaden driblets disappeared under the snow, sending up a column of steam. Then the volume of the rill increased, forming a little lake of metal, into which the stream fell with a heavy, guttering splash. With shrinking, sickened fascination Scott eyed the gleaming cascade. Let its course swerve ever so slightly, and he might at any moment be covered with molten metal that would sear and blind and eat through skin and bone. Besides the danger to himself, the growing leaden lake portended another peril. It was only six inches from the curve of tile hose! if it- snroml i littlr* farther it would burn a hole through tho cloth and rubber, and he would no longer be able to hold the flames in check. He did not dare to attempt to move the line unaided, for fear that he might lose control of the fire. Yet, imperiled as Scott was. the thought of abandoning his post never entered his brain. No material bonds held him there. He had but to drop the nozzle and step aside: three or four paces would carry him safely beyond the reach of the searing stream. In that thick darkness no one would be the wiser for it. But the invisible tie of faithfulness to the duty entrusted to him chained him to the spot with bands stronger than steel. To desert his post now would mean to allow the fire to gain headway beneath his comrades, as they labored td save the scores of fainting waken above. The only exit was by the staws. The fire threatened them. He lxud the fire in check. If he blenched, human lives would pay for it. Although his ruddy face grew pale, he did not move. Surely by this time the factory must be almost emptied of Its workers! The /\ f f aa^ nr*Ar? ll? a aa ?v? a ii tivi vi irci uuvsii mi: uuuc less frequently. Jenkins might appear at any minute to order him elsewhere. Scott hoped with all his heart that his chief would come quickly. Scattered drops, hardening into shot pellets as they fell, pattered down round the fireman. Occasionally one struck his helmet or shoulder. Three or four burned through the hose, and fierce little geysers burst through its 1 closely woven texture. A circle of snow about six feet in diameter was ] showered by the dropping lead. Scott could not see the roof from which it ' started. He did not dare to look ifl), fearing lest he might be struck in the face. The stream veered. Without warning a gush of seething liquid fell on his helmet. The polished leather hat 1 turned it aside, and in a second it lay \ an bis right shoulder. Before he could i shake it off it had caught fast hold and sunk through his clothing to his skin, burning him frightfully. The Yorkshireman writhed in agony. Both hands were busied with the nozzle, and he could make no motion toward brushing the lead away. lie i M1WIV illJU Mil lllfc Miuur lers, but lie (lid not lift his hands from :he cold steel pipe. Oh, that some one night come to relieve him! But not in inch did he retreat. On three sides lie high, solid brick wall rose blankly, lemming him in: on the fourth stood he invisible wall of duty, higher and irmer than that of material brick. The cascade dwindled to a mere rickling thread. Then a final deluge >f white-hot drops burst over the head >f the new recruit, raining down like icry hailstones, eating through Jiis dofhes and burning him cruelly in a t lozen places. The limit of his 011lurnnce was almost reached. Sick vith pain, he reeled, about to fall. For lie last time the thought of his duty jrought him back to consciousness. As he stood there, faint, staggering, mffering excrutiatingly from his burns, >ut still directing the nozzle into the jroken window, a shout reached his >ars. and a black figure burst through die smoke. It was Jenkins. "It's all right, Scott!" cried he. 'They're all out!" The strength of nerve and muscle that had carried the hoseman through tiis trial vanished, when no longer needed, and he collapsed in a dead faint. He came to just in time to hear Jenkins telling the story of his vigil to an interested group. The last sentence of his captain was the one that pleased Scott most: "We'll keep him on the force, if we liave to make an extra place for him." ?Youth's Companion. Why Soap Eatrn Eat Soap. Mr. Charles S. Howe, the Ceneral Secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said at a dinner of scientists: "False science, the pseudo-scientific method, with its explanations that explain nothing and help us in no wise, may be illustrated, perhaps, with a little episode that I heard j>f the other day. * "A student went to his instructor and said: " 'I am informed, sir, that people are sometimes born with a desire to eat soap.' " 'That is quite true,' the instructor answered. " 'What is the cause of it?' asked the student. " 'These people,' was the reply, 'are the victims of sappessomania.' " 'What does sappesoniania mean, professor?' the student said. " 'It means,' the professor answered, 'a desire to eat soap.' "?Buffalo Enquirer. Still in the Stone Ace. The Eskimos of Arctic Alaska are still in the stone age. The manufacture of arrows and spear heads from flint is a living industry. Stone lamps, stone hammers and chisels, and to some extent stone knives, are still in ordinary use among them. Fish lines and nets and bird snares are still made of whalebone, sinew, or rawhide. Arrows, spears, nets and traps are used in hunting, although improved breechloading arms are being introduced among them, and will soon supersede, for the larger game, their own more primitive weapons.?The Metropolitan Magazine. The Lightning Care. "Here's a story of a man who was cured of rheumatism by being struck by lightning." "I'll risk the rheumatism every time," said Brother Dickey. "I don't want no doctor what's ez quick ee dat!"?Atlanta vQMtttution, JauntyWhlte Coat*. Jaunty little coats of white serge anil of white Panama, made in reefer, sack or close-fitting form and strictly tailored, are valuable additions to the ! girl's wardrobe, and a tailored linen coat of the same description is a desirable thing with thin morning frocks. The fashionable tailored coat lias a coat sleeve of only moderate fulness I and with no extreme features, but the dressy wraps show large picturesque : draped sleeves, in most instances varyI ing but little from last season, or, as is the case with a majority of the full little wraps, falling in with the body fulj ness so as to be hardly separable from the body of the coat.?Newark Advertiser. Foulard# A sain to Tore, Foulards will be much worn this year?not the cheap grades which did much to kill the popularity of these ' silks lest season, but an expensive and i wholly charming quality called radium. It is difficult to distinguish this much-talked-of radium silk from the old foulards, except in the matter of designs and a certain opalescent quality. There is no sign in the new silks ; of the old conventional scroll patterns always associated with this material. These have been superseded by tiny i checks and pin line ^tripes, the latter scarcely more than their own width ; apart, so that the general appearance o aaIA*. 15 Hi a i til a aiijiu t tiiui. All the best couturiers are making up their foulards and radiums very simply and softly. The skirts on the dressy gowns are in many attractive instances laid in tiny stitched tucks, while at the hem a favorite ornamentation is waved Valenciennes frills set on with narrow strappings of the silk. In delicate colorings, several of these radium frocks are serviceable additions to the summer trousseau.?Indianapolis News. Lingerie Waist*. A waist "pattern"?that is, the material in its proper sections, is a very simple matter, though those who know nothing of the dressmaking may be at a loss to portion out the linen. The following very elementary suggestions will make it possible for a novice to prepare the pattern for the dressmaker. The waist requires three yards of lineu one yard wide. Cut twenty-nine inches for the front, twenty-two for the back breadths (one width makes the two backs), twenty-two inches for each sleeve. This leaves a piece from which can be cut a three-inch strip for the collar and two pieces nine by nml /Min-linlf inrOios fnr tlio <leeil cuffs. Care should be taken not to set the design on the front too high up; one does not realize how much goes into the shoulder or how deep the neck must be cut out; an ample allowance must be made. On a hand-embroidered waist the tucking should be done by hand. A combination of machine tucks and hand embroidery is never happy. Hemstitched tucks are pretty, as iu our examples of the coarser Iineu waist, and the one with the peacock design.?Harper's Weekly. Kujclish Wedding Veil*. The English have much sentiment about wedding veils, and that worn by Lady Shrewsbury, who at xmrry-six was a grandmother, was also worn by her three daughters, Muriel Lady Helinsley, Lady Gwendolen Little and Lady Londonderry, and by two granddaughters, Mrs. Gervase Beckett and Lady Helen Satordale. The latter bride also bad iu her wedding boquet a bil of myrtle grown from a slip tL?. iu 187i? had formed a part of Lady Londonderry's bridal boquet, and which was planted immediately afterward. Lady Lou-Helen was married in 1902, or twenty-seven years from the date of the planting of the original sprig. The Jerseys have an exquisite lace veil worn by the celebrated Sarah Lady Jersey in 1804, and this, just 100 years later, in 1901. adorned Lady Dusany, daughter of the present Lord and Lady Jersey. The Hon. Mrs. Benjamin Bathurst wore a wedding veil that had also been worn by her grandmother, Lady Northwick, and her mother, Lady Edward Churchill. Miss Olive Van der Meulen, now Mrs. Thorold, wore at her wedding a lace veil formerly the property of former Queen Isabella of Spain.?New York Times. The American Girl. Marie Corelli has made another attack upon the vulgarity of wealth and society in a series of essays just printed, which she calls "Free Thoughts.'' She also has a few observations to make on the American woman. Miss Corelli does not altogether admire the American women, but she holds that they are popular in England because they make themselves popular. Miss Corelli says: "As to the American girl, she is 'all there.' She can take the measure of a man in about ten minutes, and classify him as though he were a botanical specimen. She realizes all his limitations, his fads?and she has the uncommonly good sense not to expect much of him. She would not 'take any' on the lily maid of Astolat, the Fair Elaine, who spent her time in polishing the shield of Lancelot, and who Anally died of love for that most immoral, but fascinating knight of the'round table. No, she wouldn't polish a shield, you bet. She would make Lancelot polish it himself for all he was worth, and polish her own dear little boots and shoes for her into the bargain. That is one of the secrets?masterfulness? or, let us say, queenliness, which sounds better. _ The lord of creation can do nothing iiJbe way of ordering her about, beca\mt, as the lady of creation, she expectjto order him about?and she does."t London Correspondence Globe-Demra||L am Well Dre*aed Woman. Pockets being as inaccessible as ever, every well dressed woman carries a hand bag?a reticule, or, as it Is here called, a ridicule. These useful little articles are to be had in all kinds of materia^ from gold and silver to I leather or silk. Some quaiut bund bags ! are made In cut steel or jet, and in va- | rious brocades, tbe pattern being ilnfnA/1 +/-* -f hn motorldl TVftll frnlrl Af : silver thread, and set with stones. The reticule has a long ancestry, being descended from the little not carried by Roman ladies and called reticulum. Mittens are to be much worn this j year, and now that long sleeves have | been ousted by long gloves, mittens | will be acceptable. To many, and more i especially to the possessors of pretty j hands and costly rings, the mitten will j be welcome, indeed. Few realize what I a delicate and difficult task is the con- ! struction of the mitten, the fit of a mlt- } ten being so important, far more im- | portant even than the fit of a glove, j Mittens will be made of the finest lace, the costliest specimens being chosen, j Imitations in every shape or form will be rigorously tabooed. In jewelry the most unlikely stones are now used in conjunction. It is quite usual to see a sapphire framed j in rubies or even a combination in rubies and emeralds. In fact, stones of ) evjry possible color are now blended. ; ait is not an uncommon sight to see i many as four or five different stones | in a single setting?and with charming , results. - - > Jrr*T-*^r "1 Children Should Have Loose Clothes. Childreu should never wear tight | shoes, bands, collars, garters or gloves, j Tight clothing injures any part of the j bodj, but most especially the chest. It prevents the proper expansion of the lungs and, while there are millions of air cells in our lungs, we need the use , of every one of them to keep the blood pure. Pressure on muscles cripples or prevents their action and unused muscles grow weak and atrophy, so that the act of respiration, which Is carried on by the chest muscles, grows more and more shallow. Tight clothing may cause compression of the soft, bony chest wall of the child, thus mechan ically preventing the air from entering the lungs. The larger our lungs and the more we breathe, other things being equal, the longer we will live and the more power and vigor we will have. When we remember how the breathing affects the whole life it is easy to understand how constriction of the chest always brings ill health. Constriction of the chest also interferes with the action of the stomach, heart and liver. A baby's waistband may be so tight that it cannot retain Kiutficient food on its stomach, and the nother wonders why it grows thinner and thinner. Tight clothes interfere with the circulation of the blood, and equilibrium j of the circulation is necessary to the i proper development of the child. With j reference to the equilibrium of'the cir- ' culation, the distribution of the cloth- j ing on the body is very important. As | a usual thing the parts of the body? j the extremities?needing the most pro* ' tection, receive the least, and the parts j containing the vital organs, where the I circulation is always active, are too ( heavily clothed. Babies especially are j often found clothed in this manner. . By using the one-piece garment, the j body can be more evenly clothed. The ! child's head should be protected from 1 cold in winter and from the hot sun in : summer, but children take cold easily ! if the head is kept too warm.?Boston | Traveller. Serge seems to be the favorite material for tailor suits. Pink and blue combinations are reminiscent of Watteau. Soft, supple cloth is in great favor | for reception dresses. Shaded roses and shaded straw? ! everything shaded, except feathers, is j good. Short coats are being worn by all the ; smartest women, as a relief from the I long jacket. Brussels collar and cuff sets are competiug with Irish crochet ? they're | about the same prices. Chemisettes are very popular with ! almost every sort of dress. The pret- ; tiest are made of embroidered muslins, j There is quite a decided fancy at | prese^ for the princess gown, both for afternoon gowns and for some of the loveliest of the eveniug gowns. ^ Hats are all more or less fip-tllted, j and are perched op The head with an effect at coquetry that the flat,hats of last summer could never achieve! For theatre wear, lace bodices, and J coats, and even dresses,' are wonderfully popular. Irish point, combined j with sheer embroidery and with Va- > leneiennes lace, is made up over silk I of the softest, palest shades. A new shade of green is being re- ' ceived enthusiastically by the Pari- i siennes?called almond green. It is seen in a number of tints, from a very pale one to a deep, rich shade, which comes out beautifully in cloth. Collar and cuff sets get more fascinating?and deeper?every day. Blind ! and open embroidery, heavy and light j laces, all play important parts in their making, and bits of exquisite Japan- j ese drawn work are introduced in some of the prettiest. The Judgment of the Lords. The ? is no end to the stories of Lord Youny. A decision of the venerable judge ad found its way on appeal to the E se of Lords, and was there upheld. A fellow-bencher of the Middle Temple remarked to Lord Young: "I see that judgment of yours" (naming the case) "has been affirmed by the House of Lords." "It may be richt, for a' that," dryly replied the judge, in his broadest Doris.?Westminster Gazette. The French Government employs 17,148 people in its state tobacco factories, The National Aid Proposition. PuwnllEN what is known as the Brownlow Good Roads bill j l/l/ was first offcro(i In tbe i _ m*- ^ House of Representatives it was regarded by some as proposing a dangerous innovation in our economic affairs, but j when studied in the abstract it is j found to be strictly within the line of 1 well-established precedent and clearly- J written constitutional limitations. Gov- j ernment aid to good roads was entered upon under the auspices of President ! Jefferson, who set forth the policy I with great spirir. riau nui mr iuuu,.,- , ity been in the Constitution, it would not have had his sanction. There is nothing in the Constitution inhibiting national aid to good roads. There is abundant authority in the Constitution for such aid. The doubt about this no longer exists. The paramount question at this time is, have we in the United States satisfactory highway j conditions; are the means of communication between town and country adequate to public necessity; are the highways creditable to our advanced intelligence and civilization; do we need better roads, and can they be had in any other way than by national aid, by Government co-operation with the States? Every intelligent being within the bounds of the Union knows that the average wagon road is for perhaps six months of every year a community horror and a State and national shame. It is just as well to use plain speech in dealing with practical facts. When | carefully collected statistics show that only five per cent, of the wagon roads are good, we know by the same token that ninety-five per cent, are bad; and the questions just asked are answered at once. Can these unhappy* conditions be corrected by the States? There are all the years of State experience in road making to prove the negative. Since the earliest organization of the States the country has experimented with roads under local systems, and yet the average wagon road to-day is but little better than when first blazed out in the forest or laid along the plain. It is this that has convinced advanced thinkers that effective road construction in the States is only possible through Government aid and co-operation. The reasons for this are not far to seek. Good roads?roads that will ? ?i.. K/? Kiiiif nnmi scientific JJisi?cau oiu^ ut uuni. plans. There are but four or five States in the Union -wealthy enough to inaugurate such a plan. If scientifically constructed roads will benefit the counties they will benefit the States and Nation. This is a self-evident deduction. Then there shiuld be co-operation of the Government with the States and counties. Another thing: The Government owns property in all the States upon which it pays not one cent of taxes. It has taken charge of the public roads for the transaction of its rural mail business, upon which it places fixed charges upon the people who built these roads without its aid. It ought in mere justice to be willing to help better the roads for itsxown uses, even if it had no concern in the welfare of the people. In addition to its postottices, custom houses and court houses in all the States and Territories, the Government possesses lands, parks and other property. It has a direct interest in the advancement of every community, and the reciprocal obligation of Government Is to protect and foster the natural interest of each individual. These obligations will not be fulfilled until the Government assists in improving the public roads. If it is proper for the Government to aid ir the improvement of its water courses for the extension of commerce ?which courses must ever cany a small percentage of the total commerce of the 'Nation?then, it is surely the duty of the Government to aid in the improvement of the land, or primary, means of transportation over which ninety-five per cent, of all products must be moved before it reaches a railway or steamboat. The proposition for Government aid to good roads is right, and we hope to see it enacted into law, as it will be if the people keep after their Senators and Represeu. tatives in Congress. j English Roads. What good roads they have in England! Look at the piles of broken stone for repairs, stored in little niches all along the way; see how promptly and carefully every hole is filled up and every break mended, and y< u will understand how a small beat, can pull a heavy load in this country, nnd why the big draught-horses wear long nnd do^good r*.?Vk- A country with a fine system of roads is like a man with a good circulation of the blood; the labor of life becomes easier, effort is reduced and pleasure increased.?From "A Day Among the Quantock HiUs,'.' bv Dr. Henry van P/ke^in Scribner's. A Pathetic t?tory. * A pathetic story of the, war is told of Tt nhn Dy a Japanese currespuuuem. m. Feodor Chesnetzky, a young Russian soldier, was taken to the Red Cross Hospital at Matsuyama riddled with shrapnel. All his limbs were amputated, and after the operation, to the amazement of the doctors, Chesnetzky lived for eight months, lying quite helpless. He was attended by Nurse Knwaguchi, and he became so much attacned to her that he would cry like a child when he could not see her. Her devotion and tenderness were such that she scarcely left him for eight months, and she was with him when he died. Do a Snake Eat GraM? I want you to submit a question and settle a controversy for me. Is a snake a vegetarian? Does he eat fruits, herbs, roots and the like? Some say that he eats nothing but birds, insects and so forth. The Observer takes great pleasure in putting the question, and here Is hoping that some one who knows will ansyer promptly. j The question in plain old North Carofl lina English is: "Do a snake eat grass?"?Charlotte .Obseryer, v " EH LEAGUE LESSONS SUNDAY, JULY TWENTY-THIRD. Preparing for Our Heavenly Home.? Phil. C. 20. 21; Heb. 11. 8-10. 13-16. The universal instinct is for one to better h'is condition. That explains the successive migrations which have populated the earth. The Old Testament worthies felt thjat they were "strangers and pilgrims" here, that their home was in heaven. They inherited a land of milk and honey, yet felt that they were destined to abide here only a brief time and then go "home." What is there in the heavenly land which should cause these old heroes to "desire it"? Why should we, today, have a thought and care for that heavenly, home? Because it is a better country. We live in an age when the temporal is exalted. The conditions of life are often so haupy and pleasant that we are in danger of forgetting this great fact. Heaven is a better country than this. Tt is the abode of satisfaction We are too big for this world. We are never satisfied here, nor ought we to be. We will be satisfied when we awake in His likeness. It is the asylum of Tife. Death reigns here, but not there. It Is the seat of rest. Restless here, there we shall have eternal rest. Now, our lessen represents a desire for heaven an index of character and pleasing to God. Why? Surely all men desir^ heaven. Yes, In a sense, but not in the sense meant here. What are the characteristics of a i true desire and preparation for heaven? A desire for that which is supreme 5n heaven. #This is a holy character. We are to desire heaven not for its rest. Its happiness, its pleasures; but for its holiness and purity. The object of desire is always a touchstone of character. Why do you desire wealth, knowledge, power? Tell me tfhy, and I will tell you your character. Why do you seek heaven? If a true child of God it is because there you will be like Jesus. A Godlike character is the real object of the Christian. An intense desire is necessary.. Not the man who has a lazy, lanquid wish for heaven is commended to God, but the man who earnestly strives for It. Onlv the man who really longs for wealth, knowledge, or fame gets it. Only the Christian who is ready to sacrifice everything for heaven and holiness; secures these. It :.iust be also an unselfish desire. We are to seek heaven not simply to enjoy it, but to realize its character. Not to sit down and be happy only, but to be prepared for heavenly service, is to be the thought of the Christian. A preparation for heaven is to be had with the thought that all eternity Is to be filled with ser ice for God. cistMemtes SUNDAY, JULY 23. Preparing for Our Heaven.y Home. Phil. 3: 20, 21; Heb. 11: 8-10, 13-16. The best way to prepare for heaven is to be in Heaven, to walk, and talk, and act in heaven now. If we would have bodies fashioned after the divine body, we must not allow the bodies to do anything that; is not divine. One of the chief joys of the heaven- 1 lv city is that it has foundations^ everything in it is founded, is permanent. If you want the best description of heaven that has been revealed to men, think of the best country on earth, and say of heaven, "It is better still." Suggestions. There is no better way to prepare for your heavenly home than to make your earthly home a heavenly place. Christ has prepared our heavenly home; we need only prepare for it. The preparation needed for heaven is thf> nreDaration of desire?to want the things that God wants, for those things are what we shall have there. There would be no use sending the unheavenly to heaven, for it would be unheavenly to them. Illustrations. If you were going to France to live forever, would you not learn the French language? Then learn the language of heaven. When one moves into a new home, there is always the work of discarding old possessions. Why not begin at once to throw away the things we cannot take to heaven? When we move into a new house, what a fitting over of old carpets ' there fs! But in heaven everything is new. If you are removing to a new place, how much more joyous it is if you have friends there! Make friends on earth of the heavenlv-minded people. Quotations. Some men talk about entering into rest, but what are they going to rest from??A. J. Gordon. One should go to sleep at night as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore."?Beecher. Heaven's gates are not so highly arched as princes' palaces; they that enter there must go upon their knees. He who seldom thinks of heaven Is not likely to get thither; as the only way to hit the mark is to keep the eye fixed upon it.?Bishop Home. Every Ehdeavorer must have his own conscience In prayerful exercise, but the lookout committee is to help him keep his conscience in working order. Whatever form of pledge your society adopts, the committee should see to it that no one joins the society without an earnest determination to live up to the pledge in letter and in spirit. Elephant Fights With Its Ears. A new form of injury was treated in New York the other night. A youth had attempted to ride the bucking elephant at the new hippodrome, and the beast, erfraged because she could not shake him off, flapped at and struck him with her ears. An elephant's ear is said to be "some hard." At all events the boy had a cut head and one of his ears was all but off aa proof of what the elephant could ao complish .with her ears. - I i ' ; m ^ | ^ yr'v.-x Jr'. ^^PT. W. W^JACZSOH. " Bufferings Were Protrac'el and Seven ?Tried Every Known Remedy Without Relief?Serious Stomach Trouble Cured bf Three Bottles of Peruna ! Cant. W. W. Jackson. 705 G St., N. W.. \Yashington. D. C., write*: "I am eigbty-three years old, a veteran of the Black Hawk, Mexican and the Civil Wars. I am by profession a physician. but abandoned the same. "Some years ago I ican seriously affected with catarrn of the stomach. Mo sufferings icere protracted and severe. I tried evry known remedjf without obtaining relief. "In desperation I began the u*e of your Peruna. I began to realise immediate though gradual improve? ment. "After the use of three bottles ever appearance of mv complaint was removed, and I have no hesitation in recommending it as an infallible remedy for that disorder."?W. W. Jackson. Address Dr. S. B. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus Ohio. 1 ' 't So. 29. *3 COLORADO HAS A SODA LAKE. Remarkable Discovery Made in th? Heart of San Luis Valley. One of the most remarkable di? coveries ever made in the region ti 1 "-"I-1 r*rs.A*% <?% Vl A 4n. jnat OX B JttKC U1 IlljUlU suua IU kue u> ^fcessible desert between C res tone, iV>l., and Hooper, in the San Lull valey. The lake is an acre and a quar ter in extent and lies at the bottom of a little basin valley in the desert On its surface soda crystals have collected to a depth of eighteen inches the whole lake having the appearance of a body of ice with a hard snow covering. A recent examination by the state school of mines shows that these crystals are 37 per cent pure soda, purei than most of the commercial sods offered on the market. A Denver man. E. M. Falke, has secured a lease of l.he land containing the lake and is cow installing machinery which will vert the native crystals into mnrhet : able form. There are 4,COO tens ir xi-ht. , . m . The school of mines experts snj that the soda is a creation of feld spar. The granite mases of the Sangrs de Crtsto range stand sentinel on two sides of the little valley. .The feldspar in the granite, undergoing decomposition, collects In the lajti basin, where it is held in check by ' impervious clay, and proper ccndt tions are furnished for concentration and evaporation. Banks as Public Benefits. Many people who deal with banks every day do not really understand the proper object and purpose of bank ing. Banks can not create money, but they can gather small sums which are distributed among the peo r*roo f A nn flgflTftglti pic auu luuo v.. -co- -a which can be made available for important business operations that previousy would have been Impossible. Individuals, each possessing a few ' hundreds or a few thousands, invest it in stock in a bank, and thus a fund of $50,000 or $100,000 is established in a town or community as a great aid to the business activity and prosperity of its people. There is no more money in the community than there was previously, but it is in a form where it can be made to assist in the successful conduct of five times or ten times the amount of business than its actual sum stands for.?New Orleans Picayune. IN DEEP WATER. "Mind you," observed" the party who was talking, "I'm speaking metaphorically now." . "Ah!" rejoined the other, "Lthought you were getting a bit mixed."?Chicago Journal. COMES A TIME . When Coflee Shows What It Dos Ceta Doing. " .1 "Of late years coffee lias disagreed with me," writes a matron from Home, N. Y., "it's lightest punishment was to make me 'logy' and dizzy, and it seemed to thicken up my blood. "The heaviest was when it unset my , stomach completely, destroying my ap< petite and making me nervous and irri-* table, and sent me to my bed. After one of these attacks. In 'which I nearly lost my life, I concluded to quit and try Postum Food Coffee. "It went right to the spot! I found it not only a most palatable and refreshing beverage, but a food as well. "All my ailments, the 'loginess' and dizziness, the unsatisfactory condition r of my blood, my nervousness and Irri- J tabflity disappeared in short order and my sorely afflicted stomach began! quickly to recover. I began to rebuild i and have steadily continued until now. 1 Have a good appetite and am rejoicing M in sonnd health, which I owe to tun ^ use of Postum Food Coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. f There's a reason. 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