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ttttt -mrmrnrTraiiiii um ---- -"""gg" Scotland's contribution to this wash goods array will be given a special exhibition Monday in the first booth But with limitations, for every quality priced to exceed 25c a yard is barred. There are eleven thousand yards in two hundred and sixty different styles Madras, Oxford, Tissue and Zephyr Gingham. For frocks or shirt waists prettier designs or colorings are hardly obtainable at any price. Make a point of seeing them. (East Aisle. Main Floor)

Art the Second 'Booth Arrivals of the past week will get a first show

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and plain color Irish dimities. You'll enjoy seeing them, and, there's no doubt of your pleasure

season's prettiest when wearing time rolls

around. Styles now shown are of portation, and will not reappear elsewhere at a later season. .Shetland Suitings Arc a sort of homespun cheviot much liked by women's tailors. Two qualities are here, both 50 inches wide, woven of selected long fiber wool. The colors are yarn-dyed mixtures blue, gray, Oxford and biege $1.25 and $1,75 a yard. Plain color Cheviots are the same width, and may bo bad in gray, marine or cadet blue, brown, tan, plum or garnet at standard L. S. 'Patterns EAKE Pure c44 CAHN,

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our own im either here or day morning isn't choice. Trine ess of Wales I JVctv Corset Is the most demanded Corset among those recently introduced. The Princess of Wales Corset is a straight-front shape modeled along the well-known lines of Her Majesty's, and satisfies many who want a Corset "like Her Majesty's," but not so expensive. It Is as good a Corset as can be sold for i(l.SO. We think it the best. JUIRES fS INAUGURATION

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Triced 8 to $15 hundred women each with a. take them all. is a sprinkling of stripes and or black taffeta and black any too soon to make your l 3 lacK 'Belt Of folded satin, which conforms to the long straight-front waist now in vogue is among recently introduced novelties. Several styles, variously expensive according to the beauty of buckle, will be first shown Monday. Most of the buckles are of ornate design, gold plated, altho a few are of oxydized silver. Prices range between JtX & IjjJ ÖO. CO, Queen Qua!uy s nocsj y Drunkenness. THE CURSE OF MANY HOMES. The man who ha. allowed the demon of InternE era nee to dominate his actions Is so flrmty ound by the chains of habit that tears and arguments are of little avail. It Is useless to at tempt to reform a drunkard by appeals to his rnnsr.ience or ma moramy. in arneiue la th source of his trouble, and should be the point of attack. It is because of the recognition of thfs princi ple that tne is.eeiey insiuuie, locaiea at .Plain -ftld. Ind.. has had such great success in th cure of chronic alcoholism- The drunkard has to stop whether lie wants to or not. Tne treatment not only cures the craving, but build up th wasted tissues until tne one-time slave H emr ncipated. Write for Information to Plalnfiell Ind., or i- commercial jiuo Duuaing. Indianarolls. Ind. Telephone 2427. Platnfleld Is fourteen miles west of Indiana pnil nn xr amiana uauway. Very Important! All nlumbine Is Imnoi tant, even essential to the maintenance o f henlth; but perhaps kitchen sanitation Is tlie most Important of all. for foul odors may spoil, even mako dan gerous, most articles of food. Uewaro of the defective o r leaking Kitcnen sinKi lvrnans we a oeucr nave a iook at ail tne pipes in your C. ANESHÄENSEL & CO. 29-33 East Ohio Street. SLOAN'S COLDand GRIPPE CAPSULES Care quickly and safely. Relief after first dose. oonts a Idosc. Sloan Iritig Co 22 W. Washington St. EDUCATIONAL. IKUSIHESS C0LLEG Methods coprighted. Time and money saved. s . . Mcona largest in ine worio. OndlanapoIIs 7 Ö01US8S cfensr? V Our trade mark. Shun Imitators. Etater Day or Night Schools STl'ennt,1 ?'nen Block. J HEEB, PrCS. SAAVS 1XD MILL. SUPPLIES. E. C. ATKINS & CO. Manufacturers and Repairers of all kinds of Saws Office acd larlrry Fouth and Illinois Sts Indlanspolls, Ind. d 147 C BELTING and 3 A V O EMERY WHEELS SPECIALTIES OF W. B. Barry Saw and Supply Co. 132 S. PENN. 8T. All kinds of Siwi reralr COKTRACTORS. JOEL WILLIAMS, ffgjggg Offlce Room 72, Inpall Block. New Thone 2631. ...INDIANAPOLIS.... Automobile and Bicycle Co. Successors to C. G. FI 5 HER & CO. 112 N. Pennsylvania St AUTOMOBILES

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FEATURES THAT DIVERSIFY FOR. EIGN LIFE IN CHINESE CITIES. Opportnntir nouses Temptation to Live IliKh on Credit Chinese Opinion of Outsiders. ' CHITS AND COMPRADOEES IXCOXVEXIEXCB OF CARRYING THE CURRENCY OF THE COUNTRY. 1 The Chinese Profess to Admire Forelsn Inventions, bat Seldom Invest la or Vse Them. Correspondence of the Indianapolis Journal. SHANGHAI. Dec. 21. If the pockets of the foreign residents In China could De turned inside out for the benefit of some one wishing to cross the Pacific, passage money could no doubt he scraped from the exhibits, but there would probably be lit tle surplus, and it Is quite safe to gay that in the majority of cases no money what ever would be forthcoming; A visitor, ac customed at home to paying as he goes, feels like having cash about him, but one 'experier.ee at the bank, where the presentation of a moderate draft necessitates the hiring of a coolie or jinricksha to cart the proceeds away soon reconciles him to the local practice of "writing a chit." As almost any one's chit passes almost any where, one whose face is not wholly strange may go about with pockets flat and order in what suits his fancy. A chit Is a memorandum with a signature at tached. About the middle of the month chits for the preceding month are presented for payment. The recipient, if he has a business connection, indorses them and refers them to that useful person, the compradore, who settles and charges to account. A detached visitor may give drafts on his bank, or, If there are so many small accounts to make that too much trouble, he may haul in a load of cash for pay day and distribute it among the various appli cants. That ends his troubles for another month. There aro business men who travel thousands of miles yearly among the treaty ports and Into outlying districts without a dollar in their pockets. They chit their passage on steamers, pay their hotel bills and supply their personal wants by chit, and let their servants carry enough silver for such trifling purchases as may be made in unexpected places. .Most of the banks Issue notes, but they are butlandishly bulky, and when onco the chit habit becomes confirmed the notes are only less objectionable to carry about than the cart-wheel dollars. The chit habit is one that comes so easy and saves so much bother that It is apt to 1ÄÄ .1 A -. . . . it-uu io excesses, coining seems more pleasant than to go through the world sign ing ones name instead of giving up good nrtiir Tl W . .u iiiwiicjr. tjieu an oruinary person may move about with unquestioned credit, fig uratively like a walking national bank, his vanity becomes prone to overindulgence The comfort and danger of charging personal accounts at home has appealed prob ably to most households in which dollars must be counted, and the common experience that living Is much more costly when purchases may be charged up than when cash must be paid for them finds general illustration here. CHITS LURE TO DANGER. As the average foreigner In China carries no pocketbook to consult as to what he can afford he yields to temptations that would not appeal to him otherwise and unci! iinas me comnrariore h u roitn for more than his allowance or salarv . - ' v.i.uiui Human nature Is frail enough In China to bear lightly troubles of this kind, but as the compradore has his own obligations and cannot always be as benignant as he looks or perhaps as he would like to be the brakes must sometimes be put down hard. Tho foreigner usually has sense and hon esty enough to adjust his affairs with the compradore as toon as possible, but the chit habit Is tob sweet to be abandoned, and the spectacle is common in the early rart of every month, when there are sev eral weeks of grace before settlement day, or men splurging around like princes until they run their limit and then scrimping and denying themselves for the remainder of the month through the thankless ordeal of trying to get along on next to nothing. While the usual form of purchases is by chit and for some lines In no other way. many residents carry both chit and book accounts, and as the family and servants may oraer on me uook accounts a man not given to too close scrutiny of his bills or taking It for granted that they are cor rect is apt to find the compradore's ac counts with him running high. A merchant here tells of an early expert ence of his in which payment for the same bill came In twice from one of the custom ers he-had gained. His impulse was to re turn the amount overpaid, but being a lit tie doubtful through whom it should be sent and also reluctant to have his cus tomer Infer that he had been so stupid aa to send him a bill twice he thought he would tako counsel of a fellow-merchant in another line of business. He stated tfce case in detail, emphasizing his wish not to appear careless in the eyes of his customer and his scruple about getting the money back as quickly as possible. The elder merchant heard him through and then said with an air of wonder: "But why have you come to me? This Is all your affair." "Yes, but I want your advice. I want to know what you would do under such circumstances." "Send him another bill," was the decisive answer. There is a saddler here who finds trappings for many of the amateur stables which foreigners affect.. It Is reported of him that his Portuguese bookkeeper re ported In great perplexity one day that in making up the month's accounts ! & had come upon an entry of the sale of a saddle valued at 7, but the name of the buyer was not on the book and the salesman could not remember it. "Don't worry your self," said tho merchant. "Charge It In all the bills." Eight customers sent checks to pay for the saddle and tho customers who protested against the charge received polite notes from the merchant apologizing for the? stupidity of the clerk In putting the item in their bills. FUNCTIONS OF THE COMPRADORE. The compradore Is father-confessor In all financial affairs because of the relation that he bears to the conduct of all kinds of bus! ness. He is an indispensable adjunct to a foreign house trading in China. "Without him trad rould b perilously hampered. ? C: CV.Z'r-y c':vClll crtt.h Vizir c..

and they and the foreigners could never un- i

derstand each other when brought into direct contact. The compradore acts as in termediary, finds outlet for the goods of his house among the Chinese and buys from them whatever the house may wish to send abroad. He Is usually a man of means and character, and Is able to turn trade through the house to which he attaches himself. It is part of a compradore's business to enlist a following of native merchants, and he takes care that a customer once his never goes to any one else. Whatever the ties that bind compradorcs and their customers together, it Is the universal observation that the followings aro intensely loyal to this kind of leadership. He expects the merchant to supply imports and to hold himself ready to furnish almost anything that can be sold, no matter what the special undertaking, of the house may be. A compradore's customers do not go gadding around for discounts or underbidding on their purchases. When they attach them selves to a compradore the connection Is permanent and for all purcoses. A mer chant here from Port Arthur tells of the sale to a native firm of a large quantity of flour last spring. A little later the same customer sent in an order for an electric plant outfit. The foreign firms here divide trade according to their several home connections, but as none of them dealt In electrical machinery the recipient of the order used the cable freely, landed and installed an electric plant and charged enough for it to put a good profit In his pocket. The buyer might have had his wants supplied for much less money here, but If he knows it he does not care. The compradore who got the first order got the second, and, how ever diversified the customer's wants hereafter, there Is no fear that he will place or ders elsewhere. A person so important as the compradore must give bond for his responsibility. He usually gets rich friends to become his sureties, which run from 30,000 taeis to very much larger amounts. The compradore of a shipping firm which has connections all over the East has a position of such responsibility that It calls for a bond of 3,000,000. He is rich enough to have a finan cial interest In many of the firm's ventures. is a large stockholder in the principal bank in the .hast and owns shares in various money-making companies. When Chinese customers fail to pay a compradore's bond protects tho firm from loss. A man of such responsibility naturally watches the finances of his house closely. This has led practically to making him cashier and paymaster for all accounts. He takes care of salaries, allowances and divisions. Nothing involving money happens unless ho is conversant with it. As years count with him in prestige and Influence. he Is usually past middle age before his position becomes commanding among his own people. The compradore that a visitor encounters In one of the large Tiouses Is likely to be portly, a little bald and gray, spectacled and us deliberate and benignant as a grandfather in his utterance and de meanor. Few of the compradore's office as sociates are intimate with them outside, owing quite as much to native as to foreign clannishness; but those who become his debtors get the impression that, while he is indulgent and eminently fairt It will not do to abuse his good nature. In other words, he is a man to be respected. STILL A CHINESE PUZZLE. What the compradores think of the for eigners is almost as much of an enigma as I, the larger question of the oplnlor. of tho Chinese at large of other races. The rela tionshlp is purely a business one, no mat ter now long it may be maintained. It Is hardly to be supposed that they are blind to foreign faults, which glare here no less than elsewhere. It seems to be enough for ccmpradores to know that they can make a good thing out of foreign trade, and a good thing is what they are after. On the other hand, the foreigners find them care :ui, straightforward and trustworthy in business, their standard being quite, up to the western one in all these respects. They must realize that foreigners accom plish results on a larger scale than do the Chinese more quickly and by methods that have the superlative merit of directness Yet one of the things by which the Chinese oo not profit is example. Their own homes are as bare, cheerless and uninviting as were tn nomeä or their ancestors. It rults many of them to live In foreign settitments, but not in houses built on foreign models, although even a savage should see the superiority. For some reason they like two stories to their homes in the settle ments, while in the pative cities one story is usual. Money saving is not the object of living dingily, for those who can affcrd it spend large sums In bronzes, carvings, straight-backed furniture, decorative work and In other costly harborings for dust and vermin, without getting any warmth or brightness or coziness to correspond to the n.odern notions of comfort. The native cities consist, as they ever did, of houses packed together, with filthy alleyways for streets, beckoning disease from all directions. They have seen enough example of decent living to profit by it if they woull, but even those who have had most to dj with foreigners seem to think the old way good enough, and perhaps to be preferre i over the new. The trait of curlouslty prominent in the common people reaches the compradore class. Whenever a house tries a new un dertaklng or brings In some special device, mechanical or otherwise, the compradore wishes to know all about it, and examines it most minutely. He never fails to agree tith the foreign estimate of It, but that Is about as far as his interest really goes. There are few sawmills In China, but at every village one may see men working laboriously for a day over a piece of timber mat. a steam saw wouia aispose or in a few minutes. Mining machinery has been introduced here, but when left to then:telves the natives prefer to go back to hand-drills and crude shovels. There is a flour mill at Tung-Chou. near Pekin ecuipped with American appliances for turning cut a superfine article. Nearby 9 the old hand(mill, with stone grinders and bellows, to be worked by hand. When tho troop? went through there in summer it could be seen that the old mill had been lately in use, and the new one discarded The Chinese do not like their own flour. and this part of the empire and the. sec Hon northward are fed from the , Pacific coast. Yet at Tung-Chou they bought a mill to make what they wanted and then threw It away. The compradores of for eign houses are proud of their connection It Is a distinction for them among their lellows to have places of that kind. So desirous are they of maintaining this relation and of holding the good oplnl6n of foreigners that when occasionally it becomes necessary for sureties to make good a bpad they do so without question or hesitancy The same pride In foreign .connection Is found in the lower classes. A boy showing his master through a native city clears ths tray for him and lets the people understand that he is on a mission Important enough to put Mm above them and the peoplo ttand aside. The Chinese captain of a houseboat lords the river or canal when he ha3 a foreigner aboard, apparently feeltns: that there is authority behind him to enforce "whatever ha Tribes to do. Dc-ta :3 VTT7 rz ! r

to all sorts of departures from rules of the read, as if It were a matter of course when a foreigner wants something. If a foreign houseboat crew can dress in foreign easteff clothing they are as proud as Easttr

girls. One resident who has puzzled over some of these manifest incongruities thinks he has hit somewhat near an explanation of them. "They look on us," according to nis theory, "much as we look on clowns at a Circus. We interest and amuse them; they think we ar clever, entertaining and all that; but perhaps there may be some witch ery abo-it us; but, except as we divert or pease them for the moment, they have no use for usV'-an explanation manifestly de ficient, but perhaps suggestive. FREDERICK W. EDDY. TOSTRENUOSITY. One of the tests of greatness Is its success In adding new words and phrases to our old common tock of language. Lincoln's "gov ernment of the people, by the people and for the people" and Beecher's "step down and out" are illustrations. leaay iioosevelt's "strenuous life" may have no longer a run than Cleveland's "condition and not theory;" still it is just now very much In evidence. The adjective "strenuous easily takes the negative "unstrenuous" and sug gests a couple of nouns, one of which is the title of this article. Up to a certain point in life we are all blessed or afflicted more or less, rather less than more, with the strenuouslty which Roosevelt so much commends, but later on there comes to every strenuous man or woman a day when they weary of so much effort and gladly welcome the great ordinance of nature that we all have our limitations; that no man "by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature;" that those souls who are content and who do not push and worry, but "only stand änd wait," get quite as much out of life as those who are fired by a lofty ambition to make a name and noise in the world and to let their neighbors know how smart they are. I re peat: When after getting tired and gray with strenuousity, we in our better moments fall into the blessed mood of letting things slide and of not sitting up nights to help the Almighty govern and reform His universe, the effect is quite as blissful as when. Just across the Slough of Despond, John Bunyan's pilgrim's burden of sin rolled oft his back and he pet his face once more with a light heart heavenwards. "Why should a man toll early and late When all that he has is fixed by fate?" No doubt it is all very pleasant to be upon the band wagon and where we get the full benefit of the electric lights, but then those back seats over there, where we can sit and criticise the perspiring speakers without costing us a cent, have their attractions and are quite as enjoyable, even through the world calls us who occupy them nobodies." How slow we are to learn such simple truths as, that a pint cup, by no human device, can be made- to hold a quart: that man and woman are born to their places in life and that a thirty-five ounce braincannot do tho work of one which (like Thackeray's or Daniel Webster's) tips the scales at forty-five. Here the wisest of us can usefully go to our dumb friends birds and beasts, fruits and flowers for more wisdom. Who, except Esop or George Ade, ever heard of a discontented bird or a fourfooted animal of any kind with "longings" or "aspirations?" ,Not but that these things elevate man above the brute; in their place they are well, but this divine unrest of ours about which we boast Is badly overworked and too much strenuosity the cause of infinite unhappiness. No doubt, as Mr. Roosevelt observes, the strenuous life yields great results. It builds street railways, and, after bamboozling the City Council capitalizes them at ten times their cost; it organizes trusts and doubles the prices of matches; with the aid of the oil can it founds a great university; it fills all the fat offices and makes a prodigious noise in the world. But then, unstrenuosity has Its Joys. We nobodies get a fair share of the good things In life. If, In the language of Guiteau, "our names do not go thundering down the corridors of time," these corridors are very long and the sound becomes very thin before it gets half way down. Even the name of Roosevelt, a century hence, will hardly be better known than that of Mary Ellen Lease or Mrs. Nation. What living man can cipher out wh was the tenth shepherd King of Egypt, or the fiftieth Pope of Rome each In his forgotten day the world's terror, or, perhaps, idol? The mantle of obscurity swallows its millions and only an occasional great man escapes. Of the twenty Presidents of the United States during the nineteenth century, not half a dozen will be .remembered a century hence. Why fight the inevitable and uncontrolable? As well put a cobweb around the sun as to resist by strenuosity these irresistable forces of which we are only puppets. We are forced Into and out of this world and no questions or protests of ours are heeded. We have no voice in our limitations and can but slightly control our make-up. While a masterful man may modify his environments, he has small influence upon his heredity. Therefore, in ordering our lives, we have a right to look to our com fort. And when strenuosity is of so little avail in its larger sense why should we keep ourselves keyed up like so many buzz saws? Why wear. these galling new shoe3 of strenuosity when the old ones of taking things easy are so much more comfort able? Besides the unstrenuous life is far the me. st enjoyable. I pay the taxes and keep up a fine house, but my darky gets the mcst satisfaction out of it. 2Ü3 kitchen 13 far warmer than my parlor. If he eats the broken victuals I pay for them. Nature, wun consummate wisdom nas evened up the rich man's and the poor man's Joyi so that neither has much the advantage ever the other. I am often ssked, "Why acn t you Destir yourseu ana write a book?" It Is not likely that such a book wculd be beyond the average and such average does not last a twelvemonth. resides books are only one form of hu man activity. As good brains have been and are daily put Into machinery, build ings, banks, ships, merchandise, and what r.ct; as Into books. Life Is the fountainbooks are only one of the streams. Doubtless there are greater tingle poetic lines than Pope's famous "Where, ignor ance is bliss what folly to be wise," but aououess mere never was a more comforting one. Unstrenuosity often begins when strenuosity ends. Just as faith be gins where reason gives out. Suppose we do not get it at all. Suppose fate has excluded us from the great "P's" property, praise, promotion there are oth r P's like peace and even poverty, out of which great satisfaction can be had. A bent bow cannot always .stay bent. "When your noble, gothlc brow is plowed vith your crow-tracks of overexertion. when your brilliant eyes are Murred with too fervent gazing at the sun it Is time for unstrenuosity to demand its rights, even though It is contrary to Roosevelt's ex hortations. But perhaps a day may come T?henthe rtd-handed slayer of the griz zlies of the Rockies may be content with c:i::r C-- r .ts, afttr all, are only ' r !?. DALDWIII,

GREAT PRESIDENTS

COMPARATIVE ESTIMATE OF AVAS II I NCJTO X AND LINCOLN. Men "Whose Rlrthdayi Give February a Special Place In the Patriotic Calendar LIKE AND UNLIKE EACH OTHER WITH MAN V DIFFERENCES THEY HAD LEADING TRAITS IN CO SIMON. The Contrasts In Their Character and Method Were, However, Also btronu Great Results. Lvman B. Powell. In American Monthly Review of Reviews. Washington's birthday has always lent extinction to the month of February. Th observaance lately of a Linccln birthday I as given February the first place in every patriot's calendar. No university, no I'ub'.i 3 school, no club, allows the Eth of February to pass unnoticed. The dallies and th weeklies from Boston to the GoMcn Gato all have somewhat to say about the nun. In many a magazine, character studios re ceive the place and space the subjects merit. Washlngtonlana and LIncolr.Iar.a are exploited afresh every year to satisfy the public eagerness for a rcw story of the two best loved Americans. But r.one ap pear to have thought seriously of making a comparative study of the only two characters In our history whom critics of all schools are wont to pair tcsether. Tho emission is the stranger In the presence of the obvious circumstance that Washing ton and Lincoln lend themselves rcadi'y to comparison and conspicuously to contrast. Look back at them through the past, and they always seem, as well they my, tri tallest, strongest oaks that ever grew on Western soil. How like they were! Steadfast and serene, patriotic and unpartisan. democratic and not demagogic, national and never sectional, independent and In no respect colonial. American through and through they were. Self-reliance never failed them In tho hour of trial. When civilization bade them carry a. message to Garcia they never hesitated they carried it. The odds were all against Washington those bleak and bloody days when, with consummate self-certainty, he crushed tho Conway cabal. The odds seemed against Lincoln, too most advised and worst advired of all our Presidents, because all men thought him at the first a mere provincial in need of counsel when ho rejected. I 1S61, without offense, but not without dv cision, Seward's auuaclous offer to bocome the power behind the throne which he completely filled. ONE SOURCE OF POWER. They were masters of themselves. Calm and self-poised, they could possess their souls in patience,- When Grant, -looking at the Stuart portrait of the first. American and quoting John Adams, remarked, "That eld woodenhead made his fortune by keepiiig his mouth shut," perhaps even he d.I rot quite appreciate the price that mut Lo paid for silence, Washington's temper, as Titanic as his person, was a sensitivo point with his wife. Breakfasting one morning with the President and Mr?. Washington, General Lee remarked: "L saw your portrait the other day, but Stuart saya you have a tremendous temper." "Upon my word," said Mrs, Washington, coloring, "Mr. Stuart takes a great deal upon himself to make such a remark." "But stay, my dear lady," said General Lee; "he added that the President has It under wonderful control." With something like a mll, the Presi dent replied: "He is right." Men marveled at the perfect self-control of Lincoln in the darkest days of the civil war. Only Stanton, Dana and another friend or two saw him break down now rnd then. Dr. Heman Dyer reports that in a moment of confidence Stanton onca remarked to him: "Many a time did Mr. Lincoln come in after midnight in an agony of anxiety occasioned by dispatches h had received. He would throw himself at full length on thm sofa and cry out: 'Stanton, these things will kill me! I shall go mad! I can't stand It!' " At times, both Washington and Lincoln could talk much; but never, like your Cromwells or Napoleons, of thcmsrlves. Silent they habitually were, but not l mislead. They believed the truth was nut always to be spoken; but they also believe 1 that when there was Imperative tickA to speak, nothing but ths truth ehould b-i spoken. They were ill at the deceptive numbers of a Talleyrand. They had the.r heartaches and heartbreaks; but no sorrow ever made them sour, no grief ever rr.aJ) them bitter. They were never less thjn tender and sympathetic. Washington'.! grief at the death of a stepchild is unutterably touching, and Lincoln's tendtr words to Speed are exquisite beyond compare: "Speed, die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me bct that I always plucked a thistle and plantel a flower when I thought a flower wou'.i grow." BOTH MODEST MEN. How modest they were! Nothing so errs barrassed Washington as praise. When the Continental Congress was about to choose a general for the revolution anl th discussion was converging toward the onlr man to be considered for such responsibility. John Adams, who was speaking, relates that "Mr. Washington, who happened tc sit near the door, as soon as he hrl roe allude to him. from his usual modesty, darted into the library room." Tho debates with Douglas had already made Lincoln a national chra acter when he earnestly requested an IlMnois journal to mcntlmi him no more for President: "I mu-t la candor say that I do not think myself fit for the presidency." Simple as was their religious filth, it was very real. We must give up. of course, the dear tradition that Washlngun was heard or overheard praying in tho Valley Forgj thicket there is no warrant for iL But nothing cary take away the rertalnty that he was a religious nn. large, and liberal and loving. He believed devoutly In God; and, brought up an Ans Siran churchman, he was to the last a worshiper in tho Eplrcopal Church, wh-v-3 stately liturgy never failed to uplift ant ati?fy. Though Lincoln ryid m church connection, and possibly no articulate thclogy. his faith, like Washington's, wa profound. God. eternity, prayer, were words of weight with him and never lightly used. When. Just after Gettysburg, thi wounded General Sickles asked him why ho had been so sure of victory, Llr.roln answered, with all the simplicity of a naive child: "I will tell you If you ruwr t:ll anybody, Üefcra ths fc-tti. I vrt::