Ligonier Banner., Volume 37, Number 44, Ligonier, Noble County, 29 January 1903 — Page 7

THE MERMAID AND THE SCHOONER

The following clever ‘‘yarn’’ was written hy Sidney Greentield, a Harvard student. The story was written per order as part of Mr. Greenfield's initiation to the staff of the Harvard Advocate. It had to be finished. in a specified time, written about a specified atmosphere, and be funny. How wcil Mr. Greentield surmounted the @if-_ feulties is left to t?e reader.—Editor. & AN I)an{'l", I'm afraid you're a DH:n‘,” said the first old salt to the second old salt, regretfully. “It don’t taste right to call you that when I'm e-drinkin” your good beer, but jest the same, no mermaid never talked--not even a she-mermaid.” ; ! “Well, all mermaids is she-ones,” grumbled old salt No. 2, “an’ wot do you know about mermaids. anyhow 2”7 I “Oh, not much, not much, Dan’l, but_ I knowed one onct,an’'she never talked ' — all the time I knowed her she never said a word-—jest smiled sorter sweet, like 1 would if you was to order a pot. of .arf-an’-arf.” v . . Dan’l ignored the hint. - “Well, as I was a-tellin’ you,” went on the old man. @I knowed her when I was on the little Seud. It was like this. We was in the Doldrums--not even driftin’, it was that hot—but the cap'n allers kept a lookout at the masthead. He =aid it was safer, an’', besides, it shaded the deck some. Why, he useter foller the shadder all over a-tryin’ to keep cool. = The lookout he said °t wasn't fair to put him any nearer ‘the sui, and he allers squirmed a lot. so’s to make his shadder wiggly an’ hard to foller round. © *One day it was jest noontime, an’ the cap'n was: gettin’ mad, ‘cause the shadder ran right down the mast, an’ the deck was sae hot he couldn’t =it on it, when George (he was the lookout) yelled down. a-wavin' Lis hand: " * ‘Mermaid ahoy.on the port bow!” S *Weotlsighat? says the cap'n, sarcastic like, ‘where'd you get your licker, George?' . “But George he yells the sume thing agin. 8 : “ 0w do you know it's a mermaid? inquired the cap'n. : By her ¢lo'es. says Geodge, : **Wot's she got on? says the capn agin. @ 7 . “George he simpers a little-——"Mastiy blne serge, cap'n,’ he says. “The.cap'n gets his glass, an’ soon we all sees her. ‘She sure was a peach. Long. easy strokes she was takin’, an’ all the time a-smilin’ an’ a-combin’® of her wavy valler hair. We seen George ‘wasrichtabout herclo'es. Arter awhile =he gets up reel close. an’ George he ~calls out: **Cap'n. 1 wanter come down effen ‘the masthead. : o * 1 order you tostay. says the (':ll3'l‘:.. there’s enough on deck already.” An’ he glares round at us fievce like. ‘Go below. all’ says he. ‘this is a delicit .matter, an’ 1 must talk with the lzul‘v' in private. - *So over the rail he leans an® gives her wot he thought was a fascinatin® smile. . e *“*Don't be afeard. my dear,” he says, ‘I got a purty little gul at home wot looks like you.” I “You amt? savs ile cool, ‘she wouldn't ‘ave yer!’ ' ¥ * ‘Go below, sir, an® mind vour own bisness. thundered the cap'n. ‘An’vou go too, Sam’'l he vellshtme. . . “] can't, capn,’ I says, as she was a-smilin’ bewichin'ly at me. ‘I reely gotter swob the deck.” v : “But it warn’t no use. an’ down 1 hed ter go.- We was all down in the fo’e’sle’ a-cursin’ “him,” when down comes George. all.in a heap, an’ we ~een the capn’s “boqt sil'ouetted agenst the sky. : o ; : “*Boys. cays George. when he was himself agen. ‘it’s simply outragis—that’s wot it is. I was a-settin’ on the masthead an’ she a-smilin’ ui) at me. jest like a stained-glass winder. <o wot could I do but smile back? The cap'n he seen me. “George,” says he, reel soft, “come down here, George, an’ help me talk 10 the Jady.” Wen I got down he grabbed me by the neck ‘an’ }{ickfd me down the hateh, like you seen. ‘““Fake that,” he says, “fer flirting. 2? . : ; *While we was all sympathizin® with George cook he sneaked up'to the hatch an’ peeled out at the cap’n. . * ‘Wot's the old man doin 2’ * we asks, as he come back sudden, : “He's a winkin’ at’er, an’ holdin® out a couple of ‘pertaters to ’er. “Come ‘ere; my dear,” hesays. “an’have something mourishin’ with me.” When he

. MORE THAN A DREAM. Live up to the highest thht's in vou. Be true to the voice in your soul. Let love and your better self win vou, And follow them on to the goal. ‘ Afar in the path of Endeavor The temples of Happiness gleam. They stand as a promise forever ~ That Heaven is more than a dream. We fall in the moments of weakness, Borne down by the passion of sin: A’ Acknowledge the error with meeknes§ And strengthen the guard from with . The lusts of the brute we inherit & : Must cower and shrink from thy That flows from the throne of thes And shows us the path to the ri 1 know not the kingdom ifnmorgs Yet feel in my innermost soul A That Death’s not a wall but a Through which lies an infinite go& : I know mnot the glory supernal « S Nor paths that the angels have trod; & Yet something within is eternal o And grows in the sunlight of God. & I know with the wisdom of Sorrow, The lessons I've learned by the waj The fruits that we gather LO-mOTTOME Are grown from the seeds of to-ds Life’'s page we have blotted and check red No power on earth can restore,. We write an indelible record, v Sh To blight or to bless evermore, ~ With voices seraphic and :1 Our loved ones are calling afari Siad 0 With light that is golden in splendog & @& Truth shines like a mystical star, * i The veil of the Silence is riven, &l The bannercof Hepe is unfurled; " And Love, through %pe portals of Heaven, - Ilumines the night of the world. —J. A. Edgerton, in Denver News, &+ INCREASE IN LUNATICS. The Total Namber of Unforfinates in United Kipgdom in 1902 Was i 148,631, : The lunacy returns of gland show an appalling increasg Suiring the last generation and a hall® The number of registered lunatics in the Umited Kingdom in 1859 wa§ 47,992;

sees me he throwed one of the pertaters at my head, an’ that’s why I came down. o ““Well, we all stayedin the fo'c's’le till mess, while the cap’n was a-tryin’ to fascinate the mermaid. YWhen he letus come, on deck agin he was hoppin’ mad an’ theé <kin was all burnt off his bald head, where he'd had his hat off. **Wot did she say to you, capn? I asked him. ‘ *‘Nothin,” he says, ‘an’ you can do the same.’ : ) “There she was floatin’ peaceful, still smilin® and a-combin’ of her hair that was spread all round her like a fishnet. I never seen a purtier sight. George he fell gfiig‘ht in love with her. * ‘1 knowed it,” he says, ‘I knowed the minit | seed her she was my affinity! ‘ : **She ain’t got no fin wot [ can see, says the cook, jealous, ‘an’ she ain’t your nothin'. I likes her a little myself.’ . “George he got mad. ! “ *Look-a-here, cook,” he says, * 'oos’ meermaid is she, anyhow? 'Oo seen her #irst? [ did? he says, ‘an’, she smiled at me an’ held out er shinin’ arms to me. You wanter look out.’ “‘For the matter o' that, she smiled at me, too, an' ev'ry other A. B. on board,” says the cook. but he couldn’t worry George. : “ *Well. she must ‘ave thought they was me,” he says. “That night the cap’n sent us below agen an’ we, conld hear him talkin” to her an’ flirtin’ outragis, but she didn’t seem to have nothin’ to do with him. Arter about an hour of this George he jumps out of his bunk an’ gets his jackknife. : “*Don‘t kill ‘im. George. says the cook, ‘he don’t mean no harm.’ : “‘Lain't. I'm a-cuttin’ a little hole so’s I ¢an see my affinity,” says George, ‘an’ soon he had one cut jest above the vater-line abeout three inches square. Then he stuck his lips an’ one eye out an’ gave a long low whistle. . She come jest like .a dorg. - “‘PDon’t you listen to that nasty old capten,” he says to her soft an’ sweet, ‘come up here reel close.” *I draws a curtin’ over the tender passages that ensued.” Suffice it ter say that we didn't get no sleep that night for George an’ his affinity. The next morning he stuffed up the hole with his other shirt. the red one

! with big- valler spots, before we weunt s on decky ' : 2 *Men.! says the cap'n, caliin’ us all up. ter the quarter-deck, .‘I hopes none of yvou is =o deail ta all moral obligations as to be talkin' or com-!muni(-utin' with that shameless eritter. Last night, in the still night watches,” he says. ‘it seemed to me as if T heard words of love ‘addressed to her from the fo'e’s’le. This is & Schooner wWeipe on,’ he says, ‘an’ not a spoonep. an’ if—— .. “Oh, Lawd!’ gasps the cook; ‘look at ‘er!—Jest look at ’er! She’s done it now!’ : | o © “He falls in'a fit an’ we leans over tthe port raik She was a-lookin® scandalus, but T had ter laff. * *George,’ asks the cap’n in an or‘fnl voice, ‘is that your garwment she [is a-wearin’, may I ask?" : . l -“Sure enough 'she’d pinched the red r an’ yaller clo’es wot George had | stuffed the hole with, an’ was puttin’ Ijt on, graceful an’ smilin’: : 1 “*oOh, George, George, wot does it L mean? says the cap'n, mournful this I time, ‘an’ you with one wife at ‘ome.’ { ' ‘Huh, wot's one wife to a man like | me?' asks George. defiant an’ im- | moral. an® Lord knows wot else he'd have said if somethin® sudden hadn’t !lmppvnod. The little ‘Scud’ gave a Elnrch to port, an’ we all jumped over L to the starboard rail. Then she listled that way an’ began to go down by llhc head. We ‘could hear the water i chuggin’ in the fo'e’s’le. I @ ‘Lord forgive me, it's the hole I { ent.’-yells George. ‘we're all drowned }‘men!’ A ‘ i *You see it was this way: When iwe all riished over to the port rail tarter she'd taken out George’s wearin' apparel it must have just put that hole below the water-line, an’ down we had to go.~ : - “*Man the boat!' says the gap'n, {an’ we only pulled clear in time (o [ see the little *Scud’ whirl round twict !with her stern in the air an’ go !(luwn wiih a swish. 5 . “Mo! beeame of the mermaid, -you { asks, Dan’l? Why don’t you want ter know wot become of us? We was I])icked up next day by a Cape Horner | an’ the Jast we ever seen of that mer|maid she was takin' her long easy ! stroke to the eastward with the first rpink rays, of the risin' sun a-lightin’ up George's red an’ yualler garment.”

in 1902 the number Lad increased to 148,631, .of these 110,713 . being in England alone, where the yvearly increase works out about 2,000 victims, The official view is that the increase is more important than geal; © that the case is rather one of accumulation; that if there be an increase it is not out of proportion to the ine'as?e of population. ¢ LIKE MODERN HOTELS. fParisians Have Changed Their Meth- = ods of Dining—Restaurants ¢ No Longer Pgpular. * The d&mg of the famous M‘fifibn ‘Doree at Paris recalls the fact. that, ?}file in London the fashi%@_ing at restaurants is on thefincrease, ‘the tendency in the French capital is ffiq?"artl the development of t‘r;ractions of public hotels and piivate %ansions. The miles . ‘new houses in the Passy quartef and arguind the avenues branching away from the Place de I’Etoile, all possessing fine kitchens, are occupied by wealthy people, whose chefs in every case could, and probably do, serve up dinners fully equal to anything ever provided in a *boulevard restaurant at fancy prices. This is for the resident, but visitors to Paris now find in the modern hotels alt their. nost. luxurious tastes and inc]ina%‘]ons gratified, so that it is nv longer necessary, as heretofore, to leave one’s hotel and seek out a restaurant. Eu% mous prices may have bheen paid {Or dinners in former times, but the guests were limited in number, and the restaurants also. To-day a vastly larger sum is spent in Paris on good cooking, and better value given, while the elever caterers have multis plied in all directions,

THEY ARE HAVING TROUBLE.

Republicans in a Row Over the Di~ vergence of Opinion on Tarifi and Trusts.

Senator Dolliver, of Jowa, has fallen foul of Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, over the lowa idea and the tariff and trust skeletons in the republican closet were exposed to full view in the United States senate. This family row of the republicans is a peculiar one, in that both sides claim to be ardent protectionists, but the Dolliver faction wish to smooth the rugged protection wall off a bit with a slice of reciprocity—whatever that may be. Aldrich and the ultra protection republicans are utterly opposed to ahy modification of the extreme rates of duty that were dictated by the trusts, when the Dingley bill was being incubated. They deny that the rates were increased, even beyond the demands of the trusts, so that reciprocity dickers could be . made with foreign countries. Aldrich declared that it was ‘“infamous’ to link Dingley’s pame with any such purpo=e. Dolliver championed the lowa idea, that the tarift shelters monopoly, and loudly lt,le(-l’aimed for reciprocity. He also said:" *I do not intend to =it quiet in this chamber whilé it 15 said to be ‘infamous’ that anybody should have the notion that a tariftf schedule once framed could not be honorably niodified by*.sensible trade unegotiations with the world.” y

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This' dispute between these republican leaders. on the policy of the republican party will probably lead to a further widening of the breach and in the end will defeat the protection they both declare they love so dearly.” The thaniss of the people are due to Senator Vest not only for his ficht for free coal, which was forced through by his clear cut statemenis of the distress of the people and the iniquity of the tariff duty, but alsa for his statement of the disputed position of Mr. Dingley on the reciprocity issue and the consequent exposure of the skeletons. mentione:d above. There would seem to be no escape, by the reciprocity route, tor the republicans that believe in the Towa idea, that the tariff shelters monopoly. for the proof is overwhelming that the rates of duty are so high that even if the reciprocity treaties, which are now held up in the senate, were ratified. the trusis would still be sheltered and be making the people pay an enormous tax for the exclusive benefit of the trusts. The leaders who control the republican congress in both branches are determined not to allow any réduction of the tariff rates that shelter the trusis and nothing but their overthrow. at some coming election; will give the people any relief. How long this trust-sheltering tariff will remain and ‘the - asumers of this country be williug to pay more for trust products than the same goods can be bought for in foreign countries, remains for the voters to anSWer, - ~ Must the lesson of the coal famine be repeated in other necessities, before the people are aroused to action and will force the protectionists to give way, as they have just done by putting coal on the free list? : A Start a¢ Least. ' The passage of the' free coal bill (for one year) by both branches of congress, was notable for the fact that the demcerats in the senate did not offer a single amendment, but joined with the republicans in pushing the bill to an immediate vote, The democrats at least deserve credit for doing something which the republicans hayve said all along they would not do. 1t is now demonstrated that a tarift bill can be ,brgugkit before the senate andiquickly * passed, notwithstanding ?I%nnder the senate rules a tariff bill is'Subject to endless amendment. It must have been a distressing moment, however, to a number of old tariff reforhori%§ to see this free coal billislip by (“lfhég proposing free evérything else. Th > self-restraint was admirable, and a shivering” mnation chatters out its thankse Springfield (Mass.) Repug;g lican. : ”‘i;’ . ‘ ~~——Uncle Hanna beleves that Gov. Taft would make a fine president of ;gu-'lmit(\(l States, amd doesn’t care Who knows it. Thwn(“('uf(’s that out liege lord Theodore will have to be a little more deferential to Qhio statesmganship if he wants to do busipes ulMlEthe delegation from that statg st national convention, —=Chi aicle. e e ‘ . - Tariff has finally been | "the impious hand of man, | Fheavens have not yet volleds g.scroll.—Detroit Free Presse | Foe

IT IS ON A STRING.

Free Coal from the Republicans Will Be Only a Temporary Subsidence of Graft,

“Didn't we give the people free coal last sinter when they were freezing? Didn’t we make coal cheap by taking the duty off when the price i got too high? Isn't the republican ; party always ready to relieve the suffering people?” : These are some .of the boasts we will hear during the next campaign. No, the republicans have not given us free coal. Reluctantly, when mass meetings, were being held, when the press was almost unanimous for free coal,. when investigating committees were putting impudent questions to the trusts and were probing for bot‘tom facts and when the winter was half gone, the trust leaders in the senate and house considered it wise to still the clamor somewhat by pretending to give the people free coal. ] A bill was fixed up and jammed { through both houses of congress in I(mc* day, giving practically no time for at‘l);fl(l. and absolutely no time i to ame_'n“d by putting other trust artiIcles on the free list. o ' { The duty of 67 cents per ton will ‘ continue in force on bhituminous coal, ' which is practically the only coal that { will come in. A rebate, however, will [ be paid by the treasury department {-to the importer which will reimburse him for the full amount of the duty paid. As, however, the secretary of | fhe treasury made another anarchistic ruling which has nullitied the law

placing a duty on bituminous coal, when he telegraphed collectors of customs to “admit all coal imported on or after 15th instant free of duty, under the act of 15th instant.” coal will virtually be free for one year and prices will most likely fall much more than the amount of the duty. 1t may. however, be February before enough c¢oal can be imported to supply the demand and break the trusts’ fiki('(’s, . i : . One year from now. without any discussion in congress, and without any agitation of the tariff question, the republicans hope, the rebate will cease to be paid and the trust will continue its graft temporarily suspended in deference, to the overwhelming sentiment of a freezing people. ‘The trusts are still supreme; only their political agents in congress Irave hecome a little frightened, that’s all. They expect the people to forget all about $l5 coal before the next campaign. Will they? 0 : BYRON W. HOLT, They Breed Socialism. The chief teachers of socialism in this country are those who have.ostentatiously paraded their power under present conditions to conjure enormous wealth from combinations, from trusts, front water, from railroad discrimination, from legislative favor. When people see vast corporations built up by secret contracts with common carriers in violation of law, when they see other corporations permitted by ill-adjusted tariff duties to sell their goods here for so much that it is profitable to purchase abroad -those same goods - manufactured here and freight them back, it is no wonder that they grow discontented. We firmly believe that a plunge into socialism would be the ruin of this country. Its salvation must be found in free initiative and enterprise- as of old. Whatever seems to large bodies of the people to trench upon that freedom by granting special privileges tends to provoke demands for such regulation of equality as will kill individualism and enterprise.—N. Y. Tribune (rep.).

——-Washington oracles agree that tne outlook for anti-trust legislation comes down to about this: A law of some kind must be passed, for the president himself has said it, but it must be a “mild” law, for the senate will permit no other. The sole problem is therefore how to harmonize the two demands; and it is not difficult to see that the “mild” opponents of trusts, like the meek, will inherit the earth. Mr. Roosevelt's position Is simply that he must have something; the trusts want but little legislation here below, but want that little mild: the upshot will probably be a measure which will roar as gently as a sucking dove.—N. Y. Post.

—-It is about time that the people had a show. The proprietors of the trusts and the men who are paid wages by the trusts form a very smail part of the community. The ople who buy trust products and m:y trust prices are the great majority. Take off the tariff protection from trust produets and give the people a chance.—Boston Post.

——~When the trust-buster a-bust-fng would bust a trust he ought first to consult trust-buster Knox, who busts nothing except buncombe bills. —N. Y. World,

CHILLED AND FROZEN BEEF, A Distinction with an Important Dife ference to Those Who Know Good Meat. : So much attention is being directed to our beef supply at the present moment that a few words on the subject, so far as beef refrigeration is concerned, may be of more than passing interest, says Ice and Cold Storage. It is somewhat peculiar that what at first sight might appear to be the most delicate of meats should be capable of standing such low temperatures as ¢hose to which lamb carcasses are subjected; yet long years of experience have proved that these carcasses can be reduced Lo very low temperatures indeed, and safely held thereat for many months, without the slightest detriment. On the other hand, beef, when frozen and thawed, indicates too clearly th¢ conditions ‘it has been subjected to. and consequently, when once treated in this manner ot only bears very palpable evidence thereof, but is so deteriorated in appearanace as to be reduced considerably in value. TLe greater portion of the imported frozen beef is therefore dumped on the- cheap markets, where price, rather than quality, regulates the demand. The difficulties experienced in connection with beef refrigeration were undoubtedly the cause of the large importations of live cattle into this country, and it is consequently no wonder that such efforts are being made to again obtain the supply of cattle from Argentina which the existing regulations ‘have prevented for some time past. - The well-known effort of freezing beef, on the one hand, and the great reduction in the arrival of live cattle on the other, drove the importers tc consider the best alternative means to be adopted to bring this meat into the country, with the result, that ex- . . G : periments were made with’ chilled beef which turned out so satisfactorily that large consignments have beén arriving here for a long time in excellent " condition. This meat is held at or about the freezing point, say between. 32 degrees Fahrenheil and 33 degrees Fahrenheit, and must not be subject to any great variation—in fact, the temperatures just given should be the highest and lowest permissible. Under such conditions as these the meat came out in very good condition, and may be readily shipped in quarter sides with advantage; but there is an unfortunate drawback to this method due to the limitation of the time that this chilling effect acts as a preservative. A number of trials have been made, but up to the present it appears to be impossible to keep beef for more than three weeks in a chilled state. and so far every aftempt which has been made in long-distance steamers has resulted in the necessity of freczing down after the period named if the meat was to be landed in a salable’ condition. I{ is some satisfaction, however, that so much beef can be obtained within the radius represented by this time limitation, and that the -altered conditions of' the trade have been a distinct boon to refrigeration - machinery makers’ in particular and the industry generally. ; . 5 .

HOW TO FIND TIME. - Save All Your Spare Moments and . You Will Have Leisure 10 Spend, One of the commonest excuses for the lack of self-culture and attention to other duties is the lack of time, says Success. Hundreds of men, young and old, cheat themselves with the notion that they would do this or that desirable thing if they “only had time,” says the Thiladelphia Ledger. But the truth generally is that the busijest of them could find leisure for an extra thing by utilizing odd chinks and crevices- of time, and properly arranging their regular employments. Hazlitt observes that many men walk as-much idly on Pall “Mall in a few years as would suflice to carry them around the globe. The truth is that an honest purposé finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns larger fragments of leisure to golden account. How-many men are there in the busiest classes who do not waste daily in bed. or loitering, or in idle talk, 15 or 20 minutes? Yet even this petty fraction of time, if devoted steadily to self-improvement, would make a life fruitful in good deeds. Even ten minutes a day spent in thoughtful study would be felt at the year’s end. A continual dropping wears away a stone; a continual deposit 'of animalcules builds up a continent. The most colossal buildings are reared by laying one brick or stone at a time on others. . :

To ask forleisure to do any ordinary thing is simply to confess that we do not care to do it. On the other hand, who but him-who has experienced it can tell the rapture with which knowledge is gathered, iin those hurried but precious moments by the reader who has, instead of whole days, only snatches of time at his command? While the owner of a large library lounges a whole afternoon on his sofa, the poor fellow who hangs over a book stall, or snatches ten minutes from his work to dip into a prized volume, revels in an intellectual paradise. William Ellery Channing observes that the affections sometimes crowd Yyears into minutes, and that the intelleet has something of the same power.

Might Do That Much. “I am afraid, Bobby,” said his mother, “that when I tell your father what a naughty: boy you've been he will punish you severely .’ _ -“Have you got to tell him?” asked Bohby.e‘farnestly. ' “0, ved; I shall tellhim immediately after dinner.” : “Well, mother,” said he, “give him a better dinner than usual. You might do that much for me.”—SBtray Stories. Asked and Answered. “Are large heads always a sign of genhgs;”’ asked the inquisitive youth. “NOt always, my boy,” replied the Sage of Cumminsville. “Sometimes they indicate a previous night’s foolishness,”—Cincinnati Enquizer. Her Possesslions. Ella—Do you think he is going to marry me for my money? Stella—What else have you got?—N. ¥. Herald,

‘THE SYUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson in the International Series for February 1, 1903—Paual ’ at Athens. THE LESSON TEXT. (Acts 17:22-34) 22. Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, anad said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things yeare too superstitious. 2. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I unto you t 24. God that made the world and all things therein, ::»lelng that He is the l.ord of Heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; - 25. Neither is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed any thing, seeing He giveth to all life, andibreath, and all things: 2. And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; 7. That they should seek the ILord, if haply they might feel after him, and tind Him, though He be not far from every one of us: 28. For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of yourown poets have said, For we are also His offspring. : f 23. Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we gught not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or siiver, or stone, graven by art and man's device, 30. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but naw commandeth a!l men everywhere to repent: 31. Because He has appointed a day, in thg which He will judge the world in righteolgness by that man whom ile hath ordained; whereof He hath given assurance frcm the dead.

32. And when they hearad of the resurrection of the dead, sorhe mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. s

33.. So Paul departed from among them. 04, Howbeit certain men g¢clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, an@a woman named Darmaris, and others with them. ) GOLDEN TEXT.—He preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.— Acts 1718, .

ANALYSIS OF SCRIPTURE SECTION Reasoning every day ..........Acts 17:16-21 Telling of the true GoG..ee....ACts 17:22-28 The need of repentance...,ve... Acls 17:29-31

Effect of the cermon ..veeveee.. AGts 17:32-04 TIME.—A. D. 52, ) PLACE.—Athens, . NOTES AND COMMIENTS.

An Idolatrous City.—Athens was an intellectual ¢ity, priding itself upon its culture and refinement. Here Socrates, and after him his pupils, Plato and Aristotle, held their illustr,iuuf! schools. It was the home of art. In its sculptures and paintings it stood unrivaled. Especially it far surpassed all other cities in its devotion to the gods. Paul was now toascertain what reception the city would give to the true and only God. Though Paul had not meant to besin missionary work in- Atheus, the university city of the ancient world, he could not *keep still, anud preached in the synagogue on the Jewish Sabbath and disrcoursed #n the market place every day. This went on for some days or weeks, —we do not knpw how long—till it was decided to have TPaul before the Areopagus court, and fee 'what that body thought of his teaching, and whether it was -advisable te authorize him to continue as one of the recognized lecturers, Paul was not'on trial before the Areopagus, but only his teaching. I'or.the consideration of such cases as this. the court did not meet ‘at that solemn and awfulspotat the top of the Hill of Mars (Areopagus). but in the market place, the center of educational Athens. i

Thus called upon by the learned court, and surrounded by a great crowd of the students and otbers who frequented the market place—curious, unsyvmpathetic most of them. and expecting froin the stranger little but an hour's diversion, and perhaps a bit of fun—Paul seized. the oOpportunity to preach the Gospel ofJesus with consummate skill and power. “Very Religtous™: Paul was too much of a rentleman to begin before that body of learned men by saying, *Youare too superstitious.” "Objects of your worship™: Notice that there are two elements in the audience—the scholars, and the crowd of common people who had gathered around them in the market place. The statues and altars were not objects of worship to the scholars, one of whose prominent. teachings was that belief in the old gods was pure.superstition and only for the ignorant. “To an Unknown God”: This altar was set up to make cure that no god was omitted.

The Stoics were pantheists and did not believe that there were any personal gods. The Epicureans held that there were, but that they had nothing to do with the world. As you read the speech, think how each sentence would strike (1) a Stoic, (2) an Epicurean, (3) oune, of the superstitious CPOWC. >

Paul's philosophy, unlike that of the Athenians, ended in duty. He preached repentance and judgment. That exhortation was not welcome but when he brought forward as proof that he was right the fact that the Chosen of God was a certain man who had died and come to life again. the erowd broke up with jeers and groans of derision. The learned Athenians thought that a man who would teach such fairy stories of which the Greek mythology was full, but which they had outgrown long ago, need not be taken seriously. The speech, and with it Paul’s public work in Athens, was over, but not until some had belisved, one of them a memsber of the higd court iteelf.

FASHIONS OF THE HOUR.

Black lace is taking the place of white and cream for day and evening wear.

Violets are taking a new lease of life with spring in the not far distant futare. )

| A style somewhat in favor for evening dresses is the “three-decker,” or triple flounce skirt. o - Walking suits of corduroy made after the manner of summer shirt waist suits will find special favor.

Ganging still continues to be the most popular way of manipulating materials, especially those of light weight.

Some of the pale pastel tones will be popular the coming season, the very palest greens, pinks, mauves and blues. Ifashion is very partial to the note of black in neckwear and a touch of it is introduced into many of the prettiest pieces,

The greatest novelty of the hour is the chinchilla chiffon gown. Nothing can surpass the beauty of this material in its soft admixtures of gray and white. having quite the length and color of the fur itself.

= 5 G A 7 5 SY ' fl ik - ! 4%?,}«@ O P 2 ) B X 4t ] b 4 AT (Q'}/ Al ‘,’ 'l o : )AL W reonle PT" ."‘ / T o~ ST . NA A Pt ot I I I PP SN PPN NININTNI. THE SENTRY AND THE BOY. The sentry stood before the throne, - So pompous, grim; and tall. V 4 A little lad came strolling in, So quiet, trim, and small. “Come, come! Be off!"” the sentry ¢aid; “You can’t stay here, you know, I am the King's new bedyguard. Be off and ¢on't be slow!"” The little lad stood all amazed, - As if he had not heard; ' The little la@ stood still and gazed~ To hear the sentry's word. “Be off, you colt!” the sentry cried, .. “And see you-make no noise. . The King or Prince may soon be here— They don't like little-boys!" - “Oh, but you're wrorng!'' the chiid repiird:’ *“The Kirg, 1 know, loves.me! While T like little boys myself—~And I’'m the Prince, you see.” —Tudor Jenks, in St. Nicholus. - MINIATURE VOLCANO. How ¢oo Get Up an Eruption at Home ) That Will Make a Pretiy Litdle Spectacle. If one could only stand-off and admire the grand gpeetacle’ made by a volcano in eruption, without being in danger fronr it and without anybody else’s being in danger, there isn't oné’ of us who would not Tooion the privilege as a rare freat. Bul as real voleanoes -have a \\';\‘\" of making themselves terrible to .the spectators, and of killing people and lay-

. N S a = 3 & i WT | | : 3 : g { :i b . s - il } ,_t_ ; P == —==al i “H :';;:1;*—'&* : I HOW TO MAKE A VOLCANO. ing the country waste, a miniature | one, ogne that will make a pretty lit-| tle spectacle, and not do any harm at | all, is greatly to be preferred. | Here is the way to prepare it: Get a large flat glass dish, and in “the middle of it stand a small vial filled with claret wine¢ and stoppered with a cork through which a -small hoiz= | has been bored with'a red hot wire. | Now, get some (:I;xy or - common | earth and build g -miniature moun- | tain around the vial. DBuild it high ! enough th. conceal the vial entively.] but leave:a small” hole in the top of | the mountain clear- down to the cori | in thie vial. " Thus the miniature vol- | cano will be all ready to be set:ofl. Strange to say, not fire. but water, | will be needed for this purpose, A real voleano has both, for the ex-| plosion i 3 caused by the contuct of | water with red-hot melted rocks 4 down in the earth, and.the enormouns | pressure of -the steam thus generated | breaks open the earth: and throws | out the melted rocks as lava, Dui | this little voleano ¢an be started into| action simply by pouring water imw; the glass vessel until it comes two | or three .inches above the top of the | little mountain. Then give the wa-| ter a rotary motion and watch for a | few moments and you will see red | streaks. coming up through the wa-| ter and gradually spreading out into | a red cloud. ' The voleand .is erupt- | ing! - I But what makes the red-wine rise | through the water in that vay? It | rises because it is lighter than \\'u»; ter. It wonld have remained in the’| vial, of course, if we had not pmn'mll the water into the vessel, but when | the two liquids have come in contact, ! the lighter rises to the top. Your| teacher would-tell you'that wine has | less specific gravity -than water. but, we are not using seientific terms.—= | Brooklyn Kagle. . o

- MOST REMARKABLE CAT. Kentucky l;‘v_lhu\. Is a Foermidable Rival of the Pelican and the ) Greedy Fish-Hawk._ Capt. W..J. Stone, of Lyon county. is the possessor of the moési remarkable catin the world. This ¢dt, not content with the ordinary prowess of the feline species in catehing birds and rodents, has entered a new field and is a formidable rival of* the pelican and fishhawk. - According to Mr. ~ Sidney Snooks, deputy surveyor of the port, and a fon-in-law of Capt. Stone, it prefers fish to any other form of food and regularly goes fishing in Stone’s lake, the big sheet of water on Capt. Stonels farm: I ~ *1 don’t like to tell this story.” said Mr. Snooks, “because people are apt to class it as a fish story,when it is really only 4 cat story. The fish are merely incidental. Anyway, I always think of Mark Twain's story of the eat that ate the cocoanut, and I am willing to produce the cat'at any time to prove my tale, provided some one else will supply a pond of clear water well Tilled with fish. ' R “Jasper began his fishing. expeditions several years ago. We often found after a day’s fishing-that the cat wouid eat thee heads of the fish the cook threw away. Oneday he followed a party.of us to the lake, and his disappointment was great when he found that we deposited our fish in the b isket instead of leaving them where he could make a meal. - After awhile some one mnoticed Jaspet erouched on the bank, his. eyes set. justas he watchesa sparrow he is'after. Suddenly his paw shot out. and.. from the water he brought a gasping perch, which he soon put where it would do the most good. After that the cat made regular trips to the lake.”"—Louisville Courier Journal. ) i I .. Cost of Construction, - “Do you know what this railroad cost per mile?” R “No! But I'know how much it cost per aldermain!”—Puck.

BRAVE FIGHT FOR LIFE. Bridge Painter Fell One Hundred Feet and Saved Himself by Not Losing His Head. A thrilling incident is told by the St. Paui Pioneer Press of the marveélous escape from death of a man while painting a bridge 100 feet above the Mississippi river: . One afternoon Anderson was swinging happily like a bird on a twig six feet below the roadway of the_ high bridge, and about 100 feet above the Mississippi river. The seat of -the swing was ashort piece of plank. 1% was attached at each énd to ropes, which, passing through a block, re turned to the swing as a single rops. By lengthening or shortening this rope the man could raise or lower himself. “I was hanging close to one of the steel rods.” said Anderson, “a rod that I was painting. My rope was good and fast. I had no warping of any danger, when the sky and the clouds and the bottom of the bridge dashed past my eyes, and the ajr whistled in my ears like a typhoon on.the China seas. 1 knew 1 was going down head tirst. “I wasn't frichtened. I said to myself: ‘Now. I'll strike the river before long and if I keep going this way I'll hit the water héad first, which will be just as good as diving; and, being a good swimmer, I can easily get ashore.” . "But about-60 feet down—l didn't measure the distance -them~—my head struck one of the eross-rods a slantingblow. My legs sort of hudded up as I fell, probably, and came dewn full force against the rod. Icould hearthe bones crack:s They made quite a loud noise like a pércussion eap, Then I thought to myself: ‘Well, this is your lust cruise, for sure.’ and things got black before me. -1 guess [ fainted. “But the cold water brought me to. I bobbed up as natural az a harbor buoy. Butassoon asl made my firsg kick, or, rather, tried to make it, I found that both my legs were hanging as heayy and dead as shot in a canvas bag- They didn't. pain -me. though. But when I found I couldn’t swim I felt ‘my gun was spiked for sure. + “Juast then I heard the crew up aloft hollering: ‘Good boy. sailor! You're all right! Keep it up! Boat'scoming! Keen a-paddling, Jackie!” It did sound fine and hearty. let me tel! you. And so I kept a-paddling Yunti! a man reached me in a boat 15 minutes after I dropped down.” ' SCREECH OWL TALKS. Tells Our Boys and Girls ifaw It Lives and the Delicacies It En- , joys Most. Good evening! Do you wonder why I did not say good morning? Well, it is just because my day begins wita the dusk, and in the morning 1 go to bed before you get up. ! Did you ever get caught when you didn’t want to be? One evening when I was sitting in.the old pear tree near the woodshed, wondering where the plumpest mice would be most likely to appear, a farmer bay sneaked up behind and grabbed my légs. He put me in a caze and then his big brother.-who was an artist, made a picture _of mes But I squinted one eye ull the while so'l wounld look very wise and knowing. "But they were very kind to me and tried to give ‘me food and water. They gave me a raw chicken neck—-

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