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e e Che Ligouicr Banney LIGONIER, = - | - _' INDIANA. : . The Mills of fthe Gods 9 e —— )} -By IDA SHEPLER - (Copyright, 193, by Dally Story Pub. Oo.) A NOLD-FASHIONED hause, on a " A dingy side street, it's two front aoors opening on the uneven sidewalk; above one a dressmaking sign swung out to the breeze, about the other hung the strong odor of ether, for within iay a bruised and broken piece of humanity, over which bent two doctors, one elderly, . the other yoting and blythe. At a table - apart sat a doctor putting away his instruments used in the work which now seemed done and ready for the nurse. This man, goodly of face and form, belonged to the early prime of life: . “Pity that eleciric ear didn’t finish this poor soul while it was about it,” * said.the young doctor, glibly. “Now he will suffer a dozen deaths and finish up in the last. Itisclaimed that Providence . looks after the feet of fools and drunken men, but it did not prove out in this case. .- Why ‘wasn't ‘he taken to the hospital?” “Fairfield and I were on the car that * hurt him. We reached him just as he was lapsing into unconsciousness. He asked to be taken home to hiswife, and Fairfield would hear to nothing else.” - witha nod toward the man at the table. _ “The hospital was 'the place for him. We've worked at a disadvantage here. It was little use patching him up out- . side when he is broken up to greater ex- - tent inside, but Fairfield would have it sO,” growled the gld doctor. Then added: '“He was a total wreck before this happened. Qur work is all for naught.” ~ “It is entirely too soon to give a decision in thiscase. He maylive. Iknow © ~theé prognosis is unfavorable, and there ~are signs that show nerve wreckage, but witbh all 'this,. one can ' never exactly - guage the reserve forqé that may prolong life beyvond our farthest guess.” The doctor at the table was adding his deci- : sion. The elder doctor shook his head, : then continued, as he looked around the room for his hat and gloves: : , I understand, Dr. Fairfield, that you “are a friend of the family—or at least of

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the wife. It devolves upon you to malke her acquainted with the real condition of *her husband, and—and leave orders for his care. If mot, Hurty looks after many. cases in this part of—" “Ihave not-spoken to Mrs. Grayson for years, but I am very sure that Dr. Hurty, the county physician, would not be her choice. I will look after the welfare of Grt;yson until the ‘end, whatever it may be,” interrupted Dr. Fairfield, coldly. The young doctor glanced at him in a pleased way. His heart was yet callow, and)he had not learned the art of withholéing relief from humanity unless gold & as back of it. When the two had gone, after a close look at the white face upon the pillow, Dr. Fairfield opened the door of an adjoining room where a woman sat with her hands clasped on the sewing table in front of her. Turning from contemplating the blank wall, she disclosed a face still beautiful, despite the troubled droop ‘at the mouth corner, and the weary, deep-set eyes. : “You have come to tell me that he will Hve?” she began, then stopped suddenly. The words hall come unexpectedly to ‘herlips. : ~ “Why, don’t you want him to live?"” Her tone had startled the doctor. I would not have Dbrought him home had I—2 “Had you not thought I earnestly desired it,” she interrupted, bitterly. “I know that I have given those who once respected me,‘the right to despise me for condoning sih, by Hving with it, but I shrank from facing the world with my children, and this was my home, not his, that I should be forced away from it. Then;, when the children were gone, | had my living here) and—it will be.a wrench to go away and leave those three little graves in Elniwood. Oh, the world cannot know a woman’s heart.” “It may not, but I do, Mary,” and the doctor leaned over to take her hands in his own, for an undertone of the words. startled him to the knowledge that she ‘was not excusing herself to the world, bit to him alone.” - “Perhaps you never guessed, Mary,” he went on, ‘“that’ when your father’s farm joined that of my father, and you were a beautiful girl, far above the reach of an awkward country boy, that 1 loved you. You were my womanly ideal. I cannot explain it so that you will understand, but when he came, careless and handsome, and carried you away, I never could guite lose hearing of you. Mary, my heart has been with you in all that he has made of life for you, and it was with you in the Shadowy Valley.” “But you won distinction, wealth and a wife that belonged to the world you gained by your intellect. Your womaniy ideal changed?”’ She breathed in a surprised way. He shook his head. “It never changed. I married her because she had your looks, your voice, your manner. Dear little one. She has’been lying in Elmwood so-long it sgéems, and they think I have shut her away in my heart to grieve over forever.” An echo of something like a moan sounded in the nextroom. The woman’s face flushed, and she drew away her hands- with a jerk. “It is all wrong,

wrong, and him lying in there alive—and, and yet my husband.” “Perhaps it is,” was the answer, the tone losing its late inflection, “but as [ have said so much, and said it without premeditation, let me add this, the ideal of the boy is-yet the ideal of the middleaged iman. Should you ever need an abiding, a resting place, free from this incubus on your life, remember that my home, my heart and name awaits you.” With returning * consciousness came agony intense for the patient, agony that called for Mary’s presence through days and nights of utter exhaustion, finally, for herself. - : “You are wedring out,” commented Dr. Fairfleld in a professional tone. “It is not so.much the nursing that I -care for, but my work. I am losingthat, and—"" she stopped sho_f't. She had forgotten fo whom she was complaining. The doctor understood. She was the wage earner of this home, and yet he knew her spirit of independence would never allow him to offer the financial help he could never possibly miss. - “We must risk a little and give our patient medicine strong enough to induce longer sleep. That will be the means of giving you a needed rest also. I will leave some powders; and be very careful. Do not crowd them, and under no ‘ circumstance doiible them, as I had you | do the last sleeping potion. Two or three | of these given closely would put him in | a sleep from which, in his weakened condition, he could not be aroused.” | She took the medicine ina mechanical way, thinking no more oi this order than those preceding, except to put this medi--cine in a place of safety. But the sigk man had heard and heeded. ‘ -As the door closed behind the doctor, he fretfully said: *“You will be glad: when I am dead, Mary?” o “Why should!l be sorry? Have you cared for me. Have you brought aught but sorrow and disgrace into my life? Did you love your children? I might have forgiven you ail neglect of myself, but that you had no thought or care in life' for these children, and no tears in death, has seared all feeling in my heart for you. I may weep when you die, but it will not be for grief that you are gone, but for what you might have been.” - The bell under the dressmaking sign rang sharply. She did not-move. ““Why don't you go?"" he queried. - “It is some woman to see-about work. 1 am tired of turning them away. She will not ring more than twice,” she answered, in Qreary way. ““You had better go,” was his brusque retort. ‘I can wait on myself, at least I can use my arms to-day. -See. Bring me the sleeping powders that doctor left. I can take them as I need them, and not bother you. I heard the direction.” Something strange in his voicg attracted her, the look in his eyes told her better than his tone why he wanted the medicine, and was eager to get her out of the room. E - :

Hurrying to get the powders, ‘then tucking them under his pillow at his direction, she dare not look in his face, lest her face tell that she comprehended. The woman had turned away when the door was suddenly opened and she was bidden to enter. :

Hunting for the tape line. a blur came over her eyes, a ringing in her head.” At last.rest was confing. But how? The next, moment she had straightened up, her hand over her heart. She, the rigidly econscientious, to not put ferth her hand to stay death. Glad that it'was coming, anyway, anyhow, just so it came. ' She glanced at her face in the mirror, and saw the reflection of a lost soul. The next moment she was out of the room, and leaning over him, was roughly shaking the sleepihg potion, doubled twice over, broadcast from his hand. - : : “Why did you do that?'” he gasped, glaring at her. I wanted to die, and I thought you wanted me out of the way. You knew why I wanted the medicine. ‘What made you change your mind?” Shetcouldnot answer for the trembling still upon her. As she wentback to her customer, he called: “Iwill get'well now to spite you.” - : ! Weeks after, Dr. Fairfield said: “Mrs. Grayson, our patient has upset the best iaid calculations of the medical fraternity on injuries of-his kind, and is going to live—that is awhile, at least. I cannot answer for how long if he goes back to his old life.” : £ “He will' go back—is already pining for the flesh pots of his Egypt,” was the laconic answer. = ' “And you? Will you still tread the ~old paths, too?” The doctor’s eyes were | bent upon her. ~ “No; the old life is over and done with. I have come to the parting ol the ways [in it. lam going where he can never see or know of me again.” o “Mary, do you forget what I said that day?” His voice was anxious. 5 “Forget! Oh, my good angel, never, never. But I respect you—love you, if you will have it so—too well to bring one breath of reproach, to your fair name and reputation. No, not while he'lives.” Her voice was shaking, but he read the sound of no appeal in it. The mills of the gods are slow. They take that down in their - revolutions which seems lost to sight forever, to bring it back and up some day in a way we had not dreamed for! And one day they brought -back love and rest for Mary, and with therin Dr. Fairfield’s olden ideal. / Gk

: WHY? With saddene@ hearts we murmur *“Why ?* We try in vain to understand; - i If God presides,}fey‘ond the sky, ~ If all that is by Him was planned, Why must men suffer as they do, ~ Why must the innccent be slain? : - Why are earth’s glories for but few, ' Why are €0 many rackéd with pain? :Why -does He not, if He is there, In pity hear the mourner’s cry? ‘ Why does He leave us in despair, Disconsolately calling: “Why 7" If God is there, enthroned on high, All-seeing, powerful, supreme, B Why must the stricken mother sigh . In vain for omwe assuring gleam From yonder realm, for one sure sign | To sweep her grief, her fear away? LWhy must the righteous still repine, While oft the wicked proudly sway? Why is the faith our mothers taught ~ Permitted to decay and die : Because the sign® we crave are not? - Unanswered still we murmur “Why 7" And is it fair that you and I . Tear out our, faith and cast it off, And turn on those who ask not “Why ?”’ i And pity their blind faith and scoff? - “Go question your own heart and learn How little it wilk answer you; Why, through its promptings, do you turn - So: oft where bitter woes pursue? ¥f men may not have eyes to see : ~ Their own ways clear should they deny That God may govern well though we, . ~ Unanswered, still go sobbing “Why?” —§. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald.

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STEEL TRUST GOLD BRICKS. . Profit-Sharing Promises Handed Out to Confidence the Poor Em‘i)loyes. - Now that the employes of the billion= dollar steel trust have begun to work—with many murmurs but, as yet, without strikes—at wages about 35 per cent. lJower than those received last year, instead of only 10 per cent. as‘announced last month by the trust officials, that great benevolent institution, the steel trust, begins to talk of improved conditions and to mark up thesprices of its products. On January 14 the Iron Age said: “On January 11 the leading producer advanced the price on wire products one dollar per ton beyond former quotations, including, wire nails, barb wire and smooth fence wire. This represents. an advance of five cents per keg on wire nails. Theadvance was made because of the very heavy tonnage which has been booked during the past three weeks,and because of the low stocks in manufacturer’s hands, and their inability to increase them during the month of December. The stronger position which other steeel products have reached within the past week orgten days was-also taken in consideration. The manufacturers are advising the trade to send in specifications as soon as possible, on account of the prospective shortage of nails for spring delivery.” . This is gold brick No. I—for this year. The trust simply worked a big bluff on its employes and frightened them into accepting a much greater reduction in wages than was necessary, in view of the increasing demand for steel and of the increasing cost of living—the prices of commodities having advanced an average of two per cent. during December. Gold brick No. 2 was exhibited on January 12, when the trust announced that its profit sharing scheme of last year would be c)gptinued_ this year, the only change being that the employes can now obtain preferred stock at $55 a share, instead of $82.50. This is exactly two-thirds of last year’s price. As the 28,000 employes who went into this scheme last year have lost about onethird of their investment, and, therefore, have shared losses rather than profits, it is not likely that they will this year become customers for another supply of “profit sharing” gold bricks. If they are wife anad judge the future by the past, they will consider that next year they may be able to buy stock at one-third of last year’s price. ’ It is evident, however, that the trust officials do not this year expect to find a market for their gold bricks with their employes; it is the ever gullible public that is to provide customers for this year’s supply of shining goods. The Iron Age makes this fact clear when it says: ; L ““The announcement that the profit sharing plan would be continued, and that employes would be offered the preferred stock on a basis of $55 a share was favorably received by the stock market, speculators inclining to the belief that the stock will not be allowed to drop below $55 a share. It is reported that a very considerable portion of the preferred stock sold to employes under the original proposition has been re: turned.” It is said’that statistics show that an average of one ‘‘sucker” a minute is born on this round earth. = + BYRON W. HOLT. - PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS.

——Mr. Hanna hag sent out 2,000 letters denying that he is a candidate for ‘president. And yet they won't believe the poor man.—N. Y. World. ——The republican slogan is shaping up someth&ng like this: ‘“We’ll stand pat, and if we can’'t stand pat, we’ll stand pat anyhow.”—St. Louis Republic. : ——All that is needed to rescue the democracy from this “body of death” is the application of the democratic principle of majority rule.—Springfield Republican (Ind.). ——The “denial department” of Senator Marcus A: Hanna, already one of the. most interesting developments of pre-convention political gossip, is assuming proportions that threaten to tax the capacity of the typewriter factories. —Chicago Chronicle. - % : ——Mr. Roosevelt has shown no sign of relaxation in his efforts to be nominated for president. He will not take a hint. Messrs. Hay and Taft, very likely men in the public estimation, are still manacled at the door of the white house. —Cincinnati Enquirer. S : ——Does not the democracy need for its leader a man who has done: things, and in doing them has shown capacity for promptly and ably meeting emergencies? The party has such men at its disposal, and it seems to us that this year is the time to make use of that kind of material.—Nashville Post,

THE TARIFF ON COAL. e o Congress. Will Do Nothing in Opposition to the Protected . Combines, ; Z The republican leaders in congress have decided to keep the tariff tax on bituminous coal and the Boston Transcript calls on Massachusetts congressmen to demand that the duty be abolished. But the protest ‘will be fruitless and congress will “stand pat.” It will be remembered that, under the stress of the popular uprising against the coal combines, during the strike, the democrats forced the republicans to repeal the duty on anthracite coal and also to pass an act to refund the duty on bituminous coal for one ‘year. That period has now expired and the Transcript, a good republican authority, says: 1. . Y “The measure proved of practical benefit, altholigh the quantity of foreign. coal which was brought into the United States last year was small when compared with our home output. The American manufacturer or consumer ' prefers our coal when it can be purchased at reasonable rates in an open competitive market, but such a market does not exist in New England. As was amply demonstrated last year, this section of the country particularly suffers in the: ‘case of a coal femine, and the fact that prices are still higher than normal, .in view of the fact that the quantity of coal mined in this country was greater than ever before, shows that some eheck is needed on the rapacity of the coal mining and coal carrying roads and the independent, operators.” The reason that the anthracite coal trust was willing that its friends in congress should fe_-peal the duty on hard coal was that there is no such thing as true anthracite coal imported. The tariff protection was, therefore, worthless to that trust. The case of bituminous coal is different; a very great quantity of soft coal is imported from Cardiff and Nova Scotia “and Vancouver that competes in the markets of the cities ofsthe eastern and western coasts and the soft coal' combine wants that competition diminished.- - :

~ The republican -leaders have, therefore, refused to allow a bill to repeal the duty on coal to come before congress. The trusts certainly have extraordinary influence with the party in power.

MORE TROUBLE FOR THEM. Fresh Causes for Dlsc‘omfort Are Coming l‘]’l Among Roosevelt : Republicans. e ' The Inter Ocean, the most thoroughgoing republican organ of Chicago, and until recently a thick-and-thin supporter of Mr. Roosevelt, has seen the signs of ;the times and ta to the wo_ods, says tlhe Louisville\ CourierJournal. Here is. its explanation: “A southerr contemporary charges this newspaper with lukewarmness toward President Rcosevelt and friendliness to Senator Hanna, The charge is basel solely on the Intér Ocean's statement that President Roosevelt was almost certain to lose the vote of New York nex? November. The fact is that the Inter Océan has abstained carefully from interfering in the irreconcilable conflict which has broken -out between the Rooseveit repul;— licans and the McKinley-Hanna republicans of the east, : f “Any newspaper which believes it best for the country to have four years more of republican administration in Washington must follow the course pursued by. the Inter Ocean in this mespect, provided it exercises ordinary intelligence in its public policy. . “A feud which almost surely will cost the republicans New York state, and quite possibly “NewgpJersey and Connecticut, is to be viewed with regret and not to be fanned constantly into flame. Therefore, as every thoughtful reader of the Inter Ocedn must- realize, this néwspaper has taken no part in the controversy which is raging east' of Chicago. It does not have to. 1t does not want to. The charge, of our’ Arkansas contempeorary is without the slightest foundation in fact.” “This is another cause of discomfort to the Roo,seven; republicans, among their many other discomforts just now —discomforts which were much relieved the past week by the comfort which they found in the speech of Mr. Bryan. - Indeed, so great was the comfort they found in this that they closed in comparative cheerfulness a week which opened for them in gloom that verged on panic. ‘ : L ~——Mr. Bryan may scorn the idea of winning success, and prefer to think that he “deserves” it by setting himself up as wiser and better than the great\majority. of the American people. 'But unless all the signs of the times are misleading, the democratic party has had more-than enough of theatrical leadership, fatal alllancn_ and calamitous campaigns. It believes that the way to deserve success, and not to win it, is by being democratic, not populistic or socialistic or anarchistic.—N. Y. World. '

FIVE ACCIDENTS IN ONE. s ST . s So the Victim Figured It Out,. But the Insurance Company Thought . Dtfferently. 2 “The soullessness of corporations is something to| stun you,” said the man with the heavy mustache and the bandage about his head, writes W. Bob Holland in the Philadelphia, Press Sunday Magazine. “I am myself a victim: and instead of being a man of wealth and an honor to the community, I am now a relic of humanity just from the hands of a surgeon who made an earnest effort to restore me to the form in which I grew while reaching manhood’s estate, “Let me tell you about it. I carryan accident insurance policy, by the terms of which the company that insured me agreed to pay me $25 a week during such time ‘as 1 was prevented from working because of an accident.

“A week ago I went around.- on Sunday- morning to a new house that is being built for me. I climbed the stairs, or rather the ladder that is where the stairs will be when the house is finished, and on the top floor I found ‘a pile of bricks which were not needed there. Feeling industrious, I decided to remove the bricks. In the elevator shaft was a rope and a pulley, and on one end of the rope was a barrel. I pulled the barreél up to the top, after walking down the ladder, and then fastened the rope firmly at the bottom. Then I climbed the ladder again and filled the barrel with brick. Down the ladder I climbed again, five stories, mind you, and untied the rope to let the barrel down. The barrel was hga'vier‘ than I was, and before I had time td study over the proposition, I was going up the elevator shaft with my speed increasing everyv: minute. I thought about letting go of the rope, but- before I had decided'to do so, I was so high thac it seemed more dangerous to let go thar to hold on; so I held on. Half way up the elevator shaft I met the barrel of bricks coming down. The encounter was brief, but spirited. I got the worst of it, and continued on my way toward the roof. That is, most of me went on; but much of my epidermis clung to the barrel and returned to earth. Then I “struck the .roof at the same time that the barrel struck the cellar. The shock knocked the ‘breath out of me and the bottom out of the barTel.. Then I was heavier than the empty barrel, and I started down, while the barrel started up. We met in the middle of our journeys, and again the barrel uppercut me, pounded,my solar plexus, barked my shins, bruised my body and skinned my face. When we became untangled. I resumed my downward journey, and the barrel went higher. I was soon at the bottom. I stopped so suddenly that I lost my presence of mind and let go the rope. This released the barrel, which was at the top of the elevator shaft, and it fell five stories and landed squarely on top of me. And it landed hard, too. Now here is where the heartlessness of the insurance ¢company comes in. I'sustained five accidents within two minutes. Once on my journey up the shaft when I met the barrel of bricks, the second when I'struck the roof, the third when I was descending and met the empty barrel, the fourth when I struck the bottom and the:fifth when the barrel struck me. One accident would entitle me to $25 a week. Five accidents should entitle .me to $125 a week, and I figured that by staying in bed ten weeks I could clean up a comfortable sum. But the insurance man said it was but one accident, and he would pay but $25 a week. : “Argument was of no avail, and so I remained in bed four days and am now expecting a check for $14.28. Now, isn’t that a shame? : & A NO? i Yes?”

: NEE DRESS MATERIALS. Fine Fabrics That Will Enter Large1y Into the Composition of the | Season's Costumes. ! In the first stuffs of the new year there is noticed a new kind of panne silk which is so exceedingly lustrous that it looks ‘like panne velvet. This silk has a shéen such as was never seen before upon:the panne materials, and it is so velvety in its appearance that many women {f,are ‘buying it to'use as trimmings vpon evening gowns, instead of the panne velvet, which costs a great deal more, saysf:the Brooklyn Eagle. i Louisine is found this year in the new colors, and it, too, has taken to itself a new and wonderful surface and the new louisines are, as one delighted modiste declares, a combination of peau de soie and satin, a texture of the former with ‘the_gloss of the latter. And ‘there is another new material, which is only a new form of an old ma-. terial, and this is the dyed lace of the present year. Dyed laces will play a. very important part in the fashionable wardrobe, and it will well repay any woman to investigate them and to procure as many kinds as she can' afford. - o There are not so very many taffeta linings these days for the material does not wear so very well, unless one gets a very good grade or is very fortunatein one’s selection. But a good taffeta has gréat wearing qualities and, now, it is claimed that louisine for alining is the best of all things next to a very glossyi light weight satin. | - Many persons are lining lace shirt waists and other thin material with a very nice quality of cambric, or lawn, or cotton stuff and very smart some of these gowns are with their crisp, erinkly cotton linings, in good shades.

Keeping It Quiet. Husband—lt’s ruinous! The idea of paying all that money for a little bit of lace. a Wife—Mrs. Astorbilt has two or three pieces like that. - “But, good lands, the Astorbflts have millions where I have thousands. Don’t you know that?”’: © “Of course, I do; but I don’t want the Astorbilts to know it.””—N. Y. Weekly. ; Te Cement Glass and Iron. : ' Common alum melted in an iron spoon over the fire forms a good cement for joining glass and iron together, Itisuseful for holding the glass reservoir of a lamp to its metal base and for stopping cracks about the base. Its great merit for this purpose is that paraffin will not penetrate it. 2 , To Prevent Doors Banging. & cork neatly covered with some dark material and nailed to the floor about three inches out from the wall will prevent the door banging back and spoiling the wall, 42

-+~ THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. Uesson ‘in -the International Series for February 7, 1904—A Sab- & i » bath in Capernaum. ) . ~ THE LESSON. TEXT.—Mark 1:21-34. GOLDEN TEXT.—He laid his hands on -every one of them, and healed ‘them.—Luke 4:40. ¥ "OUTLINE OF SCRIPTURE SECTION. In the 5ynag0gue................Mark 1:21-28 In the synagogue.......% ~.0....L1ike 4:31-37 Healing in reter’'s house....... Matt. 8:14; 15 Healing in Peter's house........ Mark 1:29-31 Healing in Peter's house........ Luke 4:38-39 Healing at the'd00r..............Maztt. 8:16,17 Healing at the d00r..............Mark 1:32-34 Heaiing at the d00r............. Luke 4:40,41 Time.—Only a few Yays later than the last lessoq, ’ Piace. — Capernaum, a beautiful and thriving city on the Sea of Galilte (Lake of Gennesaret). = ; NOTES AND COMMENTS. - Jesus and the four fishermsn, Peter, Andrew, James and John, left the fish~ ing grounds together and went to-the city of Capernaum, which was full of men, women and children—for their work was henceforth to be in the busy worl¢ of men. TFhey were to be missionaries, home missionaries at first, then foreign missioraries. “‘On “the Sabbath day:” Jesus’ experience in the synagogue at-Nazareth was on the preceding Sabbath. What must have been His feeling as He entered the synagogue nere? . “And taught:” Jesus taught a great deal in the synagogue during His early ministry. Its service was more informal than that of the temple at Jerusalem, the seat of the stiffest and most orthodox Jucaism.’ Though. instruction in the law was the main object of"the synagogue, its services were in the hands of laymen, not priests (Geikic), and were more like our prayer meetings .than our church services. *Amid the dull, mechanical tendencies which were turning the heart of Juda{sm to stone, th: synagogue may have been often a center of life and rallying place of freedom.”—Dean Chadwick. “Taught them as Hhaving authority:” This is one of the most illuminating sentences in the whole story of Christ’s life.. The muaning is not simply that He spoke as if confident that He was right—the scribes were doubtless confident they were right—but rather that He did not back up His teachings by referencs to the standing authorities (Mos:s, etc.), but spoke the truth that He felt to be true in His own soul, depending on the truth itseldto makevits own impression. His was a message uirect from God. . .

Another surprise, was in store for the synagogus audience that day. “A man with' an uncl®n :pirit:” *“The belief; in demoniacal possession was common among Jéws and Gentiles in the time of our Lord, and it lorg obtained in the Christian church. Butit has been pointed out that most, if not all, the phénomena as:ociated with this belizf are now diagnosed as forms of cdisease—insanity, epilepsy, hysteria, etc.”—Adeney. We should add what psychologists call diseases of personality, ““‘double consciousness,” ete. If the unfortunate in this lesson was diseased rather than possecsed of a foul®spirit, why did Jesus speak as if there was a €pirit? (1) Because the man believed it was a devil that was troubling him. (2) Eviryone else believed sO, too. (3) The best way to meet an insane person is to meet him where he thinks he is. 4(4) Christ was not here to correct all me<n's erroneous beliefs; it would have done no good and immense harm. It would have been going off on a targent. Whether the man was an epileptic or possesscd of the kind of devil that the Jews believed in, was a -matter of indifference so far ~as .the kingdom was concerned. The point is that. Christ heal:d the man. Christ allowed nothing to interfere with - Hi:z main purpose. “Come out of him:” ’ Everyone saw that the man was curad. ““What is this:” *“What does all this ‘mean!” referring to the whole service. “A new tcaching . . . unglean spirits . . . obey him:’ The two marvels of the day. ‘“‘Both equally unlooked for—the former a moral miracle, the latiér a physical;. both revealing an imperial spirit exercising sway over the Jninds and bodies of men.”—Brue:. Note the ¢ffect in verse 28. “And straightway:” No time was lost. How full of service for others the Master's days were! “Came into the house of Simon:" Jesus was the guest ‘of His new disciple. “*A fever:” Very common in the low, hot country about the lake; commonly believed, like insanity, to be the 'work of evil spirits. Luke says Jesus rebuk<d the fever as he had done in the case of the maup in the synagogue. “At even:” The Sabbath ended at sunset. Picture to yourself the scen:s. No painter has ever been able to do it s 0 well as wé can in our own minds. Remember the Ma:3ter's commanding presence, but that He was at the close of a hard day, surrounded by ths poor and the needy, not the unsympathetic Pharisees, anl radtantly happy in being able to minister to them whom He considered as brothers and sisters. “Suffe-i'edl- not. .- .o -to speak, because thcy knew Him:” How did they know Him? Explanations are plenty, but not such as explain. The intuitions of deranged persons are frequently amazingly keen and true, and | can hardly be explained. Christ did not want to be proclaimed the Messiah asi yet, particularly by these people who were physically or mentally unsound. The time ~as not ripe. :

HEALTH AND DISEASE. The Public Health and Marine: hospitil service costs $1,000,000 a year, Pleasant Porter, chief of the Creeks, has the gout. He blames it to civilization. *° ; Dr. G. Sims Woodhead, of Cambridge university, an' eminent authority -on tuberculosis, is lecturing in the United States. : e William Laclede, once famous as a negro minstrel, has been taken to a Cincinnati hospital hopelessly paralyzed. Both limbs are useless, due, the doctors say, to too much dancing. The religious feelings of the natives of the Punjab are so strongly opposed to the killing of rats, and disinfection is o unpopular, that it has been decided to let the plague follow its course there, absolutely’ unchecked. . There has been no yellow fever in the United States for three years, excepting the recent development on the Mexican border of Texas. Some cases of yellow fever have come into Cuba, from Mexico in the last three years, but in no instance was the disease communicatedto others. ¢ o

OV - a ¥ nd 2 o 3 - ¥ - @)&;’ @U @) L) RS A O b \‘ o 2 I -0 > N RASO A AT QR Vs e@o‘ (2 “,‘ . R ’ g T s = 7 > v Gl JMMWMWW A BACHELOR TEA, Buffy’s my dog—and every day we, With my three boy-dolls, take afternoon ) tea; - o Rob Roy is gay in his tartan plaid; ’ Bobby Shafto’s not bad, as a sailor.lad, And Jack—the midshipmite, trim and'neat, Is under the table in lowly seat, Now, ‘as dolls are not really alive, Buffy and I have to eat for the five; But we play.so hard and romp about That both our appetites hold out; Sometimes we've bread with our cambric tea, : > Sometimes nurséy brings nice things to me; But if it's erackers, or just a bun, We eat it ail up and have-lots of fun. Buff \;'ags his tail and smiles at me; I tell him my secrets and pour out the tea. ~—Lilian Palmer Powers, in St, Nicholas. - WHY TORTOISE WON. Old Brother 7Terrapin %v.el‘ True Vepsion of a Race of WHKIch All Children Know. . ' Did you ever hear the frue story of the race between the Hare and the Tortofse? Old Brother Terrapin told it to me one day as I lay on my backin the grass b;the ‘pond.” “Never heard the real truth of that victory of mine, did yer?’ he squeaked, as he crawled up to me. ‘‘No, never,” said I; “how was it?” © “Weil,” he laughed, “you see, they always suppose that I won that race by keeping on plodding along at my usual gait, while old man Rabbit ' frisked along and-fooled and wasted his time " ‘showing off’ before the spectators. “But it was nothing of that sort. Let me tell you at the start that all the plod-. ding in ‘the world without a- little throught and common sense will never win anything. ’ “You see, I had a little bone to pick with that ‘yaller’ dog at ‘Bill’ Sykes, ‘cause one day when I was asleep he turned me over on my back, and I didn’t get my footing for two days and was nearly starved, tosay ~nothingpf the work brought on the old lady and the

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three children. So when Mr. Rabbit and I started on that race that youhave read of, I knew at the start that I had no chance to win without some little game. Just then along comes ‘Bill’ Sykes’ ‘yaller’’dog. .= - .« -xio To#2 “ ‘Mornin’,’ says qe, ‘nice day for the race.’ ek LT “‘Yes, says I, ‘an’ if you want to see the start, sit right down where you are and you'll see a great show.’ LT “So down he sat on his yaller tail and opened his yaller jaws and let his red tongue hang out. ‘One, two, three, go,’ says the starter, and just then I saw my chance and grabbed Mr. Dog's tail between my jaws. . He gaveone yell of terror and surprise and set off through the woods toward the goal at lightming speed, pulling me-through the air after him. My! but we did fly. And when we got near the goal I let g 6 and walked the rest. -Mr. Dog was so scared he ran on home. Served him right for turning me over. But I-won therace. Itellyou, brains cowxt,” saying which he ambled off into the woods.—St. Louis Post-Dis-patch. e i What Cloves Really Ares. Cloves are the ‘unopened flowerss of a small evergreen tree that resembles in appearance the laurel or the bay. It is a native of the Malacca, or Spice islands, but has been carried to all the warmer parts of the world. The flowers are siall in size, and-grow in large numbers, in clusters, to the very ends of the branches. The cloves we use are the flowers gathered before they are opened and while they are still green. After being gathered, théy are smoked by a wood fire and then dried in the sun. - ) . .

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OODLES is the horse, Binkie, the I passenger. Toodles doesn't like being a horse much, though; it is so humiliating to be tied up to a cart, and. especially so if you have to pull about another dog you know you can whip if you'can only -get the chance. Toodles looks peaceful enough, and he is gentle and affectionate with his human friends. The dogs are the playmates of a little New York boy, says t. = Detroit Free Press. Binkie is a very livgly youngster, and most things

PULLING TIGER’S TOOTH. Conrn'gooup. Dentist Braves the Beast . in Its Cage and Performs Has- : ardous Operation. : It was noticed that “Charlie Croker,” a captive tiger in New York, was moping ‘and irritable. His ili-temper, 1t was found, was due to the ulceratiom ~ of a broken tooth. A ‘dent{st, with & sufficient accident insurance. policy, was at last found who would run the , risk of taking it-gut. The tiger was madg harmless by being bound with strong ropes, and_then the dentist went at his task, as set forth in the Boston Evening News. . ¥ The tiger's mouth was braced open with a piece of two by four scantling and his lower jaw well saturated with a solution of cocaine and-another pain destroying drug. The dentist got his forceps on the tusk, but they slipped. He made two other attempts and each - time brought away a small piece of the tusk. The tiger Jay remarkably still. He pulled on the ropes that held him, but most of his strength was spent on the piecz of scantling between. his jaws. i ) - . The dentist said: “i’ll have to use a hammer on that tusk, the forceps won't do.” : i He braced a° three-foot piecé of a 2 ‘plank-against the tusk apd struck the other end of the plank twice. The- - split at the end that rested - against, the tusk. Then a three=foot iron bar was used. It tock two blows of the hammer on this bar to loosen ‘the: tusk. The tusk broke and was taken out piece by piece. “ ' Proprietor Beck, the keeper and ihe dentist left the cage, the ropes were taken off the tiger and he jumped to ‘his feet. He shook himself and growled a few times to make sure he was still able to. He didn’t seem t@ bs any the worse for his experience. . BOY KEPT HIS WORD. Good Habits Formed in Youth Made Charles Gray a Prosperous City Business Leader. ‘ ; - “Charlie! Charlie!” clear and sweet - as a note struck fronr a silver bell the voice rippled oyer the common. “That’s mother!” cried one of the boys, and he.instantly threw down his bat and. picked up his jacket and cap. - -k ' _ : “Don’'t go yet!” - “Have it out!” * “Finish the game!” “Try it again!” cried the players in noisy chorus. . “I must go, right off, this rpim"ne. ¥ o told her that I'd come whenever she called.” . s . “But I wouldn’t be sucn a baby as to run the minute she eglled,” said oune. “I don’t call it babyisp to Keep one’s word to his mother. 1 call that man--Iy, and the boy who doesn’t keep his word to her will never keep it to anyone else—you see if he does,” and he . hurried away to his cottage .home. Thirty years have passed since those - ‘boys played on the common. Charlie Gray is a prosperous business man irg a.great city, and his 'mercantile friends say of him that his “word is a bond.” We asked how ha s quired such a reputation.. His reply was: ‘“I never broke my word when - ‘a boy, no matter how greaf the tempte~ “tion, and the habits formed then Lave clung to me through Ilife.”—l3aptist ‘Chronicle. ; - .

Boys Build Tree-"op House. Owen Carter and LZdward Dillon, twe Woodbury (N. J.) schoolboys; late in, October exercised their high ideas by building a playhouse in the top of a huge maple tree growing in the rear of young Dillon’s home. The most surprising part of this is the fact that the boys pulled up the lumber with ropes, much.of it Being very heavy, and put it together in a substantial manner. The floor is 50 feet above the top of adjoining barns. The house is reached by means of lad-" ders and branches-of the tree, and so aecustomed are the boys to climbing that they have little fear cf falliing. Thelads frequently invite friends to spend a few ‘hours with them, but few accept, be--cause they arenot used to going so high without an elevator. It is ten by ten feet, with ten-foot posts. The work of the boys has@een amusement for the . inmates of thé county jail, as they can see from the rear of the prison. = B Fhe Smart Water Spaniel. A water spaniel troubled with fleas will look around for a good-sized stick ‘that he can carry in his mouth and will then make for a stream, into which he will jump and, with just the’ stick and point of his nosé out of the water, he will swim around until every fiea has left him. The fleas all make . for a dry spot, and so flock to his nose and o§.t on the stick. When the intelligent dog feels that all the little pesis are on the stick he drops-it and makes for land. T . ‘ ‘

in life are full of interest and excitee ment for him. He wants tobein everything that goes on He and "Foodles are not exactly friends, merely acquaintances, and I would not trust them alone - together very long for fear that oneor ¢ the other would insist upon settling the question of which was the better fighter. Toodles is well on in years, dignified, fat and ‘indifferent; Binkie, young, slim, and always ready for play. They are both very self<cons tained and vain. 7 SRt