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2 THE WILMINGTON MESSENGER, TUESDAY, APHTL 23, 1901 . JACKSON & BELL. COMPANY. "MAKING BLACK WHITE. McKlnley is supposed to have begun bis plan to change things in the south. Sambo is to be ignored, and the repub lican party is to be built up. To this end he appoints the son of an Episco pal bishop, and the srrand son of a Methodist bishop in South Carolina as a missionary to the beniehted and sup posed dissatisfied whites in that good state. The way to break ud the demo cratic party, it is supposed, is to give office to the fellows In that party who are ready and hungry and disgruntled and of loose political morals, ready for a change and never at heart genu ine democrats. The new appointee. Capers, bolted, would not support Bry an, and Is no doubt at bottom much more of a republican than he ever was a democrat. He perhaps jroes the whole republican hog. tail, bristles and all. It is true he did not have far to go at his departure, and McKinlev knew his man. The selection of such democratic specimens for reward will not break up the grand old party beyond attracting fellows of easy political virtue and of the Capers "kidney" to the most vicious besotted, remorseless, oppressive party that ever disprraced civilization and cursed a republic. The Washington correspondent of the Atlanta Consti . tution on the 15th instant wrote at length of this new movement to disin tegrate and divide the democracy, which creates no little of sensation in South Carolina and even stirs the old republicans themselves, for if much re cruiting comes from the democrats the chances for loaves and fishes for them selves inevitably diminish. Hence the protestation and disturbed sleep. But let the correspondent be heard: "A3 at present constituted, the repub lican organization in the south is com posed largely of negroes and carpet baggers, and. except when a national convention is at hand, but little inter est or pride is taken in the southern contingent by the republican bosses at the north. Durinir the campaigns pf 1896 and 1900. a number of prominent gold democrats in the south refused to support Mr. Bryan and srradually drift ed away from their old line democratic moorings. Added to this element it is claimed there is a younger generation .with new ideas and new ambitions in politics, who have to a certain extent acted or become indirectly associate 1 ."with the republican administration. Mr. Capers claims to be a representative of the latter class of southern democrats." A3 to who he is and what he is and ."What he stands for. the following is in forming:: "For some time past he has been In frequent conference with Senator Tritchard of North Carolina; Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina and other well known southern men who profess to be Interested in the formation of a .white man's republican party. One of the most active and Influential support ers Of Mr. Capers Is Senator McLaurin, .who recently declined to co-operate With his former democratic associates In the senate." Capers may do important missionary ."work, but what will the negroes in (South Carolina do about it? Senator Tillman, a real democrat, will fight Capers in the senate and so will the ."South Carolina delegation in the house, it is believed. We do not believe that enough democratic defection in South Carolina can possibly occur to endanger .white supremacy. The people of that rstate have sense and memories. The recent confessions of Ex-Governor Chamberlain are enough to teach them that a return to bad white rule aid ed by pliant negro voters will be sure .to bring upon them. CONCEALED WEAPOX OFTESCE Referring to a suggested idea that it should be made a felony for one to carry a pistol or other concealed weap on, the North Carolina "Law Journal" thinks that to be "entirely too harsh." The Messenger years ago took its posi tion on this matter. It agrees with the Charlotte Observer in the opinion that -all this class legislation is wrong." It is only that and nothing short of it. The Observer says: "It is nobody's business what a man has in his pocket so long as he makes no improper use of it when he has done that is the time to punish him; not be fore. Besides this statue about the carrying of concealed weapons places the law-abiding citizen at the mercy of the lawless; a certain class of citizens obey the law and another class does not, but goes around the same as if there were no statute forbidding its doing so. At the same time as long as this law is on the book, it ought to be enforced and the punishment made to apply equally in every case, not by one judge alone, but by all." The Messenger has again and again protested againat the injustice of the law. It does not cure the practice, but it simply puts the unarmed at the mercy of law breakers. "We venture to believe that every day 10,000 people in North Carolina "tote around" their weapons, and many are ready at any minute for a row or a race. Hardly a day passes that we do not see it men tioned in some exchange that some man is set upon when unarmed and is either killed or wounded by a fellow with his deadly pistol or knife or raz or. No legislation can ever settle the 'concealed weapon" nuisance. Any amount of stringent laws will only bind t "J rigid observers of law while the ' ,ngerous element .walks around a. ripatetic arsenals. Heavy pen alties will not cure nor will Imprison ment. Murders occur and sometimes almost at a door of a jail. It is all nonsense to essay to stop the business. , It is simply a great injustice, amount ing perhaps to an iniquity, to deprive the good citizen of the right of self protection. The law amounts prac tically to that. The Governor of Flor ida in a message to the legislature states that "seven deaths have been reported to the ' executive department during the past forty days, including two brave and gallant officials, a sher iff and a deputy in the discharge of their duty, attributed solely to the fact that Irresponsible and desperate persons were permitted to carry dead ly weapons. The citizenship of Flor ida is entitled to protection at your hands. The carrying of such weapons by irresponsible persons should be pro hibited, and I recommend with much confidence that you enact a law re quiring and all persons to execute a good and sufficient bond, to be approv ed by the board of county commis sioners, before they shall be permitted to carry deadly weapons of any kind, providing heavy penalties to make such law effective." v Heading that It must occur to a re flecting man how such a law would operate. The good, quiet citizen would still be at the mercy of the great army of violent and armed men, for the lat ter will not be reached by law. They will keep on carrying their weapons of offence. Penalties will not squelch the gang any more than penalties now against rapes, murders, arsons and thefts. The Observer is right in saying the law is wrong in itself. HEALTH HEPOllT OF HAVANA If reports from Havana are to be trusted great results have followed the sanitary work In that city. It Is a su perior object lesson for Wilmington and all other cities. Surgeon Gorgas Is the head of the sanitary board in Havana. His report for March quite naturally attracts attention in the south. The death rate was high, but not for that former sink-hole of death. It was 26 in the one thousand inhabitants. But one case of yellow fever originated in March. In all for the month there were four cases. Since the 23rd, there has not been a case His statement as to the mosquito theory is calculated to arrest attention. Dr. Gorgas thinks "that its present freedom 'is in part due to the system atic and extensive way in which we have been killing mosquitoes for the past month." and adds: 'I have the greatest hopes of destroying the foci as they appear by systematically kill ing the mosquitoes over a large area around each focu3 as it occurs." This is no new thing with him. Experi ments of a satisfying and conclusive character have been made all around the world and in several countries. The mosquito breeds fever. There is no smallpox in Havana. There has been no case there since August 1900. It is stated that consumption is the most destructive disease. There were 131 cases in March, and there were seventy - eight deaths. The board are giving much attention to this awful destroyer and are making scientific ex aminations and doing systematic work to reduce the disease and help poor af flicted humanity. The souta of the con sumptives are examined on the same day. BREVITIES. There are ominous signs of labor war around the country. Steel men talk of a lockout while president Shaffer of the Amalgamated Association is defi ant and will urge a general strike of workers in all the plants. It Is reported that President Kruger is too feeble to make the intended visit to the United States. Out at Manila, the trial reveals that there has been a grand bacchanalian revel among certain American officials. It is stated that "wine women and pok er kept ennui for away." Hurrah for the Empire. Up in "culshawed' Boston society women now ride straddle like the men. This is "progress up there" and one of the results of the talked of "higher ed ucation for women." The Kansas Virago tried her hand in Missouri. She was arranged before a judge,, fined $500. and then she depart ed for Kansas the scene of her dis grace and lawlessness. Professor Henry A. Rowland is dead. He was one of the ablest and most accomplished of the faculty in Johns Hopkins University. The Sun says: "It was not a commonplace intellectu al delver or toiler who simply absorbed old knowledge, but he was an investi gator who brought forth something new and valuable of his own." To be divorced reallv the divorce must be obtained in a state where both parties (husband and wife) to the marriage have had a genuine "matri monial residence." Such is the supreme court's decision. Mrs. Richard Chamberlain, wife of a brother of Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary who brought on the Boer war gave him a severe scaring at a public meeting. She said: "It is very well for men like my brother-in-law Joe to say that farm burning is all right, but how can he know about farms or farming? Who was his fath er? Who was a little screw-maker, a very respectable profession, but it does not teach much about farms. It is no good sending out screw-makers or any thing of that sort. The way was not made for England, and for Johannes burg capitalists who could not speak English." The governor has appointed Mr. Jas. M. Gudger. Jr.. of Asheville. as a solic itor in the new Fifteenth Judicial dis trict. He has been prominent in the late state senate, and is regarded as a lawyer of ability. He had not seen in office until he entered the late leg islature. We learn from the Raleigh News and Observer that he is a native of Madison county, and was born the 22nd of Xovember. 1S55. and was edu cated at Emory and Henry college, Va., a Methodist institution. . When an irate father-in-law takes into his head to slash with a knife his protesting sdn-in-law, it comes cheap before a magistrate in North Carolina, It cost one $10 only, for the fun recently in Halifax county. Wasiitxqtox, April 14. In this dis tourse Dr. Talmage sets forth religion as an exhilaration and urges all people to try its uplifting power; text, Proverbs iii, 17, "Her ways are ways of pleasant ness." You hare all heard of God's only be gotten Son. Hare you heard of God's daughter? She was born in heaven. She came down over the hills of our world. She had queenly step. On her brow was celestial radiance. Her voice was mu sic. Her name is Religion. My text in troduces her. "Her ways are ways ol pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." But what is religion? The fact is that theological study has had a dif ferent effect upon me from the effect sometimes produced. Every year I teai out another leaf from my theology until I have only three or four leaves left in other words, a very brief and plain state ment of Christian belief. An aged Christian minister said: "When I was a young man, I knew ev erything. When I got to be 35 years of age, in my creed I had only a hundred doctrines of religion. When I got to be 40 years of age, I had only 50 doctrine of religion. When I got to be GO years of age, I had only ten doctrines of reli gion, and now I am dying at 75 years of age, and there is only one thing I know, and that is that Christ Jesus came into the world to sive sinners." And so I have noticed in the study of God's word and in my contemplation of the character of God and of the eternal world that it is necessary for me to drop this part of my belief and that part of my belief as being nonessential, while I cling to the one great doctrine that man is a sinner and Christ is his Almighty and Divine Saviour. Now, I take these three or four leaves of my theology, and I find that In the first place and dominant above all oth ers is the sunshine of religion. When I go into a room, I have a passion for throwing open all the shutters. That is what I want to do this morning. We are apt to throw so much of the sepul chral into our religion and to close the shutters and to pull down the blinds that It is only through here and there a crev ice that the light streams. The religion of the Lord Jesus Christ is a religion of joy indescribable and unutterable. Wher ever I can find a bell I mean to ring it. If there are any in this house this morning who are disposed to hold on to their melancholy and gloom, let them now depart this service before the fair est and the brightest and the most ra diant being of all the universe comes in. God's Son has left our world, but God's daughter is here. Give her room. Hail, princess of heaven! Hail, daughter of the Lord God Almighty! Come in and make this house thy throneroom. In setting forth this idea the dominant theory of religion is one of sunshine. I hardly know where to begin, for there are so many thoughts that rush upon my souL A mother saw her little child seat ed on the floor in the sunshine and with a spoon in her hand. She said. "My dar ling, what are you doing there?" "Oh," replied the child, "I am getting a spoon ful of this sunshine." Would God that today I might present you with a gleam ing chalice of this glorious, everlasting gospel sunshine! Sunshine of Christianity. First of all, I find a great deal of sun shine in Christian society. I do not know of anything more doleful than the com panionship of the mere funmakers of the world the Thomas Hoods, the Charles Lambs, the Charles Mathewses of the world the men whose entire business it is to make sport. They make others laugh, but if you will examine their au tobiography or biography you will find that down in their soul there was a ter rific disquietude. Laughter is no sign of happiness. The maniac laughs. The hy ena laughs. The loon among the Adiron dacks laughs. The drunkard, dashing his decanter against the wall, laughs. There is a terrible reaction from all sinful amusement and sinful merriment. Such men are cross the next day. They snap at you on exchange or they pass you, not recognizing you. Long ago I quit mere worldly society for the reason it was so dull, 6o inane and so stupid. My nature is voracious of joy. I must have it. 1 always walk on the sunny side of the street, and for that reason 1 have crossed over into Christian society. I like their mode of repartee better. I like their style of amusement better. They live longer. Christian people, I sometimes notice, live on when by all natural law they ought to have died. 1 have known persons who have continued in their ex istence when the doctor said they ought to have been dead ten years. Every day of their existence was a defiance of the laws of anatomy and physiology, but they had this supernatural vivacity of the gospel in their soul, and that kept them alive. Put 10 or 12 Christian peop!e in a room for Christian conversation, and you will from 8 to 10 o'clock hear more resound ing glee, see more bright strokes of wit and find more thought and profound sat isfaction than in any merely worldly party. Now, when I say a "worldly par ty" I mean that to which you are invit ed because under all the circumstances of the case it is the best for you to be in vited, and to which you go because under all circumstances of the case it is better that you go, and. leaving the shawls on the second floor, you go to the parlor to give formal salutation to the host and the hostess and then move around, spending the whole evening in the discussion of the weather and in apology for treading on long trains and in effort to keep the cor ners of the mouth up to the sign cf pleas ure, and going around with an idiotic he-he about nothing until the collation is j served, and then, after the collation is served, going back again into the parlor i to resume the weather, and then at the close going at a very late hour to the host and hostess and assuring them that you have had a most delightful evening, and , then passing down olf the front steps, the slam of the door the only sat isfaction of the evening. mm Oh, young man come from the coun try to spend your days ia city life, whew are you going to spend your evenings: Let me tell you, while there are many places of innocent worldly amusement, it is most wise for you to throw your body, mind and soul into Christian society. Come to me at the close of five years an J tell me what has been the result of thi advice. Bring with you the young man who refused to take the advice and who went into sinful amusement. He will come dissipated, shabby in apparel, indis posed to look any one in the eyes moral character 85 per cent off. You will come with principle settled, countenance frant. habits good, soul saved and all the inhab itants of heaven, from the lowest nnge! up to the archangel and clear past him tc the Lord God Almighty, your coadjutors. This is not the advice of a misanthrope. There Is no man in the house to whom the world is brighter than it is to me. It is not the advice of a dyspeptic my di gestion is perfect; it is not the advice ol a man who cannot understand a Joke or who prefers a funeral; it is not the advice of a wornout man, but the advice of a man who can see this world in all its brightness, and, considering myself com petent in Judging what is good cheer. I tell the multitude of young men that there is nothing in worldly association so grand and so beautiful and so exhilarant as in Christian society. The Question of Self Denial. I know there is a great deal of talk about the self denials of the Christian. I have to tell you that where the Chris tian has one self denial the man of the world has a thousand self denials. The Christian is not commanded to surrender anything that is worth keeping. But what does a man deny himself who de nies himself the religion of Christ? II denies himself pardon for sin, he denies himself peace of conscience, he denies himself the joy of the Uoly Ghost, he denies himself a comfortable death pil low, he denies himself the glories of l,e:iv en. Do not ta!k to rec about the s!f de nials of the Christian life. Where .V-rc is one in the Chritinn life there .: a thousand in the life of the world. "Ir ways are ways of pleasantness." Again. I find a great deal of re'5i sunshine in Christian and iivine ; :i nation. To a great many p.-or!e W-.v i an inexplicable tangle. TLi.ig. u:i:i .u differently from what was suppn-e' There is a useless woman in .erf : health. There is an industrious arl i secrated woman a complete invalid, plain that. There is a bad man v $30,000 of income. There is a good ti. ri with $S00 of income. Why is t There is a foe of society who I ires on. doing all the damage he can. to 7." y :; i of age, and here is a Christian father, faithful in every department of life, at years of age taken away by death. Lis family left helpless. Explain that. Ol:. there is no sentence that oftener drops from your lips than this: "I cannot lu derstand it. I cannot understand it." Well, now religion comes in just at that point with its illumination and its explanation. There is a business man who has lost his entire fortune. The week before he lost his fortune there were 20 carriages that stopped at the door of his mansion. The week after he lost his fortune all the carriages you could count on one finger. The week before financial trouble began people all took off! their hats to him as he passed down the street. The week his financial prospects were under discussion people just touched their hats without anywise bending the rim. The week that he was pronounced insolvent people just jolted their heads as they passed, not tipping their hats at all, and the week the sheriff sold him out all his friends were looking in the store windows as they went down past him. Now, while the world goes away from a man while he is in financial distress, the religion of Christ comes to him and says: "You are sick, and your sickness is to be moral purification: you are be reaved. God wanted in some way to take your family to heaven, and he must begin somewhere, and so he took the one that was most beautiful and was most ready to go." I do not say that re ligion explains everything in this life, but I do say it lays down certain principles which are grandly consolatory. You know business men often telegraph in ci pher. The merchant in San Francisco telegraphs to the merchant in New York certain information in cipher which no other man in that line of business can understand, but the merchant in San Francisco has the key to the cipher, and the merchant In New York has the key to the cipher, and on that information transmitted there are enterprises involv ing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Now. the providences of life sometimes seem to be a senseless rigmarole, a mys terious cipher; but God has a key to that cipher and the Christian a key to that ci pher, and, though he may hardly be able to spell out the meaning, he gets enough of the meaning to understand that it is for the best. Now, is there not sunshine in that? Is there not pleasure in that? Far beyond laughter, it is nearer the fountain of tears than boisterous demon stration. Have you never cried for joy? There are tears which are eternal rap ture in distillation. All ! For the Best. There are hundreds of people who are walking day by day in the sublime sat isfaction that all is for the best, all things workisg together for good for their soul. How a man can get along through this life without the explanation is to me a mystery. What! Is that child gone forever? Are you never to get it back? Is your property gone forever? Is your soul to be bruised and to be tried forever? Have yon no explanation, no Christian explanation, and yet not a ma niac? But when you have the religion of Jesus Christ in your soul it explains everything so far as it is best for you to understand. You look off in life, and your soul is full of thanksgiving to God that you are so much better off than you might be. A man passed down the street without any shoes and said: "I hare no shoes. Isn't it a hardship that I have no shoes? Other people have shoes. No shoes, bo iSoesT" until he saw a man who had so feet. Then he learned a let son. Yoa ought to thank God for what he does instead of grumbling for what he does cot. God arranges all the weather la this world the spiritual weather, the moral weather as well as the natural weather. 'What kind of weather will it be today? saii some one to a farmer. The farmer replied, "It will be sue!, weather as I like." "What do you mean by that?" asked the other. "Well. said the fanner, it will be such weather a pleases the Lord, and what pleases the Lord pleases me." Oh, the sunshine, the sunshine of Chris tian explanation! Here is some one bending over the grave of the dead. What is going to be the consolation? The flowers yon strew upon the tomb? Oh. no. The services read at the grave? Oh, no. The chief consolation on that grave is what falls from the throne of God. Sunshine, glorious sunshine! Resurrec tion sunshine! Again. I find a great daal of the sen shine of this Bible and of our religion in the climacteric joys that are to come. A man who gets up and goes out from a concert right after the opening voluntary has been played and lfore the prima donna sings 6t before the orchestra gins has a better idea of that coi.crt than that man has who supposes thai ILo chief joys of religion are in this world. We here have only the first note of the eternal orchestra. We shall in that world have the joy of discovery. We will in five minutes catch up with the astrono mers, the geologists, the scientists, th philosophers of all ages who so far sur passed us in this world. We can afford to adjourn astronomy and geology anJ many of the sciences to the next world because we shall there have better appa ratus and better opportunity. I must study these sciences so far as to help me in my work, but beyond that I must give myself to saving my own soul and sav ing the rouls of others, knowin? that in one flash of eternity we will catch it all Oh, what an observatory in which study astronomy heaven will be not by power of telescope, but by supern.nt'.:rr:l vision! And if there be something doubt-: ful 10.000.000 miles away, by one str Ve J of the wing you are there, by anotl-e: stroke of the wing you are back ajriin. and all in less time than I tell yon. cat; Ii ing it all in one flash of eternity. A Place For Study. And geology! What a place that v::I! be to study geology when the world i being picked to pieces as easily as n schoolgirl in botanical lessons pulls t).o leaf from the corolla! What a place i study architecture, amid the thrones a:i 1 the palaces and the cathedral St. Mark's and St. Paul's rookeries in -c.i parison. Sometimes you wish you could mn the tour of the whole earth, going arm::. 1 as others have gone, but you have nt the time, you have not the means. Yon will make the tour yet, during one mu sical pause in the eternal anthem. I say these things for the comfort of those people who are abridged in their opportu- j nities, those people to whom life is ham drum, who toil and work and toil and work and aspire after knowledge, but have no time to get it and say, "If I ha 1 the opportunities which other people have, how I would fill my mind and sou! with grand thoughts!" Be not discour- j aged, my friends. You are going to the university yet. Death will only matricu late you into the royal college of the uni verse. What a sublime thing it was that Dr Thornwell of South Carolina uttered in his last dying moments! As he looked up he said. "It opens; it expands, it ex pands!" Or as Mr. Toplady, the author of "Rock of Ages." in his last moment or during his last hours looked up and sai l, as though he saw something supernatu ral, "Light!" and then as he came on nearer the dying moment, his counte nance more luminous, he cried. "Light! and at the very moment of his departure lifted both hands, something supernatu- J ral in his countenance as he cried, I "Light!" Only another name for sun shine. Besides that, we shall have all the pleasures of association. We will go right up in the front of God without any fright. AH our sins gone, there will be nothing to be frightened about. There our old Christian friends will troop around us. Just as now one of your sick friends goes away to Florida, the land of flowers, or to the south of France, and you do not see him for a long while, and after awhile you meet him. and the hollows under the eyes are all filled and the appetite has come back and the crutch has been thrown away, and he is so changed you hardly know him. You say, "Why, I never saw you look so welL" He says: "I couldn't help but be well. I have been sailing these rivers and climbing these mountains, an 1 that's how I got this elasticity. I never was so well." Oh, my friends, your departed loved ones are only away for their health in a better climate, and when you meet them they will be so changed you will hardly know them, they will be so very much changed, and after awhile, when you are assured that they are your friends, your departed friends, you will say: "Why, where Is that cough? Where is that paralysis? Where i- that pnen monia? Where is that consumption?" And he will say: "Oh. I am entirely welL There are no sick ones in this country. I have been ranging these hil's. and hence this lasticity. I have been here now 20 years, and not one sick one have I seen. We are all well in this climate." The Celestial Profession. And then I stand at the gate of the celestial city to see the processions come out. and I see a long procession of little children, with their arms full of Cowers, and then I see a procession of kings and priests moving in celestial pageantry a long procession, bat no black taseled ve hicle, no mourning group, and I say: "How strange it is! Where is your Greenwood? Where is yonr Laurel Hill? Where is your Westminster ab bey?" And they shall cry. -There are no graves here." And then listen for the tolling of the old belfrie of heaven, the old belfries of eternity. I listen to hear them toll for the dead, but they toll not for the dead. They only strike up a sil very chime, tower to tower, east pate to west gate, as they ring out. "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to Ih ing fountains of water, and God fhull wipe away all tears from their eyes." Oh. unglove yonr hand and give it to me In congratulation on that scene! I feel as if 1 could shout. I will fbout. Dear Lord, forgive me that I ever com plained about anything. If all this is be fore us who cares for anything but God and heaven and eternal brotherhood? Take the crape off the doorbell. .Your loved ones are only away for their health !a a land ambrosial. Come, Lowell Ma ion; ccac, Imc mtts. Give ns xoor best hymn about joy celestial. What is the use of postponing cur heaven any longer? Let It begin now, and whosoever hath a harp let her thrum it, and whosoever hath a trumpet let him blow it, and whosoever hath an or gan let him give us a full diapason, xney, crowd drwn the air, spirits blessed, uxor in. in MrtM(t of trinmnh. Their char iot wheels whirl In the Sabbath sunlight. They come! Halt, armies or uoui atau until we are ready to join the battalion of pleasures that never die! On. my friends, it would take a ser mon at lone eternity to tell the joys that are coming to us. I just set per a a the sunshiny door. Come in. all ye aisc pies of the world who have foand the irorl.l mrvkprr-. Come in. all TC disci ples of the dance, and see the bounding ft of this heavenlv rls.dness. Come la ye disciples of worldly amusement, and see the stage where kijgs are the actor and burning words the footlights and thrones the spectacular. Arise, ye atic ia sin, for this b the morhing of resur Tho iovs of heaven submergt our soul. I pull out the trumpet stop. In thy presence there is a fullness of joy at thy right hand there are pleasures forevcrmore. B2t ars tae rInti btlowl of Cod; 'C VTacW art Uxir robes ia Ji blood. Rrif hter thsa snfels, la, ttxy shins. Tbsir glories splendid sad suMiax! My tool sntidpstrt ths day. Would stretch fcr wing and sor stray: To aid ths sooc, th palm to bear. And bow, Uss chief of atsBsrs, tbsrs. Oh, the sunshine, the glorious sunshine, the everlasting sunshine! fc Coprrii-bt. 130L by Louis Cepscfc. N. T.J Much Ado Abost Xothln. Certain of the theaters in Russia arf under the control oV the state, and the actors are therefore subject to govern ment control. The Family Herald re lates a story of a famous dancer at one of these theaters who desired to secure s month's leave of absence in order to re cover her health by a tour of the prov inces. She accordingly went to the gov ernment official to obtain the usual pr mission. He received her politely ani? asked for her written application. "I have no written application, wa the answer. "I had no idea such a thin was necessary. "Not necessary, madam replied th official. "Why. nothing can be doa without it. "What am I to do then? "Here .ire pens and papers. Be so ro as to sit do'vn and write what I dlctt She sat down, and the petition wa written. igried and folded. 'And now." said the representative o: the state, "you have only to deliver it. "To whom?" the asked. "To whom?' repeated the official, wltl a srnile at her simplicity. "To me or course." Then, taking the petition which he him self had dictated, he produced his spH tacles. wiped them and carefully adjust ing them ripon his nose, rvad over the whole document as if he had never seeu it before. led it in due form, and then, turning to the impatient danseuse, said, with the utmost gravity: "Madam. I have read your petition and regret exceedingly that I cannot grant it. Urldced tbe Dilemma. Did you ever hear that delightful story of f ier.fcirwicz. the great Polish author? They are :viug a great series of festiv ities in bi hunor in Warsaw taking od va...:ige of the fact that it is 25 years since he began writing and making, as it were, a silver wedding of his quarter of a century union with letters. His fame has spread to Kussia. and it is even said that the czar has his books translated for him for a certain time every evening, so en tranciui dues he find the Pole's recon struction of the stirring dramas of early Russian and Polish history. The Academy of Letters at St. Peters burg may have been encouraged by these; facts to send Sienkiewicz n letter ol warm congratulation. Now, Sienkiewics is an ardent Polish patriot as well as tt artist, and he was placed in something OJ a difficulty by the receipt of this letter for it was written in Russian, and the im position of Russian on the Poles to th exclusion of their own language is one ol the things which the Polish patriot, of al classes, most profoundly resents. Sien kiewiez had to reply. To have replied it Russian would have been treason to Po land; to have replied in Polish woult' have been treason to Russia. Hp sol vet' the difficulty by sending bark his answei in Latin. London Mainly About People The Evidence of the Hook. It is said that Ibsen, the Scandinavian' playwright, is not always friendly to ward the English. Something which hap pened to him lately may increase that lack of liking or. if he is a man of a humorous mind, do something to l?ssei it One day. says the InJ.ja Oatlook. a certain Lincolnshire squire who joe to Norway every year for the Csb:n call-J upon the distinguished man. ILen was in gHd humor and received him cordially. Not only that, but he complimented hi guest. aying: "How well you speak Swedish. "It was h learn this." said the eng lishman, priwlucing from h'ts pocket a copy of Ibsen's poem "JJrand." The author wis naturally gratiSed and owned it the next day in telling the story at the cafe. "Rut." he added ruefully, "it was a new copy. Object to Whitewash. A correspondent writes to the London Daily News to protest against the pro posal to whitewash Westminster abbey, which, he assert, "would be as gross a piece of vandalism as that outrageous blot on the Tower bill, the red brick building recently erected, which entirely mars the scene and is out of all keeping with the gray stone battlements of oar jrrand historic castle. But the abbey! he exclaims. "Surely every voice in the land would be raised against the sacrilegf and vandalism of whitewash there! OL It. if need be. and preserve the dear olc pile, but chalk itnever! Divorce o Looser wl Disgrace. It used to be that the divorce court waj the place of last resort when wedded lift was no longer tolerable, and even whec sought under such conditions divorced persons felt some delicacy "about their do mestic infelicities and forbore for a pe riod to parade themselves in society. Now. however, there is no longer any sugges tion cf moral ill in the breaking of sa cred vows of wedlock, and divorce ha come to be so common an occurrence that the institution of marriage more and mor takes on the appearance of a pro bationary contract. Indianapolis Press.