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In Chrltl.
lr Chr't I fed the himt of C!nd
ThU'thli.R fiiiii hem en thnmgli earth;
I. -.fe tlt ne.'iln within the toil;
llrmwiil In hi miK-mi birth.
Tie immiI upriiiii up. flower of prayer.
I intl.ihH his In m: h nut uti the nu.
In O.'lst I fMi.-h th hnnd of r.nA.
Krcm ht imt hi h-ht n-Hchril Uuwn,
;v Mri,l wa before lmtrml,
To 1:11 u to out clown. -VI.
totv that I I :ly perfect l
I'hUHiKh loxit.K HHirirtce, like till.
II. hlirs hi hand my steadied feet
M.i wulk the nlr the jen;
ti l.f anil limth hi mile lulls iwort
I.iKh:i up nil tn Klcrli-i
Blm:iKr imt el!e cm I hn
In i.i'W WnM wheie I if leiidcth me
I.ucy I-urcom.
If We Want to Do Good.
He wan mil Jict unto tin 111. Luke II.,
Afrer the With of Christ silence fall
upon His life. His lnhool hss no
retold. His outh tint II vestige of
MMoty. Once in all these years we
see Him In the Temple, and then
Marx's voice calls Illm home. He
tecs hack to Nazareth, and the story
of His life to Ills thirtieth year Is
written where? Nowhere on earth
.ivo In the heart of Ills mother.
Why this silence? Jesus was pre
paring for His gteat work in the ole
fcurity of a poor, mean cottace, find
ing therein and In His telations
toward two of His own creatures full
scope for the exercise of every vir
tue. He did this to lay deep the foun
dations of a school where men might
learn to sanctify themselves as He
ha.s done the school of the Christian
home.
Christ chose to spend thirty years
out of His limited thirty-three In du
ties and simple labors of apparently
a commonplace and trivial order He
elected to live in this manner In or
der to prove emphatically the prime
means of n 1 1 aln in n the most lofty spir
l'uality. Simple means are these, and
well within the reach of all mankind;
tior can any man complain of want of
opportunity In the attainment of per
fection, since It Is his birthright, com
ing to him at the cradle and at his
mother's knee.
It Is here, at the root of thing, that
man must Pepin his true work In the
ai quirement of solid virtue; here in
the practice of homely acts of pa
tience and courtesy, of charity and
pood example.
It Is the business of every man to
do pood. I.ofty projects for the bet
terment of the human lace are all
very well. It is the natural tendency
of the y hi tm heart and of the lover of
justice to si rive to rlplit (he wrongs
of the downtrodden and by shout and
stroke to redress nil grievances.
These are l he out pourings of nncor
nipt human nature, anil should be
pit served at all costs, liul the more
il'ftli ult attainments, such lis self con
n il and self pitriliciilion. must take the
le-iil, else the aiidaeloun reformer
brings down upon his head a merited
contempt, Lip service without fair
pi.H'lico accompanying it bear? no
fruit.
When a man Is as well-nigh per
fect as a man can be, then, and only
then, is he fit to lake up the battle
axe and cleave successfully wph It.
He that has tilled his immediate in
ner circle of life with the light of his
craeiousnc ss and has made the hearts
under his rooftrce to King with glad
tiess may justly and confidently turn
to the great universal family and en
ter upon the world combat equipped
In an armor that has been tempered
and forged at his own domestic fires.
No man ever came Into this world
with so full a knowledge nnd keen a
consciousness of the needs of Buffer
ing humanity as did Christ, the all
wise; no one has loved with as tender
a love or had greater power to con
quer the enemy, untrained and unpre
pared, than He, since He needed no
apprenticeship. Yet how did He act?
Did He rush out Mnprepared, or did
He choose to make of Himself a liv
ing example? The Scripture explains
It In three words: ' He was subject
to them." Subject to Joseph, the car
penter, and to a young and almost
childlike mother; subject to the con
ditions of a lowly life and to such
everyday duties as fall to the lot of
all men; content to do all things, both
great and small, but to do them per
fectly. Hev. Richard Hamilton.
When Offense Come.
Why should any sane person let of
fenses get the better of his or her bal
ance of soul? The trouble with a good
many. It may be shrewdly suspected.
Is that forgiveness has a flavor of
weakness about it 'to their minds.
Only the wise appreciate that forgive
ness Infallibly creates two levels
that of the forglver nnd the person
forgiven ami that the one who for
gives Is on the higher one. It Is abso
lutely impossible to forgive anybody
anything without rising above the in
jury done and the doer of it. When we
cannot forgive a person, then we are
r.ot one Inch above his level. We put
ourselves on It, In fact. Forgiveness
as taught In the gospel, Is a climbing
exer?lse. To forgive our brother sev
enty times seven Is one stage; to for
give those who owe us something Is
another; to forgive our enemies is the
highest climb of nil. Rut no matter
In what humility we climb, we are ris
ing continually above that which we
forgive and gaining heights from
which we look down upon offense and
offender without bitterness, but In the
spirit of freedom. Our forgiveness
may be a benefit to the forgiven one
or not; It may be sought or repudlat
ed: that docs not matter In the essen
tint result of It in our own live and
characters.
A Great Life.
Do not try to do a great thins: TM
may waste all your life waiting for
the opportunity which will never
come. Rut since little things are al
ways claiming your attention, do them
as they come, from a great motive, for
the glory of (iod. to win His smile ot
approval, and to do good to men. It
Is harder to plod !n obscurity, acting
thus, than to stand on the high places
of the field, w ithln the view of all, and
to do deeds of valor at which rival
armies stand still to gaze. Rut no
such act goes without the swift recog
nition and the ultimate recompense ot
Christ. To fulfill faithfully the duties
of your station; to use to the utter
most the gifts of your ministry; to
bear chafing annoyances and trivial
Irritations as martyrs bore the pillory
and stake; to find the one noble trait
in people that try and molest you; to
put the kindest construction on un
kind nets and words; to love with the
love of Ciod even the unthankful and
evil: to be content to be a fountain
In the midst of a wild valley of stones,
nourishing a few lichens and wild
flowers, or now and again a thirsty
sheep; and to do this always, nor for
the praise of man, but for the sake of
(!od this makes a great life. F. B.
Meyer.
Troubles That Never Come.
The story Is told of a lady who tor
a time kept a list of Impending trou
bles. It was a relief to see them
down in black and white. Some
months later in looking over the list,
she was surprised to find that nine
tenths of these troubles had never
materialized. They had an existence
only In her Imagination.
Troubles that never come form the
heaviest part of our daily load. The
worry, the fear caused by these appre
hended miseries, often work sad
havoc with brain and nerves. The
actual sorrows, the bereavements, the
illsapixilnttm tits, have tbelr comforts
and cure; but there Is no cure fot
troubles that never come. They art
nauntlng ghosts, unsubstantial as
mist, yet very real In their depressing
and harmful power over us.
Ka h day comes a fresh gift from
the hand of (iod. In it nre just the ex
periences His loving wisdom has or
daincd. Meet with a bravo heart all
that is In the day's portion, but shrink
not from phantom lions or from shad
ows that seem to blot out the sun.
The Kind of Religion We Want.
We want religion that softens the
step and turns the voice to melody
and fills the eye with sunshine and
checks the Impatient exclamation and
harsh rebuke; a religion that is po
lite, deferential to superiors, consid
erate to friends; a religion that goet
into the family and keeps the husband
from being cross when the dinner II land. Only liberal aid from the gov
late, and keeps the wife from fretting' eminent and from wealthy and char-
when the husband tracks the newly. i
washed floor with his hoots, and suffering during the approaching win
makes the husband mindful ot the' ter.
scraper and the doormat; keeps th
mother patient when the baby li
cross, and amuses the children as well fund with a subscription of two thou
as Instructs them; cares for the sand pounds sterling there flocked into
servants, besides paying them prompt' London great crowds of the wretched
ly; projects the honeymoon Into th
harvest moon, and makes the happy
home like the Kastern fig tree, bear-l
ng on its bosom at once the tender
blossom and the glory of the ripening'
fruit. We want a religion that shall
Interpose between the ruts and gullies
and rocks of the highway and the sen
sitive souls that are traveling over
them.
Pure Religion,
Pure and undefiled religion Is deep-
seated and thorough. Christ pronounc
ed woes against the veneer religion.
Ists of His day, charging them with
making the outside of the cup and
platter clean, without having first
cleansed that which was within. He
likened them to "whlted sepulchres
which Indeed appear beautiful out
ward, but are within full of dead
bones and all uncleanness." He said
unto them, "Ye outwardly appear
righteous unto men, but within ye are
full of hypocrisy and Iniquity."
Some one has said, "Give me a man
with a clean heart, and he will clean
up his own house." "Getting religion"
Is not a mere white-washing process
or purpose. It is a regenerating and
cleanlng-up process. The right klcd
of religion reaches the heart, settles
(here and works outward, from that
as the center where Christ Is enthron
ed. There Is life and pow'er In that
kind of religion. Veneer religion Is
lifeless, and powerless, acd worthless.
Making the Best of Thing.
Nothing is so bud that you cannot
make the best of It. Courage must go I
Into the making, and patience, too. A
sense ot humor is a wonderful help
Half the vexations of life havo a fun
ny side, did we but look for It. Faith
In God Is most Important ot all, for
If we trust His love and care, we
know that all that happens Is for the
best. Faith and fun, pluck and pa
tience, can transform every trial,
every annoyance, almost beyond rec
ognition. Between the best of things
nnd their worst Is almost as much
difference a between light and dark
oess.
BACK TO OLD TRICKS
DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL CON
TINUE TO FIGHT THE TARIFF.
Unmindful of the Lessons Taught by
Past Defeats, the Bourbon Are Ar
ranging to Renew Their Attack on
the Policy of Protection.
When the leaders and organs ot the
party cannot think of anything else to
fall back upon as a proposition for
union they take up the tariff. They
are tit it just now, apparently forget
ful of the evil fate that ha overtaken
the Democracy when It has "mon
keyed" with that subject. In the
midst of abounding national prosper
ity, and with the government receipts
giving their own refutation to Demo
cratic assertion that the Dlngley law
Isa defict-maker, there Is a demand
from many Democratic quarter that
the tariff be made the principal Issue
In the coming campaigns and that ef
forts be made to unite the party with
this as a rallying cry. And they nre
seeking to employ the old tricks.
They deprecate the term free trade
as applied to the particular brand of
political economy which they favor,
and at the same time arraign the pres
ent tariff, of Republican origin and
ennctment, as oppressive in its exac
tions nnd prohibitive in Its effects.
Of course it Is only necessary to
point to the enormous development In
our foreign trade, with Imports swol
len to unprecedented figures, to Indi
cate the absurdity of the charge that
the Dlngley law is either oppressive
or prohibitory. Hut an analysis of its
operations effectually disposes ot oth
er contentions which are put forth to
show the need for a radical chance.
For Instance, there have been weari
some Iteration and reiteration of the
chnrge that all rates In the present
law are too high and some of them
utterly unwarranted. The official rec
ords show that the average duty col
lected Is little If any higher than it
was thirty years ago, when a law
much less protective was In operation.
In fact, It Is less than for one year
at least under the Democratic Gorman-Wilson
law. The difference Is
that the duties are better adjusted.
More than half of our Imports come
In free of duty, which Is liberal treat
ment of foreigners and a larger pro
portion than was shown under the
Democratic law. Rut with the Dlng
ley statute In force the favored Im
ports are not those which would dan
gerously compete with the home arti
cles. These have to pay for the priv
ilege of getting In and entering into
competition with American goods In
the domestic market, which Is In ac
cord with the sound and wholesome
Republican economic policy.
The Democratic gentlemen who are
trying to get their party committed
to tariff-scuttling are entirely welcome
to play that game ns long as it
pleases tliem. Rut it is only an net of
friendship to warn them that it is a
pood deal like fooling with dynamite.
The plaything Is likely to "go off"
with a bang and leave the party more
sadly wrecked than before. Troy
Times.
Under Free Trade.
There Is no Improvement In the con
dition of the unemployed poor of Eng-
(table persons can avert widespread
As soon as it became known that
Queen Alexandra had started a relief
ly poor. It had been announced
that whatever funds might be raised
would be applied to the relief of the
suffering poor of all England, but the
needy ones outside the city became
possessed by the belief that If they
went to Iondon they would sooner
receive their share than If they re-
WHEN UNCLE SAM
a VC :. 'A I MT F D M ATI Pl MAL": I 1 X
1 V I tnfn'., rUKtU InOLC. 1 J J
mnlned In the places where they had!,
been living. The result Is that there!'
Is a congestion In London of depend
ents upon charity, which serve only
to make the situation worse.
For the needy ones there It no
work, and at present no prospect of
work. No one can venture to predict
when a change for the better may
come. .
And England, be It remembered, 1
free trade country. Albany Even
ing Journal.
A Premium on Dumping.
The most barefaced attempt yet
made to break down the protective
system Is chargeable to the Mer
chants' association of New York,
which coolly propose that Importer
be permitted to bring good Into the
country on invoice based on special
prices fixed up for the export trade
by foreigners. To accede to such a
proposal would be to put a premium
on the dumping process. It would vir
tually be an Invitation for foreigner
to drive our own people out of busi
ness by a reBort to export bounties
and other methods by which goods are
forced out of a country In which the
domestic consumption Is relatively
small, find the chief dependence of
manufacturers Is upon their export
trade, which they attempt to hold by
making great sacrifices. San Fran
cisco Chionlcle.
Will Be a Better Customer.
A great deal of American capital Is
finding Its way to Canada and as
sisting In the development of that
country since It put up what the free
trader call a tariff wall around It
borders. It Is noteworthy that pro
tectionists on this side of the line are
not Inspired by Jealousy of the grow
ing success of their neighbors. They
have long since learned that the best
countries to trade with are those with
varied resources and populations that
have developed the consuming habit.
Canada as a great manufacturing
country will be a better customer for
American products than she could pos
sibly have had had fche remained pure
ly agricultural. Our trade with her
seems to Increase In about the same
ratio as the development of her varied
Industries. San Francisco Chronicle.
Certainly Uncertain.
In his recent speech at Fort Dodge
Gov. Cummings' treatment of the tar
iff question was remarkable for Its
brevity. Regarding economic and
financial questions the governor said:
"You know my views upon them, for
I have neither been silent nor uncer
tain." As he has spoken and written for
free silver and the gold standard, for
low tariff and protection, for recipro
city In competitive articles, and then
before the Republican convention in
1904 announced himself as standing
in the exact center of a platform
which declared for "reciprocity In non
competitive articles only," It Is not
quite certain that he has never been
"uncertain." He does not allude to the
fact that he was on the same platform
and ticket with Gov. Roles some years
ago and helped to defeat Capt. Hutch
ison for Governor.
A Stand-Pat Victory.
"To the 'stand-p.ttters' in congress
the Imminent danger of a tariff con
flict with Germany has been a matter
of supreme indifference. Philadel
phia Record.
Not of Indifference exactly. Rather
of alert observation and adequate
preparation. It Is because of the
"stand patters" that we are to have
no tariff war with Germany. They
were in a position to make It unprofit
able for any country to inaugurate a
tariff war. Germany counted the cost
of exclusion from the American mar
ket. She sized up the "stand-patters"
correctly and decided not to try con
clusions with them. It Is a war max
im that Providence Is usually to be
found on the side of the heaviest ar
tillery. The "stand-pat" guns were the
biggest. Hence there was nothing do
ing. STOOD PAT.
I f(((lilitj 1 I
BALLAD OF THE BATTLESHIP
tuo jcoi mo nmerican aauor ana m
Greyhound of the Ocean. j
"With Mutely stride ! breast the tide.
And make for the open at.
With canvna spread 1 forge ahead
To where the era gulls nee.
My timbers creak If to speak
And Vnlc tl, Inv tUmv f..l -
My atrenuoua hhII will breast the gale,
Secure on ateady keel.
"They've chained me up m th harbor
there
And shackled me t the shnre.
Like a caged whelp I shrieked for help.
They taunted me the more.
Through scorching da ya long weary way
I toed like one Insane;
As bound by bands on alien Strand
I chafed In bitter pain."
"Oh hard It was to see the ship
Bcud by with spreading sail;
The pilot boat with snow-white throat
Danes with the bnlst'rnus gale.
The frowning frigates fearsome face
Loom like a leopard In full rhaae,
Whilst I Iny rotting In dlnsraca
To eat my heart and rail!
"At last they took me out to tea
Across the tnonning bar;
I felt the Joy of willing free:
Beneath the kindling star.
The land flew by ua like a dream.
KO-REA LA4V
"There are brass men, and wooden
men, and cowhide men, In all lands
and among all nations, so also In Ko
rea; but taken one by one and as a
whole, there Is no race where there
?xisto a more sensitive nature or a
keener appreciation of the feelings of
others," says a writer In the Seoul
Press Weekly. "A for theaters, there
are none, and Korea has no pit or
dress circle, but yet every man plays
to the galleries for all that he is
worth and the manner In which he
succeeds In his part I to htm every
thing. We, from the west, are rude
and careless In comparison. We move
about without ceremony and think
even to hold our heads up when our
trousers are puffed at the knees and
our shoes lack blacking, but not so
the Korean. He falls frequently Into
a state of dilapidation, and the burden
of It is full of misery and bears heav
ily down upon him. If a sudden wind
fall come his way be blossoms out
Immediately.
"His Is a life of ceremony and his
JJV SHAffGHA rs
Last December's riots In Shanghai
called the attention of the world to
that unique Institution, the Shanghai
mixed court. The following Is from
the pen of the Shanghai Times police
reporter, written a few duys after the
riots: "Magistrate Kwan and Mr. J.
II. Arnold, the American assessor,
nreslded at the mixed court yester
day. Mr. King was not present, it bet
lng understood that an important
mission,' coupled with the failure ot
the laundryninn to return certain nec
essary garments in .time, prevented
him from attending the sitting. The
court wore Its usual calm, quiet and
dignified aspect reminiscent of pre
riotous times, and no armed guard
was present. The various members
of the force, having found that large,
heavy service revolvers bulge the
pockets and spoil the set of their
smart, natty uniforms, had come un
armed, evidently Intending to rely
upon their good right hand and the
Justice of their cause In case of a re
currence of unpleasantness.
WIfffllfiG OF
The Northwest territory, out ot
which were carved the state ot Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wis
consin, became the quick and steady
goal of Immigration from New Eng
land, and that New England stream
into the west has been so constant
and so great that there bas long been
vastly more of New England west ot
the Hudson river than east of It.
To-day we are Indeed seeing strong
counter currents. A there are New
England societies In many western
cities, made up of men whose mem
ories turn back fondly to the old home
and whose steps also turn thither
more and more In Old Home week, so
now associations of men of western
birth are multiplying In our eastern
cities. New York has a large Ohio
society and we hear of the annual
Iowa dinner and Illinois dinner in tne
metropolis, and Boston now has her
own western society, organized last
year, with already 100 members.
The old town of Kuuana, mass., hub
COffTHAST
An American father had two daugh
ters, and when he died he ! ft each
ot them a large fortune. One of them
said to herself, I like society, i line
titles, and as there are no titles in
America I will cast my lot In foreign
lands. As she was rlcn and attract
ive. It was not long before a tiuea
.rcntlemnn from France offered her
his hand In marriage. She accepted,
the marriage ceremony was yer
rorraed, and she went with her tided
i....!... tn Paris, opened a palace,
and went In for all the enjoyments
of French society.
n'a .hail not sneak of the many
troubles which befell her and the dls-
tress which her uuea nusDaaa
hi,iriii iinon herself and members of
her family In America. But the up
shot of It is that the count nas spent
up .o this time so nethlng like $8,000.
000 of her estate, and besides has so
outraged her feelings by his atten
tions to another woman fiat she has
brought suit for divorce.
The other daughter said, I love the
Green hills and tree where branch
tenm,
Th rustling bough whose leave did
seem
To apeed m from afar.
And now t plow the murnVrlnf main
And head for home at IhsI,
Like a panting bird my breast la stlrraaV
My long exile Is past.
My chalnTess soul haa full control,
And I can wend my way.
And I ran ronm from pole to pole,
And revel In th spray.
At Santiago' wind-swept shore
I smnshed the strength of Spain,
My heart of oak their fury broke.
And swept them from the main.
What fierce delight to ahow my might
When raked with the shot and ahll.
My bulldog pluck oft brought me luck
And brought me aafe through hell!
How cool, how fresh the breeses blow.
And fan my frowning face.
And every reef and rock I know
Aa round the world I chase,
t lave my sides In the flowing tide
And quaff Ihe feathery spray,
I spurn the waves that fawn as slaves,
I churn Ihe shark awnyl
JAMFR F.. KINSFT.T.A.
Registry Division, Chicago Postofflce.
OF SOHHOW
words are full of delicate shades of
compliment and good opinion. By a
turn of the verb or choice of the noun
he can lift his hearer up among the
gods and crown him with no end ot
distinction. Again by the same power
of the tongue and same words used
he can put you down Into the depths
and leave you weltering. Through the
medium of this language of his he
can tell you to go about your busi
ness and never come back again In a
way that will leave you highly elated.
Korean life and language are based
on the understanding that this human
frame of ours I capable of appreciat
ing all the slightest degrees ot fro a
and favor.
"At this time when their land has
puollcly passed under the protecto
rate, how keenly they feel It. It Is
no mere show of tears these days, but
real sorrow that wells forth from the
broken fountain of the soul. The wis
est have seen that It must come and
that their own misrule would end
thus ultimately, but that makes It
none the less hard to bear."
MIXED COWRT
"Woo Sah Tcuh, a single gentle
man, member of the most worthipful
company of Larcenltes and an unli
censed cutter and wounder, waa
charged with being concerned, to
gether with another already sen
tenced, with stealing a box of Jewelry
and valuable correspondence, valued
at $500. Also with being 'in unlawful
possession of two cotton Jackets, a
pair of Inexpressibles and sundry ar
ticles of coiton clothing. Further
more, with cutting and wounding Mr.
Tseh Ah Wu with knife, hurtln
hU dignity and ventilating his gap
ments, on the Seward road on the 2d
Inst. Charge proven. Woo goes up
for six months' treatment at the mu
nicipal hydro.
"Tsung Ah Sung, a married coolie
was charged with stealing five tons of
red paint, valued at $40, trom No. 261
262 Broadway the property of Mr.
Tslng Ching Che. Tsung goes Into
retirement for one month, all his so
cial fixtures being scratched In conse
quence." THE WEST
well been called "the cradle of Ohio.
High on the Worcester county hills,
so salubrious that It was chosen by
common consent as the best place fov
our state sanitarium for consumptive
the central town of the state, Rutland,
was the home of Gen. Rufus Putnam,
and from there he went out to found
the state ot Ohio.
A second prominent "cradle" waa
Denver and the region roundabout
the Immediate sphere of the influence
of Rev. Manasst'h Cutler, Putnam's co
worker, but It Is right to give th
home of Putnam the pre-eminent
place In our celebrations ot the begin
ning of the movement of New Eng
land Into the west. Putnam's old:
house In Rutland still stands, well pre
served, secured as a memorial a few
years ago through the efforts of
Speaker Hoar and other enthusiasts,
and with Its rooms admirably restored
and filled with an Interesting histori
cal collection. It Is visited each year
by hundreds of people from the west
and east alike. Boston Transcript.
Iff TWO LIVES
simple life best, and I will consecrat
myself, my talents, my mind, my
womanhood and my fortune to th
good ot humanity. From that day
she has found her pleasures in doing;
good. She has never been ostenta
tious; she has never paraded herself
before the public; she has found no
time for the frivolities of society, for
she has been too busy in good works
for such diversions. It she had any
desire for a title, save that which,
belongs to every true American wom
an, the public at least had no evV
dence ot It, and yet she has a title.
She is known throughout the length;
and breadth of the land a our un
crowned American queen, and that
title, which has been voluntarily be
stowed upon her by the American
public, Is a title of honor more rich,
and worthy than anv which has been,
gained by Inheritance or by marriage.
Which ot these two titled women
do our American girls most admirer
And which has had the happier itfr
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