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THE CHRISTIAN WORLD FAITHFUL SERVICE. Woman Who Hat Beon Sixty Ycara a Sunday School Toachcr. "In the teaching of a Blb'.e claaa Ilea the secret of longevity and the main taining of a youth ful spirit with gray lairs," says Mrs. Mary A. Wright, who for nearly 60 years has been a teach er In the First Baptist Sunday school In Burling' ton, X. J. Mrs, wright. now six years be yond the "three score and ten," took her first Bible class In the Baptist Sunday school In Burlington when but 10 years of age, and la still teaching, lays Christian Herald.' She joined the school when only eight and later, when she was given a class, the girls she taught were almost as old as her self. She continued for some time as an Instructor of boya and girls; but in later years she has devoted herself to the teaching of adults, and her Bible class for women has long been tne largest in the city. She Is a re markable little woman and her faith fulness and enthusiasm In her work have served as Inspirations to the hun dreds of younger teachers and schol ars in the Sunday school, and to many others. 8he comes of a family many mem hers of which were prominent as Bible teachers. Her father was a minister of the Gospel and her mother was one of the first teachers In the First Bap tist Sunday school, organized in Bur- - Ilngton In 1825. Her husband, the late Noah E. Wright, was also on active Sunday school worker, and for 40 years was connected with the same school where his wife Is still teach ing, and where he himself was, for several terms, superintendent. Pe- sides being a teacher, Mrs. Wright is prominent In mission work. Teachers and officers of the Sunday school and members of Mrs. Wright's large Bible class tendered her a com plimentary reception recently. Speak Ing of her career, Mrs. Wright says: "I have made many mistakes in life, but the teaching of the Bible is not a mistake. One would suppose that ifter so many years' study the Bible would grow old and uninteresting, but every time I read it I find some thing new. When I started as a Sun lay school teacher I little thought thai I would spend so long a time In the work, but had I my life to live over gain I would still teach a Bible class. I will give you a recipe for keeping young, 'Teach a class in a Sunday school.' " Mrs. Sage's Benefactions. Mrs. Russell Sage continues hei benefactions in ways that promise most salutary results. She has given $200,000 to enlarge the building foi the naval branch of the Young Men' Christian association at the navy yard in Brooklyn. The existing building was presented by Miss Helen Gould and has accomplished a highly bene ficent purpose. The structure is nc longer adequate to the growing needs of the association, and the generosity of Mrs. Sage will meet an urgent want, says Troy Times. Tlfe Jackles of the American navy, who are great ly profited by the provisions thus made for their comfort and pleasure, properly appreciate the work of these noble-minded women. Rice Christians. The Chinese missionaries call those natives who become converts for pe cuniary motives "Rice Christians." There are 20 to 40 per cent of these. The missionaries are doing better and more successful work than they have ever done. The Chinese say thai the missionaries have made -more im pression in the last ten years than in the previous 90. The medical and educational branches are especially praised. The Chinese, even of the highest classes, are grossly ignorant of the care of the health and cure ol disease. Thus the missionaries have been able to perform wonders in the treatment of the sick. A Hope of Reunion. The Reformed church In France the old Huguenot church has been divided for many years Into Orthodox and "Liberal" sections, with an antag onlsm so bitter that it has not been practicable to hold a meeting ot the synod, and the breach has seemed tc be widening up to nearly the present time. The situation had become criti cal in view of the operation of the separation law. A hope of reunion is at last held out by the results of a conference of representative mem bers of both wings recently held al Jarnac to devise a declaration of prln rlples upon which they might cocie to gethor. Elect Secretary. Rev. Joseph Wilson Cochran, P. D., pastor of the Northminster Presbyte rian church, Philadelphia, has been elected to tho secretaryship of the board of education of the Presbyterian church In the U. S. A. Van Dyke Stays at Princeton. Dr. Henry van Dyke, urged by the faculty and students of Princeton col lage to withdraw his resignation, hat reconsidered his decision, and will re mala with tho college. LITTLE CAUSE FOR WORRY. Mor or Lota Glittering Bait Held Out to Cow Punchers. Over In tho Salmon liver meadows eountry, In Idaho, ranged a wild and woolly bunch of long-haired cow punchers, whose knowledge ot tho world waa confined mainly to trips aftor eattlo Into surrounding counties. Into this reckless but verdant com munity there came tho amooth tongued representative of a wild weat show, who hired aoveral rldera at a high salary to do a hair-raising act, the chief feature being that they should appear to be thrown from their horses and dragged by the foot After they had practiced In a corral for a while ono of them loosened himself and rising from the dirt, dis heveled and dazed, inquired: "Say, mister, ain't thla ruther dan gerous? Wo might git killed." "That's all right," chirped, the show'a representative cheerfully. "Tour salary will go on JiiBt the same." Llppincott's Magazine. THE REORGANIZED NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. The new Board of Trustees ot the New York Life Insurance Company, chosen by the policyholders under the Armstrong laws, has taken charge of the company's affairs and has begun the work of reorganization. In choosing the principal officers of the company, the Board has adhered to the idea that a life Insurance com pany should be managed by life In surance men. The new president Is Darwin P. Klngsley, a college bred man of good New England stock, who has been In the company's service in a variety of capacities for a period of nearly twenty years. In the parlance ot life Insurance, he "began with the rate book" and has advanced step by step up to his present position. The first vice president of the com pany Is Thomas A. Buckner, who has served the company tor more than a quarter of a century, Indeed has never had any other business connec tion. Associated with these men are others long trained In the company's service, each an expert in his own de partment of work. Wm. E. Ingersoll, who has for many years had charge of the company's great business In Europe, is one of the second vice pres idents, and will continue at the head of the company's office in Paris. Rufus W. Weeks, who has been in the company's service for nearly forty years, ranks next to Mr. Buckner as vice president, and continuous as chief actuary of the company. The policyholders have expressed tlfelr belief in this company In no un certain terms. The upheaval in life in surance within the last two years has resulted In a great deal of misunder standing and policyholders, alarmed on matters which were not very clear to them, have been disposed to give up their contracts at a heavy sacrifice, This has not been true In the New York Life to any great extent. The com pany had $2,000,000,000 Insurance on Its books when tho life Insurance In vestlgatlon began, and while the laws of the State of New York now do not permit any company to write over $150,000,000 a year (which Is about one-half the New York Life formerly did), the company's outstanding busi ness still exceeds $2,000,000,000. Policyholders generally will be still further reassured by this action of the Board, as It places at the head of the company to protect their Interests men of thorough training and unexception able character. Home, Sweet Homo. The wife of a naval officer attached to tho academy at Annapolis has to her employ an Irish servant, who re cently gave evidence of nostalgia. "You ought to be contented and not pine for your old home, Bridget," said the lady of the house. "You are earning good wages, your work is light, everyone is kind to you, and you have lots of friends here." "Yis. mum." sadly replied Bridget; "but it's not the place where I be that makes me so homesick; it la the place where I don't be." Good for Evil. One Sunday a teacher was trylni to Illustrate to her small scholars the lesson, "Return good for evil." Tc make it practical she said: "Suppose, children, one of yout schoolmates should strike you, and the next day you should bring hins an apple that would be one way oi returning good for evil." To her dismay one of the little girls spoke up quickly: "Then he would strike you agali to get another apple!" Her Disease. One day Marjorle, aged three, want ed to play doctor with her sister. Marjorle was the "doctor." and she came to make a call on her sister, who made believe she was sick. "Do you want to know what you've got?" the doctor asked, after a critical ex amination. "Yes," faintly assented the sick woman. "You've got dirty bands," said Marjorle, dropping in dis gust the wrist on which she had been feeling tho pulse. Advanced. "Hiram," said Mrs. Kornkob to her husband, who was reading the Weekly Screech, "they say that Jones man who has taken the farm next to ours Is mighty Intellectual." "I guess he is," replied Farmer Kornkob. "He knows four different almanacs by heart." Milwaukee Sentinel. When some people tell ns they Tic their best wo woador what theb worst Is like. Fashion would seem to have the blues, and yet to suffer no depression therefrom, but Indeed, to welcome them with gay enthusiasm. Every shade of blue Is worn and many are combined In more or less happy union. Distinctly happy was tho alliance of a blue voile gown of deep China bluo with a peacock blue hat wreathed with bine roses, the costume being completed by bluo kid gloves taking almost a royal tone. I hate colored kid gloves. I do not think there is any garment upon which fashion could smile which has the power to arouse in me such ire as the sight of brightly colored kid gloves, and yet I have been informed on reliable authority that, tho colored kid glove Is upon us, and that we are to welcome In turn blue gloves, green gloves, violet gloves and mauvo gloves. We have no mean choice between the various tones of biscuit, almond and wash-leather, and, by the way, with a blue serge dress and a black tie, wash-leather colored gloves must be reckoned as superlatively attract ive; and talking of blue serge, I will return to the popular craze of blue, and note with much satisfaction that the blue serge dress looks extremely well when crowned with ono of tho hats of tho new bright bluo, which may best be described as China blue with a strong dash of peacock In it. trimmed at one side with a rosette of WEWffill STYLES One of the peculiarities of the pres ent senson's styles Is the marked ten dency to abolish any definite line of the figure. The ideal lino is long, un dulating and undefined; and If by any cl anco a bodice seems more or lees tight-fitting, fashion at onco throws over it some loose coat or floating Simple Afternoon Dress. draperies, which give the required suggestion ot mystery. This Is exem plified in the accompanying sketch, which represents a simple afternoon dress for the present moment, when the weather Is too doubtful to permit ot or.r sallying forth in muslin. The skirt is of fo'ilard, a deep cream ground besprinkled with large violet spots, tho trimming consisting of two waved bands ot quilled satin ribbon ot the sumo color u the violet apou. black satin and at the other with a Huffy feather, soft, downy and light. i vory girl with rod hair should wear a hat of this colored bluo. To turn to consideration of the cos tmnes shown in our largo illustration. The figure on tho right reveals a dre of the finest ninon, trimmed with thick Iaen and tassels, and the hat Is of crinoline straw with a panache- of feathers at one side. It would look well either In a biscuit color or In pale pray, 1 should say, although I own to a friend who lias determined to copy it in dull light pink, and 1 note parenthetically that all shades of dull light pink are receiving consid erable attention, while I remember with gratitude a costume made of this tilnon with tho ninon worked Into rosettes and tassels, bearing a bod Ice of Japanese outline, with a vest and tho tinder sleeves of very flno Ivory net. Crowned with a crinoline hat of brown encircled with brown leaves and pink and red roses the re sult was pre-eminently satisfying. Hut I am forgetting that other illus tration, which expresses a costumo de signed for dress outdoor occasions, hold across the front with coral but tons set ill gold, fine lace forming the vest, and ninon the skirt. For grace commend me to tho well hung ninon skirt!! The hat you will se Is trimmed with a monster bow of ribbon, and in tho tying of the rib bon is there much art. With this Is worn as bodice a shirt of fine lawn with a double frill of lace down tho front, and a low-cut waist coat of violet satin. Tho desired looso outline is given by tho quaint little ebort-walsled buc coat In deep cream taffetas, the same shade as the fou lard, which is trimmed with bands of coarse cream silk braid and tassels. Into which a thread of violet is worked delicately, tho violet nolo be ing accentuntcd by tho turned-back cuffs, which are of violet satin like the waistcoat. This original dress Is completed by a big mushroom hat In cream straw, covered with a mass of bows in violet satin ribbon. Naturally we are turning our atten tion at this time to all those light and seductive materials which manufac turers and dressmakers have devised for our temptation this year. Tho voIIcb nnd silk muslins are lovelier than ever Just now, nnd so aro the nlnons and marquisettes, the fine satin cloths nnd shantungs, tho fou lards nnd tussores; and perhaps love liest of all in their soft colorings aro the shot taffetas, with which tho most exqtilsito effects can bo obtained. Amongst other articles of the ap parel tho walking shoo bears Impor tant relations to tho summer outfit. Shoes havo assumed a round-too rath er than a pointed ono, and the, latest method of their adjustment Is a lac ing of broad glace ribbon, which is tied in a bow on tho Instep abovo tho broad tongue. Tho shoes of tho fash ionable, which should bo made, I will add as a final word, in black, brown or white or gray leather, or suede, and not in colors save and except for even Ing wear, when I would grant recogni tion to shoes of any color, but not to gloves of any color; tbeso in bright hues must be eschewed at all times. Own Their Own Farm. Eighty-seven per cent, of the Can- dlan farmers own their own furua. President Roosevelt Said: "Texas is the Garden Spot cf the Lord" 95,000 Acre Ranch of Dr. Chas. F. Simmons Now On the Market. Here is Your Opportunity to Buy a Farm of from 10 Acres to 640 and Two Town Lots in This "Garden Spot" (or $210. Pay able $10 per Month Without Interest. Investigation will rhow that this P5.000 acres comprises one of the llnest bodies of Agricultural and Trut k Funning land la the entire state, com mencing about 3G miles south of San Antonio and about two miles south of 1'lensnnton (tho county seat of Atas cosa County), and extending through Atascosa nnu a pari oi air.Mtiiicn ( Counties,, to within 17 miles of my j CO.OOO-acre Live Oak County Ranch which I In four months last year, sold to 4,000 Home Seekers, on liberal terms, without Interest on deferred payments, which gives tho poor man, from 'his savings, a chance to secure a good farm and town lot for his home In town. I will donate nnd turn over to throe bonded Trustees. 12.10.000 from the proceeds of tho sale of this property to tho purchasers, ns a bonus to the first railroad built through this property on tho line which 1 shall designate. This property Is located on that mid dle plain between East Texas, where it rains too much, and tho arid section of West Texas, where it does not rain enough. Its close proximity to Pan Artonlo. the largest city In the State, with a claimed population of over 100,000. en hances Its valuo as n market for Agri cultural and Truck farm products far beyond tho value of similar luud not so favorably located. Topography. Level to slightly rolling. Largo, broad, rich valleys, encircled by ele vations suitable for homes; 90 per cent, flno farming land, balance pas ture land. Forestry. Ash, Elm, Gum, Hackberry, Live Oak, Mosquito, Pecan, abundant for shade, fencing and wood. Soil. About CO rer rent, rich, dark, sandy loam, balance chocolate or red sandy loam, usually preferred by local farm ers, und ench with soil averaging from 2 to 4 feet deep, with clay . subsoil. which holds water. Climate. Mild, balmy, healthy, practically free from nralarln, few frosts, no snow, no hard freer.es; continuous sealireeo moderates extremes of heat and cold, producing warm winters and coed sum mers. Average temperature about degrees. Rainfall. From the Government record. It la safo to assume thnt tho rainfall on this property has been fully 3D Inches per year, which Is more than some of tho old States have had, and Is plentiful for ordlnnry crops properly cultivated, and for Grass Growing. Improvements and Water. This property Is fenced nnd cross fenced in many largo nnd small pas tures, with four barbed wires, with posts about 12 feet npnrt. Also a number of fine shallow wells. Also a number of fine Lukes nnd Tanks. Also, a number of flno flowing Arte sian Wells, whoso crystal streams Mow for miles and miles down those creeks, whose broad, rich valleys, Irrigable from thoso continuously (lowing streams, make it the Idea! place for the Marketing Gardener who desires to raise from two to three crops of mnrketablo producu on the tamo ground every year. Farming and Truck Farming. Pensons never end. This lnnd Is adupted to profltnldo eulturo of Heans. Cabbage, Celery, Cucumbers. Lettuce, Tomatoes, Meets, Carrots. Onions, Itadtsh, Squash, Strawberries, Cauliflower, Okrn, Oys ter I'lant. I'eas, Kasberrjes, Turnips, Apricots, Cantaloupes, trapes, Irish Potatoes, Olives, Swept 1'otatoeB. Mn nnnns. Dates, English Walnuts. Figs, Melons, Peanuts, Marley, Mlackberrles, Mroom Corn, Lemons, I'lums. Tobac co, Alfalfa, Hyo. Oranges, Peaches, Pecans, Corn, Cotton, Oats, Wheat, Apples, Pears. Page 63 of the book entitled "Menu tlful San Antonio," officially issued by the Muslnoss Men's Club of Sun An tonio, dated May, l'JOU, says: "It Is readily conceded by all those who know anything about Texas that tho most prolific agricultural section Is that which recognizes San Antonio as its logical renter, particularly that portion directly south of San Antonio, with tho Gulf of Mexico bordering on the southeast and tho Mio Gruudo bor dering on tho south ami west. "Within tho last four or flvo years, In tho territory named, special atten tion haH been given to growing vege tables, they maturing at a time when they secure the maximum prices on Northern markets, which markets they virtually Invado without a competitor. The profit in growing vegetables In ttilu territory will bo seen by an exam ination of the following llgiires. so cured from reliable sources, tdiowiug Net Earnings Per Acre: "Watermelons from $75.00 to $200 00. "Cantaloupes from $4000 to $75.00. "Cabbage from $125.00 to $225.00. "Cauliflower from $70.00 to $225.00. "Means and Peas from $100.00 to $125.00. "Tomatoes from $125.00 to $100.00. "Potatoes from $C0.0O to $150.00. "Onions from $150.00 to $800.00. "Tabasco Peppers from $500.00 to $'.100.00 per acre. "The Chicago Itorord-Herald pub lishing tho following individual experi ences in South Texas: "Men who came here with $500 and $C00 a few years ago are now Inde pendently rich. "A young man who came to tils country for his health, houuht 15 acres and In one year clouted over Sii.ooO from It, which was $.i33.3:! per acre. "Another man. fl." years old, from 7f acres, sold $5,000 wot Hi of produce, from which ho realized $tl.1.2: per acre and then raised a Cotton crop on part t,r it, which made lilm ..; p r aero. which made the same land net hitr $'JS 2'J per acre for that yea". "Another nnn from 80 acres In U0 realized ns follows: Kiom Onions. 2.2Ui5..il: from Cotton, tl.SOO; Md bushels Corn; 12 tons Hay; D.00P pounds Sweet Potatoes. "Another made $3,200 from fiver acres of early Cabbage, which was $i10 per acre, nnd grew a second crop of Corn and Peas on the Fame ground that year. "Another realized $27,000 f-om PO car loads of Cabbage, averaging $3'o per car. which was $207. fin from eacP of the 130 acres ho had planted. "Another netted, above all expenses. ' $f.0 per r..ro on Potatoes, nnd planted tho same ground In Cotton that year from which ho realized $:ifi per nrre, which made that ground yield him $'.'3 per acre. "Another realized $32,006 from 23C nrres In Melons, which was $113.33 per acre. "Another netted $21,000 from 36 acres in Onions, which was $000 per acre. "Another netted $17,415. or $70 25 per ncro from nlnn cuttings of 220 acres in Alfalfa, which yielded in one year 2,475 tons and sold at $lt per tou. "Another received $100 from ont ncro In Canllllowor; sown in July, transplanted in August, and marketed in December." The same authority quotes the fol lowing statement from the lion. Jon eph Dally, of Cbllllcol be. Ill . whe owns thousands of acres In tho Illinois Corn Melt. He says: "I am ono of the heaviest taxpayers on farm lands In Mason nnd Tazewell Counties, Illinois, and I have been fa miliar with the conditions around Sam Antonio for 12 years. Any tlulfty farmer can get rich, and mnko more money oil of tills cheap land, acre for acre, than any land In the State of Illinois, that Bells from $150 to $2.f per acre." Como to tho land of beautiful sun shine and almost perpetual harvest. Where the people aro prospermia., happy and contented. Where the (lowers bloom ten month In tho year. Where tho farmers nnd gardencrr, whoso seasons never .end, eat homo grown Juno vegetables In January, and bask In mid winter's balmy ulr and glorious sunshine. Where tho land yield Is enormoitn nnd tho prices remunerative. Where something ran be planted and harvested every mouth in tb year. Where the climate Is so mild that the Northern fanner hero wave prac tically nil bis fuel bills mid throo fourtlis the cost of clothing his family in the North. Where the country Is advancing nnd property values rapidly Increasing. Where all stock, without any feed, fatten winter and summer, on the na tive grasses and brush. Where the same land yields tho subslaiitlalH of the temperate und tho luxuries of tho tropic zoiioh. Where I ho farmer does not hnve to work hard six months In the year to raise feed to keep his Block from dy ing during tho winter, as they do in tho North and Northwest. Where there aro no nrlslocrals nnd people do not havo to work hard to havo plenty and go In the best society. Where the natives woik less nnd have more to show for what they do than In any country in tho United Stales. Where houses, barns and fences c ao, bo built for less than half tho cost lu tho North. Where sunstrokes and heat prostra tions are unknown. Where suffcrem with Asthma. Mron rhitls, Catarrh, llay Fever and Throat Troubles llnd relief. Where, surrounded by fruits and vogetables. which ripen every month. In the year, the living Is better and less expensive than in the North. Whern tho wuter Is puro, soft and, plentiful. Where the taxes nro so low that the amount Is never missed. Where Public nnd Private Schools nnd Churches of (ill denominations ar plentiful. Where peace, plenty nnd good will prevail. Where it Is so healthy that there are few physicians nnd most of them, to mako a living supplement their in come from other business. $1,000 Reward will be paid to any one proving that any statement in this advertisement is not true. Write for literature and namet of nearest agent. C. F. SIMMONS. 215 Alamo Fists Son Antonio, Trxair Yes, But Will She? Wcdderly "Can tho girl you aro en gaged to swim?" Singleton "I don't: know. Hut. why do you a:'k?" Wed ilelly "Mecause, If she can, you ought to be happy. A girl who can swim can keep her uioJitb shut." Stray Sturleas