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The Progress-Advertiser | I he J. F. GRIST. Editor. : MISSISSIPPI. LEXINGTON. : CUPID IN THE ELEVATORS X By Carroll Watson Rankin AAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAi VYYYVTYYY1 T HE inhabitants were chary of In trusting themselves to the elevator in Bailey Mansions, for it was of so un stable a character that the initiated had lost all confidence in it as a means of transportation. Katherine, however, was not an in habitant. In her own home elevators pursued the even tenor of their way without vagaries of any sort; so. when her call on the top floor was completed, with every reason to expect a swift and uneventful Journey she stepped con fidently into the elevator. At the fourth floor it stopped to ad mit a second passenger, a man named Westcott. Westcott differed from Katherine in that he entered the cage like apartment with a full knowledge of its treacherous tendencies, but West cott was that morning in a frame of mind to court disaster. He assured himself as he stepped in that it was a matter of complete indifference to him whether the elevator shot suddenly up ward and crashed through the skylight, or dropped without warning Into the basement. The elevalor. however, did neither of these things. Under the guidance of a chubby, blue-eyed youth, it pursued its T f/j ms N\v. xx; N; V-V y ■ , < & x /jgSSki V, *7/ W i 4; 11 . V m ■ :< m mim MT ; Mo THE BOY GENTLY DISCOURAGED FURTHER CONVERSATION. downward career until it reached the | space between the first and second j floors; there it stopped. At the sight of her fellow passenger Katherine turned pink with embarrass ment. The man had muttered some thing under his breath and bowed frig idly, for, before courting disaster, he had courted Katherine—apparently it had amounted to the same thing. They had parted forever only the evening be fore, and the ring she had worn for three months was at that moment in West cott's vest pocket, where he had thrust it savagely at the end of their quarrel. "Why are we stopping here?" asked Katherine, turning to the elevator boy of cherubic countenance. " 'Cause we can't go on," returned the boy, producing a bag of nuts and a comic paper and proceeding to make himself comfortable. "The power's off again." "Has it ever—does it often go off like this?" "Oh, yes," replied the hoy, cheerfully. "There's nothing to be scared of. Some times she runs all right for as much as a week; then, again, she won't budge for six or seven hours at a stretch." "Six or seven hours!" gasped Kather ine. "Yes," replied the boy, settling him self more comfortably on his stool. "Once it was longer, but gin'rally they get her going in an hour or two. There's no danger at all miss." The boy gently discouraged further conversation by burying himself in his paper. Katherine moved to the end of the long, leather-covered seat West cott, at the extreme other end, stared gloomily at the wall. Katherine looked at her watch; it was already past luncheon time, and she had been too miserable to eat much break fast. Still—she brightened at thought—she should net starve, for she had with her a box of chocolates she taking home to her sister's children. the was NEW CAVALRY TRAINING, Kovel Sj*(( • f li "(ruction to Be In troiluppil for Hrnrllt of tli p Drill. h Horne Soldier. Apparently as the result of the ad mirable experiments jn cavalry train ing made by Lieut. Col. de Lisle at Hounslow, the new system of instruc tion is to be introduced into the First British arn.y corps, writes an Aider shot correspondent. The innovation will do away with ■outine work which in the past has occupied much of the cavalryman's time. From the beginning of the training the aim will be to develop the cavalryman's power of initiative and resource and general intelligence in the field. One of his first lessons will be to catch his horse when turned loose, to train it. and ride it across country instead of around the riding school. The care of horses is also to be taught. Men arc to be instructed in the treatment of minor horse mala dies, how to Judge and treat lame ness, and lo tell good forage from bad much of the useless < ' Outpost and advance guard duties, reconnoissance duties and map reading are to be taught thoroughly. Parties of men are to be sent out to find their way to Itxed points entirely by the map. The art of scouting will be In r,tHied by the "Her stealing" game and practical trials of scouting, in which special stress Is to be laid on Intercept ing moves of the enemy, learning hts .strength without being seen, dispatch riding and making intelligible verbal and written reoorts. More attentlcn if. to be paid to firing, the proper appreciation of cover, rapid shooting, nntura! revts, and the effects of wind. She looked at her watch again. Only four more minutes had passed, but tha pangs of hunger were becoming unen durable. The chubby boy munched nuta with apparently no thought of his fel low sufferers. Katherine untied tha pink string that bound the chocolate box, unfolded the paper, lifted the lid, aad ate a chocolate. \Vhcn she had eaten three she glanced at Westcott He was still gazing at the wall. The walls In elevator shafts are seldom interesting; this one was tinted a bilious green—a color that Westcott abhorred. J'How he must hate me," thought Katherine, eating another chocolate, "when l.e'd rather look at a wall than at me. I wonder what I ought to do? If we were utter strangers, cast away on a desert isle, and he had one biscuit and three drops of water. 1 should think him horrid if he didn't offer me half. I sup pose I ought to offer him some of these chocolates, even if we're not on speak ing terms." Katherine, sitting very erect, and gaz ing straight ahead, pushed the box along the seat. Westcott paid no attention. "Will you have a chocolate?" asked Katherine, somewhat unsteadily. Westcott was so sure that he was dreaming that he did not make any an swer. "The lady spoke to you," prompted the elevator boy. Westcott looked inquiringly at Kath erine. "Will you—will you have a choco late?" "No, thank you," replied Westcott, returning to the contemplation of the green wall. There was another long pause. The neglected box remained half-way be tween the suspended passengers. "I think you're very ungentlemanly," said Katherine at length. "So you said last night," responded Westcott, coldly. "You're more so to-day." "How?" "You—you know I'm too polite to eat these chocolates and let you go hungry, and I'm fairly starving." Westcott, with an air of exaggerated politeness, took a chocolate and ate it, with his eyes fixed unsociably upon the green wall. He dared not trust himself to look at Katherine. Katherine nib bled a bonbon, waited in silence for ten minutes, and again offered the box to Westcott, who gravely helped himself. This operation was repeated until only one remained in the box. The remain ing one was heart-shaped. "It's a heart!" exlaimed the elevator boy, who had read too man/ "dime shockers" not to recognize an interest ing situation when face to face with one, and who was unable to contain himself longer. "You'll have to toss for it. It is a heart, isn't it?" "Why, so it is!" replied Katherine. "Will you have it, Bob—pardon me— | Mr. Westcott?" Westcott shot a quick glance at Kath erine, who had gradually moved two feet away from the end of the leather I covered bench, and was consequently that much closer to the man she had jilted the previous evening. "Do I understand that you are offer ing me a heart?" asked Westcott. "It's your turn," said Katherine, flushing a beautiful crimson. Westcott took from his pocket some thing that glittered, laid it in the box beside the chocolate heart, and pushed the box toward Katherine. "Do we play fair?" He asked, with his eyes on Katherine's. The elevator boy, agog with excite ment, retired discreetly, but with reluct ance, to the pages of his paper, but not before he had recognized in the glitter ing object a ring. And when he looked again the box contained two hands, although only one was visible; the man was no longer gaz ing at the wall. The hand of the indicator above the boy's head was leaping from number to number in curious fashion, sounds of ringing bells and impatient voices drifted from the elevator shaft; but the man and the maid paid no heed. Then the boy moved the lever slowly, even reluctantly, and the elevator dropped quietly to the ground floor. "Oh!" exclaimed Katherine, drawing her hand gently from Westeott's and giving a long sigh. "We're actually down." "Yes," beamed the boy, "and might have been down 15 minutes ago just as well as not; but I seen how things was going, and I thought I'd help them along some." "You shall come to the wedding, Cupid," said Westcott, slipping a heavy coin into the cherubic boy's hand. And he added, as they stepped out of the ele vator on to the solid ground: "If I ever own an elevator you shall run It." —Pearson's Magazine. is let bid of in of the self the 1 | j He and his be the and is is him. the at of It you Skill at arms is not to be forgotten, competi and mounted combats and iions are to be instituted. To render charging a little more sci entific. an interesting game, somewhat after the idea indulged in by the Ger man infantry, will bo practiced, squadron of dummies in line will form the objective, and the squadron bowl ing over the greatest number of the enemy will be declared the winner. A COURAGE. Where crowds rushed in at noon lo eat. The clerks, the scribes and all the others, He came and hunted for a seat Ami jostled with the hungry brothers. His hands were large and red and rough, His coat was frayed along the border. A bowl of soup he deemed enough, Apparently, for him to order. There, where the hungry hundreds sat, With elbows touching as they hurried-* The tall, the short, the thin, the fat, The unconcerned and those that worried** There, where the hard-faced infidel Partook beside the mild agnostic, And flouted Heaven and laughed at hell, And flung out grim remarks and caustic- There, crowded in among them, he Whose hands betrayed the labor. Not caring who might turn to see, And elbowed by hts thoughtless neigh bor— There, in the noise that they who ale And they that fed the crowd were mak ing, He closed his eyes above hts plate And bowed hts head before partaking. His hands were rough, he w as not blessed With greatness as we think we know it; Rut oh, that 1 such faith possessed And dared as he could dare to show It. -3. K. Kiser, In Chicago Record-Herald. ■ks of Cpnernl Opinion. A man who expresses himself con* tented Is looked upon as lacking In tun* bition. The Proof of Discipieship LIKE PAUL THE CHRISTIAN SHOULD BEAK IN HIS BODY THE MARKS OE THE LORD JESUS» Sermon by the 41 Highway and Byway Preacher. ir at If a ir (Copyright, 1903, Olflcago, Sunday, , 191)3. Text —"For I bear in my body the mark. M the laud Jesus.''—Galatians C:17. HAT a battle scarred soldier of the cross of Jesus Christ Paul was! H6 bore in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus as the honorable and indisputable evi i dences of his loy II alty and faithful service. w ■i m -Sic, y Hear his I • brief, modest sum ~* mary in the elev enth chapter of second Corinthians, and remember, too, that it was made before his imprisonment at Caesarea and journey to Rome and cruel bondage there: "Of the Jews five times re ceived I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, In perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and painfulness, in watch ings often, in hunger ami thirst, fastings often, in cold and nakedness." A battle-scarred warrior, surely! persecutions, the trials, the sufferings, the dangers began at Damascus at the time he first enlisted in the cause of Jesus Christ when the Jews went about to kill him and he escaped over the wall of the city in a basket, and they he had in The had followed him wherever to Jerusalem, through Asia His back was gone, Minor, into Europe, seamed and gashed with the innumer able blows which had fallen thereon. the Hisi wrists and his ankles bore cruel marks of the irons and stocks Upon his which had encircled them, face and head might be seen the livid left by the jagged rocks as they But every scars fell upon him at Lystra. scar, every pain and ache, every hard ship was a testimony for the Lord Jesus, and he was proud of them. ''HE soldier bears with honor the scars which he has won in battle. The empty sleeve or trouser leg, the dis figured face and form through which the shot and shell have plowed their ugly furrows, are eloquent tribute to the serv ice which has been rendered. The soldier is p"oud of that empty sleeve, of that bul let 'round. Paul, too, was premd of his scars, but it was with no spirit of boast fulness that he pointed to the cruel evi dences in his body of his warfare in the Gospel. He was proud of them and calls attention to them because they were the visible evidences of the presence of the Lord Jesus in his life. In the same breath with which he declared that "he bore in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus'' he had exclaimed: "God for bid that 1 should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ!" and it was because those marks were an expression in h's life of the cross and sufferings of Jesug that he gloried. To him it was one of the proofs of his discipieship. As in those days the slave was branded with the mark or initials of his owner, so was Paul. It was his pride to count him self the slave of Jesus, and to regard the scars which had eaten into his flesh as the brand-marks of his Master. 1 U/VtTH sublime contempt he utterly W ignores those who had so cruelly tortured his body and sees only Jesus. He knows that nothing can harm him and 110 one lay hand upon him, except as his Master permits, and save as it shall be to His glory and the advancement of the Gospel. Therefore when the Jews beat him, he sees Jesus and rejoices in Him; when the rods of the heathen fall upon him, he knows eadh stroke will make the light of Jesus shine brighter and farther into the darkness; when he is stoned, he rises up to bless; when he is imprisoned, he sings, for Jesus is with him. The marks in his body were the marks of the Lord Jesus—not those of the raging mobs at Jerusalem, at Lystra, at Ephesus, at Thessalonica; not those of the magistrate and jailor at Philippi. It was Jesus, his Master and Lord, mark ing his body for the furtherance of the blessed Gospel which he preached. Each stroke, each trial and hardship deepened the proof of his discipieship. It was ful fillment of the promise and prophecy of Jesus; it was proof of Divine favor; it was the evidence of fellowship with Him; it was the making complete of the sufferings of Christ. i in to to of T HE suffering of the disciple of Jesus Christ for the sake of the Gospel Is fulfillment of prophecy. Over and over again Jesus told His followers that they should suffer persecution. "If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. The servant is not greater than his Lord." And how the storm of perse cution has raged about the church of Jesus Christ! The prison and the stake; torture and death; hardships and suffer ings, have marked the pathway of the Gospel through the world. The early church felt the fiery trial and bitterest opposition, until the religion of Jesus Christ was popularized by the Roman emperor. Then came a new persecution to the true disciples of Christ from with in the organized state church, culmi nating in'the reformation, when the fires of persecution burst forth with re doubled fury. But the form of persecu tion changes, and to-day we have no Stephens being stoned to'death, or Pauls being cast to the Hons, or martyrs being burned at the stake. The torture cham bers have disappeared, and no longer is it a crime to worship the Lord according to His word and the dictates of one's conscience. But it is still true as Jesus said: "If they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you." The form of that persecution may have changed, and, save at the mission stations In heathen lands, or in this land when evil is aroused and united because of aggressive Christian work, physi cal violence or death are un 1903, by ]. M. Ed ton.) known, yet it is still true that "all that will live Godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." The devil has not ceased his opposition to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but he has been forced to alter his methods of attack. Ridicule and petty annoyances and inhumanities have come to he favorite weapons. The fol lowing of Jesus means the bearing of a cross to-day as much as it ever did, and "he that taketh not his cross and fol loweth after Me, is not worthy of Me." It would almost seem that Jesus, looking beyond the centuries of active and bloody persecution of His followers to the present day, uttered His "woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you," with special emphasis for His fol lowers to-day. The Christian all too often walks arm in arm with the world, and thereby wins its favor and com mendation, but the "woe" of Jesus sounds out against these and His "blessed" is reserved for those who are reviled and persecuted and accused of all manner of evil falsely for His sake. of his of as and loy his re I a of by in in | OT only is the suffering of persecu tion for Jesus' sake the fulfillment N of prophecy, bat it is a proof of Divine favor. When the apostles of the early church preached Jesus to the multi tudes at Jerusalem they incurred the deadly hostility of the Sanhedrin, as Jesus Himself had done before His crucifixion. They wt re dragged before the council and cruelly beaten. But, in stead of being crushed and disheartened by the persecution, "they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for His name." Their suffering and distress were welcomed as a spe cial evidence of the Divine favor. Think of it! in Test the temper of Christians to day and the true ring of devotion to the Lord Jesus fails to sound forth. We re joice rather when the way is smooth and easy. The line of the least resistance is sought out. The truth of the Gospel is often compromised in order to avoid friction and antagonism. But the early disciples welcomed persecution, when it came as a result of faithful living and preaching of Jesus Christ, as a sure tes timony of their dear Saviour's love and favor. Though their backs ached and the blood stained their garments, the inward presence and Lord made them rejoice. They felt honored because they were permitted to suffer for His sake, his body the marks of manifold cutions, but they were all made beau tiful in his eyes by seeing in them the proofs of the Divine favor. They were the marks of the peace of their Paul bore in perse If of Lord Jesus Never does there come a persecution to a disciple of Jesus Christ as a result of faithful and obedient service, hut that it is a sure evidence of the presence of the Lord with the disciple and of the effectiveness the work being done, to-day to learn the joy of being count ed worthy to suffer shame for Jesus' sake. I think sometimes the Christian ought to pray for the persecution that will send the roots down deeper and strengthen and solidify the life and make fruit bearing The sapling may groan under the lash of the tempest, but the lengthened root, the enlarged trunk and the loft ier reach into the sunshine, and the dewy night, are witnesses of Mother Nature's love and devotion. And so it is with the Christian. "Whom thb Lord loveth, He chasteneth lets the rods of men perform the worl: of discipline. Persecution is a proof of Divine favor. Himself. of Oh, we need more possible. And He ND persecution is the evidence of Divine fellowship—fellowship in His suffering. The only way really can know and understand the pain of your friend who has undergone an operation is to feel the cut of the surgeon's knife yourself. There is a fellowship between your friend and the one lying on the cot next to his at the hospital that you and he cannot en joy unless you, too, have suffered sim ilarly. Here is a mother bowed In grief over the loss of her little Her friend comes in to speak the word of comfort, hut she herself has never known such sorrow. Something- is lacking to make her sympathy com plete. But here comes a mother whose little one lias gone and left the heart ami the home desolate. She sits in silence by the side of the weeping mother. The pressure of her hand is felt. No word is spoken, but they both understand. There is a fellowship of suffering and each is comforted by the thought that the other knows and un derstands. We are entering the sacred precincts of the inmost heart when we speak of the fellowship of suffering, we are treading on sacred ground, and i believe that every one of the marks in Paul's body brought him nearer to his blessed Lord and his Lord nearer to him. In his letter to the Philip piatts he says: "I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, . . . and that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fel lowship of His sufferings, being made comformable unto His death." He longed to suffer that he might come to know something of what Christ had suffered for him. As he felt the scourging he could know something of the pain Jesus suffered at the cruel hands of Pilate's soldiers. As the hatred and Bcom of hts enemies were heaped upon him he could know some thing of the ignominy and shame which Jesus had borne for him. Every scar on his body made the fellowship of his Lord closer and dearer. Do you want to begin to know something of what Jesus has suffered for you? You must begin to suffer for Him. The fellowship of His sufferings Is precious beyond human word to tell, but to know that fellowship you must suffer lr. ways that shall be to the fur therance of the Gospel. You must bear about in your body the dylng s of A you one. lost and ly nib to and wet cool the oord Jesus, that the life also of ' Jesus may be made manifest in your body. B UT suffering for Jesus' sake goee be yond mere fellowship. As Paul puts it in Colostiaus: "Filling up that which is behiud of the afflictions of Christ." | Here is a beautiful thought, a wonderful thought. What a sacred halo of dignity 1 it throws about the suffering of the Christian—Paul suffering to make com plete the suffering of Jesus! The atone ment for sin upon the cross complete, | but the sufferings of Jesus made com plete through His disciples! The suffer ings of the disciples to make more effec tive the Gospel of atonement! No won der Paul could say he rejoiced in bis suf ferings. The disciple surely will always find it dreary and hard to endure perse cution if self is the central thought in that suffering, but let the inspired and inspiring thought which Paul gives us seize hold upon the heart, and instantly a new light and joy burns within; there is a higher purpose in the suffering, there is a more blessed fruitage. The trial and affliction which it seems as though we could not endure will become easy and fulfill a blessed ministry. Let us seek for that experience of Paul which can spy: "I rejoice in my sufferings, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for His body's sake, which is the church." All this was the meaning to Paul of the marks which he bore in his body. They were the proofs of his discipieship; they testified of the prophecy of Jesus that His disciples should suffer persecution; they were the proof of Divine favor and fellowship, and were the evidence of that exalted privilege of tilling out the sufferings of Christ. E may bear in our bodies the marks of the Lord, we may suf fer for His sake, we may endure bit ter persecution, but oh, see what He has borne for us! The crown of thorns pierced His brow, the nails tore through the tender flesh of hands and feet, the soldier's spear was thrust into His side! And this was all for you and me, that sin might be punished and we go free. He became sin for us and en dured the awful darkness of that dying hour that we might become the right eousness of God through Him. Thomas wanted to put his finger in the nail prints and thrust his hand into His side that he might be sure that it was in very truth his Lord. We do not need the proof of the doubting Thomas, for we know that our Redeemer liveth, but oh! we do need to remember the marks which Jesus bears in His body for you and for me. Those hands and those feet, and that great bursting heart, were never so beautiful as when they bore your sins and mine and when the pre cious blood flowed from that riven side. Sin has been washed away, but the scars which sin made in His precious body shall remain forever. These are what He bore back to Heaven, and to the eyes of the redeemed sinner there is nothing more sacred or beautiful. ing in and that to and UT what marks are we bearing for our Lord? What is there in our lives which is the evidence and proof of our discipieship? Are we suffering nothing, are we enduring no hardship for His sake? Is human friendship counted dearer than that of the Divine Lord and Master? Is the truth of tha Gospel of less weight and value than the wisdom and culture and refinement of this world? Are the things of this life of so great importance that we must spend all our time in the getting and the enjoyment of them, with scarcely or never a thought of the precious souls all about us who are perishing in their sins? What marks are you bearing in your body of discipieship? Is the mark of the cross which Jesus has given you t-> hear for Him livid and fresh in your shoulder, or have you laid aside the cross to rest in ease? Are you feeling the thrusts of persecution, which Jesus said should be the lot of His follower.'*? If not, then consider carefully wherein lies your proof of discipieship. If you bear not your cross, Christ declares you "are not worthy of Him." If you escape persecution and difficulty and hardship by denying your Lord and refusing to bear testimony for Him in the home, upon the street, in office, shop and fac tory, then hear your Lord say unto you: "Whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in Heaven." In that vision of John of the Heav-tns. one of the elders asks him: "Whal are these which are arrayed in white robes, and whence come they?" And John replies: "Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me: These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." "Out through great, tribulation." Bearing the marks the Lord Jesus in their bodies. Would we stand in the midst of (hat throng some day? It may be our privi lege, but cross-bearing must come be fore crown-wearing. B Tlie Delit of I-ove. Dr. Newell Dwight Hiliis says regard ing God's love for His children and the debt we owe to the Influence of that love; "No words can describe Christ's enthusiasm for God's children, for whom He had fitted up a world so beautiful as this. Standing upon the corner of the street. He watched the multitude go surging by, clothed in rags, faces wan and gaunt, neared with passion and sin, broken-hearted and disappointed; and watching. His heart was moved with compassion and He stretched out hands of loving help. Stooping, He took the little child in His arms, and In that moment His love hung above the babe as once the star hung above His own manger. With eyes filled with all-comprehending and all-com forting love. He sought for the prodigal who had made his life a waste and a desolation as others seek for a diamond in the rubbish. With infinite hope winsome love He gazed upon the publican and the prodigal, as some miner stands in the gorge that is rich with treasures of gold that He just be neath the surface. And the common people owe their rise In happiness chief lo is attitude, teachings and influ ence." Fruit Bp!J, Stew well any kind of fresh fruit, through a sieve, thicken with wheat meal, allowing four ounces meal each pint of fruit juice. Add sugar boll five minutes. Pour Into a cold, mold.—Orange Judd Farmer. laird. Lard should he kept in a tin and in a place. Superiority of Women s Clubs By MRS. CHARLES HENROTIN, ^Chicago WOMAN'S club ishjittle more than a school to teach her many things for the alvancement of the home. While men at their clubs spend tVir time drinking, smoking, telling stories, perhaps gamblinV, women are planning in their or ganizations for the estal\shment of kindergartens and for ' | 1 | President o Woman's Club. A caring for their tinfortuntft* The general idea that a vt lect her home, disregard mate sisters. Ionian's club causer her to neg il duties, and forget the ob to have originated with ligations of a married woman si-eEis those who do not stop to considel^t a part of the natural trend of civilization. Fifty years ago women spui^and wove their own cloth, and a few hundred years ago they made theirvjwu cooking uten sils from clay. At one time woman made everything for home us«. V Now the es ecessities has .more time to ■c her home tablishing of factories for the manufacture of home I taken those duties front her, and we find that she givesj social and educational projects, and endeavors to ma brighter and more pleasant and the members of her fKiiilv better. Hence the clubs. A woman's club offers the only opportunity to a woman f\r a post graduate education, and in the clubs are music, art, literature\nd eul Besides, a woman learns much that directly benefits her l\>me in id in ture. teaching her to care for her children and rear them properly, 1 some clubs, cooking schools, and instruction in sewing and hquse keeping are taught. Instead of its causing deterioration it is a revSda tion of good which can only be reckoned by a comparison of the wotV an of yesterday and the woman of to-day. of SUN AS HEALTH RESORT. Tile (*i I-umliinry In Xot n Molten Sphere, Hut Shining Sanitarium. The western astronomer who an nounces that the sun is not a molten mass, but, on the contrary, a delightful place to inhabit, will receive more re spectful attention than would have been possible ten years ago, says the Phila delphia Inquirer. That the sun is the source of practically all the light and heat we receive is undoubted, but the nature of these two forces is not only a mystery to us, hut the theories which have from time to time been advanced concerning them have been found un tenable. Although we have immeasur ably increased our knowledge concern ing the universes and some of its laws in the last four centuries, we are not much nearer any appreciation of the causes underlying them. The ignorant talk glibly about the "subtle ether," gravitation, light, heat and electricity, but the wisest admit that mighty little can be positively as serted about any of them aside from ob served phenomena. No reasonable ex planation has ever been given that ex plains the law of gravitation, which alone of all these in the universe seems to work exactly the same at all times and under all condition. No one can explain how the rays of the sun pass through the fringed space for 90,000,000 |a of miles and yield us the warmth and ligl^t without which life is impossible. Very plasible theories have been ad vanced to explain how the sun main tains its volume of heat In spite of the constant loss through emanation, but they are theories only. The atomic theory was used for decades to explain many things, but since that has been destroyed or made doubtful through .the discoveries at tendent upon the Hertzian waves and the emanation of ions, scientists are at sea where once they felt secure. Radi um exhibits phenomena that are thus far inexplicable, and it is probable that the western astronomer has arranged his theory of an inhabitable sun largely because of these recent discoveries, which have done much more to destroy former views than to construct new ones. He thinks that the sun is the great dynamo of our system, and that light and heat are mere effects of elec tricity as locally manifested when in con tact with matter. This sounds well, but it means little. It does not dispose of the difficulties attendant upon the the ory afforded by other known condi tions. it What .can be said is that no one with any intelligence will at once categorical ly disput the theory. That period has gone by. What is demanded is that he who propounds this or any other hy pothesis shall back it up with reason able proof of a scientific nature. We are unlearning many things just now, and are preparing to learn new ones, and we must all approach any subject with an open mind, devoid of prejudice. The sun may or may not be inhabitable. It is going to be difficult to establish either proposition. I is a to it A ten are FRENCH DETECTIVES. Police Service in l*nrlN Mncli Supe rior to That of Mnny Other Knropean Cities, When the emperor and empress of Russia had arranged to visit Paris and Compiegne the efficiency of the French detective police was thus tested: The chief of the Russian police came se cretly to Paris with orders to lie quiet ly by in a hotel and only to report himself at the embassy after a stay of a week. But he had not been three hours in Paris, says London Truth, be fore the prefect of police Darned of his arrival from a French detective. At St. Petersburg they thought this a satisfac tory result, and the Imperial pair ven tured to come to Paris and drive down the Champs Elysees without, cavalry round their carriage. A similar test ap plied In Rome brought to light a police slackness there. The head of the Rus sian police lay by there for a whole week without his arrival being suspect ed. On the evening of the sixth day he called on Count Nelidoff to report him self. to the great astonishment of that ambassador. They both agreed that if the Roman police had not scented out the head of the greatest police force In the world, they could not be depended upon to know much about the goings on of anarchists and nihilists. Nicholas is glad to be, they say, relieved of the weariness of an official visit to Rome, but nettled at the hatred manifested by the Italian socialists. Retort NnrcHNtlc. Spartacus—What would you advise as the most effective disguise that I might assume for the masked ball to-night? Smart icuss—You might put on an in telligent look.—Baltimore American. forlnrln In linnicnry. Hungary has 2,642 factories, which employ 259,464 persona. to may the on a MISSPELL WINDOW SIGNS. Net* Trtek li Advert InIiik Which n r Vork Merclinnt Say* UnrkM Wt idem. "One of the tricks of the trade during the next year," said the window dresser for a big department store, according to the New York Sun, "is going to he the misspelling of words in window signs. It works wonderfully. You know, at one time, a great trick was to put a picture iu your window, upside down. People would come in droves to tell you about the 'mistake,' and it gave business a boom for a time. "But tills misspelling of words beats all the other old devices. Why? Be cause it is human nature to love to cor rect other folks, that animates the child, who go blocks out of their way to show u stranger where he wants to It's the same spirit man, woman and go. "It pleases people to know that they know something you don't, and after they have corrected you they go on their way inwardly pleased with them selves, or else they are so brim full of geniality that you can sell them goods that they never dreamed of buying. "We tried the new trick two weeks I had a sign made to go in our 'white' window. It read: Thanksgiven Linens.' Well, that sign had hardly been in the window 15 minutes before |a gray-haired man ago. wearing spectacles The floorwalker at that stepped in. door caught him. He had noticed an odd error in spelling in the window, and if the floorwalker would only step outside he would show it to him. He was beaming. "The floorwalker went out. of course, with the old fellow, who pointed with his cane at the sign. carefully misspelled The floorwalker thanked him profusely and they chatted until the old chap got asking questions about the price of some of the handkerchiefs in the window. Then the floorwalker took him inside and turned him of the counter girls. "After that they came thick and fast. In two hours the floorwalker sent for me and said he couidnt stand it. He wasn't engaged as a barker and some body'd have to be put on the job; he was neglecting his business. So we got a man to do nothing else but attend to that misspelled sign. "It worked well all that week and last week, too. over to one Persons who did not want 'white goods' got inside in trying to rect that Thanksgiving error, and something else that interested them, so it was just the same. cor saw "But last Friday we took the sign down and spelled Thanksgiving in the good old-fashioned way. Pretty soon I expect we'll have to spring another one. There's no reason why we should n't take all honest advantage of the frailties of the human race." HOW WE CATCH COLDS. The Old Xotlon About Rxiinmii OrmiKlitN Hun Been Abandoned. e ti The London Hospital, a medical maga zine, maintains that colds are caught, the colds that have nasal catarrh for their chief symptom, in the same way that other infections diseases are caught— by the lodgment of a germ, says the Bos ton Herald. The character of the germ is not specified. This is no new dis covery or theory. Knowing persons have long been careful about exposing them selves to Infection by persons who have a cold, lest they "catch" It. The old no tion that a cold is the result of exposure to draught or to cold air or getting the feet wet has been abandoned, although it is true that one may get a chill in that way which will afford some of the symp toms and sensations of the nasal catarrh caused by a noxious germ. It Is safer to avoid close contact and all unnecessary contact with a person who has this cold. A horse that has been wintered out of ten catches a cold upon being brought into the 'stable in the spring. Experi ments with disinfectants have shown that It is not the warmth of the stable that Induces the cold. Arctic voyagers are frequently free of colds until their return to a community where they pre vail. In the small |X#b ky Island of St. Kllda, one of the western Hebrides, colds are unknown except when it is vis ited by some vessel, and It Is said the in habitants can distinguish between the different kinds of colds brought by dif ferent ships. There is much similar evi dence relating to the subject, and tho Hospital declares that "some source of infection must be present before It Is possible to catch cold." What appears to be needed is a specific germicide which may be used for prevention or cure. Ilnt-Minix-il Kites. The bat-shaped kite invented by S. F. Cody, F. R. M. S., has been adopted by the British admiralty. The kite Is made from bambo and silk and will carry a man. It may be used forreconnoiterlng on land or sea, and will ho able to haul a sledge over Arctic ice with but one man io steer It. l -■ •, j