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CUPID IN THE
ELEVATORS
X By Carroll Watson Rankin
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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
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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.
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NEW CAVALRY TRAINING,
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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
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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
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Text —"For I bear in my body the mark.
M the laud Jesus.''—Galatians C:17.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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tion for Jesus' sake the fulfillment
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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!
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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President o
Woman's Club.
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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.
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to
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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.
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