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LEXINGTON, ; ; MISSISSIPPI.
WING SHEE.
THE SUICIDE
Bjr WILLIAM HAMILTON OSBORNE
tCopyright, 1*03. by Dally Story Pub. Co.)
A LL HIS life had Wing Shee been
happy; little Wing Shee, of the
_dd years—all his life until now. To
be sure, there had been no reason why he
should not be happy. For ever since
the time when he had left the Street of
the Seven Waxen Fuchias, he had been
successful, as the world goes. He had
been good; he had prayed to all his gods
with his little spit-ball prayers with all
bis might. Especially had he shown his
intense dpvotion to that great American
god, the Dol-Lar. So he had prospered.
But he had prospered, to this time, alone
—he and his collars and cuffs and his
flat irons, and his sign that had Wing
Shee, Laundry, on it, and swung fitfully
W'ith the passing breeze.
But, now, the great god of Unrest was
at him. night and day. And no wonder.
For the diminutive Yo King had ar
rived. When or how he knew not. But
there she was, Yo King, laughing and
nodding at him with sheer good nature
from a window just across the way.
Wing Shee. it is true, had never seen Yo
King before; nor had she seen him—but
Wing Shee knew that his time had come.
He had seen many beautiful women,
both in the old Street of the Seven
Waxen Fnchias, and upon the thorough
fare of the marvelous Broad Way, but
never had he seen aught like Yo King.
He smiled at her and waved his hand
and showed his teeth.
"Yeh, yeh," he exclaimed, riotously,
though, of course, she was too far away
to hear him. He picked up a bit of silk
ribbon and stuck it in his blouse. Amer
ican fashion. She laughed and placed a
flower in her hair. Then Wing Shee bent
to his work and Ironed furiously away,
singing a quavering little love song all
the while. This was the beginning of
it all. This was the time that the great
god of Unrest laughed in his ample
sleeve.
It was love at first sight; Wing Shee
knew It; and so did Yo King. They met
and gabbled, each in a coy, embarrassed
way—and then they had made their lit
tle vows, and had told each other that
the world was as bright as though 12
great suns were shining all at once.
They little knew.
For Wing Shee was not the only one of
his kind who had seen the little Yo King
and caught the glamour of her eye. If j
Yo King had had her own way there j
would have been no glamour in her eye, [
save when Wing Shee looked on; but
the gods had made her beautiful and j
there were other of her countrymen
who recognized that fact.
One of these was big Fang Ho, he of
the tea store and the big yellow teeth.
He was rich and powerful—he was a
bachelor. He took Yo King's old guar
dian out to the Chinese chop-house and
filled him up with good things to eat,
and with rice wine to drink, and told
him, that he, Fang Ho, must marry Yo
King. Yo King's uncle, a kindly, but
weak old man, nodded his head and j
blinked his eyes and agreed that it must
But Yo King would not have it so. In'
moment when the gods had ceased to j
favor her she told the reason why—she !
loved Wing Shee. Fang Ho heard of
be so.
this, and nodded darkly. He had a way
to fix all that.
Behind Fang Ho was the Big Six
Tong. It was the Big Six Tong that
served on Wing Shee, one morning, its
terrible summons—a summons that
must be obeyed. This summons held
this message:
"Go to San Francisco, to the council
of the Tong, or, go back to China. Or,
die. This do, at once."
Wing Shee knew too well what it all
meant. He groaned aloud. Then he be
gan to plan. He wondered if he could
get the little Yo King and steal away
with her in the darkness. He dared not
go near her in the light. He tried to
make some sign. But it was no use. He
must flee until it was safe to come back.
He went.
He crept aboard a ferry boat; ones
upon it he watched an who came aboard,
He was sure he was safe. The boat,
pulled out and as it reached the middle j
of the stream two dark figures sprang up
from a corner-it was nlght-and ap |
proaehed Wing Shee. Wing trembled. I
He knew who these were—Fang Ho and ■
Won Sing, another mf*nber of the Tong.
"Where bound for?" asked Fang Ho.
"San Francisco," answered Wing
Shee. :
"No," said Fang Ho. "you lie."
"Yeh," responded Wing Shee, "to
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China."
THE EARTH.
Give me the hills, the pine-clad hills, the
steep ones;
The Jagged cliffs and slopes of living
green;
The valleys, vernal valleys, cool and deep
ones,
That round the hills, and rambling down
between,
Hold out a brawling course for some swift
torrent,
All bowlder tortured—bridged by fallen
tree—
Some men there be who find the hills ab
horrent;
But oh, the hills: the bills seem good to
me!
Or give to me the plain* that roll and
tumble
In earthen billows on the sky's far line.
All decked In blooms, a color scheme to
No words of
crumble
Into a thousand shades!
mine t . ..
Could ever paint In way that you might
see them—
Tern'll have to fln«f and know them as I
know r , . , ,,
You'11 have to wade among their blooms
and knee them—
Fair are the plains where wild flow'rs
bud and blow !
Or give 10 me the s.a! 1 love It* hollows.
Where fishers shallops skim the tossing
brine,
IJght on the wing, and daintily as swal
lows!
The hilLs, the plains, the sea, all, all are
mine!
Oh. If the Jasper fateF ope on no garden
Like these f know I'll weep celestial
birth!
And I shall weep, and Heaven be a bur
6en,
Ana all my plaint shall be: "I nant thf
earth!"
—j. M. Ltnli, In Houston Post.
"No," hissed Fang Ho; "eat this." It
was a small, round pellet Wing Shee
trembled, but he took it . Up to this
j „ me he ha(J had hope
But now hope
forsook him—the doom of Unrest was
upon him. He knew that he could not
escape. The eye of Fang Ho—of the
Big Six Tong, was upon him.
"Swallow it," commanded Fang Ho.
He obeyed. And then, without warn
ing, little Wing Shee, with a despairing
wail, sprang away from the two men,
leaped upon the taffraii, and jumped
J into the great black water underneath
: the boat. Then there was a commotion.
Other men, one here and one there, had
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seen the leap. Fang Ho and Wou Sln a
I crept inside a cabin and took a seat.
The people
They were undisturbed,
| outside shouted.
"We know nothing of it," said Fang
Ho, to inquirers. "We saw nothing."
j To Wou Sing he said: "If the wet does
of
unnerved that they had to keep him at
the hospital for awhile. They said they
would let him go in the morning. Ha
nodded somewhat drowsily. "AH light,"
he said. He fell asleep, did Wing Shee,
and woke from time to time, with
starts and twitches. It may have been
because he thought the Big Six were at
not drown him the pill will kill him. It
is well."
When the ferry people handed to the
hospital surgeon the wet, limp form of
Wing Shee the surgeon laughed. "Sui
cide, eh," he said; "queer thing. He's
the first chink who ever tried it in this
country. At least to my knowledge.
And he won't die. We'll pull him
around."
They did pull him around. In an hour
Wing Shee had revived. But he was so
his heels.
In the morning he was dead. "By
George," said the surgeon, "he holds
the record. He's the only Chinese sui
cide, all right, over here." In due time
they bundled Wing Shee into a pine box,
and it so happened that the god of Un
rest, in the shape of a few drinks, pre
sided over the man who screwed down
the lid, to such an extent that he did not
screw lt down. Off drove the cart and
Wing Shee's bones rattled so much in
side of the box that suddenly, from
being dead, he came to life. The dead
ening effect of that pill had worn away.
Wing Shee, much to his surprise, found
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lonely street,
upon a far distant saloon. Wing Shee j
put one leg over the side of the box, then
another; then he cautiously and stiffly j
jumped to the street below and disap- !
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himself much cramped. He pushed and !
the lid fell off. He sat up and looked \
about.
He was t traveling through a
The driver had his eya
j peared.
Over in New York the yellow journals ;
were telling about the "ONLY CHI- j
NESE SUICIDE. WING SHEE JUMPS
j TO CERTAIN DEATH."
! port of his demise had gone out from |
the hospital.
For the re
One evening, about dusk, the great j
Fang Ho was gliding down the street \
toward the home of little Yo King. He
placed his hand upon the door knob, I
when suddenly, out of the gloom, a j
weird figure stepped, and placed his !
hand upon Fang Ido's arm. Fang Ho
gave one look, and then fled shrieking i
up the street once more. j
"Hi ki," he wailed, shaking with ap- 1
prehension, "ki yi hi." He had seen aj
ghost—the ghost of the young Wing j
Shee. The ghost of Wing Shee was not |
disturbed; it laughed gently in itsorien- |
tal way and then stepped into Yo King's |
home. Inside was the sound of weeping, i
It was the diminutive Yo King mourn
ing for the death of the young Wing ;
Shee. Wing Shee looked into a room, j
She was alone. He glided in, placed a |
very material arm about her and raised
her head. She gave one startled glance j
and would have cried out but for th. :
j fact that Wing Shee was stuffing a pa-1
per napkin in her mouth. "Come, little !
| Yo King," he whispered. "I am allveand
not dead. Come—come with me." And
they disappeared into the night. j
The yellow journals, which heralded
the first Chinese suicide, now proclaimed :
what seemed to be a second one. For !
little Yo King went and she never came
back. Whore is she now? No one '
knows. But Mrs. Wing Shee, the dimln
utive, may possibly be able to tell.
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Breeding white, piebald, black, and
Japanese mice Is the latest household
industry which is receiving attention,
a ,, ..
g te nor hern out
quite extensively. The mice sell whole
sale at the rate of $10 per 100, and reg
ularly, once every week, she delivers
R0 of them to the leading bird and ant
mat dealer, who sends them out to hi*
customers In this and other cities. In
this way she earns $5 every week, and
$21 and $22 per week from the oth
er sales of her mice. It would he hard
to imagine easier money than the $5
which she receives weekly for her
"dwarf cattle." The rearing of fancy
mice involves little or no work, and
the proceeds are for the most part pure
galn. She has at her home part of a
RUNS A MOUSE FARM.
<D. C.) Woman T.
f Breed 1 iik
niiey Kodents for Profit.
A WHMllillKf
•hi r U * III BumI
skirts of the city, says the Washington
Post, has embarked in the business
large room partitioned off, and the
floor covered with straw and earth.
This Is her mouse farm. It must be
cleaned now and then and new straw
and earth put In for the mice, but aside
from this her only rare is to feed them
twice per day and keep their basin full
of fresh water. The mice Increase at
such a rapid rate that by selling 50 ev
ery week she is able to keep the num
ber down to about tbe original limits.
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Love as a Factor in Soul Winning
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IT IS THE INDISPENSABLE EQUIPMENT OF THE
CHRISTIAN WORKER.
Sermon by th* ''Highway and Byway" Preacher.
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(Copyright, 1904 , hy J. M. Ldson.)
Chicago, Sunday, Jan. 31, 1904.
Text: "Hereby know
Be laid down His life for us, and we ought
j (0 j ay down our pves for the brethren.
But whoso hath the world's goods and
beholdeth his brother in need, and shut
teth up his compassion from him, how doth
the I 0 V 6 of God abide in him? My little
children, let us not love in word, neither
with the tongue: but in deed aud truth."—
love, lrecaust
,
1 John 3.16-18.
HE supreme fact in
*he world to-day is
that Jesus Christ
laid down His life
for the sins of the
world, and the su
preme obligation
upon the followers
of Christ is that of
telling others of
the One Who is
mighty to save.
With the new relation of the believer to
j God through the cleansing power of
| Jesus' blood comes a new relation to
j the wmrld lost in sin. The one saved, hy
! the very nature of the new power which
; has become operative in his life, must
i himself become a 'soul-winner,
j man brought from the sinking ship to
! the shore in the breeches-buoy becomes
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| one more man at the end of the life line
to draw others from the brink of death
| to safety on shore. As Christ reaches
| out and saves it is that the one saved
j may become another channel through
j which redeeming grace may reach those
still in peril. Far out in the surging
] waves of sin the precious human souls
; are going down to death. Christ throws
j out link by link the human chain to
! reach the sinking ones and draw them to
1 Him. He is mighiy to save. His arm is
t strong, and from it flows to His follow
\ ers a never-failing current of power.
j But suppose the human chain is too
I short to reach that perishing soul far,
| far out in the grasp of the dashing
! waves. —
j Oh. God! just when salvation seemed
near, another wave came and swept him
j °"t °f reach. The line is too short!
! ''Out a little farther!" is the cry which
goes up. And the man on the shore
HINK of the life-savers on the shore
battling with the waves and, with
that heroism which braves death itself.
; seeking to save the precious lives of
! those struggling in the dark waters.
With strong hand clasped in strong
j hand the men stretch the human life
J line far out into the raging sea. The
waves break in mad fury about them as
though filled with angry fear of losing
j their human prey. The wind howls in
j cruel glee and lashes the foaming
I waters until they seem possessed with
a fury and power born of hell. But the
1 brave men hear not the shrieking wind
nor do they hesitate before the awful
j breakers, for just before them going
! down to death is a human life. The
white face has turned towards them in
; mute appeal, the hands are thrust out
I in desperation. The human life line
T
! stretches every muscle and nerve. Al
\ most the y have reached the drowning
man. Anotherwavemay bring him with
ln reach of their strong hands. But no!
; shouts back: "Another man is needed,
j My God! for another man." One of
the rescued ones springs up from the
| his awful battle with the waves and be
sands where he has been resting after
comes part of that life line. It reaches
j farther out into the surf, now. The
\ drowning man is reached just as he is
sinking out of sight forever. A shout of
I joy goes up which sounds above the rag
j ing of the storm, and the precious life
! is brought safe upon the shore. As the
men crowd round, chaflngthe handsand
i applying restoratives to the nearly
j dead man, a glad cry of recognition
1 bursts from the lips of the last man to
join that life line—the man who was
j needed to effect the rescue—and he ex
| claims: "My brother! my brother!"
| Ah, what joy surged through his heart
| as he realized what it had meant for him
i to become part of that life line.
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1® ,n (ha bl "^ ^f 8 *
frv sopg . n e
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« prevent the
. , nwn hml'' 1 '" t"*
father nr ier or s s er,
. f 1 * 8 , many
' ' <1 .' e( or ° VP <1 ones,
a " d '^ » much anxious thought and
. ev , e " ^ " th do you know,
1 d l( wiU avail » uch
" K the p " lshin K ""os unless the
one wishing to have the rescue effected
joins the life line and helps in drawing
to the glad shores of salvation. I may
ring my hands on the shore and cry in
agony to God for my dear ones still out
on the perilous waters of sin, but, unless
I become one of the life line, unless I
put one hand in the strong hand of my
Saviour and reach the other one out in
ea K e '' effort to draw the perishing one
"I 68 ' 18 ' "D l°ved one may belostfor
e ' er ri ® ht ,)efore m >' ver .v eyes. The
strength of our prayers is found in the
amount 0 f personal sacrifice and effort
we are willing to put forth in service to
Christ. The depth of our anxiety for
the salvation of others is measured by
the consecration with which we lay hold
of Christ and the earnestness and falth
f" lnefs wi,h "'filch we reach out after
the unsaved. We know (he supreme and
S 1<)rlo " s tact In the world to-day is that
Christ Jesus came into the world to
* ave 8inners *" but Perhaps we have
ncver realized our part In (hat great and
sublime mission, perhaps we do net
fi DOW that the supreme obligation rest
Ing upon the Christian is to become part
of the llf P llne - Thft gI ' Pat commission
ot Mat, fi® w 28:18-20 is to every dls
clpIe of Je8l,s ' wlt fi° ut «">' exceptions,
or distinctions, or qualifications. To
those who come to Jesus in savlngfaith,
He says: "Go tell." This is the only
way of blessing end growth and fruit
bearing In the Christian life. The su
preme obligation upon the Christian Is
that of soul winning.
is
be
ND Christ saves you, oh Christian,
that you may become part of the life
line reaching out into the world and
rescuing th«* precious souls going down
"Another man needed?
set
as
TH this truth clearly seen and
sincerely accepted comes the de
lire to know how to become a soul wln
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of
Question of qualification and
ner.
equipment is at once raised. As we hear
our Lord say to us: "Go tell," we turn
to Him and, in fear and weakness, plead,
as Moses did of old: "Oh, Lord, I am
slow of speech." And if it is not a stam
mering tongue it is something else
which we feel utterly unfits us for the
doing of that which thu Lord has com
in
is
of
of
is
to
of
to
to
manded us to do. We feel that because
we have not the sturdy faith of a Peter,
or the power of argument of a Paul, or
the eloquence* of an Apollos, we are not
able to become a soul winner. In false
modesty and humility we shrink back
from the post of duty and the life line
falls short. We think that if we could
speak as that other Christian speaks, or
if we knew our Bible as some other
one does, or if we had the consecration
and faith which are possessed by some
other brother or sister we would be glad
and eager to join the ranks of the soul
winners. But we have not, and so we
hesitate and go not at our Lord's com
mand.
How much Bible knowledge does it
take to become a soul winner? Ask that
ignorant, humble laborer into whose
heart the Christ had gained entrance
and who went out among his fellow
workmen and repeated the one verse of
Scripture which he knew: "For God so
loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth
upon Him should not perish, but have
everlasting life."
How much wisdom and learning and
skill in argument does it take to become
a soul winner? Ask that little boy
whose infidel father sought to sow the
seeds of infidelity in his little heart and
so printed a sign, "God is Nowhere,"
and placed it on the walls of his home
and asked his son to read it. The little
fellow had been to Sunday school and
had learned of God and Jesus, the Sa
viour, and he promptly spelled out the
words and said: "God is Now Here."
And God was there, for the unexpected
reply sent the arrow of conviction
straight to the father's heart. The mass
of infidelity and unbelief was swept
away as no argument could ever have
done, and a lttte child it was who led the
father to Jesus.
is
DW much eloquence does it take to
become a soul winner? Ask that con
vert of the Water street mission, Billy
Kelly, who before his conversion was
barkeeper and sport. After he came to
Jesus he went to work at rough, hard
labor. He was surrounded by wicked,
drinking men. He longed to bring them
to Christ. He could not, he eloquent in
pleading his Saviour's cause. He could
not even speak without stumbling and
faltering in his message. But he could
say: "I've been down to the mission,
and you bette^ come, too." And they
did come at the simple invitation, and
found salvation, and Billy Kelly became
an important link in the life line reach
ing out for lost men. And so ignorance,
and weakness, and lack of Scriptural
knowledge are not a bar to entering the
ranks of the soul winners. There are Pe
ters to-day, there are Pauls and Apol
loses, and they are used mightily by
God, but, thank God! Jesus calls the one
talented and the half-talented and the
quarter-talented disciples into His ser
vice, and He blesses their efforts in the
saving of men. Learning, eloquence,
deep understanding of the Bible enlarge
one's possibilities of service for the Mas
ter, but a qualification which is more im
portant than all these, and which all may
possess from the lowest to the highest,
from the weakest to the strongest, from
the unlettered artisan to the intellectual
giant, and which ail must possess if they
would be in the ranks of the soul win
ners, is love—simple, sweet, powerful
love. Love Is an essential element in
soul winning. Whatever else may be
needed or not needed, this is certain, the
soul winner must have love.
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N THAT inimitable classic, the thir
teenth chapter of I Corinthians, Paul
tells us about love, the greatest thing
in the world. In words of marvelous
grace and simplicity, he shows that, all
knowledge, all power, all charity and
good works are absolutely a negative
quantity. In God's estimation, without
love. Faith—yes, because "without
faith it is impossible to please God,"
Hope—yes, because "hope maketh not
ashamed," and because "hope as an an
chor to the soul is sure and steadfast."
But above all else love, for it is the
crowning glory of all else. As F. B.
Meyer beautifully puts it: "Faith is
the root, hope is the stem, and love is
the perfect flower." "God is love," and
hence Is the source of love. "God so
loved that He gave." Herein is the
depth of God's love revealed. ' "God
commendeth His love towards us in
that while we were yet sinners, Christ
died for us,"—here is conquering love.
"Hereby know we love, because He laid
down His life for us"—here is love the
begetter of love. God's love not only
conquering, but God's love filling. Love
giving birth to love. We have then
God's love—the true love—revealed
through Christ; love conquering
through Christ, and love begetting love
thjough Christ. This is the love which
is % factor in soul winning. But it is
not the love which always rules in the
heart and life of Christ's followers.
Faith may be present In saving power;
the Christian graces and virtues may
be a possession of the heart and an ex
pression of the life; Christian service
may be faithfully and freely rendered,
but love may be lacking—that love
which bleeds and suffers and dies that
souls may be saved.
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P rULT who loves to reachhiscllmaxes
on the sublime pinnacle of love,
pleads with the Christian in the third
chapter of Colosslans, to "above all
these things, put on love." And as we
glance back over the verses which pre
cede we discover that the apostle has
set a high standard and pUiced a rare
value upon love. He saya: '•ut. on
as God's elect, holy and beloved, a
heart of compassion, kindness, lowli
ness, meekness, long-saffering, for
bearing one another and forgiving one
another; even as the Lord forgave you,
It
so also do ye." But while that lower
ifag peak of love Is still ahead, Paul is
not satisfied, and he goes on to urge
that "above all these things put on
love." It is like climbing the Alps
While the loftiest peak is still ahead
and unsealed the mountaineer is unsat- ]
,
the thought that kindness is the full j
expression of the Christian life Lift
up the eyes and behold the heights still ;
beyond. Attain meekness and long- |
suffering, and forbearance and forgive- I
ness, and still love, the "summum bo
num," remains towering above all else, j
Paul calls it the "bond of perfectness," |
as though love were the essential ole
ment needed to unite and make of the
others one harmonious whole. i
terials, the cloth, the lining, the buttons, j
the trimmings, etc., and should lay one
material after the other upon the person I
and expect them to make one complete j
whole. The cloth might be all that j
could be desired, the lining good, the i
trimmings and buttons just what were I
needed, but if they were not securely j
and properly joined the one to the other j
ia its proper place there would be no
garment at all. So it would lie with the j
character which had compassion here !
and kindness there, meekness, longsuf- |
fering, forbearance, forgiveness, if love j
were not present to make them one com- j
plete, and beautiful, and harmonious j
whole. Compassion without love—is it !
possible? Yes! Kindness without love? J
Yes! Long suffering, forbearance, for
givenes's, without love? Yes! For com
passion is not love. Kindness, meekness, j
etc., are not Iovg. And so the Christian j
life may be rich towards God in many j
ways, but the essential element of love j
may Be lacking, and the greatest factor!
Another phase of this question of love :
as a factor in soul winning is suggested
by Paul's admonition in the twelfth of ;
Romans to ''let love be without hypoc
risy." How the devil loves to counter
felt. He tries to pass the mintage of
hell as the genuine coins of the kingdom.
How much it behooves the Christian to
mow mum u Denooves tne e>nrisuan to
test for the true ring; to make sure that
he is not aiding in circulating a bogus
article instead of the real thing. "Let
love be without hypocrisy." Let it not
be a false and superficial love which is
devoid of inward inspiration and power.
That kind of love is not soul winning
love. How we ought to subject ourselves
to the Searcher of all hearts to let Him
probe deep and discover if that which ,
we have supposed was love is only a
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sonTwinn ne tnve* Yea vlriiv for l
soul-winning love. \ea, verily, tor
God gave that love might be expressed
, , . ... . . . . .
and Christ gave Himself that love might ,
i . * ■ * i .,!
be possessed. Love is the one thing all
u;
His followers may have in unstinted
..... . . . [
measure. Hereby know we love, be- j
cause He laid down His life for us." In
exact ratio as the sense of what God
has done for lhe soul through Christ
j? '
love becomes the possession ot t he soul.
As Jesus said: To whom much is for- .
eiven the same loveth much " The nos
given, tne same lovetn much, thepos
session of love is great in degree as the.
work of Christ is manifest to the heart, ! f ,
The more I get of Christ and His saving
grace, the more capacity I have for love. ;
1 he love of Chi ist can fill my heart only j
as the Christ is there to draw that love,
And with possession comes expres
sion. Love within means power in sen
ice without. Consciousness of Christ's
sacrifice stirs to self-sacrifice -the lay
ing down of Christ's life gives to the
Christian a willingness likewise tosuf
fer. Not sentimental expression of lip
and tongue, hut real genuine expression j
of love in deed and truth. Loving souls i
into the Kingdom, instead of trying to
talk them into the Kingdom. Christlaid j
down His life that, we might know love, !
We must lay down our lives that others
may become conscious of that love.
isfied. He must press oa until from tbe j
summit he mhy view all the lesser j
peaks. So the Christian is urged by j
P"* I
Paul to mount up and still up.
on compassion, but do not he content'j
to rest at that altitude. Put on kind
ness, but do not delude your heart into
and
hear
turn
am
else
the
or
not
line
or
we
it
of
so
the
!
T IS as though one wishing to make a
garment should secure all the mi
in soul winning be missed.
to
in
i
A CONVERTED Catholic with deep
feeling told me ohee that the only j
thing that ever brought her out into the |
light and blessing of the Gospel was the
unfailing and all-conquering love of one
who sought her conversion. Where
arguments and talking and pleading had
failed love won its way and was tri
umphant. She pleaded with Christians
that if they were to win souls for Christ
they must love them with a love which
counted no sacrifice too great, a love
which could endure all things, a love
which was constant and tender. How >
can a love that will not sacrifice reveal !
a Christ who died? How can a love that
will not get way down alongside the
unsaved soul, even if it is in the gutter,
reveal the Christ who came all the way
from Heaven to earth to save? How can
a love which is not persistent reveal a
Christ who stands patiently waiting
to be gracious? How can a love which
will not break with its longing to see
souls saved reveal the Christ whose
heart burst with anguish for the lost
world? Paul became a Jew that he might
gain the Jews; "to them that are un
der the law, as under the law, that I
might gain them (hat are under thelaw;
to them that are without law, that I
might gain them that are without law;
to the weak became I as weak, that I
might gain the weak: 1 am made all
things to all men. that I might by all
means save some." And Paul was able
to do all this because of love—the mar
velous love of Christ—was operative in
his life. And if you would be a soul win
ner- and you must be unless you stop
your ears to your Lord's commands,
and shut your ayes to your supreme
obligation as a Christian—you must
have love! Love!! Love!!!
ly
in
An
on
tion
who
as
to,'
are
very
the
ally
est
total
age
than
said
less,
A Hruuf Iful World.
That Is a false and erroneous teach
ing which makes the world an evil place
and tells us that the sooner we are out
of lt the better. The world is
a very
beautiful place; a marvel of divine
workmanship; a gem out of God's treas
ure house. Into its creation was poured
infinite love and wisdom, for it was to
be the habitation of children who
to grow Into the image of the Heavenly
Father.—Rev. P. 8. Olton.
val
tion
ture
as
said
he
w < I I
Exercise.
It Is the man who exercises the
strength that he has who grows strong.
It is the thinker who exercises his
thoughts who grows wise. He who ex
ercises God-llke qualities grows God
like.—Rev, H. 3. Bradlev
is
urge
on
Alps
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ffomnonv'B I
company ,
project to raise locust trees on a large ,
, scale for ties. The locust is an excel- |
full j | eut woo g f or posts, but Arboriculture j
Lift (loes not think so well of it for railroad
still ; ties . lt says; |
long- | i ocus t is used for ties the holes j
I must be bored. When a spike is once j
bo- driven | n to a locust and the wood sea
else, j SO ned it will break off, but cannot bt j
| withdrawn. There is no more elasticity j
ole- in a locust tie than in cast iron. In 1
the , rack removals it will be found extreme- J
i jy difficult and slow work with crosi? |
The ideal tree to grow' for railroa<
j ties, in the opinion of Arboriculture, is
one the catalpa speciosa. This is a quick- J
I growing, tall, upright forest tree. There
j arc a number of species and varieties j
that j and when they grow near the speciosa I
the i they readily hybridize, and the trees !
were I raised from such seeds are disappoint- J
j | n g. Most of the catalpa seen in this vi- j
j cinity have a short trunk, while both j
no the trunks and larger limbs are more or
the j less crooked and not promising as lit
here ! material. The Pennsylvania Railroai j
| company, we understand, experimentci [
love j with catalpa tree growing some year? 1
j ago, but it was disappointed with there- j
j suit, for the reason, Arboricuituri |
it ! states, that their trees were not he ca ;
J alpa speciosa, but a hybrid. The llli
for- nois Central railroad have some 200,
00d catalpa trees growing near De Quoin
j 111. The catalpa speciosa is a westerr :
j tree. It will bG thG subject of a spu is
j exhibit at the St. Louis exposition, undci j
love j the auspices of the International Society 1
of Arboriculture
Formerly the best heart wood oil
: white oak trees was the only timber used
f° r railroad ties. The supply of this ha? j
of ; long since ceased to be sufficient for th. ;
demand for ties, and inferior wood oi j
various sorts is now accepted, and the
of life of a railroad tie, that was about nine i
3 'cars when heart white oak was used |
to is n<)W only half that time, except when
to ' '
by treatment with creosote or other pre
servative the life is materially extended j
The ( ' ataI P a speciosa, it is claimed, con- |
not tains own preservative and will last
is indefinitely, at least its limit ot life i.'
not as >' el ascertained. Instances an ^
8 iven (l ' catalpa ties sound and gooi. j
after thirty-one years of service.
The opacity of wood to resist decay
, ,,mler the eondjtions which surround £
a rai,road ,ie determines only one ele
ment of its suitability for this service
><* '■apadtv to rests, indentation unde,
pressure is a consideration quite as im
l ,ortant - Tl >e redwood of California
extensively used for tie
' . \ n t 1
. on the Pacific coast, is rapidly worn by
, . .. , *
.,! tne grinding and pressure oi the rails or !
all , & , * , , , , . .
the sott wood, aided by the sand whicr ,
. 14 , . ., ...
[ finds Its way between the tie and th<
j - western cata i Da u
In , . , i II ;
resl8t ., d *? y h * s , *! e, ; n f° Ved ' « a8 ' t! ;
capao,ty to res,9t "'dentation under th, ,
tremendous pressure of a railroad doing
{he bugi the Pennsylvania does alsc i
. a. m . n A0 \
° en " emonstrat( ' fJ • ;
This, says the Philadelphia Press, is
the. a m0Bt | tant matter. If, as is
! f , laimed , r , ata , pa tree8 can be grown ir j
1G that w „, mect every requisite
; ot a R00d tie for 30 years or more> a I
j Rfave prob ]p m confronting our rail-j
roads is solved. The Pennsylvania's lo
ruS { f ree piantin 0, is experimental II
convinced that rte catalpa speciosa
promises better results, no doubt the
company will make its future planta- :
tjons of catalpas The locusts alreadv *
Parted will not be wasted, 'if they dc
not make as satisfactory ties as catalpa
j their timber is exceedingly durable, anti j
i f,,r posts, and, we might add, poliee
to men's night sticks, it is the best possibl*
j material,
!
WOOD FOR RAILROAD TIES.
if lhe Ij(
ml ii
l»> Itall
Iteupectlve Merlin
ratal i»h Ti
■ »—i.
pnnitm.
y Vi
Arboriculture, a monthly magazine
tbe j published in Indianapolis, in the interest
lesser j 0 f tbe International Society of Abori
by j :!U iture, devotes considerable space in a
P"* I recent issue to a consideration of the
Railroad
Pennsylvania
kind
into
! ties of locust so much so as with metal
a ties.'
mi
:
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1
BIRDS AND FOREST FIRES.
i Iiienlenlnlile DeMi
etlon
iHKh Cai
>1(1) Fire.
>f the Al
lies of Mao Tin
j
|
The above were subjects of an ad
dress by Mr. George May Powell, presi
dent of the National Forest council, be
fore the annual Audubon congress at the
Acadamey of Natural Sciences in Phila
delphia.
He said:
> man ' are thus annihilated by millions!
! A single bird wU1 daiI > r destr °y bun -
"The destruction of birds,
young and old, on their nests—especial
ly at night—by the forest fires, is almost
incalculable—these feathered allies of
dreds. often thousands of insect pests.
A single moth, as you well know,
that escaped from a Massachusetts sci
entist, has cost the farmers of that state
hundreds of thousands of dollars. It
will cost them more than as much more
in the future. Wild birds while in nor
mal numbers actually destroy billions of
noxious weed seeds. Smokers, hunters,
campers and locomotives especially,
needlessly start nearly all these fires.
An efficient spark arrester can be put
on a locomotive that will save annually
more than its cost In fuel. The bird sec
tion of this forest fire question, as above
suggested, relates to what depletes the
people's pockets, millions every year.
People in cities, as well as out, it is time,
therefore, for all to \mite in a public
sentiment that will secure laws, and en
forcement of them, that will punish those
who start these fires; by Imprisonment,
as well as heavy fines; hy imprisonment,
to,' is no excuse when sueft vast values
are at stake. Severe penalties, and these
very vigorously enforced, will secure
the care demanded. The damage usu
ally allowed for loss of timber by a for
est fire Is an insignificant part of the
total harm done."
Respecting cats, he said: "An aver
age house cal will rob more birds' nests
than all the bad boys In a village," He
said this: "Not that he loved cats the
less, but birds the more."
to
I
a
E.
it
ful
a
S f
Bantames of Danes.
Denmark sufTers from a quite medie
val paucity of surnames, and so incon
venient Is this fact becoming that the
government has announced Its inten
tion of presenting a bill to the legisla
ture sanctioning and encouraging the
adoption of new surnames. Such names
as Hansen. Petersen and Sverensen are
overwhelmingly frequent. It is even
said that there are towns of 30,000 In
habitants among whom there will not
he found more than 20 different
names, as many as a thousand dlfferen*
people having the same surname.
sur
Fit AI DS IIV A RALE OF HAT.
Watch Ctur*.
11 According to an article in the Cincin
nati Commercial, a fifty-one pound stone
was recently found in that city secreted
! in a bale of hay of eighty pounds.
This is not as bad as finding a lump of
lead of nearly one-half the weight of the
6olid gold watch case secreted in the cen
ter of the case.
Cold watch cases are sold by weight,
lc . , and no one can see where this lead is
I secreted until the springs of the case are
, ta j {en out anc j t j, e i eat i will 'be found se
, crete( i behind them.
| These cases are made by companies who
j profess to be honest but furnish the
foJ°anvone 'to 'fmd
| tbut he hatj )ugge d „ lump 0 ( lea d m t„a
j watch ease.
j A" otl 'er trick the makers of spurious
' s'^WyT^rhe United"States
bt j does not stamp any article made out of
j gold and silver except coin, and the fakir,
In 1 "7 using this stump, wantsi to. make the
J Jonietbin^ to do with the stamping or
| guaranteeing the fineness of watch cases.
Another trick of the watch fakir is to
advertise a watch described as a solid
gold tilled watch with a twenty or twenty
five-year guarantee. These watches are
is generally sent C. 0. I)., and if the pur
J chaser has paid for the watch, he finds
**! at L , h tb t ® tb *
j 'q' bc Dueber-IIampden Watch Company
I of Cunton, Ohio, who are constantly ex
! posing these frauds, will furnish
J " f , ; *^giThl. ! !l. U .. re re " ° *"
vi- j
j
or
lit
j makes
[ here,
1 M r ' Boomerup—V\ hy, what is the ma -
j . j no tj ce( ] to-,lav. as we have been driv*
| jng about, that all your finest houses
; owned by physicians."—Stray Stories,
Another new thing. Can be cut six times
during a season and sprouts again with
: ni ^gVeen*X? than
Anything else, chesp us dirt und grows
j everywhere.
1 Of Salzer's Renovator Grass Mixture,
S*
oil writes, "I sowed Salzer's Grass Mixture on
soil; so poor two men could not raise a fuss
j on it. and in forty-one days alter sowing!
; fr a " d * at $ a, ' d ^ '"prom
oi j quickly and produce enormously." 100,000
barrels choice Seed Potatoes,
i salzkb s nem natioxal oats.
| Here is a winner, a prodigy, a marvel,
enormously prolific, strong, healthy, vigor
ous, producing m thirty States from 150
bu. j )er acre. You had best sow a
j lot of it, Air. Farmer, in 1904, and in the
| fall sell it to your neighbors at $1 a bu.
i.' « , « , r T r
^ ft .. s and rc ' eiV p in return the ' ir big cata I
j | and ] 0 ( s 0 j i arm see j samples free,
[h. L.]
£
he's down,''.remarked the moralizer,
Thats right, rejoined the demoral*
Squire
Very Low Hide, from Memphis to
lhe Southwe«t via IV. c. & st. L. Hy.
1 On the first and third Tuesdays of the
un , UR . n 1 ,[ anu 11,11(1 J-uesaajs oi \ ne
months ot February, March and April, the
! < u, nrirMrq x- st i p v
iNasnvme, ^nattanooga ot. l^ouib iv>.,
, which has its own rails from Memphis to
iMaui,,;ii« ctoiunnum. Q ..,i Ati..../., ,„ui
Nashville, Chattanooga and Atlanta, will
sell one-way settlers' and round-trip home
; seekers' tickets at very low rates from
; Memphis to certain points on its lines in
, Tennessee Kentucky, North Alabama and
Georgia, also to other points m the South
i For additional information time
\ tables, etc., write A. R. Smith, 1. P. A.,
; Little Rock. Ark., R. C. Cowardin, T. P.
A., Dallas, Texas.
T . , —--—
j r t h £ tr h n «""' "'"'^.nation and
latter is apt o magine that 1 e U» port -
I Puck. _ poet '
Knowledge from Experience,
Is what we understand when l)r.
Spalding, an eminent Baptist devine, of
t a t l t ' l e p s a to 'V T'", a ( ^/,mc S rnker en, li < .'in^v t 'o;
Sweet Gum'ami Mullein,' lt is for a
: friend suffering from consumption,
* s a preparation 1 know from experience
to A ^ e 2 - r . anil „ (K) a
bottle. * ' %
j
Frumla i
a
the
the
Unit Stun.
Mr. Citvdweller (to suburban real es
tate agent I—I find only one fault with
: your district. Mr. Boonterup, hut that
: decline to buy a residence
an
Sal*er'*i Earliest Cane.
i for seed.
JUST SEND IOC IN STAMPS
illy lhe Case.
Ini
"A man's enemies seldom kick him when
It
lt
1 , ay be but a small matter even if aman
doesn t know his own mind.—Chicago Daily
News.
"The Inside Inn" is the name of the only
hotel in the World's Fair Grounds*—Amer
ican and European pla
rates. See advertisement in another column
and write for folder to "Inside Inn," Ad
ministration Bldg., Room 110, St. Louis, Mo.
Students of ancient history are never up
to date.—Chicago Daily News.
Any one can dye with Putnam Fadeless
Dye, no experience required.
A man's life is worth what it costs
him.—Rum's Horn.
asonable
at
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V;
2c2ag|
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•\V
Mrs. Haskell, Worthy Vice
Templar, Independent Order
Good Templars, of Silver Lake,
Mass., tells of her cure by the
use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound.
" Deab Mbs. Pinkh am : — Four year*
ago I was nearly dead with inflamma
tion and ulceration. I endured daily
untold agony, and life wns a burden
to me. I had used medicines and
washes Internally and externally until
I made up my mind that there was no
relief for me. Calling at the home of
a friend, I noticed a bottle of Lydia
E. Plnkham's Vegetable Com
pound. My friend endorsed it highly,
and I decided to give it a trial to see if
it would help me. It took patience
and perseverance for I was in Dad con
dition, and I used Lydia E. Plnk
ham's Vegetable Compound
nearly five months before I was cured,
but what a change, from despair to
happiness, from misery to the delight
ful exhilarating feeling health always
brings. I would not change back for
a thousand dollars, and your Vegetable
Compound is a grand medicine.
"I wish every sick woman would
try it and bq convinced." — Mbs. Ida
Haskell, Silver Lake, Mass. Worthy
Vice Templar, Independent Order of
Good Templars. — $5000 forfth If original
S f above letter proving genulneneu cannot be
UC9de
for
pro-