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Washington sends out a warning
that the shad are being killed off.
A physician has published a book
in which he calis worry the disease
of the age, thereby causing many in
nocent persons to worry about worry.
Americans, seem to Judge, to be
fated to stand at the head of the line.
.They beat the world in trade, pros
perity, drink, suicide, and candy
eating.
Observes the Chicago News: Very
likely it is true that many young
doctors do not -know much, but na
ture works as hard to assist them as
it does to assist the old practitioners.
r Our national conventions are grow
ing more and more like our race
courses, where to the knowing ones
.there are few surprises, philosophizes
Colonel Henry Watterson, of Ken
tucky.
r 'A New York man joked while his
leg was being cut off. That sounds
very fine and heroic, but let him toss
off a few merry quips while his teeth
are being pulled if he wants to at
tract attention.
' First and foremost comes the cor
poration’s duty to the public. Next
comes the matter of compensation
for the service given. This is the
law now laid down by the United
States Supreme Court.
In the course of a recent speech
Mr. Francis J. Heney, of San Fran
cisco, made this notable remark: "We
must have a higher standard of mor
ality in business, and then we will
get a higher standard of morality in
politics.”
The New York American exclaims:
If around every racetrack were as
sembled the bodies of those that
have killed themselves because of it,
the jailbirds it has started wrong,
the drunkards it has contributed to
furnish, the men and women it has
impoverished and the scoundrels that
have grown rich from all this misery,
the world would then have an ob
ject lesson and would be able to
judge this tree by its fruits.
The New York Tribune observes:
The Salus-Grady libel law, passed
With such a flourish of trumpets un
der Governor Pennypacker’s admin
istration in Pennsylvania, has been
repealed. Not a vote was cast against
repeal in either branch of the Leg
islature. The law, in fact, neither
terrified nor restrained the press, and
no action of any consequence was
ever brought under it. It was aimed
at evils which were only imaginary.
.— . ..
The United States Circuit Court
has made the injunction against the
Drug Trust perpetual, announces the
New York American. The chief count
against the combine was that It
blacklisted druggists who undersold
trust prices. The injunction not
only prevents the publication of such
blacklists but also forbids any un
derstanding as to prices or any other
combination in restraint of trade. The
practical results of this decision will
be interesting, as they may furnish
a guide in other anti-trust proceed
ings.
* The opinion that seventy-five per
cent, of the present day sermons from
the pulpit could be dispensed with
to the betterment of church atten
dance was expressed by Mr. Butler,
of Pennsylvania, a delegate to the
National Conference of Church Clubs,
In annual session, at Washington.
“The church might stagger under the
blow,” he remarked, “but its recov
ery would be rapid and lasting.” The
utterance was warmly applauded, and
was delivered in a discussion of the
question, “Why Men Do Not Go to
Church.”
The Boston Transcript quotes the
Rev. Herbert C. Herring, D.D.-, of
New York, the new secretary of the
Congregational Home Missionary So
ciety, as saying in the course of an
address before the Congregational
Club of Boston: The only unqual
ifiedly dangerous class in America is
the self-centred. pleasure-seekers,
men and women to whom existence
is synonymous with dining and sleep
ing, with automobiles and yachts,
With Sunday jaunts and theatre
parties, who touch no burden of
church or state, who have abdicated
thought and renounced parenthood—
these are the men and women, if mul- .
tlplied sufficiently, who can sink our
nation to a bottomless hell.
Life, the clever satirical weekly, re
prints the following: The politician
is my shepherd. I shall not want for
anything during this campaign. He
ieadeth me into the saloon for my
.vote’s sake. He fllleth my pocket
with good cigars; my cup of beer
runneth over. He inquireth con
cerning my family, even unto the
fourth generation. Yea, though I
walk through the mud and the rain
to vote for him, and shout myself
hoarse when he is elected, straight
way he forgetteth me. Although I
meet him at his own house he know
eth me not. Surely the wool has
been pulled over my eyes all the days
iof my life and I shall dwell in the
house of a chump forever.
A Suggestion from
STEINWAY & SONS
About Piano Tuning
Incompetent Piano Tuners
are continually doing a great deal of mischief to good pianos. It
will therefore doubtless be of interest to owners of Steinway and
other pianos, residing at not too great a distance from New York, to
learn that we are now prepared to take orders for the tuning and
regulating of, pianos during the summer months at special rates.
Not only the members of our large regular tuning force but also
those of our staff of experts who, during the winter season, have
been traveling with eminent pianists on their concert tours, and
who have now returned to New York, are available for this work.
The greater the number of orders from any one place or vicinity
the lower our charge will be for each piano attended to. Conse
quently we would suggest to prospective customers in any
locality that they "club together" in sending us their orders, when
ever feasible and agreeable, as the most economical and satisfactory
plan. Your patronage is respectfully solicited.
STEINWAY & SONS
109 East Fourteenth Street, New York.
Used Tianos Taken in Exchange.
Neks Steintray Tianos from $500 up.
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Common Rnmor No Defense.
Counselor Edwin Robert Walker,
counsel for Secretary of State Sam
uel D. Dickinson, in his $100,000 H- ,
bel suit against Mayor Mark M. Fa- ’
gan, of Jersey City, filed in the Su
preme Court at Trenton, a replica
tion and demurrer to the answer filed
by Fagan to Colonel Dickinson’s bill.
The replication makes the claim that
certain matters set up by Fagan in
his answer do not constitute a proper
defense of the action, and conse
quently demurs to them. First, it
is claimed, that the fact that Fa
gan was a citizen and officeholder of
the State of New Jersey is not a
defense to his action in having writ
ten the famous Fagan letter calling
upon Governor Stokes not to reap
point Dickinson as Secretary of
State. The fact that the matters
contained in the letter were common
rumor is also claimed to be an un
substantial defense, as is the fact
that the defendant thought he was
performing his duty as a citizen in
bringing the matters to the attention
of Governor Stokes.
New College For Church.
Bishop James A. McFaul was se
lected to lay the corner-stone of the
Mount St. Mary College, at Plainfield,
assisted by Monsignor Fox, of St.
Mary’s Cathedral of Trenton. The
arrangements for the exercises were
made by the Knights of Columbus
nnd other Catholic societies. The
college will be under the direction
of the Sisters of Mercy, and the
mother house of the order, which is
now at Bordentown, will be removed
to Plainfield. St. Joseph’s Academy,
Bordentown, and St. Gabriel's Acad
emy, Plainfield, will form the nucleus
of the new Mount St. Mary’s College.
It is expected that the building will
be ready for occupany by September,
1908.
Twenty-one Her Luck.
Twenty-one personB, loaded with
twenty-one kitchen utensils, on May
21, surprised Miss Emma E. Shu
pard, daughter of R. B. Shupard,
proprietor of Hotel Clayton at Clay
ton, on her twenty-first birthday. For
the supper twenty-one varieties of
refreshments were served, including
a large birthday cake, twenty-one
inches in diameter, lit with twenty
one candles; twenty-one selections
were played on the piano and twenty
one games played. The surprise was
given by the Stitch and Sew Club,
of which Miss Shupard is a member,
and the kitchen "shower” Was in
anticipation of her wedding.
Runaway Derails Car.
The car forced from the tracks by
the violence of a collision with a
runaway team, passengers on a Shore
Fast Line trolley at Atlantic City
were rudely jostled and thrown in
to a panic at the strangeness of an
accident at Virginia and Arctic ave-r
nues. The horse, attached to the
butter and egg wagon of Robert L.
Beyer, frightened at an automobile,
crashed into the end of the car after
a two-block gallop. Frightened pas
sengers fled amid a shower of broken
glass and eggs, and several were se
riously cut. The car was derailed.
Officers of the Club Indicted.
The Gloucester County Grand Jury
at AVoodbury returned seventeen true
bills of indictment and among them
were bills against August Rubeck,
Alfred Anderson and Walter Croft,
officers of the “Wouser Chib,” which
had its ill-starred “opening” near
Billingsport. The bail of the defend
ants was fixed at $300 each and a
friend from Philadelphia put down
the whole $900 in gold and fresh
notes, which made some of the Court
habitues stare. A number of bills
charging violations of the excise laws
were found.
AA'edding Secret Out.
Though they tried to keep it se
cret, news of the marriage of Miss
Ellen Taggart, one of the prettiest
of Burlington's young women, to
William H. Rambo, of Riverside,
leaked out at Burlington, and the
couple was showered with congratu
lations. The ceremony was per
formed by Rev. John W. Lynch, of
the Union Street M. E. Church, at
his home.
Switch Causes Trolley Crash.
When two trolley cars on the sub
urban line crashed together at Pleas
antville, one aged woman was so
badly injured that she could not give
her name, and Professor Hower T.
Marsteller, supervising principal of
the Pleasantville Public Schools, was
badly shaken up. The accident hap
pened through some one's negligence
in falling to close a switch.
Sunday School AVorkers Meet.
The spring corfference of the Cum
berland County Sunday School As
sociation was held at Vineland, Rev.
Frank Anderson, of Millville, pre
siding. Addresses were made by
State Secretary Ferguson, Rev. John
Handley, Rev. J. L. Ewing, Rev. S.
A. Perrine, Miss Harriet K. Fuller,
Miss Rose Scott and Rev. R. H. Gags.
Sand Pit Yields Indian Bones.
Men working in a sand pit a few
miles from Ocean City, unearthed
the bones of five humans beings, sup
posed to be those of Indians buried
several hundred years ago. Massive
Jaw bones, with perfect teeth, were
dug up. Professor Crawford Buck,
of Sea Isle City, has a collection of
them.
In AII Parts of the State.
George Bowman, of Cedarviile, has
peen elected principal of Downe town
ship public schools.
A cannon ball, evidently a relic of
the Revolutionary war, was plowed
up by road-makers at Vineland. It
weighed almost four pounds.
Rev. Willis Reeves, pastor of the
Fourth M. E. Church, was selected as
‘.he Memorial Day orator in Millville.
While fishing in Union Lake, Mill
ville, William Van Hook caught a
twelve-pound "snapper.”
Broad street, Burlington, known to
iutoists who drive between Atlantic
3ity and New York as the “mud
road,” is to be macadamized.
A land company at Pitman has of
fered to donate a lot, valued at
$1240, to any religious denomination
srecting a church edifice thereon.
The Board of School Estimate has
isked the Woodbury Council for
fl2,000 for the support of the pub
lic schools the coming year.
The old Barnsboro Hotel has ap
plied for a license for the one hun
ired and thirty-eighth time. When,
license was first granted this place
',h* fee was only $10.
For Baby’s Safety.
m
This ingenious arrangement is
found in many English country cot
tages, says the London Mail. The
ring is movable and the little one is
quite free to romp without danger of
getting near the open fire.
Fearful Crime In Italy. '
While the case against Countess
Bonmartini and her brother and lover,
Tullio Murri, is still undecided—the
guilty pair murdered Count Bonmar
tini in the most atrocious style—so
ciety in Italy and especially in Rome
is shocked by another crime recalling
the days of the Borgias. The famous
attorney, Rosada, took his mother,
who was still a young and vivacious
woman, for a drive in the wilds of the
Comragna, the other day.v They had
an elaborate picnic in a secluded spot
as the empty bottles found indicated,
Then the lawyer murdered his mother,
dug a grave for her, and covered the
body with tons of soil, secured by ex
ploding dynamite at the foot of a
hill, which caused the earth to crumble
and fall on the desired spot.
Poor Place for Missionaries.
In the northern Shan states, on thi
border of Burma, there is a tribi
called the Wild Was. These peoplf
propitiate with human skulls the de
mons whom they worship. Outsidi
every village in their country then
are many posts, all in one line, decked
with human skulls. A niche is cu'
m the back of each post, with a ledgi
on which the skull can rest and grin
through a hole in front of it. Everj
village has a dozen and some as manj
as a hundred of these head posts
Fresh skulls are in special request at
harvest time and are purchased for
large sums, those of distinguished vis
itors being particularly desired. So.
as Mr. Scott, the British superinten
dent of the states, remarked some
years ago: "The Wa states are, there
fore, no place for missionaries 01
rktba trnttars "
Pledged to Abstain from Slang.
Such expressions of “fudge,” “rub
ber,” “swell,” “easy mark,” and kin
dred slang phrases have been tabooed
by members of the senior class of the
Derby, Conn., high school, in a reso
lution passed at class meeting. All
members of the class are pledged to
abstain from using slang either in
writing or speech until graduation.
j THE CAM’S WARD
OR A TALE OP MONEY MADNESS.
I
^ By JAMES PAYN. ^
CHAPTER V. 5
Continued.
‘‘Dear S.,” it ran; “Your absence
■ast evening disappointed me im
mensely. 1 hope you really had a
bad headache—I mean that it was
bona fide and not a ruse. (Mr. Perry’s
education had been classical, and did
not, include spelling, or the modern
languages.) The truth is, I have had
enough of this sort of thing, and am
getting tired of It. For all that I
see of you, we might as well be like
your friend next door and her fas
cinating young lawyer In town. More
over, something has occurred that
makes it necessary to hurry matters,
and about what I must talk to you
at once. I shall drop in at the usual
Sime to-day, unless I see or hear any
thing to the contrary; but it will be
much better If I can have a word
with you elsewhere— say, at the old
mill. If I don’t see you I shall wait
for a line in Green street up to 4
o’clock. That young dried-herring,
Adair, was at the ball last night, by
the bye, looking, I thought, deuced
nasty. That he suspects something,
I’m pretty certain; but he didn’t sus
pect how very nearly I was wringing
his neck. Only a small matter, you
will say, but still, another reason why
the present state of things must be
put an end to. Au revoir. Yours,
H. P.”
It is scarcely in nature that a
young lady should regard with dis
pleasure the impatience of her lover,
even though the inconvenience of its
display should be ever so obvious;
but Sophy’s little brow had such a
frown on it as suggested a padlock
on a miniature, or a grenadier keep
ing guard over a jewel-box. Her
blue eyes were wide and tearless; her
delicate features were haggard with
anger and fear. “A selfish, heart
less letter,” she said to herself; “a
cruel letter.” Then, looking up in
her trouble and perplexity, she
caught sight of her own face in the
glass. “You fool!” she exclaimed,
apostrophizing it with sullen bitter
ness. "You mad and wicked fool!”
There was a knock at the door,
and she trust the letter hastily into
her bosom, as Miss Aldred entered
the room.
"Come, my dear, I am glad to see
you have a little color in your
cheeks,” said Aunt Maria, kindly.
"I hope that means you feel better.”
"I never thought there was much
the matter with me,” said Sophy,
with a little hysterical laugh. "But,
of course, the doctor had to find out
something. I suppose he said ‘the
heart;’ they always say ‘the heart,’
because nobody can get at it and
prove them to be in the wrong.”
"I hope it's not so bad as that,”
returned Aunt Maria, with some sig
nificance. “If you are really better
and can bear it, I have a word or two
to say to you, Sophia."
Here Sophy hid her face, which
had suddenly grown scarlet.
“I do not wish,” continued Aunt
Maria, looking at her very fixedly, "to
reproach you for what is past and
gone, Sophy; but your proceedings
during that period were not what
they should have been, I fear. Even
so far as they came under my ob
servation, they dissatisfied me, and I
felt called upon, as you remember,
to say something concerning them—
though I did not say all—to my
brother. It would have been better
perhaps if I had been more frank.
Still it was partly, at all events, to
shield you from what I then thought
to be his uncalled-for displeasure,
and I have some right perhaps to
look for a little gratitude from you
in consequence. I shall find it, you
say?” (Sophy’s lips had murmured
something to that, effect.) “Very
good. All I ask of you, then, is to
pay the debt you owe into your own
account. No return for anything I
have done for you can, I assure you,
be more agreeable to me than that
you should act wisely and for your
own good in this matter. It is a
more serious affair than you yourself
have any idea of, and I tremble to
think of the consequences that may
follow a contrary course of conduct.
You have hitherto only seen one side
of your guardian’s character; it Is in
deed good all around, but though so
tender and lenient to the erring, it is
not so to—forgive me, but I only use
his own expression—scamps and
scour’drels. He is as suspicious of
evil-do rs as he is charitable and
trustful to the rest of his fellow-crea
tures. And it is certain that Mr. Her
bert Perry has found his way into his
black books. It is not without rea
son that he has got there, be assured
of that, Sophy, though I do not wish
to distress you with the disgraceful
details; but the point is that there he
is. Your guardiaq’s prejudices, espe
cially when they are well founded:
are as fixed as his attachments; and
in this case I am very certain nothing
will move him. I am to say from
him that Mr. Herbert Perry is never
to cross the threshold of this house
again. If you meet him elsewhere,
or hold any communication with lhm,
it will be in direct disobedience to
your guardian’s wishes—are you lis
tening to what I say, Sophy?”
1 have heard every word, an
swered the girl, in a half-choked
whisper, though, as her companion
noticed, with some surprise, she was
not in tears. "I will do my best, my
very best, I promise you.”
“My darling, there is only one way
of doing your best,” returned Aunt
Maria. “I beg, I entreat of you, not
to attempt to play fast and loose in
the matter. Duplicity or deception
are things that my brother would
never, never forgive.”
Sophy shuddered; she was think
ing of what was done, not of what
she was about to do.
"Sit down at once, Sophy, like a
good, dear girl, and write to this un
happy young man—I suppose you
must write to him—the simple truth.
It is not as if you were giving up of
your own free will—though X hope
you are doing that also. There is no
change of mind to plead, hut simply
one of circumstances. Your gurdian
has forbidden you to hold any further
communication with him, and you
have no alternative but to obey. You
have only to write that.”
Only that! A crooked smile
played upon poor Sophy’s lips. Then,
after a long pause, she once more
murmured: ‘‘I will do my best.”
This time Aunt Maria found no
fault with that expression, but pushed
a little writing table to her compan
ion’s side, and set pen and paper be
fore her. She had the sense to see
that the time for talk was over, and
also that the girl should be left to
herself to think.
“Shall I be in your way if I wait
till you have written your note?”
Sophy shook her head, and with a
trembling hand set down a sentence
or two, and placed it in an envelope.
“Quite right, my dear; the shorter
the better,” said Aunt Maria, approv
ingly. “You will promise me to send
it, Sophy? It had better be posted at
once.”
“Yes, Jeannette shall take it.”
Aunt Maria stooped and kissed the
girl affectionately. "The surgeon’s
knife is keen,” she said, “but there is
health in its use. God bless you, my
darling; you will be better now that
this weight is off your mind,” and,
with another kiss, she left her.
Poor Sophy did not look like one
who has had a weight taken off her
mind. She rose wearily from her
chair, and, passing into the opposite
room, placed a large oblong card
in the window that looked upon the
road. Such a sign in London houses
means that the delivery cart, or the
dustman, is to call. In her case it
meant something quite different. To
certain eyes which would presently
catch sight of it, from the other side
of the way, it would signify, “My
guardian is at home; you must not
call.”
Then she rang for her maid.
“Jeannette, you must take this
note to Green street.”
“I do hope, Miss Sophy, that you are
not going to do anything rash,” an
swered the girl, hesitatingly.
“Rash! what should put that into
your head? I shall want you to walk
out with me this afternoon at 4
o'clock.”
“But not to meet Mr. Perry, sure
ly?” v
“Yes, it must be done,” said Sophy,
changing her light tone for one of
bitter gravity.
“But consider; you are both known
so well, and it will be broad day
light.”
“Never mind; it will be, I trust,
for the last time.”
“That’s what you always say,”
urged the waiting maid, “but yet it
happens again and again. The pitch
er will go too often to the well, Miss
Sophy; indeed, indeed it will.”
“There will be no one to blame but
myself, even if it does, Jeannette,”
answered Sophy, with a sigh; “here
is the answer to his letter. Just
leave it.”
It ran as follows:
“Dear H.—I cannot answer your
note in writing, nor answer it as you
wish at all. Something very serious
has happened. I will meet you be
hind the mill at 5 o’clock.”
CHAPTER VI.
A Tryst.
"Beside the pleasant mill at
Trumpington,” saysWordsworth, “we
laughed with Chaucgr in the haw
thorn shade,” but it was with no ex
pectation of merriment that Miss So
phia Gilbert, accompanied by her
faithful waiting maid, Jeannette,
took her way thither that May after
noon. The first time she had visited
the place was at a little picnic during
the long vacation, with Aunt Maria
and a few friends, and there by acci
dent she had first met with Herbert
Perry. Six months ago she had
adored the man, of whom she was
the clandestine wife; and now—now
—she hardly dared to say to herself
what she thought of him, with what
abhorrence she looked forward to a
future which must be linked with his,
with what apprehension and dismay
she pictured the immediate Conse
quence of his obstinacy and rashness,
should he persist in his present be
havior. Yet it was curious that she
felt more angry with herself for her
folly than with him for his cruelty;
and as every now and then she
stopped by the water’s side and gazed
on her own image she murmured as
before, "You fool! you mad and
wicked fool!”
She had reached the end of the
peninsula and was about to turn
when the silver beat of a paddle
struck upon her ear; in that very
time and place it had once been mu
sic to her, but now she shivered as
though it was a passing bell.
"He is coming,” said Jeannette, in
a warning voice.
As if she did not know that! as if
she did not see, though her face was
still averted, the little boat gliding
swiftly up tue stream impelled by
those sinewy arms, and the shapely
head with its crisp brow^ locks, and
the form that had once been as Apol
lo’s to her eyes, but was now odious
as Apollyon’s.
The canoe shot, noiselessly to the
bank, and he stepped out to meet her
with a fleeting smile.
“Well,” he said, “I am come, and
with all the caution that an Indian
uses in one of Cooper’s novels, but
I tell you fairly that 1 am tired of all
this shying and shirking, and mean
to put an end to it.”
She had held out her hand, but he
had taken no notice of it; his face
was flushed, not with the exercise he
had taken, for such feats were feath
erweights with him, but, as she was
well aware, with anger.
“If we are going to talk,” he said,
looking toward Jeannette, “though
nothing you can*say will make any
difference I promise you, there had
better be no listeners.” At this
broad hint the worthy maid retired a
few paces, not without a contemptu
ous sniff, and left the young couple
to their colloquy.
“Well, what is it, Sophy? You
say something serious has happened.
You can’t mean to say that^the gov
ernor has heard of my visit last
night. If so, that jade yonder has
betrayed us.”
“She has not betrayed us, Herbert;
I wish that every one was as faithful
and true as Jeannette; nor do I
know that my guardian has discov
ered that frightful imprudence of
yours; but he has found out some
thing you have done—I daresay
equally rash—and has forbidden you
the house.”
“Has he, begad?” returned tb#>
young man, with ,a contemptuous
sneer. “We’ll see about that. So
that’s all, is it?”
“No, it is not all. I am forbid
den after to-day to hold any com
munication with you whatever.”
“On pain of the canon's high dis
pleasure, I suppose? That may affect
some chorister boy in his cathedral,
but not me. Now I tell you what I
mean to do. Perhaps to-morrow,
perhaps the next day, but at all
events before the term is over, I
mean to claim you as my wife.”
“Then you will ruin us both.”
“Speak for yourself, Sophy! As
for me, I know my own business bet
ter than you can tell me. You talk
as if you had no belongings but your
guardian. You have a father-in
law, though he is not aware of the
fact, who is my father, and quite a*
queer a fish to deal with as the canon
can be. Just because I am not much
of a reader he is dissatisfied with my
‘career’—so he calls it—at the uni
versity, and since, as he says, I don’t
seem inclined to do any good here—
that is, take my degree—he has ai*
nounced his intention of taking my
name off the college books. Here’s
his letter, received this morning;
very amusing, under the circum
stances. An opening has occurred,
it seems, in the Bush, and I am to
be sent off to Australia to fill it. A
likely joke—though from one point
of view it is at least as serious as
anything you have told me.”
“But, my dear Herbert,” pleaded
Sophy, laying her hand on his arm,
“why should you not go to Australia
—just for the twelve months that
must elapse before our marriage is
made public? By complying with
your father’s wishes you will help to
make matters easy for us. By wait
ing a little longer we shall not have
cause to fear opposition. And then
consider the safety of such an ar
rangement—how much better than
all these risks and dangers. We can
write to one another, you know; and
think how delightful it will be to feel
that the time is getting less and less,
every month and every week, to the
period when we shall meet without
fear, never to part again.”
He shook her hand off with angry
vehemence and laughed derisively.
“That is a very pretty proposition,
upon my soul; what tenderness and
affection it exhibits! And how very
like what the conduct of a newly
married wife should be! X have no
doubt you could bear the twelve
months’ separation with great phil
osophy, and not without some trust
in the ‘chapter of accidents’ whereby
it might easily happen that I should
be lost at sea, or shot at the gold dig
gings, and Miss Sophia Gilbert would
find another husband more to her
mind.”
“How can you be so unkind and
talk of such horrid things, Herbert?
Of course I should be very miser
able while you were away; but—
er-”
"Ah! you may well say ‘but—er‘!”
interrupted the young man, with a
sne^r. “It’s ‘butter’, indeed. You
know how to lay it on with a trowel;
but it is quite wasted on me, I as
sure you. Try it on the canon, with
whom it may be of use. You have
deceived him long enough with palav
er; now you’ll have to undeceive him
with palaver.”
"And if I was, as you say, to un
deceive him,” returned Sophy, very
white and quiet, "what do you sup
pose would happen?”
To be Continued.
Cotton Paper.
Some recent experiments have de
monstrated that ail grades of paper
can bq manufactured from cotton
stalks, and in addition to this a var
iety of by-products including alcohol,
cotton fibre and smokeless powder
can be secured in commercial quan
tities. On the estimate that an acre
of land producing one ton of stalks,
ten or twelve million tons of raw
material can be depended upon an
nually. Some enthusiast claims that
in addit’on to increasing the value of
the South's annual cotton crop by
1100,000,000 the removal of ttye
stalks from the fields early in the fall
will mean the extermination of the
boll weevil.—Farming.
Thanks.
John Ridgley Carter, Secretary of
the American Embassy at London,
was piloting some American friends
through the museum at Hastings
when he observed an unhappy atten
dant wearing a military uniform,
with a helmet from which a chin
strap hung, at whom an inquisitive
tourist was firing all manner of silly
questions.
The tourist’s last question was:
“Say, what is that strap under your
chin for?”
The attendant sighed. "The strap
is to rest my jaw when I get tired
answering questions,” said he.—Har
per’s 'Weekly.
What is known In the market as
chamois skin is really oil-tanned
sheep skin linings. The supply of
real chamois skin is very limited, and
all there is in the world would not
supply the United States for a sin
gle day. .
Both Congress and Senate of Spain
rest every year and the reigning mon
arch has the power of convoking, sus
pending, or dissolving them, but in the
latter case a new eortes must sit within
three months.
The first typewriter ever made ap
peared In 1714, the work of Henry
Mills.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM
MENTS FOR JUNE 9, BY THE
REV. I. W. HENDERSON.
Subject: The Passover, Ex. 12:21-30
—Golden Text: Ex. 12:13_
Memory Verses, 26, 27—Com
mentary on the Day's Lesson.
This is the story of God’s blood
covenant with Israel in Egypt. Cov
enants are a feature of the historic
life of the East. A bread covenant
lasts for fcrtv- years we are told.
When a man breaks bread with an
other he is that man’s friend fori
four decades. The blood covenant -
between men is an everlasting cove- 5
nant. So it is here. With the shed
ding of the blood of the lamh the
covenant of God with Israel reaches
out to eternity.
The lesson is replete with lessons.
God gave the Israelites the covenant
because they trusted in Him and
called upon Him in their distress.
Israel put her hope in God and she
made an effort to keep in some meas
ure the commands of God. She was
caught in the whirlpool of a national
and industrial and spiritual iniquity
that seemed overwhelming. The
people were so bowed down with the
sins that were practiced against them
that they were in danger of losing
their courage and hope itself. There
seemed to be no human way of es
cape. God, however, heard their i
cries of suffering. Their sorrow
reached His heart. They looked to
Him for deliverance. And He deliv
ered them. Their deliverance came
because they came to a realising
sense of their dependence on God.
And we must become conscious of
our need for God if we are to enter
into the covenant which God at a
later day made with men in the per
son of Jesus Christ.
It is remarkable that Egypt reaped
the consequences of her own mis
doings. God brought no hasty judg
ment to bear on these evil people.
The king and tl;e nation were warned
nine times before the final and the
awful consequences of their own in
iquity fell upon them. And as Egypt
was warned so we are warned.1 Sin
has cumulative consequences. We
do not reap the worst at first. The
evil that men do is followed by con
sequences that are in the nature of
a warning. They are not final, in
a sense. The consequences of sin are
like the pains that are incidental to
physical ills. A sick body warns in
the very pain that we undergo that
something is the matter, that we ar6'"^
reaping the consequences of physical
misdoing. And so the consequences,
many and varied as they are, that
follow in the wake of sin are warn
ings to us to desist. They are in
a way the voice of God speaking to
us through the immutable laws of
His own world. Pharaoh had due
notice of the consequences of his sin
against Israel, but he would not
heed the warning. Sin became a
habit with him and the consequences
of that sin became increasingly acute
and horrible. So it is with our sin. If
we do not heed the early warning we
may be sure that we shall reap a
worse harvest of .evil consequences
in the end. ,
Another noticeable thing is that
the Israelites had to help themselves
out of their trouble. God made the
promise to them that when the de
struction fell on the first born of the
land He would pass them by if their
door posts were sprinkled with the
shed blood of the lambs. That made
it necessary that they should be
helpers in the work that God was to
accomplish for them. This is the
divine plan and it is the only plan.
If God had saved them from the gen
eral calamity without making them
do something for themselves in or
der to make this salvation effective
they would not have valued It so
highly as they did. We must co
operate with God. And in the Chris
tian economy no man can be saved
unless he is willing to co-operate .
with God. If God did not demand
that we should conform to His plans
for our redemption in Christ we
should not value that salvation as'
highly as we do. But because we
are called upon to work out our own
salvation under the gui<tance and em-*
powering of God Himself we prize
salvation in Jesus Christ as the great
est boon that the world holds for hu
manity.
The three words that close the
2Sth verse of the lesson show why
It is that Israel escaped, why the
Passover is commemorated by loyal
Jews everywhere to-day, why It is
that this episode in the life of the
chosen people of God has remained
as a classic witness to the truth that
God shepherds the peoples who love
Him. “So did they!” That is to
say they were obedient. And obedi
ence always has brought its reward
and it always will bring its reward.
We in America to-day are desirous
of being released from the power of
evil men and evil conditions that
have made life hardly worth the liv
ing for multitudes of our people and
that have made us all hang our faces
in shame. But we shall never enter
i*to the promised land of the realized
kingdom of God in this country until
we obey God. If the Israelites had
not done precisely as God had com-f
manded there would have been nol
deliverance for them. And America'
is no more precious to God than Is
rael was. And Americans are living ]
under no different regulations than j
those under which Israel lived. Toi
be saved we must do as God tells us.]
And whenever we hear a clear call;
of God for service or for duty it is -
for us not to deny the duty or the
call, but to give it supremacy in our
lives.
Compressed Air In Iron Foundry.
Compressed air is now used in the !
large iron foundry at the Schenec- j
tady works of the General Electric
Company for almost every operation
connected with the making of al
finished casting. Although the ma- j
chlnery in the other adjacent shops i
iB operated entirely by electricity, in ]
the iron foundry, where the opera- 1
tions are scattered and intermittent, i
compressed air was found to he ad
vantageous for sfnall power services.
The air is supplied at eighty pounds’
pressure by a number of electric mo
tor-driven compressors.
The Drummer in Switzerland.
In Switzerland during the year
1906 licenses were Issued to 31,248
commercial travelers, against 31,748
in 1905. Of the former, 24,421 rep
resented Swiss and 682 7 foreign,
firms.
■ Lincoln’s .Playmate Dead. '
Redmond D. Griggshy, the last sur-]
viving boyhood playmate of Abraham
Lincoln, when the latter lived in In
diana, is dead at his home near
Chrisney, Ind. He was eighty-ni"“
years of age.