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Seated by the glowing embers la the
gloomy old flrelit hall, watching the
fiams retreat, advance, flare up in
•plendor, and then die Into a dull
glow, was Jack Long. Thirty-five
years had elapsed since Jack first saw
the light of day, and his life had been
as full of Joy and misery, of light and
shadows, as the ordinary life of man
kind.
Typical of the ever-burning glow
was a love within his heart which ten
years had not smothered.
Like the fire flame leaping high and
sinking low, was the hope in his
breast
As Jack sat there alone, gazing into
the fire, thoughts of bygone days came
over him, trooping at his memory's
call.
Mingled with those memories was a
fair and radiant maiden, with hair 01
•unsnine and eyes of azure. This im
age conjured up so vivid and lifelike
was his loving, laughing sweetheart,
Queenie Graham, as she looked on that
Thanksgiving night so long ago.
It would be ten years on the mor
row since he had last gazed upon the
dimpled, smiling, roguish face which
he loved so well.
They were then betrothed, and sie
•wore the betrothal ring which he had
placed upon her finger only a few
weeks before.
How vivid that picture came before
his eyes. Ten years seemed to have
rolleu backward, and he was a youth
of 25 again, and Queenie Graham, his
adored one, a blushing maiden of 18.
The old-fashioned farmhouse, With
White, oaken floor, and the boys with
their sweethearts, and the jolly old
fiddler who played half asleep, only
awaking to call out in deep, stentor
lous tones:
"Swing partners to place."
The lamps swinging from the ceiling
flooded the. scene with the most bril
liant light
Gay laughter and Jest told of light
hearts, and happy faces glowed to the
•oul-stirring music of the "Irish Wash
erwoman," sawed off by the fiddler.
Jack's love, like all true love, did
not run smooth. In fact, love begets
"QUEENIE, OH, MY LONG-LOST
LOVE."
Its own misery. Aie was madly Jeal
ous when she smiled on Sam Brown,
and In swinging partners Sam held
her hand too long and squeezed it too
ardently to suit the jealous lover.
"Queenie, you're a flirt" he de
clared, "I saw you wink at Sam
Brown."
She turned on him with proud,
flashing eyes, and said:
"Don't be surprleid if I call you an
other. You kissed Susie BelL"
"That's not true."
"Yes, you did for I heard her tell
Uary Courtwright."
"It Is false, Queenie," ho cried. In
his indignation. Susie Bell was a
round-faced, ugly country girl with no
attractions, and tongue given to mis
chief making.
The dance went on, and the lovers'
quarrel with it As Jack and Queenie
whirled in the giddy mazes of the
dance that siily, childish quarrel
waxed hot, entrancing her beauty with
every angry word she uttered.
At last, as the "set was over," she
suddenly jerked the betrothal emblem
from her finger, and thrusting it into
his hand said:
"Here is your ring you can marry
Miss Sue."
With a heavy heart the angry Jack
Long donned his topcoat and winding
his muffler about his necic to keep the
chill November air from his throat,
went out into the night never to look
upon the face of that adored being
again.
He neard from Queenie occasionally,
and at last that she had gone east to
live. How far east or what part ot
the east, he did not know, and was
too proud to ask.
She was lost to him forever, and he
grew melancholy. He went west, to
be as far from her as possible, and en
gaged in business at a frontier town,
with cowboys and ranchmen for his as
sociates.
Then came the mutterings of war
with Spain.
He had always loved the weak, and
sprang to the first call to arms. Rough
riders were wanted, and he had learned
to mount the wildest broncho.
He enlisted, and hurried off to the
front At Santiago he landed, and in
the march to the city was in the first
skirmish.
Then came that .noble charge on San
STuan hiu. He lei the charge amid
dust and heat. Agisting like a mad man
Until struck downf faint and bleeding,
arth to die.
'Queenie,
QueeMie,
oh, my long-lost
loved one, shall ifiever see you more?"
murmur, as borne
d. Somehow thera
t4ojM cry
who
he was heard
•wx7 from the
was some
ich
near sent w-ith his report the following
brief sentence:
"A soldier, wounded and dying,
while being carried from the field,
WILL YOU DANCE WITH ME?"
was heard to exclaim with his last
breath: 'Queenie, Queenie, oh, my
long-lost loved one!' No doubt this
piteous appeal wrung from a noble
heart was to some faithless sweet
heart who had deserted him years be
fore."
ThiB simple little paragraph had
been copied and recopied, and dis
cussed, an made the theme for count
less stories and ballads.
But Jack, who uttered It, didn't die.
He lived to return to America, was
honorably discharged, and resolved to
pas3 another Thanksgiving in the old
neighborhood where his young- days
had been spent. So he returned, after
an absence of neavly ten years, and
was at the house of his rather on this
evening, gazing, sadly into the fire
which seemed to reflect his own ach
ing heart.
What was life to him now?
That chief charm, that only light
to his soul, had gone out, leaving all
gloom and darkness.
He was like an old man.
His hair, once dark as the raven's
wing, showed traces of silver in it,
and his face, so handsome, clear and
fresh, now had the lines of care upon
it.
Though he sometimes smiled and as
sumed an appearance of gayety, his
mother knew that his heart was sad.
But that mother had a hope that
happiness would ye* dawn on her son.
She had a piece ot intelligence she
had not brol1®*1 to him. Queenie Gra
ham, njtpi an absence orsten years,
had returned to visit an au\t.
There was to be a great Thanksgiv
ing party at Jack's grandmother's, the
oldest lady in the neighborhood, at
which she was to invite all the young
folks, tor "Grandma Goodwin" took
great pleasure in young people.
Queenie would no doubt be there,
and she determined that Jack should
meet her. The mother knew that her
son's pride would keep him away If
he knew Queenie was' to be there, so
she kept that surprise a secret from
him.
She little knew how love had hum
bled Jack's pride.
In the vest pocket of the veteran, he
carried the self same ring which
Queenie had thrust back on him ten
years before. It was next his heart
when he stormed San Juan hill, and
he hoped if he was slain the bullet
would pass within the golden circle
of his youthful love, and that he might
die with her name on his lips.
But fate destined Jack to live. He
was once more home, among friends
who had crowded about to hear him
tell of the wild charge and the storm
of death.
Would he go to grandmother's next
day to the Thanksgiving dinner: Yes,
he would.
The mother was happy.
The old carriage was loaded with
Jolly young folks and middle-aged peo
ple, and among them the veteran of
San Juan.
Grandma's table groaned with plen
ty goose and turkey, pies and can
dies, ciuer, nuts and apples in abun
dance.
But what was far more precious to
the ex-rough rider was a radiant face
he had loved so long before.
He thought she had suffered as well
as be. They were too much surprised
at meeting that neither would tell
what emotions were being stirred in
the other's heart.
Queenle's beauty was matured and
seemed more heightened by time. .She
was far more lovely than before. Aft
1 er the first moment's shock of surprise
pride assumed control, and placed each
other on the guard.
Tliey longeu to break the ice, but
neither wanted to make the advance.
After the feasting was over the
happy group assembled in the great
parlor to talk over pleasant reminis
cences or indulge in a quiet tete-a
tete.
Then someone, may his tribe in
crease, said:
"I brought my violin. I will play
and call oft let us have a dance to
night."
The suggestion was greeted with
a hearty shout, and the young fellows
rushed to find their partners.
Right quickly they all took their
places on the floor, when they found
that they wanul just one couple
more.
"Come, come, Soldier Jack, secure
a partner," cried .ae voluntary mu
sician.
Moved by some uncontrollable Im
pulse, Jack arose and went to where
Queenie Graham sat, and, bending
low, whispered:
Will .you come and dance 'Haste to
the Wedding" with me?"
She asenteg. and all were
Then someone on the piano aecom*
panled the vloljn in that sweet old
melody, "Haste to the Wedding."
There Is always an opportunity In a
quadrille for a sly word now and then
between partners.
"All join hands and circle to the
right"
"I want to ask you something," she
whispered, when they were at their
places again. $ t-d-h
"What is it?"
"First four forward and back again."
And away they went.
When next tLey hau an opportunity
s^e thrust into his hand an item
clipped from a newspaper.
it was of a young soldier carried
bleeding and dying from San Juan hill,
murmuring:
"Queenie, Queenie, oh, my long-lost
loved one, shall I never see you more?"
"Was that you?" she asked.
"Yes," he answered.
Then he took her nand. It trembled,
and her azure eyes grew dim.
"Balance all."
It was several minutes before either
could speak.
The sweet-tuned violin, accompanied
by the piano, poured forth such soul
stirring music as can be found only
in that precious old air, "Haste to the
Wedding."
He was about to speak when the
musician "calling off" shouted:
"Gents to places—all promenade."
It gave him an opportunity to re
cover himself, and when next they
glided across the room he whispered:
"Say, Queenie, will you keep that old
promise you made long ago?"
She looked up at him, smiling
through her tears.
Ten years of misery and suffering
had passed since he held that hand.
Oh, it was reward for all that suffer
ing!
"Queenie, I have it yet," he whis
pered, taking from his vest pocket the
betrothal ring which he had carried
all these -ears.
"It has never left me, for I always
had hoped that a time might' come
when I could restore It to the finger
where it belonged. It was with me
on that dark, gloomy day at San Juan
hill, where I saw so many noble men
die.
"I carried it over my heart and
prayed that if I fell some Sphanish
bullet might pass through the band of
love to reach a heart that beat for
you. Oh, Queenie, did you know that
you have never
"Swing partners to place."
What an abomination was that old
fiddler and the dance to Jack.
When he next got an opportunity
he whispered:
"Never been out of my mind."
CLANCY'S RAFFLE.
There's a raffle down at Clancy's
They are throwing lor a "turk."
By the way the dice-box dances
You can see It's hard at work.
Whew! the air Is close and smoky!
There's a crowd about the beer
Every stalwart t.hlrsty blokey
Downs his pint without a fear.
"Twinty-wan," called Jerry Clancy
And he pounded on the bar.
"Shure, the game Is rather chancy,
Lucky divll that ye are!
"Come, O'Brien, tak' the bi-r-d!"
Then said Clancy, with a wink:
"Whlrra, boys, an' haven't ye hear-r-tf
O'Brien aslik yez ahl to dhrlnk?"
There were twenty-seven husky men
Gathered there about the. bar.
"Whiskey here!" each sh6uted then.
Clancy answered: "Here yez arel* 7
"Tin cints alch, ye lucky sinner!"
"Faix!" O'Brien said, "thot's nate!
Tls a motghty coshtly dinner—
Bight years old, four pounds In weight!"
Heat Cottaj-B nt Evanston.
The home of Mrs. Frances E. Wil
lard at Evanston,. 111., now the head
quarters of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, is not only valued
for its usefulness to the association
and endeared because of its associa
tion with its former beloved owner,
but the fact that the part of the house
once occupied by Miss Willard and her
mother is kept by its present holder,
Miss Anna Gordon, who has a life
lease of the premises, in exactly the
same condition as when Miss Willard
had them. All the personal belongings
of Miss Willard are preserved with
greatest care, and visitors consider It
a privilege to see the home that once
sheltered so dear a woman. It is Miss
Gordon's purpose to place the furnl.
ture, of which she is the sole legatee
in the hands of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union at her death,
with the understanding that they be
considered a sacred trust In the
meantime she keeps the place in per
fect repair, and has a housekeeper
there, when she herself must be ab
sent, so that temperance workers may
always be admitted.
Plucky Motorworaan.
The pretty and plucky daughter of
Frank Butler, the energetic treasurer
of the Automobile club of London, has
driven her motor car to Paris and
back. She is the first woman who has
so ventured, and it is pleasant to know
that the journey was a brilliant suc
cess, the motor car behaving with per
fect propriety, and covering the lovely
country lying between Havre and the
gay city In one day. Most of the
smarter French women can drive' their
automobile, the first to set the exam
ple of obtaining a regular certificate
being the Duchess d'Uzes, the only
woman "M. F. S. H." who hunts her
own pack of staghounds.
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TALMACIE'S SEJiMON.!
DEPLORES PREVAILING
OF UNREST.
SPIRIT
The Tme "Source of tfrofulness and
Happiness Is a Chrlstlim Life TJie
Cnuse of Discontent—Fixed Spiritual
Condition.^ *,'f•
:-V .•
(Copyright, 1900, Louis Ivlopsch, N. T.)
Washington, Nov. 25.—urom an un
usual text Dr. Talmage in this dis
course rebukes the spirit of unrest
which characterizes so many people
and shows them the happiness and
usefulness to be found in stability
text, Jeremiah 11,. 36, "Why gaddest
thou about so much to change thy
way?"
Homely is the illustration by which
this prophet of tears deplores the va
cillation of the nation to whom he
wrote. Now they wanted alliance
with Egypt, and now with Assyria,
and now with Babylon, and now they
did not know what they wanted, and
the behavior of the nation reminded
the prophet of a man or woman who,
not satisfied with home, life, goes from
place to place gadding about, as we
say, never settled anywhere or In any
thing, and he cries out to them, "Why
gaddest tbou about so much to change
the way?
Well, the world has now as many
gad-abouts as it nad in Bible times,
and I think that that race of people Is
more numerous now than It ever was.
Gad-abouts among occupations, among
religious theories, among churches,
among neighborhoods, and one of the
greatest wants of the church and the
world Is more steadfastness and more
fixedness of purpose.
Examine Your Temperament
While seeking divine guidance in
your selection of a lifetime sphere ex
amine your own temperament. The
phrenologist will tell you your mental
proclivities. The physiologist will tell
you your physical temperament. Your
enemies will tell you your weaknesses.
If you are, as we say, nervous, do not
become a surgeon. If you are coward
ly do not become an engineer. If you
are hoping for a large and permanent
income, do not seek a governmental
position. If you are naturally quick
tempered, do not become a minister of
the gospel for while'any one is disad
vantaged by ungovernable disposition
there is hardly any one who enacts
such an incongruous part as a mad
minister. Can you make a fine sketch
of a ship, or a rock or house or
face? Be an artist. Do you find
yourself humming cadences, and
do the treble clef and the
musical bars drop from your pen
easily, and can you make a tune that
charms those that hear it? Be a
musician. Are you born with a fond
ness for argument? Be an attorney.
Are you naturally a good nurse and
especially Interested in the Telief of
pain? Be a physician. Are you in
terested in all questions of traffic and
in bargain making? Are you apt to be
successful on a small or large scale?
Be a merchant Do you prefer country
life, and do you like the plow, and do
you hear music in the rustle of a har
vest field? Be a farmer. Are you
fond of machinery, and are turning __
wheels you 'a fascination,«cani
you follow with absorbing Interest a
new kind of thrashing machine hour
after hour? Be a mechanic. If you
enjoy analyzing the natural elements
and a laboratory could entertain you
all day and all night, be a chemist
If you are Inquisitive about other
worlds and Interested in all Instru
ments that would bring them nearer
for inspection, be an astronomer. If
the grass under your feet and the
foliage over your head and the flowers
which shake their incense on the sum
mer air are to you the belles lettres of
the field, be a botanist.
Following God's Calk
Last summer a man of great genius
died. He had the talents ot twenty
men in surgical directions, but he did
not like surgery, and he wanted to be
a preacher. He could not preach. I
told him so. He tried it on both sides
of the sea, but he failed, because he
turned his back on that magnificent
profession of surgery, which has in
our time made such wonderful achieve
ment that it now heals a broken neck
and by the ray explores the temple
of the human body as if it were a
lighted room. For forty years he was
gadding about among the professions.
Do not imitate him. Ask God what
you ought to be, and he will tell you.
It may not be aB elegant a style of
work as you would prefer. It may cal
lous and begrime your hands and put
you in suffocating atmosphere and
stand you shoulder to shoulder with
the unrefined and may leave your
overalls the opposite of aromatic, but
remember that if God calls you to do
one thing you will never be happy in
doing something else.
All the great successes have been
gained through opposition and strug
gle. Charles Goodyear, the inventor,
whose name is now a synonym all
the world over for fortune added to
fortune, waded many years chin deep
through the world's scorn and was
thrust in debtor's prison and came
With his family to the verge of starva
tion, but continued his experiments
with vulcanized rubber until he added
more than can be estimated to the
world's health and comfort, as well as
to his own advantage. Columbus and
John Fitch and Stephenson and Rob
ert Bruce and Cyrus W. Field and 500
others were illustrations of what ten
acity and pluck can do. "Hard pound
ing," said Wellington at Waterloo,
"hard pounding, gentlemen, but we
will see who can pound the longest."
Yes, my friends, that is the secret, not
flight from obstacles in the way, but
"who can pound the longest." The
child had it right when attempting to
carry a ton of coal, a shovelful at a
time, from the sidewalk to the cellar,
and some one asked her, "Do you ever
expect to get all that coal In with
that little 6hovel?" And she replied,
"Yes, sir, if I work long enough." By
the help of God choose your calling
and stick to it The gadabouts are
failures for this life, to say nothing of
the next-
Fixed Spiritual CondVtlon
So also many are unfixed\ln regard
to their spiritual condition and day
after day and year after yea^ go gad
hopes and fears and
a*®/
anxieties. They sing with great em
phasis that old hymn which we have
all sung:
'Tls a ppint I long to know
Oft it causes anxious thought
Do I love the Lord or no?
Am I his, or am I not?
Why do you not find out whether
you are his or not? There are all the
broad invitations of the gospel. Ac
cept them. There are all the assur
ances. Apply them. There are all
the hopes of pardon and heaven.
Adopt them. There is the King's high
way. Start on it. Traveling any road,
you are not satisfied until you have
found out whether it is the right or
the wrong road, and you climb up in
the darkness to read the words on the
finger board at the roadside to see if it
be the right road, and if it bo the
wrong road you cross over to the
right road. If you are on the sea, you
want to know into what port you will
run or upon what rocks you are In
danger of crashing. This moment you
have all the information pointing to
the road that terminates at tbe gate
of the Golden City and the voyage that
anchors In the haven of eternal rest
Why go on guessing when you have
all the facts before you? You ought to
know by examination of chart and
compass and thermometer in what
latitude and longitude you are sailing,
whether in the arctic or the tropics. A
man who does not know whether or
not he is a Christian is like a man who
does not know whether he is a mil
lionaire or a pauper. Better go to the
records and find out The Scriptures
are the records. If you cannot there
read your title, It is because you have
no-title, and you ought to begin anew.
Start a new prayer, sing a new song,
open a new experience.
So, alas, there are those who gad
about among particular churches. No
pastor can depend on them for a sin
gle service. At some time when he
has prepared a sermon, after all pray
er ?nnd all research, putting nerve and
muscle and brain and soul into its
every paragraph, these intermittent
attendants are not there to hear it.
While an occasional absence Is ex
cusable for the gratification of some
wish to hear that which is consecrated
or religiously oratoric in some other
pulpit, when the pastor of a church
with his eye calls the roll of attend
ance, by. your presence in the old place
practically answer, saying: "I am
here to get the benefit of all the use
ful thoughts you may utter and of all
the hymns that you may give out and
of all the prayers you may offer. I,
a soldier of Jesus Christ, am in my
own place in the company, in the
battalion, in the regiment, and when
you command 'March!' I will march,
and when you command 'Halt!' I will
halt, and when you order "Ground
arms!' I will ground arms."
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Keglectlng One'a Homo.
Among the race of gadabouts are
those who neglect their homes in or
der that they may attend to institu
tions that are really excellent and do
not so much ask for help as demand
it. I am acquainted, as you are, with
women who are members of so many
boards of direction of benevolent in
stitutions and have to stand at a booth
in so many fairs, and must collect
funds for so many orphanages and
»my
p^l^thrpnlc
meetings, and are expected to be Tn~
so many different places at the same
time that their children are left to the
care of Irresponsible servants, and If
the little ones waited to say their
prayers at their mother's knee they
would never say their evening prayers
at alL Such a woman makes her own
home so unattractive that the husband
spends his evenings at the clubhouse
Or the tavern. The children of that
house are as thoroughly orphan as any
of the fatherless and motherless little
ones gathered in the orphanage for
which that gadabout woman Is toiling
so Industriously. By all means let
Christian women foster charitable In
stitutions and give them as much of
their time as they can "spare, but the
first duty of that mother is the duty
she owes to her home.
1
Hired help is a great advantage to
the homestead' that can afford It, and
we have all had in our homes a fidelity
on the part of such employes as will
stir our gratitude as long as life shall
last How they watched in time of
sickness and always gave the medicine
at the right time, and but for their
vigilance there are members of our
families now living who would long
ago have disappeared from the home
circle. Blessed the ships that brought
those employes to our shores! And
whp will ever do justice to those who
vfere affectionately called and I be
lieve are still called the "mammies"
of the south? I have had governors
and .senators of the United States with
tears in their eyes talk to me about
those old colored women of the south
who rocked them in their cradles and
bound up their wounds when they got
hurt, and wept with them at graves,
and looked in from the hall door at
the weddings, and greeted them home
from college or from the wars with
motherly endearment. Ask those
who know them best about those old
"mammies." We have 411 had in our
employment thbse so near and dear
to us that we went to them in child
hood and told them all our griefs and
all our joys, and they sympathized
with copious tears and resounding
laughter. fg
The Mistake of Mothers.
But ho one can take a mother's
place, and it is an awful mistake that
that mother makes who sacrifices
home duties for any church meeting,
•however important, or any hospital,
however merciful, or any outside bene
ficence, however glorious and grand.
Not understanding this, we mistake
when .we try to give statistics as to
how many Christians there are in our
churches in the world. We understate
the facts. We look over our church
audiences on the Sabbath or our
weekly service and conclude that they
represent the amount of piety in that
neighborhood. Oh, no! There are
many most consecrated souls that are
not found In churches. Look into
those houses with large families of
children and little or no hired help.
For much of the year there Is some
one ly, and a special guardian care Is
requisite. How much time can that
mother give to churches and prayer
meetii^^^hen moat of tbe family
are fever or have
colds that threaten now one kind ot
disease and now another? That moth
er watching at home as much pleases
the Lord as the mother who at church
takes the sacrament or In the mission
school tells the waifs of the street how
they may become sons and daughters
of the Lord Almighty. That mother
at home is deciding the destiny of the
state by the way she leads that boy
into right thinking and acting and Is
deciding the welfare of some future
home by the' example she is setting
that girl, and though the world does
not appreciate the unobserved work
heaven watches and rewards. On the
other hand, you have known women
who are off at meetings humanitarian
and philanthropic, planning tor the
destitute and the outcast, while their
own children went unwashed and un
kempt, their garments needing repairs,
their manners impudent and them
selves a general nuisance to the com
munity In which they live.
The Dlntrlbatlon of Scandal
One bad habit these gadabouts, mas
culine or feminine, are sure to get,
and that is of scandal distribution.
They hear so many deleterious things
about others and see so much of
wrong behavior .that they are
loaded up and loaded down
with the faults of others, and
they have their eyes full, and their
ears full, and their hands full, and
their mouths full of defamation. The
woman who is endowed ot gossip can
so easily untie her bonnet strings and
sit down to spend the afternoon. A
man can afford you a cigar as a re
tainer if you will patiently hear all he
has to say about those who cannot pay
their debts, or are about to fail, or are
guilty of moral mishap, or have
aroused suspicion of embezzlement
All gadabouts are peddlers, who un
pack in your presence their large store
of nux vomica and nightshade. Such
gadabouts have little prospect of hea
ven. If they got there, they would try
to create jealousy among the different
ranks of celestials, and make trouble
among the heavenly neighbors, and
start quarrels seraphic, and would be
on perpetual run, now down this
street and now up that, now in the
house of many mansions, and now in
the choir of the temple, and now on
the walls, and now in the gates, until
they would be chased down and push
ed out Into the. pandemonium of back
biters and slanderers after Jeremiah
had addressed them in the words,
"Why gaddest thou about so much to
change thy way?"
Practical Suggestions.
Now, what Is the practical use of
the present discourse? This: Where
as, so many have ruined themselves
and ruined others by becoming gad
abouts among occupations, among re
ligious theories, among churches,
among neighborhoods therefore, re
solved that we will concentrate upon
what Is right thought and right be
havior and waste no time in vacilla
tions and indecisions and uncertain
ties, running about in places where we
have no business to be. Life is so
short we have no time to play with it
the spendthrift. Find out whether the
Bible is true and whether your nature
is immortal, and whether Christ is
the divine and only Savior, and
whether you must have him or be dis
comfited, and whether there will
.probably ever, be a more auspicious
moment for your beCoMitig'tris^adher
ent, and then make this 12 o'clock at
noon of November 25, 1900, the most
illustrious minute that you will even
have passed since the day of your
birth until the ten millionth cycle of
the' coming eternity, because by com
plete surrender of thought and will
and affection and life to God through
Jesus Christ you became a new man, a
new woman, a new soul, and God the
Father, and God the Son, and God the
Holy Ghost, and all angeldom, cheru
bim and seraphim, and archangel be
came your allies.
OLIVER W. HOLMES.
A Near
England
View of the Mew
Autoe rat-
Physically he was a very small man,
holding himself stiff erect—his face
insignificant as his figure, except for a
long, obstinate upper lip ("left to me,"
he said one day, "toy some ill-condi
tioned great-grandmother") and eyes
full of a wonderful fire and sympathy.
No one on whom Dr. Holmes had once
looked with interest ever forgot the
look—or him. He attracted all kinds
of people as a brilliant, excitable child
would attract them. But nobody, I
suspect, ever .succeeded in being fami
liar with him. Americans at that time
seldom talked of distinction or class or
descent. You were only truly patri
otic if you had a laborer for a grand
father and were glad of It. But the
Autocrat was patrician enough to rep
resent the descent of a Daimio, with
two thousand years of ancestry behind
him. He was the finest fruit of that
Brahmin order of New England which
he first had classified and christened.
He had too keen an appreciation of
genius not to recognize his own. He
enjoyed his work as much as his mo3t
fervent admirers, and openly enjoyed,
too, their applause. I remember one
evening that he qupted one of his
poems, and I was forced stupidly to
acknowledge that I did not know it.
He fairly jumped to the bookcases,
took out the volume and read the
verses, standing in the middle of the
room, his voice trf»a&bling. "tila whole
body thrilling with their meaning
"There!" he criefl at the end, his eyea
flashing, "could anybody have said
that better? Ah-h!" with a long, in
drawn breath of delight as he put the
book back.—Mrs. Rebecca Harding
Davis In Scribner's. •.
Chinese Belles Well Painted.
A Chinese belle on special occasions
will entirely bedaub her face with
white paint, adding rouge to the lips
and cheeks in such profusion that she
looks more like a painted mask than
anything human.- Her eyebrows are
blackened with charred sticks and
arched or narrowed in accordance with
her idea of beauty.
Opens Pnbllo Schools to Girls.
Andorra, a little republic in the
Pyrenees, has marked the end of the
century by opening Its public schools
to girls to? the first time. The French
goveriimeht contributes 1200 to the
schools' jupport, |g*,*H-
COME AND GO
la many forms
Rheumatism
Neuralgia
Lumbago
Sciatica
makeup large part of hitmaa
suffering. They come suddenly,
but they go promptly by tM
use of
St Jacobs Oil
which Is a certain sure cure.
Mathematician In Spite of HtmMlf*
An .Augusta correspondent of the At
lanta Constitution writes: Angustf
has now a living example that mathe
matlcians are born with the gift o|
quickly and accurately handling fig.
ures. He is a colored man and a la-,
borer oh the J. B. White building, by
the name of Robert Gardenheir, living
in Jones street, above Cumming. Rob«
ert is a middle-aged, stalwart, fellow,
having had very few, if any, education
al advantages during his life, but when
it come3 to figures he is prompt and
quick in his mental calculations, and
rarely ever makes a mistake. Per
haps his be3t gift is in multiplying.
As quick as you can set down: figures,
say, for instance, like 75 times 91, or
321 times 525, Robert has the answer:
tor you. In several other tests he
showed a most remarkable aptitude fot
ihe use of figures, using nothing but
his mind, and proved to be accurate.
When asked as to the principles or
rules by which he accomplished these
mental answers, he proved by his an
swers that if he had any such to go by
they were beyond his explanation or
demonstration. In fact. It was evident
that he does not know how he does
the trick. He has possessed the gift
from his boyhood days. He cannot re
member when he discovered his gift,
but it was evident that it wa3 before
he had matured into a man.
now Slate Pencils Are Ttlarie,
Slate pencils were formerly all cut
from slate just as it is dug from the
earth. Pencils so made were objected
to on account of the grit which they,
contain. To overcome this difficulty,
says the London Engineer Col. D. M.
Steward devised an ingenious process
by which the slate is ground to a very
fine powder, all grit and foreign sub
stances removed and the powder bolt
ed through silk cloth rauiti in the
same manner as flour is bolted. The
powder is thr-'i made into a dough and
this dough is subjected to a very heavy
hydraulic pressure, which presses the
pencils out the required shape and dl
ameter, but In lengths of about three
feet While yet soft "the- pencils are I
cut into desired-lengths^ and set'
out to dry in^be open air. After thcy
are thoroughly '-dry the pencils are
placed in steam Baking kilns, where
they receive the -propcr%t€^P®r.
THE CATTLK QROWINU SITUATION
The approach of winter finds a
most encouraging1 situation among
the stock growers of Nebraska. Never
has there been a more liberal supply
of fall pasture than exists at this
time, or a better comdtion of flesh
and health among the grazing ani
mals of the flocks and herds. The
cattle stock of the state is in -fine
condition to stand the cold and freez
ing weather which must be endured
for at least ninety days in average
Nebraska winters. .....
The open range plan of wintering
stock has given way to better care
and more prepared feed In the luf
falo grass districts, where -the feed
cures in the ground during the fall
months, the "winter care of cattle and
horses is an easy problem to solve,
as little or no prepared feed is-r%
quired in moderate weather and whd
the grass is not covered with srtow.-J
The large area of we.-.tern Nebral
ka called the "sand hills" is abuna
antly supplied with the sand' varielj
of grasses that cure on the grout
and make good winter grazing f«l
stock. In those localities the expens
of wintering animals is very light,
comparison with the prepared fee
districts. Nebraska lias a good crd
of all kinds of rough feed for wintei|
ing cattle, and the farmers in
pre.in growing districts, as well as il
the western grazing districts, 'hovf
been stocking up with the che
stock cattle coming into the market]
from tha less favored localities.-]
World-Herald, Nov. 16, 1900.
Some people go around as if lij
were a perpetual funeral.
Neuralgia Banished.
There is no more severe or stu
born pain than nfeuraigia. A reme
tiiat will cure it will cure any
Dr. G. S. Stivers, dentist, Louisvill
Ky., says: "My wife suffered ,ov|
two years with very severe neuralf^i
which several physicians failed to rl
lieve. I then got Morjey's WonderfJ
Eight, which relieved hcr in five minT
utes and soon effected a permanent
cure. Sold by agent in every town.
The channel under the drawbridge
to eternity never changes.
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Wliat BhsO We Hive for JDessert?
This question arises in the family/
every day. Let us answer it today. Try'I,
Jell-O, a delicious and-healthful dessert]
Prepared in two minutes* No bolliD
no baking! add boiling watfekai
to cool. Flavors:—Lemon,
Raspberry and Strawberry. At
grocers. 10 cts,
A pistol is doubly dangerous wl
the owner is loaded.
To Promote Good Digestion
If after Thanksgiving Day 'the
tlte is poor take Qarfleld Tea lt^
cleanse the system and stimulate'
appetite.
A bet of a big steer against"V $60
coffin is registered at Edna^ Kan
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