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The schools in the Muskoka are
'fairly good nowadays, but even the
{girls are not able to attend school very
jlong in their teens unless there are
'plenty of younger or older sisters to
jassist with the household tasks and
ilook after the inevitable and numer
ous babies. The boys, alas! are usually
seized with "camp fever" just as soon
las they are big enough to serve as the
cook's assistant or chore-boy of a lum
iber camp. Miranda Jenkins was the
imiddle sister in a family of nine, Fred
|Portman was the only son of his
imother and she a widow. This was
how it happened that while Miranda
•was fairly well educated and reason
ably learned in the ways of the con
ventional world, Fred still talked iu
rather nasal fashion and did violence
jto the English language. And Fred
'loved Miranda: so devotedly that he
!had serious thoughts of "saving up"
land attending night 3chool in To
ronto just as soon as his mother had
Ibeen made comfortable, financially, for
la year or so, just because Miranda had
urged this course upon him. For him
self, Fred didn't hanker after an aug
mented education at all. But when
•Fred came back from the Northwest
(for the last time Miranda seemed to
lhave suddenly removed far from him
fby the new accession of quiet grace
and daintiness which had followed the
fwinter passed in Toronto, learning
ihow to make dresses.
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Fred went right to work at the "log
rolling" for which he was famous. The
'•fvaSftwivvy
Fred, startled, lost bis footing,
logs were placed in the river about ten
•miles "farther up" than the Jenkins
'homestead and the farm which Fred
land his mother owned between them,
land it Was Fred's part to keep them
ifrom becoming caught and piled up in
ithe stream above the rapids. To do
ithiff he danced from log to log, above
the "seething, hurrying, hungry-look
up. water, and kept the logs moving
rith a long, pointed polo. One day
fiss Stephens, the city girl whom Mi
randa had brought back with her for
la chance to see the grass grow green
I In the meadows and the early violets
J,come up expressed a great great desire
rrto see the logs sent down the river.
iShe had watched them rushing madly
(Over "the slide" just aboVe the saw
mill in the nearest village several
.times now she yearned to see the
rest of the process. So Miranda's
jffcther bitched the big gray roadster
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TWO V-OMENi
I know two women, and one is chaste
And cold as the snows on a Winter waste.
Stainless ever in act and thought
(As a man, born dumb, in his speech errs not).
But she had malice toward her kind,
A cruel tongue and a jealous mind.
Void of pity and full of greed,
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She judges the world by her narrow creed:
A brewer of quarrels, a breeder of hate,
Yet she holds the key to "Society's" Gate.
The other woman, with heart of flame,
Went mad for a love that marred her name
And out of the grave of her murdered faith
She rose like a soul that has passed through death,
Her aims are noble, her pity so broad,
It covers the world like the mercy of God,
A soother of discord, a healer of woes,
„Peace follows her footsteps wherever she goes.
JsVSStf. by ETHEL M. COLSON.
(Copyright, 3901, by Dally Story Pub. Co.)
Back in the Muskoka region of On
tario, Canada, the country Is at once
•o wild, so beautiful, and so difficult
lot cultivation that thoughts have been
'seriously entertained, from time to
'time, of setting on foot projects to
(•reserve the entire region for a sort
!of governmental hunting part. But
ithe time-honored, ever-popular drama
which has for its motif and principal
characters the love story of a man
and maid is played out there in ways
•as varied and as perpetual as all the
iworld over. It would be played oftener,
•perhaps, but for the fact tnat the
jyoung men of the farming districts are
'BO seldom at home. In the winter
•nearly all of them head for "the
.camps" where the logs are cut and
Imade ready for transportation in the
'summer great numbers of them go to
(tlie great "Northwest," so mysteriously
'attractive to all the young denizens of
Ithe Muskoka, the great Northwest
where wages are supposed to be so
much higher and times so much better
than at home. A halo of the glory of
success shines about the returning
ftrain-loads of eager young men.
The worthier life of the two, no doubt,
And yet "Society" locks her out.
x" —Ella Wheeler Wilcox in Chicago American.
Tiie Log Rolling.
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to the spring buggy and the two girls
drove off together. And the city girl
gave a great gasp of wonder and ad
miration when first she caught sight
of the log-rolling.
"What a fine figure that man has—
the one out there in the middle of the
stream!" she exclaimed, to Miranda,
pointing to Fred.
"Yes," spoke out the subconscious
self which Miranda could have hated
an instant later, "that's the man I am
going to marry."
"Oh! I didn't know you were en
gaged!" cried the city girl, curiously,
and Miranda blushed with mortifica
tion over her mistake.
"Don't say anything about it at
home, please," she implored, eagerly.
"I'm—I'm not ready for the other
girls to know.
"Oh!" said the city girl, compreliend
ingly, and silence fell between them.
Miranda, thinking to break the con-
"Did you mean what you called?"
straint which fell with it, placed her
hands to her lips, suddenly.
"Oo-oo!" she called, in a voice clear,
sweet, and piercing. It was the regu
lar, pre-arranged, long-used signal
which had called Fred to her side ever
since they had been babies. Fred,
startled and astonished, threw up his
head and looked for the caller. In
that moment he lost bis footing on
the uncertain logs and went down
among them.
"I've killed him! I've killed him,"
gasped Miranda, knowing well how
small was the hope of his ever fight
ing his way from beneath the grind
ing logs. But even as she said it his
hand appeared, clinging to the log
which was nearest A comrade jump
ed out on the logs and kept them off
the straggler's form, as best he might.
But the end of a great log, turning,
struck Fred's back with terrific force
and he all but lost hold.- Then it was
Miranda called again.
"Keep up, Fred keep up!" she shout
ed to him, her voice sounding out
high and clear above the tumult of ex
cited men and waters. "For my sake!"
she added, imploringly, as his strength
seemed to waver. Then, as Fred was
pulled from the water, by eager, help
ing hands, and tossed ashore bodily,
she leaned her head on the city girl's
shoulder and cried. The city girl had
to handle the reins until they were
very nearly home.
It was nearly a week before the
bruised back of Fred permitted him to
be out of bed, but the first time he
was able to ride horseback he made for
the Jenkins homestead. He arrived
there about 8 o'clock in the evening,
and found the house all but de
serted. The little parlor had been full
and noisy but a few moments sooner,
but the city girl had descried the fig
ure down the road in the bright moon
light, and had suddenly expressed a
wish to visit the beaver meadow,
doubly flooded with moonshine and
spring waters. Almost everybody else,
as a matter of course, had gone with
her. Miranda was nervously pretend
ing to read a book, in solitary grand
eur, when Fred strode in upon her and
gently drew the volume from her
trembling hands.
"I can't wait any longer, Mirandy,"
he whispered. "I've got to know now.
Did you mean what you called to me
the other day—'for my sake,' you
know?"
"I've been dying to ask you ever
since I came home, Mirandy," Fred
explained, a little later, "but you seem
so fine an' stylish now I thought
p'rhaps I'd better wait until I'd had
time to try an' git polished up myself,
a little. Seems, though, as it we
might as well be happy, meantime."
And then' Miranda, who had never
meant to be so meek when Fred "asked
her" any more than she had dreamed
of announcing the engagement before
it had had a chanie to become an
actual fact, made tjils whispered con
fession.
"Fred, dear, it's only because I love
you so that I want you to study, be
cause I want to be prouder of you—
than I am now, even. And I love you
Just as much (and this was about the
time that her girlish form went into
temporary but almost total eclipse as
Fred's stalwart arms closed around it)
when you say 'I be' and 'I ain't done
nothin'' as if—well, as if you could
talk French and German!"
HOME-MADE BICYCLE LAMP.
How a Baa-Going Lad Compiled with
the Police Law.
In St. Nicholas George A. Williams
tells of the achievement of "A Young
Inventor," who invented a bicycle
lamp. The subject of this sketch was
known around the docks of Shelter
island as "Cable." He had just turned
fourteen, and a better sailor or fisher
man could not be found so young in
years. The training received under
his father, the captain of a thirty-foot
sloop, had made him an able seaman.
Cable had a fairly good wheel, pur
chased with his own scanty savings
of several years, and it is needless tc
say that he was always ready for a
ride whenever the sloop lay at anchot
In the harbor. As his work aboard
the vessel kept him busy during the
day, it was only in the evening that
he could go ashore. The law required
that all wheelmen should carry a lamp,
and Cable, being too poor to buy one,
was barred for a time from enjoying
his wheel. Instead, however, of sit
ting down in despair, he went to work
and made a lamp that, in spite of its
crudeness, answered every need. It
became known throughout the fishing
fleet as the "Cable Perfect," warranted
never to go out. For the body of the
lamp he used a baking-powder can.
Through the bottom of the can he cut
a hole, into which he slipped the oil
cup, made by fitting an old lozenge
bottle into a wedge-shaped piece of
wood. The hole being smaller than
the plug prevented it from falling
through. The wick, made of several
pieces of string held together by bend
ing a small strip of tin around them,
is wedged in the neck of the bottle.
When it charred off, it became neces
sary to turn up the wick with a pin.
In the top of the can he cut a hole for
ventilation, and one in the front to
answer the purpose of a len,s, also a
small one in each side for side-lights.
Over the opening used for the lens he
glued with flour paste a piece of red
muslin. This done, the lamp was com
pleted and soon wired to the front of
the wheel. Then, mounting his wheel,
Cable rode swiftly through the dark
ness, safe from all interference of the
lav/.
EXCITEMENT AT BEAUMONT.
A Spectacle in Texas, the Like of Whlcb
Is Rarely Seen.
"The spectacle to be seen daily at
Beaumont, Tex., just now," said P. J.
Curran, to the St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat, "is one of the most distinctively
American imaginable. Beaumont, pre
vious to the discovery of the oil spouts,
was a commonplace, progressive little
place of about twelve thousand popu
lation. It was growing in the regular
way, and everybody knew everybody
else. Now there are 25000 strangers in
the town, about two for each native
Inhabitant, and the town has the ap
pearance of some kind of a show.
There isn't room for the people to eat,
nor sleep, nor move about. Two special
trains run every night to Port Arthur
and Sabine Pass to carry the drifting
population to points where they can
sleep and eat, and return next morn
ing. Different places of business are
given $100 per month for enough space
to put up little real estate booths oi
canvass, and people who don't manage
to get out of town tramp about all day
and then throw themselves down at
night on the canvass they have brpught
for the purpose of putting up tents.
But many of them don't have time nor
space to put up the tents, and sleep
under the open air on their tentage. It
is a scene of feverish activity, every
man who owns valueless property is
trying to sell for high prices, and every
man with a stake is trying to make a
fortune out of it. Nearly all forms ol
legitimate business have been sus
pended, and half the people seem to
have taken leave of their senses. It
will probably be a long time before
normal conditions are restored, and
the present indications are that Beau
mont will become one of the import
ant commercial centers of Texas."
Til© Two Senators Piatt*
The two Senators Piatt in the Unit
ed States Senate have been often con
fused in the public mind. Senator
Piatt, of Connecticut, was asked re
cently if he were related to Senator
Piatt of New York, "Yes," the Connec
ticut Senator replied, "I suppose Sen
ator P'att and I are akin. We must
be, although I am different from most
Connecticut folks, and have not in
quired much into my family history.
The first Platts in this country were
two brothers, who settled on the eas
tern end of Long Island. There is
where all the Platts came from, includ
ing the Senator from New York and
myself, but I guess we are not much
closer than cousins sixteen or eighteen
times removed."
Melba's Brother In War.
A bright young volunteer, who has
just gone to South Africa as a mem
ber of the Marquis of Tullibardine's
Horse, is Ernest Mitchell, youngest
brother of Mme. Melba. Mr. Mitchell
was first intended for life on one of his
father's Australian estates, but that
not suiting him, he took up the study
of music. He possessed a fine tenor
voice, and at one time it seemed that
he would some day sing Romeo to the
Juliet of his distinguished sister. But
he gave up music, and has now become
a soldier, in which calling his friend3
feel sure he will distinguish himself.
Wll, Probably Not
The Detroit man that made $60,000
in stocks instead of $10,000, owing to
the delay in a telegram, will probably
not sue the telegraph company.—In
dianapolis News.
The greatest friend to tove is lone
someness.
rALMAGE'SKS SERMON.
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR THE DIS
COURAGED, THE SUBJECT.
from the Text, Matthew XXV: IS—"To
Another One"—The Duty and the Joy
tlje
Christian Ii to Carry Goo.t
Cheer—Talen of I'cntntilon.
(Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch. N. Y.)
Washington, June 2.—This is a dis
oourso by Dr. Talmage for those given
to depreciate themselves and who have
an idea that their best attempts amount
to little or nothing. Text, Matthew
xxv., 15: "To another one."
Expel first from this parable of the
talents the word "usury." It ought to
have been translated "interest." "Usu
ry" is finding a man in a tight place
and compelling him to pay an unrea
sonable sum to get out. "Interest" is
a righteous payment for the use of
money. When the capitalist of this
parable went off from home, he gave
to his stewards certain sums of money,
wishing to have them profitably in
vested. Change also your idea as to
the value of one talent. You remem
ber the capitalist gave to one of his
men for business purposes five talents,
to another two, to another one. What
a small amount to this last, you think,
and how could he be expected to do
anything with only one talent? I have
to tell you that one talent was about
$7
,200, so that when my text says, "To
another one," it implies that those
who have the least have much.
Wasting the TaletiU.
We bother ourselves a great deal
about those who are highly gifted or
have large financial resource or exalted
official position or wide reaching op
portunity. We are anxious that their
wealth, their eloquence, their wit, be
employed on the right sicio. Ont of
them makes a mistake, and we say,
"What an awful disaster." When one
of them devotes all his great ability
to useful purposes, we celebrate it: we
enlarge upon it we speak of it as
something for gratitude to God. Mean
while we give no time at all to con
sider what people are doing with their
one talent, not realizing that ten peo
ple of one talent each are quite as im
portant as one man with ten talents.
In the one case the advantage or op
portunity is concentrated in a single
personality, while in another it is di
vided among ten individuals. Now
what we want to do in this sermon is
to waken people of only one talent to
appreciation of their duty. Only a few
people have five talents or ten talents,
while millions have one. My short
text is like a galvanic shock. "To an
other one."
Carry Good Clierr.
Is it a cheerful look? Carry that
look wherever you go. It must come
from a cheerful heart. It is not that
inane smile which we sometimes see
which is an irritation. In other words,
it must be a light within us so bright
that it illumines eye, cheek, nostril
and mouth. Let ten men who are ac
customed to walking a certain street
every day resolve upon a cheerful
countenance as a result of a cheerful
heart, and the influence of such a fa
cial irradiation would be felt not only
In that street, but throughout the
town. Cheerfulness is catching. But
a cheerful look is exceptional. Exam
ine the first twenty faces that you meet
going through Pennsylvania avenue or
Chestnut street or Broadway or State
street or La Salle street or Euclid ave
nue, and nineteen out of the twenty
faces have either an anxious look or
a severe look or a depressing look or
an avaricious look or a sneering look
or a vacant look. Here is a mission
ary work for those who have trouble.
Arm yourself with gospel comfort.
Let the God who comforted Mary and
Martha at the loss of their brother, the
God who soothed Abraham at the loss
of Sarah and the God of David, who
consoled his bereft spirit at the loss
of his boy by saying, "I shall go to
New Race of M!nl«ter*.
More people go now to church than
ever in the world's history, and the
reason is in all our denominations
there is a new race of ministers step
ping into the pulpits which are not the
apostles of humdrum. Sure enough,
we want in the Lord's army the heavy
artillery, but we want also more men
Who, like Burns, a farmer at Gettys
burg, took a musket and went out on
his own account to do a little shooting
different from the other soldiers. The
church of God is dying of the proprie
ties. People who in every other kind
of audience show their emotions in
their countenances in religious assem
blies while we are discussing coming
release and the joys of heaven look
as doleful as though they were attend
ing their own funeral. My friends, if
you have the one talent of wit or hu
mor are you using it merely to make
a few people laugh winter nights
around the stove in the corner gro
cery? Has it never occurred to you
that you have a mission to execute
with that bright faculty? Do you em
ploy It only la Idle conundrum or low
farce or harlequinade or humiliating
banter? Quit that and swing that
flashing scimiter which God has put in
your hand for the slaying of sin anTl
the triumph of righteousness. Or is
your talent an opportunity to set a
good example? One person doing
right under adverse circumstances wil^
accomplish more than many treatises
about what is right The census has
never been taken of lovely old toltts.
Most ol ua-ifwe havenot such a one
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in our own house now, have in our
memory such a saint. We went to
those old people with all our troubles.
They were perpetual evangelists, by
their soothing words, by their hopeful
ness of spirit, and inexpressible help.
I cannot see how heaven could make
them any lovelier than they are or
were. But there are exceptions. There
Is a daughter in that family whose
father Is Impatient and the mother
querulous. The passage of many years
does not always Improve the disposi
tion, and there are a great many dis
agreeable old folks. Some of them
forget that they were ever young
themselves, and they become untidy in
their habits and wonder how, when
their asthma or rheumatism is so bad,
other people can laugh or sing and go
on as they do. The daughter in that
family bears all of the peevishness and
unreasonable behavior of senility
without answering back or making
any kind of complaint. If you should
ask her what her five talents are or
her one talent is, she would answer
that she has no talent at all. Greatly
mistaken is she. Her one talent is to
forbear and treat the childishness of the
old as well as she treats the childish
ness of the young. She is no musician,
and besides there may not be a piano
in the house. She cannot skillfully
swing a croquet mallet or golf stick.
Indeed, she seems shut up to see what
she can do with a ladle and a broom
and a brush and other household im
plements. She Is the personification
of patience and her reward will be as
long as heaven. Indeed, much of her
reward may be given on earth. She is
in a rough college, from which she
may after a while graduate into
brightest domesticity. She is a hero
ine, though at present she may receive
nothing but scolding and depreciation.
Her one talent of patience under trial
will do more good than many morocco
covered sermons on patience preached
today from the tasseled cushion of the
pulpit. "To another one."
The Talent of Honesty.
There is a man in business life
whose one talent is honesty. He has
not the genius or the force to organize
a company or plan what is called a
"corner in wheat" or "a corner in
stocks" or "a corner" in anything. He
goes to business at a reasonable hour
and returns when it is time to lock up.
He never gave a check for $20,000 in
all his life, but hs is known on the
street and in the church and in many
honorable circles as an honest man.
His word is as good as his bond. He
has for thirty years been referred to
as a clean, upright, industrious, con
sistent Christian man. Ask him how
many talents he has and he will not
claim even one. Ho cannot make a
speech, he cannot buy a market, he
cannot afford an outshining equipage,
but what an example he is to the
young, what an honor to his house
hold, what a pillar to the church of
God, what a specimen of truth and in
tegrity and all roundness of character!
Is there any comparison in usefulness
between that man with the one talent
of honesty and the dashing operators
of the money market, who startle the
world first with a "boom" and then
with a "slump?" I tell you that the
one man with the one talent will live a
happier life and die a more peaceful
death and go to a better place than
his brilliant but reckless contempor
ary. "To another one."
The chief work of the people with
many talents is to excite wonderment
and to startle and electrify the world.
What use is there in all that? No use
at all. I have not so much interest in
the one man out of a million as I have
in the million. Get the great masses
of the world right and it does not
make much difference about what the
exceptional people are doing. Have
all the people with the one talent en
listed for God and righteousness, and
lei all those with five or ten talents
migrate to the north star or the moon,
and this world would get on splendidly.
The hard working, industrious classes
of America are all right and would
give no trouble, hut it is the genius
who gives up work and on a big salary
goes around to excite dissatisfaction
and embroilment, the genius who quits
work and steps on the stage or politi
cal platform, eats beefsteak and quail
on toast and causes the common labor
ers, compelled to idleness, to put their
hands into empty pockets and eat
gristle and gnaw bones. The world
would be mightily improved if it could
slough off about 5,000 geniuses, for
there are more than that on our plan
et. Then the man or woman of one
talent would take possession of the
world and rule it in a common sense
and Christian way. There would be
less to amaze and startle, but more to
give equipoise to church and state and
world. "To another one."
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him the God who filled St. John
with doxology when an exile on barren
Patmos and the God who has given
happiness to thousands of the bank
rupted and persecuted, filling them
with heavenly riches which were more
than the earthly advantages that are
wiped out—let that God help them. I
If he takes full possession of your na
ture, then you will go down the street
a benediction to all who see you. and
those who are in the tough places of
life and are run upon and belied and
had their homes destroyed will say:
"If that man can be happy. I can be
happy. He has been through troubles
as big as mine, and he goes down the
'street with a face in every lineament
of which there are joy and peace and
heaven. What am I groaning about?
From the same place that man got his
cheerfulness I can get mine. 'Why art
thou cast down, O my soul, and why
art thou disquieted within me?
The Tulent of Persuasion.
Is your talent that of persuasion?
Make good use of it. We all have it
to some extent, yet none of us thinks
of it as a talent. But it is the
mightiest of talents: Do you know
that this one talent will fetch the
world back to God? Do you know it is
the mightiest talent of the high heav
ens? Do you know that it is the one
talent chiefly employed by all the angels
of God when they descend to our world
—the talent of persuasion? Do you real
ize that the rough lumber lifted into a
cross on the hill back of Jerusalem
was in persuasion as well as sacrifice?
That is the only, absolutely the only,
persuasion that will ever induce the
human race to stop its march toward
the city of destruction and wheel
around and start for the city of light
Now may the Lord this moment shoe
each one of us that to a greater or
less extent we have that one talent of
persuasion and impel us to the right
use of it. You say you cannot preach
a sermon, but cannot you persuade
someone to go and hear a sermon?
You say you cannot sing, but cannot
you persuade some one to go and hear
the choir chant on Christmas or Eas
ter morning? Send a bunch of flowers
to that invalid In the hospital, with a
message about the land where the in
habitants never say "I am sick." There
Is a child of the street. Invite him into
the mission school. There is a man
who has lost his fortune in speculation.
Instead of jeering at his fall go and
tell him of riches that never take
wings and fly away. Buckle on that
one talent of persuasion, O man, O wo
man, and you will do a work that
heaven will celebrate 10,000 years.
The pinal Review.
After the resurrection day and all
heaven
Is mads ve, resurrected
bodies
joined to ransomed souls, and the gates
which were so long open are shut there
may be some day when all the redeem
ed may pass in review before the great
white throne. If so, I think the hosts
passing before the King will move in
different divisions. With the first divi
sion will pass the mighty ones of earth
who were as good and useful as they
were great. In this division will pass
before the throne all the Martin Lu
thers, the John Knoxes, the Wesleys,
the Richard Cecils, the Miltons, the
Chrysostoms, the Herschells, the Len
oxes, the George Peabodys, the Abbot
Lawrences, and all the consecrated
Christian men and women who were,
great in literature, In law, in medicine,
In philosophy, in commerce. Theli
genius never spoiled them. They were
as humble 'as they were gifted or opu
lent. They were great on earth and now
they are great in heaven. Their sur
passing and magnificent talents were
all used for the world's betterment. As
they pass in review before the King on
the great white throne to higher and
higher rewards, it makes me think of
the parable of the talents, "To another
ten." I stand and watch the other di
visions as they go by, division after di
vision, until the largest of all the di
visions comes in sight. It is a hundred
to one, a thousand to one. ten thousand
to one, larger than the other divisions.'
It is made up of men who never did
anything but support their families
and give whatever of their limited
means they could spare for the relief
of poverty and sickness and the salva
tion of the world, mothers who toolq
good care of children by example and
precept, starting then? on the road to
heaven, millions of Sabbath school'
teachers who sacrificed «n afternoon's)
siesta for the listening class of young)
immortals, women who declined the
making of homes for themselves that)
they might take care of father and!
mother in the weaknesses of old age,
ministers of the gospel who on nig
gardly stipend preached in the back
woods meeting houses, souls who for
long years did nothing but suffer, yet
suffered with so much cheerful pa
tience that it became a helpful lesson
to all who heard of it those who serv
ed God faithfully all their lives and
whose name never but once appeared
in print and that time in three lines of
the death column which some survivor
paid for, sailors who perished in the
storm while trying to get the life line
out to the drowning, persecuted and
tried souls who endured without com
plaint malignity and abuse, tbose who
had only ordinary equipment for body
and ordinary endowment of intellect,
yet devoted all they had to holy pur
poses and spiritual achievement. As
I see this, the largest of all the di
visions, from all lands and from a'l
ages, pass in review before the King
on the great white throne I am re
minded of the wonderful parable of
the talents and more especially of my
text, "To another one."
COURTESYT OWA"n CHILDREN.
Lack of Pollfceiie.i* 1-1 Our Intercourse
with Th»»m I* Injurious.
Great injury is done not only to the
present happiness of children, but to
their future character and conduct by
lack of politeness in our intercourse
with them. Their possessions are
their own. How often do we forget
that? They are ridiculouos trifles:
they are worthless and in our 'way, yet
wo have no right to throw them out
and burn them without warning or
consultation. A sister's or an aunt's
gentle persuasion will do much to gain
pleasant consent to yielding up the
treasures which encumber too much
space or are laid down in improper
places. A box or basket provided to
hold these priceless sticks and stones
and once or twice a little pleasant aid
in gathering them, and the collector
will be gained over to what he sees
will surely preserve his property and
at the same time the little fellow
will have learned respect for
other people's property and the
proper way to ask leaVe to
touch and handle. While mothers are
busy with their often overwhelming
duties, it often happens that to an
elder sister much care of the children
who are able to amuse themselves Is
given, and here she will have a de
lightful chance to help them to ac
quire the attractive manner which i3
such a help in future life, and give
them practical demonstration of the
comfort and joy of a home governed
by courtesy to old and young alike.—
Ledger Monthly.
Medical Examinations of Conscripts.
Owing to the prevalence of consump
tion in the French army, strict instruc
tions relative to the medical examina
tions of conscripts are about to be is
sued by the war minister, Gen. Andre.
It has been discovered that many
young fellows, bearing in them the
seeds of tuberculosis have been hastily
passed for service in regiments by
medical officers who were evidently
either anxious to
get through their WJrk
as quickly as possible, or patriotically
eager to increase tahe army at all haz
ards. In the circular, addressed to the
principal medical officers, it Is stated
that the parliamentary health commis
sion has been justly preoccupied about
the ravages made in France by con
sumption. After the returns have been
received measures will be taken for
the purpose of eliminating consump
tive men from active service, wherein
they are liable to contaminate their
healthier and more robust comrades.
By these means it is expected that in
time the terrible malady of consump
tion will be, if not stamped out, at
least localized and restricted in its
baneful influence.—Chicago Journal.
Sectional Preference for Hotels.
A lawyer who was looking for a
western man in the Broadway hotels
on Monday night was advised by the
clerk in one of them to go to a certain
Fifth avenue hotel for his man. "What
makes you think he is there?" asked
the lawyer. "Merely because most of
the people with money from hi3 part
of the country go to that particular
•hotel," said the clerk, and the lawyer
did find his man there. With the large
increase in the number of hotels in
this city some, of then have become*
known as representing in their pa
trons certain parts of this country.—'
New York Sun.,
a. V. arfsi?.
The street par system in Manila is
inadequate, and it Is the practice to'
hire cabs whenever one desires «b
any distant* tA tbs dtjr.
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Ballington Booth May Surrender
to His Father,
SEE END OF VOLUNTEERS.
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Secretary Haiard Thinks the Toning
Man Will Come Back to the Salvation
Volunteer! Have Never
Been Successful.
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Cleveland, Ohio, June 4.—After five
years of rivalry between the leaders
of two great religious movements, the
breach between General William
Booth, the founder of the Salvation
army, and his son, Ballington Booth,
who is at the head of the Volunteers
of America, may soon be healed. I.
D. Hazard, official secretary of the col
onization and social settlement branch
of the Salvation army, who is now
in the city, said:
All I can say about the matter at
present is that negotiations are being
carried on to effect a reconciliation,
and the indications are that the un
fortunate breach will be speedily
healed. Ballington Booth will return
to the Salvation army. I know that
Ballington Booth has never been sat
isfied since he left the Salvation army,
and I know that he is anxious to re
turn. The Volunteers of America has
never been a succcssful organization.
Ballington Booth's sympathies are
with the Salvation army his friends
are In the Salvation army, and his
heart Is not in the independent move
ment. While at the head of the Sal
vation army in the United States his
heart was in the work. He was a good
and efficient officer, and was loved by
all. It was his great attachment tor
the United States and for the Salva
tion army in this country that caused
him to refuse the position at the head
of the army iu Canada, and thus led
to the rupture between himself and
his father. The rules of the Salva
tion army apply to all alike. The
greatest ofT-cer must obey orders as
well as tiie smallest officer. Balling
toD Booth bad held his position at the
head of the urmy in the United States
for twelve years. General Booth
thought it v, as right that the most
desirable poa in the world should go
to some one else among the heads of
the Salvation army of the world. He
had a daugh -2r and a son-in-law at
the head of the work in India, an un
desirable posi. It was decided that
Commander ooth-Tucker and his
wife should b" placed at the head of
the army in Canada. It was the order
to that effect hat caused the breach
between the father and the sou."
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Dowlje Claims Divine Position.
Chicago,' June 4.—John Alexander
Dowie, in ^the presence of 6,000 per
sons, declared himself to be the "Mes
senger of *'he Covenant, come to re
store all "I would have de
sevfcraj,'*^ars apo thn* -vcr
o.i« wj uuit
do not deny I am
venant. I have
take."
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the meBsen.-'
taken the
Mr«. r.lcKJnlor Is Weaker.
Washington, June 4.—Mrs. McKIn
ley continues weak. Her condition is
not greatly changed from that of yes
terday, but each day that elapses
without a gain in strength lessens her
powers of recuperation. The complaint
which came near ending her life in
Ban Francisco is still present.
Boy Is Kllxl by Krotlier.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., June 4.—Harold
Greer, the 8-year-old son of Robert
Greer, a well-to-do farmer in Pleasant
Valley, was shot through the heart and
killed by the accidental discharge of
a shotgun in the hands of his brother
Walter while the boys were playing
war. Walter is 10 years old.
BrltUh Soldiera Captar«L
Cape Town, June 4.—Thirty-two of
Wodehouse's yoemanry had an en
gagement with 700 Boers near Dord
recht After one of the British had
been killed and five wounded the de
tachment surrendered. They were sub
sequently released.
Offers Reward for Ljnchfn.
San Francisco, Cal., June 4.—Gov.
Gage has offered a reward of $5,000
for conviction of the Modec lynch
ers, to be divided as follows: One
thousand for each of the ringleaders
and $400 for each of others engaged
in the lynching.
Shot at Sweetheart's Home*
St. Joseph, Mo. June 4.—Owen Lo
gan, a young stockman of Arkoe, Mo.,
was fatally shot while calling on Miss
Jessie Walker near Maryville by the
young woman's father, A. E. Walker,
last night. ...
•1,000,000 for Nova Scotia Mine*.
Albany, June 3.—The American
Canadian Mining Company of New
York city has been incorporated with
a capital of $1,000,000 to develop min
ing rights and properties in Nova
Scotia.
Brflwer Get* Licence to Wed.
Washington, D. C., June 3.—Asso
ciate Justice Brewer of the United
States supreme court visited the city
ball and personally obtained a license
to wed Miss Emma Mott.
Woman Chokes Bulldog to Death*
Denver, Colo., June 3.—Mrs. J. U.:
Shultz rescued a little girl from the
Jaws of an infuriated bulldog by chok
ing the canine to death.
Hardware House Burned.
Qulncy, 111., June 4.—Fire destroyed^
the Tenk Hardware company's build-i
Ing and stock, doing damage amount
ing to $70,000.
Hull of Fame Dedicated.
New York, June 1.—The Hall of
Fame was formally dedicated In the
afternoon, the principal feature of the
program being the oration by Senator
Chauncey M. Depsw. Iter. Hewe
Dwight Hillis otf Brooklyn oil
chaplain.
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