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fELEPHONE TYRANNY ADVANTAGES AND DISADVAN TAGES 09 MUCH-USED INSTBTJ MENT. Minor Discomforts Saved fcy That Weird Contrivance on the Wall— Reducing a Gas Bill by Telephone —A Man’s House No Aonger His Castle If He Has a Telephone—It Disturbs One's Meals and Demands an Immediate Answer—Importu nate Trustees Break Iuto a Home Evening. BY MARGARET E SANGSTER. (Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Undoubtedly the telephone is a great convenience. Whoever has had it in the house would sacrifice many lux uries rather than go without it. Time and strength and letter-writing and telegrams, and all sorts of minor dis comforts are saved us by this weird contrivance on the wall, this mysteri ous tube into which we speak; this odd receiver which brings us voices from afar. We want to talk with a friend, to ask after her sick husband, or about her absent son; we are con fronted by an emergency and obliged to leave home suddenly, or unexpect ed guests arrive, and the dinner must be nicer, with an added course or two ■—in every case the telephone is our friend. Certainly we should hate to do without it, this link that through the power of applied science b.nda us closer to our comrades on the road. It is a great convenience, and to sums of us an indispensable necessity. Take for example the woman’s club. How on earin could a club president, or secretary, or the cuair man of an important committee, get on and manage he- work and com municate with her fellow memoois ii there were not tne teiepnone: every body knows that a club, however small finds opportunity for endless discussion and arrangement and rearrangement, at other times than when in session The telephone makes this confc. -nee possible and easy; it is a boon of boons to the club woman. Once in a personal experience, once only, and the incident lives in mem ory as startling, the telephone was found successful in reducing tne amount of an exorbitant gas bill! Householders know how difficult an enterprise this is. how seldom accom plished. On previous occasions letters had proved abortive, and interviews had found officials adamant, but the talk over the telephone, a party wire at that proved immediately reassfir ing. The percentage asked for was granted; the obnoxious bill was re duced to Us rightful proportions. If you want, a doctor in the dead oi night, it is not now needful for the man of the house to dres3 and go hasti ly out in the cold and darkness; the ■ telephone f ill ring a signal at th * \ doctor's head, and lie will rise from " x his bed. tell you what to do. or come * ^imself in half the time it used tc take to get him to the patient. Whet there is sudden illness in the home you cry blessings on the telephone and they ^re heartfelt. • V* * * * And yet, it. has its drawbacks. There Is a tyranny of the telephone that has done something to make life less sim ple than it used to be. There are moods in which one wishes she had never seen, never heard, never touched or handled the little affair which has done more than any other single agent to rob life of privacy and independ ence. We have often heard that a man’s house is his castle. It is, and it isn’t. It depends on whether he has a tele phone. , You may bolt, you may bar, you may lock at your will, But the telephone demon will pounce on you still. No shutters exclude him, no key keeps him back, At the sound of the bell, he is here on your track. To cut off the service is the only way to exorcise the invisible imp who tiisLurbs you at your meals, breaks in on your prayers, and demands an in stant answer to his summons with a peremptory haste, not unlike the old challenge of the footpad on Hounslow Heath: “Your money or your life!” For instance: You have decided to spend a day in quiet retirement, withdrawn from ’.he world and its cares. You have planned to admit nobody; you wish to rest to relax, to let life's flood-tide refresh you, since too much work, too much talk, too much distraction of business has brought your powers to the ebb. In vain is your planning and precau tion. The telephone rings and you take down your receiver. Aunt Frances, Uncle Jonathan and the children are on their way to spend the day with you. They have just de cided that they can come to-day, and will be with you about noon. Now you love your kinsfolk, and John’s too You like Aunt Frances becte: than any other of John’s aunts, anci Uncle Jonathan is an “old dear.” The children are objectionable when yoi have a headache and are tired; thej arc stirring children, always on the rampage; always meddling; not well trained. or well-bred, and you wouic willingly omit them from the pro gramme, but Aunt Frances is a devotee mother, who never leaves her brood at home. To put them off for a day wouic give offense, be misunderstood, anc hurt John, who is most loyal to ah own people, and always delighted tc have them under his roof. Therefore you fly around, dust chairs and tables get out the best china, make a salad order ice cream, and slip into a fresl and dainty frock. No time to rela: till Jonathan and Frances shall depart But for the telephone they would have notified you via Uncle Sam’s mail, am you would have had your rest day ai you meant to have it withou hindrance or interruption. ***** Here is John’s side of it. I addresi John is a good citizen, I hope Perhaps you belong to the publb In some detail of your life. Most o us do. Very few of us. escape wholl; from some obligation to the communit; in which we live, and we are con gtantly reminded that the wishes o the individual must be subordinate to the good of society. After a full and trying business day, a day of strife and care, you eat your supper, put on dressing gown and slippers and un fold your newspaper. The lamp sheds a soft glow over the room. Your wife sits opposite you. in ber hands a bit of dainty needlework. In the parlor across the hall your pretty daughters are entertaining a lad or two of.the neighborhood. You can see them hy lifting your eyes; you hear the soft murmur of their voices. Such an evening at home lakes a man to Ar cady. Your heart is beating time to the old lilt: " ’Mid pleasures and palaces though wo may roam, 13e it over so humble, there’s no place like home. A charm from the skies seems to hal low us there That seek through the world is not met with elsewhere.” Hackneyed as the lines have be come, familiar to i.!Ys commonplace, they are very beautiful They bubble up like spring water ;hrough green moss, and keep sweet ind fresh tne i sentiment of love for tiics home, that is so deeply rooted in every truo heart. Into this sphere of peace there pene trates a clamorous appeal, not very loud, hut-very positive. You go to the telephone. “Hello!” “Hello! Is this you, Mr. Morrison?” “Yes, Mr. Shackelford.” Mr. Shackelford proceeds: “There is to he a meeting of the trustees of the church, a called meet ing, at my house in 15 minutes. II is most important. We depend- on you. You know about-and - and !t won’t do for you to lie absent. In 1C minutes, please. Good-by.” Or. if it is not a church meeting, it’s a borough meeting, or a political gath ering of some description; or else a group of people promise to come to you on their way back from wherever they happen to be. and the sum of it is that you lose your home evening. It is gone; it has tied beioie uia u i phone. Well. i here is a seamy side to ne ar ly all of life's tapestry. We reap cer tain benefits, but we pay the price. This telephone-tyranny annoys us a. lit tie, but it would be iike going back to Noah’s Ark to do without it. On the whole, we hug our chains. PRESENT FOR A MAIM. A Case for Pipes May Be Made by Deft Fingers at Small Outlay of Time and Trouble. Ladies who like to make presents for their gentlemen friends will find such a pipe-case as we illustrate very ac ceptable. It can be fashioned from the top of a pair of long kid or suede gloves, or a piece of new kid may be used. There are two pieces, one being PIPE CASE. cut longer than the other at the top of the bowl part, so that ir may be but toned over. The kid should be lined with satin, the edges of which should he turned in and slip-stitched a trifle below the edges of kid; then the two pieces are place.l together and ma chine-stitchea close to the edge all round. A small buttonhole is worked in the flap which is fastened to a but ton on front part. BITS OF FASEIOIT. Black, dark blue and brow a gowns require light gloves, raffles, a light vest or yoke and undersleeves, but the new j millinery may correspond with the gown, relieved with the lighter tone. If a touch of color is needed, add a cluster of carnations in the dress and flowers of .corresponding color to the millinery, but no colored trimminye on a dark gown of solid coloring. And hats—there never were so many radical changes. It’s as if the whole world millinery were in a state of up heaval. Big hats appear here and tjiere —nait-sname-iuceu oeiuie me uuj, up tilted things we’ve been accustomed to and liked for their saucy little style. A new brown is around town—bril liant in comparison with the rather lifeless color we usually mean by brown. It is especially pretty in the horsehair hats, as the ruddy tint in it takes the light, best in horsehair. The revival of an old fashion is the sailor hat with wide crown and nar row brim. The favorite way of trim ming them is to drape on a veil of mousseline de soie in one of the new. rich shades. Tiny three-cornered hats for wee tots are trimmed with three prim ro settes of baby ribbon—one on each place where the brim turns up. Light weight wash uannels have polka dots of color or white embroid ered at regular intervals over the cloth. Lots and lots of pale blue hats—the shade that goes with everything—are worn. Traveling t»igs are almost a part of the traveling suit, so carefully dre they chosen. More stunning braids are out for belts. The Mexican “Olya.” For those who believe that ice water is unhealthful the “olla” of the Latin countries tand Mexico is earnestly rec ommended in this hot weather. The “olla”-rthe Mexicans pronounce it like 1 “olya”—is a porous earthen jar. Its 1 pores are continually sweating little beads of water, which, by the principle of evaporation, keep the liquid within at a coo! temperature, half-way between ' that of hydrant water and that of ice water. Largest Mission Field. , New York is the largest single mis ■ sion field in the world to-day. It is estimated that only one-third of its population, both Protestant and ( Roman Catholic, is under Christian influence. The foreign descent popu lation in New York is larger than the whole of Chicago's population, and they read 3C daily newspapers in for eign tongues. Congregationalism car ries on religious services in 14 lan guages. (Copyright, 1*06, by J. M. Kdbon.) Scripture Authority:—"And Esau was 'orty years old when he took to wife Ju dith the daughter of Beerl the Hitt le. and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hlttlte: which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebckah.''—Gen. 26:34, 25. LL day long Esau had sought the opportunity o f asking for the hand of Judith in marriage, but without avail for either Beeri's many duties took him away just when he was on the point of speak ing, or else there were too many about them and theexcitementana confusion attend ant upon the celebration interfered. All day long the wierd music had sounded in his ears. He had shared in the feasting; he had watched the dancing, and every now and then had caught a glimpse of the fair daughter of Beeri as she circled with the other damsels about the great image, but the opportunity ho wanted most elud ed him, as though it would bold him long in doubt ami give him time to weigh the step he was about to take. Circumstances were kind to him in that they were making it hard for him to take the misstep. As he sa,w the people in ecr.tacy of their excitement shout the praises of ineir gous ana ornig Linar uiiernigs and lay them at the feet of the idol, he had time to think and contrast it with the worship of the true God of his fathers. The words: “Great is the god of the Ilittites,” rang in his ears—for priests and people chant ed and shouted the words over and over again—anil he had time to recall the words of his father as he had spoken of the God-Jehovah, the God of heaven and earth. Move than once his heart had smote him. More than once he had moved about un easily trying to throw off the feeling of depression which came as a result of conscious violation of the faith and practices of his own people. Over and over again he had been troubled by the thought of what his parents would say. But his heart was rebelli ous and impatient. He would not listen to the voices speaking within. He resolutely thrust aside the prompt ings of his better self and declared that he could take the girl without taking her gods. He could have her and leave the heathenish practices of her people behind. But have her he would. Ah, how he quarrelled with himself that day. How he stifled and choked the better self into subjection. Once while his host was standing at his side and the people in a frenzy were throwing themselves about the altar before the image, Beeri had ex claimed, enthusiastically: “Is not that impressive?” And he had nodded assent. And Beeri following up the point gained, asked: “Have you anything to compare with it in your worship?” To which he had replied: “Nothing,” in a shame-faced sortr of way, and thinking that after all the religion of his fathers was too narrow and un yielding and simple. And late in the afternoon just as the sun was setting the music had stopped and a hush had fallen upon the gath ering and then, obeying the example of the priests, all the people had thrown themselves prostrate with their faces towards the image. He iia.u i cuiauicu oiauuiiig » utrn nt? icjl cx ; slight pressure on his arm and look- I ing down beheld the form of Judith ' standing there and motioning him to his knees. “Come,” she whispered, almost | sternly, “do not let the wrath of the ! 'gods descend upon thee.” And without stopping to think and j yielding to her pressure and example he had bowed with the others. But he did not care so much, because his thought was of her, and he felt con tented because she was at liis side, but when he arose to his feet she ! had slipped away and was nowhere to he seen. He felt annoyed that he had yielded so easily, and was vexed that she had left him so unceremoni- i ously. Moved by an impluse to search her out if possible,t Esau started forward and almost ran into a party coming in the opposite direction. “Hello, I have been looking for you,” exclaimed the man. Esau looked up and saw Elon stand ing before him, and the two giiis, Judith and Bashematli, near him. “And I was just starting out to look for you,” he replied, pointing to the girls. They looked up inquiringly, and Esau continued: “Where is Beeri? I have been try ing all day to get a chance to talk with him. But,” he added, “what did you want to see me for?” “We leave to-night, and I wanted to invite you to return home. W'ill you go?” “Thou art kind, indeed, but I must be returning to my own people in the morning, for ere this I fear they are concerned over my long absence.” A relieved look came into the face of Judith, and she whispered some thing to her friend, while Esau and Elon continued in conversation. That night after Chief Elon and his followers had taken their departure, Esau found the opportunity to ask Beeri for the hand of his daughter in marriage. "Yea, on this one condition: That thou wilt take a second wife to thyself of the Hittites. The son of the rich Isaac should never be content with one wife.” "But Isaac, my father, ha3 but one wife, why should Esau, his sop, have more,” “It is the custom of the Hittites that ‘.he daughter of ft chief shall not be come the wife of a man who cannot afford more than one wife." “But why a second wife of the Hit* tites?" “So that the Hittites may be assured of their place in the tribe of Abraham and Isaac. Should thou marry wives from other nations the one wife of the Hittites might lose her influence and power, but with two there would be nothing to fear.” Esau paused aud thought. Whai was this step leading him to? “I agree,” at last he said. “Have you spoken to Judith, yet? Let us see what she will say,” said the chief, rising and going to the tent door and calling his daughter. “Judith,” said the father, as the blushing girl entered, “Esau, the son of Isaac, wants you for his wife. Do you agree?” The girl’s head drooped modestly and her eyes sought the floor. Her lips moved and Esau, leaning forward to catch the words she spoke, knew her answer was yes by the shake of her pretty head. He was quickly at her side and had her in his arms, while the father withdrew and left the lovers alone. “Away so long and you return empty-handed,” exclaimed Isaac, in dis appointment, when Esau entered his teat after reaching home. “Is thy hand losing its cunning?” “Nay, father, but it is a wife and not an antelope this time.” “A wife!” exclaimed Isaac, “what meanest tkon?” “I mean that a fair Hittite damsel is to become my wife.” “And how came you to be among the Hittites?” asked Rebekah, who came in at that moment and overheard Esau’s last remark. And while his parents listened with sinking hearts and darkening brows, he told the whole story. “But, my son,” remonstrated the father, “God has forbidden alliance with thf* hnnthnn nations .about His blessing cannot follow you in such marriage.” “Oh, why need we be so narrow and bigoted? Are not the nations about vs rich and powerful, and will not al liance with them strengthen the place of our family in the land?” Esau re sponded with much show of spirit. "Yes, but future blessing is sacri ficed for seeming present gain. As Ood forbade thy grandfather Abraham from taking for his son Isaac a -wife of the people about him, so he forbids Isaac to permit his sons to marry into the nations about. If thou wouldst marry go to Haran and tnere pick thee a wife from among thine own people.” "Oh, Esau,” cried the weeping moth er. “bring not this sorrow upon us. Listen to thy father; do!” Esau felt annoyed by the storm of protest, and angrily paced back and forth. He could not see why they felt so. He thought the women of the na tions about them were as good as any lie might find at Haran. He even went so far in his blind unreason as to de clare that the nations about them had as good right to have their gods and worship as did they, and as far as he knew they were as apt to be right as were the children of Abraham and Isaac. “My son, thou shalt not. talk so. Leave at once and consider thy words,” cried Isaac, now thoroughly aroused. And Esau arose and departed to his own tent in anger. The days slipped by -and the time drew near when he was to return to claim his bride. He had lived in hopes that his parents would relent and, ac company him, for Chief Beeri was planning to make a very great wedding and was proudly counting on the pres ence of Esau’s family. “And will you not. go with me?” said Esau, a dark frown settling upon his face. “We cannot, mv son. and be faithful to our God,” replied Isaac, with trem bling voice, while tears stood in his eyes, for it was a great grief to him that his favorite son should thus disre gard the direct, command of God. “Then I go alone.” Esau replied, an grily. And he strode off, while the sorrowing parents watched him out of sight. ‘‘Esau,” said his wife Judith, some inoiuns after their marriage and re turn to Bee: sheba, w litre the great flocks and herds yi Isaac and his sons led, "1 am weary of this strife with thy mother. I am cut off from mine own people and yours refuse to receive me. Let us return to the Hittite coun try.” ”Nay,” replied Esau, startled by the woman's unexpected request, “I cannot go while my father lives. I must re main with him that I may receive the eidest son's portion.” “Then bring some of my people here. Oh, that Bashemath were with me. Dost thou remember thy promise to my father? Go and redeem it. Bash emath will come, and the household of Esau will be greater than the house hold of thy father.” “But if my father objected to one wife of the Hittites, what will be say of two?” asked Esau, anxiously, fear ing to stir up mors trouble in his fam ily. “Go and the blessing of the gods of the Hittites will be with thee. As for the god which thy father worships, I 'know him not.” Thus it came to pass that Esau re turned to the land of the Hittites and took Bashemath, the daughter of Elon, to be his wife and brought her back to his father’s country, and, though there was no welcome for her among his own people, Judith was content, and the two Hittite women sought how they might turn the heart of Esau entirely away from the God of his fathers and follow only the gods which the Hit tites worshipped. And thus it trans pired that instead of Esau winning his wives to the faith of the God of Abra ham’ and Isaac, they turned his heart after strange gods And made him an alien to the blessing of God, and it be came a great and increasing grief to the mind of both Isaac and Rebekah. Heirs Will Eat. In 190(1 Andrea Starboro, a wealthy citizen of San Francisco, het another P. C. Rossi, a dinner of 20 covers at >10 each that in 25 years San Francis co will have a population of 1,900,000. Arrangements have been made for the payment of the bet by the heirs of the bettors if necessary. - - • — ■ - ■ — IJehoiakim Burns the Word of God Sunday School Lessqp lor Aug. 20,1905 Specially Prepared tor This Paper. LESSON TEXT.—Jeremiah 36:21-32. Mem ory Verses 22-24. GOLDEN TEXT.—"Amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God."—Jer. 26:13. TIME.—The fourth year of Jehoiaklm’s reign, B. C. 605. SCRIPTURE REFERENCES—Method of Jeremiah’s preaching: Jer. 13:1-14; 17:1 27; 18:1-12; 19:1-15, etc. Character of Ba ruch: Jer. 51:59; 43:1-5. Fulfillment of Jere miah's prophecy: 2 Kings 24, 25. New Testa ment references to Jeremiah: Matt. 2:18; 19:26; 21:13; 23:38; Mark 13:5; Rom. 9:21; 2 Cor. 10:17; Heb. 8:8-12; 10:16, 17. Compare with Jer 31:15; 32:17; 7:11; 22:5; 29;8; 18:6; 9:24; 31:31-34; 31:33, 34. Comment and Suggestive Thought. V. 21. "So:” Because King Jehoia kim was interested, or at least aroused, by what some of hi3 coun selors had ju3t told him. They had found him in the inner court of the palace, and had reported how Baruch had just read in public the words of the prophet Jeremiah. ‘Sent . . . to fetch the roll:” The roll of parch ment on which the prophecy was writ ten had been left in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, where the state documents were kept. The princes evidently thought that a verbal report of its contents would satisfy the king, but he decided that he would hear it for himself. V. 22. “Winterhouse:” The lower apartment of the palace. This was roofed and sheltered, and was com monly used in cold weather, while the upper apartments, being more open, were used in summer. “On the hearth: ” Better in Rev. Ver.. "in the brazier: ” a fire-pan holding burning charcoal to warm the room. Modern stoves with hearths were unknown at that date. V. 23. "Leaves:” A manuscript was divided into columns, here spoken of as leaves. “He cut it with the pen knife:” The king took the roil from Jehudi, and also took the knife which this scribe carried for sharpening his reed pens. He cut the roll into bits, throwing the pieces deliberately into the fire until the whole was consumed. V. 24. “Vet they w’ere not afraid:” Jeremiah, who*' writes these words, cannot refrain from expressing his as tonishment at the hardness of their hearts. “Nor rent their garments:” As King Josiah had done (See Lesson 7). “Nor any of his servants:” The king’s personal attendants, like him self, were unmoved by what they heard. V. 25. "Elnathan, Delaiah and Gc mariah:” Princes who had reported the reading to the king. V. 2G. “To take Baruch . . . and Jeremiah:” To arrest and imprison them. This is what the princes had foreseen would happen if the king’s heart was not touched by the warning. They had counseled Baruch and Jere miah to hide. “The Lord hid them:” Perhaps He used human friends to do this. Jeremiah is not heard of for sev eral years after this date. It is com monly supposed that it was at this time he was guided to the Euphrates, more thaa 200 miles distant, to hide the linen girdle (Jer. 13). V. 27. “The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:” Though the prophet was, in a sense, exiled from home and friends, the Lord was still with him. V. 28. “Write the former words:” The book, of which no copy existed, and which no human memory could reproduce, was preserved by God’s in spiring the prophet to rewrite it. V. 29. “Say to ’Jehoiakim: ” The prophet was not directed to come into the presence of the king who sought his life, but merely to add to his prophecy these words concerning him. “Come and destroy:” Babylon’s king had once visited Jerusalem as its conqueror and he will come again as its destroyer. V. 30. “None to sit upon the throne of David:” On the death of Jehoia kim, his son Jehoiachin was nominal King ot Juaan ior tnree mumms, uicu was deposed by Nebuchadnezzar and carried to spend the remainder of his life in Babylon. “Body cast out:” (See Jer. 22:19.) We have no record of the fulfillment of this prophecy, but it seems that Jehoiakim was slain either by his subjects, or by Baby lonians. V. 31. “Will punish him:” The literal reading, “I will visit upon him,” gives a better idea of God’s mode of dealing with His sinful chil dren. V. 32. “Gave it to Baruch . . who wrote:” The second roll was prepared just as the first had been We are glad to know definitely just how one book of the Bible was given. It probably gives us a hint of how other prophetical writings were pre pared. Practical Points. V. 21. Each should examine God’s Word for himself.—Act 17:11. V. 23. To destroy God’s Wo-d is too gigantic a work for human hands.— 1 Pet. 1:25. V. 24. It is worth much in God’s sight, if we lament the woe we cannot avert.—Ezek. 9:4. V. 26. Christ Himself is the hiding place for all His loving ones—Ps. 31:20. V. 31. One may become so hardened in sin that there is no possibility of recovery.—1 John 5:16. V. 31. The sinner hands down to his children a terrible legacy.—Ex. 20:5. Japs Like Our Tune. “Marching througa Georgia” is said to be the favorite tune of the Japan ese soldiers. Native music has no marches, as it is without “time.” Patriotic Japanese composers have, however, since the war began reme died this defect by adapting various foreign pieces. The soldiers have picket^ up the new airs and sing with great delight the Japanese words fitted to them. When It Grew Tiresome. “I never thought,” said the conceited lecturer, “that my voice would fill that hall.” “No,” replied the candid man, "i thought at one time it would empty lu" i —Philadelphia Ledger. f .—— llllllu Conviction FoUows Trial When buying loose coffoo or anything your grocer happens 1 to have in his bin, how do you know what you are getting ? Some queer stories about coffee that is sold in bulk, could be told, if the people who handle it (grocers), cared to speak out. ... . Could any amount of mere talk have persuaded millions ol housekeepers to use lion Coffee, the leader of all package coflees for over a quarter of a century, if they had not found it superior to all other brands in | Purity, Strength, Flavor and Uniformity ? This popular success of LION COFFEE —.1 be due only to Inherent merit There Is no stronger proof of merit than con tinued and Increasing popularity. U the verdict ol MIT .1 .IONS OF HOUSEKEEPERS does not convince you ol the merits ol LION COFFEE, It costs yon bnl a trille to buy a package. It Is the easiest way to convince yonrself, and to make you a PERMANENT PURCHASER. LION COFFEE is sold only in 1 lb. scaled packages, and reaches you ns pure and clean as when it left our factory. Lion-head on every package. Save these Lion-heads for valuable premiums. SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE WOOLSON SPICE CO., Toledo, Ohio. RUMORED OF ROYALTY. Earl Nelson, who is in his eighty eecond year, is the only living peer who was a member of the house of lords when Queen Victoria came to the throne. King Edward's reign has by no means brought joy to the heart of London tradespeople. A leading trade paper laments the l'act that a great portion of the trousseau of Princess Margaret of Connaught was purchased in Paris. There is something in the soft round cheek and the direct outlook of Princess Margaret’s candid eyes that recalls the early portraits of the great queen, and there are traits of character that bear the same stamp, such as truthfulness, clear insight, earnest ness of purpose, and last, not least, “saving common sense.” England’s future king, Prince Ed ward of Wales, now 11 years old, pos sesses a child’s habit of saying the un expected thing. When visiting King Edward, the other day, the king askral him what he was studying, and the little prince said: “All about Perkin ■Warbeck.” Asked who Warbeck was, the prince replied: “He pretended he was the son of the king, but he wasn’t; he -was the son of respectable parents.” There is a singular coincidence about the two English royal princesses named Louise. They are both the daughters of British monarchs. they are of very fair complexion and both married out of the blood royal. Each also selected Scottish peers—the dukes of Argyll ,and Fife—botu of whom are as fair-skinned as their wives. Still further goes the coincidence, for neither of the royal duchesses has pre sented her husband with a male heir. NOT CENSUS QUESTIONS. Were you ever happy, and who was to blame? Are you black or white, and how do you account for it? Do you eat patented breakfast foods or just plain sawdust? Do you think that the high price of eggs is due to the foul-strike? Did you ever hear a theater joke, and what did you take to remove the effects? What is your age, and how many years is it since you celebrated that birthday? Did you ever love your wife so much that you would like to eat her, and are you sorry that you have not done so? Could Tell mm in a moment. Mr. Munn E. Baggs—Now, then, you know what kind of house I want. What will it cost to build it? Ar<*iiitect—Why—urn—what was the amount you originally intended to put into the building?—Chicago Tribune. Out of Order. “I hate fo have anything on my con science, don’t you?” she mused. “I never have,” he replied, quickly; “mine isn’t working.”—Detroit Free Press. HEART RIGHT When He Quit Coffee. Life Insurance Companies will not insure a man suffering from heart trouble. The reason is obvious. This is a serious matter to the hus band or father who is solicitous for the future of his dear ones. Often the heart trouble Is caused by an unex pected thing, and can be corrected, if taken in time and properly treated. A man in Colorado writes: “I was a great coffee drinker for many years, and was not aware of the injurious effects of the habit till I became a practical invalid, suffering from heart trouble, Indigestion and nervousness to an extent that made me wretchedly miserable myself and a nuisance to those who witnessed my sufferings. “I continued to drink Coffee, how ever, not suspecting that it was the cause of my ill-health, till, on apply ing for life Insurance, I was rejected on account of the trouble with my heart. Then I became alarmed. I found that leaving off coffee helped me quickly, so I quit it altogether, and having been attracted by the advertise ments of Postum food Coffee, I began its use. “The change in my condition was remarkable, and it was not long till I was completely cured. All my ail ments vanished. My digestion was completely restored, my nervousness disappeared, and, most important of all, my heart steadied down and be came normal, and on a second exam ination I was accepted by the life in surance Co. Quitting Coffee and us ing Postum worked the cure.” Name givn by Postum Oo., Battle Creek, Mich. There’s a reason, and it is explained In the little book. “The Hoad to Well vllle,” in each pkg. OLD-WORLD ODDITIES. A stork walked into a church at Roermond, Holland, the other evening, and stood on one leg on the top of the pulpit until the end of the servica The owner of a house in a London suburb altered the number 13 to 12A. The borough authorities objected, and, , though he pleaded that he could not let a house numbered 13, they made him replace the 13 on the door. A retired army lieutenant has been arrested at Nauplia, Greece, owing to having predicted some weeks ago that M. Delyannis, the premier, would be assassinated on June 13, which was the actual date of the crime. He says the murder was foretold to him in a dream. Apropos of a statement that “coal would appear a strange article of diet,” a correspondent writes to the West minster Gazette saying that it is not only children and cats who regard It as a luxury, as he has an Irish water spaniel which makes away with a num ber of lumps a day unless the coal is kept out of his reach. In the fashionable West end of Lon don a teacup especially made for for tune telling is being sold. The cup is engraved on the inside with the mystic symbols of the fortune-teller—a bell, heart, horse-shoes, and so on. The tea leaves at the bottom are twirled round the cup, and according to the position or objects on which they stick so is one’s fortune. Portsmouth, England, has passed an ordinance for the suppression of cock-crowing. 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