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(CHAPTER IV. (Continued.)
He wus looking at the leaden clouds
which were deepening overhead, when
Sarah EiiHtbell stole to his aide and
twitched arm.
"You need not trouble yourself to think
of anything for me," she said, ungracious
ly; "you wouldn't have done ao, I dare
aay; but it'a a well to tell you I don't
want any help from you; and as for leav
ing her before she dies well, I'd rather
die myself, much I" she added, with a
auddeu passion exhibiting itself.
"You are attached to her?" said Reu
ben Culwiek, quickly.
"She's the only friend I ever had,"
was the girl'a answer, ns she relapsed
Into her old moodiness of manner.
"Will you tell me one thing before I
go?" he snid; "come now, Suriih Enst
bell second-cousin Sarah in whom I
am Interested." Iteiiben Culwiek spoka
with tenderness; he possessed a won
drously sympathetic voice, and the girl
looked at him till the sullen expression
of her fuce softened and then died away.
"'Second-cousin Snrali!'" she quoted,
and a fuint smile flickered round her
mouth for an instant. "Well, go on."
"l"ou will answer straightforwardly."
"You will not go buck and tell her, und
make her miserable, then?" she said, ns
though by way of compromise.
"I will not."
"Go ou, then, second-cousin Reuben,"
she added, hulf-scornfully. hnlf-Hghtly.
"You are the girl who helped me with
my trunk last night? And you thought
that I hud come to tell your grandmother
about it?"
"Yes."
"Why were you so anxious to earn
money, and in so strange a fashion? us jug her. In all his life he had never kiss
It for yourself?" ed her before never dreamed of taking
"No."
"To make good something tlint Tom
had taken from his grandmother?" said
Reuben.
"Ah! you know then," cried Sarah
Eastbcll, wrenching herself from her
second-cousin's clutch and running with
great swiftness into the house, the door
of which she closed with a noise that
shook the place and startled Mrs. Enst
bell from dreamland. Her quick dark
eyes detected the corner of a bank note
peeping from the pillow on which Mrs.
Eastbell's head was resting.- "Why, this
is the luck you and I have been talking
about so long!"
"I didn't want his money," muttered
the old woman; "I'm not so poor but
what I pay my way. He's a very silly
fellow he always -was."
"Indeed!"
"He never could keep money he was
always doing something or other that was
foolish. How much is it, Sally?"
"It is a five-pound note."
"Put it in the teapot, girl," said the
old woman; "it will come in handy pres
ently. I can have a comfortable funeral
now."
8ally Eastbell made a clattering noise
with the lid of an old china teapot, which,
with its spout off, formed the central or
nament of a high mantelpiece, but she did
not deposit the note therein. That was
not a safe receptacle of money Tom
knew that!
CHAPTER V.
Reuben Culwiek occupied the first floor
of Hope Lodge, and the gentleman who
rented Hope Lodge and to whom Reuben
paid the modest Bum of three shillings
and sixpence weekly, had not hidden his
light tinder a bushel, and had extinguish
ed Reuben's claim to locality by exten
sive advertising over his house front.
The name of "Jennings," in large white
white capitals on a crimson ground, was
the sky line of the edifice, and another
board, with a "Jennings" of somewhat
more moderate proportions, had been
fastened between the windows of the first
and second floors, while "Jennings, Pyro
technic Artist," in blue and yellow, by
way of variety of coloring, was Inscribed
over a dingy shop front. On the door
also had been painted "Jennings, Fire
work Maker to the Court," and over the
door was a plaster coat-of-arms, signifi
cant of the royal patronage which the
family legend asserted had been once
vouchsafed to an extinct Jennings who
had been blown to atoms one Guy
Fawkes season.
Mr. Jennings was always waiting for
November, although he drove a little busi
ness in colored fires for minor theaters
at all times of the year. On the night of
Reuben Culwick's return to London, he
was standing at his door, after his gen
eral rule. But on that particular even
ing he was not waiting for November so
Intently as for his lodger, Ueuben Cul
wiek, who had said that he should be
back that evening. Suddenly John Jen
nings was joined in his watch by a wom
an as thin as he was, and as pule. She
put her hands suddenly, and possibly
heavily, on his shoulder, for Mr. Jen
nings winced and doubled up under the
pressure.
"I wish you wouldn't, Lucy," Mr. Jen
nings said, remonstrutivelJ
"Wish I would not what, John?" asked
the newcomer on the scene.
"Take a person off his guard like that,
and scare him."
, "Have you grown a more nervous crea
ture still, watching for what will never
come again?" said the woman, with a
strange asperity of tone.
"What will never come again?" repeat
ed her brother, in dismay. "Do you mean
that Mr. Culwiek will not come back,
then? ltless my sonl, how long have you
been thinking of that?" sal. I Mr. Jen
nings; "you didn't say so before you
hadn't such a thought an honr ago. What
makes you get so foolish an idea into your
head now?"
He laughed In an odd. hysterical fash
ton, like a woman, as his greater interest
took him out of his languid position and
set him upright, staring at his sister.
"Well, I've lieen thinking it over
what be is, and what we are and I'm
sure that he will be glad to be rid of us
altogether. lie has only stopped here lit
of compliment nil this while; but you
can't soe that so well as I can," she
added, fretfully.
"I haven't tried to see it. I'll trust to
Reuben Culwiek. He said that if he
didn't write he would be back here on
the second Tuesday in May, ami back
he'll come like clockwork; although, mind
you "
"Go on, John what am I to mind?"
atked his sister, gravely, as he paused.
"Although, mind you," he continued,
"his coming back don't mean exactly that
good luck to him which stopping sway
would, and I wish him good luck always
anyhow. But then we should have
heard from him; isn't he as truthful as
you are?"
"He may have missed a post." she an
swered, evasively "have postponed tell
ing ns bumble folk of the good fortune
that has come to him. Good news will
keep, you know."
There was a long pause after this,
broken at last by Mr. Jennings saying:
"Yon don't want him back, then,
Lucy r
"Not if he will be happier away."
"Well, if he has gone, you've worried
our best friend away, for you always
would interfere, and preach to him"
"He isn't our best friend."
"Yes, I know what you're going to
say," said her brother, feebly; "of course,
but I'm not speaking of that And Reu
ben here he is! Hurrah!"
And Mr. Jennings, forgetting his ap
athy, ran down his front garden and
went, bareheaded and in his shirt sleeves,
at full speed down Hope street, leaving
his sister in charge of the premises,
Reuben Culwiek and John Jennings
came into the parlor together a few
minutes later, and the latter with a
crouk of triumph exclaimed: "There,
Lucy Vho is right now?" as the former
advanced to shake hands with her.
Lucy looked up into the face of the
big-chested, healthful man, and smiled
faintly in response to the cheery ex
pression which she saw there.
"You have kept your word, then, Mr.
Ueuben," she said, placing her hand in
his; and a very cold hand, with not much
life blood In it, it was that lay in his
brown palms,
"But you didn't think that I should,"
.he cried,
"No," was tho fearless reply, as the
thin lips closed together.
"Now, what does she deserve, to face
a man and a brother, and a first-floor
lodger of long' and honorable standi,',,
with this odious greeting?" he said, turn
ing to John Jennings.
Reuben Culwiek was In boisterous spir
its, or he would have never committed
the indiscretion of suddenly lifting up the
prim Miss Jennings in his arms and kiss
such a liberty with his landlord's sister
but his high spirits carried him away,
and he lifted Lucy Jennings as high as
the ceiling before ha kissed her lightly,
and placed her, as be might have done a
child, In her chair again, where she glared
nt him in amazement, with her eyes dis
tended and her face not destitute of color
now.
"You have been drinking!" she gasp.
ed forth, indignantly, "or you would have
never done that.
"No, I haven't been drinking, Lucy,"
said Reuben, quietly; "but this is home,
and I am glad to get back to it."
"Ah! I dare say you are," she added,
with irony.
"Skeptical!" he cried; "John, what
shall I do now I
"Kiss her again," said John
"No I will not have any more of that
foolery," said Miss Jennings, with Intense
acerbity pervading her plain speaking.
"I wouldn't if she objects," said John;
"if she doesn't see the joke of it. I
don't think anybody has ever kissed her
except Tots. She s not used to that kind
of thing she really isn't."
Nothing seemed to distress or disturb
the equanimity of Reuben Culwiek. He
was glad to get back, or he was one of
the artfulest hypocrites in the County of
Surrey. He understood these two better
than they understood themselves, having
taken the trouble, to study and be Inter
ested in their eccentricities long before.
"Well, you hav set up and kept a fire
burning for a man who was aot expect
ed," said Reuben; "but yon don't ask
me how I have fared in the country, what
adventures I have had, what work I have
done, what luck I have encountered."
"We shall be glad to hear how you
have got on In Worcester," she said, a
womanly curiosity exhibiting itself; "we
do not attempt to deny that we are in
terested in you always interested in jon
poor as we are."
"Yes, but don't begin about your pov
erty again, please poverty may bo a
blessing in disguise for what you, and I,
and John know to the contrary," said
Reuben; "the poorest and most afflicted
woman was the happiest mortal whom I
met in Worcestershire, and the richest
and most prosperous man I found as mis
erable and mean as ever."
"Are you speaking of your father
now?" asked Miss Jennings, anxiously.
"Yes the gentleman whom you talked
me into visiting, prodigal son fashion
but who didn't take me to his breast and
weep over me, and order his fattest calf
to be killed in my honor," cried Reuben,
a little bitterly. "I was humble and con
trite, but he was as hard as nails, and
the whole experiment was a tremendous
failure. Did I not say before I started
tlint this would be the result?"
"Yes," said John, "you certainly said
that. I am very sorry I am awfully
sorry what a funny man he must be!"
"Extremely funny," said Reuben Cul
wiek, dryly; "you would die of laughing
at his humor."
"Do you regret that yon have offered
to sink a bitter quarrel," inquired Lucy
Jennings, "and to make peace?"
"No."
"You are glad that you have been to
Worcester, are you not, despite this mis
erable result?"
"Yes."
"Then fault lies with him, as It
did, before you went, with you. And,
Mr. Reuben," she added, very earnestly,
"you have one sin the less, I think."
"Amen to that."
Lucy Jennings regarded him keenly,
as if a suspicion that he was ridiculing
her earnestness had suggested itself, but
Reuben Culwiek was grave enough. It
was not always easy to guess when this
strong, self-reliant man was in jest or
earnest.
"What, Tots!" cried Reuben, suddenly,
holding out his arms, into which there
ran, with pattering bare feet, a pretty
flaxen-haired child of three years old.
"Oh, me so glad yon have come back,
Reuben!" said the child, half laughing,
to begin with, and then wholly crying
as a wind-up.
"She'll catch her death of cold!" tried
Mr. Jennings. "Tots, how could you come
down like this? why ain't you asleep?"
"You said you said," sobbed the child,
"that he was coming home to-night."
"Well, here" I am, young one; don't cry
about it." murmured the big man, as his
arms folded the child to his breast, and
his handsome brown beard hid her face
from view, and tickled her terribly, for
she struggled into a sitting position away
from it, and rubbed her face and eyes
energetically.
"Elizabeth," said Lucy, severely, "this
is very wrong. Didn't you promise to ro
to sleep?"
"I touldn't." answered Elizabeth.
"Come with me " began her aunt
again, when Tots let forth so tremen
dous a yell that even Lucy, a woman not
easily put down, succumbed at once.
"I-et her be." aaid Reuben Culwiek
gruffly; then ther waa a second pause,
after which he whispered in the child's
ear a few words that arrested her at
tention, and Tots sat np again,
"Where is It?" asked Tots.
"In my portmanteau at the railway
station coming home to-morrow, if Tots
will go to bed now."
"And as big as dtT said Tots, open
ing her arm to their fullest extent
"Bigger."
"Me oso to bed," said Tots with' alac
rity "but," she added, " oo must carry
; me on talrs." o
I "Of course I will. Good night, Uncle
Jennings; good-night, aunt were off,
both of ns," cried Reuben Culwiek, and
he was out of the room and striding up
stairs with the child before there was
time for Tots to change her mind in any
way.
Brother and sister did not attempt to
follow him; the brother sat and listened
until the trampling feet in the room above
announced that Reuben had deposited
bis charge in her crib, and retired to his
own apartments; the thin woman with
the worn face turned toward the fire,
fast dying out, and passed a hand across
her eyes, as if by stealth.
"How fond he is of children!" said
John Jennings; "I thiuk big men always
are, Lucy. There was Topping
"Don't bother me about . Topping,"
said Lucy.
"Ahem! no," he said, with his feeble
little cough prefacing his remarks ngain;
"not if you wish it, certainly. Still, it's
odd."
"What Is odd?"
"That Reuben's coming back should
have put you out in this way.
"I prayed he .might never come again."
"V by, we couldn t afford
"The man deserved better fortune than
he can find here," she cried, "and so I
didn't want him back. Besides, we don't
agree."
"I'm sorry Reuben has seen you in this
tantrum, because I have often fancied
that by and by you and he 'would get to
like each other. II is a man who wants
something to love look at him and that
child, for instance and you're 'lot a
great deal too old, and he's not proud,
and you re -
He stopped as Lucy Jennings swutig
herself round, a perfect virago in her last
and worst attack of passion. He had
never seen Lucy show off in this way be
fore.
"John, you're a fool," she screamed;
"you are the worst of fools to think like
that, to talk like it. I marry him! he
think of me! I tell you I hate you for
saying this to-night.
John Jennings gasped for breath.
"My dear, I'm sorry if I have hurt
your feelings. If you don't mind, I'll fo
to bed."
She did not answer, and John Jen
mugs, after passing his hand over his
forehead in a bewildered manner, went
to bed accordingly.
When she was sure that he was gone,
the woman sank of a heap on the shabby
hearth-rug, and buried her face in her
arms, which she leaned upon the chair.
It was a bitter grief, in which strange
words escaped her.
"Why has he come back? Why couldn't
he stop away for good?
(To be continued.)
A BALLOON FARM.
A Unique Business Carried on In
Western New York.
There Is at present a general Interest
in airships, for which the late experi
ments of Santos Dumont are largely
responsible, and In view of this many
will read with more than ordlnnry In
terest the clever description of the
great balloon farm of Carl E. Myers,
written by Chauncey McGovern for
Pearson's. "You would be Inclined to
think you were dreaming," says Mr.
McGovern, "were you to walk through
the farm of Carl E. Myers, nine miles
from the elty of Utlca, State of New
York. Here can be Been, on constant
view. In summer time, a large variety
of aerial craft airships that actually
fly, Just as they do In the story books,
doing strange things that you had sup
posed could never happen in reality.
"Besides the array of new kinds of
air craft, it is a fact little known that
every American-made hydrogen balloon
in use in the United States whether
by the government or by private Indi
viduals is a product of this one farm.
"Most striking among the things to
be seen at the balloon farm Is a flying
machine that really flies, not merely a
'working model' of an airship that
'fiica' a few feet along a track on the
ground, but a fully completed flying
machine that soars into the actual
skies as high as any bird a machine
that ascends, that turns and dives as
readily as an eagle does.
"Many other curious aerial vessels
have been turned out from the Myers
balloon farm, and some greater won
ders are In course of construction. It
Is not only his own Inventions that Mr.
Myers constructs on his balloon farm.
He makes all sorts of aerial contriv
ances scientific kites, freak balloons,
air vessels for other Inventors.
"The greatest number of .the balloon
farm products, however, are big hy
drogen balloons."
MACARONI CROP IN AMERICA.
Imported Product Will Be Driven Out
by Dakota Wheat.
"Italian macaroni for the American
market will In a few years be a thing
of the past," said the Secretary of Ag
riculture to a correspondent of the
New York Post "Last year the Amer-
can crop of macaroni wheat amounted
to 200,(MiO bushels; this year it will
amount to 2,000,0K), and next year I
expect a yield of 20,KK,M)0 bushels. In
fact, the ncreage Is growing so rapidly
that the farmers have been saving
much of their yield for seed, so that
the factories have not until this year
had material enough with which to do
business. My recent trip through tat
Dakota convinced me that macaroni
wheat bus passed the experimental
stage. I saw forty-acre fields, yielding
thirty-five bushels to the acre, of this
wheat growing from seed brought
from the headwaters of the Volga. Ex
periments show that this wheat will
grow wherever there is ten Inches of
rainfall, and as South Dakota averages
to receive sixteen Inches there will be
no trouble In raising It there.
'We have been spending $3,000,000
a year for imported macaroni. Many
of our people who have seen Its process
of manufacture In Italy have been
cured of their appetite for It, but this
appetite may be expected to reassert
Itself with the cleaner and better meth
ods of American factories. The flavor
of the American macaroni wheat Is es
pecially good, having a nutty taste
which I miss In the European prod
uct" Acquired Taeta.
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Invention!
Yellow fever Is. being eradicated in
Cuba since the American occupation
of the island. This Is due principally
to the extermination of the mosquito.
From the latest measurements by
Curie, it Is estimated that the energy
of fifteen pounds of radium, fully
utilised, would run a one-horse-power
engine many centuries.
Sycamore is an exceedingly durable
wood, and a statue from it, now in
the museum of GIzeh, Is reported
sound and natural in appearance, al
though nearly six thousand years old.
A cedar, which la 1,000 years old,
Is said to have -been recently cut near
Pike's Peak, Colorado. Charles E.
Bessey, of the University of Nebraska,
Is responsible for this assertion. The
tree was a brown cedar and the
growth rings on the stump were easi
ly counted.
The clam Is disappearing so fast
that the United States Fish Commis
sion is endeavoring to propagate the
mollvuk by artificial culture. The fish
commission is studying the soft, or
long clam, but the Stats of New York
Is confining Its attention to the round,
or hard clam.
The serum obtained by inoculating
horses with cobra venom, so effective
In the pjacttc of Calmette, has been
found by Dr. Tldswell to have no
power In counteracting the venom of
Australian snakes. Other experiments
seem to prove that the anti-venom
serum Is only active against poison of
snakes of the same species as that
supplying the venom of the serum.
Many of the curious animal inhab
itants of the earth are threatened with
extinction, but the ostrich, fortunate
ly, can be preserved by artificial rear
ing. Considerable attention has lately
been drawn to the ostrich farms of
California, and now It Is reported that
ostriches have been successfully rear
ed In Australia. They produc mag
nificent white feathers, as much as
27 inches In length and 15 In width.
The first birds were imported from
and crabs are able to re
place limbs which have been removed
by accident Crabs are decidedly
pugilistic, and when they come In
contact with members of their own
species a battle is likely to ensue, in
which limbs are destroyed. Fisher
men state that when crabs are con
fined in shallow water a thunderstorm
will cause a wholesale picking away
of their limbs. It Is fortunate for
tbem that nature has provided for
these accidents by giving them the
power of growing new limbs in a short
time.
A German chemist describes a new
cement, composed of casein and some
tannic add compound, that becomes
very hard when dry, and Is then In
soluble In water, oils, petroleum, etc.
In preparing It, calcium tannate may
be obtained by adding clear lime wa
ter to a tannin solution until no
further precipitation occurs, then
pouring off the liquid and drying the
precipitate. The calcium tannate Is
mixed with casein In proportions
ranging from one to one up to one
to ten. The dried mixture is reduced
to powder, which is ready for use on
adding water to any desired consist
ency. R. B. Ewart who recently traversed
South America from Callao and
Lima, across the Andes and down
the Amazon Valley to the Atlantic,
Informs United States Consul Ken tie
day at Para that the Ucayall River,
one of the tributaries of the Amazon,
is as large as the Mississippi, and
traverses a rich rubber-tree district;
but all through this region the coun
try lying beyond a distance of two
miles from the principal streams Is
completely unexplored, even by the na
tives. Besides rubber, the forests
abound lu rosewood, mahogany, ce
dar, walnut and dye woods, and on the
high lands are vast stretches of sav
annas, or prairies, with a climate like
spring all the year, and great possi
bilities for cattle raising.
HANDLING OF FOOD.
Care Fhould Be Taken In Potting
Groceries Away Properly.
It matters little how much care Is
exercised In the selection of food or
the sum expended In Its purchase If
It Is not properly cared for after It
reaches the house. Through careless
ness and Ignorance the loss Is often
great, proving that there Is mora than
a grain of truth In the old adage, "A
woman can throw out on a teaspoon
what a man brings in on a shovel."
Salads and vegetable that arrive in
good condition are dumped In a hot
kitchen to wilt and wither until the
cook gets "good and ready" to put
them away. Meat is left In Its paper
to absorb the taste and get glued fast
to It Fruit is bruised in emptying it
out, butter left uncovered to grow
rancid, and milk standing to sour.
When green vegetable come they
should be put at once In the cellar
or Into the Icebox. Salad may be
wrapped in a damp cloth, than In news
paper, and put In the air.
Cereals should be emptied In their
proper receptacles of tin or glass and
closely covered to prevent Insect get
ting In. Coffee should go Immediately
Into an airtight canister In order to
keep It aroma. Olive oil should be
put Into a cool, dark place, and salt,
soap and cheese Into dry places.
Dried fruit should be kept In air
tight glass can; nut In a cool, dry
place to prevent their growing rancid,
and chocolate, cocoa and cocoa-shells
In cold storage. Molasses and syrups
need to be where It Is cooL
Eggs should be bandied carefully,
so as not to break the membrane
seperatlng the yolk and white, and
kept In a dry, cool place.
Flour belongs in a bin or barrel
raised a few inches from the floor.
While wheat flour may be obtained
In quantity, corn meal or graham flour
should only be purchased in small
quantities and kept In tin or gla.
Onion should not be left cut as
they are great absorbers. Neither
onion, bananas nor muskmciona
' should be put In Qta Icebox with other
food.
! Winter vegetables should be fully
matured when gathered, dried thor
oughly and then stored In a cool, dry
place. Carrots, beets and celery keep
better If packed In sand.
I Small and soft fruits should be
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kets as purchased, as their own weight
crushes them and they decay. Peaches
and fine pear should be removed to
a shelf and not be allowed to touch
one another. Tomatoes may be ripened
by exposure to the sun.
Milk and cream should be kept
separate from the other foods, as tbey
absorb odors.
Butter, If purchased In quantity,
should have a cloth spread over the
top and on top of that a thick layer
of salt.
When necessary to take out butter,
lift the cloth from the side, cut out
a square, even piece, and recover with
cloth and salt If only a few pounds
are purchased at a time, keep in a tin
or agate pall, cover with a cloth, wrung
out of salt water, and the lid.
Lard should be kept In tin and In a
cool place.
Fresh fish should never be permitted
to soak In water. Put In a cool place
J directly on artificial Ice.
Meat should not .be laid on the Ice,
as that draws out the Juices. If fresh
killed, allow It to get chilled before
putting In cold storage, otherwise, the
animal lnt Is driven Inside and causes
fermentation, which Is poisonous. Do
not let chops and steaks rest against
one another, much less ham and steak.
All meats and poultry require a cool,
dry atmosphere. If necessary to hang
them, suspend with the choicest and
tender parts' down. Hang lamb and
mutton by the shank, and poultry
by the feet Boston journal
POWERS COULD CRIPPLE RUSSIA
If Country's Money Supply Was Bhnt
off 6h. Conld Not KlBht.
That every power In Europe Is
Jealous of Russia and would be glad
to see her schemes of conquest In the
orient defeated and the nation hum
bled in the dust is too apparent to
require emphasis. An article on Rus
sia published In L'European, a Journal
of international Influence Issued in
Paris, has attracted no little attention
in the European press. The author
Is the Danish publicist BJornstjerne
Bjornson. He assumes that Russia li
an undesirable and dangerous element
in Europe and Asia, and as a means
of thwarting her further advance pro
poses that other nations stop supply
ing her with money. Since 1899, the
writer estimates, Russia has borrowed
abroad $700,000,000 with which to
build fleets and to maintain an army
no less than to establish the gold
standard and build railways, and M.
Bjornson seems to take it very much
to heart that "the larger part of this
foreign gold, which has maintained the
Russian institution and served its plan
of oppression and of conquest, has
flowed from the country of liberty,
equality and fraternity."
"It Is admitted In France and Amer
ica," M. Bjornson goes on to say, "that
without French gold the Russian In
stitution would have gone to smash
long ago. No centralized power, even
the best, Is, for any length of time,
capable of governing so many and
varied peoples. No hand, no matter
how powerful, can stretch over such
an enormous territory or . unite so
many contrary destinies created by
varied climates and by numerous racial
und religious differences. But what
tho best government, what the most
powerful hand cannot perform be
comes chaos and misery under a feeble
autocratic power or a bureaucratic In
sltuntlon that Is mercenary and menda
cious, unstable and oppressive. With
out the foreigner's old It would have
destroyed Itself, whether by revolution
or by asphyxia. What, however, would
Lave been most natural would have
been a general disintegration of the
administration q the colossal masses
cf Russia according to a scheme of
federalization.
"With the aid of the foreigner's gold
all the Inflammable material of this
foimldable accumulation of Injustice
and distress has been able to subsist
until It has become a danger to us all.
Unless a war precipitates her upon her
neighbors a war which would be' fol
lowed through long years by thunder
Ings and tumults she will continue to
court them as of yore. On this point
Russian and foreigner agree. But
war will come. If up to the present
time the all-powerful Russian Institu
tion has not recoiled before any of the
means taken to prolong Its existence,
why should It recoil before war?
Whatever the result of the war, one
thing Is certoln the payment of In
terest will cease. Russia will thank
the aid given her by state bankruptcy."
Emigration Laws Seesaw.
Roughly speaking, emigration Is pro
moted In the countries that send us the
least desirable citizens and retarded In
those that send us the most desirable.
Southern Italy must find an outlet for
it surplus population; the Italian gov
ernment resents our restrictions. F r
the laborers send many postal orders
home, and frequently return with mod
est competencies to establish them
selves) In small shops or on small farms.
De Plehve has as good as said that he
would like to drive all the Jews In Rus
sia to America.
No one realizes better than the Get
man emperor the value of a strong
young man to an Industrial community.
Twenty year ago emigration left a
dearth of agricultural labor In" Ger
many. The Kaiser set out to keep his
Germans at home, and has pretty well
succeeded. German steamship com
panies 'carry on an active propaganda
In Italy, Slavonla, and In Russia as
well; but In the fatherland Itself noth
ing of the sort Is permitted. Every
German being catalogued by th police,
It Is not only easy to stop the depar
ture of those of military age, but also
to discourage the departure of ethers.
An American visiting Hungary 1 told
politely that "we encourage th worst
to go and keep the other." Collier's
Weekly.
At the Grating-
Teller I cannot cash thl check,
madam, unless I know who you are.
She (haughtily) I wouldn't accept
the money, anyway, from anyone wIm
doesn't know who I am. LIT.
Of
Intellect. Intellect thrive without
beauty, but beauty cannot thrive with
out Intellect Rev. H. O. Breeden,
Disciple, De Molne, Iowa.
Confession. If confession Is a man
made doctrine, we ought to "be able
to And in history some trace of the
man or set of men who instituted this
doctrine. But we do not Rev. W,
White, Roman Catholic, Washington,
D. O.
The Normal Life. The best life at
tor all Is the normal life which takes
all that God Himself has pronounced
good, and lives In accordance with
that image of God which lies hidden
In the depths of the soul. Rev. O. B,
Case, Bnptlst Montclalr, N. J.
Ruined Lives. The saddest sight In
all the world Is a ruined young man
or woman, ruined on the threshold of
life, a bud plucked and destroyed be
fore It had a chance to bloom, a young
life blasted before it had a chance
to live. Rev. G. R. Stair, Methodist
Brooklyn, N. Y.
iionie. uur noma gathering are
none too often In these day, and es
pecially In our great cities, wher w
are in danger of losing the old horns
spirit, and very much that Is best In
the meaning of the old magic word.
home. Rev. D. H. Overton, Presbyte
rian, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miracles. God never gave a mir
acle as a proof of Christianity. Chris
tianity does not rest upon the miracle
of the New Testament, but upon tho
character of the life of Christ and the
lesson which it conveys to mankind.
Rev. Beverley Warner, Eplscopa
lian, New Orleans, La.
Faith and Works. Profit means In
crease, and there Is no Increase with
out use. No matter what your eiv
dowment la from God, It Is of no profit
to you unless you use It Your
faith Is of no profit to you unless you
apply it Rev. W. H. McGlaufllu,
Universalis!, Atlanta, Ga.
The Tay to Salvation. The BlbU
Is not filled with dark sayings, which
only the learned can decipher after
much study and deep thought but It
is a lamp unto our feet and a light
unto our path, which shows the way
unto salvation unto all men. Rev.
H. O. Fritz, Lutheran, Brooklyn, N,
i.
Civic Corruption. Lack of civic
pride ha made civic corruption pos
sible. We must have a civic patriot
Ism which Is not only strong In time
of municipal election, but maintain It
from day to day. There must be an
enlightenment of the public mind.
Rev. J. L Adam, Reformed, Brook
lyn, N. T.
Sainthood. There has never been
but one example of flawless sainthood
on this earth. All the rest were "men
of like passions as we are." All have
gone out of this life with many 1m
perfections and far more to learn In
the school beyond than they ever
learned here. Rev. A. B. Klnsolvlng,
Disciple, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Poverty. Thousands of men can en-
aure seir-denial and sacrifice, and
disappointed ambition, with patience,
But to preach to them that there Is
any blessing In enduring unnecessary
pain Is to make them feel: "You rub
the sore when you should bring the
plaster." Rev. F. E. Hopkins, Con
gregatlonallst Chicago, 111.
Justice. Some religious teachers
have apparently conceived of God as
living In a court house and exercising
the functions of Ills office as a cruel
and relentless Judge. The whole of
their theology ha had a legal cast
and the Idea of justice has been that
of retribution and vlndictiveness.
Rev. II. S. Bradley, Methodist Atlan
ta, Ga.
Club Life. Substitutes for home
weaken the family. There has been
much and strong opposition to club
life, because It has done harm to the
family. In many cases It has been
made a substitute for the home.
Where men and women spend much
time in such association there must of
necessity be a neglect of home. Rev,
D. G. Wylle, Presbyterian, New York
City.
Municipal Corruption. To tamely
turn over the vital Interests of a great
city, whose public life determines In
great degree the moral standard of
Its citizens, to a band of men without
conscience or shame to exploit for
their selfish and corrupt ends, Is not
In accord with the spirit of Him who
drove from the temple those who de
filed It Rev. T. Craft Methodist,
Denver, Col.
The Right Flaee. Life Is a hunt to
find one's self. There are two hunt
ers, one's self and God. If you' work
In unison, the probability Is that you
will bag your game. If you proceed
separately th certainty Is that when
the day 1 done you will return empty
handed, a sadder and a wiser man.
One doe not find himself until he
finds and fills his place. Rev. B. M.
Tipple, Baptist Brooklyn, N. Y.
Love and Trust Without God
there Is no place for love, trust, hope,
courage In thi great scene of life.
Can any one be happy who sees no
love In the world, who knows of no
on who can be trusted to do the best
for every man. You know It Is Im
possible. The counsel of the nng-xlly
leads to hardness of heart, to hope
less struggle, to final despair. Rev.
II. R. Harris,. Episcopalian, Philadel
phia, P.
Trackless Trolleys at Scrant n
The only system of trackless trol
leys' In the United States Is that at
Scranton, Pa., which has made a fair
showing of success. In France and
Germany a number of these Hues,
which have electrical automobiles op
erated by an overhead wire, have
proved satisfactory, the only objection
to them being the fact that they re
quire tylce the current used for car
operated over rail.
When a man attempts to make mon
key of hi friend he may be forced
into the monkey diss him,' elf.
SERMONS
THEJ
GEO. P. CROWELt,
i Successor to I. L. Smith,
atabllshed House lu lbs valley.
DEALER IN
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does not bav to divide with partner.
All dividends are made with customer
in the way of reasonable price.
Lumber
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Posts, Etc.
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Have opened an office in Hood River.
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which will be promptly filled.
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