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X This is plenty, ly; nof only the riot diversified Jluxury. ’ ■*/ * ■ an age of (.%ere cost s cheap. ^Erstwhile I to indulge a i; nowadays the ive dainty delicacies or he reviles ms benefactor. Men have grown both brain and brawn . on porridge and water. Now in tellectual and physical pigmies plunder earth ana sea and air for palatable pabulum and pungent potations. Chefs concoct curious 'collations and multiply marvel " ousahd minatory]menus. Chairs zpust be cushioned and couches curtained. Pigs and pugs are tampered in palaces. Children are corrected with custard and eastoria. Tears trickle over com pound cosmetics upon intricately embroidered laces and linen. Walking £is effete, and riding is ridiculous except in limousine and Pullman. Houses need not be homes, but must be monuments displaying muck and money. Libraries are littered with deluxe editions of doubtful dilettantes, • and walls are weighted with putrid pictures/ and pedestals and portals polluted with saturaalian and salacious statuary. Lust lurks in luxury. It lures from strenuous life to lax living. It dulls the ' dare of duty. It sings siren’s songs. Wooing, it wins worth to wantonness. The mere multi plying of material things may minister to madness. Complexity is not always culture. Versatility is not necessarily virtue. Simplic ity must save. Sowing is correla ted with reaping. Hell is some ♦times the harvest Heaven is the guerdon of lawful life. Let money minister .to soul, and not to ’ sense. — Western Methodist. OUR CHURCH’S PROGRESS. One of the items of greatest in terest in the annual report of our ■. whole Church, as .shown in the , Minutes, is the accessions. This year, 1916-17, the whole number of accessions on examination was 96,792, against 104,626 last year, a difference in favor of 1916 of \. 7,734. The number on certificate this year Was 62,209; last year 6o,189, gain, for this year of 2,o2o. Hie banner Synod on accessions is Pennsylvania, with 13,661. New York is a close second, with 12,933. The banner church is the Linwood Presbyterian ehurch, with an ac , cession of 613. The First church of . Seattle, Wash., follows, with 498; th.e Woodward Avenue chyrch, ■ Detroit, with 492;' the Fourth ■Sclmfrchp -Ghieago, with~884."Ther *'?■ hot total of communicants of the whole Church is 1,604,466. The net total last year was l,66o,oo9, which shows a final increase for this year of. 44,457. The total funds of the Church for this year is $31,236, 296, an increase of over three mil lion dollars over last year. There was increase in the income of every Board save thatof Education: 197 men were licensed,226 ordained, 712 installations, 675 pastoral dissolu tions, 94 churches were organized, fi7 were dissolved, lo8 ministers were received from other denomi nations, and 48 were dismissed to other denominations. Two churches ... were received and nine dismissed. —The Presbyterian. ^Discontented workers, pining for higher positions, may well pon der this pregnant sentence from " ■ ‘Impersonal Memories” by George Batchelor now appearing in The Christian Register: ‘when I , think of my work for the last fifty x years, I often think of myself at - the organ blowihg the bellowe, < while better men sat at tl^e key board. They must have been bet ter men, or I should have been at the keyboard.and they at the bel lows.”—The Outlook. SCOTIA SEMINARY CONCORD, N. C. A well equipped school under the care of the Freedmen’s Board of the Presbyterian Church U. S. A. for the higher education and ^Industrial Training of Colored Young Women. It includes A College Course, affording op* portunity for those desiring to complete the more advanced studies. Preparatory Course. Including the High School Academic for those desiring to prepare for Col lege, an'* the High School Normal for those desiring special prepara tion for teaching. Also Industrial (bourses, includ ing Domestic Arts and Sciences. Two large Dormitories with pleasant rooms, steam heated, and l lighted by electricity, pleasantly ■situated and convenient to Rail Road Station: . For catalogue and any desired :«~ti°n, addressthe President, ■ REV. A. W. VERNKR, D. D. BIDDLE UNIVERSITY Cfperated under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A». / } <y ' . * The University has Pour Depart ments—High , School, Arts and Sciences Theological and Indus trial. HIGH SCHOOL In the High School,' which con sists of four years, two courses are offered, one leading u the Classical Course of the Colleges the other to the Scientific.' The Scientific Course is identical with the Classical In the First and in the Second Year. In the Third and in the Fourth Year of the Sci entific Course German 13 substi tuted for Greek or Latin. All applicants for admission to the High School must be at least fourteen years of age, must have completed a Grammar School Course and must furnish satisfac tory testimonials of good moral character. COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT The School of Arts and Sciences offers two courses of study, the Classical and the Scientific, In the Scientific Course German is substituted for Greek or Latin. Students completing the Classical Course satisfactorily receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts (A.B.); those completing the Scientific Course that of Bachelor of Science (B. S.) . Fifteen units of Secondary work are required for entrance, without condition, in the Freshman Class THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT The course of study prescribed in this Department's both liberal and practical. Besides the ordi nary English Studies of the Theo logical Seminary, students who have taken a college course, or its equivalent pursue exegetical study of Greek Scriptures throughout the entire course, and Hebretv in the Junior and Middle Years. Where the. previous training of the student has been partial and his years are mature, a shorter and purely English course has been provided. INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT All students in the High School are required to take some trade and to report twice a w4 work in this De students At present Bricklaying. P ient take ntry, _Pr ing, Blacksmf etc., are taught] Tuition is free. Good jBoard, with furnished 'room, light and fuel can be had for $8]00 per month in the hall, which (is pre sided over by one of the processors. Needy and deserving students may ordinarily expect such assist ance as will enable them success fully to prosecute their studies. The school year begins the third Wednesday in September. Students may be admitted to the classes by examination at the beginning of the first and second semesters. > . For information or catalogue, address REV. H. L. McCROREY, D. D., President of Biddle University, Charlotte, N. C. INGLES1DE SEMINARY, BURKEVIUiE, VA., was founded by the Freedmen’s Board of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., for educating and train ing young women of' the Negro raee. The new catalogue provides a curriculum of Academic and Cd icgiate studies; special stress m Normal Course, Music and Indus* trial Training,' Domestic Arts and Sciences, . Capable and moral-losing young women who desire opportunity of self-improvement and the attain ment of a Higher Education are requested to correspond with the President x Tuition is free. Good Board, with furnished room, electric light and steam heat are provided. The school year begins the first Wednesday in October. Full infor mation and catalogue sent on ap plication. REV. J. W. DUNBAR, D. D., President, v Burkeville, Va. v Dr. Edward Everett Hale’s ad vice to the young people of his time was, “Every day try to meet some one wiser and better than yourself.” Some young people of (hit day, comments an exchange, seem to think ithat this would be an impossible task. -The Outlook. as fe rtile, take into consideration la that moral Inertia la aa much respon 'atble for tUa condition aa la tempta tion in Its.rgxled forma. Granted that we hare the desire to lead good Uvea and that we prefer that our thoughts should run in clean, dear channdan rather than In muddy, murky ones we do not always hare the moral strength necessary to put these desires into ef fect* observes the Charleston News and Courier. Wehdtere, perhaps,, that we are stronger than we really are rfg# that although we may already be launched upon a dangerous sea we can make a safe haven at wffl. That we joften misjudge our power of accost pllshment In this direction, however, jls not to be denied as circumstances! demonstrate when we make the at# tempt to seek refuge from the danger! that threaten us. On the other handLj notwithstanding the Mows tl and the discouragement they the past and irtffl otters will accom plish It, In the’ future, and thee® thoughts alone should encourage those of u« at the present wbo are stagger ing under heavy bnrdena and fluting unhappy handicaps to make a winning ■race,' - : '! ONLY ADVERTISING OF VALUE Mint Be Abeolute Truth le the Di» varying Experience of American ' 'j- —Men ef Bueineea. 1 The only kind of advertising that, has any real value is that based os the troth, so that when the convention of the Associated Advertising Clubr of the World, in session at Indianap olis, reaffirmed “truthful publicity* as ;thelr slogan they but formulated the ^unvarying experience of the business world. Lincoln’s famous remark to. the effect, that “you can fool some Of the people all the time, and all of the people .some of the time; but you can’ not tool all the people all the time," is peculiarly applicable to the publicity •field; the attempt to fool the people by means of dishonest advertising is cu mulative in its retribution and the ad vertiser who tries 'it spells his own -ultimate confusion. This is by no means a mere assumption, for statis tics prove that the public Is quick to detect the fraudulent variety: faint earmarks of Insincerity and mendaa tty soon become conspicuous warnings, . and the truthful advertisements, bring results out of all proportion to those which fail to keep faith with the buy er. Even without the laws here and there/aimed at the dishonest practice of the' fake advertiser, the business world is learning quickly that the suo eesa' won by the trickster is a transi tory sue, while the firm foundations are those that are built upon truth and sincertty.r—Philadelphia Ledger Loving YoupHusban^. Some day you’ll love a man. You might just as well die now unless you dot But you’ll really love him after you have your children. It may even be long after, it isn’t having children that makes a woman, I don’t care what the world says about it l They pro* pare you to love the man. They cease to need you so much; but be needs you moro and more. And after the children have deepened yon. the thing' wlU coma over yon. The mother who thought she had spent herself, rises, Anna! She is rtsuxrected. Then shs turns and mothers a man. She moth ers him as she could not have moth ered any child for the duty is left out end all the responsibility. It Is sheer, beautiful, generous giving.—-Alice •Woods in American Magazine. [IS OLDEST CHRISTIAN NATION Abyssinia's Claim to the Title Fowl* - sd on Technicality Entitled to Credence, Abyssinia claims to be toe eldest Christian nation. The claim seems founded on s tech* ideality entitled to credence, but ’Which has not accomplished much'for i Christianity in the last nineteen hun dred years. Balers of Abyssinia are proud of"de scent from the queen of Sheba ana* from Solomon as toe result of toe for liner’s visit to Jerusalem. As Solomon jbad many wives and an immense, (harem he may have monied; the 'queen of Sheba, but toere is no testi jmany to toe fact other than toe tradt^ Itlon In Abyssinia, which was the am /dent Sheba, with which the Jews had a large commerce. The country was ■Christianized through monks from 'Egypt, and It is said that one of the kings in toe second century declared 'Christianity toe official religion, thus /antedating all other nations. The mat •(ter. is really of only academic import ance. ... , ' We toe apt W think, of toe Abyssln jlans as heathen negroes steeped in toy /deepest barbarism. On toe contrary, jthey are a rather Virile people, as all | who here attacked them know. They, have a civilization that la Suited, to itodr environment, and while It may Inot be qp to toe standard of splendor which th e queen of Sheba la supposed )to have maintained, It la comfortable enough for those who live there. Jp recent years many explorers have found much to surprise them, aud it la VltUa’ Che memo'ry of tola generator ’that Itafy made an 4 unsuccessful at ■tempt totaclso the couiutry. r > *•*•/•-J ".r. ' \ • 1 BAC* TO »*™k ■ . with the Things of the WtkL bond Dram which ft ale at?« pm fo mother earth. Tho ttb-filMatnti of ehfibo fit ■trout; they ire needed and two* to something that always harks back to nature. This feeling of dose with *ad things, the stream, the birds and animals, the woods, gives strength to the souL Were we to live always os tbs artificial heights, we should b» come enervated. JV>r the earth to out E»e; from the actual physical earth tain strength of body and mind m considering it, we* learn lessons Of truth and purity and order, and the foundations of beauty are all found in |S| malarial world. Oar love of na ture, our longing sometimes to get oat into the wilds comes, thtmgh we may hoter realise it, from oar need of those things. , Wtth all oar refinements, we shall never do so well without the , knowl edge of the kindly earth as with it ijCven in winter there is much to loam much to enjoy, and we loss much when we think wo can do without oof close communion with' tbs mother St us alL EVERY FUR SEAL HAS HAREM Mil* Sometime* Gather* Mere Then 100 Females on the Section of . Beach Which He Controls. . ■; For seals are extremely polygamous and the, old males, which weigh from 400-to 500 pounds, "haul, up" first on the breeding beaches. Bach bull hold* a certain area, and as the females, only one-fifth' his Else, come ashore they are appropriated by the nearest bulls until each "beach mas jfer” gathers a harem, sometimes con taining more than 100 members, says |he National Geographic Magazine. Here the yonng are born, and after the mating season, the seals which have remained ashore without food from 4 to & weeks, return to the wa ter. The mothers go and come, and each is able to find her young with certainty among thousands of ap parently identical woolly black “pups.” From the ages of one to fonr years far seals are extremely playful. They are marvelous swimmers and frolic about In pursuit of one another now diving deep and Chen, one after the Other, suddenly leaping high above the surface in graceful‘corves, like porpoises. Squids and fish of Various species are their nftin food. Their |*mef l natural enemy Is the- killer Whale, which follows their migrations tng ground, taking heavy rtoll among them. ,/ . X . \ ' WATER IN the Ladles of the Andean Capital Aho Bathe * In It Ibague, capital of the Colombian province of Tollma, claims SyJOO f"souls,” but the count fakes much for granted. It Is a square-cornered town of almost wholly thatched one-story buildings, its wide streets atrociously cobbled and; its few sidewalks worn perilously slippery and barely wide enough for two feet at once. ' A stream of crystal-dear water 'gurgles down every street through [cobbled gutters, lulling the travel* Weary to Sleep and furnishing a con* f yenlent means of washing photographic films. We drank less often, however, after we had strolled up to the and not the mountain and found three none* too-handsome ladies bathing in the res* ervoir. t., L' It is a peaceful, roomy place, where everyone has unlimited space on the grassy, gentle slope to put up his little chalky, straw-roofed cottage, yet all [toe the street line as If fearful of miss* lug anything that might unexpectedly pasa Foreigners seem to be & great novelty, and I could find no satisfac tory reason why so many Ibaguenos were blind, unless they had ovexin | dulged themselves In the national game [ of staring.—Harry A. Franck, In the '.Century Magazine. ( water necessary ,T0 LIFE Astronomer Can Provo That Other [. planets Are Uninhabited If He Finds Ttaftr Have No Moisture. ■ All life is lived in water. Where no water is, no life can be. Site nee* t essary machinery may have been al ready made, as in a completely dried seed, but that seed cannot actually live t until water reaches It again. To live is to be wet; or, in the phrase of a French student, “Life is an aquatic phenomenon.” When the ,supply of water it with* held from living things they may sur vive, but their life is slowed down, as it were. Xn the completely dri^d seed life is ai&sted altogether, yet the ^Creature is not dead. The French call - that a case of vie snspendue—or, in lour, language, suspended' animation. 'After astonishingly long periods, such •seeds will germinate if they are wa tered. J The astronomer tells ns that our jplanet is only, one of many belong ing to innumerable suns, and he won* idered whether tills little “lukewarm bullet” of ours, as Robert Louis Ste* venson called : it, is really unique in bearing a burden of life. There Is one path that leads to the answer of hU query. If he hods no evidence of wa ter on other worlds he cannot expect to ‘And life there.—Dr. C. W.. Salegbjr, i* 'The Youth’j Companion, expect that it may sudd&ly ceue ita activity, and yet it actually stops. Ap pareutly the effect of even some alight irritation becomes so multiplied in Jeact tissues hs to tdng ab?nt a definite disturbance or rhythm, and cardiac action ceases ter good and alt Mot infrequently such cases come te a climax shortly aIter food has been taken late the stomach; then there seems to be some coiineetton' between the gastfie condition and the sadden heart stoppage. •» this living pendulum guln» and that It goes on and on udtU ted angel of death breaks into the case and rudely stops li The expression Is highly figura tive and yet contains In it the germ of •the thought tent sometimes life’s pre cesses seem to havo approached a terminus, which they may teach unex pectedly ah the remit at some tottn tton that would to Itself, presumably, not be sufficient to produce any such far-reaching effect—New York Hen aid. TESTED THE DEMTISTS WORK To Illustrate Oriental habits of thought/ Lord Cromer tells, 'la. the quarterly Me view, uus story ox ismaii Pasha, the khedive of Egypt, It once happened that Ismail was coffering from toothache. He sent for a Boro* pean dentist, who told him that he ought to have the tooth out. Ismail sald^that he was afraid it;would be very painful. He was informed in reply that, if he would allow the den tist to administer laughing gas to him* he would fed nothing. He still doubt* ed, but told SMttjNMtet to bring his apparatus to wue and he, would then discuss tlSwHUm. The dentist wSSSpHE and explained the process to njwHBve. Ismail then summoned an flHft and told him to send up theMNPwho was at his door; ... - flagglM . When the mou WASd the khedive ordered him toM^MWln in a chair, and requested tf^^htlst to tube out told him that he jMKnot.. Bnt Ismail was not yet satttraK,.^He said that the sentry was %|MKMRistrong man, and that he wouI^yi^Mh see the ex periment tried onfejpfB&jjBo of wqaker physique. MEW * Accordingly heijMMMed a slave girl from the harei||||plad the den* tist extract two oMfiH|g|eth. Find ing that she did ndHHMiovldence of extreme suffering, Mjp! consented to have his own It is re lated, although PoiMBMpt part of the story is apocryilpM^t the den tist-then receivedIRHr on the Egyptian treasury for one thousand pounds. •- '■ v Hew the Tomato Wai Wemed. t 4 Few persons know the origin of thCt common name. It originated las this way:' The earlier experimenters %Kh the fruit believed that tt had n great effect on the spleen—-that Is to say. R made persons llhble to Crossness good natured—gave' them, sio to speaft. & lovely disposition. and for this reason the plant was known to the ancient Spaniards as the love apple. By the name of love apple it tt Still knows In many English-speaking countries. The word tomato is derived from the same source, that tt tossy, from the original Latte word amo, to love; al though we use it taow as a Spanish derivative, tomato’being s Spanish e» pressloa.—Meehan** Monthly. 3 Sensations of Starvation, >. j Experiments In prolonged starve-; tlon shoved that after the first three; or tour days of starvation, the sensa tion of hanger was no longer felt In a five-day starvation experiment on tnen there was no decrease In the kw< ger contractions. An Increase in the Intensity of the hanger contractions was evidenced ^y the appearance of the incomplete hanger tetanus on the. foorth-Ond fifth days of starvation. On the fifth day the continuous hanger sensation was tinged with a peculiar “burning” sensation, probably caused by acid stimulation of nerve-endings in the stomach. Instead of eagerness for food there was an almost total in difference to It Who Art the 8anef If the definition of- insanity was followed to the letter, were experts appointed to examine all ' men, few would escape the brand of insanity, but who could Qualify os an expert since Hre may become Insane upon the subject of insanity? All have their predilections and prejudices, symp toms of s mild form of mental hiss, paying under the ambiguous name of eccentricities; and some there am so erratic that we should coll them iwMno jgfl they not possess suflcfsnt sanity to dissemble their weslm— i t* ^rom thejfedlcai JfortolgbUy. . " ' mm *V f • ' * Ob the road ta Yprer lid trees had ■toad, aja unbroken old guard lining the road, with hardly a gap tp tbvlr ranks. Bat hare! With every Unih ■hot to hits, beheaded, halved, cat off at the shins, torn out of the earth and flung prostrate; these woods seethed to send with bare poles or broken Jury- f masts before the wind as oar ear passed, all their rigging Mown 'and shot away. * ^ 'As to the ground yon cannot find enough flat earth In a square .mile to play marbles on. ' 10W TO BE SURE OF DEATH llarytaM Board of Medical Examln •rs Gives the Correct Answer * to Question. that death has positively occurred? was a question put to postulants by die state board of medical examiners i>f Maryland at the June examinations. Ihe correct answer la given as: “The complete and permanent cessation cl circulation and respiration, rigor mor tis, loss of bodily heat, pallor of the body, putrefaction.** , mortis, the condition of rigid ity Into which the muscles pass after death, begins at a time varying from about fifteen minutes to about sbt hours. It negins in the face and prog resses downwhrdiand the muscle* re to teUf about thla ihaf tt la a rule forpriesta to administer the last sacraments (conditionally, of coum) even several tours after apparent death, there be ing many cases on record fn which a person believed to Jbf dead has re vived. 1 f Till the Plumber GwufA; 5< If often becomes necessary to stop a leak In a water pipe when a plumber's services cannot Immediately be' ub- * tallied. Pipes have a habit of spring ing a leak at the most inconvenient 0 times. To \ persons who amy fed- * themselves In this' predicament a sag- * v gestlop sent to Popular Mechanics by " J. W. Cox of Florence, Alai, should '^ove valuable: A piece of sheet rubber was placed over the leak and a wooden block was fitted over it, the Inner surface being Sed to fit the pipe.* The block iuMl er pecking were clamped agMnst the pipe by means of a stick, notched to fltsgelnst the .pipe and held by twisted wire, a block bdng .^sed t$ wedge the packing and cover block firmly Into place. The repair was ar*-; tertight and saved much inconvenience and probably considerable damage. -s ; Women of Ancient Babylon. ‘, A\ \ To some extent women’* rights were- ' recognized in Babylon. Indeed, la some respects, they were acknowledged as men’s equals. They entered Into business partaenhipa, they could laud ^ and borrow, they could bequeath their property without let or hlndranca. Id the great temples of Babylon, the priests and pridrtemef stood •» the same level. His marriage tews of the , “ Babylonians gevethe advantage to the men. Not only fathers, but also broth* era aold their women Into tuartlagb. . Often, though not always, brides were' requiirqd to briag their husbands dew* rlea. But the property she possessed remained her own. And this was tea and twenty centuries »«■*• , v..* Service Makes Bey Scouts Healthy. People who deride or are concerned at the employment of Boy Scouts la thq duty of coast watching win bo em lightened by the observations of Boo. tor Aldous, chief commissioner for' Portsmouth, who found sickness Is a rare thing aigoag them and wishes that more Scoots could be put on tela dpty, which Is making such Mg, healthy teds of them. Bo enumerates several, eayes of boys of fourteen who have ;A gained materially In weight and chsst measurement; In three months or lean and the seal'thby display Is surprising when It Is considered what s great l. ehange .lt must be tor town hoys to
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