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WALL STREET'S VlWLL5fLLATt I WLL Sfli OO SMffS 9 ; Millions change hands daily in Wall street without the scratch of a pen. The trading is carried on by means of signs made with the hards and fin gers. The confusion on the floor is of ten so great that a broker cannot even make himself heard by shouting in the? ear of the man next him. When a broker wishes to buy or sell stock with his customer several feet from him or perhaps across the room, conversation is impossible. If the brokers used Megaphones the confusion would be merely increased. To obviate this they have devised a sign language something like that used by tile f deaf and dumb. With this vocabulary of iiuauce a nian can buy or sel stock no matter, how. 'great the turmoil. a (7tild Xif b on the ? I Indian Bssrvation. . ) i - Compared with the Jives led by the full-blooded Indian children of the northwestern reservations, the miser able urchins who play in a city's gut ters dwell in a paradise of joys. The gutter snipe is almost certain to have some marbles "or a top in hi 3 clothes; he can earn a few pennies for himself upon occasion; he is quick witted and brimming with nervous en ergy; of mirth-provoking expedients he is as full as an egg is of meat, and at repartee he has no equal. ; Indian children, on the other hand, are born grave and solemn and stolid. The art of self -repression practiced for centuries by their ancestors has be come a second nature to them is in heritedwith the result of transform ing what should be their 'golden age into mere existence, joyless ; and apa-, tbetic. In babyhood their training compels them to endure without . whimpering discomforts and hardships which would destroy children of the white race. Strapped tightly to the back of a squaw,' or left' to themselves so tied in a blanket that use of their limbs is denied them, they are mere silent bundles, voiceless, without will or pow er. There is no dandlings no coddling, no one to teach them to smile, no ef fort to develop the softer side of their natures. The squaw is too busy hew ing wood, or carrying water, or pre paring food for her buck and brood, or in making beaded wares to sell to the trader, for that. k , " And when they are old enough to be trusted upon their legs alone and un fettered they are left to themselves, with less care than a litter of pigs re ceives from ifs sow mother until such time as the squaw perceives that she . may. lighten her own labors by com pelling the papooses to share in them. There is no running "to meet , papa," no clinging to his legs as he walks, no riding "cockhorse" on his feet.- Until they have-shown character in some unexpected way: or performed: some unexpected deed the buck father will bestow, upon them less attention than lie gives his pony, or his herd of ponies, if he is rich. . ; "i Gene, the eight-year-old con of .Stand ing Elk, od the Cheyenne reservation, z &0&ks iSfifcS3R& r s " J , 'i'J 'j i SIGN LANGUAGE. 1 ' 1 '1YIL3UY 'jhffii sen sror: crawled out of his blankets one dark night and, guided by the beating of) tom-toms and the ki-yi-iug that usually ; accompanies such an affair, made his way alone to the Rosebud, where White Bull's bucks were having a "ghost dance."' He did not dare to min gle with the dancers, so he hid in the bunch grass nearby and watched the bucks as they stamped and chanted around the lire. Gene had unsuspected powers of mimicry- The dancing made a strong impression on him. Next morning, when Standing Elk darted out of his wickiup to chastise the noisy young ster, he was astonished at what he saw and heard. There was Gene stamping about with the grace and vigor of a practiced dancer, to no other accom paniment than -his own ki-yi-ing. He twisted and contorted and stamped like an old-timer, and he had the step down so pat that his genius for that sort of thing was borne in on Standing Elk in a flash. Calling to his squaw, Standing Elk bade her find bells and headdress and fallals of the conventional sort for the boy, and, when the youngster wap thus togged out, his father bade him dance before ' the Chiefs of the tribe. Gene acquitted himself so well that he won the approval of the chiefs, and is now the most envied boy on the reserva tion. Little Indian maidens would walk miles just to have him say "How" to them. r I t f - . " 'PS LITTLE GENE STANDING ELK AND TWO OF HIS OOOOOOOOGOOCGCCOOOOOOCCOGO LIFE DM THE AFGHAN FRONTIER I o . o o o O Where the British Watch For Russia Q O " to Descend From the Hills ? O O J ' of Afghanistan. s q O O OOOOOOCX50GGGOGOOOGOOGGOOOO T It 7 HENEVER the air is filled -with uneasy rumors of Y Y J trouble between : Russia i - ' and England attention nat urally turns to Afghanistan and jits ruler, the Ameer, the death of whom is popularly believed to 1 be the one thing which will break the armed truce and precipitate a clash between the two great nations noW so hungrily looking toward Afghanistan, - writes John T. McCutcheon, in - the t Chicago Record. . There has existed for a long itinie down in ' India a belief that . the Ameer's death would" leave "Afghanis tan at the mercy of Russia and Eng land, and that there will be an inevi t Lie rush, fi-om both sides of the fcor i'r to esize the territory. ; : ' About fourteen miles to the east ward of the entrance to the Khyber Pass Is the wonderful city of Pesha wnr, which is as typically a central Asian city as Kabul, or Bokhara. In SOIjDEEBS BABJtACKS BOOM, PBSHAWUE. the old days the Indus marked the di viding lines between the Indian races and the Afghan or central Asian tribes, and at that time Peshawur was well within the territory and influ ences of Afghanistan. Even now the city itself retains all its old character istics and is still an almost unknown town. The British cantonments are two miles from Peshawur, and all the white people have clustered about the troops at that point, the result being a beautiful, well-kept town. No white people live in Peshawur, excepting one family of missionaries, while as for visitors, there a hardly a dozen white men who enter the walls of Peshawur in a month's time. A big wall about fifty feet high sur rounds the city, at one end of which Is a gigantic fortress, where a garrison of British soldiers is stationed. C.in nons are constantly trained down on the town, for there is always danger of an outbreak among the 200,000 Afridis and Afghans who combine to make up its seething, squalid population. White civilians are cautioned against enter ing the city without an escort, and no one is permitted to enter its gates at nightfall. The British soldiers and officers seldom go into the town. The Peshawur cantonments are. 4 (WMif' 1 V" ,u mi a Bar? mm i.1 A BKITISH CANTEEN AT PESHAWTJE. pleasant and pretty. Broad, . shady streets, the inevitable mall, a cricket ground and race course were essential features of the town. Officers' bunga lows, big, rambling, thick-walled mud houses one story high, painted blue and white, line the mall, each one standing alone in a big compound filled with trees: On the other side of the mali is the great expanse ot parade ground, at the edge of which are the barracks for Tommy. , Everywhere are splendid shade trees, which have sprung up in the arid plains as a re sult of irrigation and wells, and which make the cantonments look like an ADMIKERS. oasis in a desert. There are many pretty English' girls in Peshawur in the winter, for the fresh coolness of that northern latitude gives. a keen delight to golf and: tennis nd fox hunting. The town was very gay and lively while I was -there and the mall in the afternoon was bright with ruddy faced young women and smartly dressed officers galloping their country breds and Walers down the long shady stretch of that fashionable drive. In the evening there were dances at the ft A'nl TV MORNIN r OOUBT BABBACKS, FESHAWUB. dubs, guest nights at the messes, and many, other amusements. The surpris ing part of it all was that one should find so much gayety in such an out-of-the-way place and that within two miles of all that, modern life should be a great city almost unknown and al most, as mysterious as the capital of Tibet. But some one has said that India is a land of strange contrasts. and he must have known. MONUMENT FOR FOSTER. Composer of the "Old folks at Home" to He Honored in Pittsburg:. Stephen Collins Foster has a monu ment in Pittsburg, where he was born and where he spent many years of his life. Lawrenceville, Penn., the actual place of his birth, is now part of Pitts burg, and when attention was called to that fact several years ago, it was de termined to see what could be don STEPHEN C. FOSTEB. toward raising a monument to the memory of the man who wrote "Way Down on the Suwanee River," "Mas sa's in the Cold, Cold Ground," "Old Black Joe" and many other songs. The contributions for the monument came from many sources, although most of them naturally wore given by citizens of Pittsburg. The statue was unveiled ii; Highland Park under very interest ing circumstances. The monument is the work of Giuseppe Marchetti, of this city, and the large number of competitors in cluded sculptors from all parts of the country. The design of the monument Avas suggested by T. J. Keenan, Jr., of Pittsburg, and the committee which accepted Signor Marchetti's work con sisted of A. W. Mellon, Robert Pit cairn, E. M. Bigelow, W. N. Frew, J. W. Beatty and Senator C. L. Magee. The statue is the first one set up in Highland Park, and the committee has exercised care to protect itself against unsatisfactory work. The base of the memorial is of granite and is fourteen feet high. The figures are in bronze. The poet is seated, and holds in his hand a book and pencil. Seated at his feet is an old negro, who is playing on a banjo. The song composer is evi dently seeking inspiration from the negro's music. The composer was born on July 4, 1826, and died in New York thirty eight years later. He taught himself music and studied with great assidui ty. His compositions include 1G0 songs of which the first written was "Open Thy Lattice, Love," published in 1842, and the last was "Beautiful Dreamer," composed in 18Q4, the last year of his life. "Gentle Annie," "Wil lie We Have Missed You," "Old Dog Tray," "Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming," "Nellie Was a Lady," "My Old Kentucky Home," "Maggie by My Side" and "Ellen Bayne," the music of which is now used for "John Brown's Body Lies a Mouldering in the Grave," were some of the best known among his compositions. As a rule he wrote both the words and music of his songs. New York Sun. A Millionaire Baby. John Nicholas Brown, who is about nine months old, has become one ot the wealthiest babies in the world. A partial inventory of his estate just filed at Newport, R. I., by his MBS. JOHN NICHOLAS BEOWN. (Mother of the richest baby on earth.) mother and guardian, Mrs. NatalU Bayard Brown, shows what great ex peetations he has in the money line. I -The child is heir to all the propertj of his father, John Nicholas Brown and his uncle, Harold Brown, memben f a noted New England family, wh ied last May, the . two leaving $20. ,000 at a low estimate. All the flowers of the Arctic region ire either white or yellow, and ther ire 762 varieties- DMLMAGE SERMON THE GREAT DIVINE'S ELOQUENT MESSAGE. ' Subject: Apple3 of Gold -An 'Appropriate Wonl May Decide One's Destiny -t The Power of Utile Things Value of Sympathy. tCopyrijmt 1301. . WASHINGTON, D. C In tins discourse Dr. Talmac-e shows an onen door for. any one who desires to be useful, and illus trates how a little thing may decide one's destiny. The text is Proverbs xxv, ii Are vised version), "A word fitly spoken i3 like apples of gold in baskets of silver." A filigree basket loaded with fruit is put before us in the text. What is ordinarily f translated "pictures ought to be bas- tets. Here is a silver neiwuiK u containing ripe and golden apples, pip pins or rennets. You know how such ap ples glow through the openings oi a cas ket o silver network.. You have seen such a basket of fruit on many a table. It whets the appetite as well as regales the vision. Solomon i was evidently fond of apples, because he so often speaks of them. While he writes in glowing terms of pomegranates and iigs and grapes and mandrakes, he. seems to find solace as well as lusciousness in apples, calling out for a supply of them when he says m anotner place. "Comfort me with apples." Now you see the meaning of my text, "A word fitly spoken is-like apples of gold in bas kets of silver." You see, the wise man eulogizes just one word. Plenty of recognition has there baen for great orations Cicero's arraign ment of Catiline, the phillippics of De- itfosthenes, the five days argument or Ji.a T-nnd Burke asrainst Warren Hastings, Edward Irving's discourses on the Bible 3.ild libraries full of prolonged utterance but my text extols the power or one word Tfhen it refers to "a word fitly spoken." This may mean a single word cr a small Collection of words something you can itter in one breath, something that you -jan compact into one sentence. "A word M tly spoken" an encouraging word, a kind word, a timely word, a sympathetic frord, an appropriate word. I can pass right down the aisle of any church and find between nulnit and front door men 'tf-kose temporal and eternal destinies have 'J sen decided by a word. T tell you what is a great crisis in every man's history. It is the time when he is Catering an occupation or profession. He :.t opposed by men in middle life because they do not want any more rivals, and by some of the aged because they fear biing crowded off and their places being t'4ken by younger men. Hear the often evere and unfair examinations of young lawyers by old lawyers, of young doctors by old doctors, of young ministers by old ninisters. Hear some of the old mer chants talk about the young merchants. 'J-rowels and hammers and scales often are jealous of new trowels and new hammers and new scales. Then it is so difficult to f;t introduced. How long a time has many a physician had his sign out before he got a call for his services and the attor ney before he grot a case! Who wants to risk the life of his family to a young phy sician who got his diploma only last spring 5nd who may not know measles from I gC.rlatina, or to risk the obtaining of a t-oWIJnf fnr S-"fl nftfl fn aw iiffnrnpv' who only three rears ago read the first page of lilackstone? How is the young merchant to compete fith his next door bargain maker, who inn afford to undersell some things be cause he can more than make it up by the profit on other things or has failed three j times . and had more money after each i failure? How is that mechanic to make ', t, livelihood when there are twice as many men in that trade as can in hard times find ! occupation ? There are this very moment tncusands. of men who are just starting Lite for themselves, and they need encour . ctfeement not long harangue, not quota tion from profound book, not a page, not & paragraph, but a word, one word, fitly Spoken. . Why does not that old merchant, who has been forty years in business, go into that voune merchant's store and say, "Courage?" He needs only that one word, nlthoueh, of course, you will illustrate it hy telling your own experience and how long you waited for customers, and how the first two years you lost money, and how the next year, though you did better, illness in your household swamped the mirplus with doctor's bills. Why does not that old lawyer so into that young law yer's office just after he has broken down !n making his first plea before a jury and say that word with only two syllables, "Courajre?" He needs only that one word, although, of course, you will illustrate it by telling him how you broke down in one of your first cases, and got laughed at by court "and bar and jury, and how Dis raeli broke down at the start, and how hundreds of the most successful lawyers it the start broke down. Why do not the successful men go right away and tell those who are starting what they went through, and how their notes got protested and what unfortunate purchases they made, and how they were swindled, but kept right on until they reached the golden milestone? Even some who pretend to favor the new beginner and say they wish him well put obstacles in his way. There are so many men who have all the elements of usefulness and power ex cept one courage. If you can only under God give them that, you give them every thing. In illustrating that one word show them that every man that -ever amounted to anything had terrific struggle. Show him what ships Decatur had to fight, and what a mountain Hannibal had to climb, and what a lame foot Walter Scott had to walk with, and that the greatest poet who ever lived Milton was blind, that one of the grandest musicians of all the ages Beethoven was deaf, and that Stewart, in some respects the greatest merchant that America ever saw, began in his small store, dining on bread and cheese behind the counter in a snatched interregnum between customers, he open ing the store and closing it, SAVeeping it out with his own broom and being his own errand boy. Show them that within ten minutes' walk there are stores, shops and factories and homes where as brave deeds have , been done as those of Leonidas at Thermopylae, as that of Horatiu3 at the bridge, as that of Colin Campbell at Bala klava. Tell them what Napoleon said to his staff officer when that officer declared a certain military attempt to be impossi ble. "Impossible!" said the great com mander. "Impossible is the adjective of fools!" ' ',:':--:'''-X::X- Show them also that what is true in worldly directions is more true in spiritual directions. Call the roll of prophets, apos tles and martyrs and private Christians from the time the world began and ask them to mention one man or woman greatly good or useful who was not depre ciated and flailed and made a laughing 6tock. , Racks and prisons and whips and shipwrecks and axes of beheadment did their worst, yet the ' heroes were more than conqueror. With such :. things you will illustrate , that word "courage," . and the -will go. out from your presence to elart anew and right, challenging all earth and hell to the combat. Tht word "courage," fitly spoken with compressed lips and stout grip of the hand and an intelligent flash of the eye well, the finest apples that ever thumped on the ground in an autumnal orchard and were placed in the most beautiful basket of ail- not be more attractive. .' Furthermore, n comtortingword fitly spoken is a beautiful thing. No one but God could give the inventory of sick bod, and bereft homes and broken heart pYVe ought not to let a day pass wit- a visit or a letter, or a message, or rf prayer consolatory. ' You could call live, minutes on your wav to the factory; you could leave a half hour earlier in the afternoon and fill a mission of solace; yo.u could iiolf mom with one chrysanthe- mum- you could put a postscript tr. t fr that would bring the joys of heaven to a soul you could send your carriage and give an "afternoon airing to an invalid on a neighboring street; you could loan a bfook with some chanters most adapted to some particular misfortune. Go home to day and make out a list of tbines you can do that will show sympathetic thoughtful ness for the hardly bestead. How many dark places you might , illumine! . How many tears yon could stop or, if already started, you could 'wipe awaf ! How much like Jesus Christ you might get.io be! So sympathetic was He with beggary, so -helpful was He for the fallen-and so stirred was He at "the sight of dronsy, epilepsy, paralysis and ophthalmia that, whether He saw it by the roadside, or at the sea beach, or at the mineral oat us m jwmeg da He offered relief. Cultivate genuine sympathy, Chnsthke sympathy. You can not successfully dramatize it. False sym pathy Alexander Pope sketches in two lines: ,:; -. V- -"Before her face her handkerchief she spread " : , To hide the flood of tears she did not y shed.!' There are four or five words which fitly spoken might soothe and emancipate and rescue. Go to those from whose homes Christ has taken to Himself a loved one and try the word "reunion," not under wintry sky, but in everlasting springtide;, not a land where they can be struck with disease, but where the inhabitant never says, "I am sick;" not a reunion that can be followed by separation, but in a place "from which' they shall go no more out forever." For emancipation and ' sighmg, immortal health. Reunion, or if you like the word better, anticipation. There is nothing left for them in this world. Try them with heaven. With a chapter from the great book open one of the twelve gates.- Give them one note of seraphic ham. one flash from the sea oi" glass, one clatter of the hoofs of the. horses on which victors ride. That worjL reunion or antici pation fitly spoken - Well, no fruit heaped up in Ver baskets could equal it. Of the 2000 kirfds of apples that have blessed the world not one is so mellow or so rich or so aromatic," but we take the Kiirro-potfon of the text And compare that word, of comfort fitly spoken to apples of gold in baskets of silver. Or the man astray may have an unhappy " home, and that is enough to wreck any me. We often speak of men who destroy their homes, but do not say anything about the fact that there are thousands of wives in American who by petulance and fretting and inconsideration and lack of economy and all manner of disagreeable- ness drive their husbands into dissipation. The reason that thousands' of men spend their evenings in clubhouses and taverns is because they cannot stand it at home. I know men who are thirty-year martyrs in the fact that they ( are awfully, married. . That marriage was not made in heaven. Without asking divine guidance they en tered into an alliance which ought never to have been made. That is what is the matter with many men you and -I know. They may be very brave and heroic and say nothing about it,; but all the neighbors . lOlOW. . : . Now. if the man going wrong has such excusatory in your word of warning, The difference between you and him may be that you would have gone Mown faster that he is coins down if you I Tr same ; kind of conjugal wretchednes"-! Besides that, you had bettei i t in your word of warning, for .uJtU, y i"y...'- come when you may need some one to ob lenient and excusatory' to you. There may be spmewhere ahead of you a tempta tion so mighty that unless you have sym pathetic treatment you may go under. "Oh, no." says some one ; "I am too old for that." How old are you? "Oh, you say, "I have been so long in active busi ness life that I am clear past the latitude of danger," There is a man in Sing Sing penitentiary who was considered the soul of honor until he was hi ty years or age, and then committed a dishonesty that star tled the entire commerciaL.world. , In mentioning fine arts people are apt to speak of music and painting and sculp ture and architecture, but they iorget to mention the finest of all the fine arts, the art of doing good 4 the art of helping oth ers, the art of saving men. An art to be studied as you study music, for it is music in the fact that it drives out moral discord and substitutes eternal harmony. An art to be studied like seulp tute. for it is sculpture in the fact that it builds a man not in cold statue, but in im mortal shape that will last long after all pentelican marble has crumbled. An art to be studied as you study archi tecture, for it is architecture in the fact that it builds for him a house of God, eter nal in the' heavens. But an art that we cannot fully learn unless God helps us. Ourselves saved by grace divine, we can go forth to save others, and with a tender ness and compassion and a pity that we could not otherwise exercise we can pro nounce the warning word with magnifi cent result. " The Lord said unto the prophet Amos, Amos, what seest thou?" "and he an swered, "A basket of summer fruit." But I do- not think Amos saw in that basket of summer fruit anything more inviting and luscious than many a saved man has seen in the warning word of some hearty, word fitly., spoken is hke apples .of golq : in baskets of silver." So also is a word of invitation potent and beautiful. Who can describe the drawing power of that word, so small and yet so tremendous, "Come?" It is a short word, but its influence is as long as eter nity; not a sesquipedalian word spreading r t . 1 1 t 1 11s energy over many syiiames, duc mono syllabic. Whether calling in wrong direc tion or right direction many have found it irresistible. That one word has filled all the places of dissipation and dissolute ness. It is responsible for the abomina tions that curse ,the earth. Inquire at the , door of prisons what brought the offender there and at the door Xf almshouses what brought the pauper there, and at the door of the. lost world what was the cause of the incarceration, and if the inmates speak the truth thev will sav. "The word come brought us here." Come and drink. Come and gamble. Come and sin. Come, ana die. Pronounce that word with one kind of inflection, and you can heart in it the tolling of all the bells of conflagration and woe.. v . . : . The chief baker in prison in Fhan -' time saw in dream something quite d' ent from apples of gold in baskets c ver, for he said to Joseph, 1 was a' a dream, and, behold, 1 had threeA. i baskets on my head, and in the uri cr- I most basket 1 there was all N manner cf did eat them out 01 the DasKets on ray. head." Joseph interpreted the dream and ; said it meant that the chief baker should , be beheaded, and the birds would eat hij his flesh. So many a man has in his own f bad habits omens of evil that peck at rain 1 and foretell doom and death. -
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