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M 1 . ft i li si i i 4 i j if 1 I f ! Page Eight THE CAUCASIAN. Thursday, April t lEjk. "THE- A cannon. (5) A looking-glass. (6 A Chinaman's bead. (7) A Chine kitchen range (which U general heated with ferns and grass ). From "Children of China." WHAT OF THAT? Tlrd! Well, what of that? Didst fancy life u pnt on b4a of ae, Fluttarinr the rae lave cttrd by tb hrttxe ? Corn! rou th-, work whJl It la call'd to day. Coward, arl go forth upon the way. Lonely! And what of that? Some must be lonely; 'tis not siren to all. To feci a heart responsive rise and fall. To feet a heart 11 f Into Its own; Work may be done In loneliness; Work on! Dark! Well, and what of that? Dldst fondly dream the sun would never set? Dost fear to lose thy way? Take courage yet, learn thou to walk by faith and not by sight; Thy steps will guided be. and guided right. Hard! Well, and what of that? Dldst fancy life one summer holiday With lessons none to learn and naught but play? Go. get thee to thy task; conquer or die! It must be learned learn It then patiently. No help! Nay; 'tis not so. Though human help be far, thy God is nigh. Who feeds the raven, hears Ills children cry. He's near thee wheresoe'er thy footsteps roam. And He will guide thee, light thee, help thee home. Anon. TWO HOYS AND A CIGARETTE. Two bright little fellows, named Harry and Will, Were just the name age and the same size until One day In thHr travels it chanced that they met A queer little creature, surnamed Cigarette. This queer little creature made friends with the boys. And told them a story of masculine Joys He held for their sharing. "I tell you," quoth he, "The way to be manly and big la through me." Will listened and yielded, but Harry held out. "I think your assertions are opsn to doubt," He said, "and besides, I'm afraid I'd be sick." "Afraid!" echoed Will. "Oh, you cowardly stick! Well, I'm not afraid, look a-here!" As he spoke He blew out a halo of cigarette smoke. Fire years from that meeting saw them again. The time had arrived when they both should be men, Hut, strangely enough, although Harry boy . stood As tall and as strong as a tree In the wood. Poor Will seemed a dwarf; sunken eye, hol low cheek. Stoop shoulders, proclaimed him unmanly and weak. With thumb and forefinger he listlessly roll ed A cigarette, smoothing each wrinkle and fold. And the smoke that he puffed from his lips, I declare. Took the form of a demon and grinned from the air. And it said: "See that wreck of a man that I made Of the boastful young fellow who wasn't afraid." Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Let us have fun, and plenty of It The merry laugh Is a blessing free the Lord. But the Word of God and the house of God and the sacred things of the soul let us keep then far from the flippant laugh and th unthinking Jest. Exchange. DON'T BE A QUITTEIl. There is much need in these days of worry and excitement of giving this bit of advice, "Don't be a quit ter." In the good old times, when grandfather or even father was young, such a behest was almost un necessary. Young people were train ed in habits of steadiness and per severance in those days. The farmer boy of olden time, no matter how tired he might be nor how he might grumble at his lot in life, never for a moment considered the idea of leav ing his work and going fishing. But as civilization has advanced and the task of providing for the family needs has become easier, many American parents are neglect ing to instill into the minds of their children the fact that only "Perse verance brings success," and conse quently the coming generations will suffer from want of stability in the average individual character. Too many of the young people of today will begin a task, no matter what it may be, from the preparation of a Latin lesson to the weeding of an onion bed, do perhaps half of it, then stop and begin something else, and probably never think of it again. It is a mistake for parents to allow such proceedings on the part of their children, but it is also a mistake for young people to allow themselves to form such habits. Boys, don't be quitters. Persever ing people are the ones who win the golden laurels of success. The great men of our country, our lawyers, our statesmen, our inventors, and many of our Presidents, have achieved their greatness and built up their char acters and reputations by persistently keeping at whatever they undertook. When you have a lesson to be learned keep at it until it Is master ed. When you have a task set before you, stick to it until it is finished. Don't be a quitter. American Boy. A PLEA FOR KEYTEREXCE. "O, aunty," cried Annie, "I've heard the funniest conundrum! Lis ten, Who was the shortest man in the Bible?" Aunt Nettie paused a moment, and then said: "I can't guess, Annie, and I don't believe I want to know." "Why, it's all right aunty. There's nothing wicked about it. It's just a pun, that's all." "I know it wouldn't be anything very bad, Annie, or it would not interest you. But let me tell you what I mean. Those funny Bi ble conundrums and puns fasten a distorted and frequently irreverent meaning on a verse of Scripture, and you never can forget it. "No matter where you hear that verse in church, at a funeral, any where you must always think of the pun or the joke. It seems to "me the Bible is too good a Book to treat that way; but quite apart from any question of that sort, we have to hear it under circumstances of such varied solemnity that I don't think we ought to spoil it for ourselves. Do you see what I mean?" "Why, yes, in a way. And yet I never thought there was any harm in a conundrum. And some of them are so funny!" "They are funny, dear. Some of them are undeniably so. And we have none too much of realy good and harmless fun. But don't you remember what you said about the wedding march?" "Yes; I think the Lohengrin is just spoiled by that doggerel jingle that everybody knows, 'Here comes the bride!' " "It's just that I mean, dear. That jingle gets into people's minds, and they have to think of it the minute the music starts, and it breaks in on the beauty and solemnity of a sacred service that means much to somebody all her life. y "The same thing is true of irrev- erent puns on the words of Scrip ture. They spoil some of the best verses for us. And some of them are not harmless; they are really shocking. And none of them help us to be reverent." If Aunt Nettie had been a scold, her. admonition might have counted for less. But she was hardly more than a girl herself, although a wo man of a deeply reverent nature. And her words had weight with the young girl, who saw more in them worth considering the more she thought. It is true that we have none too much reverence. We need it for our own sakes, and for the sake of our influence on one another. Very earn est young people whose love of fun carries them sometimes into unwit ting Irreverence, would do well to ponder Aunt Nettie's words. MEDICINE FOR CHILDREN. It is a very common thing among women that they will take medicine which is recommended by friends, and also give it to their children, without investigating its formula. They will have prescriptions refilled which another woman's physician has recommended for her particular case, or take up what remains in her bottle. This is a most dangerous practice and should not be continued. If a phy sician has written a prescription for his patient, he understands her par ticular case and is not prescribing for any one else who wishes to take it. He may not only give her medicine for what he thinks she needs, but may give her drugs which she needs and knows nothing about. It may be something to strengthen the heart or other organ of the body, some drug which would be very harmful to another person; or opi ates may be in the formula which would have an entirely different and disastrous effect upon another consti tution. It is a very dangerous prac tice for yourself, but in all common sense do not give such things to your children. If your child is sick and you do not understand what to do, call a physician, and let him pre scribe in the right way, even if it does cost more money. But this does not mean that the doctor has to be called for every small ailment of the child, but if the child is really sick you will know it. Do not risk the child's health by giv ing it things which you do not un derstand, and which may be poison ous to it. You are running a terri ble risk by doing it. Exchange. CHINESE RIDDLES. The Chinese have many riddles which grown people as well as chil dren play at guessing. Here are some for you to try your wits upon: "It was born in a mountain forest. It died in an earthen chamber. Its soul dispersed to the four winds. And its bones are laid out for sale." "In a very small house there live five little girls." "On the outside is a stone wall. In the inside there is a small golden lady." "It takes away the courage of a demon. Its sound is like that of thunder. It frightens men so they drop their chop sticks. When one turns one's head around to look at it, it is turned into smoke." "There are two sisters of equal size; one sits inside, the other out side." x "In the front are five openings; on the sides are two windows; be hind hangs an onion stalk." "What is it that sits very low and eats more grass than a buffalo?" , Here are the answers: (1) Char coal. (2) A shoe. (3) An egg. (4) Patron What is the matter wit this establishment? This steak h burned black! Waiter Yesseh. Mark er re spect, seh. Our chef done died yes-tiddy. A teacher asked her class In spell ing to state the difference between the words "results" and "conse quences." , A bright girl replied: "Results are what you expect, and conse quences are what you get." "Professor," said Miss Skylight, "1 want you to suggest a course of life for me. I have thought of journal ism" "What are your own inclinations?" "Oh, my soul yearns and throbs and pulsates with an ambition to give the world a life-work that shall be marvelous in its scope, and weirdly entrancing in the vastness of its structural beauty." "Woman, you're born to be a mil liner." "Well, now, Sam," remarked the former master, "that makes things interesting for you, doesn't it? You should find pleasant companionship in books and papers." "Yessah," oracularly assented the old man. "Readin' is shore a great thing, sah. I has given de matter considerable consideration, sah, an I is prepared to say, sah, dat readin' is de power of hearin' with de eyes." Bridget and Pat were seated in a hammock, reading an article on "The Law of Compensation." "Just fancy!" exclaimed Bridget, "accordin' to this, whin a mon loses wan av 'is sinses, another gits more developed. For instance, a blind man gits more sinse av hearin' an' touch an' " "Sure, an it's quite true," inter rupted Pat. "Oi've noticed it myself. When a mon has one leg shorter than the other, begorra, the other's longer." Y K,nHnr which come to the atten tlonof the Interstate Com mere Coo mission. It Is believed that thousand of shipments are paid for at both ends of which the Commission neTer hears, owing to tha fact that the victim do not know they are being Ceeced. SUNBEAMS. "Jim" Was Lucky. (From the Popular Magaizne.) The famous baseball player-evan gelist, Billy Sunday, tells this story of the attempt which was made to convert a hard-fisted old mountaineer in Kentucky. "Jim," in addition to being in need of regeneration of every kind, was hard-headed and stubborn, and he resisted all the missionary work that was done in his behalf. At last a leading citizen of the little town made a desperate attempt to save the sin ner's soul. " 'Jim,' " he asked sadly, "do you mean to tell me you ain't teched by the story of the Lord that died to save your soul?" "Humph!" commented "Jim," in disgust. "Do you mean to tell me the Lord died to save me, when He ain't never seed me, or knowed me?" " 'Jim,' " responded the neighbor hotly, 'it wuz a darned sight easier for the Lord to die for you because He never seed you than if He knowed you as well as we all do!" The Aftermath. (From Harper's Weekly.) The great ball had been given and was Mrs. Noovo was running over the bills with her husband. When it was found that they totaled $10,000, Mr. Noovo winced. "By ginger, Maria,' 'he ejaculat ed, "$10,000 is a pile o' money." "We have to do it, Silas, to get into society," 'replied Mrs. Noovo. "Well," said the old man, scratch ing his head, "judging from results it don't seem to me that we're get tin' into society quite so much as so ciety is gettin into us." None Bat the Best. Uncle Rasberry walked into a drug-store. "Gimme one o dem plas ters foh my back 'he said. "One of the porous plasters?" "No, I don't want one o de pores' plasters. I want one o de bes'." Express Companies Catch Them Go ing and Coming. Before you pay charges on an ex press package again it might be a good idea to make sure the charges have not been paid at the other end. The extent to which the express companies have been robbing the people by collecting charges at both ends of a shipment, as revealed be fore the Inter-State Commerce Com mission, is amazing. In the case of the one company alone it was shown that it made 3, 000 over-charges in one day and col lected in one year $67,000 as over charges. The officer of the company admit ted that the system employed to identify prepaid packages was faulty. but had no particular - apology to make. "Deman for transportation charg es on prepaid shipments mast cease," 4 declared Commisioner Lane, who was plain provoked. "The complaint of this practice by express companies is universal." In addition to the cases of over- To the Credit of RooeTelU Washington Herald. With the country facing a coal strike of gigantic proportions, it Is worth while to remember that when a similar crisis once occurred, The odore Roosevelt, then President of the United States, created a com mission which listened patiently to all the facta upon both sides of the controversy and then settled the con tention by arbitration. It was not a constitutional duty, perhaps, of the President, but it was an action which took a courageous spirit and was Justified by results. It was a typical Roosevelt Incident, parallel to his course in the Russo Japanese war. Perhaps the precedent then set by Presiodent Roosevelt will be follow ed now and a strike averted by a judgment rendered by some impar tial tribunal. It would certainly seem as if, in these days of modern civilization, the distress and danger of a widespread strike ought to be avoided. It is certainly inexcusable that in a nation which ranks fore most in a high order of Intelligence, innocent people must be compelled to suffer because labor and capital disagree. They Are Now All for the Parcels Post. Lincoln Times. Last week the Republicans and Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee of Congress reported by unanimous vote a bill to the House in favor of parcels post. This bill will now become a law. Watch the North Carolina Democratic papers endorse this measure and say it is a child of Democracy. But the fact is, Marion Butler when in Congress fifteen years ago introduced a bill of like effect and started the move ment which is now endorsed by both political parties. 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