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V 80NNET8. Of nil tha ebeourtty surrounding William Sbakesseare, kit sosaets art or hay been made th tnost mysterious. It will probably aever be decided whether la these aoanata bhakespear was writing ot bl pefso ml experienees, whether ha waa suing aa a lover or , J. wbeth that were Impassioned creations of sis boundless and fertile brain, but It will b roaognlse4 that b wrote with aa marked Individuality and distinctiveness to T- thsesi pxjHi8lon as In bla dramas, and stamped the whole wltb a gestae unexeelle4. Itwt one atholM im (tlreVkuadxed rs baa queailoned their beauty and excellence a a - whole. , -. ' . . . When fortjl Winters shall besiege thy brow, .And dig deep trenohesia thy beauty's Thy youth's proud livery, so gaaed on now, Will be a tattered weed, ot small worth hold; . ' Then, being naked where nil thy beauty Ilea, w hare all the treasure of thy lusty days; ' To aay, wtthla thine own deep sunken eyes, Were an nll-eatlng shame, and thriftless " praise. . How much more praise deserved thy beau ty's (160, ' It thou eouldat answer, "Ibis fair ohlld of mine Bball sum my count, and make my old ex cuse" Proving hi beauty by succession thine. This were to be new-made when thoa art old, And see thy blood warm when thou '. feei'stjtcold. When t do eouut tho clock that tells the limn, Aad se the brave day sunk In hideous - night; When I behold the violet punt prime, Aad sable curls all silvered e'er with White; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves. Which erst from beat did canopy the herd. Aad Summer's green all girdled up In eheavus, Borne on the bier wltb white and brlatlr beard; ' Then, of ty beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must - ft -Unco sweets and beauties do themselves :: forsake, And die as fsst as they see others grow; And nothing 'against Time's icythe ,, can make defease, Save bread, to brave blm, when he tikes thee hence. - at - : , t AUNT ' " By JOHlf "Anything exciting in your letters this morning, dear?" "Well, I don't know," said Lucy; here's a letter from Aunt Jane." "Aunt Jane? Did I ever meet Aunt Jane before she married?" Lucy ot up and went around tho breakfast table, looking; troubled. Tom dear, you remember that day you Mkedjttaetnbe your wife?" TmSaeW"Why, , what's the matter?" "You remember I said 1 had a! ful tin to confess a past, a preseJ and a future; something you might never be able to forgive?" VYes. I wouldn't listen." He put his arm around her. "Well, it was it was Aunt Jane." "Great Scott!" he replied, e Aunt Jane arrived as threatened, punctually a quarter of an hour late. She was always a quarter of an hour late, on principle. It' arose out of a dielike for being kept waiting 'when asked out to dinner, for Instance, and rapidly spread over the whole of her movements, owing to her morbid pas sion for regularity. To be late for breakfast and lnilme for lunch upset her for a week, so she was scrupulous ly late for everything. This was an noying, unless you knew her and al lowed for it; but so were most of the things Aunt Jane did. She was small, but enjoyed a deep bass voice. "Ah, my poor child," was her greet ing, "how ill you are looking." "I didn't know It," said Lucy meek ly. "You think .you're happy, but I know rr thaar 1 see from your looks, iroui your imuutSr, that ?tju are utterly miserable. , Now, confess, haven't I gue3scd right?" ? ' 'Tin I'm perfectly happy," groaned Lucy, dismally. "I mean, I was till till " JTIU 'you came," was what she wanted to say, but her courage failed. "Till you married!" said Aunt Jane, --Wumphantly. "Didn't I say so?" -Th manner of Aunt Jane had a cu Vrlously quelling effect upon all who J I lowed themselves to be brought un er Its spell. Having extracted this dmlsslon,, she followed up her sue- S eras by a skilful cross-examination. which reduced the poor girl to tears, and almost persuaded her that her husband was the most brutal scoun drel 00 earth. Every little Instance of his irritability, every little protest, however ; gentle, about lateness of breakfast or toughness l beef, was dragged out of her by tortuous means, carefully exaggerated and embellished with details supplied from Aunt Jane's own Instinct, and fitted Into lta place In an elaborate and Highly colored mosaic of perfect villainy. And when Jt waa done, so difficult was It to dis tinguish fact from fancy that Lucy waa wondering how on earth she could ever have married the man at all. -. ": "And now, my dear," ;-said ' Aunt Jane,- "to- follow' p your suggestion that ha is concealing; something far worse than all this" Lucy had never suggested anything of the kind, but she saw now how probable It was "Just tell me fully anything he may have, confided to you and any suspi cions you may have that be is keep ing anything back. There should be no secrets between a man and his wife's aunt" "No, Aunt," said Lucy, struggling with her tears; "I quite agree." For Instance, does he receive let- . ters which he doesn't allow yon' to look at?" "Ijdon't know; I never asked him," she sobbed. ' "Poor child poor, simple child! As if be would confess it! '. The very fact that he says nothing about those let ters ought to have put you on your guard. He always gets down to break fast before you, I'll be bound, and Sloala oVHf 4nem in secret, en:; . "Y yes, heVloes, usually ; butbut I don't , knoV anything about the gloating. 8he fktd aer eye be tween each word. "No: the housemaid woiKiLafs that" "I sup suppose she would." "And doesn't It strike you as subl clous that the housemaid'' hasn't told you about It? Looks like a conspira cy, doesn't It, eh?" ' Lucy clinched her hands and sajd she ought to have simpected it, It was eo obvious. "Ah, my poor child, the obvious !s so s-?Mm vlsihU-! I ft t" t people My glass aball not perauade ma I am old. Bo loaf aa youth and thou are of one date; Bat when la the Time's furrows 1 behold, Then look I death my days should expiate. tot all that beauty that doth eOTer tbee la but the seemly raiment ot my heart, -Vbliih In thy braaat doth Uve, as thine In ma; - - How ean I then be elder thaa thoa art? 0, therefore, love, be of thyself so wary, At I aot for myself but for thee will; Bearing thy heart, which I will keep so ohary As tend r nurse her babe from faring 111. Presume not on thy heart when mine Is slain; . Thou RiT'et ma thins, aot to give baok again. ..' Bball I compare thee to a Bummer's day? ' Thou art more lowly and more temper--atei Boufb winds do shake the darling buds of May, ' - And Bummer's lease hath nil too short a date; . .- Sometime too hot the eye ot ueavea shines, And often Is his gold oomplexlon dimmed; And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance, or nature's ohanglng oourae, untrimmed; , . But thy eternal Bummer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that lair thou SWMt; hat snail veatn orag tnou waaaerei m uis . snaae, When in eternal lines to time thou grow " ': est; - . ' 80 long as men ean breathe, or eye can Bo lone lives tali, and this glrea lite to thee. ' William Shakespeare. JANE. ' J WORKE. g) very often miss what to me Is as clear as daylight." Aunt ' Jane had never been on a scent so hot. . "And have you access to all cup boards, drawers, safes?" "I I-Mhlnk so," wss the faltering reply. "Think so!" said Aunt Jane. "That's a pretty state of mind for a wife, Take me to his study at once! not his wife's aunt?" : t. la.Di8 saiiLbefauae Luc? to TreSitate. Together they went to the study. Aunt Jane sniffed con temptuously. "Smoke!" she snorted. "He smokes?" Lucy admitted It "And drinks, I've no doubt?" . "Y yes. I'm afraid so." "And plays cards?" "I I think so. a little." "Poor dear, poor dear! What more do you want? Now, show me this se cret drawer ycu were complaining ot. She hadn't complained of any, but pulled the handles ot several and at last found due that wouldn't open. "There you are!" came the trium phant cry. "Have you ever seen In side this?" Lucy couldn't remember that she had or had ever wanted to. "Doesn't It fit In wonderfully?" said Aunt Jane. "In there llo the letters over which be and the housemaid gloat in the early morning." Lucy saw It all clearly. "And I have no doubt there havo been times when he has told you, with pretence of sympathy, not to be lb a hurry to get up?" ...Lucy, did remember one or two In stances, when she had a slight cold. Aunt Jane chuckled. - '1 never met a married 'couple yet who oughtn't to be divorced at once," she said. -"This must be finally set tled this evening, and I will stay by your side till be gives a satisfactory explanation. He never will; It won't bear explanation." , .f v . i "I am very grateful to you, Aunt," said Lucy. "Show me my room, poor thing. I always take a rest before dinner." "I am sure you must require It," said Lucy, leading the way up stairs. "And' mmd," said Aunt. Jane at the door, "not word to him about this till I tackle him; you would only put him on his guard and give him an opportunity of destroying the only ev idence we have." "I will not mention it," sold Lucy, humbly. V'.Vi-": .. When' Tom came in, he waa met at the door, as usual, by his wife. He thought it strange, but supposed she was looking after her guest When be came down to the drawing room punctually, Lucy was alone there, looking gloomily Into the. fire, She did not turn on his entrance. -x ft "Well, my Hear," he said cheerily. "has our sin come home to us?' "U you mean", replied Lucy, with hauteur, "has my dear Aunt Jane ar rived, she haa." . ; S;::r 4v. '-mars wnat 1 meant," ne said, a little surprised. "And am I to be a model or an awful example?" - "It la not necessary for me to teach. you to wear the cloak of .hypocrisy,1 she replied, with tears coming to her eyes. He raised hia eyebrows. "Why. what on earth what's the matter, dear?" He tried to kiss her, but she drew away from blm. ' She was sobbing bit terly. ::;'.v.'lf -' "You asR tne she said, "you, "with all those with all that" She 'nearly flung the guilty letters in - his teeth, but remembered her aunt's warning Just in time. "With all those what?" he asked, bewildered. But not another word could he get from her, and he was standing looking at her with an ex pression of utter amaxement when Aunt Jane sailed In, a quarter of an hour late. She required no introduc tion. "You are the man, I suppose?", sho said,- with a snap of the teeth. . He bowed. "How do yo-j do. Aunt Jane?" he "said. "I hope you had a pleasant Journey." -"So-so. .No thanks to you!" "Dear Aunt Jane," he said softly "I wired to the porters to be polite." It was clenr t hat he did not take her seriously, end I.m-y waa liil!innt. "I hear," s i Aunt Jim-, tin lh Am !sT Qemcil l settled round the dinner table, "that you are a lawyer?" "I am." said Tpm. "Never could stand lawyers," she went on; "a nasty, deceitful lot of ser pents.", V--;;-;;; -i ' """'".' '! ' "Indeed 'they r are aald - Tom, "loathly, caawllng 'creatures." He shook his head solemnly. Being unable to put the case more strongly, Aunt Jane found herself un expectedly with nothing more to say, 80 she. turned, with pity in her voice, to Lucy. ' - ' t "HIT dear, t wonder yon allow your cook to stay in the house." "Do you suggest a shed at the bob' torn ot the garden tor her?" said Tom, gently interrupting. He had decided to assume the offensive."' She Ignored him., "This soup," she said, "is disgraceful." Lucy apologised humbly. SO did Tom. . ;,: "Take away Hiss Wilklns' aoup," he said to the servant, and It went be fore Aunt Jane had time to clutch the plate. It was long before any thing else waa aald by anybody, but Tom seemed to be enjoying his din ner. Indeed, the two ladies were dis gusted at the brasen Impudence of the fellow. Lucy longed for- the end ot this ghastly meal and yet feared what wasto follow. ' At last the servants left "and Annt Jane coughed signifi cantly. Tom looked up. Lucy said, timidly: "Let ua go." "NO," said Aunt Jane; "the time has come." "Has It?" asked Tom, cracking a nUt ;' r "Your conscience.'" said Aunt Jane, "must tell you that you owe an ex planation to your wife." . "Must it?" asked Tarn, checking a sinlle. "Don't lose your temper, sir," said Aunt Jane. . She always began an ar gument like that It seldom failed. "Lucy, tell him what you want to know." ' "I I hadn't we better go into the drawing room?" stammered Lucy. "No I will protect you turned fiercely upon TottJF letters In a drawer ln which Is locked, n' "I won't," aidT quite true. "By ypuf brutal conttts you bad cowed this poor hat she would make no' How did you guess?" aald But I have come, sir!" I can't deny it," he said. And I shall remain and protect he pless niece forever, It necessary. She warned me that something ot the kind might hsppen," he said, help ing himself to a banana. Are ypu going to snow me thoso letters?" L. - ; "CertalnlyNnot; they are private." Aunt Jane tried to wither htm with contempt, but waa so unsuccessful that she felt that, unless she retreated In haste, she would lose her temper her self. ' Come!" she said. "Leave him to his conscience.'" As they went out Tom said, to his wife: "Are you a party to this silly nonsense?" but she did not deign to answer. It was all beyond doubt, now, on his own confession. Tom smoked a cigarette. He hadn't a notion what the row was about, but there would obviously be no peace till Aunt Jane went 80 he changed his plan of attack and strolled Irto the drawing room. The two were on the EIOHT BLACK hrdlupu sofa. Aunt Janes arm waa round Lucy's waist They looked ferociously at him. turned away, shuddered, and were silent He sat down on an easy chair and took up a book. . For five minutes nothing was hoard but Indig nant ' breathing. . Suddenly" ; ho re marked, "I saw the doctor again to day." There was no reply. Aunt Jane clasped Lucy tightly. He went on. "I asked him what he thought" Still a silence. You could hear their shoulders shrugged.''-' ii":''1"-, ''." "He said It was a little hard to ex plain the green spots, but the pink and yellow ones -were either scarlet fever or something in-itla and were quite well known in the profession.". . Aunt Jane had released her hold on Lucy and was looking at htm with, open mouth.' He want on casually, "I asked, was it Infectious? He said you can't toll until somebody baa caught It from you." . Aunt Jane was standing up. , "But, he says. In case there should be any .danger, I had better avoid the company cf all the near relatives ot myself or my wife." . Lucy hurried up to htm with alarm on her face. Aunt Jane backed tow ards the door. ; ":".' ; "' '-':; "Dear' Aunt," he said advancing with outstretched hand, "you're not going yet,- wV'yXcy'fi'h h:r She gave a little scream and Jumped away. Ia a moment she was out of the room. . - ...j, Lucy turned to him with concern. "Ia It serious, dear?" aha asked. : t "Just you see that Aunt Jane ; gets comfortably out of the house." v 'Lucy understood, and the spell van ished. - Aunt Jane was up stairs, hur riedly putting ou her hat and coat and muttering aloud." "I'll take a room at the hotel till tomorrow; Send on my box. No, I am afraid I can't wait I shall be late as It la. Write and -tell me bow he Hs getting on, and don't forget to dis infect the letter why didn't you tell me this before you Invited me? The Incompetence of some doctors! and -sprlpkle it all over the carpets. Good by." She scurried down the -t airs. Tom Was in the hall to say good-by. She dodged round blm and cut at tho door as if 20 microbes were snapping at her heels. ', The deserted couple sighed with re lief. Lucy put her head on Tom's shoulder. ' "I am so: glad she's one, dear. I think ehn'a a witch; she seemed to get hold of my mind, somehow." "Let's go and look at the guilty let ters," he said. , . ; "No, I don't want to see." 1 . "Well, they are ,ju!v what you wrote to me before w re married." Eo she brought what .ho wrote to her, and he brought what sho wrolo to blm, .and they exchansed biindion and sat at opposite s!do3 of the talle, and he knocked onjhe taMo mid i-hnt across to her the lyi Ht In ditto end ilse : di'.it a ro. to hlmt' Iter t'':"y to It; sot v and e read It and shot across the next, aad so on all through the list. and when they came to the thlnp which meant kisses . : There Is a good parlor game for two. -Philadelphia Telegraph. FI9HINQ WITH HANDS. Oaring Hawaiian Swimmers Need Neither Pole NOr Una. -It is bard to belleva that human be ing can becceno expert enough at swimming- and diving to be able .to catch fish In their watery home, yet It Is to. , - . r,U -" The native Hawaiian! are the ones who do it, and It Is a common night In the dlBtriots that are not densely pop ulated to see men, women and chil dren engaged In thus catching fish, shrimp and crabs. v v . Sometimes they crouch In shallow water and feel around the coral and lava bottom for the creatures,. 80 skilful have they become by practice that even the swiftest fish rrely es cape. They can solae a crab and perk him out of his rocky lair before he can tree his claws. . ' i ' The Hawaiian are assisted la this mode of fishing by the fact that many speeles of Pacific Ocean fish hide themselves In clefts in the rocks and lie there when danger threatens. , This ttabit is utilized by the men and boys to caWh those fish which live in deep water. They tie a bag around their waists and dive straight down to the bottom. There they hold! fast to a rock with one hand, to keep themselves on bottom, and With the other they feel and grope on the cre vices or under the overhanging rock . I - v. - J u , vn, kllC IBV, I tilt k. Pitt ledges till they got their hands around lrvoutwardly at least, unit teresting a fish. Then they put him Into jhJ kilf!! hnt il"", ?tel" , . . mm" iiijjsone ef the features bag and grope for another tw ""SuTfe wns im- they have to ascrM for"" "vor they have to ascrM foo 4 A I 1.1. J ' A uaiiua AIIIU - the octopus. thobottoo vk' in lobster. When to go down for this creatureX his right band In a long piece 01 Then he dives and feel aroundv his bandaged hand until he flnd ula. Frequently he will work so fa that he will bring up two or three ulas from one divo. r . Now and then the fisherman finds a ptthl in a hole Instead ot an ula. Then the bandage does not save him from being badly bitten, for the puhl is a great sea eel of Immense strength snl with laws iot with Immensely sharp teeth. Philadelphia Public Leugor. - . QUAINT AND CURIOUS. 1 Tebts In tenement houses show that in five minutes after sweeping 2500 germs settled on a saucer three Inches across. In the samo length of time before sweeping 75 germs settled en the saucer. A new speed record of 27 seconds for the kilometer was made by the Hon. C. 8. Rolls in Nottinghamshire, England. A 72-horsopower Mors racer waa used end the rate at which It traveled was equal to 83 miles an hour. : The amount of water within the crust of ' the earth la enormous, amounting to 8G5,OOO,0O0,OO(l,000 cubic yards. : This vast accumulation, ' it placed upon the earth, would cover Hs entire surface to a uniform depth of from 8000 to 2500 feet -. A WTiter In Charities places trie number ot crippled children who ap plied for relief at the New York hos pitals during the' visit of Or. Lorenx at 8000, nearly all of whom were sent away because of the Inadequacy of the hospital tor their care. . In the course of a lecture In London Sfr Harry Johnston reproduced , by meant of the phonograph, records of many of the native songa of Uganda utilised In their war dances, festivals and org! os, as well aa many ot the dialect of the vartoua tribes. . In Germany electricity, among other curlotM results, haa rehabilitated the discarded windmill, " At . Nereshelffl a windmill supplies (lower for 88 In candescent lamps that light a large paint factory. - Another fn Schleswlg Holsteln keeps np a ateady current of 30 volts. At Pusseldorf a windmill wind" up a heavy weight of which tho descent works a powerful dynamo. "The Impression that British North America is "covered with valuable timber ti fnllaclous. . Black walnut red cedar and white oak are not found north of Toronto. ' A line drawn from (.he city ot Quebec to Sault 8te. Marie will designate the northern limit ot beech, elm and birch. The north shore of Lake Superior will mark the northern boundary of Btigar hard roa P'o. , , Cortaln substances which are deadly In their effects upon men can be taken-by f lie brute creation with impun ity.' Horse can tako largo doses of antimony, dogs of mercury; goats of tobacco, mlro of hemlock end rabbits of belladonna without injury. ' On the other hand, dog and cats are much morn susceptible to tho Inflrijnce ol chloroform than man and are much eooner killed by It, - Grateful to the Government. "Mike," said Plodding Pete, "are you ever templed to bo an anarchic!?" ii''nt a hit of it." answered Meander- HflR Mike. "If 'era wera't no gnver- mint dVro would le nobody to fcotr. de 'ja.'lX' in win'T and col'f! tiue- t;) i-i ' ii' '!'' nm'i in sM'iMm-i',' ' A SERMON FOR SUNDAY A SCHOLARLY OlSCOURIt BY THE REV. DR. C H. PABKHURST. -' .. ,'.'.".'' ..'"'v.'.'V V '. Snhjeeti Ieooaaplcatnt rreatBaeA Fer eea Mar Have an ImuieDse Amount' . ef Tlrrae aae let It May Mever Amat the World's Attenttna. Ksw York Ciry.-Dr. Chafes IT. Park burst, paster of tii Madison Square Pres byterian Church, preached S sermon Sun day morning on s subject which ntirkt he termed "Inconspicuous- Ureatneiw. ' He chose as his text, Mark xiil 4144: "And Jesus eat over against the treasury and lie held haw the people cast money into the treasury, and many that were rich cast in much. - And there1 came a certain I'oor widow, and she threw ir. two mites which make a farthing. And He called unto II im Ilia disciples and with, unto thorn, Verily I say unto yon that this. poor widow hath cast more in than all they which hare east into the treasury; for all they did cast in nf their abundance, but she of her want did cast in all that she lad, even all .her liv in" Dri Parkhurat said: Which undoubtedly was an Imprudent thing for the woman to do, for perhaps at a later hour of the same day she had to borrow, beg ar steal in order to meet the necessities of her subsistence, but a lieanti fill intention may atill be beautiful even if it is a little eareVss and uncn'cu!atinf: indeed, we like it stiil better if It is not too careful and too calculator. The rase is like that.relnted by Kt. Matthew of the woman with her alabaster box of ointment, who spent in one senso of "the word wasted a prodigal' amount of money on Jesna' anointing; it wa extravagant and reckless, but the recklessness of it was one of its charms, for it msde only more evi' dent the sweet sincerity of her affection, and if she had been more economical with the anikensrd hvj of the' fragrance might have floated down to our own day. , Jesus presumably was the only person in Hie temple that riay that took any account of the woman with the two mites. She was simply one of a crowd and as uninteresting and nnnromising probab aa are the mein- oera 01 any crowd, out the tact that she iust ShrisCK nronouncei that ia a fact to ina to chance the nttT toward the submerged nint? 01 tne race. And l am urging tnrs' not for the purooseuf establishing a the ory, bat in order that those of you who are evidently .of a good deal of account may see more reason for respecting and honoring those whose claims to your, re spect and admiration are of an undemon etrative type. Once let them hare an open field and a fair chance aad perhaps they will change places with you. This may have been a part of what the Lord had in mind when He said that "many that are first shall be last, and the last, tint." The idea has been rather hard ridden overridden that if tho nossibilitiea of ef fect are in a man or woman, those possibili ties are bound to come to their realization, however Untoward mav be the circum stances that atand in their way.- Jt was ones elegantly stated by one whose elo quent face is still fresh in the memory of many of us "How many Miltons may have died in their mothers' arms we cannot state, but the grown-up Miltons have been hesra from." Easy to snv. difficult to prove and eminently improbable, ur a minnrea kernels of wheat scarce one ever fulfills the destiny marked for it in its own consti tution, but the ninery-uine that are ground nn in the mill are each as full of the nos- sibilities of "blade, ear and full corn in the ear," as the one that happens to be dropped into the furrow. A tropical palm will still be nothing leas than a palm even though grown in a northern latitude, bnt however abounding may be ita native ener gies and vital forces it will be unequal to the discouragement of short days and early frosts. .... .....,,. v ., The apostle Peter has become great power in the history of the church and of Christian civilisation, but if on the day that Jesus went strolling along the beach, gathering up disciples, Peter had been out at sea fishing instead of inshore mending hia nets it ia not probable he would ever have been heard from. It is rather impor tant to be somewhere near the track when the train of opportunity goea bv. There is undoubtedly a providence in things, bur at the same time there ia an accident in things in the sense in which that word ac cident can be properly Used bv us. Von will recall the incident which St. John relates aa occurring at the pool of Beth eada. There waa some medicinal property ia the waters of the pool perhaps, at any rate at certain times an angel descended into the pool and troubled the water and the one who wits fortunate enough to be the first to get into the water after it was troubled waa healed of any infirmity from which he might be suffering. That ia, the man who chanced to be closest to the track when the train of opportunity went by eoqld go aboard and arrive.--- - Aa already aaid, these are- matters to dwell upon because the consideration of them enhances our respect for those about ua and strengthens our confidence in the final outworking of tbinga. It quite changes nut attilnde toward what we take first off to be an ordinary man, even to suspect that there are in him the makings of something considerably more than ordinary, even though circumstances are so unpropitious aa to prevent his becoming at present what the good Lord had in mind when He made him and what there ia a fair chance of hia becoming be fore the Lord is entirelv throuih with him, If you suspect no more than suspect that a certain piece of ground ia rich in mineral ore, you are willing to pay a good price for it even before it haa been exploited.- In such properties possibilities have a large cash value. For some strange reason per sonal possibilities we are more incredulona about and prefer to see the metal mined and eaat into ingota before we reckon it as assets. It is for that reason we can elbow our way through a crowd of iommonplsce men and women or through awarm of dirty children, oblivious of the diamonds that quite uneiy wouia negin 10 grew ni trous if the dirk were rubbed off. In Macaulsy's essay on historv there oc curs this illustration, which, without ny straining, lends itself to the matter we art now considering! "At Lincoln Cathedral there is a beautiful painted window which was made by an nnpreiities out of the pieces of glass whirh had been rcjeted snd ilirnirn swnv bv his master. It is so fur suiicrior to everv other in the church that according to tradition, the vanqi'isird art i-f tiii.il Itinvll from innrtihVation. Which nf nns thst the fincat window in the encire edifice was mndo out of glass that to sn inapnrermtive and unsympathetic eve was coo l for no-hing and eat out as ebrr r fuse. The mum ie of the f.-ftmc of the ".. ) Win us IM nm't''- olh'T th-iu;-i llttt ( htwt hid a v-i-v .1. H ir-:n,l fr what ..' 1. It p: ,: ,;, v (t. ' '-"" nre v. ! ami rt"U. at' t nf I ''"I t III !" sslatfUisatsM rccurrlns; when men who) hare nt'Ter been ercditett with ahiltty. either intellectual or hint's', are accidentally pushed into placet nf reMiorwibilily ami in that way have a pressure ('ii upon them that crowd? their stent jio'eilillities into active pqwers of ef fect. It has nften been to ma s matter nf amusement (Im heavy load that a nerson with seeminvly. a draft power, will pull when enn lie rus been caught and nnr nessed and properly driven, and probably no one so imtch surprised aa the man him self. The- difficulty ia not in finding men that are competent to do what is needed, tmt In getting men to do enough to become themselves persuaded that they are compe tent. '.:..ft t ;.: ' ,- Jus as there are people that are an in the habit of thinking they a. sick that they never get well, and nothing less than a fright or an earthquake will eonvnise them into convalescence, so society and the church end the State are full of competent incapable who are good for nothing simp'y because they have never commenced to imagine that thty are good for almost any thing, and have never been so circum stanced or have never so had responsibility rolled upon them as to shake thepi out of their Incapacity. Mosea ia a case in point, who, up to the time lie was eighty, never did anything noteworthy, so far aa we cau learn, except to kill an Kgyptian funds' mentally the same man, of course, that he wns during the crowning, distinguishing period of his life, but not having hs pinned during his first four score years to be so circumstanced or to be an plucked t by the pull of events aa to discover that he was n.it a nonentity, and when summoned to action by Jehovah, pleading off, as so many like him hove done since, by alleging himself tn be constitutionally unequal to the task that wn set him. If you ask a tnan to do something who thinks himself incompetent s.n't he snvs "No," vim have to take his ",Vo." The advantage the Lord has ia that He does not bsv to take a man's "No," did not take Moses' "No." hut clung to hiip. stood him Up and put the load on him and to'd him to go along with it, and just the weight vf the load made him able to no ang with it, pressure found the limp muscles that had been waiting for almost a century to be crushed into ever tion, and circnm!nrc not made him rrrest, but gave him Jl chance to be what li and millions of Mgfcr people are in con dition to be when-fntt chsnce comes, when the assassin's bullet strikes, when at the nnpovtjmernent a shove is given uto qesda. pcrficial areii, their measitringlTH7ii ., . 30nUlb HIS muifcipiiin"'., " that he has a great deal of virtue; that t ;onsuIt the multiplication tao;e aim 1 .SU 1 H'cm UJ wi..(fw....B lureole, adding reflector to the little kero sene lamp. On th other hand, a person may have an immense amount of virtue, but circumstances be such that it never becomes manifested in s way to arrest at tentiona very beauttmi ngnt u may oe, but net altining under conditions that ring it with a halo. Now that was the ease with the woman in the temple. The hajo hunters saw nothing but a commonplace widow travel : 7. .L. Ms.t..ik..;s.M Kav Th l-nrd with whom nimbus doea not eount, saw and feit what the woman herself meant and waa. To Him ahe waa the same as though ahe had dropped in a thousand shekels, hut hot to othera who were pres. . . , I, -.1 i ... mm enc, lor omers svuiu uvc nrauucu iu.. -people do now, and would have looked to ! , -1 I. ' -If. 4. Amlmninm tUm mir illB BUM! Ul UVf gUk V .it i..iutt.,u ... - - of her heart and would have concluded therefore Wat ane naa a two-penny orari. Already nineteen nunorea years i poor widow had been become convinced that "nobody haa a right to die rich. She acted on the principle when ahe threw in her two mites. No one made anything of it but Jesus, because there waa not gild- : V nM L.. .AMlMMtM.1 nf ha ID! muugn l m. ....-...-....-.-. - nnneiple to make the air bright about it. nineteen nunur tun t . " . . t ., t. j i . : u . Ait principle tnas noooaj na iiu uy Die Hen SU . inomrau j y' "".',v . ferently aitunted from the widow with two mites; and the prinoiple and the man whe annbuncea ft were published and neraldea .1 I . 1.- JAWk fn tL Hrl - in. civsr aruuiiw in H.wuv. . -- stance there waa only a tworenny halo. and ul tne oinev a aaunon-aoimr hmiu, the big halo won. It cannot be rt of 4. .V.. tUm itLulrinlls Bcotoiunsn ia not iust as charrtable as the inconspicuous Jewess, we are onry cunn ing that the reflector that you frame around the lamp is no- part of the lamp and certainly no part of the blase that the DUrnilUr, UM uaifliua. I..,. It would be rntereating to see the com- .- i l. ..l.l L.M mmmf munttmA e mukiuR .it . wutiit. m . - - - her there in the temple had a heart aa sweei ana otamuui as vne vura w heart to be, not been held under the limi tations ol ungenerous circumstances, ana had it been within her means to do all that her heart prompteo in otner woraa, nan the conditions under which ahe lived been t . . n ntafnt. I.M KmI personal nobility.- Moat people live hi s very small worm; iney are in is ana aj . x A via LmJii.m. nave to etsv in n. iuuwuto mwcmiuu., and providential if you please, have built around them an environment close and im prisoning; possessed ol Hearts ana intern genca larger than the sphere that despotic circumstances permit' them to fill. Some times it may be due to physical debility; sometimes it comes aa the result of those untoward conditions in early life that pre vented the discipline of personal powers aim grains, w t m 7 uuwu, " . Aciently cultivated to make them a -lad i I 1 -1.1 . mImm, fik arm mrm all iiu ri 'iiMt'it; twitt.i " - " about us and we could give their names. FERTILIZING FOB POTATOES. Without doubt some of the failures m potato crop growing are due to a Wrong system of fertilizing the soil While as a rule potash is desirable In vonsIderaWe quantities, as are nitro gen and! phosphoric acid, the fact re mains that it Is impossible to overdo the Introduction of nitrogen tn the soli, as many have found when they at tempt to raise potatoes en soil that had been in crimson clover er other legumes. ". ': It must not be understood that this la the rule where legumes ate grown, for. on the contrary, comparatively few soils have all the nltogrn supply they can f .rty to advantage, but it is well In fi rt!;j'.ing soils that have bad the bfb' fit ofvvcrariegumes'tq pas mce attention ' l tne application ot pvixw and ,iluij rlc acid when fertllli" for P':r" 1 to a fertilizer fmv iMiiiu;; si!,! : rogen'. . The effect of tt 1 mo. h 1 in u,e .sou Is to ;in "' " a ; . I Kt llto ( XjH 11 .1 rson Is in nativej' w4nirji- BILL ARP'S LETTER ";,"' S;:':'';V " .' ' "minis ne ' ,f;!- Bartow Man Rejoices That Striking Printers Failed. HAS BOOKS IN PLENTY Joel Chandler Harris, "Uncle Remus,1 Reviews Bill's Work and Gives ; Highly Complimentary Rpg. .ensjatloit Thereof. Longfellew aald, V4.1I things come round to them who wait" Emerson said the same thing in suhsetanee be fore Longfellow. Eoth got "it from the Prophet Isaiah, who guld, "Wait I say. wait on the Lord, for though he He, will fulfill His promises." Joremiah said, "Let a man-hope quietly wait." We are all too impa tient and it we look back we will be surprised that wo ten not recall the numerous things that dlstsrbed our peace through apprehension, but that never happened. We did not wait There is a good .-tury about an old Persian king who, on bis deathbed, sent for an old s'..elk, his lifelong friend and counsellor, and said, "I am about to die and am troubled about my sen, who Is to succeed mo. He la good-hearted, but thoughtless and Im prudent. You must look after him and guldo him. Can't yru give him a max im to live by and that ho will never forget." So the shelk promise and after the had t more tnan together to organise a strike they bit he arrested and imprisoned and tried for crime. The law was far-reaching and feft no escape, snd now peace and contented labor prevails all over the land and the price of their labor on railroads and othr great works is fix ed by law and la uniform. The truth Is that this striking . business, that drives othera from work under mal treatment and intimidation, can not atand the test of tlmo or reason. It Is close akin to anarchy. But now that Mr. Byrd writes me be has plenty of my books bn hand, I wish yon readers to know It and that single orders will be Oiled postpaid for $1.85, and ten copies will be sent by express and charges pair) for $11. My old friend, Joel Chandler Harris "Uncle Remus" b as kindly volun teered the following commendation. It Is splendid and I am proud of it, for like George Washington, Uncle Remus can not tell a lie. I didn't know that I had gotten up suh a good book un til I read that in The Sunny South, and now I hope it i .11 be broadoasted through The Constitution to the tho sands ot readers, for 1 wish the moth- J erg and children to have it. : Unele Remus' Review, Joel Chandler Harris wrote: ' '1 have lately tieen .reading with great delight the new book by Bill Arp, and It Is a very happy change, from the average current literature of the day. There haa been no adequate no tice of this prodiietion In The Constitu tion or Buony South, ami I doubt U twrj dosea of their rtaders are aware ol the fact tbat thr favorlto writer baa put In book form the cream ot his work. Bill Arp hs nian to be envied. There Ig probably no other writer In the land who is in tuch close touch personally with his rsadors, or whose Individuality la so well known to them. TBI Is not because he has thrust him self forward, hut father the contrary. In what he writes at in what he has written we have to 3 Interesting spec tacle from week to week of a good man giving the beat of himself to the large public he has made tor himself In the course of th'.rty-odd years. . "With a very aim,.le style he la a very simple and sincere man a nat ural How of humor snd a complete ab sence of self-consciousness be writes aa we should expect tc hear htm taik. There are page and (ages In his book, that are so simple and direct that they seem to be easy writing;, that is to aay, the reader will Inevitably imag ine that he can do this sort of thing himself, and not naif try, but if the aforesaid reader will take the trouble to try the experiment he will not have written a half doiea lines before be will find himself face to lace with the most difficult probl m In-letters. He will find In spite -. education and knowledge that oaty roading la the hardest kind of -writing, and then he will be willing to nCmlt thai tho eat has been or can y sccosnplished by ttlthe fewest number of those who write for the pub 'The first two cbapers of the book might have been turned Into a novel. The possibilities are oil there a lone ly ciil'il himtm.t tor her kinicd, the l..t n v. 'i.ig !! the fin.il 1. uvy 1 11 1 I Pi story fh tho briefest possTTfleayTWT'" he has told It with' .conautamate skill, and In the most effective way. I defy any one who has a h eart to read this , beautiful story" without tears as ho -goes along, or without feeling a habpy1 glow steal over hjm as he cornea W t the ploee of the seevnd chapter. Truth ': : Is always beautiful, aad tbt gtpjy. In true. , . ' "There Is a delicious homellnesi the book that reaches ffots' theftret tt chapter to the last. - lou faU asllj un- . dcr the J spoil ot ne who ,'ocs JIfo sanely, s ml 'sees It whole,' and it is W spell that has nd ether Inntienve" bat for good. In. short, Bill Arp'a book, lay ,, sound and wholesome. His philoso-' phy is lightened up with gentle hts- ' mor and a playful lancy. It fstat ol-v ume to be heartily commended to all classes ot readers. Its aoope Is . so , broad that there Is something In U for ' U." Atlanta Constltutrou. !rSj 1 THE MODSftM JAtAN. o Wr:h Her 8leter fslasug -reeWeni ' . blahee. bs, . . .rstnariied: . group of Islands he east of the continent t)t Asia, as the United- Kingdom- eenr A slats of a group of islands lying to the , west of the continent of fiflrppe. BotH v groups extend from north (td' feoiflaJV the main inlands of the Japa'i grottp -are about the same length 1.asthe . United Kingdom, yte., fcliout 7Q0 mles;M both groups have' a elthlfar nosnlhtlin" Japan 44i00.000 and jy ottefl Kingdom. sequenS twenty times France has an rea tied rant, lararar than Japan. tlon 10 ner cent. less, ahl not' grow-' Ing. Ita national debt Is nonwn- : the largest of any nation Jn fte svrl , nearly double that of the United Kingdom, and twenty times that 'el Japan. Germany, which "'now sshasT: at becoming a world powe h mhsjtrl, lhe samo site sa France, or. 0 per cent, larger thaa Japan, while Ua population la ene-fourth 'greater." 'A -striking feature of the fopnlatloiv of -Germany Is that It is growing a v much greater rate than that ot th United Klngdesa ft Js)Pss,a Jostt- lies. In some easrethe desire foj expansion, AnglnvtMsW j t- "In Denmark tie reapecUhJeeM man or woman need ever bocotrm a pauper; no respectable old man1' or woman ever crosses the threshold bf a- wvrto house." writes Miss Bdlth Sellers. In ie Nineteenth, snastlsjiwand After. n or a woman-wni!its completed bis sixtieth yeAr, Tin him self without the wherewithal en which to live, he applies to the local author ities not for pauper relief, but for old age relief; and thisby the law of W9L they are bound to giautt' nitnj provl ing he can provejjo.tonly that hU dee. tltution is owing. to no fault ot his own, but -that to haa leda decent 11 has worked hard and been thrifty; ana that, during the ten previous tears; ha has neither received a single penny-at poor-relief, nor been fuilty okvagran. ay. nor of hegglngf7r.c ,(, . . GROWING PyIPiI5f3,4 ,. j Growing a rot of pumpkins In a Held tt corn la ha 'old practice,' but It Is doubtful If pumpklBv so gfdWn ire M profitable as when grown as a, sephrata crop from corn. Thee pumpkins. will prevent the proper cultivation of corn. as working the torn ' destroys he pumpkin vines, the result being that late weeda get a ehonie to grow suid mature, it is urged In defease of grow ing pumpkins h the corn field that they do aoti Interfere with cultivation until tne corn la "laid by, but much depends on the land, rainfall aud thor oughness ot cultivation.' Cern should never be "laid by as leng as -weeds and grass can have an. eprortunlty to grow, cultivation being given if It Is possible tor a horse to' pass along tlie rows. - - VITALITY OF' SEEDS At the Massachusetts State Agri ,-i'J. turai station, the seeds of the d sorrel, cMi ken weed, shepherd's p white daisy, etc., were fed to a in and the refuse collected.'- From i ful examination It was found ti nt seeds, unless orushryl, were uuiitjn snd germinated readily when pli In. the soil under proper condition cmpcratnre aad AiolotHre; Aith A was demonstatnd tJt tluv vi:. of seeds Wits not fi'troQ v.lj-n hy tlie horse, yet wiim th--r'ac-d in the tw.t h ,lt a , ii'stre ot 1 1 il- ill: auav staj. JapV -ssfl-rflHT lylniWl