VOLUMfc XVIII.
A WORLD OF
A liitle trill ol laughter, a chord In nature'
A little deed at rl hteonsness to (land
' against the wrong;
A little duty heeded: a little honor wont
A little hill suroiouuted, and a little klud-
-ns dossi,
A little lubor dttyr"a' Wl' prayer d
praise;
A little aot of kindness to gladden weary
days; - . i
And no the whole creation to Its eeasehMS
lleavea "wing-, -
For little man la living In a world ot little
things.
A llt'le hope to cheer us, although It wait-
etu still;
A little lire lor oomtort when Winter nights
.. are chill; " - ' -
A Hi tie dream, Ood-glven, to bless as on
the wnv; - .
A little wolcomo waiting us at ending ol
the day;
Jl Utile purpose shin ng through every deed
we do;
&)Q Economical Pirate. i
2 By CHARLES OLEIC!. 1
Uncle Jonab was the only sailor In
our family, and that was one too many.
Undeterred by his Cbrltflan name, hi
ran away from home In boyhood and
began bis notorious marine Career as
a stowaway In an Australian dipper.
-1 can understand that the family life
must have Jarred upon him, for my
grandfather was a Methodist preacher
of the narrowest : typa, -. and Uncle
Jonah's boyhood was soured by a sur
foit of chapel going and lony family
, prayers. '-.' : ' -
". For Jti years or so Uncle Jonah held
no communication with bis bereaved
family, who alluded to him as "a lost
vessel,' and regarded his, probable de
cease with, equanimity. . Then he re
appeared, with rings In bis ears and a
a roll of banknotes In his pocket, and
his early follies were condoned. Un
like mpat sailors, Unci) Jonah had de
veloped thrifty habits. For the first
week or two his reputation as a man
of substance Ihabled him to "sponge"
upon the ts "inters of u-e village Inn:
but after that people began to resent
his stinginess, and - the , hospitable
stream of free drinks ceased to flow;
thereupon Uncle Jonah went no more
to the Goat and Compasses, and began
to tire of pastoral life. Boon he went
afloat again, securing the command of
: a tramp steamer bound for the Gold
coast wither of square gin and
damned rifle.!.
I bada him farewell lnTlrWiputh
ampton docks one DieaK evening
February. , His ' parting words aston
ished me.
"James, my lad." he said boastful
ly, "I'm going to make my fortune this
voyage; and if I ever come back I'll
make a gentleman Df you.' ;. '
The doubtful prospect of becoming
a gentleman without individual exer
tion did not lure me into Idle habits.
There was the chance, too, that Uncle
Jonah might be drowned. I pursued
my vocation (as we pressmen phrase
It) until I rose to the position ot re
porter on the Dally Scum. y- i.
Years passed, but no tidings of Un
cle Jonah ever reached me, until one
day 1a the ordinary course of busi
ness, I was sent to Bow street police
court to write up a case of piracy on
the high seas that promised to afford
good copy. : The Intelligent reader will
have guessed that the accused person
p. roved to be my Uncle Jonr h; but I
utxai uaruiy say mat. t wm wuoii un
prepared to find a relative In the dock.
My professional seal enabled me to
atlfle any emotion that might have In
terfered with the business In hand.
La man possesses the true journalistic
iutMiiut ha la capable of writing a de-
wipaveTtrtlcle3fr-U)e,vlvlsectlon oil
his own father, and wllrMaTte pride in
the task. -. " ..' ' -V
I recognized Uncle Jonah directly
he stepped into the dock. He had aged
-a little, for bis black beard was
streaked with gray and his keen, fer
rety face had grown haggard; but he
Alld not appear to be greatly cast down
V. it. ' T. aw 4Yim ha
Lore-Limseir with dignity it took tne
liberty of saying this in my report)
WUU1U m JJltttlUiaLV. UUCIQ riVIWU
never had any dignity, being one of
those familiar, vulgar persons In
whose company even the dignity of
other wither like' a leaf in autumn.
Hi shifty eyes explored the dingy
court and rested for a moment on the
reporters' table. He recognised me and
winked.
The evidence taken that morning
was purely formal, and, pending the
attendance of some Important wit
nesses, the prisoner was remanded in
custody. I foresaw that the coming
trial would be made to excite excep
tional Interest, cases of piracy being
comparatively rare. I was eager to
secure the first 'Interview" with Un
cle Jonah, and to this end I played the
useful card ol our relationship for all
it was worth.. 'The Inspect..; of po
lice, after pocketing a sovereign, con
fessed himself unwilling to resist the
appeals of . the prisoner's beloved
nephew. I was permitted to spend half
an hour in the cell, on condition that
I made no professional use of the In
terview. The exigencies of Journal
ism obliged me to pledge my word
to the inspector, though I foresaw the
Impossibility of keeping my promise.
And this is the story of baffled pira
cy as told by my Uncle Jonah. I re
late it as nearly as possible In his
own words, omitting his lurid mari
tlme explicative:
"In these days of keen competition,"
said Uncle Jonah, "if no sort of good,
my lad, trying to run pirate craft on
old fashioned lines, A hundred years
ago. or maybe, fifty, one could afford
to ship a strong crew and give tie men
a fair percentage of the profits; but
nowadays there's the stokers and en
gineers to settle with, the coal bill'
something awful, and you must employ
at? wH liXMii gunner besides. Steam's
played Old Mlarry with piracy, and
ep'llpd the slm't irn'le. To start with,
there's the ro:rtf,Jbei plnnk Elfihty
year ago they rou,.t LmIM a wooden
line of battle ship for loii.trjO.qultl; now
you can't buy a tfi-ton Bloam yai'ht at
the figure. Well, 1 needn't po imo de-
ti'i's. and there isn't time,
lunil lnlmer cm pen tuat '
aires ran run a p!rat (n i
"I Men how (lid VMl f I
r s 1
LITTLE THING3.
A little bunch ol roses to otorspread the
ruei . . -v.i
A little peace surpassing to which the
spirit eilnga, ,
for little man Is living la a world of little
things.
A little hope, a little low, a little toll and
rest;
A little glimpse beyond the Tell, little
problem gueaeeo;
A uuw faith , imia doubt, a little blinded
tntit -
A little halting Journey, and a Httl of its
dust;
A little knowledge merely ot little ways we
i- wend; ...
A little dream ot Heaven awaiting at the
, .. end; . :
A little struggling upward, although on
broken wings.
For little man Is living In a world of little
thiaga,
Alfred J. Waterhouse.
Falcon was run by a syndicate of Ger
mans," be said, "and my instructions
was to attack nothln' but British ships.
It I knew the names of the sharehold
er I'd give 'em to yon, but they at
way paid my salary through an
agent" ,.
"What did you earn, Under I
asked. '
."Two hundred quid mom., and S
percent commission". he replied. "The
first mats was to get a hundred," he
added,' "and the seamen and stokers
six Quid a week."
"Then the wage bill must have been
very heavy," I suggested.
"That' where you're wrong, James,"'
said my uncle. - "In the old fashioned
way of business the Falcon would have
wanted a crew ot about 60 hands, and
the company wouldn't, have paid 10
percent unless we'd captured a mall
steamer or two every month. As I
said just now, a modern pirate's got
to be run on economical lines, so the
stingy directors only allowed me-a doz
en hands, including the cook, who was
under contract to fight as well a
stew."
"A dosen hands!" I echoed, incredu
lously. "The rest waa dummies," growled
Uncle Jonah, "mechanical dummies,
my boy, made in Germany," he added
cynically, "Uke the war office field
guns.". ::--,i'.:..r-:-r.
I can't se how you-efnrifltnjrra.
Wsjrr I objected, lse
our war office would have adopted the
patent"
"These didn't fight," said Uncle Jo
nah. They was only meant to frigh
ten the passengers of the malls we
stopped. Ever Been the innards of a
Waterburywatch?"
r I nodded. " 1
"Well, these dummies were worked
on much tho same line. Their In
nards was' chock-a-block wtth long
steel springe, James, and tho wigs
and beards made 'em look as fierce as
It they was fed on raw beet. Borne of
'em could do the cutlass exercise, oth
er used to walk up and down the deck
on rails, and one used to lean over the
fo'c'sle rail and spit, as natural as life.
The works was fitted to go tor two
hours: after that you had to wind em
up afresh.
"We bad SO ot them German dum
mies," continued Uncle Jonah, "and it
you'd seen 'em half a cable away you'd
have taken your davy they was a
'uman as any other pirate. I believed
in the beggars myself, James; that's
where I made my bloomln' error." '
I wrung hi hand In silent sympathy
and resumed my note.
"liKb&d weather," continued Uncle
Jonah, "we had to keep tarpaulin cov
ers over 'era, unless we lighted a
prise;1 and when we got into the trop
ica some of the faces, which was made
of compo., began to melt"
.."That was awkward," I continued.
'. "No, we carried a few spare faces
and shifted the old 'una. There's many
a human man'd be glad to 'ave hi
face shifted the same, and wimmln,
too, for the matter of that I knew a
gal once in Liverpool,' whose face
Well, never mind about that;" he broke
off; "wimmln ain't likely to trouble
about me anymore In this world. Take
my advice. Jamea, and steer clear of
female. They cost a man a lot more
than they're worth, and If one could
only make a female dummy to cook
and ew on buttone "
1 But my uncle' view on women were
not original. , . ' ,
Gently, but firmly I resisted his di
gression, for our time was short and
fact meant money. "
"The burst-up came about in this
way," Uncle Jonah resumed. "Wo'd
taken one-good prize in the Atlantic,
and sent all hands comfortably to the
bottom, w,hen the agent sent a code
message saying as how the Cape mall,
with di'monds and gold aboard, would
be oft Madeira on a certain date he
mentioned, I managed to fill up with
coal from an old bark, which gave us
the devil's own trouble to sink after
we'd done with her, and then steamed
south in good time to look after the
Rhode Castle. She , was timed to
leave Madeira in the forenoon, and I
wanted to overhaul her in daylight, so
as to let the crew and passengers take
stock of our dummies). Theee malls
carry a lot of people, you know, and
one had to put 'em In a blue funk,
else they'd have shown fight
"She was well up to time, and we
sighted her about six bells (3 p. m.)
In the afternoon watch, coming along
at 16 knots through a sea as smooth
as a duck pond. As luck would have
It there wasn't so much as a sailing
ship within 20 mile, twd I made sure
ot them di'monds ami the gold.
"Between you and me, James, I
meant to retire from business if we
pulled It off, and I shouldn't have been
over particular about settling up with
the syndicate."
This confession ot dishonesty pained
me, but I let it pass. To reprove a
pirate for swindling his employers
seemed, on the whole. Inconsistent.
"We plowed down,'' ronl limed I'c.cle
Jonah, i eprcjslvely, "wound up all the
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tlon to his service pension of 18 puticB
a day.
"When .the Rhodes Castle closed
within about five cables I gave the
word and ran up the black flag. The
navy man let rip, and the foremost
funnel went over like a candle In a
hot room. The second shot carried
away the chart bouse and part of the
bridge, and then the captain stopped
engines. .. ?.
"Now, you must bear la mind that
we only had 12 hands besides the Ger
man dummies, and the mall boat car
rled a big crew without reckoning the
passengers, We could have sunk her
in halt an hour, but It was fib 'good
dolnj that till I'd got Ihe'stuff Out of
her. ,..''-'' :;'!-:. ' . -j-' .''
"My plan was this: I left the mate
and the navy man in charge of the
Falcon, and took the other none along
with me in the boat to overhaul the
mall. We was armed, of course, but I
trusted more to the lurid dummies
than our revolvers, and I told the matt
not to close nearer to the mall than
500 yards. At thafdlstanc ouf dum
mles looked right enough, but the
seemed a bit stiff in the joints at Close
Quarters. Perhaps 1 was A bit 6ur
ried.' Anyway, I didn't notice any-"
thing fforut with the mate when I
give, Wm, fit orders. When we got
alongside the mall I hailed the captain
and told him to send all hands for
ward except himself and the mates.
Then we boarded the ship, and I had
a few words with the captfln. I told
him we'd com for the gold and the
di'monds and the loose Cash and the
wimmln's jewelry, and if they gave any
trouble I should sink the ship with all
hands. I meant to sink ber anyway,
but there wouldn't have been any
sense in making them desperate. My
instructions from the agent was to
sink every prise we took and Spare
no lives. It sounds a bit narsh,
James, but a pirate can't afford- td
be tender hearted nowadays, of he'd
have a dozen warships after him In-,
side a month. When w captured the
Oceanlca (she was supposed to have
struck an Iceberg, you'll remember)
the navy man and that fat headed mate
ot mine wanted to take(thelr pick
the wlmmin; but that, w"
against the contract, and "
allow it
"The skipper
bie-wrten i
through
d he haii
like a lamb. 'I v
f
lie 4.7 had done oui N
look at the Falcon you
oubted she carried a strong c...
and out murderers. 'See heuT
.Bays t, pointing to my ves
might manage to hobble me
search party; but it we don't
get aafeack to the Falcon in half an
hour, my Ttiate has orders to blow this
hooker otrfl the water." t
" "Very welrlsays he; 'I'm helpless,
and you're freeo rut my ship. Since
you mean to avoid bloodshed, I'll give
you every facility.'
" 'Right' ey 1. this is t matter ot
business, and the sooner we get through
with it the better, Tell the crew and
passengers to fork out every sixpence
they've got on them, and the wlmmin
to dub up their Jewelry. Let your
mate go round with a bread bag And
make the collection. He's got rather
the cut Of A church warden.', y
" 'You might do without the jewelry,'
said the cap'n.
" 'Well, the married wlmmin may
keep their weddln' rings,' say I. 'It's
quite irregular, but I'm a widower my
elf.' . "-,'
"With that I followed the captain
down to the strong room, taking four
hands with ma to carry up the gold.
My .idea wa to hang on to
the - di'monds myself till I
could - get - 'em under lock
and key In my own cabin. So you see,
James, I couldn't avoid going below
to the strong room, and If that lurid
ass of a mate had obeyed order t
might have been in South America by
now, living like a lord mayor." ' v
At this point in . his narrative my
Uncle Jonah fell Into a gloomy reverie ,
from which I had to rouse him before
he resumed it '
There was 100,000 quids' worth ot
gold in that strong room, or I'm a
liar," he continued, "and enough dl'
mond to have half tilled a bread bg.
It took us some time to get the gold
on deck and lower it into the boat
but I never tackled any job that teemed
to tire me ao little. When I got on
deck the third time I saw in a shake
that something wa wrong. The crew
and passenger of. the mail wa all
craning their neck over the aide and
staring at the Falcon. ; . ;
"I took a peep at her myself, and
blamed b'; the mate hadn't closed in
that near th,t you could have heaved
a biscuit aboard her. The fool must
have been rnnk, I suppose, or he'd
have had the sense to know that he
was risking all our necks and his own,
too. The Falcon was ' so near rjs I
could easily see myself that the pirates
on deck were dummies. They were
working well enough to take In a
stranger, but some of the passengers
were looking through their binoculars,
and that fairly turned me faint with
funk.
"We might have pulled through after
all, but just as I wa shouting to the
mate to get further off the epltting
dummy got out ot gear. As I told you
just now, the IrJnarda of the dummies
was full ot long steel springs, and
they had to be oiled twice a week.
Oiled they were, too, so It was no fault
of mine that about three fathoms of
spring came jerking out of the spit
ting dummy'B ugly mug, In full sight
of rerybody. Now, It stands to rea
Bon.jjio human man can spit up JO
foet'of eteel springs, and the penile
on th WiaH'' knew that as well as I
did. The loose end of the Bprlng
whipped round the neck of the next
dummy, and the bloomln' Imare kept
on worklu' as If It rather likrd tr.ut
sort of a collar. The passengers lie
gun to laugh, then the crew laiu hrd:
and, when they'd done lam.hln!;. tliy
just tumbled aft In a h( ip mil i a
prisoners of lis befon n ( n 1 t
a dozen of them. Tint s wii:!t rtii:
of trusting your life to t;
Germany," roiH'I'ulol I wi
you wHut. to d.i me a 1 rl
find out li. ii ).?. Hmt r.
my atid dri.p lidn !"-' n a
e in
I
next day, procured toe a very accepta
ble position on the paper. A few weeks
later I had the privilege of witnessing
and -reporting the execution.
Poor Uncle Jonah! His savings went
to the crown, but he really was of
some Service to me.-'The King, v
V KEVIVAt. OF 8ARGOU
Aii Old Wisconsin Sport to Be Played
This Season.
Several Ot the residents ot Merill
Park, Milwaukee, WJs,-aave. started
out to jevlve interest In the old-YanK-JonGd
anio''of fcargol. An association
has been formed, grounds will be se
lected, and as soon as the weather
permits the game will be played. It
meets many of the requirements of
golf, without the expensive parapher
nalia, and requires quickness of eye,
agility, and accuracy ot aim. Tbero
are many points about the game which
make it not unlike- duck-on-the-rock
that most boys have played. A plot
of land, About 75 feet long and 35 feet
wide, is required to play the game,
or a piece about the size of the aver
age tennis court It may be either
grassed or hard gravel, grass being
preferable.
Any number to? than a dosen 'can
play, 12, however, being about the
right number far each side. Tho cap
tain of each side Is known as the
browser, while he chooses two 'from
his 'team to act as hackles. Each
player is provided with a stone worn
smooth upon one Mi and as netrly
oblong as possible, c weighing from
eight to 10 pounds. These aro offi
cially known as the "laplds." . Near
the centre and at one end of the
course is placed the baslcalapld, a
stone about a foot high and a cunei
form shape, The two browncrs dodl.la
which Vtlde Will be in, and the shle
that, ha Its Innings advances Abe
50 feet distant from thd tf"''
each man carrying h'- '
the browner, wV" '
the baslcal"1'-"
the lap'-'
more thu.-
come of less thuu
earnings of T-,000,000 of thisTliu...
do not exceed $6 a week for the faiu-
llf. '
The Italian government ha just
trotted a fortress on the great Chb
trton summit, oppesito Brladcott, fof
the defence of the Slmploa tunnel.
This -fort 1 10.600 feet high, and Is
believed to be the most elevated forti
fied point in the world.
The astronomer baa heat-measuring
device that can detect infinltesslmal
variation ot temperature, and Indi
cate the heat of stars distant millions
ct miles from our earth, and chemi
cal compound sensitive to light that
our eye never can toe.
' Pigmies are now found Only In the
Interior ot Africa. A German anthro
pologist shows that they once lived in
Switzerland and Alsace and In Silesia
down to the tenth century, and that
some of the Alsace race were less
than four feet in height , ,
Few people realize that they are
eating an English knight when they
saw their way Into a sirloin steak. A
fins loin ot beet waa once set before
King Charles I., and a he was a bit
hungry, he said that the meat was
good enough to be knighted, and gave
it the title of Sir Loin.
The earliest extant manuscript ot
the Hebrew Old Tostament is a copy
ot the Pentateuch, nof In the British
museum, and assigned to the ninth
century, and the earliest manuscript
bearing a precise date is a copy ot
the prophets, at St Petersburg, dated
A. D. 916, while the majority of the
manuscripts belong to much later pe-
rlcds. ; -; " ""'.i'-
Dr. F. A. Barton, president ot the
Aeronautical Institute ot England, an
nounces tnat he is building an airship,
which Will be fitted with ISO-horsepower
motors. If thl is successful
he will build one which will carry mo
tor ot 600 or 600 horse power, and
WU1 be able to fly from 60 to 80 miles
an hour. He has devised a system, he
says, whereby the size of the support
ing balloon decreases as the siie at
the aeroplanes Increase, and he thinks
he has solved the proolem of the com
merclal airship.
She Could Read Writing.
An Insurance agent with an office
downtown, who, like other business
men, dictates his correspondence to a
stenographer and sends out his letters
typewritten, was waited on the other
day by one of his customers, ku alter
ly woman from a New Jersey town.
She was angry all the way through
and at first the agent could not under
stand what about. Ho was polite, but
she would not be appeased. Finally
out it came. .
"Yon needn't send me any more
printed lotto! s," said s!io. "I can read
writln'." New York Sun.
The English Language,
f o.ur from thoro being any real
dum-fllXof tl,e defilement of Cie lnn
gimifR by tho profusion of I.niM-r- ms
of Amerlemisms. of ( auiiM.Mio
nl An l'l 1111 i i N
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AFEEH0N Km SUNDAY
AN INTERESTING " DISCOURSE Dt
DR. HOWARD OUFrltLD.
Sol!ttl Htart Fallnro-Tha Aattttloa
rthjr f Oar Koilln I ortan Stalled
. With th Vary H lli'mlnBI Whlett
Blots tlia Muiiir ot ttia irtli
JfBW Vonit Ciff .-Dr. lldwsrd DuflieM,
hmtof of th Old J-irat PrenbyteriaU
t'hiitch, Fifth avenue and Twelfth stratt,
preached Sunday morning Ort "Heart Fail
an.'' Ik- took his text from Mark xivt
501 "And they all loriodk Hint aad Had."
Pr, Nuffield said! . 1 . . . .
.What cowards! t'orirades el Jesus,
shall three years' friendship with th
llnster come to such an endf filial! tha
intimaciea of man months gJ swirlin
like leases in the wind before t puff of
panis fesrf Apost'es bf desusj wbv. wl"
ye be pilloried for poltroonery? When
defeat brooded over the hills ol Uilboa
and the remnants of the armies 01 Israel
lay strewn through the duilend valleys,
Paul and Jonathan died together, When
Socrates Kepi tryst with death the prison
J-Srd id which he sat been me like a nail of
banqueting and the jail stones echoed With
the eotirere of devoted friends wistfUi pt
sharing with htm the cup ol hemlock:
When the sun of Austerlits that had
bathed the earth in glory at its rising, sank
eclipsed in blood behind the plain ot Wat
erloo) the files of the imperial gnaid drew
tip aa orl paradd Snd died beneath the flag.
But iii the hdnrhf His, extferoest fleud the
comrades of Christ ."forsook - Him, llnd
tied." Those that bad seen K;S ftatifc,
storm swept lake; conquer disease with a
finger-touch and dethrone death With - a
syllable, when a squad of hirelings with
swords, and the rifTraff of the city with
etftvca, came out to take Him, they forsook
Him and fled.
Jesus walked the pathway of tears, and
flo 6n kerit sterl, with Him. The hour
has sounded fdr chivalry: and His friends
exhibited poltroonery. Thl! tall as M
heroes, and those He loved showed their'
backs' to Christ, instead of their faces to
the foe. Occasion beat the long roll, hut
the battle line became a rout. Imagine
that scene rcftmed. Imagine thst cordon
af apostles buttressing Christ against as
tuilt as with a citadel of-rock. We can
fv i-. il.-iti jwitifiK themsalves like
rtnrdlfia the
factum.""; -Genncsaret;
no n, ...
and pulling the wet roiud je u .
no more weary days brawling in tn--.
naurrt market place td get salt for in. ..
tneat And buttef (ot their Bread. Christ
tad a wh&'.e cdrriucopia. of splendors to
empty intd their Isp klhstships, Snd dig
nities, Ind thronea, and sceptersi' When
aa with a lightning stroke all these fond
dreams went whistling down the wind,
and their Cloud nalaccs vanquished like
mist at sunrise, disappointment thrust its
iron into the soul, and away tney went
spurred by sn imnnlse which for the mo
ment was Irresistible. Their thought had
been centered on the good they were to
get, not upon the good they were to do.
It is not impojjib'e that you and I
ahould just a mistakenly interpret the
purpose of Christ's mission. In some piv
otal moment the consciousness of sin un
expectedly leap bp and chills us With its
Shadow. We are huhed by the scorpion
Whip bf eonscieiice. W shudder at tha
thought hi death. The we of eternity
overshadows as. With timid fingera w
open the Book ot God. With eager eye
we scan the page of Scripture. A wondrotu
gospel salutes us. Glad tidings ring like
snusie through our hearts concerning On
who has a welcome for the outcast, whe
can whften the most aoiled soul, who will
Uplift the fallen and recall the wandering.
Snd who has planted His mighty heel upon
the head of death. We kneel rejoicingly
St the foot of the cress, w surrender out
life Into the keeping of Jesus. We vield
Him the ready homage of our hearts. Thee
comes the danger hour. Then we Sre it
peril of thinking' how much Christ has to
give, and too little of what He is training
us to give. Then we are prone to dwell in
imagination with the spirits of juit men
mad perfect, and the companies ol th
Shining ones who walk with Christ in glory,
until r itfae touch with the men and
Women who thronfl about tt Warped and
stained with the sin and sorrow of thl
World. We forget thst forgiveness it
not the last . word but the first
word of the Gospel. We forget that
pardon is not the last utterance but
the first utterance that Jesus has spoken.
W Overlook the fact that there is a culture
bf character which demands the energy ol
a hero and the oatience of a devotee, that
there is a service of others that calls lot
the crucifixion of self. '
. Another element of heart failure ii
doubt. How Was It possible for the a poe
tics td recognise a Messiah tlniler arrest I
Waa this the upshot of centuries of proph
ecy? Wss this the story that the mensem
gers ol God had been telling of majesty
and glory and of victory? Was tha Prince
of the house of David to be dragged away
in chains and the Lion of Judah to be
thrust into a cage? Clouded in their per
ceptions, confused in their thought, con
founded by tlie inrush of doubt, Jesus'
disciples hurried away beneath the shad
ows of a night that but faintly suggest
the dark minttinnings that must have shad
owed their devoted hearts.
This is an age of doubt. Demon whis
pers are upon every breeze. Siren eomja
are at every turn. Faiths are under the
seall. Creeds are in the crucible, lie
liefa are upon the anvil. A searching ad
pitilens criticism ia passing under its lens
cvcrvthinif that men have counted helpful
and holy in the days gone hv. hot one, I
do nor regret it. Flame will never harm
fold. A file's tooth cannot bite a diamond,
lut an ape of doubt brings manv a doubt
ing dny into the hearts of faithful and lov
ing dmcipies. The champions of the faith
had their doubting days, the record of
which is written in the Scrijiture with a
pen dipned in tears. There came a dny
when David loving, trusting, aspiring
spirit that he was, bemoaned the time
When God's faee was hidden. There dime
a day when Kliiah, that man with nerve
of fiteel at.d heart of fire, lny nent and
worn bv t lie stress of mental conibi t under
the juniper tree in the tle.-iert. 'i iiere came
a il-v when John the Hiptist. Unit mount
ed hl;e an e.T'je to pieet tiie dawn of tinlll,
f it his heart veaien and his eve limt.
'J iiere comes a (..el Iwminie t,i every one
Unit is fi.llmvirie- .lewis caiieiv, a time of
s. ot tnnel ines-i,
it. when t!'.ie
ol a wreihiiii in
that love 11 h'0t
em vrrapi
'-e. I'
il in sn':'.
iliiet tb.t
Will
1 111 1 !
ne
hi e
tut )ii.
v -ate
r MkOie
!' i-vte
things as we are. We talk shmit sWliife
monarchy, We reheari stunt's of Siberian
atrocity until the blood dulls, there is
hut ns absolute monarch th( eir (if hu-
fean enininn, 'the nkane Winch he issue
tin us nil Info a Siberia of meamess out
faintly tiprled by the degradation ot
those glootnv mines t!-t burrow into the
Asiatic mountains. The opinion of the
world esilrs fnest feeling. It dungeons
truest msthood. It rivets chain and hall
Ot) our lofti't nvtirations. It vetoes lnd
pendente, We dure not be free and mm'
Snd (rentiitie, It makes our feet test in
atoeki of its whims. We arc all the
asking which wav the weather-cock
and we trim. W are diligent i'
lhg how the current sets, and tc
stand of oskin whither the r"
ind setting nur prow to thi-
Stead of redding the chart e
scotll the fret and rose of '
serve Christ, 1y the
WbV should we bf
world's opinion!
world help you v
the laia-t"'
helping you tip
Wilt tn worfd plsv
struggling With . - v
your abul td scale sm
purity aad of pobilttv
you a hand? Win"
valley ol the ahai
beside you on tlm
Way When yonrr
the world spend '
keep flower arawii
the lichens from y
is one who loves y
vou slip, has an arro
y,iu: when you fall
tdV to whifper i
whiten. vow soul. I
new. lie' will schoo
will shsre youf snrrov
yon as you -ero.a the 1.
will introduce you
eternity beyond. Wli
the opinion el the wo
but a fraCtion-now. !
row we will be a eiph
keenly car for one
6uf being as with an at.
Turrl.ih tnttte andrec.
apostolie fooity, The )
from the preface. Call
glorious company of the
every compass point rir
Jesus. ' Bead how ,t'""
with martyr Woo-"
dla. Begin tin-'
He Of F
thaim-. sum. r; His
Wisdom diff-s-Thev,
bight of His betraVif 4 osd seen Him
as s miracle Workcrr hey had beheld
the storm sleep like a child St His om
rosnd. They Had witnessed leprosy eon
verted into purity at His touch. They had
Seen the winter of the eepillcner bloom
Into the spring when His sandals touched
the lintel ol the tomb, but tho power of
Jesus did iiftt armor them to look upon
the face ol fear. But since that hour ol
heart failure tbey had eome to know Him
aa their Saviour. They had a m Jesus die
for them. They had felt the touch of love
that death could not quench. They bad
been beneath the arm of the cross out
stretched to shelter them. They had caught
the accent of His parting prayer, "Father,
lorgiveV' They had heard His triumph
shout, "It i finished." As their 'Re
deemer Jesus riveted them to Himself with
looks ol steel. ; ,
In this day of tores worship it, I timely
to uplift Christ U the vitalizing energy ol
humanity. It ia pertinent to emphasize
the deathless power that resides in Chris
tianity It ia interesting to watch it soar
ing like a phoenix from the ashes of Jeru
salem, smiting like a mailed giant the loreei
of the Graeco-Boman civilization, sweeping
like a white-winged angel of mercy beyond
the Alps and the Rhine, and scattering
glorious benedictions upon Scandinavian,
Celt and Saxtnf t watch it aa it carries
the same beneiuJ potencies to the dark
continents and hermit rations of our own
time, and blessing with its exhauatlesa
bounty attio and cellar, avenue and alley,
and parlor and schoolroom, and market
place of latter day civilization. In this hour
of culture craze it ia ti nely to mark the
unique wisdom of the Christ and to 'note
that through all the ages a train of gifted
minda has brought the treasures of their
life and laid them at the feet ol Him who
was cradled in the Bethlehem manger; to
observe the masters of human thought
bowing with wondering homage before the
sweet and the clarity of Christ's, insight;
to remark how the boldest of the skeptics
become deferentisl ar.j Unandal when
they pas within the charmed circle of this
singular personality. But when I ace one
who dwelt in the light. of the face of God
hastening down into the shadows and mis
eries of tbis Stricken earth; when I behold
Him atrinnine Himself of those robes of
divine majesty which He wore before the
j world began and appareling Himself with
mac saa-nueu vesiure -wiucu we- niwrinin
wear, stained with woe and broidered with
tears; when I behold Him who was the
centre of angelic adoration, in pathetic
loneliness, becoming a target for the acorn
of the world, despised and rejected of all
men, apurned by bigots in the tribunal of
His people and buffeted by brutes in the
fuardroom of the Roman; when I mark
lis bolt of doom that was whistling in its
flight toward my heart bury itself in the
bosom of His love, and all this for me, for
me, a sinner, tlwn I am His. Then, if
ever, the elemental depths of being sre
stirred and a loyalty of affection ia enkin
dled that knows no swerving.
.The following tabie gives the official
statistics of the United -States post
office department for 3902; Number of
poslDiTiceej 75,924; txtent of pest routes
in miles, B07.540; miles of mall ser
vice performed during the year, 474,
234,687; grosa revc-.tte of postofflre de
partment, $121,392,472; paid to post
masters, J20.783.919; ordinary po.uase
stamps Issued, 4,629.957,473; stamprd
envelopes and wrappers Issued, 8,S,
123,000; pnstitl ranln Itaued, fil0,04,
(Hit); number of 1-tter rcsHtcred. 22,
831.400; dead letters received, 9,300,
3!1; money realized from oVrrl lc'trra,
$l9,2t!; amount of to. money or-il.'i-s
Issued, t113.finI.2T9; a;pntnt of
foreij-n iiii.ii. y otiirz l -n il. ? " Tl.
473; nmi;!" r of pWn- of n utt.-r of till
kh,.ls r,...v.!. d UtiHiit? the year, 8,0; 5
THE
A 8eagu'
Ot"
off
r-lie 'i viiir;-
oarture were i
the captain In bia-v,
if they were an impus,
marine news, and in the iu
of Newport, at least, he
known a character aa any pet
or monkey within toe safeSy
of a sooloKlcal garden Is to the gin-.
and boys in the citie. t pierrrage
enl nlnvzmiind waa tha 'whole Atlan
tlo ocean, if he ha'd wished, but he
was fatthrul .to'the irteads wnoru pe
had always found faithful to him.
St, Nicholas. r -
VH No White Race Horses. "
""my i It that yon Rover see
white race horse?" asked A men ho
takes much Interest In unusual things.,
"Did you ever see pure white race
horse? I venture .the assertion that
you. never did In all your experience
in running around over the country.
No doubt you have seen an iron gray
horse now and then, or a flea-bitten
gray but. ron,, have never, seen it
white horse among the thoroughbreds
of your time. ; Mind you; 1 am not
saying that there Is po such thing a
a white race horse., I am simply com
menting upon a fact which I iiave ob
served, a tact which may have been
noticed by others. I have seen a gray
horse now and then. A few years
ago I remember to have made a small
bet on a 'horse, named Boas, a sort
or flea-hltten ' rrav. owned bv a wo
man, who, by the way.'-was not red
headed. But during W experience
round race tracks, ' which Is not as
broad a the experience of others, the
pure white horse, or anything ap
proaching it nearer than the gray,
has been conspicuously absent, and I
have often wondered why. Of course,
there must be some good, deep-rooted
reason for this extraordinary fact
Bay horses, sorrel horses and ; black
horses are common enough at the va
rious race courses of the country, and
they are In all shades, so far as these
colors are concerned. Occasionally
one may find a horse bordering. on
the clay bank in color, horses with
blaze faces, or with white hind or fore
feet, or sometimes having other dis
tinguishing color marks. But where
Is the white home? He Is not at the
race track where running races' are
on the card, and tbey are very scarce
on trotting and pacing tracks. I have
never mentioned the curious fact to
men who are experts when it comes
to blooded horses, but I intend to do
so, and the very first well-posted race
horse man I meet I will ask him why
It is that thero are no white race
horses, and the tvasonj therefor. There
must be some, relation botween color
and speed." -New Orleans Tlmos-Dem-'
ocrat.
A Piccadilly Rebuke.
A London pickpocket tried to re-
morn tho valuables ot a Piccadilly "lr
ropio o li.ibl"" be ( ' I'li-reil tn I 1
club tho oilier nmrn'p?. The
proni-lialile 8'l;:.-.l tw Oi't-f by
in t 1 '1 lit I i ' y 1 v,
lrre-
t i
n I
flun; It. from I a . t, i y-
li ' ' 1 r ( ' I I
1 , v i i 1 I ' i t
t t i i a f. 1 I ' "
standing uy-iu-
don't you ask one of Ihostrx.
you hie seat?" "Because
wered, grimly '.sarcastic, "I I-
thev-face.to do.it,"lt. W'V.;
Fuddy Come, now. what would
you propose to bring about an ideal
etnti of thlngsT Duddy Nothing eas
ier, my friend.:, ro, jus; put r every
body at work upon somebody else's
job, and then, of course, every kind of
work would be done perfectly. 1. 1
: T i rnn't vou tie tramD.who
waa here yeeterdajrl Hobor-Yes, dear
lady,, I came back' to tell you dat da
eggs you give me naa cnicaens iu
dem Lady Well, what of UT : Ho
bo It yer please, dear , lady, I
would Ilka to have a little loea ler ae
chickens. ' ' .
; New Gralnfields. , i
Twont Tears aso the fever of emlg-
. . i,t.,,4i.4 In lh VAlna of tha
railUB wiw muuim "
sturdy farmers ot the northwest by
the promises held out by tne leruia
land ot the Red river of the north,
fcnu vailoi-lar-tfiPeTfliar side be-
UweetrssWWtes of MlnnesotarpdJi
Dakotas.'some suti mites weai m iuo
k..A n tjika Kuoerlor. Those promis-
es have Been ncnty iuihuku, u
valley has been settled by substantial
agriculturists, whose 'annual coniriou
Hon to the food supply of the world
has essentially Increased , the export
trade of the country and add'jd still
more to the internal commerce. Now
we are in a fair way to ace a still
greater development of production to
the northward in the valleys of thd
Saskatchewan and its tributaries, and
of the Asslniboln, rivers flowing east
and north into Lake Winnipeg, a ter
ritory embracing the three Canadian
province of Man,oba, Asstntbolayitid
Alberta. Immigration 1 flowing I Mo
this region at a relatively rapid U,
the addition to the population tf tlie
past year being reckoned at 20vtu0.-t
New York Times. 7
"llllMS ' '! .
Manllrrbere Must Be Clean.
Crusades are tn order all along tha
line,' and following the recent ones
against gamblers, opium dens ami ordinance-evading
cocheros in San Ki h
olas district last week comes a "round
up in Blnondo of 40 razor whv'
Not the class who reach down for i
when angry, but the gentlemen who
earn a livelihood In keeping the fa i l
appearance of others in a neat n !
cleanly condition.
Last night Capt. Ftiattuek's t ni .
Auloeeus station, gathered tn a r '
tlon of Ctlneio and n-uive I
v ' o l ie l n i'i y of tn l 1
im ii Ve terms of a cl-y o
ji i i lib 1 '
I 9 way of wl'tie cm ' '
v ml $ l"id '
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