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VOLlJMC XVIII.
IV. A NX LIN. If. C. WEDNESDAY. NOYIVVVU 13,
THE SPINNING WHEEL 60X3.
Ij JOHH FRANCIS M'Jitf?.
:llo' the moonlight toShloe I beglnntiitrt 1
flose by Uie window toiiuk Kliimn ta splnuiiufl
lteut o'r the lire, her bund grandmother, silling, .
Is ornotiiu, and mouuiiig, and drowsily kntuiug- -
"K'l'.t-n. achora. I hear tnmeon, tMmiiii"
T,r1 wlinJlTy.-Uetr mother, again ineglas flapping.''
r.ilen, 1 surely hear somtiUudy signing,"
""J is Mm sound, moth r. dear, of the tuuimer wind dylog." :
Merrily, cheerily, Bolsitv whirring,
ftwlLf the wueel, spins the reni, while the toot' tlrrlng
BpHtjhtlv, end ilknilr, and i Irily ringing,
1 brill the sweet voice e( the young naidea alnglng.
1 "What' theaoHsl heat at lb window, I Wonder?" ...
"'Tie the llitl.bird chirping the holly buth under.
' What makes yon beehovlDK Due moving your (tool An,
And niiiKliig all wrong tiiat old long ol 'lie CoflJi'?"
There's a (urm it the osanoent -the lorn of her true lore-.
And he wwpr with lace tmutj I'm wiiltliig for you, lov
Gi up on the stool, throi gh the lntlice lep lightly,
We'll rove In tbo grove wblie the moon's hlnlog brightly,"
vtrrily1 fbeeiliy, BoUlly Whirring.
r-wlnir the whnui, eplne the rel, while th toot' Btlirtngt
- hpnglitly, end lightly, and elrllv rluglng, -1
brine the sweet voice ol the jouug maiden singing.
The maid nhaku her heed. Ton her Up lay her finger,
Heals op irom hnr it-lom to go, and yet linger) .
A (lightened g sure ttftes to her drowsy grandmother,
l'ut one foot on the stool, lua the wheel with the other
Lnr.ll, easily, wings U'.w t o wheel round;
j hiowiy and losly U heard now the reel1 sound '
NoIre.es and lljjht to the lattice above her . ' ,
1 he maid steps it n leap to the arm of her love. '
. 8!owr sl.iwnr and (lower the wheel swlnl
Lowerlowur and lower the reel rings;
Ere the ret an I the wheel atop their ringing and moving,
1 trough the grove the joung over by moonlight art roving, "
A DREMJ UELODY. j
"I suppose I've been 111! I wonder
what' the. matter with met" '
Colin Stuart opened hi eras, lint)
struggling into a sitting pasture raw
that he was in the shabby bed sitting
room in the dull side street which tor
a dreary time now had been bis
. "home.-
He wu still only halt conscious and
Tf3ljifuUy- weak, but gradually his brain
cleared a little, and bit by bit memory
came back. . , '' V.""-
"So she didn't turn in out, after till i
She must have looked after me, too,
and found money for medicine and
food.' Her bark was worse than her
. bite, poor creature! I dsresay she's
hard pressed enough herself at tlmes,
especially If many ct ber lodgers are as
unprofitable as I am." s V
1 "How much did I owe her, now, be
fore Iwas taken 111?" How long have
I been lying h"f la A iA'V and.
tnj I taj
of all, what am
with myself now I have my senses
, back again? Life was pretty rough be
fore; it will be impossible now." .
Another glance round the room
freshened his memory again the open
piano, the loose sheets of torn music
carelessly strewn all around. However
long the illness bad been in duration,
no loving band tended hlm.only grudg-
' ing service (given, perchance, as an
alternative to an Inquest) bad been be
stowed on htm, ,;.v':,-f: v.
"I remember! I'd reached the end of ;
, an wings; not one peany Jcrt no
work-raeason flat couldn't sell music
or get It sung, not one solitary en
gagement through all those awful
weeks. Only the clothes I was wearing
left! Not a friend in the whole world
I could turn to for help bread and wa
ter for a week then water without
the bread, with w Frenchman's ex
perience to follow; no sooner bad I
taught the horse to live on one straw
a day than the brute spited me and
dledl h
"But t didn't die! Nu,, re I am, un
fortunately, allre. I've been under ue
of fate once, and like other
, risen to the surface. I shall
again directly. Mrs. Wilcox
Vie can turn me out without be-
thank heaven, he's ht , an" can prove,
' in course I took out the three
pounds owing for rent, an paid the
uucrar oacK ms sovereign, an' used
the rest as it was wanted. What's left
in that there box on the table, an'
another week's rent due tomorrow."
6ha was hard, but honest There, was
till a remnant of gold among the silH
euougo to last, please heaven, un
til he was strong enough to' crawl
About Again, with the hope of earning
precarious living. v
.where the money had come from
goodness alone knewl A purse of gold,
where not one copper piece had been!
As Colin lay back oa his-lodging
house pillow (hard and rather grimy)
unshed tears burned his eyeballs as hi
thought of that doctor, who, seelngjt
ii7 vuai hi was dying ironvftheAr
urvation, had not hesitate ) give
"two pence" of thabod SaSoarl-
it would come to him In Its full, a-wi-
ous beauty.
Song after song, tune after tune, ha
up for manslaughter pjnyP!nfuJly evolved, only to throw them
woe wtw a cry or despair when fin-
lsaeo. . . ,
that kind. SjiaTTT'rlae the
t th-rouefcfie casual ward
' die quietly in the
i knows; I don't"
weary pause, at the
landlady popped ber
N K gave a grunt which
might tuner haA been satisfaction or
disgust on resizing the invalid was
consciousbetter; then dived back to
the kitchen, emerging therefrom a lit
tie later with a basin pf very weak
y soup and a piece of bread, which she
set flown with a clatter on a small ta
ble near the bed with the remark:
"You can feed yourself again now;
me lime It's wasted every day a-look
lng after yon no money could ever pay
ior.. . ; ..-'. .
tm sure i m very grateful," wan
me snamea reply. "Have I been 111
'.long?" .''.'
"Mor'n two weeks." ungraciously
'au' me scared to death with all this
talk o' smallpox about."
v Colin started Violently.' .-'.r ,-
out it, van i oe mat there la no
rash
"Good thing for you It wasn't," was
the sharp retort. "It's delirium, the
doctor says. You-'ve bean a-nlarlnr
-a
tnai u.ere piano to death, but there
-a ain't enough on those bones to suit
w.toe; it's all noise an' no meat in pia
no. Never no more musicians Uke
my rooms, and out yon go just as soon
a ever you can set foot to the ground."
, "I must owe you an awful lot," he
murmured, brokenly. "I see medicine,
and food, and wine, .Vsldes the rent;
yom must be a kind of pantomime fai
ry disguised as as"
"Don't you go poking your fun at
... me," Bhe broke la shrilly. "I'm a poor
hard working honest woman. Fairy,
Inrt-, The vory 1(t)a, What 'you've
hud -you've paid for, or, it stands to
" """i u navo gone long ago.
"Paid for." blankly; "why, when I
was taken ill I was belilud with my
"And who'll blame me fur'paylna;
r 'f out of the money in your pock-.
:"v'y. "Tliore you was a-
i It lodkrd
"'"ri (lio
firs!) on
Htiir wn.i
. The meTS money I may repay some
flay," ha thought; "but the action,
neverf, Whether on pound or fifty at
the last day. It will speak it will have
a. thousand voices. God will hear
them." .
Aa soon as he could crawl, ' he
dragged himself to the piano. If even
now he could only be n tlme-tlme to
win that grand prise offered by the
Conservatoire at Florence or the best
setting of a song to words supplied by
them 250 English money with the
Duunuon or narmony p ister at a largo
salary too, perhaps, the cleverest group
of student the world had ever seen.
There was an exquisite but madden
ingly elusive melody in his brain an
angel song; but his head was weak
Irom illness, and it was evidently
doomed to remain one of those untold
dream witcheries which thrall most
soul musicians at times and draw away
iuwr mougnia to cwudland. He could
s.-if for it !; had done It aW, t In
his delirium, but a hesiita an J
siren grit returned evury hour, so did
hid moral sensw of right aiiil wrong.
He fc as i thltif.
The letter with tile good hews cams
to a dreary London attic, orie bt those
tiny, ill-furnished rooms which sheltef
broken diearts and hide blighted hopes
from the mock of the World.
Colin Stuart had won the prize for
his superb setting of the classic ode
he held the check In his hand for
250, With the formal offer of the post
he had craved, with more than formal
Appreciation of his wprk, tot the fa
nious Signor Tlorno pronounced it Wof.
thy of the highest praise.
Colin threw the lettef down la biU
tor contempt. "Stolen honors giant's
robe," he muttered, "only, thank heav
en, there' is still time to make restltu
Hon. I Will take it there onlght no.
it may be to them what It was to me-
What it would have been to me if it
were honestly mine. Perhaps the mel
ody was hers that beautiful dark eyed
girl i used to see passing up and dowa
to the second floor back perhaps It
was the old foreigner's I saw with ber
Just before I was taken ill they will
pity and forgive, the temptation was
so. great" -, -
But they also had left Mrs, Wilcox"
apartments, he found they had gone a
few days before he himself had done as.
'She Miss Giacomo was a gov-
rsen and had lived here for three
years," explained Mrs. Wilcox, vexed
ly. "end rM to the day all that time.
Then her uncle came and took her
away he hadn't any children, and 1
quite, a rich old man, I believe, an'
she's going abroad with him.. She was
bia sisters child, an' there'd been -a
quarrel over the marriage, an' they'd
lost sight of each other. Anyhow, the
parents are dead now, and, the signor
he's adopted Miss Glaeoma for his
own; their address, sir? Now, let me
see, they went front here to one of
them big hotels Cecil, I think it
was
A SlailON 102 SUNDAY
A DISCOURSE ENTITLED "LIFE'S YIELO
TO THE-MORAL CONQUEROR.1
Hie Men ; tl, 'illielni t'rfte Vn I Spend
CHtr rer II r let tear r-:li(llif SIM and
; eli-rtitig Mail Until W fas to tile Or eat
Beyond Ah Uplifting DlfCodr.ee
finooKLYH. N. V. the Rev. t. Khom
da William, pastor of the (:rreen.ieM Con
gregational Church, Bradford, iCngland,
preached in t iymoutn Church Sunday
morning. There wa large audience,
the ltev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis intro
duced Mr, William. Knrneet attention
divert id hi thoughtful sermon. The
Subject Wn I-lft iield td the Moral
Conqueror. ' nd the tet a from pa
(ages jn tli Apdcalypae. . Air. Williams
aaiu:
Each One of the tru-sn?e ,tfl the eliurchet
a.:. .. l . . . ti
tain threat and fcaruincrs. and rmnmand.
nient, but t the ''; 'ht'i the promin
like a distant hill In (unshine, seen
through the storm, to lure on ever the
werst-neatefl to the better thiiijrs ol lind
and marl, the tneesaKe lay down the
moral task without Compromise, but they
cipse nun me assurance ina ,v
"The toppling craw of duty scaled ', '
Are close upon the shining tableland,
To which our God Himself i moon and
i " un." .
There is here twofold aspect of life
which every morally earnest man i ac
quainted with. He know that it condi
tion are stern, that there i vigor in it,
but he know also that the vigor is blended
with tenderness, that til it struggle is
permeated by promise. We miirht indeed
say that moral earnestness and hopeful
ness go togther. dtand lornlly under the
bewfT of duty, and yon will hear the bird
pf hope sing. Unfaithfulness to the moral
ideal breeds pessimism of the wont kind;
fidelity, while it doe not encourage cheap
and lightsome optimism, doe inscribe in
the heart of the blackest duty the shining
word of the coming time. Uad ha so made
u that enfolded in the bosom of loyalty
lies the assurance of triumph (or the good.
Now, it is this loyalty to the good, this
fidelity to the moral ideal, this persevering
attitude, Which I take to be indicated in
th word '"overcoming" or "conquering."
tvery promise i mad la mm who over-
Cometh or who conquer. ' Jot, roar
you. to bird Who has overcome, or who
conquered in any full or final sense. Thi
promise ire not of gift to be bestow
a: tne end or the course, but ot experien
ta bp reauzea in going on
f Colin contrived to cut short thi reit Clt htntr"V:
of her voluble talk, and atarted off to fcftt Zd&fiST&SZ
mane to y
frnnrjat.
walk to the Hotel Cecil; be was glad
from his heart that the girl had found
a mend and the prospect of haonl
if only the good luck bad come
him, other dreams' than mo:
fame might have been Mrfnow aha
wouw never know the for pretty face
had chained hlmto Mrs. Wilfoi'
house like twjTell; that the chance
meetings
-that the promise
xian churches in tne name
and
ber swMrtye,
sent to them by Jphn a direct
t. are to he resnrried aa itentniaM
ue io u tv uodr or mveelf I can-
not regard them so, except so far as
they contain truths attested hv the mm
icnce or men. inaeea, tne message give.i
to the churches of Asia are not entirely
from Christ as He was, not from Christ a
we understand Him to-day. but from
Christ a John understood Him. When
We reAil ih nrnmiaiM nf thm win! Tift
etlmes, the) glanr from read not only the fact of our moral expe-
. i - i . . . mum L.. .1 . -- . . . '
uw inotlireu Ol rnUSe I w nu ccruis mierpreuiiion
ot more man one Dias. such a the
yesfbmethlnK else had a-ona out nf
life with Nina Giacomo, ant he
to confess himself as a thief fcafor)
;aa the only restitution he ooald
" '
t my whole eoul on win
ning that prize," stammered th cul
prit, with downcist eyes. "I thought
of it by day, add dreamed of it by
night then I was taken ill, and a
wondrous melody made Itself known
to me; strange, seet harmonies ran
through my fever io that waking was
almost a pain,' tor with coming,' back
to this dreary world the angel time
vanished, and I could not catch hold of
it it seemed still In my iioul, but elu
sive,' like a abadow which' cannot be
grasped then then one night I heard
It played In another room. I heard: It
bummed and strummed, not the bar-
(IVlt
personal bia or th national bias. The fii
lure we depict may be in essence guaran-
jeea oj rne universal law oi the moral
life, buteth depiction may bear personal
or national color, which ,mnt fade; per
sonal and national element which must
be eliminated. John wa s Christian, but
he wa alio a Jew. Like every man, he
had a temneramenc.- both the natinnalitv
ana tne personality would anect ni vision)
of th future. Our Christ never take b
olute and full possession of oa, cur very
ue unuerstanuing oi jnim naa some mix1
ture of ouraelvea in it. which is not in Him
To him that overcometh and jteepeth
My word will I give power over the na
tions, and he shall rule them with a rod of
iron, as the vessels of a potter shall be
broken to shivens, even a I received of
My rather." Here are word attributed
to-Jesus which none of us would like to
think of Him a speaking. We could not
find in Jesus n promise of authority
over nation to rule them with a rod of
iron, aa th vessels ol a potter ire broken
to shivere; nor do w think nf Him as
claiming to have received such from Hi
Father, that is not onr way of thinking
oi nnai to-oay. men now aid John
cote to hear Christ say that? Because
motiy but the ghost of the melody, nd I Jhn had been reared in the atmosphere
my delirium was not over. I entreat
not hum it, couTd not And Its win. you to believe it was noi in,, tu
ning or end, though he tried each note Stuart, but some remnant of the feer
in the gamut; but be felt it, be bad lend' who did it I stole the melody
dreamed It; some day too late, per- na elaborated It, harmonised It, a 1
baps, to make use of it In this world had heard It played In my dreams, and
I sent it la as my own; It won the
prise it Is here yours, not ralno'"
' "No," said Nina Giacomo, softly lay.
ing a detaining hand to stay the re
treat he tried to make, "it was Wwaya
yours, Mr, Stuart; even in your fever
the ruling passion of your Ufa cama
out; there were many hours whea you
were alone, untended, and yott used to
get up and play wonderful music
dream mtwlc which drove one , into
ecstary to hear, better, far more beau
tiful than I had ever heard you play
before."" -t j wnti-"" ," '--
VThat prise melody was yours, and I
used to pick out lust the air on my
piano afterward sometimes.' I have
remembered pther tunes, but I liked
that best, It Is your very own and the
appointment also and I am happy for
Mechanical! wooden! Correct har
mony? Yes, bu( oh, ye gods, how com
monplace, how evenly on the dead ler-
and only 24 hours left before th
MS. must bo posted. I am Ilka .
drowning man who sees the Ufa. hu
hanging Just only out of his reach. The
prise, tne position, the melody, and mv
utter Inability to grasp It -What Is
that?" spring- to his feet and almoat
ceasing to breathe a certain notes,
halting, faulty, but still gloriously
beautiful, reached his ear. "Who Is
that? What la that?"- a lona- nanao
then he said dollberately. reaoliitniv I mnr ..w
muugn nis race was white as now,
"That Is the music that shall win tho
prise! It la mine, not his! I dreamed
it I can write it into something that
will electrify the world: my harmnni.
shall be transcendentally beautiful, his
are hopelessly faulty; the melody Is
worthless to him, to me it Is salvation
for soul and body"
The notes were played throueh in
slowly, tenderly, with wrong chord U f . , . . m
with rt.h, own. -i.k fnora4' t kow I hould have enough
a rich deeo voice hummJi ,V' . I lwayand-and I was passing
girls' clear soprano corrected the man
to a curious mlror resolution that On.
lln's soul had already leapt to thv
these unknown two had given him
me ciew to nla dream melody: their
was ot the earth earthy; he would turn
into something that was worthr
even of heaven Itself. ;
Down he aat and set feverishly to
work, and the melody fitted the words
as a glove the hand;
"I had one other dream, too," he
sal a, in almost an inaudible tone, "as
sweet or sweeter than the music. There
was a purse found In my room, a lady
purse, with a name hastily erased, yet
not so thoroughly but that some letters
were left" . -
"You must forgive." she cried oulck-
ly. "The good luck came to me Just
then; my uncle offered me a home.
with right chords, with one finger on- f !, T 0 ' tnoU"1 mone' ror
j n. " will, j WM UOBOIUK UIS
uoor when you fell and fainted.
knew why,, and Mrs. Wilcox has been
made hard because her own fight has
been so bitter those on the coaca can
not understand how the wheels hurt
unleKs once they have been under them
themselves." ' ' ..- --.-
And after all they did not pass out
or each other s lives th9 good luck
had come at last! Tit-Bits.
Hail, victor in the generous strife,
This is the golden hour of life;
The struggle and the task are done,
The guerdon and the chaplet won.
thine Is the fadeless olive crown,
Blazon and badge of bright renown;
For Ihee the poet's lyre Is strung,
or thee the ong of triumph won.
He wrote on and on, and on! Night
rl Into day. nm nr nonrly Into
I, lit ;.;,un before It wu : i.e., and
manned to Btnpw out nnil p(r;t it
ImBflf; then he fainted, and Mrs V'il-
cox told him he Burnt leave hr linnse
tne f ml ( r t in vtmk. Kiie couMn't
I x
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vi lih she h il
rixiiiis fur nl-
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1 ll
Waived the Rosponslbllty. , '
He iiatod it, but one hot morning re
cently, to please his wire, and shortly
after they wero marrlod, this West
PhiladelrJiila man went shopping. He
would, however, go no further than
the door. At one store tho wife re
mained so long that the husband lost
his patience and his temper. When
she did come out he said:
"Whut do you mean, keening me
standing out here like a fool?"
'i can t help tho way you stand,
lioiir," sweetly rospontlnd the wife
I'uiUulijlpliIa 1'iililic LediT
Non CommMtnl.
'Miom do you rc -ird m (he r
t tri
"Mv rt.
till
!!,nt I
linn of tne t iik7
if Kir." ttrisuvonM
" '! IB!' I'
n l a li:.
tin I
I
em ii i a
i ,. y kiiovn in
hi Ta
nd fed upon th aentiments of Psa'm ii.
His Jewiah teSehera hau tauoht him in r.
sard Psalm ii as Messianio. And what wa
the Messiah to do? The Lord said to Ilim,
"Ask of Me and I will rive thee the na.
none tor tnine inheritance snd th utter
moat part of the earth for thy posses
sion. Tho halt break them with a rod
of iron; thou shall dash them to pieces
like a potter's vessel." Some Jew nm
time believed that that wa one of the
thing the Messiah would do. When a
Jew eame to believe that Jesus wu the
AleMiaa you would think that he would
at least throw off that old notion. Jesu
had id. "Come unto Me all v that labor
and are heavy laden," etc. "I am meek nf
heart, lowly." "Messed r the meek."
etc "Other cheek," ete. the genetiii
character and- teaching of Jesu tvn the
very opposite of the Psalm ii concept ion of
Messiah. Yet the Jew who helieve.l ll.nf
Jesu was the Messiah carried over with
mm s gooa aeai oi tne old national con
ception nd attributed it to Jesu. That
Is what John doe here. It wa not Jesu
peaking, but hi own nationalism that
wa representing Jesus. Tbi is not very
surprising when you remember that Chri
tin even yet take th Psalm ii to refer
to Jesus. Nothing eould be more unlike
Jesus of Naxareth than the description of
th Messiah in Psalm ii. It i high time to
proiesi. as i neyne doe, against the habit
of 'finding Christ" in passage "unrelated
to Christ and Hi reiiarion." "I fear."
ays Canon Cheyne, "that our unmiti
gated adoption of the Psalter it stand
may counteract that spirit of lov which is
one-half of Christianity." Tho fear is too
well founded. What did the grcst St.
B'd y long ago regarding th war
of th Crusade upon the Mohammedan?
These are his words: "Tliey are minister
of God to inflict His vengeance. lor them
to give or receive death is not ain, but a
most glorious deed; the Son of God de
light to receive the blood of Hi enemies,
He is glorified in the death of the pagan.''
It is most (stounding that Jesus could
have been conceived th incarnation ot
God redeeming purpose and love and yet
as On who could delight in the blood of
Hi enemies. The Messianic interpretation
of many psalms undoubtedly tends to un
dermine the value of the revelation nf God
in Christ, In a Christian mafrazine of
time time ago one article is entitled "The
i'endernesa of Jesus" and the nett ia "The
Imprecatory Psalms Vindicated." I al
ways maintain that there is a sereriev in
the law of life, that divine love is not soft
nes. nor mercy a license to indulgence: '
pain, uffcring, retribution re here; there)
was severity in Jesus hecsuse Jesu was
true to life law, but the hpir.t of Jesus
Waa not the spirit of the imprecatory
psalms, and the Meiiah of many psalm
I .quite unlike our Christ So far as w
are under their influence T'C need to ex
corite ourselves and clear our vision.
But this Drnmise is colored not only hv
John' nationalism, hut ponii!y also by
cerUin traits of his per-onal chiiraeter. It
was John vho saw a man casting nut dev
il in Jesus' name and forlia-Ie him, lie
cause he did not follow with them there
wa strong party spirit in him. John
was one of two wh v-anled t lie chief
places in the kiiuriiom. fie. too, wanted to
(nil lire irom lienven upon the Nimai'itnni.
J he purtnitt of di'lm in most people, s
nmiH. as tne loving (leiije. icsis upon
tun t.luista (usiel mid tin hiusites. tmt
the temper soinetiinei diMihiyed ill tho
AnncnW,e ii's tuni ii.j indications of th
.'nnotie
hut does i i.i- ii,;.ji who is 'nilhful find?
i loit ' s he i-.-l to I. : sure i.- :
pet the Very hesfc there is in it. ?;1 fact
the old Kden storv conns ttue i-mui Mill
ftir.lilt in the lives of men. f- t v oir pleas
ure, siitistv four desire in niint way, in
defiance nr in nealect of the divine order
of life, it aimnly menus piradise lust. You
turn yourself out of the best by i doinir,
Loyally to goodness is the way at blessod
ness. There is no happiness like that
which conies from simn'e roodness.
Vliai does the victor find? He finds th
rlnaeen feserM from which he may draw
sustenance and nowef trt his own snrnr!
and that of the world. "To him ills, tver-
cometh I will give id eat of the hidden
manna." In the winninv stlllggl you llnd
the oul nstenarce hidden from volt be
fore and still hidden from tht world. New1
confidences, new assurances, new faiths
arise in the oul; new visions break upon
it, new voice sneak to it and in it; new
communions with unseen ("wen enrich
its inner solitvde. and the man jet ly
and by to Understand- what I ul meant
when he snoke nf heini ."sti-e-ivth.meil
with tnltrhf In th tntiae man " .Ths fmilv
earnest man who perseveres in the life of.
tne good is. constantly surprised at the re
serve of rower nnon which he draws. Hed
seas which looked as if they meant rtnin
death have been safely crossed, and th
sonar of trinmnh renv'nn to'Uod on the
other ide. : . , .
Difficulties which seemed Insurmountah'e
-ve been succesefulLr overcome, thi i-
irhy the irsn av: "Hitherto hath the
Ixird helned me." - At cannot umlrrstand
himseln bv himself.'. and so he bnilria an
alter M a. higher noirar. In life' victories
we rliacover lifea force! in the onward
march WS discover the enrichment of the
wav. come to One afler another nf the
well of salvation, hidden from 1I who do
not march that way. And, remember nl
way, that Hie larircr n-'r oonnuest in life,
the more abundant will b life' susten-
nee; it is the conqueror who tinu the
manna. In-a sense, everything ja hidden
from ns. and all rrowth il a discovery. It
is so in the intellectual sphere. Yoi dhv
cover treasures yon conquer difficulties.
Yon must mneiier th lnhbt and th
nellin hook to discover th sentence;,
eonouer the sentence to discover th para
graph; conquer every paragraph to know
the treasure of the book. And o all the
way nff Many cannot read a book that is
at all difficult; the fond there ia i- it thev
cnnotv appreciate, , Why! because their
conquests are too small; thev have not
overcame ignorance and superfieialty nfn-
o til manna titer remain bid-
The Bam I true In the moral and anlr.
(tual phere. there are people who are
itrci1ialjle tadcratandin the hlith-
st kind nf s ffm I ; n stnd t fir holiest
kind of lov because thry have noTnlMB
selves overcome th vulgarity and coarse
ness of human nature's lo-rer level. All
' noble son Is have "meat to eat which th
World know not of;" they have affec
tic which the world would alway dilute
with, (mm ineredienta, nd aspiration
which it would always tarnish with the
tainrtof earth. Be sure of it, your discov
ery ot life' beat things will depend upon
your conquest of its wont, snd with every
victory yon shall eat hidden manna and
be strengthened for victories yet to b
achieved, th successful etrnugl con
stantly discovers support hidden from
bim before, and (till hidden from live
which do not know thj loftier reaches and
the more earnest endeavor. What does
life yield to the victor? Here I one of the
finet of tb promise: "I will give him the
morning tar." What is this gift of the
morning star? It i th feeling that life i
sweet and pure, fair snd fresh with th
touch of morning. It is the feeling that
life i full of promise, that day is coming
on; that th best: is yet to be. It is the
power to be oneself a weetenin', freshen
ing influence In the World, a lirinir nrn.
phecy of its betterment. Now, friends,
there hi nothing like moral nurity to keep
the touch of morning on life compromise
VOUr morality and it is msrvelnna how sinn
everything is stale, there is in indescrib
able sweetness in the air of early morning
when the world is is God make it; when
it i indeed in the process of His remaking
before we liffht our firea and emit one
smoke and beat np the dust of our noisy.
-u nvinrtiung iikc mat swees
freshness of morning brlona to th nul
tht ifl Dur and Mmn in it almivs in its
hour of victory over sin. As long your
affection are clean they are fresh: you
never tir of pure feeling or holy love.
Affain. what dnMth mnnl vietAr Rnf
It ia promised that Christ will write nnon
him God' name and the name ot tiod'a
city, and hi own new name. In onr lan
guage thi mean that life yields the victor
the consciousness that he' rea'ly belong
to God: that he belongs to' the new an.
eiety; that he belonrra to Christ. In other
word, th spiritusl universe own him,
and he knows himself as a vl nl part ef it,
even a pillar in the tem.4 of ftod, an
upholder of the sacred thing of life: one
of those who have a real permanent life in
the aanctuary, among th sanctities of
God ye, who share the spiritual sorer.
eie-nty of life with God, with Christ and
with all the good: "He shall sit with M
on JJy throne," ete. - ,
Oh, yon who are fiihtins sin. take emie.
age; with every triumph you are mounting
tuc siepe oi tne inron of uoo. and ever
nearing the time when vour life shall be
fixed in the truth which knows no turning
and the righteousness which is forever.
Lay hold on the thought of God a yonr
Helper. nd believe that if yon work with
Him H will be well. I invito van in via.
minerficial optimism that ha never tound
ed the depth of life' woe.snor seen into
th heart of it tragedy. There i no pow
er snd no healing in that. I heard it once
given out from a Christian platform. It
denounced gIominei of every kind- it
lashed the pessimists in every direction;
it declared that all things were going on
exceedingly well; even th slums were not
so bad aa some made out, and the war in
South Africa well, it would com to an
and wdm time.
So much of this was itealt Ant that t flt.
that auch optimism wa th shallowest of
lie, and that to Ventilate it in the nn
of Christianity wa to forget the tragedy
of Gethscmsne and to blot out the mem
ory of the cross. Ho, no; if you are to be
a serious man, in earnest for the highest
ends of life, for vourself and for ar
eiety, you have a battle to fight; a hard,
tern battle; a hundred things are Wrong
with the world, which you must help to
put right. Look the evil in the face and
do not call it liirht. Rut when rnh hsM
don that, I tik you to rvalixe a larger fact,
vi., that the Alpha fmd Omega of all thi
life is the love of th good God. Because
that is the beginning, that i also the 'end,
and let it. therefore, he our
"Hope a sun will pierce "
The thickest cloud earth ever stretched.
That after last shall come tho first.
i no a wide compass roun 1 be fetched.
With that thought of God let us spend
HOY EOPES ABE MADE.
MUCH OF THE WORK IS STItt
.. CONE BY HAND.
necessary-
Tha Materials Most Generally Used
Are Common Hemp, Sisal, Cotton,
Wire and Manila HtmpThe Rope
-Walk Is Several Hundred Yards
Long.'" ' ,
The lisle principle of all ropes,
large er small, and of whatever mater
ial constructed, la the twisted Strang
of spun fibre, and In the degrea of
skill shown in' the twisting and the
rplnnlng lies the beauty and utility of
the finished cord. i-Ihe materials most
generally Used In ripe' building today
are the common hemp, sisal, cotton,'
wire and manlla hemp. There are sev
eral plants of varying distribution
from which hemp it obtained, but the
most familiar Is that cultivated In
many of our states and yielding a
stringy bark. It came originally from
about the Caspian and has been cul
tivated for ages in Oriental countries
for Its various products of fibre, power
ful drug and oil obtained from the
seed. In this country the plant grows
from eight to twelve feet high from
seed sown along In April, and is cut
when the leaves begin to turn and the
stems to whiten. The stems are cut
and stripped and left to be dew or
rain rotted, or else are immersed In
water to looesB the fibre from the
wood, which ia separated by being
beaten or being run through a break
ing machine and drawn through "hac
kles" which same are sharp iron spikes
set upright In a frame. This treatment
lays the fibres lengthwise and combs
out the waste tow. :;'i;;.:.v.,;
.Although machines have been In
vented for the making of ropes, there
is much of the hempen stuff made yet
by hand, but for ships rigging and
boat hawsers a fibre is renWred which
will not deteriorate In waieT. For the
rope connldjrable space is
rather V eonslderabla
length, for the rope-walk ol
memorial is a path several hundred
yards long. In modern establishments'
this path Is Inclosed in a long, low
building,. In .each end of which ' is
placed what, small amount of machin
ery the plant requires, chief among
which- Is a large wooden wheel oper
ated by a hand crank and carrying
several cord bands communicating a
revolving motion to aa many little
spindles ending in hooka. A workman
takes a large bunch of the straighten
ed fibre and fastens it about his waist
with the ends In front Then drawing
out two wisps of this he) ties each to
hook, and as they begin to -turn the
spinner backs away down the path,
paying out two Unea of catching, snarl
ing fibre between fingers and thumbs,
which are protewted by pieces ot. wool
len cloth, i If the fibre cornea too thick
he thins it with a deft jerk, and
It too thin he thickens It , With
a nimble doubling ot the supply, and
all the time he Is backing steadily and
the little rotating nooks are twisting
his hempen yard. At Intervals along
the way are outstanding frames on
which lie rest his yarn to keep It oft
the ground, and when the end of the
walk Is reached the two newly made
threads are tied together and caugnt
over a book and back be goes to be
gin the same work over again,
Experience teaches the spinner Just
how fast to walk so that the -yarn may
be evenly twisted, while he also calls
Instructions td the boy at the wheel,
who turns fast or slow, as the occasion
requires. When a quantity ot th yarn
la finished then begins the uniting ot
it Into strands, and much the same pro
cess is followed, 'for three or mora
threads are twisted Into one, tut al
ways the twist given td tie) strand is
in the opposite direction-from that
given to the yarn, and if the strands
are laid op into a rope the direction
is reversed again, so that a right hand
and a left hand twlBt alternate, which
keeps the finished rope from kinking
up on unwinding. The yam Is put in
to a tank of hot tar and subsequently
through a nipping apparatus, which re
moves the superfluous dressing. The
tar tends to protect th - fibre from
moisture and friction. There are
wheels turned by horse power In some
ropewalks and these are used In lay
ing up the large cable containing
hundreds of strands and used for heavy
valve packing, The use of the hemp
string for many purposes has been sup
erseded by metal ties, and especially Is
this true of the cotton bale tie, whose
place has boen taken by the flat steel
hand with buckle. In case of fire,
which Is the dreaded enemy of cotton
handlers, the bemp tie burned off first
and left the released cotton at the
mercy of the flames, while the metal
bands hold the cotton In compact, slow
burning squares, and so give It a
chance for its life, . ,
The processes by which the varied
fibres are made Into rope are essential
ly the game, since they all come to the
factories In bale, are opened up, spun
Into yarn, formed Into strands naff
laid up .into rope.. In the making of
ago, or some lubricant, to obviate th
wear ot friction, and in many of the
ropeg the outsld3 is given a final treat
ment by singeing off the protruding!
fibres, oiling or sizing the surface and
polishing it with revolving brushes of
cocoanut fibre. It tarring Is done at
all, It is done when the fibre is in the
yam stage, but for. the tough, water
resisting sisal and manlla tb prac
tice is not much followed. The larg
est fibre cables are used about railroads
lor the shifting cars by means of run
ning switches and about boats for deep
sea towing lines and shore hawsers,
although InHbe latter uses steel cables
are often substituted. Much heavy ma
chinery 'Is run by means of the rope
drive, either of manlla or cotton, and
the larger strongly woven cables are
fitted over drums with V-shaped cor
rugations. Bolt rope Is. a tightly
twisted manlla cord for Bewlng about
the edge of sails,' and for the sailors'
use are ropes of various kinds and
size, and they make an Intricate web,
about which he climbs like a nimble
spider. With the marlln spike, a sharp
pointed iron tool, the sailor bends on
a hook or a ring to a rope's end - by
prying apart the twist and skilfully
weaving in the turned back ravelled
strands. ' Hay is twisted Into ropes for
use In core making in foundries, -and
hay and straw rope forms acceptable
packing for the glass and china deal
ers' -fragile wares. Twine, with its
scores of familiar uses, la made much
after th manner of rope and of the
same materials. The Drygoodsman. .
- . a-QOD THEORIES.
W fenr so sallcyllo meat.
- Hot think Uuy have an addlti,
i'reservative of uora a lull
To ahak our mental placidity,
V know they are security
Against mioroblo impurltlu. .
But tremble lest we may be filled 0
With undigested leouritles. , ;
"'.' : Chicago Tribune,
X
HUMOROUS.
! Si?
BOYHOOD OF THE HERRE8H0FF8.
John B, th Blind Builder, Worked
Under the Guidance of His Mother.
When the America won the first in
ternational yacht race at Cowes, Eng
land, fifty-two years ago, the world
little knew at the time that oa lit
tle farm at Point Pleasant, Bristol, R.
I., two chlldrrjia),K,ai,ttLag ' who
wouia gi
uon Kerally an all-round, far-reach-
In aVoetus such as. in all the wide
.they had never felt before. The
eider, John B. Herreshoff. ' a sandy-
haired, blue-eyed, earnest-looklng boy
of 10, although foredooiued to . a life,
of blindness, could then see, and had
already begun to whittle out pretty
toy boats. Only three or four years
later he built his first boat for actual
use, which was considered a marvel of
beauty and speed. At 15 his eyesight
railed him forever, but he would not
let anything discourage him, so be
continued to study boats, and to build
mem, too.; The younger, "Nat," a
rather reddish-haired, ; ruddy-faced,
roguish toddler of I, at the time of
the Cowes contest, was noted chiefly
for his Irrepressible Inclination to run
way to the shore near by, at every
favorable opportunity, and; He down
on his. back. In the sand and kick his
heels exultantly In the water. He waa
often found asleep in this position by
his anxious mother, one chubby hand
clasping a wisp of seaweed, the other
full ot wet sand, and the rising' tide
washing his bare feet. Whenever he
was missing he waa first sought for on
the shore, where. If he waa awake and
saw that his movement were noted,
he would generally spend bis tme In
watching passing ship or sailing chip
or toy. boats. i.;?.. '
When older grown, e attended the
primary, Intermediate and ' grammar
schools, and later, the high schodlwia-
der the prlnclpalshlp of Thomas W.
Blcknell, now living In Providence;' who
says he was always well behaved and
studious, only an ordinary upil in
grammar, reading, spelling, or history,
but bright In physical geography, alge
bra, geometry and chemistry, and re
markably keen tat natural philosophy.
At this time he was tall for his age,
thin, rather slender, somewhat loosely
built and had a noticeable forward In
clination of the head which became
more and more pronounced from a ha
bit ha had ot closely watching rivals lit
his many boat races, craning his 'neck
In order to see them from under the
boom.
Mr. Blcknell says that the mother bt
the young Herreshoffs, although a very
busy' woman, managed to visit the
high school two or three times a week,
oa aa average, and encouraged her
children, some of whom were blind,
In all ways possible. "My mother,"
said John B. Herreshoff to the writer
in 1899, "Is 88, and still enjoys good
health. If I have one thing more than
another to be thankful 'for, it Is her
care in. childhood, and hex sympathy
through life. , She Is one of the best
of mothers, and I feel that I owe her
a debt T carl never repay."1- She has
since died. Walter Wellesley In Suc
cess. ' . -;'
.. ; v ' ' " ' t- ;'." i I
Mr. McCall So your dear pld uncle
has gone to heavon. Willie VTe don't
know yet , ills will won't he road tll .
after the funeral. v . '"v
Wigg That phrenologist claims that
h, can. even tell what sort of wife
a mas has. . Wagg By the bumps on
hi bead, I suppose, c -,
Blobbs How did you enjoy yourJ
ocean voyage? You knows you expect-,
ed to be seasick. Slobbfr-Well, Utlngs
came tjrj to my expectation, .'
, Nell He married her for Jier beau-,
ty, but she hasn't much left Beller-'
And she married him for his .money.
So they are In the same boat
Ernie Charley Bapir had $10,000
left to him In cold cash, Ida Well, .
It must have gotten warm very quiet'
It burnt a hole in his pocket..,
"A man may be able to speak fife
or six different languages," says the
Cynical Bachelor) "buthe? lucky to
get In a few words In one after he's -married.".,
4- ..: '!; . "' -
"They say your brother Will hatf
Joined suicide flub." "Oh, -no; that'
a mistake. I suppose the absurd rum
or grew ou of the fact that he hag
Just bowcht an automobile."' ''.-'
" Miss Rose rt Is a wonder you float. '
take a wife, Mr. Sapp. Mr, Bapp-rWeli,
you see, I only make enough to sup
port one. Miss Rose Well, it isnt
necessary for you to take two wives, i
m
Bff -whn Ls ' " '" """ """TP""
aW arlhe victim .whn-hart Inst kn ilnrnl
yachting and rapid navTga- 0ut from under her automohllo "have
you a wife?" "No." he groaned? "this
is the worst thing that ever happened -
to m.Atj,'.-xQ,-..i.!i. i,;,:, ; :i
fWlnker-eWliy .l It thatwomen al
ways dislike a prominent man who
Is an old bachelor? B!nkers--BecvuBt i
they tan't say that he would never
have amounted to anything If It had
not been for his wifeiH1 tw$ .
"I heard today that ut Von was
an undertaker.. I thought you told me
he was a physician." "Not af all."
"I 'dont like to' Contradict, but-rm
positive you did say so." f You mtsuvy
derstood me. I said he followed the
medical profession." 1 ' '
"I wish the big Bop skirt style 'for
women would come in again.'1 f WhyT."
"Well I figure that .when, women had
to manage them they didn't have time
to try, to" manage so 'mantXher
things In this -world, and man, ad
more of a cjiance,", , . i ra -W .
"Of course," aail the boasting" coK
onel, there are some who might .
doubt my taJor at ' Gettysburg -be-"
cause I did not lose a arm on leg."
Oh, dont let that worry you." spoke
up,llttle Richard; "I heard papa say
you lost your head." tv-s,s -
"Was the willing to sonuoh
for sucb an Insignificant husband J"
sked the thoughtless girL ' "Oh, dear,
no," replied the well, posted girl "She
was buying a position In Enrltah so
ciety, when- sbe took the. Duke, an J
not huabsntMW was simply done
in inevDaekai-e."-
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
An electrical gridiron bag been d
vised to kill files. It stands vertically,
and the moment a fly alights upon it
death ensue from electrio shock. The
dead fly drop onto a iiorlsontal shelf
underneath. , '
At the time of the. Roman occupa-
our few brief yer fighting sin and serving manlla cordage the fibre Is opened up 1 Hon .of Britain five distinct snecles of
man till ta '(,. ...),... 1 .1." 1 I .1 I. ..,VI.. ... I . ..
man, till we nans to where bevoud tlee
voices there is pace." ,
Now IllltO the (od nf all or see whn li.ll.
bulled lis unto His eternal glory by Christ
uesus, tie giory ana dominion lortver nd
var.
SOME APPLE RPCIPnS.
Apple Shortcake Make a ahortcakv
of rich blscult-dcugh or plain cake.
If the biscuit-dough is used, split the
cake through the center with a string,
and spread each piece with buttor
while warm. Cover tho lower half of
the cake with a rich applesauce, and
spread over this whipped cream,, then
put on the urp-r crust aid serve.
I "in cr in -m bo Mtvi 1 w h fie
calie Instead of the vhlpld rrenm.
I ne p
Ml'.-l'l
ll IS
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Anplo P.in-:
thin six turf,
"lit. U. 1 S.o..
two ci
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and passed through a machine consist-
Ing of corrugated iron rollers, which,
with the addition of a sprinkling of
oil, soften and render the stuff more
pliable. Then It Is run through ma
chines when the fibres are straighten
ed and combed and shaped into loose
rolls, and these are combined ' and
stretched before being sent to the
spinning jenny, which twists them in
to yarn and winds it onto bobbins.
These bobbins are sent to the rope
machine, called the former, where 'a
number of the yarns are twlBted Into
strnnd readies and Bent to the rope
machine proper, whlt'h lays up the rc
q iik d tin i 1 1 r i f r ' a li tctl )
pines, and tl" e pre r in lt.M up in
to a cnlile of viirvini; k .. the htn-.t
1 ' I t a in ' i ntft 0 1 r
6 e.
I tcM (lor ltttf.
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B .! ! '.HO t t a tl" 1 V 1 ( ; t
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dogs were there, most of which can
with certainty be Identified with those
of the present day. There wars tne
house dog, the greyhound, the bull
dog, ;the torrior and ISie slowhotind.
' A curious superstition prevails In
the highlands of t Scot land, tiiat If a
cat be carried on a cart, and the wind
blow from it to the horsen, the latter
Immediately tire; and If any part of
the driver's clothing be made from eat
shin, the horses will fool as If they
were drawing a donbli burden,. .
Ii-s of fortuno nnd Inns of his prac-
th o sn affected I jr. lutwui j Stanton
of Kui.umo. lud., tiiat hn herinoo (in.
uiented. Ho iiiin : :m il hiiiiKeif an ox
nud stnttC'd on nil fours thnunrti the
!' 'if the cmpilry firm, villi the
1
ill
Fear Our Greatest eneray.
Thought's- mout deadly ustramrat ,
for marring, human lives is fearsays
Success. Jt demoralise character de-
strays ambition, Induces or cause dis
ease, 'paralyse happiness In self and
others and prevent achievement It
la all evIL Physlologlsta now well
know that It Impoverishes the blood
by Interfering with assimilation and
cutting off nutrition. " U lowers mental
and physical -vitality an weaken ev.
ery element of success. It is fatal
to the happlness'of youtih, and is the
most terrible accompaniment of old "
age,, Buoyancy flees before; Its terrify
ing glance and cheerfulness cannot
dwell In the same house with 'ffv-
'""The most extonslve of all the nior-
4-bid mental condition which ' redact
themselves so disastrously on the hu
man system la the state of fear," says
Dr. Wllllajrl .H.HcOeottab-It has
many degree or traditions, from Uie
State of extreme alarm. ItTkTi
ror, down to the slightest BhaJe of ap
prehension Of hnpendlnij evil. But all
along- th line -.'f ,.heyiro thine-a
paralyzing impression, upon the cen
tres ot life which can produce, thfouirh
the agency 'of the nervous system, a
vast variety, of morbid symptoms In
every tissue of . the body.',' .
'Fear la like carhonln .old
pumped Into one's atmosphere," says
Horace ; Fletcher; 'it' cause mental,
moral and spiritual asphyxiation and
sometime death death to energy,
death to tissue "and 'death 'to all
growth."';'' i ' liMiSijjtj ,j
The Bibliophile's" Error.
i' In arl artlcib In the London Standard
oa th love of books nd what It tnav
lead to, the writer cites that del' ol
ful Spanish story of Con Vincent.-:
The Doa,-who had set up as ad. ,
though he .hated selling, was c til
at a book auction Irt 'uroelona It a
most precious volume on wbh-h lie i I
fixed his heart. ' Three ;:. ;
th sale th bourn), of Kie v i
imrchaber-was seen to be on li " i l
his dead, body was uitnrwin.li i, v
ercd with money beside I , l : z
a pipe in its hand. V' " -Ann'
h spin ia fronj yi. ,
chain of liicrlmiinuiin; c, i,
led evehlually to t : r. ; ,
o. tun! nlo
ily. while Ihiv
niouth and si
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in- of fie cuv
rc ; s. i ue t
guilty of n
son. At tlie lr
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