- - I 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 I I i le t 1 vi lih she h il rixiiiis fur nl- I I H ( i) In Will - i io . i i ' 1 1 .. i a f !l 1 I I 1 1 I f II 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 !. ..I ' Anplo P.in-: thin six turf, "lit. U. 1 S.o.. two ci t' 11, n t an,! sn uiuUt of i s 1 1 oue i Id t 1 i t,f a: I i , c Mum n i t 1 I w.i' t '.'i el nud Bill e a 1 1 1 f a 1 mnn nnil eoit-r v. r :i r n i r 1 ' 1 ol 1 1 ti - 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. ill l 1 ' t B .! ! '.HO t t a tl" 1 V 1 ( ; t ' i ! i i l 1 i i ( t I ' v I e 1 . I V .(. I - i i e n r ,. 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 1. i s I i Mi I 'lift of 1 t d re-1 ' p of l ii V in- of fie cuv rc ; s. i ue t guilty of n son. At tlie lr pmve: ( r t tll.'tO 1: I t 1 I t'i.,1. t t 1 1 t.