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PRESS,
VOLUME Lt.
tfiUtf KLMttf-Cfc WEDNESDAY; JUNE 15, 1904., .
ANKUN
THE LONG
By JOHN
When Edwin Dumbie, son of old
Richard Dumbie, ths mllllonalr brew
er, fell in love' with Henrietta Bcboul
or he knew that hie father would op
pose their marriage. He was a sopho
more at Harvard, and Henrietta was
studying muaic with Matama Ftlsonn
in Boston. Mr. Ssars, the girl's chap
eron and aunt, had warned the youth
that the attachment must be broken.
"Not that I or Mrs. Schouler Object
for you are a nice boy. Edwin i but
your father would rather see you dead
than allied to the Schoulers by mar
riage. Wtiyf 1 can jt tell you go and
ask your father."
Sd Edwin, hurriedly packing a bag,
frushed tb his parent's big New York
bfflce, blurted out the story of his love
for the pretty tnuslc student and de
manded the reason for the anticipated
opposition; There was a Quarter bf ad
hour of storming an incoherent dam
nation by the od man of everything
connected with the Schouiers, and a
.sweeping characterization of the' fam
ily that brought the young man td
his feet almost screaming With rage
before an explanation was offered,
then Old Dumbie said, tersely:
"Old Schouler was my . secretary
once. He married a woman1 of no fam
ily, an adventuress, who has been try
ing to get a hold on me ever since.
This daughter has been shipped from
St. louis to Boston to..gtudy this fol-de-rol
French singing, and mark my
words, my boy and to take you in!
in!' You've been taken in, too, easily
enough. "-
"But," the old man's voice was raised
in anger, "you must not see that creat
ure again!"
"Creature!" cried young Durable,
starting up from his chair. Sir, you
must not say that again! Henrietta
Schouler is the dearest, best girl on
earth, and" Edwin controlled him
self with an effort.
"There Is no use wasting words be-
tween us," said the father, speaking
quietly now. "I can never consent to
your marriage with that girl I can
not consent to have you see her again,
Mrs. Sears agrees with me. Now, will
you give me your word as a gentle
manas n:;' son not to try to see her
if you go bat ' . Cmnbridge?"
"No," replied the son. "1 love Henri
etta better than my own life. 1
marry ncr, whatever you simf do
men, ior a time, u:c two sfcjud face to
face. The father tiirnf'from his gaze
ana began to patjrtho thickly car
petea noor or nrnxi., mco. nd Dres-
entiy the sonJ
posit limit,'6f
measuring the op-
room. And so. for
half an
hour. I last the old brewer
stopped t
ton add say:
"I
marri
fto determined that this
hall not take place. You
do well not to try to force It. I
nm prepared to go to any extent to
prevent It. Now, go back to Gambrldge
with thi3 thought Lefcre you always: I
shall thwart every altempt you make
to see the girl and will make it abso
lutely impossible for you to marry her.
I hope you will recover from this
madness."
The old man's tones were so even,
so controlled, that the boy suspected a
disposition to yield. He began to
plead, saying that the girl was worthy,
beautiful everything desirable. But
the thunder cloud be&an to gather, and
the incoherent pleading was stopped.
"Go now, my son, before we quarrel
further," said the old man, quietly.
Young Edwin went back to Cam
bridge, leaving his father to an hour
of fierce anger, then a night of active
planning. When the rumble of the
milk carts In the deserted streets an
nounced the morning, the old man
went home and to bed with a smile of
confidence.
"It will be unusual, and a little hard
to manage, but it won't hurt them!"
he muttered before going to sleep.
Mrs. Sears, co-plotted with Mrs.
Schouler. was entirely satisfied with
the result of Edwin's visit to his fath
er ;the youth came back to her with
a pitiful pleading to be allowed to see
Henrietta. But she had to deny him,
she said. Her plan was to force an
elopement, and the boy must be goaded
to a very frenzy of desire. She private
ly determined to allow their next at
tempted meeting, which was due with
in two days. But when that time ar
rived she was thunderstruck to find
that another plotter had entered the
game; that Henrietta had been, In
some Inexplicable way spirited away
from her home, half an hour before
the young man made his back-yard en
try to a deserted first-floor parlor.
As the youth opened the Searses'
front door on the. evening following
his buglarious entry, the girl's aunt
met him, wild-eyed and distraught.
"Oh, where have you taken Henriet
ta? where Is the child " Mrs. Sears
was In an agony of fear.
"IT" queried the astonished boy. "I
have not seen her tor months. Oh!
what has become of her why did I
not see her last night?" Mrs. Sears
promptly fainted, and was given over
to the care of her maid. Edwin could
get nothing more from her. But he
was determined to find Henrietta and
marry her at once
In a delirium of fear for the girl and
rags at his own stupidity, he started to
walk back to his rooms in Cambridge.
He never got to them. He disappeared
from the college world as completely
as though the earth had opened to
swallow him.
.
On the top of Cardigan Mountain, In
New Hampshire, stern-faced old man
directed the labors of two score of
workmen. This horde bad suddenly,
descended upon tie peaceful hill vll-'
lage two days before, and straightway
began the erection on the mountain
top of curiously divided, substantial
structure, where, it was announced, a
lariftfrjqeteorologlcal experlnat ,
er was to spendVhe winter and spriaff.
It was a matter at snow formation and i
precipitation, it Vsa said,: li' WDio.ll I
profeeeor Butler a interested. "
Two days from the appearance bf
the workmen, the last nail was driven i
anil a train of wagons, loaded with a
winter's supply of, food and clothing,
ma started for the top. And tbsx
t
a OSKI SON. "
evening when the darkness blotted out
every feature of the landscape the bid
man appeared with a clinging, fflght-
tned-looking girl, on the mountain
top, On the next evening, the dark
top. On the next evening, the .darkness
blotting everything rrom view as be
for the old taan brought up a youngef
mail, to be, as he said, assistant td the
professor.1 then, with a corps of cloee
mouthed lieipers, the experlmentors
shut themselves away from the world
and were buried in the snow' on the
mountain tops a ; - j i
the mjVthlcai Professor Butler's ex
periment Station was constructed In a
peculiar way. Two low-roofed, solidly
anchored structures, identical i size
and shape, Were set on the very edge
bf a precipice that dropped sheer 500
feet: Three -walls bf each structure
were wtndowiess, unbroken save by
heavy doors the third, fronting the
precipice, had abundant light and ven
tilation. And between the two struc
tures, opening Into each, was a long.
covered , corridor, lighted from the
north; but through which, , when! " It
was fcompleted, no man could pass.
Old Richard Dumbie, who had as
sumed the role of the professor, took
his son to the end of this Btrango cor
ridor, and, pointing to the door that
loomed at U,e otiicr end, said:
"In the room at the and of this Jung
passage Is the foolish young girl jrou
profess to love better than ixi own
life. This door here, as yon" see; is
open, and will be left unlocked. Yon
der door is likewise freely passable.
But between these doors is this strange
passage, through the floor of which,
when either of you tries to pass, you
will fall upon the ro;'Ks BOO feet be
low. I have had marked upon this
passage floor the point beyond which
you may not go without breaking
through. On the gir.'a side 1 have tak
en the same precaution.
"I shall keep you vt up here until
you are tired of this ,Vfe you cnll lov
ing. I can trust my W.epcrs. I have
everything ready to yjp you a year If
necessary. Whcnew you are ready
come to me and swear that you have
banished all thought o
from yomfltffrflT will have you both
rlojWPtT nAnri vnu liack to Harvard.
d make a man- of you.
"But If, In reality, you love one an-
otr j better than life, you have only
to i esh together through thU passage
to a romantic death. Rather than to
see you mated with that girl, I Would
come up to this mountain wlion the
enow is gone in the Bpring and gather
your bleached bones off the rocks. You
won't do anything so foolish. I know,
and so good-bye, my boy, until you
send for me."
The old man went out hurriedly,
choking a little over the last words. A
ponderous lock grated as the father's
form disappeared through the door,
and the boy turned to gaze, fascinated,
down that fatal corridor.
Presently, as he watched, Edwin saw
the form of Henrietta Schouler at tho
opposite door, and he started forward
Impulsively In an eraiacy of wclcomo.
When the girl Baw her lover, she, too,
Btralnted forward a pace, and then re
coiled with a cry of terror. That tell
tale maker which the old brewer had
showed her stretched its Impalpalilo
barrier almost under her feet.
On his side, Edwin approached the
white line with an unnatural caution.
With his toe on the edge, he felt the
fragile floor quake and sway. He crept
back to the doorway, a blind animal
terror clutching him, and the sweat
beading on his forehead. He stood
for a moment gazing at the face framed
beside hlR father's, In that other prison
door. He stretched his aims toward
the girl, and cried out to his father
for pity. The man finished his talk
to the girl and went out, paying no
more heed to the boy's cries than to
the wind that rattled the window
frames.
Then, for the two young people, be
gan the most curious imprisonment
that a prosaic twentieth century chron
icle has ever recorded. In an age that
fostered intrigue and inquisition, old
Dumbie would have been a master
plotter. Now he was a shrewd, rich
old autocrat with a purpose in view
which he was determined to accom
plish as quickly as possible.
Thus reasoned the old man: "Once
in a thousand cases, perhaps, a man
cjid a woman will iove one another
better than life. In this practical age,
though, the proportion may be cut
down to one in ten thousand. What
youth mistakes for the divine passion,
lasting through and beyond the span
of life, Is the Impatience of young
years, the desire of a child fo'r the
moon, the changing whim of an eager
age. Fan this quick flame to white
heat and It will soon die to cold a'hes.
Now, If Edwin Is of the nine thousand
nine hundred and ninety-nine, he will
soon wear out this love In dairy sight
ofi bis desired one, and come back to
me a wise boy; and no law will be
broken the girl will go unharmed. If
he Is the one In ten thousand, and the
girl Is the one In ftve thousand (for
that sex Is certainly more Impulsive),
why then but pshaw! te Isnt."
The brewer knew humanity passing
well, and watched his experiment with
confidence. Old Schouler was wild at
the disappearance of his daughter; the
little world In which the Schoulers
and Mrs. Sears moved was In a tur
moil; but-old Richard Durably
world had a wider orbit! No suspicion
attached to the old man, and the world
or that part of it that fretted over
the young people's affairs, had to fall
back upon the theory of an elopement,
Deserted by the world, minister rfd to
by grim, close-mouthed servants, sup
plied with the comforts and amuse
meats of normal young people Edwin
with books and gymnasium apparatus;
Henrietta with music, the latest novel.
embroidery the .two, prisoners passed
their days In maddening ., proximity,
The corridor, was far too long to per
mit the tender whisperings that lovers'
commonly use; Indeed, there was al
ways .the bellowing' wind as rival In
any exchange of vows. But there was
the language of signs, and eternal
trust, that could be expressed In a
clutching at vacancy.
CORRIDOR.
Books mocked the young mn- what
did ther hay hut that In wa. 1.v.
mwaaJ u a i- v
she knewr spoke to Henrietta of love
that blossomed In a tree young breast,
and here the blasts that whirled up
that precipice face turned her plaintive
notes to a thin wailing. - The grim
faces of the servant, paseini Ifl and j
but, silently, except for the Jangling1
of the big keys, tippreesed the spirits j
Winter gavl way At last to Spring,
and even on the bafe mountain tod,
Where the world stretched aWav front
.iii . ... j i. ,
their View a thousaild feet beloW, tb
new balm came to renew the lovers'
passion. tiot one Bad Edwin taked
Den to write htn dnfeat riot once had
pen to write n s dereat, aot once naa
enrieua iauea 10 gain courage irom
a tresh sight or the man Who loved
her. Sometimes, in a lull bf th ever;
lasting mounting storm, they had
Called to one another to be brave and
faithful. , .. "
the earth was released from the girp
of the snow, and young leaves came
out to clothe the trees on the beauti
ful New Hampshire hills. At last the
little lakes that dotted a broad greed
valley shone up to the prisoners like
brtgn't jewels on a warm, fnl bosom:
Life,, throbbing, new, eternal," wbke
the flame of love to white heat. The
decrees, of man seemed Impotent, un
real. Heaven sent love, the cry of man
to maid, and of the spring to young
hearts, swept the lovers' reason and
fear to Ue, wtpds. jjreat cry rang
out from the hoe llpfiiv - J
, "ly loye, do yon year d$ath?" And
the answer, keyed to aft exifltant pitch
rang back:
"Not with you, my sweetheart!"
"Ah- then come." With the words,
Edwin sprang forward to meet the on
coming rush of the mad girl. One
step over the white dead line, and the
floor was creaking like thin lco. Two
steps, and it was swaying like a show
man's net. With the touch of hand
to hand, the frail foundation splintered
and fell with a crash, In which were
mingled tho terrified scream of the
girl and the exultant cry of the in
fatuated lover.
e me give you
paier, whenever you appeared
here." Dazed, uncomprehending, Ed
win Dumbie glanced up from a tangl
of broken beams to see a close-but
toned, deferential servant at his side,
extending to him a square folded pa
per. His eyes sought wildly for Hen
rietta, She was lying near him in an
Incongruous heap, looking about In a
panic of wonder.
The youth opened the paper and
read :
"If you are the one In ten thousand,
and risk death for the girl, you deserve
her. Go and be married, and come to
me at once. I hope you will not be
hurt by the splinters.
RICHARD DUMBLB."
"Splinters-" What kind of an after
death riroam was this? Then young
Dumbie looked up to see the gaping
hole In the corridor hardly six feet
above the sawdust-covered ground oil
which ho sat! New York Evening
POBt.
QUAINt AND CURIOUS.
Tho famous Maelstrom whirlpool ;s
four geographical roilos In diameter.
Sheep used as beasts of burden Id
North India carry twenty pounds
weight apiece.
In the kluhen of a hou3o recently
unearthed at Fompeli was fo.ind a fire
place with a kettle on its grate Just
as It was loft by somo Pompelian
housewife over 1,800 years ago.
Lewis D. Hollenbach, of Jordan, Pa.,
has a pig which he offers to match
against any hound In the. state as a
rabbit hunter. Ho says the pig can fol
low a scent with any dog living.
The amount of salt used annually in
the curing of Gloucester (Mass.) fish
production has been about thirty-two
thousand tens, most all of which have
been imported from Trapanl by local
dealers.
If the sun were hollow It could hold
Ave hundred thousand globes the size
of our earth, and an eye capable of
viewing ten thousand square miles an
hour would require fifty-five thousand
years to see all its surface.
A botannical clock, a very pretty
flower, has been discovered In the
isthmus of Tehuantepec. In the morn
ing It Is white, at noon It Is red, and
at night blue; and the changes of
color are so regular that the time of
day can be told from the Unt of th4
,.,,
flower.
rti
Bees Too Smart for Him. -One
of our neighbors has a num
ber of years past derived a very sat
isfactory 1 revenue f rota the ' industry
of his bees. His farm Is a village lot
50 by 200 fe?t, In a sheltered corner
of which he keeps a few colonies ot
bees. With, tlte numerous families
ha has always lived 4 the most per
fect harmony of purpose, and each
Individual seems to know and respect
bim, however warlike they may ap
pear to strange faces. When all the
boxes were filled this season . they
were replaced by others, ss Is the
usual custom. This operation did not
commend Itself to the bees, ., as ft
taxes their .proverbial Industry to too
great an extent In a season of few
flowers, like the past '
: Seemingly, a council was held and
the question of a . w
Inter's supply of i
food duly considered .carried
hess messed the teverir
thelf rooms, in and Out bf those cTri anWlh1br J
dor doors, up to the line beybnd Which iU .Ubjeej "Thjl ' V.Le of, a Dev' Tta fJZiSi bit S? "erf flltOT;
pair came upon therri; . . ' the hour that come knocking at our doors.
into effect., ome w se nee round sv:,; .ms. i'.t think how many
small hole In the attic, whoro 100 or , jquander these precious twelve hours day
UlUIO auuua U uuuaj tt u-J O IA7 7VIa
At once all the forces of the colonies
. j ,,,k ., . .
were summoned, and with determine
tton that knows no failure they trans-,
J 1 t rl S'l... W
the garret to The- new twos on theMnto " f suspended animation, duo
", 1 ,t , . " ' , utg which an uncurbed tasey makes havoe
hlveg. A few days ago. When Our bee Dt Bur wil nower. naralvies our tnttmr.
farmer went to tbo carret for a sup- and robs us of the day's rant precloiu op
ply to UU an order, be found he had portunitiet. Meditation, indeed, it not
h.-An ro1ibSi1"Nft it was nn rnhharvf ' "l.enets nuiet, restful thought, m winch
Ban-roonefl. w. kwm not robbery 1 th4 iouI Antmt it, Tiiion, for Mtvice j,
The bees got back w"nt Jisd been tak-- not w,ud time. But the mistake to
en front tbe!ir. ft Was" thelre.r--f;ew mtny of ut make it that our moments of
England Homestead, , v' I meditation are lost in hours of idle dream
ing which leads ut nowhere tav uii'y into
A : SFRMON VR SUNDAY
A, Ol-lUUAil 1 VU UVlMJUl
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AW INTERESTING DISCOURSE BY THE
- REV. OONALO 8ACE MACKAY.
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SnWect! "Ths Talus- of a Buy"- W
SlioaJit Itot WmU KVati In TalKla
lltltnli About
the ShortneM of j
Vl end Oernfi '
time let tie Be
W fw-A hr.in,.A
My test thin evenine i
My test this evening is Christ definl'
tion of a dnv; ''Ari there hot twelv hour
ffitr arj s And WMJ ei tt T you askj
ln much at lenet: Ihe tty Is S great deal
hnt than some jieonle eem id Imagine,
, It it indeed one bi tiijc tiiearitcf; ,m it it
' "J. of th aldctt bi inorii reflection,
i ,v'cn foTer dwellt uptid tlte ehdrtnes
time and the ,wiftn( of itl, fli,htl
Jfore moursful eloquence and doleful
poetry havS been inspired by that one
theme thart by any other in the catalogue
til human1 thought. Of couraeV time
thort, and Its flight it swiftv but are there1
not twelve hours in th day?. Td each
man Sufficient time bat been given , td dd
the tank assigned to him; That it the sol
emn practical . truth emphasized by our
Saviour here, and it it one that .perhapi
we hardly ever think of; not the shortneea
of time; but ita sufficiency for. the1 tasks of
life. Arc there not twelve hours irt the
day? That it our subject, the value 6t a
day, abundance of time to do the duties
Which Innst; he done; te bear the burden
which must be borne; to face the trials'
which God sends
, At the outset I want.td see hdw these
Sordi. cf Christ tehuk iwt) very.doppotite;
u -veiy common, tempers-which1 men as
sume In retard to rime, and its-opportunities.
On the out hand, Christ rebukes'
here that morbid, spirit which in hopeless
impotence .js forever bewailing the short;
ncss of time; its loss of opportunities In the
PMiaad its sr.iallneat of opportunities in
the pieaent. "O, if I had on'.y done to and
so twciity years Stoyhow much better oS I
had been to day, one man exclaims, and
he sits d,own in a sort of sentimental fatal
ism, bewailing his unhappy lot, making no
real effort to better it. To aiieh a man
Christ says in effect, "Never mind the past;
it is gone; you cannot recall it; but are
there not twelve hours in the day? Do the
best you ran with this day and its precious
hours." Vain regrets for the past are the
worst kind of dissipation of the present.
But, on the other hand, these words not
less strongly rebuke that opposite spirit,
which, becnuse life seems td stretch through
a long vista of seventy or eighty years, is
prodiKal of its time, thinks that the duties
of the present can Well enough b mort
gaged on the opportunities of the future.
'What uocs it matter, after all, if t young
h)au.nn4.iders aievLyeart kt tuwiug his
wild oats? Nature is generous, You can
bank on her resources, A few years of
mis spent time well, it won't matter twen
ty years after this. So in effect many
men argue. .So they stake life and immor
tality on the chances of the future, And
to that temper Christ says: ''Are there not
twelve hours in the day?'' Only twelve!
steal ten of them for sin to-day and you
raunot give twenty two of them for God
to-morrow. Only twelve hours! Sufficient
to do life's dime; in, but not sufficient to
s-rve (!ol and the devil in. Twelve hours!
Abundance of time, but Hot s moment tod
hutch, not a second too many,
"Are there not twelve Hours in Hie day?''
It was Jesiu Christ who asked that ques'
tion. Have you never been struck with
what I must call the frugality of Christ,
not only in respect of time, but of every
thing else? Christ was pre-eminently a
fru,il man, not prodigal with His re
sources, not spendthrift with Hit powers.
He had the riches of the universe in His
grasp. No millionaire that ever lived
could command such resources! and yet
when out of theso resources He had fed s
multitude of 5000 people, what Wat it H
Snid to Hifl Hiwin!?? "Hather nil tK Iran
ments, that nothinir be lost." He Wat ni- I
ious for the crumbs. Frugal, not parsimo1 i
nious, He realized the valut of the littl
tliinis in life.
So too, in this m tter of time, front
everlasting to everlasting He is God. "Be
fore Abraham waa, I am, the heir bf all
the aire. And yet He counts life by its
hours, twelve homt in the day, While We,
the f-sil, helpless children of a day, pre
sume to measure life by its years. How
old are you? And the young man in the
exuberance of hit vitality counts lifs by itt
years, and replies' "Twenty, thirty years
old." "How old art thou?'r said Pharaoh
to the aged Jacob. And the patriarch,
though 1 wat 137 years old St tie time,
counted his life by itt davs, and Jacob
aid untd Pharaoh: "Pew and tvil have the
days of the years of my pilgrimage been.''
It was by its days that the old man reck
oned life.
So, too, you remember the prayer ol
Moses: "So teach us to number, not our
years, but "our days, that ws may apply
our hearts unto wisdom.
Have you ever noticed how much more
keenly this sense of the valut of t day it
forced home u-.ion us the nearer we come
to eternity? It it whert the soul stands
upon the shore of a boundless eternity
that it begins to think of how much a day,
an hour, moment meant. "A million of
money for an inch of time cried the great
English queen after tix. long rears on- S
throne. A million of money for an inch of
time! The nearer -ve get to eternity the
more precious tne moments become. And
Christ, who lived in the atmosphere of
eternity and who alone hath immnrtlitr.
counted life by itt hourt, twelve hourt in
tne uay enougn, nut not tnougbj and to
tparc.
I want, of course, this evening to em
phasize especially the tpiritual aspect of
this subject, and yet it cannot be out of
place altogether to remember that thit
power of using the h"trt of a day and
gathering up these precious fragments of
time, frequently called "odd moments," it
really the tecret of somt of the most tue
eeuful hrea. - On of the striking testimo
nials of biography, indeed, it this, that a
great many enduring reputations in th
world have- been built sot of th "odd mo
ments" of life.- Men otherwise long tinea
forgotten are remembered to-day for what
twelve howioftbe dy.,0ne of the best
translation! of Lucretius, th great Lstia
inev icnievea in oaa moments, hi th
writer, was the work of s busy London
doctor While 'going hit dally rouady among
Drench and lU.iao whit ridina- from one
musical pttptt ta taothett vKirke Whits I sf-was -afflicted i
learned Greek while walking to and from ! KlorJ' of 01 -a
lawver'a office, to tht h - n.M.H ' alto that t.ie
graduate with honors hi th university, f
On of th sblest legal treatises in the
Frtneh language was written by a man In
the somewhat depressing interval which
precede the serving of the evening meal,
after he had come home from hit office. I
cient language! and twenty-two European I
languages while waiting for the horses to '
bo .hod in his blacksmith shop. Buch ex- ,u'd (hat tha Navy Department pro
amplea teach ua forcibly enough how abun-' ,M . u .,Y. , "
dant tre the hours of the da for th. j P06 10 MUr fhe Je'P "Ore-
uiesi unit! oi lite, it wa would but seek
frocu iu use toem arigni.. redeeming the
ime ' tays the apostle. ' How many of us
the twelv Tiour aright, for Hit glory and , launched only In 4898, ao that her lire
for the benefit of our fellow men? , M first-class fighting ih!p. w411 be
his. rdXifri,s ,4MVy mi t
if we did we should not ay so often tt we $5,000,000, but tha battleships are now
do that ws have no time. W'tir,nM un matlnsr ts Ann Ann ln . wki
"? much time in rdkin platitudes
- w. meTngun
uj i j AlllUtt, lui ARitipiv, vtt vow aivisast
l' " reverie, useless, amilest ireammg,
reapectablo lotting, that many ef ut giy
Unnp to throughout th dsy. It ie
not perhap. thtt our thoughts are vicious
I'm. I u U.. , .:H.n'w ,1.1 nn,J.
" t &f taA'fcn
, .-KmI fcourf.ii
: inrf MutP
it the risyy
mnti kn tnanv Inat in fooltlli d reft mi ti f
9
seedless, thoughtless'. ;U o that
J mp?"tht opI tfe'time wsXduige hi
la kind of talk about our neighbors and.
.friends, the reaulU of which for evil are
, .,.,,. th.n w innv ever know. Who can
. etimate the reuutstion that hv been
wrecked, the live of nromise that hive
been crippled, the usefulness for good in
' tW .orW that, his been checked by the
nV fnSnH of Us un the. twelve hours
in the pursuit of scheme whose ont puri
pose it jof te.i aou ki, aiwur. JJUSjr n
may be, but sd busy with the affairs of telf
that W titv nd time to spend for thttonv
mod Hood, for the needs of man, or the
triors' of Uod. '.twelve hours I and all of
them strangled upon the altar of self not
One givri up td (od td wing it way up
ward like incense before" the eternal throns!
Look back upo- the week uat is gonf,
with its treaiiiry of hours, and what record
have they left upon the tablets of the soul t
Low many hours of last week wi nested
vou drt tour knees before God? How many
hours did you give to prayer? How man
hours did you give td studying the Kiblsi
How many td thinking thoughts of love
and transiting them iuta deeds of kind
ness? How many td erueifying self and
enthroning. Christ? HoW many? Perhaps
not eveii one. And yet 6n these hours we
art builJing character for eternity; out df
these hour is ironing thjt immortal self
with, which at last we must stand heiors
the judgment seat df GoJ. Twelve-hours
in the day to work out your salvation, and
now rnaiiy men are using these twelve
hour! in work me jut their perdition
How; then, art we going td redeem our
cys, make the i.,o.,t of those twelve hours.
$d that at last nd upbraiding memory thai,
i-npnll thin ivith ftitrrnw rnn sliRme?
I Would not b: so foolish as td say thsd
thit power to nae time .-.right means that
we are to till un each separate hour witH
some determined, conscious effort. That
would be impossible, and, even if it were
possible, it would turn us into self-con
scious prigs anc mordl peanuts, i ou can
not dctaoh every hour r.nd nay, as f iank'in
Mid in Ins diary, that tb:s hour will lie de
voted to such an such a duty, that h
to some other duty, and so on. J'hat would
destroy a great deal cf th: inspiration of
life and would turn ixHtence into a grind
mg macl ine. No, the hours . re to lie re
deemed, not so much by what we ilo
them is by the spirit we bring to them, by
the temper in whicli we use them. Let
every day be begun with its season of spe
cial prayer. Let it have its moments shut
oft for communion with Cod. And then
these moments, however 'irief, of conse
crated prayer, will give a tonic to the rest
of the nay -hich wi.l niaka impossible that
iinpont dissipation of time which is so
ruinous to character.
Then ar tro things that this spirit of
f rarer will produce in our use of the
wclve hours in-the day. First, prayer
firoduces a sense t'f urgency, a spirit of
laste, if )ou like, but not a spirit of hurry.
It intensifies the thought that time is short
and yet enough ior each one of us to do
something for God. It is that feeling of
Urgency in regard to each day as it comes
that it aliou.d leave the lecoru oi some
t lina-.attemuted. toniethinii Bivrn f r God
and our fellow men, that gives richness to
life, s beauty to character, a tunny ra
diance to the soul, that makes earth 111
threshold of heaven. Nothing it more dis-
f lusting than to meet peoplr who simply
oaf through life, without any sense of ur
gency. As the eaying goes, they do not
cart whether school keeps or not. They
are not worried about the orld's necessi
ties. YVhat we want is this sense of ur
gency, Time is short, and yet long enough
with prayer td do something iliat wilt
abide when we have passed i.way. That it
the first thing that prayer brings to the
twelve hours of the dy,
The tecond thing is a sense of calmness,
s spirit of serenity, How often we I ret
and worry beneath .lie pressure of lifel
The frictian of care reduces the effective-
neat of our energy. Many men are wearing
themselves out before their time, simply
because they htv thit hallucination that
ther it not time enough. They get into a
fever of Worry because the duyt are too
thort, But prayer brings to us the thought
ihat God has given us time enough, and all
He asks from us is to lire and work by th
day, In His service we are on I- day labor
ers. With to-morrow we have nothing to
do. Th command it, Uo, work: to-day,
and tht promise ia "I will pay you a penny
S day. God's w&ges are paid, sot by th
month nor the week, but by the dsy. Each
day brings itt duty, but each day bring
ita grace and strength and blessing at well!
"Build a little fence of trust
Around to-day.
Fill the pace with loving work,
And therein stay.
Look not through the sheltering bsrt
Jpon to-morrow)
God will help thee tear what comet
Of joy or sorrow," .
With tome of ut here thit evening th
day of life it voung. Xli morning light
ttill lendt freshness to your youthful ar
dor. But with othe-t of r it it already
the eleventh hoi'', the eleventh hour in
life' busy day. Although we know it not,
the dusk of time is falling fa The twi
light of our year deepening and high up
in the belfry of the soul
"Th curfew toll the knsll of passing day."
And yet through the tilenc of this elev
enth hour, throug . the shadowed market
place of your life's activities, yon may hear
to-night th voice of infinite lov and ten
derness ,' calling, and calling yet again:
"Why tUnd ye her til .he day idle?" It
is the eleventh hour, and Christ claims that
eleventh hour. Hedeem the time in Hi
service. Consecrate it to Hit glory, and
Sou will in nowite lose your reward. To
ay if ye will hea.- Hit voice and remem
ber, "There are twelve hourt in th day."
Affliction That Pay.
A psalmist onee said: "It it good for
me .hat I have been sfliicted; that I
might learn Thy statutes." He . might
not have sought the ways of God had
he not found hit own ways hedged about
him. Hit experience wis that of a
great number of meav who discovered
rich in affliction, which were otherwise
not to be found. Tke depth : human
lov rod sympathy would never be known
were it n t for affliction. Through sor
row' there hsi'-eften vuri a wealth
of love and affection, marvelous r its
sweetness, and power. It we- until
he was afflicted that the or t th
y-iaw. it . in amieuon
try of human I071 shines
out- richer by far because it it c barfed
witn the holy love of GoJ. Yet. it is a
d,ar price to par. bat in th after-glow
shall b able to say that it we worth
paying. Uaptitt t'niou.
' ' 1 "
A modern navy Is not 0D of
cheap luxuries. . Senator Hale
the
baa
son, ; irraiana, aiassaonUMttsr and
"Texas" to the purposes of coast de
fence In 1908. Th "Oregon'.
Womes virtn'sJl oh!,. In . Jo.
practically a new navy at (& nd of
jof,. .v merchant steamer lasts
on the average twenty year. It Is
well, known that the big naval guns
are also vary short-lived. The) biggest
are) worthies titer a hundred shots.
Tha metal becomes crystallized by tha !
stock of the explosions and lose Its
tensile) strength, thus making It dan
gerou. '
Bervialstorn by conflicting emo
tton. It wishes to be respectaWe, and
U hate to bouncs King PeUr.
Woman in medicine.
THE ki.$PGH$BLi POSITIONS
GHENOW.M0l.0Si
Cases, of Prejudice Against WoVnert
Practitioners Excite Comment
rroof of Their flsrlty The"Advanoe
In England India Abserlis Hun
dreds of Women.
The last report of the United States
Commissioner of Education gave the
number of women studying medicine
In this country as 1,219. The number
seems Insignificant compared with the
25,638 men medical studdnts reported,
and In consideration of the" gretwlnfi
regard in which women doctors are?
held. It may be said that the last
remnant of prejudice against them
has vanished In the United States, and,
with occasional exceptions, In. Eng
land. The case of Dr. Ethel Vernon
occupied, a good deal of space in the
London paper recently, showing the
rareness of prejudice there. Dr. Ver
non was appointed to All a vacancy in
the staff of the Western Dispensary,
Westminster, but her appointment was
cancelled st the end of six weeks be
cause the honorary consulting surgeon,
a man of high standing in the pro
fession, resigned rather than serve
with a woman. It was frankly ad
mitted that Dr. VcrnonT) qualifications
were higher than the man's jyhose
name had been proposed for the ap
pointment, that 8hu was very popular
with the rest of the staff and with
the patients, and the Board of Govern
ors came In for considerable criticism
from medical men. Tho consulting
surgeon's triumph was voted an alto
gether unenviable) one.
In an article Written by Dr. Helen
McMurchy of Toronto, Canada, 111
American Medicine', tribute Is' paid
to the courtesy Shown by many men
doctors from the beginning. "It is not
to be forgotten that if women have
learned the art of healing, man have
taught it to them, in the first in
stance, at least. Many medical men
did this willingly and cheerfully, some
did It con amorc, with a generous en
thusiasm. " A notablo Instance given
Is the founding of the London School
of Medicine for Women. In 18G9 flvo
women applied for admission to the
medical college of the I'niversity of
Edlnboro, and regulations were passed
permitting them to enter. The Sen
atus Acadcmlcus, however, refused to
arrange for the Instruction of the wo
men, asserting that the University
Court had exceeded its legal power in
admitting them. Tho flvo women
brought action against the university,
last lost jjji appeal. They then went
to London, whore tbex.'-' friend
in one of the promliien'r'slt-ians
then In Dractlco. Dr. Anstlc. TfrKwas
not only a distinguished practitioner
and writer, but possessed great per
sonal Influence. In hl3 house was
held a private meeting, at which was
founded tho first modlcal school for
women In Great Britain. Dr. Anstle
had drawn so many eminent mon and
women to the meeting that the suc
cess of the movement was assured,
and within a few weeks the school
was started, with twenty-three stu
dents and a remarkable staff of In
structors. Before the first class had
finished Its course hospital Instruction
In the Iloyal Free Hospital was se
cured for women, and the University
of London decided to admit to Its
medical examinations and degrees.
The school has now 200 students,
and Its graduates have taken thlr
share of honors both In England and
abroad. India absorbs tho majoritj
of English women doctors. The Lady
Dufferin fund enables thousands of
poor women to avail memseives oi
medical aid, and many women doctors
are needed in this practice alono. Sev
eral native rulers, as for Instance the
enlightened Nlzara'of Hyderabad, have
established hospitals for women In
their states, and are glad to get Eng
lish women doctors to serve In them.
There are in all 247 hospitals, dispen
saries, etc., In India, entirely under the
charge of women. A woman doctor,
Mrs. Stewart-Deacon, has recently been
appointed Government officer of health
for the Gold Coast Colony, Africa, a
position which involves the inspection
of a number of towns. Assistant med
ical officers In the Quarantine Depart
ments at Port Said and Suez are wo
men. In plague duty In India and at
the South African concentration camps
women dflctors are employed, and one
of these. Dr. Alice Cathorn, who had
charge of the General Plague Hospital
at Poona, has recently been given the
Kalder-i-HInd medal for public service.
At least three English women physi
cians have been thus honored. "It
should be remembered," writes Dr.
MacMucchy, "that much of the distinc
tion and success of English women
physicians Is due to the fact that they
and their friends founded the New
Hospital, officered entirely by women.
and that the work done by the doctors
there in advanced surgery, medicine,
clinical teaching, and the various de
partments of speclalltBts' work showed
that these higher walks of medicine
were not beyond them."
In Great Britain, as In America, wo
men phyaiotans serve as medical offi
cers, on charity boards, In Insane asy
lums, etc. vThe general post-ofnee has
for years employed Dr. Edith Shove to
look -after the health ot the women
clerks. As Inspector of board ed-out
children, resident doctors at children's
Institutions and general health super
visors in girls' schools they are great
ly In demand. . .- .
, Ob the Continent th woman doctor
Is sldwly but steadily pushing her
way. Four hundred and six, women
are atudlng medicine in Germany, but
their position Is lather difficult,, as
tboy are only allowed to attend lec
ture under humiliating conditions. In
1901 two women passed the -state ex
amination for medical practitioners In
Freiburg, Baden, and ar Said, to be
tho first to be admitted to the profes
sion In Germany. .
In Russia, on th other hand, many
women practitioners hold Government
appointments. The Poor Law Ser
vice, th County and City Medical Ser
vice, and the Municipal Ambulance
Service all have women on their staff.
Elgity-Sv women are practising ttied
Iclni in France. In Austria women
beokn to study medicine In 1897 and
wltiiln a year fifty women were regis
tered a students. In Italy there ar
about twenty women doctors, One of
them, It IS Said, le phyniclan to the
queen. In Sweden, Norway, Denmark,
Holland, Switzerland, iid, the Slav
countries the labors oft mftJiea wo
men have received approbation add re
ward, There are several successfully
pfadtising In Turkey, Egypt, Persia-,
and fhe ESSt, An English woman is
reported to bo ftittrt physician In Co
res. Of the opportunities offered to wo
mftl In medicine on this side of thd
Atlarirle it is hardly necessary to
speak a( length. It Is not difficult for
a woman to obtain g first-class medi
cal education either in the United
States or in Canada. The examina
tions and" degrees of all Canadian
Universities are open to women, and
the Woman's Medical College at To
ronto has been available since 1883.
Tht! hftmber of appointments open
lo American women Is large, and is
constantly Increasing. In Massachu
setts as far back as HS4 a state en
actment made the appointment of wo
men as assistant physlcinns In insane
asylums mandatory. New York state
provides" many places for women phy
sicians. Until recently no city hos
pital admitted women internes, but
since Gouverneur took the lead others
will undoubtedly follow. The work
of Pr. Emily Dunning has been highly
spoken of at Gouverneur, where she
has served nearly two years. She took
her turn at ambulance duty, and per
formed many difficult and not alto
gether agreeable emergency district
operations on tbo streets; the Gnuver
neur district including a part of the
town noted for its casuallties.
There are close to eighty names of
women physicians In the business di
rectory of New York. In the Greater
city thero must be several hundred
women in practice. New York Post.
OFF FOR THE FRONT,
The Leavetaklngs of Russian Soldiers
and of Those of the Mikado.
Mofore leaving for the seat of war
both the Japanese officers and men
attiMid a special service, with the ob
ject of appealing for tho success of
their arms.
It is considered a great honor for
the emperor to Instruct officers who
are commanded to go to a holy place,
wMch lie appoints. The religious be
liefs of the Japanese people are di
vided into two hoads the Shinto and
the Buddhist-and the former means
literally "the way of the gods." Apos
tles of this creed believe that if they
perform a valiant deed tn the service
of their country they will after death
Jiecomo (,'ods. and thus the officers
who usually attend the Kashi Ko
Dora pray that strength may lie given
them to do something heroic.
Shinto, Japan is held to be the
Noowii!f the gods, and the emperor
to be thetskt. descendant and actual
representative of t,he Su:
it there also seems to
system of hero worship, many re
nowned warriors and other persons of
ancient days being exalted into demi
gods; it thus lends to increase the
feeling of reverence for the dead.
Throughout the country the Shinto
shrines are construct od in very sim
ple style, and are, as a rule, made
out of white wood, unadorned by bril
liant coloring na in Buddhist temples,
and roofed with thatch.
Japanese private soldiers go to tho
Shokonsha to pray, and the ceremony
consists of supplications that they
may do their duty, while at the end
three hearty cheers are given for tho
emperor. The slreets on such occa
sions are crowded with the soldiers'
swethenrls. waiting to bid them good
by. and as their modesty Is generally
a barrier to a final embrace, the part
ing takes the form of a low bow and a
fliiiil wave of the hand.
Riiss'ati officers and soldiers under
orders of tho front attend a service
before they leave to pray for the ul
timate success of their arms. Special
prayers are read; tha ono most gen
erally used Is, "Blessed b" God, holy
and immortal. Have mercy upon us.
Our cause is a just one; therefore let
us all pray to tho Iord that He may
strengthen our arms In order that
we may gain a victory over our ene
mies, with all their wiles. May we be
Imbued with great courage to' over
throw our enemies, and may God open
their eyes to the Importance of peace."
The service is not a lengthy one,
rarely lasting more than 20 minutes.
Frequently, before setting out for the
Far East, Russian priests sprinkle the
soldiers with holy water, and many
believe that the rite renders them In
vulnerable, or at least goes far to pro
tect them from the enemy's bullets.
London Daily Mail.
Llexleff, Viceroy of Russia.
Admiral Alexieff first comes Into
prominence in the years following the
China-Japanese war of 10 years ago,
when Japan Invaded and effectively oc
cupied southern Manchuria, Including
the Llao-tung peninsula, vividly called
lh Chinese, "Tho Regent's Sword."
Japan demanded from China the
whole of Manchuria, as well as For
mosa and the adjacent Pescadores
Islands, and a heavy cash Indemnity.
China consented to the cession of
southern Manchuria and Formosa, but
asked for a remission ot a part of the
cash. Then Russia cam Into the
story with Germany on the one arm
and France on the other. Japan was
forced off " the " Asian mainland, but
took a large payment from China in
lieu of Manchuria, with a Russian
guarantee for its liquidation. At that
point, with the signing of the Shlm
onosekl treaty, the present quarrel
In the .Far East began. Japan's
thwarted hopes turned to steady ha
tred ot Russia, and a desire to be re
venged, soon or late. She at once
began to take .measures for that re
venge, and faced the problem with
thoroughness and imaginative breadth.
Japan arranged to have built In Eng-'
land, as first among naval powers,
four of the heaviest and strongest bat
tleship the world had yet seen, with
two somewhat smaller onet, and six
powerful armored cruisers. Russia
saw that these preparations were
aimed at her, and began to build up a
Pacific fleet. Admiral Alexieff first
come Into the world's history as Com
mander of Russia's fleet in the Far
Eastern waters Charles Johnston, in
Harper's Weekly. . ,
THE PROSAIC AGEv
If dniryninlds wore diamonds,
Aud shepherds evening dreaat .. , k
If "yveotly soeuted roset" -
Resembled watercress;
It thrushes ceased io "warble," ;
And skies to "smile In blue;' '
If meadows discontinued t
Whutcver 't It they do; v , :
If "bounding ocean billows' '
Should, "sweep no mom the tandaf"
If till the "moonlit evenfiigs"
Were in receivers' bunds; .
ff larks grew pessimistic, -
And every "summer breeze" '4
Wiould join a luhor union,
Am) rhyme no more with "tree, t
If nil the "sturdy peasants" . i
Hud derby hats mid canes, -
Ami every "lovely lundsoape"
Were packed with railway trains;
If "timid deer" the sidewalks . ,
Of Itrondwuy should elect,
And nightingales use language .
Which pin-rots now affect;
If "gentle liimbs" attacked you
With murderous intent;
If pigeons came and lilt yon.
As "through the land you went;"
If "rosy dawns" grew scarcer,
And "blushing girls" extinct
Ah, rue! poetic fancies ..,','
No longer would be inked.
Harvard Lampoon.
JUST FOR FUN
Gadsby That fellow Noscads IS
regular fortune-hunter. Raynor Well
he's a mighty poor shot. Judge.
"They are mere nobodies." "Are)
you quite sure? They look enough
like nobodies to be somebodies."
Puck. , ;
Curioso Your name is Ephraim, II
It? How'd your parents came to give
you that name? Modestue I don't
know for certain, but I suspect It wa
because I was a boy. Boston T,rans
script.
A great debt: Bragg I owe nothing
to any man. Newltt Oh, yes, yol
do. Bragg No, sir! Newltt Oh, ye.
You owe an apology to every man what
has to listen to you blow. Philadel
phia Press.
Improvement at the gas office: "DM
you have any luck when you went te)
complain about the gas bill?" "Better
luck than last month," answered Mr.
Meekton: "the man didn't laugh tbll
lime." Ex.
"I understand," said one Corean,
"that we are to be seized." "Yes," an
swered the other; "1 love my country,
but I wish it weren't, so much like th
prize in a giablhag at a fair." Wash
lngton Star. .':,
"Funny about Ralston wanting hi
former wife to get a divorce from her
second husband so that they might
Sn iiX.JsSjJsasiJUi rried again." "Not very. Me'
' Nvlltued ut''rB'' 'ailing in love with other '
men s wives. ex.
What lie would rather have express
ed differently: Gushing lady Oh, but
Mr. Jones, I should love to be beau
tifuleven if for only half an hour!,
Jones Yes; buts,you wouldn't like the
coming hack again! Punch.
"An elephant must be a pretty ex
pensive animal." "Yes, I wish I had
enough money to buy one." "What
do you want with an elephant" "I
don't. I merely expressed a wish for
the money." Philadelphia Press. '..
"Sometimes," said the poet, "I am
almost afraid that I take myself to
seriously." "Oh, well, never mind,"
replied his kind-hearted friend, "there"
no harm done If you do. Everybody
else regards you as a joke." Chicago
Pcord-Herald. -. ...y
Before the Russian spy was sTTOBy"
the officer who had captured him In
sisted on heart-to-heart talk. "You
say you have swallowed a number of
plans, rather than be caught with them
In your possession," ne remarked.
"Isn't eating paper In such quantities
rather hard on the stomach?" "Oh,
no," replied the Russian. "I used to -be
the official taster In a breakfast
food factory." Cincinnati Times-Star.
Th Causes of Cynicism.
Cynicism is never a native quality,
ot the mind. It alway-risltVbhtA
In some unhappy .experience. ,. Tn""
young man fljiift that the girl who
has gathered up for him all the har
mony and molody of earth ring hol
low at the test, and he drops his lyri
cal language and becomes cynical. of
women. The citizen of Boston has na
turally grown cynical of newspaper.
The candidate for pfiilo office who
has been definitely retired to private
life by being "knifed" at the polls dis
trusts party politics. A man publishes
a novel and thenceforth Is cynical of
the publishers of novels. Yet these
misfortunes have their salutary aspect,
The disappointed lover, generalising
bitterly upon the sex. Is not alway
Implacable. A cooler Judgment tem
pers and restores his passion, gives It
another object and so guide him to a
safer It less gusty and emotional
love. The citizen of Boston, the be
trayed candidate, the blighted young
novelist, all have for their condition,
even though they know It not, a val
uable contpensatlon, for the very event
that has brought them to this pass of
reasonable cynicism has stirred their
lndlgnatloa--yee. In spite of their
seeming inertness, indignation 1 now
smoldering. Arthur Stanwood Pier, In
Atlantic Monthly.' ;
Women' Losses In Rochester Fire.
The terrible conflagration which laid
low the main part of the dry goods
section of the city brought crushing
losses to a large number of women
engaged In various lines of business.
In no other district would the fire have
such a chance to work mischief for
this alert, Industrious part of the co
munlty, and pltful Indeed Is the c
ditlon today of the dressmakers, m .
teachers, manicurists, pattern mat.
and workers In embroidery and r
work, etc., who saw their plants, i
tensive and successful, or small i
struggling, wiped out of exist si,
The result of years of hard work
patient thought and planning, ti e t
cumulation of books relating to si
Hne of work, of costly tools, all
-and the future lies full of peri '
and trouble tor even the bravest
most hopeful among the lov
j Rochester Union.
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