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3 PRESS. VOLUME XIX. FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY; JULY 6, 1904. .NlJ Mi Kit 27 FRANKLIN 1 iilJEL When Carolyn Came Home. By NELLIE it C. SCOTT. "It seems funny to think of you as married and settled in a borne of your own, Kate, after mothering the brood of ut," remarked Carolyn Mason to her aister. She bent over a vase ' one of the wedding presents. Frank's wife gave me that" Was- n't ft shame. Caddie, that you had to go and be sick Just at the time of tne wedding?" "I know it, dear. It did seem al most too much for human endurance, But If it hadn't, happened I shouldn l now be here for this splendid little vis. It, having the fun tf .taking inventory of your possessions. Is this the end of the wedding presents! Isn't there a single one more?" ' , Something in her sister's tone caused the bride to glance up quickly. "What do you mean by one more?" she asked. "I was wondering If there wasn't anything from father," replied Caro lyn. Her voice faltered slightly over the last word. "Oh, that was it, was it? Well, my dear, you may save your eyesight There Is nothing from f.thcr." "Im so sorry'" Bald Carolyn. "I didn't like to write and ask you. and had hoped you forgot to mention It." Kate laughed unpleacantly. "Oh, I should not have, forgotten It!" she said. "No, he served mo as he did the boys and you; let me go without a kind word, or one of regret. And why? Just because Bert didn't suit him. As If there's a man on earth, or a woman, either, who could do that! "I thought he'd surely like. Jessie, when. Frank married hor," Carolyn hazarded. "Yes; where could you find a nicer girl? And Dick's wife, too." But be cause they were not his own particular choice! And what was your unpar donable sin?. Just because you " "Don't, Kit! " cried the girl,, In dis tress. "What's the use of going all over the ground again?" "Your voice was your one great tal, ent And be shut his door against his own child because he chose to cult! vate It when the opportunity came!" "Kate, I be of you!" cried Carolyn. "How Hoes he get along?" she broke off, suuden.y. "He Is all alone. Dick told me he called there the other evening. Fath er was eating his supper a poor, picked-up meal but his grim spirit would allow him to make no conces sions. He permitted himself . neither apology nor comment in asking Dick to Join him. "Did I tell you that Bert and I asked father to make his home with us when were married? We did; but he re- a contemptuous way that my mind right there that L should make the next ad. vauces. well, the other night Dick said it made him positively ache .to see the state of the house. But wjiat could he do? What can anybody do?" and Kate's voico softened a little. "That's the pity of it. Father's get ting old, and to be there all alone with no care whatever! He's still our fath er, and I miss the care I've taken of him for nearly .twenty years." A long silence fell In the room, which Carolyn broke when she could trust her voice: "I'm going up there tomorrow, Kate." "Tou're going up there! What good will It do? You'll just bring away un pleasant memory, and we .Masons have enough of those." "Oh, do you think I'd let htm see me, after what he said when I went way at work.- You know Bert said this morning that father was cutting bushes off In the alder meadow. I'll clean up the house and get one good supper ready f"r him, poor old man!" , It waa with anything but a. light heart that Carolyn found herself trav elling the familiar way that led to ward "home" what a mockery the word seemed to her! Not a bush by the wayside, not a stone in the path but had been familiar to her ever since the happy day when her mother had watched her from the doorway" the first time she went to scool. And now! She drew' the floating rell down .over her face as she ap proached the neighboring farmhouses, partly to hide the tears that dropped, partly in the hope of keeping her Iden tity from prying eyes. , But )ust as she passed the lane that led to the house of Hiss J. Abigail ' Hemingway, and saw that sharp-eyed and shrill-voiced spinster at the win dow, Bhe felt that her poor little at tempt at disguise waa futile, and that the neighborhood would learn of her return to her father's house before Miss Abigail slept that night. Carolyn kept her eyes to the front, ' however, pretending not to hear the neighborly hail that Miss Hemingway sent after her. "I guess I'm old enough to know my own business, and to do It without any of what Dick calls 'foreign influence,'" she assured her self, as she opened her. father's gate and stepped Into the neglected door- yard. :. That old John -Mason was a "hard matt" was conceded by all his nelgh ,bors. Hla children, one after another, had felt his heavy hand, all e-iept lit tle Carolyn, the baby and pet of the family, who had found the one tender spot in tho man's rough nature.: Even between the two few endear ments had ever passed; but the lay ing of the father's work-worn hand upon her brown curls was enough to make the. child happy for days. as she grew older, and especially after her mother's death, when the atorm of his wrath would break upon the older children, oftentimes for light cause, Carolyn, In a tremor stT foar trm k.M... ... . . J rear for brother or sister, would creeir to her father's side and slln her hand Into hit. As if there were magic In her touch, it never failed of effect. But Carolyn's decision as to her "career" not only aroused the most is profound sensation In the neighbor " hood, but changed in a day the happy relationship that bad existed between her and her father for the nineteen years of her llf w . Carolyn was the leading soprano in the choir of the church, and when in Christmas carol or Easter nymn her voice rose clear 'and high, those few travelled ones who had been as far as Boston or New York loyally declared that she could hold her own against any celebrity. .:rJ::l".--'U''-.:;::, ' One summer a famous linger came to the village and heard Carolyn's voice. She took Carolyn away with her, placed her under, the best tutors, and was training her for success, ..But Carolyn's father had not seen or written to her since the day she had left home. -She found the key in that time-honored hiding-place under the door mat, blie thought Kate's description of the place had prepared her .for what she should find; but the sight of the kitchen, once a marvel of neat- ness. depressed her. But she had not forgotten how to work. ' Resolutely she turned back "her sleeves, and put on the big apron she had brought with her. Then she built a fire in the stove and began. Soiled dishes were everywhere; and when these were washed It was im possible to put them back upon the dirty i.ielf-papert In the pantry. 80 taking some old newspapers : from a pile on the lounge, she sat down on the doorstep and clipped their edges into fanciful patterns, as she had used to do long ago, , The chickens cams timidly toward her, and she could see in their varied hues traces of their descent from fa vorites of her time: A pair of fiery yes sun-eyed her from a dark corner of the wood-shod, and In a delightfully unexpected answer to her tentative call, old Margery Daw, the cat, came purring and rubbing about her knees. After that Carolyn Telt herself less an alien. There was one bright spot in this benighted house the washing wat "put out," evidently, for there was plenty of clean linen. So when the rag carpets had been thoroughly swept and everything dusted, the table newly set and the stove made to shine, Caro lyn felt that an article she had recent ly read, o?n "The Charm of an Old- Fashloned New England Kitchen," might have been written of hers. Of hers? Well, she was proud of It, any way. The September afternoon grew chill as the sun descended, and she put more wood on the Are and began pre- paratons for supper. Red and yellow peaches bending the trees In the yard reminded her how fond of peach short cake her father used to be. In a few minutes a pan of dough was baking in the, oven, and Carolyn was slicing peaches to put between the layers. All else wss done. A loaf of feath er cake stood steaming on the table besicfe a platter of ham and potatoes, ok a .1.1. .u. -..,- . daring to leave it In the oven, lest her father should not find IL And now the shortcake, crown ot the feast. took its place beside the other things. It was six o'clock. Carolyn, haying luiiou iroi apiim in paper, punned the teapot to the back of the stove, and while ready for Instant watched the lane Intently. flight. l.-v A figure came slowly Into view over the little hill back of the house. This was what the girl had waited for, and she followed its every movement with her heart in her eyes. Farther and farther back from the window she drew, that he might not see her, but she missed not a single detail. She noted, with a quick catching ot the breath, how gray his hair had grown. Why, father her father was getting to be an old man! Kate had told her so, to be sure, but the statement had not impressed her i.ke the actuality. Her father's eyes had been keen and ' piercing. ' The most noticeable thing about them now was the utter weariness In them. He hung up the. scythe in the apple- tree, and half way up to the house, as If too tired to go a step farther. dropped down noon the chopping- hlopk and nut hla haarf hatwAM 1.1. iiands. '" . At that moment the world held no honor that Carolyn would not have sacrificed for the right to go to her father and slip her hand into his, as when she was a child. But the mem ory of the words spoken three years Before came back to her: Remember, If yon leave me to an with .that woman, you are no longer child ot mine!" ' The' girl tiptoed to the door leading Into the hall. With her band on the door-knob. Carolyn turned for a parting look at the laminar room, which had never teemed cosier, even In her mother's tlme.- -8he wonld try always to - m. 'member it like this, and' to forget now soon it must return to tho state In which ahe had found It - - 1 Outside In the hall, she closed the door behind her. Then she heard her father's step In the kitchen, and the sound held her irresistibly. She must see what he would do! ? A light of ground glass, traced In conventional design, had been placed tn the door between kitchen and hall, and through the polished petals ot a nower in the glans the girl 'watched her father.. He waa standing in the middle of the floor, gating with amaze ment round hljps, and the thought came 10 uaroryn, "He will search to And who did It!" But her father made no anarch. What was to Carolyn a terrible sound half-groan, half-cry-broke from hit nps. He threw himself down in the chair at the table, and buried hit fact In hit outflung arms. rolyn could bear . -rough blinding teats she made her way to the outer door, and onened it. to he met on the very threshold by the last person In th world she wished to see Mitt J. Abigail Hemingway! "Why, my dear girl!" cried Miss Hemingway, in her piercing, high, pitched , voice. "I Just knew It was you, and told Sitter Eunice so when I saw you passln". Says I, There's Carolyn Mason eome avL again; an' If ever a good thing happened, that's one, for her father certainly needs some I " one to look after him.' Says Carolyn was not listening. She wat thinking that her father could not pos sibly escape hearing the noise, and that he would presently come to see what It was all about. Carolyn was proud, too proud to be caught in the act of running away from her father's house. But could her pride bear it any better if he should come out and order her away In tht presence of this prying woman? ' A shuffling footstep heralded the ap proach Of the householder. He Came round the house from the back, and viewed the pair without apparont emo tion. He nodded a stiff "Good even In'!" to Miss Abigail, and shot one questioning glance- at hit daughter, but did not speak to her, "..'- . - They might call John Mason a hard man, but no one had ever accused him of being a dull one. He saw the ap peal, unconscious though it was, In Carolyn's eyes, and . recognised tho cause. John Mason, at well as hit daughter, was proud, and blood Is thicker than water. Turning to the , wcman ne Mkedi pontey enough, Was ye comin' In, Miss Abby? Any thing I can do for ye?" "No, oh, no, thank ye, Mr. Mascn! I just happened to see Carolyn as she come by this afternoon, and thought I d be the first one to run over and ) welcome her, 'that's all." i m onugea to yt. Better couie in, j thelli Carolyn, if Miss Hemin'way won't, before tho lupper gets cold." Inside, tether and daughter faced each other. Carolyn tpoke first. .-. i "Thank you, father, for not sham In? me before her," she said, trem blingly, "t am visiting Kate, and when the told me you had no one keeping bouse for you, I came up to straighten things out a little, for once. I thould have been away now but for meeting that woman at the door. I'm going now. Good-by!" Instead of answering, hor father came nearer, and help out both hands with an imploring gesture. "Caddie" he spoke the childish name huskily "Caddie, I'm an old. broken man.' Couldn't you stay with me the little while I II need you?" Then Carolyn found herself where she had not been since she was a child where she had never expected to be again in her father's arms. Youth's Companion. KING EDWARD'S 8ILK HAT. Of an Exclusive Design to Be Seen on None but tr.t Royal Head. Before leaving England the king gave an order for about a score of different kinds of hats and caps, to be prepared for His Majesty's use during the forthcomlnz season. "Silks" preponderated, although al most every variety of head covering was comprehended in the order, from a soft Iron gray colored "Austrian" to a motor cap with a flat, spherical crown provided with a ventilating ar rangement which. If not actually de- I signed rjy his Majesty, was evolved " pmouiuu uirecuon. ' ?at cho,en thl e. " wl " b Xk L.T " i a broader brim with a well accentuat- 1 ed curl, a deeper crown and a little mqro bell than the hats which even in. ...,. . . . , ,, TVk.T . . UDjecu' ... . CUV MX 144 L IB LUB9 IKJIUtHHHIir ui won is Known to natters at "a good head." Those whom nature has not favored In this important partic ular may be interested to learn that His Majesty takes a 7 1-8. "Even if It were possible for an ordinary citlxen to obtain the king's shape of silk hat," remarked an ex royal valet, "the probability la that he could not wear It. Not one man In 10,000 could wear It satisfactorily, for it Is built on special 'lines' with care ful regard of shoulders, the configura tion of the face and .appearance gen erally. Moreover, Its shape gives the Idea that the hat It unusually Urge and yet when on the king's bead there Is no smarter or more perfect "fitting headgear. "The king is very particular al most exacting if I may say to in the matter of hats. Thlt applies to 'bowl ers' as well as to the more ceremoni ous 'silks.'" , ' QUAINT AND CURIOUS. ' A three-minute chat between Paris and London by telephone, costs J2. A natural curiosity of Japan Is the 'lnect bell." It It a' black beetle, which ttolta harmonious sounds like those of a little silver. bell. Only 24 white elephants have been captured sine the beginning of the Christian era. This It the declaration of a noted elephant catcher of India. . In the kitchen of a bouse recently unearthed at Pompeii waa. found a fire place with a kettle on Its grate just at it was left by tome Pompetiau housewife over 1800 yean ago, Greece la overran by well-educated men who do not know how to earn a living, Tho country swarms with doc- j tort who have no patients and law yer! who have no brieft, while labor era who till the toll are at a premium. Yorkshire, England, has a farm pn which moths and butterflies art reared for tale. It it planted with treea and shrubs (or the purpose. Forty thou sand caterpillars are alwaya on hand and order can be filled at any time of the year. , Qustave Mace, the famous Paris de tective who recently died, invented tor hit own use a pair of ipectaclesr the the glasses of which were' divided, onti part enabling htm to see the ground on which he trod and the other to observe people who were. behind him. She Hated to Tell ner Age. Judge How old are you?' Lady Witness I can't remember. Judge What year were you born' In? Lady Witness I forget. - T,,rfaU7all n.it.m vmia. : lnn,ln.. . . i ........i . '..in . I for telf-preservatlon still seems to' work all right. Cincinnati Commercial-Tribunal AFTER INLAND RECRUITS , . . Iiaval Tbainino bTatioN TO B5 ' ESTABLISHED ON GREAT , LAKES. Beat Men from the Interior To Ba " Given Regular Schooling Before Being Assigned to a Berth On the . Salty Ocean May Coat a Quartsr of a Million. The United States government Is preparing to spend a quarter of a mil lion dollars on the establishment of a training School on the Great Lakes, announce the Philadelphia Record. Strange would It be were there not the maklnss of many a tiptop blue jacket among the young men who re side In the eight states which border on the Oreat Lakes. They grow up under the progressiva influence of this remarkable marine highway, 1000 miles tn length and holding one-third of the fresh water on the globe, and past their doors, so to speak, sails the greatest fleet .flying the American flag and carrying a commerce several times as great as that which posset through the 8ue canal, and bigger than the combined traffic of the porta Of New York and London. Fascinated by such a glimpse of joyt on .the wave, the Strong, Intangible magnetism of work, before the mast each ear lures many a boy to the berth of a fresh water tailor, and small wonder, therefore, that wh n Uncle Sam held out to these restless, red-blooded young ' Yankees the prospect of actually seeing the world, mid all the spectacular pomp Of our navy, they flocked W his stand ard with enthusiasm. When the officers of the United State navy found that thess clear eyed, strong-limbed giants from the Interior, many of them country boys Wha hd never Seen salt water, made the best' recruits the Service had ever known, they speedily conceived - the Idea of establishing a naval training station on the unsalted seas. A new Incubator for jacklet had to be estab lished somewhere to meet the growing demands of the navy, and what better place than this mid-continent maritime realm, with' Its traditions of Perry's victory, and so it Is planned to expend, the sum of $250,000 in providing on the Great Lakes a naval training station that will be equal In every respect. If not superior, to those at Newport, R. I., -and San Francisco, Cal. With the new naval preparatory school in full swing attention will per force be turned to the provision of training ships on the Great Lakes, for ultimately It Is desired to turn out at this lake station bluejackets with so full and practical a knowledge of sear manshlp assigned direct to cruising men-of-war, oean-golng vessels. To be sure It will under such Circum stances require a short time for these newcomers to get their "sea legs, ' for ji be It known ability to ride the short choppy waves of the Great Lakes Is no guarantee against seasickness under the Influence of the long, rolling swell of the ocean, but this Inconvenl ence will be minor and temporary. Inasmuch as there Is a treaty 'be tween the United States and Great Britain which prohibits either nation from maintaining more than one war vessel on the Great Lakes, lit Is prob able that the embryo jacklea will have to put up for the time being with the antiquated old gunboat Michigan, which Is now the sole representative of Uncle Sam's naval sovereignty on the Inland seas. The Michigan, which is an Iron and wooden craft, Is one of the oldest steam vessels In the United States government She is a schooner rigged vessel, 183 feet In length, 27 feet breadth, draws feet of water, and displaces 6S5 tons. Her engines have only 365 horse power, and her -best gait It little better than 11 miles an hour. She carries a crew of M men, and has an armament consisting ;of six 6-pounder guns, two one-pounders, and two Gatllng guns. The problem ot floating training grounds may also be solved by calling Into requisition several of the convert ed yachts now In the navy, inch at the Hawk, which It now stationed on Lake Erie for the use of the Ohio naval mll 'itla. However, In the case of such vessels the batteries would have to be removed, which would prevent instruc tion in gunnery being given. In the end probably the treaty will be modi fled so that Uncle Sam may increase his fresh water naval fleet, or else the Michigan will be replaced by an up-to-date cruiser. The latter It the more probable now that Canada It building for lake service a fast steel cruiser which will be capable of ttetming at a speed of moro than 18 mliet an hour, and will carry several powerful rapid fire guns. - r,fi:.t:'i Tho principal product ot the new na val training station on the lakes will be what -are known In tha navy at landsmen, laall probability there will also "be classoavfor apprentices, at the more exclusive aqd more highly spe cialized recrulta art, termed, but most of the graduates frmn the fresh wa ter Institution will be landsmen. This Is in accordance with the'needs of the ' navy where the landsmen) outnumber the apprentices two to oh,e, making It necessary' to replenish th supply in like proportion. In order to t distin guish between the two elasseaj of re cruits It may be pointed out that ap prentices are accepted only, between the ages of 14 and IT years, and In moat Instances are bound over to tht service ot tha government during mi nority, agreement! to that effect be ing signed by parents or guardians. Landsmen, on the other Band, may be minora at the time of enlistment, but there is no such imperative necessity re the qualification of youth since they are accepted when over' 11 years of age. " Just here It may be noted that the curriculum at the new lake station will show less difference between ' the courses 1 of Instruction for landsmen and apprentices than' has heretofore been manifest tn our navy. Prior to the Spanish-American war Uncle Sam's naval officers scarcely thought It worth while to give landsmen any preliminary Instruction prior to plung ing them Into tht duties of life on our floating strongholds, but since the eon flirt with Spain awoke the nation to Us naval needs there has been followed , k.K . .. . a plan whereby each lannaman re- csivos three months' arhonllng at a station and a like amount on a train ing vessel. The apprentices have been receiving tlx months' practical train ing on the shore and tlx months afloat, and .It Is planned to have landsmen at the new lake station have tht benefit of a like amount. The boy who enters upon a career at Uncle Sam's fresh water headquarter! for the making of naval teamen will ,have a mighty busy time of it from the minute he takes np hit flew vocation. He will be furnished upon arrival with a uniform and .equipment of bedding, and will be expected to learn to care for himself and keep his clothing In the pink of. condition.; Almost from the start hi will have a chance to familiarls himself with the small arms drill, and wtli be taught to load and aim a four or five-Inch gun. Then they will make trips In tugs or yachts, upon which they will be taught to steer, to heave the lead, to get under way, and to anchor' i;: - '' ; At the lake station there will be a continuance in tht fullest degree of Uncle Sam's policy of making the en listed men of the American navy take rank at the best paid, best Clothed and best fed naval sailors In the world. The meals which will be Served will be made up of such ; whole some dishes - as roast betf, pota toes, stewed ttrp, bread, milk, coffee and ginger snaps. In Order, too, that the boys shall have no possible ground for dissatisfaction. It hat been ar ranged to give each out 0 fthem IS days' leave of absence at the close of the training period In order that he may visit his home and tn the full glory of his spick and span new naval toggery lord It over his envious and less fortunate chums ere he takes up his new duties on one of tht nation'! cruising men-of-war, THE ANGORA IN MISSOURI. Hew It Hat Made Blue Grata Meadow Out of "No" 'Count" Lands. "Many Counties in southwestern Mis souri are rapidly changing from large ly brush wastes Into good grating lands, end it I am not badly mistaken a few years mdre will see the last of the 'no 'count' lands Of that part of the state," says Q.A. Keener, who re cently made a comprehensive trip through the different counties of tht southwestern part of Missouri, and knows whereof he speaktceotdlnt' to Wool Markets and Sheep. "A traveler who hat not been over the ground down there for three or four years will will not be able to rec- ognize the country now. The Vast tracts of Idle land formerly covered with nothing but brush and dead dtub ble are now mostly covered with the finest kind ot blue grass and support ing cattle and other forms of live stock where a few yean ago animal life could And absolutely no susten ance. This hat all come about through the efforts. of the farmers, who during the past two years have been purchas ing goats In other sections of the coun try and have placed them on the brush lands, trusting the little workers would economically clear the ground of the accumulation of twigs and other dead vegetation. Now goe,ts are perhaps the most numerous class of live stock in that part of the country, and they have done the work expected of them, for thousands upon thousands ot acres ot land have been redeemed and are' now covered by magnificent grasses and inhabited by cattle and twine. I taw one tract ot 2000 acres that had been cleared off during the past year. To save my life I could not have told the land from a Kentucky blue grass farm. Several thousand goats were required to accomplish the work of clearing this Immense farm. Most of the cleared tracts are of small er size, ranging from 100 acres to a quarter or half section. . In the aggre gate, however, they form thousands of acres, all of which will doubtless be devoted to cattle growing in the yeart to come, ' "This transformation In 'to short a time la almost miraculous and will mean a-great deal for the southwest as It throws open section after section of good grass landa tor the grating and breeding ot cattle and will result In a strong Impetus being given tha cattle Industry tn that part of the country. Farmers who have heretofore not been able to handle cattle for tht reason that they have had no feed to apart for such a purpoee end no grating landt will now be In a position to keep on band from one to two or three car loads, and the owners ot bigger tracts will at easily handle several hundred where formerly they had not engaged In the cttle business at all. The suc cess ot the goat brush cleaning exper iments in Dade, Barton, Jasper and other counties will result in landown ers , throughout the whole southern part of the state and clear down into Arkansas endeavoring to do away with the old brush fields and to convert the landt Into grata tracts for the grazing of cattle." , . . ' ' 7 Monkey and 8eal. ;'v?--,r-" Jocko, tht king-pin performer tn Herf Gelsler't troupe of performing monkeys,- made the acquaintance of Prof. Rumley't big performing seal! yesterday afternoon In a manner that left the clever little monkey ladder, but considerably wiser. At feeding time Herr Gelsler Inadvertently left open the door ot tho monkey cage, and the monkeya stood not on the or- dtr of their going, but in a flash were swarming over every available space In the huge menagerie. 1 It wat only after an hour'a - hard work that the keepers managed to get their charge together, with the ex ception , ot little Jocko, who would hang by hif tail and grin Just out or tha keepert' reach. At last they suc ceeded In cornering him, and In des peration he leaped to the cage. over tbe sealt, at tho top ot which wat the opening through which the seals were fed. Finding hit pursuers close upon him, he Jumped' Into the cage anil down upon th teals' platform. - The big performing seal resented the Intrusion and proceeded to catch the moneky, now thoroughly frighten ed, between this h;e flippers, alter nately slipping- and biting him. . The teeth of the thoroiiOily tubdued mon key did e t n!.o ( l littering for hair an hour a r I nf. Humley had tea med him f 1 .') 1 i;ht. San Fran- Cltco Clir A SERMON FOR SUNDAY AN ELOGUINT DISCOURSE ENTITLED "DOES. (00 CA" Ibe Ttav, Mokart llaeOoaalit flMtant That tha araaleit DlKorarjr of the TwantUlh Onttu-y Wit lie the Dlt- ., .cOTwry of lBf. ; '-s-w " . BrookxyK,, N. V. "Does God Care?" ttaa the subject of the sermon Sunday morning by the Sev. Robert Macltonald, pnstor of the Waahington Avenue Baptwt Church. He took his text from I. I'cter V:7: "Canting all your i-are upon Him, for He CRi-oth for you." Mr. MacDonnlil said: ' "Tha .ri-MtMfc itiar-nvarv nf rha twen tieth century will be the dircovery of Gnd. and then it will be teen that God doea not rare.'' Such is tlyi latest aaaumption of science, if a certain learned profeaaor of one 01 our largest univeraitiea is deemea a trimtivorthy interpreter. Ha wiaely drew the line between Christianity and infidel ity aa between believing that God cared for ut and that He did not care, and stated that the leading acientiatt were in- nie.s. ' Let.t such statements upaet or weaken tbe faith of ionic of ut, let tu aee what the V'eiaht of probability la for tiic realising of theat presumptive propheciea. Let it at the very atnrt he remembered that any more definite acientitie ditcovery of God than we now hare it unlikely. And Ibis is taid. not became We now poaaeat ao macb, but that wa ara nosaeaaed of ao lit t'r. ' Science will doubt, eat diecortr mors nbont God. , Shamt upon our developing intelligence if it doea not. Kvery discov ery ia that. But that i a very different thin; from ditcovery of God. Hit handi work will be more clearly traced, the working of Hia purposes more definitely realized; but I think we ran truat the In finite' One to aji aucceaafully outwit the acientilic inquititiveneaa of tha twentieth century at of any that lias aoul, I am confident that 1900 veara henca ths exc a mation of the human mind will be about as it it now "Who can by aearching out find God!" One of infinite retreata it not going to hi taken by mrpriee, The tecret of Hit Dreaence will ever elude the diacov cries of man, The myatery of Hit perton thai! atill remain inviolate. Why rta I apeak at though God were an- tagoniatic to human diacoveiy? Ik en use, friemla, thia learned prophet whoae ttate menu we are conaiderina aeet tbe on!V lack to the discovery of God to be the present wconip&teneaa of Human knowl edge and the present paucity of soientitifl meant, both of which will be remedied, he ia ture, before the present century closea. 1 apeak aa I do became I do not like to nave mm whom we honor at Creator and Father atrinntd of Mia mraterv and robbed of Hia volitional power and referred to at you would to an Impertonal, objective fact ot creation, we Uncover ttart and conti nent! and teat and lawt and t good tnany other thingt, but it doet teem to me that God Himself will have tomething to ty about tha ditcovery of Hinuelf, More over, I have no right to believe that God will ever -be discovered by any tnan tav Mini whom Uod Una discovered. Ha onivr-ajncia uoa wiiom uod bat found. 1 am etrlvTM to maintain tha integrity of the divine revelation at over against that ' human investigation. V mutt take I G.d !,1.?i, own, i!!h" 'fe .? , oura. Therefore, he onlj wnom uoa hat revealed f, to whom God permita auch discover fear tint any future diacol n not neaative the revelation wa now liava through Jeaut Christ. Science it mighty, uuv not aimigniy. not mora migmy tnan God. We welcome it in tha realm of well defined data, in the realm of demonstra tion and proof, But ita advocates need to learn that the Eternal trantcendt itt tcru tiny and the Supernatural benda not to itt demanda. Reaaaare your heart that if you are ao fortunate aa to be a habitant of th realm bounded by the. Christian religion the essence of your faith cannot be harmed. Faith'a form, aa alio tht form of revelation, will be acientifically questioned and repaired. Faith'a content examined and modihed perchance, but ita essence, that spiritual thini we call the divina grace, that precious consciousness of Hit care lor you, and that you are living in tha light of Hia face ia toe sacred to ever bend to acieotific formula, and too mystical to o expreatea in the cold accuracy of scien tific terma. We ara told that when this improb able, to our thinking impossible, dit covery occurs it will be found thlt God doet not care. All present evidencea of Hia care arc ignored. Facta, upon which are atampea indelibly- uod 1 kindly im print, art t,-ent atide, facta at atubborn aa the iramoriSility of the mountains, and the existence 0. the ocean and tht thining of the tun. There it, for instance, that atubborn thing called conscience to be dealt with, That atanda out aa a very Gibraltar of proteat againtt the assertion that God doet not care. In ajl the hittory of mortal conscience naa Been retarded aa uod a 1 handwriting on th wall, telling man he must ao me ngnt ana must not ao tne wrong. True, it doea not tell him what it right and what ia wrong. That it a thing of fluctuating atandard. Alwayi differ ence of opinion about that, because de pendent upon the man's intelligence that owns the contcience. And any certain typt of intelligence depend t upon tha ag j auu civuiaauun iu wwcu urn uvea, circum - stances, moral arid religioua ideala. Thut it 11 that tht truest standard for tha en lightenment of conscience it Christianity. Christiau ethics, springing from th Ser mon on the Mount, is universally recog nized man'a truest and, highest atandard of enlightenment; But on what higher authority rente thit tense of "oiujhtnett" at to the doing of right and wrong? God demanda it, we aay. The Creator has a right to impost terms upon Hit creation. We recogniz eur obligation to Him. Yea, but because the moral sense rests upon an intuition of God'a perfect morality. ,We could not feel any obligation to God unlets we felt Him Worthy of that obligation. We believe Him to embody the ideal and perfect mor ality. Hia tense of obligation to ut. then. it the sanction of our tent of obligation to Him. ft ia preciout to read that "w lov Him because H tint lovtd ut." It it at true that we are under obligation to Him because He it under obligation to u. We never apeak of it that way, W seldom, if ever, think of it that way. Th mora ex pressive aid of the divine nttur occupies our thought. God ia ao pleated to do for ut, Ilia Resting! are to much more truly the manifestation of Hia love than ot any other characteristic. But the divine ra tionality express ea itself in justice and rorality aa truly aa in love. W are eon aciou ver of our demerit, iniignificance, dependence, tee all divine favor to be an emanation of Hit love. Th Creator mutt make provision for Hia creattd. The ne cessity of Hit owa nature demanda it. Th divine Father, "at well a the human father, mutt support Hit child. Conscience in ut tt evtaenct of Uoa'i care. And tt 1 evi dence that can never be explained away. 80 long aa humanity endurea eoaacienc will advocate right and denounce Wrong, and Just to long mutt man believe in God a ear. Doet God care? Our very constitu tion thunden Yet. No valid discovery oi God in the future can be expected to over throw the overwhelming weight of thia ev idence. Verily, God hath not left Himself without a witnett. . W need not fear any future ditcovery, however aiippoa-dly acien tilic, to offset thit constitutional evidence. Whatever the evidence that God doet not cure w will match and outweigh it by this nearer, dearer, stronger evidence that He doe care, Vt have a Roland (or their Oliver. ' - - .- - - Than fnel-a are man's religions inatinctS fo be accounted for. Thea ara not ac quired. Neither civilization nor Chris tianity begot Una. We an- not arguing within a circle in veterring to these. All laces, white, yello.r, red, brown, black, ig norant of enliffhtened. . aunerstitiout or sane, cruel or kind, inatinctively feel thtt God caret Mind you, it ia so that He it propitioiu unto them. Oftentr .ht He ia not. Uir. tha rerv fact of inventing all conceivable meant to placate Him, aomeof tnem naritaroiis ana revtmiDs;, muit-sira so strongly that it almost provea (lod'i in terest in nior.'a.s. It 1 an evident' to tinivcr-nl that it cunnot eunilv be ex p'nnip'l avv. Kvery fundrtmiihd need in I n 1 ' 1 1 r. 1 1 1 ! v Iip. its g3r',..i-t!on ex--r- ita quenching. Kakednea instinctive f lea da to the neceaaarv coverings for its protection, even though beasts are tlaiii. rotton, flax and wool grown to accommo date it. 80 with all the hungers of rational being, social, intellectual, moral, religious. They all are evidence of reality some where answering to them. None of these it more fundtinental an'l imperative than the rtligioua, that which demands Grid's car. A most pathetic miiuifeating of thia longing ia idol worship. Th heathen, God'a ignorant children, like ourt, demand object lessons that can apprehended by the tenses. To make God in their image ia the nearest they can get to the tublim consciousness thtt tbry are made in Hit. Better, it seems t ut. no God than a wooden one, A tpirit ,nf negation and In diTerence would tav t bent so much let aacrifice and cruel practicet and bar baroua acta of superstition by wsv of tup poted atonement. But whether better or worse atheism is not a constituent charac teristic cf man. Strange, ia it not, that it ia never innate, but alwayi an acqu.red ac complishment, always the tad retult of culture cite of tin. By nature, and that means by right, God it alwaya the rightful occupant of th throne. But aa our aelf importanc grows, as we become con acious'y great in thought and achievement we become al j great in arrogance, aa it all ecienc falsely to called, and the-King it asked to vacate the throne, and God It not even bowed out of the universe, but heartlessly banished. Ob, no. denial it not better than affirmation of God, however tuperttitiottsly that afhrmationexpreaa it self. It it evidence of Uod car much needed to off.et a threatened evidence that lie has not intercat in the human rice. Notice the two possible results to which thcee religious instincts lead. They are the receptacle into which Christianity fit". Without them the Gospel of .Icsut hat no appeal. They cry out for God. Chris tianity introdncei God to them, They wane an assurance of God'a care. Chiit titnity aasures them God caret for men to tho uttermost, even enough to die for them. Creation thut preparee for revela tion, and welcomes its beneficent approach. There it another result thut nhovs th helpfulnesa of the religious instinct univer sal among men. It Is the sorrow that pot aetset ua when we are told it it all 11 delu sion. The moment you convince man there it no Cod, or, if time is, that He ia indif ferent to man's welfare, that moment the fnce loset itt complacency, the heart ita at surane?. the spirit fls buoyancy, flic mmn ita sense ef sati-faetion. Doubt, disap pointment, drspair set in. Little to live for, nothing t: die for is the cry that will not be cor.ifoi'ird. A stolid indifference results that crushes out the heart's music, else wild despair that dethrones rrason and inflicts self injury. Let me make a prophecy more dismal in its out'ook than that one we are considering of a future d-acovery that God doet not care, a pro phecy that if ever that dark day d.nvna poor humanity in despair will in an hour fall back from all hopefulness, aspiration, joyousness, and by one despairing plunge revert the lift satisfactions of a thousand j-srs. Greatest of all these it the presence and Worth of Christianity to be accounted or. Christianity is a very unyielding fact., It hat become too deep'y rooted in the earth to be waived aside and crowded nut by any ditcovery, however authentic, that would invalidate ita claims. It haa been con fronted for centuries with conflicting be liefs and scientific evidence against its in tegrity. The more it is opposed the more fearlessly it asserta itself, comforting the heart, lighting the dark mind, inspiring orcing tne spirit, a iact so neip- ful tdXaj n every conceivable ne. cestity win d needing forgive- neaa. when we! needing ttrengtn, even when tuffei tyrdom at tna stake, in the anio wild neasta, in heathen lands, nj too numerout to be as many to be Valiantly borne, must be con fronted with stronger, surer proof than it at present conceivable that it relinquish ita hold upon men't esteem. Yield it must if it were even proven God did not care; for Christianity wat rooted in Cod's et- (ecm pciure it iuuiiu a j.vv ,u ini -. God not only cared, but so cared that He loved, else Christianity, that superb b.ot aom and fruitage of Chrlat't life and tench insr and death, had never existed. Chris tianity not only embodies God't care, it enshrines God't heart. And the surest thing about it all it that we who hav yielded to God'a word, caught the West ings of the revelation through Jeu, have all the evidence necetsary for the reality of God and His care. What value it proof againtt God't interest in ut, however scientific, to the man who has teen the Lord, whose tint are forgiven, upon whom God 11 each day lifting up the light of Hia face? When once the apiritual life haa en tered the human heart, all cold, external evidence it ignored, and . wisely. Then, again, the peace of mind that results from belief that God caret for ut enough to share Hit eternal home with ut by and by it evidence that will die hard, if it ever die at all, before any external evidence that thia world ia all, and that our brief, storm-tossed existence it forever hushed in death't long tleep. A aian aaid to me dur ing the week, "It payt to be religious, even though it be discovered at the last that tnera is no eternal me. xoa iuea vra that present aatisfactiona art worth th having, whatever the future may reveal. When the divin tpark that wa call th tpiritual lift one electrifies the heart, atimulating new lovea, imparting new ideala, revealing God't love and Christ nattership, all of which product blessing! of satisfaction and ioy unspeakable, all external evidence to the contrary weight little with that .man'a belief. And that it exactly what Christianity does. It im part life. As Harnack puta it, "It is eternal lit in the midst of time, under th very-eye, and in the very strength of God." At Jetut puta it, "I am come that ye might hav life." Li:e it a difficult thing to argue againat.jnd even to prov th fallacy of when men uotaeas it and ara reaping manifold bleating from itt pret ence each day..,.,. :.. Thit is why we affirmed that God mutt be discovered through internal revelation, rather than thrninrh external invettigttion. Th neceteary approach, tp be successful, mutt come from Him to iit, instead of from nt to Hire. God must grapple witn and tubdus man befor man can reason ably expect to grapple with and conquer God.- Man'a attitude it. Let in under stand and I will reverence; let me know and 1 will love, God'a attitude it, You must reverence that you may understand; you must lov that you may Know. Man t attitude ia as yet in prospect, only th dim hop of th scientific few. God't at titnd it daily being verified and proven to the world' tin tick, sorrow filled multi tude!. All valid external discovery of th future will, I think, b along the line of and in harmony with revelation. Even now there tre acientitie evidence In this direction. Immortality it being scientifi cally proven, not the fallacy of it. Much verification of Christianity t content end astertiont may be expected from tcientino research. God't universe it out. Hit crea tion unified md barmonioua throughout, all true ditcovery mutt confirm thit, that consistency result. Apostolic testimony is good enough and preferable to, all pro phetic scientific negation. We believe Peter knew whereof he spoke when h taid "God earea." So much doea He ear that yon can well afford to cast all your ear upon Him, for He careth for you. hast. n st '"V SV -"St nV BiUl n.enTrMaMrmt ndK Profeaaor Lounsbury taken np another question ot English In Harp er' Magazine, treating It la the tarn tcholariy md entertaining manuer aa in hit paper on the split Infinitive. Now, in "The tSory of an Idiom," ho carefully outlines tho beginning and growth of the ue ot would better for had better, a practice of recent incep tion, but which bids fair to tncreaso If not checked by a knowledge of tht real tacts tn the ease. Would batter, ays Professor Lounsbury, "is is un grammstlcal as It It unldlomatlc"--a statement which will challenge the at tention of a number of people who have ben conaolenttously if thought ea!y tracing V. - uaelvea to tha use (J r-'i'l I-- - THE OLD 010. Bevond the crumbling stable wall Here in thit tunny afternoon. Where weaving spider rite and fall And cricket chirp their ueatelets time, , . I tpy the outlines of a wheel Aud thrashing through tbe foliage maze. The clinging brambles soon reveal The qualut old gig of by-goue day Oh, faithful gig of time ago Your tiros totter and oareenr" " " " And through your shafts the grasses - grow; . Like harness are the brntnble green; But odc again, you 're off to town s Behind old Lucy' laucy lieela, . And I (In dreum) barefooted brown Cilinli up behind your creaking wheels. Victor A. Hermann, In Puok. JUST FOR FUN She Does your employer ever tell tbe clerk funny stories? He No, but we don't dare undeceive him. Town Topics. ' 1 He I was thinking of having my fortune told. She You needn't go to . the trouble. As you have proposed r" to me, papa will see all about that . Judge. f. ' 'My husband cajea only for money. He has no finer sentiments whatever." "No?" "Not one. Why, I can cry for ' hours without getting a cent out of him." Judge. 1 , . ( "With your daughter as my wife, sir, I can conquer the world." "But ;, that Isn't the question. Can you make enough money to keep yourself In clothes?" Life. , t t Phillle A poor woman was fpund hanging In a back yard thlt morning. Penn Did she commit suicide? Phll lie No, she was a washerwoman. Philadelphia Telegraph. - Tom I'm glad I'm not the czar's val- et. Dick Why? To-n Look what a Job he has to keep the Japanese can-" non balls combed out of the czar' fur overcoats. Cincinnati Tribune. .'y Elderly Party (who fancies herself T" young) Ah, Mildred, you and I must one day lose our youth and beauty. Mildred Oh, you mustn't be down hearted. You have worn so wonderful- -ly well! Puck. :! ,. ... Ernie Papa asked him If he was aware of the seriousness in sitting in a dark parlor. Ida What did ne say? Ernie He said: "You bot! It's leap year-and I don't know when that girl ' might propose." Chicago News. "The train I was on this morning," said little Elsie's papa, "struck a poor . ' cow and cut her head right off." "My gracious!" exclaimed the little girt, "I suppose the milk poured right out all -over the ground," Philadelphia Press. ."What do you think ot that actor who undertook to trounce a dramatic critic who had ridiculed him?" I ' think," answered the mam' who never has a good word for anyone, that In all probability they were both, right" , Washington Star. . - ' Aren't you sometimes tempted to complain about the ingratitude ot re publics?" "Certainly not," answered -Senator Sorghum. "I haven't the slightest hesitancy In declaring that this republic baa limply paid me for everything I ever did for it" "I want you to understand," re marked the Indignant young broker, "that I am no ignoramus. I went. . through college, sir, and have my sheepskins to show for it." "So!" said the senior of the Arm; "well, I didn't, go through college, but I have jaKuu- several sheepskins to show since then fleece and all. See?" Cincinnati Times-Star. ... . , ; -,t , , I Queen Sells Butter. Queen Wllhelmina of Holland hat gone Into the dairy business, and .It now making money by telling milk and butter. Her first step In this di rection wat when tht Induced her hus band, Prince Henry, to buy . several cows, which were placed on the rich lands surrounding the castle of Loo. The cows prospered excepdltrglyrand the Queen waa ao well'pleased with " the success of her experiment that she Instructed the managers ot her estates to make a tour of the stock farms and' purchase the best animals that could be obtained tn Holland. Thli they did, and tent the herd to the castle at Loo. A dairy waa established In con nection with the royal estate, and now butter and milk are told in large quan tities from the Queen's establishment She herself devotes considerable time to directing and inspecting the work ot tho dairy, and it haa become her most absorbing hobby. She de termined that tht dairy ahould not only be self-supporting but profitable, and the It now realizing a neat little turn for pin money from It every month. -.....,.;',.,, ,.,,'...,..,... i : , Belli and Thunderttorma. . An lnatanoe of the absurdity of tomt ot tht notions held by our an cestors wat tho notion that the ring ing ot the church belli had a counter acting effect In . a thunderstorm. It wat supposed that tht vibration ot tht air canted by the movement of (Li belli resulted In tht dissipation of t: 1 el ec trio fluid In- tbe air. The belii-f waa to common at one time that ( bells were rung at toon at signs of f approaching thunderstorm were e Science now holds a contrary opini Not only doea the soiind have no 1 tlblt effect on the air, but the v Uon-caused by the sound ot a bell 1 on a cloud charged with elect; may cause It to discharge Its cont' uyon the ringer of the bell In church tower, ' . , . World's Smallest Monarchy. The sovereign who reign over smallest monarchy In the world 1 king of Cocos, a group of Island s -, Sumatra. These Islands were , ered about 300 years ago by 1: tain of the Keeling, but wore c tlvely little known till 1835. v.! Ross, an Englishman, visit ! was struck by their beauty, v : up lilfl 5hr"'" thtfre. It is I son. M. George Rom. who li the sway ovor the tWi. :
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