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THE: FRANKLIN
vuUJMB XIX.
FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY. JULY 13, 1901
NUMliEK 28.
PRESS.
When I am dend, my dearest,
Sing do sad songs for uie:
Plant thou no roaot at my bead,
Nor shady cypres! tree.
Be tho green grass nhove mo
With showers nn1 dew-drops we(
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget!
THE WAYWARDNESS OF LOVE.
I was sitting by the river with the
ducheES. Sho was deep In thought
was not thinking more than I could
help. Across the sparkling water tho
trees were green and gold, with here
" and there a gleam of silver or a band
of black. Tho birds were woo.ng ar
dently In the tree t6ps; Indeed, Oiio
practical fellow seemed already to be
making furniture for the home, or, at
least, sawing the necessary wood.
There was scarcely a breath to i love
the rushes, and the fish slumbered
. peacefully In the cool depths of the
river, or glided slowly beneath their
water lily Biinshadcs. Now and then
tho little water fairieB shot up, from
the bottom of the river In 'hen' bub
ble boats and flew to join their play
mates in the clouds, to return when the
rain should come, seated on the falling
drops. v
But the beauty that surrounded her
brought no peace to the ir.iud of the
duchess. "It's such a suitable- mutch,'
she remarked, rousing me from u rev
erie. "Perhaps Lady Marion might not
think so," said I. aware of what was
troubling my companion.
"Fiddlesticks! She's a sensible gill."
"Marriages nre not made by being
sensible," I remarked.
"That's my opinion."
"Not exclusively. Your husband told
me "
The attitude of the dm-hess pruned
me to desist.
"Besides, he in much older ihn; Mar
lon, and Immensely rich." I continued.
"Her motives might be mistaken. Now,
If I were to marry you "
"Heaven forbid!" exclaimid tho
duchess, adding, more thoughtfully,
'"though I shouldn't have to worry
heaven about It."
"Let us say, then, an old lady."
"Is It a parallel case?"
My better nature asserted Itself.
"No," said I.
It is bo often the duty of one'is tot
ter nature to tell a falsehood. And
really she does not look her yoar-i.
"That's sugar," sighed the dimness;
"I'm as old as the hills. And I don't
Bklp like young sheep, either."
There was silence for a moment. I
remember wondering how tho duchess
would look skipping like a young sheep.
I think the heat had softened if not
partially melted my braTHT Hut my
companion . retained her mental
streng
"Wltnerton himself Is tho chief diffi
culty," she said, presently. "Ho wants
bringing to tho point."
"You can lead a man to the point,
but you can't make him sit on it," he
murmured.
"Crackling thorns!" ejaculated the
dudhess. "Do try to be sensible."
. I shook my head sadly. Tho thing
seemed so Impossible just then.
"He's not sentimental enough. He
wants stirring up."
I could only think of hatpins, but
dared not suggeBt them.
"If they were together, under suit
able conditions "
"Moonlight?" I suggested.
"I've tried that" "
"Mixed with music?"
"I don't tee how It could be ar
ranged." Then a brilliant idea flashed into my
brain.
"Have Peter Macnulty play to
them!" I cried.
The duchess sat up.
"You are really a wonderful man,
Masslngham. Just when I'm thinking
your mind Is permanently gone you
sparkle like this. Mr. Macnulty Is the
very man."
"With the man in the moon to help."
"But how are we to mix them?"
I thought Tor a moment, and then
set my scene.
"Wlnterton and Marion must he in
veigled on to the terrace; you and I
will be seated In a dark corner of tho
room."
"I shall feel like Guy Fawkcs!"
"Tho' moon, luckily full Just now,
will be In Its usual place; and In tho
far end of the room Macnulty will play
soft love music as no one else can play
It shaping destinies with his finger
tips the deus ox piano!"
"It's magnificent!" cried the duchess,
as I sank back exhausted in my chair.
"But how are we to get Macnulty?"
"I know his address In Ijondon.
Write to him." The duchess rose.
"This vory moment," she said.
"You're a wonderful creature, John,
though no one would think It to look
at you or hear you talk. I'm eternally
In your debt"
"Perhaps it won't work."
"It shall work," said the duchess, and
wept away over the grass.
In spite of her age, few women
could walk like her. I noticed that
as I lit a cigar.
Then I began to think of Peter Mac
nulty. A little man, inclined, to stout
ness, with a merry laugh and bright
eyes; a good companion and a thor
.. ough sportsman. We had faced a tlgor
.together and Macnulty found his
' shoulder Just in time to prevent un
pleasant consequences for me..
But Macnulty shooting tigers was
Just a quiet, plucky little Englishman,
with a certain dry humor and forgot
. fulness of self that made him a capital
companion. There are (it Is a matter
for congratulation) thousands like him
In this little Island of ours. But Mac
nulty at the picnic. Then yon forgot
the plump little body, and the shock of
red hair. And when he had dona with
you when he had made you laiifcn and
( cry, and love and hate, and stirred and
tickled your very soul with his music
then he was your master, and you
culd never think of him In quite the
same way again.
Tr-t be was the very best man to
suit the purpose of the duchess, 1 had
no doubt - t decided that Then I fell
asleep. I felj I needed rest
80NCL
I shall not tee the shadows, ...
I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nigbttugale
Hiiir on as if In 'pain;
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth uot rise nor set,
aply I may remember.
And haply may forgetl
Christina RossettL
But It Is the difficulty that is unfore
seen that spoils the best laid plan;
the runner that leaps the highest hedge
trips over the hidden root Next day
came a bolt from the blue.
Macnulty refused the Invitation of
the duchess. He was In town, and
gave no reason. But there was no
trace of Indecision In his reply. He
would not come.
''Why not? What's the matter with
the mmj" said the duchess to me,
when she announced the news. "He's
been here before."
"That could not be. I suppose "
"I fed him well. Whnfc. more does a
man want?"
There was certainly truth in that.
"You must get him for me. It was
your plan."
"I shall have to go to town," I
sighed.
"There's a train at 8 tomorrow
morning. You shall be called at 6."
I murmured my thanks.
"Be back to dinner but you shan't
have any unless you bring him with
you."
"The gallant knight will ride forth
on the quest," I exclaimed. "He will
capture the recreant or "
"He won't get any dinner," added
the duchess, who baa no soul for the
romantic.
"You may rely on mo," said I.
"You were always fond of your
meals," she murmured.
Next morning, to my Indignation,
(the gallant knight being sleepy), I
was awakened at an early hour, and
my hostess herself saw me driving off
to the station to catch the train she
had selected.
When I arrived In London I went di
rectly to Macnulty's chambers, aud was
sufficiently fortunate to find him at
home. He greeted nsc warmly.
"I thought you wore rusticating
picking daisies and drinking milk, you
know," he said.
"I have been. Not milk, though," I
answered. "I've been with the South
boroiighs," "1 had an Invitation."
"We'll go back together this even
ing." "But I refused It. I think of run
ning over to Paris the end of the
week."
"From the frying pan to the Are.
London's hot enough, but Paris lie
sides, tho duchess wants you at Ec
cleston." "I;a very flattering!"
"You're a charming young man when
you're nicely dressed. She is very fond
of you."
Macnulty pondered.
'Is is Lady Marion there?" he In
quired presently.
I thought a moment. There was a
meaning In that question that might
explain his mysterious refusal. It had
not occurred to me before.
"What's that got to do "
"Oh, nothing nothing!" said Mac
nulty, jumping up from his scat.
"Come out and lunch with me."
With my dinner trembling in the
balance, I thought the suggestion excel
lent. There is no doubt that a good meal
undermines a man's moral character.
He feels comfortable and peaceful. He
wants to know why be shouldn't do the
thing he ought not, and finds he has
forgotten the many reasons that had
suggested themselves before luncheon.
Probably, if no one stops him, he does
it.
It was bo with Peter Macnulty. We
caught an afternoon train to Eccle
ston to act promptly. Macnulty was
carefully fed (I had no reason to com
plain myself), and when the mcoon
climbed over the treetops, she saw us
all assembled In the great drawing
room that looked out on the stone ter
race where in olden times many wom
en had waved adieu with dainty ker
chiefs to "their knights riding to the
war, there to do great deeds for their
love. Here, too, was a great deed to
be done for love; not by a kuight In
shining armor, but by a little fat man
at a piano. Only be did not know he
was to do it, which spoiled the ro
mance. I have always (except, indeed, once
In my life) gazed at the game of life
as a spectator, and found much amuse
ment, and at times not a little sorrow,
in Its contemplation. Here was a scene
that would be interesting. With all
the power, and, I did not doubt the
will as well, to use his music for his
own ends, Macnulty was to aid his
rival with It I folt I ought to warn
him. But. then, the duchess And,
after all, the woman would choose for
herself It could but hasten the devel
opment The duchess displayed considerable
skill In arranging her tableau. Winter
ton and Marlon were lured on to the
terrace (by a suggestion that the park
was well worth looking at In the
moonlight), Macnulty was cajoled to
the piano, and the duchess herself took
a seat by my side.
But then matters went awry. After
playing a few soft; low chords and let
tins his Angers ran gently over the
keys for a minute Macnulty broke sud
denly Into one of the wild, grand mel
odies of bis native land. There were
the skirl of the pipes, the ahouta of
the tribesmen, and the clang of
their broadswords all the wild bar
barism of a fierce battle of the clans.
It stirred the blood In my veins. I,
too, grasped a claymour, and bounded
over the heather, filled with a wild
lust of slaying. There was a kilt
around my waist, and 1 felt the sharp
sting of the heather on my bars knees.
I would shout and kill--kill and my
arms would never tire while the shriek
ing of the pipes rang in my ear.
Presently I looked up. The duchess
was standing by me, with her hand on
my shoulder. .- -"This
will never do," she whispered.
"The music has not moved her. Possi
bly, she found It difficult to Imagine
herself In a kilt" - I
I looked put on to the terrace. Win- THE BATAVIA SYSTEM 8AVE3
tertonwas tapping with his foot and MONEY FOR THE COMMUNITY,
looking at the moonlight country. ' . I
"Tell, him to play something soft," No Lessons After School New Meth
od the duchess. I ad of Giving Education to Pupils Irt
i rose ooeaienuy ana waisea across
the room.. -
. t - . V I . M I
i kiu npprimcuioB miuuie BKy, tiu iu-
cllned to stoutness, so that surprise at '
my request for something sentimental
waa but natural. I felt I must furnish
an excuse, so I pointed to the couple
on the terrace.
"They would like it more," I said
softly.', '','.,. ' ' ' :
I was determined he should know
What he had to do.: '
Macnulty's face grew very grave.
"Did she ask for It?"
He was thinking of Marion. I sub
stituted the duchess.
"Yes," said I.
He turned sharply away from me and
laid his hands on the, keys. I returned
to my seat. The duchess waa smiling.)
. .. . ... I
men Macnulty began to piay, at
first softly, as of a lover thinking; then
louder, In a passlonat appeal. I saw
Wintorton's hand steal slowly toward
Marlon's, and close over it. (The duch
ess leaned a little forward in her
chair). But the hand underneath was
gently twisted away, and Marlon rose.
I could see her lips move, and then she
came through the doors Into the room.
Her mother gasped audibly, and for a
moment I though she would have bar
red her entrance, but she sank back
again into her chair. In the dim light
I could not see her expression, t was
sorry for that.
Marlon walked to the piano, but
Macnulty continued playing as If he
did not see her. But it was no longer
music that he played; it was the man
himself speaking, a passionate torrent
of words.
Wlnterton leaned over the terrace,
and I saw a gleam of a match. He had
lit a cigar. For a few seconds we re
mained motionless; then I rose and
went out on the terrace, and, to my
.h.m, h ..erf mnr ir hn 'th. !
room afforJPu, and did not realize the
danger that lurked under the softly
shaded lamp that stood by the piano.
She had scarcely gained the terrace
when the music stopped. The duchess
and I turned quickly and looked into
tho room. Macnulty had risen and
waa standing by the piano, holding
both Marion's hands In his. The duch
ess bounded (I can see no other word)
Into the room. Macnulty sat down
again quickly.
"Marlon," she cried.
"Yes," responded that young lady,
quietly.
Macnulty's hands came down heav
ily on the keys. Again tho pipes
shrieked out their music, but now in
wild strains of triumph and rejoicing.
For the Clan Macnulty had won a
victory.
Of course, tho duchess was annoyed,
but Mr. aud Mrs. Peter Macnulty were
very happy. The Lady's Realm.
C.UAINT AND CURIOU8.
Mrs. Nellie Wild of Kansas City has
brought suit for divorce from ft. 0.
Wild, charging that he "glanced an
grily" at her.
Ajl orange measuring IB Inches In
diameter and weighing nine pounds
has been grown by F. Oerber of Braam
River, Kcuga, South Africa.
A sealed bottle containing four pints
of liquid air was sent from Berlin to
Geneva, but on arrival It was found
that three and a half pints had evapo
rated.
. Seventeen horses were required.
says the Paris Matin, to draw an enor
mous cannon intended for coast de
fense from Bourses to Havre. The
gun weighs over 17 tons.
If one could save a cent the first
day of the month, two cents the next
day, four cents the next, and so on,
doubling the amount each day, he
would have nearly tnree million dol
lars at the end of the month provid
ing the month had 31 days and his sal
ary could stand the pressure.
If a Japanes husband divorces his
wife he makes no provision for her,
and she has no dowry from her fam
ily,' but divorced women In Japan
nearly always marry again. She
brings him nothing but a gentle and
obedient slave, and takes nothlnt-
away with hor but the sanie valuable
commodity.
In 1891 an old woman left to the
British Lifeboat Institution the sum
of $2000, to be paid on the death of a
favorite kitten which had survived
her and which was to be provided for
with the interest In 1802 the cat dls
appeared and the courts have now de
cided to assume Its death and let the
institution have the money, on giving
a bond to provide for the cat in case
it should come back.
Tha Land of Paper.
The Japanes use paper at every
moment The string with which, a
deft-handed "darling of the gods" does
up the articles you buy la made of pa
per. The handkerchief (thrown away
after use) is paper, the partitions di
viding the bouses are paper, and the
pane through an indiscreet eyt looks
at you la paper! The pine la certain
ly wanting In transparency, but there
Is a simple remedy. , One finger la
passed through the paper that Is all I
Afterward a small piece Is stuck on
the opening with a grain of rice. The
men's bats, the cloak of the porter
who carries his burden, singing a ca
dence, through the rain; the garment
of the boatman who conducts you on
board, the tobacco pouch, cigar case
all -are paper! : Those elegant flowers
ornamenting the beautiful hair of the
Japanese ladies, and those robe col
lars which are taken for crape paper!
. No Dan;er. ' ' "
"I wonder If we'll ever have a wom
an president of the United States?"
"No fear of that You know 36 Is
the constitutional age, and no woman
would admit she was that until ah
was too old to take an Interest in pol
itics." -Philadelphia Publte Ledger.
NEW TEACHING METHOD
batavla, N. V. Partntt Saved, from
Worry.. , '.
If the Minnesota Educational as
sociation follows the plan In use by
Superintendent John Kennedy, In
Batavla, N. Y, each school class in
this state will soon have two teachers
Instead of one, one to remain sta
tlofled at the dosk and another going,
around among the pupils helping them
in their lessons. '.
At the general session of the state
educational association, at the Central
Presbyterian associatlcn, Superintend
ent Kennedy said:
"By ths Introduction" of the two
teacher system Into tha schools ot
Batavla, I believe we have started a
lunP ' sanitarium Block thun
tha hull bA nn (ltd Vnrl
the bulls and bears on the New York
exchange have ever witnessed.
"Pupils, teacherii and parents have
been benefited by it. The attendance
at our Bchools has increased. Tho
high school has been fairly swamped
with pupils, and there Is satisfaction
over the result on all sides.
"In Introducing a school teacher In
to tho school who spends her entire
time in looking afior tho slow and
duller pupils and giving thorn individ
ual aid, we have struck nt the root
of the present school tragedy. Tho
father is saved from the nervous pro
stration which the trials tinder the
old system must bring to her sooner
or later.
"Tho child Is saved from tho nag
ging and scolding of the irritated.
teacher, and from the nervous fevers
brought on by study at night and vain
efforts to keep up with tho more able
pupils, and the parent is saved from
the Illness and nervousness brought
on by worry of mother and father
In their efforts to aid tho child, who
brings homo his lesson and socks, in
R lheartoncd and discouraged mood,
their help,
"The gonitis 'teacher' has disappear
ed under our system. Instead (wo
have happy, well-mannered ladles,
who enjoy tholr wo.-k and Imbue their
pppllB with love for their work. Ths
teacher lias time to go out In society
and to enjoy ot!u-r good thlrtgs of
ordinary mortals. Consequently there
has been a marvellous change In her.
Sho brings into the school new nian
taerisms which are beneficial, she (Ires
Sea better and she pervades the wholo
room with a haupy spirit and the best
of life.
"Under tho old system tho toachor
In her efforts to forco through whole
Classes must exert a pressure upon
the children which soon wears down
her nerves and develops Into a nag
ging which Is injurious to the child
and against which medical men are
raising an outcry for reform today.
Parents are constantly told that they
must take their children from school
to save the child or themselves from
the terrlblo effects of overwrought
hOrves.
"I do not mean to say that the dan
ger should be averted by removing
the child from the public school. Nl
There Is no better place on earth
to train a child than the public
schools. There they got the stimula
tion of the education of companionship
which makes tho man of action, the
man of the people.
"But we must seek this remedy in
some other manner. It lies In the
two-teacher plan. Under our system
we do not find half of the class mood
ily sitting in the room, half breaking
their hearts in an effort to keep up
with the prodlgio9. while the latter
are dawdling about In idleness. The
second teacher, who Is there to look
after the Individuals, aids tho slower
pupil, Arcs him with a spirit of enter
prise, and he moves onward with tri
umphant step.
"It Is not the child who is a prodigy
in the schoolB who becomes the load
er of men in after life. It Is the slow
pupil, who plods along and gradually
works out his salvation.
"With a second teacher to help
these slower ones, they are not sent
home crushed with misery and broken-hearted.
Instead, the child leaves
the schoolroom without a schoolbook
under his arm. Ho Is through for tho
day when school Is over, and haa
time to enjoy the pleasures which
should belong to the life of every
child.
"As the child does not have to take
home any studies, the parents are
saved from the worry caused In efforts
to aid their children and the even
ings at home arc happier. On ev
ery side we hear reports from the
parents of the happy change in their
children.
"The children take more interest In
their school work and our high school
is filled to overflowing wl,tb pupils.
There are many there who, If it had
not boea for the two-teacher system,
would never have crossed the thres
hold of the high school.
'The day of organizing little troops
of pupils under special taskmasters
and of working them like machines
must soon pass. The larger rooms
with tho two-teachers will be the sys
tem of the future. .-? -
'The Batavla system is a money
saving system also. One large room
with two teachers can be run for
about s 1300 less than two smaller
rooms. The Increased attendance In
the schools caused decreased cost In
the per capita expense In the educa
tion ot pupils." New York Advertiser.
- Feminine Friendship, -She
Have you ever met my two
dearest friends? They are Just love
ly and so devoted. -. : :
Ha-JJow long have you' known
them?
She Why, I've known Annette
nearly ten dars and Margaret almost
week. Cleveland Plain Dealer. . .
Reason for It
Reggy And you really believe he
tolls the truth?
Peggy Oh, no doubt about It, He's
taken It up as a fad. Detroit Fret
Press.
London beer makers send among
the people of the poorer districts can
M&asera who sell on the Installment
p!a.
I and insane
Fewer Blondes Than Brunettes In
' 8tate Insane Asylums.
"Several months ago I happened
across a pamphlet published by the
government of a southern state In
which were some interesting statistics
regarding the complexion of the in
mates of the State Insane asylum,"
Mr, Hobart Langdon said. "Only 3
percent ot the total had light hair
and only 2 percent blue eyes.
"It struck me as a rather curious
fact i that dark haired and dark eyed
people should so largely predominate
among the Insane., but the matter of
latitude might play some part in this;
I thought; for naturally there were
more dark than light haired people in
that section. Just as a matter ot
curiosity, however, I thought I would
write to asylum authorities in certain
other parts ot the country to Bed what
the ratio ot light hatred inmates was
to those" who were dark, and expected
to find the percentage increase in
communities where the total of light
hatred was larger, but In tills t was
mistaken; sd i am led to Infer from
the Statistics t gathered that there is
a greater possibility tor insanity
among dark haired than among light
haired people.
"My Azures woro obtained from 08
asylums, lor-ato.l In nearly every state
In the Union, and a few In- Canada
Bild England. The total number of
patients in these Institutions Was 1CV
812. of whdnl 703 had light hair and
j only CO red or auburn locks. In other
Words, 90 percent of the Inmates were
brunettes, wfth cither black of brown
hair, the latter In varying shades. In
one asylum In New England (here was
not a single Inmate that woS not a
brunette. Of course, I do not know
how to account for this, for 1 am not
a specialist In such matters and only
secured the statistics out of puro curi
osity, but it certainly looks as though
blondes were loss liable to insanity
than those with darker hair or eyes.
"Another peculiar feature about the
facts 1 obtained, however, was that
the percentage of thoso regarded as
Incurably Insane .was much greater
among the blondes than among the
brunettes. The totals show that among
tho dark haired inmates only Bit per
cent were marked hopelessly Insane,
while among the btondes 81 percent
were put iu this category, and that
only three among the red haired pa
tients 'escaped the" same classifica
tion." St. Louis Oiobe-Democrat.
Love and Eggs.
A correspondent of the Sterling Bul
letin is reciting tome anecdotes of
many yearn ago when ho was a coun
try boy In Ohio. "I well remember,"
he says, "tho first girl I went to sec.
i can tell the very kind of a night; It
was whiter time and cold. Tho girl's
mother had put a basket of eggs In
-i0 sitting room to keep thci.1 from
freezing. After vc got clear of the
bid folks I was sitting on ono nldo of
Uie room and the girl on the other,
fend after talking a Utile sho moved
her chair nearer Uie middle of tho
rootri, at the same time remarking that
i seemed a Utile distant. I took the
hint and got up to movo my chair and
stepped Into Iho basket of eggs. There
mii3t have been ten dozen, and I guess
i broke every one of them. Since then
I have been In the war, pissed through
nine earthquakes In Southwestern Col
orado, ono Kansas cyclone, and the
cholora, smallpox and measles, been In
two railroad wrecks, heard Jerry Simp
son Bpeak twice, listened to Carrie Na
tion and had fro -.en feet, but none ot
Ulese was ; ny comparison to the
trouble I was in when I found myself
in the basket cf e.ss.
"In trying to get out I fell and I
managed to get the eggs all over my
self as well as the carpet. The girl's
mother heard the fuss and came bulg
ing Into the room in her night dress,
and as she came sho yelled, "What In
uiunder Is the matter: And that fool
girl stood I hero laughing fit to kill. I
was meek as Mary's little lamb and I
tried to tell her I would pay for the
egga 'Pay nothing, you green little
puppy; you should te at home wltn
your ma,' "Kansas City Journal.
Dynamo and Motor Dcf;-.i.
Judging from some of the things
told In the latest annual report of
Michael Longridgc. chief engineer of
tho Englno and Boiler Insurance com
pany of Manchester, tho insuranco of
electric motors would seem to be a
highly speculative business, Taking
a general average, one dynamo in 12
has an accident during the year, whllo
ono motor In elgat may be oxpectod
to break down. These am average fig
ures, but in certain Industries the
"mortality," if one may use tho term,
is much higher, since, on the average
of motors employed In collieries, one
In three breaks down annually; while
of those used in actual coal cutting
the casualty rate Is as high as 0 per
cent. Further, this , class of machine
suffers from general deterioration to
a marked degree. In the case of mo
tors, fully one-fourth tho failures arise
from old ago. The Insulation In many
Instances Is found affected to such an
extent that if dlaturbiA it falls, to
pieces, and damage to t single con
ductor, therefore, Involves the com
plete rewinding of the armatnre. Over
loading, as a cause of failure, Is ap
parently less common, but Is still re
sponsible for one-seventh of the total
motor breakdowns. Cassler's Ma ga
ll n'e. .
Administering Ethtrv
" The most common mistake made by
beginners ! in the administration of
ether Is that of forgetting to lessen the
proportion of the substance when full
anaethesla Is established that is, con
tinuing to make their patients respire
an atmosphere as highly charged with
its vapors as wUn getting them under
Its Influence. U' Is a matter of sur
prise to physicians how very little
ether will often suffice to keep a (a-
tlcnt well under the Influence toward
the close of an operation, and this
small quantity Will always postpone
vomiting until the operation Is com
pleted. Mod leal Review.
The annual government expendi
tures for the promotion of agriculturo
are $4,500,000 spent by the states and
ICI.'O.OOO by the national secretary of
agriculture.
I a Sbm0N FOfl StiNDAf
AN ELCGK-2NT DISCOURSE ENTITLED,
"CHRIST'S CIFT OF LIFE." .
tha Ittv. Urorc B. tnnn rrcaehes From
Text Which He Hectares Shows in
, Compact Form me Predominate Aim
of Jeiufr-The Larger Xtit
Brooklyit, N. Y. Sunday riUht; id the
Lafayette Avenue Trcbyterlan Church,
the itcv. Gcorgo R. Lunu, asusttint pa
t r, preached on "Cln-Ut's Gift of Life."
Tho text was taken from John x:10: "I
am come that they might have lif;." Mr.
Lunn said I
I am sure thnt I do not cxnggerste when
I ny that hd words of oiir Lord art more
profoundly significant (hart these words of
the text. We have irt a ednipaci form a
statement of the purpose of Jesus' Christ;
All else is subordinated to this great and
predominate aim. Jesus Christ has come
into the world to give that life in ever in
creasing abundance. This is not conclu
sion of mine worked out after special in
vestigation! It is the simple and clrar and
forceful statement Of Our Lord Hltntelf, I
rest upon His word as a finality'; And I
find in this verse a fuller and richer ex
pression of the purpose of Christ than is
found anywhere else in Scripture.
AVIiat, then, n the life which Christ
seeks td giro! It is the life of fellowship
with Uodj the Father; a fellowship bepun
On earth aid tontinucd throughout the
ages of eternity': It is the! life of spiritual
oneness witli Cod( iinited td Hint in
thought, in purpose, in all Bur varying ac
tivities. It is the larger life which com
prehends our present life, enriching it with
all the holy purposes of God. our (Saviour,
lifting us by its power intg the purified at
mosphere of noble deed done for His
sake.: In other words, II ii the life of
Which our Master spoke when lie iiid that
to lose it was a calamity, even though a
tnan should gain the whole World.
I think I am right iu saying that a great
many people interpret the1 words and Work
bf our Lord as applying Chiefly td the Other
world, no altogether, but chiefly.- They
regard the religion of Christ as an insur
ance of safety for the next world rather
than a delinito program of activity for the
present; They think more of tlie saving
of the soul after death than of saving ths
life before death. Xo stronger illustration
of this thought can be found than the
large numbers of men who delay their de
cision in reference to Christ to some more
convenient season. They say, not now,
but at some future time, I will settle the
great question of my soul's relation to
God. You cannot find a man who will not
express soma wish to lead a better life:
but in nearly every enso they see no need
Of an immediate decision, In my pastoral
Work I have Come iu contact with tins ex
perience time and again. And as I have
Endeavored to understand what is the un
derlying causo of so much indecision re
garding religious things, I find that most
of it Can be traced to this fundamental
misinterpretation of the words and work
of Jesus Christ our Lord. Voil may ex
press this in many war but at heart tho
point is this the saving of the soul after
deatli, instead Of saving the life right here
and now: the gaining, of iieaved hereaftor,
rather than euteriuz into heaven now.
because ot this interpretation men
el no iwrocdiate necessity of getting
Ciit with tio1,o lon?-ii thev are rca-
sonaBlv sure of life here. tW ore willuil
to delay the great decision of tmVsoul.
Against this view of religion alloWxme to
bring the message of the Saviour,
come that they might havo life and thai
they might have it more abundantly." Yoi
cannot read the gosiiels without coming
into contact with this purpose of Christ at
every turn. Repeatedly do you find the
word life. We are struck with the fact
how constantly the .word life was on the
lips of Jesus. It is a word which gives us
tne very heart of .Tceda' teaching, lie was
always praising, always promising life. "If
thou wilt enter into life keep My com
mandments," "He that heliereth on Me
hath life,"' "As the Father hath life in
Himself, sd liatli Hd.tivcn to the Son to
have life in Himself, "Kecause I live ye
shall live also." "1 e will not come unto
Me that yo might have life." Every where
we find tbia same eager pleading with men
to enter into life, and we further find that
Jesus identified life with goodness. To
Jesus life consisted in goodness. Wicked
ness is death. "The soul that sinneth, it
shall die" is not so much a threat as the
statctnent of a great truth. For the sin
ningsoul dies by reason ot the veiy fact of
its burning. There is no lite for the hu
man soul but in righteousness. Jesns,
therefore, uses language which we may
justly call violent when He referred to t'ie
fiosstbllity of a man's losing his higher
ife. Better to rut off the offending hind
or foot if it hinders the aspiring soul.
Better to pluok out the eye which causal
stimtbling if by that ueans the real life of
God may be gained. I have colled this
language violent, and suoh it is. Not that
Jesus anticipated any literal interpreta
tion and literal following. The forceful
illustration is used Id emphasize a terrib'c
and an eternal truth. The very possibility
of a man's failing to enter into the life of
fellowship with God, vu a thought which
brought strong tears to the eyes of the Sa
viour of men, I tell you that in these days
we art harboring in oar hearts a senti
mental sympathy which overlooks sin and
condones iniquity and seeks to apologize
for the stern words of the Swiour. There
was no donbt a ringing doom sgainst sin.
But it was not the doom of a threat.
Jesus never threatened. He revealed
what sin is; its very natnre is death. Ths
open door of life m (od is before men.
To pass by that door does not mean that
God will arbitrarily punish, but that the
very passing it by is death. The issue ol
sin is doom, exile into the night, the
telipse of desolation and abandonment.
Does there mow in your hearts the sus
picion that such a doom is exaggerated and
overdone? When that suspicion comes to
me, and it often comes, I remember the
words of a sainted preacher: "When I am
tempted to think that the doom is over
done, 1 must remember that the Son of
God, my Saviour, with an infinite insight
into ail things, superlatively sensitive,
knowing ths inmost heart of life, He, our
Saviour, pronounced tha doom to bs just.
This Christ, who guvs Himself for us, who
loved us, told us in words I venture to
say loving words, of appalling terror that
for the deliberately sinful, and for the de
liberately unjust, there is no plane but the
night, no place lint tha outer darkness, no
plaot but ultimate separatoness, no plan
out ultimste forsakenness and abandon
ment. These arc my Master's words, and
against them I will rear no petty imagina
tion of my own I will rather silenoa ray
own un illumined suspicion and humbly and
quietly take my p'ac with Him. The
wages of tin it the night" It it the night
now-; it it the night hereafter. The es
sence of tin it death; it it exile; it it aban
donment. Jems' words war violent, bnt
He wat not seeking to prodiuM fear, bat
to reveal fatt.
Now to all of at who feel this (act so
keenly Jesus brings His evangel of forgive
ness and peace. The words spoken so long
ago have their greatest significanot now,
for we can tee, at those Jews tould not see,
their fuller and more profbund meaning.
As He spoke of the Father in suoh kiU
mtte terms, bitter resentment arose in
their hearts. As He told them of His wil
lingness to lay down His lift for Hit sheep,
they retorted: "Ha hath a demon and it
mad; why hear ye Him?" Possibly wt
would have spoken likewise had wt been
living then. But now in the light of tho
eeaturiea past, we look npon (bat lonely,
forsaken, crucified Christ and recognise in
His ftoe the glory of kite living, suffering
God.. For the "sufferings of Ciiritt wert
the true reoresentotivt symbol and proc
lamation cf what toet on perpetually in
God. From them God wishes the world to
learn that tin it put away only through
the- redemptive suffering of holy love,
which lie Himself it gladly bearing, and
which Christ, Hit representative ana ex
pression, endured before the eyes at men."
It is this truth which gives to the wosdn
of the text their power. He who said. "I
tm come that y micht have Km' is Him
self tht iife which He seeks to impart. He
tnd the Father are one. The wordt which
the historic Christ spoke to those Jswt
tlwn ait being repented now to us by tht
indwelling, immanent Christ. I lie that
word immanent. It is a tholoiual void,
but it is a splendid word, preuiiaiit Willi
meaning. His name shall be called Fmma
nuel, t-o-l with us, the inside Liod, the im
iit C--!. It is lit wht sayt "Come
hnld ifeJfl y that labor and are heavy
laden and I will give Iron rest." It is He
w!io tavs, "I tm come that ye might have
life and that ye might have it more abun
dantly." It is He who speaks to at ta our
sorrow and says, "Come with your sin and
shame; earns with your sadness and disap
pointment, tffiiW With your heavy trial tod
discouragement and I will give yo peace.
God with us! now to givd tht Victory.
God with us, now, to forgive oiir tans. God
with ns! now, to give us heaven m or
consecrated labor for Him.
I would that these words of Jeaut which
we are" considerinjr might live m your
heart, a I try to have them live in my
heart, as w6rd spoked hOic, tp-night, by
the ever-living, evet-l'tving FathtY! How
common it is for us to think of Mod our
Father as fur removed! It may ttt bsoaiue
of dur training, but however w ?
count for it, the fact remains that many of
us fail to realize that God is dealing with
ns noiV just as intimately i.nd just as gra
cious! a He dealt with the great prophets
of old. Ho nianV of us carry about with
us the sense of God? 10 wo have the con
viction of God's abiding nearness wherever
we are?, If not, the greatest lslessmg of
lifo has been missed. There is nothing
more needed to-day than t truer, larger,
more Seriptnra! idea of God. iV need to
realize His abiding nearness. But we need
to forget the old idea of an unapproach
able God, I recall the words oi Henry
BrunimonJ, that great teacher, who, dur
ing his short life, wort so nmny men to
Christ. "I remember verj? Well," he says,
"the awful conception of God I fdt when
1 was a boy. 1 was given a book of
Watts' hymns, which waa illustrated, and,
among other hymns there was one abont
God, and it represented a great black,
scowling thunder cloud, and iu the midst
of that eloud there Wat a piercing eye.
That was placed before my young imagina
tion as God, and I got the idea that Hod
was a great detective playing the spy
upon my actions and, as the hymn says,
writing now the story of what little chil
dren do. That was a bad lesson, it lias
taken years to obliterate it." And 1 fear
most of us have had to go through a sim
ilar experience before we have been rid of
the terrible God of childhood, the fur
sway God of childhood, and come into the
spiritual Conception of the everywhere
present tjod ot tne mir.e
Xow it is this everywhere-present God,
our Father, who seeks our lil
Uie to save it.
He wants our life now, for witffotlt God
life is a living death. With God 'ife is
erowtli. deve.opinent heaven now and
heavr:i hereafter. Without tjod it is dc-tryi-ii
-allor. atrophy, death. Here are twt
Facts wliii-'.i our owrt Pxpe rience confirms
in true. We need to rertlizc, therefore,
that tin re is never a time when God the
Kstlur is not near us to lead us into His
life. In the hour when yon feel the stir of
divinity within you, in the hour wnea eon
science speaks and savs, be a nobler man,
a purer man, a truer man, in that honr "it
is God which worketh in you." Possibly
it was but 'yesterday that you spake the
unkind word that wounded a devoled
heart, or gained your point in business by
ruining your fellow man, or committed a
sin that leaves a blot on the scatcflton, but
ai'lcrward, unless your heart is already
dead, you hcunl a still small voiue plead
ing with you to repeut your evil way and
lire a beMer- higher life. It was "God
which worketn in you."
llultiplied aro tiic experiencct in which
God is spc.ikiiig to ouv souls, and many of
us have never heard the voice. Ears nave
we hut we hear not. We havo eyes but wo
fail to see. There are great crowds who
trample upon the beautiful violet, (lever
thinking that they have ono of God's
swee'est thouihta under their heel. There
are myriads ot stolid eyes which jooK, up-
Til to the stars bnt see not UoAs glory
in tntLI?il beauty oi tne sny. mere am
raultitudcBvftio stand beneani the magnifi
cent blue heaven, gaxing npon
pome gorgeous tunseVnever dreaming that
God lighted the fire, lnd beyond nnmber
arc they who foil to fedsalte-tjfje3tii(!t uj
God in the ordinary experiences of life.
My friends, God want our life. Do some
thing with your life. Let yonr energy,
vour talent, your service be for God yonr
Father. Be uot so concerned t save your
soul as to eave your h'e. Give fiod your
life and He will sanctify your soul.
Tho True and Ihe Artificial.
It is not difficult to distinguish between
tho true and the artificial, Tire moral test
is the sure one. When conscience is sensi
tive and the will submissive, and the life
consistent, there is no doubt about one's
spirituality. When the soul sings' "I de
light to do Thy will, O, God," and then
does delight to do God's will, or (foes the
will of God from firm resolve, there can lie
no doubt. When one loathes sin and tries
to leave it all sin, all kinds of sin sin
against the body, sin a-jaiust the sunt, sia
against the neighbor, sin again Jlirist and
the Father there is no dillicuity hi reach
ing a deoision as to the genuineness of
Christian character. It is no mirage. The
tnrden of the Lord is there. Bitdiop Jolm
H. Vincent.
sinking Tonr Temper Over
If yon were not Wn with n good tem
per, luako your tumjier over. If cn&riness
and patience and amiability are not aai
nra), cultivate them as a second; natuuo.
Xo one oati be really happy who is irrit
able and fault-finding, and what is worse,
he renders his nearest and dearest equally
unhappy. Determination can oooqner
these faults, and a disposition as full of
priekB as a bramble bush can be rendered
sweet -and tpatiquil and lovable. Unn't
imagine you must accept the nntnrt yea
inherited without any attempt at change
or alteration, if it is not what you want,
make it over.
Optimism of Jesus.
You remember the famous line of Robert
Browning, "God's in His heaven, all's
right with the world?" That was tne one
source of the optimism of Browning, but
the optimism of Jesus went a great deal
deeper. It was the fact that God was in
His earth, so that the ravens were fed snd
the lilies were adorned, and so that tht
very hairs of a man's head are numbered
it was that which gave a radiant quietude
to Christ. G. II. Morrison.
NEV7S OF THE FAR EAST.
The Russians were driven from Slu
yen, Rntala't naval program provides for
the construction of twenty battleships.
General Stnlkcnlierg has advanced
southward from Llaoyaug with 14,000
men. . . , :
- Army reserves bt the Kaann, KleCf
and Moscow district! have been called
ut. .
Knrnkl renorM four victories. In one
of which 4000 Russian cavalry were
engaged.
St, Petersburg Js being prepared for
defense should a Japanese fleet enter
the Baltic. ,;,! r, :,:,.'.
The total of the Japanese losses at
the battle of Nanshan II111 hat been
pnt at 430J J
Port Arthur Is said to be com inn
Bleating with the Chinese coast by
wireless telegraphy.
: Admiral Togo has succeeded In clear
ing the channel leading Into Tnllenwan
Bay of Russian mines. , ;
Nineteen Japanese were killed by an
exploding mine while sowing the en
trance to Port Arthur harbor. -
Officials" at Pekln believe Russia Is
trying to provoke a hostile outbreak
by China to JusUfy aggressive action.
The Russian Admiralty denied that
the Vladivostok squadron had been
near Port Arthur snd engaged a squad
ron ot the Japanese fleet.
' Lewis Etzcl, an Amerlcnn acting as
correspondent for a Loudon paper, was
killed by Chinese troops while hi a
Junk hunting; news of bandits.
.Vice- Admiral Togo and Admiral
Tamsmoto, Minister of the Nat, have
been promoted to the rank of Kalirim
Talrhe, tho birbtxt rank in the navy.
HALEY OVERl .
Ont from the oity't dlu, v , ..
My feet to-day-Iii
tho old, old way, - . ,
Followed the path they wandere a In I
Long years before my hnlr grow gray.'
Down to the Pembroke hills ,
Where tangled lines
Of the berry-vlues,
And grape and ivy the old spot Mis.
And under the iichoolhoiist) wull
1 sat and heard tnem call r ,..
"Hrt-B ley over!"
And then on the other slUo
The childish voices" erlod, , 1
"Under!"
Listening; to them so,
My thoughts o-dny . 1
Went far uway,'
And pintiired the scenes of the long ago,
When the snine old giimo I iisod to play.
And the tears unbidden cinno.
For facet long forgot
Hovered around the spot.
And sitting beneutli the tiiuo-stuinedl
wall , , '.
I heard "Chips'" and "Spider and "Wil
ter" cull,
"Ha-a ley over!"
And off on the other sido
It seemed my own voice crlod,
"Under!"
Oh, to be back again ' '
To that old way
For but a day I .
To follow the cow-path tLrougli tht
lane.
For a mock fight under tho hills.
With "Have a euro!"
And "That's no fiilrl" ' : .
While good-nutiiml shunts tho old yard
tills.
Oh, to be under tho wnll
With tilt) bail in my liniid aud cull.
"iia-a icy overm . . .
tnu lnionca to a minor cry,
Tho deur old friends reply,
"Under!"
Youth's Companion.
JUST FOR FUN
Oldwed "Do you and your wife
quarrel?" Newwod "No; we live in
a flat and there is no room for argu
ment." Manitoba Free Press.
The Sister "Why don't you get pos
session of that girl? Sho Is as pretty
as a picture." Tho Brother "Tha
frame is too expensive." Ll
Knlcker "Jones Is very instl
cant looking." Bocker "Yes, you
might take him for a bridegroom or a
vice-president." Harper's Bazar.
"I never think of business out of
business hours." "I didn't either, uut
til I found that I was doing business
with people who did." Chicago Post
"I've had a now frieze put In my
room," remarked Hunker. "Thoro's a
new freeze In my room every night," i
added Mr. Gayboy. Detroit Free
Press. (
Jimmy "Ma, what is an archan
gel?" Mother "An archangel, Jim
my, Is a man who never "nils fault
with his coffee." Cincinnati Commer
cial Union. : - :'
Preacher "Have you seriously tou
sidered the great question of life,
Mary?" Girl Preacher "Nono of the
young men haa asked mo as yet, sir."
San Francisco Wasp. ,
Physicians are agnln advising against
drinking water while eating. Many,
men carry tho advise to the extreme
of refusing to drink water while drink
ing. Washington Post.
Merchant "I thought you told me
he was a man of very good character.1
Qulbbel "You must havo misunder
stood me. I said he was a man of
good reputation." Philadelphia Press.'
Mrs. Browq "Of course a husband
owes his wife protection." Mrs. Jones
"Oh, yes, and she Is also entitled
to the funds necessary for free trade
at the bargain counters." New
Times. i t
"Today," said the minister,-"! think',
you'd better take up the collection be-:
fore I preach my sermon." "Why
so?" asked the vestryman. "I'm going
to preach on "Economy. " Philadel
phia Press. . w-.'v.
"Do you shave yourself, sir?" ''None
of your business." "I was only going
to say, sir, that It's done as. well aa
any professional could do lt'V-That
netted him an extra tip. Cloveland
Plain Dealer. - . - ,
"Shall I get off this ernHJITnie carr.
said a. lady to the condoctoron a Santa
Fe train the other- dny, as It pulled In
to Topeka. "Just suit yourself, mad-'
ame," said the conductor, "both ends
stop." Topeka Capital. -
She "Well, George, did you have
much trouble to get - pa's consentt",
He "Trouble? Why, he Just Jumped'
at the chance. He said he was afraid
he wasn't going to get you off hla
hands." Boston Courier. '
"Have you called on tho new clot'
gyman'a wife yet?" "No, but I ex
pect to soon. I don't want V havo
to tell her who my dressmaker is un-1
til after I get my spring sewing done."
Chicago Recwd-Herald. ; -:
Wlfe--'That'i the third time you've
stepped on my dress. I wish you
were not so slow.". Husband "It's
you, that are alow." Wife "Indeed, I
am not" Husband "Well, your train
Is behind." Washington Post, 7
. "Of course, : the more children a
couple have the larger their doctor's
bill becomes." "Not at all. The more
children they have the lees likely the
parents are to become alarmed at
every little thing." Philadelphia
Press,
- Taking Note of Time.
; A great man once remarked that
there exists one point of distinction be
tween man and the other inhabitants
of the world he alono can tell wlmt
o'clock it la "Other creatures train!
down the path of time, but be alouo
can count the steps. Man alone rm
structa a calendar, takes note of t
passing seasons, celebrates l: anuiv. -
aarles, reckons duration by centuri
ponders the age ot the globe and ;
tempts by prophetic Instinct to lifo t
veil of the future."
Many alone can live in the 1
and present and anticipate ths fniu
He can emancipate himself from 1
own past and keen pace with tho n
demands of the present. Every d -.v
he wills it can be to him a IV :
ginning. Happy the man, who, v
be take note of time past nml
to be, yet lives In the present w
am well! Denver News.