THE . FRANKLIN
PRESS.
V0LUMEX1X.
FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 28. 1904.
MjajUEIi 3 9
"USED
There Is no map that howa us where
ltd hill luiigh lit the sky;
No miip or we would Journey there ;
Where Boweruil valleys lie.
TUu little laud of Used-to-be
A funded Inud, forsooth,
W hlch has for mete awl boundary
Thu dim frontiers of youth.
Xi, little Land of Used-to-be,
Your roses were uo red I
Your tkUts were uzuro seas
Whore ships went sailing overhead,
A land of laughter aud of song.
. Whero beei" oouteiitetl croons
Kept time with swaying poppy blooms
Through Summer afternoons.
Wo seek the pathway to that land,
But seek It till lu vnlu,
Sometimes the ruin scetna like a hand
That taps upon the pane
Ami lulls us softly Into cleoj
Blent with a revery
Wherein our glad hearts mid and keep
The Laud of Usedo-bo.
WHO STOLE THE CAPTAIN'S- HAM?
A Mystery of tho Briny Deep Which is
Still Unsolved.
By E.
It was perhaps from bo jo dim, In
stinctive appreciation of tho futility of
reckless competitioa, more likely from
a mutual respect fer on 3 another's
fighting powers, that stealing from the
galley was so finely systematized by the
stokers and sailers of the Scotch
Prince, cargo and cattle steamer of
Liverpool.
A great hulking, dirty, rolling car
rier of the ocean, with a long, hatch
dotted sweep of deck foro and aft
steam winches innumerable, and six
teen boilers, shs carried a matter of
twenty-odd seamen and as many stok
ers, to say Nothing of tholr under
studies, tho trimmers. These trimmerB
were a humble set, cursed a great deal,
and tolerated as a sort of necessary
evil by tho better elements of tho
"black gang." They had no recognized
right to participate In the peril's or the
fruits of "galley ranging." It was con
sidered a sort of poa'hiug for them
to stenl for themselves, and shocking
Impudence to ask for a share of what
was Btoleu by others; so they generally
bad to ba content with their' bare
"whack," so neatly and accurately set
forth by the round of this, the half
pound of that, and the cunco of tho
other per diem on the printed sheet of
"British Steamship Rules," duly pssted
up In each forecastle.
Now the "British Steamship Rules"
are a very prudent and admirable in
stitution. In the olden days a crew
might bo overfed or underfed, or both,
alternately, according to the length of
the voyage and the eccentricities of
the skipper. But during the lost gener-
itrgreat minds were exercised over
this evil, and the result Is the neat
poster referred to above, which removes
from the Bailor's mind all uncertain
ty and speculation so far as food Is
concerned, and provides that Instead
of the extremes and sudden transitions
which formerly obtained, a gentle, ac
curate semi-starvation shall be main
tained without Interruption; that in
stead of the violent agony of passing
from plenty to famine, and sometimes
from famine back to plenty again, that
these who go down to the sea In ships
have a legal right to be underfed regu
larly and to pine sweetly away into an
early and anaemic grave.
Sailers, are an Ignorant lot; they,
never appreciate what Is done for them,
"'tis true 'tis pity; and. pity 'tis 'tis
true" that never have cargo broaching,
galley ranging, and other like crimes
flourished before as they do today In
most ungrateful spite of the benign
ration system.
The trimmers of the Scotch Prince
thought they fared badly. To be sure,
they had "salt horse" and potatoes
once a day, to say nothing of delicious
"burgoo," and no less than two ounces
of petrified hard tack every morning
and evening. It was the bcunty that
spoiled them. At least the steward said
so. And they would have stolen, ac-
tually have taken food that didn't be
long to them, had a chance offered
But the Bremen and sailors had just
such vicious propensities themselves,
and they kept a Jealous eye on all
chances.
The firemen and sailors, as we have
remarked before, managed things in a
very business-like way. On the (Scotch
Prince, as on the majority of trans
atlantic freighters, the different meases
of the crew were served by "pegSies"
that la, going in rotation, the men of
each mess took turns In bringing the
food from the galley, to their respect
Ire quarters. They usually worked in
pairs, one man carrying the soup or
coffee can, the other the meat or bread.
The cookrooms were in an alley in
the deckhouse, the ovens and soup
kettles In one room, and the bread
room just diagonally across.' The sail
ors' pegglos and the firemen's peggles
would naturally reach the galley about
the same time; one set would go in
for the bread while another wera get
ting their soup and meat, and then,
hiking it turn and turn about, and not
often enough to be too palpable, the
firemen's Joggles in the breadroom, for
instance, would set up a cry that they
could not find tue hardtack, and while
the cook catr.e to unearth It, the sail
ors' peggles In the opposite room
would stuff their waists and caps with
boiled carrots, spinach, slices of steak,
and other delicacies of the officers'
mess. Vice-versa, the sailors' peggles
might engage the cook's attention
while a stokers' peggy absconded with
a pudding. The trimmers, also, had
their peggy, only one;-as they were a
small body, and ha was out of place
In a manoeuvre of this kind; It Was
obviously a situation where "two are
company and three a crowd." The best
he could expect was to be regarded as
a neutral spectator and not pounded
by the robbers for -being in the way
nor blamed, on the other hand,, fall
ing to prove an alibi for other people's
thefts,
The trimmers took their hardship
very much to heart, but there' was no
apparent remody. Wherever their soli
tary pegtry happened Be be was out
numbered,! the enemy and helpless.
Ta addition to a superior forne the
- TO - BE."'"
, 0, little land of Used -to-be,
Hn far. mirl fnlr .nrl faint.
Whence uiellow song eome murmuring
m accents oia aua quuinti
Tour trees were all so broad and high
And prodigal of shade
Wherein the scattered sunshine
. In mosaics leaped and played.
Oft times we look to where It lies
ror this we know lull weii:
Its distant glamour never dies;'
We never lose the spell.
Ah, would that we might rise and go
. Down iinttiH nf meinorv
Aud find the land we used to know,
The Loud of Used-to-be.
O, little Land of Usod-to-be,
What treasures do you bide)
Tho slnains- streams that romped
And rati through meadows green and
wines
The birds, whose songs, it seemed to us,
were eennes or our giee
Why is It we can never find
The Laud of Used-to-be I
, ' Chicago Tribune
II. 005SE.
strokcrs and sailors were either gifted
with a sort of second sight, or bad
some mysterious channel cf informa'
Hon with (he galley, possibly through
a terrorized mess boy, that enabled
them to prognosticate pretty accurate
ly what was being cooked there on any
particular day and where it could bo
found. The trimmers had no private
wire; the only hints they ever re
ceived they gathered, second hand,
from the gossip of tho flreroom.
.One noontime, when the trimmers'
peggy reached the galley he found the
stokers' peggles there ahead of him
and the representatives of the fore
castle in the breadroom. He was con
scious of a sort of electrical excite
ment in the air without seeing any
thing at first glance to warrant it. He
had Just filled his soup bucket aud
was waiting for his pan of meat when
tho cook went off to get his pipe,
The stokers' peggles stood for an in
stant looking at the cook's retreating
figure with the rapt gaze of devotees
at the psychic moment of a miracle,
They recovered presence of mind and
tilted off the lid of a pot on the galley
range. Within. Just rising and falling
with the ebullitions of the water, was
a luclous, fragrant, Yorkshire ham
The stokers' peggles placed their hands
en their stomachs and struck attitudes
symbolizing appreciation. Tho poor
trimmer, overcome with emotion, fair
ly drooled at the sight
Ignoring him, the stokers agreed to
run quickly around, In contrary direc
tions, to the starboard alley to make
sure no officers were in sight between
the galley and the stokehole fiddler,
They departed on the double-quick. In
about three seconds the lid was back
on the pot and the despised trimmer
was going below, very rapidly, with
a soup can In one hand and 20 pounds
of ham in tho ether.
He had just about gotten down the
companlonway, by wonderful luck, un
observed, when the two sailors' peg
gles came cautiously out of the bread-
room. "Give us 'alf, would they! Ya!
The mischief they would," said cne;
"grab the pot and cut." With the lid
still on they took pot and all and sped
for the forecoBtle.
A moment later stokers peggy No. 1
got back, and missed the pot. Just
then stokers' peggy No. 2 appeared,
"Ye think ye're cute stealln' the 'am
while I'm running like mad around the
ship, dbn't ye?"
"Don't try to got out of It that way,
Were s the am?"
"You stole It?"
"Ditto!"
In sparring for an opening they
turned and saw the chief steward
standing at the door listening to their
dialogue.
Half an hour later, two stokers Bit
tig In irons under the main batch
heard a cry on deck: "Aye! me 'am,
me am; caicn im: mere was a
commotion overhead. Where two ..art
been sitting in Irons there were pres
ently three. A sailor, with a faraway,
sorrowful look on his face, bad been
caught sneaking up the forecastle com
panlonway with an empty pot He was
captured in the act of throwing it over
board. "Too many clues to this mystery,"
said the first officer. "First the stokers
stole it, now It seems the sailors stole
it; next we'll get evidence against the
trimmers." But he never did. New
York Evening Post
No Old Maids In Japan.
Mrs. Sodatuchi Uchlda, the wife of
the Japanese consul general In New
York City, In an article in Social Sci
ence says, among other things: "There
are no old maids In Japan. With
whom the marriage Is to be made does
not so much concern the Japanese
girls as the fact of the marriage Itself.
In this country you fall In love before
marriago; In Japan we do that after
ward. In Japan the parents arrange
the marriage, subject to the approval
of the young people; In America the
young people arrange the marriage
subject (sometimes not always) to
the approval of the parents.: Families
are not large, four five children.
How to Get on In the World.
.. .. . . .
u ;uu must oe a wage-earner go
about It In a happy mood and do not
scorn even the humUest helps to at
tain your goal. Count all that comes
to yea as experience that . elusive
quality that means so much to malty
employers. A kind heart, a tactful
tongue and a determination to play a
true partners share will win both
friends and Influence, two valuable as
sets. '
A Character Book.
To prevent the manufacture of be
am, recommendations of servants in
Germany every servant is obliged to
keep a character book, in which neces
sary entries of dates and qharacter
lr.crlptlons are made by the mistress
-r master. The servant must then
take the book to the nearest police sta
tion and have her record dated wfth
tlm official stnmp.
A WAY THE JAPS H AYR
SHOWN IN THE MATTER OF MAK
ING ARTIFICIAL LIMBS..
Why American Manufacturer Are
Not Likely to Profit by the Russo-
Japanese War American Artificial
Limb Still the Beat In the World,
"Will the Russo-Japanese war cause
any Increase In the demand for Amer
ican artificial limbs?" was asked of
a New York maker of such appliances.
"Not a bit," was the reply, "or not
In Japan, anyway. Whatever artificial
limbs the Japanese may require they
will buy of their own makers.
"We have sold some artificial limbs
In Japan," the New York manufactur
er continued; "I guess about fifty alto
gether. The first one we ever sold
there was supplied to a Japanese no
bleman, who was also of high rank as
a state official, and who lost a leg by
the explosion of a bomb thrown at
blm by an assassin at the time of the
Chino-Japanese war.
"This leg gave Its wearer great sat
isfaction, and subsequently we sold to
htm duplicates of It; tho first and last
we have sold to various purchasers In
Japan, as I said, about fifty artificial
limbs altogether, but now the demand
for tbem has wholly ceased, for the
Japanese are now making their own.
"Wo print a catalogue, which is real
ly a book of several hundred pages,
and which contains, besides a cata
logue of our productions, a treatise on
artificial limbs and thrlr us03 and In
formation concerning them. It is il
lustrated with cuts of artificial limbs
and of various other appliances which
we produce. Wo send thc3c catalogues
all ovr the world.
Some tlmo age we received from
Japan a reprint of our catalogue, done
in Japanese, put out there by a Jap
anese manufacturer of artificial limbs.
He eent a number of copies of this
book and offered to send us moro If we
desired them."
This Japanese reprint of the Ameri
can catalogue is, like the original, a
book of some hundreds of pages, and
It Is bound In boards. It Is printed on
thin Japanese paper, and In Japanese
characters.
In this Japanese reprint many of tho
drawings of the original are also repro
duced, the work on. these, however, not
"being Bo well dono as It might TJeV Btrt
tho book contains, bound Into It, asst
number or leaves of plate papor, on
which are printed half tone portraits,
these including pictures of some Jap
anese wearers of artificial limbs, and
including also a portrait of the found
er of the American concern whose cat
alogue Is thus reprinted.
in fact," said tho New York manu
facturer, 'they gavo us In tho book tho
very fullest credit In every way, but at
the same tlmo they wrote us that they
considered the making of artificial
limbs a humane enterprlso, and that
it they required further Information
concerning the making of them It
might bo that they would write to us
tor It. And if they do, I dare say that
we shall seud it to them.
For their example In reprinting
our catalogue Is one not likely to be
followed, and the Japanese trade Is
lost to us, anyway. American arti
ficial limbs are the best that are made
In the world anywhere. In lightness,
In the Ingenuity of their construction
and In adaptability to their uses they
excel all others, just as. In tbelr respec
tive ways, do to many other Ameri
can Inventions In the construction of
which Ingenuity and skill are Involved.
'But now, with artificial limbs made
In their own country, the Japanese will
buy ne other. For they are an Intense
ly patriotic people, and however good
ours may be, and whether their own
may be good or bad, the Japanese re
quiring an artificial limb will buy one
only of Japanese make.
"But this does not apply everywhere.
There are other .patriotic peoples who
patronize tneir own, as, for example.
the Germans. And In other countries
they may, so to speak, dissect our
limbs, take thorn apart to discover and
reproduce their excellences, but they
are not likely to go to the extent of
the Japanese. And, after all, ours re
main the best, and we will sell them
all over the world.
"In many far countries, when any
body has need for an artificial limb,
he sends for It to where he can get
the best, and so he is likely to send to
tho United States; or. If he was of
Euro-nan birth or descent, and so with
natural inclinations in that direction,
it might be tbat he would send to
France. So we get orders from every
whore, only yesterday, for example, we
received an order for an artificial leg
from an Interior city of British India.
And, with these sales added to tho
buslntss done In our own county, we
have all the business we can conven
iently do, and so, when we take Into
account all the circumstances, we are
not disturbed by the reproduction of
our catalogue in Japan."
You spoko of the Japanese noble.
man subsequently ordering additional
limbs duplicates. Do people that
have rcaslon to wear an artificial limb
commonly own more than one?".
"Some men have a dozen, and It
would not be remarkable for a man to
have two or three or half a dozen legs.
The stump of the natural leg is liable
to change more or leas with time. rn.
quiring a corresponding readjustment
of the artificial leg to insure perfect
comfort In the wearing of it So a
man would be likely to have two arti
ficial legs, the second one to be worn
when the first was undergoing refitting
or repairs. ,
"And some men have a number of
lgs, as they .would have a number of
suits of clothes and wear them they
would the clothes at different times.
And an artificial leg is liable to mis
hap, Just as a natural leg Is; it may
Le run over, just as, perhaps, the or
iginal was, and a man keeps a dupli
cate so as to be provided against such
a mishap or against any other.
Men do about artificial limbs just as
they do about eny other artificial! aid.
One man wearing spectacles, for in
stance, may have but a single pair, and
he may wear them a long time, until
they wear out, regardless of am
change in bis eyes; while another man
may provide blmtelf at the outset with
one or more duplicate pairs for emcr
gnncles, and he gets new spectacles
whenever bis eyes seem to require
!'o. avid so he accuinttlntes specta-
clea; and It Is Just-so with artificial
limbs.
. "But with all these demands coming
to us from one source and another and
due to one and another cunse, we do
not look for any increased demand due
to. the Russo-Japanese war." New
York Sun.
COREAN WOMAN'8 CLOAK.
Former King Decreed That 8hs Wear
It as a Mark of Honor.
The dress of the Corean women Is
very quaint. Long voluminous white
cotton dresses reaching to the ankle
show baggy trousers underneath,
which, ending In slippers with up
turned toes, give them somewhat the
appearance -of Turkish women. Over
the head Is thrown a long cloak gen
erally green, fastened under the chin,
the sleeves, though which the arms
are never pas, J,-hanging down over
the shouldorslf By this cloak hangs
a tale historic!) and Interesting.
Once upon a time a King of Coroa
Invited the officers of his army to a
banquet In the palace at Seoul, in com
plete Ignorance that a military con
spiracy, aimed at his throne and Ufa,
was afoot. The conspirators, who were
among the guests, resolved to seize
their opportunity to murder the king
during the progress of the banquet. On
entering the palace the officers de
posited their largo military cloaks In
an ante-chamber and took their places
In the hall where the feast-was spread,
waiting only a signal to fall on and
slay their hosts.
But a number of tihe women cf Seoul
had become acquainted with the con
spiracy. Loyal to their monarch and
unable to warn blm in time they went
In a body to the palace and gained ad
mittance into the ante-chamber. Seiz
ing the officers' cloaks, they entered
the banqueting hall unobserved; some,
stealing noiselessly up bt-hind the of
ficers ss they Bat at the feast, flung the
cloaks over their heads and pinioned
them In the foldB, while others ran to
the bewildered king, hurriedly warned
him of the plot, and spirited him safe
ly away before the baffled conspirators
could release themselves from the
grarp of tholr brave captors. In token
of his gratitude to his loyal female
subjects, the king decreed that In fu
ture the Corean women should wear
the military cloak thrown over their
heads as a mark of honor. Capt. Can.
L..
Jierly in Macmillan's Magazine.
,
AND CURIOU3.
Tho Chinese haveTWise sacked Mos-
sow, once in 1237. and acafsVln 1293.
Brine springs flow under the
of Norwich, England. They have been
there for centuries, and wore used for
the production of salt long before the
Christian era.
There are very few paupers In Japan,
because old age is revered there. No
parents or children come to want there
unless all their natural protectors are
dead or disabled.
Norway's coast line seventeen hun
dred miles In a straight line becomes
twelve thousand miles If followed
round the fjords. In these fjords aro
over 150,000 Islands.
A. B. Saunders of Sunset, Me., raised
the prize carrot of Hancock county, It
net of the stato. Its length over all
was 46 inches, circumference 14 inches,
weight three pounds seven ounces.
John Monroe of Rock Point, Vt. Bhot
a bird recently that Is undoubtedly a
species of cormorant or sea crow, a
bird rarely seen In Inland waters, gen
erally being found In the larger lakes.
The bird was nearly black. It meas
ured five feet and six Inches from tip
to tip, and 37 Inches from head to tall,
and weighed 10 pounds.
Hundreds of pounds of honey hare
been discovered In the great equestrian
statute of Oen. Robert E. Lie, at Rich
mond, Va. Both the -horse and rider
are hollow, and it appears that ever
since last summer bees have bee-a go
ing in and out at the parted lips and
nostrils of General Lee and his steed.
The bees are almcst numberless, and
they have been making honey con
stantly. There is no way of getting
inside the statuo without damaging
It, and tho bees will be left alone In
their Iron home.
A species of acacia which grows
very abundantly In Nubia and the Sou
dan Is called the "whistling tree" by
the natives. Its shoots are frequently
distorted In shape by the agency of
larvae of insects and swollen into a
globular bladder from one to two In
ches in diameter. After the insect baa
emerged from a circular hole In the
side of the swelling, the opening,
played upon by the wind, becomes a
musical Instrument suggestive of a
sweet-toned flute. The whistling tree
Is also found in the West Indies.
Dr. Ford, a well known American
neurologist, . who has devoted much
time to the study of the nervous sys
tems and the sensations of ants and
bees, concludes that the vision of in
sects is In "mosaic," that is, as if it
were made up of bits separated by
dark lines, the lines corresponding to
the edges-of the facets of the Insect's
eye. The image is usually not sharp,
though when the number of facets Is
considerable : (twelve thousand .to
seventeen thousand), the definition Is
good. It Is hia conclusion that Insects
have more than instinct they bare a
soul, so to say; and at any rate, a
mind capable of forming Judgments,
of choosing. Bees have, for example, I
an astonishing memory for localities.
Instinct and automatism are far from
constituting all their mental life.
' Reclaiming an Island.
The Island of Nordstrand .the on I;
portion of once fertile North Fries
land which Is as yet unreclaimed, is
now to be saved from the soa by th:
construction of; a largo dyke. The is
land was first separated from the
mainland by a terrific storm In 1C34
during which over six thousand per
sons were drowned.
In 1903 the- Canadian Pacific r
road took 290 rarl'mds of halibut fr
Vancouver to Fa nmrltotH. !"
cor ymw'if.l t !. ri?'0 ! .is!
A SERMON FOB SUNDAI
AN E' OQUENT sDISCOURSE BY THE
REV. JOHN BAICOM SHAW, D. b.
hjeot t Tb Aih-Can Blbls-Hlstor at
voimns or Holy WiiTh Is Unique
In Church Antmlt-Warnlng- Jaalnsl
Common Typs or Family Deterioration
Ntw York Citt.TIk following splen
did sermon was preached Sunday morning
by the Rev, John Baleom Shaw, Tr is en
titled "The Ash-Can Bible." His text
was: The word of God which liveth and
abideta forever I Peter 1:23.
This book, ratliar than the words I have
read from it, is my text. Not the Bible in
general as a thenw to be discussed, but this
particular Bible consisting of paper, print
ing end binding, as an object lesson to be
taught.
This Bible has a history. It, was a gift
to the church under the Hniquest condi
tions. Indeed I doubt if there is another
church in the whole world that came by
its pulpit Bible in the same or iu auything
like a similar way,
This is its history. One morning lsst
spring a woman, a pewholder, but not a
member of this church, came into the min
ister's office, where 1 was keeping the pas
toral hour, and handing me a package
neatly wrapped and tied, asked me if I
Could make use of ita cnntAnta in aftv wav
Opening th package and finding this beau
tifully bound Bible inside, I, of course, an
swered affirmatively, and suggested that 1
uana it on 10 some mission caurch or
poor, straggling congregation, for use as s
pulpit Bible.
.She then told me its story. That morn
ing upon coming out of the spartmenl
where sne lived she spied an elegantly
bound book on the top of the ash-can that
stood awaiting the coming of the garbagt
cart. Keeling it was a shams to allow so
fine a book to bs disposed of in that way,
she went to the ash-cm and turned its title
found toward her. What was her amaze
stent, her horror, her sense of desecration.
Jo find it was a copy of the Uoly Bibki
She opened it and found that several leaves
between the Old Testament and the Nsw
had been cut out, and the explanation
earns to her at once, an explanation which
the janitor afterwari-fully confirmed.
- It seems that a family, apparently re
spectable and well disposed, had moved
away from the apartment house the da)
before, and desiring to throw swsy every
thing for which they had no use and which
increased the bulk of their effects, had
seized upon tho family Bible which had
been in their home for years, ss a thins
that could be Ss easily got along without
as anything else, had cut out the family
record -that it might not ba lost, and sent
tho book down to the janitor as rubbish to
be thrown away. He, cither because he
had failed to recognise it or because ha
had a low estimate of the Bible's value,
had deposited it in the ash con, and was
looking for the city's Cart to come at any
moment and take it away.
A new interest immediately attached it
self to the Bible I put it into the minis
ter's room to on ait some providential op
portunity to dispose of it. That onoortu-
nity was not long in coming. When tlua
new pulpit was set in place upon my re
turn it was found that not one of the
three pulpit Bibles that had been previous
ly presented to tho church would fit its
book board. I then went to the minister's
room and brought out this ash-can Bible.
It was just the thing. Besides being ol
the right size, its gold edges and richly env
tMufl.i Mn.iA : , .li.
o mowtt v"" P'"P'h ana nere it will stand
as itself aS9morlal'n puipit a memorial
to a familyvfcij' the Bible, guided
their lives for fifty ycHf? " commu
nity by its counsels, sndTSJa fort! ,nto A
stream of Christian infliieiihL.tn" wlll
never run drv: the Bible which iv
this pulpit spanking to us of a family who
uiiacu mm mis ni'ignDomoou, ana alter a
restless sojourn of a few months, more
probably of not more than a few weeks,
flitted out again without having done any
thing to help it, and who thought so little
of God and goodness, desired so faintly,
not only to light the road heavenward for
others, but to have It lighted for them
selves, that they threw away their family
Bible and moved on to drag down the re
ligious tone and temperature of some other
community.
. Robert Browning, in his great Doem
"The King and the Book," tells the story
of finding a rare book at a atnll in hn
Square of Florence, and, after reporting its
wu.cuts, iic giv? ixiu id u ii poetic mus
ings upon the life, character and history
o the persons figuring within its narrative,
punctuating with marks of exquisite
strength and beauty the lessons of their
uvea.
This strangely discovered book starts ne
poetic strains withm me I have no such
strings to vibrate but it does set mr ami!
to musing, and those musings seem to ma
so lane me patn ot nseiiest tact and truth.
mey carry me bock ovea the earlier his
tory of this book. It may have been, it
doubtless was, a wedding present, given
probably by a pious father and mother
long since among the sainted dead. It
Bad been in the horns through all the years
ot ineir family nisiory, snd had become as
familiar an object as the silver on their
table or tho pictures upon their walls.
Again and again they bad gone to it
through the passing years to' inscribe with
in its sacred pages the records of their
ome. With the daintiest touch they had
put in uieir own names while the honey
moon Was Still on. Later when that lit
tie life came to them, their first born, 'and
the glow of parenthood flushed their souls
as with a baptism from heaven, they
dipped the pen as if into some lovo fluid
and wrote out with pride the dear little
one s newly chosen name.
A lew years passed and the angel came
and took the sweet soul away. The fun
eral over, tha father one evening when
they were alone and the house was silent,
went through into the parlor, unknown to
Sis wire, ana put in trie record, leaning
ver tha open book till the tears began to
soil the page, and then turning over a few
pages into the book that adjoined the rec
ord, ha read over and over again those
dear and holy words, "Sutler little chil
area to eome unto Me. and forbid them
not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven,"
and those other words so inseparably asso
ciated with thsm, "Their angels da
always behold tha fsce of My Father." It
was the Bible, too, out of which tha minis
ter bad read at the little one's funeral,
and in this and a hundred other wavs it
bad taken on a hallowedness and built it
self into the whole life of the home.
But five, years ago the famiiy moved into
New York, and tha decay of their horns
life began. Sentiment, association, mem
ery, though sacred and tender, could not
run a race with the evanescent, migratory
life of the metropolis. They had moved
often, and every time they moved they
had left something' of their home life be
hind them. At ceased to give anything
.its valoe; it waa tha case with which it
sould be transported which determined
that. Their religious life had declined,
and they never opened the Bible of late.
They had even neglected to record the last
death that had taken place in the family,
They had been weaned from the church
through frequent removals, and religious
thought and feeling had become strangers
to their hearts.
Their consciences had been dulledand
what had once seemed impossible to them
was now second nature. They used to
think they could never allow the Sunday
paper in their home, bnt now they read ft
themselves and allowed their children U
read it without the least qualm of con
science. To stay away from church onci
waa a few years ago an act of backsliding,
but they had not long been in Xit York
before whole months passed without their
ereasioi the sacred threshold, and yet it
gave them Do compunction whatever. Time
was, and not long since, when they were
most punctilious about sending their chil.
dren to Sunday-school. The wildest wind
and the foulest weather would not pass
with them aa an excuse for allowing the
boys and girls to stay st horns. Tliere was
no such strictness these last ve-irs, but
weeks of Sabbaths went hv snd failed to
record a single present mark for anv cf the
children on the rolls of the Sunday-Vclnol.
J herefore, ntiment gone, sssocistion
and nj-ory having loosened their s-rnn,
their rWvious lite having beonn.e s tlnns
ot the pn.t, end their eon.-i.-nws Ii
- i -ni-rs hiYii'a
(frown sin : h, tliev hd no
' OU I It w t' 1
m e ii : f, r
It Its inclosure and setting, they would
throw away.
Were there ever , a sadder story T- It
makes one weep to think of it. Aud yet it
is the story of a thousand homes in this
community, of a hundred theusand homes
in this city. It is what some of you are
coming to. dear friends, unless you take
warning. Let this Bible give you such a
warning to-night. May it ever be a warn
ing to every family of this church.
As often as the eyes of those worshiping
here shall' reat upon it, may it speak to
them its solemn message with a voice that
cannot be drowned let not the fire burn
low on your hearthstone, but keep up tha
fireside glow. See that your home is in
touch with the church. Buffer not your
family altar to become a ruin. Have s
family Bible and use it. Take care that
mildew snots, like those which I find here
that are always signs oi disuse, ere not al
lowed to mar it. Bead the Old Book to
your children. Read it to your own soul.
Without it your home life will grow hol
low and unholy, your children will deter
iorate, your own soul shrivel up and die.
Thus this Bible shs'.l stand as a memo
rial to a typically deteriorated New Vork
home, and as -a warning to the families
that have not likewise deteriorated, but
shtill it not also bs at the same time a
memorial to snmctliina higher snd more
inspiring to the glorious character and
ministry of the word of God as an abiding
ind ever expanding nowcr 'among men!
Here is a fountain that waa long saaled,
bnt it has begun to flow, and its streams
hall water not one home but a thousand.
This book so seldom used before shall be
ononed with every recurring service within
this house of prayer, to be read, expound
ed and applied to. the multiplying hun
dreds that shall worship here. This Bible
was disowned, desecrated, cast out as rub
bish into the street, on!y to be recovered,
honored, set in a hi;h plnce; elevated to a
public throne from which it will issue a
verdict of condemnation upon this home
and every home in this city that has
turned God from ita door, but will speak
;omfort, hope and strength to those with
in which the word of God dwells and exer
cises its heavenly dominion. While this
book shall utter its admonition, then,' let
it also speak forth its word of encourage
ment snd triumph, telling all who shall
henceforth behold it that the word of God
liveth and abideth forever; that however
much men may attack it and seek to de
stroy it, it eh.i!l cotnc out of every battle
thousand fold stronger thin before, snd
light a circle tha: extends far beyond its
former perimeter of influence.
"A glory gilds tho sacred page,
Majestic ss the sun:
It gives a light to every age;
It giveth, but borrows none."
A Ions With Oori.
This is the quiet hour in which I sit
alone with God, writes Charles Edward
Martin, in the Kcw York Observer. He
hears my whispered plaints and listens to
my love. He maketh me happy in my love,
which ever goeth out to Him aa quietly
and constantly as the river flows or ths
star shines.
This is the hour that I talk with the lov
ing Father about myself, of victories won
in tho open field, when lie was my deliv
erer ana my strength, and of the sorry
failures and defeats which were mine
when I sought safety within unstrength
ened ram ports of my own construction. J
acknowledge His marvelous strength and
Own my own wavering weakness.
I was too impetuous, too impstient.
would rush headlona snd heedless, follow
ing my own plans to my own shame and
dishonor. It. would seem that I could not
wait. But I will now learn the value of
time the wisdom of taking time to doaj
mngs in ooeaience 10 niip, fj do
tuciu veciis
in tins quiei-j-Sr , . to H. ,
not sneak of ray plans. Alas
or met I have too manv nlans! I will
simply and humbly ask for His love and
guidance Just for to-day. To-morrow 1
may be with Him in paradise. I will say:
"All-wise One, all-loving One, Thou who
tnakest and warmest the affections ef ths
human heart, I submit myself to Thes.
By Thy grace I live, and by Thy myster
ious quickening will I ply my task with
loving faithfulness and care. Let Thy
love, and if so be. Thy approval, be my re
ward. O, teach me to understand Thy
love! Make me to love Thee more and
more. Make me as Thou wou'dsi have
me, dear Father, and I shall be sstisried.
Thy ways shall be my ways. Widen my
narrow thought. Unchain the self-made
fetters that cramp and fret my heart,
Teach me that true and lasting happiness
Mmeth only with those things which are
pleasing unto Thee. Lead me in those
holy footsteps that bear the print of the
will" . 1
What tha Blbla la.
Some writer gives the following analysis
sf the "Book of books," tha Bible:
It is a book of laws, to show ths right
Irom the wrong.
It is a book of wisdom, that makes ths
foolish wise.
It is a book of truth, which detects all
human errors.
It is a book of life, and shows how te
ivoid everlasting death.
it is toe most authentic and entertain
ing history ever published.
It contains the most remote antiquities,
the most remarkable eventa and wonderful
occurrences.
It is a complete code of lawa.
It is a perfect body of divinity.
It is an unequaled narrative.
It is a book of biography.
It is a book of travels.
, It is the beat covenant ever made, ths
best deed ever written.
It is the best will aver excuted, the best
testament ever signed.
It is tha learned man's masterpiece.
It is the young man's best companion.
It is tho schoolboy's best instructor.
It is the ignorant man's dictionary and
(very man's directory.
It promises an eternal reward to the
faithful and believing.
But that which crowns all is the Author.
He is without partiality and without hy
pocrisy, with whom there is no variable
ness, neither shadow of turning. Religious
Intelligencer.
Ths Way of Psaea.
' In proportion as the perfect obedience ol
the life of Christ comes, through humility
and prayer and thought, to be the constant
lira of all eur efforts; ia proportion as wo
try. God helping us, to think and speak
ind act as He did, snd through all the
means of grace to sanctify Him in eur
hearts, we shall, with growing hope and
with a wonder that is ever loat in grati
tude, know that even oar livee ere not
without the earnest of their reat ia an
sternal harmony; tbat through them there
is sounding more and mora tba ansa of a
faultless music, and that He who loves
that concord, He who alone can ever maks
as what He bida us be, wiU'eilence in as
every harsh and jarring note; that our ser
vice, too. mar blend with tha eonamtina
praise of all His saints and angela. i'raor
jciaPsfia, . . . -.
Bible Translation. "
One hundred years ago the Iliblf
Was current in some forty language
today in some four hundred- It lt
necessary to use sixty different sets
ot type' to print in these many
tongues, while some fifty langusget
require to be printed In mere char
actera than one tu be legible to all
races and creeds m that particular
country. Again, to translate the
Bible Into one foreign tongue Is In It
self a work of more than a lifetime
very often. What must be then the
labor required W learn some barbaric
tongue which has no wrltlty, no char
acters or alphabet ot Its own, and to
supply all deficiencies before the task
of translation can begin? Mm cover,
the biblical metaphors and similes
tlQV6 tft hi. B 1 1 m rl Bnit In.ita Ar.nvn-A
henslble to untutored minds. One I
. -..,.1... T .. X- , I. .. . '
11 Hiininiur, iii-nr i'mi uj imim, pjr'ni
twenty years in Tahiti to learn t':e
1 ." ii-- i, lifer' which lit! spent in
-r !! v ';, in f,-,mi!...:-
FATHER CATFISH GOOD HU8BAND
tees That Spawn le Hatched and Re
lieves Mamma of Maternal Duties.
"People who labor under the Impres
sion that fish have only sense enough
to stay under water and gulp down the
tempting bait throan to them are sad
ly oft on their calculations," remarked
a Kansas City man who spends all ot
his spare time either catching or study
ing fish. "There are fish which are
possessed of a great deal of good hcrse
sense, as the saying is, and some flab
have wonderful judgment. Take, for
instance, our commoi old satfish, and
study blm awhile. They are 'bull
neaded,' but they have sufficient sense
to build a nest for1 their eggs and care
fully watch their young when they
are batched out.
"If you wlll go out at any time dur
ing the month of August in this lati
tude you will see in the streams and
ponds big catfish of tho common sort,
each one accompanied by a swarm of
small fry. In each case the old one Is
a male, and be Is engaged In taking
care of his young while the mother
fish floats around and takes things
easy, not having the care of her off
spring to interfere with her pleasures.
The male catfish is more thoughtful of
his frau than aro a great many men.
phould an intruder come near the lit
tle catflshes there will be trouble, for
the daddy fish Is all ready to do bat
tle for them.
"How did we find out thnt the malt?
fish do the caring for the young? Easy
enough. We simply put a pair of cat
fish male and female in an aquarium
and watched the results. At spawning
time eggs were laid, and one Of the
fish kept constant watch over them.
When the eggs hatched and the little
fish began to frisk about, the same old
fish looked after them, not permitting
the mate to come near them, and this
continued until the little fellows grew
large encugh to take care of them
selves. Wo then took the fish which
had so carefully guarded and cared for
the young and dissected it, and the re
sult was that it proved to be the male
fish.
"This fact we have found to be true
In the habits of other fish. The cat
fish, when in their native ponds and
brooks, always find a quiet place In the
water near the bank to lay heir eggs,
building a nest In the sand and cov
ering with a thick spawn. The male
fish will hover around (be nest and
rapid vibrations of its fins. This con
tinues for a week or ten days not
longer when the eggs hatch and the
father flsh at once assumes his duties
as caretaker of the young flsh.
"The common sunfish also takes care
of its ycung and eggs, as do other
species of Its family peculiar to North
America, sdeh as black bass and crop-
Jv spring a pair of these
nsa will cuuiw near
fully clear away a circular spot a foot
or two In diameter, removing all the
weeds and stones, and In this clearing
the female lays her eggs. This done,
the male Immeuiately takes charge,
hovering over the nest and driving
away all Intruders. This he continues
to do until the babies are batched and
able to hustle for tholr own living.
"In the case of all fish which take
fare of their young, a curious adapta
tion of natural law to circumstances Is
found. Those which take the greatest
pains and care in sheltering their off
spring have the fowest eggs, perhaps
less than one hundred at a lay, while,
on the other hand, those species of flsh
which pay not the slightest attention
to their young produce hundreds of
thousands and even millions of eggs at
a single lay. The extreme in the other
direction is found in the gigantic devil
fish of southern waters, ' which will
grow to 20 feet In width. The devil
fish bears a single young one at a
birth. The youthful devilfish coming
Into the world four feet broad Is so
big that It Is In little danger of an
enemy. There are many kinds of flsh
which bring forth their young alive."
Kansas City Star.
A Pensioned Author.
Two British authors are at present
in the publto eye on account of pen
sions they are receiving. Mr. Joseph
Conrad has $1500 from the British
Society of Authors, which generosity
Is explained, says the New York Globe,
by the tact that the author, whose
writings are among those in greatest
demand by the publishers today, yet
seems to have difficulty Ip providing
for bis dally wants. The immediate
reason for the pension, moreover, was
the accidental burning of a manu
script, which catastrophe so depressed
Mr. Conrad that his friends thought It
wise to relieve blm from the necessity
of anything so humdrum and sordid
as looking out for his bread and but
or Thn case of Conrad can hardly
fall to recall tbat of Carlyle, who, when
Mill brought the disastrous , news of
the destruction ot a complete book of
the "Revolution," spent the evening In
attempting to cheer the culprit and
then set about me rewriting.
' Strong en Scripture.
James Whltcomb Riley tells a story
of an old fellow who asked tor work
at the Riley tarm hi the poet's boy
hood. He waa set at hoeing potatoes,
but dl not prove to be especially indus
trious. When taken to task fa; his
lack ot application, he only replied:)
"Wall," the good book Bays, 'Do all
things In moderation.' "
"Well, It came on dinner time at
last," aays the humorist, "and the old
codger did his share nobly. In fact
be ate enough to kill two or three or
dinary men. Some one gently hinted
that his text didn't seem to apply." He
opened a worn little Bible and lmper
turbably pointed to a passage. '
"It read: What8oevor thy band find
eta to do, do It with all thy might!"'
New York Times.
Good Work of Instruction.
Since 1891 the mortality among
children less tnan one year old, in the
city of Chicago, has decreased 60
percent, and the health department of
tbat city ascribes this remarkable re
sult not so much to an Improved milk
supply, the antitoxin treatment for
diphtheria, and similar causes, as to
the work accomplished by women's
clubs and other organizations In edu
cating no!iers In the, hyt'lene of
V.-r-"T 1:1:: ; , :i. V ' . n bt-M.-v ,-,1 (
. HIR OLD DAD POOLED 'EM. -
When Mary Jan last Tuesday night,
Moped wjfh Jimmy Brewer,
Dad tbrowed a saddle on ole Prince,
A-vowlu' ho'd pursue 'or; .
He learnod they went to l'ccpervllle,
An1, all advice a-tbuimlu'.
He started fer the town at unet,
With thet ole horse u-niuulu'.
Dad reached the town uv Poepervllle -
At tun ou Weduesduy inoriiln'i
Though tired out he never stopped, '
All thoughts uv hunger scormu'i
He rid to ev'ry preacher's house .
An' fer a minute tarried,
Vntel at one he found the two,
But they had just boou murrled. -
"Well, Dad," ses Mury, "mo an' Jim
Air one. V.'htit till- you siiylu't"
"I thank the LonV Dad utmost yelled,
A smooth giiino it, d lien playlu'.
"Ain't luiuir" asked sho. Dud BU
swered, "No,
It's Joy to lie the lofor,
I chased you Jest to egg you on." ,
Wuu't l)ud a slick old snoor.erf
St. Louis Mirror. ;
JUST FOR FUN
Walter Will you have some Boston '
soup? Disconsolate Lover No; but if
you have any parls green soup bring It
along. Detrcit Free Press.
"Has Jones as assured reputation as.
an author?" "Absolutely. Why, he
says he can now turn cut poor work
all the rest of his life." Life. f
First Physician Did you get much
out cf Stirfgyleigh? Second Physician
(gloomily) Nothing but an appendix.
New Orleans Times-Democrat. :
"Are you fond of music?" asked
Miss Cayenne of her guest of honor. ,
"Very." "Then I won't' ask Mr. Bllg
glns to sing." Washington Star.
"I wrote a little war poem and my
wife burned it." "What was the -trouble
with it?" "She said It- wasn't
fiery enough." Cleveland Plain Deal
er. . ..ji.:.;.,-
Tommy FlggJam Paw? Paw Flgg-.v
jam Yes, sonny. "Don't th' Bible say
'AH flesh is grass?' " "I guess so,
sonny," "Then Is dried beef hay?"
Baltimore American.
Mrs. Caller I understand your hue- -band
Is troubled with rheumatism. Mrs.
Growell Yes; but his rheumatism
doesn't trouble him half as much a
it does me. Chicago News.
Bessie By this time every one
knows that he kissed Flcesie out In the .
conservatory. Tossle Yes, a thing ;
like tbat always passes from mouth to
mouth bo quickly. Yale Record.
The Landlady I'm afraid Mr. .
ay has forgotten what a large bill
he T owtflTTrfeThe Star Hoarder No,
he hasn't; he said only yesterday that .
he wished he bad money enough to
move. Judgo.
Artist (at work) "Now give me -your
honest opinion ot this picture."
Visitor (who fancies himself a critic) -"It's
utterly worthless!" Artist ,
(dreamily) "Y-e-s ibut give it, all the
same." Punch.
"Open your mouth a little wider,
please," said the dentist. "My friend,"
replied the professor, with some Im-
patience, "I can't open my mouth any'
wider. But I can extend It vertically a
little more, if you insist upon it." .
Farmer Jason "So you want a Job,
eh? What can yer do?" Frolicsome -Friable
"Nothln'." Farmer - Jason ,
"Well, I can't give yu a job of that
kind, but It seems to me you-mlgfat pjtT
a Job somewhere as a war ; corre
spondent" Puck. r
Customer "Why doesn't that spin
ster, Miss Brown, deal at your shop
any more?" Draper "One ot , my
clerks Insulted her." Customer
"How?" Draper "She overheard him
telling some one that she was our old- ,
est customer." Glasgow Evening
Times.- : " v'--'
"Do you encourage your daughter'
literary ambition?" "Decidedly," an
swered the matter-of-fact woman.' "If
she has the gossiping Instinct It Is
bound to come out, and she'd better,
be making up stories about imaginary
people than about the neighbors."
Washington ptar. '
"Did you hear the shot tired?
qunred the lawyer of the peppery fe
male witness. "You told me," replied
the witness, "that you didn't want any
hearsay evidence," "Answer my ques
tion, madam!" roared the lawyer, "Did
you hear the shot fired?" . "I beard the
gun fired," said the witness, "If that's
what you want to know." Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
. Oystermen Bring Up Pirate' Gold.
Captain Lemuel Hordlker, ot the'
sloop Bessie W. Droane brought Into
port at Baltimore a pot of gold. It
came from Chesapeake bay. In' it
were an old cross of antique design,
two linger ring of old English design,
one neck chain, 17 gold coins, su posed
to be Spanish doubloons; 88 silver
coins, varwlng In site from a silver
dollar to an old-time three-cent piece,
and an endless variety of gold and
ailver trinkets Capt Hartler found
hi treasure while dredging for oysters
oil Kent Island. .For generations resi
dent ot Kent Island have known tbat
the pirate of old had burled treasure
along the ahore.
;: In Exchange for On Apple Tree.
What a gift It waa to this country
when old England gave us the nppio
tree, brought over as It was by tha
governor "ot the Massachusetts Buy
colony In 1629. From that one tree wo
bare become the greatest apple grow
ing nation In the world. Our yearly
production exceeds 100,000,000 barrels,
and Colonel Matthews, he who ket .
an account ot all that Maine producer,
say that our own state sent over to
the Old world last year (00,000 bnn ' i
- liberal return for the tree brut;
here In 1C29 by Governor Wjithn ,
Bangor Commercial.
There are 1800 churches In Hr
Thy are the wealthiest? Jlmrt
the world. t)ne, EL Saviour's,
Oi'!).ft!'0 ml.'" nearly J U
t-iil' 1. TU I -' 1 l':nr.-