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TH FR PRESS. VOLUME XX. FRANKLIN. N. C, WEDNESDAY. MARCH 22, 1905. UMI3EK 12 N THE FIRELIGHT ths eomcet i - me of tcnf and often. At i alt the giat alum My dar llttie firelight sweethra.e.v v. ' With n tare that la like your own. She's brkonlng ihre In the embers, .' And saucily nodding ber head. : ' la a flickering frock of rrlmsol ' (" And a tiny, woe tliuet of ltd. ; Thorn quivering, sterlet streamers Are the ribbons she loves to wear; And that radiant. giowtng coronal la poppy she put la hr-r hair. -: Can't you et-e her daintily briUMitig That tossing, attar lock from her brow Down there whore tho ctals are tbe brightest, neiD that red-test one fell Just now? mMMTtrHHMMHHIHHimUHU4MOTHIHM . THE ARTIST'S STORY. I X Doubtless, most uptown New York ers remember a distinguished looking man who used to ride In Central Park every morning last spring and sum mer on a magnificent cream-whito 1 Arabian stallion. Be that as it ma-. It is certain his advent caus ! quite a flutter of curiosity. I have known him Blnce we were boys tpgct'.ter boys in a little North of England town. He's in South Africa new and will hardly resent what I am going ti tell the readers of the Pathfinder about -him. His name Is Ford Charlmers Ford. It is a namo not unknown among artists. .If you have attended . the exhibitions you have probably eeen it at the bottom cf moro than one wat- - cr color. .happened In at hiB cozy studio one evening last August, cnly a day or two before he railed. The walls of the room were covered with the tro phies of his travels. My attention was flied by a sketch in water colors of a young girl of the dark-haired Eastern type. On It I read the name "Zulcika." "You world-rovers gather a good many barnacles in your wanderings," I remarked. "I suppose, too, many of these relics of yours have a history," I added, desirous of drawing him our. "Yes, that's sd. That sketch, for Instance could tetl a story, and this old thing here could corroborate It," he answered, handing me a venerable pis tol with a long barrel of largo caliber. "That ancient piece of ordnance not only saved my own life, but was tho 'uimrt in the rescue of one vever, British Qlwa , at was just civilization six months of cnture In the Interior of Aslatil ty I had I way fronf Part of A route trni With much dlfflcul- my way overland all the lzond, on the Black sea. tance I had followed the 1 by Xenophon and his in their disastrous "Ka- devoted tabasls.' of Mosu d visited the squalid city ce renowned for Its miu- Una and fabrlcs, and whence, In e 'muslin' Is derived fact, tint to make e drawings in the excavat- ed ruins' anciemt Nineveh, near by. It is tl by tho way that the royal Sennacherib and Sardan-twenty-slx centuries of ob been laid bare. After stop- palace apalus livlon, ping te at now decayed and In- - glorlo kdad, I had completed .. my , arduot irney at Hlllah, a modern near the site and from the town anciei Ick of Babylon. Finally : havim tied some further archaeo- ' logical ervatlons in the nelghbor- . hood, r cctlng some ancient lrrlga- Ing wor I.had caught passage on a mall floated w loaded with dates and wn the lazily-flowing, mystic Euphn a. At nrst, Deyona tne wii- low ai plane-llned banks of the great river. retched the once blossoming levels oi Yrak, the very cradle of his tory; than came lagoons which merged ultimately into a pestilential swamp. Thus ha I reached Baasorah, the mod ern Bale ora of the Arabian Nights tales oi ce, during the ascendency of the Call hs, the port and entrepot of Bagdad, jut now, like that city, dilapi dated ar I dwindled into Insignificance. "The Cilwa had sailed from Bassor ah at midnight It was late In the af ternoon L)f the next day when, after touching at Bustiers, an " 'mportant town abi ' coast, port of ut 200 miles down the Persian headed for the small Aral) ulnga, where we were to leave some cafco. ( 'As tl sun sank toward the watery horizon lind dissolved In the purplish vapors oM the west, a Parsee merchant, a so-cai: ed 'fire-worshipper,' first re moving, his odd-looking, shining oil cloth ha :, paced the deck, repeating de voutly h Is adoration of the orb that he looked t pon, not as an Intrinsic deity, but as he highest manifestation .of Ood. A crowd of Musselmans kneeled on theli praying carpets, with their faces tu rned toward Mecca, and, with awayim bodies and changing intona tion ol jolce, invoked the Prophet, carelesi of public gaze and laudably courage mis In the faith. One old man In pari icular, a whltc-bearded patri archal personage, prolonged bis de votlonsftlll late In the evening, first reading halt aloud from an - ancient copy ol' the Koran, illuminated with characters in colors and gold, then praying, then anointing his loins with oil, then lighting bis 'bubble-bubble,' or water pipe, aromatic of sandal and rose water, and puffing reflectively for an interval, then finally praying again. It was much like a protracted meeting. "Qur i cargo consisted mainly ;, of horse4-noble Arabian animals for Kurrarfiee and Bombay; and they near ly monopolized the deck space. There were, as It proved, eleven Arab horse dealers in charge of (lie drove, to a man 'admirable fellows physically, with the fierce - untamed look of a tiger when pressed to bay by the elephants. A few Koordg, dead-black Nubians, dusky Hindoos and dignified Afghans, an Armenian emmlgrant or twand a f n it SWEETHEART. And now she la archly smiting. And ahe roguishly beckons ana la In the door of a little red cottage At the turn of ft little red lane. And now ahe has come to the window Where a clambering flame-Tine clings ! , And the- murmuring croon of the embers la a lore song that ahe stnga. And ever and erer she cheers me As I alt by the grate, alone lly dear little On-light sweetheart With a face that Is like your own. As there in the dancing doorway She saucily nods her JwaoV In a flickering frock of crimson And a tiny, wee linnet of red. . Maurice Smiley In New lork Tribune, 1 1 H II M I M 1 1 motley contingent of natives from the Persian interior brought the number cf deck passengers up to about twenty live. These' passengers lived entirely on deck. They boiled their rice them selves, which, with a fewaates or other fruit and frequent potations of black coffee, furnished the simple diet of most of them. They step in the open air along the scuppers or on some con venient hatch. What with the horses and the bales of forage, the passengers and their always multifarious effects, there was hardly an available inch of deck-space that was not occupied. "Besides the eight officers of the ves-E-l I was tho only English-speaking persqn on board. Among the deck pas sengers I had noted a, handsome Arab girl. I longed to put her face on paper but I well know the stern antipathy the Moslems cherish against having their picture taken in any form. How ever I ran tho risk of resentment and surreptlously made tho sketch you are looking at It was Zuielka, daughter of Sheik Abdul, the. chief of the horse dealers. "I had grown sleepy listening to the third officer's yarns, and In preference to tossing away the night In a super-' heated stateroom I brought my mat tress up on the windward side of the promenade deck, where I found the soft eastern breeze delightfully cooling. It was pleasant to be out where, when I happenea to be roused momentarily, I could see the stars shining overhead and hear the soothing splash of the water against the vessel's side, the so- aations of the engines, the bell on the brid of the watch, repeated id the bows with an ac- all's well.' "At midnight the chief officer went below, and the second officer, Mr. New- hall, took his place on the bridge. We expected to make Llnga shortly after daybreak, and as we had already come out of our course. Captain Sargent be grudged any unnecessary delay and left orders to have everything put in readiness for a quick discharge of the Llnga consignment. To get at the car go with a steam windlass it was neces sary to remove the forward hatch. This had been appropriated as a choice po sition by the somewhat overbearing Arab horse dealers, and It was covered with their prostrate forms. One of the watch unceremoniously wakened the sleepers, and with an Imshl ('get out of the way') ordered them off. They resented being so rudely disturbed in the middle of the night and refused to move, glowering at the sailor with sul len anger. Thereupon the Becond officer called Captain Sargent, who promptly came forward and proceeded to clear the hatch by force. By this time the Arabs were thoroughly enraged. The sheik excitedly directed a fsw words to his companions, and seizing a winch lever advanced flerce'v on the captain before tbe latter could lay hold of any thing to defend himself with. The whole party rose en masse, and brand ishing their murderous-looking crooked knives frantically in the air drove the two officers before them into the sa loon and held them there In terror of their lives. "I was awakened by the uproar, and without knowing Just what the matter was rushed below In quest of my revol ver. But I found the way to my state room cut off by two sturdy guards. Suddenly It occurred to me that the second engineer bad shown me an an cient pistol taken from the French in the Peninsular war. I slipped down the engine-room hatchway unseen and found l( was loaded and primed. With it I mounted guard, leaving the senior engineer free to watch the engines. "Hcantlme tbe third and fourth offi cers and one of the engineers had been discovered and added to the list of the captured in tbe saloon. The mutineers having, thus become masters of the ship,, a (po8se of them Invaded tbe furnace room and scared the stokers away. Next they set upon me with knives and sticks. But this time they met vlth a repulse, for I discharged the pistol lh self-defense and shot one of my assailants In the leg. This seemed to check the ardor and quell the im petuosity of the ruffians, and they with drew, dragging their wounded comrade with 'lem, and remained quiet for an Intcrva ., :,,;;- "Meantime the third and fourth offl ily kept up by the Btokers and the man at the wheel bad stuck to his post through thick and thin, so that -the ves sel was still Braking soma headway. At length, however, the engines stopped, the fires having run very low. Fortun ately, the season being favorable, there was little sea on, but as we drifted In to the trough, the Arabs began to real ize that they were powerless to keep the machinery in motion or to navigate their prize. The sheik poked his bead under the skylight and began to par ley with the incarcerated Britons in the saloon below. Through the ven tilating funnel leading to the engine room I could hear the soft voice of Zuielka as she tried to pacify . her rather. "v ' " -. "After protracted neavViiatlons it was. arranged that some of' the officer should be liberated oa condition that that they take the ship into the Arab port of Llnga and there abandon her. Though Captain Sargent made some show of protestation to this condition he was secretly overjoyed to accept It, as he well knew that Her Majesty's TsrTtout jfcnylhg gunboat Redbreast was ahead of hint, she having left Bushlre for lings shortly before the arrival of the Kll wa. " . v ...'.- " "Steam therefore was soon gotten up and the course resumed. Not long af ter daybreak, about five leagues off Llnga, we sighted tbe Redbreast, and when we had nearly come up with her Captain Sargent ran up the signal for assistance. -Commander Scott, R. N., of the Redbreast, promptly manned a pinnace and boarded the Kllwa with a squad of marines, and the mutineers, much to their horror and disappoint ment, found themselves prisoners on board an English man-of-war. The Injured man was taken care of, his would not having been fatal after all, and the rest of the party were deprived of their coffee and tobacco the worst punishment an Arab can conceive of. ' "You will naturally ask how it was that a handful of these barbarians managed not only to defy the whole crew of a British merchant vessel, but to drive the officers before them into the saloon like sheep into a pen. But the attack was made In the' dead of night without the slightest warning, the officers were practically defenseless and the Lascar crew were . Intimidated into perfect submission at the first on set. It is a favorite ruse with Chinese, as well as Arab, pirates to take passage on a vessel In the guise of casual deck passengers, and then when once aboard, to watch their opportunity to murder the officers, loot the vessel, and make good their escape. For this rea son, It is usual for vessels trading coastwise in these Eastern waters to keep a stand of arms in the saloon against emergency, but this time, as it often happens in such cases, the pro vision was lacking just when most needed. A plBtol, handed down as a relic of the Peninsular war, la hardly an adequate armament for a large ves sel under such conditions. "The- Kllwa proceeded on ber way down the gulf, and we arrived at Kur rachee In safety three Oays later. The Redoreast reached there a llttie time after us, and the culprits were handed over to the civil authorities of Kur rachee. It was represented at the hear ing that the horse dealers were in real ity a gang of freebooters. I was pres ent, and being familiar with the Arabic language, volunteered to state their defense to the magistrate. They urged that they had not premeditated the as sault, that they had been provoked to it, and that they did not appreciate at the time the seriousness of their of fense. Still their action was piratical, according to the letter of the law, and an example has occasionally to be made of these restless, lawless gentry, else the gulf would become once more i .y for. ctu-throats and Bea rob bers, to the greatliBsatd of trade and travel. I appealed to the mercy clothe Justice, and the sheik and three of the!25nn dcf8 not "sarily sup- ringlcaders were let off with a month's) Imprisonment, while the rest were jtotr aetamea. - A week later. In Bombay, I was sauntering throtigh tbe bazar when I felt a gentle pull at my Bleeve. Turn lng round, I saw Zuielka standing be fore me. ' She was holding by the bridle the most beautiful Arabian horse ever saw none other, in fact, than my Yussef that you have seen so often. Zu ielka placed the rein In my hand and I received It mechanically. 'He Is yours,' sho said. 'Sheik Abdul never forgets his friend.' Before I could re cover from my surprise she .J van ished, lost In the great current of hu manity that floods the native quarter." Archibald Hobson, In The Pathfinder, QUAINT AND CURIOUS. As trade now stands, there is not enough gold out of the earth, it it were all coined, to transact the busi ness of a day. An order from South - Africa fol eighteen thousand eight-horse plows has been received b a plow manufac turer in the United States. The wife of C&mllle Flammarion. the astronomer, never allows any one to cut her husband's hair but herself, and she uses the shorn locks for pil lows. Her home in Paris is full of pillows stuffed with such clippings. The Vienna police are about to ex periment with a phonograph tn tak ing a prisoner's answers to questions asked In the preliminary examination, so that when the actual trial takes place there may bo no dispute as to what he said. A mirror, a crystal and a sword ar carried before the emperor of Japan on all state occasions. "Know thy self" is the message of the mirror; "Be pure and shine" is the ''crystal's Injunction; while the sword is a re minder to "Bo strong." . Solomon Slfattuck of Hollis claim to have the best teeth for a man of his years in New Hampslilre, if not in New England." He Is ninety-three years of age, and with' tho exception of four wisdom teeth, which were ex tracted several years agq, and one lost when a boy, be has all his teeth in perfect condition. Local dentists say his fs the most remarkable case they ever knew of, . . ' In Japan the well-to-do have almost always in their house, one room called the "chamber of the Inspiring view." Its essential Is a beautiful view, but taste is catholic In Japan, and the de lightful view may be a blossoming cherry tree, a glimpse of a river, a miniature garden or only the newly fallen snow. In tbis delightful country they get up parties to visit the maple trees In the glory of autumn color, of the fresh, untrodden Snow, as in this country one gives theatre parties and dinners. " ' Extraordinary Hand at Whist . A wonderful band at whist was play ed at the St Ptt1's institute, Grimsby, yesterday. . - ' Tbe cards were shuffled and doalt !: the usual way, but when tbe players looked at their hands they found that one of them' (the dealer) had twolvo spades another eleven hearts the third man twelve diamonds, and Uhe fourth eleven clubs. Spades were trumps, and the liifiky dealer simply threw la bis hand and claimed the twelve. trlckB. London Dally Mall , . , WORKWOMAN'S INCOME HOW MUCH OF IT IS CONTRIB UTED BY WIFE AND CHILDREN. Interesting Statistics In Report of Bur eau of : Labor Wives Who Are Wage-Earners Taking Boarders . Women's Contribution What Work Ingmen's Children Are Doing. ' - In an address before the National Commercial Teachers' association tn Chicago, N. W. Ferris, late Democratic candidate for governor of Michigan, created a sensation by declaring that no woman should contemplate matri mony until she was able to support a husband. Tbe two or three hundred stenographers present received tbe statement with laughter, but the Bpeaker protested that he wished to be taken seriously. "I believe that be fore taking so serious a step a girl should look ahead and prepare for possible future misfortunes.. There fore every girl should fit herself to step into her husband's place In the support of tbe family, In the event of anything befalling him which should unfit him for work." Put in Just these terms the remark sounds somewhat sensational and revolutionary. The speaker meant to emphasize a fact which is becoming widely recognized, that every girl out side the privileged classes not only should, but must be educated to be come self-supporting. So commercial ized bas the world become (bat the privileged classes are growing smaller year by year, and tne work done by women In the home is yearly growing more constricted. Statistics are dull things, as a rule, but somo of tho fig ures contained in a recent report of the United States Bureau oi tabor are sufficiently slgnflcant to make them Interesting. The report gave the re sult of an Investigation of the cost of living and retail prices in the United States, an Investigation pursued in every section of the country, with the object of determining the cost of hous ing, fuel, lighting, food, clothing, etc., In tbe average American working man's family. A similar investigation was made by the bureau In 1890 and 1891. ReporU were secured, for the present Inquiry, from 25,440 families living in thirty-three states, and the occupation represented ranged from mechanics and clerks to day laborers. Wage-Earning Wives. Nqt the least Interesting of the re ports related to tho sources of income of these families. The percent of married women, that is to say, of wives, at work is not high enough to warrant the Indignation expressed tn the President's message, but It la suf ficiently high to indicate that the port his if In any section of the country. In UieWicth Atlantic states more than 9 percent efjc wives are at work. In the South ATXahllc states, ranging from Delaware to Georgia, more than, 14 percent work for wages. In the Middle West the percent Is lower, a little more than C percent while tn tho far West, Colorado, Cali fornia, and Washington, a little over 2 percent only are at work. In all of the United Slates exactly 8.68 percent of wives are bread winners. It does not appear that these women are of foreign birth. On the contrary, more native born than foreign born wives contribute to the family income, at though certain nationalities have a larger proportion of working wives. Thirteen percent of French wives In the United States are wage earners, Taking boarders is one of the oldest and most respectable forms of adding to the Income. No one has ever point ed out that taking boarders Is a form of wife, labor fully as much to be reckoned with as Other forms. It is work done tn the home to be sure, but so are all the tenement trades, such as flower making, finishing gar ments, etc. It does not of course, In terfere with the regular work of house keeping, as tbe other trades do. It just as effectively relieves the man of the family .of part f his' financial re sponsibility. In all tbe United States 23.26 percent of worklngmen's fam tiles are wholly or partly supported by the wife taking boarders or lodg ers. This time It Is the Irish citlsen who depends most on this source of Income, with the French citizen a close second. Something over 21 per cent of native-born Americans take boarders. The total percentage of wives who add .to the Income by work tor wages or taking boarders Is close to 32. How far Is the worklngman support ed by bis children? According to the report, the percentage of families hav. ing an Income from children at work is 22.19. This table gives an Interest ing account of what worklngmen's children are doing at the present time: At At At , .. i,. work, school, home. N. Atlantic States 4.11 TT.U 1T.84 B. Atlantic States 11.69 63.17 - 28.M N. Central States 8.43 78.83 16.83 a Central 8tates . 8.31 63.31 27.45 Western States... Ll 82.66 ,15.98 A very small proportion are work ing and going to school at the same time, but it is plain that parents who put their children early to work do not take further thought of their educa tion. Extent of Child Labor, No report is made on. the average earnings of the children. It Is shown that child labor Is not by any means confined to the South In the North Atlantic 8tates, Including New York and Massachusetts, the percentage of worklngmen who are partially sup ported by their children Is 21.64, while In the South Atlantic States It Is 28.59. The percentage is smallest in the far West, being only 14.27. . The earnings of the wives ire con siderable. The Income of the average worklngman 's family from all sources' Is 1749.50. Of this sum tbe wage oarnlng wife contributes 3128.62. What the boarders and lodgers contribute Is not given, but whstever It is should be credited to the wife, for she bears the burden of this work. In her earn ing capacity the Western woman makes far the best showing, as op posed to 3146.09 In the North Atlantic HtateS. .".'' - -;i r-.y:-','J (.., Summarized, ths report shows thst the average worklngman in the United States earns only 79.49 percent of the family Income. , His wife, chliareu, and boards'. s contribute the rest The native-born - worklngman earns more of tbe Income than the foreign-born, but It Is plain that In all except the privileged classes wives and children are becoming Important factors In the wage question. ., : Popular opinion to the contrary not withstanding, there never has been and never, will be any large class of sup porting men and supported women. Tbe worklngman has always expected his financial condition to be bettered by marriage, and for this reasoa prac tically all women In the working classes marry. In the" classes where the wife has to be supported, where her only contribution is a well-ordered home, only SO percent of women have in opporunlty to marry. In the wealthiest clars, "where a dowry Is sure to be part oft the woman's at tractiveness, the same proportions are given an opportunity to marry as In tbe working classes, Tbe increase of male workers In the last ten years Is given as 25 percent The Increase of women wage-earners Is 40 percent. This fact Is attracting attention, as It should.- The Impression that girls and young women work for "pin money" and not for the necessities, of life Is gradually passing It Is admitted now that women work because they-must earn their livings. The old Ideal of the home as the only proper sphere for wife and daughlurs is hard to re linquish, but it also must go. So rapidly has the change In the indus trial status of women been effected that statistics gathered ten or even five years ago are now utterly value less. It is probable that the next bul letin of the Bureau of Labor relating to the cost of living In worklngmen's families will record still more startling changes. New York Post. HISTORY OF INDIAN TRIBE8. Elaborate Records That Have Been Preserved In Indian Teritory. There are now piled up In the vaults of the government officers at Mus kogee tons and tons of records which form a complete history of ev ery event of importance concerning tribal life and tho title to land in In dian Territory since the Indians came to the Territory in 1833. So far as is known, there Is no law and no pro vision for the preservation of these records, except those tn the Indian of fices at the Umo the Dawes commis sion expires, and this is a matter of great legal and historical Importance. "The -records In the vaults of the Indian agent and of the Dawes som mtssion concern the title to every foot of land in tho domain of the five civilized tribes, and a record of tho making of all the treaties and the laws under which the land has been allotted, together with a vast amount Of other valuable record that should be preserved,' 1'hounlx. says the .-MuslTOgWT "There are four large vaults at Mu kogee, two at Tahlequah, lwp. St Tishomingo, and two at Atoka. All are filled with land office and Dawes commission records. The question has arisen as to the disposition of these records and the permanent location. U thoy are transferred to Washington they will be practically Inaccessible to the people of the Indian Territory. Tarns Bixby does no;, know what will become of them. He says that It will take .a vault 50 by 30 feet and 20 feet bigh to hold these records in any sort of system by which they can be locat ed at-will. It would also require an experienced man to handle them In such a manner as to keep them from becoming a confused jumble, making it Impracticable tor people to find what they want. . "These records Bhow every treaty between the government and the tribal commission, who made speeches and what was said. They contain all the evidence on which is based tho right of each individual allottee to hold land. They contain a world of records as to marriage, births, deaths, and other matters that have a bear ing on title. In the future when title to land goes Into litigation It is ad mitted that the courts- will have tbe power to Inquire Into the evidence on which the Dawes commission acted when It gave the Indian allottees their land. This being the case, it will be almost Imperative that these records be within the reach of ths people of Indian Territory. There Js no-duplicate o( these records In Washington, and should they be transferred to the vaults of the department of the In terior they will be practically inac cessible because of the large expense necessary to make certified copies of such voluminous documents,, some oi the records in Individual cases cover ing hundreds of pages of typewritten manuscript , - , .? i. . , "It Is true, too, that there are a great many people In Indian Territory who would prefer not to see these records preserved. Many a tale of romance, of tragedy, and of human nature can be found in these papers. Kansas City (Mo.) Journal. - , American Shoes In Francs. . Among the features of 1904 has been tbe general appearance of shoes closely resembling in form and style those made In tbo United States. - - The clumsy, ungainly and . heavy French shapes are gradually disappear ing. In their stead are coming gracefully-cut and finely finished shoes of decided American appearance. Tho fact is, however, that it is father our shoe-making machWis than the shoes themselves that have come to France. In any event, the American-appearing shoes which are now quite, generally seen In this city and elsewhere tn tho provinces are made principally In Paris with machinery -Imported from the United States. This does not alter the fact ' that some bona-fide American shoes are on sale hore, but they are much dearer than the French-made articles, and It is not likely that they will make head way against-the strong combination which Is represented by cheap French labor and prolific American machin ery. From United States Consul Rldgely, Nantes, France. Tbe cost of tranonortltig ex-Proa 1- dent Kruger's body by social steam ship to South Africa wan 110,000, ThU Bum was subscribed by butch con. trlbutors. THE PULPIT A SCHOLARLY SUNOAY SERMON BY BISHOP 0. H. CREER. 0. Vh LLD. aranjcefl atraitluf Before Christ. Brooklyn, N. Y.-Oondjtitor Bishop David H. tireer, D.D., I.L.D.. preached in Cnrlst Church, his first visit to Brooklyn since his election to his high office, Sundoy morning. His subject was. "Stnudlng Before, tbe .Master." Ho chose his text from II. KIiirs v:'J5: "He went is and stood before Ms Master." Bishop Crcor said in Ihc course of his sermon: v You will recall, perhaps, the connec tion in which these words were spoken. Ellsha the Prophet bad cured a imtn of bis leprosy, who wanted to giro the prophet some suitable reward, but the prophet refused to tnko It, and said: "As the Lord llveth I will not receive It". And the servant of the prophet Is not of tbe same mind, nml when tbe man departed he snid to himself: "Now I will go and tnke somewhat of him." And so be did, and then when he had stored It away In some secret plnre, as be supposed, lie enme to where his master was nnd went In nnd stood be fore bint. And as he came, nty friends, so we must come to another prophet of Israel, another and n greater one. who, although of Israel born. Is the Master of us all, to whom all hearts nro open, before whom there Is no secret,' and before wbofu wo must stand. This is my stibjret for n little tvhllo this morning, "Standing Before the Master." There is a grcnt world struRglo golnp; on to-dny, which although It nsxttuirs many different forms !s yet the smtie. It is a great strugsle Tor -reedom u. struggle which, to be sure, has been goin on to some extent lu every iige, but which in this particular age ap pears on a lnrjjer field of action with a greater number of actors partici pating in it more conspicuously per haps, and which is curried on now ns never before with an earnestness more earnest, with a purpose more resolute, and its pitiful effort at times, with n pathos more pathetic, hi:mnn life Is trjiug to set Itself free from misery and from bondage, nud to becoiiie sov ereign lord of Itself. This it Is trying to do by various mentis and methods, by weapons of war on battlefields, by bullets and by ballots, by social imi tations and by political discussions, by great material and Industrial advance ment and enrichments, widening out and expanding and thus broadening more nnd more Its scope, its power, lis dominion, and, through it nil, Us free dom from bondage mi l control. And within certain limits that Is good and right, and much to he desired. But freedom Is like lire. When guard ed, restrained nnd kept within control, it is good for sprriernHil performing many useful -offices and tasks; but WirCS-lt is not controlled- nnd becomes n conflagration, then It Ts" utj longer useful and serviceable, but injurious ami destructive. And nre there not some signs appearing here nnd there, sporadically, lu spots In our modern life, which show that the freedom fir tp-da- trettlug berond control, bi UiiAtintion, burning -Oiiv 'kr not otrfy Borne of th; ana obsolete trnjwions In the way of progTeflsssbut tboso old and pure nud good and el nally true traditions without which there cnu be no progress at all. A young man In this city, in tho Bor ough of Manhattan, a young man of culture and refinement nua position, and the graduate of a lending univer sity, remarked to me not long ago: -s long ns I can manage to keep a reputable outward appearance, and contrive to live so ns not to lose the favor and good will of public opinion, why should I not live to day precisely as I please? Am I not free' Am I not the sovereign lord nnd mnster of myself? And If r-flnd lu uic certain natural tendencies, instincts, proclivi ties and passions which I love to In dulge, which I can indulge, why should I not indulge them? Am I not free, the sovereign lord and master of my self? Whose business Is It but my own, and what, indeed, sbnll binder? Public opinion? But I am assuming that public opinion win not know any thing about it. Itellglon? Why, who knows anything about religion to-tiny? Tlie Biuicr well, this is the twentieth century, nnd the Bible Is on the shelf. Am 1 jot free to do precisely ns I piense as me sovereign iora ana master of myself?' That speech, perhaps, was to some uruo extent typical of a growing con dition, freedom's Ore becoming a con flagration, burning down and consum ing some of tbe oldjjrrue, eternal, fixed and established human religions; some of tbe old, true and established social restraints. And If we look at our modern society very closely we seo it not only appearing here and there anioug the young men and the young women, but also among some others that are not yet so young, too much freedom, perhaps, among tbe old, it you please, when they throw aside the old fashioned feminine graces, modesties, proprieties, too much freedom in de meanor and deportment, hoping thus to show, perhaps, that tbey are eman cipated. But, as some one bos remaked, such freedom is not the result of high er education, or culture, or ndvajice meut, or progress, but of a dull and Stupid Ignorance. It is a reversion of tbe lesson of Peter's vision, and always to call all things common nnd un clean. ' - -. ",.", Thus lo-finy wo see hero ad there beginning to appear- abuses of this magnificent human freedom, a dispo sition upon the part of many of every age to push and set aside whatever seems to Interfere with the freedom of their lives, with ths full and free expression, Indulgence and gratifica tion of their desire to II ro and do pre cisely what tbey please. Aud so the children soon wander off to do as they please. Why not, are they uot free? And tbe husband wanders off to do as be pleases? Why not IS ho not free? And the wifo wanders off to do ns she pleases, and the marriage vow wanders off.. Why not, is It uot a free age? And like a house thnt rests upon tho shifting snnd, the borne breaks up and falls, and great Is the fall thereof, for It pulls society (down. . ,. ; Ah, my friends, freedom 'Is a mag nificent and glorious thing, and It has Its great nnd magnificent uses, and bas Its great nnd malevolent nbnset and In spite' of nil our solemn declara tion papers and Magna Chnrtn claims human life Is not free, except with that freedom which Is tbo sacred mornl sphere, fer rich1 or poor, or young, or old, from moral leading conies. Free dom which comes from elsewhero is not freedom, but bondage to our pas sions, as more and mora we give grati fies tiou to them; bondngo to our cir cumstances as more nud more wc give multiplication to them,, and, worst of all, bondage to ourselves, our own Im perial selves, 'nnd from our own prison selves tumble to escape, There is no such thing ns true nnd iimloubtetl freedom for httnjRti life, freedom for tho human, conscience, fi-prdom for the Immnn heart, freedom J " )tlie soul, except as we loarn to-day to s'tand before some great eternal Lord. : Where is tho master who, ns we come and stand before him, nnd enter into his presence to receive our freedom, can give freedom to us, who first of all can give what you sad I need, conscience in freedom. The Master unto whom all hearts are open, from whom no secrets are bid, who knows it all the whole story of out life, tbe secret sin 'and shame, con cealed perhaps from others, but not concealed from Hliu from whom no secrets are hid; the Master who, like no one elrs, run give conscience acquit tal and start us afresh In life, grant us pardon of the conscience, of sin and wrong. Men have always wanted that forgiveness, and in Jesus Christ they have found it, and tbey find It In Him to-day. The poor outcast sinner upon tbe streets of the city goes to stand before Him, not like tbe servant in the story of the text, to condone and ex cuse bis sin, 'but to acknowledge bis fault and to receive forgiveness. And that voice speaking to man, ringing down through all the ages, is speaking to them to-day, saying, "Go In peace," and to tbe sinning woman, "Neither do I condemn thee, go and sin no more." With ns ordinary and commonplace persons, Is there not some little spot in our hearts where. In loneliness, ws dwell; where the heart cries ont for sympathy for some one to stand beside It; nnd It Is not until It learns to go and stand before Him, nnto whom all secrets are known Jesus Christ the Master that this sympathy and fellowship is found. Conscience free dom giving, heart freedom giving, and then soul freedom giv!na where tbe soul seems to reach the home to which It belougs nnd to find its greatest lib erty In the bosom of tbe Eternal. When mice we come npou the limita tions of a person, some one bas said, it is all over with him. Has be knowl edge, enterprise, ability, it boots not; no matter bow attractive he was yes terday, how great an Inspiration, be seemed llko a limitless sea; but we have found his sho e, and fouud It a pond, nnd we care not If we never se him again. Not so with Jesus Christ. We never find Him out. He Is nlwoys beyond ns, nnd the nearer and closer wc come to Hliu, lie Is still beyond us, like some great path of golden light shining down upon us across tbe face of the dark and troubled waters from some far off horizon line where earth and heaven seem to meet and where tlie soul finds Its true liberty, :ts free dom, its true dwelling place In Jesus Christ the Mnsler. Is it not so? Let human experience testify and answer how it Is that Jesus Christ has seemed to raise up the soul that Is cast down to its freest fellowship In God. That is true human freedom, and not unlil wc find It there will we find It anywhere not until we go In nud stand before the Slaster. Thus you and I. if our Christian life Is to have sincerity nnd honesty of purpose. If It is to have growth nnd development In It yea, more, if It Is to have peace and power and freedom in It, that Is what you and I must try to do, day after day. through all our life on earth, until at last, wben tbe day of .busy world is odes come s Religious Ceremonial Has D tlced for Centuries. The sketch shows the annual dance or toe natives of Tibet ssrlis play of which tho dance is a part la in five acts. It depends on the follow. ing story: Langa Dharma, king of Tibet, lived at Lhassa, and harassed tho Buddhists In every possible way; and a certain monk, being dismissed from the monastery, vowed vengeance against the king. He procured a black pony and whitewashed It, and went In search of the king. He found the king In ths marxot place reading a proclamation. Seising the opportun ity, the monk shot him dead from be hind. Then he fled in the direction of a river; which he forded. His white washed pony became black again, and, though the monk was pursued, he was not recognized, as a man on s white pony was tbe object of the pur suit. The Buddhists looked upon King Langa Dharma as sent by the klcg of demons to annihilate thorn, and It Is to celebrate tbe victory over the king of demons that the dance is Leld. In the terforirap-, demons with hide ous masks -ui-e Introduced. Then ths ausT-ary supposed ashes of Langa Dharma are duly, execrated. Next the gods fight the demons and overcome them, and the play Is thus brought to a doss. " TOP-GRAFTING. Referring to the subject of the la fluence at tbe stock on the scion ot rost upon the top In the- case of props gatod trees, I maysay that top graft ing a seedling usually nastens tut period of fruit bearing. In othei words, If you were to grow an app' from seed and rake a scion from thai seedling, say tbo second yosr, and graft In on the branch of a bearing, apple tree, It is altogether Ukelv that you wnuld have specimens of fruit the third or fourth year afterward. But It Is ery unlikely that yonr ori ginal seedllntt. standing undisturbed in the soil, would bear within two ot three years ss soon. We might, then, save that much time by top graftinl and this Is a verr general prjctlct with those who Improve plants b? cross breeding. It is a pretty wel recognized fuct that t"p grafted trc . M I -ft. MasfSr DEMON DANCE oL a REVENQB (The batch for motor ear Is reported te be AanellpurdflooBsooadesnoorwetpltroolrUtB-, Bf".l Tnera's a gentleman who's Dutch ; He's ken lying III In bed. Ho la walklns with a crutch. He baa plaater round his head, - And he's apt to lose his hair If yon mention, pray take cart, Bnellpaardeloosoondeer- . Bnoorwegpltroolrljtnna;. . : w-. "-..-. For thla Dutchmen (by ths way, , H waa born deaf aa a atone) , By a dike walked one One day Bmoklnf nines. He was alone. . Calm, he sniffed the humid air. , Till It came and caught him lair, -Bnellpaardeloosoondeer- Spoorwefpltroolrljtuag. ' . . . - - Now, he's bnay sowing tacta On the roadway every night Carries pistols and an axe Passing chauffeurs to affright. - -One word brings him from his lair- "Vogue," he mutters, "la galere" Snellpaardeloosoondeer- . Bnoorwegpltroolrljtung. ' (London Chronicle. JUST Foil FUN "Does bis wife care for him?" "She must; she's the only one that's work ing now!" New Orleans Tlmes-Demo crat Aunt Jane I suppose you know there are microbes in kisses? . Imogens I know there is something with a ' very delicious flavor. , "She carries her age well, doesn't she?" "Not very she has dropped several years of It to my personal knowledge." Cleveland Leader. Mrs. HIggers Yes, my husband used to think me an angel. Mrs. Jinks And doesn't he still think so? Mrs. Higgers No, but he sometimes wishes I was one. Willie Pa, what Is the difference between buying and purchasing? Pa When people buy things they pay for them; when they don'trpaTro,f' them they purchase the goods. Superintendent What do you think of the new boy? Book-keeper I think, he's a wonder. Why, he has already begun to be on his good behavior in preparation for next Christmas. Nottage I understand your janitor . became quite heated wben he heard ' you kept a dog. Mtlwick Yes, but it ' was rather pleasurable than other wise. We get so little heat In our ' flat, you know. Fuddy Seems to me Swelter's a . great man to be In the poultry busi ness. He couldn't tell me when a chicken becomes hen. Duddy Of -course not Don't you know, it never does at his market. Flatbush Have you any hedgehogs In your vicinity? Bensonhurst Oh, yes; got one for a neighbor. We've got a party , hedge between our lots. slbly havet his age! H Miss Ascul wonder why ' anchor every Dtimley Why-" stantly changln of the er- accumulate on phta Press. ' "We think." urera ui priming macuiuery, . uuiw Is about time you were. paying some thing on the press you bought of us. It Is now almost a year since you got It" "I wasn't aware that I owed you anij thing," answered the editor by return malt. "You . told ms wbeb I ordered tne press that it would ay for Itself n six months." Chicago Dally News , A UTOPIAN FACTORY TOWN. Garden City, England, Is Planned to Be An Idylllo 8 pot An Industrial town unlike any- oth er In the world Is about to rise near London. - It Is to be called Garden City because every house will be sur-. rounded by a garden. Ebeneier HowJ ard Is the protector of this Utopia and he has, after many years, Induced rich philanthropists to form a stock company and furnish the large capital necessary to begin work. ' There Is to bs one family to each bouse, fiats andtwo-tamily houses be ing absolutftyVredjthe total population Is not to exceeflUluf'-- a maximum of one-sixth of the o .. area Is to be given up to building. There are to bs factories, but every -window of these is to be a window garden. Meat Is to be supplted direct from ths surrounding :- farms; each family Is to grow Us own vegetables on Its own land) cows are to be pas tured In ths town and each house la to be hygienic and pretty- ; Garden City Is to be managed stAV" busibess enterprise. lng socialistic about dents will have little W government of the pb Ths projectors er such Garden Cities . New York Worln Sscrtt of ths result of th Japanese naval it erations reveals -the old truth that the mere possession of Ships of the mont powerful types, such as Russia pos sessed, does not mean naval power. In Spits of all the assistance which science has rendered In perfecting weapons of attack and in improving the mode ot defense by armor protec tion and high speed, the character of ths personnel admiral, officers and men and their war efficiency are the deciding factors In warfare. The Japanese have proved afloat as well as ashore that they have tho flchtlng edge. The racial factors In difference to death, simplicity of 1 the high coilraga of fanatl. .il imuh Ism have all helped, but above r'i their succcks spells "war r- " lrndon News. i blnnl wTj(J'N Tb; J r r