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VOLUME XX.
FUANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1905.
NUMBER 26.'
THE OLD
Aa old lam, an old gate, old nonee br
A wild wood,' wild brook they will not
let no bo i
la bojrhnod I know then, and atlll the
rail to mo.
U" SSTJl n" 1
Throooh ttar-mlsta behold them beneath
Dowa deep hi my heart 'a core I hear them
Ildf bee-boom and ruoe-bloom and rchard
lando arloe.
I hear them : and heartsick with longing
la my son I,
To waik t lie re. to dream there, beneath the
eky'a bine bowl ;
Aronnd me, within me, tha weary world
.. made whole. .
To talk with the wild brook of all the long
ago ; t
To whisper the wood wind of thtnga WO
used to know
V. . 1 .1 . 1 -l I
J3hQ Doctor's Trunk.
', By CHARLES 'ADAMS.
' ' In the old New England county
v where the writer's boyhood was passed.
; All Fools' day wag never forgotten!
and he was a wary lad who escaped be-
. lng "fooled" In some way during th
twenty-four hours following the mid
night of March 31st
The form of Jolte or trick most I
rogue was of the nature of a harmless
"Bell," as, for example, that which my
mother who was a very merry person
played upon my brother Napoleon
and me da' the morning of my .story.
Instead of giving us eggs boiled In the
. uaual way at breakfjst, she blew the
contents of the egg through a small
hole at one end, then filled the shells
with salt and water, carefully cover
ing the hole with tissue paper. Our
surprise' on breaking the eggs was
complete.
But some of the pranks played on
Ail Fools' day were less harmless.
My father's younger brother, Jar
vis, or Uncle Jarve, as Foley and 1
called him, perpetrated the worst one
on record. The governor of the state
had to be called in before the affair
waa settled. Another young fellow
waa concerned In the prank, but Uncle
Jarve bore the brunt of it.
Uncle jarve was then about eighteen
rears old. Grandfather Adams had
sent him off to Follefs Mills with eight
bushels of corn. We raised our corn
In those days, and had to go to mill
often. The distance round by the main
road was four miles.
Uncle Jarve set off, but had not gone
he overtook a young fellow
rnge1 named Alfred
Alfred.
rt'f-p still, Jarve. Let's
will notice us."
tor VJ-ears andJ years Doctor Dan
bridge to his gig, with his little leather
trunk under the seat, had been one of
the most familiar objects on the town
highways. He had settled at Follefs
fc.lls In 1840, when a atudent fresh
from the Medical School of Harvard
University, and had lived there all bla
r Hf- '
In these early days he Is said to
have been a very jolly person; but we
of the younger generation knew htm
as an elderly man who had passed Into
the venerable period of life highly es-
' teemed and respected by the entire
community.
He used to drive one or the other
of two sorrel mares with full white
... faces, looking so much alike that no
on could tell them apart. Often he
was driving day and night, with little
time for sleep, many of his pa
tients lived six or eight miles from the
.' Mills.
. - Other, doctors came and gent, but
Doctor Danbridge retained most of the
medical practice there; and at the date
of my story it was a common circum
stance to meet him on the road asleep
in his gig, the white-faced sorrel mare
trotting on quite as it she knew where
to go. People passed him smiling, tak
ing care to give him a good share of
. the road, and saying to each other
after they were by, "The old doctor
was ajl all last night I guess."
B time this habit of sleeping on the
road becarn so well established that
. he dosed along whether he had been
"broken of his rest" the night before
or not." With us boys it was a con
stant wonderment how he could sleep
In a gig and not fall out!
Uncle Jarve turned out and stopped;
and they sat still to see the old doctor
"go by. ' It was rising ground here, with
trees and bashes beside the road; tbe
' white-faced mar was Walking slowly;
and sure enough, the old doctor was
v asleep, with his little leather trunk set
snugly under the gig seat
--Alfred pointed to the trunk and
finked to Uncle Jarve; and without
' topping to reflect much about it, Un
:le Jarve hopped down and took the
little trunk out behind. , ,
' Their notion was to stick it up on
a post beside the road for a Joke on
the old doctor. They supposed that
he would find it when he came back
along the road, and would wonder how
It had got there. : w ;s.
But there was no post suited to th
purpose near (by; so the two boys
' drove on for a quarter of a mile, till
tbey came to the. first farmhouse.
As It chanced, an itinerant tln-ped-ler
had Just stopped there and gone
Into the bouse to trade; and he bad
left the little folding doors at the
rear end of his cart standing open;
the cart "itself ' was piled high with
sacks of paper, rags and wool, v
This time Uncle Jam winked to Al
fred, who, Jumping' out, slipped the
doctor's trunk into the cart behind
and pushed it nnder some rolls of cot
ton cloth and calico. The pedler wus
.indoors; no one saw th prank. -Uncle
Jarve and Alfred then drove
on, chuckling, 'and concerned them
selves no farther about the business.
Dootor Danbridge's name wis on tho
too of the trunk. They supposed that
yufredj'"
HOME.
Whoa wo were old -companions, befora sy
. heart know woo.
Ta walk with the nomine and watch Ita
roie untold;
To drawee with the noontide, lulled oa Ita
T, II. wTth ttatabMlM . droa. th.
. ' dreoma ot old. ,
neari 01 goia;
To tell to the old treea, and to each listen
ing leaf. . .
Tha longing, the yearning, M In my boy.
hood brief,
Tho old hope, the old love, would taao my
heart of grief.
Tho eld lano, tho old gate, tho old house
by the tree,
Tho wild wood, tho wild brook thejr will
' wot let mo be:
la boyhood I knew them, and atlll they
call to mo,
The Criterion.
the pedler, who seemed to be on hla
way to the village, -would carry the
trunk to the doctor's house when he
iliand that the matter would end
Seii
won
ilarl
III
vho
dowl
furtll
trunlj
said
to anl
tAit hJ
at flnl
drove 1
arrived
he stojl
Meant
reachetl
trunk.
out,, anl
every hi
seen It
When I
a
the.
Is Vai
the i rn it, and then
UityJt!f$AhtMy enough, that
he had found the trunk in his cart,
and also said that he was Intending to
take, it to the old doctor's house as
soon as he finished his dinner. Un
fortunately Dlngley's record was not
wholly good, and It is not strange, per
haps, that no one took a charitable
view of his predicament.
There was some question as to the
value of the trunk and contenta; and
ao far from being vindictive, the old
doctor set the valuation so low as to
make the charge of the nature of petty
larceny. But at the triaf the next day
the Justice sentenced Dlngley to pass
thirty days in Jail and to pay the costs
of trial. '
Up at our farm nothing was hoard
of this till the following evening.
Grandfather Adams had been trying
to have Uncle Jarve pile up the sea
son's firewood in the shed that day.
He would never work ten minutes at
a time, being one of those boys who
are forever tinkering, or making fid
dles, waterwheels, or something of the
sort. - .
Aunt Louisa, who was three years
older than' Jarve, had been at tbe
Mills that afternoon, and had called
at the doctor's to get some medicine
for grandmother. At the supper-table
that night she had tbe whole story to
tell, how Dlngley, whom we all knew
well, bad stolen the old doctor's trunk,
and was In Jail for It
She noticed that Uncle Jarve stopped
short and turned pale, and that he ate
hardly a mouthful of supper afterward
That set her to thinking. Aunt Louisa
was the brightest on In the whole
family. She understood Uncle Jarve,
and knew very well that he did not
car enough tor Dlngley to turn pale
or miss a meal on his account She at
once Jumped to the conclusion that
he knew something more about it than
She had told at the table.
"As soon as possible after supper
Uncle Jarve slipped away and went
over to SkllHng's place, to consult with
Alfred. But Alfred, it appeared, had
heard ot the trial that morning. In
stead of coming to see' Uncle Jarve
and deciding what they ought to do
about It, he went away very suddenly
on a visit to an uncle's family in an
adjoining county. : -
Uncle Jarve cam home and went to
bed. He did' not know what to do, for
he did not like to expose. Alfred. He
slept but little that night, and looked
very uneasy the next morning and
all the next day. Aunt Louisa was
observing him. Toward sight she
asked blm what the matter was, but
Uncle Jarvls would tell her nothing.
That evening a letter came, to him
from Alfred, who was evidently afraid
that Uncle Jarvls would confess. .-; The
letter consisted merely of a few words
scratched with a lead pencil on bit
of paper, namely:
Tha old doctor's trunk has raised
Cain I They've got that pedler in Jail
for It Keep Still. They can't hurt us
If you keep - still. Nobody saw us.
Now you keep, still, Jarvls Adams!
tint 1 am glad to record that Uncle
.larva was finding it bard to "keep
st .1." He had some unpleasant traits
haracter. - Conscience, - however.
nrstt k
was not wholly dead In him. its was
feeling badly, but could not make up
his mind what to da Again he want
to bed early, but he count not go to
sleep; and at last he made up hi
mind to go and tell the old doctor all
about It, and to go at one.
About half past ten Aunt Louis
heard him get up and go quietly down
stairs. She had not gone to bed her
self; and after waiting a moment, ahs
followed him out to tii stable, whert
be bad a lantern lighted and WAS cau
tiously harnessing old Nanc to th
driving wagon for Uncle Jam never
would walk even for halt a mils if he
could avoid It,
Aunt Louisa hastened back and got
her jacket and hat,' then cams out
again Just as Uncle Jarvls was slowly
rolling back the stable door to drive
out She got Into the wagon before
he fairly sow her. : "I'll go with you,
Jarve," she ald.--..--.-.-;,'-i.-.-:'---..
Somewhat to her surprise, h offered
no objection whatever. They drove
slowly through tha dooryafd without
speaking, so as not to wake grand
father and grandmother. But When
they were but on the road Aunt Louisa
said, "Jarve, you tell m all about
this." -
And by that time the affair had
Worried him so much that he was not
sorry to talk It over with some one ot
the family. He told Aunt Louisa what
jrour rested
night Aunt Louisa and Uncle
drove home and awaited developfncais. I
The next day a statement of the case
was forwarded to the state capital, and
the governor and council were asked
to act In tbe matter. ;
There was some delay, however, and
the pedler spent eleven days ! in jail
before being set free. ,''
We expected that he would at once
prosecute -Uncle Jarve r.id, Alfred
8..itngs for placing the trunk in his
cart; but the poor man was so glad to
get out of jail that he appeared not to
think of it Grandfather Adama paid
the costs of court, twenty-three dollars
Itr all, and made the pedler a present
o. fifty dollars. l --
Alfred did not return home for a
month or more, and bore no share in
tbe expenses resulting from the prank.
He always boosted of the way he got
out of It Youth's Companion.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
The official figures show that there
are 17,000,000 children In Russia be
tween tbe ages of six and 16 who are
not getting any signs of an education.
The telephone system of. New York
Is the largest In the world. The first
of the year there were 154,934 tele
phones In use In the city, and Chicago
has only 90,000.
Arabs Invariably wear beards be
cause Mahomet, the founder of their
religion, never shaved. . A long, flow
ing beard Is regarded by them' a a
Sign of distinction.
The finest building stone hi the
world is neither granite, sandstone,
limestone nor marble, but the Fijian
fossil coral.- When first quarried it
cuts like cheese, but after being expos
ed to the air it quickly hardens. With
the years it becomes Incredibly hard
and ao more enduring stone Is known.
During the list and 14th years a
man's hair grows quicker than at any
other period. " It takes an eyelash SO
weeks to reach a length of .429 inch,
and then its life Is from 100 to 150
days. By means of camera tho wink
ot an eyelid ha been measured, and
It was found that. 20 winks can . be
made in four seconds. -
"Mancbnow, th tallest man on
earth," Is creating a great sensation at
the London Coliseum. He is 26, was
born In Trsns-Caucasia, 'measures 9
feet S 1-1 inches In his stocking feet
He was t feet 5 inches tall when nine
years old. He eats six times as much
as an ordinary man, but drinks only
moderately. He weigh 44S pounds.
For the first time in history, it Is
said, one of the pyramids has been
struck by lightning. The pyramid
struck is that of Khephren, and the
fact Is another Illustration of the
gradual change that Is being brought
about in the climate of Egypt, by the
great dam at Assouan and the Irriga
tion works made possible since British
occupation of the Nile Valley.
'II
' The welsh revival Is ssld to he a
pood thlpg lor,tfie bakers.
CORNERS THAT FAILED,
AD CORNERS THAT COLLAPSED
MAN'S FOOLISH AND FUTILE EP
FORTS TO "BEAT" NATURE.
Unforeseen Events That Knoek the
Plans of th ., Manipulators Into
- Cocked Hats Som Big Deals that
' Collapsed,-
John W. Gates seems to have suc
ceeded In escaping from his attempt
ed "corner" in wheat without having
any of the roof' fall on his shoulders,
Me Is renortod to have' unloaded his
great holdings In the staple at a sab
stantlal gain but he appears to have
been obliged to admit that his efforts
to obtain entire control of the market
and "boost" the price of ,beat to $1.30
a bushel are vain. ,.;,'
The history of the Gates " deal Is
very much like that of all previous at
tempts to corner a commodity. It dif
fers from most others only In the fact
that the prime mover has escaped th
result of his Juggling, and stepped un
scathed from under the wreck. Letter,
Sully, Partridge, Old Hutch" and oth
ers too numerous to mention were not
so fortunate or smart they ' reared
their house to find too late that the
keystone bad been loft out of thd arch,
Iniied ifcjeli about their ears before they
"'lvJflto.'l('''lto' have
be-
fidoCs
across the
rartclsco of tbe
Souaands'of bushels ot
California storehouses, which
had been gathered In by an opposition
force headed by Charles R, Fair. Down
went the price of wheat and up went
tnoN. the Chicago syndicate, who
U. P. Hutchinson, a picturesque fig
ure of the Chicago Board of Trade,
known familiarly as "Old Hutch,"
made 'an almost successful effort to
corner wheat In the fall of 188$, In
August ot that year wheat waa selling
at between 81 1-2 and 94 3-8 cents a
bushel. "Old Hutch" began his oper
ations, and by skilful buying at last
bad the market so nearly cornered
that wheat in September sold at the
astonishing price of S2 a bushel. The
seaboard cities had only as much as
they needed for their own consump
tion, there were hundreds of thous
ands of bushels on their way to Eng
land, and all wheat must be purchased
from Chicago.;
' Buddenly reports began to come In
of unexpected yields from western
wheat fields, yields of which the
Hutchinson contingent had known
nothing, or. If they had heard rumors
had not expected that tbe news could
reach the market In time to keep
them from Unloading at a tremendous
profit. But the telegraph spoiled their
plans!! and as the new wheat came In
the price dropped till It had fallen
nearly to the August figures, and thou
sands were ruined.
It was In April, 1897, that Joe Lett
er, a newcomer to the Chicago wheat
pit, backed by his father's immense
wealth, began to buy wheat At first
his efforts were not taken with any
great degree of seriousness by the
other operators, but they soon smelted
th rat, and the price of wheat rose
rapidly, till in May tbe cereal was
showing a largo gain in prioe. Loiter
continued, however, buying ytvaria-
hla nriiw. till in Mu 1HQH T.
trv wa. annrised of the V:! -
Lelter had "cornered" the I
Prices soared as high as 21.85;
el, and as the Lelter forces sh
disposition to sell until they f
own prices, up went bread. It
In eastern cities were begin!
feel the effects of this glgantl
and clergymen preached from A
pit against such a "monopoly!
foundations of a social war w4
lng laid by this young plunger i
cago, when all of a sudden the!
of $he rocket that had been- goir
up, up, began to turn and come
A tremendous fall crop of wheaf
announced as a certainty, and sut
wheat, of th existence of wblcr
Letters had been kept In the dan
the opposition forces, was found, it
stored all over the country.
came the price of wheat, and wlii
the profits ot the Loiter syndi.
were wined out Their loss on t
last deal was estimated at $15
000; their net loss after counting
their previous gains, at $3,000,1,
Young Lelter was unable to meet j
obligations, and It looked as thou
there would be terrible ruin In ma
quarters when the elder Lelter stepp
lq with bis fortune and cleared t
ronnger's debts away. That was ti
md of the biggest wheat deal.
. Th Famous 8ully Corner.
Tbe failure of Daniel J. Sully to L
win
e cor-
Nlwent
Vnt
aer the cotton crop taut year Is wp
remembered. His was the rrtoet epc
.1 ..".' . - r
tacular piece of gambling on record,
porhaps even more so than th Letter
Case. ,
Sully was k young broker In Provi
dence, R, I,, a few years ago, and be
gan to be heard ot when he undertook
to build up a market for Egyptian cot
ton. In 1903 he came to New York,
having outgrown Providence, and be
gan his operations by buying cotton
at 8 cents a pound and forcing it up
to 18. '..... ..
Sully circuited in a methodical,
Widespread way the news that the cot
ton crop was sure to be a small one,
He 'Urged every one to buy. He got
the government to bellevo that the
boll weevil, an insect Injurious to cot
ton, was rampant and ready to eat all
the cotton that could grow. He scared
every one. The cotton planters down
south fell In with his line of argu
ment and Cried dUaster to the cotton
Crop. fhctM went up. All this time
Bully had been buying, and with cot
ton at the price that It reached In the
winter of 1903-4, hlg profits were esti
mated to be at least SG.000,000, But
they were on papor, for, though cotton
was high,, the moment that Bully
should begin td sell. In order to real
ise bis profits, down it would go, and
he would be the loser. Here wag an
other illustration, in a different way,
of the difficulty of cornering any com
modity at a profit. Sully certainly
had the cotton "and had forced tbe
price up. But he could - not collect
his earnings.
, His rivals knew this and began to
sell. - -Sully had -to buy to keep the
price up. Up, down, up, down It
till at the beginning of March It
down and stayed down just long
to make It necessary for the
Sully & Co. to announce Its
fjses were has not been
Son yet, but they were
next effort no
Is success-
a prece-
iJBOt-
waa soon in on)
It is the jr
make three
two to threemilrtt-
sound deep and stay bt
face Tor S or 4 minutes.
rorqual to
lis of from
-and then
Ath the sur-
a whale
would come to the surface, therVuld
appear always at the whale's rig!
sid and just about where his head
would connect with the body, a great,
long tall or fin, "judged by five fisher
men and a number of Indians after
seeing it about 15 times at various
distances," to be about 24 feet long,
two and one-halt feet long, two and
one-half feet wide ut the end, and tap
ering down to the water, where It
seemed to be about 18 Inches in di
ameter, looking very much like the
blade of the fan ot an old fashioned
Dutch windmill.
The great club was used on the back
of the unfortunate whale in such a
manner that It was a wonder to me
that every whale attacked was not
instantly killed. ..Its .operator seemed
to have perfect control ot its move
ments,, and would bend It back till the
end would touch the water forming
a horseshoe loop, then with a sweep it
wculd be - straightened and brought
over and down on the back ot the
whale with a whack that could be
heard for several miles. If tbe whale
was fortunate enough to . submerge
his body 'before the blows came, the
spray would fly for a distance of 100
feet from the effect ot the strike, mak
ing a report as loud as a yacht's sig
nal gun.
What seemed most remarkable to
me was that no matter which way. the
attacked whale went, or how fast (the
usual speed Is about 14 knots) that
great club would follow right along by
its side and deliver those tremen
dous blows at Intervals ot about four
or five seconds. It would always get
in from three to five blows at each of
the three times the Whale would com
to the surface to blow. The whale
would generally rid himself of the ene-
rnvwhen It took Its deep sound; es-
e water was 40 fathoms or
fif the attack
THEQUUPIZ ;
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
BISHOP BURGESS, D, D.
BnhJeeti Tho Charon's Foundation.
Brooklyn, N. Y. In the Church of
(he Messiah tbe Right Rev. Frederick
Burgess, D. D., Bishop of Long Island,
on Sunday preached from the text,
Matthew xvl;13-20, and particularly
the passages "And whom say ye that
I am? Simon Peter answered: Thon
art the Christ, the Son of tbe living
God. Jesus Answered and said:
Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona; flefh
and blood hath not revealed It unto
thee, but My : Father which is In
Heaven, I say also unto thee: Thou
art Peter, and upon this rock will I
build My church." He said:
These words can be scarcely under
stood apart from their context. The
Author of the Bampton Lectures
pointed out that Caesarea was the
borderland of the Jew and the Gen
tile, and thus was a fitting place for
proclaiming tbe divinity of Him who
came to save, not one- rnce, but all
mankind, Later study of our Lord's
life revealed the fact that He was at
that time truly iu exile. It becomes
.almost self-evident, as we read the
Gospels, that our Lord was suffering
depression and fyjt that His work
was, to a certain extent, n failure.
The cities of Caperncum and Corniin,
where He had preached and labored,
were all against Him; and you can all
recall the sad farewell which He gave
to those cities. In the Gospel of St
John we can see evidence that a large
number ot people who at first had
believed in Jesus were gradually es
tranged from Him by His teaching
and by His unpopularity. He had
been forced to leave His native land
and go Into exile. The words which
He spake to the Syrophoeneclan
women, "It Is not meet to take the
children's bread and give it to the
dogs," shows tbe sadness, almost bit
ter sadness; and when He came to
His owu"'Hls own received Him not."
In one way and another, we can see
how bitterly He felt and, while we
bare no real picture, yet, neverthe
less, we can, In fancy, see Him, as we
rend i
the Gospels, with His little band.
g ahead of them through those
valleys; snd we know that
figure of speech, but the
Id: "The foxes have
te air h&a
had f
and disappointment, tliouti
did it find expression, namely, on
cross ;wlien He said: "My God. Mr
I God, -why hast Thou forsaken Me."
inis perroa or exile, men, was a per
iod of depression. Men had deserted
Urn by thousands; tbe people whom
He lrftdcured and taught, were all
gone nowxAnd perhaps He feared,
as He asked RHLapostles that crucial
question r "WhoinT!a4ien say that I,
the Son of Man, am r-li however,
He did fear, whatever He feTHSd was
dissipated by tbe perfect fslth-vof
Peter's clear, strong snswer: "Thou
art the Christ, the son ot the living
God." And one who has ever tried
to do real work for humanity and to
help forward the kingdom of God
must have known something of this
depression, and must also have known
something of this Joy when at least
He had found one- man who believed
in Him. and in His message and who
was ready to stand out before the
world and confess his faith.
Our Lord, then, founded His church
upon a man upon Peter, if you will.
He did not found It upon a doctrine, or
a building, or an army, or a treasury.
No, but on a warm, rugged human
heart. He said to Peter: Thou art a
rock, and on this rock I will build My
church and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it." Those who want
to see In this passage a long, bleratl
cal line, ever connecting Itself with a
bishopric, must, I suppose, be allowed
to bug their delusion as long as they
live. But a sane criticism will always
reveal tbe fact that our Lord was as
serting that He would found His
cburcb upon loving Laman hearts,
upon men who believed,, in Him, In
honor and dishonor, through good re
port or evil report, In sickness and
health, as well as In proverty and
exile. Our Lord believed In men; He
trusted them. It has been well said
of Him that Indignation, even anger,
were spoken of men, but to condemn,
never. Man, as man,. was worthy of
respect, o . ., .. ,,
Now that ha not been tbe attlfhde
of tbe great writers and generals and
leaders of mankind. Alexander. Cue
sar, regarded men as so many pawns
to be moved about ss they willed.
"What are a million souls to mer
boasted Napoleon when he was
taunted with the loss of au army; so
in philosophy we find the an me dl-"-v!ltlng
of men. " But, Christ tanghl
"!ttcsllrnate of mankind to
""""J -Ht. Paul reverenced
.thelr si ns nud
the
loved collci t expresses it: "Thou bast
founded upon the apostles and proph
ets, Christ, Himself, being the bead
cornerstone."
To that church you all belong. , Sou
have taken tbe step which announces
that consciously you have come to
yonr full conception of what that
church is, and tbnt you are members In
It. Now, what Christ wants of you Is,
not your money or your Influence, but
He wants your heart, your devotion,
but He wants you to stand really,
purely, honestly, .truly; steadfastly for
Him. He wants you to -be built up,
ss St. Peter expresses it. "as lively
stones" in His church. It has been
said that to suppose that' the Christian
Church could have been founded by
any save Jesus Christ would be as
absurd as to suppose that Strasburg
Cathedral had beeii formed through
the centuries by the conflux of the
dust of the streets. Now, It is into
that church that you have come, and
you are to become stones in tbe build
ing. You are to grow strong by being
true and earnest, and pure and tem
perate. Buttresses and arches and
roofs are hot more really the fruit of
human architect's work than temper
ance and chastity and honesty are the
fruits of tho Divine Architect's love.
"On this rock I wiil build My church."
The Church of Jesus Christ will be
stronger to-ntght and stronger to-mor-ow,
because you have been confirmed
to-day. If you honestly keep the prom
Ises you have made to-night.
Alter Bot1t1 Whntf
The remarkable religious movement
which not long since arose In the West
like a little cloud no bigger than a
man's band, is apparently spreading
throughout Christendom. It has al
ready asRumrd proportions which com
mand attention from all quarters and
has wou for It general recognition as
"the revival." Every genu.-ie Chris
tian, at least, will be on tbe'wateb to
make tbe utmost ot its best' features
and the least Of its blemishes. It Is
alike Impossible tbnt the latter can be
essentially divine, or that the former
enn be exclusively unman.
Here, as In all Christian "
it Is Imperative that there
the distinct recognition or c
For it is always true wni
more save man. without b
man r-mi-Rnre himself W
This principle, however, con
only to looK witn reverei
Divine element in presentl
to consider carefully humj
tore. Waves of srr
;t?nt for
its ch lefes
may bring. Here is a
clares that unlimited blessing may
gained for men through Intercession.
Here Is yourself with some knowledge
in yonr own experience of what In
tercession might mean. Yet God wait
and Wonders! Tbe phrase Is not too
strong. Remember (be missionaries
who have gladly renounced all for the
Joy of butting s new light Into despair
ing leces but they spend little time
In asking for the Light. Remember
tha-fSastors whose calling It is to min
isterbut they have renounced th
Highest and most efficient ministry. Re
member the myriads who prate cease
lessly about the world's need of re
vivalbut they talk little about it to
Him who alone can give It. Remem
ber what yon say you believe, recall
what you actually do and cease to
wonder that God wonders. Pacific
Baptist.
Real Water-Flnder. .
The divining rod, or, as it Is called
In England, the "dowsing rod," has
IIS
Alt AHcmrtT POvmcR.
- ni'btnrofwonder, aKernat-
STORY OF INDIAN MAQIC. v , ,
1 Tricks That. Defy Detection and Mys
--.'. tlfy All Wh Behold Them. r
The following story of Indian magic
was told me by the person to whom It
was told by the late Lord Lytton. I
give it in my own words, for the excel
lent though humiliating reason that I '
have mislaid the manuscript When In
India, Lord Lytton often sought, out
conjurers, but never saw any but the "
usual feats, such ss the mango tree
trick and the basket trick. The method
In each case Is known, or at all events) -plausible
explanations have been given
by Mr. Maskelyne and other experts.
"On one occasion Lord Lytton liked
something in the looks of tbe conjurer
who was performing in en open space
before his house. After ihe ordinary
exhibition, his lordship asked the ma
gician If he could not do something; '
more out of tbe common way. The. .
man said he would try, and asked for
a ring, which Lord Lytton gave him.
He then requested an officer to take In
either hand a handful of seeds; one
sort was sesame; the name of the oth
er sort my Informant did not knew. '
Holding these seeds and having the
ring between his finger and thumb,
the officer was to go to a well in the
corner of the compound. He was to
dispose of the seeds in a certain way
I think on the low way around tho
well, into the depth of wuich he was to
throw the ring. All (his was done,
and the magician asked Lord Lytton
where he would like the ring to re
appear. He answered, "In his dis
patch box," of which the key was
attached to his watch chain, cr at all
events he had with him on the spot ,
The dispatch box was brought out
Lord Lytton opened it, and there was
the ring.
This trick would be easy If tho '
British officer was a confederate of
the juggler's and If he possessed a dup-
te key to tbe dispatch' box. ' In
he would net throw the ring j
but would take it Into .
ox and insert the
A Good CO
After the great Prltfc9.
rmVa
defeated the Turks In the jr
lie oi aenia, no emere
to find that jealous
spired to defeat
the emperor and
lng deliberately
peror's orders, 1
the gates of th
officers who d!
Informed him (
rest.
"Here Is my
cause my empfTor demands It mi
still red wltb.-ftre blood of his enemies.
I do not wlBh to have It again. if I
cannot use It in his service." .
The citizens were furious wjen
they heard of his reception, and they ;
sent-deputations to him, offering to
guard him with their lives and rescue
him from his enemies with arms. The
prince refused all these offers.
"I wish no protection," said he, "ex
cept the protection ot my reputation
and my record.'' - . - - -
When the emperor heard this, he
announced that he would listen to no
further complrlnts against the prince,
and authorized him to do whatever he
thought best after that on the field of
battle without being responsible for
his. actions to anyone. Indianapolis
News.
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The Haven of Distress.
"Cupid Is one of tbe best recruit
ing officers tbat Uncle Sam has," con
flded one ot the sergeants attached to
the recruiting headquarters. "Back
of nearly every enlistment thore is a .
woman in the case. Lovers' quarrels
chase a lot cf fine lads Into the service.
Your romantic youth gravitates to the
recruiting office after a aerirJftasWsst
with his sweetheart as naturally aa"""
a duck takes to water. It seems to
him the most fitting way In which to'
sacrifice himself when- love's young
dream is apparently dispelled. Way
down In his heart he nursed the Idea
of making his erstwhile enamorita sad,
and It's the army or nary, with the
r-xth In battle for him.
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