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UlAJiME XX. FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1905. MJMBEll 48 A BONQ t stand ob the mount of commerce. And bark to the enanus of toil. The cries of tbt greedj cllloa. The eoncs Iron the sunburnt toll And the winds come np In order, The North. Sooth, Weal, and Fur, And beer their tale of in and flail. Of fasting and of feast. ...... "I blow," the North wind etormeth, "O'er Inland ecaa that itialu In futile rage 'neath laden shins; I sweep broad fields of grain! The forests how when I pass by, I hear the huntsman's fall Our tithe we send to foe and frleair Cornea up from on and all." The Sooth wind signs. "I bring the soup A letter a people mart", Sung still, when righted half their wrongs, id t tttoo neia ana giaae ; tdsi parica sou ru mm. William Wallace Whltelock, la the New Torh Times. MlSal4i.Ta1alta.1atM How Capt. Curtis Got a Tow. " By E. H. C039E. A few of the older members of the waterfront fraternity could cite, with the test of the envious, some two or three cases wherein Capt Eben Curtis had missed his calculations, but these mishaps were only the exceptions that proved the rule. The rule was that what Capt Curtis undertook to do was aa good as done. His general success was the more surprising Inasmuch as, from neither a moral nor a practical standpoint was he by any means con servative in regard to what he was willing to undertake. In the halcyon days of his career great public Improvements in New York created a demand for asphalt With a schooner of ordinary sailing qualities it was not the height of pru dence to agree, on the first of May to deliver In New York by tbe middle of June, a cargo of asphalt from the Caribbean sea, under a forfeit of sev eral thousand dollars, but for Capt. Curtis this was comparatively a wise and cautious enterprise. He signed the contract and sailed. He had no occasion to delay in raising a crew by reason of the fact that he kept one crew pretty constantly with him, finding it profitable to -have raen whom he knew and on whom he could rely, for there were occasions in his way of doing business when he had need to call for services whlcl), in the language of the law, "cannot properly be constructed as the ordinary duties of seamen." Fortune smiled on tho beginning of his venture. He made the run south In more than ordinary good time, and took on upward of half his cargo with equal despatch, out tnen iricuon win the native laborers and one of the periodical upheavals of government combined to retard the loading and the work dragged slowly while the pre cious days flew by with leaps and bounds. When he was finally ready enough lor a quicx ilmost hen, witnoui calm, most unusually (considering me lauiuue, auu, uu the last stretch of his race against time, he began to drift idly, helplessly, within a hundred miles of port. There waa no prospect of immediate change In this state of affairs and the situation was rapidly growing des perate. At the outset Capt. Curtis had hoped that a breeze would spring up and refused to send for a towboat As time wore on and no Slreeie came he changed his mind, and, to avoid the forfeit, would gladly have seen the greater part of bis earnings of the trip spent for the long and cosily tow, but no tugs were so far out nor was ha able to speak any inward bound ateamer and thus send word to their owners ashore. Now, like the police on land, revenue eutters, the police of the three-mile limit, are aa a rule, conspicuously In evidence when their presence Is least desirable, and never on hand when they srewsnted. Consequently Capt. Curtis was surprised and pleased when he sighted the United States steam cutter "Sneaky Dick" on tne horizon holding a course that would eventually bring her within slgnallngvdlstance of his own craft It Is not at once clear why this fact should have awakened any particularly joyous emotions in Capt. Curtls's breast, for the rendering gratuitous assistance to vessels not In absolute distress forms no part of the duty of the revenue marine; nor was Capt. Curtis such a friend and admirer of the service as to welcome an op portunity of cultivating Its acquain tance. Nevertheless, after watching her for a moment, he executed a few steps of the hornpipe, button-holed the mate In a moment of earnest and private con versation, and called all bands on deck. Ho spoke to them on the rela tions of master and crew, and dwelt on the duties of good and loyal sea men, pointing out that they ought to cheerfully execute any orders that were given them, , however extraordi nary those orders might appear to be. He concluded by commanding his crew to-mutiny and to raise the greatest hullabaloo possible short of. actually lpllllng blood or setting the ship lire.. . After the first shock of 'astonish ment hla men entered into the spirit of this sham rebellion heartily, indeed their enthusiasm was not far from preclpitatinng the real thing. By the time the '"Sneaky Dick" came near enough to make out the schooner more or lest distinctly the oncer on her brides ; noticed suspicious activity "aboard the smaller vessel and be snatched up his marine glasses In time to see some one fight his way aft through a knot of excited sailors. A moment later an ensign, union down, struggled halt way up the schooner's mlten-peak and then was lowered so rapidly as to Indicate that whoever had hoisted it had been overpowered. . There ao a hurried chorus of bells, pipes and bugles aboard the cutter, her engines stopped, and in a trice a gig went over her side, a stream of men Hid down the falls, and long before the cutter lost her headway their quick and steady regulation stroke had pull ed them half way to the schooner, as they neared the distressed vessel It was evident that a desperate state ct affairs existed on board. The skipper, wielding a belaying pin, held a crowd 1 "V stills- OF LABOR. Stroke follows stroka la fev'rlsh hast , From hands that seek to snap . The fragments to a state anew From mountain ridge to cape." Of nralrlea broad mine Is the tata," . The West wind Wlthelj rails, Of mountain and enchanted vnla, . And sIlT'ry waterfalls; . .. Vast solitudes I've tracked, and passed. Far-scattered e'tr gates, . . From which the call, We t won for all A galaxy of states rn . I stand ob the mount of eommerra, ' And the four winds pass an 'by. To bear their tale of aie and Ball,, , Before they droop and die ; . .; For South Is . rth. and North la South, Ana r.asi ana v,ro, When labor's stroke the bar hath broke And East ana west are one. of mutineers at bay on the quarter deck, while one ot the mates, cut off by two desperadoes, was defending himself with a capstan bar on the tore castle head, the other mate, not being in sight, waa presumably kilted. As the gig swung on broadside for board ing one cutthroat rushed out ot the galley brandishing a flatlron and a kettle and launched both projectiles with great precision and velocity into the midst of the oncoming champions of law and order. A moment later they were along side and a dozen bluejackets awarmed over the schooner's bulwarks en masse,' Their lieutenant drew his sword and charged across the deck with great gallantry to the rescue ot the skipper, while a detachment of his forces delivered the second mate from his perilous position forward. Discipline carried the day against lawless force, and, three minutes after he came over the rail, the revenue lieutenant had cleared the schooner's deck. But just as he was congratu lating himself on having so quickly stamped out the whole riot, the first mate and a picked .band began the cli max of the day's festivities In the after lazarot or storeroom. A burst of yells and blows arose from this quart er, and Capt. Curtis sprang toward the batch crying, "Come on, sir, they're murdering my first mate." The lieute nant, anxious for more worlds to con quer, tore off the small hatch of the lazaret, and, swinging down over the coamings, dropped into the semi-darkness below, followed by half bis men. There was a brief and confused melee of cutlasses, belaying pins, and flying vegetables, and then the mate waa ex tricated from beneath a half-dozen struggling revenue men and mutineers, and this last flash of resistance was quenched. The lieutenant v,ited below until the rescued mate and his assailants ad beca rasssd vp rot deck, and, as he himself turned towards the ladder, something certainly not intended to be seen, but partially unearthed in the late struggle caught his eye. Sticking out from under a pile of boxes and cordage was the corner of a rough bale made up in the peculiar style characteristic of certain islands of the West Indies. Throwing aside the In nocent Impediments with which they were concealed, the zealous officer dis covered three more slmtlsr bales, and under one of them a bundle of water tight bags, serviceable, but not neatly made from discarded rubber coats and oll-sklns. The lieutenant whistled softly to himself, and went on deck even more rapidly than he had come down. "Captain," cald he, "I want to see your manifest." Capt Curtis with evi dent hesitation asked him why. "No matter," answered the lieutenant, sharply, "trot it out". Capt. Curtls's face showed some alarm, but this was a command that must be obeyed, and leading tbe officer A the cutter aft he opened the desk of his cabin, and handed him hla papers from the South American port, togeth er with the ship's log. The lieutenant glanced through them rapidly. "This only speaks about as phalt," said he, holding np the ship's manifest, "how about four bales of tobacco?" "There Is no tobacco aboard, sir," said Curtis. "You're a liar," snapped the lieute nant, "I saw it myself In your lazaret after your pirate crew had turned the1) place Inside out" "Very well sir," said Curtis, evident ly resigned to fate. "There is nothing about It In your manifest, which is bad enough, and no entry In your log to show where you got it, which Is a great deal worse," continued the lieutenant; "you may consider yourself and your ship under arrest." With this the lieutenant walked for ward, climbed Into the foremost shrouds, and, drawing out a white handkerchief, engaged in a rapid wig wag conversation with his commander on the cutter. The vessel waa seen to get under way, and presently bore down on the schooner coming ' close enougm alongside to permit a heavlng "'r to be thrown on l"trd. Twenty .iiutea later the Sneaky Dick was steaming for New York at the rata ot eight or ten knots an hour with Capt Curtis, his schooner, and hla merry men bringing up the rear at the end of stout hawser. . When they . came into port Capt Curtis lost no time In communicating with the consignees of his cargo, and the tatter being great and influential men, persuaded tha revenue author ities to examine, the skipper and his vessel with the omission ot. several fathoms of preliminary red tape which would ordinarily have been deemed essential to the majesty of the law. The examination revealed the fact that while the balance of the crew had become engaged In various displays of insubordination on deck, the first mate and a select party of seamen had busied themselves with making and hiding In the after huiret several gunny bales of junk and rubbish and an assortment ot smuggler's bags of the sort known aa "divers," , j , : ! There was no tobacco on board and co reason for holding the vessel! in deed, Capt Curtis , was lb a position to sue tbe commander ot the cutter for false arrest, but h ; generously overlooked this in view ot the free tow which brought hint Into port three days ahead of hla contract New York Evening Post. POLITE LETTER TO A RAT. Found In the Rulne of a House Re minder of a Boyhood Superstition, Over on the West Side of the city a long row ot old-fashioned dwellings has been torn down this spring to make way for some modern business buildings. While they were being de molished the contractor in charge was approached one day by a workman, who handed him a soiled and worn envelope which had been found among the brick and plaster. . The faded inscription, "Mr. Orar Rat," prompted the contractor to read the letter. It ran: "Dear Mr. Rat Although we realise that our house Is greatly honored by your presence and 4hat of your ex ceeding numerous and sprightly fam ily, we feel that it is selfish ot us to expect to have a monopoly ot your so ciety, and we would humbly suggest that you vacate our premises and select as your abode the residence of our neighbor, number 127, which we are sure you will find a pleasant and profitable place. With most sin cere insurances ot our deep esteem, believe us, most respectfully yours, "THE SMITH FAMILY." The laborer was puziled, but the contractor, after struggling with some dim boyhood recollections, was able to explain It There is, or rather there used to bo, a sort ot tradition that if the tenant of a rat infested house were to write a note to the rats, couched in terms ot extreme polite ness, requesting them to go else where, and poet It on a rat hole, the rata might oblige. The contractor remembered way back In his childhood days in a coun try town writing just such a note, politely asking a rat family to trans fer their attention to . a neighbor who had been vindictive, and firmly believing, on their , temporarily dis appearing, that it was the note that did It. The contractor took the letter home to show hla small boy that let ters to Santa Claus were not the only old epistles, and that there were oth er places besides chimneys which could serve aa mall boxes. New York Sun. - QUAINT AND CURIOUS. The biggest leaves In the world are those ot the Inaj palm, which grow on the banks of the Amazon. They reach a length of thirty to fifty feet, and are from ten to twelve feet in breadth. Padsrewskl. the famous pianist says that, Ills fingers aro as precious to him as Ate, for he could never play If he lost any of them. He takes1 insurance from time to time to cover special risks, as when he is going on a long journey by land or sea. An Interesting collection of spec tacles Is that possessed by Mrs. Wesley Williams of1 Bowdolnham, Me. More than one hundred years old, these cu rios were the one-time property of the women of Bath, who were forced by destitute circumstances to seek refuge in the almshouse. The small house lizards, which are numerous In the tropics, shed their tails when caught or badly frightened. Frequently, when the new caudle ap pendage grows out again it comes In s bifurcated shape and the small animal la then considered a "mascot" by tho superstitious natives. A bald eagle weighing sixty-five pounds and measuring eight feet from tip to tip waa turned loose in the steets ot Hutchinson, Kan., recently by the Hutchinson lodge of Eagles. A metal band was placed around the bird's leg bearing the inscription, "I am a member of Hutchinson's aerie ot Eagles." - Argentina possesses, doubtless, an excessive number of horses, and al though the value of the horsehair ex ported is 11,040,000, and that of horse hides ss much more, these animal greatly Injure the camps, and the cat tle raisers are beginning to get rid of them and to replace them' with cattle and sheep. Heard Voice of Conscience, The mother of he small boy had been trying to instil within him an Idea of conscience. , She described it as a little voice which whispered in side one when he waa doing wrong. "I never heard 1." aaid the small boy, cynically, and in the tone of ons who shrugs his shoulders. A little later the small boy did some thing that he had been told not to do, and was sent to sit on a chair, and or dered not to get oft until tbe powers that be gave him leave. " Ten minutes later he came Into the room where his mother was sitting, jubilant "I have heard It mother." he ex claimed. 'Heard what?" asked his perplexed parent "Heard the little voice. It said, Sam Smith, you get off that chair. Don't you care what your . mother says!'" New York News. An Accident, f . On the whole Johnny Ralston was s very good boy; but he had one fault which it seemed Impossible for his mother to overcome he would fight with other hoys. Times out of num ber he had been reproved for this, and the last time he promised faithfully that he would battle no more. But that evening he returned from school with a cut cheek and a nese like a swollen beetroot. '..: 1 "Johnny," said his mother, sadly, didn't you promise me you wouldn't light any more?" "But I haven't been fighting, ma. This la the result of an-accldent "An accident?" doubtfully. , ! "Yes, ma. t waa slttlsg on Tommy Biggs, and I forgot t hold his feet!" At a wedding in Barstow, Cal., the other day, each of the guests was pre sented with a gold nugget from I mine which 'the bridegroom had be towed o ths bride SCRAP-PAPER EVIDENCE SUFFICIENT OFTEN TO . : PUT ROPE ROUND CRIMINAL'S NECK. nragment In an Infernal Machine .That Convicted Mountford -Gun Wad aa Proof of Crime Torn Sheet . of Note Paper That Led to Dbcov . ery of a Murderer Burglar's Fatal Oversight . '-4;"- "And this, gentlemen, Is what you are asked to hang a man on!" said Sergeant Ballantlne, addressing . a jury at tbe Central Criminal court He held np In hla fingers a little piece of paper, only a few Inches big. "You are asked to return a verdict which will aend that man standing there before you to the gallows, on the strength of a scrap of paper!" The scrap of paper was enough, says London Answers. Ballan tine's client waa condemned. I have known numberless cases In which a scrap of paper has sufficed to place the halter round the criminal's neck. In a case tried at Leeds some years back a prisoner named Mountford was charged with a peculiarly diabolical offense. Having conceived a murder ous hatrred ot a man who he Imagin ed had done him an Injury, Mount ford set to work to plot his death. A few weeks later a parcel waa deliver ed at tbe intonded victim's house. The parcel, which looked Innocent enough, was a tin case holding several pounds of gunpowder so packed as to ex plode when opened. Between two pieces of papVr was some detonating powder, concerted, with Ingeniously arranged matches at the top and bot tom of the box. The. attempt failed, the Infernal machine did not claim its victim, and the police were called in to discover the would-be assassin. Underneath the brown paper In which the box was wrapped the detectives found a scrap ol newspaper a portion of the Leeds Intelligencer of July 6. Other clrcum stances led them to suspect Mount ford, and on their visiting his house and searching it they found a Leeds Intelligencer of that date with a piece missing. The scrap of the Internal machine fitted it exactly. Mountford was found guilty. Newspaper used as a wad In fire arms has over nnd over again sufficed to convict a murderer. A youth nam ed John Toms was charged at Lan caster Assizes with the murder of a man named Culshaw. Culshaw had been killed by a pistol shot, and the weapon had evidently been discharg ed from close quarters. The evidence against Tom was meager and unsatis factory until there was produced in court a.t4BTyMciastamed piece" of paper. l waa handed to the jury and examined by them, and on It were still plainly discernible the words of a north country comic song. " The pfc ce of paper had been recov ered from the fatal wound in the dead man's head and had been the wad for the assassin's pistol. A songbook was found in Tom's pocket and part of one page was missing. The piece found In the dead man's wound cor responded with the lest part exactly. Tom was, ot course, found guilty and hanged. In a Scotch rase. In which a young lady was charged with the murder of her father by poisoning him at the In stigation of ber lover, a scrap of pa per played a most Important part The old gentleman had most emphat ically refused his consent 1o his daughter marrying her lover and had threatened to disinherit her If she did so. His' wealth waj considerable, and the young fellow, after some time, succeeded in persuading the in fatuated girl to administer arsenic to her parent In alowly increasing doses One day a servant surprised the wretched girl while she was prepar ing some food for the old man. The girl seemed dismayed by the servant's sudden appearance, hastily threw a piece of paper which she had crushed into a ball In her hand upon the fire, and then disappeared with the little tray In which the food was standing. The servant, as soon as her mistress had left the room, rescued the paper from the fire. It had been crushed together so tightly that only the outside portion waa consumed by the flames, and in the creases oT It the servant detected, a kind of white dust She kept the paper, and when her master died and her mistress was arrested and charged with his mur der, it waa producedln court The analyst had no difficulty in ascertain ing that the white dust was arsenic, and Vie murderess was condemned to death and was executed. Who was the murderer of. Mary Webber? was a question which some years sgo sorely perplexed the Lan cashire police authorities. Webber was a servant and left her mistress's house one evening to, keep an appoint ment with respect to which she bad, her mistress subsequently remember ed, appeared peculiarly anxious. Mary Webber never returned home, , Her dead body was discovered toe n -.t day In a lonely spot near a wood. There was no doubt she had been murdered strangely by some person with teste, powerful bands, . the finger marks of which were. to be seen up on her throat . A No one. could say who it was she had gone to meet; but it was general ly suspected that ahe must have had mx. appointment with some lover at the spot where she met . with' her death. Upon examining her box, the detectives found three notes In -a strange handwriting seemingly dis guised, and only signed "O. L." These letters were evidently from an admir er. They were peculiarly disappoint ing, however, for' each contained only a few words making appointments for meetings at various places, one appointment being for tlje fatal night at the spot where Webber's body was found. The writer of that letter waa In all probability the murderer. Sus picion now centered around a young fellow in whose company Webber had been seen. . ; The day before the murder the sus pected man had, It was developed, VaCted a shop to purchase a sheet of note paper. He bad then asked for a pen and an envelope, and requested pnrmisslna to H. at ths counter and write a brief letter. ; When ne had gone the shopman found a half sheet of paper left on the counter in the blotting pad at which the prisoner had been writing. ., Thla half sheet the man put back Into the box, with the other paper. . The last note fouJd in the dead girl's box, making the fatal appointment was written on a halt sheet of paper. This and "i piece left by the accused man In the shop were put together. Microscopic examination revealed the tact that the two halves made one sheet The man was executed. ' ' A piece of papor played an extra ordinary part in the trial ot a Wilt shire farmer at the Salisbury Assizes. The prisoner has been charged with haying sent an anonymous threaten ing letter to a neighbor. Witnesses acquainted with the prisoner's writing were, called to prove that the letter was In his hand.. Others, equally aa well able to judge, declared that the writing was not his. But the pro secution had what appeared to be most conclusive evidence of tbe pris oner's guilt. "Three ol these anonymous letters had been roughly torn out ot a tingle sheet In a writing desk In the pris oner's house tfie detectives found a scrap ot paper, which, when fitted with the three pieces on which tbe letters were written, exactly formed one sheet The ragged edges of tbe dif ferent portions exactly fitted each oth er and the watermark and name of the maker, which was divided Into three parts, were perfect when the pieces of paper were placed together. Tho evidence appeared overwhelming, and tho prisoner protesting his In nocence, was sentenced to penal ser vitude. The prisoner was removed, when suddenly a person stood up In court and denounced himself as the real criminal. He was the son ot the prisoner a youth ot 18. He wrote upon a piece of paper from memory the contents of the three threatening letters. His hand writing was exactly that In the crim inal's epistle; mistakes In spelling which appeared in them were repro duced in the son's writings. He bad, he explained, had access to the writ ing desk of his father's room, and had abstracted the paper from it There could be no doubt of his guilt, and the father was pardoned while the son went to prison for seven years. HUNTER OF PARA8ITES. His Mission Is To Find Natural Cures For Insect Pests. lie had just arrived. In London from Brazil, and was off the next day to pAeTtfjfrpees. 1 found him in the of- flco'of the AgerinSgneral.for Western Australia, says a wrlterff-iffe Daily Mall. He was carrying a little" hsz containing a few commonplace look ing beetles. Yet to find those beetles he had traveled fifteen thousand miles and searched far and wide. For the bronzed and hardy traveler follows the least known profession on earth, that ot the parasite hunter. For years be has been traveling, literally from China to Peru, In his search for Insects that will aid the farmer in his war against pests. "I am a tracker down of the natural cures for the insect pests that are do ing damage costing hundred of mil lions every year," said Mr. Compere, In answer to my questions. "Every country has Its different plagues. How do these pests come? Here London affords you the simplest .illustration. Millions of insects are carried Into England every day in the merchan dise that arrives from abroad, some in the stackiogs of eastern cargoes, some In the dried , foliage around tropical produce. "At any time one of these strange insects, carried here in auch a taahion might find that the English climate suited It, and that one of your native products (possibly wheat) supplied it with a suitable food. If there were nothing to counteract It it would In a few years spread al) over England, breeding In great numbers several times a year. Before many - had quite realized what was the matter, your wheat crop would be ruined. "For some years my wort has tak en me to every land. Now I am in Spain, now la China, now in the heart of France, now in Central America. My method Is this: When seeking an antidcto I first find the native home of the pest. I wish to attack. Then to go there, get into the country, and ex amine. I watch the same pest there where It la probably doing scarcely any damage), and I am almost, sure to find that at some stage ot Its life another . insect attacks and destroys It. Then I have found what I want ed my parasite and I take It away with me and breed it to fight the pest "Every pest has Its parasite,' and the right way to fight pests is through their parasites. Westorn Australia la setting the- way here in practical fruit culture and farming, and others will benefit front its work." :i Ths Language of Culture. . Never ia one's lack of knowledge so painfully apparent as In the Writing of Fitters. in speech, slips of gram mar,' mispronunciations, localisms, are greatly modified by a sweet voice and an animated expression; but In the written words there are none of these friendly aids. A letter In' which every rule of language Is defied, fiaa often served to shatter an Idol. To many, who have, no need to fear the closest scrutiny ' of the mechanical part of their composition; the writing of a let ter is a task; and tbe man who is never at a loss for words when talk ing with his friend, finds even the commonest expressions eluding him when he attempts to write. The epis tolary art Is one that can be cultivated. The first requisite Is naturalness. Let every word come from the heart If to this you add an unaffected grace and ease ot composition, ypr letters will be a source of pleasure to your friends, adding to the brightness ' of their days or dispelling their, gloom. Men and Women Miss Sarah Jackson of Dearborn ccUQr, Indiana, although at present In gscd health,. has given written di rections tor, her funeral. ZEE PVLP1T. A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON 0Y ' THE REV. W. H, RAMSAY - Sntdset i The Bellgloa of Jssas. Lonlsvllle, Ky. The Rev. W. H. Ramsay on Sunday preached a power ful sermon entitled '"The Religion of Jesus." He took for his texts: Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for ahs loved much. Luks vlL, 47. Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the cberds with " might; ' . - Smote the chord ot Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight Tennyson. In the midst of so much confusion snd perplexity about questions relating to religion, nothing is more helpful than to turn to the words of Jesus snd find what He taught and believed. We shall find little difficulty in doing this if wt confine ourselves to the first three Gospels. It we include tbe Fourth Oospei, we shall Introduce aa element of difficulty and confusion. The Fourth Gospel sets a wonderful philosophy about Jesus and His mis sion, and it relates Incidentally some ot tbe events In tbe life of Jesus. But for a simple statement of the words of Jesus Himself, apart from sny theo logical theory about Jesus, we must turn to the other Gospels; There is unquestionably much in these narra tives besides tbe words of Jesus, much that betokens misapprehension and misconstruction on the part of those that heard Him, and an attempt to in terpret His words and deeds as a con firmation of the materialistic hopes and expectations of His followers. But the utterances ot Jesus Himself on tbe great and vital questions of spiritual religion are so exalted and so self-evident that we shall find no difficulty in discovering them. What does Jesus teach about God, about Man, about Sin and Righteous ness, about Redemption, about the kingdom of God upon earth? We might include other questions, such as the nature of Divine Revelation, the Church and Its Sacraments and Rites, etc. But these are minor and subor dinate matters. What does Jesus teach about God? Strange to say, Jesus lias nothing to state about God, after tbe manner of the theologians and creeds. He en tered upon no metaphysical discussion about the nature of God. He never mentions the doctrine of a Trinity. "He liSd unquestioned faith in God as a living, conscious, intelligent agent This faith came to Him by inheritance, and was received by Him as tbe indis pensable and Indisputable presupposi tion of all religion." Jesus took the highest thought about God In the He brew religion, the conception of God as the Eternal Father of men. and ex panded and purified it. He interpreted tills Idea by His own sublime and spot less moral consciousness. He saw the truth of the Divine Fatherhood through the medium of His own loving and righteous soul. The thought of God las the ever-present Spirit of rlghteous- nestr-ami Jove waa a 'cuuainuuy uesei ting tbrtrg&lwltb Jesus. He lived and moved and b?fnrrigjnthls con sciousness of the Father! llleseiHM. He saw tbe ceaseless operation of tbe Father's love and goodness and care for all things. The whole universe was encompassed by tbe Father's love. He loves and pities nnd provides for all. Even His wicked and unthankful and prodigal children are provided for. His rain descends and His sun shines for the evil and tbe good alike. Jesus did not think of the Father as a far-off and Inaccessible Deity, but ss a near and Indwelling Presence. He did not offer any explanation of tbe mystery of this, wonderful truth; He simply believed it, and' lived and wrought and taught with this thought perpetually in His mind, with its in spiration in His soul. God was a liv ing reality to Jesus. What did Jesus teach about man? The thought ot Jesus about man and human nature might be summarized in the words, "Man Is tbe child of God." This truth had been expressed by others before Jesus, but It had never been taught in the way that Jesus taught it No prophet or teach er before Jesus bad ever drawn auch inferences from tbe belief, or made it tbe basis of such an appeal to man's faith in his own spiritual and moral possibilities. Jesus shows everywhere that Ho bad a deep and uusliaken zaitn in tne essential aivineness ana worm or ail men, whatever man's Character might be, whatever the out ward and accidental deformity of tbe life. No matter' bow far the prodigal might have wandered from his fath er's home, be was still his father's child. He might deny his birthright ana eat with the swiue. but tbe fath er's love" never cesses and never wanes. Jesus, faith In the essential dlvlne ness of man is shown in His treatment ot all men, especially ot tbe outcast and the sinner. He loved the outcast the fallen, "the lost sheep of the house of Israel." He bad compassion upon them, because He knew how they had been tempted, how they had been taught and brought tip, how they had been neglected and left to wander "like sheep without it shepherd," losing themselves In the wilderness and miss ing 'the true goal ct life. Oh, the di vine compassion of Jesus tor man, ths deep-veined humanity, the eternal love of the Father breathing through Him and looking out through His pure eyes! It is this last that has made His name forever blessed, and turned tbe hearts of the lost and fnllen sons of men to Him as the dearest pledge and symbol of the eternal love and compassion that Is at tbe heart and is tbe great heart of the world. What does Jesus say about aln? Strange to say, very little. Jesus never speaks about sin In a formal er theological way. He saw it; He felt Its presence and witnessed Its degrada tion ot the lives of men. He saw it aa the negation of goodness, as tbe ab sence Tf tbe abundant life, the blind ness of -the lost child, tbe impotence of the Ignorant and foolish, wounding themselves against tbe terrible rocks of the world. But of "original sin," of "total depravity," of a "fall of the race In Adam," of "imputed guilt" of those doctrines of sin that form tha basis of the entire theological "scheme of s-'vnllon," there is not a syllable ft lie lips of Jesus. - . : Jesus everywhere and always 're sumes the essential divlneness of the human soul. Tha lost sheep belong to tho' fold of the Good Shepherd; tbe lost coin, though battered snd bruised, Is of precious metal, snd bears the image and superscription of tbe king; the lost boy tbe prodigal Is his fath er's child, no matter how far he has wandered or how deep his moral degradation. What did Oesns teach about "Salva tion?" How is the lost restored? How Is the prodigal brought back to bis father's home? " What does Jesus say about this? Is there sny elaborate creed, or any creed, to oe accepted? pocs B tell ns ot any . scheme of salvation or of auy atoning sacrifice? Not a single word. The whole thing is simple snd natural, snd true to the fundamental facts snd laws of the moral and spir itual constitution of man; Take tha parable of the "lost sheep" and tha "prodigal son." How does the Good Shepherd seek His lost sheep? How does the Father restore the lost child? The Divine mercy and love seeks snd Influences the children of men in countless wsys. God seeks msn In tbt very fact that sin itself is foreign to man's higher nature. Tbe life ot sin, of alienation from goodness, is a disap pointment Its pleasures srs apples ot Sodom. The evil course, In the end. exhausts itself. The prodigal gets to the end of hla resources; then he re calls that he Is bis father's child. It Is so with sli kinds of sin. In the Isws of man's moral Snd spiritual being. It Is ordained that there shall be a reac tion of the divine, the good In man, against tbe evil within and around him. I do not know how far men may go toward destroying the possibilities of good in themselves. No finite mind can dogmatise on such a question. I only know that Jesus never despaired, and that He teaches ns to despair of no man. In seeking and restoring sinful men to their true lives, the ministry of a loving and Sympathetic humanity has the largest place of-any other instru mentality. It Is a continuation of the ministry of Jesus. His ministry was not in His words slone; it was chiefly iu His wonderful personality. His gentleness, His faith in man, inspired faith and hope and courage in those He ministered to. Men are sought and found through goodness and love and pity In their fellow-men. Jesus said: "Do good, despairing of no man;" "Be merciful, even as your Father in heaven Is merciful;" "If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will forgive you." Make the heavenly Father real to men by Jelng incarna tions of His love and goodness. The love of God Is .seen chiefly In love and pity In the heart of man. . In the ancient liturgy of the Church there is a phrase that says, "God bath given power and commandment to His ministers to declare and pronounce to His people, being peniteut, the abso lution and remission of their sins." There is a wonderful truth In those ancient words. God hath given such power, not to ordained clergymen alone, but to every sympathetic and ministering soul. The law of divine forgiveness and spiritual renewal is the central law of tho evangel of Jesus. I stand by tbe side of a man In the spiritual agouy of remorse. He has drunk the horrible cup of Iniquity. He Is sin-sick. He feels the crushing bur den of his own wrong-dolug. He lougs for. deliverance, for ease of conscience, for a sense of divine forgiveness. He Is sorry for his sin. The inward dark ness of his soul has projected Itself upon the heavens. He thinks that God is angry with him. He is afraid of his Father. Love re-creates the soul, and the man becomes "a new creation." He begins to live a new life and to flgbt a winning battle with sin and tempta tion. He knows and feels that a power Is in him that is all sufficient for every need and every emergency ojjin ms, of the Father. "Not by works ot righteousness that we have done, but according to. His mercy He saves ns." Tbe relation of a child to a father does not stand upon any legal formality; it is not conditioned upon any service that may be done by the child. This is pre-eminently true of the relation between the Heavenly Father and His human children. Tbe love nnd grace of God come through no contract St. Taul tells of those who live as servants in the Father's bouse. Their spirit is one of bondage, not of Joyous trust and spir itual freedom. The effort to obtain the sense of forgivenessand spiritual peace !tnd joy by a diligent discbarge of duty leaves the tender conscience in aouui and fear, because "the commandment is so exceeding broad" that at best man's endeavors must be imperfect, or else it leads to Pharisaic self-complacency. It turns the moral life Into a legal routine of duty. Between that kind of legal service which we may render under hop of winning God's favor, and the free service to which we are constrained by the sense of divine" sonsblp nnd love, the distance Is Im measurable. It Is to Jesus that the world is indebted for showing ns this, and enabling us te pass from the state sf servile obedience to s God whom we fear, to the Joyous service of a Father whom we love. We accept this view of the relation between our souls snd God upon the authority of Jesus as our great Master and Leader in the things of the spirit, ns from one who stands supremely sbove ns in spiritual insight Love creates a loving and obedient Hfe. It destroys selfishness from the heart. It makes character; and character Is salvation, in this and in all worlds. The kingdom of heaven on earth Is the kingdom of love, a society of men and women who live the loving and Cbrlst-llke life; who believe that this Is God's world, and who live upon this principle every day; who believe that all men are brothers and sons of God, snd act toward all men as It they really believed this. These principles of tbe religion ot Jesus are gaining more and more in ths world. In spite of all that appears to ths contrary. The kingdom of God is surely comlug on earth. Tbe Fatherhood of God, the Brother hood of Man, the moral and spiritual Leadership of Jesus, Salvation by Character, Inspired by love, the Prog ress of Mankind onward and upward forever-thls is the faith ot essential snd-spiritual Christianity; and some day it will be accepted as the true in terpretation of the religion ot Jesus, L I M 1' . LEFT HENS ON NESTS. Flrem&n Used Old System Rather Than Disturb Them. . There Is a story of an old New Hampshire doctor who, on taking out a wagon that had not been used for somo time, found that a hen waa sit ting In It. He merely "harnessed up" without disturbing her, and he and biddy made a series of calls. - Ths Boston Herald offers this true story f the town of Amesbury, which owns a small Are apparatus: Outside the Ore limits Is a smalt community that, on petition, received an appropriation for the purchase 'of "hand-tub." It was lcstalled In an abandoned blacksmith shop, where It remained tor two years, used only tor decorative purposes In street parades. i. Last summer a stroke ot lightning started a email fire In a farm house i.ar by. The volunteer department rallied at "once, but when they arrived at the engine house, ths foreman stood st the door, "Don't touch her, boyo!" cried he. "I've gotr two hens settln In tho box. Let's use the buckets." They agreed and the hens were al lowed. pursue their incubating ways. THE RETORT OF THE RUSSIAN. Said the Russian .' "No one ever saw me la a town with such a nam as Bt-oiwa- wea, .. tlll lfr l-rs, or Osc s hon la, Ko-ka-oo-na, or Wal-ltt-la. . . , Which are la that wild ABwrlea. And look! Hart's O-chers-dan, CblBe-o-taagut en4 Rrhaah-tl-cokc. Isn't It a nlfhtj lucky thing for as ' W hsT no nama like Ag-a-men-U-eas, Or Guad a lu pe. Cala.,. Or Cboc-cVloc-co. Ala- . Chaek-to-wa-xa, Aucn In-elosa, or AI-- : au-ken, Cud-de-back-vllte, Me-hoon-an-y, or Wee- haw-ken . If we held An e a irun-tl-eook la Me.. -With tha Japs at Met a bet-choo-an In (Jus-. I rather think 'twould threaten us With geographic tetanus 1 Or If they were down at Yfai-a-hach-le, ' .Tex., i . , And we fell back to tie-a-qulxt-la, Mex.l Wouldn't correspondents jeer US with S will. If we had a town called Ap-to-kls-le, Ill.t A Klata e-co-qull-laa, l'a.. Or a Klnch-e-foo-nee, Ga., . A Quln-nl-pl-ark. or plain 8h-tuck-t Ct. A Mich l-eara roe. Mich., or Queerk-le, Vt.t D'ya think I'd lira In Wa-pa-pel-lo, Mo:, ; Wan-wal-lo-pen, l'a.. or W a pa ko-ne-ta, O.l Or Nlt-ta-Yu-ma, Wls.j Or Kron-oa-wetn-ars, Wis., u Tough-ken-a-mon, On-on-dna-a, 8quan-na-cook, or CuT S boaaT l)a-gus-ca -boa-da, l'a., and Quan-bab, , Minn., Rather make a slmple-languaged Busalas grin. Tat no doubt they think us dippy . At Boirue-Cblt-to. MIsalMstppI, And eoncelre our brains as buggy In Alabama, down In Chuo-ne-nug-gee. KJmund Vance Cook, In the Book of ths Koyal Blue. , JUST FOR FUN Lawyer I have my opinion of you. Client Well, you can keep it; the last opinion I got from you cost me 100. Plck-Me-Up. Blngs What do you think of this Meredith idea of marriage for ten years? Bangs Does a man get any commutation fur good conduct? Life. Burglar Let's go to de shore an rnh r)A mioatia nt annn .nmm.p hnral His Pal Aw, what's do use? - LetBrC wan tin September an rob ae pro prietor Puck. . v Freddie What's the difference be- ' Iween being sick and an invalid? Cob wlgger An invalid, my boy, is ons who makes thoso around him sick. Harper's Bazaar. Mrs. Housekeep You don't mean to tell me that you were ever a poet? Weary Willie Yes, kind lady, when I was younger. That was how my feet first went astray. PhiladelphnTPress. "It Is possible to be lucky at cards and also lucky at love," remarked the Wise Guy. "Yes," agreed the Simple Mug; "I suppose It's simply a case of ' holding hands." Philadelphia Reo- ord. Lady Why -don't you work at your trade? Dusty Tracks I can't git no" nter run a self- News. Mother Been fighting With that Murphy boy again, have you? Why didn't you say, 'Get thee behind me, Satan?' Benny Behind me! Gee! I was wishin' he'd get betwoen us! Puck. Visitor You don't know who I am, do you, JJmmy? Jimmy Naw. Visi torAha! I know who you are, though. Jimmy Aw, that ain't noth In' I know that myself? Cleveland Leader. "Your friend Little tulls mo he's get bis wife pretty thoroughly trained now." "Yes, he's got her trained so that he can make her do pretty near ly anything she wants to do." Phila delphia Press. - - "Are your papa and "itramma at wheeling wheeWnVWIwbut tftyg gjj p ..J none Invented as vet. ChTcaxo Dally .. I home?" asked the caller. "No," re? i plied little Marguerite; "one ot them may be here, but they never are both at home at the same time." Chicago Record-Herald. . 1. . "Yes, there were -eighteen women In the car when the fuse blew out Sev enteen of them jumped off the wrong way." ."What nbout the eighteenth rong f tenth woman?" "She stayed on the car. Cleveland' Plain Dealer. . . ... "He writes very uninteresting love letters," ,sald the sentimental girl. "You mustn't blame him for that," an swered Miss Cayenne. "He once serv ed on the jury In a breach-of-promise caae." Washington Star. . "Yes," said the old man, "John spoke a piece in Latin, 'nuttier one In Greek, an' still one more iq German. He didn't seem like the same boy to me an he wont till he gits bsck home an' goea to ploughln' In dialect!" Atlanta, Constitution. , Whale Fleah or Beef? -! ' Whale meat at from three to six cents a pound Is to be the solution of the meat trust question, according to some Newfoundland speculators who . are seeking to . make a market for whale -mf at, . -1 :".' .;' ;'j :;" v; .- It Is declared that-thsrBeslf &1hetj flavored than beef, more nearly sug geetlng venison, and Is capable of be ing prepared In a variety of ways. " . Whale's are not to be found in this part ot the globe In sufficient num bers to make a serious Inroad Into the sale of beef, but It Is declared by the promoters that they have already built up a successful trade in whale meat with the West Indies, and that they" shot tij Intend placing It upon the London msrket, V- .' It is to be shipped In special steam ers, and even at a price of six cents a pound will return a handsome profit . vtmle th cheaper cuts may be re tailed for half tbat sum. The Wrong Implement. I was traveling some months ago In the mountains of North ' Carolina," said J. P, Dickens of Boston to a Washington Post reporter, "and stop ped at the log cabin of a farmer to get a little rest and a bite to ea. The farmer's wife was a kind-hearted soul and set about getting me a dinner with most hearty hospitality. ' At the table one of her children, a lad of 12, said to her In a loud voice: 'Maw, give the stranger a knife.' His moth er answered that she had given ti one, which was true, but again f youngster piped up: 'Maw, I tell yo i to give hlr.i a knife; don't ys see t is eatln' his greens with a fort?" "