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JRESS, mjMIME XX. ! : 1 ' FRANKLl' k N. C. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBEH 8,. 11HI5. . -.UMBEK 45 ....... ..... . .. t ' . ' - . :. : 1 ' : - - Olmroe buck the dear old daya all the boy i In lln -Boy etnod ob the barnln' deck." an' "Bin- fen on the Khlne I" "Twas mlrtnlchl: la hit rnarded Sent" w apoke it hlah and low, Wlille Mary trotted out that lamb "wboaa t fleece wae white aa enow I" Gimme bark the dear aid dan that Mem'ry loves to keep. With "I'llot, 'lit a fearful night there danger on the deep!" The old-lime, awkward getures--the Jerk, want ler a bow: W'a ta'rt that "Curfew ahould not ring," but. Lord I it ringiB- now i I Trus Tale of an Dogs constantly are surprising their best friends. The true tale of Bob ta shining Illustration of this fact Bob li an unarlstocratic but Intelli gent animal, whose ancestry is several parts ox terrier, the other being un known. He Is sturdy, brave, quick witted and efficient, well equipped in every way to play a good part In the canine struggle for the survival of the fittest. Keen as a fox, and game as a pebble that is Bob.' Ho has, also, two contradictory char acteristicsthe love of his home and the lust for travel, and thereby hangs this veridical tale, which Is, in the an nals of dogdom, what the saga of Lief, the son of Eric, is in the chronicles ot human adventure. For without the aid of chart or compass, without even the sense of smell to guide him. Bob has Journeyed through an unknown land more than 100 miles back to a spot he had not seen for five years. From South Haven, Mich., to Austin, 111., by the overland route, is the feat of the wonderful Bob. Bob acknowledges as masters two little boys William Henry, Jr.. aged 10 years, and Rudolph Henry, aged 12. Their father, William Henry, Sr., an employe in the filing room ot the Circuit Court of Cook county. Is rec ognised by Bob and his own owners as the final court of appeal in all dis putes -over rights of proprietorship. Bob came Into this world some nine or ten years ago, being born within the confines of Austin before that sub urb was annexed to the city. He promptly was adopted by the Henry family, then resident in Austin, and Interested In the management of a bakery at 201 North Park avenue. Amid the fragrant exhalations of the bakeshop, with the aromas of cream puffs, coffee cake and fresh bread ed ucating his nostrils to a delicate sense of the good things in life. Bob passed from the days of puphood to canine molarity. Me iroiicKea wnn winy Rudy on the lawns of the town ss the street, and proved fy fttB IUSSS"! : wff ftf aJi its which attempted to gnaw ara- sques in the crosta of Mme. Henry a lee. His warfare on the rodents as so pitiless that Grocer Louis Nis san, halt-way down the block, attempt ed' to seduce him into a change ot habitat with choice blta from the chop ' ping block, but Bob proved faithful ' to his old friends. Altogether, he found Austin a very pleasant place In " which to live. Five years ago the bakery changed i hands and the Henrys moved away. William Henry, Sr., entered Into the - employment of the county and located In Chicago at 91 Hill street, but the grandmother Immigrated to South Haven, where she owned a small plot of ground Just outside the limits of the town. Bob was sentenced to live ' with hor, and was taken across the lake In a steamer, enjoying the trip ' hugely, for he is a dog ot an extreme ly nautical turn of mind. -Then Willy and Rudy and William, Sr., and the rest of the family came over to risk him quite often. But af ter all country life lacked the intoxi cating, cosmopolitan charm of urban AuBttn, and there was many a time when he longed for the smell of cream puffs and the squeal of a frightened rat And now the history of Bob's ad venture begins. Sunday, July 16, Henry, Sr., and his family ran ovei - to South Haven for the usual week end outing. Bob had been suffering , from an unusually severe attack of home-sickness the week before, and the arrival of his lords and masters was a welcome balm to his nostalgic pangs. The time for parting came at last, however, and Bob's heart was sad, in deed.' Rudy was left behind, but Willy and his father sailed away on the Eastland that evening, leaving their faithful friend behind them on tha wharf. ; The newly married cou plea were klBslng on the decks, hand- - kerchiefs were fluttering over the bul warks and the famous homeward bound chorus, "Are you married T Are you married f was violating the chas- t tlty ot the summer twilight as the excursion liner left the docks. - Occasionally the classic retort of the venerable quid "No, we're di vorced!" floated across the waters, and It admirably expressed the feel ings of poor Bob, perched disconsolate ly on the en'd ot the pier, Willy and Pop leaned across the railing to have one last look at tha lonely dog, which broke into a long "Ow-ow-ow-ow!" of grief at the sight of them, and was only restrained from - a suicidal attempt to follow In their wake by a kind-hearted dockwalloper . ' who clutched htm by the scruff ot the neck at the crucial moment and with a friendly kick snnt him scampering toward home. Three days after the dull routine of filing briefs in the dingy archives of the Circuit Court waa broken tor Hen n pere by a letter from 12-year-old Willy, visiting with grandma at South Haven. It contained this pathetic . line: . . "Bob has runned away." : Tes, the gypsy strain In Bob's mou . grel blood had asserted Itsolf at last. Without ceremony or leave-taking he had wandered down the road and over the hill out Into the great world. His recent emotional disturbances had proved to be, too much for him; his first motive In running away merely was a blind consciousness that the times were out ot joint and that some Gimme bark tba dear old daja tha. patfc- jray through tha delle . To the choolhuuee In the blossom; tba aound of far-of bella Tlnklla' 'croet the aieadowai the song at the bird an' brook j Tha old-time dluttouarj, an' tba blna-baek pellla' book 1 Gone, like a dream forever I A-cltr's hid the place . ,. , Where Hood the old log achoolhonae ; as no familiar face . la smiling there In welcome beneath a mornln' aky There ! a brMge acroat the river ; an' we'vs eroeaea, an aam unw-uj i Frank U Stanton, ta Atlanta Constitution. Intelligent Dog. thing must be done to put them right: But as he settled down to long, steady dog lope he began to think ot the happy days of long ago Jn Austin. He seemed to smell the cream puffs again and to hear the rat gnawing at the flour barrels in the cellar. Then he knew that he waa going back to the land of his nativity, and that noth ing but sudden death would stop him. Let the clever animal psychologists who experiment on white mice at the universities tell, if they can, what in stinct guided him over this route, which he never had traveled before. It is sufficient tor the purposes of the present narrative to say that he never faltered or hesitated, but pushed stead ily on, keeping the lake on hie right paw and following the sun. And his advantures were many. Near Watervllet, Mich., he met a farmer's wagon, and was given a lift of many miles, which gave his aching pads a grateful rest He supped at Benton Harbor in the rear of a butch er shop, defeating three other scaveng ing dogs in fair fight, for hunger had made him fierce aa a wolf. Then he crossed over to 8t. Joseph, enjoying a refreshing swim across the St. Joe river. The next day was Wed nesday, during which he ' passed through the town of Stevensvllle, where he almost caused a German hausfrau to suffer sn attack of apo plexy by leaving a trail of dirty paw prints across the newly washed streets which were drying on her lawn. Near Bridgman he fraternised with a group of tramps who were dining off a pur loined pullet, scorched over a camp fire, and at Sawyer, the village black smith "sicked" a mastiff on him. Having escaped the mastiff without much honor, but with a whole skin. Bob fared on to New Buffalo, where he spent the night In the railroad sta tion, through the kindness of the Irish flagman. Then Bob entered the domain of the Hooslers. He almost was tempted to dig a grave for himself and die fi den In e fifflfl to MlR-sand dunes, but Michigan City proved an oaslaThthel or sen. Mere ne was observed by the faithful few at the station who watch the trains come in, and one kindly soul fed him a doughnut from the railroad eating house. Bob devoured it In stole resigna tion, even as the man lost In the wil derness will eat his own shoes. But when one of the village cut-ups re marked, "That there dawg will eat ennything," and made him "speak" for a discarded "chaw" of tobacco, Bob s city-bred pride arose, and he shook the sand of Michigan City out of his fur. He made good time by keeping close to the shore line limping along the shingle and eating an occasional dead fish. f Although the Tolleston marshes con fused him for a time, be soon found his bearings and began to forge north ward, toward the smoky hase on the horizon, where he knew he would find the cream pulls and the rata. The dugout of the boy bandits and the scene of Nledemeler's last stand, near the powder mills of Aetna, had no charms tor him; his strength began to return with the sense that he was nearlng the goal, and he' soon bolted through Hammond and -across the stste line Into Chisago. -- How Bob rode in a eaboose from Pullman to Randolph street that is a minor detail In this true tale of a dog. He made a gallant finish at t o'clock on Thursday afternoon, going straight as a homing pigeon to 201 North Park avenue, Austin. There, as of old, was the bakeshop, and there his nostrlle were made glad with the scent of newly baked bread and de licious cream puffs. Mrs. J. W. Boyle, now the proprie tress of the bakery, was startled out of a atudy of the advertisements In the morning newspaper by a long and Jubilant "Ow-ow-ow-ow!" ' , It was Bob, his nose in the air, every rib visible, covered with dirt, but cheerfully giving voice like ' a hound in at the death. She charitably opened the door for the tramp, Bob darted in, and in another moment was curled up In his favorite seat on the window-sill, fast asleep., Shortly after ward Mrs. J. J. Owens, who lives In the tab. above,' came in to buy sup plies for supper. , She took one glance at thf sleeping dog, and then ex claimed: "Why, where in the world did you get Bobr ' Meanwhile Henry, Sr., whose mind has been trained by a long study of legal documents, bad been thinking over Bob's disappearance. Last Sat urday morning he remarked to Mrs. Henry, "I'll bet that blamed dog has gone back to Aultln," and, although this acute remark was greeted with wifely contempt, he went out to the Old homestead that afternoon. Chi cago Record-Herald. Ftele His Oats. A musical composition of the Span ish dance order made the hit ot the evening at an open air concert given at Fresno last night by the tth. regi ment band. It waa composed by a waiter In a local chophouse. F. C. Franzonl la bis name and between or ders he haa succeeded In grinding out a very creditable piece of music It la entitled "Zena." Since hla success, the waiter has adopted the title of Sig ner Frazlnl and haa taken to wearing a top hat He announces that he will devote himself to a musical career.-' San Francisco Call, New Orcharde. . Where such a thing Is feasible farm era ahould plant nut-trees and thus utilize the hillsides where nothing else will grow for nut orchards. Milking Up. It la easy to milk a cow down in two senses In one. A poor milker is pretty sure to get her down in her quantity of milk. Milking up again is harder, but it la possible. I heard lately of a cow that had got down in two months, .from 24 to six pounds a day, without any apparent cause, aa far as she was herself concerned. The master milker took her In hand, handling and petting her; he filled ber up on a mixed diet salted, and wash ed down with Clear water. In a little over two weeks she had gone tip again to seventeen pounds. This man believes in the Scandina vian plan of treating the udder witli a kind of massage after the milking Is supposed to be over! , This is done for three or four minutes when some very rich milk Is produced. It seems that there Is always some hiding away in the cavities of the udder. ; Instinct as well as experience mnkos the calf go through with Its "hunch ing," and no wonder the cow kicks the calf in a not very motherly fashion, it her udder happens to be tender. L. A. Nash in Indiana Farmer. 1 Grooming Horses. The process ot grooming requires great practice and experience In or der to remove all the deep-seated dirt and loose scales, Cleaning the legs Is also an Important point In grooming. In dry weather simple brushing out Is sufficient, followed by hand rubbing In wet or wintry weather when then la mud, washing of the legs Is general ly resorted to. This practice, aa it li commonly performed; should be coni demned. It is not so much the actus washing that should be objected t aa the fact that the legs are almosj invariably left damp. This Is a pro llfic source of Inflammation sometime. of a portion ot the akin,' as In cutanc ous qulttor, erythema, etc. The mul commonly gets the blame, but exper ence shows it is not tne mud, but tlj washing aggravated by bad weathv which produces these evils. It legs must be washed they shoult i J J i jji jt i rubbed untl oughljrjrfjr, but warm. After this tbv shojrid be bandaged. Washing ' the whole body ot the horse is a practice that should be wholly condemned. The practice of washing destroys the Bossy appearance of a well groomed animal besides removing the protective oily material and subjecting the horse to more danger from chill. Study the Hay Crop. Some fields are ready to cut before others; and it is well to attend to these first as it should be the aim to get all of the crop possible when at the most profitable stsge of growth. The wild or water grasses, where there are any, should be cut early and so should any fields Infested with weeds that should not be allowed to ripen their seeds. There Is likely to be a considerable amount of the white daisy- this sea son for some reason, and these should be cut when in bloom when they , will make a fair quality of hay, but It left until ripe are nearly worthless, and so of all weeds, with a proper rotatloa and suitable cultivation there should be fewer weeds in the mowing fields. - To cut the grasses early, or aa nearly as may be when In full bloom, ts gen erally considered best by all farmers. In some cases it may be necessary In order to do this to commence a little early, so that all of the crop posslbto may be cured before it haa passed the most profitable stage of growth. Were it not tor having the best of machinery for the work and smooth meadows this could hardly be done, but with these aids there is a great saving In time and labor. To get the hay at the right time and In the best condition should be the ob ject, then put the different grades by themselves where they can be had as wanted for use another winter. E. R. T., In American Cultivator. Holding Back Milk. According to Professor Stewart, the following is the explanation why cowa sometimes hold up or keep back their milk. The production of milk Is dun !o a nervous action by which the gland ular substance ot-the udder is broken down Into milk whenever the cow is influenced by sufficient excitement of the ticht kind. 'It depends upon the structure and function of the udder Just as much as the sections ot other glands do, which we know are wholly subject to a aet ot nerves controlling this distinct function. ' The udder is not a mere vessel for holding milk that is supposed to be secreted continually and gathers In the udder, as one may suppose e constant dripping of sny fluid would fill any other receptacle. On the contrary. It is a gland, made up jf cellular substance, which grows by separation (from the . blood) of the matter required. When it haa attained maturity, or when tha necessary ner vous action occurs, it breaks down Into a special product milk. Several experiments have been made with the udders of cows In mllklug condition that have been slaughtered, and an examination haa been record ed of the udder of a cow accidentally killed, on the railroad when . going home to be milked, when she would have given the usual ten quarts. The microscope showed the minute globu ules ot the tissue swollen and distend ed, but the udder contained practical ly no milk, except a very small quan tity that drained from the divided tis sue when cut serosa We perceive that this function of the cow is wholly nervous In Its action, as indeed, every other function of the ani ls, and If the dut aervous exclte- sent, there Is no functional action. la wholly dde to. the right Influenoi in the nerves that tne mux Is prod and fldws from every ultl- mate gl through to the tc the cow cited, nc milker cow leti does bo lile ot the . udder down the ducts, small and great, Then, if all goes well, and In her natural, easily ex- us condition, as soon as the ins to touch the teats thn own the milk that is, sh xert herself to oppose the action it he nerves of the mammary assacbusetta Ploughman. (lands. Growing Calves. ' rule, among all good dalry- k the calves from the cows w daya old at most. , It has that the adder Is Injured ow damaged by any other ailing attention to thta fact Jin Live Stock Journal says ljury Is more or lest perma- the calf Is allowed to suck lerable length of time, that of the young cow loses ra- iold a large quantity ot milk it had It and older cows, accustomed to the steady y drafts of the calf, fall off their yield after the calf sent to market. It Is truo k fatten well on the cow, but e fattened very nearly if not 11 on the pall. New milk Is pensive a luxury tor a calf, er the first week ot Its life, t on a ration of sweet skim loss of cream being made up k of scalded linseed meal. milk ts the principal thing. icondary, and It is well to ome of the excellence ot the the good of the dam. A hett- allowed to rear her own fierally ruined as a dairy cow. , never, becoming distended, acity to carry the milk from ng to another; and when the last taken away, not only do leak, but the distension of causing discomfort, results ease In the yield. . other hand, had the dtsten- rred when the whole system the plastic condition in which after calving, when the udder lly swollen s and more or Kul, it would have becoingyir. h aaaptcdtottHjjljSwmBtances. mi awllli1 illllillll i' IIiiiiiiIiiiii ot ful, It would have becomo4)(if. promptly removing the calf from the cow is apparent, and it is, In tact, de manded by every motive ot economy. Many farmers who do not desire to rear their calves sell them when a few days old for a trifling sum, yet they all hare the means at hand to make a good profit out of the skim milk by feeding It to the male calves and turn ing thera out as veal. Excellent veal can be made mainly out of skim milk, and many calves reach the butcher which have never been fed a quart of whole milk, after the first day or two of their lives. If properly looked after these calves look quite as well as those raised on new milk. Butcher-Baron's Trouble. A 50 necklace has just been the cause of .considerable excttcjnent in a theatre At Montmartre. It had been stolen by a young butcher from a woman who was hla customer, and later it was recognized by the loser on the neck ot a girl who set near her at the performance. Accused of wearing things that did not belong to her, the girl stated before the com missary of police that the aecklace was a present from her friend, the Baron de Montegalllna. The noble man In question was at once sent for and turned out to be the butcher, whose thieving proclivities had got the better of his honesty. The com missary, after a rigorous cross-examination, learned from the butcher's lips that he had stolen the necklace and assumed the title of Baron In order to win the affection of a young lady who otherwise would have had noth ing to do with him. He is now In the lockup awaiting bis trial. Parts cor respondence in London Globe. Land Was Out of Sight "Tes," said one ot the traveling men who were telling stories in front of the hotel, "I waa once out of sight of land on the Atlantic ocean twenty-one daya.".. .. "On the Pacific one . time" I didn't see land for 29 days,'.' said another. A little bald-headed man tilted his ohalr against a post and knocked the ashes from his cigar. "I started across the Kaw river near Lawrence in a skiff once when I waa kid," be said, "and was out of tight of land before I reached the other aide." - . " ' "Aw, come off." camo from' one of the crowd, "The Kaw river isn't more than 300 yards wide anywhere along near Lawrence." , "I didn't say It' was." aald the little man, quietly. "The skiff - turned over and I sank ' twice." Kansas City Times. : . , ' ..' - ' Bathers Who 8 leap Floating. "To fall asleep floating on the wavea Is not an Impossibility," said an At lantic City life-guard. "On the sun warmed billows on an August after noon I once floated off to sleep, and when I awoke I was noarly half a mile out, at sea. I know a Camden man who often takes a floating nap off Chelsea, "A good many people can't float even though they can swim. They can't float because tbey keep the line ot the body, from head to heels, stiff and straight The line should be kept curved a little It should resemble a very broad V and all the muscles should be loose, relaxed. It is easy to float I have taught many children of six or seven years to do It." Philadelphia Bulletin. 1,000,000 fqrelgners came over to this country last ear, ment is Getting it Into Bottles Is the Optra, ' tlon Requiring Quickneaa. ' There Is a soda water man In this town who believes that if the cooling but harmless drinks of modern days had been knwn and brought to their present state of tempting perfection (0 or 100 yeara earlier the thirst for intoxicating beverages would never have got such a grip as It now en joys on civilized mankind. Thla Is a question for the historians and meta physicians to thrash out, but It is a view that la pretty hard on our grand mothers, whose sassafras and other aromatic home-brewed beers were, ac cording to the testimony of our fath ers, good enough to put the W. C. T. U. out of business if anything could. Theivj is, however, much in the con tention that the "soft" drinks manu factured today out of various charged waters and fruit flavors are as near perfection aa science can make them. Scientists, Indeed, . are constantly working at .the problem of making them better, and the need of secrecy In certain cases, to protect new pro cesses not yet patented, does not In terfere much with the progress of the etudy.i'.s-...:,i..:;V...1,,; y.-:r V The notion that soda water has any sulphuric acid in it is entirely erron eous, accordlrg to the authority quot ed above. The carbonic acid gas with which plain water is charged, Is, In deed, made by treating marble dust, or other ' substance containing . carbon, with sulphuric acid, but after the gas Is made it is neither marble dust nor sulphuric acid, but something very different, and before It is forced into the water by pressure it ia passed through an apparatus which thorough ly cleanses It The name soda water comes from the fact that carbonic acid gas may be generated by treating bl-carbonate of soda with acid. It was often made in that way in the early days in small quantities and could be so made now, a glassful at a time, but there is a sediment In such water, resulting from the chemical combination of sulphur In the sulphuric acid and the soda in the bl-carbonate of soda, which may or may not be harmful to health. Ths modern soda water, however, as made by the factories, Is nothing but water and gas. It is the "fruit" flavoring, If made of chemicals, that Is likely to be harmful. For manufacturing In quantity the gas Is accumulated In a gasometer, where It is stored.' For putting soda water, sarsaparllla or other carbonated waters In bottles the flavoring syrup is put in first and then the gas is conducted to the bottl from the gasometer by a stout rubber hose. TfrlaVjflPecessarlly a rapid operation and ladoneTJTSBJhlnery. There are stops and cocks TforHSUlJbaods and feet of the operator, so thatTrtr4he time the water and gas are In on top of the syrup the cock Is at once forced into the bottle's mouth and the fas tening apparatus is applied, all In the apace of a few seconds. There Is more than one style of machine for this work, but with one of an up-to-date pattern an expert can fill from 200 to 250 dozen bottles a day. For putting up seltzer and similar waters in siphons a special machine Is used. The siphon has to withstand an Interior pressure of from 175 to 200 pounds to the square Inch, and In addi tion to being thick and strong must be as tight In the neck against leak age as a steam valve which often sus tains no greater pressure. There is a good deal of risk to the operator in bottling, siphon goods. The siphons are made In Bohemia, because the glass needs to be finely tempered, an art that reaches Its highest perfection in that country. Philadelphia Record, QUAINT AND CURIOU8. Three brothers were wedded to three sisters at Durren, England, re cently. . . , ; r A correspondent of Nature says he had his portrait painted by two well known d calculated that in each case about -.,000 strokes of the brush were made. . 4 A lineman at Reno, Nev., came In contact with a heavily-charged wire at the top of a 60-foot electric light pole and fell to tne ground. When he re covered ' consciousness he wished return to work at once, but waa per suaded to call It a day. Chinese newspapers, owing to the cheap quality of paper used and to the low price ot labor, both literary and mechanical, are Issued at an extreme ly small figure. The price ot the or dinary Shanghai Journal la four cash, or about one-flfth ot a cent. The following notice was recently conspicuously displayed in the engine dlspatcner's office at the roundhouse In a town within 50 miles of Albany; "Trainmen on passenger traits must not go through the coaches with over alls on, without Drat taking them off." A bird which can talk In two lan guages and whose repertory consists of IT phrases Is the latest addition to the London zoological gardens. The bird belangs to a species which flour lshes In northern India. Three of its phrases are in an Indian dialect and the iJt In English. , The bird's name Is Tommy, and It asks all visitors. "Who are yout" - Disconcerting. , . I "Now, boys," said the schoolmaster, during an examination In geography, "what Is the axis of the earth?" , Johnny raised bis hand promptly.- "Well, Johnny, how would you de scribe Itt" "The axis of the earth," aald Jokn ny, proudly, "is an imaginary line which passea from one pole to the oth er and on which the earth revolves.' "Very good," exclaimed the teacher. "Now, could you hang clothes on that line, Johnny T" "Yes, sir," was the reply. "Indeed?" said the examiner, disap pointed; "and what sort of clothes?" i "Imaginary clothes, sir." Harper's Weekly. - The bicycle boom 's so big in Eng land that the factories can not. keep pace with the demands. ' i A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY DEAN a MARTYN HART. iahjee'l Tllhlai-Tke Social Problem, Denver, Col. Dean H. Martyn Hnrt, of tbg St. John's Cathedral, recently .preached a sermon on "Tithing the Dlrlne Solution of the Social Prob lem." The text was from Matthew xxll:21: .- "Render, ; therefore, unto Cnesnr the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things which arc Cod's." Deau Hart said: . "It surely was no Just argument tbnt because the bead of Caesar was upon the coin It therefore belonged to lilm and ought to be returned to the im perial treasury, any . more than be cause the effigy of the king Is struck upon the English sovereign that there fore nil sovereigns are his property. "You will notice that the Lord bad said. 'Show me the tribute money.' A bystander offered the coin, which lay In tba extended palm ot the Lord's hand. The Jewt have ever been the most precocious of money dealers. Had the Romans permitted tbein to pay their taxes In all manner of coins, great would have been the loss to the exchequer; therefore a coin was struck, and there are still some of f.em to be seen, in which alone it was la- '-I to pay the tax. This coin had to be purchased from the publican ot the district who looked after hla own Interests. The 'tribute mouey' went to Rome, to the Imperial treasury. "The man who bad. produced the coin ' bad already acknowledged his liability and had provided himself with the means of liquidating It The coin was only of use for the one purpose; that one thing was the payment of the tribute. The questioner had answered himself. 'Fulfill your obligation, said the Lord, 'and render unto Caesar the things that be Caesar's, and do not forget that the power ot Caesar is only tb'e representative of the higher power rr whom kings reign, and if you admit the authority ot the servant by so much more should you recognize the authority of the Master; render, there fore, unto Cod the things that are God's. What, there, are 'the things of God' which we are required to ren der unto Htm? ' "If the context requires that tbe parallel shall be continued, and it is in a sum ot money that tbe answer must be given, then the only reply ran be that one-tenth ot every man's income is 'a thing of God.' Now what evi dence have we that tbis is so and what la the purpose ot the law? '"The ultimate appeal as to what Is truth must be tbe opinion Of the race. If the opinion of all men could be taken as to the truth or falsity of any proposition, that wonld be a final de termination. When anybody is In doubt of a legal or medical question, the only solution of the doubt Is an ap peal to men of tbe legal or medical professions. 'Counsel's opinion' Is taken, or the sufferer goes to a doctor. If It were possible to extend this natural Instinct ta the limits of hu- nlty and anon any" question of BTave rfBDorc tue opinion oi an men could be fyH"'", fhon, tht frpre slon would be as nearly truth as It Is possible for us men to arrive at. "The Llncolnlan canon la as sure a rule as the most firmly established axiom. 'You cannot fool all the peo ple all the time.' There are, at least doub'le the number of Bibles in the world as there are all other books put together. If the list of the libraries In the world be taken out of an en cyclopedia and the number ot their volumes added. It will be found that In all the libraries which possess over 100,000 volumes there are 60,000,000 books, and If .we allow that there are aa many books In household libraries as in these great public collections, which is making a liberal estimate, we may safely conclude that there are not more than 100,000,000 secular books In the world. But during the last century the leading Bible societies of Europe end America put out more than 200,000,000 Bibles, in 860 differ ent languages. The British end For eign Bible Society turns out ot Its presses seven Bibles, or parts of tbe Bible, every minute, day and night. It is, therefore, the opinion of the race that thji Book is 'the most valuable tiling, in the world,' n tbe Archbishop of Canterbury describes it, as he band ed a copy to the new-crowned king, "The opinion of the race Is that the Bible Is a book of truth; that it is what it professes to be the revelation of the heavenly Father to the children of men. Now if this be tbe case. It would be strange Indeed If thla com munication from outside our life did not Instruct us as to tbe great desider ata ot every Individual, Let any one ask himself what would make him perfectly happy and content la, this present state of existence. "The reply would be: First, to have conscience void ot offense; next, to have no fear of death, but a looking forward to a glory to be revealed; and finally, to be removed from any anxiety as to the necessities of living. As we should expect, the answers to these essential requirements of life are given on the very first page of human history. "la the dramatic story of Cain and Abel tbe three provisions for satisfy ing these three fundamental wants are plainly ststed, ! These two broth ers came together on tbe same day, at tbe same time, to the same place, for the same purpose; there were two altars and each brought material for tacrine. ' ' "Tbe essential truth of sacrifice, de spite the immense ingenuity which hat been employed to explain It away, remains stamped upon It. Millions of Intelligent men have brought an Inno cent victim to an altar erected to the unseen but recognised God. Putting their hands on the head of the victim, taey confessed the sins which lay a burden on their conscience; tbey thus killed the sacrificial animal; they burnt part of It and ate tbe rest ot it. It weuld be an insult to the intelli gence of itnanklnd to admit that all tbe generations of men should, one after another, perform sacrifice In praotleal ly the same way, and mean nothing by it. Tbe meaning of Its ritual is written large upon its surface. No sensible man could for a moment be lieve that tbe wrongs he had done, and which he regretted and would undo It he could, and wat prepared to make what atonement for ht .wat able, Just think of It! Noma, whose out put ot gold for the season of 1905 It estimated at tlO.000,000, was practi cally unknown a few yeaiw ago, the Boston Transcript recalls, Its recent history probably surpasses the mad dest dream of the adventurers who long ago froze and starved on its then Inhospitable shores. It Btriket ua that Jack London mhsed a rare chat en he hurried away from the romant'c Northweft to go to Lon, !o:i to study firosnle socialism.- t be could transfer t a dumb animal by rutting bis bands on Its head and con fessiug hla ains. That Innocent anl mat represented some other Being, who 'could bear the sins of the world.' Tbe only nation of tbeologiana the world hat ever produced kept dear tht original revelation. They knew there waa 'a Lamb of God tnac taketn away the sin of the world. - "That God requires of men a tenth of their Income, as a tsx for the gen eral purposes of the commonweal, and issued thla law as one of the funda mental rules for the guidance of hu man society, is evident from the fact of Its wide observance by ancient na tions. One Instance must suffice. n Plutarch's life of the Dictator Camll lut, it Is recorded that after the taking ot the Etruscan City of Veil, the augurs reported from their Inspection of tbe sacrifices, that the gods were outraged. An inquiry was instituted and it was ascertained that the sol diers who bad been concerned in tbe sacking of the city bad neglected to dedicate the accustomed tenth to tbe gods. The senate decreed that the victorious legions should make restitu tion and that a cup of gold of eight talents weight should be sent as a trespass offering to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. "The Roman ladles brought, of their own free will, such liberal gifts of Jewels and gold that the Senate, to honor them, decreed that funeral ora tions might be- made at tbe obsequies of women, which hitherto had only been permitted over eminent public men. This extraordinary episode proves how rarely it happened that tithes were not paid and bow grievous was tbe tin of omitting their payment. The further history of this incident also proves that the payment of tlthea was a world wide Institution and car ried with it a sacredness which can only be accounted for by admitting that it was a primitive ana universally recognized law of God. "Three senators of high rank were appointed to carry tbe lestored tithe. with the trespass offering, to Delphos. On its way the embassy was taken by tbe Llparlaoa, who were then at war with Rome. But when tbe governor of the city understood that the rich booty was tithe on Its way to Delphos, he not only liberated the Romans, but sent a squadron of his own fleet to convoy them safely on tholr way. "This dedication at a tenth, for the common purposes of the community, could only have been devised by a mind which thoroughly understood the whole problem of tbe needs of human society. If it were honestly practiced it would be found just enough to alle viate all social pressure and It Is not a little to be wondered at, that the nubile eye should be blinded to such an exceedingly simple and easily ex ecuted law, which could readily be enacted and as readily executed. Sup- pose that every citizen comprehended the effectiveness of the law of tithe and voted that it should be constituted a national Income tax, what would be the result? "Consider the absolute impossibility of legislating against trusts or cora- blnatnms of capital. Legislation against tbe natural processes of trade can never be a success. Tbe money getting proclivity is an element in the character ot men, which, like other 'acterlstlcs, varies in different peo ple. T80e to whom it is largely de veloped wMl accumulate monetlSf-' ally. If ht)i'0m' 3Bi-the com munity were evw tftriDutea among Its individuals ltXuld, In the course of a few years, go back again into the hands of those who possessed tbe apti tude of making money. The law ot God would tax this capability for the benefit of those who da not possess It and for those who by various disabil ities gravitate below the line of com fortable living. "The taxation of a tenth will be found to be that exact fraction which evervbodv can subscribe without dis tress, and exactly that sum which will maintain those who from various causes are nnable to maintain them selves. AH communities have about tbe same proportionate composition, and the example afforded by this city of Denver will be applicable to any other city mutatis mutandis. This city is composed or about tnir- ty thousand houses. It will be readily conceded that for living purposes each house must represent a yearly income ot 11000. So that tbe minimum income of this city Is $30,000,000. Tbe actual Income Is probably twice that amount. But see the effect or tifing tnis mini mum $30,000,000. Tub tithe would be $3,000,000. Now, by actual reckoning, it is found that the Income of tbe 125 churches, that Is, ali moneys gathered for all purposes from the people wor sblDlne in them, amounts to less than $300,000. Last year tbe Incomes of tbe five largest denominations were: xne Presbyterians, $56,000; tbe Episcopa lians. $48,000: the Congregationallsts, $34,000; tbe Baptists, $31,000, and the Methodists, $21,000. bo tnai azou.uuu will represent tbe religious Income ot this community. The County Commis sioners expended on relief $86,000. The four hospitals did not spend in charitable work $50,000. The other so cieties which exist for eleemosynary purposes, together with all the private charity of tbe city, will have their ex penditures well covered ny u,uw. So that $500,000 represents the relig ious and charitable cost to a city of 106.000 people, of maintaining ltt churches, hospitals and charitable so cieties. The public school system, which is remarkably efficient cost $486,000. Thus, for all sorts ot charit able relief, all aorta or. reugioua enori and for public education the city of Denver spent $1,000,000. . ; It tithing were in force thf tithe commissioners would have, at the least, $3,000,000 at their dispotal-that means to say that the churches might all be free, the hospitals wide open and well equipped; public laundries might -relieve tbe women of tbe work ing elasses; their food might be cooked at the public kitchens; every man too old to work might be pensioned; the streets might be gardens, where all such pensionera might have easy labor, and every reasonable cause for discon tent might be removed. - . , , Let the people demand that an in come tax of a tenth shall be a national levy, The English pay income tax, why should not Amerlcsns? The Mor mons pay tithe, and they have no poor and no discontent, to tar as the matter of living is concerned. It Is the law of God wonderful, simple and completely effectlK, whereby all social disabilities may bwremoved. . t A SUGGESTION. Mr. Sloman Now,- you're Jokln again, aren't you? Miss Walte Judge for yourself; you should know me pretty well by this time. Mr. Sloman But you puxile me sometimes. I don't know what to make of you. ' MWs W.iltie No? By the way, did you heal' about Jack Brown and May Long? He made her his wife jreHer day. fhlladelphi I-ener, - . , ) FIERCE HORNED CATTLE. THE PHILIPPINE TIMARAU HAS NEVER BEEN TAMED. Natlvas Afraid to Hunt It Although It la the Smallest of ths Ox Family Prof. Worcester's Hard Task In Get ting a Shot at One Can't Be Drop ped. Unpatriotic though it may sound, the American bison was great only In appearance. His shaggy frontlet, bis wild eye and hla mighty coronet con- ' cealed as cowardly a ton of flesh as ever stirred, saya the Washington Star. - -. --- ::M::yi But even it we have to admit that the big Bos Amurlcanus of the United States la not worthy of honor except as i marvel of the animal world, the Spanish-American war saved our face, for when we acquired the Philippines we acquired with them a buffalo that Is the wickedest thing that ever moved on four legs. The Philippine carabao or water buffalo Is wicked enough when wild, and even In a tamed state is prone to attack human beings sud denly. But the tlmarau, although much smaller than the carabao, ts so mean and savage that he wilt search out carabao and kill them tor the mere love of killing. , Nobody ever has tamed a tlmarau Nobody In tbe Philippines wants to try; indeed, few natives ot the Philip pines ever want to see one. The fear of the tiger and lion in India and Africa Is as nothing compared with the fear of the tlmarau In the Island of Mindoro. So deeply rooted Is the fear of the furtive, belligerent, relentless little ox that Profs. Worcester and Steere were unable even to find out what kind of beast It was when they visited the Philippines In 1888 on an exploring expedition. Everybody warned them against the creature, biit no two descriptions agreed. Prof. Worcester says that one man solemnly assirred them tbatr It had only one horn, which grew -straight rrom (he top of Its head. An other declared that he had never seen : any horns on It, but it certainly had only ono eye, which was set right In the middle of Its forehead. ' These tales spurred them on, and . they visited Mindoro, only to search In vain for several months until tbey found a tribe called the Mangyans, who knew it well. They said that It waa like a small buffalo, with straight horns running upward and backward like those ot a goat. They expressed great fear of it, and told him (t at tacked and killed the big water buf falo every time It got a chance, and how It would charge a man when ever It was approached. t Finding out about tlmarau and find ing tlmarau were two different things. The creatures were, 'so marvellously shy and cunnjngta&ti although the party foJJewed trails day" alter" faf ' showed where whole herds had congregated, they never even caught a glimpse of the animal Itself. At last, after more weeks of hunt ing, a native tracker led them to a hiding place of tlmarau; but he did so only after he had forced an agree ment that he be permitted to run as soon as he had located the game tor the hunters. He pointed into the bushes, whispered "Tlmarau, senor!" and raced madly away, his face gray with fear. -; :. Prof. Worcester worked bla way carefully through the bushes, : but could not see the buffalo for a long time, so perfectly was the animal con cealed. At last he saw his head and fired, but just as he did so the bull tossed his head and the shot, missed him. "As I fired a second tfcie," says the professor, "there came crashes in ' the jungle on every side of me. - I bad walked Into a whole herd of tlm arau without knowing It. One ' old bull stood his ground and I gave him ' a bullet In the shoulder. Furiously he whirled around on me. As ! push- ' ed the sliding block of my rifle to throw another cartridge Into the mag-, azlne the mechanism jammed and left me to face a wounded tlmarau with a useless gun. Why that brute did not charge has always been a mystery to me. I never afterward knew one to tall to do It under similar circum stances. What he did do was to rush -madly Into the brush after the herd." Prof. Worcester found bis tracker up a tree and had so hard a time coax ing him to come down that they lost the trail. : , Despite careful hunting and despite the fact that uiey were In tlmarau country, they got no other shot that trip; and it was not until the next trip that Prof. Worcestej got one ot these buffaloes, and then only by firing half on guess Into the bushes where he could see one Indistinctly, It is rare ly that these little buffaloes are found In any except cover so dense that the hunter must cut. his wss4hr6u'gh-lt with Knue, loot uy-root. xnis ana the fact that if he happena to got within scent of a lurking buffalo tbe animal will charge him as quick as lightning and gore and trample him to pieces combines to assure the lit tle forest buffalo of Mindoro a long season ot Immunity. v-y The natives like the meat of tho tlmarau, and aa other food often falls them they are eager enough for it; but they are far too much afraid of these cattle to hunt them, even wh ,i they are starving. 1 Attempts have been made to catrh them alive, but the tlmarau usually kills Itself by Its wild struggles ns soon as trapped, and even If It does not struggle to the death It refuse;, to eat In captivity. The nattvea say that even the youngest calves It caught and put to suck with a tame carabao will not only refuse to eat, but will try desperately to kill t!i foster mother. Tbe tlmarau and its cousin, tin: pretty little aaoa of Celebes, are tt. ! smallest of the ox family. The bi : gelt, standing higher at the shoui.' . than even our bison, is the gaur m leladang. Not Likely to Ee Sing'e. Maiden Aunt I wouhlu't n any t best man living. Niece Well, anntto. I si' must be married nlrw ,'. 1: