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?HE FRANKLIN PRESS, n VOLUME XXI. FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, . 1906. NUMBER, 10. MY I n no aelf-mads man, for I clearly can Trace each force that fashioned me From lha years loot goat, when a babe Dew . - aorn, f lay on bit mother's kne. The find aboro In Ilia Heaven of Ioto To the angola gave control Ufa nnd-flled of thta little child na toejr Breathed In mo a aoul. Then the lore that Ilea In a mother's cyea Woke that aoul to active lite. And from all alarms, her sheltering arms Protected me In the strife. Her tender cara and her loving prayer Aa the boy grew Into man, My nature drew to full growth true, As only a mother can. t ONLY A DRESS. f BY WINIFRED KIRKLAND. .- VYou are tod easy on your children, Emily," said Aaunt Matilda, biting her thread. Ahd Aunt Matilda always hemmed napkins when she came to Bpend the afternoon. "They'vo never realized." The mother, knowing this was true, aid nothing, only continued to shoot rapid needle in and out ot the little stocking she was mending. ' "Take the only matter of school," continued Aunt MatlHa. "Of course It's very generous of Stephen to send . them to Miss Black's as soon as they are ten years old, yet I very much question the wisdom of such a course. , Your children are poor, and will have to earn their own living." Aunt Ma .tilda spoke plainly, as prosperous elder sisters sometimes do. "Attending Miss Black's school throws your girls with others who are above them In station ' and wealth, though not in birth and breeding. "There's Louise, now, and the ques tion of dress," went oa Aunt Matilda, warming to her subject under her lister's persistent silence. "Louise is popular, and goes with the nicest girls in town. Perhaps it hasn't happened yet, but some day Louise will be want ing clothes such as the other girls have, and will bo unhappy because she can't have them, for remember, Emily, ' Louise will soon be grown up." "She's only fourteen," said Louise's mother. Left to herself, while her fingers flashed to and fro, Emily thought and thought. Her brothers and sisters had been very kind to her, but they had never understood. Perhaps it was be cause she has never cried It out or talked or told, that the loneliness was as poignant today as on that first strange night. Then she has sat with Baby Joy in her arms all night, and now Joy was seven years old. Louise was the only one of the Ave girls who remembered her father. It setmed to Emily that she had never had time to mourn for Fred. Grief had been a luxury to bo denied herself. Just . as ah gave up other things for the 1 children's sake. She and Fred bad always given up for them. "Fred want. c ali to be happy." fl9?3 wna se 8a'1' ,0 herself fur of her widowhood. rame day Fred could have come tout of that land of Ellerr-e, I, day, just as of old, at half past e could have flung open the gate, the front walk in two strides, his latch key and slammed the wlrled his hat about on the hall llth all the old dexterity, and two hands through his tawny efore he kissed her, he would found Emily at thirty-five just me girl wife as at nineteen, with ime shyness and sweetness, the hesitancy of words, the same t fulness of manner overlying an strength of purpose. ed bad left her one great com- The other children always said Louise was "mother's girl'1 quite vlously, knowing well that May -antUJlna and Joy were nio..- rls as well, and also half under- ng why Louise was a little diff- fen they had crowded around their rr'a knee to look at their father's ?, their mother had always add er she had spoken softly of that 'Louis has father's ayes and his hnd mouth. She walks as he did, Ihat way of holding her head a up and back Is father's." will soon be grown up." fr's words rang in the mother'B 'Oh, h, bow patiently she had that tlmeJSome day once eire the "glad giving Some day she would see again fs eyes bending; over her with the Protecting tenderness. jise stayed late at school on these I Miss Black was bUBy with pre ns for "last day," and Louise i demand. Her mother hoped yd come In before the others, Vurprlse lay all spread out on bed, and her mother share It with Louisa first. i spring box from Cousin fehel had In late in coming, but never had the lie .New - York cousins' . cast-off She looked quite so dainty and V, ' ire was a light step on the porch, loor was flung open, and Louise, wlth Hay sun and wind, stood In 'tting-room doorway. "Nnk upon the sofa and tossed It, running her fingers through Vo loosen It with a gesture precious to her mother that J?" rrjmebow this spring Louise id given VpJtlssing her mother when came in. Just as she had given up Hop-scotch and hoops; but of course .Louise was just the same of course she was. '.- "You're late, dear," said her mother. "Yes, we had a meeting after school to vote for' last-day marshal you know, the girl who leads the whole I line through the garden march and .Into the chapel and directs all the girls where they're to sit, and everything. And, mother, who In the world Is it, do you think? ' I am!" and Louise lumped np and down on the bare ribbed and springless sofa. 'They never elected a fourth-class girl be- ... Emily rolled up the stockings and thrust them Into the bag that always hung on the back of her chair. "Come, deary," she said. 'The surprise has arrived. It's up on the blue-room bed. I want yon to see It flrat." Things did not descend In Cousin Etuel's family. Instead they went to FORCES. In no college walls, In no learned halls. Found my brain Its forming tool ; But In the press of work's hard stress. I icarncn in tne worm s grcai scuuoi. The good of life and the evil's strife, I struggled en to find, And the labor to gain, the work to attain, Hharpened and shaped my mind. Thn Into life with Its hardships rife When success was almost won. Came a keener sight and a brighter light, As through clouds burst the sun. Work lighter fraw, gray skies were blue, A new Hunt seemed to start A heaven this of new found bliss When duty awoke my henrt ! lialtlmore American. Emily. The blue-room'' bed was a de light frocks, shirt waists, slippers, stockings, bits of ribbon and lace; but yet Emily's heart at first had fallen a little; ovldently Cousin Ethel's girls were not growing as fast as hers. Louise and May were tall. Still there was one dress that would do, and It was so pretty that sho had given It a chair all to itself. It was of white muslin, trimmed only with French em broidery, mado simply but exquisitely. Louise's checks glowed, and she breathed a long "Oh!" of delight, as she lifted the waist and skirt and turn ed them about almost reverently. "It will be Just the thing," she said. "I'm eo glad there was one thing big enough. We can let out that tuck and loosen the gathers, and it will be just right." "Yes, Just right," chimed Louise. "And May hasn't a thins. If only she took the care of her clothes that you do, Louise! But sho goe3 through everything, end she grows so that I can't keep her knees covered up." "May!" gasped Louise. "Why, mother, I have to have It for last day!" Jlrr mother turned upon her a face in which at first was nothing but sur prise "It's May's turn," she said. Had they not taken turns nt having tho prettiest thing in the surprise ever since they were babies? "I thought we could fix over your dotted Swiss; and then, it's May's turn," she re peated, dully. Her face had grown very strange. Louise was pile. "I will have it!" sho said, and she gathered the dress Into her arms and walked into her room. There was a treat clatter on the stairs, anil the other four stormed up. The mother was standing very still, alone In tho blue room, its they fell upon her and kissed her. With an ef fort she summoned the smiles back, as they turned to the surprise with shrill little cries of delight. In her room Louise heard May's ringing, voice. "This coat Just fits, Bee! Isn't Nina grand In that hat! Come, Joy, put this oa over your dress. Oh, you're a darl ing in it!" Then at last a rueful "Mother, what's for Lou and me? Don't girls grow in New York? But. mumniie, dear, what makes you look like that? 1 don't care. Never mind; I'll try not to grow any more. Where's our Lou? We've all got to congratulate her." That night Louise and her mother seemed miles apart as they kissed each other. Louise sild only, "But mother, May doesn't cara anything about clothes." "Does that make any difference, Louise?" It was a week later when May, as she and Louise were alone at bedtime, gave such a tug at the top bureau drawer that she tumbled over back wards on the floor. "What do you keep the old thing locked for, any way, Lou? I'm sure uy tan stockings are in there." "There isn't anything of yours In that drawer," answered Louise, Then she felt her cheeks burn. "All right, I'll take your word for It. I say, Lou, have you noticed how mother looks lately? I think she's sewing too much. She sits up till all hours, I believe. Did you ever hear her go to bed? I never did." "I've heard her sometimes lately." "I hope to goodness she isn't going to be sick. I suppose if there were a father he'd know what to do atout It." That night Louise heard her mother come up to bed. It was very late when she came, but even then Louise did not sleep. She was such a slight little thing, her mother, yet Louise did not remember that she had ever been sick. "If there were a father. If there were a father!" The words ran through Louise's waking hours and through her troubled dreams. 'Sceye8ne:a?hta onletaolnetanlshrdulo It was a strange month that passed between the coming of Cousin Ethel's box and last day. Both Louise and her mother tried to appear as usual before the other children, but they were both afraid to be left alone. Louise was detained every afternoon at school; toward the end of the month there was constant rehearsing. Never had so much flattery been poured Into Louise's ears. "Louise, you'll be a perfect dream, the prettiest marshal we're ever had. What are yon going to wear?" "White. Uncle Stephen Is going to give me my pink roses." Then she would go home to such a still, strange little mother. There were times when Louise longed to throw herself upon her lap and sob for hours, 1 here were times when she hated the dress, but give it up? Did mother know how hard It was to give up a dress? Then a thought shot through Louise's whole being, Illumi nating all. There were never any dresses for mother In Cousin Ethel's boxes. Dainty, but patched and dam ned mother was that always. Yet mother, too,, was pretty. How many dresses had mother given up? It was the evening before the last day, and they were at supper. "Hiss Bla.it just made me tell her why-1 can't come to last day "and be in the procession," said May. "Why, aren't you ' going?" cried Louise. She had been so busy she had ' not known all that was going on In the tamliy. "Why?" . "Why? You know why, Louise, and Miss Black might have guessed. I told her It was because Cousin Ethel's ' girls didn't grow fast enough, The , only thing Is, I did want to see you, Louise, leading the garden march." The midnight lamp still burned steadily, Bee's ruffles were nearly done. Emily bowed her head on her bands, her elbows resting on the sewing-machine. "I'm silly, silly," she said, "to uilnd so much, She's only a child and It's natural she should want pretty things, it's only a dress, but, oh, It seems as If It meant so much!" The door was pushed open softly. Louise stood there In her nightgown, holding In her arms a mass of foam ing white. "I've been sewing after May went to Bleep.' I've let down the tucks and loosed the gathers. Will It do?" "Yes, I think so, Louise," her moth er answered, dully. "I measured by May's blue, only th skirt is. longer." "May's!" Her mother turned with face alive, "Yes, May; she must have It.'1 Louise flung herself on her knees by her mother's chair. "I don't want It! I wish I'd never seen It!" "0 my darling, you want it so, 1 can't bear to have you give It up." Two strong arms crushed her In their fierce hug. "How many times have you given up, mother? I am going to help you in the giving up now." Louise lifted her head and gazed at her mother's face. "0 dearest, dearest," Bhe sobbed, "you look so tired! I've hurt you so, can I ever, ever make It up to you, this dreadful month?" "Yes!" There was something so thrilling In the tono that again Louise raised wondering, wet eyes. In a flash of understanding that raised her In one moment ft'om child to woman, Louise saw her mother, saw the mys tery of the love that Is stronger than death. "Mother," she whlspefed, solemnly, "It is so lonely for you here wheri we are all in bed. 1 wish ho could come back to you for just it little while." White, radiant, her mother pushed back the towny hair and kissed Lou ise's forhead. "He has come bark," she said. "You are your father's daughter, dear."- Youth's Companion. ANIMAL COLOR SCHEMES; Abbott Thayer Upholds the Theory of 8elf-Protectioru The arguments of Darwin and sorno of liis Intellectual descendants were replied to by Abbott H. Thayer of Dublin, N. If., on the subject of the coloration of birds and nnimuls. Mr. Thayer delivered a lecture at the Muesum of Natural History before the 23d annual congress of the American Ornithologists' Union, sotting forth his own theory that birds and beasts-Hre so colored hy nature as Ao disguise them agfiinst their enemies when they get Into the tightest place In their lives. By a skillfully contrived cabinet Mr. Thayer showed that the spots of the leopard arc so arranged by nature as lo resemble spares ami inter stices among . e foliage, and thus con ceal the animal from his pursuers. The leopard, moreover, is lightly col ored on his belly, which throws the light downward. On his back the spots are darkest, so as to absorb and not reflect the light The same thing is done by the zebra's stripes. The xebra's "tight plnce" is by the reed grown, Hon haunted drinking places. The stripes blend with the reeds and their Hhadows, the white bands being line chinks of light through the reeds. Mr. Thayer showed pictures of tho northern Woodpecker, the blue Jdy and the bird of paradise In colors. The birds In these pictures were actual specimens fixed to the canvas, with the landscape painted on. The woodpecker's "light place" is In the bare, leafless tree, with every twig and sprig standing out against a cloudy sky. The white strips on the woodpecker's plumage give the effect of chinks of light through the twigs, and so the woodpecker is to all in tents "lost" against the tree. Similar experiments were made with the blue jay and the bird of paradise. The tall of the deer, he showed, was not white for the fawn to follow as was supposed, but for the same pui pose of disguise and of suggesting the sky to the pursuing animal. He showed many slides of animals that seemed completely blotted out In the surrounding shrubbery and foliage. The white tall of the hare and the white buttock tufts of the antelopes were shown as cases In point. The white coalesces with the sky line. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. A dog show which opened at the Crystal Palace, London, recently, con tained 3505 entries, valued at I1.S50, 000. A farm house near Minehead, Eng land, Is situated in so deep a hollow that for three months of the year the sun's rays do not fall upon it. It is a common sight In Athens to see a peddler leading a diminutive donkey, sandwiched between two bulky glass fronted .showcases, which constitute his "shop." The stock usually consists of sweets, stationery and drapery. 8. T. Dodson, a farmer of the South Canadian valley, In Oklahoma, named his ten children after as many states of the Union. His six daughters are named Virginia, Carolina, Georgia Florida, Idaho and Jersey: The Dod son boys are named Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas, , Ants have a wonderful nower nt t. istlng long periods after losing Import ant parts of their bodies, which are not reproduced. They . have been known to live two week without thai abdomen, which Is so bulky In propor tion to tne rest ot the insect Under the most favorable eliwnmafanoaa an ant may live more than a month at ter us head nas been cut off. The railway comnanlea of ttnirlanA and Wales employ between them 312,-, 000 men. The Scottish and Irish com-' panics employ 40.000 tries between mem Full Blood 8 1 res. Wliile It is true that occasionally a grade bull impresses his breeding upon his descendants, experience haB shown that it Is the exception and not the rule Very largely, and that the using grade Sires results Id multiply ing the already loo many cbinintiri cat tle. The saying that the bull IS more than half the herd is not puHiilg it too strong. Indeed, he Is hiuch more than half When It comes to the quality and value of the herd. It would be far better nnd more profitable to sell, if necessary, a juirt of the herd In order to put at the head of the remainder a pure bred sire. With such an animal the herd Is qulokly, graded up hnd soon pays nmny times over In the quality of beef cattle alone put in the market. There la not a week bul such cattle top the market at $6 and above. While the quality bred and grown from grade sires Is Soiling at $5. The rcttson Is that a pure brod sire transmits IUb breeding find his descendants are uni formly characteristic. This is as true of cattle breeding as of swine breed ing, and there Is nr)t a breeder of swine of any note or success who would think of placing a grade sire nt the head of his swine herd. H is a little singular that farmers who grow cattle for market are not as particular with pure bred slrc3 in cattle as they are In swlite. the one conts more than the other. It Is trus, but in the end both pay best alike Indiana Fanner. A Living r"rdm Poultry; Although this topic has been dis cussed b.-'oio ill tills department, says the Indianapolis News, the last few months has brought so many inquiries that It is plain there Is much Interest being taken In poultry culture by farmers as well as by men who have a laste for the work, h it who are now engaged In city or town. Th" main harden of tho questions U: "Can i make a living by raisin? poultry?" This Is a question hard to answer because, in poultry raising as in every thing else, so much depends on the man--- w.vrrtftltfhas Veen a sTiJms- f til farmer will probably be ablo to raise poultry successfully, but if he has utterly failed In general agricul ture there Is Utile hope of Mb success In raising poultry unless he Is espe cially gifted in this work. Any thrifty intelligent mechanic who goes at things systematically and looks close ly after details, who Is likely to have a love for poultry and who llk?s to work with theni will make a success, In till probability; on the other hand, It he seeks simply to get nway from bis present occupation and knows or cares little for poultry, he is likely to fall. For nny man the main ques tions nre these: Are J'otl willing to begin with a dozen fowls and increase Jour holdings as you get experience? Are you fond of poultry? Are you located within reasonable distance ol n good market? If you can honestly say yes lo these Inquiries then the chances of making a living from the work are exceedingly good. Some Fzcta Worth Knowing. Many people have tho wrong idea ot what is meant by, building up the flock, the main mistake being made in thinking that tho work can be ac compllsbod by crossing the breeds. While it is true that some of the pure bred stock mny be crossed to decided advantage, it Is by no means a safe plan in nny event unless one well un derstands the work. Mongrel stock, and by such stock Is meant the mix tures of a number of breeds raised, generally from store eggs, has no sta bility of its own and the minute We Attempt to build It up we are but add ing one more mixture to the already badly mixed affair. Let us assume thut one has a fair lot of hens, three-quarters or even half-breeds, nnd it is desired to im prove them. The best way would be to Introduce a male of the same breed; that Is a male pure bred and of the breed one wishes to perpetuate. By selecting the best of the pullets from the progeny and breeding them the uext year to still another male, not akin, one would have a well-built up flock, which would be a credit to any poultryman from a strictly practical point of view, eggs or aarcass. The cockerels from the first lot hatched might fie bred back to the hens of the first year without any dan. ger and thus the better blood would go all through the stock. At the be ginning of the third year the first lot of half-breeds could be disposed of, leaving one with first-class stock as nearly full bred as Is necessary for utility, Indianapolis Newt. Lightning Rods. We have printed Several articles showing the advantage: of having a good lightning rod on the house but nothing was said of the need ot one on the barn. .The following from the Rural New Yorker seems to Indicate that they are more necessary on barns than on dwelling houses: ,". E. O. Snow, president of the Home Insurance Co., makes the following statement about fire In farm barns: , "We have for- some time' been In vestigating the ma ter of barn losses and . examined Into upwards ot (00 cases where the cause of fire was known. Out ot the number consider' ably over half of the losses were caused by lightning and something less than a quarter were oharged to Incen diarism, the remainder of the causes constituting : proportionately : a very small traction of the entire number. Taking up at the present, time the matn factor alluded to lightning It appears evident that a device that will minimise the electric baiard Is worth j seeking. If the barn losses might fl reduced by one-half the class would, nt rates obtainable, come pretty near being preferred Instead of prohibited, as Is the case With Borne companies, perhaps many, at the present time. "The proposition, of course, brings the lightning rod Into one's mind. To many of us it brings thft thought tit art old-fashioned humbug, and we are" not id this artioio going to try to cort trovcrt that idea, but we tire disposed very strongly to query whether With the greatly increased knowledge of electricity that now exists, It might not be possible to produce a lightning rod of approved make and arrange, moot thnt, if generally employed, would lessen the number of barn loss es, and wo believe that If interested underwriters would give their experi ence, their theories and their sugges tions, hints' and plans might be pre sented that duld bo of value In malt ing this important class show u very much better loss! ratio." What Packers Want. Swine that best supply the demands ot the packer, that cut out tho right kind of mittertul with little waste, are nicely shaped and smooth of body, are the sort that should be raised, Pork, loins are very Important, becauso per haps the most valuable. They should be uniform nnd their major portion should be lean and evenly finished. Te) make them so the back must be uni form in width from the sliouldors to the tall, a narrow loin, a thick, lumpy formation over the rib or a similar shoulder be-ins very undesirable. Rough anliiinls are not wanted, riot alone because of the wajte that is oc casioned by it, but because the! lead meat on such nn animal does not hard en up uniformly. The meat may lie finished In one part and soft In an other. This Is decidedly undesirablo nnd Is always found In rough pigs. At the St. Louis Fair the colleges and rxporimcnt stations in their meat demonstrations showed by actual cooking tests that this unevenness In fluish of different portions of the car cass caused a loss In weight of from 1(1 iflJ6 percent, and the meat was less pnlalTrtiV?. Hams and bacons aro often conslilerul moro Important than loins, because they bring higher prices. But this conception is wrong, for while the cured meats sell hlghet there Is a corresponding loss In shrink age, besides the cost of curing, which add to cost of production. There aro Important factors about bams in pigs that should be duly con sidered. Tackers like a hnm that when cut will bo the desired shape with tho least trimming. The hog that will best furnish! this must be of near ly equal height at the hip bone and near the tail; then If the ham Is not too flabby about the Under and rear portion of the thigh It will face nut with very little trouble or Waste. The entire portion of Hie side from buck to belly line, and from hams to shoul ders, Is made Into bacon. If this piece1 can bo laid out u that it will come nearly squutc when flat, then little trimming will be necessary. A pig cut up in tho rear flank nnd tucked up nt the heart girth, with a drooping belly between, Is decidedly objection able, for to make the piece marketable In nice form much trimming and waste result. In short, packers want a well form ed pig that is smooth, and therefore only such should be grown. And such pigs feed und gain well, in conclu sion. It may be well to say that care should be token to see that site and growthlnes characterize the animal. Part of these can be secured by feed ing, but the foundation must be laid by using the stock that has this quality inherited. Tribune Farmer, Boers TrK the Argentina. A resident ot the Argentina It pub lic who recently arrived in this coun try, In speaking ot Immigration to his country, said: "We are expecting the arrival ot a considerable number of Boers, who. We think, will make good colonists. In faot, there is a regular 'trek' on from the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The committee having the matter in charge has al ready chartered several steamers to take emigrants from South Africa, and when they reach Buenos Ayres the Argentine government will pay their expenses to the places where they are to settle. "It would not surprise me It In a few years the bulk of the Boer pop ulation of South Africa had betaken itself to Argentina. The British au thorities are already somewhat dis turbed, and the London Times recent ly declared that 'this movement Is as unaccountable as the old treks from the republics In search of new fields.' " The Black Cat We had so many cats that It seemed necessary to give my pet, Peart, to a neighbor more than half a mile away. The, day aha gave birth to her first kittens I put them in a covered basket and they with their, mother were con veyed by carriage to their new owner At ber old home one morning Puss was seen at Ave o'clock climbing up a ladder carrying In her mouth one of her kits. ' She placed It on the hay and was content ' After dinner they were both returned by team, Frequent ly Pearl would call at her old. home, sometimes staying two hours, visiting and hunting. One day she was inter ested In the churnlnw and waited so as to get her fill of buttermilk. Her last visit was so long that I feared the would not return to her kittens, to I took a whip In hand and told her It was late and she must go home, and she went never to come back. B. M. C, In Indianapolis Farmer, . 1HE PULPIT. A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. DR. R- F. ALSOP. Sut-Jtel: Graft, Ancient and Medaro. Brooklyn, N. Y. Dr. Reese F. Alsop, rector of St, Ann's IV E. Church, preached Sunday morning on "Graft, Aiicltsnt aud Modern." His text was. from Luke xlxiSt "Behold, Lord, the lmif of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from any man by fnlw accusation, I restore him fourfold." Dr. Alsop said: We lnivo iu these days a curious nt of the word graft. Probably the gar dener would find it n little hard to un derstand how-It Mine to have the mean, lug that it h.i?. yet It ought not to be (litttruit to explain. He sets into some plan! n bud or a twig, and by and by it grows into the plant. Then it lives to a certain extent Its own life, bears Its own fruit, drawing the while tap, nourishment, vitality, from the plant Into which It tins been grafted. It be comes, llit-refiii-p, tile figure of n thins thnt ilruws Hint something elan with which It It connected, that which it uses for its own purpose. Ha the habit of drawing oif for private Uses some thing that really belongs to some one rise, whether it be a government, n (lepat'lmcnt. or nn individual, has come to be called graft. The use of the word Is peculiar to our own times. The tl.ing which the word Indicates Is, niuM im old as history. .Something like It we find iu the story of him who claims our attention Ibis morning. Two oi' tlu'ee things come out iu our study of Zai'ciineu.i, First He was in ft dangerous employment.- it surrounded him with temptations. its twtal stnudord of action was low. Its prevailing hnlilt was one of wrong doing, it was a course of life In which every day one could see opportunities of getting gain mid t:ike them, l'utli Insiders and out-skl'-r-t tnk for granted fl certain meas ure of pilfering, Mr. Jerome lias lately been holding up to the ridicule of the public the claim that tlirre is such a thing as lion st greft, by which is meant op portunities which come to Insiders to take advantage of their knowledge and of others' Ignorance to make grertt profits, The employment of Zacehaeus guve such opportunities, nnd men like him were expected to gather in con stantly what wa called perquisites of tlicir position, Just as n customs in spector is nappe .: 1 to loolt for nnd to wait for n fee. or as a policeman who litis a district like the Tenderloin, is supposed to be waiting (lnd ready fur bribes. We have men who have shown n good deal Of this spirit. We have bad IIios.t who cull tliemseifcs sljitesnifn in New iork who were ill polities by their own confession not for their lienlth, but for their pocket all tli time. Zitccliaeiie, we are told, was chief of the publicans, and ho seems to luive Illustrated the fplrlt which Is apt to prevail in n hated arid proscribed business, nanieiy, that of nvenglng Itself upon the public by Kpcnmllr-It would Hint lie had used lie OiUK.riMtittiea It-Ui0!1 hi" pisitloii gave him. 'ja collec proper does hot bring n man a large fortune. The Income is usually grad ed to give him merely it moderate liv ing. But Ziicchneus had not been content with Hint, ilice are thoii siuuls of people all through our land who have the rare faculty of growing rich In n f"v years on a very small salary, .if en like Heavers, senators who have licen indicted and eeaivlcted of land frauds. Judges ho have used appointments for personal reasons. These things which we know of In our day should give some insight Into the Uietliods hi Jericho of old. i w.u n ras. of "high finance," of a constant "rake o.i ' In the year of our Lord 20, It was graft marly twenty centuries before the word cn.-ie to have its pres ent connotation. And so Zccchaeus be came rich notoriously rich. He was probably like some o. our high finan ciers of to-day. Hp had a fine' bouse: nnd ga i'l i u .',ud establishment, So thnt as men pass d it they pointed to it and said, "There lives the richest matt in the city." Third SHU. In spite oi hi prospers lt.v. he was In bad odor. The comniuuity will stand a good deal, but there comes a time ..hen even the glamour of wealth cannot hide a mnn's true char acterwhen his success can no longer blind men's eyes, when his splendor becomes nn offense that cries to high heaven. Tlura are bouses and estab lishments in our day that make men gnash their teeth, thnt stand In the comniuuity ns an exhibition of what fraud nnd trickery and legal stealing and breach of trust can do. With wealth honestly earned nnd nobly used, the legitimate reward of real service to the community, there is and should be no quarrel; but with ill gotten gains, gains got nt tho expense of the community, gains wblcb arenot tbe pay of honest work, of brain, of body, but the loot of cunning, of fraud, the booty lilched by the strong or the clever, or the high placed from the weak, or foolish, or lowly; with such wealth there Is and ought to be a quarrel eter nal. Ami so It was with Zacehaeus. As the people of Jericho passed bis gates It was with a sneer, perhaps a curse. He l rich; yes, but he Is a sinner; his glory is his shame. His splendor Is the measure of his turpi tude, he has made hi pile, but it is the result of extortion and false accu sations. He Is not only a renegade, In that he is n publican, and the chfef of them, but lie is a standing, . living monument of what conscienceless greed can make of a man. i Fourth Now, with this judgment of his fellow cltlseus, Jesus seems to agree, for when the people' protest against HI being this man's guest Jesus says: "The Son of man is com to seek and to save that which was lost" That word "lost" seem to concede th Justice of tho people's judgment. Zacehaeus It a son ot Abraham, Indeed; th. t Is, one of (he chosen people. But he is none the less a lost man ne ttling to b sought and sawed. : .-: - Now, if that was hi true character; If the Jerlchoan estimate ot him was correct, how are we to understand the words: "Behold, Lord, the bait ot my goods I give to the poor; and If I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold." How can a man who show such gen rosily to tbe poor; who rectores four fold to ad whom be has Injured, be o bad? Have the people, and ha Jesua mistaken his character? Is be a mis judged and unappreciated man? , Not so do I read the story. The word which we are thinking ot are not meant to describe hit past, but hi future. ? Thfcjr flo not est forth what has bs.i his habit, his manner of liv in;; they are tbe announcement of a siuldeuly formed purpose.. And that imrpose, as we shall see presently, I the natural reaction from what have bren up to thi; time the motive and LletllQd of nli life. Though be has done all these bad icings, Justly won tne odium that be n.'oys, none tho less Jesus sees in him i o--!.it iues of amendment and nobll :iy and talis h'r.i, down from the tree o:i wl'irk he ln perched himself to b-conie his guest, 'this condescentlon involves an interview and an Influx of the perTOiisIlty r? Jesus upon bis soul. This brings about a fcirendous revul siou, The revulsion m..y perhaps be Hi j end of a. long, slow process. Has lie not found that his riches after all did not pa- hlui for tbe loss of his own peace oi mln . and f - the hate of the community In which le lives, for the scorn of a whole city? Has he not found that after all his wealth did not satisfy or make him happy? That u sin ci its acquisition was like a canker at Its heart? More than this, -.vfcen the light come It brings out the dark lines. Like a flush of lightning, the presence of Chrirt Illuminates bis past; and Just as Peter, when he realized the divinity of his Lord, cried: "Depart from nie, for I am sinful man, O Lord," so Zacehaeus feels nil at once the enor mity of his sin. It stands up ill strong relief against what has been his mas ter passion, his greed, Iu nn Instant he s'eos t.ie turpitude, the ugliness of whnt he has been doing. What he has soon before dimly is now emphasized, stands before bis mind In clear, strong lines. He is In the light nnd all nt once a mighty resolve seizes him. He will break with bis part, will give up his besetting sin; yea, will vvlth all bis might battle with it. Just as in Ephe sus, among the converts of Paul, those who had been dabbling with magic brought their books to burn; Just as a drunkard knows that If he is to follow Christ he must dash the cup forever from his lips, so Zacehaeus forms and announces his purpose to break with bis greed. This resolve Includes two things. First Generosity. "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods, of my Income, 1 give to tne poor." Notice the proportion. Moses asked at least one-tenth. Add to that de mands for public requirements and a II f tli was reached. This man says "half." Compare that with the gifts of some of our notoriously rich men to-day. Very few nltnln to the mark of this converted publican. A niau who died the otb-r day left an estate of some 5",5t)0,OtllKI, of which $100,000 was bequeathed to charity, and the newspaper spoke of n large amount being bequeathed for charitable be quests. One hundred thousand dollnrs out of $7,o00,000 Is a very small pro portion. Let us hope thnt during his life time the man did better than that. There was something extraor dinary In the bigness of this purpose of Zacehaeus. Our ninltl-mlillonalres, most of inein. even those who at times startle us by their gifts, have still soim'thing to learn from Jericho's pub lican. Secomllr-Beslitullon. "If I have taken nnr thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him four fold." What a vista tliiFe words open back luto ills life. They show how a part at least of his wealth had beon won. Tlie.v show also how the methods of the past look now to bis awakening con science. He proposes to deal with bis habit b.v a heroic treatment "I will estoiv fourfold." As b carries that nurnose. imagine., H-mujan - t npou iu, ,vll0 the pHSt, had iffntiiitler and exasperating exper iences with him. f'lionld the Jlke be done to-d.iy. what stirring up there would lie. What n change of places between tlie rich and the poor. Whnt vast swellings of tli? conscience fund of tue govcrnnieul! What thousands, perhaps niiil.otr. of acres of public land would be .etuined ti government control. What a ills, rgitlg there wop'.d lie of exlioi iillnnt freights. IIoW n any policy holders would be made glad! How many crushed out firms would be resuscitated. Imagine, if vo:i ran. ti e r. stitulisn of all wrongly golieii w alili. Why it would be like streams cf water (lowing through dry p!uce. It Houl l b? like a transforma tion .relic in a pantomime. It Is ali'ioiti inconceivable, and yet that is what Christianity meant to '.acchaeus. It was a salvation not from death eternal, it was primarily a saivatl'ui from his greed, from his sel ftshm", -roni bis isolation, from his fellows.' And notice Hint Jesits accept Ills purpose ns a perfectly proper thing. He bits the true spirit of a con verted nfe large-hearted liberality, restitution of all wionglv taken prop erty, (liven tiiese tvo thi"gs every where and religion becomes real and vital Deny them and there is only a name to live. It is to talk about being Christians, unless our religion means open-beartedn'ss and righteous uess. . EACH USES TWO ALARM CLOCKS How Street-Car Men Make Sure of Gett hp te Work In Morning. f COSTS the street ar man from two to five days' pay when his alarm clock falls to get him up In time to take bis run In the norning. Tbe cars ;o whether the regu lar crew Is present or oversleeping. This has led to a double precaution by the men who wield the ' metal levers on th front of cable and trolley- cars and those who ring up the nickels. The double-alarm clock system I now In vogue with most of the men. One timepiece Is set to go off a few min utes later than tbe first - "I missed once in fifteen years," said a burly gripman, "and that was when my 'kid' had been playing with the- clock and the hand stuck. I started using two of the sleep chaser after that." Chicago New. ' AgedModel an Agile Thief. Though bora in March, 1804, an ar tist's model, who goes by the nam ot Giuseppe In the Latin quarter, Is still hale and' hearty. - v- When not sitting for a picturesque mendicant he la a quick and clever at larceny as any much younger man. Ha has Just been discovered whll se creting a silk petticoat from a countar under hi gaberdine. ' The alarm be ing given, he ran like a rabbit with a nlmblenesi astonishing in a centena rian., Caught notwithstanding, ha ex pressed pride in his green old age. , ; While he wa being taken to the police , station parcels constantly dropped from his pwaon. These were, the proceed of the active old man's morning expedition to two or three stores. -Pari correspondence, London Telegraph. . L THE WOMAN'8 FAULT. flls Indopendenca made lifm prnutt. Me scoffed at dmilile-lireaHted coats ; Men who to Kashl'm's dictates bowed He Itkened-to a flock ot Koata - : That followed where their trader wert And never kocw what freodur meant, He sneered nt mca and called them foots lUvause they wore i-lothea a la mode; He IniiKhcd at Fashion's foolish nilea And clung to shoes that were wide-toed, And went around (lerlitring that A fool was under each stiff hat. , ; He boasted thnt he didn't care Whnt Fashion Bald was rlRlit or wrong; He spurned the razor, and his Imlr Was rHtfgcd and uncombed and loug ; The linen collar he eschewed Aa ""infilling ouly for a dude. A lady smirked nt him one dnv And said a silly word or two : ne put his loose old clothes away And dressed In tine ones that were near. Then irot his hair rut and a shave And Fashion bad another alave. Chicago Hecord nerald. Th' mon that tells yoz not t' worr has eyther just got tHrough wid a hob uv worryln' or is about t' begin ut. Baltimore American. ' Tcrrcnce Kitty, will ye grant me wan requlst befooro we part in anger forlver? Mnte me this tolmo Friday noight? Kitty Yes, Torrence, I will. : Puck. Wright You say ho wrote jokes to keep the wolf from the door? Pen- man Yes, but I guess the wolf didn't recognize them a je!:us. Yonkera Statesman. He (after the proposal) 'ou are the only girl I ever loved. She Good! With your Innccencc and my experi ence we'll get along all right. Chi cago Dally News. Gipsy fortune teller (seriously) Let me warn you. Somebody's go- ' Ing to cross your path. Motorist Don't you think you'd better warn tho other chap? Punch. Jackie I like Thanksgivin' better'n nny other holiday. Mamma Indeed? Why? Jackie 'Cause It never comes on a Saturday, nn' cheatin' us fellers in school out of Itself. Puck. The Friend At what figure would? you estimate the traveling expenses of an auto lour? The Autoist Trav eling expenses? Well, that depends a good deal on the Judge. Judge. Janitor We don't allow children, mum. Lady Why, of such Is the kingdom of heaven. Janitor Yes'm., ' Yer see, even de Plblo admits dey wuzn't Intended fer flats." Judge "An' how are yez this rys "Feelin' very had' than'afTlr. matlhor."''i)l had such reams th't Oi couldn't slapo a wink all night." Cleveland Leader. Deacon Jones I have been losing lots o' sleep during the past two months. Friend Yes, I noticed you halnt been attending church much lately. New Orleans Tlmes-DenlOcrat''," Professor Now, Demosthenes was a peerless orator and ho had to con tend with great difficulties. Fresh manThat's so; he had to speak in Greek, didn't lie? Philadelphia Led ger. Visitor My poor man, what was , the cause of your downfall? Convict Spring housecleanin', boss. Visitor De folks in de last house I robbed had de stair carpet up, an' dey heard me on de steps. Cleveland Leader. Little Clarence, who is the son of a railroad man, saw a dachshund for"" the first time the other day, and re- , marked: "I don't see how that dog can go round In a circle very long without having a rear-end collision." ' Life. "Do you mean to say that you re fuse to allow your daughter to marry my son?" exclaimed the lady from Chi cago. "Why, we have royal blood In " our veins!" "That's Just the reason," ' .7S 1 ..-TlSSBfc. BW- bad IS said Steddyman. "I'm afraid It might crop out." Detroit Free Press. -.- Bride I know you don't 1-love me I , V Groom Why, child, what makes you say that? "Because you're not Jeal ous. Why, Mayme Gray's been mar ried nearly a year, and her husband's so jealous that he's shot at her twice and tried to kill himself three times!" The Independent. ti "Do you think there Is any chance of reforming politics?" "I don't know," answered Senator Sorghum, "I haven't much faith in human ture. I am Inclined to believe people ' ' ) frequently think politics Is being re- formed when it Is merely being re- - t modeled." Washington Star. - v ' j. "Something must be don to curb v ?T in arrogance or tne men wno own the railways." "Oh, I dunno," re joined Farmer Corntosseir -"I - once met a man that owned a whole lot o' -railroad stock. Compared to some ticket agent an' conductors, he was downright affable." Washington Star. . ' ' Tom Yes, Miss Roxley refused me. . -Bhe said there were a dozen reasons why she shouldn't marry me. Dick ' What were they? Tom I don't know. ' 't I told her she needn't bother to men tlon the other eleven. Dick The Qtb- ' er eleven? Tom Yes, her first reason" was that her father had lost all bis -money. Philadelphia Press. "As I was coining lu Just now," said Mr. Oldcastle, f'your footman. used an opprobrious epithet." "My goodness," replied her hostess, "t must speak to Jama' wwut that t simply won't put up wltb-.it. Joslah says unless there's less of them -t'sed around here ho'll .have to be gettln' them bjr thewhole sale. I never seen the wa'BeSa 1 s do waste things when they slnVt", ones that have to waste things when' they ain't the ones that have to pay for them." Chicago Record-Herald. Drseg of Crime. "They say aa how Jobes Walton's boy Is up In Noo York leadln' a Jlfe of crime." "Dew tell! Fer th land's sake! I wanter know! Hez he gone into any thing he could be Jailed fer, or Ji st something like life Insurance?"
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