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THE FRANKLIN PRESS, VOLUMEXXI. FRANKLIN. N. C. WEDNESDAY. MARCH H, 1906. .NUMBER 11. THE EXILE IAn xll dwelt amid the sea. He dwelt within a wind girt tower, , Upon an Isle where grew no tree. v tw grass, nor ever nower. I0" d dawn through the window gray There came silent little gueet. There blew shining leer of Yst, Munwreu eiimigm into nis nreasi. j "Whence earnest thout Whence earnest ID.OU7' IT anktuul tir-L- I . I J .l ju I - u. i t i 'riuuir, u mm iuvu ml Down hither from God's garden-hough J I"Or did a brawny ssllor stop I li r 1 ""O lorgemng arop The token may not forget? "Now was It God or man who brought Th little ThnltvK mvaw t,m I question, thou shalt All my thought. auu . BRiii cm i nj marvellous: "For Mother's Sake." By Emma Garrison Jones. ' "I'm done with him. I've said bo. and I'll stand to It. He's disgraced himself and my good name, and I wash my hands of him now and forever." Mrs. Arnold stood In the cottage doorway, the iiweet bloom and verdure of springtime all about her, and lis tened to her husband's angry words. "Oh, James," she entreated, "re member he is our son." "I shall make It my business to for get It from this hour; he is no son of mine!" "But, James, James, think what the end may be. What if they send him to the State prison?" , "Let him go he deserves It." The angry father strode away, a hard, relentless look upon his face. The mother stood there in the early sunshine, her poor face white with agony, her hands clutched hard to gether. : She could see the village spires from the cottage porch, and in the village prison her only son lay. The trouble had come about in this way: Dick Arnold was confidential clerk In the hardware house of Robinson & Co., at a fair salary. A promising young fellow was Dick, bright, intelli gent and as shrewd and clever in business matters as he was genial and Wlnnli-o In his social relations. But his character had Its weak points. In the first place he was fond of strong drink; In the second he had not the courage to say "No" when temptations assailed him. Many a scrape poor Pick was lured Into, many a heartache he caused his fond mother, many a reprimand he got from his over-severe father; but he did not mend his ways. Nevertheless, his employers were fond of him, and trusted him, and winked at his shortcomings. "He's a fine fellow; he'll get his wild oats In and do better after a while," they said. One afternon Dick was summoned Into Mr. Robinson's private office, v "Here, Dick," said that gentleman, putting a sealed envelope Into the young .man's hands, "I want you lo take this and deliver it to Mr. Selby. In Covington. You know the place?" . ."Oh, yes, sir." "Very well, mind you keep steady on your legs, my boy, and deliver it aafely." Dick put the envelope in his breast pocket, bowed himself out and was ateaming on his way to Covington in the next train. He reached the little town just be fore nightfall, and feeling somewhat - tired J!id thirsty, he dropped in at a , dram shop for a drink. Ah me, if there ivere no such places, how much . f ' I , J L I J u misery, ana Bin, ituu hiihiiio wuuiu ire from the world! But they every turn, these devil's eln men are despoiled of flngs and their honor, nt In, and stumbled among he or four old cronies. They and welcomed him with delight. Dick, old fellow, haven't seen you f Ian age! Well met, 'pon my . soul! I lere, landlord, brandy and selt- er foVfour, and be spry at it." . The Ihrandy and seltzer appeared ' and vAlshed. Oysters and crackers followJI and then came more grog to waJ I It all down. Dick's weak head Sri. Wneir darkness fell was still neglected and he i bar parlor, looking "on I boon companions played t bloom in his cheeks, an in his handsome eyes. lick and try your luck?" If I do," said Dick and tree was soon emptied. yer could clearly recall appenedjJaat. Insane from ind determined to retrieve his he ventured to open the sealed he and to borrow a stake from nds intrusted to him by bis hn double it," he thought, a I'll r.nlti na .thn immmt " t( hajpst Insteacf of doubling, and wallowed more brandy In his ex- fmentfKid at the invitation of his frlerfdl he end was that they made a night tit. and wien the morning dawned. ir Dick immi himself alone, for- ken by his friends, and the sealed fvelope and its contents gone. The shock sobered him. He got up, d with bis head' beating like a trip mmer, walked back to his native jlage, and, seeking his employer, con ned all that had happened. Mr. jblnson was greatly provoked and once put the matter Into the hands the law and Dick Arnold was arrest ed and sent to prison. '.; ;, J When the news came to his father's 'ears he refused to give hli son eltheT Id or countenance. "I'm done with him. Let them send him to the State prison; he deserves It." But the mother, her faithful heart going out in yearning pity for her erring boy, stood and pondered how she might save htm. : .v ' In a little while aha turned, and en terlng tba pleasant cottage, went slow ly cj stairs and Into her chamber, where her daughter Rose fat aewlng on her bridal rober AND THE LEAF. The exile kissed the leaf, and lo 1 The barren reef became a bower, Populous with the long ago, llalmjr with breath of many a flower. The arch It was of bay and oak ; The floor of fragrant mosses fair And sweetest song and laughter brose. And friendship's face was everywhere. And Intimate fnrevermore The leaf was green within his hand. And memorv led him through the door I'nto his boyhood's distant, land. The billows lapped his rocky home. The wind and raucous gull made weep, The exile felt nor wind nor foam. And all the night he smiled In sleep. A human heart, the ttormpirt reef, And hope Iha Icnf of unJtnoicn bough, Thai hope trhlch comrt to heart of ffrlrf, H e know ol irncitcr, we knoie not how. Youth s Companion. tt Sitting down beside her, she told her the story of her brother's trouble. Rose understood her mother's mean ing even before she could put It into words. There was a little box on the table, which contained her marriage dowry. Little by little tho father and mother had hoarded It in their oa'.y daughter's name, that she might not be dowerless on her wedding day. Pretty Rose took the box and put It In her mother's hands. "Take It. mother," she said, "and do with it as you think best." "Heaven bless you, my daughter, but It Is hard to deprive you of your marriage dowry and your wedding day so near." Rose's fair cheeks bloomed like her namesake in the lit;le garden below, anil her blue eyes lit. "Never mlntl that, mother," she said, "Charlie will be willing to take me without the dowry I am sure of it." So Mrs. Arnold took the box and went her way. Before the day ended she had refunded the money to Mr. Robinson and the charge was with drawn, and her boy was out of prison. "1 can't go home, mother. Father doesn't want me; he told me so," said Dick, as they stood under the green locust trees beyond the cottage lawn. "Let me go out Into the world and work my way up, and then I'll come back." She put her arms about his neck, and looked up at him with streaming eyes. "Oh. Dick, my boy, my darling, you will do better you will, Dick, for mother's r.ake?" "Yes, mother, God being my helper, I will. I've caused you so much trou ble, and you've always been good and gentle lo me, mother. Forgive me, now; I'll como back to be a comfort to you yet." "My boy, ' forgive you. and I be lieve in you. Here Dick," and she drew a purse nntl a worn little Bible from her bosom, "tako these. You may need the money; the Bible Is mine, Dick mother's Bible, don't forget that. Mother has read In it every day and night for the last thirty years. You'll think of that, Dirk, and you'll read it for mother's sake?" "Yes, mother." "Every night, Dick, no matter where you may be. you'll read a chapter, and get down on your knees and pray, the little prayer mother taught you, if nothing else? Promise me, Dick. Every night at ten o'clock, at that hour I shall be on my knees praying for you, my boy. I shall never miss a night. Dick, while I live; promise me yon won't, Dick. Promise me you'll do it for mothers sake." Dick tried to promise but he let his handsome head drop down on his mother's bosom instead and wept there like a child. As the sun set they parted. "Good-by, my boy, and God bless you. You'll keep your promise, for mother's sake?" "Yes, mother, with God's help. Good-by!" Across the fields, wilh his little Bi ble in his bosom, and his bundle in his hand, went poor, errlnq Dick, and down the iWhw.-.i- Mrs. Arnold return ed to the cottage. "I'll never give up my boy," she said. "My prayers shall prevail with God for him. He will return to us yet, and be the comfort of our old age." But her husband, bitter and remorse ful of heart, laughed her to scorn.' Month followed month; summers came and went; harvests were sown and gathered in; winters heaped their white snows, and spring sunshine came and melted them. Meanwhile, Mrs. Arnold, busy with her dally tasks, did not lose hope. Pretty, dowerless Rose had married and gone to live in a happy home of her own, and as the years came and went, the master of the cottage, en feebled and nuKla hejnjcss by disease, sorely repented of his harsh severity to his only son. "If I had dealt kindly with him he might have done better," he said, ln his remorse; "but 1 drove him from beneath my roof with reproaches, and now in my old ago I am childless and desolate." The mother held her peace, but every night at the appointed hour she knelt down and prayed for her wan dering boy. Just about that time the whole coun try was ringing with the renown of a young reformer a man of talent and genius, who was spending the ' best days of his manhood for the good of his rellow men. His eloquence. It was said, was irresistible and thou sands of erring sinners were flocking after him, as they followed the Master of old. News came at last that this wonder ful man would deliver a lecture In the village, preparations were made, and expectation waa on tiptoe, On the appointed night Mrs. Arnold went with the rest. . The speaker took the stand, and an nounced the subject of his discourse. It was:'' "For Mother's Bake." The poor mother, her heart yearning for her own absent son, looked on and listened, blinded by swift-flowing tears, She could scarcely see the tall form of the handsome speaker, but his words thrilled her heart tit igh and through. The audience gat spellbound, breath less, until the lecturer drew near tfta close of his remarks. "For mother's sake," he said. "That one little sentence has made me what I am. Who, In this crowded room rec ognize me? Five years ago, on Just such a night as this, I was a prisoner in the old jail over yonder. My moth er's love saved me from the conse quences of intemperance and youthful folly, and when I parted from her un der the old locust trees out there in the lane I promised to be a better man 'for mother's sake!' Neighbors and friends you all know me now. I am Dick Arnold. I kept my promise I have been a better man, 'for mother's sake!' I wonder It my mother is here and hears my voice tonight!" "Oh, thank God! Oh, my boy! my boy!" In another minute he had her in his strong arms, ber gray head pillowed on his breast. She looked up at him with yearning, Wondering eyes. "Oh, no, I do not mlBtake you are my son! Oh, Dick!" He held her closely, tears streaming like rain over his bearded face. "Your own boy, mother. God has made him what he is, 'for mother'! sake.' " New York Weekly. BARBARITY OF EPICURES. They Gloat Over Flesh Food Before It is Killed. "Did It ever strike you," asked the observer, "that there Is something dis tinctly barbarous about your real epi cure, your true gourmet or gas tronome? I saw a great turtle lying in a restaurant the other day, flat up on his back, his head pillowed on a cigar box and his flippers tied with Btout strings. He was alive, of course, and eyed with a look of sullen and yet puzzled defiance the group which stood about him while the proprietor of the place explained, illustrating with touches of his foot, the way in which the creature was presently to be cut up and the different manner in which the various parts would be cooked. The reptile under discussion was to furnish the group with a 'turtle dinner,' and the mouths of the 'knowing ones' among them fairly watered as the landlord continued his disquisition upon the peculiar excel lencies of that particular turtle. Those men sat down and ate that turtle In the form of soup, steaks and stew and enjoyed it all the more that they had seen the writhing reptile alive. To me. had I been at the feast, the pic ture of the bound and helpless crea ture rolling his glazing eyes upon his torturers and his slayers would have arisen before me and taken away my appetite. "There is a famous restaurant down in the Fulton Market which used to have a tank in it I believe that it has it no more, as epicures nowadays generally ctosb the Bridge and in that tank fish were swimming about. You could look into the tank, watch the gambols of the fish, select the one you wanted, and the waiter would catch it and conk it for you. Having seen it alive a few minutes before made Its dead body taste better to the epicure. "A certain restaurant In Brooklyn used to have a back yard In which chickens were running about. It was the proper thing to sit on tho back veranda, pick out a certain fowl, have his head cut off in your presence and then, after it had been cooked, eat it. "Go into any all night restaurant on Broadway and order a 'broiled live lobster,' and the waiter will bring you the lobster with his antenae 'wiggling' and his 'feelers' squirming, to show that he is very much alive. Then he will be broiled allvo and you can eat him if you want to, and most people do. "It is the same with soft-shell crabs and various other sorts of sea food. The epicure, or the man who thinks he Is an epicure, wants to see the creature alive first to give a zest to his appetite. Mind you, it Is not in restaurants where there Is a likeli hood of the food furnished being stale that this custom prevails, but In those where the reputation of the place and the gastronomic discrimination of the customer almost guarantee that it will be fresh. No, it Is the savage Instinct of the epicurej the same thing which makes a cannibal gloat over his vic tim before he kills him for supper." New York Press. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. At the Zoo of Hamburg the young children ride races upon giant turtles. Official figures show that there are seventeen million children in Russia between the ages of six and sixteen who are not getting any education. An ordinary watch contains about 150 pieces, but complicated repeaters, chonographs, etc., as many as eight hundred and In one case 975 pieces. . India rubber trees which are tapped every other day continue to yield sap for more than twenty years, and It is a curious fact that the oldest and most frequently tapped trees produce the richest sap. The oldest working clock In Great Britain is that of Peterborough Cathe dral, which dates from 1320 and is conoeded to have been made by a monastic clockmaker. It is the only one now known that is wound up over an old wooden wheel. The most costly leather tn the world is known to the trade as the piano leather. The secret of prepar ing thiB Is only known to one family of tanners in Germany, though the skins from which It is tanned come almost entirely from America,. A young woman In Westphalia was to be married recently, but It was found that her birth had never been recorded, which made her a marital Impossibility. Her birth then was registered, and according to the doc uments preceded her marriage : by about ten minutes, making her the youngest bride on record. - , v The "message stick" is a sort of flag at truce nsed by the natives of western Australia when traveling beyond tb' boundaries of their own tribe. , i " " . . . . . t : v'; FX HE AMONG JiSKIMOS. SAILORS EXPERIENCE WITH ARCTIC NATIVES. For Three Years Never Saw a White Man Almost Forgot His Mother Tongue Five Day Adrift on Ice Floe In a Blizzard LlfeNn-,Esqul-mau Snow House. After being an o.Jle In the Arctic regions six years, George G. Cleve land of Martha's Vineyard is in this city, says a New Bedford corre spondent In the Boston Herald. In 1899 Cleveland went north as second mate of the schooner Francis Allyn, and the first winter be spent on board that craft, but for the following five years he has lived ashore. For the first two winters after he left the Allyn he bad a white com panion, Charles Clemmons, but for three years succeeding he cast his lot with the native Esquimau, and had it not been for them he would have starved. For three years he saw the face of no white man, and says he al most forgot the white man's language. "Many a day 1 had to be satisfied with one meal, and oftentimes I was obliged to eat the paunches of deer or starve," he said. He lived the prim itive life of the natives for much of the time. In dross and style of living he was one of the tribe, whose chief purpose was to obtain their daily food from the animal llfo of their bleak ar a Inhospitable country. Dur ing his spell of primitive life the whaleman underwent hardships and trying experiences that have, In his own words, added ten years to his life. Cleveland" had agreed to take charge of a whaling and trading sta tion In the Hudson Bay country, but after spending a year on the schoon er he was put ashore at the mouth of Wagner river, half way between Fullerton and Repulse Bay, and some little distance up tho river he built a hut or shack of matched boards, 24 by 12 feet. Clemnons Joined Cleveland in the fall of 1900, and the two men made themselves comfortable for the win ter In a house banked up with snow, and the time was passed In hunting when the weather waa suitable. They had plenty of coal and did not suffer. Twice during the time Clemmons was with Cleveland they were caught In Ice floes and once were reduced to eating shrubs and were on the point of CRtlng one of tho dogs when a bear was shot, which gave them enough food to last until the schoon er Era was reached, when a supply of food was obtained. "After these rather trying experi ences Clemmons left me, and I de cided to try my luck alone," said Cleveland. "I had some provisions left, but the stories that have been told that the whalers put what pro visions they could spare on board my boats is all bosh. I was left with hardly any food, and it was not long before that was gone. "It was a case of getting among the Esquimau or starve, and I made for the Iwillick tribe. I found the tribe and was taken among them as one of their own natives. 1 had nothing but a few necessaries and my two boats. I was not better than they were and did not try to be. I was glad to have somebody to try to help me get food. "fltarv,.tlon staring one In the face is not pleasant, and It took us all the time to get food. For days I had only one neal a day, and we often ate meat that In other circumstances would have been given to the dogs. "For three years I never saw a while man. I dressed, ate the same food and lived in the same snow houses as the natives, and you would have not known whether I was a white man or an Esquimau. I lived entirely on animal food, and for three years did not have tea, coffee, biscuits or simi lar provisions. "I was with a tribe of about three hundred persons, and took part in all their wanderings, and often shifted our abodes, going where the game was most plentiful. In the summer time we went to the coast after wal rus and seal, which were secured in fair abundance. In the summer, when moss and heather could be obtained, our food was cooked. In the winter this could not bo done and the flesh, which was often In a rancid state, had to be eaten raw. "The dally search for the daily meal is the be-all and the end-all of the Esquimau's existence. The country of the Iwillick is bare and bleak, and when on the great track for food no clump of trees or shrubs offered their shelter to our half-famished hunters. "At the beginning of the winter our tribe divided and went out In differ ent parties to hunt When It was pos sible dogs were used to haul our sledges, but when no dog teams were to be had we had to haul the sleds our.TOtves. Frequently long and toll some stretches Intervened between the spells of luck. When no game was obtainable we journeyed on,, but when deer fell to our riffes we had a regal feast. "It often happened "that we were overtaken by blizzards, but you can not get lost up here. Whenever the storm broke we began to build our snow houses, and I became as expert as any of the natives at this business. On one occasion, with the aid of two natives, I erected a comfortable house hi forty minutes. "You cannot boss the Esquimau. They simply won't have it, unless you have plenty of goods to trade with them, and, then you can be the mas ter. But going among them, as t did, I found that the natives didn't pro pose to hare me tell them how to do things, and I was glad enough to fall Into their ways, even to eating rancid fish. I could do nothing else, and the Lord help (he strange white who gets lost In the Far North If he knows noth ing about the natives' ways. He will surely starve to death, Ton have got to go out and help get the dally meat, I was always on terms of friendship with the natives, for I did my share of the hunting. - "Did I o any whaling with the EsquimeuT Well, not much for the first two seasons. It was as much an we- could do to get food sufficient to ttk and there waa not much time for whaling., we were always on the move. .And this very thing, the fact that the native has to tais exercise to get his food, prevents him from having the scurvy, which among the white men is caused by eating too much salt food and taking too little exercise. "The tribe bad one or two witch doctors, and I had an experience with one of them. I had a high fever three winters ago, and was unconscious two days. I had done what I could with the medicines on hand, but grew worse rapidly. After my spell of un consciousness I awoke one afternoon and found that the fever had left me, but standing over me was one of these witch doctors exercising his art after the sllght-of-hand way, and when 1 woke up I found that the medicine man was claiming all the credit for having brought me back to life. . "Another experience I had, almost as bad as my first trip up the Wagner river, on Ice floes was about three years ago, New Year's time. In com pany with two natives I set out across the ice In sesrch of game with a dog team. The floe on which we were be ing drawn separated from the main Held of Ice and drifted out into the bay. We attempted to get back, but the intervening stretch of water was too wide to be bridged. "A high wind was blowing, and as the floe of ice drifted further out Into the bay our position became precari ous. A furious blizzard raged for three days. Without shelter and with our provisions finished our small party was in bad shape. Owing to the thin ness of the ice the snow could not be used in place of water, as it became tinged with salt. For Ave days we en dured untold hardships of a terrible nature, drifting about the bay and not being able to see land. "On the afternoon of the fifth day, when we were all pretty well dis couraged, the floe grounded at a place called Beach Point, and we made the best time possible back to the rest of our party." Two years ago Mr. Cleveland wa3 appointed to have charge of the whal ing station at Hudson Bay, owned by a Scotch Arm. He still continued to live with the natives who worked for him. He caught two large whales this last summer. "I am aurely going back to Hudson Bay again," says Cleveland, "but It will bo In proper shape and with plenty of provisions." THE FUNCTION OF FIN8. Apparently Not Really Necessary to the Operation of Swimming. A Mexican naturalist, Senor Duges, writes to Science from Guanajuato re counting some experiments which he made with tiny fishes In an aquari um. They were only an inch and a half or two Inches long. From one the anal An was removed, from another the pectorial and ventral Ans were taken, while a third was deprived of the tall fin. It does not appear that the fishes suffered any pain in con sequence of these operations. Careful watch Indicated that the first deprivation mentioned did not interfere with swimming. In the sec ond case the fish seemed to evince hesitation for a time, but it then went on as if nothing had happened to It. The third flsh showed a disposition to hide and remain quiet at the bot tom of the aquarium, under vegeta tion, for a time, but on the second day It was more active. It moved the rear end of its body quickly, and by un interrupted lateral shakes was able to turn, rise, fall and swim forward, but with much less rapidity and ease than the others, which, with a stroke of the tail, darted like arrows with out needing to strike the liquid again in order to advance. The third - flsh ended by learning to replace his caud al by the movements of the dorsal and anal fins, which Increased a little in sl'.e, doubtless from the exercise. It ought to be added that these tests were suggested to the mind of Senor Duges by noticing still another flsh In his tank, which had accidentally lost its dorsal fin, but did hot appear to miss It. Finally, the naturalist deprived a fish of all the fins except the tall fin. Immediately after the loss the flsh, like No. 3, behaved In an undecided manner. But the next day Senor Duges saw it swim rapidly and execute with agility all Its usual evolutions. The only noticeable peculiarity was that In order to keep Itself in position it caused its only fin to vibrate rapidly and constantly, and that these vibra tions communicated a trembling to the entire body. The equilibrium was, therefore, still preserved, and the air bladder did not cause the fish to turn belly upward, although he maintain ed himself at the bottom of the wa ter, In the middle or at the surface, experiencing in consequence a series of different pressures. A friend of the Mexican, a Belgian who Is well known by his experi ments on Insects, writes to Senor Duges that he teaches his pupils that locomotion In most fishes Is effected' by bendlngs of the entire caudal por tion of the body, and that the undula tions of the odd fins (Jorsal, anal and caudal) serve only to give more pre cision to the general movements of lo comotion; and that, save in exception al cases, the functions of the pairs of fins are almost Inappreciable. This interesting (tory is supple mented with the statement that after a time the amputated dorsal and pec toral fins of the mutilated flsh grew out again to part of their natural slse. A Paris Jackdaw, Six months' imprisonment will have to served by a young man for hav ing snipped off the tip of a music hall star's nose. . He Was In love with Mile. Martnt and very jealous. Finding out that he had cause to be, he called on her, threw her down on a sofa, and sliced at her nose with a carving knife, fin her own evidence It appears that she did not know her loss, having, stngely enough, felt no pain until she looked at herself In the glass and saw what was missing. After ten days In hospital the wound healed complete ly, but her nose remained Upless, and six months Is not too much fr.the ruf fian who shortened It, London Tele granh, .- 0 i HE PULP1T. ' . SWOaiLY "SUNDAY SERMON rt' The rev. a. a c. morse, ' SaVJ'sl : Kvaacallntloa, ! rntiklyi. X. Y.-ln the Strong Place FsHur Church. Snndsy morning, the pitxlor. the Rer. A. H. O. Morse, lri'ihed n foreign mission sermon, the aitblwt being, "Evangelisation." The text waa from Joshua xlll:l: "There rinaii:etli yet very much land to be poped. Mr. Morse said: There la an mieipnt Israel, and there t s modern Israel. The task before the former was Ihe establishment of the kingdom nf Cod In the tend of nromlse. And (be tnk before the lst ler Is the es'nlillshment of the kingdom of God In all the world. The work be for these nnrleut neonle was nrepara my nnd temporal. The work before the church la Anal. What remains be rmwi tli work appointed to us Is yet li'-Men behind ! hllla of eternity. The supreme thing, then. Is the even ffellxnllon of .the world. And t make no nnotosr thla morning; when I call your sttenllnu to this atnpendons snb ?ert. If will do us good to lift our eyes from nur own" Immediate field, and look nl the world which la the field of God: ei'd to lenve our own little ben ten trs-k. and to swine nut Into the circle where sweep Ills mighty plsns. Cen turies hnve elnnsed since our work was nminuiicecl. and herculenn tsska have l.oon nerformed. Mnnutnlns of preju dice bore heoii leveled: rivers of blood hnve been forded; Area of persecution lmve been endured, and whole king doms bare been taken. "But there re malnelli yet much land to be pos sessed." I want to sneak to yon then un "The Authority for Foreign Mis sions, and ThelrAlms and Inspire tlon."v.., v .In single word, the authority for Chrlsllnn missions must be found, not tn the truths we hold, but In the Per son whom we love. Thla may be seen In the rery etrmoloirr of the word, for nult"rlty la something added added to the nbstrit"t truth or duty. There Is tin authority apart from n person. When nn attorney la nked hla author ity, be cllea the decisions of a Judge; and when n scholar Is nked his an thnrilr. he does not exploit his onln lons. but he nemes hla author. The an me principle holds In religion. And j the nltlmnte authority must he a ner- son. and mat person must ne the nlgn est. and moreover he must be known. It Is easy fo see. therefore, that au thority la mled from the so-called re ligion of pantheism, for It posits no personal being. It rules authority also from rationalism, for reason, fallible and dependent, cunnot be the highest. And It takes authority from agnosti cism, for that declares that God cannot be known. But I shall not pursue this subject Into the mnr.es of philosophy. I almnly lay this down as nn opening thought that the authority for Chris tian missions Is found In Chrlft be cause He la a person, and becanne He Is Ihe highest person, and because He ran be known. It la In view of this that He can any. "All authority Is given uuln Me In heaven nnd on earth. Go ye, therefore, nnd tench all na tions." Authority belongs to Christ bernnse He Is the eternal word, nnd Is also the only (iod with whom we have to do. I know there are secondary sources of authority to which we must give obe dience, such ns to narenta nnd teachers and to Ihe laws of the State But back of all these nnd over them all Is Ihe personal Christ, nnd He alone has a right to tell me what nre truth and duty. And authority belongs to Him because He has unrlertnken to dispel the darkness of the world by s special revelation of the love of God. He has Joined Himself to humanity to anve tt. Ami It la this revelation of God that Is added to all the truth we hold that constitutes the authority for missions. Missions nre the propaganda of Jesus, and His method of reconciling an apos tate humanity. And even If He had not littered His grent commission, still world-wide missions would have their elnims. for they arc but the answer to the call from the ends of the earth: for humanity sundered from God feels Its destitution and misery. The whole world groans In its hunger. You can Vear It In the plaintive song of the bird, and the sighing of every breeze. And after sll world-wide mission Is only an answer to a world-wide need. The authority for mlfslona Is "God manifest In the Aeah." But what flesh T The flesh of the Anglo-Saxon. We are a wonderful people. Let ns frrely admit that we are the most virile race upon the earth; that our in stitutions are the best: that we possess the hulk of the world's culture nnd re finement: that we are the subjects of the best government: and are the most Ingenious and Inventive and wealthy. But how came we tn have this premier position? We are only the grent-grand-chlldrenN of heathen nnd barbarous fathers. We owe our superiority to the remaining heathen natlous to the fact that the Gospel was first presched f ns. Wonderful we are. But we are not the mm total of the race of men. "Who do men say that I the ton of Man am?" The son of whst man? Of Abraham? Of the Anglo Pa ion? Of the man of India? Or of Afrlcs? Or the man of the Islands of the sea? The manhood of humanity waa In the flesh of Jetns, and I fall back upon the '.ininanlty of Christ as my authority for a world-wide mission. And 1hat Is what makes me confident that the Gospel is the power of God unto sslvstion to India and China and Africa, to the islands or the sea. Not that we hope to make there peoples but a pale copy of the Anglo-Saxon: bnt that we slinll develop that gift of thought and heart which God baa wrought into their texture, and that they shall be patterned, not after ns, but after the Son of Man. The au thority for missions Is found in a uni versal hunger of the heart. So much then for the authority for foreign missions. Now I spesk of their aim and Inspiration. And this Is a phase of the subject which Is not al ways clear In the public mind. I have rend In a missionary paper, even, that If foreign missions are to accomplish permanent results, we most aim at the total reorganization of the whole social fabric1 of the countries Into which we go. Now that Is an evil doctrine. Yon ran' And nothing to justify It in the his tory, nor in the experience of the church, nor In the example of our Lord and His apostles. They did not aim at reconstructing the social fabric, bnt at Implanting the life of Christ in the human heart. They sought to renew the lives of men, and they knew that these new lives wonM demand new sorlni;rombinatloua. They knew that no unman tyranny could exist when Jeans Christ was King. ' : ' v. We must not confnse the immediate aim with the secondary aim. nor with the nltlmnte result of missions. There Is no work In all the world so powerful to accomplish secondary results as the work of foreign missions. Of course, ihe bablts are changed and the civic life reorganised. But that is not tin Immediate aim. The Immediate sira Is not social nor civilizing, hut relig ions. And I had rather, as Mr. Rpeer says, "Plant one seed of the life of Christ under the crust of heathen life than cover that whole crust over with the veneer of our social habits, or the vesture of Western civilisation." We are trustees, but not primarily of better social customs, hut of a life which will shane Its own civilization. The aim of missions la evangeliza tion, and t'.iat Is the publishing in all the world of God's glad tidings. The aim Is to make Christ known In all the world. I slate It thus, for though tt does not shift our responsibility, It does lighten our burden. It does not remove the obligation to hasten with the proclamation of Christ, bnt It does relieve us of the Impossible burden of converting the world. We cannot con vert a single stnl: how shall we con vert the world? But we can present the Gospel In such a way to i rery sonl In all the world that the resinsl billfy for whnt Is done with it shall rest no longer upon the church nor upon any peron In the church, hut upon the man himself, We can so pre sent the mestage of evangelization that we can fling the responsibility for the world's co-version back upon God Himself, for He nlone can renew a human heart. I do not preach upon missions be cause I want to challenge your sympa thies for the philanthropic results which they nchleve. My object Is larger thnn Hint. I want your aid in mnklnp Jesus known. I know these other things will follow. 1 believe that God Is King, nnd that the hand that shaped the world at'flrst Is In all the forces that to-day nre shnning life. He holds the reins of politics and com merce and civilization. It wns John Newton who said, he rend the New Testament to see how God loved the world, but he read the newspapers to see how He governed If. And I am convinced that nil our everyday nffnlrs do run Into the great goals of God. And these things, our governments nnd customs snd ipventlnns. nre bnt ns the ehnff before the wind ns compared with the supreme purpose that God who Is King, shall reign ns King, and mle as Lord of Lords. We are celling to ninlTsif nml the problem, nnd these Inst veins nvp wit nessing wonderful movements. The annual arcesfnns to the churches, in the foreign fie'ds fur outnumber those of the churches nt hmnc. And In many Instances thel1- offerings to this grent work go far before our own. More work Is being assigned to the native churches, and genter rrsoonsibilitlos laid on them. Modern missions are young, hut we can almost see the dny when mission boards will not need to send to foreign fields great sum of money, nor large numbers of preachers. For the native churches nre prolific In preachers of their own who can find the hearts of their neonle much better than we cnn. And nlrendy the dny Is come when our largest attention Is given to the teaching nnd education of the prenchers. nnd to the general ad ministration of the work. That Is the meaning of this call for endowment for the great Christian colleges and sem inaries which arc growing up in those far off lands. Paul said he wns n "prisoner of Jesus Christ." Thnt is t':e essence of the missionary life. The I.oi.li; pris onernot the prisoner of Rome, thoufth he lay In a Roman prison, and was" scourged of Caesar. He snld he wns an "ambassador In bonds." He didn't look like thnt. His old rusty chain rattled oh his wrists, nnd clanked In his empty cell. But he said I am con ducting nn embassy in chnlns Oh, what limitations the mlsslonnries have endured! Sickness and suffering nnd Infirmity snd separation from wife and children. And what are they doing? Conducting an embassy for heaven In chains and in a limitation which God permits. They do not complain, they feel their freedom, and sre the hnp nlest men in sll the earth. I hnve seen them battered and worn, return to the churches nt home. But I. never np plaud them ss some do when they speak nt nntional meetings. We who remain at home nre not worthy to un loose the latchcts of their shoes. The story of modern missions reads like a romance. One liunuree; years ago it was a forlorn cause. Then the doors of the nations were locked, nnd the church Itself was either unmlssiou rv or nntl-mlssionnry. Now the sky Is ablaze with light and there Is no self-respecting church In nil the lnnd that will tolerate a mail In its pulpit who does not publlsli foreign iuismuhs. And all over the world nre to be seen the enmp fires of those who have gone away with the great evangel. Can we not rend the signs or the times? Grent days are crowding upon us. and after years of prayer and pa tient labor, Ihe Lord Is giving us the attention or this great section or the city. Can it be saved? Do we believe in the strong arm of the Gospel? men nour vour lire Into this great work. The church-this church, exists ror no other ournose thnn to give the oospei to the world. Be large In your Interest In our Immediate work. But tnat is not enough. Be large In your effort in world-wide evangelization. Christian Experleoe. Henry Ward Beecher once said: "Shallow waters are easily muddied. After a night of storm the waters of the bay, along the beach, are foul and black with the mire and dirt. But look beyond, otic Into the deep water, how hi tie and clear It Is! The white caps on the surface -show the violence of the wind, but the water Is too deep for the storms thnt sweep its surface to stir up the earth at the bottom. So Is Christian experience. A shallow ex perience is easily disturbed; toe merest trifles becloud and darken the soul whose piety Is superficial: while the most furious storm of Ufa fails to darken or disturb the soul which lias attained a deep experience of thj tilings of tied." CAME BACK TO SETTLE DOWN. Young Wild Gander Returned Horns With Mate and Family. The writer waa Informed by Capt Handen B. Nicholas, that his father, tne late Robert O, Nicholas, of Buck' Ingham county, Va., once caught a young wild gander, which he tamed and for a long time It remained quiet ly and contentedly in the yard with the other tame geese. However. It disappeared In the spring after It was year old. The following fall Mr. Nicholas heard tn the afr far above him whjU seemed to him a familiar honk. Tak ing out of his pocket large bandana handkerchief, with which he waa ac customed to call together the geese by waving It when he fed them, he held It np In the air and waved It, and to his surprise the gander came to the ground .with some young geese and a mate he had taken in the Artie regions. They never left their home again, but remained all their , lives perfectly tame and contented. This Is not Action bnt an established fact, and will be corroborated by Capt Nicholas It any one wishes to verify It. Forest and Stream.1 , ls . THE SUSPICIOUS BROTHER Re wouldn't read a history. He knew there were mistakes ; In illbbon, for example, they Had shown a thousand breaks ; He feared so much to run the risk Of erring on one fact, He cut the whole thing out and lived In Ignorance exact. He wouldn't study German, French, Or any foreign speech ; Suspected errors In the tongue Of all who came to teach : He never found a man who seemed To speak the language pure. And so by never learning he Preserved his accent sure I He wouldn't wed a woman since So many had deceived ; The chances were you'd gather one Who couldn't be believed. And so at night before the Are He draws a lonely chair I As for the women bless your heart 1 They never seemed to care ! . New Orleans Times-Democrat. amtamaM BUS! jp I ftliW SIDE- of ;LlfE A 1V.nnI.4. I. J,.l.,i this BietrrliliimmSitoriO come to nn " TTtTiin sHefurdT "Did you ever keep acMary?" "You wouldn't expect me to circulate it among my friends, would jou?" Chi cago Journal. "Now, Jimmy, what is the Bhortest sentence in the English language?" Chlmmle Ten days or ten dollars. Brooklyn Life. "Prosperity makes us feel like dancin', an' w'en we gits through pay in' de fiddler we ain't got no prosper ity." Atlanta Constitution. "Did ho serve In the army?" "Serve? I understand he did. He was a waiter in the commanding gen eral's mess tent." Cleveland plalu Dealer. Pnlience Thnt Itmg-linlied man witn me nininuniis ui iiiq jiiutiu i jubi heard, started life as a ooor musician. Patrice Well, he's thnt yet. Yonkcrs Statesman. From a recent examination paper on religious instructions at a boys' school: "Holy matrimony is a divine Institution for the provocation of man kind." Punch. "Papa, what is the difference be tween a giatter and a philanthropist?" "Merely on or years, my son. A man is a grafter before he Is sixty nn.i a philanthropist afterwards." Life. "Of course you are going to enter tain this season." "I tlunno," an swered Mr. Ciimrox. "We're going to have a lot of doings. But I'm bleft If I call It entertainment." Washing! on Star. "I fear he yielded to the tomp'lullon to enrich himself at the oxugnstT of fln-poUiiyholdera -TJujtf.'' wasn't n temptation," replied tho cold-blooded financier. "That was an opportunity." Washington Star. "An heiress is rather a contradic tion to the usual order of things." "Why so?" "If she wants to save her money about the last thing she should do Is to husband her resourc es." Baltimore American. Redd I see somebo ly has given $250,000 to construct a stadium for the Syracuse University, where foot ball may be played. Greene Now, who Is going to endow the hospital beds? Yonkers Statesmen. Immigrant on the Buttery Park Sea Wall to Pompous Manhattan Police man Axln' yer unner's pardon, Ol'm an Olrlshman, list landed " "An" phwhat th divil dye suppose 01 mis took ye fer a Da'ghter av th' Rlvolu- BlllIU . JtlURC. "I'm master in my own house," said he, And we wonder now no more r.iougu we did at first. We hnve found, you see, Thnt the man Is a bachelor. Cleveland Leader. The author had been dragged faint ing from a crowd of Hhoppers. "Al most like my last book," he mur mured, recovering his sensea The listeners, being of delicate perception, knew then that the book had fallen dead from the press. Philadelphia Ledger. Miss Pounden-Thump You're not a music lover, I'm afraid. Mr. Foote Innlt Indeed I am. Whnt mnkes you think I'm not? Miss P.-T. I thought you looked bored while I was playing. Mr. F. I. I may have looked bored, but I do love muslii. Cleveland Load er. Mr. Bacon When a woman tells a ' fairy story, she always begins like this: "Once upon a time." Mrs. Ba conYes; and when a man tells a ' fairy story he alwaya begins like this: "There, now, dear, don't be angry with me; you see it waa like this." . Yonkers Statesman. "I believe that In an election the best""' man should win," said Senator 8or- ghum. "That is a proper and patriot ic sentiment." "Yes, sir. And I have my own ideas about who the best man -Is, and I'm going to see that he doea win, no matter how many votes are 1 caat against him." Washington Star. - "Hallo, Longjaw, what seems to be the trouble? You look aq if you had come from 8 funeral, or . as If your mother-in-law had recovered from her last serious illness.". "Nothing of the sort, old fellow. Fact Is, I hare Jut, received letter from an editor en closing a check for $10 for a poem of . mine. I have been sending that poe try round to editors for the last three years, and I miss the thanks, old man. I miss the thanks!" Town and Couo'-v. ' :. ' ' Whtii Peace Shaft Rilgo. "But, sleeping on your arms-nigh After night is not a great hardship? '" . WL. ....nrlnt n I It t ml miTWl f 1 1 1 1 V f " "Oh, no, air!" said he. "Our new .. -1. ... mam 1 a ivimlilnaul mna. ket and folding bed. Of course, there Is always the danger of the thing shutting up and smothering one, but the life of a soldier Is never free from danger. Tl sweet to die for one's country." "You are a brave fellow!" ' Thank you, air!" Puck.,