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I iSj Mbia. juvkoa ilial-Lio - aJL-LU I 7 MEN WIN BY DIRECTING THEIR YOUTH. By John A. llowland. Ask most men of ripened worldly experience the one thing In their lives which they regret. Somewhere you will discover that most or thctu are nursing consciousness that they diJ not "tlnd themselves" soon enough us young men. They let too niiuiy young years run nwny from them. Youth Is disposed to have Its fling. It would need another estate wholly to 'csenpe the promptings which come to the young head on the young shoulders. But lu these Inter, years especially, when no much of the world's work Is In the hands of the young mnn, It Is more than ever devolving upon him to get a line on himself. So many of the world s ways nnd means arc new-so many of the world s arts are to be learned iu the scientific nnd technological schools--that the young man must be both student and worker. The young man cannot be too alert to the sjRnlfleanc? of nil that he comes in touch with In the life of the outside world. There Is no phase of life whlc'ft may not yield to him under observation, something by which his after course may be directed nnd shaped. Ho cannot too oon learn the face of Opportunity, lie cannot too quick ly cast off the non-essentials which would clog his prog MODERN MOTHER MERELY A HOUSEWIFE. By Lady Mac Laren. A Greek philosopher has advised that "If r.ny man has two loaves, let him sell one and buy lilies, for the soul hns Its needs as well ns the body." This Is the kind of catering for the housewives of the future, to collect the flowers of heart, and mind, and soul to deck Hie board, sv that the breadwinner, worn with the tolls of the day, will find more ro fresluuent than iu the present monotony of .... t,l,,ii n ru mutton. It is m sucu an buiiwiiuhk ,tu,.,i nnrt noble Qualities find favorable son. wimt elements In the home as It exists to-day enn be dispensed with? The departments sentenced to disappear are many. Tlx. h.-.semont would be gone, with its scullery, its eellnr and its dust bin. The pantry would be gone, i.h its redundant knives and forks, napery nnd plate i-h ervnts' hall would disappear, and, greatest ,change of all, the troops of servants would be gone. Upstairs the dining room would be gone, aim wie uianiug iuuiu also. Alt the spare bedrooms would be gone, and most thB servants' bedrooms. What, then, wouui remain Fnther's sitting room would be left. Mothers sitting room would be left And. best of all. the children would remain taking their right phice In the house, the first ,ro end. with a private room always well warmed and lighted, and designed for rest, meditation or private work pluces where young minus wouiu unve unit (space, iur nd solitude which induce true growth. v,, most move the public mind. They must sit on public governing board. They must lay their hanai on the governing machinery of the country, which Is the true way, the legitimate way, indeed, mo oniy enccue way of getting anything properly done, eveni, for the home. A PAST AGES NOT WITHOUT VIRTUES. By Walter Bagehot. Nation making the occupation of men in the early ages. And It Is war that makes nations. Nation changing conies afterward, nnd is mostly effected by peaceful revolution, though even theu war, too, plays Its part. The idea of an indestructible nation Is a mod ern Idea: in early ages nil nations were de structible, and the further we go back th more incessant was- the work of destruction. Mauy sorts of primitive Improvement nre pcrnicio.n to war; an exquisite sense of beauty, n love of medita tion, a tendency to cultivate the force of the mind at the expense of the force of the body, help In their re spective degrees to make men less warlike than they would otherwise be. Hut these nre me virtue i ..troa. The first work of the first ages is to bind men to gether In the strong bond of a rough, coarse, harsh eus . m l I V....ea 1 1 1 a torn. And the incessant eonnict or nnuous ru- In the best way. Long ages of dreary monotony are the first Tacts in the hist.irv of human communities, but those ages we not lost to mankind, for It was then that was formed the comparatively gentle nnd guldabie thing which we now call human nature. CHARACTER MAIN FACTOR IN SUCCESS. By William E. H. Lecky. One of the most Important lessons that ex perience teaches Is that on the whole nnd in the great majority of enses success In life de pends more on character than on either In tellect or fortune. Temperance, industry. In tegrity, frugality, self-reliance nnd self fe stralnt are the means by which the great masses of men vise from penury to comfort, and It is the nations In which these qualities . .i in ,1, o Inni, run nre the most DrOS- are most aiuuacu iu" Cardinal Newman has painted tha character of the per fect geutleman : He is one who never inflicts pain. He carefully avoids whatever may cause a jar or a Jolt in the minds of thoso with whom he la cast. He Is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, nnd merciful toward the ab surd He makes light of favors while he does them, and seems to be receiving when he Is conferring. He never speaks of himself except when compelled. He has no ears for slander or gossip. He has too much good sense to be affronted by an insult. He la too clear-beaded to be unjust. He la as simple as he Is forcible and as brief as be Is decisive. Nowhere shall we find greater candor, consideration. Indulgence. Bid S'.Vr"T POTATO YIELD. foils Farmer" Produces llunhrU on fine Acre of Lund. Two hundred ami twenty-Ike bushel Of v.c:-t potMttxn l t'.i acre Is the yle'd produced on the little farm of 8. 'J. Miiddox lu I lie southeast suburbs of Weathorford. Texas, sa.vs the New York Herald. Troin less than one-fifth acre Mr. Mvldox die; forty-live full-measured bushels and the potatoes are as fine and smooth as one ever saw. They are of the bunch yam variety, not tha regular old pumpkin yam. but of a lighter nnd brighter color, nnd grow long and smooth. Out of ov.e hill Mr. Maddux took sixteen i.ot:i!(MS. the average weight of each being it little more than half a pouna; out of another hill be took seven potatoes, the co:nbl.M weight of which was flltien ami one-third pounds . Mr. MtuM'X ''orn ii'-t lay claim to be a funnel Till I the first crop of polittoivi he ever tried t raise and is, of course, pruui of the success of his first effort. Another pint of bis crop ut which. Mr. MaiMit.v l proud Is his cotton. Out of l.:i'i'l pounds or lint cotton he ginned a bale that weighed ?.: jHiunds nnd out of 1.4 in pounds of lint cotton lu aot it bale that .weighed ."10 pounds. While Mr. Maddox was telling of this cotton to a party of friends nn oilier totlon trowcr remarked that he had some cotton on bis place that would c'liml If ,"'"t Ue wns .1 M. I'lillllps. whose farm Is two nnd a half miles c:ist of the town. Ha showed n sample of cotton, of a very fine uru-lo. which had just been ginned and which gave him a 4!0 -pound bale out of l.:S1U pounds of seed cotton. Mr. Phillips states that he has eight acres of t'tis cotton and that be will get twelve bales from it, that In some places it will produce as much ns two bales to the ncre and that the land wn flowed a half dozen times Inst spring f The Goal The studio was in darkness. By the window one spot of red light showed Itself In the Intense gloom ; It was the lighted end of Ralph I'aterson's cigar. t, mu n r-boon fiinr. nnrlIts rank flavor struck unpleasantly upon his question of to-morrow's rulln dividing them from one another, and yet to him. how great! lie was thinking of one woman. He wondered. But no, it was Inconceivable she could have waited for him! Walled, too, for what? He said aloud. "But there Is one, this last chance, to sink or swim. To morrow !" Yes, he had come to this that he hnd staked his nil on one last throw; his future ns nn artist, the wooer of for tune, fame, applause, rested upon n palate; but Ralph Patersou continued to smoke It "For my sins," he said lo hlmseir, "and they are ninny against art and against my fellow nrtists If I am to believe what the world sa.vs of me." Ralph ratcrson was engaged In that dreariest of nil dreary tasks; he was marshaling to nn undeslred goal nn -unwilling conscience; he was explain ing elaborately to himself why it(wns that the fates had been unkind when they had thrown him into the world minus nn nrtistle love of or patient under misfortune, plus the artistic lellght lu painting pictures for his fel low-beings, which the great public would have none of, despite his per latency. There was upon the easel by tin window a canvas. Ralph In the dark iiofcs could not see It; but ho was In tensely conscious of Its presence with him In the room. It was nn old can vas, ten, fifteen years old; ono of the last of thoso enrller paintings of Ills which hnd won him In his youth a cer tain fame with picture dealers of n fifth-rate taste they were the expres lon of the Ralph Patersou of fifteen years ago, who had never dreamt any but the most unexciting droams of comfortable, homely fame. They had Jeen the product of an artist who had een no life outside the narrowing nr ttstic conventions of an unnmbitlous art school in a little manufacturing town in the Midlands. This one of these wns a terrible thing, or so It seemed to Ralph rater son as lie sat there in the black dark ness and called It to mind but Its kind had brought him In a livelihood! There was merit lu It. merit because It cave promise of lietter things; It was that merit that twisted Ralph Baterson's lips as be thought upon it "What is merit, promise?" he said aloud. He rose and began to pace to and fro lu the darkness. A simple enough feat ; for the room was bare of aught but tim necessities ; a bed. an easel. ji cheap washstand tliruct Into a cor Jier, a row of pegs behind the door. And he had begun differently! He laughed at tin; thought of the first few years of comparative allluence, follow ing the sale of several canvases, whim he had, returning from a strenuous apprenticeship to a new ideal In tlm Latin ()u:irter.Ilved upon his small oipita! and blli hopes. Those days were far enough away now! He tossed the end of Ills cigar away with nn cX'-laiiiation. lie crossed to the wliiibiw. and stood there looking d iwii uMn the hurrying crowd below The night was wet, and u sea of drip ping umbrellas moved pa-t In nu end less stream, their -owners unseen by the watcher above. NihiiIktIcss women! Women out on such a night! One, another, and an other, and uuother! A sea of women, aud every one her own lisfnctlve self. Ah. bow slight was tho difference And the contingency was so remote; the possibility that the picture he ha? sent In might be hung lu the academ,' for tills year. This was his vow, aftet years of contemptuous ignoring of the expert judgment thnt had In the past thrown his out again, and yet again. from among those whose work they approved, nnd he condemned. He was giving himself his last chance! And, meantime! IIu dropped the blind and walked to the door. He took down from It his cap. He went out mto tne wei nigni. "It Is renlly remarkably like Selena Selena ten, or fifteen years ngo. What did you say was the name of the for the man who had looked at her so keenly. "His face Is familiar," she said to herself. T dare say he knew nie." She began to move enterprising ly towards the doorway, where Ralph l'nterson had come to a pause, his dark face standing high above the sea of men nnd women who drifted past ulm. "lie is u head nbove any of them," she told herself with satlsfnction. "It simplifies mntters when you are look ing for a person In a crowd-like this. In that way both he: nnd Selena nre very obliging people indeed. He would make a very good pair with Selena, too; 1 wonder who he Is. He has an air, though he Is shabby; but then an artist can afford to do as he likes lu the matter of dress, nnd he Vertalnly can't be nn ordinary, everyday Indi vidual with that head." Her Inconse quent thoughts run on, nnd when she cached Ralph Peterson she hnd de f'ded that she must hnve met him at fnis time or another, and have for gotten. "Though he Is not the kind of nwn one forgets," she added to her self. She said now, at once holding out a hand: "I can't remember for tho mo ment where I have met you, but I feel sure that wo have seen each other be fore." And then, as he looked at her with dawning comprehension, and u certain amusement: "I am Marlon Sertoli, of Sefton Park; perhaps we 1 iMMHMiaiaaMvaMVaimMM i- -i,ass Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects. T MOBMiMMaT THE TKAGEDY OF VANISHING FORESTS. 11KRK are some men In public life who profess to believe that, trees grow about as fast as they nre used and that It Is fool ish to worry about the future and try to niske provisions for It. This opinion is sometimes heard In the halls of Congress. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, who hns given the subject much attention, says: "We nre now using In one year ns much wood en grows in three, with only twenty years of virgin growth lu sight." This la an alarming prediction, but. Chief Forester linchot thinks it Is too favorable, lie sa.vs the country is now consuming 10O,(MiO,lOd.(HHi feet of lumber, bourd nieaa nrt, annually, which will exhaust our supply of timber in fourteen years. We cannot afford to run out of American IuiuImt in fourteen, twenty, or thirty' years. The waning aupply must lo replenished. Our bnre bills must be reforested on n large scale. When the necessity of thla la demonstrated no that the most Incredulous must believe It, the Indifference, to reforestation will g1e place to aeal, and Kpasmodlc efforts here and there will be succeeded by a comprehensive and continuous work of tree planting. Philadelphia Press. SCHOOLS FOR MINERS. 10 HT hns dawned iu the minds of aome ninnagers of the Pennsylvania anthracite companies, aud they are said to be plan ning to open schools In which operatives can be taught by experts how to meet the technical and forseenble exigencies of their dangerous calling. Better lute than never. No discipline, however strict, can defeat the psrfect worksof Ignorance. An ounce of prevention in mining, as In everything else, Is worth a pound of remedy. State supervision of obedience to law Is nivessnry, but can b diminished lu cost and severity by such action as is now contemplated. Boston Herald. L 3BB. TUB.NKD AND LOOKKI) AT THE KPtARKR. artist? Ralph l'nterson 5 Ralph Patersou why I remember him quite well. lie painted very nicely when he was a young man, before be went to Purls or somewhere to gain technique, or color, or something or another he hadn't got. But whatever be gained it was less than what be lost and be couldn't Mud a public for the wretched tilings hi' called portraits, ami his sitters called libels when lie came back. 1 have heard that he went under, starved In u garret. We all thought he had died Selena, too, for she had a kind of liking for him. Selena was always like that, always looking after the lame dogs. " The lame dogs! Ralph Patersoh turned and looked at the speaker, nnd she, surprised by Lis sudden uncoil hcious movement, stared buck at him it moment with some Interest. She said to herself: 'i wonder If he Is the author of some of the utrocltleu I have been criticising freely fur the last hulf hour? He' looks decidedly wolfish." She watche.l him wllli undisguised amusement as he moved away, then she turned to her companion: "I wish you would find Selena ; she would like to he this 'rin sure. I believe she U still iu the first room." "This lame dog has done well for himself, at auy rate," she thought lo bus got a good show for bis work." Her restless eyes still rated tho room graph. inve met In Hampshire." But that was Improbable, ns they were both nwaro. None the less, Ralph Pnterson's smile came, nnd with It a certain reserve of manner. "We hnve met yes. I nm Ralph Puterson." His smile, she told herself, wns charming, much more charming thnu lu the days before he had gone away to Turis to lose more than he had gained. She said nt once, with ready appreciation of the situation: "Then you heard me call you a lame dog?" "I wns that until today," he said. She looked at him a moment keenly. Then she said softly: "Here comes Seleno. Need I Introduce you to her it is fifteen years since she last saw yon. " He had turned ns hhe spoke, and his eves followed the direct Ion of hers; they rested upon Selena Scarsdule with a certain fierce self-restraint In them. "No, I think I should need no help to remembrance," he said. She glanced at him. "They are all very cross with Selena; aho la thirty three and unmarried still! The Scars- dale women always marry In their reenr; it Is nn unwritten law," added quiek'r. "T -picture ' It i Selena in her teens." Her eyes asked him n question. ! o said In answer to it: "She has nlways been the one woman In the world to me." "And you with her the one num. be lieve that and do not keep her wait ing." The pair were close upon them, Se lena nnd the other. He suld ubruptly: "Thank you." When lie turned Selena was holding out her hands to liiin with n little ex clamation of astoni.-iiuieiit and delight; before the expression l-i her eyes, the other woman looked away. Marlon Scfton's voice was sharp us she Bald quickly: ''He's qulto gray, nnd he has had a bad time thnt'll mark him for ever ; but I'm glad he has got Selenn And Ralph Patersou was saying to Selena: "It was an Inspiration stak lng all ou you !" Philadelphia Tele- There nre lu Glasgow 17,000 unlet premises. Ul.lKH) being dwelling houses, (Jiving evidence at nn Inquest Lambeth, London, n woman said that uh.i Im .1 bud twentv-one children, six of whom were alive. Word is being passed around among the nluinnl of Harvard that a plan Is on foot to raise a fund with which to provide a memorial lu appreciation of the services to the university or 1 res ident Kliot. who is to relinquish his position next spring, when his reslgna tlon becomes effective. Observes tho Loudon Chromic: "I London the iihui who demands respect has his clothes made for him. . But no New York man who is not u millionaire or near It buys anything but store clothes. And tho ready-made clothe are so standardized that you have but to confess your Inches and you nr clothed In America." One of the steam shovels engaged In work on the Panama cannl, In the oper ntion of which more thnn 300 employe! were emiazcd. recently lifted out a (luantity of dynamite which Is describ ed Iu :ui olllclal report ns being "mora than a bushel." What would hnve hap- rw,,,.wi if tin. shovel had struck the dynamite Instead of the earth arouud It is easy to Imagine. Before the Royal Photographic Soci ety of England a lecturer said recent ly : "One or the reasons why Ameri cans excel In certain branches of ath letics Is that uthletlc clubs In the Unit ed States use the focal-plane photo graph and the cinematograph, to record everv incident. of their practices. Aft. t-rward faults are corrected by careful study of what the camera shows. Active road building lu Turkey and the opening of a new field for the sale of American nntoniobllcs are expected to result from the imperial tlrndo thnt permitted motoring in the Ottomnn em. plre. American aulomoblllsts nnd mo ...iiutu nn already showing a do- IVJll J .- - - sire to tour b.V automobile through Lu- ronean a ud Asiatic Turkey. On thi Asiatic side of the Bosphorus nre long stretches of good rends. Harvard's new football captain, who Is a son and namesake of Hamilton Fish I'nlted States assistaut trensurei nt New York and Congressman-elect, If a young Uinnt. Although ouly twentj vears old. lish is ti feet 3 Inches tall and weighs l'.iS pounds. The Boston tinners unite In saying thnt he will make "a great Harvard captain." ID all tho later games of the season Just past, after Captain Burr was Injured, Fish was ncting cnptain. una proveu good leader. END OF NIGHT RIDING. T Is very natural for Kentucky to rejoice over the sale of the Burley Tobacco Society's holdings to the American Tobac co Comnniiv. Farmers In the central and eastern counties mny now go to bed with out fenr of being roused to see their acres scraped, their Imuucs burned, and them selves assaulted. But there Is little reason and no wis dora In the pleasant prophecy that night-riding will never come Into vogue again. This mny prove true; If It does, though. It will not he because the ontlnws have been pacified by their share or tne h.'hhi.ikhi. Unless the state has learned Its lesson, cheap tobacco mav brine on another period of nnnrchy, nnd yet another. To prevent this, the laws exempting farmers' nools from the general restrictions upon iiionoKly must be repeated; selling ngents must let independent manu facturers bid for their bales; and independent planters must be fuarnnteed every faaslble protection. A large program, we admit, and one requiring the good will or the whole population. But now that peace has come, it will be all too easy to let bygones be bygones and ror- get the deeper evils of which the past three years have been but a passing display. New York Evening Post nm HISTORY WE OUGHT TO STUDY. I8TORIANS give much importance to po litical lines becauso they exlat, and not enough to tho races and Incidents that pro duced those lines. Rom Is the center of all European history, and" In Its dominance drew to Itself all the states of Europe J but In Its decline these states were divided Into smaller elates by the cohesion of racial bonds. Tho wars of the past have been doe to radal ambitions working In one form or another. History In Its telling haa only recently been placed upon a scientific basis, accepting the theory that aclence is without prejudice and preconception; It hns done little for enlightenment and much for that confuelon which results from perver sion of fact and the glorification of aome particular race. It Is men, not races, that have made history; and only when we deal with men and their motives and throw the light on all In a spirit of Justice and truth that history Is worth while. Racial history Is almost wholly neglected, and we hope that some day a historian will devote himself to the Important work of getting out a school history which will enable the scholar to know what the races coming to this country are and what they have been doing In the past, which will dlaslpate many popular fallacies and help greatly In the problem of assimilating these old races ns they enter this new country. Boston Traveler. SHRINKAGE IN INCOMES. T Is said that there haa been a great shrink age In the professional Income of the physlciana throughout the United States of late, and that It la not wholly attribut able to business depression. An elaborate statistical Investigation would be required to tell whether the public Is spending more money on more doctors, or whether the shrinkage la due to other causes, as for Instance, a wider diffusion of knowledge of tho laws of sanitation, etc! Tbyslclans will differ In their diagnosis while recognlilng the fact. One Boston physlclnn insists that there Is a combination of causes at work, and enumerates among them the over crowding of the profession and the high cost of living, which be holds Is reducing the middle class classifying by incomes on whom physicians and surgeons must depend for more than a hand-to-mouth practice. An other bluntly saya that people nowadays nre better guarded by public sanitary agencies than their fathers were, and that the general average of phslque Is corre spondingly higher. Boston Transcript. OUR MODERN WORLD OF CULTURE AS PICTURED BY THE LONDON PAPERS. V H v nf V ( 6. ! it I f J Jt 4 1 'J ' t 4 y 1 THE NEWEST PHASE OF PARISIAN The recent production of "Die Golterdummerung" with out "cuts" at tho Paris opera caused tho management to make provision for their patrons to the extent of ar ranging that they could dlno In the theater during the long Interval between the first and second acta. The Idea met with the Immediate approval of fashionable Paris, and became the rage. The hour's Interval has now been LIFE: DINING BETWEEN THE ACTS. douo away with, but the dining goes on, despite tho fact that tho performance begins at 7:30, has but two entr'actes of ten minutes each, and is over by midnight It is now being asked In the English papers whether It cannot be mado possible to dine at our own theaters. Illustrated London News. THE ACTOR AND III3 PART. Her l-'rlend. There is nothing like r. stnnch friend At n "home" in the country which tht children of the slums are allowed t4 visit for a short term lu the sumuiei the following Incident occurred. A party of a hundred of the youngster! were on their way buck to the city, The nlten Innt noticed that one of tin girls, Rofie. was walking clumsily. A writer li. tl)" New York Tribune tell! the stor,-. Whcr. the attendant heard a chorui of gllics all iiinuMl ut little Rosle, sh saw that the i:i was wealing ft pall of slioes of l:ir:,'c sP'.e. Then the attend- cut renii'iiilierci! that Rosle had had a ww pair of ;i'.:ui's and the llttlo girl vas :is;ed ulioiit It. "Well," K'ld Riisle, "you see the shoej ain't mine. I hoy re Katies. I miow they're nwft'.l I but her liiauiiiiii nin had any work hit. l.v. so she couldn't buy her a i.ew p:ir. he just gave hei own slu es to Katie. "Katie Mt awful had about It nn cried all the way to the station. Th girls all lau:.iied at her, so I Just lenj her my new ones anil took hers. "You see, teacher," said Rosle, ralSi ing her eyes to the attendant's face, Katie's my friend. Woman can diet ns easily as they can ti t over a love nffalr; but men c:iu't do it. ' Women talk too much about rluge to suit the men. Manx a Vlmr Owen ICverythlnn 10 the On i Who Ilo I.encllinr note. The "star's" philosophy has generally been that the public pays to see him or her and not the play, says (leorge mm- dleton, In tho Bookman. With the case of some this Is true, and that accounts for the large majority of monologues foisted on a public which follows a "star." This is no new development; It lies Inherent In this historic tempera ment and In the average desire to see "fireworks." It has always existed nnd will continue so. The absurd stage ver sion of (Juy Maiiiierlng. for Instance, owed Its half century of vitality sole ly to tho great opportunities afforded the actress In Meg Merrllles. i.nnr lotto Cushmnn nnd Fanny .lanauschek made their reputations In the part. Rip Vnu Winkle Is an even greater ex amide : Joseph Jefferson fell Hi love with the character in Hi" tub? and en deavored for years to obtain a play which would sullleleiitly present Rips many lovable weaknesses, liven with all Boucleault's nnur.lng skill the play can hardly be called a masterpiece yet It served the venerable actor forty years and will only survive because he plaved It. The same may be said of the draniatl.all f "The Cricket on thu r.-arth;" It was the character or Caleb liuinnier alone which made It live. The fourteen versions of lion Quixote, Including those tried by Irving mid Sothcrn, owe their existence solely to the whimsical, extravegaut acting opportunities offered iu tho Hon yet not ono has cut had the least success as a piny. Of all the versions made of "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde," that made by T. Russell Sullivan for Richard Mansfield alone had success. This pluy, which Incidentally brought nothing to Roliert Iinls Stevenson, might have been played year lu and year out by the distinguished actor, for It never fulled to pack the theater yet one hardly realizes the entire performance could have been given In fifty minutes, so short and Inconsequential Is It as a play. SPARROWS AT SAME PRICE. Same Old Sermon br Preacher Pus sled Man Away Three Years. The Rev. Simon Turple was an elo quent speaker, but he seemed to have ii list of sermons which, when he once began, he went right through to the end nnd then started nt the first ser nion again, and so on, says Tit Bits. A young man In the congregation was about to leave for South Africa, but the Sunday before he departed he at tended the church service. lu the course of his lecture the min ister used nn Illustration In which were the words "A man can easily pur chase two sparrows for 3 pence." The young man, after being nbsen for about three years, returned aud again on the first opportunity attended divine service. Strange to say, he heard the same narrative by the saino minister, the phrase striking hliu uios Ising the "two sparrows for 3 pence. At llii' close of the service the mill-1 Isler In his courtesy, came and shook hands with the youth, and, weli-oniing him back to his home asked blni If he i.otlced any fiiaugi-s about the place. Jiu young until, evidently quite un cfiicerned. replied: "Aye. man, there's two or three changes, but there's yln tiling I can see-the price u' sparrows ).- nye nt the same mild figgtsr" MADRID CALLED FRIVOLOUS. if n lioy Is healthy, he car, niako u clean room look lu teu uiluutes as though a cyclone had passed through '.t. liver occur to you that you are wast ing tluie when telling your troubles K Spanish Capital Spendthrift Town and Devoted to Gossip. The note of Madrid Is frivolity, ac cording to the London limes. It is A spendthrift town. Nowhere do bo many people of modest means keep carriages or at least hire them. The automobile has supplied a new outlet to an old. passion. Nowhere do so many people who cannot afford to have a motor driver, or to buy regular supplies of petrol (which, to lie sure, Is both dear and bad In Spain), keep an automobile. Therefore they turu out now and agalu for a short run at high speed to their own glorification nnd the danger of th public. As for thnt public, It lives la the streets and In u perpetual state of brisk talk. What Indon or Paris news comes through to Madrid, except telegrams. Is mostly, gossip. Important' matter appear to Interest the Madrlleno little. Vhnt did Interest him was when a young person apjienred on horseback in Hyde Park In a dlrectolro costume. Feather-headed nnd light-heeled, tho Madrlleno Is, on the other hand, good- natured and easy to live with. Madrid women dress Well nnd the harm of tho Spanish woman Is never denied. Modern Madrid is sometimes supposed to be modeled on modern Purls, but the writer's view Is that there Is nothing Parisian about Madrid except the sklu. Purls works desiorntely hard, la In tensely Interested In serious things and producers, thinkers and men of Intel lectual and scientific eminence. Madrid certaluly does not work hard, does not uppenr to be much Interested la any tblug but frivolity and few of ber greatest men, even statesmen, are much more thaa names.