TAKING CHANCES.
Tie love that
makes the world to
round.'
round."
The piwts Idlthily King;
AIns for 1 i tn ho pawns his watch
To ii:- ii diamond rln.
And nit'T In a little flat
I'wpIIs i (p ,vlth his dear
And fiLimrs excuses 'kuIiisI tin- tun'
'J'l litni'.lord doth appear.
"'Tin love thnt makes the world go
round,"
'i trust, n pleasing Rong,
Hut ofton, us the farts do prove,
It makes the world cn wrong.
Point times the chap who got his choice
l"or freedom stoutly prays.
While In; wlio soupht her hand In v.iln
Lives happy ull his days.
" "Tls love that makes the world ko
round."
I would no cynic I p;
Although wc make pome grave mls
taki s,
'Tin vi ry pl.i in to see
That love is mill well worth the while
f mortals h"rc below
And life without some risks to run
Would be a trifle slow.
Illrin Ingham Age -1 fern Id.
i.
. "Marry!" said old Tollevents
Thompson, as he rocked lazily upon
the veranda of his Biiug. but ill-shaped
wooden cottage on tho outskirts of
Four Corners. "You've pot me. What,
do you want to marry for? Ain't your
homo unlike everybody else's?"
"That's true enough. Dad," said
Sars'prilla, the eldest of of Tollevents'
ten daughters. "If you'd been a
thoughtful man, you'd have built It at
once, 'stead of doing it by Inches as
we came alons."
"How on airth" Tollevents stopped
whittling in almost speechless wrath,
as he glared at his eldest girl "how
on airth was I to know you was all
com In'?"
"Don't seem to me wuth while talk
In' about that," volunteered Senianda,
the next girl. "We're here; and It
looks 'a If we're here to stay, unless
we git married."
"Wal, git married," said Tollevents,
In desperation.
"How?" chorused seven more daugh
ters, whilst dark-eyed, 'black-browed
Seliua, the tenth, sang .merrily in the
back kitchen.
During tiie coursi of his married
happiness, every two or three years as
the house filled up with additional ba
bies all of them girls Tollevents had
added more room by the simple expe
dlent of building on a fresh shack to
the others. Lest the end one should
tumble down, he had built an earth
work against it. Then leaning the
others up against the outside, and se
curely roofing them, he considered
that the architectural effect thus pro
duced was worthy of unlimited ad
miration. That no one else In Four
Corners imitated this rambling build
ing, he considered due to the habitual
lack of enterprise shown by his neigh
bors.
I here s only one young man in
Four Corners worth ropin' In," said
'Sars'prilla, turning her sweet blue
eyes upon her sire. "Every night he
comes hnppin' down the road like a
skeared hen, gits a look at us, and
ducks back agin."
. "S'lina!" called Tollevents.
ine merry voice of the klrl In the
kitchen suddenly ceased. She put out
her gypsy face. (Seliua was the only
dark one of the ten; all the others
were "Blue-eyed as is the morn"), and
looked round composedly. "What's
tho fuss, Dad?"
uring me a bowl of water," said
lunevems, ueiermineiiiy; "and sumo
soft soap."
Selina affected to be thunderstruck
"Don't be rash at your tune of life
Dad. 'Taint Sunday."
The Innuendo that he never washed
save on Sunday roused Tollevents to
his full height. "And a biled shirt
he added sternly, disdaining to bandy
words with his youngest offspring.
Selina hastily returned with a bowl
of water and some soap, put the bowl
on the top of a stump, and threw her
father a towel as rough as ' Esau's
band. "You did orter see Doc Higgin
son, Dad," she said, mirthfully. "What
are you goin' to do?"
For a few minutes Tollevents dis
dained to answer Selina. Sars'prilla
slid Into his chair nnd rocked herself
to and fro, swaying her lissome body
to an old camp-meeting tune. The
eight other girls Selina had retired
to the kitchen again sat In a row on
the bench and giggled. They were all
blue-eyed, all falr-halred, all beauti
ful, and all exactly alike, with the ex
ception that Sars'prilla was a little
stouter than her Bisters.
Decorum prescribed the sudden re
tirement of Tollevents into that part
of th.9 shack which was by courtesy
called a bedroom (when the weather
was fine, ho usually had a shakedown
on the veranda) In order that he
might don his Sunday clothes. Mean
time the girls waited, wondered and
glg;;led every few moments at this
sudden accession of energy on the part
of their sire.
' Looks though he is a deacon 'sif
he wanted to git religion again," au
dibly su:.;pested Semanda.
"Looks to me 'sif you'll git some
thing yon ain't bargainin' for," said
Tollevents grimly, thrusting his head
round the corner. I liar aln t no
buttons on this yer biled rag."
Si-'.iua, m r prompt, was on the spot
lu a moment, with shirt buttons.
"You ain't worn this white shirt
since Christmas, dad, else I'd have put
'em on before. That long prayer of
jours in meet in' made all your but
tons fly. Old Deacon Harbro bust only
one of his."
Chci by Selina's tribute to his
gifts as Lin oxhortir, Tollevents tied
a black handkerchief loosely round
his collar and took down his gun,
which In- loaded with unusal care,
the girl.-, watching him apprehensive
ly the while. When he put in an ex
tra allowance of buckshot Bellua re
monstrated with him.
"TUiir's only one oung man wuUi
"
Young Mr, Hopper
mnrryin' In Four Corners Just now.
dad. Don't waste him."
"This yer alleged marry In man."
said Tollevents, carefully resting tho
pun against the veranda, "comes down
thin yer road lf It belonged to him.
It blnn.i to me; and I'm goin' to
drive the truth Into him."
"Not with buckshot." Implored Se
Una, turning a littlo pale.
Tollevents rested his pun In a fork
of the lilars which grew- greenly
iround tho veranda. brought out his
Bible, turned to his favorite chapter
wiiprein many Anialekltes were
slaughter, d. and read It with gusto.
Does fp( A to me," he mused, keep-
In? one eye on the road "Does seem
to me 'sif tbnr's more real wholesome-
ne;.s in clt tin' a man under the fifth
rib 'steud of flllln' him up with buck
shot; but wo can't bo choosers of
what Is set afore us. We must do the
work In the way ns somes handiest.
I reckon young Hopper '111 be along
in an hour. If he ain't, I'll go and
fetch hum."
ir.
Selina, noting that her sisters, obey
ing a hint from Tollevents. were all
attired In their Sunday best, laughing
mirthfully. "Dad "11 scare the life out
of him," she said, gaily. "That Hop
per can't say boo to a pooso."
She slipped round the back of the
shanty, her dark face framed In a be
coming sunbonnet, dived down to Ot
tawa shore, then up again through
the pines, some quarter of a mile from
her father's house.
Presently, young Mr. Hopper, pic
turesque yet shy, also blue-eyed, and
with a fierce moustache, which belied
his youth, sauntered Irresolutely down
the road As he did so, he was aware
of Selina coming towards him, the
one person In the world whom he had
hoped to see. "Snakes!" he murmur
ed to himself. "My heart's pumpin'. I
can't run now."
Selina affected to pass him, then
stopped suddenly. "Goin' down the
road?" she asked; and took him with
veiled eyelids.
"I've bin' down this yer blacned old
rond all the winter, and all the spring,
and all the summer," declared Mr.
Hopper, fiercely; "an' thar's nine of
you allers slttln' on the veranda and
you never show up."
"Thlnkln' of turnin' Mormon. Mr.
Hopper? Ain't nine of us enuft for
you?"
"N-no, declared Mr. Hopper, ir
resolutely. "Not by no manner of
"what's tiie i-lbs, dad?"
means. Me beln' a shy sort of man,
I git lost in the crowd. It It makes
my head swim," he added, feebly.
"Then If you tumble In the river
you won't drown. Hut did I orter be
get tin' on?"
"What's your hurry?" implored Mr.
Hopper, then blushed crimson.
There was a twitch of Selina's pret
ty lips as she looked down the road.
"Nothln'l Nothln'! Only, you don't
know what you're lettln' yourself in
for if you go down that road to-night
.Notnin can oe worsen goin on
like this," declared the pessimistic Mr,
Hopper. "Old man on the warpath?
Thinks he owns this road, don't he?
Selina nodded. "Hw's got his best
clothes on, the old gun's filled up to
the brim with buckshot!"
"I'd like to fill him up to the brim
with whisky, then turn him loose In
flieetin'," said Mr. Hopper, vindictive
ly. "What's he want to take a hand
in this yer game for?"
"He thinks it's time some of us got
settled. If you go down there you'll
rind out what he means. Hotter go
home."
"See here," Mr. Hopper looked Into
the charming face until she blushed
most becomingly. "See here. I'm the
man who's doin' the marryiu', ain't
I?"
"Ye-es."
"Then blamed If I don't go and tell
him so."
"But you've no gun," declared Se
lina in terror. "He'll make you mar
ry Sars'prilla 'cause she's the oldest.
"If," eald Mr. Hopper, with a dark
meaning "If I git out of this alive
I'm going to marry the gal I darn
please, if if shell have .me."
Selina held him back a moment,
her radiant eyes flashing into his,
Something he saw there lllled Mr.
Hopper with sudden courage. Blush
ing fiercely the while, he took her in
bis arms, kissed her fervently and
marched valiantly down the road,
leaving Selina gazing after him.
"And they call him shy!" she
mused. "Shy! With a moustache like
that!" Her cheeks flamed as she
dived into the mysterious recesses of
the pines, which stood In serried
ranks upon the river shore.
III.
"You, Hopper! Stop!" cried Tollo-
f-nts, as young Mr. Hopper came rap
idly abreast of the house.
.Mr. Hopper caught the glint ot a
gun barrel. The sun set fair behind
the gloomy hills. Hanged in a row
on the veranda were nine fair girls.
At the end of the vi-randa stood Tol
levents, tall, gaunt, thin, clad In his
fjumbiy best, leaning carelessly on the
shot gun.
"Wishful to fpi-nk to .til'?" jauntily
Inquired young Mr. Hopper. "You
ain't turned road agent. Deacon?"
The Deacon cleared his throat. "It's
a Bin and disgrace you ain't married.
You're the oldest young man in Four
Corners and all the others Is waltln'
for you to give 'em a lead. Yet you
!t -Iter Iwuw
come sailing along this yer road night
arter night, and shuffles by like a
pround-hog. without raisin' your eyes
to all these yer these yer fair young
flowers," he added, with a touch of
parental poesy. "Which one Is It?"
"Ain't you takln' It too much for
settled?" asked young Mr. Hopper.
'I'm a man of few words," Holla-
vents raised his gun carelessly to the
level. "Here's nine pals all of a row.
Which Is it?"
Mr. Hopper bowed gracefully to the
young ladies on me veranda. Any
one of 'em? I ain't worthy of it.
Deacon."
Any one of "em. You ain't wor
thy, but It's the best I can do for
cm," said the Deacon, firmly.
Which?"
They were girls whose beauty would
have gladdened the hearts of an an
chorite. Young Mr. Hopper surveyed them
carefully, then turned to Tollevents.
See here," he said, severely. "Ain't
you 'shamed of yourself. Deacon, to go
puttin' such a slight on 'em? If 1
married one. what will the eight oth
ers do?"
'You leave that to me. Which?'
ominously repeated the deacon.
Taln't no business of yours."
Young Mr. Hopper walked down the
veranda, feeling that Tollevents gun
covered his manly back, "Can't I go
home and think it over?" he asked
when he had come to the end of the
row.
"You can go home, and take a load
Of buckshot with you, if that '111 help
you to think," said Tollevents.
Young Mr. Hopper came back to the
top of the row, then shook his head.
They're all tot) much alike. I'd git
mixed up and never know t'other from
which. Tain't fair, Deacon."
I don't want to shoot you in
hurry. Bald the Deacon. No one
can't say I ain't a Just, reasonable
tender-hearted. God-fearing, help-my
neighbor kind of man. 'Taln't my fault
they're all alike; but you've got to
take one of 'em."
Young Mr. Hopper shook his head
Can't be done. I don't mind marry
in', but I can't get mixed up like this,
It's wuss'n bigamy."
Tollevents took deliberate aim at
him. "I'm sorry to have to do It," he
said, gently, "and your mother, beln
a widder, 'ill curse me for removing
my neighbor's landmark, so to speak
but I've got to make an example of
you."
There was a wild shriek as Selina
threw herself between them. "Guess
you'll have to hit me first," she cried,
choking with laughter and tears. "You
you can't go wastln' young men like
this, Dad."
Stop a minute," said Mr. Hopper.
with affected deliberation. "How dare
you try such a put-up job on me?"
I I don't understand," faltered
Tollevents, confused by this sudden at
tack.
Why you might ha' known that a
shy man like me wouldn't make up his
.mind with nine gals all 'zaokly ulike.
This settles It. Here's a dark one.
I'll take her."
There was a chorus of "Oh!" from
the veranda. Tollevents looked Irres
olute, for Selina was his favorite. "It's
beginnin' at the wrong end," he Bald,
doubtfully.
Don't you worry about that. Any
way, it s a beginning," urgeu young
Mr. Hopper. "That's all you've got to
do, 'cept put down that gun. It might
go off; and the Coroner's a friend a'
mine. He'd say things. Now you
can take off your store clothes, and
make yourself comfortable, father-in-
law that Is to be."
Tollevents put down the gun, and
young Mr. Hopper, linking Selina's
arm in his, strolled along with her to
the pines. A bend in the road him
them from the house.
Selina could feel him trembling as
they wandered along in the odorous
dusk.
'You you do mean it, Seliua?" ho
quavered. " 'Cause If you don t, he
can shoot all he wants to; and I'll ba
glad of It. I ain't afraid of him; but
I am of you."
Selina hesitated. Young Mr. Hopper
turned back. "Stop," she called after
him In alarm.
"Well?" queried Mr. Hopper. "I
knew how It ud be. Let him nil me
up with "
'Won't I do Instead?" queried Se
lina.
"What! With buckshot?"
"N-no. K-klsses!"
And In the blissful silence which
ensued a .man might havo heard his
microbes gnaw, so sweet, bo pure the
heavenly night, with the great stara
shining out, the silent river flowing
to the sea, their young hearts beating
together. Philadelphia Telegraph.
A Happy t'umpromliie.
"What a beautiful little baby ht
is!" exclaimed the neighbor who had
called. "He isn't six months old yet,
either," Bnid tho proud young mother,
'and he weighs over twenty pounds."
"What have you named him?"
"Well," hedtated the mother, "Hen
ry and I differed a littlo about that.
He wanted to give him one name, and
I wanted to give him another; but we
finally compromised and agreed to call
him John Wesley."
"I Bee; you named him after the
;reat founder of Meth "
"No, Indeed," quickly interrupted
tin mother. 'That name, as I said,
is a compromise."
"But how?"
"The 'John' is for John Calvin, and
the 'Wesley" Is for John Wesley."
"Oh, I see."
Why Tlit-)'r IMiHi'iiolnli-il.
"Some men sit with folded hands
waiting for their ships to como in
remarked the Observer of Events and
Things, "who ln-ver made, a single
move toward even raising a nail."
YonUers Statesman.
The l-'alnl Tout.
First Farmer (pointing to the flar
ing horn of an automobile) What's
thet thing for?
Second Farmer Tbel's th' thing
they blow jes' before they run y'down!
Town i:nd Country.
Ait Kmplunallun.
He People like the old Jokes best
She I suppose that is why tho hu
morists are always at a woman's ago.
Baltimore American,
Opinions of
ft
AMERICAN FIRE WASTE.
OME Impressively vnplensunt figures, hear
ing upon tho enormous annual flie waste
In this country, are ghen in the report of
the National Board of 1'nderwrlte r. re
cently Hindi? public. The ordinary fire
losses, apart from such exceptional and
larprly non-preventable disasters as that
S
at Kan Francisco, are more' than $200,000,000 a year.
In the first three months of 1909 they were $r.3.000,ooi
an average of nearly three quarters of a million every
day. The aperernte loss tn five years Is more than the
amount of tho national debt.
American city fire departments are recognized as su
perior to those of European cities; and although In
this country a much larger proportion of the buildings
consists of Inflammable wooden structures than Is the
case In Europe, that doca not account for the fact that
our fire losses are from ten to thirty times greater than
those of European countries.
The National Board of Underwriters declares that
the real causs Is "carelessness and recklessness here,
as apalnst the enre, forethought and wise supervision
In Europe." More disheartening still Is the fact that
American fire loss Is steadily Increasing year by year.
It Is annually nearly two and a half times as great as
In 1880, and the rate of Increase Is almost twlco that
of the Increase In population In the same period.
The widespread movement for tho prevention of un
necessary waste In natural resources and In raw mate
rial Is most commendable, but it Is even more desirable
to check waste by fire. When buildings are burned
there Is more lost than the actual money value of the
buildings themrelves. for business Is usually Interrupt
ed and the commnnultles are deprived of taxable prop
erty. The problem of preventing this waste, since bo
much of it la declared by experts to be preventable, is
ons which may well engage the serious attention of the
American people. Y'onth's Companion.
RECRUITS FOR TIIE MINISTRY.
OMTLAINT comes from various sources
that a steadily decreasing number of
"young men are entering the ministry. The
theological seminaries show a dwindling
attendance, while the engineering colleges
are overflowing with
There are. doubtless, a
entering Into the growing reluctance
devote themselves to the pulpit work
One of them, we fancy, Is the fact that the young
minister la about the hardest-working, poorest paid
citizen In the average small town.
struggling church, and upon his
laid the impossible burden of making that church a
bucccss and of living, meanwhile, on almost nothing.
And yet the church members, individually, may be do
ing the best they can. The point Is, that there aro not
enough of them; or, rather, that their
are divided up among too many organizations. While
they are holding fast to comparatively unimportant dif
ferences of creed, and are clinging desperately to de
nomlnationalism, the real work of the Master goes un
done.
The average small town Is supporting In hand-to-mouth
fashion half a dozen struggling churches, where
there ought to be but one or two.
tion alone stands In the way of setting up In such
town a single sacred shrine, where
IRONLESS SHIP BUILT TO
SURVEY THE WORLD.
Destined for a fifteen-year cruise to
all accessible parts of the world, the
non-magnetic yacht. Carnegie, recently
launched In Brooklyn, N. Y., Is expect
ed to become a prominent figure In the
maritime hall of fame.
Built for use In a magnetic Burvey
of the earth, the Carnegie la expected
to encounter experiences such as no
other vessel has been through. She
will wrestle, probably, with Ice packs
In the Arctic, and may meet terrific
typhoons off the Asiatic coast. Her
crew may shorten sill before the
Storm king of Cape Horn nnd whistle
for breezes In the sultry Sargasso Bca.
Even in her construction, the yacht
differs from other vessels. No steel
of Iron has entered into her construc
tion, except about fiOO pounds neces
sary for certain parts of her machin
ery. Sho will be nearer all wood than
than any other modern craft afloat.
It U boned that the voyage of tho
Carnegie will bring not only fame to
herself, but lasting benefit to all the
great multitude who go down to the
sea In ships. The uclentlsts to sail
In her hope to discover, among other
things, (tie location and characteristics
of tho North magnetic pole.
The Carnegie institution of Wash
lng un, which built the vessel about
five years ngo, undertook to make a
series of systematic surveys. There
wn organized a department of re
search in terresti l il magnetism, which
was placed In charge of Dr. L. A.
Bauer, wlio was formerly In charge of
tho magnetic survey of the I'nlted
States under the n-ait and geodetic
sur.ey. Since then valuable work has
liif.i done in the Pacific Ocean, the
a lit, Galileo making three voyage.!
8fc ''gating lio una niutical miles.
: is heciii'-e of t-ie peculiar cliar-ftri.::-
of tin v ink fur which she is In
tet 'ti-l that the ve.L.cl was built with
out tlisi use of Iron or steel. Her beams
arJ planks are bell together with
wo.eieii treenails, and spikes and bolts
of i- ;;er and bronze Her engine and
other machinery are of brass and
bronze, ami even the propeller is of
mfinguncH" leonze.
T. o e of (i who recall our early
III "m y le.T -.ins remember, probably,
tin) statement that at otio time on the
great voyage of Columbus his sailors
mutinied because the compass needle
(ailed to point to the North star. Such
eccentricities of the compass nave
1 1 mi m ii m.a u u n
Great Papers on Important Subjects.
together In ieace
be entrusted with
personal differences
give way to the general good. Consider what a strong
.and useful place in
n church could take.
tj be paid and large
worryment, he could
works.
tions Is perhaps too wide to be bridged In this way.
Hut those of the Protestant churches known as evan
gelical, are near enough together to make the plan
practicable as, Indeed, It has already been proved in
some communities.
cruit their ministries with young zeal and new blood,
they must do something of this sort. The world-wlds
success of the non-denomlnatlonal Christian Endeavor
movement shows that
olis Journal.
s
races has been made bo often that It can be taken
ai having at least a foundation In fact, and yet, of ths
two, the Japanese are undoubtedly the nearer to our
sympathies and comprehension, the readier to accept
what is called civilization, and the likelier both to teach
and to Imitate the occidental world.
The apparent lack by the Japanese of commercial
honesty has been well explained by the circumstance
that until recently their trading class was a low and
despised one, while the fighting man was highly hon
ored and nanrally developed the virtues that are as
much the effect as the cause of general respect. In
China the conditions were reversed, the merchant being
there the noble and the soldier the pariah. Soon the
Chlneso soldier will learn that It Is shameful to run
away from the enemy, and the Japanese merchant that
It does not pay to break contracts. New York Times.
eager students.
number of causes
of young men to
of the churc.jes,
A
He Is called to a
mm.
young shoulders Is
religious energies
Pride of denomina
all may worship
bothered mariners ever since. Perhaps
they did before.
It Is a well-known fact that the
compass in certain parts of the earth
does not remain true to due north.
On some localities the variation may
be several degrees. Off the coast of
Oregon and Washington the variation
Is as much as twenty to twenty-five
degrees. This variation Is found on
land as well as on the ocean.
There are a number of lines along
which the compass needle always
points due north. One of these lines
of "no variation begins In the east
ern part of Lako Superior, runs
through Ohio, about midway between
Cincinnati and Columbus, through
eastern Tennessee, cuts through South
Carolina and strikes out Into the At
lantic near Beaufort.
On the east side of this line the
compass needle Is drawn by some
mysterious force to the westward;
west of the line It is drawn to the
east. On the upper coast of Maine
the needle gets as much as twenty-one
degrees west of "true."
The geographic north polo Is not the
magnetic pole; Just where tho latter Is
remains as much of a mystery as the
pole Peary Is seeking. And another
strange thing about It, the magnetic
pole Is not stationary; it Is continu
ally moving, although very Blowly. It
has not been discovered In what dlref
lion the magnetic pole Is moving.
When the magnetic polo shall have
been located and Its various phenom
ena ascertained, many of the existing
problems of navigation will disappear.
To solve these riddles will bo one of
tho tasks of the scientists aboard the
Carnegie.
In building the ship some puzzling
questions had to be solved. The boat
had to be' virtually non-magnetic. For
that reason Iron and steel could not
enter Info Its construction. It was to
bo tho flr.-it vessel in which such ma
terials were not to bo found. With
tho exception of thin cast-Iron linings
In tho engine cylinders and tho pieel
cams necessary for operating the
valves, magnetic materials were ex
cluded altogether.
White sails are to bo relied upon
mainly, auxiliary power 1.4 necessary
for maneuvering In harbor or for usf
In calms at sea. For this power It
was decided that steim would not do,
Iceause the boilers and cnglnc-i would
bo highly magnetic. It would not be
practicable to use gasoline or oil, be
cause of 1 1 1 d icker of carrying such
large quantities as would be needed
in exploring faraway waters. The dif
ficulty was solved by Installing a spe
cially constructed marine gas pro
ducer, using coal, In connection with
a bronze Internal combustion engine.
The Carnegie Institution Is not con
fining Its magnetic survey work to tho
vena. It has bad several land expedi
tions at work -two In Africa, one In
Asia Minor and Persia and one In
China. It has also worked over part
of South America, Central America,
British America and Greenland.
Whiit a lot there 1 to raadl
and amity, whers one shepherd may
the guidance of the flock, whera
of belief as to minor things may
the community tho pastor of such
Consider how, with a Biliary surs
enough to relieve him of financial
be one of the leaders In all good
The chasm of creed between some of the denomina
If the denominations want to re
the time Is ripe for It. Minneap
MERCHANTS AND SOLDIERS.
IR EDWARD MOSS, on his way homs to
England from the far. East, repeats the
familiar statement that as business men
the Chinese are thoroughly trustworthy,
while the Japanese are so tricky that
dealings with them are unsatisfactory and
unprofitable. This comparison of the two
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY.
YOUNG Dartmouth graduate not long
ago murdered a college girl because she
would not marry him. Why then, should
the murderer of the Slgel girl by an Ori
ental, whose passion for her had been
aroused through an Intimate association
unwisely permitted by the girl's mother
for religious reasons, be regarded as exceptionally ab
lormal The case does not prove that the Oriental is
per Be more dangerous than the Caucasian; It simply
shows that he Is subject to the same passions and
furies as the white man.
In France, or Germany, there could he no Slgel case,
for the simple reason that only In America would a
wife and daughter successfully defy the more worldly
husband's and father'B well known wishes concerning
the daughter's friendships among young men. To this
extent the New York tragedy Is perhaps peculiarly
American, as the Berlin commentators avow, and there
Is pood reason for the social shock which the affair
causes. Springfield Republican.
CATS AND CHINA.
The? Ho Not Fit Tii(rlk la
Same llonae.
"Aunt Eunice," said young Mrs.
Billings, putting down her pen and
pushing back the pile of scrlhbltng-pa-per
In front of her, "Aunt Eunice, why
does a woman who loves china want
to marry a man who adores cats?"
Aunt Eunice went on with her pla
cid knitting, and deftly avoided a di
rect answer.
"Is that a coni'adrum?" nhe asked,
"I never guess d one In my life. And
If It's the theme of a problem novel,
Nan, you needn't tell me, because I
dst Uko them."
Mrs. Billings laughed. "No, It isn't
a conundrum," she said. "It's a catas
trophe almost, and It looks as If it
might resolve itself Into a problem
novel at any moment. I'm the woman
I love china; Ned's the man he J
adores cats; and the result is that ;
three of my best soup-plates and four '
of my cherished oatmeal-saucers have t
been smashed to atoms In the last ,
fortnight. You know, Hllma feeds the J
cats, but Ned Is always euro that she ,
never gives them enough, and bo, as !
soon as he gets back from his reclta-1
tlous, he feeds them again. In the
shed, of course, and with my best j
china, and then Hllma conies along
on her earnest Swedish feet and does
the rest. I'm getting discouraged "
Here the library door opened and
Professor Billings stood on the
threshold, a broken plate in his hand,
his manner wavering between non
chalance and anticipation.
"Another victim, Nannie," he tried
to say, cheerfully. "Hllma walked
heavily again. Fortunately It's an
old"
But Mrs. Billings had flown to his
Bide and was examining the frag
ments. "Old! I should Bay It was! That'e
Just the trouble!" he cried, with trag
edy. "It's my best, my only piece of
real pink luster. O Ned, how could
you take It?" There were tears In
her voice and In her eyes. too.
"Nan, I'm awfully sorry!" said her
abject husliand. "I promise I'll never
tako anything but a tin dipper after
this." and his air of nudbued and nln
cer melancholy was so genuine that
Mr. Billings smiled in wplte of her
grievance.
"Very well," Bhe scolded, "but don't
ever let me hear you hay again that
'The King and the Book' Is your fa
vorite poem, because 1'. Isn't. It's 'I
love little pussy!'" Youth's Comjan.
Ion.
The Way Out.
"Think, love!" tald Mr-,. Goba
Guide. "I ordered a dinner gown, and
that tiresome dressmaker has sent mo
u travi ling suit."
"Well, what ure you going to do
about tt?" Gobsa Golde demanded.
'The only thing Is for us to go
abroad Hgaln," she sighed." Cincin
nati Enquirer.
Politics and morality are seldom on
poakliig terms.
IN COLOItFUL JAPAIT.
i.anif of Mlnlntnrr Knrma Thnt AM
IJItlilcl Into Tlr KlrlH.
Land Is so scarce In Japan and the
people so numerous thnt a farm rarely
consists of more than nn acre or two.
During the season of tho year In which
we made our Journey, says George
McAdam in Outing, one of these fields
Is filled with sprouting barley, light
green In color; another Meld perhaps
the next with vetrh, a lavender-col
ored, cloverlike fodder; a neighboring
field, with a dark preen grass from
the seed of which a lamp oil Is manu
factured; another, with the pale-yellow
flowers of tho mustard, and scat
tered here and there, fields filled with
what looked like n variety of Illy
Borne white, Bonin red, some yellow,
but nil equally brMlinnt.
Then to pet the complete plctur
you must Imagine patches of flowering
azaleas dotting tho roadside; towering,
round-topped camellia trees breaking
tho skyline with frequent splashes of
bright preen; usually in the shade of
these trees houses with white plaster
ed walls nnd red-tiled roofs; about th
more pretentious of these houses,
white plastered walls above which ap
peared a profusion of palms, roses and
strange native flowers, nnd In. the
doorways of the parden walls, klmono
clad Japanese girls the kimonos as
many and as payly colored as the gar
den that, framed them.
I have traveled In but one other
country thnt Is so gayly colered, and
that was scmo few years ago when In
the company of n. number of other
youngsters, nnd nn evll-smelllng ma
gic lantern, I used to mnke frequent
vlsltg to tho land of primary colors.
SHORT METER SERMONS.
Every successfful man must hT
visions of high Ideals. Itev. C. A. Bar
bour, Baptist, Philadelphia.
Philosophy and theology have their
place, but too often they obscure the
Infinite. Kcv. A. K. Foster, Bapthrt,
Brooklyn.
So long as the feelings are quick.
and the conscience is sensitive, there
are hope and life. Itev. N. D. Hlllia,
Congregationalism Brooklyn.
It will pay anyone to learn the men
tal hcalthfulness and helpfulness of
prayer. It Is good also to receive by
this means wisdom and submission.
Rev. F. D. Leete. Methodist, Detroit.
To-day, more than ever, men need
the Influence of those things that make
for spiritual life the Bible the
church the Sabbath. Kev. Robert
Johnson, Presbyterian, Montreal, Can
ada. They tell us that It la un-American
to Interfere with Individual freedom
uid legitimate business, but temper
slice legislation is a movement for
race preservation. Kev. H. W. Davis,
Baptist, Palo Alto, Cal.
It Is pxcocdlngly important that we
havo the right kind of doctrine. If
a man Is as ho thinks In his heart,
then assuredly he must think right to
be right. Rev. Murdoch McLood, Pres
byterian, Taeomn, Wash.
Some of the subllmest acts of hero
ism In the world may be found In the
dally grind of life. To be faithful when
no reward Is promised counts for much
In the race of life. Rev. J. M. Farrar,
Presbyterian, Philadelphia.
The young man should deny himself
In the present and cultivate thrift,
and thus acquire a competence for
the years that lie beyond the first half
century of his life. Rev. J. E. Price,
Methodist. New York City.
Tho home evenings present a field
rich with possibilities of lasting In
fluence. It Is one of the misfortunes
of our times that neither men nor
women spend many evenings at home.
nev jj c peters. Baptist, New
York City.
Creeds and dogmas do not mean
much In the religion of to-day. They
set forth the particular principles In
which the members firmly believe, but
I the larger religion Is the same. We
! do not need a new gospel, but more
gospel. Rev. T. W. Young, Baptist,
Detroit, Mich.
Christianity puts a man in the way
of realizing the right kind of ambi
tions instead of the wrong kind. It
warns us against seizing the shadow
nnd letting go the substance. It gives
us a scale of values which helps us
against mistakes of Judgment. Dr. A.
T. Hadley, Presbyterian, New Haven,
Conn.
In Far-Off Iudla.
In India a girl must be .married be
fore she reaches 12, or Bhe, and often
her whole family, suffers loss of caste.
Caste enforces rules and regulates
marriages. A man may be Infirm, In
sane, loathsome, diseased, cruel and
utterly reprobate, yet he can receive
Into his power through marriage and
deal with her as he will a little girl
of any ago under 12, If the caste re
lations between them are according
to that system.
Initio n CViHrr I'lere.
"East Side women have the funniest
fashion," said the Settlement House
worker, "of putting their babies In the
middle of the table when the dinner
Isn't on. I can't get used to it. I
never have been admitted to a dining
room yet on the East Side that didn't
have some child or other blooming
right In the middle of the tablecloth."
New York Press.
I'anliiuo, Not Health.
Ill nine cases out of ten, says the
Iowa health bulletin, If a physician,
tells a woman that in order to Im
prove her health the must wear her
clothes In a certain way Bhe will fol
low the advice of her dressmaker In
stead. Women uml Mutintulnecrluff.
One of the chief difficulties in a
woman's undertaking an expedition in
mountain climbing is that, whatever
her experience, every man believes
that ho knows better what should be
done than she. Harper's Magazine.
IWalk up behind any boy, and aay,
quickly, "Hurry up!" and he will
think of some duty unperformed, and
J hurry for a moment.
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