OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS
Mini ter' Salaries.
II h; Her. Charles H. Marsh, pastor of tin
Rockwell (Iowa) Baptist Church, whose salary
is $000 a yr, recently refused aa offer 01
3.0UU from an Eastern baseball team which
wanted bint to sign for neit year. The Phila
delphia Ledger reports the reslgnaitloD of a
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lUiUikU-i .a that Ciiy uetauM ue uimuwiw uii uji
salary. The council of hla church Is greatly surprised at
sis action, and in coaiin'Oting upou it said taat It pays him
300, the board of missions another $300, while the city
mission pays him $50. Besides this, be has a Christmas
sresent of $20. The council contends that with the extra
tnoney be make he gets $700 a yir, and that be ought
lo be able to live on that sum, seeing that he pays but Sltj
1 mouth for bouse rent.
There Is an apparent difference between these two cler
lyinen. The country one is content with his salary aud
refuses one Ave times as large. The city one Is not content
Mth his and goes where be can get a hundred or two more
The two Incidents call attention to the slight estimate which
U placed upon the average minister's service. The ledger's
Itatcment that "as a matter of fact $700 a year Is consider
b!y more than the average salary of regular ministers of
(he gospel of all denominations in this country" will ocra
lion some surprise. This Is less than most clerks get It if
lets than policemen and firemen get. It is less than some
Scrubwomen get If it were necessary to make "odorous
comparison," the wages of street cleaners and garbage
wagon drivers are a little less.
When It 1 also taken In account that the flocks are In
lavor of shortening the shepherd's term of service; that
ministers are comlug to be looked upon a candidates for
the superannuated list at 45 or 50; that they have, as a rule,
large famille to support; that they are always expected to
look well and be on dress parade, so that they may not
tmbarrass their better-tolo parishioners; that the butcher,
ind the baker, and the candlestick maker do not any more
cut down prices for them; that railroad officials are crusty,
even, when asked for the ministerial half fare, and that the
ministerial "sore throat" no longer secures an extended
vacation, It is not difficult to understand why the Fhiia
delphli clergyman embraced the first opportunity that
Offered itself to flee to a bigger salary. It Is difficult to
understand why the Rockwell clergyman deliberately re
fused a salary equivalent lo that of five ordinary, clergy
men, unless lie is content with Living tip treasure where
"neither moth nor runt doth consume, rnd win-re thieves
do not break through nor steal. "- iiicaro Tribune.
Life's Phantom Troubles.
UK licv. Thomas ltixoii, Jr., pictures one of
1 1 i.f ,.i-u iii "'PI in I i n 1 1' Wi .i .i. r. " rj h v i t:
ieartd across his oaken mautel the woris; "1
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1 1 . i i
am no oui man jiovv , i e
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.i tul most of it never happened."
No doubt most of us when we near the em!
al nlc s journey coUI'l give expression to me same senti
meiit. In general our 1 roubles have three pr..pnrti.t:-i ac
Coro.ng ti our point of view. They are all fcnr-omely
Urge in prospect; the worst of them Ih bearable In ru tin!
ei-urrenee; iiml tliey -Iiiitik to a mere dot in ivt rospei t.
The great bulk of our troubled are those of anticipation,
mil a generic term for them Is worry. Most of them never
happen, and those that do have shrunken so that wo scarce
ly cau recognize them. The longer the perspective the
greater t he trouble; no we lind our worries more numerous
mil more wearing before than after we have passed the
meridian of our brief day.
As we move gently and we fancy little more quickly,
toward the sunset line, and glance now and then bark ovr
the long and often nigged and tortuous trail, we see little
of our earlier worries but phantom of the troubles thai
never happened, and these grow even more tenuous as we
travel from them until they are but a luminous vapor
through which we view a day that was much fuller of
Canning Peas
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for Market.
The Industry of putting up canned
goods Is rapidly growing, and the pro
cesses by which the different crops
are made ready for the market form an
Interesting sight. It la hardly posisble
to conceive the rapidity with which
the work Is carrltsl on and the im
portant part played by machinery.
Take, for Instance, the canning of peas,
where the vines are cut In the held
by a moving machine and loaded on
the wagons the same as Is done with
bay. Arriving at the sheds of the fac
tory us wanted, they are placed on an
endless chain and carried overhead to
the workmen, who teud (he machine
known as the "vlner." In looks It
resembles a large, old fashioned re
volving squirrel cage, In which are
puddle, which beat tho puis and al
low the pen to fall out through the
meshes of the cage, while the vines
and puds arc carried by the endless
chain to the alio, Simo distance away.
As some pieces of vines and pods pass
through with tho peas, they arc run
through a squirrel cage which, revolv
ing, causes I lie peas to bo separated
from the other substances, jvhou tiny
pass out of It Into frays. ,
I'assln..' onward the peas are liext
pvutcd Into a machine) rcinindiiq; one
of the old time funning mills neen in
farmers' barns. Here tliey are fu"tlier
cleaned before parsing through Into
the "grader." w hich Is another cylinder
In which, there are neve,-! aectlonij
wi'.h different-sized meshes and Hie
peas roll along until they como to the
mesh, which permit them to fall
through. All Urn while they are In this
cage dropping water I washlug them
and carrjlng out the dirt that oi.iy
bo oil them. Kach size Ih now labeled
and kept separate.
The "bbinclter," It I enllctf, I 0
trough of boiling water, through which
tho tray of pea are carried on the
ondle chain, requiring about ten min
ute to pas twchty-flve feet. At twine
of the s'flns of the pens, anil possibly
other dirt, may yet bo clinging: to the
pen the rno-,e on U the aecond cries
of quhrel ch;, where the revolv
tuiikuiiie than of cloud and a winding pathway ao thickly
flanked with honeysuckle and lavender that we eaasot
discern the occasional thistle and briar.
No matter at what time we Lake (his backward view
we may see that most of our troubles never happened.
There U no specific like comparison for thi curs of that
dread malady, worry. No trouble is as great as our fretting
makes It, and this ought to admonish us to let fretting
alone.
The old man In the book Is the counterpart of many aa
old man of flesh and blood, and also of many -n aged
woman. All of tbem bare had lots of trouble, and most of
It never happened. From the experience of those who bare
gone nearly the length of the Journey 'the young man and
the young woman might say: "I am young; I expect to
have lots of trouble; but as most of it will never hapjwy. I
won't worry about any of it." Chicago Post.
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lie knows Its value too well; he must be a goo business
man to have become rich, and good business in. a do not
play ducks and drakes with what they have hardly earned.
There would seem Indeed to bo only one dangerous form
of multi-millionaire, and that is the man who uses his
wealth for political objects. He can, or be can try to,
smash a constitution, lie can organize and he can bribe.
He can make men rich or poor. Hut he cannot do so every
where, and he is not a danger to a State possessing a sound
legislature, and governed by sound meu. He might be a
danger, perhaps, to a ring fence community ecb as South
Africa contained before the war, but he could never be a
danger In a community better organized. The jest men
the men who slone could forward or thwart his political
projects would be neither alh.rcd nor fright'-noii by his
money. Iondon Spectator.
OliN is
value Is
It seem
ltA'J ion are growing iu many places at an ominous
ih;c. ion the United States has Ms moil to have proliy
iii arly a monopoly of corn growing. In this industry, how
ever, a rival Is also arising which may before long be de
veloped loin grea: proporl ions.
That rival is Argentina, a country which for more rea
sons than one might w-11 be regarded as ilie t'n'led Slates
of Soiiih American. It Is only about two fifths us large
.-is the 1'nlted States, anil has only one fii'teeirn as great
,i population, l'ut lis soil 1s wondroiisly fertile and lis
climate genial, and it is growing In population and in the
art of civilization at a gratifying pace, lis production of
cattle and sheep, of bides and wool, of lin'cd and various
oilier tilings is well known to be great, it is to be re
marked that It Is also becoming n great producer of corn,
for which crop Its soil and climate seem to ! particularly
well suited. The last year's crop of corn is reported to
have covered -1 ,300,000 acres and to have measured 130,'iuO,
tino bushels. That if. of course, very much less than our i)4,
(MXi.oiio acres and 2,.V.SM)0.iOO bushels. Yet proportionately
to the population of tire country, it Is a creditable showing.
Moreover. It Is to be observed that the Argentines get more
liiau thirty bushels from an acre, and get a dollar of their
currency, or 4 i cents gold, a bushel for it, making a yield
of SI.I.'JO an acre, while we, with our boasted higher civili
zation, are content with twenty seven bushels to the acre,
which, at -10 cents a bushel, means a yield of only $10.80
an acre. - New York Tribune.
i:ao ims in leoiiote,
ing motion again deans them, while
cold water Is continually dropping into
tin? cage and ou them. Now liny
pas out on to a belt about lii-ci feet
wide mid slowly move along between
rows of women, whose business It is to
pick out any bad peas or anj other
foreign substance. lropplng from this
table Into trays tiny are carried by
men to the filler. It is the machine
which automatically fliis the cans,
which are d-opped down through tubes
from the storeroom obove. When the
cau falls Into position on the moving
chain It Is carried under the spom.
which Is then automatically opened,
allowing the same quantity of pt-a.i
to till each can, at the rate of seventy
lo eighty cans a minute.
The movement is so well timed that
its place Is taken by an empty can
while It moves under the pipe through
which the hoi liquid is auiomatlcally
measured and poured into It. The can
now swings on lis course, going
through a hm-dier or wiper, where it
Is cleaned and any surplus cn top
brushed off. Two boys now place caps
on the cans as they move along pa,t
them to the soldering machine, with
which It combines I he "aciilcr." which
prepares It for taking the solder. Afn-r
they come out of there they are brand
id with the quality of grade while
on tin' way to the "lioiter." who sold
ers the little hole ill the center of each
clip. The ilepector then takes his
turn and If the cans are all right they
are s ion at liie end of thoir first jour-n.'-y,
as they p;ns ou to a table, whence
they are iviuovoil aud put into large
steel crates, preparatory to a second
Journey of some l.'o to 'Joo feet under
ground on an endless chain to reach
I he building where the "cookers" are.
Coining out of Ihe "cookers" the
rnits-H now go on to a slowly moving
chain, which takes about half an hour
to pass through the channel of cold
water 1."o feet long to the storeroom,
where they are cool enough to handle.
Later In Ihe season, when the label
ing Is done, machinery again lakes a
prominent place. New York Tribune.
The I'oi t ol New York.
Along ll vvharvT ono walk from
clime to clime, hearing the speech and
tho slang of many tongue, seeing fel
low mortals of every known hade of
skill. It is a geographical jumble, a
sort of International fair presided over
The Dangerous Plutocrat.
8 there any real dang In the accumulation
of great riches in the bunds of one man? Can
the multi-millionaire be regarded in any sense
as "a new peril?" Probably not. In the first
place, the man who has amassed large sums of
money himself seldom or never sq cinders it.
Corn Is hinq.
king of American crop. I yearlj
much greater than that of any other.
also more secure against rivalry than
'-Mvv&MarrdS ;! ". o ner. i.aiiaoiL. uuss.a ami oilier lanus
VV.Jf,3 oMpHe vvllh us in wheat. Compcti'ors in cot-
by one goddess - coininerce. I.ittlt
does It seem to her that only the
breadth of a pier should separate orient
from Occident, the cool northlaiul from
the troilcs. - She has marshaled liei
forces from the limit of her wide
spread empire, hastened them along
converging ways and then permitted
her glad servant, man, to j;Ive them
biding place. And in New York the
glad servant has no alternative sav
to berth them where he may, for shipj
are many and bertha are few, an J
commerce brooks no waiting, l-'roin
i en to twelve vessel arrive In iort
day In, day out, through the year.
Iu one recent month "ail deep sea craft
with tlght-.stovvcd holds came to their
piers along South and West streets
and the (lags they Hew were Ameri
can, lirltlsh. (lormari, Norwegian,
i'rench, Danish. Italian. Dutch, Cuban,
r.elginu, Spanish, Austrian and Portu
guese. They brought the- people ami
the merchandise of twice a hundred
porta and some, Ihe China ships, had
come through 100 days of sea to do
liver up their ehi'sts mid bales - Har
per's Magazine.
Too Tempt ma;.
Miss Arabel:a I'a.Mon had long sillei
said good by to her youth, bit! nobody
had accused her of doing it with re
signation. "What were you thinking of to start
Cousin Arabella off In that merry-go-round
V" asked Mrs. Jennings at the
county fair. She had just received bet
dizzy and disheveled relative at the
end of a trip on the flying horses.
"You needn't look so severe at me,"
said Mr. Jennings, reproachfully, when
Cousin Arabella had been deposited
on a settee and left to recover her
equilibrium. "She heard a woman say
the machine was enough to scare any
body out of ten rears' growth, and
after Mint she was possessed lo rldn
In It."
No Dcccpt ion About It.
She Why Kliould the average wo
man lead people to beliCve she'l
younger than she really Is?
Ho-Sim doesn't. Sho merely tries
to. Philadelphia Ledger.
Whenever n boy reads In a paper of
anyone who I sleeping so long the
medical world Is Interested, lie wishes
Ills father could have a chance to
awaken theia.
'( hi viur. i mat rno nuuir
Js j n i vn . I I my- m 4f
Jimm, ou the drop seat of the
i.r.c! Um. Icam-d forward nd asked
liis iiiiut where they were going. She
camel a big department store and b:s
f-ce lighted v:p. "They have Icecream
tod a in the basement," said he.
"Oh, I'm sure It can't be good!"
"No-o-o-o." Jlmmie always agrees
with a lady. "It hsn't so bad, though.
When we bought the kitchen coal-hd
Courtney tn ated me. We had choc'iate
and strawberry mixed oh, fine! Don't
you think I might treat him to-day?
I could carry a glass out to the car
riage without spilling a drop." He
suddenly thrust his head out of the
earriage. "Courtney, what kind "
His aunt dragged him inside. "Some
other time," she said.
"What can I do?" he asked, after a
gloomy pause.
"We're going to buy a hat, dear."
"I don't want any old hat."
"A nice new hat."
This feebly Jocose correction fell fiat
Jinimie grasped the hat on bis head
with both painfully gloved hands and
dragged It down to his ears. "It's just
got comfor'ble:" he moaned. "She"
he meant no disrespect to bis mother
"wants to send this one to the In
dians or the Florida children, I s'pose."
A gleam of hope illuminated his face.
"I wish they might have the new one.
I wouldn't mind having if fitted on me.
Don't you think they'd be pleased?"
Jimmie's aunt Ignored this artful ap
peal. "You know your mother wishes
you to lie spl' k and span when grand
ma cornea Thursday."
"Oh, my grandma won't mind," con
fidently. "Aud I'd brush up great!"
His aunt shook her head.
"Perhaps boots would do? They'd
be all right. New ones kick fine."
This easy sacrifice to the home god
dess was promptly rejected, and Jim
mie knew then that It was to be a
hat.
"When I buy them myself they'll be
old and big, and everything new will
go into the barrel- and maybe there
won't be any Imrrel," he threatened,
darkly.
Jiiiiinle helped his aunt to alight at
Cut ifc dish's store, and followed her
to the hat counter, the sullen trend of
his feet speaking volumes of disgust.
Tlie counter was surrounded by wo
men, mostly mothers, but Jimmie's
1 urn ciune at last.
"Well, lady," said the perspiring
clerk, "what can I show you for your
lit lie boyV"
' .-vic's !:ot my. mo;; or!" said Jinimie.
"Kiie's my aunt. She Isn't even mar
ried. My father says"
"Show me something In a white
straw, please," Jinimie' aunt said,
liaslily. "Something suitable for a
boy of nine."
"Nearly ten," corrected Jimmie. "My
fa I her says"
"Something a little wider in the
brim, and I prefer a navy-blue band,"
said Jimmie's aunt.
"My father" began Jimmie. But
his aunt promptly clapped a hat on
his head, and his tune changed. "It
don't feel good! It's too small! And
1 don't want an clastic under my chin;
only small kids wear them. Oh, It
hurts my head!"
When tlie clerk was on his knees
opening boxes, trying to find another
hat, Jinimie again became amiably
sociable.
"The last time the Now IOndon man
was there, he said"
"Something similar to his old hat
will be right," said Jimmie's atiut, In
an agitated falsetto.
"The New London man said, 'A kiss
Is as good as a smile,' " continued Jim
mie. "I was under the sofa, and I
heard"
"This will do. You need not look
any further," said Jimmie's aunt, seiz
ing a hat and placing it ou Jimmie's
head with a determined hand. The
clerk rose, but not before he was mast
er of his countenance, and begun to
turn over (.he slips In his book.
"You must Ik awfully rattled,
auntv," said Jlinmle. "This Is my old
int." Youth's Companion.
The Canals of France
Few who have not traveled In
southern and central France know of
her vast systems of canals and canstl
Izisl livers. Many persons spend
month or jears In Paris and know
n ithing of the great basins In that
citv from which canals radiate, bind
ing nil part of France to the great
heart of the capital. These canals run
Into rivers connecting those of the
water siieds north, south and west.
Through many of these small slrcinis
-we at home would call them creeks
-you will see little towboats pulling,
grunting and lifting up a heavy chain
from the canalized river bed, winding
It round n drum and thus towii g long
lines of barges w ith a most rconomlc
expenditure- of power.
Hot springs "ISlowcil Out."
The Cimarron suit lielils in Indian
1'eriitory boast of a large hot spring.
hvhicii forms a pool about 20 by (;o
feet. A story of this spring la told by
cuttle men who camp near by. One
light lu -t summer n thunderstorm was
taking over the plain, when a bolt of
lightning descended. Instantly a great
Volume of Maine shot up u thousand
f.:et into Ihe sky from the sfuing, mid
lontinued to blaze for twenty minutes.
','he eowb'iy claims thai the hot springs
I blown 1 1 out," and that the location
Changed several rods.
It takes a very smart lot of men to
,mlld a town which pretty twenty-tear-old
girl will be satisfied with.
Did you over notice that some people
lava a homemade look?
The "sixth ti-tise," by wbich blind
persons perceive certain objects, is at
tributed by Dr. L'mile Javel, who has
been bliiid several years, to sencitive
Ltss of the skin to obcure radiations
tbat do Hot affKi the eyes.
At'etitiou has teen called by E.
I'.ohm to two new forms of incandes
cent lamps. In b th. the lower half of
the bulb is of Allied :liss, which, act
ing as a row of lenses, c luei-nti ates the
light downwards, and fives the special
aJvantage of strong illumination di
nctly b -ne.ith the lamp. One foim has
Die ordinary lil.-iment with the .upper
half of the built of pal glass, while
the other has a zigzag horizontal lila-n.i-iit
and a t p of dear glass.
A new alloy f.,r bearings subjected
to heavy hails, such as those of rail
way axles, is described by ' A. Cia
mer as consisting i f sixty four paits of
c..pper, five of tin. ihiriy of lead and
one of nickel, 'ih" metal casts will
and is easily wot kid. Its large propor
tion of lead greatly reduces wear, and
whin i.sed as a bearing for a journal
3-'i inclns in diam, t.-r by 3li long, run
i.t revolutions per minute and load
ed to one thousand pounds per square
inch, the 1 -ss iu wi ight was but a
lifih of a grain In one hundred thou
saial revolutions. Vmler the same con
ditions, the wi ar of gun metal of vary
ing proportions of copper and tin was
from LHjj to 4 grains.
A new form of the "fac simile tele
graph," by which a message, written
at the transmitting end, is reproduced
at the ns-eiving end, has been Invent
ed iu Cerniany under the name of the
"telechirogiaph." The message is writ
ten upon a i-hcet of paper with lead
held In a pencil having liexible connec
tions with two rheostats. As It moves
over ihe paper, shaping the letters, the
pencil sliifis sliding contacts which
vary the electrical resistance. At the
receiving end two electro-magnets, In
fluenced by the changing currents
t. unstained, govern the movements of
a small mirror which, by the aid of
a beam of light, c ite en I rated to a point
by lei si-s, repio luces the writing on a
she.-t of sensitized paper, the point of
bghf following exactly the movements
of the point of the pencil at the other
end of ih" line.
The Intel est in the strange property
possiss'-d conspicuously by such sub
stances as uranium, thorium and radi
um, of (.Iving off spontaneously radia
tions that penetrate s did bodl- s and
affect photographic plates, is kept at
a high pilch by frequent ti'vvv observa
t ous and dis'-ovcrics. Prf. R. ltuther
foid. of McCUl University, has enunn r
oiitl three distinct types of radiation
emanating from the substances in
question. The first he calls alpha
rays, which consist of flights of mate
rial particles, carrying a positive elec
tric charge, and having a very high
velocity; the second are the beta rays,
apparently the same as the cathode
rays of ordinary vacuum tubes, but
traveling faster; and the third, the
gamma rays, which are very similar
to X-rays. In addition, some of the
substances, as thorium, give off a
fourth emanation, which appears to be
matter in the gaseous state, and can
be carrhsl along by air streams. Tho
rium, from which all the radio-active
constituent has been removed, will, in
h few weeks, yield as much as before.
THE HEBREW TYPE.
Predictions that Its Dlatins-aishina;
Marki Will Ultimately lHnappear.
The persistence of the Hebrew type
of features Is a matter of common
remark and sometimes wonder. But
It is not strango that a race that keeps
its stock so pure should retain its
typal forms. However, nil Jewu are
not always distinguishable as such by
their features. Any one who attends
the services of the Jewish synogagues
In great Knropean centers, as at Her
lln or Amsterdam, will frequently see
faces that, out of the synagogue would
not readily bo taken for those of the
chosen people.
There Is a great change going on
here in the United States, In which the
Jewish face is disappearing, and in
a few generations will bo undistin
gulshable from that of the Gentile,
according to Dr. Maurice Fishherg, a
well-known New Y'ork anthropologist,
quoted in Harper's Weekly:
"Some of his conclusions," says the
Weekly, "are certainly remarkable.
For Instance, hla examination of over
,'!,000 Jews in New York City has con
vinced him that there Is no founda
tion for the notion that every Jew kk
scsses a long, hooked nose.
lie does not deny that Jewish immi
grants are easily pointed out, but he
insists that they cannot be identified
through any peculiarity of facial struc
ture. A foreign lock Is popularly mis
taken for a Jewish look.
"Then, again, the Jewish Immigrants
have what may appropriately be de
scribed a the Ghotlo face. The Ghetto
face, or rather I ho Ghetto eye, ex
presses a ceaseless fear or anxiety, or
at least suspicion, of everything
around II. Tho same eye Is observed
among other peoples that have been
subjected to nge-long persecution, as
for example, the Christian Armenians
In Turkey, and the Kopts, or unlive
Christians In Lgypt. Tho Jew who
havo lived for several general Ion
outside of the Chetlo do not exhibit
this facial phenomenon. Thorn Is no
reason why the Ghotlo eye should not
tend to quickly disappear among the
dcsccuilenl of Jewish Immigrant in
the United State. It I true as Dr.
Flsliberg says, that there Is aa much
puysiognomlm! difference between tkaf
ltUMuiau Immigrants on the Fast
of Manhattan Boroufh and the At
I ican Hebrew who is conspicuous la
commercial, professional, and paolla
life, as there Is between the Irishman
-, and the German. Yet, beyond a doubt
j the ancestors of the advanced Hebrew
j of to-day bore a striking physical rev
j semblance to the Russian Jews woe
j are newcomers to this eouDtry.
as regaras intermarriages betweej
Jews and Gentiles, there is ue doubt
that they must have frequently taken
place in the past, so far at least aa
the marriage of Jewish men to Christ
ian women is concerned. This is evl
dent when we compare Spanish Jew
with German Jews in repeet to tbt)
color of the eyes and the hair."-'
Week's Progress.
THE SIGN OF THE FISH.
W hy It Wa Used aa a Symbol bw th
Karly Chriatian Cburch.
The symbols upon early Christian
monuments, of which so many hav
been discovered this last century, HT9
curious and interesting. One of th
most frequent Is that of the fish. The)
figure of the fish is used, aud also
the Greek word for fish, says Dr. A.
W. I'atten, who has looked into the
subject. Itamsay, In his oxeavationa
in Asia Minor, has found some very
important inscriptions in which the
fish signs are frequent.
But why was It that the early Chris
tians used this sign? The reason will
appear when we remember that they
found in the letters of the Greek word
for tish an acrostic on the name of th
Savior. The word is "lchthus." Kach
letter of the word in the original
Greek begins one of the words In the)
following phrase: "Jesus Christ, Son
of God, the Savior."
So the word "lchthus" came to stand
for a Christian, and It was used aa
a mark of Christianity. It was not
only sculptured oa burial monuments,'
but came to be used on various uten
sils. A great many terra eotta lamps
have been found, especially at Spalato,
on which is found the impress of the
tish. Many of these "lchthus" lamps
are found also at Romp. The word
"lish" came to be used also to describe
a Christian, and to call a n.ati a fi.-U
was equivalent to calling him a
Christian.
In one of the old Christian frescoes,
Indicating a baptism, a man Is rep
resented as pulling a tish out of the
water. Itamsay tells us that it was
customary in Asia Minor in the sec
ond eeniury for the Christian to use
this symbolic language. It was hardly
safe, then, for them to speak openly
of their faith in Christ. Tliey were
accustomed to wear rings with the fish
sign as a signet, much as we wear
symbolic badges to-day. One day two
men met, neither aware of the faith
of the other, due, without saying sv
word, traced with his stick the figure
of a tish in tho sand. The other quick
ly burst out in assertion of his Chris
tian faith, for the fish symbol had de-
clared the other's allegiance to Christ.'
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
COULDN'T BEAR TO BE IN DEBT.
Ctueer Cae of a Missouri Farmer "Who
Hai Left Home to Be a Wanderer.
A supersensitive conscience has exil
ed Farmer Tom Auspaugh axid his lit
tle family from home. He owed a
Macon (Mo.) lawyer $750 on two notes,
secured by mortgage on Auspttugh's
fjirm and stock, which are worth more
than $'2,000. Auspaugh gathered up,
bis wife and family and deliberately
abandoned his property. He left in
the night. Tho children wore twins,
five years old.
There wore a good team and wagon
on the place, but the evacuating fam
ily went afoot through the forests and
across swollen streams it is hard to
Imagine how they did it. The next
day the neighbors observed the closed
doors and blinds, and heard the hun
gry cattle lowing, but fearing a
tragedy they would not break In the
doors. They searched wells and ponds.
Then they sent here for the sheriff.1
He found a hundred villagers in the
front yard.
A window was raised, and the offi
cer climbed Into the house. On the
table was this note:
VI, Vrrtlll.inro. T n rrt xr ity-rr rhnr1rfn
.iiL. iiiaiiucn o. i. urn hjj uiuuniu,
that you have been so patient with
us. I have been slow, I know, I prom
ise you I will never sign a paper again
in a hurry and not know what 1 am
signing. I was so bothered. I don't
care for the stuff, so I and my fam
ily are free. Yours respectfully,
T. 0. AUSPAUGH.
Matthews Is the lawyer to whom
Auspaugh Is Indebted. The interest Is
not due and Matthews was not press
ing payment. Ho knew Auspaugh
well, and regarded his obligation as
perfectly good; but the fanner had
brooded over his debt until he began
to think ho had committed a felony
la signing the notes and was in dang
er of the pcnlleutlary.
The family took nothing with them
save the clothe on their backs and
the picture out. of the album. The
farm was well stocked with feed for
the horses, cattle and hogs, uid there
was an abundance of groceries and
vegetables In the house. It was simply
a case of a man being driven crazy
by debt.
I'oNHittle Kxplaoul ion.
Smyliie Strange that l.nngley's fly
Ing machine didn't ily. He patterned
It afii r a fowl, too, but It shot right
into the w ater. ;
I'.rowne Maybe It was a waterfowl
he patterned It after. IlaltiinoM
American.
Van can scare seven men out of teat,
by hinting at a mysterious itm
ahnrttv to ha mad.