- Ma a
X. CSNTLC PftOFEMOR.
twm sdilii a aa OK-Tlaae Tau
Or. rUgst, la his "Memories of
Tele U and Men,' gives many a
glimpse of the gracious men who made
for themselves m food name at the
same time that they built np the repu
tation of the university. College life
naif a century ago was as unlike the
life of to-day as the Instruction now
given is unlike the work of tbe old
recitation room. Dr. Dwight tells two
stories of Professor Sllliinan. one of
which illustrates the educational and
the other the disciplinary spirit of the
time.
I had presented myself before him,
on a certain occasion near tbe end of
uiy academic course, for an examina
tion on studies in his department. H
asked me to take a chair near him.
and then, In a way peculiar to himself,
a way that was very helpful, rather
than embarrassing to the student, hi
questioned me on various points foi
half an hour.
Then, rising and going to bis table
he looked at some papers, and select
ing one, said:
"I suppose you would like to hav
me give you a ccrtiuccte that your ex
amination has been satisfactory, which
you inuy hand to the president."
I gave htm, of course, an affirroativ
answer. He then handed me the pa
per, saying:
"Not doubting that you would pass
I wrote tbe ecrtlfleate before you cam
In."
The professor was requested to givi
the first vote in the decision of a mat
ter of discipline. He took the collegi
catalogue, which was lying on the ta
ble near bim, and opening it, be said:
"What Is tbe student's name, Mr.
President?"
"Jones," the president replied.
"Ah," said he, after turning over th
pages somewhat carefully, "Jones ol
the junior class?"
"Yes," was tbe reply.
"I notice that he Is from Baltimore,"
the professor answered. "When I wai
lecturing in that city his father enter
talned me most hospitably at hli
house. I think I would treat the youmj
man as leniently as possible.
BRIDE WHO WAS THE
IDEAL Of A NOVELISi
After flic recent marriage In Chleagi
of Miss Carrie Woolfolk to Oranvllli
W. Browning, it was divulged that shi
had been tbe girl selected from all oth
cts by Mrs. Margaret K. Sangster ai
the living protolyiK) of the ideal girl
who la the heroine of her latest novel
MRS. li. W, 1(11(1 MX..
."'Janet Ward." The frontispiece o
the book, supposed to represent a;
Ideal girl, was really a iortni!t of Mis
Woolfo'.k, which had been used by he
permission. In her book Mrn. Sangste
describes the Ideal of the day as on
who U restless and who longs for i
career, but In the end finds true ha-f
plnces In a good limit's true love an
her career bouuded by the four wall
-of home. The girl Iu real life ha
longed for the successes of an art
rver, but like the girl In the liook, etc
traced the sphere of a lioine-umker.
A Laity of the Last Century.
George Meredith recently said of
late brilliant and beautiful leader o
English society, "She did not mcrel,
'shuttle the cards; she was one of tU
pack."
. An earlier leader, I-ady Holland, wa
not one of the pack, to Iwrrow th
phrase, and she was Inclined to sliul
fie her cards which Included prlncej
peers, politicians aud poets with mor
or less flourish.
She exacted homage; it pleased he
to see distinguished men fetch an,
carry In her drawing-room. It wa
mXQ of her Utile habits to drop Iu
handkerchief for some one to pick u
and return to her on bended knees.
One evening at a dinner at Hollau
Ilouite, when she had dropped he
handkerchief three times In close u
cession, Count D'Orsay returned It t
her the third time, saying:
"Pray, my lady, had I not bettt
take my seat under tbe table?"
Nonsense About gneeaina;.
"When a man sneezes heartily, h
nuiy know himself to be healthy. N
person iu poor health even sneezes,
says the eminent doctor, Mir Jonntba
Hutchinson. This statement will b
-hnllcnged by those familiar with th
plague, who know that hearty sticezln,
1 Its first symptom. Everyone know
that a series of sneezes conies In th
first stages of catching cold, and tha
the bay fever victim , sneezes to bl
grent discomfort
Water KiRDM Involve.
At tbe dinner of tha Associate
Press recently, Congressman Bed, c
Minnesota, sstd that there was so muc
water la bovm of tha present day trust
that a doubtad if tbe etockhotdet
tM rvalkM tvam tha rtpartaa right
. .
;i FAVORITES i;
4 i
it I la I ! 1 1 nil
Tka Cottar's Batardar Mia".
At length his lonely cot appears in view
Beneath the shelter of ao aged tree:
TU' expectant wee things, toddliu'
mat-tier thro
To meet U.eir dad, i' flichterin' noise
an' glcr.
Hi wee bit ingle, blinkin' bounily,
His dean heartu-stane, his tin if tie wiue's
kuiile.
The lisping infant prattling on bit knee,
Liors ' his weary, carkiug care beguile,
Ad' makes Mm quae forget his labor aud
his toil.
lel ve, tlie elder bairna cuiue drappiu'
Ui,
At service out, amaug the farmers roun ,
Some ca the plow, some herd, some
teulie riu
X canine erraud to a ueebor town.
I5ut now the aupper crow as their siuinle
board,
The halesouie pun-itch, chief o' Scotia's
food:
The sowne their only hawkie doe afford.
That 'yout the hullen aiiujjly chows her
cood:
Tlie darne brings forth in eoinplimental
mood,
To grace the lad, her well-hain'd kebbuck
fell
Ail' aft lie's prest, an' aft he ca's it guid;
Tbe frugal wilie, garrulous, will tell.
How 'twas a towmond auld, aiuiiut was
i' the bell.
The cheerfu supper done, wi serious
face.
They,, round the ingle, form a circle wide;
The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace,
Tbe big liu' Hible, once his father's
pride;
His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside.
His lyart baffets wearing thin an' bare;
Those strains that once did sweet in
Zion glide,
He wales a portion with judicious care;
Aud "Let us worship God'." be nays,
with solemn air.
The priest-like father reads the sacred
page,
How Abram was the friend of God on
high;
Or, Mosca bode eternal warfare wage
With Amnlek's ungracious progeny;
Or how the royal bard did groaning lie
Heoeuth the stroke of Heav'n's aveng
ing ire;
Or Job's pathetic plaint, and wailing cry;
Or rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire;
Or other holy seers that tune tbe sacred
lyre.
Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal
King,
The saint, the father, and the husband
prays:
Hope "springs exulting on triumphant
wing,"
That thus they all shall meet in future
days:
There ever bask In uncreated rays,
No more to sigh, or shed the bitter tear,
Together hymning their Creator's praise,
Id such society, yet still more dear;
While circling time moves round in an
eternal sphere.
Ther homeward all take off their sev'ral
way;
The youngling cottagers retire to rest;
The parent-pair their secret homage pay,
And proffer up to Heaven the warm re
quest, That He, who stills the raven's clam'
rous nest.
And decks the lily fair in flow'ry pride,
Would, iu the way liis wisdom sees the
best,
For them and for their little ones pro
vide; But, chielly, in their hearts with grace
divine preside.
O Scotia; my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Hcnven
is sent!
Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil
Be bless'd with health, and peace, aud
sweet content
And, O! may Heaven their simple lives
prevent
From luxury's contagion, weak and vile!
Then, howe'er crowns sr.J coronets be
rent,
A virtuous populace may rise the while.
And stand a wall .of fire around their
much-lov'd isle.
O Thou! who poured the patriotic tide
That stream'd thro' Wallace's uudautited
heart,
Who dared to nobly stem tyrannic pride.
Or nobly die, the second glorious part:
(The patriot's God peculiarly thou art,
ills friend, insplrcr, guardian, and re
ward!) O never, never, Scotia's realm desert;
lint still the patriot, and the patriot
bard,
In bright succession raise, her ornamcut
and guard!
Robert Bums.
A M E R I C A NDI A M O N 5 CU T T E R S.
Gem lnlntry Is Now Fnlljr Katab
liahetl in Mew York.
Gem cutting in America has ceased
to be au experiment nnd become a rec
ognized Industry recognized not mere
ly at home as one more thing that
Uncle Sam can do well, but recognized
abroad as one more thing In which
Yankee competition is to be fwred,
says the Brooklyn Kagle. Time was
when tbe cutting of precious stones
was admittedly one of tbe things that
Europe could do better than America,
and America made no attempt to dis
pute the supremacy. And for Europe
one might almost reud "Holland," for
Holland had practically a world's mo
nopoly of the Industry. And all this
not more than a generation ago.
It was In 1873 that tbe first ro.igh
or uncut diamonds vere Imported Into
this country and then a few only, val
ued at only f 170,420. For Ave years the
experiment continued with so little
success that In 1S78 the Imports had
dropped to $03,270. I rather looked
is If Uncle Bam, Jack of all tradaa that
ha is, could not master this one. But
I that was the tarnlng point. From tba
on the importations of rough diamonds
Increased year by year, at first grad
ually, but finally by leaps snd bound,
until st present they are rtauliig up In
the neighborhood of $10,000,000 a year
and still Increasing. And the impor
tation of uncut diamonds Is, needless
to say, an exact measure of tbe growth
of tbe industry.
Diamonds are quoted because dia
monds are recognized as tbe most dif
ficult of all tbe gems to cut. Not mere
ly are they the hardea-t gem known,
but they require a more complicated
cutting and a greater skill In bringing
out their beauties. And with dia
monds, the importations in the rough
represent absolutely the quality cut,
for there is practically no home pro
duction, while almost every other
known gem is produced in marketable
quantities somewhere in the United
States. So that the increase in the
rough imports Is a more than fair
measure of the growth of the gem
cutting Industry.
Fifteen or twenty years ago there
v. as not a gem-cutting establishment of
any importance In the city. One lead
ing flrui had a cutting department
which was mainly engaged In re-cutting.
It existed, that Is about all. be
cause it was necessary to the com
pleteness of the establishment. But
like all the other Jewelers In the coun
try they imported practically all their
gems ready ct And the two or three
struggling lapidaries that did manage
to keep their beads above water Iu
some dingy, obscure corner of the Jew
elers' district were chiefly engaged in
recuttlng. All of them togther could
not have made one establishment of
any reputation for solvency, although
there are many such to-day on Maiden
Lane and Nassau and John streets.
FEW DICKENS HOUSES LEFT.
March of Modern Improvement Re
sponsible for Their Demolition.
Very few of Dickens' bouses remain
One after another of the quaint old
buildings described In his novels or in
which their scenes were laid are being
torn away to give room to modern of
tlce buildings. "The Old Curiosity
Shop," the home of little Nell, can still
be ldentllled in an old paper and Juuk
warehouse in Portsmouth street, near
the courts, and uenr by, at No. f8, Is
the home of Mr. Tulklnghorn, the law
yer In "Bleuk House." It was occu
pied for a lo:ig time by John Forster,
the biographer of Dickens. Oliver
Goldsmith lived and died In No. 21
Brick court. Middle Temple Lane, up"
two Bights of stairs, and Is bulred In
the adjoining churchyard. Blackstone
wrote his commentaries iu the next
building, and his room may be seen to
day. Thackcrny aud Torn Taylor lived,
at No. 10, aud Milton spent several
years In the same locality. Nearly
every one of the old buildings Is lden
tllled with historic characters.
Over on Ilolbom, one of the great
arteries of trade, several of the Dick'
ens houses may be easily found by the
use of the Dickens Dictionary. Dom
bey & Son are real pimple and have a
tailor shop in the city. Mr. Dombey's
house, which Dickens says "stood on
the shady side of a tall, dark, dread
fully genteel street," may be one of u
dozen or more answering that descrip
tion. Admiral Lord Nelson, Lord By
ron and Turner, the celebrated painter,
lived In the same block. Salry Gamp
and Betsey Trigg lived in a shop in
Klngsgiitn street which Is now occu
pied by a barber; Furnlvals' Inn, for
merly one of the most picturesque
buildings of old Loudon, In which
Dickens wrote "The Pickwick Papers,"
"Sketches by ISoz," "Oliver Twist" and
"Nicholas Niekleby," bus been tortl
down within the last two years, and
In Its place now stands a magnificent
structure of red brick and terra cotta
belonging to the Prudential Life Insur
ance Company. St. Andrews' Church,
across the street, is Identified with
Oliver Twist and Kill Sykes, who
stopped and counseled under Its shad
ow one night on their memorable burg
lary excursion. W. E. Curtis, In Chi
cago Kecord-Herald.
The Ki'anonuig I lnlil.
It was In a Philadelphia public school
the other day that a class iu spelliug
was going over a lesson iu words of
two sj Habit. One of the words wus
"mummy." "Chlllien," said the teach
er, "how many of you know the mean
ing of the word iiiuiiuuy' "? After a
long sllccne no little girl raised her
hand.
"Well, Maggie'"
"It means jer mothiT."
The teacher pointed out her mistake,
and explained tu.ly the mouiilrig of the'
word. Presently the word "poppy"
had to be spelled.
"Who knows what 'poppy' means?"
asked the teacher.
The same little girl raised her hand,
this tunc brimful of couildeuce.
"Well, what's the answer, Maggie?"
"It means a man mummy," replied
U child.
Short of Material.
A successful merchant, whose bald
head Is like an Ivory billiard ball, was!
lecturing bis 14 year dd son, whose'
tastes are becoming- a little bit extra
vagant, according to his father's rtand
ard. "My boy," be said, "when I
started out In life I did not have a
penny to my name. lama sdr-mada
man." The Incorrigible youth whisper
ed to bis mother, who was sitting near
by: "Hay mo. there must have been a
corner In (he Imlr market when pa wad
making hlm.-elf."
The men lack one resource open t
tbe women: they can't put a veil ove
their summer hut, and wear It all win
ter.
We object to tbe word "arloroma
straying out of a novel to be applle
to any real girl.
Opinions of
Ill I 1 4 I 1 1 4 1 4
Church Advertising.
HERE in t-xtreniclv doubtful
I moral and religious sense) In the practice of
I I some ministers of using sensational advertls-
V 1 ! .. ( . H i ... .... .
lug uckiitb uiuui
crowds. Tbe preacher who
of adopting the methods so
oiiiw-u ty traveling medicine fakirs thereby confesses the
lack In himself of those saintly personal qualities which
are most effective In drawing sinners, agnostics and world
lings to the church.
We believe there Is nothing In the narrative of Christ's
ministry which would justify the faintest suspicion that
he either used or Indorsed such methods. His habits of
speech and exhortation were anything but sensational Only
two of His disciples seemed to favor spectacular arts. We
refer to Peter and Judas. Peter wanted his Master to call
on the Celestial powers for a sensational rescue, and there
is an uninspired legend which says Judas betrayed the
Savior with two ends In view: First, he wanted to replen
ish the depleted treasury of the Twelve, and, next he con
fidently expected to See the .Master effect his own com
plete deliverance from the hands of the enemy by means
of some astounding miracle. The tradition further states
that it was Judas' bitter disappointment that drove him to
the final act of desperation.
None of the great apostles, prophets, noted clergymen
or renowned reformers deemed it necessary or Justifiable
on any conceivable grounds to resort to the auction bell
or the scenic artist's daub, or the harlequin's contortions, or
the yellow journal trick, to stampede the broad road crowd
or to touch the souls of Intelligent doublet's.
In short, there Is a growing conviction among a very
devout portion of Intelligent churchmen that It is not In
harmony with the eternal fitness of things to try to stock
the Celestial fields with the kind of souls that find more
to move them In a circus tent or a display "ad" than In the
Word of Divine Inspiration: Duyton (Ohio) Journal.
Men and Material for Soldiers.
EHMANY with about half our population has
discovered that there is a weak point in her
military system because fully 100,000 able
bodied men escape military training. With
these included, her standing army would num
ber nearly 050,000 men. Without them, the
G
government says, "the empire will not be In a state of full
preparedness;" that is. It will actually have citizens who
are not, or have not been, soldiers; men whose lives have
been wholly those of peace.
In our country we should regard such a condition as
promising only es the number of soldiers steadily de
creased. We shy violently at the thought of a standing
army of 100,000 men. We rightly regard every man taken
Into the service as so much lost to the productive Interests
of the country. Having regard, however, for Germany's
political situation, and that France maintains a first re
serve only a few thousand less than Germany, while the
standing army of Kussla, her ally. Is over a million on a
peace footing, and we arrive at the point of view of the
Gcnnnn general staff In demanding the Increase. It Is a
fact, too, that German military training reforms a large
proportion of its human material to Its positive better
ment. The uncouth peasant becomes the more of a man
and the better citizen for his term In the barracks, ne is
educated In more than strictly military affairs. So that,
on the whole, there Is some return other than that of na
tional defense In a policy that regards every man as pri
marily material for a soldier only. Detroit Journal.
Co-Education and Marriage.
a UK SI DENT O. STANLEY
I University, believes In early marriages, and re-l-'ards
with disfavor anything which tends to
prevent, mis is an very wen, out wnen, in
Ills address at the Boston gathering of educat
ors, he charges to education an Influence In
Hint direction, he Is probably In error. Ills argument Is
that the sexes In co-education sec too much of each other,
disillusionment ensues, and Hie motives for marriages are
weakened; "and one of the results of co-education Is per
QUEEN OF OUTLAW BAND.
Some thine About the Career of Dora
Vox of Oklahoma,
Dora Fox, the queen of the outlaws
of Oklahoma, has been caught, says
the Kansas City Journal. No woman
ever led a stranger life than has Dora
Fox. She Is only '2'i years old, but for
eight years the slim, bronze-faced girl,
with it mouth and features that not
even her life In outlaw camps has re
lieved of their beauty, has been the
leader of tin outluw band. She has es
caped from Jtiil under tbe eyes of her
guards; she has led her bund through
a dozen fights with sheriffs; she has
disguised herself and visited towns
where the otllcers who were after her
were testing nnd now at last she has
been raptured after a chase of years,
whliii extruded acioss three States and
has been piiiiicipftied In by a dozen
determined shciilTs. The story of this
remarkable girl, told by herself, Is as
follows:
"My parei ts died when I was very
liltle. Tln.v iei't nothing. I hud lived
all my life nu tlie plains. I knew
horses and cat lie and I knew nothing
else. Naturally. I turned to the cattle
camps to earn a living. That was when
I wus 11. I cooked and sometimes I
helped the cowboys. A year after this
I eiiinmenced the life that brought me
here. I was working on u range In
I'.aMjein Texas. There was a pretty
hard crowd of boys on the ranch and
at Inst I overheard n conversation
which showed me that the three of the
men on the much were Martin, Jack
Simmons and licrt Casey, all notorious
(unlaws. They were planning a raid
one evening when I overheard the
w hole thing. In my excitement I made
a II: tit noise and 1 hoy discovered me.
I was seized and in half an hour I was
galloping over the range Iu tho dlrec
l',ni of the rendezvous with my arms
bound behind me.
'When wr reached the place Sltn
iiiuii tol'l me on account of what I
hint nveiiiennl I would have to remain
n prisoner Iu the camp or become one
of tbe gang. 'Take your choice, little
Great Papers on Important Subjects.
4 . I I i H I
nrfmrtetv fin the
yiii.ruuagtr iuu
feels the necessity
long nearly monop-
HE an
w I I woman
I rather
lo me
strode
years
the tendency of
TIAT.T. of Dnrb
KING
King baby on his throne
Sits reigning O, sits reigning O!
King baby ou his throne
Sits reigning all alone.
His throne is mother's knee.
So tender O, bo tender O!
His throne is mother's knee.
Where none may sit but lie.
His crown it is of gold,
So curly O, so curly O!
His crown it is of gold.
In shining tendrils rolled.
girl,' be said. 'I knew you well enough
to know that if you take an oath to
stand with us you'll do it like a man.
Don't do It, though, unless you want
to.' At first it seemed an awful thing
for nie to do, but 1 had no other
friends, so I swore to be true to them.
"I bad not been with tlie gang two
weeks when they -were sm -rounded by
a posse and we had to light our wuy
out. I had committed no crime, but
I was pointed out as the most desper
ate woman on the range. There were
stirring years after that. We were in
Old Mexico and all through the South
ern States. Half of the time posses
were on our trail, but we fooled Ciem
time after time. Once we were cor
nered and had to fight again. T'ireu
of the boys were captured, but Sim
mons and I escape".!. I'or years I was
compelled to wear men's clothing as a
disguise. After the fight we were
pretty well broken up and I went to
work on a cattle ranch ns a cowboy.
Some one recognized me and I was
captured.
"They say I am an outlaw. Tbcy
say I am a thief, a leader of train rob
bers, horse thieves and murderers.
Well, I don't care about that. They
say I am cruel. They Bay 1 have no
womanly Instincts. That Is a lie. I
am not cruel, and even though I have
lived my life on the prufiie and In hard
camps I hire a woman's heart."
QnQnQnQ
1 1 44 I I I I I 1 4 4
haps seen In the small and diminishing rate of marriage
among college graduate of both sexes."
This same small and diminishing marriage rate Is ob
servable quite as markedly among the graduates of one
sex institutions as among those of co-educational colleges.
It Is furthermore observable to some extent probably am
equal extent In society at large, where the average age
of marriage is advancing and the rate of marriage is de
clining, as in Massachusetts, where the present yearly num
ber of marriages per 1,000 of population is about 17, con
trasting with a rate of 20 three decades ago, and from 22
to 24 fifty years ago. Education, of course, cannot be held
responsible for this change. Its influence, if any at ail.
can only be very small, because of the comparatively small
number in the population affected thereby. We must look
for other causes, and those will prove to be of an economic
rather than of an educational natnre. There is, moreover,
very little co-education of the higher sort in Massachusetts,
and hence co-educatioa would have to be relieved of too
charge made by President Hall, if education in itself is
held indictable. Springfield Republican.
Woman Suffrage.
neuron re tf n jtrtfelA lw lii ..n
suffrage in the Atlantic calls attention
to the disappearance of the claim than
revival 01 iu ine mannisn woman wno
up and down our platforms twenty
ago, and in tinny tenor voices demanded
the ballot in general elections, are apparently in other
business. And probably it is because woman's business
has widened into so many of the fields formerly monopo
lized by men that she is content, and has no time for dis
putations on political subjects. The struggle of women for
"recognition" resulted in one Interesting disclosure, and
one which was a grievous setback for "the cause," and it'
was, that most of the women do not want to vote. They
are no more interested in the petty squabbles of political;
parties and political persons than are half of the men, and'
they realize that because of this lacking interest theyi
would as likely vote wrong as right It Is now eight'
years since an attempt was made in Massachusetts to
muster the feminine vote. It was then found that only on
woman In twenty-five desired the ballot. Massachusetts1
is probably not otherwise minded than the rest of tbe na
tion. After all is said, the woman's domain is the home. It is
her own choice. For those women who, unfortunately, re
frain from marriage the professions are open, and In vari
ous callings they fill no less a place than they would as
mothers of families and wives of good men. The proposi-i
tlon that they shall invade all industries and pursue all'
avocations is as absurd as if men were to propose thera-
selves as candidates for feminine employments. A few1
women have shown an aggressive and even martial spirit;!
but we should choose for companionship the woman who
was not a soldier. Even her sisters would prefer a worn-1
anly woman. Brooklyn Eagle.
The Growing of Insanity.
OT until Jan. 1, 1850, was the number of luna
tics officially registered in this country (Greats
Britain). At that date there were 30,762 In-j
sane persons a proportion to the population of
1 to 536. To-day they number over 113,000.
proportion to the population of 1 In 293 and!
much of the insanity which comes under!
treatment to-day is to end In dementia and to become In-!
curable. Melancholia has shown In recent years a con-i
sideroble rise among the educated and private classes off
the Insane, and recovery is rarely the happy issue of!
melancholia, more especially in men. But relief,
nay be at hand nevertheless, and may come from the samel
lircction as the evil. The increased Intellectual activity,!
which is cow reproached for bringing in its wake a train
if psychological ills, will become more disciplined In Its
working, when the mental health of the people will im
prove, and the blessings of the fuller life which modern
duration and modern invention have brought within their
each will be enjoyed with impunity. London Lancet
BABY.
His kingdom is my heart,
So loyal O, so loyal O!
His kingdom is my heart,
His own in every part.
Divine are all his laws,
So simple O, so simple O!
Divine are all his laws,
With love for eud and canse.
King baby on bis throne
Sits reigning O, sits reigning Ol
King baby on his throue
Sits reigning all alone.
Lawrence Alma-Tadenia.
Delicious Freedom.
Dr. Ilurd, bishop of Worcester, waa
a perfect type of the eighteenth cen
tury scholar and gentlemaa He waa
devoted to the Church of England, and
his habit of thought led him as far aa
possible from dissenters; yet one story
told of Mm shows him In the light of
a charity greater than creeds.
In the course of his preaching he bad
for a long time noticed a poor man
who seemed very attentive to his aer-.
mons. The bishop had talked with,
hiui and made him little presents; boti
suddenly he missed his humble audi
tor. Then one day they chanced tot
meet, and the bishop said, "John, II
don't see you at church as usnaL How'
Is that?"
John hesitated. Then he spoke out.,
"My lord," said he, "I'll toll you Hm
truth, and I hope you won't be offend-
ed. I went one day to hear the Meth-j
odists, and I understand their plain
words so well that I've attended that
ever since."
The bishop pulled a sovereign out ol
his pocket, and bestowed It on hla old!
friend.
"God bless your aald he. Mo where
you get the greatest profit to yonn
soul."
When a man la la trouble, the woaa.
en are apt to tklnk It la love; but It la
mora apt to be atoney.