RAWLINS hid a bank
BETTY - . . : ud a huge one at
that. But Betty had a greater
fortune in her face , Cor she was as
pretty as a spring beauty , and though
she "was perverse and pouty when she
wanted to be she waa ordinarily as
sweet as a violet.
Betty lived In the summer time at
Lowland Glen , not many miles remov
ed from Fort Sherman , a big garri
son with enough young officers on
duty to fill the ranks of a company
had they been forced to drop the sword
and shoulder the Krag-Jorgenson.
Betty loved the mlltary what girl
doesn't ? and If the truth be told
Betty's heart was set on marrying into
the soldiery , but she had made up her
mind secretly that he couldn't think of
looking at anything less than a colonel ,
and when she thought of it she sigh
ed , for the colonels in Uncle Sam's
regulars were all so dreadfully old , and
Betty was only 19 , mind you.
There was young Roy Lanyard sta
tioned at Fort Sherman. He was
mighty good looking , Betty admitted
this to herself , and It. wouldn't be a
bit hard to love him , but Roy was
only a captain , and nothing but a
colonel would do. Captain Lanyard , to
get into the middle of things at once ,
was just as desperately in love with
Betty as a young soldier just old
enough to know his own mind can be.
He didn't care a rap about Betty's
CAPT. BOY LANYARD LOOKED ON AND
WAS MISERABLE.
bank account ; In fact , he never gave It
a thought. It was juat Betty herself
that he wanted , but he didn't dare say
BO.
Now Betty had another failing , not
uncommon among American girls not
old enough thoroughly to understand
that Yankee husbands are the beat in
lire world , and that was a firm belief
ihat the Ideal condition in married life
would be that which would come from
a husband who was a combination of
Englishman and English army officer.
"The colonels are younger over there , "
jsaic" Betty to herself , "and they are
ail of aristocratic family , and , oh
well , Englishmen are just too lovely
Jor anything. "
Th'e summer colony at Lowland Glen
-was unusually large that season. There
were buuohetj of swell doings , as the
.slangy Yale cjuusiii of Betty would
put I * The army officers from Fort
Sherman were much in evidence , and
one ? young captain in particular was
rery much in evidence in the vicinity
of Miss Betty Rawlins. Betty saw th. ?
evidence clearly , and how she did wish
that the president would retire some
few hundreds of superior officer's so
that Roy Lanyard could tack the ab
breviation "Col. " to the front part
of his name.
One day there was excitement at
Lowland Glen. Mrs. Calumet had in
vited two Englishmen , one of them an
army officer , to spend the month with
them at their summer home. The
news reached Betty the morn.ng after
the arrival of the Calumet's two
guests. Twenty young women had
told her about it Let the girls alone
for spreading news of this kind. "And
Betty , " said one of her * Informants ,
"one of the Englishmen is a colonel in
his majesty's service , and young and
good It/oking at that. "
Betty's heart gave a thump. "At
Jast , " she murmured to herself.
The next afternoon Betty met the
Englishmen at the Dexter Country
Club. Her heart fluttered a little as
the younger of the two men the other
was old and out of the running was
introduced to her. Colonel Reginald
Southcote was his name. It fairly
rang of aristocracy and militarism.
Betty knsw that he was a simon-pure
Englishman all right enough because
of his name , his accent and his clothes
which didn't fit.
For the n 3 week Colonel Reginald
- fca-vlin's shadow.
Southed&SSL Baltr
Captain lucj Lanyard kx > ked on and
was miserable. Beity gave him two
dances and about three words during
the entire week.
"No show for one of Uncle Sam's
poor artillerymen when there's one of
King Edward's men with a drawl and
a monocle about , " sighed peer Captain
Roy.
Colonel Reginald Southcote was not
long in finding out that Betty Raw
lins had a pot of money and that she
adored the military. Betty asked him
one day what his regiment was , and
lie replied pro/aptly : "I am the colonel
of the Royal Yorkshire Regiment , "
he said.
Betty had heard tales about English'
men pretending to be what they were
not , but the colonel looked honest
enough , and the girl was half ashamed
of herself when she went to a library
In the city and took down a British
military gazette from the shelf and
looked for Royal Yorlckshire Regl
ment. She found It all right , and wlti
the name of Reginald Southcote sel
down as colonel thereof.
From that time Betty was very cor
dial to the colonel. She turned the
conversation occasionally on the Boei
war , expecting to hear some deeds ol
daring' modestly told , but the colonel
was'strangely silent on the subject oi
field service , and Betty put it down
to a brave man's reticence when 51
came to speaking of his own acts on
the field of battle. Betty might nol
have liked it had she known that when
she was looking up the colonel's regi
ment he was making inquiries in cer
tain financial circles about the extenl
of her bank account. The report seem
ed to please him , and he proceeded tc
make hay while the sun shone , and 11
was a particularly cloudless month ai
Lowland Glen.
Betty knew with a girl's intuitior
that an offer was not far away. She
felt a pang , however , every time sht
saw Captain Lanyard and saw bov ,
miserable he looked , though he triec
to put a brave face on the matter. 11
the truth be told , Betty cried a littl <
in the privacy of her room when she
looked at the glorious old flag floating
in the sunshine at the flagstaff peal-
in the fort beyond , and sighed am
sighed again.
One day Lawyer Coke , who looket
after Betty Rawlin's estate , hearc
from a close friend that a certain Eng
lishmau had been inquiring about Bet
ty's financial standing. "Fortune hunt
er if not a fraud , " said old Coke t <
himself , and then , as luck would hav <
It , he happened to pick up a copy 01
the Broad Arrow , the journal of tin
united services of Great Britain
Lawyer Coke looked at it His eyei
fell on a paragraph and he chuckled
He folded the pap.er up , put it in hi ;
pocket and took the first train foi
Lowland Glen. He marked the para
graph in the paper and put it where h <
knew Betty would be sure to pick i1
up , and from the nature of the publics
tion he knew she would b ? siir ? to reac
it from start to finish.
Betty Rawlins felt that the hour was
coming when she would have to an
swer a question put to her by Colone !
Reginald Southcote. She was think
ing of this when the picked up the
Broad Arrow. She knew what the
paper was , for she had heard of it ,
She read it eagerly. The date of the
paper was three months back. The
marked paragraph caught her eye. She
read this :
"General Powell-Baden Inspected the
Royal Yorickshire Regiment last
Thursday. It was the first training
day of this militia organization for a
year. The new men were in poor trim ,
and Colonel Reginald Southcote , who
has seen no foreign service and very
little at home , had hard work to give
commands and to sit his horse prop
erly. The regiment will need overhaul
ing to bring it up to even militia stand
ards. "
The paper dropped from Betty's fing
ers. "Militiaman ; never saw a day's
real service ; couldn't sit on his horse ; "
and then Betty gasped. Her thoughts
turned to another paragraph that she
had read in an American journal. It
told how one Captain Roy Lnndyard
had received the Congressional medal
of lion r for personal gallantry in the
saving of the life of a comrade under
fierce fire in the Philippine Islands.
Betty knew that night at the ball at
the h ) tel that Colonel R-'gimild South
cote was seeking her out , but she
avoided him. Captain Roy Lanyard
met her and she smiled on him , and
there was a look in her eyes that made
the young soldier's heart leap. "Won't
you go for a walk with me ? " he said.
"Yes , " she answered softly.
As they passed down the hotel steps
the moonlight fell full upon them , and
Lawyer Coke , who was standing on
the veranda , smiled , and , being a bit
of a wag , he turned to a friend who
had been watching the course of
events for a month past and said :
"Alas ! Poor Yorickshire. " Chicago
Record-Herald.
Gladstone's Statue.
A statue to Gladstone has recently
been placed in Westminster Abbey on
the spot marked for it years ago by
Dean Stanley. It occupies the last
vacant space for a standing figure in
the north transept The London Times
describes the statue.
It was made by Mr. Brook of the
Royal Academy , and Is a marble figure
on a marble pedestal , which at pres
ent contains no inscription. On one
side is the statue of Sir Robert Peel ,
on the other , that of Lord Beacons-
field. The aisle is called the "States
men's Aisle , " and is near the pulpit.
1 Gladstone stands In the robes of a
doctor of civil law of Oxford , with his
face turned slightly to the left. The
likeness is good.
There Is no ceremony of unveiling
monuments which , like this , are erect
ed by the authority of Parliament No
display is necessary to call attention to
the honor which the nation pays Its
great men.
A woman usually follows fashions In
dresing her hah * till the second baby
comes , when she hasn't time to experi
ment , and clings to the style prevalent
then till her death.
PLEA FOR THE BRIDGEGROOM.
He aa Well as th. * Bride Is Deaerv'ns
of Consideration.
Rhapsodies on the bride are bounti
ful. The dear creature , of course , h
worthy of all the good things sail
about her. She is the loveliest , sweet
est , most charming and altogether mos
delightful thing that ever came dowr
the pike or the central aisle of th <
church. Her very presence is a bene
diction and a suggestion of the splce <
Isles , and her dresses ah , they ar <
dreams ! If you don't believe It jus1
get into the company of any of hei
girl friends ; you won't have the trou
ble of asking about It The bride Ii
" " " of columr
"it" She Is always "top
next to reading matter , " which being
Interpreted means that she gets choici
position , where she and her beauty anc
her gown would positively demand at
tention if It were not given freely
gladly and voluntarily. She deserves
and has , the admiration of all creation
And yet we make bold to put in t
little plea on behalf of the bride
groom , that he is not forgotten. Or
dinarily he cuts mighty little figure ir
the proceedings. He Is regarded rath
er in the light of a piece of the stagi
settings , or a foil to show off the ra
diant beauty of the bride-elect. Thai
he is a very necessary adjunct to th <
function which brings the bride al
ablush into the public eye will be ad
ruitted.- But who notices how he ii
dressed ? Not even the bride herself
She and the others have a hazy pictun
of a man with something black oi
his body and something white on his
hands , and some of the spectators maj
observe a scared look on his face. Bu
that is about all. Nobody says
"Wasn't ' he handsome ! " "How per
fectly his costume sets off his splendle
figure ! " "Wasn't he just too sweet foi
anything ! " Comments and compli
ments of this kind are reserved foi
the bride. The bridegroom doesn't ge
them. And , to tell the truth , he i ;
glad of it. He is well cjntent for "her'
to be the recipient of all the attention !
while he stands meekly in the back
ground. It's less embarrassing ane
less bothersome.
It is after the wedding and in th <
home life that the bridegroom show ;
up big , if he is of the right sort
and most of them are. It is when th <
honeymoon has waned that he prove ;
to the bride the wisdom of her choice
It is when he takes off his coat anc
hustles hard at work all day and ii
tender , loving and true under the ev
ening lamp that he demonstrates he i ;
not the clothing dummy that he ap
pcared to be during the wedding cere
mony. It may be that the world wil
not notice It. No mention of the fad
will be found In the society columns
and the neighborhood gossips will have
nothing to say about it. But when he
has made her a happy home the bride
will understand and appreciate the
fact , if she is of the right sort , and
most of them are , and will bless the
day that brought to her her own
bridegroom. They are both good people
ple ; may they live long arid prosper
Chicago Chronicle.
Further experience of the recent
storms of dust is told by the African
mail steamship Borneo , which , before
reaching Teneriffe , ran through a ter
rific sandstorm for thirty hours.
The record of voracity belongs of
right to a stoat recentljT caught at
Penuyhill , Pa. During the night the
bloodthirsty little creature had killed
eleven turkeys , thirty ducks and twen
ty chickens.
"Most people are aware , " says the
Scientific American , "of the power of
egg-shc'lls to resist external pressure
on the ends , but not many would
credit the results of tests recently
made. Eight different bear's eggs were
submitted to pressure applied extern
ally all over the surface of the shell ,
and the breaking pressures varied be
tween 400 pounds and 075 pounds per
square inch. With the stresses applied
internally to twelve eggs , these gave
way at pressures varying being thirty-
two and sixty-five pounds per square
inch. The pressure required to crush
the eggs varied between forty pounds
and seventy-five pounds. The average
thickness of the shells was thirteen-
one thousandth inch. "
The idea that alcohol or any other
stimulant can ever impart strength
must be abandoned , says a writer in
The Hospital. A stimulant has a cer
tain effect on the circulation , and this
may enable the person who takes It
to exert more strength temporarily ;
but the energy that he uses comes
not from the stimulant , but from his
own blood and tissue. A similar mis
take is made in the administration of
a stimulant to relieve a feeling of de
pression or sinking. An Injurious re
action always follows. Alcohol is
harmful also in diseases of the kid
neys or of the liver , but It seems to be
good for disease of the lungs , and its
effect on appetite and digestion may
be good when properly employed.
When "stimulants" put one to sleep
and quiet agitation , they are doing
good ; when , on the contrary , they
raise the pulse-rate , and cause excite
ment and wakefulness , they are doing
harm.
Au Opinion.
"Do you think that betting Is
wrong ? "
"It depends on circumstances , " an
swered the town oracle. "If you can't
afford to lose. It's wrong ; If you can ,
it's merely silly. " Washington 'Star.
A man's strength develops when he
has something to do ; not when he Isr
Idle
WHO PAYS THE FARE ?
Women's Arenment Now Not Who
Shall , but Who Shall Not.
! Is woman becoming so stingy that
she will not pay her neighbor's street
car fare , as she has insisted on doinj ;
ever since the first old mule car started
on its maiden trip ? Everyone has seen
women aboard a car arguing as to
which had the right to hand the con
ductor two nickels.
"I'll pay It I've got the change right
here , " one has insisted , as she delved
deeply into her hand bag.
"No , I will pay it Here's the right
change. Oh , don't break that bill.
Well , all right , go ahead , but , remem
ber , I will pay it as we come back. "
All this , and more , would the other In
sist.
sist.But
But occasionally one sees a different
kind of argument nowadays. The oth
er evening a boarding house matron
and a brood of old maids boarded a
North State street car at Huron street.
Before the guardian and the covey
were seated every woman of them had
thrust her hand into her pocketbook.
"I'll pay It. " said a tall and angular-
brunette. "How many are there ? Six
of us ? Oh. my. I've only got a quar
ter ! Lillle. will you lend me 3 cents ? "
"No. I'll pay it , " said a short and
red-nosed blonde. "You paid the last
time we were out together. "
And so it went the round of the com
pany. The conductor stood waiting for
some one to decide to hand over the
necessary . ' 50 cents. The1 angular bru
nette didn't do it. The blonde didn't
do it. The matron didn't do 'it. What
each of the three did do was to chime
out at the same time :
"Oh. it's Marie's time to pay. "
Marie , a sad-eyel. : pale-1 ppetl crei-
rure. with an indiffe'cnt air about her.
rammed her hsind into the eavernoiis
inside of an old hand bag and drew out
six nickels. harriVd them to the con
ductor and then tuined her back on
her five companions. It would have
been no puzzle for any pa pen.'Jtpr dur
ing the next live minutes of the rid ? to
have found the girl that paid the fare.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
How He Keeps Contented.
W. H. Truesdale , president of the
Delaware & Lackawanna railroad , was
discussing the question of happiness
with a friend not long ago. Various
arguments were advanced as to tire
best way to find contentment. "I was
greatly impressed , " said Mr. Truesdale ,
"with a talk I recently had with the
president of one of the largest bank
ing institutions in the country.
"I met this man about six o'clock
one night on an elevated train in New
York city , and expressed surprise that
Ire cl..r.M linve bcr c--s ' ! r.t h:7
office so late in the day. 'This is noth
ing unusual for me , ' said the bank
president ; 'I am down town as late
as this every day , and very often I
remain until seven o'clock. I have tried
a good many ways to find contentment
In ray life , and have decided that the
only thing that brings it is good , hard ,
steady work , day in and day out'
"These words have stayed with me
ever since. There are many people
in this country whose aim in life
seems to be to get money by 'hook
or crook , ' without working for it , and
there are many others who inherit
lar * e fortunes. These persons spend
their lives in dawdling In this corner
and that corner of the world , trying
to spend their time without doing any
thing in particular , and they fail ut
terly to find the peace and happiness
of which they are in search.
"Young men , and old men. too ,
should learn the truth that the only
real , lasting pleasure in life comes
from being actually busy at some work
every day ; doing something worth
while , and doing it as well as you
know how. The more we appreciate
this fact the more will we be able to
make the most of our lives. " Suc
cess.
Real Mean of Him.
"I don't wish to take up your time , ' '
the caller said , "unless you think it is
likely I might interest you in the sub
ject of life insurance. "
"Well , " replied the man at the desk ,
"I'll not deny that I have -been think
ing some about it lately. Go ahead.
I'll listen to you. "
Whereupon the caller talked to him
45 minutes without a break.
"And now. " he said at last , "are
you satisfied that our company is one
of the best and that our plan of doing
business is thoroughly safe and con
servative ? "
"Yes. "
"Have 1 convinced you that we fur
nish as good insurance as any other
company and at rates as cheap as you
can get anywhere ? "
"Yes , I am satisfied with the showIng -
Ing you make. Perfectly satisfied. "
"Well , don't you want to take out
a policy with us ? "
"Me ? Oh , no. . I'm a life insurance
agent myself. I though I might bo
able to get some pointers from you. "
The Conscienceless Alligator.
"I can't go down in dat water wid
you , Br'er Williams , " said the con
vert ; "I too 'fraid er alligators. "
"Nonsense ! * ; said Br'er Williams.
"Didn't it turn out all right wid Jonah
after he wuz swallered by de whale ? "
"Yes , " replied the convert , "but a
Georgy alligator is rno' tougher dan
what a whale is , en got less conscience.
After he swallers you he goes ter sleep
and fergits all erbout you. " Atlanta
Constitution.
Recommendations to Burn.
Mistress I hope you have some rec
ommendations.
Bridget Ricommendat ms , Is it ?
Sure I have 12 or 14 in the last four
months.
There Is always room at the top of
a ball costume for more costume.
THE SODLi'S RETURN.
By T. A. K. Gcsslcr
I will arise and go to my father
Luke xv. , 18.
The sweetest of stories told in any
-jngue among men is this beautiful
parable of the prodigal son. Every
where is it attentively heard. Simple
even to plainness , told ten thousand
'times ' , It never loses its marvelous
What is perhaps most wonderful
about it is that , while the quiet of the
wanderer is never for a moment hid
den , while his transgression is set be
fore us in characters so distinct as
never to be mistaken , we do not for
a moment lose our sympathy for the
wanderer himself. So the Master wish
ed it. For so lie opens the inexhiiust-
ii le fountains of the divine love to our
vision ; so He shows us how lie re
ceives sinners and eats with them ;
how He welcomes the guilt to the
feast of His love and rejoices over
them as a father over a child that
was lost
And yet this sympathy turns alto
gether upon the incident to which this
scripture directs us. Let the narra
tive have another termination and our
pity turns to disgust Lot it read :
"But he was besotted and rejoiced In
the husks with the swine ; he longed
nol. for his father's home ; he ignored
its plenty and died in his wretched
ness. " We should then say : "Miser
able brute , he lived and died as he de
served. "
In the strange land to which we
have come , whether our feet go into
flower gardens or deserts , we are apt
to lose knowledge of the fatherhood
that is over us. The material advan
tages of tire world , all its profits , hon
ors arrd emoluments , can never satisfy
the highest aspirations of the human
soul. We want something more endur
ing and profound. Nor will art , litera
ture or sentinrent satisfy the craving.
Not Jiijythrng that exhausts itself in
the realm of the intellect or the emo
tions nlone responds to tlr ? soul's higlr-
tst aspirations. The leverage by
which it is to be lifted must be out
side Itself. It wants God.
The burden of sorrow , care and an
xiety that oppresses us requires a
higher ministry than this "strange
land" affords. Its comforts are but
"husks. " Many a business man who
reads these words to-day shudders as
he recollects that the Sunday rest is
already half gone and thiit to-morrow
he must resume the grind of yester
day and take up the agonies that had
only been laid aside during his rest
ing spell. The mother who left the
body of her child In the cemetery
few days ago is not relieved by the
thought that she shares only the com
mon lot of mortals. A tenderer hand
than that of philosophy is needed to
stay the rush of her tears.
No , it is not satisfying , this "far-
country. " Many of its gifts are high
and noble ; Indeed they are all of them
of the Father's bestowal we must not
forget this when we are tempted to
belittle the world's favors but they
are only the media and not the sub-
etance of a divine affection. We need
to get beyond arrd above them all to
the perennial fountain from which all
beneficence flows if the soul is to be
satisfied with perfect refreshment. "I
will arise and go to my Father. " Let
every reader say this to his own soul
to-day. Beyond and above all songs
and psalms , beyond and above all rites
and ceremonials to the loving heart of
the Father !
There is no room for doubt as to
my welcome , for Ills arms are always
open to receive His sorrowing , suffer
ing , penitent children. They are His
very own. He gives them a peace
which this world can neither bestow
nor despoil.
My Father ! When every soul shall
come to the sense of proprietorship
which this pronoun suggests , then
shall men cease to tremble before an
awful tyrant and that sense of des
pair which accompanies the idea of
an Impersonal or absent power that
is above us perishes. The vague yearn
ing that had its birth in our early
childhood when at a mother's knee we
learned to say , "Our Father , which
art in heaven , " finds a higher realiza
tion than was then possible to our
dreams , for the heavenly gates have
opened and the Father has come dowrr
to meet his returning child in an in
effable ministry of comfort , peace and
love.
IIIE RENEWAL C < T
Byjr. . J. A. Kldd.
In the aged , childhood , youth and
manhood are not dead. They still live.
Childhood has only been put to bed ;
youth Ijas only gone off to school ar
manhood has only engaged in busi
ness or enlisted in the army or gone
oil"on arr exploring expedition into
the regions of old age. In due time
childhood will awake from a long , re-
CresMng sleep and come bounding out
of bed more joyful than ever ; youth
will come IK me from college with his
-es sprinkling with joy and his face
$ uinjr with wisdom and knovdge ,
urn ! manhood will return from the
battlefields of life and the weakness
of old age enriched with firmness , en
durance arrd experience , and together
they will blend into one glorious and
composite being , embracing all the
stages of human life minus their de
fects and Imperfections. Childhood
will then have lost its whims , youth ,
its follies and age its wrinkles , sallow
hairs. Thus
skin , dim eyes and gray
youth , it seems to me , is to be the per
manent state or condition of redeemed
human life In the great future. It is
certainly the most joyful and desira
ble period of life. Goethe has truly
said : "All men would live long , but
no nran would grow old. " This deslro
Is of divine origin , and must therefore
be gratified sometime and somewhere.
I cannot believe that gray hairs , dim
eyes , wrinkled faces , sallow skin and
trembling limbs represent the normal
condition of human life , because they
are evidences of disease , decay and
death , and disease is an abnormal con
dition brought on by sin. God made
health the normal condition of life
and disease the abnormal condition.
Irrgersoll once said : "If I had been
making the world instead of God I
would have made health contagious
instead of disease , " to which a medi
cal professor replied : "Then he would
have been compelled to have made
disease instead of health the normal
condition of life. " How dreadful
would this have been ! But God knew
better how to make a world than in
fidels do.
Now , if the decrepitude of age is the
result of disease , and disease is an ab
normal condition of life brought about
by sin , it follows therefore that all
these abnormal conditions will forever
disappear when our redemption is
fully completed in the morning of the
resurrection. All the weakness , cor
ruptibility arrd dishonor to which the )
body Iras been subjected on account
of sin will be exchanged for iucorrup-
tion , glory , honor arrd immortality. (1 (
Cor. xv. , 42-58) . Where there is no
decay or corruption there can be no
old age. This was remotely antici
pated by Elihu , where he represents
an old afllicted skeleton of a once
powerful nran returning to the days
of his youth , "His flesh shall be fresh
er than a child's ; he shall return to
the days of his youth. " ( Job xiii. ,
19-25. ) The Psalmist also says of the
man whose life has been redeemed
from destruction that he shall have
his "youth renewed like the eagle's. " '
( Ps. ciii. , 3-5. ) Arrd Jesus says : "Be
hold I make all things new. " ( Rev.
xxi. , 1-5. ) From this it appears that
the earth , together with all its re
deemed inhabitants , shall eventually
be rehabilitated upon the original plan
of immortal youth. Age will pass
away as wlrrter , and the spring of
childhood will bloom out into the fra
grant and luxurious summer of Im \ 1
mortal youth. Those who were once
old and infirm will resume the appear
ance of their youth and' experience
again , its health and enjoyments , en.
riched a thousand-fold by the knowl
edge and experiences of manhood and
old age. They shall look out upon the
renewed and glorified earth through
renewed and glorified eyes , hear its
joyful sounds with the ears of youth ,
taste its superabounding joys with the
mouth of youth , walk its highways
with the feet of youth , and enter
heartily into all Its joys and activi
ties with the vivacity of youth. Oh.
blessed state ! Oh , happy condition !
And it will be immortal. We shall
never grow old again. "And there
shall be no more death , neither sorrow
row nor crying ; neither shall there be
anj more pain : for the former things
( sin. disease , old age and death ) are
passed away. " Look up , then , ye
aged , "for your redemption draweth
nigh. " Your childhood , at times , is
partially awakened and your youth
may be partly renewed In this life ,
but you will not embrace them in all
their glory until you pass into the
great beyond.
Family Bookkeopins.
Most persons know so many com
petent business women that it will not
do to take too seriously the popular
slander that the better half of the race
cannot master the principles of bank
ing. Still there is occasionally a joke
of this kind good enough to stand with
apologies , and a recent one from the
Chicago Post will not be taken i.niss.
"My account book , " she said , 5fc , ud-
[ y , "showed that I had eight dollars
md fifteen cents more than I really did
have , so I felt at liberty to spend the
excess. "
"But there wasn't any excess ! " he
protested.
"Oh , yes , there was1 ! she replied
'The book showed it"
"If you didn't have the money , " h
urged , "it was a shortage. "
"Certainly not , " she returned. "It
svas right there on the book eight
Collars and fifteen cents more than 1
* ad , and when the balance
was sc
: nuch bigger than it should be , I fell
: ree to spend the money. "
"If yon had more money In yotn
? urse than the book s wed , " he su *
jestvK "what then ? " '
"I - > uld have "
spent it
, she an--
; wered. "Either way , If. all the
; ame. "
Now he is trying to get h r to giv
rp keeping accounts.
It costs the average vessel
$1,800
? ass through the Suez canal. x
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