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- ME&S&&8mm&&&Z& tt&Tf'sr- ' "- V'sr? --.-' s.-fxijr"'-' , t PRKvW irr , iS ? ,w- f J. -vi I. I? 5 IM 1 ." Sit v - : . - K i " - ' ' ' y Udehj pmiSAttL ms i '; NkOMrtjVtM. S HEt BEITS I -; asm ---- -awcsssH- '-v asm- sssfito aeonse an nwarainc over the m M fsctdmt they have no koteL IwlMa wavnc toOaoeolalsst end pat inn few days greeting old OhadieMilk, the Columbus prater, 1 putting a little glace on the rsniden- es of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Brain,soathof the Piatt. iKinaaa,who werefortan- ato a the land drawing ia South Dako ta, haie gone to look after their iater eata aad pat ia crops. iMte la. 5. Lanhaa visited at her ia Stroawboiir Croat Thursday aatilTaeedaj. Freak Gerbold bought a new spring wagoa aad haraeai laet week, and H. I. QUett anrehassil a aew baggy. iMttStS. ' Miss Katie Eagle ki slowly improving. A irumber of the farmers have finiahed The Miawe May and Katie Reed and Harry Erb aad Alex Aaderaoa apeat Saaday with the family of Henry lactaffa.4. Andrew Ebaer is baildiag a aew barn. Mr. aad Mia. O. W. Wagner leaves Tnarsdsy for Bapert, Idaho. Mr. and Mm O. T. Weber and eon Lawieace and Wax Coaner were ia Oolaaibae Taesday: George Maria has sold hie farm and will stove to Oohunbas, having purehas ed aieaideaee oa Nineteenth street. Battel, L W. T. Erast aent two of his tei to Oreetoa Tuesday for aeed oats. Ernest Meays was moving some bnfld- 1 far Gerhard Loseke last week. The msaoaa hare the foundation for the additioa to Adolph Groteluscben's heaseoompleted. The tiaatees of the Loseke Greek cfcarch held their annual Monday of this week. Gyt Waybright, a student of the Wes leyaa aniversity at TJaooln, is spending the week at the home of H. B. Bead. JeateJTe. 3. EL Bass is reported on the eickTlkt. John 8ehroederhas retarned from his trip to Buffalo oounty. Miss Emma Luera spent Easter Bun day at her home in Columbus. Fred Bergman left for Biverdale Mon day, where he will reside ia'the future. Mrs. G. W. Mueller of Edmund, Okla homa, ia visiting at Gerhard Krumland's. Mias Minnie 8tamer of Chapman was Tiaitiag Miss Kate Buss the first of the Mm Max Miller has so far reoorered from her recent Alness as to be able to ait op. Miss Belle Newman ia spending her vacation on this route with her The Buss school, with George Camp as teacher, closed their term of school Monday- Mrs. Herman Luescben of Bobeet is viaiting her daughter, Mrs. Alma Biason Louia Branken and family of Colum bus speat Sandayat the home of John Nearly everyone on the route is going to the basket social at the Bobeet school house Satarday evening. About a dozen of Alice Newman's frisads spent Esster 8unday with her in honor of her twelfth birthday. Mrs. E.B. Biason visited from Satur day aatil Tuesday with her daughter, Mra. W. J. Newman, on Route 2. Miss Frieda Albera, after a two weeks' visit with the family of Peter Lutjens, left for her home north of Monroe Sat arday. lithe weather ia favarable; managers Araold SjehmiU aad GasUve Branken will open the season with a game of base hall Saaday. Mias Mary Kummer of Gruetli visited last weak with her ooaaia, Mrs. John Sapp af Boato 4, aad aa aaote, W. J. 1 oa Una route. Mr. aad Mm. T. J. Hawk of Columbus spent Saaday with their daughter, Mm. W. J. Fianamia. They brought as an Esster treat a greea rhubarb pie. Moth er earth is asadiag forth her good things earlier thia year thaa usual. Btmtyoawaattobuyorbaildahome? The EqmitaWe Buildiag, Loan and Saving Asa'n. wiU help yoa, and famish vamthaaMaeyoaamomeaui aotioa. By their works ye shall know them. 1 want good Job printing, aad ; sell at the Journal omce. New losatioa oa Elevaath atreeL B. a Palmer the tailor, eleane, djts Ladies aad Geate' cOothisg. aad reblooked. Bettoas to order. Ageat Germaaia Bye K to stock ia Series Q of Lead, Loan ft Baikunar will be received at oak of a. mecaaaseasr. at MAMBAHD SOFT COIL UII8 FILLEB PSOHPT LT. P. . 8MITM LUHBES 00. JsbTw PtraBBTtw, .fte have la aerea af vehatee mad aiitoVaaaa fraat aity Ibalai flat Mliai,fl-eieeOa. I By MBS. HJBISH 1 (Conrrlghti hy J i uMy dear Marjorie, my debts -are, itoaltively keeping me awake al cdght," aaid Lady Isabel, plaiatively. : "Poor IsabeL Bat why did 'yoa jtacur them If you hadn't any moneyr ; "My dear girl, doat be so okh (fasbioaed, aad give veat to wretched obsolete ideas. Surely evea, yoa mast iknow debts are. like Loadoa dirt, and) -accumulate before yoa can turn. jround " she alghed "there are such (heaps aad heaps of things one has ito have." i ; "Bat evea Loadoa dirt can bekep jdown by coatfaaal cleaning," I ref Barked, aeateatioasly. "Tea, I know It can, aad yoa can fco on,", snapped Lady IsabeL "Why ot say at 'once that debts earn be jkept down by coattaual economy? Bat il detest economy, aad the things are Jhere bow or rather the moat of them &ave been here and they've got to be jpaM for aomehow or other." "Wont the people waltr I asked; "besides, I thought Felice, through Mrs. Barrington-Brown " : "Oh, Felice is all right," interrapt jed Lady IsabeL airily. 1 shan't pay aim anything, of course; Its the flow ers and hairdressers and Vernon's food, and all the horrid necessities Jthat one cannot economize over that Will have to be paid for. Ton see, you must have your table decorated; and then yoa must eat at least, you piast feed your husband and yoar friends," she added, unselfishly. "Can't BMe do your hair?" I sug gested, "and aave something oa your .hairdresser's bUir i Lady IsabeL in whose bedroom we Iwere sitting,' took-a softly-waved carl from a drawer aad tried it loosely rolled against her face. i "Four guineas," she murmured, "for (two, and" sighing "yoa want sack "I've Managed the Whole Thing nifteently." fa lot of motoring they get dusty, aad then one has to throw them away." '- "But, IsabeL you have each lovely !halr of your' own." : She shook It in a shower about her 'shoulders. '. "Yea, it's fairly thick, isn't it, bat .it's that horrid sort of hair that cornea 'out of curl very easily, so I have to wear a thing motoring and in the country, because it's one of the inev itable laws of social success that you must never be out of carl for a single moment. To be mal coiffee Is to be beyond the pale." She glanced at my hair. "Of course," she added, kindly, ."it doesn't matter for you, dearest, be cause, you see, you're so very clever, but for . poor little me, who have (nothing but my appearance, I must keep myself thoroughly well groomed, and all that" "How much do you owe?" I asked, ignoring the allusion to my apparent ly erudite appearance. Lady Isabel rose and took a little hook from a writing-table In the win dow. Emilie, 74." she began, "and Fe lice no, nothing to Felice. Wait, 111 scratch him out. Parkinson Broth ers, 93 horrid wretches, 'they have actually sent me a solicitor's letter!" "Fancy!" I ejaculated; "how very inconsiderate of them!" "Tea, Isn't It? And I hear they are awful sweaters, and underpay all their employes, so I shall just keep them waiting as long as I can!" "I should," I said, sarcastically; "it would doubtless make them treat their employee better atilL if you kept them oat of their money altogether but Lady Isabel was looking down her list, aad carefully adding up the totaL "It's 743 and something altogeth erbut nothing of course; to what most women owe but I mast, pay 5H of it before the season begins." "What do other women do who owe money?" I asked. "How do they pay their bills?" "They do things I should never dream of doing," ahe said, with cold severity. "I shall at least pay my debts quite honestly; besides, I shoald hate taking actual preseata of moaey men would be aare to want thing in exchange. A few days later Lady babel seat melt little note asking me to go down with her to Sandownl Her letter; as asuaL contained lta keynote in the postscript. "Have found a way to pay all these wretched people, and probably have sfwapthlag evea la handVV : "My dear IsabeL yoa have safely too much sease to take to saCttagT 3 said, as we settled ourselves ia the Jtrala. 1 Sir she echoed n take to hetttag? My dear girl, I coald never, never do .anything so wearing way I should ha wrinkle in a I "But your I "Ok, yoa cant pay debts ay aaid with Jto esn B. Bewlia) the owner. ;aValnas, .If Ton allow to gtvayoa a tip K pats yea I fully "yoa know. Marjorie, how. I should detest an obUgatton. I never take anything; from anybody without giving them something la exchange," ;ahe -added, virtuously, "although, of ettarse, it mast he something I doat mind parting with." "It is a great thins to be thoroughly jiadc ependent," I said, cheerfully, as we arrived at the station. - i "By the way," said Lady IsabeL (1 have asked Mrs. Barrlngtoa-Browa to lunch at leant ifa her party the mere money part of it I peaa. bat of coarse, they are nearly all my guests. Let me see, there's yoa and iPolehem you know Jimmy, Lord Ath .lerington's brother." I nodded. "Tea," she continued, "and Vernon, and two Tnice girls who have opened a sweet ihatshop, and want to know Mrs. Bar? 'rington-BrowB." i "They would," I said; "aad is Lord lAtherlngtoB here?" "Tes, bat he is not coming to lunch ;eoa. He'a awfully angry with Jimmy jUSt BOW." "Really! what for?" ' "Oh! simply because the poor boy hi running n bookie show of his own," .said Lady babel; "not under his own name, he calls It Something-dt FOo, bat I forget the name." t What do yoa mean that Mr. PoJe ,aem has become a bookmaker?" I tasked aghast "Why I thought book jtes weren't gentlemen, IsabeL" "Oh! aren't they r ahe replied. "Oa the oontmry, lfa often the people who jbet with them who are not the gen tlemen." i "Why are yoa bringing Mr. Pole- (hern to luncheon?" "WeU, yoa see, Pre promised to C-eIp him out with his brother. r.Hevsi, nice old thing; really, and neiiisfjt jfond of me. so I am going: to tryab ismooth matters- down for ,JJpfe. xiora Ainenngion is oniy angry ;i iibii wiimiiij nw uuuo vu vmuLjW, wet afraid he will have to pay . . - , - ., . - -I - ;, ,eue in mm oe oisgracea; you xmawt khey write bookmakers'" names ',nV when -they can't pay. I forget, whfuV jthey call it" . 1 .. ! "How can yoa help himr I. asks j"8urely you are not going to lead'Mm money?" 'V-'.f- ; She toughed. "iyf "No, of course not, yon know I haven't any; but I think I see a way, and ifa always so nice to patch up a family row, especially when yon know khe people." "Blessed are the peacemakers,.! murmured, admiringly, and added .ta myself: "I wonder If it means 'peace at any pricer " " We arrived at Sandown, and I talk ed to Mrs. Bsxrington-Brown, while Mr. Polehern and Lady Isabel strolled about until luncheon time, when they turned ap hungry and in the best of tspMts. Mrs. Barringtoa-Brown knew Mr. polehern very slightly, but after laneaV jBon they went off together, while Lady vlsabel and I remained behind. i "My dear, Pve managed the whole thing magnificently," she said, lean ng back with a sigh of content "aad Jimmy Polehern to frantically gratefaL I have promised to see Lord Ather ington and talk him round, and tell ldm Jimmy's doing; welL" -' "But Is her "Tes," said Lady Isabel, a little bar riedly. "Ton see. Marjorie, Mrs. Bar rington-BrowB simply loves betting be cause she thinks it's thoroughly fast and up-to-date; and yoa know how these sort of deadly respectable peo ple love to think they are thoroughly fast" '. "But wont she soon lose all her money?" "Oh, no! It's a quite unfathomable! fortune coal mines or tin mines, or. something that never gives out like' gold and diamonds so often do, just when you think you're going: to get rich and It will be such a pleasure to her to bet through the yoanger broth er of a. peer." ' "It to very ktod of yoa to help her to be fast," I laughed; " aad Mr. Pole-) hern, to he-to help?" ' "Oh, he to going to be the bookie,"' said Lady IsabeL "Of course he won't advise her, as that wouldn't be fair." "Ton wiU do that part off it, I sup pose?" "Oh, Marjorie," ahe said, reproach fully, "as though I shoald. Why. I don't know anything- about racing, and I should give her the very worst ad vice. No, she must use her own judg ment and then she can't blame as if ahe loses. I expect she will be quite reckless when she once has got the gambling mania," added Lady Isa beL cheerily. "I see," I said; "and I suppose H will put Mr. polehern on the right side' of the gate?" "Tes, and she wDl simply love dotal; it; so they will both be happy . to gether." "And your debtor I asked, 'la' what way to It going to help yoar debtor - "Oh, my debts," said Lady Isabel, in' a tone as though ahe had almost for gotten their very existence. "Wen," you see, dear, my debts will be part of my commission!" Limit of Forbearance. Seeking to lad a cure for his denf- the dike of Wellington once em ployed a celebrated aurtot The doctor gave his patient a strong solution of caustic to inject into his ear and, can ing on him later, found him reeling in agony. The treatment had set' up a furious inMammatton which, unless checked, would result la death. The heariag wss completely destraVed. The aurtot expressed his grief and mortifi cation. "Do not say a word about It yon did your best" aaid the duke, add ing that he would not tell a soul about it Thus encouraged, the doctor asked if he might continue to attend him, so that the pablic might see that his confidence had not been withdraws. Thia was too much. "I cast agree to that" said the duke, "for that would be a Ito." Forced to extremity. Is she able to get moae husband-without aaUng for WT' "Tes, bat she had to divorce hiatal lordertoi order to accomplish it" Life. HELD IN SLAVERY ALL SiaMKINB BilBUECT TO TY- i7 ". " Z - .. -v JIANNY OF FASHION. H AW - lisupeewviv ima wwy iw - - m-m BPS-.f. SnAU am nSBM Si . - - - . m vtien to Dress as one i Tka nwlrlnii Cry mt V One Woman. . iVA Clothes aad ail their little acces sories are 'without doubt the invention -of the devLL says John Lane In the ' '" - "- ---- .,-.. ipi.A Mhar Hav T was at .a garden party, and there I realised, as perhaps never before, the appalling nature of the top bat In towns one accepts it as one does mo tor omnibuses and traction engines, but when it meanders among trees And does the polite with sloppy ices and tea that spills Its way to its des tination one's soul cries out against it 'The Achillea' heel of a man is bis hat He must guard that as he does his reputation, for it is at once his strength and his weakness. It would hart an archbishop less in the eyes of the public to commit n crime than to wear his hat on the back ofhto sacred head. It to the aim of all human creatures to look alike. If it were not so each would dress as he pleased. As it to we spend half our life trying to look like everybody else. To be conspicuous Is nearly a crime, and 'for this reason we so frantically pursue the fashions. Eve to probably the only woman on record who could dress just as she pleased, and for that reason she to the only woman we know of since the world began who had leisure to culti vate her mind. To think of the amount of time n woman wastes on her clothes! Why, iir'men were to spend as much time at !ttlr tailors or buying their neckties I the world's work would never be done. tWhen one looks back on one's life ibeje's feminine life it is melancholy J tor. realize how much of one's troubles tin owing to one's clothes. viI remember the despairing cry of n .woman looking hopelessly through her 'linntmhA T ahnnM have been a bet- (ttr-woman If I had been born with s feathers!" How well I know just wbat ahe meant! She was examining disconsolately a shabby white satin dress the kind of satin that betrays its plebian cotton origin. "I wish I were n guinea hen with respectable apeckled feathers!" she cried, as she gave a discouraged shun to the ward robe door. "Then I wouldn't use up three-quarters of my intellect get ting the wrong things cheap!" Sunday clothes are the most tyran nical in the world. It takes a heroic woman to go to church in anything but her best Subconsciousness is the precious faculty bestowed, on n privi leged few of hearing the sermon and at the same 'time studying hats. I have known a.tnlle dress the sweet est and most innocent looking thing In the world to go out on an icy cold winter night would go, you know! and kill the girl Inside. I assure those feminine pioneers who clamor for their rights that above everything else they should demand equality of pockets. Try to Imagine n man doing his errands with a purse, handkerchief and shopping list in one hand, and the tall of his skirt In the other, his umbrella under one arm, meanwhile .making an effort to keep his head clear f or business problems, aad at the same time keeping a wary eye out for motors.' He couldn't do it! U the worthy ladles who have so much enthusiasm, and whewill interrupt our great orators while' they are busy being eloquent would only demand a law requiring every woman to have 16 pockets what a splendid service they would do their bothered sex. 1 Once I met n man who was lured from the joys; of Piccadilly, just as he stood In frock coat and top hat to a rural retreat five miles from a rail way station. "Goodby," he said, to an impolite burst of rapture. "I fear my soul baa not been In harmony with na ture. "Don't blame your soul," I said aa we shook bands: "your soul was all right, but you had'on the wrong hat" A Youthful Ulysses. A Grecian boy, ten years old, whose name requires 23 letters in the spell tag of it arrived In St Louis, name and all, after journeying alone more than 7,000 miles. -When he reached Union station there was a tag on his coat which showed that Konstantenos Argeropu los (the name) was bound for the -hope of his father, Nicolas Argero pufos, 413 South Broadway, "and would the omclals please see that he reached bis destination r . Konstantenos wss unable to speak a word of 'English, but he' received much attention on the train from Bos ton to St Louis and kind passengers fairly overloaded him with good things to eat The boy sailed from Piraeus, Greece, about three weeks ago. St Louis Republic "" Maintaining Chinese Students. Owing to the frequent complaints seat to Pektag by the Chinese minis .ters In the various capitals of Europe and America concerning the irregular ity of fees granted to government-supported Chinese students abroad, and on the recommendation of Sir Chen tung Liang Cheng, K. C M. G the Chinese minister to the United States, for the uniform allowance to these students, the Chinese government has. after due investigation Into the mat ter, drawn up rules fixing-their fees, Including medical expenses and all: Students In England, 192 In n year; in the United States, 3900 in gold ia a year. Chinese Times. x FIND PARALLEL IN BIBLE, ' Similarity In Careers ef King David and King Arthur. The history of King David, as re toted la the Second Book of SameeL to fan of aaraDeto to Arthur. DavM'i renown begins with hto fight against the gtont Goliath, who to the proto type of an stoats ia the romances of the Middle Ages. They belong al ways to the army of heathen, provoke the faithful knights, and are Jajfortont in. Br' I HJmi BBBBBcTnBK-BBVSaBI A B)m m 'I I I nStl BaBBsBnsVSIJaamm I f 1J iii ScKo I V Bk mSSm Yow rcancmbcr tkc hunger yom amst I I A -" in the child's health; do aoc kayctil I I it with hm tood by the use of poor .baking powder. I I Have a delicious, pure, homomade fhuffio, cake or bitcmit ready vHiea tsbty I I , coame in. To-frc sure of the purity, yovj oust me I I KvYALrowDER I BB BuVBSkl MBklVA A - 2 - B Sl . . -L fl fftifw--i ----aM-H-i gi i--EiE-r-jffM3g p yemf n0Mf? l -ttv3-PCMC Wk yOW-T mW-H.-f'' B I 9i CHttiEVCBCO Bft OUT COOK-ME I b & m h ROYAL is absolutely Pore. I COLONIST RATES In Effect March 1st to April 30th Go the Mountain Way. Insist that your ticket reads via Colorado Midland Railway. THROUGH T0URI6T GrtRS Lea fiatalt $2250 ( Above Bates apply from Mbsoari Birer cosmos potato aad wcat thereof. east of the liiw slicbtly higher.) Aak F. L. PEAKINS. Geaenl Aseat. 219 B. ltth Street. Omaha. MORKLL LAW, Geaenl Ageat, 5M fibeidley BaUdlae, Kanaaa City. or yoar owa local ageat oa any railroad, or (B. M. SPEEIIS. Geaenl Faeeeager Ageat, Deaver, Colorado. MZOLAXD ROUTE connection "is The "number of the Knights of the Round Table, says the Jewish Chronicle. They are the fa mous 42 to whom Arthur resorts on 'occasion of danger, and each of whom has n special accomplishment In wielding the spear or hnadllng the' sword. Now the explanation of this number Is to be found In the Bible. If you glance at chapter xxil In the Second Book of Samuel, and again nt chapter Iz In the First Book of Chron icles, you will find n list of the mighty men of David, and their number varies between 40 and 45. Again, in the history of Arthur, we find two further episodes resembling two episodes In the life of David. The one Is the provocation of Lucius Ti berius a fictitious name bis haughty demeanor, his war against Arthur, and his defeat, which seems to be only an adaptation In English form of the war between David and Hanun, the king of the Ammonites, who haughtily had provoked David, treat ing disrespectfully his messengers. The other episode treats of the rebel lion of Mordred, the nephew of Ar thur, against his uncle, and Is a copy of the rebellion .of Absalom against his father, David. Both rebels were afterward routed in battle. Jewish legend speaks of a miraculous sword, belonging not to David, hut to his chief captain, Joab, akin to the Call bur of Arthur; likewise a mysterious hand grasps the keys of the temple after its destruction, like the mys terious hand which took buck that aword of Calibur. LEFT TO THE HIRED MAN. One Farmer la in No Way Bothered! by the Auto. "No; I can't say as them automo biles bother me much," replied the old Long Island farmer, when the ques tion was put to him. "They did bother me for a year or two, but then I dis charged my hired man." "But what had he to do with ltr . 1 discharged him and got another one who had the interests of his employer at heart" "Yes; and whatr '1 left the whole matter to him. He seemed to know just what was wanted and I didn't Interfere. Now and then I saw him digging a ditch across the road to keep? the water out of the gar den, aad aow aad thea I saw an nuto strike the ditch and turn a somer aault, but I didnt ask any questions. If they wanted my team to haul the auto to town it waa lve dollars. If anyone with 'a broken leg stopped with aw the charge was tan dollars a week. "Now aad thea the hired maa would go out of aa evealag with a big coil of rone oa his hack. I sever asked Xhethor he was golag.a-fahlac or to $25.00 ftotoM $20.00 Bates tie up some cow. If"he stretched it across the highway, and an auto went sailing ten feet high and came down with a plump, I wasn't peeking out of the window to see. I think he was sometimes absent-minded and left the old wagon in the middle of the road of a night. I'd be woke up by a crash and the swearing, but I wouldn't get up till some one knocked on the door and said that two fellers had been smashed to pulp. "Oh, no; them skidoo machines don't worry me any. They don't worry any farmer who .has got the head .on him to pick out the right kind of a hired man. Just let him know that you don't run to things with wheels on 'em and then leave him alone. If he's got your interests at heart the autos will quit coming your way after about a month.' They know when they've got enough." BOOKS WRITTEN IN BLOOD. Real Curiosities In the University ef North Dakota. Books written in good red blood, now nearly 300 years old, the letters still clear and plain, Is a sight well worth going miles to see. There are but few such books left in the world. One of the best collections of these is now safely lfldged in the great Scandinavian library of the Uni versity of North Dakota, Grand Forks. They are not written in human blood, for such was not the custom in the far-off, frozen island of Iceland, whence these volumes come. Ox blood was used, for this was the only ink at that early time in this northern land. ' The books are bound in rough strips of beech wood, reenforced with hrass and iron clasps. The paper is faded and brown, but the curious old Norse letters, carefully penned with n goose quill, are still distinct and clear, although the bright crimson of the blood ia somewhat dimmed. These volumes are all on religious subjects, and consist of psalms, Bible versea aad spiritual teachings. They are very precious books, after their long wanderings with the Ice landic Immigrants from Iceland to Canada, and from Canada to North Dakota. But at last they are at home. In their adopted land, even as the Ice landers of the state, and the thou sands of Dunes, Norwegians and Swedes are at home in this new wealth. the taw. The boy stood beside bis grandfath er, his eager eyes intent upon the lit tle yellow violin which the old sun's busy fingers were shaping and finlah lag. "Bat yon can't finish It, grand father," said the land ia denpatr. "Toj ena't stake those little .place" "Why can't I make the grandfather crisply. "Because yon haven't a.-saw la enough for that, "Then 111 nuke n saw." saM the ott man. And he did make It. Tears afterwards that hoy, grown to be a welt-kaowa vfoUnlet, under stood that his own mastery, not only of the violin, but of many of the nroh lems of his life, wss largely due to the force with which that one seateaee took possession of his mind. The world is full of people who "go so far and then give out." But the great achlevement8 of life both In ma terial and. Ia spiritual things are reached by those whose faith fails not at the last crisis, and who go em bravely and "make the saw." Girl the Nation Is Freed Of. One of the first places we visited fen Syracuse, N. Y was the fMsry FHaa beth" candy manufactory. which we were most shown by the mother of the fa young lady whose story is well knoi now. A certain prominent and posedly wealthy judge of Syracuse died, and when his estate was settled up it was found to be so involved that there was no income. His childrea began to be seriously embarrassed, but "Mary Elizabeth" a granddaugh ter who, in the prosperous days, had become an expert in making choco lates, came to the rescue. She began to make candles, and the family all turned in and helped. From nmaHoat beginnings, and after many straggles, they have built up a thriving business, have a force of employes, adequate machinery, and get a dollar a pound for delicate confectionery, unrivaled beneath the stars for purity and clean liness In making. Now, that's the kind of girl America Is proud oft Western Christian Advocate. IN THE CONGO BELT. Author Telia ef the Herrera ny Nati- Very black Is the picture of Congo life drawn by EL D. Morel la his new ly published book. "Red Rubber." He says: "Out there in the forest, the broken man through thelong aad ter4 rifying watches of the Bight what Is! his vista in life? Unending labor nt the muzzle of the Albtal or the can-: gun; no pause, bo 'rest. At the ut-! most, if his fortnightly toil of rubber is sufficient, if leaves aad dirt have; not mingled in too great proportion; with the juice, he amy tad that he has four or five days a aaoath to spend among his household. If so' he will be lucky, for the vines are; ever more difficult to find; the dis tance to travel from his village goat, er. Thea the rubber arast he taken to the white man's fine station, and any! number of delays star occur htonV the. rubber worker may leave the star tion for his hosse. Four or five dayaS freedom per mouth that to the very maximum he can expect. Five day to look after his owa affairs, to he with his family, aad always under thai shadow of the sentry's rile. But howl often In the year will sack good for tune attend him? "Shortage oa oae occasion oaly wiB entail the laslj, orthe chain aad de tentionworse, perhaps, if the white men has a fever or an enlarged spleen that day. Aad if he -laches! If. tart Ing from an uneasy sleep there la thai forest, whea shapes growh-g -oat of the darkness proclaim the rWag of another day, he wakena to the knowl edge that his basket Is but half fuH. and that he mast begin his homeward two days' march betimes not to mise the roll can, his heart fails -- ail he turns his face away, flanging further into the forest, fieetag frosa his tormentors, seeking: only oaethlasj biiadly to get away from his Ufa and all that it miiisss what will - pea? "WeU enough he knows. Has he aei seen the process with his ewa eyes? Father, mother or wife wm saw ,iae Dwcuuamg la tie Ana wnitner ahaH he lee? est eacompasses (the forest with its privetloas by Mat .m v- ... . r ttve, seeklag saeh roots and berries win he gala some other vUlaga hi the that k may he a friendly .,? Bat 111 taste the sentry wfe3 1 la f ?i?'t f , . J ft--fil!?- L"-: ".!. A v., . 3&S--ftfc3