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THB COURIER.
a baby's coffin snatched from the woman
woo noias u in ner arms outside a
church in the dead of a night illumi
nated only by the flashes ot a terrible
storm, stands between you and a thou
sand dollars you can only rail at the
author's insanity. But the Record
wanted a mystery and Mr. Edwards, the
author of "Sons and Fathers" has con
structed one. The person who comes
the nearest to the solution should be
given a place in a mad-house. He will
have shown a rare sympathy with
alienated minds that can not fail to be
beneficial to the insane.
Was there a baby in the coffin? If so
whose? Everybody the sory mentions
is alive until near the end when only
four survive. Gerald's mother is Rita.
Edward's Marion Evan, his father it the
old violinist, but jvho is Gerald's father?
The story is one of heredity and he re
sembles John Morgan more than any
one else. It may turn out his father
was in the coffin foreshortened on ac
count ot the demands of art. This is no
greater absurdity than the explanations
Mr. Edwards is good enough to make
throughout the story. When Edward
Morgan comes into his inheritance he
enters what he has some reason to sup
pose is his grandmother's room. She
died after her son had graduated from
college and returned from a long trip
abroad and yet a boy's jacktt, half re
paiied is described as resting on the
table with a needle still sticking in it.
This is a mystery almost aB great as the
paternity one. It can not be plausibly
explained. If the last chapter reveals
the reason for all tha contradictions and
impossibilities that the story contains,
it should be done in shorthand one
ipsue of the Record has not columns
enough to contain them. Ab a mystery
monger the author is a success and evi
dently the Record did not want litera
ture. Ho who rails reveals that he
struggles against the impotence of sanity
over insanity.
The statement is made in several
papers that the Salvation army during
the past five jears has nearly doubled
in size in the United States, while in
England and Canada it has lost ground.
This would seem to forebode ill for the
future of the movement should the
Volunteers attain to the porportions
hoped for. It shows that Ballington
Booth is a bettor manager than hia
father. As well as a better American,
Patriotism and pisty have been united
in America since the "minute men"
took their guns to church with them.
General Booth struck a fatal blow at
his supremacy in the American Salva
tion army when he tried to Anglicise
it.
A Lincoln officer of the Salvation
army, a woman, when asked if the small
detachment here would go over to the
Volunteers used violent language and
gestures in denouncing Ballington and
refused to credit him with honest
motives in leaving the army. She said
she was an officer. Her intemperate
words and fierce gestures place her in
the ranks. However the company here
is a small one and it makes little differ
ence what it decides to do. Their meet
ings are marred by a constant appeal
for money, by the poisonous air and by
a very dirty audience, nor are the band
on the platform as much of an example of
the really surprising effects of soap and
water as the preachers in other demon
strations invariably are. A spotless
soul will live in a clean body. A clean
body will begin to desire a spotless
character. The spiritual and the
physical are full ot instruction for each
other.
The Salvation army meetings have
always been interesting to other people
but only as an experiment. In Lin
coln so far as cleanliness is concerned
the army has failed. It iB difficult to be
lieve that it haB succeded in any partic
ular failing in that, the obvious first step.
A Baptist Salvation crmy might succeed
better. The connection between water
and the body, and the souls purity
emphasized by that congregation so
strongly the Salvationists might see it.
S. B. II.
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Holding the Pass
What though at famed Thermopylae
Death grimly stalked, and King was he;
What though the Persian darts fell fast
As hailstones driven by the blast,
Still stood that royal Spartan few,
And still LeonidaB was true.
Though red with gore urops was the
grass,
He held the pass.
When rank oppression damns the land,
And ruthless might bids progress stand;
When railroads feed the public cares
By "all the traffic (strained) will bear,"
Then doth some editorial wight
Stand voiceless as the voiceless night.
And, while the people cry "Alas!"
He holds the pass.
Sonnet
Ere battled Winter, at fair Spring's first
nod,
His weakened forces northward home
hath led,
While remnant drifts aDout our path
are spread,
The crocus bursts the bondage of the
sod;
And', lo! where late among the snow we
we trod,
The blossom sunward lifts its dainty
head,
White, purple, gold, along the garden
bed,
To catch the first warm glances of its
god.
Thus, in some gloomy season of the
heart,
When sorrow all our Joy hath over
spread, And ev'ry voice seems but to make
us sad,
New hopes arise are pain can all depart;
We fling aside the discontent and
dread,
And go our way with faces bright
and glad.
Mortimer Mensell.
A Sublime Appetite
They were seated at the restaurant
table, he looking over the menu, when
Bhe said, gushingly,
"Do you know, dear, I have always
longed for the society of a congenial soul,
one who loved the good, the true
"Pig's feet, baked beans, cold tripe,
griddle-cakes, which will you have?"
interrupted "dear" at this point.
"I'll take them all," was the soulful
answer.
Never Fails
"Where are you going?" said the banana-peel
to the passer-by.
"Oh, just taking a little trip," replied
the passer-by, as he sat down upon the
sidewalk. New York Tribune.
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street, where he will be pleased to see
his friends, and meet the public. Mr.
Friedman, of Sweetland Candy Kitchen
Philadelphia, is our candy maker.
If you want the finest candy all
made here and always fresh try Frank
M. Rector, 1211 O street, the finest con
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