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The Shepherd's Little Son.
(By Emma. Jesateet
-4! mother, lion:wr, wales. 1 IT41: 1 li"
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1 hear 4100;1 tit`
tilt` -t reeked ‘eitb lierit; •
'enege,, emnetheag rt: hir
t hat slsttll hoar: ail' !"'
"Nay, nay, my ebild. lie :dill and weep,
.Eate a. „the lambs die ebtenierde keep."
"0 mother. einne bee! le tb 3 tleor end
hair the mush!, ;eve •t,
And eee t Ise gli t t ering forme th t
elong with inevemente item;
.And 0, the star; it shines mo brigett tt
makee my pukes beat."
"Nay, nay, my son, thint doet• lett dreamt
by night things are ing u het they
seem."
"0 iggeenfeels;.ouid that t ha 1 non t
4411"41‘' steeee,„„,,, ,esetther mietbis
• Yon thought- it •was Le veil! and ilea,
but IWO, 110W very Bela!
0, let me follew-elis not far haste
With all my 'night!"
."Nrity, and; come, rest, thee in thy bed,
•And sleep these troubles hem, thn head."
"0 mother, Mother do not sleep! ' an
angel drawetli eettr;
The shepherde field, is all aglow, but
they are bowed with fear;
The angel speaks -what does he may? 0
mother, help 1110 hear!"
"0 hush thee, hush, nee restless ehild,
And cease thy fancies strange end wild!"
40 mother, now I hear! he steed a Babe
is born this night;
In yonder town He lies asleep -a fair
. and holy sight!
• a•
,caris birth -star in Um sky flea
shines so woutli•ons laight!"
•
"Nay, nay, my ehil•ti, t•hou doeI• but
dream•
It is the oden stars that- gleam."
"0 mother, wake and run with A --for,
see, the eloping -41s gn! • -
There's Oise will earry mt. :tt•r
frosty fields, I know,
To where the little Baby Hee whom an-
gels herald lail"
The mother mlept, nor feleowed elown
Her little son to el3thleneen town;
•Saindependen1.
Prayere•
Almighty and ever 'Wedged God, our
heavenly Father, who rib Thy wondrous.
love aud mercy didgt send Thy Son,
Jesus Christ, to be 'elle Saviour of the
world, we thank Mule that to us have
e the tidiass, 0' great joy. Send
e gOod 'news through 011 the
Let Jesus take possession of Eis
. sing has the world been
eed hee hatred, strife and cruelty; now
the Prince of Peace resign. Come
ee again, thou King of Love, and sub-
tle. the hearts of the people unto Thy -
Let Thy dominion extend to every
d let 01 men own Thy sway.
She earth rejoice with &d-
ined with the elory of
SC
land
Then slut
ness and be
God. Amen.
Strength Never asekarrier. •
Strength of conviction is never a bar.
eier betWeen two persons. Jt is often
Two
iiiiIiitsenly . supposed to 1:e so.
men agree to work together for a emu- "
mon cause; little by little they End it
difficult to co-operate on certein details
of work, as both es-ree-efseige Mita- -
Illy one or the
tee el tem i ' eill have to aban-
eee 0 I.
emplace]
8 In 'eery way admirable.
co-operation, though
And he e
s abandolifir104
itesseeepts, 118 the ne-
cessity for thi
cause th f tilat he is such a good
linan and has such strong convict'? J.
strong
.may be a strong man, liut he misse.
ns! He
fact that, in this peeuliar ease, it hs ev
ought to b 11.100.
• weakness, not his strength, that ge -`' ee
ates him 'from a man with .•-'1"h"
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a'd The False
Maud turned. the letter up and read
"Mrs. Falconer O'Leary," tout her fee
flushed almoet 10111110. anti then valet
and ehe looked from the letter to he
fat.lier and her 'lather lo " 0 hind o
unruvutont.
"Thoro, you perceive, my dear, wha
sort of a right this misguided youn
man wethes to establish to you. Now
" give me the letter that 1 may return it
Conie, my dearewhy do you hesitate?"
But Maud still detained the lettet
and loo•ked 4lintlit and. anxiety frin
her father to her mother. Dauiel Hun
ter lied patienee with her and gave he
time. At keit she said:
"Father, 1 ltnow that you are a jus
man, and that you will tell me what i
right. I am very ignorant, father, an:
I wish to know whether tis 1,eally is m
true name that is written on thie tette
-because if it is, I must, keep it!"
"Your. name, my dear? Why, fissured
ly not! What do yea' mean by sueh
question? Anfever me."
"I meant, father, to ask whether tha
ceremony which. waa almost over Inn
not made 1110 Falconer's wife?"
"No, not If it had been quite over! As
suredly not, You are under age, Mis
Hunter. You belong to your father .aie
mother. Only they tan give you 10 mar
riag,e."
Maud, for answer, silently handed
her father the letter. Daniel Hunter
efter a few moments' reflection, seemed
to have eonquered his first ;emotion of
haughty indignation, He sent his ser-
vant to tell Little Len to wait for an
answer. 'And then leaving the mother
and daughter together, he went to his
study, taking the letter with him, Here
he sat down and wrote to Falconer
O'Leary, intending to inclose Falconer's
letter in his own. Daniel Hunter seat-
ed himself in Ids leather • chair, drew
is writing table before him, and set re-
efkiting what he should do in this case.
Most fathers, in Mr. Hunter's eireuxus
stances, would have felt themselves
more than justified -would have felt
themselves constrained to break off all
friendly intercourse with the wild, un-
promising young radical agitator, and
to destroy at once and forever every
shadow of hope of his future union with
his daughter and heiress. Most fathers
would have punished the boy's insolence
by sendihg back his letter inclosed in a
scornful reply, or .with a move seornful
silence. Most fathers would. have hur-
ried their young daughter away, and
brought every influence of family affec-
tion and filial duty to bear upon her
heart, and every allurement of travel,
change of seem, soeiet•y, splendod and
luxury to nharm her fancy, and. win her
from the memory of her childish Love.
And as far as the' daughter's welfare
alone was interested, this might have
been very well, and it would ho.ve prom-
ised not 'unfairly for eventual success;
for it was evident to Daniel Hunter, as
to an others who saw it, that the af••
fection of Maud for Falconer was only
the tender, gullelees :outspoken lover of
an •only sister for an only brother. Yes,
this plan .would have done very well for
Maud, only it would have destroyed Fat-
-cones; And most fathers would have fol-
lowed it, but Daniel Hunter was not like
meet men. For one reason, -he had mere
moral power than other men, and he
did not feel obliged to damn a poor boy
whore he might redeem, or with ego-
tistical indifference, to turn and, aban-
don him to his own deetruction, when he
could form, guide and elevate aim to
fame and fortune. Falconer O'Leary was
a wild, impetuous, ungovernable young
radmal-a iglus fatuus,
to lead men into bogs and quick-
sands, where he would airet
Auerneh himself. All this was true,
But instead of hurling this firy young
spirit down hell. as a native element,
Daniel Hunter would snatch it "as a
brand from the burning," would place it
on a hill, where it should be a light to
the world, "a burning and a shining
light." That were a glorious thing to do,
and Daniel Hunter was the man to do
it. There is no great deed ever done that
is not founded on a self -conquest, self-
sacrifice -some darling selfish interest
must be laid upon the adtar to purehase
the power of doing it. And the greater
the power needed, the greater the propi-
tiatory sacrifice denutuded. And under
theee conditione Daniel Hunter had the
power to redeem this soul alive. The of-
fering required from his was a great one.
Do you think it was a small affair, for a
man of his exalted rank, a man familiar
with the adulations of the world, accus-
tomed to all the splendor and refine-
ments of courts and capital cities, and
having one beautiful daughter, his sole
helms% to withhold her from the splen-
did destiny that might await her in the
great .world of society, and keep her as
the prize held forth to encourage and re-
ward the upward strugglea of a young
man without family, fortune, friends, or
dintinetion, except such es would be eon.
eidered a credit for him to lose. But this
Mr. Hunter resolved to do. And having
thus determined, he felt himself the ar-
biter of the youth'e destiny, the archi-
tect of hie future fame and fortunes.
He laid the paper out before him, took
it pen, and wrote to Falconer. No words
of mine could do justice to the apirit
of this letter. He began, however, by cor-
recting the hofe mistake as to the claim
he inade upon Miss Hunter. The marri-
age, he said, (Well supposing it had been
completed, mutt - stilt have been illegal
without her father'e eousent, Arise Hun-
ter being under age. "Consult," he wrote,
"every. lawyer you pleaee, from a mere
country pettifogger to a thief justice„and
they •will all. the most shallow and the
, are bound to 'whim great social env -
e vese, a world-wide renown. By no means.
1, But become worthy of my ehild; and
✓ whether the world indorsea your worth
or not, you phial have her. It is not
your worldly potrition that I fine fault
t with. I myselt run a man ef the people,
g and 1 ehould say to a prince, though he
, were heir to a throne and came voila-
, ing my child, what I sity to youe-prove
yourself worthy of my Maud before you
ask me to give her to you, And now you
n Win bear with the freedom of my words
for two reaeons. First, that am the
father of the maiden you love, and your
father also in years and hi knowledge
of life. And, secondly, because I am real-
ly and disinterestedly eveking your good
ae that of my own:" lastly, he wrote
that in returniug the letter, lie acted
in no spirit of resentment, but from
mature deliberation, and under the
strong conviction that in writing and
superscribing such a letter the boy had
been influenced by paselon, under a. to-
t tat misconception of his true position
.1 toward the maiden. He coneluded by say-
ing that he should be pleased to see hint
at Howlet Hall.
Daniel Hunter placed his own epistle,
s together with Faleoner's, in au envelope,
sealed and superscribed it, and rang for
a messenger, in whose hands he placed
it to Le given to Mr. O'Leary's servant.
In t•he meantime, Mrs. Hunter had re-
, conducted her daughter bask to the cheer-
ful, and lightsome chamber, where
they had just commenced the
morning. And when they were
seated again on the low, luxurious sofa,
befdre the fire, Maud dropped her head
upon her mother's shoulder and buret
into teass-her heart had been slowly
filling for some time and now It over-
flowed in a shower Of tears.
"Now, I wonder why my darling
weeps? Le it because she would leave
her mother so soon for that young
man?" asked Mrs. Hunter, passing her
arm around her •neek.
"No, mother; no, sweet mother! I
could not leave you for the universe.
No, not that -but. oh, I do feel for Fab
cotter! And so would you, too, if you
kneW him -if you knew how he needs
me -if you felt how bereaved and deso-
late he is without me. Mother you
know I have been with him our 'We -
1 have been his helper and comforter
ever since we were children. And, oh, if
you did but know how much he needs
help and comfort, if you did hitt know
how unhappy he is."
"And would my Maud marry himt-
now, tell me true.'
"Yes, mother, if I might, for I pity
Min so much."
"Theo 1 should grieve to see my Maud
tuarry him. Pity is not the feeling iuy
daughter should have for her future hus-
band, but an -elevating love a high re•
spect. My Maud does 'la yet even
dream of the love she may one dey bear
one who shall be worthy of her -who
shall be able to sustain and elevate her."
"But oh, mother !his empty, desolate
home! to find no one sitting by the
hearth! It is enough to break his heart.
I cannot bear to think of it."
"J3ut hie heart is not so easily broken
-it is not eo tender as yours -besides,
he must not stay in that dosolete home,
lt will be even well if suffering drives
him forth. A mountain oottage, on a
barren farm in this remote region, is no
proper place for a talented young man
of this century and country, where tilde
is work and to spare for all. He must
go forth into the great struggling world
and win himself a name aud a place
And thus the mother and child held
sweet counsel together for a couple of
hours, at the end of which time Dainel
Hunter joined them, and the conversa-
tion took another turn.
And soon after the carriage was an-
nounced, and they' separated to prepare
for a drive to the Summit, whither Airs.
Hunter was going to purchase for her
daughter a much needed now wardrobe
of the best materials that the limited
country store could supply. •
Th.ey re,turiTI to.a
That evening after Mr. and Mrs. Hun-
ter had. retired to their chamber,
"I feel very anxious about our little
girl," said Daniel Hunter. "I have seen
her eyes fill with tears several times to-
day. I do earnestly hope that this is no
'Romeo and Juliet' affair between these
young people."
"Do not be uneasy. That Falconer
loves, as he does everything else, madly,
there can be little doubt. But that
Maud loves with any other than a eis-
terly affection I do not believe. Ma.ud's
heart, I assure - wou, has never been
awakened to any stronger, more exelu-
sive love, than that of a sister for her
brother. You Might have been sure of
that, by the perfect openness with which
ehe spoke of her affection for Falconer.
Do girls speak so of their lovers?"
"J. judged as you do -and yet -her
tears!"
"They are a sister's tears for a poor,
bereaved brother -no more than just
that!"
men are always the erasie'S
coworker --ethe strop est
and the read' t to work wgith,
to work with others.
re big enough, and strong
enough, to sink personal feeling and
unimportant details in their indomitable
.purpose to bring about right ends by
rework wit:. others who make have
widely different views from their own.
It takes great strength to work success.
fulyy with our eccentric fellow -beings,
•..
It is a humiliating confession of our
weakness when ive cannot work with
them.
Christmas Bells. •
Ring out the old, ring in the new.
Ring happy bells across the snow;
The year is going, let him go;
Ring but the falee, ring in the true.
4.1.1.veg;'•entrialse pride in place and blood,
The eivie slander and the spite;
Ring in the love of truth and right,
Ring in the common love of eood.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in tbe thoneand years of peaee.
Ring in the valiant num and free,
The larger heart, the kindlier hand;
Ring out the darknese of the land,
Ring in the Christ that is to be.
Christ's Life and His Teachings.
The facts of Christ's life are recount-
ed in the Gospels with as care-
ful detail as are the words He spoke.
•Seme of these facts are of such nature
that they are to be accepted er reject-
ed along with Ilia teachings. Many of
theee kssons are well nigh meaning-
., -
less unmet' it 10 true as represented
We'? ',prang Mit of ems minute
7". -deed of benevolence He
et. Jesns eisitnied
rfi-iee no reason
nt of
*Ito ocrotcliai -
soar started I
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1In to 4 Sle '
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vereal up ;11 that Eis mir- !
r. 11 eredibility ef a
Dot depend( lit, npon the i•ela• 1
rtanee uf the thing reeortle.i.
fi bevel found it in their litsirte 1
miraeles, have fume! c
1 raiee the queetien h.. b
. cede sehl the Oleg-. ottribate
Pim in the W.f. tam -1 tte- t
Hint 0.4 bight a Oafs. in Hie ae•
Al WC grant Him His epote4;
P st.
nest profmigd, weave you that you have
tm legal elami upon Maufl. Consult any
twine of any Christian denomination,
from Coegregationaltit to the Catholic,
ate lbw- will convince yon that eou lutvo
ten riseese,a& relig,itme claim -upon her.
Than sok Villakeeerecknee. and it
ve141 %dem what The Offers hi** deckle:I.
fund is at preeent perfectly filet
tow, cleared away the .11
f yeur falee foundation, let 11871
'en a better hope upon liettneerarninand.'"
and then he proviredtel to unfidd
mvit, and goeil wishee and inten.
hem Ter the boy. ITe said to hint what
leirl said Ur Maud -that be pronoune-
d.m. heaver -able pentence of separation
Piivorn tbolit; that, on the contrary.
• held her up to him as All ineentive
o high aeltieventenie a prize to be won.
erowning glory to a high eareer and
aid Mot if ilur boy's love were anything
Atter. than a mere selfish and exnethat
i.esitri: if it siare a and holy prin-
le I , • 11 1 • • •%
w n hey. eArel T do led 1110821 by this n
flay," Ilaniel /hinter, "that you
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le that tit es
* * * *
The next day about noon, the party
from the city, consisting of Sir Henry
Percival, Miss Ilonoria and Letty Hun-
ter, arrived. They were put in possea-
sion of this piece of secret family history
as soon as possible after their establish-
ment at the Hall. The delight of Letty
was affecting -it betrayed itself in a
burst of tears, as she pressed the new-
found darling fondly to her faithful, af-
fectionate bosom. Honoria embraced
her adopted sister, and touched. her
warm, rosy cheek with her chilly lips,
and then felt that she had done every-
thing that was required of her. But Sir
Henry Percival, the young English bar-
onet, when he was presented to the beau-
tiful girl, started as if out of sleep, for
he had been gaZing on her in a per-
fect trance of admiration. This did not
especially delight Miss Honoria, who cer.
thinly considered Sir Henry Per -
plea' as her own peculiar eava.
In the course of 11,11t
tilk% w somewhat large family
Were My settled in then. winter
liftrerree:"14 mas, But in the Mean-
vparations were in pro.
time therlestatd nothing whatever from
Falconer O'Leary, and Maud grew daily
more anxious; and depressed.
Often in her innocent frankness she
expresed her anxiety and asked her
hither or mother if either had heterd
anything of Falconer, but her patents
had heard nothing satisfactory of the
ping man.
In the meantime, Valeoner had receiv-
Dankl Hunter's generous; letter, but
iaddened by love, Jealousy. disappoint. 8
ent and rage, the boy raw everything r
lietorted through the fable medium of
ipassionte and integhted that hie.
"claim upon Wins indieputable, and
that Daniel limiter knew It to be so,
and had written that temporizing, con -
'dilatory letter only to gain time and
put hit off indefintely. And therefore
Faleoner, to use Ide own expreseion, re-
solved, "by fair means or foul," to get
the maiden iu his power.
Ile set up all one 144 to write to
her and in the morning he took the
lett'er to Howlet Hall, and put it in the
hands of Ja11108, the parlor waiter with
strict injunctione to carry it tie his
young nibitress. And James gave it hito
the charge of Susan, Maud's own maid,
with dh•eetione to take it immediately
up to :Miss Hunter,
It was as yet early in the morning,
and the inaitlen had just Arisen from
her bed, and waa standing before a
dresming glass combing out her• long,
bright ringlets,. when. her maid entered,
and laid the letter on the dressing
table before her. Maud took it up; it
was directed to "Mrs. Falconer O'Leary."
The young girl laid it down again *with
a troubled. countenance, and a tremulous
sigh, inquiring;
"Who brought this, Susan?"
"I don't know, Siiss Hunter. James
gave it to me to bring up to you."
Maud took the letter up oime more,
turned it over, temtemplated the simmer'
seription wistfully, and with another
sigh pub it in the hand. of her maid,
saying;
"Susan, take this letter back to the
messenger who brought it, and say -
mind, now, attend and repeat my words
exactly, Susan -say that it has been
miedirected, observe! misdirected."
"Yes, mitts," staid. the maid, receiving
the letter and leaving the room to obey.
And when she was gone, Maud teaned
her elbows on the dressing table and
dropped her face upon her• hands, and
soon the tears were stealing between
her fingers.
She wiped them hastily away and
lifted up her head .as she heard her at-
tendant return to the room. Susan en-
tered, smiling, with the letter hi her
hand, and said:
"It was Mr. Falconer O'Leary who
brOught it, Miss Ituntei, and he says it
was not misdirected -it was for you."
"And where is Mr. O'Leary?" inquired
Maud, in a faint voice, as tremblingly
she took the letter.
"He went away dieectly, Mies Hun-
ter,"
Maud finished her toilet and dismiss-
ed her attendant, and then took up the
letter, pressed' it to her qutvering
and placed it in her bosom next her
heart, while she knelt and offered up
her morning prayers. And then she
arose from her knees, threw a• light
shawl over her shoulders and prepared
to go down stairs, but when quite ready
she hesitated, drew the letter from her
bosOm, and looked at it again, and
turned it over and over, trifled with
the seal, dwelt upon the handwriting,
and notwithstanding the presumptpous
superscription, pressed it fervently to
her lips and to her bosom, and sat down
upon the 'lobe and wept over it. She
would have given much for the privi-
lege of redding Falconer's letter and
answering it kindly and soothingly. But
she knew her duty better. And after
her fit of crying was over, she arose
again, and folded the shawl across her
breast and went down into the sitthes
room, where the family were all as-
sembled for morning worship. As soon
as that service was over, they all went
into breakfast.
And after breakfast, all dispersed,
each to make ararngements for spend-
ing the forenoon, either in work, amuse-
ment or study.
Maud went up to her father's study
with the purpose of speaking to him
about the letter she had received. She
found both her parents there in con-
sultation upon some building plan. But
as they saw her enter, they broke off
their conversation, and turned with
smiles to welcome their beautiful child.
She advanced to the table and laid the
letter before her lather. Daniel Hun-
ter took it up, and looked at it with
surprise and vexation.
"Another letter front that mad boy,
my child? and with the same insolent
superscription? Really! But I must be
tolerant. Who brought it, my dear?
When did you get it? And why did you
not return it by the mesenger?"
"Falconer in person brought it, my
dear father, and when I sent it back to
him he returned it, and departed abrupt-
ly, before I could send it a emend time,
and so I have brought it to you, sir."
"Mad fellow! I invited him to the
house on the footing of a friend of the
family. Why does he not come?"
"1 , don't know, sir, indeed. Perhaps
the letter would explain."
"Ah1 and the seal is still unbroken!
I see1 Maud, you aro a good girl -a
good girl," he said, putting his arm
around her waist, and drawing her close
to his side, and holding her so, while
he asked: "Now, what do you think of
this letter, my child? You know, of
course, ft is a very presumptuous ect in
him to address you by his name."
"He is beside himself, father."
"And therefore I must endure, if I
cannot cure his madness. Well! this
letter, my love. I should like to know
your secret heart -your sweet Will
about this."
"Oh, my elear father, I should like to
have it to read, and perhaps to an-
swer."
Daniel :Hunter gave the letter back
into her hands, and embracing her fond-
ly, said:
"Take it, then, my child. Go to your
chamber. Read and answer it, if you
please to do so. I find that I can trust
my Maud in all things. She is her mo-
tlier's daughter, truly," and he pressed
a kiss upon her cheek, and arooe and
led her from the study.
And gladly Maucl hastened up into her
awn apartnent, closed the door and
broke the seal of her letter. And such a
letter as it ins! A wild, eloquent, lire
passioned appeal, bringing all the. poWer,
will and obligation of the "potential
mood" to bear upon the subject-cont-
nianding, eXhorting, entreating Maud to
return to him; by her duty, by their
mutual love, by her vows pledged at the
altar and registered in heaven.. Maud
wept over it before she could compose
herself to reply to it.
lfer answer was most loving, tender
and dutiful. She spared no words to as-
sure him of her affection and fidelity;
but she said that she belonged to her fa.
ther, who had the exclusive disiposal of
her, and thnt she could not and would
not trifle with her filial duty; that the
name he addressed her by it must needs
be offeneive to her father, and therefore
very painful to herself; that if he were
patient she would some day or other be
pleased to wear his name, and with her
father'm Hanetion, too. And in concha
sion, she wrote;
alio be continued.)
Wife -A's five -end -twenty years the
day, John, sill' you an' me yds marriet,
an' a' that time we've never yince quar-
relled. 11m:band-I dinna, wunner at
that, my wumman, seeit.', that I've eich
weet temper. Wife ie epeechlest vvith
age,
ABOUT NEW YORK.
FIstiree, Facts end ranch)* of the
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New York city surface) ear conductor,'
have their own flute of morals and do
net hesitate to say that their low wages,
work and the methods of the man-
agers justify. the»t in getting their "per-
quisites" when they can and they fix a
reamonable amount at $2' daily.
There is a daily average of 3.385 visl-
tore In the Bronx Park Zoological Gar-
den,
New York subways are now carrying
90,000 more passengers daily than they
did one year ago.
Board of Estimate of the city says
that the municipality will spend $15,-
000,000 more in 1903 than during the
present year,
There are in the public schools of New
York city 48,000 children who are not
sufficiently nourished properly to do
their work as scholars.
Most of the new houses being built in
the borough of Brooklyn are of frame
coretruction, costing on an average
84,100 each, while a majority of those in
the Bronx are of brick, each one costing
about $6,500.
A burglar who was arrested and taken
to police headquarters last week was
evidently serious when he said: "This
business don't pay near as well as your
high finance, and there is a lot bigger
chanceof being pinched and doing time!'
Daily in New York city 40,500 persons
emir pay the street car lines five cents
for the privilege of hanging fast to
straps for from three to fifty minutes:
New York's Street Cleaning Depart-
ment says it must have 1,600 more men
if the city streets are to be kept in pre-
sentable condition.
During the last year the retail prices
of meat have increased from one to
three cents a pound, poultry has in-
creased three cents, milk one cent a
quart, butter from three to five cents a
pound, loaves of bread have decreased
about one-fifth in size and pastries have
advanced about twenty per cent. in price.
Each incoming transatlantic first cabin
passenger lending in.hiew York has an
hVeragt- 6f ftve trunks. Quito a number
have as many as twenty-five, some have
seventy-five, and now and then one has
a hundred or more.
There is a new use for New York pub-
lic parks. They are recommended as
sanitariums for recovering from drunk-
enness. Friday a big policeman guided
a drunken man through a gate of Bryant
Park with the advice, "Go in there and
sit down until you are sober."
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Felling.-thtling that says the last word
III decorative auty.-the coiling that slrws
no searns—that wfli oudast lite building tself
PEDLAR.
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Coe no more than the
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or structure. 8ide-walls tu match. See
011f newest assigns—nothing like them in
Canada, either 1D. beauty or variety.
Request the free book that shows the whole
ceiling story. Send for it to. do'.
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When you envy the rapid success of
another, try to find one the price he paid
for it.
When you meet a man, study his good
rather than his bad qualities. Man is an
imitative animal.
When you find an employee who is a
machine, look farther and you will dis-
cover an employer who is a crank.
When you have learned to keep you
mouth shut at the proper time, you have
acquired enough capital to embark in
ahnost any business.
When you begin to think every other
mares business is superior to your own,
you will soon realize that your own busi-
ness is superior to yourself.
When you are tempted to engage ht
some business because of the great for-
tunes won in it, find out what the aver-
age success is before you make up your
mind.
When you hear it said, "Don't put off
till to -morrow what you can do to -day,"
remember this does not apply to con-
tracting debts, writing "mad" letters, er
discharging employees.
When you are inclined to believe Bar-
num's saying that "The American people
like to be humbugged," a good look at
any of our populous penitentiaries will
restore your mental balance. -Spare Mo-
ments.
The Lonllness of London.
If you want to be quite alone, with
not a soul to bother you, come to Lon-
don, says an English paper. Of course
there are people about, hundreds of thou-
sands, millions of them, innumerable
nameless people, but if you do not know
them what are they to you? They pass
you by in the street like omnibuses and
the cabs. They are part of the street
furniture. If you know no one in Lon-
don you will be as solitary in your
rooms, or your house, as any legendary
monk in the desert. A singular thing
is the mighty loneliness of cities, a very
agreeable thing if you happen to want
it. But if you do not? '
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Minard's Liniment Cures Garget in Cows.
WATT-KNOTT.
They Had What -Not Chat Over the
Telephone. '
eyece
"Are you there?"
"Who are you, please?"
"Watt,"
'What Is your name, please?"
"Watt's my name."
"Yes; what is your name?"
"I say tny name is Watt."
"Oh, well; I'm coniing to see you."
"All right; axe you Jones?"
"No; I'm Keotte
"Who ere you, then, please?"
"I'm Knott."
"Will, you tell me your name, please?"
"Will Knott."
"Why won't you?"
"I sty my name is William Knott."
"Oh, I beg your pardon."
"Then you will bo in if some round,
Watt?''
"Certainly, Knott."
Then they were cut off by the ex-
change, and Knott wants to know If
Watt will he in or not.
A Proverb Illustrated.
Solomon. bad just remarked that there
MIA nothing new under the rein.
"I remember a winter knit like this,
ottly more so, 'way back in '54," ho
plainest
Thus we sto the petictiee is of ancient
date.
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'ffltIGNING DE.4.711.
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AND ITS LOST LOVE.
A Ouestion of Sentiment on Which
Honest Divergence of Opinion Ex-
ists—And a Queetion of Fact on .
Which Everybody Agrees.
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An eminent writer on the ethical
question of love has Nati: "To be
happy though re -married argues both
adeptibility and courage." Another
authority says that most wonion can
really and truly love two, three or
four times with. equtd fervor, but that
a man can only really love once.
There are many eases cited to prove
these farts, but opponents of the
theory quote with equal readiness
contra experiencea. Tho writer knows
of one man whose wife died of con.
sumption which developed front a
slight cold, and who, though a sense
of duty to his family prompts him to
re -marry, cannot break away from the
old love of his early days. This man
seys he contracted consumption front
his late wife, but learning of the
wonderful merits of Psychine to oure
throat and lung troubles, prompty re-
prted to it, with the result that he
is perfectly restored. He states he
believes it would have saved his wife
if he had used it, He says he would
have used it but for the doctors. Now
he puts his faith in Psyehine and af-
firms that if he ever marries again
his next wife will not die of th.roat
or lung trouble, as he knows Psy-
chine to be a positive cure.
"I herewith send my photo and tes-
timonial for Psychine. I was given
up 16 years ago as an incurable con-
sumptive, by Prof. Lyman, Rush Med-
ica.1 College, Chicago. I suffered sev-
eral years after this until I heard of
Psychine, and through it I was re-
stored to perfect health, which I have
enjoyed for the past ten years. My
sickness began first with catarrh of
the head. I readily advise catarrh
and la grippe sufferers to take Psy•
(saline,
MRS. It. WELLS, "Lyndall, Man,"
Psychine, ' pronounced Si -keen, is
the most wonderful cure ' known to
medical science for coughs, colds, la
grippe, catarrh, pneumonia, pleurisy,
night sweats, chills, wasting diseases,
consumption and stomach troubles.
At all druggists, 500 to $1.00, or Dr.
T. A. Slocum., Limited, 179 King
street west, Toronto.
"Paternalism."
Thar never was a boy mined in the
wide world lthat his mammy amid daddy
didn't have a hand in the minim'. I've
been wet:chin' it ell my life, an' know
it's so; an' if we've got for to have
paternalism, let's have it shore enough.
Wher we see a boy gittin' outin the
straight an' narrow path, let a duly
qualified officer of the law take the
mammy ,and daddy out to the back shed
an' dress 'ean down wi' a leng, keen
lniggy whip, an' have the boy on hand
for to see it Well done.
When the diaddies and mammies of
this country declae that they can't
manage the youngster they've fetched
into the wocrld, it's about thne for the
State to call 'en to taw. It'll be HO
atter awhile that a policeman will be
detailed to ge mu -in -arm Nvi' ever' boy
tri the land for to keep him from takin'
a drink of whisky or smokin' cigar-
ette ,an" then the mammies an' daddies
kin sleep in peace. -Joel Chandler Har-
ris in Uncle Remus, Magazine.
I was cured of painful Goitre by
MINARD'S LINIMENT.
Chatham, Ont. BAYARD MeMUL-
LIN.
I was -cured of Inflammation by
MINARD'S LINIMENT.
Walsh, Ont. MRS. W. H. JOHNSON.
I was cured of Facial Neuralgia by
MINARD'S LINIMENT.
Parkdale, Ont. J. H. BAILEY.
Too Shy.
At a village church -a wedding was
fixed for a certain. date. 'the happy
morn arrived, and in due course a youth-
ful swain and a buxom damsel presented
themselves at the Chancel steps, Tho
service proceeded smoothly as far as the
question, "Wilt thou have this woman
to be thy wedded wife?'" upon which the
supposed bridegroom, instead of respond-
ing, stammered blushingly: "Please, sir,
I'm not the right man! I don't want to
get married!" "Not the right man!" ex-
claimed the clergyman, aghast. "Then
where is the right man? "He's down
at the bottom of the church, sir. He's
too shy to came up."
Mange. Prairie Soratohes and every form of
contagious Itch on human or anizadls cured
In 30 minutes by Wolford's Sanitary Lotion.
It aver fails. Sold by druggists.
cs - at.
Harry's Dream.
A lady was awakened by a fearful
scream, which came from the room where
her little boy Harry slept. She jumped
out of bod. and when she renehed the
other room she found Harry sitting up
in bed, feeling himself all over, and look-
ing seated out of his sences. "'Whatever
is the matter, dear?" exclaimed the
frightened mother. "Oh, mUmmy, Minn-
ow," sobbed. the boy, "is I all here?"
"Of course you are, pet," replied his
mother. "Why?" "Oh, mummy," re.
plied. the child, between his sobs, "I
dreamed I was a chocolate stick, and
that I anted myself."
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Wireless in German Army.
The German army authorities hare
just commenced, and will Maine un-
til Jen. 15, 1008, an important series of
experiments in wireless telegraphy at
Metz and Strasiburg, rtud at the six
leading fortreeses of Ttonigsberg, Thorn,
Danzig, Posen, Cologne nuil Ono
thousand relerviaiq. who have P?rved
as military telegraphist% have boon eall-
ed upon to work with these now serving
with the army.
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Takk Restarted fp ItlY Remett te
Their SIAM* 7EPPON.F.1.1.1141*.r*Or.am.,--
lht. feigning of fleattla bg eortaiu
Male for the eturpowe of deceiving theii,
enendes• and these favouring immunity, fel
ono of 04 greatrst of tab matter evi.;
denees of their intelligent retiocination4
Tide hiMUlittlint is not eonfined to anyef
particular family, order or *peke of an4
haat, but existe many, from the eery'
lowest to the highest. It is found ewer;
in the vegetable klugdone the went
known sensitive phint bei»g an lutereeti)
ing example. The adieu of Ode
is purely reflex, as can b eproved by• oleg
dervetion and experiment, and is notll
therefore, a process of intelligence,
An experintenter, writing 'in WiSeene
fur Alle, says that he hes seen the4
teigaing of death in some of the lowers! j
ammale known to scienee. Some thn I
ago, while examining the. inhabitants ou
a drop of pond water under a highepowerj
lens, he noticed several rhizopods busile
feeding en the minute buds of an alga :
'Ilicee rhizopods suddenly drew in theli I
hairlike filaria and stink to the bottomil
to all appearances dead, The cause Wall'
fOUlllt to be the presence of a water ,
1
louse, an animal WIWI. feeds on tbes :
animalcule°. lt likewise sank to the bote 1
tom, and, after looking itt the rhizopods ;
swam. away, evidently regarding them!'
as dead 0ntl unfit for food. I
This was not aa accidental oeourrence,1
for the observer hes seen the same wons
derful performance twice since. Through\
the agency of what 1901180, he ask% dial
these little creatures discover the ap-
proach of their enemy? Is is possible
that they and other microscopic animals
have eyes and ears so exceedingly small
that lenses of the very highest power
cannot make them visible, or are they
posseseors of eenses utterly unknown to
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deny either of these su positions
Most animals are a ain for food by
other animals. Moat of the carnivore,
and insectivore prefer freshly killed.
food to carrion. They will not 'touch
tainted meat when they can prootire
fresh. Hence, when they come upon
their ,irrey apparently dead, they will
leave it alone and go in search of other
quatry, unless they are very hungry.
Tainted substances are dangerous to let
into the stiimach. Certain ptomaines
render it sometimes very poisonous.
Long years of experience have taught
this feet to animals, and, therefore, most
of them let deed or seemingly dead ores-
turee alone.
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UR SPECIAL Ladies Watch at
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Where Doctors Never Ask Fees.
A Japanese doctor never thinks of
asking a poor patient for a fee. There
is a proverb among the medical frater-
nity of Japan: "When the twin ene-
mies, poverty and disease, invade a
home, then he who takes ought from
that home, even though it he given him,
is 410 frtoebnbilr.s'a'
Ys Dr. Matsumoto, "a doc-
tor will not only give his time and hie
medicine freely to the sufferer, . but he
will also give him money to tide him
over hitsiArtIe99,19904g4 Every physi-
cian has his own dispensary, and there
are very few chemists shops in the em-
pire. When a rich man calls in a physi-
cian he does not expect to be presented
with a bill for medical services. In fact,
no such thing as a doctor's bill is known
in Japan, although nearly all the other
modern apliances are in vogue there.
The doctor never asks for his fee. The
strict honesty of the people makes this
unneces.sary. When he has finished with
a patient, a preeent is made to him of
whatever som the patient or hia friends
may deem to be just compensation. The
doctor is supposed to smile, take his fee,
bow, and thank his patron."
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ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT
Removes all hard, soft and calloused
lumps and blemishes from horses, blood
spawn, curbs, splints, ringbone, sweeney,
stifles, sprains, sore and swollen throat,
coughs, etc. Save $60 by use of one
bottle. Warranted the most wonderful
Blemish Cure ever known. Sold by drag -
gists,
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Wild Goat of Europe.
The common wild goat is almost ex-
tinct in Europe -even from the Alps,
where he used to be commonly found.
The Piedmont mountains appear to be
his last refuge, and even there he has
to be protected in the royal park of
Gressoney, where about 300 head are
preserved.
One or two of the Cantons are urging
the Federal Government to find re-
sources foe reaoclimatizing the wild
goat. One or two private efforts have
been made, but the animal does not take
kindly to t_......_hem.-London Globe.
Mniard's Liniment Cures Distemper.,
A Poet's Vision.
For years the poet Francis Thompso
had been one of the "submerged," sell
ing manatee, calling cabs, anything t
obtain the pence necessary to buy food,
At last he yielded to despair, and, ha
ieng for some days saved up all he coul
arn, he devoted it to the purchase of
esingle dose of laudanum. suffieient t
nnd his troubles. With this he retired a.
ight to his haunt, the rubbish plot in
Covent Garden Market. Then by his ow
narrative the following incident occur-
red: He had already taken half the fatal
draught when he felt a hand upen his
arm and looking up saw one whom he
recognieed as Ohatterton forbidding him
to drink the rest, and at the same in-
stant memory came to hint of how, af-
ter that poet's suicide, a letter had been
delivered et hie lodgings; which, if he
had waited another day, would haye
brought him the relief needed.
It happened so with Thompson, for afr
ter infinite pains the editor of a maga-
zine, who had accepted aed printed .
essay and a poem of his, but could not
discover lus addrese, had that very mean-
ing trated Thompeon to the chemist's
shop where tho drug was sold, and re-
lief for him was elose at hand.- -From
the A esidetny.
A VALIJAI3L1,1 STORY.
"I heard of a man who laughed scr
hard at story that he lost his voiert."1
"What was that story? I'd like tel
tell it to my wife."
A fault which humbles us is of More j
tale than good action which puffs 'to npf
with pride. . . . •
In Sunday :school a little girl was
questioned as to her repeated non-at-
tendance. "Why have you been absent
so many thnes lately?" asked the
teacher. 'Please, teacher," tieswered the
girl, "mother thought I'd better not
come to Sunday school as my hat was
dirty." "But, my dear," objected th
teacher, gently, "it is not the outward
appearance that we consider; it is the
inward." "I know that, teacher," was
Maggie's reply; "but it's all the same;
the lining was dirty, too."
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Minard's Liniment Cures
Diphtheria.
Prnverts Up to Date.
He who- eaite for dead men's shoes is
liable to get corns.
Better to have loved and lost than to
have been the other fellow.
Tacks are stubborn things.
lt takes two to make a quarrel and
three to make a divorce.
He who is born with a golden speen
in Ids mouth often lives to hock the
family plate.
The proof of the pudding is in the
morning.
He kills two birds with one stone who
marries a widow with a family.
Sweet are the uses of alimony, -The -
Bohemian.
A SALLOW SKIN
means weak blood, general debility, impaired
digeition. NT; one need have thNe-to long as
such an excellent blood and nerve remedy u
•
HA0g MARK news:lime.
Tablets are to be had. They supply the blood
with red corpuscles and regime hulth, clearing
the skin -purifying the whole system.
They build up brain and muscle, and make life
well worth living.: .50e. &Aar -6 boxes, $2.50.
Mira Blood rode and Mira Ointment areas*
areellent for blood and skin troubles.. TRY them.
At druggists-or/rem rhe Chemists' Co. of caamiat
Limited. liamillon-roronto.
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Fastest War Veseel in the aaT
According to a London paper, the
high speed turbine torpedo boat destr
er Mohawk, which recently had sev 4
speed tests under forced draft in
North Sea, is one of the fastest war sl•
sels in the world. While all the offie I
figures concetnirg her speed tests havae
not been mede putilic, it has been leer
ed that she maintained for six hours
speed of 34Ye knots, and later warm
up to a quarter of a knot better on
consecutive tests over a mile eour
The Mohawk, which is propelled by fi
turbines -three ahead and two astern
wae built by J. S. White & Co., of Ea
Cowes, under license from tho Parson
Morino Steam Turbine Company. He
turbines represent 14,000 indicated
horsepower, the steam of ivhieh- is gm.
crated by six water tube boilers, fired
by liquid fuel, of which she can carry 72
tons. She is 270 feet long, has a beam
of 25 feet, a draft of 8 feet, and a dis-
placement of 765 tons.
Minard's Liniment Cures Colds, etc.
•
Why They Stopped.
A little miss entered a street ear car-
rying a baseket, front which appeared,
from time to time, the head of a tiny
dog. She asked the conductor to stop at '
a certain street.
When the car stopped, she held the
do up to the window.
n't you wish to get off V' inquired
the conductor.
"Ole no," replied she; "I just wanted
Nalcloioaaree where his mother lives."
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FQR LARGE FAMILIES ONLY,
The Anonynume Society for 1,kononi-
hal Dwellings for •the Poor, a Parisian
institution, haa made a new departi
in opening an apartment house for ht.
families only. No family is Ahmed
move into it mikes it has at least three
children. The house fills a long felt
want, private OWIlerg, like many in
.New York, objecting to renting to fame
ilits with ehildren.
As sawn as it W11$ 01/01104 110W
holm wag. filled, 241y4i The New York
Sun. It consists of a central building
eight etoreye high with two seven storey
wings. It tentains alteeether 114 stoat -
11t0 tenement ftial a census taken jitst
after the opening ehowed that it Ami-
n -red 020 pereons of whom 427 were
children. The rents vary from 184 to
4e4 frame ($30.80 to $84.80) a year.
A majority of the tenements have a.
Jorge balcony upon whit+ the
room-alWays a good-sized room- open 4.
A peculiarity is that the partitions be-
tWeeti the parents and childrents rooms
tun tale- threeepiarters •of the height
to the veiling. This is regarded ns
-airing all tweeter:try privaey while it en -
:Nee the parents to IT.00p Wat441 over
the eldhlren. Tiw window AN are all
at 511011 a height nhove the floor that
the small ehildreu cannot ellnib t(!et
them. In every stairway, be:Mitre tlp
steps of m•dinary height, there is
flight of half height steps for the woe •
of the children, which they eau ..
without strain.
The building ie equipped with the
.estapes -not a general thing in Pali..
ate vistiOttS faeilities approtteliing.:e the
equipment of a New N'ork tent:meat
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