CAPE MAY HERALD.

AMIMOKPCNO.IHT WSBKLY. PiiMUtMd Ev»ry SatortUy Maralos ■t 506 Washington StrMt,* Capa May, N. J.

M. A. SCOLL,

SUBSCVtFTION: On* Dollar Dor Yoar in Advanoo.

Kbtarad at tba post offioa at Capa May, H. J., as SOTond-olata matter, March Uth. 1901.

I^aat yehr-the farmers of the United States received $185,000,000 more for their products man In 1899, If the habit of making these colossal bequests continues, private fortunes will become more and more a public

An attempt to prove war impossible will never result In tbe abolition of war. There Is, however, a growing belief that war is always impolitic

The convict who has been released because of bit claim that be lias dlscoverd tbe lost art of hardening copper has probably mistaken that metal for brass.

One of the results of the South African war has been tbe organization of rifle clubs In Great Britain on the Boer plan, to'teach every man capable of carrying arms how to shoot at long range and to detect objects at long distances. These clubs are organized by field cornets, and all members are on an equal footing In service, Irrw •pective of their status in society.

About a year ago the-ijawatian government Undertook to bun* up some plague Infected buildings/ ana in so doing set Are to tbe local Chinatown, thus sewing the seed of a crop of claims now nearly ready for harvesting A million and a half was apropriated to meet them, but they already exceed $5,000,000 and are still coming in. It Is a new role for John Chinaman to appear In. but as a debutant it is not to be dented that he shows considerable talent. ,

The growing importance of commerce on the Pacific is indicated by the charting of “lanes" for steamer* crossing that 'ocean. Such > lanes have been established for many years between Europe and America and bare greatly diminished tbe risks of collision. There Is still danger of collision of steamers with sailing ■hips, especially in the foggy region off the Newfoundland coast, but such vessels know when they are In one* dt the steamship lanes and take extra precautions to avoid danger. Hitherto the steamers on the Pacific have been so few that no official action.has been deemed necessary, authough the courses usually taken have been fairly , well understood by all ship masters.

This is largely, perhaps essentially, an ultllltartan age, but that Is no reason why tbe esthetic and-beautiful should be Ignored In government

buildings and parka Very recently ,

*'• hutu™. „« o,

leading English men of letters, Sheba s type of every truth Meker, sad I

visited Washington and spoke In high terms of the beauties of the capital of Its possibilities In tbe future. Europeans who come to the United States and visit Washington compare it most favorably with the capitals of the ol^riroria: TBr-UaHed States is t£r- youngest of the great powers In / ‘he world, but. It is not too young to make Its capital city take rank In architectural beauty with those of

years before

blob wi re this

well advanced in ils republic was born.

Pew people, probably, appreciate the Importance of the apple crop in the United States. In value it exceeds •ven the wheat crop. Last year, for Instance, the apple crop was 215.000,000 barrels, or 538,000,000 bushels At a base of $2 a barrel, which is considered a conservative estimate, tbe crop netted 8430,000.000, or nearly $107.000,000 more than the value of the wheat. On a percentage basis the apple crop reaches nearly 50 percent more than the wheat. Our export of apples in the barrel exceeds 4.000.000 barrels a year, and is .Incrossing enormously. Our apples havc^ fixed value from Liverpool to St Petersburg, and last year shipper*' to foreign porta experienced considerable difficulty ip ■applying tbe demanda. This trade bad grown for several years, but took an enormous bound after, tbe Paris exposition, owing to the fine American .display and the manner and energy ■in w'hicb,American.fruit-growers pre-

vented tbe merits of the

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INSP1R1N6JjELIUON. Dr. Talmigc Preaches on Solomon’s Wisdom-Sweat Spices of Christianity, 'it Cesstsmcu kU TrsaMe - No Moroos

Washwotox, D. C.—In this disc— Dr. Talmags correct* some of th* false notions about religion, and reprtaenta it as being joy inspiring instead of dolorous; text, if Chromckaix, 9, “Of spioca great abundance: neither was there any roch nice as .the Queen of Sheba far# King What is that building out yonder, glittering in the *un» Have you not heard? It is in the house of the foreet of Lebanon. King Solomon baa just taken to it his farids, tbs Princess of Egypt. You see the pfilars of the portico and a great tower, adorned with 1000 shield* of gold, bung oa the outside of the tower, BOO of the shields of gold mseufsetored at Solomon s order; BOO were captured by David, lua father, in battle. See how the/ blaze in tk. i..„ .u.» of k;, throne, between twelve lions in statuuy, and sits down on the hack of the golden bull, the head of the hue* beast turned toward the people. The family and the attendants of the king are so many that the caterers of the palace have to provide every day 100 abeep and thirteen oxen, besides tne birds and the venison. I hear tbe stamping and pawing of 4000 fine horses in the royal stable*. There were important officials who had charge of the work of gathering the atraw and th* barley for these horse*. King Solomon, wa* an early riser, tradition say*, and used to take a ride out at daybreak, and when in bis white apparel, behind the swiftest horses of *11 the realm and followed by mounted archer* in purple, a* the caval- ' ‘ "led through the *treeU of J— . junnose it wa* something wi eftr ^Solomon wi All the splendor* 0/ hi* palace and retinue were eclipsed by his intellectual power. Why, he seemed to know everything. He wa* the first great nstsrahst the world ever saw. Peacock* from India strutted the basaltic walk, and apes chattered in the trees, and deer stalked the parks, and SfLEs. tion says these tarda were eo weU tamed that Sofcrmon might walk clear acrom the city under the shadow ol their wing* as they hovered and flitted about him. More than this, he had a great repu_ Con for th* conumdrum* and riddle* that be made and guessed. He end King Hiram, bis neighbor, need to sit by the hour

the riddle* and enigmas that he made and solved, and the new* epresd until Queen Bellrii, away off south, heard of it, and aent messengers with a few riddle* that *be would like to have Solomon aolre and a few puzzle* tbit *he would like to hare him find out. She sent, among other thing*, to King Solomon a diamond with nhole so small that a needle could not penetrate it, asking him to thread that diamond. And Solomon took a worst and put it at the opening in the diamond, and the worm crawled through, leering the thread in the diamond. The queen also sent a goblet to Solomon, asking him to fill it with water that did not poor from the aky and that did not rnah out from the earth, and immediately Bolbrneo put 1 a slave on the bad of a swift horse and galloped him around and arouhd tbe park until the horse was nigh exhatuged, end from the perspiration of the horse the goblet was filled. She also sent to King Solomon 800 boys in girl*’ dre** and 800 pri* in boy*’ dreai, wondering if he would be acute enough to find out the deception. Immediately Solomon, when he aaw them sraah their faces, knew from the war they applied the water that it wa* all a cheat. Queen Balki* wa* so pleased with the acuteness of Solomon that the raid, “I’ll just go and *ee him for myself.’' Yonder it come*—the cavalcade—horses end dromedaries, chariots and ehariotoere, iinglinf harness and clattering hoof* and biasing shields and flying ensign* and clapping eymbala. Th* pUeeia*a£nt*d with the perfum*. She bring* cinnamon andftaaJfnra and calamus and fnnkiutonso and all manner of sweet spioea. As th* wtmo* sweeps through th* rate the armed guard inhale* th* aroma, 'llalt!” eri* th* char ioteer* a* th* wheel* grind th* travel m front of the pillared ,porti6o of th* king. Queen BaBeia alight* m an atmosphere bewitched with perfume. As th* dromsdaries an driven up to th* king's storehouses and the bundles of camphor an

. and the aaaks of the bore* of spioee an opened the purvey or* of th* nilao* dweenr whet ray text announce*: “Of spioas, gnat ahtlnaanoa. Neither was there any *oeh ipiee a* the Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomofi." Well, my friends, you know that all the

letters, Eheba a type of every truth seeker, and I

will take tbe responsibility of sayfhg that all the tpikfnard and cassia ancf free kintense which the Queen of Sbebe brought to King Solomon is mightily suggeativ* of the sweet spice* of our holy religion. Christianity is not a collection of sharp technicalities and angular fact* and chronological table* and dry statistics. Our religion is compared to frankincense

cool founline gate*.

-- — -Paula Ood that we were a* wise in taking spice* to our divine King a* Queen BAu wa* wire in taking the spice* to the earthly SoloThe fact is that tu duties and earn of this life, coming to us from time to time, are stupid often and inane and intolerable. Here arc men who have been battering, climbing, pounding, hammering for twenty year*, forty yean, fifty year*. On* great,

teJS:

their day* monotonous. What m nece.•ary to brighten up that man’* life and to sweeten that arid disposition and to put fptrkle into th* man’s spirits? Th* apjoery of our holy religion. Why if bttwven the .oases of lif* there dashed the gleam of an eternal gain, if between the betrayal of life there came the gleam of the undying friendahip of Christ, if in dull times in busman we found minister^ - - -■

n we found ministering spirit* — and fro in <tar office and store

sod shop, everydsjyHfe, instead of feting

b. aVlorLoil?

apiration, pcnduluming between calm eat-

Jafariion and (ugh

spiration, pendufuming bet iafaciion and high rapture. ' How any woman keep* l the religion of Chriet to l

mg garments th»t and deploring bre

and stitchrent again,

greater mil of one* lit*, a* many do. in p.inr.irz for the m*als, and

" »t will soon be real jreakagn, and sapi ites. and driving c

toon again will settle, and doing thing day in and dsy out and 3

£5’.

in and year out until the hair silver*, and the back stoops, and the spectacle* crawl to tbe eyfis. and tbe grave breaks open under the Una sole of the shoe—oh, it is a long monotony! But when Christ come* t> the drawing room, and. comes to the kitchen, and come* to the aure*ry, and b*2Sa» aB wominl^U^? 1 ShTiailSS

£ 2:

make a coat for young Samu*]; Miriam,

because she can watch her infant brother; Rachel, because she can help her father water the stock; tbe widow of Sarepta. because «’-e cruse of oil i* being r*pl«m*h«d. 1 must confess that a great deal of the religion of thia day is utterly inaipid. Thera i* nothing piquant or elevating about it. Men and women go around

rivaling melaneholr, and their worship do not doubt their piety. On, no! But they are sitting at a feoat where tbe took has forgotten to season the food. Everything is flat in their experiens* and la their conTereition. Emancipated from fin and death and hail and on their war to a Imagnificeat heaven, they act aa though they were trudgingon toward aa ererlssting Botany Bay. Religion does not eaem to agree with them. It seems to fetch in the windpipe and hammmmffimfeffinimmmm

lation iuitcad of at [fldtl hook* that h olUire down to

ot done ao much r . ., amty a* lugubrious Christiai Who want* a religion wove kadow* of the night? Why!

- to c*’~

tianil

WL- . shadows

warm light of tbe Sun of suguisvasoae. Away with_your ode* to melancholy and

out of the

itiaj enthronement?

and ait ‘

Herve/*“MeditationaAmongth#^ ^ ^ more *piee anJ enlivemnent in our reCgiou* teaching, whether it be ip the prayer meeting or in the Sunday-school or in the church. We minister* need more fresh air and sunshine in our lung* and our heart and our head. Do you wonder that the world is ao far from'being converted when you find ao little vivacity in tbe pulpit and in the pew? We want, like tbe Lord, to plant in our sermon* and exhortation* more lilies of the field. We want fewer rhetorical elaborations and fewer sesquipedalian words, and when we talk about shadow* we do not want to say adumbration, and when we mean queernes* we do not want to talk about idiosyncrasies, or if a stitch in the back w_- do k ss is preach that gospel which propose* to

make all men happy, hoi ‘

In other words, 1 in and less gristle.

IC great maasce, h propose* to t, victorious and it this be so in

wnicn toe Lara cans us.

will sing so ^heartily^that the ^eojde all

1 Bangor to San 1 Christendom! It ference; it is a mat-

ter 01 religious duty. Oh, for fifty time* more volume ot sound than has yet rolled up from our churches! German choral* in German cathedrals surpass os. and yet Germany hat received nothii^ at the hands of God compared with Ament*. And ought the acclaim in Germany be louder than that of America? Soft, long dreru out music is appropriate for the drawing room and appropriate for the c*wcan, but St. John give* an ids* of the sonorous and resonant congregational ringing appropriate fon^churebee when in listening to the temple service of heaven he says: ‘ ,T heard a gw *

eat multitudi

-.rings. Hall*- , omnipotent reigneth! Join with me in a crusade, riving me not only your hearts, but the mighty uplifting of your voices, and I holier* w* can, through Christ’s grace, sing 6000 souk into the kingdom of Christ. An arfinasnt they can laugh at, a sermon they may talk down, but a 6000 voiced utterance of prvias to God is resistible. Wbuld that Queen Balki* would drive all her spice laden dromedaries into our church music. "»•*- thcr was an; such spice as the Queen of Ehsba gav* King Salomon.'' Now. I want to impress you with tbs it that religion is sweatee and parno* and spikenard and saffron and c*ntmon and cassia and frenkincena* and all -seat spiers together. "OS,” you say, "I bar* not looked at it as sveh. I thought it was a nuisance. It had for m* a rw pulsion. L held my breath aa thoogb it w^a a malodor. 1 have been appalled at iu advance. I have said, if I hare any religion at all, a want to have jtmt salittls of it aa is passible to get through with." 2^ fbe^oc’S — and *r*rt*«ting rvda&aS. It eounrta; all trouble. __Jnri put it on the

THE SABBATH SCHOOL

i-t$-0oM*a Text, Os*, tv, l-Ass-•ry Versa*, 5-7-Coawsattry •a the Day’s Leasee. been peamng through a tearing time, and Eisr a ~‘ for at yet he had no child. “In a ri Which supposes Abram awake, and shield. God was Abram’# portion, and

of my house." The heir into whose hands Abram s possession* must descend in consequroce of hi* ehfldlea. condition. "I. thisHieror?" How could the promi.e be toi fi h^ ’ rhen * ■ Wln « er " “ “ e! 7 10 3. "Given no seed.” Though we ahould ance*. “One born in my bouse." That is, "one attached to or a dependant of his house. This is a reference to the servant who, from all appearances, would become

hu heir.

4. “Shall not be thine heir.” There is no limit to the power of God, for He who can quicken the dead can do anything. 6. "Look—tell toe stars." The stare in that climate are brighter than in ours. Professor HaB say* be has known Venus to shine ao bright aa to cast a shadow. Brighter than the stare, steadier than their

flames shall be toe fulfilment of God's

‘ ’— God prints to the 1 ‘

1 thy

—_ „ _n roc only Israelites, bet the Arabian*, the Unites, tbe Ammonites and Morinte*

rixn to Abram. “So shall thy seed be.” The descendants of Abram included not

but the Arabians, the Mid-

a numerous people, and were for more than a thousand yean among (he most important in flail At least two branehre of his strong stock yet remain—the Jew*, who are found in every part of toe earth, and the Arabs, who still roam, unoonquered over the desert. But the highest fulfilment was in Christ. God's people are, by faith, “children of Abrahamjyand "heirs according to the promise." Gal. 3:

the Lord. God speaks and aU U settled and all elieved the troth of the

stifling ai

medicine of toe turned lattice.

W UK UU-O0O MlUCV. J-S M • brim for UJS C2! 5fe,t;u,v£ T4Si/LIBhthsrfard into airavriry of eptrikoal delight while h* wa* in phyiieal agonic*. It helped Bichard Baxter'until, in the midat of anch a conpUcgtiaa of disease* a* perhaps no other man ever suffered, he wn "Tbs Saint'* ErarUsCn* Best.' And paused hahtupenJohn Banyan's dunge< . to* light of the shining emu of tbs shining city. And it is gewd for rheumatism and for nsunlgia and fur low spirits and for OBoeusiption. It is tbs catholicon for all disorder*. Yea, it will feaal all your

“whTdid

when job came in? AJss, for Lbs loneliness and the heartbreak and th* load that is never lifted from your soul! Some of you go about feeling tike Macaulay when be wrote, “If I bed *

the coverlet of 'green 1 You have said: “Oh, hoi

would

Ijret* 1 m f weary factory child.” And there have L “.your life when you ' ' out of this life. You your last *j^ t said: “Oh, howbeautifuily quiet be in the tomb! 1 wish 1 was

there!”

1 *** all around about me widowhood and orphansge and childleacies*, aadreas. diaappointment, perplexity. If I could ask all those in any audience who hare felt no sorrow and been buffeted by no disappointment—if I could ask all such to me, how many would rise? Not one. A widowed mother, with her little child, went Wert, hoping to get better wages there, and tbe was taken tick and died. The overseer of tbe poor got her body and put it in ff box and put it in a wagon and started down the street toward th* cemetery at full trot. Tbe little child, the only child, ran after it through the street*, bareheaded, crying: “Bring me back my -“Vr! firing me back my mother!'’ it was said that aa the people looked on and saw her crying after that which lay in the box in the wagon, all she loVsd on aarth-it is aaid the whole village wa* in tears. And that is what a great many ire doing—chasing the arid. Dear there no appeasement for all this that I see about me? Yea, th* thought of resurrection and reunion far i&IE'SLiSffia them to living fountain* of water, and God ahall wipe away aU tear* from their

driving up to the puSred partico of tbe house of cedar, carried no such pungency

' im* aa exhale* to-dar from th* arden. It »* peace. It is

ness. It it comfort. It is infinite et

tion. this gospel I commend to you. May God grant that through •your own

practical experience you may find that rehgioria ways are ways of pleaaantOMS and that aB her paths are paths of pesos; that it is perfum* now and perfume forever. And there was an abundance of spice;

—,flbram believe*, aou «u

is sure. Abram believed promise that was now made him, renting upon the power ami faithfulnem of God who had made it. See Rom. 4: 19-21. “Coon ted it." There was no act- but that of the mind and heart, no work of any kind; benoe the doctrine of justification by faith, without any merit of work*; tor in tins case there could be no works of Abram which would merit the salvation of the whole human race. "For righteems-

neea.” Or justification.

7. “I am th* Lord." The promiaes of God are van broad, very high and very long. They took far down tbe future, but we may remember that there is onmi*otnoe in their utterance and omnipotence

in their fulfilment.

8. “Whereby shall I know?" That i*. “by what sign shall I be assured that I

shan inherit this land?"

9. "Take me an heifer," etc. The animals prescribed are of the three kinds afterward allowed by the law tor'aacrifiee, and tbe birds are -those repeatedly mentioned in the law aa those to be brought

for offer ngr

10. "HT

lowed to the very leto

had given him; ao we __ before w* can have reason to expect Him to fulfil His promisee to us. "Divided them.’’ etc. The^muiner o^ratif^Hm ■ wise, aa near as poasihle in two equal parts, which were piaced opposite to each other a abort distaoas apart; to* covenanting parries would then meet in the centra

and taka th* customary oath.

11. “Oame down.’’ Haring mads ready the sacrifice* be waited for tbe firs of God to consume them, which was the usual token of acceptance. While be waited

ravenous birds of prey which feed dead bodies “asms down 1 ’ to ot

escrifioe. How often

be brought

took—afl these.” Abram fol- • God

like — and that

to God! 12. “

“Was going down.” About th*

through wca-

God caused to fall upon Adam. ’'Great darkness.” Which God drsngnsd to be expresaiv* of the afltietioti and misery into which his posterity should be brought daring their bondage in Egypt, aa to* nrrt verm particularly states. 18. ’’Shall afflict them.” From the time God called Abram at Haran it was 43) yean before Abram’s descendants came into possession of their own land, but the children of Israel were actually in Egypt only half that tune, or 215 years. 14. 'That nation.” The Egyptian nation. “Will I judge.” God brought plague* and destruction upon the Egyptians. "Come out.” Israel wa* redeemed from bondage and come out of Egypt with great wealth. This promise was literally fulfiled, but there was a long time of waiting. 15. "In peace." This verse strongly implies tbe immortality of the soul. 16. “Amorites.” This was the general name for the Canaanitiah tribe*. “Iniquity fuff.” From these words we

a certain pitch of iniiocs may arrive before and beyond which God m to pass.

... _ smoking furnace” This signified the afflietion of the children of Israel in Egypt. There were Abere in the furnace of affliction. "Burning lamp." Tbe symbol of the divine presence. Faith may be strong, but light comes while we stand before the Lord/by the holy altar of burnt

° i lJ ta *kad# a cove

‘ *3%

uT*

a mutui

Holy ScriptureTt

ant.” A covenant is etwees two contractwhich i* bound to fnl-

> the other. In

552 hUT

ralataobs. between God and of Egypt." Probably tbe

Dr. John Milne, of the seismic section of the Royal Society, any* that vibration* travel faster through tbe Interior of the earth than through the densest body known to acientiaU. Thia la proof, be claims, that tbe'interior ia neither a molten mass nor a hollow •pace, but aolld matter, under such a degree of stupendous pressure that the contraction of the mass causes geysers, hot springs and volcanoes, which are but local manifestation* of this pres-

sure.

TO TELL DISPOSITIONS. Th* Carrying of I'inbrella* a M*ao* of Character Keedlac. Tbe man who aat nearest the window aaid be didn’t mind the hot weather. “It gives me a chance to ace bow people carry their umbrellas,” he said. "I have such firm faith in my umbrella deductions that I wouldn’t be afraid to choose a wife with them for a guide." Tbe woman on bis left smiled. “I’m glad I'm not out there In the street,” the said. “You’d be picking out all tbe kinks In my disposition along with the rest of them.” “Ob!" raid the man. “I sized you up a long tlma ago. You carry your umbrella when It’s furled, just like that woman across tbe street. You grab it In the middle and go forging ahead with tbe end of tbe handle digging Into the unfortunate pedestrians who go before and follow after." “And what doe# that signify?" asked tbt woman on tbe left. ’’Alertneza, activity, selfishnea* and inconzlderatenesa.” “Um-m-m." aaid tbe wonrfan. "But Just look at the third woman In the procession,” said tbe man. "I pity the men folks about ber bouse. I’ll warrant they have to get their own breakfatts about six mornings out of acven. I never yet saw a woman who dragged her umbrella along so that "Jou could track her by the trail of the tip who wasn’t dilatory and careleu. She never sews on a button, or dorns, or mends,, and her breakfast dishes are seldom washed beTore 2 o’clock. “That other woman who Is bustling along bolding to tbe top of the umbrella handle like grim death and pointing the Up down and forward In a kind of south-by-south wee terly direction. it altogether different She would set the world on fire If It wasn’t water-logged. I am not sure that I'd

when she took a notion to clean things up a mere man would have nowhere to lay his head. What she Is good for la serving on committees. "That woman In the grey skirt is a yea-and-nay sort of person. She wants to agree with everybody and follows wherever led. Women who carry their umbrellas with the point backward and downward are always unassertive.” “But just look at that girl who spins along spinning her umbrella around in a circle as If It were a. magic wand. I like ber. She’s jolly and good-na-tured and gets more pleasure out of life than 10 ordinary people. There’s a woman carrying ber umbrella swung across ber shoulder Ifke a shotgun. She’s a true soldier of fortune, and waa never known to say die. I can’t think of anything that would feaxe her.” The man paused. “And what would you say.” aaekd the woman, “about that girl who carries her umbrella horizontally across the small of her back and catches either end Into the crook of her elbow?” "Well." admitted the man, "she Is a new one on ms. I never saw her before, but I wouldn’t be afraid to wager that she is conscientious to a degree and has a heart as big as all outdoore. But here.” he added, “comes the most even-tempered woman of the lot. She cuddles ber umbrella protectingly under bar arm, as If she doesn’t want even It to get hurt In tbe crowd. That woman is gentle and thoughtful and kind."—New York Sun.

Unje the train reached

A Utile Umbrella Ptorj. On one of the recent rainy evenings when traffic on the elevated road was dull, a guard on the Sixth avenue line found a comparatively new silk umbrella In one of tbe oars. When a passenger entered the car at Park place the guard proudly showed

his find.

"It oomes In great for me tonight,” be said, "’this is my last trip and I have a long way to walk. I had no umbrella.” The lone pasaenger, who was also without a rain prolector, congratulated the guard. The tw<4 carried on a pleasant con-

m. a'

at stations, the Eighty-first street station, where the passenger was to get out. The guard had carefully deposited his umbrella In a corner of the front platform of the car. Wbilefhc was busy I opening the gates th* passenger quietly lifted it from Its resting place and left the car. Aa the guard closed the gate# and gave th e bell cord a vigorpull be saw bis former passenger Iking along tbe platform carrying tbe umbrella. ’Hey there! Stop It! Bring that back!" shouted tbe guard. “I need K myself," replied the recent passenger. "Come back.' I say you are a thief!" cried tbe guard aa the train slowly pulled out The new proprietor of the umbrella only smiled aa he walked down the steps. He now shows the umbrella to hi* legal friends and quotes the old

PEARLS OF THOUGHT.

Genius la only a superior power of leelng.—Ruakin. The great obstacle to progress is prejuolce.—Bovce. Integrity without knowledge la weak tnd useless.—Paley. Live wltb wolves and you will learn d bowl.—Spanish proverb. Rashness la the faithful but unhappy parent Of mlafortune.—Fuller. What you dlallke In another take care to correct In yourself.—Sprat. Tbe great art of learning la to undertake but little at a time.—Locke. A Judicious silence la always better than truth- spoken without charity.— De Sales. He la a good man whose friends a r e all good, ana whose enemies are decidedly bad.—Lavater. There is one form of hope that Is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish wltlf the increase of knowledge. In that form it (hanges Ha name, and we call It patience.—Buiwer. Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes ot men. Silently and Imperceptibly. as we wake or sleep, we grow or wax weak; ana at last some crisis shows us that we have become. —Canon WestcotL A HARD LIFE. lb* Mrntal and’ rbydeal Hardship of Mall Car Clerk* I* Unremitting. The life of a railway mall clerk or route agent at the best is not easy, says a contributor to Collier's Weekly. He travels under a constant strain ancf Is subject to unremitting mental and physical hardship. He Is always overworked. but be must be ever alert, expert and accurate. The business of a continent depends on the correctness of bis Instantaneous mental processes and his rapid maipulation—a letter "misthrown” may break a heart or burst a bank or ruin a railway corporation. The lurching of cars going at tremendous speed around sharp curves; the continued succession of efforts to maintain equilibrium; tbe monotonous vibrations terribly destructive to nerve tissue, to spinal column and to brain texture are tbe dally and hourly concomitants of bis ordinary work. Probationers often relent tnd go back to their former duties. One aspirant for employment In this field was assigned to a notably rigorous route. He never finished bis first trip; be went halfway. bought a ticket for home, and returned as a passenger. Replying afl*

and unlocking 200-pound pouches, shaking out tbe contents, arranging same, removing pouches, locking-same, carrying on mail matter, re-arranging sacks, then going over same work, continuing same 17 hours, without rest, with trains flying around curves sod slinging you against everything that is not slung against you.” Vigor, vitality and resolution are essential in a beginner as well as keenest Intelligence and unwearied spirit of application. But tbe physical qualities are slowly sapped and undermined by such steady exactions of duty and tbe mental qualities are proportionately deteriorated. Hence the railway mall system is 8 huge Gorgon, Incessantly, cruelly devouring specimens of the best manhood of tbe nation. Under present conditions it must continue to demand and devour, in order that the currenu of trade and tides of civilization may continue to flow. Suspend the manwrecking process s single week for needed, universal rest and social chape would ensue.

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"Don't you think you lose patience with your husband' on rather alight provocation r said th e near relative. ”1 have to provoke him sometimes,” was the placid answer, “so that he will lose his temper and then give me anything I want so as to atone for the way be baa acted.”

There are five rivers In the world which drain over 1.000.030 square miles. They are the Amazon. La Plata. Obi, the Congo and the Mississippi.

Teeth thst are long and not narrow denote large, liberal views, strong passions and heroic virtue*; If they are long and narrow, a weak character ie denoted. Evenly grown teeth show a better disposition and better developed mind than those that crowd and overlap. Long noses are cautious and ■dent; short ones. Impulsive and ous. Deep colored eyes, with well:hed lids, both upper and lower, show a truthful and affectionate nature. Ap eyebrow slightly curling at tbe outer edge indicates a jealous nature. There is a whole world of telltale Indications In the apex of the ear. If It llee elate to the head the owner possesses a refined nature. But if the top starts away from th* head at a well defined angle, that person has an uneven disposition and Is not to be relied upon. If a girl’s thumb lies flat, or droops a little, marital submlssior to the master mind is Indicated. If a thumb baa a tendency stand at right angles to the band, damsel owning It Is headstrong. A person of weak character has a pendent thumb! tbe strong charactei baa a strong, erect thumb. Flngerr which bend backward mean powerful determination. If they are round, strength, both physical and mental, k indicated. Stubby fingers are grasping fingers. Finger nails that are rounded show refinement: If long and rather square at the top. firm nes* and energy are denoted.—Leslie's Weekly.

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