MLOW DIVINE LEADINi Wm. »r. T«u»«tt . Oi*oBrM m *• MerdM liteT.rct.tioo of Run Behavior. wn Itol Fm. TWi Afala, 8. Do T*«r CW Ntw:

' ^AaimroTos, D. C—Thi* • 'moot imomULl pr«etiUtion of thmp that take place in many live*, and Dr. Talma#* plead* for meJaliJ interpretation of human behavior. The tert i* Joabua Hi. 4 ; “Ye have not paaaed tin. way bento,0 £ December. 1M0. I waded the River Jordan, and, altbou«h the current wa* ■troni. I wa* able to bear op acainit it, bat in the time of *prinf treebet, when the now* on Mount Leban —‘

C# but a miracle would

mid eaabk,

river. It wat at the ! that Joehua and

aprinatime that Joehua and the Em army attend the word* of ■ 'the people who wan in a few from the Jordan. About that ct ■ay but little.Jiecauac on a prcr

op oTthe water* into 1 !We only *peak of the n

The ark of t cheat of acacia

of

of my text to fewboura to croeeinf wo

concermnf

into cryetal 1 h to the .1

thin# baa

*—rCSu:

brink

■d* in all hutory.

ark of the covenant wae a onuiant . if acacia wood, overlaid with #old. eo the top of which wen two winced (Scare* facing each other. It waa five feet Gw and three feet wide. Pole* wen FSJ? , a£&3r,£ , ftsN2 opkwdid box waa to be -carried thneqoarten of a mile ahead of the boat* of Uraal on the way to the croeain#. That diatane* between the box and the advanctn# thousand* most be kept because of tarn once. Then was a,sanctity in that divine symbol that they taut obaerve by keeping three-quarter* of a mils away. They must watch that flitlerm# box and iollcw; otberwiae they would k»e their * —— -'ace for

• not paaaed this way hentofo:

of the eesimenU repeated it. “Ye have not

paaeed this way heretofore.” *Wh*t wa* trut

ruthfuUy *aid of the ancient

I may be truthfully said of us. We are making our fint and last journey thronjli thi* world. It i* possible, as some of my food friends believe, that tni* world wfll be corrected and improved and purified and fiorahzed and emparadised a* to climate and soil and character until it shall become a heaven for the ransomed, but I do not think it. I have an idea that beaven is already bnflt somewhere. Our departed friend* could not wait until thi* world i* fixed up for staintly and angelic residence. Having once gone out of the world. I do not think we win come back, except as minirterinf spirits to help those who remain in the earthly struggle ormer- . hap* to look at the wondrons spectacle of

• burning planet.

But, leaving that theory aside, we are very *ure that we are for th* first time

.waJxmf the earthly pilgrimage,

not paaeed this way before.’

vile is a new minute, ererr 1

hour, every century a ne folk* have gone over the

traveling, but ft

; but it is our I s, new temptal

That i* the 1 'Hm " ? lite 7 ^? Sk *i wrorg direction is bti

itury. Other

road we our first trip. New

—‘-.tion*, new aorro .

so many lose . i one on the for direction, and

read to the rigkt-aod».hayiag.#onc a »>!* on that road, take the' fim road on tte left, and you win aoon reach your destinetine.” We took the advice, but our informer forgot a torn in the road or forgot one of the road* leading to the left, and we took the wrong road and were lost in the woode, end night came on, and w put to great irritation and trouble. The fact i», I blame no one for making lifetime mistakes. I pity them instead of blaming them. There are eo many wrong roads, but only one right one. Yon cannot in midlife draw upon yonr youthful experiences for wisdom, for midlife is si tirelv different from yonth. You ca for the*two atagee^of eiiitence 1 *^a rerae. What it wisdom for one ma do would be folly for another to undertake. 'A man of nerve and nloek is not qualified to advise a man timid and shrinking. An achievement thht would be euy for you might be impossible for me. Human advice is ordinarily of littje value. People review their own succeses* or failures snd then tell ns what is best for ua to do. n*t realizing that our circumstances are different. our temperament is different, our pfarricsl *nd mental and moral capacities . Most of the great mUUke*

‘ 1 hare been made m >t. , said to every natioi

^ d this way before: Our own republic is going through novel twenty years ago have prophesied present conditions? Every President, every Congress, ha* new cri»e* to meet and new question* to settle. So prophecies made about conditions in this country fifty pemrs from now may turn out aa tar untrue m the prophecies made fifty years ago bp the greatest of Ameriesn statesmen when lie declared on vender Capitol hill that it was unwise to think of civilization or proa-

«*fie« ”

feS ..

that have been n

der human adviw -ziz'ur:'’-

side of the Rocky Moont-

^ Kng to Us belief the Pacoast would be the perpetual abode of nans and mountain Bont. and we not think of annexing those forbid-

tailed and many prsphecies cc future will fail, because it is Mew road. Every step it ta]

ruing its S'V.

forces? statesmen, who are quite equal to the statesmen of the past and who have, in addition to the natural talents of their | -wur own, to depend on advice of men who ; advanced. Can it be that in atatasttan-

shift has gone back, and that ' Uglef the twentieth century mi the opening of the nmetecnU i “Yo have not peseed this .way 1

Z bSTh^^t-J 1 ikaa aiid scorched with volcanic fires I whelmed with tidal waves and

mgfat upon by cUamtk i' *-—1 islands lifUd, «

i into valleys.

_ another world thu ■t started in the solar system. Yet a the time flanging and will ksep g until the hour of ita demolition, beautiful world, this lustrous .'t!fSSi’S! 4 4sy2 , --‘ 4 nitarrass,-::^’ ' o human advice and instead of

an of Joehua'* troop* mightily me. It was a forceful way of

in social groups, and i* not a profane weed th. Phraseology of the Bible often introduced into the raoet frivolous «mv«watinn

and made mirth provoking, foe the oath in courtroom oe

^'tt fa^dSnuT pWa^^i^I carousal. Irreverence on the part of ehfl-

.—I their

substituted for ooeu'irD'twr rulera, which indnem vfl#

srisrST,,

, — ji esruuy rmer, mus SI ing more respect for a man thgn to King of kings. We aak not for genuflexion* or circumflexion* or prostration*, hot when prayet is offered let na either bow the head or bend the knee or let na in some way prove that wa are not indiffer-

ent.

No one has come to midlif* who has not been stung of ingratilnd*. On the battlefield of AJms in IflM a wounded Russian waa crying in anguish of thirst for water. Ceptain Eddington, of the English Army, ran to him and gave him drink. Aa the captain was running by to loin his regiit th* wounded soldier shot him. Al- * all languages have proverb* setting forth this perversity. English proverb, “Bring up a raven and it will nick out your eye*.” Arabic proverb, ‘Tat the present and break the dish.” Italian proverb. “The sat, after having drank, give* a lack to the bucket.” An old proverb says. “If God wet* to be eo complacent ‘ carry ua on Hi* back to Rome, w* not thank Him for Hi* pain* if H* did not also act u. down in an euy chair.” Yon will never be happy in thi* world if von do not do all the good yon can and look for no r**pon*iv* gratitude. AD the daman I did a man who is my enemy wa* to take him from a petition where he received tTOO a year salary into a position where he has ever since received I3S00 a year. He never forgave me, bat has pursued me with pen vitriolic ever since. The worst enemy yon ever had is the man you introduced and favored and helped. But be not disturbed or even irritated. You are no better t.ian yonr Lord. If the world had hail any thankful appreciation of His coming it would have filled that Bethlehem caravansary with flowers, which bloom there dear on into the December month, snd Herod, instead of attempting His death, would have sent a chariot to fetch th* infant to the palace, and th* oyer and terminer of Pilate’s courtroom would have pronounced Him —‘ guilty, and instead of a cross and a rn of thorns it would have been a coronation. with all the mighty ones of the earth kneeling at the foot of His throne. But closely aUied is the other fact which we hinted at in the opening—U*t we will not pass this way again. 1111* is our only opportunity for doing certain things that ought to be done. On all sides there are griefs we ought to solace, hanger we ought to feed, com that we ought to warm, kind words that we ought to apeak, generons deeds we ought to perform. All that you and I do toward making this world better and happier we must do very soon or never do at aD. Joshua and his troops never came back over the way they were marching toward the crossing of the Jordsn. The .impress of the sac del or the bare feet of each aoldier showed in what direction be waa going, bat imver did.the impress of the sandal of any'one of them abow that he bad returned. We are aD faring eternity to come. There is no retreat. Alertness and fidelity would not be so important if we could truthfully say: “I will be back here again. The things I neglect now I will do the next time I come. I wiD be reincarnated, and I will resume my earthly obligation*. Having then more knowledge than I have now, I will dicharge my earthly duties better than I can now discharge them. I do not give solemn farewell to these obligations and opportunities, bnt a smiling and cheery good-bye until I tee them again.” No, we cannot aay that. There will be no new and corrected edition of the volume of our earthly life. After we make exit from the stage at the close of the Mill set, we cannot re-enter. How many million* of people have lived ' died I know not, but of aD the human i wbo have gone only seven persons —; I now think of have returned, the son off the widow at Zarepbath,- the young man of Nain, the ruler's daughter, Tanitha, Eutychui, iMzaras and Christ. Among all the ages to come I do not suppose there will be one more wbo will return to this life, having once left it. At this point I ask you to notice th*' fact that my text does not call attention to the crossing of the Jordan, but to th* way leading thereto. We all think much of our crossing of the Jordan when the reh of our life ia ended, bnt put too lit-, emphasis on the way that leads to the asing. What yon and I need most to c*re about is the direction of the toed we oe traveling. We need have no fear of the crossing if we come to it in the right way. In other words, we seed not care shoot death if our life has' been what it ought to be. We will die right it we live H^Vhat an absurdity H would has* been for Joshua sad Ma men to have asked each other questions Hr* these: “How can we cress the Jordan if we get there? Will not th* water be too deep to allow na to wade? Wfll we not all be #o saturated that wa may Joae our lives by exposure? How many of as oen awhn? Had we betnot wait until the annual freshet bss ridedr' No such folly did they com; mite" They were chiefly anxious about the way that they had •'not passed before” and were ignorant of and to keep their eye* on the golden covered acacia bsx. wing mounted, which wa* the ark of the; 0 hearer, stop bothering about your exit from sublunary scenes! By the grare of God get yonr heart right and then go ahead. If the Lord takes esre of yon clear on to the bank on. this side of the rim, I think yon can trust Him to take you from bank to bank, from tbs willow* on this aide the stream to the palms on the other side, from the last kiss of sorrowing one* on this side to the welcome, saintly, cherubic. seraphic deific on tie other side. ~ - ■ th* Her*

shal of France, appeared with 18,000 armed men on the heights above the town of FeldUirch. There were no arms to defsad tbs town, and the -inhabitants were wild with terror. Then the old dean of the church cried oat: “My brothers, this thronged to the bouse* of jsmyer far war-

THE GREATEST HAIR-CUT

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rrsrSMlsaal Cattsr* Magii

In ■bearing tbi la Barty Bprlni

flaasoa la Callfaraia—Wages Are Goad. Man I* not the only animal that ha* his hair cut at regular Intervals, and it might be Interesting to note that the meet extensive hair cut In thin or any other country has no reference whatever to th* human biped, writes O. E. W. In the Country Gentleman. Up In the northwest professional hair cutters begin shearing the flocks early In sprln*. and aa the season ad'

id vances they work their way westward and end up In Nevada and California, when it Is about time to return to the original

starting point and repeat the operation. In th* course of the year they cut something like 600,000,000 pounds of hair. The present consumption of wool In the United States Is estimated at about 600,000.000 pounds, and. though the statisticians of the department of agri- . say that we have about 41,883.leep on the farnx and ranches of

ulture 66 sbei

year. But the task of shearing 40,000,000 sheep le not one to consider

lightly, and as the wool piles up, new wheels of commerce are started In their

revolution.

Sheep-shearing time in the earlier days of our countrys history was a Uon, and the farmer p would go down to the sheep pasture to make merry with the frightened animals. One by one they would be caught, and while one held the animal securely the other would proceed to clip off the wool with a huge pair of hand shearj. Sheepuhearlng time would often occupy weeks on the large farms, snd when It was over, the great mass of soft fluffy wool was piled up In the sheds to be cleaned and worked over or shipped to the market In its rough state. Not a little of It was woven Into cloth on the farm by the wife and daughters of the owner. But with the multiplication of the sheep, the necessity of better and quicker methods of shearing wss felt In the northwest and on the Pacific coast there are farms and ranches with from 60,000 to 300,000 sheep, and to shear such flocks in the old way would be an almost Impossible task. It Is these new conditions that have brought the professional hair cutUrs Into existence, and they move from farm to farm In a regular circuit every season. These professional shearers are experts In their line, and they have demonstrated that It pays better to be a tonsorla! artist for sheep than for man. A good shearer will make from |7 to $10 per day, but that represents payment for his skill and labor and interest on his machines and general out-

er farm, the trusting sheep are driven into a narrow pen. where they are easily caught when needed. The shearers receive their pry according to the number of sheep handled, and consequently they proceed with all expedition. On large ranches, a score of shearers operate together. The power Instruments are set up, and the shearers take their positions In rows, while

wool off at once An expert operator will handle the machine so dexterously that the wool will come off almost In a solid mass, and It looks for all the world as If the animal was being actually skinned alive But when the operation Is finished, It will be found that ndt. a bruise or-scratcn has been made on the skin; and the animal scampers away shorn and shaved within a small fraction of an Inch of its skim The wool Is gathered up by another operator and carted to the packing house, where It Is tramped Into huge burlap bags, each weighing when filled about 885 pounds. The shearer* receive from seven to tea cents per head for shearing the sheep, and. a day’s work for one professions! is from 125 to 260 head. That Is an tanmcelvable operation for a barber atC 1 cut* the hair of hfi human patients; but then, wklle the latter Is operating on one person, the skilled sheep shearer would cut the wool from the backs of half a doxen sheep. The sheep sheared by f dozen professional operators In the course of a week

quickly mount np Into thousands, and the modern n ' snd i_ hair cut, does not present such a tor-

modern ranch, with Its hundi thousand sad more sheep ready for the

The revival of the wool Industry In the past few years has added materially to the number of sheep on the lams In the United Statse. The actual amount of wool can only be estimated from year to year-Uhtil the shearing season has ended. The number of sueep In the country does not accurately forecast the wool supply. Some of the moderate high-class wool sheep give two and three times as much as the old common animals,'and an estimate of the wool can be made only approximately unless the breed of the snlmals 1* known also. There are over 76 grades and breed* of sheep m tni* country, and thoy vary as much In the quantity of wool they give as they do la pries snd general valua-

Baat tor’s gaks. Humorous Editor—You hi

ODD COSTUMES IN SWEDEN. Garments Wars by lbs Old and lb* Yana# Diner Tars SllsbUr. The costumes of the Dalecarllan women In Sweden are unique, a dark blue woolen skirt, very full and gathered in tucks at the waist; a white blouse, a vest of red or green cloth, beautifully embroidered in colors and often with gold and silver threads; a broad red belt of knitted wool; a long apron of red woolen, with stripes of black, white and green; a kerchief folded three-cornerwlse about the neck and fastened with a gold or silver pin, with many glistening pendant*. and a headdress In the shape of a cornucopia made of black felt with red trimmings and streamer*. Long earrings of gold or silver and bracelets of curious forms are common. The men wear long blue frock coats with full skirts, faced with red broadcloth and edged with red cord. Hooks and eyes are used Instead of buttons and the collar Is cut similar to that of a Church of England parson. The vest is made of the same material and Is also edged and faced with red. The knee breeches are of yellow buckskin, ornamented with red cord and tassels at the garter, which holds woolen stockings, les-are worn upon The hat Is of black felt, with a low crown and broad brim resembling those worn by Quakers In the United States.

skirt Is the ambition of every youngster. like tne first pair of trousers of American boys, and he usually attains that honor when he la ten years see going coats and buck If they were stage. Little girls in the same way Imitate their mothers with skirts rescuing to their ankles and quaint, homemade Jewelry of silver and gold. Every little girl hopes to have a brooch with Jingling pendants. The Jewelry is of simple pattern, the gold or silver being hammered Into thin sheets, cut into squares and diamonds and fastened together with rings. The costumes of the Dalecarllan women differ • according to locality. In some of the parishes red is the prevailing color and In others green and blue. Their bats are shaped and trimmed differently also, and In one of the parishes a sort of “tam o’ shanter” Is worn, with a band fitting closely around the head and a broad top. In the Mora country the men wear Jackets of white fet cut square at the corners and fitUng closely to the neck, with white buckskin knickerbockers and leather aprons to keep them clean. The ordinary overcoat is made of sheepskin with the wool on the Inside, like Bryan o’ Lynn’s held to the waist with a belt and with long skirts reaching to the heels—a very comfortable garment for this dllmate and cot unbecoming.—Chicago Record-Herald.

The most beautiful pearl in existence Is In the crown of one of the former ciars of Russia and Is on exhibition In the Kremlin at Moscow. It Is a perfect sphere, and so pure as to Appear almost transparent. It weighs 90 grains. The next finest In the world is known as the Hope pearl and Is owned by an English nobleman. There Is a remarkable pearl in the crown of an Image of the Virgin at • of equal led ml at Seville, which is said to have been brought from America by one of the early conqulstadores. A few years ago an American traveler purchased for 100 marks an antique gold brooch that he found In a bric-a-brac shop In a small town In the Interior of Germany. In the centre of the setting was a spherical Jewel that was supposed to be hematite, a species of iron ore, but when the brooch was brought to the United State* and sent to Tiffany's to be cleaned the piece of iron turned out to be one of the Tnost beautiful gems ever exposed to view. It was a black pearl valued at 812,000. An attempt was made to trace the ownership of the brooch, bnt it could .only be learned that the pawnbroker had received it from a stranger some years before as security for a small losn and that the owner apparently had no knowledge of its value. The romantic story of Cleopatra's pearls dissolved In wine was written by one wbo was not familiar with their composition. Pearls cannot be dissolved In wine or vinegar, but they can be eaten by certain powerful acid*, which would have burned the beautiful throat of Cleopatra so that she would have died Instantly.—William E. Curtiss in the Chicago Rec-ord-Herald. Twa SaSUieai Kaaseas. The senior partner did not make his appearance at the'offlce until about 2 o’clock, and then the Junior partner was not there. "Where Is Mr. Tenterhook?" he asked of the bookkeeper. "He left the offlee awhile ago. sir," i ms "and he said day." ; "I hope nothing la the i

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