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f-^\3cgP| <tM WITH «FHE VI:IIMV> \K&] v/«Gvi5?X, J0$<£$ Imif VeBl&pl &pp>4 £tfe The Veterans' Reunion. (At The Weirs, N. H.. August, UMt) <iie soldiers of New Hampshire, Here meet with smiles and As memory review? again The scenes of bygone years. The happy home; the loved one*; The parting at the door; The Ions campaign; the victory; >v? The Joy when all was o'er. -V-; ,A' V Again 'they see McClellan .«; Rally the martial host: And Sherman marching gallantly Through Georgia to the coast; 8ee Sheridan to Winchester Galloping on his way: And Grant, the silent Nemesis ^•.y Of those who wore the $ray. • At Gettysburg see Hancock Ride fearlessly along B^4 ,• V. Through lines of brilliant soldiery* - ^ To snake them doubly strong. And Roseerans at Murfreesboro* lf • Burnside and "Fighting Joe":,* &*4- ii k All names that in the lapse of years | More dear and honored grow. 'i'V '-T The soldiers of New Hampshire; -• Now bravely, side by side, . "The boys"--the common soldiers-- ; . Fought and bled and died.'. K *'2fA i'-They warned immortal glory. v And deserve profoundest thanks, • The grandest heroes of them all-- The private in the ranks. ^ ' fc£"»- The soldiers of New Hampshire: %$i"i % No more on tiery steeds Do gallant generals le»d them on WX To grand and noble deeds. f Their comrades? Some are slumbering SaA.; Beneath yon grassy mounds, 1 And others sleep in unknown graves On distant battlegrounds. I,':'"' The veterans of New Hampshire; Up the vale'of Time They march with hearts as brave true As in their manhood's prime. And the old flag lloats above them As proudly and as fair As in the days of long ago-- And every star is there! --M. Henry Mulligan, Penacook, N. and rs? jr Kentuckians in Union Army. ..... , «.; *ISou ne7cr could tell," said the •' ' Ktentucky Major, "what would happen f~* ' in the army. Early in 1861, the Ken- Jr#1-"*1"% tucklans who wanted to enlist in the j *»! Union army drifted in three direc- «•.;tions. Some went to Rousseau at Camp Joe Holt in Indiana, others with Woodruff and Guthrie to Camp Clay tn Ohio, and others again to Camp §£ *-K Dick Robinson or to Nelson in East- " ern Kentucky. ft? . • • • "Of all tha officers who left Louis- L'V ville in April and May, 1861, none l£f*V>. were more popular than Rousseau and Woodruff, and brilliant careers !'•» seemed opening to both. Rousseau jr*"'*'1? ' went forward without a break to a ["• - major generalship. Woodruff went at , the head of his regiment, the Second £ y, Kentucky to West Virginia, and at v'L - • _ the very beginning of the campaign was captured by the enemy at Scary £.4^,. Creek, and the regiment he had or- ganized went through the war under ; the leadership of another. is the only case, I believe, in which Kentuckians fought behind corn breastworks." • • • 1 "There were a good many Kentucki- •ons." said the captain, "in the First Kentucky infantry, but it was mainly :tnade up of young Buckeyes eager to get to the front, and on its return for muster out, in 1864, the.regiment was Welcomed home, not at Louisville or ivexington, but at Cincinnati. In fact, the boys, all through the service, Were in the habit of calling themselves the First Cincinnati Orphans. From first to last the two Camp Clay regi­ ments were brigaded together, just as were the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Sev­ enth regiments of Kentucky cavalry. But on election days the First Ken* j tucky infantry voted for Ohio officers, j%nd when discharged the men scat- {tered to homes in Ohio, i' • • | "After a long service in Virginia,, j Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia, the regiment came at the very last to service under a Kentuckian, Gen. Hobson, in Kentucky. While Awaiting discharge at Newport barracks, the regiment was called out against Mor­ gan on his last raid in Kentucky. The men had been given a short leave of absence, and few t«e in barracks when Hobson's order clhpe. The colo­ nel inserted a notice in the Cincinnati papers outlining briefly the situation and ordering his men to r£t>ort for duty next morning. That little adver­ tisement was like a bugle call, and the men came pouring into camp eag­ er for one last scrap with the Ken­ tuckian who had caused them so much trouble. * • • "Gen. William Nelson organized the Third, Fourth and Seventh regiments of Kentucky infantry, but when he came to command a division of Buell's army not one of them served in his command Instead the First and Sec- and Kentucky regiments were brought lrom West Virginia and served to the last in the division organized by Nel­ son, fighting under him at Shiloh and under John M. Palmer (a Kentuckian by birth) at Stone River and Chicka­ mauga."--Chicago Inter Ocean. It- Neither Woodruff nor any officer with him when he rode into the en­ emy's lines was at fault, but all were held prisoners while officers on duty were winning reputations. Woodruff never returned to the regiment, but saw service as a general officer in commands far removed from the men who followed . him from Louisville Into the Second Kentucky regiment at Gamp Clay. • * • "Meantime, another Second Ken- tacky regiment had been organized under Col. Speed S. Fry in Eastern Kentucky, and another First Ken­ tucky regiment under Bramlette. The, First and Second Kentucky regiments organized at Camp Clay were deep in the West Virginia campaign before the question of title was settled, and then Fry's regiment became the Fourth, and Bramlette's the Third. Rouleau's regiment finally became the Fifth, and Whittaker's the Sixth, the colo­ nels of all of them winning promo­ tion In the army or ip. public life. • • • "Lieut. Col. Neff and Capts. Hurd and Austin of the Second Kentucky were captured with Woodruff, and in time all were sent to Libby prison. John R. Hurd was captain of company F, &nd his capture advanced to com­ mand immediately Lieut. Jacob H. Smith, who became a brigadier gener­ al in the regular army and made a reputation as a fighter in the Phil­ ippines. Hurd, however, soon returned to his regiment as major, through what he called a happy circumstance. -While Would Not Give Up Their Pet. "Speaking of the Eleventh Ohio," said a veteran, "the boys used to tell the year after the war a good dog story. This particular dog was called Curly, and was with the regiment longer than any other adopted by the Eleventh. Unlike other dogs, he never ran away from skirmish or bat­ tle, but stuck close to the company in every engagement. At Chickamauga he refused to leave our wounded, and was taken prisoner. When after the battle the wounded were removed un­ der a flag of truce, Curly broke through the rebel lines and joined his company in Chattanooga. "Strangely enough, Curly escaped without a wound until we were on our way home for muster out. He got off the cars at Bowling Green and broke his leg. Before the situation was understood the train started, and Curly, left behind. wounded, was re­ ported lost. The boys who had been i wounded at Chickamauga, and who remembered Curly's devotion and loy­ alty on that occasion, could not give him up. They made such a stir about it that some months later the soldiers stationed at Bowling Green shipped Curly to Louisville, and from there he was sent to Osborne, Ohio, where he was cared for by a member of the regiment until old age carried him off." !' m;, - S&.C le in Llbby, he noticed that the TJtmfederate or city surgeons who came to the officers' quarters passed the guards on a green ribbon tied on the left arm. Many of these surgeons were not in uniform, and one day when one of them dropped his green ribbon badge Hurd picked it up, tied it on his own irm, and, putting on an, authoritative air, marched past the guards and out in the streets of Rich­ mond, making good his escape and returning to his regiment with the prestige of daring adventure. * * * ^TThe Fourth Kentucky started out independent fashion. It was the Only regiment in the service in which the companies were arranged in al­ phabetical order from right to left, company A coming on the right and company K on the left, whereas, un­ der the rule, the flanking companies wewkA and B. This departure seemed to/me at the time pure contrariness, but Gen. Thomas approved the at- • rangement and it stood to the end. -5t was the Fourth Kentucky infantry, mounted, which in June, 1864, rescued their friends of the Fourth Kentucky cavalry at Lafayette. Ga. • * • "Col. Watkins of the Fourth cavalry nrss at Lafayette with 450 men of the fourth, Sixth and Seventh Kentucky cavalry, when he was attacked by Gen. Pillow with a force of two or three thousand men. The light was a town light from the first and re­ markable because of the means em­ ployed In defense. As soon as the filing began the Kentuckians took pos­ session of the courthouse and jail and barricaded the doors and windows with sacks of corn. From behind these corn barricades they beat Pillow's men off until the Fourth Kentucky in- fantry, well mounted, sent Piljow's men scurrying away In what their dis- General 8herman'a Statue. After a delay of some two years, the equestrian statue of Gen. Sherman at Washington, Is now nearing. com­ pletion. The figure, heroic in size, has been placed on the pedestal. The site is south of the Treasury building, and is only a short distance from the spot where Gen. Sherman reviewed his splendid army at the close of the civil war. The bronze pieces embrace, be­ sides the statue itself, the figures that are to be stationed at the four corners of the pedestal. These represent the four arms of the service, infantry, artiHtSfry, cavalry and engineers. An­ other represents the figure of Peace. These parts of the statue were design­ ed and modeled by Carl Rohl-Smith, the sculptor, in Denmark, two years ago, before his death. The statue is eighteen feet in height, and the whole height of the pedestal and statue is fifty feet. Around the pedestal there will be a mosaic in which the names of the many battles in which Gen. Sherman participated will appear. Tbtfo Half early The treasurer of the United States on May 6, 1903, redeeaied two half- cent pieces. This is the first time in the history of the country any such 8,000,000 Still Outstanding tft.tOttU, uf.. v«r 4.1M9. amont tfcMptiot, (Hit pi»o«i»• • i|-0l °fflo« cf Tmiutff tr.8« May He4peotfuliy YettxmM with ourrort coin,ona aet&t proceeds o£" redemption of two 1/3 64&t pifQCS. atjfrfuki, Treasure* tr.f* <A CHjgf Ctffti COFOT op VOVCHER REDEEMING. THfi FIRST HALF CEtfT. coins have been presented for redemp­ tion. It Is more than a century since the first half cent piece was coined and it is nearly fifty years since the government discontinued minting them. . The Peerless Watermelon. The northern-bred man puts salt on his watermelon, thereby exciting the risibles of the southerner. He puts sugar on his cantaloupe, causing more laughter. He eats butter on his rad­ ishes, which is enough to make a calf weep. He eats "grits" with sugar and cream, which would knock a country­ man silly. The watermelon is the most beautiful fruit in nature's garden. It should not be touched with knife or fork. Lettuce is not nearly so sensi­ tive to the metallic contact. Hold it three feet from a sheet spread on the floor and let it drop. If in perfect con­ dition for eating it will break into edible portions. Bite off the mouth- fuls, or place them in the buccal cavity with the Angers. Save the rind. It makes the finest preserves and pickle of all earthly products. The seeds boiled make a diuretic that is unap­ proachable. As a diet drink the liquid is far superior to a gelatinized flaxseed tea.--New York Press. love. Veterans Watch the Flag. "I wonder who is dead now," said an old Grand Army man. as he passed Court square the other day and glanced at the Memorial building to note that the flag had been placed at half mast. The veteran had scarcely come in sight of the building when tie had intuitively paused to glancu at the flagstaff. Inquiry developed the fact, accord­ ing to my Informant, that the Grand Army veterans never pass by- the building without glancing up to see the position of the flag. In this -wfcy many of them who are not readers of the newspapers keep track of those of their number who have fought the last battle. The survivors aim • to keep close track of those who are 11) and the flag tells them the rest of tl) story.--§aringfield (Mass.) News. The Home Waltz. The last low strain had blended, With the silence of the room; The minstrels and the dancers Were lost in the outward gloom; But the waltz that bade m© homeward, love, Faintest of all I vow, Is the one that lingers with me, love, Through all the hushes now. murmured with the rMythm, -love, A word to the simple air: Then my lips were mute ana humble As they touched your golden hair. But now, when 1 count your answer, love, In your eyes and lifted brow, I know why that waltz is throbbing, love, In my soul and bosom now. An anvil sudden lighted, love, With a spark of chorus Same, The music in me kindled At the murmuring of your name; And I knew your inward answer, love, I know not why or how-- You told it to the measures, love. And the night repeats it now. The strain of the waltz had melted, love, But I tarried with you there; And the light above your doorway Fell on your golden hair. "Good night." you said, as softly love, As the waltz had said, I vow; But the last low note and whisper, love, 1 hear in the hushes now. Possibly not one person in a thou­ sand now living in the United States ever saw a half cent piece. T|ie last annual report of th6' direc­ tor of the mint, page 82, shows that 7,985,222 of these coins, representing $39,926.11 were issued. For almost half a century each annual report of the Treasury department has include ed them among the "outstanding" ob­ ligations of the government. The half cent piece was the coin' of the smallest denomination, ever made by this country. It enjoys the; distinction also of being the first one issued and also the first whose de-1 nomination was discontinued. The United States mint was established in 1792. and copper half cents were is­ sued in 1793. Half the total number of half cents issued were coined pre­ vious to 1810, after which year their coinage, with few exceptions, was limited. None was coined for circu-j lation from 1812 to 1824, nor from" 1836 tp 1848. Finally, in 1857 their coinage, with that of the big copper : cent, was discontinued. On account of^ t h e i r l i m i t e d u s e i n t h e l a s t y e a r s o f i their coinage tffl?y practically had dis­ appeared from the channels of trade.: The needs of adopting the half cent as our lowest value-computing factor : for a coin were many in the early- days1 of the republic. Colonial half cents and British farthings of the same com­ mercial value were then in circulation, and many articles were priced and sold In half cents. With the progress of the nation values rose and' the needs for a half cent disappeared, ahd their use following the first decade of the century was almost entirely confined to multiples. Large quantities of half cents are to be found in the stocks of coin dealers. The most common dates are sold at a good premium and. the extremely rare ones are worth their weight in gold. Ferran Zarbe of St. Louis, was the man who sent the two half-cent pieces to Washington for redemption. He now prizes highly the! little voucher calling for "one cent," and which was sent to him with that amount of cur­ rent coin in exchange for the two half- cent pieces he had forwarded. Thx? different • V, of Hdlf Cerii$ ^ ' 1733, First. HA2*P 1800 to 189 S. f809 to 133S., 1849 tothe last 185* NEW WONDERS OF RADIUM Radium, the new substance that is now calling forth the greatest syste­ matized efforts by the most brilliant scientific investigators both here and abroad, is rapidly unfolding new prop­ erties that seemingly defy the laws of nature, astound the senses and mys­ tify the human mind. Only a fortnight has elapsed since a new property of radium was discovered by Prof. Curie. In the New York Herald of recent date I described how radium has been found to emit heat .and maintain a temperature of three degres higher than the air which surrounds It. It was over this statement of Curie that the eminent body of scientists who have been working on the prob­ lem of heat emission of radium be­ came divided into two factions--those on the one hand maintaining the truth of the assertion and those on the other that the statement was irreconcilable in virtue of the established laws of the conservation of energy. But now it has been conclusively demonstrated by Prof. Curie that radi­ um not only possesses this remarkable property, but that its rate of heat emission remains unchanged regard­ less of the temperature of the element ply the amount of energy it radiates for 30,000 years before its internal en­ ergy was completely used up. And all this energy in the form of heat is pro­ duced without anything burning, with­ out any change in its chemical com­ position and witnout its molecular or atomic structure being altered in any way. One of the methods applied by the Curies to detect the presence of radium or other substances having radio-active properties is by means of an electroscope. The apparatus Is shown above. This method is based on the fact that radium emanations make the air in proximity to it a con­ ductor of electricity. The radio­ active substance to be determined is placed on the metal plate B; the second plate A being placed above the plate B, which is charged electrically by the battery P, which is connected to earth at T; the plate A is also con­ nected to the earth through the switch C. In this way the two plates are op­ positely charged with electricity to a high degree, which is registered by the electro-meter at E. In this way radio­ active substances may be detected and determined, and It is said that this gQSted general called a panic. -.'vf*';*:! ' "'-r: This [ ways 7 i. The Loyal Legion. The inilitary order of the Loyal Le­ gion made a net loss of twenty-six first-class original members during the quarter ending July 31, and gained thirty-four by succession and inheri­ tance, making the total of the first-' class 8,086. In the second class there was a net loss of three, leaving the total 944. The veterans are tough, but they cannot be expected to lire aL Seeing Electricity. The phenomena of electric dis­ charges in vacuum tubes give the nearest approach to seeing electricity that are likely to be made. The streams of corpuscles propelled along the tubes suggested to Crookes In 187j the idea of a fourth state of matter, and these corpuscles--smaller than atoms and the same in all kinds of gases--were named electrons by Ston- ey, and have come to be regarded as the electric parts of all atoms, or even as making up matter Itself. When torn from its groups or from matter the electron travels with a speed com­ parable to that of light A body charged with electricity, if at rest, pre­ sents the phenomena of electrostatics; if in motion, those of electricity and magnetism; If in acceleration or change of motion, those of light and radiation generally. A Question of Cheapness. The late Frank Peavey of Minneapo­ lis had excellent taste, of which his handsome and luxurious home bore evidence. Mr. Peavey had an old uncle, whose unsophisticated mind he delighted to surprise with his works of art, Bays Lipplncott's Magazine. For an enormous ballroom in his house, a room measuring nearly sixty feet in length, Mr. Peavey had recent­ ly bought a handsome rug at a very high price. The rug reposed, a veri­ table silken gem, in the center of the polished ballroom floor and Uncle Jim- mie was taken to inspect it. When he was told the cost he puckered his lips in a silent whistle, scratched his head, and after a long silence said slowly: "Frank, I'm derned if I don't think it'd V been cheaper to carpet this room!" Afpaka-TOS EMELOXHD -ixv - TT ^md 23kxb. Cokee. xse *phb6toor enr KftnmAfl'iasyrrse. which surrounds it--that la, there is no perceptible variation when "the air that surrounds it is 90 degrees or that of 312 degrees, when it becomes liquid air. If radium is ittmerse4 J» liquid hydrogen, which is the greatest cold yet produced, it begins to emit more heat instead of being cooled, as one would naturally expect. These experi­ ments, however, have failed to indi­ cate in the slightest degree how ra­ dium can maintain its constant heat- giving powers; it has been suggested that radio-active matter obtained its power of absorbing heat and then giving it out just as a pebble em­ bedded in a piece of ice and heated by the sun's rays would cause the ice closest to it to melt Prof. J. J. Thomson has calculated that the electric charge in the radium atoms would by their disruption sup- 7 QKIN'PFTAFTftgQgp. method is a thousand times more sen­ sitive than spectrum analysis and a million times more sensitive than chemical analysis. There are ocner bodies capable of emitting heat radiations, such as polo­ nium, actinium and thorium, and at the present writing it seems clear that some of our theories relating to physics will have to be very greatly modified if not indeed rewritten.--A. Frederick Collins in New York Her- ald. Perfect Table Talk. Table talk, to be perfect, should be sincere without bigotry, differing with­ out discord, sometimes grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points, dwelling most on seasonably ones, and letting everybody speak and be heard. --Leigh Hunt. V' 'V'.'-V,.- Out of the Question. Her principal assets were youth and beauty, and in the guileless innocence of a trusting heart she had bestowed her young affcctions upon an old, old man, whose coffers were literally over­ flowing with gold. And there was a grand party to cele­ brate the betrothal, to which all sorts and conditions of people were invited; and things went, lf possible, even mer­ rier than a marriage bell. During the evening there was some sweet music, and sweeter singing, an{l then it was that the bride-elect mur­ mured in ner most dulcet tones: . "I am going to ask you a favoic. Col, Mooney. Do you remember 'My Sweet­ heart When a Boy'?" "Remember him!" gasped the col­ onel. "You don't suppose I'm a cen­ tenarian, do you?" And somehow they quite forgot to Invite him to the wedding.--Stray Stories. t . _, . "r Pertinent Query. f ou eat grapes without, thtnldnk of appendicitis? --- Globe. Jwyenile Crime Deereeeee.. Juvenile crime in France has de­ creased by 30 per cent among boys and, 42 per cent among 188i; •' -' Saving Machinery. - Farm machinery saved in the plant­ ing and gathering of last year's crops, in the United States, $700,000,000. Home Influence, Probably. It was during the reading lesson in one of our public schools that a little lad read in a jerky, expressionless way, "Mamma, see the hawk." The reading was so very poor that the teacher said: "John, you know you would not talk that way to your mother." "N'm," replied the lad. 'V; "Well, now," said the teacher, ln n kindly way, "you read it exactly as you would say it to your mother." And here is his reply: "Look, mom, at that there hawk!"--Philadelphia In says a Billville aathor, a feller gets in the literacy swim he has to use a few friendly critics as life preservers."--Atlanta CbE8titution. .Phil May's Drawings. It is stated that the late Phil May left enough sketches to fill four vol­ umes of the welKaiown Annual, whose publication Will not I Will Go Out. I will go out into cool woodland places, Among old forest trees That have heard many pray'rs. seen many faces Of men, and meet the breeze ' And sun and rain, and dwell awhile with these. There are calm spirits In the trees and mountains, To those with eyes to see The old wood gods live yet; .forests and fountains Yield them security; If I fatay silent they will speak With me. Perfumed with pray'rs I shall es&y them stealing Across the dim-lit lawn Ere, evening's torch be raised, or when revealing Another day new born The Wind talks with the mountains In the dawn. 1 will go out into cool woodland places With open heart and ears, " . And be a child again, running swift races With backward reaching years. And laugh again and know Qod's gift of tears. . • if 1 Desiring and Obtaining. Ask, and It shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. For he that asketh re- celveth, and he that seeketh flndeth, and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.-- St. Matthew vii., 7, 8. These yords proclaim an unchange­ able, universal, eternal law of the kingdom of God. They are not a three­ fold repetition of a single thought. They are rather an announcement of the three successive stages in the up­ ward progress of the one law of de­ siring and obtaining. These steps are not Interchangeable. Seeking Is not asking. Knocking is neither asking nor seeking. Asking Is desire; seek­ ing Is desire in action; knocking is active desire concentrated upon a definite purpose and plan. The words of the text are, we be­ lieve, not the language of a "char­ acter" in fiction, but an utterance of Christ Jesus. Two of their most im­ pressive qualities are their unques­ tioning confidence and their unlimited scope. There is no suggestion In them of doubt of the reality of the law; no hint of a limit to the law In time, or In space, or in the nature of things. Ask, seek, knock, at any and you shall receive, you shall find, it shall be opened to you. Painful or pleasant, good or what is thought to be evil, what you wish for, what you look for, what, you work for you Shall have. The lesson of the reality and the universality of the law of desiring and obtaining is hard to be learned. Like other hard lessons of human life, this is to be learned only by experience. Man gets opinion and belief from ob­ servation. Experience alone brings knowledge. When one has seen the fulfillment of a law of God's kingdom in his own life he knows that the law is real. This is the foundation of his faith in the law and in the God ex- presed in the law. His faith, too, is the real faith, which results from real understanding, which grows out of real knowledge acquired by man in his own individual experience. No argument can shake such faith. No denial can destroy it. Once attained it is immortal. From the point of view of human experience there was nothing peculiar in the earthly existence ot Jesus Christ. Tested at all points as all humanity is tested, Jesus found what all humanity finds--the knowledge that results from experience, the understanding that accompanies knowledge, the power, the. faith, the love that come from Understanding. He came into this world a baby grop­ ing after power, with almost aimless hands. At the end of his experience on earth he went out from his cross the God-man indued with all power in earth and in heaven. Because we belfeve that the faith of Jesus in the reality and tho universality of the law of desiring and obtaining was an outgrowth from his experience and that his experience was In no essen­ tial particular peculiar to himself, we believe the law to be as real for all as it was for' him, as real for our­ selves as it is for all others. More than this, we ourselves grow into actual faith in the reality of the law, because we find it fulfilled in our own experience, whether in the good which we have desired to do or in the mistakes which we have undoubtedly made. Whatever we may be doing, there­ fore, wherever we may be doing it, we will have faith that God gives to those who ask and seek and knock, and that if we desire them and seek them and knock for them we shall receive in due time--that is, in God's good time, all good things--all the knowledge, all the understanding, all faith, and all the love of which the wisdom, all the powety :>S the humanity is capable! The Sin of Fretting. There is one sin which it seems to me is everywhere and by everybody underestimated, and quite too much overlooked in valuation of character, it is the Bin of fretting. It is as common as air, as'speech, so common that, unless it rises above its usual monotone, we do not even observe it. Watch any ordinary coming together ot people and see how many minutes it will be before somebody frets; that is makes more or less complain­ ing statement of something or other which most probably everyone in the room or in the car or on the street corner, it ay be, knew before, and probably nobody can help. Why say anything about it? It is cold, it is hot, it is wet, it is dry, somebody has broken an appointment, ill-cooked a me%I; stupidity or bad faith some­ where has resulted in discomfort. It is simply astonishing how much an­ noyances may be found in the course of every day's living, if. one only keeps a sharp eye out on that side of things. Even Holy Writ says we are prone to trouble as the sparks fly up- ward. But even to the sparks flying upward, in the blackest of smoke, there is a blue sky above; and thp less time they waste on the road, the sooner they will reach it. Fretting is all time wasted on the road.--Helen Hont. , ' i Carrying One's Crossi - ' Life is not easy for any one, and to many people it is very hard. They are carrying every ounce of burden ^ they can possibly carry. They some- times alrAost totter beneath their ifv heavy load. Now suppose that, ls> stead of saying cheering words to these people, heartening words which would put new hope and courage into their spirit, we do nothing but criti­ cize them, flnd fault with them, speak in harsh, unloving way of them; what is the effect upon them? It can only be hurtful. It makes their load all j ' the heavier. Or, rather, it takes out ftfe of their heart the enthusiasm, tha, „ Jk,' h o p e , t h e c o u r a g e , a n d m a k e s S r ' - harder for them to go on. » - "Carrying one's cross" means sfm- ply that you are to go on the road which you see to be the straight one; ; carrying whatever you find is giyen to you to carry, as well and as stoutly as f*"- you can; without making any faces or f--K calling people to look at you. Above all, you are neither to load nor unload jfe; yourself, nor cut your cross to your ^ *~ own liking. But all you have really to '$$• do is to keep your back as straight as ^ you can, and not think about what is ? on it; above all, not to boast of what is on it. The real and essential mean- - ing of virtue is in that straightness of the back.--John Ruskin. : ' :• ' -K:-, "Fear Not!* No feeling is more common Mnamt. men than fear. The bravest soldiers' have confessed that on entering into battle they have trembled with terror. Not a few people whose courage has stood the severest tests, have: been afraid of such trifles as going alone into a dark room. The vice that can say with authority, "Fear not!" is sure to be welcomed by all who hear it. That voice speaks to us again and again in the Bible. No book stills our fears like this. It bids us not to be afraid of life with all its difficulties and sorrows and temptations. It as* sures us that One is standing beside us who will make us more than con­ querors. In the presence of death, too, .wo hear the same voice uttering Its mes­ sage of cheer and encouragement. No Earthly friend however loving, can go down with us into the grave. But the Savior will not suffer us to go alone even there. He will go with ns and drive away the terrors of. death from before us. More than life or death do many fear the judgment to cojme. But "that solemn event no follower of Christ has any reason to dread. For the judge who sits upon the throne is also, his friend, in whose hands his destiny is secure. • :$i • t' 1 -- God's Plans. Do men defeat God's plans? Very, often' we are told by clergymen that wicked men defeat the plans of our Creator. There are clergymen who claim to know very much about God's plans. Preachers have been known to claim almost infinite knowledge in regard to God and his plans. These men should be more humble. Man compared with God is too insignifi­ cant to be mentioned. -It Is not pos­ sible for any man to know very much of God and his plans. Is it not folly tnen for any man to claim that wiok* ed men, or even good men, can change the plans of God? God's plans are impregnable; they are sure to be executed. Can man stop the tides of the ocean? Can man stop the rising of the sun, or its setting? Can man stop the revolutions of the earth? No! Neither can man change any oC CMC* plans. , The Quaker's Reply. A certain keeper of a public honse was trying to exalt his virtues by de­ claring that he kept a decent house; that when a man got full of liquor he could get no more. etc. To which ^ Quaker replied: "Friend, that is the most damnable part of thy business. If thee would sell to drunkards and loafers thee would help to kill off the race, and society would be rid of them. But thee takes the young, the poor, the innocent and the unsuspect­ ing, making drunkards and loafers of them. When their character and money are all gone thee kicks them out, and turns them over to other shops to finish off, and thee ensnares others and sends them on the same road to ruin."--Nazarene's Messenger. Simplicity of Preaching. The Gospel to be effective must bo preached with simplicity. Simplicity of thought and wording. But if there is anything discouraging to a young preacher it is the knowledge that in spite of this very simplicity which he Is reaching after, his hearers will at first fail lo appreciate him. Just as the old Scotch woman who went to hear the famous Dr. Chalmers re­ marked in a disappointed tone: "Why, I could understand everything he said! I don't call him a great preach­ er!" It is strange, but it is true, that very many persons will mistake sim­ plicity for mental inability, and uralness for want of expression. i $ I £ Need of a Pure Spirit. We may rest assured that except we first learn to enshrine God in our hearts, we shall never be able to real­ ize him adequately in our intelligence, for the heart is the xoot of the tree and the fountain of the stream; as the heart is, so will all eventually be. Schiller has truly observed: "iTiat which the wisdom of the wise fails to comprehend, the childish spirit in Its simplicity perceives." Become then of a pure and simple heart, even as little children, if needa be; so shall the divine glory find % lodgment within you. ft: I'viiij