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the | boys occasionally mistake éi value of a human life may be' consid: }. py, the shadow. of the departed Dan pus. train was unknown. The Circus Sometimes some'of the "Profes- but the canvas men went with the the natural home for circuses, come north in the Spring refit and go the summer. There is even a circus his name is Johnson), which bas & the 'Afro-Americans, who think it the} "Mammy tried out her a schools and "Ringling 'Bros. Biggest Show en]grow a one is Mistah Tolnsingé, . she added oke up the ro shabering SaovAk men as a steers in the cattle cars when the train &s oreighi with heavy iton mallets striks , Would drive in the pegs with a noise like a The bentre poles would soon be raised, the can- and, sail-like; the big-top would flutter up, be [guyed. "This was pot done without considera- fit is true, but that was an age when its was overestimated. I nse the expression "big: days it seemed very big to me; but compared " of 2 modern three ring and two platform d look like an Indian teepéd. At ten o'clock a and # brass band would drive: up and is fedtire has not yet been eliminated, on marked." Circus music is . the same And no bandsman had better apply unless place of tuiigs. Here is the day's work: or + performance, inside tent at performance that. while all their playing must be fast bats look to the band to do certainacts at : pretty much the same tune. the whole sea- lowed, of "course, we kids usually hung home, bolted some food, and beat it back § could hear the band outside #¢ ch, allowed to pass us the juvenile T having seen 3 Tady in pink] skies Hine By MRS: PAUL CAMERON Columbus. Ontario There are three ways in which thes ered : 1 Its worth to God: 2 Its worth to man himself. 3 Its worth to his fellowmen. : We get some idea of God's estimate of s human life' from the question Jesus asked his' disciples -- "What shall & man be' profited if he shall gain the lose his own life; or what give in ex- e for hus life?" . Since God values 'human life so i ble. for man to pcg a of his. Tite, whether "to 'acquires fortune or to a soul, for the 'only estimable produce of life is a Jloble. character. he business of our pein hor to ow to full 'of things, nor. even to fill them with' a different kind of things, but to take the : plain day just as it comes and add det shat which color. adds' to adds to: flowers, This --_ very: emphatically to the work in a woman's day.' 'Housekeep- ing for instance, involves the regular performance of a certain round of in- evitable duties. Beds must bé made, floors must be swept, breakfast, dinner and 'supper must be served. These duties may, be done in such a way as to make them the .dreariest of tasks. The housewife may make the back- stairs the wearisome steps of a tread- will, It is mostly a matter of thinking and life and character depends upon the way we take.it. The back-stairs may feally be Jacob's ladder if we will and the mother and daughters angels ascendi and.descending, They: may not look it. in their. working clothes, but to thie husband and father that is what they are, unless they choose to De otheryisk. - He prefers aprons to wings we may be sure of that.: We build our characters and 'make our destinies bit by bit and day by day and we cannot blame anyone but our~ selves if the result is discordant and ugly. It is true that all who strive in a worthy cause will make rhistakes and come short time and again but that is not failure if we but press-on $lwith steadfast - courage, cheer serenity, © There i ide nothing more Boi fi and cent in the whole es man or woman who lives . to do right. And why should not id on ant ake your castle igh fair, Rising and. reaching upward to. the BR woious ik the EPpet aft lose thy simple faith in mysteries, | Josms 10 Say happy. irs is the Huong heaven, y dhl unhent the earth--Jt tl ious -and promote | baltowed riendshi blessed are {the merciful --blessed arethe peace makers--And it must abound in a certain joyful invindibleness Wat neither reproach nor persecution can conquer--for Blessed are ye. whem men shall reproach you and persesute- you "Rejoice." This is life indeed and by this standard are we to judge. our failures and to imate our success. There is something very great, very: tonic about it which elevates and "in- on vigorates the soul. But can 'such a life be lived, such a character be attained? Not by ourselves, . but the Lord who gave the ideal plays & mighty part in our quest of it. = A' man's value to his fellow-weh may be estimated in many "different ways,--we may count his" money,. measure the" space he fills inthe thoughts of men, regdrd the scope of his sympathy, or note the range of his mental attainments. But these do not.ekpress thé'true worth of the man tobi fellowmen that is measured not by the quantity of his wealth, but by his sense of obligation; not in' the consciousness of what he has but in the . consciousness - of what he owes. What obligations does he acknowledge to home, to city, to country, to the world, to the church, tp God? "1 am debtor"--to what, and te how much? There is our measure of nobility. There 18 the measure of what a man is worth to his fellowmen--There is the measure of what we are worth, no sense of indebtedness, there is no human worth; where theré is much sense oi indebtedness there is much wealth of soul. We sometimes hear the 'boast "Rk owe no man anything" and in the narrow sense in which the words are commonly used that is all right. and suggests a serupulous honesty that one wishes were more fashionable. But if the statement is meant to be absolute: it .expresses exclusMeness, selfishness, littleness of son}. and puts. look: St. Paul says "Owe * anything but to love," When mam. paid our monetary debts, every. 18 still our creditor for our love: In theory perhaps we all admit: thie and{ principle but in . practice are we not very partial in its applications ? Is it not often much easier to see ame know what our neighbor ought to. do: with his wealth Of money and endow- ment, than itis to see our own res sponsibility for the use we are of the good gifts that God has entrus~ ted to us, whether hese gifts be mater fal wealth, « smsbitant nt health nceiedge seen penal the gospel uma hood ~that a man's [vein mig ight b be far away. from, 4 it carries a (