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EWELRY. 1y _and Undertaker ialâ€"Telegrapher ng Selfâ€"Destrucâ€" DEAD GUARD UL DOG. in Connection 000 Loss. IRT l n and Wounds LF E MAN verely ACT,. evil a t »tti eeâ€"Pronged it, and . While nbedded binding e could conse Despond» line bhat ned ap, Yer ind EW in M 1 he ake eft the M In it Need it be said with what _ eager joy Mme. Debrisay set about executing the welcome commission. How she reâ€" duced the rent first demanded, extinâ€" guished the gas charge, put out the kitâ€" chen fire, and Poohâ€"poohed bootâ€"cleanâ€" ing and "cruets," insisting that _ all should be lumped together for a fixed sum and added to the weekly rent. ly," Mona wrote,. "and Uncle Sandy has been so undecided, that I could not write to you before; and this will not be worâ€" thy the name of a letter; but I shall be able to tell you all soon, for we start for London on the twentyâ€"second, and my uncle wanis you to find lodgings for us as near you as possible. I need not tell you they must be the most modâ€" erate you can find. We shall arrive at Charing Cross. where Kenneth *fllfitel‘ is to meet us; and pray hav8 dinzer or nu‘rper ready for the whole party, your dear self included, at seven or t o‘clock. How we shall talk. How deli ful it will be to see vou again." ts Phere‘s nothing vexes a ctingy man mM (| in pia 2o‘d only in Now is the Time Won at Last n. and at times she doubted uot paying too high a price advantages hereafter. , winter and spring passet ummer was close at hand. isay began to be anxious She had not heard from ore than a fortnight, and that her uncle‘s plans were when one warm evening, as inz aiter a busy day, the her the expcrctedy epistle. It m Paris. m sight seeing so constantâ€" place of the adulterated teas of Japan winter they rested at Dresâ€" Uncle Sandy was both comâ€" d bapyp in th society of a | i minister of sound" views,‘ Mr. Craig chess, a great reâ€" t snetimes a little irksome to i Sealed Lead packets only. grocers. _ HIâ€"~HEST aA w ‘re her greatest com ug and full; but the ithy detected the un # arising from unsen how NFOss ) way leng issed in th characters CEYLON GREEN TEA â€" 0 insure your health by using auoutp _ _ acmmame Mess 0 c d little change of on time. A variâ€" "*~eis on‘y. 40c, 50c and 60c perlib. At all HEST AWARD st. LOUIS, 1904 & nobleman!" cried madame, lm her shoulders when Mona had her story. "Ah, ciel! what inconsistent creatures men are! I have heard of this Of all Mona had to relate, the episode of Everard‘s appearance an Contrexeville interested Mme. Debrisay most. "To think of such an out and out Radâ€" ical as Mr. Craig wishing you to marry _ "And I to tell you. Ah, Deb! I wish I could live and work with you! But, really, Uncle Sandy has been most kind to me, and I am fonder of him than I ever thought I should be. But someâ€" times his selfishnessâ€"his narrownessâ€" repels me; still, I feel bound to him!" Safe in Mona‘s little room upstairs, the friends enjoyed the delights of fullâ€" free interchange of confidence. "Come, mon ange!" cried Mme. Debriâ€" say; "I will go and have a few words in peace with you while you get out your elothes. I am dying to hear all n{out everything!" _ "(Oh, nothing to speak out. Just a ecold, and a heaviness in my limbs." "Er mon," said Uncle Sandy, with a knowing smile, "it‘s grand to have a bruw lassie speerin‘ after your health." "She was always ferry good to me," said Kenneth, uneasily. Then as appetite was allayed, talk flowed full and free. "1 tnink, ancle," said Mona, after a good deal of description of the people ard places they had seen, "I think you ouzlht to take Kenneth with you _ to Craigdarroch. It would do him a world of good. And he knows all about land and animals. He would be a better comâ€" panion than I could be." But Uncle Sandy began to talk of goâ€" ing to bed, and asked his nephew to unâ€" strap his portmanteau for him; and as his room adjoined the dining room which Mme. Debrisay had secured for their acâ€" commodation, they could hear the murâ€" mur of voices as Kenneth assisted his uncle to unpack. Words which stirred Mona‘s memory. She laughed nd blushed, glancing _ at Kenneth with friendly comprehension. His face grew longer and his eyes had a startled expression, _ which _ amused hands with him heart alter all these long "Thank ye, thank pleased with the wa ing. "I‘m not sorry hope you are well?" "Yoes,. quite well, I Nir. Mscalister has Sr. Aizreaunster has been gfoou enough to come to cheet me _ up occasionally. Very kind of him to trouble about an oid woman. Glad to see you. Go inside, Nir. Craig, your nepkew and I will setâ€" tle with the cabman."* like an array of extras, when he has made up his mind to one thing." _ she thought. "Your money hsall be paid regularly, but never put an extra _ on your billâ€"not even an et cetera. Write ‘ore week‘s rent and attandance incluâ€" sive,‘ with the rent we have agreed to opposite, Not another word, or the genâ€" tleman, who is as rich as a Jew, _ will walk out of the house. He, is very careâ€" ful of his money, but never keeps any one waiting for it." ‘Thiis to the Keteniuw Tandia®o astha but it is good to get a bit of dry cain," said Uncle Sandy. "And i. my mon. I am right glad to as a fine giowing evening when Debrisay, in her prettiest _ cap, l the arrival of the travelers. assisted to lay the table â€" and he place look neat and pretty. rse those watched for were late, ied to be; but at last a cab, ladâ€" lupggage, drew np to the gate and xt moment Mena was in _ her arms. darlin‘ child; I have been that without vYou And vou are Inok. ig ior it." % ) the listening landiady. who enough to secure a tenant, as : of the season was past, and and avewed any amount of ittention. a fine clowing# evenin@e when meth." I canna want vou. If I i. sir. Im sure I have misâ€" â€"and Miss Mona, here, soreâ€" pleasure to have a bit talk while you were away. Kenneth is not looking at s pale and thin. Have you inna want you. If I had I‘d have vyou baith _ alâ€" a, thoughtlessly, _ ten her unele‘s schemes nce she had heard anyâ€" ell, 1 am has been lad to hear it," he reâ€" iild; I have been that vou. And you are lookâ€" wt terribly sunburned." and thern she went to who deseerded from the alertness than she had ow lefore. see you looking quite st pay him mysclf." e. Debrisay and mona is moments to _ themâ€" the party sat _ down the sense of enjoyment mixture of familiarity rmth of her gre to be back again ar Ar. Craig." she of pleasure dancing eves, as she shook ily. "Welcome back, months." a is," cried Mona vou rarely ged is not imposâ€" landiadyv. who in he returned { her gveet evergreen. d enouch 1 Mme, Debrisay said, in a géntly remonâ€" strating voiceâ€"» l "Come, now, my own darling; will you never tell me what is at the botâ€" ‘l(:m of it all9" have as good as lost two seasons, for the holidays are close at hand. I wish the old gentleman would declare his inâ€" tentions." * All the next day Uncle Ssnd{ was #ilent, touchy, dissatisfied. He felt out of sorts, and was quite sure the veal he had eaten the previous day had not been sufficiently cooked. How was it that _ "Well, well, I begin to think it might be a lon% hard service for an inadequate return. But what I fear is that between two stools you may fall to the ground, If you are to work for yourself, you "I feel as if we should have a tugâ€" ofâ€"war toâ€"morrow. I earnestly hope my uncle will not break with Kenneth. I am really much more independent, with you at my back, dear Deb." . & while your hard, wiry, indifferent foxâ€" terrierâ€"like men scramble over friend and enemy alike to success, n«@matter how many they tread down in the proâ€" cess. That boy is made for a pastoral life, with a dash of the hunter‘s. I am sorry for him in Uncle Sandy‘s clutches." "Yet Uncle Sandy tries to be just." "May be so; but he never thinks of other people‘s wants and wishes, only of what he wants himselfâ€"and you see one man‘s receipt for perfect bliss may be needles and pins to his neighbor." . "You are ferry good, ferry," he said, warmly. "And now I must bid you fareâ€" well. I am late as it is, and 1 want to write along letter before I sleep." ‘"May I guess who to, Kenneth?" "Ah, you knrow, I dare say." "That poor fellow is overweighted with heart for the race of life," eaid Mme. Debrisay, reflectively, when they were alone. "It is about the worst sort of weight a man car carry. It‘s sad to see how good fellows fgil__g_.\_r hundreds, "Aund remember you have two bright women to help you, Mr. Kenneth," addâ€" ed Mme. Debrisay, _ _ T n "Do you think toâ€"morrow will be the crucial test, Kenneth?" said Mona, anâ€" swering the look. "I fee} as if it would be." "Then do not fear. _ You will get through,. and it is better to have it out." "Yes, but you have not so much at stake as I have, Cousin Mona." "That is true!â€" but ‘faint heart never won fair lady]" j _ "Very well." said Kenneth, looking as though he did not like it. It was late when they reached home, and found Uncle Sandy had retired to bed with a bad headache. and. according to Mme. Debrisay, a bad fit of sulks. as he had lost the gameâ€"and to be beaten, especially by a woman. was intolerable. "Your uncle desired me to say that he wished to see you late or early toâ€"morâ€" row evening, Mr. Kenneth," she conâ€" cluded, "so try and come as early as vou can." "No, Kennethâ€"no knowing to what you might have been reduced," she reâ€" turned, laughing goodâ€"humoredly at the simple selfâ€"conceit which blinded him to his total unfitness to be her husband. Then the young Highlander indulged in a long. discursive monologue respecting his trials and troublesâ€"Ims unfitness for _ His _ present _ occupation â€" his longing for a freeâ€"air, outâ€"cor life. "No; for my own sake. He was a poor, halfâ€"witted creature. Kenneth, we must put a stop to this! You must tell Uncle manay that you have asked me again, and that I have refused you; tell him you do not care to have anything to do with a girl who is so averse to accept you. If my uncle calls me to account, I will settle"the matter very quickly; I am quite able to earn my bread, and I only stay with him from a feeling of duty and compassion. Let him break with me if he chooses. He might take you to manage the farm, and then he would not be lonely. I do not want to interfere with your heirship, Kenneth.* "Eh, but I am sure of that, Cousin Mona! Nor would I rob you. Anyhow, I‘il speak as you advise. I am sorry to vex the old man, and I mean no offense to you. If I had not known Mary I might have grown fond of you. There is no{ knowing." "Still, you cannot marry me against my will ?" * o dn in t o s o ie ie t n on m n "Well, ask me again, Kenneth," said Mona, sweetly, "and I‘ll give you the same ans wer." "No; but Uncle Sandy says you reâ€" fused a grand nobleman for my sake, Mona ?" . _ "Troubled? Yes, I should think so. Indeed, I am not one bit more forward than when we parted, and I doubt if I shall get away this summer. Then Mr. Black is in worse health than ever; we fear he will have to leave the school; and here is my uncle hurrying me to marry youâ€"or, rather, to ask you again." "Eh, it will be hard to put him off now," groaned Kenneth; "he is bent upon it whatever." _ "Troubled? Indeed, 1 am : than when we shall get away Black is in we It was quite ten days after their reâ€" turn before Kenneth found an opportunâ€" ity of speaking with her alone. ‘The only means of securing a teteâ€"aâ€"tete was to go out walking. An unusually fine evening offered an exeuse, and Mona giadly accepted Kenâ€" neth‘s invitattonâ€"Aime, Debrisay offerâ€" ing to play chess with Uncie Sandy. "Now that we have got clear of the house and people, Kenneth," began Mona, as soon as they succeeded in finding a seâ€" cluded seat in Kensingtgn Gardens, "tell me what is troubling you, for I see that you are troubled." Fitzallan, my dear; and he is as mad as a hatter!" "Iie must be," said Mona, thoughtfully. There was a fow moments‘ pause. then 1 Mme, Debrisay said, in a gently remonâ€" | strating voiceâ€"» Uncle Sandv did not scem in a hurry to go north. He lingered in London, and Kenneth was under orders to come up every evening. Mona took advantage of his presence to steal away occas:onally to enjoy some music and talk with Mme. Debrisay, ‘These absences did not please her uncle. He grew cross and fidgety, and Mona began to fear that he had left his reasonabicness at the other side of the Channel. "Never mind, dear all your news now." "Well. T cannot understand it," murâ€" mured Mme. Debrisay, in a wondering tone; "but I do understand that you don‘t choose to tell." "I can only assure you, Deb, I was perâ€" feetly heart whole when I accopted Mr. Waring: and I wish you would not reâ€" mind me of that dreadful timeâ€"pray put it out of your mind. I hope we may soon read the announcement of Mr. Warâ€" ing‘s marriage, and that he may live hapov ever after." t TORONTO you must tell me A man intending to begin in the email | fruit business should take a year to preâ€" are for it. A piece of heavy sod should F\e well covered during the winter with stable manure, which is free of weeds and in which there has been mixed potâ€" ash and phosphoric acid. The melting snow and rains will dissolve and carry | this material into the earth, so that it will be evenly spread through the soil. In the spring the field should 6e ploughâ€" ed deep and ‘{)lnnted to corn or potatoes. These should be kept absoluetly free from weeds, and frequent and deep culâ€" tivation should be given to bring up weed seeds which are in too deep to aprout until the weeds are all out, and the eod rotted zo that no grass will start . After the crop is off, cross plough and harrow to cause everything else to sprout that is left. The second spring you have a field rich in rbnt food from the rolled manure and filled with humus from the rotted sod. You have a fine "garden" soil free of weeds, requiring, with proper planting and horee tools, little hand work. At least oneâ€"half of the cost can be saved by careful beforeâ€" band‘pr?ruiom of the field.â€"Farmer in New York Tribune. Preparing Ground for Berriesâ€"Those That Yield Paying Crops, In the 20 years that I have been in this business there has never been a total failure of the four principal kinds of berries, and never a year that two or moreâ€"of them have not given a full crop, never a year that the best one would not pay all expenses. Few other kinds of business can show as good a record. Strawberries, black and red raspberries and blackberries are the principal crops that are in staple demand. Currants sell well when every old bush in everybody‘s [g‘arden is not also loaded and one cam hbave them for the picking. Strawberries require more labor and cost an acre, and also return the largest yield, but are more uncertain than the others menâ€" tioned. A field of blackberries or raspâ€" . berries can with proper care be made to produce paying crops for 10 or 20 years. I have now a row of Agawam blackâ€" berries that are 20 years old, which gave an immense crop last eummer. I see no reason, except that disease might get in, why they will not last as long as I will. I have picked 12 crops of blackâ€" caps from one bush, Except for disease, the Cuthbert red raspberries are everâ€" lasting. The long time these crops will stay in the ground and the fact that most of the expense is for keeping down the weeds are the reasons one cannot afford to plant them until the ground is thoroughly prepared. It is a losing game to plant a piece of newlyâ€"turned sod to the bush fruits or a weedy piecce of strawberries. The competition of others ru‘t)xei:es economy of production, which is best regulated by so doing the work that there shall be the minimum of labor required, especially hand labor. Mr. Thompson added that up to date there had been some damage by hail. Hc noted that 1,200 acres had been deâ€" stroyed on the night of July 3 at Maniâ€" tou, Man.; 2000 acres at Grand View, and 1,500 acres at Oakville, but in the aggregate the quantity destroyed by hail did not go beyond the average of past years. "It will be seen, therefore, that under favorable conditions, based on past exâ€" perience, it is not reasonable to expect harvesting to be general before Sept. 1, althought it is quite possible that here and there favored spots may be started earlier." "Our advices from the West are generally favorable. The growth, howâ€" ever, is very rank, and we do not look for the harvest to be general before the last week of August or the first of Sepâ€" tember. It is also impossible to make any predictions regarding the probable yield at the present time where the growth is running so much to straw, and we certainly do not look for so early a harvest as some people are predicting. Allowing that it will be genâ€" erally headed out by July 10 or 12, the period of harvest would be then in about six weeks, which would mean from Aug. 2i to 23, under ordinary conditions, but with so much straw as this year, it will require from ten to fourteen days longer. Speaking of the latest crop _ reports from the West, on Saturday, Mr. F. W. Thompson, viceâ€"president and managing director of the Ogilvie Flour Mills Comâ€" pany, Ltd., said: ‘"Then why are you sae obstinate? Why will you reject what‘s for your ain good and happiness, and refuse to agree to what I have planned for you?" "I am sorry to disappoint you, uncle, but in such a matter I cannot go against my own instinets." Mr. F. W. Thompson Speaks of Crop Outlock in the West. Kenneth‘s been telling meâ€"that you have again refused to be his wife?" "It ist" "And has he sought you with the reâ€" cKect and theâ€"theâ€"perseverance that he should show ?" "Yes, uncle. I have no fault whatever to find with him." "Such wilfu‘, contumaciousness," were the words which issued from Uncle Sandy‘s lips as his niece entered the So Mona descended. Uncle Sandy was grasping the arms of his chair, and speaking in a very angry tone. Kenneth was standing on the heart rug with flashing eyes and a heightened color. "Mr. Craig says would you please to come down, miss." Z The private conference between uncle and nephew had not lasted long, before a message was despatched to Mona, who was trying to read in her own room. "Naw," said Uncle Sandy, emphaticalâ€" ly. "I‘ll likely want you, so you had best be at hand in your own room." "Very well," returned Mona. Kenneth presented himself in a tolerâ€" ably good time, yet not before Uncle Sandy had begun to fidget and fret beâ€" cause he had not come sooner. "As you want to speak particularly to Kenneth Macalister this evening, shall I go out of the way to Madame Debriâ€" he could eat veal abrosd, and not at home? etc., ete. _ The symptoms boded ill for the evenâ€" ing‘s interview. When teaâ€"time approached, Mona obâ€" served : "Come here, Mona! Is it true what 999 THE FRUIT BUSINESS. EXPECTS LATE HARVEST (To be continued.) + Moreover, the store phones are in use night and day. Some one in Atlantic City, for example, suddenly decides to return to town on the !olznring mornâ€" ing. Suppose it is midn:gl:t. The house in town is bare of supplies. All that is necessary to do is to call up a certain The largest number of telephones in any one.shop in New York is said to be aomethini like 1,300. A store with 3, 000 telephones meanse a larger business in one Euilding than is dore in scores of small cities of the country, _ The value of the telephone to women is emphasized by the increased use of the instrument in departmenrt stores. A store in another city than New \York has 2,000 telephones in use and is about to put ir 1,000 more,. That means that there is more thin 100,000,000 feet of telephone wire in use there, amounting to something like 18,000 miles, ‘There are 120 trunk lines alone in the shop and nearly 70,000 messages a day are reâ€" ceived. Muric comes in with Madame‘s cofâ€" fee about halfâ€"past 8 o‘clock and awakens her mistress. She sips the coffee and tells Marie to ring up Mrs. Knickerbockâ€" er. _ After the morning salutations they talk of the previous evening‘s recepâ€" tion and the gowns and the gossip. by the time the morning telephone call is over Madame is wide awake. "A woman about two years ago discov. ered a new use for the telephone. It was for a morning chat in bed with her neighbor, while that neighbor was also in bed. "Sales of all sorts are being made, agreements affecting the life, health and E:osperity and safety of the people are ing sent over the wires. _ Stories of life, death and love are being told. The story underground is one that is never fully told. Life pulsates there." "There is more business done beneath the street than above it," said a teleâ€" phone man. "While you are walking along the streets thousands upon thousâ€" ands of messages are vibrating on the wires beneath your feet. These messages carry financial agreeâ€" ments amounting to millions upon imilâ€" lions of dollars. ‘The Stock Exchange could not do its business without the phone nowadays. The commanding General could talk with almost every regiment instantly. The system worked perfectly, The teleâ€" phone has come to stay in warfare. _ _ In the field of commerce the world has not yet caught up with the advance in the use of the telephone. UE at the front each of the generals of the five armies had a different system at work. The generals were from ten to fifteen miles behind their troops at the front. All over the country ran teleâ€" Ehone wires, stretched on slender bamâ€" 0o poles. The signal corps put them up almost as fast as men could walk. These were the orders the artillery chief gave, and hour by hour and day by day he smashed the ships and buildâ€" ings until the town was battered to pieces. The wreckage was complete. The telophone made the victory of the Japs at Port Arthur possible. All through the war the Japs made similar use of the telephone. When the army was 100 miles north of Mukden Marshal Oyama and his staff sat in their offices in Mukden and superintended all the movements of troops and supplies by wire, There were not 500 soldiers in Mukden and never more than half a dozen could be seen at headquaretrs, A telephone switchboard did the business. "Two hundred feet to the “nâ€"o'rth, 150 to the south; shorten the range by fifty feet; a little to the right; a little to the left." Half way up the hill and out of the reach of all but one or two of the Rusâ€" sian battcries they dug a bombproof,. There the chief of artillery took his staâ€" tion,. ‘Telephone wires were strung to him from the battery below. He could see the warships in the harbor and alâ€" most every building in the new town and most of those in the old town. The place was under the guns of Rusâ€" sian batteries on other hills. They made sure that the Russians could never get back and then began to crect their morâ€" tar batteries in the valley behind the hill and entirely out of sight. b T mt Sot 0 A00 AECCECTTTOOE New uses for the telephone areJ being discovered constantly, It was only the other day that a case of piano tuning by telephone was reported. A woman would let only one man in New York touch her piano, The instrument had to be tuned at a certain hour. It was impossible for him to be there at that time. "The Indians are eomlni! We shall all be killed unless we get help!" The whoops of the Indians were heard in the distance. The woman hurriedly got up and went inside the door where she telephoned to a nearby fort. Far in the distance was heard the cracking sound of rifles, _ It came nearer and nearer. Indians dashed into the clearing and were shot down. Then the dust colored soldiers rode in and the cabin and all hands were saved. The show tickled the Londoners and they marvelled at the extensive use of the telephone in the States, While the incident is not wholly true to life, it is not beyond the verge of possibility, ; Ooeiovnenay rerainy ts n t . They put on a Wild Western piece in a music hall show in London recently. A woman sat in front of a log cabin sewâ€" ing. Soon there came into the clearing a man carrying on his back a deer that he had shot. Then another man dashed in and shouted: #4400004400000000000000000 400000000000000000000000904 "Yes, my lord. I saw one oneet. We had started home from Jamaica with a cargo A rum, andâ€"â€"*" 0000 000 > When He Saw a Sca Serpent. It is related by the Earl of Yarmouth that on one of his yachting cruises he took a great liking to an old sailor whose principal duty was to see that the paint everywhere was in firstâ€"classe shape. One day the carl saw a jet of water shoot up from the sea. "A whale," said the old sailor, and sure ecnough the great _eruture was seen in a moment. _ "Did you ever see a sea serpent, Walâ€" ker?t" asked the carl. the The question came up the other night between two telephone men as to wheâ€" ther it would be possible for a Catholic priest to receive a confession over a telephone to give absolution. _A Sun reporter asked a priest about it. He said : It is said that the Czar has a telephone with a microphone attachment in hie palace whercby he listens to the debates in the Duma. While this has not been confirmed, a telephone official in this city said the other day is was entirely possible. He added that if the Czar did not take advantage of this opporâ€" tunity to hear personally what the Douma was doing, it was because of the old adage that listeners seldom hear any good of themselves. "Go back to your painting," said his Talk between New York and Chicage is an every day occurrence, but from Boston to Omaha is probably the limit which modern Jong distance telephoning has reached. The old fellow paused in his work and Probably the most noted instance of long distance work occurs daily between Boston and Omaha. A certain business house talks over that distance daily. It requires the most expert operators and the messages are of the whispering kind, somewhat faint, but business worth hunâ€" dreds of thousands of dollars depends upon those conversations. The western episode of telephoning to a fort for troops has a counterpart in anâ€" other direction, told of the field of peace. Out west there are telephone circuits in certain remote sections where daily newsâ€" papers do not come, and it is the custom for those on the cireuit to go to their telephones at a certain hour, take down their receivers and listen to the mnews of the day as it is read in bulletin from a city miles and miles away, It is long distance work, but it is effective. There have been many instances of which hangings had been stayed by teleâ€" phone just at the last minute. The day has gone by when a foamâ€"covered horse bearing a dustâ€"covered rider dashes up madly with a reprieve from the Governor to save a man with the noose already about his neck. The telephone does all such work now, and another picturesque story for newspapers has gone by the board. Nora didn‘t get excited. She slipped downstairs to the telephone and called up the fire department, and the engines were there before the telephone man got townstairs. It was a country fire deâ€" partment, too. The fire was in the chimney, luckily, and was put out almost before the fireâ€" men came. The boss, however, said the joke was on him, and he provided the wherewithal for suitable libations. Nora had been trained in a telephone man‘s house and knew her business. We&dingn have been performed by wire. All that is necessary is to make sure of the identity of the persons akâ€" ing the pledge of matrimony . Hundreds of affidavits have been made in this town by telephone. Recently a telephone official was surâ€" prised by the maid in the house telling him that the place was on fire. . The flame had started in the chimney, Nora, the maid, was calm. The telephone man got excited and ran up three storeys to see what damage was being done. At a recent dinner, instead of -peec{:- €es, each diner put a receiver to his ear. He heard a song in Philadelphia, _ A vaudeville performer in Boston told stoâ€" ries, . A bnn‘ played in aWshington and there was no phonograph business in it. It was the real thing, all arranged preâ€" viously by schedule. 1he increasing number of store orders by telephone has made it valuable even to sn:fi merchants, Grocers and butchâ€" ers like to get orders by telephone, as well as the department stores. Of course, it is an old story, that of preachers delivering sermons to _their g:rilhlonen by wire. Telephone dinners ve been given and -peeeL have veen made by a man hundreds of miles away. :tore,‘_plloe an ordq and the goods w*!l be delivered ;le;l_the-â€"f';m'ii; ;m;m the next day. l:I"IieJ hcreumg number of store orders be guided by infallible domâ€"A, Meclaren, D | Uur passage through life is similar. It is not a chart we avre promised, but a guide. _ We cannot tell where next year or next month may be spent. We are not. informed of any part of our future, and have no means of ascertaining the emergencies which may try us, the new ingredients which may suddenly . be thrown into our life, â€" and reveal in us what till now has lain hidden and dorâ€" mant. . We cannot tell by what kind of path we shall be led onward to our end ; and our security from day to day conâ€" sists not at all in thh,thtncnpeu. trate the future, and see no W in it, God, Our Guide, God‘s people were not led by a road already made and used, and which they could have studied from beginning to end on a map before starting; but they were led day by day, and «t by , by a liviny ,‘.“.li({(‘, who cheose :'mut.:tzwr beâ€" fore trodden,. In the morning they did not know whether they were s go forâ€" war‘i or back, or to stay where they were. Ab, many a time with secret tears She said, ‘‘The days are wearisome; Eo many yearsâ€"so many years; And yetâ€"and yetâ€"he does not come?** Now he is bere( and oll was wellâ€" The hbealing angel, Azracl! â€"ERlizabeth Akers in the Indepondent. Bosiowing there a tenderer grace And elmost to the faded hair Brought back the gold that once w; The imoonlight fell across her bed, Touching her still and palid face Whence bloonI and brightness long had fled, Nt se doustwis sB oc ie adee n t n No more go laboring on and on; No longer feel the daggerâ€"thrust Of harsh neglect, or blame unjust, Took on the look of youth agai He pressed her lids so close, I we. That no more tears could flow be Me touched her heayy heart; and lo! The burden and the aches were gone! No more sore throbbing would it knowâ€" He touched her forcheadâ€"and the trace Of care and sorrow, loss and prin, W_u not; the worn and furrowed face _ Nor: 'c:uti’c;ul";;u-ev:t. SZR or léck; For he whose errand none may stay Waited for none to show the way. Cast by the moonlight‘s yellow shine, Bo silent, peaceful and so fairâ€" Lay still, as it were penciled there. HMer bousemates, slept, all unaware; ‘They hbeard no sound of ring or knock, No press of foot upon the stair, He came when all the house was still; Even the shadow of the vine That fell across the windowâ€"sill, With neither love nor thanks for pay; And yet the mightiest comforter In all the world was kind to her. No mortal lover her; she was one Who labored on, day after day, At daily duties never done, gely upon how great an extensic given to the term, There must b limit to it if a man were to h chance of kecping the commandn all, He would hear what Jesus say on this point. And so he as second question, "who is my neig In reply, Jesus speaks the parable ne felt as if a probe had been appi his own life. In the words whe quoted he recognized the sum of th, which, if a man were to keep, he â€" have eternal life; and hitherto n been haunted by no doubt as to ni satisfactory relation to the law. 1 day as he repeated the familiar : under the eye of Jesus, as he hoat emphatic commendation, suddenly : giviny smote him. "This do, and shalt live!" Mad he done it? ‘The tion of his sove to God did not t1 himâ€"it is not easy to apply a thereâ€"but how about his love t neighbor? The answer would depen goly unon how rreat an extamciam On Loving One‘s Neighbor. The parable of the Good Samaritan :s a pendant on a linked chain of quesicoa and answer, Jesus was teaching one day when a student of the Jewish iay pioâ€" pounded to Him one of the most funcaâ€" mental questions of religion, He asked, "What shall 1 do to inherit eternal ut::" As a religious teacher Jesus coul! not avade the question, nor did He wish :o wdo so, though there may have been sose uoubt of the questioner‘s sincerity ;s a secker after truth, _ He replies by makâ€" ing the lawyer give his own answer and then approving of it. The answer was in the immortal words of the Mosue law: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soui, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind ;and thy neighbor as thyselt," Jesus accepts this answer to the great question. . "Thou hast answered right," Me says: "this do and thou shalt live." The lawyer had asked the question sor the purpose of testing the orthodo y of the Caliiean teacher, and certainty the toest had been satisfactorily borne. ° £‘tâ€"m the Jewish standpoint no fault con‘| be fourd with the statement of Jesu=. yot the dawyer was not quite satisfied. _A feeling of uncasiness had come to »him. le started out as in amvestigator; now he felt as if a probe had been applied to his own life. (In the words which he quoted he recognized the sum of that saw which, if a man were to keep, he wouid have eternal life; and hitherto he had been haunted by no doubt as to his own Sing hallelujah to the Lordâ€" Who bought us with His blood! © shout the praises of His Word, That brought us back to God. O sing anew this joyful song, And let all voices ring; Come one and allâ€"a mighty throng, Crown Christ the conquering King! O what a glorious God is oursâ€" To grant such boundless bliss! Our path to Heaven He strews with flowors, Mijens n e To us God gives with bounteous hand, What we so sorely noeed; With boundless stores at His command, "Tis His delight to feed. In height, in depth of love‘s abyss, Lie boundless blesings stored! Our deepest sorrows cannot miss, Buch bliss as these afford. Blessings that brighten all the way, With God‘s sweet peace within, That turn our darkness into day, And keep us safe from sin. Such blessings God does always grant, To every sinâ€"sick soul; Blessiags that meet man‘s greatest w Blessings of all our sins forgiven, Of grace to walk with God; Blessing that make us sure of Heaven, And bless us on the road. Come let us sing a joyful song, Of blessings from above; Blessings that comeâ€"a constant throng To thrill our hearts with love. rown Him, O crown Him, Lord of Our God forever more; one and all before Him fall, And His sweet name adore. â€"Jas. 1 Buffalo, N. Y., 1906. 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