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MORfc THAN A DREAM. Live op to the highest that'i in you. Be true to the voice in your soul. If-t lore and your better if If win yon, And follow them on to the goal. Afur in the path of Endeavor The temples of Hnpiilness gleam. They iitiiiid as a promise forever That heaven ia more than a dream. We fall in the momenta of weakness, Borne down by the passion of sin. Acknowledge the error with meekness And strengthen the guard from within. The lusts of the brute we inherit Must cower and shrink from the light That flow from the throne of the spirit And shows us the path to the right. I know not the kingdom immortal; Yet feel in my innermost Soul That Death's not a wall but a portal, Through which lies an infinite goal. I know not the glory supernal. Nor paths that the angels have trod; Yet something within is eternal And grows in the sunlight of God. I know with the wisdom of Sorrow, The lessons I've learned by the way; The fruits that we gather to-morrow Are grown from the seeds of to-day. Life's page we have blotted and check ered; No power on earth con restore, We write on indelible record, To blight or to bless evermore. With voices seraphic and tender Our loved ones are calling afnr, With light that is golden in splendor Truth shines like a mystical star. The veil of the Silence is riven, The banner of Hope is unfurled; And Love, through the portals of heaven, Illumines the night of the world. Denver News. r-M"M"Hr I How Joe Paid Up. LI) MAP Htl. W. In inn In LD MAN BOYNE, the boss team. i-us sitting by a coal oil lump in his best room. lie bad taken oil his shoes and his cout, und Ills course woolen socks and bis hick ory shirt showed thnt ho wns not a limn of nlrs. He was deep In bis news paper, of which it was his habit to rend every word, Including ads., and he bad filled bis old clay pipe for the third time when the rap at the door caused hlin to shout: "Come In!" "flood evening, Mr. Boyne," said the stalwart, well-groomed young man who came In. "She's out," growled the old chap, resuming his rending. "I know she Is, sir. That's why I cnlled." The old follow put down Ms paper and leered over his spectacles. "At least," resnnfed the young man, nervously, "I came to talk to you about her, sir. We wnnt to get mar ried." He sat down, looking flushed and excited, and the old man stared at him a minute before bo began.:. "Well, suppose you do? Hnve you the means to keep her decent? How much have you saved? Three hundred that'll buy the furniture. How long did It take you to save that?" "A little over a year, I " "A year! You must bo nn awful spendthrift. How much do you get?" "Thirty n week since the beginning of this year. I'll get a raise " "What!" shrilled the father, putting his bands on bis knees and peering at the lover. "Thirty dollars a week a bachelor, all alone, and have only three I1IS FAT11KU IN-LAW HOUNDED It lit AT II1S OFFICE. hundred left! How tho devil do you drink?" "Oh, no; It Isn't that, sir; I just live pretty well. You see, I wasn't figur ing on getting married till I met Mar gy, and you see I've always been used to having everything." "Do you own n place, a house or anything?" "No, sir." "You must bo dnft. then. Where was you going to live? At the Audi tori u in, maybe?" "Oh, we could get a nont flat for a little mouey, and " "And pay rent? You're a fool, my boy. I won't give her to you till you get a liouso, I don t enre if It's only two rooms, so It's your own, to keep her In." Margy's voice singing wns heard then from the rear rooms. Boyne re sumed his paper. Joo Stewart, mut tiring "skin-flint, miser," and other en dearing epithets directed against his Hoped for fatber-in-law, but wisely keeping very quiet, 'waited for Margy to come In. That was bis first but not final effort to get Dad's consent. He came again on Saturday evening, while the girl was at market and the crusty old drayman, with a coarse frankness, suggested that he had a "tidy little place" In the West Side, three rooms and a summer kitchen, that he would sell to Stewart If be really meant to marry the girl at all. The meanness of this proffer struck him like a blow, but he said he'd think about It, and he did. He talked it over with Margy, a whole-souled, winsome girl, who had been trained for a school-teacher by the canny old man, who "knew the value of money." "Let's try It, Joe," she laughed. "It's a rusty old cottage but we'll fix It up. Dad won't be hard on us for the payments, and perhaps by the time It's paid for we can sell it and get a nicer home." Stewart, thoroughly despising old Boyne, bought the place on time pay ments and signed about sixty notes at $25 each, listening with suppressed ha tred to the miserly old man who had thus unloaded $1,500 worth of frame shanty and cheap ground upon his own daughter's husband. For the wedding took place within a month. YOU MUST BB AN AWFUL SPEND THRIFT." When the cottage was painted and furnished and the young couple was well installed, the old man would como 'round during the day to see Margy, but Joe's hatred of him rose to the top pitch when the" first note foil duo and old Boyne, In person, came to the office to collect It. After that the young man quit speaking to his wife's father, and the young wife herself felt ashamed and grieved to observe the grosplng cngerness with "which be pursued Joe for the pny- ments. Month after month the efforts to pay Boyne came harder, for there were the painters and carpenters to pay, a bath room had been built into the cottage and the plumber's bill was a caution. To make matters harder for Joe, the littlo Stewarts began to arrive, and when the time came to pay the young husband saw that he'd hnve to "stand off" either the doctor or Boyne. He paid tho doctor. His father-in-law hounded him at the office, at the bouse, waited for him at the street corner, and then scrawled a letter In which he threatened to foreclose If the note, past due, wasn't paid. Margy almost broke her heart when she found out tho truth, but when Dad called she pleaded with him to give them a little nioro time. She showed him her pret ty baby and promised that they would now begin to economize In earnest Old Boyne promised an extension, but harped upon the need of economy until she felt like striking him. It was the same every time a new note came due. He was Insatiate, gave them neither peace nor hope of leniency, lectured her, scolded Joe even when tho bard-earned money wns forthcom ing. It was necessary to reduce nil their expenses. Joe quit smoking and began to carry his lunch in a collar box. When he contrived to have the money ready for the recurring notes ho sent it by check to avoid meeting the miserly Boyue. By mutual con sent they quit mentioning his name, Sometimes when he called during the day to see Margy and her baby she wouldn't let him in, feigning to be out and thus escaping the everlasting homily about "economy." It wa cruel, and she cried a good deal, but she kuew Joe would fret and fume If he knew that Boyne had been harry ing her. And so they came to have such a terror of his visits that Stew art bent all his efforts to forestall the Impending paymeuts and thus keep tho despised old drayman from show ing his grizzled face either at the of fice where Joe worked or at the little home where Mnrgy tolled with no less patience and far more cheerfulness, Aud when the last note was paid and old Boyne and his hateful ways were commencing to be forgotten by the estranged daughter and the un forgiving Stewart the young pair had a kind of Informal celebration. Little Joe In his best blouse and baby Mar garet In her high chair were sitting at table, their pretty mother a-bloom in her pink klmona, when Joe came home with the last note and a big bouquet of roses for the tea table. "Well, Margy, we're done with the old skinflint, eh? Excuse me, sir." For the old man was sitting by the fireplace, aud wheu he came over to shake hands the old face was to radl- aut that Joe couldn't nel takloi Boyne's boney hand. "He's given me back all you paid him, Joe," cried the wife, shaking a budget of bank notes at them; "b was only fooling us fooling ua lnt being economical." "I tell you, Joe Stewart," began the old drayman, when they sat down to supper, "there's no use to make money if you don't save it When I was your age " And then for the first time old Boyne's lecture on economy seemed Interesting to them all. Chicago Record-Herald. A VICTIM OF PRIDE. Rooater Could Not Bear to Live When His Prestige Was Gone. It has been said that the reason of Napoleon's defeat was simply that he thought be could not be defeated. The New York Mail and Express repeats a conversation overheard on a suburban train, which tells how a Napoleon of the barn-yard was conquered. 'Trlde's a terrible thing, I tell you," remarked a passenger to his seat mate. "Yes?" said the other man, good naturedly. "Yes. This young fellow" pointing to a news dispatch In the evening pa per "cutting away for the other side of the world Just because the girl made a fool of him reminds me of the Langshan rooster we had up at our place. He was a fine-looking bird, and he had bossed the barn-yard so long that he sort of came to think he was infallible." "That's natural," responded the other man. "Well, the rooster grew careless, and one day when he was putting on too ninny airs a cross old hen pecked his left eye out, In plain view of the whole flock. You never saw such hurailla- n In your life. 'It wasn't the loss of the eye that hurt so much as the loss of prestige. He never was himself again. Every rooster in the yard made fun of him; the hens strutted by without paying the least attention to him, and even the chickens sauced him. He pined away, his feathers drooped, and he be came a regular outcast, sneaking around by himself to pick up' stray grains of corn when the rest of the fowls had finished feeding. "One day I went out to get a plump ht-n for dinner. I laid the hatchet on the block where I usually cut off th heads of chickens, and was moving around to pick out a fat one, when my wife called to me to look. And, sir, lying flat on the block was that old rooster. He had hopped up there and put his head down close to the hatchet and was waiting for me." "Did you kill him?" asked the other man, as the narrator paused.' 'I didn't want to, but my wife beg ged me to put him out of his misery. He wasn't very good eating, but I made him the subject of a fine talk about pride, which, as I said before, is a terrible thing." PEACEABLE RESISTANCE. Old Quaker Did Not Believe in Vio lence and Bloodshed. During the Civil Afar, the Friends, because of their peaceful creed, en deavored to be released from the re quirements of the draft They were always reasonable and quiet in their earnestness, and seldom failed to gain their point Major Townsend, In "Anecdotes of the Civil War," tells this story of Isaac Newton, the Friend who was commissioner of the Depart ment of Agriculture: Speaking once of scruples about fighting, I asked him if he believed It necessary to carry out the exact letter of the Scripture, and under no circum stances to resist "Oh, no," said he. "There are other ways of resisting besides fighting." Then he told the story of having met a man in a wagon at a narrow part of the road, who, seeing that he wns a Friend, refused to turn out for him, but stopped directly In the mid die of the road. Isaac asked him kindly to turn out but the man gruilly refused. Then Isaac said, "Friend, If thou wilt not turn thy horse, I will turn him for thee." So he took the horse's head to turn him. Then the man Jumped out and ron forward, as If to attack him. Op this. Isnac seized him by the arms above the elbow, held him as If In a vise, and quietly Raid, "Friend, if thou dost resist, I shall shake thee!" So he gave him a preliminary shake as a sample, and the man, seeing how powerful aud resolute he was, apolo gized, and turned his horse as far out as he could. "I did not strike him," said Isaac. Story of Roosevelt. In refusing to grant a private inter view to a certain politician who Is always trying to give him advice and information on important matters of legislation President Roosevelt Is said to have remarked: "It is always most distressing to me to be obliged to talk to that mon. I find myself constantly expecting him to revert to his arboreal ancestors, grow a tall and swing grace fully from the chandelier without In terrupting the conversation." Last Resort. Jack Her rather positively refuses to give me her hand In marriage. Tom That's tough. What are you going to do about it? Jack Oh, I suppose there Is nothing left now but to ask the girl. Womnu may never break Into Con gress, but slie will continue to be speaker of the house just the same. Love may be blind, but chaperom seldom are. When you are lonesome you realize what poor company you are. Life. "HI, Bill, look here! I -weigh four pounds inore'u you!" "Aw, y'r cheat In', Skinny. Youse got y'r ban's in y'r pockets." Baltimore News. German Instructor (to usually late student) "I see you are early of late; you used to be behind before, and now you are first at last" Harvard Lam poon. His Needs Were Small. Landlady "What portion of the chicken would you like, Mr. Newcomer?" Mr. New comer "Oh, half of it will be ample, thank you." Tit-Bits. Mrs. Waggs "I understand that drinking is one of your husband's fail ings." Mrs. Jaggs "You have been misinformed; it is his most pronounced success." Chicago Daily News. Teacher "Johnnie, this Is the worst composition in the cluss, and I'm going to write to your father and tell him." Johnnie "Don't keer If ye do; he wrote it fer me." Detroit Free Press. Mrs. Grady "Mrs. Dolan lolkes her second husband betther than her first." Mrs. Do'oley "An' phwy?" Mrs. Grudy "Shure, he's in Jull so much she has nearly all she earns fer bcrsilf." Judge. Consolation. "I'm feeling very 111 again, doctor; do you think I'm going to die?" "My deur madam, coniposo yourself; that Is the lust thing in the world that is going to huppeu to you." Tit-Bits. "Is this, then, to be the end of our romance?" he asked. "No," Bhe an swered; "my lawyer will call on you In the morning. I have a bushel and a half of your letters." Chicago Hec- ord-Herald. "Yes, I consider my life a failure." "Oh, Henry, how sad! ' Why should you say that?" "I spend all my time making money enough to buy food and clothes; but the food disagrees with me, and my clothes don't tit." What to Eat. "Oh, Major Bloodgore!" said a girl ish gusher, "they say that during tho war you were always cool In action." Cool!" declared the major; "why, my dear girl, I was so cool that when I shivered people insinuated that 1 was trembling." Baltimore Herald. She "Some persons claim that they cannot look from a height without wishing to cast themselves down. Did you ever have that feeling, Mr. Yearn so?" He "Once." "Indeed? Where were you?" "I was In an elevated car, and I saw you in the street." New York Weekly. But can you cook?" asked the pro saic young man. "Let us take those questions up In their proper order," re turned the wise girl. "The matter of cooking Is not the first to be consid ered." "Then what is the first?" he demanded. "Can you provide the things to be cooked?" Chicago Evening Post Harris "When I meet Flanders he generally has something to say about the virtues of his first wife, and my wife says Mrs. Flanders Is always talk ing about her first husband's good points." Damon "So they both have been married before?" Harris "Yes. What a pity that first husband and that first wife couldn't have married one an other! They'd make an ideal match. Mrs. Temperton "I've got the dear est old darling of a husband that ever happened. He has an awful temper, aud about once a mouth be gets mad and tears up my best hat." Miss Sin gleton "And you call him a dear old darling after that? How can you?' Mrs. Temperton. "Well, you see, he always has a fit of remorse next day aud buys me a better one." Chicago News. "Bather absent-minded, isn't he?" "Extremely so. Why, the other night when he got home he knew there was something he wanted to do, but be couldn't remember whut It was until he had sat up over an hour trying to think." "Aud did he finally remember It?" "Yes; he discovered that he had wanted to go to bed early." Philadel phia Press. He was cutting an Item from a news paper. "It tells how a house was robbed, aud I want to show It to my wife," he explained. "What good will that do?" a friend inquired. "A whole lot," was the reply; "you see, this house was robbed while the mnn was at church with his wife." "Say!" ex claimed the friend, excitedly, "you haven't got a duplicate copy of that pa per, have you?" Chicago Post. First Tlanist "Did you have much of an audience at your recital yesterday afternoon?" Second Pianist "Splen did! There were two men, three wom en and a boy. The boy, I afterwards learned, was employed about the place, and the two men came in for shelter, as It was raining at the time. But the three women were all right They came to hear me, I know, for I gave them the passes myself." Boston Tran script. Mrs. Ferguson reached over, took' a long, dark hair off her husband's shoul der and held It up for Inspection. "That," he said, angry at her implied suspicion, "is from the horse's mane. I have just been currying him." "What made you suppose," she asked, haught ily, "that I thought it was anything else?" At which he shrank back be hiud his newspaper again, feeling as If he had kicked hard at something und I missed It Chicago Tribune. Disinfection. The. sense iu which this term is popularly used Is often all wrong, or, perhaps one ought to say, only partly right. When people say they will "disinfect" something, they generally mean that they will use some chemical to destroy a bad smell, or mask it by another bad smell. The odor In Itself is all the while quite harmless, although disagreeable, and even if it were a terrible menace, the drowning of it In another bad smell would not lessen the danger. As a matter of fact, many of the worst products of decom position are odorless. When people use the word, therefore, In this sense, they should say "deodorize," which is what they mean. A disinfectant means, in the correct use of the term as defined by the Amer ican Public Health Association, "An agent capable of destroying the infec tive power of Infectious material." It is plain from this definition that there can thus be no "disinfection" in the absence of Infectious material, and, further, that there is no such thing as "partial disinfection;" either the Infect ing power Is destroyed or It Is not Simply to arrest putrefactive decom position Is properly called "antisepsis," and it has been proved that many things useful as deodorizers (smell-destroyers) and as antiseptics (decomposition-arresters) are utterly useless for the destruction of disease germs. It will be seen from tWs what danger may arise In such diseases as smallpox, ty phoid fever and cholera from a misun derstanding of these words. There are many ways of disinfecting, and much Interesting research is going on in this direction all the time. Heat is one of the most efficacious disinfecting agents we have, and for clothing there is nothing better than boiling for half an hour. Clothes that this would Injure can be subjected to dry heat or to sul phur fumigation. Chloride of lime, formaldehyde, carbolic acid -are also powerful disinfectants, and so also is burning sulphur, which destroys not only the germs of disease, but also the Insects which frequently harbor those germs. Disinfectants are sometimes used In sick-rooms, but they cannot take the place of cleanliness and free ventila tion. Infectious material lodges In dust on ledges and In corners, and, there fore, a sick room should be so appoint ed as to make It possible to keep It clean from day by day. Nearly all mod ern hospitals are built not only with Interior walls which can be washed easily, but with curves in place of angles or sharp comers in the rooms, so that there shall be no lodging places for dust. Youth's Companion. LONDON'S HEBREW MAYOR. Fir Mnrcns Samuel, a Commercial King of the XVorld's Metropolis. Sixty years ago laws were existent In England which prevented a Jew from holding any public office civil. military or corpor ate. To-dny a Jew not a man of Ile b r a I c offspring w i t hN unorthodox leanings, but nn Israelite as de voted to the laws of Moses as the most faithful In habitant of Pales tine of old such a man is lord mayor sin mahcus sAMUtx 0f London, the chief city of Christendom. He is Sir Marcus Samuel, the head of a great trading firm which owns a fleet of thirty-eight vessels to carry on Its business. He is intimately acquainted with the Orient, where he traveled ex tensively, and has for more than a decade been intimately acquainted with the, municipal affairs of London Queen Victoria made him a knight four years ago. As lord mayor of London he will hold office one year, with a salary of $20,000. An Electric Tree. There is a peculiar tree In the forests of central India which has most curi ous characteristics. The leaves of tho tree are of a highly sensitive nature, and so full of electricity' that' whoever touches one of them receives an electric shock. It has a vcery singular effect upon a magnetic needle, and will Influ ence it at a distance of even seventy feet. The electrical strength of the tree varies according to the time of day, It being strongest at midday and weakest at midnight ' In wet weather its pow er disappears altogether. Birds never approach the tree, nor have Insects ever been seen upon It Ancient Pens. The earliest references to pens are probably those in the Bible, and are to be found in Judges 5: 14; I. Kings 21: 8; Job 19: 24 and Isaiah 8: 1. But these chiefly refer to the Iron stylus which cut out the characters In the taldes of limestone or soapstone. There Is a reference to pen and ink In the third Epistle of John 13: 5, which wns written about A. D. S3, and as pens made In brass and silver were used In the Greek and Roman empires at that time it is probable that a metallic pen or reed was alluded to. -THE PROOF OF THE PUDDINO LIES IN THE EATING." The doctors ' are dumfounded, the druggists astonished, and the people excited and joyful over the wonderful cures and tremendous sales of the great Remedy, St. Jacobs Oil. Every case of rheumatism "-some of many yesrs' standing has given ' way to this powerful remedy. Thousands of certificated like the following can be furnished as to its value: George Scleyer, publisher of the Chilton, Wis.. "Volksbote," UBed St Jacobs Oil "for almost unbearable pains in the back, which had com pletely prostrated him." A few ap plications cured him entirely. Mrs. Fred Eberle, Bellaire, O., was for a long time severely troubled with rheumatism. St Jacobs Oil In stantly relieved and entirely cured her. Rev Dr. B. Pick, of Rochester, N. Y., suffered so Intensely from rheu matic pains that he was unable to rreach. Several applications from a bottle of St. Jacobs Oil, "relieved him." F. Raider, Cleveland, Ohio, says: "Two applications of St. Jacobs Oil cured me of great and long-continued pain In my foot." . Messrs. C. L. Brundage and Son, druggists, Muskegon, Mich., write: St. Jacobs Oil has a wonderful sale. We sold eight bottles at retail yes terday. This will give you some Idea of how well it is liked In this section." Mr. Louis Hlnkel. of East Poesten, Kill. N. Y., says: "I call St. Jacobs Cil the best liniment I ever used. It cured me of rheumatism and pain in the back." Herman Rlttner. Manchester, N. H.: "I have tried St. Jacobs Oil, and found It excellent. All those who hnve purchased it speak of It as 'sim ply incomparable.' " Geo. G. Erffle. Palestine, III.: "I wns In bed suffering from a swollen leg, I used St. Jacobs Oil, its effect was wonderful. The following day I attended to my business again." Dr. Otto Fuls, Reading O.. writes: The sale of St. Jacobs Oil is con stantly increasing; it is praised by everybody, and never fails to give en tire satisfaction." Wanted a Year's Clunranty. "It's almost impossible, dear, to lease a house for a shorter term than one year, nowadays," he said, "so, to protect myself, I must ask you " 'Ask me what?" Interrupted his bride-to-be. "To agree not to seek a divorce. until the expiration of the first year's lease." Catholic- Standard. SHOO RKWAItO SUOO. Thn readers of this rjaner will be nleaaed tn )earn that there is at least one dreaded disease iliac science has been able to cure in all its taxes, aud that Is catarrh. HaU'sCatarrh Cure Is tbe ouly positive cure known to the medical traiernitv. Catarrh being a constitutional dis ease, requires Constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tbe system, thereby destroying the founda tion of the dineane, and Riving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The pro prietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars lor any case that it fails to euro, bend for list oi testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY Jt CO., Toledo, O. Bold by druggists, 16o. Hull's Family Pills are the best. A Desperate Case. Putz Keen away. I haf got the kleptomania. Pomade Vat, vat are you dakln for it? . Putz Kveryding I can lay mein hants on. Pennsylvania Punch Bowl. For fortv vear's Piso's Cure for Con sumption has' cured coughs and colds. At druggists. Price 25 cents. , Quite Consistent. Miss Mainchantz t suppose you've heard of my engagement to Mr. Jenks? Miss Ascott Yes, and I confess I was surprised. You told me once that you wouldn't marry htm for a million dollars. Miss Mainchantz I know, dear, but I discovered later that he had two millions One Explanation. Judge Winters are not so cold aa they used to be. Fudge Oh, yes, they are. Only now chronic liars have such a variety of things, like auto, records, etc., to lie about,, that they can't devote so much attention to the weather any more. Baltimore Herald. Wouldn't Say. "You say you saw my Willie half an hour ago?" asked Willie's mother. Where did he say he was going?" "He didn't say, ma'am," replied Tommy Stout. "Didn't he tell you I had sent him on an errand to the corner grocery?" "O, yes, ma'am, but he didn't say where he was going." Even. "In time, with care, you may re cover. Twelve dollars," said the fash ionable physician, extending a recep tive palm. "In time, with care, you may recover $12," replied the dis gruntled patient, as' he grabbed his ' wad and made a breakneck dash for the street. The Moon. I WANT TO BUY FOR CASH Chicken, Duck and Geese feath ers. Address O.O.SMITH. ItMh mndDavtmSim.,Portlmnd,Oi- 5 SW the Kind j ha Leads cost more Tie Id mors. p V ,1 sold by U dealers. Lf. WO.'I See Anasalf -TV J po paid free to all j, X. applicants. A3-- V O.H.Ferrj.Cs.. jfcJS. 4