Newberg graphic., June 27, 1907, Image 2

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B y D . C . M u rra y'
CH APTKR L
A Uttle del) la the heart of a wood waa
d t IM o a ilj dappled with leafy shadows.
A loosely dad aaaa, bearded and «pacts
«led, and a little on the right aide of
forty, aat on a camp stool before a email
•eld easel, and libeled the landscape at
h ii ease, pausing at his work now and
then and drawing back hie head to surrey
It with an air of charmed appreciation.
O ta r him, on the gnarled trunk of a tree
and in the shadow of a m©.« grown rock,
aat a lady some ten or a dosen years
younger, leisurely torturing thread into
lace with a booked needle.
A little way down the dell a boy waa
atambering among the rocks, shrieking
«very now and then with ecstatic news o f
a beetle or a butterfly. He was a sturdy,
tdne-eyed. golden haired little fellow of
■vw, the picture o f health, and he w
risking his limbs and chattering to all ani-
BMte and inanimate nature— a delightful
boy, and all alice from his golden head
to his restless feet and tips of his brown
little fingers. The mother snatched him
fee her arms and covered him with hisses.
Budd mly she looked up. flushed, half pite­
ous, with a flash of tears in her ayes.
•- “ Austin. I feel afraid. H a v e 1 a right
to be so happy? Has any one a right to
be so happy? W ill it last?”
“ Who knows?” be answered. “ Human
affairs run in averages, but then the av
era gee are not. individual. W e have had
almost trouble enough in our time to have
paid for a little joy. Let us take it grate­
fully.”
“ Sometimes," she said, “ a shadow seems
to fall upon it all— the shadow of a fear.”
“ The shadow o f the past— experience.
Th e burped child dreads the lire. We are
burned children, both of* ns. Five years'
Illness and poverty out of seven years of
married life is s large allowance. And,
after sill, our present happiness isn't phe­
nomenal, my dear, though it looks so. We
bare health, and we value it because we
bars each missed it in turn. We have a
little money, and we think it a great deal
because we have been so deadly poor.
And then,” he laughed and half blushed,
“ w * have a little fame, and that is all
the pleasanter because we wars so long
neglected. Sweet is pleasure after pain.”
— “ 1 am dangerously happy.” sba answer-
“ Come, let ns unpack the luncheon bas­
ket.
Cold chicken.
Salad.
Bread.
Cheese. Milk. There we are. Fall to.
Bit flown by your mother, Cupid. Take
n pull at the milk, old man, and then
you’ll have an appetite. What a sudden
shadow!”
A cloud had'floated between themselves
nnd the sun; and a strange quiet had fall-
« n with the shadow on the woods.
“ Austin.” the wife whispered, "there is
that dreadful man again. It seems as if
be bad brought the darkness with hiss.”
i
A brown sloping path, cowered still
w ith the fir needles shed In tbs foregoing
SLUtumn. broke thp wall o f green which
bounded the dell, and dpwn this footway,
between the silver steps o f the birches and
the reddish stems o f the firs, walked s
gray-bearded man, with his head drooped
forward and his hands clasped behind him«
H e looked neither to left nor right, but
«rent by as if unconscious of their pres-
«nce, and in a little while was lost be­
hind the thicker growth of treea. As he
went out of sight the sun broke through
the cloud, the leafage wss inundated with
life again and the birds renewed their
"“ Look.” she whispered; “ the shadow
follows him."
“ What an odd mood this is to-day!"
said her husband, smiling at her. “ And
why in the poor old gentleman so dread­
ful T"
“ But, Austin, do you know? Ton can’t
bare heard. He is known to have hatch­
ed plots against the Csar.”
“ Well, yes. It is known also that be
has been wifeless and childless this twen­
ty years.
His w ife ' and his two sons
died in Siberia. They went there without
trial, and people who know him say that
the loss of them in that horrible way
turned his brain. Suppose anybody stole
you and little Austin? Suppose he drove
you on foot through hundreds o f miles of
Ice and snow? Suppose that he made you
berd with the human off-acourings of the
world, and that you died after three or
four long-drawn, hideous years? It might
be wicked, but Surely it would not be
quite without provocation if I blew that
man sky-high. I don't say that regicide
la a thing to be commended. I don’t de­
fend the poor old gentleman's political
opinions. But I do say that human na­
ture is human nature."
Luncheon over, he returned to bis
painting, to find the lights all changed.
H e worked away, however, with great
contentment for an hour or two, while the
w ife - and the boy wandered beyond the
limits s f the dell. When they came back
they found that he had pagked up his
traps sad was lying at length on the
s m m . with bis face turned to the sky.
“ I flo this better than I paint," he said,
cocking an idle eye at his w ife from be­
neath the soft whits felt which rested on
his nose. “ Shall we get back now?"
" I . «rant to carry something, papa,",
aaifl the boy, possessing himself of the
camp stool. They sauntered on together
tranquilly through the twinkling lights
which dassied from between the leaves,
and their steps were noiseless on the
flense carpet o f fir needles. The boy laid
flown his burden to chase a sulphur-col­
ored butterfly. They had gone a hundred
yards before they missed him. and when
they turned to look for him bo was soon
a t the far end of a wooded vista, seated
an the camp stool.
"Look at the little figure. L acy," said
tbs father. “ Isn’t there something lonely
and almost psthstic In It? He looks as
I f he were waiting for osmobody who
would nover come— a figure o f deserted
childish patieaos." He hailed the child
and turned away am i a. “ H e knows tbs
road?” he asked. “ T h e n Is no danger of
bis losing k t a s o lfr '
"H e knows the way," she answered.
“ W e bars boon hero twice a day for a
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fellow eat on the camp stool behind them
and held animated talk with Nature.
The
gray-bearded
man
wandered
through the wood with his chin sunk upon
his breast and his «yes fixed upon the
ground. He waa tall and gaunt and swar­
thy, and looked as if he had a considera­
ble etraln o f the Jew in him. Hie nose
was like an «agio’s beak and ascetically
fine.
His temples were hollowed like
thooe of a death’s-head, and his eyes,
which were large and brown and mourn­
ful to the verge o f pathos, were the eyes
o f s bora dreamer and a fanatic by na­
ture.
It waa already dusk when the old Nl-
hi list turned his footsteps Into the wood,
and having just remembered that he had
not broken hie fast for seven or eight
hours, he had somewhat quickened his
usual thoughtful pace, when the sound
o f a sob reached his ear and be stopped
suddenly to look about him. Within a
yard or two sat the lost child on the
■camp stool, with his back against s broad
tree trunk. The old man knelt on the
grass qpd looked at the sleeping boy. His
straw hat bad fallen off and lay beside
him, his golden hair was tumbled and
disordered, his long dark lashes were still
wet, and his rosy cheeks were blurred and
soiled with the traces of his tears.
“ Eh! La, la. la?” said the old fellow,
in a pitying accent. “ L o s t! Did we
sleep in despair, dear little heart? in
tears? in terror? And God sendeth a
hand, ere yet it is night time. T o the
child, rescue, and to the old man teach­
ing.”
Then he took the child softly in his
arms, and gathering up the bat and the
camp stool, entered the wood. As he did
so, a faint and distant cry reached his
ears, and he stopped to listen. It wss re­
peated once or twice, faintly and more
faintly, and th-n died away. He started
anew almost at a run, but he was old.
and the lad wss unusually solid and well
grown for his years, so that the burden
soon told on him, and brought him to s
walk again. It was a full mile, from the
spot to which the child had wandered to
the Cheval Blanc, and when the little
hostel was reached the bearer’s back and
arms were aching rarely. The landlady
met him.in the passage with a cry.
Oh, the little Anglais 1
Ton hare
found him, monsieur? Jeanne, run to the
woods and tell them that the child is
found."
“ You know him?” asked Dobroski.
“ Who is he? Where does he live?”
“ Hfe is the child of the English at
the hotel des Postes,” answered the wom­
an, standing on tiptoe to kiss the boy.
He has been lost this five hours.” Do­
broski turned into the street, and the
woman followed him talking all the way.
“ He is the only child of his parents, and
their cherished. Imagine, then, the de­
spair of the mother, the inquetude of his
fath er! They are rich. See how the child
is dressed. There is nothing you might
not ask for."
The old man smiled at this, but said
nothing. He surrendered his charge at
the hotel, where the boy waa received
with such noisy demonstrations o f pleas­
ure that he awoke. Being awake, and
recognising his surroundings, he adapted
himself to them with an immediate phil­
osophy, and demanded something to eat.
A second messenger was dispatched to
'the wood to bring hack the party who had
gone in search o f him.
His mother kissed him frantically and
cried over him, but his father set out
for the Cheval Blanc to thank his res­
cuer. He found Dobroski seated in a lit­
tle room with a sanded floor, and began
to stammer his gratitude in broken and
mutilated French.
It was a piece o f good fortune to find
him,” said Dobroski, speaking English,
to the other’s great relief. “ I am de­
lighted that the pleasure waa mine."
“ I don’t know how to thatjk you,”
said the Englishman, a little awkward­
ly. lagging a purse from his trousers
pocket. For a moment Dobroski fancied
the stranger meant to offer him money,
but he merely produced a card, “That’s
my name,” said the Englishman, blun­
deringly. “ Austin Farley.
Upon my
word, I really don’t know bow to thank
you. f t
“ My good, good sir,” returned Dobro­
ski, “ what would you have had? What
was I to do? He was sure to be found,
and it wss my good fortune to have found
him.”
“ You must let his mother come and
thank you. sir,” said the Englishman.
“ Upon my word I really don’ t know what
to say to tell yon how grateful and oblig­
ed I am. His mother has been In the
greatest anxiety. You must let her come
and thank you."
“ Well, well, Mr. Fariey,” the elder man
answered, himself a little ahy at the oth­
er’s concealed emotion. “ I f you will think
so mere an accident worth thanke to any­
body------ But pray let os say no more.”
fjTenda^ min^” ° 7’ *°
, ° m# °*d | fluent visits to the pareoaage. end told
“ I ’m . going to Janenne meeelf,"
her perplexltlea ©tit o f a fu ll and some-
One day,
the Irishman. “ Can’t we ride together I” times a sorrowful h ea rt
extra burdens weighed, upon her,
“ I suppose we can,"
returned
his , when ex
friend.
“ Baggage la registered."
He she came w ith a tale o f woe.
waa just aa calm as the Celt had a min-1 “ Trust God and don’t w orry,1
ute or two before beet* eager, and his1 aJl the m inuter could Bay. "You are
volc* " m distinctly AmoHcon. **• was dot
ar
H ave faith and ba
very precisely and neatly attired his
figure was tall and elegant; his face waa pa“ ®
The advice seemed trite, and esalar
handsome but melancholy, and curleualy
pels. The eyes were the beet feature— to give than to take.
black, soft and lustrous, but they looked
But while she was there Mise Poxon
as If he bed never smiled In his life. “ I entered. Now, those who do not know
say, Fraser,” he said, in his slow, mild Mlm Poxon ought to know what man­
voice, when they were both seated “ where
ner o f woman she la She'scrubs floors,
did you pick up your French? I
and teaches Sunday school classes, and
heard anything like It.”
,
I ’ ve knocked about Paris a good deal," i scolds recreant husbands, and per-
aaid Fraser. “ I speak Jormaa with the forms other useful services In connec-
same facility, though it’s probably me tlon with a settlement o f the Young
Scotch extraction that gives me that.”
| Women’s Christian Association.
She
Mldwa y bet ween Namur and LUxem-1 la , character the like o f which one
hourg the two traveler, changed train. m , ht
fa r to meet. "W h e t Is It to-
for Janenne. The engine steamed lasily , “ „ "
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through a most lovely country, and the
.
.
young American, looking continually out!
1 want you to buy four tickets to
of window, seemed absorbed ia contem- the concert, and let me give them to
plation of the landscape. But it could the Mavowakla; poor things, they want
scarcely have been the landscape which to go and can’t; and the profits are ■for
half a dosen times called a dreamy smile fo e playground; and I ’m going to ask
to his soft eyes, and once a blush to the Mrn. Packard to buy four more fo r an-
saliow pallor of his cheek. When the other fam „
and j need gome malted
train drew up in front of the little red
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brick station, a building planned like .
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child’s toy house and not much bigger. • * the,r tw e,fth bab^’ “ d *>*• laat one
the Iblush came to his cheek
again, and not fourteen months old, and her hus-
his hand trembled slightly as it caressed band sitting round the house and do-
his black mustache, _ _ _
(Jpg nothing,
and foe children alt puny
“ Weil, It’s good-by for a time, old fel- till they get old enough to go to work
low,” he said, shaking hands with Fra- and get enough to eat.
see. "B u t I will see y6h again to-mor -1
,,j gbould like to see {hie whlpplng-
row or next day. most likely, if you can
« ^ „ « „ e d ; I should faint I f I
find time to turn from affairs of state,
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“ Are those your friends?” asked Frasqr, bad to do th* whlppluf. bn* I heUeve
looking through the window ss the train I a » “
them a U ttle; and old M rs
crawled slowly along the platform, “ An W lggln— you remember old M rs W ig-
uncommouly pretty gyu rl! The ould boy gin that yon sent the cloak to? W ell,
looks like an army man. He’s waving she’s little M ary’s mother, you know,
his hand at ye.”
--
that sings; and she’s down w ith sotne-
Ye“’ *aid Maakelyne, with his soft fo ing the m atter with her thigh; It
drawl a little exaggerated. “ That is my
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i m o«
man. Good-day. Fraser. T ell O’Rourke ™
* mUaC
" ay’ but 1 gU8“
I ’m down here and that IH run over and ,t a
canc* rous trouble,
have a look at hhn."
| “ She sewa the collars on vests, and
A minute later be was ihakiag hands gets three cents apiece, and when the
with the young lady who had excited Mr. got that hurt she got round on a cane
admiration.
. . . .
la s long as she could, and now her
“ Welcome to the Ardennes, Mr. M u d *
w
8,ven
t ^
M m e w a y ; and
lyne, ssid Angels, with frank good bu-
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mor. “ How are all our friend, to New wben yon come *n f
af t ®
to
Y ork y
preach st the mission, do you suppose
‘Thank you. Miss Butler,” he answre- you can come ovet and pray fo r her?
ed, looking into her gray eyes with a ( “ And there’s the Hofers, you know,
smile which was ail the brighter and the There’s a man that’s good fo r some-
sweeter because of the usual melancholy thing, but he got hurt, and now Jlm-
of his countenance ; “ I cannot undertake mle-a bad to atop gebool and go to
to tell you how all your friends in New
k anf*
„
York may be, but the few scores at whom
.p.*
I There are no periods in Miss Poxon’s
I have heard in one way or another since
I came to Europe are very well indeed, conversations; »he goes on until some-
Major Butler. 1 am charmed to see you thing happens. But Bailie could hear
looking so robust. I had not hoped to see no more.
“ N
you looking so well."
-
I “ I ’m Just ashamed o f m y s e lf!" she
"Dyspepsia,” said the major. “ When cried. “ And to think I came here to
I wrote you I was really ilL 1 am all teu my troubles t”
right now. But I ’ve been a nod deal
.-Ig your reut paid?” asked Mias
_
THE GIRL WITH
A MILLION
the Irony of one of the ejected
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I
“H e is well introduced to himself that1
fellow,” said he, but the tourist did not'
hear, or did not care if he h ea rd ! lie
stood tranquilly by, hoTfilng the handle of
the door, until the carriage waa cleared,
and wai just, about to ascend whan s
slow, quiet -voice spoke behind.
“ Got that through, old man, eh?"
The tourist turned suddenly, sad
» l eased b y C o m p a riso n .
stretched out a hand to the speaker.
No
one
who had the slightest knowl­
“ What? Maakelyne, me boy. Daloyt-
edge o f the facts could Imagine that
ed. Where are you going?"
“ I am going to Janenne by rail," asid Sallle Royce had an easy time o f I t
the other, accepting the proffered hand Th e eldest o f three sifters le ft alone
with a hearty shake, once up and once [n the w o rld she had problems o f mo-
down. “ From there I go on to a fettle ment to
8he mada not ,n fw .
SSL.< 2<'£J£
That your baggage? Got the ticket for
¡t ?”
A t this point Fraser came up with
perfect sang froid, raised his bat to the
girl and accosted Maakelyne.
“ I say, ould man, tell me what’s the
b* * t,rPla<!* *° pnJ “ p
b*r* ?"
*">“*
« -
swer, follow ed the question by a string
o f others. "D o all yonr folks keep so-
her? H ave you got good shoes? W>11,
then, my dear, you don’t know what
trouble la !
And sometimes I get so
tire d ; I had to scrub a floor this moro-
1 ing, and take three children to the
m ,.’ r S L " i T S £ 1 . %
*
"
?
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“ Let me introduce you,” mid Masks- * » w le d when the baby cried, and I
lyne. “ Major Butler, this is Mr. Fraser, Just told him they were not my chll-
a member of your British House o f Con- dren, and where I w ss taking them,
and I ’d paid my fare and thoae chil­
mons.
“ Delighted to meet yo n !" mid the ma­ dren w ere going to ride, and i f be
jor, but he did not look aa If this state­ didn’t like it be could take another
ment could he accepted.
ca r; and I do get pretty tired, but it’a
(T o be continued.)
lota o f fun to be helping somebody;
O r ia ls Of l b . U n io n J n e *.
. T h e British union jack, the k in *'.
colors, combines three c r o « * n - t h e
crons o f S t George, the crom o f 8 t
Andrew and the m w . o f S t Patrick
— all on. a bine field, Th e union o f
them three crosses occurred In an In­
teresting fashion. Prim arily England's
flag displayed a red erosa on a white
«round. Th® white cross o f St. An-
drew made It . appearance side by aide
with that o f S t George during the
and dear’ ,lf y0^
e * *
f* ° ? -
aDd
^
“ d y° Ur
a”
k nd; “ d yoa,
'
f
ou" p r ,y " *
nl« bt and * ° * ° 8,®®p’ d o n t ev„er th ° *
“ V ? a" y trou^ e’ ,o r you haVeD t
- * > u t h 'a Companion.
T h e F e w e r D iv in e .
W hatever the trial or diflieulty that
may ^
>nd hamper m
chrlat,an
...
u iu »u
h # ♦ k ..*
life, there Is little doubt that to con-
^
the w , „ power „ dlylQe lMtoad
o f hnman would mean added strength,
relKn
^ 8<f ^
,klaf ^ » surer victory and stronger charscter!
ascended fo e throne o f England. It Jf M ch ona
he ^ . e e s a
was not until later, however, In 1707,
spark o f divine w ill entrusted to him
that the tw o crosses w ere combined
by the great Master, and as fast as he
on the one banner and the white em­
uaes this bit entrusted to him, he may
blem o f S t Andrew ran from corner
draw on fo e never-diminishing supply
to corner o f fo e bine field and crossed
fo r more, would we not find ourselves
fo e red emblem o f S t George.
relying on something so much stronger
N early a om tanr later the red âl Bf '
weak, human w , „ that w6
onal créas o f S t Patrick found a place ^
g0 ont
aod to ^
on the same flag. It waa a fter the
fluer?”
*
Irlah parliament was united to the
I t la only by meeting all temptations
British that fo ia change took place.
and overcoming them that we learn
in England It 1. atlpulated fo a t all tbfl IeM0DI| o f llfe. Maybe not a„ on
colora, as flags a re te rm e d , shall be,
plana o i ex|,tence. Maybe some
C H A PTE R IL
There was a great crowd o f people at
the railway station at Namur, and the
Luxembourg train had no sooner steamed
into the station than it was besieged by
the mob, and all the carriages were taken
by storm. One tourist, who had furnish­
ed himself with a first class ticket, and band “ ade‘
.
e y . werT th® things are not temptations to us that
had shouldered himself through the crowd work o f women member, o t fe r n e n -
so <o othera P e r h .p . In forgot-
to the buffet, was exceedingly wroth on tel famlllee, b u tja te r the privilege wag
e ip e rl« c m w .
have overcome
his return to find that the carriage he ^ v e n to contractors who number les. ^
Th e tblng, w e ara flfb tIa g to.
had occupied was filled by third-class than h alf a d o s e m lt la «aid. If. how- d
,f w overcome them before the
excursionists. Ha spoke French with a
ever, the w iv e , and daughter, o f oB- ^
^ e s . w ill be put a . fa r from us
fluency, and an Inaccuracy in combination
with it, which fairly took off his mental cer* want.,t0 mak*
^ • • tbe * art l* trom tb® WMt' and w e
fset the official to whom he appealed, and regim ent, they are permitted to do so, w I]] bare ttms j a “ fo e eternal year.,”
in a very passion and torrent o f his ora­ b0t
2 T L n S S aL e0l0lt
ba™ «uergy mid strength to
tory rippled audibly the accent of Dub­ are aubmltted to the garter king at |ean] new leMOQa
fo r hta approval before they are
lin. H e talked all oner, arms and hands,
finger tips, head, shoulders, and body. He presented to the regiments fo r which
A e k a e w le d t f a e 0 *4 .
talked with all Us features sod with all they have been made.
Addison haa said : " I f you wish sue-
his muscles and with all his might, and at
In Ufa maks preaeveranca your
u s the e^M***l seised his mtsnlng. and
proceeded with inexorable politeness to
Mr. A ^ t a T d o ™ £ r n to toleot
, / r,end’ exp^ * nc*, y<rar
turn out all the third-class passengers. your spring hat, eh? W ell, you better c”T ! * ,k>r’
* ,dT * " * * *
Tbs triumphant tourist stood by, sudden­ w ait mntil n ig h t
, » « *
jo u r guardian gen iu s"
ly smiling and uarnfllod.
Ho had a
a 1
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I A shorter recipe Is to acknowledge
M r t A- (to su rprise)— Night,George?
round, smooth face, with a tonch of eppte-
God In all your w a y s There are two
color on his chsskh a noao Inclining some­ W hy?
what upward, and aa nrpsimlia of ealf-
A ^ -P M .1
1>‘ “
“ ” **ì
that It
to be a dreamt
ST .yTiiT"*
\
I the other Is by forgetting God. T o all
o f us God Is out o f sig h t TO some In-
deed H e Is out o f mind. W hile the na-
ural eya cannot aee God, the spiritual
eye can see Him. Th e aye o f the soul
eeea God through faith. W alking by
faith Is alw ays surer than walking by
sigh t There are countless false paths,
but the traveller need not take any of
them. Faith In God m ake, the mind
clear so that wa act w isely and right-
ly.— Rev. 0 . W . Barnes D. D.
L e i M e S et L iv e .
Let me but live m j life from year te
year,
With forward face and unrel octant
«• «A
Not hastening to, nor turning -from,
the goal;
Not mourning for the things that din-
ippatr
la the dim past, nor holding barb In
fear
From what the future veils but with
a whole
And happy heart, that pays Its toll
To Youth and Age, and travels oa with
cheer.
So let the way wind up the hill or down,
Though rough or smooth, the journey
will be Joy;
Still seeking what I sought wbsn but
a boy,
New friendship, high adventure, and a
crown,
I shall grow old, but never lose life’«
seet.
Because the road’ s last turn will ba the
beet.
I
-—Henry Van Dyke, D. D.
—
H e C sM th
There Is nothing ao high as to be
above God’s care, and nothing so lowly
as to be beneath K. H a Who keeps
alive the unquenchable ligh t o f fo e atar
visible to a hemisphere, kindles the
small taper o f the glowworm that
gleama In the tw ilight on the mossy
bank. H e Who piles up and loosens
fo e Alpine avalanche, shapes the crys­
tals o f each fallin g snowflake. H e Who
guides and bridles the storm i
breaks in thunder upon the reef, pre­
serves each Invisible coral animal that
builds Its lime cell beneath the boom­
ing surf. H e Who sees from H is glo­
rious throne fo e seraph veilin g his face
with his wings, takes note o f the spar­
row fallin g to the ground, and careth
fo r you.
T k e L is k l e t Joy.
W e all bava our sorrows, and they
may be very bitter. W « all b *ve to
endure pain, perhaps, again and again,
and it may be very bard to endure. Wa
all have our griefs and our looses, „nd
ofttlm es our hearts may seem to break.
But through all these experiences the
light o f Joy may continue to shine
within na, and our peace need not be
broken. Th e bappinesa God gives Is
part o f the life o f Heaven, and In that
home the light goeth not out by day,
and there la no night there.— Rev. J. R.
Miller. _____________________'
CANAD A’S USE OF NT AO ABA.
Goveemaaemt Comnetee w lt k P r iv a te
F e w e r Companies.
SH O U LD
W fe T A X S
A
SMOJ
a u > r r k r > l d s » A ssert I t is
e io i
M eet People,
“ I thoroughly agree with Dr. Nal-
passe o f P a r is ” « » M
» well-known
American physician recently. " I think
a good cigar a fter a meal Is o f un-
doubted help. O f oouree grow ing chD-
dren ebould not amoks; their growth
w ill be stunted and their mental devel-
opmsat hindered by the h abit but few
grown persons experience any haam
from tobacco—that ta. U they do not
come slaves^ to the h a b it
, " I amok# quite a number o f cigars
every day. But to maintain control o f
w ill over my daalra once a |#ek I atop
smoking ovary night at 9 «c lo c k and
fa st from the weed until 6 « ’d o ck the
follow ing evening.
"Thus I show that I am a master o f
my appetite and as long as a man haa
mental control ha cannot be harmed.
“ Th e same thing la true o f certain
kinds o f food. Partake judlcloualy and
yon w ill feel a grateful | satisfaction,
bat give w ay entirely and aat whatever
you want and all you want and yon car­
te Inly w ill suffer."
Dr. Nalpaaae made a specific study
o f tobacco and Its effects. W hat la
moat remarkable, perhaps, Is that ha
found that the smoking o f a cigar la
cases cured otherwise Incurable
o f dyapepsla.
Moat persona, according to fo e P a ri­
sian savant, experience bad results be­
cause they do not know bow to smoke.
- Suppose yon w ere smoking s deli­
cious H a ven s; that you should lay It
aside a minute and the fire should be­
come extinguished. You w ill no doubt
pick It up and relight It, Ignorant o f
the fact that aa soon as you took a puff
all the harmful nicotine to the stump
would enter yopr lungs.
I f a cigar la particularly good you
would possibly smoke It down to the
w et butt and you’d chew fo e butt in
bargain. -How often hare y o u n e a
men do that?
Dr. Nhlpsam said a cigar should be
tbrovni aw ay when
t BTS* quartern
smoked.
A man should amok# only
three or four cigars a day. A pipe
which has become discolored, be de­
clared, ta filled with nicotine and un­
fit to be put Into the mouth. A person
should not amoks on an empty stom­
ach.
>
Nicotine, according to fo e French
physician, does not vola tile until It a t­
tains 260 degrees, so as the cigar burns
down to the and the poison Is likely to
be drawn Into the lungs. In this re­
spect, he says, the Japanese take all
precautions
,
T e those who can nee tobacco and
use I t moderately, says Dr. Nalpaaae,
It la pleasant and harmless; bat It
should not be used, be sa ys by persons
suffering from lung disease o r who
have heart trouble T o persons afflict­
ed w ith nervous disorder It m ight be
injurious
“ In some cases,” w rites the physi­
cian, “ tobacco aids digestion by excit­
ing the salivary secretion and p r o d d ­
ing greater activity on the part o f the
gastric organ s”
Ha cited the case o f a wom an who
■offered from ' hysteria and extrema
8 he failed to keep any food on
her stomach. Dr. Dujardlne Baumets
advised her to smoko a cigar a fter each
meal. T o her delight she found that
the nausea passed away. W ben she
failed to smoke the m alady returned
and she suffered extrem e discom fort.
In cases o f partial drowning and as­
phyxiation, according to Charleroi,
smoking .has had a revivin g e ffe c t
Dr. Nalpaaae advises no one to smoke
I d a sleeping room. Nor would be ad­
vise those who have not formed the
habit to take It up on the strength o f
his article— Philadelphia North Amsri-
Th e development o f the hydraulic
power o f Niagara on the Canadian Bids
Is leading to some interesting se­
quences, says Gasateria Magaslne.
A tribunal called the Hydro-Electric
Pow er Commission has been created,
and In fo e bands o f this body has been
placed the entire domestic regulation
o f the power product o f stations com­
ing within government control.
In addition there has been given to
the various municipalities the right to
undertake the distribution o f electrical
energy within their respective lim its
In order that the commission may be
In a position to dictate terms to the ex­
isting private companies It is important
that fo e co-operation o f the municipal­
ities be obtained, and this appears to be
partially accomplished.
D ta M T c rr e f D r — 4 « « C h in *.
Th e city o f Toronto has already ar­
ranged fo r 15,000 horse-power o f elec­
Dresden
china
waa
discovered
tric energy from Niagara, the price be­ through
accident , John Frederick
ing $14 to |16 per horse-power fo r a Böttcher waa a chemist’s assistant la
supply fo r a 24-hour day, Including Berlin about 170ft A t that tim e a ll
transmission to Toronto, the local dis­ potters were endeavoring to discover a
tribution to be In the bands o f the mu­ means o f making tranaluoent china,
nicipality, and It Is believed that a but In vain.
number o f other cltlee and towns wi..
Böttcher, having fallen under suspi­
make sim ilar arrangements.
cion o f being an alchem ist was obliged
These agreements are made w ith the to leave Berlin and take refuge In Sax­
Hydro-Electric Pow er Commission, and ony. Augustus II . wss Elector o f Sax­
It in turn must either secure the power ony, and In a hope o f finding the secret
supply from the existing private com­ o f fo e philosopher's stone be placed
panies or else proceed to develop its young Böttcher in a laboratory w ith
own stations
orders to carry on his experinmenta.
I t Is hardly probable that the latter White working along the lines desig­
alternative w ill be found necessary, nated by the Ejector, Böttcher sur­
since fo e result would be to leave the prised himself by discovering something
private corporations w ith the greater akin to Chinese porcelain. H e was a t
part o f their prospective custom per­
once bidden by the K in g to pursue the
manently taken away, so that tbs real
quest o f making cbliAi. He might have
consequence o f the recent legislation la
continued his endeavors fo r many
to compel the companies to supply the
years, bad not an accident given him
municipalities through the commission
the key to the translucent china.
at prices determined by the engineers
A wealthy Iron founder waa riding
o f the new body.
sn horseback near Aue In Saxony, wben
I t Is possible that such measures w ill
be noticed that his horse lifted Its fe e t
prove advantageous to fo e public, but
with difficulty. On examination ho
much w ill depend upon the manner la
found that the animal's hoofs w ere
which fo e law is carried o u t I t has
filled w ith s peculiar w hite adhesive
tntlmated that this legislation w ill
clay. M ore out o f curiosity than any-
render It exceedingly difficult fo r pro- VJ/" T ?
o f this d a y
motore to Induce outside capital to «m-1 .
’ ..
.
in mak­
gage In the development o f natural to- ' b0ni*
“
' nd
ing It into a fine w hite powder.
sources In Canada hereafter.
Through chance Böttcher obtained some
o f this powder and found that it w as
A BlomnUet.
the long-sought kaolin.
L ittle W illie— Papa, what 1# a blga-
The secret o f the translucent ehina
mist?
in g ordered a
__ a h ln m !” _______ wss
" * ■ solved,
■»»■▼«■a. and
«nn the
me K
».m
MF« H®nnyp®ci A n'«Jim ! ut, mj ion, «uh in» fijitAn t* w* h*«ii+
la a She-e-s-el la that yohr mamma Bottcher waa the bead.’
coming up the street? No, I ose It Isn’t
Wall, a bigamist 1s a benefactor who
prevents at lasst one o f his fellow men
from marrying.— Pock.
*
r Sha» « 4 Loft*.
Th e Pend d’Orellto lake, In Id d io ,
took Its name from I t i shape, which go-
that o f aa earring.
.. .
O e s lA a '« S i a s i th e B i n i * .
Landlady— I ’m sorry to say, air, that
the coffee te exhausted. Lodger— I ’m
not surprised.
I t has bsan so
weak lately.— Strana.
When the money market gets tight
[it eught te take the gold cor»