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irresistible. Such doctrines could
not have been invented or imagined
by the human mind, and never we're.
Therefore they come by inspiration
of God. Except only the words of
the Master himself, if all other liter
ature must be destroyed save only
this fifteenth chapter of the first
epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, l
would say, perish everything ever
written by the hand of man, but
spare the world this chapter written
by the inspired pen of the great
apostle. 1t is worth more than all
the rest. And it contains the high
est evidence of the truth of Chris
tianity, and the chief blessing of the
gospel. Compare it with any other
scheme of immortality, or any other
view of the future ever before enter
tanned, and its Unreasonable supe-
riority is SO manifest, that the con-
clusion that it came only from God q,
is irresistible. No other source could
have furnished anything so grand.
The Saviour, who came from God
the Father, spoke of his own know
ledge when he declared that in his
fathers house were many mansions,
and that he was going to prepare
places for us, and would return and
take us to himself, that where he is
we may be also-in tie house of God
in heaven. He only revealed this
great truth to Paul, and inspired him
to give such a glorious description
of it, as is contained in this chapter,
which | have said is worth more than
all human literature. We must all
soon depart, and it is only the mat
ter of few days difference with any
of us whether we go first or last.
Under such circumstances, what can
be so interesting to us, and import
ant, as revelation so highly attested,
of future immortal and glorious
life? All else pales before it, and is
comparatively valueless.
FIT SCOTT. Kan.
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THE BETROTHAL.
BY HELEN HINsDALE RICH.
From Mrs. Rch's forthcoming volume. Murlllo's
Slave and Other Poems.

With silken tassels, crisp and fine.
When on the hills dreamy haze
Lay soft as love in eyes like thine;
When swaying grasses kissed the stones
White cleaning in the lily's bed,
And dying summers plaintive moan
Shook her rich blossoms, white and red,
Where dropping swallows on the walls
And tiny brooklets sighed for rain,
My heart through all its purple folds
Grew faint with loves exquisite pain,
Down where the meadow streamlet sung
OF love and truth that cannot perish,
Thy lips that trembled while they chung
Swore on my own to love and cherish.
And now, though spring is in the grove,
Or autumn blights, or winter chills,
To us, who only live to love,
lis summer on the hearts green hills.
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NEW BOOKS.
MRS. LATIMER's SPAIN"

To be instructed and at the same time
entertained, would seem to be an ideal
condition. In history is this especially
true, and no one, save perhaps the stu
dent, hungry for details, but would well
come the information he seeks, il it were
presented with the lighter touch of the
popular historian. The thought is sug-
gested by the announcement that Mrs.
Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer, at her
country home, Bonnywood," near Bal
timore, is diligently engaged upon the
final chapters of new volume of her
10Th Century histories.
Mrs. Latimer. whose delightful per-
sonality had made for her 90 many warm
friends, but whose advancing years have
compelled her into comparative retire.
ment, has rendered a distinctive SER
vice to the public during the past six
years in SO entertainingly leading her
readers through French, Russian and
Turkish. English, European. African and
Italian historical happenings in the
Nineteenth Century; and the present
volume, which her publishers. Mess
A. @. McClurg and Co., inform us is to
bs called Spain in the Nineteenth Gen.
tury." will in all probability be the last
of the series. Besides giving an account
of the immediate history of Spain du.
ring the past 100 years, the book will
contain separate chapters on Cuba and
the Spanish Colonies in South Amer
lea.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1897-08-21
MISS BISLAND'S NORTH AMERICAN RE-
VIEW ARTICLE

There are some very important truths
in Elizabeth Bisland's article, Are
American Parents Selfish?" published in
the North American Review Says this
writer:
I'm America it is the custom-very
nearly the universal CUSTOM for the
parents to spend upon the luxuries and
pleasures of the family life the whole in
come. The children are educated &C.
cording to this standard OF expenditure
and are accustomed to all its privileges.
No thought is taken of the time when
they must set up households for them
selves-almost invariably upon a very
different scale from the one to which
they have been used. To the American
parent this seems only natural down
fall. They remark cheerfully that they
themselves began in small way and it
will do the young people no harm to &C
quire a similar experience, forgetting
that in most cases their children have
been educated to much higher stand
ard OF ease than that of their own early
life. They do not consider it obligatory
TO leave anything to their children at
death. They have used all they could
accumulate during their own lifetime
let their children do the same. The re-
suits of the system are crystalized in the
American saying: There are but three
generations from shirt sleeves to shirt
sleeves" The man who acquires wealth
spends what he makes. His children,
brought up in luxury, struggle unsuc-
cessfully against conditions to which
they are unused and the grandchildren
begin in their shirt sleeves to toll for
the wealth dissipated by the two proceed
ing generations.
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york and carried it forward and up

work and carried it forward and up
ward.
In like manner, the imagination
always operates. 1t takes the results
that other faculties have wrought
out, covers them with beauty and
gilds them with glory. 1t lays those
results, as a foundation, in the pres
emit; but the structure is completed
in the future; it lays them on the
earth, but the structure is completed
in the skies. The basis, the corner
stone, is in the real; the crown and
completion is in the ideal. From
the earth, we rise to "mysterious alti-
tudes above the earthp'
[sECoND PART NEXT wEEK.l
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Europeans freq uently aud [,

Europeans frequently aud [. sly
remark upon the Americans prod.
of ready money. The small chabs.
which they part with so reluctantly the
American filings about with fine me-
dievel profusion. The manner of life of
the average well-to-do persons in this
country permits of it. The average man
who earns $4,000 or $4,000 year in
vests none of it, He installs his
family in a rented house in the city
10 winter. Several servants are kept;
the children are sent to expensive
schools. All the family dress we'll. eat
rich food and indulge in costly amuse-
mente. In summer they either travel
abroad, live in hotel at a watering
place or rent again. The mans whole
income is at his disposal to spend every
year. None of it is deducted to be safe
ly stored in property. When bis daught-
ers marry, he expects their husbands to
be solely responsible for their future,
and if they do not succeed in marrying
wealth, why, 80 much the worse for
them.
when his sons begin their career he
looks to them to be self-supporting al
most from the first. and not to under
take the responsibilities of family I'M
til they are able to pay for it.
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BY SAMUEL G. AYRES.

The relations existing between
Murray and Potter were both pecu-
liar and providential John Murray
had been a preacher, man of intel
lectual force and ability; Thomas
Potter, farmer, who could neither
read nor write. Yet both believed
in the great fundamental doctrines
for which our church has fought
universal salvation. 1t would almost
seem, in reading of the meeting be-
tween these two men, that we were
perusing some oriental tale. The
world has so far departed from as
cribing events as supernatural that
it is doubtful whether the majority
of men would say that the story pre-
sents 'facts.
There can scarcely be doubt that
those who were acquainted with Pot
ter before he met Murray thought
him demented, for men do not build
churches and then wait for the right
minister to come along, for it is gen
orally the right sort of minister
who builds a church; yet in this
story we find that the meeting house
had been erected and kept closed
till this simple farmer should behold
the preacher who would interpret the
scriptures as he understood them.
How Potter knew that Murray was
preacher we do not know. We are
told that he said to Murray that the
minister for whom he had been wait
ing had arrived, and that the vessel
in which he was sailing would not be
able to leave until he had preached.
It was just as Potter had said; the
wind for several days did not change
and Murray preached in the meeting
house that Potter had erected. 1t
was built on faith, foundation that
is always firm, and which in these
busy practical days we often times
forget.
We can picture these two men, one
feeling sad and lonely, for he had
left behind country, friends and rela-
tons; the other living in anticipation
of the coming of preacher who
would base his thoughts upon the
Fatherhood of God. We see them as
they wend their way to the meeting
house; they do not say much, for
men seldom speak when on the verge
of a great and momentous occasion,
and such this must have been to
Murray and Potter. They go into
the meeting house, Murray taking his
place in the pulpit and Potter sitting
where he could catch every word.
Time, place, congregation-every-
thing was forgotten, save the preacher
and his words. Did Murray preach
twenty minutes, half an hour, an
houri Potter could not have told
for in the pulpit before him was the
preacher for whom he had waited
and prayed would be sent to him.
Far into the night they sat and
talked over the Gospel of Love. Pot
ter like school boy coming in con-
tact with someone who could tell
stories of adventure; Murray like a
father imparting knowledge to good
son. How sad must have been their
parting! And we do not know that
any other Universalist preacher ever
dispensed the Gospel from that pull
pit.
1t is right that we should pay
homage to the life and character Of
Thomas Potter; that we should
gather year by year and place upon
his grave the bright flowers of the
field, and to have Brother Barnes,
in his sympathetic and reverent way,
tell the story of his life. 1t contains
grand lessons. Our church today
needs his faith. Contention at Work.
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1t is said the pigeon is never eaten by
the Russians. who hold il sin to kill an
animal 10 whose form the Holy Ghost
is said TO have manifested himself.
Pigeons are bought, therefore. only as
pets. to be fed and schooled by their
masters.-HOnle Journal.
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"There is in the breasts of many pa
rents a half resentful feeling that they
should not be asked to sacrifice them.
selves to the new generation. They
insist upon their own right to all that is
to be got out of life, feeling that what
they give to the children is never re-
paid. This selfish type forgets that in
doing their duty they are but returning
to their children what they themselves
received from the past generation, and
that the children will in turn pay to
their descendants the inherited debt of
honor with interest"
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Throughout all Europe, including
England. the responsibility of the par
emit is more broadly conceived than in
this country. where the excuse for an
infnity of cheap f1imsiness is the cynical
phrase, 1T will last my time. Men
build cheaply and forbear to undertake
work of which they cannot see the i'm
mediate result. because there is no sense
of obligation to the coming generation.
The democratic theory is that each man
must fight for his own hand; no debt is
owed to either ancestry or posterity.
The mind is not shocked by sudden de
struction of families. by the sharp de-
scent in the social scale or the flying of
women into the arena of the struggle
for life. The parent is quite willing to
share with the child the goods Of exis-
tence as far as he can achieve them, but
he is unwilling to deny either child or
himself that the child may benefit alone
or after he is gone.
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SERMON.
HIGHER USES OF THE MAGMA
TON.
BY MARION D SHUTTER, DID.

"f saw a great white throne and Him
that sat upon it, from whose face the
earth and heaven fled away, and there
was no place found for them. "-REv Xxx.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-17
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Under new regulation at the Enoch
Platt free library in Baltimore holders
of cards must have a second card, called
a students card, issued to them. On the
students card no works of fiction nor
juvenile works will be issued, the pur-
pose being to encourage the reading of
solid books.
The Acknowledgements of Ohio gets
$500 year, the lieutenant governor of
Pennsylvania gets $500. Their duties
are not dissimilar and the vote of the
two states is very nearly the same-that
is, the vote of Ohio is little above 1 ,00O,-
900, and the vote of Pennsylvania is a
little below 100000.
An English writer describes how sham
antiquities are made. A Pompeian tile
selling for two dollars is evolved from
patent medicine bottle costing less than
a penny, and steel files are melted and
hammered into Venetian daggers. The
final operation is to sprinkle them with
nitric acid to give them an ancient APP
pearance.
The most curious use to which paper
Is to be put is that suggested by the blot
ting paper towel. 1t is a new style of
bath towel. consisting of full suit of
heavy blo.ting paper. person upon
stepping out of his morning bath, has
only to array himself in one of these
suits, and in second he will be dry.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-17
ABOUT OLD PEOPLE

A woman 81 years old rides bicycle
In Dubuque, Ia.
Mrs. Rachel Harding. who died re-
gently in Cincinnati at the age of 100,
was born in Baltimore in 1901.
Ah-O-Cho-Kah, Winnebago chief,
was 125 years old when he died on the
reservation in Wisconsin few days ago.
DR.. Henry w. Field, of the Evangelist,
is now the oldest New York editor, hav-
ing succeeded to that distinction
through the death of Charles A. Dana.
An Ursuline nun at Bologna, who is
now 100 years old. entered the convent
so years ago, and has never set foot out
of it since.
William Lang, of Punxsutawney, Pa,
who is 81 years old, was as bald as bill
lard ball two years ago. He now has
a fine growth of hair which he says was
induced by washing his head in cold
water and rubbing it vigorously with a
coarse towel.
Queen Victoria is six months younger
than Mrs. Gladstone. Baroness Bur-
dett-Coutts is five years older than the
queen. Lady Louise Tighe, who was at
the ball the night before the battle of
Waterloo, was young lady when the
queen was born.
James Lynch died in the county in
Urinary at Muncie. Ind, recently. Had
he lived AZ days longer he would have
been 119 years old. His widow is 81.
Mrs. Mary Van Uleck, "a years old,
earns a good living sewing carpets at
Joliet, Ill. She also makes money cook
ing fine dinners on festal occasions.
Three of the eight surviving soldiers
of the war of 1912 now on the pension
roll of the government are over 100
years of age. They are Hosea Brown, of
Grants Pass, Ore. 105 years old; Elijah
Glenn, of Newark, N. j., and Eleazer
Smith, of Danbury. N. H., each 101 years
old.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-17
ABOUT WHEELS AND RIDERS.

Letter carriers in the City of Mexico
now use bicycles.
Contrary to expectations, there will
be no cycle show in Paris this winter.
The manufacturers have decided that
there will not be enough new designs
to make it interesting.
At Rumford, England, the heavy men
of the town have formed a cycling club,
and no man can belong who weighs less
than 224 pounds. The captain turns the
scales at ESQ pounds.
A big firm of cycle manufacturers
is experimenting with a method for
making bicycles without brazing. The
tubes are drawn to certain lengths, the
gauge of the metal being increased at
the ends to admit of screw threading
without weakening the tube.
A broken collar bone is a serious in
jury, but it is the most common in h
cycle accidents. When the rider who
is leaning half his weight on the handle
bars takes header his collar bone suf-
fers nearly every time. Still, he may
thank fortune it Is not his neck.
Maurice Cordang, the Dutch rider,
broke all records by riding Gle miles
and $40 yards in "a hours onSeptember
1916 on the Crystal palaceNraclk, Lon
don, England. The previous record was
564 miles and 1860 yards, held by Con-
stance Huret. the French long-distance
champion.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-17
THE THINGS TO WEAR.

Spanish combs are worn and a new
style is bow shape for the nape of the
neck and for side combs.
Ostrich feather ruffs tipped with mar
about and chiffon rufus edged with os-
trich are worn.
Persian lamb jackets are made tight
fitting, with capes of fur edged with
colored ribbon applied as silk would be
in dress bodice.
Blouses of cloth are more fashion
able than those of silks. These cloth
waists are often made tight, and the
devotees of the comfortable blouse are
signing at the edict.
A dark serge coat and skirt, the coat
opening over vest of tucked white
satin, was rendered chic with a collar
of red velvet. cut in the turnover style
peculiar to coats.
In the millinery world the cry is still
for ostrich feathers of all lengths and
all colors. On the new velvet toques
the new feathers stand erect and on
the large picture hats they droop and
curl
Colored ribbons are seen on the new
muffs; even mink and sable muffs are
crossed with bands of satin ribbon, a
small bow at one and and a large loop
with outstanding bows at the other, the
ribbon often of color violently con-
traStinp wifi the fur
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-17
CATCH PROBLEMS.
A Few That Worry the Merchants in
Idle Hours.


Little arithmetical problems with a
"catch" in them are always fascinating
to the average man. No matter how
simple they appear, you will find the
banker and the broker disputing over
them on change or in the counting
rooms of the capitalists. Here are one
or two that have been floating around
among the business men of Cincinnati
for two or three weeks:
A banker found a ten-dollar bill. AT
home he gave it to his wife, who paid
the butcher in settlement of his ac-
count. The butcher paid it to the farm
er for q calf and the farmer paid it to
the merchant, who in turn paid it to the
washerwoman, and she, owing the
banker a note of ten dollars, went to the
banker and paid the note. The banker
recognized the bill as the one he had
found and which up to that time had
settled $50 of debt. On careful en-
animation he found the bill was counter
felt. Vi course, the problem is: Who
lost in the transaction?
Here's another, but along different
line, and they do say that men who are
way up in local finance were disputing
over the question on change, though it
is extremely simple: A man bought a
horse and buggy for $40. The horse
cost 500 more than the buggy. What
did the buggy cost the owner? That's
easy, but don't go to work to figure it
by algebra.
There's one more. very old one, but
it's good and not near as easy as the
others. A man went into shoemak-
er's shop and bought pair of shoes for
five dollars. He gave the shoemaker a
ten-dollar bill. The shoemaker had no
change, but went to neighbor and got
the ten changed. He returned and gave
the purchaser his change, five dollars.
A short time afterward the neighbor
came in and claimed the ten was count
erfeit. AS he was right, the shoemaker
was compelled to make the ten good.
which heidi by giving good ten for the
counterfeit. Now. how much was the
shoemaker out in the whole transact
tion?-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-17
KILLED HIS KEEPER.
How an Elephant in India WAS Pun
iShed for the Crime.


Did YOU ever see an elephant
whipped? don't suppose you would
ever forget it if you did. They fire.
queEt!y do it in India, because ele,
plants are very cbstreFerous at times.
Recently an elephant, Abdul, was
convicted by court-martial for killing
his keeper, and sentenced to so lashes
aud two years Imprisonment.
Two elephants led Abdul to an open
snace, ard in the presence of the whole
battery the punishment began. The
cvlprit trumpeted in fear, and made
an anearthly noise.
There were IA elephants on one side,
and TIE officers and men of the battery
on the other three. In the center of this
hollow square stood Lalla (No. y, the
logger, and the prisoner. The latter
was chained by the four legs to as many
heavy iron pegs, and could not move.
Fastened to Lalla's trunk was an i'm
mense cable chain. When all was ready
the major gave the word, and down
came the chain with a resounding
whack. Abdul roared for all he was
worth. Fifty times was the operation
repeated. and then Abdul was taken to
a compound. where he was to remain
a prisoner for two years.-Answers.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-12-17
BASEBALL AND FOOTBALL.

McAllister will be regular pitcher
for Cleveland next year.
Manager Ewing does not take much
stock in young baseball pitchers.
Belden, of the Cleveland ball team, is
a gripman on a Forest city cable road
these days.
Pitcher McAllister, of the Cleveland
club, is running printing office in Fort
Worth, Tex.
The city council of Bloomington de-
feated a resolution to prohibit football
in the city limits.
The Yale Baseball association cleared
$6,53O on the last baseball season, while
football only Melted a profit of $6,561.
Pitcher Lewis seems to be another Bill
Sunday. He recentlypreached a sermon
in the Y. NJ. c. A. rooms in Boston.
President Young is 81 years old and
he has been the executive officer of the
National league for % years.
It is rumored that Bobby Woods, of
Girard the cleveribackstop of last years
indianapolis team. may wear Pirate
uniform in '9s.
With Gatins on third, Cockman at
short, Taylor at second and Carney at
first. Manager Twins new Toronto
(Ont) infield is complAt.
George Banker, cyclist. former team
mate of ex-Champion A. A. Zimmer-
man, is making arrangements to go
abroad with his old friend in February.
Joe Steen, the Giants crack fielder,
has fallen a prey to the football fever.
He is putting up a good game at full
back for the Mahoning Cycle clubs
eleven.
Chris Won der Abe has given it out
that "Tm" Hurst will manage his team
next season. But Secretary Mucken-
fuss qualities this by saying he may"
be secured.
Knoxville, which turned out Wiley
Davis and Willie Dammann, HIS another
crack pitcher in VIII H. Newman, a
heavyweight, believed to be superior
to the other two graduates.