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The False Prophet In Literature.

A writer of fiction who puts all his char acters in antagonism to beauty and prog ress, who belittles his fellow man in the eyes of the reader, who puts hopelessness into his little world instead of a reasonable ambition, is not going to give you any particular pleasure in your leisure hours or any consolation in the realities of every day existence. This does not mean that the best novel is one from which the dis agreeable facts of life are banished and only the sweets served as a confection at the feast 1t is the attitude of mind to- ward the bitter and the sweet, the evil and the good, the thing foreseen and the acci- dental, that makes a novel uplifting OF depressing -Droch in Noyelnlsar LadAs Home Journal
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Knights of Honor.

Grand Reporter John Mulligan oa oas1 York has published his report ol m moi ceived and expended for the slm fore ending Sept. 30 The receipts S' nf 7S9. 4a and expenditures S5, s7o' s...stl1 70, sum over $3,6o0 was speno u'As strengthening tho order ,u5
 Grand Treasurer ". H. 1ouns v race sylvania reports the balance anu .aafs amounting to 80, 332. 29 and wallsf s If 7l7, leaving .. balance on nai'1 614.S4.
 Ohio lodges are working to dsaa,e na1S members pay the special M asSsTs ssr Many have paid the entire nnlnDs. Z,
 Gate City lodge of Kansas Oles e.s,aSial sS the lodges that sent the eighs spss sessments at once.
 Young men are coming 10 Il pIac ranks of the order and taking el'e ft1 those who have for years pofn0 and burden of the day.
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BEHIND THE FINGER.
Lillian Bell Gets Her First Taste of Real
 Liberty In England.

Miss Lillian Bell, who is narrating her impressions of the old world and it's people for The Ladies Home Journal, writes from London in the November issue of that magazine: T have seen the houses of parliament and the Tower and Westmin- ster abbey and the Worlds fair, but the most impressive sight 1 ever beheld is the upraised hand of a London policeman. l never heard one of them speak except when spoken to. But let one little blue coated man raise his forefnger, and every vehicle on wheels stops, and stops instantly, stops in obedience to law and order, stops with out swearing or gesticulating or abuse stops with no underhanded trying to drive out of line and get by on the other side Just stops-that is the end of it. And why? Because the queen of England is behind that raised finger Why, a London police man has more power than our president. Even the queens coachmen obey that fore finger. Understanding how to obey-that is what makes liberty.
 :" am the most famboyant of Ameri. cans, the most hepelessly addicted to my own country, but l must admit that I had my first real taste of liberty in England. I will tell you why. In America nobody obeys anybody. We make our laws and then most industriously set about study- ing out plan by which we may eyade them. America is suffering, as all repub- lies must of necessity suffer, from liberty in the hands of the multitude The mui- titude are ignorant, and liberty in the hands of the ignorant is always license. ''
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CELERY AND ASPARAGUS.
How These Vegetables Were Considered by Ancfents and Their Present Standing.

How These Vegetables Were Considered by
 Ancfents and Their Present Standing.
 The feet of armies had gone for ages over the humble celery in Great Britain before it was lifted up to adorn with it's bleached stems the tables of the civilized world and to take 0 foremost rank among the lux uries which the vegetable world affords How it would amaze the men of old to see many of their weeds eaten, as Is scurYy grass, from the seacoasts of northern Eu- rope, when mixed with saladsl
 Asparagus, originally q wild seaceast plant of Great Britain and Russia, has come down through the ages with all the weight of Greek and Roman approval Plato ate it by tho plateful, and Aristoph- anes considered it 6 great aid to diges- tion. This culinary plant is closely related to the famous asphodel, which was sup. posed by the ancients to be the leading flower in the gardens of Elysium. Accord ing to the Roman superstition, the manes of tho dead fed on the roots of asphodel. So abundant is the wild asparagus on the steppes of Russia that cattle eat it like grass. Not native to America, 1t has here been raised to its greatest perfection as q table delicacy. It seen1s to be unquestion- ably stimulus to digestion and is prob ably one of the most wholesome adjuncts of a dinner.
 The seeds in some parts of southern Flu rope are dried and used as a substitute for coffee A wild variety in Spain and Por- tugal is considered the crown of a salad The amount raised in Staten Island and New Jersey for the New York market in- creases largely every year.--Calvin Dill Wilson in Lippincott's For November.
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TIE
 ,,-..o. ,,.,7.,, vsi a sea ies
 as t..e .,-.ssssa ecs>
 The r.olern - ',stls ss as ~i' '.s nendert for i. u esaass' n e9aa 1t superior .lvant,.e $ vii st 4 te e'' - 4,st i. if ,7il.st h4y ;. ia x f wator front, CT Ecu ,4t1i iisliNay f% eeivinr and eiztr.isa' -si.t er5er, or be the ', ,o+,l,.,, coc,.s of t t,i.ll ssai! ifen region All this will be changed in the great cleo trieal waterfall cities If tha future me ,,a,var as q rule, will be produced in the ,,orntains. while the cities will be scat tered far and wide oger the foothills There will be better air, more room, better 5roi,,aoe more civilized conditions of liv- inp than is the case with the present oFer= crowded industrial bochives, built' fer the most part, on the swampy del5as or la the valleys of great rivers.
 Under tic pressuree of dear coal and With tbe attraction of cheap water power, the foca of Europe will be changed. As in. dieated by Lord Kelvin, the highlands c. Scotland will become industriaIly more important to Great Britain than the com paratively fiat midlandsi switzerland, Nor way and Sweden, the Austrian 1yfol ana TransyIyania may become the industrial centers of Europe, owing to their superior ity in water power. For the rest, the course of manufactures will seek the sources of the great rivers or of rivers not great which haze a very rapid fall.
 Tn distant lands we find English engi- neers already making plans for saving the energy of the falls of the Nile, b miles be- low Cairo, and ft is well within the bounds of probability that the Milo cataracts will some day supply the power necessary for running trains of cars from Alexandria to Kbarttlm. Not only are there magnifi- cent falls on the Zambezi itself, in south central Africa but many of it's branches in the Shire highlands have rapid deseents in level. admirably suited for the develop ment of electricity by turbine wheels.
 We too often think of Hindustan as a great plain, forgetting that the Himalaya mountains the highest on the globe, gave birth to the Ganges, the Indus, the Brah. uaputra and the 0xus all of which, with their mountain tributaries, reach the plains after taking innumerable giant leaps down the mountain sides. It is nonsense to say that tho development of this water power is visionary The falls of the Zalnbezi are much more within the range of ciyiliza- tion today than ally part of Nentana fer example, ill the United States, was 30 years ago.-E II MullIn in Cassier 8 Magazine.
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WONAN'S WORLD.
A YouNs WOMAN IN THE FACULTY
 OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY

wornen's Clubs and sooieties-Wome1
 Who Dress In Pairs Agile Women In
 sweden-New Details In Gowns--Busi-
 ness Women Cooperate.
 Miss Mary Mclean of Oakland, Cal, who is one of the new assistant instruct sors in English literature at Stanford university, is not tho only woman i'll the faculty of that institution. Mrs. Mary Weldon Barnes, the historian, and Mrs Mary Williams have preceded her, but Miss Mclean has the distinc- tion of being the youngest woman i'll tho faculty of any western college. Her own alma mater, the University of California, has not yet seen fit to open its faculty door to women, but Stan ford, being younger, is less conservative
 Miss Mary Matilda Mclean is q young slady of interesting personality She is of Scotch stock and has always been noted for her serious temperament She is well endowed mentally, though not remarkable for robust physique She is quite ambitions aad decidedly earnest and thorough.
 Miss McLeans family were New Englanders when they ceased 10 be Scotch. and the sturdiness of the race
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ROYAL ARcANUM.
Keep Assessments Paid Up Pa
 Council Notes.

Council Notes. #
 The man who neglects to pay his1 ments and dues on or before the of every month is putting himself A| ger. Every minute of our existen3 battle of life against death. Every as take is beset by some danger, but s who will permit the protection he dS his family to be, even for one minaN paired is reckless and taking chalN should not take, says an exchanged kindred order an ex-collector of aa failed to pay his assessments and One day later he took his gun and hunting. An accidental discharge him instantly. He stood one day sui ed. The order mentioned refused | slider any claim for benefits, Non paid. A members duty is far from done by the payment of his dues al sessments. He must give acertain p of his time to the work upon wh based the perpetuity of the order-t increasing the membership.
 Organize. Let every regent call [ CT the members of his council, and ing them into committees and secs list of eligible persons make unitas to obtain their applications.
 Started in Boston In 1877 with bt members, the order has steadily gro almost 200, GOO, and has paid out time the grand total of over s4S, OOO
 Excluding Nebraska, which had sistance of the supreme council fun the personal work of Supreme Parish, little Missouri led all the jurisdictions of the Royal Arcanum pro rata increase in membership first six months of 1897, with Come which is always doing good, stea persistent work, next.
 There should be no reason for th not succeeding in California in tnf lishment of a grand council.
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Acile Women In Sweden.

An American who has just returned from a trip to Sweden says that the custom in the cool north country that impressed him most was the manner in which every one, young and old, leaps off of the street cars. There seems to be q general understanding that passengers will get on or off the car while it is in motion, and fall CT an accident of any kind seldom, if ever follows this origi- nal way of boarding or leaving a vehi- cle. 'The manner ia which the women jump aboard, swinging on with all the agility of m American conductor, is quite astonishing, says this observing tourist They do it as q matter of course, and do not appear to be at all proud of thei~ accomplishment. A car is rushing along at q good speed, and just ahead a pretty young Swedish wo- man is seen standing at the curb She makes no signals for stop As he comes opposite her tAe driver pulls up bit and she slides on as gracefully as if she were a freight brakeman on Q west ern railway.
 1.-The most astonishing thing about il is the artistic manner in which tho women alight at full speed In doing so they face ahead, holding on by the hand nearest the horses. throw the body backward when they jump, land lightly on their feet, take hop, a skip or two and there they are, safe and sound Really, they overtCrn one of the laws of natGre in performance of this feat
 eonap s nature at least. My rather x. sensiye observations in America have led ne to the conclusion that woman is SC constituted it is impossible for her to alight frem a moving street car any other way than the wrong way-that is to say by holding on with the hand which turns her face to the car and jumping or rather falling off backward. Ninety nine women out of 100 in Amer ica alight from a street car in such manner that if the vehicle were to start while they were in the act they would be thrown to the ground American women excel the women of all other
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She Helped Herself.

When the well known Stock Exchange broker Henry Knickerbocker died il New York few weeks ago, his widow, instead of giving all her time and at. tention to new styles of mourning and demonstrating with Providence, prompt ly set to work to establish herself at the head of her husbands business In less than week. time she had formed a new company, H. Knickerbocker & Go, the "Co. " representing a confden. tial clerk of the former office and mem. Der of the New York Stock Exchange
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHlAS
Rathbone Sisters a Benefit to the p
 Helmet Glints.

Helmet Giints. The Rathbone Sisters have taken prominent part in the progress anu op1nnt of Pythianism in the Iowa uoa ! They have been the power penln'') throne that has turned defeat into suy| indifference and apathy into en.husa determination. We find the record eNi1 to be that wherever we have q " Rathbone Sisters there we find nsJ terprising lodge of the order ol hlls1 '1l Pythias. Knights Sword and hei'lJ The first Pythian home in the Wo,'a v N recently instituted in Ohio. iU i' VI at Springfield. The grand lodge of Illinois appropa, s' $92, GOO for the expenses Of the heAs 2 lodge.
 There are SITS Knights of py'n' Nebraska in 155 lodges.
 The report of the grand ofncels ,Isc, r, souri show that there had been . '.s aS'' in membership during the year a'1s one lodge had been instltutvu +o, lodges have surrendered their emu ~
 The grand lodge of Nebrasha ssa ao Is B duced the initiation fee from sSV " <
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ODD FELLoW;
Rebekahs and the p,r
 ~ax Autlf Al

Rebekahs and the Paw,
 =. efits-varloas, ,-ss, Sa,.' si
 The request by tbi. N0'ss jurisdictions for permlssiSa ana n lodges to pay sick benefits fissl9a 's. ta ed by the sovereign erars 's Was Dominion Odd Fellow 'uu l0dsgs teresting to know what .s nj was used against giying o'' ssrong the right to pay benefits sut lai' are able to successfully mn eurs a branch of the order in san sl, So respect, they might be is,0st 0ste further mark of confdenaass d1as'ed fully provided Legislation ua
 The signs of Odd Fello,,., to discover friends, not to msI9 sll
 The expense of mainta A' Massachusetts Odd Fellan.,a year was $40 per week t3s m nuihoer a0 the home was 4Q
 No wonder the Rebekab l., They are continually holajus and enjoyable meetings, 'ug
 Ornamental Odd Fcllow.., fashion, is the creature of T fas Ia
 A Rebekah lodge cannot ls.3 photographs of it's staff takor Y and costumes used in confor.il gree for the individual use of its s,'
 The A. P. ". is given bv !, grand of a Rebekah lodge to I \ in the course of instruction nsi.l ing the constitution. e''s'
 A brother who is in possess,a.1 tificate and the A. T. P " ua g.. lodge within the jurisdjction Aa | his own lodge, he being without ', of the current term.
 Now is a good time for evorv member to begin the winters ",
 John Dessalct, secretary ot lodge of Philadelphia, has besn standing as an Odd Fellow for He is 89 years old.
 Subordinate lodges may postpo ation not later than the third res ing i'll the term. 2
 A lady member of a Rebekab is not an officer may wear q bad and green ribbon in lieu of a es
 At the recent session of the campment of New Hampshire | reports presented showed a total campnents in the jurisdiction. tal membership of 5000, 3 loss . bers for the year.
 The senior warden ranks ass cor in an encanpment. and iii take the principle elair when patriarch is absent.
 Service for 2 regular term makes that officer eligible to Il vice grand.
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A Prayer.

Teach me, Father, how to go Softly as the grasses grow. Hush my soul tc meet the shock Of the wild world as a rock. But my spirit, propped with power Make as simple as q flower Lel the dry heart hli It's cup Like a poppy looking up Let life lightly wear her crown. Like a poppy looking down. When its heart is filled with dew And Us life begins anew. Teach me Father. how to be Kind and patient as q tree. Joyfuliy the criclyets croon Under shady oak at noon. Beetle. on his mission bent, Tarries in that cooling tent. Let me also cheer q spot. Hidden field or garden grot. Place where passing souls can rest On the way and be their best .rles Edwin Markham in November Ecris 's.
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yyo,neu.s Clubs aud Societies,

IA work of great interest and yalud ls been undertaken by United States abor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright Ia consists in the compilation of a Iorough report upon the subject of omen s clubs and societies in the Unit States. He has made 8 public appeal the presidents of every organization forward him D full statement as to E purpose, programme and record of kh body, with q full statement as 10 e division and distribution of duties, 6 classiiieations and the functions and
 other details that may be of velue the matter
 lhis is a bold veatslss, as it involves fe,lossnous alN0s gt cf ccl--sal work
 ee the compilation Of the last census east 10, 900 women's clubs and SO
 ties have sprung into being in the
 ted States. No one knows the exact knber of their organization, but in pplete lists kept by those interested fhe movement show that more than
 clubs each have been formed upon
 following bases: Church work, reh extension, home mission work,
 ign mission work, the national 6eil, woman suffrage, motherhood, Restie economy, public schools. rag
 schools, technical schools, kim
 Bartens, fruit and flower missions.
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The woman suffragists are holding conventions in Iowa. and will continue to hold them until Oct. 15, when the workers will go to South Dakota. There are 92 counties in Iowa, and suffrage conventions, lasting two days, will be held in every county.
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The motto of the Michigan woman's $ Press association is, Let us as women learn to put down self and work for a cause Its flower is the field daisy, mathematical of many rays or individu- alities eonverging to one center.
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Of the l6 young women who received diplomas this summer from the Wom- an Medical college of New York city three are now members of the medical staff of the Infirmary For Women and Children.
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The Philadelphia Woman's Health Protective association has adopted badge composed of tiny silver broom pinned on two ends of scarlet and gray ribbon. the colors of the club.
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A Wellington (Australia) firm was fined S32 for failing to provide dining room for its women employees. As Dunedin merchant who employed 8 woman on Saturday afternoon was fined BIO.
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countries in beauty, grace, refinement and lots of other things, but they could learn valuable lessons in getting on and off street cars by going to Sweden. 7
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-08-30
MONEY! CHANCER8.
Bv w. W.. JACOBS.
Copyright. 1895. by Author.)

Il mean" said Harry. hastily. that
you've got sich Il generous nature that
when you've 'ad a glass or two you re
Just as likely as not to give 1t away 10
somebody"
Il know what I'm about said Mr..
Dodds. with conviction. I'm not goin'
to get on While I've got this about me.
I'm Just goin' round to the Bulls Head
but | shan't drink anything to speak Of
myself. Anybody that likes to come and
ave something at any expense is wei
come"
\ tiattering murmur which was music
to Mr.. Dodd's ears. arose from his ship
the boat alongside. The boy was first
kcrchief. ostentatiously wiped a seat
down for Mr. DoddS.
"Understand." said that gentleman,
with whom the affair Of the half-sov-
creign still ranked, your drink is shan
~dy-gaff."
They returned to the brig at II o'clock.
Mr.. Dodds slumbcring peacefully in the
stern Of the boat proppcd up on eth
CT side by Steve and the boy. His
sleep was 50 profound that he declined to
be aroused and was hoisted over the
side with infinite difficulty and no little
risk by his %shipmates.
Look at i'm said Harry as they
lowered him down the forecaStle. What
'ud ha' become of i'm if we hadn't beer
with i'm. Where would is money ha
heen!'
Hell lose it as sure as eggs is
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-08-30

somewhat hastily amongst the bedding.
MIR. Dodds. watching him with a scowl.
saw him axe every article separately
out Of his bunk and then sink down APP
pallcd OH the locker.
you've took it. Sam-ain't-you he
gaSpcd.
Look ere" said Mr.. Dodds with omi-
nous quictness, when you've done your
little game
ITS gone said Harry in a scared
voice, Somebody's taken it."
Look ere. AIRY, give i'm his
money" said steve. impatiently. "A
jokes i joke. but we don't want too
much of it,"
II amt got it." said Harry trcm-
bling. Sure rs | stand ere it's gone.
| took it out of Your pocket and put it
under my piller. You saw me, didn't
you. Stevc?'
Yes, and | old YOU not o." said
steve. Let this be Il warming to you
not to try and teach lessons to people
Wot DON want en-
I'm going to the police station to
give i'm III charge said Mr.. Dodds.
l~ierccly. THAT'S Wot Tam goin' 10 do
For the Lords sake don't do that.
sam" said pilchard, clutching him by
the coat.
AIRY amt maze away With it, sam
said Steve. Il saw somebody take 1t out
Of his bunk While lie was asleep
why didn't you stop him. cried Har-
ry. starting up.
Il didn't like to intorefcre," said Steve.
simply; but | saw where he went to-
"Where:' demanded Mr.. Dodds, wild
ly. "Where:"
He went straight up on deck said
Steve. slowly, walked aft. and then
down into the cabin. The skipper woke
up, and | heard i'm say something to
him"
Say something to 'im?" repeated the
bewildered Dodds. "Wot was it,
well, | ardly like to repeat it, said
Steve. hesitating.
"Wot was it?' roared the overweight
Mr.. Dodds.
well. | card this chap say some
thing said Steve. slowly, "and then
heard the shippers voice. But | don
like to repeat wot e said. / rely don't
"Wot was it, roared Mr.. Dodds, ap-
preaching him with clenched fists.
We'll if YOU will have it., said Steve.
with Il little cough. ''the old man said
to me. We'll done. Steve he SEES: you're
the only sensible man of the whole billing
lot. Sans 4 fool q sos. and AIRY
worse. an if it wasn't for men like you.
Steve. life wouldn't be worth living"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1898-08-30

DT"hlw'ol.N Null Rbntofii. etaoi taoinn
heg@s," said Steve. regarding him in
tently. Bear a hand to lift i'm in his
bunk. Harry"
Harry complied. their task being rem
dcrcd somewhat difficult by a slight r.
turn of consciousness in Mr.. Dodas
lower limbs. which. spreading them
selves out fanwisc. deied all attempts t.
pack them in the bunk.
Let 'em hang ont then" said Harry.
savagcIy. wiping a little mud from his
face. Clancy that coming in for y
fortin."
"'E won't ave it long" said the cook.
shaking his head.
Wet e wants is Il shock" said Harry.
OW'd it be Whcn e wakes up to tell
i'm he's lost all Is money!
w th" good O telling i'm" de
inandcd the cook, when 'e's got it III
his pocket.
wen, let take 1t out, sald IN
chard. I'll hide it under by piller. and
let I'M think he's al his pocket picked.
II won't ave nothing to do with it."
said Steve, peremptorily. Il don't be
lieve in sich games"
"NNot do YOU think. cook inquired
Harry.
Il don't see no arm in it." said tho
cook slowly. "the fright might do i'm
GOOD, p'raps."
1T might be the saving of i'm said
Harry. He leaned over the sleeping sea
man, and gently inserting his fingers III
his breast pocket, drew out the canva
bag. '"rhcrc it is. chaps he said
gayIv. 'an' III give i'm sich a fright in
the morning as he won't forget in a
'urry."
He retired TO his bunk md. placing
the BAG under his pillow. was soon fast
aslecp. The other men followed his OK
annie. and Steve eytinguiShing the
lamp. the forecaStlc surrendered itself
10 sIren.