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copper. 1t was never allowed in religious
rites, but In Chinese orchestras, and for
the accomplishments OF ballads, if such
songs as the Chinese sing may be classed
as ballads.
The Indian star is the most important
instrument of the guitar class to be found
in that country. 1t has been known ever
since the thirteenth century, experts tell
us, and the invention Of it is credited to
one Amir Khusru. The name is derived
from two Persian words, ''seh," meaning
three, and tar" meaning strings. Al
though the star had but three strings, in its
ordinary form, it has been found with
five, and sometimes even seven strings.
The samisen belongs to Japan. II is
probably the most popular instrument of that
country, and it is unfortunate that the
origin of the instrument Is hidden in
obscurity.
The Persian Ell oud, already mentioned,
was to the lutte what the schtarek is to the
guitar, and both OF these compare closely
with the kuitra of the Arabs and Moors.
The important Turkish instrument of the
class under discussion is the fellahee, with
five strings.
or modern examples the Spanish guitar Ia
the guitar rar excellence. In the Gate of
Glory OF Master Mateo, to the church of
sdntiaSo ia 'omposlelId In spain, there is
one guitar-shaped instrument assumed to
represent the original vihuela, Spanish VOL
or guitar. This information is given by Sir
John Grove, and now it has fallen to the lot
OF an American inventor to bring out an
instrument which is said to be of the nature
of a cello-guitar, or guitar-ecllo.
When the Spanish guitar was introduced
into England it completely banished the
English guitar, or citra German zither.)
| 1t became SO popular there about the
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Remembered one rhine.

In the course Of tedious trial, in
volving the possession stock of goous,
a man who had formerly been en-
ployed as a travelling salesman was
testifying.
do you mean to say, sir," asked the
attorney for the plaintiff, that you
can't remember what you carried in
your valise on the trip in question:
81 didn't say couldn't remember"
replied the witness. 81 said that at
this late day 1t was impossible for lie
to recollect everything carried on that
particular trip"
Don't evade the question, sirr' ..hun-
dered the attorney. ''-- want to know
what was in that valise!'
Samples
Samples of what? Mention some
particular thing"
"Well," said the witness. after re-
fecting moment, 81 remember had
q sample of rather inferior hair-dye,
about the sort, l judge, that you have
on your whiskers, sir''
"You may stand aside!" gruf1ly said
tie lawyer, after the noise in the court
room had subsided.-Yo Compan-
ion,
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Dis Double De1ni.e

"Wull, wull" CALCULATED McLubber-
ty, in the midst of his perusal of a
newspaper which he had carelessly
picked up. ''Bedad, poor Duffy is dead
again! An ut sames to hov happened
in dhe same way as ut did prayviously
he has been blown up by a prema-
toor blast. Oi shud hov fought that
vance wud hov been enough to satisfy
him, but thin he always was wan av
thin fellers thot niver know dheir own
moinds."
"Phwot are yez talkine abouty' asked
Mrs. McLubberty, In some surprise.
duffy dead again? Is ut crazy We
areY'
''No; OF do be r'adin' ut roight here in
dhe papy, an"
Lave me look at thot dockymint!
Whoy, yez blunderhead, dhis is two
year-owld papyo thot OF laid out to
spread on dhe shilf!'
''Is thot so? Wull, ut relaves me
moind. Oh was sorry to t'ink av such
bad luck happenin' to poor Duffy
Uarper's BaZar.
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s ss'ss.s Siss the way, walk ye in it, that
s'Yes grOW uncertain. Men are tempted
tspssask whether all the effort and strug
sslsaa self denial involved in the un-
seaTied seeking of the good, and that
seem lead nowhere and to nothing.
4 are after all better than the life which
sseeksels and pleasure. The eye wan
Sders At lights on Christ, and then our
question lis answered. His life instant
makes apparent the world of differ
sence between the selfish and the unself-
3isfl, the afmless and the purposeful the
low and the lofty. To see him is to see
hesdeep kmeaning Of life, and to find
the Justifca ton of our loftiest aspira-
TONS; our utmost striyings and hopes.
He fuldlls the ideal of human life The
lpftiests conceptions of life which the
mind cant fashion are all realized. What
vas the secret of that life? What was
the guiding prinaiple Of it, and what the
IN to which it was conformed? The
saIlswe is found in the words in which,
speaking of his Father, Jesus said,
Or do always the things that are
spleasingto Him" Pleasing God-that
y the ideal life.-Baptist Union.
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l lg|jRRl!l|li|E||} 3! 81 |kIllE!Z5

Extensive deposits Of bauxite, one of
the main sources of commercial alum
inium, have been discovered in New
South Wales by the department of
mines.
A toboggan slide in st. Moritz,
Switzerland. extends three-quarters of
a mile, and is said to be the longest in
the world. The descent has been made
in seventy-one seconds.
An organized effort is being made to
stamp out consumption in Germany by
scientific methods of treatment. AL
ready twenty sanatoria for patients
have been opened and others are to be
provided.
In the past five months fifty new cot
ton mills have been built or projected
In the Southern States involving an out
lay of $11,500,0O0, and thirty-nine old
mills are making improvements at a
cost Of $5,60Ooo0.
There are not far from 100000
4-ussulmans under British power,
making Great Britain the greatest Mo-
hammedan power on earth. About
SO,OO0,0OO Of these are in India and the
bulk of the rest are in Africa.
Eighty-rour per cent. of the entire
State of Idaho is still public land,
amounting to more than 100000
acres. OF this area it has been esti-
mated by the government geological
survey mat 100000 acres can be irri-
gated successfully.
A German officer has invented a lamp
for usein war time, which can be car
ried in q soldiers knapsack without
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STRUCK DEAD BY LIGHTNING
Bnrns and Marks on the Body of a Man
Killed by n Flash.

Bnrns and Marks on the Body of a Man
Killed by n Flash.
Two brothers, aged respectively Is
and % years, were driving together
near Chester in a dog cart during a
thunder storm. They We're apparently
struck by lightning and seem to have
fallen simultaneously out of the back
of the vehicle. for they We're found
about five minutes after the flash lying
side by side with the seat of the dog
cart under their legs and the driving
apron over them. I arrived from ten
to fifteen minutes afterward and found
them both dead; the bodies were lying
in the road in the same position as they
were found. The elder brother had 10
external sign of injury. The younger
brother presented the following ap-
pearance: The epidermis was burned
over the chest and abdomen, not con-
tinuously, but in number of circular
holes from one-sixteenth of an inch to
quarter of an inch IN diameter The
metallic collar stud was fused and the
skin beneath was deeply burned. The
back from the neck to the buttocks was
burned but less severely than in front
The vest and shirt We're charred, bu
the waistcoat and coat were uniniured
The woolen drawers and trousers had
hole burned in them about two inches
in diameter corresponding to burn on
the right buttock. On the occiput there
was confused scalp wound evidently
due to the fall from the vehicle There
were no other injuries, nor were any
of the clothes torn off either of the
bodies.
There was still no riger mortis an
hour and half after death. His
watch was going and seems not to
have been magnetzed, as it has kept
good time since. The cloth of the cush-
ion on which the younger brother sat
was burned on its outer surface, but
the wooden seat beneath was uniniur-
ed. The tailboard of the dog cart has
the paint slightly singed Immediately
behind the younger brothers seat, 9th
erwise the vehicle bears no traces of
the lightning. 1t was very wet from
the rain. No one else was in the cart
besides the two brothers. The horse
was uninjured and trotted home of its
own accord. The road also bore no
traces of the lightning.-Lancet.
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stand or kneel on the bare f1oor.--New
York Press.
From Many Fields

81 From Many Fields
A meeting was recently held in New
York City to decide the question of
holding a conference of religion in the
State. An executive committee com.
posed OF prominent ministers was ap.
pointed to arrange for such conference.
The committee is composed of minis.
ters representing the Baptist, Congre.
gational, EpiscopRian, Hebrew, Meth.
odist, Presbyterian, Reformed Unitari-
an and Universalist denominations.
Of the $5,11O,0O0 desired by the Wes-
leTan Church of England as 'twenti-
eth century fund.- $3,475,2S9 has al
ready been subscribed. 1t has been de-
cided to use S1,O00,0OO of the fund for
building Wesleyan hall in London
capable Of seating 5000 persons. A
suggestion has been made that col
lege at Oxford, on the lines of Mans
field College. to be named Wesley Col
lege, would be a most appropriate mon
ument to the distinguished son Of OK
ford who gave the church his name.
The Irish mission to the Jews, now in
its second year, devotes its energies
propagating the gospel among the
5000 Jews in Ireland 1t has stations
in Belfast, Dublin and Cork, and makes
missionary visits to Limerick, Water
ford, Armagh, Derry and other centers
where Jews are found. 1t distributed
Lass year 700 New Testaments, besides
mdny tracts.
The late James A Spurgeon, D. D.,
LII. D., is said to have been the richest
nonconformist minister in England.
His property has recently been apprais-
ed at $780, acquired largely by good
investments and careful management.
1t is proposed to open a ''house Of
rest" on Grand Canary Island, where
the climate is most invigorating, for
the use Of missionaries who go to
Africa.
In the little village of Portbury, Eng
land, the only nonconformist place of
worship is disused railway carriage,
where the Wesleyan Society meets,
and where Sunday school is taught.
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The Oldest Wooden Church.

The oldest wooden church in the
Worldswas erected at Borgund, Norway,
more than 100 years ago, When Chris
tianity was first introduced in that
neighborhood. 1t is still as sound as
5eyer,Sbut is used by the congregation
only during the warm months of the
year. AS the ancient edifice is not sup
piled with heating apparatus or glass
protected windows, the people refuse
to patronize it in winter.
s The church is always stepped in mys-
tic gloom, for there are no windows,
only q series of small, round holes cut
into the upper side walls where they
Join the roof. There are no window
frames nor shutters, and the holes in
The walls are never closed, summer or
winter. The altar and the pulpit are
of the simplest description, unadorned
By paint or picture. There is bench
as the side Of the altar for the burgo-
master and the alderman of Borgund;
SthN rest of the congregation has to
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The LargerPrayer.
first / nrared for Light


first I prayed for Light,
Could l but see the way,
NJ How gladly, swiftly, would walk
ss;s 70 everlasting day!
And next prayed for Strength,
Ehat might tread the road
sssssNS 18th firm, unfaltering feet, and win
he heavens serene abode.
81. And then asked for Faith.
Gould but trust my God,
xssI 81 live EMBODIED in His peace,
Though foes were all abroad.
But now pray for Love,
Deep love to God and man;
liying love that will not fail,
ssF1oweyer dark His plan.
And Light and Strength and Faith
Are opening everywhere!
ssSSs 4pd only waited for me till
~ prayed the larger prayer.
Edna Dean Cheney.
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ms Ct N DAY SERMONS
a ssUBJEcTs FOR ALL TO
salg'' PONDER OVER.
y ssvfcrds & of Wisdom, and Thought.
|SlsA PA rendering Upon spiritua,
IIs Moral subjects-Gathered from
eligious and Secular Press.

HERE is no prob
lem that can ex-
ceed in practical
j m p r t ance the
problem Of right
living. What is
the true plan of
life. the divine life
of men? Where
shall we find the,
"life which is life
indeed3 T b e re
are somanywould-
be teachers and
guides that say,
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The Uniyersa1 Fai1inr,

''What do you mean by saying he is
stuck OF himself" asked the irritat-
ingly precise boarder.
II mean," said the cheerful idiot,
"that he is one of his own firmest ad-
herents. s."-Indianapolis Journal.
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A Long Wait.

Maid-You got home, early, Mr..
Binks. Shall l call Mrs. Binks?
Mr.. Binks (who loves joke)-Don't
tell her am here. Just say a gentle
man wishes to see her in the parlor.
Pm afraid you'd get tired"
'Tired?"
eyes, sir. She'd spend about two
hours making herself look pretty
New York Weekly.
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Goreeous Check Ron,-s

A New York bank where most of the
fashionable ladies keep their accounts
issues most gorgeous checllbooks to its
depositors. On the cover is the owners
monogram, While the checks are printed
in gold, from exquisitely engraved
plates.
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An Examination.

He-I wonder why it is that mems
pockets are so easy to get at, while
women's are so difficult?
She-Oh, that's easily explained. A
man has no business with wo1nan's
pocket, but a woman has with Il mans.
Chicago News.
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His Opinion.

s'Don't you think man should look
up to higher thoughts?' asked the
slightly mystical person.
cts no use," answered Senator Sor-
ghum impatiently. You can't do it,"
Cant do what?'
"Hire thoughts. s."-Washington Star.
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Enough to ton 1t.

Customer could not make the
watch go to save my life. Did you
have to do much to it?
Jeweler-Oh, no; we took that pic
ture of your wife out of the case, that
was all.-Answers.
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'1s that woman crazy? What is she
rushing back and forth that way for?"
There are two elevators in this
shaft, and she can't make up her mind
which one she wants to ke."-Chica-
go Record.
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\ Misc Man.

''He seems to me an unnatural father.
He never goes near the baby"
That's only because he is afraid he
might learn how to take care of it,
Brooklyn Life.
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The Irony of the Fate Lines.
Palmist-Your life has been one long,
splendid romance!-Moonshin
Made Her So Wild,

Made Her So Wild.
Wife reading paper)-Fancy! Some
where in America an eagle carried
away baby!
The brute-Oh, that's nothing, my
dear! Why, down at our wharf I've
often seen crane carry a ton.-Ally
Sloper.
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"Is that new novel up to date?"
"No. The heroine plays Schuberts
'Serenade'-not word about rag time
in the whole book. Chicago Record.
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Burglar Bill-Ye're a dern fool ter
swipe de bloke's watch. Dey're de
easiest t'ings in de word to identerfy.
Wot did yer do it fer?
Footpad Phil-Oh, jest ter gain time.
New York Journal.
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Educational Trials.

"My graduation essay will be just
dreadful
why do you think so, Ethel?"
well, Aunt Jane wanted to help me.
SO l am letting her write it while ma
and worry about my n."-Detroit
Free Press.
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OUR BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SAYINGS AND DO.
iNGS HERE AND THERE.
Joskes ami Jokelets that Are Supposed
60 Have Been Recently Born-SayinSs
and Doinss that Are Old, Curious and
Lauxhable-The Weeks Humor.

Hardacre-Wall, Maria, these city
folks do things outrageously.
Mrs. Hardacre-What is it now, Hi?
Mr.. Hardacre-Wal, jest look what's
painted on that pail up thar: use for
fire only Now who in all creation
could build q fire in pail?
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sSs sConquerins Ourselves and Others.
Life In its relation to others is very
much what we choose to make of it. II
we choose to seek offense in their acts,
S we shall find plenty. Isaac could have
got up a quarrel with Abimelech and
the Gierarites which would have embit-
tered his whole life and passed down as
vendetta to his posterity. But he
knew that lit takes two to make
quarrel" and he resolved not to be one
of the two. Once and again he yields
tile point, and fairly wears them out by
his courtesy. And with what result?
\ Did they think him a poltroon, whom
they could trample over? At the last
they come meekly and ask to enter into
Scovenalt with him, declaring they new
erElneant him a bit of harm, OF did it
either He was manifestly the con-
Squeror through his patience and his
courtesy. ii: which they began to see
ssomsthing divine, and they hurried to
make terms with him. His quietness
under wrong doing was too much for
their clustering quarrelsomeness, as it
always will be if q man has the hero
fsmgfor it. The greatest of conquests
was that by the one who gave his cheek
! to the smiter.-S. S. Times.
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Women In politics are about as
graceful as hens in swimming.
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His True Friend.

Clerk-1 am only waiting for you to
raise my salary, sir, to get married.
Employer-Tnen don't expect it. 1
think too much Of you.-Detroii Free
Press.
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Er1eralds VS.

Eneralds VS.. shamrocks.
"How many runs did your club make,
Larry?''
'Thrae, sor.'
"Three runs, eh?"
''Yis, sor. A run for th' umpire, run
for tn doctor an a run to tn police sta.
tion.'
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Not a PARTY,

Ada-Wasn't there some talk of
Maude marrying a duke?
Dolly-Yes, but you see the duke
didn't say anything about it.-Philadel-
phia North American.
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Like Unto It.
81 hear that Bill Plumbers has chang
ed his name"
Eyes; since he began to get so big and
heavy the folks call him Plumbers
Bill
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A Gloomy Future

"What do you think Dorothy-Mar-
jorie Jones has quit golf and gone back
to tennis"
''The idea! That girl will be caught
playing croquet yet."-Chicago Record.
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*aved.
anybody notice it.?

Nell-It was awful. felt my skirt
giving away
Dolly-Did anybody notice it?
Nell-No; fortunately it was on the
beach during bathing hour.-Philadel-
phia North American.
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Anything new in that play Of Ma
zeppa?"
"Yes; they tied the man on an auto
mobile, wound it up and let it go."-
Chicago Record.
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A strikine Resemb1once

n StrIkt1iN ENeSe III DIAncN.
IF you will stand a little closer to
your wife's portrait, my dear sir, I
think you will appreciate it's striking
effect much more forcibly."
THAT'S certainly my wife.''-Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
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His Mife,s rnnrue.

Mr.. Peck-I had a funny dream last
night. was in South Africa, and dia-
monds were lying all around me in
heaps.
Mrs. Peck-Did you seem to see any
as small as the one in the enga cement
ring you gave me?-Answers.
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Rejected.

"What are you signing for?" asked
the Registry Department of the Dead
Letter Office.
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Bankers boy-Dey say dat Billy
turned on de fire alarm in his office.
Was der any fire there?
Brokers' boy-Not till de boss come
in
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Elevated,

Larry-Oi sac in tn paper thot thor's
a big building going to be put up thot
will cover whole block.
Denny-That's nuttin. Me ould mons
house in th' ouI countrae covered four
blocks.
Larry-Oi hate to call a mon a liar,
but
Denny-Ofll not give We tn chance.
Thor wuz block under ache ind av tn
house to kape it off th' wit ground.
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Cubic Choice,

Qnr choice in life must be cubic
gDhoice It must have three dimensions.
First it5must be very high-as high as
lean reach my life. Next, it must be
very Broad, covering all the powers of
nay mind. voice, hands, feet. And
then must be very long-run out sew
senty years, if that be the sum of my
day. on earth. cannot afford to swap
horses In the middle Of the stream. 1
cannot afford to change my choice at
30 Ors40. We are to make our choice
the highest the broadest, and the long
est possible. This is to be our aim, that
the slife of Christ in us shall be and do
what the life of Christ was and did in
himself. We are so to live that our
life shall repeat the life of Jesus Of Naz-
areth "A Alexander Mckenzie, D. D.
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The worst that can be said of little
vices is that they won't stay little.
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When Hosti1itiea Re.in.

Visitor in Olympia-Let me see. You
are the goddess of love and marriage,
l believe?
venus--Only of love. Mars looks
after the marriages. He is the god Of
war, you know.-New York Journal.
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Wished ome of It.

Customer-How'd do? Have you any
tile to spare this morning?
Tradesman-Certainly, plenty of it.
Customer-Glad to hear it. I'd like
to have thirty days more on that little
bill owe you.-Richmond Dispatch.
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Her View of It.

Her View of It.
Mrs. O'Doo-There are your TWO
boys fighting again
Mrs. O'Dunn-Well. let 'em fight; il
they weren't doing that hey'd be plan
ming some other kind Of deyiltry.-
Cleveland Leader.
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mo one has so mapy rejected ad-
dresses as L. was the sorrowful reply.
-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
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without Mercy.

Without Mercy.
WAS Mr.. Podger really cruel to his
wife?'
Cruel? Why, he treated her all the
time as if she We're his partner at
whist"
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A Friendly Nci-hbor.
"Good-morning! am here to tun

"Good-morning! am here to tune
your piano."
My piano! L did not order a piano
tuner
''No, but the gentleman across the
way ."-Nliegende Blaetter.
Waterworks Repartee.
"See here! We got centipede in our
hydrant water!"
''Well, you are only private cosum-
er; did you think you were entitled to
tarantuhs?'