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Rays by Joseph J. Thomson. and Rem
iniscences of George Eliot" by Frederic
Harrison, are other features of this num-
Der. Decidedly the finest Of the fiction
is The Case of Thomas Phipps.'' de-
licious bit of satire by Thomas Bailey
Aldrich. THE Surrender Of Sister Phiio-
memo by Elizabeth Jordan, is perhaps as
good in its way. Two Converts by
Onoto Watanna, and In the Mixing of
the Waters by Chester Bailey Fernald,
are other interesting bits of romance.
The leading article in the September
number of the Forum is THE Com
mercial Position of the British Empire"
by Benjamin Taylor. England. Portu-
gal, and the South African Republics is
the title of an essay by Lieut.. Gen. Den
Beer Poortugael THE Ideal School as
Based on Child Study is a paper-by G.
Stanley Hall, of Clark University. Eng
lish Neglect of Old Indian Poetry" by
Karl Blind, is an interesting paper on a
somewhat important subject. Other fea-
lures of this number are "A Model Fac
tory Town" by Leonora Beck Ellis: Can
Cubans Govern Cuba" by Edmond
Wood, THE Utilization of Waste" by
Peter T. Austen; The German Tariff
Proposals" by Jacob Schoenhof and
The Southern Problem" by George A.
Thacher.
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| Hypatia. more lovable than Pelagia. Sh
is the true type of feminine intellectual
! lity, yet one does not think of her as
! learned woman Though she is one). bu
| as a personality. unique. delicate, capt.
waiting. In the conversation in which
Julian makes the speech above quoted
Arsinoe shows her intuitive perception o.
the true nature of faith.
Did not the sages of Hellas come
near, in their teaching, to the mes
sage of the Galilean? Those who in
the desert martyriSe soul and body
are far from the humble Sen of Mary.
He used to love children, freedom,
cheerfulness, and the fair white lilies
of the field. He loved beauty, Julian.
We have wandered from him and be
come entangled and embittered. All
call you the Apostate. But it is they
who are the apostates.
The Emperor knelt down before
Arslnoe and raised upon her eyes full
of prayer; tears coursed slowly down
his lean cheeks.
1t must not be- he murmured. DO
not speak. Let be what has been. Do
not again become mine enemy
No. no. / must say it all to you'
exclaimed Arsinoe. Listen, l know
that you love him, 1t is so, and that
is the fatality upon you. Against
whom have you revolted? What kind
of an enemy are you for him? When
your lips are cursing the Crucified
your heart is aspiring after him.
When you are struggling against his
name you are closer TO him, closer to
his spirit, than those who repeat with
their lips, Lord, Lordi And 1t is
they who are your enemies and not
he. All, why do you torture yourself
more than the Galilean monks?'"
This chapter is the crisis of the book.
1t is marvellous in its dramatic power and
philosophical insight, but the book must
be read as a whole in order to be appre-
ciated at its full worth The philosophy
comes in flashes, as it does in life; not in
long paragraphs of explanation. The spir-
it of an intensely thoughtful, yet intense
ly materialistic age. its vivid contrasts,
its glory. and its degradation are brought
out in every chapter. 1t was a time when
logical subtleties were made matters of
life and death, when some men worshipped
abstract ideas and other men worshipped
the signs of gross material prosperity;
1t was an age of horrible punishments
and of reckless disregard of consequences;
of degraded vice and scarcely less de-
graded saintship. The Roman bathed
luxuriously and for the mere pleasure of
sensuous feeling: the hermit did not battle
at all. Roman and Christian alike were
venal, ambitious, cruel. semi-barbaric
The ideals OF orderly righteous conduct as
distinct from fanatic superstition did not
exist. Nobody can read Merejkowski's g
book without becoming convinced that
these ideals are civic as we'll as religious,
and that secular forces have had much to
do with the Christianity of the modern
church II is book which will break up
some pretty little ideal pictures of early
Christianity, much as Darwinism upset
the hypothesis that the animals in Eden
were all vegetarians; but in the long run
it is likely to take rank among the great
est novels which deal with ancient his
tory. CNew York: G. P. Putnams Sons.
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The Fallen Leaf.

A leaf has fallenl Well, who cares7
The branch on which it grew
May feel the little loss it bears
And mourn a day or two;
But shall the busy world forget
To hurry on its way
Because a leaf lies on the sod?
Another, by the grace of God.
Win deck the branch some day.
A hearse is passing. and l hear
Some mourneris bitter cry;
But men forget ere yet the tear
Upon her cheek is dryl
The busy world goes rushing in
The old, old-fashioned way
No matter what his work or where,
Some other man has risen there
And fills his place today.
Chicago Record-Herald.
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All too sacred for mortal eye,
ENyOI.
Tending the Light.

With nothing but waves to seaward
And the grim rocks toward the land,
The roll OF the black clouds over,
And the breakers on every hand;
The night comes down on the ocean
And climb the winding stair
To see that our lights are piercing
The thick ming, foggy air.
Far up at the mouth OF the river
Beyond the narrow beach
The last of the home lights twinkle
And sink away from our reach.
Alone on rock in the desert
OF tumbling and tossing tide;
The nations outer signal
To wanderers far and wide.
Alone and We wonder dimly
If the foghorn reaches the shore
Or pierces the outer stretches
That tumble and toss evermore.
Perchance in the little village
Some fsherwife wakes in the night
And peers from her smoky window
To see il we're shining bright,
Or out on the tossing billows
A helmsman watches our light,
thousand souls in his keeping
As they rush through the painless night.
Alone rock in the desert
And hungry for those on shore,
The screams Of the gulls and breakers
Around us forevermore.
j. Otis Swift in the Lewiston Evening Joul
al
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The Song of Life.

One must sing OF the sunshine;
One must sing of the rain;
One must sing us the songs OF Joy;
And one sing woes refrain:
Yet in the end all the songs will blend
In one harmonious strain.
One must sing OF the future,
With hopes and fearings rife;
One must sing of the misty past
Its dreaming and its strife
Yet they will meet in a chord full sweet
The marvellous song OF life.
One must sing OF the mountains;
One must sing Of the sea;
One must sing us the song OF love:
And one in hates shrill key;
Yet all will rise TO the blending skies
In one grand harmony.
Love and hate and compassion,
Sorrow and right and wrong.
Past and future and war and peace
Rise in an anthem strong.
And all will grow, as they ebb and flow,
To life's unceasing song.
josh Wink in the Baltimore American.
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The shores of silence.

Through the dark grim gateway Of Silence
There comes not echo of sound,
And the land of the hidden hereafter
To men is an untrodden ground;
But why do | strain sight and hearing
TO catch but fragment so smallG
Oh why should | wait for the swing of the gate
Or hope for the future at all2
"Ah sweet in the moment Of slumber
The glimpse Of happier land.
And bright is the light and the glory
That falls the wide golden strand
For sometimes l see the light simmer.
In ftful but glorifed gleams
On the sea and the shore OF a glad evermore-
The fanciful Island OF Dreams"
Hector Fuller in the Indianapolis Press.
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when Fancy Goe. to Sea.

The toll of towns is left behind
Their restless energy;
All fetters lose their wonted sway
When Fancy goes to sea-
The freedom of the unbound slave.
Untasted liberty,
Is mine in those sweet intervals
When Fancy goes to sea.
l hear the wild birds haunting note,
Its unclaimed minstrelsy;
The murmurs of the deep are mine
When Fancy goes to sea.
The fragrance of the far-off isles
ls waited here to me,
And lulls me into slumbering
When Fancy goes to- sea.
Clara Louise Heald in the Boston Transcript
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Mold and Vase.
Greek Pottery of Arezzo.

Greek Pottery OF ArezZo.
Here in the jealous hollow of the mold,
faint light eluding tempted in the breast
OF some rose-vaulted lotus. see the best
The artist had-the vision that unrolled
its flying sequence till completion's hold
Caught the wild round and bade the dancers
rest
The mortal lip the immortal pressed
One instant ere the blindness and the cold.
The captives of fulfllment link their round,
Foot t-heavy on the inelastic ground,
How different yet how enviously the same.
Dishonorng the knship that they claim,
As here the written word the inner sound.
Edith Wharton in the Atlantic.
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Sunset From Harvard bridge.

What splendor fires the portal of the west
As down the burning way Days worn hosts file
And pass beneath the crimson peristyle
Which rises from the blue horizons crest;
The glittering pillars areith rose-shelds dressed
And mirrored in the Charles is each grand pile
What rarer beauty has the limpid Nile,
Though Egypt's glowing tints it pressed?-
Again is turned the vast Kaleidoscope:
Each change reveals a fresh and sweet surprise,
Until upon a cloud-banks FURNISHED slope
The glory of the Day in silence dies;
And Twilights giant fingers slowly grope
To close the ieweled lattice of the skies
Dexter Smith.
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CURRENT VERSE
The saplip..

When was but a sprig OF May.
With wonders to command,
Above all else loved most we'll
What could understand:
And dear were things far off, far on but noth-
ing near ut hand
o, now Il was the sunset isle,
Beyond the weather-vane;
And now it was the chime I heard
From belfrey-towers OF Spain
But never yet the little leaf that tapped my
window pane.
Heigh-ho. the wistful things unseen
That reach, as / did then,
To guess and wear the heart Of youth
With eager Why and When,
And never eye takes heed Of them, in all the
world of men.
-Jnsephine Preston Peabody in Harper's Maga-
zine
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The CAPTIVE.

Wide Is the world and wide the open seas,
Yet | who fare from pole to pole remain
prisoned hunger. pacing ill at ease
Earth's cage, torn hope tugging at its chain.
Time was when too madly did aspire
And stormed His bars in some old burst OF rage;
But. 10, my Keeper, with his brands of fire.
Hath eowed me quite, and bade me love his
John Arbuthpott In Ainslee's
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BaIlade of old Love Letters.

Deep in cedar chest they lie,
Far removed from the light of day,
The ink on their pages long since dry,
The soul OF their longing fed away.
Lines that vary from grave to gay,
And yearnines tinged with the hearts desire,
And words that promise and plead and pray
These are the strings Of Loves sad Tyre.
Many year has passed them by,
Many a month from March to May,
The SHOWS have gathered on hillocks high
And birds have sung in the orchards gay,
Minstrels caroled their roundelay.
And nights grown black o'er the sunsets pyre;
Yet such these have survived decay
These are the strings of Loves sad Tyre.
All too sacred for mortal eye,
Let them dream in the silence grey,
For love remains though the lovers die,
Slow passing out from their homes of clay;
These shall last while the waters play,
And on till the steadfast winds may tire.
For this is the music living aye
These are the strings of Loves sad Tyre.
ENyoI
Prince, whom the lords of earth obey,
Death. although thou are dark and dire,
Here is that which disputes thy sway
These the things of Loves sad lyrel
Ernest McGafey in the Pail Mall Magazine.
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Has postmaster the right to open and look
through second-ciass packages, mailed from his
office? 2 Do the laws authorize the postmaster
to open and look through unsealed packages
that have a description Of the contents written
on the outside Of the wrapper? G. NJ. 8.
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Has Has Minnesota State building at the Pam
American Exposition? EDWARD r..
Yes; IL Is located at the eastern end cf
tne court OF States, Is built Of stafr. and
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yet he is not absolutely forbidden to do so
if he likes, so long as it does not hurt
him. Nothing is less to the interests of
army authorities than the encouragement
of drunkenness among the soldiers; and
ii is evident from the framing of these
canteen regulations that they have given
considerable thought to the matter, and
to the prevention of drinking so far as
possible.
Mr.. Dexter then goes on to quote letters
from various people who have reason to
know the ins and outs of the question
the governors of Soldiers Homes, army
officers. surgeons, and chaplains, and
civilians who have had to do with drunk
en- soldiers since the abolition of the can
teen His arguments are the more i'm
pressive because he makes it evident that
he is personally a strong temperance man,
and fully aware of the evils of intemper-
ance. In short, as he says, he claims
that il is the Christians duty to stand
for reducing the power of evil, not for in
creasing that power" So long as the sa-
loon within reach of the barracks cannot,
under present laws, be closed, and since
IL is both impossible and ridiculous to
forbid the soldier to enter them, he coun-
sells the canteen as the measure most like
ly 10 IaNor total absllnence anu temper
ance, and general good order. He gives
several instances of disorder and whole
sale drunkenness among the soldiers of a
post, clearly caused by the abolition of
the canteen, and quotes the testimony of
post surgeon to the effect that the only
alternative of the canteen, the occasional
spree at the saloon. is demoralizing to
the soldiers in several different ways. In
short, there is more valuable informa-
ton and good sound sense packed into
this little book than can be found else
where at present by students of this par
ticular question. Chicago: The Henne-
berry Company. 80 cents)
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Literary Notes.

The September Smart Set" contains
this satirical fable:
once there were some very swagger people in
an ultra village not far from the metropolis who
decided that no society yet bunchcd together was
exclusive enough for them. Even the Colonial
DANES failed to meet the requirements. So they
determined to start new aggregation that
should be the real thing
=. After considerable thought they concluded that
II they limited membership to direct descendants
OF Fernando de Soto 1t would be sufficiently ex-
elusive for their astidious tastes. "a Society of
the Sons and Daughters of de Soto was the out
come All the best people in the village proved
that they were eligible and were enrolled as char
ter members
However, there was on the outer
fringe whose proof OF descent was not accepted;
IN short he was blackballed This made him
angry, and he started to investigate the subject
One day he published his findings in the local
newspaper. The principal fact was this: .'F. de
Soto was bachelor
The Sons and Daughters of de Soto are now
known as the Elite Euchre Club.
Noral-There's whole lot in a name.
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discog' N. H
1 learn to succor the distressed.
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What was the vote east for Governor Savers
in Texas last election. 9. How does Texas compare
in size to Massachusetts7 T.
1t was 2s3s59. 2 AS little over n to
I, in area: as .os5 to Loo in population.
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and? a
1t Is lonely islet some 1900 miles west
of the Hawaiian Islands and ON a line
drawn through that group and the La
drones. II is of but a few acres In extent,
but has harbor. and might be very
useful as a Pacific cable station
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Two MoralistS.

Pitfalls of the Ballroem," by George F.
Hall, author of Tabernacle Talks" is a
book intended to impress upon the public
the soul-destroying effect of dancing The
title is rather a misnomer, for according
to Mr.. Hall ballroom is not only a place
containing pitfalls, but one big pitfall in
itself He makes the startling statement
that two-thirds of the girls who attend
dancing schools are ruined before the year
is out. He also states that men who seek
wives do not seek them among dancers.
This announcement will probably come
something of a surprise 10 the general
public. Other startling information is
that there is generally a barroom con-
nected with the dancing school and that
church members who dance are in the
habit of going to prayer meeting, staying
a few minutes, and then finishing the
evening at a dance house" But the
most amazing discovery which this gen
tleman has made in his zeal for the pro-
motion of morality is that Mr.. Edward
w. Box is a dangerous man with an i'm
moral influence. the grounds for this
statement being that in recent book of
advice to young men Mr.. Box says that
dancing in moderation is a good thing.
One of the complaints which Mr.. Hall
makes against dancing among church
members is that It keeps them away from
prayer meetings and prevents religious
revivals. A skeptic might suggest that
If persons religion is not strong enough
to stand the temptation of a dance 1t is
not good for much anyway Another ar
gument which he advances is that the
best men," such as Washington, Gar
field, Clay, Bismarck, and Garibaldi." do
not suggest to our minds the idea of
dancing. Those acquainted with history
will be able TO Judge whether these gem
tlemen would agree with Mr.. Halls views
or not. The above resume contains most
of his arguments, but It would be impos-
sible to make any very long extracts
from his book without including language
hardly fit for quotation in respectable
family newspaper. Chicago: Laird G
Lee.)
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Francisco.
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Cant and the Canteen," by S. b. Dex-
ter. Secretary of the INSTRUMENTATION
Ministerial Committee on Investigation at
Fort Sheridan, is a careful and thought
full record OF the history of the canteen
question, especially of the agitation for
the abolition of the canteen and its eff
fects 1t will be useful to anyone on
either side of this controversy, as a means
of enlightenment, for the author backs
up all his arguments with well-attested
facts and good common sense.
He begins by stating that the canteen
Of 1900 was not the same in two or three
essential respects as the canteen of 1861
and he gives briefly the history of the
sale of Intoxicating liquors in the army.
Up TO 1861 a certain quantity of liquor
was part of the army rations; and at
first, the post trading system established
in 1867 was not much superior to the sut-
ler's privilege in its effect on the sol
diers. About twenty years ago the ex-
pertinent of the post exchange and can
teen system was tried at the Vancouver
barracks in the following form:
by the regulations issued from
Army Headquarters the post exchange
combines the features of recreation and
reading rooms, a cooperative store
and restaurant in order 10 supply the
troops at reasonable prices with the
articles of ordinary use not supplied
by the Government, and to afford them
means of proper recreation and amuse-
ment, while through the exchange
profits IL provides means for improv-
ing the messes. The canteen feature,
where only beer and light wines were
sold, was usually in a separate room.
The regulations governing the canteen
prohibited gambling and restricted the
entry of civilians The sale OF beer
was limited to week days and no
treating was allowed
It will be seen that by this system,
while moderate drinkers do not find them
selves under irritating supervision, the
drunkard is restrainederom over-indul-
aence. and the abstainer can easily, If he
likes, keep clear of the whole thing. Dur
ing the civil war the soldier. insufliciently
fed in many instances, and getting his ra-
ton of rum as a matter of course, was al
most inevitably led Into the use Of liquor
to supplement his rations. while the sut
Ter was allowed to give him credit to the
extent of one third of>his pay. Under the
recent canteen system there is every in
ducement for man not to drink at all,
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Is there any other reason for the change Of
temperature as you ascend a mountain than the
rarity of the air7 3 What is the name and
height of the highest mountain in the worid7
MARLIN.
Yes; .he further one ascends. the less
the heat reflected from lower levels Is felt
2. Dodhunga, in India. q, ,002 feet is be-
iieved to be tiie highest.
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W. Murray Crane.

Who is the present Governor of Mssssel.use.ts'
E. l..
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Where is Company !. Eighteenth Iniantryi
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Mr.. Charles Hemstreet, author of
'Nooks and Corners in Old New York.
is the victim Of a. paragraph. Several
months ago misguided friend who want
ed to surprise him with a complimentary
personal notice and lacked an excuse to
get it into the columns of certain ship
ping paper, began the item with the false
statement that the author was writing
book on New York's shipping.
1t attained an amazing circulation A
city daily copied 1t into its literary COL
umn and 1t Immediately spread to the
country. Mr.. Hemstreet, who knows
nothing about shipping and cares less,
vigorously denied it. but the paragraph
sped on Its way. Mr.. Hemstreet got vex-
ed and wrote letters, but the paragraph
spread like measles. Clipping bureaus
sent 1t to him by the yard, and from
every part of the country.
After awhile he began to be mentioned
as the well known expert on shipping"
The climax came when he was asked to
write magazine article on Yachting,
Past and Present"
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The Paris correspondent of '"rhe
Author" tells this story of NJ. Joris Karl
Huysmans, whose new book. .Sainte
Lydwine de Schiedam." has lately caused
him to be talked about once more:
On one occasion he was contributor to paper
whose editor was asserted to have made his debut
in life as cook. He had lived long in the East
and was reported to have tried his prentice
hand at innumerable trades before essaying press
work One morning ". Huysmans was sum-
moned in haste to the editorial sanctum. Imme-
diateiy he appeared his employer pointed to an
enormous pile of papers, and complacently ex-
planned:
VOLTA! Each of these English Russian Ger
man, Italian, Swedish Turkish Roumanian. and
Dutch papers contains article on Zola You
will read them all at once, and write me
spicy article on Zola Abroad. -
NJ Huysmans objected. averring his ignorance
OF the languages in question.
That does not matter. You can easily get
the stuff translated
impossible, Think of the costr'
Listen, and do as tell you. / will send i'm
mediately for carriage to convey you and the
papers home. There since you do not know for
eign languages, you will merely choose out the
most striking passages in these papers, and mark
them round with a blue pencil; | will UNDER
take to get them translated. Eh, bien! What
nextf"
For once, N. Huysmsns was too much taken
absck to reply. He literally fed.
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Where is the Peabody Normal College? @ How
often are the examinations held for the scholar
ships, and at sh:=:. date and placer ]. c. NJ
At Nashville. Tenn. 2. This years an
nuai examination was held July IS and 10.
at various places. by examiners appointed
by the Superintendents of Education for
the States wherein scholarships are dis
tributed, the Superintendents being en-
powered to appoint by the President of
the College. Write John NJ. Bass. Secre-
tary of the College, at Nashville. as to the
next examinations
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What is the name Of the stream that runs
under the Natural Brige OF Virginia? 2. What
is the length and height of the bridge? J. Was
Napoleon Bonapartes ever ruler of France?
:. What is the name of the present Car of
Russia? J. X. G.
Cedar Creek. 2. About fifty feet long and
ZS6 feet from the road at the top to the
water below. 3. No; after the defeat at
Waterloo. Napoleon / abdicated in favor
of his son, proclaiming the latter Emperor
of the French. but the allies ignored the
pEOclamation. 4 Nicholas IL