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How to Be Happy

Real life lies in service; that is to
say. to be of some use in the world, to
make other people happier and better
by our presence among them, is the
only way of being happy and OF i'm
proving ourselves. and that not as an
occasional thing for a day or for a
month. but as the settled habit of our
life. l am here in the world to serve
and to think of others and not my
self. Now although that is the open
secret of happiness in the world 1t is
extraordinarily difficult for us to real
ize it. and l suppose most young peo-
pie begin under the impression that
instead of happiness lying in service
it lies in being served. l would there
fore remind you, especially those OF
you who are placed in circumstances
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Mosquitoes Hum Located.

The members Of the Royal Society
of Edinburg. reports the Detroit
News-Tribune. were interested, at a
recent meeting. in the announcement
by A. e. Shipley and Edwin Wilson of
the discovery of an apparatus, hereto
fore overlooked or neglected, at the
base of the mosquitoes wings. where
by The. characteristic humming of that
insect may be produced. The species
examined was the anopheles maculi-
pennis. and the. apparatus consists of
a slightly movable bar provided with
a series of well-marked teeth which.
as the wings are raised and lowered
rasp across series OF ridges. The
structure of the apparatus is de-
scribed as very complex. but the mu-
The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-09-22

me old swimmtNo Mole.
WnNaye bathed IN the warm. scleaf 49,
- whore the IndiaA hssasd =
SAln:
~ re plunged in slee 70 The =, AVE .s.
aalty main:
nut alemory ever takes us BACK. Win
sahging in our soul.
"a temp once more as in the days OF
ybre In our boyhood's swimming
hSls! .s
&c.. Just Aelow the high tresae. and;
- the trains passed near
We saved wild hands from the warm
sAore sands and gave them i"s's
~ cheer.
1{spnv Young rascals were we then. play
a ing thoughtless role:
FOR never q care could reach rs there
q the dear old swimming hole!
~ Dis boys Owed from the trestle.
N .Spme ten feet high or more.
Whjae the young ones dropped. feet
FIRST, pr hoped from the old spring
board on shore;
And q, the thrill of that moment when
sur first high dive was made
Frd&a the trestles hight in the envious
hight of the others who were
Afraid!
How well we had noted the danger-the
epot where the barbed wire lay;
The sklass-strewn place. and the Jagged
face Of the rock where the big
&crabs stay!
Oversthere is the sunken log; and here
where the blood-sucker lies;
On the other bank. wnere the weeds
grow rank. were the snakes anc
etinging flies.
But 20, we would love these dangers
s3ss could we only meet them today!
II we could cheer when the trains passee
IS near and shout in the boyhood way
In optic of the great green ocean tnere
IA longing in our soul
To, sdive once,smore as in the days O
x yore IN INC dear old swimming hole
Colorado Springs Gazette.
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machines, Very well! We will make
boring machine by following the laws
Of gravity.and equilibrium. We need
only . few. things, a sewing needle,
,eork, twof.. pocketknives OF equal
weight and a bottle closed with a
!. cork. We insert the pin in one of
the corks and the eye end Of the sew
ing needle u the cork. closing the
bottle; Thenswe open the two pocket
knives and .inSert them in the free
piece of cork. as shown in the illus
tration. Nov we have to balance the
5. two knives on the pin. For that pur-
]. pose we place the pin on the tip OF
+ one fnge and shave somebody else
move t knives to and fro until the
balance IS reacleA Then we place
the whole appaiatls on the point of
4 the needle, as shown in illustration
). The balance is easily reached by
slightly moving the pin one way or
&the other. When the balance is fin
I ally reached we set the knives and
!. cork with the pin in motion by blow
ing at it. AS the sewing needle is OF
.shard steel, the pin or softer metal, the
Turning motion of THE, peedle will bore
ga hole in the pin like boring ma
chine
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SAFE IN FIXING DATE.
Sister Took Nc Chances in Predict.
ina Brothers Funeral.


ing Brothers Funeral.
Judge Pernypacker, in a public adj
dress, once predicted a certain pop
ular movement as sure to occur with
in a given time. A friend asked the
judge if it We're not rash to make a
positive statement regarding a spe.
cific date for any occurrence, arguing
that nothing is certain! In reply, the
judge told Of Celtic cook who asked
her mistress one Monday for leave of
absence the following Sunday to at
tend her brothers funeral.
Why" exclaimed the mistress
this is only Monday! Surely, no.
bodys going to keep dead body a
whole week."
Hes not dead yet, num- ex'
planned the cook.
No? Well. he may die to-day or
he may live month. No doctor can
safely say that a person will die at
such time that day may be set for
the funeral"
The doctors nothing to do wild it.
num-" was the further explanation
Dim sure Sunday'll be all roight, Fl
he's sintiEced to be hung Friday"
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cred stranger in the person Of an
English gentleman who had :recetly
taken possession Of an .Sadjoining
estate, and had wandered over to take
a look at the Americans famous
place. The unlimited visitor was in
neglige, with brown velvet smoking
jacket for a coat. Singer ordered the
stranger away. and, his eye catching
the velvet Jacket, added, pointing to
the nearest gateway:
You'll find the organ and monkey
outside, / guess!"
The story came Nit through the vic.
tins telling 1t In his London club,
where half dozen American visitors
were sent into shrieks of laughter
when he added:
What do. you suppose the beggar
could have meant by that?"
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Doll From Martinique.


An interesting relic of the ill-fated
town of Saint Pierre-to-wit, an old
fashioned Martinique dol-has been
installed at the Musee Pedagcgique,
where there are dolls representing
many French reigns and nearly all. the
French colonies. The doll from Mar
Unique left the island few days be-
fore the great eruption. This play
thing is a survival Of the time when
black slaves wore certain stuffs In
troduced into Martinique by the Nor
mans. who originally coloniZed it. AS
did the planters wives Of former times
and as do the negresses of the pres
ert day. she wears red and yellow
handkerchief tied round her head,
with the ends rising up above her
forehead, and gown OF coarse eta
mine or canvas cloth, so called be
cause ii preceded the hair sieve as
~strainer, and a cambria apron Of stuff
that in the early days of the last CEN
fury the children of the Saint Pierre
Orphanage used to weave. The gown
and apron are much longer than the
rudimentary legs. The head is large.
and the body stuffed with bran. The
doll was found with other toys in a
press after the, decease OF very. old
lady, who received it. when nearly
grown up, as relic of her..grand-
mothers childhood. The fashion in
which it is dressed prevailedfrom the
time the island was first. colonized by
Normans, in the plantations. almost to
the present day.-London News Paris
folopram
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Beth Were Handicapped.

On one occasion Bishop Potter was
a guest at the Storm King club of
New York After comfortable din
ner he sent a telegram to one of the
officials of the New York Central rail
road asking him to stop the night ex-
press at Storm King station, on the
opposite side Of the river.
He drove down the mountain and
hired boatman to row him across
Arriving in good time. he and the
boatman waited in the rowhoat until
the approaching train warned them to
seek the station. only to see the
train arrive, rush by, and disappear
into the darkness.
The bishop was irritated.
We'll" he said, II am bishop Of
the Episcopal church and l suppose
my calling will not allow me to say
anything"
well" replied the hoatmar. Il am
Q Methodist and my principles viii
not let me say anything
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A beautiful Eastern story tells OF a
child walking beside the sea. who
saw bright spangle lying in the
sand. She stopped down and picked
it up, and found it was attached to
a fine thread of gold. AS she drew
this out of the said there were other
bright spangles on it. She drew up
the gold thread, and wound it about
her neck and around her head and
her arms and her body, until from
head to foot she was covered with
the bright threads of gold and
sparkled with the brilliance OF the
silver spangles. So it is when we
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of ease and comfort, that If you make
the great object of your life pleasure
and amusement. the springs Of your
being will gradually dry up within
you. and long before yoi, have reached
middle life you will find that pleasure
has ceased to please. and amusement
has ceased to amuse; but. pm the other
hand, if you make the Whole object
or your life to serve others.
to minister, to bless, :, and to
save any one of these human beings
around you. you will find that those
sacred springs within yousz own ma
ture bubble up afresh, bubble UP in
perennial freshness, and while you
never sought you will always find
pleasure and amusement in the world.
DR. r, F. Horton --s-,---,.s
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of the life guards, who could hear
above the roar of the ocean and the
NOISE made by the crowd voice bel
lowing:
Save the red haired man! Save
him first! The red haired man, sure!
Both men were saved and the
guards, going after the eXcitable fell
low on the beach in the hope OF q
gratuity, asked:
Red haired chap relation O. yours,
sir?'
Mono relative at ALL" he replied,
but he owes me nineteen dollars
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WHERE HE WAS LACKING.
Railroad Man Makes Professional
Criticism of Minister.

Criticism Of Minister.
Ministers, as a rule, are not at all
averse to telling good story. even
at their own expense. A Baptist min
istcr was so much amused at witty
criticism of his own preaching as he
wcuio have been az similar comment
on another mans sermon.
One Sunday morning we'll known
railway magnate came in and took a
sea, j., pew. 1t was the first time
that he had been seen at the chapel,
and his presence created some little
stir. The minister preached his SER
mon. and then. perhaps to make the
mos of his opportunity he travelled
ovei ne same ground again in lang
uage calculated. to be more impress
sive Thus the discourse was spun
out to unusual length.
When the service ended, one Of the
deacons waited for the great man and
expressed the hope that he had en-
joyel the sermon.
Yes, it was all right" said the Wis
itor There's only one drawback
with your minister's preaching
WHAT is that?
HE doesn't appear to have very
good terminal facilities
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mediate upon spiritual truth, when
We enlist in Christian service. when
we pray earnestly. The beautiful fol-
lows the beautiful. Each good
thought and deed is the key to an
other thought and deed OF greater
beauty, the key to life of more per-
feet holiness. To him that hath shall
be given. So it is. too, when we
lift out of Gods word an ornament
of beauty to put into our life. We find
that other fragments of loneliness. all
bound together on the golden chain
of love, are attached to the one. we
have taken up.
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EXPLANATION of Miracles

There is funny man on the
Chicago Tribune who now and then
says thing of force and sense. Look
ing at the constant foolish quarrel
over the miracles of Jesus and see
ing how the explanations are often
more mystifying than the miracles
themselves, he says: The most rev.
erent way to handle the New Tesla
ment miracles is to refrain from any
attempt to explain them Perhaps
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Faith and Works

Ask me why true faith must
work! Ask why the branch can do
other than bear clusters of rnddy
grapes. Its difficulty would be to alb
root accounts for it's life and pro-
duotiveness. Blame the lark, whose
nature vibrates in the sunshine, for
pouring from it's small throat volumes
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behind . sheet drawn across the room
and let, tho doll perform 10 Punch
aha sIndv. s& Pa

How "Road.Runners" XIII snakes.
Wonderful sagacity is shown by the
bird Of Southern California known as
the 'road-runner." AS these birds
can outrun the swifest horse they
usually choose to escape pursuit by
their speed. The road-runner, how
! ever, has one mortal enemy, the rat
tlesnake. This reptile is fond Of de-
vouring the road-runner's eggs when
ever it comes across q nest In the
sagebrush But the birds often have
opportunities Of revenging themselves.
Whenever they come across sleep
ing rattlesnake summing himself on q
warm rock they Immediately prepare
a trap for his destruction. PrickIy
pears abound in those regions. The
road -runners, generally pair. at once
begin picking up the spiny-covered
leaves of this plant and piling them
about the sleeping snake In q circle.
When their work is completed they
give their enemy few pecks to awak-
en- him, and then retire to watch the
result
In vain the rattlesnake tries to es-
cape. The ring of prickly leaves hold
him a prisoner. At every move he
makes the spines prick him, until at
last in despair he turns, bites himself
| and dies.
| Travellers often come across these
circles of dried leaves, with the dead
snake in the center. At first no white
| man would believe the Indian tales
of this strange method the road-run'
ner employed in killing their mortal
enemy, but they have since been OBJ
served in the act by several eminent
naturalists, who have corroborated
the stories told by the Indians.
The male bird is not larger than a
common barnyard rooster, and his
feathers are as gayly colored as those
of the peacock. The hen is of a dark
brown sagebrush color.
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ConurdrumS,

Who is the oldest lunatic on record?
Time out of mind.
On which side of pitcher is the
handle?
On the outside.
Why is the camel the most irascible
animal in the world?
Because he always has his back up.
What bar is that which often opens
but never shuts?
A crowbar.
Why is a good resolution like lady
fainting in ballroom?
Because it ought to be carried out
What is that which the more you
put in a barrel the lighter it is?
Bungholes.
If you throw a stone into water
what does it become?
Wet
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This is one OF the most compact
plans published. Absolutely no waste
space and at the same time neat and
handy. This house having frontage
OF % feet may be built on city lot.
Height OF first story, nine feet; sec
ond, eight feet six inches. Solid stone
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II life were all, what need the living
then
In transient griefs that seem to multi
ply
Each with the disappearance OF us
mate.
And SO TO crowd in one long misery
The little pains, in union waxing
great,
And racking us beyond all mortal Ken!
This tear-wash'd vale-were nothing else
to be
There where the twilight robes the
close of day
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!. Rooster Mothers Chiefs:

"A Hallowell. Me-, rooster as mother.
ing a flock OF little. chickens: Incl
dental to this story cOmas..the news
Of tragedy of previous occurrence,
when the mother hen met death be-
meath the wheels of an electric car.
The head Of the flock cares for the
little chickens with apparently a full
realization Of the duties incumbent
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Your Eother knowetl,

Your Father knoweth." This is
one of the tender words of scripture,
the sweet, hushing answer Of . love
that understands all and can do all.
There is such joy in these words: "He
knoweth. Your Father knoweth that
We have need Of such things" II may
be heartneed or life-need or soullong-
Ing. the unattained desire, the unful-
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Tho Singing DOLL.

The experiment shown in the Illus
tration is bound to find favor with
grown-up people as well as with young
folks. All you have Ito do Is to paint
two eyes, and underneath them nose
on the knuckles Of your index and
third finger. as shown in the lower
part of the illustration. The thumb
pressed against the index finger and
moved up and down will represent a
toothless mouth. The knuckle of the
index finger forms the nose, above 1t
are the eyes. BY 'drapins the face
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only imagines MIN there; ne reads hin
into nature In the same sense tho
artist reads into nature beauty, ana
the poet truth. Nature reflects back
to them what they bring to nature.
The artistic in nature 10 discoverod
only by the artistic in man; the d.
vine in nature is perceived only the
divine in man. The man OF vision
does not see what does not exist; No
does not create, he perceives. But the
blind man does not see what does ex-
list; he does not see it because he CA
not; for as only the spirit OF the ~
fist within can see beauty without.
so only the spirit of the divine within
can see God without. That is what
Christ means when he says, Blessed
are the pure in heart; for they shall
see God" The muddy pool does not
reflect the stars. We discern 20 mAch
of God in nature and in life as We
have of God within us wherewith to
discern-no more No less.
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afe1fg1ousAe
IF LIRE WE'RE ALL.

In filmy mist. and shSoud0 ~ 0ooGy
while l 4
In mystery-were this uncertain ~
smile,
Why fear the issue Of eternity?
II life were allah! but IT, da0evo
give ~, l !.
An outer edge of promise ana o. cAeee
To smooth the frown and Danish -
despair
And as we use our golden talents hers
We find fruition Of our laborD tADros
Eternal joy is measured az We I'VE. ,ssr
-Leslie'0 Weekly.
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JOKE WASTED ON ENeLIsAMAN

Utterly Unable to Understand, Ameri'
can Sarcasm.
Singer, the sewing. machine manu-
facturer, owned beautiful country
place in the south of England that
was regarded as 'one of the sights Of
the neighborhood by travellers. He
was so annoyed by miscellaneous
visitors, however, that he gave orders
to all his ground keepers that none
but his personal friends should be
permitted to wander about the estate.
Singer himself one morning encount:
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Miniature eorer.

Who can bore hole through pin
BY blowing at it? 1t is impossible,
everybo will declare; to do it you
need a sharp instrument or boring
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An Enulish Joke,

Once a farmer had q son. and this
son left home to be bootblack. Thus
the farmer makes hay whilst the son
shines.-London Tit-Bits.
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Personal Acquaintance Necessary.
Governor Stone tells of an eccentric
resident OF his county whose wife
died after a long illness. They had
not been happy pair, perhaps: but
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anything she can wear; for boy, any
thing he can eat.
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A straightout enemy Is more of q
friend than devious friend IL less
of an enemy.
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When faith is lost and honor dies
the man is dead-Whittier
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sic produced, as everybody knows. is
extremely effective.
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be is right. For generations past men
have tried to explain the miracles of
the Christ, but they haven't got be-
yond making bad blood among them
selves. Strange that SO many fail to
see that Jesus himself is the great
est miracle: one would naturally ex-
pect him to do things no other man
ever did before him or after him., A
stab at the miracles is stab at the
Christ.-.Daptist Union.
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the past wrong by shutting It up In
sullenness instead of opening 1t out
in secret shame; we must instantly.
by an act of se,f-sacrificing will, In
woke the Hottest to witness our i'm
peritence and humble ourselves With
in that presence to which our piti2ble
DISCUSSES are Of no avail And If eyer
a sad, distrustful mind, producing
timid and wavering steps, comes over
US, and life appears too vain and
death too awful a thing, it were false
in US to submit to such a defusion.
and listen to such monotony OF strain:
and we must force ourselves upon tho
wing away-hy to the hills OF faith
where dwelleth our help-lose our
selves in tle forests OF our deepest.
worship where blessed birds will sing.
the songs OF heaven to our weary
hearts.-James Martinean
, masses. to the great body of preduc-
ers, who. by sweat OF brain ana
Drawn, are ever enriching the world.
Observe how His preaching is en-
| ri':hed with industrial figures. of nets
and boats, sowing, fertilizing and
reaping, mills and markets and toll
booths, shepherds, househeepers, arch
| fleets. vine-dressers and other sorts
| of handcraftsmen. At the outset of
! His ministry He gathered about Him
| a cabinet of twelve men. all OF whom
were devoted to braincraft or handi-
craft. There was not among them a
Single gentleman of leisure IL view
of such conditions. it is not surpris-
| ing to Learn that the great multitude
of believers in the early church were
| from among the working class. On
| the one hand, not many mighty not
many noble were Calico; and, on the
other, there was little in the new re-
ligion to attract the indplent,. since
one Of its fundamentally ecepts was,
IF any man will not work. neither let
him eat."-Dr. David ], Burren.
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Some men ars your friends oaly -
leng q they OoA uso yQN w.
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foundation. Hall and main room OF
first story finished in plain oak, with
polished oak floors. Rest OF rooms
finished in white wood enameled.
The large rooms and attached clos
cts make II much admired by the Ia
dies.
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filled wish. To every pang Of disap-
pointment, to every powerless reach
ing forth Of hope, no less than %
every sigh over mere tempot1l Aeed.
this word comes: Your FAth1r AEosU.
eth.
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OF: sound; blame the child, full Of
bounding health. for laughing. sing
ing and leapipg; blame the musician,
whose soul has caught some frag-
ments Of the music of eternity. for
pouring it forth in song, beforeASou
wonder why it Is that the true faith
which has opened the way from the
believer ii his Lord produces these
greater works.-F. B. Meyer.