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The Epworth League topic for Feb.
% is found in II. Chronicles, xvii. "a:
xxx. 20-27-29; Romans, xiii, ga. 1t is
not unmanly to be religious. True
manhood Is always religious. for re-
ligion cultivates the sturdy elements
or character, prepares a man for the
efforts of everyday life and gives him
insight into his present relations to the
spiritual world.
1t Is easy In the world to live after
the worlds fashion. 1t is easy in pri-
vate to follow your own. The hard
thing in life is to so mingle with men
as to have influence among them and
still to keep virtue unsullied and the
heart sweet.
The Christian is not distinguished
from other men by his opinions of any
sore. He is a Christian because and
only because he recognizes and follows
moral obligations as defined by Jesus
Christ. He holds to truth. He cannot
deny 1T. He will not compromise it.
Whatever difficulties may lie in the
way of pure and devoted Christian
life in private, that is a very simple
matter compared to living q consistent,
earnest, Christian life in public. Diff
cultfes multiply. The opinions and
wishes and actions of other people
must be considered and unavoidably
AFFECT us. We meet customs and ira
ditions which have almost the force of
law, but which are different from and
In some cases contradictory to our pre-
vious notions and accustomed ways Of
life. Whether we ought to conform to-
openly oppose or try to silently ignore
these new conditions and requirements
taxes the soul to decide.
Sometimes an old proverb or maxim
learned In childhood has great inf1u-
ence-such as, When you are in Rome
do as the Romans door, it may be a
red light danger signal that flashes up
on the track ahead and we remember,
My son, If sinners entice thee, consent
thou not
Good citizenship requires that we
have opinions based on our own ex-
animation of the questions at issue,
that we act as we believe to be right
and not merely as one of crowd. No
association with any party can obligate
person to do what is morally wrong
for him to do as an individual or JUS
tify him in such action. Fraud and
deceit have been all too powerful in
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-22
THE THIRD COMMANDMENT.

The Luther League topic for Feb. o.
Is found in Exodus, Xxx, Sill; Isaiah,
WILL, 1914; Mark H., 1928. Remem-
Der the Sabbath day to keep it holy"
The first day Of the week is called the
Lords day. This does not mean that
He Himself needs 1T or wants if for
His own sake. 1t is his day because
men need a Lords day. They need it
for rest to their bodies. change Of occu-
patton for their minds and refreshment
for their souls. Jesus said, 1.-THE Sab
bath was made for man."
DR.. Fare, before the committee of
the British house of commons, gave
this as his testimony: That men who
labor six days a week will be more
healthy and live longer, other things
Feb. "a is the birthday, in 1872, of
William III. Crawford American states
man; of George VIM. Curtis, in 1924,
being equal, than those who labor sew
en-; and they will do more work, and
do it in a better manner.
In this day of Sunday excursions and
Sunday games it is especially necessary
for young Christians to know what is
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-22
CHRISTIAN LOVE.

The International Sunday School les
son Of Feb. % is found in l. Corinthians,
xiii, 1-l3. The golden text is the last
verse of the lesson. The time was in
the spring of A. D. 81, and the place
was EpheSuS, from whence Paul wrote
to the Corinthians.
On account of their disputings this
lesson Of love was needed by them.
In connection with it's study one should
read Drummond's famous address, first
delivered to the students at Mortified,
on THE Greatest Thing in the World"
in which he says:
Love is a compound thing, Paul tells
us. 1t is like light. AS you have seen
man Of science take a beam of light
and pass 1t through a crystal prism,
as you have seen it come out on the
other side of the prism broken up
into its component colors-red and blue
and yellow and violet and orange, and
all the other colors of the rainbow
SO Paul passes this thing, Love,
through the magnificent prism Of his
inspired intellect, and 1t comes out on
the other side broken up into it's ele-
The Spectrum of Love has nine in
gradients:
Patience-'Love suffereth long"
Kindness-"And is kind"
Generosity-"Love envieth not"
Hum1llty-"LoVe Vaunteth not itself,
is not puffed up"
Courtesy-"Doth not behave itself
unseemly."
Good Temper-'Is not easily provok-
ed"
Guilelessness-"T hinketh no evil
Rejoiceth not in iniquity.
but rejoiceth in the truth
These make up the supreme gift,
the stature of the perfect man.
What one longs for above all else is
to him the greatest thing. Among
the things that Christians desire paul
does not refer to others) the apostle
mentions eloquence, the gift of pro-
phecy, miracle working faith, knowI-
edge of mysteries, charity, the heroism
of martyrdom. Here Is a list from
which one might find it difficult to
make choice. And Paul set love
higher than all. A man may make
great gifts to charity and yet be an
abomlnably mean and selfish man. He
may endure great personal discom-
forts and even sacrifice his life rather
than yield a theological opinion, and
still be proud, narrow minded un-
Christian man. Outward actions do
not tell. 1t is everywhere a question
of motive. With love as the govern
Ing motive, all life and action are good !;
without it, nothing is good.
All those gifts which are useful to
US now, children as we are, in the
knowledge of divine mysteries, will be
no longer needed when that which is
perfect come" They are partial and
temporary. But faith in God, Joyous
hope in view of the future. which is
Gods future, and love, which is the
summing up of the character of God.
and the fulfilling of all obligations
these are eternal; and the greatest
of these is Lowell"
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And Their
1HA1t SD
Authors.
Faon1iJS@r S0m0g

but the melody was composed by Jo-
seph w. Turner, who was born in Ber-
lin, July 8, 1918. He began life as a
workman in a type foundry, but ex-
cessiVely fond of music devoted every
spare minute to It's study. He finally
became music teacher and became
a popular composer of vocal and in
strumental music, for many years be-
ing musical editor of the Wayerly
Magazine. A volume of his compost
tons has appeared under the title of
The MinstreTs Gift
An incident in connection with the
song is told of the escape of a party
OF Union soldiers from a Confederate
stockade at Tyler, Tex, during the
war. A tunnel had been partially
completed when news reached the
prisoners that Gen. Banks was within
hundred miles. The adventurous
boys decided that the tunnel route
was too tedious to complete, so they
undermined one of the logs that
formed a portion of the high fence,
and one rainy night they fastened a
rope around 1t. Some of their COM
rades gathered in a distant portion of
the grounds and just as the rope was
drawn in and the men dashed through
the opening there was a rift in the
clouds through which, the moon shown
brightly, and these Words rang out in
the night air and attracted the atten-
ton of the guards to that part of the
encampment:
Roll on, silver moon,
Guide the traveller on his way
The words of the entire song are as
follows:
AS I strayed from my cot at the close Of
the day.
Mid the ravishing beauties of June,
Meath lessamine shade espied fair
maid
And she plaintively sigh'd to the moon.
Chorus
Roll on, silver moon, point the traveller
While the nightingale's song is in tune:
l never more with my true love will stray
BY thy soft silver beams gentle moon
AS the hart on the mountain my lover
was brave,
So noble and manly and clever.
So kind and sincere. and he loved me full
Oh my Edwin, his equal was never.
But alas, he is, dead, and gone to his
deaths bed,
Cut down like a rose in full bloom,
And alone doth he sleep, while | thus
sadly weep
Meath thy soft silver light, gentle moon.
His lone grave I'll see out until morning
appears
And weep Ger my lover. so brave:
I'll embrace the cold sod. and battle with
The sweet flowers that bloom Ger his
grave.
All me! ne'er again may my bosom re-
For my lost love fain would meet soon
And fond lovers will weep DER the grave
where we sleep.
Meath thy soft silver light, gentle moon
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-22
Curious Things in
Life and Literature.

mischief. Some 1900 taiIors We're set to
work in the Hotel Clichy al two francs a
lay, but the scheme was a total failure
Platos Republic" is~an ideal commun-
ism. Minos and Lycurgus We're com
munlsts. The early Christians had "aiI
things in common but the notion Of
government being the sole employer of
labor, and paying EACH not according to
the work done, but according to individual
necessity. was left to the device of Louis
Blanc. BellamyS novel entitled Looking
Backward" is based somewhat on the
same idea.
55O.-The dancing mania is a form Of
epidemic disorder allied to hystera and
evidently the result of initiative emotions
acting upon susceptible subjects, under
the influence of a craving for sympathy
or notoriety There is little doubt that
mpoSture entered to conSideIa bic eX-
tent into all the epidemic forms of the
dancing mania, which indeed were usually
attended and followed by consequences
that showed but too clearly the presence
of impure motives; but there is also evil
denCe that in many cases the convulsive
movements were really beyond the control
of the will, whatever may have been the
original character of the motives that
prompted them. Epidemics if this sort
were common in Europe during the mid
die ages.
QUESTIONS to be answered March 8:
555-Where are the most extensive pre-
historict ruins in America?
556.-Are there any dwarf races Of
men?
557.-What is bi-metallism?
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WHAT A DOCTOR SAYS.

That the American family is be-
coming back number and that Ameri-
can women prefer pets to children is
declared by DR.. George F. Shrady, ed
itor of the Medical Record.
DR.. Shrady became famous as Gen.
U. S. Grants personal physician, and
his observations have been made in a
large measure among the smart set"
in New York. He recently wrote an
article for the Medical Record in which
he printed statistics showing how
families are decreasing.
Taking these official figures as the
basis of his argument, DR.. Shrady goes
on to declare that the birth rate in
the United States, especially among
the well-to-do, is rapidly getting as
low as it is in France, where general
alarm has been caused for the future
of the country.
Life in flats and the demands of So
ciety are given as the principal causes
why the American born woman dis
likes to raise a family. In discussing
the subject, DR.. Shrady said;.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-22
WoMEN'S CARES.

1t isn't the big overwhelming sorrow.
or business reVerSes. that crush the life
and spirit out of women. When a crisis
arrives q woman, as rule, meets 1t no
bly,. She is the one to comfort and
sustain the husband, to breathe of hope
for the future. and to courageously look
its magnitude. But when, day out and day
In, she faces petty disappointmentS, wor
rying economies and irritating household
events, then the brave spirit succumbs
and the gnats Of trouble can do what the
powerful giant failed to accomplish
they can bite and sting can touch the
sore points and wound the heart until
feminine nerves assert themselves and
the tears dim the brave eyes All. these
little things, these worrying trifles! How
lovely life would be if 1t were only rid
of them! Greater than the bravery that
marches into battle to the sound of in
spring music is the courage that fights
alone amid the shadows, with no sym
pathy. from nation. no shoulderto-
kind of lighting women have to do. How
much better and brighter the world
would be if we would all try to remem-
Der the value of little things-a smile,
kind word, a warm clasp Of the hand,
friendly nod, a CHEEKY greeting. How
much they do to tighten a gloomy day.
up the sum Of life. The Sunshine so
ciety appreciates the value Of little
things things and all To, Of its members stand
kind. Be cheerful And by easing others
heartaches find cure for your own.--C. w.
TrOwbridge.
A surprise letter-party is to be held for
Miss Bessie P. Reed, of Athens, Me-, on
March s. In addition to cheerful letters
Miss Reed would be pleased to receive
patchwork squares. size II by IL, worsted
or silk.
Every day is a fresh beginning,
Every morn is the world made new,
You who are weary of sorrow and striv-
ing
Here IS beautiful hope for YOU"
My friends, we can't all be Washing
tons, but we kin be patriots and behave
ourselves in human and Christian man
ner. When We see brother goin' down
hill to ruin let us not give him a push
but let US seize right hold Of his coat
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-22
QUEEN VICTORIA.

King Edward has written that he is
extremely pleased with Sidney Lees life
of Queen Victoria. Yet Mr.. Lee saws
some very uncomplimentary things of the
late queen. Among others he repeats the
tru1sm that she had no literary taste or
rather, a very bad one. He saws that II
was by the merest accident that her
majesty was not born in Germany
spoke with an English-Germ accent
Her mother could never speak English at
all. Her father wanted to call her Eliza
beth, and she very nearly assembled the
throne as Elizabeth H., although She had
always a violent antipathy to that queen
Had her uncle. William ", had his way
she would have been married to Alex
ander, the son of the Prince of Orange
so that the country she was to rule over
would have been thus associated thence
forth with Holland. rather than with CO.
burg. When she became betrothed 10 her
cousin Albert Of Coburg she had very
little personal inclination for him
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DITTO.

Tommy was much interested in hearing
for the first time in his language lesson
the other day about a pair of little dojs
that the teacher said meant ditto. -
How his soul-a curious mixture of lazi.
ness and thrift-thrilled at learning that
if he were to write "a cat" or five
boys" or 1910" on one line, and wanted
to repeat the same words or figures in
the next line, all he had to do, instead Of
writing the words in full, was to put the
ditto marks. and everybody would know
it was "a cat or five boys" or .S10''
(as the case might be- that was meant
Some time. after this Tommy, While away
on a visit had occasion to write home
He simplified the hated task by turning
his latest knowledge to account
The letter looked like literary polka
dot
Dear father it began:
Il hope YOU are well.
- = mother is "
g 80 sister 1" :"
'' Dick Z" 20
g grandma =" "
you We're here.
9 % mother was "
g - sister - ="
Dick 90
g g grandma "
,ss you would send me some money
Your affectionate son. Tom
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-22
Puzzle Corner


PRIZES-A copy Of a short story hook
will be sent to the first person to send
In answers to all puzzles. The person
who sends in the best original puzzle this
story The puzzles printed first in this
department will be considered the best
concerning which opinions may differ. Ali
puzzles should be written on one side of
the paper. Write names distinctly.
ANSWERS to puzzles two weeks ago:
306.-Word Building: l. Master, steam
Trans, teams meats, mates, tames
marts, tanner. smart stare, tears, reams
same star, stem, seam, scar, seat. tear
tare, ream, rest. mast, mare-and prob
ably more. 2. Stop. tops pots post. 8.
Lew. vile, veil, evil 4 Verse, serve,
3S7.-Blanks: 1. Pane, pain. 2 Read.
red. ). Scent, sent, cent. 4. Need.
knead. b. Stair, stare. 6. Sealing, cell
PgZZLES to be answered March s:
390.-Jumbled Verse:
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HOME MISSIONS.

The Christian Endeavor topic for
Feb. % Is found in Acts, /, 6-8. For
reading in connection, see what is
said in Mark, /, 4S-45, about neigh
borhood missions, and in Luke, xiv,
44-4S, about beginning at home Facts
about work at home can be made a
profitable feature of the meeting.
1t is fitting that home mission top
&c should be studied upon Washing
tons birthday. Washington was
man who acknowledged the hand of
God in national affairs and spoke of
Jesus Christ as the divine Author of
our blessed religion" He laid the
foundations of American liberty in the
fear of God. Every true patriot should
have Washington's spirit.
America has moved forward under
the guidance Of Christian men, Lin
coin, Grant, Garfield, Harrison, looked
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-22
intellectual Amusement
and Exercise for Young
HindS.

With like open hearts doors ease
Little very. very keys to;
Forget of don't these two that and
GU please it, and thank you L." are.
391.-Insertions:
Example: Insert letter in fuel and
make resinous substance. Answer
Coal, co-p-aL))
1; Insert a letter in a masculine name
and make a tropical fruit
z; insert letter in kitchen utensils
and make tortures
Insert a letter in contends and make
crimes.
4; Insert a letter in single numbers and
make pains.
5. Insert a letter in reyolve and make
a European country
6. Insert a letter in light conversation
and make to defraud
Z. Insert a letter in to fv and mako
pertaining to the sun
.; Insert letter in farming implements
and make habitatiOns.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-22
WONDERFUL SCALES.

The grand balance or scale used In
wonderful piece of mechanism to be seen
anywhere. 1t stands about seven feet
nigh and weighs probably two tons This
weigh a grain of dust or 400 pounds Of
gold postage stamp placed on one Of
the two weighing portions will move the
index SIX inches. If the weight placed
electric bell is set ringing, the machine
declining to execute task of which it is
incapable - II
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-22
Famous Quotations

PRIZES-The first person to send in the
names of the authors of the annexed quo
tations will be given a copy of an illus
trated book. Address Puzzle Editor care
7 h e Clio b e, st. Paul, MINI.
AUTHORS of quotations two weeks
ago:
531.-Drummond. in PAX Vobiscum."
532.-Maria Lowell, in Act Of 'Ingomar
the Barbarian
533.-Drummond, in Natural Growth"
534.-Longfellow in 1.-The Builders"
QUOTATIONS. Authors to be given
March s:
53S-
my hopes are high. my heart is proud,
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OFT IN THE SILLY NIGHT.

One of the most popular of modern
song writer's was Thomas Moore, who
not only wrote the words, but fire.
quently composed the music. He was
also an accomplished musician and
singer, and has been known to sit
down at the piano and in a few min
utes compose the words and music
OF song and sing it.
Tom Moore was born up stairs over
a grocery street an Angler street,
Dublin, Ireland, May %, 1873 While
the father was attending to- his duties
down stairs in his shop the mother
devoted herself to taking care of her
babies and household work up stairs.
She was a woman of more than or
binary intellect and character, and for
her Toms love never diminished Aft
er the death of both over 1000 letters,
written in the most endearing terms
by him, were found among her pa
pers.
His marriage to Bessie Dyke, an ac-
tress, was a happy one, but much sor-
row came to him in his late years.
His eldest son turned out badly, the
second son died in youth and his only
daughter met tragic fate. She was
kissing her hand to her father as he
was going down the stairs one day,
and fell over the banister and was
killed. Moore was of the more jovial
nature and tender hearted to the
extreme. The death of his children
changed his nature and he never after
sang in public as he was fond of doing.
loft In the Silly Night" Of which
he was author ana composer, he sang
with enhancing sweetness. 1t has
been extensively paraded, but it never
theless remains perfect poem and q
perfect song:
Oft in fhe stil1v NIGHT
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond Memory brings the light
or other days around me;
The smiles. the tears,
OF boyhoods years.
The words Of love then spoken:
The eyes that shone,
Now dimmed and gone,
Inc cheerful hearts now broken.
Thus in the Silly night,
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me.
Sad Memory brings the light
or other days around me.
When I remember all
;, The friends SO linked together
I've seen around me fall,
Like leaves in wintry weather
j feel like one
Who treads alone
Some banquet hall deserted,
Whose lights are fed
Whose garlands dead
And all but he departed
Thus in the Silly night
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,
Sad Memory brings the light
or other days around me-
ROLL ON, SILVER MOON.
The words of this we'll known song
are old, of probable English origin,
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Gods will in this matter His Word
says, "Forsake not the assemblage of
yourself together" 1T is lawful to do
good on the Sabbath day." The day is
kept for sacred uses. In the spiritual
surroundings of Gods house. its devo-
ton, It's instruction and its sacred
song is to be found a refreshing for
every part of our wonderful makeup,
such as can be found nowhere else.
Not only does God desire an outward
observance of His day, but our very
thoughts must be in harmony.
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GERMANY VS.. VENEZUELA.

Germany's trade with Venezuela is fri
nlng IN amount. The statistics for five
years show that but one fifth of / per
many and but one-tenth of / per cent
OF her imports came from that country
Yet Germany is making the present row
Gown tnere The kaiser seems anxious
for trouble. but he should pick ont Soma
country nearer his size
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HUSBAND AND WIFE

In Switzerland, sometimes in Germany.
t MIen couple are married the husband
ms own Thus, if Mr.. Brown Welded
Miss Miss Smith she would not be smith
BfoWn, but he would be Brown-Smith
nyphenated The daughter of the dis
tnguished Prussian Statesman Ado1nh
Lette married Mr.. Schaefer.. Therea ftei
the couple We're Mr.. and Mrs. Schaefer-
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UP THERE.

Ii those are worlds that shine up there
AS little, dazzling dots.
NO DOUBT that some of them are fair,
With many flowers spots,
BUT not one star of all that glow
Is blessed as earth is blessed
For here, his mother, grooming low,
Looks az my baby pressed
Against her breast.
If those are other worlds that CLEAN
Up yonder in the night.
Ihey may have many sparkling stream
That babbles it's delight.
But not a star can claim such low
AS this world holds for me
While my delighted baby boy
Is landed lovingly
Upon my knee.
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Who Wrote
Them.

And like trumpet long and loud.
Thither my thoughts all cling and ring!
My life Is in my hands, and To-
grasp and bend it as bow
Labor IS not mean or low!
! e achieve with every blow.
Something higher than We know"
The man is sure to fall at last
Who does not stand alone;
Don't trust to other peoples eyes,
But learn to mind your own"
| know thee full of pulse as strong
AS the seas more ancient song,
And Of a sympathy as wide