The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-08

beset the struggler to cry. "Go home" quite as many noble, selfless, great souls say: Stay. Stay and try. We will help your
 I am reminded here so often of the old Buddhist story of the spiders web.
 Do you know 1t?
 It runs as follows: The soul of a sim ner lay trembling in hell Eager to rise, wholly unable to lift so much as his eyes upward.
 A Buddhist priest. always desirous to help, called down to the sinner: Can you not rise? Think of one kindly deed done in your life then may you hope to ascend even to heaven The sinner thought but in vain till at length he was able to recall that once in treading path on earth he had in- tended to crush a spider that crawled on the path before him, but realizing the needlessness of the cruelty he had de- sisted in his intention. The spider had crawled on unharmed.
 Even as he told this negative kindness to the priest he saw spider come drift ing down into the place of torment, swing ing even to the spot where the sinner lay, drifting on the web which it had spun. When the spider had spun the web even to the reach of the sinners hand 1t clambered up. leaving the web still floating near the hand of the tor mented one.
 Now" called the Buddhist priest from above, grasp the web, 1t is strong to draw your soul upward Climb here as the spider has already done."
 The sinner grasped the web and began to pull himself upward, higher, higher, almost to the blessed sunlight-when feeling weight on the web he looked back to see souls after souls, souls after souls clinging to the web, climbing up ward even as he.
 Dire fright lest he lose his chances filled the sinners soul: "Loosen! Loosen!' he cried: Let go! This is my web. my chance!
 The web broke above his two hands,
 He and all the rest of the ascending souls dropped back into hell.
 "Ah," cried the Buddhist priest. your soul is not get able to ascend. You who will not help others are not fit to be helped yourself. The web, frail as it seemed. was able to bear all upward, had you not feared for yourself and cried out for yourself alone"
 Almost daily see this illustrated in the many working women whom l see. T must keep my own chance.' "I need that opportunity myself" Will you divide profits with me?" What per cent will you give me?'' "I must guard my position" II must hold my own." When you hear such phrases from a woman in these great artistic fields of | labor look for a fall there. Who helps not others must herself drop
 On the contrary when I see woman selling tickets for the recital of the girl who wants start, giving her time and talent to a woman who is blind. giv- ing her benefit, getting her a
 to the friend who is i'll; entertaining
 freely at East Side Missions; bringing an author and her wares into friendly l touch with the readers of the great
 publishing houses; having the song | writer to dine to meet the musician. | When l see this I am not surprised to | know that such a woman makes her hundreds and thousands, and rides vic toriously on the worlds ardent praises Oh, struggler. don't push the cling
 ing hands from the plank you have
 seized-it will be strong to drift you | both to the shore
 Ben-Hur will have a dramatic sue
 cessor next season in General Lew | Wallace's The Prince of India, of
 which a play will be made by J. l. c. | Clarke and the production by Klaw | & Erlanger.
 Will Carleton. the author of Songs l of Two Centuries, has recently redis- l covered one of the most famous hymn
 writers in the world. the celebrated
 blind poet Fanny Crosby. author of Safe in the Arms of Jesus" Pass Me Not. O, Gentle Saviour" and hundreds
 of other hymns. Mrs. Crosby. despite | her valuable work in the Christian cause. has now in her old age been very much reduced in income Mir | Carleton. during the past few months. has held no less than thirty Fanny Crosby Meetings" in New York and its vicinity, in which her own hymns con- | stituted the whole or greater part of i the music, having known her for sev- | eral years. The work has been a la- | bor of love. done mostly on Sabba tn evenings, and has resulted in an in-
 creased interest in the book Fanny l Crosby's Life Story. which is publish | ed by a Brooklyn publishing company
 and is being sold for the aged lady | benefit.
 | Joseph c. Lincoln. whose "Cap'n Fri has been called the David Harum oi the coast" is a native of Brewster | Mass, a typical Cape Cod town. tc
 which he goes every summer His love for tke sea Is inherited from both his parents ancestors.
 Within three days of its publication Miss Young'S Henderson," published in Boston by Houghton. Miffiin & Go.
 ran through its third thousand. It is l the story of a man. his wife. and his