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To be Continued.
They Kept o Bible For Luck.

At Sycamore, ILL.,, a well-known bust
ness firm makes it a practice to keep a
Bible in the safe. This custom was
commenced a long time ago, and the
big steel box is never locked up unless
it contains the book. 1t is kept in the
money drawer of the safe. 1t is found
necessary to remove it occasionally,
but it is always carefully replaced.
The men who adopted this queer
practice when they commenced bust.
ness years ago have little to say in ex.
PLANTATION. In all their business life
their safe or store has never been
robbed or entered. They have had q
continuous good business, and are
among the most successful business
houses of the town. All of the men,
bers of the firm attend the churches of
the town, but all are liberal il their re-
ligious views, and the prevailing belief
in the town is that holy writ is kept in
the safe principally for good luck
Chicago Tribune.
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Humor IN Bsston Charity.

The editorial management of Chair
ties has succeeded in infusing an ele'
ment of humor into the publication
which will certainly help to attract
lay readers TO the journal. The las
issue contains a pot pourri of excellent
jests, the best of which is the follow
ing, credited to Life:
Papa, what is charity"
"Charity, my son, is giving away
what you don't want"
what is scientific charity"
Scientific charity is giving away
what you don't want to someone else
who does not want it."
what is organized charity?
"Organized charity, my son, is CIV
ing away something that you don't
want to some society which will give
it away to someone who does not want
it."-BoSton Transcript.
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Things That Cannot Be Shaken.

1t may be said that modern theology'has
brought as never before Except m the
early church) to the minds of men the per-
son Of Jesus Christ. 1t has made Christ so
living, 80 real, 80 potent an influence in
the history Of men that reasonable men no
longer doubt that influence, nor deny the
divinely mysterious power which has ema-
mated and does still cmanate from that
wondrous personality. We do not have to
believe in the thirty-nine articles Of the
Anglican Church, the Westminster Con-
fession Of the Presbyterian, the Heidel-
berg catechism of the German Reformed,
nor in the theology of Wesley. No, but in
a living Christ. Our human t~heologies are
easily shaken because they are but human
Interpretation of the divine Scriptures.
But the Gospel of the Son of God stands
firm and immovable as the everlasting
hills. Your theologies appeal only to a
part Of the race. Christianity appeals to
all. And Christianity is so universal in its
spirit, because it is SO eternal in its power.
1t cannot be shaken. because the spirit Of
Christ is resident within it. Our creeds
then may vanish and will vanish; our in
terpretations of Christ may pass away be-
cause, like everything human, they are
easily shaken; but never fear, they simply
give place to One long hidden from us,
whose divine human face looks out, not
only on the history of the race, but also on
our own individual history, to tell Us that
amid the wreckage of creeds, the destruc-
ton of sects, the scattering of our own
petty, if cherished, opinions, there still re-
mains the mistaken, the 'unchanging One.
Prom q Sermon by the Rev. j. w. Nc
Combe.
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A SURPRISE OF THE WAR.
IT is Found Tha the Day of tho Bayonet
Has Not Passed.

Among the surprises OF tile war III
the East is the frequency with which
the opposing forces come to close COM
bat anI kill each other with cold steel.
i 1t was generally thought by the mill
tary experts, we believe, that the enor'
mously increased range and accuracy
of modern firearms had rendered such
| struggles almost or quite impossible,
ON account of the terribly numerous
fatalities that would result from a
charge of the old-fashioned kind upon
any considerable number CT entrenched
troops, and it has been confidently pre-
dicted that the bayonct would soon
be, if it was not already, as useless rs
the sword.
The Japanese have, however, re-
peatedly demonstrated that, i'll their
hands, at least, the bayonet need not
vet be degraded to the humble pur-
poses of the shovel-always. Again
and again they have rushed through
a zone of whitening fire, and enough
of them have reached the Russian
trenches to engage in desperate fights
with individual foes, sometimes sue
cessfully. And, of course, these at
tacks by the Japanese had to be met
in the same way by the Russians, SO
that the accounts Of the battles have
often read much as do those of the
Civil War, and wen Of Napoleons
time. The peculiar qualities of the
men now in conflict, with utterly reck-
less disregard for life on one side ard
stolid valor Of an Anticipated type on
the other, may account in part for the
employment Of a weapon especially
suited to each, but battle is q great
Ieveler of distinctions, racial and 9th
er, and all men who will fight to the
death are much alike when they get
into action.
So it seems probable that the day
of the bayonet is not so near its END
as was supposed, and that for some
time to come there will be hand-to-
hand encounters as well as those in
which the contestants use telescopes
in aiming high power guns at each
other.-New York Times.
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Alcohol and Lunacy.

The municipal authorities of Glasgow re-
Gently: appointed a commission to inquire
into the. alarming increase of insanity
caused by alcoholism in Scotland. The re-
port of this commission brings to light
some striking statistics. In the case OF
the Glasgow district asylums and the oh
servation wards of the poorhouse, of 565
admissions during twelve months 10 fewer
than $50, or thirty-three per cent, were di-
rectly traced to alcohol. In most of these
cases the patients had been comparatively
we'll to do and prosperous, so that the dis
ease could not be ascribed to bad home
conditions or poverty. The reports Of the
Royal Edinburgh Asylum show the same
alarming growth of alcoholic insanity; Sta
tistics for the whole OF Scotland during
1902 showed 1868 insane persons, an in
crease of $40 over the preceding year. The
number Of patients discharged as recoy1
cred during the year was 1920. In Argyll
where the highest proportion OF lunacyI
prevails, there are $40 lunatics per leO,0 300
of the population. 1
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Winnipeg to Hudson Bay.

At a recent convention Of grain grow,
ers in Manitoba, the building OF a railroad
from Winnipeg to Hudson Bay was advo
catcS as a means of opening up and deve,'
oping a great tract of more than 100000.
900 acres of productive land. This tract
lies along the west and southwest shore:
OF Hudson Bay, and has many lakes and
rivers that empty. into the bay. 1t is said
TO be one of the best grazing and wheat.
growing tracts on the continent. and vast
forests of spruce, tamarack and ponlai
stretch from Hudson Bay to Alaska. What
the mineral wealth of the region may he ls
still only a subject of conjecture: Hudson
Bay itself is prolific in fish and in whales
porpoises and walruses, whose oil Is Of
great commercial value.
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Music az =, ~St11nulant.

The experiments Of Ginct and Conr-
tier were conducted with Z view to de-
termining the effect Of music upon
breathing and upon the action of the
heart, writes Gustav kobbe in Good
Housekeeping. 1t was found that live
" major chords, without relation to
melody, guickened breathing. Melo-
dies, grave or gay, caused RAPID
breathing, the respiration approximate
ing It's time t that of the music. Raj
lentando and ~din,inuendo effects made
the breath come more slowly. Single
notes without tune accelerated tile
hearts action, but melodies quickened
it still more, operate pieces resulting
in the quickest action. These expert
ments would seem to show conclusive
~ the stimulative effect of music.
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What God Is.

Home is the first school. There is no
education like that which it can give.
There is no influence such as it may exert.
1t has its elements of authority. 1t carries
its splendid sovereignty throughout its en-.
tire domain. But such authority and SOW
ereignty! Would it not have been better
if the authority and sovereignty of God
had always been interpreted and illumin.
ated by this supreme thought of home?
Was it not a mistake to abandon this most
precious of our earthly relationships and
seek instead to understand our Heavenly
Father by means of earthly monarchs and
earthly courts of law? Instead of taking
the best in human life as a means OF, inter-
preting Gods character, have we not often
taken the second best? Can We ever exag'
gerate what God is? Can we ever make
Him seem too good? Rather, is it not our
danger that we shall make Him too mea'
gre and impoverished and inglorious?
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For Ny Sake" I
Three little words, but full of tenderest
meaning
Three little words the heart can scarcely
hold
Three Little words. but on their. import
What wealth of love their syllables un.
fold!
"cFor My sake cheer the suffering, help
the needy,
On earth this was My work: I give it
thee.
If thou wouldst follow in thy Masters
footsteps,
Take up thy cross and com and learn
Of Me.
"tFor My sake press with steadfast pa
tience onward,
Although the race be hard, the battle
long, =
Within Ny Fathers house are many man.
sions,
There thou shalt rest and join the vic
tors song.
"And if in coming days the world revile
thee,
If for My sake thou suffer pain and
loss,
Bear on, faint heart, thy Master went be-
fore thee,
They only wear His crown who share
His Cross"
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To Business Men.

If what you sell is for the good OF the
community, why do you let Others sell that
which harms the community?
The more decent all lines of trade are the
better for yours.
If ten decent business men allow one Dad
business man to harm their trade, whose
fault is it?
Whose fault is it if a saloonkeeper gets
$40 out of a mechanic before he gets to-
your store? He's broke. What do you
get?
If you have dry goods or groceries or
boots and shoes to sell to wage earners, and
the saloons of your town get hold of these
wages first, where are you?
Saloons cannot exist if decent business
men protest. 81
As decent business men, why don't you
protest?-Dial of Progress.
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A Alouse.Proof House.

You will have to satisfy yourself
that your house is built mousc-proof;
no man will ever do it of his own ac-
cord. See yourself, with your W eyes,
that every board Of the floor goes ex-
actly to the outer wall. Then have a
thin coating Of cement spread over
the narrow strip Of floor between the
walls. This is the only certain way.
After several terrifying experiences l
have come to the conclusion that a
mouse can squeeze himself through q
crack too small 10 see! Iou will also
have TO use cement TO satisfy your
self that no possible places are left
where the plumbing is brought into
the house. Elizabeth Knight Tomp-
kins, in Good Housekeeping.
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By MISS ANNIE EDWARDS.

: was wanting, though Intellect abound
ed and there were still a couple Of IN
certain bachelor uncles between young
Severne and the title"
"And after this?"
After this the disconsolate lover
was ordered to India. Before a yea1
was over both uncles died, without
heirs, and, then, suddenly, Mr.. ant
Mrs. H%ardcastle discovered that Sill
John Severne was the n man in e1'
istence they would have chosen fol-
their C~lementina's husband. Mrs
Hardcastle, I should tell you, Is q
femme homme," continues Matte
land a femme-homme with q theory"
What antagonism, oh, reader, car
equal that Of converging creeds? Mat
tie Rivers yearns for the emancipa
ton Of her sex on the broadest scale
moral and social las the embryo move
will set forth, and still toward Merto!
Hall, or Girton, toward petticoate1
physicians or sweet girl graduates does
she feel like a conservative Of fifty
years of agei
Mrs. Hardcastle, I say, holds a the.
ory-that under-educated men desire
over-educated wives! Accordingly, she
has trained her family, her own chill
Gren and her stepdaughter alike, for
what may be called the market intel.
lectual. You see the result?"
"Miss Hardcastle is quite the clever.
est person I ever met" says Daphne.
There seems no subject of which Miss
Hardcastle is ignorant"
."And none that over-cramming has
not spoiled for her. Lectures here, con-
versaziones there-art, science, litera-
ture, politics-all these things have
been her portion since her infancy, and
now, at heart"
Miss Rivers pauses, and glances Sig
~nifcantly across the deck.
There in the moonlight stand the
cousins, deep in talk; the smile that
only Felix Broughton has the power to
awaken Frightening C~lementina's face.
"Now at heart she detests the very
mention Of lecture rooms. 'ologies, able
editors and learned professors; finds
more to say to a dandy with half an
inch Of brain than she would to the
most cultivated man in Europe; in a
word, is over head ard ears in love
with her Cousin Felix"
A feeling Of joy, too brief, too intense
for her to stop to analyze its source.
thrills through Daphne's heart.
"And-and so Miss Hardcastle will
not marry Sir John Severne" she fall
tiers, never lifting her eyes lest, even
in this soft light, they should betray
her secret.
Not marry" repeats the authoress,
with a laugh bordering on the cynical,
and causing her double eyeglass to fall
by means Of a little shake from her
nose. "Most undoubtedly Miss Hard
castle will marry Sir John Severne,
with Mr.. Felix Broughton officiating
as best man. She was talking to me
about her trousseau this morning. The
wedding is fixed for August, Elsie
makes the dresses, and the color Of the
bridesmaids bonnets-ah, Mrs. de Maui
ley! Surely, you will give us another
of your delightful ballads before we
break up"
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P XI.
Early Love Songs.

The Liberia has slowly foated with
the tide into the inner roads, and by
the time Daphne Chester is allowed
to land lies alongside the pier, not fifty
yards distant from the spot where
Jean Marie should be in waiting.
Morning is now creeping on with
| stealtby PAGES. The bulls Of the YES
| sells in the harbor, the walls and in
closures Of the fort above, gain at
each minute in ~opaqueness, although
/ the stars still shine white as at mid
| night, and not a flush of rose stains
the pale arch of eastern sky: Quickly
as her feet will carry her, suspicious,
fearing-must 1 add hoping?-that an
escort is at hand, Mrs. Chester runs
forward to the appointed place of
trysting, and finds herself alone. Tim
idly, under her breath, she calls Jean
Marie by name, but gets no answer.
Advancing a few faltering PAGES to-
ward some logs Of timber, whose deep
line Of shadow it is barely possible
may conceal him, she glances round q
corner-no Jean Marie is there. She
turns back despairingly, half resolved
to go back to the protection of the
Liberia and Lady Lydia, and sees-did
she not expect to see?-Sir John Sew
erne. not a half a dozen steps behind
her in the road.
"Sir John, how you startled me!
When I left Lady Lydia was your
partner. l thought you would all be
dancing for another hour, at least. i
l am just waiting for Jean Marie. If
be should not appear''-this with the
holiness Of a lion, though a minute
ago she could have counted the beat.
ings of her own heart-"if Jean Marie,
with his usual fine genius for going
wrong, should contrive to miss me, it
does not matter. I don't mind walk
ing home to Quernec alone one bit
am afraid of nothing"
And, in confirmation Of her e1traor.
binary valor, Mrs. Chester leans back
against one Of the projecting blocks
Of timber and turns a little white.
Sir John watches her face narrowly.
You gave one waltz too many to
Mr.. Broughton, l suspect, Mrs. Ches.
ter. Such dissipation as dancing till
. in the morning does not suit you
or me, either" he adds in somewhat
grim parenthesis. when you have
rested for a few minutes longer you
will just take my arnI-"
Never"
And we will start by the field way
: for Fief-de-la-Reine. And there is not
the smallest necessity to hurry; we
shall see the sun rise, probably, as we
go along"
But Daphne has already come to
~sternest resolutions on the score of her
own future conduct. Fresh in her
memory is the delight that, for a pas.
sionate instant, thrilled her heart at
the possibility Of Severne's being SET
free. Fresh in her memory are the
facts that his marriage with Clemen.
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The neenest Grave.

Laborers digging an artesian we'll at
Bonesteel, S. D.. have unearthed a hu-
man skeleton fifty feet beneath the sur
face. The skeleton was in an excellent
state of preservation, and is believed
by scientists to be that of a prehistoric
man. The Bad Lands of South Da'
kota, in which Bonesteel is situated.
have been prolific in fossils.
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"Theodore Roosevelt Parker"

The Bureau of Navigation at Washing
ion, d. c., received a request from Repre-
tentative Bell, of California, for the enlist;
nent in the navy of a constituent named
Theodore Roosevelt Parker. The applicant,
It appears, really bears the name OF Theo-
lore Roosevelt Parker, as did his father:
It is said the family is q branch OF an old
Pennsylvania family of Rosevelts. not con.
,ected with that Of President Roosevelt.
Bells request Will be granted. 1850
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Houel Automobile Wnistles.

A European inventor. has converted
the spokes Of an automobile into wbis-
ties, which are operated by the air az
ton. The whistles are controlled by a
series of small rubber balls in cor
nection with the seat. their release
opening Il valve in the spokes and pro-
ducing a peculiar whistling noise cas-.
i]y heard above The sound Of traffic.
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Charming Life Of the Zealot.

How charming is the life of the zealot
and mystic who simply believes and takes
God at His word? Out of the world of
strife and failure, through with struggles
and temptations, with no ambition to rule
or accumulate, with life's necessities few
and those we'll met, in the Beulah land of
the pilgrimage, with visions of heaven
from the Delectable Mountains, how Sc
rene and lovely is the experience of the
saint! And how almost perfect it isl SO
much 30 that it is easy and natural to call
this state of grace entire satisfaction, holt
ness and perfect love.
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Rough Census of the Jews.

According to q rough census, made by
Professor Haman, of Switzerland, there
ire 10, 0 900 Jews in the world. OF these
it is figured that the United States has
l.O00, 600; Europe, lOyO0o, 900, and countries
outside of Europe, 100000. Professor
Hannah gives this distribution OF the Jewa
in Europe: Russia, 5000 600; Austrla-Hun'
gary, l,S60,0 600; Germany, $4,000; Ronma
MIA, 100000; Great Britain, 100000; lur'
key, 10000; Holland, $1,000; France, IT,
900; Italy, $1,000; Servia. 5000; SWitzer'
land, 1900; Denmark, 1000; Belgian, 5000;
Spain, $500, and Portugal. only 800.
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Christ's Eegacy.

The very fact that you have troubles is
a proof OF His faithfulness; for you have
aot one-half of His legacy and you will
have the other hall. You know that
Christ's last will and testament has two
portions to it. "1n this world ye shall
next clause is: I'm Me ye shall have
peace" You have that, too. BE of good
cheer; ! have overcome the world" That
is yours a,so.-Christian Home.
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143 Miles in 1A2 Minutes.

The New York Central officials an
nounced that on October 10 Train 80,
run from Albany to New York, l43 miles,
in l42 minutes, at an average speed Of 60.42
miles an hour. The train consisted of six
cars. R. Butterfeid was the cngileeh
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Ts@: POPULAR "a
IS e SCIENCE y r.
A. Swiss matchmaker has invented
an electric watch which will run tor
Gfteen years without being Wound

That eggs decrease in weight during
incubation has been proven by careful
weighings by Mr.. H. S. Gladstone. The
average loss of a pheasant's egg from
the first to the twenty-irst day was
found to be two drains twelve grains,
and one egg which weighed seventeen
drains nineteen grains when laid had
become reduced to thirteen drains ter
grains on the tw~enty-third day.
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If Satan was dangerous when Paul wrote
his e~pistles, how much more dangerous
must he be now, for he has 80 much more
Observation-Disclosures A Bonar
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For two years an exhaustive mono
graph on 4 typical lake of Italy has
been in course of preparation by the
Italian Geographical Society. The pie
turesque lake Of Bolsena, within easy
reach from Rome. Was selected for the
purpose, and the studies include the
geographical and geological features,
the rainfall and temperature and sea-
sonable variations, the changes of level,
the seiches OF rhythnical pulsations OF
the surface and the life forms. The
seiches constitute one of the most in
teresting of tie phenomena. These
have a regular period of twelve OF
fifteen minutes, the rise of the water
on occasions reaching a foot. and the
oscillations are often so marked that
the natives speak Of the lake rs pant
ing. They are more conspicuous AT
Marta than on the opposite side OF the
lake at Bolsena, a rise of seven inches
at the former being correlated with
one of four inches ut the latter.
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There are bacteria and bacteria. DR..
Charrin, a French psychologist, has
been experimenting upon rabbits with
various vegetables sterilized ~ the
most approved processes. and he has
shown that it is erroneous to declare
that the less bacteria there are in our
daily food the better. What. is re-
uuired is to weed out the harmful or
sanisms from the beneicent kinds.
The rabbits fed on sterilized food soon
died from maladies set up by non
assimilation Of the vegetables, but
other rabbits flourished on similar
sterilized vegetables that had been
afterward treated with suitable bac-
terra.
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THE SUNDAY T., SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR NOVEMBER 20.

Subject: Jsaiah's Message to Judah, 1sa.
t., 1-9; 16-2o-Golden Text, lisa. j., 16,
17-Memory Verses, 1s-2o-Commen-
tary on tho Days Lesson.
The daily Alaskan., 1904-11-30
Going Going
Al Cost and Many ThiDgS
 Less Than Cost

From now until January l am going to make a desperate effort to get out of business. I have not put in, neither am I going to put in a dollars worth of goods. If you want watches or dia- monds or anything else I have, come and see me and feel satisfied that you will be convinced that I am sincere in my statement that am going out of bus iuess I have a very fine Lynx robe that never has been used that you can have at half its value. I have a very warm broom furnished house at low rent. I have an endless variety of everything and it IS all for sale and no strings on it. Come and see me, you can save many dollars if have what you want.
 Keelar, the Jeweler.