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APRIL MAGAZINES.

The American Monthly Revie,o of Reuie,os.-Illus-
trated.-Edited by Albert Shaw-is a monthly of
high class and of great value To many has become
indispensable review of the worlds current his
tory. In this number there are papers on "EIec-
tricitys New Alliance with Music" the new art
called Telharmony; Railroad Rates and Foreign
Trade-Singe or Dual Tariff? The Colorado Delta
The Russian Revolution, Food Science and the Pure
Food Question. There is able report of what
Congress is doing. discussion of industrial
and economic problems and the full review usually
given of the Periodical Literature of the day.
The Atlantic MontIy-has full table of contents
OF especial interest to us have found the paper
Questions of the Far East by the Hon. John W.
Foster; 'The Testimony of Biology to Religion" by
Professor c. w. Salseby, an English writer scien-
tifc subjects Mr. VIM. CARROT Brown continues
his history of ''The Tenth Decade of the United
States, this paper being on the ThirtyNnth Con
gress The opening paper is on Making Education
hit the Mark" by w. G. Parsons, a competent stu
dent of the great subject of education
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THE OPERA.

DIR. NIaltbie ID. Babcock, when he pastor of one
of the wealthiest society churches in New York
City defined his attitude in a characteristic and
memorable way. The incident told in these col
umns after his sudden death:
'One of the wealther members of one of Dr. Bah
cocks congregations knowing his passion for music.
told him he hoped DR.. Babcock would make frequent
use of his box at the opera, which he had taken for
the season, and enjoy to the full if possible the
rare musical opportunity thus offered Again came
that whole-hearted, sympathetic smile from Dr. Bah
cock, with the impulsve words
So can't thank you enough for the kindness you
are showing me- But you know how a surgeon, in
practiclng his profession, is not only obliged keep
his hands and linen free from dirt he must keen
himself dSepticdlIy clean we'll Now in my pro-
fesson, have to be more careful than a sur
geon and so | must be careful about things that
might do harm in the most indirect WAYS You
Will understand perfectly, know, why | cannot ac-
cepJ the great Kindness you Offering me, though
do thank you for it from the bottom of nv heart
And men did understand, and they came to re-
spect and love their pastor a thousandfod more for
his manly, unaffected loyalty to his own Standards
than he had tried to gain their respect by lowering
his colors. "-Sunday School Times.
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HOME MISSION -RECE1prs

once more 1t affords us great pleasure to announce
to the church that the year which closed March n
mas oeen the most prosperous in all the history of
~ home Missions, both in receipts aud
III results. notwithstanding the legacy of s25Ooo
year ago which swelled the receipts last wear ,c
are glad to say that this year will even exceed lo
year. Owing to the fact, however. that some If o,,
receipts came too late to be reported in the stale
F "i,icn were sent out to the Presbytcres some
count leaving the total for this year SCI az -
sun we have received more funds within tbo fa.f
three months than during the same period A. ar,
time IN the history of the work in the past rbit
uoea not rel'eVe the pressure on our Committee how
oroao 'GI 'ne demands OF new work opening up in
crease faster than income. We make t,ie Itota
ment with profound gratitude to our kind heavonI,
rather Tor His continued favor and blessing upon or
great aggressive work s. I. Ntopprs o por o''
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In the Library.
MODERN MYSTICISM.
AN OPEN LETTER.

My Dear DIR. Shearer,-I thank you heartily for
your book on Modern Mysticism. 1t is a marvel of
mastery compactness. 1t is of those rare ger
minal treaties that suggest far more than could be
eXplicated in detail within so brief a compass If
stimulates the thinking mind to broader and deeper
thinking until the thinker hatters himself that he is
a profounder man than he had hitherto supposed
1T is therefore an exceedingly pleasant book to read
While 1T attacks the of mysticism with gloves
on 1t is careful to give black eye to any of the
truths the mystic has mingled with his vagares for
as you say, "the mystic does not challenge these
truths, but claims even more" 1t is I think an
exceedingly timely book. 1t first reveals how subtle
and pervasive is modern MYSTICISM manifesting it,
self in many phases that lack consistency and CO.
herence; and then with patient discrimination com
Prehensive exposition of Scripture and irresistible
ogic 1t clarifies the truth and enables the mind "to
perceive the words of understanding"
wish that some man of means who desires TO DO
the Church a great service would create a fund to
furnish this book to every minister ON our roll and
10 put 1t into the hands of every student who shall
graduate from semnaries in the next twenty-five
years. This would insure the propagation, through
several generations at least of the truth concerning
Che Covenants of the Spirit their scope and linn
Sincerely yours,
ASneVille N T. r. F. CAMPBELL.
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Educational.

MIR. Andrew Carnegie has offered $l2 800 to the
Blackstone Female Institute, Nottoway county Va
on condition that the friends of the Institute will
raise $32 500 additional. The money would be used
to erect large wing the west end of the present
building, in which would be located a large music
hail. library, gymnasium, and about forty bedrooms
Inc money over and above the amount necessary to
erect this building will be used to
pay the bonded and floating debt of the
Institute Mr. Carnegie makes that a condition
of his gift. President Cannon has begun work to
raise the $50 800
The Virginia Legislature at its late meeting did
three things of great value for the Public School
System of the State. First it increased the annual
appropriation from 100000 to 100000 Second
1T appropriated $4,000 for the assistance of school
districts in establishing high schools: and third il
authorized district boards to borrow from the State
Literary Fund money to build good school houses
from $l25 to $4,000 each, to be repaid within ten
years, at per cent. interest. Superintendent Eo
gleston is greatly gratfed by this action and be-
lieves that by this help public education will have
fine uplift
WASHINGTON AND LEE NOTES
President Denny has just returned from New York
where he was in attendance upon the meeting of the
Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for
pensioning professors 1t will be recalled that Wash
lngton and Lee University and Tulane University are
the only two institutions in the South with represen
tation on this Board.
The bequest of 10000 from Mrs Susan p Lees. Of
New York, has recently been received Anticipatino
the receipt of this fund.- Washington and Lee built
the handsome Lees Dormitory, which is now in its
second year of successful operations the demand be-
ing Tar greater than the available space The build
ing Is thoroughly modern in arrangement and an
pointments. W
Inc Young Mems Christian Associations of Wash
Ington and Lee and the Virginia Military Institute
are planning for college secretary to serve fine two
institutions Jointly The matter has been thorough
promise of success o.
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THE CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN,
ANSWER YOUR OWN PRAYERS.

1t is a mistake to dismiss petitions with an
amen or leave them behind us when we close the
closet door. Let us carry them out to Offices to
our workshops, to round of household duties
Let us bind them like rosares upon necks to be
our constant meditation. Let labor all day long
for their fulfment Earnestness and faith while
at the mercy seat, not enough they be sup
plemented by an honest effort to realize our suppl
cations, with the help of God
kneel down to offer your petitions with Emporium
ate confidence, and then rise up to strive for their
fulfllment Pray for the blessing as zealously and
trustfully as though it must direct from God
and then work for the blessing though it all de-
pended on yourself This is both philosophy and
common sense. Prayer and work 90 arm in arm
The match was made in heaven. What God hath
joined let no put asunder.
1t is well to look heavenward with feeling of
dependence, but they fools who fold their hands
and open their mouths like the Jews at Taberah and
expect the clouds to drop free and plenteous
as hoarfrost.
1t is well to pray, Give us this day our daily
Bread but this does not exempt us from the obliga-
ton of that old lecree Chou shalt eat thv bread by
the sweat of thy brow"
1t is well to wait on the Lord for His tender mer-
cies, but blessed is that who shall be found
waiting not in his bed but in the vineyard with
sleeves rolled up and perspration his face.
God helps those who help themselves. And if we
consider the matter shall be surprised to see how
often we are able to answer own prayers. In
deed, Tor the most part here is the way God grants
our petitions. Instead of giving the blessing He
gives the wherewitha to gain it for ourselves. You
ask for food He does not fill your basket with baked
loaves, but He gives you strength to labor for live
hhood Or you ask for wealth. He does not fill
your purse with glitterng coins, but puts matock
INTO your hand and points to the gold mine saying
"Go dig!"
Let us not abate one jot title of our "voce of
suppcation," but stimulate ourselves to more earn
est effort for the acquisition of our own desires
Keep on praying for the miserable but be sure YOU
leave no stone unturned to relieve their misery Keep
on praying for the SICK but go to their bedsides
lleve their needs and shrve their troubled souls Go
on praying for the conversion of your children but
use the voice which God has given you to warn them
OF the wrath to and the hand which He has
given you to lead them to Christ. Go on PRAYING
Tor the success of your pastor, but it. mean
while that his efforts supported and supplemented
by your cordial help and sympathy and there will
be no doubt OF his success &c. in every case if we
shall follow the prayer of faith with corresponding
effort, God will satisfy us with His favor.-DaUid H.
BWrreH, IN "The Christian InteLIgencer"
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Ministers Corner.
LIVE TOPICS FOR THE PULPIT.

We believe in keeping up to date in all things, and
the pulpit should be exception to the rule
mon which would satisfy and be appropriate 300
years ago may not be the best material for the audi
ence of to-day. But there is a limit to this Give
topic" business, and when it descends to the simply
sensational and is used to draw the crowd, rather
than to instruct in spiritual matters, it is without
its useful province. Who has ever known a church
to thrive for any period of time this kind of a
"live topics" program? Who has known revivals to
spring up souls to be saved, tie spiritual life and
longing of the faithful to be quiclened by such pro-
gramme?
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little Topeka girl came home from church tho
other day and was asked what the ministers text
was.
81 know it all right" she asserted
well repeat it, her questoner demanded
Don be afraid and | will get you a bed-ouilt"
was the astounding answer.
Investigation proved that the central thought Of
the sermon had BEEN Fear not, and will send Won
a comforter hansas city JournaI
., a leading american politician recently took his
niue son to Washington, where they paid a visit to
the Senate gallery. DR. Edward Everett Hale sno
c,"y interested the boy, and his father explained
,"'' Dr' Hale was the chaplain of the Senate "Ob
ne PrayS Tor the Senate, doesn't he?" asked the lad
NO. SAID the politician, che gets up and takes p
look at the Senate and then prays for the country
-ChristiaH Life.
Ile"ru IN a Manila Hospital.-Patient Ito pretty
n"se) VIII you be my wife when recover" prot
nurse; certainly PATIENT "Then YOU love me-
nIetty nurse: "Oh' no. that's merely part of the
r. sa.i'en', must keep my patients cheerful
IgiIIseo TINS morning to run away with man who
mad lost both his legs"
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Story Corner.

In other times we took car
Drawn by horses, if going far,
And felt that we were blest.
Now the conductor takes the fare
And sticks broomstick in the air,
And lightning does the rest
I'm other days along the street
a glimmering lantern led our feet
When on a midnight stroll;
But now we catch, when night is nigh,
a piece of lightning from the sky
And stick it on pole.
Time was when one must hold his ear
Close to a whispering voice to hear,
Like deaf men-nigh and higher;
But now from town to town he talks.
And puts his nose into a box
And whispers through a wire
Science and IBduSfj,l
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-07-13

The rice plant contributes nothing to-
ward the manufacture of rice cigarette
papers but the name Rice paper as
bought by the cigarette merchants Of
Egypt and Turkey Is made from only
perfectly new trimmings OF linen and
mostly comes from English and French
mills In ConstnntinopIe, Fumen and
France. The celebrated Chinese rice
paper Is made from thin slices of the
pith from the canes OF a tree about nye
feet high. A sharp knife pares the
pith into cylinders OF uniform thick
ness, which are than unrolled and
pressed out into so called rice paper.
BY the way, Egyptian cigarettes CON
tain no Egyptian tobacco, for since
1890 the cultivation of the tobacco
plant has been prohibited It Is for
workmanship and the curing OF the
leaf that the Cairenes are SO justly
celebrated, but the tobacco they i'm
port comes entirely from Turkey.
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AIobaraa,s stnte FIafE.

Over the historic capitol at Mont
gomery waves not the national Gag
but the Alabama nag, and not one Ala
bamInn in a thousand would recognize
1T IL be saw It elsewhere than on the
capitol The flag in question has no
history woven into Ii for 1t was not
adopted until 1895. It presents st,
Andrews cross in crimson on white
feid- such a cross Is shaped Ike let
ter Y. and the books suggest that the
apostle Andrew died on cress Of that
design. Few If any other states In
duIge In dags of their own. A Dag IS
tie symbol OF sovereignty, and state
sovereignty is limited by the federal
constitution. When we were a part of
Georgia we granted to the federal gov
eminent the executive power OF pun
lshing treason. and Il any one becomes
a traitor to the Alabama flag we might
have to call In the federal government
In order. to punish him.-Birmlngham-
Age Herald.
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one man had just told the story In
volyinR a suggestion to the conductor
Of a slow train to take the eowcatcher
on the locomotive and attach 1t to the
rear of the train, on the theory that the
train couldn't possibly run over a COW
ana that COW might stray into the
rear door of the last coach and bite the
passengers IL not restrained by cow
catcher.
at saw a man run down by q locoIlo-
tive once" said melancholy stranger.
at was ON the road from Carbonate
to Seigel. At RichInnd one man De
cided to get of the train and walk. he
had proceeded about fifteen miles When
the train overlook him he was knock
ed down, ana the train, In lelsurely
sort of fashion, proceeded to run over
him, The man spoke few words ana
expressed the wish that $4,000 accident
Insurance that he carried be given 70
his sweetheart. But the poor girl never
got the money. Before the engine got
up to the mans knees rheumatism SET
In. and the poor fellow died natural
death. It being an accident policy. the
girl couldn't collect the money. Kan
Bas City Star.
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Whenever have heard people raltis
ine az the vast fortunes Of some Of the
California miIllonaires, SAYS an Eng
fish writer, have always replied that
no man became a millionaire In the
early history Of California who had not
earned his fortune 0y the risks he had
had the courage to face. I remembered
an old Irishman named BIZ Dunphy
bringing home TO my mind what these
pioneers had encountered when he tod
me how he and a companion had Jared
IN a Journey across the continent The
companion injured his leg. Dunphy
had to cut Et on with an Ak and them
going forward through the dark un-
traced woods to search Tor the trail
and for food, had to leave his friend
behind by the side of stream and
with a single tin OF biscuits to keep
him MP till his friends return. Then
saw what the pioneers OF 1870 had
faced, and felt that they merited
such rewards, however great. as for
tune mad afterward bestowed upon
them.
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Too many languages are spoken In
the Balkans. A traveller In that region
writes of the babel: Turkish, Bulga-
rinn, Serbo-C roatian, Roumauian, Ar
nenfan. Greek, Albanian, Kulzo- Wal
iachian, Chingeni. the language Of the
,gypsIes; Spaniole, the language OF the
Jews of Spanish or Portuguese descent
and the language spoken by the Ger
man. Austrian; Roumaninn and Rus
sian Jews. Add to this Arabic, Per-
sian ana Syrian, largely spoken In Con-
stantinople; Italian. on the northeast
coast of the zAdria: Russian, in the
eorthoastern parts OF Roumania; yari-
Gus Acknowledgements idioms spoken
In Bosnia and Herzegovina and the
Caucasion languages of the Circassians
and Georgians" Not one Of these Ian
suages is OF common use.
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THe EVlL EYE
.el.5ls..n $50 FefIed aIfnsEoiis 70 u
n an Its7a,iiSI M,

IN ssIElelIard III.
There are severslI illassde shake
sDeare's play OF Richard which,
4aI,en n connection with nm ancient
stIpers tttion rife IN the Engiand of
F.iIzabeth-fndeed, still fourishing In
many parts Of the continent and even
lingering here and there In our own
land yet-seem to indicate q proDaoiil=
ty that the dramatist meant rs to I'M
derstand that Richard, rs conceived BY
min. possessed the power Of "fascina-
dom through the evil eye It Is true
that Shakespeare does not say this IN
so many words. but the fact OF the
prevalence of the belief in the evil eye
In his day would render It unnecessary
for him to do more than hint at or
suggest II, and far stronger argu-
ment In explanation Of his not making
the statement direct would be found in
the common persuasion that ottnches
to so many folklore superstitions that
1t Is dangerous to mention supernatu-
raj or uncanny things by name. We
are not Obliged to assume In conse-
duence Of this that Shakespeare him
self believed In the evil eye, and for
the present purpose it does not matter
whether he did or not, but we DO Know
as he knew, that most OF those VINO
formed his audiences believed IN II
For his ends the notion would have
striking dramatic value, and It wouln
also help to explain the extraordinary
way In which Richard '.fascinated
first Ann and then Elizabeth immedi-
ately after having wrought them seri-
Gus injury.
To turn to the passages in question,
in I, II, As Globe text Ann Neyil sny's
With reference to Gloucester, mortal
eyes cannot endure the devil" The
word devil" here would have In this
case not a general, but q special ap-
proprfateness, since possessors OF the
evil eye were supposed to have ae-
ouired that mfschievous organ, Win
It's powers of bewitchment, through
compact with Satan j, Ii, as, 7contains
the word ''fnfection5" applied by Ann
to Gloucester, n term regularly used
of the evil eye. In /, u, 90, we ma tne
ph.-lrS .IlevilIsI slave" used to Glouces=
ter by Ann. This, viewed in the light
of the other passages we are dealing
wif,i. may nIlude TO Gloucester's pacf
win tae CcviI, whereby he became his
agent or t9.clrs factor to buy souls
wi. ". T2), In pursuit OF which busi-
ness the evil eye bestowed on him by
Satan would be Invaluable in attract
ing and fascinating customers. Again,
In L II, IA, Ann splits at Gloucester. II
is needless to remark that from tie
earliest times In an ages and among
an peoples enc Of the commonest anti
dotes to sfascinatIon" (the technical
form for the action of the evil eye or
other evils was despuere nahum. In
I. ii, 149, we have the accusation again
hurled at Gloucester by Ann: "out OF
my sTghtI Thou dost Infect mine eyes.
In I. iii, POS, we md another accuser In
Queen Margaret, who. to Gloucester
says, esTIlat deadly eye of thine" In
". /, SO, the Duchess OF York his
mother, chimes In as third accuser
W NIxorLIs Addressed to herself ~
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Tbe lone star of Texas.

The origin of the Lone Star nag OF
the republic of Texas Is not entirely
clear. The claim has been made that
It was uufurled in the present territory
Of Louisiana in 1910. but other search
ers canno4 ind enrlier trace of It than
rhe presentation of such banner 70
the company of Captain Andrew ROD
f,js,,,, IN NIav. 1895. stu another claim
made FOR a flag unfrrIcd 1t Yelasco
& 1876. ana snId- to have been
he by u Miss Trout1nnn of Nashville,
one story has 1t that the star
G 9fyom the fact that Governor
tn. for lack of seal. used brass
on from his coat which bore i've
ted star.-st. Louis Republic.
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me hr 11rt Or the rdd b Pike
riedIz through rieiurc ne raNluc
- 81 4 iet MIR ~ ~ pilIitllll tolTlil rQtc
4iie ana ping ilr5uEh This
VINE 81 q Tlorjilnr a1d one sees
IIidiIy climbef 59ao shoot tlleig lIoyiqlss
ns the trnins uas 81 until one knows
exnctly how L feels 70 be 4 eelebrity-
As one eoes on the climbers become
eratIulTIy fewer, and after three or
four miles they are left behind Sud-
denly a new turn IL the road shows
that the FIRST foothills have been sur
mounted and that ne are climbing the
vast bare side OF the peak itself, The
trnck stretches toboggan-lflSe Ear ahead
Great views UNFOLD One looks down
on lonely wooded valleys where blue
lakes eiIstcn, on tie tops Of the. moSin5
tairs ana over mountains TO the plain
that stretches away like the sea. II
has grown cold, and patches OF snow
begin to appear. phe date Is Aug. 1,
but IN the snow heaps on the summit
we shall soon be snowballing one an
otier.=Four Track News.
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mic word acapaize.''

ymoIogIsts are driven TO pure con-
re to explain the origin of the
/ ..capslze." One OF them suspects
1t comes from the Spanish Ian
e. rs so many sailors' words do.
may be connected with "cabe-
/" to nod the head In sleep OF to
/ as a ship, and with "capuzar un
L." to sink a ship by the head
ezn,' meaning head. Another guess
sed on the fact that "capslze" Is an
Ish dialect word for moving a
head by turning 1t over alternate
to its two heads-is thar the word
|npIy cap" a head, and seize"
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xenfUp the waiting.

AbysslnIa it was once the habit OF
1lainnnts TO stand before the door
he kings palace, loudly appealing
Is majesty for help. 80 Recus-
~ is the king" wrote one traveller,
these queruIous tones of sorrow
when the rains prevent such as
really distressed from repairing to
The capital set of Migrants is pro
ylded whose object it is to raise the
cry Of artificial sorrow lest he should
feel n lonely quIetness."