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The Gospel According to
 ST. MATTHEW.

CHAPTER IA. At that time Herod the tetrarcf heard of the fame of Jesus. ?. And said unto his servants This is John the Baptist; he is riser from the dead; and therefore mighty works do shew forth themselves l. him.
 3. For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, hls brother Philips wife.
 4. For John said unto him, It. is not lawful for thee to have her.
 D. And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude because they counted him as pro- phet.
 6. But when Herods birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danc- ed before them, and pleased Herod.
 '. Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.
 s. And she, being before instruct ed of her mother, said, Give me nere John Baptist's head in a charger.
 9. And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her.
 10. And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.
 II. And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it ot her mother.
 12. And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried 1t, and went and told Jesus.
 13. When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.
 14. And Jesus went forth, and saw agreat multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.
 15. And when it was evening, his disciples came to him. saying, This is desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
 IS. But Jess said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
 IT, And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
 IS. He said, Bring them hither to me.
 19. And he commanded the multi tude to sit down on the grass, and
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The Dawn of Christianity
As Described in THE NEW TESTAMENT Translated from the Original Greek.

took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his deciples, and the disci- pies to the multitude.
 20. And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the frag- ments that remained twelve baskets full
 21. And they that had eaten. were about five thousand men, besides women and children P. And straightway Jesus con. strained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the | Other side, while he sent the multi. l tudes away.
 23. And when he had sent the multltudes away, he went up into 6 | mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there i alone.
 "A. But the ship was now in the midst of the sea. tossed with waves for the wind was contrary.
 9. And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.
 26. And when the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubl- ed, saying, 1t is a spirit; and they cried out for fear 27. But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is 1; be not afraid. 2S. And Peter answered him and said, Lord. if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water. 29. And he said, Come. And when Peter was come down out Of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus
 30 But when he saw the wind bois- teraus, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
 o1. And immediately Jesus stretch ed forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, o thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
 32. And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.
 33. Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, say ing. Of a truth tho are the Son of God.
 34. And when they were gone over, they came into the land of Gennesa- ret.
 B. And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that was diseased; 36. And besought him that they might only touch the hem of his gar ment: and as many as tcuchcd were made perfectly whole.
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WHAT,s THE MATTER WITH IRELAND
 A REMARKABLE LETTER

om the Covenanters badge at every mans buttonhole, all say that some thing-"We Want No Popery Here.' And. to be frank, the Roman Catho- lic Irish loathe your Protestants with enual intensity, and, as soon as they find we are Americans, don't hesitate to say so. Why, then when you are on the verge of civil strife that is almost entirely question of Protest antism vs. Catholicism, don't you face the facts; stop talking about imperial responsibilities, the right of minori
 ties. and other twaddle, and keep these religious extremists apart
 The Roman Catholic Irish like your
 ways. which are, of course, the Ul- ster ways; they don't like your hard
 business outlook on life; they are
 poetical rather than practical peo- pie; they frankly prefer their slums,
 bad roads, dirty hotels, eleven shil-
 lings in the pound taxes (rates); and they like to be told how to vote by their priests. That is not your idea of civilization, or ours, but surely they are entitled to their own views in their own part of the country. ldkG luC OA AASioiiA, ASl lhC Scotch and English-Irish continue their hard, practical church of Eng land protestantism, and Baptist ways at one end of the island and leave the Roman Catholics to manage their part by ruling off the six Ulster counties. You say that is not enough for the Presbyterians. I disagree. You say that the Catholics won't accept that
 solution My own impression after many interviews with people and prisests, is that they will gladly take it-nay, make other sacrifices to get it.
 Carson's army, whose motor dis patch riders in their hordes search the countrysides and watch the Cath ollie movements night and day, his Mausers and machine guns (yes, plen- ty of them), have awakened these easy going Celts to the fact that once more they have been out-organized. They will take what they can get now; but the existing tension cannot last.
 When neighbors hate, neighbors will eventually quarrel. As I write. Car sons army and Redmond's rabble are facing each hour the twenty-four hours round, and bloodshed may start at any minute. Meanwhile your well-paid politi- clans on both sides talk comfortably in which you call the Best Club in the in the World and take abundant care to avoid the bother of coming over here to find out for themselves the trouble that is coming to them and to you.
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THE COST DE LIVING.

The charge that the American peo- pie are high-livers, that they are ex- travagant and that it is tine cost of high living and not the high cost of living that curses them, has been made so often and in so many forms that it has become trite. Here is the story of a Russian laborer in the Santa Fe shops at Topeka, a stold by the Kansas City Journal, that fur nishes food for thought on the sub ject of the cost of living:
 Nine years ago he came to the united States with his wife. He now has a wife and five children. The ether day he walked into the Topeka postoffice loaded with three bundles. One was covered with woolen shawl, one with salt bag and one with red bandana handkerchief. The packages were opened by the postoffice officials and were found tC contain nothing but twenty-dollar gold pieces. The value of the col lection exceeded $3,00O. The Russian was given European exchange and has gone with his family back to his old home. The officials of the post office made computation to see if this sum cold be saved out of the mans wages. They found that it could be if he limited his living ex- penses to $20 month. The story of how the family lived made it clear I that they had plenty of good food and that they made the best use of schools and church. The substantial clothing brought from Europe was still in use and not a penny had been wasted on trash or nonsense. The home was small but clean and com fortable, and all members of the family were healthy and bright The head of the family had let whiskey alone and had never been out On strike.
 While the story does not say so, il is probable that the little family had small garden, chickens and COW It made good use of church and schools, lived cleanly, did not 'blow in' it's income on trivial things. and the head of the family was not a booze fighter nor labor agitator. It is an instructive story. !
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TALKS ON THRIFT. FOOLISH DISTRUST OF BANKS.

"Every child should have a
 bank account and be taught to
 make it grow gradually but sure-
 ly. An intelligently managed
 bank gives youth it's start in life.
 middle age its competency and
 old age it's comfort and security"
 Postmaster General AS. Buerl
 son.
 Very frequently one reads in the newspaper about persons who have lost large amount of money, per- haps the savings of lifetime, be- canuse they did not have confidence enough in banks to leave their money on deposit there.
 They preferred to act as their own bankers and lived to regret their fol- ly.
 Here is a summary of number of recent news items of that nature:
 Mammoth Springs, Ark.-When Mrs. Kate Williams sold her home several days ago she slowed the money, $3,O00 in leather satchel and elected to be it's guardian. Early in the morning a small band of men rode into Mammoth Springs, robbed the house at which Mrs. Williams was a guest and made off with the satchel.
 Jersey City, N. J.-The other night while Nicolo Dambrosia, Nlcolo Luca- rello and Toney Lucarello slept ill their flat in the basemen of the tene- ment house at 123 Myrtle avenue a thief crept in and, stole the three pairs of trousers that cover the sturdy limbs of Dambrosia and the brothers Lucarello in the day time.
 But in the trousers of Nicolo Dambrosia snuggled $2,35O, and in those of Nicol Lucarello $65O, and yet again in those of Tony Lucarello $410 all sweet American dollars. dug with the pick and the shovel.
 Altoona, Pa-When Thomas Fitzs- immons, an electrical engOneer, re- turned to his home from a night job he found his wife and five childre. all partly under the influence of chlo- roform, while the house had been thoroughly searched. Ten hundred dollars had been taken from it's hid ing place. Having no confidence in banks, Fitzsimmoas kept his savings in the souse.
 Terre Haute, Ind.-Robert Slusser glass blower, put $65 in gold and silver in the bottom or coal hod and filled the lated with coal to hide the money over night The next morning he made afire and dumped coal and coin into tine stove. Sud. denly he recalled hiding the money and frantically extinguished the fire The coin was melted into lump. | South Scranton, Pa.-Fearing tt trust his board to any of the loca banking institutions, Frank Scholsk secreted it behind a, picture ins h. l home. One day last week during hi' temporary absence some stranger cleaned out the bank"
 l Seattle, Wash.-Mrs. George She; 1 of Duluth, Minn., who is visiting he sister, Mrs. John English. in a sub urb of Seattle. haSs Reported to th' police that she has been robbed o
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THE LARGEST BANKS.

The National City bank of New york is popularly supposed to be one of the largest and most powerful banks in the world, since it is the greatest bank in this country, and the Bank of England is popularly supposed to rank as the leading i'm ancial institution of the world Ac- cording to Theodore Price, in letter nthe Outlook, the biggest bank in the world, measured by deposits, IS the Imperial bank of Russia, which has line of deposits aggregating $629, ,64O,OOO. In a list of eighteen largest banks in the world judged from the standpoint of deposits. the National City bank stands seven teenth and the Bank of England stands eighth. The list is as follows:
 i. Imperial bank of Russia. ?. London City and Midland.
 3. Lloyd's bank, London.
 4. Credit Lyonnais.
 5. London County and Westminis- ter bank.
 6. Deutsche bank.
 z. lSociete Generate, Paris.
 S.fBank of England. /9. National Providencial bank of EEngland.
 10. Hongkong and Shanghai Bank ing corporation.
 II. Barclay & Go.
 12. Compton National d'Escompte de Paris.
 13. Bank of Spain.
 14. Direction der Disconto-Gesell- schaft
 15. Dresden bank. 16. Baco de la Nacion Argentina.
 17. National City bank, New York,
 IS. Paris bank.
 It is something of an eye-opened to find that England has no less than six banks with deposits greater than the deposits of our greatest bank. and that our National City bank rangs below banks in Spain and Argentina
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ly in an enterprise without demand ing reports at regular intervals pended. Yet the taxpayers of Ar kansas for years nave been invest ing in public enterprises without ever obtaining details concerning the manner in which their money was spent. The passage of act Mo- 3, to be voted on in September, will pro- vide the taxpayers with service simi- lar to that accorded stockholders in banks and other well-conducted busi- ness enterprises.
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$20,0O0 in currency.

$20,0O0 in currency.
 Mrs. Shea's husband, who intended to follow her from Duluth, and buy property here, shipped the money to her by express. She intended to put the money into a bank at once, but for various reasons put if off. When she and her sister decided to visit Seattle they hid the $20O0O between the sheets of bed. On returning home at night found that burglars had ransacked the house and stolel the treasure
 Multiply these cases by hundreds and thousands every year and you get some idea of the toll paid by foolish persons who do not make full use of the security afforded by the banks
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ing trained business men to run the county affairs. The idea of the traln- ed business man of known efficiency managing the business affairs of mu- nicipalities and larger political di- visions is rapidly growing in favor The reason for this is that it has been found thene is more business and less politics in places where the public affairs are handled by efficient business men instead of by "good fellows"
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The railway managers argue they cannot grant the demands of the ehginemen for increased wages be- cause 1t will cost the roads $3O,0OO,- 900 a year; the enginemen say the roads would have ample to pay the wages earned and still have enough lett to pay good dividends millions Ill water" are squeezed from the stock.
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No matter how we differ as to Cole Blease's wild politics it rlust be admitted there's considerable wisdom in his reasoning that nothing is to be gained by hanging negro for killing a negro; in fact, that such practice is an economical waste. Cole likens the negro to mule. He declares that if one of his mules killed another, he most certainly would not kill the offending mule And, if this is good logic as appiic- able to negroes and mulest 1t is bet ter applied to whites.
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THE GRADUATES DUTY.

The Sunday before the graduating oxa,cises of schools and academies as we'll as colleges, is now qul'e generally observed as a time for the senior class to attend some church. Amid the rush of final examinations and. social gaiety, the prospective graduate is not oblivious to the real meanings of the hour. He mst be unusually dull if he does not realize himself to be on the brink or one Y inc great changes of life. At tlhs narting of the ways, the heaH 'ls opet to new ideas.
 In cr American life. fsohe great ideal is ee.erished by Tthe young person about res-Snock at the open door of fate and opportunity. That ideal is success. But the ideal ol service is better.
 Most business men strive and fret to grasp some advantage over compet- itors, meanwhile nerving their rivals to strive and fret to get ahead on their part. The net result is that no one advances very much. Mean while common effort to build up the community would increase every ones success through high tide oi general growth. But boards of trade and business mems organizations are usually carried on by a few large minded workers. Most of the others still dig away at the blind alley of mere isolated efforts.
 The boy or girl who has had an education has in effect borrowed from the taxpayers, or generous givers of the past. It is expected that the young people who have been given this loan of training and in formation will be more efficient pro- ducers. The education is given that they may have a better grasp of the modern movement for social better ment, and will be wiser leaders oi human effort through study of the successes and failures of past history
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EXTRAVAGANCE AT THE SUMNER
 RESORTS.

A person who should make a tour of a considerable number of summer resorts would be impressed by the enormous amount of money being spent il what may fairly be called extravaganza.
 Tourists must often question who support all the top priced hotels. The millioRaires occupy large place in the public eye. But when you some to enumerate them, they are a very limited class. A great many of them travel in Europe, some do not care for travelling as they find it physi- cally wearisome. Either many of these expensive hotes must run at loss, Or else they are being patron ized by persons who can not afford to pay for their magnificence.
 Take the case of many people who live at home in very simple style. They may keep no servants, or at most single workhorse of general -housework girl. Yet when they start off for a summer outing. they must have the best there is. At home they may be content to do their own passing" at table. At the public resort they wish to be as good as any one. and must have their own individual waiter, to save them any "reaching" or delay.
 The spirit of extortion and exac- ton seems to prevail. The livery man will not take you on general drive to show you the main features
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Enormous Demand for Matches.

Enormous Demand for Matches.
 The consumption of matches has reached amazing proportions. Accord. ing to the Lancet, about 1S.000.000 gross of boxes are consumed per an. mum, 63 per cent. of which were of the "strike anywhere" and 37 per cent. of the safety variety. This is 2,5Y2 2.000.. 600 boxes and more than 500,000,000, 900 matches. Friction matches were first used in 1883
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ernment of Spain, and at the request of the. Spanish Minis ter of Foreign Affairs, present. ed to the President a message designed to inaugrate negotia- tions for peace. 1S99-President Heureax, of San Domingo, assinated. 1912-Eight Detroit Aldermen were arrested for taking bribes. 1913-Danger of tie-up of fifty-two Eastern railroads ended when representatives of the road and trainmen signed articles of arbitration.
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Value of a Boy.

School officials in Beverly, Mass, calculated the money gain for their pupils in vocational education. They found that an expediture of $500 per boy in industrial training had raised the capitalization of the boys econom- ic value from $6.0oo to $15.O00 or SIS. 0(0
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PaJamas may be more stylish. as some Of our contemporaries argue, put a man who wears the good old time night-shirt can usually be de- pended on to go to church and vote the straight ticket in November.
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FIorlda's Tiny Mountain.

Mount Pleasant. Florida, is prob ably the smallest mountain. as well as ths least in elevation in this coun- try. It is only 301 feet above sea lev. el. and is the highest determining point in the state.
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JULY 26 IN HISTORY.

1S12-Battle of Korbine. 1S3S-The Bolivian troops having left Lima on the previous day, Neito and Orbegoza entered the city.
 1S4S-After several days of hard fighting, the Piedmontes were totalla defeated by the Aus trians, and retreated to Milan. 1S5S-First Hebrew in British Parlia- ment. 1S9S-French Ambassador, M. Jules camdon on behalf of the Gov.
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The Louisiana legislature has authorized the establishment of the commission form of government for counties. and 1t is said that many of the counties are figuring on employ
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Queer Refuge for Hunted Staa.

Pursued by bounds a stag bounded In through the open French windows of the Y. M c. A. buildings at Ash bourne House, Epson, England, and took refuge in the larder. which meas ures eight feet by six. The huntsman and whips quickly came ID and, secur' ing the stag with ropes, placad 1t in some stables, from which it was re- moved shortly afterwards
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The fact that bride can decorate church in June with the most ex- qulslte sense of harmony and propor- tlon, is no sign that she can make a algestlble berry pie in July.
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If General Manager John w. Ever man of the Cotton Belt wants to make good' on his expressions of friendship for Pine Bluff and display appreciation of all the good things said about his road at banquet in his honor here recently, he'll see that we get that motor car to Clarendon.
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Probably every one would be will ing to go to work at 6 a. m. in sn.: mer, and get through that much earlier, if it were not that they would be able to do more work that way.
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HOW does President Wilson exnect 'he Washington team can win, when he fails to show Up at the ball grounds as mascot?
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SWAAtenf worda.

Are there any sweeter words in the English language" musingly inquired Professor Swtggs, than I love you?" Well" grimly remAlrked the pessimiss tic nearer, q understand that somo authorities regard There's that money l owe you.' as about the epitome of satisfactory sentences"
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In Aomeonafhlo 0NaA1

In Homeopathic Dcses.
 Well, Uncle Josh, how do you feel?" Rotten; that beer don't seem to help none." Flow did you take it?" "Ta- olespoonful afore meals."-Life.
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According to the prevailing scale Of tips. a smile from the colored elevator man at the summer hotel costs about 25 cents.
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GIRLS BE BEAUTIFUL Send 50 cents for far of Mrs. McI yArmick,S

cents for jar of Mrs. McCOrmick's Beauty Cream, it promotes and per- fects that irresistible charm a beauti- full complexion. Use it and improve your complexion and De charming. Lady agents wanted. BEHRENS DRUG CO, Waco, Texas.
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A House Divided.

Do you have any differences of opinion in your family?"
 Terrible. Why, it couldn't be any worse if we were all members of the supreme court.'-Life.
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SOME SENSE AND
 SOME NONSENSE
And GpOrpe Did


 The new battleship schools institut- ca by the secretary of the navy have made some startling contributions to literature. Here is the essay of a Flllpeno sailer who was told ot write aoout George Washington:
 George Washington was sore be- cause Americal persons is not free, lie sale to England on- (naming his own battleship) and say to King Il express delaracion of independence for Americal persons" King he say "Nothin' doin'" and Mir. Wassingham tell Admiral Dewey to shoot turret guns at him. Bime-by King he say he will not rule Americal persons egain. Let George do it" say King and today Americal persons is free.- Ladies' Home Journal.
 Not the Same.
 Mrs. Exc: "I'm going downtown this morning.
 Exc: Shopping, my dear? Mrs. Exc: No, I haven't time fol that; just to buy some things that need.-Boston Transcript.