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|0 YOU keep boarders?” asked
a tired, angular woman, who
came up on the porch and
sank dejectedly Into a chair.
The proprietor of the 8prig-
ville House stood with hat In hand
■and gazed at her without the sugges-
tion of a smile. On his face was a
look of patience and resignation.
“We try to," he replied, solemnly.
“I’d like to see your rooms," she
said.
He pulled a bell cord, and when a
small boy came slinking around the
corner he told him to find his mother,
as a lady wanted to see about board.
She appeared in a few minutes wip-
ing her hands on her apron, and con-
ducted the angular lady inside.
The proprietor looked at the lone
man wrapped In an
overcoat In the
middle of August,
and said he thought
there would be
clear weather be-
fore the week was
out.
“When she asked
you If you kept
boarders, you said
you tried to,” re-
marked the man
between his shiv-
ers. “What did you
mean ?”
“Just what I said. We’ve been try-
ing to since the middle of May. On
the 15th tyo^came. They said they
wanted^fo see the mountains take on
their rifummer verdure, wanted to be
here before the crowd, to revel in na-
ture. They reveled ail right. Nature
began business within twenty-four
hours. It rained, and then It rained
some more. Then It turned cold, and
the house was like an Icebox. Every
time they'd see me they would ask,
‘Do you think we’ll have sunshine?’ I
always said yes, but I never told them
when. Well, they staid a week,
caught colds, got the rheumatism, and
lost their religion.
„ “Then for a whole week the only
visitor we had was a young fellow who
wanted to sell us a gold-edged book
telling about the lives of saints. We
finally got it for two days’ board, and
the rest of the month I put in reading
about the saints. I wanted to see If
any of ’em kept a mountain boarding
house in a frosty summer.
“We did a heap of writing about the
first of July and got in a few, and
things looked a little better. But one
of these fools who are always seek-
ing health and distributing their com-
plaints around to everybody who will
listen knocked us out. He said his
doctor ordered sir-
loin steak for him
twice a day.* We
tried it for two
days, and all the
rest of ’em began
to call for sirloin
steak. And way up
here sirloin steak
costs 40 cents a
pound. I put the
case before him,
and asked him where I was com-
u lng out at $7 a week. He said
that was none of his concern.
We had promised to board him
for $7 a week, and he needed the
- steak to save his life. I suggested
—' that he go back and board with his
.......
He wanted the steatr......Then we took
-1 another tack. We gave him pork and
potatoes, and when he kicked I told
him that we were boarding him for
1
$7 a week la spite of the fact that
pork was high. And when he said
sirloin steak I told him quickly
enough that steak wasn't in the agree-
ment. So he left, but before going the
ingrate went around among the other
boarders and said the table was the
worst he had ever struck and that the
house was certainly damp. Soon the
other boarders followed. We tried to
keep them, but they had a telegram
showing that their grandmother was
dying, and that settled it.
“Then it was the time for the two-
weekers.”
- ““The two-weekers?” asked tho shiv
erlng man, waking up.
“Of course. They make up the ma
Jority of the summer boarders—the
ones that have two weeks' vacation
you know. I pitied them, I really did.
They’d spend the night around the
stove planning trips for the next day.
and the next day It would rain. Our
crowd increased in August, but so did
the rain and the chills. They all
came to me with their grouches and
their disappoint-
ments. And old St.
Swlthln held on,
and made us keep
up the fires. Do
you blame them
boarders for leav-
ing? We tried to
keep 'em. but it
was no go. They
west, and said If
the good Lord
would forgive them
for that time they
would never see Sprigville again.
“Yes, madam," he said, arising to
greet the lady who had made her in
8peetlon. “What can I do for you?"
“Do you think we are going to
have clear wegther?" she asked. “And
do you think It will be dry and pleas-
ant? I shouldn’t want to stay, you
know, unless we could be out In the
air a great deal, and I fear your house
might be damp In rainy weather.
“In rainy weather?" he echoed.
“Madam, it has rained so much this
summer that 1 don’t believe there’s
another drop between here and heav-
en.”
“Maybe not,” she said; “but it’s
begun to sprinkle now. Could you
loan me an umbrella?”
“Do I understand you to say that
you and your friends will take the
rooms?”
“Not unless the weather clears,
she replied. “If it does, we will re
.turn the umbrella when we come.
He got it for her, and as she disap-
peared down the road he turned to
the shivering man and said: “And
yet you ask me If
we try to keep
boarders?"
“Well,” said the
man, solemnly,
“you have my sym
pathy.”
“I don’t want sym
pathy—I want $7 a
week. But it’s my
last time. Remem-
ber, it’s my last
time. . Next, year
I’m going to wait
for SL Swithin's
Day, and then I'm
going to shut up
fishing. Keeping
Not any more for
your,. uncle . 8amuel, thank you," and
he left the man with the chill to get
as much comfort out of life as he
could find.—Chester Peake, In New
York Times.
house and
boarders, is
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Old John Brown.
This striking portrait of the great
liberator represents him as he was
a tew years before his martyrdom,
and is copied from his biography, by
John Newton, just published by Mr.
T. Fisher Unwin. In his last years
he wore a beard.
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John Brown.
“He captured Harper's Ferny
nineteen men so tr~
And be frightened
trembled through
They hung him tor
the traitor crew,
But his soul’s marching on.”
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>er-s Kerry with bis
o true.
old Virginia till she
rh and through
a traitor, themselves
Pillsbury as a Chsss Player.
Plllsbury, the Americas chess ex-
pert, is entitled to be called the great-
est “secopd” chess match player in
the world. He has * the habit of gen-
erally finishing second In s match.
M Lasker Is entered, Pillsbury will
be second to him, but If Lasker is not
entered, Pillsbury, who, barring Lask-
er, ought to be first, will continue to
end second to some player of the sec-
ond class. He has thus been second
in more chess matches than say other
expert Only once did he take first
place, and that was In the first inter-
national contest. In the recent match
at Hanover. PlUsbnry’s failure was
chiefly due to a very poor start
Great-4randn*ph*w of Washington.
Oeorge Washington, s great-grand-
nephew pf. the, immortal president
was a witness In s New .York city
court a few days sgo. His great-
grandfather, William Washington, was
the general’s brother, but being a Tory
left this country for England during
the war of the revolution. Later he
settled in Belgium. The twentieth
century George does not care for the
reflected glory that comes with his
name, though no one has greater ven-
eration than he for the man who was
first in the hearts of his countrymen.
Wins Rosebery's Love ™E s™day
Lady Naylor-Leyland Said to Have Captured Heart
of English Statesman.
(Si ial Correspondence.)
|U.dORS have reached New-
port that Lady Naylor-Ley-
land, the richest and most
beautiful widow in England,
probably bre long will become
the wife of Lord Rosebery, and
that a visit from the leader of
the opposition in Parliament, and one
Lord Roaebery.
of the richest of Orest Britain’s noble-
men, is among the possibilities of the
coming season.
Lord Rosebery has been hero sev-
eral times, and there was no expecta-
tion that he would repeat the ex-
perience until it was known that the
beautiful widow of Naylor Leyland
was to visit the country of her birth—
for the first time since she left It as
Jennie Chamberlain, of Cleveland.
So potent were her charms that she
took London by storm. In a few
months after her arrival half the
court beauties of England were green
with envy. King Edward, who was
then the Prince of Wales, made no
effort to conceal his adhilratlon of
her. It was His Royal Highness who
made the match between her and Sir
Hubert NaylonLeyland, an Immensely
wealthy man And one of his closest
friends.
She who had been Jennie Chamber-
lain then found herself mistress of
one of the half dozen most sumptuous
residences In London—s veritable
palace at Hyde Park Gate, with
marble staircases and a gallery of
priceless paintings.
This happened while Consuelo Van-
derbilt was yet in pinafores. The lat-
ter was before long to become the
wife of a Duke, but the bad millions,
while Jennie Chamberlain had little
besides her beauty.
The Prince of-Wales attended the
first ball given by the new mistress
of the Hyde Park Gate house, and
everywhere. Voters found it impos-
sible to resist her beauty and her most
engaging personality.
The prediction held good when,
three years later, Naylor-Leyland re-
tired from Parliament and announced
his conversion to radicalism and free
trade. Soon afterward he was created
a baronet
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The fortunate husband of this Amer-
ican girl continued to advance in a
career in which she figured so po-
tently until his sudden death in May,
1899. He left her a fortune of several
millions. , . •
The report now current that she
will marry Lord Rosebery brings into
prospect the most Interesting nup-
tials outside of the royal blood. 8uch
a marriage will unite' two persons
who fill the world’s eys In their re-
spective -personal accounts, and bring
together two great fortunes—for on
the death of his wife, who was Miss
Rothschild, Rosebery Inherited sev-
eral large estates, besides a fine bank
account.
Lord Rosebery—with all the space
he fills in the public eye—Is by nature
and by habit a good deal of a re-
cluse. He is one of the most omni-
vorous of readers, and for that rea-
son is never really alone. So habitu-
ated has be become In his solitary
communing with books that often he
rushes from. I-ondon to the country in
order to be alone there; and, vice
versa, very often he spends Sunday
Lady Naylor-Ltyland.
alone In London because that happens
to be the day when most of his own
class are out of town and when, there-
fore, he can be certain to remain un-
disturbed. There Is scarcely a being
more restless In Europe; or one who
so flits about from place to place. He
has a beautiful house in Naples. He
Is to-day at the bath in Hastings; to
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stood sponsor for her first son. Tbs
second son. bsd for sponsors both the
Duke of Cambridge and ths Duke of
York, Dukes, Duchesses, Karl* and
Countesses were familiar figures in
her drawing rooms always.
Her titled husband was a tall and
handsome captain In the Life Guards.
Iv the beginning of their married life
Mentmore Towers,
people predicted that the beautiful
American would help him In his ca-
reer. When he ran for Parliament
for ColcfaInter that prediction re-
ceived its first verification. She aided
him in his canvass,
morrow at the bull fight in Barcelona;
the next day one hears of him In
Vienna or In Paris. He keeps up sev-
eral palatial houses—at Daimeny, in
Scotland; at Mentmore, in Bucks; at
the Durdans, on Epsom Downs, and at
his house Jn Berkeley Square.. And it
Is hard to tell when he Is to be found
is one or the other. The one thing cer-
tain is that be will never stop very
long In any of them.
Head of s popular party, be never-
theless has given up none of the man-
ners and customs of the great aris-
tocrat, if one go to any of his dwell-
ings, there are all the outward marks
and tokens of tho-great noble; indeed,
it is almost like a plunge into ths
eighteenth century to visit some of
his residences—with the cornet every-
where, the retinue of retainers, the
ample and varied equipages. You
may see him in the Summer time trav-
eling from one great house in Buck-
inghamshire to another with postil-
lions, quite as if he lived in the days
before the railway; and, in short, he
is grand seigneur to his finger tips.
Soon—If ths news that Newport
hears with so much interest la
authentic—Lord Rosebery will have
another house to flee to when his owa
bore or tali to inspire him—the palace
at Hyde Park Gate, with Its staircases
of Carrara marble and Its paintings by
Murillo, Its tapestries by Kopu, its
panels of Delta Robbia faience, and Its
mistress, who is the subject of Amelia
Kusauei's very exquisite miniature in
ivory.
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LC8SON |. OCT. 5—JOSHUA 1:1-11
JOSHUA ENCOURAGED.
Golden Text—“Be Strong and sf a
Good Courage"—Josh. 1:9—Subject:
A Groat Work; the Conditions off
Suecsoe—Ths Enoouragemsnts.
I. ’’The N»w bNd*r. A Character •
Sketch."—V. "Now after the death
of Moaaa," described tn Deut. M. The
Lord spake unto Joe hue the eon of Nun.’*
Who bv divine authority had been al-
ready designated as Moses’ successor by
Moses himself. "Moses’ minister.” his
0,o***t attendant, Ala prime minister, or.
as It were, his privets secretary.
His name, originally Hoshee. the seme
as ths prophat Hoses, signifying "salva-
tion” or "help.” To this was added af-
terwards (Nun 18:14) “is" for Jehovah,
and the name became Jehoshua, “Je-
hovah Is salvation.” shortened to Joshua,
later modified in Neh. 8:17 to Joshua,
from which came Its Greek form In tha
Beptuaglnt, Josoue. Jesus.
Hls Ancestry. He was an Ephratmlte.
a descendant of Joseph, through Eph-
raim. and according to I Chron. 7:11-17.
ha was the eleventh generation from
Joseph: Hls father's name was Nun.
and hls grandfather, Kllshama, was a
captain of tha army of tha Ephratmttes.
10.800 In number, at the organisation of
the Israelites soon after the Exodus.
Hls Blrthplacs. He must havs been
borr In Goshen In Egypt, where his pa-
rents were In slavery.
Date of Birth. He was about eighty-
four at the time he became commander-
In-chtef. He died at tha age of 114 (Judg.
8:8). Ills birth, "according to UHher*S
chronology, would therefore be about B.
C. 1634; or 1334, according to the later
chronology.
Characteristics. Joshua’s most distin-
guished characteristic was oourage, both
physical and moral, to which hs Is so
earnestly exhorted In vs. 4, 7, 8. Hls
faith in God. Hls deep piety. Hls trust-
worthiness as a subordinate. Hls fine
qualities as a general—keen observation,
power to control, wise leadership, celerity
of movement, akllful strategy, boldness
of attack.
Practical Lesson.—All hls past Ilfs was
s preparation for the great work to
which ha was now caltsd. Hs never could
have done this work, he nsver would
have been called to It, had ha not been
faithful, active,, ready to learn, and al-
ways doing hls best. Hs that Is faith-
ful over a few things will be made ruler
over many things. ,
II. "The Great Work to bo Par-
formed.’’—Vs. 8-4. 8. "Moses my serv-
ant," ths one appointed to do my work.
Is dead. Therefore there Is a vacancy.
A new leader la needed. "Arise," take tha
plaoa of the dead leader. “Go over thla
Jordan," which lay below them at flood-
tide, between the Israelites and tha
Promised Land. This command was a
severe teat of hls faith and oourage.
“The land which I do give to them,"
“which I am giving to them.” That la,
the land of which I have long promised
them the Inheritance, and of which I am
now tn the very act of putting thorn In
possession."
8. "Every place that tha sola of your
foot shall trsad upon.” “That Is, avsry
place within the limits specified In tha
ensuing verse. The expression also Inti-
mates the condition upon which the land
waa to be given to the Israelites; their
feet must trsad It as conquerors.”—Kell.
"As I said unto Moses,” Deut. 11:34.
where tha words are recorded almost
word for word. ■
4. “From tha wilderness.” Ths desert
of Arabia, whers the Israelites wandtrrA
so long. "And this Lebanon.” Caltsd
“this” because visible from ths regton
where ths Israelites were enesmpd. "Un-
to the greet river, the river Euphrates.
All the land of thsHlttUes.” Descendants
of Hath, the second son of Canaan (Oen.
10:18). They Inhabited the country be-
tween the Lebanon and the Euphrates.
“Unto the great sea.” The Mediterran-
ean, the western boundary of the Israel-
ites. "Shall be ydur coast,” or borders.
Practical Suggestions. 1. The Chris-
tian’s promised land is God’s kingdom
both on earth and In heaven, both for
himself and for others.
8. "Though the promises of Ood may
be slow Ih fulfilling, yet the accomplish-
ment will come at last; not one Jot or
tittle shall fall."—Bush.
8. We can enjoy only so much of this
good land aa we conquer and taka po»
session of. Prosperity, tha enjoyments
of civilisation, usefulness, goodnsss, ths
higher Joys of the spirit, can be possessed
only In the same way.
III. "The Encouragements.”—Vs. 8, A
The Promise of Ood’s Presence. 8.
“There shall not any man be able to
stand before thee,” as an enamy In bat-
tle. successfully. “As I was with Moss*,
so I will be with thee.” The Work waa
Impossible to Joshua without God's pres-
ence. With God he could do all things.
The Promise of Success. A "Be strong
and of a good coaraga." Courage—not
■o much physical courage as moral Cour-
age—Is greatly needed In our day to
stand by what Is right at all costs; to
conquer besetting sins; (o resist the tides
of fashionable wrong; to carry on God's
work and uphold' God's truth. Courags
doubles the power of every effort, of
every weapon; Inspires ths body and the
spirit with strength. ■ —
“Shalt thou divide for an Inheritance.'*
That Is, you shall conquer the country,
and be able to distribute It among the
tribes. It was an Inheritance, because.lt
came to them from God.
IV. “The Conditions—Courage, Study
of the Revealed Wilt of Ood. and Obedi-
ence.”—Va. 7-4. Courage. 1. “Be thois
strong and very courageous.” Great '
strength, firmness of will, patience and
courage would be required to “observe
to do according to all the law.” Because
the temptations to worldllnosa and idol-
atry were very great. “Turn not from
It to the right hand or to the left.” Tha
path of duty is like a direct road to suc-
casa, and moving from It tn either direc-
tion leads to disaster and defeat. “That
thou mayest prosper.” Those only can
rsasonabty expect the blessing of Ood
upon their temporal affairs who make hta
word ttaclr rule, gnd conscientiously
walk by tt In all circumstances; and this
to tha way of true wisdom.’’—Bush.'
“Pass over this Jordan.” The Jordan
was st flood-tide and seemed sn Impass-
able barrier. The command waa a test
of faith, courage, and obedience.
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Russia Reaching for Markets.
Tha governor-general of the Amur
territory Is about to organize an ex-
hibition at Kirin for tha purpose of
Interesting the Manchus and Chinee*
tn Russian manufacturing product*
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