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Show 4 ?5 :'"Cff BY HARRIS FRANCIS NOAKE. DIFFERENT CALLINGS FIND SAME GOAL There once was a Swift young Torrent by the name of Terrace, whom the Doctor had Nearly Given Up. A was not necessary to convince his Folks that some of hit Wheels were Missing. Somewhere back in his Teens the Gambling Instinct got a Half Nelson on his Better Judgment, and those' who Knew said it Emanated from his playing ' ' Marbles for Keeps. At any rate, the fact remained that Terrace had a Storage egg beat to a Froth when it came to being Bad. His parents only slept between Efforts to Hoist him out of the Gulley. On the other hand, they were somewhat Consoled by the Righteousness of an older Son, Billed as Cosmo, which, by the way, is Not an Abbreviation for Cosmopolitan. Although the Farents didn t play any r avorites, they Unconsciously saw to it that Cos. got most of the White Meat. Ilia Graft was a Cashicrship ho was Respected and looked upon at a They pick up tunes with surprising in a Trust and Savings, where Credit to any Bible Class. In truth, with readiness, and repeating them trills and "variations" is an amuse he Headed the young men's meetment that never palls on them. ings every Tuesday, in which brothIt gives the missionary respite for er Terrace was always a bis letters home or to fall asleep over When a book or to go out and look at the the Avenue all the'Neighbors were stars and wonder how It would Beera to talk to a man of his own kind or to careful to Hide their hear good music or merely to see elecfor fear he might teach them the tric lights, to feel hard pavements un Shell Trick. In contrast to this, der his feet and hear the clanging of when brother Cosmo turned the street cars. Or he may wonder how In all the petty worries that sap his Corner, all the Kids rushed on strength he is to keep the freshness of him, doing a Muscle Grind around mind that will enable him to present his Neck, and feeling Free to go spiritual ideals In the guise to appeal through his Fockets. One night, to a savage people. But in this reCosmo took hold of his Drifting Is be past spect he often feels that Relative and Shot into his System praying for. the old Gag about Honesty being, HOW TO DESTROY EXPLOSIVES.' etc., but Terrace had long before Signed with the Hard Maples and Precautions to Be Taken with Gun to give up any Syrup. refused powder and Nitroglycerine. Cosmo even offered to find Brother A CREDIT TO ANY BIBLE CLASS. him a Job, but Terry didn't see The best way to destroy ordinary black gunpowder is to throw it into a iow he could Bank any money or buy Russian Kimel on six fifty Fer. stream under conditions that prevent All the Good the Talk did was to Frove that Each had a different Taste, any barm coming to human beings or animals through the dissolving of the the one, Nectar, the other, Dark Brown. Terrace's acquaintance covered saltpeter. If no suitable stream Is most of the Sporting Fraternity, including the Yeggs and Look-outavailable the gunpowder may be He had them all Panting when it came to Juggling the Gold brick and stirred with water in tubs, or the dry could have given anybody lessons on how to Gather the Hay, without Mow gunpowder may be poured out on the One day Terry 8 father overheard him bet a Cabman that his Tlug ground In a long thin line and Ignited ing. had False Teeth. This was the Fointcd End of the Limit, to Pod eot in with a fuse at one end. . Reform Seminary, determined to Lodge To destroy dynamite cartridges the Correspondence with a Son behind the be should securely carefully paper wrappings Grating for removed, the bare cartridges laid in fear he might reach the next Stage, a row with their ends in contact' and namely, Throwing Vitriol. The the firt cartridge Ignited with a fuse brother Cosmo Propelled week, without a cap. Even with these precautions a simultaneous explosion ot Terrace to the train instructing the the entire mass may occur, so that It Crew to Beware of the Little Pea. Is wise to retire to a safe distance. When fairly under way, Terry The row of cartridges should be laid he could collect a little easy "thought parallel with the wind and Ignited at the leeward end so that the flame will money, so Crawled over the Coal Bin into the Pilot house and bet the fire be driven away from the mass. Frozen dynamite should be handled man Two bits that the Engineer with special care, as Its combustion is could knock his Block off. Terry won peculiarly liable to assume an explo but rode the rest of the way in a A small quantity of sive character. Padded Cell. On arriving at the dynamite may be destroyed by throw Into au open Reform Works he was taken in tow ing It in very small bits fire, or the cartridges may be ex by a Proff, who knew Terry's fa ploded one by one In the open air ther, and to whom Pa had caUed to with fuses and caps. show no Mercy and to kick the Lin Dynamite should never be thrown out of Son if he started any Sun Into water, as the nitroglycerine ing which It contains remains undissolved Dances. Terry laid low only long and capable of doing mischief. Other enough to Measure tip a System for TERRACE'S ACQUAINTANCES. explosives which contain nitroglycer putting the whole Institution into In be ine should treated the same way Dry Dock. While these Tlans were at dynamite. Ammonium nitrate explosives may Budding brother Cosmo stayed home, Eating his way into the Heart of be thrown In small fragments Into an the Bank, until he was awarded the Captaincy. Imagine the parents' Joy or If they do not contain on learning that one son held the Tiller in a Coin House, while the oilier open fl nitroglycerine may be destroyed by was saieiy tnaincu up. ierrace was iar too tiooil to lie True, so linally meant of water. Explosive capi he Crept into a Faculty meeting just as the Session was getting nicely should be exploded singly with plecci under way, and Ducked under a table, waiting for a favorable time to light of fuse. Scientific American. the Fuse. The Knowledge Tank were discussing Pro and Con (mostly Con) an important point in Incubation, when Terry the Turk bobbed tip DUST EXPERT IN A WAY. and loudly Bet that none of ihetn could tell why a Chicken preferred a Hound to a Spmre Penh. One Man Who It Constantly Conscious After which there followed of the Presence of Dust in the Air. ;nelhing that sounded like a Board ot Trade "No matter where you live and bowPit during a Butl Market. The ever high In the air you always find Limit of the bet ua. the Hoof, dust settling on everything every therefore the ProfTs.. not wanting where, but," said the man, "if you want to realize this fact to npM'ar ignorant, Pooled a sum as you never did before you want tc to about Nine thousand, equal wear spectacles and work at some made up mostly of Mortgages. employment that requires constant k and Watches, other bending over. Eleven dollars in Money. The un"Fourteen timet a day, or at much oftener as you look, you will find derstanding was, lhat whoever your glasses covered with fine par among them guessed the Squib tides of dUKt Maybe you don't look ehould Divvy with the Rest. Plungand then maybe some bigger particle, ing Terry produced a WnJ about some speck that it by comparison the size of a Sack of Oats, only veritable bowlder of dust, tettlet there square In your line of vision. larger, laid off Three bills to where It may not obstruct your tight Cover, then Pushed the Balance but where It cannot fall to arrest your hack istto Darkness. One by one attention. Then when you take them the Heavy Thinkers threw in off to remove that bowlder you find and when they all Ran your glasses covered with dust In JUST AS COS STEPPED FROM finer particles, THE BLUE BUGGY." at you would find the For Help Flag, Terrace up them, Indeed, however often you put one Glove over the Currency,, might look. You Buy. Thw Retort nearwhich and made the other with meant, Sign "Over sues an area at that of New York, for Instano. there are tons of ly caused a repetition of Ihe Boer War and was only averted by Terry't dust floating in the air, at though explaining that Chicken prefer to Lay. Afterwards, they found Terruee perhaps without figuring out ttt in a thick Wood, going over the Securities to see that none was 'iwent. weight, many people, such at house In the meantime Cosmo had gotten too Numerous with the Shekel and wives and storekeepers, are aware where to Forward hi Laundry. So Pa wired had without saying but perhaps nobody It reminded of departed this to constantly at the man who for Terrace, who got home just as brother Co, was stepping from the Blue wears tpectaclea and who bends over Buggy into the Court house. . at hit work, and on whose glasses. iVrim'tion: The Black Sheep of the Family it Sometime! Under. where It It ever before hint, dust Is Tost-morte- Invitation to the President from the Methodist Missionary Society Brings Forth a Surprising Expo- , sition of Missionary Conditions in Africa Which May Be Improved Greatly Through the Coming x of the Great White Chief "Peskeya." ASH1XGT0N. The heroes of the dark are not all hunters and The hardest ' fight that Is waged for the opening.ot the continent Is not- a fight In the open with wild beasts or howling savages while the world looks on and applauds. Rather it Is a grappling in the dark 'with shadows, the shadows of spiritual gloom that loom so black and yet are so elusive to the grasp. It is a fight for the spread of light in dark places waged by men and women unused to physical hardships and with a breeding that renders them peculiarly sensitive to the spiritual wear and tear of their work. It Is a fight without fanfare, without an audience, and too often without immediate results. If President Roosevelt accepts the Invitation of the Methodist Missionary society to take part In missionary work while traveling through Africa he will have thrown the weight of his Influence In the scales for a cause particularly In need of such help. In the same way as the president's declamations against race suicide unquestionably have helped domestic life, so perhaps he can throw some light on a phase of civilizing work peculiarly misunderstood by the majority of white people at home and abroad. It requires no great stretch of the Imagination to get a vision of the president preaching a common-sens- e religion to a black au dience, just as he hat preached domesticity, fearlessness, strenuousness and a great many kindred virtues to - the But It requires people an intimate knowledge of the African character, its keen sense of authority and position, its veneration for "big chiefs" of whatever country, to gauge the tremendous Influence bis words would carry. Wr , 4 i t . Great Aid to Missionaries. Even If the president should not take an active part In the work, he undoubtedly will visit the mission stations, and the mere fact that a chief of such bigness that the full scope of the African Imagination hardly can take In his orbit visits familiarly with the missionaries will give a very helpful prestige to them In the eyes of the natives. Respect for his own chief Is the bone and sinew of the African's code of morals and is, In fact, one with bis religion. Combined with his Is a surprising penetration into the "who's who" of other nations. It takes an African native something less than five minutes to know who is the "real thing" and who merely masquerades In the borrowed feathers of authority. The hostile attitude toward missions sometimes taken by Individual white magistrates often has done incalculable harm to the work of the missionary, because these magistrates In the native eye are Invested with dignity as the representatives of the groat white chiefs "pesheya" (on the other side meaning of the ocean). The coming in person of one of the greatest of there rhlf to the house ot their own "umfundlsi" (teacher) will neutralize the unfriendliness of any resi- dent magistrate. On the other hand, President Roosevelt in his writings certainly will touch on the practical side of a work of such significance as that of the 1 1 1 , i Christian missions. The question of the capacity of the African native for. civilization must be answered at tne mission stations If It Is answered at ' all Missionaries have oponed the country to white men, and the chief highways penetrating the African continent still are called "missionary house roads." When Livingstone's was sacked, his books torn and scattered to the winds and his medicine bottles broken in revenge for his championship of the natives against the aggressions ot the border ruffians, this disaster was the Impetus that drove him to bis real work as an explorer. No one ever has accomplished more with fewer resources. To the lust he remained always the missionary, travllng among the natives as one who sought only their good and had nothing to fear from them. All the world knows how Livingstone's work became the Inspiration of Stanley's career and resulted ultimately In the real opening of the dark continent. F.ven before Livingstone's time his fatnur-Jlaw, Robert Moffut, traveled with his wife and babies through South Africawhen no one else dared venture outside of the white settlements, and no one thought of molesting him. He was the only man who bad any influence over Moselikatse, bloodthirsty cilef in- Seath :''s ." v Africa. The great Norwegian missionary, Bishop Schreuder, held a similar position In the regard of the fierce Zulu chief Cetewayo, and It was Schreuder's presence in the English camp that gave the natives courage to surrender themselves to the British when they had been vanquished in the last Zulu war In 1870. His house was the only white man's dwelling that was left standing In Zululand. The savage army, drunk with temporary victory, split in two, one division passed over the hills to the north of Schreuder's Ration, the oher over the hills on the south, for the chiefs knew that in the freney of battle their braves could not be restrained from destroying whatever came in their way. Missionary work in most parts of Africa, has lost much of its spectacular now Is mostly a matter features. of hard, grinding, monotonous work. The popular conception of missionaries Includes two figures. One Is that of a spiritual fanatic bent mainly on teaching the savages to sing hymns Instead of bowling war songs, the dupe usually of wily savages who feign "conversion" while laughing la their new missionary gingham sleeves. The other r Is that of a clever exploit ing the childish native to his own ad vantage. he-mo- It self-seeke- The True Missionary There Is a third figure, very different from either. Kipling has written with sympathetic Insight the story of the obscure official or officer In his struggle to beat civiliza tion Into the savage "half devil and Half child." The "Sergeant WhatVIs-Name-" of the mission field has yet to find his Interpreter or her Interpreter, for the sergeant la just as often a woman. Life at an African mission station Is very much the same throughout the continent The day begins usually with the call of the bell at sunrise In the summer and an hour or two before that time In the winter, for In the mat ter of early rising It Is the white man who must adapt himself to the native habit After a brief sunrise prayer the boys and girls of the school are mustered In the courtyard; they shoulder their hoes, and It Is away to the cam- field or the sweet potato patch. Stand ing in a row at the bottom of the field, they lift their heavy hoes far above their heads and bring them down with' a force that sends the Iron blade far Into the ground, lift them again and let them fall with rhythmic regularity At they do so they chant In a alow, heavy monotone, which Is their neap est approach to singing, any Incidents In their llfo that may be uppermost In their minds the ripening of the corn, the marriage of the chiefs daughter or any of the happenings of the day. Sometimes the work lags and needs the constant Impatient "She-shanl- " (hurry) of the white teacher. The African holds a theory quite the opposlto ot Darwin's; he believes that moukeya were evolved from a race of lazy people that loafed leaning on the handles of their hoes, until the useful Implements grew Into tails, to the everlasting shame of the loafen. Breakfast consists of one of the three staples, tweet potatoes, squnBh or corn, either as mush or on the cob. It Is eaten from platters at a bare table with quick lunch effect, rather a test of discipline, for the native loves to squat on a straw mat and take his time about chewing. No greater discourtesy can be offered a native than to Interrupt his meal. Hut the school bell It Inexorable. Bible Imagss Familiar. Classes and recitations and more particularly lessons to be prepared offer more violence to the native prejudices. He likes to hear the Bible storlet or storlrs of other countries and to read them for himself when he has mastered the combination of letters Into familiar sounds. The oriental Images of the Bible are perfectly familiar to him. The Idea of the patriarchs of the Old Testament living In tents as cattle men and yet being really kings, which It such a niizile to city bred white jsjj- - children, is no puzzle at all to them. It was thus their own kings lived when they were In their glory. In the same way the agricultural figures of speech In the parables of Christ fit right Into their own speech. Their favorite books In the Biblb' are rhose that abound lh a picturesque imagery such as the Apocalypse, the Book of Job and best of all The Song of Solomon. It Is a very different thing when It comes to learning a foreign language and mastering the Intricacies of gram mar, arithmetic and geography. Grammar might as well be relegated to the outer darkness at once. When you have taught an African native the difference between a verb and a noun you have taught him about as much as his mind can grasp. On the other band, the children learn easily foreign words and expressions In a parrot-likway.' A young native who has worked for a white man for a month or two has no difficulty In calling his brethren "black devil" and "damn nigger." e Harsh Language an Obstacle. At for arithmetic, It Is not easy to learn the multiplication table, when to say "nine times eight" yon have to let out the following mouthful of sound: "Tata isishlyangalolonye plnda nge slshangalombill." But the natives have an adjunct to difficult enunciation, a sort of first aid, In the language ot the fingers. Beginning from right to left, the little finger means one, the left thumb means six, the left forefinger seven, and so on. If time or energy fail you, you simply wag a finger, or if the number goes Into the tens, you wag two fingers, and the deed Is done. Tour' breath Is saved. xne wnite woman teacner in a school of eighty or a hundred natives is likely to find, even If she has one or two native assistants, that ber position as the motor nerve of this too, too solid mass of African flesh Is wearing, to say the least The Industrial part of the work Is not so difficult as the purely Intellectual. It Is not so hopeless a task to make the African native fashion something with his hands as to make him grasp anything with his brain. The women have learned In their native handicrafts such at ttraw plaiting a deftness of touch that make them fairly apt In the acquisition of the domestic arts of sewing, cooking, baking, washing, ironing and cleaning, Missionary's Garden Necessary. Meantime the boys are engaged In the work of the farm or in building or carpentry. The pastor of the station Is fortunate It he has a white man to assist him in superintending these branches of the work. More likely. he, In addition to his cares as pastor, is physician and magistrate, his own farmer, gardener, builder, architect and furniture maker. The farm must provide food for the boyt and girls of the school. The garden- must supply fruit and vegetables for the mission ary'a table, for he soon learns that he cannot keep his strength long If he at tempts to live as a native. He must have a variety ot food and, Incidental ly, tablecloths and napkins. A noted African traveler has said that white men die In the tropics not for want of the necessities ot life but for want of the luxuries. Besides, hit house and garden must be an object lesson in civilized living quite at Important at bit preaching. - Must Build Hit Own Houte. Shelter must be provided for teachers and pupils, and also for horses, calves, pigs and chickens. Brick Is a for the African favorite material, woods usually are too hard to be worked easily. The minister fresh from a theological seminary may find that building a brick kiln with nothing but African labor It quite at difficult as to construct Greek sentences. And that la the beginning. He prefers not to think of the masonry, the putting In of doors and window and the thatching of the roof. At least he does not ued to worry about the floors. The native girls take that part of the building Into their own hands. They simply fill It up with an even layer of red toll taken from an ant heap. They rub It and pound It and sprinkle It, tnd rub It sgaln till It shines like black polished marble, and there Is the floor. Healthy? Well, no; but It Is cheap. When night cornea the natives gather around the tire In the kitchen or the school house to sing. constantly settling." m t. Terrace-Rolled--u- Off-sprin- gt t. first-cla- ss en-wi- ng near-lighte- d Knick-knac- tfstiuiPted. CiryHiit. 190, by UmrUon Prsnula Nk' : |