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Show POPULAR HYMNS. "Brightly Gleams Our Banner," "Stand, CONTINENT AT 80UTH POLE. Shake Oft Thy Fears," and "We March, We March to Victory. Resent Expeditions Prove Wilkes Diss Land. tory." covered exAnother association hymn orlglnatel continent a vast That antarctic In Philadelphia, of which another Pres- ists as as Burope, large perhaps twice byterian pastor was the author. Rev. would seem to be proved by the reDr. Daniel March, now a retired Conports now appearing of the recent exgregational pastor in Woburru In 186, plorations in that region. Commandwhile Dr. March was pastor of the er Wilkes, returning from the far North Broad Street Church, in Phila- South polar continent and describing delphia, he heard Philip Phillips sing, his voyage of 1,500 miles in Bight of "Your Mission." On the following the coast Ross, however, returned Sunday, October 18, he was to have the soon after, discredited Wilkes' conannual meeting of the Young Men's clusions, saying" that the land seen by Christian Association in Els own Wilkes was merely a great wall of church and to preach the Bermon him- Ice. The world has been in douot self. His text was Isaiah, vl.. 8: "Here which to believe. am I, send me." He thought he would That Ross was wrong and Wilkes like to have "Your Mission" sung, but, on looking it up, found some lines that right is evident from the report of did not please him. So on Saturday, la Capt. Scott of the British antarctic of Capt Scott great haste, he sat down and wrote the expedition seen by ice of mass shows that the hymn, "Here Am I; Send Ma," as it is in is extensive Ross an gracier reality often called, and gave it txThls soprano on a sheet of foolscap She sang it resting on land and covering the land from paanuscrlpt. It was liked, and the like the ice cap of Greenland. The is 700 miles wide and reaches people had it printed on a card, and glacle sea the through a plain lying between thus it found its way into common use. Land and Edward VII Land. Victoria Its first couplet Is: German The expedition under Van "Hark! the voice of Jesus calling: DrygalskI, working 80 degrees of longWho will go and work today?" a someIt. was first published In the Meth- itude farther west, also found tofl similar what expanse odist Episcopal Hymnal, 187S. The Hymnal Committee has included land, whose limits they were unable three of the hymns of its chairman, to trace, but which is apparently a George A. Warburton. He was led to part of the same antarctic continent. realize that he had the hymnal gift by Wouldn't MI33 the Chance. writing the "Hymn of Praise." He gave had been talking about an EnIn. turn who to They a musical friend, it handed it to C. B. Rutenber, a compos- glishmen of title who took up useful Somebody mentioned Lord er, who set it to music for a Quartet. wcrk. This setting has been used frequently Ross, who is a good practical engineer In New York City, especially In the ser- and then somebody else told this vices of the Marble Collegiate Church, story. street. Fifth avenue and Twenty-nintLord Ross having onec unknown "God of Our Fathers, Who Didst to the employes entered the engine Guide," is Mr. Warburtoa'B patrlotla room of a large manufactory, the enhymn, somewhat similar In sentiment gineer's attention was attracted by his to Leonard Bacon's, odd behavior. "0 God, beneath thy guiding hand "Well, what's up now?" he growled Our exiled fathers crossed the sea." at the peer. "What are you shaking was written in Bangor, Me., where head and pulling out your watch your Mr. Warburton spent July 4 on his way for? What have you got to find fault Into the Maine woods for his summer with, anyhow?" vacation. Springfield (Mass.) "Oh!" replied Lord Ross, "it is all the same to me. I have got no fault to find. I am Just waiting till the Lucifers to Go Back to 1827. The first really efficient luclfer match) boiler explodes." "The boiler explodes? Why, you must be put to the credit of John Walare Stockton-on-Teecrazy, man," exclaimed the enginker, of England, who In 1828 placed them on the m&ikut eer, angrily,, preparing to turn the under the name of "congreves," la peer out as a dangerous crank. "Well," retorted the earl, "if you compliment to Sir William Congreves, ten minutes longer with that work the Inventor of the war rocket. These screw loose there the boiler will cermatches were sold for a shilling a box, which contained, besides a few dozen tainly explode." The engineer, gazing In the direcmatches, a little piece of folded sandpaper, through which each splint of tion indicated by Lord Ross, paled wood had to be drawn before it could and Jumped to stop the engine. be made to inflame. An original tin "Why didn't you say so sooner?" he box, stamped with the royal arms and blurted ouL bearing the word "Congreve," is pre"Why should I?" answered the peer. served as a curiosity in one of the "I never yet have had an opportunity London museums. of seeing a boiler explode. Louisville As in the case of all other Industries, Courier-Journathis was Initiated by hand labor alone. The splints of wood were no doubt orInklings. Feminine vanity is largely a matiginally dipped in the igniting compo sitlon one by one, but subsequently ter of mirrors. they were tied up in bundles and dipWhen a man loves a woman, money ped In block the workman giving each Is the least that he can give her; when bundle a twist with bis hands, so that he rice not, it is the most. the end of each splint would be free to It la not what a man does that is of move a certain extent aud absorb a tit- importance, but how ho comes out of le more of the compound than It It. would If kept quite stilL Excess of manner is the superior The next advance was to fix the social art f making others feel their splints in a frame, so that each mas inferiority. To ask personal questions In society separated from it neighbor," and this fraa.e, containing about 1,600 matches, is Imbecilo; to answer thim criminal would be brought down oa a marble The clever woman who would know slab upon which the composition was everything pretends she knows nothspread. Tbe tipped matches, Hill la ing. The maj who Judges woman by her their frame, would then be dried in air for a few hours and afterward placed contrariness Is more then ever conIn a heated chamber to complete Ueir vinced rf it by bis mistake. E. Car-rutIn Everybody's Magazine for Audlslccatlon. Manual labor Is now a most wholly dispensed with la the gust manufacture of matches. Hot Weather Sermons. The employment of yellow phosIs no virtue without victory. tatckea There ef for the charging phorous is It always rate to sugp?ct the susmade the Industry a very unhealthy one, and the work people If not la the picious. , There are few vices worse than vinbest of health ran the risk of contract-Ina terrible disease, known as necro- egary virtues. A grain of appetite will outweigh a sis of the Jawbone, tbe vulgar name Ion of rea?cn. for which was "phossy Jaw." With A smile will kill more microbes than In manufacture this evil Chit age any medicine. has now been eliminated. The world needs a friend more Chronicle. a flsrure In history. The beet exposition of the Bible Is The Mikado of Japan has, or rather Lad Just one fad. He longed to create Its expression In life. The greyly eye always misses more by means of a more carniveroua Htt a taller race of soldiers. Small nnt than tbe generous one. The fermon that earns most flattery In government schools were fed from six to seven years in the Europia may win fewest souls. Is simply knowing whoti It way. They never grew any taller thsa Is to wire be afraid. The doctor vegetarian children. f is Satan always In sympathy with charged to look after the expr1men'al man. diet sent in their report last year. the of They could think of no better way The Japanese bury their dead with securing tall soldiers than by encourhead toward the north. the aging Japanese to marry Ewopean CHOKED MAKING AN IMPRESSION. Up, My Soul, of the More Recent Were Written and First Sung. "Hymns and Singers of the Young Men's Christian Association," by the Rev. James H. Roes, of Cambridge, prepared with the sanction of the International Jubilee Convention Committee in Bo6ton, gives the facts which how how some of the hymns include! owe their origin and part of their history to the association. Dr. Doaue, of Cincinnati, wrote the music to "Tell Me the Old, Old Story," under the following circumstances: The words were given to him in 1867 at Montreal by Major Ceneral Russell, the commander of the Queen's forces in Canada during the Fenian excitement. General Russell had read the words from a sheet of foolscap paper at one of the sessions of the International Young Men's Christian Association convention, la that city. Dr. Doane, who had been impressed by the words and the reading f them, went from Montreal to the White Mountains, and on the stage coach on a hot summer afternoon, the Glen House and the Crawford House, the sweet hymn that proved to be so popular was sung by u few who gathered around the piano fur a "sing." It was afterward published in Cincinnati in sheet form. Dr. Doane did not know the name of the author of the words. The hymn was written by Miss Katherine key, an Englishwoman, who In 18C4 published "The Old, Old Story," and in 1879 "The Old. Old Story and Other Verses," and between those two dates some enlargements and revisions bearing the name of "Heart to Heart," 1870. The poem was long. It had two parts, "The Story Wanted" and "The Story Told." It has Appeared In manlford forms and been translated into numerous languages. The answering hymn Was "I Love To Tell the Story." It was at the Indianapolis convention in 1870 that Dwlght L. Moody 3rat met Mr. Sankey. He led a morning prayer meeting at 6 o'clock. There was some difficulty In starting the singing tmtll a friend of Mr. Sankey, who had some with him. urged him to begin a song. He started "There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood," In which a21 the audience joined. At the close Mr. Sankey was Introduced to Mr. Moody by Lis companion and was recognized as the leader of the singing. A few Inquiries were made as to Mr. Saukey's family and aa to his occupation. Then MY. Moody said: "Well, you'll have to give it up. You are the man I have been looking for, and I want you to some to Chicago and help me in my work." Later la the day Mr. Sjnkey met an appointment to assist Mr. Moody in an open-ai- r service. Mr. Moody procured an empty box from a tore, and, standing upon It, asked Mr. Sankey to sing1 "Am I a Soldier of the How Some biv-twee- r Cross who was pastor in Philathe very years tKat covered the first decade practically of the ). delphia during Young Men's Christian Association The hymn was based hit-tor- 1832-18S- 1901-190- ice-capp- el h It s, l. "Stand Up, Stand Up For Jesus," was written by the Rev. George D'lffleUl (1813-1883- Ant-Arcti- y, L a the dying message of the Rev. Dudley A. Tyng to the Young Men's Christian Association and to the ministers' association with the young men in the noonday prayer meeting in Fhibvlel-hiduring the revival of 1S53. Mr. Tyng was the son of the Rev. Stephen Tyng. of New York, and the Tyng fam. By might almost be called an assoc. J. Uob family, for Dr. Tyng. the father, was Identified with the early history ef the association la New York, and another son waa one of the early men-ber- s and workers of the association In Ban Francisco. On the Sunday before his daCh Dud ley Tyng preach M a sermon In Jayncs Hall, Philadelphia, which is declared to have been one of the most effect he Sermons of modern times. It was preached to an audlmce of fve thousand, and It Is believed to have occasioned the conversion of one thousand, or of the audience. Us text Was Exodus, x.. 11: "Go now, ye that are men. and serve the Lord, for that ye did desire." Oa the following Wed tesday Mr. Tyttg was killed by a mule which was at on a horse-p-me- r com h eTTr. Ills dying message w. s, "Stand op for Jesus." On the following Sunday the Rev. Dr. George Oilfield, Jr., pvuRched from Epheslana. tl, 14: Tlaad. therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness." called a "soldier The hymn has song," precisely the kind desired by young men and by th Young Men's Christian Association. Like it are the following, which are retained In the ew hymnal: "Onward. Christla-- i "My Soul, Ee on Thy Guard," a one-fift- wk ba Sol-flm,- " h g Co-jrae- e ielf-satl.cf- Jed Reason Why a Young Man Did Not Get a Job. "I haye applied for a position in a dozen newspaper offices and half that many stores," said the young man who was standing at a desk. "No one will libten to me. I can't get a hearing. I need work very badly. The best I have been able to get is: "We have nothing for you; good morning.' I am discouraged." And here is what the man behind the said desk. It was not the essence of wisdom, just simple hard sense; a lesson learned by rubbing up against a busy world, that has little time for sentiment and none to waste on laiy folks: "You came in with your hat on, and you kept it on. You did not tell your name. You didn't even show the man at the desk the courtesy of throwing away the butt of the cigarette you had been smoking. You asked for a placo in the literary department, which proved that you had made no lnvestl-gtalo- n of the office you desired to enter. When questioned you had the most hazy idea of the position you desired to fill, and you gave the Impression that you were looking for a soft job that you were born tired. You really asked for charity, for in no way did you show or attempt to show that you expected to earn any salary that might be paid you. Listen! There ae no literary positions on the ava age r.ewspaper. The man who thinks that somebody is paid a fine salary for reading the magazines and writing book notices is badly mistaken. There are few Boft Jobs in any profession. Everybody has to work and dig and sweat. As tbe years pass and competition grows keener there Is less and less of an opportunity for the lazy man the dreamer. If you want to work and giow and be somebody, tell the next man so. Tell him that you will gladly take a hunble position, that the hours and the salary are of small moment, when compared with the oppor-tvn.'Make him feel that you are in earnest by being earnest. Take off your hat and cut out that cigarette. And if you don't get a place the first time, try again, and keep on trying. If the lazy microbe is Implanted in you you had better pick out your room In the poorhouse. You will not be a even in that institution; but you will be out of the way of busy people. Thai is all. Of course, it hurts a little. The truth "s not always pleasant. Soino day, after you have landed near the top, and the fellows are coming to you for situations, you can tell them this, that you will have learned by years of experience: "It always payh the young fello who Is seeking something to show humanity that he Is every Inch a nan, and In earnest." Detroit Tribune. WITH HOOMKIRTS. Dammed Up Castoff Crinoline. The Kalamazoo council has the dredging of Kalamazoo river from the city of Cooper, a distance of several miles, for the deepening of the bed In some places an the removal of sandbars In others.' The estimated cost of a thorough Job is $3CU)00. and for half the money, it is believed the situation can be materially improved and the damage by floods greatly lessened. If the dredging is undertaken, particular attention should be paid to that portion of the river within the corporation which has never recovered even with time's help, from the choking of the channel received during the hoopskirt era of forty years ago, when every cast off crinoline found Its way to as near the middle of the stream as a wounded and outraged male member of a household could throw It Those old hoopskirts are there yet, savo tho comparatively few which are many raised out by fishermen with hook and line. They are there by the thousand, a plague and pestilence breeder. They have dammed the river and been damned by riversfders. The merits of these ancient skeleton balloons Beat brushwood blind for straining water and retaining resldeum All sorts of floating wood trash found a foothold ana lodged in them. They became shallows and the shallows of pestilence for which the hoopskirts were responsible. All these antiquated memories of the maids and mothers of many years ago should be scooped out cf the Kalamazoo and something done to put them out of action, though heaven knows how it can be done. Possibly a deep pit in some secluded place would hold thom. They should be planted as near the center of the earth as possible, lest some scientific for preslstorlc remains find and exploit them as the. bones of Kalamazoolobs. - Detroit Tribune. River at Kalamazoo by-th- e undar-consideratio- n pre-Adamlt-ic tj. Dress Suit In Red Dog. "The first time that evening clothe were seen in Red Dog, Cal.," said Allen Kelly, author, traveler and gristly bear hunter, to a New York Times reporter, the other night, "happened In this way: Tom Hyde, the town marshal, had to take a prisoner to After delivering him fo the proper authorities, he dropped Into a music hall to spend the evening 'rhr he paw what Is known on Side as a "full dress" suit and seeing its possibilities at a glance, he became desperately enamored of it "TLo next day he went to a clothing store and bought a ready made swallow ta. suit. Upon returning to Rej Dog he wore It night and day, to say created a senand it la sation. If be hadn't been. known as a bad man fnK Bitter Creek, who alcarrl'1 two ways guns, be Reporting a Convention. nlnl or w"uld been mobbed have ctT The political correspondent of a great metropolitan newspaper la ex- lynched. I was stepping In Red Dog at the pected to know at these conventions the leading men who are directing af- time aud r; cling him one morning la .rbt-.jjrt suit" as Haverly's fairs, and who tell him confidently bis what is going on. There Is little or no Mastodon instre'j used to call it, I to Lin: 'Say, Tom. don't yo i proscription as to whal be shall print, kv.r-so long as it is news; but in ninety-ninthat T?pe clothes should be worn i:i tht evcnlns? Why do you caies out of a hundred the leaders don't care to have their names v.t.tr thstn .'11 day? " C n.ci.' salJ Tom, 'these are the printed as authority for those statements. They hqve fr.dr reion f r !. cl.ti. i ever taw that I could . H ;, avoiding puU'eity at the time, and yet i.:.,-- ; gjii? from my hind r they are perfectly friendly to the P c. t:s at once without getting my men with whom they are fa- ,j coat ,afi, jn lDe wayf and i in. miliar and of whose Integrity and tcn l to wear them day and night until they have bad full experience. 1 caih in." The anecdotes of the national conRace Suicide. ventions of the two parties for the sneer at President Roos to "I usci last twenty-fivyears would occupy ell's widely quoted remark about race As volumes. I a will many sample, tell an Incident which occurred at ihe s ;ide." r,ald the West Philadelphia Minneapolis convention In 1892 when man, whe Is the father of a constantly General Harrison was a candidate for hi rcfulT : '!r.I!y. "I used to think renorolnalion, and when he was Ut- it wfts nil Irmcomte, but f have ha.l occasion to change my terly opposed by followers of James G. Plain and many warm friends of views. Wlll am McKinley. The anfl Harrison "Yo-- i fre Jart winter my wife Jo!n-e- i made of the a clr'.i party, composed of women people, Blaine peop!e op and the McKlnloy people, Joined hands v.i.i 'l to our set out on the In that that believing way they could For'r r!r.th street settlement, and ocbreak the force of the Harrison army; casionally she complained because the and every day and night Emmons children kept her from attending the Blaine would rush Into my room at afternoon meetings of the club. I talkthe West Hotel and proclaim to me: ed w:.h her about It and discovered a "Keep my father to the front; keep cirlous state of a!Ta!rs. McKinley to the frout and we'll beat "There are twenty women In the that man Harrison out of his boots." c! :'i, an I all but two of tbem are ft was not to be. Harrison won tbe Now, wo'ild you believe It? Sly reim'natlon after a terrible conflict, wif hrn ss many children a all the William McKinley escaped a nominaother e(;M?fn married women put t tion In a ypr which was strongly either. How many children have II Emmons Blaine died sud- Oh. a repectsble number. Only denly a week after the convention, and frraff' Philadelphia Reccrd. was soon followed to the grave by his emlrrnt and distinguished father Th most widely known ErgUsC The Bookman. writer la Japaa is Carlyle, sue-cck- s, Sn-rcment- the-Eas- t s -f- '. e news-pape- ;iis-crelio- n e ro-wit- iy tel-nce- mar-He-- ;. atU-rppiblra- n; |