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NN EXANP! A Plea for the Optimistic, Christian View of Life. we what is your life. ecSioaies iv. baa Latin proverb says:-"'Art is long, life is short." But life -- 1s an art whieh must be st There are two schools that tench the art of life, the pessimistic and the optimistic. Pessimists arrive at the consis eion that life is hardly worth living. hat, however, is not the Christian idea of life. rue Christians are optimists and believe that "a.. things work together | for good to them that love God.' In the royal "gareeas of Potsdam there is an old sun dial which bears the inscription: "I count only the pleasant hours."' One might envy it for this prerogative that records aoe of the dreary hours, but only the SUNNY AND PLEASANT ONES. There are some persons that have the faculty of overlooking and for- getting the disagreeable features of hfe and noticing only the 'pleasant sides. Such ao sunoy mind is cer- tainly a great plessiteg and there is no reasy why every Christian should not have it. There are hours of perfect happiness in everybody's life--hours which reimburse for years of suffering and woe, the me- mory of which many years after lightens the worn face with happy smiles. But the pleasantest hcurs are not always the mose profitable, and it is true indeed what is said in the Nineteenth Psalm, that our life's strength is labor and sorrow. There are many of the pleasantest hours which we might just as well forget and there are many emon the dark hours which have left Bele hind ao lasting blessing. The m fruitful and valuable hours, rihose which give most impetus to 'the in- ner life, are, as a rule, not the vleasant hours of enjoyment and mirth, but the grave and serious hours, days of woe and nights of tears, times of struggle and priva- tion, the memory of which one would not part with for any price. THE HOLY SCRIPTURE calls life a "sowing of secd" and says: "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."' A selfish life, though it be clean, is without charm and beauty, A sinful and contaminated life is still worse -- remorse and self-accusation make it a hell on earth. The only life worth living is the one of which Christ has left us an example. evoted to the service of others, full of that all-conquering ve that is strong as death, it brings light and happiness intodark laces und bears that sweet and lessed fruit which is promised to all. Such oa life is neither tiresome nor ever a cause of regret, but finds grace before God and man. May we all try to master this wonderful art and life will become more content, more interesting, more productive of good from day to day until at last it becomes a sweet, harmoni- ous song to the glury of life's Cre- tor. = ERNST A. TAPPERT. THE S. S. LESSON INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 6. Lesson X. The Power of the Ton- gue. Golden Text, Prov. 21: 23. Introduction,--What is the im- portance of the theme of our les- " son? hilosophers have striven to discover what faculty most clearly separates man from the brute; as, that man is the only animal that laughs, or the only animal etd cooxs, of the onty animal tha stands upright. Most thinkers, hui. ever, agree that the power of speech, with all that has grown out of it, is the clearest and most im- portant distinction of mankind, und the surest indication of the superiority that God has conferred upon the human race. The passage we are to study is one of the finest in the Bible, and is the crown of all writings upon the subject. I. The Ideal of Speech.--Va. 1, 2a. Why did James urge his read- ets not to be many masters (leach- ers, as in "schoolmasters")? 1. Be- cause the young church met that danger continually ysee Acts 13: 24; 1 Cor. tt 12; 4: 26; Gal, 2: 12). In the Jewish church the funetion of the rabbi was jealously guarded, ! but to liberty of prophesying! (teaching) in Christianity was hable| to become license. And "the more the idea prevailed that faith, with- out corresponding obedience, was all that is needful, the more men would eagerly press teach."' This thought joins our, present lesson with the ll. The Tongue as a Rudder.-- Vs. 2b-5a. To illustrate perfect: speech, to what does James compare the tongue? To a horse's bit or, bridle, which, though small, turns and governs the whole body of the great animal; and, similarly, to a ship's helm or. rudder, which, though not so small in comparison with the great ship, and su weak in comparison with the fierce winds, yet turns the ship, in the face of | the winds, whithersveve r the gover- nor (r. vy. "steersman") listeth 4(r.v. 'willeth"). Even so (like the Vs. 9-12. W iy dees "Jamies dros comparisons when he comes to his last point? Because there are no comparis ns in nature to man's inconsistency in speech--only trasts. Fountains do not send out of the same oriice now fresh water and now salt water. Fig-trees do not bear figs at one time and at another tinie olives. Vines do not TALES ABOUT MONARGHS| REWARDS OF EDWARD Vil FOR ACTS OF KINDNESS. How Emperor William as a Child @ Was Made to Submit to the Bath. "Sovereigns 'in Slippers" is the title of a new book in which Henri Nicolle, Paris, France, has collect- ed anecdotes about the rulers of every country in Europe, a kindly |, collection for the most part, con- taining nothing to annoy those with whom the stories deal. in 1846 Burnard the sculptor was commissioned to model a bust of the little Prince of ales, np ng Edward VII. The boy, er > years old, soon grew tired had had poets of art and found cut a more amusing use for the clay in bombarding " artist with bullets made of it. 3 bis gover- em could not reduce tien to order he called in his mother, Queen Victoria, who bade him at once apologize to the artist. The young Prince did so with the best o grace Stretching out his little hand, he said: "Don't be angry with me, Ber- nard, I sha'n't do it any more, for mother has told me that if 1 do it will change me into a donkey."' HELPED A BLIND MAN. One day as the Prince of Wales was getting out of a cab he saw a blind man with a dog, evidently in despair, not daring to cross the street crowded with traffic. The Eric quietly took the man by the rm, the dug by the leash and con- ducted both across the street. his action was evidently seen by some ene who recognized the Prince of Wales, for a short time afterward there arrived at Marlborough House, without the name of the sender, a massive silver ink pot with a note saying ih it was a souvenir from one o had secn the Prince of Wales. come to the rescue of a blind man bewildered by the traffic of a public street. He received another present in some- what similar circumstances net yield grapes in one season and figs in another. The constancy of nature was as well known in James's day as in ours. But the forwar to | | chained sadly different! mouth proceedeth cursing! blessing and -- -- +71 TRAMPED AGROSS AFRICA JOHN CRESWICK 1,500 MILES, WALKED Forger Sentenced in Rhodesia to Penal Servitude Escaped From a Traia. Adventures as tnriling as those of tue prisuper whu escaped tow deeili 5s ible €nucd receut: ty i gua Lreswics, ain fuert, Gele viii j seman Naw Of LOLS, Bppedriog ta tue Guek al bow streci, uuu, | Creswick WHS Seuliiced Lo SIX long ago, after he had become King. | At some public function, as the police were moving back the crowd 'to let the King pass through, an | infirm man in the crow his stick knocked from his hand. The King beat down, picked up the stick and restored it to the lame man. A few days later the King received from an unknown donor a walking stick. with the FT of Sd little occurrence aml a Aig a iia ud miration pa prave upon In May 1903, Edward VII. vihited Paris and went to the Longchamps races. rom the official" stand where he sat beside President Lou- | het he was taking, he always does, the keenest inierest in the | racing. Suddenly a frown came over his face, his field glasses were turned from the horses and it was | evident that something had gone wrong. The officer acting as per- sonal aide-de-camp as WHAT IS THE MATTER. "Look here," the King ie years penal servituce in Hhudesia Tor forgery aud was piaced on a train at Gweio for removal to Sal- ispbury. te Was guarded by a uum. | ber of men, bis ankies were man- acied, aud it seemed thal ne could escape. Muring the eariy hours of the | morning he eiuded his guards aud reached tne back of the tram. tweuty miles an houmat the time, but, without hesitaung, he junipe ot, and lauded uninjured on the | Tuugh track | atts disappearance was not dis- covered tor some time, and aithough | his movements were impeded by al ankles, he was able reach a place ut safety His first necessity bids to rid lim- selr of his irons. This he accom- | Peshed, lmpossivle | 'Tne | train was travellmg at a rate of | alter many aticmpts, by janie to the officer. quietly to him, 'you see that furtunate woman being hustled on 'by the police] I should be | obliged if you would give orders | that they should stop ill using her.' A few minutes later, to the aston- jishment of all the beautifully dressed ladies of the enclosure and to her own stupefaction, the poor woman, who had wandered into e enclosure by mistake, fould | herself permitted the rand stand und treated with the jutmost politeness by the very [police who had just been using vio- i ence in turning her out, The King | baving assured himeelf that the ob- i ject of his solicitude no lunger need- ed his attention, turned his glasses once more on the race. "The Czar! The Czar wins' he | "There you are, breaking the steel rivets with pieces | the ee has won in a canter, and Iw ot rock. a good round sum. Hocray! he bath was, bath was more wg Sie ful to risk the loss of his royal pre- rogatives. It n hardly be said i acted on rise to many stories. well known tells how he pombe into the quarters of the Frst Royal Regiment of dragoons 'at Berlin very early one morning. nay ment was drawn up in readiness to march out of barracks, looel. ofi- cer there except the Colo e Emperor ordered the start be delayed until the Colonel ar- Hees which was half an hour ~ er. When the Colonel found th Emperor in the middle square he wanted to make some excuse for himself, but William cut °* |him shirt and told him to take h nn men to the drill ground. through the a the Emperor anid nothing, and w it was over he quitted the grounds still without a word, leaving the officer a prey to uneasiness. That evening a small parcel ar- rived at the Colonel's quarters, sent by the Emperor, and the Col- onel thought himself lucky in es- cnping with nothing worse than an pe present, for it proved to AN ALARM CLOCK. When the conscripts appeared for service one year there were among them two young men who belonged to a religious body which did not allow its followers to place them- selves in a position where they might be called upon to shed hu- man blood. They refused therefore tc do their military service, but did not desert. This brought upon them a sentence of iniprisonment. The Emperor, whose aympatnies one would not expect to be aruused by such a case, gave special orders that they should be well treated in jail and on the expiration 'of their ave them enough money where ey William II. has many. acts of kindness to the poor to his credit. One day at the palace of Potsdam he noticed that one of the sentries seemed very melancholy. With much hesitation the man told his story, how he had been on the point of getting married when he lost all his money and now hardly hoped ever to realize his dreams. The Emperor, after inquiry had proved that the man was speaking the auth, gave him a generous present for the expenses of lus wedding, [Brncwoied him corporal and found 'a place-for his wife in tLe service of the Empress. A poor sewing woman at Cologne, finding it impossible any longer to earn her_living with a worn out old le sewing' macliine,_appeal to the oy] Etperor for assistance. A week later a new machine with all the reached her latest improvements from her sovereign. When tho Leng told Prince von 'did not altogether please h im. The | Emperor pressed him to tell what it was, and Von Bulow seinmaoty explained that greatly as his wife 'would rejoice in finding her hee: lhand appointed Chancellor, she detested the palace of the chan- celleric, a8 she was a great house- wife and he was sure that the [thought of the two or three months that would be needed to clean the immense palace te the pitch she would want to would terrify her. "Don't let that bether you, my dear Von Bulow. Present my com- |pliments to the Princess and tell per that it will be a great pleasure me to contribute to making that [job less difficult for her, It was not a regiment of soldiers ' detailed for house cleaning purpos- ,es that came to the Princess, only a a small parcel, which being opened j was fo ound to contain a hundred | Pieces of soap. a BRETON REASA NT'S ILOME. \¥ hite Coif of Mistress, Burnished Brass, Beautify Poorest, The Breton peasant has some , | charming qualities--courtesy, good humor, detachment from the pro- ven then his plight was little That "poor little woman has brought | fu side of life--but the virtue of bridle and the rudder) the tongue! better, for he was in imminent dan- | is a little member, and boastcth great things, "vaunts great words, which bring about great acts of mischief."'"--Alfor: Ill. The Tongue as Vs. 5b, 6. What is the next com- parison used by James? "The tongue--that world of pony a fire, sprung from the It is a little fre, é the eye; but a little fire can kindle a great forest. So the tongue can ruin the whole body--nay, the whole life, in its revolving course from the cradle tu the grave." The course of nature is literally the wheel of birth, the wheel of oxist- ence set revolving at birth. It is less likely that James had in mind a potter's wheel, whose work is spoiled by an untempered heat ; arid still less likely that he meant orbis terrarum, the cirele of the earth, ow great a matter is hit- erally how 'much wood, or ~ how great a forest. The tongue is catled a world of iniquity because a Flame.-- 3 ~ are exhibited there in miniature."' - The Tongue as--a Wild Beast.--Vs. 7,8. What is James's next comparison of the tongue? To on untamed beast; all other living things have been mastered by mankind--the four divisions of animals according to James's rough zoology. namely, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, and fishes But the tongue is an exception. No ma an tame it; only God, who made it can keep it under control. It is an unruly (restless) evil, full of deadly poison, and so to be classed with the animals most hated and feared, the serpents Va Ipeensistencies of Speech.-- ger of dying from hunger or being} killed by lions. By an extraordin- | ary chance he met a friend, who | gave him a rifle end and Jent him some money. | FIVE MONTHS' TRAMP. Creswick decided that hus best (chance of escape was to reach the | ) pert of Boma, in the Congo Free State, and he set out on a 1,500 miles' walk across Africe. For fire long months he' tr amped through the heart of the cuntinent, living on animals and birds he killed with his gun At times he was on the verge of starvation, he underwent many privations, and his escapes from death were countless, but at length he reached Boma. Here he ex- changed what was left of bis prison dress for a pair of grey trousers, a striped jacket, and a cricket shirt, and booked He passage by a steamer to Antwer "alli impossible that 1 kinds of evil that are in the world nied He ce een From Antwerp he travelled to London, where he thought it was Id be- "recog- ml. e¢ was walking in Leman- poke Whitechapel, when he was i Se ed by Detective Taspoctor Be '1 believe you are John Cres- wick,"' the inspector stated, "and that you escaped from custody in esia "Oh, no," Creswick replied. "The man I want has Prince of Wales' feathers tattooed on his arm,"' said the , inspector. "Let me look at yours "You. are right, " ne ad- mitted. "I am the After his arrest he "told the whole story of his adventures. He was re- manded in order that the eaihort: ties might decide how they will deal with me luck! M. Nicolle gives many pages to the German Emperor. begins with his birth and tells lene his mo- or at that time and how, owing to the English doctor's arriving Stee late, the baby was born with his left arm shrivelled up from the elbow downward, so that the ques- tion arose later whether he was "fit for service in the army,"' as tra- dition declares that no jeter d lern unfit' for pereine shall sit on the Prussian thro William, like nay children, dis- liked being washed, and especially bated the daily cold bath a eaped from his, nurse and fled to the end of the garden. There he delighted in walking past the sen- ay so that he could receive his sa- te. One morning when he had escap- ed the cold ordeal he was pained tc find that the grenadier appar- ently could not tee him. He plac himself right in the sentry's way, but NO SALUTE WAS FORTH- MING ee he rushed to the palace found his way to his father's tok, where he burst into"tears. "What's the matter !?" asked the Crown Prince Frederick. n the child explained the soldier' 8 remissness his father took him on his knee, looked him over on mand a foot rit said: "Well, well, m oy, the senti- oy did bis ¢ dete , ore Sig ever the child asked: "Why so, father?" use a soldier never shou salute # Prince who is not clean." cleanliness is not for him. The cot- tuges are frequently very dirty and j the approach to them is sometimes over a pile of refuse. re is no- ammunition | 'ther refused to have a German duc- 'thing of luxury in @ cottage inter- ior, but you may generally coun or two things ta 'beautify the poo est. One is the white coif BS its mistress (always spotiess, however dirty any thing else may be), and the other is the brass trimming of the armoire usually pulished to a eee { brightness that is posi- tively "exling. Some of these ar- moires are really beautiful, with elaborately carved panels, and in many cases are heirlooms that have been in the family for generations. en re are the beds--one of them, of which the mistress is very roud, will be modern, with coarse Nottingham lace curtains draped over it. You give it a few complimentary words in order to satisfy its own- ers, but what you really want to see i: the 'lit clos" in the far corner, and if it is a "lit clus a deux cages" you are more than content. Some af these "lit i are things of reat beauty, like and the carvings on the reds lector green with envy. But imag- ine how stuffy they must be to sleep in--and in winter the panels are ing panels figure of her pg oi Hleepily rub- bing his eyes and wanting to know what was the matter. ----+4.--------- No matter how great the front- Id] age of a house, the background is only a yard There never fee to in 1 making i little - =e 7 8 ; Bulow he was to be Vancellor it | was vite fia at di something about th polntment the armoires, |. panels are enough to make a@ col- te Klsifted in the flour. MISCELLANEOUS RECIPES. Mock Terrapin.--One cup veal cut in dice shape, one cup cream or rich milk, one yo boiled ane id hl n bu [seine ihdaral of b=" |SOME GREAT SALARIES the same time. perfectly wrap in lighthtes cheesecloth or tissue paper and place in a box. I have kept a white = drese in this way for sixteen To sew all buiicas on | on garments just far é¢nough apart to allow an Iron to slip between remy except where close set butto are re- quired for particular pope This width usually looks well and the of = ironed article gins of salt make a staff batter. in small, narrow strips. Pai in ich and cover with ae salt water and Ict boil for eaping Pid ay for a few minutes, Serve a Sour Cream Cabbage --Shred half small firm head of cabbage; put in kettle with cold water to cover; add salt to season; boil until ten- ; drain off water; add half a cup "of sour cream and four table- spoons of ipso once before servin delicate pink an palatable. Fried Stuffffed Eggs, Fried stuff- ed eggs make a delicious luncheon dish. Boil the exgs for twelve minutes and then cold water and remove the shells without breaking the whites. Cut the eggs in two t one the middle, take out the yolks, mix them with minced hares « chicken, or any savory meat on hand. Sosson to taste, add with salt and pep the uncooked yolk of an eggs, a a read crumbs, and a little butter. Minced parsley and a soupcon of onion juice add to their flavor. Then put the eggs together again, pressing the sides tight; ares Should not be filled so full ae prevent this, and roll the pie first in the white of egg and then in bread crumbs. repeating the process if the surface is not well covered. Fry in a basket in deep fat and serve with tomato sauce and celery or parsey as a garnish. Green Pepper Stuffed With Cora. --Cut around stem end of pepper about three-fourths around, leav- ing other fourth as hinge, forming a lid, Put peppers in cold w sufficient to cover and brin il rain, cover with ee boiling water, and ccok siowly un- til tender. Drain ogain, salt light- and allow to cool, Allow two ibiamosas of butter to become hot in frying pan, add three cups corn, three table espoons boiling water in which is dissolved one teaspoon beef extrac.. Cook five minutes; add half cup cream, one teaspoon salt, half teaspoon pepper. Cook slowly until quite thick. Cool an x Fasten down Hes is extremely ter in half cup lg water, add eef extract. Pour over peppers and bake for twenty-five minutes. Delicious when served with fish. BREAD BAKING, Hint for Bread Baking.--After putting light bread in the oven to bake, tu make it rise even turn the ans before the bread begins tu brown, th loaves will rise the same on each side. Light Biscuits.--To each quart of wheat flour add one-half cup of graham flour. This makes delight- ful biscuits and much more healthful, as the graham flour does not lie heavy on the stomach as the white flour does. More gra- ham may be added if desired. Spice Cake from Bread Dough.-- Two cups bread dough, two cups sugar one cup butte fs four CRBs, one teaspoon cinnamon, one tea spoon cloves, one teaspoon all- spice, one small teaspoon soda dissolved in water, one pound raisins well floured; cream butter ee Ra oer? add beaten yolks of add spices; mix with hese © in h; add raisins; add well beaten whites of eggs; then soda; bake in seer slow oven one hour and a half PIES AND CAKES Cocoanut Pie.--Beat the wits of three eggs, add one tablespoon of flour, two tablespoons of sugar, one-half cup coconnut, two cups inilk. Put this in an uneooked erust and bake ti!) set, then beat the whites of eggs with two Lable- spoons sugar, and brown in oven, Walnut Pie.--The yolks of three eggs, one omp sugar, ane cup milk, and one tablespoon flour, Boil to- gether until thick. Let coul, and then add one cu- cho owned walnuts and flavor with lemon extract. whites of eggs for top. Cocoanut may be used in place of walnuts, or good without eitner. Banbury Tart.--One cup raisins, one cup sugar, one egg? one crack- er, juice ond rind of one lemon. Roll pastry as thin as for pies and eut in equares pr rounds, three or four inches in diameter, Put two rind of one deri of e lemon (just tte sugar together, add whites of eges one ata time, milk, and baking powder. Frosting : White of one aid beaten stiff, with the juice of one-half of a lemon and powdered sugar; make thick enough ta spread 'with -- knife, spr when cool, an on sprinkle: with ot walnuts. "WORTH. KNOWING. To pry] sineres into place in- -- of b em before stitch- by an St ofthe fam and rop them into|to u is greatly improv To use only li iy brown, or white paper to clean the iron on ironing day if the eyes have the least ten- dency to weakness. in printing newspapers a zines when rubbed Bs irons rises in a surt of poisonous vapor, irritating the « eyes greatly in many in platter and moisten the scorched spot with a jellylike mixture of soap, starch, and water. Place a piece of glass over idee and lay in the sun. Remoisten as often as necessary until the stain is re- sar eps old po wepaness into sheets alfout eight by ten inches until you have a ak e about an inch thick. Drive a nail through this and tack in an inconspicious place near the kitchen sink. Use these sheets to wipe out greasy dishes before ashing, to wipe the aa rim of the uishpan, and to c many vig a' which would oben: soil table or al Bo: ss vases are made of such por- ous material that it is impossible them as flower receptacles without the molaturs spreading to the stand or table upon which es are placed. Ifa little varnish brash can be used the inside may be varn- ished well, but in some instances tne openings are too small to permit any such wor such cases our the varnish inside and shaks coated. The extra varnish can then be poured out and the rim wiped before it has time to harden thereon When an article becomes scorched in ironing lay in over a plate or That g bation tied to the end of a string and let down into a bottle into which a cork has slipped can usually be made to bring the re- fractory cork within reach. Also that when sealing up bottles of fruit juices, ete., it is a good plan to first lay two pieces of clean, freshly boiled tape across the mouth of the bottle, crossing them in the center. When the cork is pushed in and sealed up the ends remain on the outside, and will be a de- cided aid in uncorking the bottle when it is desired to do ao, for all that will be necessary it to break the wax from the edge and pull on the tape ends ------ HERE AND THERE. Notes of Interest Fr Quarters of t There are no convents in Norway. France's total wea! 000,000. There are over a in London. Seven vhousand Pech subjects are born at sea every ) hree million needles i is "the daily consumption of the w ; The total area of the British Isles is 120,979 square miles. The music of 'Home, Home" is probably Sicilian, Mr. Taft is the twenty-sixth Pre- sident of the United It is estimated 'al the world is seventy-two million years old. A man's hand is, on an average, : 3-4 inches longer than that of a an. 00 motor-cabs Sweet n Japeneen dead are buried in a squatting posture, chin upon knees. Tho shortest will on record con- sisted of only three words--"All to wie It is estimated that the area of first-class timber in Mexico is twenty-five million acres. Oil was used for burning in lamps as early as the spoch of Abraham, about 1921 B.C. In London, property to the value of £1,083,393,000 is insured against ire. At the funeral of an unmarried woman in Brazil the mourning col- or is scarle One- saventii of the foreign com- merce of Great - Britwin passes through the Suez Canal, Three American Presidents have been sasassinated--Lincoln. Gar- fie ia and McKinley. the 305,488 persons married in England and Wales in 1840, 115,- 171 could not write. More than fifty million square miles of the world's surface is tak- eo the colorf of the new banknotes to | en up by the Pacific Ocean. Blue, yellow, green and red are} by the Bank of France. pe @ issu Of 1,000 parts of the moon, are visible to us on the earth; parts remaiu hidden to man's eves a Que estate belonging ta the ¢ aa | covers 100,000,000 acres, or ab three times the area of Ragland. Special railway carriages for dogs fitted with het-water pipes and mat tresses, are to be provided in Prus- | Sia 80,000 eel is the greatest dept! bef the Pact 'lantie ; tagspoons minture on une half of re Brush the edges together with cold water and fold over, pressing tight. Bake in a het oven. Lemon Nut Cake.--One and oar half cups of sugar, one-half cup of, butter, whites of two eggs. one-half cup of chopped walnuts grates 227. g60 feet of the At. Indian Ocean, US.452 feet: Arete (Orean. Wich feet, Milk, token in large qua itities | ed from a neighboring dairy, was us to extinguish a fire in Shepparton, Victoria, recently, the water sup- ly having given out. The Sahara is not such a barren place after all. Some time ife there were 9,000,000 moat in t Sahare { 5 -- is estimated that the oases of this des- ert contain 1.500.000 date-palms. ee A baseball team ies "twin with a pitcher full of bee The butter of alae should ia thickly spread upon the bread of independence. h PEOPLE WHO EARN Su: a rn Ocean, 24.200 feet; ib A FOR- TUNE IN ONE WEEK. -- All the Famous Singers and Musie .clans Make Money Very Fast. Thirty years ago stage stars were considered well paid if bd could demand a salary of $50 a w>2k, yet to-day there are scores ot artistes who receive three times that amount for one night's work. In regard to celaries, grand opera favorites are particularly lucky. Madame Mella, for instance, never thinks of singing for less than 81,- is nearer her average. The cara- ing power of the latest "star," Tetrazzini, is about $15 a minute every time she sings. $5,000 EACH PERFORMANCE. Madame Patti can cluim a still that she fulfilled an engagement in the States for a six months' tour, in which she received 85,009 for each performance and half the Bross receipts over $7,500. This $300,000. brought her in nearly 300 Caru the king of tenors, will my sing Mig Bh less than 62,500 a night, r $100 a minute. He makes in the course of a ccason, on an aver- age, $180,000. Judging by the tempting offers, some of the instrumentalists are no less fortunate. It is sail that Paderewski, the most fameouws musi- public exhibition of his skill G1 tne Piano unless he is paid a fee of $2,500--nearly $130 for every 60 seconds. Mascagni and Puccini, a9 conductors, can demand $1,600 a day, while Kubelik receives 8900 for playing a couple of pieces on his violin. One recent tour in the States of three yeaa duration netted for him $48 Actors and pik ccc 'of the front rank cannot complain of the crore of poor pay. Sarah Bernhardt earns big fees when she gues on tour, Her first American trip last- ed four cic and put $125,006 into her poc The ae Sr 'speeches of Coque- lin, which he fondly calls 'words,' are also carefully recorded, and it is stat that each "wer costa $30. Twenty speeches ao night bring him in $1,200, HUGE LEGAL IEES. Besides the huge fees and salar- ies received by entertainers, many rape pg or in other walks of fe are not badly off in the way of ealaries. How many mechanics would like to change places with r. Jo ays Hammond, the fam. hous American engineer, who, until he went in for politics, drew the enormous salary of $500,000 annual- ly T Even this, however, has been eclipsed by a lawyer. The largest single legal fee ever paid was $1,- 000,000, which Mr. J. B. Will, of New York, received for settling the disputes which arose between Mr. Carnegie and Mr. Henry C. Frick ver the transfer of the properties messed in the United States Stee orporation. This is fellowed by the astounding sum of $800,000 r ceived by Mr. D. Guthrie for win- ihe ano other sensational case. Mr. Joseph 'H. Chote. the late Ameri- can Ambassador to Great Britain received $200,000 for a single legal argument. $10,000 FOR OP RATION. The fear of death has long been responsible for large fees paid to noted physicians. Dr. Adolph Lor- eur, of Vienna, was paid $30,000 for travelling expenses for trent- ing a millionaire. King Edward, when Prince of Wales, ones paid a physician $50,000 for four weeks' services, . J. Parks, a noted Chicago phy sician, will charge 810,- 000 for a single operation. Dentists also know how to charge en some occasions. hen Prince Louis of Battenberg visited New York last year he had to see a den- tist, and consultation cost him $2,- 500, but the most. astounding bill ag drawn up by a dentist was by Dr. Browning, of a past generation, who charged a wealthy patient #160,000, -------- SENTENCE STRMONS. Be ieg never has to advertise for a job. Saints are never soen by search- ing in mirrors. 'aith never founels far when it forgets the fac No man faces truth who wants to patent it The way to be faithful to truth is to follow i Every gift is F ieaeanan hy its real |cost to the giver. iches become dangerous only when rooted in our affections. The greatest verities are found by lsvaits to small 2 ie car oes not ga doone pe cog te Nee wate train. A good deal of public Renee hides a lot of private meanness The large hearted always 'see large qualities in their friends. Whatever is given by the hand | more than gained by the heart The only way to fil the harves: ter's wagon is to empty the sower's bug. very better for his heing blind to some of it. Tt often happens that the punish. ment we think is remitted is only ripening. It takes more than Sunday dreams of heaven to make a-heaven- ly week Some people have a way of pray- ing for others that makes them pre- fer cursing. The meek who inherig the earth «do not get their title to it by crawl. ing in the dust. Some seen to think the best evis dence of being the oat ot the earth ie ability to make fo - The most poputar celigisus dela. siou of our day is that discussing duties is the same thing as doirg thy wa, x Lan, higher fee. It was only last year. inan's view of this world ir » 600 an evening, while 83,000 a night ; re ee a ae ee ee ee eee