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4 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1913. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. JAMXjsr -R. GRAY, President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve months 75c Six months 10c Three months . 25c The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. Agents warted at every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R- BRAD LEY, Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan, R. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle, L. H. Kim- '■rough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling repre sentatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old, as well as your new address. If on a route please give the route number. We canno^ enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders- and notices for this de partment to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta. Ga. Anyway, the sign of old age is never a forgery. The Profits of Truck Farming. Students of agriculture are impressed more and more deeply with the steady profits to be found in truck gardening. The growth of cities has brought an increasing demand and the development of trans portation increasing means for this particular field of enterprise. In an engaging book, entitled “Malt ing Farming Pay,” Mr. C. C. Bowsfield declares: “There is a continual and expanding market for numerous products that are easily raised, and which by their very diversity' are a guaranty against failure." That is one of the great advantages of truck gardeninng as compared with the growth of large, single crops. The farmer who invests all his time and money and labor in one crop may reap big re turns but, on the other hand, some accident or unsea sonable turn of nature may completely undo hiB fortune and leave him with no hope of recovery. The market itself may show an unexpected decline. The supply of his particular product may so exceed the demand as to leave him witnout a profit. But if he has anticipated a diversity o' demands and has invested his resources in a group of crops, it is certain that in one direction or another, he will succeed. In addition to this, it should be" re membered that the truck grower, especially in such i climate as Georgia affords, finds all seasons open and all manner of foodstuffs producable. As Mr. Bowsfield remarks, the market is seldom, if ever, over-supplied with fruits, broilers, mush rooms, honey, squabs, berries and the like. “There is the keenest sort of demand today all over the country for extra nice butter, eggs and poultry. The need for parsnips, beets, carrots, lettuce, cucumbers, beans and other kinds of vegetables Is incessant.” The profits from such farming may not he as bulky as from one great crop, but they'are contin uous the seasons through and, if they dwindle at one point, they are sure of compensation at another. It is gratifying to note that the possibilities of truck farming are being more and more widely rea lized in Georgia. In several counties truck growers’ associations have recently been organized, with a view to co-operate efforts in the purchase of supplies and the marketing of products. Some farmers are devoting all their land to this purpose and those who continue to make cotton their chief interest are taking care to plant -enough corn and table com modities to supply their own needs. The diversifi cation of crops is steadily gaining in popular favor. It was comparatively a few years ago that Geor gians became seriously interested on the orchard industry, yet today . is one of the great fruit-pro ducing States. The course_ of truck gardening enter prises will doubtless be equally interesting and profit able and few years hence Georgia may be one of the nation’s great export centers for table supplies. The two most important needs in a woman’s life seems to be love and money. Railroads and Farms. One of the broadly cheering om'ens of the day is the closer relationship that is springing up between all manner of industrial and agricultural interests. 1 The time has long since gone when any progressive city regarded its fortunes apart from those of the ad jacent country or when any foresighted business concern, whether a bank, a manufactory or a rail road looked with indifference upon the affairs of the farm. This is notably true in the South and in Georgia, whose prosperity are so closely interwoven with the things of the soil. It' is highly gratifying but not at all unexpected that the Southern Railway Company has increased its force of dairying and poultry ex perts and has-established in Atlanta larger and more thoroughly equipped headquarters for its various ag- -ricultural enterprises. The company announces the appointment of seven additional experts who will devote their entire time to neid work in advising and otherwise assisting the dairymen and farmers of this section. This depart ment of the railroad was formerly located at Wash ington. The demands upon its service have so in creased, however, and have become so specific in character that the road has- wisely decided to trans fer the department headquarters to Atlanta In order that it may be more intimately in touch with South ern needs; and at the same time, it has greatly en larged its facilities to this end. The example is worthy of emulation in every sphere of commercial and industrial endeavor. What the Southern railway is doing is paralleled by other progressive transportation lines, notably the A., ti. end A. and the Central of Georgia. It is is in keep ing with the spirit of the times and also with the interests of the railroads themselves; for, the wel fare of every public service concern depends after all on the development of the communities about it. Our own opinion is that Montenegro will get pretty much what she asks for. California’s Anti-Jap Bill T HE California bill designed to exclude Jap anese settlers from the ownership or the ex tensive lease of farm lands in that State gives rise to many interesting ana delicate questions. In deed, the issues involved are so numerous and en tangled, ranging as they do from the quibbleB of fac tional politics to matters of national interest and in ternational honor, that it is well-nigh impossible to present them as a logical whole. There is reason to suspect that one of the motives of the California agi tators is to embarrass, if possible, the Wilson admin istration; certainly the tactics of Governor Johnson and some of his coileagues among the so-called “Pro gressives” point in that direction. They are doubt less very pleased over the chance to plant a new problem for the Democratic President, whose ener gies are now absorbed in making good his party’s pledges. Be that as it may, the larger questions in the Cal- iforina bill bring the power of the individual State and the power and responsibility of the Nation as a whole into sharp conflict. The solons of Sacramento seem to think that the policies of the national gov ernment can be directed by the Legislature of Cal ifornia and that the will of a body of local lawmak ers can take precedence over national treaties and over the federal Constitution. They seem to ignore the fact that a national treaty imposes national obli gations which no single State may legally contra vene. The treaty entered into between the United States and Japan less than two years ago provides ir. its first article that “The citizens or subjects of each of the High Contracting Parties shall have liberty to enter, trade and reside in the territories of the other, to carry on trade, wholesale and retail; to own or lease and occupy houses, manufactories and shops; to employ agents of their choice; to lease land for residential and commercial purposes and generally to do anything incident to or necessary for trade, \ pon the same terms as native citiens or subjects, sub mitting themselves to the laws and regulations there established.” Now, it may be that under the terms of this in ternational agreement certain California interests are jeopardized, though on this point there is a decide., difference of opinion. But if there are such griev ances, they must be righted through changes in the treaty itself, that i_ to say through negotiations con ducted by the federal government, and not through an irresponsible and unauthorized act by a State leg islature. A treaty constitutes supreme law to which every State as well as every citizen must defer; and in running counter to this established principle Cal ifornia ignores a cardinal truth in our system of government. , The South naturally sympathizes with Califor nians in whatever race problems they may have, but the efforts to draw a parallel between the doc trine. of State rights as construed by the South in 1860 and as misconstrued by California today is en tirely futile. Professor Joseph T. Derry, of Atlanta, a Confederate veteran and a close student as well as a writer of history, pertinently declares in this con nection: ' “The most ultra advocate of State rights in the ante-helium days never claimed that a State could remain in the Union and take any action tending to embrarrass the government of the United States \i its dealings with foreign Pow ers. While they held that paramount sovereignty resided in the State, which had the authority to, judge for itself when its rights were invaded and to decide upon the means of redress, even to the extent of withdrawing from the Union, they also held that secession ivould make a State an inde pendent republic and would release the Union from any obligation to defend it. To remain in the Union placed upon the State the most bind ing obligation to obey the laws of the Union.’’ / Now that California has raised the question wheth er a sovereign State has the right to enact legislation in conflict with a national treaty it can only await and abide the decision of the courts; and there seems little doubt as to what the decision will be. How much wiser and better it would have been to have entrusted this problem to the national government and, as little doubt as to what the decision will he. How much delicate litigation which will be likely to bring against the entire United States the resentment of a sensitive and hitherto friendly people! It should be said that the bill finally passed by the California legislature is distinctly more moderate than the one originally proposed and it reflects ap preciably the wise counsel of the President and of Secretary Bryan. The original measure was prohibi tive In its terms and employed certain phrases that were odious to the Japanese nation; the hill that passed is permissive in its terms. Instead of declar ing that “aliens” ineligible to citizenship” may not enjoy certain property rights, it asserts that "aliens eligible to citizenship may acquire and hold lands to the same extent as citizens.” It also permits short term leases and omits certain clauses of the first bill which were regarded as confiscatory in their effect. Bringing Settlers to Georgia. It has been evident for several years past that the tide of American emigration which once flowed into Canada is turning steadily Southward. Settlers who formerly sought new lands and new opportunities in the far northwest or across the Dominion border are coming to realize the South affords them far richer advantages. Even before there was any organized effort on the part of the South to attract new settlers, this move ment was fairly under way and now that alert cities and States are advertising their resources and are making special appeals to the homeseeker, it has be come more pronounced than ever. The trend of in vestment and population is in this direction. The important matter for each Southern community to consider is how speedily and how largely it will en joy its due share of this inflow of people and capital. The railroads of Georgia have been doing good work in this connection. They have given wide pub licity to the State’s agricultural resources and have devised special ates and plans whereby prospective settlers can visit the commonwealth. The results of this enterprise are already apparent. Hundreds of thrifty farmers from the west are visiting Georgia each season and many of them, with their families, remain. It is important, however, that the individual coun ties which desire settlers co-operate with the rail roads and with other responsible agencies. Ware county has set a timely example in this connection. A number of its alert citizens are promoting a com pany for the purpose of developing the necessary lands for a colonization plan. Such work will utilize much soil that is now comparatively idle and will tend to the upbuilding of all the county’s interests. .Bright Prospects for the Tariff Bill. Mr. Underwood’s prediction that the tariff bill will pass the House by Saturday and will go to the Senate early next week seems well warranted by the steadfastness with which the Democratic majority Is standing by the party’s program. Despite the ap peals and the threats of particular interests, the measure has remained substantia’ly in its original form, except for minor changes designed to perfect its classifications. Amendments offered by the Repub licans and the so-called “Progressives,” looking to higher duties or to a retention of old privileges have, in every instance, been promptly voted down. The Democrats have shown themselves mindful not only of their power but also of their responsibility, mind ful of their pre-ele.ction pledge to effect, a speedy and genuine revision of the tariff. They are working in almost unbroken harmony. They are bound to pro duce results. The tariff bill will naturally move more slowly in the Senate than in the House; partly because the Democratic majority is smaller In the Senate and partly, too, because there the interests that oppose thoroughgoing tariff revision are m<*e strongly In trenched. But the administration 1b not unprepared for such resistance as may arise; It has felt its way carefully; it seems assured of the outcome and what is most important of all it is backed by public senti ment and public judgment. At the decisive moment, the Senate majority will doubtless fall in line and support the House in the enactment of this great measure. It is especially desirable the tariff revision bill be passed as soon as possible, in order that every inter est likely to be affected may have ample time in which to adjust itself to the changed schedules. The country expects downward revision of duties. No disturbance of business conditions is anticipated. The only possible source of apprehension would lie in a long-drawn discussion of the issue and a postpone ment of the coming change. Business welfare will best be served by removing every element of sus pense, by putting the bill through, so that such read justments as must be made may promptly begin. The wife either makes or breaks a home. These Washington diplomats will have to join some sort of locker club. Don’t sneer at the college graduate. He might do some sneering of his own a few years later. You can’t stop some pessimists. Even now some people complain of the need of rain. / Balkan Jealousies. One of the remarkable aspects of the Balkan war is the steadfastness with which the Allies have maintained a solid front against Turkey. With rare skill and self-restraint, they have put aside their in ternal differences, forgotten their old enmities, ig nored the rivalries which the future, is certain to provoke and have struck one united blow after an other for a common cause. Particularly manifest has this policy been in their the peace conference held some months ago in, Lon don, the Turkish envoys made divers cunning efforts, to turn the members of the Balkan alliance one against the other. They appealed to the special in terest of Bulgaria, of Greece and of Servia, hoping that by an offer of advantageous tterms to one of these States they could break the compact agreement. But the Allies stuck to their united demands with the result that both Turkey and the Powers have finally had'to accept these terms. That has been the course thus far, but now there are rumors that the Allies are on the verge of a break among themselves. Having fought and planned together for the conquest of the Turk, they may now fall out over the prize they nave so bravely and hardly won. They have been held together by the pressure of common interests and a common foe; that removed, they are in danger of a split through individual jealousies and ambitions. The Bulgarians and the Greeks have and old fetid which centers in the domination of the Greek church. Bulgaria and Servia were at war less than- thirty years ago. Each of the three is now stirred with new ambitions; each will watch the other more or less suspiciously; inh to complicate matters, there are the claims of little Montenegro and the question of boundaries for future Albania. / It has frequently been suggested that the Balkan States will form a federation so that the political status of each of them may be more strongly main tained. Such a plan would undoubtedly aid in pre serving the alliance which nas proved so valuable throughout the war. When a man gets all he thinks he needs he has a large surplus. Young man, beware of a girl who says she intends to be a spinster. After a man has landed a political job he begins to kick because the salary Isn’t larger. Montenegro’s Second Thought If it be true, as dispatches indicate, that King Nicholas and a council of his generals have decided to evacuate Scutari, the sharp issue between Monte negro and the Powers is approaching a peaceful set tlement. It was rumored several days ago- that Montenegro would consent to give up its Albanian prize, temporarily at least, if it were assured of com pensation and it was understood that substantial pensation, and it was understood that substantial and the principal Balkan States are doubtless willing to do all they can to hasten the plans for harmony. There comes other stories, however, to the effect that the Montenegrin ministry has resigned as pro test against the suggested evacuation of Scutari and that Austria and Italy are preparing for a joint in vestment of Albania. Such a movement would be de cidedly distasteful to Russia. “It Is realized,” says a statement from St. Petersburg, “that the fate of Al bania involves a deeper concern than Scutari and it is declared that in the interest of European peace and the welfare of the Balkan Miates, Russia will do everything possible to prevent the occupation of Al bania. If she is not successful in this, Russia will insist that all the great Powers participate.” It is evident that the problem raised by Montenegro is far-reaching and that the most painstaking diplomacy is necessary to avert widespread trouble for Europe. The Balkans seem to have stopped fighting to watch one another. Taking him all in all, old Bill Bryan isn’t such a slouch as a secretary of state. THE GHOST SHIP BY DR. FRANK CRANE _____ (Copyright, 1913, by Frank Crane.)' At the foot of Seventy-ninth street in New York City, in the still waters of the Hudson, lies the oldest ship in the world, the convict ship Success. It is a ghost. It comes upon the imagination as the toothless, clawless spectre of the past, that grim moth er whose progeny still paralyzes the Present and clogs the Future. * In this ship England once sent her criminals to the Australian penal colonies. It is all sweet and clean now; mothers lead their children to peer into its cells occupied by wax figures. An enterprising man ager has fitted it up as an exhibition, has shown it in England and now brings it to America. It is a ghost, the ghost of an idea that, although dead and damned, still infests men’s minds, the idea that punishment abates crime. Here you see punishment raised to its highest pow er. The record of the cruelties here practiced by the English people is so frightful that no one can be blamed for not believing it; the truth is more incred ible than the wildest fiction. It is impossible to be lieve the story, yet it is perfectly authentic. In c$lls about five by six feet square, without light and with little air, four or five hunman beings were chained, their filth cleaned out but twice a week, their bodies racked by the tossing of the vessel. They were flogged upon the least occasion, their raw wounds were washed with salt sea water. Every devilish ingenuity was employed to mi ke thel. existence a hell. It is not a hundred years ago that over 145 offenses in England were punishable by death. The hangmen were kept so busy that convict ships were invented as being more terrible than dealn. Women and children were sentenced to transportation for stealing a four- cent pie or a square of bleached linen. The world, ostensibly worshipping Christ in majestic cathedrals, in practice outdid the devil in hideous inhumanity. Perhaps the most appealing thing to be seen in this ghost ship • the cells and waxen presentment of “The Six Men of Dorset.” Born in 1804, George Lovelace became a farm labor er. He got $1.75 a week. Anxious to better the condi tion of himself and his fellows, he organized a “La borers’ society” to secure 26 cents increase. There were six members of this pioneer trades union, the famous “Six Men of Dorset,” whose names should be dear to e r ery workingman today struggling for his rights; they were George and James Lovelace, James Hammett. Thomas Stanfield, James, Brine and one named Clark. When they presented humbly f hoir requests the landowners and farmers made reply that from $1.75 their wages would be henceforth reduced to $1.50 to teach them a lesson; and, furthermore, if they com plained again they would be arrested for conspiracy. A proclamation was issued threatening “to punish any man with seven years’ transportation who joined a trade society.” The “six men” were duly sentenced to seven years’ transportation in Diemens Land. They served three years in the hell ship Success and in the chain gangs of Australia before the British conscience awoke, and, after great popular uprisings, they were pardoned. Out of the past this ghost ship sails to us. Its solid oak we can touch. Its rusty iron manacles are all too tangible. Its hideous cells our feet may ex plore. Its appalling record books and documents we can see with our own eyes. Yet it is not true. It can not be true. It is more monstrous than fiction. God! to think that people of English blood could ever have held theories of life and of society in which such things were possible! And to think that even to day there are those who still cry “Punish! punish!” while over all the great Christ repeats his two thou sand year old message, “Heal! Help! Cure!” FRANTIC FABLES By Henry. Horseccllar Claude de Clove was a poet, a romanticist—a dreamer. He dreamed all day. He was mor© awake when he was asleep than he was whefi he was awake. He wore his hair Buster Brown fashion. I don’t mean to cast any canned asparagus at Bus ter Brown, but merely to indicate that he had skinned barbers as zealously as he had skinned creditors for the past ten yeu,rs. He was such r> good skinner that he always took a blue ribbon at the Shun show. In fact, he was the original Shunshine kid. Now it happened that one pellucid mom he awoke betimes, and his poet’s fancy was stirred by the sweet lilt of some rare bird that carolled in the cactus out side his window. A seraphic smile crossed his features as he lay musing and listening to the delicate cadences, the glad some burgle, the liquid quarter notes, the two-for-a- quarter liquid notes, the throaty symphony that welled from the feathery breast of this little messenger of the morn. If he could have got a pen without reaching for it he would have penned the following lines: Sweet bird, singest • Thy gosh dingest. Don’t spike it, I like it, Sing tra-la to the blithersome morn, I listen "ith an ear of corn. L’ENVOI, Every day I hope you do so, The sweetest rooster never Caruso. Just at that moment when Claude de Clove wasn’t penning these lines, the landlady, Mrs. McFigg, en- ered the room. “Mr. de Clove,” she said, “this bill which has been overdue now for— “Dear Mrs. McFigg,” spoke the poet, “before we speak of such earthly, trivial things—would you look out of the window and tell me what bird it.is that sings so sweetly—” Mrs. McFigg looked for a minute from the win dow. “That,” she said tartly, “is my old man carrying dirt to men«i the path that was washed out last night. The old sardine is too lazy to grease his wheelbarrow.” BY JOHN W. CAREY. Who used to be the envoy from the far-off Orient, and drew the glare as often as our Mr. Presidents Who always was in great demand for dinners, lunch eons, teas, and hypnotized the la- lies with his quips and pleasantries? Who stood for svery wrinkle in the way of inter views, and made himself right solid with the gents who print the news? W r ho said so long one day and hied to China whence he came (And Washington D. C., since then has not beer quite the same.) Who’s mentioned In the colyums of the Foo Chow Daily Whang for president of China now? Our old friend, Wu Ting^-fang. Presbyterians in Assemblage By hrederic J. Haskin general assemblies simultaneously in the same place! The Northern Presbyterian church, the Southern Presbyte rian church and the United Presbyterian church will open its general assembly in the citjl of Atlanta, May 15. Each body will hold a separate session dur J ing the day for the transaction of church business, but each evening the three will meet to gether in a great auditorium seating thousands of people. A1 these evening meetings topics germane to the general prog* ress of the whole church in 1 America will be presented by some of the most distinguished speakers of a denomination noted for the eloquence and in tellectual attainments of iti ministers. Officially the lead- ers of the three bodies give no reason for the meeting of the three assemblies at th« same time ana place .excepting that it was the sug- ges on of the people of Atlanta who are generously offering free hospitality to all of the 1,500 commit sioners who will be in attendance upon the assemblies, as well ■as contributing generally to the other ex penses of the gathering. Unofficially the opinion is freely expressed that this joint meeting will have a strong influence toward bringing about a closer units between the three bodies, especially since negotiations looking toward the union of the Southern General As. sembly and that of the United Presbyterian church already have been under consideration. • • • Presbyterianism in America has been one of th« strongest and most progressive of the religious faiths from colonial times and has h&d a powerful influence in the development of the nation. The spirit of inde pendence and liberty which is the keynote of the Presbyterian faith, had its beginning at the time oi the Reformation and it was most natural that it should promptly find its way to the new world which gave asylum to those who sought relief from the re ligious persecution of the old country. The first strictly Presbyterian colony in America was estab lished at Salem, Mass., in 1625, aftd the second was! established by Rev. Richard Denton at Watertown in 1630. In New York the Presbyterian doctrine was rep. resented by the Reformed Dutch church established at New Amsterdam in 1628. It was brought over to New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland a little later and was established with more difficulty in Vir ginia because in that colony the Episcopal church was established by the English government. The Presbyterians c la*im*that their denomination is the oldest form of church government in the world dating back to the time when Moses by divine author ity appointed elders to rule with him In the govern, ment of Israel. For more than 300 years the govern ment of Israel was altogether Presbyterian in itd broadest sense until the elders relinquished their au thority by divine permission which they secured by ardent prayers and they were given a king in whom was vested both civil and religious authority. But as Moses by God’s command ordained elders In the Wil derness, so did Paul and the other leaders of the Apos. tolic church In the New Testament. In every placs that a few believers were found elders were ordained and the eldership is the only office referred to In both testaments in connection with the establishment and government of the church. .Of course, the office ol elder or presbyter is common in all Christian churches, but is distinctively the basis of government only in th<i Presbyterian. ... The first Presbyterian church was founded by John Galvin in Geneva about 1541. The constitutioit and doctrines were adopted wffS small "moiHfRSllon " by John Knox in Scotland, a few years later, although the Presbyterian form of worship was not legally recognized In that country until 1592. For nearly a century more there was conflict and struggle in Scot- land between Presbyterianism and the Episcopacy un til by the Treaty of Union in 1707 it was agreed that the Presbyteri.-.n lorm of church government should be regarded as the national ecclesiastical government lit Scotland and the only one which should be supported by law. * * * t In America the progress of Presbyterianism had been comparatively smooth. The Presbyterians who came here had fled from the percesutlons of the old world and were the living witnesses of the torture there. The American Presbyterians have been rest ive under all yokes both ecclesiastical and political. The Revolutionary war itself was accredited in England largely to Presbyterian influence, as was demonstrated by Walpole’s witty speech in the British parliament in which he said: “Cousin America has run off with a Presbyterian parson.” Thirteen months before the signing of the Declaration of Independence the Pres, byterians of Mecklenburg, N. C„ had drawn up and signed a declaration of independence from England and established a system of local government. The Scotch Irish Presbyterians of Maryland declared for independence in May of 1776. • • * The historian Bancroft credits the American form of government to "Plagiarized Presbyterianism.” It is a government of the people through representatives chosen by the people and the only clergyman signing the Declaration of Independence was the Rev. John Witherspoon, of the Philadelphia assembly. It was a 'Presbyterian clergyman in New Jersey who, when the American forces were running short of wadding for their guns, went into his church and collected the hyrjji books. He tore out the printed pages with his own hands and gave the paper to the gunners. His oft-repeated order, "Give the Redcoats Watts, boys; give them Watts,” became the slogan which saved the day for the patriots. • * * The Presbyterians believe that there is no order in the church, as established by Christ and his apos tles, superior to that of the presbyter or elder, and, therefore, vast church government in presbyteries or associations of ministers and elders possessed of equal powers without any superiority among them. They believe that the authority of their ministers is de rived from the Holy Ghost by the imposition of the hands of the presbytery, and they oppose the Inde pendent scheme of the common rights of Christians by th e same arguments as are used by the Episcopa lians. They affirm that all ministers, being ambas sadors of Christ, are equal and oppose the office of bishop. The moderator or presiding officer is either the senior minister or is elected by vote. JUST SMILES He came down the garden path, a sad, sorrowful figure. She w r atched him with anxious eyes. “How did father take it?” she asked. “He took it all right,” replied the yourtg man. “Oh, I am so glad, George!” she cried. “Are you?” he replied, flopping forlornly by her side. “Well, I can’t say that I am, dear. At first your father wouldn’t listen to me.” “Why didn’t you tell him that you had $2,500 in the bank, as I told you to?”, she exclaimed. “I did, “fter all else had failed,” answered George, dejectedly. “And what did he do then?” “Do!” echoed the young man, passing his hands wearily through his hair. “He borrowed it!” A Buffalo preacher tells a story of a woman who, after hearing him preach, informed a friend that she did not lik e the services at all. The seat was hard, she said, the singing was not good and the preaching was poor. Her little girl, who overheard her re marks and who was present with her at church, said 4 "But, mamma, what can you expect for a penny? —Harper’s Magazine.