is one of their fine Christians we hear so much about!"
An old gentleman, an eminent Christian, one day went into the shop; the infidel soon began about what some Christians had done. The old deacon stood a few moments, and listened, and then quietly asked the infidel if he had read the story in the Bible about the rich man and Lazarus.
"Yes, many a time; and what of it?"
"Well, you remember about the dogs; how they came and licked the sores of Lazarus? Now," said the deacon, "do you know, you just remind me of those dogs—content to merely lick the Christian's sores."
The blacksmith grew suddenly pensive, and hasn't had much to say about failing Christians since. (Text.)
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D
DAILY CHARACTER WORK
In character-building, just as in housebuilding,
every day's work ought to count
for good. If the house builders do one day's
work carelessly, dishonestly, or in violation
of the architect's plan, the result is liable to
be serious, no matter how well the work is
done thereafter. An unsound spot in the
wall, a beam not properly placed, or any other
feature of a misspent working day, will render
questionable the soundness and safety of
the entire structure when the strain of use
and occupation comes. So the wasted day
of one's life may fix a flaw in the character,
which will expose that character to grave
perils, when certain temptations and trials
assail it.—The Interior.
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Dancing—See Degradation; Risk Shifted. Danger—See Love as a Siding; Quietness in Danger. DANGER, AVOIDING Birds who sleep on the water—and they are numerous—are always in danger of drifting to the shore, where lies their greatest danger. In the Zoological Gardens of London it has been discovered that ducks and other water-lovers have evolved a way of avoiding this danger. Tucking one foot up among their feathers, they keep the other in the water and gently paddle, with the result that they revolve in circles and keep at a safe distance from land, a kind of sleepwalking turned to good account.—Olive Thorne Miller, "The Bird Our Brother."
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DANGER, COURTING A few years ago a tenderfoot went out West looking for grizzly. He was all togged out in the newest style of hunting-*suit, and dawned like an incredible vision, on the astonished inhabitants west of the Missouri. He asked them where he could find a grizzly, and they told him reverently that at a certain place not far from there grizzlies were numerous and would come if you whistled. Light-heartedly he took his way to the place indicated and two days later they buried his mangled remains in the local cemetery. Over his innocent young head they erected a tombstone whereon they rudely carved this epitaph: "He whistled for the grizzly, and the grizzly came."
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DANGER FROM BELOW Moral disaster to character is often wrought by the inrush of animal tendencies stored in the lower nature of man. At various times during the construction of the Simplon Tunnel work has been retarded by the influx of water from underground springs. In the autumn of 1901 a stream of water burst into the Italian workings, and, attaining a discharge of nearly 8,000 gallons per minute, speedily converted the two headings into canals. Several months elapsed before the flow could be overcome. (Text.)—The Scientific American.
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DANGER LESSENED
The danger of fire on the great transatlantic
steamship is no longer to be dreaded.
Fire in a compartment can be isolated by the
closing of the bulkhead doors, and the flames
may then be fought by forcing into the burning
section of the hull carbonic-acid gas,
steam and water. Fires occur from time to
time on liners but they are extinguished so
