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and mayhap their little ones. This little indication of common suffering made the feathered family seem much closer to the human. (Text.)

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Suffering, Unnecessary—See.

Suffrage, Woman—See.

SUGGESTION

A few years ago in a certain part of England the weather was so continuously beastly—that's the term they used—that at last, wearying of looking at the barometers day after day, week in and week out, the entire inhabitants of a certain seaport town, in sheer disgust, gathered up their weather-*glasses and dumped them into the old junk shops. Both the weather and the barometers flooded them with disagreeable suggestions. They could not do away with the weather, but they could with their barometers that seemed to serve no better purpose than to accentuate their discontent.—

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Sometimes a word or phrase will do in literature what a sketch will do in charcoal, defining a character and suggesting a whole line of possibilities. An instance of this is in the following from Everybody's Magazine:

After a certain jury had been out an inordinately long time on a very simple case, they filed into the courtroom, and the foreman told the judge they were unable to agree upon a verdict. The latter rebuked them, saying the case was a very clear one, and remanded them back to the jury-room for a second attempt, adding, "If you are there too long I will have to send you in twelve suppers."

The foreman, in a rather irritated tone, spoke up and said: "May it please your honor, you might send in eleven suppers and one bundle of hay."

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See.

Suggestion, Unhealthy—See.

SUICIDE PREVENTED

Some time since a young man who had spent his substance in riotous living was reduced to poverty. He wandered away from home, and being unable to support himself, he resolved upon self-destruction. He filled his pockets with lead, and, determined to drown himself, went to the river. Deciding to wait until dark, he was attracted by a light in the window of a house at no great distance, and went to it. The people were singing hymns. He listened at the door until a chapter from the Bible was read and prayer was offered to God. When the prayer was ended he knocked at the door and was admitted. The passage under consideration that evening was, "Do thyself no harm." When the services were concluded the stranger asked them how they came to know his thoughts, for he had not mentioned his intention. The members of the meeting were equally surprized, as they had never before seen him. The young man then told them his design of taking his life and how he had been prevented. He became an eminent Christian. (Text.)

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SUMMER IN THE HEART

Springtime may lose its freshest tints, And autumn-leaves their gold. The bitter blast and snowy wreath May sweep across the wold; But the years are full of splendors That never will depart, For they shed eternal fragrance When there's summer in the heart.

The shadows linger on the earth, The sunbeams hide away; The sad mists fold their chill white hands About the face of day; The tumult and the rush of life Sound ay in street and mart; But they can not drown life's music When there's summer in the heart.

The city towers are crumbling fast, And totter to their fall; The ivied castle on the height Shows many a ruined wall; But men build eternal buildings With strange and wondrous art; They are shrines for the immortals When there's summer in the heart.

—Montreal Star.

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Sun The, as a Witness—See.

SUN, THE BUSINESS OF A

I remember walking in Switzerland, late in the evening in a raging thunder-storm. The darkness could be felt as well as the rain. Little points of light now and then