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Those who are inclined to grow weary in well-doing are reminded of what others have accomplished under discouraging circumstances and are stimulated to renewed effort by inspiring thoughts. It is a cheerful and helpful book. As Bishop Spalding declares: "It is all alive with the spirit of religious faith, zeal, and devotion. It is more than an encouragement-it is an inspiration." CURRENT POETRY. Sir Henry Irving. BY ARTHUR STRINGER. Much was it once to move o'erwearied life "Tough Luck!" Yes, and a dull knife. But the worst of it is that you suffer because the steel-worker who made the knife trusted too much to luck in the first place. * * * In olden days, when men carved each other, there was much talk of charmed cutlasses and lucky swords. To this day we are apt to think that good knives are a matter of luck. Know why this is so nearly true? Well, raw steel is a mass of little grains, -like the grains in lump sugar. And if you make raw steel thin enough to cut with-relying merely on its thinnessit isn't much good, because it breaks easily, -crumbles like a thin piece of lump sugar will. So steel must be toughened before it will take a thin, keen edge. This toughening is sometimes called tempering, and everyone knows that steel is tempered or toughened by heat. Heat wakes up the little sugar-like grains of steel, and they begin to stretch. That's why we say steel expands when heated. As things get hotter and hotter for the little steel grains, they stretch and wriggle into a tangle of tiny steel wires. And of course a network of wires is tougher than a mass of grains. Now, it's when knife blades are being tempered that "carver's luck" is being settled. There is a magic degree of toughness for steel, that accounts for all the "lucky" carving knives. A lucky carving knife is really only a knife that is always And when the end is a pale yellow, cool the needle in a glass of water. Note how the colors run from a pale yellow at the point into brown, then purple, then blue. Well, that's the steel rainbow. It tells as nearly as such misty colors can, how close a network the tiny wires have weaved. It helps the steel worker to guess at the toughness. Now, somewhere in the purple glow is the magic degree of toughness for carving knives. Guess where? Wrong guesses by so-called steel experts make wrestling matches out of what ought to be the simple art of carving chickens. You never even get a chance to guess, because the color is only on the surface and is ground away when the blade is polished and sharpened. But, you ask, is there no way of telling exactly when a carving knife has reached the magic degree of toughness? Is there no way except by guessing at the right shade of one color in a constantly changing, misty rainbow of colors? "Yes,-there is, and that's why Landers Knives sharp, that always slips right through chickens instead of rudely pushing them off platters. A carving knife that is always sharp is one that is tough enough, but not too tough. Tough enough to take a keen cutting edge and hold it well, but not too tough to be kept at its sharpest, by a few strokes, once in a while, on a standard Lee Sharpening Steel. That in-between-toughness is the magic degree. Just as there can be no ice until water is cooled to 32 degrees, there can be no "lucky carver" until the blade is toughened to just the magic degree. What is the magic degree, and how can the steel worker tell when he has it? Well, the good old time-worn way is to guess at it by the colors in the steel rainbow, and trust to luck to hit it right. are always sharp,-or easily kept as keen as new by an occasional dozen strokes on a standard Lee Sharpening Steel. Then there's no excuse for chicken's sliding off the platter. The Landers Process is as exact as arithmetic. Two and two make four, whether you write it in red ink or black. The Landers Process just as surely gives table cutlery just the magic degree of toughness every time, no matter what shade of purple glows on its surface. But don't think that the Landers Process is as easy as two plus two. The Landers Process is the result of over a half a century of experience with the largest output of table cutlery in the world. The "magic degree" was captured for Landers Cutlery by constant testing and proving. No other knife maker knows the Landers Process, and without the Landers Process good knives are a matter of luck. That's why only Landers knives can be relied upon-why only Landers knives are always sharp. Look for the mark LANDERS ou every blade. You can get Landers Cutlery in everything for the table and kitchen. 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Ef our feet keeps time a little to de melodies we hyeah. W'y, dey's somep'n' downright holy in de way our Ah, Friend of Me. BY GRACE GOODALE. Ah, friend of me, I know not why I turn Quiet and courage from those somber eyes, Ah, friend of me, I wish that I might give Some half return, some hint of joy or peace! But who shall reach your need, who make to cease The deep world-pain that claimed you from your birth, Who break the solitude in which you live? Not mine such power; a helpless human touch Of loving faith-I can not count it much Yet take it, friend, and judge you of its worth. -Reader (October). PERSONALS. Intimate Memories of Irving.-Fuller Mellish, an English actor, who was for ten years associated with Sir Henry Irving, publishes in the New York Times many incidents of the great actor's life. 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