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I LITTLE MA i f A CHILD OF j :::::: by b. l. VHAX" J. i'.tt ill. ?. Continued. "Git up," said he; "you're wanted." This was so judicial a summons that Uttle Make-Believe looked around for he policeman who had come to seize ier for some unknown crime. Seeing U officer of the law, her head sank (pon her breast again. "Don't yer hear?" cried Dot-andarry-one. "You're wanted." "What for?" asked Little Make-Beleve, in a listless tone. "We're going to play one of your ?mes," replied Dot and carry-one. [We're going to pretend." Little Make-Believe shook her head. !he had no heart for games, not even or the game which had become almost t second nature to her. "Let me alone," she said. Some unaccustomed note of sufferng in her voice caused Dot-and-carry<ne to stoop and lower his face to the ?tm1 itrifh horc "What's the matter with yer?" he inluired, less from compassion than torn curiosity. "I'm almost starving," she said, "and {aranne's waiting at home for grub .nd I aitfi got none to give her. I an't play no games, 'cause I ain't got itrengtii to crawl." "If yer'll play this game," said Dotmd-carry-one, "yer'll git lots of grub tor the pair on yer. I ain't gammonng. "What sort o' grub?" asked Little ilake-Believe, increduliusly. "Pies." With a glad cry little Make-BelieVe umped to her feet. The mention of pies and the prospect ?f possessing them were like Heaven o her. A pie was the very thing Saranne cpected her to bring home. For a moment or two she throbbed , frith ecstacy; then came a revulsion. " - *- eoi/I tllPT nau iiul uvi-ttuu-ttiiij-wuv -? ?? rere only going to pretend? He saw Ihe doubt in ber face. "Don't be a little fool," be said. "We ire going to pretend to fieht the saviges. Tbe chief one of 'em is Mike, ;he Pieman, and'we'll tacklfe him fust He's waiting for us to play the game, and the Government's going to pay him tor the pies." This last statement was perhaps the most daring and original declaration Dot-and-carry-one had ever made. In His way, the lad was a genius, and juick in device when a questionable transaction was in view. Little Make-Believe did not pause to ;onsider; she thought only of Saranne ind, accepting the flag handed her by Dot-and-carry-one, took her allotted place at the head of the ragged regiment. 'The children sat up a cheer when ,l"+h?vrc? T.ittle Make-Be UlCjr oun -UV* M*W. tieve was a great favorite with them. CHAPTER IV. What Occurred to the Expedition Commanded by Little Make-Eelievc [T. Against Mike the Pieman. "Mike the Pieman was a little slirivtled-up old man, who had been in the pic business for more years than any3ne in the neighborhood could remember. His stand was on the curb outside the principal entrance of The Maiden's Blush, and he drove a roaring trade, ?eldom going home without bis entire; StocK. Deinj; cieareu oui. He made only one sort of pie. What sort of pie that pie was no man knew except himself, and no one inquired. The cnly thins of which a buyer could be sure of was, that the pies were very hot in temperature and seasoning. There was a legend that Mike the Pieman was very rich. That is scarcely probable, for a fortune is not to be made out of one pie can; it is likely, however, that he was well-to-do, for te was a close-fisted old fellow, who was never known to give away a pic or to sell one under price. "Halt!" cried Dot-and-carry-one, and bis ragged regiment came to a suumstni within a few yards of The Maiden's Blush. "There ho is," said the young scamp. "There's the chief of the savages. He's got a extra hot lot o' pies running t)ver with gravy, which he made especially for us. I can taste 'cm aforetoand, can't you?" The sight cf all those hungry mouths working would have been a si^ht' to remember. "He knows we're here," continued Dot-aml-carry-onc, "but he musn't take co notice of us till we s;oes up to him, or the Government wouldn't pay him for the pies he's made for us. If yer knew the juicy stuff he's put in them nips ver moutli'd water to that extent that yer wouldn't be able to speak. Now, this is what you've sot to do. When I saw forward!?which I shan't cry loud, in case he should hear us? you'll all on ycr foller Little Make-3?licve straight to old Mike. Then?let me see; who's the strongest boy in this here crowd?" ] am!" and **1 am!" and "I ain!" vociferated every one of the boys. "I should say," said Dot-and-carryone, "that Jimmy Tyler is." "I'll light any two on 'em," said Jimmy Tyler, with defiant looks; "one down, the other come up!" "And I'll back yer," said Dot-andrarry-one, secretly exulting in the progress he was making. "Well, you, Jimmy Tyler, you'll jump on old Mike's back the moment yer git to him. He'll like that, will Jimmy, 'cause he can slick it on the (government. I dessay ",A i-or'll {nmlila intrv thp 1'Oad: IUI' >;uii .tv* ? it> jest what be wants done to him, cause be can git what they calls compensation. If yer hurt hiiu a bit. ali the better. Then all on yer jump on him and tumble him about. He want wind-hell enjoy it! And 1 shouldn : KE-BELIEVE | llllll THE SLUMS. j farjeon. ::::: || wonder, if yer uo it well, that you'll all get medals from the Queen. Did yer hear what that man said what was standing by Mr. Dexter's shop? 'Give it 'em hot,' he said, 'for the glory of Old England.' That's what he said, and that's what the Queen likes, and that's what we're going in for. Are yer ready?" "Yes," they cried. "But what am I to do?" asked Little Make-Believe. "You!" exclaimed Dot-and-carry-one, somewhat puzzled. "Oh, you'll open yer mouth and shut yer eyes and see what Gawd'll send yer!" After whicn direction Dot-and-carryone looked warily around, to see that no policeman was nigh to spoil his little game, and then said softly: "Forward!" '" - * -i' T Dt*'rpo/la Tne unarge 01 uue pales in comparison. Before Mike the Pieman knew where- he was, Jimmy Tyler had jumped on his back and pulled him down into the road, where he lay struggling with the six or seven young ruffians bent on carrying out the orders of Dot-and-carry-one. * This young gentleman took no part in the scuffle. Directly Mike was down he opened the can, took off his cap, and swept into it at least a dozen pies, 'steaming hot, with which he ran off as fast as his legs could carry him. It was the work of a moment. The great Napoleon himself could not have executed a strategic movement more deftly. And almost before one could say "Jack Robinson" the pies were gone and the jaws of Dot-and-carry-one were devouring them. Meantime. Little Make-Believe did exactly as she was told. She opened her mouth and shut her eyes and waited for what God would 6end her. The only movement she made for which she could claim originality was to put her fingers in Her ears, to snui out the din of the battle. The paper flag in her hand was thus elevated above her head, and seemed to stick out of it like a feather. The cries which Mike uttered as he struggled with his foes seemed to her scarcely real; her senses were almost entirely absorbed in eager expectation of being able, through the intervention of Providence, to satisfy Earanne's wish of a pie for supper. The battle did not last long. Dotand-carry-one's proceedings had not been unnoticed by two or three of his followers, and he had scarcely disappeared round the corncr before other unlawful hands were laid upozi Mike's succulent store. All ihe rest of the regiment followed suit, helping themselves without compunction; and one, less selfish than his comrades, seeing Little Make-Believe standing stock still, with her mouth wide open, popped a pie into it as he raced past her. The pio was too large and the mouth too small to be disposed of in one bite, and would have fallen to the ground had not Little Make-Believe hastily caught it. She had tasted it, however, and nature was strong within her; nothing in the shape of food had entered her mouth during the long, weary day until that moment; her eyes, open now, dilated with gladness; greedily she sr.eked her lips with the gravy on them, and in a moment of thoughtlessness was about to take another bite when the figure of Saranne rose before her. ' It was enough. Choking back her hunger, she ran toward her home, holding the precious pie close to her breast. This was the sicht which Mike the Fieman beheld as he rose to his feet, flushed and filled with anger. All the other children had disappeared: only Little Make-Believe was in sight. and in her hand food unlawfully begotten. After her he hobbled, furious for revenge. Luckily or unluckily for Little MakeBelieve, his capacity for pursuit was not of a high order. He suffered from periodical attacks of lumbago, and this was one -of his bad days." Little Make-Believe would have got clear off had not Mike restored to anoTher expedient in the cause of justice. lie called, or rather gasped: "Stop thief!" This cry would have been uttered the moment he had extricated himself from the clutches of his foes had he not been proverbially short of breath, an infirmity which, aggravated by rage, had for the time deprived him of the power of speech. i But his compulsorily slow gait, as lie I hobbled after Little Make-Believe, I T-? o /?! TTt 1*1/1 O /I TTM + Vl if" 1T1 U1UU?JJI um.iv Uio >? i uu, it, a weak state, his voice. Twice did the summons to law-abiding citizens escape him, and he was about :o utter it for the third time when a violent spasm in his back doubled him up, and he was compelled to cling to a lamp-post for support. Coming toward him as he was in this position was the man who had addressed the children as they marched past Thomas Dexter's shop. In his progress this man had brushed by Little Make-Believe, and had taken notice of the pie she was hugging to her breast. With keen insight he saw immediately how the matter stood, and decided how to act. I'^tienced by a feeling of ccmpas sionT he addressed a policeman who bad been attracted by *Mike's summons. "Some vagabond's been stealing Mike's pies." he said, "and the old fellow's run after him.'' "Which way has he gone?" "That way," replied the man, point.r,? in 'an opposite direction to that ;iKen bv Little Make-Believe. T!i" u slowly sauntered to- i ward the indicated thoroughfare, aiid the man. inwardly rejoicing at the .su? j cess of his maneuvre, turned his buck j I upon lumbago-stricken Mike and more j swiftly pursued Little Make-Believe. She hearing hurried steps behind her, quickened her own. but she was no match for her pursuer, who overtook her and laid Lis hand upon her suouj- | der just as she reached the door of j 1; Thomas Dexter's shop. Then came j a suddenly upon her the full and true | ^ consciousness of her act. j t In fancy she saw the heimft. th? ! t truncheon, the dock, the magistrate, the lockup. /The strength with which exaltation of spirit had inspired her weak form * deserted her at the touch of this hand a upon her shoulder, and overpowered 0 with terror she cowered down at Thomas Dexter's feet. "What's the matter?" inquired 1 Thomas Dexter, gazing on (he crouching form. Little Make-Believe did not stir. 11 Quick of fancy, she was realizing the horror of her position. It harrowed her vicarously. What T would Saranne do? How could she ^ get food?when her sister, her child- * mother, could no longer provide for her? * "There's nothing to be frightened 13 at," said the man, raising Little Make- e Believe from the ground. "I sent the nniioomnr nff nn n wrnnc scent. So |JUUV.^UiUU WM. you've been despoiling the Egyptians? x But do you want to be taken red- ^ handed? Why don't you eat your pie? ^ They couldn't cut you open to prove t the larceny." T "It's for my sister. Saranne." raur- j, mured Little Make-Believe, by no v means sure whether kindness or treachery was intended. p "For your sister Saranne:"' said the e man. "But yourself, little 'up?you ^ look hungry enough to eat a brick." u "I am," sighed Little Make-Believe, ^ "When did you lipve your last t meal?" . . g "I had two potatoes last night." j, "And since then?" j, "Nothink." "Come, come," said the man. "eat 3 the pie. Never mind your sister Sa- s ranne."' jj "Let me go?let me go!" cried Little jj Make-Believe, and she twisted herself 8, from his kindly grasp. "You're a ^ wicked, wicked beast!" ? And before the man could recover I 0 from bis astonishment she bad disnp- | a peared. . g "What do you think of that for hero- Cl ism?" asked the man of Thomas Dex- p ter. "Could a princess show higher 0 qualities than that ragged morsel of a humanity? She can forget her own hunger?with savory food at her very j lips?can withstand the temptation- jj because she has a little sister at home '^] to whom she plays the part of mother. ^ If I had a penny to spare I'd give it i her, but it's not in my power. She's B: ofE to Paradise Buildings, where 6be t< and her sister live, to complete her act t] of self-sacrifice. Good-night, guv'nor." tj "Good-night," said Thomas Dexter, 0) and entered his shop, shrugging his c, shoulders. CHAPTER V. * Thomas Dexter Has Strange Dreams. fi On the following day Thomas Dexter attended the sale of old curiosities in ~ in T nj/t/ictor Sniiflrp. ' U. II ilUl'llUll 1UUUI, 1U ?, which had once been Sir Joshua Rey nolds' studio. He had marked down half-a-dozen lots which he was anxious to buyenamels of no particular value in themselves, but likely to suit a customer who had a craze for them. Having secured the enamels at a price which he knew he could double ^r in the selling, he made his way back P< to Clare Market. a Never in his life had he had a day'* ? illness, and no signs had warned him w that sickness was near, but when he was within a quarter of a miie of his cl shop a sudden vertigo caused every- t* thing to swim before his eyes?picturf ol shops, costermongers' barrows, flaunt ai ing women, newspaper boys, bits of m pavement, gutter and sky. all jumblod & up and going round together. si He caught hold of some railings to i tt steady himself, and presently the sky Si went up into its proper place, and the fa gutter came down, and the pavement le flattened itself out, and the flaunting women passed him with bold looks, oi and the costermongers wheeled theii tn barrows along quite naturally. te Except that there was a strange aii te of newness about everything, the mov- w ing life around him had undergone no a< change. it (To be Continued.) tt , di Protecting r&riginn Mode*. a There is some news over from Paris I lV that is rather epoch-making, observes P' the Westminster Gazette. All the important Parisian houses? Paquin, Dou- ri cet, Collot, Doeuillet, Laferrlere, Raud- ei nitz, Redfern. Rouff, Seer', etc.,?have Cl decided to club together to stop the horrible piracy that lias been going on , ?? about their models. It is asserted that | *c the Germans and Americans have beeE in getting hold of all the newest Parisian a( ideas quite early in the season and bringing them oi:t by means of cheap 01 productions at very low prices, thuj ai cheating these Tarisian artists of nr t0 enormous amount ol' tlie profit whici ai is their due, as with them alone must rest the credit of the original ideas thai ai make a model of value. di This piracy has become a crying pi nuisance. Why should not the sar- w torial artist reserve the right of repro cl duction, just as an artist or an authoi w nr n rlrnmntist wnnld have? Thov have T made up their minds that they are go th ing to get proper protection for theii 01 works of art, and so from henceforth ac no models bought by Continental houses P* will be delivered before a certain date P Of course, these new regulations apply ai in no sense to their firms' private cus- of tomers, only to the professional buyers, di Sho Never Forgot the Lost Five. An Atchison man, says the Giobe, of that Kansas towu. lost $3 in making fo chauge, and when he went home told ^i his wife about it. This happened sis ^ vears ago. and she has never forgotten a It, often telling liim what luxuries they w could afford if he hadn't lost the money. Last week their son dropped $200Q 00 in a poor investment. "Don't Bay a word to him about it," she said to her husband. "Poor boy, he feels bad s* r:iOueb as it is." / Household ^ fefatters i To Store Blankets. ODe of the beet places to store blan ;ets which are not being used is under . mattress which is continual: y slept ipon, as here they are kept comparaively well aired, and need little exra exposure to the Are before using. Things Worth Knowing. That a piece of c-harcaol thrown into , he pot in which onions, cabbage, etc., re boiled will absorb the unpleasant ] dor. j ( That salt is not to be added to oat- i , aenl until it has boiled about fifteen : . oinutes. ' < That a lump of butter dropped into [ oiling molasses or maple candy will i ' irevent it from running over. j . That a piece of lace or thin muslin, j ( tarched and put over the holes or ! , rorn places in lace curtains will show j ery little and improve the looks of i he curtains. That a handful of salt, thrown .into ; 1 he tepid water with which straw Qatting is wiped up, will make it look , xtra fresh and clean. 'i First Aids to Housecleanln;. < To know how to clean wood work rithout scrubbing, bow to freshen carets without taking up, bow to do over ilankets without ruining them, how o render a bo:ise hygienically clean rithout terrible smelling antiseptics s to approach housecleaning season rithout fear and without reproach. First take down all the curtains and ortieres and take up all the floor covrings that are to be put away. Have bem thoroughly cleaned, done up, narked and stored away on shelf or q a chest for the summer. The more bings you can pack away early in the eason the less work you will have a warm weather. Your home will 30k cooler and will be healthier. Do up your curtains as soon as you ecide to houseclean. Have them well baken, and then if very dusty rinsed efore regularly washing. Put them lto lukewarm water and let them oak for twenty minutes or half an Our. During this time have heated boilerful of water, to each gallon f which a tablespoonful of borax nd half a bar of white soap, shaved ne. Squeeze the curtains out of the old water. Lay them in a tub and our on the boiling suds. Within anther half hour they will be white nd lovely. Rinse in two waters, and lien add a little bluing to the third, f the curtains are cream colored, a ttle coffee in the last water will keep he creamy tint. When borax is used lere is absolutely no need of rubbing, 'o rub curtains on a board is to detroy them utterly. To attach them > frames is ofttimes equally disas"ous. The best way is to squeeze lem gently and pin on a sheet laid - - 1 ... ? 10 u a jarge i~u?. n juu oiai^u jvui * jrtains, make the starch thin. s Have your portieres and rugs also "ell shaken, then beaten and fold a ' ( way in borax powder to save them om the moths.?Mary Annable Fanin. n J"" 1 r Curried Fowl?Cut a fowl in pieces; ired an onion small and fry it brown K i butter. Dredge thickly with curry * \w/1a?i f? r-> /-v coif on/1 rmt oil intA J VV UC1 UJiU UUC OtUi. uuu. JJUV ^ stewpan with one pint of good stock, j tew slowly till all is cooked and-serve ^ ith a dish of well boiled rice. j Mock Crab?Half a pound of mellow r aeese, salad cil, vinegar, made mus- c ird, pepper and salt, quarter pound f canned shrimps. Take the cheese f nd pound it well in a mortar with T lade mustard, salad oil, vinegar, cay- p ane pepper and salt to taste. This t lould be mixed to the consistency of , L lick cream. Add to this the shrimps. ! ^ erve in crab shell or any ornamental I 1 incy dish and garnish with sliced ' ^ mon. | ,( Baked Marmalade Tudding?Three j ji jnces of flour, three ounces of butter, j t vo ounces of su?ar, two eggs, two | aspoonfuls of marmalade and two aspoonfuls of baking powder. Beat * ell together the eggs and the sugar, ^ Id the flour, melt the butter and pour ,j in; then add the marmalade and jj ie baking powder. Tour into a pie p sh and bake for twenty minutes in I brisk oven. Warm two tablespoon lis of marmalade and pour over the v idding on removing it from the oven. | Apricot Dumplings?Make a good 5 ch baking powder dough; roll out. n it into rounds with a large cookie T itter; have ready some stewed apri- b its; drain juice from same; place two 0 lives within each round of dough: ild, press edges together and bake ^ moderately quick oven. For sauce. v Id water to juice to make required j lantity of sauce: add generous lump m K..4.*?- 4A h UllLlt'I", lilKI." UUUl X1J L:VU IU ^ noun* of sauce,'with sufficient sugar " i make flour mix smoothly: boil and n 3d a half cup of chopped apricots. Focotaligo Fish?First take all skin id bones from some boiled fish, edge thickly with flour and over all ^ it .suffieiei/t milk to cover. Season p itli cayenne and salt and a little ^ lopped parsley. Let this: heat gently si bile some eggs are being poached, p urn the lish on a dish and arrange u ie poached eggs on it. Dissolve two v inces of butter in a small saucepan. Id a heaped teaspoonful of chopped irsley, a little cayenne and salt. ^ our this sauce slowly over the eggs id serve hot. A garnish of crescents i ' fine bread is an audition to this I sh. ? h Charge as He Remembered It. j.( Judge Brady had a ro!ored man be- f< re him in rolice Court and lie asked a: m when he had been arrested before. be fellow scratched his her.d. thought s' moment and th^n said: "Ah think it * as about a year a.20. J edge." g, "What was the charge?"' asked the a mrt. After tbinki;:;g awhile, ihe prisoner oked up and said: "Ah'm not quite luah. but ah t'ink it was free dol- p lis. yer honor."' in lie was discharged.?AJournal. ^ > ?. ' THE SUNDAY SCHOOL 1 / ? INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR APRIL 9. . , Subject: The Raising of Lnzarnr, John xl., 32-45?Golden Text, John xl., 25? Memory Verne*, 33-36?^Coinmentar on the Day's Lesson. I. The meeting of Jesus and Mary (v. 32). 32. "YYhen Mary was come." Martha first heard that Jesus was coming, and, without notifying Mary, she went to meet Jesus just outside the village. She greeted Him with those words of sorrowful despair?"Lord, if Thou hadst been here my brother had not died." But even then there was a dawn of hope in her heart, from her experience of the power of Jesus. Jesus replied with the assurance that He was "the resurrection and the life," and prepared her for the great work He was about to do. "If Thou hadst been here." These words express the very essence of soul torture at such times. In our affliction we continually echo the if of these sisters, saying to ourselves, if we had not done this, or if we had not done that, or if it had not been for our blunder, or that of our friends, or that of our physician, our beloved would not have died. But read verse 4 of this chapter. II. Christ's compassion (vs. 33-37). 33. "Groaned in the spirit." This is a strange term and is better rendered by the margin of the Revised Version? 'was moved with indignation in the spirit." Jesus was indignant at the hypocritical and sentimental lamentations of His enemies, the Jews, mingling with the heartfelt sorrow of His loving friend Mary. These self-righteous Jews, now weeping and groaning In professional sorrow with Mnry were men who would soon be plotting to Kin, not oniy jesus, Dut me restored Lazarus (compare chap. 12:10;. "Was troubled." "Troubled Himself."? Marg., R. V. Probably the Meaning is that He allowed His deep emotion to jeeome evident to bystanders. 34. 'Where?laid him." A question adIressed to and answered by the sisters. 35. "Jesus wept." Here the blessed resus shows Himself to be trulr man; ind a man, too. who, notwithstanding tfis amazing dignity and excellence, lid not feel it beneath Him to sympathize with the distressed and to veep with those who wept. After :his example of our Lord 6hall we say iiat it is weakness, folly and sin to tveep for the loss of relatives? 36. How He loved him." A spontaneous estimony from those Jews of the tenlerness of the Son of God. 37. "Could not this man." The miricle of the blind man was referred to jecause it was of recent occurrence, ind in the immediate neighborhood, vhile the two previous miracles of aising the dead (Luke 7:11-17; 8:41-56) vere performed in distant Galilee, ibout one year and a half before. ?>">ral leading commentators think tbav hese Jews were unbelieving and now efer to the healing of the blind man n a deriding manner, suggesting that f He could have done that, then He :ould have kept Lazarus alive, and eal love would have prompted Him rtn it if Hp hnrt nnwpr III. Words of comfort (vs. 38-40). 38. 'Again groaning." Because of the un>elief of the Jews. We never find :[im in as much grief over His own mfferings as over the sins of men. 'Cometh to the grave." Lazarus was, is became his station, not laid in a emetery, but in his own private tomb n a tave. 39. "Take ye away the stone." rbat. which could be done by human land she orders to be done. He would lave the bystanders see that Lazai vas actually dead. "He sinketh." Seeming to forget what Jesus had aid to her when she met Him, Martha low thinks only of the condition of ler brother's body and objects. The dea of an immediate resurrection does tot seem to have occurred to her. 40. "If thou wouldst believe." So ve see that if these sisters had not assessed hearts of faith, a willing- j less to believe and obey Christ, this oirade could not have taken place. f faith holds Him as the resurrection nd the life, then why doubt when He s Eear? "Glory of God." Such a evelation of God's power as shall dislose His glory. IV. Lazarus raised to life (vs. 41-45). 1. "Took away the stone." Martha's aith must have rallied and she gave vay to Jesus' request. They* had aeomplished all in their power when he stone was removed. Jesus now iegan His part. "Lifted up His eyes." in outward expression of the elevaion of His mind and to show them rho stood by from whence He derived lis power. He lifted up His eyes'as ooking beyond the grave and overDoking tlie difficulties that arose hence. 42. "Thou hast sent Me." Not to estroy men's lives, but to save them, loses, to show that God sent bim, Qade the earth opsn and swallow men ip (Num. 1G:29, 30), for the law was a \ ispensation of terror; but Christ i roves nis mission uy raising 10 me ne that was dead. 43. "Loud voice." i le did not whisper nor mutter as did i be magicians. It was the type of that ; oice like the sound of many waters i Kev. 1:15), at which all who are in heir graves shall come forth (John j :2S; 1 Thess. 4:1<J). He that wept as j man now spoke as a God. "Lazarus." I le calls him by name as we call those y their names whom we would wake ut of slpep. This im.mates that the nme individual person that died shall ise again at .ie last day. 44. "Bound and and foot." Probably each limb ras separately bound, as was the Egyptian custom. "Loose him." He ras a healthy, strong man and no >nger needed the bandages and windig sheet. 45. "Many believed." The ! liracle was convincing. Power Boat at Fire Inland. The first of the power lifeboats built | .. , , T !i Gnw. ar tne united Mates i^iiesuvjug >xi- i ice will be assigned to the station at j 'ire Island. The craft adopted lor this j .*ork is thirty-four feet in length and j elf-rigbting and-self-bailing, and pro- j elled by a twenty horse-power engine sing gasoline for fuel. Owing to its reight and the consequent inability j launch the craft from the beach, it nil be kept in the bay and brought round through the inlet when there is ny demand for its services. Swallowed Sixty Nails. Luther Sharp, forty-five years old, a real thy Bourbon County (Ky.) farmer, as committed suicide. He left a note ?questing that an autopsy be perjrmed on his bodj', which was done, nd which disclosed the presence in his tomach of sixty nails of various sizes, sveral screws and brass pins. Sharp TOie mm ue iiau utru aw?iiv%>iu?, 3ese articles for a month. He "was abject to fits of melancholia, and bad lade several attempt to kill himself. Bowie at Ninety. Bernard Solkil, aged ninety, of Dunlo. a., challenges any person of bis ;iac tbe State for a bowling contest for >00 a side. ..... ' : V. ' v I THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STAR TUNC FACTS ABOUT THE VIOF, OF INTEMPERANCE. interesting Figures fn Aniwcr to the Question, "Does It Pay to Banish the Saloon From a Community 1"?-Prosperity of Towns That Are Dry. The Fishkiil (N. Y.) Weekly Timet has a correspondent in California whe has been investiffatinir from n business I standpoint the liquor problem as afI fecting the cities and towns of thai State. In his letter to the Times this j correspondent (Mr. L. C. Wood) gives I some interesting figures in answer tc the question, "Does it pay to banish the saloon from a community?" After naming a large number of the cities and towns in Southern California that voted "dry," and thus banished the saloon, he says that all these show a prosperous growth and sdme of them phenomenally so. He then instances some, "Long Beach, for example." 1 spent three months at this place the past summer, and have Been 25,000 people drop down there in one day on pleasure bent brought in and carried out by the steamer and electric roads, all without accidents, with no drunks and no arrests. Long Beach was a saloon town a few years ago, and wheu its better citizens were wrestling with the problem of no saloons, all tbe saloon sympathizers in Southern California predicted that it would kill the place. During the last few years it has spent $36,000 for sidewalks) as much more in extending its sewer system, put up 629 new buildings, spent $106,000 in new school houses aqd in the enlargement of others, built a new nlor a + a nnof r\f AAA Tm_ proved its streets all over the city at a large expense, also its park. Besides, the Pacific Electric Railway Company has spent in new lines and buildings in the city limits $750,000, which shows a confidence of money men in a town that a few years ago was going to die. Pasadena, another dry and dead city, has spent during the past year about $1,000,000 in new buildings, and has mow a population of 25,000 to 30,000 and an assessed valuation of over $15,000,000. Ocean Park has added 2000 to its population in two years. Wbittier has added 1000 to its population in two years, and spent for new buildings in the past year $206,000. Monrovia has increased its population by 800 the past year. Hollywood has doubled its population in eighteen months. Santa Anna voted the saloon out two years ago, and is now growing faster than ever before; it is the county seat of Orange ?County. Wilmington has doubled its population in twelve months; it voted dry the last election. In the wet cities and towns, Los Angeles and San Pedro are the only oneu that are prosperous in the list. Th<> Government is spending a vast amount of money improving the harbor at San Pedro, which gives it a boom. Chepo was a dry town, but voted wet somo six years ago; it has had three murderu since, two of Nvhich were in saloons, and it has cost this county thousands of dollars to prosecute the cases. Los Angeles has 200 saloons and 145 churches. It will have spent in new buildings by January 1. 1905, for one year, about $14,000,000. Its population is about 150,000. Its per capita growth arill nnl cnnnl Pocrt^ono s\r> T nnr* tinonh *fjn **vi tvjuui x ucuu^uu vi juwu? jjtavuj but it is making wonderful strides. Its criminal costs are very large. In an address, a short time since by a criminal attorney (Mr. Rogers), before the Men's League, he stated that seventyfive per cent, of the crime in the city was caused by the misuse of liquor. If the saloons were wiped out, seventyfi*-e per cent, of costs would not be .ere; he further .stated that of forty murder cases he had been engaged in, in the past four years, all but four were caused by liquor. "One murder," said Mr. Rogers, "was over a keg of beer, worth $1.25, and it cost Los Angeles County $32,000 to prosecute the case." There is a tremendous 6trong sentiment against the saloon in Los | Angeles city, and the wise ones predict it will be a dry city in five yearsReader, does it pay ? ' A Sermon Tor Women. The cb'ief matron of the Chicago poi lice department preachc.3 a powerful | total abstinence sermon when she says: I "Of all the ten or twelve tb:usand uni fortunate girls ana wrccked women , arrested every year in Chicago, among j those who tell their woes to me, nine; ty-nine out of every hundred attribute ! their downfall to tte first g.ass of wine i or champagne, taken generally with a i male companion, always for good fel. lowship's sake. The first guss is the j beginning of the end and here you see : what the end is. When a woman once begins to drink, even in r. social way, her future is threatened with either moral weakness or utter ruin." - " Saloon* in Citle*. New York has a population of 3,437.1)00 people, and has 10,832 saloons; Chi1 cago, 3.698,000 people, with 6460 saloons; Philadelphia, 1,294,000 people and 1709 saloons; St. Louis. 575,000 people and 2000 saloons; Boston, with I r.r* 1 (\I |A ron DnUS. UOX,UW pi*upit, liua 1*7*7 saiuuus, utuir more. 508,000 people to 1988 saloons: Cleveland, 381,000, 1888 saloons, and San Francisco, 343,000 people. 3007 saloons; Washington, 279,000 people and 513 saloons; Manila, 229,000 people and 129 saloons. Whor? Boys? Our boys, as well as tlieir fathers and mothers, may well give serious thought to the question asked on a placard posted among the advertisements in street cars of some of our large cities. The placard reads as follows: "A saloon can no more be run without using up boys than a flouringmill without wheat or a sawmill without logs. The only question is: 'Whose boys? yours or mine? Our boys or o??' neighbors' ?'" Temperance Note*. In the Southern States whole tiers of* counties are as ary as a bone, so far as the public sale Ci liquor is concerned. William Hargraves. M. D., after a thorough research, gives the annual expenditure for strong drink in the United States as $1,-164.S87,598. . A. H. Berg, Past (irand Chief Templar of Sweden, is said to have delivered 10.960 lectures on lie subject of temperance?distancing any competitor for number of speeches save John B. Gougb. Mr. Dunn, secretary of the National Temperance Society, estimates the indirect cost of rum. from crime, pauperism, loss of labor and of life as $1.078,504,964. At a special election held lately under the Beal local option law at Irondale, Ohio, the "drys" won by a majority of sixteen. With Irondale "dry," ail towns on the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad have abolished the saloou. The steady and substantial growth of temperance sentiment jn- England I is shown by statistics relative to the | Congregational clergymen there. Twen',} five years ago only 78 out of 2000 riergymen were totai iil'i'lnir.ers: to(iiiy 2DU'J cut of 3000 we. ^Hk *tr?lvo,0 1 StSsSt I ^^r.<xbtel Admirable Sngc??t5on?. ffiS ' In an article about "Fishing FoBH 1 Men," by Rev. J. H. Jowett, in tbflH ; Baptist Commonwealth, we find somflfl : admirable suggestions. He says: 1 notable aogler, writing recently in onflfl 1 of our daily,.papers, summed up all hiBfl ' advice in what be proclaims a goide^K ' maxim: 'Let the trout see the angleiHB and the angler will catch no troui^H Now this 1r n first psspnttal Iti tho ar^H of man-fishing, tbe suppression an^E eclipse of the pracher. How eatU^H we become obtrusive! How easily wj^R 8i^ tempted into self-aggressiv^ prom^M nence! How prone we are to pad} oui^D selves to the front of our work in quesBE I of fame and praise and glory! Tb^H temptation comes in a hundred differ^H ent ways. It steals upon us in tbfl| study and spoils our secret labor. l|H destroys-tbe efficacy even of the bai J that we prepare. It comes upon us the pulpit and perverts our workmanHH ship even when we are in the ver]H3 midst of our work. Tbe devil seeretljHS whispers to us in most unctuous fiat^H 'ery: 'That was a fine point you made.H| And we readily respoxd to the 8tigS| gestion. Aud so tbe lnsldiouB desfrucBi tion is wroucrht. Wp drni't nfrmd obMp^EI If I may vary my figure, let me ea]H| that our function is to draw aside tb JH curtain and bide ourselves somewBer^H In its robes. Let us remember tba^H as soon as our people see the preacb&H| they will not take bis bait." We bavj^H before called attention to the remarlBS made by a Western expressman can^B cernlng the needs of the church ofl which he was a member. Deplorm^H past failures, he accounted for tben^H by saying that they had always en^Hj couraged the minister to make dquc-mB of his own personality. "Now," b<S said, "what we need is not A ministeiH who stands before bis work, but ocM who wil stand behind his work -snflf let that speak for him." . ' -HS How it Jurtc;* "Was Led to Chrlaf-. . flfl A well-known judge in one of thc^B Southern States, says the Religious InjH telllgencer. when, speaking of hi^H younger days, says that about fiftj^H years ago he became skeptical, that Mr. H?, a noble, whole-souleJB man, whom he revered almost as'i^G father, but who was a confirmed deistflB though he had a Christian wife, sooiH| found him out, and endeavored to in-^H still in his mind his own delstical no-Hj tions. "But he charged me." said th^H judge, "not to let his wife know tha^H he was a deist, or that he was skepti-H[ "I asked him why, to which he re-H| plied that if be were to marry a hun-HB dred times, he would marry only a^fl pious woman. 'Because,' he said, 'iflfl she is a Christian. It makes her a bet term wife, a better mother, a better mJstres*, ] and a better neighbor. If she is poor, . It enables her to bear adversity with patience and fortitude. If she is rich I and prosperous, It lessens her desire I for mere show. And when she comes i to die, if she is in error, she is as well off as you and I; and if we are in error, she is a thousand times better off than j we can be.' [ "I asked him whether he knew of , any other error, or system of errors, ; attended with so many advantage?^ | His reply was evasive. But what be , said led me to examine the subject for | myself, and I often look back to that i conversation as one of the most import| ant incidents in my life, and to it 1 trace my determination to study tbo Bible carefully, and to examine the subject for myself, the result of which , has led me to a fall and living faitl* to Jesus Christ, my Saviour." Stand-Fact Folk. Visiting a large Northwestern city during a public celebration period, my notice was attracted to a negro, who seemed of leadership build. Politics were at white heat. Pictured candidate buttons adorned other Coat lapefa. The negro wore, instead, a small looking-glass. ' He was the reputed master mind among his people. His political hero had not yet been selected, and the mirror button signified that he wore the face of the man who stood before ; him, and changed as often as did his eompany. "How sadly this illustrates scma iTAiiYie* trWfoo Por Phrlo TP | JVUU5 pcvpigi ?? 1UVO II VUKHf A Reisner, in the Epworth Herald. "Withl^H a crowd of Christians, Gospel songp,H| clean anecdotes, and uplifting* acts^B characterize them. With a company of^B careless funmakers, they forget former^B standards. 99 "Paul included all his success in 'iBH have kept the faith.' Anyone knows^E he had to 'fight a good fight' to do^H that. His pertinent slogan was: 'WatchH ye, stand fast in the faith.' We needMl stand-fast folk.' There never wereHj^ more of this sort, but to-morrow it^E must be better. The surely comingBj grear revival win neea very ujuii/h dauntless worker.'?." pg The Mnrlc of Our Lltei. flB Ruskin, writing of some of the en?BS forced pauses in our lives, says: SH "In our whole life-melody the musfe^H is broken off hore and there by 'rests, and we foolishly think we have come^H to the end of the tune. (>od sends aH[ time of forced leisure, a time of sick-^H ness and disappointed plans, and makes^H a sudden pause in rhe choral hymn ofH| our lives, and we lament that out^K voices must be silent and our part^H missing in the mu.sic which ever goesB? up to the ear of the Creator. * *H| Not without design does God the music of our lives. Be it ours t<i^H learn the tune and not be dismayedHB nt tlie 'rests.' If we look un. God will^H beat the time for us." HBI An Intolerant Kellclon. KffiSj And so down to this present dny^H Christianity is the most intolerant reJljr-MI ion on the face of the earth. TheHI otlier religions will accept loieration,^H compromise:' but Christianity will ac-^R cept no compromise?one God and Fa-^K ther of us all: one Saviour, one frwOi.HB ,ne hope of our calling.?Sera on iuHg Weekly Witness. SSs nr. i. A Qa?.v1/?a OBfl The great fact is that life is a sor-^B vice; the only question Is, "Whom wiit^H we serve?"?F^her. Hg Hnrled Into Basket of Ecfff. 99 Sitting in the rear of a big sled qnH v.-hieh there was a bushel basket fiJleilBg with eggs, John Hiskey, a thrifty^H Lehigh County (Pa.i farmer, was cn-H| joying his ride immensely. (Joing dowu^Hj Haas' Hill at a sharp trot, one of theHH runners of the sled srruck a hiddenH^ rook, and Hiskey was pitched head^Rg foremost into the basket of eggs. JoB MM A Gigantic Umbrella. I An umbrella big enough to cover a dozen persons belongs to the Church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, Eng-MB land. . . M