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i J\ P0? O <*> \v | EV X%\ ^ 5 . ANNIE ' \k 5 EDWARDS. wsr^-zr^i-wpi ~%v?, c< CHAPTER V. 0 Continued. Jane j;rew morn and mote agitated, and in Lor confusion Lei' flowers Toll from lier hauds, Motiun picked thorn \ir>. "Ask mo for your -bouquet, ?Miss Grand, cr I shall think '{hat I m:iy kej&pjt." Then she was forced to look up, and give hi in all the secret of her most fresh and innocent faee. "Mr. Mohun, will you return it to me? Please do?" And she held out her iiand to Gifford. He dropped the flowers to the ground ?lie caught her haud?her waist. The loneliness, the hour, the utter artlessness of-the girl's own love, had swept away Gifford's last prunrtential scruples. Worldly advantages, worldly opinion, were intangible and afar; these beautiful scarlet lips, trembling so close to his, were iiving and warm and present; and the concrete, rather than the abstract, is apt to be powerful over far stronger natures than Gifford Mohun's at twenty-one. "Jane!" "Gifford!'' I doubt if anywupre, save in mildest Tomance, a declaration of real passion was ever prefaced by the words, "I lore you." Verbal confession belongs to a much calmer aiul more retrospective stage of feeling. "Jane"?"Gifford." What more was there for Rlobun to ask or for her to tell? The time went by, and they knew it not. Mrs. Tennant?into whose willing hand Gilford had reposed the administrative department of the ballroomMrs. Tennant. sore wearied by the discouraging nature of her task, saw dance after dance pass away, pawner after partner enslaved, momentarily, by her two smiling daughters (for they can smile and dance on, these tender innocent victims, even in their direst moment of defeat), and still the one human being in the house worth caring for?the one for whom those London dresses, tJiose wrifarhs, those smiles bad -bcen'got ready?the heir to Yntton?did not return. The spirits of Mrs. and the Miss Tennants?in com mon with those of most other mothers and daughters there present?were not raised when, just before snpper, Mr. Molinn came back, with Jane Grand, very flushed and subdued, bnt happyJooking, upon his arm. Neither was pnblie confidence at all heightened by the warmth with which he rushed off to escort the member's wife to supper, leaving Jane to share Follett's attention with Miss Lynch. Did he not contrive that sh? should sit exactly opposite him at the centre table? Jane Grand at a centre table! "Was there not something unmistakable in his tone as be reached across to her and said: "Miss Grand, let me help you to some chicken?" Was there not triumph, which even ber finished perfidy could not dissimulate, in the glance with which she looked up and answered: "Thank you, Mr. Mohun, I think I would rather have some jelly?" < An instinctive gloom like that which, without tangible cause, is frequently known to overtake the political or financial world?a feeling that the game was up, an unknown, ignoble enemy already iu possession of the field, overcame the whole female portion of Gifford's guests; for even the youngest married woman, Avith Infant daughters, sympathetic depression, in seeing a poor fellow like Gifford volun 4?i i J J jr xiiitiovxL avitij. The dancing after supper was slack. . No one wanted to keep their carriage "vraitlnjr ten minutes longer than it was originally ordered; and the general tamper and spirit of families, as thoy <Jrove back to tlieir Iiomos, were the reverse of those genial and lively ones an which, some four or five hours previously they had entered the first gales of Yatton Park. And Jane Grand! Through the dull, monotonous days, through the sleepless, weary nights, from which Jane Sias looked back to the short-lived seaton of her joy, she has-often striven to recall the sensation of those intensely happy hours that succeeded her first knowledge of Mohun's love for her. Striven, but in vain. She can remember the throngs of faces, the lights, the music?can remember the moment when Gifford lingered aftor he "had placed her in the carriage: and bow Miss Lynch talked on unweariedly, and how the vicar was singularly grave and thoughtful as they drove slowly home through the dim daybreak of the overshadowed summer lanes. But all besides?the color, the form, the passionate essence of those few, best hours of her existence?is. and will ever be a blank to her. CHAPTER vr. ' The engagement was an Accomplished fact. Miss Lynch announced it to her small world of village gossips; the vicar announced it to the higher authorities across whom he chanced to come; Gilford Mohun Jook special pains to announce it himself to half the families in the county. lie was a great deal too much enamored of Jane's lovely face lor him to entertain any serious misgivings as to the wisdom of his choice: but yet a sense that the world would say hf* was misallying himself was ever present with him and he chose to he the first to communicate the news to persons of whose good opinion lit* was jealous. lie expatiated to such on Miss Grand's secluded bringing up. 01: iier grace, her feminine accomplishments. her beauty; adding, with an jiir of off-hand humility that was meant to conceal n certain degree of avoupded uridc: "And I am very giad , - ^ >A _ \ cs- \ " \ FOR HER . t " % FATF ,R'S f a & % SiNo ? \ g j IF i s HONOR.; \ |1 31 * J J lo say sbo is not only without con- a 1 ivifh^nf mAn/iv T i. not have borne to owe riclies to my "wife. No woman wants any other j, charm than beauty and youth, and ^ grace like Jane Grand's." * j, Rnt her want of birth?her want, v rather, oi' all knowledge of iier parents a and of her (surviving relations?galled j, Giffoid innrh more titan l\e chose to e acknowledge. It would have delighted him to out, eiliier upon her fath- c er'K or mother's side, some one pros- ^ porous relation, some indisputably re- s spectabb name, that could be held iu j, reserve as a sorl of piece dr- resistance f, against the znost stubborn inquiries of v intimate friends. And Ihe blank reti- c cence, both of Miss Lynch and the j] vicar, whenever the subject of Jane's family was mentioned, had already, in (, the lirst week of his engagement, be- S1 come aii actual and abiding them in p Gifford Mohun's flesh. f. "It is a very natural feeling of Gif- 0 ford's," said Jane's soft voire. "It ,r often spcras strange to myself that I should be actually without a relation- n in the world, and I can't wonder that j] he should like to hear a little more ^ about my parents. Auntie, are you quite sure that you have told us all that there is to hear about them both? c. What was mamma's maiden name?. I j, have never oven heard that; and I am S] twenty years of age." b She was sitting with Miss Lynch sr.* the vicar in the darkening bay window sj of their little parlor?Gifford having ^ left them after tea to attend to some ir business that required his presense at the house of one of his tenant farmers. c, "Don't think I am inquisitive, auntie, ^ or that I wish to hear a word more C( than yoii like to toll me. I only feel a; Gifford would like it better if we spoke a little more freely about papa and n mamma.*' C( And she stole hr-r hand, in her gentle, ^ child-like way, round her old friend's neck. u, "Jane!" and Miss Lynch's voice |c sounded so harsh that Jane drew away ^ in an instant. "Jane, no one will ever be contented in this life with what is best for them to know?and you and g Mr. Mohun are like the rest! 'Tis part ni j of tho inheritance of our fallen nature, Cj [ child of onr fallen nature! But for a( ! Eve's curiosity, you and I would not be vj the poor, sinful, miserable creaturcs pi we are now." r( "Eve's curiosity made hrr transgress 2k a commandment, auntie. Gifford and I w do no wrong in wishing to know?what all people of our age should know?the tr history of my own dead father and j1( mother, and the nam?s of my living re- f( Iations, if I have any." "You believe you would be happier, a] knowing this?" je "I don't think it is a question of happiness, auntie?I think it due to Gifl'ord a] that ho should be told." w "That is tho right way of looking at fC it, Jane," said the vicar. "It is due to jj, Mohun. I have been saying so to Miss Sf Lynch for some days past. There must be?there can be?no further concealment from him; above all, he must p< have nothing new to learn when you ^ are his wife." n, "And thfnking this " stammered cc poor Miss Lynch, nervously. sc "Thin kin A' this." tile vicar repeated, <], in Iris quiet voice, "we have "written to vj your guardian. dear Jane, your joint (j guardian with Miss Lynch, Mr. (0 Clitliero, telling him of your engage- m incnt to Mohuu " (7; "And lie says?" broke in Jane, eag- k] cry. <!, "lie says, Jane, that was your late o\ failier's wish"?the words seemed to come unwillingly from the vicar's lips h: ?"your father's wish thai, on attain- fn ins the age of twenty-one, or on your tl marrying, whichever event should first c< happen, you should hear?heal*of subjects connected with your parents' J; lives from his, Mr. Clithero's, own w mouth." te "Well?" * y< "We haw appointed that you should" do so. We have fixed that I should tnt-n Tfin nn fr* T-nnrtnn to-morrow? ami lliat you shall see Mr. Clithero." GJ Jane was quite silent for a moment; ^ then she broke into a laugh?a low . laugh like a child's?half tearful, half merry, but that fell like lead on both of her listeners' heart!?. . "Shall I tell you what I think of j'ou? [ \ ?yos. of you, Miss Lynch, and you, Mr. f j Follett: you are taking all this up a great-coal more seriously than (Jifford and I will ever do. I can quite guess this great secret. I am not a lady by (i w birth. I said so-to-day to Clifford, and . he told mo he wouid not mind, because jj ?because he eares for me for myself. ^ you see, and nothing of that sort, or, | indeed, anything, would ever change him to me. He snid all he wished to ^ know was the truth, so that he might, ' ai least, have an answer to give when- ^ ever any of his family asked him about j my relations; and it he found m.v I father had only been an lion est riling? : miller. like Mr. (fillet, lie ?hon!d think " my parentage a groat deal higher than ! the Miss Tennants*. (JifTord is too noble to be ashamed of anything not . dishonorable in itsoif." She made (his little speech with J" tflushing ehrckp. :irifl with a pride and 1 confidence in Mohun that smote the c Vicar's heart with a sharp pain. His thoughts went back to a time, fifteen long years before, when he too had li built with the same pride, the same A confidence, on a like foundation of ?,< sand. b "Mohun is very young, my dear Jane: tl his judgments are one sidnd." c< "Hut all on tbe side of what is right I] and high minded, Mr. Ifollclt." tl "It is difiicult for a young man to I! know exactly what is right. Whatever y their own faults may be, very young a; people are always uncharitable in their h crude judgments upon others. Mohun n lias scarcely the rich' to pass such |j & .r weeping con:Ieinn:it!en as lie pon Mr. Tennant's past conduct, "Can any judgment lie too so pon dishonosly, sir? Clifford set s I do, (lie thought of money that ecumulated in dishonor." "Jane, be siku.t!" cried Sites Ly Jailing up, anil looking almost an; t tho girl's laco. '"What. right I ou to p.:ss these judgments? 11a rought you up to lake !his kirn utliority upon yourself? You? IJiild, pray for humility?pray f< pirit that can enter into the tem tons of oilier?. Yrs, into their t? umptations?into their blackcst s "Aunie, can you be really aagry le? I was only speaking for Gif! only said CilTord would not ear ear what my lather was, so tha ras only an honest, upright man. untie,' I fori much too happy no' e uncharitable to auy one." The simple, unsuspecting words, "resistible joyous voice, melted liss Lyneh's brief harshness, if idefd could bo called harshness, w ras but another form of her int nd yearning pity over ilio poor ch ;nomi*ce?so soon to be replaced ver by the bitterest knowledge. "May Cod keep you happy, liild!" she whispered; and she ki er, not with oi:e of the litile affccl lie generally remembered to pill efore tho vicar, but closely?all earfully?as she had used to kiss r'lien .7ane was first given to barge. "May God strengthen irough all you will have to bear! "I feel very strong, auntie. It sc ) mo to-night as if tho very iv nfTerings of life must have some iuess 111 them. When you see ice again to-morrow you will kno nee how much you have undcrr ly moral courage. I feel that I f ear bravely all Mr. Clithero has tc le and be able? though, I must lat will bo harder?to tell it agai fifford on my return. Had I not 'r see about that Indian rauslii >wn, auntie? Miss Brown say nn't be bought anywhere but at ouse in the city, and I dare say tiould have time to go there whci ave done with Mr. Oiithero." The strongest emotion (and she Irongly moved to-sight) could ndt er Miss Lynch wholly callous to lestic interests. After all, Jane m ike the history of her birthright r aliuly than they hoped for; Gil [oliun might take it nobly?though mragc Bank as she thought of li t all events there was no barm in ng the poor child take a pattern, light distract her thoughts to ha jmmlssion to fulfill, and it certn as a sin to buy new curtains v vo yards and a half of the orij tuslin would replace the she tngth by the window seat, and n ic whole set look equal to new. Greatly to the relief of the vicar, ad all the repugnance of a vcrj r.ed and rather selfish nature to Essing anything like a scene?c ally a scene in which women ^ [ tors?greatly to the relief of icar, Miss Lynclfs tears dried as rospect of matching the Indian mi >se, with cumulative clearness, i >p mimT? jithI no further reeurr< as mride to tho inevitable and b t-morrow, save in arranging by t ain they should go, and at what 1 <} should call round in his pouy cb >r Miss Grand. But when Mr. Follett had left t one, Jaue herself renewed the !Ct. "Why did you decide so sudd DOut my going to town, auntie? hy did you let Gifford leave wit! tiling him I should be away f ame all to-morrow? He will thir > etrango when lie calls as usual nrts me gone." Deprived of the vicar's moral >rt, and suddenly brought bac4 link of the coming evil, Miss Lyn jrvousness was so great that >uld scarcely speak. She faltered tract hing about not having clearly :rstood Mr. Clithero's. letter till car had read it to hor; and then? ion?how they had thought- it Ik i have no discussion -whatever ho r. Mohun. It would snare hij ly's painful suspense to have riowledge or .Trne's bn&incss in ] on until her return?until nil . or! "Auntie!" exclaimed Jane, rai ?r clear, serious eyes to Miss Lyn ice, "I am to hear more lo-mor irri I expect. Tell it to mo now mid bear it best from you." "You are to hear of your fat \ne?of his life and of his death, as his wish that Mr. Clithiro shi 'II this to you?his last wish! Su )u would not so against that?" 1T0 he Continned.i Ullen Kot to Talk. Th" best of us talk too much. " isence of power is reserve," sai an wiio knew. Many a rcputa as been built on silence. Many a spoiled through rushing preruatu ad volubly into speech. It is sal > silent when your words wi ound. "Faithful are the wounds iei:d." says tiie old proverb, but ants to hi? mighty sure one's fr ?eds (lie mounding and that we in lifted t;> administer it. Keep he:i your words will discourage, ilinitcly belter to bp dumb for lan to make one fellow bfing I>!e to cop with life. Keep still i> our words will incite to anger or mifort. An incredible amount realii is ussd in the evil practic ying to make our friends dislike t iends. Never speak when what live to say is merely for '.he purj [ exalting yourself. Shut your itIi a key when you arc inspire* ibble iiiconlinonlallyof yourself?: linen IK, accompiisiniHwust, r-iau >vo.s, hatreds, hopes r?ncl desires. ; only to Dip choice, rare friend lie may Kpcftk of (host; things will ecoming a fool.?Philadelphia lin. ftfcindtrt Holibeuia. Very little is known of Ifobbci fe. He appears to have been bor msterdam in 1G38, but, as we J w, other towns claimed (o bo irthplace. It is probable that he ie pupil of Jacnb van UiiysdaeJ, srtain thai lie lived in Amstord [C died poor, hi.v last lodging bein id Iteosegraft, the sireet in w einbrandt, also poor, had died f ears before. J lis works were I pprecialed in Holland until near undred years after Ida death, lost of them found their wnj to 1 lud.r-Sl. Niehaias. _ . I ?? r BITS ? NEWS' )rns, . c was WASHINGTON. nr-h, Ha\jng occasion lo secure twenty-five 1 ii.-m Additional officers for the Philippine ' j constabulary, Hie places paying $1100 per annnm to begin "vvitli, Captain Mc11 ?* In tyre, Acting Chief of the Insular Btiy?u' reau, invited 300 Slat<j military instiJi" I tutcs and agricultural collegcc to name 1 ipta- candidates for the places among their ^ orst graduates. Less than twenty applica- > ins." tions were received, the faculties of the J with colleges attributing the lack of interest J r 'd to the fact that their graduates were iu " ' great demand in the business world. ^ ?, . Charles A. Stillings, now of New , 0]^ York City and formerly of Boston, , Mass., was appointed Public Printer ' iv tc- jjy tjie president. Fleming D. Cheshire, who is now on j '"c leave of absence iu Washington, has j f1*' received his exequator from the Chi- , that nese Government and will proceed to < liicli Mukden as our consul there. , \ ense -.Secretary Hitchcock ordered the dis-- , i lild's missal from service of four clerks in < for- the Pension Bureau accused of loan- t ing money at usurious rates. ( t my An order has been issued by the War < sse'd Department creating a department of ,'j0jls military hygiene at West Point. The 1 . object is to instruct the cadets in medi- : cine and surgery for the care of troops. nosi -witia no intention of graduating cadets < hcr for the medical department of the 1 her army. < you 1 !" OUR ADOrTED ISLANDS. lems Tim Philinnino fYimmiKSion has do- , orst cided to suspend the land tax in the liap- provinces during 1900 for tlie purpose ray of assisting impoverished planters, w at. This action is largely attributable to jtpd the testimony on agricultural matters ihali S'7?n before the Congressional menial. berB of the Taft party during their recest tour of the archipelago. The aJ' ordinary annual land tax does not n *? amount to more than ?3,000,000. . Fourteen steerage passengers, bound 1 in. for San Francisco, Cal.,.wcre left at s it Honolulu by the steamer Mongolia beone cause of a bubonic plague quarantine > wei to Hawaii. . i we Henry Kapea, the young Hawaiian who was recently extradited from wns London, England, on a charge of emro.n, bezzling about $5000 in securities from the Hawaiian Trust Company, pleaded | Ruilty in Honolulu and was sentenced IJr> by Judge Robinson to two years and a noro Lialf at hard labor. Tord nil*~ Tilitlinntnos !t irnc ror>nr*tnfl fit JLJUt? 1 11. If fi.J ^her Honolulu, are passing through a deim? pression unequalled in their experience, let* caused by a sucoession of calamities? . It the war, the rinderpest, which deve a stroyed their carabao; the surra, which u'nly destroyed their liorses and mules; the ,'lien cho!era\ the locusts and the typhoons. '!n,al DOMESTIC. ibby aafee A French sailor was caught in New York City smuggling a $1000 opera who c!c3k under his blouse. , re. Government Geological Survey hyjt drologists are investigating wells, and quarries in Connecticut to learn tho .J 'spo' laws that govern the occurrence of 1 vere water in crystalline rocks. * ] the The first snow of the season in Easrt(l^e ern Nebraska began falling, completely jsiin covering the ground, with indications lpon of a heavier fall. - 1 ence Robbers and citizens battled at Rich- f lack mond, Ind., after the burglars had se- < ?hat cured $4ST>7 in cash and $SOO in checks ' aour from the First National Bank, but no ' ajse one was hurt. * An automobile driven by Harry Olm- * hem stead, of Hackensack, N. J., who marsub rie^ a Native of the Vanderbilts, ? knocked down and killed a deaf-aud- j dumb woman in Englewood, N. J. J rin? in flm monliin^ xphiph llP T7.1S' JL a vau^iil 441 UiU JUUVI'IKV ? , " running, at Marion 0., Clifford Lusch !iouC was being drawn under its knives roin. -when his scalp was torn off and saved ik it his life. and From injuries feceived in a football 3 game at Milwaukee, Leslie Wise is sup- dead, having fallen so that a weed was : to thrust up bis nose into his brain, ch's Former Governor D. R. Francis, of < she Missouri, has been appointed special t ont commissioner to visit forty-thre^or- \ lin. eign Governments to thank them for ; ' participating in the St. Louis Exposi- ( tion. t ?ttpr Governor Blanchard, of Louisiana, < ' met all the Marine Hospital Service at- ? fore (aches in New Orleans, La. 11 n The' family of Lawyer Francis 0. ( 1K>. K-iad, of New York City, donned r.on- mourning for a servant who had been J was in the household fifty-two years. A step In the dark plunged Bruno A. sing Bahr.a messenger boy, eleven stories ch's down a ventilating shaft at Chicago, row III., killing him. FOREIGN. i her, Trince Von Bulow talked of a new ( It trade treaty between the United States 1 ouI(1 and Germany. J rejy Elliott F. Shepard's hope of escaping sentence to jail in Paris seemed gone. * The Russian Government had to ask . Sweden to transmit the most important j ^oiio tim nnntiripiit hut no steamer 4 UiUilO 1UI U'V. ? ( Thy was available. (1 a The German eonrt at Gotha decided tion it was competent to try the suit for one divorce of Prince Philip. re!y Count Leopold, Resent of i>ippe-Dete to mold, fan?-been confirmed in succesouid B'on t? principality by tlie German of a arbitration court, according to a special one dispatch. iend Armed brigands opened a fosilade of rifle shots on a train that refused to j *... Jmlt at their summons, near Alora, in ] stl. the Province of Malaga, Spain, ono < is passenger being wounded. j ever . i>nssi?ti priest. Father Gnpon, > ltss J wj)0 was (lctive in the recent Russian < 'hen troubles, is snid to have left Norway ?1 dis- to return to his own country. -i The Chinese maneuvrcs, carried out 0 of by an army of 30,000 men, were in genheir orai praised by tlie foreign military you attaches, who consider that China lias pose at last obtained the nucleus of a real ' lips army. < [1 tr> A bomb was thrown at. 10 o'clock at i-our night at the troops guarding the Tech- ' onfti nologlcal Institute, iu St. Petersburg. 1 Nobody was hurt. ; thjit 'ilhe late Sir Henry Irving's collectl0).j tion of theatrical curios and pictures and liis library ate to be sold l>y auc- ' tion fit Christie's, in London, Kuglaud, ' under the terms of the will. 1 -A. special dispatch states that the ' mi's incident growing out of the attack on n Admiral Train is now closnd, the gov- 1 mvi. ornor of Nankin having apologised ' "7 ami rclurnca uic oiucers men- guns. his A special difipntch from Milan annouiicw? tho death of Baron Ilftimundo ' and i?'rftiio]ietti. j ,* M. PobicdonostsefT. Procurator of the , R 1 Holy Synod in Russia, has resigned. i'tussian cruisers interned at French. ?' VV Chinese ami Philippine ports will reri . '*lio dezvous at Siiigoi:. , 'y :l The French portion of Ihc new Jltis- 5 ?nri siau loan is ?120,000,000; German, .$80,- I Sng- 000,dOO, and British Mid American. ; .$20,000,000 each, i ???^ C1IE GREAT DESTROYS iome Startling fact 3 about the vice of intemperance; " 'Oa a l)mnfc"-'i Slcry Anent an 5ne!>ri? alo Who Wa* Iiahorlns Under (la? D?> tunion Tlia*. Dr:mkennea* is Hercdllarj ? It in Acquirer!, baju I)r. liuckirortli Liks a good citizon 1 registered rqy lamo at a barber siiop anil I hope to rote tbo "straight ticket" (wbatevei bat may mean) on Kkction Day. As [ emerged from tiie registration office [ mot a man who was decidcdly drunk, l'bis is a common Pight in London, but [ am glad to say rather a rare one in \"cw York City. Accosting me with nniiliarity, lie said: "I sny. boss, what ire they giving for a vote?'" or words :o this effect, for they were profane n their diction. I endeavored to e::ilain to him the great criminafity ot >ril>ery, when the drunken man said, fvith anothei oath: "I want to get ;ome of Unit insurance money b%ck," 'oferring, of course, to the campaign "und. Having a little I.eisufe for a bat, I waylaid the man on his reurn from registration, and endeavored o instruct bim as to the evil of drunkmness. "1 can't help it, boss,'' be exclaimed, 'my latner was a uruiiKuru ?uu su, ron see, it runs in the family." . This man was laboring under the ieitision that drunkenness is herediavy. Dr. Keeley, the author of the clebrated Keeley cure, says that staisties do not prove tiiat inebriety is lereditary. lie says like produces like wly under restricted conditions. If a parent has a hare lip or a cleft palate >r a crooked finger thrse variations nay be transmitted. But if a man oses his right hand by accident or yon 3111 off a dog's tail these deformities vill not be transmitted. Nature can jo educated, but not forced. I have just bren talking to an officer ivho has spent thirty years in the irray, and on carefully considering the mbject he said lie did not know a ingle drunken man of liis acquaintance irlio had had a drunken father- By a Mirirms rninrirlence I met a man in the I express business who was clearly the averse for liquor, a qd I asked Jiim pf io hnd hnd a drunken father. Ho rallied: "We never hnd a drop of liquor n the 110U30. I on'y became a drnnku*<l .last Election Day." Dr. Dyed Duckworth, a great authority on alcohol, is of opinion that drunkenness is >n acquired Iiabit, like many other bad Siabits. On my way to the ofnee at 11 j'clock I went into a wfll-known cafe. iear Wall Street, and there I saw an iducatcd man urinking a half tumbler' )f neat brandy. "Pouring the spirits lown to keep fiis spirits up." You 'ould not get a pig or a donkey to !rink half a tumbler of ueat brandy, [t has taken the wild Indians of Arnerca tivo or three centuries to,acqniro he habit. Shakespeare says: "How doth brced-V habit in'a man. Tho labit of drinking is the result of conijanionship and environment, but it is iot hereditary. A drunken father may each bis son by example to drink to >xccss, but lie cannot transmit th<.> IK- V -c rt ZZlUJt lUt? 1UW2> ui UUtCUllJ. TTIlunu rj "The R?an in the Street," for tho Kew York Globe. The Inspiration of Conflilrnn*. There is nothing wyieh so helps one io do hie best as the inspiration of jenerous confidence. Many a .man sue ocds because of another's confidence, >r fails because of the lack of faith cf lis friends. When John B. Gough firs; iigned the pledge he found no one who ould heiieve that he would keep it. IVith his nevFcs shattered by liis indulgence, and lis fatal appetite asserting tsalf, he could not feel confidence in limself. At the moment when liis despondency was greatest .a gentleman r.ade his appearance and Hie follow!' :onvcrsation ensued: " "Good moraing, Mr. Gough." '"Good morning, sir." "I saw you sign the pledge hu light" "Yes, sir; I did." "I was very giad to sec yon do it. ind ninny a young man followed your vxample. It is just such men as you hat wo want. And I hope you will he he means of doing a great deal of ;ood. My office iB in tho Exchange, jorns in and see me. I will be happy o make your acquaintance. 1 havo >;:Iy a minute or two to spare, but I bought I would just call aud tell you o keep up a brave heart. Good-bye. Joel bless you. Conic in and" sec me." That "spare minute" or two saved 110 cay. :Vir. uou^n iru me iusj/iiuion of the stranger's confidence and esolvcd not to disappoint it. Tito Four-Mile .Lair ity Tcnnexaso. As a result of tlio four-mile law of Tennessee, originally passed in 1ST7 ind amended in 1HS7, saloons vroro Iriven entirely out of the country dis;ricts. Under the act of 18'.;;), extcncing the provlsi^s of (he four-mile lav/ o towns of 200'y inhabitants, they were Iriven out of twenty^ight towns in ivbaeh they then existed. Since the >ftssage Of the Adams law in 1!)03 they javo been driven out of foriy ether owns, leaving them row in only sevmteeu cities and towns in the State>ight over 5000 inhabitants which do iot come under provisions of the law. uid nine under 5COO which have not ,-ct. taken advantage of it?and leavMi?; hem.in only twelve counties >: ;he ninety-sis. I'nlilio FIonseB Cloned. The London County Council have a! eady. in pursuance of its tcmperar.c--'* jolicy, closed 133 public housed at a .lost, of ?330.000, and last June, on tlio notion of Sir William Coliins, it was lictnod to continuo that policy in regard o the iinpavements being nuuie in [lampstead road, where another Jars;' ;>ubHe house will be cicscd at a o<" .' ! ?30.030. Temporoncft Notrs. , f'he first social glass has put many ;i )ri?lit young man into uie fiuumerser. ilasrs.TIid great railroad rcrporations of very..country liave eomo to recoup.!'// the justice and v.'isdouj of temperance is is evidenced by tlie requirements Lbny impose on their employe?. Nowadays the groat industrial and jliicr concerns employing large mini i>.ers of men find it more ami more necessary lo insist unon xio:i-!i<r.;ci Jrmlcer.s and will employ no others. - ]t'. W. Minerson is proposing a "gel together" conference of liic various temperance and reform organizations )f Kansas. . A drunken passenger threw a lighted natch into some gasoline on the hinnch lien liur, near Detroit, Midi., and it. the p:inic which followed tour passei~3rs wore drowned. Scorn anotiiei triumph for "personal liberty." An excellent text hook on hygiene, written by I\2r. Renuers. has just been published in Kelsium for ?w iu tin ;>rimary and Secondary schools. The Liook is written in Flemish, a no ihounds in sound information regard ng alcohol and its effect on health. *IN THE TIME OF TROUBLE KF. SHALL HIDE ME." .Lay not, my sop], thy grief too much to keart; When God doth empty thee He doth impart Himself, in placc of earthly joys removed; When lie thy love and trust in Him hath ) proved. Lie still, my soul, nor dare to think Him 'hard, Lest thou, by murmuring, His -work retard. Think'st thou thy God can ever make mistake? Or cause thee needles* sorrow to partake? Is this thy Father's love, which once did give His Son to die, that thou in Him might'st live? He only-seeks to burn thy dross away. Return, my soul, "return unto thy rest," And '^ust thy God to order whaCis best; To Unkind arms thy welcome is most sure, . His heart of love hath solace firm and pure; Therein, e'en now, thy faith can surely rcau In "paths of righteousness" thy God doth Jcad. Artd when thou lenowest as thou here art known. In deep humility thou then shalt own That what in time was grievous unto the* Exceeding g '** 1iaH- wrought eternally. Then rest t??- :n thy Father's choice to day, ? To guide thy step* jn His appointed way. Faith and the Bible. The word of the Lord endureth for ever.?I. Peter, i., *25. Perhaps the words of the Irish hymn Trriter voice the deepest religious feelings of to-day: t "Change and deeay in all around I see; O Thou who" changest not, abide with me." There has been a change in mental attitude toward all things that jiertaiu to religion. The doctr'ne of evolution lias unveiled a new world. Ana yet it is the same old world; we have simply revised our opinions about it. The universe did not break up into chaos with the downfall of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy. We simply awoke one day to find .that in reality the earth, instead Of sitting on a throne receiving the adoration of the sun and stars, itself paid homage and in rotation and revolution besought the son's light and heat and was content with the worship of one little burnt up cinder.. Similarly, though Charles. Darwin has changed men's views of science and history ~nd of all human speculation, the facts of life remain the sama Now some lament that their religion, Is being taken away; that the Bible is being destroyed as God's word to man and its position of authority undermined; that the Church, the sacrementa, the creeds, the ministry no longer hold the attention and reverence of men, and that all authority for faith itself is shattered. They, look back with longing to the days when there was no higher criticism, when there was no questioning of the dogmas of religion, when men believed their theologies as they did the multiplication table. It would be simple truth to observe tun.t tnose days never twiaieu, wej ure part of an ideal Imagination. There lias always been septicism; there have always been questionings. "All is' vanity and vexation of spirit" is only one ancient testimony. Then what must be the attitude of the religious mind to-day? Simply to assert more vigorously the old doctrine of inspiration, to proclaim .with more defiance the ok* formularies? If there Is nothing better, nothing surer, tho voice must grow fainter and weaker until finally it shall die away entirely. )''or even the supposed days of simple faith and the unquestioning mind can never return. You have some time, possibly to-day, engaged in worship, iu praise and prayer, and now you are reading this. WLy? Because of something alien to your nature that has been imposed upon you by some book, some church, some creed? No, but because of some unmistakable fact of your inmost being, some part of your own nature, that finds no satisfying affinity with any of the transitory things of earth, and from its depths cries ont, "O Thou who changest not, abide witlr . me;" some hunger of the soul that discovers no sustenance for its life escort in communion with God. This is tho foundation of ycur religion, your deepest faith. No science, no criticism, no philosophy can shaHe it. Without it no religion would be possible, no Bible, no church, no .rorcMr> Ti<v>nuso it is there oil forms of expression ere possible, yes, inevitable. As one of these forms coniider briefly the Bible. The main truth- is that the Ei'ule dill not precede this foundation faith we have just mentioned, but blossomed from it. In the words of one New Testament writer, "Men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit." As their nature, their generation, their habits of thought permitted them to be moved. po they were moved. And what they I spake is of value to us not as an in| fallible rule of faith and practice, but j as an actual religious experience of J men of flesh and blood alike our own. Much we can appropriate and make our own because our own rcligiojs natures respond to it. Much we can enjoy and feed on because it actur.i'y does nourish. It goes straight to the heart without llic aid of any theory of inspiration.?Tiomlliy F. Humphries, Kector of Trinity Church. South N'orwaik, Conn., in the New Yory Herald. A Sermon to Self. To work fearlessly, to follow I estly after trulh, to rest with a childlike confidence in God's guidance, 1o leave one's lot williuglv aud heartily to Ilim?this is my sermon to myself If we could live more within sight of Heaven, we should care less far the turmoil of earth.?John tifl.'.sr.I Green. Two Are nfasonlsM'c. He that hath slight though; ..." .-in never has great thoughts ct Owen. n'liifiis Mnflp Hair fJroiT. A vase that has interested the physicians not a little is that of James I''oss, of Saugus, Mass. Last February Mr. Foss fell down a flight of stairs at his home, striking on his spine. He was picked up for dead. For. some (line he did not siiow any signs of life, but later a /aint heart bent was felt. Prom tliat time until July 1 he lay in an unconscious state. Before his fall lie was baldheaded, but during liis ilFness the hair began to grow, until now lie has as good a crop as auy person could desire. . .. 38 THE. SUNDAY SCIOQI ' ' -i; INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT, FOR NOVEMBER 26. Subject: Abstinence For the Satco^ < Others, I. Cor. x.,23 83?Golden Tvi 1? Cor. xj, 12?Memory Verxeg, 31-3 ?Commentary on the Day's I^esson. In verses 24-22 Pan! resumes the dil eussion from chapter 8:13 touching th eating of meats which had been offere In sacrifice to idols. In the lesson "bt fore us we have some practical dire< tions on this subject. I. The duty of living for others (vi 23,24). , r_,i 23. "All things are lawful." I ina lawfully eat all kinds of food, but & are not expedient. It would not be b< coming ip me to eat of all, because should by this offend and grieve man weak minds. Though it may be at mitted that it Is strictly lawful to ci meatB offered to idols, yet there :ft etrong reasons why It is inexpedien and those reasons ought to "have th bindfng forcg of law. "Not expedient. And co, being Unprofitable and irijui ious, may thereby become unlawfu "Edify not." AH things do not ten to build up the causs of Christ, therefore are not.expedient 24. "Hi owri." Let no man consult his ow happiness, pleasure or convenient* but let hlra ask what wlll^be for th good of others. No rule Is laid dow about eating;or not eating any kind c food as a matter of importance in 1 eelf. With such things, the gospel ha no concern. What Paul does prestirib wolo-f/io frt f h A nffrtrtf S\<" AflM *1MA A'ClUtco W W1C CUCUI. V/. V?Ul CUUUUUL UUU others. .Let-every icnaa live not fc himself, but for every part of the gree human family with which he Is sm rounded. "Another's wraith." "Be each his neighbor^ good."?R. V. TBi will cause true happiness. n. The duty of guarding the' wed (vs. 25-30). 25. "Is sold." The meat of idol sacrifices were often exposed t sale in the markets especially by th Rriests, when they had on hand a gin plus. To the Christian thi3 was 6 lawful as any other meat "Shan bles." The mfeat stall# In the raarke "Asking no question." The. Jews wer vexed with innumerable scruples wit respect to their eating andwere accuf tomed to ask many questions aboi their food, &b to where it was obtain? how prepared, etc.; all of these scruple ana questionings tne gospel aDoiisned 26. "Earth is the Lord's." See P? 24:1. This meat belongs to tlie Lor and is mride for man's use. It does w belong to the idqj, even though it ha been offered to it.' It may therefore TS partaken of as God's gift. 27. "Bidfeast" This.refers to a feast in" a piTata house. In verses 14-22 the apostl severely rebukes the practice of eatin at feasts in heathen temples, becaue this w as one part of- idolatrous woi ship. IT a pagan friend invite a Chrii tian to hte home ta. dine he should' pa what is set before him without vexin his host with questions about his foot ' But there is nothing here, commande which would require a person to eat <o drink that whteh'is harmful. 28. *'Say unto you." That is, if on of yopr fellow'-gvests should displn scruples of conscience, or a heathe should be likely to draw, the inferenc tuat you approved of idol worswp, up altogether alters the case. You are n longer simply eating with thankfuJneS the food set before yon as the gift' o God, but the question of idolatroa worship of idols as permissible to Christian. 29. "For why," etc.. ThJ verse and the next as a little obscun The meaning seems to be that "no ma has a right to Interfere with the libert enjoyed by another, save so far as ifi own conscience and conscientious cm victions are.likely to be affected ther< by." We must guard tho point o yielding to another's conscience, fo we "may by obeying a man's false 001 science confirm his self-conceit^ or cs tablish a ftrise morality. CO.. "If I b grace." "If I partake with thankfu ness."-R. V. III. The correct rule of conduct (vi .31-33). 31. "Bat, or vdrink." The glory o God is to be the end of all our actiom In themselves eating and drinking ar things indifferent, but there are ch />nmetonnfla in urhi/ih fltOV mov hl^ mfll *.UU10UUliV,V^ V? "J J , ? ters of the highest importance. In oa own. day, for instance, the question o using or abstaining from intoxicafln liquors is one which ought to be deal with on the eame principles which Piu has .laid down in thi3 chapter. Such question should be decided on on ground alone, namely, whether by ui i.ng them or abstaining from them w shall best promote the glery of Go( fDo all." This requires that we shfrul filan and order our whole life in a< cordacce with God's law. "Glory o fiod." To live to God's glory should!) the high aim of every individual. Thi Is a sufficient rule to regulate ever caan'e conscience and practice. 32. "Give none offense." See R. ^ Though you may be no Lctfcr or vfors for eating meat or not eating, yet 1 your conduct injures others and lead them into sin you -should'abstain ci tirely. It is far more important the your brother should no-t bo led hit? si than that you should partake of mea which you acknowledge is in itself c no importance. This is a general prli ciple which should regulate Christia conduct at all time. "Jews."' Th apostle ever avoided offense to h kinsmen after the flesh. "Gentiles. Crossing none of the!rproji:dice& whei God'6 law does not require, it 33. "Please all men." lie did thi so far a3 he could righteously. "Ma bo saved." His' main object was 1 seek the salvation of all men. Till ??,,> *>nr? in riow y.:?lvfltion MM nua uw ? bles men to sot aside their owii waj in order to uplift another. Strife ovc non-essentials destroys rather tha builds up ihc worlc of God. Japan's purchnaes from the Unite State.? in the fiscal 3*c-ar just close amounted to $51,724,72(1. , i ' . S'ivc l'e^iRionrr^ of i77w. 'JJ:e report cf Ihe Commissioner o Pensions, at Washington, 1>. C.. fo ihe fiscal year ended Julj^ I hist, sliou iliat there are still fin? pensioners o account of the War of the Itevolutioi one of them being Esther S. Dainoi the widow of c Revolutionary soldle: The others arc daughters of such so diers. Mrs. Damou is ninety-one yeai oliL / Arrolint Kigrtit IKoiiIIih OliK Eigiit months old and it fcrobat. uj able to wall: or talk, vqi possessin such remarkable muscular 'develci ment of tlie arm? and shoulders tin he can balance himself em his hand and with heels In the air pvocee across the room- these are among tfc remarkable characteristics of the 60 of William Schnrs, of Denver, Col. VTorlrt'# Olrio?t I.nwTflT. , David Wark, the oldest 1 '?i.sjator i the world, died at his home in Frf< erickton, N. II.. need 301 years and 61 months. Mr. Wark was a member < the Canadian Senate at Ottawa, a II office. \