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1 J* By* WALTER l- 111 CHATTER XII. 12. 11 Continued. "We shall not go on being driver, with whips, Katharine, because we are going to die. Shall we be killed by the j black foe: and starvation? Or shall we ^ die a quicker way? Tliink of another j night in such a fog and without Dittmer beside us. Katharine," she repeated, "think of another night out < in this cruel place." Still there was no answer. ^ "Katharine!" she stooped and lifted her head?"Katharine! are you dead yet? Are you so happy as to be dead?" j "No! I wish we were dead. Oh! Lily ( ?Lily?how long?how long? Will Dittmer never come? The seat is cold; , be is so good. He took off his coat and laid it over r'e- Dittmer is very good , to us." She was light-headed; exhaustion and oold made her forget where she was. j She thought she was still on the bench in the park waiting for Dittmer to ^ come back. "She is faint with hunger," said Lily. She instinctively felt her pocket. There was in it a rough crust, the last of the threepenny-worth of bread. She gave it to Katharine, who devoured it f greedily. f "Are you better, dear? Do you think * that you could stand? Do you tliink that you copld walk a little?" \ "Where?" "It is not far?I should think about half a mile. This time I know that I can find my way. I see it in my head, every inch, clear as if there were no fog, though it is as black as night." "Where, Lily? Do you mean?" she trembled, she rose and stood beside her friend?"do you mean?" "It is the Embankment, clear. That is the place where women go to end their sufferings. The poor woman who has lost her virtue; the poor shirt/ maker who has lost her place; the poor lady who can get no work; that is the place for all of us. One plunge and it is all over?all the sorrow and all (the disappointment." "But after death?" "After death I shall ask why we iwere forced to the Embankment." "Lily, I am afraid. It will be so cold." "We shall not feel the cold one bit. Think of another night! Think of the rest of the day! Thiuk of day after day like this! Katharine, you shall hold my hand. Come." She dragged Katharine away, walking with the strength of madness, as fast as her trembling friend could go, sometimes hurrying her, sometimes encouraging her, sometimes reproving her. I know not how she found her way or by what strange trick of brain she was enabled to go straight to the Embankment at the point where it begins at Westminster Bridge. She took the shortest way through the park, and |f along George street, never baiting or ; . 4 hesitating for a moment, any more 1 than if it bad been a day of clear # brilliant sunshine. Yet slie bad bo- * fore iost her way simply in crossing " from the corner of the railings to the * Buckingham Palace road. 1 "Only a few minutes now, dear. Oh, Katharine dear, we sball die together; 1 we will not let go of each other's i hands. Remember that. The water 1 will roll over us, and in a moment J we sball be dead and all will be over. J You will not die alone. We shall go 1 into the next world together. No more > trouble, dear. Perhaps you will join > Tom and be happy. I think he must 3 be waiting for you somewhere. It is the shortest way to reach him. And f as for me?why?they say that eye 1 hath not seen nor can tongue tell the a happiness that we shall find there; and J it seems to me that all I want is rest i and to be sure that I shall have fdod c to-morrow. You must not think of the 1 plunge, dear?the river is not a bit i colder than the air; think of last night; 1 think of to-day; think of the night be- t fore us?" > "Lily," said Katharine, stopping, i "they are having service in the church t by the Abbey. Oh! it must be the < evening service. They are praising 1 God and singing hymns, and we are i out in the fog and the cold and going ? your lover in a moment, and all your f sorrow shall be over. Hold my hand i and run down (ho steps with me. < Quick! Quick! Hold my hand hard? ' harder. Quick!" I She drew Katharine to the stops, cry- : Jng out to her to hasten and to hold I fast, and dragging her down to the : liver; Katharine was too weak to re- I ;i>t. mentally and bodily. And all < around her lay the thick black fog ' liko a wall of darkness. I Did you ever think what it woujd i to be shut up in such an inferno as ' .jute's, in a thick black fog. a dark- s wrapping you rouud as .with a i to kill ourselves. ' "Yes; I could not ring any hymns just now." 1 "Lily, let us have one prayer before ire go." I "No; leap first and pray afterward; there will be plenty of time to pray 1 when we are sure that we shall not lave to come back to this miserable I world any more." She dragged the other girl along with her?past the < Abbey?straight down to the Embank- 1 inent. "Hush! Katharine. Don't 1 speak now. This is the very place." j She stopped at one of the landing ; places, where the stops go down into 1 the water. 1 "The tide is runninig up." said Lily: < tow did she know, because they could f eree nothing? "It will carry us up the t river; it will roll us over and over. Don't let go my hand, Katharine; it f will kill us in a moment, and then it ? TV"IIJ Ulivt* iiuu ucul u-> iiiiu i'aii^ \i-> against the piers of Westminster Bridge, so that no one will l>p alile to recognize us when tliey do find us. And so it will never bp known what became of us. Dear Katharine, dear Katharine Regina?poor Queen without a penny?give ine one kiss. Hold mv hand. Now you shall be with r E BESANT.^ < ' / Ill ^ lorrible cloak from -which, there was io escape? All day long these girls lad been fitting in such a fog, -without :'ood, and "before them they heard?and low saw with eyes of madness?the ush of the river which would mercifully take them out of the fog, and and them?at the foot of tlie golden jates. "Quick?Katharine?Quick! Don't let ro. On!" The fog lifted a little, suddenly, at his. moment. Before the girls stood a fifrure, black md gaunt, which stretched out two ong arras, and said, with harsh and strident voice: "No. my dears. Not this time you lon't." Then Lily loosed her hold of Kathirine's band and threw out her arms in i gesture of hopelessness. "Oh!" she cried, "God will not let U9 ive. and He will not let us die." Then she turned and fled, leaving Katharine alone. CHAPTER XIII. I* the Morning. Katharine stood for a moment stupeied: In front of her. shadowy, like a rhost, rose this man. gaunt and tall: )y the lifting of the fog she saw that ie was in tatters. What was he dong on the steps in the dark? And Lily was gone. "No. you don't." he said to her. "I hought there'd he some of you coming llong to-night. Is it hunger working ip with the fog. or is it remorse and lespair?" Katharine made no repiy. Where, )b. where was Lily? "If it's hunger and the fog, you'll ret over it when you've had something o eat. In course of time you'll get isecl to hunger. I'm always hungry." "Who are you? Let me go?let me jo." "Not this way. then." he replied? 'or she made as if she would rush it the river?"not this way. Pretty! 3on't do it. Have patience. Lord! if rou'd gone through as much as I have, rou'd have patience. Don't do it." As she spoke, the black wall of fog oiled between them again. Kathtrine stole away under its protection, >ut she heard him repeat as she reTea ted: "Don't do it, Pretty. Have jatience." It is now nothing but a memory of he past; but sometimes the gaunt and attered figure of this man. holding >ut his long arms between her and Via. n'rflp rntnrne IT n th n V l'n-o'c mirwl md stands \ip before her: slje sees him Dhirred in the foe: and the 'dim lampight: she hears his voice saying: 3on't do it. Pretty. Have patience." iVlio was this man. this failure and ;vreck of manhood? and why did he urk in the blackness upon those steps? rhen her misery comes back to her israin, her dreadful hunger and cold ind weariness and desolation, and vutharine has?change but one letter md the pathetic becomes bathetic. ??ithos turns into bathos?to "lie down" -woman's grandest medicine?until he memory of that night leaves her tgain. The fog was so black again that she nd not the least knowledge of the diection she was taking. Under each ainp there was a little yellow gleam of enow ngtit. ueyonu mis a uijick wan ill around it; wlien she stood under a ainp it was just exactly as if she vere built up and buried alive in it vith a hole for a little light through rellow glass in the top. Sometimes steps came along and aces came out of the black wall and ooked curiously at her as they passed md disappeared. It was the face of a oung man making his way home and narcliing confidently through the fog. ir it was the face of a policeman who ooked at her searchingly, asked her f she was lost, told her how to get >ack to the Strand, and went on his >eat; once it was a girl of her own age vho stood beside her for a few nicctes and looked as if she wanted o speak, and then suddenly ran away rom her. Why did she run away? >Vhy, indeed? And once it was a very lgly face indeed, which greatly ter'ified her, a man's face, unshaven* for nany days and therefore thick with >ristles round the mouth, a face with torrid red eyes and swelled cheeks. "Have you got the price of a liaif )int upon you?" he asked roughly. "I have not got one penny in the vorld," she replied. Lily in fact had all the money beonging to them both?ninepence. "You've got your jacket and your hat. ilimmc your jacket and your hat." He iroceeded, in the language common to lis class, to touch briefly on the innct!r?o nf siiffnriric- nn linnost mail to :o about without a penny in his pocket, vhilo a girl had a jacket and a hat which might he pawned. Perhaps li^ 'orgot that it was Sunday. But other steps were heard, and the creature of ;he night slunk away. Katharine knew that she was still at ho Westminster end of the Embanknent. because the great clock struck he quarters and the hours apparently luite ckjse to her. She remembered that site had been *ery near to Death?a shameful, wicked, violent death?the death of hose whoso wicked lives have driven hem to despair. One more step and he would have plunged into the dark waters rushing and tearing up the stream with the tide. She tried to Picture to herself what she had escaped; she recalled I.ily's words; she would have been, by this time, a dead !>ody rolled over and over, knocked igainst the piles of the bridge, caught i>y the ropes or barges, banged igainst the boats. r\t last she would liave been picked up somewhere; no ma wmiId li:ivv> riH-oirnized her. and die Avould liave been buried in the '#aupers' corner, forgotten forever, 1'ut magination, like reason, refuse to work to order unless it is fortified by strong food. The words she recalled ind the picture she conjured up con veyed to her soul in her exhausted state little more than a trifling addition to her misery. When one is on the rack a touch of toothache would be little heeded. She shuddered and turned and slowly crept away. The great clock struck three. Lily was lost now as well as Dittmer. She was quite alone in the world, and penniless. But the fog was gone, the black wall of darkness had rolled away. I know not where she wandered. It was no more beside those black waters, but along the streets?silent now and deserted, save for the occasional step of the policeman. It is strange to think of the great city with all its four millions of (people asleep and its streets empty. Even the worst and the wickedest are asleep at three in the morning. It is the hcnr of in| nocence; the Devil himself sleeps. No one met the girl as she walked aimlessly along. She could no lonper think or feel or look forward or dread anything. She sunk on a doorstep and fell asleep again. At five o'clock she was awakened by the hand of a policeman. "Come." he said, not unkindly, "you mustn't sleep in the streets, you know. , Haven't you got anywhere to go?" She cot up and began to understand what had happened. Another day was going to begin; she ihad spent two nights in the street. Another day! And she had no money. Another day ?oh! how long? "I have nowhere to go," she said. "And I have no money. "Won't you go home to your , friends?" "I have no friends." She did not look In the least like most of the girls who have no friends. "Haven't you got any money at all?" "I have no money, and no friends, and no work." Then this policeman looked up and down the street suspiciously, as men do who are about to commit a very bad action. There was nobody looking; there was nobody stirring yet: no one would believe in the bare word of ' the girl unsupported by any corroborative evidence: he would neve" be found out: he did it. He put his hand in his pocket and produced a shilling? a coin which is of much greater importance to a policeman than to you, dear reader?at least. I hope so?and he placed this shilling in Katharine's lmn/1 XJCilJVl. "There!" he said. "You look as jf you were to be pitied. Lord knows who you are or what you are?but there! get something to eat at any rate." Then he marched stolidly away, and Katharine sat down again upon the doorstep and burst into tears. She had not wept through all that long night in St. James' Fark?to be sure, she had Dittmer then for protection; she shed no tears all the long dark and dreadful Sunday; she had been dragged by Lily to put an end to her life without tears?but now she sat down and sobbed and cried because the one unexpected touch of kindness more than the cruel scourge of misfortune, revealed her most wretched and despairing condition. "In the darkest moment, my dear," ?she heard the voice of Miss Beatrice plainly speaking?not whispering, but speaking out plainly?"in the darkest moment, when the clouds are blackest J Jo ViQfr?ncf nnrl Vfllir Kllf UI1U liJe WUliU AO UUIUV.OI, W..V. ^ Vw. fcring is more than you can bear, GOD will help you. and that in the most unexpected way." It was a very little thing; a shilling is not much, but it touched her heart as a single ray of sunshine lights up a whole hillside. And so she sat down and cried, <and presently rose up and went on the way by which she was led. My friends, wo live in an unbelieving and skeptical generation, and the old phraseology is laughed at, and there is now, to many of us, no Father who loves and guides His children and orders their lives as is best for them, as we {ire once taught to believe; all is blind chance?even that policeman's shilling?even what followed, this very morning. Katharine's wandering feet led her to Covent Harden Market, where the coffee houses are astir and doing good business long before the rest of the world is thinking of the new day's work. She went into one and had breakfast?a substantia! breakfast with an egg and a loaf and a groat cup of hot brown c-offeo. Then?she went to sleep again, and another good Samaritan befriended her. It was the woman who waited?only a common. rnugh-tongued, coarse creature? i>ur slip saw* that the sleeping girl looked respectable, and that she looked tired out; and she let her sleep. (To be continued.) The Scrapple Trunt. "Scrapple used to be made by the Pennsylvania farmers, but. it is now made practically altogether by a trust ? the Philadelphia Scrapple Trust, which turns out thousands of pounds daily from the first frost till the spring thaw." The speaker, a Philadelphia butcher. continued: "Our scrapple plant is uptown. Trains of cars containing live pigs come in at one end of it. Out at the other end pass trains of cars containing scrapple in silver colored tins. This delectable stuff is made of pigs' heads, livers, pork, sage, thyme and a dozen other ingredients. The meat is first boiled on the bone in vats as large as swimming pools. Then it is cut up into chunks the size of your tist by rows of bare armed experts with scimitars. Then it is ground in steam power machines. The residue is taken to a private room. There, under the direction of the mixer. a high salaried official, it is seasoned and touched up in many un Known ways. Aiierwiiru il j.-> nun in enormous boiler*. Still liot and soft from boiling, it is put in now, bright tins. It cools, and is a firm subsjjui<.'e of a pearl gray hue?the world 1 fiTTr.e<l Philadelphia scrapple of song and story. "Philadelphia scrapple is eaten all over America. If it were a summer as well as a cold weather food, it would perhaps supplant pie as the national dish."?New York Press. 1 During a wedding at Grafenbaum, Austria, lightning struck the church ' and tore away the bridegroom's right foot Chrysanthemums. It is said, were cultivated in China before the eleventh century. *** ^ *** *** rv \ as *** !l R?p"'Sr |e?<qe? g? *** *** I 7jOfc/K wyvwwwvWMM^wn *** An efficient tool room is a requisite of a good shop. The machines in this department should be high-class, oth ! erwise their imperfections will be re, produced in the tools. In the larger shops it is the duty of the tool room i not only to see that certain tools are on hand for doing the work, but to see what jigs or other fixtures could be : made to cheapen production, and to consider in general the best way to | handle any special job. I Very important improvements of the j North Sea Canal from Amsterdam to ! the North Sea are in progress and are | expected to be completed in the course j of 1907. When finished, the canal will I be considerably wider and deeper, and i altogether better navigable for the j largest class of steamers. Aluminum and lead will not alloy. i They mix when melted, but separate ' when cooling. i Canadian mica has been increasing j steadily in value from 1S95 to the presI ent time, and that of India has been almost as steadily decreasing in value; ! so that, where in 1S95 the imported I value of Indian mica was nearly three j times that of Canadian mica, in 1904 | Canadian mica stood higher than In| dian. More than sixty years ago Moser no j ticed that certain bright metals emit ! rays capable of affecting photographic plates and of passing through thin screens of paper, etc. Continuing the investigation, Frofessor H. Piltchikoff, of the University of Charkow, has nowfound that some metals give off rays ' that decompose the silver bromide of ! the photographic film, and others that restore the decomposed bromide. He | names these radiations "positive" and i "negative." Most metals, including j cadmium and zinc, are positive; osmium and tantalum are negative; copper and brass have a neutral radia1 tion, with no action, and gold and i mercury give off no radiation at all. | The radiation is deflected by air curI rents, but is not affected by electric or ' magnetic fields. One suggestion is that j it may be a kind of heavy mctalli.? ions nnnolrntirtr thin mptfll nnfl humflll skin. Tnntalite, the metal recently emi ployed in Germany for making an improved filament for electric lamps, lias ! found another use. Messrs. Siemens | and Halske have produced pens of tanj talite which are said to be at the same , time harder than steel and more elas! tic than gold. Tantalite is very resistant to chemicals. It is the intention to : employ this metal for the manufacture I of various kinds of tools. i Some years ago the addition of moisture to furuace-heated air was found I by Dr. H. J. Barnes, of Boston, to I make a room comfortable at a tempera| ture several degrees lower. In his re| cent investigation i? Southeastern Nebraska, G. A. Loveland has shown that j the air of a house of 14,000 cubic feet ' should receive from twenty to forty i quarts of water daily, and that this : Evaporation does not increase the relaI tive humidity by more than ten per I cent. The humidity indoors should I not exceed about forty per cent., oth, erwise there will be troublesome con' densation on the windows. I SPIDER THAT EATS BIRDS. Lives in the Forest of tho South American Tropics. There has just been deposited in the j insect bouse at tbe zoo a specimen of ; tbe bird eating spider, which earns its name by occasionally including in I its menu some of the brilliantly hued ; humming birds and varicolored finches J of the South American tropics. I It is doubtful whether the silken i threads which he spins in profusion constitute his most effective tackle | for securing his prey; indeed, it is I more probable that tbe little birds get caught through alighting upon the j banana and other leaves, in the twisted ' folds of which the spider makes his I home. The similarity of his coloring j to the bark of trees, to which he at| taclies himself, is also a powerful I factor in enabling him to approach his | p^y- * I The silken threads which help to eni snare so many beautiful birds are a J serious annoyance to thevtraveler when riding or driving through the less frequented forests. As they continually strike the face, one is reminded of some fiendish motor trap on the Surrey roads. The bird eating spider is much smaller, although not less ferocious in appearance, than the famous tarantula. The body of a full grown tarantula is as big as a hen's egg, and on an average it gives from twenty to forty yards of silk, the weaving of which was'expected at one time to prove a very considerable industry In some, of the Australian colonies. The silken output of the bird eating spider is greater in proportion.?London Daily Graphic. An Indian's Stolcl-in. A pathetic story, afterward proved a true one, was the incident told by a party of miners, in which it was related that these miners had come j across a space among the trees that was cleared of snow, on one side of which a small wood lire was burning. In the middle of the clearing lay an old Indian, who had been cast aside by his tribe to die. Investigation shows that i it is the invariable custom of the Indian tribes that haunt the flats of southern Nevada, when they perceive ; signs of a final weakness in any indiI vidual of their number, to leave him behind to die. They place a small amount of food at his side and proI ceed upon their journey, while he who is left on tbe doorstep or tne happy hunting grounds obeys his fate with the stoicism of the old-time flagelluuts. This particular Indian lived for nearly two weeks before death overcame him, steadfastly refusing succor from any aud all who sought to relieve him. LotH of 'Km Do. Some peeple lost sight of the fact that of two evils it isn't always necessary to choose either.?Fuels. i / i / THE GREAT UESTEOYER 1 ! SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Alcohol and Health?'ltd Lone Continued Action on the Slouiacli Lead* to Catarrh?Not Suitable For Those Who Have to Undergo Muscular Fatigue Robert S. Forrest, M. B. C. M., I Auchterarder, writes as follows: Alco1 bol is obtained by the action of the yeast fungus on vegetable substances ricb in sugar or starch. It is the ingredient of fermented beverages which gives them their intoxicating qualities. It is a clear, colorless liquid, with a hot pungent taste, and a faint but characteristic odor. It has a great affinity for water, and for this reason it is very difficult to obtain pure alcohol by distillation?the most concentrated alcohol obtained by distillation containing ten per cent, of water. It j ! burns with a pale blue flame, gives little or no light, but produces intense heat and does not leave any ash. When taken internally, alcohol first causes an increase of saliva. In the stomach 1 it causes dilatation of the blood vessels with consequent reddening of the walld of that organ. In large quantities or in concentrated form it diminishes the amount of the gastric secretions. Some authorities state that the gastric secretion is rej tarded when alcohol is present to the I extent of only two per cent.,, and that I the activity of the gastric juice is en! tirely arrested when fifteen per cent, of j alcohol is present. This retarding influence is specially marked when wines i are taken, as the volatile substances contained in wine exercise a powerfully retarding action on the process of digestion. The long continued action of alcohol on the stomach leads to catarrh, the stomach becoming coated with thick tough mucous which hampers digestion and causes the food to undergo fermentation and decomposition. In addition, alcohol increases the muscular contraction of the stomach, and so aids the expulsion of its contents into the intestines. Except in large, quantities alcohol does not pass into the bowels but is absorbed from the stomach into the blood. It is not acted upon by the I gastric secretions but enters the blood unchanged. While circulating in the blood it felters the condition of the blood in such a way that less oxygen is given off to the tissues and as a consequence the tear and wear of the tissues are diminished. Its presence in the blood gives rise co effects on the ' iiervous system, and through it on the different organs of the body. It first stimulates and then depresses the nervous system. The action of the heart is accelerated and there is marked dilatation of the blood vessels, so that a state of temporary congestion of the various organs is produced. I This dilatation is most noticeable in I +h<> vessels nf tlm skin, and eives rise to a feeling of warmth. On the brain the action of alcohol is very marked. In moderate quantity it stirmilates the higher centres of the brain?the reasoning powers are increased in activity, ideas flow more freely, the imagination is excited and the power of speech is increased. In larger quantity these higher functions of the brain are depressed, as is shown by the judgment becoming lost or impaired, the speech becoming thick and ! utterance difficult. The imagination I and the emotions are depressed and j sensibility' is diminished. Muscular movements become irregular so that the gait Is unsteady, or may be paralyzed so that the person cannot maintain the erect posture. If the quantity taken is great, death may be caused by j paralysis of the vital centres in the brain. The deleterious effects on the j nervous system are further shown by the large increase iu the number of cases of alcoholic insanity. Forty years ago female cases of general paralysis j of the insane (a disease caused by al! cohol and vice) were so rare as to call j for special comment, but at the present date the number of such cases has increased so much that comment is now ? *V??;fnonnonrtr A Innhnl {q I IU ilUC Vil UUC1I HCV|UCiiV.J . iAtvvuv4 *W very unsuitable for aud ought to be avoided by nervous people. Tbe stimulating effects of alcohol do not last long, and are followed by j depression. For this reason alcoholic j beverages are not suitable for those ! who have to undergo any muscular j fatigue or severe exertion. It (Joes not ! give additional strength but merely j enables a man to draw upon his re1 serve energy. It may give assistance [ in a single effort, but not in prolonged j exertion. * Also those who resort to | alcohol for the purpose of stimulating | their intellectual faculties require to ! increase the frequency and quantity of I the dose to keep up the stimulating j effect. The Greatest Extortion.* I The commercial bodies of the State | are awakening to the fact that the $10 j excess charge for railroad mileage ticki ets is an extortion! Well, yes, but I j why so calmly submit to a far greater ! | extortion collected from every legiti- | I mate industry aim iraue uy me nquui ( , traffic? The manufacturer's mechanics partially incapacitated, the merchant's customers rendered unable to meet their bills, the honest clerk or cashier made an embezzler, all because of the i debauchery of the drink traffic.?Will- i I iamsport (Pa.)) Index. ! Licensed by a King, I Reports come from the jungles of J I Africa that the Belgium soldiers re- I J! cently deprived 5000 men of their right j j hand. Think of it if you can and then i compare it with the destruction, soul j ! and body, of 100,000 citizens of the i j United States annually by the licensed j liquor traffic. Which is the most atrocious? Would you cast your vote I ? imlitinol nni'tv tlint AVOllhl fof j its policy undertake to license or regit- ! | late either? Where is your manhood? j Tempe/ance Note*. | All intelligent fc'ood men are opposed i j to longer licensing the liquor traffic, j What temperance advocates want is I i the party that will put down the li- j I censed liquor traffic. J More people have lost their lives I through alcohol in thirty ; oars than' have perished in all the wars of tbe nineteenth century. , Of the Vtf counties of the State (. j Georgia. lOL', nearly throe-fourths, are ; new under prohibition of the beverage sale of intoxicating liquors. A bill was introduced in tlie .Massachusetts Legislature providing for the J establishment of a State Dipsomaniac t Hospital, where drunkards will be free J to come and go at will. t Drinking has made such inroads upon t , the physical stamina of the French 1 j that it has become a question of im- i proving the national morals or dis- 3 ( banding the army. 1 The National (Brilish) Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children estimates that of the i-K),<)<)(> to Uk).(HX) , cases tha' come under their notice ' yearly, one-half are caused directly by drunkenness and of consequent neglect ! by parents. , ' : >7. 7* r ' . THE SUNDAY SCHOOL __J|_ ** INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JUNE 3. Subject: The Gentile Woman'i Faith Mark ill., 24-30? Golden Teitt I Matt. XT., 28 ? Memory Verse, 30 ? Topic: Bringing the UniiTeil to Chrltt. I. In heathen borders (v. 24). 24. "From thence He arose." That is, after delivering the discourses at Capernaum. "Borders of Tyre and Sidon." Tyre and Sidon were heathen cities on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Their religion was a base and corrupting nature worship. Beelzebub, the name adopted by the Jews as a name for Satan, was one of their deities who was supposed to be the author of "all the pollutions of idol worship." "Iato an house." In all probability the house of a Jew. Edersbeim thinks He mnst have tarried here several days; the fact that He desired to be kept hid, but could not. would suggest this. "No man knew it." He judged it proper to conceal Himself awhile from the Pharisees, who were plotting against Him. "Could not be hid." It seems that He was personally known to many in this country, who had seen and heard Him in Galilee. II. A mother's request (vs. 25, 2G). 25. "Whose young daughter." The actual sufferings of the daughter were great, but the sufferings which the mother endured by sympathy were still greater. "An unclean spirit." Matthew -says her daughter was "grievously vexed with a devil." This was certainly a sad case. Nothing can destroy the peace of a home more than to have a daughter possessed with Satanic influences. The spirit that possessed this girl was an unclean?a vile spirit. "At His feet." This at once shows the humility of the woman. 26. "Woman was a Greek." By language. The Jews called those who were idolaters Greeks, or Gentiles. "A Syrophenician by nation." A SyroPhoenician. Phoenicia belonged, to the Roman province Syria. She was a Syrian of Phoenicia. Matthew says she "was a woman of Canaan." "Besought Him." Earnestly entreated Him. The case was an urgent one, and on her knees at His feet she [ poured out her request. "Would cast forth." She believed He had power to do this. Matthew says she "cried unto ! Him saying, Have mercy on me, O j Lord, Thou son of David." She plead I for mere}; she knew she could make ! no claim upon Him in any other way. I "The devil," etc. Here is a plain, J straigntrorwara comessiuu. xukic no effort to cover up the family troubles, and gloss over matters, and make it appear that, after all, her daughter is "quite respectable." III. Faith tested (v. 27). 27. "Jesus said." This -woman's discouragements were great: 1. Her advantages had been small. She was a heathen woman, with but little means of even obtaining the light of the Hebrew Scriptures. 2. At first Jesus did not reply to her request (Matt. 15:24). 3. When Jesus did speak He seemed to repel her. The soul seeking salvation frequently meets these same tests, and many become discouraged by them. The disciples were annoyed. They said, "Send her away, for she crieth after us." This has been greatly misupderstood. To "send her away" according to Oriental idioms -*-ou!d be to grant her request, cure her child and i let her go. "The children." The Jews. "First be filled." They :.re the favored people. The gospel was first to be offered to the Jews, and to them our Lord's personal ministry on earth was chiefly restricted. "Not meet." It is not suitable?not the proper thing to do. "Children's bread." To take those blessings that belong to the Jews. "Unto the dogs." For "dogs" read "little dogs," household pets, such as ran around the table at meal time. This was the severest test of all. The Gentiles were considered by the Jewish people as no better than dogs, and Jesus only used a form of speech which was common; but it must have been very offensive to the heathen. "Would this woman resent it? Would her pride at last be stirred? No. She "shrunk and shriveled" into nothingness at His feet, and her faith still held on for the desired blessing. IV. Faith rewarded (vs. 28-30). 2S. "Yes, Lord." "Truth, Lord" (Matt.). It is all so. The Jews?the favored ones ought to be blessed first. I know? I am a heathen?only a Gentile dog. j "Yet." Now follows (1) an answer to His argument against entertaining her petition, and (2) a most touching appeal to His clemency. "The dogs?eat j of the children's crumbs." I only ask j such kindness as the dogs of any family enjoy. If I am a dog give me at least a dog's fare. 29. "For this saying." Her faith had triumphed. Jesus said, "0 woman, great is thy faith" (Matt.). Her faith was "great in its earnestness, its humility, its overcoming great obstacles." The hindrances thrown in the woman's way only tended to increase her faith. "The devil is gone out." Now, at this very moment, thy request is granted. Though our Lord's mission j was to the lost sheep of Israel, yet He i always honored personal faith in Him- | self, wherever found. Persevering fiaith j and nraver are next to omnipotent. No | person crfn thus pray and believe without receiving all his soul requires. This -woman had asked a crumb, and had received a whole loaf of the children's bread. Although a heathen she now tool; her place by the side of Jacob and Moses, for she had prevailed. "Of thy daughter." Her faith is pecu- \ liar in that'it obtains a blessing for another. Her intercession was successful. Children who have praying parents should be thankful. Here is also an encouragement for praying parents. ! 30. "Laid upon the bed." A sign of her perfectly tranquil condition: the demon had previously driven her hither and thither. Washington's Diary Sold. The total urn realized by the sale of Governor Penny packer's library at Philadelphia was $S7o'J.9D. The greatest interest in the auction attached to j Washington's diary of twenty-two j pages of manuscript in his own hand, j written in 17G7, was purchased by the Library of Congress for $700. A volume of pamphlets gathered and bouud by General Washington, containing bis autograph and armorial book plate, went to Dodd. Mead & Co., of Xew York City, for $o25. Lurc? Itliiff Kor Urlde. In the show wiudov of a jeweler at fVlientown, l'a., is nispiayea tne largest ?olid gold wedding ring ever brought :o that city. It weighs twenty-three ind a half pennyweights. The averige weight of wedding rings is only Ive pennyweights. The ring was orlered by a prominent citizen for a roung lady, who is soon to become his )ride. White Slave "traffic. Police Commissioner Bingham, New fork City, said he had unearthed a rast amount vf evidence Against disreputable resorts, and that he was determined to stamp out the traffic in 'white slaves." -x . " % T^3Ug,Hp, JFg^THg THE SUSTAININC HAND. The little child who wakes at night. Affrighted at the somber gloom, And clamors for a ray of light To drive the darkness from the room, To quiet dreamland sweetly goes, Contented, if a hand is near, < Caressingly, because it knows There is no terror it need fear. So we, who stumble through the gloom* In aimless manner seeking light, Will bhndly wander to our doom If traveling by our own might. But when in darkened paths we stray And cry aloud, the Father hears And reaches out His hand to stay Our apprehensions and our fears. V ?E. A. Brininstool, in\the Los AngekC .Express. t Btranr* Experience of an Infidel. BT THE BET. JOBS T. FABIS. For the encouragement of those 'who have long prayed for the conversion ot some friend or loved one, I tell tbef following: i About two years'ago I made the acquaintance of a colporteur of the American Tract Society who was doing soraej difficult work for Christ in a very] f creditable manner. We were thrownf together for many days. During thiaf time I learned the story of his life?a' wonderful story. On the day when' these lines are written the mail brings another chapter of his history?a chapter as wonderful as those told before, j He was born in Bohemia, a Catholic,' apd was, when a lad, in training fon j the priesthood. For seven years hef ! was an officer in the Austrian army;' then he became editor of a Bohemian! paper in New York City. While thera be was known as a leader among the* .1 infidels of his people?and so became fitted for the editorship of an infidel 0 magazine, and later of a political pape* with infidel bias.' i Week after week he wrote articles in which he said everything he could think of against Christianity. But when he sat down to write his leadel for the issue of Christmas week, 1901j , be had a strange experience. "Against my will I resolved to say something about the birth of Christ," be told me. "I did not know what 1 was writing. There was a powe? which drove me on. I wrote of th? birth in poverty and the life of suffer* ^ ing. I spoke the horrible death. Th?j * central point of the article was the argument that those who are blaspheming Christ now are of the same character as those who crucified Him?the most miserable creatures of earth. As I wrote my tears flowed like a flood. "Later, my assistant told me I must not print the article. I -told him; 'What I write eoes in.' When I read the proof I realized for the first time what I had said. I was ashamed to co back on my words to the assistant; so (he article was printed. I knew whaf would be the result." An explosion followed. Subscribers were enraged. Enemies were made. Yet the editor felt himself still fit to be editor of an infidel paper. He was dissatisfied, it is true. He began an -I investigation which led him to believe, 8 successively, in Buddhism, Christian; I Science and Spiritualism. Then he be- I ?ame a preacher of morality. Con vinced of evils among the Bohemians,, B he started a crusade which enraged fl their leaders. 1 J Next day a Christian friend gave him' I a copy of the New Testament. "I sat1 I 3 own at once and started to roadlj <1 Romans," he said. "That day I read' I all of Paul's epistles. As I read there, J :ame to me an understanding of the events of eight years. I knew I was! ^ saved through Jesus. On Sabbath I I went to churoh. From that day myj paper stood for Christ." Three yeara H later lie left the editorial office ,/or. I Christian work among his people. { I When he told this story he said he, I was happy but for one thing. His wife 9 refused to be reconciled to his new life.j I She threatened to leave him. The I children were taught to despise him. "It is a burden," he said. "But I ami! H praying for her. And I believe the day^ 9 rjpiM Prtmo whpn fiod will soften her. H hard heart and we shall be together inJ H His service." 1 B Our paths have lain apart for twoi H years, and I heard nothing from him 9 until this glad message came: 1 H "Thanks to the Lord, He increased H so greatly my happiness that I feeli B J bound to tell you. You know how it! H pleased the Lord to chasten me and! fl teach me patience and other Christian^ H virtues. God the Father has had mercft npon my wife. She persecuted me more vigorously after my return from St. H Louis/ I was compelled to leave homei. M and family for the sake of peace. It H secured a position and sent $45 a month? H regularly to Her. # She prohlb-'' ' ited the children to write me letters.' H For seven months I did not exchange* letters with her save the monthly en- H velope with the check. But last Satur- B day I received a letter from-her say- B ing: 'I have taken refuge at the feet H of the Lord Jesus and in prayers fi H| ask Him, Not my will, but Thine, be HC dons.' And so, finally. I found peace.! HI I perceived what a wife would do that ~ follows the Lord Jesus. Now I have. rested my case with Him, and knowij HI wherever He will lead me I shall', walk in the right way." <| Hj Joyfully my correspondent concludes:; S "My prayers are answered. After six! years of wrestling with my Lord I ami H rewarded most gloriously. My wife ie| |H to-day a child of God, made holy by,i ? His grace alone. Only last April she! burned my Christian books and tore! my Testaments. * To-day, fol-' 9H lowing Lord Jesus, she comes back a'J loving wife, full of tender feelings and' true devotion. How great is the lovej of Jesus Christ, and what a power is| His! How great is lbs mercy of our! HE jod!"?Herald. HB Trne Soncct of Hartplnes*. The true disciple of Jesus needs not to forget himself in order to be cheer-',-B| ful in his very innermost soul; for the'. source of his happiness is not in the outward world, but within himself.? Zschokke. i Mor? Power. Bfl There is only one way by which HB more power can be obtained, and that; HB ,'s by waiting on the Lord in conQdence,' in obedicnce and in patience.?Kev. Y, Fuller ton. The New Army hifle. A new magazine ritie will b~ issued to ali of the infantry and cavahy troops in the United States before the end of Wfl May. lue new bayonets have been Bfl| manufactured, and the Ordnance De- 99 partment now has on hand a large BBS quantity of the new srnasl arm .which; will be immediately issued. '< HB To Ooat McClellan. HH Attorneys for W. R. Hearst have pe* j^H nnonea uie Aiiorney-uenerai tu hmh York to begin quo warranto proceed* EBB lngs in the name of the people to oust HH Mayor McClellan from oiiiee. HB mk