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B y WALTEi CHArTER XIII. 13. Continued. It "was past eight when Katharine .Tvoke up. Mile, tie Samarie was stand ing before Her. "I?I?I beg your pardon," said Katharine, "I bave been asleep." "You've slept for three hours and more, Miss. Pretty tired you must Lave been to sleep in all this racket." "I've been walking about all night because I had no money." "Have you. now? All night? Just think! And a lady. I should say?we'll, now. miss, if you'd like to brush your hair and wash your face and make yourself tidy upstairs, you can." Was there ever a tetter Samaritan? Katharine followed her. She would have cried again, but that she was stronger, being no longer hungry. But she kissed tbat woman of Samaria when she came away, and when For tune smiled upon her once more, she sought her out. and shed tears when sue luuLin nun mt; &vi/u vic?uu'; ?u.i gone, and that no one knew where she was to be found. Then, refreshed and strengthened, tnd with renewed hope, and with six pence out of the policeman's shilling in her hand. Katharine went forth again for the third day's tramp. She thought that perhaps if she went back to St. James' Park she might find Lily waiting there for her, or per haps Dittmer Bock. Katharine walked slowly up and down the whole ,ongth of the walk. Dittmer Bock, she now remembered, must be in the cit~ at his office. If she only knew where that office was! There was no sign of Lily anywhere. She left the walk and went into the park. There she sat down, and tried to think what war. to be done next. She thought that she would go to Doughty street and see her old friend Mrs. Emptage again. Perhaps there might be some help even from that poverty stricken household. She walked all the way from St. James' Park to Dou^'ity street. It is a good step. You go along Long Acre and Great Queen street and Lincoln's Inn Fields and through Gray's Inn. For a girl who has been walking about all night it is a longish walk. For tunately she had eaten a good break fast, but it was at five in the morning. When Katharine arrived in Doughty street she found that the Emptage family had gone away, and they had left no address. / It was about eleven o'clock. Kath arine turned away wearily. By this time she had fallen into that strange , state of mind when nothing seems to matter. The Emptages were gone, and they had left no address. This Intelligence affected her very slightly. one saw mat nitre was ?i gaic vu the left Land side of Gray's Inn open, and that it led intn n < ivion where there were trees and grass and seats. She turned in. took the first bench, and sank down upon ic. At the other end of the bench sat a young lady dressed in deep mourning. f "You look tired," said the young lady, presently; "you look ill?are you III? Can I be of any service to you?" Katharine turned upon her in reply eyes so haggard, a face so worn, so full of despair and misery, that this young lady started and shuddered, "Tell me." she saitl, "what it means. Tell me what is the matter with you." Katharine tried to speak, but she was past speaking. Her head dropped, and she would have fallen forward upon the ground but the young lady caught her in her arms CHAPTER XIV. The Nubian* Desert. There was an encampment at the go ing down of the sun in the desert. The great Nubiar. Desert is a ter rible desert indeed. It covers a weary waste of country which, if you will examine ibe map, you will find lying between the Nile?that part of it where the Second and Third cataracts are marked?and the Red Sea. It is re ported by those who have been across this desert?the number, for certain reasons, is now much greater than of old?that there are mountains in it, all arid and bare, level plains covered with sand, rocky passes, and low hills surrounding small plains of sand. The sand is everywhere. It is a hot and thirsty country; those who live in it are a thin, parched, and dried-up peo ple, who are said to regard their abom inable country with affection. When the sun sets over the great Nubian Desert he paints the moun tains and rocks all manner of colors, but especially those which have to do With purple, crimson, and yellow; he places the same colors, only paler, in the sky, and he condescends to light up the level sands with the most beau tiful and wonderful mirages. This evening, for example, those of tbe peo ple who cared to look for it might have seen in the southwest, and apparently within easy access, a most inviting oasis if verdure and beauty incom parable in any climate. Saw one ever such green grass, such bluo lakes, such waving palms, such a suggestion of hnhhlinff cnril1P"S "I'PfMl sllfldp. fratr e?-? r?- T c ranee ot' flowers, balmy rest, and uni versal delight? Yet there were two in this encampment who gazed upon the scene without Joy ami without ad miration. "There it is again, Tom," said one of tisem: "'a very creditable image. You would swear that it was real, wouldn't you?"' "Ay. Tb's. is the Land of Tantalus. We are always thirsty, and there are always dangled before us the water and the fruits which we may not drink." It was not a luxurious camp; the water the peopl?? had to drink was warm and brackish; the only protec tion they had against the night dews was the cotton sheets which by day the men wore as mantles or wrapped rouud their bodies; the food iiiey had II ? Ri/v i % R BESANT ^ < to cat consisted chiefly of dates. TTie men were armed, for the most part, with spears and shields, though there were old guns among them. One would certainly not think the tribe or the en campment worthy of the notice of his tory save for the fact that right in the middle of the camp there were sitting, witbov.t any protection of white cotton tent, the two English men whose remarks on the mirage you have just heard. They were prisoners of war, whose iives were spared when the Egyptians wer all speared. Why they were not massacred with the rest lias never been found out. Fer uaps it will remain a secret forever. They were pretty ragged by this time, having been prisoners and on the tramp for six months. Their coats hung upon their shoulders in long strips, which they would have torn off but for the protection afforded against tlii sun: the legs of their trous ers had been mostly torn off in strips in order to provide bindings for their f6et, from which the boots had either dropped or had been taken off. To walk barefooted in the African sands ic? TPnorlich faof vortr TiOfil'iV thp same thing as to walk upon ten mil lions of sliarp pointed needles all red hot. Even the eleven thousand British virgins of Aachen had only one pin for the whole Jot +o dance upon. But suppose they had been ordered to dance upon ten millions of pins apiece! Their flannel shirts were in strips; as for watches, revolvers, glasses, water bottlss, belts, and everything else. uiese .nau jout; smutr uceii iii&cn uuiu them. Of all tbeir kit they preserved only their helmets, "which, as bound in common gratitude, had in return preserved their owners' lives against sunstroke. Their hair had grown long and matted, like the black ringlets of their captors; tbeir faces were cov ered with thick beards, and six months' wanderings in the desert on a diet principally composed cf dates and brackish water had taken the super fluous fat from their fingers, sharpened their features, given tbeir eyes a peculiar brightness and eagerness un known in countries of civilization, where the human eye is apt to swell with fatness, and doubtless added ten years to their lives should they ever get home. The scene before them, apart from the mirage, "was a landscape of low hills and rolling ground; everywhere was gray sand, with, for vegetation, tufts of dead desert grass. The two Englishmen sat side by side in silence. There was nothing to say. When a man has been made a tramp, without aim or object, for six long months, during which he has had no news of the outer world, and has been all the nri/1 })fi i C Tint LI Li It; UUU^IJT UJUVi luaoij, Aiv MV? inclined to talk. To-night the two men were so tired with the day's march that they sat without speaking a word, until one of their captors brought them supper, consistiug of some bread and dates with a draught of water. "Tom/' said one of them, "is the finest beverage at the club compar able with a good pull of warmish water in such a place as this and after such a day's march?" Tom was at the very moment tak ing that pull. When they had eaten their supper they began to talk. "Tom." said the first, resuming the conversation of the preceding night, "my opinion remains the same. We have 'coine back somewhere near the place where we started." "You see," said Tom. "that if you should happen to be wrong, our goose is cooked without the least doubt, and we shall either starve in this infernal desert or be captured again, when we shall most certainly be stuck." "Yes,?but 1 am sure that I am not mistaken. I remember the outline of those hills the very first day we were brought in. when we expected to be killed every instant." "It may happen any minute as it is. These fellows are not in a hurry, be cause we are always in their hands. As for me, I very well remember the funk I was in. but I forgot the hills." "Tom, it is the same place," the other man repeated, earnestly. "I am sure it is. We are within a few hours of the Egyptian fort. I believe they have come back here in the hopes of meeting other tribes and getting up another massacre, if the Egyptians can be lured outside their walls. Tom"? he lowered his voice to a whisper, though not one'could understand what they were saying?"within half a day's march is freedom, if you want to win it. Do you understand that?" "* ---A - ^1/1 Ac "II IS nut U UclX'K SilJ Hip, viu iiiau. for my wanting to win it," he replied? "you're a soldier. Take the command, and tell me what to do. I will obey if it leads lo death. McLaucblin, on the hare chance of getting out of this." "We will wait until they are all j asleep. They have left off setting a J watch. Then we will quietly slip away and make for the coast. I am sure we are near it. I can smell the sea; though it is only the Red Sea. If we are lucky we shall sigbt the fort and the ships." "And suppose we take the wrong turn, and go north, instead of south?" "In that case, Tom, we shall travel round the whole world, twenty-live thousand miles, or thereabouts, before we get to the fort. At twenty miles a day it is only twelve hundred days, or four years, allowing us to rest on Sundays." "T should give up trying for the fort and strike off liortnwesi. wnere iaih don is?ami Katfcerine," said Tom, with a curious catch in his voice. "I've sot a Katherine, too," said the man called McLauehlin. "I'd ?;p north west with you, old man. Oh! Tom"? hp laid his hand on the other's shoulder ?"to he free again! To go home and tell them w? are not dead after ail.' Do you sometimes think of them cry ing over usV "ITave I thought of anything else during the whole of the time? And my girl, you see, has got no one. and now she uiust be friendless. All day long for six months I have heard hei' sobs. If we do get away from this prison?if ever there is a real chance of freedom again. I will tell you about her. 1 couldn't here " joui s;wu uu limit*. The snn went down at last with an undignified bob. as ono wLo is long in making lip liis mind to go, and only goes at . last because he is obliged. Immediately afterwards the color went out of the sky and out of the hills, and then, because there is not much twilight in the great Nubian Desert, the night fell, and the children of the desert ceasing to chatter and to scream and to quarrel, lay down upon the sand, still hot with the day's sun, and were all asleep in a few minutes. Presently Captain McLauchlin touched Tom's shoulder, and they arose and looked- around them. Only half a days' march to freedom! But sup pose McLauchlin had made a mistake? Suppose he had been deceived by the outlines of the bills? Then, as Tom j truly prophesied, tbey would either | starve slowly?it is a lingering com- | plaint, including the torture of tlie burning heat of tlie sun and a mad dening thirst?or they "would be re captured. and then they would be cer tainly speared for good. Freedom, However, is worm some nsu, iui ius | sake of freedom men have run the chance of many deaths, and those even more cruel than hunger and thirst in the desert. A fortnight later tbe same two men lay in two beds in the hospital of the friendly fort, now garisoned by Eug lish as well as by Egyptian troops. The half day's march had in facf turned out to be >a march of two or three days, with no food and no water, because, you see, they did take that j wrong turning. When the fugitives were picked up by accident and a good way from tbe fort, they were very ter rible to look at, black and gaunt and fierce-eyed with thirst and hunger and the heat of the desert under the fierce sun and the glare of the water, be cause they were upon the shore of the i Ked Sea. Already they seemed to hear the flopping of the vulture's wings and the bark of tbe jackal, when they were rescued by a party of ! English officers come out to shoot. At first nobody knew them. They were brought in and put to bed, and for a week or so they could not even tell their story. When that story was fully heard those that listened mar veled and were sore astonished, be- J cause their escape and return to their j friends was like a resurrection from the tomb. Lone since, it was sup posed. their bones had been bleaching j upon the sands with the bones of the 1 poor Egyptian soldiers who could not run fast enough to get away. Mc Lauchlin had been gazetted as killed. Tom Addison, war correspondent, was reported killed. By this time their friends would even be going out of mourning. "Six months. Tom," said McLauchlin this afternoon, the room being quiet and shaded, and the pain well-nigh gone out of their feet, which had swelled up and behaved in a most abominable manner, and inflicted dis gusting torture upon them?''six UJOIUUS, -IUI.LI, LUUJ gu il lUUe naj j make a. fellow forgotten even by his girl. They've got the telegrams now, ! and by next week or thereabouts they will have the letters. I wonder " "So do I," said Tom. 1 " Whether Katharine will have forgotten ?" "Just what I was going to say," said Tom. "There's been a good many odd , things happening in the last six months or so, old man. When they brought us in, and my head felt like one in flamed balloon, and my chest like another, you began to talk of your Katharine, and I began to think we got mixed up somehowi You've got a Katharine and so have I. They can't, I suppose, be the same girl, by any accident?" "Mine is named Katharine Regina." j Tom fell back on his pillow with a groan. "So is mine,"' he said. "We have got ! mixed up." "Katharine Regina Willoughby, j mine is." "Katharine Regina Capel is mine," j said Tom. "There's a chance for us ( yet. But isn't it odd that there should 1 be two girls christened Katharine Regina ?" "Perhaps they are cousins. There ic nin-ovs n Tvnthnrinf Reiriiifl is the Willoughby family. Who are your ; girl's people?" (To be Continued.) The Dutch Succession. The question as to the future occu pant of the Dutch throne occupies a writer in Le Figaro of Paris. A re vision of the Constitution has become necessary for the reason that should the present Queen leave no heir the throne would pass to a German prince. Naturally the Dutch are distrustful of German princes, and particularly of this one, "of whom nothing is known except that he knows nothing of the country." Meanwhile the fear pre vails that whether a German prince succeeds or a republic be proclaimed, the Kaiser will and some excuse to in terfere and gain a footing in the coun try.?New York World. Hazing Denounced. President De Witt Hyde, of Bow doin, in a recent address to tlie stu dents denounced hazing in a vigorous manner. He called the bazer the greatest coward and most consum mate scoundrel on eartlj. He said hazing was devoid of fair play?always six to two or three to one?and he asked Bowdoin undergraduates to up hold themselves as gentlemen and to keep their college clean. The essential cowardice of the hazer has not been sufficiently dwelt upon. It takes not only a coward but a brute to be a good hazer. Huntli'sr Artnada Treasure. After an interval of nearly two years the duke of Argyll has resumed liis search in Tobermory Bay, off the isl and of Mull, for ihe sunken treasure among the wreckage of the great Ar mada galleon, tl;e Florida, which went down in 15SS. The operations are be ing conducted with the utmost se crecy in boats hidden from sight by canvas awnings. The geysers of New Zealand sympa thize "with the Vesuvius eruptioa. throwing streams of mud and boiling water hundreds of feet into t'f3 air. Pt is asserted by a scientist that without birds the insects wo.uld in crease so rapuwy mat me miiuuu mcc could not exist for longer than nine years. Compressing 300,000 newspapers by hydraulic machinery, an Austrian ge nius has constructed a yacht of the ma terial thus obtained. It is sixteen feet long, and every part, including the D?asts and sails, is paper. Cold storage is utilized for preserv ing eggs for incubating purposes as well as for family use. Should eggs freeze their vitality will be destroyed, but at a temperature of between thirty two and forty degrees eggs five months nM hflvft heen successfully hatched. It is not known how long, exactly, vital ity can be held in suspense under s?ch conditions. Of the very latest type of freight steamers is the British ship Bellerphon, built without masts, instead of which she has four pillars, two abreast fore and aft. for derricks. The hold is made especially to accommodate heavy ma chinery and other bulky consignments for the China and Japan trade. Twen on/i rlot-rififcB r>nn he IJ "SI A W iULilCO UUU VM worked from tlie deck. Regarding the use of slag meal re cent investigations have indicated that liberal dressing of this material, al though containing no nitrogen, serves to increase the nitrogen in the land. In one thirteen year test the amount of nitrogen collected altogether per acre in six inches of surface soil, including that removed in the hay during that time, amounted to almost as much as contained in a ton of nitrate of soda. . If the announcement recently made from Norway is substantiated?namely, that in that country there has been per fected a method of extracting nitro gen from the atmosphere by mechani cal and chemical means, and utilizing it for the manufacture of nitrate fertil izers?it will certainly herald a revolu tion in agriculture, since it will mean unlimited quantities of fertilizing mate rial at low cost. The next important advance will be the devising of a method of using water for fuel?that is, of course, decomposing it. and applying the oxygen, which forms eight-ninths nf 44-c. Tpoirrht tn Assist in the Drocesses of combustion. BULKHEAD DOORS NEEDED. Naval Expert Assert* Ships Cannot Do Without Thein. As a result of the efforts made to surround the British battleship Dread naught with the greatest secrecy, a number of misleading guesses have been made as to features of her con struction. One of these reports was to the effect that the Dreadnaught had no bulkhead doors. "** 1 ? - ovmoT-f Tl-hn W. J3. UOWIBS, U jiaia 4 came to Boston to deliver an address before the post graduate students iu marine engineering at the Massachu setts Institute of Technology, says that he has every reason to believe this is a misstatement. "It is plain to every seagoer," Mr. Cowles said, "and es pecially to those who have duties be low decks, that there must be a few doors connecting the large compart ments or it will be impracticable to perform necessary duties." The report that the battleship Kan sas had no bulkhead doors was made awhile ago. This was denied by Chief Constructor Capps. The Kansas, like all the new ships of the navy, has electric power doors, which in time of danger can be closed from the bridge of the vessel. Mr. Cowles said that he believed power doors are the only so lution of the problem of how to cut out the one weak spot in the subdivi sion of ships?the holes in the bulk heads. The "Long Arm" power doors now in use on our war ships, Mr. Cowles claimed, had reached a point where they are entirely successful in accomplishing ^his result. With power doors, it was explained, ?nt oTrnlrilnfr tfie means una mcuiuu ? n catastrophes at sea were very different from the impracticable elimination of means of passage from one part of a ship -to another. "When the ship is going into action or known to be enter ing a fog or any dangerous locality, the officer of the deck closes all the doors from the bridge by means of the emergency station there. This emergency closure does not in any way affect the easy opening of the doors locally by power when any of the crew wish to pass through. Anyone can open the doors locally by the same means and just as easily as if the emergency station closure had not been made. After passing through the door in such a case it closes auto matically. "The whole operation of these elec tric power doors means practically that the ship is made safe In time; that the ship is always running with her doors shut while in a dangerous locality, and that, therefore, she is in an unsinkable condition when the on expected happens." Silenced a Harbef. Judge John D. Lnwson, dean of the law department of Missouri Univer sity, tells how he quieted a barber who had a lotion for sale. The bar hor hn/i inqf- shaved him, r.nd, before letting liim up, wanted, to sell him the lotion to use on his face when he shaved himself. "Is that what you use on your customers?" said the judge. "No,1" replied the barber, "it Is so expensive I cannot afford it." "If you can't afford it whep you get ten cents for sbavi.jg a man," replied the judge, "how do you e^ect me to afford it when I shave myself for noth ing?" The barber was nouplussed and gave up (he sale. Patentee of Cas. Phillipe Lebon, who took out pat ent in 1801 for the use of gas for lighting purposes, is to have a statud erected to his memory in Paris. Ho vas murdered in 1804. IS an esiuuijsueu luvume iui uie juuug girls as well as for their elders and suits them singularly well. This one is simplicity itself, yet smart in the extreme, and is adapted both to suit ings and to the separate wrap of gen a little later tbe model will be foimd a most desirable one for tie pongees trimming of silk banding, and Is fin ; lshed with stitching of belding silk and | eral wear, although as shown it is i made of reseda Panama cloth with with little gold buttons and silk cords down the front. For Immediate wear the many mixed suitings are admira ble as well as Panama cloth and all of various sorts and the linen suits that will be so generally worn. The coat is made with fronts, side fronts, backs and side-backs, fitted by means of the seams that extend to the shoulders, giving most becoming lines j to the figure. xne sieeves are rue mv orite ones in three-quarter length, but are treated after a quite novel fashion, being laid in one box pleat each at the lower edge. The quantity of material required for the sixteen year size is two and three eighth yards twenty-seven, one and seven-eighth yards forty-four or one and three-eighth yards fifty-two inches wide, with four and oue-half yards of banding. Tucked Blon*e or Shirt Waist. The blouse that is made in lingerie style is a pronounced and well de Correct Elbow Glove*. Long tan gloves will be worn a great deal this spring, but no other colored ones are fashionable. This wearing of long gloves on all occasions is an ex pensive fashion, especially as white must be worn with nearly every cos tume. Black gloves are seen only with a black or a black and white gown; tan ! !UI" l\*tA?trn fitul /lfivlr I IS permissiujt; mm ui<?>.. ? blue, but with all dark shades white is considered smartest. Glace kid, al though more expensive than suede, -wears better and can be cleaned until absolutely worn out, as It never grows rough and shabby. Aigrettes Are Expensive. Everything is ostrich feathers and enormous aigrettes. These latter are terribly expensive, and so perishable in wind and rough weather that they are doubly extravagant to buy or to wear. lteantlfnl Cornacre Ornament. a trt-nnn nf fprii-likp minis carried out in diamonds set in platinum is sliown in a novel corsage ornament. I served favorite, and is to be found in ! the pretty thin silk and wool materials as well as in lawn, batiste and the like. This one is trimmed after an en tirely novel fashion, giving most be coming lines to tbe figure, and is shown in handkerchief lawn with trim ming of Valenciennes lace and embroid ery executed by hand, the lining be ing omitted. When silk or wool le used, however, the foundation will be found an improvement. The embroid ery gives a peculiarly chic and dainty touch, but where it is not possible to expend the time required, little medal lions of either lace or embroidery can Be substituted for the hand work, ex ceedingly charming ones being offered on all sides. The Valenciennes lace is a pronounced favorite, but Cluny and | baby Irish are close rivals, and both J can be found in a variety of bandings. The waist consists of tbe blouse lin ing, tbe front and tbe backs. Tbe backs are tucked from shoulders to waist line, giving a tapering effect to the figure, while the fronts are tucked at the shoulders only, providing soft ful ness below, and the trimming is applied over indicated lines. The sleeves are among the favorites of tbe season, witb fi+tor? mifpo nhnvp whirh thpv are moderately full. If tbree-quartei length is desired the cuffs can be omitted and the sleeves finished with bands that fit the arms. The amount of material required for a woman of medium size is three and three-fourth yards twenty-one, three I two yards forty-four inches wide, with j i and one-fourth yards twenty-seven 01! Ribbons, Raffles and Tacks. Skirts are ruffled with bands of nar row ribbon trimming tbe ruffles, they are pleated around the hips and trimmed with tucks around the bot torn; they are gathered upon the band, ami the lower part of the skirt is dee orated with draped flounces, caught Id place here and there with ribbons elioux and with handsome lace medal lions. And this is the way the skirts of summer are to be trimmed. Choker Revivers. The slock of llie hour is very high. Ear-tickling heights have been reached by the up-to-date collar, which, at its best, is shaped at the top to point up nf flin o'lvc nivl nnrvo tn YVUIU til. ujlx^ ^ vv?* ? v, vw suit the cliin. Hracelctf of Mosaic. The better kinds of beads used in I necklaces are also made up with links or small beads of gold a? bracelets. There are mosaic bracelets, too, a tine band of the mosaic work being set in heavy gold. Why should we cloud the sunshine God sends to us to-day "By fearing that to-morrow May have a sky of gray? Whv should we mar the blessingi The present has in store By longing after others Or wishing thene were more? Look on the bright side always. What better plan than this? Since fretting never changes What we trunk's gone amiss. Let's take things as we find them And make the best of life By thinking of its blessings And not its wrong and strife. Enjoy each hour of sunshine; God gives it all in vain If foolishly we waste it, Foreboding future rain. Look on the bright side alwayB. And watch the blessings grow 'As flowers do in the summer? God likes to have it so. Take what a good God sends you With thanks for what istgiv'n, And trust Him for to-morrow Just as you trust for heaven. Aye. make the most, my comrade, Of time that flies so fast. By gathering up its gladness "Before the chance ie past! Look on the bright side always. And sing when skies are gray, And little ills and worries Let's laugh them all away. ?New York Tribune Sunday Magazine, Sentiment. ( (HI Keep thy heart with all diligence, fo* out of it are the issues of life?Pror.*' iv., 23. The soul hungers for companionship and cannot live happily wituout it,' When any one is inclined to withdraw* from the society of his fellow-menf1 when he shuns the family, friends and the world, we feel that he is becoming abnormal. There lurks a feeling in the human breast that attaches us to a pet animal,; a favorite flower or landscape, that ^ makes us prefer one being to another, that fills us with pity tot the suffering and the weak, with admiration for the hero, with love for home, our neigh borhood, our city, our country. Sentt> ment rules the greater part of our ilves, , It conditions our thoughts and action*, makes the difference between one per son and another, creates interest and enthusiasm for one person and one cause in preference to another. What is this mysterious element of the eoull Is it magnetism, personality, eharm? | amiability? It-is perhaps divinity seek" ing expression through man? Sentiment, truly, is everything. II paints the best pictures, writes the best books and plays. It gives that "touchl of human nature tfiat makes all the world kin." The busy throng hurrying on in the mad rush of ambition stops for a moment to comfort a crying babe' that has lost its way or to aid some poor blind man tottering helplessly* Napoleon stopped in his march to battle to turn over a turtle that was strug gling on its back on the roadside. Men touched with the fire of emotion tave wrought wondrous deeds. The master minds of the world have been born of great love or intense hate* Moses, the shepherd, becomes a re deemer of men at sight of the burninfe - bush that was not consumed?at the ^ thought of the great wrong done to Israel by the Pharaohs of Egypt TBe love of liberty, like an irrepressible avalanche, swept tyrannous kings o$ their thrones and gave us the great re publics of the world. We seem, however, to have lost something in the course of our modern progress. We have cultivated the mind at the expense of the heart. Mental culture has repressed the emotions so long that the heart has become atro phied. Business is reduced to a cold science of supply and demand. Poli tics is a scramble for office and spoils. Society is a series of formal entrances j and exits. Groups are formed to be broken up, friendships cemented to be dissolved, marriages contracted to be severed. Fire only can weld steel. So only the fire of lov* can weld hearts. Only the flame of human sentiment can drive out of the various activities of modern life that selfish coldness that chills every endeavor. But sentiment cannot be taught. It " is spread not through precept, buti through the contagion of example. The watersheds of a country are on the' hills or mountain tops. There the "wat ers divide and flow thence down to the valleys below. The homes are the firg{ . sources of right living. Influences that there are generated pervade the va rious members. The great men and women of a country are its moral wat ersheds. If the great leaders of the na* tion will cherish the sentiment that makes for a love of the true, the beanur ful and the good; if tl'e Congress ana State Legislature will listen to the * feeling that prompts men to love their, fellow men. to do justice and walk) humbly before God, then that senti ment will distill through the various layers of society, will transform poli tics and business with the wand of Iova Into rentre of activitv for the common welfare and so regenerate so ciety as to bring nearer the day of uni versal brotherhood.?Joseph Silverman, D. D., Rabbi Temple Emanu-El, NeTO York, in the Sunday Herald. To Eicape Suffering:. The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.?John Wesley. Dl?conrace Beer Drinking. The Bavarian Government does not dare to forbid its railway employes to drink beer; but systematic efforts to^ discourage beer drinking are made by, providing coffee, milk, lemonade, and mineral waters at cost price. Coat of the German Thir?t. The Germans spend on drink in a year about $700,000,000, which is three times the cost of the army and navy combined, or seven times the cost of primary education to the country, a lift almost equals the national debt 1 a iweive iune rente ror ?neep rHmarm F. S. Pearson bus completed the pur chase of 4000 acres of land in the towns of Great Barrington, Alford and Monterey, Mass., and AusterlitzJ N. Y. The property will be enclosed with a wire fence twelve miles long and seven feet high^ closely meshed to keep out docs. Mr. Pearson has bought CKKK) high-grade Shopshire an< Dorset sheep in England aud lias en gaged Scotch shepherds. 1 Opium Kills Chinamen. It is estimated that opium kills about 100,000 annually in Cbinn. . .. .-riisi