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edlfTHE C ANC it* I 11 OR A TEE OF I I fc By JAME M ?? ? cniMaaiaiaomi CHAPTER XIII. 11 After Five Years. A poet, who got a pension for it [(and not undeservedly), once de'srrihur? the chances wrought in human life by ten years. In a lus,trum even?five years?there is often change enough, as may well happen when the events of half an hour may direct the whole current of our being. Within this period, jiow supposed to have passed, the personages of our little drama have partaken of the common lot. The canon, though as bright and hale as ever, is grown gray. Miss Mildred .wears a pince nez on her dear nose, ^Ir. Mavors is very much aged, which > the- canon affects to resent extremely. ttle says it is not fair to him, since those who consult the Cambridge calendar, and find the tutor and he are contemporaries, draw the false deduction tnat ne nimseir must oe getting on in years. He feels, on the contrary, more youthful than ever, since Robert is coming home from India. Upon the whole, the canon had nc reason to regret his ward's alliance Sv, with so able and diligent a man ol of business as Adair had proved himself to be. The young man had always treated him with the same respect and esteem which he had shown as bis assistant and amanuensis, and, indeed, of late, with an effusive demonstration of regard that seemed iomewhat foreign to his character, but which a certain exceptional kindness on the other's part had not unreasonably evoked. In appearance 'Adair had changed but little; he had never looked juvenile, and now seemed no older than in his college days; his thoughtful face wore a still keener and more shrewd expression, and his manner upon occasions was more masterful than it had wont tc ibe, but that was all. Sophy, on the other hand, was much altered. She .was still sweetly pretty?to the eye that looks beyond the merest externals, even prettier than she had ibeen; but the sprightliness which Lad once formed her most striking charm had fled. She had a trouble of which every one knew, sufficient to account for this. The only offspring of her marriage, a little child now four years old, was an invalid and a cripple. It was a girl, but her pet name (the only one she was 'known by) was Willie. She had been named Wilhelmina, the nearest feminine approach to the canon's iWilliam, in spite of his own remonstrance against so outlandish a choic& , Another great change in her was that there was "no murmur at the door so constant on its hinge before." 'All her lively talk had ceased. Even when that said accident took place which crippled her child in all probability for life and at the same time made it too likely that that life would be a brief one, she had said but little and murmured not at all. Perhaps she thought it but a righteous judgment upon her, poor soul! for certain sins of hers. And yet (for so she thought and so Jeannette said) it might have been prevented. Although it has been shown that Mr. John Adair could be liberal enough .upon occasion, the occasions were all In connection with his personal interests; in matters outside them he practised a rigid economy. His domestic expenditure, except when it came immediately under the public eye, was conducted on the most prov ident principles. The wages he considered ample for the nursemaid' of 'his only child were not such as to cause any brisk competition even in that overstocked market, and resulted in the appointment of one who .was almost a child herself. Sophy and Jeannette, it is true, were in constant attendance upon little Willie j(who was to her mother all that now I' could be considered gain on earth and well nigh made up for all her loss); but sometimes it was necessary to intrust the little treasure to this hireling. And the hireling had dropped her. What was worse, she did not think it was worth while to mention the fact, and when it was found out the mischief had gone too far for mending. Jeannette after,ward expressed her opinion that, besides the limb of the poor child, there took place on that occasion another .breakage?its mother's heart. It was a great mitigation to bophy's married life that she saw but little of her husband. To the readers of this history who have been admitted behind the scenes it would be superfluous, indeed, to say that she did not love bim. She had never loved him even at the best?that is to say, when she had seen but little of him; and it was not likely that love had grown from knowledge. Now that Sophy was gone, the canon spent less of his time in his college poms and more of it at home than bad been his wont, out of consideration for his sister. Aunt Maria felt the absence of her young companion very much, notwithstanding that she had been so long accustomed to It. On a certain winter evening the canon was sitting with her as usual ?but not, as usual, at his books. The day's newspaper, too, lay rejected upon his knee; he was reading for tne inira or iourin lime a ieuer inai bad come that afternoon from his darling boy. He was coming home, though not immediately; and strange to say, the delay lay at the canon's door. Robert did not wish to leave India till he had got a reply to this very letter, which, among other matters. put a question of great import ance. "It is now 'five years ago, my dear father, as you will perhaps recollect, since I mentioned to you the name of Alma Treherne. From a boy, as I then was with my foot on the firai rung of the ladder of promotion, such a communication must have seemed . wild and premature indeed; but you iii v..... stnumcMimiMiait totiagninn IN'S WARD jiB2 MOHEY MADHESS. ' l?H S PAYN. r^Z^r iWK??>WJi ? | replied to it, like yourself, with patience and kindness. You did not laugh at me nor even discourage me, ' but left matters to time. I have written to you upon the same sub1 ject so often that in the case of any | one else I should have felt that I ' must be growing tedious; but after five years I find myself loving Alma more than ever. During that space of time she has declined many much [ better offers for my sake, and doubt[ less many better men; but none who ' loved her as I do, for that (as it ' seems to me) Is impossible. My poj sition as regards finances is much improved by my having obtained the adjutancy, but not sufficiently so to obtain the general's consent to our | marriage. Neither of us blames him; | life in India is different from life at j home. The notion of living comfort\ ably upon a moderate income is en[ tertained by very few people, and by no one in the brigadier's position. He asks me bluntly enough, though not with personal disfavor, what are my expectations, and especially what sort of allowance my father can make me. To this, of course, I can give I no answer, and must await your reply. I cannot say how it distresses me to make sueh an application to you. I am aware that you have many i expenses, and little to spare, but a little, with what I have of my own, ? J11 ? ca TP T T Will LIU W 2>UlUi;e. 1L L lUUUgat X ^ should be in any way crippling you or depriving you of a single comfort, or ' even the means of gratifying your own generous and benevolent dispo, sition, I should feel I was procuring | my own happiness at too great a , price. It will be only waiting a little , longer till my prospects have im| proved, as they must needs do; for I am sure of Alma, and Alma is sure ! of me. You will not, I am sure, im| agine, when I say that my return to England will depend on your reply, i that I am suggesting that as a reason for your acceding to my request. I know how much you wish to see me, by my own vehement desire to see you, but I am not base enough, I hope, to make use of your affection for me as a lever to gain my own ends. I am quite certain you will help me if you can, but if you cannot (which is quite possible), I shall be content to shake the pagoda tree till I have got rupees enough to satisfy the general, when I shall bring Alma home, to find another father in your dear self." There was much more to the same effect; the whole letter was full of love and confidence and filial consideration. It would have gladdened any father's heart, but that of the canon fairly leapt for joy, not only from the consciousness of his Robert's worth, but of his own ability to insure the young felloe's happiness. Without going into details with, respect to his own finances, he 'was quite confident that he should' be able to allow his son an annual income which would considerably exceed the young man's modest expectations, and also to satisfy the general as regarded his future son-inlaw's prospects. Presently the evening post came in with a circular about somebody's goods which had to be disposed of? so it was stated, and fn print, too? of on qlafmin or eanrIflpo No -no rused it with a pretense of attention, and th^p, thrusting it into his pocket besides Robert's precious missive, exclaimed, "Well, that is a nuisance. I am afraid I shall have to run up to town to-morrow to see Adair." "Dear me! and such very bad weather for traveling, my dear brother. Why shouldn't Mr. Adair come here; I suppose it's his business." "Oh, yes, it's his business," returned the canon, nursing this spark of truth; "it isn't my business; but still I am comparatively an idle man" (he'always used that word "comparatively" in connection with his freedom from toil. He had a notion that he worked rather hard), "and Adair is a very busy one. I am afraid I must go. If I go by the express I can get back by dinner time." 'Upon my word, William, I hope Mr. Adair is conscious of the trouble he gives you with his affairs, and is grateful for all your kind assistance to him." "Well, I suppose he knows it's for Sophy's sake, my dear," returned the canon, grimly. ''Then I hope he pays his debt of gratitude to Sophy. I am sometimes rather inclined to doubt it." Adair was not a favorite with Aunt Maria, as her brother knew; nevertheless, her tone, when taken in connection with that private matter he had ir. his mind, made the canon uneasy. "I hope, my dear, that you do not mean 10 .suggest," he said, "that Adair and his wife do not get on happily together?" "I don'' so so far as to say that; she has ne. ar uttered a word of complaint to me. but I don't think he treats her with confidence. His mind seems to be always occupied, so that there is no room in it for his wife and child." j "I suppose he has a great deal to i think about." "Very likely; but he should think ! about his affairs at his office, not bring them home with him. It would be excusable, perhaps, in the case of i a person immersed in speculation, but with a steady business, such as he is concerned with, it is monstrous ; that he should come back silent and sullen, as if he had the cares of the ; world on his shoulders." "Well, how do you know that, if , t-ophy has not told you?" j "Well, she has never dropped one single word to suggest the contrary ?never spoken, that is, as a young wife who shares her husband's confidence always does speak to her own belongings. You and I, of course, never see the seamy side of Mr. Adair; he takes care when we are with him to he upon his best be havior; but there are others who have better opportunities of judging, who give anything but a good report of him. I think it is positively monstrous, William," concluded Aunt Maria, energetically, "that a man in your position, and at your time of life, should be summoned up to town in such weather as this, with snow on the ground, to dance attendance upon Mr. John Adair." The long cheerless journey in the train (except when he took out Robert's letter and read it again, which always acted as a cordial) was a very miserable business. . On arrival he drove to Albany street, a very unexpected visitor. CHAPTER XTV. An Unexpected Visitor. As places of business are closed to clients after office hours, so in private houses, unless they belong to persons who can afford t? keep many servants, there are no arrangements for the reception of visitors until the usual time for callers. Thus it happened that the canon, issuing, bag in hand, from his damp cab, was admitted by the amazed Jeannette. "Lor, sir!" she said, with a warm?h of welcome to her old master that thawed all the proprieties, and briskly wiping her right hand with her apron, for she knew that he would shake it, "who would have thought that it was you?" "Well, I suppose no one; it's out of canonical hours, I know. Still, I suppose I shall be admitted." "Dear heart, how glad my poor mistress will be to see you," was Jeannette's reply. A drawing-room well furnished but without a fire in it in winter time is like a dandy without brains; two minutes of it is more than enough; if one's mission is melancholy, its effect is particularly depressing. There was warmth enough, however, in Sophy's reception for him, for she came flying into the room with her arms extended. "My dear, dear guardian!" she exclaimed, "you are more welcome than words can say," and she remained locked tin his embrace for more than the usual time allowed for such transports. The canon did not dare release himself, for he felt that she was weeping passionately on his breast, and the sight of a woman's tears, as we kjiow, was terrible to him. He patted her little head encouragingly, but that seemed only to make her<?worse; the very floodgates of her heart seemed to have been set wide. , "It is so foolish of me," she presently sobbed, "and so wicked of me;, but I cannot, cannot help .it. It seems so long since I have seen you, guardian; and you were always so good to me." "Pooh, pooh! Good to you, little woman? Why, of course I was good to you, as you call it. And I hope everybody else is good to you." She answered nothing, but her sobbing ceased at once; her thoughts seemed to have been turned into another channel. "I have come up all of a sudden upon a little business matter to see your husband," he continued; "perhaps you will give me a bit of dinner and a bed." The canon and Sophy sat talking over old times so late, expecting every moment Adair's arrival, that when he did come, his visitor had perforce retired to his own roop to prepare for dinner. It was the nabit of the master of the house to come in at the last moment, though the circumstance did not mitigate his indignation in case the meat wa$ overdone. Adair looked worn and irritated, which, however, was by no means unusual with him. "What is it now!" he exclaimed fretfully, when Sophy came into his room. It was plain, by the surprise in his tone, that she did not often intrude upon his privacy.* "The canon' arrived this morning," she answered, sententioysly. "He dines, and is going tc sleep here tonight." "Confound the luck," was the hospital rejoinder. "What on earth brings him up to town?" "I don't know. Some little matter of business, he said." "Tut! What does he know ot business? Ke had much better stop in collegc, with his musty old Milton." "What do you mean, John? Surely you would not let him see, of all men, that he was not welcome." To be Continued. The Curse of Pockets. A tailor who had received an order for a suit of clothes was asked by the customer's wife for an interview. "I want to ask you as a special favor," she said, "not to put any pockets in my husband's clothes." "Why not?" asked the astonished tailor. "Because they are responsible for his looking so shabby so much of the time," she explained. "He wears his clothes for weeks without pressing because he says it is too much trouble to change the things in his pockets to another suit. He says that half the men who go round in seedy clothes do so for the same reason. If that is so, just leave out the pockets and they will have no excuse for shabbiness." "That is a new point of view," said the tailor. "I will see about it." But '/hen the suit came home it had the usual number of pockets.? New'York Suu. Only Too Well Satisfied. The husband who is always growling over everything from his meals to his laundry looked up from his paper and remarked sulkily: "Madam, I see where a Chicago man went from home, remained thirty years and then returned and gave his wife $0000. If you don't do better you may find me doing the same trick some day." The patient little wife looked up from her sewing and replied sweet- I I jy: "All right, James, but if you will only remain away thirty years you needn't trouble yourself about the $5000." And after that he stopped growling.?Chicago Daily News. Two sorrel horses, weighing 1000 pounds each, have been purchased for President Roosevelt's carriage. >. * \r - v . WHITES MID BUCKS III DEADLY COM Five Killed at Reidsville, Ga., in Fierce Encounter. BRUTAL ATTACK ON A WIDOW Tragedy Occurred at Home of John Pagett, AVhere a Crowd of "Whites Went to Seek Flem Pagett, Colored. Claxton, Ga. ? In an attempt to avenge an assault on Mrs. Laura Moore, a white widow, a mob at Tatttialls killed the father, mother, two brothers and a sister of the suspect, Flem Pagett a negro. The lynchers did not escape injury, one white man being killed and several wounded. About fifteen citizens surrounded the house of Sim Pagett, father of the suspect, who they thought was harboring him. They demanded of Pagett's wife to be allowed to search the house. Permission was given, but when the posse advanced to within thirty feet of the house Pagett and the other negro men on the inside of the building opened fire on the posse, instantly killing John Hare and seriously wounding Bartow Preston. They shot out James Daniels' eye and wounded him in the shoulder and arm. The fire was returned by the members of the posse, killing Sim Pagett, one of his girls about ten years old. and a son twenty years old, and wounding two other girls about sii and thirteen years old; also shooting one of Pagett's boys, aged twentytwo, through the hip. When all the Ammunition of the josse had been exhausted they reared, leaving one of their number lead and carrying off three wounded. The negroes were still shooting. The news spread like wildfire, and soon mere were ouu men on me icene, with rifles, shotguns and pisols. A searching party started in pursuit of the two negroes, one of :hem wounded, who escaped from the iouse after the shooting. One of :hem was captured and taken before VIrs. Moore, but she failed to identify aim as her assailant. Later Dr. J. L. Kennedy identified him as the ne?ro whom he saw shoot Mr. Hare, md lynching looked inevitable. The :rowd finally decided to let the law take its course, and Deputy Sheriff E. 2. Elmer left with all the negroes for the Reidsville jail. ? On the way the officer was overtaken by about seventy-five men and the prisoners were demanded. There was no other alternative, and the prisoners were taken by the mob. One woman was told to run, and as jhe did so she was riddled with bullets. Her son was wounded so that he could not run and was shot to pieces in the public road. CALDRON EXPLODES, 5 DEAD. Third Fatal Accident at Steel Company's Furnaces Within Six Months. Pittsburg, Pa.?The ill-fated Eliza group of furnaces of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company was the scene of another disaster, the third in six months, shortly before 6 o'clock p. m., when a "slip" caused furnace No. 1 to explode. *rr'1 ?V.? VnirnoH to ft rive uuai 1 cu uumw vu<uv?* crisp are at the county morgue, two of whom were assistant, superintendents. Another, an assistant superintendent, is badly injured, and four other workmen are at the Mercy Hospital, all of whom will likely die. Of the five charred and blackened bodies at the morgue it is possible to identify only the two assistant superintendents from papers and letters found in their clothing, some of which, in an unaccountable manner, were not destroyed, although the bodies are so horribly burned as to be past recognition. The dead are: E. B. Willard, chief mechanic, with title of assistant su-/ perintendent; John West, head blower, with title of assistant superintendent, and three unknown men. TWO ItlLLED IN FEUD BATTLE. Flemings, of Kentucky, in a Desperate Fight With a Posse. Whitesburg, Ky.?News of a desperate encounter between the Flemings and a posse of officers from Pike County, in which Bob Rivers, a member of the Sheriff's posse, and Dave Moore, one of the Flemings' gang, were killed, and Abe Hall, of the posse, wounded. The Flemings, who killed Bony Hall, the Deputy Sheriff, a few days ago, after he had led the Halls in an attempt,to arrest them, have been resting on their arms in their rendezvous on Long Fork, and the neighbors have feared to carry news to the officers. The relatives of Hall, who have long been engaged in a feud with the piomincs tmt nn ft nosse and went in search of the outlaws. The Halls were routed and the Flemings, after taking their dead on horses, galloped away togard the Virginia line. No Home Rule at Present. The Nationalist Convention in Dublin unanimously adopted John Redmond's resolution rejecting Chief Secretary Birrell's Irish bill, and in consequence nothing further will be done in the direction of home rule for Ireland at this session of Parliament. FATAL CRASH ON THE CENTRAL. One Dead, Several Hurt, on Passenger | Train at Little hails.. Little Falls, N. Y.?In the wreck of the Buffalo and Cleveland special, west-bound from New York City, 011 the New York Central Railroad, just outside the eastern limits of this city, one man was killed and' two were critically injured. The dead man is Baggagemaster Isaac Finley, of New York or Rochester. Disastrous Fire at Newberry, Fla. Two-thirds of the business district of Newberry,Fla., the most important town in the phosphate belt, has been burned, with a loss of $100,000, about one-third being covered by insurance. Governor Gooding Criticised. Counsel for Haywood accused Ge.Ternor Gooding, of Idaho, of arranging the Orchard interview for the purpose of inlluencing me talesmen, and Judge Wood ordered a rigid investigation. ' & . . ,V . r- - \ ' * ' TH? GREAT DniSTKOYER " SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Poem: "The Cost of It"?Case of the State vs. the Liquor Traftio? Whole World Should Move For a Verdict of Guilty. "Ten dollars and costs," go the wise judga said, As out from his presence the man was led. Just a common drunk?an everyday thing? Still, there's room for a little pondering. Ten dollars and costs! Is this all, wise man? There is something amisc with your legal plan. My reckoning, sir, is fnr from this? There is something, I fear, which has gone amiss. Did you count the cost of the man's disgrace, His bloodshot eyes and his sodden face? His trembling hands and shame-bowed head, His step from which all blitheness had fled? The remorse that came with his sober thought, Did you reckon the price with which it was bought? Did you count in your judgment the precious price Of a soul enslaved in the bonds of vice? Of a life that was wrecked?a birthright , sold, Priceless, beyond all price of gold? Did you count in your judgment, 0 man bo wise, The mother's tears in her brimming eyes? Did you note the grief ia her careworn face, And the furrows made by a child's disgrace? Did you count the prayers she has faltering said That her child from sinful ways be led? 0 judge, did you count all these, I say, When you balanced accounts on that judgment day? And the stricken wife with her broken heartDid you count that in with your cost as part ? Did you think of the shame of a drunkard's wife? Her blasted hopes and her ruined iife? The nights of sorrow and days of woe Laden with shame, as they ever go; Did you count the prayers that her lips had said And the tears that flowed as her sad heart bled At the thought of her children's cruel shame? A drunkard father?a dishonored name! Better by far had they never been born Than to face the world with its pitiless scorn. ' Tid you count what jt means?a strong man lost? Or had this no part in your summed up cost? A curaberer now where he might have been A host for good 'mong his fellowmen? A leader of strength?a herft to fight? In the raging battle for good and right; Might have Ted and paved the way To some fair-famed goal and a better day; Might have broken the chains of drink and vice And lived in the glory of sacrifice! Just a common drunk?no more?no less? A spicy joke for the daily press. Just a common drunk?an everyday thing. lTet there's room for a little pondering. ?Home Herald. ' I The State vs. the Liquor Traffic. The Indietment. 1. The liquor traffic has ever been.a blighting curse upon everything pure, good and holy; always in direct opposition to all the best interests of mankind. 2. It is the cause, direct or indirect, of six-sevenths of the pauperism and four-fifths cf all the crime in the nation. 3. The saloon is the natural rendezvous of anarchists and outlaws; in fact, the incubator where such crime-producers are Galvanized into life, and reinforced with the incentive and courage to go forth and perform their deeds of darkness. 4. Liquor drinking is the prime cause of the horrible condition of the slums In the great cities, thus adding greatly to the miseries of mankind, and to the burdens of the non-drinking and producing class. The temperance advocates present these indictments, and in the open court of the people say to the liquor dealers: "Stand forth, and plead. Are these gravecharges true or false? Are you guilty or not guilty?" It will not answer the purpose to waive the main question, and say, as of old : "You temperance people are cranks and fanatics; if we do not sell, someone else will. The people are not educated up to prohibition yet. Anyway, what are you going to do about it? We have the money to put in any "campaign?and'we will fight you to the bitter end." No court will listen to such pleading as that. Guilty or not guilty to the charges in the indictment. If the charges are false, refute them and the temperance advocates of the country are falsifiers and maligners; and you should prove them thus to be, and insist upon a proper punishItAfvtar TviAt/*/? rmt tn thorn I iliCUt UUUg UiCVbu wa v vv Upon the other hand, If these as yet unrefuted charges are true, how is it possible for honest, fair-minded men to uphold or justify the licensing of the traffic? The case is submitted, without argument, until the defendant sees fit to come into court and plead. When this is done, the "party of the first part" will be ready with argument and testimony sufficient to convince any court or Jury of the truth and righteousness of the plaintiff's cause; and the temperance hosts will move for a verdict of guilty and demand that sentence be passed upon this hardened and ancient criminal, who has wrought no good, but only evil all the days of his life. Then will the world take on a new lease of life, and, as one has said: "When the people have settled this question and settled it right we can say in reality, as ive now say in theory, 'Vox populi, vox Dai.' "?California Issue. Novel Temperance Society. A novel temperance society has been formed in the city of Berlin for the purpose of rendering timely assistance to drunken persons. On meeting a drunk in the street it will be the duty of a member of the association to preven-. him fnm imbibing any more liquor, to protect him from the dangers of the street, and to escort him, if possible, to his home. If a conveyance has to be secured for this purpose, it will be doue at the expense of the society. Judge Liiri-.iy's Indictmcnt. As a judge I have faced the woes, the trials, the miseries, and broken homes of society caused only by the want of a* proper solution of this problem of problems. Thousands and thousands of homes have been broken up, caused by the traffic in intoxicants. T ' JJ n/l i nave uivurucu iuui luuuouuu i'wpie. I have tried no less than C000 children in the past six years. This lamentable social condition is traceable in a large degree to the legalized saloon.?Judgt Ben. B. , Lindsay. Denver, Col. THE SUWDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JUNE 23, BY THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. \ Review Lesson?Golden Text: Is. 43: 3?Read Ps. 106:1-12. Chief points of the lesson for April 7 as set forth in our study in these columns. 1. Isaac's trust in God's willingness to continue to Jacob the proimses that He had made to Isaac. 2. Jacob's consciousness of the divine reality. 3. Jacob's consciousness of the divine contiguity. 4. Jacob's consciousness of the divine providence. April 14. 1. Jacob in distress. 2. Jacob prostrate before God. 3. Jacob's terror. 4. God's answer to Jacob's prayer. 5. The awfulness of the recollection of sin. April 21. 1. The fascinating character of Joseph. 2. Joseph gotten rid of by his brethren. 3. The consequences of family favoritism. 4. The progress and culmination of fraternal hate. 5. How God uses the plans of bad men to further His divine purposes. April 28. 1. Joseph sold into slavery. 2. The greatness of God's providence. 3.- The greatness of Joseph's character. 4. Joseph faithful to God. 5. Faithfulness to Christ a necessity to the enjoyment of the joys of the Christian life. May 5. 1. Joseph In prison. 2. Joseph as a diviner. 3. Joseph's substantial evidence of his nearness to God. 4. Joseph faithful to Potiphar. 5. Joseph humble in his vice regal splendor. . May 12. 1. The magnanimity of Joseph. 2. The abiding love of Joseph for his unworthy brethren. 3.Joseph's forgiveness. May 19. 1. The trials and the tribulations of Israel in Egypt. -2. The book of the Exodus a record .of the industrial as well as of the spiritual hardships to which the people of Israel had to submit. 3. God with Israel in her adversity. 4. The lesson of Israel in bondage apropos today. May 26. 1. The humble birth of Moses. 2. The loyalty of Moses' mother. 3. Moses in the palace. 4. Moses indignant at the cruelty of th^ Egyptians in dealing with his brethren. 5. Moses' advice to the fighting toilers. 6. The unkindness of the world's toilers to each other. 7. Advice refused. June 2. 1. Duties that come to ns. 2. The holiness of God's house. 3. The value of humility and dependence on God. 4." Moses asks for aid to accomplish his work. 5. The power of God in this world. June 9. 1. God's covenant with Israel. 2. Egypt reaps the consequences of her own misdoings. 3. Israel helps herself out of trouble. 4. Israel obedient. June 16. 1. Israel delivered. * 2. Pharaoh behind. 3. The inspiration of God to Israel. 4. God insists that Israel shall help herself. 5. The tenacity and steadfastness of Jehovah. More Blessed. "I have showed you all things, how that so laboring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said, it is more blessed to give than to receive." (Acts 20:35). The world's principle is that it is the most blessed thing in the world to receive, and to keep that which we have. The principles of heaven works on exactly the opposite principle from that of the ruler of tnis world. It is a wonderful thing that this saying, though not recorded in the gospels by any of the eyangelists, was thought worthy of record by Luke, who received it from the apostle Paul. This was the controlling principle of the life of Jesus, also of the life of the apostle Paul, who followed Jesus. It will be the controlling principle of every one who is a Christian. We receive but to give, and the greatest joy in this world is to give. The greatest blessing comes in giving. My dear, brother, do you know that one reason why your spiritual experience is not clear and bright may be that you do not give as is your privilege? What a blessing.would come to many who read this article if they were to give until it became a real sacrifice! During the week of prayer just past you may' have had your heart drawn out in longing for the blessing of God, and yet it may be that you are closing the channel to God's blessing by not giving what God has given you. TV? o ra' monv no lie . A VllOQClfn P* XUC1C at V/ iiiuu; vuiiw> A wavww.hq Js in every one for those who give, and not only give^bfit sacrifice to give. Some one who reads this article could easily give $1000 and more to the various funds appealing for aid, and it would' be a great blessing and joy to him. Others could give, by a little effort, one-half that amount, and there are many who read this article who can give $100. My brother, my sister, you know whether you can do this. He who gives will in return receive a greater blessing than he would were some one to make him a present of that same amount.?Review and Hera4tf. The Good Endares. "No good deed, no genuine sacrifice, is ever wasted. If there be good in it, God will use it for His own holy purposes; and whatever of ignorance, or weakness, or mistake, was mingled with it, will drop away as the withered petals drop away when the full flower has blown." Taking the Life Out. By the time you have boiled your faith down to a form you have taken the life out of it. Italy Buys a Masterpiece. Minister of Education Rava announced in the Chamber of Deputies at Rome that the Government had purchased for $90,000 a magnificent masterpiece of ancient sculpture, which was brought to light by a storm in 1S78. In this tempest the waves washed away part of the shore at Porto d'Anzio, where a famous villa of Nero was situated, and unearthed a statue representing a priestess. By some persons this statue is attributed to the school of Praxiteles. It is considered to be as | perfect as the "Victory" of Samo- i thrace or the Venus of Milo j Affectionate Father Kills Children. Wiiliam Simpson, a prosperous young farmer of St. Charles, Canada, shot and killed his two infant daughters and then tried to kill himself Inputting two revolver bullets into his own body. Physicians say excessive affection for his children caused insaniry. Japan's Bank Clearings. Tokio's bank clearings last year were $1,730,000,000, an increase of $500,000,000 over 1905. mQJbitfb?t 1ptfckJMk ' THE MASTER CAI+LETH. Hark the voice of Jesus crying, "Who will go and work to-day?; Fields are white, and harvests waiting^' Who will bear the sheaves away?" Loud and long tbe Master calletb, Rich rewaro He offers thee; .Who will answer, gladly sayinft. . "Here am I, send me, send me?" Let none hear you idly saying, "There is nothing 1 can do," .While the souls of men are dying, And the Master calls for vou.- J Take the task He gives you'cifidlr, Let His work your pleasure De;' Answer quickly when He calleth? v "Here am I, send me, send me." <! ? _ -D. March.Sympathy. > Rejoice with them tfhat do rejoice? weep with them that weeD.?:Ro* mans, xll., 15. * To Interpret fully the command "Love ope another''is Impossible' on-* less we know the meaning of the? word sympathy. The expression of our love for the children of men in deeds is comparatively easy; but tobe able to enter into their feeling to understand and appreciate the powers and influences that are moulding the lives of those around us? that is the gift most to be coveted if we are to fulfil the divine command ,and it is to be found only where sympathy dwells. Humanity is made up of hearts*, and hearts need sympathy more thai* goid. As long as men feel and thin^ and desire, so long will this raleStand. There are those who need both in equal measure. The hung^C the naked, the outcast, the oppressfejr must be. met with the outstretched hand in which there is the visible; token of the sympathy that prompt^ the greeting. But there are times when the empty hand alone is sufficient; times when the need of thebody has been cared for, and it is? only the Tieart that is crying out fori, food and shelter ;^and metblnks werdf we to search carefully we would find in this world of ours more hungry hearts than hungry stomachs. A soul possessed of a passionate love for its fellow creatures, refua* ing to see only the weakness and. foluP of human nature, ever striving' ?* break the bonds of the captives aftij to bring them, to a consciousness of their place and standing as children in the great family of mankind, such, a soul knows the full measure of word sympathy, that word which! stands for a joy beyond expresstofli and a pain beyond definition. The area of contact with the life of tlie world depends upon the soulys^H power of sympathy. For the soulH| that has not developed this divine tribute the world is a very small, uar?^| row place. Only amon# a number does it find a common groupd^^ and mutual interests. It is shut off? from the rest of life as truly as surrounded by walls' of brick aud!H| mortar. Strive as It may it canncrt^B touch the life all around, nor recelvcfl| from th^t life for the satisfying of? its need. The secr^ of the power ofS| some souls on the life of the worl,d^H lies in the fact that in these souls^^ there is found sympathy in overflowr^H ing measure. It is not genius norjj intellect nor power, nor even beauty^H of form or speech, that draws man-^| kind to the feet of these great soul8.fl| The world admires genius; It respects^H intellect; it obeys power; It findsHa joy in beauty; but it loves only )?v?rH[ and only the love that is expressed in a tender, strong, passionate, allHj embracing sympathy. |H If we look for the centre of attrafMH tion in the matchfess life of Jest Christ I think we will find it to 't^H His boundless sympathy. It was nc chiefly the wisdom of His teachin nor the glory of His character ths^H mnrto tho pnmmnn npnnln flocfe His side; it was that infinite compas-^M sion, that yearning love, that d!vtooH| sympathy which drew them, and^f which ever since has been drawing^B the tired, sinslck world close to the^H heart of Jesus Christ. Of the blesa-BB lngs which the Gospel of Christ haaH given to the world sympa'thy stanasH among the chief and foremost. Be-H| fore the advent of Christ men. hadHj not learned how to put together tho^H letters that spell the word. It Was^H Christ who taught "to rejoice T7itiij^| them that rejoice and to weep wlth^H them that weep." He smiled, at thp^[ wedding feast at Cana of Galilee, and^H He wept at the grave of Lazarasjj He lived and loved and suffered be~B| cause the world needed Him, and Hc^H asks that those who call Him Mastet^H shall do likewise, for sympathy is theHj^ only interpreter of the Gospel.^? Percy Trafford Olton, Rector of Zioo^H Church, Greene, N. Y., in the Sunday^M Consciousness of God's Presence. HE Be regular in your seasons of pray-^| er. Make use even of those times in^H the day when you are only partlally^H ocouDied with external things, to oc-^H cupy yourself inwardly with God; foi^H instance, while doing needlework^M maintain a close sense of the presenc^H of God. The thought of His presenc^B is less easily preserved in conversa-^H tion, but even then you can frequent^H ly recall a general consciousness o^H it, overruling your every word, ant^H repressing all that is over-eager, al^H sallies of pride or contempt, all tho^H sensitiveness of self-love. Bear with yourself, but do not flat^H ter yourself. Work effectually anc^H steadily, yet calmly and without th^H impatience ol self-love, at the correc^H tiUiX Ui ?UU1 iauiio. A- wuw*VM* God's School. There is nothing like life's drudg^H ery to make men and women of usHfl You chafe under it. You sigh fo^H leisure, to be free from bondage t(^H hours, to duties, to tasks, to appoint^H ments, to rules, to the treadmil^H round. Yet this is God's school fo^H you. It may be a cross. We do no^H grow most in the easiest life. Ac^H cept your treadmill round, your plod^f ding, your dull task-work, and do al^H well?do always your best?and <yoi^H wui crnw infn sh-onz. noble characHB tsr.?T;F?<3viuer. fifl| Italy Buys a Masterpiece. SH Minister of Education Rava an-^H nounced in the Chamber of Deputies^? at Rome that the Government had^M purchased for $90,000 a magniflcent^O masterpiece of ancient sculpture,^? which was brought to light by storm in 1S7S. In this tempest the^H waves washed away part of the shore^H at Porto d'Anzio, where a famou^^B villa of Nero was situated, and un-^H iot?+ViA/-1 o etotna ronrocnn H n or ;ai iu^u a oiaiuv i vj/tvuvunu^ priestess. By some persons thif^H statue is attributed to the school o^Hj Praxiteles. It is considered to be as^H perfect as the "Victory" of Samog^H ihrace or tiie Venus of Milo. .