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ra&ESHSH=HEH5H5H5H5^EH51 hCOOf nJ I m i s ^wy |f^_ By MKS. A1 . ^H5ZSHSHSE5Z5EHHSBSH5ES5 CHAPTER II. 2 c Playing With Fire. } When Glynn woke next, morning * to broad day, the noise of the busy , street, and the consciousness o* an j early business appointment, last night, with its music and moonlight, seemed to him dream-lilte ana un- e real. It was all very pleasant while f it lasted, but in a few days he would t quit Paris, and probably never see j Lambert or that wonderfully charming daughter of his again. What t would be the destiny of such a worn- t an so placed? Not happiness, he j. feared, if she were all she seemed. g Yet how devoted that queer fish Lam- ^ bert was to her. So far as he could t take care of her he would; but what j perceptions could he have of what was right and suitable for a delicate, sensitive girl. With a vague curiosity, arising r from very mixed motives, he directed his steps to the hotel where Mr. and Lady Frances Deering lodged, and 0 found that lady at tea with her son? 0 a pale, delicate, deformed boy?and a a gentleman of middle height, with t a frank, sun-burnt face, and a cer- t tain easy looseness about his well- .. made clother. _ "You are just in time for tea. Mr. Q Glynn," said Lady Frances, in a soft, g but monotonous voice. "Do you 0 know my cousin, Captain Verner?" j Yes, the gentlemen had met before, E and they exchanged a few civil words. h "Is this your first visit to Paris?" t asked Glynn, kindly, as he drew his chair beside the sofa on which the d uoy was iyiug. ^ "Yes, the very first." g "And how do you like it?" 0 "Oh, so much! It is so beautiful and bright. I should like to stay v here always." "Bertie is so much better and jj stronger since we came here, which t partly accounts for his wish to stay," y said his mother, with a slight sigh. "Why are you hurrying away to n London?" asked Verner. "There is 0 Homing 10 can ueenug uctun., oo no has lost his seat." o; "He is not happy out of club-land, 0 I suppose," said Lady Frances, sit- ^ ting down beside her son. "I. must a say I am very sorry he lost the elec- ^ tion. He deserved better at the hands of the Denham men, but it was j the radical mining people that turned d mm out." u j "Do you leave soon?" asked Glynn, i "On Thursday; I suppose you will v not come back quite so soon? You it are fond of Paris, I think?" c< "My movements are rather uncer- lc tain; I may go on to Berlin." si The entrance of Deering interrupt- ai ed him. fc "How do, Glynn? You still here, cl .Verner?" He took no notice of Lady te Frances or his son. et "Yes, I want to see the review to- e< morrow, and will start by the Lyons a< train at night," said Verner, on an g] apologetic tone. w Travers Deering was tall, but not fc so tall as Glynn, more conventionally distinguished looking, with regular, st aristocratic features, steel-gray eyes, tl and nut-brown hair and mustaches, hi He was, on the whole, a popular man, cl and bestowed a great deal of care- V fully veiled cultivation on his popu- di larity. He was considered rather the type of a proud, manly English coun- no try gentleman of a fairly clean life, bi though no saint, and a little martyrized by being tied to so cold and im- ir penetrable a wife. Servants and in- tl significant people of that description m ;whispered that the steel-gray eyes tl could flash with baleful fire, and that Lady Frances had grown colder and oi etiller since the deformity aud delicacy of her only child had become g: .percepuoie ana nopeiess; wane Mr. n Deering never ^tayed at Denham ti alone with her. Glynn was conscious of an unac: ft countable sense of relief when Deering expressed a desire to quit Paris o evtn sooner than he had at first in- L tended. g 1 It was absurd to imagine that any d evil could arise out of a mere passing admiration; it could be nothing more, fi for a handsome stranger. Yet the fj expression of Deering's eyes, the un- h easiness, wonder, fire, all com- r< mingled, which had so impressed ii him, flashed back vividly across his a memory with undiminished disturb* si ing forcc. But Deering was talking. " 'I have been round Count de Le- b tour's stables this morning. Have you seen them, Glynn? They are e worth a visit. His studgroom and v head men are all English. I am very n much inclined to back his chestnut, 8?'.' Bar-Ie-Duc* for the Derby. He's a u J splendid horse, only, of course, it t J isn't always blood or breeding that h i wins. There were a couple of Amer- a icans looking through the stables at a the same time, who seemed deucedly a .wide awake, and inclined to back o .both Bar-le-Duc and a filly, Etoile v "d'Auvergne, about which 1 atn not so fl sure. I have met one of them, Van- h dervoort, in London. Do you know Ij him?" 11 Glynn said he thought lie did. The 3 talk became, for a few minutes, of tl the turf, turfy. And while it went on r the boy rose. and. followed by his h mother, who covered his retreat, a noiselessly left the room. Glynn, v looking at Deeriiig at this moment, t. caught an expression of malignant t dislike in his eyes toward his de- i formed son. or his wife, or both, c .wfcich surprised and revolted him. A It was instantaneous, and he contin- a ued to talk lightly and pleasantly, c till Glynn rose to bid Lady Frances %>od-morning. c Verner left the room at the samo a time, and the two men walked toward + 1.^. ,1.1 li C'niiMiiili. Inuntl.or I lUt' ? iftUV Vi; IU V.VIU V? ?V whVUKi . | "Pity that poor bov is a cripple." I: ?aid Glynn, speaking; out of his t thoughts. "F fancy Peering is a good li ideal cut up about it." "I don't lcuow about Deering, nor c I |; t, z, - . - -y:J.. - / (f: ; i E2SHSS?JHSH5SEZ5H5HSHSaS^ ' 3???ao??oooo? Ln arnfoerS: ! iystery. S LEXANDER. 5E5SSZHESEHZSESZS2SE52? So I cars much," returned Captain ferner, bluntly; "but it has been a iesperate grief to his mother. Why, vhen we were children together? lv. and after?Lafdy Frances was the ife of us all. I never saw a girl vith so much go in her; and now!" ?he broke off expressively. "Howiver, no one can help her," he added, ifter a moment; and then quickly urning the subject, began to talk of 'rench politics, till they reached the o&ner of the Champs Elysecs, where hey paused to see the Empress drive >y. There Verner turned back to :eep an engagement, and Glynn trolled on slowly to his hotel, resoutely resisting a strong temptation o call and inquire for Miss Lambert, ndeed, with the help of a good deal if letter writing and interviews with undry personages of financial imtortance. Glynn contrived to keep bis aind free from imaginative pictures .nd irresistible suggestions. He was iot going to make a fool of himself, >r of any one else, either; he was too Id and experienced to be carried .way by a romantic encounter, or he liquid loveliness of a pair of lusrous, dreamy, dark-blue eyes. What eyes they are!" he thought, ,s he sat at his second dejeune, on lunday morning, three whole days ince he had enjoyed the hospitality f his quondam comrade of the Caliornian episode. "Mere civility denands that I should call. I think I iave been under fire often enough 0 stand this last fusillade without inching; besides, the whole thing is eucedly curious." So, after looking n at Gaglinane's, and reading the Jnglish papers, Glynn found himself n his way to the Rue de L'Eveqtie. The perfume of orange blossoms rhich came forth from the opening oor greeted him like a prelude of deight, so vividly did it remind him of tie pleasant hours to which his first' isit was an introduction. "Yes, monsieur was at home, and lademoiselle, also," and the servant, pening a different door from that brough which she had ushered him a the former occasion, spoke to some ne within, and immediately Lambert imself, in a gorgeous dressing gown, fez on his head, and a cigarette in is mouth, came forth to greet him. "Glynn, come along into my den. thought you had left for some other iggings. I was going to look you p to-day. I've not had a moment could call my own since we parted!" fhile he spoke- he ushered his visor into a small, very small room, mtaining a large knee-hole table taded with letters, newspapers, nail account books, and all appliQces for writing, and two very com>rtable circular chairs. These arties of furniture scarcely left room > move. A looking-glass, surmount1 by a couple of revolvers, complet1 the decorations. A dim light was Jmitted by a long, narrow, stainedI""" o eArtAn/1 Af\f\l* ,000 nxuuvn , auu a ovvuuu uw?| hich stood open, led into a com>rtably furnished dining room. "This is 'my cabinet de travaille," lid Lambert, wheeling round one of ie chairs; "and I am just taking an our or two from the Sabbath to ear up some little arrears of work, inhere have you been all these ays?" , "Very busy, or I should have paid ty respects to you and Miss Lamgrt sooner." "To be sure, to be sure, you are i business yourself. Anything in le bookmaking way? I think I relember you had a fair notion as to le value of a horse." i>iu; raiue js u. mure suuei ajraivui * gambling." "Aha! the share market! I could ive you a hint or two about that ew steamship company they are getng up in Hamburg." "Thank you, my h?.nds are pretty ill already." After a little further conversation a financial and sporting topics, while ambert was putting his papers toether with some degree of rough orer, he proposed to join his daughter. "She was out to mass with her "iends the Davilliers, and had breakist with them; I.have scarcely seen er this morning." So saying, he Dse and led Glynn through the dinig room to an arched doorway, cross which a curtain of rich dark tuff was drawn, and lifting it cried, Are you tnere, my jewel: i nave rought Mr. Glynn to see you." "Come in," said a voice; and as he ntered Glynn saw Miss Lambert adancing from an open window to 2eet him. The room into which he had been ishered was small, though larger hati the minute apartment Lambert :ad appropriated, ft was prettily q.d lightly decorated, the hangings nd chair covers being of chintz bouuets of roses tied with blue ribbons n a cream ground and had one large window opening on a balcony full of lowers, which overhung a garden ielongiug to a large hotel in a street >eyond. There were books and leedlework, a writing table and a owing machine about, aud it was evileutly Miss Lambert's private sitting oom. A stout, elderly woman in iiacu, *v 1 til a. iiico caji aiiu a itirgu ipron, who looked more than a serant and less than a lady, rose as hey entered, and was about to leave he room, when Lanihert exclaimed n his hearty manner and rather pe:uliar French, "I-Iow goes it. Madame Weber? i hope your cold is better; i summer cold is worse than any ?ther, for it's out of season." Madame thanked monsieur, report d herself nearly or quite well, and anished. thought you had left Paris, at east my father did." said Elsie Lam?ert, giving Ctlyun one hand, while he other he-Id an open book?a shab>y. well-thumbed book. "I should not have left without allium lu say goocl-bye. to thauk you ~ / *ppp i again for your delightful songs," 2e! turned Glynn. 3 She smiled. "Will you sit down, or | shall v. e go into the salon, this is such a tiny pi ace'.'" "Oh. we are snug enough here. And how are you, my dear? You haven't said 'good-morning' to your old father yet." "My old father!" leaning her head against him for an instant, with inexpressible loving grace; "why, he is younger than I am, Mr. Glynn. When I have been brooding over my book or work I always feel as if some bright, pleasant playfellow had come to rouse me when my father walks in." "Thar!" said Lambert, looking over with infinite pride and a queer expressive nod and toss of the head to Glynn, as if to say, "What do j'ou think of your old fighting, gaming, hand-to-mouth comrade now?" "It's not every old cuss that can find a nice young lady to say so much for him, hey?" -he said aloud. "I quite understand it," returned Glynn, smiling, his eyes full of tender admiration. What a curious puzzle the whole thing was. How had Lambert alias Merrick, or Merrick alias Lambert, found the funds to keep up^this establishment, which, modest as It was, must cost six or seven hundred a year? Honestly, he hoped, though from certain dimly-remembered traits he feared the lively, boyish Lambert was cot the most scrupulous of men. Still, regard for so sweet, so refined a daughter must, ought to keep him stmight. "You are fond of reading, Miss Lambert?" asked Glynn. "Yes, very fond; and this is such a delightful English book. I like it much better than French poetry." "May I see?" "Certainly," handing it to him. "Ah, 'The Lady of the Lake,' that is a very old friend; I thought modern young ladies had left such childish productions far behind." "Childish! vrhat can you mean? Why, it is so clear and vivid; I almost feel the mountain air as I read;, and that combat between Fitz-James and Roderick, only a man could have written thatf* "I must read it again," said Glynn, half to himself, as he turned over the pages; "I have not seen it since I was a boy." "You have not read many English books, perhaps?" "Very few books of any kind, and those chiefly since I left school. It is a great delight; but I read very I UJa'aJ T AtrAMr. biuwij, muccu I axil oiuw <xvuui ctci j~ thing, not that I enjoy the less." "I am sure you learned music quickly." "I caiu^always pick up airs, and even long pieces by ear, but I do not think I learned by note quickly." "Tell me," asked Glynn, moved by a sudden impulse, "did you enjoy the races last Sunday at Auteuil? I should not imagine racing an amusement suited to you." "But I was amused; the crowd and the brightness made a pleasant picture." Then with a sudden recollection, "But how do you know I was at the races; they were long ago, before I knew you?" A strange thrill of triumph shivered through Glynn's veins at this implied admission that her acquaintance with him was an event to date from. "I saw you there, and I feared you might have seen me, for I was with a man who gazed at you almost rudely, because you reminded him of some one, and I did not wish you to associate me with him in your mind." "Was he a tall, haughty-looking, man, very English and rather distingue?" "Yes." ^ ' "Then I did see him, but not with you; it was just before we came away. He walked up to the carriage, and looked into my face. I felt frightened. Why did he do it? Of whom did I remind him? Some one he did not like, I am sure.". "That I cannot tell,',! said Glynn, thoughtfully, while he remembered that Deering had no doubt returned to gaze once more at the face which had so fascinated him. "Do you know the gentleman well? Is he?good, I mean kind, or hard and cruel? He filled me with a strange fear; but I did not mention it to my father, because he Is so fond, so anxious about me." ******* A fortnight had gone by swiftly, too swiftly, and Glynn was still in Paris. True, the plans which would have compelled his presence in Berlin were changed, and he was conse quently detained a little longer in tbe French capital, but he was now free, and had some weeks at his own disposal. To be Continued. A Real Celebrity. The local pride of the natives of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, is so-intense that it takes the attitude of pity for all who have the misfortune to dwell elsewhere. This is known to regular summer visitors, and by most of them is respected. One rainy day a n'ewcomer, who had joined the gathering at the store composed of fishermen and summer visitors, ventured to enumerate some of the distinguished men who had come from Maine. "There's Longfellow," he Bald, "and Harfnibal Hamlin, and James u. iiiaine, winiam rm i< essenaeo, Thomas B. Reed, and " Here an oldXfisherman looked up from his work of splicing grass blades, and broke in: "Smart? Those fellows smart?" he questioned. "You just come down an' see Josh Pillsbury skin fish!"? Lewiston Journal. I Denatured Fireworks. "Have you any fireworks suitable for small children?" asked the young mother. The dealer replied cheerfully and confidently that he had. "We have some splendid firecrackers, Roman candles and all such things," he said. 4<T*nf T o?r? nfrairl mv littlo hnv ia not old enough for them." "Then here are some pinwheels and " "Oh, the very thing! Have you some safety pinwheels? My little boy is not yet three years old." Dancing is to be taught in the public schools of Cleveland. Ohio. \ /' Embossed Leather. lnis can oe cieaneu wim turpentine applied with a soft cloth. This removes the stains, but slightly stiffens the leather, which must be made pliable again by being rubbed briskly with crude oil. Use but little oil and go over the piece with one of the clean cloths upon which no oil has been put, as care must be taken to get all the surface grease off to prevent soiling the clothes.?Washington Star. Pat Away Garments. Beeswax broken in pieces and put within the folds of white woolens or silks will overcome the tendency toward yellowness that white fabrics have when laid away any length of time. Garments that are kept folded because of lack of hanging space may be made to forego their partiality for creases if whole .newspapers are placed on them, the paper and the cloth being folded at one and the same time. Papers laid between the folds have the same effect.?Washington Star. t ?? , For Bronzed Ornaments. Brush clear of all duet, take a strong solution of soda water and sponge well all over, washing again with clean water to remove all traces of soda. When perfectly dry coat all with linseed oil, letting this remain on each article about one hour, then rub off with a cloth and burnish with a chamois leather and plate brush. This only will require to be done twice a year, and the ornaments will always look new.?New York Journal. | A Usefal Hint. When oilcloth has been down for a few months and is losing, its shiny surface it can be renewed easily, and it will last twice as long. Melt a little ordinary elue in a Dint of water, letting It stand on the top of the oven until it is dissolved. Wash the oil cloth thoroughly and let it dry. Then at night, when the traffic of the day is over, go over the whole thing carefully with a flannel dipped in the water. Choose a dry day for it, and in the morning the glue will be hard, and will have put a fine gloss on the oilcloth.?New York Journal. Cleaning Silk Skirts. The manner of washing or cleaning the new silk skirts now so generously worn is quite a problem. The proper treatment for a skirt is to rub it gently between the hands in lukewarm water, in which white or castile soap has been dissolved. Squeeze the water out with moderate pressure and rinse in tepid water. It is a good idea to add to the rinsing water a few drops of colorin! matter the color of the skirt. This coloring can be obtained of a druggist, and as washing always roos suk oi some amount of its brightness, this addition will be appreciated. Iron when damp, first placing a thin piece of muslin over the silk.?Washington Star. 5 Waffles.?One quart sour or butter milk, tv/o esss. one quart flour, one teaspoon salt, one teaspoon sugar, one tablespoon butter. Bake In hot and well greased waffle iron. Cracker Pudding.?One cup cracker crumbs, one pint milk, one tablespoon sugar, one teaspoon lemon extract, three tablespoonfuls cocoanut; bake ten minutes, take out, put on top the whites of eggs, beat in one cup sugar, one teaspoon lemon extract; keep in oven long enough to brown. New Jam.?Two quarts of strawberries, one quart of pineapple, sugar pound for pound. Shred the pineapple with a'fork; place in preserving kettle with strawberries and boil twenty minutes. Heat the sugar in the oven and when almost hot enough to melt add to fruit and boil ten minutes longer. Put in pint jars Ui' giatsea. Chicken Gumbo.?Joint a broiler as for a fricasse. Place in a saucepan two tablespoonfuls of butter mixed with one tablespoonful of flour, a little salt, dash of red pepper, and one onion finely minced. Slightly brown, add slowly one quart of tomatoes, sliced, one quart of okras chopped fine, one teaspoonful of salt, let boil fifteen minutes, then add the chicken and cook until the okras are dissolved and the chicken is tender. Serve hot. Sponge Cake.?Sift one level measuring cup of flour four times on newspaper and set aside. Sift one and one-fourth cups of granulated sugar four times and set aside. Partly beat the whites of six eggs and add half teaspooful of cream of tartar and beat stiff, gradually beating in the sugar. Cream the six yolks and beat in one teaspoon of vanilla and one-half teaspoonful of almond extract, gradually folding in the flour. T"??1.? v.fiira f r\ fnrf it mi'n. II Uill lull iu ?mm utes in a pan with chimney in a slow oven. Coolies a:nd the Head Taw The first Chinese coolies admitted into Canada since the Dominion raised the individual head tax to $500 arrived last week at Victoria. It is said that in these days of scant labQr and high wages in Canada the coolie can recover his $500 almost as easily as he coald $50 when that was the amount of the head tax.? Springfield Republican. Tho great-granddaughter of Romney, one of whose pictures was sold recently in London for $80,000, is lying peniless and paralyzed at Mal? dec. England. WASHINGTON. The Navy Submarine Board reported that the Octopus was the best boat in recent tjests at Newport, R. I. Government officials expressed sur* prise at the report that Henry M. Flagler was dissatisfied with the terms imposed for the entrance of the Florida East Coast Railway to Key West. Representative Burton, of Ohio, made formal announcement that he will retire from the chairmanship of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. He intends to devote himself in the future to general legislation. Experiments with a device for telling direction of wireless mesages are reported successful on the cruisers Tennessee and Washington. President Roosevelt has pardoned Nancy Miller, who was convicted in Indian Territory of fnanslaughter for killing Alice Brake in a dispute over a gosling. The woman was sentenced to pay a flaie of ,$500 and to serve ten years in the Ohio Penitentiary. She has been imprisoned for about six years. % ' 1 A statement was issued by Judge Russell, of the Department of Justice, that there was no purpose to harry trusts, but simply to enforce laws against rebating, restraints and monopolies of trade. Mrs. Anna Bradley, slayer of former Senator Arthur Brown, of Utah, has been returned from the hospital to the jail to await her trial, two months hence, having Sailed to find $15,000 bail. f OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. Secretary Straus, speakingvat Hon- ; olulu, said that the chief need of the Hawaiian Islands was better communication with the mainland, and that this aim was hampered by the coastwise navigation laws. Salgueiro, head of the only band of rebels believed to have really ex-, isted in Cuba, was captured in Santiago. Cuba's budget for the coming year is increased by $1,800,000, due largely to extensive military plans. A. L. C. Atkinson, Secretary of the Territory of Hawaii, has resigned from the position. The first meeting of the Philippine Assembly will be held on October 16. becretarjr ran uau pruujibtm iu uc present at the opening of that body, and if the steamship schedules are maintained he will arrive at Manila on October 14, two days before the meeting of the Assembly. The American Railroad Company of Porto Rico has filed a suit in the Federal Court at San Juan against Colonel Bailey and Commander Rohrer, representing the United States Arnjy and Navy, respectively, asking for the vacation of properties set asfde by the Presidential proclamation, claiming that the officers took possession of land which did not belong ihe Scvernnrent. DOMESTIC. The final act of the Alabama Legislature was for the erection of a monument to Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy. It will stand in Montgomery within a few feet of the plcjce where he received the oath of odtee and just in front of the. old Capitol, where the ceremony took place. A Federal Court enjoined Arkansas officials from executing a State law under which they were about to stop the Rock Island Railroad from doing business there. The battleship Connecticut made a satisfactory showing in its trials off Rockland, Me. Judge Landis, of Chicago, issued a perpetual injunction restraining the Furniture Trust from doing any further business. John H. Lozier died in Mount Vernon, Iowa, of a complication of diseases. He was seventy-eight years old. He was popular as an orator and was the author of several war songs. The New York District Attorney's office obtained evidence showing tliat the straw bail gang of deed forgers has operated in New England, New Jersey and Pennsylvania as well as New York. George W. Delamater, who committed suicide in Pittsburg, Pa., left $95,000 insurance on his life. E. H. McGuigan, first vice-president nf the Great Northern Railroad Company, resigned, due, it is said, ! to personal differences with J. J.. Hill. " j New York City abandoned as too 1 expensive the production of electric- ! ity at the garbage destroying plant to light the ."Williamsburg Bridge. The plant will continue to destroy waste material. FOREIGN. Moorish tribesmen sacked the town of Cape Juby, killing part of the garrison and making the rest prisoners. For $5,000,000 Duveen Brothers, of London, have obtained the famous Kahn collection of pictures in Paris. Representatives of subject nations j resolved at The Hague Peace Conference that they ought, in case of rebellion or other disorder, to have all the rights of belligerents. A * V/NftwJwnV.Awo' riAi*WOTVV O t At IVUCUl^OUtl 5, v. 1 iliUU.' f M .?WM- I ing accident on the River Pregel resulted in the drowning of nine men, | all members of the Engineer Corps | of the army. The boat, with seven- j teen engineers on board, was being towed by a steamer when it turned over. A native saviugs bank is to be opened near the native customs ill Tientsin, China, by order of the Chinese Viceroy Yuan. Deposits will be accepted of $1 and upward. Adivces received in Paris estimate the casualties of the Moors in the recent fighting at Casablanca at two thousand. The Paris Temps, commenting on the meeting of the Russian aud German Emperors at Swinmunde, says that the grouping of the powers has not been changed and that tue inter- i view has contributed to the raainten- | anco of peacc. F. A. Bridgiaan, an American artist, has been made an officer of the French Legion of Honor. At Portsmouth. England, two stokers belonging to the torpedo-boat destroyer Spitfire, were burned beyond recognition, and four were seriously injured by a blaze in the oil fuel, which broke out iu the stokehole. Richard James Meade, fourth Earl of Clanwilliatn, Admiral of the Fleet (retired), died in England. According to a despatch from Puerto Plata, some revolutionists have landed and are appealing to antiAmerican sentiment. ^i THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR SEPT. 8 BY THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Subject: The Erazen Serpent, Numbers 21:1-9?Golden Text, John 3:14, 15?Memory Verse, 9? Commentary. \ Doubting, trustless Israel is confounded. When the Canaanitish king hears that they are coming his way he sets forth against the Israelites and takes many of them prisoners. Having no faith in God Israel falls an easy victim to his prowess as a warrior. The calamity sends Israel back to God for consolation and for comfort. Misfortune is the dynamic that impels many a man and people Godward. A trial of her unaided and unenthused fighting ability displays Israel's weakness to herself. Strength is found in communion with God. Israel prays. And petition brings power. Israel's prayer is a confession and a dedication. It is a confes- ! sion of human incapacity and of human reliance on God. It is a dedication of the divinely empowered military energy of Israel to the service of God. All prayer ought to have these elements. And all true prayer will effect results that are beneficial to humanity and well pleasing to God. Many a man who is battling with little success might do wonders for God if he would apply to God for strength. Self-reliance that discounts the power of God is egotism. Selfreliance that comes from the consciousness of God's favor is glorious. The effectiveness of each is .illustrated in some measure in the first foup verses in the lesson for the day. The circumstances surrounding tlie raising of the brazen serpent are suggestive. Thirty-eight years have passed since the ten spies advised against doing the will of God and obeying the call of Jehovah implicitly. The years of wandering in the wilderness are nearly over. Another generation has grown to manhood. God has cared for them all-the years in spite of their weakness and sin. 'And yet Israel has not gained that spiritual consciousness that she should possess. The way, though short, becomes beset with difficulties. And the people; discouraged with the obstacles along the way, revile against God and against Moses. Moses had labored with them and for them for nearly forty years of desert wandering. God had fed them. And yet they forgot all that. They cursed God. They cursed Moses. With Canaan just in eight they looked back through the long perspective of the years of sorrow that they had brought upon themselves, upon the leeks and the garlic and the fleshpots of Egypt. And, as always hap+ 1% 4*> 4-Yy^rr jjcus, icaviug tiicn lanu iu uuu iuc; were assailed by worse terrors. The ssrpents wrought havoc among them. The results of their sin brought them back to their senses and to a realization of the enormity of tkeir sin. They prayed Moses for aid. And Moses prayed for them. God's pan tience went out to them and the fiery serpent was given as a cure for their ills and a sign of the interest jand the grace of God. The method of salvation from the serpents' bites was simple and efficient. It is worthy of cote. Out of the midst of their trouble Israel cried unto God and He heard them. And He afforded them a way of escape from their afflictions. As soon as they cried in sincerity and humbleness with a sense of their own sin, God answered them. His method of relief was simple. They had but to look upon the brazen serpent and they were delivered. But they had to look. The salvation became effective when they accepted it. That Is to say, it became active when they looked. Not otherwise do we experience 'salvation in the Christian economy. Out of the depths of his sin and shame man calls upon God for aid. Christ holds Himself up as the gift of God to the age for the healing of the sins of the individual and of the nations. But the salvation does not become effective until the man looks and accepts. And it becomes effective then. The moment that a man taker, Christ as the active truth of God in his life and renders himself subject to the control of God as He reveals Himself in the person of Jesus Christ and mediates His truth to men to-day through the person of the Holy Spirit, that moment the man is a saved man. His salvation begins there. Then he is born anew. He starts a new existence. He is a new : creature. He matures in another sphere. We are bitten with sin that is more harmful than the bite of any serpent. For the ain that destroys us is the power that is able to confront God and to utterly confound unaided man. But even as the serpent of bras? saved the men who were poisoned with the venom of the desert snake? so the crucified Christ saves us from that body of the living death thai men call sin. Israel always made a mistake when she forge: God or attempted to progress without him. And there is a lesson there for us. Mauy men to-day, as we march toward better and divinei Lhings, are prone to curse God and the better leaders of the time. Many a philosophy of social regeneration leaves God out of account entirely. Religion as an active force is minimized. This is a mistake. The surest foundation of success is that which is built,upon the religious con sciousness of a people. If we procooH without. Ood?that is to say^ without p. proper religious motive? we shall Jlllfcpn with the wrimntEpidemic of Appendicitis. Just why the average society woman should he especially susceptible I to appendicitis is a question arousin? the interest of specialists in Philadelphia. The epndemic, at first looked upon as a .sort of comic paper joke, has become stern reality. Twelve of Philadelphia's young matroDs and debutantes have been operated on for the disease within the last two months. Stolen Mail Found in Cave. Two mail sr.cl:s#stolen in a stage "hold-up near Myersville, Wyoming, in February, 1906, have been recovered by postoffice inspectors, and ? -.i*i <7nrv ine lenure, 01 nim;n iuui c ncus ?< . have been sent on to their destination. The pouches were found in a cave. Malting Cars in Canada. Consul Harry A. Conant, of Windsor, reports that a company has been organized at St. Thomas, Ontario, with a capital of $4 00,000, to manufacture freight cars, and that the city v.ili In* asked lo ft rani a $0,000 bonus and a (ised laiu of taxation for ten years. v }>? V .r . " " ', * ' . Religious Reading FOB THE QUIET HOUR. ~ $ ' " :*? - viS MIRACLE WORKING POWER, I saw a miracle tbis morn? The sunrise in the Eastern *y\ , m The radiance bade the night nusta fiy, And bathed the world in golden dawn. God'e artist touch, with silent might, Transformed the darkness into light? v? 4 . ; . ? .;y^bSHBsBw I saw a miracle to-daySweet violets in a mossy dell! Whence came their fragrance? Who could tell How scent was drawn from common clay? God's chemistry from earth distilled V The fragrance which their chalice filled? t I saw a miracle to-night? As darkness deepened more and more, Like watch-fires on a distant shore, The stars shed forth their trembling light? God's sovereign arm those orbs upheld, And to the earth their light impelled! ' Thus all day long I plainly saw In Nature marks of deep design, The presence of a power Divine, Obedience to a higher law. The world revealed that God, still . t wrought '.'?? Beyond the ken of human thought. Rft frnm mv trnop f.Viia rir*wpr_ '. * -Like wreathing,wnoi(e from,altar tires: "O Lord DiVine, my heart desire? : Thy miracles of Grace, io share! v ' Bid sin's dark night' transformed be And Heaven's own light illumine me! "And. though my earthly lot he .found 'Mid tear-dewed vales of lowliness, Inbreathed by Thine own hoHnens, With fragrance may ray life abound? > i Upheld by Thee 'midst darkening night, May I, too, shine with Heaven-born light!" ?William J. Sears, in London Christian. f i ., ' Always Abounding/' * Paul was fond of using largo words when speaking of the privileges and 'duties of Christian life. It was not *\ that the words were long and hard to pronounce or understand. It was quite the opposite. The words them-, selves were apt to be short and easily understood, but they stood for great and wide and long things;' They were great words, not In ?basekipe)of filling the mouth, but with the power to fill the mind and the hearti Such a word is "abqppdfng." It has the largeness of the otjean about It. It has the free ratige of the mountains in its atmosphere. It carries one out to the' wide plains where there is no restriction to the liberty. The word means "without bounds.T It is the great sea rather than the pint cup. It is the wide universe, rather than .the Imprisoned room. It Is the king's treasure rather than the i beggar's dole. It Is' the grace of God poured out without measure into the heart of the Christian, and ' ! it is the grace of the Christian maol- festing itself in loving^ and continuous service for the sake of Christ.. \' It seeks ever for enlargement. It 'J + wnf fn OflVA Oftlf Hllf OkXTCkY fft ]lA- I U JICD UV/t bV OttlV DVU, MUW V* v* more and do more. It breaks dofcn ' j the bounds of contradiction and cbrifinement, and diffuses itself like th* sunlight that foods all the'spaces. Here is the ideal for Christian, life. It is not to be selfish and contracted* but large, active, abounding in att that is good and lovely arid graciouB. Thus is it to be with our prayers, .go- \ ine ud to the throne of grace fot great and wide blessings. Thus it Ur to be with our affections, taking in :j the whole wide world and bearing it. before God in our deslreB for its sal- \ vation. Thus it is to be with our labors for the advancement of the in^ ' teresta of the kingdom of Christ, as ' we use our powers with unselfish. ? stint, seeking to accomplish great and lasting results over which we shall rejoice in the eternal world. Thus Is it to be with our giving, and. 4 though in our poverty we may not bo- 1 able to give what we would like to bestow, yet Ood will make even that I which Is not to be as though it were,. /] and will make His blessing enlarge || the results of that whicK we give in I *-j4-u ~^ in ?Worn M and' Pres* I itutu auu iuiv,? byter. ... . .. . .? : :V /J j Dawn at Dusk. A I will give him the morning star. '"1 ?Revelation 2:28. ;j To whom is this promise given? y Is it to youth? Nobody would won- I der at that; youth is the time of promise. But this is a promise to the old. It is made to those who have finished their labor, as we se^ from verse 26, "he that overcometh. * ) and keepeth My works unto the end." It Is the nan at the end of the day I who is promised the morning star. J And that is a very strange thing. 1 We often speak of a promising boy or a promising young man.' But haw incongruous would it sound to hear one speak of a promising old manfl It would seem like viewing the sunI set and saying, "What a beautiful A | dawn!" Yet it Is this and nothing i less than this that is imaged here. The Veteran who has reached the goal | is promised a dawn. We could have J understood how he-should have.been promised a goldeu sunset. We could j have understood how there should have been accorded to him the joy of looking back upon his work and seeing that it was all very good, but to get the morning star at evening time, to hear the lark in the place where the nightingale should be. to listen in December to the voices of the spring ?it is the boon of perfect glory.? | The Rev. Geo. Matheson, D. D.fy.in the Baptist Argus. > The Beginniug of Salvation. ' v" The law stops every man's mouth, 'v God will have a man humble him- ?.J self down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness! ?D. L. Moody. Uses For God's Gifts. I r.nA hjus.criven us our minds and all our powers, and itioy (ire to be consecrated to tholr highest uses. God has given us our Incomes, and while not a dollar is to be wasted, or used unworthily, a certain portion Is to be sacredly set apart for the Lord's treasury. God has given us cur social influence, and we are to employ it in j winning our frlcnd3 to know and l07e Christ. In everything wo aro to seelc tlie divine will, and in everything ; we are to seek to be faithful.?Herald i ' ond P-ochvrei*. j " I Horseflesh Foi- the Ai*my. /I T ie United States Army is expe- 'i rienofng difficulty in obtaining horses and mules. Bids, which have just been opened, show that prices generally Have increased. For the cavalry, 725 horses are to be bought at an average price of J17EJ each. The artillery corps is to buy nearly 350, for which $211 is the average price. Army mules, heavy enough to do draft work, bring $188 each, and nearly 300 of these have been contracted for. Lead mules, somewhat lighter in weight, bring $168, and pack mules, still lighter. 2131. j