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| A FALLE I vJAt/\l> vfAJ/vW/\!A1aW/ M/vJAV v! A?/vJ/\i/\) a!/ \t/ < I By pkeder i ytivlAl^^tKVw^iw'Uxt/wv CHAPTER Xm. 14 j Continued. "Look here, Nebelsen, of course I ;know it's all bosh; but I won't have any tricks played on me." "If it is bosh it cannot affect you. See now, I direct my will against yours. I wish you to give me your admission ticket." "Nonsense!" said Babcock, in a thick, sleepy tone. "Are you mad? Give you that? Well, don't make a fuss; I don't mind letting you have it to look at; not to keep, mind. I'm acting of my own free will?of my own free? There, take the ticket!" "And now," said Nebelsen, as he took the card, and stood looking steadfastly at the uneasy Babcock, "go and sit down in that chair." "See you first!" spluttered ;Babcock. "Well, why shouldn't I sit down?" he added, as he obeyed, "it happens to be a favorite chair of mine. I was going there before you spoke. Confound you, Nebelsen, what are you doing to me? Take those eyes of yours off; take them off, I say!" "You will not stir till it is twelf o'clock." And he sat motionless, his prominent eyes fixed in a cataleptic stare; however Nebelsen's power may have !been assisted by the fact that his subject had been recently dining, the .weaker will of the two just then was certainly Babcock's. "A thousand thanks for your so ,kind gift of a ticket," said the Chela, benignantly. "I tell Mees Elsvort you are sleepy, and not able to come yourself. Goot night!" Babcock probably heard and understood, but he made no answer, and Nebelsen shut the door with a igutteral laugh at the success of his experiment. That evening the rows of guests .who line each side of the vestibule at Academy soirees and lend such suggestions of landing at Folkestone to the ceremony of reception were much entertained by the demeanor of a spectacled loreigner, wnn a suon auu spiky beard, -whose appearance, as he bowed to the president, provoked discreet but hearty merriment behind the shrubs. It is never very easy to find the right person in a crush, nor are the Academy rooms adapted to the pursuit. Nebelsen made his way. painfully from room to room, with a.tormenting conviction that his object was always a room ahead of him, and then, just when he had given up in despair, he saw her behind a marble group in the Sculpture Gallery. Sybil, too, had been scanning faces with slowly waning hopes. Why did not Ronald come? Surely nothing would have kept him away that night, if all were well. So her face lighted up at the sight rif that finppr-lnnlrinff fri'pnri nf his. and he welcomed the greeting as a favorable sign. "You have something to say to me, haven't you?" she said, taking advantage of the fact that her aunt was too far away to hear. "I think I should like an ice or something, if you can take me out of this crush. Mr. Perceval, will you tell my aunt that I shall be back almost directly?" And before Mrs. Stanisland, who, on her side, was impatiently expecting the twice defaulting Babcock, could notice what was happening, Nebelsen, with no very clear idea where he was going, was mounting a etaircase by Sybil's side. Sybil seemed to him more enchanting than ever that evening, and he was beginning to expand with triumph at the idea of having outwitted Babcock, when her first words some;wbat dashed his confidence. "You do come from him, don't you?" she said. "Ah! I knew it. No ?no ice, thank you" (they were passing a buffet at the head of the stairs). "Soo fhla lihrnrv lnnl-? rmif.t ATrkw tell me?why isn't he here?" "He was a leedle schleepy after his dinner," he said; "he ask me to make his ahology." "Herr Nehelsen!" cried Sybil, "I can't believe that?you are deceiving me! something?some misfortune has happened to him?please tell me all." "No, no, ha is qute well?there has noding happen, and ach! Mees Elsvort, beleaf me, he is not vorthy for you so moch to care!" "You are against him, too! I thought you were his friend." "Not any longer?he has done it himself. And I am afrait I shall mako you angry, and yet?if you only could tell me it is not lof you felt for Mr. Babcock?" Had any one else asked such a question she would have been angrier, but Nebelsen had a child's naive unconsciousness of offending. "You've no right to any answer when you put such questions as that," she said, "still, just this oncc I will satisfy your curiosity. Mr. Babcock is nothing to me?do you understand? nothing!" "Ach! how you make mo glad," he exclaimed, with a deep sigh of relief, which Sybil imagined was on Campion's account. "Then Ro?Mr. Campion has not told you?" she said. "I thought you came from him. You know we were once engaged, and then it was broken off; and I shall always be very, very grateful to you because you first made me suspect that there might be an excuse for him I could never have dreamed of. And now I am sure of it, and?and we met this afternoon, and everything is as it used to be." The poor man's castle came rattling - down about his ears. Perhaps it was the dust it made that choked and blinded him for a few moments. ' N'o," he said. "I did not know?I did not know that." "Yes. And, Herr Nebelsen," she added anxiously, "he was to have been here to-night, but it is so late, and I can't help feeling uneasy, even when he has got rid of the idol at | Jast." V "How got rid?" inquired Nebelsen; v'/ vl> vj> \1> vl/iiy vt> iJy <*>VV>J/ vtAt>vJ>vi> I .N IDOL. | and Sybil told him what she had been told herself. "I tell you, nefer will he get rid of it in such way; it will come back efery time more and more angry," he said, when he had heard her story. "He will not understand what it wants, and I myself, I can only guess." A great foreshadowing of evil had come over her, and Ronald's failure to keep his word seemed more and moro significant; she was restless, feverish with the dread of what might even now be taking place, and Nebelsen was the only person who understood her terrors in the least. "Will you go to Mr. Campion at once and warn him of all you suspect? If you wait till to-morrow you may not be in time. Dear Herr Nebelsen, tell me you will go to-night!" "It is late now," he said, "past twelf?but if it is your wish, I go." CHAPTER XIV. Antaeus the Second. For some time after recognizing the unpalatable fact that the idol possessed a "homing instinct" far surpassing that of the most domestic cat, Campion sat and stared at it with blank and intense disgust. He wrapped the image in the piece of drapery which had already been spoiled in its service, and, providing himself with a palette-knife as the best implement at his disposal, he went out into the weedy little plot of ground in front of his house and began his task. . It was a close, airless night, with a murky sky through which the very moon looked hot and flushed. Campion found it warmer and more difficult work than he had imagined to dig with such a substitute as he had for a trowel. However, he scratched ud the mold in little showers as well as he could, and while thus engaged he heard the heavy booted tramp of a night constable ringing down the flags of that quiet road. Campion did not disturb himself. There is no police regulation forbidding a man to bury any of his household gods in his garden; it may be eccentric, but it is not unlawful. So he hummed, like Juvenal's penniless traveler. The steps came nearer. Now and then the constable stopped to try a gate, or flash his bull's-eye through a keyhole, or listen at areas, but at last, just as Campion had constructed a really handsome hole for the idol's reception, the steps paused at his own gate, and a patch of light from the lantern danced over the garden and up the house front. "What are you doing of in there, eh?" said a voice across the railings. "Well," said Campion, "I don't suppose you would ever guess." "I guess you can't be up to any good at this, time of night, if that's what you mean." "Why," cried Campion, with sudden recognition, "I ought to know that voice. Isn't your name Yarker?" "Quite correct, sir, Mrs. Staniland's man that was. And I reckonize you now, Mr. Campion, sir. But without wishing to make trouble, I don't reckonize what business you can have inside of another party's front garden." "But it's my own garden?this is my house! Have you forgotten that in your new duties?" "I can't say," said Yarker, loftily, "that I ever give the subjick much attention, beyond knowing you were a artist. You see, when I was at Sussex Place I always used to bear a sort of prejudice like against you, not for what you was, for I'm one of them that draws no distinction in that way. If a man feels he can't get a living in any other way except as a artist, let him be a artist, I say. I don't blame him for it." "Those are broad views, Yarker," nlieonr/irl Primninn Vfvu vaui^ivii> He had elaborated his hole and was preparing to deposit the idol at the bottom of it, when a horrible thing happened; the thing moved?moved under the wrappings in his hand. He dropped it as if it had bitten him. "As a matter of fact," he continued, "without knowing what he was saying, "I'm only doing what I have a perfect right to do in my own interests; every householder can? abate a nuisance, I think you call it. But I am keeping you." "No, you are not keeping me, thank you, sir," said Yarker, cheerfully. "As I said, a little conversation is a treat to me. Did you say you was a-liamng sometning, sir, for a nuisance?a trap. I take it?" "Yes," said Campion, stealthily putting out his hand to assure himself by touch that his imagination had deceived him,and that nothing stirred inside the drapery. "I suppose now," he continued, not knowing how he was to get rid of the official, and seeking desperately for a safer topic?"I suppose you have a good many opportunities or studying?ah?astronomy on your beat?" "Oh, I've read in my time, mind you, and it's wonderful how much more a man finds he knows than he thinks he did when he numbers off like. But there, I get a-talking, and all the time I never asked you what it was you was trapping." "Drains!" said Campion, wildly; "my.garden's overrun with them!" "You needn't answer me back like that," said Yarker; "if I'm willing to talk free anr' familiar, it isn't for you to take advantage of it. I asked a civil question, and if you're going to talk flippant, it's time I left you to yourself and went on with my rounds." To Campion's intense delight he moved slowly away, obviously insulted. "Good evening," said Campion, and his heart leaped. It leaped as far as his mouth the next moment, however, for suddenly, just as the constable was moving c?? for the last time there arose a wild, muffled wail, as startling as the night scream of a peacock. "Hello!" said Yarker, stopping, "where did that come from?" As if to set the point beyond^ dispute the horrible thing inside the wrappings began to howl and roar with renewed vigor, and Yarker stepped back to the railings ana turned hif; lantern full upon the bundle. "What's those stains?" he said. "Paint," said Ronald, for the stuff still retained the color that had been wiped from the idol's face. "Ha!" cried Yarker, and he undid the gate and stalked round to where Campion sat helpless on the worn turf, wondering if he was going mad. "Now I'm not going to have any more nonsense about this," he said, with a complete change of manner? the butler was merged into the constable with a yearning for distinction ?an honorable indorsement on the rharcre sheet and nromotion?"that's blood, that is, and you know it. Open that bundle, Mr. Campion." With a grim anticipation of Yarker's astonishment when he saw the idol, Campion unfolded the drapery, and, as he did so, rose to his feet with a hoarse cry. The rays of Yarker's lantern fell directly upon the bundle, revealing a sight at which Campion felt his brain swim. The idol was alive?or rather, in its place was a changeling which in some grotesque fashion resembled it. Ac Campion stared, fascinated, into its smooth, yellowish face, the eyelids slowly went up and two cold, glassy eyes returned his gaze with a steady malevolence, and then the whole face worked, and the tiling broke out anew into a sounding bellow. "So that's what you were after, eh?" said Yarker. "Oh, depravity, depravity!" "You can't be more surprised than I am," said poor Campion; "I don't know what makes it go on like this." "Enough to make it, I should think, when in another five minutes it would have been all over with it. Mr. Campion, I couldn't have believed it of you?what harm did that pore innocent ever do to you?" Campion kept an obstinate silence; he was the innocent one of the two, but of what use would it be to tell a policeman so? He began to realize that, at last, the idol was roused? that he was on the brink of a terrible scrape. "It's a mistake, I tell you?a mistake," he faltered. "You're right," said Yarker. "You see what comes of leading a nasty idle life. There'd have been murder done if I hadn't happened, by a lucky Providence; to be passing?if you haven't been jabbing at it with that knife already, as it is. This is a bad business, but I must do my duty. 1 arrest you on a charge of attempting child-murder, and anything you may say now is liable to be took down and used against you. Now, sir, come along with me quiet." "Yarker, my good fellow," he protested, "you're all wrong?do you hear? It's not what you think?you can't mean to get me locked up!" "Now, am I to sound my whistle and bring my mate from Marlborough Road, or will you come pleasantly like a gentleman, arm in arm along of me?" "Let me go in and leave a message with my man," urged Campion. "Not if I know it?you can send messages to-morrow?once more, do you want me to whistle?" Campion had to submit. Escape was jaadness, where he was known and would be tracked at once; besides escape would be an admission of his guilt. 'Yarker," he said, impressively, "I give you my word you will not be defeating the ends of justice in any way; you will not harm a living soul if you let yourself be persuaded by ma now to take a sovereign?I mean a five-pound?or rather, a ten-pound note?and?and go away and tLink no more of this little incident." "You were not quite so proficient with your tips at Sussex Place," said Yarker. "No, sir, there's things as can't be squared not at no price. Excuse me, while I make a note of what you said; 'incident' was the term you employed, I think? Thank you, sir. Now I'm ready, and we'll be jogging along." "I'll come quietly," said Campion* with a groan. "Spare me as much as you can." To be Continued. Spotting the Invisible. German military authorities are experimenting with a device by which the location of troops using smokeless powder may be easily discovered. By this device it is proposed to survey the landscape through pale red glasses. The flash of smokeless powder appears strong in red light, while ordinary objects are dimned. By furnishing field glasses with the device in question, which is provided with screens of the proper tint, the position of concealed marksmen can be detected.?Pittsburg Dispatch. Perverted Proverbs. In onion there is strength. Sweats are the juices of adversity. Cosmetics cover a multitude of sk i ns. A soft director turneth away graft. Hell hath no fury like a woman's corn. A wise boss maketh a glad party. A fat rebate is rather to be chosen than straight profits. A wcran is known by the cooks she cannot keep. Fools invest where angels ^ail to swim.?Saturday Night. Great Canal Opened. A great canal which drains the two Italian provinces of Mantua and Reggio and discharges into the River Po, has just been opened. For five years 6000 men have been employed in digging the big ditch. The Rev. W. Arthur Noble, of Kor.->r? ime one of the lamest districts in Methodism. Recently he walked 300 miles, the churches in one section of his district being near enough for him to do this. The thin paper on which the* Oxford Bible :s printed is made after a secret process by the Oxford University Press. The secret is valued at $1,250,000. XTP II POFULAK \\ .'A | ft 4 SCIENCE > ,f A laboratory for the teaching of electric science has been established in Manila by the Jesuit Fathers. According to Professor Berthold, of Vienna, a man's intelligence, honesty and good nature are in proportion to his portliness. His brain expands with his body, so that a stout man is, as a rule, more intelligent than a thin man. A Kansas gas man who has spent years in the business makes the statement that natural gas is capricious and that men who have studied it all their lives give up in despair when it comes to explaining the whys and wherefores of some of its ways. Shingles are now made under a patented process from asbestos fibre and Portland cement, uwmg to me enormous pressure under which the shingles are manufactured, it is said that they absorb, when fresh, only about five per cent, of their weight of water; and when exposed to the atmosphere for a year or two that hydration and subsequent crystallization make them absolutely impermeable. A pint bottle, which seems to be empty, in reality contains eleven grains of air. The same bottle would hold something more than 9000 grains of water, if water were poured into it in place of air. Water is, therefore S40 times heavier than air. Instead of having fusible plugs in the bottom of a boiler over the fire, it is proposed by an English engineer to place a small pipe inside the shell having one end closed by being sealed to the shell by a suitable fusible metal. The other end passes through the shell and is furnished with a cock, or it may be led to an alarm or to a feed pump. When the water falls below the safety point the rise of temperature in the boiler acts in the usual way on the fusible metal, but the pipe being protected from the heat of the fire escapes injury, and when the cock Is closed the boiler *can be used for steam raising without stoppage for insertion of a new plug. The lower atmosphere and the upi per atmosphere are believed by TroI fessor J. Hann to be two very different gaseous mixtures. At the earth's ' surface the composition is: Nitrogen, 78.03; oxygen, 20.99; argon, 0.94; ! carbonic acid, 0.03; hydrdgen, 0.01; j neon, 0.0015; helium, 0.00015; kryp1 ton, 0.00010. At a height of twenty kilometres (12.43 miles) he finds the j nitrogen increased to 84.34 per cent., with 15.19 of oxygen. At 100 kilometres, wjth a probable temperature of eighty degrees below zero Cent., i the hydrogen seems increased to ! 99.45 per cent., with 0.453 of helium, ! and only 0.099 of nitrogen. !ORANGE TREE MOVES NORTH. I j Botanists Attempting to Produce Hardy Variety of Citrus. j Botanists in the employ of the United States Department of Agri" culture hope to bring into being an I orange tree which will be as sturdy ' as the apple tree; an orange tree that ; will not perish in the chill of northern winter, which in December will bear its wreath of snow and in May its garlands of bloom, and when summer comes will yield fruit as good as that sweetened in the south eun. I This may seem to be an unnatu[ ral proposition, says the Technical J World, but it only seems so. No j violence upon the laws or nature nas been or will be attempted. It is | simply an effort to make the citrus tree which bear3 the sweet table ! orange as hardy and insensible to cold as the citrus tree which bears the bitter, unedible orange. By Crossing a citrus tree which grows In the north and which bears an unj sdible fruit with the citrus tree of the south it is sought to beget a j plant in which will be combined the good traits of each. 1 Government botanists are confij dent th;at the results of this citrus marriage will be a scion that will grow and fruit at a latitude midway between the northern limits of the --1J ~ TP BWetl ctiiu cue uttLci uiauge. j.i this should be there might be orange ! groves in Central Virginia, Middle | Kentucky, .Southern Indiana, South! ern Illinois, Central Missouri and Central Kansas. Think of orange groves around the homes of Richmond, Louisville, Cincinnati, St. Louis ahd Kansas City! An Analogy. In the lati? financial stringency a clerk in one <!?f the New York banks was trying to explain to a stolid old j Dutchman why the bank could not j pay cash to depositors as formerly, j and was insisting that he be satisfied ! with Clearing riouse checks. But the I old man could 'not grasp the situaI tion, and finally the president of the ' bank was called upon to enlighten the ( dissatisfied custodier. After a de j taiTed explanation or the financial ' situation the president concluded, j "Now, ray good man;, you understand, i don't you?" < I "Yes," dubiously i replied the ' Dutchman, "I tinks I understand. It's J just like this: ven mj/ baby vakes up j in der night and criesifor milk, I give I her am.Ik ticket."?Harper's Weekly. An Unholy pjetition. A very devout PresB/yterian clergyman in the Middle Werft had just married a couple, and, as was his custom, offered a fervent prayejr, invoking the divine blessing upon t^iem. As they seemed to be worthy) folk and not i overburdened with this world's goods he prayed, among othier things, for I material ni'ftsnflri t V anil beSOUCht. thfi I Lord to greatly increase the man's business, laying much (stress on this point. \ In filling out the blanks it became necessary to ask the mail his business, and to the minister's harror he said, i'l keep a saloon."?^Philadelphia Ledger. J J | OUR LOSSES BY FIRE. I Waste That Could Be Prevented by Proper Construction. Too many buildings burn dov/n in this country. In 1898, the cost of fire, including not only property de- | { atroyed, but insurance, the maintenance of Are departments, etc., was over $500,000,000. In the same year the building operations of the leading cities amounted to about $650,000,000. On the face of it, eighty per cent, of the new building construction was offset by fire cost. Herbert M. Wilson, of the National Geological Survey, says on this point: "This fire tax exceeds the total annual value of gold, silver and coal production. The annual fire loss in vthe United States is, according to .the National Board of Underwriters, $2.47 per capita, while the average annual loss in six large European countries is only $0.33 per capita, or one-eighth that of the United States. The greater part of this immense waste could be prevented by proper construction of houses, factories and business buildings. Such construction would not only cost little more than the prevalent combustible buildings in the first place, but also would result in real economy in the long run." . The same excuse will be given for this poor showing, as compared with our neighbors abroad, that is given for the fact that mining accidents, railroad accidents and homicides are several times more numerous per capita in this country than in the most enlightened countries of Europe, and that our architecture is 1 less attractive?namely, that we are a "young nation." But rdilroad building began in this country at the i same time that it did abroad; most of the mines that are worked since this country took the field; the buildings that give European cities their attractions are nearly all of j modern erection?of later date than the brownstones of Murray Hill? and with more wealth collectively j and Individually we have the means to build well and safely. Whether it is a young nation or not, there are several respects in J which this country is old enough to ; know better.?New York Mail. Effects of Perfumes. A great deal has been said and written about the use of perfumes both in support of and against, but the point always raised is merely whether or not it is good taste. A question seldom touched upon is tho fact that perfumes have a certain medicinal property or value. The ancients recognized this medicinal quality, and one of the Latin.] I writers has put more than a hundred different scents on record as remedies for various diseases. Among chese the violet is given a place higher than any other flower. To possess Ibis medicinal value it is, of course, essential that the essence should be pure and made from the flower. A large percentage of the violet water on the market is only a chemical imitation, and most chemical compound perfumes are irritating to the nerves, if not positively harmful. The idea which our grandmothers had of scenting the sheets with lavender was merely carrying out the old idea that lavender soothes the nerves, and is a great sleep-promoter. Some refreshing perfumes are stimulating, but lavender combines ' refreshment ana relaxation. Another periume which has a distinct medicinal value is jasmine. Old i writers suggest it as a general tonic, but add the- warning that, though most beneficial when taken alone, it is in most compounds injurious, producing nerve exhaustion and profound depression. Chemists find many interestiilg ex- I perimeuts in the compounding of scents. Almost all perfumes have as a basis ambergris of civet, and while these ingredients are most essential ?reat care must be observed in their use, as a grain too much will make > the scent distressingly irritating to the wearer, to say nothing of harm- ( less bystanders. There are many persons who cannot stand the scent of some partic-u- ! lar flower, which to people in general is most agreeable. The most striking illustration of the effect of a Bcent is seen in the case of a person1 suffering from hay-fever or rosefever. Another little-known characteristic of scents is the quickness with which they will awaken a soundly sleeping person, even when repeated calling or even shaking has failed to do so. As a rule, a person who is awakened by an agreeable scent, a delicate perfume, will rise in a cheerful mood.?Harper's Weekly. County of Long Distances. The election judges for the northeast precincts in Butte County will have a nice mileage claim to present to that county for the delivery of the ballot boxes. Judges from two of the precincts in that county went through this city with the boxes on their way to Belle Fourche. Making the trip by way of Aberdeen, Huron, Pierre to Belle Fourche, it is a distance of ahnnf Gfin miles It was either a trip that way by rail or one of 150 miles across country by team, and they selected the rail trip as the shortest, as heavy rains have badly swollen the streams which they would have been compelled to cross by driving, with the chances of waiting several days for the streams to go down to allow them to continue their journey. ? Pierre Correspondence St. Paul Dispatch. Not a Question oi' Locality. The truth is that there is too much talk about the women in one c.iy or j State being better than the women in ; some other city or State. Not but they all deserve the highest praise that can be bestowed upon them, but because it sometimes is made to ap pear uiau any American wire ians short in some way of being good enough for the man who gets her. The goodness and the loveliness of our women should not be made a local question at all. Nor should tho choice of a wife be permitted to degenerate into a sectional question ? Chicago Inter-Ocean. Religious Reading FOB THE QUIET ITOL.,. SCATTKH FLOWERS AMOIv'G 1 . LIVING. Scatter flowers among the Jiving, t-i 11 r?? *i.? a??a. UO not HclVfJ till lui me uvavi, They no longer need their fragrance, Resting in their narrow bed; They are with the blessed angels, Where the flowers never fade; Clothed in garments pure and spotless, In the mansions God hath made. Some are bent with heavy burdens, As they journey on life"8 road; May we not strew sweetest blossoms If we carry half their load? Then the God who watches o'er us, He who knoweth every thought, He will send us many blessings. With the sweetest fragrance fraught. May the sunshine on our faces Shine upon some face that's sad! It may help to banish sorrow, It may help to make them glad Give to them the choicest blossoms, Some of kindness, some of love \ Help them feel there's hope remaining, Point them to the home above. ?Mrs. D. L. French, in the Christian Herald. The Cost of Economy. And King David said to Oman, Nay; but I will buy it of thee for the full price.?I. Chronicles 21:24. Thus did' one man decline to take advantage of what the world would I mil a "hartrnin " refusal hnw. ever, might be little better than qulx- | otic. One needs a good reason when i he persists in making things costly J to himself. David evidently thought he had such reason. He had gone up to Ornan'B threshing floor for the purpose of there erecting an altar at his own expense. The shame of his recent crime was so keen that' he was willing to pay any reasonable price for expiation. Judge then his surprise to be offered the property without cost to himself. What a chance to economize! But David knew a thing that we sometimes forget. The soul's processes can never be cheapened. To shave the cost of one's altar is to cheat oneself. Life has no real short cuts to triumph. God appoints no bargain days on which the shrewd trader may enrich himself at the expense of the Almighty. To attempt the payment of one's spiritual debts in the property of another, to offer the "sacrifices of a contrite heart without personal drain, is a specious fraud. What is the "spoiling" of a child? What but the payment by parents o< the price which the child ought to pay? "My child does not know the meaning of self-denial," said a mother overfond. Pity such a child! Missing the meaning of self-denial, he will miss-all the real prizes of life. I knew a young man who made a "hit" at his first public venture. But that first hit was his last; he has never found the range since. Easy success ruined him. The short cut was a blind atyey. The sorriest thing that ever happened to Coleridge was when- his friends guaranteed him against a rainy day. His muse sickened with the absence of bracing airs. Hardship had kept his soul awake, but ease drugged him. Oh, the cheats we practice against ourselves by our economies! The last place for a man to save money Is on his gifts. Let him wear the old overcoat another season, if need be; let him reduce the length of his bill of fare, let him not shave the cost of those altars which love j builds. The dearest economies we ever practice are those which touch n... A,.? 1 uui ucuciattiuii&. vur iis great* er than that of the cause we refuse to help. Charity can better stand raj. withholding of help than I can stand withholding it. To let another do my giving is to let him have my blessing. If Oman builds my altai for me he also takes my joy. That man who asks how much he must give up in order to be a good man has gotten hold of the wrong end of the matter. The question is rather how good he wants to be. A disciple who finds that his path includes no crosses may well pause to j ask which master he is following I Life's real altars represent the shed ding of blood. To repeat, then, David's great renunciation at Oman's threshing floor, to hold bravely to the sacrificial quality of human life at its best, to refuse all ignoble lightening of loads, to bleed that we may bless?in spite of. all conmlacant voices to the contrary?this Is one of the rich truths of life.?George Clarke Peck, St. Andrew's M. E. Church, in the New York Sunday Herald. i Character is Everything. Saints are made by saints not do- j Ing extraordinary or uncommon things in an uncommon way, on uncommonly high principles, in an uncommonly self-sacrificing spirit. Be sure that this is the only substantial Ihing. The bits of knowledge that we call } our learning, the bits of property j that we call our wealth, the moment? j -1: ?1~ t tua yioll I ary vanities 01 ueuguk. ua^ ??*? the conquests of social life ? how swiftly they hurry to their graves, j or are lost in forgetl'ulness! Noth: ing, nothing else but character surI vives, and character is Christ formed within. Character is a symmetrical growth, having its roots in unseen realities, and its conscious source in the living God, and its perpetually replenished supply by communion with Him. There cannot be a developed and healthy saint without a constant putting forth of vitality and vigor in a principled activity of use and exercise of righteousness.?Huntington. . ! j Power. Very few men have been able to keep their balance when invested with power. Power is dangerous? j meu thirst for it; they perjure themI selves for it; they will compromise for it, and be destroyed by it at last. ?The Rev. C. F. Wimberly, Methodist, Louisville. Wealth. Some of the best friends God ever | had in this world were rich meu.? ! The Rev. S. B. Dexter. Aurora. 111. j Oleo Regulations Stand. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, I of Washington, D. C., after hearing ! representations of oleomargarine and j dairy interests regarding the placing i of the Government mark of inspection | on oleomargarine, announced that the j recent rjgulations requiring the mark, as promulgated by the department, would stand, the statute being clear and admitting of but one construction. I Balloon Crosses Alps. The Swiss Aero Club's balloon cog- . aac succeeded in crossing the Alps. j 1 1 f I . V; ( . 1 ? t ? - - . m I'' ' ~ SJit ' _ -I . : &uRbau-?dK>'oT i >|v _ 4. 1 I " INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUGUST 9. Subject: David and Goliath, 1 Samuel 17:1, 18:5?Golden Text, Ps. 11:1?Commit Verses 48, 49? i Commentary. TIME.?1063 B. C. PLACE.? Vale of Elah. EXPOSITION.?I. Goliath's Boasting, 38-44. The challenge of Goliath i nad ailed the Hearts or the whom army with dismay (vs.11,2 4,3 2),'but young David had no fear. The eye^ of all the rest of Israel were upon themselves. The eyes of David were upon God (v. 37). This was the one secret of David's courage, assurance and victory. It is the secret of all true courage and victory. Saul alsd had been at one time a man of dauntless courage, but the Spirit of God had now departed from him and he was as big a coward as any in Israel . (cf. ch. 16:14). David, relying upon Jehovah, proposed to go and fight the mighty giant single-handed. To cool common sense his proposition seeme^ the height of absurdity. There was much about Goliath to fill David with fear (vs. 4-8). David had taken all these things into account, but he waff not afraid; for Jehovah was his salva- ; ". tion and his strength (cf. Ps. 27:1-3). If we truly trust in the LORD we will never be afraid,- no matter though the odds against us seem to be overwhelming (Isa. 12:2; Ro. 8:31). Even Saul sought to dissuade htm.(v. 33). When God calls any one of us to fight some Goliath some kindly in- > tentioned Saul is sure to say, "Thou art not able" (cf. Phil. 4:13). It was a good argument that David brought forward to answer the argument of unbelief (vs. 34-37). We may wisely, trust the God who has delivered us in the past to also deliver us in the present and the future (cf. Ro. 8:32). David was confident, furthermore, that Goliath was doomed to defeat because he had defied the living God (vs. 26, 36). Saul sought to help David by clothing him with his own apparel and armor. But the intended help proved a real hindrance. It is impossible to fight the battles and win the victories of faith with Saul's armor (2 Cor. 10:4). When David tried Saul's armor he was forced to say, "I cannot go with these." When ' X the church tries the world's weapons it is sure to find out that it Vcannot. v go with these." When he .found that he could not go with Saul's armor he very wisely "put them off him." He . took the weapons with which he was familiar. When God calls a man He Is very likely to use the weapons He finds in the man's hands (cf. Ex. : . 4:2). David's preparation seemed utterly insufficient to meet a giant with. In reality David had four more stones than he needed. God had chosen the weak things of the world to confound the nighty (1 Cor. 1:27). Saul's armor seemed a much better preparation for such a fight than David's sling, but David's sling proved to be a better preparation than '' Saul's armor. A few well chosen stones from God's word are a much better preparation to cope with thd modern Goliaths of infidelity than Saul's armor and sword of learning and wit and eloquence. Saul's armor is spoiling many a David in these days. The Philistine regarded David with utter disdain. That is the way in which the Philistine usually regards God's champion. But the Philistine's disdain turned out very badly for the Philistine himself. I Goliath's disdain did not hurt David's feelings very much, because David knew who would win. The disdain, of the world is a small thing to the in- g telligent believer. , II. David's Victory, 45-40. All S Israel had been frightened by Goli- I ath's boasis. Many a professed Chris- . I tian in these days is terribly fright- 1 ened by the blatant boasts of infidel- 9 Ity, but the true man of faith is not at I all disturbed by all this bluster. David was not frightened simply be- fl cause his whole trust was "in the I name of the LORD of hosts." David's nj answer is wvii worth studying. Our H answer to the boasts of unbelief to- B day ought to be the same. To the feye fl of sense "a sword" and "a spear" and H "a javelin" seemed like a better fl equipment than "the name of the fl Lord of hoses," but when any man fl can truly say that he goes into battle fl "in the name of the Lord of hosts" ' fl his victory is sure. Jehovah is "the HE God of the armies of Israel." David H made a great deal of the fact that m Goliath had defied the Lord (v. 45; fl if. vs. 26, 36). Calmly but fearlessly -H David declared to Goliath the sure H outcome of the battle. He took .no fl iredit to himself. He said, "The Lord H will deliver thee into my hand."' , H """* ' J *t% K*f k UclVlQ KI1CW Liiat uj iaitu oivut? There was nothing for sense to build upon (cf. Heb. 11:1). David would smite Goliath not because of any strength of his own, but only because God had delivered, him into his hand. David would do to Goliath and "the host of the Philistines" just what Goliath had boasted that he would do to David (v. 46; cf. r. 44). God's purpose in giving this great victory to David was not merely to magnify David, but "that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel." David was not aiming at his own honor but at Jehovah's, but he got great honor for himself (ch. 18:6, 7). noo/ioH tr? Iparn a Ipssnn as well as the world {v. 47, R. V.). The H cliurch needs to learn that lesson today. The battle is the Lord's, it is In flS His hands. O Brand Stays on Olen. ME The controversy between tha dairy Interests and the manufacturers of Pjjj oleomargarine has been settled by the Secretary of Agriculture after a hear- H ing of both sides. The decision is in H favor of the dairy interests. The dispute arose over the contention of the H| oleomargarine producers that the Government's inspection mark was BE unnecessary. The Secretary recently ordered that upon each wrapper con- BH raining oleomargarine inspected at of- DB ficial establishments there shall be I placed the rccognized mark of inspec- H| (ion, which shall include the number of the official establishment in which W the product is prepared. After a full KB hearing Secretary Wilson has ordered KBl that the original order shall stand un- MB chanced. j^| Welland Canal to Be Deeper. BHj Thp dpnth of the Welland Canal is H to be increased from fourteen to twenty-five feet to compete with America in wheat transportation to Europe. flH | Cost of Old Ago Pensions. It is expected that the Australian nlci acre pensions project will cost ?1,S00,000 yearly. _ H