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>s\fne~ . % His Oti A PSYCHOL* j \ By SAR CHAPTER VII. 0 Continued. "Indeed, I think she feels she has imposed luu mutu uu juui gvuu * ?ture as it is," Miss Somers said. "We can never thank you enough for your kindness." "Oh, pooh. That's nothing! I wish T could feel that I had been of some use." "She has been sleeping soundly sinpe 6 o'clock," Miss Somers pursued, "and of course she must have her sleep out; but is there nothing I can do in the meantime?" Before Lord Wartlebury could answer the door opened and Gertrude appeared, with a pale face and big black circles around her eyes, but neat and composed as she had been the day before. "I feel quite fresh," she said, "and Snail De giau oi some urcaiviaai uuu some strong hot coffee, Annie, please. I am not in the least surprised to see you, Lord Wartlebury. I suppose Annie told you I was here, and it was just like you to come. But do you know, I think I have made a mistake. I don't think I ought to have left the cottage. I fancy he must have returned by this time, and probably is anxious about me." v Lord Wartlebury took a telegram out of his pocket. "It is perhaps better not to encourage false hopes," he said. "Dr. Mansell telegraphed to me this morning to tell you that they had continued their search, but had found no further trace." "He may have gone to consult his doctor," Gertrude suggested, after some moments' thought. "I will go at once and see." Tf vac a woll-lrnn'U'Ti ronsultincr I physician to whom she went, and by a fortunate accident she found him disengaged and able to see her. "Doctor, has my husband been here?" she began abruptly. "Your husband?" "Leslie Somers," she explained. "Oh, yes?of course. I have not had the pleasure of seeing you before, you know." He unlocked a case-book and found what he wanted. "Oh, yes, he was here exactly six weeks ago to-day." Her countenance fell. "And you have not seen him since?" "No." "Perhaps I had better tell you why ' I ask," and she proceeded to explain. The doctor listened with grave attention. 'It is a curious affair," he obs?rved, "but not unprecedented. Your husband was suffering from the effects of over-work. I certainly did not appreheqd any serious trouble, but 6uch a thing was quite possible, and I advised him to be most careful. Had he any fancy, any morbid notion?any persistent idea, in a word, which amounted to a delusion?" "No. nothing that I know of, and I think I should have known. He seemed to have benefited very much by the change and was in excellent spirits." "I had a somewhat similar case some years ago," the doctor said, "and I tell you about it in order to bhow you that there, is no real cause for alarm. It was also a case of overwork, that of a clergyman with a large parish?a conscientious man who had toiled day and night during an epidemic of typhus fever. He came to me complaining of great depression, and I advised rest and change of scene, and also prescribed for his general health, which was quite below par. Well, he went to a seaside place with his family, just as your husband seems to have done, and the next thing I heard of him was that he disappeared. Of course his friends were in a terrible state of anxiety about him; detectives were employed and the case got into the papers. They traced him to London, but further than that they could obtain no clew to his whereabouts, and after eighteen months' search they began to fear that he must be dead. But about that time a friend of his, an animal painter, went to the Highlands of Scotland to make studies of cattle, and one day while he was so engaged he happened to get into conversation with a drover, and. to his great surprise, he recognized the man at once as the missing parson. "'Why, you're So-andso!' he e*-i claimed. " 'Am I, indeed?' the poor fellow replied. 'Well, I arn deeply grateful to you for telling me, for I could not remember who on earth I was or where I had intended to go on? day when I set out on a journey, and 1 have been obliged to become a drover in order to earn my living.' "He was of course restored to his friends immediately, and with proper treatment he soon recovered and is as right as I am at the present moment. Now, it seems to mo that your husband's is a very similar cas?, and I have no doubt that it will end as happily." Gertrude put two guineas on the table and left the house greatly relieved The doctor's cheery, confident manner had perhaps never before raised any poor patient's spirits higher than hers went up under the influence of the hope he held out to her. She felt she had a clew to the *vhnlp f?ni?rm:i now: and the rest? the finding of her husband?seemed - easy after that. She knew he had come to London, she knew which station he must have arrived at, and she would go there at once and inquire. Somebody must have seen him. When she arrived at the great crowded terminus, she found that the task was easier in anticipation lhan in reality. She had come to inquire; but how should she begin? to whom jihoold she apply? j ' She must first find out the plat-; w t; i ir Qc i nil I ncj\ vJL-Ll !j| p d OGICAL NOVEL. s = ^ AH GRAND. j ( c v form at which the midday train j] stopped yesterday. Perhaps she n would find the same staff of officials h there to-day, and she would ask p every one of them to make sure. "Guard, did you happen to notice ? if a tall gentleman, cleanly shaven, a with reddish hair, dressed in a light o tweed suit, came by the midday train s from Trewport yesterday?" "Yesterday?" the man answered u with scant courtesy. "Bless you, miss, h dozens of such gentlemen arrive S oirofir ^av" Another cuard came up at the moment, and he appealed g to hirn. "Here, Dawlish! you were on duty here yesterday." a "No, I wasn't," the man answered, e "I brought up the midday train from s Trewport." si "Oh, then!" Gertrude exclaimed, n taking out her purse, "you can surely tell me if my husband was among " the passengers," and she described y him. ]V The guard scratched his head, ? "Would he be a bit queer?" he said, a "I don't know what you mean by tl queer." a "No offense, ma'am. Only if he T talked loud and didn't seem to be tl particular about where he was n going?" "That might have been the case," I she answered; "and what I want to lj know is, where he went." Several porters had joined the n group by this time. "I say, Bill," n one of them now interposed, "wasn't k that gentleman you sent to St. Pan- g eras yesterday, when he asked which ^ was the station for Southampton, a dressed in a light tweed suit?" "He were," said Bill. t; "And do you mean to say you sent p him to St. Pancras for Southamp- y ton, you blessed blockhead?" the e surly guard demanded. y "Ah did," was the calm reply, n "and ah saw him off in a hansom on his way to St. Pancras, and ah hope a he got there safe." There was a laugh at this sally. s< "Did you happen to notice the o number of the hansom?" Gertrude h asked. , "Noa, but ah noticed the man as ci druv it; and here he comes by the t( same betoken," the porter concluded, tl pointing to a hansom that was just tl returning to the stand. Gertrude went to the driver and repeated her inquiries. Yes, he " had takeiy the gentleman she de- ? scribed, to St. Pancras yesterday a morning. # ti The gentleman got down and asked si a porter what time the next fast g train left for Southampton, and the si porter sorter grinned at him, and a told him he was in the wrong box for Southamnton, and had better try c Waterloo. The gentleman seemed e put out, but after standing on the n pavement, and cussing heaven and earth for five minutes, he was able " to get into the hansom again and zo g to Waterloo. He didn't get out there, hojvever; ji he only inquired about the trains, h and then he told the driver to take h him to the nearest hotel, and there ^ i *v? XT a V* o rl n a 1 n ? mu man ifii mm. xxv. iiuu wv iu0 d gage with him, unless it was a hand- 0 bag, but the driver wasn't sure of ^ that even; he hadn't taken particu- g lar notice, and couldn't remember. n Gertrude got into the hansom and g tolcj the man to take her to that ho- ti tel. The faithful Moon had brought a her so far. and was waiting for her, p but she had forgotten him. y He had assisted at these inqui- n ries, however, and, making allow- s, ance for the lady's preoccupation, c tumbled on to his box and followed g the hansom, rightly conjecturing a that she would think of him in time. 0 Gertruds's anxiety had given way r now to a state of excitement that s was almost pleasurable. She was on n the right track sure enough, and this detective business was easier, after j, all, than she could have believed ti possible. n She could understand, too, that it must be a very fascinating pursuit when the object of it did not concern you personally. She thought, if she ever had to work for herself, she would be a detective, it was quite in- j, teresting to talk to so many queer -r characters. ti But now the hansom stopped at f. the door of a large hotel, and, alight- t ing quickly, she ran lightly up the q steps and into the great bare, com- jj fortless hall. r d CHAPTER VIII. . p An unctuous official came forward T immediately and asked her if she t; wanted rooms. h "No," she answered. "I am look- i) ing for my husband. I have reason v? to believe that ho is here?or. at d least, that he came here yesterday p ? about this time of the day." a "'Oh?ah?mum!" the official ob- P served quickly. "Does the gentleman expect you?" t "Yes," Gertrude answered boldly; t and then, to save lier conscience, she a added: "He is most probably look- 11 ins? for me. because I was not sure c which hotel he would come to." o "What name did you say?" the 1 man asked, less suspiciously. i! "Mr. Leslie Somers." j f "Pray be seated, madam, and I'll a go and inquire." He returned pres- d ently. "No one or that name, T madam, has ever been here," he told her. Gertrude's heart sank. "Jut do people always scive their names when they stay so short a time?" she f< asked. h "Ui<& you only expect the gentle- c man lo stay a short time."' o "It is just possible that he only r; stayed (he night," she answered, des- a peralely. "He was anxious to go '. ? d Southampton. But slay. I will tell you exactly what he was like, and you will perhaps know whether he came or not. The hail porter came tip %/hile she tl was He.-ciiijing him, and aow iatcr-1 o rupted: j C 9> "Oh, yes, he came here yesterday, hat gentleman did. I noticed him artoc'lar, because there's so few ents comes as is clean-shaved nowdays, only priests. Reddish hair, idn't you say, ma'am? and a rowdy, ollicking, free-and-easy sort o' hapy-go-lucky manner? Drank bran- . ies-and-sodas all the time, and was weet on the barmaid." Poor Gertrude's heart sunk lower. Vas it possible even for disease to hange any one so perfectly refined s Leslie, and so generally respected wherever he went by high and low, ato a creature such as this, with lanners and tastes which lowered im to the level of the commonest eople? It seemed impossible, and yet from he time he appeared at the station t Trewport, every account she heard f his conduct agreed in this repect. It must be true. "If that was the gentleman," the nctuous person said, "he did come ere about this time yesterday, but omers wasn't the nr.me he gave." "Can you tell me what name he uve: ueriruue ttsueu. The man hesitated. Well, madm," he answered, "we do not genrally give the names of people who tay here to unknown parties. You se, we don't know what use they light make of them." "Oh," exclaimed poor Gertrude, this is wasting precious time. Can ou not see, sir, that I am a lady? [y husband is not right in his mind. Ie has escaped from his friends, nd it is of the utmost consequence !iat I should find him before he does ny mischief to himself or others." 'hen turning to the hall porter: "I hink you noticed how queer his lanner was?" "I did," the man answered; "but thought he was the worse for quor." The manager, or whoever he was, ow lowered his tone. "Of course, ladam," he said, "in a case of this ind we shall consider it our duty to ive you every help in our power. I rill go and make further inquiries bout the gentleman." When he was out of hearing Gerrude addressed herself to the hall orter, speaking rapidly: "I will give ou a sovereign," she said, "for very separate piece of information ou can give me about-that gentlelan. What did he call himself?" "I don't know, ma'am, but he had bag with L. S. on it.'.' "His own initials." She put a overeign in the man's hand. "Go n," she said. "Did he say where e was going?" "He said he was going out as first onsul to San Francisco, and meant > see all he could of the world on lie way, as he wasn't due there for tiree months." She gave him another sovereign. "He left here," the man continued, about ten minutes before you came, [e said his luggage was fat Southmpton, and he meant to go out by tie P. & O. I put his bag into a hanam myself, and told the driver to o to Waterloo. It's not half an hour ince," the man concluded, glancing t the clock. "Good heavens!" Gertrude exlaimed, putting two more soverigns into his hand, "I may have lissed him." "The manager now came back. Mr. Lawrence Soames " he bean. She caught the name, but had umpad into the hansom, and was on er way back to Waterloo before e could add another word. Arrived there, she threw half a overeign at the driver and rushed nto the platform. It was crowded ith passengers, porters and lugage, a confused mass of things anilate and inanimate, all alike strugling or being moved in every direcion?a human hash?with shouts nd laughter; here a merry family arty off for change of air; there a oung couple, with maid-servant and lan-servant in attendance, evidently omebodies, but treated with little v>v five rnmnine school iris who rushed by, separating them nd the whole multitude to boot, n their way to a second-class cariage, at the windows of which they Lood, eating buns and enjoying the oise and bustle. ' r "Is this the Southampton train? 5 this the Southampton train?" Geri-ude asked every one, but could get 0 answer at first. To be Coutinued. Peruvian Aguardiente. Peru is an immense country and 1 one section of it, known as the 'ambo valley, the principal proQution is aguardiente, which is made rom the juice of sugar and contains sventy per cent, alcohol. Consul[eneral S. M. Taylor says that this quor is consumed largely by the Peuvian Indians and so many of them ie from the effects of it that the opulation is materially decreasing, "ne valley is located so high that only h.e natives enjoy good health there, ! ence it would be difficult to find emgrants to replace the natives, as onId seem nccessary at an early aLe. In the valley there is one good i lant for making cane sugar and giiardiente, but all thetrest are quite rimitive in their construction. More or less rice is produced in he same valley, and it is said that iie grain is large and sweet in flavor nd when bolted it augments much lore than any other kind. It always onimands a higher price than any ther rice. It is stated incidentally hat. there is only one good rice mill a the valley of Tambo, and that is rom the United States. The others re primitive wooden stamp mills riven by water wheels.?Louisiana 'lanter. Cat Rearing Rabbits. A Wareham man named Wellstead Dund four blind baby rabbits on his olding and took them home to his at for food. Pussy was nursing her lie kitten, and instead of eating the alibits she proceeded to nurse them, nd under her fostering care they are oing well.?London Chronicle. Three Possessions. Love, joy and peace are the things hat make a man's life. Possession f these three make him most like hrist.?C. E. Hughes. WHEN CRANKING IS VAIN. Discouraging Paradox in the E\per? ience of the Motor Boat Amateur. Few spectacles are more discouraging to the would-be motor boatist than the sight of some poor fellow toiling persistently at the crank of a cold and unresponsive motor; and let it be noted, says Country Life in America, this cranking business not infrequently makes more trouble that must be remedied by still more cranking. While this may seem to be a paradox, it is a fact. For instance, suppose the beginner's motor stops and he fails to make an inspection that would reveal a loose connection in the electrical system, and therefore does not know that his igniter is not working. He suspects the carbureter to be out of adjustment and concludes to give it a little more gasolene. Crank crank, crank. Nothing doing. Yet a little more of the fluid. Turn, turn, turn. Still nothing doing in the explosion line. But all the time the engine is industriously pumping gasoline into its crank case or cylinder, and when the absence of ignition is finally discovered?usually in such cases by someone else after the tyro has been towed home?it is necessary to shut off the gasoline altogether and continue to grind at the crank until the gasoline with which the engine has been flooded has been all cleared out before a proper mixture can be made. bo, ill case oi a iiij slci iu us oiup* page of the engine after it has been running well for some time, suspect first the electric system. If the batteries are run down they will have given due notice by failure to ignite the charges, at first skipping an occasional stroke and then skipping more frequently until there are more misses than explosions and the engine stops. But a sudden stoppage with plenty of gasolene flowing (test this at the carbureter according to directions) usually indicates a sudden derangement of the electrical system. WORDS OF WISDOM. Burying the hatchet often means war to the knife. Tact is the leaven that saves flattery from falling flat. Some people would rather tell the truth than be popular. The worse the temper, the less its owner minds losing it. The better we know people the less politeness we waste on them.. Never try to make a man feel at home if you know him to be henpecked. A girl will often select a nusDana with less thought than she will select a ribbon. Every woman lives to congratulate herself that there was some man she didn't marry. It's when a fellow is going to the bad that he gets^the reputation of being a good fellow. Make hay while the sun shines and you won't have to borrow an umbrella when it rains. If a man doesn't want to be spoiled with success let him get a job with the Weather Bureau. Most men would rather take their chances with a plague than with a short haired woman. Any man will tell you what he would do if he were in your place, only he probably wouldn't. Tbo man whose past won't bear Investigation is usually the first to brag about his future. Regret for our mistakes is only practical when it prevents us from making greater ones. The woman with one child has more theories concerning children than the mother of ten. A woman trying to concsal her age always reminds me of an ostrich hiding its head in the sand. When a girl speaks of a fellow as a man after her own heart she should be quite sure that he isn't after her money.?From "Musings of a Gantle Cynic," in the New York Times. Not For Herself. Nan's mother heard her crying after she had gone to bed, and upon inquiry, learned that the child, having heard for the first time the parable of the sheep and the goats, was in terror lest she should "be a goat." Her grandfather, a clergyman, tried to comfort Nan, and finally succeeded in convincing her that if she led a "godly, righteous and sober life," she need not fear the objectionable classification. However, the next night Nan was again the victim of her emotions, and her mother insisted that the scene of the previous night must not be repeated. "But, oh, mamma," sobbed the child, "this is different. Grandfather explained all about me, and I am not afraid for myself now. But, oh, mamma, what if you should he a goat ?"?Delineator. Government's Gun Sale. A sufficient numbei of condemned guns were sold at the War Department, Washington, D. C., to start a dozen Central American revolutions. The department sold to the Car) Hirsch Iron and Rail Company, ol St. Louis, 175,000 old Springfield 45-calibre rifles at forty-four cents each; 13,600 Springfield cadet rifles at thirty-six cents each and 14,000 Springfield carbines at sixty-one cents each. Several gatling, Ilotchkiss and mountain guns wera purchased by Francis Bannerman, of New York, for j $19,300; aud 560,000 rounds of j cartridges were sold for ?G.70 a thou- ' eand. | The Wrong Child. Mother (viciously scrubbing her small boy's face with soap and water) ?"Johnny, didn't I tell you never to j blacken your face with burnt cork } again? Here I have been scrubing half an hour, and it won t come orr." i Boy (between gulps)?"I?uch!? j ain't your little hoy?uch! I's Mosc, de colored lady's boy."?Judge. r^?i INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR OCTOBER 25. j Subject: The Joy of Forgiveness, Ps. 32?Golden dtext, Ps. 32:1?Commit Verses 1, 2?Read Ps.51 and Rom. Clio. 4, 5?Commentary. TIME.?1034 B. C. PLACE.? Jerusalem. EXPOSITION.?I. The Blessedness of Sin Covered by God, 1, 2. This is a didactic psalm (title, margin). David is beyond question the author of It (Rom. 4:6-8). He had known in his royal position all worldlv iovs. but the highest joy that he had found was that of transgression rorgiven and sin covered. This joy is open to every one (Acts 10:43). If there was forgiveness for one who had sinned so grievously as David we may conclude that there is forgiveness for all. The Psalmist multiplies words for sin. "transgression" means rebellion. "Sin," missing the mafrk (cf. Rom. 3:23). "Iniouity." crookedness, or curvature.' To "forgive" means literally to take away (cf. Jno. 1:29: Ps. 103:12). God "covers" sin (cf. Ps. 85:2). He covers sin from view. He covers it with the blood of Christ (Le. 17:11). When God covers sin no man nor devil can uncover it. God does not impute or reckon to the impenitent sinner his sin. TT. The Misery of Sin Covered by Self, 3. 4. In the first verse we see God covering sin; in the third and fourth' the sinner covering his own sin. The former is supreme blessedness. the latter supreme misery. The pinner seeks to co^er his sin from God (cf. Gen. 3:7. 8). This no sinner has ever succeeded in doing (Prov. 28:13). David sought to keen silence, but only succeeded in "roarine all the dav long." His lips kept silence but his bones roared. He tried to escape God's hand by keening silence. but day and night God's hand was heavy upon him. There is nothing'that man can do more foolish than to refuse to confess his sin untc God. These days of unconfessed sir were davs of great cruelty on David's part (2 Sam. 12:31). ITT. Sin Uncovered <o find urn' Covered Uo by God, IS. David did al last with his sin what he ought tr have done first. God's heavy hanc had accomplished its loving purpose David acknowledged his sin to th< right person. 'to God. He st.onpec covering ("hid" is the same Hebrew word as "covered" in v. 1) his sin When he stonped covering his sir himself then God covered it for him It was a erood tbtng that David saic In V. 5. To "confess" does not mear merely "to own uo," but to "poinl out." or "fully declare." ( The trouble with much that is called confession.if that It is not full and frank and free The result of this confpssion was thai God forsave the ininuity of His sin That will alwavg be the result ofi-full heartv confession unto th? Lord (J Tno. 1:9: Job 33:27, 28: Ln. 15:20 23). A hearty confession of sin is al ways accompanied by a tboroutrl turnine awav from sin (Prov. 28:13; Lev. 26:40-42). - IV. Forgiven Sinner TTfmpolf Cor pred, 6, 7. The Vord "godly" (in v 6) means "'a recipient of grace." Be cause of God's forgiveness of con fessed sin every recipient of Gnd'i grace prays unto Him in a time wher He may be found (or "in the t.fnip o! finding out sin"?see marg. A. V. anc K. V.J. mere is a. uuie wuen uw cannot be found (Tsa. 55:6: Prov 1:24-28; Lu. 13:24-28; 19:42-44) The time when He mav be found ii now- (2 Cor. 6:2). The result o praying to Him in a time when H< may be found will be that "when th< great waters overflow they shall no reach unto him." The reason wh] they shall not reach unto him is be cause God Himself is his bidinj place. V. The Forgiven Sinner Kept Fron Further Wandering, 8, 9. It is nol enough that our past going wroni; be forgiven, we need to be guided ir the right way for the future. Goc promised to thus "instruct." "teach' and "guide" David for the futurf (and every other forgiven sinner as well). Some make David himself th? speaker in v. 8, but it is better to takf the ' words as God's response tc I rinvM The chance nf sneakers is in> ) dicated by the sign "Selah." This is | a most precious promise. The onlj i way we shall ever know the way it I which we should go is when God inetructs and teaches us in it. God counsels us by a glance cf His eye (see R. V.). If we are to be guided by a glance of His eye, we must keei near Him, so as to catch His glance God's instruction and teaching com* through His Word and Spirit (Ps. 119:105; Jno. 16:13). Even the forgiven sinner is quite likely to act like "the horse" or "the mule." Such cannot be guided by God's eye. Still He does not give them up, He holds them with "bit and bridle." VI. The Misery of the 'Wicked, the Blessedness of the Man of Faith, 10, 11. Verse 10 states the conclusion ol the whole matter. Two persons are put in contrast, the wicked and he fhof in t V? o T.nrri 99 Tho nn 1 v righteousness that God recognizes, even in the 0. T., is the righteousness of Faith (cf. Phil. 3:9). To the wicked shall be "many sorrows" (cf. Ro. 2:8, 9); to the one that trustetli in the Lord, mercy round about him on every side. That is a safe wall. Our duty then is to "be glad in the Lord." This is as much\a command as t*e one not to steal (cf. Dt?. 12:12; Phil. 3:1, 3; 4:4). I'opulation Jumps 209,000. That there was a net increase of 209,000 in the population of the country as the result of immigration during the last fiscal year is shown by the reports of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Until the last year, it is pointed out, it has never been possible to ascertain the net addition to the population by immigration, and the result is surprising to the department. During the fiscal year the number of immigrants was yz4,uuu persons, wnue 7it>,uuu aliens left the country. Bookmaker Left $2,500,000. George Cooper, one of tlie best known bookmakers in England, who has just died in London, left an estate valued at $2,500,000. He was originally a mason, and began his gambling career by making "book" among his fellow workmen, acccpting penny, or two-cent bets. Twin Brothers' Births. On August 20 a negro woman living near Williamsburg, Va., gave birth to a boy, and sixteen days after the first was born she gave birth to a second strapping boy. . ' v? i BITTER WAR ON INTEMPERANCE ~ SOLDIERS FIGHTING THIS CURSE GREATLY CHEERED, r l A Movement For th^ Abolition of Cpmpnlsory Beer Drinking Among German University Students. The Prussian Minister of Justice is * leading a movement for the abolition of compulsory beer drinking among t university students, and even to discourage voluntary guzzling, while a ' formidable petition has been presented to the government for the separa- * tion of sober and drunken persons on [ railroad trains by the use of special oars, though-there seems to be some uncertainty whether the cars should I be reserved for those who are sober or for those who are tipsy. " Up in Finland the most remarkable anti-alcoholic legislation of all has j actually Deen enacted ana uuw uwaua. the Grand Duke's approval,,which it may not receive. Largely because of t woman suffrage and the spread of the Socialist propaganda, the most stringent prohibition bill on record has been passed by the Diet. This amaz- j Ing measure not only forbids all manufacture or sale of spirits, beer and ( and wine, but it prohibits any^traffic In alcohol of any kind, save through i strict government Monopoly. Churches are forbidden, under heavy , penalties, to use wine in the com- j munion service. People who had wines in their possession before the t 1 enactment of the law may continue to t holdlhem, but any one hereafter ac- . juiring any liquors will be subject to 11 One and imprisonment. The police a 1 and other officials arq authorized, without special warrant and on mere , suspicion, to enter and' search any ? 1 house for liquors. Any ship enter-' j : Ing Finnish waters with a cargo con- s 1 sisting largely of alcoholic liquors j will be seized and confiscated. All ( ' the breweries, distilleries and liquor c 1 stores and shops in the country must ' ] it once go out of business, without c compensation. Indeed, in framing ? " the law the Diet seems really to have ( > j acted upon the exhortation of one of , ' i its members. Baroness Gripenberg, i ' to "leave reason aside, and let senti ment prevail." ^, These things at least serve to em' phasize the point which we have fre1 quently made in these columns, that ' complaints of puritanism and fan1 aticism in this country as contrasted ! with the liberalism of Europe are not altogether well founded. More I than one European country is takt Ing even more advanced ground in ' temperance reform than has been pro' posed here. We cannot recall any American prohibition law as, strin' gent as that which Finland is seeking I to establish. Wtien in one of our ' States it was discovered that through inadvertence the law was so drawn ' as possibly to prevent the use of wine at the communion services of churches it was quickly and generally 1 conceded that an amendment must t be made so that there would be no in3 .terference with worship. But in Fin' land the clause expressly banishing' . - wine from the communion table was j t purposely inserted into the bill. The , interference with "personal liberty" j . in sumptuary matters is far more marked in several European countries j - than it is here. The merits of some , of our temperance legislation may be \ > open to discussion; but at least it , I cannot be truthfully maintained that j this country or any part of it is alone , or unique or even extremely advanced j in meddling with man's supposed | right to get drunk.?New York Trib- : une. , 3 ? _____ 1 I , f I Total Prohibition in Finland. 1 News from Finland shows remark- . 1 able results since the introduction of i . universal suffrage for adults of both , . sexes. The Finnish Legislature con- j I sists of a single chamber of 200 mem? ( f bers. Fifty-six per cent, of the voters , > at the last election in towns, and fifty ,j 3 per cent, in the rural districts, wera t women Nineteen women were elect- , r ed members of the chamber. It has j just passed a drastic act for the total ; prohibition of spirits, wine, beer and j alcohol, which may be kept only for j} i medical and technical purposes and i t for the use of troops. Even the use I j ; of wine for the communion service is 1 i forbidden. No one may keep alco- I . I holic drinks in his house unless he , ^ ' : can prove that they were in his pos- ( ! session Deiore me act was passeu. | 3 The police have full rights of starch ! > and the penalties vary from $20 fine ! 3 penal servitude for three years, I > There is no provision for loss of cap. I ital in breweries, distilleries or pri ! vate houses. ' Baroness Gripenberg. one of the I , i best known women members, said j ] that in dealing with a question of *hls | j I vital social importance it was quite , j ; time to "leave reason aside and let | j I sentiment prevail." It is not expected ; ( i that the law will ever come into op. | . eration, for the veto of the Czar i? re- j \ < garded as certain. j t ... i i ! John Bull's Declining Thirst. i { I It is reassuring to learn from Dr. { 1 . Dawson Burns's annual review of i < the United Kingdom's drink bill that I < although we spent ?590,000 more on j I intoxicants last year than in 1906, * ! the average expenditure per head fell i 3 ; from ?3 16s. 3d. to ?3 15s. 9d. From 1 , 1872 to 1878 the average expendi- 1 , ture never fell below ?4 a head, and In 1876 it touched ?4 9s. On the ! other hand, from 1841 to 1851 (both ' years included) it never rose as high t as ?3, while in 1842 it fell as low j as ?2 8s. 5%d., or less than two- f thirds its present amount. As matters are we stand exactly where we stood in 1S6G, when the expenditure per head on alcoholic liquors was, j, as last year, ?3 15s. 9d.?Westmin- . ster Gazette. Temperance Notes. By a unanimous vote of the Legis- ^ I Iature, Missisippi goes "dry" on Jan- r uary 1, 1909. r Milwaukee city employes are to be forbidden to rush the growler in working hours. In Milwaukee! A man in a Texas prison said: "I p tried to keep from drinking whisky p by myself, but I could not. I tried joining the church, but it did not stop me from drinking. I promised my wife to quit. And r thank God I ? am in this prison, because there | hain't no saloons in here! " New Jersey is .showing up in good ( shape. The friends of prohibition in that State are encouraged in the be- j lief that victory Is not remote. t As every city and town in Massa- j cnusetts at tlie R.iunt'i|;ai cicwuua | \ each year votes oa the license ques- a tion, there are many cities both under ( license and no license. 8 That President Roosevelt is great- v ly pleased with the State-wide prohi- c bition feature of the Oklahoma Constitution. and that it will constitute one of the strongest reasons for his approving the document, is the state- < ment made by Judge Harper S. Cun- I ninghaoi. t : ~ IS 1 Sphered jorrbe 1', I OgiETHoO^li ;< "BE VERY SURE I NEED IT." , - cannot tell why the-' hould come to me A thought of son ,ne miles and yea~? away, , .*Jgg n swift insistence on the memory, . Unless there be ? need that I should . pray. . pgE re goes his way, I mine; we seldom meet . . To talk of plans or changes, day by day,,'.;. >f pain or pressure, triumph or defeat, Of special reasons why 'tis time to pray. Ve are too busy even to spare a thought, . For days together, of some friends away;' 'erhaps God aoes it for us, and we ought To read His signal as a call to pray. 'erhaps. just then, my friend had fiercer fight, ' ,f A more appaJling weakness, a decay )f courage, darkness, some lost sense of right-- : * AnH on in r>rtoa Ka nA/u^o mv I pray: ' "T'S )ear, do the same for me! If I intrude Unasked upon you, on some crowded day, Jive a moment's prayer, as interlude; Be very sure I need it, therefore pray., An Ever Present Truth. But one thing is needful.?Luke : .0:42. * vj.v^ The text is an old fact restated in he terms of the Gospel for answer o the numerous and many sided V [uestions of our modern life. 2 In order 10 attain pre-eminence and 1 uccess men everywhere are coming;^ o recognize more and more the wis-' ' torn of consecration in the pursuit of ? tome one thing. Michael Angelo,/ laving a fixed goal, pursued it with in ambition that consumed him. - Ho orgot hunger, thirst and bodilr & atigue, and at length the world ; :rowned him as master of his art. In the realm of music Handel 1? ; ;ajled a prince and the very soul of irt. This, however, never could have >een true of, him, nor could he havo vritten immortality into his name, * lad he been other than the man vhose passions and powers In the jursuit of the one thing were offered m the alt.r of music. It has been ';, laid of him that his ardor for celestial ; lounds caused the keys of his harpsi :hord by his frequent manipulation to ' issume the shape of spoons. Our text finds Jesus among Hl| 'riends in the Bethany home, and Hit f words rc zeal the two persona?'' Martha and Mary?in striking com ,ra?t. Marthfa. is deeply concerned ibout the material things. There If ziuch of anxiety, and bustle about ; ier as sue tninits 01 ms entenaui? nent, comfort* and food. Mary, thf . rery soul of seeming Indifference* td, ill temporal things, thinks only of 4 seat at His feet, where she may lietea , :o His"every word. When at length :he fussiness ol' Martha can stand It ao longer, she complains to Jesnsf. r saying, "Carest Thou not that my slfr> ;er hath left me to serve alone? " Hi. inswer is not a rebuke to her activity^ )ut rather an interpretation of it wltb lignity and strength, "Bfat one thing is needful." What did the Master mean? What s this one thing? Perhaps it may b* ; inswered best by pl%cl=g emphasis on :he word "one," so as to makeilt In^ elusive, and say: Thou lackest one :hing. That Is, the one thing lacking comprehends all wants and hungerngs, all life and power. If this be, true, then the "one thing needful" must be that for which men everywhere have been searching, ancf for which men even now?unconsciously, , perhaps?are seeking in strange ways ind by many questions. It is the 4one thing needful" for the aching leart which refuses to be quieted, and says: "Is there any meaning Inlife?" It is the "one thing needful*^ tor the man who in the midst of hi# / struggles is conscious of gradual defeat in the rounds of daily life, ex-., claiming: "Is there no way out of fflnoria of Haincr anH rtnincf Til?" ,lilO baugio VI UViUQ MUM MV.Mg . ? ^ is the "one thing needful" tor the I profound philosopher In his study* for H :he capitalist with his wealth, for the H iged and the young, for the learned H ind the ignorant. Yes, it is the "on# B :hing needful" for the whole world. What Jesus said to Martha ha* Deen the truth of the ages. It lfl the I .ruth of the present. How much men jverywhere need the "one thing" I which punctuates life with knowl* ?dge, with strength and fills the soul B with peace! We must not fail to H -ecognize that it had something to do B with Himself; for, speaking of Mary, H who sat at His feet listening to His H words, He said: "Mary hath chosen H Hio hottpr nart." The eood Dart H meant Himself. To know Him Is to inow the "one thing needful; " to find Him is to find it. He and it are one. 3e came to help our needy humanity, ;o satisfy with His light, love and peace our deep yearnings for the life vhich now is, and to comfort us with ;he truth of immortality. Our hymns, our prayers, our exhortations are all based on the one ippeal: "Come to Jesus." Come to, 3im because all life stands in need )f what -He alone has to give. If He :an satisfy the need, then He is the :ower to help, and belief in Him is he one thing needful.?The Rev. J. 3enry Hartman, pastor Tremont 3resbyterian Church, New York, in he Sunday Herald. The Wrong Wny. There is something wrong with he church when the only way It can jay the debts of the sheep Is by eeding and flattering the goat?. No Use. It's no use preaching about the leart of God if you have no pleasure n grasping tne nana 01 iuau. n The Healing Touch. fij No man who has felt the healing H ouch of the Master in bis heart has H nucn trouble in his head over the H niracle. fflj Get Busy. B You cannot cancel the custom of H ireying 011 your fellows by occasional BB iraying 10 your Father above. ia Reciprocity. ffi| If you are right with God. He will Hj ' " ays be right by you.?Home Her- H Government Has 754,895,290 Acres. B| From reports recently received' H rom the various local land offices in B he public land States and including Alaska, the general land office at mm Vashington, D. C., has compiled its fl| .nnual statement showing that the Hj *? ? c n r a Jovemment still nas an area 01 iot,95,296 acres of surveyed and unsureyed public lands, of which. Alaska' ontains C68,02l,f>09 acres. _ EE Frincp, Too Far, Saws Wood. J Prince Eitel Friedericb, second soall )f the Kaiser, lias grown so fat thatH| lis father has ordered him to wor^U en hours a day sawing wood. jmm "I Ml