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/ LADY O! THE SEQUEI BV MRS. C Lady Caroline Beaufort was supposed to be, as life goes, an unusually fortunate woman. It is true that things had not always gone well with her. In her youth she had been married almost by force to a man unlike herself in every way?an uncultured, almost uncivilized, rich boor of the neighborhood, the descendant of a navvy who had become a millionaire, and who inherited all the characteristics of his race along with their money, although he had never known anything of navvydom, but had been born a Scotch country gentleman with a great estate. It is supposed her father and mother, Lord and Lady Lindons, believed it to be for her real good when they placed poor Car, fainting with fright and horror, in the arms of Mr. Thomas Torrance, a man whose manners made themselves wince, though they were forced into no such constant contact with him, for they were far from being wicked parents or bad people in any way. But providence had been good to her, and while she was still young her husband had died. If he did not justify Lord Lindons' y expectations in his life, he did in his death. For he left everything in his wife's hands; not only had she the excellent jointure which her settlements secured her?a jointure without any mean and petty clause as to marrying again, but everything was left in her hands?the control of the property during little Tom's minority, and almost every advantage which a queen-mother could have. Tom was a little fellow of six, so that a long period of supremacy was in Carry's hands, and the rough fellow, whom she had almost hated, from whom her very soul had shrunk with a loathing indescribable, had done her the fullest justice. And then, after a very short interval, she had married again; she had married the lover of old days who had been dropped, who had been ignored when Lord Lindons came to his title and the prospects of the family had changed. How much Lady Caroline knew or did not know of the developments through which Mr. Beaufort had passed in the meantime no one ever discovered. She found him much as he had been when her family had dropped him, only not so young. A man who had made no way, a man without reproach, yet without success. who had kept stationary all the time, and was still a man of promise when his contemporaries had attained all that they were likely to attain. Beaufort was poor, but Lady Car was now rich. Ther$ was not the least reason why they should not marry unless he had been fantastic and refused to do so on account of her superior wealth. But he had no such Idiotic idea. So that Lady Car was considered by most people, especially those who had a turn for the sentimental, as a very lucky woman. She was amazingly, passionately happy in her second marriage?at first. If she saw any drawbacks, she closed her eyes to them as passionately determined to admit nothing that, went aeainst her bliss?but ner haps she did not see anything. And, after all, there was not much to see. Mr. Beaufort was a gentleman. He was a man of great cultivation of mind; an excellent scholar, understanding every literary allusion that could be made, never at a loss for a happy phrase or quotation, quite an exceptional man in the way of culture and accomplishment. He was extremely good looking, his manners were admirable, his character without reproach. Nothing seemed wanting in him that a woman could desire. And, notwithstanding the uncomfortable episode of her first marriage, and the two black browed children, who had not a feature of their mother's, he was Lady Car's only love, and, so far as anybody knows, or as was ever known, she was his. By how many devious ways a pair may be led who are destined to meet at last! He in various wanderings over the world; she, in the blank of her dreadful life, through all her martyrdoms, had all the time been tending to this. And now they were lappy at last. "No," she said, "Edward; don't let tis settle down; I can't; a house would not contain me. I want the grand air, as the French say. I K/s : euuuiu uc luaniug uuuiuit; lsons, I should be thinking"?she stopped with a shiver?"of the past. Let us go abroad. I have not been abroad since we parted; it will look like taking up the story where it dropped." Beaufort gave a half conscious glance toward the spot outside where the back browed children were playing. He felt, perhaps, that it would not be so easy to take up the story where it had dropped; but he assented, with quiet gentleness soothing her. "I am always fond of wandering. I have done little else all J8,y life?and with you!" "Yes, with you!" she repeated. She was accustomed to the children and did not think of the anachronism of their presence at the moment of taking up the story. "You shall take me to all the new places where you have been alone, and we'll go to the old places where we were that summer together; we'll go everywhere and see everything, and then when the novelty is exhausted we shall come back and make a home of our own. And then, Edward, you shall be left free for your work. How we used to talk of it that summer! You have not done much to it yet?" "Nothing at all," he said, with something like a blush. "So much the better." cried Lady Car. "I should have been jealous had you done it without me?you could not do it without me. You shall not touch a pen while we are Away, but observe everything, and in 'i CARj Ft, L OF A LIFE. HIPHANT. vestigate mankind in all aspects, and then we'll come home?and then, Edward, what care I shall take that you are not disturbed?how I shall watch and keep oft every care! You shall have no trouble about anything, no noises or foolish interruption, no one to disturb you but me. And I will be no interruption." "Never, my love," he said, fervently; but this was the only thing to which he responded clearly. He had not, perhaps, the same intentions about that great work as once he had. He did not see it in the same light, but it gave him a certain pleasure to see her enthusiasm. Accordingly they went abroad, for something more than the longest honeymoon, the black browed children accompanying them more or less?that is, they performed certain journeys in the wake of the pair, and were settled here and there, at suitable centres, with all the attendance of skilled nurses and governesses which wealth makes it so easy to procure?while Lady Car and her hus- , band pursued their further way, never altogether out ot reach. The years of the honeymoon flew like so many days of happiness, j They went almost everywhere where a sea voyage was not indispensable, ( for Lady Car was a very bad sailor. They avoided everything that could , have been troublesome, and were quite old married people, thoroughly used to eacn oiner ana 10 an iaeir , mutual diversities of feeling and ] ways of thinking "before they re- . turned home. They were both vague- ( ly aware that the homecoming would j be a trying moment, but not enough so to be afraid of it or resist the con- . viction that the time had come when , It was no longer possible to put it j off. It was before they returned ] home, however, in the first consulta- ( tions over their future dwelling, that : the first real divergence arose. CHAPTER IL i "We must think of where we are ] going to live," Lady Car said; "we 1 have never discussed that question. ] The world is all before us where to < choose?" 1 The boat lay faintly rocking upon < the little wavelets, from which the s ruddy reflection of the sunset was 1 just fading. The beautiful outline of i the mountains of the Savoy side stood out blue and half cold against the 1 glowing west, the Dent du Midi had 1 still a flush of rose color upon its pinnacles, but had grown white and i cold, too, in the "breath ot its great 1 bosom. Evening was coming on, and, 1 though there was still little chill in 1 the air, the sentiment of the September landscape was cold. < He was seated in front of her, with his oars resting idly in the rowlocks. * It was a lovely night, and they were i close to their temporary home, within < a few minutes of the shore. "Where 1 are we going to live?" he said. "Then you don't think of going to your own i house?" < She started a little. He would nev- J er have found it out had they been 1 on solid ground, but the boat re- J sponded to every movement. It was 1 only from this that he knew he had i startled her. for she recovered her- 1 self immediately, and said: "Would 1 you like that, Edward?" in a voice < which she evidently meant to he as ] easy as usual, but from which con- 1 sciousness was not altogether banished. "Well," he said, "my love, it will be the time of year for Scotland, and . I suppose there is plenty of game; but I neither like nor dislike, Car. 1 have not thought about it. I suppose I had taken it for granted that your own house would be the place to which you would go." . ; *' "I never thought of it as my own home," she said, in a low, hurried tone, which he could scarcely hear. "Oh, no, no. I could not go there." "Well," he said cheerfully, "then of course we shall not go there. I don't care where we go; wherever you are there is my home. I had not known one till I had you; it for you to choose." She said nothing more for a time, ' but leaned a little over the side of the j boat, putting down her hand into the darkening ripples. "After all, the lake is as warm as if it were summer . still," she said. It was she who had introduced the subject, but something had blown across her, a breath 1 from the past, which had taken all ( the pleasure out of it. She shivered a little again, with a contradictoriness of which she was unaware. ! "There must have been snow somewhere, I think, up among the hills." "It is you who are blowing hot and cold, Cary," he said, smiling at her. "I think myself it is a perfect ; evening. Look at the last steamer, passing along against the line of hills, with its lights and crammed with tourists from stem to stern. Shall we go in? There's time enough before it gets here, but I know you don't like the wash." The night was gradually stealing into the vacant place of the day. The steamer came on with a rush of purpose and certain destruction, and roused her from her thoughts to a little nervous tremor. "I wish you would take the oars, Edward, as you say, and let us go in, please. I know it will do us no harm; but?" ] "You are frightened all the same," ; he said, leisurely settling to the oars. ] "It is like a spirit of evil," she i cried. He took the boat in, making haste i to free her from that little nervous thrill of apprehension, though with a i laugh. i He felt a fond superiority as he 1 rowed her in with a few strokes, i amused at her sense ol danger. And it was not till some time later, after they had climbed a somewhat rugged 1 path to their villa among .the .trees, t r': ' -i L \ l. I ii i ii and had looked into the room where j.| little Janet lay fast asleep, and then y had supped cheerfully at a table f" close to the broad window, that the 4 subject was resumed. By this time tjjj all the noises were stilled, a full moon was rising slowly, preparing tc march along the sky in full majesty ^ in the midst of the silent tranquillity q of the night; there was not a breath sj of air stirring, not a cloud upon the blue heavens, which were already almost as clear as day by the mere re- w splendence of her coming over the q? solid mountains, wnn tneir mauj peaks, which "stepped along the u deep." They sat looking out for some time without saying anything. Such a fC night is in itself a sort of ecstasy, 3. especially to those who want nothing, w and with whom, as with the whole 5j apparent world stretched out before them, all is well. "And to think we shall have to leave all this presently and enter into the fret and care of settling down!" ^ he said, with a half laugh. "I inter- m rupted you, dear, to-night when .you vj were talking of that. I suppose it ^ was that I diverted your thoughts. Since it is not to be your Towers, where is it to be?" "Not my Towers," she said, with a ^ little half reproachful look at him E and a sudden clasping together of her lightly interlaced fingers. ? "Well, let us say Tom's Towers; but in present circumstances it is ^ very much the same." 3] Once more a little shiver ran over }] her, though there was no chill at all in the soft air that came in from the lake and the moonlight But her 1; voice was a little uncertain with it, g as If her teeth had chattered. ""Don't g talk of It," ?he said; "I want no |0 place at all; or any quarters, but a w house, a pretty house, just higenough m for us and them, somewhere, wher- w ever you would like, Edward." "I shall like what you like," he p] said. ^ "But that is not what I wish at all; wj [ want you to tell me what will please Kou. You would like to be within reach of the great libraries, within D reach of what is going on. No one E ;an write what is to live without be- k [ng within reach?" N He shook his head. "You are too tj partial in your estimate of wha? I im likely to do; so long as I am with- g in reach of you?and thank God nothing can put me out of that!?I E lon't know that I care for anything 5i more. ' jE "Then, Carry, my love, do just as e] rou please. I shall come with you, w like Tom and Janet, to see the new ^ place. If you choose one that's very ugly and out of the way, we will all protest. But so far as I am concerned, it can't be ugly while you are here," he said, putting his hands up- 1 in hers with a tender pressure. Then idded, with a look of solicitude, put:ing away the cigarette he was smoking, "Why, you are in a fever, Carry, ai four poor little hands are like fire. 1 8( lope yon haven't taken cold on the w lake." h; "I never take cold," she said, smil- bj ng. "I suppose it is mere silliness, j h; thinking that this time is over, and ! If that we are going back to the ?i vorld." i ii mat vexes you, my aanins, lon't let us go back to the world." "Edward, you make me wild, you ?1 ire so indifferent! You speak as if h nothing mattered, as if we could go I c' )n and just please ourselves and | ol ;hink of nothing else forever." j u "Well, my love, I tell you nothing , matters to me except yourself, and 1 . lon't think the world would mind ; a1 nuch. But don't be vexed, Carry. 1 Si know the boy must go to school and ^ ill the rest of it. We'll do our duty j P1 ike men?I mean like women, which J T s far more thorough. And, for my i ai part, I'm not a bit afraid of th<? j ts ivorld. Even London I can face quite j fc :ranquilly with you by my side, es- e'< secially as at this time of the year there's nobody there." o1 To be Continued. aj h, One Way. w A story, said to be characteristic, tl s told of an Arkansas judge. It w seems that when he convened court es it one of the towns on his circuit it j jt ffas found that no pens, ink oj paper ci lad been provided, and, upon'inquiry t developed that 110 county funds ei vere available for this purpose. The b< iudge expressed himself somewhat pi forcefully, then drew some money Ct from his own pocket. He was about ai :o hand this to the clerk, when a vis- c( ting lawyer, a high priced, imported cc irticle, brought on to defend a case )f some importance, spoke up, in an iside plainly audible over the room. "WelT," he remarked, with infinite cc jontempt, "I've seen some pretty bad fc courts, but this?well, this is the lim- ?> t!" lii The old judge flushed darkly. p, "You are fined twenty-five dollars sr 'or contempt, sir! Hand the money _ :o the clerk!" he said; when the pom- ec pous visitor had humbly complied, he a jontinued: er "Now, Mr. Clerk, go out and gel sc tvhat pens, ink and paper the courl jj. nay require, and if there is anything ^ eft over, you can give tne gentiemar sv lis change."?Harper's Weekly. ty Almost Broke Up the School. st Four monkeys escaped from JohD ai Robinson's menagerie on Saturdas ifternoon while the attendants were rc 'eeding the other animals. Later in 01 :he evening three of them returned c' :o the neighborhood of the tent and h] were recaptured, but one is still ai te arge. Mr. Robinson offered a reward jf $25 for his capture and return 10 The teacher has almost been com- tl" pelled to dismiss the school on ac- *c :ount of lack of attendance. Onl] jne boy has been to school this week i ind he jS a cripple.?Flora Journal. 1 ci Kot What You Thought. u: A man with an inflammable nos? GI recently created excitement on th( c* Boulevard St. Michel, Paris. He was 1" lighting a cigarette when his nose be- H came suddenly ignited, and it and his beard were soon on fire. Th< man jumped about in great pain, i?nri was carried through a horrified ec crowd to a druggist's shop, wher< the blaze was extinguished. It was h( 411U+ llO llSwl Jl pplllllnir cv mini iuuuu uiuv ?v w* 01 oose.?Detroit News. "] There lias lieen a revival of tlic ca .vhaling industry. A few years age _ ;ke annual industry dwindled to 150, Of the 1100 diseases to which the uman body is liable, according to a erman physician, there are fortyght peculiar to the eye. Prtr thp hpnefit of outdoor workers ho must have their hands free, a erman inventor has brought out a ;nt-shaped umbrella that straps to j le shoulders. There are 413 species of trees >und within the limits of the United tates, the woods of sixteen of which hen seasoned, are so heavy as to nk in water. Stones which are used by the lithoraphers all over the world in making )lored pictures are found in a little istrict not more than four or five iles long by two or three broad near uremberg, in Germany. Quarrying as gone on there for more than a ;ntury. There has been patented by a Noregian firm a process of manufacturig colored woods. Whole stems of reen trees are colored, the sap being ressed out of the stem by force, and le dye injected in its place. It is aimed that wood treated by this rocess is much more durable than dinary wood, and will not warp. The high pTice of meat is not a ardship, but a blessing, according to r. Bosley, Health Commissioner of altimore. Dr. Bosley is of the opinin that in the spring and summer, hen the body does not require so mch heat, meat can he dispensed ith the greater part of the time. The actor thinks that with meat at its resent prices people will eat moro jgetables x?nd he the better for the lange. > At a recent meeting of scientists In ublin Professor G. Elliott Smith, the gyptologist, said that the earliest nown human remains found in the ile Valley, when compared with lose of later times, demonstrated the ict that at a very remote period gypt and Nubia were inhabited by le same race which had existed in gypt with little or no change in phycal characteristics throughout the itervening 6000 years until the preset day. They had been, and still' ere, a small people, the average eight of the men being about five jet three inches at every period of leir historylie Fee-Faw-Fums of Maniiood By FRANK CRANE. It Is with ghosts ay with men; some re good and some are bad?and the ood die young. Modern pragmatism, lth. its steely and philistine science, as invaded shadow land and masicred the innocents, the gentle and armless credulities of childhood and jnorance^, but the fiercer kind, the Id man-eaters, still keep their caves id issue forth to raven among souls, he kindly fee-faw-fums of' childood, how many delicious shivers we we them; the Things that stood beind doors, that trooped into the lurch when the congregation went ut, that lurked in clcset corners and nder the bed, that rustled and wished and creaked and tapped in le dim chamber when we lay awake t night! They have all gone?with anta Claus. And we miss them, for >ar is a condiment, like cayenne epper; a little is an excellent relish, he zest of war is its dash of fear, ad men flee clubdom to hunt mounlin lions, and sail the uncertain sea ? T 4. ~ C ? T ir mat tiugie ul tiie nerves cue -u::u irth cannot give; and those who ardly rise to these perils may read ' them in "The Three Musketeers" id "Treasure Island." When we see aw barren of the charm of awe is lodern life, from the nursery, where ley read science primers, to religion, here they have banished the intersting devil, we almost envy .the Spirualists, those gourmets in palatable eeps. And now for the deadlier revlants, those "dead ideas and lifeless ?liefs" that yet walk and chill and iralyze this garish world. It is a irious and startling fact, that we *e governed, not so much by real mvictidns, as by the ghost of dead mvictions.?Atlantic. Equipment For Life. Professor Kern, superintendent of >unty schools in Rockford, 111., has irmulated a new commandment? rhou shalt enrich and enlarge the fe of the country child"?and, in ursuance of this injunction, the nallest county in Illinois?Putnam -has inaugurated a new order of lucational methods by establishing "consolidated" school. The farm's of Magnolia township?mostly de:endants of sturdy Quaker stock? ive swept all the small schools of leir section into one large one?a ibstantial building situated on twenr acres of fine forest, furnished with earn heat, gas and running water id equipped with laboratories, li-aries, manual training rooms, play)oms, workshop, cloakrooms and lice. The course of instruction iuudes the preparatory grade and the [gh school course, with special attntion given to agricultural science, >rticulture, animal husbandry, doestic science and home economics,ie training being such as will tend i conserve what is best and richest i a life distinctly rural. The eduitional creed thus inaugurated lor irming districts is that the country lilt] is entillnd to everv whit as rrnnd i educational opportunity as that ijoyed by the most favored city lild now attending the American lblic schools.?Uncle Remus's?The om'e Magazine. One More Chance. One day the office boy went to the litor of the Soaring Eagle and said: "There's a tramp at. the door mid ? says he has had nothiug to eat for x days." "Fetch him in." said the editor, [f we can find out how he does it we .n run this paper for another week." -Illustrated Bits. .... :vjI ; J '' 6un&otj-&cfto<if w INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JANUARY l? W( Subject: The Beginnings of the Chris* sli tian Church, Acts 2:22?47? pis Golden Text, Acts 2:42?Commit 6D Verses 32, 33?Exposition. 00 TIME.?Sunday, May 28, A. D. 30. in, PLACE.?Jerusalem. j au EXPOSITION.?I. God Hath Made ce Jesus Both Lord and Christ, 32-30. su Jesus could not be held fast by death, bl: No more can we if we are in Him. fo David hundreds of years before had lie caught a glimpse of the Greater David who would go down into hade?, but fo who would not stay there; who would di not even see corruption, but would sa be raised before corruption had over- a taken His body. Peter, though an th eye-witness to the resurrection, goes B: to the Scripture for proof before ap- or pealing to his own experience. (Some m to-day think that their wonderful ex- wl perience does away with the necessity I of appeal to the sure Word of God. Let all such learn wisdom from Peter, efl But Peter's testimony had its place wl and our testimony has its place, n? though it is not the first place?that h? belongs to the Word of God. Peter and the rest were witnesses of the ful- dr fillment of this prophecy. Their tes- Id timony is unimpeacnaDie. mere was | p* still another witness to the certainty ba of the resurrection of Jesus?that fr was the outpoured Spirit (v. 33). B< n. What Shall We I)o? 37-40. A] Peter told his hearers that Jesus had ^ been exalted by God to be both Lord c1' and Christ. This fact carried home ru by the Holy Spirit produced the deep- n( est and sharpest conviction of sin. Cl1 No other truth is calculated to pro- 7^ duce such profound conviction of sin as the truth concerning the glory of te Jesus and our consequent enormous guilt in the rejection and crucifixion of such an one. The Spirit came to T1 them and through them convinced ?* the world (Jno. 16:8). These con- J** victed Jews cried out to know what jj1 they were to do. Peter's answer was very plain, and perhaps nothing in nc the Bible makes the way of salvation OI and blessing plainer. (1) "Repent," ai i. e., change their mindn about Jesus. They were to change from that atti- j1' tude of mind that crucified Jesus to llj that attitude of mind that accepted Him as that which God had exalted Him to be, Lord and Christ. This, of P? course, involves repentance of sin, i. ^ e., renouncing all sin. And It involves the absolute surrender of our *r wills to Jesus as our Lord. (2) "Be ?c baptized." There was to be outward P1 water baptism. But there must be tnnvA -f V> o r? flin mcro ontmor/1 fivmhftl ' < "?" < ?*< r ?there was to be the great Inward Kj' fact for which the outward symbol ai stood, the renunciation of sin, faith 89 in Christ and tho putting on of Jesus Christ (cf. Gal, 3:26, 27; Ro. 6:3, to 4). Being "baptized in the name of ^ Jesus Christ" means more than hav- jn ing some water sprinkled upon you is (or being immersed in some water) *? while a certain baptismal formula is repeated. It means confession and renunciation of sin. faith in Christ's P1 death and resurrection in our behalf, h1 Identification with Christ in His death ai and in His resurrection. When there cc is real repentance and real baptism ^ there will be remission of sin and p there will be reception of "the gift of the Holy Ghost" (v. 38). The gift of ,tb the Holy Ghost is the blood-bought birthright of every believer in Jesus *u Christ. If one does not have the gift ~ of the Holy Spirit exDerimentally it Is either because he does not claim his birthright by simple prayer and ?* faith (Acts 4:31; 8:15, 16), or else ct /because he has not really made Jesus Lord and Christ by the absolute surrender of the will to Him and by identification with Him in His death " and resurrection by a real baptism of 0; which his water baptism was a svmbol. "The promise," i. e.. as the lan- "< guage used and the context unmistak- ^ ably demonstrates (cf. ch. 1:4, 5: 2: 23. 38), the promise of the baptism with or gift of the Holy Spirit?was " for them as well as for the apostles. III. A Model Church, 41, 42. Pet- co er's sermon had a tremendous effect, .. 3000 were saved by it. No such effeet had followed Jesus' own preach- j1? in'g, and His promise that they should J,? do greater works after His ascension than He Himself had wrought during His humiliation (Jno. 14:12) wasthus 10 fulfilled. And we to-day are united with this same exalted Christ iti the place of power at God's right hand, and may speak in the power of this same mighty Spirit. The inward re- J" ception of the word was outwardly expressed In baptism. These 3000 B< baptisms in a day were the outcome **= of the ten days of waiting upon God In prayer (cf. ch.l:14). Surelythose wl ? -* i- * -i.?a mi 1 HP td* aays naa not oeen wasiea. mw work proved to be lasting, "they continued steadfastly." The four things "J In which they continued steadfastly are worthy of note. (1) "The aposties' teaching." There was no running away after every new religious dr fad that came up. (2) "The apos- m ties' fellowship." Fellowship Is one er of the necessities of healthy Christian cl! growth (Eph. 4:13, 16). The one who seeks to grow in seclusion, separ- ,B* ated from the brethren, is doomed 'n not only to disappointment, but worse still, to sad distortion of character! (3) "In the breaking of bread." They did not neglect regular obedience to Jesus' commandment to show His death and to feed upon Him in tho _( communion service. (4) "In pray- w< ers." Just here is the point where the average Christian of to-day de- in parts most lamentably from the ex- ? ample of the apostolic church. Decision Forbids Bleach Flour. Secretary Wilson, of the Department of Agriculture, in Washington, *r D. C., has announced his decision in the bleached flour controversy, hold- en ing that flour bleached with nitrogen peroxide is an adulterated product s0 under the law, and that it cannot le- af gaily be sold in the District of Columbia or in the Territories or be transported in interstate commerce. Owing to the immense quantity of bleached flour now on hand. Secretary Wilson will recommend no pros- | th ecution of the manufacturers or sell- i an ers for a period ol! six months from j date. sh do .. 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One eminent ithority says that thirty-five per nt. of the feeble-minded are the reIts of strong drink. What a stuming block this nation is placing bere the children in the form ot the sensed dramshop! O mother, you whose arms are lded about your bright, laughing, mpled little ones, think of the thounds of helpless infants, forced into n almost joyless, senseless existence rough the obnoxious rum traffic, ich mother should say, "I am but ie?but I am one. I cannot do uch, but I can do something, and iat I can do, by the grace of God, will flo." No matter how well directed the tort for the idiot's development, he ill always be handicapped, and iver in this world will he be what s has a right to be. Because of the degradation of ruminking parents in one large city, i0,000 children, owing to their filthy lysical and moral Inheritances and d environments, are prohibited om attending the public schools. ?lle Kearney, in an address at Ann rbor, told of one of her experiences hJl/s tnnrlnff tho Smith A1 the U11V bVUIiUg VMV MVUVM? *?v < ?w ose of one lecture a little boy came inning toward her. "0 Miss. Kearsy," he cried,* stretching out bia aws toward her, for his thin hands ere little' more; "don't y6u think e boys &nd girls ought to be procted from Btrong drink?" In a small village of Michigan ere exists a family of nine children. ie father is a habitual drinker. His illdren are dull, and some of them ive criminal tendencies. Their ona :tle girl was an exception. This lit} child was very pretty and appeared )rmal up.to her second year. Later, le afternoon her mother went away id left her in the care of the two rnnger boys. In her absence the ;tle girl attempted to light the gasole stove. Her clothing caught Are id she was burned beyond earthly >pe when her screams brought a isserby to her relief. Their older >y is now in jail. For months/the illdreq have absented themselves om school. The teachers say they' > not want them to attend, for their -esence always starts trouble. This mily can be multiplied many times, tie boys are growing up without tiristian training, and when they e twenty-one their vote will count : much as the minister's. Physicians assert tnac in many wns more than onp-half of the omen to-day are incapable of nursg their children. This incapacity on the increase and has been found i be hereditary. Their milk has to ; supplemented with cow's milk. It is been found that human milk, to eet special requirements of the iman infant, is poorest in albumen id richest in lactic acid. The latter imponent Is the principle element ied in building up the brain. Now, Le milk of the cow is composed of gredients in percentages that meet ie need of the calf, and therefore mnot be considered proper sub3tlite for human milk for the infant ver 100 eminent medical men have jen engaged in scientific research to icertain the reason for the failure so ma,ny mothers to nurse their lildren. Sixteen hundred famines ire laKen lor uujevi uiuuiea tu iu?cogate along this line. The failure seventy-eight out of a. hundred as found to be due to alcoholism, nly a small percentage of the daughrs of drinking fathers were found to > able to nurse their children. If a lild is not well fed, especially in inncy, it is in danger of becoming a ielOng victim of mental inaptitude, will scarcely attain the success thdt might have enjoyed had all of the nditions been favorable. If for no other reason than love to ese "little human flowers," let us, i mothers, wives, sisters and daughrs, do all we can to take down the ars and Stripes from the licensed loon and wrap it around the precus children. Berlin's Drink Percentage. A German physician, Dr. Hirsch:ld, has been computing the quantiof alcoholic drink consumed in jrlin. Berlin possessed three years ;o 12,892 drinking shops?one for .0 inhabitants?in addition to 301 here wine only is sold. During the iriod the Berliners consumed 438,19,532 liters of beer, 24,704,525. ers of brandy, and 19,956,062 liters wine. This amounts to an average inual consumption per head of popation of 236 & liters of alcoholic inV at a cost of 100 marks?a ark being one shilling. As the avage income of tbe Berliners, inuding women and children, is about !3 marks, it may be said that the ;rliner spends a seventh part of his come in intoxicating drinks.?Lonin Globe. ' Our Duty. William E. Dodge believed that the urch could so affect public sentient that all needed legislation juld follow; that it is the duty of lrtstian people to use their utmost fluence to secure right public opinQ. Temperance Notes. Sixty-five of Iowa's ninety counties e "dry." In Arkansas fifty-eight of the sevty-five counties have gone "dry." Major-General "Stonewall" Jackn: "I never use it. I am more raid of it than Yankee bullets." Missouri's local option law has ade forty-four of its 115 counties | ry." Tennessee is prohibition except the i-ee cities of Memphis, Chattanooga i d Nashville. In Ohio 114 0 out of 137C townips forbid liquor selling, as also sixty uer cent, of the municipaliMaine is the on'.y State that has )re savings banks depositors than ters. One-third of the people of line, including women and children, ve money in the savings banks. Another thing we can say?if any our ladies or children waiu to go a neighbor's in the evening, they without fear of being run over by 02v hoodlums. If Prohobition has led us. we .wish it would kill every vti in the State just as dead as we Joliet (111.) News. v sobered jor the I jogiETrioo^l HEARING HOME. A little longer?'tis the soul's appeal? My heart as Thine, my loving Fatner, seal; Long Thou hast borne me o'er life's bo is terous sea? A little longer still my helper be. The garish day is closed; eve comes apace; The more I feel dependent on Thy grace; As nature fails, oh, prove Thvseli my stay. Till earth's vain shadows shall have passed away. > Let my yet few remaining hours be Thine; Heaven be more real as all things here decline; My strength Thou wast when life's fair glories shone; My strength remain until the race be run. Around my steps the dews of evening fall; May sweeter sound the raptured heavenly call; The ties of earth unloose as, nearing home, Faith ^ triumphing, I wait the welcome I # So let it be; a little longer, pray, i Hold Thou my footsteps in life's narrow way. % The eyes grow dim, strength fails, 'twill not be long When mine the glorious scene, the rest-, the song. ?C. B., in the Christian Herald. The Discipline of Life. Stress, strain, struggle?what a persistent triumvirate! On every side they strike 'us. The story of most lives re-echoes them. Their >. reign is undisputed, untiring, universal. Extensively, intensively they rule. Eipect them! Shrinking from them does not eliminate their pres- 1 ence. Life requires them?and all of life,, To meet them is oar part? to conquer, our privilege. To complain, to groan, to yield is childish. Why despair? Why forespend? They hurt?of course. But do not hate them. Assert the stuff that victor souls are made of. You are making character. Theyhelp y6u in the >1. making. Discipline is what counts. Never fight that. It is "what every v life needs. ~ They furnish it. Don't permit them to torment you. vThat is foolish and .enervating. Endure! Strength of character? Pjreal strength?will result. By them your soul Ib proved-rand polished. You cannot escape the finishing pro* cess. Don't try! It is the. will of God. It is your Father's purpose; 4 He knows the whole process of soul refining. His way is good. Be brave! - Have courage! You needthe stress and strain and struggle. It may be most unpleasant?but it is best. r Try to understand. Co-operate! Sweetness, richness, beauty will be your soul's sure recompense. Resign yourself! A real child of Christ must. A true child of Qod will. Such adjustment reveals you to yourself; explains the core meaning of life; puts before your fellows the attainable ideal. Be unafraid! God loves moral heroes. So does man. Grow! Develop! Ripen! Mellow! Live the Intensive lite! God is watching. Your crown i* being set with God-cut gems. Mean* ? time you are learning the true interpretation of life's, only meaning. You 1 are Diluting me one euuurius turns ?character?God's hand is helping you. Behold It ih life's stress and strain and struggle! Get hold of thtf Father-hand. Grip hard?and hold on. Know this:- He will carry youthrough.?Seth Russel Downle, in the Westminster. Natural Trials. The way in which a man' bears temptation is what decides liis character; yet hotf secret is the system of temptation! Who knows what is going on? What the real.ordeal has ' been? What its issue was? So with respect to the trial of griefs and sorrows, the world is again a system ot secrecy. There is something particularly penetrating, and which strikes home, in those disappointments; which are specially not extraordinary^ and make no show. What comes naturally, and ; t ; as a part of our situation, has a t probing force grander strokes have not; there is a solemnity and stateliness'in these, but the blow which is nearest to common life gets the j stroneer hold. After all, the self- I made trial is a poor disciplinarian j weapon; there is a subtle, masterly, J irritant, and provoking point in the genuine natural crossness of events; ( which the artificial thing cannot manage; we can no more make our trials than we can make our feelings, in this way moderate deprivations are in' some cases more difficult to bear than harder ones. And so it is often the case that what we must do as simply right, and which would not strike even ourselves, and still less 4 anybody else, is just the hardest thing to do. A work of supereroga tlon would be much easier.?Scottish V American. Blessings of Freedom. I say that we have chance and right to look for the fulfilment of prophecy, such as our fathers never had; the a| Improvement of the future will come " directly and visibly in the lines which Jesus suggests. It will be in happy hcfmes, it will be in life not bent by hateful toil, it will be as pure love * binds heart to heart, it will he as aspiring man listens to God's voice, and in glad society, in e?sy intercourse, wnoi'n on/7 nthpr flnp Art in and other mutual advance, man en- e joys God's matchless gifts. It will be as a happp world grows happier and happier, as a free world tastes the real blessings of freedom.?Edward Everett Hale. It Must Be Right; "He that gave me my being, and gave His Son for my redemption, He has assigned me this suffering. What A He ordains who io boundless Love must be good; what He appoints who is unerring Wisdom must be right. J. Harvey. A Good Enough World. I find no word of querulous dissatisfaction upon Jesus' lips about the ^ world He had come into. It was a z good enough world to live a good life in.?Phillips Brooks. Worried Over Taxes, Ends Life. At Elkton. Md., Mrs. Annie Evans, widow of Colonel Andrew W. Evans, # U. S. A., committed suicide by hanging. Mrs. Evans had worried a great deal over the new assessment law of Cecil County, which increased the tax on securities. She feared it would materially impair ner mcome. Sao Paulo Bonds in London. jAk Twenty-five million dollars of the Sao Paulo (Brazil) coffee loan ha9 been issued in London and was quoted at % premium. The remaining $50,000,000 will be offered by New York and the Continent. . a j A