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iisgrace, however, can "hinder a young man from attaining his twenty-firs birthday, nor change the universa custom which makes that moment i period of congratulation and celebra tion, as if it were by any virtue o: his that the boy became a man. Ii occurred to some of the family coun eellors who had been summoned foi the great occasion that, considering his past behavior, Tom's majority should be passed over with as litth merrymaking as possible. But Beau fort was once more the young fel low's champion. He was not the sori of man to take lightly the stigma 01 the university, and therefore he was listened to with all the more atten tion. "I must repeat again," he said "that there is nothing in all this t< prevent Tom from doing well enougt in his natural position. It might b< ruin to some boys, but not to him. ] never expected him to do anything ai Oxford, and I am not surprised ai what has happened. But everybody if not thinking of this as we are. A great many people will never havt heard of it, nor would they attact any importance to it if they did hear I have told you before. Carry., thai the best of women are unjust to boys 'It is very natural it should be so Even now, however, there is nothing to prevent Tom-.from doing ver> well." "The thing is that he seems to b? getting a reward for his foolishness instead of any punishment," said Edith Erskine, who was, as sh thought, upholding her sister'6 view As for Carry herself, she had said nothing. To discuss her boy's follies was more than she was capable of, She could not silence the others whc spoke, hut she only looked at them: she could not speak. "He has been foolish at Oxford, and the authorities there have punished him; but we have no right tc put back the clock in his life, and keep him out of his rights for anything he has done. I am sure that is what his mother thinks?" "His mother has always been toe indulgent, and this is what has corn* of it," said old Lord Lindons, shaking his head. He would have sent Tort off to Africa or somewhere with at unfortunate if highly paid bear-leadei from the University to keep him ii order, if Tom would have submitted on the verge of his lawful freedon to any such bondage; but this hit grandfather did not take into account. He shook his head ovei Carry's indulgence, and did not at al understand the look which she turnec upon him and in which there were un speakable things. "You may b< angry, if you please, my dear, but 3 must tell you my opinion. The boj has been spoilt all along. He is noi of a nature to stand it; he wanted z vigorous hand over him. Yoif shoulc have remembered the stock of whict he came." Lady Car looked at her father witt a HcVit in Vior mil/1 ovoe ?n i-? / m uvi uinu \.j ouc. ao uv one could remember to have seer there before. "Why was my boy oi that stock?" she said, in a voic< which was very low, but full of pas sion that could not be restrained Her mother and sister started with one impulse to stop further utter ance. "Carry!" they cried. "What? What did she say?" criec Lord Lindons; but neither Carry noi any of the others repeated what sht had said. After this strange little scene there was, however, no more said aboui Tom's coming of age. which thej could not have kept back if thej would. But all kinds of preparation: were made to make the celebratioi worthy, if not of Tom, yet of the po sition which he ought to take in th< county so far as wealth went. Hii long minority, ind the scrupulous care with which both his estate anc his money had been managed. mad< Tom one of the richest commoner! in Scotland, the very richest, perhaps when income came from propertj alone, and not from trade; anc though the county did not recoiled his father with very particular regard, nor anticipate very much fron himself?for everybody knew thos? unsatisfactory points in Tom's history which it was hoped had attracted no observation?yet Lady Car had gained aJl respect, and for her sake and perhaps a little for their own amusement, the neighbors threw themselves readily into all the details of the feastings, and drank his health and wished him joy, with every appearance of friendliness and sincerity. And there were many ladies heard to declare that a good wife would just be the making of the young man. Perhaps this sentiment as much as respect for Lady Car made the county people warm in their sympathy. There were a great many young ladies in the county; it might very frell happen that one of these was destined by Providence to bo thh LADY THE SEQUE BY MRS. CHAPTER XI. 13 Continued. "What do you mean?" said Janet but her conscience was too much foi her. She could not maintain a bole front. The recollection came burninj to her cheeks, and brought a hot flooc of tears to her eyes. "I only rode th< pony. I meant no harm. I didn' know it was wrong. Oh, Tom! Tom don't tell mothec," she cried. "You had better behave, then,' said Tom, "and dgn't tnink you car crow over me. I've done nothing a all. It's only those old saps tha pannot bear to see a young feliov Qavlng his fun." It was certainly a great contrast t( the humiliated condition in which h< :ame home to think of all the im mense preparations that they wer< making to do the young ?capegrac< honor. Very far from pointing i moral to young men of Tom's tastei was the triumphant coming of ag< after the academical disgrace. N( CAR; DR. !L or A LIFE. OLIPHANT. ! making of the second Tom Torrance of the Towers. And the parents who > thought, with a softened considerar tion of all the circumstances that had 1 been against him, that a daughter of J theirs might perhaps have that misl sion to fulfil, had certainly much less i to tolerate and forgive than Lord t Lindons had when he married his ! daughter'to Tom's father. Therefore everybody accepted the invitations ' that were sent out, and for a week. i the house blazed with light and rang t with festive sounds, and life stirred t and quickened throughout the entire r neighborhood. The long interregnum was over, and Tom had come into his ) kingdom. J Happily an event of this kind ex ercises a certain influence on all i minds. Perhaps Lady Car allowed } herself to be moved by her husband's i optimism, and was able with him to 3 believe that Tom might do very well i notwithstanding his youthful indis) cretions; perhaps it was only that ; mild and indulgent despair.which had t taken possession of her inmost soul, 1 and which made it evident that nothi ing that could be done by her would - afreet her boy, and that all she was t now good for was to tolerate and fort give; but at least she presided over - all the rejoicings with apparant pleasr ure, sparing no fatigue, thinking of ; everything, resuming to a wonderful r extent the more active habits of for; mer years. And Beaufort played to - perfection the role of the pere noble, - the dignified, disinterested paternal t guardian giving his support and counE tenance to the novice without ever s interfering with his pretensions as the - real master of the house. Indeed, Beaufort, with his fastidious sunerior ) ity, had much greater influence over i Tom than his mother had, and over; awed him as no one else was capable [ of doing; so that everything went t well during his great era, and the t young Laird appeared to the best ad3 vantage, making those parents, of t daughters say to each other that ? really there was nothing that May or i Beatrice need object to. Such birds . of prey as hung about the horizon t even in these moral regions perhaps . sharpened their beaks?but that was . out of sight. And the only one of the j party who did not wear a guise of r happiness was Janet, about whom there hung a nervous haze of sup > pressed feeling altogether alien to her character and -which no one could [ fathom. Perhaps it would have been ? more comprehensible had any one heard the occasional word which now [ and then dropped from Tom, and j which he repeated with a mischievous boy's pleasure in the trouble he could i create. "Are you going on the pony to-day?" he would ask in Lady Cars presence, with a significant look and ( laugh. "Are you off for the Easton . road?" No one but Janet knew what > he meant. He threw these stones at [ her out of the very height of his own . triumph. And Janet dared scarcely j go out, even in the protection of her mother s company, lest she should see , Charlie Blackmore turning reproach> ful eyes upon her. He did pass the r carriage on one occasion and took off l his hat, but the salutation was so unii versal that no one noted who the in dividual was, and Janet alone saw i the look. Yet even for Janet nothing [ disagreeable happened during these t eight days. . CHAPTER XII. Lady- Car had done too mucn, the 1 doctor said. The last dinner had been I given; the last guest had departed, . and life at the Towers was about ? to begin under its new aspect?a [ changed aspect, and one which those r of the spectators who were free from I any personal feeling on the subject t regarded j with some curiosity. How I was Tom to assume his new position t as head of the house in presence of his mother and stepfather? Were i they to remain there as his guests? ) Were they to leave along with the ! other visitors? Tom himself had E fully made up his mind on this sub; ject. He was indeed a little nervous . about what Beau would say, and kept his eyes steadily away from *hat gen! tleman when he made his little an. nouncement, which was down at breakfast on the first morning after I the family party was left alone. It must be premised that Tom's birth; day was in the end of July, and that by this time August had begun. ; "I say. mother," Tom said. He I gave a glance round to make quite r sure that the newspaper widely un folded made a screen between himself 5 and Beau. "I mean to go in for the j grouse this year on the Patullo . I moor." _ I 41 T hovo nltpovc "hoav/1 S ? nrno +r\r> I small for such sport." said Lady Car. "Ob. I don't know that. You never I would let me try. The keepers have > had it all to themselves, and I dare-1 3 say they've made a good thing out of it. But this year I'm going to make r a change. I've asked a lot of bellows [ for the 12th." t "You are losing no time, Tom. I . am glad to find you are so hospita! ble." said his mother. ? "Oh, hospitable be hanged! I want . to have some fun." said the young I master. "And I say. mother"?he I i gave another glance at the newspaper, which was still opened out in front of l his stepfather. And Beau had made j no remark. "Mother. I say. I don't ; want, you know, to hurry you: but a t lot of fellows together are sometimes | . a bit rowdy. I mean, you know, you mightn't perhaps like? You're so I awfully quiet at Easton. I mean, you know? " "That you want u? to leave the j ; Towers, Tom." I "Oh. 1 don't go so far as that. 1 ! only meant? Why, mother, don't > i you know? It's all different. It's, ?not the same kind of thing?it's?" i "J understand." she said, in her ' i auiet tone, and with hsr u-ual smile. "We had taken thought for iu? Edward, we had spoken of going? when was it?" "To-morrow,"' said Beaufort, be hind his paper. "That's all settled, had meant to tell you this morning Tom. No need to have been in sue a hurry; you know your mother i not fond of the Towers." "I didn't mean any hurry," crie Tom, very red. "Perhaps not, my boy, but it look like it. However, we're both of on mind, which is convenient. The onl thing that is wanted is a Bradshav for we had not settled yet about th trains." "To-morrow's awfully soon. I hop you won't go to-morrow, mother, never thought you'd move before week at the soonest. I say! I'll t left all alone here if you go to-rnol row," Tom cried. But Beaufort too no notice of his remonstrance, and gc his Bradshaw, and made out his plan as if it had been the most natun thing in the. world. A few houi after, however, Lady Car, who ha allowed that she was tired after th racket .of the past week, was foun -to have fainted without giving an sign of such intentions. It was Jam who found her lying insensible on ht sofa, and as the girl thought dea< Janet flew downstairs for help, an meeting her brother, cried, "You hav killed mother!" as she darted pas And the alarm and horror of th household was great, rom mmse galloped off for the doctor at the mos breakneck pace, and in great con punction and remorse. But the do< tor was, on the whole, reassurin when he came. He pronounced th patient, who had by that time com to herself and < ' just as usua though a trifle is*ier, to be overdon< which was very well explained by a that she had been going through, an the unusual strain upon her?bu pronounced her unfit for so long journey so soon. When, howeve: Beaufort informed him that th Towers had never agreed with hi wife?an intimation at which the do( tor, who knew much better tha Eeaufort did what the Towers ha been to poor Lady Car, nodded hi head understanding^?he suggeste breaking the joufney. And this wa how it happened that the family wei to St. Andrew's, where many thing were to happen which no one ha foreseen. Tom, still compunctious and as tender as it was possible fo him to be, and unable to persuad himself that he was not to blame fo his mother's illness, as well as muc overwhelmed by the prospect of bein left entirely to his own company fc nearly a fortnight, accompanied th party to that place. He thought h would take a look at the gol?> and a least would find it easier to get ri of a few days there than alone In hi own house. To do him justice, h was a little anxious about his mothei too. To think that you have kllle your mother or even had been ii strumental in killing her, is not pleasant thought. Lady Car got quickly well amid th sea breezes. They got her a house o the cliff, where from her sofa s.h could look out upon the sea, and a: the lights and shades of the Forfa coast, and the shadows of the far di? tant ships like specks on the horizoi like hopes (she thought), always af pearing afar, passing away, neve near enough to be possible. Sh floated away from all acute pain a she lay recovering, and recovered too, her beloved gift of verse, an made a very charming but sad littl poem called "Sails on the Horizon, expressing this Idea. Lady Ca thought to herself, as she lay then that her hopes had all been like thai far away, just within sight, passln without an approach, without a pos sibility of coming near. None c these ever changed their course o drew near St. Andrew's Bay, yet th white distant sail would hang upo the horizon line as if it might tur its helm at any moment and com< And hope had come only so to Carr ?never to stay, only in the distant* In the quiet of convalescence and c that profound immeasurable despai which took the form of perfect neac< that renunciation of all that she ha wished for on earth, it was a pleasur for her to put that conceit into word! It was only a conceit, she was awan To be Continued. Use For Sunflower Seed. F. D. Coburn is thinking of issuin a bulletin advising Kansas farmers t devote a little ground and a littl time to the culture of the Russia sunflower. Mr. Coburn has foun that there is a good market in Eng land and other countries of Europ for the sunflower seeds, which whe ground and crushed produce an o that is used in manufacture of th finest toilet soaps. Mr. Cobur learned of this through a letter fror H. A. W. Corfield, of London, wh asked that the names of farmers wh produce the sunflower seeds be sen him. Mr. Corfleld is a grain impoi ter. Mr. Coburn started in to lear all about the sunflower seeds, becaus if there was anything useful tha could be made from them he wante in kuuw it. uiiu ieii uie ivaiibas inrni er about it.?Kansas City Journal. Teeth at Two AYc<?ks Old. Two weeks of age and with tw fully developed teeth is the uniqu phenomenon of the babe of Mr. an Mrs. W. H. King, of 1230 Thirtiet street. At birth the child's gum were normal, but the teeth develoue before the child was two weeks oh; At this extreme young age the bab was compelled to undergo a denta operation for the removal of thes malformations or forced grow lbs.Des Moines Register and Leader. A s (.'cuius A (Torts Women. A reviewer in one of the ieceu publications, calling attention to Mi Gribble's book about George Sane' says that "wo still believe that geri jus. however it may palliate th crimes of a man. aggravates the wick edness of a woman. Husband's Testimonial. A Burman witness, looking in th prime of condition, deposed quit complacently in a criminal case tha he had no occupation. "My wife, good, careful and hard working worn an. supports me," he added.?Cai cuttu Statesman. BEGGAR WnO USES HIS BRAINS. He Thinks Out His Manner of Ap~ proach and Easily Nails His Man. Little ingenuity beggars show as a h rule; it is usually the same old story s of not having had anything to eat for two days or two weeks; no originalid ty, no evidence of effort to think of something new. But here was a begg gar who at least had something differe ent to say and who said it cheerfully, y The beggar approached a man ft whose head wa3 thatched with gray e standing one step up from the sidewalk in front of a building looking ,e over an evening paper that he had j just bought, and as he stood thus, a his face1 obscured by the paper, he ,e heard the voice of a man standing b. that one step down on the sidewalk ^ i in front of him, speaking to him and saying in a pleasant, even tone: 1S "Pop, I don't think you'd throw a man down for two cents, would you?" .s Removing the paper from in front ,j of his face and looking down the man e on the step saw the man ,who had ;made that speech standing looking y up at him coolly and smilingly. A ,t young man, and so not yet too lazy |r to use his brains in his begging, j True, his effort here was repre^ Bented mainly by an exhibition of e nerve, of sheer cheek, but by his t cheerful buoyancy, in fact his effule gent effrontery, was his cheek someIf what gilded, and at least he was makJt ing an effort; he had looked over his man and taken the trouble to think out a manner of approach that he thought would go with him, and then e he had worked out this plan with care e and attention to detail and his effort i was not without its reward.?New J York Sun. "9 jj Forms Bridge Over Gorge. One of the most remarkable freaks ! a of wind and erosion known in the j r| West is to be found in one of the ' e smaller canons of the Grand Canon j [S of the Colorado River in Arizona. j y In a narrow gorge, carved through j n centuries of flow of water and wind j d driven sand down the little valley, | [g there lies a huge boulder, as big as ' d the average house moving van seen 3 on a city street. It is held up solely by friction on the sides of the gorge g and is entirely free from any solid d connection with the sides of the sand3 stone walls. , ,r From the sandy bed of the little e gorge to the rock is fully seventyir five feet. The Indians who once b roamed over the Grand Canon coung try have, of course, legends to ac- i ir count for the location of the big J e round rock, but as a matter of fact e it is believed to have rolled off the slope of a rocky and precipitous d mountain about five miles distant s from the canon and to have been e 1 picked up in the path of some cloudr burst of years ago and rolled to its d present resting place. h The stone hangs only by a small a projection on each side, but It is so solid that it forms a convenient foot e bridge across the gorge over wnicn n the pedestrian may take his way.? 0 Kansas City Journal. | Australian Girls. Many Australian girls live right up j In the bush, or "stations," which are (* miles away from any town or village, and their time is largely occupied ' with riding and driving; they are as s much at home on a horse as a duck | is in the water, and think nothiug of ^ riding twenty miles or so to pay a visit, says a writer in Woman. House? hold duties claim a ifrare of their time, however, and any day they are , liable to be left without servants and [' with a house full of visitors, but are ' in no wise daunted by such an occur? rence. Then the bush girl cornea ('J down to the capital for the season, and, far from appearing a country bumpkin or a tomboy after her free ? and open-air life, she Is as much at home In a ballroom as any town-bred ? girl, as neat and well dressed as if "" she had never ridden barebacked over wild tracts of country, with little 1 thought of appearances.?Sydney Re, view. T _ a I f / 7 I Sincerc Courtesy. At a dance given by a certain set ?J In Philadelphia society there was one [' participant, a man from Wilmington, " who met with a mishap on the floor due to his lack of skill In dancing. 1 The Wilmington person observed to one guest, "Sir, you are the only g gentleman in the room." 0 "Thanks," was the dry response. 6 I T Innnlro toVi a t TYinHvp hflS lpd 1VA a. J A iUV^Ult V ( WMV ~? n to this complimentary outburst on ^ your part?" >' "Why," explained the out-of-towne er, "when I tripped in the dance just 11 now and fell sprawling to the floor, 11 incidentally ripping off a large sece tion of my charming partner's gown, n you were the only one in the place 11 | who did not laugh." 0 | The guest smiled grimly. "The 0 explanation lies in the fact that the , lady is my wife, and that I have paid ** I for the gown."?Harper's Weekly, it Dickens Stories in China. Lt The Chinese, says a writer in the cI Wide World Magazine, are rapidly '* taking un Western ideas and translations of English, French and American novels are now in increasing de- . mand. Our romantic and sentimental o ( treatment of love affairs, however, is e j a thing so foreign to Oriental ethics d that the hero of the ordinary Euroh pean novel appears to the Chinese s ' mind as a person of perverted moral d ( sense and doubtful sanity. Transla' , tions of Dickons, thor?''ore, impress e t>e Chinese reader l ss than they '1 | amaze him, and detective Glories and e | tales of adventure command a moro i - | sympathetic audience. Little Philosophies. Man is the voice and woman the i echo; but relio answers back. . ! The only woman unloved is she I, | "whom man has never seen, i- Sympathy was born of the first e bruised lioi-rt. > ' If there were no fools, none would know there were wise men. Assumption is the rlnak of conscious inferiority.?a Woman. e o Asbestos is found in the island of t Cyprus, and a co: spsny o ..ed iu a I'jOG, obtaining a concession .n the - island, be^an to ojien a ni'iie early in 1907. Up to the end oi that year | 1000 tons of asbestos were mineii, j Religious Reading FOR THE QUI EI1 HOUR. ^ $ IIYMN. I love the sunny hours, and seek Full measure of their joy to know; I welcome, gladly hold, and then With e.qual gladness see them go. For I must learn another love, Else life will prove too light and vain; There waits a deeper lesson now. The strange significance of pain. And he who loves the God of joy, Exulting in His favoring grace, Must learn to recognize in turn The God of the averted face. O God of shadows! teach my heart To worship at Thy lonely shrine: To linger waen the lights grow dim, And own the darkness, too, as Thine. Forever more the clearer heights Beyond the deeper valleys rise; And "through the temple's darkened couri God leads the soul to paradise. ?Rev. Pemberton H. Cressey, in Christia Register. t Beauty of a Life of Service. No, Indeed, there is no wonder thf God loved the world. There is e wonder that Christ, the Son of Got at any sacrifice, undertook to save th world. The wonder would have been God, sitting In His heaven?the woi der would havebeenif Jesus, ready t come here to the earth, and seein how It was possible to save men Croi sin by suffering, had not sufferei Do you wonder at the mother whe 6he gives her life without hesitatio or a cry, for her child, counting her privilege? There is one word of Jesus whic always comes back to me as aboi the noblest thing , thjit human Hi have ever said upon our earth. Whe He was sitting with His disciples i the last supper, how He lifted up H voice and prayed, and in the midi of His prayer there came these woi drous words: "For their sakes sanctify Myself, that they also migl be sanctified." The whole of huma life is there. Shall' a man cultival himself? No, not primarily. Sha a man serve the world; strive tp ii crease the kingdom of God in tl world? Yes, indeed, he shall. Ho shall he do it? Bycultivatlng himsel and instantly he is thrown back upc his own life. "For their sakes I san tify Myself, that they also might 1 sanctified." I am my best, not simp: for myself, but for the world. Thi is the law of my existence. You can help your fellow-mer you must help your fellow-men, bi the only way you can help them is t being the noblest and the best ma that it is possible for you to be. watch the workman build upon tt building which, by the by, is to soj into the skies, to toss its pinnacle t to the heavens, and I see him lookic up and wondering where those plnm cles are to be, thinking how hig they are to be, measuring'the fee wondering how they are to be bull and all the time he is cramming a ro ten stone into the building just whei he has set to work. Let him forg the pinnacles, if he will, or hold on! the floating image/of them in his in agination for his inspiration, but tt thing He must do is to put a brav strong soul, an honest and substai tial life, into the building just whei he is now at work. Let yourselv< free into your religion and be unse fish. Cla'm your freedom in servic ?Phillips Brooks. Prayer. O Thou whose eye is over all tt children of men, and who hast calk them, by Thy Prince of Peace, into kingdom not of this world, send fort His spirit speedily into the dai places of our guilt and woe, and ar it with the piercing power of Ti Waw If roo oh tlio finart t 5i ate. JJia/ lb I vavu vuv mvm* ? ? every oppressor, and make arrogant dumb before Thee. Let it still tt noise of our strife and the tumult < the people; put to shame the fal: idols of every mind; carry faith 1 the doubting, hope to the fearfu strength to the weak, light to tt mourner; and more and more ii crease the pure in heart who see the God. Commit Thy word, O Lord, 1 the lips of faithful men or the fr< winds of Thine invisible Providenc that soon the knowledge of Thee ma cover the earth as the waters cov< the channels of the deep. And s let Thy kingdom come, and Thy wi be done, on earth as it is in Heavei Amen.?James Martineau.< The Other Children. . The greatest thing, says one, a ma can do for His heavenly Father is I be -kind to some of His other chi dreri. I wonder why it is that we ai not all kinder than we are? Ho much the world needs it! How ea ily it is done! How instantaneous it acts! How infallibly it is remec bered.. How superabundantly it paj Itself back?for there is no debtor i the world so honorable, so superb: honorable, as love.?Henry Drun mond. Thought-Stuff and Life-Stuff. An imperial church is conditioned t ? HI av imnon'al t Vi mi P'l CL UU iy tuuiuu. ixv-1 ***? j-rw will depend for' its virtue upon h< personal life. Thought-stuff is mac out of life-stuff. When the horr church is alive, she will grasp fiends of the earth.?J. II, Jowet M. A. Count the Mercies. A psalm which cultivates the spir o! gratitude is a psalm which v ought often to read. If we were moi grateful, both our joy and 01 strength would be increased. Grat tude is born in hearts which take tt time to count up past mercies.Charles E. Jefferson. Cheerful People Refreshed. You will find yourself refreshed t the presence of cheerful people. Wli not make earnest efforts to cont'< that pleasure on others? You wi find half the battle gained if yo never allov yourself to say anythiu gloomy.?Lydia Maria Child. ITow We Desire to He Classified. We desire to be classified accord in to our exceptional virtues; we ai apt to classify our neighbor accon ins to his exceptional faults.?Hani Eatos Diamond. Patent Treaty With Germany. Secretary Bacon and Count vc Bernstorff, German Ambassador, i Washington, D. C., signed a patei agreement between the two countrie negotiations for which have been ui der way for some time. It will I sent to the Senate for ratificatio Officials decline to discuss the treat but it is understood that the uegoti; tions contemplated a provision mal ing it unnecessary for inventors, j order to protect their patent right in the country of the other to ere factories in which to manufactui their inventions, as is required by tl English law. t BITTER WAR ON INTEMPERANCE SOLDIERS FIGHTING THIS CURSE GREATLY CHEERED. Jim Jenkins. Jim Jenkins was born with a pinhead mentality. All through nis life was too shiftless to think, But still by a kindly and lucky fatality He early became much addicted to drink. So he sat about bar-rooms and sought the society Of low-minded persons of liberal views. And every one grieved at the man's inebriety. And said he'd be great if it wasn't for booze. lie hadn't the sense of a yapping skye terrier, And sober or drunk he was always a fool, But drink was held up by his friends as the barrier That blocked his success when he flunked out at school. tl His think tank was addled by notions the flightiest, ;n His eve had a sodden and meaningless blink, * Yet people insisted that he'd be the migntiest Leader of men if he just didn't drink. Lt 10 Jim Jenkins' prototypes swarm through 1, ' humanity, ie All of them sodden, and hopeless and it lost, But each clinging still to some remnants , - of vanity. 0 Thinking what honor their habits have S cost. ti And the fatuous world takes a serious view 1, of them. n Saying, "An! if they only had turned down the cup," Until now and then an occasional few of " them Still remain fools after sobering up? h ?Chicago Examiner, it Arguments That Get Home. ^ Poor old John Barleycorn; what lg hard, hard days these are for him! "What hard, hard knocks he Is getj. ting! Such effective blows as are bej ing planted on him now we do not remember to have seen handed to n him before. Indeed, the statistical information that gives them their ']] strength is largely a product of modj. ern and fairly recent investigation. ie Gough and the rum-fighters of his w school were largely sentimental, f The Woman's Christian Temperance |Q' Union and like organizations have c. not appealed strongly either iq their jg reasoning or their methods to the I neutral bystanders. But the new ^ processes of attack reach many persons in whom the old processes mere ly raised a derisory antagonism. Such pieces as Dr. Williams has con tributed to McClure's Magazine, such * declarations as Dr. Frederick Peterson made in his address last month at the Charities and Correction Conference, seem to us to be somewhat extreme, but put out as they are by ? medical men of considerable author's ity, they are very effective. To say. V "You sha'n't have any rum!" is not ' of much use. To say, "Rum doea ' you no good, is dangerous, and di* 5' rectly or indirectly has done you fi lot of damage," counts for something, provided the person to whom it is I said can be made to believe it. Th? 5 reason why Mr. Taft has turned down his wineglasses?if he has?is doubtie less because he has use for ever} e' ounce of energy and thinking capacity his machinery can generate, and noth ing to spare for any amusement thai J.9 is not a true recreation. He is prob? \ ably convinced that alcohol in the e- long run is a hindrance to health and work, and feels unwilling to put up with any hindrances that he can avoid. His position, of course, is le peculiar, for he is the strong man >d fitting himself to run a hard race, and a willing to take measures that another :b man, just as sane, but with easier k times ahead of him, would not conm sider either necessary or expedient. iy We like to see such men as Dr. MunDi sterberg and Dr. Dana interpose their y moderate counsels and protests ie against the sweeping condemnation oi ji alcoholic beverages, for it would be ge a pity to see a strong and timely to movement towards great and neces1, sarv reforms sweep on into extremes ie of opinion and action which justice j. could not countenance or moderation ir accept. For the rise against alcohol :o all over the world is the most interne esting movement of social reformae, tion in sight, and none of the energy enlisted in it should be wasted In ex;r cesses that will lead to reaction, or :o methods tha*t are ill advised. The 1) great weapons against alcohol are a. sound knowledge and persuasion. Compulsion is of little use, and restriction, to be salutary, must rest upon the consent and approval of the n communities in which it operates.? t0 Harper's Weekly. Race Separation in Saloons, w "We have a new liquor law down a- in Louisiana, that has perhaps no iy duplicate In any State," said George a- M. Chester, a cotton planter of Baton 's Rouge. In "Under this statute the retail ly liquor places are classed as either a* white or negro saloons, and those of which colored men are proprietors are forbidden to sell drinks to white customers. The idea of the makers of the law was to keep a certain disit reputable element of both races from ;i commingling in barrooms and hatchIs ing up schemes of an illegal nature ie while uncer the influence of intoxie icants. In Baton Kogue there will be t, twelve saloons operated by blacks, and the effects of confining .their business to negro patrons exclusively will be well worth studying."?Baltimore American. New Movement in Canada. *0 ir A new movement among young j. i men connected with various Christian ie churches, against the liquor evil, is _ taking shape in Toronto. It is in the form of organizations known as AntiBar-Room Leagues. )V ' Lcgacy Cost of a Drink. ?r The will of Mr3. Marianna A. Og11 den, who died at Lenox, Mass., and 'U which disposes of nearly $600,000 in B CfiSll, Uv&IUCS a lai gc ijuaiuu; u& ivwt estate, was filed recently in the Surrogate's office in New York City. Among other legacies was $3000 to a Z nephew, John Arnot Rathbone, on e condition that he does not drink until he attains the agi> of twenty-one and y an additional $5000 should he abstain from drink and also from tin.1 use of tobacco until *ne is twenty-five. ,n A Depraved Business, at Temperance experts declare that at every effort to regulate the traffic by s, license laws has been a failure; that n- while the law forbids any one to enje gage in the traffic who is not of good n. moral character, that there is that inhomnt in the traffic which inev a- itably subverts moral character, and k- as a result the business drifts into the In hands of men who are morally des, graved. ct re From the army of moderate drin'; ie ors of 190S will be recruited the drunkards of 1909. ' ' V ; I . 11 Sun6ai|-S>cftoof INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR APRIL 11. ) > j Subject: Peter Delivered From Prison, Acts 12:1-11?-Golden Text, Psalm 34:7?Exposition of the Lesson and Lesson Comments. TIME.?A. D. 44. PLACE.?Jerusalem. EXPOSITION.?. Peter in Prison and the Church Praying Unto God For Him, 1-3. The lull in tL : persecution was but temporary. It began again with great fierceness. Jamea was killed and Peter arrested, put in prison and about to be killed. Peter seemed to be in a very perilous position ? securely locked in a Roman prison, bound with two chains ber tween two soldiers, guarded by sixteen soldiers, keepers before the door guarding the prison. Peter's enemies seemed to have taken every precau tion, but they made one fatal mis- I take, they left GOd out of their calcu- ' I lations. There is "nothing too hard I for the Lord," nOr for the church H that links itself on to God by prayer. I God often withholds His deliverance 9 and answers prayer at the last mo- i , | ment. What should the church dot There is but one thing to do?pray. They appealed the case from "Herpd the king" to God, the King of kings. Peter seemed to have faith that he would be delivered, for he wag calmly and very soundly sleeping. Just as soon as he was thoroughly awakehe said: "Now I know of a truth that the Lord did send forth His angel (just as I have been asking Him to) and delivered me." Verse 5 teaches us just how to pray. (1) "Unto God." Much so-called prayer is not unto God. There is no real coming into the presence of God and actually presenting our petition to Him. Inhere are volumes in these two short wprds* "unto God." (2) "Without ceas- ' ing." The R. V. gives the thought, but not the full thought. The Greek word means, literally, "stretched-outed-ly." It is a vivid pictorial word that represents the soul on a stretch, with intensity of desire (cf. Jer. 29:| 13). It is the word used of Christ's prayer in the garden, when in the intensity of His prayer His sweat wa? as it were great drops of blood fall ing Qown 10 me grounu tjuu&e *a*J 44; cf. Rom. 15:30; Col. 4:12, 13,. R. V.). (3) "Of the church." There Is power in the prayer of the individual, but there Is added power, yes* multiplied power, in united prayer (Matt. 18:19, 20; Acts 1:14; 4:24, 31). (4) "For him."' They did not wander all over the world in their prayers that night; they concentrated' their prayer on Peter and on getting, him out of prison. II. Prayer Answered and Peter Free, 6-11. God's angels are most likely to appear in times of greatest ueed. A heavenly light shined in the gloomy cell. A prison cell 1b a dark and dismal place, but no place is ' more luminous than a prison cell when the angel of the Lord stands thelre. God's angels are very uncere* monieus. "He smote Peter on the side and awoke him." Sharp blows , are often more loving than gentle lullabys. It Is frequently necessary to rudeiy awaken a man before he can be delivered from his peril. God's orders demand prompt obedience (v. 7). Peter could not take his chains off from himself, but he could gird ~ himself and bind on his sandals ?^ vtrawa a# (TT fill WI1CU LUC tuamo ncic uu \w. W/. What Peter could .do for himself hemust himself do. Peter had gotten so much into the habit of obeying . God that he did it even in his sleep, or at least when he was only half awake and thought he was asleep. If Peter had been like many of us he would have stopped long before they got to the iron gate and debated with the angel how they were to get through it. But he had more sense and did just as he was told and left the "how" with God. When he got to the gate it "opened of its own accord," but not until they^got to it. If we just obey God difficulties wil? disappear when we get to them. III. Believing Rhoda and the Un> believing Church, 12-17. The com* j pany had come together to pray tot j Peter's deliverance. God, as might be expected, heard their prayer and sent the answer around to the meet- | lng (cf. Is. 65:24). But they were , ' completely bewildered by the answer when it came. They were sure that / it could not be Peter. Rhoda must be \ crazy. If Rhoda is not crazy, then it must be his ghost and not Peter I himself (v. 15). Perhaps they j thought he had been executed in the night. But Rhoda had faith, she seems to have been expecting Petert As soon as there was a rap at the I door she was on her feet and at the A *. Hcfoninp- The moment she heard Peter's voice she knew it was he, it was just what she expected. Even though they told her she waa crazy, she stuck to it still. She wae ; only a "maid" (R. V.), but she is the only one in that praying company whose name the Holy Spirit has thought worthy to put on record,There were presumably church digni. taries there, but none of them are mentioned. Rhoda alone is named. She had faith and she alone counted^ That "Rose" (Rhoda) had sweet fra. grance with God. The unbelief ot the rest seems all the more unac? countable when we remember how Peter had once before this been mir? " aculously delivered from prison (ch. 5:19). Peter kept right on knocking. That is the best way to treat unbelief ? just keep hammering away. Church to Ron a Theatre. The Universalist, one of the largI est churches of Atlanta, Ga., is mak- % ing preparations on a large scale to I have its own theatre, plays and actors. The movement was originated by the pastor, the Rev. E. Dean Ellenwood. The first play to be proj duced Is "The Servant in the House." | The lower floor of the church is be inp rapidly converted into a stage, i with footlights, scenery, curtains and , ! other properties. Nitrate For 130 Years. | An expert study of the nitrate I fields of Chile has been made lately* and as a result the estimate is made' public that there is sufficient of this commodity in sight to last for 130years at the present rate of consumption. I Favors Sea Level Canal. , In a paper read before the American Institute of Mining Engineers, in session in New Haven, Gustav H. Schwab, of the North German Lloyd line, made a vigorous argument in favor of a sea level canal at Panama. I