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R 7i r * ? & f, I I . |g THE H H( CHAPTER X. 13 Continued. "See here?I must have a won with Miss Hatton?she's In the cavi ' with you, I know. Mr. Trevor bidi me to say that she must return t< i the house with me. He's ready t< ?ettle the business between them t< her full satisfaction. I'm to tell he: also that the skipper has repairs the sloop, and she can sail for th? mainland in the morning." While speaking, Peter was press ing nearer and nearer the door of th< cave. Vic blocked the opening, bu over her shoulder he could see Jac queline, tall and beautiful in the Ugh' of the fire and the candle. "Stand off, Peter, my friend!' warned Vic. "If this is your errand wrhy did you bring Joe Raby along' One man's enough to carry such { message. I'll take it on myself .t( ! -A answer that Miss Hatton will not g( back with you to the stone housenot on your precious life, Peter!" Peter set his teeth together with i sharp click, whereat Joe Raby stalkec forward to join his comrade. Hii villainous face was surly and lower ;. ing. i "Vic, ye know I love ye true," h< began, "and I've asked ye more'i once to marry me, though I ain't oi the marrying kind. I consorted alonf o' Peter to help him persuade ye t( > * come out o' that woodchuck hole?ii ain't nowise safe for girls like ye t< stay here o' nights. Ye've got to g< back with us to the house?Mr. Tre vor and his wife want ye?we al want ye." "Do you, now?" cried Vic, in de riBion. "You precious pair of scoun drels! Not a foot will Miss Hattoi and I go in your company. The likf of you ain't fit to look at us?muct less bring us such a message at this hour of night." "Vic, I tell ye, I love ye true! I'l take good care o' ye, my dear. Mrs Trevor and the Portugee cook art crying their eyes out to see ye again.' "Mrs. Trevor!" echoed Vic, hei wrath bubbling in her voice. "Like enough you've killed the poor lady bj this time. Keep off, Joe Raby! II you try to get in here, you lying thief I'll make you rue it." But the two men were not to b Intimidated by a girl's threat. "You'll go with us willing," shouted the skipper, "or we'll take ye unwilling." And the next moment the pair had hurled down the piece of driftwood mast like a wisp of straw, and leaped Into the cave. Raby was foremost. But swift as he was, Vic was swifter, i She snatched from the fire the kettle of boiling water, and dashed it full in the skipper's swarthy face. With a howl of pain, Raby staggered back. Meanwhile, Peter of the cross-eyes made a rush for Jacqueline. Her pale, haughty look went through him like a sword, but his wicked hands grasped and held her fast. "My beauty!" he said, with his odious face close to hers, his breath on her cheek. < She tried to hurl him back. A scream of fear escaped her. Vic was absorbed in belaboring Joe Raby over the head with the tin kettle. Yet Jacqueline's cry for help was not left unanswered. The blankets oe the floor heaved suddenly upward. A ghastly figure, with a white facs swathed in something like grave clothes, and eyes wild and bright as lightning, leaped up in the midst oi the commotion, seized the piece oi mast that had rolled toward him in the Etruccle. and brouerht it down -with a fearful crack on the arm thai Peter had thrown around Miss Hatton. The offending member, fractured and helpless, fell as if a thunderbolt had smitten it. St. George pale and terrible, swung his clumsy weapon aloft for a second blow, bu1 Peter, yelling in fear and agony, and with hair rising on his head, made a desperate plunge for the cave door The skipper followed. Both had recognized the victim of .tie oarless boat They fled in wild haste, stumbling headlong over the rocks, and in hit Ignominious retreat, Joe Raby poured forth a volume of extraordinary oaths, which the wind wafted back tc the ears of Vic and Miss Hatton. Jacqueline listened only a mo ment, then she ran to St. George. Tht driftwood had dropped from his hand. .His sudden strength was , spent. He reeled and the two girls laid him gently back on the blankets "Queer," -whispered Vic in ar awestruck tone, "how he understood miss." "Yes," answered Jacqueline, anc her handsome face was like chalk. Through all his delirium, her cri of need had reached him?dispellet for an instant the stupor that hel; his senses, and nerved him to rise anc strike for her. It was St. George wh< had saved the situation and routet "the enemy. "I've brought medicines from th< chest at the stone house." said Vir "The vials are labeled, and maybi you'll know how to use "em. I got ii through a pantry window. 1 saw no body, though I heard the Portugei cook among her pots and pans. When Mrs. Trevor is I can't tell. Oh, bu my heart's broke about the oars! found 'em at Joe's hut, and was malt ing off with 'em on my shoulder wh-:i Peter gave chase. Joe will be a sigh to-morrow. I let the scalding wate drive full in his eyes. And Peter' arm hung as limp as a dead eel! Th two will have to lay up aivhile fo repairs. And Vic leaned against th rock wall and shook with silen laughter. But Jacqueline could not laugh. "We shall not see "VVatehhaven to night," she sighed. "We are prison ers in this place, Vic, and our ene mies, though discomfited, are sill jstrong." 1 v Wff 'v^rvv V tv VvvVvvv WWVt B88888?88???888S8883888?8^ ">I ICC m OM 888 i J w sj a? 555 W A * 555 A 88888888888888888?88W? S ISLAND IPI > * ? ? +*+*Zii "Don't fret, miss, dear," chirruped Vic. "You're afraid Mr. St. George will die here, but he won't. He's a 1 big, strong fellow ? 'twould take - man}' hard knocks to kill him. I'll s go again to the skipper's hut?he has 3 more than one pair of oars. Cour5 age!?we'll row to Watchhaven, 5 yet." r "No, no, Vic. You must make no 1 more ventures of that kind. I am - horribly afraid of the skipper and that dreadful Peter." "Pooh! Give Mr. St. George some * of the medicine, miss, and I'll go and t see if Jim's boat is well beached for " toe nignt. 11 it geis aurm uur itn, t will surely be all in the fire." She stole softly from the cave, but was back directly, her eyes gleaming, , her voice husky. "Tnem jail birds have taken the 1 Victory!" she announced. "They 5 must have seen her by the moonlight > when they started to cross back to the island. Very likely Joe had the oars I dropped somewhere near. i Anyway, Jim's boat is gone, and with 1 her our hope of escape from Dragon's 3 Nose!" CHAPTER XI. i For forty-eight hours longer the f situation in the cave remained un; changed. The loss of the1 boat was , an unspeakable disaster, but a new t hope soon dawned upon the fugitives. ) "Jim Bumpus," said Vic, "will > know something is wrong, when the . Victory and Mr. St. George fail to re1 turn to. Watchhaven, and he'll come to Deadman's, if only to look for his . property." "But Vic, who will guide him to i our hiding place?" ; "Oh, Jim is cute. He'll know i things -are wrong when he don't see 3 me. He'll find us somehow?you just trust Jim." , I ?''* ? * ? The wounded man stirred on his ? blankets and opened his eyes. In ' them the unmistakable light of rea son shone once more. He called Jaci queline's name in bewilderment, r "Miss Hatton!" J I "Yes," she answered, bending down f to him like a pitying angel. "I am your nurse.' You must keep very ! quiet and presently I will tell you everything." He lay for a space, his troubled . gaze wandering around the cave, following her movements and Vic's. [ Then he fell into a deep, restful sleep. [ When he awoke her name was again 1 on his lips. "My curiosity is too much for me," he pleaded; "I have been in a terri! ble maze of dreams, but my head is [ now quite clear and I am anxious to i know how I came in a place like this." I ; She laid a light finger on his pulse. The beats were full and regular. A i great joy beamed frankly from her i incomparable eyes. The danger was over! She sat down on a piece of i driftwood by his rude couch and told [ him the whole story. "And you saw me on the beach?" he murmured; "you overheard the : conversation then?" "I was an involuntary eavesdropper," replied Jacqueline, coloring ; high. "Being in personal peril myi self, I dared not move from my hiding place." % i "Miss Hatton, I am very glad to be > saved from unhappy explanations." i Vic brought the patient a cup of ! milk, which he 4rank with relish. ; Jacqueline was gazing through the i cave aoor into me uiue HCtt-uitsLautc. i "I need not tell you, Mr. St. : George," she said, in'a disturbed tone, . "how glad I am to see this improve. ment in your condition. Our position . is most perilous?most untenable!" , Vic made a grimace. "The night of the Bcrimmage ; prove that, all right." [ St. George started?fixed his holt low eyes on Jacqueline. "The night of the scrimmage! I - have seme dim recollection?yes! . Did I not hear a woman scream? I ' ran swear I did. and that woman was 5 you!" I She turned from red to white. ' "We had trouble in the cave," she > faltered, "and you came to my help. You were sick and delirious, but," with an irrepressible smile, "you cari ried all before you." 3 "That you did!" cried Vic, glee3 fully. "It made me feel good to see 3 you whack Peter! If he hadn't run for dear life, he'd have left all his i brains behind him. He knew you . was the man he gagged and bound and set adrift in Jim's boat. Say, 1 he and Skipper Joe ought to be hung up by the same rope." ? "That night on the beach," said i 1 St. George, "those fellows took me j 1 unawares. Foolishly enough, I had 1 come to Deadman's Island unarmed. 3 After the blows I received on my t honrl T lrnnw Tint what hanrifinfirL" He lay silently reflecting. To the i-i happy accident of the Victory drift. ! ing upon Dragon's Nose, within reach g [ of the two girls, he owned his escape i from death. He saw that the few - necessities in the cave had been whole ! ly given to liim. Both nurses looked e worn and pale and anxious, and he t knew he had increased their troubles I and dangers an hundred fold. "I owe you unspeakable things," a he managed to say. "I hope you bet lieve I am grateful. How did you r | two slender creatures carry a big, s ! hulking fellow like me from the boat ^ i t r. *t Vi Jfiq udom r I "We had planned to carry you e I back, sir," answered Vic, cheerfully, t "but Joe and Peter stole the Victory and spoilt all that. We've told you a lot of black stories, sir. but don't you i- fret?I keep the tea kettle biling con-1 tinual for Joe, and as for Peter, he - won't venture near the cave again ! till his arm is healed." St. George *Doked grave. J / . . 1. }f : _ "We must not be too sure. Son things have occurred here that cai I not be forgotten or forgiven." I "fi- nrliof e i r 9 " "I shall never be permitted to leai the Island If Philip Trevor and h servants can prevent it." Jacqueline held her breath. "I think you are right," she a knowledged; "they will now do the utmost to destroy you." "Yes; you had better have left n in the boat," he said, whimsicall "My presence here is most unforti nate?for you. It' doubles your da: ger." "What!" flashed Jacquelin "would you have us think of that i a time like the present?" "I would!" he answered earnestl "Left to yourselves, Trevor wou doubtless send you to the mainlam but in my company you will me with no consideration?you will 1 treated as hostiles. God knows would give half my earthly goo< this moment for a boat that wou take you two to Watchhaven." "Fiddle-de-dee!" said Vic, "wou ? - J ' ? ? ?>A.. 0m*wm */* + V* we go ana jea.ve juu, on, iu wc island pirates??after we'd broug] you around so slick, too? Much yc know about us!" But he was looking only at Ja queline. She made her voice vei cool and steady as she said: "Since your fortune has been ca with ours in this place, let us a abide the issues together. Do m belittle your own importance, for a ready you have been our salvatic here." "And you do not wish me away ; this crisis?" "No?oh, no." Something flashed into his blor face?a light that never was on lar or sea. Jacqueline's dark eyes fe before his gray-eagle gaze. His har touched hers for a moment; then 1 remembered himself and withdre it quickly; but the electric spark hs passed from one to the other?tl two were no longer strangers, or a quaintances, or even friends. He was stalwart and sound ar he made superhuman exertions to r cover his strength. A few hours lat< he was on his feet, walking about t.t cave. Kis nurses Jfeigned alarm, bi secretly they werfe Overjoyed. Tl situation demanded masculine gui< ance. It was an unspeakable relii to find an active male partner in the difficulties. "The tide does not ebb till a lai I hour," said St. George, as lie a sumed the direction of affairs/ "so think we must pass another night 1 the cave. Every hour, I find, adds 1 my strength, and by morning I sha be able to go with you to the ma) island and look for the boat whic I hired in Watchhaven." "You will meet Philip Trevor," n plied Jacqueline, unable to concei her disquietude, "not as man to mai but as one to three, and that one ei feebled by a very recent illness."' "But now my strength -^ill be i the strength of ten," he answered, i a low, eloquent voice, "for I ha^ your wrongs to remember, as well i my own." And after a pause t added in a changed -tone: "Thei too, the fate of Mrs. Trevor is still mvetprv whif?.h. in dutV to my litt son, I must unravel." He declared that he ^ould assun the watch in the cave this last nigh but his nurses strenuously objects He must husband his powers for tt morrow, they said?the safety of tt whole party depended upon hin: they would call him at the first a] proaeh of peril. So, at last, he rolle himself in a blanket and lay down 1 sleep in the farthest corne* of tt place. Jacqueline sat by the Are an fed its flame with dry twigs drh away darkness and damp, v^ic ha something on her mind and as tt tide ebbed from the channel she dre nigh to her companion and whi pered: "The food is out, missthare's not a bite left for morningnothing for hiija. An empty stomac moVon a wpak ha.nr!. It'R not COC for a man just out of delirium 1 fast. He's got the grit, but he mu have strength to keep on his fee I'm as tyungry as a wolf myself, an I'm going over to Deadman's to g< provisions." "Oh, Vic!" "Hush! Don't wake him?I needs sleep. He was staggering wit weakness when he lay down. If he set on meeting the island men t< morrow, he must be provided wit something more than food," said Vi darkly. "Don't try to hold me, bi just sit here patient till I come back, "It is almost midnight." To bo Continued. Mice on the Pillow. "I'm not so much afraid of mi< as some women," said she, "but don't like them in my hair. The otl er night I finished a biscuit I wj | eating after I went to bed and nati rally left some crumbs about, n< meaning to, never think of the mic "Well, about the middle of tl night I heard scampering, and thei were the mice all over my hair, tr: ing to get at those crumbs. "I tell you, I gave one shrie! sprang up, lighted all the gas in tl room and sat up the rest of the nig] watching that pillow."?New Yoi Press. An Alibi. The milkman stood before he nervously twirling his hat in h hands. "So," she said, sternly, "you ba^ come at last? " "Yes, madam. You sent for me, believe," he replied. "I wished to tell you that I four a minnow in the milk yesterdf morning." "I am sorry, madam, but if tl cows will drink from the brook i - * ~ ~ 4 1.A T />onn L>l^ciu ui jiuui uit; nuu^u x ^uuu help it."?Harper's Weekly. Trees Purify the Air. It is a fact that trees along hig ways, trees in towns and cities ai trees in groves amid agricultural r gions render the atmosphere pure They by their foliage absorb h'jrtf gases, which would otherwise I breathed by the inhabitant of tl densely populated cities, ^herel modifying diseases, lessening tl dangers of epidemics and in mai ways improving the liealthfulness communities.?New York Farmer, i! THE PULPIT. ?? #? * ???%./ eronriM DN/ JQ A SUMULAHLY OUI1UMF Otnmuii u i is DR. ROBERT RODGERS. c- Theme: .Consciousness of God. ir ' le Brooklyn, N. Y. ? The Rev. Dr. y. Robert Rogers, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, preached SunQ_ day on "The Consciousness of God/' The text was from Ephesians 4:20: "Ye Have Not So Learned Christ." e' i Dr. Rogers said: The thought with which I am impressed, and with which I would imy. press you?is that Christ?the GodId i man?stands facing the world of men j. and women as the greatest and most ej. important factor in human life. Everything we do should be done in a ? consciousness of His presence; every1 thing we do will be judged by Him, ls and His judgment will be visited "up'd on us and be felt by us. This we have learned of Christ, if we have Id heard Him and been taught by Him. TXT I, T #.?vAn1r r\f PKrlcf T TTIOfl T1 tf? PY m i ??iJCii A "P"" ?* kt ! press the thought that comes Into our hearts and minds when we speak of u God. This is the most important mesc" sage that can be delivered to a man *y ?if he can be assured of its truth and made to live under its inspirast tions. When I open my Bible, its .11 first words tell the great story, "In 0t- ! the beginning God created the heavj_ i ens and the earth," and as man has " 1 learned the knowledge of the heav,n j ens and earth, of the mighty force, i the beauty, the bounty in supplying at I all that is needful for the millions of 1 mankind, the laws, which are so won1 derful, man comes more and more to id enter into this knowledge of nature, l(l he speaks of God with adoration and ,,j reverence. The infinite God of in, finite power, infinite wisdom, infinite 1 goodness is our only explanation. I 10 The greatest power of the mighty w est human intellect sinks into insig* id Qiflcance before the ultimate analysif le of a drop of water or a grain of san{ c- when the scientist intimates to us whaf j is involved in its creation. I thin( 1(j we pan understand the cry of Brown \ ing,\"0 World as God made it." A1 is beauty! or Wordsworth's words it 5r the "Excursion" when the wanderer, 10 full of SDirit of worship, says, "Tha it clouds were touched, and in their si- I ?e lent faces did He read unutterable | j. love!." 'In the same spirit Ruskin 5f speaks, "It is quite certain it is all lr done for us and for our perpetual , pleasure." How near into the presence of the Infinite God these men te have come who have been able to ens* ter Into the wonders and beauties of 1 natures. From Job to David, and in from David to the last thoughtful to student in the earth's book, has come D this feeling of nearness to God, and [D happiness and comfort in being nes,h tied in the everlasting arms. The thought that I am trying ta convey is not so much that our minds shall rest on the wonders of nature al but that the mind Shall advance n, through these things, into the con a- sciousness of God?the supremacy o} the Infinite, the Fatherhood of God 19 to be able to say with Ruskin, "I air in quite certain it is all done for us an4 for our perpetual pleasure." The poet of Israel, whose soul wa 13 athirst for the living God, has thik nnm-nlnncnoao T.loten "Whither shaf a, I go then from Thy spirit; or whlthei a shall I go then from Thy presence * [e If I climb up into heaven. Thou ar< there; if I go down to hell, Thou ar( (Q there also; if I take the wings of th< morning and remain in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall Thy hand lead me and Thy right hand 10 shall hold me. 10 "If I say peradtenture, the darki; ness shall cover me; then shall my p. night be turned to day. Yea. the Id darkness is no darkness with Thee, i the darkness and the light to Thee are " both alike." / There is one test, and one alone, which will satisfy men of the characfe ter of any object. "By their fruits d ye shall know them." When Robert le Fnlton, a century ago, speaks of . w steaih navigation, men say, let me see ' g. what you can do. The Clermont . _ steams on the jHudson, and men were | satisfied of his sanity and wisdom. For a century men have been speakn ing of flying in the air, a few have believed it possible, but with, millions o of doubters have said, we will wait st and see. And now we know it can be t. done because we have seen it. id Let us see! What are the effects jt of this new thing? In law, medicine, science, the same test is required. It Is also God's way of judging. Christ said of trees what He meant to say of 16 men: A good tree cannot bring forth h corrupt fruit, neither can a corrupt '3 tree bring forth good fruit. There- ! a- fore, "by their fruits ye shall know ;h them." It is this universal standard c, of judgment ? God's judgment and man's judgment ? that St. Paul is using for his appeal in our epistle for to-day. He is appealing to men who I were Gentiles or heathen, but who , j have recently learned of Christ the ! I Son of God, and given to Him their | allegiance. New things are expected . :e from their new discovery, their new I faith. Let us see what your new faith or religion produces. The whole beis lieving world, with St. Paul, looks on anxiously. How much it meant to U"* -a t J - 9 _ uiai eariy uanu ui pcrocuuLcu lununers, who were condemned and charged e* with hideous Crimea, with being pestiie lential fellows, corrupters of people, re How shall these few new converts y. act? And the unbelieving world was ( also looking on, ready to find and ^ magnify the slightest wrong, amazed ' ' to see tho slightest improvement. It j Is one of the mighty things of the past to which we can turn our minds and , from which we can draw comfort an/ encouragement. To see and to know that these mel to whom the apostles are appealing, r, ' formerly heathen in their customs, i9 won the world to the religion of Jesuf I Christ, won it away from barbarism, ! from idolatry and Immoral corrupi tion, what brave and good men and . women they must have been. "What * I mighty works can be done when peo pie are brave enough to do them. Lisld ten to St. Paul as ho appeals plainly i and practically: "Ycu must put off j the old things in which ye walked ' 1G! when ye were Gentiles, when your n_ | minds were darkened." 0j i'UU away lying auu speuiv uulii, | I steal no more, but labor for your sub! stance; no corrupt communication j must come out of your mouth; let all I bitterness and wrath and clamor, mal? I -i/?Q 1iQ nilf awnv frnm vrm hilt srifiak I words to edify and minister grace to j e- hearers, and be tender-hearted, for(j* giving one another, even as God for ( u)' Christ's sake hath forgiven you. be The appeal of the great apostle of ^ if Jesus was made nineteen centuries jj ago, but I think wo all feel how mod- ( 10 I ern it might be. How St. Paul might , stand before us and speak the same 1 , . words with convincing power to our j . souls. Would that he mieht. I ! i 4 -j *> OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN. REPORTS OP PROGRESS OP THE BATTLE AGAINST RUM. One Divorco in Five Due to Drink. One of the most striking arguments for temperance reform, says Mr. L. A. Brady, is to bs found in certain cold, dispassionate statistics issued by the United States Census Bureau. These figures show that intemperance, as either a direct or a contributing cause, was responsible for more than nineteen per cent.?practically, onefifth?of all divorces granted in the United States during the twenty years, between 1887-190S inclusive. Since at the present rate at least every 1 twelfth marriage ends in divorce, we get a proportion of one home in every sixty-one wrecked by drink. Moreover, the census authorities themselves, according to Mr. Brady, admit that these figures represent only the most flagrant and palpable instances on the part which intemperance plays in divorce, and that greater percentages than those actually given would be nearer the truth. The detailed fig ures as set lortn in tne census uunetin are as follows: '"Drunkenness was the sole cause of divorce in 36,516 cases, or 3.9 pep cent, of the total number of divorces (1887 to 1906). It was a cause in combination with some other cause In 17,765 cases, or 1.9 ppr cent, of the total number. Therefore, it was a direct cause, either alone or in combination with other causes, in 54,281 cases, or 5.7 per cent, of the total. Of divorces granted to the wife the percentage for drunkenness either alone or in combination with other causes was 7.9 *, of those granted to the husband, the corresponding percentage, 1.4. , "The attempt was made to ascertain also the numberof cases in which drunkenness or intemperance, although not a direct ground for the divorce, was an indirect or contributory cause. The number of such cases was returned as 130,287, representing 13.8 per cent, of the total number of divorces. Probably this number Includes those cases in which the fact of intemperance was alleged in the bill of complaint or established by the evidence, although not specified among the grounds for which the divorce was granted. "The remaining cades are those in w^ich there was no reference to intemperance,/or no evidence that intemperance existed as a contributory cause. In some of these cases the record was so meager that the absence of any mention of .intemperance would justify no conclusions. But in the majority of instances it would create a strong presumption that intemperance did not exist or was not a contributory cause."?Literary Digest. Beer and Babies. Eeer is bad for babies. Beer is neither a food nor a stimulant. Alcohol is poison; beer is diluted alcohol. \ . The most that has' ever been claimed for alcohol as a food is that it is capable of being converted into heat and fat. But it is worthy of note that these claims have been made by chemists and physicfans paid for their opinion, by the manufacturers of alcoholic beverages. And even they have had to admit that but a very limited quantity of alcohol could be appropriated by the system. Besides alcohol there is nothing of value in beer. There is more food value in a tea spoonful of milk than there is in a gallon of beer. There is no poison in milk. There is enough poison in a gallon of beer to kill fifty-one infants. j Beer contains from three to five per cent, of,alcohol, or from two to three teaspooufuls of alcohol in each glass of beer. Three drops of alcohol, which is , equivalent to one teaspoonfal of beer, or six to eight drops of whisky or brandy, will make a week old infant drunk. That is why some mothers and nurses give crying babies whisky or brandy. It seems to cure the colic. But it only makes them so drunk they go into a stupid sleep. What mother would like to see her Bon brought home from the corner saloon, or her daughter from the dance hall, in a drunken stupor? Yet how often will a mother deliberately IiiciKfc? LUC llilUUL rtt Iici ux uw4 to prevent it from crying? Are not beer and other alcoholics in moderation stimulants? That is an exploded theory. Does not alcohol stimulate the heart to quicker beats? No. It irritates it to a more rapid action in the system's effort to eliminate the poison. Doe3 it not stima? late digestion? No. It inflames the stomacj and congests the liver. Does it not stimulate the mind? No. It makes the intellect stupid and dull. A Substitute. "An effectual substitute for the saloon "would be public casinos, supported by public taxation as schools,are, which should be as universally idistributed almost as saloons, open as long as saloons, and provide a resort for the men and women of the neighVmrhnnd where .thev can meet to read and enjoy all the liberty which is found to-day in the saloon, excepting intoxicating liquors, but where wholesome refreshments might be purchased. These casinos might be made self-supporting from the sale of refreshments"?that is one of the special movements which is being championed by Temperance, New Brunswick, N. J., the monthly journal of the Temperance Society of the Episcopal Church. Such a plan as this ought to prove most successful where prohibition has recently gone into effect. Temperance Notes. Homes are blasted and families are "? * ?. ?~ DroKen up uy me rum wauiv.. Emperor William will give his support to officers drinking toasts in water or non-alcoholic beverages. Children are deprived of education and of opportunity to prepare for success in the struggle of life by the rum traffic. When the new employes are needed on the railways of Denmark those applicants who have been abstainers for at least one year will have the first chance. Last year the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in England dealt with i>0,015 cases in which want, suffering and abuse had played havoc with their little victims. It is well known, comments the Alliance News, that ninety per cent, of these cases have their origin in the drinking habits of the parents. "Ninety-five per cent, of the trouble in the police department, and at least ninety-eight per cent, of the discharges in the fire department of , Chicago, are clue to the use of intoxi- , rants," declares Howard 0. Sprodle, attorney for the Civil Service Commissiou, in his annual report. ! {Religious Reading FOB THE QUIET HOUR. 'SHE IS NOT DEAD, BUT SLEEPETH." This ia not death! Tis but a struggle ended; A ransomed gouI in bonds refused to keep; An unseen angel to its aid descended; And now God giveth His beloved sleep. If tears will flow, not hopeless, is our sorrow; >1 Our dear one rests among Christ's folded sheep, Just for a night; but God will, on the morrow, Awaken His beloved froni their sleep. Safe in their rest! No harm shall e'er befall them? No fears disturb thei? ilumbers, calm a and deep; . j And, through the night, till in the morn He call them, God guards His own beloved while they sleep. Though summer shall still shine brjghi above them, And o'er their graves winter's wild storms shall sweep,. He who hath loved is He who still dotb love them? They aye remain His' children, though thev sleep. Then, darling, rest! Nay, nevermore shall grieve thee The ills that make earth's children sigh and weep;. And, till the day dawn, ;with thy Lord w? leave thee, \ "For bo He giveth His beloved sleep." ?John D. Linnell, in London Christian. \ The Great Law of Love. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.?Revelation, 22:2. The vision of the prophets, while often pessimistic of present condi* tions, has alwayc culminated In the hope of a final realization of the best Men in every age have looked forward through difficulty and discouragement to the time when the jealousies, the rivalries, the selfishness of. Individuals and nations should pass away and mankind should live in oue common bond of brotherhood and peace together. St. John, in the record of the beatific vision given him,,.foreshadows the reign of a final peace on earth and an eternal conscious communion with God in the life beyond. The fruit of the tree of life is to be won through labor and service. Man's effort for self-development is to result in his finding of the larger life. In his finding of the larger life for himself he is to bring it to the whole family of mankind. The leaYes of the "tree" are for the healing of the nations, for the bringing of them together through the removal of their sin and selfishness. Christianity as a religious force has given the principles of reaching outward and of seeking contact with other men. It has inspired the courage for discovery and exploration and the impetus to treat for a mutual understanding. None but the nations professing Christianity, who hav? been'the pioneers in discovery, have had an appreciable share in bringing the ends of the earth together or in creating'what is kno;wn as the "family of nations," where an international law instead of bjute force has fpund field for operation. We are celebrating now the anniTersary of two great discoverers. On our shores are gathered representatives of every clime to do honor to Hudson and i<*\uton ana xo cement me friendships of an international peace. In this we /are acknowledging that there is a common, bond between us all and our meeting together now Is a fact that goes to make that bond stronger. Discovery has located the far lands, invention has brought them closer together in time and distance; travel and Intercommunication have made possible a mutual acquaintanceship, and the spirit of Christianity, which has created the' conditions of life favorable for these achievements, if we are willing to live it, will carry us further?to the realization of that peaceful understanding to which all men look with eager longing. Co-operation is the outcome of the great law of love which Christ died to vindicate?the co-operation which means a consideration for "the true welfare of one another. Your life and my life banded together in this spirit means an uplift for the lives of all nthpr mpn. Let US foster this spirit, under the inspiration of Jesus, in all our personal relationships, substituting kindliness for strife, helpfulness for ruthless struggle, service for selfishness The victory of achievement at the expense of our fellow men means but a repetition of the old and oft repeated ruin of civilization, through misery and sin. We rise to a height only to be cast down. But progress through the refusal to benefit at the expenso of one another means an achievement that holds for the generations to come. Mankind working as a united whole, unthreatened by personal dissensions, giving itself instead of combatively trying to save itself, must achieve victories to stagger the imagination. To such striving the tree of life shall yield her leaves for the healing of the nations and brine the balm of a peace, the foretaste of the peace of the life eternal.?Andrew F. Underhlll, Church of the Ascension, New York, In Sunday Herald. The Wondrous Love. However rich- we may once have been in earthly love, and however poor we may he to-day, we may be many times richer if only the heart is open for the entrance of the Infinite and Living Love. No alienation, no estrangement, no bereavement, can leave us poor, if we but know "the love of Christ that passeth knowledge." J Foundation of Life. When you assist womanhood you assist tho nation. She is the foundation of our lives, she is the intermediary between man and all divinity.?Rev. S. Parkes Cadman. Moral Inllucncc. The measure of moral influence ie precisely the quality of moral character. One clear lapse from goodness and that authority expires.?Rev. H. T. Henson, Social Hygiene For Chicago Schools. With a view to combating physical and moral degeneration social hygiene is placed in the curriculum of Chicago high schools. This study 13 necessary, according to Dr. Alfred D. Kohn, one of the school trustees, because Chicago has been for fifteen years "the dumping ground for all the worst elements of Europe." "It is rather ignorance than innate vie iousness which is tne cause 01 me undoing of young men and women," says Dr. Kohu. "I believe that instruction in social hygiene should be given in separate classes, 0D3 for boys and one for girls." i - ./ , ' '-y-i 1 7-4 t > - > i. ' > - - , V ? The Sunday=School f INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JANUARY 2. Sobject: John, the Forerunner of Jesus, Matt. 3:1-12?Commit Verses 2, 3. GOLDEN TEXT.?"The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LoTd, and .make His paths straight." Matt. 3:3. TIME.?A. D., 27. PLACE.?The WildernesB of Judea. EXPOSITION.?I. "Repent Ye, For the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand," S-6. John's message is very like that f the last prophet of the olden days (comp. Mai. 3:1-5; 4:1-3). He had received his training for the work ill none of the rabbinical schools of the day, but largely in solitude and communion with God 4n the wilderness (Luke 1:80). As he had received his message directly from God (Jno. 1:? 33; Luke 3:2) he waited for no call or ordination by man before delivering it. He sought not the synagogue, but the open air, for the delivery pf his message. His was a startling cry, "Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." The average Jew looked at himself as the unfortunate victim of other men's hostility to God. John said to them, Tou are yourself . a sinner against G^d. Your great, need is not deliverance from Roman domination, but repentance from your own sins. The' one cry of the prophets of God unto man is, "repent." John's reason for immediate repentance was new. Newer still was hte announcement that the King was right at hand, and the character of the King's work. The kingdom of heaven was;near them, because the King was about to appear. He was about to set up His kingdom in the hearts of those who would receive Him. Furthermore, He would, have set up His kingdom on earth if He had been accepted. by His people. More than seven centuries, had passed since Isaiah (Isa. 40:3-5) had utterea . his prophecy of a coming of the Lord ; and of the forerunner who should 1 precede Him. He had come at last. God's word had been fulfilled to the letter, as it always will be sooner or ' later, though the fulfillment may wait ; for centuries as in this case. John oame in thfe spirit and the appearance of Elijah of old'(comp. 2 K. 1:8; Matt. 17:12, 13). His whole manner of life was a protest against the prevailing vorldliness and self-indulgence. Jesus did not follow In the footsteps of John ih the outward man- . ner of His protest. But men who would represent God and have power ' with men should liye lives of great ' simplicity. John's earnestness, rug' gedness, fearlessness, renunciation of self and Ktern declaration in the pow? rf_ t?Si. /IaA > er in iu(r opirit ui uue mKBsagc, uvu 1 gave him awakened great Interest. Men were convinced that he was "a man qent from God." IT. Bring Forth Fnrit Meet For Repentance, 7-10. John was no trimmer. He was not an adept at honied words (cf. Matt 12:34; 23:33; Jno. 8:44). John believed in a coming wrath of God against sin. It was not any more a popular doctrine In that '& day than it is now, but it was trne, and men needed to hear about It, and^'j so this faithful man of God told them."4 The way to "flee from the wrath to ft come" and to "prepare the way of the Lord" and to be ready for "the king- J dom" was to repent with that genuine ' repentance that would show itself ii* ^ * * iii- ? j x a iransiurmea wits, unuguiB iuhu fruit worthy of repentance. No one was ever saved by a pious ancestry. A son of Abraham may be a child of the devil (Jno. 8:37. 3S. 41, 44), , : . III. The Baptism With the Holy Wind and Fire,| 11, 12. John has emphasized the need of good fruit; he now discloses the secret of bearing It. A mightier than he was coming who would baptize with something more efficacious than water?r-"in the Holy Spirit and in Are." Some have interpreted these words to mean that / there are two baptisms between which one may have his choice?"the baptism in the Spirit" (now) or "the baptism in the fire of judgment," as in the next verse (h?. ?after). The original does not adi ? of this interpretation. John doubtless had in mind Isaiah's expression, "the Spirit of burning" (Isa. 4:4) when he uttered these words. In verse 11 we have three baptismal elements, "water," with which John should baptize tnem unto repentance; "the Holy Wind" and "fire," with which Jesus w6uld baptize them. Acts 2:2, 3, we have the fulfillme^ _f the promise in the case of. the apostles when they found themselves engulfed in ' a "mighty wind" "from heaven," tongues of fire resting upon their heads, and they themselves "filled with the Holy Wind." The promise is a promise not of two baptisms, one of blessing and the other of cursing, but of one two-fold baptism of blessing, "Holy Ghost and fire." But what? does it mean to be baptized in fire? The answer is found in considering the work that "fire" does. (1) "Fire" reveals (1 Cor. 3:13). (2) "Fire" refines (Isa. 4:4; Zech. 13:9; UTol 0.1 0\ / Q "ITJro" nnnQiimflQ l>xai. O . l-O / . \ O / A'iiV VVUVUM.W filthiness and scum (Ezk. 24:9-11). (4) "Fire" illuminates. (5) "Fire" makes to glow and melt (Jer. 23':29). (6) "Fire" generates energy, A baptism in "fire" then reveals ns to ourselves; consumes the filthiness and ' scum ? the selfishness, ambition, worldliness and vileness that we have vainly contended against for years? out of us; makes us to burn and glow with love to God and man and truth, love for souls; fills us with heavenly energy. Confirms an Oil Monopoly. Frank Pierce, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, it was announced in Guthrie, Okla., has refused to grant a right of way to the proposed Oklahoma Pipe Line Company, holding tb"t the Prairie Oil and Gas Company, a Standard Oil branch, is already in Oklahoma and should handle Oklahoma oil. Oklahoma has denied per I mission to tne .rraine uu auu-uas. Company to build a pipe line because it is not a domestic cornoration. Secretary MncVeagh to Wear Red Tie. Secretary cf the Treasury MacVeagh says he thinks a red cravat is very becoming to gray hair. This explodes the story that the Cabinet has decided to appear uniformly in purj pie or black cravats. Mr. MacVeagh 1 made tfiis important announcement after Mrs. MacVeagh had left Wash.* ^ ington, D. C., for Chicago. Rabbits at $50 and $23. At Shamokfn, Pa., John Socusk and Frank Carpenter, while hunting, each killed a rabbit. One Justice fined the former $25, while another fined Cap* ! penter $50. % i