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l. m. grist's sons, Publishers. ! % Jfaniilp Jinrspapcr: J'or (he promotion of (he jgolitiial, Social, Agricultural, and Commercial interests of the feojle. j tee^s,n'o1!i"copt! rxvi!ciimANCi!' established"iiss! YOBKYILLE, 8. P., TUESDAY, JTJLY 12, 1904. * ISJ~Q. 56. 11 I A SOLE COMME By Copyright, 1902, 1 | 1 ? CHAPTER XYII. A TRAITOR TO THE CZAR. ClAPTAIN ORSKOFF paced op and down the deck feverishly ESTE3 while the American ravenWottl ously ate his meal. Harvey, when he bad finished, asked for a clear. "You are maddening!" said Orskoff as he handed the Ainericun a cigar. /ton ooo fhof rnn apa not In lnvr^? VUC V.UU ott VUMW JVM ?w. . ? not as I am." "Sit down," said Harvey. They took chairs on deck. "Getting excited is not going to help us any," said Harvey, puffing at his cigar. "I am as eager as you to rescue the girls. The difference is that you, without any plans, want to rush off and probably involve us in greater trouble, while I wish to plan out a line of action. Now. that boat went somewhere on the Bokharan coastwhere, we do not know. The thing Is to get what information we can out of the robbers." "They would lie to us." "I don't think the chief, Palpak, would lie. Except for my presence "P.! "Stop!" he commanded suddenly. the other robbers would have killed him. and he must feel some gratitude." "But these fellows are shrewd. We could do nothing with them unless we granted them their freedom." "And that, of course, you would not do." "No! I am an officer of the czar!" "What do you intend to do with me?" "It is my duty to return to Tiflis with you and give you over to the authorities." "Just so. You are one of these machine made soldiers so common in Russia?fight for the czar and die for yourself. Is that It? No; that isn't quite right?fight and die for the czar and to the devil with yourself; that's more like it. Let's look over the premises. Take my own case in a business eonco T bnnrp trhoro mr wind. mills are. They were taken to Astrakhan by that fool of a German. Well, supposing I was at liberty to go after them, the first thing I would do would be to outline a plan of getting as quickly as possible from where I am at this moment to the spot where I considered It most likely I would find them." "I don't see?the connection." "No, of course not. But tell me? what is your duty in the matter of these robbers?" "I have already stated that. I must take them to Tiflis and charge them with robbery. Several times the officers in charge of the money to pay the soldiers have been robbed. We suspected that it was done by some of the mountain robbers and mistrusted the Bokharans. But we could never catch any." "That's because you are a machine soldier. The third section of your police does not work that way." "What way?" "Without thinking. Pardon me, you insist it is your duty to go at once to Tiflis?" "Certainly, unless we can intercept that vessel belonging to the ameer." "Suppose we do not intercept it? Suppose the rascals make a port in Bokhara?" "Then I must return to Tiflis and ask permission to enter the territory of the ameer In search of Koura." Harvey looked at him and whistled. "Mv friend, vou accused me a short time ago of not loving as you do. Yet you sit calmly here and say you would go to Tlflis to ask permission to rescue the girl you claim to love." "I am a soldier of the czar!" "Yerily you are, and well have you learned your lesson. I am a soldier of commerce, and love It, but I would consider neither trade nor honor nor citizenship against the chance of saving the girl I love. To the deuce with a patriotism that destroys love. Orskoflf, do your duty! If you feel that it is your duty to take me and the robbers to Tlflis, do so, and forever bid farewell to Koura Blartelkis." "But what can I do? The girls are by this time perhaps on Bokharan soil. It Is against the orders of the czar for HER OF I RCE JOHN ROE GORDON by F. R. Toombs a Russian soldier to step foot in that country." "Tiflis is several days' Journey from here; Bokhara but a short distance. Somewhere, in the clutches of the Bokhara ns, are the girls you and I love. Your duty calls you to desert them in their need; mine calls upon me to die for them if necessary. Rather than let you take me back to Tiflis I'll fight you to the death." Orskoff stared. Harvey turned arid resumed his walk. He took several turns and closely watched Orskoff. The Russian was deeply thinking, his brow knitted in perplexity. "Stop!" he commanded suddenly as Harvey reached him again. "You sell windmills. To no one save those whc employ you do you owe allegiance You ecme and go as you see fit You are shrewd and brave and take your wares to all countries and run risks of deatb to promote the commercial interests of the company. You have spoken of your love. Under the whiplash of your tongue I am torn in halves with the bitterest conflict of my life. I have led my company in battle and have faced the enemy without a tremor, but that :1s nothing compared to the hell that is surging in my breast now. In me, <n this breast, there is a conflict that ivershadows anything In my ex "I on't understand," said Harvey. "You would understand V you were a Russian officer and at the same time a man in love. Remember, I am performing my duty when I place you under arrest and take you back to Tiflis. You are a condemned prisoner who baa escaped. With your innocence or guilt I have nothing to do. It is my duty to take those robbers to Tiflis. and it is not my duty to permit one of them to talk. Yet. as against this duty, the girl I love Is in the hands of the Bokharans. You. the man who is most wanted in Tiflis. and these robbers are the only men on earth who can help me. For. once the girls are on Bokharau soil. 1 am helpless." "Helpless?" "I cannot stir regiments to cross the border. The order must come from St Petersburg. By the time we get that order the girls will be married to the princes." "That is what I have been striving to show you?the uselessness of your duty in this case. I claim your duty is to go after the girls." "Impossible! There is a secret corps for such work. I am not a soldier once off Russian soil unless sent there." "Who asked you to be a soldier? Come with me. Let us rescue the girls. Alma has really committed a crime, I suppose. but we must risk the danger of Tiflis. I'll take care of that part when we get the girls." "You would try to escape?would even try to kill trie to escape." "Nonsense. If you will assist in rescuing the girls and let Alma Jurnieff escape. I will go back to Tiflis with you and take my medicine." "You would risk death and disgrace fnr tho crirl vnii Inrp?" "Yes. I'd risk hell for the girl I love." "That Is love! That Is love! It Is as I feel myself. Let me think! What a problem for a man to solve!" He abruptly left Harvey, who sat down, preferring to let OrskofT work out the problem himself. OrskofT paced gravely up and down, never once looking at Harvey. "Have you a plan?" he asked suddenly, stopping before Harvey. "Give me your answer to the problem you have set out to solve, and 1 will give you the plan I have thought of." Again that monotonous pacing up and down the deck. It seemed to Irons as though the Russian was growing older looking each moment. Again the feve Ish eyes and working lips. It came to an end at last. With a sigh as if exhausted OrskofT dropped into the chair by the side of Irons. "Well. I have fought the fight," he said wearily. "And won?" asked Harvey. "No; God knows it is no victory! I have lost. My patriotism goes down before my love. I am a Russian. I know the Russian cruelties to those who defy the czar. I know the pitiless rule that breaks the hearts and destroyi the lives of those who even permit a culprit to escape. Knowing this?knowing the punishment, the disgrace, the horror of treachery?I have resolved to become?a traitor!" "A traitor! What nonsense!" "YeB, a traitor to the czar! You and I will soon be under the same condemnation. We will go together to the very throne of Bokhara if necessary and rescue those we love or die in the attempt. It is settled. I will not turn backr CHAPTER XVIII. A CONTRACT WITH A ROBBER CHIEF. | t ARVEY broke the spell of si* JTl lence: "I thought you would see IKramtl daylight. Now that we agree, let us go on and plan. We must not lose sight of the fact that we are dealing with unknown quantities. We have no method of learning just where the girls are. We must use measures that will assist us. What was your idea when you spoke of becoming a traitor?" "I become a traitor the moment I give you your liberty and accompany you upon the proscribed ground of Bokhara." "You must go even further than that We must use the robbers." "Palpak! I must at least send him and his brothers to Tlflls." "You will then throw aside the one staff that can assist as over the difficulty." "What use can the robbers be to us?" "This fellow Palpak Is chief of a clan called Zannucks, who hate the ameer and all those who are faithful to him. I overheard them talking In the cave. It seems the ameer levies such exorbitant taxes that the Zannucks cannot pay. He taxes everything?wives, children, cattle. That is the reason the chief seeks to rob the ameer and his people?to reimburse the Zannucka Palpak would not hesitate to help us If by helping us he could work injury to the ameer. Grant the robbers their freedom. Let them take their booty to their people on condition that they assist us in rescuing the girls." "Set free robbers who have attacked Russian paymasters!" "You said that you would not turn back. Now you are trying to turn two ways?one toward Tiflis, the other toward Bokhara. It will not do. If you wish to accomplish anything in this affair, you must go the whole figurestake all and win or lose. That is the way I do business." "What is your plan?" "Have Palpak brought here and let us talk with him in a straightforward, businesslike way. Any man will help another if he can also benefit himself by doing so." "I leave it to you. Your head is full of plans, while mine is simply taken up with thinking of poor Koura." "I think of Alma as much as you do of Koura. But simply thinking will not rescue them. We must act, and act quickly." Orskoflf sent for Nevisky. The lieutenant was pacing the bridge eager to be off. He could not understand why the captain did not hurry to Tiflis with the prisoners Instead of wasting the time chatting in an apparently friendly way with one of them. "Lleutenaut. have the chief robber brought to me," said the captain. As Palpak was being led toward them Orskoff said to Harvey: "Conduct the negotiations. I will agree to anything you plan." Orskoff ordered the Irons removed from the robber. When the three were alone, Harvey said to Palpak: "We have had you brought here to have a businesslike talk. You appreciate your situation, I suppose." "I am a prisoner of the czar. He will perhaps kill me." "Just so. And all of your treasure, the stealings of many months, Is on board this boat." "Yes, to enrich a Russian officer. My people can starve. The ameer's tax must be paid or twenty of our best young men and women must go to Bokhara. It is wrong." "Of course It Is wrong. We know your people hate the ameer and that the ameer Is cruel. It was a strange chance that took me to that island of Ping Shong." "You saved my life, for my brothers were mad with wine." "Your future course will show whether I did well. Let me explain how I came to the Island." Then followed a detailed rehearsal of the story of Ivoura and Alma. "They are beautiful girls," said Harvey as he concluded. "One is to be the wife of the captain; the other Is to be my wife." "Why do you tell me this? I am a prisoner." "Because we want your assistance In rescuing these two girls from the men of Bokhara. They are your enemies. and you have sufficient reason to hate them." "But I do not love the Russians more." "This is not a question of loving the Russians. I saved your life, did I not?" "I would do anything for you." "Suppose you are set free and the treasure is restored to you. The only return we ask is that you give us all the assistance in your power to recover the two young women." "Do you mean that the Russian will permit me to depart in peace to my people and take with me the treasure that I stole?" "Yes; to rescue the young girls we will do that. The captain has promised it" "Do you agree?" put in Orskoff anxiously. "I am not a fool." "That means you agree, of course," said Harvey. "The ameer is the sliest rascal in Asia, but our united brains ought to be able to outwit him. First we must figure out where the girls probably are now." "Where was the ameer's boat when you saw it?" asked Palpak eagerly. "I cannot say. I drifted all day and half the night before I reached the island. It went in the same direction 1 drifted." "They were going to Siloon." "What is Siloon?" "The most important port on the Bokharan shore. It is not a Zannuck village. nor do the people like the ameer. rrtmv n pp fop the tn-eater nart exiles from Khiva." "Then they will not fight for the ameer?" "No, nor against him. They wish only to be let alone." "IIow long would It take the boat to reach Siloon?" "Two days. By this time they are at Siloon, and we could not overtake them, as the finest camels of the ameer would be in waiting for them, with a guard of his best soldiers." "Is it not possible that a caravan of rich goods will take advantage of this escort and go to Bokhara?" "It would be so." "There would be some delay getting started." "The ameer's soldiers would be afraid to linger." "Then what can be donet Palpakl We put the matter into your hands." "Excellent \ Birs, you promise me much. One of yon saved my life; the other, a Russian officer, releases me, and I can take the treasure to my starving people. I am gratefnl. I will do all I can to assist you in winning back the young women. From Siloon the road to Bokhara is winding. It runs through what is called the Siloon pass. We are now in what is known as the Kharaboghaz. A short sail from here is a small village on tbe coast Delonging to my people. By golDg there and taking tbe trail over the mountains we can reach the Siloon pass at a point where it will be four days' Journey for the caravan. It will take us only three days." "Good!" said Harvey. "What then?" "The Zannucks have many causes to hate the soldiers of the ameer. They will have fine camels and horses. There will also be many valuables going to Bokhara. If there is to be a wedding of a prince, there will be great feasting. and the ameer will distribute gifts. Some of these will be in the caravan. My people will follow me to the Siloon pass." "By the Kharaboghaz do you mean the Scythian gulf?" asked Harvey. "Yes. It is what we call the gulf." "Then our plan is clear. Orskoff, you and I will go with Palpak in his boat to tbis village of his people and accompany his warriors to the pass. Send Nevisky to Siloon with all speed. If he finds the aravan there, let him attack and rescue the girls. If the caravan has gone, let him wait there for our return. We must go back to Siloon if we rescue the girls or there will be no way of leaving the coast" "I will explain the plan to Nevisky," said Orskoff. Nevisky listened with many misglvlngs. A Russian officer to release prisoners in tljls manner and to set foot on forbidden soil! But Orskoff was his superior officer. He could do nothing but obey. The trensure was placed in Palpak's sailing vessel, and the four robbers, with Harvey and Orskoff, the latter fully armed from the stores of the gunboat, went on board. The gunboat steamed away for Siloon, and the other boat, with all sail set, started for Palpak's littU village. TO BB CONTINUED. piscfltenrous padittg. AUTOS IN DEATH VALLEY. Machine Does Duty Where Mules Cannot Live. The substitution of automobiles for mule power in the Death Valley of California, frofn whence comes borax, Is the latest field for the power-driven machine. The utility of the automobile in new fields is continually expanding, and following its use on the city streets and in the great agricultural districts of the west, where it is used for ploughing, comes its adoption for work on the deserts of Utah and in tKa famnna Daath VaII AV In the great borax districts of the deserts of Utah the automobile has been substituted for mule power. Men and horses alike have perished there from thirst, heat and deadly yellow dust In which they were enveloped by the wind storms. Tet those deserts must be traversed, for salts, especially borax, must be transported to the eastward. The mule was found to be the only animal that could drag cars of ore across these western deserts, and the mule team has been developed to its greatest efficiency by one company, which operates many mule teams through the Death Valley of California. This desert is 176 miles long and can be covered at the rate of only eighteen miles a day, even by one of the strongest teams. The way lies through heavy white sand, which, in the road Is packed into deep ruts by the 40,000 pounds of crude borax hauled by each team. Besides the ore they have to haul food for the teamsters, grain and hay for the mules and a tank with an ample water supply; for there are stretches of sixty miles between watering places. Even with these precautions scores of mules die annually, and men are killed by the exposure to the heat and blinded by the alkali dust and the glare of the sun. This snail-pace transportation could not satisfy the mile-a-minute ambition of the American business man. Now there is building for the company a three-motor engine and train which will revolutionize transportation on the desert. It is of 275 horse-power, threecylinder gasolene engine, operating a 100 kilowatt electric generator. The engine weighs only six tons. It would have to weigh much more if the seven or eight trailers of the proposed train offered dead weight. But on the rear axle of each wagon will be a motor, to which power will be transmitted through the train from the engine. One of the most perplexing problems was keeping the 165-gallon gasolene tanks cool. This has been done by an ingenious system of fans. This was absolutely necessary, for in Death Valley the mercury usually stands at 130 degrees and often rises to 140 degrees. An air compressor in the engine will operate air-brakes on each of the cars. Thus the whole train will be controlled bv the motorman in the cab. It is also provided with a powerful searchlight, which will enable the train to run in the night as well as day. One of these trains will be as powerful as thirty teams of mules. One team of twenty mules can in twentyfour hours haul 40,000 pounds of crude borax only eighteen miles; an automobile train in the same time will haul 100 tons one hundred miles. XiT Parrots and Imitators are not all as green as they look. tii" It's hard to be popular and economical at the same time. | GLASGOW. A Triumph of Modern Civilization. IMPULSIONS OF REMARKABLE CITY. Ship-Building on the Clyde?Where the Foremost Men Strive Only For the Public Good?The Birthplace of Robert Burnt?Men Who Suffered For Principle?Cold Weather. Correspondence of the Torkrllle Enquirer. EDi/JBimdH, June 25.?This Is one of the great cities of the world. It is the second city of the kingdom of Great Britain and has nearly a million inhabitants. It is the commercial capital of Scotland and is situated on the Clyde river, which now gives it water transportation 'advantages. In fact, this city, is a rival of Liverpool in the shipping business and it rivals Manchester in its manufacturing enterprises. Its business in iron and steel ship building is Immense. It Is said that two-thirds of all British steamers are built on the Clyde, or at least provided there with their engines. James Watt, who was a native of Glasgow, constructed the first steam engine In that city in 1763, and the first steamer on this side of the Atlantic was placed on the Clyde by Henry Bell In 1812 and was run between Glasgow and Greenock. As we came up the Clyde, we were shown a magnificent steamer n'oa hainc hullt for the Cunard line. I was told by an officer on the Astoria that a vessel was soon to be built there of thirty-five thousand tons capacity, about seven times as large as the ship on which I came to Glasgow. Glasgow is said to be one of the best governed cities of the world. Representatives of other city governments from all parts of the world are constantly visiting the city to investigate its government. The city owns the water works, lights, street car linea etc. They get their water from Loch Katrln (made famous by Sir Walter Scott, forty-two miles away. The city has spent about twelve million dollars on its water works. The street railway system Is fine. The cars are well managed and they are constructed so that passengers can ride on top of the car as well as below. Seats are provided above and the passengers reach the top by a winding stairway at either end. The city has done a magnificent work in opening up the Clyde river" for navigation. About fifty years ago, the Clvde was only 180 feet wide and three feet deep at Glasgow; but now, It Is 480 feet wide and nearly thirty feet deep. This great change has been brought about by the Industry and perseverance of Glasgow at a cost of about fifty million dollars. This gives us some idea of what can be done by the indomitable will of the Scotchman. Some one has said that God made the country, but that Glasgow made the Clyde. This Is so in a certain sense. Now, the largest vessels can come into Glasgow and her harbor Is always thronged with steamers from all parts of the globe. The city has no slums. Of course, there are poor people he're. "The poor ye always have with you." But there is a great deal of wealth here. Signs of it on every side. There is a solidity about the city that impresses one very favorably. Everything seems to be built with a view to permanency. I don't think I saw a wooden building In Glasgow. The most of the buildings are made of stone and have a very substantial look. The wealthy men of the city are practically interested in contributing to the best interests of the - people at large, iney are wiihh6 be taxed for the public good. They take a pride In their city, in building it up along lines of the highest welfare. The most prominent and ablest men are put at the head of the city government. The magnificent municipal building which the city has built at a cost of nearly thirty-five million dollars shows how the people are interested in their city. I had the pleasure of going through this building. It is immense and magnificent, and would reflect great credit on London. The cathedral in Glasgow is a very interesting building. One could spend days in studying this large edifice. It dates back to the 12th century. Of course, some additions have been made since that time. The windows are perfectly gorgeous and beautiful, and they are numerous. The building is 320 feet long, 70 feet wide and 90 feet high. The tower is 220 feet high. This place of worship originally belonged to the Catholic church, but it came into the hands of the Presbyterian church when the latter was made the established church of Scotland. This house is connected with much Interesting history. I sat in a chair which Oliver p--nv* *. sat in while at this church. This edifice, if it could speak, could tell us much that would thrill our ** KlnnHv souls in conneciiun mm w.c ? persecutions of the past. In 1684, the persecutors hanged many of the covenantors In this city, and stuck their heads on pikes. The bodies of these martyrs were buried near the cathedral. There is a tablet in the church which has an inscription on it that concludes with these quaint and striking lines: "These nine, with others In the yard. Whose heads and bodies were not spar'd; Their testimonies foes to bury, Caus'd beat the drums then in great fury. They'll know at resurrection day To murder saints was no sweet play." I will give you another inscription found in this old Cathedral which is taken from the monument (now much decayed) erected to Dr. Peter Lowe. It may be difficult to read, as it Is In very old English. Here It Is: J,5*5SOO=?OJoj zjs?ss$c*"*8?"$ yHh*0Ma?K>Hj35?M 0?335a?M^W>^2HS32 ?S" ?'sOZHSomZ SSggHtSSS^Saig^g ?gppwa>a23-o??Sw 0?Bgg2fc??go^"S ^ia??S2H?S>pS5 3oSo ? 55 ^ S 9 h is K O 2 ? n J !r0s!3z,l"S!??? oh? ?*35'?ra<EB3 ?" ?- laeegQil ? n ? ao2"<3?S h o H 0 | * CO g > H ? ? H There are many other interesting things in Olasgow, which might be mentioned; but time will not permit. I am impressed with the people of Glasgow. They are polite and kind. As the people of Scotland are such a rugged and matter-of-fact people, I did not expect to And such politeness. But the Americans might learn a great deal from the' people in Glasgow along the line of courtesy and politeness. It is seen everywhere. The policemen will actually go out of their'way to help you. The street car conductors and the clerks in the stores are all polite. I don't think I bought a single thing in Glasgow, that the clerk didn't say, "Thank you." The young women in the stores are very nicely behaved indeed and very polite. While in Glasgow several of my party ran out on the train to Ayr, the birthplace of Robert Burns, Scotland's great poet The house in which Burns was bom is still there and no doubt it will be there a hundred years hence; for it is made of rock. It is a very modest house?four rooms in a row. One of these rooms was for the cows and horses. The house has a straw thatched roof and I could easily reach with my hand up to the eaves of the house. I also saw the walls of the old Kirk near the Burns house and the "Auld Brig o'Doon," In which Tarn O'Shanter figures. This old bridge dates back to the 15th century. It Is made of rock, one arch spans the beautiful little river and it seems to be Just as substantial today as it ever could have been, though it is a little rugged in its appearance compared with the .new bridge near by. There is an attractive modern building erected near the Bums house in which are found hundreds of relics of the poet, such as portraits, original manuscripts, copies of the editions of his works, etc. I was. told that an original manuscript of Bums sold the other day for five hundred pounds .which is nearly two thousand dollars. Burns was the people's poet. His life and work have struck a responsive cord in the popular heart. The birth place of the poet which is about 40 miles from Glasgow Is a very favorite resort for tourists. They are coming and going all the time. The poet's father was buried in the old Kirk yard and there is on the modest stone which marks his last resting place the following beautiful lines written by his illustrious son: O ye, whose cheek the tear of pity stains, nronr nonr with nlnua rev'rence and attend! Here lie the loving husband's dear remains, The tender father, and the gen'rous friend. The pitying heart that felt for human woe; The dauntless heart that fear*d no human pride; The friend of man, to vice alone a foe; For "e'v'n his fallings lean'd to virtue's side." The country from Glasgow to Ayr is beautiful, very much like the blue grass section of Kentucky. The fences around nearly all of the farms were made of rock. All along the way herds of cattle and flocks of sheep may be seen grazing in the pastures. Here is a humble cottage, and here is a mansion, and here is a beautiful clump of trees, and here is a fine estate shut in by a high rock wall. Every available space of ground is cultivated or utilized for pasture. Little towns and larger ones are seen as the train carries us to and from Ayr. The big ocean appears on the scene. So, altogether the trip from Glasgow to Ayr furnishes a picture which is beautiful and forever stamped on the mind. The weather has been very cold over here. I am now in Edinburgh at the Royal Hotel, one of the finest hotels in the city. I slept last night under two double wool blankets and one single blanket. I don't see how vegetation grows, it is so cold. But it does grow. The climate however, shows on the trees. Of course, we would not expect to see the extensive forests here that we see in America. Scotland is considerably smaller than South Carolina and It has about tour and a half million people In It, and it is an old country. There are some old trees over here, however. But they are not tall and healthy looking like many of our trees in America. They have a stunted look. They have much to resist in this vigorous climate. The faces of the ladies show the effects of this climate in the ruddy glow on them. In fact, they are so red that they look like they had been painted; but this is their natural appearance. I noticed in front of the hotel this morning horses with blankets over them. The people here know how to take care of the horses. Their horses are fat and slick, and those that are used for draying purposes are immense. I never saw such large horses. I haven't seen a mule in Scotland. Have seen one donkey. W. G. Neville. P. S.?You must not infer from the last sentence above that W. G. N. was the donkey. w. o. n. Religious Reading. Conducted By Rev. J. K. Hall. OBSERVANCE OF THE 8ABBATH. Essential to the Walfaro of Man, and tho Obligation Is Psrpatual. It Is impossible to over-estimate the Importance of the Sabbath. It Is essential to the well-being of man, and absolutely necessary for the best Interests of religion. But important as It Is there Is a growing tendency to disregard the sacred day. This is largely due to the fact that men are forgetting that the law of the Sabbath is still the law of Ood. In the #A1iA..,<M? IS i? w... nuiiuniiig uj iiLic 11 ao my cuucavut iv impress upon t{ie readers of this paper that the Sabbath is still binding, and that it must be kept by men. Man needed the Sabbath even before the fall. It was enacted in the Garden of Eden. "And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which the Lord created and made." If man in his sinless state needed the Sabbath, how much more does he need it in his fallen state? Can we think that God would suffer an institution so needed by man to pass away? The law of the Sabbath enacted in the Garden of Eden was re-enacted on Mount Sinai. It was placed in the moral law. It was one of the ten commandments. It was written by the finger of God upon the same tables of stone, the. symbol of perpetuity, that the other commandments were. It was laid up along'with them in the ark of the covenant before the Lord. It is one of the longest of the commandments. It stands before the commandment requiring filial obedience and the commandments 'forbidding murder, uncleanness, theft, false-witness, and covetousness. It is universally admitted that the other nine commandments are still In force. Then surely this commandment, one of the longest and most Important of the comhiandments, is still In force too. Not only Is the law of the Sabbath found In the decalogue, but it Is the key-stone of the arch. Upon it all the other commandments rest. All experience shows that the Sabbath is.essential to true religion. Do away with the Sabbath and religion decays. When religion has decayed how long will men continue to honor Goo and keep his commandments. Can we think for one moment that this commandment, upon which all the other commandments rest, could have passed away? Christ set His seal upon the Sabbath. He said, "The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath: therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath." He could not have been Lord of an abrogated institution, but Lord of a Sabbath still in force. Furthermore, Christ always defended Himself and His disciples from the charge of violating the Sabbath. On several occasions such charges were made. He would not rest under these charges, nor would he let His disciples rest under them. He contended vigorously that whjn the Sabbath law was properly understood It would oeseen that neither he nor his disciples had violated It. Why this care to defend Himself and His disciples against the charge of violating the Sabbath if the Sabbath had passed away? The Sabbath Is written upon the very constitution of man. "The Sabbath whs made for man," said our Savior. Man needs it?needs it physically, mentally and spiritually. Man's body needs the Sabbath rest It has been proved scientifically that one does not gain as much in a night's sleep aB he loses in a day of labor, and that he needs as much as one day's rest in seven in addition to the rest of the night in "order to keep himself in good physical condition. The mind needs rest as well as the body. Without the Sabbath spirituality would die away. This is the verdict of history. Wherever there is no Sabbath, or a Sabbath spent in pleasure, there is little or no spirituality. Could we think for a moment that God would suffer an Institution so essential to the wellbeing of man to pass away? The risen Savior, the apostles, and the apostolic church set their seals upon the Sabbath. Christ appeared to the twelve on the Sabbath day, changed by Himself from the seventh day of the week to the first. It was just seven days after this that he appeared to the twelve again, evidently assembled for worship, when Thomas was present. The day of Pentecost was the Sabbath. The Corinthians were commanded to make their contributions on the Sabbath. John was in the Spirit on the Lord's day. And from that day to this the Christian church has "remembered the Sabbath day to keep it holy." There is no force in the objection that the . Sabbath passed away with the ceremonial law. It was not a part of the ceremonial law and could not have passed away with it. If the Sabbath was a part of the ceremonial law whv was it that it was found in the moral law and not In the ceremonial law? We have already answered the objection that Christ abrogated the Sabbath. Instead of abrogating It he set his seal upon it. The conclusion is Irresistible that the Sabbath instituted In the Garden of Eden, re-afflrmed on Mount Sinai, sanctioned by Christ, written upon, man's physical, mental and spiritual constitution, upheld by the risen Savior, the apostles and the apostolic church, and clung to by the church in all ages, is still in force, and must be kept by the children of men. If they violate that law, they will have to answer to God for their violations. J. K. Hall. [In next week's paper there will be an article from the pen of Rev. S. H. Hay, entitled, "The Sabbath a Necessity For Man."]