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The text was fro:n Esther i:ll-12: 'Bring Vashti the queen before the king ith the crown royai. to show the people md the princes her beauty: for she was air to look on. But the Oucen Vashti -eiused ti come at the king's command neat by his chamber:ains." Mr. Shannon aid: The Ahasuerus of the hook of Esther is he Xerxes of profane history. By com non consent of historians he was one of he most powerful nionar.hs that ever ived. The pazes of Herodotus are filled vith his exploits, and (irote and Rollin, 's0, dwell upon his power and achieve nei,ts in an interesting manner. But his awdry gt'att:' is wor'.h while on:yas it -ervcs to set f : ti the heroism cf Vash'ti. \.ready tih erc:urics have tarnished the 2rilliare of his court. but not the beauty >f his queen. Sliushan, the palace, exists >nly in name. The hundrcd a:id four co-e days during whi:h he s. . ced the ichcs oi~ his g:or,ous kingdom and the "^!'r of hs excllent majesty are less ia a shadow on the dial. The white. reen and blue hangings, tied with cords i purple and tine linen to silver rings in iliars of marble perished long ago. The old and silver beds, which sat upon a avemieut e: rea and bluc and white and b ack marbie, have had no ocupants for nore than 24010 yars. The golden vessels, ro which princes quaffed the royal wine, re all one with the golden sand grains of he de=ert. Time is nio respecter of per ons. if it buries the common things in obiivion, that shadow of darkness." it loes not forget to pluck the spangles from the robes of kings, tossing them into the ,ight also. But time cannot dull the beau :y of a great soul. Time cannot quench he flame of a white life. Time cannot stain the sniow of a pure heart. And that ai why Queen Vashti and the tragedy of her life forever hold our admiration and Dur tears. Perhaps we shall be more capable of nieasuring the unfortur..:e queen by glane ing at the monarch she opposed. Ahasue rus possessed the almost unlimited power an Oriental despot. His will was su peme in everything. We find him here ziving a feast to his lords and princes. Hlaving conceived the idea of making .war ,n Greece, this feast to his subjects is a -.ep looking to that end. Whatever he undertook usualy came to pass. He could dig a canal through the Isthmus of Mount Athos. He could build a bridge of ships across the Hellespont. He could scourge the sua for its tempestuouzness. He could bedeck the branches of a tree with jewelry as a reward for its fruitfulness. Ie could Saise an army of more than 2.250.000 men. He could even shed tears when he re tiected that in less than a centi,- not one of these men would survive. ,But we have in our text one thing this monarch could not do. He could not cor.ipel a helpiess woman to permit hin and his drunken c.rticrs to make a toy of her beauty. He could not drag a high-sou!ed queen down from the pedc.tal of her stainless purity! Consider, in the first place, that the life story of Vashti recalls the fact that palaces have furnished the actors in some of the darkest. deepest tragedies in history. When Shakspeare wanted material from which to create his immortal dramas. with unerring vision the i iZhty master began to probe the life history of kings and riueens.. From their laughter and tears, from their splendor and shame, from their rise and fall, he wove a literary apestry whieR is the growing wonder of men. In deed. as wve watch Shakspeare move mis royal players over his mental chess-board, we have to exclaim, with Aeschylus,"What a shadow of e le is hu.r.av. royalty!" ising in brilliance, these royal stars set in darkness; and, usually, their darkness is made more terrible by the ominous fshings of red lightnings of remorse. After a palace and its occupants have passed under Shakspeare's pen, this is the conclusion of the whole matter' Thrones arc painted bubbles, and kmgsI and queens arc bubble chasers! This is not saying there are no good kings and oueens, because there are. It is, rather, emphasizing the fact that the happiest people are those who are fortunate enough not to have been born under the star of royalty. We all know how the biatorian loves to dwell upon the character of Cbeopatra. Be .ond q.uestion, she was one of fhe -most at ivating women of paganismi. "eseend ed from a long.line of kings. roy'al blood flowed in her veins, beauty adorned her erson and brilhiance sparkled in her rain. When Nature enlled for an Egyp tian aueen, this fascinating Greek princess was the answer. At fourteen she was an accomplished linguist, a student of history and a skilled musician. At nineteen she onqured that Caesar who had conquered the world. Forty-six years before the Christian era she accompanied him to Rome, where sihe lived in pomp and lox u-v until Cae,;ar's assassination. t-hen she returned to Egypt. She met Mairk Antorny at twenty-eight-"a period oi iife,-' accord ing to Plutarch, "when woman's beauty is most solendid and her intellect is in full natrity.." AXntony summoned her to ap near hefore hiim in Cilicia. charged with having assistedl Cassius before the battle oi Philippi. Upon this imperious sum muons hung the destiny of that giftedl Ro man, and he :newv it not. You know hov she answered the summons-not as a craven culprit. but as the peerless queen o the south. 'As she went up the Cydnus in her r-oval barge. the like of which was never beheld before or since, the scene enthralled the fancy of hoth Plutarch arid Shakseare. He who could make words say what no other man could. had to con fess. "For her ow-n person, it beggared all ieeription." Lik' a burnished throne, he' barge hurned on the water: the poop was beateit gokf: thme pui'ple sails were so prfuted that the winds were love-sick with them: the silver cars kept stroke to he tune of fletes; she was couched in a gold pavilion like Venus, "where wve see the fancy outwork nature;" dimpled boys. hke smiling (upids, were standing on "aci side fanniing her; gentlewomen. like Nereides. tended her. When she arrived t the eit.v the neople rushed out to see her-, leaving Antony alone in the market Like the incomparable .Tulius. shec cante. ihe saw, she~ conquered! Antony was dazzled. hecwitched. enslaved. by this sirert i;en. Ever afterwartd, with the possible xception o: three years. Ihe was her slav--. Not sati.4ied with !avishing silver and gold and precious stornes antd silks and works of art, upon her. he threw whiole kitgdoms at t ct, as if they wierec soj many lonman >'z.:e-mots. Hie wasii ai hmelew in her power (it1 an iird un der thre hxpnoticel ofin] a snake. A!! the world knowsxi ho -x :t a eriti cal meoment in the imteof Actium. eoratra, for some nrknown. crion was seeni leaving with her vesels for E'ypt. This was a signial or Aniitony to aba ndon the hattie and nixo hi- -0o(rcr. F-Ior trenirthi, she cave hI-m wveaknies-. For infatuation, she '-ave im rtdece'i. 1-or the.-'weets of love, she tv him the eggs or -co)rnions. For ido! atry. -he "ave himt death. The Eayptian Dlhlah had elipped t.: locks of this R ai~ Samson and he wiist net that his x regthI iwa- deone d firm him. a far t his h1'wi-eruinvomani has only toted w ith .-trin-' met' This child of the alce iha held the golden b:t of destiny between her teethi of pearl atnd her gods hve not retined lier in. But her cud i (4oming. ~ Afte betraying Anitony. -lie re tred wrtin a uate, whichl had been built oju-t such an (-rncry.n- S he then sent hriaramour wo~r d thalth had -killed herel and hi,-''rit-' w- -elh .hat he fell m>oni' i own iiord. Uut he lived long uc odoveC rh . -he had m deceived b m a in. Dyhx : :imd' s:akedl in his own b ood en ordlered hiis serv-ants to4 carry h onto her manio:um.sin As the oniv en t ran'ce to lhe'r nete-at left tunbhrred w.-as a 'ind o. he w-as driwnr in by root-s into hitr nrisece and died. And wxhat becarie of her-this actor iroat thre palace? You Iknow te storv. Howy she tried her charms iroon Octaviuis Caesar and failed. How the pi-ospect of being carried a prisoner to e "led a captive princess up ne Hill." she died by her own King moral aense. she wore a as to the end of the tragedy. e sweet-souled Vashti, Cleopatra veil of mcdesty for her face, and he asked none for her soul. Darker than .gyptian night, she has ief' a dark stain won the brow of univc sal womanhood' Xhiter than the whiteness of the dawn. ashti. like Shelley's heroine. "clothed in irtue's adamantine elou!uencc, paves her .ath with human hearts" Consider. alo that in stud.'ing the traz dv of Vashti. we have to reckon with e- beauty. "for she was fair to look on." Tlhen soine genius equal to th. task of eriting a history of beauty a:",ears. men .nd women will find a perpetual charm in ts glowing pages. It will contain a page f joy. a page of sorrow. a page of peace. page of war, a page of love, a page of ate, a page of poetry and a page of art. lut it will contain many paces developing his thought-the tragedy of beauty. But along with her beauty. Vaahti pos essed that other rtuality which lends >eauty an enduring freshnes" and charm rnd1P . V,th cve her p1^' i'h histo:v ot so much* to her beauty as to her mod stv. If beauty made her a queen. modcs y made her a woman, which is far better. s queen, Xerxes could banish her; as on'mn. he vras defied by her. As queen, ie could ans did dethrone: as woman. he sits upon a throne that has hearts for ts cushions and centuries for its pillars. [he Dubarrys, the Pompzdours. the Mon espans have their day and cease to he; ut the Vashtis -"o on forever. The Cly cmnestres. tie Aspasias, the Cleopatras re metcor. ishing throug1. the darkne. eternal niaht: the \ ashtis are golden u"} bt.-:nirg~ threogh womanhood's end dav! Indeed. modesty is so inhercut an ele ient in the urat essentials making genu ne beauty that without modesty beauty simo.asldle. We are indebted to no hu nan "law for this truth-Cod has woven t into the. fabric of our natures. Art ritics tell us that the eighteenth century va pre-cminently} the century of women. hen. wre are told: "Her grace posseased he most prestige, her coauctry the most lisieting elegance and her beauty the not triumnnhant authority." It was the ge in which Mote. de Potmiodour reigned nh the court of Louis XV. The brushes of atour and Boucher have pleaded with all he eloquence of their genius and art to leify this daring woman. She aipointed ninisters. she exiled those who incurred er ill will, she sentenced to the Bastile hose who ran counter to her imperious ish. She ivas the patroness of philoso hy. art and song. Throuch her magic rand Versailles was touched into a dream f splendor. which has not yet vanished. Ier collectiot. 'of pictures, crystals. cam os, antinues .nd gems was unparalleled in he kingdom. She squandered fortunes on ter palaces. ietes and ball; and then ther fortunes on her t ilet. For twenty rcars this butcher's daughter held her im he:ial sway, which was broken only by leath. But when the historian tells us that it was the dream of her girlhood to ieduce the king: that her shameless nrodi ality makes t'.e cheek of decney burn: that mode.ty fotnd no hospit:t ity among her sensual ch:a'ms, we may well repeat the uestion of another, "Was La Pom padour beautiful, or merely pretty?" In scinetiveiy drawng back as we woull in the presence of a snake, we answer. "She was neither. Sh? was a royal harlot. pa raded in gilded suame. lacking most of all that jewel of mcdesty which sparkles in the crown of true beauty." Alas for that land whose women forsake their veils of modesty to show the people and princes their beauty! Consider.' final;y. the price Vashti paid for her modesty. For ler refusal to come at the king's command was the immediate eause of her dethronen>nt. Surely there are few finer exhibition of sacrifice in the history of womenhood. We love to read of Telesilla. who united'courage with the gift of song. and saved Argos; of Octavia, hielding the children d Cleopatra, her shameless rival; of SuIpicia, renouncing the lear:re of Rorne to go mnto exile with her husband; of Luc'etia. v:ho kil!cd. herself rather than live in dishonior; of Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi. urg ing theni to deeds of patrittismi; of Paula, leaving her palace on Monlt Aventime, to walk as an angel of charity through the s.uns of Rome, but not om of them out shines Vashti. Nor has history given his !oveiy queen her dues. WVe read much u~ Lais, who lived ini the same century as Vashti, ar.d who was a notorious courtesan; of the immoral Aspasia, who ccunted Socrates and Pericles amc'i her .ong list of ad mirers: of the treacherous Lucilla, who ruled 'the court of Marcus Aurelius; of Agrippina. the infamous mother of still more infamous son-Nero. All of these names have been emblazoned high up in the hall of fame. But, sadly enough, the events of Vashti's life, like Sappho's songs, have been lost. And yet these few limpses we i'- e of her in the first and second cha'mers of the Book of Esther will ause Leonie to look at her forever. She was ,eautiful in Shushan the palace, and she will he beautiful for all time. She was fair to look on five centuries be fore Chris:.,.and she will be fair to look on to the last day of the world. It wvas Vashi's beauty of soul that proclaimed her the forerun:ier of that renaissance for which the worM is suffering to-day, viz.: A genuine revival of the old-fashioned, homespun. immoc'tal virtue of modesty! While'the Bible says nothine of the sac' rifice she made, be assured that it w~as big with ]ain. Long nights of sorrow shut her in. She knew the bitterness of friend less day.s. Like Dante, 5he experienced how ha~rd it w~as to eat other's bread. But she took no counsel of her expediency. Let the king's anger burn within him. let the godless court make her a laughing stock, still Vashti never faltered. She knew that beyond her Gethsem.ae. Ascen sion Mount 'was 'robed in glory. She knew, with all queenly women of like spir it. that gates of pearl wvould swing back to let her in. and that she w5ould march to another coronation on high. _ The Many Mansions. One thing I have desit-ed. that will I seek after: that 1. in my study; I, in my shop; I, ini my parlor, kitcheti or nur ser; L, in my studio; I, in may lecture hall, "nmay dwell in the house o: the Lord all the days of my life." In our "Father's house are many mansions." The room that we spend most of our' lives in, each of us at our tasks or out wvork tahlcs, may be in our Father's house. too, and it is only we tl t can secure that it shall be. Alxader- MIacaren. He Humble. I charge my thoughts be humb'e still And all imy ?onduct mild: Content. my Father. with Thyi will, And quiet as a child. Unite. my: rovmng thoughts, unite. In s.ile-ne soft an.d sweet; And tho~u. my soul, sit genatly dowa At thy piest Sovereigin's feet. -Dodch ;dr Stocd Still for Six Hours. Ralph Lc.dlie. on actor, wh-o said his ~oe is inm Marion, Ohio. bet "omimer -i travelers in the !obby of the Erie hotel in Dunktirk. N. Y., $40 that he could standl without. nioving a muscle until o'clock the next morning. The bet was taken, and it was agreed that if any one shov'ed him or otherwise disturbed him lie was to take the money. It was 10:25 o'clock when the bet ';as made. Leslie strtuck a position in the middle of the corridor and stayed there motionless until 4:30 a. ma., when one of the travelers, playfully scuffling with another, struck one of the silent posers feet. moving it. Leslie forth with the 14-year-eld daughter of Mr. with nuit and took the money. Wit loses declare he had not visibly moved a muscle for six hours and fiv minutes. Will Shute is the name of a new outhern express messenger on the southern railway. Train robbers, be .-m.r....nfower Pensae. Lift of the Heart. Wh"n we stand with the woods around us And the great boughs overhead: When the wind blows cool on our fore head: And the breath of the pfnr5 is shedl: When the song of the thrush Is riUg irg WCorderful. rich. apart Irtween the sound arid the sience Comes a sudden lift of the heart. When we se-ek with the clearer vslon That grief the revealer br:ngs e For the threads that are shot together In the closewrought web of things, ' And find that pain is woven " Into love and joy and art- * Betwer-n the search and the solace Ceoes a sudden lift of the heart. o " And when life's farthing candle * Gutters and tiares and sii.ks: When the eye no longer wanders " And the brain no longer thinks; When only the hand plucks idiy ! At the sheet till th spirit part- " Does there come between living and dy. A sudden :ift of the heart? -Atlantic. * The Censor in Italy. A most amusing incident took place 0 last week, which shows the absolute absurdity of the censorship in Italy. " The great actor, Ermete Novelli, now in South America, has a son whc lives In Florence. to whom was born a s beuncing boy. The young Novelli, in a haste to let his father know that nr. : had made him a grandfathcr, telk e graphed: "Ermete Novelli. Buenos " Ayres: Bor. Enrico." Several hour: later he was called to the telegrapn e oPice. ; here the following conversa. tion took place: "You know we could not let you;r " dispatch pass." i" "Not let it pass! But why, if you p;lee?" You kr.ow you said it was a boy-"'? "And if I did, what then? Is it not j true?" "Well, that is what we do not know lect ,, thei yet.od "What! Are you crazy? I know N% it!" and "Wel!. anyway, public order de- tlie rnands that it should not be made I t r public." fron "Made public! Am I making it pub- lni lie by telegraphing to my father? ceiv And, in any case, what has the birth troi of my son got to do with public order- r. Excuse me, have you all taken leave lle of your senses?" ng "Your son?" gasped the other. "We of thought you were telegraphing about tuw the queen!" hop cr" There is nothing harder en the T ne:ves Cr worse for the clothes thant bothshoudcith( pa:-king water on both shouldcis- for .. - _suit S A dude preacher generally prod Ue3 lum dead sermons. So, 1. Dr. CUTICURA SOA?. Tie Wnrld'+ Greatest Skin- So:p. he Standard of Every Nation of th Earth M:lli.ana of the w"t I's best peop'e :te ("ut,Lura Soap. as=-tted by l'uaI Omt ment. the pure=t and =%weete:t o1 eno: hent skin cures. for ireserving, pui-mn., and bealrtii.ying the ,kin, for clean=in;tg the I calp of crusts. -cales and dandruff. and the stlpptmg of taling hair. !or <iteni~g, wrhitenog and -oothng red. rough and sore h.nd?. or' baby r.ires, itchmrhgs and c"haIing-, and many sanative. anttseptre purpo-e- wich r eadrily ouggest 1inemselves to womiern. es.pec ially Int hers, j'< weil o.'t for all the purposes of th toi:et, bath and nurey. Psychro'o-:y ar aire settin: HCen. The hen pa tienitly "sets" only through - the overpow'erin.: pr'essure of a myrs terious (lceative imimiuse thiat mas:tters lie' restless impl)lses to be outside * scratching oiua cackling. inisiend of working for po.sterity. -Boston Her ald. stOo) newara. sto'). The readers of tis paper will be pea.edto learn that there is at least one dreaded dis ease that seien2 has bee:n able to cure in all itssta ra, an '.t'iV i Cata.rrh. Hall's Catarr'a Cure is the o'ily positive enro now known to themredIica reatvmity. Catarrh being aceon dtittonal di<'ease. requires a constituitional tratment. l.tt'. taIrhCure is taken~ inter cosara'n of th aystem. thereby destroy Ingthe fo:ui.riti of the diisase, a'td givin" to n-t::ient sire c.g.h by butildinIg Up the con titution a'- I assi'ting nattura in doing its iori. 'The p)roprietor.5 have so miichl faith i itscenrative po wrs that they offer One H n red Dall'irs f'ora't ('ae ithe it fails to cars, C send for lis: of te4.imoni-'is. Addlress F. 'J. Ctrssnr & Co., Troledo, 0. Sold by D)rurt :ris. 75 t. Take Hail'.? Famnily Pills fo^: constipatioa __ Lofty $tatue. A huge staitue of tire Virgin has been f successfully placted 01n the summit of5 the Dent dun Genlt, ai monltain illn Italy 3:l.000 feet high. nrear Milan. Di vine stervice was performed onl the summ'.it in t'elebrratiori of the event by the vicar or (Otnurmayeur. _ Yoi Buy GooI we are offeria purest baking is light, white, than other bakin Good Luck is oi the high qualitya - EOD L oNEc SPOON is packed in mayuseful these coupo: ~41 somiefree pons ant it, send THE SO SISTERS OF ges Pe-ru-na for Cougi Catarrh-nA Congres I000asa&coo0**00000000400000 000004 every country of the civilized world Tb ers of Charity are known. Not only -io man minister to the spiritual and intel- The ual needs of the charges committed to r care, but they also uiinistet to their lv needs. 'ith so many children to take care of to protect from clir"ate and disease, :e wise and prudent Sisters have .ound una a never failing safeguard. r. Ilartman receives many letters n Catholic Sisters from all over the s ted States. A recommend recently re ed from a Catholic institution in De t, Mich.. reads as follows: S. K. Hartman, ('olumbius, Ohio; ar Sir: -The yuyn girL who used Peruna-was sufferiny Jront tar- Dr tit is a ud Loss of voice. The result pys he treatnent wvas most satisfac J. She ji.nad grCut relief, and Peru tr Jurther use of the mnedice e w e e to lie able to say sihe is entirely the e. ---.Si.es of Charity. bo young girl was under the care of facto Sisters of Charity and used Peruna writt cataarh of the throat with good re- full s as the above letter testifies. be T nd to The l'cruna Medicine Co.. Co- vice bus, Ohio. for a free book written by Ad Hartman. 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"""....."".....s.p..~O*..".".a e following letter is from C ongress Meekison. of Napoleou, Uhio: Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, 0.: Gentlemen: "I. have used several - bottles of Peruna and feet greatly benefited there bv from my ca tarrh of the head, . and feel encontr aged to believe that its contia {ued use will, fully eradicate 'a - dis 2avid Weetcfson. Jtes ftit - --+-David Meekison. Hartman, one of the best known icians and surgeons in the United 11, was the first man to formuLate na. It was through his cenius and ,verance that it was introduced to nedical profession of this country. you do not derive prompt and satio ry results from the use of P'eruna, at once to Dr. Hartman, giving il statement -of your case and he wil leased to give you his valuable ad gratis. dr - Dr. Hartman, President of HartTan Sanitarium, Columbus, 0. [5TER FTER" SHOTGUN SHELLS 1 is its shooting. 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