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NX An' ye might ko?p on a givin' till wo bear the K crack o do.iin, H But tbe widder'll never thank ye, settin' lazy in H her room. HI Now. I ain't a gittin' stingy, fer I wouldn't hev it sed Too: Ole Hiram wuz a miser, when they lay 'ini ?B with the dea/1 ; M But it's this, an' that, an' t'other thing thet (Ills Eg me with alarm, H Fer a keerless waste 11 never lift the mortgage 9 off the farm. DW ye say ter quifc terbacker? W'all, I'd liko to ME et I could. Eg But yo know, dear TiUly, smokln' seems to do a (k power of g io<l; * It jest holds a sorter comfort thet no smoker 8 kin explain, En An' if 1 should quit, git sick, an' die, -whar B then'd bo the gain V H Did ye Bay to stop my bitters? Now, doar Tildy, <lo ye think Q The!. I ever couM hev weathered it throngh life 8 wicnoDt a unnK t Yea, it costs a ieotle item, but T couldn't ever quit? 'Course I know ye're savin', Tlldy. mighty sav in', I admit. I Bhucka i the Icet.le thins? I spoko on aren't b "worth a Muker's song," I So I'll ax ye to excuse ine. I wnz jokia' all t along. I Tet it's did, an' how I dunno, but tbur is a I saitin' way l Fer to bo a-sorter savin' fer the comia' rainy day l * r ?Chicago Lcdaer-i A MAD MARRIAGE; ? OR.? The Heiress of Lawrence Park. A STORY OF ABSORBING INTEREST, BY MRS. E. B. COLLIN'S. ! CHAPTER Xn. AN AWFUL MESSAGE. Once alone in that pretty blue and white room, Arthur Wynne went straight to tho toilet table, and took thenue that withered spray of stephanotis. Pressing his lips tenderly upon it, he placed it in an inner pocket. Then once again he read the contents ef that fatal letter, though he know it already by heart. Glancing at the upper left-hand cor."^^^-ner of the sheet, "where the name of the ' manufacturer is always stamped, he 6aw that tho paper had come from the "Standard Mills." He put the letter in his pockct, and just at that juncture his eyes fell upon the tireless grate full of gray ashes, j?3t as it had remained since that awful night. Some impulse prompted him; he wheeled sw-iftly about and crossed the room, then stooping he peered into the grate. Yes; there was something. . "Without hesitation he thrust his hand into the bed of feathery ashes, and drew forth a large, crumpled sheet of charred brown paper. Stifling an exclamation he started to his feet, and going over to a marble ta ' * "* % iL. -1.1. J bie near ue iaiu 11 upon mo siuu uuu smothered it out. He bent bis head, and an exclamation of horror passed his lips. ' "My God! What does this mean?" he panted, wildly. The cold perspiration stood upon his brow ia great drops; he trembled, and would have fallen, but lie clutig to the mantel for support. ? Once mom lie bowod his head over the dingy paper; it was covered with writing, which with difficulty he managed to decipher; then faint and trembling fell into a seat.. The paper was headed: "Last will and testament of Gilbert Lawrence,""and it bequeathed his entire earthly possessions to his deeply wronged wife Gabrielie St. Cyr and ; her heirs, with the exception of a certain yearly sum to be sot apart for the maintenance of his daughter Ruby Lawrence. How came that paper in Ruby's room, in her grate? Arthur started to his feet, and pushed back the damp hair from his clammy brow as the horrible thought crept like a noisome reptilo over his heart. "It looks as if she had taken the will, as that woman down stairs insinuated," he groaned; "and then, iu her lmste and fear of exposure, tossed it into the lire. She wanted it destroyed, anyway! But the dying tire ?- -i i AL- 1 i oniy cnarreu iuu pupcr, uuu il una arisen in evidence against lier!" Hat Arthur Wynne dashed these tlujuchts aside as thou eh the}' had been poison. "Heaven forgive nie ne cnea, "that I should for a single moment luirbor such thoughts as these My poor darling; my poor little Ruby! Heaven help her and shield her wherever she may be!" He placed the chaired paper carefully between the folds of a newspaper, and, carrying it with him, turned to leave the room. At the door he paused and glanced back, and his eyes fell upon a small object lying upon the carpet near the fireplace. He stooped and picked it up. A comb which had evidently fallen from some woman's hair? an oddly shaped ornament, of imitation coral. Not such a comb as Ruby would have worn. But Arthur Wynne slipped it into hia pocket with a strange, eagei look upon his face. "Worth inquiring into at least!" he muttered, sharply. Then he paused as his eyes fell upon something else. Over the mantel there hung a painted picture?the portrait of Gilbert Lawrence?and at the top of the gilded framo, like a crown, hung a wreath of green iw leaves. He had heard noma one say that the wreath Had been placed fehore by Ruby's hands. "As though a child who loved hor father so very dearly could be guilty of his death 1" he cried aloud, indignant nmBiW that nHHHHHSse!'' be enthuexcuse tor room H||H{jSBjwyrbehind him. Then he IffiKW^^stairs, with a pale, troubled urce. in the hall below he encountered Gabrielle, and mentioned the necessity of still retaining the key of the room in his possession for a time. "I am obliged to report to the Chief of Police, madam!" he said quietly, ''after which your key shall be restored to you!" Her face grew red and then pale, and her dark eyes flashed ominously. "A curious law?that which permits strangers to take possession of one's own house!" she cried, angrily. Arthur bowed. "I regret the necessity, madam," he returned, "but it cannot be avoided. Good morning!" He was turning toward the outer door, but Gabrielle cheoked him. Her face was wreathed in smiles. "I trust you will not dislike ua, Mr. Wynne, simply because of our unfort""?*? I" oho "Tt is not j U-LIt?<*7 |/V/OiVlVu 4 ouv v-.vv.. my fault, or darling Aiele's, that this unpleasant notoriety has bean forced upon ns. Mr. Wynne, you will' call upon us often? It will be a charity, for we are strangera here, and know no one!" Every impulse of his nature cried out against acoepting the overtures of this woman. But an after-thought reminded him that it would be policy to appear amenable; and, perhaps, who knew but that he might learn something which would serve him in his quest? He murmured some half-audible reply; but he had wavered in his manner, and this lack of firmness was a fatal mistake. In the grounds without he met the housekeeper, a garrulous old lady, with whom he had already become acquainted. After a few words of pleas? ant greeting, he drew forth the ooral comb. Before he could utter a word, she ejaculated; "Good gracious! If there ain't Maggie Willett's comb that she lost! And the way she's fretted about the thing, one would believe it was worth a pretty penny!" Arthur returned the comb to his pocket. "I will hand it to her to-morrow," he 1 observed, trying to conceal his satisfac- j tion at the words that he had heard, i Then, with a hasty farewell, he hurri d on, out through the gates, and was j soon back in the great busy city. His j objective point was the Stanford Mills. Tt woo a ru?w manufactory, and but little paper had as yet been issued from it. Mr. Stanford himself, the proprietor, examined the sheet of paper upon which that letter was written?the fatal letter found in Ruby's room. "Alt!" he exclaimed, "I know all about it. It is the only paper of that quality that wo have as yet turned out the mill, and it was all sold to?to . He referred to his books. "Ah, yes, A. J. Graham, stationer, No. ? Blank street. You know the place." Arthur nodded. "Yes. Thanks, Mr. Sanford. And now I must make haste to the office." Arrived there, he found Chief Ludlowe quite excited over a bit of a clew just sent to the office. A woman, in a dark traveling suit and sealskin sacque, with a round hat and a thick veil, covering her face from sight, had been known to leave the city, upon a Southern-bound train, the night of Ruby Lawrence's disappearance, in company with a man?a dark, brigandish-looking fellow?and the train had left the station at midnight precisely. Even as Arthur stood glancing over the written description before him, there was a call at the telephone just at his side. "Is Arthur Wynne there?" "Yea," was tho response. "What is it?" "I am Nat Archer," called the voice, nrifli ,'f? o-Vinof.lv hnllnw sonnd: "officer in charge of the seventh precinct! Ruby Lawrence is?found!" "My God!" panted Arthur "Wynne. 'Where ?" But when the answer reached his pars through the telephone, Arthur Wynue uttered a low cry and fell to the lioor like a dead man. CHAPTER XIII. AT THE MOBGUE. Chief Ludlowe sprang to Arthur's side, and, stooping, lifted hia head upon his knee. "Good God! He's dead!" he panted, wildly. "Get some water, somebody? j quick. "Lynn," turning to a subordinate near, "bring some water, and then muszle that fool that's howling through the telephone! He must be mad to make such an announcament to Arthur Wynne without any previous preparation." Lynn brought a pitcher of water, and Ludlowe proceoded to resuscitate the fainting man. At last Arthur opened his eye3 and smiled feebly; but the smile was succeeded by a swift lightning stroke of memory, and he shuddered violently as ho staggered to his feet. "Done up, wasn't IV" he began, trying to speak lightly. "But, Ludlowe, in the name of heaven, tell me?did 2 hear aright V Let me know the worst now. I must know if?if?he, the officer, really meant it." Chief Ludlowe went over to the telephone, and, Archer being called, Ludlowe went on: "Repeat your message to Mr. Wynne - J- "T> A 1 JUJJli I1UW* XH3 very BUir, Aitua, uiiav you are making 110 mistake." "I am making no mistake," shouted Aroher through the telephone. "Don't see how it cau be a mistake. The message is this: 'Ruby Lawrence is found! She is dead.' Found drowned in the lake below the city, and her body is in the morgue!" Pale and trembling. Chief Ludlowo turned to Arthur. "Shall we go there?" he asked, hurriedly. "Are you strong enough? Are you able to bear the sight, Arthur?" For answer, Arthur Wynne picked up his hat, and started for the door. His carriage was outside, and they were driven away like mad to that gruesome place for the reception of dead bodies Arrived tnere, tney entered tne great chill apartment, with its long, whitemarble benches, upon which lay several dead bodies. A moment's hesitation, and Arthur Wynne had reached the side of one. A young girl I The upturned face was horribly disfigured, and quite unrecognizable. But the half-open, staring eyes were of a deep, dark-violet hue, . .. , . . ; " - . . ... . f and the long hair streaming over the marblo bed and falling upon the dusty floor, was of a rich, lovely golden hue. The body was attired in a plain, dark dress, and there was a brighthued shawl, all sodden with water, that had been found wrapped about the cold form. Nothing by which the dead girl could be identified had been found upon the body?nothing. Arthur Wynne avorted his head; he could not endure the spectacle oi that ghastly form before him; and to think that she?his dainty darling ?should lie there, exposed to the stare of rude men, nearly drove him mad. All at once, as ne stooa tnere, a strange feeling crept slowly over him like a chill. He was not a superstitious man, but Arthur Wynne could have sworn that a cold hand touched his, and a light breath ruffled the hail upon his uncovered brow, while a voice seemed to whisper in his ear: "Arthur!" He started with a sudden exclamation, and, whirling fiercely around, caught Mr. Ludlowe's arm in a convulsive grip. "Ludlowef" he panted, hoarsely. "Mt Godl it is not Miss Lawrence's bodv! It is ail a mistake! See! ] will prove it to you! Tfre liands of the dead woman before us are much longer, and they are rough and toil-stained. ? * i- -i i -3 _ .Kuoy Jjawrence nau xiuiius u&u miu>? flakes, and the heiress of Lawrence Park would hardly be expected to toil. Besides, this dress is of coarser material than any that she would have worn. "And then, when she went awaj from Lawrence Park?when she escaped?they told me that she had worn a sealskin sacque (or, at least, such a garment had disappeared from hei wardrobe), but there was a shaw] found upon this body! And more," hq went on, excitedly, "granted that Ruby Lawrence did commit suicide, I or was thrown into the lake by parties determined to get her out of the way, time enough has not yet elapsed since her disappearance to disfigure her in this way. "Ludlowe, believe me?I am right. Ruby Lawrence is not dead! At all events, this is not her body!" Mr. Ludlowe seized Arthur "Wynne's hand in a silent pressure. His keen eyes were twinkling; he was full of admiration at the young detective's j 6agacity. He himself had already noj ticed the discrepancies referred to, but : he wanted to see if Arthur would obI serve them. "Sharp! by Jove!" muttered th? ! Chief, under his breath. " Wynne was ! not born yesterday! He'll make his 1 mark yet in the detective line. I am j sure I wish him ail succes3!" lie aaaea, still speaking to himself. But aloud he said: "No, Arthur, I do not believe thai i this is the body of Miss Lawrence. U j is not possible! And I do not believe that sh6 is dead!" Arlhur "Wynne's face grew hopeful "Nor I!" he returned, emphatically "and I shall hope on to the .last! shall devote my time, my fortune?aye, life itself?to this one object! I shaL' find Ruby Lawrence?living or dead!' They left the gruesome place, and, entering the carriage, were driver away?not sorry to leave the morgue and its attendant horrors behind them Driving along a crowded thoroughfare, an open carriage dashed by from the opposite direction, drawn by a paii of spirited black ponies. A dark, handsome man was seated within the carriage?a man with a bold, dashing beauty. Somehow, he reminded one of a stage brigand. At his side, among the soft cushions of the carriage, a beautiful, dark-eyed, golden-haired girl, in deep mourning, the somber blackness of her attire setting off her transparent skin and hair to perfeotion. It was Adele St. Cyr. Arthur lifted his hat in response to her smiling greeting, but he shuddered violently as the carriage passed rapidly by. It seemed horribly suggestive to meet Adele, smiliDg and bland, when they had both left the morgue, whither they had gone expecting to find Kuby's body. He groaned aloud in utter anguish and despair at the thought of the poor girl's unknown fate. "My darling! my lost darling!" lie cried, in the depths of his heavy heart. When they arrived at the police headquarters they found a note there for Arthur, from an unknown source. "An anonymous letter!" exclaimed the young man, contemptuously. "Yet, Mr. Ludlowe, the advice contained within may be worth considering. Listen!" And he read the contents of the mysterious note?ill-spelled and poorly wriiten?aloud to the chief: Mister Win?While you air surchlnp for evydeuce in the Lawrence mistry, better keep yuro eye on to Mark Allen?the dude that goes to sea Miss Adell Lawrence, the nu airess of Lawrence Park. A Fbiend. . (to bx continued.] Cyras W. Field. This is the gentleman who laid the Atlantic Cable, Mr. Cyrus W. Field, the genius of that remarkable family of which David Dudley and Judge Stephen are conspicuous members. He used to own about $6,000,000, until Manhattan Ele vated Railway stock dropped, a few rears ago, from 175 to plain 85. Mr. Gould relieved Mr. Field of all the stock he had no more use for. at about 93.?Once A Week. Dr. von Bulow was recently asked to conduct the performance of an operetta which lie considered worthless. He declined, but went to the show and occupied a conspicuous seat. What rendered him more conspicuous was the fact that he was attired in deepest mourning. "That stuff," he said, meaning the operetta, "is being buried, and I am attending its funeral." i The average pay of a superannuated preacher of the Methodist Church is $118 a year. v * ... THE LIFE SAVERS. DESCRIPTION* OF A VALUABLE GOVERNMENT BRANCH. How the Ltves of the Shipwrecked are Saved?Vessels Rescued and PropertyProtected. A Detroit Free Prexs representative recently accompanied a party on a steamboat excursion to Put-in-Bay. The boat had cm board a merry picnic crowd, also a party of three who were not entirely on pleasure bent. One of these was Lieutenant Robert M. Clark, inspector of life saving stations; Mrs. Clark and the representative of the Free Frew. The three were en route for Point Marblehead Station, district nine, on the coast of Lake Erie, and in order to reach it flK'f. \ ' uEX. SUPT. KIMBALL. they re-embarked on the little steamboat Osceola and in the course of an hour or two of very pleasant sailing were landed at Mablehead pier, and cordially received by Captain Lucien M. Clemons and his crew, who escorted the party to the station, which wa3 in admirable order, notwithstanding the fact that the visit of the inspector was in the nature of a surprise. The new paint on the station house, which is a dark red color, made a fine appearance under a coat of sand flies, every one of which had died at its post and stuck there with extended wings. The jolly Captain said with grim humor that he was thankful the paint had dried before the sand-flies came, but he did not state how much worse the consequences would have been if it had not. The Inspector was ready for business, and so evidently were the crew of number nine. In immediate response to a signal the large life-boat, the Diadem, was run out of the station on an iron truck down to the water's edge. Seven surf men and the Captain sprang into her, all having instantly changed from regulation dress to the blue jersey trunks and jackets of the uniform and with a quick and simultaneous motion were at their oars. Then came Jhe order "to capsize." The great boat rolled over and the men disappeared beneath. She went clean over and righted from the other side?the men all in their places at the ears?dripping from their bath in the lake. From the moment the order was gircn to launch the boat, until the men were at stake with their oars, was just twenty seconds. Having shown the stability and safety of the beautiful boat, and illustrated its self-righting and self-bailing qualities, as well as the thorough discipline of its trained crew, the Inspector next gave the order to save a drowning man. One of the men personated the drowning man, and another went to the rescue, swimming with one hand and bringing in the unresisting man with the other. The rescuer swam to the boat with his burden, keeping the head above water. It was done with ease, strength and the stroke of the scientific swimmer. When this was done the men all sprang from the boat into the lake. Duty was over and play began. They sported in the wntpr spaIs and the liveliest iind ablest of the crowd was their Captain, who dived like a fish, and. floated like a porpoise. They went through a manual of evolutions which displayed their endurance and capability in the water and the perfect condition of their limbs, wind and muscles. In the evening at 8 o'clock there was an experiment made with a most interesting feature of the scrvice?the breeches buoy?so called on account of the apparatus which receives the rescued being THE BREECHES BUOY. made like the upper part of a pair of breeches with the legs cut off, through which openings the legs of the rescued are thrust while the body remains firm and safe in the top part. There is a good deal of apparatus about the breeches buoy, but it does not take long to get it together. A cart is loaded with three-inch hawser. There is a whip line on a reel ?a tackle?a shot line and a Lyle gun, shot, ammunition, shovel and picks, a sand anchor, a crotch and a breeches buoy. When all was in readiness the shot was fired. It is a billet of lead?with the line attached to it. In this case a high spar at the end of the pier did duty for a wrccked vessel. With this line the whip line wag hauled off to the wreck by the man on board and made fast. Then the hawser was hauled off by the whip line, all three lines seeming to move with simultaneous speed and precision. The sand anchor being buried, the shore end of the hawser is led through a snatch block attached to the hawser and set taut with the tackle. When the crotch was raised near the surf the breeches buoy was sent out by the whip line and the man on the ipar?as high as a ship's mast?stepped Into it and was swung over the pier and the beach to his coniradcs. This description makes the affair seem tedious, but it could not have been that to a shipwrecked man on the mast of a submerged vessel in a surf that 110 life boat could have endured, for from the time the order Was given and the man was landed in the breeches buoy was three minutes and twenty-seven seconds. The distance from the sand anchor to the practice spar was 300 yards. The average spectator at the breeches buoy drill can hardly distinguish between the lines which arc run out so rapidly side by side, but they heartily applaud when the man in the buoy is landed. The report of the singularly loaded cannon is tremendous, and the spectacle of a crowd of spectators with hands pressed tightly over their ears is j amusing in the extreme, while their ini" i MilI terest In the proceeding is snown in tnen faces. When the shot line flies from the cannon to the mast, the recoil sends the gun back in the sand eight or ten feet, but he who sees that performance misses the swift run of the line to the man in the mast, wbwih is the feat of imt)?rtance. On the following day, while the men were standing about at leisure, the Inspector called "fire." This was the "fire quarters drill'1 and the men did an efficient duty in getting1 the hose at work and the water turned on the station as if it had been a real instead of an imaginary fire. Then tie life car or surf boat?an egg-shaped boat that could be closed by a small square in the lid?was brought Dut. It danced to the waves like a cockle shell. There was room in the aperture for two or more persons. The object of the surf boat is to reach dismantled wrecks where the breeches buoy would have nothing to be attached to. The shot line is sent out to it with a hawser to which the car is fastened. It is propelled from the shore to the wreck and back, in its way often submerged,but, being air tight, floating like a cork. Inspector Clark and Mrs." Clark stepped into the boat, the lid was put on, and, alalthough it was ninety in the shade, they went out into a stationary-boat, that represented a wreck. Once there, however, the Inspector concluded to take a boat for the return trip, but Mrs. Clark bravely returned in the life car, declaring that it was something to be rescued from, as in the sensation of rolling in a watertight and darkened balloon through the water of the lake being entirely too novel un experience to be altogether agreeable." This was followed by a resuscitation drill, in which one of the men was a drowned person and another resuscitated him. The Inspector required the four rules, which the man gave readily without halt or break, while at the same time he illustrated them in his treatment of the drowned man. LAUNCH OF THE LIFE BOAT. The signal drill was a very neat and ingenious illustration of the international code of signals with which all life-saving stations arc supplied and which are intelligible to every Captain, whether French, German or Portuguese. Captain Clemons gave the letters to one of the men, who wrote then out. The signals are in colors, small flags of metal, each part of which means the same in all languages. When the surfman had interpreted the light piece of metal in letters he gave the reading: P. D. M. N who was Q. G. H. lady D. H. G. V. correspondent Q. G. 8. from B. Q. V. C. Detroit? Then the Captain announced the name by another series of flags or signals and the answer was immediately given. The correspondent bore the honor Knt it i'? dnnViHnl if thn fflrM T^rpstk in all its world-wide journeyings ever had its name recorded before by the international signal code. When the Inspector : had satisfied himself with the service of the crew at the life-saving station of the I ninth district, and it is generally con! ceded that this Is one of the best in the ! service, he gave them a few points fot : future reference and showed them how tc light the beautiful Coston signals which burn like Roman candles, blue and red, for a beach or signal light at night to warn vessels seen standing into danger and to alarm the station. There is a patent arrangement in the wooden holdei of the light which ignites a percussion cap. The Inspector showed them how they could light the candle by a match, when the handle would not work readily. Small as this detail may seem, it might be an important factor in the life-saving service. There is a man in the look-out tower at the station day and night. The beach is patroled from sunset to sunrise, one man going to the left and one to the right of the station, carrying with him a patrol lantern find the Coston signals. At a certain distance of from live to seven miles of the station is a patrol post, in which is secured a key to mark the time detector, which each patrolman carries and which registers the exact moment when he was at the post. The duties of a life-saving station 3rc not confined to the immediate vicinity of their district. In the flood of 1883 at Cincinnati on the Ohio River the station at Cleveland sent a lifeboat and twelve skiffs to Louisville, Ky., in answer to a telegram calling for help. Captain demons, of the ninth district, was also telegraphed to hold himself in readiness to proceed to Cincinnati with his life-savins' crew. One of the worst gales knowu in Marquette occurred late in the fall of 1886. Two vessels were strauded and citizens undertook a rescue with a yawl, but found it impossible to reach the vessel on account of high seas and dangerous surf. A tug attempted to leave Marquette, but was driven back. Then the j citizens used an old mortar and tried to | reach the wreck, but the mortar burst after the first fire. Meanwhile 1 the people of Marquette telegraphed to the ship canal life-savins service GOIXO OUT THRO COn THE SUKF. station, 110 miles distant, for help. The life-boat and beach apparatus was loaded on cars and proceeded through driving snow and wind to the scene of the disaster, rescuing all from the wreck. Prior to 1871 the service had only a few small dilapidated buildings on the coast of New Jersey, but gradually extended along the most dangerous points that exist for shipping on the Atlantic coast and places where liabilities to shipwreck were greatest. In 1887 the service reached to the lakes and the Pacific coast. There are now on the lake coast forty-five stations?230 stations in all. In 1871 Mr. Kimball was appointed General Superintendent. His zeal and enertrv. combined with his fitness for the service, brought it up to its present excellent standard. The value of property saved in one year on the lakes amounts to nearly a million and a half dollars. The number of disasters reported in the last year was 186. The number of persons in peril was 998. Number of persons lost, three. The Woman's Relief Association was established in 1879, and has shipped clothing and delicacies annually to the | station for the benefit of shipwrecked I persons, and has done much to relieve the discomforts and distress incurred. There are a number annually rescued from drowning through falling from masts or the ends of piers. Captain demons proudly exhibits a colossal gold medal awarded him by act of Congress. This medal was the first one given under that act of Congress. On one side a rescue scene is engraved; on the reverse, a flag, anchor and eagle. The inscripI tionreads: "Testimony of heroic deeds in saving life from the penis of the sea. Act of Congress, June20,1879." "Lucien M. demons, wreck of Consuelo. Lake Erie, May 1, 1875." Captain demons belongs to a lifesaving family, being one of three brothers, each of whom received a medal for heroic deeds in saving life. The men are selected for their ability as surfmen, swimmers and general fitness in the management of boats, without regard to politics, though all must be American citizens. The crew is obliged to sleep and uat at the life-saving station building. The men are fine athletic fellows, as agile in their movements as gymnasts. Their water costume is a blue jersey suit with red cap. Full rubber suits, with boots and helmet in one piece, hang in the station ready for use in violent weather. These can be inSatcd to assist movement. Point Marblehead has a rock lined coast. It is a lime quarry district and the tourist finds prehistoric America written in petrified characters on every rock or bit of stone he picks up. Ttiere is an important point of oommerce in lime here, which precludes any necessity for other industries. The Five Senses. Tustc. Smell. Sight." Hearing. Touch. ?jVY 10 York Herald. The Biggest Policeman. Says the Philadelphia Enquirer: 1 'The biggest policeman in the United States, with one exception, is Lieut. Mai in, who is now in chargc of the Twenty-first district in "West Philadelphia. He issix feet five inches in height and carries himself with the precision of a veteran. Night or day he is always on the go, and the citizens of his district speak of him with the utmost kindness. He doesn't tell his weight to anjbody, but judging from his appearance it must be that of two or three ordinary men. He is a strict disciplinarian and never asks a patrolman to 20 where he is not willins? to lead.,J SABBATH SCHOOL. J INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOflf SEPTEMBER 8. Lesson Text: "David ?nd Jona than," I 8am.*xx., 1-18?Golden Text: Prov. xriii., Z-t? Commentary. 1. "And David fled from Naiofch in Ramah . and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done?" Saul, being constantly troubled with an evil spirit, had Bought on' two different occasions to slay David (chap*. xviii, 10: xix, 10), but David escaped oat of his hand, for the Lord was with him, and he and Samnel went and dwelt in Naiotft. If we are true children of God the presence of the Lord is ever with us, as a wall of fire round about us, anil nothing can reach us without His permission; and whatever He may permit to reach its, ? < nothing can by any means harm us, for our life is hid with Christ in God. Enemies may seem to prosper, but God will make even the wrath of man to praise Him. As to David 5 and Jonathan, we read that their souls were lmit together, and that Jonathan loved David as his own soul (chap, xviii., 1-3); and in David's lament for Jonathan we hear him saying: "Thy love for me was'wonderful, " passing the lave of women." (II Sam. L, > ?0.) The lesson to-day rives an illustration oi tne wonarocs love ot tnese two men, one thpggjden text reminds n? of the greater Jove of * greater King's Son. who his knit ' ' Hissoul to ours and stripped Himself of all His glory that He might save as from wrath ar d exalt us to TTfa throne. 2. "Thou shalt not die." David inquires of Jonathan why Saul, his father, should thus persistently seek his life, and what Be had done to merit soch ill treatment at the hands of SauL Jonathan assures him that he shall not die, and that inasmuch as his father wiH do nothing without telling him, andhas given him no hint of such a purpose,- therefore it ' cannot be; but the sequel proved that in this case the mind of Saul was hidden from Jonathan. and that hd was really determined to kill David (vs. 30-33), because, as he said, while David lived Jonathan, his own son, could not be established in his kingdom. . 3. "There is but a step between me and death." This was, humanly speaking, true of David and is true of every one of us. In God's hand is our breath and by His kind care we live and move and have our being day by k day, and whether on land or sea it is equally true that the next step may usher us into eternity. This may well cause the unsaved to tremble, but it should give no anxiety to one who is redeemed by the precious blood of Christand is therefore seeking day by day to < "do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with God." 4. "Whatsoever thy poul desireth, I will even do it for thee." Thus said Jonathan to David in his great love for him. There were many things which Jonathan was not able to do for David, however willing he might be, but Jesus, our Savior and King, will without fail do for us all that .our souls desire for His glory, for He is not only willing, but able having all power in heaven and on earth. (Matt, xxviii., 18; John xiv^ 18,14.) 5-7. "If hesaythus: It is well; thy servant shall have peace; but"? By thus .absenting himself from his accustomed place for three da vs. David would certainly learn the mind of Haul toward him. and Jonathan would see it and then know for himself his father's thoughts toward David. If any , think that they see deception here oh the part of David In his speaking of going to Bethlehem, let them remember that God cannot possibly in any way tolerate sin And never does He excuse it; -and If David sinned in this matter it must have brought him chastening. He certainly was not manifesting the ftyth and courage which he displayed when he went against Goliath; but as to his practicing deception, who knows that he did not go to Bethlehem to the sacrifice? 8 "Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant, for thou has brought tny servant into a covenant of the Lord with thee." David had already the love of Jonathan, and the love of all Israel and Judah (xviii,, 1.10), but his one great enemy caused him to rear, and Jonathan was now to be the mediator standing between David and his enemy on behalf of David, and there was a covenant between them which David calls a covenant of the Lord. Jesus is our tree Jonathan. He has stood against the enemy on our behalf; Jonathan almost lost his life at this time on behalf of David (v., 88), but Jesus actually laid down His life on our behalf, and "has sealed with His own blood the covenant which He has entered into for us. 9 "Would not I Ml it thee?" David had asked Jonathan to kill him, if ha was guilty, rather than let him be brought to Saul Jon- <. j'athan's reply is that if he knew evil was determined against David he would surely tqP him. 10. "Who shall tell me?" Now David wants to know how he ahull find oat the result of the interview between Jonathan and his ^ father. He surely does not honor the love of his friend, nor seem to esteem his friend, or ' . . ,?$! his friend's word very highly by these questions. He seems' to be greatly moved, he does not now sing: "I will not rear, though the earth be removed." (Pa. xlvi., 2); he does not talk like valiant David, a man after God's own heart bat rather like the soles who saw tho giants and walled cities Instead of seeing God. Let as learn from him that nothing must ever be allowed to come between us and God lest we too be filled with fears and dishonor Christ. 11. "Come and let us go out into the field." "Come apart," said Jesus to the dlsdples. "Bid the servant pass on, but stand thou still awhile," said Samuel to Saul. It is wise, when we would have fellowship with God, to get alone with Him and shut out all else. It is wise, also, when you would deal personally with a soul in His name, to take them alone, with not even a third party near, and thus you will have more power with them; I h?v? always found it so. 13, 13. 'That thou mayest go in peace, and the Lord be with theo." Jonathan now solemnly calls the Lord God to witness that whether the tidings from his father be good or evil, he will surely let David know; and in the following verses, in most remarkable words, he speaks of a time when all the ene- mles of David shall have been cut off from the face of the earth, and as if anticipating his own and his father's fall and David's exaltation, he causes David to promise kindness to his house forever. Then follows ths account of the interview between baul and his son, and the way in which Jonathan acrdnted David with the result. Bat eves the tidings were to be evil and Saul should seek the life of David, Jonathan says heis to go in peace, for the Lord will be with him. Perhaps David remembered this when he sang: ,lHe shallnot be afraid of evil tidings, his heart is fixed trusting in the Lord.'' (Ps. cxii., 7.) The heart that rests in the love of Him who sticketh closer than a brother, who has shown His love by dying for His enemies, and who having given Himself has given all things with Himself, should be able to say truthfully at all times: "Behold, God is my Saviour, I will trust and not be afraid; for His thought! to me are peace and not evil: and He Him' self is my everlasting life."?Lesson Helper. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Of the English bench of bishops twelve are pledged abstainers. " J "Ails Sold Here" is suggested as an honest sign for saloon-keepers. r-' . New Zealand spent for drink last year $10,650,000, the lowest amount for eighteen years. Of 500 men released from the Birmingham,. England, workhouse ou a recent holiday,nob more than fifty went back sober. Although in many places in Germany other English words are comparatively unknown, , the various English names of liquors are intelligible everywhere, and "American Drinks" are universally advertised. Tt was a young man who discovered pearls in Sugar River, says the Milwaukee Sentinel?' Thou he did the Cleopatra act of drinking pearls, though in a roundabout way. He transmuted his pearls into greenbacks and the greenbacks into liquor, ana when tho liquor I did its business with his head, he revealed lis sccret. , A Loyal Temperance legion at South Fram" ingham, Mass., a few months old, has a pledged membership of over 230 and an excellent plan for holding the interest of the children. The names of all members are to bo placcd in a bank vault and loft tnere undisturbed for ten years. They will then be brought forth to commend and condemn their pledged owners. 1 Lyons, Neb., claims the champion wolf . I hunter in the person of L. D. Higley, ^ I who in three weeks killed sixty-six of the I animals. The bounty on their scalps i amounted to $246.