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HHr than be sare H^ESH|HH3fl9EBK9R?^^^^ nnaeen than watch ths done t" at the last, than the gVHNflKra^ffiSS|^^^^^h.u!.iDg rent. S?EH^cjHQBN8rto have a quiet grief than a hurrying the twilight of the dawn than the noonday byrnlng dright. Better a death when work le done than earth's most favored birth; Better a child In God'i groat home than ^the **ng of all the earth. / ?George Macdona Id. S Lost Liw&\ TIE Wjym TOE SWEET. VRTaleof Two Continents. B7 MBS. NINA LAWSOV. CHAPTER XXm. But Jeannette's murderous schema ^ . vras not a success. In her anxiety to get rid of her troublesome "little tramp" she had given her a double dose, and it would sot remain in the stomach a sufficient length of time to. take the desired effect But for a whole long month tienora was not able to leave her bed. Oh, what moments of awful agony Bay Bristol spent during the first two weeks of Lenora's sickness, for be expected every moment that they would tell him that she was dead. His mother would not allow him to go to the blue rooms during that time. How thin and Dale she had crown from her worry and watch! The latter part of the third week after that ter-1 rible dar, Mra. Bristol found Ray sit-1 ting in tne library with hif arms resting on the table, while his faoe was buried in the deep circle they formed. "My boy, what ails you of late ? You Sure grown so pale and thin. Come, tell me all, Ray; you know I love to bear your burdens as well ae share your joys." She gently laid her hand upon his boulder, but as Roy raised his head ?od looked up into her faoe she shrank hack, for it did not seem possible that this could be her Ray, h?r only bov. His face was so thin, pale, and Wggard-looking; his eyes were tearless, f -A ? il 3 11. t At- J out in laeir aeep, aar& aepms a boo, lonely, indescribable expression rested. As he looked up at his mother, she read tin plea for pity in his face. "My precious bov, tell me all; I know you are suffering, and do not hesitate to tell me." The tender, loving mother kissed the white, noble forehead as the hot, throbbing temples rested on her bosom. "Can't you guess, mother, or do you know all aisd do not want to speak yet?" "You know I am not good at guessing, Bay; but be frank. Is it our little bird?" "Yes, it is ahe. I do not know how you feel about it, and I cannot help my . ?- own feelings, but I love her better than I do my own life. If she cannot be mine, I do not caro to live. I am convinced that Bhe is as pure and innocent as a DaDe, duc lor somo reason or otner Jeannette does not think so. I -would five my riglit hand to know that trange mystery which surrounds that beautiful girl; she seems so far above jne, in her beauty and purity. Oh, I vish I could describe to you, mother, the sweet oomfort and pleasure it gives me just to be near her. Life will be a burden without her for my wife." "My dear boy, my heart aches for you; but I know that you are old aough and man enough to do what is right. But are you 6ure that she loves you ? Perhaps you have given your Keart and happiness to one who could not love you." "Oh, mother, I would 6take my life * that she Iovcb me, and no one else i Didn't she call for me when she was unconscious ?" "Yes, Bay, she called for no one else but you and a lady friend of hers that ahe calls Gertana. But there is somey thing strange abont it alL She would call for you, and then say, 'Don't, don'j let him come, for he can't love me r.s I do him! I must get up and go away from here?away, away off?for he ^n he more than a kind friend to me! 41 'Jjerbaa, voa will take me away, won't you? You can "see how X love him! 1, a poor, homeless, friendless, and penniless girl! " 'Oh, ho can't care for such as me! Good^by, Kay! I must go, go far *wav, and never see vou any more!' "?ho would strctefi out her hands as if reaching for you, Ray, and then she would hide her little face in the pillows and ory jib if her heart would break. It was all very trying for me, xaj dear boy, for I love you both so much." As Mrs. Bristol ceased speaking, Bay looked up into her face, through the tears that had at last come to his hot, feverish eyes. "I told you, mother, that she loves nn and ftnW ton w*-ll dn T rpmflmhfir the time the gare her heart to me. Oh, how brarelj 6he fought for herself! but God intended ub for each other, ?nd I can no more help loving her than I do the light of day!" "God bless you, my boy. I told her ? Q&03 that I would never ask her again to toll me anything about her past life, but if it -will relieve you any, Bay, I will retract that and uk her to tell me ell she remembers. I oan beliere every word 6he Bays.'* "Yes, indeed you can, for ?he would aot stoop to tell a lie." "Very well, then, Ray; I will do all that I can, and when I have succeeded I will let you know all." "Yea, but do not ask her now, wait on til she is stronger. When can I see tier? It seems sometimes that I can* not wait a moment longer, but must go to her." "You may see her, Kay, as soon as she is able to sit up, but not before then." 'And how long will that bo, pray?" te&h . .. - to SHRBBwUSSHMflHras she left M^^HHRHflBn^^ave seen a tall, KS^EfiQH&g^Hffo that room. BjBjHfiflEHHiat Bay and his mother mHB9|H^r Jeannette had heard. MSnBRr first wioked scheme had |HHi she was even more desperate^ ffnan ever, and now watched veer Cicely every movement made in the loaruse. I She had not as vet been aHow^y to go to Lenora's room, and did ngsvparticularly care to go. If her/ murderous purpose hfcd not quite/fcucceeded to her satisfaction, she^ad succeeded in keeping the two s^arate, and now she was busy laving/fnother plan to dispose of the ^Jfittle tramp." In order that no one/?cmld possibly suspect her, she had^u^essfully simulated sickness Jlo^rfjpRng while from the effects oiJ)Ae poison that was supposed to i^tve been in the chooolate that she had drank. She, the guilty one, the would-be murderess, was not suspected, but the poor, ignorant, innocent servant was the one that was punished. Mrs. Bristol returned to Lenora's room, while Jeannette remained in the sitting-room, nursing her wrath and disappointment. "Thanks to that keyhole, Raynard Bristol, I heard your romantic declaration of love for her. Ah 1 my fine fellow, I have not waited for and loved you all these years for nothing. I do not intend to be dethroned by that miserable little wretch upstairs. Although I failed once I will try again, and should I fail then, there will certainly be a third chance. You shall not shake me and my long devotion to you in this manner. You must be a heartless wretch to have no mercy for me, when you have known for years that I loved you so madly, and oh! heavens, how I have longed to be mistress of this mansion. "Oh, no, Ray Bristol, I will stain my hands with another's blood before I will yield now." She had been pacing up and down the room, while her dark, fierce-looking eves were oontinually glancing toward the library door. Completely exhausted physically, she Bat down to conclude her muttered threats. "Ah, it seems so terrible, so cruel, that I am compelled to fight for my rights in this manner. It is my right, and no one else should have it bat me. Have I not been led to believe that it all should be mine some day? Yea, and by him, too. Oh, what heavenly davs I have apent here at this grand old mansion. He has always been kind and loving to me, and in spite of what I heard I oannot help but think that he loves me. Ah, curse that girl that has come between us. I shall have revenge if I lose my own life in the attempt. Perhaps some goodj goody girl, all meekness, all timidity,, would yield to her and go away from here, but not L I shall some day reiga here, and you, Ray Bristol, will receive your reward for the pain you are giving me now." Ab these threats passed Jeannette's lipa, in inaudible whispers, poor Ray gat in the library more dead than alive. Had he but known the thoughts and plans of the scheming Jeannette, who had been the real cause of all his mis* ery, as she sat there in the large family-room, now planning to kill his only love, he would have torn the very heart out of her body. He had never loved her, and never could; neither had he ever said anything to her to cause her to think that he oared more for her or in a different manner than a brother would for a sister. He looked upon her as suoh, and had often oalled her his "good little sister." After Jeannette's angry passion had anl voi/1 rv/3 a 1?4 + 1a oV? a TPAnf iri^A Via DUISOA14VI& a A 4 U bACj DUO TT v^i-i V AUW IUO library, where she found Ray still Bitting with liis arms resting on the table. "Good-morning, Ray; yon here, and so early, too! Ah! And yon are not feeling well either; I can tell by the way you look- Is there anything I can do for you, dear ?" "You are very kind, indeed, Jeannett-e; but there is nothing that you can do for mc. I only -wish to be alone, and nurse my sorrow by myself. But, say, Jeannette, don't you think there is a possibility of your being mistaken about Lina?" "Ah! is it that that troubles you so and makes those dark circles about your eyes and that ghastly look upoD your face ? "If it is, Ray, I am afraid that I cannot lighten your burden very much, frv* TT/ni Irn/Mir mt* rvm'ninn ?rwl T oVioll IV* UIU Auvn 1XIJ V|/1U1VU| uuu JL ouwil stand firm, until'l have positive proof to the contrary. "You do not know how I wish it was within my power to help you, Ray, but I cannot work against ray own convictions. I will do anything for you, Ray; you JkP0!7 tiatj'aud xf I can obtaftl any clue to the myotsry that you seem to thi^k surrounds her, I will do bo. But, Ray, aear, believe me, it almost kills me to see you throwing your life away upon that worthless creature up-stairs. I am as positive as that I now stand before you that she is lowborn, deceitful and cunning. Look at the manner she entered this house, and how she has managed to work upon your mother's feelings! "All. I tell you, Ray, things are oom? (nc to a pitiable condition at thin onoc bright home. Bat ever sinoe she entered its doors things have been going wrong. It soema to me that some horrible darkness hangs over this yonr own home, and that it will never again be the plaoe that it onoe was." "Jeannetta, I oannot agree with you on this subject, and she is still innocent, in my estimation." "Very well; that is your privilege to think and speak as you like, but you will see the day when yon will wish that you had thought twioe before vou spoke." "Hli 'c laVs .Tonnnafffl me alone! You only harass me, and I am so worn and nervous now that I scaroely know -what to do with myself. You have always been good and kind, a? any sister should be. but let m? alone for a little while now." And ha began pacing the floor, sader, if possible, than ever, and Jeannette returned to her room in no enviable frame of mind. MAh! So that is the way he treats me now. He-even so much as told me that he did not care for me?a poor fool that I am. But now, since I nave begun my work, I will finish it. I will kill that girl the first opportunity that I get, and then Bay and the mansion will be mine! "This love of bis for her is only _a v \ . 7 C -.. > .. . ^ nothing subHHH mm when she is 9noe Snj^H^rtho coast will b? clear, HRH^soon forget her. Yes, I can H^^^asily see how I can end my ProublcB in this respect. I shall personate Aunt Marguerite as nearly as possible, and some night, and before he sees her, I will Bteal into her room and smother her to death with the pillows. "It will berthought that she died of heart disease, caused from the effects of the poison. "t&, that is -what I shall do, for it ia the beat and quickest way that I can now think of. The. time passed quickly to all except the anxious, impatient master of the hous9. He was sad, yet happy, in the thought that he would soon see hia idol. As Lenora grew better her mind would wander back to the night of the ball, and to that happy hour which she had spent Binging to the man that she now so madly loyed, but then knew not. A few davs before it was time for Ray to be admitted to Lenora's apartments, and as Mrs. Bristol sat by the bed side, she notioed a strange, sad expression rest for a moment only on her little patient's face. "Ml dear, do von feel well enough to receive a visitor in a few days 7 Ray would like to come in and see how you are, and I told him that he might when you were strong enough." At the mention of that name Lenora's face colored slightly, and she hesitated for some time before she spoke. "I?I?should be very much pleased indeed?but?I?I would rather he would not I do not want to see him any more, no, never?never again. I must go away from here as soon as I can pet up." "Why do you talk so, my poor little darling ? Do you think that he wants you to leave this house?" "Oh, I do not know, I am rare, but I feel so strangely sad of late, and there is such a longing in my heart for a?something that I do not know what." And as she spoke a great, hot tear trickled down her pale, soft cheek. Mrs. Bristol etooped and kissed the tear away, gently lifting the soft, silken curls from the little snow white brow. "Do not feel sad, Lina, for neither of us wants you to ever leave the house." She then quickly glided from the room, but returned immediately and hul hfthind the hftftw silken eartains of """ ' r 1 " w ??^ " " Lenora's bed. "Oh, Ray, Bay, my only love, my king! Can it be so that you do really love me ? "I dare not believe it for one moment* or my joy would be great. "Can it be possible that my sweet dreams are true, and that face that haunts me day and night, and those eyes that look into mine and say that they love me? i "Ah 1 What would I not give to hear jit feom his own lips. You know that >au have my heart, Bay, and that my life *od every thought are yours, and now is think that I must go away from you 1 Lt almost breaks my heart, yet I cannot remain here, and how can I live without yon? Does it not seem almost too cruel. Bay, that God should have seat me here and allowed me to 1nr? win whfln vou ar? ho fax above me. who am nothing but a penniless, homeless girl f"Ify Father in heaven^ please let me die, that my soul and bod; may be at rest." She closed her eyes, /while the hot tears went trickling one by one down the pale cheekg into the snow-white pillow. Mrs. Bristol had heard every word that had passed Lenora's lips in such sweet pathetic whispers. She then silently glided from the room and went to the library in searoh of Ray. He was not there, and she went to his room, but the door was locked, and no one was within. She was somewhat disappointed and went to her own room, supposing that Ray had gone to the city for an hour or bo. "Ah! This is a little strange; a letter for me from Bay. Let me see." And she hastily opened the letter that read: Deab Motheji?This suspense Is killing me. I am now going to Chicaco for a lew days?porliaps a woelc. Bv the time I roturn my little lovo will be better, and then I must know my fate. As she told you that iho vna In that nlt-r hftforfl hfip mvsterious appearance here, ft may possibly "be that I can get some clow to her past life. Rat. "Rav, Ray, ray dear boy, why have you gone away just now, when I am able to comfo/t yon so much ? She has not spoken as yet of her past lifo, but I am positive you have nothing to fear, that there is no barrier between you and your love. She, perhaps, will tell you when she knows how you feel toward her, and the worst concerning hei cannot be bad." [to be continued.) A Japanese Pillow. The head-dress is a most elaborate affair, built on a foundation of cardboard, which is blackened; the hair being passed over it, is then smoothed down and well oiled, ancUntojt thej ers, combs, fancy pins and qtbel'<SfiialI articles intended ?o heighten their personal attractions. The result is frequently an artistic triumph. It is a tedious process and perhaps for this reason habit has taught them to sleep without soft pillows; instead of which they use a round piece of wood, like a rolling-pin, about eight inches long, supported on two wooden feet, and with a hollow for the neck to lie in; so by these means the ladies ar e able to leave their hair untouched for several days, as at night it doe3 not become at all disarranged; and for that consideration, of course, they can reconcile themselves to its use.?Illustrated American. A process for marbleizing silk plush without pressing or embossing it has been disoovered by the Astoria Silk Company. By this process the light and dark effects are reversed wHen looked at from opposite points. The finish is nicely preserved and doe3 not (jive the appearance of having been wet. as Bhown in many goods of this oliaracte*. ____ A PAVKit reaa tne otner aay neiore the New York Medioo-Legal Society Btated that not more than one homicide in a thousand -was committed by an insane person. The insane shrink from deeds of violenoe and sight of blood. The paper also declared that thxeefonrth3 of the people are insatfe, and also that insanity is not feer$ditary. ^ COWBOY TRICKS. WAYS IN WHICH A HORSE AND A STEER CAN BE MANAGED. How to Pick up a Jack Rabbit ,4On the Fly"?The Many Uses of a Broncho?Fancy Horse2*: manship. - Over in South San Francisco, beyond the smells of Butchertown, thero is a little wild west show in session nearly every afternoon in the year. Anywhere from 3 to -6 o'clock p. m. the cowboys drive the city's daily beef in on the hool from the corrals on the hills where tae steers recuperate from their long ride in RESCUING A COMRADE. the not over luxurious cattie cars provided by the railroads. California soil has become too valuable to grow beef on of late years, and Arizona, Texas and the few remaining Territories now furnish its standard meat. From the foot of Second street, where the live steers lane*, they are taken in hand by the centaurs in the employ of the wholesale butchers and driven to the big feed corrals on the hills just west of the road to Uucle Tom's cabin. Here they are baited and rested and cooled off for a few days before going to execution, dissection, the oven, pot or broiler, and the table. Prom the corrals to the slaughter houses the distance is a couple of miles, mainly through the main business artery of South San Francisco, which said artery is much broken by vacant lots that allow frisky OKAMMA i A 0 11 M All *> M ! Otccra LU CBUttpC tU bUC OUlitAiUUlU^ U1WO. The boys who conduct the transportation are nearly all Americans, says a writer in the San Francisco Examiner., and their pride in their horsemanship prompts many an antic and daring feat to delight the audience that daily assembles to witness the boviaea' funeral march to the shambles. Without money and without price the on-Jookere witness feats of riding that would make eplendid extras on Buffalo Bill's programme. Some of their dare devil gallops over the broken hills in chase of a stray bullock are exciting in the extreme, beeide affording opportunity for feata with the riata and a display of hurling powera on the part of the horses. When the drove is orderly the boys lose their hats, and pick them up from the saddle while their horses are on the run, and resort to scores of other tricks that tend to show their j clevereess. The dark-hued native Californiaa no longer shines pre-eminent in j cattle handling, throwing the lasso and riding the trustworthy mustang; young California, the son of the 49-er, has learned his business and beats him at his own came. The commonlv accepted reason for this is the preponderance of nerve, coolness, strength and dare-devil rcckle6sness in the American stock, and certain it is that the past fifteen years has seen the ^exican and Spaniard displaced by the sons of the present holders of the country. An Examiner reporter and a cimera silap-shot expert toured South San Francisco yesterday and viewed some of the work of the more notable of the southA CONFIRMED "BCCKF.K." end vaqueros. Billy Rocht, Frank Ranlett, Billy Smith, the quartet of Day Brothers, "Bloke" Harney,George Jinks, Grant Pyle, Frank Pate, Tom O'Day, Jack Lillardand a hundred other experts were out, but all were too busy with their everyday duties to stop to talk or illustrate their tricks of rope and saddle. Fred. Baascr, a smooth faced lad, who was born here a score of years ago and has been in the saddle ever since, had an oil day, however, and consented to show off a little fjr the benefit of the Ecaminer's commissioners. lie had just completed the education of a handsome three-year-old filly with teaching her to stand and keep a riata taut while he dismounted and removed the rope from the horns of an imaginary steer. "It is handy to know how to get on s horse quick," he began, when the ca mera was in focus. "Most of the boy.' do it this way." His left hand toucbec the pommel and_ the bridle reins at th< same time; the rigLFreacliied for the can tel. Biddy, the filly, started forward, and with her first jump Baaser made t spring resembling the flight of a bird He landed with his right leg well acros: the saddle, and by the time Biddy hac pathered herself for the seeond jump th< rider was in his seat, both feet in the stirrups and prepared to rope a cow, stop a runaway or head off an unruly steer. ' Some of the boys jump on from behind," said Baaser, "but they are well acquainted with tbcir horsc3 and know that they will submit to it. The majority of them take the side jump, though, even when they are behind their horse3, for they are ready for business sooner, and jumping with the horse is less hindrance to his getting under way than plumping solidly down on his back when he is not looking or expecting it. Throwing a rope comes next after learning to ride. After becoming a fair marksman, with plenty of room to 6wing in and the horns of a steer for a target, there are the underhand casts and the throws with the rope on a trail (without a swing), to master, besides two or three others that a vaquero finds use for in various emergencies. The cast with the rope on a trail is especially useful in a corral picking up a horse who might, if alarmed by a swing, give a man on foot a tiresome chase." Baaser illustrated the cast from a trail by walking Biddy slowly in the direction ot a browsing cow with the loop of his riata trailing bshind him. Suddenly his right arm shot forward from its backward extension, and the rawhide thong whizzed through the air until it settled its snaky coil about the neck of the astonished old cow, twenty feet away. After bringing her to a halt Baaser dropped his riata, and let the cow start off with it at a trail. "Idropped that on purpose," he said, "but a man often loses his rope through accident, and then it becomes necessary to be able to recover it without dismounting. If a man got off to pick it up it would never be within his reach on account of the movements of the animal to which it is attached. This is the way to pick tip a rope." Baaser started Biddy after the fast disappearing cow, turned her and headed her back for the focus of the camera. "NowT" he yelled as he daihed by on a hard run, and with a wild swoop he reached with his left hand for the trail| ing- riata. His only hold it seemed wa3 by the compression of his right heel against the face of the saddle cantel and a light grip on a wis}} of Biddy's main. Almost before he was down he was up again, taking a turn around the horn and checking Biddy. She braced herself, the rope tautened, and the galloping cow came to a halt with an unpleasant suddenness that would hare thrown her HIS HORSE IS HIS FOBT. down but for Baaser's letting out ? little slack at the critical moment. "Now, if this was a tough old steer with a disposition to be ugly, I should prooiiDiy wane neip in tnrowmg mm down and getting the rope off, bet with i cow Biddv's aid will Drove sufficient.7* The intelligent little filly braced herself, bead onto the cow, and followed her every movement without allowing the rope to slacken an inch while Baaser jumped off and walked up to the cow's head and slipped off the noose. "The pickup is very useful," said the young vaquero, "and in more ways than one. If I lo3e my hat I can recover it without loss of time. Seer' and he tossed his sombrero to the ground, rode off a little way and recovered it on the .run with the same marvelous swoop as before. "They say that some of the boys catch jack rabbi ta out on the plaint,but I never -saw them do it,' for my work has been mainly confined to Butchertowij and we (don't have jackrabbits over here- There is a dog that I'll practice on, though,and yon can get an idea of how it k done.'" A small kiyi was chasing down the road at the time, and Baaser took after him. The terrier was elusive for * time, RECOVERING A DROPPED HAT. bat finally kept on in a straight line, and in an instant Baasar was alongside. He had to make a wide reach this time and there was a foot of daylight between his body and Biddy's side when he clutched doggy by the ears and nape of the neck and swung him into the saddle. . The next exhibition was of the horse'? intelligence in keeping a taut rope on & 6teer that turned ugly and pursued the horse and his rider. The bracing was perfect and the manipulation of the rope in keeping the steer's head turned toward the rest of the herd in spits of her plunging excueu uiuuu auuurauuu iut Biddy. A similar exhibition was given of towing a sulky steer that refused to be driven or prodded in the right direction. Baaser confessed that he bad never been in an Indian country, and had not had experience infighting on the run,but he was familiar with the tricks of some of the boys who had, and illustrated them. The commonest piece of work in this line is shooting under the horse's neck while lying extended in such a manner as to have the body almost entirely protected from bullets of an enemy in front or on the side. Either rifle or pistol can be effectively handled by a clcver rider in this manne <^ick AFTER THE CAST. in;* up a wounded or dismounted comrade at full gallop is an easy matter when the rider knows how to do it. The favorite grip is over the back and under the arms, and with horse and rider in 3 - ??/.ha /-?P fKte io tiffCkoiori RCCoru it rwuuc v#i *u??? jviuv* without slackening of pace for an instant. The tricks of the Butchertown boys with wild cattle and broncho horses are countless, and an hour's wild west entertainment can be secured by a trip totht southern hills anv afternoon. An Oriental Floating Hotel. There is an interesting scheme for establishing a floating hotel at Hong Kong, China. The vessel is to have three decks, the lower being arranged for dining, cmnlrincr and card rooms. The U11I1U1V*) wmwm. main deck will contain a drawing-room, twenty-one bed-rooms, each with a fullfcizcd bath and dressing room, while the upper, or spar deck has been arranged as a Dromenade.?1^Chicaqo Herald. English capitalists have just purchased a large area of chalk rock land near Yankton, South Dakota, and propo3eto invest $5,000,000 capital. Mild-mannered Chinamen who run laundries in New York are found to be the most successful opium smugglers. liifirtri'mi ....... . . . _ SABBATH. SCIlIT INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOI AUGUST IT. Lesson Text: "The Ten Lepers," Luk? xvil., 11-10?Golden Text: Lake xvii., 17?Commentary. 11. "And it came to pass, a9 He went tc Jerusalem." The time draws nigh for Hi n to be offered up, and "to Jerusalem" is His daily thought, for He Himself said: "II cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem" (chap. xlii.. 33); "When the time was come that Ho should be received up He steadfastly set Hi6 face to go to Jerusalem;" "He went through the cities and villages, ' teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem;" "Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man shall be accomplished" (chap, ix., 51; xiii., 22; xviii., 31). A.t Jerusalem He was to finish the work which the Father had given Him to do, and He was pressing on to finish that work. . I "He passed through the midst of Samaria ?nd Galilee." As on another occasion, when I "Ho must needs go through Samaria," there were many who praised God, and are praisI log Him still, that He ever passed that way; j ?, doubtless, on this journey, many besides wiv veu icpers ul our lesson were cauifeu iu i v~ joice because of His presence among them. 12. "And as He entered into a certain village, there met Him ten man that ware lepsrs, which stood afar off." Utterly unclean, iwellmg alone, without the camp (05 Tillage, ar city), how sad was the condition of these poor men (Lev. xiii., 44-46). Afar off from hu uan help, and sympathy, and friendship; living and yet dead to all the ordinary relationships of life. Consider the leprosy of Miriam, Naaraan, Gehazi, Uzziah and the four men at the gato of Samaria (Num. xii.; II Kings v., 7; xv., 5). Perhaps there is no more forcible representation of sin and tho sinner in tho whole Bible than that of tha loper and his leprosy. 13. "And they lifted up their voices and saW, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us P They made no profession; they made no promises; they knew they had nothing but leprosy, and its poor, unclean, cast out lepers they could >nly beg for mercy, and this they did. What & happy day it was for them when Jesus same their way! They had heard of Him; they heard of the healing of other lepers by His gracious powers. This was their opportunity, and they seize it. How wise they were. What a contrast to the raaa in our lesson, who, like many to-day, believed in a larger hope?a possibility of salvation after Jeath?and so after he diod cried: "Father Abraham, have mercy on me.1" How vain was his cry. There fa no one to come to but Jesus, and no time like the present, for now is the day of salvation (II Uor. vL, 2). 14. "Go shew yourselves unto the nriests. And it came to para that as they wenfc, they were cleansed.,r Thus He spake unto them, ot disregarding nor setting aside the lawt tor He came not to destroy but to fulfill the law, but to!d them to do as commanded in the law (Lev. xiiL, 2; xiv., 8). They might have reasoned and argued and have said: Master, the priests cannot help us, the law cannot heal us; we do not need to find out whether we are lepers or not; we know we are; it is mercy we ask for from Thee, who fclone canst heal ua. But they did not argue, they obeyed and went; His word was sufficient; and as tbey went they were cleanse I. 15. "And one of them when he saw that he was healed, turned back,and with a loud voice glorified God." As obediently be went at the Lord's command, be finds himself anew mau as to hie body; be is dean, be is whole, he is no longer a leper; no longer shall be be cut off from home and friends; that very day he becomes a part of the world again, with its pleasures and employments, instead of being an outcast And what is now his first thought? Gratitude to the Lord who healed him to repentance (Rom. ii., 4), and with a loud voioe he makes it known. 16. "And fell down on bis face at His feet, giving Him thanks; and he was a Samaritan." Here is humility, gratitude, reverence and worship. Here is the proper place for every penitent sinner?"on his face, at Jesus' feet." And the proper place for every saved rinnw who ik teachable is "at the feet of Jesus, hearing His word" (chap, x, 89). The fact that this man was a Samaritan reminds as of the statement that "The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans" (John iv., 9). But that, no doubt, refers to self righteous, moral, clean Jews. "When a Jew found himself a leper, he saw himself no better than a Samaritan leper; they were all in the same sad case, with nothing to boast of but their leprosy, nothing to make one think himself better than another. A deep conviction of sin is one of the grandest things to takeaway . all pride, and it makes us . see that in God's sight all are sinners together. 17. "And Jesus answering said: Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?" Is it possible that with returning health there came also old prejudices and Jewish pride of birth, and as thej saw this poor Samaritan glorifying God did they despise him as they Kept on their way to their priests? It certainly looks that way. And are there not many sick and afflicted and tried ones to-day who are crying unto God for deliverance, making Him all kinds of promises if He will only heal or deliver them? Many a time He hears their cry and delivers them and saves them for His name's sake, that He might make Hit mighty power to be known; but_they soon forget His works, believe not His wora, murmur, and hearken not to His voice (Ps. cvi.. 8-25}. 18. "There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger." He cimeunto His own, and His own received Him not, but as many as received Him to them gave He the right or privilege to become the sons of God (John i., 11, 12). Out of all the multitudes upon whom He conferred healing of the body we are not told how many or how few truly received Him and gave glory to God, but when we rememlier that only about 120 of all tho6e gathered in Jerusalem at the passover waited together for the baptism of the Holy Ghost (Acts i., 15) we ore compelled to think that uot even one in ten of the multitudes He healed ever became His true disciples. 19. "And He said unto him. Arise, go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole." Or, as ill the margin of the R. V., "Thy faith hath saved thee." Happy man! He has now not only a clean body, but a clean, bloodwashed sou'. Oh! how much the others missed by their ingratitucft. How much value is a whole body if it is only the tabernacle of a lost soul, which will some day carry soul and body to perdition? But if the soul is saved by faith in th3 Lord Jesus Christ then we can, with quietness aud confidence. look forward to the time when even these bodies of our humiliation shall be fashioned like unto His glorious body (Isa. xxx., 15; Phil, iii., 20, 21). In order to glorify God we must first be saved, for they that are in the flesh cannot please God; so it would seem that this stranger l>ecame a savei man when in his heart he fell gratefully at Jesus' feet, even before his body got there; but now he has from Jesus' own lips the assurance of h'.s salvation. While assurance is not esssential to salvation, it is th^ glorious privilege of every saved one to be assured of it.?Lesson river. Bismarck Got the Bell. "When Bismarck was Prussian delegate to the federal diet at Frankfort he took apartments in the house of a patrician of that free city, who held the Prussians in great repugnance; and when Bismarck applied to him to have the bell fixed up in his servant'6 rooms he answered that that was not in the agreement, and that if Bismarck wanted a bell he must get it fixed himself, and at his own expense. A few days later a loud report of firearms was heard to proceed from the delegate's room. The landlord, frightened to death, rushed up to his lodger's apartments, and bursting, all out 01 breath, iuto Bismaick's study, found him seated at his desk before a great pile of documents and calmv smoking his pipe. There was a pistol lying on the table, still smoking at the barrel. "For the love of heaven, what has happened?" asked the frightened landlord, more I dead than alive. "Nothing, nothing," answered Bismarck, quietly. "Don't disturb yourself; I was only calling mj servant. It is a very harmless signal tc which you will have to accustom yourself, for no doubt I shall want oftentimes to use it again." The bull was fixed up next day.?ihicago Pott. -- ?* TEMPERANCE. I He stood upon the world's broad threshold; ? wide vB The din of battle and of slaughter rose; H Be saw God stand upon the weaker side \ That sank in seeming loss before its foes..jgfe|^| Many there were who made great haste and Unto the common enemy their swords; H He scorned their gifts of fame and power and B gold. H And, underneath their soft and flowery |M words, jH Heard the cold serpent hiss; therefore he KJ went B And humbly joined him to the weaker part, Fanatic named, and fool, yet well content 1 So he could be the nearer to God's heart, jfl| And feel its solemn pulses sending blood 2H Through all the wide-spread veins of en<t - 9 less good. H ?James Russell Lowell. M TEE KNITTING CBCSADE. B The women of Moore's Hill, Indiana, h&v?. B adopted a new and successful expedient for, BS ridding their community of an obnoxious; saloon. It is a knitting crusade. They take, their knitting work and in relays go to the H| raloon and "knit" it out. The saloon keeper |D wasoblieed finally to surrender, and no man B has since been so rash as to start another,.' The "knitting crusade" may not unlikely yet H| become a powerful anti-saloon agency; Women may be able to accomplish with JH their knitting-needles what the majority of 9| men in most localities, to their groat shame it must bo said, will uot do with their ballot. M DRUNKARD'S TRAINING SCHOOL. Hi Father McMahon, in addressing the directors of the Catholic Total Abstinence- H Union of Cleveland, says: ^9 "Excess and penalty are as sure as cause WM ahd effect. Every drunkard has a history* and it is always a cad one. Our drunkard* are all graduates from the training school of BR moderate drinking, and the future army of H drunkards will be recruited from the same H| class. Young men who do not want to grow H old before their time, as so many do, should. QB not apply hot and rebellious liquor to their H blood, and the members of our total abstt- Hj nence societies are insuring for themselves true liberty, prosperity ana happiness." THE CHILD WAS DRUNK. ^ Not long ago The Woman saw on Italian* mother in a norse car with a little child cer? HI tainly not more than two years old. The- Bj little one stood, or tried to stand, on the seat H| by its mother's side. But it would keep sink* flEQ Ing down on the seat, at which the znotbec; |H would pick it up with a sharp remonstranceinrl cfonH if- nn it* fpft Aim in Hilt thft lltllfl feet were very unsteady and the small bead wagged suspiciously this way and that Wasthe cmld ill or sleepy, or what! The Woman, pat up her glasses and looked Bharply. The tense of smell as well came to her aid. Thftihild was drunk. The mother bad been, irinking beer and bad actually forced th*> itufT down the throat of that two-year-old shild. God help the children 1 One fecr* ' that there bo many such motben in New York JVeto York Sun. FARRAB ON THE LIQTTOB TBAJTIC. :_*/? Archdeacon Farrar contributed to ? 1aCe number of the Contemporary Review a striking article on th< drink question in which bt says: "The misery and degradation of the loweat classes will hardly betouched till it has bean recognized bow purely, and of ten bow mmaiy selfish, is the opposition to the efforts of tern peranoe reformers. Until toe nation m that it is its imperative duty to diminish, U Hj not to end, by strong and determined Itgbh KB lation, the intolerable and interminable curat of drink, to control the liquor traffic by the H most stringent conditions, to punish drankenness as a crime, and to put down the need* EH leaily multiplied temptations to this worst, most fatal and most continuous cause of ruin Hj and brutality, nothing will be achieved. It the English people ore not serious enough or -H righteous enough to defeat the tyranny of Wm the drink traffic, it may fold its hands and. await the certain and final catastrophe. If. H on the other hand, we summon up sufficient. courage to sweep aside base sophistries, andto save myriads from destruction, by grafh <^E pling with this master-fiend of drink, all other' JH legislative remedies would very soon becond|^XM effectual. Rookeries would bo rebuilt; would be swept away; virtue would be en* couraged; the interests of vice would be hasy- Bfl rassed; it would became much easier to do- |K good and much more difficult to do evil." . ;. Hj Archdeacon Feurar's stirring words an-. j applicable to our own country as well as to mM Great Britain. His eloquent appeal should be beard and heeded on both sides of tho AtUntie.?National Advocate. |fl A5 OMINOUS BIOS. \ H Young man! have not your eyes been fre* Ml qnently attracted to a sign havlngthe fol- BHj lowing'ominous words on it: "Barf* Avoid the place; it is no misnomer. Thft experience 01 vuuustaua uaa pruYJW n WJ be: t ->i A bar to respectability. A bar to honor. A bar to happiness. A bar to domestic felicity. Every day proves it to be: The road to degradation. The road to vice. The road to the gambler's hell. The road to the brothel. The road to poverty. The road to wretchedness. The road to want. The road to robbery. The road to murder. The road to prison. The road to the gallows. The road to the drunkard's grave. The road to hell. Some, it is true, do not pass through all these stages, but intemperance, persisted in, always ends in the drunkard's grave, and, wa have too much reason to fear, in hell. The bar-room is truly: The curse of the drunkard's wife. The curse of the drunkard's ehild. Tcose only wno Dave Known me Dinerness of being a drunkard's wife or child, can know; BB the misery and the horror of the drunkard's home. HOI | Young man! beforo you enter the bar- |H room, stop! ponder the path of your feet ere ^B t be too late! Man of family! fle9 the bar-room as would in honor fulfill the pledge of love mada^^H to her who is the companion of your joys XH md of your sorrows.?Baltimore American. gj TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Cardinal Manning won't take liquor even when prescribed by a physician. A bug trying to run iU head into a gas- Bfl light is about as wise as the man who thinks a drink now and then won't hurt him. RH Of S034 persons engaged in the liquor traffic ! in Philadelphia a few years ago, 6418 had, j at one time or another, been arrested for IH crime. j| The next annual convention of the National W. C. T. U. will bs held in Trinity Church, Atlanta, Ga., beginning Friday, fijj November 14. Bfl Beujamin Franklin, while working as a |H printer among London beer drinkers, was HB called the "American Aquatic'' because he H drank only water. Talk about keeping the palace saloon and HM suppressing the doggeries! As well propose to inoculate men with the virus of smallpox BH and suppress the eruption '.?12. S. Thompson. The word toxical means poison and orig- |H inally signifies the poison in which arrows H had been prepared for battle. The poisoned BB arrow was not more certainly the instrument of death than is the poisoned cup of the RHI modern saloon. Hfl Sixty per cent, of the medical students of ^9 Toronto are total abstainers. Canadian doo- PH tors arc beginning to realizo tha danger in |H prescribing alcoholics so freely, and to see EH the necessity of placing them on the shelf beside arsenic and other poisons. flH A comparison of the> business failures in HB 1889, in Kansas under prohibition and Nebraska under high-license, shows that HQ only 183 in Kansas. While the ratio in Kan- H sas was one failure in every 1:36, in Nebraska one in every seventy-six. |H A Pittsburgh peddler, just recovering froai^M the effects of a debauch, got himself coa^j^H mitted to jail for five days Li order that hemight be free, for a short time at least, from the temptation of taking any more liquor. As he was walking to prison, alone, he became thirsty and offered to sell his commitment to a passer-by for twenty-flve cents; HB but as the proposal was naturally declined, the peddler went on his way to voluntary incarcaration. , H m