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j UIIB : TRAGEDY; ! ca th fe on ? t.n w ft Criit or i 1 Broitr's Offlce.; H( W BY ti< W. F. MOTT. tt in TK sh CHAPTER I. W At the time of the startling occur- w rences which are to be herein recorded, ni the office of Jason Garrison, a broker of JNew York, was situated in a rather un- in pretending structure on Wall street. The broker rented the entire building, but he sublet the second and third stories, occupying on.'y the first story ht ys' for business purroses. di Tho building was very old and its in- ni ternal arrangement was rather obsolete, hi for to enter the broker's office you first passed into a hall which extended St througn tne nuiiaing, ana toencc wruu^u sa a side door. From the hall just inside st the street door a flight of stairs led up' ward. fa At tbo rear end of the passage a sec- of ond flight, much more narrow than the se first, also reached the second story, in while at their foot a door opened upon an alley in the rear. tb At this dat;i it chanccd that the third ar atory over the broker'^ office was unoc- gj cupied, but the second story was tenanted as it had been for many years by John Oakburn, the o!d cashier, who had be been employed by Jason Garrison since hs he first began business in Wall street ba years ago. si! John Oakburn was a man sixty-odd years of ape and a widower, but he was in not childless. One daughter, Marion by h' name, remained to cheer and brighten his home with the sunlight of her pres- m ence, and the aped cashier's little family fo consisted only of himself, his daughter of -and Judith Kredge, a female domestic of uncertain ape, who was the sister of te the office janitor. e? The second-floor flat was much too di spacious for the needs of the cashfer's family, and furnished apartments were consequently let to such of Mr. Garri- co eon's clerks as desired them, provided ov always they wore approved by the old li* cashier. On the night of the 23d of March, 16?, but one of John Oakburn'3 fur- he hished atartments was occupied. The pc room was directly over the main office, w; ?,/* ianont woe Stuart. P?arland. nne rrl of the broker's clerks. The street door was a massive one, as m was also the door of the office proper. Oi At night both were always securely a locked and bolted. The keys of the oe office as well as the street door were always in the possession of John Oak- fo burn, who was implicitly trusted by the at broker in every way. so For twenty y.ars John Oakburn had wi been celebrated for h? rigid integrity h and unvarying, scrupulous honesty, and "on the street," where one desired to al ouch in the m&st positive terms for the ro characW^r of another, he would say, "He tb is as honest as old John Oakburn. " Perhaps no man more perfectly de- je eerved the title which be had won, fu which was far more honorable than any at patent of nobility?the title "an honest SL -loan.n * On day at noon a few days previous oe to the night of which we are about to si write, while John Oakburn was alone in h< the office, having been detained by some tl< important account, an incident occurred st which will serve to Illustrate the man's f0 character perfectly. Mr. Pratt, of the firm of Pratt & al Weeks, entered and approached the old bi ??shior in n. punning wav in order to w Bound him with a view to Inducing him st to become a director of one of those ca soap bubble" stock companies which fl< we originate every year, inflate themselves with the money of the unwary g? and collapse when such a consummation di will result to the profit of the "promo4er9" without bringing themselves within the reach of the law's arms. js John Oakburn listened to the specious arguments of the smooth-tongued bandit . of \Va!l street in passive silence, wholly t unmoved by the temptation of sudden . wealth held out to him as a glittering fl1 bait ' When Pratt concluded, John Oakbarn ^ turned his back upon him, saying in a cathing tone: "No more of this. I value my honor, lAl lrl" ? j "And yet you are a poor man," re- . torted Pratt with a covert sneer in his ? voice. J "In gold, yes; but not in prlncple." t "Your sentiments are quite romantic "T and poetical, but this is a practical age of money values." "True, but were I to listen to you I .( should become as poor In character as I , am In pocket " "Our scheme would be a secret* No 1 cne would ever know it " t "I should know it. No, sir, your . scheme is villainous. Seek your confederate elsewhere!" Such was the man the story of whose fate we place before our readers. , It was the night of the 2id March, . r- 18?. Stuart Hariand, the young clerk who ^ occupied the apartment directly over the broker's oitice in John Oakburn's dc fiat, had fallen asleep on Lis bed with- fr out removing his clothing. st * Suddenly be leaped up. wiae awake, 'a and exe'aimed: J0 "What! Ilave 1 overslept!" and hi glancing at an aiarm clock *ct to ring w at one o'clock, he added, "no. the cluck has not struck; it is now only twenty minutes of one." Stuart Hariand rubbed his eyes and looked perplexed. ?wv,nt. ownlfpuff! mo? Certainly it w was some unusual sound. I liavc a con- j-' fused recollection of hearing a loud ^ voice." he thought, and seated upon thu 11 Mo of the teitl he M.-tenoJ for a mo- (1 ment ,. No sound broke tbe absolute quietude |l of the night within the dwelling. 11 From without the sighing wind waft?d to his cars the u :acccuntab e noise-. n of tho streets of the streets of a great ? city which are never hushed to siience * tho livelong night. "Strango, this. Con'd 1 havo been ? dreaming? Well, it inat'ors not, 1 am ' awake in trine: That is ta? important point," the young nan re Ike ted Then he be;ra? to |> ace a few things In * light 'ravf' ?c-lne. and ns he did s-i ^ ine quiie unconsciously gave expression g to the thoughts which were in his mind. "I must not miss the 1 o'clock train or c all is lost. The discovery will not be b made until to-morrow Perhap-i there a isyettime. Oh, whatconsummate scouu- n dr^ls those men Pratt aya Wueks arc. j nd yet they are" beyond the pale of tb( tw. It cannot reach them," he said. He was a handsome, noble-looking Dunp inan, this Stuart Harland, on* pon whom nature had set the stamp o1 true gentleman, and his fine, honesl ,-es, which met yours frankly, inspired jij with confidence at the very first ance. In the office they would tell you thai iuart Harland was inclined to be rathei ireless and inattentive to business, but icy would add thai he was the best llow in the world, unless you happened ' question Levi Kredge, the janitor. It was no secret that Stuart Harland as engaged to his employer's daughter, iss Edna, and if you were to ask how came aooiu mai Jason uarrison naa ...sented to the" suit of "a~yoang" rii'ari ho was "only a clerk," and to whom ie duties of a broker's office were not ie most agreeable, and who had exbited but little aptitude for the busies, anyone at "Garrison's," as the office as designated on tho street, would ive said: "The young man has great expectaDiis. Therein is the secret. At the iath of a certain aunt, a maiden lady rather more than mature age, he will herit a fortune." This was quito true, though Stuart jver counted in the least on dead men's toes, and Edna Garrison loved him ithout a mercenary thought, no mattei hat may havo been the secret sentient of her father/ Having hastily thrust the few articles to his traveling bag which he desired take with him, Stuart Harland quitted ie apartment. It was undoubtedly something which > regarded as most important which inicect him to undertake a secret mid ght journey, as we have gathered Irom s mi:tterinps. There was no light in the hall without mart's room ai this hour, and the pas,ge and the stairs leadinj? down to the reet-door were enveloped in gloom. "I do not wish to disturb any one. In ct, I desire that no one should know my departure," said Stuart to himlf as he silently descended the stairs the darkness. At the foot ho paused suddenly, lor he lought he hoard a noise from the odice, id it sounded to him like a half-stifled oan. Stuart was startled. At this hour he thought there could > no one in tho office unless burglars id clandestinely entered, and with ited breath he listened in profound lence for an instant There was no repetition of the alarmg sound, but a thrill trembled through s nerves as he thought: "John Oakburn may have left the oney he drew from the bank just here closing hours in the safe in the iice." With the laudable idea in mind of procting his employer's property if it was itlancored. Stuart took a steD in the rection of tho office door. At that precise moment it was opened. With the utmost celerity Stuart reiled against tho wall where the shades were dense and black as a blade of rht flashed through the gloom from e open door. A young woman with a lamp In one md and a paper and something with a dished surface from which the light as reflected clutched in the1 other, ided stealthily out of the office. "Marion Oakburn," said Harland, entally, for the young girl was John ikburn's daughter, and he experienced feeling of the greatest relief as he rec;nized her. "Her father must have sent her for r some paper, I suppose, as unseason>le as Is the hour, for the old man metimes spends half the night at office ork in his own apartment," thought ar!and. "Luckily she has not seen me, and if 1 goes well I shall have returned to my iom by daybreak* and no one will be ie wiser," he continued. The beautiful features of the cashr's daughter were livid with a dreadil pallor. Her eyes were dilated with 1 expression of unutterable horror and ie trembled from head to foot. Silently she closed the door and proteded to insert the great key which iuart knew so well into the lock, bui ir hand trembled so that metal rated against metal and tho sound seemed artlingly loud in the midst of the pround silence. The girl c'ung to the door as though jout to fall to the floor, while hei eath came in frightened wasps, bui ith what seemed like a desperate effort ie turned the key in the lock, and then, isting a furtive glance about her, she id. Along the dark hall she flitted and lined the rear stairs, up .which she irted as though she fancied she was irsued by invisible dangers. "Ah," thought Harland, smiling, Mshe timi<U the darkness, and the silence oi e night frightened her. and yet T fan3d she possessed more force of characr. Indeed we clerks in the office have ten said among ourselves that beauti1, sad-eyed Marion Oakburn was comised of the material of which heroines e made." But now that there was no reason for rther delay Harland unbolted and uncked the street door aDd passed out. tien softly closing the door he locked it r means of a night key. and casting a ance up and down the street which emed just at this time' to be deserted, least in this immediate neighborhood, > walked swiftly away. The night was cool and Harland wore spring overcoat which he buttoned oseiy. as a stiff mgnt Dreeze swept up om the water and struck him chillg'y He was aware that he had barely time reach the tirand Central Depot in time catch a certain train on which he ished to leave the city, and he delayed >t on the way. Meanwhile a quarter of an- hour apsed and a'l was silence and darkness the house which Stuart Harland had ist left, Hut presently the stillness as broken by the sound of an opening tor, and Marion Oakburn emerged om her sleeping-room, gliding forth ealthily. In her hand sho carried tho mp as before, but the paper and the etaliic something from which tho light id glistened when Harland saw her as no longer jn her possession. For a moment she stood motionless as statue and listened, while we note jw extremely beautiful she is. Marion Oakburn possessed a form Dove the average height of women, liich might have been tho ideal or a rocian si-ulptor, an:i her rare brunette iveliness was unsurpassed. Here was le dark and radiant beauty of Egypt? ueen, but Cleopatra did not rival her, nd Marion's eyes sparkled w.th the ght of a pure heart and a noble naure. Hut there was an expression of sadess upon her perfect features?a loot f melancholy that was pitiful, and it id one to think that sorrow had enured her young life; that in the heari f the beautiful girl there was saint lighting gr ef. And yet Marion wa< ver cheerful, as thoush sustained b> arrow's pale star?hope. Marion Oakburn was twenty-foui ears of age, and ther lore in the ful loom aud perfect development of i iorious womanhood. As she stotjd at the door of her bed hamber listening, she detected n< reach of the silence, and so she glidec long tho passage to the back stair oiselessly and gained the lower hall, 'here she passed directly to the_ officc j door, which sbe unlocked, and, remov- he ing the key, she proceeded to the street de ; entranca. > There she discovered tbat the bolts he f wore drawn, and thi,t only the night- tii fc latch secured it ^sa I Marion seemed starred at this, and t she reeled back against the wall, where ha she stood for a moment troiublinq an ; slightly, but with her brows contracted, to as though in deep thought. fr< ; If she was mentally debating some ; question, she arrived at a conclusion al- wi [ most instantly, for with a hand that no sei longer tremblod she unlocked the street he door. ell Then leaving the entrance to the office nnRuarded by bolt or bar, Marion again aT1 retraced her steps to the rear stairs, which she ascended. Half way up she ^ [ clutched the handrail in a convulsive i way and paused for a moment to listen, mi ; for she fancied she heard footsteps in the ' hall above. She did not hear the sound be again, and believing she was deceived by i her imagination (.ho continued up the cr I stairs. th Could her eyes have penetrated the darkness as she paused upon the stairs i she would have seen the dark, cruel faco ^ of Judith Kredge, the female domestic, jn( | peering down at her from the passago above. an When she reached the landing Marlon an saw no one, but she did not return to her i own apartment. On the contrary she <j0 went to the door of the sleeping-room occupiod by Judith Kredge. sc Marion knoci\eu, anu a moment subse- fo i quently t,he woman who had just played tri I the pait of a spy, opened the door. bu She was clad in a loose, dark wrapper, ' which she seemed to have hastily an donned. he "What is it, Miss Marion? You are sai not ill, 1 hope?" she said, feigning sur- 1 , prise and policitudo. sel "Kn- I a.m not. ill. but T cannot sleeD. nr Father has not como home. I have "" 1 vainly listsned for his footsteps on tho po stairs all nitrht. What can keep him out sic so late. Oh, I fear some misfortune has on befallen him." co "Perhaps he has returned and entered hi< the office as ho Hometimes does, after i business hours. Do you not remember ' he once fell asleep there and remained sid almost all night before he awoke? Shall In I we go down and see?" fa "Yes, yes: why did I not think of that T1 before, I wonder, Judith." it The woman"? eyes gleamed intelligent- at ly, but she made no answer. \e i She accompanied Marion down the av front stairs. They reached the office deor and an opened it. th Marion entered first, lamp in hand, th and Judith Kredge came also behind tw her. Pa i They had scarcely crossed the threshold when they recoiled, and Marion uV C(V tered a cry of horror. cri A terrible sight met their eyes. "My father has been murdered!" co gasped Mar;on in an awful voice. te( CHAPTER II. *a Marion and her companion, Judith 0e Kredge, saw John Oakburn prone upon . the lloor besic'e a small writing table , which had been overturned. He had fallen face downward and blood had Ra tricklcd down the side of his neck and formed a little pool upon the white floor ; beside his head. , For a moment Marion seemed about to faint and she clung to Judith Kredge an dumb with horror, while her blood seem- i1? ed turning to ice in her veins, and she . experienced a painful contraction of the , heart lo( Judith Kredge was more composed, I .. - - C A p* UUUJUU ut Q the woman's hard, immobile features, at and a tremor in her harsh, -shrill voice, | as she said: "This is murder and robbery, too, 1 te] think. See, the safe is open." te, As she spoke sho pointed to a large safe in the side of the oflice, tho door of , which stood wide open. With au effort which cost all the will ] power of which she was capable, Marion ^ regained her strength and sprang to her ts, father's side. "With the lamp in her * J hand she knelt beside him and scanned his livid face. ea Tf f.horp hnri hpfln a hone in her mind l that the vital principle was not yet ex- th ; ttnct, it was crushed as she gazed upon ex her belovod parent's features, for she na [ saw that he was indeed dead. ^ "Poor father! Poor father!" wailed m] Marion in heart-broken tones, and bitter . l tears streamed down her cheeks and fell ipon the livid face where the dread Ba j white shadow rested. ho i Judith Kredge stood watching the be- ha reaved girl, and there wa< a strange ex- pc I ultant expression in her venomous eyes, th "They have killed my father to rob ^ [ the safe," said Marion, presently, and i the sound of hei voice seeuied to arouse " j Judith Kredge. for she cried: i tl<; "Yes; and we must not delay. Tho B*' , alarm must be given." to ' "Run to the door and call the police, ad You may be heard; and call Mr. Har- bv land ." said Marion hj "Yes, yes. To think that your father tr( should be murdered h^re in his office and . we could not help him," answered the j*c woman. And, muttering to herself in "r au excited way, she ran to the street co door and threw it open. gi The next moment her shrill, harsh qc voic t rang out upon the night jn "Help! Police! Murder!" she shrieked. It was a.cry which, heard at the dead of night, might well startle and thrill the stoutest heart ti< Thrice Judith Kredge uttered this ter- w rible cry, and then she 6aw a police officer hurrying down the street toward her. Waiting not for his arrival, she darted ^ 1 up the stairs to Stuart Harland's room, ce and knocked loudly on the door, at the _ same tims screaming: ' "Awake! Awake! Mr. Oakburn is killed?murdered!" 1 Of course she received no answer, and a< she tried the door, which opened'readily, hi and entered t!ie apartment in which it tc chanced Stuart Harland had left the gas ei 1 burning faint'y. aj .ludith Kmlce pavo utterance to a 1 surprised exclamation as she saw that 11 the room was untenant d, and with an w expression of blank amazement on her m features she flew to a closet in which she d< knew Stuart Harland kept his valiso, p] and threw It open. ^ Suddenly a look of intelligence and 0j cunning supplemented the expression of jj perplexity which her features had momentarily assumed, an I she ran down w stairs and gained the oflice again. "Mr. Harland has gone, and taken his S i* valise with him!" she cried. ti Marion seemed thunderstruck. ir i She had risen, an J, starting forward, h i exclaimed: j, I "Cone! Mr. Harland cone!" e, i "Y< s. lie has lied!" "It cannot be!" gasped Marion. i "It is true." "No, no. That he is not in his room u doos not imply that he has fled." d "Hut he retired as usual. My room i9 p : next to his, and I heard him moving d t> about but a few minutes before you f, called me." c Marion sprang to Judith's side and i clutched her arm. ? "Do not t:-ll that. I beg, I implore r you do not tell a living sonl that yon u heard Stuart llarland in his room a few t( p moMents before we discovered ray father, p: 1 It you do you will direct a dreadful sus- f< ? plcion to an innocent man," she said in |j( intense, thrilling tones. _ Beforo Judith Kredge could answer, i the door opened and the policeman who i had heard the < ry entered the oliice. , i "What's this! A man killed!" exclaimed ^ . the policeman, and while Marion hur- EC 3 riedljr exp'ajned how s_he had discovered bi r lather, ho proceeded to examine the ad. "Ah, shot through the back of his ad! Burglar's work, no doubt," con- jlued the officer, glancing at the open fe. "I'll turn in the alarm and we shall ,ve help here in no time," he added; t d running to tho street door he began rap with his club to call an officer jm the next beat. In a moment or so the policeman he is calling arrived, and his co-laborer nt him to telephone the alarm to adquarters while he returned to the m ice. ai In a few moments a sergeant of police d several officers of the precinct, with F r. Paxton, of the detective service of e city, arrived. pj Marion and Judith Kredge had re- [ lined in the office. ol The detective and the police at once r gan to make the usual investigation. gj First, the body of the victim of the g ime was examined, and the nature of ^ e wound which occasioned death was H ily noted. The face of the dead was ^ en covered, and the sergeant ordered iC at the body be not disturbed until the W juest After this the room was carefully ex- & - 'I /J/i + n il r\t I o a ?%nooi>. 3G JinCUt auu WVIJ ui;taii ui juo oyy^on. ce minutely observed. The contents of the large safe, the u or of which was open, were strewn hi out as though some one had hurriedly |D archcd it; but the lock bad not been Is reed, although it was one of those in- di cate combinations devised to baffle b< rglars. w The key of the safe was in the lock, j" id as Marion stated that it wa3 the one [j! r father always carried, Mr. Paxton fr id: hi "Probably the old gentleman had him- L, f opened the safe when he was sur- oi ised by the assassin." "I do not agree with you, sir," said the lice sergeant stiffly. "It is my imprestn that this safe was opened by some e besides John Oakburn who knew the w mblnation, ana who took the keys from hi i victim after killing him." ti "Possibly," assented Paxton. la The table which was overturned be- bi le the dead man was righted, and pen, u If. Dai;er. and a small clock which had al lien npon tne floor, were replaced. .. ic ink on the pen was scarcely dry. and wns nnt.srt that tho elotk had stODDed a twenty minutes of one o'clock?the x: ry time when Stuart Hariand had di wakened from a sound sleep. bi "The murdered man clutched the table f< d overturned It as he foil, and then T e clock stopped. I Infer therefore that H e shot which killed him was fired at J enty minutes of one o'clock," said ixton. 3( "The ink yet on the pen may be ac- si pted as proof that the victim of this " Ime was engaged in writing just before was killed. Let us see if we can disver what he wrote?" continued the de- w ctive. i9 He then examined the papers on the uj ble, but he (ould find none that had w en recently written. m Paxton shook his head as if he was not 111 lly satisfied. " The office was divided into two com.rtments, and having now concluded a| eir investigation of the outer office, e police and the detective entered the tt terior room. tt This apartment was the clerk's room, ol d it was provided with the usual desks tt d other necessary offico fixtures. J ioro wm alsti a small safe in the in rior office which was found to bo ?f :ked. Marion and Judith Kredge had fol- fr ived the investigators into the interior w ice, and when the latter turned their B tention to the small safe, Marion said: "That is my father's private safe." "I congratulate you, then, for its con- S nts are probably secure," said the de- e, -tive. h( |'T0 BE CONTINUED. | (J ? 8f m Doctors are getting to De great humor* li 8. One in Chicago, the other day, J* ;ued a death certificate stating that e of his patients died of valvular dls- p se of the heart Just before the last T neral arrangements were completed 0 e police force demanded the right to 5' amine the corpse, and further exami- Jc tlon showed that a thirty-two calibre L illet had bored a hole through the ^ in's heart This fact, coupled with t? e fact that a night watchman in the C me block had shot a burglar a few urs before, and the wounded man ^ .d suddenly and mysteriously disap- b< ared, led the officers to surmise that le e "valvular disease of the heart" was ^ ie to the watchman's bullet The q -ctor was appealed to for an explana- gi >n. He very willingly gave one. He aj 111 maintained that death was due * valvular disease of the heart He ni Ided, however, that the passage of the tc lllet through the heart might possibly tve had something to do with the ?< ouble in Its valves. "When I arrived," xi ( contined, "the man was gasping for eatli, and by using a stethoscope I uld distinctly distinguish mitral re- a] irgitation,, showing that the heart's so lion was affected. He died almost j" imediately and I made out the return. w was all right, too." Why, certainly. w rould anyone seriously claim that the itient died of small-pox or consumpan or appendicitis? We guess not. It 3j, as a clear case of heart failure. There tould be more of 'em in the burglars' 31 ofession and fewer ol.' them in death 1 rtificat.es. jnes' Success with "Scratch" Crews jr One of the strangest things in Paul )nes' career was the success he :hieved with "scratch" crews. In G s greatest fight, contemporary his- ' iry says, he had "as bad a crew as s ,*er was shipped," being made up of ^ .1 nations, among them Maltese, Por- 1< iguese, and Malays, who did not al- T ays comprehend the word of com- ^ iand. Taul Jones has been severely n jnounced for having returned to the g lace of his birth bent on destruction; a at, as Cooper Justly points out, an ? fleer's oath obliges him to do all In d is power to harass the enemy; and It K as not only Paul Jones' right, but ^ Is duty, to use his knowledge of the f cotch and Irish coasts in the prosecu- 0 on of the war. If he had any feeli? on the subject, it would have been fi is duty to suppress it But Paul ones probably had no feeling what- o rer, except resentment. He had left is native land as a child, and upon c is last visit he had been cruelly ill c sed, as he thought; and he did his p uty on this cruise with no more re- 11 ngnance than he would have felt at ? oing it elsewhere?and did it merci- n ally.?Century. Beneficial. c Carrying weights upon the head grad- c ated to the strength of the bearer, r - J- 1 r-rt_ n JUUS tU Duaiguvcu ULic apjjic u.uu rove the condition of the chest This T )rm of exercise, taken for say half an j our a day, will do much good to young li eople who are becoming stooped and ? )uud-shouldered. The exercise should ? e commenced at an earlv age, and the 'eight must be very light to comieDce with. It should at first, indeed, tl e more an exercise of balancing. .. . tJ SABBATH SCHOOL, NTERNATIONAL LESSON FOE JUNE 2. th si icsson Text: "The Resurrection of in Jesus,'* Mark xvl.t 1-8?Golden ^ Text: Luko xxlv., 34? be Commentary. in st P< 1. "And when the Sabbath was past, Mary agdalene, and Mary the mother of James 8" id Salome, had bought sweet spicee that ley might come and anoint Him." In Lev. hi till., 10,11. we read that a sheaf of the first 8fi uits of the harvest was to be presented to w ie Lord and by Him aocepted for the peo- m !? mAM>ATtr affopfhA flfthhAth." Ill fll it?, uu iuo mviivn ?uv Cor. xv., 23,v we find that the resurrection B ! Christ was the fulfillment of that type, ni he women mentioned in this first verse of ? lr lesson were some of those who followed n' lm and ministered unto Him. They loved e{ im devotedly, but they were lacking in .ith, for had they believed His words that ai e would rise again the third day (chapters 8I ii., 31; ix., 31") they would not have thought kj i anoint His aead body on the third day. tc ithout faith it is impossible to please Him. 2. "And very early in the morning, the est day of the week, they oamo unto the bi puIchor at the rising of the sun." How n' td they must have felt! Who can tell their al loughts! After all His wonderful works w id teachings concerning the kingdom, to fa ive it end this way was a disappointment ^ idescribable. Oh, if they had only believed ? a. liii. and the words of His own lips, what irkness and sorrow they might have jen spared! Mary of Bethany believed His ords and anointed Him beforehand, and ol ridently expecting His resurrection, as He ti: id saicf, was not found with the others at re le tomb. What darkness would be dispelled w om sorrowing hearts if those whose friends xn ive died in Christ would only believe (Phil, oi . 21. 23:1 Thess. iv.t 16-18), and what sums d< ! money might be saved for better use which fc re vainly scent for the dead body! m 3. "And they said among themselves. Who ni lall roll us away the stone from the door of se le sepulcher?" It was a real difficulty from la leir standpoint, yet they moved on as if it tfc ould some way be removed. Love is not b( Indered from acting by apparent difflcul- 01 es. When it is a work of faith as well as a ti< ibor of love (I Thess. i., 8.), then all is well, sc at faith should be first, lest love perform m nnecessary labor, and there can be no faith al part from the word of God (Bom. x., 17). ea 4. "And when they looked they saw that G le stone was rolled away, for it was very gt reat." Difficulties vanish as wegof'"mrd. di low often we have found it so! 1 Math fr xviii., 2, we find that the angel of the Lord th escended from heaven and came and rolled th ick the stone from the door and sat upon it, ci >r seals and soldiers were nothing to Him. di he angels who excel in strength, that do wi !is commandments, hearkening unto the "| sice of His word (Ps. ciii., 20), know no difr?r\fMr?r? ia hard fn thfim. Head le angel stories In Acts xii and Isa. xxxvii., 5, and rejoice that they are still ministering )irits who minister unto the heirs of salva- fi on fHeb. 1., 14). th 5. "And entering into the sepulcher they iw a young man sitting on the right side 18 othed in a long white garment, and they ac ere affrighted." If we believed in the mintry of angels, and that they are ever with ce s serving unseen and unthanked, perhaps Y( e would not be afraid if some day one or lore should appear to us. It la true that ~ iost of the people in the Bible record to J1' hom they appeared seem to have been " fraid, but we do not read that either Abram 01 r Elisha were afraid, and Elijah was not ? .'raid to have them come for him with a car- f1' age that day that he went home. Notice tat this angel, who must have been several tousand years old, is called a young man? cc h. the joys of eternal youth! If spared to le day on which this lesson shall be taught, will be flfty-one years old, but I am sure 1 la >el more like fifteen than flfty-one, and lam ? srfectly sure that I shall feel younger still fa 1,000 years hence. ^ 6. "And He saith unto them! Be not af- :r lghted. Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth which as crucified. He is risen. He is not here. 01 ehold the place where Jhev laid Him." The agels always say, Fear not (Gen. xxii.. 17; M uke i., 13, 30; ii., 10), and so does the Lord imself from Gen. xv., 1, to Bev. i., 17. His Pi toughts to all His people are peace and not ol ril (Jer. xxix., 11). Therefore let our ja sarts say, ''I will trust and not be afraid" it; isa. xii., 2). In Math, xxviii., 6, the ajigel b< utr<* io ??loan oo TTa cain " AQ if thftV bllif JUO iJ k IDUU, l?/ *4W uw?%*< .. va light also have Bald. "Why did you not be- tr eve Him?" Let ub have a simple, child- tr ke, unwavering faith in every word of T od, and thus He will be glorified in us. w 7. "But go your way, tell His disciples and m eter that He goeth before you into Galilee, ni here shall ye see Him as He said unto you." ic h, how Ohristlike to have a special mes- di ige for poor Peter, who must have felt, be- tr luse of nis awful conduct, that he was no aj inger worthy to be one of them. But the ti ord loved this erring one, and he alone ol h< 11 the disciples is mentioned by name in the ol ieurrection message. "He is risen." "Go. m ill!" may well be called the watchwords o) e\ hristianity. If He be not risen, our fuith i? te i vain, we are yet in our sins, and al! tb ho have trusted in Him and have died <], ave perished (I Cor. xv., 14-18). If He th 3 not risen from the dead, then His spot- hi 'S3 life and His death on the cross all re 5 for nothing, as far as the work of reamption is concerned. But He' is risen, od hath raised Him from the dead and iven Him a seat at His own right hand, id as He said to John in Tatmos, He is live forevermore and has the keys of hade3 f. id death (Rev. i., 18). The present busi- : ass of every believer Is to tell out the fact r? ? all the world, as fast as each individual iay, that through the risen Christ is pro- ? aimed the fortfveness of sins, and all who ?r slieve are justified from.all things (Acts ?r ill., 38, 89). J" 8. "And they went out quickly and fled om the sepulcher, for they trembled and ere amazed; neither said they anything to tc ly man, for they were afraid." Matthew cc iys that they departed quickly with rear id great joy and did run to bring His Uf IscipJes word (Math, xxviii., 8). They ce ould speak to no one by the way, but filled ith joy because Jesus was alive and awed f the facts, the angel's message and their m now manifest unbelief, they hastened to fo 11 the disciples. There is nothing lncon- fo stent between this kind of joy and fear. in >e Phil. ii., 12 and similar passages. We al ay have great joy in the Lord, and withal tfc fear of grieving Him.?Lesson Helper. COLD MINES IN THE SOUTH. ti la Report of the Government Geologist Sent hi to Survey the Land. w The report of GeorgG F Beoker, of the ti feological Survey, who has been investigat- gj lg the gold producing districts of the outhern Appalachian region, has beencomleted. Mr. Backer was sent out on this rork last August, and spent the three fol- . >wing months in * prosecuting it. ^ he greater part of the time e was in the Carol lnas and in . roorgia, where the gold region is best de- . ned. These districts have been producing .. old for very nearly a century. Gold has . Iso been found in nearly all the other ? outhern States, but not in very considora'? TI,o onOrn Smith tlHq nro iu quuiiLibico? jluv g uced about 43,'j0ii,U00 of dollars worth of old since 1799, $43,0t)0.<i00 of which camo rom Georgia and the Carolina.?. Of the <t 43.000,000 South Carolina produced about y< ,000,000; Georgia 10.000,000 and North Car- m Una 23,000.000. Cabarrus County, in the it auth western part of North Carolina, is th? fli Ichest part of all, and is famous for the nug- m ets that have been found there. In the hi arly part of the century the largest nugget in n record in the United States was discovered y< liere. Just a mouth ago one weighing over ight pounds was discovered. pi Mr. Becker says that be considers tbo a ountry a good mineral one, and the pros- y< eets i'or investment excellent. There are in ot liki-ly to bo any great fortunes made, nor b( ny bonanzas discovered, but mining investlents will pay from ten to fifteen per cent. ! made witlf- care and pnidence. th A New Grain Destroyer. The farmers of San Joaquin and adjoining 50 ouutios in the great California wheat belt s ,rc complaining about the ravages of a new rain destroyer. It is supposed to be the [e ' nt phis, an insect belonging to tno nemiptera amily. Many hundreds of acres of late sown rheat are affected and the crop will be great- h: y shortened. The insect attacks roots and m saves a web or II lm about each separate oot, destroying the plant. After the aphis Ik us attacked a Held tho grain ceases growing \ ind the blades color very similar to rust. a jvew Connecticut Law. k< Connecticut has passed a law forbidding c' lie posting of bills of any sort on houses, rees and rocks without the owner's consent, tt TEMPERANCE. } A FOOLISH MAN. Many people have still the mistaken notion at whisky will keep them warm. Our misonary in Alabama, Mr. J. C. Leftwlch, dur- b< g the severe cold weather In that State in gi ibruary, says that a great many ignorant M id poor people who could not afford it pi mght whisky to keep them warm, think- pi g that they must have it. Here is an in- y? anceof where a poor man spent his last b< Jhny for whisky. Mr. Leftwich says: R "I saw at the corner of a street in Mont- cl imery an old colored man standing look- m ig disconsolately on the ground. I went to in lm and asked what .was the matter. He hi dd that he had come Ave miles to buy $2 ic orth of whisky, and when getting on his M ule to ride home he had broken his jug, ee ad his whisky was spilled on the ground, al e said he was sorry because it was the only hi loney he had, and that he had nothing to te it at home. He contined to repeat, 'I have jn athincr to eat at home. I have nothine to it at home.'" . w Was he not a foolish man? And yet there oi re thousands of others like him, who will n< )end their last cent for drink when they m now not where they can get a bite of food c? > eat. Now, if that man had spent his 82 for read, potatoes, eggs, corn meal, coffee, icon, or beef, he would have been able to ourish himself with a good meal, and been a jle to battle with the cold. He needed _ arm food, not flery drink. And his whole tJ] unily would have shared in the good things. y( s it was, his money was worse than wasted, g, Youth's Temperance Banner. GROWTH OF TEMPERANCE. ^ Dr. Norman Walker. In giving an account f a visit to the Highlands, says: "A dis- ai act change has come over the country with igard to temperance. Time was when 6t hJsky was constantly in evidence. I reember the late Mr. Hugh Handyside telling w ! a meeting he had had somewhere with a ft 5acon's court, when a glass went round beire the commencement of business. Now I ost of the ministers are teetotallers, the tc amber of public houses is exceedingly je nail?far fewer in proportion to the popu- tt tion than in the south?and such a sight as ai tat of a drunkard is very seldom indeed to l ) witnessed, at least in the north. The lly place which holds an exceptional posi on is atornoway. uunng tne nsning seain the drinking there Is deplorable." When oderate drinking was substituted for total >stinence, Canon Ellison, and like-minded irnest men, found that the preaching of the j: oBpel was like "casting pearls before fine." But when the stumbling block of 01 ink was removed by "entire abstinence ? om that which had been the occasion cf , icsin," and Christian men and women, "in j ie exercise of their Christian liberty," asso- /' ated themselves with the victims of the " ink, "in their voluntary abstinence," it , * as found that the Gospel became again J :he power of God unto salvation." _ STIMULANTS AND THE GBIP. jc The Journal of Health has an article by ai r. C. H. 8hepard, of Brooklyn, who Bays g at the primary cause of the grip is the sus* si iptibility of the system, and shows the fool- fc hness of taking alcoholic stimulants. He ni Ids: w "Among the more prominent causes of sus- s< sptibility may be classed the almost uniJrsal habit of drug taking, from the mild nics to patent medicines. Whenever one out of order in any way, apparently the rst thing to be done is to swallow some- ?' ling, instead of trying to find out the cause " I the trouble and seeking to obviate it by igulating the habits of life. This drug ibit tends continually to lower the tone of y ie system, and the more it is Indulged in ie more apparent becomes the necessity of * mtinuins the down-hill course. A large j* nount of the deterioration of our people is J ae to the use of alcoholic tonics, or stimu- " nts. as they are sometimes called. The ajorlty of persons do not look beyond the . ct that they seem to feel better after the ie of stimulants, but this feeling comes om the benumbing action ot the alcohol self, and never from any building-up action * the drug, because it has no such action." ^ ADE DBUNK BEFORE BEOINNINO BUSINESS. P, It was stated at a late meeting of the St. tl thftt tWrt ftf tllft OlVJtOWUi^ AAJgiUUIV wvvivnj *MM. - .? T ?- , dest tribes In the Russian Empire, the Ostken and the S3mojeden, the original inhabits of Siberia, are fast dying out, and will ifore long have to be numbered amongst the c] ctinct races ot human history. The dis- ^ lets which have been inhabited by these p ibes are already becoming desolate wastes. w wo direct causes and one indirect cause c, ere given by different speakers for this {( olancholy phenomenon. The direct causes ti e want of sufficient nourishment and the c] icreasing use of spirituous drinks. The in- (j irect cause and the original blame is at- p ibuted to that old and world-wide offender n gainst aboriginal races, the greedy mereanle adventurer. Merchants, with their ti jartless middlemen, have been in the habit a] t visiting these tribes every year, and have h anaged to expropriate them of nearly jj rerything by an iniquitous system of bar- ti r. It has been the recognized "custom of ie trade" to make the poor 8amojeden ^ -unk before beginning to do "business," as lis made it easy for the "merchant" to get 0] s wares at a price ridiculously below their al value.?Scottish Reformer. THE OU1T SAFEOUABD. If you never drink the first glass of liquor, t? >u never will becomfe a drunkard. This is 0, sure and safe position. "Against such pi ere is no law"?total abstinence from all g toxicating drinks the only position that is jsolutely safe. The army of drunkards is cruited from the ranks of moderate drink- a s, and not from the ranks of total abstain- o s. Where this principle lives, intoxicants n ive no power. Total abstinence reclaims ^ ie drunkard from his folly and the mod- u ate drinker from his error. It appeals, to y< ie reason; convinces the judgment; over- tl imes prejudices; prompts to action; and ts the spirit free. Practice it, and you will jver become a drunkard.? National Advoite. w BUM'S RAVAGES IN BELGIUM. OJ The Belgian Government has laid the ti undations of a very urgent measure of re- I 11 ? o (inmmloninn to inauire I nu iu < 1 ito the cause of the ravages exercised by the c< )use of alcoholic drinks. It appears that hi te licensing sj'stem has proved utterly inef- ol :ient, and that the suppression of 88,000 rc iblic houses has only resulted in the crea- ol on of an equal number of clandestines es- k< .blishments, while the consumption of alco- hi jl has increased in alarming proportions, he poisonous nature of the liquor sold, hlcb is computed by chemists to be seven rc mes more deadly in its effects than the pure cc )irits, is an additional evil. I m as BOINED BY CIDER. b( A speaker once addressing an audienco of )ys and girls, told, among other things, " iat cider started the appetite for stronger inks. At the close of the meeting a poor. _ sotted. broken-down man came up and said Vl the speaker: "You did right in warning at e boys and girls against using cider. Just ? ok at what I am! It was the cider on my ther's farm that made me a drunkard!" "F sn WHISKY. Hold a mouthful of spirits?whisky for in- ,g ance?in your mouth for five minutes, and )u will find it burns severely; inspect your ))C outb, and you will find it inflamed. Hold for ten or fifteen minutes, and you will id the various parts of the interior of your outh have become blistered: then tie a uidkerchief over the eyes, and taste, for ec. stance, water, vinegar, milk or senua, and en )u will llnd you are incapable of distin- tjj lishing one from another. T'lls experiment p|( roves to a certainty that alcohol is not only violent irritant, but also a narcoui:. vau i )u believe that the still more tender and oportant internal organs of the body enn <je j less injuriously affected than tho mouth? be fil TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. The screen in the saloon door is the snaro lat hides the devil's trap. The vietim rolls in tho gutter and the iloon keeper rolls in wealth. o< The man who ean take liquor without suf- ai ring injury is not overburdened with rains. j*l The Medical Brief says: "Alcohol is per- " ips the most deceitful drug in the whole iy ateria raedica." ^ Tho next International Congress on Aleo- rc ilism will be held at Basle, Switzerland, on hi ugust 20th, 21st and 22d. JU No man ever got stung by hornets who jpt away from where they were. It is presely the samo with liquor. Tho drunkard's appetite is measured by lo depth of his pocket. _ * lELIGrlOUS READING. A \ BELIGIOU3 FAITHS. Heligi.ous and pseudo-religious faiths must ' > judged by their founders. Men do not ither grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles. adame Blavatsky gave theosophy whatever rominence it has today and wrote more coously about it than any other person, and ;t she is now generally considered to have sen an imposter, the 8ociety for Psychical * esearch after a thorough investigation de- . & aring that she has a title to permanent re- ? emDrance as "oneof themostaccomplished, <. genious and Interesting imposters in story." Most prominent among Ameran theosophists is Mr. Judge, whom rs. Annie Besant and the Indian iction of tbeoeophists have placed in a niche ongside of Madame Blavatsky, aocuslng im of "forging mahatmas." Tne chief inrest the public has had in the annual meet- rij ig of the American theosophists, held ini . " *3 oston, a short time since, has been in aiting to see whether Sirs. Besant's estimate : .air. juuge wouia De approved, out n una jt been. How many more earthly idols y ust Mrs. Besant see shattered before she rf ;ases putting faith In mortal man? ( COMMIT TOUB BEPCTATIOX TO GOD. If you make up your mind to be wholly ie Lord's, to do and to suffer for Him, yon i ill do well to cheerfully give up your repu- A' < ition. It will be a troublesome thing to so. if you undertake to take care of it. lid a white sister for whom old Aunt Hanah was washing. '. lrV*\ 'Aunt HanDah. did you knowthatyou had sen accused of stealing?" "Yes, 1 hearn about it," said Aunt Hannah, . v id went on with her washing. "Well, you won't rest under it, will, you?'* dd the sister. Aunt Hannah raised up from her work ith a broad smile on her face, and looking' ill at the white sister, said: ' De Lord knows I ain't stole nutbin, and. . 35 knows I ain,t, an' life is too short for me i ' i be proovin' an' splainin' all de time. Sol 9' goes on my way rejoicln'. They knows ley ain't tellin' de truf.and they feel ashame id qu t after awhile. If I .car. please a& ord dat is enough for me.1.'?Selected. TBTIJfO TO DO MUCH. f ' VtS There was ouoe a woman who was the de3air of all the other women of her acquaintace. Her house was as pretty as possible, id always in perfect order; she .kept It on & 3ry small income and kept it beautifully. ae made nil her own clothes, and those of sr child: she trimmed hats for herself and stersj she did fancy work; she painted hairs, thereby saving as much a9 six sbillirs ; she taught a class in a mission sewing- * i' ;hool; she took lessons in cooking; she be- 1 ,/^V >nged to several charitable organJzaons?and the end of that woman * as nervous prostration and a sanitarium. > 4 Amid her occupations she had somehow >st sight of the fact that a certain amount of tnusement i9 necessary for the human mind. ' ^ be had never "had time" for rest or diveron. And her husband, as he paid the bill irtj >r medical services, possibly reflected how > $3 tuch better, and not only better, buc cheaper, ItftM ould prevention have been than the cure.? '\*?I elected. I THE SANCTIFIED SINOER. I The value and power of the single voice in I iving souls, in missionary work or in mov- 'J kg great masses of men is not fully under ;ood. Of course tho singers thus employed I lust be sanctified men and women. Imagine '1 hat tho result would nave been if the Jenny inds. the Sontags, the Parepaa, the Pattls. , le Melhas and the eminent lenora Qd bassos of this century had with fl inctifled hearts and voloes been enlisted ) sing for the church. Jenny Lind cam? I earer being an ideal Christian songstress* I lan any of the others whom 1 hava named. 2 . great part of hf r success was due to' her J obleness of heqrt, to her great generoiity VI ad her attractive personality. She was good aB ad everybody knew it If such men and ll -omen had come out boldly and sang for HE hrist, they would, in association with tho ulpit, have moved the world. Mr. Moody ]/ ad other evangelists understand the value of J. I le single voice. 1 , SPPBEME BEVEALEB. ? Jeros Christ is the supreme i^pvealel- of B uaracter. Every one to whom he presents fl| imself is confronted with the question of S ilate, "What then shall' I' do unto Jesus- J bich is called Christ?" and every one is ' >1 ompelled to make some answer. To decline J 3 make nny answer is to reject liim. The I ial of Jesus illustrates bis power to reveal I tiaracter. By contrast with himself the nar> : < ;.y on, the council of the chief priest?,the high * : ? l riest, Judas, Peter, the disciples and Pilate j ppear in their true light. Jesus went J irough a threefold trial. He was first '] ied by Jewish rulers, who caused His arrest ad then condemned him to death, but who ad not the power to execute the sentence. ?*- Al-- Af tkaoo Tama Via waa. e.Tt, HI cut) lUSUKaUUU ?l luiay wvnW| uv led before the Roman court, but was aouitted. Then again he was examined and le Roman authorities were compelled by le Jews, to confirm their sentence of death d Jesus. .*" 5 -7* IHFLCESCZ AS CHRISTIANS. Our influence as Christians will be in exact roportion to what we really are. Botanist* I ill us that there are some trees, the spread j f whose branches above ground Is in exact J roportion to the trend of their roots above round. I don't know of what trees this may . 3 true, but of this I am sure, that our influ[ire with our fellowuien in Dublic will ? I ways be in exact proportion to tne depth V f our hidden life with God in secret. It Is fl ot what we say. not whuc we do; it is what fl e are that tells, or rather what Christ is4n 9 s. Make room for Christ in your heart, and I ou need not advertise it. It will be noised. I iat he is in the house.?E. W. Moore. : cdcbciies orEX 15 daytime. , .v J They are discussing again over in England I hether Protestant churches should not be I pen the whole daytime. The subject is per- E nent here us well as there. In some local- I ies?in the country, for exnmple?probably J obody would make use of open chuches ex- ll ?pt at stated hours as at present. In towns, ] Dwever, many would be glad to enter them j [ten for meditation and prayer. As for class>oms and those devoted to philanthropic or her collateral uses, they ordinarily are now 1 ?pt open as often and as long as experience j is justified. . . jh Paul made the sanctified soul a well- jj tunded character, broad and liberal, that ...u i.an.i,n.u oil fhint's.'' onuld be iust as 1 FUIU cuuutv h<? r,? , 9 _ uch of a saint in the kitchen on a July day I i in the parlor on a holiday; just as pious I ihind the counter six days in the week as i the pew on the Saobath.?Mrs. C. F. ilder. > 4^ John Randolph, the great statesman of irginia. once said, "I should have been an heist if it hud not been for one recollection and that was the memory of the time when y departed mother used to take my little iud in hers nnd cause me on my knees to j y, 'Our Father, who art in heaven.' " faith is simply taking God at his word. It believing what he says, not because we el It. but b-cause he says it. To believe 'caus<> we feel would not be faith in God's 3rd at all, but faith in our own feelings. ' If two angels were sent from heaven to exute a divine command, one to conduct an lpire and the other to sweep a street in it, ey would feel no inclination to change emoyments.?John Newton. It was Godet who wrote: ''.Man is a vessel atined to receive God, a vessel which must i enforced in proportion as it is filled, und < led in proportion as it is enlarged." A New Grain Destroyer. ' The farmers of San Joaquin and adjoining Hiuties in the great California wheat belt re complaining about the ravages of a newrain destroyer. It is supposed to be the >his. an insect belonging to the hemiptera .mily. Many hundreds of acres of late sown 'j heat are affected and th? cmn will ht? ??rnn*_ shortened. The insect attacks roots and ^ aves a web or 111m abotft each separate iot, destroying the plant. After the aphis is attacked a Held the grain ceases growing id the blades color very similar to rust. The Watermelon District. The watermelon district of Georgia cover* , id square miles.