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>.1 CHAPTER I.V.?Continued. If Lea Hedges should accept him, tb< jSSjm^B ?aptain had a hunledly matured plan, HE|^v 'which in due season would take him MEMf away from his companions and permit ?S? him to be near bis iilol at all times. iH He wa3 fortunate in finding Lea MBjg3 alone, and she, having just returned from a horse-back ride, was looking [H. more beautiful than ever, if that were S& possible. SS Captain Fox, like all men of strong fftjf impulses and grea.t executive ability, SEg came directly to the point, yet he approached the subject of his love in such M m way as not to shock her by the sudHhA ^rtenness of his declaration. Under sucn ciroumetances, since the ery first hour when English civilization . required that the young lady's affecf tions were as essentiid as the consent of the parents, it had been the nearly invariable habit of the fair one to confess surprise, and to vow that the honor done was wholly une xpected. This is jgr"; always the case whers the young lady r'X ; 1 has made up her mind to say "no," and she usually says it in a way to plastejthe wound she is making. No woman can look with ^tner than sympathy on the eligible,*^ whose offer afeeisfuses. ButLe^ruedges, while not rude in ler -wag certainly brusque. must believe what you say, Captain Fox, and I presume I ehould feel | tailored by your offer. I certainly should 19* unworthy the esteem of any true man It I trifled with his feelings. While treating you with the courtesy due an --- *? ? -" ?j ?<* /vp aii? rr*?o ai'aiiq VKcor lu tut? sorviuo vi uui ^iovivuo Vdythe Queen, I have done nothing that you could construe into any encouragement of the suit which I must decline." "But why?why do you refuse me?" he asked, the sanguine hue of his cheeks turning to purple. "If you cannot guess I cannot explain," she replied, with a dignity that Bhllled him. "It means that you love some one jlse." , ' "Why should it? But that you may be undeceived on that point, let me assure you that you are the first man that ever spoke to me of love and marriage. You should remember that- I have known you but a short time, and .that, no matter how favorable the impression . . / ? you may have made among us so far is, a common prudence would forbid my T koT'fl nA<_lAro?tA a "* - man whom I did not know two weeks go." "You are right, Miss Hedges, and I am to blame," said the captain, his old manner coming back. "But you must . excuse me in the light of these facts. A letter, just received by a post from the Governor of New York, orders me to that city. It is possible I may be sent to fight a pirate, one Captain Kidd, who is now reported destroying our commerce in the West Indies. I sail tomorrow night or early next morning, and I wanted to take with me one memory to sustain me amid the perils and dreariness of my cruise?a tie that wmil/i Hmm mo hanV h?rA " "Where you and your officers," replied Lea, "will always find a hearty welcome awaiting you." "Thanks for your words; they do not Jeave me hopeless," said the captain, his yes taking on their old expression of reck' ess vivacity. He adroitly changed the topic, and after talking for nearly an hour, without once going back to the subject -with which he first started, he left, promising to see her again before he took his departure. Although Lea Hedges bore herself sc calmly and bravely in the presence oi her sailor suitor, she did not retain hei fine self-possession and excellent spirits after he left her. She went to her own room, and after changing her riding dress 6he threw herself on the bed, and, burying her face In her hands, so remained till her -y mother came to call her to supper. Like the dutiful daughter she was, Lea made up her mind to tell her parents of Capt. Fox's offer that night; and she might have done it at the supper table bad not Valentine Dayton and Ellen Condit been there. She did tell them that Captain Fox _ had received an order by courier, from the Governor of the province, commandIejz him to Jake his ship to New York. . And then Lieut. Dayton told her that Ralph Denham had received an olfder from the same authority to report in person, and that he would start tomorrow or next day. "But he does not take the ship?" asked Lea, eagerly. "No, he leaves U3 all here," replied Valentine. "But Ralph will return again?" 6aic Lea, the expression on her beautiful face telling her anxiety in the answer. "I suppose so," said Valentine, whc was much devoted to his friend and commander, "for without Capt. Denham the Sea Hawk is a vc^y ordinary ship, Indeed." "And with him?" queried Ellen, who was very fond of her adopted brother. 1 / "And with him she is the best ship oi her tonnage afloat." ^ In the midst of the conversation, an<] V- much to the delight of the Doctor an 1 Mrs. Hedges, both of whom loved Ralpt Denham as dearly as they did theii U.'phew, Valentine Dayton, the gentle' man under discussion was announced and entered the room. Ralph confirmed the report of his departure, said he hoped to be back very Boon, and then asked Lea if she would take a walk with him along the shore. It was not unusual for the Captain ask the same question, to which she iuI variably gave an affirmative reply; but as he asked it now there was that in his manner which she had never noticed before. And, though Ralph Denham was so entirely different a man from Captain Fox, there -was something about him at the moment that reminded her of the latter when he was about to make B his startling, unexpected proposal. I She put on her hat and light cloak, I ,ano, taking his arm, tney went down L !the road and through tho woods, where, as a little girl, she had often gathered Wr nuts, while Ralph, then a sturdy boy, L > Bent them to the earth from his giddy L perches high up in the trees. & \ She did not hesitate to tell him then that she thought him tie bravest, MA strongest and handsomest boy in .".II the world. He would give a great deal to know what she thought of him now. jgy It was with s-mething of a feeling of desperation that he resolved to learn WL her feelip^a to-night The courier's letter ha:t decided him. He forgot the barrier lhat sprung up in hU mind, every time he thought of Paring him^f in.t_^e past. ism ft M . Memjij. i "Ealpli knew who lie" was?rather hfe did not know who he was, in regard 4o nam** and parentage?and though !he consoled himself with the belief tfyat neither could be bad, he realized that in this community, there wt?s a strong, even a bitter, prejudice against these of illegitimate birth, and that maidens far beneath Lea Hedges in the social scale would hesitate before giving him their hands in marriage. Usually, Ralph was the soul of cheerfulness; to-night, he was gloomy, and, In her futile efforts to rally him, Lea herself beoame taciturn. At length they reached a promontory, that oommanded a magnificent view of the bay, and of the islands to tbQ.east, now a oioua or green and gold, in tiie rtistanoe. Here they sat down on the trunk of a fallen tree and, turning to her, Ralph asked: "How long have you known me, Lea?" "I have known you Ralph," she replied, "ever since 1 can remember." He became silent again, dreading to launch out on the sea, to whose shore be had led her. , "Why do you ask that strange question?" She did not look at him, but toyed with the ribbon of the hat which she held in her lap. "I was wondering how long two friends?good friends as you and I are? could be acquainted without knowing exactly what the one thought of the other," he said. "I have never doubted about that; you have been to me a brave brother, in" whom I felt all a sis^'s pride; and I think I have been to^k a sister; you have often told moin these verv woodnow she began to knot Jtfce strings as if 6he had a spite against them. "I was then a youth and you a little girl. We have both changed. You are no longer a sister to me. Lea." "Not a sister, Ralph?" "No; the time?the time I have so often thought of, and always with a feeling of dread?has come. Oh, Lea, you must be much more than a sister to me?or?or less." He turned to her and reached out both his hands; and, as she did not make a response, but sat there trembling, with a face as white as a statue, he called out: "Forgive me, Lea. I could not help it. It 6eemed that my heart would break if I did not tell you of my love before I left. Now I care not to return, but I do not blame you. Were you in truth my sister, and one in my position asked for your hand, I could not encourage him " "Oh, Ralph, Ralph!" she cried, springing to her feet, and clinging with ner white arms to his neck. "Do not leave me so, Ralph, my more than brother!" As he folded her to bis breast, and kissed her face, wnlch the setting sun seemed to surround with an aureole of golden light, Ralph Denham became aware of another presence. He looked up and saw the scowling dart faofl and tnwerincr form of the Montauk chief before him. Releasing Lea, Ealph strode before the Indian, and in an angry tone demanded: "What brings you here?" "Here," said the chief, defiantly glancing around him. "Here I stand on the lands of the Montauk. "What brings you here?" MT QKauIH frira rav ronlr If fhia lflHr * OUVU4M e** v VfV * were not with us," said fialph. "I shall receive your reply when she is not with you," said Unoas, throwing his long rifle across his shoulder, and striding into the forest from which he had come. CHAPTER X. "THEY SAILED AWAY 15 A GALLANT BARK." "Well, with tbe love of such a girl as Cousin Lea assured," said Valentine Dayton, the morning following the events narrated in the preceding chapter, "the battle is more than half won. I am sure Uncle Nehemiah Hedges will come round in time." "T rir> not. hlnmn Dnp.tnr HftdtrAR fnr rn. fusing me the hand of his daughter; in his position I think I might do the same," said the captain. "I ask your pardon, Ralph, but I don't think you would. Genealogies may be right in the old world, but in this land men don't win through their grandfathers," said Valentine, with much force. "You are right, perhaps; but before I ask Lea to join me at the altar, I shall convince her father that there is nothing in my origin for which I, at least, should blush. However, I am very happy as it is It seems to me that the fog through which I have been feeling my way and taking soundings for years has lifted, and now all is plane sailing. For the first time in my lire I feel that I have reached the fullest stature of a man?which cin only be attained when he is confident that he possesses the love of a noble woman." Captain Denham looked as he felt; there was an expression of peace and strength in the handsome bronzed face that was noticeable 10 his friend. And Valentine Dayton was himself in a state bordering on ecstasy; for had not Ellen Condit. with the consent of her parents, pledged him her hand, on: their way back from Doctor Hedges' the night be lore? The young officers, during this conversation, were on their way to the Sea Mawlr whurfl th? flantain was to mate bis arrangements and issue his orders before turning over the command of the ship to Lieutenant Hedges. On reaching the deck they found Lieutenant Frenauld on board, talking earnestly with the officers of the Sea Hawk. With the official manner which sailors and soldiers can so readily assume or lay aside, Frenauld touched his hat, and. approaching Captain Denham, said: "I am the bearer of a letter, 6lr, from Captain Fox, who desires me to take back your answer." Captain Denham was inclined to like Frenauld, and his dislike of Fox?he imagined?was caused by the feeling that he was or might become a rival. All fear of this being dissipated by Lea, he felt, as is ever the case with generous natures, of going to the other extreme. Frenauld remained back, smoking and conversing with the officers of the Sea Hawk, who were gathered under an awning on the quarter deck. Before opening the letter, Ralph Denham, followed by Valentine Dayton, went down to the cabin. After glancing over the note to make sure thut he could communicate its contents to his subordinate, without any breach of etiquette, he read as follows: On Boakd H. M. & Cruiser Wanderer, I Or? IIarboh. June 13, 1690. j My Dear captain Dbnham: I have bean Informed ly some of our friends ashoie that you ate ordered to New York at once, without your ship. Straneely enough, the same post brought me au order, commanding mo to New Yorlc Bay wiih my ship, on or before the 19th inst The trip by laud is long and ledlous. while i expect in this weather to make it inside of twelve houra on the Wanderer? t goii.g up the sound and through llurl (iate. or H.ll Gate, as it is now being CaliOd. Penal* me to say there is a cabin at your wiM hotfor me'wIiB yoar presence onlBe B^?jt-efQlse. my officers and self will enwTvori^ilt^lBast In part, to show our appreciation of the kindness we have received at your hands and the handb of your friends since coming into the beautiful bay. and meeting these most hospitable people. Hoping for a favorable reply at the hands of Mr. Fienauld, believe me with much esteem, very slncerelv, Your humble, obedient servant, William Fox, Commanding H. M. B. Cruiser Wanderer. To Captain Balph Denham, H. M. B. Provincial Cruiser, Sea Hawk. "What do you think of that. Mr. Dayton?" asked the Captain, when he had finished reading the letter aloud. "I must pay I think It very handsome, Captain. Of course you will not Bay no' to such an offer? It is a most fortunate think to have a ship like the Wanderer to bear one to New York, InA -? -o Al U XV ~ J | Bieau 01 going uiruugn tu? wuuuo turn over the sands on horseback," replied ' Lieutenant Dayton. "Even if the offer were not tempting, I should feel inclined to accept, to show my appreciation of Fox's kindness." "Then you will go on the Wanderer, Captain?" "Yes; and I shall at once write Fox to that effect; Frenauld is waiting for my answer." Captain Denham sat down to a desk, and quicking penning his reply, sent it up by Lieutenant Dayton. Ana thus it came aoout that Captain Denham sailed away in the Wanderer. Had the powers of darkness deliberately planned to aid Captain Fox and Colonel Graham in their dark schemes, matters could not have worked better into their hands. Colonel Graham was not a demonstrative man; on the contrary, he was cool, 6elf-posses8ed, suspicious, and cynical. But when Fox read him Kalph Denham's letter accepting fhe offer, Graham sprang from his chair, and in his momentary exultation, seized his companion's hand, and cried with an oath: "Now, we have him, sir! we have him!" It was reported that Col. Graham ' * * A- XT tr 1. TX7~_ would return to now xum uu iu? ?? auilerer, but the people expressed 110 Burprise when the vessel sailed away without him. The night before the morning when the 6hip sailed away, Col. Graham, who still made his headquarters at the inn, was taken alarmingly ill, and Dr. Hedges, who was called in to attend to the case, bled him freely. The illness was a trick to give an excuse for remaining behind, but there was no trick about the doctor's lancet. Bleeding was then thought to be a panacea for every ill, from a toothache to Asiatic cholera, and the doctor left his patient so weak that.he could not move if he would. It was decidedly dangerous to iooi with doctors in those days, when bleeding and blistering killed tho weak, and tested the powers of the strongest. Squire Condit was the only person of note in th'e town that .did not visit the sick man, but the people all thought the Squire eccentric. A few days after the Wanderer sailed away, Dinah, the old black Woman, literally forced her way into Col. Graham's room. The rather startling disclosures that the old woman made, and the remarkaI ble conduct of the invalid must form ' the subject of the next chapter. |TO BE COKTIKUEB | I , CURIOUS FACT3, A. German statistician has discovered that the Bulgarians lead the Nations in longevity. Matches have not yet displaced the tinder box in certain rural districts of Spain and Italy. All males who sell newspapers in the streets of Moscow.are compelled to appear in uniform. No person under sixteen years of age is permitted to enter a theatre or tavern in Heligoland. * In France 4,000,000 tons of potatoes are annually used in the manufacture of starch aad alcohol. Some of the Chinese think that women who wear short hair will be transformed into men in the future world. The flesh of the forequarters of the beaver has something of the flavor of beef, while that of the hindquarters has a fishy taste. The Harrison sink hole of Addison (Mich.) junction, has swallowed auuu car loads of dirt and all the trees and brush in that vicinity. The A*abs harbor a superstition that the stork is a bird of good omen. When one of them builds its nest on a housetop, the occupants of the honse believe that their happiness is insured for a year. A Bridgeport (Conn.) couple sold their child three years ago ior $100 and now they want it back again. As the purchasers of the child refuse to yield the little one the parents have begun suit. A potato bug flew down the throat of a farmer in Wabash County, Indiana, and he swallowed a teaspoonful of paris green to kill it. It fixed the bug, and it took the doctors six hours to fix him, and give hice another ohance for life. School teaohers in China run great risks. A man in Yungchou was found guilty of murder, and the judges, after dooming him to death, also decreed the death penalty for his teacher, saying that he should have tanght his pupil to respect human life. Wild dogs, as dangerous as wolees, have lately been abundant in those parts of Japan that were destroyed by the tidal wave of Jane 15. They killed several country postmen, until these officials were supplied with trumpets, of which these aDimals are afraid. Something that an the twilight looked like a piece of rope, lay at the roadside in Highland Falls, N. Y, Edward Appleton lifted it. and diueovered to his horror that it was a copperhead snake. The reptile bit hiin on the wrist and in two hours his arm was as black as hiB hat. Corporal ZimmermaD, a veteran of the Franco-Prussian War, holding the decoration of the Legion of Honor for conspicuous gallantry at the battle of Champignv, has just been arrested in Paris for selling contraband matches. He declared that he received the ; matches for nothing from the man who made them and that their sale was the only means he had for keeping from starving. He refused to give the name of his benefactor. ~ Au Unpleasant Country. Between Carthage and Stislingvillp, in Jefferson County, New York, there is a stretch of country where the sand drifts like snow, making great bank?, and blinding the eyes of those who look upwind. It is a desolate, bn:rren i region, wheie the soil is only as deep L.{V?.l'50ts.0i the grass, ?Bestoa Eud&tt. H a-'s Plif' RELIGIOUS READING. WJRK-FILLED AND WORD-FILLED BZBHOSS. Sermons may be divided into many classes but there are two fjre.it general divisione which embrace mcst pulpit productions. They are the sermons filled with words and the sermons filled with work. The first kind costs little and is worth little. Its preacher holds the low ideal that a sermon only means the collection of certain accepted and/conventional ideas. He gathers his material from commonplace sources, places them in position, and weaves the various parts Into ft continuous whole. The result may be a neat and interesting address,but it lacks personality and the touch of mystic influence which moves the heart and life of the hearer. 1'he work-filled sermon possesses thei powei denied to the word-filled sermon,becsiuse the preacher puts himself into it. It is not a mere collection of ideas gathered with more or less carefulness from different sources, but is a presentation of ideas which have been thought, studied and prayed over. The trouble with much preaching in our day is that it involves too little labor. Ours is an age of helps, and busy men are tempted to seize the gold dust that lies on the surface of their subject without waiting to delve down patiently and earnestly to the golden Duggets in the rock beneath. They are content with what comes easily, and I an thfiv fall short of th'3 stand ar<l at which they ought tp~ ~fiim. Speaking the other day at the ordination of a youbg minister, Dr. James Stalker, that prince of Scottish preachers and writers, gave, a most interesting reminiscence of his own ordination. His father, a shrewd and sensible country elder,was present at it, and pniemnly spoke to his son aftqr thiii fashion, when all was ovefr: "James, I have been looking round this congregation (there were about seven hundred membem in it). I see in this field many things to do, and there will be a thousand things to attend to, but you must see and get your sermon thoroughly ready for Sunday." The famous preacher added his cordial testimony that if he had attained any success in the pulpit he owed it to the fact that he had taken his father's advice to heart. He fills hia Qormnna with work, and so his words CO to the eDds of the earth. Smaller preachers id smaller spheres should do likewise. Words without work are as useless in the pulpit as out of it. faith without fanaticism, Truth runs close upon the verge of error, and there are no high boundary walls. One may easily step across the border without being conscious that he has passed into an enemy's country. This is nowhere seen, perhaps, more frequently than in the facile transition that is so often made from faith to fanaticism. It is a good thing to trust God, and one canjiot trust Him too much, provided there is no relax ation of labor. Bu'C with 6ome natures the tendency is very strong to substitute prayer for patient toil, and to expect the end without the use of appointed means. Very many have plunged into the morass because they disregarded reason under the plea of direct guidance from heaven. They shut the eyes of their understanding that they might act upon impressions and impulses whish they tnnlr fnr arsntpil Wflrft from God. Nothing can be more dangerous. He who puts aside his reason, which is our God-given guide to listen to some dream, or vision, or voice, is almost certain to go astray. Now it is the immediate age, now instantaneous healing without remedies, now some other similarly baseless craze which casts aside common sense, degrades Scripture, and retards spiritual progress, ail in the name of faith. But it really is fanaticism. Cease not to pray,but keep pegging away. i3 tBe proper rule. Believe God implicitly when He clearly speaks but use your intellect with the utmost coolness for. the ascertainment of what H-e says. It is very easy to ascribe to Him what really comes from our own fancy, or pride, or ambition, or indolence. Many false spirits are gone out into the world, and it is our business to try the spirits by a variety of tests so as to see whether or hot they are of God. Trust is one thing, presumption is quite another. Blessed is he, and marvelously sane, who is master of the strongest, fullest faith, and yet has not the slightest touch of fanaticism. * 1 v * A PICTURE. "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst." Think of the picture that that suggests?the ravenous desire of a starving man. the almost fierce longing of a parched throat. Is that a picture of the intensity, of the depth of our desires to be good? Do we professing Christian men and women long to be delivered from our evils and to be clothed in riirVitaniienoce vpith nn hnneKtv and an I earnestness and a continuity of longing which would make stuch words as these anything else, if applied to us. than the bitterest irony? O, one looks out over the Christian church and one looks into one's own heart and contracts the tepid, the lazv, the occasional and, I am afraid, the only half sincere wishes to be better with the unmistakable earncstnes3 and reality of our belongings to be rich, or wise, or prosperous. or famous, or happy in our domestic relationships.?Alexander McClaren. NATCHE A3JD DEATH. Nature is full of death. The leaf Jails, the tree dies, the gray earth is wrinkled with the graves of her children. The air is tremulous with knells; there arc vacant places in our homes ; the dust is strewn over the faces that we loved. Whnt is man, whose breath is in his nostrils? Behold, we die. we perish, we all perish! Who. then, do we forsake the living fountains for our /.Infort.o9 ITn mhA ontnth r\4 ll'I U tvejj VJObClUO { * IV Iiuu vuiviii V* this bread shall hunger, he who drinketh of this water shall thirst again : but he who eatetli the bread of life, and drinketh of the water which Chri6t shall give him, shall hunger and thirst no nore. Lord, give us that water! Lord, evermore give us that bread from heaven, which is Thyself! . . . Give it to us now and forever.?Canon Farrar. chbist's lifk. All the perplexity and painful distress, the dark difficulties that, may dominate one's whole existence, woald disappear if we WOU1C1 Only Xftkrn uiill iu l iinsi tienuo uui eating and drinking, our sleeping and clothing of the body, are as much spiritual matters as falling upon our knees in prayer, or reading God's holy word, or partaking of the holy communion at the table of the Lord. In Christ Jesus life is one. and there ought to be no division between things secular and things spiritual, things bodily and things bodily and things heavenly: they must be one, absolately one.?Webb-Peploe. As you value your faith, your God and your saviour, as you look for a nobler and better character, keep the spiritual eye upward. Pray when and where you will, but pray as a habit. The heavenly eye must be kept trained and adjusted to heavenly visions if it would gain anything from them.? Bishop Lawrence. If we had prayed more, we need not have worked so hard. We have too little praying face to face with God everyday. Looking back ul the end I suspect there will be great grief for our sins of omission?omission to get from God what we might have got by praying.?A. A. Bon.'ir. No mr.n knows the fullness of life until, lookiiu; into the face of his Saviour, lie sees in it the infinite Ipve, the infinite intellectual mastery and power to command,and the , infinite inspiration of the presence of the living Christ.?Rev. David Nelson Beach. ' Begin with small things. Von cannot , enter the presence of another human being ' withoi.v fin lihtf there more to do than you , or 1 or any soul wiil ever learn to do perfectly bedc.ru we die." Marriage to Avert Starvation. A minister of Milwaukee, Wis., was ap- | plied to a few days ago by a man and a wo- j man, who desired that they should be made man and wifo in order that they might not , starve. The minister learned that it is the j rule of the county poor authority there to help only married men, aud the would-be groom was destitute and unable to gain work. , He is a widower and has a six-year-old child iependent on him for support. A young ] woman, as poor a9 himself, but ablo to got work occasionally, has been caring for the :hild, and to her the father told his story. 3be at once offered to mnrry htm. Fatal Accidents in the Alps. ' In thirty-two years there have beea but L ' 2QWatol accidents Jji tho Alns* - ? SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB DECEMBER 13. Lesson Text: "Cautions Against Intemperance," Prov. xxlll., 15-25 ?Golden Text: Prov. xxlll., 21 ? Commentary. 15. "My son, If thine heart be wise, my h^art shall rejoice?even mine." In listening to this father entreating his son we must think of our Heavenly Father entreating His children, for all the love of parents to children is but the faintest shadow of the love of our Father in heaven. As physically, so spiritually, the heart Is everything, and without a healthy heart the body cannot have perfect health, so without a new heart we cannot have spiritual health. Out of the heart are the Issues of life (Prov. lv., 23). Out of the abundance of the heart th? mnnth epeaketh (Math, ill., 84). Oat of the heart proceed evil thoughts and all unoleanness, for it is desperately wioked (Math, xv., 19; Jer. xvlL, 1(f). 16. "Yen, my Tcins shall r#jolce, when thy lips spnak right thlnss." The subptanoe of our conversation Indicates the condition of our heart, and if we thought of this we might be more oarefal of our words. The Lord look* upon the heart, and not only so, but upon the Imagination of the thoughts of the heart (I Sam. rvl., 7; I Chron. xxviii., 9), and perhaps this may help us to understand "the veins." Parents may well rejoice In their inmost being when their chHdren speak right things. 17. "Let not thine heart envy sinners, but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long." A new heart Is a heart in which God dwells; It Is put in us by God Himself that He alone may ocoupy it. It is a new spring to our actions, words and thoughts, a new motive for everything, even God working in us those things which are pleasing in His sight Such a heart will not envy sinners, but will rejoice in the Lord alway, and abidlhg in His love, satisfied with His goodness, will fear to grieve Him lest it lose this fellowship, whloh is heaven on eartn. 18, "For surely there Is an end, or reward, and thine expectation shall not be cat off." See this repeated In chapter xxiv., 14, and add Jer. xxix., 11, "I know the thoughts I think toward you," saith tne Lord, "thoughts of peaoe and not of evil, to give you an end and expectation." The expectation of the return of Ohrist, and the righteousness that shall then be seen, the wrongs that shall be righted, and the glory that shall "be revealed, is the most helpful truth whioh I as a redeemed soul have ever saen. Do not the words "end," "reward," "expectation," all point to it? Well has it been written, "He that hath this hopo in Him, purifleth himself even as He is pure" (I John iii., 8). 19. "Hearfhou, my sod, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way." Our Lord Baid, "Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves" (Math, x., 16). And in Jas. ill., 17, t we read of the nature of true wisdom,<hat i it Is "first pure, then peaceable, gentle and *| easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypoorisy." Surely this is none other than Christ Himself, and as to the way, there is none but He. He is wisdom, and He 1s the way, and Ohrist In us is the hope of glory, the glory whioh rectifies our life here ana purifies from all uncleanne3S. ' 20. "Be not among wine bibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh." This sort of thing belongs to the wl3dom of earth, which is sensual and devilish(Jas. 111., 15). The kingdom of God ie not meat and drink, bat righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost (Rom. xvi., 17). The word for th? believer is "Be not drunk with wine, but be 1 filled with the Spirit" (Eph. v., 18). Any method of reform short of that whioh looks to a new heart, a new fountain within, will prove unavailing. The old nature Is Incur ably corrupt in the sight of God (Bom. vlii.. 7), and though it may be made moral ana ' somewhat temperate, it never can enter the kingdom. Only that which is born from 1 above can enter (John iii.. 3, margin). 21. "For the drunkard and the glutton shall oome to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.1' Whatever may become of the drunkard as to this life it Is written that drunkards cannot inherit the kingdom (I Oor. vi., 10). As to the glutton he was, according to law, to be stoned with stone9 (Deut. xxL, 20. 21). 22. "Hearken unto thy father that begat thee and despise not thy mother when she is old." One would think euoh commands wholly unnecessary if we did not know the wickedness of the human heart, but God, who knows the heart, has written it. Let t each one ask himself. "Am I clean before ? God in this matter?" Then how much more j should we hearken to Him whs has of His c own will begotten ub with the word of truth t {Jas. i., 18), who pltieth like a father and s comforts as a mother (Ps. ciii., 13; Isa. lzvi, t 13), who says, "Inoline your ear and come i unto Me, hear and your soul shall live" (Isa. t lv.,8). Ii 28. "Buy the truth and sell it not: also I wisdom, instruction and understanding." ? Omitting the word "also," which is in italios, i we learn that the truth is these three things, t or that Jesus Christ, who is the truth, is the 9 sum of all Viadom and understanding. Isa. n lv., 1, says we can buy without money and f without price. TjPe oertain'y oannot in any b sense give an equivalent foj; what we get as 9 we ao in ordinary ouying ano selling, dui i. there is^a giving up or layKg down of oui a own thoughts and "opinions that He may be b our wisdom and our righteousness. "Lay a thou thy treasure in the dust and the Al- o mighty shall be thy treasure." (Job xxii., It 24. 25, B. V.) ? 24. "The father of the righteous shall r crreatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise a child, shall have joy of him." Just as with ? earthly parents somo children nre a great joy and some are a great sorrow, so among the children of God some are a joy to Him and others a grief. We lead of some who v "rebelled and vexed His Holy Spirit" (Isa. S| IxlH., 10), and of some who must have the 0 flesh destroyed by satan that the spirit may H be saved, and of somo whose works will be 3j burned up and they saved as by Are (I Cor. a v., 5; iii., 15). b; 25. "Thy father anil thy mother shall ba a glad, and she that baretbee shall rejoioe." u Thus our lesson begins and ends with the 3 joy of parents in wise children. We turn to Sim of whom the Father said, "TMs is My Beloved Son in whom I am well pleased," and wbo could truthfully say of Himself, "I do always those things that please Him," r< and of whom it is written that He neve1 d pleased Himself (Matb. ill., 17; xvii., 5; John a viii.,29; Rom. xv., 3), and we say, "Lord, t< make me rs far as possible such a ohild to 2i the Father ns Thou wast." If He sees that tl we mean it, Ho will take us in band to sub? h due the self-life and make manifest In us Hisf |j own life, for He is able to subdue all things ? unto Himself (IICor. iv.. 11; Phil, ill., 21). We must be willing, and He will surely do it.?Lesson Helper. d GERMANY'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY. J' _______ ^ 1.017,113 Persons Employed In It and an Increase of t'emalo limployoi. ct The growth of the textile industiy in the P^ German Empiro is shown in the result of " last year's census of mechanics reported to tho State Department by Consul Sawter at Giaucbau. In this industry over 1,000,000 persons are employed, and the interesting /< fact is noted that there has boon a yearly de- c< crease of male and a corresponding increase of female employes. The exact number of 0] employes was 1,017,112, against 932.592 in 1882. Since 18S3 the males decreased from ]a 592,070 to 552,230. a change of 29,810. Their places have been filled by female?, whoso jj uumber grew from 350,522 to 461,316 in the w 3ame period. 81 One result of these changes is the improved sanitary surroundiugs and comfort provided . for the employes. Their every interest in this way is being considered to encourage ijood and satisfactory labor. Wash rooms r? and lockers for non-working apparel are D( providod, and dining rooms where coffee und potatoes (the latter one ol the chief com- w ponents of the luncheon) are roasted or be boiled in a special wire receptacle. There be tire also separate lunch rooms for whole bt families employed in tho factories where wi they can distribute food from tho family bosket and enjoy together the recreation af- at forded by tho noonday meal. Somo of the ga larger factories have a buffet, v?'hera can be gi purchasod, at u merely nominal prico, beer, te sausages, rolls, coffee cake, or auy little luxury in the form of pastry. aD fa Liverpool to Emulate Glasgow. all Tho Liverpool (England) City Council hai c.v esolved to promote a bill in ParliifTnent to ?uy up the street car lines of the city at a Dc ost of not over ?5,030,000. TEMPERANCE. "i WILL DEDtK NO HOBB." "Dear mother, I received your letterOb, hew it cheered my heartSo far from home and friends, T^rtlnrv f a mn_i._ l -'vmg iUO Ttui &ur D ptlO. You ask about my habits, Pray set your mind at rest, I do not drink, dear mother, And try to do my beet. . "The tempters they are many, The tempted they are more, And they often sail In their painted ships Quite smoothly from the store. But In looking down the river? Oh, their sufferin^a who can tell? I see the struggling, helpless forms; I see the wrecks as well. "I see on the shore friends weeping I hear the children cry. And again I see the cruel waves Still running mountain high. 1 stretch my hands to save them? Above the breakers' roar. Ah, too late, too late! In sight of home They sink to rise no more. * "I win not arms, aear motner, And I'll try to do my best? Ood helping me?while absent, 80 set your Heart at rest." Oh happy, happy mother, A victory you've won! And you a loving heart bave blessed, Oh, happy, thoughtful 6on! DBINX's DOIXG9. Five years ago Edmund Wilkinson, a wealthy cotton manufacturer, of Patnam, Conn., died, leaving a fortune of $160,000 to four sons. John, one of the sons, now twenty-two years of age, recently was lying in the alooholic ward of Bellevue Hospital, New York, a physioal wreck- To a newspaper reporter he said: "You see where I am. and you can guess what will become of me. My brother, Lawrence, tne oldest, died one year ago at the Lenox Hotel, Greenwich, Conn. He was a lawyer, the valediotorian of his class at Yale, and a graduate of a New York law school. He died of aloohollsm when thirty-six years a!/) AlflA fnAM rt 1 AnVt r\\4 nm TTa viu* uoxaiu awy uicu uivm cuuuuimouj* no died two years ago at the Grand Union Hotel. Elizabeth, N. J. He was only twentyone years old. Edward, twenty-four years old, is an inmate of the Hartford Retreat, to whioh institution he was committed for a term of three years as a dipsomaniac. And so yon need not be surprised to see me here." When taken to the hospital Wilkinson was haggard and unkempt, and his twitchins: musoles showed his extreme condition. "I wonder what makes my legs leel so queer," he said, frequently. But when it was suggested that he hAd been drinking too much, he said, lightly: "Oh, no; I've had only fifteen whisfcys today." When asked regarding cigarettes he snid ^hat his average was about ninety a day. "This drink appetite is Inherited," be said. "I get it from both sides. But," he added quickly and with the first touoh of feeling that he had. shown, "I don't mean that my mother drank, but I am sure her ancestors iid. and I know mv father did." HIE 8AL00N AND DBINK?WHAT THEY THINK OF IT. A curse.?Queen Victoria. A scandal and a shame.?Wm. E. Gladstone. Traps for worklngmen.?Earl Cairne3. Devilish and destructive.?Lord Randolph ^hnrahlll. Stupe flea and besots.?Bismarck. The mother of sins.?Southev. The devil in solution.?Sir Wilfrid Lawson. Liquid fire and distilled damnation.? Robert Hall. The mother of wait and Ihe nurse of crime. -Lord Brougham. A poison in politics as well as in society? lir W. Harcourt The Nation is being throttled by the traffic. -Lord Roseberry. A huge nuisance and misery.?London ["imes. Yet "this curse," so "devilish and des motive," tnat "siupenea ana orsou), iuc aother of sins," '-of want, and the nurse of Times," "the devil In solution.'' "the Naion's scandal and shame," and the "trap for , eorklngmen" the English Nation legalizes, >rotects and cherishes at a cost of high-nigh , even hundred million dollars, and the American Nation does the same with the luge curse at a cost of one billion dollars.? National Temperance Advocate. LEGAL MURDER. ' Waiting by a railroad station to take a I rain that was soon to arrive was a wellIressed woman and child^ Her husband, a gentlemanly appearing person, had left her in the plea of attending to t>ome pressing 1 lusiness he had forgotton. She tried to per- i uade him not to go, but he promised to be tack in time for the train. For a full hour he stood with the boy in her arms, the ears, in spite of all her efforts, silently fallag upon the face of her sleeping child. The , rain eame thundering along, and as it was ' .bout to start again the "husband came. 1 [rank; he lurched toward the platform, fell ' ipon the rail, and then his lifeless remains yere dragged to the platform. For a mo- . aent his wife stood as if paralyzed, and then ell senseless upon the gory form of her has- ! and. The wail of the fatherless boy touched i very heart, for not one who looked upon < he scene oould refrain from weeping. Had n assassin robbed the wife and child of a J lusband and lather at such a moment tne i nraged populace would have lynched him ? n the spot. But he was killed by "Authorty." He died a legal death. The butchery fas licensed. The price of blood was in the ' umseller's drawer, and he was ready for the oxt victim. And thus the murderous work oes on.?National Temperance Advocate. REAL "PERSONAL LIBERTY." Whenever there Is talk of a community oting "no license," there 4s always a great tress laid by the opponents of temperance n "personal liberty."- This phrase sounds roll, but translated into plain English it Imply means the right of a maD to get runk if he should feel so inclined. Indulgace in drink robs a man of his real "person 1 ilDerty," ana tne saioon, insieaa 01 ueing . ;s friend and upholder, Is its most deadly ' aemy. ! A NAtlON 9 DECNKARD3. The Medical Record of New York, in a scent issue, says: "The total number of runkards in this country is modestly estilated by the Quarterly Journal of Inebriety j ) be 1,600,000 persons. As there are about . 5,000,000 adults In this country, this meaDS I mt one persons out of every fifteen drinks C itoxicating liquors to excess?that is to I ly, drinks to drunkenness.?Sacred Heart i eviow. t CHIEF CAUSE OF POVERTY. 1 The bulk of the poverty in this country is { Irectly or indirectly caused by the enormous t mount expended by the people of this -joun- g y for that which is neither bread nor meat. Nation, a State, a county or a town, whose ' (habitants support more saloons than gro- 2 jry stores, but have an impoverished peo- j le. It cannot be otherwise, no matter how v le financial question is settled. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. 2 In England and Wales there were last f sar 151,316 convictions for drunkenness, as t jmpared with 159,507 in 1854. ? More men are voluntarily impoverisned in ae year by strong drink than are made poor i a lifetime by unjust and oppressive legis- t ition. ' t Indiana's liquor bill is $40,OJO,000 a year. v i silver dollars placed fiat, edge to edge, it . ould cover the entire boundary line of the :ate, including its tortuous river lines. g The Maryland Buptlst Union Association o is recommended to the churches that they I cclude from their membership those who J1 or who drink intoxicating liquors as a sverage. The meanest man that lives is the man bo is anxious a portion of his taxes should > paid by the money tbat goes into the cash r >x of the saloon keeper, instead of buying s ead and cheese for the drunkard's helpless e I fe ana"children. ^ We are progressing. It is not as fashionile as it used to be to have liquor at social r ithering3. Religion and education are be- o nning to make their influence felt along p mperance lines. s It is the duty of Government, National j id State, to interfere to suppress the mauu- , cture and sale of tbat which has proved in 1 1 its history to bo so utterly destructive of s ervthing connected with The best inatitu- j ns of our country, said Hon. Williwi E, *?? m ' - ' '? ' '&>$:,< > . * . . ' &v: | POPULAR SCIEBiC E. A foot of newly fallen,snow changes q| Into an inch of water when melted. q TI*A /?a1A??O nrtmafvoli'n n AfO * AUO V/V/?ViO jJUUQMIIIMUQ UWVJ?V?? ?-*v the blues and the greens, the red being out off first . * '' Seller has shown in Madagascar that the corals always grow oat in the direction of the strongest light. The Geysers of the Yellowstone National Bark are failing. Their force has fallen off fifty per cent in sixteen years. 4 The Dn Ponts, of Wilmington, Del., have a horseless family carriage, with a seating capacity for eight persons. The motive power is electricity. A thirty knot torpedo boat' destroyer, the Captain Orella, bnilt by the Lairds for the Chilean Govern ment, maae an average 01 au.iv Knots on her trial trip on the Clyde. Leaving oat patients that were moribund at the time the injection was made, 5791 eases of diphtheria treated in private praotioe in this country by tbe antitoxin method gave a mortality of only 8.8 per cent. ; The air tight oompartment theory of building ships was oopied from a provision of natare shown in th&oase k of the nautilus The shell of this animal has forty or fifty compartments, into which air or water may be admitted, to allow the .oconpant to gink or float as it pleases. , ,,'v :.'A The making of artificial ears seems to have reaohed soientifio perfection within the last decade.. Made of. a \ speoirflly prepared rubber, flesh colored in the rough, they are painted by hand in exact imitation of the remaining ear of the unfortunate cus- . tomer, ana as careiully "touched" and ^ marked as an artiBt's picture. The maker gets a hundred dollars apiece for them. Egyptian Onions, English imports of onions have increased from Egypt, and it is acknowledged that this country is at present the most active and aggressive competitor in the onion trade, says a writer in Chambers's Journal. Egypt hasiv been regarded by some people, as the land of pynynids and mummies only, but it has from time immemorial had . a reputation for onions. Ancient ^ Egyptians swore by the onion and re- >?< garded the plant as sacred. The inscription on the pyramid of Cheops l.ll AV-i. XI 1? V ^ J -_J 1 utuio UB bum i/uo WU.TA.UIOU UHU vuivuh 1 given (them, and from the Bible we learn that the Hebrews, when slaves under Pharaoh, enjoyed these bulbs, and that when far away they remembered "the leeks and the onions and the garlio." The trade with Egypt for onions is now so important that four lines of steamers are engaged in the traffic, bringing consignments ! from Alexander to Liverpool, Hull and / London. The Egyptian onion is a handsome and useful vegetable, and by selecting the best strains of seed the quality tends year by year to improve. The Egyptians know two varieties?the ' baali" and the ^miBkaoul"?but sapplies of the latter kind are seldom sent , abroad, as they absotb so maoh moisture from the frequently irrigated ground in whioh they are grown that they do not stand a sea voya(?^welI. The "baali" onion is the more ybpular Egyptian onion and is grown in yellow soil, which *is sparingly watered t while the bulbs are maturing, in order that the onion? may stand a lengthy sea voyage with little risk of "sprput- 1 ing." So excellent in quality are these anions that efforts are, it is said, being made in other countries to raise onions from Egyptian seed. Alcohol as Fuel 1 } ' Tn Pranftfl. Bftlcinm and iiperiments are being made with a new to the use of alcohol instead of petroleum in lamps. Aloohql burns^ vith a bluish-yellow flame which iff bardly visible, but the flame has a jreat. heat, and- it is proposed to itilize this property for the produolion of a strong light, on the principle *f incandescent gas, by using special ' ' trainers which will become incaulescent. Experiments made with one of the ~'jj ardinary incandescent burners now in. 1 166, fitted to a lamp filled with alcohol, nuoh under "proof," has given the most satisfactory results, and show ;hat the consumption of aloohol for a ^iven oandle power is only half that of petroleum, and that the air remains more pure. Of course the duty on ilcohol makes it dearer, but the pro* taction of a commercial aloohol of a mature which would prevent fraud and se tree from duty is taking place in France, and there is great probability-;hat alcohol lamps will be seen on the narket at no distant day. Buried Cities in Central Asia.. mt. vr_ : o?^ JL Lie nurwe^iau traveler, oveu ledin, has contributed to a German ournal, Globus, an interesting aclount of his journeyings in Central Isia in the district north of the Kwenuug Mountains. Rains of large towns vere discovered which had been burfad >y successive sandstorms spreading >ver a thousand years, hence very nodern from a Petrie point of view. Separate houses were unoovered of rery fragile construction, consisting >f wooden pillars, while the walls were )ut together of plaited reeds oovered rith mnd. The latter were rendered j it once impervious and suitable for lecoration by being coated with white >laster. Drawings were discovered on hese walls, and well executed, of hu? aan beiugs, horses, dogs and flowers, ,nd judging by the copies which have >een brought back, of no small artisic merit. Small figures of Buddha rere also dug up, as. well as various ruit trees, which toil a tale of thel)ycne days when this arid surface was nee made fertile by the waters of the. liver Kerija. Expert Shoplifting. A new and ingenious scheme has ecently been developed by expert hoplifters in Eastern cities. They mploy a sweet-faced child, who eners a crowded store, carrying a large iaper bag, from whioh the odor nions and other vegetables is very ircaeciaed. The chief passes her poils to the girl, who places them in he bag nnder the vegetables. By his means they have for some time acceeded in deceiving the police, and a one instance deceived a detcctive, ven when sucti a bag had been opened n suspicion, %