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w?m I !fc\ I CHAPTER XT. STRANGE RUMOR3 FROM NEW TORS. ji obedience to Capt. Denham's last ordeis, as well as In anticipation of being soon ordered to sea, Lieutenant ! Hedges, now in command, set all the crew to work, painting anil tarring and , greasing, so that the Sea Hawk looked like a huge floating hive, about which a great number of strange bees were 1 working with restless industry. Squire Condit was not a 6eaman; he eouldn't tell the difference between the martingale and pennant halyards, but, ' as Ralph Denham's adopted father, he felt that a ereat responsibility had been imposed on him by that youag gentleman's absence. He rowed ou?or, J rather,, had himself rowed, for he went , "oatching crabs," as falling backward , is called, whenever he got an oar in his ( hands?several times a day; and he 1 would climb up *o the deck, and stand with his feet* apart and one eye shut. , and his face upturned to tho men aloft, in a way that was highly amusing. Every man on board knew and Uked the squire, and all dofl'ed their caps to ( him when they came near; and he, In ( ^oharming ignorance of naval forms, j would shake hands with them, call them , by their Christian names, and present Us snuff-box to their paint-stained and j grimy fingers. As the prospective father-in-law of Beoond Lieutenant Valentine Dayton, ] the squire felt it incumbent on him to ] encourage that young gentleman to greater industry. I Valentine, as waa his right, made it a point to visit Ellen' every evening, and at such times the squire would exclaim, ( with the surprise he assumed when saf-nnnr who had been iUVUi^ Uli V4V4 vwrv., ? brought before him for the twentieth i time, for reprimand or fine. I "What! you here, Valentine?" "Here again, squire," would be the i cheery reply. j "And you are quite sure everything is j shipshape and quite snug, sir, aboard < \ the Sea Hawk?" < "Yes, squire, everything right as a j , ?* trivet * i "Sure you've forgot nothing that j ' ought to be attended to?" ] "Quite sure, squiro." * i "Because if you have, you know. It Is 1 not too late to go aboard, sir, and fix up. Though Ralph Den?I mean Captain < Denham Is off to New York, I know he 1 Is forever thinking about the ship, and how she's " j "Oh, she's well, 3quire, and I'll bet s she's thinking about him as hard as she < nan " "Why, you young rascal, I am speak- i i Jng about the ship." * ] ' "And I'm speaking about Cousin 1 ! Lea." * '< I "Oh, indeed;" and then the Squire ' 'i would so off and draw his wife to one j % side, arid chuckle, as he whispered to Lher: ( "My dear. I fear our future son-in- ' law is addicted to levity, and inclined < to make light of life, which, as the dominie tells us, is a solemn thing, and ] not at all to be laughed at." i Squire Condit knew Valentine Day- 1 ton. ever since that young gentleman, without any volition of his own, appeared in the village church for baptism. He knew Valentine Dayton's father and 1 mother before they were married, and he often boasted that he could have cut i the former out if Aud he would i give many reasons, the principal ones i being that he was a warm friend of the Benlor Dayton, and was himself in love v with another girl at the time. 1 If Doctor Hedges had known Ralph i Denham's father and mother he would 1 not have dreamt of refusing him his 1 daughter; on tho contrary, he would have placed thei? bands together and repeated something like the thieadbare formula, "Bless you my children." If he had known Ralph Denham's lULLLtJi tuiu UUkUUI, oca U lUOJ nv*v cot so good a stock as his own?and he ] flattered himself, as every other man of good standing in Sag Harbor did, that his own family was just a "little" bit i hotter than any ono else's?why, he would have offered no objections. As a ican who firmly believed the i day* of miracles had passed for some centuries, and he knew nothing about the doctrine of "spontaneous generation," and wouldn't have believed it if he had?ho was fully aware that Halph Denham. like every other raan of his acqurintance, had a father and a mother. As tho tree is known by its fruit, he might have reasoned that Kalph was o scion of good stock; but the mischiel about prejudice is that it does not rea> son. Bo tho more he thought It over, and ^ mnrn ho ri!Ar.:usi>d ihe matter with good Airs. -Hedges, who was not at nil averse to Ralph, the more eettled bocame his conviction that Loa should nor marry the youn? Captain. With this determination firmly fixed In hla mind it follows, as nightr does the day. that, from warmly liking Ealpb Denham, Doctor Hedges gradually grew to dislike him, and with positive natures dislike is very noar to hate. The Doctor went about with his eyes open, and during Captain Fox's stay the attention to, and the evideht preference of that gentleman for his daughter, aid noi escapo his notice, and in his heart ho favoryd the suit of the Wanderer's_cnptain. no ai<T not know Fox's father, bul Fox was a man of wealth, a captain Id tho regular navy, and, without doubt, oonnei-ted with or a. member of one oi the great aristocratic families of England, In all of whose veins?it was at this time claimed?the biood of royalty flowed. "Yot: are my only child, Lea," said the Doctor one day ^ his daughter, when the question uppermost in both their mind3 was being discussed. "I lire only for you, and it !s due that you should respect my judgment and obey mo." "Have 1 ever disobeyed you, my father?" asked Lea, tjniotly?s.? quietly and firmly, indeed, that the Doc'or would have been better pleased had she shown some excitement. "Not until of late," stammered the A Doctor. P "And wherein has been tho disooedltf , enco of late?" "You persist in loviDg, against my will, Kalph Denham, about whose origin I know nothing." "And about which I care nothing, with . all due respect for you. And again, let me say, that we do not love or cease to love in obe ilence to any one's will, not 'even our own. I would be false to myself and a hynocrite to you if I prorniafitLnotito love.this man." I "Then you give no thought to his ancestor^" "No; if they were all living since the flood, I am sure there is not one of them I could love as I do Ralph, or would care to marry." "You are talking nonsense," said the Doctor, getting angry as men usually do when t:iey persist in a debate in which they are being worsted. "Did you not tell me tha' you would not marry Ralph Denham without my consent.'" "I did, father?" "Then why do you keep on loving him?" "Because, as I told you before, I could oot help it if I would, and would not if I eould." "This is rank disobedience!" cried the Doctor, rising. "I certainly do not intend it as such." ponllpH I,?a still calm and firm, addinc. "I never have, and I promise now never I to introduce the subject so disagreeable I to you." "Hear me. Lea." Dr. Hedges sat down and pulled his high-back chair closer to his daughter. "I am listening, father." "Next to the duty I owe my Creator, j-ou are the one object in life for which I live " "You forget my mother." "Oh." replied the Doctor, with much adroitness, "she and I are one?one and the same person, as Squire Condit would say. If I could see you well married and settled before I passed iwav, death would be robbed of all his terrors." "I believe what you say." "Now, I havo a husband in my mind; he is rich, he must be of noble famiiy, md I am sure he loves you." Dr. Hedges stopped and looked at his laughter, confident that 6he, with the curiosity which is said to distinguish ior co-v TrmiM n.ak him who the man was. But she wenton with her sewing, ind seemed as indifferent as if she had neard an allusion to the man In the moon. The Doctor was perplexed, and he made up his mind to have her manifest more interest in the man of his choice. "Do you not know who the gentleman Is?" be asked. *? do not." "Don't you want to know?" more anjrily. "Why should I? "Because all the chances are that he will be your husband;" with great veaemenoe. "My own consent is essential to my marriage But. dear father, why plague yourself with troubles that exst only in your imagination. Let us wait. I will be dutiful, loving and ' obedient to you. There is no danger of my leaving you so long as you and mother need me. There, and there, md there." And she came up behind aim, knd, throwing her white arms fibout his neck, kissed his knotted brow with every closing word, till the wrinkles melted and he went out, not juite sure tbat he had not been making something of a fool of himself. Five days since Nalph Denhara sailed iway in the Wanderer, and a reply should have come from him in three lays. "There has been a fair wind all the 1 .ime, eiuier iur cuuiiug ui gum?*, oa?v^ Lieut. Hedges, addressing hie nephew, Valentine Dayton. "There can be no ioubt but the captain got up to New i'ork the night of the day ho left here, jret there i3 no woid from him." "It isn't like Ralph to write at once," ;aid Valentine, thoughtfully, adding: 'But depend upon it, he has a good ex;use." "No, there can be no excuse for neglected duty, unless it be In case of jtrong sickness," 6aid the bluff lieutenant. "But the captain may be sick." "Nodanger of that." "What makes you think so, Uncle George." "Because if he was to get sick he'd send a post through with all speed to . i. 11 . ^ i-n 4-U* ten me omcer itut uj cvmuiauu ui tuc Bhip." "But suppo3ing he was unconscious?" "Then some dne else would do it for bim. Capt. Ralph Denham is too big a tnan to be hid away in New York City, to which the Go.'nor ordered him, and bo sick, and us not told of it ar. once." "Why, Uncle George, you talk as if you blamed the Captain." "Do I, now?" "You certainly do." "Then I belie my intentions. The man as blamed Cap'n Ralph in my comp'ny would find himself keel-hauled in 110 time," said Lieutenant Hedges, bringing his big brown palm down heavily on his knco. "But. I'll tell you, Val, I aint been easy .since the lad left; he's In my thoughts oy cay, and at nignt I dream ana aream, ana seep on ureamins 'bout him." "You are nervous," suggested Valentino. "Nervous!" exclaimed Mr. Hedges, who had an idea that nervousness was a variety of sickness brought on by fear. "I don't brag, Val, but there'e them as has known me, man and boy, for Ave and forty years, and even them that didn't like mo never dared to say I was nervous." "You misunderstand me, Uncle George," said Valentine, and he proceeded to explain the more modem meaning of the word, after which the Lieutenant was much mollified. "Yes, lad. I'm unstrung, that is the downright truth, and I'd give all my share of the prize money made on the last cruise if I saw the Captain coming up that path." Mr. Hedg.:s pointed to the path leading from the veranda on which tliey were sitting before 8(juire Condit's door, to the road that went down to the town, and out to the laud of the Montauks. At that Instant the gate swung open, and the messenger or post-rider, Thrasher by name, who had brought the order, on which Kalph Denham left, appeared with hie garments travelstainei, and his saddle bags over hit shoulder. CHAPTER XVI. INCLINATION VEREOS DPTT. On first meeting this man, who proved himself weak and faithless to his trust in the presence of gold, Fox offered to take him to New York on tho Wanderer; but as the pirate's plans became matured he changed his mind, as he found other uses lor the man. Had Thrasher gone to sea on the Wanderer, as he was more than willing to do, ho would have been tied up in a shotted base and dropped overboard the first chance, lor Fox believed in destroying his useless tools. Capiain Fox found in Thrasher just the man to aid him in one of the grandest schemes ho had yet plotted, which was no less thau to get possession of th.-cruiser, Sea Hawk, and by (he easiest means to rid himself of such of the officers and crew as did not enlist under h s piratical standard. Already thy reader is familiar with the identity of Captain F x with the traitor and pirate, Capiain William Kldd of the Advonlure Galley. There was scarcely one species of villainy in which ho was not prolicient, arid where he failed, he found a most willing coadjutor in Guy Frenauld. A good specimen of Kalph Denham's i han<iwriting was obtained. . uj_ that | officer's rep~y. accepting fox's Invitation to sail in the Wanderer to New York. Frenauld was an adept in the imitation of handwriting, so that it became an easy matter to forge a letter from Captain Denham. buch a letter was forged and given to Thrasher?with due instructions?just before the Wanderer sailed. T*1 ??a?? f/* iiAXKCT Aiif fVtAaa 4r? JL at? UUtiOi ?t?j iv tan; vuv ^ structions. Thrasher was Riven a large sura of money, with promise of a fabulous amount if he succeeded. He was to prevent, by death as a preference, any other post-rider from getting through the forest to the town of Sag Harbor. He was free to associate any other man of like charaoter with him, but he was advised against it if he could get on alone. At a certain date he was to appear in Sag Harbor, with a letter from Captain Denham to Lieutenant Hedges, and this date had now come. Mr. Hedges and Valentine Dayton, as well as Stjuire Condit, who had just come out with his wife and Ellen, recognized the post-runner as he came up the walk. "Hello, my man, where do you come from?" asked Mr. Hedges, in hia anxiety, going out to meet the courier. "From New York," was the reply, given in the voice of one much exhausted by the journey. "Have you a letter for me?" "You aj;e Lieutenant Hedges?" "I am." "Then, sir, I have a letter for you from Captain Ralph Denham, of the cruiser bea Hawk." Thrasher came up on the veranda and took the saddle-bags from his shoulder, and Ellen got him a chair, and Mrs. Condit went off for a glass of currant wine. Thrasner had not been thirty miles from the town; during his absence he had a companion of like kidney watching the road for genuine post-riders. bo anxious was Mr. Hedges for news from his well-beloved Captain that he was about to 6toop down and help Thrasher to open the pouch, when the latter handed him the letter. Ah, there could be no doubt about it9 genuineness; there was the dear fellow's handwriting, and the impress of the seal on the was was all right; it bore the design of the provincial impress. Mr. Hedges realized how anxious the people about him were to hear from the Captain, but he was too good an officer to read aloud an official communication, the contents of which he was not familiar with. As he read the letter, all eyes, Thrasher's included, were on his face, which reflected his emotions as a limpid lake does the foliage overhanging its banks. "Is Ralph well?" asked the Squire, unable to stand the uncertainty. "He appears to be," said Mr. Hedges, his eyes still on the papery "Any bad news?" trom Ellen. *1 can't exactly say." "Is it unusual?" asked Mrs. Condit "Unusual? Well, yes; upon my soul, it is the most unusual and altogether the most extraordinary thin* that I ever came up with in the flve-and-forty years of my life, mostiy spent at sea where surprises ain't uncommon. I'll tell you about it after a bit," said Mr. Hedges, with a glance in the direction of Thrasher, to Indicate that he was the obstacle that prevented his telling them all about it at once. [TO BB COS TIN UgD. 1 Yet the Captain 1 old Him. An Englishman, touring through America, went on hoard a steamer late one night, and on the following morning, after walking on dcck and look ing around mm, ne tteppau up 10 me captain and asked: "I beg pardou, but would you kindly teli me what lake I'm on?" "The Lake Huron," replied the captain, and turned away. The Englishman looked puzzled for a moment, and then, following the captain, began again: "I beg your pardon, you said?" "It's the Luke Huron," roared tho captain, thinking the man was deaf. "Yes, I know," persisted the passenger, "but what's the name of the lake I'm on?" "The Lake Huron!" shouted the captain, incensed at what he thought gross studidity, and be turned away to relieve himself by railing at one of the hands. The Englishman looked more puzzled than ever. "The lake you're on is tho lake you'r on. Of course it is! The lake I'm on can't help being the lake I'm on. What impertinence! Lot me look in my guide book ; perhaps that will: tell me." It did tell him; and then the numoi of tne situation suaaeniy uawueu upon him.?Judge. Made a Pet of a Snail. Since snail raising has been taken op scientifically in Sau Francisco it will be quite in order for the French restaurants out there to otier ";Escargots raised in our own snailery." The San Francisco conchologist hafi hundreds of snaile of different varieties in the cage be has constructed for them. Some of these snails were cannibals and ate each other. So cannibalistic were they that they even xte theii own species, but now the scientist has no cannibals living among tb^e six hundred slow-ciawling creatures. One variety is ever three inches at its full lengh. The snail expert paid fifty cents for the first of these and it lived to be two or three years old. This snail was the pareut of sixty-two others. Any oue who has watched snails slowly crawling arouud connect them with anything but agreeablo sensations, and would hardly be found handling them from choice. But the enthusiasm of the San Francisco scientist has overcome any such repugnance, and some snails in hia collection, whioh are more aotive and stronger than others, crawl - fearlessly over his hand and fingers. One variety not only crawls about on anyone's hand, but has a very noticeable little bite of its own, like a pin prick.? New York World. A flew Material Tor Moors. According to a French paper, the name of "papyrolith" has been given to a novelty in the way of u flooring material recently invented by Mr. Otto Kraner, of Chemnitz. The artiole is a special preparation of paper pulp in the form of u dry powder. This, when mixed with water, may be spread like mortar overslonc, cement, or wood, where it dries quickly ami may bo smoothly plaued; besides which, it may be tinted almost any color, so as to adapt it for parqueting with variegated borders, or for panels and mosaics. Among the advantages claimed by the inventor aro freedom from crevioes, non-conductivity of heat, elasticity, and remarkable durability. RELIGIOUS HEA DING MB. MOODY ON THE SECOND CCMIJiO OF CHRIS ' This is the first subject I ha ve brougl op here that the church is divided upo Some believe thut Christ is coming befo the millennium; others are just as sure th he will come after the thousand years i peace. I don't bring up the subject to st up controversy, but to lead you to study i Many are afraid to touch the subject, bi there is no portion of Scripture that Gc does not war,t us to study if w study it in - the right spirit. I believe thi he is coming this side of the mi lennium; men for whom I have tl uignesu rt-speci uenovo iuov uq ? wu?n. afterwards. Don't take what J say or wh; any other man says about it, bat study u the subject for yourselves. Compare Scri] ture with Scripture. I used to think that tl world was going to grow so good that would draw Christ right down from heave but I don't think so now. I believe th world is c oming to an end in a crash. 'Do you know, there is more said in tl Bible about the return of our Lord tht there is about baptism / And every churi; admits that baptism is of great importanc Paul speaks of bap ism thirteen time There aro 260 chapters in the New Testame; and 318 passages that refer to Christ's secoi coming. Take that fifteenth chapter of Corinthie.ns.ndcaitted to be the most famot chapter that Paul ever wrote, the high-wati mark of Paul's writings ! The reason why Is read and preached from more tba anything else Paul ever said is becauu it brings ont the fact that Christ coming back again. The most precioi chapter in the whole Bible Is Jot xiv. because it tell sus not only th Christ has gone away to prepare a place f us, but a.so that he will come again. ? have the same authority that Christ is con ing back that we have that he was comir the first t ime. "The reason so many people are afraid - this subject is because it has suffered i much at the hands of its friends, far mo than from the opposition,of its enemies. T< many bare attempted to set theday andho when Christ shall come, and that he himse tells us 'no man knows, not even the ange which are in heaven.' On the contrary, 1 will come suddenly and unexpectedly, is best for us not to know the time of 1 coming, or the time of our own death, whi< last would certainly unfit us for lif We are not to watch for death, but we ti distinctly commanded to watch for his r turn. I believe that Christ never spoke i his return that he did not say, "Watcl watch !" But that is not all. Every mi has hiw work to do?not some work, but h work. There is not another man living th can do my work, and if I don't do it, it w never be done. See that you are doing yoi work while you watch for his coming. T] first epistle that Paul ever wrote was Fir Thessalonions. If the Lord did not want i to read these things and study them up,th would not have been put on record for us Mr. Moody then referred to Paul's la message, found in Second Timothy, callic special attention to the third chapter,askii if the men there described could be four I in New York at the present day, and makii I many pointed applications. Among othi ' 1 ? ? I.? 1/1 Ua Knnllv Infrt {.uiiiKC't lie; oaiu uo cvuiu umi?hj qv ?m>v small town without being ask ed for bis pb tograph and a history of his life,all of whit tendered to make a man 'pufl'ed up." I said he could give a history of his life in very few words : '*1 was born of the flej In 1837; I was born of the Spirtt In 1856. can't tell when the flesh is going to die, ai the spirit is going to live for ever." ABSOLUTE LOYALTY. In our .opinion every way the safest ai most wholesome injunction to be strong laid upon the consciences of ;i)l professii Christians is the duty of absolute loyalty the Lord up to present light, combined wii an eager seeking for all possible furth light. If this were steaaily pressed, tl very best results, it seems to us.must folloi Nothing less than this will Gocl accept as fl ting service. Nothing mora can t required as the condition of cor pletest approval. It is an intelligib and every way reasonable demand wbi< no one can object to as overstrained. It fully within the compass oi every sou Whosoever shrinks back from it must 1 ?-?* Inea It extremely practical in that it points direct at complete obedience and can be readi tested in the <laily#life. Let it be ilrmly, v lovingly, insisted on as the only proper po: tion for even* member of the church. SIUDY THE BIBI.E. In order to find out what God's will is, t we have to do is to study His Word. The is no guide-book equal to it it; this world, believe the reason so many of God's dei people are stumbling into pitfalls, ai bringing trouble upon themselves ai others, is because they don't sta< the Word of God. The best thing have done here in New York is to g people to study ttye Bible. Take the Bib text-book, and" go through the Bible fro Genesis to Revelation, reading all that has to say upon any given subject?obed ence, the work of the Holy Spirit, the retu of our Lord, walking with God?and y< will have a very clear idea of what God will is. And nothing will taico tne enur< out of the world quicker than the consta study of His Word. If you want to knc the mind of God. you can know it; but y< must study.?D. L. Moody. A THAYJER. 0 God of nations, bless thou our be!ov< lamb. Establish it in righteousness and an honorable patriotism. Make us mindf of the heritage left us by godly men wl sought freedom to worship thee on i shores. Guide the rjilers of this peopl Sanctify their deliberations to the good the nation and to the good of all peoples wl are Interested in our conduct. Bring t oppression, cruelty and wrongdoing to speedy end. Put en end to the same th self, thou Mighty pne. so that there may I no renewal of iniquity. Hend out thy lig and thy truth through all the earth. Fo give our enemies and turn their hear toward peace and love. Heal the sic Gather the lambs in thine arms. Fill up 01 broken prayer with thiue own knowledge our needs, "for Christ's sake. Amen. LIVE IN HEAVEN. We are not to ask now nearly we may eo form to the world in its pleasures and cu toms. and give the fag:ends to God fro a sense of duty and necessity, but how c< we delight our souls in him and his servit There are many Christians who seem to Ii upon earth and now and then pay du calls in heaven. But the true privilege the Christian is to live in heaven and pi certain duty calls on earth when God li poses the necessity.?Webb-Peploe. It is (?ood for us in the midst of lives i incoa-istent, so dwarfed, so conventional ours to l>ear in mind how much greater ai better others have been, how dauntless good, how magnificently victorious over vi und sin. Their high examples teach us ho we may rise above our nothingness ; ho litt e we are when we live the 3eHlsh life the world : how great we may be if we li as the sons of God.?F. W. Farrar. Blessed is h'- who, throwing himself in all interests that interest men and worn* and into those peculiar interests that b ' long to his calling, keeps his heart and li j ever open to the voice and t he life of God. Bishop Lawrence. In this is the excellency of man. that ho made capable of a communion with li Maker and, because capable of it, is unsati fled without it: the soul being cut out that largeness, cannot be content with les PAYS A BET OF 10,000 KIS3Z5. Michigan Woman Loses a Pleasant Cai imigii Waiter. Miss Carrie Osier, of Marshall CJount Michigan, is at preseut fulfilling n. rath pleasant campaign wager with a you ig ina Miss Osier pinned her faith to Bryan in tl recent election, aui so coniMe.it was s that the Nebraska man would win that s bet 10,000 kisses with her lover on the i suit. The couple were malting excellent pro reas toward the payment ol! the wager, wli a dispute arose over alloged inaccuracies the tally aud a recount is now being take , SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR T: JANUARY 17. it n. r? Lesson Text: "A Multitude Convert ed," Acts if., 32-47?Golden ir Text: Acts 11., 39?Comt mentary. id e 32. "This Jesus hath God raised up, at vrhereof we all are witnesses." The man who 11- bud with oaths and curses so cowardly deie nied Him is the one who Is chosen by the 'g Spirit to bo His mouthpiece to this multitude, at Using filled with the Spirit takes away all ip thought of self and all fear of man. He first E> quotes from Joel ii., 28-32. and says here Is a ie fulfillment of the words of that prophet. He It then speaks of Jesus of Nazareth and the n, wonders wrought by God through Him, and 13 openly charges them with His death. He then quotes from the words of David in Ps. ie jivi. concerning H's resurreotion and conin tinues in the words of this first verse of our sh lesson. e. 33. Before Ho died He said that He was s. going back to the Father who had sent Him. at and that He would send down from heaven id the Holy Spirit, whom they now saw and 1. heard in tnese disciples (John xvi., 5-8). is Here, then, was the evidence that Jesus of Br Nazareth was really the one He professed to it b*, and not an impostor or blasphemer, in Here was the evidence that He whom they 3e crucified was now alive from the dead and is actually in heaven. us 34, 35. David did not rise from the dead, in He aid not speak of his own resurreotion in at Ps. xvi., but of Him of whom he said in Ps. or ex., 1, "The Lord said unto my Lord. Sit Je> thou on Mv rleht tand until I make thy foes a- tby footstool.". David, as to his spirit, is ig certainly in glory, but his body still sleeps in the dust of the earth. of 30. Peter, therefore, by the Spirit, insists 30 that the very same Jesua whom they orucire fled God has raised from the dead and taken 30 to His own right hand, tnus making him ur Lord and Christ and declaring Him to be the slf long promised Son of David to sit on David's lis throne, and the Son of Abraham in whom all tie the Dromises to the fathers are to be falIt filled. lis 37. The Spirit, by His words through >h Peter, tool^ hold of their hearts, convinced e. them of their sin and led them to ory out, re "Men and brethren, what shall we do?" e- There was no urging on the part of Peter of that they should come forward tothepenii! Cent bench, or raise their hands for prayer, in or sign a card declaring their intention to lis lead a new life, however helpful theso methat ods may sometimes be. ill 38. When Jesus was on one occasion asked ar "What shall we do?" His answer was, "Belie lieve on Him whom God hath sent" (John Bt v*i., 28, 29). Peter says, by the same Spirit, us "Repent and be baptized." which is another 0y way of saying, "Believe. To believe that /' Jesus was their Messiah would be a oomplete st change of mind or repentanoeon their part, ,g and to be baptized In His name would be the jg outward confession that they had received 1(i Him. To receive Him would secure the forgiveness of all their sins (John 1., 12; I John er U-. 12). a 39. The promise is to all who will come that they shall In no wise be cast out (John :h vi., 37). There were some illustrations of iinnanhniiu h?inc saved, as in Gen. vii.. 1: a xvlii., 19; xix., 12; Joshua il., 18. He calls jjj nil who hear and bids them come without j money and without, price. The God who l(j sought out and restored Adam rtnd Eve, who sent angels to rescue Lot and his family, who pleaded so earnestly with backsliding Israel (Jer. iit, 13, 14), is our God and the same unchangeable Jehovah. | 1(1 40. Perhaps some of the "many other jy words" He used might be found in Isa. i., 18; xliii., 25; iv., 3. 4: Ezek. xxxvi., 26, for those t0 are the Spirit's own words to sinners. Peter th did not think to save the generation or race or of Jews, but He did expect, like Paul, to save some of them (I Cor. lx., 22). i,. 41. Receiving His word, they received Him ti and thus beoame children of God (John i., )e 12; vi., 03; xvii., 8; Jos. i., 21). Being bapa. tlzed, they confessed Him and had the assurie ance that He would confess them before the ,jj Futher (Math, x., 32). But think of 3000 "jg doing so! Wodld not some evangelists be ,1 tempted to make a demonstration over that? jg Whoever heard of such a result from one serjd mon? This was the Lord's doing and must iv have been marvelous in their eyes. ^ 42, "They continued steadfastly,"?that is, they believed firmly, for there Is no other way to be established. Compare II Chron. xx., 20, with lsu. vii., 9. Tills verse seems to say that they were, instructed. They talked with each other ot tceso things, especially of Him. They commemorated His tjj death. They were muoh In prayer. How rg sorry they would bo that they had not rej ceived Him sooner! How they would long for His return, and with what zeal they 1(j would testify of Him! 1(j 43. The wonders and signs wrought by the jv apostles would doubtless be on the line of t Mark xvi., 17-20, and being such as He Himt self wrought when He was on earth would I add to their testimony that He was still alive, m though invisible, and had all power in jt heaven and on earth. It was the Lord worki? ing with them and confirming the word with j ~ signs following (Mark xvi., 20). 44. One great family bound together by i." His love to them, and their love to Him and to each other, having a great desire to ' t please Him and that others might receive nt -? oil _ mm IOO. J.nay uuuuuocs irauottu iuqi .?.? ' jj Ho had was theirs and thus were drawn to share all thoy had with each other. The Spirit controlled all, and It was a foretaste of heaven upon the earth. 45. Earthly possessions lost their attraction: they were no use except as they could ?d use them for Him by spending them unon in His who were in need. The Spirit of Him "1 who though He was rich, yet for our sakes 10 became poor, had taken hold of thorn, and ts they counted nothing so preolous as His love, e. and the privilege of showing some love to f>f Him. The first gave their own selves to ao the Lord (II Cor. vlif., 5), and then to each dl other by the will of God. The same spirit a to-dav would fill the treasuries of the misy sion boards and put many workers in the be field. ht 46. With one accord, with gladness and r- singleness of heart. This described (heir ts daily life of service unto Him whom they k. had received as Saviour and coming King, ur It is the third time we have met the phrase of "With one accord." See i., 14; ii., 1. 47. Preising God is a good way to draw people unto Him, and thus they will be added to the church. In chapters v., 14; ii., 24, we read of people being aaded to the Lord, and n- that is the only real addition that will stand, is- Thus they are truly added to the church hnH\r r?f flhriaf PflnnlA mav ha lU >TUIUU IO IUU WWUJ V? ??wr.w , ?ln added to the membership of a church withe> out being added to the Lord, but if they beVe come a part of Christ by faith in Him they tv nre then a part of the church, and it matters 0*f little what denomination they belong to. iV The Lord fill us with His Spirit to 9erve Him Q". with gladness and singleness of heart?Lesson Helper. GERMS IN IMPORTED HAIR. 90 ^ r- inn Sine Convict Attackml With n Trou* ble Peculiar to Animils. ," ly ce Dr. R. T. Irvine, tho prison physician at ,w Sing Sing, N. Y., has a rare en**) under lW treatment in tho prison hospital. It is that of of maligna, and tho patient is Jolm Ctillcve ton, aged twenty-oight, of Flatbush, Long Island. The attack is a common ono in Soutt America among cattle. Culletoa worko I it t0 the curled hair industry in the prison. Too Jn Imir iisod comes from South Amorifl i. Ab.i'tl 0. twn weeks agj he had a pimp o on his neck fe an l rubbed it. At the timo lie must have had _ some of tbe germs under his nail, gathore.l while handling tho curled hair. T!i? man is now piralyswd on his oaiirt leftside. The attack is generally ratal, but is tho ilo.-tor thinks his patient will pull lis tlinugh. This doctor says tho diseaso <??? s- n >t ho spread from man to man, but oulj to from animal to man. Only a do:vn of Fitch is. cases have over been reported ia Now York City. E.ioUb for the Ciiml. Thoro are 29,000 blind peoplo In tho 'Greater New York," and for their benefit a ,u. *?lind man, Richard B. Ferry, has started a library of books for the blind, printed in raised points representing letters. Tiio > library starts off w.th 187 volumes. Mr. er ferry becamo blind threH years ago and " found that thoro were no book*, or few for ?? >uoh as he. he ho -y. Hop Industry Reviving. Around Dallas, Oregon, the hop industry >g. Is said to be reviving. There seems to bo a en (fouoral desire among hop-growers to operiu ate all the yards they cau get hold of the su Joining sonson. TEMPERANCE. A TRUMPET CALL. When song springs from the vln? And chants the praise of wine, The evil seeds In such smooth words and tersa With not a hint of ourse To soul and home and purse. Will grow bad deeds. A legion cups are thine, But each, or coarse, or fine, Will taint the breath; They tempt souls to their fall, A lie lurks in them all? ' Sweet first, at last as gall, The end is death. A pledge we sigu with Joy. Up, every girl and boy. To fight the drink. 7 A?. ? V J Li 1 OJOk Uttl'U ULiU UUU II12) piacu, And then from God seek grace To set through life the face Against the drink. Would we our country save We must be true and brave And steadfast stand. ' Have faith in Goa and pray: Work, vote, and haste the day, That from the demon's sway Shall free our land. ?Rev. A. G. Lawson, in the Temperance Ad? voeate. WHI8KY AND CHIME. In a recent issue of the North American Review was an arttole by the Hon. *J. 0. Parker (since deceased), who for twenty-five years was Judge of the Federal Court for the Indian Territory aud the western district of Arkansas. DurlDg this period nearly a thousand men stood before Judge Parker charged with murder. He sent more criminals to tho gallows and jails than any other judges In America. "When we go to faots," said the Judge, ' we find that daring the last six years there have been 43,902 homicides in the United States, an average of 7317 per year. In the same time there have been 723 legal executions and 1118 lynchings. These startling figures show that crime is rapidly increasing instead of diminishing. In the last year 10,500 persons were killed, or at the rate of 875 per month, whereas In 1890 there were only 4290. or less than half as manv as in 1895. 1 his bloody record shows a fearful Increase of the crime which destroys human life." . Asked as to the part whisky had played in this awful carnival of blood, Judge Parker replied: "At least three-fourths of (hehomlotdes committed in this country are attributable, directly or indirectly, to the use of intoxicants. The question is not a new one to me. It has been forced upon my attention almost continually since I have been upon the bench. I think the same ratio of whisky homicides would hold good in this court The number that were influenced Indirectly is hard to estimate, and it is more than probable that in every case of homicide whisky has played its part, either on the side of the criminal or of the victims. To my positive knowledge whisky was the direct cause of twenty-flve out of twenty-six murders committed in one locality during the past twenty-one years, the parties to the quarrels having been drinking at the time or immediately before the tragedies occurred. The remaining one was committed by a young boy, and I am not positive now but that either himself or the man he murdered was under the influence of liquor at thn time. It is really difficult to recall a case in which whisky did not figure one way or another, and the exsamples are prominent in which murderers were excited immediately to the commission of their crime by becoming intoxicated. YES OK NO. We take from Our Parish Calendar, ol Lawrence, Mass., the following excellent presentation of an important question: Which do you think is for the best interests of the community? Don't allow yourself, in considering this question, to be prejudiced against any class of people in making up your mind?ministers, politicians or business men. The questions tor each voter to weigh conscientiously before casting his vote are these: Is the granting of licenses in this city for the moral good of the community and for the general good of the city? Is it an advantage to have saloons open in fifty different places in the city where men may congregate every evening ana arinK, and in general debauch themselves to that extent that their wives and children suffer in consequence? Is it to the advantage of the city that, all day long, women may have convenient places in whioh to purchase that which degrades them and makes them unfit?for the duties of wife, {bother, sister or daughter? Is it to the advantage of the city to grant, for any consideration of money, this franchise? Is it right to develop the weakness of the weak? Are thq evils flowing from the use of intoxicating liquors lessened by legalizing the saloon? This is one of the moral political questions in which you are bound to' let your conscience speak, a wife's coMPiAnrr. A majority of the mothers complain of the neglect and brutality of their husbands, caused by excessive drinking habits,and say tbey are hungry and almost shelterless, not because they are poor through illness, or be cause 01 1HCJC 0I worn, uui ucutuao ma iucu spend their wages at saloons. One woman, aged about thirty-five,told a story more than half a century long in a few words: "I married ;i man wbo was good to me as lone as I was young and nice lookiDg. My mother did the same thing with the same result, and her mother met the same fate nearly sixty years ago, and I suppose this baby will go and get a drinking husband if the sanitarium succeeds in saving her poor little life. If my husband had treated us right. I wouldn't have to oome here with my baby nor would I have to depend on the matron giving me car tickets in order to get home and get tack to-morrow. I wish the rumholes of the city were sunk at the bottom of the lake." ,TT J *? ? *V* J r? 1- aI fhof nrtrf /*? t Q YT Ultl UU JUU wiiiua \jl wik v* ?* ivw?u, and what about the value an. citizens of the descendants of such a line??Sacred Heart Review. WHAT THE LinuOB TRAFFIC DOES. Sixty million d ?..-a are annually expend d in this country for the apprehension and punishment of criminals, made so by the liquor traffic; and 40,0l'0 criminals are supported in the prison houses of the country at the public expense. Add to this all other expenses of government caused by the liquor traffic, such as the large amounts necessary to provide for the insane and the pauper classes that have been made such by intemperance, and you will discover that the amount annually expeuded by government in consequence of this traffic is enormous. Take the traffic away, and you remove the cause of this expense. The revenue from a sober people will then be amply sufficient fot purposes of government.?Rev. J. W. Roberts, of Atlanta, Ga. DANGERS OF DBINK. This is the testimouy of Police Commissioner Andrew D. Parker, of New York: "My individual testimony is infinitesimal as compared with the testimony of generations of public observers, of statesmen, of statisticians, of scientific and religious teachers and thinkers that there is no crime producing agency that anywhere approximates' the liquor traffio in its dreadful efficacy. lam not a Prohibitionist, nor a Puritan, nor a member of a church, but no man with eyes in bis head and wilh the least particle of heart or conscience can fail to realize the danger and handicap that intemperance is to our Anglo-Saxon civilization, especially when it dots its work on our nervous American organizations." ONE TOWN'S PCOaiBITtON RECORD. Prohibition has prevailed for twolve years in Dalton, Ga., a town of 4500 inhabitants. During this time its property has increased in value ninety per cent.; its school attendance sixty per cent.; Jts terms of court, both civil and criminal, have beeu reduced one, half; its policeforce thesame, and its county poorhouse is almost tenantless. TEMPERANCE SEWS AND NOTES. No man who is intoxicated, or whose breath is even tainted with strong drink, is allowed to take his post on a train on 'the Grand Truuk Railway. B'rom this it is inferred that the engineer blows his breath in the face of the inspector befo<"J fcfl is allowed to enter the cab. * ' ' FATAL LANDSLIDE IN IRELAND. Nine Live* Lost and Much ^hmife Don* In County Kerry* A landslide haa occurred near Rathmore, County Kerry, Ireland, doing great damage to property and causing the loss of at least :;i " ? ?-- * *-11? <? 1L.1 nine uvea, neavy rains nav# ibuou m ium part of Ireland lately, with the result that some places that are generally dry now resemble vast morasses. Near Bathmore there is an eminence abont a thousand feet high, knOwn as Boy Hill, and it was here that the landslide occurred. The rains percolating through the ground gradually loosened a huge mass of earth, and oa Sunday night, apparently without the slightest warning, a large part of the surface of the hill began to slide toward the valley. The house of Mr. Donnelly, steward of Lord Eenmare, one of whose seats, Killarney House, is at KlHarney, was engulfed in the mass of earth and debris and all its occupants, Mr. Donnelly, his wife and seven children', were killed. All the cattle, pigs and horses on the plaoe were also buried, and there Is now a scene of utter desolation where on Sunday stood the aeat dwelling and outbuildings of Mr. Donnelly. The movement of the landslide was to the southwest in the direction of the Blver Flesk, into which a large portion of the earth, etc.. slipped, blocking it up. The current of the river was employed in running dynamos, / which furnished electric light for the Kerry Lunatic Asylum and some buildings in Klllarney. The blocking of thb river, of course,, stopped the current and rendemijLthe dynar j mnn tflmnnmrilv noAlnan o ONE OF THE AZORES DELUGED. ' i< Death and Destruction Canted by th? Bursting of a Wateripont., . t- -[.fl The Portuguese Consulate in Boston has received a petition from the Island of St. Mfchael in the Azores, signed by the Portu- v guese Governor and nineteen other of the principal citizens, asking aid for the sufferers cy the bursting of a giant waterspout over the oity of Pevoaoao. The petition says Vi that there is much suffering for food, cloth- 3 ing and shelter, and gives some particulars % of the calamity, than which, it say8, non? . have been more devastating in the history of the island. Tons of water poured down upon the city, which was of about 25,000 inhabitants, mounting above the roofs of the houses, ripping up the streets and carrying destruction everywhere in its path. The torrent rushed down the slopes to the sea, tearing a wide '{' channel through nine miles of country, and *' carrying with tt the homes of thousands of ' people. The flood also destroyed the to w? ? of Ribena Quente, of 3000 population, and several outlying parishes. All along th? coast the fishermen Jost their boats, and the , shore was littered with the bodies of those . who perished In the floods. , ' FATHER AND SON SHOT DOWN. rteT Tried to KlU a Town Marshal Wh? Wm Qalck and Game. At Helenwood, Tenn., La wis Pemberton, & saloon keener, appeared on the streets Irunk with his Winchester rifle and began flring. Town Marshal Frank Hngette attempted to arra-st him. .whereupon James Pemberton, father of Lewis, interfered. Tho younger Pemberton attempted to shoot the marshal!, bat was too slow, and received a ballet from the officer's revolver which killed him Instantly. The father fired at the marjhal, the nail taking effect in Hugette's neok tad inflicting a flesh wound. The officer jhot at the old man, hitting him twice in the * jhest and once in the bowels. They cHnched, and the ofllcer then fired twice more, killing his assailant i ??^ Killed by Her Husband'* Train* ' ' t Mrs. Ella Eager, whose dead body was found, horribly mangled, on the Shore Line in Fair Haven, Conn., was killed by the train of which her husband, Fred Eager, was engineer. The couple had had a series of dls8utes and had been separated for some time. n the night of her death the woman called at the Union Station to see her husband. and It la believed she went immediately to the spot where the body wa9 found and threw herself beneath the wheels of her husband's engine. .. Coban Mediation. , ' Madrid was startled by an inspired editorial in the Spanish Government's chief organ, admitting that American interference In the Cuban question is logical and counselling the avoiding of a conflict while Spain can do 00 with honor. Special advices from Washington state that tbe Spanish Legation has / received a despatch from the Spanish Premier in whioh propositions are made V f looking: to the mediation or the caoon difficulties. . A White Ghost Seen the President. White Ghost, the Indian ohief who is In Washington with a delegation of his' fellow tribesmen, asking for $230,00J interest on alleged deferred payments for land, saw tho Great Fatner a few mornings ago. . Indian Commissioner Browning introdiibed the chief to the President White Ghost did not atay long enough to make a speech, but was exceedingly pleased to shake hands with Mr. Cleveland. Sangalljr Sentenced for Life. The Spanish tribunal, before which Julio Sanguily, the naturalized American cltizsn, eharced with conspiracy against the Spanish Government was tried and. found guilty, held a public sitting at Havana, Cuba, when the sentence Imposed 'V by the Court upon the prisoner was read. The sentence of the court is that Sanguily be Imprisoned for life. Whole Family Found Dead. _ A party of hunters discovered the badly deoomposed bodies of Charles Bectler and ; his wife and three children in their home, | aear Hewitt, Minn., a few days ago. The hunters immediately reported the matter to friends living near there, but it is "lot I known whether it was a case of foul play or of freezing. McKinley Favor* a Monetary Conference. Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, said at Canton, Ohio, after a conforeaoe with Major ? McKinley, that the President-elect approved V of tne bill designed to bring about an international monetary conference on the subject of bimetallism. Sentenced to 103 Years in Prison. Will Robinson, colored, killed his sweetheart in a church in Pike County, Missouri,, and also stole a horse. He was taken to the State prison under sentence for 102 years? ninety-nine years for murder and three years for horse stealing. Plague's Ravages in India. The bubonic plague at Bombay, India, is increasing. There have been 2094 cases and 1494 deaths from that cause up to date. The exodus from tho city continues, and the ^ newspapers threaten the natives with martial law unless they conform with the sanitary regulations. Aged Couple I'erialied. The explosion of a lamp in a grocery store in Johnston, R. I., set tire to tlio building in which the store was located, and an .aged couple, Gregor Kreichbauru and Nettie Kruichbaum, living in a tenement over the store, lest their lives. Venezuelan Question Settled. Tho State Department, Washington, announced that the Venezuela boundary dls_ putewas settled so far as the United States js concerned, the arbitration agreement having been accepted by the Venezuelan Government. Men and Children Drowned. A fishing smack, belonging to Malaga, has be<in wrecked, drowning twelvj men and several children. A Poor Sardine Season in Maine. The product ot the recent sardine seasoa on the Maine coast is two-thirds less tliao: