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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.
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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.
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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. ,
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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
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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: