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^ JJL-j'yvr\' '/ti 'N CHAPTER Win?Continued. Uncas arose and again 6et the laiaj on the table. < ur_ cnntiom hpfnrfl VfH ?? & I L, WVl WIJ cmv^V?, - ? - l?ave, a few questions more; but firei sit down," eaid Graham, motioning hin to the bench. With a look of surprise the ehie! oboyed him. * "Did Fox say anything about?aboul Captain Denham?" k "He did," said Uncas, cautiously. I "What?" "I cannot recall all that he said, bul I'll tell you something wonderful that ] know." - * - ^v.i. T7-^?0> ? nat is mai, I'litas; "Captain Ealph Denham is now sleeping with the dead." "You are sure of this?" "As sure as that I see you sitting up in that bed before me," replied IJncaa Colonel Graham coughed to beep back the shout of joy that trembled on his lips, and then he pressed hie long. . white finders to his eyes, and so remained for several moments. "The news pains you," said the chief. "It surprises me. It is so sudden. Denham was so young," gasped Graham. "Death loves the young. Is that all you want to ask?" "No; there was one question more, but, perhaps, as you are weary, and il Is so late, I had bettor defer it," "I am not weary; early and late is all the 6atne to me. Ask me the queetior juvn. "It is about your sister." What of her?" "She is very beautiful." "80 I have heard white men say be? fore. But what's the question yoi would ask?" said the chief, turnmg his strong black eyes on Graham's agitated face. "Do you know of any man that she i? going to marry?" askeri the colonel, witi diVht tremor in his voice. "I do not. Why do you ask?" "I am single, and in my own land6 ] have great wealth and large estates. ] have seen none of my own countrywomen that I would care to marry, noi have I seen any other woman in anj land, though it has been my fortune tc Bee most lands under the sun. I shall lea\e your beautiful country as soon as my "mission here is ended, and if youi sister would go with me " "Stop, Colonel Graham," interruptel . the chief. "You were about to say you would make Untilla of the Montauks your wife if she would promise to gc fK vnuV" "I was." "You 6hould ask her." "Oh, of course, I shall do that." "But," continued Uncap. "I -would alvise you not to speak to Untilla oJ love or marriage." "Why should I not? I am gray, but 1 am still a iuan in my prime. My troubles are over, and I can give my time to the happiness of a wife." Uncas was about to reply; but before the first syllable passed his lips, a shrill, croaking voice called through the chink* in the logs. ~?ia, na, na: ae irououiee umj begun! you keer foh a wife? bow did you keer for de brudder dat ioved en trusted ye'.' you kilt him! kilt him! kill him! trubble never leaves de murd'rer." "Curse the hag!" cried Graham, his eyes protruding from his head, and his sharp face ashy with fear. tineas was even more excited. The lamp fell from his hand, and was extinguished on the floor, so hiding hie timidity. "I will go. I shall see you again;" this was all he could say. And the tall, strong man now as frightened as a child at an imagined bugaboo, dashed out ol the house. In the meantime Captain Fox drew the precious boxes up close to the fire, and arranging them into something like a couch, he lit a cigar, and stretched himself out on top of them. Don sat down near by, with a weary look on his shrewd Scotch face, and hiE doubled up hands under his chin. "Tired, l)on:" asked the Captain, anxious to talk to some one rather thar from any interest he had in the pooJ lad's condition. "I am, sir," replied Don. "Let me see, Don; how long have yoi < been with me?" "A year next August, 6ir," said Don, still looking at the lire, but with a hardei expression upon his young face. "Ah, Don, I fear you will never be sufficiently graterul to me for saving you. You were the only one on thai ship that did not perish." M Arirl T onmotimflfl -rxnah T VioH r*r>r lehed at the same time," said the lad, with a bitter ring in his voice. "Then I would have had no cabin boy, ehV "You saved my life to make me youi slave." "Come, come, my lad, some day you will be a captain in command of a ship like the Wanderer; the ocean -will b? your home, and every land will pay you tribute.." "If I over command a ship like yours,' replied the boy, "I hope some man-o,war will catch me and my crew and Bwing us all up to the yardarm. I'ir afraid that will be my fate if I stay with jou long." Instead of being angry at this retort, Captain Fox blew out a long pufl of smoke, and laughed long and loud. "Egad. Don, you are very hard on me, very hard, indeed; I havo no doubl but you would hang me and all m\ crew in the morning if you ha 1 youi way. Now, tell me the truth, wouldn't you?" "Yes, I would," replied the boy; bluntly. "Gad! I do like boyish candor. I was on' 6 a boy, just like you, but I had no1 the same hatred of pirates; indeed, 1 wa; in much trouble to decide whether, when I became a man, I should rob on horseback or on a ship. But you'll get used to this life after a bit. i\ow, lie down and go to sleep. Don't think oi killing me as I lie here, for I shall bo awake all night. <!ool night, lad. '' "Good nii,'ht," growled Don, and he stretched himself before the lire; and, being a very healthy boy, he was asleep In no time. The first glimmer of daylight saw the Captain and Don up and about. 15y the aid of the map Frenauld left Captain Fox was enabled to find the cavern; il was only a few yards away. After examining the placo and taking freoh bearings, and comparing them with the map. the Captain called to Don to help hiin, and together they carried th" boxes to the cave. / This done, they closed up the enhance with si^aes. Thev weie neariv i v^/jj j " : i j through their work when Uncas returned alone. Instead of beinc startled, Fox said to the chief: , "I have just concealed in this place a great deal of treasure, consisting of diamonds and other jewels " "The Montauk women prefer flowers and shells," said the chief. "So I have heard, though I have re- 1 tained a present for your sister. I now ' ask you to consider this property as left in your charge, and that of your people, by me." "We shall guard it sacredly, though my people have a superstitious dread of 1 the cave." "I wish all the white men in the world * with the exception of myself had the same feelincr. But let us co over to ' the fire; the sun i6 rising, and I am very hungry." 1 They went back to the fire, "where p Don set out the food, wine included, that had been brought from the ship. Uncas accepted the invitation to help himself, saying, "I have given orders to have food ready when we reach my house." , "That was thoughtful: I am a great : worker, but I am also a great eater," L said Fox. When the meal was over, the Captain asked if thero was any man near whom he could get to carry his bae. The chief 6aid thore was none; and , as he made no offer to help, Fox threw the burden across his own broad shoulj ders, and f-aid he was ready td start. t Don took up his own lighter load, and they went away. I On the road they halted for a few seconds while the chief, by means of i his rifle, pointed out the hill and the < vault in which Cant. Denham was I \ guarded. i ClIAI'TEH XIX. ^ RT7U0RS FROM THE GOVERNOR S OFFICE. "With the morning sun behind her, the ; "Wanderer came sailing proi:dly up the " bay, where the Sea Hawk lay at anchor; , and the Indians to the east and the , dwellers in the cozy town of Sag Harbor J 1 watched her progress with much in- . terest, though with a different feel- . ing from that with which they greeted ' her arrival when she first appeared in ' company with Captain Denham's ship, J Valentine Dayton was on shore talk- < \ ing to his cousin Lea and his betrothed, < ; when the report reached him that Cap tain Fox's ship was coming up the bay. , As a good officer, who felt implicit ' obedienco to superiors was the first 1 requisite in a sailor's character, Yalen- 1 tine was quit? wining to ao wnatever ' r Captain Fox ordered; but it must bo r confessed that, at heart, he felt the prospective duty to be anything but | pleasant, and, without being able to J account for the feeling, he silently ( blamed Ralph Denham for permitting , any other man to assume even a temporary command of the Sea Hawk. ' , The sailors growled about thi'i change among themsolves, and the older ones 6hook their heads ominously. 1 The pood people of the town, being ] 1 untrammeled by naval rules, and en' tirely ignorant of the training that gives a blind obedience to superior offi- , cers, did not hesitate to give forcible 1 expression to their feelings. ( I The Bea Hawk, if not altogether the ? property of tKe dwellers in Sag Harbor, c at least was owned by the province of j New York. Her home was In these < waters. Because she volunteered to aid the motherland, that did not make n her a queen's ship. "If one of tho provincial officers was ^ to take oommand," said Squire Condlt, J who on all occasions was the oracie of t the place, "why we'd submit, and $ay f that was all right, so long as Ralph j Denham was doing more good at head- ^ quarters, where he is now advising with * the Governor, and no man can do it ? better. But for a stranger to come in, 1 and be able to order our Sag Harl or < boys about, and say to Lieu'. Hedges, i 'Come,' and he'-1 have to come, or 'Go.' t and he'll have to go, I must oonfess it j rubs against the grain." It "And it goe.3 against all our grains, ^ Squire," said a sturdy old farmer in the n crowd gathered about Squire Condit. "And if 60 bo that George Hedges he * i don't vant to obey, and this man Fox, f who's a stranger, wants to make him, I , why, I guess there's plenty of men in ( . Suffolk that knows how to handle matchlocks or flintlocks either, and we'll drive this fellow off bag and baglrniTA in tin t,ini? if n.ier? hf> " ? w, This bold expression met with general approval, but, as a man of law, Squire Condlt pretended to frown down what * !\e at heart indorsed. * "It'll all come out rl^ht when Ralph <3 Denham comes back. Keep cool, neigh- s Oors, and depend on that," he said, as t he turned away to avoid saying any- t thing imprudent. t Valentine Dayton wa3 going to take Lea an'l Ellen on board the Sea Hawk , to spend the morning; but the uncx- ' pected appearance of the "Wanderer * caused them to change their plans. Li ! "I am sorry to disappoint myself and v you," said Valentine to the young t , ladies, "but as soon as the Wanderer r | comes to anchor. Lieutenant Hedges Q ! will want to go on board to report to Captain Fox for orders. AVe do not ' known what those orders may be; but it 6 Is best that he should find the Sea Hawk ^ ' in good shape." b , "But,,surely. Valentine." said Ellen, her pretty lace pale with anxiety, " Cap- t . tain Fox will not order your ship away ^ at once?" ! 14.Hardly, a* the Sea Hawk needs some , ! more repairing; but if the necessities of P , the service demand it, wo may have a . to leave just as we are," replied Yalen- I tine. A > The yonng officer was about to step u into the l>oat that had come for him, c [ when Lea -Irew him to one side and p i said: t "Are you quite sure. Cousin Valentine. that i'. will be right to obey this ? . man?" 3 [ "Do you mean. Lea, if it will be right c to obey Captain Fox?" 3 She answered that that was what she a t meant. |j r "It would be treason to disobey him, 0 ? and there is nut a man on the Sea Hawk t who could be guilty of that crime. Captain Dcnharu has himself written that f ( Mr. Hedges is to report to Captaiu Fox ' for orders, and it would b? disloyalty to ^ j Ralph, as a man?to Ralph, who, him- t t 6elf, could be disloyal to no one?if we v ; did not implicitly obey." "You must be right. Cousin Val; but [ something tells me, it is a something for which I can't give a reason to myself, ( that all is not right, but that a great f wrong has been done to lialph Denhaui," t said Lea, her beautiful face showing th? ^ mental anguish 6ho was suffering. . \ alentine, believing that her depres- . eion was due to the absence of her io.er, and the fact that she had not 0 heard from him directly since he left, r tried to laugh away her tears; and bi*- il liev ng he had succeeded, ho kissed the t I young ladies, as he had a perfect right t I to do. and went on board the Sea j | llawk. j He found Lieutenant Hedges in full j uniform, nervously pacing the deck, ?nd I at every turn turning his eyes up aloft, * j as if the hails were set, and ho had ? feoiue doubts about the weather. On shore, these men addressed each a olheras "Uncle George," and"Yal, my E Lad," but ouce their feet touched the 3eck of their ship, they became officers, and all their intercourse was marked by the rigid formality and punctilious etiquette that is observed on board a manof-war, as in no other place. After saluting, Lieutenant Hedges said: "Mr T)avfnn. I have ordered the trier alongside, and I am eoing on board the Wanderer to report to Captain Fox." To this Valentine responded -with a "Yes, sir." "I have ordered everything made ready for inspection," continued Lieutenant Hedges; "and as you will be in command during my absence, you will Bee that my orders are carried out promptly and properly." "I shall see to that, sir." "And I may invite Captain Fox or. board to dine, though properly it is hie. I place to invite me. so, on second consideration I shall not invite him." "I think you are right, sir," replied Valentine, conscious that his uncle was , not himself, and would not be, until tho business now on hand was over. Lieutenant Hedges, looking as if there was a great deal more he should [ like to say it he had the time, turned and went down to the boat. Valentine went to work at once, and though the habitual cheerfulness of the Sea Hawk's crew seemed to have left them for a time, they woruea witn tnen 1 accustomed energy to get the ship into J inspection condition. In a naif hour Lieutenant Hedges ' came back, looking still more nervous ] and perplexed, and the moment he got on board he hastened to the cabin and sent for the second officer. "Mr. Dayton, I cid not roport for or- | ders," said the Lieutenant, as Valentine j approached him. "May I ask the reason, sir?" "Becau e, sir, Captain Fo:s is not now in command of the Wanderer." "You surprise me," "The Wanderer, Mr. Dayrx>n, is commanded by Lieutenant Frenauld, and Captain William Fox is now, sir, atthia blessed moment, away among the Monauk Indians, whither I do not. propose to go for orders." |TO BE CONTINUEO. | I Alaskan Cariosities. Professor L. L. Dyche, of the Uni? j rereity of Kansas, returned from j Alaska on the City of Topeka, and left | last night by way of California for i ais home. Professor Dyche went to Jook's Inlet especially in search of i aatural history Bpeoimens. He as- I ;ended to the source of the Knik River with an organized expedition, which j was a BQcoess although the obstacles i 11 mi.? I to De overcome were appaauug. iud native boatmen stripped and with ropes pulled the boat up the tuibulent river. ProfeBsor Dyche obtained | specimens of a new mountain sheep, ; ;welve^immenee mooseheacls, caribou, j iea otter, birds and other small ani- j nale. On July 17 Professor Dyche j jaw eight inches of snow fall, and on j August 11 six inches foil. He saw ;hree smoking mountains, and experienced an earthquake. He found large :oal ledges, but the coal was so soft I ;hat it could be whittled*w:.th a knife. I Professor Dyche said: "The country is one-half made. It Till be a good coantry when it is inished. The glaciers are slowly loing their work; the mountains are imoking and the rivers are vomitting mt quantities of quicksand. It is a lew country. Let it alonfi, and some lay it will be a good country." Professor Dyche met Princess Dora, a famous Yakutat Princess, vealthy beyond all other Alaska Indians. She has $15,000 in gold wenties. On her right arm she wears ive bracelets, each hammered out of a fold twenty, and on her left arm she pears ten bracelets, each made from a J 110 gold piece. She ha3 hundreds of )lankets, sea otter skin?, etc., and >wnB a schooner and two sloops. She s sixty-five years old and has just obained her fifth husband, a man twenty rears old for whom she paid 500 >lanket8. The Thlingin women manage he households and hold the purse, ["he relationships are traced back hrough tfie mother'6 side-. It is, in act, almost a savage realization of jytton's "Uoming Race."?St. Louiti tlobe-Democrat. Something or a voice. The greatest voice of which there is ny record or tradition about Congress pas possessed by George G. Symes, of > Jolorado. Symes, who was a good leal of a character, finally committed uicide. He was an Ohioaa by birth, iut served in the Union Array through he war in a Wisconsin regiment, enering as a private and coming out as colonel. Most of his life after the par was spent in the West in the locky Mountain region. From 1874 le made his home in Denver, Col. He pas a lawyer bv profession and an oraor noted for his great voice. Cointared with it the bellow of "the Bull if Baehan" was 2 gentle murmur. It pas a deep, heavy bass, proceeding eemingly from cavernous depths. LsKecl one clay about the reputation lis voice had given him, ho replied: "Well, I'll tell you about it," and he words rolled out in his deepest, teaviest base. "You 6ee I was out ampaigning. I was addressing a Remblican audience at Silverton. Over t Oroville, twenty miles distant, the democrats were holdiug a meeting, ilong about nine o'clock there came ip one of the awful stormn which ocnr in that mountain country. The rind howled like a million imps. ft ?as especially bad at Oroville. The eople showed signs of alarm, and ,cted as if they wanted to break upthe aeeting and leave the ball. The haiiman, becoming anxious, rose to bsuro them. 'Ladies and gentlemen,' ie said, 'do no be alarmed. There is iRepublican meeting over atSilverton, nd George Symes is addressing it. ie has just come to that portion of lis speech where he denounces the tills Tariff bill, and the noise you leiir is the indistinct rumbling of his oice."'?Washington Post. The Needs of Indians Few. The Government has shown an extraordinary generous spirit in approbating $201)0 to buy provisions foi he Yuma Indians this season. The lesa Free Press says the magnanimity if this act will be apparent when it is emerobered that there tire 3000 Inlians or more on the Yuma reservaion. The economy of the Indians in he matter of food is proverbial, and herefore it is quite likely that 3000 oI hem can feayt comfortably on ?2000 forth of provisions until next crop lme. A Hlintl Mayor. Thfi Ab^ravon (England) Town Council lunnimously elected as Mayor Mr Floaty licbards. who is totally hliud. CURIOUS FACTS. 1? 4Via af T?rjairial o fnVtPi^ ia 1 LI bUC uvua. ui sui.iouioi m iv m mentioned l.y the name of si Ik as well known in Assyria and Babylon. A steel "chest protector ' against bullets and knife thrusts in the form of ga vest has been patented by n Texan. Of the peoplo living in Europe today, the Finny, Lapps, Hungarians and Tnrkr. do not belong to the IndoEuropean family. Charles T. Farrier, of Polk County, Minnesota, has artificial legs. He rides a bicycle, can jump fifteen feet in three jumps, and can kick a hat held eight feet above the floor. A swarm of bcee took possession of a big grocery store in Logaasport, Inch, and after driving oat the clerks and customers, ate twenty pounds of honey that was exposed for sale. A fifteen-pound gold nugget is now on exhibition in New York. It i9 said to assay $20 per ounce and is worth on this basis just $3753.60. It wac found in a placer mine in Dutoh Quiana. Floating bods of seaweed, which are often met with in mid-ocean, have been observed to reduce the height of waves, like oil thrown upon tbe water. Taking advantage of this fact a Frenchman has invented a thin cotton or silken net to answer the same purpose. James Thornburg. mentioned, in the English scientific publioationii early in this century, was one of a family of seven children, each of whom had six 6ngers on each hand! and six toes on each foot. It is stated that me motner and grandmother were similarly endowed. Nicholas Sandorsou, the blind professor at Cambridge, England, was almost preternatural ly gifted :in the sense of touoh. By this faculty alone tie cculd distinguish counterfeit from genuine metals and :noney, and could tell, by the grain, of what wood a table was made. Along Butter Creek, Oregon, has uppeared a yi.no thai, when above the ground will leave th^ root and cling to any vegetation to which it can attach itself'and throigh which it can draw nourishment. The seeci is said to have been brought there with alfalfa seed from Salt Lake. Half the school at Forest Grove, Oregon, followed the principal when ho tn fVn? n-rAA>. amnsflmflnk of the uv> VMW e-?" ??? ? populace, dashed out of the building and splashed through the muddy streets after a youngster w'ao fled from his wrath. Ho caught the boy and did not disappoint him. Two gentlemen were struggling to enter a Detroit street oar whan one stepped on the foot of the oth< r. The aggrieved person failing to receive an apology, struck the other, and a light ensued. It was fast and fnrioas, and ended only when the disoovery was made that the impolite gentleman was deaf and dumb. o T>>u>n Woll sir Til 1U JJUI1U 4ft Avnu VT VIA vi M.MM, Aboufi the ye&r 1870 two suburban epecuiationa were begun in the neighborhood of Chicago. One district was situated nine miles from the town; the other, six; but both were on the same railway, and land in eaoh was worth from one hundred to two hundred dollars an acre. The managers of one distriot laid out their plan in what was then the usual way; they made streets of prairie soil with neat open ditches on each side, and they left proper spaces for sidewalks, along which trees were planted.- They hit upon a good name, issued lithographs and advertised, with no very profitable results. The managers of the other district borrowed a large sum of money at a high rate of interest With this they underlaid the land with several miles of drainage pipe, then build macadamized roads with paved gntters, iron gratings, conorete sidewalks and broad borders frequently spreading into little greens and commons planted pioturesquely. All the natural wood and the banks of the stream which passed the place were made nnhlifl nronertv. and shelters, seats. r ? r ? x" / r bathing and boat houses were pro* vidud upon it. An artesan well was sunk, and with a steam pump water was sent to all parts of the property. Before these improvements were nearly complete the owners began selling land upon the roadu at twenty dollars the front, foot, and soon afterwards advanced the price to thirty dollars, and then gas was introduced. The price of land rose, even in the out* skirts, in two yearn, from eighty to one thousand, dollars an acre. In the twenty yenrs of their existence it is evident that the first community ha9 had to expend many timea the amount wisely iipent in vhe beginning by the other. These instances suffice to show, in a way tha'; ought to appear to the most conservative, the pecuniary importance of thorough preparation.?Mary C. Bobbins, in the Atlantic. The "Rebel Yell." Tho famous "rebel yell" is, in fact, nothing more or less thau the old time war whoop of the Cherokee Indians "the Son3 of Fire." With the possible exception of the Natchez, they we:re the most intelligent and least cruel of North American Indians. Their war cry was often heard in battle by the early settlers of Tennessee, but they were the most forgiving people of their race. After they had disappeared from Tennessee their war whoop still remained as a favorite cry of the whites. It was raised by the palriots at King's Mountain ; again at Jonesboro, when lfiOO Tennesseeana assembled to rescue John Sevier, who had been kidnaped by North Carolina, to be tried for treason against that State. Ib was a war cry at San Jacinto, at Shiloh and Chickainauga, and it came from the throats of Tenuesseean Unionists as well as secessionists. Italy's Loaniinj; Towers. Most gleaners of the wonderful consider tho leaning tower of Pisa to be something unique in architecture. This is an error, however, for there are two others in Ituly and several in other European cities. The two at Bologna are the most remarkable. One of them is 321 feet in height and leans over six and a half feet from the perpendicular, and the other is 161 feet and has "a lean" of over nine feet. Tho oldest of these two remarkable structures was built iu the year 1110. * SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LKSSON FOR FEBRUARY 14. Lesson Text: "The Prison Opened,'* Acts v.. 17-32 ?Golden Text: Acts v., aJJCommentary. 17. "Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, nud were filled with indignation," The preceding verses tell of multitudes coming to Jerusalem to be healed, and they were healed, every one. It seems that blessing came even from the shadow of Peter falling upon them. Multitudes of men and women believed and were added to the Lord, and many signs and wonders were wrought by the Lands of the apostles, but it was all the work of the risen Christ through them by His Spirit. The same Christ lives to-day, and the same HniHt in in ?varv hnlifivnr hat where are the slgnH and won lers to the glory of GodV Is it because believers do not live to Honor Christ as the apostles did? 18. "And laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison."' The high priest and the Saddocces were very religious people and professed to worship the one Jiving and trae God, yet they thus manifested their anger against these men because they honored Jesus Christ risen from the dead and because of the mighty works done in His name. The margin of verse 17 says they were filled with envy, and there are still many religious people whose strange and seemingly hateful conduct to others can be accounted for only on the ground of envy. 19. "But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors and brought them forth." When the Lord wants His people all night in prison, that is the place for th"m to be, as in chapter iv., 3. but ^hen He wants them out of prison He has angels enough to minister to them, and one angel has more power than all tho soldiers on earth, and prison doors or walls are nothing to them. 20. "Go, stand and speak in tho templo to the people all the words o! this lifq." The words of God nre Spirit aDd life ("John vi.. 3). Christ is life and apart from Him is no life (Col. iii.. 4; I John v., 12). If we have life in Christ, it is that we may pass it on to oihers by holding forth the word of life (Phil, ii., 16). If we have the bread of life and living water, it is that we may pass on the same to those who have them not. Five email loaves in the hands of Christ fed over 5000 people; He is the very same Jesus. 21. The apostles did as lhey were told and taught the people in the temple. The high Criest, with the council and senate, assemled in the morning and sent to the prison to bring the prisoners. It was evidently something very important that these men, Peter and John, should be dealt with severely,and hence the calling together of the whole senate as well as the coancil, and now that they had them safely in prison?as they supposed?was the time to do something very decided. ?. 22, 28. The prison shot safely, the keepers before the doors, but no prisoners in the prison?this is what the officers came and found ana returned ana xoia. xne ruiens were taking counsel together against the Lord and against His anointed, and the Lord was having them in derision (Ps. ii., 2, 4). 24. The hiffh priest and ohief priests doubted wherennto these things would grow, and well they might, for if lame people are made to walk and all manner of sickness healed, the prison walls and faithful guards set at naught, the rulers may well ask, What next? We know whereunto these things will grow?they will keep growing until to Him every knee shall bow. all kings fall down before Him, and all nations serve Him, and the kingdom and dominion under tbe whole heavens be given to the saints of the Most High. ' 25, 26. Hearing from some one that the prisonerfi were teaching the people in the temple, the captain and officers went and 1 *-1 ** ???* /\1 rtri/ia TVia ooma prolixin IUCU1 WUUUUl TiUlWiJ\,v, * uu power that took the apostles out of prison, and that sent the soldiers to the ground when they came to tako the Lord Jesus in Gethsemane might have arrested this captain and his officers if the Lord had thought bent, but His plan for them now seemed to be that they should quietly go with the officers. Quiet submission to ciroumstances, trusting God to arrange the circumstances, is the way of peace for the believer. I find groat help in this word, "Do as occasion serve thee, for God is with thee" (I Sam. x..7.) 27, 28. Being set before the council, the hich priest accuses them of filling Jerusalem with their doctrine and making the council guilty of the death ol Christ, and this in spite of the command of the council to stop teaching in the name of Christ. There "is no reterence to their escape from prison, perhaps because they felt compelled to acknowledge the band of God in this and uared say nothing against it, perhaps for other reasons. 29. "Then I'eter and the othor apostles answered and said. Wo ought to obey God rather than men." In the presence of the counail that put Christ to death they feared not the same treatment if such had been the will of God for them.' They had prayed not for deliverance from their enemies, but for boldness in teaching whatever the result might be (chapter iv., 29-31). They remind us of the friends of Daniel, who, with the fiery furnace before them, feaied not to honor God and defy the king. The fear of God delivers from all fear of men. 30. -'The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom he clew and banged on a tree." The end of all their conversation as well as the beginning is Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-day and forever (Heb. xiii., 7, 8). They are not afraid to insist upon the fact that the rulers af the Jews crucified Christ, and with triumph they assert that God raised Him from the dead. 31. "Him hath God exalted with His right hand to bo a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins." Humbled unto death and crucifled by his enemies, God raised Him from the dead and gave Him gtory and exalted Him to give repentance unto Israel flr9t if they would accept it, for up to thistime it looks as if Christ might have returned to give the kingdom to Israel if only they had been willing to accept Him. 8ee Acts iii., 19-21 R. V., and remember that all the believers thus far, though numbering many thousands, were all Jews. 32. "'And we are His witnesses of these things, and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey Him." See the partnership of the Holy Spirit and these in themselves, weak and unworthy vessels. See the Lord's own words in Acts 1? 8, and let us be witlingto bo His witnesses; then we may be sure that all our ways and words will be chosen for us and our work will be in ibejpresence and power of God, according to Jer. i., 7. 8.?Le son Helper. MINING DISASTERS. A Tear's Accidents in the Coal Regions of Pennsylvania. The inspectors of the eight mining districts in the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania have formulated their tables of accidents for the twelve months ending December 1, 180C, aud the statement shows a total of 1804 accidents occurring during the year, of which 497 had a fatal ending, leaving 226 widows and 571 orphan children. Compared with the sume uenod of 1895, it shows I an iucrease of 100 fatalities, thirty-six widows and fifty-six orphans. The greatest disaster of the year was that of June 28, when fifty-eight men pprisbed In the Twin Shaft, at Pittston, by the caving in of the mine. Gas explosions, falling pieces of roof, falls down shafts, premature explosions of blasts, nnd being caught under trips of cars, wore the priuoipal causes of disaster. SAW MOUNT ACONCACUA'S TOP. A Swiss Guide Scaleil the Highest Mountain in This Hemisphere 23,'~9U Feet. A despatch from Vendor,!. Argentine Republic, states that Zurbriggou, a Swiss mountain guide, who is accompanying the Fitzgerald expedition, which went to South America for the purpose of ascending Mount Aconcagua, iu the Audos, reached the sura-, mit of that mountain, a few days ago. This is a feat never before accomplished. Tho height of the mountain is 23.290 feet above the level of the sea. but according to Professor Guyot its altitude is 22,422 feot. Aconcagua is, however, the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere, and thero are only eight other moil mains in the world that exceed it in altitude. Got Over a Dollar for Wheat. A Winchester (Ky.) man has sold 2100 bushels of wheat at $1.01. j [religious reading, If Jesus came id earth again, And walked and talked, in field am street, Who would not lay his human pain Low at these heavenly feet V And leave the loom, and leave the lute, And leavo the volume on the shelf, To lollowKim. unquestioning,.mute, If'twere the Lord Himself? v ?Owen Meredith. how evangelist jones gets down to bj hearers. The historic old Faneuil hall in Bostoi which for 150 years has re-echoed from it walls the voices of the greatest and the be? men in the world, has been packed the pa? week with business men, market men an others, who have gathered to here the etii ring words of Mr. "Sam"'Jones, the gre? evangelist. Mr. Jones uses the vernaeula freely and gets down to the level of th most illiterate, but his pungent periods ar equally effective with men and women of ei ucation. Said Mr. Jones at Faneuil hall: "When I was a kid I used to sing. 'I war | to be an angel.' I've quit that. I ha rather be a generous, royal man than an angel in heaven. One great essential ( manhood is will power. You can cultival it by use. You say a fellow can destroye his will power. If a fellow can destroy he can bufld it up aguin. The chap I ac mire is the one who says 'I will.' and hasn any whistle, cowcatcher or brakes?'I wi be a Christian.' Another essential is to d< clare that 'I will not do this, that or tt other.' 4I will pray,' 'I will pay^jny debts I will not drink,' 'I will not do any wrong.' In talking to railroad men, he said "God has given every man a throttle < will power, to send him on toward the goo world and brakes to stop him when tberej danger. A man has no business to tamp* with his brake power. God pity him wb is rolling down grade to hell with an awfi momentum, enough to make the devil tren ble. and not a brake on his nature in worl ing order. I put on my brakes 25 yea] ago and stopped running down hill. Stc your drinking, brother! God bless yot young men! Nurse your brake power ? you can stop anywhere ! If you stand i the door of a saloon or any other pla< which your mother would not enter, put 'ei t TJ 4k 1 ~ mill +oOTt{c UU ; xi lucrr AD auyimug iu<u niii iniuw your name, put 'em on! You can be a honor to your mother and a blessing to Boi ton, or you can be the other thing if you wai to."' MB. MOODY OK BEGENEBATIOW. The interest in the Moody meetings at Bo ton is on the increase if possible. Unio meetings are being held all over tl city and the big Tremont Temple packed at every meeting. Said M Moody the other day on regeneratioi "Kegeneration is the ABC of God's alpb: bet. When a man has that tbe secrets of tl Bible are unlocked to him. God will tat sides with the sinner and belp him if tl man will only let him. I am no match f< Satan. I have no power of myself, but whc God puts strength in me then it is that I g power. What Adam lost was the image < God, and that is what we want restored \ us. If we are born of earthly parents v bear the image of earthly things, but if * are born of heaven we bear the image < heavenly things. No matter how weak m? are God can hold them up. No matter you have fallen repeatedly, if you let Gc Jay hold of you He will save you. Can explain the philosophy of it ? I don't Lno anything about philosophy, but I know thi I was threatened with death and I am 8 right mm." a p.1ayer for nearness to god. Almighty God, we bless thee for the li that cannot die. Thou hast clothed i with a body which we must shed ; it mui return to "the dust, but the soul whi< thou didst fashion in thine imago shall lii forever. The soul i3 blinded by the bod The body often overwhelms the spirit, bi the body is only for a moment, its coi quests cannot endure. Help us to clai our better selves, our higher manhoo< and to live in all thought and feeling th is uppermost and therefore nearest God. V have often sinned against thee with the boc when we did not mean to fin again thee with the soul. Save us, 0 C srist, fro ourselves. Save us from our atyjses. ar may we live and move and have our belt in thee. Our burden is heavy, but it is on for a day. Give us joy in these thought Deliver us from despair and all manner < humiliating fear. May we stand in the bui limity of trust and work in all the tende ness of childlike obedience. Lord, hear oi prayer and let our cry come unto the Amen. where all things are made plain. w"-** /?u ?artnn pa it o ti I1CIC, L11UU?11 WO nuia UQTVI ov Hutu, r\ have no assurance that our perplexing prol Jems will be solved : there, we have the a surance that our work will bring the d< sired solution and make all things plaii The postponements of earth will all be ove> taken, worked out to completion, and evei dark thing make clear and satisfactor; This long and painful sickness, that suddc i and distressing death, yonder trying los yonder broken plan, yonder cruel decej tion?these are to be" thoroughly uade; stood. All the black storm-clouds of lil are going to be rainbowed.and shot throug and through with transfiguring light, an made things of joy and rejoicing foreve You will know then why you failed 3nd wh you lost and why you suffered and why yo were circumscribed : for you will find a the things which pertained to you and youi in their proper places in the glorious an all-wise plnn of God.?David Gregg, D. D in *'The Heaven Life." PERPETUAL DEVELOPMENT THE TP.OE CONCE] TIOK. No <loubt the true conception of th eternal future includes the idea of porpetui development, the movement of the intelle< into new regions of truth, the ascent of th moral life to loftier heights of righteousnesi the increase of the favor of love for God an I * - II ?* * *! cViorn rtlir hlpQqpHnpq 1UI iUi muao ? *? ?* uuuiv, ???? in him .the discovery from age to age o! ne1 and glorious forms of moral and spiritm life that will attract our affection ana 1111 u with delight, the enlargement,the perpetui enlargement, of til those powers which fin their exercise in the service of God and c those whom he hns created. Rest and pre gress will doubtless be united in the perfet life.?R. W. Dale. fraxcis Mtinrnv's off-hand way. The crusade in Boston for temperance b its great apostle Francis Murphy is bein prosecuted with vigor and with good effect Mr. Murphy is always the central figure an passes around with a "Hello, Jim,'' a "Hot are yer, Tom" to some one else, and a "Go bless you," to all. Mr. Murphy knows boi to win .he hearts of men. His greetings t the small boys, some of them very tiny in deed, are affectionate, and foreach he has i handshake and a pleasant word. the secret of a restful life. Do you desire to learn the secret of a rest ful life, to learn how you can be a man o woman of (.'bristly power? You can onl; become such in so far as Christ has powe over you aud takes possession of you. Yoi are to iive a life of obedience to authority a life in which there is but one dominatinj power?the omnipotent imperium of th< Godhead.?Webb-iVploe. It is not taicnt. nor power, nor gifts that do the work of God. but it is that which liei within the power of the hum'akst; It ifl tin simple, earnest life hid witla Christ In God ?Frederick W. Robertscid, COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY. 4 Remarkable Exhibition of l>e1ic.iti Shades and Tint#. A remarkable exhibition of color-photo graphy is now open at the St. George's Gal iery, London. The inventor Is a Mr. Ivi*s who has been displaying examples of hi work before the Camera Club ana the Rova Photographic Society for several years. H secures three pairs of color records at on flash of the cam?ra, each being taken througl a color screen, the combination of tbes screens giving the whole prismatis series, i large number of photographs was displayed reproducing with stereoscopic effects all tin delicate shades and lintingin flowers, butter flies, china vaseB and other objects. TEMPERANCE. I THE BTTKSILLSR'S BOAST. , 1 Rny! What is the use of this noise in<pH nbuseV ' a Those temperance cranks can't expect ate H To quit selling gjoi just boeiuse of their din, S Wnile I've license and law to protect me. They scold, rant and prate; but they dont V hesitate ^ To take of my profits to build them 1 A poorhouse or jail, and wban did I fail To furnish the subjects that fill them? . ? 8 Tbe stories they tell of the liquors I sell, And my other ill<deedi(/ are a libel. lt For such horrid abuse they can find noes* i s cuse; ,t Though tbey claim that they oan In tbett , it Bible. N > ?<t, why should I careV Though sometimes, ' it I declare, ,r Their abusive remarks are provoking;) e While I'm the right-bower o! the party; J? -J e power \ [- I can treat tfcem as though they were Joking/ i it ?Thomas Sullivan, in the Ram's Horn. I y VHAT INTEMPEBAJCCK DOBS.' / >' 4,Thfl evil of intftmneraneo"wiid Be^. ? Thomas Kinsella, chaplain ol National MiUiL P tary Home. Leavenworth, Kan., In an ad|4 dress at Indianapolis, 'sheds its seeds like ^ the thistle, the winds carry them far off, and - I ' th<?v re9t in the loftiest branohesof thw trees I 1' of the forest; there they spout and grow,and -11 put forth their leaves and tendrils, clasping ] ie the bark of the tree, and growing downi ward as the ivory grows upward; it coils itself about the trunk, it binds tighter and f tighter; its tendrils take hold and ooil ? around the limbs, and it grows downward .4 gradually to the earth, and then, taking the is eap from the very roots of the tree, it setads >r forth a mighty stalk from the very summit, 0 It sends this rope-like stalk earthward; this 3talk takes root in turn, and the viotoriotip 'j i- vino gradually sucks the life-blood of the i- tree from its summit to its base, so that, at Inst, in its powerfnl embrace, it is held beA T iweeu neaven ana eann, puiiea uom iiq i? roots, & dead thing. So it is with the manjl >o bright young Intellects which wo all have! it known?clever, joyous and happy mindaL^ :e They take into their imaginations the seed,/lB m as it were, that passes in the wind, borne on V h the voice oi their friends, and they hear of 1 >n the delights of the saloon, and they bear of | 3- the gladsomeness of the glass, and they it picture the pleasure of the flowing bowl. ' This is the seed that settles in the minds of ^ the young, and It so works in that mind that, in order to be bright and joyful, it ciaims and requires the influence of liquor. j This disease, like the vine I spoke of, grow?. I n downward over the whole man. A3 an oy?^ j ie opener he requires a class; as asource of rest y I ** and sleep be requires h glass'; as a pleasure J r> to bis palate he requirestne noisonous glass; S 1: as on influence of joy to bis heart he re- 1 ^ quires a class; as a help to his feeble stomach w ie he requires a glass?notice the vine crawling " :e ?as a help toliis tottorlng limbs he naeds a ! ,e class. From the sole of his/eet to thrarown )r of his bead, he is now bound In fetters, and :n tbat thing which he ohorished as a means of eJ help is sapping the very moral life of: his 3i being; thas bound, seeing himself helpless*. , t0 in its grasp, his mind tends forth the great; ?e stalk of despair, and it takes a firmer hold ] rt-' on his frame and sends its root deeper into of bis very soul, and draws him oat of bis' ? place in society, out of his home, away from *j his wife and cnildren, and lift* him up be>d fore angels and men a spectacle of pity." w LAST TZAR'S LIQCOB LICSXIM. \. i If the number of licensee issued by the, J Government during the past year furnishes A any indication, there has been a marked da^B ;iense in the sale of intoxicating. llqrf^HH since the drat day of January, 1896. fe For the twelve months ending Docem^^^H Je 31, 1896, there were 225,091 licenses issne<^HH| 9t the Government, Jnoladlng 2t!4,294 to I, liquor dealers; 4648 to wholesale liquor dSB ,0 ers; 1855 to rectifiers; 12,064 to retail n^^^g y dealers, and 1866 to brewers. While ^ year's busing shows that a vast omonn^^H a_ money bos been expended in strong dflj m the total number of licenses for the year (i 3400 short of 1896. WH aj This decrease may be due in a mensur^^^H ,-e moral 'improvement, but tbe dxplonot^B^H iv which will be most generally accepted Is th^HR st the sale of liquor has been affected by adversW^ m conditions. . ld The largest number of salobn licenses ? I issued to any district in the United States ( was issues to the flrst district of Illinois. ? which includes the city of Chicago, thenum* her of licenses being 18,719. Next aomes the k 1 flrst district of California, with 9360, and r third the fourteenfh district of New York, ? with 9052. So far as the sale of whisky in the various 8t ates of tbe Union i9 concerned, New York maintains her pre-eminence in this as well-as in other respects.?Atlanta Constitution. re bum is a FLAOUZ. b" Alcoholism is the plague of many North-.} ?* era olimatrg, and we are not without partial B" I r\oHn? 4n ifo riira inflnan<fafi Tt fihAll)A Tlftf | ?e allowed to escape our vigilant attention, r* for It Is the ruin or health, of society and of 7 a nation. The fates point to the gloomy picture of ancient times, but the experience in of the past does not seem to have succeeded in rooting out this terrible evil. which 1s the !>" harbinger and entertainer of the greatest ' f" ! part of all crime and vice. Alcoholism has . 3 : for ltsshare more tban half the oocnpants of h > our prisons, hospitals and lunotie asylums. d i Under such conditions as these, and with r- i such dreadful results, we pay too dearlytbe y money that enters the coffers of the State or u ! municipality under the title of tax or Ileansei. 11 It is simply speculating on vice, on ruin of ra wealth, he iltn and talents, andsuohspecula* " lion is in no wise justifiable and should not t be tolerated under any consideration. By every means in our power this plague should be opposed and If possible exterminated. It is more deadly than contagious diseases ?- and is more difficult to deal' with. The problem is one for serious study and pains[e inking measures.?Orphan's Bouquet ALCOHOL AND SUICIDE. I ie At the recent International Congress ot I s, Psychology, Or. Muller gave an Interesting I d hittoricnl sketch of the etiology of self-mur- I s der, and bv means of an elaborate series of I v statistics, traced to alcohol the primary/. I il cause of its marked increase of late years. | I is The author estimates tho number of suloides I I il in Europe at 50,000 a year, thur showing \ J d that the evil is inrreasins at a greater rat^jfl if tban the population. The ' most favortte^H r- montn lor suiciaes is juuo, iu? imm, jmh ;t cember; early morning is chosen in prefer- M ence to the night, while the mechanic class 1 furnishes the largest number of subjects and' VI the peasant the least. Dr. Muller considers brandy the most pernicious form of alcohol. > and traces to its influence the blunting of 1 J those weapons which in the struggle for life , ? aro the most necessary to sustain the conj flict.?Westminister Gazette. *[ BEVERAGES I* XXOLAKD. y In England the consumption of sherry o and port has decreased Irom 11,000,000 gallons a year to 4,700,000, while tea shows on a increase of 6,000.000 pounds during the same period, and light wines an increase of 2,000,000. TEMPERANCt 1K8TRCCTION COMPULSORY. The teaching of temperance is now comr pulsory in the public schools ol the province y of Ontario. According to tho Minister of r Education, no fewer than 150,000 pupil9 .are ii studying this question in tne public schools ; of the province, and 13,000 in the separate ? schools, and the public school inspector for 0 Toronto states that more than 20,000 pupils jn the public sohooIs of the city receive instruction intemperance. ; TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. ! We see talented children and mothers 3 clothed in rags weeping over lost homes, blighted prospects and ruiued "live? because of the liquor traffic. It take.* some time to age whisky, but it does not take long to a^f the man who drinks it. 8 When a mnn spends his wagos for something that is killing him, he is working for the undertaker. A man who has dug a pit must hang i, warning lantern. The saloon keeper hanHH| s out his to light the way into the pit. ' John Swinton, the well-known friend of 0 labor, says; "Tne use of strong drink has ? always operated against labor in its conflicts I I1 againsttheunfairencroachmentsof capital." ? A mind cloudo l by tho lutnes of strong H drink is physically incapable of sustained I ; thought, and, therefore, of persistent study f! '* necessary for success in litert ry work. "He j: who drink beer, thinks bsor," was the 3aylng ij of an eminent scholar. gl