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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