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BV.JtUWU\, klVUCJOW VU v. ? W8 two hundred pages. There, also, is an ebony casket containing deadly poisons of a hundred kinds. Your doom is sealed." 8 "This man can scarce live ten minutes," F ?aid- the doctor. "If you obtain a statement from him, it must be at once." "I can only say that in all matters pertaining to me," said the almost dying man, **Sellars has spoken the truth. I whs satisfied that Pearl had that money. She required me to remove the cashier and the banker's son. I thought to remove one and let the law remove the other. I do not regret my failure. I am only sorry for the boy. He?he is my son. The 6hot "was fatal. I forgive you, boy. Come, come!" ,A11 glanced at Earl. He sat shackled in his chair, jabbering like an idiot. "His mind has completely broken down," said the physician. "He is a mental wreck." "Perhaps," said the dying man, "it is better so. Good-bye, Pearl. I so wronged you, but you have had your revenge, s even though you swing from the gallows Ha, ha! The gallows!" These were the last words of Juan Za[' / yola. A few gasps and he had ceased tc tff ' breathe. R "So you all think that for enactfhg mj -role in the drama of life and death, 1 C should die on the gallows? Ha, ha! Little f you kriow Pearl Almegro. I should nevI er hare bad another name. May a thou f 'Band curses rest on the very corpse of thai wretch. You told the tr?th once, Mr 8ellars. My nature became changed fron the moment I ascertained that I had beer deceived. Why should I say more? Dicl v Newberry you have not mentioned. He jk at least, I did not murder. I left him ?n<l he blew out his brains. He was oJ small loss to the world. What you sur xnise in regard to Andrew's death, yot may surmise. You know, nothing. I tool good care that his body should quickly b< : embalmed. Ha, ha! Embalming fluit JB sometimes a great couKruicutc. "Merciful God!" exclaimed the bank er. "And I loved this woman?woulc have made her my wife!" fe-'i "In regard to the taking o?F of Thalu Kellogg," continued the widow, paying n< attention to the banker's words, "I onlj gave her more freely of the remedy pre l:' scribed by her learned attendant, Dr Hewit, here. If I must hang for that i' bang him, too." "God have mercy!" exclaimed the doc m tor. "What troubles you, doctor? Youi ? knees are quaking under you. You ar< not the first physician who has prescrib ed that which led his patient to th? grave.", . "Oh, woman, woman!" "I know?thy name is frailty. Well now we come to Janette's illness. Whai you know, you know. Perhaps I had con clnded that there were too many memberi < of my brother-in-law's family. .Especially 2LS X was expecting iu uctuiut; uia n 11c For years I have dreamed of acquiring great wealth." i "Oh, God!" groaned the banker. "Anc on the first of September I would have lec this woman to the altar." "How soon love fades and withers intc ' nothingness. Oh, but this other matter, Olr. Sellars is correct?the money is in th? trunk. Zayola did my bidding, but be would noi nave receiveu one ooiiar or It 1 He would have been as he is now, only a body would have been found in the park? a. partly filled bottle of wine-^-and death < enough in it to have materially lessened < the number of park policemen. I nevei cared specially for Earl. I thought he would be a convenience some day, and educated him accordingly. He knew nc will but mine, and I think I had more feel- < ?n<r fur him than anvone else. He has committed no crime nside from exchang' ing those packages. That I managed. Tc 1 be sure, he killed his father, but it was in my defense. I think I am sorry for Earl. I trust he will not regain his reason." "A most remarkuble woman," observed the detective. "And one, Mr. Seilars, you may now bring to the gallows, as soon as is con fisteut vjith your inclination," said th? 1 -widow, arising to her feet. 1 There was a quiet movement of her lef. < arm. 1 Spllnrs snrane forward, but too late. ~ v She cast a phial that had contained prus -sic acid at his feet, and with the words 44I have escaped you, Mr. Sellers," and t derisive laugh, fell to the floor. She was quickly borne into the adjoin tag room and laid upon the couch. "There is no hope here!" exclaimed thf physician. "Prussic acid! The conterwt of that phial would have killed fifty men. i Uonvuisions are seizing ner aireaay. rne pupils of her eyes are contracting?her teeth set " *0 God!" wailed the banker. "ThaC this unfortunate woman should ever have invaded my house! Death and destruction followed in her wake. Thank God, toy daughters are far from this awful cene." "Father! Father!" . "Yes, tny son?my hoy! Oh, my boy!" "Come to the library father!" Unresistingly the banker accompanied his son. Five minutes later Dr. Hewit appeared ?t. the door. It is over," he said. "She spoke but aiter yuu lert tne room. The words ;riie uttered Mere these: | . ** 'Paying the penalty.' n CHAPTER. XXII. Leaving the physician with his father, Robert again ascended the stairs, where Tie found Sellars standing with folded arms, gazing down at the still, dead features of Elinor Kellogg. "Thus ends the career of the most wonderful woman in the nnnals of crime, thai dn a long and varied experience I have as yet eeme in contact with," observed the detective as the young man joined him "The denouement iu this case has been tragic indeed." vva.. . * ".Marvelous man!" exclaimed Robert "But for you. other members of my father's household would flow be slumbering in the grave." "A terrible blow -to your father this must have been. You left him " "Conversing with Dr. Hewit. He is jrreatly agitated and nearly broken down. But where is Earl?" "Seated where you left him. ,He alone of this trio may be entitled to some sympathy. He implicitly obeyed the behests of the woman he believed to be his mother. Bring him to the bedside, and we car judge if any spark of reason yet remains." Robert led the teller unresistingly forward to the bedside. nf uiereiv vriizea at the dead form be fore him with a vacant stare. "How did you ascertain, Mr. Sellars, all about these mysteries in connection with ?with that man and woman?" "Oh, as I stated, through letters, newspaper clippings and photographs. Here they are. This one of Zayola I found reversed in the widow's album. It was taken many years ago in Richmond, as were these two of Elinor Ii.ellogg, then Almegro. You will notice that in one case she is dressed in the paraphernalia of the circus ring. Oh, it was an easy matter." "You hardly brought that package from Richmond ?" "No; while seated at supper at the hotel on the night I left for Richmond, Zayola entered the dining room. I ascertained that he was stopping there and was registered under the name of 'Revelle.' I ascertained the number of his room, and visited it immediately on arriving in the city this morning. In his trunk 1 found that package. From that circumstance, coupled with others, I drew my deductions. I also found there the false mustache and other means of disguise?the suit he wore when first entering the bank, a drab suit, and others, skeleton keys?nearly as good an outfit as I carry. There were also burglar's implements. Oh, Zayola deserved his fate." "He did, indeed." "Now we will inspect the madam's trunk. Bring Earl along lest he wander from the room. "Here are packages of letters from which, undoubtedly, you will be enabled to learn more of the widow's past. This package contains worthless bills?wildcat money?and from it were procured the bills which made up the package Earl substituted for this one, which contains the money the cashier indorsed and for which the collector receipted. Here is the book on poisons, and here the ebony casket containing them." "Marvelous!" "The patrol wagon has arrived. The officers are ascending the stairs." They bore to the morgue the body of Jusm Znvola. That evening the two inquests were held, and the following day the two bodies were consigned to the grave. Earl, a few days later, was an inmate of an asylum. When Mr. Sellars visted the offices of the express company he bore two packages, and the banker accompanied him. The detective laid before the president of Ihe company the packages. "For the apprehension of the party, or parties, who assaulted and robbed your collector of a certain package, and return of the contents of that package," he said, "you contract to pay a reward of ten thousand dollars." "Certainly; and we will do so. "Your collector was twice robbed within ten minutes." "Oh, that is utterly impossible!" exclaimed the express official. "He had but one package and was robbed but once." "In the alley he was robbed of the contents of this package," said the detective. "Examine it." The official did so. "Oh, no," he said presently. "Elsworth is too old a collector and too well posted to receipt for wildcat money. It cannot be." "Yet those are the bills he carried from the bank," Sellars said. "The identical bills." "What utter folly. Not only would our collector not receipt for such trash, but Banker Kellogg does not deal in wildcat currency. We could not think? "One moment, please. These are not the bills told over by Mr. Terry, the cashier of the bank. Nor are they the bills the collector supposed he was receipting for. A package was made up in his presence, he, with the cashier checking down the banks of issue. It was laid on the table before Elsworth, who was writing his receipt. He was robbed?robbed first, then and there?robbed by the teller of the bank, wno excnangeo a similar package made up of this wildcat money, for the one that lay before his eyes. This package contains the twenty thousand dollars made up by the cashier and of which you have a schedule of the banks of issue. Every dollar is at par." ' Of all the strange tales I ever heard," exclaimed the president, "this is most marvelous!" "Zayola, who assaulted and robbed your r>nll?/itnr in the nllpv hns <inswf?rpfl for his crime. He is dead." "What, the desperado shot down in your residence, Mr. Kellogg? The one who was in the act of robbing that unfortunate woman?" "The same," said the banker. "Earl, the teller, is confined at the station," said Sello.rs. "He is hopelessly insane and will be so adjudged by a court of inquiry. His future will probably be spent in an insane asylum." "For heaven's sake, where did you obtain clows leading to a solution of these mysteries, Mr. Sellnrs?" "By not waiting for them to turn up." "By Jove! You have fairly won the reward." "It is a question," said the banker, "if you should pay it, as an olficial of my bank secured the original package. He doubtless had been watching and prepariag for an opportunity 01 xne kiuu 101 months. I feel that I should " "Oh, well, we contracted to pay that reward?we will pay it. If all I hear il true, you are overburdened with misfop tunes. I sympathize with you, believ* me. I also congratulate you. Mr. Sellars, I will hand this package to our cashieJ and have a check made out on the Greal Western Bank payable to your order, lot ten thousand dollars." "But " "Do not say a word, Mr. Kellogg. A? one of our heaviest stock owners, a fail share of the payment will fall on you, and only for the more important mactei that brought Mr. Sellars here in your interest, the mystery would never have leei unraveled." "Well, if you look at it in that way, 1 must submit." Five minutes later the banker and detective left the office, Sellars bearing with him the company's check. Arrived at the bank, Mr. i%.eiiogg etuu to his son, who wns at the cashier's window: "Robert, have you made oat the check 1 spoke to you of?" . "Yes, father," replied t^e acting cash> ier. "Send the book to my office by the por< ter. I will sign it. Come, Mr. Sellers." . The two men wer^seated in th^ ibaiik: ' , ' % er's sanctum wJien tlie porter entered and handed Mr. Kellogg the check book. A moment later he had signed and torn from the book a check which he handed the detective. "I can never repay you, my friend," he said with no little agitation, "for all that you have done for nie and mine. I can " A T*? mnwIftroCQ 1 never iorgei. x>ui juu wc uwui...?~ of my brother, my wife, and almost of a loved daughter, would soon have become my wife. God grant that you and yours 1 mny have happiness, and that your days may be long in the land. This little check is, I assure you, but a slight token of my regard and appreciation for your services." "Why, Mr. Kellogg," said Sellars, not! ing that the check handed him was for i five thousand dollars, "I hardly feel that I am entitled to this sum from you. You did not even engage my services." "Cl- k *!?/? T nnnpofiilfp CU iliUUU IUC Uiv/11 uw * them." I "The fact is," observed the detective, , "I feared to acquaint you with certain movements I desired to make, or even that I entertained suspicions that I did. i You would have believed them without foundation, and I might have had more difficulty in making my investigations. , Dr. Strong and I felt that you had best be kept in icnorance of my presence in i Chicago until I liad brought the case to a culminating point." 1 "I think you acted wisely. Nothing but i the most convincing proof could have caused me to doubt the integrity of that I woman. Poor Andrew!" That evening the banker and his son I accompanied Mr. Sellars to the depot, and he returned to the sunny Siuth, bearing with him their heartfelt gratitude and the '-? -.1 .1 -i-ii-? Eileen lUUUSUUU UUUUig jjc uau au iteii earned. On the evening of the first of September, the banker's residence was aglow with light, and very happy looked the fair [ Laura, as, leaning on the arm of Law- | t fence Terry, she advanced to the east end of the parlor, where stood a waiting cler1 gyman. i Lawrence, though yet rather pale, had entirely recovered from his wound, and happiness beamed from his eyes. Janette, nearly as sprightly as ever, api peared on the left of the bridal couple, and if one could judge from indications, the sprite held captive the heart of Dr. Strong's son, Arthur, who accompanied her. The fair charmer standing by Robert's sida is Grace, the sister of the bridegroom, and Julia, the housemaid, as she stands in the door with Aunt Cindy, is just remarking: "I 'clare to de Lawd, I jes specs dat will be de nex' couple what steps off de carpet." "Sure nuff, chile," says her mammy. "A blin' man kin see how the win' am drift in'." Amos Kellogg, his wife, daughter and son are present, as, also, are Doctors Strong and Hewit. "I much regret, Amos," the banker says, "that you were unable to bring Mr. Sellars." "He was much disappointed, brother, but he was called to Charleston very suddenly and felt that lie must go." The ceremony performed, all followed the newly wedded couple to the wedding feast. After the return of the bride and groom from their wedding trip, Lawrence resumed his position in the bank, and to Robert fell the duties formerly performed by. Earl. .. Mr. Kellogg felt more and more, as time passed on, that he could never become reconciled to pass the remainder of his years where there were constantly so many reminders of the hideous past. The result was that the following April he wound up the affairs of the bank, closI ed its doors and removed to an enterprising city on the Pacific slope, where he again engaged in the banking business. Lawrence! Terry, with his bride, his mother and sister, accompanied him, and at the time this record closes the sister has been Mrs. Robert Kellogg for many years. Mr. Kellogg is now quite an elderly man, and has retired from active service, leaving the management of the second institution of the kind he had founded to Robert and Lawrence. Ofie 01 xne je.iding physicians in the city is Arthur Strong, formerly of North Carolina, and he and Janette reside with the banker, whose greatest pleasure consists in corraling the youngsters of his daughters and daughter-in-law, semi-occasionally, for an afternoon's frolic. There are seven children in all, and sometimes before the afternoons session has closed, the gentleman, whose liair is now much streaked with gray, almost concludes that there are forty. Langdon, Robert's eldest boy, his father states, is almost too old for a childish frolic, but his grandfather says: "Xo, no, we could never get through the day without Lang." \T?. Colin PC >mo cnvurnl tlmps visitor! the family, where he is always a welcome guest. He gazes with pride on the features of his young namesake, on such occasions, and his mind goes back to scenes in his younger days. He recalls the terrible tragedy enacted i in the Dearborn street mansion in the i years of long ago, and perhaps in fancy I hears again the last words of one who wrought much woe: "Paying the penalty." v. (The end.) * PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Sol Smith Russell says the acto?3 who influenced him most were John E. Owens, William Warren and Joe Jefferson. Frank Hunter Potter, a nephew of the Episcopal bishop of New York, is j a grand opera tenor whose stage name j is Sig. Fillipe. "Mr. Watts, R. A.," says the London Academy, "has undertaken a statue of the late Lord Tennyson. It will be of life size or even larger." King Humbert has just conferred the title of duke of Apulia upon the infant j son of the duke and duchess of Aosta, i who was born the other day. Rear Admiral Walker, retired, as every one knows, has for many years rejoiced in the possession of an extraordinarily fine growth of whiskers. It is now currently reported that he Intends to have them cut off. Emperor William is having made for 1 his friend, the sultan, a faithful imitation of the historic walking stick of Frederick the Great. It is to be surmounted with a knot of massive gold j , and to be studded with diamonds. TV./* onravc nf Iw " caVS th<? Hart- I A lie WA * /) ? v?.? I ford Courant, "that lay on the coffin of Dr. Henry L. Wayland at the funeral in Philadelphia on Nov. 9 were from a vine which the doctor's father, President Francis Wayland, brought from Walter Scott's Abbotsford many years | , ago and planted under his study win- I dows in Providence. R. I. tg * ,. i 1 t sugar is nob only most welcome to tne palate, bat that, on account of its power to nourish, it is almost the most valuable thing which one can i eat. There is scarcely any other equally important feeder of muscle | power. The laborer can do nothing p better than keep a few lumps of sugar a is his pocket. The Africans in sugar plantations renew and quicken their ? weary bodies by sucking the sugar cane. Sugar is a fine restorative for ^ soldiers. A Dutch army surgeon as- ' serts that during an expedition in j Sumatra lie found that tne oeat means i to maintain the soldiers in vigor and freshness, not only during the march, j but during the fight, was a generous allowance of sugar. Each man was I served with a handful at a time. The * Swiss chamois hunters bear similar j testimony to its marvelous power of sustenance, and of recuperation of the ~ fatigue. The German writer gives an account of successful experiments made with sugar as food for athletes by several j| of the Dutch rowing clubs, by pedes- s trians, by cyclists and others whose * bodily powers need "a rapid, portable t| and innocent stimulant."* Sugar is d ond mnrA into nsA in E uiviv HUM Holland in the course of "training" *. for contests, and it is as good for ^ beasts as it is for men. The poor s hardly realize as yet, or only realize e unconsciously, what a treasure they ? possess in cheap sugar. Its value in p fever has been emphasized by Hupe- a laud and others. That -which is sup- s posed to injure the teeth in the con- ? sumption of candy is not the sugar, i but the so-called "fruit-acids" which F are introduced to flavor the sugar. * Africans who devour sugar in im- v mense quantities, have the best teeth I in the world. . * o J a CURIOUS FACTS. -V 1 . e The poor classes in the Philippines robe themselves in one yard of cloth. ^ When a Tartar wants to invite a man 1 to eat or drink with him he takes him ,i by the ear. ? Swords are said to have been made tl from iron by the Chinese nearly two ^ thousand years B. C. ji During the greater part of the last 11 century the death rate in London was ? about fifty per thousand each year. The average number of horses killed in Spanish bull fights every year exceeds 5000, while from 1000 to 1200 e bulls are sacrificed. J' A decided novelty in the way of a newspaper enterprise is announced 8 from Lapland. The first paper in that " country has appeared. It is written t upon a single sheet of paper, and is h published every Sunday. ? Enamelling was practiced by the t ancient Egyptians, Chinese and other " nations, and wau known in England at ? the time of the Saxons. At Oxford is ( an enamelled jewej which belonged to 1 Alfred the Great, and which, as appears 0 by the inscription, was made by his ^ order in his reign, about 887. \ The smallest book ever printed is jj the story of Perrault's little "Hop-o'- t My-Thumb," lately published. The a book is one and one-half inches long b by one inch wide, and one-quarter of j( an inch thick. It can be read only by s the aid of a microscope, bat is com- ? plete in every way and bus four en- ? gravings. The simplest public railroad now operated is thought to be one between Atami and Odawara, in Japan. It is j a narrow guage road, and is run by n man power. The cars have seats for p four persons each, who sit back to * back. A train consists of two or three ^ cars, and is drawn up hill by half a i: dozen coolies. F li The Sounds of Battle. ]l The report of a battle reaches the 1 world over in these days of the reign of the newspaper, but without any p such outside aid it can be heard far e . - fcl beyond the scene of actual strne. ~ The reports of the guns themselves, 0 the real sounds of battle, go far out Is into space, and can be distinguished ? a long way from the point of conflict, Professor W. F. Sinclair says tha* there is nothing unusual iu the hearing of artillery at a distance of sixty miles. The Bombay time guns and salutes are often heard at the northern Mahim, a distance of over fifty miles. The guns are?or were at the time il when the observations were made? 11 very modest affairs, old-fashioned jj twenty-four or thirty-two pounders o loaied with four or five pounds of t coarse, black powder, not all of which ? 1 J. 0 wus uurm. u The target practice of the forts and t turret ships at Bombay was easily ^ distinguishable from mere salutes and 0 time guns, not merely as a louder g sound, but by being felt in the chest o when the others could" only be heard. ? The sound produced by modern E powder is probably very different from e that of the old black powder, so that * an army in action at the present t time may be relied upon to make its n voico heard. The "din of battle" is v not a figure of speech.?Youth's Corn- e panion. e Avoiding War-Tlme Raids. T. H. Gore writes an article for ( St. Nicholas on "Hiding-Places in t War Times." In describing u house e on debatable grcund that had many u secret nooks, the author savs: ? J ?^ - The liouse had a cellar with a door opening directly out upon the "big road," and never did a troop, large or t| small, pass by without countless sol- v diers seeking something eatable in this convenient cellar. It was never empty, but nothing was ever found. A tl partition had been ruu across about c three feet from the back wall, so near that even a close inspection would not .suggest a space back of it; and being A without a door, no one would think ri there was a room beyond. The only access to this back cellar was through ^ a trap-door in the floor of the room t| above. This door waa always kept tl covered by a carpet, acd in case any n danger was imminent, a lounge -was put over this, and one of the boys, feigning illness, was there "put to bed." In this cellar apples, preserves, ,, pickled pork, etc., -were kept, and its ir existence was not known to aDy one 4 outside the family. ^ k : v;v;r?c ' ' - " V ' I. . > / . iOD'S .MESSAGE TO MAW 'RECNANT THOUCHTS FROM- TH WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. 'lie Idle Player ? Methods of the Hoi Spirit?God Watches Over Uf ? Fait the Answer to God's Work ? Troubl a Refining Process?Love of Jesus. 'he master lifted his wand up higher, 'Till far on the vibrant air outflung, oaring in joyous strength and repose, inking in sobbing staccato, rose, 'ure as twilight and swift aB fire, . harmony born of heaven's desire, Sweeter than song ere sung. lut on the allegro's orescent swell, Breathless with joy of its tidal flow, vnue me quivering air in tue spaces vust ?as as leaves through which the wind ha passed, 'he staying voice of the master fell? 'he music ceased as held by a spell? "I hear not my piccolo!" [umblest of players on smallest flute, If the Master of symphonies bid thee blofl 'ear thou thy pipe to bate or withhold, -est cornet of silver and trumpet of goliVben all the music of life is mute, [ushed and guiltless, their silence impute To thine idle piccolo. -Louisa Manning Hodgkins, in Congregt tionalist. Methods of the Holy Spirit. They always are the same in purpose an a the fact that they appeal to the conscienci eek to convince of sin and lead to repen nee and reform, and, later in expeHenc? o constantly enlighten and stimulat o ever holier living. But they are b o means the same in respect to the mat ior in which they operate. Sometime he Spirit makes chief effort to coi ince the reason, sometimes to touch th part, sometimes to arouse by awukenin hame. fear or even remorse. Now it is th ntreaty of a friend which is the chosen ic trumerit. Then it is the voice of tb ireacher. Again, it may be a memory, rinted line, a sight of same Christlik ction. With one it may be th pint's choice to enkindle the deepen motion, with another only to lead up to aim, serene act of the will in choice 'robably no methods of the Spirit ai leculiar to any one period of time. Th lmost infinite variety of human nature d< aands the largest freedom of method, eve rhen it is the divine Spirit which is at worl Indeniabl.v special times have special charai eristics. For example, it is true that th u ward signs of deep religions convictio ra much more rare now than fifty years ag< ret the quality of modern -piety beai xamination as well as that of ou athers bore it. The one is as gee ine as the other and more fruitfu Ve need, however, to be more watel ul to detect the fact that the Spir 3 at work, because the token? of His specii iresence are not more obvious. We need 1 onsecrate ourselves more thoroughly, i be first place, and then to be alert to c< perate with Him in winning others to Chris lis methods usually are unobtrusive. Bi f we seek for proofs of His activity, we ai Ikelv to be surprised to find them muc lore ofteu, much more near at band, au iuch more evident than we naa expectea. God Watches Over Us. When I was a little lad startin' on fc cbool, mother used to go to the door ai 30k out. When 'two9 all bright suusbini pith the lark a-singln' up in the. blue ski >n' tho'bees hummin' ail about th ;arden, she would just put on my ca n' give me a kiss an send me skippin' ov< be fields. But 'pon the stormy days wbe be wind came howlin', an' you coul lear the ground swell roarin', ai here was nothin' but great heav louds all over the sky, then she would t! be cap down round my ears, and button u ay coat all so careful. A'h! I can see h( iow?bow she used to stand watching iver the hills. Come, thou dear child t rod?that's just like 'tis with o ur lovii 'ath'er in heaven. Bless Him, He do loo ut over the day. Whenever I think about J be words come to my heart, 8hall He n< ouch more clothe you. 0 ye of little faith Vhy. poor little faith, 'tis put there on puj lose for you. There's a worry waitin'; H lo see it; an' here's the patience. There's emptation on there; yes, He do know tha n' here's wisdom and strength. There's it of a trial; an' here He is waitin' to giv hee a bit of courage an' faith. An' don et that be all. 'Tis goin' to be a day o' sui bine an'gladness. Ah! Ho will make the lad with His favor, an' send thee forth a beerful to thy work. Bless Him !?Banif juorm. Faith the Answer to God's Work. One thing we maybe sure of. No infoi nation about the future can produce fait! 'aith is the answer to what God has don nd is doing; it is not our response to H: iroposals or proceedings in the futuri lence the futility of spiritualistic phenotr na as the basis of a religion. They do nc elong to the nature of revelation. To faitl a the proper sense of the word,^hey are sirr ily irrelevant.Ghost wort hip or ghostly pro< 3 a stage which spiritual and historic fait ias long outgrown. If there be no rev? ition in history, there is none in a ghos f they believe not Moses and the prophets either will they believe if one rose froi bo dead. Accordingly we have in th few Testament no authoritative progran ither of future history or of the fi re life. Detail is denied us. Fdrm oc u ic rofnenri us of the featuri f the historic Christ himself, whose sov 3 our other world. Richard Baxter is n lean authority in his Saints' Evorlastiu lest, and this is his frame of faith: My knowledge of that life Is small, The eye of faith is dim; But 'tis enough that Christ knows all, And I shall be with Him. Tronble a Keflnlng Process. Trouble is different from tribulation,whii t is often associated with it. Tribulation lot in itself trouble. Trouble does n< lecessarily come with tribulation. One ma 3 troubled without being in tribulation; ai ther man is in tribulation without bein roubled. . . . Ah! how little we can judfi f the hidden troubles, past and present. < ur fellows, by the calm extorior and tb introubled appearance which they presei o us. Troubles that have been m< a +rihnl?tlnn_ with its true mission 1 he sufferer, do not leave the appearanc f trouble on tho outar man. That lira et face, which seems to show a bar r a cold nature, may represent a coi tant inner strugnle to bo Arm. Thi low of holy beauty, on u count* ianee that impresses us ns snintly, ma orao from tho lii?bt of the refiner's fli rhich is burning day and night in the hea elow. These cheerful words and smil< hat appear to be only the overflow of a f?la nd undisturbed heart, may be the rich ha est from seeds which had not been quid ned unless they died, and were not fruitfi xcept ns they were nourished from hidds ;raves.?H. Clay Trumbull. When thou art come to this, my soul, thi by crosses seem sweet for the love of Jesu hink tfien thyself sublimely happy, /< urely thou hast found a heaven upon eartl t least the best heaven this earth can affon nd take it as a pledge of abetter to come wnere a creature or a mno iorsuKein an ometh out of himself and his own thins: bere God entereth in with His own. that ii rlth Himself.?Theologia Gormanica. To lovo is the great glory, tho last cultun he highest happiness; to be loved is little i omparison.?George S. Merriam. Governor Brady1# Plea For Alaska. In his annual report Governor Brady, o .laska, asks that the Territory receiv apresentation in Congress and tha Jaskans bo not classified with Kanakas ilipinos and Cubans. He points out tha .laska is thirteei times as big as Cu'?n tiat it "has boea In our possession to hlrty-one years, and its value baa bee: nknown and uuaDpreeiated." The Phlllppinu Currency. Silver la the basis of the currency in th " - -? T * '- rn1.in l? ailippiue isiauus. iuoto ? eaeral circulation and ha^ bean Done fo; lore th.au twenty year3. The Mesicai ollar of a date previous to 1877 Is ourren l the inlands, and It Is practlcalJy tbe onl; loney ,Ui general circulation. ' -' . THE SABBATH SCHOOL E INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JANUARY 15. y Lesson Tezl: "Christ's First Miracle/* h John 11., 1-11?Golden Text: John Il.( o 11?Commentary on the Day's Lesson by the Rev. D. M. Stearns. 1. "And the third day there was a marriage In Cana of Galilee, and the mothez of Jesus was there." The third day's work In Gen. 1. was the appearing of the dry land and Its being covered with grass, *" * * - ?- + K4mA neros ana iruit iroos* xv nw uu ?uo ?uuu day that Abraham received Isaac back from the dead In a figure (Gen. xxil., 4; Heb. xi., 19). On the third day Jonah, being delivered from the belly of the fish, started for Nineveh as -God's messenger, is These, with many othe aird day stories, are very snggestlve of tue resurrection of our Lord on the third day, and as, apart from His resurrection preaching, faith, baptism and all ordinances are in vain we cannot wonder that the Scriptures make so much of the truth of His resurrection. It is also most interesting to note that the Bible begins with a marriage in Eden and ends with the marriage of the Lamb, and the first mlraole wrought bp the Lamb of God wa9 at this marriage in Cana. 2. "And both Jesus was called and .His i- discloles to the marriage.'.' One of the very first institutions in the Scriptures, and the one that expresses most fully ouz oneness with God and with Christ, tha . one also that shall usher la the glorious a kingdom on the earth. Ha said of Israel, "I am married unto you" (Jer. ill., 14), c' and of us who now believe in Him It is said that we are married to the Lord that c we should bring rortn- xruii unto uoa y (Bom. vii? 4.) The words U3ed by Adam 1_ concerning Eve in Geo. 11., 23, 24, are useS 18 In reference to Christ and the ohnrch in l' Eph. v., 30-32, and in Heb. xiif., 4, it is said 6 tbat marriage is honorable in all. 8 3. "And when they wanted wine th? 0 mother of Jesus salth unto Him, They l~ have no wine." There- is a want found 6 at this marriage?they hare not enough of a wine. Whether more people had come 6 than they had expected or whether some ? one bad been mistaken in the quantity needed we ate, not told. a 4: "Jesus saith unto her: - Wpman, ' what have I to do with thee? Mine houz e is not yet come." There is neither une kindness nor any lack of courtesy in this 5" word to His mother. There could not be, D for God is love, and love is kind, and He c- was God manifest In the flesh. He virtually said at least this?I will see to It at 10 the right time. The Lord Is a God of judgD ment or discernment; blessed are all they 3* that wait for Him (Isa. xxx., 18). . rs 5. "His mother saith unto the servants, ir Whatsoever He salrh unto you, do it." J" Thus she placed the matter in His hands ' and quietly left it there. She directed the }* servants to Him for all further instruction and withdrew from all further responsi11 bility. She knows it will be attended to, 0 and she leaves it. Do we thus cast every n care upon Him, every burden and anxivty, ) orwl nnfotlv l?tiv? it with TTIm? Wfl arnnt. ' minded ot Pharaoh's word to. theEgypJt tians. Go unto Joseph; what he salth to e you do. h 6. "And there were set there six water d pots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing two or three firkins apiece." The pots were evidently empty, judging from the next verse. When the Lord would use vessels In whloh to show His power, He requires empty I vessels. When He would pay the widow's debt, she was told by the prophet to bor?< row empty vessels, not a few, and as long 6 as there was an empty vessel the oil P flowed to All it (II Kings iv., 3). ir 7. "Jbsussaith unto them, Fill the water ^ pots with water, and they filled them up d to the brim." Now His hour is about II come in whicli He will on this occasion V glhrlfy the Father, and He tells the servants 10 what to do. It is always His to command; P It Is ours simply to obey. From water }r everything has come, for in Gen. i., 2, we l? see nothing but water. In the first eeven D, chapters of this gospel there is much to be ^ lAarnArl frnm fh? nQA nf this Tn k Eph. v., 26, it Is an emblem of the words by whioh we are cleansed. 8. "And He salth unto them^Draw out l' now and bear unto the governor of the r~ feast. And they bare It." Tne Son of Man 0 came to minister unto others (Math, xx., a 28), and He permits us to bo the bearers of His bounties.- As He permitted the.twelve a to bear the bread and fish whioh He multi*,? plied to the hungry thousands and these t servants to'bear His wine to the governor l" of the feast, so He permits us to bear the '? living bread and water and His loveVwhich 7 is better than wine, to all who will receive * it. 9. "When the raler of tlie feast had tasted the water that was made wine and knew not whence it was (but the servants which f- drew the water knew), the governor of tha i. feast called the bridegroom." The water e was made wide. He did it, and whether.it Is be by the process of the vine and the grapes ?. or directly, as in this case, it is all equally i- easy to Him. Ho Is the vine; He is the true >t wine that maketh glad the heart of man. i, Not a cup of cold water sball lose its rei word; therefore those who give much water >f now shall have much wine or joy in the h kingdom. We are the earthen vessels, and If wo fill them up to tbe brim with the water t. of His word He will change it to wine in i, us, and we shall be full of joy. The more n sorrow for His sake now, the more joy we e shall have hereafter. is 10. "And saith unto him, Every man at l- the beginning doth set forth good wine is and when meu have well drunk then that is which is worse, but thou hasP kept the || TttiriA nn+ll nnw " Tllfln it ffonrl o wine, the best of wine, which oar Lord g Jesus made. This testimony is from the ruler of the feast, not knowing- whence the wine came. He only makes the best of everything; that which man makes is always inferior. If, as one has said, He keeps His best things for the few, it is not btecause He is not willing to give His best to many, but rather because only the few are willing to receive them. ,0 11. "This beginning of miracles did . Jesus in Cana of Galilee and manifested forth His glory. And His disciples believed in Him." This was His first mlr? _ acle; therefore all .the apocryphal tales of ' the miracles of His childhood cannot be * true. He manifested His glory. How? By changing water into wine or by pointing onward, as in the transfiguration, to t the time of His kingdom and glory when at as He said at the last passover (Luke 22). ,0 He would not drink again of the fruit oi ' the vine until He would drink it anew in . the kingdom. His glory must be associated j with Hfs kingdom. His disciples, who must have believed on Him before (or they :I would not have been His disciples), are , growing in confidence in and devotion to . Him. So should It ever be (II Pet. ill., ^ IS).?Lesson Helper. w ACQUIRINC PROPERTY BY CRIME. ,d r_ A Jndce Decides Tliat a Murderer's Fainc lly is Entitled to an Estate. il Superior Judge Buckles, of Solano Counm ty, Cal., lias decided an interesting case, involving the question as to whether the family of a person can acquire property as the direct result of his own crime. The deit cision is in the affirmative. s, Louis, Frank, Arthur, Tbomas and Susie >r Belew were brothers and sisters. Louis and a, Susie were unmarried, and"each possessed 1, estates in their own rinht. The father and mother were both dead. FraDk was witb4 out funds, and possessed a family, with whom at the time he was not living. He d murdered Louis and Susie with no appar?> ent motive except to succeed to a portion 5i of their respective estates. He pleaded guilty, and was hanged. The petition for the distribution of the estate of Susie and Louis Belew asked that ' the property be distributed in equal shares to the surviving brothers, and to the estate of Frank Eelew. One of the brothers filed objection to any distribution being made to the estate of f Frank Belew. on the ground that he, bave lug murdered his brcther and sister, could t not succeed to any of the estate left by i. them. To this objection a general demurt rer was interposed and has been sustained, t, Judge Buckles declaring that unless the r court can change tho Codo of Civil Proa cedure, the estates of Louis and Susie ijoiew must do aismDuieu ia equiu yans m the estate of the murderer, Frank Belew, and the two surviving brothers. a 1 A Vicious Buffalo Killed, r The largest living buffalo, a fraction over i six feet in height and weighing over 2190 t pounds, was killed a few days ago at a 7 packing-house In Wichita, Kan. Ho had become vicious. . * . DRINK MANIFESt! ^^8 IN MANY WAYS. 'M Wanted: Sixty Thousand Boys?Why Habitual Uie of Alcohol" Make* tin -s3 Victim'. Jfo?e Look So Rldlcolova* ,J Vital Orxani In the Same Condition. .'mJ (A Dialogue For Two Boy*.). ''Ijlw miT BOT. ij'ZfgM "Full sixty thousand meo eaoh year Fill drunkards graves, they say, But, onoe, these men were little boys Like you and me to-day. , "And whjle the awful ourse of ram - k Our oountry, fair, defaees, Fnll nirtv thnnaand bovs. each Year.. . f Mast march-to fill their-flladee."- ' 8ICOSD BOT: -v'I "This being true, there is a work For every earnest boy? First, let him shnn the cap himself,. Then all his powers employ "In banishing the fatal draught, And pointing out the doom Awaiting those who surely march ' Toward an open tomb." ' BOTH BOTB IX CONCERT. "Ob, let each boy decide that he- < 'Will not be counted in "When fresh recruits are sought to.^well The ranks of shame and sIdI" ?Bafus Clark Laadon- \ W1i? (ha Tlram.DrInbM>,l IfsU Is Itlftj It may . be reasonably supposed tb?t> when the dram-drinker looks upon hie > In a mirror and sees that his nose is redj. he would be anxious to know the exact! cause of such a condition, and why t?e> . . 5 more, altfohol he drinks the greater be-- ;; comes the, redness; and also why angry-J looking bumps after a while make their ap- penrance on the end and sides of the* nose. He is bat little aware, as he looksiat his nose, that, as it Is reddened and con-' . ? -r .* gested by an unnatural supply of blood, so all the respective organs of his body arw kept in a state, of unnatural redness and ' congestion by the habitual use of alcohol. If one could see his brain, stomachy -cfi liver, lungs, heart and kidneys in his aalr- ' : ror, as he sees his nose, he would find! each of them In the same condition as that! 'I presented by his nosej'and this congestion! of the vital organs explains to him the on-i comfortable manner in wbleh- their Caao-^tions are performed. When in perfect health, the functions ofl v/ the organs of the body are so quietly per- * , 'formed that a man forgets' that be ba^ lnngs and heart. In fact,'Mr general eoa-f XJgB dltlon Is no good that be jaeVflr thinks about his internal organs; bat tbis J? Mt 'y;.yjSjB so witb tbe habitual drinker of alcobollo compounds. .? .'v The alcohol which he drinks keeps bis v " organs in the same reddened and congest- ''"Ms ed condition as his nose, and be isaiwpyd , complaining that bis head aches, or feels 'T^j hot, fpolish and confused, that he does'not ^ 9leep, and has starting* and JerkingB of '3. bis limbs in bis sleep; his appetite is ca-{ ricions, his.kidneys do not act well, and ' . ^ ; e has pains in his limbs and back, ot his. heart feels uneasy and has spflJis of palpitation, and his lungs do not perform theiriv" dnty in a manner to make him feel at ease. ~f?M He is nervous, tremulous nnd easily startled; bis liter is disordered, he has* bad taste in bis month, and liis tongue is coated with a thick, white *ur, accompan- . '>:< led by feverish' and thirsty se'nsatioos about his throat.?English Mechanic. Temperance and tabor. ! .'V?^S30B A revolution is going on In the world of >13i labor. The old order is being set aside,; and Dew conditions oonfront those wb?: must" earn their bread in the oweatof i dustry. The machln# Is supplanting tbej man. . AU modern invention kimply de-1 ."-'/sS velops in some ingenious manner som?|. ''' v-3S plan oil accomplishing desired results witb-<> ' out the use of human hands. The trend of) '' 'IjzaH the times is not in the direction of creating; ' opportunities for the employment of m-tn^ is not favorable to the wage-eanxing ' vS?B classes, but is in the direction of marvelous ingenuity for dispensing with men and ' for constructing machinery. ' The result. . $313 very naturally, is that the-employer of labor can afford to b# more exacting, and, *1 only the skilful, the sober,.the industrious- :ti and persevering can succeed. The world: is too busy and life is too short to spend! . 4 precious moments, ii patient''fo*|[>earanc#i </.%, with intemperate men. A drinking man I > is a drag on the business that Is inflicted' ?<?KV><a nrutnM A OIM* hUil A RtAadW. , i>^|| TT1WU Uid {/AV0VMWI v ? ? ? ? - -t. band and an unclouded mind are needed' In these active days to keep pace with thai march of the machine, that never getai- ' drunk, that never murmars' over loon " <* hoars of labors, and that never rabolsj ' ' against the masters orders.?Bev. James M. Cleary. , Disease Dne to Bam. The writers of medical text-books am now giving more space and attention to th? . subject of alcoholism than ever before, fi Prominently mentioned is catarrh of the) " mucus membranes of the nose, throatJ stomach, intestines, larynx, bronchi -and <laugs; degenerative change? in* stomach, vSg liver, heart, blood vessels, kidneys, repro- _ . 0& ductlve organs and nervous system ;last './/JR4 and not least, insanity and impotence; - tVafl Owing to the ignorance of the publio of these baneful effects of alcoholic fndoM gence and the reticence of physicians in; ' , properly ascribing the factorship of aleo-? nol in the production of diseases, the Im- ' presslon or belief has largely obtained'that ' It was the remedy, not the alcohol, thatj ; was the causative agent of many of tbe39. ills; for alcohol so masks the symptoms ofl other diseases that frequently it is not un-j til the alcohol is withdrawn that the! patient's exact condition is made manliest J . -J. E. Blaine,-M. D. Temperance in Picture*. . -" V ' " The Belgian Seoretary of the iBtariorhav '*$~h published a call for competitive designs to! represent the horrors of inebriety. Tbw competition is open to everybody, fourpic-j tures being required, on these subjects: Al scene in a drunkard's home, showing in de-! . tail unhappy and broken family life: thet . 1 happy home of a total abstainer; the; 1 wrecked nems and physiological.chart of; a drunkard's system, and a similar chart off '/ a temperance man. 0 1 For each picture a prize of one thousand! V.-fjX* francs Is announced, the meritorious pic-i 1 tures to pass into the possession of the| , Government,to be piioto-lithoorraphei and ; ; 1 1 copies to be placed in all public places and i ::&i ' halls. . Xotei of the Crusade. Delirium tremens kills 1003 persons every year in the United States. n ?1?IJ?? la Ufffa?!: ?itv in! Jix Kjtiluuiiufco, ?0 , ?^ . the world where there are no saloons. I? > fame is world-wide. A recent pamphlet ofi the Fabian Society, of London, refers to tho remarkable record of Cambrldtce for. sobriety and the successful enforcement oC law. In the United States the consumption oT; wine bus largely inoreased duringr the Ustj vear rea-'htDpa total ofthlrty-elRht mlllloal callous, which Is almost exactly two c?*?W> to each person. '/'* 4S3B There are many cases where a total abi stiaenceV.adge is absolutely necessary, bat -Mr ' j it is venruard to convince the person whoi l needs it that it is so. | "Drunkenness," says one writer on tho j vice, "will make a pauper, an invalid, a. j lunatic. It will send you an empty parse,, j an empty wardrobe, and an empty shelf. It gives you a taste for swearing, obscenity: . and impurity. It inclines you to cboos?' begging for "a profession rather than independence." General Eoynton, in bis examination be- -v,i fore the Commission of Inquiry, condemns unqualifiedly the army canteen. It is absolutely painful to see the yoanj? men, "the flower of American manhood." 1 *UaI- . -sl j who joined the army to proteui LUOIX C'VUJU* , try from the enemy, being debauched aodi J ruined by strong drinks. Rum, beer anil I I whisky are doing more to destroy the 1 soldiers here than disease, exposure and * I the climate combined. >59 The managers of the great Canadian railways, seven in number, in reply to a let- ter asking them if they "considered "tbe driDkiDg habits of applicants for positions. "? and what ruies, 11 any, iu?jy u?u i^uuiua th" drink practices of men already employed," state positively that they will not _ employ a man who drinks or retala an old tmploye who offends against the rulfc' j ':;P VINDICATION OK SUGAR. ' ( Athletes In Europe Are Beginning to Becognlze Its Value as Nourishment. A German scientist, who prefers to be anonymous, publishes in the A.llgemeine Zeitung an enthusiastic glorification of sugar. He says that t / chajfliik aal?^onunueu.; ' "Not bo fast, madam. Not so fast. Ton trill be required to meet graver charges I than even these I have mentioned." i "Ha, ha, graver charges!" laughed the A ,*ridow contemptuously. "Pray recite thorn. Of what else am I guilty ?" 9A "First, of the murder of Andrew Kellogg, whom you ruthlessly, slowly, but jsrely done to death by poison." "Ah!" The' single syllable escaped through the madam's set teeth like a de^^Hcpairing wail. "Second, Banker Kellogg's wife, I BBH doubt not, you helped to the grave. Third, ^^V~7ou were murdering Mr. Kellogg's youngHrr daughter through the same agency that ^^^'you had used in murdering her uncle. I HH 'know you, madam; you are n second LuKu cretia Borgia. Within your trunk i9 a 1HB nnicAna nf mnrp than