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flA L'OVi BY AMEL fCopyright, by Ei CHAPTER VI. CONTINfED. Those -whose eyes love had not opened supposed Wintoun's attitude to be a necessary defence against his uncle's tyranny. For the laird, hav ing, as he thought, succeeded in compelling his family to accept his plans for their and his own interest, becamc very authoritative, and fussed and fumed about every petty circumstanc( and was more and more difficult tc manage, as Mrs. Brathous made rnort frequent demands upon him for monej for Katherine's bridal outfit. Everj check brought forth a dispute. Everj orpament was "eenseless extravagance." He was worried by the dressmakers in and out of the house, and by Katherine's inexplicable good spirits, and more still by Wintoun't determination not to discuss with him those small details of the expected event which seemed so important tc toirrVo natiirp?thfl kind of win< and wedding calte and wedding cards, the people to be asked and neglected, the length and route of the marriage tour, etc. On the morning of the twenty-fifth of September, Mrs. Brathous was sitting in her room, despondent and worried to an extreme degree. Hei easy, sanguine disposition had led her, thus far, in the daily anticipation of "something happening," foi she had supreme reliance upon thai good fortune which looks after people who trust their affairs to it. But in five days a document must come, which would be a social shock up and down Gala Water. And if Wintour deserted her daughter for Jessy Tellair, and Mowbray, for any reason,did not keep 'his appointment, she fell that the chagrin would be intolerable, and her husband's anger so just thai for once she would be unable to meel him with her usual weapons. One of those sudden sick fears that frequently attack the heart jnst before all reason for fear is taken away, had smitten her in the night, and she had anticipated the looks and words of all her acquaintances, the gossip, true and untrue, that would ring from ipouse. to house, the passion ol r%ge that would knock Brathous against every human creature; the minister's calm reproaches regarding hia own daughter?really, that morning eho was feeling as if she might be very wicked woman. And KtttherIne did not appear at breakfast. She < '"""a tnv a wftllr "Vl<?r TTIflid Raid* uau gv/Mv ava w ??? , and Mrs. Brathous gratified her lord by a very sincere anger at the girl and her unconventional way. "Drabbling her skirts and shoes in the dew, like a milking-maid," she said, fretfully. "It is absurd!" "My dear, Bhe is the Flower of Gala Water," said Brathous, satirically, "and needs the dow." The remark turned the lady's wrath upon the speaker, and, after a disagreeable meal, she had retired to her room to think things over, until finally she felt half inclined to make a clean breast of the whole affair. About ten o'clock Katherine entered the room like a streak of sunshine from Iran. She was dressed exquisitely in pale-blue, with white asters in her hat and at her waist. Her starry eyes, her delightful smile, her rosy face, her air of perfect happiness, were, for the moment, irritating. ? * -i ? r "un, Jiatnennei" crxea iurB. Brathous; but she got no further, Katherine was kissing the complaint off her lips. "He has come, mamma!" she cried. "We are going to see him! Get dressed, mamma; I well help you! Ho is waiting to see mo! Every moment is an hour!" "Do be sensible, child. Do you mean that Richard Mowbray has come? 'Where is he?" "He is staying with Jamie Wintoun. Will you please believe that, of all things? Jessy got Jamie to meet him at the train and take him to Wintoun as his guest." "Katherine, what a shame!" "No; Jamie and Richard havo to b( brothers, and they may as well begir at once. Jessy and I could not hav? our husbands hating each other." Then Mrs. Brathous laughed, anc begau to get interested. "You see, also, mamma, my guardian willn ever think of looking for Rich ard at Wintoun; but he has been a the hotel at Galashiels every day, late Jy, askiug for him. Jamie found tha out, and told us, and so Jessy said *You must meet Mr. Mowbray, Jamie Jove, aud ask him to stay at Wintoun. And when sho had whispered to Win toun, Jamie nodded and smiled am met him last night at tbo niidnigli train." "Jamie is an angel of light, Kather ine." "Ho is a very good man. Jessj 1*%aaA/1 !?* ? l'A rrr\r\ d TYT A1 UIOOCU lliLU 1U4 UCiUp OU j^vu\r, are generally "good' for compensation.' "Hex are wo to get to Wiutoui House? And I will not go by th< lnause, for Doctor Telfair's face hurt one. "When lie finds out about .Tessy I Bhall shut myself in my room." "Jessy is liero, and the pony-car riage is waiting. You can drive, mam ma." Then tho toilet went rapidly for ward, and tho laird was astonished t< see his wife como downstairs in th pweetests of moods and dressed for i drive. "Wo are going to ride over to Win toun, Alexander," she said, "and w jnay go to Galashiels, so do not wai for us." And Brathous answered: "Very well,my dear;" but as soon a the ponies bad pnssed the gates, h tnriied to the bouBoforhia own horse "Galashiels!" ho mattered. "Gain Fbiels! If you are going there, I nn Eoing, too. All three women Jookei 1oo happy not to hate somo inischie on hand." ..."Now," said Mra. Brathous, as sh J OWER OF I 1ALA water, i S STORY.; || IA E. BARR? ^ >BMT BONKXB'S 80Kf.>" jK flecked her whip for emphasis, "the liard will away to Galashiels as fast as St. Serge can trot him there, and hova catyia r?nmfnrf nf Win ( toun." In less than half an hour they arrived at Wintoun, and there they j found Jamie and his guest in the j breakfast parlor. They were smoking ^ and chatting in the pleasantest mans ner. Jamie's laugh was their welcome ( as the door opened, and then what a j delightful commotion there was! p Katherine was in Mowbray's arms, r Jessy and Wintoun were clasping r hands, and Mrs. Brathous was effusively thanking Jamie, and thus committing herself deeper to all that these I four love-sick youngpeoplemight pro^ pose to do. , And what thought was there of a t selfish, unreasonable old guardian, L when there was such a young man as i Richard Mowbray present? His lovej darting eyes, his handsome face, his caressing manner, won him his will, whatever he wanted. He took Kathj erine into the drawing-room and put his heart in her hands?he wooed her as if she was the only woman in the world?he left their friends to talk of i trains and trunks, and all the lets and . bars, which even lovers have to sub[ mit to. What he had to say had con. ditions of almost divine eloquence? . monosyllables and silences?flashing . intelligences beyond words?kisses , that were eternal promises?the claspL ing hands and the mingling of soft black hair with tresseB like the dawn. In the meantime Mrs. Brathous dist cussed with Jessy and Jamie a plan . they had arranged for escaping the [ laird's interference. t "You must have a bride party at Levens-hope as soon as you can," said [ Jamie to Mrs. Brathous; "and during ^ its progress Katherine will join Mowbray. They will come here. I have already spoken to a young minister ' - - .... TT. 1 , from mnerieitnen. no auuwo uuming but that the marriage is proper , and honorable, nnd approved by those , who have the right to approve it; and this I certify by my word of honor. . The'servants can bo called as wit neeses at tho moment needed, and so i will not have time to talk or to give any information. When the first tumult cf discovery is over, I will return to Wintoun and drive them myself to Symington. The laird will be sure they have taken the train eitber to Edinburgh or Carlisle; ho will never think of their going to Glasgow. But from Glasgow they can easily reach Liverpool, and I think Mowbray purposes to carry his bride to America first." 1 "iftiat is a long way off, Jamie. I do not like it," said Mrs. Brathous. "But thev will not be safe from an noyance unless they are a long way off. Tliey are going round the world to reach their home. I do not know but what Jessie and I will follow them. Mowbray says they will wait in Now York for us," and Wintoun looked at his pretty Jessy, and she slipped her hand into his and nodded brightly at the suggestion. - And quickly the hours flew by in these discussions, for after Innch they lost themselves in the garden to continue them. At length, however, Mrs. Brathous declared they must return to Levens-hope; "and Jamie," she said, "must go with us, for the laird is a suspicious creature, and we must... give him neither word nor sign to go by." The laird had trotted to Galashiels and back and was tired and disap pointed. Yet he could not complain, for he did not want his wife to think that he had any remembrance of Mowbray or any suspicion that Catherine might have written to him, or that he could in any way interfere with her i marriage with Wintoun. He thought i that by ignoring the danger ho might annihilate it. He had satisfied him. self that the Englishman was not at any of the inns in Galashiels. He had t called at the manse, and finding the . doctor had bluntly asued, "if they had had company," and been quite assured by the servant's negative. And yet > there was something about Catherine ! and her mother he could not under5 stand. But how can a man complain of a feeling so vague that it is undefin1 able? After Jamio and Jessie had left, . Mrs. Brathous seemed inclined to talk, 4 ! ??.? lnir/1 irlftjllr Itnmorpfl llpr. UUVI ? t5 * * J ? ? ? ?t ''Slae is sure to let something out," . he thought. t "Jamio says we ought to havo a ; party, a little danco and a supper before the wedding to rehearso the cero' mony and introduce people to one an. other," was her first remark. "What I do you think, Alexander?" t "I think it will cost too much money." "I will pay all the cost out of my private income. Jamio wants it. Some r of his people are strangers here." i "Then let Jamio pay for it Youi " doing so is only robbing Peter to paj i Paal. Ivathorine has been no end ol j expense lately. I shall be glad cnougL 3 when she is away to hor own home.* I And ho looked so sour and ill-uaj tared that Mrs. Brathous answered .! quickly: . i "So shall J! I am sure uobody c.u; j vvissli to stay in your homo tliat car . | help it!" 3 "I am sorry enough for my nephew, e Ho will have his handsi full with hi; ft | 'Flower of Gala Water,' and sho will i wither and fade just liko tho rest o: . j us." o I "Think shame of yourself, Alexan t1 dor, for saying such unkind words. li j Jamie has a drop of your blood in him, ' ho will mako a poor husband for ain s ! girl. My daughter need not make you e i sorry for him. If I had takeu her in . | to tho world for a Bcason, eho woul: - j have bettered your nephew a thou a | fftudfold. If you arc sorry lor jamic, 1 stop the wedding at once. Kathcrine f -nill be glad to have it stopped." "I dare say she will. What does e she care for the shame and the tall; ] V would have to meet up hill and down dale and in the market-place? She could then marry that runaway Englishman. I- dare say she would be crlad. But I am not coinR to pain and O - w ~ shame Jamie to please her. Poor Jamie!" "Poor Jamie, indeed! Alexander, yon have a bad tongue. But take care! The bad tongue eventually Bays some words that pay for all the others." She lifted her ball of wool, threw her knitting passionately into her work-basket, and left the room. It was to Katherine's room she went, The girl was sitting in her night- ^ dress, reading a song Mowbray had .r] written to her. and her sweet, bright Q ; face, all smiles and dimples, maae ine ^ tears spring to iier mother's eyes, g She told Katherine what her guardian ^ had said, and added: 8. "Now, my dear, I will have no more scruples. To-morrow send in- ^ i vitations to the Hislops and the Her- ^ iots, the Hetherbys and all the young a people you know. Tell them it is for c an informal dance on nest Monday t] , night, and then tell Kichard he must 0 make his arrangements to suit." g "Mamma, darling, how are yoa going to bear the storm that we shall j, outfly? The laird and the minister j, and the people you know?gentlo and e simple?" ^ "I shall tell myself my little girl is happy; that Charlie Janfarie's little 8 girl is happy. As for the laird, he ^ will bluff and bluster in public, and c go down on his knees to me when we jj are alone. I snap my fingers at him! ? And as for the minister, the laird' is ft sure to call him names, and rouse the r man in the minister so far that he is r pretty certain to say: 'Wintoun and ^ Jessy, und you and I and Mowbray? b one and all of us did right.' Do not b give yourself a care about me, Kath- n erine, my darling daughter. I shall d want something to break the blow g when you are gone from me, and I 0 shall have the fight with your guardian at hand. At any rate it will bo pleasant to remind him that he has-no longer any occasion to pity 'his poor nephew.' V CHAPTER VII. THE YOUNG DISPOSE. "The happiness of her child Is the crown of a ipother." "Love and hope lay encampod before the gates ot tbe luture." The bride dance was not farther discussed, but the young people of the neighborhood were all bidden to it, and in the interval, while the laird was away one day, Katherine's trunks were sent to the Northwestern Hotel, X Liverpool. There was telegraphing to and fro, and riding here and. there, and nobody had ever seen Jamie Wintoun so busy; but, then, when a maa is to be married in a day ov two, any V?{nrr in nrdinarv And einedient. ? J r Fortunately, Monday was one of u those lovely days which are the charm of the dying Bummer, and the night, though moonless, was bright with t( stars and only pleasantly cool. A large - g company of young men and maidens were gathered at Leyens-hope. They trooped through the halls, and ran up ^ and down the stairs and danced in the ^ parlors andJirted in the green-houses. ^ Tho laird was important and effusive; ^ Mrs. Brathous was playing waltzes ^ and singing songs and finding part- ^ ners and sending servants here and 0 1 there and everywhere. There were tiddlers in the large hall, and they a were dancing the Lancers there. n Katheiine, in a gown which had the p ineffable softness of pale-primrose silk, c covered with Valenciennes, was a won- ft! -!-l ^ rr-na OA . cienui piutui c. uci ??uu w ^ harmonious, so radiant with love, so ^ etherealized by the emotions filling ^ her heart, that even Jessy was amazed ^ at her transfiguration. She danced ? continually. She had a kind word jj for everyone; she appeared to be the ^ happiest of all that happy company, jj Jessy kept close at her side, and it w was remembered afterward that she jc was evidently 011 the watch, and very . frequently in the southern greenhouse. ^ This enclosure was entered from one of the parlors, and had a door at tho fl. other end opening into the garden e shrubbery. C] About ten o'clock Jessy was sing- cj ing, and it was while the. delicious y strains of "Draw, Eraw, Lads o' (iaia n Water" were floating through the a. room, that Katherino was aware of the concerted signal. Wintoun was ^ looking into Jessy's face, and taking j on his own heart the words dropping so musically from her lips: 0 "But thero Is ane, a secret ane, ^ Aboon them a' tlmt I loo better: And I'll bo his, and he'Jl bo mino. j* The bonnio lad o' Gala Watorl" T j TO BE CONTINUED.] * Bacteriological Cooklnc. A Konigsb'erg (Germany) doctor, g1 Dr. Jager, recently gave a course of hygiene and bacteriology for ladies, . which included practical exercises in applied bacteriology?for instance, in the preparation and preservation of Q food by methods used in bactoriolo- , gical work. At the closo of the lec- / tures the hearers were allowed to in- j vito their friends to an exhibition of ~ kitchen products?some raw and pome ! cooked?which had remained in a | ' warm room for periods vr.rying from ! 1 *? -i? ! live to sixteen uays, auu ?mui >vuc all found perfectly fresh audquite unchanged in appearance and taste. Nor, says the British Medical Jonr1 nal, had any complicated procedure been required to attain this result. _ j The method simply consists in: (1) . j The nso of vessels with well'fitting, '; overlapping lids, instead of the inside [ S lids used in kitcbcus all tho world, i over, which allow stray bits of matter j that may a<lhcro to their rim to fall ijito the food: (2) avoidance of cj^enI ing the vessels in which the food, was 1 j kept, or, whero tbis was iudispdnsaMe, careful manipulation, as iu/bactcviological work, and (3) the uso ol ; cotton wool as a covering. Cotton* wool lids had been specially prepared ' to fit. the wido tops of the food ves- I t nnnciotofl r\f n rirculna- disk I | l?u 13, lUl'J WUPUIIVU ? j of cotton wool, tightly held between " ' two metal rings, tlio outer of, which ^! formed the overlapping rim of, tho liil. i 1 ?London News. 6) [ S\rcili?h Steel, / The high quality of S'wedinh eteel . 1 j wna strikingly illustrated at a rcuent 11 j exhibition. A steel ribbon, cold, J rolled, was twined HJgo a oillccn band 1 > ! nbont one of tbc pavilions, tho length * j of this monster tn;pe being 2351 feet, )' its width eighty-inches, and its weight Cl [ i 114G yound^,-* - - ? ~ 1 1 J / / /' nniiiMAi nn'Q c nUUIIlflLLTU U I 'he Filipino Method of Res Mass Forces Inste Skirmish I 'JSURGENTS RECRUITED FROM Most of the Americans in the Phil>pines are becoming convinced - that le backbone of the insurgent opposion is broken. There are numerous amors pointing to an early collapse [ the insurrection. One of these is lat General Pio del Pilar, the best ghter among the Filipino officers, 'ill desert Aguinaiuo auu give mo upport to the Americans. The Spaniards, reasoning from heir experience with the natives, reuse to believe that the rebellion is nywhere near put down. They delare that the Filipinos will not take lieir defeat at Malolos, with the loss f the city and the removal of their o-called government, seriously to eart. On the contrary, the Spanirds predict that the insurgents will over near the American lines, bothring them as muchv as possible, and, rhen attacked iu force, dissolve, only o reappear at other points. This ort of tactics, the Spaniards say, will ie followed until the wet season ompels the Americans to be housed a barracks, and then the Filipinos rill return and reoccupy such towns s the United States troops do not garison. With the next dry season a epetition of the present operations rill begin. Time alone will show low much there is in this theory; ut, as against it, it must be borne in lind that the Spaniards in all their ;omination of the Philippines never ave the inhabitants a demonstration f power comparable in effectiveness H8UBGENT COURIER WITH A DISPATCH FOR AOUINALDO. 3 that given them by the United tates. A priest and two members of the o-called Philippine Congress, -who id themselves in the woods daiing tie fighting which preceded the capare of Malolos, retnrned there and eclared that 2000 of the Filipino solit rs were anxious to-give up fightig, and would do so, but for their fficers, who keep them under arms. The whole country between Malolos ud Caloocau is now full of friendlies, lostly women, children and old peole, who are returning to their homes, arrying white flags. The Americans re trying to gain the confidence of ae inhabitants by proving to them aat if they will return and attend to ieir ordinary work peacefully no harm 'ill befall them. Two hundred and fty civilians have come ba<}? to their omes in Malolos. Two hundred omen and children, with a aprinkng of unarmed men, supposed to be amors, came to the outskirts of Marios on the sea side of the city and fterward sneaked away, carrying all ie goods they could. The mainstay of Aguinaldo's army re natives unused to the arts of modru warfare and schooled only in the rude methods of the savage. Their iiief arm is the bow; their sole ambion revenge.* They fight from fear, ot through courage. They serve the inbitions of their chiefs. To them? ie majority?love of country is con ootoil <n Invp. tlirntifrli dread, of ruler espots. To them the Red Cross?emblematic f humanity and civilization in war? leans only the suggestion for a new ecoration for their half-naked bodies, hey would shoot without further lought the wearer of it simply to get lat decoration. These native have been described i dispatches: their guerilla style of ghting; their cruelty to foreigners ho fall iuto their hands; their herediirv notion of revenge. The more intelligent natives,brought p in and about Manila are the only lies who are intrusted with the modrn gun. The Tagalos and other ibesmen would be as apt to kill them FILIPINOS IN" ACTIO> ?lves as the Americans with the Mau-1 ?r rifles. The reports of the tremendous i isses to the natives are not surpris-1 to one acquainted with their mode f warfare. Tlieir method of attack j iffers widely from the cautious and ;ealthy approach of the American rulinil. The Filipinos seem to gain | murage from companionship, ana I otuiug in the least degree hazardous! IGHTING MEN. ? P tl isting the Americans is to 0 :ad of Using the d formation. p VARIOUS SECRET SOCIETIES. L is ever attempted by a solitary native. They go hunting in pairs. They fish t] from their wabbly 'dug-out canoes al- o ways in company, and no native ever b thinksof venturing ottt-alone at night. li In fact, a characteristic of their com- a pi ex character is their lively desire a for companionship. This trait is tl strongly brought ont in their method e of fighting. They mass themselves a together like a lot of sheep, and, in- ' stead of spreading oat in skirmish v lines, each man taking advantage of v some natural obstacle for protection, h FILIPINO SOLDIERS OF AGCJINALJ they rush forward, often with arms e thrown around each other, much like e ?a gigantic flying wedge on the football r field. With this method-of approach it is not difficult to see how the rapid- c fire guns of the American artillery ] could tear holes in their'formation and c no doubt lay out more men than would t hare been the case had the attack been t made by skirmish lines. t At present it would be a most dif- I ficult matter to say what course the insurgents will pursue. Aguinaldo \ has a fond hope for a Tagal Republic t composed of the entire group. The ] whole Tagal race is most ambitious. In the insurgent army every man i wears some mark indicating position, for all claim to be officers of various rank. It has not been long since ' Aguinaldo declared that he was ready to disbaud his army just as soon as assured that the United State's intended permanently to occupy the islands. But that does not mean that Aguinaldo-means to keep his promise, 1 or that he ever had any intention of doing so, for on former occasions the insurgent leader has violated his j nromises. If the insurgents lay down t their arms the; will avert great trouble, } aud if thej are induced-to do this it j will he due greatly to the fear inspired ? by our soldiery. ' { Most of the insurgents now with f /i FILIPINO WATCBTOWER NEAR PACO. ^ Aguinaldo are recruited from the j numerous native secret organizations. The principal of these is the Catapunan Society, which is said to have 8 6ome connection with Fni?*BaAsonry. c This society has bee^jw*existence for 0 several hundred sphrs, and no doubt ? _ i? A 1 E was connecUfcerwitu some ox me up- risings ^ffJunst Spanish rnle in the ? Philippines. In past years thousands of the members of this society have been subjected to imprisonment and hundreds have paid the death penalty for supposed connection with the so ^ii^\os^ayfe /T. S ii J?"FIRE AT WILL!-' w P ciety. But to-day the Catapunan So- <1 ciety is stronger than ever, and has fi now a membership of over 600,00U r? ' --- ?- ?_-i.i? I ir ill tiiese islands, auoiuci puuuu jua society is the Philippine Social Club, 1 originally formed by Dr. Rizal, who o: was executed for supposed participa- ti tion in insurgent uprisings. For a 3, loug time the natives were not able to 0 maintain an organization in Maeila, g gyring to the vigilance pf tb.e Sp?uisb C r *. /-'V' , i olice and spies. Bat the'Philippine ocial C'nb lived and to-day nnmberi 1 its membership the leading Fili inos of Manila. Just what position lese societies have taken in regard to ar occupation is not known. Unoubtedly they can be a great aid or a reat menace to us. FREE-A FINE TROPICAL ISLAND. le* Off the Coast of Porto Rico and May B? Had For the Aaklng. Who wants a fine tropical island in ae West Indies?a veritable "Pearl f the Antilles?" Such an island now elongs to Uncle Sam, but nobody ves on it except a lighthouse keeper, nd nobody seems to care anything bout it. It is lying down there in tie Southern seas waiting for some nterprising homesteader to come long and stake oat hie claim. Mona has a luxuriant vegetation, is rell watered and well drained. Every ariety of tropical fruits will grow ere, and it possesses every natural DO'S ABiiX ON DRESS PARADE. idvantage that could make life easy tnd pleasant. It has an area of fifteen niles?nearly 10,000 acres. Mona lies forty-two miles due east if Porto Rico, in the middle of Mona Passage, to whioh it gives its name, md which is one of the highways of ravel in the West Indies, being the widest break in the great coral reef hat joins the Antilles like a string of leads. Mona comes to the United States by 'irtue of the second clause in the peace reaty, which cedes "the island of' Porto Rico and other islands now un iONA ISLAND, UNCLE SAM'S TROPICAL PARADI8E, TO BE OPENED UP UNDEB THE HOMESTEAD ACT. ler Spanish sovereignity in the West ndies." It has been celebrated in Yest Indiim history for hundreds of rears, and just why it remained unintabited except by nomadic fisher folk 8 hard to surmise. Nevertheless it s true that here are nearly ten thouand acres of land without a private iWner, and which is or soon will be ipen to any citizen of the United States to homestead or pre-empt. In >ther words, here is an ocean paralise that will grow every kind of tropial crop?bananas, oranges, limes, ;uavas and other fruits; that is the testing place of thousands of turtles, be green turtle of the Northern resaurants, and the waters around which eem with the finest variety of fish,, eady to be given away to the first omere. Storica of Tolstoi. After a visit to a prison Tolstoi said le always had the impression that the ocial regime is alone guilty. "My gardener's son," he said, 'asked tbe other day: " 'To whom do these lands belong?' 11 'To the countess*' " 'And those lands over there?' " 'To the countess.' " 'And those lauds still further way?' " 'To the countess.' " 'But why should all these lands telong to the countess?' " And Tolstoi*concluded: "That-is he idea of justice. In its naive extression, it came forth from the mouth if a child." One little story, told me by the govirness, will illustrate his way of dealing with the children. His youngest laughter, Sacha, a pretty child often, lad come running into me, aouse a j [ay or two before with her arm black ,nd blue where a peasant boy had truck her; and she went, crying, to omplain to her father. He took her in his knee and quieted her, and then aid: "If I were you' I would go to the >antry and get a plate of sweatmeats nd take it out to him. Don't yon hink that it will do him more good ban a whipping?" And he actually ?ersuaded her to do as he said.?New fork Times. A Mexican Want. In Mexico there is not sufficient aniual rainfall to keep cisterns filled rith drinking water, and almost the uly source of fresh water is secured iy hand pumps and windmills. They re necessary at every Mexican home, t all mining camps and on the cattle anges. At the camps aud on the ttuges windmills are U6ed and they re invariably of United States manuicture. There is a growing demand jr windmills and hand pumps of the itest and most approved pattern. A indmill or pump is as essential to a ome in Northern Mexico as a cooking tove. In consideration of the fact jat pumps are such an important fac>r in the economy of domestic estabshments, the Mexican Government limits them free of duty. Our Area in Coal Production. Both the area and the quantity of aal prouuciiou uu? luuettseu iu iuc -nited Stales. In 1870 coal was mined 1 only twenty States, while in 1897 it as mined in thirty-two; in 1870 ennsylvania was the only State proucing anthracite. Now we get it om Rhode Island, Virginia, Colorado ud New Mexico also. The most rapid lcrease has been ia the South. In 870 Alabama mined-but 11,000 tons f coal; in 185*7 &,*JbU,UUU ions. ivenlcky jumped from 150,000 tons to ,216,000 tous; Tennessee from 133,00 tons to 2,500,000 tons, and Viriuia from 02,000 to 1,365,000 tons.? hicflgo Record, >. :: -.it. v jviSii GOD'S MESSAGE TO MA^ PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THfisJ WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS { j?a*ter Dawn?The flrcat Reaolve?Every Good Mean* Sacrifice?The Joy of thW ^ Lord ? Laboratory of Christ ? A Lift Lived Rapidly?Bad* Always There Not now, as once, by budding leaf . ^jjga And flower unfoldiug bright and brief, $ We mark our Easter day's return, While white the silvery tapers burn, '] ? And chanting choirs in full accord Salutethe reigning, risen Lord ! For going on, our life grows gray In shadow of the passed away, The things we had, and have not, seem The fading vision of a dream, Dear voices hushed, dear hands ungrasped, -T' Dear households broken, linksuncTasped \ Jl.U Win. iiiai jttiu Yivre uiuuiug auu \ Such winds of sorrow have swept in That wide, waste spaces everywhere Leave empty silence, bleak and bareNot now with starry lilies dight We greet the Easter's morning light. Our lilies bloom beyond the tide, Sweet fields are on ihe other side; Here meet we pain and fret and loss. And heavy weight of rough-hewn cross; ,\3| When Easter breaks, thank Ood, we say, .. For strength still equal to our day, For hopes that span the road before And love that climbs to heaven's door. 'Tls much, if but,:serene add still, We can accept the Father's will, And, comforted, uplift our psalm, And feel, through tears, the Easter balok And now, by every lowly grace, One tender thought our fond hearts crave, '|2j That He whose outworn grave clothe? Folded and fair on Easter Day, May come so much our own to be, That aye His blessed company May light like sunshine in our gloom, - , And make our Easter lilies bioom In hearts that join with full accord The anthems to the Risen Lord. t ?Margaret E. gangster, in Interior -J The Great Resolve. The great resolve of any human being'a "$? life?the resolve that is greatest In impor->M tance?is that which determines bis attitud* toward God. Uaoy people at some time jj make it deliberately. Many others never make it deliberately, yet make it as truly *v! and as finally as If they reached' a formal determination. Its fundamental '% importance is not always appreciated, fend ? multitudes make it adversely to their high- v efit welfare, supposing that they are not making it and failing to realize that' it % never will be made subsequently. It often declared that there is more or less of v'A cant in appeals to decide at once to be & Christian, but only he who fails to imder^H stand the tremendous importance of the ^ matter says this seriously. The great:' \ resolve is the life resolve. He who' > ? makes it turns his back on <olie of ^ two diverging paths of .lire and enters upon / ' the other, without thought of retracing bia . ' steps or of amending his choice. In this age, when the work of God makes so many,' so pressing and 60 diversified appeals toeverything whioh is noblest and best in th? A human heart, it is especially important tljat- $ this great resolve to be the Lord's should b*. 3$ made Immediately and onoe for all. Every Goo<l llecni Sacrifice. Cost te the law of spiritual- life. Salvation costP. Genuine repentance and faith i artho energies of the soul. The Christian lifetftst*- ' ? persistent, patient and brave effort In resist* , ^ log temptations and bearing the croML'.V? Christian character costs. The fruits of tb? V. A spirlr, love, joy, peace, Ion# suffering, geni \ tleness, meekness, temperance, are bard tO '^B grow. These are tbe highest attain- 1 ments of life, and the higher we got 1 along any line of action, the more dHB- . > cult It become. It is more difficult to". paint a picture iha-i to paint a brick wall.; Nature produces coal In abundance, but It ^ taxes all ber skill to produce a diamonds ' ^ These graces of the spirit are the diamonds of the soul, and they are hard to prodooa.'-, They can only be slowly crystallized; of them, like the pearl which is prodoced ' ? by tbe suffering of the sbell-fisb;*can be>v99 wrought out only through affliction. But i] when tbey are acquired, they are tjje finest -jfij jewels 01 uupmu cuuracicr, uuu oucui svtuo a as tiie stars forever. The Joy of the Lord. To have the joy of the Lord we do not /j need to make long and expensive journeys ' to far off conventions. We do not need to . spend our money for the great luxuries of;'" " $ palaces and costly equipage. The pojr bavo it in their own homes, often in great fullness. In their godly and contented live? ^ they have a peace and satisfaction of soul* ^ that may not be found in kings1 palaces. Tbey have not the means or the time to spend attending the annual conventions so attractive to many. But tbey have the sweet felicity of communion with God in the homo ' t"' circle and the home church, undisturbed by, the bustle and excitement of the convention' life. There is no reason why the quiet Joy 'J of the home should ever be disturbed by envious thoughts toward those who can' go from conventioa-^-Qpnvention, and hato s their names emblazoned??6h>ad in every paper. The joy of the Lord more than compensates for all there is in a junketing trip, "\J lol'o Ai- mnnntoln rtlaaanPA rtw ? eiiun iu iuv vt. sort, for religious services.?Christian Instructor. v.fjS The Laboratory of Chrinl. The Arabs have a saying about tbe palm tree, that it stands with its feet in salt water and its bead in tbe sun. They often cannot drink of the brackish water found in the oasis where the palm grows; but they tap the tree and drink the sweet palm wine. Tbe {.aim tree, by the magic of Its in- 4 ner life, can so chAoge tbe elements found in tbe unkindly soil aronnd it that they minister to its growth and tv strength and fruit-bearing, bo you and I. in our earthly life, must often have our feet In the mire and bitterness of sin around r.s, and upon bur heads will often beat the fierce heat of temptation. But in spito of these things wo shall be able to grow and grow strong, rejecting the evil and assimilating tbe >;ood, if within us there is tbe laboratory of a new life through Jesus Christ our Lord.?Rev. J. B. Johnston. t A Life Lived Rapidly. His death (John the Baptist) was not pre* ( mature; it was the closing of u full and ripened lite. His life had been a rapidly burning lamp which has given all the greater,,/^ light iu a dark place. I can illustrate by tbe burijing of candles in compressed airin submerged caissons. When the railroad bridge was being built across the Mississippi river at St. Louis a man told me he went down in one of thteo caissons eight hundred feet below the surface of the water. The bad ' air was driven by compressed air in the caisson. This dark place was lighted witb j burning candles These candles burned very rapidly and gave a corresponding light. They could not be blown out by human j breath. So it was with the life of this man. It burned fart nnder the pressure of a great 1 love.?lie v. Geo. Candee. 1 lie t*M(ia rtri" AIIV?)| incir. Kow many earthly desires and worldly fee lines ure shaken "from tbe soul by the tempest of a great sorrow, even as the faded leaves of autumn. But wben all the leaves are stripped from the tree, and it stands bare and desolate under the lashing of winter winds there still remain, carefully sealed up on every branch and twig, buds of celestial hue. which are to unfold in leaf and flower i*i the summer of God's kingdom.?Harriet beecher fctowe. _ _____________________ \ t A Love Letter From Henry Till. ' Sir BcDjamin Stone, President of the National Photographic Record Association ol Londcn, and a great traveler, has nn? earthed in the Vatican Library among th? documents relating to English history, an * * 1~ ?~ t 1 TTI nuiogmpu ju?o inner jrom jviug ucuij VIII. to Anne Boleyn. The epistle, which Is written In French, is in the approved style of a love-sick ewain, ami is signed . with a drawing representing a heart. , New Tork City'i Funded Debt. ~l The net funded debt of New York City on ,' January 81, 1899, was $247,016,820.86. j 4 ..