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fi'N THE C! g? I A NARRATIVE ( 23& ' By SEWARD :<|X& V" (COPTT.IGDT ISit ET R CHAPTER IT. [continued.] "Would I know him again?" I replied rather warmly. "Why, his ugly face hasn't been out of my sight since I saw it. Would I know him? Well just let me get my fingers on his accursed throat. His own father would not know him then!" Mr. Snell's little eyes opened at my warmth. He was about to reply, when -* * j "*? - ui,:n_ Kaiston reiurueu. iur. folly changed the subject. On January 9th we saw in the distance a long, shadowy fringe on the horizon. It looked like land. I asked the captain if it was such. He replied: "Yes, that is land. It is the Island of Formosa. We are now entering the China Sea." The China Sea interested me only as the stretch of water that then sepaated us from Hong Kong. As we began to drew so near to the end of our journey, I felt a feverish anxiety to hasten through with our affair. It had become my habit of late to meditate on deck at night. Some- j times Langston and Ralston went. Sometimes only one or the other would be with me. Sometimes I went alone. On the night of the day we passed T a? /J a a 17 cm o l JTUriUUStt, X HOUK VAX UVV/U . Ralston was reading, and Langston was busily engaged in conversation with an Indian army officer. They said they would be up later. 1 did not object to being alone. My thoughts kept me company. I liked to stand by the rail and muse over the possibilities of what was before us. I knew they were wide and various. Knowing that my two friends were coming to join me, I did not turn when I heard a footstep behind me. "Fine evening, thees," said the voice of Mr. Gambok Snell. "Are you enjoying that moonlight, Meester Creekmore?" "I am enjoying the prospects of landing much more," I replied. "Vary good. But have you notis, Creekmore, what a queer light comes from the Chipa. Sea when the moon dance in its leetle waves?'* I bad not lioticed. I leaded over the rail, and there surely was a peculiarity in the emerald sheen that was re fleeted from the water. I bent low, admiring the pretty effect. In an instant I was seized from behind in an iron grip. I turned quickly, but was at a disadvantage. Before I could cry out, I received a stunning blow on the head. Only half conscious, I felt myself lifted and shoved over the rails. A hateful voice sounded in my ears: "Now you can't identify, anybody, can you, Crickmore?" The wipd whistled past my face; I fell. I felt the waters close over me. I had been thrown overboard by Gambok Snell. I was powerless to utter a sound as I went down. I struck the water head first as clean as though I had taken a dive for sport. The momentum of the ship and the height from which I had fallen sent me deep into the sea. Down?down I went, until in a half-conscious way I wondered if I was ever going to m stop. I do not know how far down I went or how long it took me to get there?probably not many seconds? when I felt a rush of cold water. The coldness of the water restored my senses, but I was absolutely powerless. The rush of the water was tremendous. It whirled me and turned me upside down, rolled me over and over and swept me away like a piece of paper. It flashed over me that I was in one of those swift submarine currents so common in the south seas. Some of these independent currents are said to travel at a greater rate of speed than a mile a minute. The one that had me in its grasp was not the slowest of its kind. What has ever since seemed to me a most remarkable thing, but which did not seem at all strange then, was the fact that I did not lose my presence of mind. I could 4o nothing, it is true. I was helpless in the grasp ui tuu woicio. xim /. ou iuiij icauiicw this that I held my breath and let the great force sweep me aloug unresisting. Since boyhood I had been a good swimmer. Hours and hours I bad spent in the water, floating, diving, swimming under water, and I had, in my library in San Francisco, several medals that I had taken in college aquatic contests. This training now stood me in good stead. It was possible for me to hold my breath under water for some minutes. But it seemed like five years to me shooting along under the China Sea. It was probably just about five minutes before that icy current let go its grasp. Feeling the warmer and calmer waters around me. I shot upward with a mighty stroke. I felfc, rather than saw the light through the rapidly shallowing water as I neared the surface. I also felt the decrease in the pressure. A few more strokes and I breathed again. I looked around me. The good ship City of Rio do Janeiro?or what I supposed to be her? was visible in the far distance, just a dark streak and a cloud of smoke marking her course. It was plain that no help could be expected from her. Even if they had been aware of my catastrophe at once, I was so quickly carried out of their reach that they would give me up. I wondered how Langston and Ralston would learn of i < t i j i my loss, ana n tney wouiu suspect Gambok Snell. I did not think the latter probable. The fellow was actor enough to be the first to break the news of my "accident" and to be at the eame time the most grief-stricken person on board. The Island of Formosa could not be seen. I judged from the direction iu which I lay from the ship, that Formosa was on the other side of her. I did not know north from south, but I .1. . ; . ' *' |r^htnasSPA"! 1111 JA SL gg DF ADVENTURE. '{ ? ^,<v * TV.: HOPKINS; 1 ooeiit bosneb's sojfs.) * 1 knew tliat -when we bad passed Formosa we bad been south of it. This Ted me to believe that I had been carried south by the current. Later events proved this, although I greatly miscalculated the distance, and was proboUltr m.'ctolron in annnnsirxr fhp smokfi IiXKJIJ UilOlOUVU AAA ? I saw to be from the ship I had left. I floated for some little time on my back, until I had fully recovered my breath. Then I scanned the horizon, for something that promised hope of shelter, but I saw nothing. I thought of sharks, but, as none were in sight, I hoped to escape those dreaded monsters of the deep. So far as swimming any distance was concerned, I had no fear. I could without difficulty remain on top and propel myself whither I wanted to go. But my great danger was exhaustion from hunger. I did not know how long I would be compelled to sustain myself in the water, and if hunger made me its vie- j tim I knew I was lost. The thing to do, then, was to make the best speed while I could. I started off"with a long, easy stroke. The water of the China Sea is very salt and gives great buoyancy to a floating body. My only work was to propel myself. Without stopping I swam forward for about an hour. I was a rapid swimmer, j but the distance covered was but a dot in the vast expanse of water. Then I rested a moment aud raising my head as high as I could I took another survey of the horizon. To my great joy, I saw far away?in the direction toward which I had been going?what appeared to be land. I could see no trees or evidences 01 vegetation of any kind. Probably this was an island of rock. I had heard that there were many such off the Chinese coast. But whatever it was, it afforded hope; and with renewed courage I swept the water again with my vigorous strokes and started toward the speck. The island may have been two miles away or it may have been five. Distance is almost annihilated in the clear moonlight of this region. All that I know of the distance is that I swam about four hours before I got near enough to telL what it really was. I saw the barest rock, rearing its bald head high above the water. Bock ?nothing but rook. But even that was something, and I gathered myself for a final effort. Curling myself up in a knot I succeeded in getting off my shoes. Then my coat I flung from me. I would hare liked to save the coat, bat I knew it would retard my progress, and I had a long distance yet to swim. I was fighting for life, so the -coa? went with the shoes. I did not seek to increase my stroke. I wished, rather, to husband my strength. It was well I did so. The rock prayed to be farther away than I imagined. But, at last, I had the great joy of being near enough to see the greenish-white foam from the waters that broke upon its base. I had met with no greater danger than the water itself. I had no doubt that these southern seas swarmed with man-eating monsters, but the help of a Higher Power must have been with me, for I saw not one. I reached the rock. My heart sank within me, for its sides were as smooth and as pernanrli^nlnT* nn t.lift swift nf a house. There was no handhold or foothold. The frowning stone rose high above me, cold, inhospitable, pitiless. I started to swim around it. The rock covered, I should judge, if reduced to figures, about four acres, but it was like swimming around a continent to me, so hopeless had I become. There was no other land in sight. My hope of life hung on this rock. At last, having swum more than halfway round, I found an opening that surprised me. A gateway was formed by two jutting crags. This opening led into an inclosure?a miniature bay or inland sea, not more than fifty feet in extent, or perhaps a hundred, in which the water was perfectly calm, and would be so in any weather, for it was absolutely sheltered from the wind. I weijt through the gateway, which was about twelve feet wide. Inside the inclosure I found, on one side, what appeared to be a rough steppjng-place in the rock. On each side was an iron ring securely fastened. The sight of%anything that betokened the presence of a human being in that waste was something of a shock, But there was hope in those rings for me. By a great effort I reached one of the rings and drew myself upward. It was no light task to scale that rock even by aid of the ring and the roughhewn step. I put forth my entire strength. I stretched, reached, climbed, crawled and glued myself to tbe rock like a mollusk. I was savicg j my own life. A man performs wonder- ] ful feats of strength under those circumstances. At last I stood on a flat table-rock. | It was bare and barren. I had found ] a resting-place, but no more. Not a sign of sustaining food. I could not eat rock, and I saw nothing else. I saw in my luture notmng out a linger! ing death from starvation. Had I any j kind of a contrivance with which I ! could fish, I would gladly have deI voured some of the finny inhabitants | of the deep without any cooking, but I had nothing. I began to despair. It is not a plensant thing to look death in the face at any time. It is simply horrible to see it staring you out of countenance when you are in full nri<!KA<;<;inr) nf Kfcrprinnfi ! faculties, and especially so when that death will'certainly be of a lingering kind, preceded by the pangs of hunger, shooting pains of the most violent kind through the body, a frightful mental excitemeut and even madness itself, then exhaustion and death. All i this I thought of, and resolved, if it came to the worst, that before my miad gave tvay I would leap froin the rock and destroy myself before the suffering was too great to bear. But I was calm, wonderfully calm, as it seems to me now as I look back upon the awful situation. I even smiled,\with a grim sort of ghastly appreciation of my predicament. "If I can't eat," I said to myself aloud, my voice echoing from the high rock behind me, "I can at least rest? and I will." I stretched myself on the fiat rock, with no covering but my wet clothes and the brilliant stars above me. I was exhausted. I fell asleep. When I woke the sun was high and the rock was warm. My clothes had dried and I was covered with a coating of salt. My arms ana legs were sun, and I ached in every inch of my body. The rough stone had not been a comfortable bed, but the long sleep had refreshed me?mentally, at least. I got up and straightened out the kinks in my joints. I was very hungry. This was the beginning of my slow death. I realized this, and the bitterness of despair was upon me. I even contemplated casting myself into the sea to end it all. I had read of Robinson Crusoe. His was luck, indeed, compared to my miserable outlook. I would find here no man Friday to keep me company; no goats to give me refreshing milk; no grain to sow and reap in the future; no ground to sow it in if I did. Hero was none of the good fortunes of the famous Swiss family Robinson, who were cast away on a supposed desert island, and found ready for their teaching all the adjuncts of a successful stockfarm. I would train no zebra to carry me. I would find no bread-fruit-tree to give me life. I would find nothing but death. To all intents and purposes I was dead. Nothing known of man could save me, Eut even a dying man abandons hope grudgingly. I determined before the end came to thoroughly inspect the rock, hoping I knew not What? possibly to find some food swept there from a passing ship; possibly to find something left by a wayfarer like myself; possibly to penetrate and solve the mystery of the presence of the iron rings. , I picked my way from the flat rock upon which I stood, over a ledge of limestone leading around the little inlet of water. The ledge seemed hewn by hand, but not of recent date. It was above highwater mark. No action of the tide had done it. And it was too rough for that. What was more, I thought I could see the marks of cutting-tools. I carefully followed tne leage, wmcn lea 10 a uibyiuu in the rock, down iuto which?oh, joy!?some rnde steps were cat. Down into this pit they led, and my heart bounded with hope. The interior of the pit was securely above the waves, sheltered by the high surrounding rock. An overhanging wall kept out the rain. Now I began to think of Monte Cristo. What if I found there vast treasures in gold or silver or precious stones? Well, what if I did? I asked myself again. I would simply die in.the midst of it all unless the lawful or unlawful owners of it came there and succored me. There was greater danger of them killing me. So the discovery of what might prove to be the hiding-place of the famed and feared pirates of the South Seas was not going to help me. Gingerly I went down the Btone steps. There were at least one hundred of them, and I knew, when I reached the bottom, that I was below the level of the sea. CHAPTER Y. A CHINESE MONTE CRISTO. I was in the bottom of a great, fannel-like pit, with a solid wall of rock around me. I could see no opening, not even a hole large enough to put a finger through. What, then, was the purpose of the stairs? I sat down on the bottom step and tried to think. I had heard and read all kinds of treasure islands, but I could recall no mention of any where time had been spent in hewiug stone steps that led to nowhere. It might be that the pit was used for storing goods by the pirates of the coast, and at this time happened to be empty. The glimmer of hope I had felt when I discovered the stairs now left me, and my hunger came back with renewed pangs. What a miserable fate! To die there alone, leaving no word or sign that could ever reach my friends to tell them of my unhappy end! It was hard to die eo. No one to care for me in my last moments; no smooth pillow for my weary head when the madness of fever was upon me! Nothing but stone?stone?stonel [to ee continued. ] Tho Great Treacle Trick. The tragedy actually took plaoe in Liverpool. He was wearing what is known as a "top-hat," and one many sizes too large. Entering a shojj where, among other delicacies, treacle j was vended, he asked to bo supplied | with so many pounds of the same. "Have you got auything to put it | iu?'fc asked the shopkeeper. The customer, with an abstracted look common to forgetful people, replied he had not, but, as though the ingenious idea had ju9t struck him, added: "Never mind, pat it in thi'?," at the same time handing over his old chapeau. The grocer, sniggering at the ridiculous situation, proceeded to weigh out the treacle, and then bent forward ; to count the change for the sovereign the buyer put down. An instaut later ! and the "customer" had fized the vendor's head with a sticky prison. "Stop thief!" the latter screamed, but before he could grope his -.vay to the street the eccentric purchaser had possessed himself of the contents j of the till and walked luisurely I away. lue treacie run uu.wi it> uw .-, | anil passers-by were too much amused at the grocer's "strange freak" to prcmotly render ''first aid." -Tit-Bits. A Prize For a Hardy Yellow Roue. Mr. Luther Burbar.k, whoso first achievement in hybridizing produced the Burbanb potato (which is the standard potato of the world), is now experimenting atPhis Santa Rosa ranch in au attempt to produce a yellow rose sufficiently hardy to live outdoors all winter in New England. If he succeeds, an Eastern florist wil1 pay him 310,000 for the secret. 8 THE REALM 2-v-^ trvs* ?ar^ ^-v"^ rf-v* New York Citt (Special).?Nickel gray taffeta, shoeing corded stripes of wedge wood blue, is here delightfully combi ned with blue satin in that popular shade. The waist and sleeves A POPULAR BLOUSE WAIST. are made on the bias. The backs fit smoothly and may be made with or without the centre seam. The fronts are arranged over fitted linings that close in centre. Their front edges are deeply nnderfaced with the plain satin and rolled back to form pretty pointed lapels, the back edges extending over the under-arm gores of'the lining. Single side pleats are laid at the shoulder seam, which give graceiul fulness over the bust. A double box-pleat is formed in centre of the woof, which is sewed to the right front lining, and closes over on the left. A standing collavof the plain satin, to the top of which a scalloped flare portion is joined, completes the neck, and the wrinkled stock of ribbon may be worn or not, as preferred. The two-seam sleeves have a becoming fulness gathered at the top, the wrists being finished by scalloped flare cuff portions of the plain satin. Some handsome combinations can be developed by the mode, as the vest, jcollar and cuffs may be of lace, tuckling, corded taffeta or other contrasting material. When made of pique I or other cotton wash fabrics, the linj : WOMAN'S "WA.I: ing may bo omitted and the vest portion closed under rever. Waists in this style made of black or colored satin, taffeta, peau de soie or poplin, may have the collar with plastron finished separately and made adjustable with hooks and eyes on Imf.V* qi/Ioa nf frrvnf Thia qIIawq introduction of other separate fronts with stock collars, which imparts charming variety to dressy wa'sts. To make this waist for a woman of medium size will require three yards of material thirty inches wide. Canity Mude at Home. Gray crepeline de soie and white tuck-shirred chiffon-are charmingly combined in the large illustration, the trimming of ruched satin ribbon being in a darker shade of gray. Dame Faslyon revels in dainty fabrics this season, and the fact that chiffon yoking in this and many other styles can be bought all ready for use makes home dressmaking an easy accomplishment. Fitted linings support ] the over-fronts and back, that show prettily scalloped edges in tlie latest design. Tbe fronts may be arranged over the yoke portion of plastron, and j together closed invisibly at the left ; shoulder, arm's-eye and under-arm j seams, or they may open in the centre j and the full plastrou only close at tbe j shoulder and arm's-eye, as shown in j the small sketch. The sleeves are faced at the top with the truck-shirred chiffon, the material being shaped and trimmed in scalloped outline, to harmonize with the waist. The lining j backs are faced in deep-yoke effect, | the over-backs shaped and trimmed to I match the fronts, having a slight fnl- > uess, which is drawn snugly to the \ waist line. The skirt comprises live gores, which are shaped in pointed I outline a: the lower edge, and to \ wbicli is joined a full circular flounce ! that reaches over half-way to the belt in the back. A smooth-fitting adjustment is rendered by the shaping of, the gores over the hips, and the ful- J ness in the back is arranged in flat underlying pleat9 that meet in the centre over the placket, where they are closed with silk buttons and loops. The flounce flares in gracelul ripples all around, the fashionable dip being i given in the back with perforations j that shape to rc-und length. Stjligh combinations bj the mode. OF FASHION. I ' - o > may be curried oat in plain ami dotte or figured silk or satin foulard, the flounce of skirt matching the yoke and caps of sleeves. An exceedingly dressy black gown had the waist, sleeves and upper portion of skirt of jet spangled net, the shirred yoke, tops of sleeves aDd flounce being of plain iJrusseis net, trimmed wimruou ings of the net and satin ribbon. Folds of turquoise-blue velvet showed at the top of tbe pointed collar and under faced tbe flariup wrists. Tbe mode suggests possibilities for remodelling, which are always acceptable to borne dressmakers. To make this waist for a woman ol medium size will require one and a half yards of material forty -four inche; wide. To make the skirt will requitt five and a half yards of eame-widtlj material. Duck Outlnc Skirts. Duck skirts are essentially outing skirts,and should never under any circumstance be made long. They are either built to clear tbe ground 01 short enough for golfing and the wheel. It is futile to depend uooa tnein ior wnat may db rermea a "dressy" function. The very latest duck skirts are cut with a little fulness in the back, which is laid under pleats. The outing or golftskirts button at one side of the front seam. The sailor hat continues to be the most upto-date for sporting purposes, and the newest shape differs little from that of last season. As the season advauces fewer linen collars are seen, and chiffon, lace and net stocks and neckties are worn with shirt waists. Whito Pique Skirt*. Skirts of white pique with tunic overakirt o? white embroidery are novelties of the season. They are worn with bodice of embroidery, or of pique, with revera or vest of embroidery, or are used on separate skirts with shirt waists. Theyaro effective worn with the little scarlet jackets that will be as popular ou beach and piazza as they are on the links. Waist Willi Unique Shaping. Polka dotted foulard in dove-gray and black made this handsome waist, the collar, yoke and cuffs being edged ifellff ST AND SKIHT. with stitchcd bias folds of black satin. A stylish feature of the waist is the unique shaping of the yoke and collar. Two box pleats are formed in each front, a third being taken up on the right front edge, which laps over the deep hem on left, closing with studn j or buttons in centre. Three backward turning pleats are laid on each side of I centre back, which are joined to the j top to a straight yoke liuing, the plaits J being overlapped closely at the waist ! line with pleasing effect. The box j plaits at shoulder edges of front arc i brought together and joined to the front edges of lining yoke, the yoko of i mateiial with its rounded edges bciug arranged to overlap the pleats in front and back. The neck is completed with a band in regular shirt waist style, and tho stock collar is made separately to close i:i centre back. The shirt waist sleeves are correctly shaped, being both stylish aud comfortable. Gathers adjust the fulness at top and bottom, ! slashes at the back being finished j with laps in the nsi al way. The cuffs have rounded corners aud i close with link cuff buttons. Attractive waists may be mado by this pattern of silk, fine woo! or cotton wash fabrics and the regulation BOI-rL^ATKP SHIRT WAIST. lineu collar may be substituted for the stock, if so preferred. To make tbis waist for a lady of medium si/,* will requite three ami oue-half yRvds ofmlerial thirty iuclies wid?. j DP-TALMAGES SERMON.] SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BYTHE NOTED DIVINE. subject: "Yon Can't Cheat God"?Ife Will Welsh Oar Acts With Perfect Ualances ?Opportunities Measured Against Sins ?Personal Responsibility For Errors. [Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 189?.] ! Washisotox, D. 0.?In these days of noral awakening this pointed sermon by | Dr. Talmage on personal responsibility beI fore God will be read with a deep and sol: emn interest; text, Daniel v., 27. "Thou I art weighed in the balance and found j wanting." Babylon was the paradise of architecture, | and driven out from thence the grandest | buildings of modern times are only the I evidence of her full. Tbe site having been i selected for the city, 2,000,000 men were employed In the rearing of her walls and : the building of her works. It was a city I sixty miles in circumference. There^vasa trench nrll around tbe city, from which the material tor tbe building of tbe city bad been digged. There were twenty-flve gates on eaoh side of the city; between every two eates a tower of defense springing into the skies; from each gate on the one side, a street running straight through to tbe corresponding gate on the other side, so that there were fifty streets fifteen miles long. Through the city ran a branch of the river Euphrates. This river sometimes overflowed itfl banks, and. to keep it from ruining the city, a lake was constructed into which tbe surplus water of the river would run during, the time of freshets, and the water was kept In this artificial lake until time of drought, and then this water would stream down over the city. At either end of the bridge spanning this Euphrates there was a palace? the one palace a mile and a half around, the other palace seven and a half miles around. Tho wife of ^ebuobadnezzar bad been born and brought up in the country, and in a mountainous region, and ehe could not bear this flat district of Babylon, and so, to please bis wife, Nebuchadnezzar built in thq midst of the city a mountain inn faat ViIr?V? TKla mAnnfoln woo Km 11* nnf into terraces supported on arobes. On the top o! these arohes a layer ot Sat stones, on tbe top of that a layer of reeds and bitumen, on the top of that two layers of bricks closely cemented, on the top of that a heavy sheet of lead, and on the top of that the soil placed?the soil bo deep that a Lebanon oedar had room to anchor its roots. There were pumps worked by mighty machinery, fetching up the water from the Euphrates' to this hanging garden, as it was called, go that there were fountains spouting into the sky. Standing below and looking up, it must have seemed as if the olouds were in blossom, or as though the sky leaned on the shoulder of a cedar. Ail this Nebuchadnezzar did to please his wife. Well, she ought to have been pleased. I suppose she was pleased. If that would not please her, nothing would. There was in that olty ulso the temple of Belus, with tower*?one tower the eighth of a mile high, inwhioh there wua an observatory where astronomers talked to the stars. there was in that temple an image, just one image, which would oost what would be our 150,000.000. t>b, what a olty! The earth never saw anything like it. never will see anything like it, aud yet I have to tell you that it is going to be destroyed. The king and his princes are at a feast. They areal! intoxicated. Pour out tbe rloh wine into the chalices! Drink to tbe health of tbe king) Drink to the glory of Babylon! Drink to a great future! Athousand lords reel Intoxicated. The king seated upon.a chair,- with vacant look, as intoxicated men will*-with vacant look stared at the wall. But soon that vacant look takes on intensity, and it Is an affrighted look, and all the princes begin to look and wonder what is the matter, and they look at the same point on the wall, and then there drops a darkness into the room that puts out tbe blaze of the golden plate, and out of the sleeve of the darknesB th?re comes a finger?a finger of the fiery terror cirollng around and circling around as though it would write, and then it comes up and with sharp tip of flame it inscribes on tbe plastering on tbe wull tbe doom of the king: "Weighed in the balanees and found wanting." The bang of heavy fiats against the gates of the palace is followed by the breaking in of the doors. A thousand gleaming Knives strike into 1000 quivering hearts. Now death is king, and he is seated on a throne of corpses. In that hall there Is a balance lifted. God swung it. On one side of the balance are put Belshazzur's opportunities, am /.f a # f Via Knlnri/ia n ?>a nil UU IUU UlUCC otuo VI VUU Muiauwv tuo |/ui? Belsbazzar's sins. The sins come dowu. His opportunities go up. Weighed in the balances?found wanting. There has been a great deal of cheating In our country with false weights and measures and balances, and the Government, to change that etiite of things, appointed Commissioners, whose business it was to stamp weights and measures and balances, and a great deal of the wrong has been corrected. But still, alter all, there is no such thing as a perfect balance on earth. The cbalu may break or some of the metal may be clipped or in some way the equipoise may be disturbed. You cannot always depend upon earthly balances. A pound is not always a pound, and you may puy for one thing and get another, but, in the balance whioh is suspended to the throne of God, a pound is a pound and right is right and wrong is wrong and a soul is a soul and eternity is eternity. flm\ hflfl n bushel nnd a Der feet peck and a perfect gallon. When merchants weigh their goods la the wroDg way, then the Lord weight the goods again. If from the Imperfect measure the merchant pours out what pretends to be a gallon of oil, and there is less than a gallon, God knows it, and He calls upon His recording angel to mark it. "So much wanting in that measure of oil." Tht 1 farmer comes in from the country. He has apples to sell. He has an imperfect measure. Ho pours out the apples from ' this imperfect measure. God recognizes it. He says to the recording angel, "Mark I down so many apples too few?an imper- I feet measure." We may cheat ourselves, I and we may cheat the world, but we can- i not cheat God. and in the great day of ' judgment it will be found out that what 1 we learned in boyhood at school is correct; > that twenty hundredweight makes a ton, ' and 120 solid feet make a cord of wood. No more, no less, and a religion which does < not take bold of this lite, as wallas tUelife < K> come, is no religion at all. ' But, my friends, that is not the style of ' balances! amtospeakof to-day; that is not ' the kind of weights and measures. I am to speak of that kind of balances which ^ weigh principles, wtlgh churches, weigh men, weigh nations and weigh worlds. J "What!" ycu say. "Is it possible that our world Is to be weighed?" Yes. Why, you would think if God put on one side of the balances suspended from the throne the 1 Alps and the Pyrenees and the Himalayas [ and Mount Washington and all the cities J of the earth they would crush it. No, no! ? mi? * in ?ill qi> ,1aipii < JL lie UIUU WJJl VJULUC Hiiuu uuu ?TU? 0tk wv > ? on the whito throne to 6ee the world weighed, nud on ono side will be the world's opportunities and on the other side the world's sins. Down will go the sins Hnd p.way will go the opportunities and God will say to the messengers with the torch: "Burn that worldl Weighed and found wanting!" But I must become more individual and more personal in my address. Some people say they do not think clergymen ought to be'personul in their religious address, but ouKhc to deal with subjects in the abstract. I do not think that way. What would you think of a hunter who should go to "the Adiromlacks to shoot deer in the abstract? &b, no! He loads the gun; he puts the bmt of It against bis breast, he runs his eye along tbe barrel, he takes sure aim, and then crash co the antlers on the rooks! ? v*. it mimf- trt hfl hnnfi?rn for thrt ami 3'J, u ITV tvu>?? ?v . Lord, we must take sure aim and fire. Not 1 In the abstract are we to treat things in religious discussion.?. If a physician comes into a sickroom, does ho treat disease in the abstract? No. He feels the pulse, I takes the diagnosis, then he writes the c prescription. And if we want to heal souls t for this life and the life to come, we do not 1 want to tre&i them in the abstract. The s fact is, you and I have a malady which, if I uncurea by grace, will kill us forever, i t Now, I want no abstraction. Where is the I \ - - - ? I DUlin? AVnere IS tue pnysiciaur So God will weigh churches. He takes a great church. That church, great according to the worldly estimate, must be i weighed. He puts It on one side the bal- 1 ances nn<l the minister and the choir aDd fl the building that cost Its hundreds of thou- v sands of dollars H6 Duts them on on* c . # jj ? ?^r> .> *< ' 'i ^ "J side the balances. On the other side of the scale He puts what that church ought to be, what Its consecration ought to be, what its sympathy for the poor ought to be, what its devotion to all good ought to be. That is on one side. That side comes down, and the church, not being able to stand the test, rises Id the balances. It does not make any difference about your magnificent machinery. A church is built for one tling?to save souls. If it saves a few souls when it might save a multitude of souls, God will spew It out of His mouth. Weighed and found wanting! So we perceive that God estimates nations. How many times He has put tb? Spanish monarchy into the scales and found it insufficient and condemned itf The French empire was placed on one side; of tbe scales, and God weighed the French empire, and Napoleon said: "Have I not enlarged tbe boulevards? Did I not kin* die the glories of the Champs Elyees? Hava I not adorned the Tuilerles? Have I not built the gilded opera house? Then God weighed the nation, and He put on one side the scales the emperor and the boulevards and the Tullerie9 and the flhumns F.lvaees and the gilded opera house, and on the other side He puts that man's abominations, that man's libertinism, that man's selfishness, that man's godlesB ambition. Thi? last came down, and all the brilliancy of the scene vanished. What is that voice coming up from Sedan? Weighed and found wanting! People say there is a day of judgment comiDg. My friends, every day is a day of judgment, and you and I to-day are being canvassed,'inspected,weighed. Here are the balances of the sanctuary. They are lifted, and we must all be weighed. Who will como and be weighed first. Here is a moralist who volunteers. He is one of the ' most upright men !n the country. He comes. "Well, my brother, get In?get into the balances now and be weighed." But as he gets into the balances I say, "What is that bundle yon bave along with you?" "Oh," he says, "that Is my reputa tlon for goodness and kindness and charity and generosity and kindliness generally!" v: "Ob, my brother, we cannot weigh tbatt We tire going to weigh you?you. Now stand in the scales?you, the moralist* Paid your debts?" "Yes," you say, "paid all my debts." "Have you acted in an upright way in tbo community?" "Yes; yes." "Have you been kind to the poor? Are you falthfol in a thousand relations in lite?" "Yes." "80 far, so good. But now, before you get out of this scale I want to ask you two or three questions. Have your thoughts always been right?" "No," you say; "no." Put down one mark. "Havo you loved the Lord with all your heart and soul and mind and strength?" "No," yo? say. Make another mark. "Come now, ba frank and confess that in 10,000 things yoa have come short, have you not?" "yes."' Make 10,000 marks. Come now, get me a book large enough to make the record of the moralist's deflclts. My brother, stand In the scales, do not tty away from them. I put on your side ihe scales nil the good deeds you ever did, all the kind words you ever uttered. But on the other side th? scales I put this weight whlah God says I must put there?on the other sldethe scales and opposite to yours I put this weighty "Bv the deeds of the law shall no flesh Itv? log be justified." Weighed and found want* ~?"" lng! , Still, the balances of the sanctuary ar? suspended and we are ready to welgli nny* who come. Who shall be the next. Well,: here Is a formalist. He comes And he gets Into tbe balances, and as be gets In I se? tbat all bis religion is in genuflection and in outward observances. As be gets into, tbe scales I say, "What Is that you have in this pocket?" "Obi" he says, "tbat ia a Westminster assembly catechism." I say; "Very good. What have you in the other pocket?" "Obi," lie says, "tbat is the Heidelberg catechism." "Very good. What Is that you have under your arm, standing in this balance of tbefsanctuary?"" . "Obi" he says, "that is a church record.'* "Very-good. What are those books on your side the balances?" "Ob!" he says, "those are 'Calvin's Institutes.'" "My brother, we are not weighing books, we are weighing you. It cannot be tbat you are depending for y<ur salvation upon your orthodoxy. Do you not know that th? creeds and the forms of religion are merely the scaffolding for the building? You cer talnly are not going to mistake the scaffolding for the temple. Do you not know that men have gone to perdition with a catechism In their pocket?" "But," says the man, "I oross myself often." "Abl. that will not save you." "But," says the man, "I am sympathetic for the poor." "That will not save you." Says the man, "I sat at the communion table." "That will not save you." "But," says the man, "I have had my name on the church record." "That will not save you." "But I have been a professor of religion forty years." "That will not save yon. Stand there on your side the balances, and I will give you the advantage?I will let you have all the creeds, all the church records. all the Christian conventions that were ever held, all the communion tables that were ever,built, ou your side the balances. On the other side the balances I must put what God 9ays I must put there. I put this 1,000,000 pound weight on the other side the balances, 'Having the form, of godliness, but denying the power there*.' ot."A Weighed and found wauting! Still the balances are suspended. Axe there any others who would liko to b< weighed or who will be weighed? Ye9$ here comes a worldling. He gets into the scales. I can very easily see what hit whole life is made un of. Stocks, dividends; percentages, "buyer ten days," "buyei thirty days." "Get In my friend, get Into these balances and be weighed?weighed for this life and weighed for the life ta come." He gets in. I And that the two) great questions in his life are, "How cheaply can I buy these goods?" and "How dearly can I sell them?" I find he admires heaven because it is a land of gold, and money must be "easy." I find, from talking with him, that religion and the Sabbath are an interruption, a vulgar interruption, and he hopes on the way to' church to drum up a new customer! ill the week he has been weighing fruits, weighing meats, weighing ice, weighing coals, weighing confections, weighing worldly and perishable commodities, not realizing the fact that He himself has been weighed. "On your side the balances, 0 worldly! I will give yon full advantage. I put on your side all the banking houses, all the storehouse?, all the cargoes, all the insurance companies, ill the factories, all the silver,all the gold, ill the money vaults, all the safe deposits -all on your side. But it does not add lit ?ha vnrv mnmntlt ten ftrft ;oDgratulating you on your line house and jpon your princely incomo God and the ingols are writing in regard to your soul: Weighed and found wanting!'" WOMEN RAISE $40,000 IN A DAY Ran Street Cur* nud Bmlneas Placea In Sioux City to Help a College. The street railways, the soda water lnlustry, most of the restaurauts and th? >pera nousa were run by .society women of . ' Sioux City, Iow.\ a fewdays ago in the lnerestsof 3Ior.ilngsldeMethodist Episcopal College. The institution has long been in need of lew buildings and increased acccmmodaions.but President Lewis refused to plung? t in debt even for this purpose. After th? >u.Hiue5s men thought they had exhuusted ivery meaus in their power of soliciting i unds the women took the matter up. A. veek has been devoted to the task of se'.urltiz subscriotion. and for the day th? itr^et car lines "and opera house and soda vater and restaurant man placed their ilnnts at the wonen'a disposal. Everything over actual| operating ex>enses went to tho women. Tue latter ve< e not too particular in making change, inri several thousand dollars were realzed. In all about $40;000 will be turned >ver to the college by men and women, fbe workers represented all denominaions, as the college is regarded as a beneIt to tbe city, aud the various charchea ire equally interested In its success. j A Launch For Gospel Service*. A launoh bearing the name of Christian Jndeavor, built of steei, was recently dedH :ated by tlie Golden Gate Christian Ea< j I T7 nfftn ut Co.. r> Thl 1 1CUYV1 ??l uau A lUliLICWi auuch baa a seating capacity for fifty per? ons, and a speed of twelve miles an hour* t Is to be used in visitiDpr vessels in thi >ay, carrying persons to hold religious ser? ices. , Memorial Chapel For Stanford. A 4275,000 memorial chapel is to b? ,dded to the Leland Stanford University t is expected that it will be one of tb? Inest religious edifices in California. II rill be erected by Mrs. Stanford in memory if ber bueband tiia late San**or Stanford