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m im fur! r\ | UN 1I1C U || A NARRATIVE C JK By SEWARD 1 JxD (COPTEIOHT 18M BY Be CHAPTER X. ;;jaj [continued. ] He left the lamp with us and disappeared in a direction opposite to that from which we entered. If Mr. Avery had seen no opportunity to escape from the horrors of this island in twenty years the prospect before Miss Arnold and myself began to look very dark. But it would not do to give way to despair before her. She must be assisted in her noble efforts to be brave and calm. We stood talking in low tones fnr sAvpral minntes. when we heard footsteps on the stone floor of the cave. x heard the gentle step of Mr. Avevy and the heavy tread of a giant. From another section of the cave they appeared, Mr. Avery walking ahead with another lamp. After him came a man of stalwart build, brown-skinned and with a sullen look in bis rugged face. In his hands he carried two chairs. When this man had set down the chairs he advanced to Miss Arnold, and getting down on one knee, he took her hand and kissed it. He saluted me in the same manner, much to my amusement. Mr. Avery, however, stood silently and gravely assenting to the homage. I divined that it was a part of the plan he had mentioned but had not unfolded to us, to have these simple people regard us as supernatural beings. When the giant kissed my hand he -uttered the word "Oolek.". I learned afterward that the word meant, in the native language, "Savior," or "Deliverer." "Let Oso-Bark come with two more chair9," Baid Mr. Avery, in a tone of mild authority. To my surprise the brown giant seemed to understand English perfectly, and bowing low, march out. The fact he undesstood English was not surprising, for Mr. Avery, during his twenty years' residence among them, had taught many of these people the language. "T don't, nnderatand where that fel low came from," I said in a bewildered way. "You have a fashion of springing out of the earth here that is positively uncanny. And where did the chairs come from?" "There is another giant and two more chairs," said the Englishman, with the nearest approach to gayety which I had yet heard from him. And it was so. A man of great stature came in, bringing two chairs. He repeated exactly the performance of the first one and disappeared. "I did not tell you," said Mr. Avery, " that this cave has two entrances. One by which you come in, and one opening into the channel of an extinct river that runs nearly the entire length of the island wholly under ground. This channel runs almost under the centre of Galneor, and I have had a passage dug from it into my own cellar^ Neither the cave nor -11 T J ine suozerraneau nver-ueu is suspected by the Chinese." "How far is Galneor from here?" I asked. "I saw no house when I was in the tree." "No, jou could not see them,though they were not far away. They lie beyond the forest trees " Again the heavy tread of the two giants sounded in the cave, and they came in bearing a table and some dishes. I resolved to speak to them. "What are the names of our friends here, Mr. Avery?" "Oso-Bark and Garu-Saak," be replied. "Oso-Bark and Garu-Saak," I said, "we thankyou for your kindness. "Will you uot sit down?" The one named Oso-Bark turned to me, and bowing low, he replied: "Oolek, some time I shall with pride do as you ask. But even now there is much to be done, and Garu-Saak awaits me. We are happy to-day. The songs of the Jumar women are heard to-day for the first time in twenty years. The spirit of the Jumars grows light with hope, for at last our deliverer has come." Both giants bowed and marched out. I was astonished. "Why, that fellow speaks better English than I ao, 1 saiu. "He is very capable," replied Mr. Avery, "and be is proud of bis knowledge of English. I bave taught liim all be knows." "Wonderful! wonderful!" I exclaimed. "Witb an army of men like tbat empires could be overthrown." Mr. Avery smiled. "If my wishes could only resolve themselves into action, an army of them would have overthrown Hen-Ko-Hi long ago." "What! Have you more like iVinon 0' ' I/UC 3C . "Yes, plenty. They'are in truth the two noblest men of their race, but there is hardly a man among them who is not rugged aud powerful. The one other who equals these in intellect is * called Bado-Ror. His home is in Bromporrah, the farther city, and we do not see much of him." A gentle footstep, like that of a woman, was now heard, and a woman it was who came toward us. She saluted us both in exactly the same manner as the two giants had done. She brought cloths and spoons and knives and fcrks. She was evidently a serving-woman in Mr. Avery's house. "This woman will remain with you," said Mr. Avery. "It is positively unsafe for you to be in any place but this cave, and it will perhaps be pleasant lor .Miss Arnoiu i? uave a woman wno i < an talk English with her as a coin-! panion." I thanked the old man for his forethought. "Now I -want to show you," said | Mr. Avery. "what kind of human beings these are who are kept in this soul-killiug slavery. Just examine that mill see if it is not a clever piece of work." Miss Arnold and I carried the! cloth to tiie larup and cloeely ex- ! ?.mined it. i 9 Jj f r j rwwmr i rt n H rP rlllMA SUA I s ** m >F ADVENTURE. gf th : ** Cl ** tr 5V.: HOPKINS. 0f >BEBT BOKNEB'S SOSB.) y< What would you say it was?" asked b< Mr. Avery. in "Silk," I replied unhesitatingly. I "No; I 8houldcall it linen, but of a fe marvelous texture," said Miss Arnold. CI "It is neither. You have perhaps ye heard of China-grass, out of which the pi grass-cloth handkerchiefs sold in Paris th and London are made. A similar grass grows here. It is, correctly T. speaking, not a grass, but a fiber, in The cloth is formed by twisting the y< threads, first ,into long pieces and Y< then into piaits, and subjecting them W to a weaving process known only to qi these people. You will notice it is of nearly transparent in some places, tv while in others there are various Vi figures, such as flowers, birds and ani- m mala. It is no rude people who do that work." j0 "Indeed not!" I exclaimed. "It is ca shameful to think of these people being in bondage. Have they never n( struck for liberty?" b, ?11 _ ? -?i _ i i rm,?? "ixo; meir spirit is oroKeu. j-ucj have no alternative but to slave for j their heathen masters." "Is there not a moment -when the T( vigilance of the guards is relaxed? ^ Never an opportunity to strike a blow?" sa Mr. Avery smiled sadly. "What would they strike with? There is not a weapon on the island fa save those in the possession of our q masters?and these of yours. And in the fortress of Quiental there are thou- ^ sands of Chinese cavalry." -p, "But can they keep fifty thousand p, of a noble race in abject slavery? It is preposterous?" ea Mr. Avery shook his head. Ba (< iuA PAI/1 Awa or* ?V ill t, LI O oaiu, xuu Ui U nu American and think of fighting as an easy way to overthrow oppression, but aj you do not know the awfulness of the condition in which these people really ^ are. Why, to murmur aloud is to be 0f shot for treason." lj, My blood was up. I was raging ^ within me. jn "By thunder, Avery, I'll have that fiend in hot water before I've been Qr here twenty years!" yf "Be cautious! Be cautious! There be is much to be hoped for from yonr American energy, but you must be ^j, careful." , jt "So I will," I said. "Careful to jj? send Hen-Ko-Hi to meet Cha Fong." q cc CHAPTER XI. " CBICEMORE HAS A PLAX. of 'The following day Mr. Avery was a in welcome visitor. He came early to wi breakfast. In fact, he brought the w< breakfast with him* The woman he had given Miss Arnold as a companion 01 attended solely to her wants. Another be woman of the Jumars, sad-faced and fr silent, waited upon the missionary and M myself. The coffee was still hot, show- at ing that Mr. Avery's stove, from which st it came, could not be very far away. ui "Are all the women here as sad- m looking as these two?" I asked. m "Yes?all. The story of these ct women is but the story of nearly all. It is true, many have their husbands or left to them, while the brave husbands ti< of these fell fighting for their homes. "i i ? ? at nr l -twenty years ago, wueu iub iuhuk- m choos invaded this island, these th women were happy wives and mothers. Each had two children?a boy and M a girl. In the bloody battle yc that was destined to be the last fight of the Jumars or the Kaleks, their sw husbands were cut down by the ruth- m less hand of the Chinese conqueror. Then the children fell under the eye of the tyrant, and he took them away, to The^ boy of one, she who is now with th you, struggled to remain with his stj mother, and so enraged his captor that he was killed before his mother's ba eyes. The girls have never been heard of since, and, doubtless, are p] dead. But the other boy, little Gorgret, son of my serving-woman, TT ? i :~i.~ iu~ -a.flLlKU.UUau, was wucu 1U1U wc jjaiauc of Qaiental as a slave. Once, long ago, we heard from him, and since 8a then his mother has not had one joj- un ful moment. At times she breaks out in lamentations, and at others she is er as you see her now, silent, stern and sad. She pictures her darling boy as nc suffering torture at the hands of his w] cruel masters, and Bometimes is frantic in her grief. I am very fearful that tbe Chinese soldiers will hear her and understand the curses she calls down on the head of Governor Hen-Ko-Hi. Death would be her th punishment." pe "How terrible!" said Miss Arnold. mj "This is indeed a sad country." "It is indeed," replied Mr. Avery. iDl "Tliprs ar? sad hearts in Galneor and tn in Bromporrah. One story of wrong tli is but a type of a thousand others. ov The place is scourged." pa "Where are our friends Oso-Bark gt and Garu-Saak?" I asked. vu "They are at their daily labor. de Oso-Bark is a farmer. His place is m! not far from here. That milk you put ne into your coffee was from his cow. W( To obtain for me such luxuries as these, he is compelled to resort to ga stealth?to steal his own products, in jU( fact. The tax-gatherer of Hen-Ko-Hi jU) is always at hand, and Oso-Bark is 0t) one of a number of farmers who must ca furnish the table at the governor's tic palace. And Garu-Saak is at the pr mines. He lives on the other side of xi Galncor, near the road to Brompor- tli rah. His prodigious strength makes at him very valuable to his masters, and i>l for that reason he escapes torture I that would weaken his splendid frame." "Hen-Ko-Hi has the grace to leave th yon at least out of the list of task- or doers," I ventured. ho ' Not he. I, too, was a laborer at H< the mines, l;ut I was too feeble to fe< please my taskmasters, and I was sic punished. Now I am helpless. My th arm was burned until it became frt a shrunken, useless stick. Ah, the ab cruelties of the Mongols!" in; He opened the bosom of his shirt sk and showed us a sunken breast, w? scarred with frightful gashes and th burns. L< T: -'V '7: "I, too, liave suffered," lie said lmly. I could not behold that sight and tain my composure. I rose from ? a +nV>lo atwI backward and for w v-vw ? ~ ? x ird in the cave. "And is there no hand to raits this ( urderer?" I asked sternly. "Is ere no vengeance in God's Kill? mnot the pravtrs of those who pray ustingly prevail against this monster crime?" "We must be patient," said the J ;ed sufferer. "God knows?He is ' rer wise. I have prayed twenty < ;ars for release. Even death would i s a grateful boon. I endeavor to be 1 eek and to await God's pleasure, but i fear that 1 am not without vengeful l elings. Crickmore, old as I am? I tiristian minister as I am?there is I J :t in my heart a desire to see the j j mishment that is due meted out to j t lis murderer of God's people." | ] "That is but natural," 1 replied, lien stopping in my walk and standg before him, I continued: "But ju cautioned me against rashness, ou conjure me to be patient?to wait. rait! For what? Discovery is buta lestion of time, and then as a matter course, death. You have waited renty years?to what purpose? rould you have me wait twenty ore?" "If you must. Of what avail to se your life in a vain effort to esipe?" "Better that than be killed doing ithing. Oh, if I only had Langston | ;re to help me! His brain is more | rtile in expedients than mine. But fear he will not seek us here." "You have not told me the story of i >ur shipwreck?what brought you to j ,io nnrmrllw norf nf t.llA pnrt.ll." lift I 110 r? ? > ? , | id. ] I told him the story of Annie Ralsn and the search for her. I related ; lly .my misfortune at the hands of i ambok Snell and of my subsequent i iventures, the meeting with Miss j mold, the killing of Snell ard Cha ! ong, and our landing in the Saered ! orest. While I spoke the old man listened irnestly. When I had finished, he t a moment in silent thought. "Crickmore," he said, raising his ' >wed head, "there is something in | 1 this that bids me hope. A light is j eaking over me. It was a fortunate I ought?that of fastening the belief I the Jumars that you were a de- ! ?erer come to their rescue. Let me j ink. Nay, it is useless. I leave it i your hands. I am old and feeble. | y strength is gone. You must work j r it the solution of the problem in ur own way. But be careful! Oh, ) careful!" In this way we passed most of our ne. Mr. Avery was often with us iring the day, and in the evening, iving finished their day's work, so-Bark and. Garu-Saak would ime with him into the cave id would talk to us of the past gloes of Talmooah. I grew very fond j these Jumars. Oso-Bark especially J lpressed me as a mau of fbility. He j as a thinker, and I found tbat his ; ords were generally wise ones. j One evening, as we all sat, as was ; ir habit, in the cave, I threw a i >mbshell of surprise among my iends. It was about a month after iss Arnold and I had taken up our mrlfl with Mr. Averv. I had been udying the language of the Jumars I ider the efficient teaching of the ! issionary, and I was now able to ake myself understood in their peiliar tongue. We were speaking of our presence t the island and the passive condi | jn of captivity we were in. "Mr. Avery," I said, "is there anying on the island that will dye tc e exact oolor of the Jumar skin?" "I'm sure I don't know," replied r. Avery in surprise. "But why dc iu ask?" "I am very anxious to know," I an rered. "Perhaps Oso-Bark can tell e." The question was repeated to him. "Yes," he replied, in tbe native j ngue, "there is a tree that grows on i e mountains, the bark of which will J lin the color of the Jumar skin?" J "Will you get me some of thai ,rk?" I asked. "Certainly, Oolek, I will obtair AM 4 V* If I ? Biitjr lux juu, i ^ "But what in the world do you i tilt of it, Crickmore?" asked Mr. ery. "I am going to stain my skin," ] j id. "I am going to become a Jumai d go where the Jumars go." ''You! Why, you will be discoved and killed." "No. I will be neither discovered ir killed. I wiil be free. Friend, lat has become of your faith?" [to be continued. ] The IVoman of Faxcinatlon. The woman of fascination is never lat is called an educated woman, an which there is nothing more reliant to the sane and world-taught ind. She feels that she has a mission to -X A - 11 xl I siriict an luuao wuu uu nut xjajjpeu j g have learned precisely the same L ings that she has learned. More- * er she is very self-conscions and ? infnlly aware of her own mentality. g le is therefore intellectually like the r lgar parvenu who has raked a sud- j n fortune from some mud heap and ikes himself offensive by his eager- i ss to let you know how much he is i t >rth. ^ Blue eyes?that is to say, unmiti- ! E ted china blue?are never fascinat- ! r g m a woman. But blue eyes verg- j s g upon gray, and also eyes of any * her color, may be admitted to the i s tegory, witii a certain discrimina- \ \ m against hazel eyes and a strong j 8 eference for eyes of violet black, j " le ruopt fascinating eyes are those j ? at hesitate between gray and green, i d times becoming very dark.?Harry ] J lurston Peck, iu the Cosmopolitan, j t How a Froc Hibernates. j According to Simon Henry Sage, * e frog does not hibernate iu leaves * the trunks of trees, but iu a dry g le iu the grouud uot likely to freeze, ft 3 scratches the hole with his hiud jt, and enters backward. Once in-' J le, there is apparently uo trace of j a e fact outside. Frogs fouud under j t >zeu leaves are still able to move j 0 .... in out. Mr. Sage lias fountt tnuernat- j v g frogs with tlieir extremities ami j n 111 frozen, but their vital organs j v :re still intact, ami tbey recovered ^ eir activity ou being liberated.? t jiidsu Gloue. t c DB. TALMAGES SEBMON. JUNDAY'S DISCOURSE Br THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: Bayers and Seller!?Novel Tlewa on the Business Life? Hieh Compliment to Commercial Integrity?Trickery In l'rade Denounced. [Copyright, Loula Klopsch, 1899.1 Washington, D. C.?Integrity and trlcksry In business life form the subject of Dr. ralmage's sermon, and the contrast he sstabllsbee between the two is a striking >ne. The text is Proverbs xx., 14: "It is laught, It is naucbt, saiththe buyer, but vben he is gone hi* way then he boasteth." Palaces are not 6uch prisons as the world mnfrfneR- If von think that the onlv time :iDgs and queens come forth from the royal jates is In procession and gorgeously atended, you are mistaken. Incognito by lay or by night and clothed in citizen's apparel or the dress of a working woman, hev come out and see the world as it is. [n iio other way could King Solomon, the iuthor of my text, have known everything :hat was going on. From my text I am sure ae must, in disguise, someday have walked nto a store of ready made clothing in Jerusalem and stood near the counter and heard i conversation between a buyer and a seller. The merchant put a price on a coat, and the customer began to dicker and said: 'Absurd! That coat is not worth what you isk for it. Why, just look at the coarseness of tbe fabric! See tbat spot on the jollar! Besides that, it does not fit. rwenty dollars for that? Why, it is not worth more than $10. They have a better article than tbpt for lower price down at Dlotliem, Fitcm & Bros. Besides that, I Jon't want it at any price. Good mornng." ."Hold!" fays the merchant. "Do lot go oil in that way. I want to sell you :bat coat. I have some payments to make, ind I want tbe money. COme, now, how much will you give fortbat coat?" "Well," says the customer, "I will split the differ;nce. You asked ?20, nnd I said $10. Now, t wiil give you $15." "Well," says the nerchant, "it is a great sacrillce, but take t at that price." Then the customer witn a roil unaer ms irm started to go out and enter his own place of business, and Solomon in disguise :ollowed him. He heard the customer as he anrolled the coat eay: "Boys, I have made i great bargain. How much do you guess t gave for that coat?" "Well," says one, wishing to compliment his enterprise, "you gave S3D for it." Another says, "I ihould think you got It cheap if you gave ?25." "No," says the buyer in triumph, *1 got it for $15. I beat him down and pointed out the imperfections until I really made him believe it was not worth iardJy anything. It takes me to make a bargain. Ha, ha!" Ob, man you got tho ;oods for less than they were worth by positive falsehood, and no wonder, when Solomon went back to bis palace and had put off his disguise, that he sat down at bis writing desk and made Tor an ages a jrayon sketch of you, "It is naught, it is naught, faith the buyer, but when he is ;one his way then he boa9teth." There are'no h'gher styles of men in all :be world than those now at the head of nercantiJe enterprises in the great cities Df this continent. Their casual promise is is good as n bond with piles of collaterals, rhelr reputation for integrity Is ns well es:abllslied as that of Petrarch residing in ;he family of Cardinal Colonna. It is reated that when there was great disturbmce in the family the cardinal called all lis people together and put them under nath to tell the truth except Petrarch; Then be came up to swear, the cardinal jut away bis book und said, "As for you, Petrarch, your word is sufficient." Never iince the world stood have there been so nany merchants whose transactions can itand the test of the Ten Commandments, such bargain makers are all the more to be lonored, uecause they have withstood yeur ifter year temptations which have fluDg to mauy flat and flung them so hard they ;an never, never recover themselves. iVbile all pusitiens in life have powerful jesetments to evil there are specific forms >f aliarement which are peculiar to each occupation and profession, and it will be jseful to speak of the peculiar temptations >f business cen. r irsc, as in me scene 01 iu? im, uusmess nen are often tempted to sacrifice plain ruth, the seller by exaggerating tbe value )f goods and tbe buyer by depreciating bem. We caniiot but admire an expert talesman, See bow ho first induces the sustomer into a mood favorable to the iroper consideration of the value of the ;oods. He shows himself to bo an borest ind frank salesman. How cnrefuJly tbe ights are arranged till they fall just right ipon the fabricl Bet;innin? with goods of nedlum quality, be gradually advances nward those of more thorough make and )f more attractive pattern. How he vatches the motds and whims of his cusomer! * AVith what perfect calmness be akes tbe order and bows tbe purchaser roin his presence, who goes away, having nade up his mind that he has bought tbe ;oods at a price which will allow him a iviog margin when ho again sells them, rhe goods were worth what the salesman aid they were and were sold at a price phich will not make it necessary for the louse to fail every ten years in order to fix ip things. But with what burning indignation we bink of the Iniquitous strategems by vbich goods are sometimes disposed of. A jlanceat tbe morning papers shows the irrival at one of our hotels of a young .... 1 i n t n ti ,1 Atfi/ic uriuill'.ji iiuiu uuo vi iuu luiuuu vibive. 3e is a comparative stranger in the great sity, and, of course, be must be shown iround, and it will be the duty of some of >ur en'eiyirising bouses to escort him. He ? alnrge purchaser and has plenty of time ind money, nnd it will pay to be very atentive. The evening ia spent at n place of loubtful amusement, Then they go back o the hotel. Having just como to town hey must, of course, drink. A friend from the same mercantile estabislunent drops in, and usage and generosity suggest that they must drink. Busliess prospects are talked over, and the tranger is warned against certain diiapilated mercantile establishments that are ibout to fail, and for such kindness and nagnanimity of caution against the dislonesty of other business houses of course t is expected they will?and so they do? ake a drink. Other merchants lo 'Ring In iriininlnff r.mma (linl It hard to sleet) for be clatter of decanters, and the coarse jarousal of these""ball fellows well met" vaxes louder. But tbey sit not all nicht it the wine cup. Tliev must see the sights. Fbey s.agger forth with cheeks flushed md eyes bloodshot. Tbe outer gatos of tell open to let in tbe v ctims. Tbe wing9 >f lost souls flit among the lights, and the teps of the carouscrs souud with therumiling thunders of tbe lo9t. Farewell to all he sanctities of home! Could mother, ister, father, slumbering In the Inland lome, in some vision of that nict'it catch a ;limpse of tbo ruin wrought they would end out their hair by the roots and bite he tongue till the blood spurted, shrlekn? out, "God save him!" What, suppose you, will come upon such lusiness establishments? And there are lumlreds of them in tbe cities. They may loast of fabulous sales, and tbey may have >n unprecedented run of buyers, and the mine of the bouse maybe a "terror to all ivals.and from this thrifty root there may prmg up urancn nouses iu oilier fines', unu ,1! tbe partners of tbe llrm may move Into heir mansions and drive their full blooded pan, 'ind the families may sweep tho street yith tbe most elegant apparel that human rt ever wove or earthly magnificence ever cbieved. Iiut a curse is gathering surely or those men, and if It do** lot seize hold if the pillars and in one wild ruin brine [own the temple of commercial glory it riil break up their peace, and they will remble with sickness aud bloat with dls?ilatlons, and, pushed to the precipice of his life, they will try to hold back and cry or help, but no help will come, and they rill clutch their gold to take it aiong with lu<m, but It will bo snatched from their rasp, and a voice will sound through their oul, "Not (i farthing, thou uegcared pirit!" And the judgment will come, and they rill stand aghast before it, aud all the lifoHmo mill U3IUW.: lUlifUlLl^a v?l t* uivu.iiv niu round tlieui, saying, "I^o you remember bis?" nnd "Do you remember tlmt?" Ami lerks that tliey compelled to dishonesty ml runners and draymen and bookkeepers rho saw behind the scenes will bear testiiony to tbeir nefarious deeds, and some irtuous soul that otico stood aghast at the plendor.nnd power of these busiuess men rill say, "Alas, this is all that Is left of bit great firm that occupied a t-lock with heir merchandisfl and overshadowed the ity with their influence and made right eou&ness and truth and purity fall under | the galling ure 01 avuriuo ami crime. \7iille we admire and approve of all acuteness and tact in tbe fale of goods we must condemn any prccess by which a fabric or product is represented as possessing a value which it really does not have. Nothing but sheer falsehood can represent as perfection boots that rip, silks that speedily lose their luster, calicoes that immediately wash out, stoves that crack under the first hot fire, books insecurely bound, carpets that unravel, old furniture rejuvenated with putty and glue and sold as having been recently manufactured, gold watches made out of brass, barrels of fruit, the biggest apples on top, wine adulterated with strychnine, hosiery poorly woven, cloths of domestic manufacture shining with foreign labels, lmnorted goods represented as rare ana hard to get because foreign exchange is so high rolled out on the counter with matchless display. Imported, Indeed! but from the factory in the next street. A pattern already unfashionable and unsalable palmed off as a new print upon some country merchant who has come to town to make his first purchase of dry goods and going home with a large stock of goods warranted to keep. Again, business men are orten tempted to make the habits and customs of other traders their law of rectitude. There are commercial usages which will not stand the test of the last day. Yet men in business are apt to do as their neighbors do. If the majority of the traders in any locality are lax in principal, the commercial code in that community will be spurious and dishonest. It is a bard thing to stand close by the law of right when your next door neighbor by bis looseness of dealing is enabled to sell goods at a cheaper rate and decoyyour customers. Of course, you who promptly meet all your business engagements, paying when you promise to pay, will find it hard to compete with that merchant who is hopelessly In debt to the Importer for the goods and to the landlord whose store he occupies and to the clerks who serve him. There are a hundred practices prevalent In the world of traffic which ought never to become the rule for honest men. Their wrong does not make your right. Sin never becomes virtue by being multiplied and admitted at brokers' board or merchants'exchange. Because otheis smuggle a few things in passenger trunks, because others take usury when men are in tight places, because others palm off worthless indorsements, because others do nothing but blow bubbles, do not, therefore, be overcome of temptation. Hollow pretension and fictitious credit and commercial gambling may awhile prosper, but the day of reckoning cometb, and in addition to the horror and condemnation of outraged communities the curse of God will come blow for blow. God's law forever nnd forever is the only standard of right and wrong and not commercial ethics. Young business man, avoid'the first business dishonor, and you will avoid all the rest. The captain of a vessel wus walking near the mouth of a river when the tide was low, pnd there was a long stout anchor chain, into one of the great links of which his foot slipped, and it began to swell, and be could not withdraw it. The tide began to rise. The chain could not be loosened nor filed off in time, and a surgeon was called to amputate the limb, but before the work could be done the tide rolled over the victim, and his life was gone. I have to tell you, young man, that just one wrong into which you may slip may be a link of a long chain of circumstances from which you cannot be extricated by any ingenuity of your own or any help from others, and the mill *Tvll ftVflr Vrtn ?Q tllAV hlltfA many. Again, business men are sometimes tempted to throw off personal responsibility, shifting it to the institution to which they belODf?. Directors in banks and railroad and insurance companies sometimes shirk personal responsibility underneath the action of the corporation. And how often, when some banking house or financial institution explodes through fraud respectable men in the board of directors say, "Why, I thought all was going on in au honest way, and I am utterly confounded with this demeanor!" The banks and the lire and life and marine insurance companies and the railroad companies will not stand up for judgment in the last day, but those who in them acted righteously will receive, each for himself, a reward, and those who acted the part of neglect or trickery will, each for himself, receive a condemnation. Unlawful dividends are not clean before God, because there* are those associated with you who grab just as big a pile as you do. He who countenances the dishonesty "9 *-i.a r\f r\9 fho onmnrotlnn nr nctjn. ciutlon takes upon himself all the moral liabilities. It the flnancfal institutions steal, ho steals. If tbey go into wild speculations, he himself f3 a gambler. If they needlessly embarrass a creditor, he himself is guilty of cruelty. If they swindle the uninitiated, he himself is a defrauder. No financial institution ever had a money vault strong enough, or credit staunch enough, or dividends large enough, or policy acute enough to hide the Individual sins of its members. The old adage that corporations have no souls is misleading. Every corporation has as many souls us it has mem* bers. Again many business men have been tempted to postpone their enjoyments and duties to a future season of entire leisure. What a sedative the Christian religion would be to all our business men if, instead of postponing its uses to old age or death, they would take it into the store or factory or worldly engagement now! It is folly to go amid tho uncertainties of business life with no God to help. A merchant in a New England village was standing by a horse, and the horse lifted his foot to stamp it in a pool of water, and the merchant, to escape tho splash, stepped Into the door of an insurance agent, and the agent said, "I isuppose you have come to renew your Are nsurance?" "Oh," eald the mere naut, "I Lad forgotten that!" xno insurance was i renewed, and the next day the house that had been insured was burned. Was It all accidental that the merchant, to escape a splash from n horse's foot, stepped into the insurance office? No; it was providential. And what a mighty solace for a business m.iu to feel that things are providential! What peace and equilibrium In such :i consideration, and what a grand thing if all business men could realize it! Many, although now comparatively straitened in worldly circumstances, have u goodly establishment in the future planned out. Their best treasures in heaven, they will go up and take possession of them. The toils of business life, which racked their brains and rasped their nerves for so many years, will have forever censed. "There the wicked cease Iroin troubling, and the wearvare at rest." THE BIBLE IN INDIA. Hlnda Boy* Hut the Scriptures and Repeat Whole Chapter*. The R<?v. H. C. Hazen, writing for the Madura (India) Mission, of the American Eoard to the American Bible Society, New York, says: ? "India is now In a transition state. The people are searching the Scriptures to see if the things they hear are so. At the same time infidelity from the West is pouring in like a Good upon the youth. It is all important. therefore, that the Bible should be in the hands of the people, and should be offered so cheaply that they will not hesitate to buy. "I am greatly astonished at the readiness of the people to receive the Scripture*. The Mohammedans no longer hate the Uible, but buy it without hesitation. In one Mohammedan village they bought the whole stock and wanted mere. The Hindu boys in our schools readily buy the Scripturns nml recitu whole chapters to us. Every time we sell tt IiiUJe, or portion, to a Hindu I feel like shouting "Victory!" for I know that this silent voice is going to toll sooner or Inter in precious resuits." The Gospel in Tblber. Thousands of copies of the New Testa* ment have recently been sent into Thibet by the British ami Foreign Bible Society. The New Testament, I'salms, Books of Moses and Isaiah have all been translated into Thibetan. Doing Work in Many Lamia. The llrst annual report of the Christian and Missionary Alliance shows the receipts 1 - an" onn cs Thn AlHanno hna IU I'C ? it I fO+.\J.UU. AUU milUMvw M..k> .W? missionaries working in China, India. Japan. Africa, Arabia, South America anf Wefct Indies. I'lotentanti In Japan. There nre 40, COO Trotestant church members in Japan. . - y .; ; ' . ' /, r ? THE SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUGUST 13. Subject: Ezekiel'a Great Vision, Ezek. xxxvii., 1-14?Golden Text: "I Will Put My Spirit Within Yon," Kiek. xxxri.. ; 27?Commentary on the Leuon. 1. "Th? hand of tbe Lord." Indicating that be felt sensible impressions of Ood'0 power resting upon him. The prophetic I Influence was communicated. "In the iplrit." In a spiritual vision. "Vulley.'Probably that by the Cbebar; tne valley represents .Mesopotamia, the scene of Israel's sojourn In her state of natural deadaess. "Full of bonss." The bones were lying like bones of men slain in a battle, parched and bleached by the sun in a low plain; and the prophet was led round the higher ridge of the plain, as round th? verge or maruln of a volcanic crater, Id oraer 10 survey mem msiuuymy wciuw u?lu in its dark bosom. 2. "They were very dry." Representing Ihe Israelites dispersed abroad, destitute of national and spiritual lile. The first and Rreat object of this prophesy seems evidently to be the restoration of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity. A nation carried into captivity ceases to be a nation, md therefore may bo fitly compared to bones or dead bodies, so thut by the valley Df bones was signified the Babylonish dominions filled with captive Jews. Besides this, the vision is a lively representation of a threefold resurrection: 1. Of the resurrection of souls from the death of sin to the life of righteousness. 2. The resurrection of the Gospel-church or of uny part of it from an afflicted state to liberty and peace. 3. The resurrection of the bedy at the great day. 3. "Can these bone3 live?" The question Is fitted to bring the prophet, and through him his hearers and readers, to the consciousness of the impossibility presented to human eyes; ana considering the words ottered by Israel (v., 11), its intention doubtless is to bring out the despair of the people, in order to make room in their Hearts for the prophecy of salvutlon. V. 12. Ezekiel's answer refers the matter to Qod, for with Him there is no impossibility anless He wills it, and that Qod alone can know. 4. "Prophesy upon these bones." Declare to vour miserable countrymen the gracious designs of the Lord; show them that their state, however deplorable, is not hopeless. "Hear ye the word of the Lord." Sense and understanding are here attributed to the dry bones; and as these bones signified the captive Jews they are with jtrict propriety called upon to hear the word of the Lord. 5. "I will cause breath to enter." The jign of returning life. 6. "I will lay sinews." The parts which corruption speedily and completely destroys. The ligaments are to be added in order to unite the bones, that the skeleton might be complete. "Bring flesh." The whole muscular system, including the arterial and venous systems, clothes this skeleton, and tho skin anveiopes the whole of these muscles 01 flesh; and now these bodies are in the state that the body of Adam was before it releived the animal and intellectual prinliple from God. 7. "There was a noise." Of movement; ivmbol of tha eratherlnir of Israelites from different parts. PerbapB referring to the decree of Cyrus, or the noise of tho Jew6' exultation at their deliverance and rctarn. 'A shaking." Manifesting a divine presence working among them. Until Israel should give attention to the word of the Lord, He could not undertake for them. "Bone to bis bone." Each fitting into th? proper place and relation. Before Israel could dwell Id unity In their home laud they must Drst be brought into unity among themselves. ' 8. "There was no breath." No souli | animated the bodies. A man may assume j all the semblances of spiritual life yet have ' none, and so be dead before God. They wanted spirit und courage for such a difficult enterprise as the return to their own land. f 9. "Prophesy unto the wind." Or, rather, unto the Spirit, namely the quickenir.q , Spirit of God, or principle or me, issuing from Him and imparting life to every creature that possesses It. "Four winds." | Implying that Israel bad been scattered I to all quarters. 10. "Lived and stood up." Tho dispirited, despairing captives were wonderI fully animated with resolution to break through all tho discouragements that lay [ In the way of tlioir return. "An exceeding great nrmy." Not long living men, but effective men, fit for service in war and formidable to all mat should give them any opposition. These words, applied to tho Jews released and returning from captivity, signify that they should be gathered from their several dispersions and should be united in one body. 11. "Our bones are dried." Wo are undone?reduced to ourselves. It is over wltb us. "Our hope is lost." Our affairs are in the most desperate condition. There is not Hny hope of their tbeing recovered. "Cut off for our parts." Separated, shut out from God's help. We shall never be a nation again, indicating a condition ol extreme despair. 12. "I will open your graves." Meaninfi thereby the abodes of the exiles, since the Jews wiio were in exile considered themBelves like dead men. Though your captivity be as death, your prisons and places of confinement close as graves, yet will ] open those graves. You need not despaii of being beyond God's power. Ho car even raiso the dead. Tho Jews regarded the lands of their captivity and disparslor as thejr graves; their restoration "was tc be as life from the dead. Before the bonei were in the open valley, now in the graves That is, some of thy Jews were In th? Rrave9 of actual captivity, others at larg? but scattered. ;Botb alfke were natlonallj dead. "Bring you Into the land of Israel.' Not only should they have new hope be gotten," but they were also to realize al the promise fulfilled. Tney were to pos sess thoir own land. God has a place foi His people. The land which God gav? unto Isauel was still known as the land o: Israel. To it tho Jews were to be gathered 18. "Ye shall know that I am the Lord.' irru?... t /inno frsr t?Aii ruhnt TCH Q hft. UUCU1 U(i)C UWUV j W* T. ?... yond your hopo, and by you deemed im possible, then shall ye know that lam Jo bovab. 34. "Aud shall put My Spirit in yoa." M; enlightening, regenerating and sanctify ing Spirit. "And ye shall live." To th< glory of God, ?epnruted from tbe heathen fal?e gods, false vorebiD, and false how CONDITION OF THE RAILROADS. Tbe Gro? Earninc* For the Fait Teai Increased S135,235,848. The report of railway statistics for 1893, compiled by thelnterstato Commerce Commission, shows tbat eleven roads went iuto the bands of receivers, against forty-flve taken out. Tbe aggregate mileasre of railways on .Tnnn 30 1898. was 247.532. an increase of 4088. The number of railway corporations wa9 2047. The total of railway employes wag 874,558, on increase of 51,032. There was paid in wages ?495,055,CIS, an increase of $20,454,037. The amount of railway capital outstanding on Juue 30, 1898, not including current liabilities, was 110,813,554,031. Of the outstanding stock CO 20 per cent, paid no dividends. The total in dividends paid was if 96,152,889, an average of 5.29 per cent, ou all stock on which dividend was declared. The total number of passengers carried was 501,0CG,CS1, an increase of 11.601,483. The total number of tons of freight carried one ir.ile per mile of lino was 017,810, an increase of 98,731. The grcs earnings of the whole mileage was 41,247.325,021, au increase of ?125.235,848. The total number of casualties for the year was 47,741. Of railway employes 1958 were killed and 31,701 injured. The passengers killed were 221 and injured 2945. One passenger was killed for every 2,267,270 carried and one injured for every 170.-. 141. One out f every 447 employes was - 1 -" 1 AMf " " ttrontv.olntUf uiliru IIUU UiiC \j uw *.** iai urcd. instruction My Cinematograph. Dr. Doyeu, a French surgeon, has exbibitod to numerous doctou and students nt tbo Kiel University In Germany cinematograph pictures showing various surgical operations. Dr. Doyen advocates the use if such pictures for the education of students, saying that they are far more effective than the most elaborate written descriptions. The spectators were cntnuslustic over the marvelous accuracy ol the renresentation?. A TEMPERANCE COLUMN, j THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST % IN MANY WAYS. Ad Oz on Trial?DUtingnUhed Soldier* '.<*& Who Have Been Strong Advocates of??i-1 th.tl..... In fl.. i.n._Th?l|i> < Reatoni For This Are Unanswerable* I knew an old farmer who kept a big ox, He ate a great deal but worked not a stroke; Men put blm in pound as tight as a box, a And placed on bis aeck a big iron yoke; ' ,V] They fed him whole fields of the best of thecorn. But he pushed like the devil with the point ! oi his horn vd And oft from his pound and his keepers- -v] he broke. With a terrible rush the pavement he'd -Wk take, I Or sweep with bis horns the thick* J crowded street; j All barriers and fences to check him he'd* ..-J break, And hood and run over whomever he'd; vja meet; M His nostrils were red wlfh the blood that ,. .3] hesbed, '1A His pathway was strewed with the dying &-1 and dead, From the thrust of his horns^>r the tread.' $ of his feet. > A>S. Of this horrjble ox the townsmen all gpoke, 3 Of his pound and his keepers ana vlo- ; ? tlms, forlorn; Some said he was safe for he wore a big yoke, And others said not because of bis honu Tlie creature, some said, deserved to be rat killed; CM Some argued, his pound men higher should v build, And instanced the market he made for ,-j# onrti Cn spite of his yoke and bis keepers 'twas. -S found, t'jy Since the owner paid license and bought up the corn, rffi That "respectable" men would open the- fls pound, * 'jW And let .out tbe ox. witb the terrible- ?'$ horn; 4 [f some would complain of terror and pain,. &nd point to tbe victims the monster had r3a slain, They were laughed at aa "cranks" and -3 nooted with scorn. '% i K wise man, at last, with this wickedness vexed. A volume, well-worn, from his sidepocket drew; "Hear, townsmen," he said, "I'll read yon ^ a text, J ? Wbich tells with the owner and ox what to do." He read, and the people with mercllesa tnnaa Crushed in the ox-monster, his horns and his boues, -Xi Then righteously slew the ox-owner, too,. | ?Joel Swnrtz, In National Advocate. '*? Soldiers and Drink. Sir Garnet Wolseley, in a letter to Mr.. J Johu Bailey, President Granthan Temper- U ance Society , on April 21, 1881, wroter 'The cause of temperance is the cause of * social advancement. Temperance means' VJ less crime, and more thrift, and more com- <3 fort and prosperity for the people. Near- ';3 ly all the crime in our army can be traced ;?1| to Intoxication, and J have always found . .-gl that when with any army or body of troops-, .-rSl in the field there was no issue of spirits, . \%xh and where their use was prohibited, th? ~-a| eunn as wen cat) cvuuuci mu ? -..-j could be wished for." ,>3 On Another occasion, Id 1881, he wrote; VI "About ninety per cent, of the crime In' /jfl our army Is owing to drunkenness, and Jj when our men are removed from tbe temp* 1 afl tation of Intoxicating liquor crime is prao-'.^H tlcally unknown among us." After lie had become Lord Wolseley h? m wrote, In 1894: "There are yet some great , m battles to be fought, some great enemies " K to be encountered by the United Kingdom. JH But the most pressing enemy is drink. It 'a kills more than all our newest weapons of warfare, and not only destroys the body, but the mind and soul also." I On another occasion he said: "The su- J perstitions about grog are only maintained. -3 by those who mistake the cravings of. 5 habit for those of nature. Tbe experiences .? of our armies all over the world show that,,^| the health, character and efficiency of our men are improved by substituting other "" beveruges for strong drink." In support of a the last quotation.glven might be used what he 3aid in regard to his experience, which > was as follows: "During the operations I conducted In South Africa, in 1679, my A own personal escort was composed almost exclusively of teetotallers. They had very hard work to do, but grumbling wo3 never 'jug heard from them, and a better behaved J set of men I was never assisted with, a lact I attribute to tneir peing aimus; ou total abstainers." . 'Njy Sir Evelyn Wood, In 1832, said: "Tbroughout the Crimea those were the best and most healthy soldiers and sailors who did ool touch intoxicating drink." He also. served three years in India, Including the last fifteen months of the mutiny, und he :ould positively state that those wbo drank .. nothing were the best men. He went to the Gold Coast, and, during the 150 days they were in one place he put In 146 days' service, only to find himself beaten by a man who was a teetotaller. During the jl" last three days he had rounded the Cap? of Good Hope four times, and be found that the stokers who had to work in the heated stoke holes of the large ocean !' steamers never drank anything but barley * water in the tropics. Sir Henry Havelock says that "at the fall of Ghuznee, in the Afghan war, the self-denial, mercy and generosity of the soidiers arose from the fact that they had no spirit rations," and he added: "Siuce then it has been proved that troops can malce forced marches of forty miles and storm a fortress in forty-five minutes, without the aid of rum. behaving after success with a forbearance and humanity unparalleled la history." ' jv* Stonewall Jackson declared "He was I more afaid of brandy than bullets in the ' U1 Ui? C< ljDel Dawes, of the Bengal Artillery, say -: "Jfy experience Is tbat nearly all the ?rinu affecting our Enropean troops Id India has originatsd In the use of spirituous 11 iuors." Incremerf Female Draokenneii. Sir Wilfred Lawson told the meeting of the Women's Total Abstinence Cnlon that he had come from a good stand-up fight In the House of Commons on the Drink Question. The question was, whether the Scottish people should choose whether they would have drink shops set up among their DOUSES Or HOI. AJJi'tiiiiug ovuucuuo nvtw h given to the meetiDg, largly composed of I Indie?, cf female intern perauce. It was I shown that there were iu 1878 about 5000 women who had been convicted ten times and upwards: but in 1893 there were nearly I 13,000. I Tlie Crusade in Brief. I Rev. Theodore Cuvler. D. D., signed the [j total abstinence pledge when ten years old. r The temperance people of Birmingham, Ala., have by agitation compelled the isa- ') loons to close on Sundays. A movement to exclude liquor dealers from church membership has been started In Louisville, Ky., by Rm\ T. I. Eaton, D. D., pastor of one of the wealthiest churches in that city. It is stated that the banks in Kansas have larger deposits in proportion to population that any otner scute in toe Union except Maine. Kansas and Maine are prohibition States. On the west coast of Africa and far in* , ] land bottlos of gin and demijohns of rum > j'.ro used as the comraou currency; and on the Cotgo one-half of all tbat the natives produce Is paid for with liquor. The report of the London temperance hospital shows that during the year alcohol was administered in that institution tc only Ave case3 out of a total of over 8000. including out-patients. Of tho Ave cases lour proved fatal. Hoopeston, III., boasts of never having a falcon within her border, and yet visitor* decUre she has more paved streets and :;ood sidewalks than any city of her size ic tho Stare. She has electric lights, watei works, Greer College, splsnaid high schools nnd the - largest canning factory the worM n I