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g& P ' ' ? vj - 1 IN THE CI |f A NARRATIVE 0 By SEWAUD ^ XQ> (CorTBIOET 188k) 3T Eo CHAPTER XVI. [CONTINUED.] Oso-Bark sat down. Garu Saak looked at Mm with a glow or priae. With his hand on the hilt of his sword, the stern officer had stood motionless and silent while his fellow-Jumar had dealt the tyrant his telling blows. When the orator of Talmooch had finished, the warrior of Galneor said but one word: "Good!" Hen-Ko-Hi stood cowering beneath the awful tones of the Thunderer as the story of his evil deeds was told. Mr. Avery, while Oso-Bark had been speaking of his wife, sat white and still, the tears of anguish rolling down his shrunken cheeks. For a moment after the Jumar had ceased the silence of the room was oppressive. T tnfrid/1 Hfr A ttovtt anrl Tia arose. He lifted his one good arm and raised his eyes toward heaven. The impressiveness of the scene cannot be portrayed. In a calm, nnimpasssoned voice the missionary prayed. "0, Thou God, who art wiser than we, look down upon us in this hour of darkness and guide us. Thine eye hast seen the crimes that have been committed by this man, over whom we Bit in judgment. Shall it be Thy will that we show to Turn that mercy shown by no being save Thyself since man has lived? Or shall it be Thy will that the law of Moses shall be the law by which this man must meet his punishment? Guide us, Thou God of Peace and War. Plaoe in our hands that instrument of good or ill that will enable Thine own wishes to be fulfilled. O God " "Your majesty!" Bado-Ror had come into the room and stood before me, evidently laboring under great excitement. "Speak!" I said. "While the lookout was watching a speck on the eastern horizon that looked like a ship, a large war vessel has come upon us from the weBt. It flies a flag that we have never seen before. There are hundreds of men swarming in the rigging and on the .'onto What ora tTAnr- nrdprn'" "Sound the call to arms, and order the gunners in the battlements to be ready to open fire. Have the alarmbells rung, and see that the men are supplied with ammunition as they come in." Just then I heard some of the guns in the battlements thunder their reception to the unwelcome visitor. Then the boom of a distant cannon was heard, and a ball came crashing through the window of the palace and smashed the skull of Hen-Ko-Hi. His headless corpse fell prone upon the floor. "Thus hast Thou answered me, O God!" murmured Mr. Avery, as he turned away from the horrid sight. "Mr. Avery," I said hurriedly, "find Miss Arnold at once and get to a place of safety. Tall her to have no fear. It will be no easy task for an enemy to land. But I cannot imagine -who is making the attack. No ships were at Omental when we took the citadel, and none have been here since. How, then, did the news of the downfall reach the ears of the emperor?" "I know not," he said, bewildered. I left him tottering from the room, and rushed through the corridor toward the southern tower. Miss Arnold met me. "What is this?" she cried. "I hear cannon. They tell me there is more war?that we are attacked from the sea. Is it true?" "It is true, but there is no danger. I have not seen the enemy, but am told there is but one ship. We can defeat her. Come into the south tower." Another boom from that distant cannon startled us, and we hurried over the stone floor. The great build5 -1 ?- ? 1.V 11. 111* .liL. ing snooK vim me raining ui tue guns in the defenses of Qniental. There was a small window in the aouth tower that overlooked the battlemeuts. I rushed Mi?s Arnold to this window. Mr. Avery reached my Bide. I opened the window. One look was enough. *'Great Scott!" I exclaimed. "This it awful. How can I stop the firing? Do you see th.it flag?" "No, Crickmore, my feeble eyes," . said Mr. Avery. "What is it?" "The stars and stripes! That is an American man-o'-war. I am attacked V?w m tt aw?\ nnnr? frrm on T mnaf afnn this somehow." I dived down the steps and flew across the park to the battlements. "Stop!" I yelled at the top of my voice. "Cease firing! Those are my own people! Raise a white flag! O that I had a flag of our country with us! i By heavens, I'll go with one wrapped around my body the rest of my life. Cease tiring, I tell you! Raise a white flag!" Garu-Saak aud Bado-Ror gazed at me almost in stupor. They thought I was going to surrender. Oso-Bark sprang forward and raised a white cloth on the flagstaff. "These are my couutrymen," I said ! again. "They have not heard of the j revolution, aud came to tight Hen- | Ko-Hi. We are safe in tneir hands." j The firing ceased?on the ship as j well as on the land. I stood ou the I parapet, my heart I eating with eiao- I tion. A boat was lowered from the ship; and I saw some sailors clamber into j it. They were followed by some of- i fleers. Another boat followed the j first. A third followed the second. ' They were tilled with men wearing j the uniform of the United States. The suspense among my soldiers | was very great. They sto?d awk- j waiuiy uiuuuw, ijuv tuv^v.j . with the condition of affairs. The more ignorant among them did not ; kuow the secret of my presence in | raltnooch. Those who knew me best ( trusted me. Gai*n-Saak stood by my j 6iue. hii stem eyes watching the pro UNA SEA I 1 P> F ADVENTURE. *** Mfljft v.; HOPKINS* BIST Boxm's S?J?S.> gress of the approaching boats. BadoRor stood further away, he, too, intently watching our visitors as they drew gradually nearer. The white clothB the token of our surrender, floated lazily in the warm breeze. The bright sky, (lotted nere ana mere with a snowy cloud, spread a glorious canopy over the scene. It looked like war. In tlie gladness of my heart I knew it was the most ble3sed peace. I turned toward the palace. The pale face of Miss Arnold could just be seen, peering from the little window in the south tower. .1 waved my hand reassuringly, and her handkerchief fluttered in reply. The boats sped through the water, yet it seemed as though they would never land. As they drew nearer, I saw a man in a civilian's clothes sitting on the cushions besides the commanding officer. This man, whose features could not as yet be distinguished, seemed to be telling the officer something about the palace. His long arm would stretch out, and his finger wouid point to the south tower. The nearer the boats came, the more interested I became in that man. His gestures, his build, his bearing, seemed strangely familar. The boats grated upon the sand. The gunners in the parapet looked inofvnrtf inrta ^Qril IUWU.1 U iiJCiUl luoti uvwivuu J v?M? M -VWV.U and Bado-Ror stood "with drawn swords awaiting orders. Oso-Bark stepped to my side. I think be spoke to me. But I did not -hear him. I saw nothing around me. I heard nothing. My eyes, strained in their sockets, were riveted in the civilian. My heart pounded my ribs in a wild tumult. I trembled in every limb. Had I made an attempt to speak, I doubt if I could have uttered a sound. I forgot for a moment that I was King of Talmooch. I was not the chief of Jumars nor of the Kaleks. I was once more the Crickmore of San Francisco. The thin man in civilian garb was Arthur Langston. CHAPTER XVII. RESCUE OF ANNIE KAIoTON. My emotion can be more easily imagined than described when I recognized in the thin, worn man my old friend Lannston. I wanted to rush to him and clasp him in my arms. I wanted to shout and scream my joy in his very ears. But something in his appearance held me back. He looked like a sick man ?did Langston?and some occult influence warned me not to declare my identity to him with too great a suddenness. He had evidently suffered much. He was not thb robust athlete Iliad once known, in whose massive arms the power of a horse lay hidden. He looked haggard. His eyes had'a shifty w<iy that was not natural to them. His mind was evidently not at rest. I knew that he believed me dead at the bottom of the China Sea. Should I declare myself in au awkward manner, the shock might be too much for him. I knew that it would be difficult for him to recognize me with my brown skin, yet I hoped that the sound of my voice, if we came to speak to each other, would give him an inkling of the truth. The commanding officer .stepped from the boat to the land. After him came Langston. They were followed by other officers and several sailors and marines, all fally armed and ready for any emergency. They were not yet near enough for me to hear their voices, but I could tell from the expressions on the faces of Langston and hiB companion that they were having a heated discussion. Langston repeatedly pointed to the tower and seemed to be insisting upon something. The officer shook his head and appeared to be iu doubt. Langston began to look worried. They came toward me. I stood, surrounded by my officers, Ti'ftrlinr* 4-n rn/ioiro Act flioir on. w W VUVUII AA.LJ IUVJ MJ/ proached, I noticed that the commander was a handsome fellow, and bor9 himself with a dignity becoming the representative of my own great country. 'You surrender to the United States?" said he, stopping before me and studying me and my officers with a wondering look. "And right glad am I to do it," I replied. "You might have come in and taken us without a shot, and would have been made welcome." Langston peered at me curiously. His face was very pale. He was very nervous. "You are the commander of the forces of Hen-Ko-Hi?" demanded the officer. "No, I sm nothing of the kind. The forces of Hen-Ko-Hi?most of them?are buried in the forest be tween tms ana tne nearest town on the island." "By heaven, this is strange!" muttered Langston. He started toward me, but tho liand of the officer restrained him. "Be careful," said the salt to my friend. "Let me do the talking now." Then to me: "I am Captain Harwoocl of the United States Navy. My ship yonder is the Beaver. I came here, uuder orders, to demand an American prisoner from the hands of the Governor, Hen-Ko-Hi. The story was that this Hen-Ko-Hi was a murderous tyrant, and has held two American prisoners for months. One of them escaped and reached the American consul at Hong Kong. Investigation showed that Hen-Ko-Hi was carrying things with a higher hand than was permitted by his royal master, the Emperor. He was supposed to be merely the Governor of a penal colour, whereas ho made the criminals sent under his care his friends and soldiers and lived riotously and wickedly. Now, who are you, and where is the man I want?" "I am the Kins of Talmooch. HenKo-Hi was Governor until yesterday. The people over wnoui he had ruled so long without mercy arose in their mighl and evushed him at a blow. I know of no Americau prisoner, but I I have plenty of Chinese . in the dun- Jj geons." | "Keep them there. But where is j, Hen-Ko-Hi? He might be able to tell ij us something?" ' "He might, if you had not carried away his head with your first 3hot." "Alas! Then Balston?poor Hal- f ston!?must be dead!" muttered j 3 Langston. c "Kalston, did you say? Is it Ral- ] ston you are in search of?" I asked in f excitement. t "Ah! Yon know him?" shouted i Langston. "And you! And you! c Your voice is familiar, yet you are a t native of this island. The only man I I knew whose voice resembled yours ( was drowned in the China Sea months \ nrrn " j ?? I looked him fall in the face. He was laboring under so great a strain tbat I saw it would only increase it to withhold my identity. ? I "Arthur," I said, "don't you know I me?" ( "Crickmore! Crickmore! You! N,o! ' Dead, yet here, and king, while Eal- ( ston now is missing. What infernal ? mystery rules this part of earth?' ( He almost reeled. He clasped hi? ( hands to his head, He trembled like ' a leaf. He started at me as if I wert ' a ghost. To him I was one. "Yes, Arthur, old man?Crickmore, 1 alive and well. I didn't drown. By g ' miracle I was saved. I lived among these people and learned their ways. I taught them rebellion against HenKo-Hi, and we have wiped him out. . At last the shot from the Beaver did the last tinisking-stroke for us. But, ' my dear fellow, bow thin and old you look! Where " * "Don't talk of me, Crickmore," h? 1 almost wailed. "Where is Ralalon: Have you not seen him?" "No. I (lid not dream he was any- j where save in California." "Then, oh heavens, he is dead, Crickmore, dead in the tower!" "What tower? Where did you leave i him?" I asked quickly. "In a dungeon under the nortb tower of the palace. It was there w? were kept. If you have not found hiii he has starved to death since yon' came, or Hen-Ko-Hi has murdered him in his wrath at my escape. Oh search, Crickmore, search!" "I will, indeed, Arthur. But b? . calm. You are not yourself." "No, I am not myself. The tortures and imprisonment I have ha< have shattered my nerves, and th? [ eight of you has almost unmanned me I have not yet told you even that I wai glad you did not drown." He said this with a wan smile. "No need of that. But come. I an devoured Dy curiosity iu nuuw uu? you came here, in the first place. Her< we have been living on a twenty-mil? island and did not guess it. But ou; talk must come later. We must loci for Ralston now." Captain Havwood had been an eagei listener to our conversation. When ] turned to call Garu-Saak he said quietly: "I would suggest, Mr. Crickmore, J King of Talmooch, that, in order to i avoid mistakes in future, you change ! s that flag." j I followed his look, and lo, the flag | of China was flying gayly from the 1 north tower. "Garu-Saak!" I called. My genera! ? had withdrawn to are>.pectful distanct when he saw that Langston and ] were friends. ' Siro, I am here," he replied, step j piag forward. a "Do you know of any dungeon un j der the north tower." f "No, sire; I have seen none. Then j A*a tVl AVA '' f arc iiu |jiiouiicio buuc. _ "A friend of mine?of ours?is con f fined there. We must find him, anc f quickly. Get a detail of soldiers anc ^ follow me. Bring lights. And Oso j Bark." f "Sire, I am ready.'' j "See that the flag now floating ovei j the north tower is taken down." j On our way toward the south towei f we met Mr. Avery and Miss Arnold ^ coming toward us. I motionod fox _ them to go back and wait for us. r "Who is that?" asked Langston. ^ I quickly informed him. j "But about Ralston," I said .. "Where did you leave him, and ho* t was he then?" _ "Oh. I haven't seen him in four 01 ? five months. I don't know just ho^ j ? long it is since we landed, but I hav? I fl not set eyes on him from that day tc ! j this." ] Q "But how came you here? "Who; c brought you?" ] [to be continued. 1 Boomins a Hongnone. : 'Although I sold tickets in a red a circus wagon for years," continued v the dime museum man, "I was badlj i fooled once in an animal deal. I mear r by this that I fooled myself. I got i ? letter from a collector, who wanted tc r know if I would buy a mongoose. ] 1 wrote back to have it shipped at once, s and it was to be in the museum, read} g for exhibition, one Monday morning, f I had rather a hazy idea of what the J beast looked like, but I was sure that i n it was something big, with tuBks, and j j I told our artist to go ahead on that ! c idea and spread himself. c "He did. The picture he evolved v would catch any one's eyes at a glance, f He took a whole frame of canvas anc i c painted for a background a tropica! j g island, with the the mongoose chewing j i up sailors on the shore. i ^ "The picture was finished Sunday, j s and I couldn't help but rub my hands ' y when I looked at it. The moment il1 i was huug out people flocked arouno | it, and the early morning attendance 1 c 31onday was remarkable. The doors I p were opened before I got down, ana j d as I went upstairs I could hear a sub j r dued growl. j n "'That's the mongoose,' I said tc ! f myself. 'The idiots hnve'nt fed it.' | 0 "It wasn't the mongoose. It was | t | the crowd growling like a Roman mot j t behind the scenes. They hail been j c lured by the picture, and when thej : j got to the cage labeled 'Mongoose [ ^ they couldn't see the beast at all. II 0 had buried itself in the straw."?Chi cago Tribune. Bill?"That man never seems tc b recognize anyone on the street. ] ! t wonder what caused him to be sc s near-sighted?" Jill ? "Borrowing f mouey, I believe."?Yonkers States f i man. n Dusseldorf, Germany, is making j | . ready to hold a World's Esoositiou in f i1902. * \ - < - . - > ...; , . IGBICOLTDBiL?I V . , , , ;, - ~ xA?i6Kz'5 K* Sweet Corn Fodder. If properly cared for, the fodder rom sweet corn is as much better for itock as is the grain for eating as ./nvn-inro/l -roil.li nrilin firv fif>ld pnrn. fet as the crop 19 never all ready to gather at once, it is the general pracice to leave the stripped stalks standng until they dry, which will be very juickly after the breaking off of the ear tdmits air to the stalk. The small nubnns, which are generally the third :ars on a stalk, are worth more to go vith the stalks for cow feed than they ire to sell or to cook. Utilize Your Stream. There are few farmers who do not possess running water, a spring or a oond upon their lands?waters which :ould be made to produce not only a usury for the family but would turn >nt big interest on the investment, it illowed to. An unfailing spring, so )ften used as an appendage to the lairy, could bo made to "double up" jy using it for a small trout preserve, vhich would supply the choicest of 3sh, not only for -the farmer's private able, but in the open market during ;he proper season. Ears# From Hardy rotrn. As a fowl inherits the character and veaknesses of its progenitors, it must )e accepted that the egg enclosing the smbryo, contains these within itself, ^.n egg laid by a weakly hen will be veakly, if such a term can bo applied o it. The germ will be feeble and jrobably the yolk and white will be leficient in some special qualities. In lending eggs by rail much will depend lpou the hardihood of the producing stock. If from coarse, hardy birds ;hc germs will stand a great amount )f knocking about before they will be iffected thereby. But if they are rom closely bred birds they will be ;asily affected and soon ruined. The nore inbreeding is resorted to tha veaker will be the germ.?Agiiculural Epitonist. For Dressing Fowlg. The'tilting table here shown is just jig enough to hold a fowl firmly beiween the side boards, with its head )r neck down through the opening, io that 110 blood will get upon the THE SLOPING TABLE, able or the feathers. The latter can hus be kept clean aud sold. Even d a low price, the feathers from arge flocks make not a little addition o the profit side of the account. This nethod permits the feathers being laved without any soiling whatever, :onsequently the highest price is obained.?New England Homestead. Skim Milk For Fowl*. "While there is no question as to he value of skim milk for poultry .nd especially for growing chicks iu he spring and summer and for laying owls, during winter, there is a limit o which it can be advantageously ed. By very careful tost it has been ound that skim milk fed to laying owls during the winter, when the ;eneral food was abuudant and varied, nduced egg production and kept tli9 owls in good condition without makng them fat. Barely enough of it is lad to go around at that season, but n summer when there is a larger [uantity the fowls are inclined to ;orge themselves and not do the >roper amount of "hustling" on the ange. Tftey soon grew too fat and lia okini milk had to ba shut off. It s never wise, winter or summer, to >ermit laying fowls to get the idea hat they need not work for any jortion of their liviug. Once they ;et that idea there is trouble, and the inly way to break up their laziness ,nd get them bask to producing eggs s to starve them until they aro ready ,nd willing to scratch for a part if their daily food.?Breeder and farmer. Why tlie Silo is Popnlar. As a matter of economy iu the stor,ge of fodders the silo has several advantages. More fodder can be stored n a given space than by any other nethod now in use, says Frofessor C. > Phelps, of the Connecticut Experiaent Station. The grain, stalks and eaves are irenerallv all packed in the ilo together, anil thus are fed to;ether, saviug a considerable expense or husking and grinding the grain, lore cattle can be kept on a given ,rea of land when silage is mainly de>ended upon than in the old. system if using dried fodders. The farmer an also be lurgely independent of leather conditions in harvesting his odders. Crops of clover, for example, an often be stored in the silo with ;ood results, when field curing would te practically impossible. It also supilies the herd with au abundance of ncculent feed at that season of the ear when it could not be as economically provided by auy other means. According to the testimony of scores f the best of the dairy farmers, the ilo is next to a necessity in modern lairying. It has como to stay and its eal merits are being better understood nd appreciated year by year. Xo aimer who has given the silo a thorug'u and systematic trial is prepared o reject it and go back to the oldsysem. The use of the silo is ou theinrcasc and its merits will continue to i ?e discussed until all dairy farmers I Kaon inorln n/?nnaillted witll its I id vantages. A Watering; Device. The cut shows a device for watering toclc ia the stalls. A V-shapecl trough intends along before the whole row of talis, forming, with its cover, the rout of the crib. This trough can be lushed out, the lower end then stopped ,nd the trough filled. The covers can >e arrauged so that the cattle can lift hem when desiring to drink, then ailing baric into placs of their own j vei^'ht, A very little slope to the; "'< ' trongli -will carry the water from one end to the other. Until one has tried the experiment of keeping water constantly before his cows, thus giving them the chance to drink whenever thirsty?just as is the case when the animals are at pasture?he will not realize now mucn oeiter nis sioc* win thrive and produce.flesh or milk than is the case when the stock is watered but once, or, at most, twice a day. In the latter case, if an animal does not mk, FtfD \ >p,i l|lj FLOOR CRIB j j| PLAN FOP. WATERING STOCK IN STALLS. happen to be thirsty at watering lime, it must go until the next journey to the trough is made?perhaps twentyfours distant.?New York Tribune. Texts For Farmer*' Lav Sermons. 1. A farmer who does not Jove hi? business is not likely to succeed. Work with no heart in it is not apt to be well done, for "when the heart strays the work flags." 2. Hogs and hominy are all right in their way. But the farmer who provides these only or mainly for his table supplies is not living up to his privileges, 3. Run your farm to make a living from it, and you are almost sure to X .1 J ? gel U ffUUU UUO tVUll j-uurwo DUUIO wuucj besides. If you farm to make money alone it is doubtful if you get either. 4. Avoid debt as you would the pestilence. If unavoidable meet it bravely and conquer it. o. A farmer's first aim should be to make for himself and family a comfortable support. Then, like the Dutchman in the story, let him try to J make money?honestly, if he can?to meet the needs of the rainy day, so sure to come some time. 6. If you want to keep your boy on the farm interest him in the work by giving him an interest in the results of bis labor. To add to his interest provide him with suitable books, magazines and papers, and don't begrudge him a well-earned holiday now and then. These investments will pay almost daily dividends. 7. The most profitable acre on the farm is that devoted to a well-tended vegetable and fruit garden. 8. Credit has killed more farmers than it has helped. Like temper, it is an excellent thing to have, but be careiui ana not lose it. 9. Concentrate your working capital, labov and fertilizers on one-ball the acres you arc now tending and see it farming does not pay better dividends and cost less trouble. 10. The forehanded farmer is generally the full-handed farmer. He-w lie keeps well ahead of his work is master of the sitaation andean take advantage of every circumstance. 11. The true policy of the South is not to raisd less cotton, but to make it at less cost, ou 'a smaller acreage, more highly worked and fertilized, and that, too, as a surplus crop.?M. E. Boy ton, in Home and Farm. Canker In Apple Wood. A comparatively new disease has within a few years appeared in apple trees. It is a canker, a fungus growth, which causes at first au enlargement of the braDeh by apparently raising the bark, its second stage is to eat away the substance of the inner bark, causing a noiiow. men me disease progresses, often extending to the middle of the branch, causing it to blacken and die. After a few years it extends over the entire tree and kills it. The disease is at first often mistaken for what is called suuscald, and the twenty-ounce and Spitzenburg varieties, that are most apt to sunscald, have generally proven most vulnerable to it. Beth these varieties are deficient in vigor, and it is one peculiarity of the disease that it preferably attacks old trees that have roughened bark, which hold the spores of the fungus until they can work their way down to the inside bark. It will not attack young, vigorous trees. It is quite likely that the present prevalence of the canker is due to the great applo crop of 189G, which so greatly weakened vitality in .many orchards that they will never fully re cover. Though it is called apple canker, other trees, including the pear and quince, are subject to it. The brown rot which somewhat attacks apples and pears will spread the disease if some of the rot is placed in contact with a cut surface on a healthy tree. This brown rot of apples and paars wa?, we believe, known many years ago. But it was before so much was known about bacteria, and little attention was given to the rot, as beyond I destroying a few specimens it had no power to injure the tree. Now either the disease has grown more virulent or trees aro more susceptible to it than they once were. Wherever this disease is suspected j r.ll orchards should be sprayed with.| Bordeaux mixture. This will kill the spores that are cn the limbs, and it should be done if possible before tlie tree is in loaf. When the canker begins to eat into the tree it poisons the sap, and the fungus is carried all through the limb. The effect of spray-11 1 ? "'" tni'o ia nltt'RVS I ing V.'llLl DUUICUU^ U ..Vluiv ... .. to produce a smooth bark anil a J healthy green color. If farmers will not spray to save their fruit they may at least bo obliged to do eo to save tboil* trees from threatened destruction by this new fungus disease.? < American Cultivator. Ono AVuy to Titko IMtotocrapTifl. A Houlton (Me.) man recently took a very good photograph with a simple 2>asteboard box and a dry plate. An aperture was cut in the box, over which was pasted a piece of black paper, in which a small hole was made with the point of a pin. The box was then taken to a: dark room and the plate securely fastened inside. Of the thirty-nine street railways in ami around Paris oulj tea use steam motors iu one form or auotkar for traction purposes. . >'tt. fcf? .: . K '. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. Love Tliat Passeth Knowledge?Speak Oa? tlie Good Tlcliiips? Secret Prayer?The Fuliieftfi of the Spirit?Church Board UI*CII MJBkJ WJ JL7UJ* Higher than the highest heaven, Beeper than the deepest hell, Is God's love to guilty pinners, Who, through disobedience, fell. Why love them so? I do not know; But this I know; Redeeming love and it alone, Can break a heart as hard as stone. Purer than the purest fountain, Wider than the widest sea, Sweeter than the sweetest music, Is God's love in Christ to me. Why love me so? I do not know; I only know That nothing less than love divine Could save this sinful soul of mine. Stronger than all evil powers Is this fortress of our faith. "Our life is hid with Christ in God," In Him we'll triumph over death. Why love us so? I do not know; I only know rrt.-i e , - ui? u_.. l~ J. Hill I JL IllS UUUUUiCCO IU>t3 LU LLitj I'll praise Him through eternity. ?New York Observer. Speak Ont the Goorl Tiding*. We Protestants are reticent and often shamefaced in conversation about our personal religious life. We want our private devotions to be literally in secret, and often hesitate to kneel in prayer in the presence of others, while the Boman Catholic tells his beads and mutters his pater nosters regardless of listeners. Methodists, who declare, if not boast, a positive spiritual life, are not better than others in this respect. They tell of personal experience freely id class-meeting, but are silent about it in private conversation. It is not certain that the most talkative man is most holy?there may be much of cant In loudest professions ?but tbe devout Christian should find tne habit of religious profession a means of great usefulness. To be able readily to turn conversation 10 religious suojecis is partly the result of habit; but good habit is largely the result of thought and practice. Speech must follow the current of the mind. Happy is the Christian, thrice happy the minister, who is able, without jar or break, to turn pleasant conversation into the channels of holy experience, so that the young and inexperienced will listen aDd share in it, interested and unembarrassed. ''Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another."?Exchange. Secret Prayer. Among the elegant forms of insect life, there is a little creature, known to naturalists, which can gather around it a sufficiency of atmospheric air, and, so clothed upon, descend into the bottom of the pool. You may see the little diver moving about dry, and at ease, protected by his crystal vesture, though the water all around him be staj?r ant and bitter. Secret prayer is such a protector, a transparent vesture which the world sees not, but a real defence, keeping out the corruption of the world from a man's soul. By means of it the believer can srather around him so much of heaven's at mospbere that while walking in the contaminating world for a season, he is safe from the world's pollution. Perpetually clothed in a grand ideal! That is what we need, and it i9 at the throne of grace, during the season of secret daily prayer, tkat we robe ourselves anew in our grand Ideal. This is what Christ did. Christ put on anew His grand ideal in the retirement ot Gethsemane. Like him we must frequently withdraw ourselves for prayer, and reclothe ourselves in our grand ideals.?Christian Intelligencer. 4 The Fulness of the Spirit. _ Every Christian, then, needs to pray for the fulness; of the spirit of Christ?for the energy which conquers personal life, drives out vice, and overcomes evil. He must have an aggressive power against all evil, a constructive power for building up virtue and organizing and directing holy energy. J,Be filled with the spirit," is imperative. Tha church must be beside herself for Christ. It is an age of rapid progress, of sudden transition. We no longer walk; wo run. Steam is already too slow; we harness to the forces of electricity,and seek the speed of light and thought. Christianity must keep up, must have no lack of power. Theory will not do, philosophy will not do. Never was there a time when men so much needed to be m<)n? so big, so strong, so wise, so consecrate, so in union with God, so energized by divine r>/\nr<>w frt P 1 1 n/l n? {t h /HrirtO OA rr? o ofar. puncij ov iiiivu nuu iuiiuv sv ujuqi>oiful as against the world. Spiritual truth must be more rca 1 than ever. Men must talk with God. live with him, listen to him, hear, understand and obey him. The 20th century is near.?Zion's Herald. Church Boarder*. A friend of mine told mo once that when he went .o a boarding Douse he could always tell who the boarders were, for they never alluded to family matters, but sat down at the table and talked of outside af? fairs; but when the sou came he would go into the sitting room to see if there were letters, and inquire after the family, and show in many ways his interest in the household. It doesn't take five minutes to tell that he is not a boarder and that the others are. And so it is with tho church of God. You see these boarders in church every Sunday morning, but they don't tuke any interest) they come to criticise. And that is about all that constitutes a Christian nowadays. They are boarders in the bouse of God; and we have got too many boarders.?D. L. Moody Help Given Day by Day. Life mu*t be lived on the instalment plan, an hour at a time. God promises no grace for tomorrow, but supplies help only for today. Tho habit which some people have of living life in future tenses, involves them in a host of difficulties and discouragements. It has been justly remarked that if men were called to lace me wont 01 n wnoie we at any moment, the strongest man would fail; but becaase that work is divided into fragments. the weakest man, if he has courage, is able to carry the ioad. The true method of living is to take one day at a time, and to live that day with God.?N. Y. Observer. i I'rayer of the Krittau.y Fisherman. Fishermen of Brittany utter this simple prayer when they launch their bouts upon the deep: "Keep me, my God; my boat is small aud the ocean is wide." How very beautiful the words, the thought! Miidit not the same petitiou be uttered night and morning by God's children journeying on the sen of life? My boat is small, I am so weak, so helpless, so forgetful of Thy lovingkindness. Tossed to and fro at the mercy of the world, except thou doest help me, I perish. Keep tue. my God, for "Thy ocean is so wide!" ?Anon. He who trusts in his own moods for progress in the Christian life is like a man who rows or rests while his boat is fastened to the shore. Trust in self is doubt of God. I nnr nti-n fwitli i? childish fnllv. I Faith i.> faith because it cuts tbo bonds that bind us to ourselves aud makes us share the life of our Redeemer.?I. 0. R. As our lives become broader, new capacities are developed In us, both for seeing and doing. One of the greatest satisfactions ol poing out to all men in sympathy and service is the enlargement of the personal life. Such giving is like seed-sowing?it reward* the sower an hundred-fold. A Novel Oklahoma Weildlnj?. John S. Perry, a cowboy, aud Miss JsmrnD Moy<*r, daughter of :i cattleman, were married a few days a<?o on one side of a swollen stream in Oklahoma while the Rev. Mr. Curlock, who performed the wedding ceremony, stood ilfty yards away on the opposite bank. The parson could not get across the stream to the bride's home, the plact appoluted for the marriage, aud the couple met blm at tiie creek. The groom tied tht license and the marriage fee to a stoue aud threw them across the stream. An Offensive find Defensive Alliance. Tiie Oranso Fre3 State and tbe Transvnal r.fpubiic iuj iu nil offensive aud doleuslve alliauce. ^ ? ! A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. : THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. . % H Time to Lunch?Woe Upon the Man Wb? / Jriits tne JDOCII? IU mi iieiRiiwu* ? Month and Mxkei Him Drank?Llgbtet Load For the Man With the Hoe* Now It is noon, by the city hall clock; And my appetite true as the dial, Demands neither sheery, champagne not hock, To prepare my true palate for trial. The veering and rising and falling of stock . Dulls the digestion of those who would buy all. The merchants of Mammon would sell oa the street, I want a trustworthy sandwich to eat. * Strike out the gin, and the whisky and wine, And brundy, and leave me the clear cold water; I came not here to get drunk, but to dine; The thick, muddy claret reminds me of aitiuguier; .+ Its taste would ae3troy the taste that's divine, And make mv neck swell as thick as tho v gaitre Swells the neck of the suffering lowland Swede. . . Mutton chop or beefsteak and coffee 1 n?.d. Let the tablecloth be as white as the snow, - >4 Like stars the silvery gleam of the castor, . The knives and the forks and the spoons aglow, Fit for an emperor or for an Astor; Drown with rich odors of coffee aflow, * The smell of the ale that brings only disaster. Good landlord and waiter, please strlk? ; from the bill The names of the drinks from the vat and the still. ?National Advocate. <. The Man With the Jag. Mr. Markbam's poem, "The Man With tb? . ; < Hoe," ha? attracted much sttentlon and - <* elicited the sympathy of millions of tender Hearts la favor or tue raraaer, ana properly za so, for be Is "bowed with the weight of een- >j|| turles" and bas "oa bis back tbe harden of the world." But who thinks of offeringsympathy to the man with tbe jug? H? too lAbors under a harden, sometimes be- ' 4 yond his strength, and falls oat of sight ' ^ and Into an uahonored grave. The world looks upoa the maa with the> 'V jug as a common drunkard not worth attention, much less respect, and turns tbf? $ cold sboulder to him autil he loses All selfrespect and gives up all bope of redemption. It is true tbat be is more to blame for hiscondition than any one else and mast answer to God for his sin of seM-destraotion. But he is not alone to blame. Iaflue^pes were brought to bear oa him and temptations placed in his way that lured him to bis ruin. If the appetite is hereditary,. then the parents or remote ancestors mast. J in a measure, share tbe responsibility. If the appetite is the result of social environments, then these guilty of placing th? , temptation before the anfortaaate mfto -i mast bear the blame. In either case th6>.??!| victim is more to be pitie'd than scorned, v 'M Some of tbe most pitiable objects we hav?~ '.^f ever seen were men utterly under the do? ;'q minion of the jag. Though convinced or -ji Bin, and the final ruin ot the soul, body and estate, ot indulgence in strong drink, and struggling to be free, like a fawn la the* ^ folds of an anaconda, they -vera perfectly m helpless. Led away, it may be, In the beginning, and blamable for yielding, In the ?? end they were the unwilling victims of ap- . petite. It is true no^. case is absolutely. ; hopeless, because the*Lord pledges Him- aj self to help every struggling soul. But to i|| get such a soul, whose moral senses Iww been blunted by long indulgence, to see J this and lay hold of the hope set before him, is the hardest kind of work, as everybody knows who has had any observation. , ? As long as human nature remains what i it is, and facilities are afforded men to feed. : their greed, the jug will be supplied, with liquor, and the great army of respectable $ drinkers will be recruited, and in turn the f grave will receive dead drunkards. There, S is but one remedy. We cau neither kill 1 nor punish the mtin with the jug, but we- ' can take temptation out of his way. We js can breakthejug. ^ God pronounces a woe upon the mao || who puts the bottle to his neighbor's month, -2| and makes him drunk. The curse must rest on all who are guilty, whether pareotts,. or those who compose the oommunity, or >16 rule the State or Nation. Our Government is such as to nllow us to free ourselves. from the curse if we will. The response ; Sa bility rests upon the good people of our a land. The man with the jug must be re- . S lieved. Then the man with the bon will '?, have a lighter load to carry,?Northwest- ''jg ern Advocate. Corner-Stone Want*. V Wanted, a better receipt for prosperity ; i tban a sober and industrious people. Wanted, homes where the sights and } sounds of the saloon will never come. Wanted, to know when Uncle Sam wilt I grow tired of the burden or the saloon and ,, tbrow It off. Wanted, by the gin mills 100,000 boys for 'I tbe annual grist. Money is no object? >?, must have the boys. Wante.1, to find a man who really tblnk? ? that v"? saloon is a good thing and the> :jj saloonkeeper a good man. Wanted, to know which has the stronger "i "pull" in securing temperance legislation,. i the church or the saloon. Wanted, all men to know that the drink $ question will be settled just as soon as th? '3 voters say the word. Wanted, to kuow where the profit forth* H American people comes In investing money 4 in the saloon where the expenses are many " fold the revenue. '4 Dr. Norman Kerr. 1 This emiDeDt English physician, who> made a special subject of inebriety in itiK j I many ramifications, died recently at Hast~ 4 lngs. lie was aa lnueiaugauie worker aui* writer, his volumes, pamphlets and articles being voluminous. He was consulting physician to the Dalrymple Inebriates'Home,. i and took great Interest In the British Medical Association. He was a very thoroughgoing abstainer, and many of his statements as to the uselessness of f.lcohol will never be forgotten, as for Instance: "A?S the alcohol in the world will not contribute a drop of blood, a filament of nerve, a. fibrilia of muscle, a speculum of bone to the human economy. On the contrary, ^ there is death in "the cup, waste of strength, decay of substance, destruction of tissue, degradatlou of function, material | death." Ninety Per Cent. For Liquor. General Horatio C. King, President or ' tbe New York State Board that has control" of the Soldiers' Home at Bath, N. Y., ln> an official letter to Governor Roosevelt* says that of the more than $100,030 pal<> j last year In pensions to the Inmates of thai: institution, "it is not an overestimate tc state that at least ninety per cent, was speut lor Intoxicants." Perverts Belter Instincts. "Alcohol Intensifies miia's sensual propensities And perverts bis better instincts Imperceptibly aud slowly poisoning am* paralyzing the brain, it blunts and destroyelts highest (unctions, the moral sentiment,^ and the free and delicate action of the will -i It makes the man more animal and morf gross, attacking the tissues of the body; It spoils and degrades the very germ of futurt- ' generations."?Professor Forel, Medlca* W J Superintendent of the Government Asjklua for the Insane at Zurich, Switzerland, it an address delivered to the students of tbf universities at Christlania, Norway, aud Upsala, Sweden. _ Y.'hUky and Snake Bites. ' Professor Leonard Stejneger, a United ?ji dtates Government expert, says that whisky instead of being au antidote for snake bitus, according tlue general belief is really an aggravation of the trouble, a? ; It accelerates the circulation of the blood / and hurries the poison through tbe velo> and arteries with greater rapidity thau ft I would otherwise have. What next? Alcoholism anil Health* I A recout report of a great Purls bospita? I ( eems to give uuequivocai evidence of tb? I tendency of intemperance to underpin* health. Out of 1000 patient9 exuminet seventy out of ov>*ry 100 of the men, au( thirty.one out of wry 100 of t!ie worce* were hopeless "ail: . liteb" or hard drinktr?