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Xtie % 7\bnni< / I"1" " vrvv% CJ? _D-(? A NO J3v SQrs. glizat (ISABELLA < (Copyright, 1S92 and IK)?, by CHAPTER VIII. CONTHTTJED. hfc. c "Yes, indeed, what a charming man your papa is, Mr. Stanley! Dear old flfc \ gentleman! Till I met the Earl of ""-Windermere, I really felt a little timid ^ about meeting noblemen. In my in\ ^Jiocent ignorance I couldn't quite rec'^ nrniija t.Viof fhav irflrfl lib*A fltllAT nftfl ?V r ? 'jplo; but your papa quite curedjxte of imat feeling, Mr. Stanley. And then / y$>ur brother, Lord Appleby] He is a j most delightful person.'* % "Ah! We are a delightful family ' ^altogether, Miss Gaye," said the Hon. ' Clarence Stanley, good humoredly. "Yes, Mr. Stanley, you are a de' iightful family; and Lady Appleby and the dear little boy, the ne-w heir to Windermere, and even dear old Toddlekins!" "Ah, indeed! There you have tho advantage of me, Miss Gaye. You Bee it is many years since I left England, and my brother "was not yet M married. I hope the dear little boy L T Irnnnr nnthinv fhAt. ID IjUlbU (TOUi x auv u ? would distress me more than any acoident to him. But, 'dear old Toddlekins!' Now, who is Toddlekins? That is a member of the Stanley family with whom I am not at all acquainted." "Why, of course; because I bestowed that that name upon her myself. Toddlekins is the old-maid sister of Lady Appleby." "Really, I had quite forgotten her! And by that name, too! But, since you have bestowed it on her, I am quite charmed to make her acquaintance." "But she hasn't forgotten you, Mr. Stanley. Ah, no! You are quite a hero to her, and she ha3 a picture of you about which she is quite silly. She has it set up in her room like a saint in a shrine." rxinf.nrfl r\f mf>l" PTrtlftimfid Clar enco Stanley, and his band closed convulsively upon the miniature he had been holding. He was conscious of tba violence of his own grasp, and he felt the old and worn hinge of the frame snap. How provoking! Dolores would'be distressed at the aocideht, and he was very anxious to do nothing that might annoy her. Mary Hamilton, vaguely conscious that something like a duel of words L-was taking place between Clarence and this new acquaintance, but quite unable to guess at the meaning of it, had taken .bertha Sefton to the other side of the room to meet Dolores, and the three girls stood there, exchanging commonplaces and feeling uncomfortable. Bertha was wishing that he had not brought Olive, and won x dering at her curious manner toward Mr. Stanley; Polly was thinking that Olfve Gaye was "queer," and Dolores I was Raiting an opportunity to get B back her mother's miniature without f being obliged to ask for it, and feelI ing that she could not endure to have ' it looked at find spoken about by these strangers, ev&n though they were Maruja's friends.Olive Gaye alone . was perfeotly serene, j "'A picture of yon!'" she was sayI ing, repeating Stanley's last words. "Why, yes, that is not Very surprisIing, I am sure. Why shouldn't dear old Toddlekins have a picture of you if she wants one; and a most ezoellent picture it is, Mr. Stanley, l^ow, I ft don't think you at all like your papa, |B' or like Lord Appleby; but I recoc|B nized you at once by that picturV when I saw you la9t night. Oh! How did you like the opera? Wasn't it lovely? I Just dote on music! Do ryou?" Clarence declared that he, too, doted on music; and then he said how flattered he felt that Miss Gaye had recognized him from his resemblance to his picture- Mary Hamilton now came toward them to introduce Dolores to Miss Gaye, and Stanley felt that he was at that moment almost in love with Polly? pretty, innocent, good, honest, little \ Polly. i \ He took immediate advantage of this \ slight diversion to retire to a little Is -distance in order to examine how I much misohief had been done to the miniature. He found that the case was not broken; the slight soap he had heard was caused by pressure on what was evidently a secret spring in the back of the case; and, as this had wol 1 atit J1C1UUU) a Vl yi?i/uiuvuvf jfvwvn with age, had dropped out of it and now lay in the palm of his hand. Clarence cast one quick, startled glance toward Dolores, and saw that she was standing with her back towards him, talking with Olive Gaye. His heart gave a great bound of triumph. What was it? He could scarcely repress his excitement, so great was his longing to get away where he could examine this slip of parchment at his leisure. And yot, perhaps, it might prove of no value at all. At any rate, it would be well to return the miniature at once, and so rouse no suspicion in Dolores, who probably knew nothing of the secret contained in it. He watched his oppor tunity, and presently succeeded in placing tbe miniature in her band in such a manner as to attract no attention to it. She gave bim a swift, grateful look?a look that flashed like light from her deep, dark eyes and which sent a strange electrical quiver through the heart of Clarence Stanley. But he was scarcely conscious of it then, though he remembered it afterward. His mind -was on fire for a single glance at the slip of parchment ho held in his hand. He felt he could not restrain bis curiosity any longer, and, under cover of examining a book which he had taken up from a table, he went over to a window. There be opened the parchment, and laying it within the open book, lie read trie nrst line written across it?read it slowly, for it was in the Spanish language? translating it carefully, word by word: j "Below is giveu, in cipher, the j $ecret of the hidden treasure of th?j ;fl (regsdre. )-Q ?D* ?VEL. G* ?inter. :astelar.) Robert Boxnu's Sons.) Mendozas, buried in the Santiago Canon." CHAPTER IX. 'knowledge IS POWER." As the fall significance of the firs! words sank into the mind of Clarenc< Stanley, he becamy dizzy with th? possibilities of future wealth tha rushed into his excited thonghts, foi he knew that he possessed in tha' slip of parchment the key to almosl fabulous treasure. True, the secrel was concealed in a cipher that was o the most intricate character, but hi was not the man to be baffled by any thine: of that sort. He knew that al ciphers were made on certain rules and, besides, having a natural talen' for puzzles of every description, hi had often amused himself by the work ing out of various biphers and crypto graphs; rind by then re-arranginj and transposing them into more dif ficult forms than before, this wai mere play. In all arithmetical o: algebraic problems there are certaii family resemblances easily recogniz able to a mathematical mind; it is th< same in cryptography, or any othe: species of mental gymnastics; am Stanley felt himself easily maste: of the situation. But the excite - * * - ? xi.J_ 4. v.;. mcnir 01 iiaviiig ima bcwci iu un possession affected him so power fully that he was obliged to exercis< the greatest control over himsel in order not to betray his feel ings. Ho was, however, a person o resonrces, and startling fliturftiom were not new experiences to him. H( folded the parchment, took an old fashioned wallet from his pocket?t wallet bearing his name and the coa of arms of the Stanley family, anc having opened it, he placed the precious document in the inmost pocket. Then with great deliberation he re turned the wallet to it* former place and closing the book he carelessly re turned it whence he had taken it. No one had observed him?that h< perceived at a glance. Mary Hamil ton, who had always been, as her com panions had said, "a very girly girl,1 was, for the moment, entirely occu oied bv her two callers and by Dol ores. But when Bertha suddenly de clared that she and Olive had made 1 very long call and must now bring i to an end, Clarence Stanley foun< himself inoluded in the hubbub o good-bye and farewell remarks tha presently ensued. He took advan tage of this to bring his own visit t< an end; and notwithstanding an im ploring look from Polly, he took hii departure, promising to see her on th< next day. He went directly to his hotel, an< as soon as he had reached his room h< locked his door, sat down at a writ ing-table and placed the parchmen with its cryptograph before him. Ai he sat there, poring. over its secrel characters, he scarcely looked lik< the same man on whom Polly Hamil ton had fixed all her hopes of futur< happiness. The whole expression o his face was changed. The brigh and debonair look that characterizec him in society was gone, and all hii latent capabilities for evil came to th< surface. Bat the predominant ex presBion was eager, greedy, hungry love for gold; and as he studied th< mysterious characters on the parch ment, there was but one thought ir his mind?that he would master itf secret and become the sole possessoi of the wealth of the MendozaB. \ That he would find the cipher a dif ficult one to interpret he had, o course, expected; but he soonlearne< that it was more than difficult; ! might even prove impossible. Neve: had he seen such characters. Hot should he begin to interpret them' Was each character a letter, and, i so, to what mysterious language die they belong? Or was each charactei a Bymbol, and, if so, what did th< symbol indicate? Hour after hour h< spent over the parchment, turning i hither and thither in every director and looking at it from every point o view. There were twelve characters that was the first discovery. Wbi twelve? There were twelve signs o: the zodiac, twelve months in the year twelve tribes in Israel, twelve apos ties. What was the mystic significa tion of twelve? Had it any? He be gan copying the characters, tracinj them one by one, with laborions min uteness. ?They were certainly noi letters; they were?yes, snrely, thej yere fragments of a pictnre! H< took several pieces of paper anc traced each one of the characters separately on a piece of the paper, anc then laid then side by side, to catcl the effect; but this told him nothing, "If I had a pair of scissors!" h< thought, gazing helplessly about th< room. "Ah! How welcome woulc be the sight of a woman's work banket at this moment! Is there nothing I can manage with?" He rose from the table and begai walking aimlessly about, till, catching sight of his dressing-case in the innei room, he went toward it with ai ejaculation of triumph. "My nail-scissors! What was ] thinking of, not to remember them?' And snatching up that implement o his toilet, Mr. Stanley again sat dowr to the solution of his cryptograph With great care he cut out from th< pieces of paper each carefully tracec character, and then he end< avorec to fit them together. Again anc again he tried and failed. The rays^ terioue scraps of what seemed to be t picture of something had no meaning by themselves, still lees had they anj when he laid them side by side, above, below?nothing. With a groan, he leaned back in his chair and looked up at the ceiling. Then he gathered up the scraps of paper in his hands, and Innkfid vindictivelv toward the (,rrate, in which, as the afternoon had been chilly, still burned a bright fire, He was on the point of crushing th? papers in his bands to throw them ink tie grate, when a sharp knook sounded on Lis door. Clarence Stanley started ' - slightly, and opening the drawer of hiB j* table, swept into it the fragments of paper he had so carefully cut out, and on top of that the piece of parchment with its well kept secret. Quickly locking the drawer, he turned impatiently to the door, on which now sounded a second and louder knock. - 1 3 AT "(Jome mi" ne cnea: ana a.a me i handle was turned ineffectually, he | hastened toward the door, unlocked it and flung it open, "I bad lorgotten the door was locked," he said, with a sort of insolent impatience toward everything outside of it, and then, in a sharp tone , to the servant -who stood waiting, "well, what do you want?" "Some one?a?a gentleman to see you, sir," answered the man in a hesitating way, as he tendered a card, which Stanley took; and, without look" ing at it, he said: i "Oh, all right; show him up." s As he glanced out after the servant, k Stanley observed that the hall lights were already burning, and he realized k that he must have been engaged for ^ hours in the effort to read the rays^ terious cipher, without even (fluspect^ ipg the approaching cfti^k. He poked * hie fire viciously, so that it sent out a " myriad of bright sparks; and then hav* mg lighted several gas;burne?s, he ? glanced at tho sard be still held in hie t hand and exclaimed: 3 "Wby?who?the dence!" The name on the card was: ? : rnor. HENRI VAN TASSEL. ' 3 And before Stanley had recovered from r jhis amazement, the owner of the name i stood, bowing, in the doorway. "Oh, come in!" exclaimed Stanley, J testily. "If I had read your name r ?rst, I don't think I should have had 1 yon come up, but trince you are here, f perhaps you can be useful. Shut the - door, and lock it, too; I don't want tc s be disturbed." The person to whom these curi s words had been addressed obeyed the f concluding direction with the air of a * slave who acknowledges a master; and, 4 f flArminrr fnrwurd Vlfi drOTVDed into 8 - VUUilU6 *v. ?? ? 9 ohair to which Stanley pointed with1 J insolent indifference. Professor Van Tassel was a small, * dark, slender man of an Uncertain age t that, according to circumstances and 1 the hour of the day, might have been "variously guessed at anywhere from i thirty to fifty years. Just now he - looked about forty; pale, with sunken , cheeks, longish, straight hair, gaunt - and hungry, with large, wild eyes and an inexpressible appearance of loss. 3 No one that ever looked at him and - was capable of putting into thought - the effect produced by his appearance 1 oould have failed to be conscious of - this curious sense of loss which he car ried about with him like an atmosphere; - to some it was pitiful, to others ridicui lous, and to others still, and by far the fc greater number, it was perfectly inex1 plicable. To Stanley, who understood it f perhaps even better than the victim t himself, it brought a sudden feeling - of triumph, as he thought of many > wayB in which he could make this - wretched being useful. b "Well, old fellow, how did you find 3 me out?" he asked, in a jocular tone. "By what you call 'accident,'Carlos 1 ?what I call'a leading.' I was led 9 to lounge about the hotel door? - though I knew not for what?till I t saw you come along the street and s enter this house. By asking a quest tion here and there and spending my i last few dimes among the waiters, I - learned that you had been staying 3 here for some time, that you had ref turned a day or two since from Cbit cago, and that you were still paying 1 court to the pretty San Franciscan s girl whose father will make his son-inJ law as well as his daughter a million aire." 7 TO BE CONTINUED. 3 Marriage Increasing in England. \ Great Britain is flourishing. The s sure test is the marriage record shown r in the Registrar General's annual report just issued, in which it appears - that the rate is higher-than it has been f in twenty-one years. The Registrar 1 points out that a marriage rate usual t ly keeps in close touch'with the value r of British exports and imports, and i the price of wheat. Up goes trade, and up goes the marriage rate! Not exactly romantic, but eminently practical. It seems that widowers have been in greater demand than widows, for 98 out 100 of the men married in the course of the year were widowers, whereas only 69 out of 1000 of the women who married were widows. Nearly half of the bachelors and spinsters were married between the ages of 21 and 25. The favored age for the re-marriage of widows and widowers wae between 35 and 40. In one out of every 100 of the marriages, husband and wife could neither read nor write, and signed the certificate with their mark.?New York Press. \'Servic?" Initead of Hello. r In on^- of the new apartment houses 5 in town \hey have adopted a plan 1 which doeflk away with the rude "Hello" which came in with the telel phone, and which conservative peri sods have never6lsen able to use with. out an apology to themselves for its 3 lack of elegance. EVery room in the i house is connected witn the office by I telephone. You ring the^bell, put the - receiver to your ear, and jkreBpectful ). voice says, with a rising inflection, not "Hello," but "Service?"-\Washi ington Post. \ ? N , Bohemia'* Strange Mineral*. \ Not far from Trebitsch, in Bohemia,"\ are found many glassy-looking objects, of a bottle-green color, and tending, when unbroken, to an egg shape, to which the name moldavites lias been given. Doctor Suess, of Vienna, from a recent study of these curiouH minerals, concludes that they are really meteorites, and should be added to the list of foreign bodies that have found their way to the earth's surface by fallirig from spacer The Dos: as a Cnre For Sleepictnessn. A Russian remedy for insomnia is to have a dog sleep in the room, and preferably in the same bed. It may i>e through a sense of companionship, or one of security, or it may act Suggestively; at any rate, it is said at > times to prove of value when other [ means fail.?i*ublic Health journal. | j Of the cargo steamers passed through j t the Suez Canal last year, 1921 were j [ British, 244 GerrnaD, 86 Dutch, and j I 75 French. - t' * ^ ' ,<V - .* . ' , *! *? I NEW YORK_ |? Designs For Costum || come Popular in 1 mm New York Citx (Special).?Reseda t green has become more fashionable I than ever and is considered especially i elegant in combination -with brown.- s ?? c : 1 1IOBN1NO GOWN. _ ? This becoming house gown is of o figured reseda green wool with o Jounces of burnt sienna taffeta lightly ii smbroidered. The little girl's frock is tl phalli* i> Green, by the way, is securing for b tself quite a nice fat slice of popular e avor, snd has serious inclinations b :owards running itself in dangerous tl rivalry with brown. A dark olive cone, in a very fine, highly-finiehed face cloth, told an attractive tale in a severely tailor-built coat and skirt tl joetume seen recently. . The coat was t almost an Eton, with just the slightest t presence of spade fronts, that were v ;hrown baok to the waiat by revers of b oale blue panne, run round the edge s ffith three or four rows of Tom Thumb jlack and white silk fringe. As the ^irt was lifted the wearer revealed glimpses of a pale blue silk petticoat, ^ and a round toque of tucked blue c oanne. its brim artistically trailed f, >ver on the left side with Russian ' riolets, completed a rather more than lsually attractive tout ensemble. y Freshening Up an Old Waliit. e Fashion is kind to those whose it ancy waists have lost their pristine a 'reshness. All sorts of dainty addi- si /ioDs may be made to them, which will tl nake them look like new. Three a 'uses to this end are shown in the tl ? 1 ~ DAINTY WAISTS 70 large engraving. One clever woman p turned a high-necked gown into one f< appropriate for home wear by cutting c away the throat and draping about s her shoulders a handsome silk crepo o shawl, which she fastened with an old-fashioned cameo brooch, an heir- c loom in the family. The Priscilla- 1] like effect was very pretty ana quaini. w The lace shoulder drapery, with o frills and rut-in ribbon, is very hand- g some and should be used only with a c waist of silk or other rich material. e The tie and belt bowed to match are very fashionable. They can be changed o frequently and give the effect of a r change of costume. ii m A Cloth CoRtmne a Necessity. 3 In spite of coats and skirts, an en- ^ tire cloth costume remains a necessity jj in every wardrobe. There are so n many bewitching little short jackets U- ? ."iU 4-V.ot mat can uc wuxu unu ouj fjuuu vu??v it is very bard to resist buying them. They are almost without exception in the Eton shape at the back, but with long tabs iu front, are made of different colors iu cloth, two shades of gray, the lighter shade being used in the revers, collar and cufts. In blue they have facings of darker blue velvet, and an outline of black satin making the revers still larger. Then there are the short velvet coats, of which mention has been made before, and a I few?as yet only a very few?of black clotb, entirely covered with small steel beads, and made with black fatin revers heavily embroidered in steel and jet, The W Ideiiiue of Skirt*. If the contemplated widening of ia -wk11 tt covinnuir fKnnrrlif nf DUU tO iO XOftllJ ow ivwuy w, , too much cannot be said regarding outdoor garments, for nothing can possibly be narrower or more sheathlike tbanviheir actual cut aud appearance. \ The long, \shapeless coat form is the moat fashionable, and is but little wider at the footv thau at the shoulders, where it fitsxas closely as possible. \ Fcr this garmeut th^re is a perfect rage, aud with reason, for it has a most elegant and stylish appe&r^ice. Lace Coinblued Willi Cloth. Lace jrc'cets to be worn witlvcloth skirts, Jaee waists aod cloth sledges, and lace capeH and cloaks are amoJU? the latest devices on which money ca\ he snent in urovidinflf an ED-to-^ate r\~ tronaaeau. The combining of lace j with cloth is very effective, and adds re much to the beauty of the broadcloth gowns made of colored cloths. It is ai rather tco sharp a contrast to put tb .# snt JL X JLA^-l-JL-i-W JL ffg es That Have Be^ f| . :he Metropolis. rhite lace with black cloth, and th* (lack lace, no matter how heavy it is las not at all the same look. But t mart little waist to wear with a blacl loth gown that is lined witn yellow b made of yellow crepe de Cnint rimmed with three rows in the fjronl nd the back of black Chantilly lace, aught together, each band of the lace nth black silk cord fastened with tiny ilack buttons. Flounces and Krincet. The spring gowns wil? be more silky nd lacy. Flounces embroidered and calloped will be much seen in silks nd woolens. There is no question that the silk ringe which was introduced last fall rill be further used, and the innulerable narrow silk fringes, both on he edges of scarfs, draperies, flounce? nd small shoulder affairs, will have a lost broad use. These fringes will ary from the merest suggestion of a uarter of an inch on the ribbons hrough the various widths and proesses of manufacture?simple, twistd, knotted and tinseled?to the very ridest depths, which will be used as ronts and to finish the bottoms of abliers. Latest Dress Collars. The latest -fashion in dress collars onsiatB in a close-fitting band withutthe least flare (that is reserved for ut door garments) from 2J to thre9 iches wide, but attaining double iat width-at the back, where it rises a an abrupt point. The material may e plain or set on in folds, in prefernce the latter, and footed and headed y whatever may be the trimming of tie dress. Floirers and Featliers. Masses of flowers must come to be he thing. The designs of the past wo or three seasons have discouraged V?nf frnm thin ! UC UCliCl 111 UVHOiOf KJlAV VM.w ery fact alone there is enough to >uild on to show that the coming see.on will be a flower season. Fur ! the Kace. Fur is the present rage, and al) :ats have as much sable, mink, chin billa and marten as the wearer can af 3rd. CloLli Coat For a Girl. The long wrap is the thing for thb oung girl. Pelisses that cover the ntire costume are the race among the ishionable. These garments are iade from the plainer meltons, stitched imply around and buttoned across .ie front with straps that extend cross the fastening and button nearer le side of the garment with large ( R HOXEWEAB. ^ ^ ^ I tearl buttons, to tbe elaborate con ections of chenille-embroidexed clott ut in several tiers, simulating foui eparate coats, one overlapping the ther. Tbe edges of each of these false oats are cut out in design and em roidereil witb cbenille in the same one of rich biscuit. Beneath the henille embroidery appears a band of Tay chinchilla fur, also formed in ontour following the shape of the coal dge. The front of this garment has a stole f chinchilla and the collar is a broad evers of the same fur. The entire aside double-effect of cream chiffon, rith antique lace embroidered with mall seed pearls, - further enrichef bis garment. This, of course, maj e used as a visit.e, theatre or after oon reception wrap,-where it is not CLOTH CHINCHILLA COAT. 3 sriectcil that the garment need be t .nVoved. t Tlh?tentire gamnt of shape, design 1 id coipr is exhausted in making ? iese lonfc individual affairs, t . \ i DB. TALMAGE7S SERMON. ! \ 1 SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED , DIVINE. Bnbject: Guard Toar Temper?A Sweet Dl? position Adds Much to the Joy ol Irvine?Don't Waste Health Rehear* Intr Wrongs and Scheming: ReTenge. [Copyright, Louis Klopssh, 1199:1 Washington, D. C.?In this discourse Dr. Talmage placates the world's revenges and recommends more of the saccharine and loss of the soar In human dispositions; text, Epheslans It., 26, "Let not the sun go down upon your wrath." What a pillow, embroidered of all colors, hath the dying dayl The cradle of clouds from which the sun rises is beautiful enough, hut it is surpassed by the many colored mausoleum In which at evening it is buried. 1 Sunset among the mountains! It almost .. takes one's breath away to recall the scene. The long shadows stretching over the plain make the glory of the departing llgbt on the tiptop crags and struck aslant thrnnfrh tliB foliaee the more consDicuous. Saffron and gold, purple and crimson commingled. All the castles of cloud in conflagration. earning Moscows on the sky. Hanging gardens of roses at their deepest blusb. Banners of vapor, red as if from carnage, in the battle of the elements. The hunter among the Adlrondacks and the Swiss villager among the Alps know what is a sunset among the mountains. After a storm at sea the rolling grandeur Into which the sun goes down to bathe atmi,i?htfall is something to make weird and splendid dreams out of for a lifetime. Alexander Smith, In hin poem, compaires'tbe sunset to "the'barren beach Of hell," but this wonderful spectaole of natare mukes me think of the burnished wall of heaven. Paul in prison, writing my text, remembers some of the gorgeous sunsetn among the mountains of Asia Minor and how he had often seen the towers of Damascus blaze in the close of the oriental days, and be flashes out that memory in the text when he says, "Let not the sun go down tipon your wrath." Sublime all suggestive duty for people then and people now I Forglveness before sundown! He who never-feels the throb of indignation Is Imbecile. .'Se whc can walk among the injustices of t'ie world infllated upon himself and otbera without flush of cheek or flash of eye or agitation of nature is either in sympathy with wrong or seml-idlotlc. When Ananlts, the high priest, ordered the constables of the court" room to smite Paul on tbe ijaouth, Paul fired up and said, "God shall smite thee, thou whited wall." In the seitence immediately before my tezt'Paul commands tbe Ephesians, "Be ye angry and sin not." It all depends on what you are mad at and bow long the feeling lasts whether anger in right or wrong. Life is full of exasperations. Sunl after David, Succoth after Gideon, Korah after Moses, tbe Pasqulns after Augustus, the Pharisees after Ohrist, and every one has bad bis pursuers, and we are swindled or belled or misrepresented or persecuted or In some way wronged, and tbe danger Is that healthful indignation shall become baleful spite, and that our feelings settle down into a prolonged outpouring of temper displeasing to Ood. and ruinous to ourselves, and hence the. Important injunction of the text, "Let not tbe sun go down upon your wrath." Wby that .limitation to one's anger? Why that period of flaming vapor set to E uncinate a flaming .disposition? Wbnt as the sunset got to do with one's resentful emotions? Was it a haphazard sentiment written by Paul without .speolal significance? No, no. I think of five rensons wby we should not let the sun set before our temper. First, because twelve hours is long enough to be crops about any wrong inflicted uDon us. Nothing is so exhausting to physical health or mental faculty as a protracted indulgence of ill humor. It racks the nervous system. It hurts the digestion. It beats the blood In brain and heart until the whole body is first over- < heated and then depressed. Besides that, it sours the disposition, turns one aside from his legitimate work, expends energies that ought to be better employed and doeB us more barm than it does our antagonist. Paul gives us a good, wide allowance of time for legitimate denunciation, from 6 o'clook to 8 o'clock, but says, "8toptherel" Wat^b the descending orb of day, and when it reaches the horizon take a reef in your* disposition. Unloose J'onr collar and cool off. Change the subect to something'delightfully pleasant. Unroll your tlgnt'-fist and shake bands . with some one. Bank up the fires at tbe curfew bell. Drive the growling dog of enmity back to Its kennel. The hours of this morning will pass by, and the afternoon will arrive, and the sun will begin to set, and, I beg yon, on its blazing hearth throw all your feuds, invectives and satires. Aye, yon will no 1 postpone till sundown forgiveness of enemies if you can realize that their behavior toward yon may be put into the catalogue of the "all things" that "work together for good to those that love God." I have had multitudes of friends, but I have found in my own experience that Ood so arranged it that the greatest op portunlties of usefulness that nave been opened before rae were opened by enemies. So you may harness your antagonists to ; youT best interests and compel them to ' draw you on to better work and higher character. Suppose, instead of waiting, until thirty-two minutes after four this j evening, when the suo will set, you transact this glorious work of forgiveness at merld- ' ian. Again, we ought not to let the sun go 1 down on our wratb, because we will sleep ! better if we are at peace with everybody. Insomnia is getting to be one o! the most prevalent of disorders. How few people retire at 10 o'clock at night and sleep clear through to 6 in the morning! To relieve this disorder all narcotics and sedatives and morphine and chloral and bromide of potassium and cocaine and Intoxicants are used, but nothing is more important than a quiet Bpirlt if we would win somnolence. How is a man going to sleep when he is in mind pursuing an enemy? With what nervous twitch he will start out of a dream I That new plan of cornerfag his foe will ' keen him wide awake- while the c'.ock ! strikes 11,12,1, 2. I give you an unfailing prescription for wakefulness: Spend the evening hours Mhearsintf.your wrong* and the best way of avenging tbem. Hold n convention of friends on this subject in your parlor or offlco at 8 or 9 o'clock. Close the evening by writing a bitter letter expressing your sentiments. Take from the desk or pigeonhole the papers in the case to refresU your mind with your en-i emy's meanness. Then lie down and wait for the coming of the day, and it will come before sleep comes or your sleeu will be worried quiescence and, if you take the precaution to lie flu: on your ?ack, u frightful nightmare. Why not put a bound to your animosity? Why Jet your foes come into the sanctities of your dormitory? Wby let those slnndsrers who have alrendy torn your reputation to pieces or injured your business bend over your midnight pillow and drive rrom you one of tbe-greatest blegpings that Sod can offer?sweet,, refreshing, all invigorating sleep? Why not fence out your enemies by the goldeu^bars of the sunset? wny not 6ianu ueoioa me oarricriae ui avenfnj: cloud and (my to them, "Thus far * iud do farther." Many a man nnd many ? i woman is baviDg tbe health erf body ns 1 ivell as tbe bealtb of soul eaten awny by a ? nalevolent spirit. Ihavein.time of rellg- 1 ous awakening liad persons night: aftor 9 light come Into the Inquiry room nnd get e 10 peace of soul. After h while X have u jluntly asked them, "Is there not sorao one igalnst whom you have a hatred that you s ire not willing to gfva up?" After a little o !oofu*ion they have slightly whispered, a 'Yep." Then I have said, "You will rever e lnd peace with God us long as you retain v hat virulence." ' The rabbins recount how tbatNebuchad- d lezzar's son had such a spite against bis o ather that after be was dead he had his c atber burned to ashes and then put the h ijbes into four sacks and tied them to four ii lagles' necks which flew away in opposite s llrections. And there are now domestic u intipatbies that seem forever to have scat- * nil narental memories to the four c rlDds of heaven. How far the envies fly y irith those sacred nsbesl The hour of sue- n lown makes to that family do practical ? uggestion. Thomas Carlyle, in his biog- a apby of Frederick the Great, says the si ild king was told by the con!essor he must o ie nt peace with his enemies if be wanted " o enter heaven. Then he snid to his wife, si he queen, "Write to your brother after I L ,m dead that I forgive him." Roloff, the tl onfessor, said, "Her mnjeaty had better 8 rrlte Urn immediately.". __"No," aaid tbe B1 ; ~r ' vv; ; . : . king, "attor I am dead; that will fee $*fer.* > ?| 3o ho let the^un of bis earthly existence %o down upon bis wratb. y'fflga Again, we onght not to allow the rati W.tfA, Bet before forgiveness takes place, becauw we might not live to see another day. Am ;-5V; K^fttif we should be ushered into the ence oi our Maker with a grudgeupoa our soul? The majority o? people depart^"* ; this life in the night. Between 11 o'clock p. m. and 8 o'clock a. m. there is mb^, . thing In the atmosphere which relaxes- the, ' grip which the bodybas on the soul, and most people entwr the next world tteawBBffli the shadows or this warier, remaps w? may have arranged It In that waysoa* to "j make the contrast the . more glorious. I,;c.-; have Keen sunshiny days In this world that must have been almost lite the radianee of < heaven.' But as mojt people leave tie. earthibetween sundown and sunilse they. 'J& quit this world at its darkest, ami heaven- J always bright, will be the brighter for that contrast. Oat of darkness into lrradla- y-J Shall we then leap over the roseate banJpvf o! sunset Into the favorite hunting ground k /llun/ioj anil /4AO+K itomrnlni? An* Vt U1DVHJV UUU VIVH?U,VIMt; iU^ M M fc II ties with us? Who would waut to confront his God, against, whom we have aU donemeaner things than anybody has even done .- Aagainst us, carrying old grudgeit? How can we expect His forgiveness for the 'v greater when we are not Willing to forgfrfr>#3 others for the less? Napoleoo- wait enconraged to undertake the crossing of the Alp? ' 7 because Charlemagne had prevloc?J;-*v5 crossed them. And all this rugged path of , 0 forgiveness bears the bleeding footsteps Him who conquered throuch'sufferlng, and:<^ we ought to ne willing to follow. On tb(v?fl night of our departure from this life intcfcsM 4-Ka na?f nn? nna nldawflfill ham mercy, and it will bave-to be offered In tb?V9 presence of Him wbo. Iwa said, "If you fflr-i? give not men thalr trespasses, neither will 1 your Heavenly Father forgive your tree- JB passes." What a sorry plight If wo stand,9 there bating this one, and bating that oa%:jW and wishing tbat one a damage, and wiitaJH leg 60n;e one else a calamity, and w? ourselves needing forgiveness for 19JkH Obliquities of heart and life. When onf.H last hour comes, we want it to find ua all right. Hardly anything affects much In the uncovering of Pompeii as the $&. account of the Bolaier who, after the city; 4% bad for many centuries been covered wita / the ashes and scorie of Vesuvius, WMK'Vft fAnn/l ttn^lnv fn 1i(n nlannon mudnlH^I on spear aDd helmet on head. Others at the awful aubmergement, bat the plorer, 1700 years after, found tbe bodrjflBgHj that brave fellow in right position. And it r?2 will be a grand thing if, when our last ment ccmes, we are found in right position toward God, on guard and unaifrigbted by-tbe descending ashes from the mountain of death. I do not suppose that I am any more a. coward than most people, but I &e: V-5 clare tcyou that I would not dare to sledp I'd to-night if there were any being in,-all the-CSg earth with whom I would not gladly bafriaa hands, lest daring tbe night hours KjpULik UUUiUJOOU kV v?u?* because of my unforgiving spirit, b? devJ&J nled divine forgiveness. V Again, we ought not to allow the pus##*-:'.', i of the sunset hour before the dlxmtesol j all our uflrontB, because we may associate : I tbe EublimeBt action of th? soul with th? V BUbllmest spectacle in nature. It ia a delightsome thing to have our perwWv..jSj experiences allied with certain subjoet*,:^ There is a tree or rlv<T bank wbew.GotfV'is; first answered your prayer. You willnflv? ;^j pass that place or think of that place with* ' out thinking of the glorious commonion^ There was some gate or some room oreojM >'& gCUUUAl \Tflll ITUV?V/VH TT If lwnmn a M VgLi!^ the companion wUo boa been yourcbieJl- /;' toy in life. Yoa never Apeak of that pTtttHflpS iut with a smile. Some of vou have.plea^ v ant memories connected with the evening. etar,. or the moon In its first quarter; or* 4 with the sunrise, becauseyou sawdt jtfsta* you were arriving at harbc. after a tem- ' j pestuons voyage.- Forever and forevey. , 0 hearer, associate the sunset wilh*yoM '}/> magnanimous, out and ou t, unlimited ton ; nuncintion of all hatreds and forgivene*? I admit it is the most difficult of-aft 0 graces to practice, and at th&start you may J Jv, make a complete failure, but keep o*ini'%k the attempt to practice it. Shakespeare ? ?:? wrote ten plays before he reached "Ham? let," and seventeen plays before he reaahe<t "Merchant of Venice," and twenty-jrfght plays before be reached "Macbeth." 'An3v . v gradually you will come from the easiei graces to the most difficult. Besides tbat, it is not n matter of personal determination ao mooh aj| thti laying bold of Mte/stfgg&g mighty arm of God. who will fcqlp us&t, dc > * anything we ought to do. Bomemberfltbat, ;.?& in all personal controversies tbe one to blame will have to take the first st#y.at pacification If It is ever effected. The'con-,.^ test between iEschines and Ajrlgtlppns sounds "through history, but Aristlppns;' ^ who was least to blame, went to iEeemae# 7? and said, "Sb'all we nqt agree to be friend* :' > heforp we make ourselves the laughing j stock of the whole country?" And iSsohine* --J 9aid, "Thou art a far better man thai I, '27* fori began the quarrel, but thou b.a* been tbe first In healing tbe breach," ^ind ib6y ; wert always friends afterwards. 80 let : tho one of you that is least to blame take- : the first step toward reconqjliaticn. one most in the wropg will never t ike It. . . : Oh. it makes one feel splendid to be nbiV' v?| by God's help to practice nnlimlred for- "m Klveness. it improves one s """t """ ~"VJ>rga My brother, It will make yoa measur&tbree; :4I or four more Inobes around tbe cliest an'df??3 Improve yoqr respiration so tbat yoa cab v j take a deeper and longer ^breath. It . im-v 7.1 proves tbe couotennncej.by scattering tbe ''J gloom and makes yon somewhat like God . i'n himself. He Is omnipotent, and we CttnnoVvj?| copy tbat. He is Independent o 1 all tba :3J universe, and we cannot copy tbat. He la ?fl creative, and we cannot copy tbat. He-IV -J omnipresent, and we cannot copy tbat. BntT'Jfl He forgives with a broad sweep nil faults,-VM and all neglects, and all Insults, and dlragl wrongdoings, and In tbat we may copy with mighty success. Go harness that sub- >;? lime action of your soul to the sunset?the. hour when tbe gate of beaveh opens to the day pass into eternities and nome the glorios escape this way through the brief opening. We talk aboat the Italian ^ sunsets, and sunset amid tbe Apennines. ' % and sunset amid tbe -cordlHeras, but I wliM tell you bow you may 9ee a grander sunset J than any mere lover of nature ever beheld ' ?tbat is, by flinging Into it all yourbatreda 1 and animosities, end let the horsed of fire trnmple them, and the chariots of firaroll.'^ over them, and tbff spearmen of fire stab them, and tbe boaehof fire consume them.*' - * ?nd the billowsof lire overwhelm thetn. Again, we should not let tbe sun go down )D our wratb, because It is of little im- r* aortnnce what tbe world says of you or T loes to you wben you have the affluent 3od of the suoset as your provider and i lefender. People talk as though it wersa v Jxed spectacle of nature and always tbe lame. But no one ever saw two sunset? illke, and if the world has existed 6QDO f? renrs, there have been about 2,190,000 sun.ete, each of tbem us distinct from all the >tber pictures in tbe gallery of tbe sky as ' ? L'lMan's "Last Supper," Rubens' "Descent N ' J ?roin tbe Cross," Baphael's "Transflgura- ' ion" und Michael Angelo's "Last Judg- , .'T, oent" are distinct from each other. If ; ^ n dti/kK inflnlfrn i-flcnnrPM flint . ? UUk UVU VI OUVM VMw?.Vw? ...... le can pat on thewnllof the *ky each _ iveDlupr more than the Louvre andLuxem- . ?ourR galleries all In one Is my God and rour God, our provider and protector, vbat is tha use of our worrying about'any y.i luman nntHgoni'sm? If we are mitinter* ireted, tbe God of. tbe many colored-sun- |. ec can put tbe rigbt color on our action* , V f all tbe garniture of tbe western heavens . r t eventide Is but tbe upbolstery of one of fl be windows of our future borne, what. mall business for us to be chasing en miesl Let not tbls Sabbath sun go down I pon your wrath. fl And I wtsb for nil of you Abeautifafrsiin- I et to your earthly existence. With some 1 f you it bas been a long day of trouble, 1 ,0(1 with others of you it will be far from J aim. When tbe sun rose at 6 o'clock, it, FU.8 iue iXJUrDiiJ^ ui juuili, aiiu a jajr uay ?ns prophesied, but by tbetimo the noon,uy or middle life bad come nnd tbe clock f your eartbly existence bad struck twelve load racks gathered and tempest bellowed a tbe track of tempest. But as the ever.- . 3C of old age approaches I pray God th? kfes may brlgbteu and the clouds be piled . p into pillars as of celestial temples to rhich you go or move us with mounted oborts come to take you home. And as ou sink out of slgnt below tbe horizon 1? iay there be a radiance of Christian ex- . mple lingering long after you are gone, ud on the heavens be written in letters of uppbire, and on the waters in letters of pal, and on tbe hills in letters of emerald. Tby fun shall no more go down, neither ball tby moon withdraw itself, for the. * ,ord shall be tbine everlasting light, and ue uuYB fu iuy iauuruiug duhii uv euutg. o shall tho sunset of earth become the . anrlse of hfaven, -