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pie v A NC 13V f$rs. Sited" (ISABELLA fPnTtrripht. 1*92 and tn ; CHAPTER XI. / CONTINTED. The gratitude of the Hamilton family and their affection for her was so genuine that Dolores speedily felt herself as entirely at home, as if she had been with them all her life; and from the hour when she had first seen Polly Hamilton until the present moment there had not been the slightest jar been the two girls., save in the matter of Clarence Stanley. Dolores placed Polly's carefully written exercise before her and began reading it, taking up a pen occasionally to correct a word or a phrase, till at last she pushed'away the paper, almost impatiently, and murmured half aloud: "Why am I haunted by that man's face and by the sound of his voice? He is surqly not a pleasant memory, and yet I canaot shake off the thought of him. Can it be possible there is any truth in these marvels of hypnotism with which the whole world seems carried away nowadays? And had that man really obtained some uncanny power?as dear mamma would aay?over me? Nonsense! I -won't allow myself to think of such a thing; it would affect my imagination, and I am just fanciful enough to brood over it, if I once allow myself to dwell $n the thought." She turned resolutely again to the examination of Polly's Spanish exer cises, and by an effort concentrated her mind upon the task before her, to the exclusion of all else for the time. But no sooner were the exercises * corrected and neatly folded away in V 0110 of the pigeon-holes of her writB ing-rtesk than she fouud herself again a thinking of Stauley, while liia laaml some face came before her so -vividly M that it seemed painted on the air. f "No wonder dear Polly thinks him / handsome!" she thought. "Hand/ some!. How plainly I seem to see him! If one could imagine Saint John and Judas combined in one mau, he might have a face like Clarence Stauley's, and dear Polly never sees the Tii/Iaa of. oil TVi lipr Iia iq Saint John all the time. Oh, it is no wonder that she is in love with him! But why does his facehaunt me? Surely, surely, I am not in love with him, or am I going mad?" She started up and paced the room to and fro for some minutes in a state of great nervous excitement. Then hastily putting on a hat and wrap, she i. determined to out and walk off the unusual state of feeling that had so Upset her. As she stood for a moment pefore the mirror, pinning her hat frown over the mass of bronze-gold iiair, Dolores was vaguely conscious ^of the change in her own appearance and of her great and unusual beauty. She was at the age when beauty comes suddenly, like the opening of a flower that ha<* been all ready to bloom, but whose homely outside of colorless leaves has given uo indication, except to the skilled florist, of the glowing loveliness concealed within. Becoming raiment exquisitely fitted to a perfect form, good and sufficient food, ease, comfort, restful sleep, combined . ,with companionship of her own age and a depth of love and appreciation equal in its way to that which she had enjoyed in her own mother's affection, had wrought for Dolores what seemed to h?r almost a miracle. She felt a ^ a sudden and quite unusual joy in life Vat/ ?an ecstatic triumph in the sense of ker QWU beauty; amj Polly Hamilton's exclamation when they came face to face with each other in the corridor was only the echo of Dolcres's own thought. <;Oh, Rita, what have you been doing to yourself? Of course, you were always lovely; but you have suddenly become a raving beauty!" T\?l ,1 Co mu^ucu ii^utij , aim cvcu her laugh was changed,Polly thought, but perfectly charming, too, like everything about her. Until now, Dolores had seldom laughed at all, and when she did, it was a low, gentle sound, full of love and sweetness, like the ripple of running water; but there was a decided ring of enjoyment to it now, light and musical, but also a trifle superficial, as she replied to her companion's words: "Oh, it is nothing, Maruja, except that I am a girl like other girls of my age, I suppose, and I have just found it out. Youth will assert itself, I suppose. And I have been old, oh, so old, sometimes, I hardly knew that I could feel young and lightsome like other girls. The knowledgti of it has come to me all in a moment, and I suppose it has gone to my head, I feel so strangely excited." "It is mightily becoming to you! paid Polly, with delighted admiration. "But are you going out?" "I was goiug to walk?to bo serious aud prosaic again. I thought a walk might prove au antidote to the nervous agitation that I am feeling." "A drive will be better, and I have |nst ordered the carriage. It is already late in the afternoon, but we can remaiu au hour or more and still be home in time for dinner. But it would be too late for you to be out walking alone." Dolores smiled at these words, remembering how she had been accustomed to be out alone at all hours aud in the worst localities of the great .sity; but she made no other reply, and the two girls were presently being J * i. Kl~ unveu inrovigu me iasmouaoie uveaue aud onward into the park. Throughout their drive Dolores continued iu the same overwrought nervous condition, but Polly declared she had never known her so delight!ully entertaining. She laughed and -jested and talked incessantly, and as aer young life, although so sad aud ;ull of sorrow aud suffering, had also oeen full of adventure and a thousand unexpected aud curious holism ian expediences, her couversatiou did not iack for auiusicg and interesting incidents. v They returned home just as the \ t v o~r-?? sfl (reasdre, )VEL. betlj (J. ?infer. CASTELAR.) r Robert Bonneb's Sons.) lamps and electric lights were being turned on, and as they approached their home again the usual vivacity that had characterized Dolores gradually disappeared, and the reaction to the mood of dreamy abstraction which Mary Hamilton had often observed in her before was very marked. But this lively and light-hearted girl had often deep thoughts; and now, instead of commenting upon this change of manner, she said to herself: "On the whole, I don't know but I ought to be very grateful that Rita doesn't feel any enthusiastic admiration for Clarence. Darling Lorita! She would be a very dangerous rival." The change to pensiveness and absent-mindedness on the part of Dolores continued all through dinnertime, and Mr. Hamilton, who admired the strange young Spanish girl and .1 ?nrisl TVT QT*TT Q f ppl _ suureu wnu uio ?ng uuu v. iug of profound gratitude toward her, but to -whom she was a greater mystery than womankind generally, rallied her playfully in regard to her apparent unconsciousness of the world about her. Dolores responded with her customary sweetness, but the effort she made to seem interested and to bring her thoughts back to earth again was so evident to Polly that she immediately took possession of her when they left the table. "How was my exercise, Mistress Governess?" she asked, laughingly. "Do I improve in my Spanish?" "Oh, yes, indeed; there w.ere not more than six mistakes," said Dolores. "Six! Oh, I am doing splendidly! There used to be about sixteen to the page. Come and show me and explain the corrections." And when they were alone together Mary said: "Never mind the exercise just now, dear. I saw that papa's teasing was too. much for you. I'm afraid outdrive has tired you." "I am afraid I am more than tired, Maruja," said Dolores, gravely. "I am under some strange influence; I have felt more or less since I first met "\r>- QfonlcTT " Mary started and almost gasped with surprise, but she resisted the inclination to speak. Dolores continued: "I don't know what it is or how to describe it; but, perhaps there is some truth in these stories of hypnotism and the mysterious occult influences of mind upon mind. When you understand that I have, perhaps, inherited a peculiar organization from my strangely mixed ancestry, you will not wonder so much that I am a little strange and unlike other girls. I am going to read that manuscript to you now, at any time you please. You yourself shall appoint the time." "Oh thank vou. dearest Rita! And Clarence, too?you will let hiin be present?" "Oh, yes; if Mr. Stanley is really related to me, it is liis right {o some extent. It may be of value to him to know that we inherit a strain of evil, that it requires all our possibilities of good to oppose." "How seriously you take it all, Lorita! Why, it is nothing but a legend," said Mary, but feeling somewhat awed in spite of herself at the grave, almost prophetic manner of her friend. "Life is' serious, Maruja, though I hope you will never know how terribly serious it may be at times. Yours should be all sunshine. It seems as if intended for nothing, but joy. But mine has been full of mystery, and now it seems more so man ever, i feel atjthis moment as if some appalling fate overshadowed me?as if I were mysteriously linked to some great unknown wrong, of which I am as innocent as I am ignorant?and now I feel that some one near to me is in great danger?danger from which I ought to help him. Ah, be strong, resist, awake! Awake!" Mary Hamilton felt a chill of terror take possession of her, as she beheld Dolores become more and more excited till, with the last words, she stretched out her hands imploringly, her face pale but strangely exalted in expression, while her beautiful eyes, gazing into space, glowed like fiery jewels f.nd were luminous as if from some inner light. Slowly the rapt look passed from her face, a faint rosecolor came into her cheeks, and she murmured: "He is safe?she never fails me? and now I have seen her face!" A slight shiver passed over her and, with a long sigh, she turned and met Pollv Hamilton's anxious, awe-struck, half-terrified gaze. "Ob, Maruja, have I frightened yon? I am so sorry." "Frightened me!" gasped Polly, "I should say so! You have about scared the wits out of me; but I have a gleam of sense left. I am going this instant to send for Doctor Mac. I know you are going to have some awful illness ?a brain-fever or something " "Sot at all," said Dolores. "See, take my hand?feel my pUlse?I am perlectly calm. All the recent excitement has left me, and I feel well and i happy." j And, indeed, Mary Hamilton could ! not but see that a very tranquiliziug l chauge had passed over her friend, ! .?*w1 oa fan a It a-r nKroifiol /?nr?flifinn aun, ou iai ao uvi could show, she seemed to be entirely well. "Yon are a -wonderful creature," she said in a perplexed tone, "and I shall never understand you at all; but of course, that makes you far more interesting, like reading a story in an indefinite number of volumes. Well, then, I won't send for Doctor Mac this time. Let us look over my j Snauish exercise." CHAPTER XII. AN ACCIDENTAL KISS. Clarence Stanley stood helplessly i gazing at the uuconscious Professor \ i Henri Van Tassel. He had tried his most imperious tones and had quite exhausted his pledge of aics Jd*. meric passes, but the professor's eyes continued closed, and the heavy lids seomed glued together. Stanley had grown quite pale, and a sense of his unpleasant predica meutwas beginning to make him very uncomfortable. "He isn't shamming!" he muttered. "Can he be really dead? Perhaps ] had better send for a doctor. It's troinc to be deuced unpleasant?coro ner's iuquest, reporters, morning papers and all the rest of it." He bent over Van Tassel and raised the lid of one eye, then of the other, and in doing this his fingers unconsciously pressed upon the eyeballs. A s'ight quiver passed over the ashen face, the' lips parted and the breath came through them in a faint, long-drawn sigh. "Halloa! He's coming to!" said Stanley. And he recommenced the upward passes with his fine, long white hands, rapidly now, so that it seemed as if wiug3*were waving over the professor's lace. And, with a supreme effort of will, he said once more: "Awake!" The closed eyelids opened like a'flash of light, so quick, so bright was the ^returning intelligence that flashed from them, and, raising his head from the pillow against which it had been resting, Van Tassel sat upright with an alert and eager manner, such as seldom characterized him iD the degenerate condition to which he had fallen. "I have seen her!" he said. "What a beautiful face! She is a wonder?a true clairvoyant of the highest type. Beware how you trifle with her, Carlos, for hers is a greater power on mn nr T fan ever hone for in this lower world. Her pure spirit soars to higher realms than we can even dream of." 'What the mischief are you talking about?" interrupted Stanley, im patiently. "You are still asleep, ] think. Whom have you seen?" "The lady you call 'cousin,' the Senorita Mendoza, for a moment only; but for her you could never have recalled me from the trance. . 1 warned you that it wan dangerous, but through your constant thought of her I was able to implore her aid. Oh, Carlos, you have gained a great power over me; but promise me?1 implore you by all we have known of each other in the past?promise me to use this power for good." "Certainly," returned Stanley, flippantly. "I use all things for good?my own good. But look here, Van, quit calling mo Carlos; you've said it several times already, and you'll get in the habit of it. You know as well as I do that my name is m???? " wmicuuu KJinuigj? "Yes," returned the listener, abjectly, "the Honorable Clarence Stanley. I shall not forget." "And now we had better part. This seance has lasted long enough for one evening. It is getting late, and I am hungry. Here is money; help yourself, and come to me for more when you need it." He unlocked a drawer in an cscritoire in another part of the room, and the eyes of the wretched professor sparkled with delight at sight of the gold and rolls of bank notes contained in it; but he made no movement to help himself as he had been invited to do. Stanley, who, with an almost insane passion for gold, was lavish in his expenditure of it, grasped a full hand of the coins and notes and gave them to Van Tassel. "There, old fellow," he said, with cureles3 good nature, " 'get yourself in flesh,' as the chap in the play says, and also get yourself some decent clothes, to pass for a gentleman against the nest time you come to see me. Aud, now, good-bye. It is long past dinner time, and I am Hungry myseu." Yan Tassel took the money eagerly and crushed it into his pockets. His manner was more than ever that of a slave obeying a master; and yet there was an unusual look of life and eagerness about him, as if he had unconsciously imbibed something of the energy of the man who dominated him. , "Clarence," he said, "I was never mesmerized before to-night. When I possessed the power, no one I ever knew could overcome it, but I always felt that you could have the power if you chose. I am not sorry; it has done me good; only, for pity'B sake, dear boy, don't abuse it. Use your power for good." TO BE CONTIirtJED. His Supreme Moment. Novelists are all wrong when they mention "the time he proposed" or "the moment their eyes met" as the supreme moment of some sentimental couple. A charming woman who has been in love with her husband for live years told me-how she always remembered "Tom," who, by the way, 13 au artist and a romantic figure at most times. "I always think of him," she said, "as he looked once when he came into the studio after haviug had a long and heated argument with an obstreperous cook. He came in rubbing his bauds, and Lis face was positively transfigured. 'Lu,' he said, 'I'm successful. She's discharged u.j.!"?Home Journal. No Tampering With Die Presn. Our Government has bcon called a government by newspapers, and it is so in a very important sense. In the main the press has done its work well. It has exposed abuses, denonpeed corruption, insisted on a redemption of party pledges and generally stood for clean politics and honest administration. Our history is full of Hluutrations of its power and uufnlnes*. Doubtless it has niado mistakes and abused its privileges, bnt on tbs whole its iiilluetief! ha", been good. And it will uo a sr.il <tay w.Men ?ts traedom slinll be seriously limited.?Newspaper Maker. Tim L?n<liin 'Htblij." , ,T:i Loaucu Iho eoi?pt?blea 01 police men are known a? 'ueolers" ind "bobblea," bec?i?e the con?t?!>ulary forso or metropolitan police w.ni ^rgauizod btv Sir P.obert (familiarly imowuas "Lobby") Peel. Some time ago Palermo, Sicily, acquire.! a loau of 56,090,000 for resamlatioii of the city. After spending two-thirds (if tijin. it v./is found thr.', the drinking water brongiit from tbe source at Soilbito was so 2>ollnted that the lioard of Jlvgiccs had 1o intervene. Stilt- . i&c<. HOUSEHOLD MATTERS. . To CleaD Carved Furniture. For cleaning carved furniture use a soft, thick paint brush, which will gat into all the interstices of the pattern. When these are clogged take another brush, wet with kerosene oil, to clean them out. After using tha oil, rub the wood dry with a soft cloth. Feather brushes are of no avail on carved woods. Fresh Flowers on the Table. A centre-piece of flowers is an invaluable addition to the dinner-table. En the winter, when flowers are not to be had for a song, you can sow wheat in saucers. Lay a piece of cotton wool in a saucer, wet it thoroughly, and then sprinkle wheat on it. Keep it damp, but not too wet, and place it in the light. In a short time delicate green shoots will emerge from the wheat ears and make a dainty decoration for the table. Poached Kfirgf. Have ready in a perfectly clean frying-pan a quart of boiling water in which a tablespoonful of salt has been dissolved. Break the eggs one by one in a saucer and slip carefully into the salted water, ^rhich should be. bubbling but not violently boiling. Dash with a apoon a little water over each egg to make the 'top white, as the oeanty of a delicately poached egg is to see the yolk through a veil of transparent white,.: Cook until the whjte is firm but not leathery; lift out with % paacake turner and' serve on a warm platter with a sprig or two of parsley for decoration; or on slices of goldenbrown toast. . If the cookfr hand is a trifle unsteady a good way to preserve the perfect symmetry of the eggs is to drop them into muffin rings placed ^n the water or into the round metal tops of fruit cans* . >" > ' The Emergency Shelf.' Every housekeeper should have an emergency shelf wellfllled with canned food of all kinds to guard against a possible and unfortunate surprise in the way of company. There is a sort of fatality abon$ it, that the unexpected company generally arrives when iue laraer is not weu uucu. , jsuw duo emergency shelfImproved a success' and a boon on nti^j suoh occasions. There is an endfejjjj ^ ist of the dishes floods. Scolloped | H?8 and corn, i for instance, make' ja'^latable and simple dish. B e gin^h^^pyering the bottom of a deep bi?l^^:^iah-with layer of canned tomatoes and eeajohj with salt, pepper and Small pie6$Mgj butter. Then add a layer of flniHU chopped canned corn. Alternate thfl layers of tomatoes aud corn,'seasoned? until the dish is full. Finish with ihe crumbs. * Bake for half an hour covered, then remove the cover and brown. A Handy Spool and Thread Holder. It is surprising that such a useful article as the spool and thread holder, here described, has not already become a household possession. * The idea is simply to have the six grades af cotton thread, tised so much by the >-? 1 Ir n ol troTQ O r* rl T7 V>TT 0rT0nff. HVUiCU lUIUOj niHUJO JUHliMJ KT J ing them in a closed box so that only the ends of the thread protrude from little holes ready to be drawn for use, as from a twine holder. If a small wooden box cannot be found of the ^proper size, construct one, of rather thin wood, live inches I long, four inches, wide, and one and a half inches deep. ' Attach the cover on with any kind of small hingeB and have a small hook by which to keep the box closed after tbe spools are.in place. From any small round sticks ol wood the shape of a lead pencil, cat six pieces each one and a quarter j inches in leugth.- These are to be j fastened to the bottom of the box, in ] side, and on whicli the spools will I turn. Glue them in place, and make J them perfectly secure by driving small brads into them from the bottom of the box. On the outside of the box, opposite each spool, bore a fine hole, half way ' ? A*- - l--ii it. ! irom me Douom, uu uuiu me uuu' and back of the box. With the spool.', in place, unwind and pass each end o' thread through the small hole opposite. The boz may be decorated elaborately or simply varnished, but in either case paste the labels fron the spools around each of the thread holes on the outside, so that the size will be indicated?20, 30, etc. Ou the inside of the cover little pocket*, made of fancy goods may be attached in which to place packages of needles ?New York Sun. Kccipes. Butter Scotch.?Three cupfuls of molasses, two of sugar, two of water and one of butter. Add a little soda just before removing from the stove. Flavor with vauilla. Boil until brittle | when dropped into cold water, i Eggless Pumpkin Pie.?Take one quart of rich milk and the same quan tity of stewed pumpkin, sweeten tc ! taste, with light brown sugar, add it ! pinch of salt, ginger, cinnamon and j nutmeg to taste. Bake with one crust. Chicken and Rice Croquettes.?Puf a half cupful of rice in a quart of cold stock, and boil gently for half an lu ur, theu add a piecc of butter the e of an egg, and cook slowly until louder. Wlieu cold mix with an equal quantity of chopped chicker. and bind together with beaten egg. Form into balls aud fry a nice brown. Calf's /Heart Roasted.?Let the heart scak in water for an hour. Clear it carefully, remove the tough membraue| wipe it dry. Fill the cavities with stuffing made of bread crumbs, finely chopped suet, chopped parsley, salt and pepper. Roll the heart iD greased paper,-and place in a dripping pan and bake for two hours. When the heart is tender remove it from tfri! nnn fttld SOrVB With a brown-2x4n??tf. Sardine Toast.-^Bjfflfe tjc^S^iS^of toast and set them in xa& o^0o. Drain the oil lrom a box of sardines, liiid flake the..fish to tiny bits with a silver fork,i.'.: Into a small frying pan put o tablespeonfnl of salad oil, a dash ol onitm* juice and a teaspocnfal of lemon juice. Stir until very hot, thcu turn the flaked sardines into this. Toss nud stir until the fish is thoroughly heated. If it gets too dry add a little more oil and lemon juice. When heated through, spread the fish upon 1 the toasted trianzles and serve. i ?r jjf We~g?eatT destroyer. SOME ' STARTLINC 1FACTS ABOUT THE VIC? OF INTEMPERANCE. l Stiiies?Stflce the Craze For Strons Drink Has Been Dlmrnojeil by Experts a* a Disease Many States Have Passed Laws to Treat It as Such. Thou sparkling bowl! thou sparkling bowl! Though lips of bards thy brim may press, And eyos of beauty o'er thee roll, And song and dance thy power confessk I will not touch tliee; for there clings , A scorpion to thy side, that stings. ?John Pierpont, Law For Inebriates. Since inebriety has beon recognized officially by sopoo States as a disease laws have been passed for the treatment or cure of inebriates. In a few States the law provides that thev may be committed to the hospitals for the insane. In Vermont they may be placed in such institutions or in private institutions for the cure of drunkenness. Massachusetts has a State institution for the treatment of such cases. Pennsylvania authorizes the counties to establish hospitals in connection with the workhouses and to commit all inebriates for a course 01 treatment ot irom six iijouiijs iu two years, the Indigents at the expense ofv tbe county. V In Michigan and Wisconsin Indigent inebriates are committed at public expense to some private asylum, the commitment in the former State being for not more than thirty days and the cost of treatment in the latter not to exceed $160. In Louisiana the judge of the district Court, upon the application of the relatives of an indigent, drunkard who has lost the power of "reasonable self-control," may qommit him at the expense of tbe parish to some institution for treatment, Dro/ided that It wilj agree to cure the inebriate At a cost not to exceed' tlOO. California has authorized oertain counties holding lands reserved for the purpose to build hospitals for the inebriate. Minnesota has provided for the commitment' of drunkards to a special department of the State HospitAl for the Insane aad also authorizes the county judge to commit drunkards to such a special department at a cost not to exceed $100.?New York Press. V Old World Thlrat on the Increaee. <' Last year the population of the British Isles drank a gallon of whfsky per head, besides a vast amount of liquors in other forms. Oar cousins drink entirely too much, and their wise men are telling them so. Moreover, they are not getting better, but worse. The London Lancet says, that within twenty years the deaths of men from chronic alcoholism have increased' 1 eigbty-two per cent., and of women 145 per cent. Diseases due to alcohol have also increased very seriously, especially among women. This Is much tbe same story that is told of France, Belgium and other continental countries. What ails the old world that its thirst Is so uncontrollable? Tales of thife sort tend to make us patient with >the teetotalers. Great Britain in Minrmnm mvAmiA frnm mm. :. aud doubtless every true Britisll patriot ' drinks many, times a day to the extension of the Empire, but it looks as if there miglit come* day when the extension ot the em- I pirewill seem of less vital importnnce than 'the'restriction ot ram. Pulling at one's jL.bodt. straps ia not tho way to rise in the Bpojrljgand the distension of British subMecta with alcoholic bevorages will not avail Km the loing run for tho spread of British EgKmer/rrNew York-Life. Bwfr/'v) 'Bejjinjon the Boy*. l^T&e'Mllwavikee Citizen's view on drunkard reformation IffWfcfoJiows: "To reform drunBards,' is a mistaken line of temperance effort. What the drunkard needs is the fool-killer rather than a temperance society. When a man has gotten drunk half-a-dozdn times before his | thirtieth year he is not only.aiiard subject to spend effort upon, but in nine cases out j of ten he is a useless subject. Let him | alone. Let the drunkards kill themselves off. ! "The drunkard has no right to Impose j his case upon the temperance society and ; isk it to neglect worthier purposes for tiie I sake of saving his precious body and soul, j ft is better to give the pledge to one boy than to ten drunkards. I "The best charity towards 'the chronic j beggar when he usks for alms is to kick [ bi:n. Tho best charity towards the drunkard is to hope that no may repent and die before he sins again." Drink a Menace in Winter. I At tills season of the year, when the proprietors of different brands of lntoxlaating drlnlcs, Who, a few months ago were advertising their poisons as protection against the dangers of hot weather, are now advertising them as a sure fortilicailori against the winter's cold. The advocate^ol temperance should miss no opportunist xf reciting to their friends and neighbors the testimony of such competent nrltnes ?es as the great successful Arctic explorers, who are a unit in their assertion that drink is not an aid to the human sys:em in resisting intense cold. It is a notable fact that both Nansen and Peary, the most successful of all explorers, totally re| pudlate and condemn the use of intoxlj cants; while the only explorer, whose tesi timony, so far as we can discover, has ever I boen recorded in their favor is poor Greej ley, whose expedition was one of the most | tragic failures of Arctic history. 'Vitality Depend* Largely Upon HablU." In Albany, N. Y., when the cholera prevailed in 1832, there were 5003 members o?<. the temperance society there,and o^lxtwo^i of them died; while there were 83? :imong the 20,000 who were not members,^ | or more; than eighty 'for every 5000, $qjrty 7 j times as many as among tdmpiSniniie I I nennle. "Vitality denends 'IftreMV' unon habits; good habits Increase it, baa habits j waste it."?Presbyterian Banner. Anti-Alcoholic Serum Announced. Two French doctors, 8&ppelier and Thc! bnult, recently announced to the Academie | du Medicine that they had, in collabora tion with M. Broca, a ohemist, discovered j and experimented with a specific serum j against alcoholism. Tbe serum is ex- j tracted from the veins of a hor.se primarily i rendered alcoholic by artificial means. It I appears that the serum confers on dipso- I mania'.-s an unconquerable distaste for ill- . cobolic drinks. The Crusmle in llrlef. Whisky as medicine, means whisky as. j ' master. Striving to save drunkards, will not alone ! for making them. When the churches tnckle the drink problem in real earnest it will soon lind a I solution. If we had a million tongue*, we would | cry: "Save the children from the curse of J j alcohol." I A good citizeu has no right to assist in j j maintaining a traffic whose fruiis are I necessarily evil. If you want a cool head and aciear brain keep clear of the saloon. The saloon makes more criminals than the church makes converts. It we had a million pens every orae of them would write: ' Train the children to banish the drink flend." A State Young People's Christian Temperance Uniwytorlowa, was recently orfelling^Ithin tb??$lstance vL^tiFlow'a State AgricultufaT^TOege, J All the members .of 'thte&W London (England) School Boatt maintain the existing fl^4?gefeents>.Tojr temperance teaching in V , \ If theusaloon is wrong, asJffijidEodang < any nmonnt of money maktfTC^rfgbt?'-;' One of the rules which Andrd* Oar^egieIs said to have established J<Jr-htt*3kW.O> guidance upon tins road to "Never enter a bar-room, nor 1st tents of a bar-room enter you." ' TJ::iteil States District Att<iraey S&JWfot tbe northern district of Indian territory has prohibited the publication of whisky advertisementsiu newspapers issued in the territory, because the sale of liquor is ille- ! gal there. Never tempt another to driuk. You may mean no harm to the young man. but b*fO doing you may be starting bi:n on the road to ruin. That one drink may be the critical poiut lu bis life. So don't tempt him to tuke it sfe- T? ilmMni - , - .tr-,x;--~?rcs "the sabbath school" NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JANUARY 21. Subject: Tlio Preaclilnc of St. John the Ituptiit, Lake 111., 1.17?Golden Text: Luke ill., 4? Hiemory Versee, 3-G?Com* inentary on the Day's Lesson. Introduction.?John the Baptist was six months older than Jesus. Their mothers, Mary and Elizabeth, wero cousins. John was born at Juttab, a city five miles south of Hebron, in the hill country of Juilen. For thirty years we hear nothing of him except that he was in the deserts. Suddenly be appears as prophet, reformer and the forerunner of Christ, lie was au austere Nazarite in appearance, dress, food and mode of life. He was like a reproduction of Elijah of old. He was a priest b> birth. He stands out in sharp contrast with the spirit and manners of his time. Coxxectino Links.?A little more thar seventeen years liave passed sineo wo saw Jesus at the Passover feast in Jerusalem Hois still in seclusion at Nazareth, but Hi? forerunner appears on the scene. 1. "In the fifteenth year." Augusta? Caesar died in August, A. D. 11, but three years before his death, in August, A. D. 11 he called Tiberias to reign with him, am? ,BI. JjUilo eviuouiiy tecnuus irom tuat time 'Tiberias was a very bad man, giveu tc drunkenness and cruelty. "Po;:tiu* Pi late." Pilate was governor of Judea foi tea years, from A. D. 26 to 33. His reigc was bad. Me was Anally banished, aud isaid to havtfkllled himself. "Herod beius tetrnrcb." 'Tetrarcb meant originally the rolor of a fottrth part of a country, but was afterwards usjd wltb reference to any tributary ruler. sLfter the death of Herod the Great his dominions were divided. This was Herod Ahtipas, tetrarch of Galilee, who beheadefl John, and to whom Jesus was sent attfie time of His trial. "Ituraji .... Abilene;" Two provinces of (Syria northeast ol^Judea. 2. "AnnaAnd Calaphas." Caiaphas was the son-in-liw of Annas, or Auanias, and It Is supposedjthat they exercised the high prie&t'a qfflo#by turns. The law provided for 0ttT/lKti?ihlKb-prie3t, and he was to hold offlc?"foc#ife, but surely we have two here. -CUrkeltblnks that Caiaphas was only a deputy.' "Came unto John." The Holy Spirit came upon him in the desert where he was ilvfttg. "Son of Zacharias." See chap. 1:5-63. "In the wilderness." "The term wilderness was given to a district'which was not regularly cultivated and inhabited." & * 3. "The baptism oT repentance." John was a repentance preacher. Tnis'lwaa,"? baptism requiring and representing an Inward spiritual change; the pl#dge? of remission of sins to those who>\wsfice trftty." penitent." W* ' 4. "As it Is written." Luke calls a(ten5? lion to Isaiah's prophecy regarding the j character of tho omiug reformation* 'The voice." "The prophecy draws attention to the work rather than to the worker." This voice was clear, distinct, loud: "Prepare ye." The idea is taken frAm r?rn<*Mp A n f A.l?fArn m nn n rnliu who, whenever tbey took a journey, seat hurbinpers before tbem to prepare tiiej way. The Jewish church was the desert|j our Klnjr, will coine to us. The wiJMpPj dishonest life must be '^traipbteuod."?jB(R us remove the obstructions of uubetfef^fcjji| depend on the testimony of otherajtf^^ j duet. tlon; (2) coutrltlonfMBMfcStora^^Hq tormatiou; nnd Tesus, Peter peotance. "The natural ij heart is to seek cmr o^asBs ODcESBicr^ ftiRes when tlife conscience fa. tjfljMfo.1' Iohn shatters:to commonerror3.;3jfiffli?5tr that baptism would be suffl;Ieai?jH the wrath ot God away, and so<^mHHhkg because they uro children gt^WPWi therefore they are safe. "Tliej^^BB^KB Undoubtedly a reference to tboj^HH^Hjaa the Gentiles. Our of these lidJAoffir^H era"" hearts God is able to.naHpSoawM flesh and children of AbrsMKJ*'*'*iy/iV^^^m here to a woodman, who, ji'aving mAuJfl|jp; tree for ex.:isiou, lays bls'axe while be lays off his outej lor that lie may ?* o. wSBr^n J - rmg is " rJ^j>tf5|w(>'f. Brothe the naked aw^BBB tbo midg^^P&s. 1:27. That is spirit of t He Gospel. " ! 12. "Pablican?." Tas-zatherers. 3nflH9 fice detnstc.l by tbo Jews, yet Johj^KfiaM 13. "Exact no more." These tax-jjaBp^d ers collector tuxes for the Roman nill|||ulfM| anil "thoy exacted more than .thigHB meat iuthorizeil them to do/^8JB8ii 14. "Do violence to no man." I mauds three things of the solilIora^KS^f.} are not required to quit the businesgjHir they must bu ju^t au<i upright) and lH| their wicked lifo if ho baptized them. "BHir exhortation plainly implies the right ol war under certain circumstances. It is a destroyer and bi:rbari:5er, but in the overruling pro.vidence of God it may become a eivilizer." 15. Whether He wsre tho Christ." John spoke with such authority, eloquence and power that tbo people began to thini be was th? ?d')s,:ifth. 16. "Oao migiitier than I." "His baptism will efToct what mine is powerless to do." "Not worthy." John shows his prcainess by self-abasement. "With Are." Tire is the emblem of the Holy Spirit. 17. "Whose fan." The fau, or the instrument for purging, is the Gospel. "Floor." His church. "Wheat." True beiiev.TS. "Garner." The kin?do*n of grave hero and of heaven here ifter. "fire uiniueui'lsablc." See Matt. 2o'A'j. 'i ea. Hiscd.-The preachiug of tbo go;pel inoinde.s the announcement of the iuobt learful judgments. Great and good'men fr> ? art* always uumoie men. irun uu'inmj u one of tiie marks of true greatness. stjjl * 1 Trie CAPTIVE^ BRITISH OFFICERS. Their Food and Dally ltoutine in the I'rihon at Pretoria. Letters which huve reached Frere. Natal, IroqiPretoria describe the prisou lifeo'f the a^s^ttred Britisii officers there. Tiiey urn Jwt.tiJlowed to play cricket or football, and tbetf Ofily exercise is to walk around the b'ijldings from 5 to 7 o'clock iu the even. ltaey rise at C o'clock in the morning and then have breakfast, which consists of :&read and tea. The lunch, hour is 1:30. ' Lunch consists of a government ration of | bread, but the officers are permitted to buy | cbeege, jam and potted meat. During the 1 morning the captives read and in the even- j ing they play cards. Their dinuer is always the same, consisting of "bully beef,'* which is very bad, and rice pudding. At j 10 o'clock all have to go to bed.. j Capacity of Exposition nail. The nest Republican National conveution will be held in the Indus* ; trial Exposition I" ill iu Philadelphia, j which at present seats 8000 persons. The j seating capacity will be enlarged bv the ; addition of wings, so as to accommodate ILWO. to 18.000. uersons. Wi GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. Us Thou My All?A Call for Action?Self Abnegation the Hardest ?An Ideal \ "Which Is Attainable ? God Cares for \ J the Morrow ?Christ Set the Example* Ee thou my Friend, my close Companion ever! Earth's paths diverge as comrades onward wend; Friends may depart, but thou, 0, leave menever ! Be thou my Friend! De thou my Guide through darkness aud through light, In evim tnu sunniest way mav danger hide. Thy feet have trod my road. By day, by I nlffhf Be thou my Guide! De thou my King! Let me know what to< do That till my hours may serve some goodly thing"; CommuuQ my life and keep me royal, true I. Be thou my King! ! Be thou my Saviour! Pardon all my sin. I grieve o'er broken laws and wrong bebavoir; Without thee heaven I cannot hope to win,' Be thou my Saviour! De thou my Strength! Heavy am I with/ weakness. In thee alone can I be strong at length. Help me to lean on thee in trust and meekness; Be thou my Strength! . Be thou my Life! No other one can feed', j me, I faint, weary and worn with pain and strife; Where living waters flow, 0, gently lead. me! i Be thou my Life! Be thou my Ail! Terrors sometimes enfold" me: The vasts of thy great universe appall Closer to thy dear heart. 0, closer hold me,. Be thou my All! . ??? A Call for Action. The man wno dares to stand up to speak : , for Ood ought to spend his days in God'scompany, ougbt to learn His secret, ought to thlnk^nimself into the very inner mysteries of Hlfl troth. You laymen, you men in all our churches, who think that there are societies to tya administered. who like to seeihe ministeron the street and have him in the itanse. and meet him in society and appoint Uuifflfteeretqry of this organization or president (tii fu-i, expect him to be everywhereIffofrwhete he ought to be?in the Boclety of .8n?i?let:tm? tell vnu that not until the WBflwiricnew what to expect and demand ?lflK ra?n who are their prophets, and not fa^Kminntefs know how to distribute and ^^K'.lospirAd thonght through inspired lfflur wiU the church rise to the height of tttggfrine function. Know this, that never word embodied in man be conJSaUdmy tQ:Qod% word outside man. He whfrlpm tie,"Inward reason despises the tgHpH^GbdjAnd will not hear what He has to''nay.- .JSMhmon your men from their A&hkggft MBimon your ministers from their moment: summon your teach' iir? frbmthe street and Bociety, and say : DrtrelB'^iMone, stand face to face with tr3?fflElfi and them come out and telt. 'ttSfeaWfcwulest calamity that can happen to be allowed to lie and rust la pffcror^Klyent0 ru9t in 'ts truth. John UtjflHw.said that the man who believed Uflpwttthe presbjtery has told him. or bejEMSBthe prl est has told him, is a heretic,, 'rff^though it be truth that be believes. At sot that manner of belief; we want *.so nftlivp -and walk that the truth may beoHMnvjoined to ttfe mind of man.?PrinFairbairn of Mansfield college, -W|fci[8$England, in sermon (Matt., 16?18. j& Srtf Abnegation the Hardest. Bffihe sacrament of service does not always Kwfent itself in ways dramatic, or p'cturSjwue, orexcitinK- . . . Here is a life, full of uMimbitfonB. ideals, visions, and it is called ae them all for tho obliga- j NHr?? niilltleB ?f home. It bos to 1 yM&nder thtf^wjiope Tor the email du- I the'^^^&and flatness of duty *| "irtooptoffto sfrve?^^^ often much easier obscurer task of cleans^ K^w8pS;|t?'tbe slams of the poor. But m lffiiiP cttnnot be taken vicariously; HMmnil .cannot be deputed; the obscure demand, Is Imperaiw?Sl5Q^ffl&bnal; and only as-be bends to .|tbftt lUn K^^of ambition Is^any son ot M holy in the sense of HHBftr righteousness, of dimlnlsblnc ' d?CHK4itaV the number of instances in ?^ ^mmmbne has been done and by increas-j?|uNg$tyt by prayer and faith and effort, ^<Mpfoer 'orrighteouB resistance of evil, of , 'i.fiihdL^tfisg-sense, and is what our 'Lord, ggSSaBBKkften knowledge of human nature^ His commands. There is no- % j^jjEBMSgttfeg before people an ideal which * IMM^tahnotattain. That simply discour Hpfiiem.But to Kive tlu-m an ideal which. HRever difficult, Is attainable, and which,. BMnrever lohg the approach, may yet be at- "< HBgikt by study and perseverance, this is to,*R?em on their mettle and on their honor. jKy purest and nobleet w ithln thein and totbem on the side of holiness. God Care# lor tin- Morrow. I^ijialong our enrthlv iife we are shut in Onto Qodfas it were, in little spaces'. W? ^must iivp a day at a time. The mornings are little hilltops from which we can look down Into the narrow valley of one little day. What lies over the next hill we can-, not tell. Perhaps, when we come to it. it may reveal to us a lovely garden through which our path shall go on. Or it may show us a'vale of shadows, or a path amid "briers. No matter; we have but the one little valley of the day now in sight. Evening is our horizon. Here in this one little day's enclosure we can rest as in a refuge. Tomorrow's storms and cares cannot touch us. -J. P.. Miller, D. I). Christ Set the Example. The sacrament of service! . . . Here is the great struggling,weary. un-Christlike world at our doors, and here are the dreams and hopes of Christian discipleship which hover beiore us as w? prav: and to nivo the one to the other, the hi^h ideal to ihe lowly deed, iho great thought to the slight kindness,and to do all this without ostentation or conceit ?that is as though o:.?..' more Jesus rose rrom tnbie au<i in His sacrament of service; and as He bent looked up into the lace of His disciple and said: "I have given ou an example that you should do even ns have done to you."?F. G. Peabody, 1). D., in "Afternoons in the College Chapel." Tho straightest path to happiness, after all. is the path about our neighbor's estate. Another's good, another's joy.seek that first and you will most atfely fin-i your own weal and happiness. NO MORE WILD WEST SHOWS. 7 fit* Government Will Not Permit Indianf to Be Used In That Way. A new doparture In the policy of the DeJ partmont of the Interier at Washington is emphasized by the unequivocal refusals which have met all resect requests foi Iw.ns of Indians for exhibition purposes. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones said: "There wiil be no more Indians per* mitted to leave their reservations for Wild West exhibition purposes. They cannot 3ecure the consent of the Indian Bureau (or their exhibitions save It be along the lines of showing the progress of IndlaD education. "Wild West shows demoralize the In< dlans, many of whom would conform to civilized ways but lor the dollars and MUts." -J .(i ..if _.5wii!