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r >' ??? TttE-ttY5TE I Njfeffifeilil Aumor of" "The Mouse o [Copyright, 12ST, by *< CHAPTER VI. Continued. The young man bad been much disappointed that the first night of his stay under the roof of the Blue Lion had passed off uneventfully. The second, however, fully mr.de up for this lack of excitement. So fearful was he of missing a possible visitor by oversleeping himself, that he never closed his eyes at all; and he was rewarded for his vigilance when, between two and three o'clock, he heard a slight noise at his door, and a moment later saw dimly that there was a figure moving in his room. Hp hold his breath while the intrud er went softly toward the head of the bed, making no noise, feeling about, stooping, searching. At last, when the fi~"re, which could now be discerned as that of a woman, reached his clothes and began hunting in them, the amateur detective, allowing his excitement to get the better of him, sat up in bed, making, in doing so, just noise to arouse the attention of the watchful thief. The next moment she had darted across the room, and out at the door. But the young man, being prepared for such a contingency as this, sprang out of bed half-dressed, and dashed out on to the landing in pursuit. The woman had got the start of him, and was by this time half-way up the attic staircase. He followed her, saw her open the door of the room on the right and close it. He beard the key turn in the lock. Without a second's hesitation, he flung himself with all his strength against the door. It shook, it creaked; another ! 6uch blow and the rickety old frame- " work would give way. Just as he hurled his weight against the door for i oAswvr>/l Hmo ViATirnvor ho VlPflTvl ( IXiC O^WUU 11UIV| uv>r VI ?v the unmistakable sound of the throwing open of the window of the room. The nest instant, the door gave way under the force of his blows, and he dashed into the room just in time to see a head disappear behind the sill of ' the open window. < Dashing through the room without < a moment's hesitation, the young fellow reached the window, and looked out. There was the sloping roof of ] an outhouse underneath, and although he could see no one, he flung himself ] out, slid down the tiles and found i himself precipitated quickly if not ' very gently to the ground. Then he : saw a dim something moving in front of him, under the trees, and he fol- ; lowed. The shadowy something paused. A yry escaped bim, a low cry of triumph, as he found that he was gaining on i the creature he was pursuing. But the next moment be uttered a cry of a i different sort, and a much louder one, t as he found himself precipitated with < great suddenness into a bath of ice- j cold water. Not being acquainted with the geog- ] raphy of the place he had walked ] straight into the little rivor. Cries and ] shouts quickly brought him assistance, 1 for the landlord, who had been al- 1 ready awakened by the hammering in 1 of the upstairs door, came out in his night-shirt and rescued him with a j boat-hook. ] "The thief!" sputtered the amateur i detective with chattering teeth. "The i thief; I've found her out! I've found i her!" ] "What thicf??^ said Claris, surlily, ! as he dragged the shivering man to- ' wards the back-door of the inn with 1 no gentle hand. "Who do you mean by thief, you addle-pated rascal?" 1 "You'll see, you'll see to-morrow," ' replied the other, undaunted, not heed- ' Ing his own pitiful plight in his ex- ! citement. "Whose is the bedroom up- ] stairs at the back on the right?" "That's my niece's roo said Clar- ' Is, sullenly, "and if you dare to say that she had anything to do with your 1 fool's outing to-night, I'll shake such brains as you've got out of yer!" "Well, you may, and welcome, if i you don't find that she's left her room 1 and got away by the window. Ah!" ' he stopped short suddenly in the mid- i die of the cabbage garden, through ; which they were walking, and pointed ] to a white figure which was stealing ' its way into the house: "Is that your 1 niece, or is it not?" roart-d the young 1 man excitedly, as he pointed with a shakinz fimrer in the direction of the disappearing woman. For answer George Claris sprang forward, and seized the girl's wrist just as she reached the shelter of the 1 doorway. "Nell!" cried the man, in tones so 1 hoarse, so terrible that they sounded like those oi a stranger. "Tell me, lass, what were you doing out there?" But the girl only stammered and shook, and he waited in vain for an answer. CHAPTER VII. If ever guilt was written on a human face surely it was written on mat of Nell Claris when, seized roughly by her uncle, she stood shaking and stammering in Jws grasp, just inside the back door of the inn. So thought Jack Lowndes, the friend whom Otto Conybeare had sent down in the capacity of amateur detective, as he stood shivering, dripping, with chattering teeth and starting eyes, before her. "What were you doing cut there, lass? What were you doing out there at this time o' night?" roared her uncle, with .in earnestness which convinced Lowndes of his innocence of the attempt at theft. "I?came out?to see?what was the matter!" stammered the girl, whose voice was weak and tremulous. "I? I " Her uncle stared fixedly at hor, as If a doubt of* her had begun to darken even his mind. It was in a different tone, almost apologetically, that he turned to the stranger. "Well, and that's a reasonable answer enough, RT-QFT/ie TjjTTTn fiLrden, ri ttit A&rsh*" cl"c;> >bort Bonner's Sons.] ' surely! For I'm sure by the notee yoi made, it might ha' been the parisi church afire!" But the shivering man was begin nlng to feel that dry clothes and a fir< outweighed everything else In hit mind. "'"Let me get inside," stammered he "and when I'm dry again, I'll talk tc you. But this speech caused Claris to looL at him with more attention, anil he then perceived that Lowndes was dre.ssed. "14iere's something to be explained here!" he exclaimed, with sudden bus picion. "You haven't been, to bed Who are you?" he asked, in a differeni tone, barring the entrance to the house with his burly person. "Who arc you? And what did you come here for? Now, out with it! Were you sent here to lay traps for honest folks' Speak out, man, or back you shall gc into the river again!" And Claris seized the unfortunate Lowndes in his powerful grasp and forced him backward in the direction of the little river. By this time Nell had partly recovered her composure. She now spoke to her uncle in a calmer voice. "Let him come in, Uncle George," she said. "Let him come In and change his wet clothes. And then make him give an account of himself, If he can." With apparent reluctance the innkeeper took his niece's advice, led Lowndes up to his room as if he had been a prisoner, locked him in, and kept watch outside the door until he was ready. jaCK J_?ownaes couiu near iue uuuc and niece in whispered conversation on the landing, and murmnred some imprecations against the "artful little hussy," as.he detected by the rising anger in George Claris's tones the fact that the girl was "working him up." A thundering knock at his door, which threatened to bring it down as easily as Lowndes himself had brought down the door of the upstairs room, warned him that it was time for him to come out and face the Indignant pair. "Now,-sir," roared Claris, barely leaving Lowndes the time to get down stairs before beginning his attack, "what have you to say for yourself? It seems you had the impudence to batter in the door of my niece's room, and that you weDt flying out through the window like a madman. Now, what have you to say for yourself? Do you remember anything ibout It, or not?" And George Claris, who had lit a candle, the pale rays of -which looked sickly in the struggling light of the Sawn, peered curiously into the haggard face of Jack Lowndes. "Remember? Of course I remember. How should I know it was your niece's room? I only came into the house last night for the first time. I followed the woman and she went in there. She turned the key in the lock, so I had to burst it open." As he mentioned the word "woman" x cry burst from Nell's lips, a cry so piteous that Lowndes turned to look it her, and was struck with bewilderment. Believing thoroughly in her ?uilt as he did, having come down as lie had come to unmask her, he was it that moment converted to an absolute belief in her innocence. And yet lie could not have explained how it was that the sight of her face, the sound of her voice as she uttered the cry, had this instantaneous and decided effect upon him. So deeply absorbed was he in contemplation of this new aspect of the matter tlvit at first be did not hear, or did not heed, the innkeerier's next words. "Woman! What woman You said nothing about a woman." "I don't know myself what woman it was," answered Lowndes, in a tone in which a change to doubt and hesitancy could be detected. "But some woman came into my room in the aight"?George Claris moved impatiently. "I don't say I was unprepared for this, but I can swear that she came, and when she took up my clothes and I heard the chink of the loose money in my pockets I started up, and ski? ran out of the room. I was not unprepared, as I say, and I ran after her, saw her go into the back room at the top, heard her lock it, burst it in, and saw her getting out of the window just as I got into the room. I got out after her, saw her once more when I got to the ground, and the next thing I knew was that I was in the water." "Well, it sobered you, at any rate," said George Claris, shortly. "And now there's nothing left to do but to tell us how much money she took. Don't be bashful; make it a hundred, or say two. We've been bled before; no doubt we can stand bleeding again." There seemed to Lowndes to be something pathetic in the rough Irony of the man's tone; he began to feel heartily sorry and ashamed that he had allowed himself to be persuaded into this adventure. The pretty, pale girl, standing mute behind her uncle; the uncle himself with the dull perplexity in his eyes, seemed to him in the ghostly light of the early morning so utterly broken down, so bewildered, so miserable, that he wanted to slink away without exchanging a further word with them. But this, of course, was out of the question. "I have had nothing taken," he said, hurriedly. "Nothing whatever." "You think the woman was maybe only taking a look round by way of passing the time?" suggested Claris, still in the same grim tone. Lowndes was silent. "And, pray, if 1 may make so bold," went on the iukeeper, in a threatening tone, after a few minutes' pause, "what was she like, this woman?" I '1 couldn't see. -It"was dark, you know." "But you're sure It was a woman, of course?" There was, perhaps, a note of interest in Claris's irony this time. ft T AtimilAo with o ACa, UilOVVUlCU lA/>YUUCOt VT I111 u little more decision, "I am sure of that. She moved like a woman, and had a woman's head and a woman's skirts. ! I saw her head as she got out of the window. I saw her skirts moving about before me when I got down to the ground." "And that's all you've got to say? Now, Nell, tell us what you saw." And he turned triumphantly to his niece. 1 Nell was standing opposite the win- ^ 1 dow, and the gray light of the morning came over the top of the shutters " full on her face. It was white, weary, c ; and there were dark lines undei- the a 5 eyes, which were heavy and lusterless. c Every word she uttered bore?so the v , young man thought?an odd stamp as \ > of truth and sincerity. t "I woke up suddenly, hearing a loud a : noise. I saw the door fall in and j <] ! some one rush through and get out of c s the window. I sprang up and looked out, and saw this gentleman sliding I down from the roof of the outhouse on c to the ground." v "I didn't see you," interrupted t, t Lowndes, sharply, with another doubt f s "You did not look up," replied the f ! girl, with composure. "You ran away ! through the garden to the right. I i dressed quickly, and ran downstairs g ? and out by the back door to see what j p ? was the matter. When I got out you ; ^ had scrambled "up the bank and were ! talking to my uncle." [ Lowndes said nothing; there was i nothing to say. But, although it is true that he had not given much at- c tention when he burst into the upper c s room to anything but the window and 11 the escaping figure, he felt convinced c that if there had been a person in bed ^ I in the room he should l ave seen her, r i or heard some cry, some word, to indi- r' cate her presence. b "Now, you've heard another story. v And, begging your pardon, I'd sooner 8 take her word than yours." e "But," suggested Lowndes in a con- b ciliatory tone, "do the two stories con- ti , tradict each other? All this young t< lady says is that she did not see the e woman pass through her room." b jno, nor any one eise, euuer, i>ur?i ? , out George Claris, as if his patience h , was at last exhausted. "An* look here b ?I won't stand no man coming down o here to spy about, and taking fancies into his head, and breaking into the rooms of my house?not for nobody, *a and so, sir, you can just go up stairs e and pack your portmanteau and clear fl out between this and breakfast time. a Not another bit nor drop will you be n served with under my roof. And you p, may just tell the three young scoun- e drels that sent you that whatever they jj likes to call themselves they're no ^ gentltmen. I?I know them, you see. I know you were put up to this by j Jordan, King and Co." "Uncle! uncle! No; Mr. King never sent him. I will answer for that!" And Nell's face became suddenly ^ crimson with a blush that betrayed ^ her secret j, Lowndes was touched. ' "You're right," he said to her, very ^ simply. "Mr. King knew nothing ^ about my coming." He turned to ^ Claris. "Let me have my bill," he said, "I will go at once." And the young man, ashamed of his own action, but more perplexed every moment, as he considered, from every point of view, his singular adveiiture, left the Blue Lion within the next U twenty minutes, and returned to town to relate his experience to Otto Cony- el beare and Willie Jordan. To be Continued. c Mountain Falls Into Sea. l<] A Vancouver (B. C.) special runs: The whole crest of a mountain over a (( mile in circumference sliDned into Loughborough inlet, 100 miles from fr Vancouver, a few days ago. The great slide was the result of an earthquake and the resulting shock of the falling mountain top was felt for ^ a long distance. At this part of the f coast the mountains rise almost per- pendicularly from the water for 700 or 800 feet. The mountain which fell was composed of a crag which overhung the shore, and a great slice of It U sheered off into the bay. r The break extended back over 500 B feet from the shore. Giant frees and a rocks were swept away, as if they had i( been toothpicks. Instead of crumbling |c as it fell, the huge mass of rock and n earth turned over and flung itself far y out into the bay, forming a small tidal wave. Umbrella Versus Cue. A match which excited a consider- . abie amount of interest at the time, ^ was played forty years ago between John Roberts, father of the prese' billiard champion, and an amateur who was a very fair player. Roberts played with an old umbrella instead of a cue, his opponent being equipped in the normal fashion. To appreciate fully the difficulty of Roberts's task let any one try the experiment for himself. He will be lucky if he can make the ball c travel even approximately in the di- a rection which he intends. Old Roberts, who, by the way, lost the Umbrella n vs. Cue match, had a great fancy for -p similar experiments. It is on record s that when he met a very inferior play--1 g, er he would abjure the cue altogether and play with his nose.?Cassell's g Magazine. Did Not Follow. 0 "You ask me why I come here bo " much?" said the young man, assuming h ! the aggressively argumentative style, o "Isn't the pursuit of happiness one of ! the inalienable rights of man?" a ; "Yes." r ' Wnll KAiAtnAil fiMnnrnhnnflv ww en, uc ttjviutu, ?' 1 "In my case tlie pursuit of happiness c ' is tlie pursuit of you!" "Very good," the young woman said, n adopting tlie crushing demonstrative u style. "Are not life and liberty also iu u alienable rights?" . c, "They are." * tl "Well, you pursue me nearly every y evening in the week. You worry tht f life out of me and interfere with my j( liberty!" n This is how it happened that uc ^ union grew out of this joint declaration of independence.?Chicago Tri bune. . 01 Russia is computed to have the larg I' est standing army in the world. a \ ^HOUSEHOLD REFINING ONE'S HOUSE. _ i Chatty Chapter on the Snbjeet of Far nlshlngs. Large and medium sized bowls ar< oming more and, more to the from *s a house decorative adjunct Thos< >f copper or brass are in high favor vhile quaint Japanese ones, of th< vare that shades from unglazed greer o lightest grey, are, also, much likec s receptacles for flowers, for pow lered orris to make the air fragrant, tc. * * Woodwork and floors painted green 3b ombination with delicately flowered mils and big blossomed chintz or ere onne upholstery and curtains are th avored bedroom decorative scheme oi lie hour. * _l?? l? uu[ yiuas hiiuua me tuumucitu ui .u martor on Colonial furniture, just al resent, than even the perfectly plain rass trimmings. * Women would do well to give much liought to color harmony and cirumstances rather than style when hoosing house furnishings. Upon the armonious blending of wall and floor overing, together with the woodwork, epends much of the success of the oom, yet some woman, hearing that ed walls' "are the style," and seeing ow effective a soft shade of it is s-ltli the pure black Flemish oak, traightway has It put on her walls to ombine with yellow oak. How much etter a gobelin blue burlap or carridge paper would be? Then, too, ofen the mistake is made of having evrything of one color to match, therey causing monotony. Artistic decrators advocate old rose in rugs and angings as a relieving contrasting it to gobelin blue walls, and yellow ak woodwork. * ? To have a valance wherever there Is n excuse for one is to be in the latst mode. The most desirable bed is Colonial mahogany four poster, with valance around x teste; ana an round the frame to the floor. The orrect fashion of hanging over drapries now is to have a straight breadth anging each side of the window or oorway, with a valance all across fie top. The openings of bay winows are also decorated with a valnce now. * * * Softly tinted colorcd shades are bet?r style at present for light fixtures ban pure white ones, yet not the starting itints too often found in the ordiary shade. Artistic shades are ratnr difficult to find in inexpensive kinds, 'he perforated shades ol' copper and rass made by the arts and crafts soieties are very smart and quite promlent among the latest interiors develped by exclusive decorators. v O r Copper nails with huge heads are le latest for holding down centre oor coverings. They are especially Elective on green or blue terry. Curtains of English muslin Jn figured effect are becoming quite popuir l'oir dining room use. Their deigns and colorings are really very efjctive, too. One specially attractive ae, noted lately, had a large design 1 yellow, deep orange and green. By ie way, yellow, whether true yellow, iffron, bronze yellow or orange, is ery prominent for many and varied ouse decorative schemes just jjnw.? ;biladelDhia Record. To Clean Paint. Squeeze a clean cloth out of hot wa?r, dip it in whiting, and with this ub the paint till all dirt is removed, .lnse well with clean water, dry with soft cloth and polish with a chamois >ather. Paint cleaned in this way >oks like new, and the whiting will ot injure even the most delicate col rs. Cherry Cheese?Pit red cherries and hop them fine. To each pound of fruit dd hall.' a pound of white sugar and Immer slowly till a smooth, jelly-like lass. Seal in glasses like jelly, and .'hen wanted use for filling layer cake, andwiches or tarts. It is delicious erved with whipped cream. Jellied Apples?Pell, halve and core Ix large apples. Make a syrup by oiling a pound of sugar and a pint f water. Let boil up once, then put 1 the apples with two lemons sliced, alf a dozen cloves and a few sticks f cinnamon. As soon as the apples re tender, take them out carefully till orronrm in o H!ah linllnw ci/ln nn 'ul ii spoonful of currant or apple jelf in each. Boil down the syrup, let ool :i little and pour over the app^'s. Lemon Custard?This custard is lade by adding to one quart of milk ve eggs, one tablospoonful of butter, n<> cupful of sugar, one teaspoonful ornstareh and two lemons. Cream be butter jiud sugar, and add the oiks of the eggs beaten until light, lien the juice and grated rind of the mons; dissolve the cornstarch in the i ilk and add to the other ingredients lake in a buttered pudding-dish until lie custard is set, then cover it with leringue made of the whites of tlio Lfgs and one-third of a cupful of owdered sugar. Return to the ovcd nd browa slightly. Serve cold. \ ' '>rv' .' ^ TIE SABBATH SCHOOL ' INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS i FOR OCTOBER 13. 9ubJ?ct: Joseph In Prison, Gen. xxxlx., 20 to xl.. 15?Golden Text: G?n. xxxlx., 21?Memory Versed, 21-23? Commentary on the Day's Lenson. Introduction. ? The history of Joseph, , as recorded in the Bible, iB of inimitable J beauty. So simple that a child may understand it, yet, in its simplicity, so beautiful that no uninspired hand can embel- ( Ilish it. Modern writers would fill a vol- ( ume in recording what MoseB puts within j the compass of a few chapters. No blem- ^ ish apnears in the life of Joseph.. 20. "Into the prison." This probably , implies an edifice, or portion of the ofn- t rial mansion, mostly subterranean, of j 5 which the roof or vault, rising immediate* t lv from the surface of the ground, was j round, or shaped like an inverted bowl, In chapter 41: 14 it is called "the dun' geon." Such dungeons are still, under > simdar circumstances, used in the East, i His imprisonment must have been very i severe at first. In Psalm 105: 17, 18 we read that they hurt his feet with fetters; * he was laid in iron. But God greatly , blessed him, and it was not long before he had many favors shown him. He was there." Joseph was in prison three years. 21. "The Lord was with Joseph." I "This is an example of the strength of [ God's consolations in the worst trials." Joseph had power within him, which enabled him to press forward, even though it was very dark before him. The disci| pline seemed severe; he was suffering as a martyr. But he learned to trust God, and with gladness of heart lie goes to slavery, persecution and imprisonment. God's I eye was upon him, and no weapoh formed against him prospered. He always did right and made the best of everything. Art uir r ? a ~ ui uiic jjiinuii. xi.ii uuciiui officer who was chargcd with the actual discipline of the prison. "Committed to Joseph's hand." We see here the real 1 nature of human influence. It is not the . influence of rank, but of character. Make all men equal in rank to-day, and to-morrow there will be found those who have ! acquired influence over the others. These prisoners were all in the same position, out very soon Joseph's character gained him influence. * 23. "Because the Lord," etc. The reason of his influence was the God i within him. Just so far as a man is Christlike will he have influence. Wisdom and virtue will shine in the narrowest spheres. A good man will do good wherever he is, , and will be a blessing even in bonds and banishments, for the Spirit of the Lord is not bound or banished. 1. "The butler." The cupbearer and overseer of the wine?making and storing and serving; an important officer of the king. "Baker." This was another officer in trust of the king's bread and ite making, and his post was one of high trust, because they who had charge of the food of the king might easily poison him. "Had offended." High places are slippery places. 3. "In the house." The state prison was in connection with Potiphar's residence. See on verse 20. 4. "Charged .Joseph," etc. The captain of the guard himself, who was Potiphar, charged Joseph with them, which intimates that he began now to.be reconciled to him, and perhaps to be convinced of his innocence. "He served them." Joseph waited upon them. So long as God is with him Joseph will shine even in the dungeon. Pharaoh's officers are sent to witness his graces, which he iB not permitted to come forth to show. 5. "Each man?in one night.^ This dhows that the dreams were of the Lord. While our ordinary dreams have no special significance, yet it can not be doubted that God has in many cases, especially in early times, spoken in dreams. "According to the interpretation." This expression is intended to show that the dreams were not meaningless, but suited to each man's case and capable of a sound interpretation. 6. "Sad." They were sure their dreams had more than an ordinary meaning. 7. "Wherefore?so sadly." Joseph spoke kindly to them; he, too. was a common sufferer -with them, and understood their feelings. 8. "No interpreter." One tiling that troubled them was that they were not in . a position to submit their dreams to the magicians ot -kgypt, who were supposed to be able to interpret dreams. But JoseDh pointed them to fiis God as the One who could reveal difficult things. "Tell me them." Thus had God at last brought Joseph nrominently before these officers. 11. "Pressed them." From this we find that wine anciently was the pure juice of the grape, without fermentation. The nunbearer took the bunch, pressed the juice into the cup. and immediately de? livered it into the hands of his master. 12. "Three branches are three days." Human knowledge could not have known that these branches had reference to time, or if they did have whether three days, months or years were intended. It was wisely ordered that one part of the dream should require a divinely inspired interpreter. It was God's design to assure the butler that Joseph obtained his wisdom not from man, but by revelation from above. 13. "Lift up thine head." This may refer to a custom which the kings of Egypt observed when those supposed to be guilty of great crimes were punished, and others less guilty were pardoned. 14. "Think on me." Joseph had much yet to do to this world. He was to become "the shepherd and the stone of Israel;" he was to be lord of Pharaoh's house: he was to become the father of two powerful tribes in Israel. He could not perish while the promises he had rcceived were vet unaccomplished. "Bring me out." "Ho desires enlargement not preferment. Providence sometimes designs the greatest honors for those that least covet or expect them." 15. "I was stolen." Joseph makes a very modest statement with reference to himself. He does not reflect upon those who had sold him. or dwell upon the great wrong done him in his imprisonment; he merely states the facts and declares his innocence. "Land of the Hebrows." Judea was probably known by this name in Egypt. "Done nothing." Joseph's wav is now for a time in the darkness, but this is the very way through wluch God often leads His people. Joseph also interpreted the dream of the baker. Vs. 16-19. On the third day after this Pharaoh made a birthday feast, and the butler was restored to his office and the baker was hanged, "as Joseph had interpreted to them." The butler, however, forgot Joseuh. It is sup- 1 nosed that Joseph had at this time been in nrison one year, and he must wait "two full years" yet before God's time comes for his release. Joseph knew the future of the butler and baker, but his own future was wisely hidden from his view. 1 He must walk by faith and not by sieht. Galveston Has a Good Year. The statistics of commerce of the port of Galveston. Texas, for the trade year ( just closed show that in spite of the hurricane of last September business is being conducted on a greater scale than ever be fore Galveston's total cotton receipts tor 1900-1901 were 2.177.9S3 bales, compared with 1,710,263 hales for 1899-1900. Galveston bank clearings for the year amounted i_ eccn <3^o nnn fnmrarcil with ?339.(>24.85C i I for the preceding year. During the season i of 1900-1901 the total coastwise and foreign ?xports from Galveston were valued at , f2-16.;)67.2-17. as compared with S21S.S84.512 for the previous sermon. The total foreign J exports, including domestic and foreign , koods for the year was valued at $101,9G2,792, compared "with $?6^76,480 for tlie pre , vioua Ecason , Prevent Birth of Criminals. The Congress of Criminal Anthropology, it Amsterdam, Holland, listened to a ' paper written by l)r. Louis Robinovitch, >f New York City, on "The Duty of the state to Prevent tlie Birth and Propaga- ' non of Criminals." He declared it to be 1 lis opinion that crime is a hereditary dis* * :ase. 1 The World'* Larcest Cheese. The largest cheese in the world is in the 1 Pan-American Exposition. It weighs 1100 > pounds, is twenty-six inches high, thirty- i i six inches in diameter and was made out ' I nf nnarfa of milk. j 1 - . *r. -t rHE GEEAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE, ?r. John Madden Has Contributed an Especially Notable Paper to the Dlicn*. slon Whether Alcohol Is a Food or Poison?Inimical to the Body. To the scientific literature produced in inswer to the Question, "Jfl alcohol a food or a poison?" Dr. John Madden ha6 re:ently added an especially notable paper. Dr. Madden is a professor of physiology in Milwaukee Medical Colleee. His article on the subject is contributed to the Scientific American. After a thorough review of the various experiments that have been made to solve the problem and i rehearsal of the opinions of other high mifJirtrifinn Dr Afnrlrlpn nresents the fol* lowing conclusions: "If those small quantities of alcohol oxidized withjjn the body are to be called foods, should they not exhibit the characteristics of food by increasing the normal functions of brain or muscle? "Is it not a fatal inconsistency to call any substance a food which does not give increased warmth to the body, but, instead, decreases the bodily temperature; which docs not protect the nitrogenons tissues from waste, but does increase their rate of metabolism; which docs not give added pow^r to the nerve cells of the brain, but, on the contrary, always decreases the quality of their products; whicn does not enable the muscle to contract more vigorously, but does, indeed, decrease ita capability for doing work? "The argument has been made repeatedly and reiterated persistently in the past year or two that the fact of alcohol not being oxidized within the body was prima-facie evidence that it contributed to bodily energy. But this is proved by incontrovertible evidence to be fallacious. "Another argument much used in favor of the food value of alcohol is that physicians find it valuable in certain cases of extremely low vitality; that there are certain conditions of this kind which alcohol alone can reach. "Such assertions as these are not easy to refute, simply because they are vague and so much of a personal equation enters into them. "The writer has seen many cases of this kind and has bad many in his own practice in which the therapeutic value of alcohol was thoroughly tested, but he cannot recall a single case in which the alcohol was known to have saved a life, or, indeed, to have been of any value as a food, and the majority of the best and most carefully educated and most experienced physicians of to-day are against alcohol in any quantity as a source of bodily nutrition. "Considering the foregoing evidence are we not fully justified in calling alcohol a poison, meaning thereby that it is a substance inimical to the organism, producing injury in small and death in larger quantities? Are we not, moreover, by the same evidence, fully justified in denying it a place in any classifications of foods because it neither repairs tissue waste nor protects the organism, neither is it a source of organic force? "Let us continue to teach our boys and girls that alcohol is a poison; that the /act of its being oxidized in the body, if taken in Bmall Quantities, is not sufficient to constitute a food* and tnat tne normal man is never benefited by it in any quantity." The Drunkard' Limit. Dr. Charles L. Dana, of New York, professor of nervous diseases, Cornell University Medical College, and visiting physician to Bellevue Hospital, New York City, has just written a remarkable article on "Inebriety?a Study of Its Causes, Duration and Management." His conclusions are chiefiv based upon investigations at Bellevue Hospital. One of Dr. Dana's significant statements is in regard to the number of time? that a drunkard can get drunk without succumbing to insanity or death. Dr. Dana puts the extreme limit at 2000 and says that only a few are able to reach the 100 mark. In his article which is contributed to the Medical Record Dr. Dana says: "The cases that are brought into the wards at Bellevue include all phases and decrees of alcoholism. I personally studied 350 cases in 1891,-and a somewhat larger number in 1892, 1893 and 1895. I found the acute effects of hard drinking to be distributed about as follows: Simple intoxication, sixty per cent.; delirium tremens ending in recovery, thirty-six per cent.; delirium tremens with complications ending in death, four per cent. Regarding the divisions by classes or j persons subject to inebriety Dr. Dana says: "It is not the day laborers, but the mechanics, artisans and small tradesmen that furnish the greatest proportion of cases. Drivers, waiters, painters and liquor dealers supply a very considerable quota. It is the indoor workman, however, who is oftencst the victim." German Army and Drink. The Christian Commonwealth (London. England), in an editorial note entitled "The Drink and Crime," thus comments on some statistics published in the Kreuz Zeitung regarding army prisons in Germany: "This is not the only country where the drink produces crime. We are sometimes told that the drink habit of the Germans is quite harmless; that the beverage they use does not lead to evil consequences; that it is only in those countries where distilled liquors are chiefly used that the habit becomes vicious. But facts do not support this contention. In an article in the Kreuz Zeitung, warmly advocating tcmperance and the disuse of alcohol in the army and navy, the writer brings for ward remarkable statistics m support 01 his plea. In 120 army prisons throughout Germany forty-six per cent. of all the murderers committed their crime while under the influence of drink. Sixty-three per cent, of the eases of manslaughter, seventy-four per cent, of serious injury to the person, and seventy-seven per cent, of criminal immorality are due to the same cause. In the navy, out of 1C71 punishable cases during the last six years, seventyfive per cent, of the most serious cases have been due to drunkenness. Evidently the drink is the same old evil, whether in Germany, England, or any other country Everywhere it leaves devastation in its pathway." Aire In Inebriety. Concerning the interesting topic of agt in inebriety, Dr. Dana saj-s: "The average duration for men of the drinking habit in serious cases investigated was about fifteen years?the maximum being over forty years. Among periodical inebriates the average duration was nineteen years. In general it may be concluded that hard drinking can rarely be carried on for more than twenty years, and it generally brings the victim to grief at about .the age of forty." The Crusade ?n Brief. The health of the liquor business may depend on your depending oa the liquor for your health. Dr. Dana, of New York, finds that the number and proportion of woman inebriates are increasing. Alcohol causes the strength of grip to increase just after the drink has keen swallowed, but this is followed by a rapid decline. How many of your friends and ncnuaintinces are addicted to the use of liquor? j Perhaps they are waiting for your to assist them to a way to be cured of their ippetites. The beer house is a nucleus of everything that is criminal and vicious.?Judge Travis. I have treated nearly 7000 cases of inebriety, and eight-tenths of that number originated from wine and malt liquors.? Albert Day, M. D. The largest drink of alcohol which can bo takpn without nnnropinhlo nftor-f nnnn the average man is discovered through tests to be seven ami a half grams, the imount contained in half a vine glass of port or onc-tiftn of a pint of ale. In the present state of things many rrorking men spend many hours of their Sundays in drinking, with the disastrous result that on Monday morning thc-v are ivhoily unfit for work, and frequently injure their employers by this irregularity. . / V;' ' ?IHP??w??> GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. rhe Lord's Guidance?Mrs. Duncan's Ex? ample ? Bow Her Simple Act of Duty Turned the Current of an Influential Life ? Beaonroefnlneis of a Christian Beneath the burden of my cross I patient wait; Even when I suffer pain and loss, ' In low estate. Because aware my Lord doth see My load of care and pity me. Although the way seems often rough And strength is small, He walks with me?it is enough, He is my all. He is my Guide from day to day; Whate'er betide, He is my stay. I come to Him with my complaint, He bends to hear, I cannot falter, fall nor faint When He is near. I feel His hand in darkest night, " And understand it leads to light. How oft my folly I bewail With tears and sighs, But oh, His wisdom never fails, " , 'Tis always wise; It always knows which way to lead, Before me goes with tender need. He sends me grief, unwelcome guest, I cry: "Not so!" "Ho takes the gem I love the best, And lays it low. My heart is rent, my treasure dust. Yet comfort's sent, and I can trust. A cross there is for all to take, _ ! Then calmly bear, ? And patient be. for Jesua's sake, Who knows thy care. \ Ask Him for strength, and thou shalt prove . And know at length that God is love. ?Anna D. Walker, in Christian Wort \ Story of a Prayer. General Joseph Duncan, after four termsin Congress, was elected, in 1834, to be Governor of Illinois, which position he < held for four years. He invited a younjr man, Truman M. Post, whom he had known in Washington, to come to hi* Illinois home and serve him as clerk, or private secretary. The young man arrived at Jacksonville, where General Duncan resided, on a day" when the Governor-elect was receiving & large delegation of his political friends. The table was set under the oaks, and the young secretary took his seat a'mong the Drominent men. To his great surprise ! "Wrfl Tlnnnflr /?a 11 tmnn lii'm fti?lr fVio blessing, and he could only stammer: "Madam, I beg your pardon; I am not & Christian." There waa a moment's pause, and then Mrs. Duncan, standing at the head of the , table, in a quiet, womanly voice, uttered a nrayer of thanks for the blessings with which *he Heavenly Father had spread tbeir table and filled their lives. . j Every one was impressed by the act, but 1 two persons were deeply moved. One of ' these was Governor Duncan, who shortly afterward became a Christian and said grace at his own table. The other wag young Truman, whom she had supposed, from the character given him by her husband, to be a professor of religion. To-day few names of ministers are bet-1 ter remembered or held in higher honor throughout the Northwest than that of i Rev. Dr. Truman Marcellus Post. Air a frontier missionary he did heroic service, extending Bis labors over a wider and wider area as his power and influence en* larged, and occupying at length a leading pulpit in St. Louis, whence his work reached out on every side in a rapidly^ developing region, encouraging feeble hands, multiplying agencies of beneficence j tnd leaving its mark on future generation^ When some one, in his later years, re< ferring to his early political associations^ isked him what changed the current ol his life into the channel which proved so lonspicuously useful, he told the story oj Mrs. Duncan's prayer. Her quiet act of duty at a trying moment had followed aim with its ineffaceable impression until . lie dedicated himself to the ood she loved tnd served. Mrs. Duncan was then dead; tut the power of her example iivcrl on; Dr. Post is dead, hut his work survives. The incident of the Governor's dinnes is not unique. Others of similar distinc* * :ion uave Happened and passed without furnishing the making of a chapter. But this one?like all incidents?is measured Dy its consequences. It not only showed the character and quick resource of a noole Christian lady, but, unexpectedly to ieraelf, it bore fruit and made her remembered. And the revival of every such nemory is stimulating and instructive.? Youth's Companion. , 6afe?-uar<U Against Sin. It needs power to resist the influences at work for sin around ua on every side. Young Christians are especially subject to these allurements. An attituae of firm determination based on fixed principles :arefully wrought out in hours of calm f thought is the essential safeguard against the attacks of worldliness. The higher one gets in social circles the more difficult it Occomes to live the humble, consistent life followed in the days of poverty and obscurity. The late Secretary Windom said:f ' xou aon t know what pressure is Orougnt to bear on us here in Washington to live the same life all the days of the week, but I never have and I never will accept any kind of an invitation on Sunday. The world crowds me hard six days of the* week, and I cannot afford to let it have this one." Tito Best Religion. The intent of religion is to help mankind to the attainment of a peaceful and righteous life. It is, indeed, to glorify God, but by t^e elevation of human life. It is intensely practical. Whenever it becomes merely speculative, dogmatic or :eremonial it is perverted xrom its highest meaning, and fails of its best results. The energy of tine religion is directed toward present needs ana opportunities. It is personal and immediate. It is not simply believing something that is past, and hoping for something in the future, but it is llso doing something now. The best religion is that which makes the best meo i and women.?Rev. Abram Conklin. A Simple Rule. "As the duty of every day requires." That is a simple rule. Let it be pondered well. Resolve when you awake that it shall be to some faithful purpose, and that your renovated powers shall be obedient to Him who has renewed them. x Let not the opportunity that is so fleeting 1 and yet so full pass neglected away.? N Frothingham. m 1 Great Characters. Once to know a great character is to < I know it torever. Time may dun our memory of the man or woman who bore it, but the character will somehow live with as forever. Our lives, all unconsciously to us, it may be, will still be under its hallowed influence. Others may in a measure take the place which this one once occupied, but he will still live in our heart, and what he was will rest upon us like a blessed benediction. Thus Christ blesses lives. When we have once been \ with Christ, and learned of Him, the blessedness of it will remain with ua to the end.?Christian Advocata. * Roosevelt the Younjjest ProaCtfont. \| Theodore Roosevelt, who has become ' the President of the United States, is the youngest man that ever held that office. ' He will be forty-three years old on October 27. Ulysses S. Grant, who was the ) youngest elected President, was about completing his forty-sixth year when he took office to serve* his first term. Garfield was forlv-nine at the time of his inauguration. Grover Cleveland was fortyeight when h" took office for the first ( time. George Washington was fifty-seven at the time of his first inauguration. John Adams was sixty-two. Thomas .Teferson. fifty-eight; James Monroe, fifty-nine; Abraham Lincoln, fifty-two, and William a ~ : 1