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JTH'E-rtYSTE 1 mmmmm _ -BY Florence V Auttioi: of" "The Mouse lCoryri?ht, 1&95, by CHAPTER XIII. Continued. "But didn't you hear what the doctor ?aid? Didn't you wait to hear it?" persisted Nell. "I waited to hear it. but I didn't succeed," said the colonel, in an offended tone. The fact was that he and a number of other nobodies, who on one account or other considered themselves persons of great importance in the neighborhood, had been cruelly snubbed by the two medical men who had made an examination of the body when it had been Drougnt into me xowu. * after making their examination, they had both passed out of the building and through tne throng which awaited them as quickly as possible, and had both declined at that stage to give a definite opinion as to the cause of death. So all the little-great men felt grossly insulted, and departed to their respective homes at a white heat of indignation. "For all I know, they may bring It In 'Murder' against this fellow. King." said the colonel, irritably, not with any feeling of animosity against the person in question, but in order to get Nell to sympathize with his own grievance. Jtsui me entrui vi > u? ? muo u^uu ?.^ girl was electrical. "Murder! Against Clifford!" cried she. springing to the door and gasping for breath. "Oh. you don't mean that! You can't!" She burst into a violent fit of weeping, which made the colonel rather ashamed of himself. He tried to calm her. assuring her that nobody but the doctors, who were pompous asses without an idea how to treat men of powers and position vastly superior to their own, would ever entertain such a monstrous opinion. But she could not find enough comfort in his words; and at last, in spite of his and his daughter's efforts to detain her. she set 'off to wall: to the Blue Lion, that she might at least have the assurance she longed for that nobody there shared the colonel's rashly expressed opinion. ""Wind Noll, vou are to come back here to sleep," commanded Miss Bostal, who objected to the girl's remainIns: in the vicinity of her highly undesirable lover. But Nell would give no promise. She was deeply anxious, not only to hear how Clifford was and what people thought of Jem Stlckels's death, but, aiso, to know how soon she would be able to speak to Clifford, whose advice had become more necessary than ever. Refusing, therefore, a rather perfunctory offer on the colonel's part to escort her along the lonely road, she bade her friends *good-by and started on her way to the Blue Lion. But she got little reward for her pains. The house was shut up when she reached it; and i'ic;. who let her Jn, started at the sight of her, and hurried her up to her room, with scant ' information. Of course, the servant had heard of the finding of Jem Stickels's body; but she either would not or could not offer any opinions, either her own or anybody else's, as to the manner in which it came about; and Neil, fearing to rouse suspicion, was fain to go to bed unsatisfied. Only one piece of comfort was given her: Mr. King, who had a professional nurse in attendance on him, was getting on as well as they could hope. On the following morning, George Claris, who looked worried and anxious, told his niece, as soon as breakfast was over, to pack her trunk for her journey to London. Nell did ? not dare to make any protest, nor even frk nclr nnT? nnoctinnc nf hot* IV IIUJ VI. UVi UUVIV 9 whose mood was dearly one to be respected. Slie bad to content herself with Meg's report, obtained from the nurse, that Clifford had passed a good night. Before ten o'clock Nell and her uncle were driving toward Stroan in the dog-cart, with her trunk behind them. They had not gone far when they noticed that something unusual was going on along the road. A party of men, among whom were two or three of the Stroan police, were busily engaged in examining the road itself and the ditch on either side. Nell with feminine quickness of perception, guessed that this search was in some way connected with the discovery of Jem Stickels's body on the previous evening; but her uncle, being less acute, pulled up his horse, and made inquiries. "Hallo, what's up?" said he, addressing the nearest policeman. "Oh, nothing in particular," replied the man, with a glance at Nell. "Nothing as would interest you," added another of the searchers, and he, too, looked in an odd manner at the young girl who sat with pale face and silent lips beside George Claris. "Well, you might give a civil answer to a civil question, I should think!" said the innkeeper, angrily. His niece, more by gestures and coaxing little touches of his sleeve than by words, tried to induce him to drive on. But he was obstinate. As an old inhabitant, and one, moreover, who had always been ou j,ood terms with every one, he thought he had a right to the information he had innocently asked for. "Come now," he persisted, leaning out of the dog-cart, and speaking in a confidential tone: "If it's a secret, you know as I can keep it. I've kept secrets enough before, haven't I?" But to his great indignation, he saw on some of the faces of the men at w.rk what he took for a pitying smile. He lost his temper. "Xow then, out with it!" said he, in a sullen tone. The policeman to whom he had first spoken repressed the smile on his own face, and answered seriously enough: "We're not at liberty to say any more at present. But you'll know as :RY-op.TME # i P. SoW^AR P /a.r deacon flic Aeirsh," ere. bert Bonner's Sons.! ' much as we do very soon?this afternoon, most likely." "Uncle George, we shall lose the train," said Nell, in a quavering voice. Then the policeman glanced from George Claris to the trunk behind; and. as the dog-cart drove off. he whispered some words to the man nearest to him, which Pent him running at a good pace in the direction of Stroan. Uncle and niece had scarcely got on the platform of the little station when the local police superintendent dashed through the doorway after them. "Ah, Mr. Claris, I'm just in time, I soe." hp santr out cheerily, as he touched his hat iolite!y to Nell. "Going up to London for a holiday?*' "Not me. Can't afford holidays," re plied Claris, rather surlily. '"I'm speing my niece off, that's all." "Well, I'm sorry to have to stop the lady's trip, but we shall want her as a witness at the inquest that's to be held this afternoon. Very sorry, Miss." he went on to Nell, "but it's only putting off the pleasure for a few day?." But Nell looked as much overwhelmed as if the summons'had be*:-n a death warrant. She made no answer, but stood silently, tearless but terror-struck, in front of the two men staring at the approaching train, with her lips parted and a wild look in her eyes. Her uncle roused her with a rough shake of the arm. "What's come to the girl? Don't look like that!" said he in h.er ear. "Folks'll think that you had a hand in it yourself if you go into court with that face!" To his surprise and chagrin she took him at his word. "Will they say that, uncle? Will they dare to say that?" she asked, with such breathless earnestness that he stepped back with a frown on his honest red face. "Bless the girl! You give me quite a turn with your whisperings and your scared face," said he, testily. "Come along back home, and for goodness' sake don't let them think as you wanted to get away. The Lord only knows what people say at these times if you don't keep your wits about you, and answer questions like a? reasonable creature." Nell said nothing. But the innkeeper's heart sank within him as he drove her home, and perceived tnat his once light-hearted and merry little niece was trembling like a leaf the whole way. CHAPTER XIV. The inquest was held in the little I town-hall in the market-place, and the | ugly whispers which were afloat concerning Jem Stickels's death brought together such a gathering that the meagre accommodation provided by the old building was taxed to the utmost. It was evident from the outset that this was no ordinary case of a drunken man-found dead in a ditch, with nothing about him to tell how he came by his death. From the very first moment when the doors were opened, and the crowd rushed in and filled in a moment the space allotted to the public, there were murmurs and whispers flying from mouth to moutth, indicative of the general belief that some person or persons of a higher social position than the dead fisherman, and more generally interesting than he. would be implicated in the course of the proceedings. The questions: "Where's the young lady?" And "Won't the gentleman be well enough to come?" were often but never satisfactorily answered. The witnesses in the case were in the magistrate's room, so rumor said, and were to be brought out one by one as they were wanted. That part of the court usually occupied by the officials alone held on this occasion a goou ujauy cunuus uuts drawn thither by the open secret of the romantic interest attached to the case. A few portly wives of local tradesmen, sandwiched in among the members of the sterner sex, lent their presence to the scene. There was a hum and a buzz from end to end of the tightly-packed court as the jurymen filed in, and taking their places on the oaken seats, black with age, which were already old when Charles the First was king, were sworn one by one, duly charged by the coroner. After the. lull in the court causcd by these proceedings, then1 was a loud buzz of talk when the jury filed out again to .view the body. The policemen, little used to such a scene of excitement in their quiet, little town, roared themselves hoarse in their endeavor to maintain silence on the part of everybody but themselves. When the jurymen returned the interesting part of the proceedings began. The first witness called was the boy, Charles Wallett, who had found the body. His evidence did not take many minutes, and consisted merely of the information he had given at the Bell Inn the evening before. He had seen the body lying by the roadside, had called to the man, had touched him; and being unable to detect a movement or to obtain an answer, had rua with all speed to give information of his discovery. The second witness was the detective. Hemming. He admitted the open secret that lie was a private inquiry agent, and that he was staying at Stroan on business. He had been the first to reac* tfie boily after waiiett s discovery of it, and he had been one of those to identify the deceased as Jem Stickels, the fisherman. The man was quite dead when he found him, but the body was stiJl quite warm. "At what time was it that you first saw the body?" asked the coroner. "I heard it chime the half-past eight by St. Martin's Church clock when I was about halfway between Stroan bridge and the place where wc discovered the body." I "Was thexe anything about the position in which the body lay. t*.* anything else, in fact, to enable you to form an opinion as to the cause of death?" "Nothing whatever, sir," answered Hemming, who gave his evidence in tlie clear voice ana conntipnt imiuuui of the old policeman, who feels that the court is his own theatre, where he is bound to get a hearing and deserves it. "Was the body lying face downward, in such a position that the man may have been too drunk to rise, and have been suffocated in thegrass and mud?" "He was lying face downward, as I have said, sir. But his mouth was not close to the ground. I don't think it possible \liat he could have been suffocated, His clothes were quite loose about'his neck also." "Then you formed no opinion as to the cause of death?" "Well, sir. I had heard something: and it made me jump to a conclusion as I should not otherwise have done. With your permission, sir. I would rather not say at the present stage what that conclusion was. It was ! formed from nothing I saw about the j body.'' There were whispers in the court. The people in the crowd looked at one another, and intimated that there was not much worth knowing that the'London chap didn't know. They all felt kindly toward Hemininf for speaking out so that they could hear him, an accomplishment in which the non-professional witness is so lamentably deficient. This was the gist of Flemming's evidence, the few further questions which he was asked producing unimportant answers. Each witness had to put up with a trivial question or two from the members of the jury, who all wished to make the evidence given bear more weight than the giver intended. The third witpess called was Lucas Mann, in whose house the deceased man had been a lodger at tl^e time of his death. Af.inn donnspf! that Stickels WaS brought home by two m?n at a time which he fixed as between a quarteand half-past six. Stickels. who was in a naif-dazed condition when he arrived, came to himseif entirely within a few minutes and told him a story as to how he came to be stunned. Stickels had then seemed quite well, had had a cup of tea by the fire, and had expressed his intention of walking to Stroan that night. Then there had been a knock at the door. Stickels himself had opened it, and after a conversation with two ladles who had come to see him, he had gone out by the back door abruptly. The next thing Mann had heard of him was that he had been found dead on the road. The next two witnesses were the men who had picked Jem Stickels up from the ground, at the back of the Blue Lion, a'ter his encounter with Clifford. These both deposed that the man was unconscious when they picked him up. that he began to recover almost immediately, and that they did not have to carry him to the cottage where lie lodged, but only to support him a little, as lie complained of feeiing "a bit giddy-like." Tney said that he seemed to be quite himself before they left him at the cottage. There was a buzz of excitement In court when Miss Bostal was called. With the feminine witnesses began the real interest of the case. Enough had leaked out by this time for every gossip in Stroan to be aware that the quarrel between the gentleman, Clifford King, and the fisherman, Jem Stickels, had been on Nell Claris's account; and everybody knew, also, that Miss Bostal had espoused the cause of Jem Stickels, and so had brought herself prominently forward into the romantic story. Although Jem Stickels had not borne the best of characters, it was natural that after Lis sudden and mysterious death there should be a strong revulsion of popular feeling in his favor. "Poor chap!" they said to one another. "It was clear he was awful fond of the girl, and, to be sure, she must have given bim souie encouragement for biin to have made bold to gi> for her fine gentleman lover." To be Continued. Metaphor His Long: Suit. When it comes to making a picturesque metaphor, Senator Tillman is not far in the rear. In fact, be can take advantage of the moment and Hash out as line a bit of simile as any man on the floor. He showed his ability a few days ago in his speech in answer to Senator Hale's conciliatory effort in behalf of the Subsidy bill. Mr. Hale finally lost bis temper and said one or two rather unkind things in his effort, at one time hinting that if Mr. Tilmau wanted time to fulminate against tlie bill he might have it. 'FulminateV" snapped out Mr. Tillman. *jl)ocs the gentleman from Maine take me for a box of matches, or a gun cap? Perhaps it is a flash of lightning, and if it is. let me tell bim that I want plenty of lime to grow I Anin T ilftn't wnnf tA Bnr*llfl .'ill my time making common sheet lightning."?Washington Times. Tree? Planted by Bh'.n Jays. An old-time Arizona woodchopper says the blue jays have planted thousands of the trees now growing all over Arizona. He says these birds have a habit of burying small seed in the ground with their beaks, and that they frequent piuou trees and bury large numbers of the small pine nuts in the ground, many of which sprout and grow. He was walking through the pines with an Eastern gentleman a short time ago when one of these birds flew from the tree to the ground, stuck his bill into the earth and quickly flew away. Wheu told what hnd happeued the Eastern may was skeptical, but the two went to the spot and. with a knife blade, dug out a sound pine nut from a depth of about an inch and a half. Thus it will bo seen that nature has plans of her own for forest perpetuation.?Indianapolis News. l'Hiiiiliaritr Sroetls Contempt. "There's one thing I am sure cannot be denied." remarked the Observer of ? -i mi.' ? .1 *'?? i u HiVeiKS SUU auui^>. ill: i tiiiii ;t> uu golfer is ?i hero to his caddie."?'Yonkers Statesman. The Chinese never wear wool?not even In the oeptb of winter, and, generally speaking, the entire population cloth? themselves in cotton all the year round. Hernial Monuments p | of Nortlj Africa. ? jjgggggggggggggggggl; IN North Africa are found 'two great burial tumuli or mausoleums, which date even before the Roman occupation, and were, no doubt, built by the native kings of Mauretania and Numidia. The first of these, shown in the engraving, is SO-CALLED TOMB OF THE CHRIS JUBA II., LOCATED 3 situated near the coast of the Mediterranean, about thirty miles from Algiers, and was at that period near the ancient port of Caesarea (now Cherchell). It stands upon a high hill in the narrowest part of the Sahel range, and thus dominates the surrounding territory. Its form is that of an enormous cylinder resting upon a square foundation and surmounted by a cone-shapfed part which is built up of a series of steps reaching to the summit-. At the base it measures 197 feet in diameter, and its present height is 102 feet, but it must have been over 120 feet high originally. This monument remained an enigma for a long period. The Arabs called It KbourRoumia, or Tomb of the Christian, on account of the cross upon the northern panel, which was still preserved, and their imagination invented many legends in which were associated buried treasure, fairies and sorcerers. These legends excited the Pacha Salais-Rais (1552-1556) to try to find the hidden treasure, and he had the monument THE FIRST SEVEN-MAS Length over all, 395 feet; beam, 50 feet; ir ment, 10,000 tons; deadweight cargo to truck, 182 feet; total sail area, 40, cannonaded; but, although he made a large breach in the western side, he was not able to lay bare the chamber containing the riches. The first regular excavations -were made in 1865-G6 by Berbrugger and McCarthy under Napoleon III. They cleared away a part of the outer wall, and made soundings to find an internal cavity, but it was only after four +! ,,,< if Tt-oo fmmrl T?v ft tun LUULlllia 111(11 11 t ? ? Del under the south panel they arrived in a vast gallery, admirably preserved, and thus discovered the internal arrangement of the structure. Unfortunately nothing whatever was found in this vault. The gallery, chambers and corridors are paved with large flags and built of well-cut stone. The body of the monument is solid, and consists of rough stone and tufa blocks, irregularly placed and joined by a mortar of red or yellow earth. It was found that the monument had been entered once, or perhaps several times, for the purpose of pillage. The stone doors were broken, and whatever objects it contained were carried off long ago. Waves Furnleh ISuoys With Light. Man has long since succeeded in pressing the running waters?the rushing brook and the majestic stream? into his service, but he does not yet avail himself of the unlimited power wasted by the mighty, restless s a. He still fails to gather any transmissible power even from the immeasurable rorce or me uues. Lately M. Gehre, a German engineer, has invented a buoy whose merit consists in that wave action lights it electrically. The apparatus needs no attention for months at a time. Even the lightest waves generate the light while the heaviest storms fail to put I-?*" j it out. Furthermore, in this device, wave action also operates a large bell, three resounding strokes being given before every flash of the light. These buoys are now being largely employed in the shallow waters along the German coast. Candymakers say that the most profitable part of their trade is in fancy candies put up in ornamental boxes, the box frequently cutting more figure ir nutf-hasp than thp ponds. 00000000030000000000000000 IA SEVEN-MASTED STEEL SCHOONER | OOOCOOOOOQOOOOOOOOOOOOQOOO The development or tne muiu-mu&ieu merchant schooner, which has advanced with such rapid strides during the past few years, is one of the most remarkable features in the shipbuilding industry of the Atlantic Coast The latest of these giant schooners is the great seven-masted vessel shown in the accompanying illustration. It has been built from designs by B. B. Crowinshield, of Boston, the designer TIAN, SUPPOSED TO BE THAT OF 0 MILES FROM ALGIERS. of many small and very successful racing craft, and of the ninety-footer "Independence." Unlike her predecessors. the new schooner is to be constructed throughout of steel. There are three complete decks, which will be of steel pjating, me upper uecii, forecastle and poop-deck being woodcovered. A collision bulkhead will be worked in at a suitable distance from the stem. The lower masts throughout the vessel will be built of steel, with lapped edges, flush butts, and stiffening angles extending inside for the full length. The masts are all 135 feet in length from the mast step to the top of the upper band, and they have a uniform diameter throughout of thirty-two inches. The top masts will be of Oregon pine. They will be fiftyeight feet in length over all, tapering from eighteen inches in diameter to ten Inches, except the foremast, which will be sixty-four feet In length and twenty inches at its point of greatest diameter. The booms of the first five TED STEEL SCHOONER. loulded depth, 34 feet 5 inches; displacecapacity, 7500 tons; height mainmast, step 617 square feet. : r masts will be forty-five /eet In length by fourteen inches in diameter, the spanker boom being seventy-five fee: in length by eighteen inches in diameter. The total sail area of the lower sails and topsails will be 40,017 square feet. The total cost of the vessel delivered will be about $250,000. Japan's Primitive Fire Department. Japanese dwellings being of the Aimsiest kind are particularly liable to destruction by fire, and the fire departments might therefore be supposed to have been well developed. But they are not being the one thing in which Japan bas not advanced. Tbey are, indeed, woefully inefficient. Hand engines that can be carried by two men and buckets comprise the whole outfit. "Valuables are not kept in the dwellings. In every village thero is a massive tower, with iron doors v and window shutters, and in this building the inhabitants store what ever tney possess 01 vuiuc iu oak . from loss by fire.?New York Herald. At the Bottom of the Sea. A deposit of a bluish-colored clay forms a broad fringe arouiid the margin of the continental masses and covers the plateau linking Britain with CJreenlaud. If. is the finer detritus of j the land, borue by the currents into i the ocean. To what depth it extends I depends on circumstances; the zoue is J broader when the sea bed sinks gradually, narrower where it steepens i more quieklj-. Around the Azores a J volcanic mud is found, while at the Bermudas the deposit is pounded-up coral?as might be expected. In a few places green grains are numerous, the casts of minute organisms?a material like our greensands. South of the Azores, and in one or two isolated tpots, is a bed formed almost entirely of smail shells of mollusks, called rvfm.nnn/lo T-tllt hoVfiml tllP limit of J_/ LV.JL V|JUUCi ?? -?v _ _ all these, down to depths of 2500 fathoms, the ocean floor is covered ! with ealcereous mud, composed of the 1 relics of minute living creatures, such as' algae and foraminifera?the socalled globigerina ooze ? material . | similar to that of the chalk; and 'his . passes -Qt yet greater depths Into a . reddish clay, as to the exact origin of i which different opinions have been eni tertained.?London Standard V 1 ,y' " THE GREAT DESTROYEB! SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Effectn of Alcohol?Testimony of a Thynlcian Showing the Ravage* of Knrn 01 fliA U?t?on Cvfltunt ? Thu Fnnrmnnl Size of the Liver in One Case. I wish to refer very briefly to two case? that came under my observation last win ter while acting in the capacity of autopsy physician in Alameda. They were both victims of alcohol, aftd dicd^ while taking a so-called cure for the dfink habit. They were similar, and so characteristic o? the effects of alcohol or the organs of the human body that I bring them to your attention, while at the sam? time they show what terrible abuse kind nature will put up with and still keep thi wheels revolving and the human machinerj at work. Case No. 1 was a man thirty-nine years of age, who was brought to the morgue after sudden death from the effects of a prolonged indulgence in liquor. He had been in good health, apparently, except that for several years he had drunk to excess. Upon examination I found the stomach and intestines fearfully inflamed, and the kidneys both broken down and softened. The two organs, however, to which i wisn to can your particular attention in this case are the liver and heart. The liver weicrhed eight pounds- and four ounces, and was almost black in color. It filled not only the entire upper part of thf abdominal cavity, completely across to th? spleen, but it had extended "upon the right side nearly to the nipple line, crowding the lungs into a small space. The galf bladder was three times its normal siz? and filled with bile. The heart was pushed two inches to the left of its proper site, was slightly enlarged, and its musculai fiber so degenerated that when taken between the fingers it came apart like a soft, decayed sponge. Case No. 2 had a stomach and intestines similar to the first, but in addition [ found the left kidney perfectly black, and so degenerated that when soupezea slightly in the hand it disappe.. d as i completely as a bit of the softest mud. The right kidney had a little more consistency, but was not firm enough to withstand any pressure. The liver in this case weighed nine (9) pounds, and extended to the points mentioned in Case 1. The heart was in slightly better condition than the first, but still softened and degenerated to an alarming extent. What I wish to especially emphasuein these cases is the enormous size of the liver, the almost complete destruction of the kidneys, and the disorganized state of the muscular fiber of the heart, while the persons whose most vital organs were in rinrkiswaVklA / nnrift.inn were annarent ly in excellent physical health, and were daily (when sober) attending to their ordinary duties. How is it possible for men with their organs practically destroyed to bear the appearance of health, and for years to be in a physical condition to labor steadily and with no sisn of breaking down??Chas. L. Tisdale, M. D., in Pacific Coast Journal of Homeopathy. After the Boys. During Major Hilton's meetings at Cincinnati he related a story of a boy in Chi:ago, nine years of age, who came to school drunk, and being taken in the arms of an officer, hia head pillowed on his breast, he coaxed the little one to tell him where he got the vile stuff. After thinking a moment he got up and felt in his pocket, which was filled with old nails, bits of string, a top, etc., but he could not see the thing he wanted; he looked on the floor, and there he saw what he had dronned, a bright picture card, on the edee of which were small squares, and 3ome of these were punched. "What ia this? the officer asked. "My beer card; 2ach boy gets a card and each hole is a drink, and the boy that gets the most holes in a month gets a prize." There ire three prizes, a pistol, a story of three devils and a whisky cocktail. One of the Cincinnati teachers felt impressed to relate the story to a class of afty-five boys. The eager eyes, the dis roaapri lonks will not be forgotten. Then jhe.v opened their hearts to her how men n Cincinnati "play pool," and the winner receives brass checks for drinks, and gives them to the boys at the baseball ground on Sunday. "Can I get some of them?" said she. "Yes'm." "Well, bring ms some." During the rest of the week in the press of school duties the matter was forgotten by the busy teacher, but not jy the boys. When school was called on Monday r.orning the first question was, "Will you :ake the checks now. Miss R?" and immediately four brass checks were handed to tier, each bearing the name of the saloonseeper and five cents. This is the way the mep push the saloon business. A man who is mean enough to sell rum is as a rule mean enough to do almost anything.?W. L. Hastings. A Saloonkeeper's Price List. Here is the handbill of prices recently issued by a Missouri saloonkeeper. The bill displays a skull and cross bones and this list of prices is given: Hobo corn whisky, seventy cents per gallon; Kentucky Lightning, seventy cents; Oscar Fresh, ninety cents: Oregon County Busthonrl aivt.v cents: Moonshine, fifty cents; pure Tarantula Juice, forty cents; Coroner's Pride, thirty cents: Undertaker's Friend, thirty cents; Persimmon Brandy, ifty cents: Gooseberry Brandy, fifty :ents; pure Extract Juniper Berries, twenpy-five cents; Embalming Fluid, twenty :ents. Here is a dealer who is sufficiently frank. He understands human nature md knows that it is always seeking peril. Insist Upon Sobriety. The railroads of the United States employ almost a million men in variohs capacities. Not from any sentimental or >ven moral motive, but strictly upon the nase of efficiency?accurate and safe performance of duty?the employers of this jreat army of men insist^ upon sobriety irnong their employes. Not less, probably. than half of the whole number are .vorkinf; urtder rtiles that positively forbid them to frequent the places where intoxicating drinks are sold, and almost a half ire absolutely required to be total abstainers. Cost of Intemperance. One of our most enlightened cities reports 26.000 arrests for drunkenness a -_j Pirnn : TVio finpa V'ear, anu ouw im|j>isuuiu>.u?. ~ ? sollected amounted to less than $25,000, ?vhile the cost of maintaining the prisoners was more than $125,000. The net cost to the taxpayers, therefore, was more than $100,000. If some one proposed to ipnropriate that amount for establishing i library or other public institution the matter would have a great deal of consideration. lest the city might be guilty of extravagance. The Crusado In Brief. Let us continue to teach our boys nna girls that alcohol is a poison; that the fact of its being oxodized in the body, if taken in small quantities, h not sufficient to constitute it a food, and that the normal man is never benefited by it in any quantity. Alcohol is not needed in any form as a medicine. This fact is settled beyond contumely by the many thousands of patients treated in the Londor Temperance Hospital in recent years a.id in that of Montreal .and Chicago and other places, in which these stimulants are not used as a medicine. Wine may give wings to the imagination. but it gives no wit to guide them. Rev. Dr. Wilbur P. T'nirkield, Secretary of the Freedfnan's Society or the J\J. ii. Church, says: "The open saloon and tlie whisky jug store are the greatest enemies of our work. They corrupt and impoverish the people. Rum drinking by the white and colored people is responsible for the great majority of race riots." Over 2000 West Virginia citizen soldiery encamped recently near Wheeling. There was no canteen, owing to the prejudice against liquor of the owner of the camp site. Ground was leased near by for a canteen, but the Board of Trade threatened to break up the encampment if the canteen was persisted in. The County Commissioners refused a license and only soft drinks were sold. \ . ; >, - " r-?? ?i?. .i * i i i mtta^nrnwami<?mi? ''^^1 SOD'S MESSAGE TO MAfW PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM -THMI WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. H Poem : untotne aonr?inu i. of Prayer In the Divine Plan?It Converse of the Unman Sonl With Oo^H ?The Hamu Side of Supplication. Hn God broke our years to hoars and dayty^K Hour by hour, V And day by day, Just going on a little way, " We might be able all along ; 'W| To keep quite strong. flH Should all the weight of life Be laid across our shoulders, and the ft&^H ture rife With woe and struggle, meet us fdee face BH At just one place, We could not go; WB Our feet would stop, and so jjfll God lays a little on us every' day, . H| And never, I believe, on all the waf <H| Will burdens bear so deep, Hfi Or pathwaj-s lie so steep, IS But we can go, if by God's power, We only bear the burden oftbe houiV^H ??j orge mwgkeJ . <; A Sermon on Prayer. v> In order to approach our subject intent gently and profitably we must have coxnl mon agreement in regard to the meaning of the term prayer. The shorter cate? chism gives a fair definition. It sayi: Prayer is an offering up of our desire! unto God for things agreeable to His will in the name of Christ, with confession ,0 our sins and thankful acknowledgment oi His mercies. Now, I think you will agree with me that this definition of prayer not wholly satisfactory. .It has an atmosphere of selfishness. It conveys too mucn the idea of our needs and our reaching an empty hand to God in order to be filled. In looking up definitions of prayer this one especially appealed to me as being brief, simple and beautiful? 4-Via Vmmari artnl I ittJ'Cl IO bUC WUfCiOC wj. buv uimmum with God. When the messengers of Martha and Mary came to Jesus they simply saidJ "Lord, he whom Thou lovest is sick." They did not aak for anything. When the prophet of Israel was in great distrea# in regard to the threatening communication of the King of Assyria he simply went up to the temple and spread tnaf blasphemous letter before tne Lord* When the widows of Joppa were in such! sorrow for the loss of the faithful and beloved Dorcas they simply brought th? beautiful garments prepared by the faithful hands of the departea sister and ex-; hibited them before Peter; yet all theseincidents appealed to the heart of God. They were prayers that moved heaven to* bestow its richest gifts upon those" Bam? ble and contrite hearts. It is not neoei(? sary to be within the hallowed wall* Oi some ancient temple in order to offer acceptable prayer. It is not necessary- to; fall down upon your knees in the dust iijorder to be heard of God. It is not necefK 6ary to express your heart in certain stereotyped foqns of invocation, thanks' giving, petition and intercession in order to come up to the true ideal of prayer. Prayer can* find expression in these placeman d through these forms and ceremonies* But prayer is not confined to these. Yott; can pray in any place, in any attitndeiw whicli the human soul can pour its expe< riences into the ear of God, and in whichwe can listen to His tender, soothing, ]or* ing voice. Praver then is the converse oi the soul with God. God in your presen<* and you in the presence of God, God iO! your fellowship and you in the fellowshipof God, God revealing His heart to yon* and you revealing your heart to God< God speaking in loving sovereign voice tc you and you speaking in appeahnp an<f confiding voice to God. In consiaens^^B the place of such an exercise as that re^H ferred to we are immediately brought face to face with God. g Prayer h.13 not only a human side. bnlHH also, a God-side. To the Christian theraH is no fact in life that is not based upoa^B a Christian vision or revelation or con<H ception of God. Prayer i9 based upon Christian conception of God. The mate>H rialist, the panthiest, the atheipt, theH deist and fatalist do not believe in pray en Their idea of God is incompatible witbH faith in the exercise of praver. Prayer i?H only compatible with the Theistic concep?M tion of God.?The Rev. Donald C. MaoB Leod, Washington, D. C. H Real Repentance. H Repentance-is not merely a little twinge H of remorse over some wrong thing. It not simply a gueh of tears at the recoIleoHj tion of some wickedness. It is hot mereH shame at being found out in some mean*H ness or undeanness or dishonesty. It irH the revolution of the whole life. SintH wept over must be forsaken forever. Re-H pentance is a change of heart, a turninaH of the face ju?t the other way. It is wellH for us to mike diligent quest to be survH that we always abandon the wrontj-doinflH which we deplore, that we quit ine cyum course which we reccret, that we turnH away from the sin which we confess. k'ood many people get only half the go?H wel. They talk a (treat deal about belieV'H ing, but very little about repenting. needs to be remembered that faith whicb^B does not lead to a genuine repentar.ee ill not a fuith which saves.?The Rev. J. Miller. H _________ ; All of One Piecc. H Our religious life is all of one pieces H We ou^ht not to delude ourselves witbH the notion that we are serving God whenM we are at the same time dealing unfairly H with our fellovr-men, or indulging in loosflH and scornful utterances concerning them.H These two things are not consistent witbH each other. If we desire to show that.w?^B arevsincere Christians we must do it byH upright character and a meek and gentle H attitude toward all men.?Nashville Chri?H tian Advocate.' Dolus Good. H The great means of doing good, thougbH we cannot tell why or how, only because H God so directed it, is by example. Wirl are to be ourselves what we would haveH others to be. And this not only wheoH ethers know it, but in all places; for iH believe that even wnac we uo m affects others.?Mary Lyon. H A Debit Balance. ' H The man who enlarges his business byH contracting his refigion swells hie incomtH by starving his soul, will find the balance? sheet to be wofully against him at th?H final reckoning.?Rev. James 6. Nb:o3,H Methodist Protestant, Pittsburg. S The Problem of Each Life. H The problem of each individual lifeH ought to be usually the problem of tran*H forming its wasting forces into channel* H of personal and social helpfulness.?Rev. R. A. White, Universalist, Chicago. B Misspent Mlnntes. I The misspents of every minute are ( new record against us in heaven. SurtyH if we thought thus we should dismistH them with better reports and not snffeiH them to fly away empty or laden witfeH dangerous intelligence. How happy is i(H when they carry up not only the message, but the fruits of good and stay with tn?H Ancient of Days to speak for us before M I His elorious throne.?John Milton. E Christ's Lesson. ffl This is the lesson of Christ, that theH Almighty cares for every individual life.H ?Very Rev. Dean Wilford L. Robbing H Episcopalian, Albany. H I There is an aged woman living in Wa9K?H ington who hes an autograoh letter fromH President McKinlev, which she keeps H among hor most valued possessions. SheH received it soon after his.first election. ItH T-- A- ? (wn ka,. TT-H/VH H came in repxv tu uuv *?.*/? ? she expressed her symDathy for the newly elected President in the (Treat weight of responsibility which he wan called upon to carrv. She wrote merely to express the hope that he would be guided by uroviderce in his counsels and be given wisdom and strT^tn for his duties. In his response. Mr. McKinley said that it was almost the first letter he had -eceived expressing un^Ifish thoueht foV him, and ho fe!t profoundly touched by it. v?