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fry . THE-nYSTl , INNafflfeB /Author of "The Mouse I y ICopyrigbt, 1895, by *< fHAPTER XXI. Continued. The other man had already looked Into the kitchen, and they now proceeded to search the shut-up drawingroom. Clifford heard them as they moved about?heard the noise of the piled-up furniture being displaced. And then, a moment later, one of the policeman ran up the stairs and passed Clifford as the latter hastily came down. As he reached the foot of the staircase Clifford, whom the man had saluted in silence, heard a sharp rap at the door of the closed room. Then 1be policeman who was upstairs called .quickly to his companion downstairs: "Bill, go outside and wait under the window. This side of the housequick!" * The police sergeant dashed out by the front door without a second's delay, while the man who had given the direction burst open the bedroom door with a couple of blows of his truncheon. Clifford, in perplexity and alarm, k rushed out after the sergeant He ar rivea nearly as soon as tne man ne was following, whom he found groping among the evergreen bushes which grew thickly under the wall of the old house. A succession of feeble moans, as of a weak creature in great agony, broke npon his ear as he turned the corner of the house. And at the same moment ho saw the constable who had burst open the . bedroom door leaning out of the window of Miss Theodora's room. % "What? She has not fallen?thrown herself " stammered Clifford. But even as he spoke the sergeant ^ parted the bushes with his arms, and - turning the full light of the lantern he carried upon the ground beneath them showed the little figure of poor Miss Theodora lying in a shapeless heap. "Ob, don't! Don't touch me!" she whispered faintly, as she felt the Strong light thrown on her face. "Doij't touch me! My leg is broken andr-tfomething here." Herright hand moved feebly up to her,chest, and then her head fell back. "She'8 fainted," said Clifford. "Poor little woman! Whatv shall we do? Shall I fetch a doctor?'' "No, sir; leave that to me to do that," replied the police sergeant, promptly. "You stay here while I send for help. There's some one close by will go for me." , He went away quickly, leaving his L lantern. Clifford looked down at the ^ little withered face, and he fancied he detected c. flicker of the eyelids. As he bent his head to look closer, he was surprised by her faint whisper in his W ear: 'iafe am $iap, so giaa, sne murmurea, still Without opening her eyes, "that this has happened. For now they cannot make * me give evidence against poor Nell." "My dear lady," said Clifford, in the same voice, "pray don't trouble your head about that now. Nell will be all Tight. I am sure of it." The policeman in the room above, hearing the voices, looked out. "Has she come to?" he asked. "Ye-es," answered Clifford, doubtfully. For again she lay with immovable lips. But as be spoke an expression of intense agony came over the pinched, thin feature, and he saw that with the return of full consciousness had come also the full sensitiveness to pain. 4*Go down and ask the Colonel for some brandy," called out Clifford. But the constable did not seem to hear. He still stood at the window. looking down. Clifford repeated his words, and the man, -with evident reluctance, moved from the window. Miss Bostal glanced up and turned her head with a quick, bird-like motion to Clifford. "Are any of the policemen still about?" she asked, rapidly. Clifford was about to answer in the negative when the constable whom he had sent for the brandy having delivered his message with astonishing cel?rity, appeared at the corner of the house. "Here he comes with the brandy," said Clifford. But Miss Bostal's expression of pain gave place at once to one of disgust. "Brandy!" she exclaimed. "I would not touch it on any account. I have been a teetotaller all my life." Her sudden burst of energy rather disconcerted Clifford, who was much relieved when he saw that the Colonel was close behind the constable. The . _ , ..old man came very slowly to the place rv_" whefo his daughter lay, and peered H over the bushes -at her. PB "Theodora! Are you hurt? Really || bur$?" he asked, in a dull tone, as it 9 still too much overwhelmed by threat9 ening misfortune to be greatly troubled I about anything else. I "Hurt!" she exclaimed, pettishly. I "Of course I am hurt. I overbalanced I myself while leaning out of the wiuf dow, and I fell out, and have broken f my leg and one of my ribs, too, I I think." "Shall we take you indoors?" "No. Oh, no!" with energy. "You would hurt me too much. Leave me . < here ?!1 the doctor comes." Thfi PnUnal ?,wl cr, rl S.,1 r"lif. xuc vuiuuci 1UUK.U, auu ov um foro and the constable. For tliey all heard sounds as of an altercation in two men's voices, and they presently ca>:gbt sight of two men, the one apparently struggling to get away from the other, and the second endeavoring to hold his companion back. lu the darkness little more than this was visible to the three men in the garden, but the newcomers were near enough for their voices to be recognized. "Let me ?o, let me go, or, by " Before ue had heard more than this Clifford was straining his eyes to t pierce the gloom, full of interest, full L of excitement. I . "Why, surely," cried he, "that's I {Seorge Clarls's voice!" \ . I :KT- OFTHC aiiS#GR.E j oa frit Aarslv ck' >bert Bonner's Sons. I < The two men were now near er ugh for Clifford to distinguish the man who was holding his companion hack, and to recognize him as Hemming. 7 The second constable went forward, as the struggling pair came within the ] garden gate, to the assistance of his c fellow. At the same moment Colonel i costal tnrusi ojs aanu mrougii ford's aru. as if for support. Tbe youDg man hardly noticed his action, so deeply absorbed was be in the prob- c lem presented by the sight of the I struggling men. For the man whom both the policemen now held was, indeed, no other than George Claris, i wild-eyed, fierce-looking, with strag- t gling beard and unkempt hair. g And he was crying out still, with all t the force of his lungs: 1 "Where is she? Where is she? Let a me see her, I say! Let me see her!" s "Why, the poor fellow thinks you've \ got his niece here!" cried Clifford, who t seemed to understand in a moment the e mystery of the nocturnal knockings li and disturbances cf which the Colonel I and his daughter had complained. g Colonel Bostal made no answer, but t he threw one rapid glance behind him. \ Clifford followed his example instinct- n ively, and an involuntary exclamation t escaped his lips. t For Miss Theodora had disappeared. CHAPTER XXtf. t Sir Neville Bax had no idea of let- a ting his admiration of Nell Claris's pretty face save her from the terrors ^ of a most rigorous examination. s When she had made the admission upon -which the whole matter hinged, c and had broken down into tears as a ^ consequence, he gave her very little a time to recover her composure before he went on in a loud, pompous voice: T "Well, and so you admit there was a t( person in the house at the time Mr, King was robbed of whose presence 0 there nobody but yourself knew anything. Now, what was the name of P that person?" Nell looked at him reproachfully. a He knew who it was, and he might 13 have spared her the pain of having to v state it herself. But as he waited, she b said in a whisper which was a strong contrast to the magistrate's tones: * "Miss Theodora." A "Miss Theodora Bostal?" 11 "Yes." ' ? "And how came she to be there, 0 without anybody's knowledge?" Nell, seeing there was no hope for it, n dried her eyes and gave the following y account with composure: a Miss Bostal had for some months v been In the habit of asking Nell, from time to time, to let her sleep with Nell for the night, on the plea that the Col- 8 onel had stayed at Stroan, and that c she was afraid of sleeping at Shingle End all by herself. She had begged Nell not to mention the fact even to her uncle, alleging that if it were to become known that her father's house v was sometime; left unprotected it e would certainly be broken into. Nell ^ had seen nothing extraordinary in this, 0 and had readily given shelter to her ti friend on half a dozen different occa- 1 sions. & "I believe you were in the habit of ^ going to Shingle End every morning A and evening; that you were on intimate terms with her father and her- s self, and that you would chat with her s about everything that happened at the v inn?" ' y "Yes," said Nell. 'n "And is it a fact that the robberies 0 at the Blue Lion always took place n when Miss Bostal was sleeping under o the roof?" v "Only at first," said Nell, earnestly. J "The last time she slept there was the night Mr. King was robbed." * "How was it that you did not, on that occasion, mention to your uncle that she had been sleeping with you?" n "How could I? But indeed I did not d think of mentioning it, and refrained because it would have looked like tl throwing suspicion upon my best friend." "Your best friend?" ? "Yes, sir. She had been very kind v to me, and it was she who gof ray uncle to send me to such a good school." "Oh, oh! I see. Artful all round. Doesn't look much like insanity," mut tereu air j>evme 10 nimseir. ad? hp n continued his interrogatories: "And gl did not the fact that the robberies al- <j ways took place when she was there y excite your suspicion V" y "No, oh, no! I never thought of such (j a thing!" protested the young girl. t] earnestly. L "You say Miss Bostal was not in the ;l house, to your knowledge, on the occaslon of the subsequent robberies?" n "She was not sleeping in the house, u sir," answered Nell, looking down. "Now, my dear Miss Claris, be can- j", did. and Aeil me all you know." jWith a sigh Nell obeyed. She ad- ~ mitted that on the morning when hej u uncle was found in a state of insanity a she had made a careful search of the ^ house and had found out a circumstance which had escaped her notice, that a spare key of the back door, j! which had formerly hung on a nail in t' the passage, had disappeared. "How was It you had not found that ouc before?" asked Sir Neville, rather dryly. "I had forgotten all about the key. which was never used, until we had to t leave the house on account of my poor i"' uncle. Then I went over the keys to J1 the different doors by an old list we had left by the man who had the place before my uncle, and it was then I n missed the key, and remembered that a I had not seen it for a long time." a Sir Neville made a few notes before f he went on. * t "Before you missed the key you bad t had suspicions, of course?" v Nell bowed her head in assent. 1j "You need not think," said the mag- e istrate, sharply, "that your making a c frank admission of your suspicions E can ao uie lauy au,v uuruu. ?\e sjiuuiu i. get at the truth somehow', you may be ii quite sure." jg "I am telling you all I know," sail Nell, simply. She herself saw that no concealment wns possible any longer. And surel3 if Miss Bostal were really found guil ty of such unlikely crimes she musl have been mad when she committed luruj. "When did the idea that Miss Bostal committed the thefts come Into youi mind for the first time?" Even now the remembrance of the terrible sensation she had experienced jn that memorable occasion caused a frown of pain and distress to contract Cell's pretty features. "Jem Stickels?the fisherman who?" she stopped. "Who was murdered. Yes. yes." "He told me he?had seen the thief." "Yes. That came out at the inquest. iVell?" "He told me that the thief was Miss Bostal; that he had seen her come out >f the inn on the night that an attempt vas made to rob Mr. Hemming." "When did he tell you this?" "On the afternoon of the next day." "Why did you not say this at the inluest? Why did you let it be thoueht le meant he had seen you?" Nell looked up with tears in her eyes. "I was in great difficulty. I didn't:now what to think, even then. I lad always thought Miss Theodora so ;ood, and besides she had been so kind 0 me, that I didn't know what to beieve myself. It was all so dreadful. ,nd I asked myself what she could do uch things for. Besides, her manner vhen I told her Jem Stickels had hreatened to tell the police was so ool. She didn't seem to be in the east concerned about it. How could suppose it was because she meant to ;et hfltn out of the way? Oh, I can't telieve it even now, I can't, I can't. Vhy should she do it, unless she was aad? And there never seemed to be a race of madness about her. I always hought she was very clever." Sir Neville smiled a little at her inlenuousness. Nell herself might not te very clever, but assuredly she was 1 loyal-hearted friend, to bear the oboquy which the affair had cast upon op -arithnnt n thrmrrht nf flpnrini? hpr elf by betraying her friend, But this was not, of course, the offiial view, -which was the view he was found to take. He coughed severely, nd gave her a keen look. "Don't you think," he said, "that you rere bound, in the interests of justice, o be more frank?" "Oh, sir, does one help the interests f justice against one's friends?" "One ought to," was the prompt rely "And then, too, nobody asked me ny questions implying any doubts of ierv They took it for granted that I was the thief, the jury did, and everyody. You remember that, don't you?" Yes, Sir Neville did remember that, md looking at the candid and sweet ace in front of him he wondered how is brother magistrates had been such sses, and be forgot that he had been ne of those asses himself. i "Well," he said, in a more pompom lanner than ever, "you really gave our evidence so very badly, with such n apparent absence of straightforwardness, that there was some excuse or their mistake." "It was because I -was so miserable, ir, more miserable than anybody, beause in a sort of way I knew the ruth." "You should have let the jury know too." "Sir, if it had been only the thefts I would have done so," answered she, arnestly. "I was in so much trouble with my suspicions that I had asked ne of my friends"?b^r blush berayed her?"to come and 6ee me, that mi<rht flfifc his ndvlpp shout It. But efore I had time to tell him what I fas afraid of the murder happened. Lnd then I didn't dare." "Well, well, it was a great pity," aid Sir Neville,. "You would have aved yourself a lot of misery, and it r-ould have done the lady no harm, as ou see. And now I want some information, if you please, as to the night f the murder. Did you, or did you ot, hear any one go out of the house r come in, when you had come back rith Miss Bostal from your visit to em Stickels at his lodgings?" "I?did hear something," faltered fell. "What was it?" "Almost as soon as Miss Bostal left ae in the kitchen I heard the back oor open and shut." "Ah! Did you go to see who it was bat had opened the door?" "No." "I suppose you had some idea in our mind.about the sounds. What ras it?" To be Continued. The Clothe* Never Came Back. "About once a week there comes a inu, a vagrant or confidence man of ome sort, who would take your orer for ten dollars for a set of books ou know to be worth a hundred? ou paying him five collars on the orer," writes Rev. David M. Steele, in tie Ladies' Home Journal, of "The -overs of a Cheerful Giver." "Now nd then the woman callb who would ake your jewelry and clean i* for allost nothing. When you are out a lan asks the sexton for your ctock, or un, or bicycle, .to r:pair it, or the lilor (?) comes for 'that dress-suit )octor So-and-So wants pressed.' He ot oue from tho wife of a neighbor of - J TT~ 11^,1 .line out? uay iusi suiuiiici. nc vaucu n hour after her husband had gone 3 business. The suit was a good one nd cost eighty dollars. Perhaps that .? the reason it takes so long to press i. At any rate It has not been reurned yet." Wu Ting-Fang's Little Joke. Wu Tiug-Fang, the Chinese M'nisei-. on being asked the other day if here were any Chinese humorists, eplied that there were some very good ukes in Chinese literature. "Tell one," said his visitor. "Well," said Mr. Wti, "this is a fanous Chinese story. There was once traveler who stopped at the house ol f r\r* i?afvaolimont T-Tfi fiakfHl or a cup of tea. The friend liad no ea, but said he would send his son a borrow some from a neighbor. The rife put a pot of water on th'e fire tc oil. The son did not return, and sev rnl times it became necessary to add old waier to that boiling In the pot. 'inally the wife said: 'Inasmuch as he tea does not seem to be forthcomig, perhaps you had better offer your uest & bath.' "?Philadelphia Record fey'* : y^: ..." '* fOM - vIDfi ^HoUSEtH tit HHI 'Don'ts" For Yonnj Honeelceef^H| Don't put butter In your refrigSH with the wrappings on. H Don't use butter for frying purpH Tf ^AAnmnnaAfl o?A la nnttrVinlaeiAnfll aw UbvvUi|/VOwO UUU ID UU Tw UUlvOV/i^^H Don't keep custards In the In an open vessel. They are li|^B become poisonous. Don't pour boiling water o^^^K packed in a pan. It will co^HB the sudden contraction and Don't moisten your food Idea of saving your teetb. the teeth and you will soon loBH Dod'~ use steel knives fish, "5ters, sweetbreads The steel blackens and gl^^HH pleasant flavor. 9H Don't scrub your refrigerfl^^H wtum water, vvueu It out quickly with two maldehyde in two quarts^^^^^^H Don't put table cloth^M^^^B that are fruit-st&ined^^^^^Sff suds; sets or fixes move the stains first acid, washing quick^HH^^^B| ?Mrs. S. T. Rorer, MHHD The ourj^^H|^^H^^9 be is the utj^HflB^^HH See th^B|^HHlH8^HI to the day. only gro'tt^ER^^B^^^B^^Kl^Bj aflfflHH^H already their alcohol well lye soap the afl^^^Sfl^BH^HHD once. HflflHmH leave no Palms 8hMn|^B^BBn| good cow man|H^^^^H[^flHB| garden soiB^B^Hfl^fl^BB parts of downward, a deep to the 1'IHHHH draiD^^HB^H^9R^HH w-ill bH^BHiH KLH^^fflUS Hp=^^H8N \9H Salmon or canned pieces half eggs finely chopped pepper. with a Th> white mixture on a ered with crumbs. into the form of a^^^^^^^^Bn in Dip batter, then cover and saute un^^J^^^Hoi color. Or, if preferre^^^^^^Hri basket and fry in deep^^^^^^ett Serve garnished with ^^H^Hin cress, curled celery or tomato. VB? Grilled Sweet Potatoes-l^^^Htef (our or five medium-sized a use tbem while hot, for th^^^Hre the potatoes when freshly ^^Hed quite unlike that of those w^H ha become cold and then are Hpati Pare them, cut them in shap^Mslic lengthwise, and about one-t^B in thick.. Dip tbem in melted b^B?r a sugar, lay them on a grease^nroil and cook until brown. Be caHul r to let them bhrn. Being alrcHy b they only need the quick bBwnii and the sugar and butter will tflrn ei ily if not watched. Put tw? rou: tablespoons of butter, one of suaar, o of hot water and one-fourth tekspo of salt in a saucepan over hot (wat< &nd it will melt while you are $arl the potatoes. \ Almond Cake?Beai to a cAea one cup of sugar, one-half \c of butter; add beaten whites \ two eggs and one yolk, one <c of sweet milk; then mix two t( spoonfuls of baking powder into fq cups of well sifted flour. Bake imir diately after It has been stirred. Fj ing: Chop fine one cup of seed! raisins and one cup of blanched J monds. Cook one cup of granulat sugar with one-half cup of water u til it strings, then add the whites three eggs, well beaten, and stir un a cream, and when cool add chopp almonds and raisins, using for flavt ing a few drops of bitter almond ai oil of rose. This can be used as solid cake by adding the filling to t cake and bake in one tin together. Chicken Souffle in Pepper Cases Chop very fine one cupful of chick meat previously cooked; mix with two tabiespoonfuls of flour, one tab spoonful of chopped parsley, oue-h? tablespoonful of chopped onion and o cupiul of hot milk, ir'ut on the stov let it come to a boil, and add the wc beaten yolks of three eggs; remo from the fire. Fold in the whites the eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Po into the prepared peppers; clot wi bits of butter, and bake until brov and fluffy. The large bell peppers a the best for cooking; always sele those that have not begun to chan pnlnr f!nt n ollf'n frnm tho stptn pr extract the seeds, throw them In cle cold water; let them be for an^g| then drain them and they a|^^B for use. ^^^Reat_destbot^1 i^^s^krtlinc facts about p b^h^hke of intemperance. . HUB! For the Saloon ? The Claim. It the Poor Man's Club ^Bus Lie?Too Much Frequented ^^H^HHronns;. I^Hvnng is trom an article entitled ^ftns of Pittsburg," contributed 1 ^ therhood Star by the Rev. Dr. ^ oon is a menace to good gov- T Hand the avowed and open enHe church and the home. It has Hught down upon its own bead Hbrium of all good citizens, and are some who look upon it as a ^ evil and lamely attempt its de rounds of so-called expediency, be saloon furnishes a cheery and treat from the cares of the day, I s in strong contrast to the dingy the dirty and hot mill or factoiy, ft the young man a place of sociaId entertainment is conceded by I its enemies, and by some writers Ken called 'The Poor Man's Clob.' km contains only part of the truth perefore a dangerous lie. ^ [brilliantly lighted room, the dazirrors and bar fixtures which are present in saloons claiming any nf resmertahiHtv are alwavR men- 0 I|H but the bare floors covered with ^ftawdust, the vile pictures which boil the walls and the foul air laden Hpscenity and profanity are usually ^ Hi in singing the praises of the sa Nor is the gambling annex, which Hn forms an important part of the H generally advertised. 'The Poor Club' sophistry does not prove that h man's club is any less a menace to Hsung men of Pittsburg than is the | tj Hr saloon. tl He plea of necessity for the accommo* ^ Kl of the public which is heard annu- 8( la the license court, and is recognized jf Be Legislature in making laws provid- y( or the licensing of this evil, ostensi- C( ft> restrict it, but really giving it an air jc Ispectability, and the claim that it is n Invenient source of revenue to the e and county are both very transpar- jj. [and will not go down with the stu- ^ i of political economy. ^ ill that the saloon does for the pub- g( that the temperance house cannot do, tj ad and only bad, and the expense en- j.j :d upon the honest taxpayer as the reof the saloon is far in excess of the m Eue receivea. h ;e suggestion that the saloon is a ^ tute for the speak-easy, the opium e, r the brothel is usually the last ditch g). ich the interested defender of the sa- jg ;akes a stand. g visit to the saloons of Pittsburg dur- ge e evening houri especially will reveal ^ ct that far too large a portion of the ]0 men of this city go there for amuseThis we claim is not entirely due ? :k of better places. We have not a of the reading rooms, parlors of jj. isiums of the Y. M. C. A., and sim- ^ ilaces of resort being overcrowded; BC o we believe it fair to charge it to jjj atural depravity of young men wh? Qj ; easy to stray from the path of pur- j{) d temperance. Let us rather ask if w ?al cause of danger does not lie in loal: of respectability assumed by ai \ of its legal status and partnershipi a the Statfc, and also too often on ac- aI of the patronage by good people of e; ataurant with a saloon annex. e writer believes that all the much -of substitute for the saloon will not t-Y. - 1 I meet tne issue successiuny eo Jang as tne saloon exists as a strong competitor. Tear ni off the mask and let this agency of Satan ai fall, as fall it surely will by its own weight in of corruption. gl "Let the State wash its hands of the m whole business and no so-called 'sumptu- tt ary' laws will be necessary. re "When the saloon is outlawed it can be jo treated as a nuisance and soon abolished." st pi Mighty Aid to Sacceia. w Complete temperance?that is, total ab- P< Btinence from all poisons?is a mighty aid to success. Life is too short, nowadays, to Pf squander time on the delirium of intoxica- cl tion, or on the mind-clouding reactions es that follow the excitements of every stimblant-habit. , tr "I'm sorry, amigo, but I've no time to m fuddle," Dr. Bence Jones, of London, P< used to say, in declining the invitations of tb convivial friends. 8* The truth probably was that he1 re- *? ioiced in a pretext for absolute emancipa- fe tion from a life-blighting vice, for temper- m ance need not limit its arguments to atili- M ed tarian considerations. Its superior chances on of success extend to the pursuits of intelli?ent votaries of pleasure. During the bonanza period of the Cali- m fornia placer diggings, the traveler, Ger- Gi of staecker, noticed that many miners, in- go 2je eluding men who had gone exclusively in fo ^ ijuest of fun, became temperate under the ar "" inspiration oi gooa iuck; tuey preierrea co iES the river-bar to the rum-bar, ana avoided h{ ch dissipations that tended to mar their en- th __ joyment of more pleasant pastimes. gi The main objection to tbe use of stimu- at lants is, indeed, the fact that they defeat fe vn the main purpose of their dupes. The m ng opium-eater, like the dram-drinker, hopes H . to trick nature out of some extra enjoyIe* ment, and playing that trick is, in every ts, instance a losing game. Its penalties out0? weigh its pleasures; the net result of the a experiment is a loss, in happiness, as well or as in time and health.?Success. im nc , in d The Saloon Curaed Town. q( of Localities might be pointed out in the si< jS Northwest which were originally entered' tie by a sturdy and industrious band of pio- jjj ve oeer8. That their settlements should, in jn id. the course 'of time, become the richest be :es gardens of the Northwest, there Seemed th C2j to be every reason to expect. Yet such jj , has not been the case. One of the fertile sources of this curse ler upon the community was the saloon. It < lot was built near the, church. Saloon and ' church formed the nucleus of a village an ' which eventually had other saloons. i lf>? The saloon became a pleasant rendezIS vous for the young men. Here they could j ^ Q(] meet a friend whenever they went to the postoffice or to the blacksmith's shop. It c was frequented aunng most, or wn icia- , on ure hours, and crowded upon election days er, and Sundays. Habits, associations, tone n? of conversation, ideas about men and af- Tr fairs, ambition and purposes of life were formed and molded in the saloon. ^ :m Water will never rise higher than its up source. A generation will seldom exceed the level of the influences by which it ia j surrounded, and where the saloon is the in; UP high school of the community, we cannot di: >a- expect the children to discredit their edu- to ur cation.?Catholic Citizen. res ,e" The Crusade In Brief. The alcoholic psychopath, who in auspi- ' ed cious, gloomy and irritable, with sense mi al. perversions, should come under medical Hi care at once. He is dangerous to himself pel . and to the community. Ce f ' The Craeade in Brief. i The mills of God grind slowly; the liquor Jif e9 traffic mangles horribly. . W' Health is the root of all good; strong pel ad drink is health's rooted evil. q0 a It is a fact worth mentioning in these loi lio days of social wine drinking tb?.t. not a da drop of wine was served at the wedding of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. In Toledo, Ohio, with its 647 licensed ( PD saloons, there were 367 arrests for drunk- ^ui it enness during the past year, or three to | <p0 I every 1000 inhabitants. In New York e^( there were thirteen, in Philadelphia thirty- ^ I" four arrests to every 1000. er oe A Chicago Grand Jury finds that tho e; city has been cheated out of half a million ,ii dollars a year by dishonest officials allowing saloons and other businesses to run ] ve without license. ca^ oi The officers of the Pennsylvania Rail- by U1 road Company are determined that all em- jn .. ployes shall not use intoxicating liquors. br; TQ A rule prohibiting the use of liquor has ley vn been in force on the road tor some time, saj re but the men have grown lax in the observ-1 AV], * ance of the rule. in!] This country can easily have, if it wishes wil St to, an army of enlisted men not one of* id, whom will care for strong drink as a bev-> a? erage, and there is no occasion for the serJ ^Ljvice to be made a special support of th?j Bm liquor manufactures and an agency for de* J basing and disgracing even in the arwft nui H itself those who ioin its rp.oks. u-.>it..., .. ?:,A , . , \ * JOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN RECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. i oeno: Thou Enoweit My Llfe'l Deep Story?There Cornea a Time When Every Man Cam Do Something to Make Thla World Better. hou knoweBt, Lord! Thou know'st my JIIC a uccp obuiy, And all the mingled good and ill I do! hou see'st my shame, my few stray gleams of glory; Where I am false, and -where my soul rings true. ord! I *m glad Thou know'st my inmost being, Glad Thou dost search the secrets of my heart; would not hide one folly from Thy seeing, Nor snun Thy healing touch to save the smart. like warp and woof the good and ill are blended; Nor do I see the pattern that I*weave. ret in Thy love the whole is comprehended, And in Thy hand my future lot I leave. inly, dear Lord, make plain the path, of duty. Let not my shame and sorrow weigh mc down, ?st in despair I fail to see its beauty, And, weeping vainly, miss the victor's i crown. . ?H. W. Hawke? The World Beautiful. There will come to every manly man mes in hie life when he will see that lere is something which is legitimately is, something which he has a right to, Dmething which nobody can blame him he takes and enjoys to the fullest, and et something by whose voluntary and unDmpelled surrender he can help his fel>w-man and aid the work of Christ and take the world better. Then will come rat man's' trial. If he fails and cannot take the sacrifice nobody will blame him; e will simply dfnk into the great multiide of honorable, respectable, self-indulsnt peop!e who take the comfortable lings which everybody owns they are entied to, and live their easy life without a uestion. But if he is of better stuff, and lakes the renunciation of comfort for a igher work then he goes up and stands? umbiy, but really?with Jesus Christ. He. iters into that other range, that other >rt of life where Jesus Christ lived. He perfectly satisfied with that higher life, ^e does not envy, he does not grudge, the :lf-indulgent lives which he has left beind. He does not cocnt uo what he has ist; he does not a?k whether he is hapier or less happy that he would have been. he had kept what everybody says he had right to keep. It is not a question of ippiness with him at all, but gradually, ithout his seeking it he finds that the >ul of the happiness which he has left beiL u:_ ?+;n t iliu uuii ia in inxxi o 1.111. umc iuuuvauic : sweet water in the sea it rise? up and =eps him a living soul. He has left the orld's pleasures and its privileges only ? draw nearer to its necessities, which e its real life. So what he gave he keeps thousandfold even in this present time, id eternity is still before him. in the ena 'erlasting life.?Phillips Brooks. Dully Trial*. Trials have no meaning unless they am eans to an end. The end is the inheritice; and sorrows here are the earnest of heritance. Measure the greatness of the ory by what has preceded it. If a fair easure of the greatness of any result be le length of time taken for getting it ady, we can dimly conceive what that y must be for which seventy years of rife and- sorrow are but a momentary reparation; and what must be the eight of that glory which is the counter>ise and consequence to the afflictions of lis lower world. The deeper God unges the comet into the darkness, the oser does it come to the sun at its near t distance, and the longer does it stand owing in the full blaze of the glory from a nrVi Sa in mir rprnfiition. the easure.of. the distance from the farthest lint of our. darkest earthly sorrow to the irone may help us to the closeness of the ory above when we are on the throne; r, if so be that we are sons, we must sufr with Hin; if so be that we suffer, we ust be gloriHed together.?Dr. Alexander acloren. Sympathize With Other*. Because we have sorrows of our own we ust not be indifferent to those of others, race removes all selfishness out of pernal grief and develops a fellow-feeling r another's afflictions. True Christians e drawn all the more closely through mmon trials. As we need sympathy and :lp in what we endure,, so do others in eir tribulations, and it becomes us to v*e out, as well as take in, kindly consolion and assistance. Our Saviour sufred, but it was that He might be all the ore able to sympathize with a^d aid is people.?Presbyterian. Salvation. Salvation is not secured by obedience to rite, by the observance of a code of rules, even by obedience to a creed, prolunced orthodox. A man may be praised all these and vet be under the wrath 01 | jd, and his character be scarred by pas)n and :^lf-indulgence. The only condi>n of salvation is faith which believes in im that justifies the ungodly and receives to the heart the very nature of JesuB to come the power of the new life. "He at hath tho Son hath life."?F. B. eyer. Sympathy. Sympathy is one of the most practical all the catalogue of the Christian graces: d without it our profession of faith ana re is as sounding brass or a tinkling mbal.?Rev. Charles E. Nash, Baptist, jw York. The Best Prayer. The richest men in heart and soul are ose who have no rating in Bradstreet's. i.e best prayer is a prayer for independce, neither riches nor poverty.?Rev. larles H. Eaton, Universahst, New York; Religion's Use. Religion is of the highest use in enrich; life, instilling hopes and raising the ;nity of work and giving a sacrednesa patient drudgery.?Bishop William Lawice, Episcopalian, Massachusetts. Kely oil God's Word. The thing that makes your life and e divine is the fact that God keeps' s engagements. His word is to be (fended upon.?Rev. Frank W, Gunsaulus. ntral Church, Chicago. Practice What Ton Tray For. Pray modestiy as to the things of thi^ ;; earnestly for whp?t may be helps to? ur salvation; intensely for salvation it-< f. that you may ever behold God, love id. Practice in" life whatever you pray , and God will give it to you more abunntly.?E. B. Puasey. Man's Privilege and Hope. 3ut of Christ is man's position by na:a. In Chriet is his position by grace. live for Christ is man's earthly privily ?. To reign with Christ at least is hid pe through the gospel.?Rev. W. RightMethodist Prctestant. Pittsburg. The Brain of Czolgosz Abnormal. Before the Anatomical Society of Chijo the secretary read a paper prepared Dr. E. A. Spitzka, of New York City, which the doctor declared that the tin of Leon Czolgosz, President McKin's murderer, was abnormal. The doctor d that during the four-hour dissection ich followed the execution of the criml) he had been able to study the brain th considerable thoroughness. A Tear's Book Record. ' There was a marked falling off in the nber of books published in London last r, the decrease from the record of 1900 ii- 1105. \ ? ' . * 4 01 ??>?????? THE SABBATH SCHOOL' INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS) FQK FtBKUAHT Z. Subject: The First Persecution, Act* ivj 1-22 ? Golden Text, Acts It., 12 ?| Memory Verses 8-10?Commentary tke Day's lesson. I 1. "As they spake." Peter addressed one . portion of the multitude while John spakt to the others. That a great crowd haq gathered is certain from the large nqmbem of converts. V. 4. "The priests." Tho?| ^ belonging to some of the twenty-fou? courses among whom the temple services] were divided. 1 Chron. 24: 1-19; 2 Chron' 23: 8. These were the persons who had shown such hatred toward Christ from) the beginning. "Captain." a Not a mifr tary omcer, out one wno naa cn&rge or the guard of priests and Levi tea, w bowatched the temple at night. , > 2. "Being grieved." "Sore troubled."-^ R. V. The priests believed in the doctrine o? the resurrection, but to have it preached through Jesus brought His blood upon: them, since they put Efon to death.. i 3. "Laid hands on them." The language implies actual violence. "In hold." A sort of "house of detention," foif the' ; Jews never punished by imprisonment as- ' the Romans did. "Peter had an opportunity to reflect on the words, 'Lord, I am' \ ready to go with Thee?into prison.'" Luke 22: 33. - "Next day." It was now too! late to assemble the Sanhedrin, as that; ? body could not sit lawfully except by daylight. '^Eventide." "Tide" . meant! . "tune." Tltfe Jews had two evenings; One began at 3 o'clock and the other at ft o'clock. Peter and John entered the temple courts at 3 o'clock, the hour of prayer, and the proceedings at this time had occupied three hours. 4. "Many believed." Persecution did not prevent the truth from prevailing, bnt it developed courage ana energy and known to +.hp wnrlH th? nnM* minli. tiea which Christianity* had implanted, and caused the story of the Saviour, His life, resurrection, love, power and Mesaiahshij:; to be proclaimed ill over the land. "Number?was." "Came to be."?R. V. The society of converts had been increased by - '/ nearly 2000 since the day of Pentecost. i'.J 5. "Rulers, elders, scribes." This was! a regular meeting of the Sanhedrin.. Thd" rulers were the chief priests?the official rulers; the elders were heads of families; , scribes were teachers of the law. 6. "Annas ? Caiaphas." Annas hadj i been deposed from the office of the high . priest by thfe Romans, and Caianhas. hie son-in-law, was made high prieBt by them. . ' ? But the Jews regarded*"Annas as ecclesiastically their high priest. He was the i most influential person among the Jewi '' . at this time. Our Lord was taken before Annas first. John 18: 13. "John andf Alexander." Who these were* is not known, but it is certain that they were> men of influence. n 99 nro i i A, /. xu tuc rniuBt. iucy jjiu.ueu fcucj * prisoners in the centre of the Sanhedrin^ which sat in a semi-circle. "Power, name. , Power is force, name is authority. 3y? what magical power did you do this, andl ' what right had you to use such power? 8. "Peter, filled." According to the1.' \ promise of his now glorified Master. Matt.* . 10: 20; Mark 13: 11. This empowering pen-; , /? tecostal spirit now dwelt in the apostles and the others, as an abiding gift to manifest himself as each emergency demanded.' 8 9. "Be examined." Galled to account. <-'3 as criminals. "The good deed." A gentlei reminder that-it was not for a. crime that they had been placed in custody and "were . . on trial. "Made whole." Is cured or | saved, suggesting a spiritual as well as physical restoration. 10. "Be it known." The testimony '-v?3 which Peter would give before the Sanhe- N* drin he would delight to publish to all . ( Israel, and thus exalt the name of. Christ. fy He could preach with as much freedom in- > a court room as in any other place, when: . filled with the, Spirit. "Jesus Christ pt Nazareth." Wonders are wrought in the. name of Jesus: not by repeating it as a' ... : Jfj charm, but by beb'eving in it as a divine. ' 1'* revelation of . grace and good will to men4 : "Jesus, the Saviour: Christ, the Messiah the Nazarene, the despised." "Whom y& crucified." As an.impoaterv' 'Whom God raised." Thus putting to -naught man's power. 11. -"Set at naught of you'builders." By your rejection and crucifixibn of Jesui Christ you have fulfilled one of your own prophecies (Psalm 118: 22); and as one part is literally fulfilled ye mav rest aVj , . i sured the other shall be. "This alluaionj > to the prophecy about the cornerstone iq > ? brief, because they were supposed to b? j familiar with it. Peter was assured that; 1 they must remember to have heard it more . than once from the lips of Jesus." 1 12. "Salvation." His is the oniv atoning blood, and His the only arm that can' save. "Name." Name stands for Jesufc Christ Himself, and there is in Him wis-' dom, power, love, divineness; just as a man's name to a note stands for all a man is, and has; his property, character, ability, integrity. "Among men." It is a salvation for humanity. "We." The apos i. j -r j xl 7 1 i. ues were noi oeienaers 01 meu'BtMves, uu* ) sturdy, truthful, uncompromising wit-' nesseu to Jesus and the resurrection. IS. "Boldness." This speech was a greater miracle than that of the lame man. Compare the Peter of this speech and the Peter before the resurrection, and tell what has happened. In himself the miracle had first been wrought. "And John." We have no record of any word spoken by John, yet his boldness of speech, no less >' than Peter's, was observed by the council. . i 14. "Man?standing." No longer a helpless cripple. If ngt apprehended with the apostles, the Sanhedrin being an open' court, his presence may have been an exEression of his faith and thankfulness, or e may have been summoned for examination. "Could say nothing." Nothing against the fact, though they were unwilling to own the doctrine which it tended so strongly to prove. 15. "Go asiae." Peter and John were > required to leave the council chamber while the Sanhedrin discussed what should * be done. 16. "Cannot deny it." Every one knew that it was a genuine case of healing. / 17. "Threaten them." This is what they \ decided to do in order to stop the new religion, and this is the way the ungodly still endeavor to retard the progress of Christianity. , 18. "Called them." They were called back into the council chamber. 10 ?'Tn/ifro vo " fJn/1 rpnnirprl flipm tfl UUU5V J-w. speak; the council forbade them. Which ought they to obey? See chap. 5: 29. 20. "Cannot but speak." They conld not obey their rulers and do right; Deither can any person when rulers command what God forbids. "Which we saw and heard" (R. V.) Concerning Jesus Christ. 21. "Because of the people." Should they punish the apostles, they feared the people would rise against them and give ' then trouble, for the people "glorified God for that which was^done." Prize For a Dirigible Airship. A prize of $200,000 is offered for the successful ODeration of a dirigible air-ship at the St. Louis World's Fair of 1903. The exposition management has decided to make the award the feature of the first? aerial tournament ever held in the world. This competition in mid-air is expected to result in a remarkable struggle for supremacy between Santos Dumont, Hiram S. Maxim. Professor S. P. Langlev, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and other scientists who have experimented1 for years to solve the problem of air navigation. The management of the fair has issued a statement containing rules for the competition. &?eretai*y Stevens, of the exposition company, said that it is believed from information already before the com* panv. that 100 entries, representing at least ten different countries, will enter the con* test for the $200,000 prize. : Or. Wood 100 Tears Old. i Dr. John P. Wood, the oldest practicing physician in the world, has celebrated his 100th birthday at Coffeyville. Kan. DrJ Wood was born in Dublin, Ireland. He has lived in Kansas forty years. Dr. n j __ _ ?ij: "?r : i wood serveu as a nuiuicr ui uic iucaiwh and Civil wars,and has been married three Hj times. The most wonderful thing about H this man is his physical strength and men- 'H tal vigor. He walks without a canc and M reads without glasses. He can be seen fln every dav walking the streets of Coffey- B