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V s"-V K"-J , .? , ^ , ICOPTRIGHT, ROBEET BC |K > ? CHAPTER II. BLVff GATHERING STORM. " ? "Any news, Leland?" Gregory Bensonhurst and his friend Harry Dillingham were greeting one of the Zingara's passengers, a tall, fair-haired young man with a delightfully good-humored face, who was enthusiastically shaking hands with Dillingham, protesting his pleasure at seeing him safe returned from his ' camping excursion. Lane Leland shook his headv shrugging his shoulders, and laughed. "There's never any news at this season,he said, lightly. "Everything's dead in the city?crowded out to breathe, you know. Dueced unpleasant on the street' I went down to get a whiff of business and found it asleep. Suffocated! Money too heavy to lift , even for the having. By the way, though?" he pasused suddenly with a IT; , mysterious face. 'There is news, Gregory, though Til not vouch for the truth. A bad piece of news, too, if It Is true. I'm Inclined to doubt it, though, because common sense prompts me to doubt Nevertheless, T haanl"?>10 onnlro in * ffllltlnris ton? ?"I heard in Wall street to-day that there's a big failure on the carpet I The last one, too, that you -would guess." "Whose?" Lane Leland shrugged his shoulders again and raised his eyebrows. "I hope It Isn't true," he said gravely. "I don't believe it is ?I simply won't believe it until It Is proved beyond doubt?but I heard that Graham's gone under." ? "Impossible!" Gregory Bensonhurst fell back a pace or two, pushing his cap upx from his face blank with amazement. ""Somebody lied to you, Leland. Graham's sound as a brick; no flaws in that firm! At the bead, you knowworth millions. His wife's diamonds v alone- are -worth a fortune." ^Well," again Lane Leland lifted his brows and shrugged his shoulders, with a gesture of one hand, as though he would set aside any responsibility In the matter; "I can'i say, BensonT* ?<>? o hnf T UUi'bL, XL tins Vllljf a. luuivt, uuv, . tell you, it gave me the shakes. If such a house as that goes under, -who will be safe? I, for one, am utterly f; - anable to earn my living, and I'd fight tooth and nail for -what I possess. No poverty for me, thank you! I like the good things of life' in full morocco, fold edges!" Gregory Bensonhurst scarcely deeded him; he stood as though rooted to the spot, his eyes upon him in (v, ' dazed surprise, unable to speak, the consequences of such a failure flashing ?lectrlc lines through his mind. Graham, the proud, aristocratic, luxuriously generous man?his friend?gone down . In a crash! Graham, the head of one or tne weaitniesi arms in me cuy, wuu i a million at the scratch of a pen. Graham, the favorite in society, at the club, on Wall Street?everywhere? Graham?could he realize it??failed! He would not believe it; It was some hoax of Leland's; Leland was aiways* t:p to some joke. He shook his head i? 4 resolutely, and a flash dawned in his lazy eyes. "Come, now, Leland," he said, rather sternly, turning away, 'Til take a good deal from you, but I will not believe this. It is out of all probability. Graham is as sound as he was last year, you know. He could not fail. Why, he has millions of dollars, man! Every creditor would be down upon him like tigers, ll tnis "were true, n is uui su, x I am satisfied. I tell yotu Dillingham, he has one .?( the shrewdest business heads on his shoulders of any man in , the city!" Leland's eyes flashed -wrathfully. "I don't blame y#i for taking It roughly, Bensonhursi," he said. "I couldn't believe it, either, at first, but you needn't come down on me for it. I didnt originate the talk. If it is true, we will know it soon enough; if it isn't?well," that suggestive lifting of his shoulders and setting-aside movement of the hands, as he also turned from them to the group of chatting ladies at the end of the pier, "all that < I can say is that I hope to the deuce It isn't true." 4'But, whatever you do, Leland," Bensonhurst laid his hand detainingJy npon his friend's arm, as he was passing him, "whatever you do, don't tell this to any one else,until we know. Virauam ailU ills wuc aie ucic, juu . - ?bo?, and it would not be pleasant to arouse euch a suspicion." Lane Leland's indignant face interrupted whatever else Bensonhurst might have caid in his zealous defense of his friend. Lane Leland's flashing eyeti were not particularly good-natured now, as he looked into the opposite lazy eyes of brown. "Whatever I may be, Bensonhurst," he said swiftly, withdrawing his arms from under the detaining hand wifh new hauteur, "I am not a fool! I was born with ordinary common sense, I believe. If Graham is never hurt worse than I hurt him, be will live and die pretty free from harm." "Don't be angry with me,Lane," said Sregory Bensonhurst, quietly. "I would only save them unpleasantoess." "Well, you need not bite my head cff defending them, anyway," retorted Leland, somewnat mollified. He was too good-natured to long remain an gry witli any one. "It isn't my way to walk meekly into the lion's mouth if I know it, Bensonhurst!" "Leland is one c! the best-hearted of fellows." said Dillingham, as he and Gregory Bensonhurst walked up to the hotel piazza. ''He meant no harm. >f this Graham- is tbe man you say, it isn't probr.Die that this report is true, although tbe financial world is shaky just at present His wife is a remarkably handsome woman!" "But I cannot help thinking," said Bensonhurst uneasily, "that Graham did look pretty well done up when he cam? out to-night. I am afraid to believe either way. What a blow his failure would be to his wife; but she bas a fortune la her own right. Gra&am would tever lose that for her i:J ' 'r'r.,, . . 2. Nooci. KATE LUDLUM... >NNEB'8 SOXF, 1893. J Undoubtedly that is solid, and could carry them over even deeper sloughs than could come to him with the worst of failures." Considerably cheered by this conclusion, the two rassed out upon the ocean side of the piazza. Just then, pretty Miss Bess Catherwood was querying as she leaned beside one of the posts of the pier, her black eyes wicked with the merry heart beneath: "You look so wrathful, Mr. Leland. What was the matter in the city, that you came out with such an air?" She was one of the sailing-party, and was tarrying to watch the sunset effects upon the water, and the flashing out of the light-house lamps ere she went in to dress for dinner. Pretty Mi63 Catherwood was inclined to be late and never in s. hurry; but what could one urge against this element of character, when she declared that life was altogether too short, anyway. "And you are so cool and charming, that I am already rested," said Leland, smiling. She was such a charming woman, and so pretty in her dainty buff-andblue boating dress, with the blue anchor upon her breast and her tiptilted cap atop of the curly black hair, her yellow ties with their blue ribbons, one white hand twirling the buff parasol with its great blue bow of ribbon, round and round just over one spot in the boards oi the pier. "On, dear! Always pretty words! Why don't you say right out you aro as mad as mad can be, Mr. Leland? I'll let you." He laughed, taking the restless par- j asol from her hand as tenderly p.s though it were worth its weight in gold. He was in love with wicked little Bess Catherwood, as that young lady knew quite well. She used this knowledge to his dire disadvantage, too, very often. "Because," he made reply, "I am not mad any longer. I am happy, Mirs Catherwood." Well," she eyed him critically, not uinching from his eloquent eyes. "I believe you do look better-natured, Mr. Leland. You came out with Mr. J Graham, didn't you? What a handsome man he is! I don't wonder that his wife .-.dores him. And the lovely, lovely things he lavishes on her? the dresses and diamonds?sv.cb dresses and such hats? I don'.t see why he didn't fall in love with me in- j stead of Alecia Field. I'd have been so dreadfully glad to marry him?fcr his money." Leland frowned. If he were happy, as he had just protested, his looks belied it. He possessed considerable of this world's good things, but It I would not be possible for him to lav- ! ish "such dresses and such hats" j upon his wife, when he should marry, as Harold Graham showered upon J Alecia. Tormenting juiss uatnerwooa was forever declaring she would never, never, never marry without unlimited wealth. "But suppose that you should happen to marry a man who lost his money?every cent?afterward. What, then, Miss Catherwood?" She puckered up her brows and opened wide her eyes bewilderingly. She screwed her pretty red mouth into an emphatic protest. "Oh, but he wouldn't, you know, Mr. Leland! ' He never could. I'd make him solemnly promise that he would not. Because"?she uttered the words with very pretty deliberation?"if he should, I would hate him. Why, of course I'd hate him. I couldn't help it," she added, as though the enormity of any other conclusion were beyond her power of comprehension. "And in the meantime, as the sunset is gone and it is late, I must go in and dress for dinner. I'll get not a morsel if I am too late." Lane Leland smiled, in spite of his anger. He was always either very happy or very miserable with this jrirl. He loitered beside her as they walked up the pier, still carrying the furled parasol, with its knot of broad ribbon. They were the last of the idlers upon the pier, for it wanted but a few minutes of the dinner-hour, and the light was revolving in the tower out to westward, and only the tenderness of twilight touched the sand and sea and sky beyond that line of sullen cloud. The world was so peaceful, how could one's heart retain tumult? "After dinner, will you go with me to watch the moonrise upon the sands, Miss Catherwood? I have something that I wish to tell you?something that I must say to-night," said Lane, as they paused at the foot of the staircase. A slight flush was upon his face. Miss Catherwood knew quite well what it was he would say; and it would be a pleasant story for her to hear?she knew that, too; but wicked Miss Catherwood could not live without teasing even those whom she j loved, and she could not refrain from ' tormenting this man. "After dinner?" How slow and soft her voice was. and what a charming pucker came between the level black eyebrows! "Why, after dinner?let me see?I am almost afraid that I have i an engagement Mr. Leland; but?I j will see and?let you know." He was, manlike, too blind to know that this was her acceptance of his invitation. He was too angry to ask. "You are always unkind to me!" he protested, wrathfully. "Then why don't you leave mc alone?" demanded Miss Catherwood, swiftly, her voice struck with a sharpness born of contrite tears. And a rustle of skirts, the fiasli of a buff-and-blue gown, the click of light boot heels upon the stairs, and Lane Leland comprehended that he and Miss Catherwood had once more quarreled. . "What is a fellow to do?" he de- i mpnripri r>f liimsplP with nees, as he followed slowly up the stairs to his room. "She puts oue always at a disadvantage. If she doesn't want to marry me, let her eay so?when I ask her. I haven't asked her yet!" He continued exceedingly wrathful during his toilet; and went down to dinner fully determined to have no more to do with such a wicked cohut +/* foil in lnvo riirpntlv with J 4UCUC, ?-vr ^ Anita Grant! The tables were as lively as usual with bright eyes anrl wit and laughter, mingled with the clatter of dishes and the distant thunder of the surf across the sand-hills. For who among tbem could believe that brilliant Alecia Graham and her handsome husband, liveliest of them all, hid a wolf under their cloak of pride, and would vanish out of that gay world as a star that falls with a flash of light into darkness and oblivion. For not one of them saw the anxiety under light laughter. The cry of the ocean should be drowned in gayety; the beat of happy hearts should defy the beat of breakers! Moonlight was over the world; the I stars were steadfast; the sea a lake of I molten silver breaking to glistening fragments along the sands. Time enough to be terrified when the storm should break! "We will bear our sorrows, Harold," Alecia said, slowly and bravely, as she sat in a low chair by the open window of their room, some time later, facing the ocean. "Because trouble has come to us, is no reason why we should lay it upon others. Besides?" she turned for a moment from the exquisite world without to smile upon her husband, leaning back in his chair with his bands clasped behind his head and his eyes seeing nothing before him?"beside, It helps one wonderfully to laugh when things go contrary. I feel a great deal stronger for to-morrow, aft.r the music and happiness down stairs. One is ashamed to be gloomy, you know, when every one else is bright, and so one has to polish one's face and voice and manner until the shine Is sort of rubbed in, you see!" Her husband made no reply. She expected none, and turned again to the window and .the shimmering silver sea, the round moon riding royally in the upper ocean; only a solitary sail in the far distance struck into shadow as it sailed away. She clasped her hands around her knees, her hair let down about her shoulders, and nodded sturdily. Still no reply. Still she expected none. The solitary sail down on the horizon had turned, and the moonlight struck it into gold. Her eyes wae upuu it. "I shall go with you to the city in the morning, If you will take me, Harold," she said, presently. The sail was out of sight. Before her, beyond the low sand-hills, was only that great vast waste of silver, with a path along it that looked fashioned for a heavenly road. The moonlight was full in her face. "There need be no excuse to these people. We have few friends here. Business calling you away is all that we will need to explain, and I go with you from choice. What is It to them? Together we can arrange our actions far better than apart, when we know the worst, and begin the new life. You have so many friends " Her husband interrupted her now. He took down his hands from behind his head and leaned forward, his elbows upon his knees, his eyes upon her face, as he answered slowly, striking one hand lightly with the other to emphasize his words. She turned her face to his, waiting. "Even yet you do not comprehend this thing, Alecia! You would soften the blow for me, but instead of doing so, you make it infinitely harder, because you force me to explain added humiliation. I have many friendsyes?to-day. To-morrow there is not one will help me. When the thing is known, and that my liabilities far exceed my power to meet them, every one will clamor for his due. Not one of my creditors will allow me to compromise or again enter business. I should not, if they would! I could not endure to feel that what I should gain would be swallowed up ere it were mine. I could not endure to meet these men every day. I hate every one of them; I hate myself more. When all is over, we will go away, and be gin life in a new city. I have decided that. California is an open held for one who is ambitious. We will go there. In a new country I will make a new name. Never here." The slim fingers around her knees tightened their hold. The red lips pressed down one upon another for a moment. The violet eyes dilated ere her emotion was conquered. Then she said very softly and sweetly, her voice like music through the room, a note of the sea's deeper undertone touching it: (To be continued.) To .Make Bicycle Theft Grand Larceny They used to hang men out West for horse-stealing. Perhaps they do now, sometimes. But the bicycle has taken the place of ue horse to a great extent. Now the price of bicycles has come down so much that tbe theft of i these aids to locomotion constitute simply petit larceny, the punishment for which does not seem to fit the crime of stealing an article which is as necessary as the horse was in the olden days. So in Colorado they are talking of revising the definitions of the grades of the crime of stealing. A bill has been introduced in the Legislature having l'or its purpose th* grnd ivof the crime according to the util ity of the stolen article. So the bill will call the theft of a bicycle grand larceny and a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary. New York Press. K?scutia] to ?acc?Rf>. | When there is a market for the wares ! of a business man or for the service? of a professional man or agent, 01 | when it is practicable to create a mar j ket, all that is needed to gain custom j is to offer reasonable terms and com ! rounicate the facts to the people. It i? j the experitnee of a vast majority of successful men tliat the best and the cheapest way to reach the people if through a newspaper which is read by a majority of the residents of the community. Indeed, it is essential to advertise In such a newspaper.?Philadelphia Record. The use of the telephone i? Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt, has .grown such proportions that It has been found necessary to connect the two cities by a telephone trunk Hue. - ' W.-v T*-J,[; --Vi \ ' * j Household : Matters.. J For the House Beautiful. A novel decoration for furniture is a panel of woven tapestry inserted in a wood and coated with transparent varnish. The idea has been seen in bedsteads and smaller pieces, and the effect is hardly to be distinguished from that of a painted panel. Flowers, fruit and landscape designs are employed.?New York Commercial Advertiser. To Clean Flannel Blankets Flannel blankets may be successfully cleansed by using borax and soft soap. I Put two tablespoonfuls of borax and a pint of soft soap into cold water enough to cover the blankets. When tho lmrflY nnd snsin havp become dis solved, put in tbe blankets and let them stand over night. The next day rub them out, rinse them in two waters , and hang them to dry. Never wring them. I Pottery For Home Decoration. Some of the latest pottery pieces fo\ t home decoration are artistic in in- ' creased proportion to their cost. Some j j of golden brownish yellow, streaked , in their glazing, are exceedingly attractive. Handles are prominent features ! of most of the pieces, placed on the ! side quite close to the top. This is ef- , fective besides being useful, when they I are hung from hooks, as they hang ' and look better then with such a han- ; die. ??-? i The Dish-Cloth. The modern housekeeper understands 1 that rags for a dishcloth are neither ( cleanly nor profitable. The shreds get < into the plumbing, often with expen- ' sive effects, and a dishcloth so worn J that it will not bear regular laundering in the weekly wash is one that cannot receive proper care. In all well regu- 1 lated houses dishcloths are as distinct and separate a provision of the house- ( hold economy as napkins or pillowcases. Material for the purpose Is sold J In the shojjs, and the cloths should be ( hemmed as carefully as any bit of the household linen.?New York Post Darning and Mending on Sewing Machine! "Tears and worn places in cloth \ fabrics can be darned most satisfactorily on the sewing machine," writes Maria Parloa, in the Ladies' Home J Journal. "Thread the machine with , silk or cotton, of the same color as i the fabric. Do not locsen the presser ; foot; have the stitch of moderate leugth; begin the stitching a little be- | yond the damaged place. For places i that are worn thin or frayed, put In ' rows of stitching, close together. Cross j these with other rows of stitching; i this will give a smooth, fine texture, i Where the fabric is worn thin, baste J a piece of the same kind of goods , nn thn -mrnnf* cuIa onrl /I O m /\T7&y I it. If there is 'none of the same ma- 1 terial a piece of net or muslin will answer. If the colors in the fabric are i mixed, have the upper thread of the i machine of the most pronounced and' j the under thread of the minor color." , Care of Hot Wntcr Ragf. | Do not put boiling water into the i bag; till the bag only about one-half j full or a little more, then lay it in your lap before putting in the stopper, i and carefully press out the steam, j This makes the bag softer, as it is Relieved of the pressure the steam makes if left in it. When not using the bag drain out the water, let it hang bottom side up for a little while, then take it down and with the mouth blow a little i air into it, just enough to keep the in- i side from coming together, as it will ! often do if there is no air in it, in 1 which case the. bag is quite sure to be ruined in pulling it apart. If you have a bag that is stuck to- ( get her put into it some hot water with , a few drops of ammonia, let it remain i a few minutes, then with a thin, dull- | adged piece of wood, try to separate the , inside very carefully. Never fold a i rubber bag after it has been once used. \ A flannel bac for coverimr the ruhher bag is very useful.?Philadelphia Press. ] | . . RECIPES . . | j Orange Jelly?Cover u box of gelatine j with a pint of cold water and soak for ten minutes; then pour on a pint of ' boiling water' and stir until dissolved, j Add the juice of ten medium-sized or- j anges aud two lemons and a quart of I granulated sugar. Stir until sugar is ^ dissolved; then strain into molds and set in a very cold place. i Cocoanut Bread Pudding?Cut bread j into inch slices, butter well, then dice , and arrange in a buttered pudding i dish in alternate layers with a pint of ' grated cocoanut. Make a raw custard | with four eggs, one pint of milk, three tablespoonfuls t;f sugar and one table- i spoonful of vanilla. Pour this over the J bread and cocoamit and bake in a moderate oven. If desired, two of the v/hites may be reserved for a meringue. Muffins?Mis with one pint of Hour, after it is sifted, three heaping teaspoonfuls of baking powder, stir into i this the yelks of three eggs and a 1 little salt, then gradually stir in one full uint of cold water, and add lastly , the whites of the three eggs beaten to stiff froth. Bake in deep muffin 1 cups, which must be greased and very hot before the mixture is poured in; only haif till them, as ?hc muffins will ! rise a great deal. Eat as soon as : baked. Fricasse of Tripe?Cut two pounds of tripe?the honeycomb iu the most de- ; licious?cut it in strips two inches long, i wash it, and put it iu a saucepan with water enough to cover: simmer one ( and a half hours; pour off all but one ' cupful of water, cLiop one onion very 1 line, add one cupful of canned toma- ' toes; chop tbe tomatoes in the bowl; add it to the tripe with two teaspoonfuls of salt and a little pepper; rub ! one tablespoon of hour in a little cold ; water, add it to the tripe, and stir un- : til thickened and boilinc. THE GREAT DESTROYER j SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT p THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. rippling Women In All Clas?e?? Bishop ^ Colomnn Sjivh Condition! in Encland Are Even Worse Than Here?There is a Better Showing Among the Men. The Right Rev. Leighton Coleman, Episcopal Bishop of Delaware, who startled ? hie hearers in a mission address at New j Brunswick by the statement that there is p an alarming increase of intemperance j among women along with a decrease of [ intemperance among men, repeated the ^ statement to a reporter of the New York World. He said that his opinion had been formed only after exhaustive investigation j and obsarvation of conditions in this coun- j try and abroad. ( Bishop Coleman said that a newspaper ( hostile to his views set on foot an inquiry } in New York with a view of disproving 3 his charge. Committees of impartial citizens went to the various fashionable hotels and women's restaurants, taking notes of the orders of women patrons. They found that to take wine3, cordials, even whisky with one's meals was an almost in- 7 variable rule among the wealthy and fash- J ionable set. Not only this, but in so- ? called tea rooms intoxicants were served to women who ordered them without even t: the pretense of ordering a neal. a "Intemperance among women, however," , said the Bishop, "is not confincd to the ? women of the wealthy and fashionable class. The use of stimulants, medicines, 1 bracers, tonics and all similar devices 9 serving as a mask for .the liquor habit is T becoming more general among the middle P classes. In England conditions are worse even than here, for the 'grocers' license' ? advanced by Mr. Gladstone as a temper- ? ince measure has had a vastly different re- P suit. "Mr. Gladstone hoped that intemper- , mce would be decreased by making it possible for the middle class to secure the " liquor in small quantities from their gro- ? cers instead of compelling them to go to ? public-houses, where the temptation to j drink in excess would be much greater. Instead of this, however, the grocer's license enables women to indulge the irink habit secretly. Whisky and gin are bought it the groceries and are charged to the husbands' accounts as tea or cheese. The evil is as prevalent among the aristocratic as among the middle classes." As to the decrease in drunkenness among men Bishop Coleman said: "Not so many years ago there was a tendency on the part of many people to laugh at a drunken man; to see something funny, or absurd, or ludicrous in drunkenness, but nothing sinful or wicked. Now, however, that men are loming to consider drunkenness as something to be ashamed of, there is increasing vigor to the resistance against all sorts di" temptations to excess." Bishop Coleman said that much of this retbrm is due in the positive attitude taken by all denominations of the Chris- j tian church, especially the Episcopalians. j Advice of Mr. Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie was the chief speaker at the celebration of the twenty-sixth anniversary of the Railroad Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association, New York City. The hall on the second floor sf the building was filled io overflowing with railroad men. Seats had been reserved for them until just before the meeting opened, when many visiting ladies entered the hall and took them. The place was literally packed. Mr. Carnegie said: '"Gentlemen, I congratulate you of the railroad world on oaiupying the proud position, as I believe, of the most temperate body of employes in the world. You are in example to the workingman in other branches of the outspreading tree of labor, ind your influence cannot fail to prove of incalculable benefit. No rule that a man :an adopt will bring greater reward than this, to abstain from the use of alcohol as i beverage. A drinking man has no place in the railway system. Indeed, he should bave no place anywhere. "There is no room for antagonism upon | i railroad between employer and employe, | "nr vnur President and Superintendent do not own the property any more than you | io; therefore you are, as just said, memoers of the same corps?you are all equally the servants of the company. There is mother feature of cheering import in your positions. The road to promotion is clear md direct. You can all certify to that, For I doubt not many of those now in authority over you began as you did, in subordinate positions, and have won their way by merit, not by favor. "Fellow railroaders, there rests upon rou grave responsibilities; you have in Tour keeping the lives of the public. I iced not say the traveling public, for with as ali travel. Strict sobriety, unceasing rigilance, stanch courage, faithfulness to iuty, are demanded from you, and that :hese are characteristic of the force is testified at recurring intervals and by the position you have reached and occupy in ;he estimation of your grateful fellcw-citzens." Georgia to Teach Temperance. Nearly twenty years ago, largely through the instrumentality of one devoted woman lided by noble workers, especially the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the first Temperance Education law in the ivorld was enactcd fn Vermont. As State ifter State in rapid succession placed similar laws upon its statute books they were represented in white on the map of the [Jnited States as an object lesson, while the rest of the Union was drawn in black. 1 The Governor of Georgia has just sent Mrs. Mary H. Hunt. Snoerintendent for < World's and National Woman's Temper- ' mce Union, of Boston, the pen with which '< be sinned the last of those laws now passed i by the Legislatures of every one of the 1 forty-five States of the United States ?.nd 1 by the National Congress, all of which re- 1 luire temperance physiology to be taught ' ill pupils in rll schools under State and j Federal control. J A comnany of distinguished people gath- ' sred informally in Mrs. Hunt's parlors ' January 25 to witness the removal of this 1 last "black cap" from the national map, 1 \nd to welcome Oecrgia to the white sis- [ ! terhood thus made compJete. This study that gives with other laws of health the scientific reasons for total ab- j stinence is now legally engrafted upon the ' ducational system of this entire country, 1 i.nd is fast spreading to other Lands. Its ' beneficent results, already manifest in the 1 greater sobriety of the American working- 1 man, and in the increased length of human 1 life, are destined to become more and more apparent. Their thorough enforcement will mean a t ew generation of citizens too (rise to stultify, themselves with ir.loxi- i cants, and thus tlic peaceful solution, 1 through education, of the temperance prcu- : !em.?New York Sun. ' John Hum* on Saloonkeepers. John Burn?', the famous English iabor leader and the champion of labor in the 1 British Parliament, is upon record as having reccntlv made a starting statement . concerning trie relation of saloons to the ' progress of municipal improvements de- < signed to better the condition of working- ' men at Batlerse;i. England. Baitersea being the borough from which Mr. Burns is a in T'-?flis. n-nn t Trir> fr?lln*.v. ! ing is I he statement: "Bear this In mind: ir. everything that wo have undertake:! wo have had the persistent and malignant opposition of the i saloonkeepers." i " Jmino-!i;r:i1c Moderate Drinking." Sir Dyce Duckworth. an eminent British physician, warns insurance companies against accenting as risks "immoderate moderate drinke:s"?-men who pride them- v reive? upon never being intoxicated, but c ivIn often or usually drink in the course T of the day "'more than is good for them." v I'his oraotiee. he says, counts more vie- ? Liras than consumption or any oilier dis- ? ease. " n Jtenctinn in German}'. ti In Germany there i.? a marked reaction t igr.i:i?f. beer drinking in business hourf. I flie fiiarp competition of manufacture t ind commerce demand that men shall have r< ili their wits about them in order tr; keep e the pace set by mcdtTO business methods. 1 v * t fOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN RECNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. oera : The Sabbath?If Remorse Gnaws Forever There is No Possibility of a Heaven of Peace and Joy?Benefits From Consecration to God. Sundays the pillars arc In which heaven's palace arched lies; 'he other days fill up the space' ind hollow room with vanities. 'hey are the fruitful bed and borderr n God's rich garden; that is base Tri .u iu?:- 3 iv iiiuu pai t? men raiiKS auu uiucia. The Sundays of man's life, 'breaded together on time's string, Jake bracelets to adorn the wife )f the eternal glorious King. )n Sunday heaven's gate stands ope; Jlessings are plentiful and rife? >iore plentiful than hope. ?George Herbert. Ia There Any End to Remorse ? To the Editor: Supposing a person re'engefully does an irreparable personal inury to another; although he may afterward become a Christian convert, can he a this life or the life hereafter be free rom remorse while conscious of the past ,ct and injury done by him? M. That question goes down to the very leart of things. For, if we believe that the evil that men do lives after them," hat it lives forever and that its consciences will be evil and only evil forever, t does not seem possible that there can ie any end to remorse. How can a loving leart ever cease to mourn bitterly over cts that have resulted only in irrepara?Ie evil to others? But if remorse must naw forever what possibility is there of a icaven of peace ana joy? we reaa mat "mere is no condemnation o them that are in Christ Jesus," but ven though fully assured of God's full for;iveness could they ever forgive them* elves unless they could be assured that ven their past sins will in the good provilence of God be overruled for good to othrs? If Saul of Tarsus could never get rid if the thought that some of those whom le had "compelled to blaspheme" were urned aside permanently from the way of ighteousness and brought to destruction hrough unbelief by his cruelty, it does not eem possible that he could ever forgive limself, although fully conscious of navng obtained God's forgiveness. But all such reasoning involves supposiions which may be wholly wide of the nark. It assumes that the facts are as hey now appear to us to be, and that is lertainly a very unwarrantable assumpion in many cases at least. In Paul's case, for instance, suppose it ihould be revealed to him hereafter that iod had permitted his persecution of Christians for a good purpose, and had iverruled it for good, would not that fully latisfy his conscience and put an end to lis remorse? Indeed, is there not every eason to believe that he had a conviction sven in this life that such was the case? for while he never forgot his sin, and elt humbled by it and very grateful for Christ's forgiveness, there are no signs of trwr romnraoful fooiinffa nri apnnnnt nf it. ,MJ ?V*MV.WV4?. ?O- ? And in the fuller light of eternity it nay, perhaps, be revealed to Paul that in ;vCry case those who suffered from his >ersecution were really benefited and ncrt njured by it. Some of them may have been deceiving themselves with the idea that they were Christians when they had not any real ellowship with Christ, and the persecuti?n nay have 6aved them from perseverance in i course which could only have resulted in mrdening their hearts and blinding their :onsciences. Others may have been true Christians but in need of fiery trial to burn away the dross and fit them to be witnesses for Christ to a world which was intagonistic to Him in all its thoughts tnd desires and actions. And assuredly-if Jesus allows His follow;rs to suffer for the good of others, as He Himself suffered, He will see to it that ;hey shall be abundantly compensated for :heir suffering hereafter. Paul's persecution was, undoubtedly, permitted by Christ for the purification of the church, that it might be the stronger to do the great work which He required sf it. for the salvation of men; will not Paul's conscience be altogether satisfied when he sees the final results? Will there :e any reason for remorse? And does not the same reasoning apply frith equal force in all cases? Are we not ilearly taught that God overrules all vents, that He causes even the wrath of man to praise Him and restrains the remainder thereof? Have we not a right to hope that when pee come to look back upon life's finished story in the full light of eternity we shall ?ee that every forgiven sin has not only been hlotted out so that it cannot rise up in judgment against us, but has been so overruled that even its consequences have seen made means to the accomplishment of Grod's good purposes? There will be little room for remorse in the mind of any man who consecrates himself fully to the service of God. Every recollection of evil done by him in forme* times will stir him up to more earnpst efforts and thus build him up in wness of life, instead of destroying him with the jnawings of remorse.?New York Witness, A Warning. "Very little money," says the Watchman (Bapt.) of Boston, "is given by rich men to the distinctive work of the churches? to evangelization or missions ? compared with the vast sums devoted to education or to general philanthropies. This fact is symptomatic of the prevalent philosophy of life, and of the relation of the public mind to religion. To the average rich man there is something far more concrete and tangible in education than in evaneelization. A good education is an accual, immediate addition to the beneficiary's capital. It is a positive assistance to him in his efforts to get on in the world. His conversion belongs to an unreal and mystical realm, about which we do not know much. That apparently is the way men reason, if they reason about the matter at ill. And underlying all is a conviction that Phri'?t!anitv in the most ef fective way when we contribute to the idvance of civilization. We believe that before long Christian men will open theii Byes to the fact that the relation betweeD education and religion is becoming very tenuous, and that the promotion 01 what ii [.ailed "civilization' may be antagonistic tc the advance of the kingdom of God." Bible Is Necessary. A religion without a Bible is a religi'ta of harmless abstractions and aimless plati tudes, incapable of being grasped by the masses.?Rev. R. W. Rogers, Congrega 'ionalist, Chicago. Not Indifferent. God is not indifferent, and upon thos* jvh*> cast such a charge upon Kis infinite love He pronounces the judgment of doom Is it not thus that we are to explain the judgments, the catastrophes, the sorrow* that irom time to time sweep over nation *1 and individual life? What is the mean ing of such events, inexplicable as they of ten appear, but the declaration of Goc Himself that He is in His world to control its destiny??Rev. Dr. Mackay. The Way to Live. Labor now so to live that, at the 1'oui dT death thou ma vest rather rcioice thai rear.?Thomas a Kemuis Railroad Adopta a Baby. The Choctaw Railroad will rear a baby rhich was found abandoned on one of its ars east of El Reno, Oklahoma. The child i-as left in a seat in a basket, which was rell supplied with warm clothing and a ursing bottle filled with milk. On the andle of the basket was a note saying: "I ave no parents; please take me to the est station." The conductor telegraphed o the company's headquarters, and wa3 old to take the baby to the next station, /ater he received a message ordering him o retain possession of the infant, as the oad has decided to adopt it. raise and eduate it. It is now in a hospital in Wichita, Lan. . ??? ?m~mm? | THE SABBATH SCHOOL ' 1 /NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS l, FOR MARCH 2. I I Subject: The Stoning of Stephen, Act* Til., 54; Till., 2 ? Golden Text, Matt, v., 44?Memory Verses, 59, 60?Commentary on the Day'* Lesson. ri iClTTl j.\ " Tf io i V?. vv lieu LUKZy ucu1u. jlv 10 uiqpwwm j whether the speech was finished or not. His abruptness in closing and the anger of the Jews at that moment render it probable that he was interrupted. "Cut to tha heart." Literally, they were sawn through, or asunder. A figurative .expression for being greatly enraged. "Gnashed on him." They were filled with rage and thirsted for his blood. 55. "Being full." The Greek "being full" implies, not a sudden inspiration but a permanent state. "The Holy Ghost." While his hearers yielded more and more to their violent passions, and were filled with a carnal fire, and indeed with a spirit from the bottomless pit, the soul of tnis faithful witness was filled, by the grace of God, with a heavenly fire. "Looked up." We would, see more heavenly visions if we would "look up" oftener. "Steadfastly." Fixed his eves intently. Their ravings did not distract him. "Into heaven. The question has been asked how he could see into heaven fmm that rouncil chamber, but we should remember that the Spirit revealed to him this scene in heaven. The eye of faith can see heaven from any spot on earth. Mopes beheld it from the land of Egypt (Heb. 11: 27), Isaiah from the temple llsa. 6: 1), Ezekiel from the banks of the Chebar (Ezek. 1: 1), Peter from the house top (Acts 10: 11), John from Patmos, Rev. 4: 1. "And saw." There is no indefiniteness about this statement. 'The glory of God." Saw the Shekinah, for with the Jews the "glory" and the "Shekinah" are similar terms. It was some visible mani-^^j^^ festation of the divine splendor, such a* Moses saw on Horeb and Ezekiel at Chebar. It first filled the tabernacle and af- v terward the temple, and shone round the shepherds, and appeared to the apostle* upon Hermon. "And Jesue." He was permitted to see Jesus triumphing in the flesh in which He had been crucified. He ;j saw Jesue "in His official character as mediator between God and man." "Standing." In other places Jesus is represented as sitting on the right hand of God (see Matt. 26; 64), but here Stephen sees Him standing. He arose to show the great interest with which He watched His distressed servant and to pour glory and blessing into his soul until it shone out "ow /?nnnfonunw> "Thp riffht | 11UU1 U? ?W4J VVUUbvU?Uvv. ..Q ! hand." Christ was exalted to a place of >* _\t honor and power. 56. "Heavens opened." A figurative ex- $0 pression denoting that he was permitted to 8ee into heaven, as if the eye was permitted to penetrate the eternal world. j "Son of man." This is the only time that our Lord is by human lips called the Son of man after His ascension. And why here? Stephen speaking by the Spirit is ' led to repeat the very words in which Jesus Himself, before this same council, had foretold His glorification. See Matt. 26 : 64. This would tend to exasperate them still more. They are now tola that He whom they had crucified was exalted to the right hand of God. 57. "Cried out." Among other things, perhaps, that he should be silent or that he should be put to death. "Stopped their ears." As a proof that he had uttered blasphemy, because he saw Jesus standing on the right hand of God. Fearful proof against them; for if Jesus was at the right \ { hand of God, then they had murdered an \ j innocent person, and God's justice'must speedily avenge His death. "And rushed upon him" (R. V.) This was the act of a mob. Under the Reman laws the Jews had no authority to inflict capital punishment. In this case they did not wait to take the legal course, but before any sentence was pronounced rushed him to his death. 58. "Out of the city." According to the law of Moses. Lev. 24: 14. The person to be stoned was required to be carried with1 3 L: ? . */. | OUt tile camp. JSionea nun. xuc | son to be stoned was placed on an elevation twice the height of a man. from I whence with his hands bound he was I thrown down and then a stone as much as two men could carry was rolled down upon him by the witnesses, after which all the people present cast stones upon hrm. An old tradition places the scene outside the Damascus gate, near where Christ was crucified. "The witnesses." The false witnesses who had accused Stephen of blasphemy. "Laid down their clothes." According to Moses' law (Deut. 17: 8, 7) I the witnesses were required to cas: the j first stone, probably to prevent any careless or unjust shedding of blood, and before they entered upon their murderous work they laid off their outer garments. "At?feet!" They put their garments here for safe keeping. "Whose name was Saul." This is the first mention of the one who | was afterward the great apostle of the Gentiles. 59. "Receive my spirit." They stoned him while he was praying. This is the identical prayer that Christ Him?elf had offered on the cross. Here is clear proof that it is proper to offer prayer to Jesus j Christ. This place affords a full proof of the immateriality of the soul, for ne could not have commended his spirit to Christ 1 had he believed that he had no spirit, or 1 i in other words that his body and soul were one and the same thing. 60. "Kneeled down/' A good position in which to pray or to die. "Cfied." If Stephen had not prayed the church would ' not have had Paul. "Lay not." Weigh not, reckon not. place it not in thy balI an?e against them. The best will and testament of the Christian is that which ' commends: 1. The soul to heaven. 2. The | body to earth. 3. Friends to the divine protection. 4. Enemies to divine compas1 sion. "To their charge." Comparing this j with nearly the same request of his dying Lord it will be sc-en how very richly this martyr of Jesus had drun> into his Master's spirit 'in its divinesc form. "Fell asleep." He died. "But sleep implies an ' awakening." His spirit was welcomed into heaven and his body sleeps until the resurrection. 1. "Saul wa? consenting." So terrible 1 was the hatred which this man bore to Christ and His followers that he delighted in their destru.tion. ' A great persecution." As the rulers had caused the death of Stephen, without exciting an insurrection of the people or the resentment of the governor, tney ventured to carry on the persecution with increasing violence. 2. "Devout men." Pious Jews. "To his burial." They did not hesitate to give an honorable burial to a man of whose innocence and godliness they were convinced. "Great lamentation." They engaged in a solemn mourning for him. This is evi I dence that Stephen was not condemned j by the Sanhedrin, for public lamentation I was never made over a condemned person. Ancient Ornaments Dug Up. Remains of the ancient Sarmatians have been unearthed on the banks of the Rosi River, Province of Kieff. At a depth of six feet eight inches were found traces of ancient incineration, and near charred bones were picked up smooth, thick ornaments of golden wire, on which was represented a scene with a number of typical figures. In +he foreground sits a woman in a high-backed chair, holding a round mirror in her left hand. In her right hand j is a cup, from which a bearded, Kneeling ! warrior is drinking wine. He is armea with a bow and sword. Behind these are ! a musician with a lyre, a youth pouring wine into a cup held by another youth, a priest, in long garments, with a sword held in readiness to sacrifice a restive sheep, and a figure with a fan. American Farm Tools For .Russia. The British steamship Othello has sailed from Philadelphia with a cargo of farm im innnn j. 1 piUIiieiZtH Wt'lgimig 1V,V/W IUU3 auu ?aiucu at 3500,000, for Novbrassisk, Russia. The cargo consists chiefly of mowers and reapers destined for the harvesting fields of Southern Russia. It is the most valuable of tb? kind that has ever left the United States. World's Greatest Milch Cow. Mercedes Julius Pieterje, a registered Holstein cow, at Lake Mills, Wi6., holds the world's butter record. She produced 5S4 pounds of milk in seven days and 1 twenty-nine pounds 5 7-10 ounces of butter. I