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?r , i' / v JEAN I ICornuoBT, Uouii Box CHAPTER XL 01 (Continued.) tfc We have not yet met that hateful iE Mr. Wiiithrop," she wrote one day to- w ward the end of the second winter. P' Ton say his mother and Miss Gray * are still here, although the ogre him- >1 elf la back at his grinding of hearts! '? Bad we met him?or them?I assure ft you It would have soured every drop n ?f the sweetness in Parisian sugar u plums! He would turn even the Sweetwater Blver of our Rockies Into the h bitterness of Marah! It would be a ?' wintry day when we met Though he * were dying, I would not lift my hand * to save him! There Is a rumor?de- P Uciously faint?that an American fam" iftIvmI In Pari? for m. flrioe ! glimpse of sugar plums. If it is be ??w 01 She ended abruptly after a heavy dash of ber pen: "Your modern, Beatrice Cenci Field." si And Gregory Ben son burst under- w stood that if ever tbe opportunity n came for Beatrice Field to be kind to s< John Winthrop, she would remember h what Alec la had suffered through him. t] 80 far. however, nothing special bad occurred save Marion's engagement to it ? wealthy New Yorker who had followed them to Europe and bad won D ber there; and Kathryn Franklin's en- ? gagtynent and Innumerable quarrels a end reconciliations with au American artist lp Home, woo onen negiecieu hla studies to be witb the charming woman of bis choice. K But one morning Beatrice and Mrs. a Glendenning were shopping. They bad bat Jnst left the "Belie Jardiniere." t] Beatrice was chatting delightedly of tj the beauties they had seen, when she epaused suddenly, grasping her companion's arm witb a stifled exi-laiua- n tton. ti An elderly woman, who left the gay tl chop just ahead of th?ui. bad been p vainly striving to attract the attention of her coachman, who. vugaged Ja flirtation witb a pretty nursery n maid, seemed quite to have forgotten u Jtfa doty. He bad driven up and down. a waiting for bis mistress, and bad paused on tbe opposite side of tbe ^ street Finding ber effort in vain, tbe woman attempted to cross tbe street, T regardless of the passing carriages. ^ and stumbling, would buvc fallen under tbe boofs of an approaching team, had not Beatrice sprung forward and palled ber away and back upon tbe t, pavement. n An officer close at band started to T rescue ber, but Beatrice bad waited b *?? no nnlitonra Tlio pnarhnifllL _ sow aware of tbe neglect of bis duty. t] was at band, and tbe girl assisted tbe g] trembling woman Into the carriage, V| pausing a moment to learn If sbe were comfortable ere sbe left ber. n Tben. as Beatrice was turning away, tI !? ? in tha rarrlncii Gfllfl vprV ? softly aud sweetly. leaning 'forward. ^ one gentle band upon the Uglit lingers Q on the carriage door, the quaint lan- (i gunge she used sounding strangely on ^ the gay street: oj "Does thee mind giving me thy ^ name, my dear? It will be good to re- Q member tbe name of my brave friend 3 when 1 think of her." Beatrice smiled, her eyes bright with gj . the swift touch of tears at sound of bl ibis sweet home tongue. She bent ber w head with half-shy grace, like a child. ^ "I am Beatrice Field," she said, soft ty. leaning nearer ber new acquaintance, forgetting, in tbe excitement of Q1 tbe moment, tbai Mrs. Glendennlng Still waited, "from New Yorlc. We start for borne to-morrow. You are t| quite comfortable now, madam? I may h safely leave you':" e Tbe answering smile on tbe sweet a| old face was like a ray of bome love f} and trutb in tbat brilliant street. ^ ~I am quite comfortable; yes. tbank tbee. dear. I am Mary Wintbrop. My ^ hAtna U In tltA Utllo iwg mm Ml uiv vctaouiic uutn u& jj America. If thee would give me tby al address, my son John will wish to j V thank thee for tby kindness to bis u mother. John Is a lawyer in tby New tl York, too." j, Bat Beatrice was suddenly with- M drawn from her frank cordiality. liemoving her hand from the carriage j, door and from under the touch of the p other's soft fingers, as though a ser- jj yent had stung her, she stepped back j, ?. upon the parement. a scoruful curve n on her lips, a world of anger In tbe j fcasel eyes. "I beg your pardon, madam." she 0 aid. coldly; "but if you will tell your p son for me that, bad she known whom tl she wss saving. Beatrice Field. Alecia u Graham's sister, wouiu not bave lifted her hand for you. 1 scarcely think tbat r he will care to thank me. 1 bid you . food morning, niadame." And like a priestess of vengeance he turned away. j _ chapter xii. :: ii "n WAS SOT BHZl" BX 8Air. "Well, girls!" x a Beatrice paused upon the threshold ^ f Alecla's room, where ber mother and sisters and tbeir friends were ascembled. Beatrice was dressed still * In her street costume, as she stood be fore them, but this was not tbe 11 Beatrice who left the bouse not long u before. "Listen to me! I have been stand- a log on tbe heights of Olympus ibis d morning. I have breathed at the mist- 11 brooded entrance of Delphi!" A sensation stirred the group before c ber; even Marion turned ber calm eyes v upon ber, questioning!?. <i -What is it. Bee?" queried ber totber, somewhat sternly; for Beatrice 1 was sometime* too childishly impul- h slve, ber mother said. "If you have <1 been to Delphi, surely you have gained 1 little wisdom, my dear!" "Not an atom of wisdomr* said P Beatrice, shotting her red lips as o though she crushed down some lury of feeling. "Only proof of sn old say- s lag, mamma!" e "What old saying. Bee? Yon must f team to be more definite in espretsion, s and batre more telf-cootroL I did ? hope that this trip would benefit jou 7 ID that way. child."' . "And It baaa't? Say tbe tnjtb ricbt t H rHROP'S DEFEAT. ;X Void. IATE LUDLUM., iu'i Bout, im. j it, mamma?I don't mind!" replied le girl, tbougb a Vivid red spot burned i each smooth cheek, and a flame as In ber eyes, as though the Olympian goddess bad touched her there itb fire. "But the old saying that I seclally meant, mamma, is of the ollla of the gods' that grind so slow>? Ttia nirtpr-iike wheels of their tachinery made a revolution to-day Oder my bands P* Mrs. Field sighed over this incorrigile girt; Cora laughed; Marion drugged her shoulders disdainfully ad raised her eyebrows; Kathryn ad Althea and Frances waited exectantiy. Alecia reached out ber band to her ister. "You dramatic child! Come here at oce and explain," she said. Beatrice shook ber bead. "I haven't much to say," sbe replied. :eadily. "I prefer standing here here I can easily escape should bor>r seize you. I have avenged you to >me extent this morning, Alecia uraam. I tared the life of some one at ie 'Belle Jardiniere.'" "Yon, Bee Field? Whose life was v? A clamor of tongues; Interested faces cw in place of quietly attentive faces, ven Mrs. Field forgot ber annoyance t the girl's heedlessness. "What do you mean, Beatrice?" "Guess!" "I'm a Yankee, but I can't" said lathryn, laughing. "Tell us, Bee, like good child." "Guess!" repeated Beatrice, with hn* iinw ?tf>m Hhnttinr of the IIds lat came only with Intense anger or xcltement Perhaps the one name was In the tinds of all. suggested by the girl's ice; but only Altbea Dunraren had be hardihood to utter it In her soft, retty voice. "John Winthrop. Bee?" Beatrice shook her bead. Her lips 'ere cruel now. She turned her eyes pon Althea like a flash of biasing ger. "Not John Winthrop. No. Althea; i.. * LI. Ul UCJtl W51 II19 UIVIUVI Utter, dead silence for a moment, ben Aleda asked, a sweet light upon er face: "Brave little Bee! How did you do , dear?" Beatrice made a swift, fierce gcsire with ber bands, as though she ere pushing down some rising enemy, be stern lips would not soften even efore tbe llgbt In ber slster*s face, he flame in ;he hazel eyes deepened lem to black. Her voice was like eel when she spoke?not the bright - ? ruu Dll'e VI luipuiKite oruinix i- ictu. "How did I do it. Alecia? You ask ic? But first I must tell you tbe *uth. You shall not think that I would are lifted my hand for ber had I reamed who she was?for I would ot. 1 told you Ions ago how I hate iat man?ber son! This woman should live died, trampled under tbe hoofs r the horses, for all me. bad I known iat she was bis mother! Such cruel atures have no right in this world, o! I did not know until?afterward." Silence again?a throbbing, alive lence that seemed filled with beating parts trembling before tbe truthailing to bear the worst, if worse lere were. "But you did save her?" said Alecia, len. going over to iicr sisier. -eeiDg nr true, brave Bee. you could bave one nothing else, darling." Beatrice pushed aside Alecia's gene hands and stepped back-from ber. er flashing eyes holding a spirit of ril within them, though a streak of Iternate red and white fell across her ice as though evil and good were aving equal battle in ber heart. "Don't touch me. Alecia!" she cried, ith swift impulse. "You don't real:e bow wicked I am! I tell you I hi just as much a murderer as though bad killed that woman! Have I not >id you tbat I would not have lucbcd ber bad I known that she was uIid Winthrop's rooiber?or sister?or rife? Tbat is bow 1 bate bim!" Still Alecia did not recoil from ber i horror as Beatrice seemed to erect; coly tbe suiile died from ber ps as she followed Beatrice, drawing er forcibly over to tbe low couch mong tbe others aud pressing ber own tenderly among the cushions. "You threaten like a tragedy queen f the stage." sbe said, quietly. "Now ut away theatricals. Bee, and tell us tie truth. You saved Mrs. Wintbrop's feV" "But I tell vou. Alecia" nrotestcd U?atrice. restlessly?"that I wouldn't ave doue It bad I kuowi: " "I don't wish you to tell me that," nld Alecla, steadily, and sternly, her iolet eyes upon ber sister's flushed ace. "You saved Mrs. Wlntbrop's lie. Bee Field?" "Yes," ratber sullenly from Beatrice, ngry because tbey would vindicate ier in spite of ber denouncing words. "How did you do It. Bee. dear?" "She was crossing tbe street." said Beatrice, pulling ber bead away from Llecia's light Angers that were rernovDg ber bonnet and veil, and making uore fluffy tbe soft hair on ber foreload, "and sbe stumbled. It wasn't uytbing really, only I wouldn't have lone it?1 tell you. Alecia. 1 will finish t? bad I known wbo sbe was." "Where is Annette?" questioned Aleia. "She was with you. Bee. She rill toll m connpctedlv of tbt> nccl. ent" "She has gone home." replied lea trice, frowning. "I didn't wuut ier to come in. I knew that you would [uestlon ber. and I will not bare that! :bis is my affair. Alecia!*' "What is she like. Bee?" asked Cora, iresently. "Is sbe real ttorrid?a sort f ogress, you know?" "How could sbe fail to be horrid." aid Beatrice, coldly, "being bis mothr, Cora?" , "But what does she look like?" perilled Cora. "Is sbe tall and big with , hard voice and cold eyes and that, ou know?" "And did ahe thank you in a way bat made you with you hadn't saved \ her," queried Kathryn, saucily, "a? . some people do, Bee?" j "No, she didn't.'' said Beatrice, cross- | ly. Tbe trutb would not be at all pleasant for ber to tell to these girlsIt was bad enough for ber to have j to acknowledge even to herself. "Then, what did she say?" asked Althea. "Of course, she said something. 1 Bee Field!" "How can you expect me to rem em i ber what she said?" retorted Beatrice, Irritably, rising to leave tbe room, fear ing lest sbe be too closely pressed. ' "One seldom remembers details at such a time, Althea." "But you would," murmured Cora, j disappointedly, yet not daring to fur ther question this willful sister ol bore. For. If the truth mast De known, when Beatrice looked as she did at that moment. Cora was considerably -.frald of her. "Yon never forget, Beer | "Yes." said Beatrice, coldly, flashing her eyes upon Cora. "In that you are , right. Cora?I never do forget !" "But, before you go," joined In Marion, coolly, "we shall be glad to , learn what this man's mother doea look like. 3eatrlce. It should be a 1 gratification to yon to describe her if she is such a disagreeable person." "I did not say that she is disagreeable. Marlon!" Beatrice paused in the doorway. "Oh. indeed! But you certaiuly in sinuated It. Bee. You said that 'she J could aot rail to oe iiorrtu. ueiuy u? mother.' What else were we led to expect?" "Well, of course, she is horrid!" declared Beatrice, desperately. "But she , doesn't look so, Marion! Her face is ( very sweet in expression?mild, you know?and her eyes are blue, like bluebells?like Alecia's?and her bair it the loveliest white. She's a Quaker, too. and called me 'thee,' as though she loved the word. There! Onlyshe is just as horrid, of course! She cannot help being horrid, as I said!" The girl vanished as the last word was uttered, as though it were sorely bitter for her to be obliged to yield even this much to the mother of John Winthrop. and silence for a moment reu upon me room. "Well!" exclaimed Cora at last In extreme astonisnment. "Well." repeated Katbryn and Althea, lost for any new expression In tbe extremity of their curprlse. "Beatrice has a way of making such mountains out of mole hillsP* said Marlon, scornfully. "We might have known what to believe. It would be well for her to break herself of that habit, among others, mamma." "It is because she lives and thinks and feels so intensely. I think, MaVlon." said Frances, quietly. "She , doesn't dissect what comes to her. at a naturalist would do. but takes It ( and lives it and feels it herself as only | ennh nature* r>?n It isn't * sin In Bee." "No," added Alecia. very softly, very sweetly. "She is doing this for me. Marion. Because " And then silence fell between them, eloquent with memory. At that sime hour, John Wlnthrop, just returned to Paris to accompany Ills mother and ward back to America the following wees, after their absence of two years, was sitting with them at luncheon, discussing the event of the morning. He was very pale. dui u was ine punor 01 siruug pussiuu, and bis eyes were flashing with a Are equal to that of Beatrice Field standing in the doorway of her sister's room. Jessica Gray, his ward, faced him at the table. 8hc was tall and graceful. ( willowy in figure and movement, with a subtle Utheness about her that suggested the nature of an Indolent leopard. Her eyes showed this possibility also in their opal calmness, and the thin, rose-leaf lip* were Just now curled in scorn. She had ljveti a quiet life among the- ' Berkshire Hills with her guardian's mother, and yet this subtle fire and fierceness could waken within her brilliantly and her voice soften to a languor that was fascinating when she wuuiu. out: uiicu oiaiucu IUC geuuc Quaker lady sitting near ber son with ber snowy hair smooth and soft and her gentle face pleading with them for kindly thought of the willful girl who bad uttered such reckless words. "You should not have ventured alone, mother." said John Winthrop, gravely. His voice was always gentle addressed to this one woman. She was the only woman, perhaps, whom he fully loved and trusted. "Jessica would have been glad to have accompanied you among the shops." (To be continued.) High Light*. Projects often succeed, not on their real merits, but because of man's fidelity to bis ideal?. Sad to say, there is sacb a thing as alert stupidity. The short wan vrho marries a tall woman often has qualities whlcb make her look up to him. People are getting on in years when they prefer umbrellas with book handles. You can't make friends by merely extending your hand and letting the other man do the shaking. As there are no perfect men, so there are no perfect manners. Life becomes easier after the fact la accepted that each human being la a loke on himself. The only way to get what you want in this world is to back toward it witb your eye bxed on something else.?Chicago Kecord-Herald. Hair Curled by Electricity. An electric bair curler, wbich generates its own electricity instead of requiring connection witb an electric light wire, has been designed for worn- : en by a man down in Augusta, Ua. ; The electricity is generated l?y friction ' produced by turning a crank. The batr-curling device proper con- j sistH of a number of thin copper i siHMfh aruuuuwuii'u iuc i?au 10 ??uuuu nod then fastened by clamps. Then the generator is inserted in tbe sleeves in turn and turning the crank produces tbe degree of temperature required to complete the curling process. It is quite an elaborate process, but tbe inventor is sanguine of its success and bas patented it. Hot water, drawn from an artesian well, is used to sprinkle the streets of Boise. Idaho. ! An acre of grass land, according tc experiments, gives off not less than 1HOU quarts of water in twenty-four hours, and an acre of sunflowers tvould give a relatively greater quantity. In fact, swamps have been re" claimed and malarial marshes rendered inocuous by planting sunflowers t>r eucalyptus trees, which are great pumpers of water, and also exert othei Influences counteracting baneful conditions of air, earth and water. Mount SL fciias is lucu co ?v i height Mouat Falrweather it 4WO and Mount Logan is 0947. There if 11 higher peak still that has never jet been climbed. It lies in sixty-three and one-half degrees of north latitude and in 155 degrees of west longitude and has been called Mount McKlnley. Its altitude is 6120 metres or 20, 220 feet, and will probably remain unci Imbed for many years owing to its remoteness and to the Inherent difflpnitip* of the ascent. In weather forecasting, no cloudi are worthy of such attention as the cirrus clouds, which attain a greater elevation than any others, averaging in summer a height of five or six miles above the earth. Their sudden appearance In a clear sky is generally a sicnal of foul weather, especially when their streamers have an upward tendency, for this indicates that tbe clouds are falling. A'ter heavy rains, on the other band, the forma, tion of these clouds is often a sign of improvement That the waves of light produce A mechanical pressure, or pusb. was claimed years ago by Maxwell, but be made no experiments to prove bis theory. Experiments of tbat Kind have been recently made, however, by Professor Lebedew, of Moscow, who uses a radiometer somewhat resemb- | llag the Crookes instrument, with its revolving vanes. His device, however, has a larger and more completely exhausted bulb, from which is excluded the heating effect on which the movemem of the Crookes vanes depend. When the light falls on the vanes they are driven before it. and the pressure thus revealed comes within ten per cent, of tbat calculated by Maxwell. The effect is in proportion to the energy or the light, and is wholly independent of ita color. The complete theory of nerve stimulation recently formulated by Professor Mathews, of the University of Chicago, is concisely stated as follows: The irritability of nerve protoplasm varies inversely with the stability of the hydrosol state of its colloids. Stimulation is gelation, and is brought about by negative electrical charges. Chemical stimulation Is really an electrical stimulation due to , the charges which the ions bear, j Negative charges stimulate, positive ! charges prevent stimulation. The i nerve impulse is due to a progressive precipitation of colloids by negative charges, the negative charges being regenerated by the precipitation of each succeeding mass of colloids. The negative variation, in other words, itimulates each succeeding segment of the r ~ve. and is regenerated by the et ?, it produces in the colloids. | Anaesthetics prevent precipitation. It ! is not the valence, in ultimate analy- j Bin, which produces stimulation, but the movement of the charge, chemical j stimulation being thus identical with j stimulation by light i A Baatrttibto AdnrtteMat The following strange advertisement appeared recently in the financial columns of the New York Hail and Express: A YOUNG MAN OF THOROUGH i business experience, has wife and i children, three girls, youngest seven. j one boy (Protestants), frugal, clever, i Interesting Christian family, needs at [ once $0000 cash ?$3000 to invest In business (mercantile). $3000 to pay for 1 n hnmo hMntlfnllv InmtMt In tv>?t HO- ' rial and religious surroundings In modera city of 15.000; climate perfect, pleasant and healthful; desires some true, kind lady or person young or j old. who would appreciate an Ideal family home and the love and friend- ! ship of a true and worthy family to ' furnish him this amount of funds and I make his or her home immediately ! with and as one of his family for life. ! to shore with them their welfare and i interest through life, and to have their truest and best care, sympathy and love; write fully at once. Address L? P. O. Box 211, Greensboro. N. C. Weight and Tenacity mf Xeta la. Cast iron weighs 444 pounds to tbt cubic foot, and a one-inch square bar will sustain a weight of 16,500 pounds; bronze, weight 525 pounds, tenacity 30.000; wrought iron, weight 480, tenacity. 50.000; hard "struck" steel, weight 4!(0. tenacity 78.000; aluminum, weight 108. tenacity 20,000. We are accustomed to think of metals being stronger than wood, and so they are. generally speaking, if only pieces of the same size be tested. When equal weights of the two materials an* compared, it is then fouud that several varieties of wood are stronger than ordinary steel. A bar of pine Just as j lieavy as a bar of steel an inch square will bold up 125.000 pounds; the best ash 175.000 pound?, and some hemlock 200.000 po inds. Three "Uoawitlr" Mardtrrni. Augustus Cottrell. butler, murderet am! sulfide, who tdew liis matter, a Mauclicstcr solicitor, Ik ooe of the three domestic Zlinris who figure prominently in tlu> criminal nnnnlti of the last hundred yearn. The other two were* Courvolsitr. who killed Lord William Uusm'II with a carving knife, in Audley Square, and the nouedcscrlpt valet, who accounted for the ejc-Bonapartlst agent, the Coiute d'Entraiguis. and his wife, the famous St. Hubert!, with knife and pistol on Barnes Terrace, in 1812.?Pall Mall Gazette. Baron Adolphe de Rothschild's legacy of almost priceless gold and silver plate has been installed in the room In the Louvre set aside for that purpose. ? - y + GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN |1 ! if PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE i WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS. . i Poem: A Beautiful Hope?The Drifting ? Ilablt?It Bribe* la It? Train Unrest of Mind, Irreeponrirencas to Datj and f ride of Opinion. Every day is a fresh beginning . 'Erery morn is the world made new. ? You who are wean? of sorrow and tinning, *' Here is a beautiful hope for you, rj A hope lor me and a nope for you. " ?Susan Coolidge. . li Don't Drift. {j Tiftw rear* mo a small schooner was .. launched at Gloucester, Mas*., which for forty mmmcM did good service as a fishing mack off the Atlantic coast. Latterly the craft was used in the coasting trade. The t other day the schooner, says the Sun, was drifting along in a flat calm in Penobscot l Bay, when "suddenly almost every seam ana butt appeared to open," and the an cient little craft "went down so quickly tj that her crew had barely time to escape in , their boat." According to the skipper the J craft "dissolved." It was a case of a nauti* cal one-hoss shay. The interest of this incident, however, r lies largely in the fact that it waa this <2 schooner the Amy Knight, which figured ? in Kipling's "Captain Courageous." as a ^ craft that waa always breaking adrift?an P erratic and undependible member of thd fishing fleet. In the loss of the Amy Knight disappears the last of some twenty p historic little vessels mentioned in Kij* " ling's story. Too fisher folk of Blaine, it is true claim V that Kipling vu wrong in his estimate of :! the guafities of this boat. Nevertheless, the whole story suggests a moral. There art " people who may do likened to boats alwayi breaking adrift. They never stay out long? " They never tie up to anything, and one . cannot tie up to them. ' This tendency to drift is observable in the peaceful affairs of life, and is also illus* _ trated in the realm of theories and belief*. J Certain people never can be depended upon JJ to do anrv one thing long. They shirk re pon?ibihtie*. civil, social or religious, or n it they assume them soon tire of the work P and prove unfaithful to the trust. There e are men of whom it will never do to mako *' trustees of anything under the sun, for, h however much of confidence is reposed in n Inem, they will surely sooner or later de< * sert their first charge in favor of some (? newer attraction. Many of the accidents a or lo?fes which are reported in the papers " are attributable to the lack of fiduciary in- d stinct and interest on the part of individ- 0 uals who have never learned the important * lesson of remaining at the post of duty ua* * til relieved by nigber aumorny. There ia aluo not a little drifting to b? b observed in the sphere of theory and belief. Many people do not know what they I believe two boura running. Their theories, a like the divine mercies, are new everv b morning and fresh every evening. To such t settled creed is like a black buoy?something from which to steer away. * This tendency to drift, when persisted in ? for awhile, readily bccomcs an almost an* k controllable habit. That was the trouble, b according to Kipling, with the Amy Knight * ?she would break away from her moorings, u Unrest of mind, impatience of control, irre- ft ponsiveness to duty, eagerness for novelty, pride of opinion, aft these frames and fev- t ers, if allowed to run their course will in- g evitably wreck the usefulness of the most promising life. Nothing is ever gained by b drifting over the tossing waters of life* mvstenous sea. The sou! of man cannot * afford to be a mere derelict upon the G ocean. There are voyages to be sailed and e Dorta to be made, unaer prescribed laws s. of navigation. If chart and compass?pro- ( rided by God'e Word and 8pirit?are dis- r regarded, dire disaster will result. The li oul that allows the spirit of unrest so to C posses* it as to wrest it from all safe moor- t inn and to sweep it rudderless out to sea, c will end at last as did the Gloucester craft t in sudden and irretrievable rain. Beware 1 of the first tendency to drift. Cultivate the habit not of nervous scurrying after t novelty, but of careful and constant at- v tention to truth, and to the practical re- p sponsibilities which spring from its accept- 1 ance. In order that your life may be sue- s cessful, steady it.?New York Observer, t The LIm of Power. i It takes a great deal of couragc simply to be yourself, and vet to be vourseli is ' the line of power. We are all the time J thinking that if we act and speak or feel as others do we shall be right, but once in a while, in a moment of illumination, ?i it comes over us that we are not just like n any one else, and that we have to act and * think and feel according to our own na- o ture. The grace of God is not designed to t make all Christians alike. It is designed t to liberate and ptjrify tbe personality, roc to adjust it to a mola that some good mas has set. The Only Choice. We have the choice before us dsy by day, of doing as God would have us do, or of failing or refusing to do as God would have us do. Tbe choice is ours, in tho plan of God. and we cannot avoid or evade the choice, however we may desire to do so. As to this life of oars, with its imperative necessity of choice, Henry Ward Beecher said: "God asks no man whether he will accept life. You must take it; the only choice is ? how." ? Sunday-School Times. The Divine Mystery. When the light of the Christ comes to men. even there is mystery, and that mystery is the very joy of life. It is fashionable to ask for the doing away of mystery in religion and in God's revelation, but to the end of the world there will be a mystery, growing and deepening, of how Jesus Christ lifts mo from death to life, from darkness to light.?Rev. Dr. N. E. Wood. President Xcwton Theological Institute, Newton, Mass., Baptist. The Old. Old Book. Tf ..%?J i nun chnilM rhlVflv look / II U3AWU ?* iiuv ? mmbm ??^ , 'to us the power that is to sustain him un- ^ der trials, and enable him to confront his Inevitable afflictions. 1 must point him to something which in a well-known hymn is ( cailed "tee old, old story," told in an old, . old book, and taught with au old, old . teaching, which is the greatest and best gift ever given to mankind.?YV. E. Glad- ^ stone. Wherein Wisdom Lies. Half of the wisdom is in setting a limit , upon our desires. Half of the wisdom lie* ( in the spirit and temper of the old stoics, j and all of the wisdom lies ir. believing that , if a man lives in such a way as to increase his own happiness and at the same time ] the happiness of the greatest number ol j his fellow beings he has fulfilled the highest , end of life.?Rev. Dr. J. E. Robert*. Kan- . iu City. Keeping Silsnee. Do you know what Luther said? "Suf* f fer and be still and tell no man thy sor- 1 row; trust in God?His help will not fail 1 thee." This in what scripture calls keep u insc silence before God. To talk much ol ? one'e sorrow make* one weak. but to tell ; one's borrows to Him who heareth in se- ' rrct makes one strong and calm.?Tbo- f luck. fl l> Forest Bfirtti. Break away from morbid regret. Peii? J( the present opportunity. Life is %n eternal !,' opportunity.?Rev. William S. Jones, Ran: ' dolph, Mas*. Hhllnrr I* On th? Town Sral. William C. Whitney, of New Y??rk C'itv owns nearly two-thirds of the land in the ( town of Washington. Mass.. having IO.W* ^ a<re*. His purchases of land in Washing ' ton have l>een m> beneficial to the treasury / that the Selectmen have had the |K>rtrail ' of Mr; Whitney placed on the town sea!. Mr. Whitney gave his consent to this, and it is believed that this is the lirst instance t of the kind in the State. The seal is now j in use. Mr. Whitney is taxed in Wash ington on thirty buildings, iiftv goat*. twenty-five bullaloe*. fifteen horse*, ien cow*, thirty oheep and other animals. To H*t? Mptratu Consular C?r?lcw. f Sweden^ and Nonvnv are to have ?t par ^ miK CUUBUA4U KHJVW vnvv. ... J ^ [HE SABBATH SCHOOL jternational lesson comments for april 27. Gentiles Received 1st* th? Church, Act* xl., 1-18? Golden Text: Act* z., 43?Memory Verses, 7-9?Commentarjr on the Uij'i Uwon. 1. "Heard." The news that the Gentiles id received the gospel and had been bap* xed spread throughout the whole county. "Had also received." The manner k which the fact is stated shows, in the rst place, that it had made a favorable npression on the apostles and brethren, a the second place, the expression implies lat the event was regarded as involving a important principle. 2. "Was come." There is no evidence lat Peter was summoned to Jerusalem > defend his conduct, but be had reason > fear that he would be censured until ae particulars were known, and be may ave hastened his return in order to furish that information. "The circumci on." The Jew* who had become L'hrisans. Thia mutt have been the whole burch at thin time, but St. Lake's namve wa? compiled when "they that were f the circumcision" had become a distinct irty. "Contended." Disputed, reproved im, charged him with being at fault, hey maintained that those who accepted hnstianity should first become Jewish roselytes by submitting to the Mosaic iw and being circumcised. 3. "Didst eat with them." The disciles would have rejoiced, and would have elcomed the further spread of the word i they did the conversion of the Samariins (chap. 8: 14). but it was a cause of of nse that Peter had consented to become ie guest of a Gentile. He had eaten with len with whom there would be no regard 3 the character of the food, nor to the ay in which it was prepared. 4. "From the beginning." The apostle irnished a detailed account of all the icts in their order. 5. "Praying." It was about noon., eter was on the housetop. The flat roofs irmed a convenient place for retirement. In a trance." Ur ecstacy. A state 01 jind when the attention is absorbed in a articular train of thought, so that the xternal senses are partially or entirely uspended. He was transported out of im<*lf and put into a mental state in >hich he could discern objects beyond the pprehenaion of nian'a natural powers. "A reat sheet." What the apostle saw waa n extended sheet, the four corners of hich were held up as it were by cords let own from the four extremities of the pen skr. The significance of the outtretched sheet, as a figure of the wide rorld, and the four cornen as the direcions into which the gospel was now to e borne forth into all the world, has oftn been dwelt upon. "Came even to me." n chap. 10: 1] Luke says it was "let own to the earth." In the xnsion it was elow Peter, so that he could loc/k from be housetop down upon its upper surface. 6. "And mw," etc. The vision repreented the whole animal creation. There rere in it living creatures typical of each ind, not a multitude of the same sort of irds and beasts. All kinds of animals an/1 wild rl#nn nod nc!ean. together with creeping things and owls of toe air. 7. "Slay and eat." That it, any one of he animal* exhibited to him. without re-' ard to the distinction of clean and unlean. This particular vision was suggested' v Peters hunger. Chap. 10: 10. 8. "Common or unclean." By common, rhatsover was in general use among the entiles, is to be understood; by unclean, verythiog that was forbidden by the Mo-, aic law. However, one word may be conidered as explanatory of the other. The ahbins and many of the early fathers beieved that by the unclean animals the entiles were meant. "At any time enered." The devout Jew exercised great are in observing the ceremonial distincious between clean and unclean. Ezek. : 14i. Dan. 1: 8-12. 9. "Hath cleansed." God made the ditinctions between clean and unclean for rise purposes, and now for equally wise lurposes these distinctions are removed, ie had authority to give the law; He has uthority to revoke the law. "Make not hou common" (R. V.) The old dispenseion is now to give piace to the new and 'eter is taught that men are not to moke uch distinctions and separations longer, 'or meat destroy not the work of God. Com. 14: 20. 10. "Three time*." For the greater cer* ninty and in order that a deep and lasting mpreuion might be made on the apostle's nind. Compare Pharaoh's dream (Gen. 1: 32) and Joseph's interpretation there* f. "Drawn up again." Ihe reception of be whole into heaven again was designed o point out that it was a lesson which tod had as directly sent as of old He tent he law on Sinai. 11. "Eebold." Behold bow remarkaily the incidents coincide! This shows hat God is directing in the matter. "Imnedately.' St. Luke tells as (chap. 10: 7) that when Peter had aroused from bis ranee he was "much perplexed in himself' R. V.), not. knowing at first how to aptly what be bad seen and heard. 12. "The Spirit." Before this God bad pokes to him with a voice, but here 'Spirit spoke to spirit," silently yet clearjr. "Xotbi.12 doubting." "Making no disinction." if. V. Between Jew and Genile. But, recording to the Cambridge Jible, this lorm oi the verb is not used intil after the events had taught him preiaolv what the vision and the spiritual application meant. 13. "An angel." Cornelius referred to .hi* heavenly messenger on a "man in >ngbt clothing." 14. "Tell thee words." The gospel mesagc concerning Christ. "All thy house." The assurance embraces them because they vere prepared, as well as Cornelius to velcome the apostle's menage. "Shall be aved." They were indeed now saved, with i present salvation, and yet, now that 1'hrist is presented, acceptance is neccsiarv to a final salvation. Peter is sent not :o be the instrument of the conversion of Jorncniur, but simply to "?how bim the vay of God more perfectly." 15. "As I bepn." While he was speak* ng but before he had proceeded far in his liscourse. "On them. ' On the Gentiles. 'As on us." The Jews. "At the begin* ling.' On Pentecost. Acta 2: 1-13. 16. "The Lord." Peter remembered Christ's words as recorded in Acts 1: 5. 17. "What was I?" What right or pow. T had 1 to opr>o*e the manifest will of - -J uhnuld he received I IUU Iuak k IV nto tbc CLristian church. "Withstand Sod." Oppose or resist God. He had ndicated 11 is will and Peter's prejudices nust give way. 18. "Held their peace.'' They opposed Peter no longer because they saw thai jod had directed him in all he had done ind t iat tii? Holy Spirit bad indorsed bu iction. An Arizona Ostrich Fsra. There is an octrich farm a few miles rum Phoenix, Ariz., where the bird* seem o thrive a? well as they did in their na :ve wild* of Africa. They arc pastured on Ifalfa.which u grown on irrigated ground, nd are also fea a little grain. The hen* -v ?vprv nt)i?r Hav and the eaiis ar? atched in an incubator. The newly latched bird* arc at out the size of our ull-grown chickens. They are ready for lucKinz in six months. The plumes are aken from the forearm of the wing. genrally twentv-four from each. They arc lucked regularly every eight month*! each lucking being worth from $10 to $ti0. London's Census Completed. Details of the l?ridon census now wind ive the number of familie* in the rcetrop Iik a? ),Ol9.'?46. and the average in a fain ly 1* slightly over 4.4 |<er*on?. The** .unities sliare the services of 234..'fcW fe :a!c and 15.425 male servants. In Londor i-males exceed the males by 252.371. Wid iwers nuinlier 72.128. while widows ar? learlv thrice that numlK-r. The youngest oupfe. husband and wife, are both ?ix een, and the youngest wife in Ixindon u ifteen. The |inu|>cr inmates of work iou?e? are K'v>" w.ihto (Mir Llnk? on > Fiinom lUltleflfld. Thr hixtoric battlefield at Hu?ato, l'ortu* ill. where tlie Duke of Wellington, Sep Mnlier 27. 1810. reputed the Kremb army, immanded l>y .Manthal M&*?eua, lia? een turned into golf link*. THE GEEATDSRSBB SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT { THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Poem: Mora Light?A Pttkttle Incld?af ffkoM Coantcrport May B? WtowM | la Evory Lars* atj-UcndlbU Hurt Voter* Allow Such Traffic. t 'More light" o'er the region* of drink'*- i dark domain, "More light" in the deaa where drink'* victim* are slain, "More iigbt" in the minds of the people that we Br our purified law* from the drink rarac be tree. 1 bb? Took Her Paps Boom. The following story of a pathetic ind* dent which occurred in Atlanta, l>a., 1* told by the Southern Star, a prohibition paper of that city. It is not an unusoaJ incident at all, its counterpart has been V witnessed in. every large city where the open saloon tempts weak men to their 1 min: I It was 9 o'clock at night, bitterly cold, and the winds whistled around the polio* barracks in Atlanta. Hardly a person was on the street, it was so bleak and cold. The officers at the barracks had gatfr cred around the warm heater telling theii experiences in the past when a little, gen* tie rap was heard on the door. "Conje in," cried the call bfficer. There was silence for a moment and the 1 rap was repeated again. "For goodnesa e**e tell whoever it is to comc in out of the cold," called the station tern-ant. Then an effort was made to open the door, bat it failed, and then for the third time the tap on the door was repeated and the cail man jumped ap and opened the door. V Out in the cold, on the stone steps stood* ) a tiny little girl. She waa thinly clad, a!- i though it waa freezing outside. Her this J brown hair clung in damp shreds about her pale forehead. "Come in, little girl, and get warm," ex* claimed the officer. j ? ? - .j ? j ? i r.;?i.* I Ihe cmia tnaaaereu nuwr kvui miw or cold and alowly walked into the office. j "What do you want?" aaked the aston- I i<hed sergeant. "Ia?b?papa here?" said the child, her eye* filling with tear*. "Your papa," said the sergeant, "who . is your papa, and why do you think he ? in such a place as this?" Brushing away the tears the child replied in a trembling voice: "Macima eaid to-night that papa was sick and the politt had niui. So I came here to find him. I* hr here?" The little one then gave the name of her father, and the sergeant found that he tnui docketed as being drunk. He called the turnkey and asked him to see if the man had sobered up. The turnkey reported that the man wa? sober enough to go home. "Then let him out," said the kind-heart cd officer, "and five him a copy of the charges. It's not business, but the little girl shall have her papa." The man came out haggard and weak from the effects of his spree. The child ran with a glad err into bis arms and kissel him apain and again. "Mamma told me you were sick," she said, "and I have come to take you home." TVn- man made no reulv. His hands trembled u he tried to smooth b.:ck hit brown hair. In silence be pasaed from the barracks with bis trusting, loving little girl. "If that man doesn't reform and let tbi? be his la*t drunk," remarked the station sergeant, "he is made of stone." This is only one of thousand* of sad rases that are chronicled by our daily I>ress each year. We think that voter* < lave hearts of stone when they allow such things to exist. Let ua as loyal Christian citizens awake and say by our ballots that the saloons will go from Atlanta, the State of Georgia and the nation and then there will be no more debaucherv, crime or mia? , cry caused by the hellish traffic which should be forever outlawed, and which is every year ruining hundred* of thousands of home* and sending thousands to drunkards grave*. Efficient Temperance. The Railroad Gazette reports one of tht speeches at the celebration of the Baldwin Locomotive Works which we commenJ to the attention oi those who believe that prohibition is the best mode of securing relief from excessive drink inc. The speech was made by Mr. J. Harm Sanders, of London, a gentleman former ly engaged in rt-iiing good* in mis country and now engaged in telling goods from this country in England ana on the Continent. In reciting the advantages that had contributed to the change in our com* mercial status from buyers to sellers, h? said: "And there is another consideration that is of inestimable ralue to your country. You arc more sober, as a people, than either England or France. Statistics show t that you drink lest per capita than Englishmen or Frenchmen. When one consiaera that England -pent la?t year verjr nearly $1,000,000,000 on drink, it is manifest that a country cannot afford to waste anything like ?o large a proportion of iU earning* an tbat. The wisdom displayed by the majority of your people in drinking only half as much as they drink in England and France is very manifest, and cndently alto a peat advantage to your people generally.' This moderation in the use of intoxicating drink is largely due to the fact that such moderation, or even total abstinence. M i* insisted on by the employers of sitillea | labor, and where it is not 00 insisted on, the better chances of good pay, steadywork and promotion arc strong inducements to it.?Atlanta Journal. " LIqoor*S?sk(d Womil." The British Women's Temperance A? sociation has started a farm for wornca who have become addictcd to the liquor habit. They do all the light work of funning, raising flowers, vegetables and chickens. The glass house* are managed entirely by women, and the produce sold in the London market. The movement is meeting with great success, many women lagging to stay after they are cured. They acquire a love for outdoor work, and country home* are found for them as fa* a* |K>*sible. Good food, pure atr. a certain V amount of tihysical labor and cheerful surroundings nave worked great cbangc* in liquor-soaked women. If it worked *a well in England, who not here? Our cities ~ UMfK ifAinan w Iia miffh* i urc lailVUfcV** n I?u .. V.MV.. " ..W ? helped by a period of enforced pure liv* ( ing. Hundred* of children drink in th? liquor habit at their mother'* breaiU. Removed from the vicinity of gin *hoj>* and other place* of temptation, many oi these women and children might become self-supporting and aelf-rcipecticg.?The l'resbyter.an. Inebriate* CltUfd a* Minor*. In Germany a peraon who ha* to accu* 4 turned hiui*elf to the taking of intoxicating drink* that he ha* no longer the power oi withstanding temptation to esteem may be put under restriction. Proceeding* may Ik: taken by husband or wife, or otiier near lelative. and. m certain CMC*, at the instance of a poor law representative. The effect i* to place the inebriate, a* regard* hi* property, in the po?itioti of a minor, and. a* regard* hi* person. a guardian i* entitled to rix hi.< rem deuce or M-nd him t?? a retreat for the purpose ot cure. l>ur irjg the *jb*i*tence oi the order all the civil riflit.' u: the inebriate are la abeyance. Cheap Beer m Haadleap. A Mumch employer of many akilled workmen, in *;>eakin? last I'lmmcr of the difficulties of toniieling with foreign c?>ncern*. laid stress on the cheapr.fr* of Mur.ifk t.f? r as one of the ureatent handicap*. "If ?e were on equal terms in every other renpect." he said, "the fact that my tnrn'v brain# ar.d Lo<ist-?i are sodden with beer, day and Bight, woulu put mc teiund iu the race." Tb? Practical Value of Teetotal >?ro. At pterent tcetotaii?m ik ain;o?. ax good a |>.iiui(ort to a civil poaution a* 1# the *erv? ;ie examination At all event', the latter it of very little uae without tee former.? Montreal True Witoeaa.