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f KtiTWIn ? >?-'' iM jm'; . > j^yrjoiiN wiis jean (COPTBIdBT. KOIIIT CHAPTER XXI. (Continued.) 8he drew a little away from him. the flush deepening in her face, touching the beautiful face, falling even to the lace at her throat; her lips trembled with her speaking. "Jnhn Winthron." she said. "I am a proud woman. As I tell you. I could And It In my heart to hate myself for loving you, were It not that hatred has died from my heart. You saved ny life the other day. Perhaps you think that I did not know it? But for that,alone I do not love you. Why s&ould I? Would not any man hare saved a woman so? And why should I forgive you that old wound to my pride, to my truth, to my womanhood? Now, thinking that you should have believed me guilty of perjury at that trial and sworn against the truth for the saving of a few more dollars, perk""? ">? Kmhanil'i fnrtlTTlP. I Ml?N uvu. M./ feel the hot shame in my face that I can still say that I lore yon. Accord< tog to the exact measure of your justice I should let you die and yield not ooe kind word. Were I a man perhaps Z would do it. But I am a woman. ? and It may be that a woman's injustice makes her weak." Hie face was working strangely; his hold on her hands tightened; his eyes held hers. "Alecla!" be said. "Alecla Graham, who told you that there was ever such thought of you in my mind? Do you aot know that such belief of you would be impossible to any one? Would I. loving you, accuse you 01 such perjury? I believed you utterly. I believed you even when my will, fighting with my heart, bade me condemn you. Always in my thoughts jou have been everything that is good, though I struggled to argue it down. I knew my heart long ago. and struggled with it No woman had such power over me before; and would I, I urged with my heart, allow the one woman who must bate me to possess such power? It has been a bitter battle from that day. and 1 am defeated, in spite of the will I had prided myself overcome any pain the " ? * ..... ./w.n.jul Bean mifui UU1U| UUl A iiCVCl ovvuo^u | yoa of wrong, Alecla. Who suggested such thought to you?" The sweet lips closed tightly over the knowledge; she shook her head; her eyes were exquisite in their light and color. "What does It matter?" she said, steadily. "Perhaps one is too ready to Iwlieve ill of even the one whom one lores. I bold no hardness in my heart toward any one, John Winthro p." He was silent for a moment, lying with closed eyes, no great change upon him save the short, steady breathing. Then opening bis eyes upon her, he said slowly, and with a touch of h!is old sternness In his weak voice: "Perhaps I know who told you that. lecia. If I do. as you say?wnai m matter? Love should not too readily believe 111. All that la gone. I am only very happy, knowing that yon If love me." W Then, by and by. he whispered fc faintly: W "Too forgive me, Alecla ? every f thing?" And she answered softly, her low voice like music in Its tenderness: "I forgive you everything, John, dear?for us both." Again the gray eyes closed with peace upon the face, but the kneeling woman did not move or turn her eyes away lest hlo should open, seeking hers. The minutes ticked away upon ue ciocs across uie nwui. i wcui; minutes ? thirty ? forty-five?fifty? alxty minutes?one hour. And still no other change upon the sleeper; and atill the woman did not rise from her kuees or remove her hands from his. One of the physicians, believing that death had come unrecognized, crossed the room and stood beside her with his eyes upon the quiet face among ~oc pillows. Then he stooped and laid his fingers lightly over the pulse in the thin, sinewy wrist. **I congratulate you," he said, gravely, his eyes upon Mrs. Wintbrop's gentle face, although be knew that be was also speaking to this other immovable woman. "The fever has turned. He will recover, madam." But Alecia did not move, did not apeak, did not. apparently, comprehend the meaning of bis words or torn ber eyes from tbe peaceful, leaping face. With a swift movement of bcr hands as though in gratitude. Mrs. Wlnthrop moved around tbe bed to lecia's side. Laying one hand tenderly upon ber shoulder, she said, weetly and brokenly: "Come away. Mrs. Graham, dear, tad rest Thee has saved his life." CHAPTER XXII. OSA1X rSOM CHATT. Moonlight over tbe ocean and tbe golden path across the waters like a road to tbe Celestial City! Jewels Mattered along the beach where the breakers tnrew tneir spray, murmuring a strong, deep, musical sods of the world's love and the pride of human hearts! 8ilence and peace and beauty. Even the sand hills were formed in mysterious heaps of golden light, and shadow stretching away to the beach. Alec la Graham was sitting at her window in the fulT tide of this glory of moonlight, ber pale-blue wrapjier Making mure exquisite the pule beauty of ber face and the golden hair loosened about ber shoulders. Her hands were lying idly in her lap. very slim frail and white upon the blue of ber gown. She was smiling with her face turned toward the soft shadows beyond the window's circle of radiance. Beatrice was sitting there, bidden by the fall of lace drapery and the intense light within the window. Her (ace was unseen, but ber voice was oometimes very stern and sometimes 1' - with tenderness and love. "And in spite of everything, AJecla ?csmembering ail the old. cruel j ITHROP'S DEFEAT, ! % NontL KATE LUDLUM., 1)K>U> SOXN inf. j ' ">" Kl? Konili rnn lnrp him. ' and bare told him that you do?" "I spite of everything. Bee." "And you are not ashamed to own It "en to me. Alecia. in your pride and womanhood, with that betraying tenderness in your voice! Why do I not bate you as I believed that I should If ever you gave your love to that man ?your enemy and your husband's enemy." "I have somewhat also to forgive," said Alecia very softly. "Have you forgotten that I told you it would be difficult for me to forgive you had you deceived me. Bee?" A tremor in Beatrice's voice. She leaned forward into the light of the window, reaching out her hands. "But I did It because 1 loved you. Alecia. I could sot believe that you truly could ever love that man. and I j wished to remove him from your life. ( Would I wound you knowingly, you DeaUUIUl uearr nuve ;uu uui ?uu enough sorrow In your life? Have 1 not put away the bate from my heart for this man because of yon?" "But your hatred was unjust always, Beatrice," said the sweeter voice, steadily. "I told you from the first that he was an honorable man." "But I believed that you defended him only because of your kindly heart." said her sister, in a low voice. "Alccia, would I hurt you willingly? I am very proud, too. but I would not ever have set up my pride against your happiness had I known that it was your happiness." Silence between them, eloquent with I the call of those distant breakers and the cry of a night-bird upon the beach. , The house was perfectly still save for those sounds from without Then t Beatrice rose from her chair and went j over to her sister. Kneeling at her ( side she took the two slim bands with- ( In her warm hands, holding them , closely and with tender recklessness of sorrow, her lifted face beautiful in , the moonlight streaming through the . window. , "Aleciai Alecia!" she said, bitterly. ] "My sister, look right down into my soul and see that there remains not \ one atom of hatred there, not one i thought thut Is not kind, not one wish i but for yovtr good. If John Winthrop holds the power to grant you the hap- < piness that you deserve, if he lores < you as you should be loved, if he has ] descended from his heights of arro- i gance and pride to acknowledge that there are parity and goodness and truth in a woman's heart, then John Winthrop shall have the right to win your love and make your happiness! While I cried out against your softness of heart, was I not cruelly hard? I claiming the tenderness of womanhood! Woukl I not have crushed my own heart in my pride and uuforgiveness? Alecia! Alecia! Here, with my henrt bare tp you, see that I meant only love!" Alecia stooped very tenderly and p: essed her smiling lips to the mouth of the girL "Dear little Bee"' she said. "Always my brave girl! Could I doubt your love, when only you have thought of me?" Tender silence again between them. The lifted face and the down-bent fira tnnrhmi with the nivht'i llvht anil softness. Then, the sound of light feet in the passage, a moment's pause, and the door was flung wide open without warning, and into the room full In the glory of moonlight, with a loosened hair and trailing dress and < white face, came Jesalca Gray with her eyes of fire. e Beatrice shrank down betide Alecla; c but Alecia did not more. "So!" murmured the liquid voice. "So! But Mrs. Graham has courage to brave her heart and her pride and yield her love to the man who was once her husband's murderer!" An answering flame in Alecia's eyes and in her quiet face, but her voice was sweet and low and perfectly steady. "Miss Gray herself is daring." she ? sflhl. "Mnv I iisk wlint she mnv - mean by her words V" Jessica laughed scornfully, flinging j out her handa with a gesture of pas- n sion. r "Has the new love eradicated old i memories so sooiiV" she asked. "Is it f not Mrs. Graham's new lover who f murdered the oidV" c "Yoar words a;re exaggerated. Miss t Gray." said Aleciu, a touch of cohluess ,, iTurpiiiK iuiv uc> i uiw. u uui uiuidered my husband as you so recklessly state. Aud what lias Miss Gray to do with my life of the past or future?" "Then she lied!" cried Jessica fiercely. with a movement of her bauds toward the girl still kneeling beside her sister. "1 heard her say it myself! It was in France. She said it openly. Upon the station platform she said that John Wintbrop murdered your husband, and that she hated him for it?and that you bated him for it!" "Aud was Miss Gray acting as eavesdropper';" queried Alecia, ateadlly. < her eyes never moving from the flam- i ing face. "How else should the have ! heard what was not intended for her. i and which she could not comprehend!" i "And I did not lie!" cried Beatrice, i - ? * a- I -?.I#* I marilUK (U urr m-i iu ?? IK umuiitvi < 'Tue leopard shors iicr claws too 1 soon, I think:" t "But the leopard can kill some- < times!" cried tlie swift, liquid voice, j "I beard your words. Beatrice Field, i and 1 remembered your cruelty to his mother, and why should I not believe? I But I would not tell of your words. I | would hide hi* crime. I said, if it were i crime! And. after all. you sit there ' facinp me, and love him!" I * | "AU(l suaii i aciouui iu jh?? i J for It?" queried Alecia, iu her cold. ( steady voice. i "I Late you!" cried the girl. pas- 1 sionately, with n gesture of her ex- I 1 cited bands. "I hate you both?I hate I you all, even her. with her quiet speech ) ?bis mother? for she kept me still when I am going away to-morrow. 1 could not breathe the same atrnos- i pbere with you?it would stifle me. I strangle me. kill me! I am going i away, bat X came to-night to tell you \ M. my bate! What Las be to do longe? with my life?" She flung out ber bands as though to Sing from ber this scene of memory and pain, and turned noiselessly and left the room, tbe door swinging softly behind ber. CHAPTER XXIII. DEFEATED INDEED. The lilac of sunset over the world, jtTuck here and there with gold, where the last rays lifted above the horizon and lay like a benediction upon tb* ihitnrnerin? track on the water. across which a sail passing caught snow-light upon It from the glory. The old group of friends were gatb* ?red Id the pavilion around Alecia Jraham and John Wintbrop. Some were sitting upon the benches ranged lcross the floor, others, less thoughtful >f appearances, chose the steep steps leading to the sands as giving better opportunity of watching the sunset effects on the ocean and cloud. All were chatting in an undertone as though the quiet scene touched them Into reverence. "How strangely the mist creeps io from tbe sea as soon as the sun sets!" said Alecia. She spoke only to her companion, and be bent beside ber. bis pride in ber glowing In bis steady eyes. He was very pale and still weak from tbat long illness, but daily new strength was returning, as tbougb bli bappinesB gave new life wben all else Tailed. He smiled now into ber lifted eyes. Words were scarcely necessary between tbem. and long silence sometimes fell ere one replied to tbe otber. "It is strange." he said slowly, "but It seems to me. Alecia. tbat my sun bas only just risen and no mists threaten Its peace." "That is Drettr." said Alecia. laugh Inc. "but not practical, Jobn. I wonier at you sometimes. You are so different than I thought. You know I used to think?" "Well?" as she paused, his eyes rery steadily upon her face. She was looking across tbe water to tbe distant sails, now softly darkening In tbe twilight, and a wistfulness was >n her face tbat brought an added tenderness to bis. With sudden fierceness he bent nearer i sr. "Whatever you thought," he said, rehemently, bis voice startling ber, 'what does it matter now, my dearest? Alecia Graham, only heaven cnows how I love you!" P.y and by. she said softly, as though following out tbe line of thought wakened by watching the distant ships: "The longer one lives the more sure ?omes tbe knowledge tbat we can change not one inch tbe fulfilling of life's plans. We say, in our pride, that such and such shall come, and 3nd, as the days go by. that only tbe mills of God grind steadily, John, and >xceedingly fine." "But always," said John Winthrop, reverently, drawing ber eyes from the larkening sails by tbe steady power it his gaze, "always with infinite jusice, dearest, and beyond tbe reach of auinan comprehension or hate or [)ride. so bringing tbe best of life's ?ood In what seemed perhaps to us aut humiliating defeat?as I was defeated." "And. perhaps," added Alecia. gravely, after a long silence, her chin resting in ber hand, her elbow upon ;be back of tbe bench, her eyes still u>nrchinc for the sails in the tendet iarkness, "as I was defeated, too, fohn! May not a woman's Injustice jq sometimes as cruel as a man's?" But John Winthrop would not anwer. [The End ] Aa Iag?nJoia D?tIm. A young chap who believes that bluff ind show are everything in this world Tedlts bis success (financial, of course -the only success) to the rental of a afe deposit box ten years ago. It wst Lite jost $5 a year, and be ex>lains as follows: "Tbe hire of that ittle box underneath one of our more mportant banks, where millionaires tad their valuables in receptacles that rost $250 a year, gave me tbe entree >f the vault, and it so happened (I ried always to make it so happen) hat whenever I descended to the eel ar some big fellow In tbe world of loance happened to be descending iIpo. By and by my handsome face ind figure must have become known 0 a whole raft of bankers and brokers. never had more than a diamond ring, 1 watch charm, a hundred dollar bill ind a buckeye in that little box. and used to go into tbe cubbyholes and lip coupons to beat the baud. My atlior gave me $1,000,000 Id Confed rate bonds, and I clipped them. All or show, but I was careful not to chow the coupons. I sought a posiion with . He asked if he had lot met me in the vault. I expatiated. do took a rancy to me auu eiuiuuycu no at $100 a weok. I am a member >f the firm to-day. Five dollars a year s loss tbau forty-two cents a month. Let every young man rent a box in a safe deposit vault. It is an open Bern me to financial society."?Victor Jinitb, in New York Press. The Colonel's Answer. Lieutenant-Colonel Hu^b L. Scott, )f tbe United States Volunteers, formerly captain of tbe Seventh Cavalry, s kuowu in tbe army as an officer ivbo probably knows more about Inlian sign 'anguage tban any otber livng man. At one time Colouel Scott nude a staudiug offer to any redskin ivbo could show u sign used by any :ribe wbiob be did not know. Tbe col ? It? ?i )DPl 18 also iH'euiiarii> autcuL-uiiuucu, i fact wbicb was emphasized at bis uarriage a few years ago. As be stood at tbe altar witb bk >ride, tbe officiating clergyman asked jiui tbe usual question as to taking be woman beside bitn to be bis wife, rbe colonel placed two Angers u|ion tiis left eyebrow. After an embarrassing pause tbe clergyman repeated tbo question, and a.;ain tbe two lingers went solemnly to tbe loft eyebrow. It ivas not until tbe best man poked tbe -i.i?,i,? fitiu flint hi> rn run >11 IUI'^1 WUJ 1U IUV > mmmwm - ?? jack to earth ami articulated "Yes."? S*ew York Sun. "Some Rape bns said that tbe great u!e of life is know thyself.'" "Yes; ?ut tbere should be a second rule: 'And Then you know yourself don't tell That you know.'" i PHILIPPINE BILL PfflO The Measure Provides Form of Government For the Islands. THE FINAL VOTE IS 48 TO 30 j McLanrln ol South Carolina Rldn With the I Republicans? Hoar, Mason and Wellington Vote With the Democrat*? Seven Weeks of Debate?BUI Goes to the Hon**?Its Provision*. | Washington, D. C.?Tbe Senate, after j nearly seven weeks of debate, bas I passed tbe bill providing a temporary form of civil government for the Philippine Island*. The vote on its passage was 48 to 30. which was strictly on party lines, except that Mr. McLaurin. of South Carolina, voted with the Republicans in the affirmative. and Messrs. Hoar,of Massachusetts; Mason, of Illinois, and Wellington, of Mary land, with tbe Democrats in tne negative. Mr. Hale, of Maine, who supported some of the amendments proposed by tbe Democrats, was paired In favor or the bill, and Mr. Morgan, of Alabama. who delivered a strong speech In support of tbe existing policy toward tbe Philippines, was recorded against the measure on the final vote. All the amendments proposed by the Philippine Committee were adopted without division, while the minority amendments and substitute were rejected by substantially party votes, except tbe amendment of Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, to make tbe rate of duty on merchandise from the Philippines fifty per cent, of the tariff from other countries. Instead of seventy-five j per cent, as now in force. On this amendment the affirmative vote was cast by six Republicans and thirteen Democrats. The bill now goes to tbe House. The Philippine Government bill, as passed by tbe Senate, approves the action of the President in creating the Philippine Commission and the offices of Civil Governor and Vice-Governor of tb? islands, and authorizes tbe Governor and Vice-Governor to exercise til? powers of government as directed by executive order. Future appolntj ments of the Governor dr Vice-GovernI or shall lie made by the President with i the advice and consent of tbe Senate. Tbe "bill of rights" of tbe United I States Constitution are applied to tbe | Philippine Islands, with the exception ! of the right to bear arms and tbe right I to a trial by jury. All the inhabitants of tbe Philippine Wands arc deemed to l>e citizens of the Philippine Islands, and entitled to the protection of the United States. When the insurrection In the islands j shall have l>een subdued a careful cen! sus of th? islands shall l?e taken, and after such census the Governor of the ! islands shall make a full report to the ! President, and make recommendation I as to future government. I Meantime the Philippine Commission is authorized to establish municipal and t provincial governments with popular representative government, so far and ! as fn.?t ah the communities are capaj blc and fit for the same, the Philippine ' Commission being authorized to deter' mine the qualifications of tbe electors. The Presld-ent Is authorized to regulate j the commercial Intercourse with the Archipelago in tbe interest.of the general welfare. The Philippine Commission is author ized to acquire the friars' lands, and h. j empowered to issue bonds to pay for ; them. These Innds. once acquired, shall he a part of tbe domain of tbe United States and may be disposed of! as such. A mint is to be established in Manila. and coins authorized mny he coined at the mint, the coinage laws o? the United States being extended to tbe islands. The Philippine (>orernment is authorized to coin a silver dollar, containing 41G grains of standard silver. to be a coin of tbe Philippine Islnnds. tbe denomination of tbe coin to be expressed In English, Filipino and Chinese characters. Silver brought to the Manila mint shall be coined for the lienetff of tbe depositor, the mint charge being one cent for each dollar coined. The dollar sbail be legal tender in the Philippines for public and private debts, except where otherwise stlpu I In ted. Silver certificates may be 1?| sued for deposits of Filipino dollars In ! sums of $20 or more. Other minor subsidiary coins are provided for. CHIME DEDICATED TO M'KINLEY. Dead President's favorite Hymm rreduced by the Bella. Lincoln. Neb.?A chiuie of ten bells ; has been dedicated to the memory of ! William McKiuley in this city. They j are placed in the spire of the largest church in the city. St. Paul's Metho! dist. They were dedicated with impressive services. After a sacred concert from the bells McKiuley's favorite hymns. "Leiid. Kindly Light." and "Nearer. My liod, to Thee," were played during tb% evening. To Fight the Kblp Combine. The Loudon papers give prominence to the lutcntiou of the Cunard Steam' . k!.. i.. inltifx.. .. lli.UL.1. ..oiii I7MJIJI V-UIU|UIMJ IU lUIUUli: U IVUJ" biuatlon which tuny have the approval I of the Government. It id stated that i several UH-Uil?en* of the Cabinet are | interested in the scheme and that tlu j project is likely to be of a bold gigantic character. Cubun MluUter to the United State#. Seliur CJuvsada has bci'li continued by the Cuban Senate as Minister to the i I mu d States. Carrie Nation tteleaeed Prom Jell. Mrs. Carrie Natiou. who was sentenced to the County Jail at Shawuee. i\an., the other day, for one month and { Jo pay a tine of $luo at the rate of $1 a : day, tor smashing saloon fixtures, has [ la-.-n panloued by (joveruol* Stanley. J Her tine was remitted. i ., . ? auiki ? uicauo nrcoinr* ahitc. Mount Blackburn, in Soutlieastci-u I Alaska, suddenly became active, and ! ils it'll uiiuuivs' eruption coveted tin* tartli for miles around with vokanic dust and bowlders. M??i)r UlciDiugi A light visible thirty miles will Input ou tbe dreaded Iluttcras shoals. Au automobile *iage 1'tic will shortly begin operations between liedkey and Dunkirk, lud. Two hundred furniture mauufacturers have tormed u pool at Chicago to regulate l?rice?. i CnuibridguKtiire (Eut;luudt fruit grow. it* arc payiug cUlldrcu a balfpeu;jy tur every wusp tbey capture. Argcutiua bus ordered two ironclads superior iu strength to those recently oruered by Chile troui England. THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Form: An Invitatlon?A Well Known Xra York Magistrate Says That Liquor is the Gnatcat Cane of Mankind?Wl!e Beat en Start a* Moderate Drinker*. Ye cantive slaves to sin and shame. fly dire in tenijx; ranee led; Whose thirst in like a hery tlame, With strongest liquors led. Arise. and with all creaturca join-. l?od'? glory to advancc; For sun and moon, and earth and start, All teaeh true temperance. They stagger not nor reel along. But steady keep their way, Proclaiming His almighty power. Whom drunkards disobey. The lark and thrush no cordials take. Their warbling* to inspire; But with the earliest mom awake, And temperance tunes their lyre. Lion* and lamb*, when parched with drought, At springs their thinit allay: While man, who should their leader be, Oft drinks his sense away. Come, then, and join our temperance band, With nature lilt your voice, In love and truth join heart and hand; In God's kind care rejoice. Black CotU* and Wife Beating. I am not a "temperance crank," but after my manv yearn' experience as magistrate in the New York police courts I give it as my opinion that liquor is the greatest cure of mankind. There arc seven police courts in the borough of Manhattan. Take ruin away, and I am certain that two courta will be sufficient to do all the work. With no liquor there would be no wife beating and no cruelty to little children. Get to the bottom of these fiendish offences and you will find the black bottle almost every time. Every ill-used wife who comes before me?almost without exception?tells me that her husband is all right, that( he is kind to his children, that ne firings nis money nome until ne ocgrns to drink. Then everything is changcd. This statement may startle you: I have passed judgment upon thousands of wife beaters. Thia is equivalent to saying that 1 have parsed judgment upon thousands of whisky bottles, for from my knowledge of human nature I know that it is liquor that ia the wife beater and not the man. It would amaze you to know the number of men whom I commit to Blackwcll's Island eight times a year. The purpose of tbii article is to make you moderate drinkers think. Do not be offended when I intimate that you, ?s a moderate drinker, would ever think of heating your wife or kicking your little babv acro?s the room. You are horrified at this thought, of course. But every wife beater who ever came itciorc me was at one time a uiuucrmc idrinker." Think this over. It may prevent you from becoming a drunkard. It is these wife-beating case* that bring home to me every day tnis awful curse of liquor. The history of one case is the history of all. The wife ia usually the complainant. Her brute of a husband ia sent to jail. But if he is a brute, he is also the brend winner for his wife and children, and the pity of it is there are usually many of the latter. So in nine cases out of ten | she is back in court within a week to withdraw the complaint or with the necessary bail. And it often happens that the bondsman she brings with ner is the saloonkeeper who rold ner husband the liquor that made him beat his wife. There is a lesson in all this to the man who is the moderate drinker now. But a good many men who when drunk have kicked their wives and killled the unborn child whom that mother 'was nourishing have told me that one time they took only an occasional class of beer.? | | Clarence W. Meade, City Magistrate, New | j York. Beer Xtkn Men Staple!, Lazy, Impotent. Dr. Bunge, professor of physiological chemistry in tne University of Basle, is an eminent scientist, but he has another claim to be heard. While pursuing his atu* dies at the university he was a corns student; that is, he belonged to one of those association which are known for their drinking excesses. He says the exhileration produced by alcohol is not an elevation of the spirit, but an ebulition of feelinsf. which the intellect does not guide, which is blind to the actuality, and which is therefore misleading. He declares that by means of experiments repeated a thousand time* it has been demonstrated "that in time* of peace and war, in all climates, in heat and rain and cold, soldiers endure most successfully the hardships of the severest marches, if wholly deprived of alcoholic drinks. Everyone who has made the experiment admits unconditionally that one can best endure intellectual work of every kind when he abstains entirely from alcoholic drinks." The apologists for beer should take to heart Bunge's deliberate judgment. It recalls Bismarck's statement given by Bunch, his secretary: "Beer makes men stupid, lazy and impotent. Bier macht dumm, faul, und impotent." The professor says it must be emphasized "that of all alcoholic drinks beer is the very worst. Beer is the most pernicious of all alcoholic drinks because no other i3 so seductive. No other drink so greatly leads to intemperance."?Forward. What to Do With Drunkard*. To the Editor of the New York Time#? I would suggest that as saloons furnish material for such lawlessness, disorderly conduct and crime, all of their customers, inflamed by liquor, incapable of restraint and lunatic* lor the time, should be 'Tuaruntitled in said saloon and kept there until public safety cau be secured in releasing them. \Ve would not then be horrified by reports of these wretched maddened animals returning to tiieir so-callcd homes to wreck, beat their wives, cripple their children. und even commit murder like the veriest Malay.?Mrs. William Halsted Crane. The Saloon Itcspoosibl*. Rev. S. 11. Morgan, chaplain of the Iluntsville branch ot the Texas State penitentiary, in a recent report, says: "The number of prisoners in lesa than a lew years ago. One-third of the populous portion ot the State nt under prohibition. Seventy-five per cent, of the inmates come to the prison from saloons and saloon influences. At these influence* are curtailed the number of State criminals decreases." This testimony merely affirms the assertion of the many temperance workers that the saloon is the chiei source of crime. Drink Habit Frowned I'pon. More and more the great corporations are discouraging the drinking habit among its employes. A man who is known to have the drink habit is finding it harder every vear to get employment from the railroads or the great irorf and steel mills. Indeed, the drink habit is frowned upon and drinking men?even thofe who drink onlv moderately?are not wanted.?Savannah News. Hrhru Out of Ituftlnri*. Western [>a|?en? report that at Cheyenne, W\o., twenty-five drinking t?laee* have lately cone nut of hitsine?'< ueeauw tho I'nion I'aeifie ha- Mtitfened its rule forbidding employe* to frequent ttalooua. Ho Drinking Man Employed. Some* year* ago a large manufacturing firm suspended ?lue to the bad management of a moderate drink president Since then they have started again and have t?evome very prosperous. One of the rigid ruies is no drinking man shall be employed in any capacity. Every year thin fear of drinking men is increasing, and every year capital is demanding that total abstainers only shoifld be employed. !n tins there is no sentiment or theory, only cold, hard experience, which brings only one eoncluoion, repeated over and over again?namely, that moderate drinkin; men are dangerous, untrustworthy and i mo reliable.?J ouruaJ of Inebriety. ' / y THE SABBATH SCHOOL: INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JUNE 22. Sal^Kt: An Exhortation to a TmpmU Life. Rom. xlll.. R-14? Golden Text, Kom. xlll., 12 ? Memory V?rMi, 12>14 ?Commentary on the Day's Ltuoo. 8. "Owe no man." It cannot be supported that the apostle meant to prohibit the contracting of debt* on any account. Christians are indeed under the highest oblations to pay all legal demands without rouctance or needle** delay and with great punctuality, and they should a\*oid ail superfluous expense, and carefully guard against contracting any debts which they have not a reasonable prospect of discharging. They ought also to stand aloof from all adventurous speculations or rash engagements, beyond their circumstances, and whatever may expose them to the danger and discredit of not rendering to all their dues. "Love one another." In the preceding verses the apostle has been showing the duty, reverence, tnd obedience which all Christians, from the highest to the lowest, owe to the civil magistrate, whether he be emperor, king, or proconsul, or other state officer; here he shows them their duty to one another, but th:s ih wiaeiy aincrni irom idiv wukj they owe to the civil government; tr> the first they owe subjection, reverence, obediecce and tribute; to the latter they owe nothing but mutual love, and those office* wifich necessarily spring from it. 9. "Shalt not commit adultery, etc." In this verse the apostle quotes from the law us though he would say that the perfect love which he declares they owe to one another will enable them to fulfil all the obligations of this law. And whatever he nas omitted, which the law con* tains, is all covered in keeping the law of love. "Thy neighbor a* thyself." When this is done in reality there is completeness and we keep the whole law. He that loves another will not deprive him of hii wife, of his life, of his property, of hii pood name; and will not even permit a desire to enter into his heart, which would lead him to wish to possess any thing that is the property of another. Tb'; law of love forbids the use of int-.-^icating liquor, forbids its sale to others, and will not permit us to assist tbo*e persons who sell liquor to others, either by lending them money, by renting our buildings to them, or in any way giving them our support and showing them favor. 10. "Worketh no ill." The law of love forbids the doing of anything that would injure myself or others. Where love reigns the golden rule is practiced and he who loves, acts toward his neighbor as he would that his neighbor should act toward him, therefore this law of love can never work ill toward another, and thus '* * * # ?/??! 1 1 1 1_? trie law is xuiniiea uy iovc. i memberancc is the exact opposite of this. It causes men to break every commandment. 1 11. "Knowing the time." The nature and character of the period in which we live. "High time." That is, the hour has arriv-d. "To awake." How many socalled Christians are fast asleep! The accursed liquor traffic U becoming powerful, bold, defiant; is destroying our best brain* and blood; is ruining our morals; is undermining the Christian Sabbath, one of thi pillars on which our nation rests; it tilling the land with paupers, disease and crime, and yet we sleep peacefully as though we had no responsibility in this matter! "Salvation nearer, etc." The period of completed and ultimate salvation is nearer than when we first believed. We have only a little time renaijing m which to work, therefore awake frota thy slumberings. 12. "The night." Of heathen darkness, iincranre. inmoralitv and wretchedness. 'Tar spent." Heathen darknc?.: was rapidly coming to an end. The full manifestation of the sun or righteousness in the illumination of the whole Gentile world, approaches rapidly. "The day." Cf the deliverance from evil, of true Christian knowledge, of purity, happiness end peace, of eternal blessedness "is at hand." "Let us cast off." The works of darkness described in the next verse. The Christian is obliged to renounce and "ca*t off" many things. He is required to be separate from the world (I John 2' 15, 1C), and to "touch not the unclean thing." 2 Cor. 6: 17. "Let us put on." There arc some thing* for the Christian to receive and accept. The power of a living Christ living in the soul will be an "armor of light." In Ephesians G: 11-17 we are exhorted to pat on the armor which Ood has provided for the Christian. Protection is provided for every part but the ba:-kf which shows that the Christian is never ex;wcted to flee from an eneny. "Of light." Light itself is an amor. That person whose actions arc open to view, who dies nothing in the dark and ujder cover, is in a safe position. He can prove his whereabouts. The armor of 'light" is his protection. 13. "Walk honestly." Be decent, orderly and sincere in all deportment, an example for all eyes to look upon. Men choose night for their revels of sin and *u.?rstitious dcings. but children of light (Eph. 6: 11-18; must behave becomingly and live above such censure. "As in^ the day." In an open way which every one nay see and Know. "Not in rioting and drunkenness." They are not to indulge in revels where intemperance in ca:ing and drinking is common and where conversation is corrupt. This was what the heathen did whom thev so condenned. This was not the thing for Christians to do, certainly. But they are to be so fullv engaged in a pure life and its duties, that the temptation will not overtake thrai and they be led astray. The exhortation is strong for them to be the examples to win those who indulge ?? such practices, to a life of tempcrance and honesty. "Strife and envying." The very opposite of love, but the result of j such practices as were mentioned above. | I'M* exhortation made plain the standard I of Christianity, holding it in contrast with t'le heathen practice*. .AnJ if this epistle should fail into the hands of the Konian magistrate* or other*, they would see the nurity of the doctrine of the Christian*. The a pontic wisely p?:t* everything to prove rhe value of v.rtue and the darkness of t-in. 14. "l'ut ye on . . . Christ." Without further comment on heathen praetices, the apostle plainly explain* what the annor of light might mean. It wan plain to he seen what they must put a-ide rnd this exhortation would apply to all who might hear it. Jesus Christ signifies receiving and believing the g>*j>el. "The flesh." By flesh here we are to understand the carnal nature, the gratification of which led to the abominations just mentioned. Dircct none of your attention to the cravings of a corrupt nature, in planning to provide for its gratification. Intemperance put* off Christ and provides for the lust* of the flesh. Christ is able to to completely cleanse the heart from *in and fill it with love, that no principle of tun or de*irt Ictf bin will remain. Udjr GsidH For Gotbara. Some bright young women are considering the formation of a company for providing ladies qualified to act as guides to the sights of New York City, hi traveling companions, shopping assistants, etc. The idea is to charge a stranger entering the city a fee of <<1.50 for meeting her at the railway station and escorting her to her hotel or hoarding house. In tne headquarters of the association a list of hotels and hoarding Iiojms will l?e kept, and su?h nflior ititorin.ition ah a stranger is likely to need, all of which will he charged for. .V ' similar association has been in successful operation tu London tor fourteen yearn. Cancer. Ixinc ami carcful inquiries by Herman doctors indicate that cancer is not probably hereditary, but that it i* j<crniciou*Iy contagious. In certain district* the number of sufferer* in proportion to the population is much larger every year than in other areas. Dojt# and cats in many instance* become cancerous, hut few horse* and cattle are attacked. Men and women are stricken on the average earlier in life in this generation than in those which preceded it. Worth SI 100 Pound. Lithium, worth more than 91)00 a pound, i* used only in medicine; tts salt* being valuable in rheumatism affections. _ 1 GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE WORLD'S GREATEST PROPHETS Poem: Anxiety?Th* Ntwiilty For Prayer Is la L'a BtrtDM W? Are Cr??itd la the lm?(( of Qod?tYs Do Sol Talk Knot) a b With God. Faint heart*, who toil and pray, bat doabt I If God will grant! V Thcira ia the harvest who in trust j Do sow and plant. Nor ponder whether it will be Or full or scant. If once it fail, with diligence They sow again. Another year will surely bring \ The needed rain. \ The ceedrd sun, to fill the field* With fuller grain! \ The Lord of Love may hear as though He heard us not. But never yet the prayer of faith \ Hath H<> foroftt* \ Some day His word will fruitful make v Each waiting spot. \ We riee betimes, ns if our rerl That word could speed; We can eat the bread of carefoljesa, That cannot feed; Delaying rest, we only add Sore need to need. Oh, happy they who quietly Anticipate The blessing He will shower down, Or s9on or late! * They toil, they pray, aright; their faith His will can wait. ?Harriet McEwen Kimball, in the New \ York Independent. A Little 8?rtvon. Tennyson was but clothing in the purpl* and fine linen of poetry a naked eternal truth when he King: More thing* are wrought by prayer than thin world dream* of, For no the whole round earth i? every way Bound^ ln gold chains about the feet of Never yet has the traveler found a people who did not pray. Races have been found without raiment; whole natimi* have been found without house*; countries have been found without manufacture*; 1 never without prayer*. Where you find human features, human passion* and ha* man speech, there you find human prayer*. Meaningless, even to their utterer*, such, prayers often are, vet universal. It could not be otherwise, tor prayer ia within as at once the chasm dividing from the brute creation l*low, the link uniting to thedivinity above. The ncceuity for prayer ia in ui, i* it \ not also in God as we are a part of Him- ' self, created in Hi? image? We read that the prayer* of the saint* come up to (?od aa "sweet smelling incense." I* there not then a sense in which, our prayer* are a? necessary to God'* love as are those pray crs necc*?ary to our own spiritual breath of life? The Scripture lemon irives us an instance of both of these necessities. Jesus, took His disciplcs with Him when He went apart to pray. The three a little dearer and who lived nearer to Him than the rest He took further into the garden of Hitsorrow that last sad night, as if He longed for their companionship and their prayer*'. also to go with Him up to His Father. Sadly and lovingly He rebuked them: "Could ye not watch with Me one hour?" and they looked at Him with tbair sleepbewildered eyes and did not understand. His longing tor their sympathy ?uj prayers that night, even as we look now with world-dimmed vuion and calv halfway call our thoughts from other things when we enter into the holy of holies to pray, nor dream from what high privilege we aro -elf-shut, by this indifference. For only by prayer and communion with the most higli God, that night, could even those beloved ones approach unto the knowledge nf tlip rrpal wiMtrht n( nin and Borrow that lay upon their Saviour's heart. the weight ot the sin of the world and Ilia own bearing of it. And that night Peter, James, and John were privileged to share somewhat of Ilia burden lor the sin of the world, and they were so sound aaleep that eren Chriat'a own gentle awaking and warning, twice repeated, roused them not to I heir privileges. We to-day are privileged to share somewhat in Christ's agony for souls, and yet how few, comparatively, do. ,We do not talk with God enough to know His wishes for us, nor to know what He ia feeling and thinking for His world. We only come to Him when we feel a great need for His help. Andrew Murrav nay*: x he child who only wants to know the love of the father when he has something to aak, will be disappointed. But he who lets God be Father always and in everything. who would fain live his whole life to the Father's pretence and love, who allow* God in all the greatness of His love to be a father to him, oh! he will experience most gloriously that a life in God'a infinite fe/heruneis and continual answers to prayer arc inseparable." But the disciples had need of prayer that night for their own strengthening. Temptation was coming upon them swilt and sure. Jesus warned them of it. Had they been praying they would also have been watching. Tne Christian who spends much time in talking with God is not the one easily betrayed Into denying hi* Lord before a company of scoffer*. Jesus ha* Mt us here on this earth for a little while with the order: "Tarry ve here, and watch with Me."?New York Slail and Expreaa. Obedient to God. Oh, that wc could take that >imp!e view of thing* as to feel that the one thing vhich Ilea before us ia to plea?e God! What gain in it to please the world, to please the great, nay, even to please these whom we love, compared with this? What gain ia it to be applauded, admired, courted, followed?compared, with thi* one aim of uot being disobedient to the heavenly vision??J. II. Newman. Real UrprnUocr. ? Repentance i* not merely a littl# twinge of remorse over some wrong thing. It is not simply a gu?h of tears at th? recollection of some wickednes*. It ia not mere ?hame at being found out in some meanness or uncieaiuinr** or dishonesty. It is the revolution of the whole life. Sina wept over must be forsaken forever. Repentance ia a change of heart, a turning of the face just the other way. A Theory About Life. The earth ia not the prison-hoase of * race condemned to be circumscribed during ihc first stage of it* immortal career by - - -t /<-J. l.... the teartui curse 01 mm, dui h m mo beautiful and appropriate ??ne of human endeavor and trial, of human aspiration and success, on which \re are fully persuaded that the tendcrest blessing of CJod'* parental love ia ever rc?tinf.? Chariot C. Coe. B*Uilos. Religion h? not disappeared from th? transfiguration mount?it is fuldlled 4n .)?muh alone, and in Iiim is found in complete perfection. Character has not bee?? discounted by ti e disappearance of Ehjab ?it ha? found it* supreme exemplar in Jesus Christ.?Rev. C. I*. Smith, Mindcn, Louisiana. A Dynamic Principle of All. Faith i? a dynamic principle of life; it ? -ahI mm?ii Hivino imnulcpc and cuargcre UJC rvui ? .? /- ? ? ?? 14 the motor of it* be?t activjtiea.?Rev. Dr. Walker, Presbyterian, Troy. N. Y. I' Dburclarahlr Letter Boxes. Experiment* are being made in France with one invention and in England with another for the purj>o*c of preventing thieves from extracting letter* from public letter boxes. In the French invention steel teeth are placed close to the mouth of the box. while the British invention conmmU of a wire atrangement inside the piN lar !k>x. The weight of the letters carries them through the cage, but they cannot be pulled up bv a piece of string and something sticky, the usual means adopted by the letter tniei. Crrmssi first Made Wall Taper. Wall paper vu first made in Ucrmanj about IjGO. . ? ? i . .