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' IN HAUNTED_WAYS. Iahaonted nji I ?t or fact, WW pake the wistful after-flow j ghostly pewoc? la ao aweet. Noli* bust fttr my heart may know I Tha sign of darksome boughs 1 beer? One spell the whispering leaves r*D*mt; One only voice, in all, I hear. One only face 1 meet! In baonted wajra I set my feet. Bjr day. by night?where'er I nnp; The ghostly prasenre la to sweet. My heart, forsooth, desirte no change! Char nr? the thrush's matin call. The wakening eye* of flowers I street; One only voice ? hear in all. One onlyflace I meet! In haunted vv.iv* I art my feet. Where'er I go?where'er I go; The myatic thralldom u complete; And ret, it w*a not alwaya no. I only loved #ini-e ye*ter-year? Then firat my heart did truly beat! Since then one only voicc I hear. One only face I meet! ?Edith Thom.i*. in Harper'* Bazar. A Prescription |;| For Two. j|| R. IJILMAN rapped briskly on | | rront aoor ana arew toe cotJ J lar of bin fur coat higher to sbct out the sharp " north CWind. Inside the house there was a moment's confusion, and then Mrs. Green, assisted by six little Greens, opened the door. "Why. doctor!" she cried in surprise. The little Green* lined up and beld their mouths open. i "The governess. ! hear. Is 111." Dr. Oilman announced the fact deliberately. He stepped into the hall, holding 2iia medicine .-ase with one hand while With the other be made an opening in Me line ui uuit* umrus. ! Uii Green closed the door and protected. "The governess is here, but be isn't 1U. That is. no inore'n usual She's always ailing." In & disparaging .voice. "Did she aend for yon?" i The doctor Ignored her question. He threw off his fur coat, picked up bis medicine case again and asked calmly: rWhere Is sber I "In the sitting room." replied Mrs. Green, her arms akimbo. Instantly ?lx small voices cried. "In here." and the noisy troop made a dash for a weary-looking tlgure lying on a couch near the fireplace. Doctor Oilman paid no attention to the figure on the couch. He blocked the entrance against Mrs. Green and Mifl! firmly: "Come, children, I'm here to visit the sick only.** The Greens, unused to obeying. ' looked sulkj. "Hurry up," came the doctor's strong. 4eheerful voice, and as they filed slowly paat him, caatlng longing glances behind, he added: "Now don't let me ee any of you back here again until my visit ends." His glance included both mother and children. ' Then ae closed the door, drew a chair tn front of the couch and sat down. "I have come to prescribe for you. Miss Eggy." be said, looking for the first time at the girl on the couch. At his abrupt entrance Becky Eggy had sat up. She leaned an elbow against the back of the couch and rested her throbbing bead on her band. She was perplexed at this unasked ?all from Dr. Gilmac. Life was always offering perplexities to Becky Eggy. The first bad been v her queer little rame. and the last and greatest was what to do with her queer little sol'. At least Becky Eggy bad thought she mutt be a queer little self because everything she loved bad been taken away and so many things she did not love had been substituted, while she etoo<l by. powerless to shape her life. In the midst of such great perplexities Dr. Gil man's visit was the least. "I cm cot 111. doctor.* she said. In a nronderlng tone. Dr. Gllman smiled Inscrutably at AL. a. U.ll W . ? 4k. ioe ure acu utriu u.^ imiuis up iu iuc warmth. Then he turned suddenly and looked keenly at Becky Eggy. She fidgeted nervously with her black dress jurltb one transparent hand. What was going to happen? Had be come to tell her she most give up her little school? Poor little Becky Eggy! What Would become of her then? 1 All ber faults swept in order befor* her; she could not make the big boys mind. How was that possible when be had not strength euough even to bake the little ones? Her bead ached mo badly she often had to rest it on the desk; perhaps he had heard bow, only few days before, she waa so tired sbe bad Insisted that nix times elgbl are fifty-four. Sitting there before Dr. Oilman shfc felt painfully Ignorant and Weak. 8be looked at the doctor's band lyinj on bia knee. Once, when sbe bad been so ill that even sbr. was obliged to ad' mlt tbe fact, be bad taken her bead between bia bands and pressed tb< sche out and sbe bad slept. Aa if In response to tbe memory tb< doctor lenned forward and laid bit banc a moment, in bis moat profes Sional manner, on ber bot forehead Tben he settled back In his chair ant aid In a moat unprofessional tor.* Tired little Becky Eggy." 8he rested ber bead against the higl back of tbe couch and hastily close< ber eyes, but not until tbe doctor aa* the gathering tear*. He scanned tb tbln face and the shabby black dre* with a curious expression on bis facc Then he said abruptly. "80 you are no uir Becky shook her head. 8he coul< not trust herself to speak after tb sympathy In the doctor's voice as b said. "Tired little Becky Eggy." Bat bis voice was not sympathetl now. It was bruaque. "People wh re well usually have a little color li their facea and plumpness In thel cheeks." Ul?. 11. I _ _ #__ In annn an, At 9 W?1AU1| vu IW au iuc ouvvr uu cold," said Becky, faintly. "You are not strong enough to wall You ought to ride." Becky attempted to amlle. "But th *ooghf doesn't provide the horses." It doea In thla case." still more at i ruptiy. Kacky's eyes opened widely now. 1 pits of the tears. She made no repl: and he seemed to expect none. "Yov school worries yon. does It not? Tfc big boys art a tiresome lot" kit-: .. . { Becky gasped. (t *u tbe school ' after air. She dropped her eyes and a i pitiful expression came into her fare. I Her voice faltered. "I'll try to do better, docior. Yon see, I'm not strong enough to punish them. Perhaps if I tried harder I could manage all right?I'll try?" There was a choke in ber voice. Dr. Oilman looked et tbe thin bands moving nervously on tbe black skirt, and at Becky's strained, anxious face. She did not look equal to the emergency of managing even the smallest Green! The doctor's lips smiled. but not bis eyes. They Ailed as tbey looked Into Becky's, and her perplexity increased. His abrupt toue vanished, and his next words were very gentle: "Will you take my prescription?** Sbe glan<*ed down at tbe medicine chest on the floor and said submissively. "Are you going to give me a tonic?" Dr. Oilman laughed a little and pushed the medicine chest away with bis foot. "I brought that with me as a bulwark against the Greens." Becky responded with a smile and went on more cheerfully: "I am willing to take everything you advise, doctor." Dr. Oilman suddenly Mat np very straight "I prescribe a home " He was looking at the fire now, but he saw Becky's lip quiver aud her hands touch her black dress, "and ca-e and?love." "No, no." she whispered, "you know, perhaps you do not know?they are all gone. There Is no one left except me." Dr. Gllman looked at her with a smile which made his rugged face beautiful. "But It's my nome i m prescribing. dear little Becky Eggy, am) my care, and my lore. If they could bring you happiness " The doctor did not finish the sentence, but looked wistfully at Becky. She gazed at the fire now. Its warmth seemed to hare settled around her heart She had felt so ustless a few moments before, so shorn of all womanly power and dignity. Now, her soul suddenly expanded in the knowledge of a satisfying love. She looked up shyly, and said, hesitatingly. "If your home and your? love?would bring me happiness would I be the only one benefited by your prescription?" "Dear little girl." said Dr. GUman. He bent orer and kissed her face, soft in a new pink glow. "It's useless to confess that I've been prescribing for myself all the while."?New York M NmbIic For 'Pownmi." "8hooting at game, unless It la flying or ruuning. Is roost unsportsmanlike. I know," said the Globe Trotter to his companions on the deck of a transatlantic steamer, "and should never be indulged In. unless it be in the caae of a lion, a Iger or some other destructive quadruped, but I must admit that I once found myself enjoying it. and the victims were those harmless little creatures known as 'possums. I bad spent several w?eks in Australia Hhootiug water fowl, wild turkeys, quail, snipe and the other Tame birds which Abound there during the rainy season, and had even indulged in the somewhat danceroua sport of chaning the nimble kangaroo, when niv host suggested that wc go 'mooning' for 'possums. I didn't know what that meanr. but I found that it was simple enough when he explained it, and that night we tried it. Waiting until the moon was high up in the starry Armament we entered the forest of stately eucalyptus trees, and. moving stealthily along with our eyes fixed on the lofty branches, scanned them closely for the little black spots which were - 'possums curled up for all the world like sleeping kittens. A steady. careful aim, a flash from the muztle of the gun. a crash like a peal of thunder rending the stillness of the night, the dull sound of a soft object striklhg the ground after a fall from a great height, and I bad enjoyed my first experience at 'mooning' 'possums. I say | I euJoyed It. for. in spite of the unfairnot* a f If I fa va+v vol nlnnou fnanln. | ated me. and we kept It up for hours In the brilliant moonlight that made | the forest almost as bright as day."? New York Tribune. la > Duitroni Sllntlo*. George Carroll Curtis, a Boston set1 entist who has just returned after ex1 tended observations In the volcanic re1 slons of the West Indies, visited Venice ' some years ago, and Is well acquainted with the geological formation and history of that region. He suggests that ' the shifting of the sands upon which f Venetian buildings rest may nave caused the recent fall of the Campa[ nlln llu anvfl1 "Tim nltv nf Var.lna UIII. iir ou;s. ? ur vn/ wi ? is built ;n a great lagoon, and wfjat J land there is for the erection of butfd1 Ingii Id sand bars. These are soaked with water at high tide and laid Wre 1 at low tide. When uncovered, they dry. acd the sand shifts like that la any sand bar. The shifting of the top caused changes In the lower part. It 1 would not be at all strange If this shift* Ing process had attacked the land un der the Campanile and displaced some 1 of the pile*. A slight displacement of the foundation would eau.<e the structure to crack. In my opinion a gradua' 1 lowering off the whole country would 1 not overthrow any building. Evel-yr thing would be lowered imperceptibly p and equally, nnd there would be no J-:, to overthrow a building."?New ' iu.X PoMt. t Tb? K?7Dot? of (k* Cantor}. ] Tl>? railical evolution in business e method*, the long stride* In clvillsat tlon. the multiplication of Inventions and discoveries, along all lines, which c the past half century h&j witnessed, o necessitate an infinitely brocder and n better training for men and women In r every walk of life than was ^equislto Mventy-live or even ten years ago. The J watchword of th's country is "Excelsior." l Each successive year, for example, In order that the best results may be e obtained, demands a higher standard of education than before for the yonth y. who would become a merchant. A knowledge of "the three R'r," unleaa. o supplemented by unusual shrewdness r, and foresight, no longer suffices to enir able a man to conduct a business sucte oessfuHy?Orison Swett Marden, In 8uccess Household / x patters ? Copa for Salads. Green or red peppers make attractive cays for fuiladx. Remove a thin slice from the top of each and take out the seeds and white pulp. To make tbe cups stand It inny In* necessary to cut 11 slices from the bottoms also. v li To M?k* French Urculac Qilcktj. Put six tablespoonfuls of oil In a Jar or Jelly glass; add to it three tablespoonfuls of vinegar, half a teaspoon c of salt and a little pepper; cover the glass and shake violently, and an emul- 3 sion will be produced Immediately; w pour over any salad nud sprinkle over J' finely chopped parsley. v A Driftwood BUM*. The beautiful and varying color of- |i fects of a driftwood blaxe have served ji as a theme for many a narrative and d bit of verse, but driftwood Is not nl- v ways within reach of those who would revel In Its warmth and brilliancy. JJ Souie Ingenious mortal has, however. n compounded % composition, guaranteed ,, non-*x plosive. which If scattered over t the hardwood logs in an open Ureplace s produces a color effect equal In beauty ? and brilliancy to a genuine driftwood I1 blaze. An open wood Are. either in a ^ city or country home, possesses an undeniable attraction for most people j and when enveloped in a wealth of color the fascination is apt to be In- n creased. c Advice to UoumwItm. I Ice box conteuts arc often contaminated and made poisonous by left-over fruit and vegetables held too long while bacteria multiply unexpectedly. The prudenc housekeeper will limit her daily marketing to the day's consumption. Her bills will he lower In eonsequence and the health of the family will be better. Only a very small number of fruita can be safely eaten uncooked. The cookable are well known. At the best equipped health resorts uncooked fruits, except the ' lemon, are often wholly forbid. The cookable fruits are more digestible cooked, and, if properly cooked, are i also more delicious. One fact is in- | contestable, that fruit permitted to de- j cay where human being* arc liable to c breathe the germ* which are inevitable r is one of the most potenMcnown causes of fever*. Decaying fruit in the whole- I Mile and retail markets, as well as de- c caylng vegetables, should receive daily attention by the health departmentChicago Chronicle. I KmortiDcr I.aneheoni. f A luncheon was hastily ewlved Ih a suburban home the other day out of I what seemed an empty larder. A few < cold boiled potatoes, with a pall of ' egg*. wfl" <*11 that the hostess found j when she ran to the kitchen and tue fee box to we what there wan for f luncheon on the arrival of some unexpected company, whereupon a dish of scalloped eggs and potatoes was v suggested. Six eggs were boiled hard. j; chilled quickly in Ice water and sliced, r some cream sauce prepared and the * potatoes sliced. These three were arianged in alternate layers in a shallow |( baking dish, a covering of broad crumbs added and baked in a moderate o oven about ten minutes. Brown bread x was sliced tiiin. buttered anil made into s roll sandwiches; cocoa, with whipped I cream, nerved as a drink, and a dish of * olives and radishes added as a relish. r n Fortunately. th? dinner strawberries a were in the house, and. with some c tinned sweet biscuit, nerved for a s desert. 1 An cxcelleut inncheon dish uuused 1 by. If not unknown to. most families. H Is simply prepared by making desie- . cated eodtLdi into croquettes, instead _ of the ordinary tisheakes, and cooking them in n wire basket in deep fat. I Serve with a garnish of slieed lemon 1 and parsley, and offer with a bowl of -1 u.?n<*? Tlil? ir 111 ho found SO novel nn?J delightful as to put it on the list of things for high days and festivain. y One luncheon dish leads on to another. for suggestions are always in order for the ainil which is of the three k most difficult to plan. This is eggs a j la Carai an. One-half of a pound of I shaved dried beef Is mixed with a cup a of tomatoes, two idhlespoonfuls of 1 prated cheese and one of butter, a little onion Juice. s5lt :uid pepper; last of all. four oggs an- writ beaten together ? and stirred in. and the whole Is turned x into the fryiug pan and.quickly conked t until the eggs an- net like an ouelette. ?New York Evening Post. . . RECIPES . . ?' :l Nut Salad -Shell two dozen Knglisb " walnuts an I throw rhein into boiling waier. >> lien me shii! ? ?iijj iroiu mriu i easily remove the mux from the water and skin thou:. I*ay the blanched nuts * xrlien cold aud crisp, in salad oil fur t half au hour, drain and leave thcin anions the crisp lettuce leaves. Serve 1 with mayonnaise dressing. BsarnaU l'lllef.* of Beef?Take fillets x from between the first ribs of beef and <! grill carefully. When done, put a litrlt* bearnai>-. sauce in the bottom of u hot dish. arrange the fillets ou It. glaze with a Utile reduced gravy and garnish) | the centre with, boiled butter beans , tossed In butter. Serve the rest of the j L-earnais *auce in a separate iuree?. i A Delicious Sauoe?A delicious *auce for meats, which mty be kept through 4 the winter, calls for a half cupful of sugar to each pouiul of the fruit and a spice bag con* t taining half an ounce each of mace. J cloves aud cinnamon. Take the stones ' from the plums aud boil until they are thick. Damsons are the best for ib? purpose. Blanquette of Lamb?Cut cold cooked lamb In strips; make a sauce with three tablespoonfuls each of butter and flour stirred orer the Are until smooth; add one cupful of stock and ono cupful of milk; stir until boiling; add salt, pepper, a dash of nutmeg and one tablespoon of tomato catsup; hear tb? meat In this; turn out on a hot platter* servo around green peas or a potato border; sprinkle with minced parslsy. / t W "MESSIAH" MOBBED | ondon Police Obliged to Froteot a Former Clergyman Ian Wk* Claim* to B? I'hriat C?nri#d Martrrdotn?HI* Talk Klther Blac ptiamT or La>M*. London.?Extraordinary scei>?s, verg- 1 uc upon riot, occurred at Clapton. J there nearly .V>00 persons attempted j ii mob a iormcr Church of England j lergyiuau iiameil Smyth 1'iggott. who i * now the leadei of an acentric sect all-Mi tlif "Agapemonites." I Figgott recently announced himself i a Messiah. Exposures of the man. j rhleb HPed many columns In the newn- j aixTH. heightened public interest in j he uiattfr to nucIi n pitch that Piggott < tras only taken from the inoh by the < fTorts of mounted policemen. In spite * f warning*, the chapel in which Piic:ott lipid nervlce was invaded by jeer- j ng crowds, but in the face of howling j isorder Piggott again affirmed that he c rns t'.u> I-hrist J When Plggott arrived at the church 11 :i carriage a yelling line of peopltt J oi lowed it. uttering threats. Thos* rarest the carriage aimed sticks aud mihrelhis at Pijrgott. who put bis face tareheaded out of tho window and ?>em to invite martyrdom. When be 1 tcp|K?d out of the carriage at the cha- 1 ic! door. I>eliind tbe i>oliee cordon, vie- fl rouH hisses and booting greeted liim. [ lis response was to remove his hat c' nd stare at the i>oople with a weird, f nscru table smile upon his lips. t He was dressed in ordinary clerical T ittire of black, with a Roman collar 1 * * ' ? 4|ia /iah. t I III J SOI I It'll liai. Ill <111111 II lur ?o., | r negation was about evenly divided, j mlf believers and half scoffers. ! Pigsort then played his part. He 1* ' i tall. thin, ascetic man. with a lean, lean Rhaven face and burning eye*. I.* sat solemnly on his throne, haloed ritli the motto in staring: letters. "I im the Resurrection and the Life." He lelivered his address quietly and ex>reusivoly. taking no heed of interrupions. He said: "Before the first coming of Christ a Dan was sent to prepare his path. His latnc was John. Before His second 'oming there was a man sent from Jod. whose name was Brother Prince, rhose who received that message have ?reived him who has come. "Now. ir is not as pastor of this hurch that I stand before you. but as rlim. who has come again, the Son of Han himself, come in my own body, ome to bless ray people, come to re- e :ei7e them to myself, rome to give r rerlastlnif life to nil flesh." 1 This specific blasphemy or specific * unacy was too much for.the unbellev- ? rs. There was a wild outburst. J When did you chance?" shouted y me. u "Where are tlve? nail prints on your lands?" cried another. J To all such interruptions the preach- 1 ;r was dumb. When Mr. Piffsott left the church fot i f mine it was nocessary to surround his j j arrlaRc with police to protect him j rom bodily Injury. j t JUSTICE HORACE CRAY DEAO. [ 'mm Away at HU Kaaldaara In Tfabaat J Mat*.?Paralycia tha Cauaa. f * %# T 1! TT r i-yuii. .iiiiMt.?<iusilet; uumce vnuj, i vho retired from the United States Su- j . ireme bench Inst spring, died at his , ( esidence in Xahant of paralysis. He tad been in poor health for some time. a e Horace fJray came from a family wc prominent In the law in Massaclm- ' ietts. He was l?orn in Boston. March J IS. 182S. and at the age of eighteen vas graduated from Harvard Univerity. He took a course in the Harvard ! | ?aw f'olh'cc and was admitted to the ; a >ar when twenty-one years of age. His j I ise in the profession was rapid. An- j i rust 2:5. 1SU4. be was appointed an As- i * locinte Justice of the Supreme Court ; f if Massachusetts he then beinc thirty- . iix years of ace. On September 5, 187". he l>pcnme its Chief Just ire. ? 'resident Arthur named him as an As- i J ociate Justice of the Supreme Court of j 1 h<? T'nlted Stntes on December 1J>. i SSI. A few months nco Justice Cray * offered a stroke of apoplexy, and from | ma lie iifTfr sumcH-miy m-OTtrriti iu ( ??? aide to resume his duties. Upon . lis retirement he was succeeded by *\ ustiee Oliver Wendell Ilolmes. also of ? Massachusetts. " ? i HELD CAPTIVE BY CANNIBALS. 1 i I'lrtiniaft Kicapn After Tlir*? TMri' Im- ( prttBDinrot? Hia .Story. g Richmond. Va.?E. M. Taylor, a w?>U- j tnnwii Manchester man. whose live ( rears' absence from home without ex- < Sanation led his family to mourn him is lost, has just returned, and tells a I brilllng story of three years' imprison- 1 uent by cannibals In one of the Sa- * tioan islands. Ml. Taylor escaped death, but Rev>ral of Ills companions wen* instantly ilain upou rapture. Ilis escape is due o the fact that one of the chief's laughters?Yahow by name ? became namored of him. interceded for bin Ife aud wns granted the boon by her ath??r. Taylor, however, was imprisiried for tlire.' years, finally escaping ind swimming two mile* reached a ramp oyster sloop Itound for Honolulu. Minora Killed In a Shaft. A disastrous gas and powder explolion occurred in the Big Four mine of It** Alcoma Coal and Coke Company u North Fork. Vn. .lames I?ester. an ngmeer: John Itocckie. white, anil j Iftecn colored miners were penned in i >ejund :iil liope of escape. as the gases rere so thick the rescuing parties were Iriveu back. Fifty Killed in a Train Wreck. An Knglish tnnll train, when 205 ( niles from Madras. British India, 4 lashed over a bridge which had been 1 indcrmincd by Hoods. Fifty passen- ] few. included among whom were eight ' iOuropenus and four soldiers, were j irowneo. i wenij-nvc person* -were t wived from lhe wreck. i I ArqnltlMl of Killing fin*band. I After six minutes' deliberation a jury it Marshall. Mich., acquitted Mr*. Kva ' Smith of murdering her husband dur- ' ng a scuffle which he started. \?w? of th? Toller*. At Sacrauieuto. Cal.. 400 women were eeently initiated as members of the 1 detail Clerks' Union. The Seattle (Wash.) Central Labor Union has secured the necessary funds i o build a labor temple. No less than thirteen per cent, of the 'actory employee in New South Wales ire said to tie engaged in the timber Industry. Montreal (Can.i longshoremen to the lumber of 3TKH) have organised, and ire now the strongest labar organlsaJon in Montreal A SERMON FOR SUNDA1 AN INSTRUCTIVE AND ELOQUENT DISCOURSE ENTITLED "NOW PETER." rh? K?t. Dr. J. Wilbur Cbitpmai'i An Ijilt of Cnlld-H?arted. Wayward, Qmmnu, Biblical Character ? Tm Tkraa Denials. N*w York Citt.?The following readable and helpful sermon ia by the lie*. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, the beat known evangelist in the country and one of the most l>opular pulpit orators of New York. It ia entitled "Now, Peter," and was preached from the text: "Now Peter sat without in the palace." Mitt xxvi: 00. This ia the master stroke of the great irtist in painting the picture of this childlearted, waywird, generous, loving man vhom we know aa Peter. It is one of the ihadows in the picture, but the shadows taelp us to appreciate the more the light, [t la a single sentence, and yet in it we and the secret of a soul's downfall, the :au?e of the heartache of the Son of God, ind a note of warning for God's people verywhere. Peter wan in a dangerous position. First >f all, because he sat in the presence of lie enemy. In the flrst Psalm the warning s give, that we should not "walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the vay of sinners, nor ait in the seat of the icorniul," and this last is the most hurtful Maition of all. Poor Peter was flitting lown. He also is to be pitied because he lat "without." There is a circle within vhich every child of God must keep if he rould have both peace and power. If in magination we take a compass in our una and set one point at the piace where re would have toe centre and with the ither point describe the circle, we have the ticture of the Christian life. The ccntre of he circle is Christ, and the circle it?elf is lescribed by prayer and Bible study and ellowship witli the saints. To keep within his circle is to keep in touch with Christ. lo su wiinout is 10 de in oangcr, ana poor 'etcr had stepped outside. With all my heart I love to study l'cter. rhc sermon which has been greatly blessed o the people throughout the country is the mp which bears tne title, "And Peter." rhis one is sent forth that it may be a ompanion of it, and carry the name of 'Now Peter." The first service that I can find that *eter ever rendered unto Christ is recordd in Luke, fifth chapter, and the third 'erse: "And He entered into one of the hips, which was Simon's, and prayed hrm bat he would thrust out a little from the and. And He sat down and taught the teople out of the ship." I like him for bis ervice. I have an idea that just the way te pushed the boat out as the Master was tanding in it made Jesus understand that here was something in him that would yet ;o far toward moving the world. Ia it not rue that much of the great work that we ind about ua to day begina in just so humtie a fashion as did the work of Peter? I like to studv him in his writings. Some ?arta of the Biole ought always to be read n the suniight. The beautiful story of luth, and the letter to the Philippians are samples of this. Others are for the darkies*. Peter's epistles would thus head the ist. It it when we stand on the seashore it night that we see the phosphorescence if the waves. It is when we stand in the iarlcneaa and read Peter's precious word*, hat we catch the beat vision of the light rhich cornea down from heaven and reata ipon men. I like to study him in his preaching, for k is just the kind that everybody ought to te able to do. You may say that it was imply a string of texts, that mighty ?ernon of his at Pentecost, but if you should ay this was all that he said we could re>ly, u we have said in another p!ace, it is ill that Peter said thnt the Holy Spirit bought worth recording. I like him for his sincerity. You can esd him at a glance. He could not be a lypocrite. When once he tried no one rcu!d believe him; be generally thought loud. While men nometimes admired frAnnanflif InltokAf) of him ffunprtllv ?.?" * j ?V ensured him. they alwav* loved him. I like o:m for his promptness. He wju he first to enter the tomb that he might ee where the Lord lay. I liked him for hi* courage. He wan not iraid to stand in the very midst of the nemie* of Christ. I like him for hi? intensity. It is true te made mistake*, but the pendulum swung e far toward uprightness as it did toward ailure. I. Mv text ii to He read in connection with lin denial, and thus we begin the mora to >ppreciate the story. Christ had ^iven lim warning when He said, "Simon. Satan iath desired thee that he may sift thee as rheat," and again when He said. "This light you shall be ashamed of Me," and 'befor* the cock crow thou shalt deny Me hrice." He warn* i&, too. The oak that goes down in the midst of he storm docs so because through the ong veari its heart has been eaten away ? - I # ?t. -LMJ _ L /> ? J >y me worm, ine soui or me cnua 01 uou never overthrown suddenly, and if it ;oe* down it is became it has steadily lost [round in matters that were too trifling o cause alarm. If you should fail to-morow tou will doubtless find the cause if rou look hick on the hiatory of to-day. rhe neglect rd Bible of to-day, the neglectid prayer of to-day. the neglected feliowihip of to-day, means the denial of to-mor ow. Il is not to be forgotten that there were :hree denial*. When .Jesus was taken nto tbf presence of those who were to contemn Him Peter followed and wanted to [o in. too. It is said in John's Gospel that mother disciple, who was known unto the tigh priest, nad gone in with Jesus, and :hic. of courae, must have been John; they Iaii(iHm< lrn*ur him at thi? door and he >assed through without question. When ie saw that Peter wan not in he went to :he door and secured hi* admission. I an just imagine how Peter must have raiked up and down the court, now sitting, low standing, now trembling for his safely. for in those days as to-day, "conscience nakes cowards of us all." The first denial was at the wicket gate To the little girl that admitted him to the ?urt be said: "I know Him not." He might have taken warning and gone jack if he had but remembered the word* >f Christ, for he was just at the edge of :he circle; one side meant peace and the >ther side despair. I doubt not that some one who reads :he*e words has just passed through the ticket gare, turning away from a life of ilestedness, and possibly has dented bis Master for the first time. From the heart >f the ;nfinite Christ a cry goes out to such in one: "Turn ye. turn ye. for why will ye die?" The second denial was at the fire, when be sat with his enemies, and when he said irith an oath: "I tell you. I know Him not." Alas' many of us have gone through the mcket of dental, and dare to-day sitting with His enemies, hardlv knowing how we reached the position. To all such the cry sf God comes, "('.ome out from among them and be ve separate." The world has ilway < bet-n tbc enemy of the Son of God. ind h-* who allows himself to be in touch with it in the least will deny his blaster before he is aware of it The third denial wu to the relative of " ? ?-? i- - i?a * maicnu*. wnotc ear ne nau cu?, uu m> ttipposod defense of hi* Master For this attack upon hi* fellow man he wn doubtless amenable to the law. and ponsiblv might have been tried and condemned if Jesui had not replaced the ear The memory of Malchua arouned all the terror imaginable in him, and before be knew it the third denial waa upon him, and with repeated oath* and cursing* he said: "I tell you that I know Him not." Thi* i* the denial that comes because of some unconfessed sin. Alas for the man who allows any sin to go without immediate confnwion. It will spring upon him some day like a tiger from the jungle, and will overthrow him before he can have i:? . II lime W vail IUI ucip. m* imjt uw??u Knde in its tendencies, and he who denies Christ at the wicket gate will ere long deny Him face to face. 11. This text is also to be used in connection with the sufferings of Jesus. It mav not be amiss to give a brief account of His trial. First of all, He appeared before Annas, the high priest, an acconnt of whiah we read ia John xrut: 1C to 39?"The high priest then asked Jens of Hia diacipJaa, and of Hia doctrine. Jena answered him, I spake openly to tke world; ever taught in the synagogue and in the temple, whith> rr the Jirrt always resort, and in secret have I said nothing. Why aakest thou Ma? Ask thrfm which heard Me whst I hare aid unto them: behold, they know what I *aid. And when He had thus spoken one of the officers which stood by struck Jesus with the palm of hia hand, saying, Annwerest Thou the high priest so?' It was an awful thing for this man with open hand to strike Him in the face. To strike Him, before Whom the angels veiled their faces; to strike Him before Whom the archangel sang: "Holy, holy, holy, Ixvd God Almighty!" But do you notice that when they struck Him He never shuddered? They could not * * ?? kl/sura Ui? V>M f Hurt mm wim any ?u. i. m when we read. "Now Simon Peter stood without and warmed himself," this in a blow which makes the Son of Ood shudder and Hh heart grow nick. The second part of the trial was Ilia appearance before Caiaphan. Here, although false witnesses appeared against Him He >va* perfectly silent. "But Jesus held Ilia peace. And the high priest answered and *aid unto Him. I adjure Thee by the living (Jod that Thou tell us whether Thou h? the Christ, the Son of Ood. Jesus said unto him. Thou hast *aid: nevertheless I nay unto jrou. Hereafter shall ve see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power and coming in the clouds of heaven." "And ther did anit in His fire." but H? never saw them. His eyes were blinded ro Kn insults, but Peter in the presence of Hia enemies was a blow at His very heart. They smote Him until, if He had been only mar. He would have staggered in His weak* ne.is. but they might as well have struck rock like Gibraltar and expected it to fall as to move Him with their blows, but when Peter stood in the presence of tho<? who were against Him. like one of them himself, it was a terrific blow at the So? of Hoi. The '.hit;? part of the trial wis befon the Sanhedrim. He ia led out from the court where He haa seen both Annas and Caiaphaa, and passes through an outer eourt to another room where the Sanhedrim is to meet. As He piase*. possibly near enough to reach out His hand and touch His dwciple, stidn.nly He heart Peter say: "I tell you I know Him not." He could forget the apitting of His ene> mies, the blows of those who hated Him, and the rods that had fallen upon Him in ,L- ?' mnltltiid* hut He could not forget Peter. That which hurt* Him the moat in these days is not the ain of the unregenerate ? this He must expect, but the sina of Hu own people for whom He suffered and died, and rose again. There ii an infinite amount of pathos in the words, "He turned and looked at Peter." No word of reproach fell from Hn lips, hut simply an expression of sorrow was there to be seen. Does He not look upon you to-day. and does He not arouse memories in your life?tows that you have broken?pledges that you have never kept? "Jesus, let TT>y pitying eye call back tue wandering sheep. False to Thee like Peter, I would fain like Peter weep." III. But do not be discoucaged. Man's usefulness not infrequently springs from bis recovery from some sin. Out of Peter's fall came his first epistle. The best glimpse that I have of the 8aviour's heart w that which comes when I think of His personal dealings with individnals. When I think of the God of Abraham I think of one who strengthens His child under trial. The Ood of Jacob is mv encouragement to b?flieve that my ola nature may be conquered, and my name changed from Jscob to Israel, the prince of Goa. The God of Elijah teaches me that prayer must be answered. The Saviour of Thomas encourages me while in doubt; the Saviour of Paul sustains me in my suffering, hut toe Saviour of Peter is the restorer of the pea item. Peter and Jesus met after the Resiirwtioo on the shore of the lake. It in tout significant that when he denied Christ it waa in the presence of the fire of c<m1* in the court of the enemy. When the Son of God met him on the shore of this lake there waa a tire of coal* Burning there. 1 doubt not but that all the story of his denial came rushing upon him. What waa aid at that interview we ohall not know until we hear it from Peter's own lipa, but it is safe to say that all his sins were forgiven, nnd even the marks of his dcaiai were taken away. If you have denied this same I?r l in vour business, in your home, or in society, He wait* to forgive and to forget. \nd He ''is the same yesterday, to-day mad forever" What a Child's Harmon Did. Some children were playing one day in Srtrden, and being tired ot the usual ipim?*. ecided to "play at church," ho all being arranged, Jennie, who was to be the minuter, announced this text: "If you love me, do as I tell you," and proceeded to explain its meaning: "It is not ea*v to do as you are told when you don't love the1 one who tells you; when the servant says, f.ome here,' or 'do this.' I don't like - ? f? obeying because i do not lore ner uui h<?w different it is when mother *ays, 'Jennie, dear, I want you.' Once mother told me to stop in the nursery aad mind baby while she went to oee some vruitofs; hut ?he was gone so long that I ran down just to speak to the little girl in the next door garden, and when [ came back mother looked at me so sadly. At bed-time I ihrew my arms round her, and said, 'Goodnight, mother dear. I do love you.' And ?he itaid. 'It is very difficult to believe that you love ine when you do not mind what I tell you. I don't care a bit for that kind of love.' And, oh, I did cry! "So that is just what Je?us means when H? says, 'If you love Me, do as 1 tell you;' and He tells us to 'Come to Him,' to 'Love on.? mother,' to 'Watch and pray,' tnd lot* n> other things, and He knows u w? are trying to mind and show that we love Him Amen." A young man who wa* resting unuer wie gard-n hedge nearby heard this simple little sermon, and it wu the mesas of clunking hi* whole life. Better Than Smashing. An Mtimable young married Itdf of a Kj/w-m village waited until the small hours for her husband, and he caine not. She could lot stand it longer, and. ruing, she dreitsed herself, armed herself with a revolver. and proceeded to a saloon in the village, where her suspicions that her husband was there were found to be well fouudfd. The wayward husbaud had spent th? evening and night until 3 a. m with four or five companions in convivial pleasure* in the saloon, and when the indignant wife marched into the place behind a gieuming revolver barrel there was a startled party of tippler* indeed.. Straightway she commanded her husband to leave the saloon and go home. Then she turned to a man in the party who bad demurred to Ifaving the place: "You have a good wife at home. uv>," the remarked quietly bnt tirmiv. "You had better go home, and go right now." He went. "Now," said she. turning to the proprietor. "you blow out your lights an J lock up this place. Kleven o'clock is late enough, and if the village authorities cannot enforce the law. I will," she said, as the whole party l< i: the place. The saloonkeeper closed lus door, and they walked away in the night. the woman with her hand ttill firinlv grasping the handle of the revolver Sh? had closed a joint without smashing it. and the best sentiment in her own town applauds her act.? Journal Pre**. Kindness. Did it ever occur to you that "kindneM* was one o( the element* of humility* Indeed, it is only the humble person that it in a condition to show kindness to others, for the oppomtc of kindness is unkindnets, and there can be no humility where there u unkindness. The unkind person is the one who is always demanding that other* nerve him and bend to his wishes, and this is an accentuated form of arrogance, or "self-assertion." Kindness of heart and Cride of manner never go together ?Pre* yterian Journal. Wire lew telegraphy ia to be u?ed on Iultruna u a meant of preventing railnf accident*. ?? ??????m ! THE GREAT DE8TB0YEB _immm?mrnm SOME STARTUNC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. PiMm: How tk? toy Waat Dot*.T1m Saloon la M laattlattaa, Porta* aa i a Public Baaafaetar la Ortfar U Dla*?lM lu Poalaaaa. It waa not on the field of battle. It waa not with a ahip at tea; But a fate far worse than either ! That ?tole him. away from me. s 'Twa* the death in the coby wine cup. That the rea?oa and-aenaea drown; I lie drank the alluring jio?aon, And thiu my boy went down. Went down from the height of manhood To the depth* of diagrace and tin, i Down to a worthleaa being. From the hope of what might have keen* ; It vu only the tame old atorjr That mother* ao often tell. With accent* of infinite sadneM j Like the tone* of a funeral bell. Ohcc.in nothing destroy thia evil? No bar in their pathway be thrown! i To Have from the terrible maelatrom | The thouunda of bojra going down? The ftaloon'i RmI Cbtnctor. The persistercy with which the idea ia ; being advocated that the flnt step of the < reform anihst the drink evil ought to be j the establishment of a substitute for the \ saloon indicates that the propagandists of i that idea have entirely overlooked one of ; the most patent of all facta bearing upon ! the question: The saloon is not a good in: stitution with incidental features that aiw ' bad; it is a bad institution that tries to | pose as a public benefactor for the purposa : of disguising its badness. Those features of the saloon system ' which we are told "minister to fundamen| tal needs of society," "facilitate social eif pression," etc., etc., are without exception exaggerated in the presentation that ia given to the public. As a "poor man's club" the saloon is a farce and a failure. True, there art saloons where comforts and luxuries can be found, but the saloons thai are patronized by the men who are without comfo-ts in their homes are bare of comfort, foul of air and dirty in every appoint* mcnt. There are very few homes, even ia ' the worst sections of American cities, thai 1 are not cleaner and more comfortable thu | the average poor nun's saloon. But even where the saloon may furnish : certain comforts and advantages, those i things are only incidental to the saloon ' business. "She saloon exists for the purpoa* J of selling drink, and is resorted to prima* > riiv for tne purpose of drinking. | During the discussion of Bisaop Potter"? outburst the early part of the year 1880, the New York Telegraph, which is in no way to be regarded as a temperance paper, made an illuminating remark as follows: never had any use for whisky except to get drunk with it. It was a wise man who *aid this. He had made a specialty { of drinking for some years, and eventually, i *eeing the futility of hie pursuit, had ceased, and was subsequently firing has opinion upon the valuelKwhiaky aa aa aid to civilization. He might have continued with the cognate assertion that the only use far a saloon is a plaas in which to gat drunk. Whisky is made becaua* men wish to get drunk, and saloons art maintained as convenient depots for the distribution and dissemination of whisky. Saloons are not poor men's dabs."?New; Voice. A Novelist's Opinion. It is a dark and difficult problem, bat one thing I see clearly, namely, that drink is the greatest and most baneful hypno* tmt on tbe earth at present, and that its influence is more awful than any plague, more devastating than any war. Looking back from more than mAlle life, I caa hardly remember a case orwrcck and ruin that has not been, directly or indirectly, the result of drink. It is a terrible rollrail my memory goes through of men oi good and even brilliant opportunities, who are dead or worse than dead, at the hands of the great hypnotist. Against that record I cannot recall a single case of a man who, free from the tvranny of drink, haa been utterly destroyed by misfortune. The inrdest blows of fate seem powerless to ' slay the man whom the great hypnotist ! rvnnot sub.lue. And thouah I think in* n-mpe ranee is often u much a confluence | n? a cause, I truly believe that if drink j could he Utterly wiped out of the world toI night, humanity would awake in the mornI in? with more than half its sorrows and ?ufTi?rings gone.?Hall Caine, in Household I Worda. Oar OnmtMt Can*. The saloon ii the greatest curie of tho ! present day, the fountainhead from whenc* flow atreania of evil. It fills our prisons with criminals, our insane asylums with victims And our graveyards with paupers' grave*. It turns nappy homes into barren wastes. It debauches and ruins the husband. the son, the father; it destroys tho happiness of the wtfe, the mother, tho daughter.* It clothe* them in rags, starve* them and breaks their hearts. And for what? That a few men may grow rich and flourish on the burnt ashes of homes. Kvery cor.sci#htious thinker admits thai all I have said is only the sad truth. Then why allow this terrible cause of crime and wretchedness to go on? Why not inaugurate a war against it that would overthrow it? If every good man should vote as hi* better nature dictates this evil would b* aboliahed. Do not sav that it is hopeleao to war against it. that this foe is too stronger intrenched in human hearts and aeltiahness. for riaht will triumph in tho rnd.?Jo*iah Allen's Wife, in the Woman'# Home Companion. New lamperane* Mom. A ^bar without beer" is <000 to b? opened under the auspice* of the Brown* ing Settlement, Walworth,. London. It will be in the lines of the ''Red House" in East London. A building baa been erected at the corner of York road and Walworth road, and the aim of the settlement will be to aupply wholesome food, tea, coffee, cocoa, ctc., at .t price within the mean* of .the working clasacs. In the same building a Robert Browning Club for workmen will be established. iod the Dr. I Dale Memorial library will tind a home inder the same roof. Membership of the ;lub will give free accou lr. the library. billiards. bagatelle, pinu pong, unlimited opportunities for mental eulturc, cricket and* football. Alcohol at All Tim* a Polaon. Dr. Thomas Bickerton, of Liverpool, oeakinj r?vently. aoid bo wan convinced that alcohol, which wu at all time** poinon. even when taken in the smallest ifiuntitie*. shortened a nun'* life. Front his hospital experience, he could may that without alcohol we could ol<w our ho** pital*. asylums and workhouses. Th? Crauil* in Rri*f. More than 50.000 Ammcmn* die from alcoholic drink every year. Moderate drinker* lirlong to the mow clu** is moderate stealer*. Karl Roberta come* before the British public with a renewed appeal that the turning soldier* should not be led into drunkennena by treating. j In the light of recent events in Mary una the menu* oi urmperance rctorm ana of good government luivc every rea.ion to be cncouraged. Not only has the tendency to rum rule been checked, hut the trin umph of civic mhtrouMiiciu liva been m part at least realized. I)r. Henrv, tne American upeaker and organizer. who t>egan work in Kngland & year ago, reports gratifying result*, especially in Scot and. where drink brings & degradation hardly heard of clwrhrrc. A man may owe to drunken parent* ort remoter ancestors a nervoux whichl craves uicoho . Yet in aii *ave one in^ atance in a thousand it i* alnetly true that it iies wuti the *nan himncif whether* or not he nil* submit to the hereditary predisposition and driaK. Mr iMiiriMii, one of the judges of the Su'? i.< * oiii-t of Newfoundland,, 'atr.y eo u alto liir people of a larra judicial .-t oil the utler nbo^ner of ?rim?-, ' <* ?.?.? .Iere?l waa due in a great :<> ? win temperate* tegta^uou .oug in finta