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CHAPTER XXIV.
Continued.
"No, dear father," replied Kate
"They fear I may tell her -what I over
heard, and that the half crazy ol<
woman will attempt to destroy them
Have you ever tried to bribe Danie
or Stephen or Fan?"
"Repeatedly, and .'n vain," said Elgin
They fear my vengeance should I re
gain my freedom."
A few minutes passed in affectionat<
conversation, and then Nancy unlocke<
the door and came in.
"Catharine Elgin," said she, "yoi
must now return to your room."
"Say prison, evil-hearted woman,'
said Elgin. "Farewell, my dear child
and heaven guard you."
"And you, too, my poor father," sai<
Kate.
"Come, come!" said Nancy, stampin;
her foot "We've had enough of tha
nonsense."
Father and child separated, an<
Henry Elgin was again alone.
He heard Nancy lock the door of th
crimson chamber and then that of th
ante-room.
He waited until he heard the wel
known tramp of Daniel sounding ii
the hall, and then looking up the chim
ney, called out:
^ork, my son! I watch for you!"
Greene began his toilsome work one
more. He had first to remove th
strong iron work, and then to pas
through some thirty feet of flue befori
he could hope to stand upon the roof
Leaving him at his dangerous task
let us follow Nancy Harker.
She conducted Kate to the white ant
gold apartment, locked her in, and wai
lingering in the hall when Daniel ap
peared.
"What news, Daniel?"
"Well, we saw the young gentlemai
board the cars, and his baggage, too,'
replied Daniel. "He seemed ver:
gloomsome like, and never spoke i
word after we left Mr. Hammond uj
stairs."
"Did you Trait until the cars left?'
asked Nancy, eagerly.
"No; we left him wrapped up in hi:
cloak in a corner seat, and he looke<
like he cared for nothing and nobod:
in the world. What's up now, Mrs
Harker?"
"Nothing that I can telL If old Fai
comes this way, send her off instantly
Daniel. Where is Stephen?"
"He said he was going to bed; an<
Mow me, if I don't wish I was,'
growled Daniel.
"You shall have a nap before long,'
said Nancy, as she hurried away.
"If I don't." growled Daniel, as hi
began to pace the floor; "if I don't
blow me! I will go to sleep walkinj
about."
Tr> loco tVion ton miniitpQ ho WflC nnr
lng to and fro with his eyes shut, own
than half asleep, and in five minutei
more he leaned against the wall, am
gradually sank down upon the floor
sound asleep, with his lantern by hii
side.
Then a bent and crouching shatfi
crept along the hall, which was dark
although day was dawning without
and stole into the ante-cbamber of thi
white and gold room.
It was old Fan, whose half crazet
mind had clung to the only two wordi
Kate had uttered when they were las
together:
"Yes, Fan "
Kate hau said so much, and the ol<
woman longed to hear more, for he:
suspicions were aroused.
Fan tanDed at Kate's door with hei
skinny knuckles, and whisp'eret
through the key-hole:
"My lady bird! Miss Elgin!"
There was no reply. Poor Kate
soothed by the whispers of joyful hope
slept, and heard not the tremblinj
whispers of old Fan. Again th<
wretched old woman rapped at th<
door. "Miss Elgin! Birdie!"
'Come 'Ut of that!" growled Daniel
who slept like a cat. with his ear:
open. "Come out of that, or I'll sti
you up!"
Old Fan cursed him fearfully, and re
treated to her kitchen to twist an*
turn those two words that burned i]
iter urum? j.es, run?
Nancy Harker had hurried to th
library, and there she found Ilammont
writing.
"What are you doing?' asked Nancy
"Writing an explanatory letter t<
Charies." said Luke. "And I mus
write another to a former friend o
mine to take Charles in hand and mak<
him less of a saint."
Nancy waited in silence until Luk
had finished his letter to Charles; bu
when she saw him begin one to th
friend of whoa he had spckca, sh
said:
"Do not write it!"
"Ah! And why not, Nancy?" sai
Luke, with a snap of his teeth.
"If Charles is a saint, let him remai
a saint. The world needs many lik
tiim."
"Com?, enough of that." said Lukt
bristling up his hair and glaring a
iuer. "You have had your way ion;
?nor.gh about Charles, Nancy."
44Hp hns "vawti nn n mon T.nto nrii
? never done anything to blusli for," sai<
Nancy.
"Ha!" bvs'jed Hanracnd. "Unde
your guidance he is still able tp biusfc
Now. I iutend to rectify that mistake
Mrs. Nancy. I am of the opinion tha
nay son will never be anything but j
booby so long as ce is able to blush, a
you call it. I intcud that Charles an<
I shall be firm allies hereafter."
"You wish to make your son as ba<
as yourself. Luke?" said Nancy.
"I T.'ish to be able to speak upon an;
subject in my son's presence, and no
fear his absurd ideas of Vijzht am
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wrong. Nancy," said Luke, "with a c,
flourish of his pen. \
"You roust not do!" said Nancy.
? "You "will dare to oppose me!" ex- s:
j claimed Hammond. n
"I will dare!" 6aid Nancy. d
j "Woman! be careful! You are grow- 11
ing dangerous again," said Luke, knit- ii
ting his heavy brows. "What right a
' have you to come between me and my ii
son? Mind your own business, Mrs. a
Harker. You will have enough to do n
j to settle your own affairs with John
Marks when he claims his son. He is s
j a terrible fellow to trifle with. What h
will you tell him when he comes and tl
? says, and proves it, 'Harriet Foss is
I dead, and John Marks wants his re- >
ward?Marks wants his son!' Eh? s
j What?" S
Nancy Harker was very pale as she a
replied:
' "Never fear, Luke. I shall be able "
1 to make my words good." tl
"Yes, but how?" sneered Luke. "You p
* will lead John Marks to England; you
will lead him to Highgate in London;
e you will then enter Park House, the a
B Asylum for Idiots; you will lead him si
through swarms of idiots until you
1 pause before a thin, horribly distorted
1 face?the face of a man of eighty on
' the body of a youth of twenty-sis or
seven years; you will point at the grin- e
ning, brainless, chattering Idiot and a
e say, 'John Marks, behold your son!'
e Ha! wil) you dare do that, Nancy h
s Harker? By my blood, I would like to tl
e be there, in some safe place, to see and
hear you do it!" ^ E
? Hammond snarled this terrible pic* a
ture from his tefh and began to write h
* again. Nancy gazed upon him half
5 sorrowfully, naif in triumph. n
"Or have you lied to me, Nancy l<
Harker?" he cried, bristling his hair
again. "Does the son of John Marks E
* really live?" b
"I have not lied, Luke," replied
? Nancy. "The son of John Marks and f;
1 Nancy Dunn that was, of Nancy Har- tl
? ker that is, does live. Two years ago
when in London, where you dare not r<
" gO " - l?
"Yes, I have an enemy there, called si
5 the Law," interrupted Luke, sneer5
ingly. ei
P "When I was there," resumed Nancy, ";
1 wtjjjt IU Uie ja.tsy iuus iui luiuis a i A>
Highgate. I saw the youth and bad b
3 his portrait taken." h
"Have you that portrait? You never si
told me of this," said Luke. "I would .
* like to see it."
' "I have it. Luke," said Nancy. "I t<
had no particular cause to speak of it, fi
or perhaps I forgot it. I will go to my I
room and get it."
e "Do. I would like to see what the d
? son of my dear friend John Marks a
I looks like."
Nancy left the library and soon re- b
" turned with a large miniature painted si
? on ivc-y, which she gave to Hammond, n
5 saying: ci
1 "This is the exact image of the u
'? youth." i-i
5 Luke gazed at the hideous, distorted
and soulless face fof a long time, and tl
J then laughed aloud.
? "By my soul, Nancy, I don't envy
you ana jonn AiarKs sucn a son anu
e heir! "The face of a human monkey?
what eyes?what terrible eyes it has!
And the mouth! Augh! take it away, 81
5 or I shall dream of it! And that is 01
1 John Marks' son?my nephew! my ?|
nephew! Pah!"
He laughed gleefully. It really did "
1 him so much good to think that the
r son of John Marks was a miserable, P1
driveling, idiotic wretch; while his was ei
r a magnificent, glorious, handsome man 1E
1 ?tall, strong and intellectual, but
much too virtuous to please Hammond.
T
Suddenly he exclaimed, as if wildyi"
with delight:
? "But, Nancy, I tell you what John p
- Marks can do. He can make a fortune 6'
s by showing the thin? around! He '
might make a splendid speculation by
exhibiting the boy!" '
s Acain he lauclied loud and lone, and w
w w? ftl
r hugged himself to think Marks had
S(
such a son.
Then cheeking himself as he noticed *
3 the corpse-white and appalled face of
1 his sister, he said:
"But I am wrong. I forget you were
e the mother of it." 1X1
i Of it! The it was a better thing?
with all its awful ugliness and idiotic
. horror?than vile, demon-hearted Rol- it
d and Dunn, or, as he wrote himself in a
t great, broad, black letters?Luke Ham- si
f rnond, Esq. tl
e Nancy Harker placed the miniature u
in her bosom, and her eyes gleamed ii
e and sparkled as she did so. But the I
t gleaming and ?;parkliug was not from n
e the sheen of tears; it was the flashing n
e of .1 malice as profound and more ex- J
ultant than his. ii
"I have finished my letters," said "
il Hammond, at length, and tossing aside ^
his pen. ri
u mir not seaieu tuem," salt; Nancy. u
e who had secretly folded a blank sheet 11
of paper into the form of a letter.
?, "That will be done in a moment."
t said Luke, seeking *ur sealing-wax. "I
:j swear there was a stick of wax here ir
this morning." said lie, and then turned
rl his back to Nancy to seek for more in p
d his desk.
As quick as light, and as noiseless,
r Nancy exchanged the letter folded in j,1.
blank for the one Hammond had writ- g
>, ten to his friend in Paris, extracting a,
t the letter from its envelope and re1
placing it with the former. n]
p Hammond turned, sealed the letter.
1 **? /! r?lothnm \r\ liic 1 mcnm
a arm * nl
"Now. Nancy." gaid lie. "I must hare j,
3 some sleep. You had better go lie ;E
down. Tell Stephen to wake me "
r "Stephen sleeps," said Nancy,
t "Well, tell Daniel to wake me at ten. ai
III ruust send Stephen at that time tn C
*
?
ly office to say that 1 nin eut of town
nd to bring me my letters. Curse the
'tters! they have been nothing but
uns of late. Good morning, Nancf. i
on't dream?no dreams. Dreams I
on't trouble me. Nancy. I am too ,
latter-of-fact to dream"?be "was rut- ;
ng.fresh caps on his pistols?"entirely >
)o matter-of-fact for that nonsense, !
[rs. Nancy Harker."
Nancy -was leaving the library. when i
e exclaimed:
"But it is strange about that idiot,
nien I saw him and Charles, let me (
hink?saw them playing together, '
tventy years ago?both boys seemed
rjually bright?more like twin brothers
ban cousins, Nancy. My boy was not
- i.li jl il.. Vin_ 1
J mil auu ciiuui <tb lue uiuci, vuij ut- ^
ause my boy was the younger. YouDg
larks seemed all right, then."
"Yes," said Nancy; "there was no |
ign of idiocy then. But two years J
fter the unfortunate boy began to '
roop and fail, first in mind and then
i body. So rapidly did his infirmity
icrease, that in a year from its first
ppearance he was declared a hopeless
[liot. and I placed him in an idiot
sylum. Two years ago I bad him reloved
to the Park House Asylum."
"Nancy Harker," said Hammond,
ternly, "never let Charles know that
e has such a cousin. Remember
bat."
"I will remember it. Luke." said
.'ancy. "You rejoice too much in your
on's perfection of body and mind,
uppose heaven hr.d smitten your son
nd spared mine, Luke."
"Woman!" cried Luke, fiercely,
away! You terrify me with the very
bought. My son such a thing?imposossible!"
And Nancy left him in silence.
.tie loeKee ms aoors. nnu was soon i
sleep in chair?vigilant in his
leep,.
CHAPTER XXT.
TTTE DEATH OF OLD FAIT.
Ten o'clock, the hour for awakening
[ammond, arrived, and Daniel rapped
t the library door.
Luke awoke with a start, and on
earing Daniel's growling voice opened
tie door.
Daniel started back in surprise, for
[ammond was as pale and care-worn
s if he had been sick and confined to
is bed for a year.
"What are you staring at?" delanded
Luke. "What is the news be>w
?"
"I peeped in at the gentleman," said
aniel, "anu he ordered me to send his
reakfast to him at once."
"Ah! He is growing strong very
ist," said Hammond. "And how is
ie lady?" .
"Mrs. Harker was there just now,"
?plied Daniel. "She said the young
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luy was uugiiiei luio uuv
till refused to eat."
"That girl's obstinacy and powers of
odurance astonish me," thought Luke.
By my life, she will make a queenly
'ife?a regal spouse. But she'll starve
efore she will yle!d. Well, we'll let
er starve until night. Better she
tiould be weak than strong."
Then aloud to Daniel:
"Now go awake Stephen, and t*:i him
) come to me. Then you may take
ve hours of sleep, Daniel. Tell Fan
shall soon be ready for breakfast."
Daniel departed, and Hammond sat
own to think until Stephen should
ppear.
"I have been annoyed by the most
orrid and dismal dreams while I
!ept," thought he. "Matter-of-fact or
ot, I have had a terrible nightmare
rushing the blood out of my heart
ntil it beats as soft and limp as a
ig"
He sought relief in his decanter, and
lougnt again.
To be continued.
The Gentle Art.
Surely conversation deserves the epl*
let gentle almost more than any other
rt. Is there one that is susceptible
f more delicate and subtle handling,
ae that yields such beautiful and derable
results? All of us could afford
> take.a lesson in the art from Ras
[akonnen of Abyssinia, who is at
resent in Paris. A French interview
asked him which stood the higher
i his favor. France or England. "Is
3ur respected mother still alive? May
ae teach you discretion!" came the
aswer. so baffling and so conclusive,
o another who sought his opinion of
ondon and Londoners, the Ras relied.
"May God have you in His
icred keeping!" There are great adantages
in belonging to a civilization
lat is too ancient to be impolite, and
>o wise to babble indiscretions. It
ould be an interesting experiment to
rrange a meeting between the repremtatives
of two ancient races, say
byssinia and China, and study their
ttempts to get information from one
other. From such a spectacle the
iplomaey of all Europe could learn
iuch.?Pall Mall Gazette.
A Lazy Alan'* Reward.
Necessity is said to be the motner ot
lvcntion, and from tlie severe delauds
she makes I sometimes think
be is a stepmother, says a writer in
ie Woodworker. ' One of the laziest
leu I had was put at the job of shakig
sand through a shaking sifter, and
thought I had him where there was
0 dodging. He worked along until
oon, and when lie came back from his
inner he brought a roller skate, cut it
1 two parts, and iiad that, sifter on
rlieels, doing double the amount of
ork with half the labor. He has been
?lieved of the doubtful distinction of
eing called "Lazy Joe" to a position
lore in keeping with the intelligence
e has made it evident he possesses.
Unity in MarrlHge Law*.
The perplexity caused by contrary I
larriagc laws and customs has caused |
ie continental liaticus to try to si:u- i
lify theui on a single basis.
The plenipotentiaries of Holland,
erinany, Austria-Hungary. Belgium,
ranee, Italy. Luxemburg, Portugal,
weden and Switzerland have signed
t The Hague couventions regulating
ie conflicting laws in the matter of
larriage, divorce, marriage settlelents
and the guardianship of private
linors. prepared by the Conference of
iteruational Law held at The Hague
i 19C9.
Intercessory prayer might be defined 1
$ loviug our neighbor on our knees.? 1
barles H. Brent.
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WHY DO MEN CO TO BALL CAMES? |
Fascination In the Crack of the Bat and
the Long Htt.
Some people will say that men go for |
recreation, says Collier's Weekly. True j
enough, but that Js a platitude, ? shal- |
low generality. There are all sorts of ;
rprreations. But.what one of them I
holds a mass of people in business
hours, day after day, for a season,
and season, after season? Men go "wild
over golf, and not long ago a Boston
manufacturer failed because he could
not keep at bis desk. But every one
knows that the golf spirit is on the
wane, and that an attack of the fever
has its limits?with some a month,
with others a year?and there is a
very large class of immunes. Taking
baseball in its own class, that of the
out-of-door sports, it is no exaggeration
to say that it is the one game which
holds its clientele of enthusiasts year
after year with so little fluctuation
that the cause Is a mystery. For some
years there had been a waning of interest,
it seemed, in the country, and
many thought the great American
game was about to be supplanted and
tro to ioin bicycling, croquet, - and all
such, since the days of the turkey-shoot
and the barn-raising; but this season
there is greater enthusiasm all over
the country than was ever known be*
fore, and so far the attendance at
prames in all leagues major and minor
has been unprecedented. A generation
has come and is going since the great
Ward was known from ocean to ocean !
?and. still the game lives, the great j
American game.
That means that there is something
in it which appeals to the American j
temperament; for, though transplanted, i
it has never prospered, except to a cer- j
lain extent in Australia and South Africa,
where the temperament is very
nearly American. The Spaniard has
his bullfight, and he will throng to the
arena in thousands each Sunday to see
the same old performance he has seen
scores of times before. There is never
any doubt about the outcome; the
bulls always gore the horses, the banderillos
always plant the barbed sticks
in the bull's necks, and the matador
always kills the bulls. Now and then
a bull will maim or kill a toreador, but
that is so seldom that it cancel
be that the people go to see. II
Is the love of combat which stire
the Latin blood and the Spanish |
cruelty which delights in the spectacle '
of bloodshed and aeatn. wnerever |
Spanish blood is predominant there one J
will find the bullfight. It suits the
Spanish temperament. Th^ Austrian
and the Russian love their racing and
all that pertains to horses, the German
is fond of the crashing pins of the
strike and the nice calculation of mak- '
ing a spare out of a bad break, the j
Englishman cannot be weaned from ,
his dogged game of cricket and belter
skelter sort of football. It is all to >
the temperament. And what, then, is
it in baseball, which appeals to the
American temperament?
Perhaps there is an answer to this in
n conversation which befell in Cleveland
several years ago, when delays of '
travel chanced to bring four National
League teams together in the same
hotel. The subject of any player's
popularity and the cause was up.
There were four of the most popular
men in the game in the crowd, certainly
four men who ought to know.
r?no +V10 man xuhft mnde Rensa- i
VUt lUVUgllV IAJ V ujiuu .. ? v _
tional catches in. the field nnd startling
stops in the infield won popularity;
another thought it was reliability and
steadiness and base running: a third
felt sure a man's carriage, quickness
and cleanness in movement and play
did the trick* while a fourth thought it
was put-outs and assists that were the
best pleasers of the crowd.
"You are all wrong," said another,
who had come up behind them unnoticed.
"The crowd likes the crack
of the bat and the long hit."
I
Doe* Man Understand Woman?
A man can very seldom tell what is
passing in a woman's mind. He talks
with another man and he can follow
his processes; he gets his point of
view; he can read between the lines;
he can make a shrewd guess as to how
he came to say that, or why he refrained
from saying the other.
But a woman's mental processes are
not those of a man. Her mental machinery
is geared differently. You
hear what she- tells you. You can
make inferences from it; they will be
wrong, because you do not know how
she came to say what she did; you do
not have the clew. Try to guess what
she will sny next, and you will tind
that you are all at sea.
The man who says that he understands
woman Is himself a woman.
No man can understand a woman. He
may love her. There may exist be- i
twcen his soul and hers that indefinable
and celestial sympathy which is
the sweetest thing on earth; but he
does not understand her.
Her mental opinion, her ways of
thought, her point of view will always
be as inscrutable to him as the mental
nrnwcsps nf on nnsrel. Whether "women
I" v'' r?
understand each other is not quite certain.
A greater part of the delight
that men find in the companionship
of womt-n arises from their own inscrutability.
You cannot measure or
exhaust them. !
Their charming inconsequence, as
they seem to you, will never cease i'o
puzzle you, and every fresh conversation
reveals a novelty or opinion.? j
Philadelphia Times.
An Alment-MIntlrd A t'st.
" Edward L. Henry, the Academician, ;
Is considerably over sixty years old, \
but his youthful, smooth face, aside
from his gray Jjair, has deceived many j
persons. Ho is an Inveterate joker, |
and also exceedingly absent minded, j
This is an actual experience that he
had nt the Century Club not lone ago. j
It was a reception, and Mr. Henry j
was very busily talking to a fellowartist,
when something irritated his
ankle. He stooped down, lifted the
imttnin of one of the other man's |
trouser loss,calmly scratched tlio other
man's ankle just above the patent
leather tie. and replacing the garment,
went on talking, wholly oblivious
his action, and apparently periv
satisfied.?New York Times.
Mnn nn<l the Calf.
Man and the calf can both be driven
to the drinking place easily. But it
s oniv the calf that can't be made to
3rink after It gets there.?New York '
Press 1
TIE RELIGIOUS LIFE
READING FOR THE QUIET HOUR
WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF.
Poem: Don't Forget?The True Christian
Philosophers Should School Themselves
to Extract Happlnens Frou
Troublsw? Trials Perfect Character.
In the petty cares and trials
That perplex us day by day;
*Mid the toils and self-denials
We encounter in our way;
.When we feel our patience failing,
And our courage almost gone,
Two things still we'll find availing?
Keeping sweet and holding on.
Tho' we look thro' tears of sorrow
Back o'er yesterdays of pain,
Farther on there waits a morrow,
When the sun will shine again,
'And beneath its smile of favor
We may think of victories won
Humbly trusting in our Saviour,
Keeping sweet and holding on.
. ?Ida M. Budd, in Ram's Horn.
uoy in rroooie.
After laving been cruelty beaten with
rods the apostle Paul and his helper Silas
were cast into prison and their feet made
fast in stocks. About midnight their fellow
prisoners were surprised to hear them
prayinz and singing in spite of their breeding
ana achin<* backs. How men could be
happy under such circumstances was something
which they could not comprehend.
From that inner prison into which the missionaries
had oeen put they were accustomed
to hear groans and curses, but never
Srayer or singing. Their amazement, peraps,
accounts for the fact that they did
not try to escape when they were set free
by the earthquaice. They wished to see the
men who, though greatly suffering, were
impelled to lift up their voices in praise
and, if possible, learn their.secret.
The joy of Christiana in trouble, savs
Wellsprinc, has ever been a surprise to the
world. The followers of Jesus are not
stoics, whose theory is that one should not
be moved by either pleasure or pain. On
the contrary, their religion makes them the
more keenly alive to both, because it enlarges
the heart. Why is it, then, that
with keener sensibilities they are sustained
in affliction when others break down? Why
is it that in circumstances where others
worry they have peace of mind?
Surely it is because they have such faith
and trust in the love of God. Paul and
Silas could sing when others would groan,
because God was so near to them in their
suffering. The balm that the jailer applied
to their bruised backs waa aa nothing to
the balm that God's presence brought to
their hearts. It is that eense of His pres__
3 1 . . 1 Xl A. I "
ence ana iove ana sympatny mac sustains
one during the darkest nours, giving him a
peace even in sorrow that passeth understanding.
This life is a training school, nnd no one
can escape its discipline, and ought not if
he could. But discipline ought not to
hreak down, but to strengthen, and it
never will break one down if he but rests
all the while in the love of God. God
wants us to live lives of joy, not of mourning.
If those who are young will but let
Christ fill their hearts with His love they
will rejoice in the morning of their life, in
its noon, and at its close.
Gema of Thought.
Life's reals depend on religion's ideals.?
Ram's Horn.
Write it on your heart that every day is
the best day of the year.?Emerson.
The road to ruin is a down grade, not a
leap over a precipice.?United Presbyterian,
The habit of looking on the best side of
every event is worth more than a thousand
pounds a year.?Dr. Samuel Johnson.
Beauty is God's handwriting; welcome it
in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair
flower and thank for it?Him, the fountain
of all loveliness.?Charles Kingeley.
Tu be everywhere and everything in
sympathy and yet content to remain
where and what you are?is not this to
know both wisdom and virtue and to dwell
with happiness ??R. L. Stevenson.
Nothing can lessen the dignity of humanity
so long as the religion of love, of unselfishness
and of devotion endures, and none
can destroy the altars of this faitii for ua
r>a ly-.no* aft wn nonaWn r\f 1 attO
DU 1VU|^ ttO ICCi VUlDtl* W3 Ut iV/?W,
?Amiel's Journal.
The greatest man is he who chooses the
right with invincible resolution, who regists
the sorest temptations from within
and without, who bears the heaviest burdens
cheerfully, who is calmest in storma
and most fearless under menace and
frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue,
on God.is most unfaltering.?W. E. ChanninS*
It is easier to see a fault in another
man's course than to perceive his good
qualities. Hence a man measures himself
by his measure of others. The fault finder
and the sneerer is commonly a small man.
As a man approaches greatness he grows
generous and gracious. Not what he thinks
of himself, but what he sees in others,
shows what he really is. It is well to have
this truth in mind as we pass judgment on
our fellows.?Sunday-School ilmea.
Bellgions Illiteracy,
The Rev. Dr. N. D. Hillis, in a recent
university address, called attention to the
dangers of religious and moral illiteracy.
He said: "The father of a family is 'willing
to be a tailor for Lis boys, the mother is
willing to be a coolc, but when it comes
to giving any moral or religious education
to the children both withdraw and
leave it to any one who will attempt it.
This law carried out for one generation
brings us to the pitiful condition of moral
illiteracy in which we find ourselves. No
youth can hope to attain weight of character
who does not practice early the culture
of' Christian faculties as he does his art,
his law, his science. And as his efforts in
one are directed so should thev be in the
other. The highest form of scholarship is
the science of right living. Children are
bundles of ungrown roots. How they shall
develop depends upon the training they
receive. And this training must be in morals
as well as intellectual pursuits."
Lettinc Go Is Taklntr Hold.
Giving is gettinz; letting go is holding
on, in God's service. Not what we get.
but what we give, is the measure of our
possessions. As we let go of what we
value, rather than as we hold on to it, i= it
made ours. Dr. Bu?hnell expressed this
truth when he said, characteristically.
"You never know a truth until you'v* told
it to somebody else." And Browning illustrates
it when he says:
"A poor man served by thee shall maka
Thee rich:
A sick man helped by thee shall make
thee strong;
Thou shalt be served thj-self by every
sense
Of service thou renderest."
And. most of all, St. Paul emphasizes the
bnsal truth when he reminds us, "Remember
the words nf the Lord Jesus, that He
Himself said. It is more blessed to give
than to receive."
True Conrage Required.
To follow the truth in social life requires
a courage and a wisdom not surpassed on
any of life's battlefields. The Christian
who is wholly honest in all his social relations
has advanced far in the spiritual life.
?Wellspring.
Bcllere In the Present.
Soberly and with clear eyes believe in
your own time and place. There is not,
there never has been, a better time or a
better place to live in. Only with this belief
can you believe in hope. ? Phillips
Brooks.
Ait culture In Great Britain.
According to the agricultural returns for
1902. the total aica ot Great Britain is SC.780.000
acres. The total production of the
chivf cereal crops was as follows for the
United Kingdom: Wheat, 7,285,000 quarters;
barley. 9.303,0(10 quarters; oats, 23,023.000
quarters. Of animals the returns
show that there were the following numbers
in tiie United Kingdom: Horses,
2,011,701; cattle, 11,477,824; sheep, 30,829,6S9;
pigs, 3,411.129.
A Hog Ccnttm.
According to a census taken last year
there were ] .871,019 dogs in Great Britain,
or one far, roughly estimating, every -J
human beings.
1 i nTvn i m t\rmmT\rTTTin
|THJS liKKAl IJJISilCUIlSK
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Poem: "What Town Is Thl? ? ? Air an Immediate
and Xiiential Influence on
Crime, Drinking Exceeds Any of tlie
Other Becogntzed Caniei.
I What towns is this, with dirty lanes;
With' gates awry and fences down;
I Unpainted houses?broken panes? I
Why, this is known as Drunkards' Town.
! The men are lazy and unclean;
The tavern door they gather 'round;
They have no pride?they have no shame;
But, then, they live in Drunkards' Town.
The children of this wretched |>!ace^
*juun iuc Bwrccis arc tnwajo ivuiiu
Witn grimy hand and dirty face;
But they don't care in Drunkards' Town.
The wife at home has naught to frpArc,
They buy provisions by the pound,
And each receives a scanty share
Of clothes and food in Drunkards' Town.
Thev have no schools in this mea* .own,
They have no church?no Sunday there?
O! who would live in Drunkards' -Town?
Not I, for worlds, I do declare.
?Stylus Penn.
defence and the Temperance Cause. *
In the study of the "ethnic factors in the
; population of Boston," by Dr. Frederick
i H. Busher, drink is described as a chief
I cause of both poverty and crime, more especially
among the irish, English, Scotch
' and Americans.
j A report of the proceed ings and conclu|
eions of the Sixth International Prison
j Congress, held at Brussels in August, 1900,
! made by Mr. Samuel J. Barrows, the Commissioner
for the United States, and just
published by order of our Congress, contains
a debate on the relation of alcoholism
to crime,:which confirms the conclusions
of Dr. Busher as to the evil potency
of drink. Dr. Masoin, permanent Secretary
of the Belgian Royal Academy of Medicine.
opened the discussion with a report
on the subject, in which he pointed out
that statistics in different countries show
differences in the ratio of crime attributable
to alcoholic intemperance, but that in
all it is large. As an immediate and essential
influence on crime, drinking exceeds
any of the other recognized causes. Occa
eional intoxication is a preponderant cause,
more particularly yi emotional crimes and
misdemeanors and in those against morals
and offenses against the person, but, obviously,
it is much less important as a stimulation
to offenses which require preparation,
such as theft, swindling, forgery and
embezzlement. *
Among the conclusions adopted by the
Congress was a suggestion that "in different
countries, making allowance for latitude,
climate and temperament, the maximum
degree of alcohol contained in fermented
liquors should be ascertained with
a view to establishing a line of demarcation
between alcohol ana non-alcoholic drinks,
and to show the relation between alcohol*
ism and crime and to furnish a basis for
comparative statistics."
A third discussion of the evil influences
of alcoholic drinking, recently published
by Dr. Robert Jones, the medical superintendent
of the Claybury Lunatic Asylum,
at London, is made the basis of an article
by the Medical Record of New York, in
which alcoholic intemperance as a cause of
I insanity is treated specifically. Dr. Jones
I shows from public statistics that of the
110,000 certified insane persons now in England
and Wales alone, alcohol is assigned
as the cause of the insanity in 21.5 per cent,
of the males and 9.5 per cent, of the females.
Of those remaining in the asylums
at the present time he believes that "at the
lowest computation there are no less than
! 10,900 males and 5800 female who are mentallv
decrepit through the effects of alcohol."
Dr. Jones finds, as to age, that "the period
of greatest incidence to the pernicious
effects of alcohol corresponds closely with
that upon which falls the greatest mental
strain, or, that men between twenty-five
and thirty years, and, again, between thirty-five
and forty are more susceptible to alcohol
than those of any other age.
In commenting on the conclusions of the
English insanity expert, the Medical Record
expresses the opinion that "perhaps
the assertion that drink is the most potent
cause of mental disorders would now nass
without cavil," for unquestionably the
brain is the organ which is most disastrously
affected by excessive indulgence in alcohol,
although other organs may be seriously
injured, the outcome of the habit i*
more frequently mental dissolution."
I The necessity for severe measures for the
| protection of society against so potent an
! evil is now recognized throughout civilizai
tion. "Almost every country of the
| world," says the Medical Record, "is tak!
ing up the drink question, alarmed at the
j inroads which the unbridled consumption
I of alcohol has made and is making into the
prosperity, health and morals of their peoj
pie. "Alcohol," said Dr. de Boeck, a Bel|
gian insanity expert, to the Brussels International
Prison Congress, "is a violent poii
son to the nervous elements," "destroy#
them when taken in large doses, or by a
slow death when taken in small, but often
! repeated quantities," and "the only way
I of lessening the frequence of crimes and
I misdemeanors engendered by alcohol is to
[ forbid the sale of alcoholic drinks or to
| raise the price to such an extent as to
| place them beyond the reach of the mass
of the people."?New York Sun.
Drink Weaken*.
^jnoc onjy aoes example stimulate uuim- i
j tion, but strong drink weakens capacity j
| for leadership. During our Civil War, on |
| both sides battles were lost on account of ,
I intoxication of the commanders. Ten years j
I ago the British war vessel Camperclown j
| rammed and sunk the battleship Victoria, i
! It was done on a sunshiny day, when the ,
! eea was as calm as a lake. Admiral ,Tryon, j
the best sailor?the sea lord?of England, j
was on the Victoria, commanding the fleet, j
which was steaming in two parallel lines,
j Tryon ordered the lines to wheel toward I
| each other, and, turning, to steam right j
j about. The Vice-Admiral on the Camper- j
! down realized, as he afterward said at the j
investigation, that the turning distance between
the lines was too short for the evolution.
He signally his apprehension, but
the order was curtly repeated, and obeyed.
As a result the Victoria was rammed and ,
i sunk. The explanation was that Tryon, j
j thoroughly accomplished in naval matters, i
j the Von Moltke of the sea, was drunk, and |
I all his great knowledge and experience was .
j suspended by strong drink. He was so!
bered by "the shock, realized his awful er- |
j ror, ana deliberately went down with his
! vessel, staining the reputation of a lifetime,
j bringing discredit on his navy, responsible
I for the death of 500 of his men, and closing
j his life in suicide.
i Example is forceful in drinking, as in ab!
staining. A drinking captain makes a
drunken private. If the Governor in|
dulges, the members of the staff clink his
wine glass. The habit of treating is reI
sponsible for many drunkards.
The Cruimle > Brief.
Protect the home from the saloon or the
| saloon will destroy the home.
i T ? -A. HAifOKnAi* r\t "Rolfacf nnH
I Lrfil.SL V Cell LUC VilUifViuui w- v ? .
' County Antrim prison, Ireland, affirmed |
I that of the hundreds of prisoners under |
his care, with a probable exception of j
three or four, every one had become a crim- j
innl through drink.
Fifty temperance women of the north !
and west sides of Chicago have organized j
i to ojien club rooms for street car men,
i with the idea of attracting employes from
! the taloons. The plan is to rent rooms in
j the vicinity of each car barn, where the
I raiiroad men can rest while off duty.
! There are 195 parishes in Scotland withj
out a public house, also 709 congregations
I in Scotland have discarded the use of fari
men ted wine at the sacrament of the
Lord's Supper. I
The report from Pekin is that the Chi- [
nese authorities have ordered all foreign ,
saloonkeepers to close their saloons and tc j
leave the city within three days, thereby |
removing from the city one disgrace to j
Western civilization and a hindrance to
mission work.
The new temperance blacklist law in
England seems to be rigorously enforced.
Over 100 inebriates have been * blacklisted
in London. A woman who is on the blacklist
has been sent to prison f?r a month
for trying to obtav> drink, and a mar. and
woman were fined for obtaining liquor fox
drunken trieuda.
X
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL |
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JULY 19.
Subject: Sainael'a Farewell Addre*?, 1 * >
Sam. xlt., 13-25?Golden Text, 1 Sain. !
xll., 24? Meinorr Ver?e?. 13-35?Com*; *:
uentary on the Day's Lesson. r!
Connecting Links. The attempt of thtf:
Ammonites to avenge themselves on ac . <
count of the defeat they had suffered at
I the hand of Jephthah (Jud. 11:33) gave ^
to Saul an opportunity to secure for him*
I self recognition. The army, flushed witb
the glory of their splendid triumph, highJj
extolled their king and actually proposed 35
to put to death any who refused to recog>
nize his authority. Samuel, who was with <3?
the army (v. 7), deemed this a mo9t op- *
portune time to establish Saul in the gov'
ernment and secure for him national recog- *
nition. Accordingly he called the people j
together to GUgal, and, with impressive
ceremonies, ratified the election at ^Ii?
Eeh and formally inaugurated Saul intc ?
is regal office. It is quite probable that
Saul was publicly anointed at this times ?
1. Samuel's integrity (vs. 1-5).< Samuel,
though he.was still to retain his influence
and authority as prophet, now decides that *
j the time has come for the public surrender
I of his office as judge, or ruler. There must |
have been a mighty struggle in his bosom a
when he uttered this valedictory to the v'c
people whose interests had been the bucv k-i
den of his heart and prayers for so many
years. The nation had now reached a
new era in its development, and ita future
weal or woe depended on the people'# j.
obedience to the commandments o? God. _
This impressive truth the venerable V
prophet seeks, throughout his entire tia~-} V
drese, to fasten indelibly upon their minds.
He begins by challenging them to impeach,
his official purity ana is answered by 4he ' ;
unanimous confirmation of his integrity/ ;
It is not unlikely that a shadow had fallen - .--J"
over Samuel's career because of tiie perverse
course his sons had taken arvd this
naturally suggests the reason why the.
aged ?eer at this time so urgently called . ,
upon them for a complete vindication of
his private as well as his official life.
II. Israel's ingratitude (vs. 6-12). In . ;
these verses Samuel "recalls Jehovah's
pa3t mercies and upbraidn them with un- , >
belief and ingratitude for demanding a king."
He shows them how impious it was '
to establish a kingdom like the heathen '
nations around them. "Jehovah had never failed
them when_they obeyed His word pj
and cried unto Him; wny. tnen, snouia. jg
they desire a human king?" After refer*
ring to the manner in which God had &e?' !'
livered them from Egyptian bondage,'Sam-- /
uel calls attention to the "three chief op-;.
pressors of Israel during the period of the.
{udges; 1. The Canaanites who were left '.S
>y Sisera, the general of the army of King" fs 'v
Jabin (Jud. 4:5). 2. The Philistines (Jud. *
3:31; 10:7). 3. The Moabite^ under Eglott *
(Jud. 3: 12-30). He then mentions foto*
deliverers of the nation: 1. Jerubbaal, or
Gideon (Jud. chaps. 6-8). 2. Bedan?prob- . ?
ably Barak is meant (Jud. 4:0). 3. Jephthah.
the GiJeadite (Jud. 11). 4'. Samuel."
III. Samuel's words confirmed (vs. 13*
18). V- -4
13-15. "Ye have chosen." Though God chose
Saul, yet the people are said to ' <
choose him, either because they chose that
form of government, or because they con* -j>-$
firmed God's choice. "If ye will fear.'* -V|j
With whom or against whom is . the hand
of the Lord? The answer to this question 'M
depends on whether one has given himself
to be the Lord's with his whole heart &
and has submitted fully to the divine will. , (e
See Jer. 18:7-10. "Ye and also the king."
There was no necessary evil in their hav-;* /;
ing a king, and it ootn King ana auojecv /,
reverence God, the nation \ shall, bp as , Jr
prosperous and happy as ever. Some other
form of government might have been better,
but if the king and peonle will meet
the true conditions of national permanence,. -"j)
the monarchy shall be blessed and honomL. '
A failure to recognize and observe the ' ^
commandments of God will sooner or later "i*
ruin any nation, no matter what its form
of government. . fcf
16-18. "Wheat t harvest." That season,
in Palestine occurs at the end of June "or ' ?:
the beginning of July, when it seldom Or ||
never rains and the sky is cloudless. There
could not, therefore, have been a stronger a
or more appropriate proof of Samuel's j
divine mission than the phenomenon of
rain and thunder happening, without any 1
sign of its approach, upon the mere pre- , ^
diction of the prophet. "May nerceive."'
Samuel was led to do this in order to im- " \
press upon them the truthfulness of hi*
utterances and arouse tbem to a conscious
. j
ness ol their gre^t wicKeanes?. r?u^u - ,
the Lord." The people regarded this as a!'/* - ? '
miraculous display of divine power. The elements
are exclusively under the con-' 'Mi
trol of the Creator, and He alone can flay
what shall be in relation to the clouds; <g
yet for special ends?generally moral ends
?they have bccasionally been placed for a
season at the service of men. This instance
is a Darallel to that which occurred
in Egypt (Ex. 9:23). ./' ?
IV. Israel comforted fvs. 19-25). lft-21. '.
"Pray?that we die not." - They felt that
Samuel's thoughts and feelings and .those
of Jehovah were the same Jehovah'a
true representative was among them.
"Fear not." Do not be despondent as *
though there was no hone. "Turn ye aot
aside." Samuel warns them against turn- i
ing aside to idols, as they had often done
before, and as they often did afterwa?ls>
"Vain things." An idol is a mere nothing,
having no influence or power.
22. "For His great name's sake." Jehovah
is jealous of His glory: and all its '
sublime manifestations in defense of His St
people He could not well forget. "God ^
forbid that I." The conduct of Samuel in
this whole affair of the king's appointment }?
| shows him to have been a great end good
man who sank all private and personal
considerations in disinterested zeal for his * "
country's good; and whose last words in
public were to warn the people and their i
king of the danger of apostasy in dis- I
obedience to God. "To pray." Though J
rejected by this ungrateful people, the M
prophet considers that it would be a sin fl
to cease nraying for them. What excel- fl
lency of character and heart is revealed in H
this declaration! "I will teach you.'>
Samuel does not withdraw from public
life; he rather promises the continuance 9
of his intercession and prophetic labor* in 5
respect to the whole people. It is well J
to notice that in some sense he also con- A
tinued as judge, for in chap. 7:15 we. read JM
that he "judged Israel all the days of hit*
life," and we know that repeatedly he found
it necessary to interfere with Saul's government.
"Shall be consumed." By dis- H
obedience and sin even the Lord's anointed.
as well as the chospn people, shall most
certainly perish. With this most impressive
warning the prophet closed his lajfc
public address to the assembled nation.
Discovery of A>b?>toa in Siberia.
According to a recent Consular report /
Consul-General W. R. Holloway writes
from St. Petersburg that the Official Messenger
states that rich mines of asbestos
have been discovered in the Irkutsk dis- '
trict one and a half miles,from the Kitoy
River, and a eompanv has been organized ?
to develop them. Preliminary tests are
said to show that at a depth of one foot the
asbestos is equal in quality to the Canadian
and superior to the Alpine product. The
Kiloy River affords ample water powetand
cheap transportation to the railroad.
The owners are receiving numerous re- v
quests from abroad for samples.
At rcultnre In Great Britain.
According to the agricultural returns for
1902, the total area of Croat Britain is 56,780.000
acres. The total production of the
chief cereal crops was as follows for the *
United Kingdom: Wheat. 7.28o,000 quarters;
barley, 9,305,000 quarters; oats, 23,023,000
ciuarters. Of animals the returns
show that there were the following num- '
bers in the United Kingdom: Horses,
2.011.70I; cattle. 11,477,824; sheep, 30,829,889;
pigs, 3,411,129.
A Mariyr to Science.
Dr. Milan Sachs, an Austrian physician.
only twenty-five years old, recently infected
himself with plague bacteria. He was ad- i
mitted into the hospital at Charlottenbury I
in a state of collapse, and the physiciang J
diagnosed^ his case as one of bubonic
plague, ne was removed 10 an isolation,
hospital, where he died shortly afterward.
Inio ue of Mexican Treasury. '
In ten years the income of the Mexican
Treasury 'has grown from $40,000,000 to $06,000,000
a year. ?
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