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4 y ? ^THE SPLE! o mnrr* k IDE AUVEMUKE3 By ARTHUR T. ( Iff CHArTER XII. . Joan Does Me Her Last Service. We came, a little before midnight, to 15ir Bevill's famous great house of Stow, near Kilkhampton; that to-night was brightly lit and full of captains and troopers feasting, as well they needed to, after the great victory. And here, though loth to do so, I left Delia to the care of Lady Grace Grenville, Sir Bevill's fond, beautiful wife, and of all gentlewomen I have ever seen the pink and paragon, as well for her loyal heart as the graces of her mind, before the half of our tale was out kissed Delia on both cheeks, and led her away. "To you. too, sir, I would counsel bed," said she, "after you have eaten and drunk, ind especially given God V?o??!?p fni* f'lic /Iott'c? rrnrl* VJJuinao ivi UJio uuj o ii viu. Sir Bevill I did not see, but, striding down into tbe ball, picked my way among the drinking and drunken; the servants hurrying with dishes of roast and baked and great tankards of beer; the swords and pikes flung down under the forms and"settles, and sticking out to trip a man up; and at length found a groom who led me to a loft over one of the barns, and here above a mattress of hay I slept the first time for many months between fresh linen that smelled of lavcuder. and in thinking how pleasant it was dropped sound asleep. Sure there is no better, sweeter couch than thi3 of linen spread over hay. Early in the morning I woke with wits clear as water and not an ache or ounce of weariness in my bones, and after washing at the pump below went in search of breakfast and Sir Bevill. The one I found, ready and laid, in the hall; the other seated in his writing room, studying in a map, and with apology for my haste handed him Master Tingcomb's confession and told my story. "As a Magistrate I can give this [warrant, and 'twould be a pleasure, I for well, as a boy, do I remember Deakin Killigrew. Young sir"?he rose up and taking a turn across the room came and laid a hand on my shoulder? 4,I have seen his daughter. Is it too late to warn you against loving her?" "Why, yes." I answered, blushing; "I think it is." "She seems both sweet and quaint. Cod forbid I should say a word against one that has so taken me! But in these times a man should stand alone; to make a friend is to run the chance of a soft heart, to marry a wife makes the chance sure" "For many reasons I would blithely Issue this warrant But how am I to spare men to carry it out? At any moment we may be assailed?" "If that be your concern, sir," answered I, "give me the warrant. I have a good friend here, a seafaring man. whose vessel lies at this moment in Looe Haven, with a crew on board that will lay Master Tingcomb by the heels in a trice. Within three days [we'll have him clapped in Launceston Jail, and there at the next Assize you 6hall sit on the Grand Jury and hear bis case, by which time, I hope, the King's law shall run on easier wheels In Cornwall. The prisoners we have already I leave you to deal withal; only, against my will, I must claim some mercy for that rogue Settle." 'Twas not ten minutes before I had the warrant in my pocket. And by 11 o'clock (word having been carried to Delia, and our plans kid before Billy Pottery, who on the spot engaged himself to help us), our horses iwere brought round to the gate, and my mistress appeared, all ready for the Journey. So, with Billy tramping behind us, away we rode up the combe, whecc Kilkhampton vowe; stood against the pky; and turning to wave hands at +ho tr>r> frmnri nnr host and hostess still by the sate, watching us, with hands raised to shield their eyes from tha sun. At Launceton, Billy Pottery took leave of us; and now went due south, toward Looe, with a light purse and a lighter heart, undertaking that his ship should lie off Gleys, with her crew ready for action, within eight and-forty hours. Delia and I rode faster now toward the southwest; and I was recounting my flight along this very road, when I heard a sound that brought my heart into my mouth. 'Twas the blast of a bugle, and came from behind the hill in front of us. And at the same moment I understood. It must be Sir George Chudleigh's cavalry returning, on news of their comrades' defeat, and we were riding straight toward them, as into a trap. "Quick!" I cried; "follow me, and ride for dear life!" And striking spur into Molly I turned siiarp off the road and galloped across the moor to the left, with Delia close after me. We had gone about two hundred yards only when I heard a shout, and, glancing over my right shoulder, saw a green banner waving on the crest of the road, and gathered about it the vanguard of the troops?some score of dragoons; and these, having caught sight of us, were pausing a moment to .wntch. The shout presently was followed by another; to which I made no answer, but held on my way, with the nose of Delia's horse now level with my stirrup; for I guessed that my dress'had already betrayed us. And this was the case; for at the next glance I saw five or six dragoons detach themselves from the main body and gallop in a direction at an acute angle to ours. On they came, yelling to us to halt, and scattering over the moor to intercept us. Not choosing, however, to be driven eastward, I kept a straight course, and trusted to our horses' fleetness to carry us by them, cut of reach of their shot In the pause of their first surprise we had stolen two hundred yards more. I counted and found eight men in pursuit of us; and. to my joy, heard the cugle blown again, and saw the rest of the trcoy. cow gutLeriug fast above. ftSi . *DID SPUR* \ OF JACK MARVEL : = s [CILLER COUCH.* , ei " s============ CI move steadily along1 the road without a intention to follow. Doubtless the ^ news of the Cornish success made ^ them wary of their good order. Still, eight men were enough to run from; and now the nearest let fly with his piece?more to frighten us, belike. l">n irifh ontr ntfmr vifvrr fnr TVPTP ^ far out of range. But it grew clear that if we held on our direction they must cut us off. , si Only now with good hope I saw a hill rising not half .1 mile in front, and ^ somewhat to the right of our course, ^ and, thought I, "if we can gain the ^ hollow to the left of it, and put the hill between us, they must ride over ^ it or round?in either case losing much j time." So. pointing this out to Delia, ^ who rode on nay left (to leave my pis- ^ tol arm free and at the same time be ^ screened by me from shot of the dragoons) I drove my spurs deep and p called to Molly to make her best pace. The enemy divined our purpose; and g] in a minute 'twas a desperate race for c] the entrance to the hollow. But our i( horses were the faster, and we the lighter riders! so that we won, with thirty yards to spare, from the fore- r( most?not without damage, however, ^ for, finding himself balked, he sent a bullet at us which neatly cut through y my rein, so that my bridle was hence- ^ forward useless, and I could guide ei Molly with knee and voice alone. S( Delia's bay had shied at the sound of t, it, and likely enough saved my mis- ^ trocc'c Hfp hv this, for the bullet nassed ^ within a foot before her. ^ Down the hollow we raced, with C( three dragoons at our heels, the rest going round the hill. But they did little good by so doing, for after the hollow came a broad, dismal sheet of water, about a mile round and banked S( with black peat. Galloping along the g left shore of this, we cut them off by E near half a mile. But the three behind followed doggedly, though drop- ?] ping back with every stride. Beyond the pool came a green valley, sj and a stream flowing down it, which ^ we jumped easily. Glancing at Delia as she landed on the further side. I noted that her cheeks were glowing ^ and herself brimful of mirth. Oj "Say, Jack,'' she cried, "is not this ^ better than love of women?" h, "In heaven's name," I called out, t "take care!" But 'twas too late. The green valley w here melted into a treacherous bog, in ol which her bay was already plunging it | over his fetlocks and every moment hi sinking deeper. Ji "Throw me the rein!" I shouted, and, catching the bridle close by the bit, leaned over and tried to drag the horse a] forward. By this Molly also was over hi hoofs in liquid mud. For a minute and hi more we heaved and splashed, and all the while the dragoons, seeing our fix. y< werfe shouting and drawing nearer and nearer. But just as a brace of bullets ft splashed into the slough at our feet we cc staggered to the harder slope and were gaining on them again. So for twenty minutes along the spurs of the hills we a: held on, the enemy falling back and hidden, every now and again, in the hollows?but always following; at the cj end of which time Delia called from ? just behind me: fi; "Jack, here's a to-do; the bay is going bi lame!" There was no doubt of it. I suppose cc he must have wrrng his off hind leg in in fighting through quag. Apy way, ten tl minutes more would see the end of his gallop. But at this moment we had fs won to the top of a stiff ascent, and Pi now, looking down at our feet, I had the joyfulest surprise. bi 'Twas the moore of Temple spread pi below like a map, the low sun strik ing on the rumea nuis to me ieu uj. us, on the roof of Joan's cottage, on the scar of the high road and the sides h< of the tall tor above It. "In ten rainutes," said I, "we may be ti safe." ti So down into the plain we hurried; ? and I thought for the first time of the ai loyal girl waiting in the cottage yonder, of my former ride into Temple, Sf [ and (with angry shame) of the light heart with which I left it. a< Past the peat ricks we struggled, the ^ sheep cotes, the straggling fences?all so familiar; crossed the stream and rode into the yard. "Jump down," I whispered; "we have time, and no more." Glancing back, I saw a couple of dragoons already coming over the heights. They had spied <1 us. Dismounting, I ran to the cottage t* door and flunng it open. A stream of h' light, flung back against the sun, blazed into my eyes. I rubbed them and Lalted for a moment stock-still. For Joan stood in front of me, dressed in the very clothes I had worn ^ on the day we first met?buff?coat, breeches, heavy boots, and all. Her n back was toward me, and at the ghoul der, where the coat had been cut away ir from my wouud, I saw the rents all a j ?-.1 -1 ? ? ' * li nanl. lj uumeu UiiU JJillL'iiCU UUU pavix imtuu. In her hand was the mirror I bad a] given her. At the sound of my step on the threshold she turned with a short cry? 11 a cry the like of which 1 have never heard, so full wns it of choking joy. The glass dropped to the floor and was shattered. In a second her arms {< were about me. and so she hung on ^ ray neck, sobbing and laughing to- ^ gether. a " 'Twas true?'twas true! Dear, dear Jack?dear Jack to come to me; hold tl me tighter, tighter?for my very heart tl is bursting!" si And behind me a shadow fell on the 1c doorway; and there stood Delia re- y garding us. w "Joan," said I. hot with shame, tak- si ing her arms gently from my neck, y "listen: I came because I am chased, sj Once more the dragooners are after me cl ?not 'five minutes away. You musi r: lend me a horse, and at once." y "Nay," said a voice in the doorway, ir "the horse, if lent, is for me!" si Joan turned, and the two women tl I stood looking at cacii other?the oae C _? rlth dark wonder, tbe other with cold isdainfulness?and I between them, carce lifting my eyes. Each was eautiful after her kind, as day and ight; and though their looks crossed 51* a full minute like drawn blades, either had the mastery. Joan was the rst to speak: "Jack, if thy mare in the yard?" "Give me thy pistols and thy cloak." he stepped to the window hole at the ad of the kitchen, and looked out. Plenty of time," she said, and pointI to the ladder leading to the loft bove?"Climb up there, the both, and ull tbe ladder after. Is it thou they rant?or she?" pointing to Delia. "Me chiefly they would catch, no oubt?being a man," I answered. "Aye?being a man; the world's full f folly. Then, Jack, do thou look fter her, and I'll look after thee." She flung my'cloak about her, took ly pistols and went out at the door, .s she did so the sun sank and a dull iadow swept over the moor. "Joan!" I cried, for now I guessed er purpose and was following to biner her, but she had caught Molly's ridle and was already astride of her. "Get back!" she called softly, and aen, "I make a better lad than wench, ack," leaped the mare through a gap 1 the wall, and in a moment was reasting the hill and galloping for the igh road. "What think you of this for a hiding lace?" asked I. with a laugh. But Delia did not laugh. Instead, tie faced me witli blazing eyes, liecked herself and answered, cold as :e: "Sir. you have done me a many ivors. How I have trusted you in jturn it were best for you to remcmer, and for me to forget." The dark drew on, and still we sat lere, hour after hour, silent, angry, aiting for Joan's return. Delia at the atrance of the cottage, chin on hand, \mning the heavens and never once irning toward me; I further inside, ith my arms crossed, raging against lysclf and all the world, yet with a ckening dread that Joan would never jme back. As the time lagged by, this terro: rew and grew. But, as I think, about % ~ T Usvams? c4-r\*r\ /inminflf } U L'lU'CK, X UCiliU wuiiug ui? le turf. I rail out. 'Twas Joan herilf and leading Molly by the bridle, he walked as if tired, and leaving the tare in the stable followed me into le cottage. Glancing round, I noted lat Delia had slipped away. "Am glad she's gone," said Joan, portly. "The rebels 'ill never trouble lee more, lad." "Why? how" "Listen, lad; cit down an' let me rest ly head 'pon thy knee. Oh, Jack, I id it bravely! Bight good miles an' iore I took the mare?by the Fourol'd Cross, an' across the moor past ober an' Catshple, an' over Brown oily, an' round Koughtor to the nor'est; an' there lies the bravest quag? i, a black, bottomless hole!?an' into I led them; an' there they lie, every Drse, an* every mother's eon, till iidgment Day." "Dead?" "Aye?an' the last twain wi' a bullet piece in their 6kulls. Ob, rare! Dear eart?hold my head?so, atween thy ands." "But, Joan, are these men dead, say MlV? "Surely, yes. Why. lad, what be >ur rebels, up or down, to make this >11 over? Hast never axed after me!" "Joan?you are not hurt1?" In the darkness I sought her eyes, id, peering into them, drew back. "Joan!" "Hush, lad?bend down thy head, id let me whisper. I went too near an' one, that was over his knees, let 7 wi' his musket?an' Jack, I bavo it a minute or two. Hush, lad, hush there's no call! Wert never the man >uld ha' tamed me?art the weaker. i a way; forgie the word, for I loved lee so, boy Jack!" Her arms were drawing down my ice to her, her eyes were dull with lin. "Feel, Jack?there?over my right -east. I plugged the wound wi' a ;at turf. Pull it out, for 'tis bleeding iward, and hurts cruelly?pull it out!" As I hesitated she thrust her own md in and drew it forth, leaving the 5t blood to gush. "An' now, Jack, tighter?hold me ghter. Kiss me?oh, what brave rpiffVifnn lnrl on' noil titi ' m o liica, JLXglikCi, JUU, Mil \.Uii ?Jk ^ v. 'Church an* King:' Call, lad?'Church a' " The warm arms loosened, the head ink back upon my lap. I looked up. There was a shadow ;ross the entrance, blotting out the :ar of night. 'Twas Delia, leaning lere and listening. (To be continued.) At Onr Boarding House. Cholly was disconsolate. "What's the matter, Cholly?" we inuired. "That old man Billings makes me red," replied Cholly with sudden eat. "How?" we sympathetically asked. "He told me last night that a word ) the wise was sufficient." "Yes?" "And then he went right on talkig to me for half an hour!" Cholly iB improving. He is begining to see things. Soon he will stop earing those silken shoestrings six iches wide, and he will also throw way that scarfpin of his that so closer resembles a golden pancake. We re making a man of Cholly, and len And then we shall sic him on olrt lan Billings, of course. Feminine Dnpllcltj. A young man visited his girl west of nvn on Sunday evening. After they ad talked several hours he declared is intention of kissing her. She was pparently indignant, and said she ould tell her father. Remembering lat faint heart never won fair lady le young man was not dismayed, and jcceeded in planting a kiss behind her >ft ear. To make good her threat the oung woman arose hastily and -alked to the kitchen. "Papa," she 3id innocently, "Mr. M. wants to see our new gun." "All right! All right!" lid the old man, delighted with a bance to show it. Taking it from the lck he stepped into the parlor. The or.ng man broke four window panes i getting out, and when last seen was till running bareheaded up the road in ie direction of town.?Gardner (IIJJ hroiiicle. ??? [P&WIWgs J awORTH KyOWING^l About one-third of the weight of alt egg is solid nutriment. The Japanese in Hawaii now outnumber the natives two to one. The proportion of divorces to marriages in Japan is one to four. The Koreans do not sew their cloth?s, but use fish glue instead of thread. The jreneral depth of the Niagara River at the brink of the falls is four feet. There are 155 women commercial travelers now on the road in Great Britain. It is stated that there are nearly one million more women than men in the British Isles. February this year had no full moon. This phenomenon occurs once every nineteen years. ' During the past year ths night shelters of Paris received 67,283 men, 2000 women and 388 children. The largest window in Britain is the : east window in York Cathedral. It is j seventy-five feet high and thirty-two i feet wide. ! A butterfly which a Chicago woman I kept all winter, and which has recently ! died, ate one drop of honey in every I three days. The greatest number of deaths take place not just after midnight, as popuj Jarly supposed, but between 5 and -6 ! o'clock in the morning. Among the sights in the city of Paris is a regular rat pound, where the services of the rodents are utilized for removing the flesh from the carcasses of dead animals. The laws under v.'hich the Frenc-k fisheries of Pierre and Miquelon are carried on are most carefully observed, and all- infringements punished in a most impartial manner; none escape who are detected. The Tien-tsu-husi or Society for Natural Feet, is making many converts in China. In some regions young men sign a pledge nor to marry girls with i artificially crippled feet. j Professor Flinders Petri recently j told* an audience at Owens College, I Manchester, Enjxla?d, that one snot in C3 ' ? - ? -1 + I me ruins at .iuyuos, m in, j tells a continuous story running back | to fXKX) B. C. The remains of teu sue| cessive temples have heen unearthed. Physical Effects of Anxiety. In a paper read before the congress of French alienists at Grenoble Dr. Gas-ton Lelanne pointed out that anxiety is a disturbance which is expressed by the entire being. The exciting causes are sometimes physical and sometimes psychical, and the syin. j toms manifested are both physical and j mental. The physical symptoms com prise cold feelings and chills of the scalp and body, general lassitude, incoordination of voluntary movements far more apparent than real, emotional coloring of speech, and vertigo which is dependent upon vasomotor cerebral disturbances or upon digestive troubles. In the anxious states there are i always circulatory troubles, such as j accelerated heart-boat, irregularity of ; the heart's action, heightened arterial j tension and coldness of the extrenri{ ties. Respiratory disturbances are al| eo present. j The psychial symptoms af "anxiety" include various degrees of vague | dread and apprehensiveness, often ; taking definite forms, in which case ! they are designated as "'phobias" or j "obessions of fear." weakening of the [ capacity of attention and of memory, ! and a tendency to confusion of ideas. : Hallucinations of the senses are prone ' to occur. New Kind of Editor. A woman whose acquaintance with j the methods and opportunities of work in a modern newspaper ctfice is of the ! slightest, was talking to a friend about | her son's start in life. The young man ' had just left college and" had secured a j position as reporter on one of the ixn portant New York dailies in the I humble capacity -which is the usual | lot of a "cub'' journalist?that of a pol '.ice court reporter. His mother was | ?nlhusiastic over his good fortune. "Do you know," she exclaimed, j 'they've given liim such a splendid ! I position. He's the crime editor at Jef- ! ! ferson Market Police Court!"?Hari per's Weekly. i IVore a Hat Sent on Trial. New York papers speak guardedly j of the embarrassing position in which i fashionable woman found herself re- J cently. She was invited to a swell j | wedding, but did not think either of j I her spring hats was food enough for i ! the occasion. So she visited her mill- j j kier's and had an exceedingly costly ! affair sent home on trial. She wore it J [ fit the wedding and the next day drove , | to the milliner's ana returned u. sayj lug it (lid not suit. Ii happened that j (lie hatniaker, who quite understood I tho eituation, had been similarly tried | (several times of late. "Did you not wear this hat at the Blank wedding ;tsterday?" she asked, bluntly. Taken i y surprise, the society woman owned i up, but asked: "How did you know?" | "Oh. it was quite easy. I see several i grains of rice in the folds of the lace." j A Well-to-do ManTV. L. Lightner, living near Abileue, ' Kan., disposed of his farm for $7200 j in cash?$45 an acre?and the Abilene iieporter says he "had so much money that he did not know what to do with it. So when he made his sale, instead of putting on his bills the usual terras, 'three per cent, oil for cash,' he put on it. 'nothing otf for cash,' but gave ten months' time at six per cent, interest. As the sale went on the buyers came up with the cash and few asked for time. Altogether $1900 worth of farra animals and goods were sold, and i Ul70t) was in cash." 1 | THE tfSEAT DESTROYER ! SOME STARTL'NC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. i "It ifi Not My Business"?How a Wealthy St. Louielan Came to Realize That the Liquor fjnentlon TV as His linsiness? A Story of "Whisky and Its Dflect. A wealthy man in St. Louis was asked I to aid in a series of tempcrance meetings, | but he scornfully refused. Being pressed i he said: "Gentlemen, it is not my business." A few days later his wife and two I daughters were coming home on the lightj aing express. In his grand carriage with I liveried attendants he rode to the depot, I thinking of his splendid business and planj ning for the morrow. Hark! Did some I one say "Accident?" There are twenty! five railroads centreing in St. Louis. If I there has been an accident it is not likely j vto have occurred on the and I Mississippi Railroad. Yet it troubles him. ! Jt is his business now. The horses are | stopped on the instant, and on inquiry he finds that the accident has occurred twenty-five miles distant on the j and Mississippi. He telegraphs to the sif | perintendent: "I will give you $500 for an engine." The answer flashes back, "No." "I will give you $1000 for an engine." i "A train with surgeons and nurses has I already gone forward, and we have no other.'' With white face and anxious brow the ! man paced the station to and fro. In a j half hour, perhaps, which seemed to him | a half century, the train arrived. He hur! ried toward it, and in the tender found the mangled bodies and lifeless forms of ! his wife and one of his daughters. In the ! car following lay the other daughter, with iier ribs crushed in and her precious life ozzing slowly away. A quart of whisky, which was drunk fifty miles away by a railroad employe, was the cause of the catastrophe. Who dare say of this tremendous question, "It is not my business?"?Nation?J : Advocate. Temperance Check-Casliin^. Some years ago the Railroad Young Men's Christian Association of Columbus, ' Ohio, started to be as generous as the saI loons at Grogans, in the neighborhood of j the Columbus, Sandusky and Hocking j Valley Railroad construction shops, by cashing the checks of the employes of the J railroad company. In the vicinity of the j shops there are about two saloons to one general store, and the wholesale liquor dealers were in the habit of sending large ! sums of money to the retail liquor dealers with which to cash the men's pay checks. This took a great many of them to the saloons, as there was no bank at hand, and a good deal of time and money yvould have , been consumed if the men had visited the I city for that purpose. On the first pay day I after the Association opened up checks j amounting to $2137.83 were cashed. That was two years ago. On a recent pay day 157 checks, amounting to $6762.36 were j cashed, but the largest record was in last j September, which was for $7204.25. In the first year nearly $50,000 was handled in this way, and the secondv year 1550 check* i 070 77fl <17 ntit auiuuuini^ IU Yet We License Aleoliol. _ The British Registrar-General has pub lished a table of the comparative mortality among men of different occupations, from J twenty-five to sixty-five years of age, the j inquiry covering a period of three years, I The standard of 100 was taken as the low j est death rate in the most healthful. These are the results: Innkeepers and liquor dealers represented a mortality of 274; inn or hotel service, 397, and brewers, 24.5, while farmers are put down at 114, gardeners at 108 and ministers at 100. Between 188C and 1890 tliere were in the United States I 21,284 deaths from yellow fever and 650,000 deaths from alcohol; yet we license alcohol and quarantine yellow fever. Ram's Work in Germany. At the twentieth anniversary of the Gei> man Society Against the Abuse of Alcoholic Drinks there were presented some telling statistics of the ravages oi strong drink in Germany, where the use of alco! hoi is said to be responsible for lifty-foui ! per cent, of the divorces, fifty per cent, of the railroad accidents, seventy per cent, ol ! the accidents on the sea, eigilty-seven per I cent, of the offenders sent to houses of cor I rection, 55.2 per cent, of the disturbances , of domestic peace, and so on through ? f long list. Need More Policemen. j There were only about thirty-five poj licemen needed in the whole of Vermont j during the fifty years when the State was i under prohibition. Now, since the adop| tion of the local system and the return ol j the saloon to a number of cities and towns | many more policemen are required. In | one town they now have two saloons from 1 which they receive for license $250 each, | making $500. But they now have to em* ploy a policeman at a salary of $720 a yeas. At Terrible Cost. William Hargreaves, M. D., after a thor* ' ough research, gives rhe annual expendi* ; tures for strong drink in the United States oi 4OA cot xfkO I ?is 91,nirt,cof jjl . uumi, istrurc uu'jr ui the National Temperance Society, estiI mates the indirect cost from crime, pauperism, loss ci" labor and of life as $1,678,| 504,964. The paltry revenue obtained to be set off against these enormous figures i* only $141,000,487. The Temperance Figlit. This struggle long ago ceased to be a moral pastime, which men can pick up and lay down at their will. That it is a bitter fight?a fight that must eventuate either I in the destruction of the liquor power or in the annihilation ^ the Christian Sabbath and everything \hat is dear to the Christian nation is evident to all.?Join? B. Finch. Dedicated to Temperance. The Nidaros Total Abstinence Society of Trondhjem, Norway, has bought a building on one of the thoroughfares of the city for about $10,000. The building will be reconstructed so as to afford a public hall which will seat about 300 young people. This will be the headquarters 0# the temperance people in the future. A Spotless Town, University Place, the seat of the Nebraska Weslcjiin University, not only prohibits saloons, billiard tables, dance lul'8 and questionable amusements, but no cigar or cigarette store is allowed. .This is. in deed, a physical aud moral "Spoiiei?? Town." The Crusade la Brief. Were it not for the saloon influence both cur cities aud our State would be filled with clearer heads and cleaner hands.? National Advocate. Oscar II.. King of Sweden and Norway, has acceded to a petition of his temperance subjects to discontinue the christening of j battleships with wine. The German Ministers' Association of Milwaukee has appointed a commiltce t;> ' meet the Anti-Saloon League and prepare literature to be used by the League in the > work among the German element of Milwaukee. It is better to be in the minority with the right than in the majority with the i wrong.?National Advocate. A writer in the Kansas City Leader says: i "But for two men in his own town, wb , | rent their buildings for saloon purpose-?, no | saloon could run; and. strnncp *.-? mv. I berth are church members. Much of tlie crime produced in that community by the infamous liquor traffic will lie at the "doors of these men." A tremendous lever in favor of temperance has been brought to bear upon the business men of Hudson, S. D., by the recent action of twenty-three of the prominent and wealthy farmers around Hudson, who have united in a public protest against the sa'.oons. The business men must cither oppoco the saloon or lose their b:st customers. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUCUST 7. subject: God Taking Care of Elijah, 1 Kinc*, xvlt., 1-10?Golden Text, I Pet., v., 7?Memory Ver?e?, 13, 14?Commentary on the Day's Lesson. I. Elijah and his message (v. 1). ']. "Elijah." This prophet comes suddenly upon the scene. The schools of the prophets seem to have had their origin in. Samuel's day, and were founded in various parts of the land and in connection with them Elijah appears. 1. His name means "My God is Jehovah." 2. He was born at Thisbe, in the tribe of Naphtali, and was therefore called the Tishbite. 3. Tradition tells us that in appearance he was a man of short 8tatue and rugged countenance. "Of Gilead." The on!y | Thisbe mentioned in history in Galilee, hence we conclude that although a native of the tribe of Naphtali in Galilee, he had become a citizen of Gilead east of the Jordan. "Unto Ahab." Probably in the palace in Samaria. What courage and faith this must have taken! "As the Lord * * Jiveth." As Jehovah liveth. Elijah begins by giving the authority for his message. As sure as God lives, so certain it will be that the prediction I am about to make will take place. "I stand." As a servant or ambassador. Elijah was accountable directly to God. "Dew nor rain." A terrible threat for a country annually parched by six months' drought, ) and only saved from utter barrenness b(v i the early rains of autumn. "These years.' From Luke 4: 25, and James 5: 17, we learn that the famine^ lasted three and a half years. From 1 Kings 18: 1 we learn that the famine ended in the third year. i >vjuv.ii means, pci naps, iuc uuiiu year ux : Elijah's stay in Zarephath." "My word." That is, as the Lord should proclaim His will through Elijah. The famine was the necessary preparation for Elijah's reform. It was a direct attack upon Baal, who waa regarded as the god of all natural forces, and the test would show his impotency. II. Elijah fed by ravens (vs. 2-7^. 2. "Came." How, ve know not. God's object was to protect Elijah from the rajje of Ahab ana Jezebel. 3. Leave Samaria and "withdrew from the haunts of men." "Hide thyself." For the king that pent to every land to find him (1 Kings 18: 10) j would take every possible means to compel him to speak the word of power that would bring rain. When God intended to send rain He bade Elijah to show himself to Ahab (chapter 18: 1). "Brook Cherith." A torrent bed, a deep ravine, down which in rainy times a strong stream flowed. The situation of Cherith has not been identified. It is probable that Cherith was east of the Jordan. Eusebius and Jerome place it there. 4. "Commanded the ravens." This plain, positive statement defies all attempts to explain the facts stated in verse six on rational or natural principles. 5. "Did according." He took the word of the Lord in the hand of faith, as the staff of his pilgrimage, and journeyed forward; and, whenever he grew weary, he leaned upon his staff, and his strength revived; and when danger threatened him by the way, in view of this staff he was not airaia. t>. Kavens orougnt mm. xne bringing: to Elijah of suitable food was evidently miraculous. "Bread and flesh." Ravens feed on insects and carrion them* selves, yet they/ brought the prophet man's meat and wholesome food. As this j was the food appointed by the Lord for , the prophet, we may conjecture that it ! was the food of the people. 7. "After a | while." Probably about a year. "Brook i dried up." If this stream had'not dried j up crowds of people would have heen. j brought thither for water, and thus his i retreat would have been discovered. | III. Elijah at Zarephath (vs. 8-16). 9. | "Zarephath." The Sarepta of Luke 4: 26. | It was a city of Zidon in the dominious of Ethbaal, Jezebel's father. It was vety much as if one flying from a lion was directed to seek refuge in a lion's den. "A widow woman." The condition of the widows in the East is helpless in the extreme, so that to receive support from such a tource would be another trial to Elijah's faith. It was like leaning his weight on a support as frail as a spider's web. 10. "He arose." His course was not to ! reason and to speculate, but to hear and obey. "Gate." The abject poverty of the widow is seen from her coming forth to pick up chance bits of wood which might nave fallen from the trees outside the city walls. "The widow." A widow.?R. V. It was "the" widow whom God had commanded, but Elijah at first saw only "a" widow, not then knowing this was the one God had designated. "A little water." His first need after his long journey through famine stricken Israel would be water. The gift of wcter to the thirsty is always regarded as a sacred duty in the East. Then, too, as Guthrie says, this test would let Elijah know whether he had found the one to whom he had been sent, j II. "As she was going." She readily 1 went at the first word. She objected not ! at the present scarcity, nor asked what he ! would give for a draught, nor hinted he J was a stranger, but left gathering sticks 1 for herself to fetch water lor him. "Mor| eel of bread." No doubt the prophet was j eadly in need of it; doubtless, too, he was i listening for divine directions. 12. "Thy j God liveth." She recognized Elijah as a ; worshiper of Jehovah, and her words in i uitiuuu a reverence iui vjuu a,uu auuie ' knowledge of His ways. "Cake." The I smallest kind of bread. A flat, oval cake ! of unleavened dough about ten inches in I diameter. "Meal. Wheat, ground in ? | hand mill. "Barrel." An earthen jar. "Oil." Olive oil. To cat with bread as we do butter. "'Cruse." A flask for liquids. "Two sticks." As among the Germans at this day "two was then equivalent to a few. "Eat it, and die." The famine prevailed there, and s*ie was in the last extremity. 13. "Fear not." Have no fears about the future; trust God. "First." This was a test of her faith in God, and would show j whether she was worthy of the help EliI jah offered. It was necessary in order to j make the provision for her wants a real blessing. Here is a faith manifested by this poor heathen woman such as was not found in Israel. Jesus found a similar faith in a woman of this same land (Matt. : 15: 28). 14. "Barrel * * * not waste, : etc." A special miracle, but God's comj mon way of providing for man's common | wants is a wonder daily repeated. The j teeming earth is like one vase ^ granary j which God keeps ever full. "Until the day." It is supposed that he was in Zarephath about two and a half years. 15. "Went an<l did." The increase of this widow's faith was as great a miracle in ] I tue Kingdom 01 grace as me increase ua , her oil in the kingdom of providence. _ I 16. "Wasted not." Here was an exhibition of that same divine power that in the . person of Jesus multiplied the loaves and ' fished. Batter Kept Forty-trro Tears. A robust butter anecdote. comes iron: ; Burt Count^, Xeb. It :s stated a farmer'} | family while digging for a spring found i i four-pound roll of butter inside a stone .jar The butter, it is said, had beer, packed ir a jar and placed in the spring forty-two years ago. It sank into the foil at tiie bottom of the spring, and was supposed to have been lost. Investigation disclosed that the bottom of the spring was of quicksand, which accounted for the disaptioaranee of the inr Tin* ?-no moldy outside, but the inside was asserted | to Le yellow and sweet. Home of Black Cats. One of the queerest corners of the earth is Chatham Island, off the coast of Ecuador. Captain Reinman. who recently visited it to inquire into the proper pounding a deep-sea cable, says it abounds in cats, every one of which is black. These animals live in the crevices of the lava foundation near the coast, and subsist by catching fish and crabs instead of rats and mice. A Queer Kevenge. An Austrian peasant's wife, in revenge for her husband's loss of a lawsuit, sowed tares during the night in the wheat field of his successful opponent. She was sent to prison for thiee months. ' .a*i Out of Touch. i Only a smile, yes, only a smile That a woman o'er burdened with grieJ i Expected from you; 'twould have given lief, I " For her heart ached sore the while; i But weary and cheerless she went away I Because, as it happened, that very day | You were "out of touch" with your Li j Only a word, yes, only a word, ; That the Spirit's small voice whispe "Speak; i But the worker passed onward unbiec and weak, j Whom you meant to have stirred I To courage, devotion and love anew, J Because when the message came to you; You were "'out of touch" with your Li Only a note, yes, only a note ; To a friend in a distant land; ' | The Spirit said "Write;" but then yon 1 j ^ planned aome anierent wont, ana you inouga 1 It mattered little. You did not know ; 'Twould have saved a soul from sm . woe? You were "out of touch" witji your L< Only a song, yes, only a song That the Spirit said: "Sing to-night, Thy voice is tby Masters by purqha right;" But you thought: ' 'Mid this moi throng, I care not to sing of the city of gold"?And the hearts that your words mi have reached grew cold; You were "out of touch" with your L< Only a day, yes, only a day, < But, oh! can you guess, my friend, Where the influence reaches, and wber will end, Of those hours that rou frittered awa The Master's command is: "Abide in M And fruitless and vain will your service If "out of touch" with your Lord. ?Young People's Pape The Ten Commandments. A certain rich young man who had served all the commandments from youth evidently thought that his char for inheriting eternal life were very g< "What lack 1 yet?" he asked of JeBos, ] ting the question as though it were sea ly possible that he lacked anything. 1 oaviour uuoweu tu mm, ?ava vrvijwpi I that instead of having an indisputable 1 to eternal life he had none at all. There is a tast number who. like i wealthy young ruler, over-exalt the commandments. If one will carefully through and weigh them he will see 1 they do not present a high moral sta ard. The Hebrew race, and much less i world, was not ready at the time of t! j promulgation for the revelation of 1 ! ideals. To the little child we have to 1 j "Do not," and wait with what patk i we may for the time when we can., I "Do." The human race then was in I "Do not" stage of development. All commandments are "shall nota" save t? ! Take the two tables and see how li I they require. The first table does not that there is only one God, and that ! should love Him with all our heart : | 6oui and mind and strength. All tha' demands is that we shall have no ot gods before Him, shall make no images worship, shall not take His name' in v and shall refrain from all work upon' Sabbath, thus keeping it holy. Man; man does this without any thought of ing particularly religious; he's just b< decently civilized. So it is also with the second table. T would set up a flaim ror special respect cause he has always honored his pare; never murdered or been unchaste, or st< or borne false witness, or coveted neighbor's possessions as Ahab cove Naboth's vineyard? There are men 1 truthfully can say that they have regari al] these .commandments, and yet tl neighbors would characterize them "meaner than dirt." In order to b good man one must do something, merely refrain from doing something h ful. One can keep all the mandates of second table, and yet be stingy, cruel, pressive and hateful. Taken all togetl they do not sum up to the golden r which tells us to do unto others as would have them do to us. "Thou si not" keeps the hands to the side; "T shalt" extends them in loving service. Hew 16 it that people have such an alted conception of the ten comma ments? It is because we have been ? ing the gospel into them?as we should Ever since Jesus cave His answer to lawyer, who asked Him, "Which is Seatest commandment in the la^ iristian people have been interpret the first table of the law as mean: "Thou shall love the Lord thy God ^ all thy heart, and with all thy soul, : with all thy mind," and the second ti as meaning, "Thou shalt love thy neigh as thyself. And that is what they should mean ns. But, don't you see. that one n have a higher moral standard than the commandments, just as they read, in Apr t.n hp rp-mpofahlv cnnrl ? Wnfc thnfc I 6houid throw them aside, any more t we should throw aside the alphabet | cause we are reading fine literature, or i rules for addition, subtraction, multipl ! tion and division because we are a< j sums in algebra, But no one should : like congratulating himself if he still v | painfully putting the letters together ; spell c-a-t or ba-ker, or scratching his h over the question, "Seven times two ; how many?" "Wherefore," says the ter to the Hebrews, "leaving the doct of the first principles of Christ, let press on unto perfection." Don't i back near the starting point with the commandments. Kiiulliac the FIr?. Theodore Cuyler found Mr. Moody la Log in a mission room in the city of Br< lyn. With him was a handful of p people. Dr. Cuyler whispered to 1 "Slow work this, is it not:" Mr. Mo looked at him and said, "Did you < light a fire? I am lighting my fire." an< kindled it to such good purpose that a I it blazed over two continents. Hijrbcr and Lower Self. Salvation is a process by which i comes to the realization of his true : It is a man living in his higher mind, man also has a lower self, which fights the supremacy, and it is a sad tact many live in this lower self and thus di the higher nature. ? Rev. T. A. K Cleveland, 0. Force of the Soul. Peal greatness has nothing to do wi man's sphere. It does not lie in the 1 nitude of his outward agency in the tent of the effects which he produces, greatest men may do comparatively 1 abroad. Perhaps the greatest in our at this moment are buried in obscu Grandeur of character lies wholly in f of soul; that is, in the force of thou moral principle and love, and this ma; louna in tne nuinoiesi conuiuon 01 u W. E. Channing. There are men who are waihng for devil to tell them to start to Heaven. After Old Trpe Stamps. Whatcom County, Washington, ha novel plant for the making of tar and pentine. The prcmotors have a fore men engaged in taking up the roots stumps of fir trees that were cut a qua of a century ago. These are said to duce the best grades of gum and p The work promises to revolutionize industry. Thousands of acres of logge< lands will be utilized in supplying stu for factories 'that may be establishe, different sections of the State. The 1 is said to be profitable. Youdjt Saxon* Tau-ht Farming. Primary agricultural schools are nc-ff tablished in twelve cities ox Saxony.