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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.
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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. ,
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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
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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
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} 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.
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[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.