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By Miss Ank
CHAPTER V.
Continued.
' She stopped him by taking his hand.
Bhe left it filled?filled with her own
well-worn purse, containing such slender
savings from the proceeds of the
poultry yard and dairy as were legitimately
hers to give. Daphne's husband
must not go away from them in
anger, nor feel hurt by her offering.
It was a little loan that, if his cash
tan short, might prove useful, and that
he could return when things were looking
brighter. She wished him all success;
was confident he would meet
with work if he sought for it in earnest,
and?and, meantime, would he
promise to write home faithfully, for
Daphne's sake?
Well, reader, for a moment, Barry
Chester hesitated. To accept Aunt
Sosie's money was an action that, even
to his conscience, I suppose, bore an
onpleasant resemblance to the robbery
~ A 4. oil Arrinf c ha h OQ? tpfl
X>1 21 t'lillU* *11 aa cttuic, mv ?.
Then?the good moment passed; he
thrust the purse away into his pocket;
muttered some incoherent words about
pride, about ill fortune, about speedy
repayment, and, without looking into
Aunt Hosie's face, was gone.
It was probably Jhe most foolish action
of Henrietta Vansittart's life; yet
tsvas it one of the follies that have a
sweet taste in the memory. In the
dark days to come this was the solitary
moment, out of her whole intercourse
with Barry Chester, to which
Aunt Hosie could look bhck unpained.
With her ready promptness qt distilling
the soul of goodness out of things
evil, she remembered, not that Chester
accepted, but that he hesitated to accept
her gift, and from this frail premise
argued that self-respect, that honor,
might have come to light still in that
tost heart.
"If life had been kinder to him!"
This was an unfailing apology of Aunt
Hosie's for ill-doers virtually past the
nf nnoloEv. "We women, whose
? r portion
lies in sheltered places, know
so little of the fierce temptation that a
man has to withstand. If life had been
kinder to him!"
Life pressed with piteous harshness
upon Daphne from that day forward.
No tidings of B?rry Chester reached
Fief-de-3a-Reine for more than a fortnight;
and long before the expiration
cf that time the import of his abrupt
departure had become matter of common
talk even among the world of
fisher-folk in Quernec Bay. He had
flown, not from his wife alone, but
from his debts, of honor and otherwise.
"In short," so, tardily, he wrote to
Daphne, "his return to the islands
iwas impossible. She might write, If
thGre could be any good?he failed to
?ee it?in such a correspondence. Letters
sent to a certain address, London,
would be forwarded to him. But
must beg her not to look for conetant
replies. If anything in the shape
of Improved money prospects befell
fcim he would let her know fast
enough." And not one word of affection,
of regret at leaving her, of inquietude
about her state. The letter
might as well have been written to
Miss Theodora, to one of his creditors,
to any indifferent man or woman on
earth as to her whose love followed
him night and day, whose thoughts
Were one prayer for him, whose pros
pects, for evil or for happiness, were
bound up irrevocably with his until
death should set them apart!
Her heart was crushed; her faithfulness
stood the shock bravely. Poor
Barry was an idle correspondent, just
c that. As soon as there was cheerier
Hews to communicate his letters would
grow longer, and?she, oh, she would
cure herself perforce, of this foolish
babit of fretting over their separation,
and be content. As to the stories set
afloat about him by wicked tongues,
Daphne believed none of them. When
liis prospects brightened his creditors
iwould be paid, of course. A poor two
or three hundred pounds! What was
this to a man of Barry's talents, Barry's
resources? Give him time to look
about him for employment, time to set
going the interest of his friends, and
all would come right. Meanwhile
Meanwhile, when the early clouds
, of cherry and hawthorn lay white upon
the hillsides, Paul opened his blue eyes
upon the world. Daphne, as I have
said, had stood up resolutely at first.
Her heroism ended now. With physical
weakness came reaction from the
moral tension of all the past unhappy,
sleepless weeks, and 'twas long before
the doctors could pronounce, or Aunt
Hosie believe her to be out of danger.
She spoke of her husband in her delirium
only, not asking for his presence;
she looked "with dull, unwelcoming
eyes upon the child. Alas! and
worse was to come. When, at last,
her pale lips did murmur Barry Chester's
name, with what response must
she be met? How could it be broken
to her, faintly struggling back from
stillness of the dark valley to the
pain ar.d glare of living, that he had
deserted her forever; that the tiny
baby who lay upon her breast .was
iwerse than fatherless?
Twice only had Mr. Chester written
flaring Daphne's illness, in the first
letter acknowledging, without note or
comment, the news of his son's birth,
In the second coolly announcing his
own departure for America. His attempts
at finding work in England,
the promises of friends. Interest that
he thought could be relied upon?all
tiad proved empty. At the present mo.
tnent, after paying his passage money
to New York (where he would most
likely starve), he stood without a tenpound
note in the world. Useless for
Daphne to dream of further correspondence.
The marriage had been a
"sell"?this was how Mr. Chester expressed
himself?a "sell" for both of
them. Let it be forgotten! He hoped
that she possessed sufficient Christian
charity to forgive him any pain he
might have, caused her, and that she
would trouble herself no more about
his existence. He was starting for
i&meriea under a fictitious name: anv
.TOCKING;
11 REALITY.
[ie Edwards.
efforts made with a view to tracing
him must therefore be labor in vain.
The past was past and done with. The
best thing for both of them was to
embark on a new life that should blot
out the errors of the old one.
In fewer words, he had abandoned
her and her child forever.
Daphne bore the blow with a quiet
ess that, for a girl of her age and
temperament, boded no quick recovery.
Amid the tumult of thoughts
that thronged her brain, the one, perhaps,
which stood forth the clearest?
the impossibility of her, Daphne Chester,
having done with happiness. Nineteen
years old and the sun shining
into the hearts of spring's first roses,
the birds chanting up and down the
lanes?there was, literally, as yet "no
place in the existing fabric of her
thoughts" for the realization of her
own despair. It rifeeded time?time,
whom the superficial name Healer!
the slow engraver and perpetuator of
grief in human hearts?to teach her to
be wretched. The initiation over, the
A, B, C of suffering mastered, she was
no inapt or laggard scholar for the
future.
In marrying Barry Chester she had
invested her all?or she believed so;
and are not our beliefs the sternest
facts we know? In losing him, her
docket was struck. She was bankrupt
Annt Hosie, with love-born keenness
of insight, saw that the poor child's
wound was likely to fare best if left to
Nature's curing, and when they were
dlone togetner?Dy alone 1 mean, or
course, with little Paul?the name of
Barry Chester dropped gradually into
disuse. But Miss Theodora, with surface
sympathies?sympathies for the
crying outward disgrace, not for the
stifled inward groan?was far from
approving or practicing such reticence.
Theodora was all for heroic treatment
In the moral ailments of others, the
blacksmith's hand of iron rather than
the surgeon's hand of steel. Theodora,
during Daphne's illness, had exercised
her conscience by writing a kind of
circular letter to such of Mr. Chester's
relations as she had knowledge of (including,
I rather believe, the Warwickshire
Stamers), and had accumulated
facts that she considered it a
sacred duty to lay before the girl in
her hour of darkness. "Facts that
will at least show you, child, what
kind of a man you waste your regrets
upon."
"Barry Chester comes of a doomed
stock." So, in. an upright feminine
band, wrote one of Miss Theodora's
unknown correspondents, a Chester
herself by marriage, smarting, possibly,
under wrongs that infused gall
into her ink. "His father was worthless,
his grandfather worthless. The
boy was born, as every Chester must
be, to a hopeless inheritance of evil.
Although I do not know Mrs. Barry
Chester," the writer ended, "I tell her
honestly that I congratulate her on
her good fortune in having seen her
husband for the last time. From father
to son the Chesters have brought
shame and desolation to the heart of
every woman who has loved them. It
will be so to the end."
Facta with a vengeance, these.
Facts, each of whose written syllables
seems to Dapiine's soul to loot up at
her with cruel human eyes, and whose
influence sank, like the stain of some
dark poison flower, through all the
yet unopened pages of her young life.
"Born to a hopeless inheritance of
evil," even as the babe, just beginning
to smile up in her face, must be!
She felt herself, and, what was dearer
than herself, the child, to be in the
grasp of inexorable law, marked-out
victims of necessity. If she had graduated
in the very newest school of
scientific Calvinism, had listened to
the last "high teaching" of Bile, Phosphorus
ana Despair, her morbid sense
of slavery to circumstance could
scarce have been profounder. And the
other worldly utterances of pious
friends?powerless, like all seemly
phrases signifying nothing, against
the shock of any great crisis?the .Toblike
consolations of the elder Miss Vansittarts,
everything save the influence
of Aunt Hosie's healthy, upward-looking
spirit, tended to sink her more
helplessly in the slough of fatalism;
the most dreary creed, however
learned, however formulated, that
ever served to render human life unsweet.
The roses opened, fell from their
stalks; then rang harvest songs as
heart whole,- then shone harvest moons
as silver, as of old. And then the
woods faded from red to dun, the chill
November rains began to sweep up
from the Atlantic; and Daphne, wandering
alone under the gray skies by
the stormy shore, realized that her
winter had set in. In the blossom of
ner youth she stood in an empty world,
the plaything of a blind destiny
through the very affections which were
as the fibres and life blood of her being.
Had Chester lived, her unhappiness,
however acute, must, with the progress
of time, have become checkered.
Barry Chester, living, must infallibly
have wanted money, infallibly have
fallen back upon the Miss Vansittarts
for help; and Daphne, thirsting to forgive
on any terms, would, you may be
sure, have relented over the very first
letter that implied reconciliation and
asked for sovereigns.
But no such opportunity came to her.
"Within a year of their separation
Mr. Chester died, miserably as he had
lived, In London?the little project of
starving In America proved a fiction
with which he had staved off the distasteful
necessity of working for
bread in England. A few personal
trifles of no value were sent to the
ladies of Fief-de-!a-Reine by the keeper
of the lodging; house in which he
died, also a doctor's and other billsall
of which, the poor gentleman assured
her, his relations would make it"
point of honor to pay. Not one message
of contrition or of love?not a re
raembrance of the woman whose hajv
piness he had wrecked, or of his child!
One likes, at least In fable, to think ^
of the most purposeless of human lives
as rounded off into something of harmony
by the approach of death. The .
Inheritance of evil rested on Barry
Chester to the end. Without a thought j "
beyond the groveling satisfaction of j ^
the hour he had lived out his term of j '
human animation, and dying breathed J
not a word to release one heart that !
loved him from its legacy of desola- i a
tion. I r
* '* ? j
This was why her face, amid its I 1
pure lines and coloring, wore the un- :
expectant look of age. This is how !l
her account with the world came to ,
be closed at two-and-twenty.
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CHAPTER VI. (
Blue-Stockings a la Mode. J l
That civilized man, with all his re- i
sources, cannot attain to a new sensa- | 1
tion was a truth guessed at by think- \
ers some time before exhausted young f
gentlemen of the nineteenth century '
had reduced it to a maxim. 1
Still, without making pretence to t
such an anachronism as absolute newness,
the relative position of Sir John d
Severne and Mrs. Chester must, I v
think, be admitted to contain some un- t
wonted elements of originality. 1
For a young and beautiful woman, i
m/v/ioct no bVip is beautiful, to sink at | i
XUVU^OW UM .
your feet and in the first hour of ac- j t
quaintance cover your hands with t
kisses is an experience that. I make t
bold to say, falls not to the lot of one ]
man out of a million, and as regards t
that millionth?well, unless he be a i
very hardened cynic indeed, let him t
look to it narrowly that he become f
not on the instant a slave!
Sir John Severne is five-and-twenty, j j
less of a cynic than some lads who , (
have not left off their Eton jackets, I ?,
and with a heart, up to the present ?
time, untouched by passion?yes, al- j (
though he signs himself the most de- j c
voted of Clementina Hardcastle, and , f
for three years past has worn Clem- j i
entina's portrait against his waistcoat, j So,
when on the day succeeding 1 (*
Paul's fishing expedition the young fel- j j
low finds himself again approaching I t
Mrs, Chester's presence, sees her, afar j
off, quit the band of workers in the j (
Iiay IltJIU, UUU >vuiix uimuaoutu iw??^
him, her hand outstretched, the frankest
smile of welcome on her lips? ?
when this moment comes, young Severne,
to his surprise, discovers the ,
meaning of the word "shyness" for the (,
first time in his life, and colors.
"I was beginning to think the lanes '
were playing you false again, or?or .
that you had gone away to England
without remembering us." Thus she .
greets him, her round, soft face, with '
its halo of pale gold, its full-looking
hazel eyes, seeming as the face of one
of Raphael's virgins, in Severn's sight.
"And I wanted so much to thank you
:,eriously for your great goodness. 1 0
could not sleep last night for thinking t
how cold, how poor my words must j.
have sounded; but indeed," her voice
sinking in a way that threatens tears, (
"I was too wild with terror to know fj
exactly what I said or did."
Happily for Sir John, who can feel
quickly enough?too quickly, perhaps? ^
in situations where 'twere wisest to
feel nothing, yet possesses the true
British incapacity for uttering graceful ^
* ? ?1 ?virtr?Anf "Don 1
seiuimems ui mc umug ui^uicui, *. uu< j
just now runs up beside his mother;
Paul with his clothing reduced to a 1
minimum, his tattered straw hat a .
few degrees more tattered than yes- j 3
terday, his sunburnt Murillo face v
aglow with excitement.
"Hullo, Mussieu l'Ang'laz," he cries, *
al! the neatly framed thanksgiving 1
speech that Daphne has laboriously t
taught him forgotten. "Alions done!" c
Holding out his hand, patronizingly, to *
Sir John. "Alions jouer a 'pousse me c
j'quarai' avec les*babouIns!" | *
' And in five minutes' time Severne j 11
finds himself among a crowd of girls J 11
and children, now pulled this way. now I
that, through the mazes of catch-methat-catch-can,
while Paul, sturdily
grasping his hand, shrieks aloud w4th ^
triumph over every fresh instance in | .
which Mussieu rAng'laz shows his ig- 1
norance of the game.
All throughout the neighborhood of
Flef-de-la-Reine the farming is strictly | 1
co-operative, the ideas as to paid labor j c
held by these peasant lords of the soil
being pretty much on a level with ;
those of small English farmers of a ^
hundred years ago.
To be Continued. '
Finds Visiting Oppressive.
"No," a well-known society woman 1
war, heard to remark the other after- I 1
noon at a tea, "I do not go out of town {
frequently on visits to friends. You I
see, I do not like change,"
"Not like change of scene, how (
queer!" responded the woman to whom ; '
she was talking. I <
"Oh, I like change of environment 1
well enough," replied the first, "hut I j <
do not like adapting my whole life to '
others, as the visitor is certainly ex- : '
pected to do if she desires to be a wel- '
come guest. <
"As the ideal guest you change your
hours for rising, for retiring, for eating
your meals, change your politics to
pleas? your host, change your religion '
to meet the views of your hostess,
change your point of view concerning
art, music and what constitutes diver- 1
sion to suit the family in general, and 1
are lucky if you don't change your doc- 1
tor, for all this following after strange '
and uncongenial gods is sure to make 1
you ill unless yon escape the wrath to
come by going home."?Baltimore Sun. |
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Educational. ]
It was Johnnie's first day at school.
He did not know the letter A from a
sawhorse, but this deficiency was more <
than balanced by his assurance. The j
teacher called him up alone. The old i
method of teaching reading was then <
in vogue. j
"Can you read?" said the teacher. 1
"Yes, ma'am," replied Jonnnie. 4
"Well, now we shall see," said the
teacher. "You read over after me. Be
sure to read just what I do."
So she began slowly, running her ,
finger along under the words:
"Did you ever see a donkey?"
And Johnnie, in the same deliberate,
sing-song voice, running his finger
along the page, replied:
"No, ma'am, I never did." 1
1
In 1870 the German people barely er- 1
ceeded 40,000,000; in 1SS5 they had ris- '
en to nearly 47,000,000, and in 1900 '
the census cave 50.345,014.
THE THOUSAND DOLLAR BILL
loir Big BIUr Often Eutlce a Man Into
Buying Property.
The ordinary citizen, even thougn
ie be a man of more than ordinary
neans, seldom ever sees a .$100 bill,
rbile $1000 bills are almost an un:nown
article. Yet, according to (lie
laying teller of one of tbe largest
innks in the city, these same $100
nd even .$1000 bills are rather eomtion.
This teller estimates that lie
landles from .$10,000 to $15,000 a day
n large bills on an average. By large
(ills, he explained, he meant those of
denomination of $50 or up.
But if these bills abound in quanity,
the use to which they are put has
. very narrow field, and is confined
o only a few definite purposes in
Jmana. tmei amonp xuese spcuim
mrposes is the !arge real estate (leal.
It is a trick of the real estate man to
nake a man an offer for a piece of
iroperty and then follow it up by
lourisbing the price in $100 or $1000
>ills. It is said that several of Omala's
best-known real estate men use
his very plan.
An agent will come to the bank and
[raw his check for the amount he
vants. "Give it to me in hundreds," he
vill say, or. if the deal is a large one,
le calls for thousands. "When he has
nade his trade, the seller is. of course,
10 better off than if he had been given
i certified check, but there is somehing
about the sight of real money
hat oftentimes consummates a trade.
Perhaps the charm falls to work and
lie agent brings the money back to the
jank and deposits it until he wants to
Iraw a "flash roll" on some other un.uspecting
victim.
"Another use for these large bill's
s to pay duties. The duties at the
)malia Custom House sometimes run
is high as $5000 a day," said the teller.
The Government doesn't take any
hances. you can put that down. When
me does business with Uncle Sam he
inds that the old geritleraan is from
iVisconsin and wants it in his hand,
rhe real hard cash, actual legal tenter,
must be deposited. 'Not only that,
>ut in big bills. It's big denominaions
the Government wants. The rea;on
for this large bill demand by the
government is that the money has
o be transferred, and it is Just as
,,A'I r?if {tt 1 n i'opa KUlr of" r\r\no
> C*1I IU lllimf It iil ?* w vr
;o it can be shipped readily.
"The real large bills, such as the
15000 and $10,000. are very scarce. I
toubt if there are my in Omaha.
Certainly I don't know of any. They
re used only in the East, where money
s handled in much larger bulk than
t is out this way. There they come
11 handy and are useful in transfers
rom bank to ^ub-Treasury and the
fke."?Omaha News.
Modern Jupaneae War Charm.
The custom of the Sen Xin Hiki is
ne that lias arisen in Japan during
he present war. Ever since the war
egan, at all times of the day, and
ven night, small groups of women can
te seen gathering In the streets; one
r more of the women will have a piece
if cotton cloth with 1000 marks or
lots stamped, upon it. "Sen" is the
apanese word for 1000. "Nin" is the
vord for human being?either man or
I'oraan. "Riki" is, in the Japanese
anguage. strength. In combination
he words mean "the strength of 1000
teople."
Eaclv one of these 1000 dots or marks
n the cloth is to indicate the place
vhere a stitch or knot is to be made
>y a woman, who, while making this
;not. gives her best thought, wish or
?rayer ror tuo sarety ana protection 01
he soldier who will wear this piece of
otton cloth as an "obi" or belt while
ighting for his country. The prayers
?f 1000 women for one man are beieved
to protect him from all dangers
ind to give him strength to overcome
ind conquer the enemies of his beoved
Japan.?Frank Leslie's Weekly.
Caring For Baby in Zani Land.
The Zunl child spends his early days
n a cradle. But a cradle in Zuni iand
toes not mean down pillows, silkeu
overlets and fluffy laces; it is only a
lat board, just the length of the baby,
vith a hood like a doll's buggy top
>ver the head.
Upon this hard bed the baby is bound
ike a mummy, and the coverings are
vound round and round him until the
ittle fellow cannot move except to
>pen his mouth and eyes. Sometimes
le is unrolled and looks out into the
iare whitewashed room, blinks at the
ire burning 011 the hearth and fixes
lis eyes earnestly on the wolf and
'ougar skins that serve as chairs and
jeds and carpets in the Zuni home.
By the time he is two or thr<& years
)ld he has grown into a plump little
jronze creature with the straightest ol
. oarse black hair and the biggest and
oundest of black eyes. He is now out
)f the cradle and trots about the house
ind the village. "When the weather is
jad he wears a small, coarse shirt, and
ilways a necklace of beads or turluoises.?St.
Nicholas.
On the Sen Wall.
"Ah, Miss Smith, sitting alone beside
the sea, eh?"
"Vac "
"Sitting watching the play of tlif
nooniight on the waves, the hug?
ivhite combers rushing shoreward, th<
twinkling lights of distant vessels go
ing no one knows whither across Tb<
rasty, unfathomable, pathless deepseparating
loved ones, mayhap; may
iap bringing loved ones together. Ah
Mamie?I may call you Mamie, may 1
lot?"
"Of course."
"I feel that you and I are kindred
souls; the same feeling of oxultatior
Hid exaltation thrills us; the sam<
beauties of nature remind us of th(
same or similar things. Won't you tel.
me what the night and the moon and
the restless, tossing sea make yot
think of?"
"Sure, they "
"Yes "
"Make me think of a plate of crat
;umbo an' some corn bread an' pork
'at I had last time I was in Galveston.'
-Houston Post.
The Jap's Knapsack.
, Russian soldiers have frequent op'
lortunity to admire the cleanliness and
the completeness of the contents of tin
cnapsacks of fallen Japanese soldiers,
[{( sides food nnd arumunitiou thes?
contain a tooth brush, a comb, a towo!
nid a map of southern Manchuria on
\ large scale.
--'. '.A . * . i.V. .
THE GREAT DESTROYER!
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT j
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Che Subject of Saloon Compensation-* i
What the United Stated Supreme !
Court If as Declared?Tlie Opinion of a
Distinguished Jurist of Ohio.
In some States where the destruction of
' the saloon is sought by legislation, defend,
ers of the saloon advocate compensating sai
loonkeepers for the loss of their business.
. But those friends seem to have overlooked
j the fact that the saloonkeeper has engaged
in a business which lie knew, or might !
have known, was liable to be outlawed at |
, any time. The United States Supreme j
Court declared:
"By the general concurrence of opinion !
! of every civilized and Christian commu- J
r _c : I 1
! nicy Ulere tire lew sourcea <>i tnuic nuu
{ misery to society equal to the dramshop
I where intoxicating liquors in small quanti|
ties to be drunk at the time are sold in|
discriminate!^to all parties applying. The
statistics of ^very State show a greater
amount of crime attributable to this than
from any other source. The sale of liquor
in this way has therefore been at all times
considered the proper subject of legislative
regulation. For that matter, the sale by
the glass may be absolutely.prohibited. It
is a question of public expediency and public
morality and not of Federal laws. Tnere
is no inherent right of a citizen to sell intoxicating
liquors by retail. It is not a
privilege of a citizen of the State or of a
citizen of the United States." ? Justice
Field. For United States Supreme Court,
November, 1890, in Christiansen Case.
According to this decision a saloonkeeper
has no vested right of selling liquor, and
when he starts in the business he takes all |
the risks.
In discussing this matter a distinguished
I jurist of Ohio has aptly said:
I "There is no valid reason why compensa}
tion should be made. God never gave the
devil any compensation for curtailing him
in the exercise of any of his assumed privileges,
because the devil never had any
right to take- the privileges in the first
place. The law of God nowhere recognizes j
the principle that a man committing, or :
about to commit, an injury to the public
health, public peace or public morals, must
be compensated if he is prevented from
committing the injury; and if no such
principle is acknowledged in the moral law
why should it be recognized in human
l i > < ? vrtn
laws; xj\j juirpa.y mc unci iui naau jvw. i
deprive him of when you drive him from
I your house and thus thwart his criminal
j purposes? Have you not a right to pre- j
vent an injury without compensation to j
the one intending to do the injury? Must
I men be compensated for the surrender of j
i anv evil practice?"
j Why not require the saloonkeeper to
j compensate the members of these men's j
families for all the woe, poverty and dis- i
grace he has caused by his death-dealing '
j business??The National Advocate.
Alcoholism and Heredity.
In a well-known but slightly sensational |
medical journal, The London Lancet, a .
rather surprising opinion is advanced by
G. Archdall Reid. He is satisfied that a
predisposition to drinking is not inherited
from intemperate parents. He ar-ues in
this fashion: If offspring are affected,
then, in time, the race grows degenerata
i and finally becomes extinct. On the other
| hand, if they are not, then the power of
| resistance becomcs developed and strength*
?ned, and later generations crave liquor !
less than did their ancestors. The latter
rule explains to Mr. Reid the present existence
of old races like the Jews, Greeks
and the nations of Southern Europe, who
for ages have had alcoholic beverages.
Younger stock, like that of Northern Europe,
naving had less time in which to acquire
resisting powers, might, on the other
hand, show a greater susceptibility. In
| other words, he holds that alcohol, as well
j as disease, is the cause of an innate immu;
nity against itself.
To this doctrine much dissent has been
I expressed. A resident of Buffalo. Law,
rence Irwell, declares that if a distinct
j craving for drink is not transmitted to
i children, there is at least an inherent susi
ceptibility. A writer in The Medical Rec1
> !_ O it.* -p.,.
| ora aemes innc me peo^ic oi tjuuuiuu nu- I
j rope are to-day abstemious. He then re- i
j marks: "Mr. Reid cannot prove that the |
children of habitual, drunkards are norj
mally developed both mentally and physiI
cally. When drink is indulged in to excesg
through successive generations it results
j in insanity, paralysis, idiocy or cerebral
| defect of some kind. The theory that in a
drinking nation the unfit are weeded out
I and that among the survivors a consider|
able degree of immunity to alcohol is es|
tablished is plausible and probable. The
j craving for drink may not be directly :
: transmitted, but the children of drunken |
! parents or one drunken parent will in all |
j likelihood inherit some physical or mental |
defect or both, which may of a certainty
be put down to the drinking habits of their
progenitors."
Pay-Day and Drinking.
The Massachusetts Bureau of Labor staj
tistics has published a report on the loss of
j time due to drunkenness in which there is
shown a great decrease in the proportion
of absences of work immediately following
pay day. The special agents visited 413 establishments
and found absent on Monday I
\ but 511 of 39,761 males over sixteen years
of age employed on the previous Saturday.
| The per cent, is 1.29. The employers who
I have changed the pay day from Saturday
j to the middle of the week reports.a gref.t J |
I improvement in this respect. The man
j who knows that his position depends on
his reporting for work on the rooming immediately
following pay day appears far
I more likely to keep sober than when a full
I day or a day and a half intervene.
San Francisco's Saloons.
T??4MA>'a/iA lion +1io fomlOn fn/if
facc that there are over 3000 saloons within
her city limits?one saloon to every 125
of her population?and, what is the worst
feature, many of the saloons have grocery I
stores in front, and children who go for j ,
! home supplies are only separated from the !
I evils of the saloon by a swinging door, and
I learn all manner of wickedness from iheir
earliest youth. Recently the commissioners
of the city liave decided there shall be .
no further increase in the saloons, and also
that if any saloon goes out of existence no
other can resume business on that site. '
Through these laws San Francisco hopes
to have less than 30.000 arrests yearly, over
half of which are directly accountable ">
the liquor traffic. '
Alcoholism in Mnpsia. j
The consumption of alcohol is increasing j
nt an enormous rate in .the Province of j
Moscow, the revenue having increased [ <
nearly 200 per cent, during the year. Th? <
province contains a population of 2,500,000, j
| and the consumption of vodka during the |
year amounted to 9,926.000 gallons.
The Crusade In Krlef,
In the State of Virginia during the last
few months the Anti-Saloon League has j
closed no less than 900 saloons.
In Maine, Kansas and North Dakota J
they have prohibition by State law; in t
thirty-eight other States they have it by f
local opiion. 'J
It is recognized that the hope of the nation
lies in nerventincr the formation of
drinking habits through education of the
rising generaVon.
The action of alcohol on the nervous ays- t
tem is one of most important and most f
unfortunate characteristics. It is this ac- t
tion which leads to the "craving" for drink, c
The United States drinks enough liquor
each year to float all her battleships.
There are 650 towns and cities in the
State of Illinois in which nrohibition has ^
been enacted into law. All the State of j
Iowa but twenty-five cities is still prohibi- y
tion. p
It is strange that professedly religious V
bodies of men can see no wrong in manu- h
faeturin? liquors which have been proved jj
to be the greatest enemies to humanity? p
morally, socially, physically and spirit- fj
ually. tl
The amount the liquor business draws it
from legitimate trade, if spent i.f dry li
goods, grocery, hardware and furniture r;
stores, would require ?400,QOO,(JOO more of Cj
raw material for manufacturing, and trivo ti
tniulovment to l,2j0,000 inea. 1
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Tho Only Vole?.
His once dark locks bleached snowy whitCj j
In the shadowy valley'a rime,
Where hangs the river's veil of mist
Between, eternity and time.
Stands he who was at lifi's bright morn
Mysteriously given breath,
Now in the chill evening gloaming
Facing the mystery of death.
All they who cried: "Lo here, lo there,"
Ere yet the light of day grew dim,
Are silent as the shadows are
And have no hand of help from him.
Philosopher, and sage and seer,
Who counseled him how best to come
To that dread place, now he is near
The bar of destiny, are dumb.
As if the dead had never lived.
As if the living were unknown, <
There by the bridgeless river's beetling j
brink'
The old man stands alone.
And hears. 0 joy ineffable!
0 peace outliving mortal strife!?
"Who spake as never man: "I am
The JResorrectioi and the Life."
?L. D. Perkins, in New York Observer.
Kind Word*.
Cultivate kindness of heart; think well
of your fellow men; look with charity upon
the shortcomings in their lives; do a good
turn for them as opportunity,offers, and
finally, don't forget the kind word at the
right time. How much such a word of
kindness, encouragement or appreciation
means to others sometimes, and now little
it costs us to give it! "We do not need to
wait for some special occasion. When calamity
overtakes a friend words of sympathy
and encouragement are offered sincerely
enough, yet, in certain respects, as a
matter of course. Such an occasion calls I
for expression on our part, and we naturally
respond, says the Luther League Review.
But why wait for an occasion? Why
not speak that kind word when there is no
special occasion? In the course of our
lives there must be many times when
thoughtless words are spoken by us which 1
wound- the hearts of others. -And there
are also many little occasions when the
word of cheer is needed from us, and we
are silent. There are lives of Avearisome i '
monotony which a word of kindness can j
relieve. There is suffering which words of I
sympathy can make more endurable. And !
often, in the midst of wealth and luxury,
there are those who listen and Ions in 1
vain for some expression of disinterested j :
kindness. Speak to those while they "can
hear and be helped by you, for the day <
mav come when all our. expressions of love
and appreciation may be unheard. Iroag- <
ine yourself standing beside their last rest:
ing place. Think or the things you could i
have said of them and to them while they 1
were yet living. Then go and tell them |
now.
"Why Do We Wait. ? 1
A story is "told which couples the names i
of Princess Mathilde and the great paint- j
er, Gerome. The princess and the painter i
had both been invited to a dinner party, i
The princess arrived punctually; the paint- j
er tarried until long after the dinner hour i
was past. The guests concealed their impatience
as best they could, until at last 1
the princess suddenly said: j
"Why, I nearly forgot. Only this mon> j
ing I received a telegram from Gerome, |
who is in Spain. He is unable to come to- 1
night." i
i l J..H v_r i
x>uu wny uiu you not ten us i?eiorc,
princess?" cried all the guests togetter,
"Because I was not yet hungry. '
It is often so ill regard to spiritual
things. Why do we wait to tell our loved
ones and friends the good news of having
found a Saviour? Is it not because we are
not yet hungry for their salvation? If
every child of God would, in a measure. _
experience something of the hunger aria
thirst whiqh Christ Jesus had fof the lost,
we would begin at once to tell of the
things we know about Christ. Let each
one of us begin to-day to tell of the power
of Christ to redeem our lives from destruction,
and there will be many whose
real joy in life will be enhanced. And
again and again we will #3ar the question:
"Why did you not tell it before?" How*
many of Christ's followers would then be
bound to confess, to some unsaved friend,
"I kept silent because I was not yet hungry
for your soul!" .
We have kept silent long enough. Let
us speak. We are messengers of salvation,
"Let the redeemed of the Lord *ay so?"
The Poor Pessimist.
H. P. Danks, the composer, died recently
in Philadelphia at the age of sixty-nine,
lie was best known, perhaps, through tho
song, "Silver Threads Among the Gold,"
that he wrote in his youth.
Mr. Danks lived quite alone. He had a
pathetically odd way of passing the time
when not at work before his organ. He |
would, for several hours each afternoon,
sit in the huge railway station at Twelfth !
and Market streets, watching the people j
quietly.
Sometimes he would make cursory ac
quaintances at the station. Sometimes he j
would narrate to his friends odd remarks j
that he had heard in chance encounters. }
Thus, one morning, lie told of an English- j
man who, the day before, had sat down i
beside him and began to grumble about !
American newspapers.
Mr. Danks changed the subject to music, j
but the other crumbled njrain. Finally, c
pointing to the flood of suniight that }
Eoured in through the great window, Mr, 1
lanks said: m ? .* 6
"A glorious day, isn't it?" " 8
The other frowned and muttered:
"Yes, locally. It's probably raining *
Bomewhere, though." f
Called to High Service. t
We must not forget that our calling is !
x high one. How often we hear ic said
in our prayer meetings that we are to ?
serve the Lord in little things! It is true, o
md it is a great comfort that it is true, j ?
that the giving of a glass of water can I J
please Cod, and the sweeping of a room j .
can glorify Him. But woe be to us if we j
ire content with small service!
Too much thought of little things belit- J.
ties. We should "attempt great things j]
tor God." Caleb said: "Give me this ?
mountain." Mary broke the alabaster box
that was "exceedingly precious." The dis- .j:
:ip]e<3 "left all" to follow .Tesus. and count -y
;a it joy to suffer for His sake. Let v.a
lot be easily content.?Pittsburg Chris:ian
Advocate.
Those Who Are Blessed*
Blessed are those ears which lisfen not t
ifter the voice which is sounding without, c,
jut for the truth teaching inwardly. B
31essed, indeed, is the soul which heareth
;he Lord speaking within it, and receiveth j;
rom His mouth the word of consolation.-* a,
L'homas a Kempis. a
The Weak Things.
The Lord ioves to use "the weal; things" l>
.nd "tilings that are despised." He loves Cl
;o put the treasure of His grace into the ^
eeble, that the world mav be vompelled
;o ask, "Whencc hath this Man thii pow
x2"?Jcwett.
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Honeymoon in a Box car.
A honeymoon spent in a box car is to y
e the unusual experience of a Milburn (N. t
.) bride. She v/as Miss Hannah Harrison p
Thittingham. Recently she married in h
'ueblo, Col.^ Arthur Fepper, formerly of 0
Wyoming, J*, who for eight months (_
as been connected with the Denver and e,
lio Grande llailroad Company in the ca- t,
acity of civil engineer. Frequent changes
rom place to place are made necessary by
he completion of one job and the comlencement
of another, and the couple will ..
ve in the box car, as under any other ar- I1.
ingement they would be separated be- j;1
luse of the lack ^f public accommoda- .
ions. _
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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR OCTOBER 16.
Subject: Eliihs r?n<l the RhoBunltt, lk
KIdcb, It., 25-37?Golden Text, Bom.
vl? 23?Memory Verses, 32.35?Commentary
on the Day's Lesson.
T. Kindness rewarded (vs. 8-17). Elisha
in his work as a prophet and religious
leader of the people traveled from place
to place, on foot, with Gehazi, his attendant.
There seems to have been public religious
services on the Sabbath and first
days of the month (v. 23). Elisha frequently
passed by the village of $hunem,
and was invited to the house of one of the
leading families for refreshment and foodv
The lady of the house seems to have been
much more intelligent and religious than
her husband, who was wise enough to .
know it arid to trust her, while she allowed
due deference to him. This woman was
childless, which was a great sorrow in her
life, and as a reward for her kindness
Elisha promised that within a year she
should ''embrace a son."
II. Death in the home (vb. 18-24). In
due time a son was born into the house.
He grew up to be four or five years old.
He could not have been much older if this.
part of the story took place during Jehoram's
reign. But the story may have begun
then, but run on to a later period.
One morning the boy went out into the
fields where his father was gathering in the
harvest. In this valley which is to-day one
of the richest wheat lands on the wide
globe, he was taken suddenly-sick. Considering
the symptoms. and the season of
the year there is little doubt that a sunstroke
was followed by inflammation of
the brain. The bov was sent home to hi*
mother. yrlio held him till noon, when he *
died. She took him up to the little chamber
by the roof and laid him ou the pro- 4
phet's bed. It was a strange affliction that
God should take away the child He had
given as a reward for her kindness to the
prophet, while her kindness had been continued
and increasing year by year.
III. Meeting the prophet (vs. 25-28).
25. "She went." The mother immediately
hastened across the plain to Mount Carmel,
sixteen or seventeen miles distant, in ,
search of Elisha. "Man of God." That i?,
God's representative.* So called, 1. Because
of the integrity of his character. 2.
Because he instructed the people in divine
*L-? f ? < : lftMi*.
initigs. xcn Limca hi bmo
called by this title. "Saw her." From the B
hilltop looking down into the valley. BB
26. "Run now." This was a mark of H
courtesy, showing his great esteem. "If it H
well?" "Is it peace?" "It is well." In H
the Hebrew only the word "peace" ia H
used. She gives this answer, to Gehazi's Hj
question that she may avoid more words; Hj
she 'has no thought of deception. |M
27. "Caught him by the feet." The atti- MB
tude of humblest supplication. She hum- |H
bly reasoned with him concerning her pres- IH
ent affliction; she threw herself at Jus feet
as one troubled and in grief, which she
never showed until she name to Elislia, the
one whom she believed could ho]p her. I
"Thrust her awav." In bis officious zeal,,
angry at the slight toward him, or deeming
her touch defilement, or her importti- Hn
nity excessive, or such liberties beneath
his master's dignity. "Let her alone." A
noble mind does not pass sentence before EH
hearing the case. Elisha'.? gentleness was
an tvidence of his greatness. "So.nl ia Hjj
vexed." Sympathy is penetrative. Cultirate
earnestly the Christ-like talent of dis.:erning
the sorrows of others. "Lord hath
hid." In reference to this point he bad
not the discernment ot spirits. ipia uuu bh
the gift of prophecy were influences God
rave and suspended as in His infinite wis- HG
iom and love He was good.
28. "Did I desire a son?" She reminded BE
bim that she had not asked for the child,
but that ho had come to her as a free gift
from God. Why should God, she argued,
give her the child of His own will, only to H|
take him awny? Had .she not besought thg Hi
Drophet not to mock her with a false hope?
Hius did she reason. MB
IV. The sei-vant's failure (vs. 29-31). 29.
'Gird up "thy loins.'' By tightening the j^H
jirdle and tucking the mantle under eo as H]
to leave the legs fre e. ''Staff." The badge
if the prophetical (rift which he had re:eived
from God. of might and strength.
'Salute him not." Ip the East salutations B9
ire full of form and consume much time.
Hie command showed the urgency of the
nission and the necessity for the exercise |Hjg
)f faith and prayer. 30. "Will not leave flH
:hee." After the heartless attempt of Gelazi
to thrust her away she has no conC
lence in his ministrv, even though he HB
:arry the staff of Eiisfoa. Sacred vest- [gfl
nents and a holy commission will not comnand
the confidence of earnest souls un- I
ess they be associated wicn a true uuu. kuler
heart. H|
31. "Neither voice, nor hearing." Why
;vas Elisha's mission fruitless? Everything1 Km
joes to show that at first Elisha did not Bflj
ntend to go to Shunem, but when he saw
;he persistency of the mother he changed I
lis purpose. It was probably in conse- HK
juence of this change of plan that 110 reiponse
was made to the first claim of faith
)y means of the staff. That appeal was in BBS
art superseded the moment he resolved to
;o in person, the Lord thus reserving for [ra
;he personal intercession of His prophet
he honor of this marvelous deed. H
V. A great miracle (vs. 32-37). 32. HsE
'Child was dead." This statement cleary
forbids the supposition that the child KB
iad merely fainted or fallen into a trance.' HSR
rle was really, not apparently, dead. 33.
'Shut the door." He prayed in secret and Hm
lis Father rewarded him openly. "Prayed." KS
rhc only remedy in s;ich a case as this. HI
The best things in life come through
)raver. -''4. "Lay upon the child." He |BH
ised what means were in his power, though H
he means alone could never have brought Hw
he child to jife. So .James tells the eldts
to pray with the sick and to anoint
hem with oil (James 14, 15.) "Put his
nouth," etc. Elisha followed the example HH
if Elijah a* nearly as possible (1 Kings 17: BWi
8-24). "Waxed warm." Returning life
s slowlv given, but the first signs of re- HS
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toration must nave sireiifctucucu ma
;nd given fervor to his prayers. flpM
35. "Returned.'' Left the bed. "Walked HH
o and fro." His own animal heat might
tave become much reduced by absorption HH
nto the cold body of ihe child. Possibly, Hj
oo, there was a struggle of faith in the HB
nind of the prophet. "Sneezed seven HI
imes." When the nervous influence be;an
to on the muscular system sneez-^^B
ng: would be :i natural consequence, as^^H
b6tructions must have taken place in the^HH
icad, the cause of the disorder of which^HH
he child died. 36. "Take up thy sod."H^H
oyfully the child was returned alive toBB
lis mother. See the power of prayer; aaHEfl
t has the key of the clouds, so it has theHH
cy of death. See the power of faith. That^^H
??d law of nature, death, shall be dis-^MH
^enfcpd jpith rather than this believing^BM
hunamlte be disappointed. 37. "Fell atHH
lis feet." In overwhelming gratitude.
Vhen God has done great things tor us, wclM
nouId bow humbly and say, Lord, I imHH
?t worthy.*' See Oen. 32: 10. fflH
Tho "Cnke-TValk" Tabooed. HBB
At Berlin, where tlicy have twen holding
congress of Turveydrops to discuss and^HB
onsider the great subject of the progress
nd decadence of the terpsichorean art, il^BH
as been decided, says the Ladies' Pictor-HHs
il, that the "cake-walk" must be tabooedH^S
s a vulgar, ungraceful and unseemly dancc.^^m
it the same time it was acknowledged by^^H
iltatory experts that there were possibiii-H^H
ies in the "cake-walk" which had neverHO^
nnn >lpvo!nnpd hnf cvpn at its beat.
ourse, it could never have the elegance,
ie atvle, the charm of older fancy dancer Hjak
Precocious Business Boy.
The Los Angeles land boomer starts buy^^KB
ig and selling real estate early in life occar^HQ
ionally. Russell Clark is youngest of th^Hm|
)t at present. Mr. Clark is just eleven^Hng
ears old. For three years he has been ii^HB
he chicken and egg business, from th^^^R
rofits of which he has bought a lot. Thi^^^H
e has advertised for sale, his sign bem^HH
f regulation size and design. Youn^HM
'lark's father has been an operator in rea^H^B
state for years and has large property in^BHj
Married Seventy Tears.
King Edward has sent his congratula-^BHi
ons to Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Crocker, o^H^H
'ount Nebo, Taunton, who recently cele-^BflSj
ated the seventieth anniversary of their^GBB
edding day. ? w - Hfl