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A Blues . =3^| "roman! l-u-uwu-L vvvvw^ By Miss An* CHAPTER VL Continued. Children scarcely bigger man little Paul are among the groups of fanfares, stalwart grandsires are working iwith will and arm as hearty as their sons. And everybody, old and young, must say his word of compliment to Severne, upon whom the Victoria Cross has already been lavishly bestowed by Queruec imagination. When the last load liad left the field, and a parting glass of something livelier than tea is being Jiberally served out by Jean Marie and IMargot, the health of Mussieu Sir John" is proposed and drank with an bonest English Houras! that makes the surrounding orchard ring again. Finally it is settled for him that he shall Af fhfl cronino* OfCUU. WJO XClUUmvit*. v.. o at Fief-de-la-Reine. "'You have been cheated out of your , fiinner," says Aunt Hosie, in her hearty North-country voice, and resting her hand on the young man's arm. "So you must make a virtue of necessity and eat a bit of eight o'clock supper Srith us at the farm." VAnd as you care for art," adds Miss Theodora, with pretty consciousnessTheodora actually on the hay field, and in a costume, uplooped, Watteauish; a blue-ribboned straw hat shading her face, a la Gainsborough. "As you care for art, Mrs. Chester and myself will show you some of our small attempts in water color. I had the very best ad. ] vantages in my youth," says Theodora, plaintively retrospective. "Indeed, a Signor Pinuti, or Pincelli, or some such tiame, has been known to regret our dear papa's social position. 'If the Sig-! aorina Theodora had but to work for money,' poor Pinuti used to say " i "But, unfortunately, we have no Sigiior Pinuti to praise us now," interrupts Daphne, hot with confusion "And aothing we do can possibly be worth showing to a stranger; I?I mean to any one who has traveled so much and i fciust have seen so many fine pictures Us Sir John Severne." "J. accept the apology," says Severne, flvith a look that brings the color to her cheeks. "If you had not retracted that obnoxious word 'stranger,' I should bave walked straight away to the harbor, Mrs. Chester. A steamer starts for New Haven to-night, and " "And before to-morrow morning Sir John Severne would have forgotten that such a place as Quernec exists," crieg Daphne. By this time they had fallen a little behind the others, and ere walking slowly, side by side, along the narrow lane, S;r John well laden trith rakes and forks, she with her sun \ fconnet hanging on her arm, an empty iwater jar poised on her shoulderJust like a lady and gentleman of the cup and saucer school of comedy, preparing for a telling bit of' sylvan flirtation. "'Don't you think it might be as well for you to make a note of our existence, sir? We shall remember you," ?5? po/11tt 4,fliAca nf lie fciie guea <jj.i a. uiuc oauij, ijjvo-o *??. ?v iwho live long enough?well, for about the next thirty or forty years. Don't you think you might write a couple of (words about us in your pocketbook? Only the words Fief-de-la-Reine and the date of yesterday would be enough." "If you wish truly and honestly that I should remember Fief-de-la-Reine find every one belonging to it, Mrs. , Chester; if you wish that I should remember every thing connected with iQuernec just one' degree more vividly than I am certain to do already, you must let me make a sketch of you and little Paul. I should like to get an outdoor portrait of you, looking as you look at this moment " . "In a cotton gown and sun bonnet, toy cheeks well baked by eight hours' haymaking, a water jar on my shoulider. You don't want me to hide my picturesqueness under Sunday best, as the country people do when they go to town to be taken by the photographers^ "I want you to look precisely as you aid when I first met you yrsterday in thA fiplds." 4,A certain letter in hand. Ah, Sir John, if you had uever dropped your letter " . "Mrs. Chester would not have directled me to the Martello tower in Quernec Bay, some other fellow would have carried Paul safe to shore, and at this moment?no, it would not do to push these kind of suppositions too far. My own correspondent little knows the happy results that letter was fated to bring about" ****** The distinct white light of day has melted into the tenderest shifting hues of pearl and opal. Severne and Mrs. Chester, after I know not how many hours spent in each other's society, are ^watching the stars rise, as they have iwatched the sun set, from the Quernec shore. Paul had been forcibly carried off to bed in the strong arms of Margot, the Misses Vansittart, mindful of damp and rheumatism, have already lit their parlor lamps. Only these two are abroad. i "Yes, we talk like old acquaintances." It is Daphne who speaks, her calm face lifted, with the after glow of all the west upon it, to Severne's. "Yet, in reality, the extent of our acquaintance is?a knowledge of each other's names. People who dwell in places like Quernec have so stepped off the stage of life as to have no history to speak of. I hav* beeu nineteen /1a In "DftJno o rwl Pflnil "* years at r jci-uc-ia-iiciut, year the seed time, and potato planting, and harvest have been pretty N much the same. Neve.* more different - than between a wet season and a dry one. But you, at your age " "At my age, which is four or five years more advanced than your's, Mrs. Chester!" "Age is not dependant upon the number of one's birthdays," she answers lim, gravely "I was two-and-twenty the fifteenth of last April." "Two months ago! Like <'.II immensely old people, you make the most of !" ? 'orv!iv U --J!. . , m iTOCKING; 3EI REALITY. ue Edwards. " "And I seem to hare done with life just as effectually as though I were fifty. You are merely a schoolboy." Her eyes traveling over his face with a kind of soft compassion. "Your life is beginning." "With a tolerable accumulation of experience to start from," says Severne. "Nine years ago, when I first went to Woolwich, I looked upon myself, I can assure you, as a finished Chesterfield in matters of worldly wisdom, and now, after spending the three X 4-^lA last years 111 niuiu, iuu, u> ue iuiu coolly that I am only a schoolboy still!" "After spending the three last year* in India," repeats Daphne, stooping down and with one finger tracing out a kind of Chinese pagoda upon the ?and. "You must have been young enough, in all conscience, when you went away! And you have never returned to England since?" "Never. I am in the act of returning at this moment." "Not very hurriedly?" "Well, no. I wanted to look up an Id school friend who has married and buried himself in Brittany. That delayed me a fortnight between Paris and St. Malo." "Then?" "Then 'Murray' reminded me of my duty. The traveler is here at a convenient point for visiting the Channel Islands. You know the rest." "And the lady who wrote that letter has not seen you for three years, then?" 'cries Daphne, sweeping out the pagoda with a touch, and raising her eyes abruptly to Severne's. "She will finrl vmi altered. TllOUCll TOU ex changed photographs every week, you could not keep a face fresh and living before you through the changes of three years." It is a home thrust, the like of which can only be given under one or two conditions: absolute knowledge or absolute ignorance of the conventionalities. Sir John throws a quick look at Daphne's face, at the serious, truthtelling eyes, the lips from which no word of "chaff" or other wit of the period has ever flowed, and comes to the sudden resolution, then and there, of enlightening her as to his engagement. "Yes, we shall find each other changed, Mrs. Chester, in things, perhaps, that don't come within the scope of photography." He takes up a handful of small pebbles, and, as he talks, aims one after another at some imaginary target on the margin of the water. "You see, we had known each other just six weeks, and we were children?Miss Hardcastle, at least, was a child?when?when I was 1 ordered to India. We spoke in our haste, and I suppose shall have the interest now of finding out how far our speaking led us wrong." j And for one long minute Daphne Chester is silent. Her heart is dead, no doubt, on that point; her belief in personal happiness shattered. The only feeling she can possibly entertain toward Sir John Severne Is gratitude?just what she felt for sroutv old Dr. de Garlot, when he had brought Paul safely through the measles. * "I shall have more faith iu my own cleverness for the future," so at length she speaks, in her matter-offact, quiet voice. "When first I picked up that letter I thought to myself it was from your sweet?from some one you cared more than common for. You must be longing to get back to England, Sir John. After three years of separation, the hours must pass heavily that keep you apart." i "Well," answers Severne, discharging his last shot with vigor at the imaginary target, "we are not romantic people, either of us; that is the fact. Miss Hardcastle is?I suppose if I had to sum up her characteristics in one word I should be forced to say?pref pare yourself, Mrs. Chester, a cold shock is in store for you?that Miss | Hardcastle is the least bit in the world a blue-stocking." "A blue-stocking!" exclaims Daphne, with a bitter, sharp sense of her own deficiencies, and with a vision, grand, epic, homicidal, rising before her. "The term is old-fashioned," says Sir John. "And still with feminine learning increasing at its present rate, I don't know that we can well afford to do without it." ?T* 1c- a varxr n refill OrieS 11 lO U I V ? J M It ??- , Daphne. "I have heard my aunts speak of Mrs. Trimmer, Miss Porter " "And Mrs. Hannah More! Ah, the modern blue-stocking is east upon a different pattern, exhibits diverging manifestations, as she would say, in the language of tbe tribe. The modern blue-stocking acknowledges few things that cannot be weighed in the balance or observed in tbe spectroscope." *> "I think," said Daphne, forgetting politeness in tbe plentitude of her sincerity, "that I would much rather not come across tbe modern, blue-stocking." "Miss Hardcastle will inevitably come across you," returns Severne, looking amused. "In a couple of days, to-morrow, perhaps. Miss Hardcastle and a party of her friends will arrive T nvnn/1 ifinn " ill Jersey im a juv-unu, v^wuwv^. "Keep her away?keep her away from Fief-de-la-Reine! Never let my ignorance be placed side by side with tbe science of such a paragon!" This was Daphne's first thought, perhaps I should say the first rush of wordless emotion from which thought springs. One second later, "And is Miss Harflcastle tall or short?" she asks, her voice so excellently schooled that her companion's dull masculine perceptions detect iii it no constraint. "Has she black eyes or blue, dark hair or blonde?" "After the lapse of three years It Is difficult to speak accurately about shades of color," he remarks, watching ?not the faded photograph of the woman he is to wed?but the flushed and living face of this daughter of Hcth, this acquaintance cf yesterday, with whom alreadv he is more than half in love, "Miss Hardcastle, I have a fat* cy, was called fair?but no, you ar< fair, in the true painter's acceptation of the word. She was?I am certair I could get a likeness of you at this moment, if there were light enough tc draw. One little line more in profile.' With an artist's privilege, Se\ erne's hand rests for a second's space upor her coils of silken hair. "You wil give me a first sitting to-morrow, wil you not?" "And her eyes are dark, for certain Sir John, I like the face of 'your owi correspondent.' There is something one could rely upon about that moutb In spite of all the terrible things yoi have said about blue-stockings, I don'' think I shall be very frightened tc make the acquaintance of?of?" ou: came the words with an effort?"Mis; Hardcastle, your sweetheart." CHAPTER VII. Romance. "Yes, his maternal great-aunt musi have been a Miss Clavering, of Logan,' says Isabella Vansittart, with decision "co-heiress to the Logan estates, and i noted beauty. The Marquis de Yal mont was her first lover. He got killet in a duel with the celebrated Colone Buller, and six months later she mar ried Henry Vansittart, a first cousii of our father's. You understand me Theodora; you are following what 1 say? A great-aunt of this young mar Severne married our father's cousin Henry Vansittart." Notwithstanding the beauty of th( June night, the lamps in the farm par lor are lit, curtains closely drawn, anc the two elder sisters are in the thict of the backgammon contes.t ,witt which, summer and winter alike, theh eventless days come to a close. Auni Hosie sits at her knitting; a shad< more of gravity than is usual rounc her lips. "There, Daphne! You hear," cries Miss Theodora, as Daphne Chester en ters. "According to Isabella's chron ology, we may claim a kind of kinshif with your hero. Handsome is thai handsome does," continues Theodora "Sir John Severne is one of the verj ugliest men it has been my luck tc meet Still, there can be no doubt h( behaved with presence of mind as re gards the child. Presence of mind simply. As to thinking there coulc have been any danger with Paul act ually under my own eyes, it is ridicU' lous." "Ugly!" exclaims Daphne, indignant ly, Aunt Hosie chiming in a deep toned second, "Sir John Severne ug ly?" . :-i .< "To a remarkable and unusual ex tent," answers Miss Theodora. "1 might, indeed, say of his face that i1 has no line of feature at all. A face, as our poor father used to remark, without a profile. When I saw hin at work in the hayfield this afternoon, I could not help feeling how well the employment sat upon hiin. But, ol course, youth, animal spirits, and a sunburnt skin have always a certaic charm for some tastes!" * "Sir John Severne has a great heart Who could cavil about the profile of a man -who has been your salvation, res cued that which is dearer to you than ! your own life? Sir John Severne is"her voice trembles?"is everything tc me that one human being can be tc another." "Ahem! Sister," cries Miss Theo' dora, not without a shade of meaning in her voice, "it is your turn to play, I have thrown cinq-ace again, and dc not enter." "Aye, aye," muses Miss Vansittart holding the dice box loosely between her -well-formed, withered old hands "But what renders the coming of thie young maji really extraordinary is thai two nights ago I had a dream. You hear, all of you, a dream! "I saw him, as plainly as I see either of you, dripping with water, supporting Paul in his arms, and with his ricrht hand holding out a wedding ring. Xot altogether such a dream as could be wished, I am aware, but we must receive such things," says Miss Vansittart, solemnly; "we must receive such things for good or for evil as tl^y are sent to us. That dream portends marriage." z "Marriage!" exclaims Aunt Hosie, letting go her knitting with an abruptness that causes at least a quarter of a row of stitches to drop from the pins, and with an acerbity very unusual in her voice. "I wish the word were expunged from the English language. Marriage!. Here?at Fief-dejMa-Reinel" To be continued. -Tj Who Pays the Piper. i TTee advertising, in the generally accepted sense of that term, says the Columbus Citizen, is not the most de| sirable kind; but it is nevertheless a j fact that the great bulk of paid news' paper advertising costs the advertiser nothing. That is to say, it indirectly returns to him not only the amount invested, but a profit in which the whole community shares. The bulk of newspaper advertising is placed by merchants. The money it costs is paid almost wholly in salaries and incidentals to individuals in the community in which the advertiser resides, so that his return is not wholly from the general trade he seeks, but also the injection of this amount of money into the trade of his community, with the result of enlarging it, perpetuating it and multiplying its resources in all forms of industry. The merchant feels the pulse of prosperous or adverse conditions more del icately than almost any other memoei of the community. Newspapers pay by far the larger portion of expenses in building up the community. Their investment is not nearly as great in machinery, stock and other forms ol tangible property as in brains and brawn. That is the reason why money spenl with them by local merchants brings two-fold returns in the present and the future. The newspaper is an institution working for the welfare of the community in both material and other rei>?oli+TT mnl-nc nnirl JlflvPrtiS SliTCia, 111 A can LJ UJUUCW Ing free. The intelligent advertising patron ol such a newspaper contributes to the happiness and prosperity of the com' munity at the same time he promotes his own business interests in the pres^ ent and lays the foundation for great er profits and usefulness in the future Turkey produces a sreat quantity oi orances. - - ---?? ; t ! mf_a! 'science > m s( } A new wrinkle in three ^cars just det livered to the Lake Shore Electric l< I Railway, of Cleveland, by the StephenI son Company, is a speaking tube extending from the motorman's cab to 'the rear platform, so that the rnotor! man and conductor can be in constant ^ r communication. The idea was origin- jc ated by Warren Bicknell, President of 01 i the Lake Shore Company, J11 t ? ltr > I Radium inflames the skin and de- j tl t stroys various kinds of life, but its ni 5 place in medicine is yet to be deter- ,v mined. When it shall have been found <5, useful, Dr. E. S. London, a Russian -b< physician, proposes to make its energy cheaply available. Experimenting with various substances, he lias shown that j ai t j wool absorbs a large quantity of the ! w radium emanations, and that the "ema- ^ ! jjated" wool produces physiological ef- j 1 ! fects similar lo those of radium itself. ' in ! The wool, moreover, can be applied to I any part of the body. 1 fc The gliding boat of Count de Lam- J c< i bert, which has given such surprising ^ resuts an the Seine, is serviceable only j cr t in the absence of wave motion. It j consists of two skiffs, each about eigh- j fc ' teen feet long, which are coupled side ! it , by side, and which have flat bottoms, j 01 j with a series of five transverse planes I f slanting downward from fore to aft at , i an angle of about thirty degrees. As fc . I the nronellor?which is between the I . T( t two sterns?drives the boat forward. ^ | the inclined planes raise the boat to j ^ , the surface, over which it glides. With ! E I a motor of fourteen horse power, a j ej speed of seventeen and one-half to j twenty miles an hour was reached, a . rate that ordinarily requires two or m . three times as much power. t I The latest jsystem of transmitting 01 i pictures by wire?that of Professor jjj ' Korn, of Munich?claims a vacuum- tl > light receiver as an important advance. ' Two hollow cylinders, one at the trans' mitting station and one at the receiv- ^ > ing station, are rotated synchronously, yi ' The tilm carrying the picture to be sent is ' is placed on the first cylinder and a p ' ray of light concentrated from a j 0j Nernst lamp is passed through it to a j ri ' seleniufh cell in the interior. The fine j pencil of light describes a spiral of ; a short pitch, the light and shade of the j w picture causing the selenium cell to j produce variations in an electric curj rent passing to the receiver. The cyl- i ti inder at the receiving' end is covered I ' with a photographic lilm, and a pencil ! *a \ of light from a vacuum lamp?fluctuating with the variations of the electric a [ current?describes a spiral registering ; 61 i i the light Imd shade of the original pic- i ^ ' ! ture. A photograph is transmitted in y,i J half an hour, 500 words of writing in ; ti ' uboui an hour. . I di , I HOW THEY MARRIED. 1 hi A Youthful Husband's Wife Eecoines Ilia ; di 1 | Guardian. | ti Albert Grayland, of Sharon, Minn., j P > i "was only twenty years old, and Myrtle j ?a ? Thyme, his sweetheart, was eighteen ! fv , when they sought a license to wed. | li| ' I "Youlrc not of age," said the clerk. : as I mnet linvn thn r>rm?f>nt of VflllP ] , parents or a guardian." tl 1 "But I have no parents and no guar- cc dian," replied Albert Grayland. ' ''Get a guardian, then," suggested 1 the clerk. A queer light sbone in the eyes of [ the girl. "I'm eighteen years old," she ni said, "and of legal age. Why can't I *? 1 ! be your guardian?" They went to the probate judge, a ! Blushingly the girl told the judge the | d: ' story and asked to be appointed the I ; guardian of Alfred Graylqnd, infant. j u ' The judge had been young himself j u] ' once, and probably in love a good many | p : times. So lie signed the papers and j jn ! Myrtle Thyme took possession of her j vi I j ward, Albert Grayland, and all his ! I i property?he is well off. She married : jjj ' him right away, but under the laws of Minnesota, she has to report to the j w [ probate judge every cent spent by her I U1 i husband. All his cigar money goes ! ^ j into the report. When he spends fifty ! di . cents to see a ball game the amount j "w [ has to be inserted in a bill of particu- j ^ , i lars and filed with the court. i 0j The young bride even was compelled I m to pay the $2 fee for the license and the ?3 fee to the justice of the peace. These expenditures she had to report to the court as "marriage expenses" j3 of her ward. Furthermore, she must m keep good eye to his conduct, for in to this State guardians are responsible PJ for the moral as well as the financial m welfare of their guardians.?New York News. " hi | m Chinese Burial Cusloma. or When a rich and important China- | 111 man dies his funeral is conducted with I tj, much pomp and splendor. His friends i pc and relatives, instead of sending J wreaths, send innumerable banners. I These are made of white silk, with inscriptions beautifully worked in black velvet, and express the senders' good W wishes to the deceased, himself or to members of his family for many gen- cj erations. On the day of the funeral Ik these banners are carried by hired i P? 1 men, who are all dressed alike for the ' "j' occasion. After the funeral, which i | j lasts several hours at the cemetery, is j , i over the banners are all brought bark. ! , j and eventually grace the rooms of the j 70 | late Chinaman's house. . ! . as Had Had One Exppriencc. j cc , | The two hypochondriacs were ex- j i I changing confidence*. : fr "Were you ever bedridden?" inquired : ev 1 \v< . one. ' "Yes." replied the other. | "Wheni" jn "Three years ago, during a cyclone tli out in Kansas. The wind blew my , bed. with me 011 it. a distance of seven tie miles before it let up!"?New Orleans . Times-Democrat. . . - aa , Worth Keeplnjj. . til | "He asked the firm for a raise in his 01 ; salary." , m j "Did he pet it?" 1>( "Yes. They consider him the most ar . valuable man tliej have. You see, when he petitioned for more money he K did so 011 the grounds that he had just discovered that the firm could get t0 along withoutliira."?Cleveland Leader, cli CO - - - HE GREAT DESTROYER DME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. at Thege "Women Be Content?They Are In DUtlngulshed Company When They Are Called Fanatic* ? The Kpltliet Should Be Worn as a Badge of Honor. The members of the Kings County Woml's Christian Temperance Union object ? being called "extremists" and "fanats." The corresponding secretary gave it a letter defending the association and rging for a look into the evils they fight om their point of view. These good women are too sensitive. If ley are denounced as extremists and faitics it means that they are doing effecte work. The Union had under consideration the ubway Tavern, where whisky and gin and ?er are sold by polite barkeepers, and here the forms of respectability are irown around a new rathskeller, where ien and women are invited to congregate id fill themselves up to their eyelashes ith the same brands of wet goods that :e sold from the Bowery to the Bronx, he drunk comes from too much drinking i this rathskeller as surely as from a ginill in Cherry street. The after effect is ist as bad. The chief merit claimed by le Subway rathskeller promoters is that ley do not sell wood alcohol or counter:its for straight, unadulterated drunk>mpelling liquor. The temperance women opposed the new ian tVion tliov nhirvted to bcine' tiled fanatics. Tbey should take courage. They should :ize the epithet as a badge of honor, here never was a great reform that won s way whose first movers were not de-, ounced as fanatics. Xt is the tribute that fear and a stupid sposition to change pay to those who ould make the world better when the reirmers find themselves called fanatics. Peter the Hermit ran up and down Eu>pe preaching the first crusade. Two hunred years of war followed. The wars rought about a mental activity that kent urope from sinking into barbarism, with: it had been drifting since the transfer f the seat of the Roman Empire from the inks of the Tiber to Constantinople. Peter the Hermit was a fanatic. The ien who wrung the Magna Charta from le unwilling hands of John were deounced by his flunkeys as fanatics. The men who threw the boxes of tea perboard in Boston harbor were called faitics by the king's officers and by the ough-hearted Tories, who feared to trust lemselves in self-government. Washington and his freezing, hungry and ilf-nakea army of men that hung around alley Forge were called fanatics by the ig-stomached officers and royalty lovers ho spent the same winter under the Brith flags in New York and Philadelphia. When Thomas Jefferson, returning from ranee, found New York under the spell t Hamilton arnting towara muuuicuj?Ul ither toward an idea that the ruling asses should he made up from the rich id the ex-Revolutionary officers?he made declaration for the "plain people," and as denounced as a "howling fanatic." Andrew Jackson swore he would destroy le United States Bank. The men behind le bank and their friends, just like the ust magnates to-day, called him a fanatic. Robert Emmet is even to-day called a matic, but he showed the world that lib* "ty is worth dying for. Lady Mary Montagu was denounced as fanatic for advocating inoculation for nallpox. Antiseptic surgeons were called fanatics y the old-line doctors, who still thought leeding was a good thing under all condions, but time has shown that the syren's knife cuts a way to life, instead of jing, as ittwas once, an instrument of ?ath. Major Gortras was called a fanatic when i began to clean up Havana ns a means of stroying yellow fever. There is no fever lere this year, and Gorgas has moved ou anama. Edison's fellow telegraphers called him a inatic when he kept on trying to make mny tilings in the operating room. His jht'makes New York when darkness falls > plain as day. So let the good women who want people > quit getting drunk be cheerful. Let lem be content to be called fanatics and >ntinue to try to make the world a better lace in which to live. They are in disnguished company.?New York Journal. Regitls** and Periodica. When the question of accepting a gift of inety gallons of beer from a local brewer r the use of the L?ndon workhouse inates on Christmas Day came up before le ^Brighton guardians, one member said great medical authority naa aeciareu uinu ringing regularly was bad for the health, it to get drunk once a fortnight did good, [r. Pinhorn, the secretary of the London nited Temperance Council, was therein interviewed on the subject. "I reme'mber many years ago," said Mr. inhorn, "that, finding me run down and . uncongenial surroundings, my doctor adsed me to go up to town and get drunk, need hardly say that I did not take jthe int, but I do say that if I had to choose 'tween the man who 'soaks' every day id the man who gets drunk once in a hile and pays for it the next day, I should ^hesitatingly choose the latter. "Yes, I have also heard that doctors can i found to recommend a person to get runic to get rid of a bad cold. In other ords, the doctor no doubt means that the an will perspire freely in that way, but lere are a hundred other and better ways ; getting rid of a cold. The temperance an takes a piping hot bath and goes to ;d wrapped in a blanket." A Teetotal Inland. F. N. Charrington's scheme of a teetotal land off the Essex coast is worthy of the an. says London Tid-Bits. lie is earnest i his heart's core in his work, both temirance and religious, but his record is ich that all men respect him, however uch they may differ from his methods, .'ost people know the story of how for nscience sake he sacrificed his share in s father's brewery?a share valued at a illion and a quarter sterling?and lived 1 a mere pittance that he might pursue s work among the poor and outcast. "How much do you get for wearing uat?" asked a young man on a tram car, )intir.g to Charrington's blue ribbon. "As nearly as I can make out it cost mo 20,000 a year," was the reply. Diplomatic Champagne. The wife of the British Ambassador to Washington, Lady Durand. has set her ce against the rapid social life of many : the women of the National capital. Of lampagnc drinking she has a c-pecial ab irrence. J-aav uurana noes nut inui?s imness, but she thinks a little more digty should be observed in diplomatic cir' M. Tlio Crnsarto In ErJef. Drunkenness dircctiy kills not less than ,000 men a year in Amcrica alone. Can the church, or ought it. to live in sofiation with the liquo;* traiHc without inflict? If eve>* hater of the drink evil and ierW' of temperance would give regularly I en a trifle to the reform, the movement | ould make rapid progress. According to statistics recently gathered ,000,000 are living in prohibition territory this country. This is more than oneird of the entire population. Tn Great Britain in 1901 there were .1000 :aths dircctiy due to alcohol, while the aths from tuberculosis numlyred 58,000. The barkeepers have a total abstinence soeiation. Nobody knows better than c bartender that total abstinence is the ily sure way to avoid drunkenness. Through the great Wa.*hingtonian moveent in Ohio GO,000 took the pledge. In ;nnsylvania, 20,0(10; in Kentucky, HO,000, id multitudes in nil parts of the land. Docs drink pauperize? The factories of ewanee, 111., pay out *30.000 a week. The loons of that place deposit ^'24.000_ a eel: in tlie banks. This is the kind of a wn where the wives take in washing, the lildren are in rags and tradesmen cannot 'ilect their bilk.?Un*jn Signal. I THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR OCTOBER 23. Subject: Elioha anil Namnan, II King*, v., 1-14?Golden Text, Jer. xvil., 14 ? Memory Verse*, 8-10?Commentary on the Day's Luison. I. Naaman's sad condition (v. 1). 1. "Naaman." Naaman means "beautiful" or "pleasant to look upon." "Captain," etc. I-le was commander-in-chief of the Syrian army. He had great ability, power and influence. He had done much .or his king, and in some famous exploit had won a memorable victory for the Syrians. According to tradition he was the man who drew the bow at a venture and killed Ahab, King of Israel (1 Kings 22:34). "The Lord had given." The scriptural explanation of Naaman's greatness is that the Lord had given him the victory and made him great. "But." This was the flaw in the crystal of his prosperity, the fly in the ointment of his triumph, the shadow that clouded his glory, the hateful presence that followed him everywhere, the biitcr dreg in his cup of joy. "A leper." Leprosy was supposed to be inflicted for the punishment of some particular sin, and to be, more than other diseases, a mark of God's displeasure. II. The captive's story (Vs. 2-4). 2. "Ity companies." In plundering parties who made forays upon the neighboring Israelites. "A little maid." A young girl. She was regarded by her captors as a chattel and vaiued for her service like beasts. If one doubts the steady progress of the world in virtue and humanity it is only necessary to spend an hour with history, sacred or profane. The horrors of antique war were indescribable, and immeasureablv worse than the worse brutality of moclern times. 3. "She said." Like Jos? i. T.-> 1. ??,i t-I??:?i *1,I CJJIl ill JLig.V UL tlllU J^aillCi ill WUUJJUM s.mn captive girl becomes tlie instrument of makincr .Jehovah known among the heathen. Notice, 1. Her forgiving spirit and generosity toward those who had wronged her. 2. Her fidelity. 3. Her sympathy, the most Christlike of virtues. 4. Her simple faith. "Would God." A better translation would be, "Oh. that!" "RecQver him." Literally, "gather" him from his leprosy. An illusion to the Israelitish. custom of shutting lepers out of the camp and then gathering them in after the leprosy was liealed. This child must have been familiar with the miracles of healing wrought by the prophet Elisha. ITT. Naaman seeking health (vs. 5-9). 5. "Go to, go." That is, set out at once; let no time be lost. "A letter." Benhadad very naturally supposes that the services of such a man would be at the command^of the king. "Took with hirn," etc. He took a present to Jehoram. We cannot estimate the value accurate'y. The money was probably weighed, and "taljnts" and "pieces," or shekels, were standards of weight. A silver talent wafj worth $1944. in all $19,440. A gold shekel was worth $9.75, in all $58,500. According to this Xaaman took with him $77,940, a princely present. ".Raiment." Costly robes. ? 6. "Recover him." Doubtless Benhaiad had magicians drawing rich salaries it his court, and in their supernatural power be had a good deal of superstitious faith. But they were not able tc heal Naaman. His rival king, Jehoram, was lucky enough to have a magician able to perform this cure, and as Benhadad's prophets did as he ordered them it was supposable that Elisha would obey Jehoram's orders. It was courtesy to Jehoram not to mention Elisha's name; but poor Jehoram had himself so little practical faith in Elisha that when he -read the letter he did not even think of him. 7. "Rent his clothes." A sign here of terror and alarm. Rending the garments j was sometimes an expression of gr'ef. i (i K T /~1 I If K L i.L .TI*U ~ I x vjuu. xis muuu as tu s?iy, vv nu I but God can cure the leprosy? Who but I the one who is able to kill and make alive? "A quarrel." Jehoram lived in perpetual terror of his powerful and encroaching neighbor. He feared this was a pretext for again invading his country. 8. "Elisha heard." No doubt the coming of the Syrian general with his retinue, and the fact that the king'had rent his clothes, caused a sensation in Samaria, and the n6ws came speedily to Elislia, who appears to have had his home in the : capital city. "Wherefore,' etc. Have you j forgotten that there is a God in Israel, and that His prophet is near at hand? "He shall know." It would be a great injury to true religion to have Naaman return with false impressions of the true God; then. too. probably Jehoram needed to be reminded of his obligations to God and His prophet. 9. "Stood at the door." He came with great pomp., with horses and "chariots" (R. V.) and with money to richly reward his benefactor. IV. Elisha's messaee and Naaman's rage (vs. 10-12). 10. "Sent a messenger.'" Not that he was wanting in politeness, or influenced by priestly pride, or feared the leprosy, or avoided intercourse with a leper in obedience to the law; but Naaman was to understand that he was healed ! by the grace and power of Uod. at the prayer ot the prophet. "Wash in Jordan.'' This would humble him and test his obediance. It was so simple and easy shafc there "was no excuse for refusal. "Seven times." The sacred number which represents t.ie union of the finite and infinite, and "any transaction or covenant in which both God and man are engaged." 11. "Was wroth." The plan was too simple. So the very simplicity of the gospel i3 a stumbling block to the proud. Kow was he to tell that Elisha did not design to mock him by sending him on a fool's errand, so that he would come back j as a laughing stock both to the Israelites and his own people? Some think Elisha was disrespectful, but he kne\/ what >vas best for Xaaman. "I thought." Personal pride and heather, magic formed this fanciful picture. No wonder it proved a delusive dream. 12. "Abana and Pharpar." The modern Barada and Awaj. Abana siznifies "coo'.'' in Arabic and "clean" in Hebrew. Called by the Greeks, "The golden flowing." "Better." Certainly from his point of view the waters of his own country were better than the Jordan, for the Syrian waters were salubrious and invigorating, and the Jordan was a deep, sluggish, discolored stream. But Xaaman judged according to appearances and not according to faith. "May I not wash in them and be clean." No, for God has directed thee to Jordan, and by its waters or none slialt thou be cleansed. V. Xaaman accepts God's way (vs. 13,' 14). 13. "Servants." Xaaman had admirable servants. They were wise and generous. "My father." There is nof j other insfance were servants thus address their master. It indicates the affectionate relation between Xaaman and those about him. 14. "Then went In! down," etc. He submitted and obeyed | the words of the prophet. His cure was j pcrfeet. Seminary of Oriental LaiiRuajrco. The Seminary for Oriental Languages at Berlin, Germany, has, during the present i .... 1 OF thp! MllUIlld VUUt 3Vt XxJ\J gfcuuvuv?. w ....? w , seventy ate jurists, forty-five are candi- I dates for the diplomatic and consular serv- I ice, twenty-nine are scientists, teachers | ana members of the philosophical faculty, i eighteen are Government officials, merchants and private persons, nineteen are officials of the Federal l'ostoffice Department, thirteen are army officers, two are I physicians, three are theologians and two | are technicians. The number of foreigners is ten. A George Sand MuRcum. A George Sand museum has been operfed in the foyer of the Odeon in Paris, France. Ther^ have been placed oh deposit divers relics associated with the author of "Indiana," the costume in which she was accustomed to work, her pens, her glasses, and costumes of the time in which she lived and wrote. ^ _ Americans Not Wanted. In a number of the leading stores of Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland, there is a notice: "Americans not served here." Yankee shoppers used to cause the proprietors and their assistants to turn the 1 shons tonsvturvv until they looked like a ( rummage sale (bargain counter not in it), ] [ and then try somewhere else. < ii i ' t. fp :'l Jfore&KfeySt Prosperity and Joy. Passing, by a busy corner upon State street the other day we were attracted by a din of pounding which made the other noises of the city seem soft ond unobtrusive, says a writer in Chicago Interior. Presently we discovered that this furious uproar was caused by the rapid strokes of' an automatic hammer witn which the workmen were riveting together the immense iron beams of a new skyscraper now in process of erection,, The work was accomplished with marvelous swiftness and dexterity that many paused a moment to admire the operation of this comparatively new device, a device by which a cold, stiff iron bolt was, as it were, melted right down to and pressed close against the flat surface through which it had been thrust. When we went on we pitied our ancestors ?and envied them. For, after all, it matters jess how long it takes to erect a mansion than what kind of a life i^, lived beneath its roof, and business as wall as pleasure may be set a pace that kills. Our numbers, our inventions, our prod actions, make the days of our forefathers seem strangely childish, but is the kingdom any nearer the world to-day than it was when they, in cities less congested, lived their simpler lives? That is worth asking ourselves when we write that our population is now upward of 80,000,000 souls, and our annual output estimated at a valuation of $1,400,0(>0,000. A nation may ' be numerous and it may be rich, and still it v may miss all that is worth living for. The truth is that the old-time prophet, Isaiah, knew everything about sociology except its name when he foretold as the distinguishing characteristic of thg Messianic kingdom that in it a nation might be increased in numbers, wealth and power, and yet increased in joy, for that iij the, corrcct rendering of Isaiah 9:3, as our re? visers all agree. In religion we have the "only solvent of irreconcilables, the one element which thrown into the bubbling pot sweetens the bitterness of the draught and makes the whole wholesome. Civilization is dependent upon numbers, but at war with joy, unless indeed in that civilization the' moral element predominates and controls the.my terial prosperitv. Bit of Fine Philosophy. "Why do you^ not go away oftener for rest ana cnan&e: asKea one inena or another. feeling a little anxious over the crowded days that seemed too busy and burdened. "Don't you care to go?" she questioned further. "Don't you like to visit about and take diverting little journevs?" ? ''Oh, yes, I like it," was the answer in a tone both brisk and blithe, "but you see I don't have to go looking about for what I like, because 1 always like just what I have." Could there be finer philosophy of sweet content and resolute ' cheerfulness than this? It came warm from a trusting heart. It was the outcome and expression in speech of a devoted life aud loving spirit. To have what we like, though we spend unmeasured time in groping and-grasping after it, may be among the impossibilities, but to like what we have is among the attainables, else why the command: "Be con- ' tent with such things as ye have." The truest, happiest contentment cannot fill the heart if there i3 a constant revulsion against life's conditions and ,a loathing of what is outwardly borne wittHsubmission. says Young People. There inuif Be some likiu" of what we have if we r.re going to "walk worthy of our vocation" and "unto all pleasing." To like what we -have, we must guard against too constant compari-< son with what we have not. Then if the work set for our doing is not in itself the pleasantest or most congenial,, let us get the joy out of the doing of it. The coH?' sciousness of doing our liest is enough to f;ive a certain buoyancy and brightness to ife, even if the task is not what might be chosen. The delight of accomplishing is in itself a reward, and this makes it easier to like what is done. The search for what we like may be a I iruiuess quest ana a irasze or ume, out liking what we have conserves our storp of happiness and is the safer and surer way. Gems of Thought. ... An ounce of originalitV is worth- a ton of imitation.?United Presbyterian. The man who stands for something has a place and a force in the world.?Ram's Horn. Gratitude is the homage the heart renders to God for His goodness; Christian cheerfulness is the external manifestation of the homage.?Christian Work. Childhood is the time of danger as well as the time of hope. The corn that, is frost-smitten in the spring bripgs no golden ears to the day of the ingathering.? United Presbyterian. The judgment of Jesus is simply showing a man what he is in the light of what he ought to be. The outer darkness is the shadow love casts when one refuses to let it shine through him.?William De Witt Hyde. When I found that it was Christ's nature t* lift men out of weakness to strength, out of impurity to goodness, out of everything low and debasing to superiority, I felt that I had indeed found a God.? Ifenry Ward Beecher. There is no mystery whatever about happiness. Put in the right ingredients and it must come out. "He that abideth in Me H * # * bringeth forth much fruit," and H bringing forth much fruit is happiness. H The infallible recipe for happiness, then, is H to do good, and the infallible recipe for Kg doing good is to abide in Christ.?Dramr mond. M Slece Better fiian Assault. 8 A pastor whose church has recently been R blessed with large accessions said the other H day that he had learned that sometimes Hj the largest results come from giving-per- H sons time to think over leisurely and quiet- H Iv their personal responsibility for con- H ? t ? j.1? leasing i.nnsc Derore men, suys me \juw gregationalist. As lie has met individuals, or written letters, or talked with groups of Sunday-school scholars, he has sought simply to press home the duty of keeping the great question in mind. He has not pushed hard for immediate or hasty decisions, but, having planted the peed of his own great desire, has given it time to grow in its own way. Sometimes we are in too great a hurry to get our friends over the line. The human soul is so delicately organized we must give it time to find and express itself, never relaxing, to be sure, our own tactful pressure, hut leaving the field elcar for the Spirit of God to work, too. Home-Mad* Impofnibllltle*. Many impossibilities are home made. Cowardice turns them out in seemingly sufficient quantities to block the way to every path leading to success. Laziness is responsible for almost as many more. What one man calls an impossibility, another hails as an opportunity God does not put insurmountable obstacles in our way, but we make them for ourselves. Xo man or woman of the humblest sorb ea?i really be strong, gentle, pure and good without the world being better for it, with out somebo(iy I'emg heipert ami niuioriea In* the wry fxisteuce of that goodness.? Hi 1'hillips Brooks. jW A High Honor. Ambassador Choate, in Edinburgh, Scot* land, the other day, in his address on re* HE ceiving the freedom of the city, said that BS5 onlv one of his countrymen,General Grant, BM had ever been so honored. As a matter of BS fact, "yVilliam Lloyd Garrison had the distinction conferred upon him in 1867. and it -was tendered to him '"in respect to hia long and meritorious exertions to abolish KB slavery in the United States of America*" p| Silver Wedding Sun-Dial. ffi ^ very pretty memento of Viscount and 99 Viscountess Gahvay's silver wedding has BS iust been erected on the lawn at Serlby. ES It is a sun dial set on a massive stone ped- Kg J