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/ u <=> Liuiruinjirmnnnn i>^| l\foi) pron) Elv MRS. AL i CHAPTER Y. Continued. "Let me pass and I -wilJ Iry and forget all this." Her words recalled Steinhauscn to a ense of his own conduct He saw he had indeed overstepped the limits of good breeding, hut the check made him ail the more earnest "Yes," he said, in a low tone, "I sup pose I must seem insane to a calm, womanly woman like yourself; yet the feelings you have roused are not unworthy of your acceptance. "Surely you can imagine a nature different from your own?more eager, wore impassioned, yet not less true. My better self craves for you. How can I convince you?" "It is useless to pursue this argument," again interrupted Lies, her heart beating visibly under her muslin dress, and pressing her bands together in an attitude of entreaty; "it is only painful and distressing. "Even if I were inclined to listen to you, it would but add to my difficulties. I"?breaking off and resuming quickly?"I cannot believe a sudden whim can cause any real grief, though there is truth in your voice. "I am sorry, very, very sorry, to cause you a moment's pain, but"?smiling, while the large tears hung on her eyelashes?"I have no doubt some good and fair Prussian will be all to you that I must not be." She held out her hand to him, and then snatching it back, as if she had yielded too much, pressed her handkerchief to her eyes, now brimming over. . "Let me go," she said, entreatingly. "I must; it is all over," returned Steinhaueen, gloomily, as he stepped aside. "Yet, no; I will not renounce the tiope of seeing you again?of ascertaining what barrier stands between me and happiness." But Lies n.ade no reply and hurried away, more moved than she would Lave liked to own. The evening was dull enough. I Prau Ghering apologized for her daughter's absence. "She had a bad headache," she said, "and was unable to leave her room? ihe result, probably, of walking too much in the fierce sunshine." Asrain conversation was mainly kept up by the judge and Burchardt, -while Steinhausen, in the blackest of moods, inwardly cursed his own folly, first in permitting himself to be overpowered by so sudden a passion, and then for his mad, useless avowal, -while he could only hope that some fresh ?ancy might soon drive the^present keen disappointment Olit of his head or heart, or both. Next morning did not fulfill the promise of the fine sunset; lowering elouds and drizzling rain had changed the face of nature into accordance with [Von Steinhausen's mood. His brother officers openly avowed their regret at having to leave such pleasant quarters, and proved their enjoyment of a good breakfast by prolonging that meal till the trumpet sum moneu xaem to "mount ana nue.' The young Fahnrieh did not fail to "annex" Clarchen's photograph; but, with more than ordinary Prussian honesty, left his own in its place. The eldest daughter was not well enough to appear at breakfast; but just as the Hussars were ready to set forth, she came out on the steps before her own apartment to bid them a courteous adieu. Burchardt and Von Planitz bowed from the saddle; Steinhausen pressed his spur till his horse was close enough to the steps where Lies stood. "Your hand." he said, in a low tone, "your hand once more." She liestitated an instant, and then placed hers in his. "Au revoir," said Steinhausen; "it is not adieu, remember." And then, with a friendly salute to the rest of the party, he rode quickly after the others, who had already passed the gate. As they descended the hill.Burchardt and PInnitz chatted merrily, pleased at the idea of being quartered at Dresden, "though," added the latter, "we .will not Boon find better quarters than the Villa Bellevue. "And that Clarehen! she is a little darling. Do you know. Kittmeister, I think she will be prettier than her sister," continued the youthful Hussar, with an air of mature experience. Steiuhausen muttered some unintelligible reply, the tone of which was anything but amiable. "Have you discovered if the fair Lies Is married or single?" asked Burchardt, unadvisedly. "You were a long time inspecting that fine view from the balcony last eveninir." "I know nothing more than you do," replied Stelnhausen, curtly. "It would be a bad return for such kind hospitality to intrude an idle curiosity on our hosts." "Aye, to be sure. Still. I am not a little curious. There," he continued, quickly, "as good luck will have it, there is the Dorfscbuize with whom we spoke yesterday. He will know all about the family. "Good day. Herr Schulze! If you see the Herr Amtmann, give him a warm - greeting from us; and tel! m? now? you have known the famiiy long. I suppose?" "Ja wohl, moil) IIerr,"' from the bottorn of bis oliost. Steinbansen, apparently occupied '.n pulling up his stirrup leather. lis'ened eagerly. "Is the eldest daughter maivied?" "The eldest daughter?" reptated the old man. who semeed not over bright. k 4,Ja, gcAYiss! (ccriain)y)-lhL' too: . .. > . . ?? ' " , 5 ' AP 1A fa A! a 11 \ji yy iuuw i s~n rmjrmnnrLrtririjrin the Fnen)0. ??a 5?a LruxruxririjrTJTj^jrijrLn A .EXANDER. wvwvw ! child! Sbe -was married to her cousin, the Hauptmann?Herr Hauptmann Gheringr." "Come on'/' cried Steiiihausen, fiercely. "Why stand in the rain to hear the #>4 V? Cl 4" f + lin/lfiftll lllA#"*lr Ui IJJUt .3 1U|JUUVW W.WX-head?"' "Married! I cannot understand it," said Burcbardt, pressing his horse to come up with his comrades. "I do not believe the old fellow knows what he is talking about." "Understand! No," laughed the Fahnrieh. "I fancy the Fates are against our ever solving the question whether our charming host is maid, wife or widow!" "Fate or no fate. I will find out the truth yet," said Steinhausen to himself. Quickening their pace, the officers galloped on to overtake the squadron, and Villa Bellevue, with its mystery and its charms was among the things of the past. PART II. CHAPTER I. It was Sylvester-abend of that terrible winter when the great German* army Jay before Paris, and the ice king sent his' blinding snow and cripling frost to besiegers and besieged alike. Away In North Germany the irresistible monarch bad spread bis white mantel over field and forest and mountain, and tbe snow lay deep in the narrow, roughly paved streets ef a small country town on the frontier of Saxony, kindly softening the noise of vehicles and the tramp of horses to tbe suffering patients of the Lazaret, which had, since the war, been established in a large open space beyond where the walls once stood, pure and unadulterated, from the Kiesengebirge. Bernstadt had once been an important border fortress, but its walls had been long since leveled, and its present status, though not Insignificant, was now only due to its position as the centre of a rich agricultural district and a linen manufacturing population. The first consignment of wounded. after the earlier conflicts of Weissenburg and Woerth, had nearly all recovered and dispersed?those fit for active service to rejoin their respective regiment?. Even of tbe second batch after Sedan not many were left; and, of these, all sufficiently convalescent to be permitted such dissipation were assembled at the house of Herr Gerhardt Werner,* the wealthy Bnrgomeister of Bernstadt, who on this New Year's Eve held high festivity in his fine old mansion in the market place, which, with its wide staircase, all paneled and carved with wreaths of flowers, its large, wellproportioned rooms and wide landings, was especially suited for entertainments. From almost every bouse liglits streamed out over the snow ami sparkled on the frosted trees. Music and song and laughter thrilled through the. keen air, while countless blue stars looked down over all from a deep steel-blue sky, intensified by bright moonlight. The country had begun to breathe after the tremendous strain, and triumph of the last six months, and though many a sad heart wept for the loved and lost, the general tone was joyous and exulting. Two officers, wrapped in their large cloaks, walked briskly from the gates of the Lazaret past the Lyceum and the line of trees, where the ramparts once stood, toward the winding, narrow street which led to the market place. "What a glorious night!"' exclaimed the taller of the two. "The air, too, is life-giving. I feel 'myself' again to-night for the first flmft o5n/ta thfif Tnr/?A'c PiU'Cful cohrfi laid me low. "I may report myself fit. for service a sain in a "week or two." "Well, I feel rather shaky still," replied the other, who was considerably shorter and stouter. "A fever such as mine takes more out of a fellow than the bullet that caused it. "But I am wonderfully stronger since I came up here, and all the better for meeting my old comrade. "When you left us after our Bohemian campaign, and retired to the personal acres, 1 thought 1 had lost sight of you altogether. "But such a call to arms as ours would have roused a German bear, if there was one left, even from his win ter sleep/' "Yes," said his companion. "I had become almost broken in to the half dead-and-alive life and the loneliness of a remote Schloss like mine, when the call came and set my blood aflame. "My cnly regret was that I could not join my old regiment.'' # "It has been a tight of giants this time,'' resumed the second speaker, after a short pause, as they turned into the shadow of a small street, crunching the crisp snow beneath their even tread. "Why, our Bohemian experience was child's play to this; and yet " "IIow well those Saxons fight!" interrupted the other, speaking more to himself that his companion. ' 'nmn ?iu1 A fluuv nvlrirtrt ho is a fine fellow." "Hp is. Aeb, bow it all comes back, Steinhausen. "Our hot. (lusty march through the Bohemian hills. and then our rest at that delightful Sfixon villa. "I always remember it as the most perfect house in the world. What was the name of the people?' <> J "Ghering," returned Steinbausen. "Ay, Ghering. I wonder, now, wa that pretty daughter married or not Did you ever hear of them again?" "Never!" -was the somewhat ere phatic answer, "though I tried to ge some tidings. "After the regiment left Saxony was called away by business to Tome rania, and then to Vienna. "About six months after we ha< bid good-bye to Villa Bcllevue I wrot to the excellent Herr Amtmann, but h never took any notice of ray comruuri cation. "Yhen various matters occupied m< and the sharp outlines of ray first in pression faded. "About a year and a half later I wa in Dresden, and made a pilgrimage t the villa, but they -were all gone; th garden was a neglected wilderness, an a gang of -workmen were pulling th house to pieces to enlarge it. "No one could tell me what bad bt come of the family. "They had left a year before, am were much regretted, especially th 'Gnadige.' who was married, accordin, to one old crone, and single, accordin to another. "I had not berrt to ask much or sta; long. That is all I have ever heard." "Little enough," said the other (ou former acquaintance, Burchardt). *I think I have heard of a youn. lieutenant Linermg, tvdo uisunguisue himself at St Privat?a Saxon officer. "Some illation, probably," said Steii bausen. They walked on in silence for som minutes, till turning into the markel place, they found themselves befor the open door of the Burgomeister' house, from which a long stream o light fell upon the snow, and even o the quaint carvings of the opposit houses. "The worthy Burgomeister is holdin high revels," said Burchadt. laughing as he looked up at a row of window over the entrance against the blinds o which the strong light within thre^ the varied shadows of the guests a they moved to and fro. "We convalescents must be prudery for they say his table is of the be* and his hospitality most pressing." So saying, both officers stepped int the hall, and were immediately af sisted by deferential servants to r< move their cloaks, and ushered into handsome dining room, where Burgc meister and his wife received thei guests, and which opened into a sp.i cious salon beyond, where dancing ba< already begun with much spirit. The new arrivals were greeted wit! great cordiality and respect. Numerous introductions, which a! ways in Germany are the opening cert monyof any social event, folKwed. On the invitation of the host, th officers laid aside their swords am helmets; but'reluctantly declined, i: obedience to the doctor's injunctions to join the dancers. "Then," said the host, a jovial, portl; man, with curly fair hair and red mus tache, "perhaps the Herr Major am yon. Herr Rittmeister. would like t go upstairs to the card room?" "You will find some of your friend there. Allow me." And as Stein ha usen and Burchard bowed their assent, he passed on am I led them upstairs to a suite of rooms some of which were evidently be< j chambers, decorated for the occasioE i More introductions and bowings | friendly recognitions and eongratula tions. At last the attentive host arrange) a whist table for hi? honored guests. "You have a large assemblage tc night," said Steinhausen, as they wail ed for the fourth of their party, wh had been arrested oil his way to th card table by a lady of large propoi tions and pretensions, with whom h exchanged many deferential saluta tions. "I see, no doubt, all the rank am beauty of Bernstadt." ' "Ja gewiss!" replied the Burgc meister, rubbing his hands with mucl satisfaction, "and many families fro a the neighborhood also. "We have Saxons, Prussians, Eo liemians and a few Russians presen this evening. "You see, Herr Major, Bernstadt i in a corner, and has three different na I tionalities close by. "I must present some of the rncs l distinguished to you, inein Herr. be fore we light up the Obristbaun; nfte | supper; but here is Herr Doctor. "I will keep you no longer from you game," mid, on hospitable thoughts in tent, he turned away. To be continued. The Derivation <il Score. "Score" for twenty came into th English language about 1300. It come from the Anglo-Saxon scor, the roc of shear, shire, scar, and means to cut To avoid the difficulty of large num bers, accounts were kept by outtinj notches in a stick, called a tally, an< after twenty such notches the tall: was cut off, which thus became i "score." These were used in Eriglani j for keeping the exchequer accounts I even to the beginning of the nineteentl | century. A cricket score was onci spoken of as so many notches, ant the rind of pork is scored. The won is first used in a poem called "Thi Bestiary" and in "Cursor Muudi." Another Newspape r. Another language is represented ii New York's polyglot press by the ap pearance of the Ecoul Amerieei (tin Echo of America), a weekly newspape written in Roumania. A leading arti elo in English introduces not only tin Ecoul, but the Roumanian people t< Americans. It says that there an j already between 50.000 and 00.000 Rou [ maniaus in the United States, of when j 35,000 are in New York City. It. like wise gives an interesting account o [ these new immigrants. Their habits [customs and characteristics. Two Larue Tairs of Keet. Thprp is a New York barber wh< I wears a No. 12 shoe. lit; was a ser geant in the German array, noted fo: his stability. lie has a brother in tin old country whore foot is so big tlia no ready-maile shoe can be found t< fit him. When he needs a new paii I of shoes he buys a skle-of leather an< sends for a ?ho.?maker. who fashion! his footgear at home. IIis foot is tin largest in all Germany, about No. 17 ii j size. A "sctDia'' of Cossacks consists o: ! ICO men. \ . ? Late expi-rienee in tli? British navv t Jias suggested that loalhsnnie di.<o.ris? ' ? i?-v fnt+nninir :ind tliOSO ^ Jliti.V uv r?jiicuu i-'.T iu % ?J-,, who lmisr decorate in this way are cl warned that the needles should bo e sterilized. G Rheumatism wins to be practically : unknown in Japan. A French ob| server attributes this to the sobriety ' i of the people, their vegetarian diet and ! their great use of water. They not j only drink large quantities of pure was i ter, but take two or three baths daily 0 ! throughout the year, e i ^ j The appearance of ft bark disease e | among the Para rubber tress in cer! tain districts in Ceylon during 100G { created some alarm among rubber ! planters, but prompt measures for its ^ j treatment were carried out under the e j advice of tJir? Government mycologist. " j Mr. J. E. Carrutherp. the officer in o j question, states that the disease was I due to a canker fungus; further dey j tails regarding its structure and treatj nient will form the subject of a later r j paper. g | Phosphate roc-K is 01 organic uiiSiu, d j largely derived from guano and decay" ing animal matter which contains i- I phosphoric acid. In rainless regions such as the Peruvian coast and some e of the Pacific islands, the guano may t- accumulate to great thickness without e loss of soluble matter. In moist diss tricts, however, the phosphoric conf stituents are dissolved out by percon Jating waters, and the solutions come ing in contact with limestone may conj vert the latter into lime phosphate, g , The phosphate deposits of Florida are j thought to have formed in this mans fler. v j Principles of construction that archig tects have slowly worked out. Lord j Avebury suggests, were adopted by I plants millions of years age. Some , plant stems are round, others are tri i angular, oiners tjuaurausujar, Uuu 0 j on, and it seems possible to give a me.. j chanical explanation of the differ?_ j ecces. Builders Lave adopted the a ' girder as the most economical method j of resisting a strain in one direction. r | Plants seem to have built on a like h j plan, tree trunks being round to rej sist strain from all directions, while I plants with opposite leaves and strain [j ! in two directions have two girders, giving a quadrangular stem, and tri|. angular and pentagonal stems may be k 1 accounted for as strengthening agtinst I like obvious strains. e | AN INGENIOUS CAPTAIN.: a i ' n : Skipper Mattson Used a Novel Method of Stepping a Leak in His Boat. s I \ Many have read in Mr. Hopkinson y ; Smith's story of "Cap'n Bob" who j stopped up a hole irt his ferry-boat j j with iiis own arm.-and thus saved 0 j many lives. The London Daily ^x 1 press describes a metDoa or stopping g 1 a leak do Jess novel and ingenious than "Cap'n Bob's." and not so trying to j ' physical well-being as that adopted A toy the heroic pilot. The Norwegian Ibark Flora, bound for Cape Town, oxJ j perlenced iu the Bay of Biscay such ! j terrific weather that she was obliged i' to lie to for sis days. ' ! In the buffeting that the vessel received she sprang a leak, and began ^ to take in water at the rate of six jnches> an hour. All hands were kept h 'at the pumps day and night without intermission. As the gale abated the 0 bark drove before it into caimer seas. a Captain Mattson found the leak was getting worse and set his brains to e i work. He constructed a great water_ ! proof canvas bag. sixteen feet long, | six feet in circumference and two feet j > in diameter. This he kept distended j by the means' of hoops. A window cf h i glass was let into the side, five feet ^ ; from the bottom. The captain stepped , ! into the bag, and by means of tackle j was drawn under water so that lie ! could see tlie leak. The other end of ' the bag being open and above water, j be had plenty of air and could comI inunioate with his men. Two sleeves 3 | had been made in the bag, and were * ! tied tightly about his wrists, so that j be could work freely. j In this way, looking at the leak through the inserted window, the capr tain worked steadily while the ship was hove to. The vessel rolled in a r heavy swell, and sometimes Captain " Matt eon found bimself from .seven to ten feet below the surface. At one time the chating of his feet against the vessel's side wore a hole in the bag. and e the water entered and covered him. s But be was drawn up in good time, t the bag was repaired, the work continued and the leak stopped. . I ? T The Simple Life KxpcnBive. ? And. rcaliy. the simple life is frightfully expensive. At a recent entertain ^ ment in this city a great luxury in the j serving of the second supper was the introduction of country sausage and '* buckwheat cakes with maple syrup. But the sausage en me from the farm j of the host and represented a small ^ jonune. as me pigs irom wujcu tup ' . piece do resistance was made were e blooded animals with pedigrees. The ; buckwheat was ci-own in special fields which cost ever so much a foot, and ! the maple syrup was taken from trees . j in the most expensive Adirondack pre- j (j i serve. And thus can thousands of r dollars be spent on the simple life, . while truffle?, pate, terrapin and such ? other rarebits of a former generation -j are left for ibe tables of the middle j a classes with moderate means.?Town . and Country. The Laugh Cure For Dyspepsia. Dyspepsia is now systematically f : T* in ilint n | ruit'u uj Jdiiji;uici? x t io ouiicu mai ?.i | ! doctor, in return for a large fee, ad, mits patients into liis private institu' tion, where the mirth treatment is ad5 i ministered. The method sounds sim. pie enough. A few dyspeptics sit r around a room and begin to smile at ? i each other. The smile must'never be I t allowed to fade away. On the con j trary, it must be developed by will r power into a grin and the grin must j become a guffaw. Then you have to 5 go on laughing until your sides ache, a by when you will already feel much } better. A course of a week or two of the treatment at the rate of a couple of hours giggling a day cures the worst f cases of dyspepsin.?London Tele I graph. I * ^ >V.W^ I TEE SUNDAY SCHOOL ' I | I INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS ? FOR FEERUARY 19. i Suhjfd: Jesn* at the Pool of liethe?cla, 1 j .Tohn v., 1-15?Gol<l?"n Test, .John vi., 2?Memory Verse*, 8, 9?Commentary , on the Dux1* Le*fiou. ' 7. .Tesua at the feasr. (vs. 1-4). 1. "Af: ter this." "After these things." R. V. * j Some think that when John is telling some ! ! event which follows immediately after the j j j last thing narrated, he uses the expression | ' I "after this thing" (chap. 2:12), but that | ' j when there has been an interval of time j ' | lie uses the expression "after these things." J i "A feast." There has been much differ* > 1 I enee of opinion as to wnat least tnis was, j j i but it is the opinion now of the best writ- j ! ers that it was the Passover. 2. ''By the i ( I sheep gate" (R. V.) We know from Neh. i j i 3:1. 3*2; 1*2:39 that there was a sheep gate; ' ! so called probably from sheep for sacrifice I being sold there. It was near the temple, j "The Hebrew tongue." Hebrew here j i means Aramaic, the language spoken at j , j the time, not the old Hebrew of the Scrip- j , tures. "Bethesda." This name does not , ! occur elsewhere. It means "house of lner- j ] ' cy.'' The site is not identified with cer- ; , I tainty. The traditional spot is near Castle ; , j Antonia. But Dr. Kobinson thinks "the : ( j fountain of the Virgin," an intermittent ; ^ 1 spring in the southeast ox the city, near j ( i the pool of Silaom. wa? Bethesda. "Five j j i porches." These porches were probably j | covered arcades, colonades or verandas. ! j j open at one side to the air. but protected j \ j against the sun or rain overhead. In a hot ; \ country like Palestine such buildings are j 1 | very necessary. 3. "Multitude." The sicfc j \ | congregated here in great numbers. j i .[ II. Jesus heals an impotent man Cvs. j j ; 5-9). 5. "An infirmity." The original im-; j plies rather a loss of power than a positive ; 1 j disease; probably it was a nervous disease ! of paralytic type. "Thirty and eight ! t years." The duration of the illness is | 1 : mentioned, either .to show how inveterate j 3 1 and difficult it was to heal, or rather, ac- i x- a 1?:_ *1 ,1??? I 1 COl'ding to verse ?, iu ca|jjuiu Uir uccji j i compassion with which Jesus was affepted < ! on beholding the unhappy man. From J i | verse 14 we may infer that bis disease was [ j I the result of the sins of his youth. 6. '"Knew." The word "knew" in the i 1 j original indicates one of those instantan- ! 1 eous perceptions by which the truth be- : 1 I came known to Jesus accordinc as the task i ! of the moment demanded. Verse 14 will j 3 ! show that the whole life of the sufferer is : 1 j present to the eye of Jesus, as that of the i 3 Samaritan woman was in chapter 4. "Sai.th I ] : unto him." Usually Christ waited until i 1 j He was asked before He relieved the suf- j j.fpring, but in this and a few other cases ' ' He healed without being asked. He redd ! ' the man's past life and present condition ; ' [ of mind, and saw that he was in a state | , I to receive spiritual good from the healing, i j "Wilt thou?" Why does He ask a ques; tion to which the answer was so obvious? : Probably in order to rouse the sick man : i out of bis lethargy and despondency, i 7. "No man." He was friendless as well i , | as sick. "'Is troubled." This spring, prob- : j I ably the fountain of the Virgin, is inter- ( i mittent to this day. and various travelers.> j have seen it suddenly rise from five inches ] j to a foot in five minutes. Whedon thinks , | that the moving of the waters arose from ! . , an underground connection of the pool j with the cijty water works. The occasional i ( ; and intermittent disturbance of the water ! } !a rirvf "Ka rtnnn/1 ac o rp(m!s>r nnmir* t . i rence. but as something sudden and quick- ; ( i ly nasing away. Hence the man'e waiting j i , and conjplaint. "Put me into the pool" j ! Literally, "in order to throw" me into the ; i pool; perhaps implying that the gush of < | water did not last loner, and there was no ; < : time to be loot in quiet carrying. "While : ] I am coming." Thus picturing the extreme j j haste and rapidity with which the favor* } . able opportunity was seized. There was a j rush and scramble for the one chance. , j 8. "Rise," etc. Commands like these : would test the man's faith and obedience. As in the case of the paralytic (Mark 2:9), i Christ made no enquiry as to the man's ( faith. Christ knew that he had faith, and j ] ; the man's attempting to rise and carry hia 1 i ; bed after thirty-eight years of impotencv { i was an open confession of faith. "Bed." i 1 | Probably only a mat or rug, still common i j in the East. 9. "And walked." With the ' j j command was given the power of cbe- J t I dience. So the sinner who is bidden to ij j commit himself to Christ need not wait I"} I for any compulsion. As he makes the ef- j f i fort he will find divine power within him- ) j i self. "Sabbath." The seventh day of the i ? j week, the Jewish Sabbath. I j III. Persecution of the Jews (vs. 10-13). j ( ! 10. "Not lawful." Jeremiah had com- j } I manded. "Take heed to yourselves, and i \ . bear no burden on the Sabbath day" (16: j < : 21). and the Jews interpreted this as for- i j 1 bidding the carrying of the lightest weight. ; ? 1 But Jeremiah's meaning is made clear by j | Neb. 13:15: "Treading wine presses on the j ; Sabbath, and brincring in sheaves, and lad- i I ing asses." etc. "To forbid this man from i 1 carrvine his bed was like forbidding a mod- f j ern man to move a camn stool or a chair." A j 11. "He?said." Unquestionably the . r words seem to say that one who could do j ] I such a wonder as healinz me must certain- ] ly have the right to tell me what to do. I j ; He had been authorized by one endorsed | ? j as sent from God. And this was indeed i ( i the verv ground 'which Christ IIim?elf j T I took. 12. '-Who is the man" (R. V.) < j They ignore the miracle, and attack the . : command. They ask not. "Who cured j I thee, and therefore must have divine au ; thorit.v?" but, ''Who told thee to break ' j I the Sabbath, and therefore could not have i ' it?" 13. "Knew not" (R V.) Jesus had ! j been in Jerusalem but little, and the maD ( , | who was healed had probably never seen j Him. "Conveyed himself awav." Better, i withdrew. Literally, "slipped acide." be- ; * came suddenly lost to sight. "A muiti- i % tude," etc. This may be understood as ! ^ explaining either whv he withdrew?to ; avoid the crowd, or the manner in which j he withdrew?by disappearing in the i crowd. Either explanation makes good ! sense. . ; t i IV. Jesus gives advice and warning (v . c 14). 14. "Afterward." Probably soon af- 2 : terward; in a day or so.. "Findeth hirn." a ! Jesus had His eye on the man; His work j j | with him was not yet finished: this meet- p ing was not accidental. "In the temple." f ! A good place for the man to 1 . "Sin no j i more." God asks this of c\< y sinner, t And yet there are those who insist that jt j t ; is impossible to live without sin in this : ): | lifo. but. if such is the case then Jesus v j asked this man to do the impossible. "A ; worse tiring." A paralysis l'rnm which no ! pool can jestore and no Saviour will de liver; the most terrible catastrophe of the d } so"l's eternal history. j c V. The man bears testimony (v. l."l. i v | 11. ' Told the Jews," cK In reply to the f( inouiry they had made of him a short time e j before, uart'y in obedience to the authori- i t i ties aid partly to comn'.ete his apology for j d himself. He expected, probably, in the i p | simplicity of his heart, that the name of s i Him whom so many counted as a prophet, n j it not the Messiah Himself. wnVd have I [ urrn >uiiiv?ciiL iu s^ujj iuv muiuh .? ^uj^- i ^ ci\ vf-r* Aixtofi on Rnniter*. The unusual sight of automobi'es on run- j f ners with gay parties of pleasure f^-k^rs I t iboaH interested Hemostrad. L. I. A | I portable steel runner, which somewhat re- ; r I sembled a half iron tire, was fastened on 0 the outside of the front wheels of the automobiles, which were firmly fastened to the axles to prevent them from wiidins. ' The rear wheels were not touched, with Si the exception of a covering of very thin h sheet iron to prevent the ice from nnncturj rig the tires. Steel prongs extended from , J lie thin covering:, which enabled the S wheels to obtain a purchase on the snow | 71 and ice, and by this method some excp- c tionally good sport was enjoyed on the eountry roads 01" Nassau Couatv. n h Two Clever Blind M*n. A wonderful couple are the 3arro broth- 'i I If-- llrllA l'lt'fl ATI O t t'Ort' Atlflnf H J says the Atlanta Constitution. Although r< they are both totally blind and have been so afflicted since birth, they are well edu- \' catcd and well read. They are about | i twenty and twenty-three years of age re- I spectively. They go arm in arm wherever ! ] they want to go, without the aid of a j ? Suide, or even a walking cane. They are ;{ familiar with the town and go about, the ?] streets, dodging teams and street cars, x md never jestle against their fellow pedes- lV trians. I -j, fHE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. die I-alest New* in Life In*nr?nce Circle* is Agtonighinc the Tippler* ? Death Kat? Anions Moderate Drinkers Much Larger Than Among Abntainerp. The Boston llerald, under the editorial lead "Favoring Total Abstainers." says: "Ii the insurance companies decide to 'avor the tola) abstainer, it will be pretty (trong proof that their investigations have ed them to the conclusion that even the noaeraie use ox aicouoi is nor conuucivv :o long life. If this step is taken by the nsurance companies it will unquestionably jrove a very strong temperance, or rather otal abstinence, argument. In many lines )f industry the total abstainer is now pven special advantages. * * * There ivill be few temperance arguments more ;loquent to the average man than the assurance that he may receive a better ratng from the insurance companies if he i? i total abstainer than if he is an occasional iser of alcohol. 1 "The NeAv York Tribune states that a number of actuaries and medical directors tiave beers working cn the statistics for some years, and have come to the conclusion that those who refrain entirely from the vse of alcohol live longer by from twenty to fifty per cent, than do moderate :lrinkers as a" class. * * * Even if the liinimum named was the maximum in reality it would justify the companies in talc ing the temperance factor into consideration. * * * *lf total abstainers live twenty per cent, longer on the average than <io those w.ha indulge in a moderate use of alcohol, that fact should be taken into consideration in figuring the risk of insurance on either class." The Kansas City Journal, under the caption "Alcohol as Food,'' says: "Medical science ha? reached the conclusion that it is useless if not injurious to take alcohol even for its Dossible food ele ments. And this scientific view baa been received with approval in the busineni world. The big life insurance companies ire about to give special low ratee for life insurance to those who are total abstain* srs in the matter of spirituous and malt liquors. The companies have approached this matter without prejudice, as it it merely a matter of dollars and cents with them." The New York American, in comment ing on these latest bulletins of the life insurance societies notes the following testimony of Dr. Shrady, the famous practi tioner who was General Grant's physician throughout his last, illness: "Dr. George F. Shrady voiced the senti ment of a score of prominent physicians when he said in speaking of the new insurance policy: " 'I think it is a good and just plan, and the liberality of insurance companies tc non-drinkers will be a profitable arrange ment. That reduced rates should be given Dn the lives of total abstainers can be amply shown. No figures are necessary to tell of the higher percentage of deaths among people addicted to the use of liquors. It is simply a matter of daily observation. " 'The extent to which drink shortens life will be a matter for delicate adjustment. It must, of course, depend upon the imount of liquor taken into the system, rhe moderate drinker of to-day may become the immoderate drinker of to-mor rm .11 l ? iLi LI-L row. mere are hii sorts ui tuuiga wuiuu must enter into the calculations of the insurance companies and to arrive at a proper reduction will require some very deft iguring.' "The proposed new policy, it is said, -will contain many safeguards to protect the :ompany against fraud on the part of the )Oiicy holder and against any fall from ;race aft-er the policy is issued. These dcails are still under consideration.'' i Alanulnj German (Comparison. The commission appointed by Kaiser iVilhelm to look into the drinking habits )f his subjects reports that the German jeople consume alcoholic lio.uids to the ralue of $750,000,000 in the course of one rear; that the portion of income ejpent jy tbe Germans for drink on the average s one-eighth of all they earn. The averige income of a grown up German is said ;o be $100 per annum. The commission, >y comparing, found that the German peo)le's drink bill is four times as high as the State's total income from duties and food ?'! J * < *!? ir? nlniTQn fimoa no hiirK LJIU Ui illlV IV iS;C|GT?Jl t.il.UV.3 MO UiKU 18 the entire budget of tne post and telegraph, twenty-one times as high as the :o3t of old age insurance, thirty times as iigh as the amount of fire insurance in he Empire, 1000 times as high as the cost )f caring for the poor, and considerably nore than is spent by the Government to iustain its immense army and navv. ' i Increase of Women Dranliarilf. The figures relating to deaths resuming rom alcoholic excess in the decade ending nth the last century are appalling. The lumber or such deaths among women in 900 was more than double the number in 891. and the increase is far greater than n the case of deaths of males. The figures jven in the annual report of the RegistrarJeneral show conclusively that drunkenjess, especially among women, has mark dly increased during the past twenty rears. They are as follows: Females?England and Wales. 1891. 1900. 1902. McoboKsm, delirium tremens 743 1,5?j 1,111 Males: Alcoholism, delirium tremens 1,327 2,063 ^ 1,673 Compared with the number of deaths rom these causes among women in 1883. vhich was 397. the figure for 1900 is all he more striking. Women Yictiuaa. Cirrhosis of the liver, which is induced >y alcoholic excess, accounted for the leaths of 1357 women in England in 1883. !112 in 1900 and 1770 in 1902. In Ireland i similar state of affairs prevails. The re>ort of the registrar-general just issued hows that in 1891 nineteen women died rom delirium tremens and chronic alcoholsin. and in 1900 this number had increased o forty-one, an increase, a* in this couarv. of ever 100 per cent. The deaths of nales. on the other hand, irom the wmc ause had increased only from 112 to I4U. DrmandinK Total Abstinence. Pni'ivaiv nifinufacLurers and others are lemanding total abstinence from all who nter their service. The day may come ,hen the voice of public sentiment will call or the same requirement in those who are ntrusted with the respoasibiiity of conrolling the National forccs If such selfcnial is reasonable and salutary in great rjvate enterprises, why should not the ame rule hold good when the lives of vast umbers and the safety and honor of the ountry are at stake??The Key. D. Stuart )odge. The Crusade In Criei* The diunken chauffeur is a class anari or whjm there should be special and drusic legislation. The drunken chauffeur adds a new teror to life. The automobile in the hands f a sober chauffeur i:.. bad enough. Representative Eaker. o; New York. i* a otal abstainer, and does not hesitate to ay a worn iui* mj?fi .mv.c wv.?* ion offers. In CamdeA. X. .T.. three citizens counter! 205 men going into a corner saloon one abba th between 7 a. in. and f> p. m. 11 is eedles* to ask why Slit- men are net in the iiurches. The temperance cause ;? making great eadway in fienuany. so much so thai the onsmnption of beer has recently fallen bew that of liio United States. About $37,500 has been subscribed by riend* of the United Kingdom Band of lope Union toward a new lunu of $5U.00C cijuired to renew for tlie next five year-; lie union's scientific- temperance lec-ture rslem among the elementary school* of lie country. " ' ? 1?~ ? II ill! iillUMHCWiU lii ui imivc.j \> v; r; angerous only to those who entrust their.flves to such keeping, the evil niialit be :ft with fome justice to oure itaell. Hut lie great peril to others in an automobile lanaged or mismanaged by a man crazed ith Ticuor is so obvious and awful as to enuunl special regulation. iBI I yi. I Two Worlds. Jod's -world is bathed in beauty, God'a world is etceped in light; It is the self-same glory That makes the day ao bright, ' * Which thrills the earth with miwi^ Or hanjgs the stars in night. 3 id in earth's mines of silver, Floating on clouds above? | Bringing on autumn's tempest, Murmured by every dove? One thought fills God's creation; His own great name of Love! ?Adelaide Procter. A Difficulty In Fmtct. "I read with much interest some papari j in the Christian on prayer. I had "Been I praying for 3J., repeating the promise, 'Believe that ye receive, and ye shall have.' But in one of the above papers the write* isays (and I know it is true) that God doe* ot compel men to be saved. Though 1 knew this, yet it came over me with great force, and made me depressed for a time."So writes a friend in reference to prayers offered for nearly twenty years. N And where is the loving, praying 'heart that bag not been oppressed, in greater measure or in less, with the same gnef? This "trial of our faith'' cannot havefiis full solution while "ive know in parti" Nevertheless, there are counter considerations. The fol? lowing thoughts may help other discouraged hearts, as well as the correspondent quoted above. Their purpcee (need it be isaid?) is not controversy, but comfort, md thev are 'jeft for mmniieitv'fl sake in ;he form of direct address: You are troubled by tha thought that God does not compel men to be saved. But are you not mistaken in allowing this fact to nave a hostile bearing upon yooif confidence in prayer for M.? Examine the statement a little more closely. What do we intend when we say. 'Gcd does not compel men to be saved? Just this, that salvation is a matter m which compulsion has no place, no meafring. You can compel physical changes, changes of place and at surroundings; but to talk of compelling moral and spiritual changes is . .abeer nonsense. The words have no meaning, when taken literally and absolutely, .in reference to moral and spiritual things. We overlook tjiis, and hence our meniaj^coniusion. On the other baud,. God's prophecies and promises in the Word show beyond a doubt that God at least foresees human volitions. He who foresees human volitions, and who has also appointed prayer its one?perhaps the chief?of the methods of the co-working of His people with one another, and with Himself, never lead# you to pray on a blind chance that M. may, and perhaps may not, be saved. Han not God helped vou to may? Is He not . now helping you? Does He not again and again cause His peace which passeth ail understanding to keep your heart after yoi? have prayed? What place, then, is tSfefre for doubts, fears, uncertainties? it is God, who cannot lie, with whom you have to do. Which of all God's great spiritual prom* ifos and prophecies does not turn? in the last development, upon the coalescence of the human will witji the diving And though the transition from opposition to harmony be long defejfi-ed, be interrupted, be to our feeble senses marred, yet it comes. In thousands of cases, likely and unlikely to human reckoning, Goa has * saved men for whom His children have offered persevering prayer. What t? get in the very glow and glare of mid in the case of Saul of Tarsus is happening' in quiet and secrecy every hour. Cease looking at tne mystery. What | have you to do with that? Look at the Promiser. "According to your faitb. be it unto you."?F. W. S., in London Christian. _______ The Old Skipper** Sermon. A skipper who bad lost bis position on ? ! Gshing boat because he would * ot full on I Sunday was placed in chaj-ge of a small smack hired by a few benevolent men i? London, who charged him to cat "h more 6sh in six days than othtr men did ii? seven, and to preach the gop'pel as he went^ Dr. Grenfell, the missionary to the Labrador fishermen, told the story on his recent visit to Boston. When he arrived at the fishing ground/* he was boarded by the skippers of four other vessels, one of them being the "admiral" of the fishing fleet, who knew the' character of his new enterprise, and came prepared to despise it. "Not this e're cant but more whisky i? what we wants," they said. . The skipper of the mission ship had been sent on a hard enterprise. He believed himself able to catch more fish in sis day* than other skippers in seven, but the matter of preaching was what appalled him. However, he prepared to carry out the agreement and to lose no time, out preach to these his first visitors. There was no w-og on board'but the besfpot of tea the old man could brew was hot in the cozy cabin, and four warm mufflers' were laid out. These the skipper handed to his visitors. "Look ycre" he said, and this was the introduction to his sermon "do y' see them 'ere mufflers?" They saw them, felt them, and knew ^ they were warm and goocL ^ "What do they cost, iiiur" asxea tbe^H ! admiral. Jffi I "I'll give em to ye on one condition." H | said the preacher, progressing with - his. H sermon. 89 "VVhat'a that?" asked the admiral, rau- M | tiously. , H "That you'll admit there's love in 'em: K | for the ladies as knit 'em munt 'ave loved Hj ve. though ye never seed 'em." B "That's right," assented tire audience. H "Well, then, take 'em. There they are," B and so the eermon concluded. H 'f he four men wrapped themselves in the E? mufflers and spoke tneir thanks. But as they were leaving Bill added his benedic- H tion: A " Ow much more mnst Jesns 'are loved V yer, when 'c ^ave 'iniself for ver!" . H Dr. Greenfell adds that this proved a H most effective sermon, for three men out H ! of the four resolved to return that lore. H The admiral "became an effective mission--^ ary among his admiring followers," an?l H ' the skiDner more than made his seven days' work in fix. and preached his sermon many times.?Youth's Companion. Silent Th/eadii That Gleam. Little self-denials, little honesties, litt'e passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over "favorite temptations?these are the silfcnt j threads of go'.d which, when woven togethJ er. gleam out so brightly in the pattern oi ; life that God approves.?.Canon Farrar. Help to l>e >r. I Say what you will, the tears of the world have been shed at the feet of Jesu*. " * * ".Shall Jesus bear the cross aioneT' < i There is not a strong and chivalrous heart i ; among men that has not been stirred by i this hvmn.?Rev. John T. Ensor, Baltij more, Md. Cast Away ltestleMness. ; Hen? is my work to do, to worn- over. I I * * "Xfv trnrl; " I env Rnt. if T can know that it is not my work, but God's. I should I not cast away my restlessness, I even while I worked on more faithfully auJ ;intirinzlv than eve: ??Phillies Brook*. \ Anlo Has Right of Way OTer Dog. I American automobilists will possibly he-1 nterested in a deci>?ion by a Paris tribunal. | A pedestrian's dog was killed by an auto- * mobile descending the Champ* Eiysee-. j Us owner sued lor S200 and lost his case, , the Court deciding he had no right to a!! low the dog to run loo?e where it might j :ua?e a serious accident to an automobiJist. Hit Delirium Told* K A man injured in a railroad accident in Bj England, who died in a hospital without recovering consciousness, was identified by the way he counted in delirium. He never fl went beyond the number of nails in a H horse's shoe, and the doctors decided that he was a horeeehoer, . fl