The J Richard ===== oi A VICTIM OF CIRCUM! B3r B. Xj. P, ^S5ZBBBB5iCSBS5iS!SS555G535 CHAPTER I. MT name is Richard Pardon, and at the time of the tragedy, which wil be reclorded in its proper place, I resided with my wife and only child, Eunice, at Boscombe Lodee, Sevenoaks. A brief description *\f m-r ohndo n-ill siiffipp Rnscnmbp Lodge is an estate of about twelve acres; the residence is old-faShioned and roomy, and the pleasure grounds around it are charmingly laid out. Four female servants, a gardener and a coachman did the -work of the house and grounds. In addition to these were Samuel Fleetwood and Mile. Rosalie Lenormand. It would not be correct to describe ' Samuel Fleetwood as a servant. He .was altogether a superior man, and was attached to me in a confidential capacity. Circumstances of a peculiar : nature had made me acquainted with him some years previous to his entering my house. He was then married, ! and had gone through great troubles < and misfortunes which had left him ,very poor. His wife was in delicate J health, and at more than one critical 1 Juncture Mrs. Pardon and I stepped in to his aid. A ministering angel indeed < -rv>f iriffl oror nrAvo horsdlf trt hf? VUU UJJ V? VA J/ftVf V MWWW* in such cases as this; her presence in the sick chamber was balm, her smile '< sunshine, her gentle voice breathed 1 peace. No man could more strongly appreciate the sympathetic aid we ren- < dered in a time of need than Samuel < Fleetwood; it stirred htm to innermost depths, and he was profoundly grateful fOT it My wife and I stood by J Mrs. Fleetwood's deathbed, and almost 1 ;with her last breath she thanked us '< ior the kindness we had shown to her and her husband, and said, that the < sacrifice of his life would be but a 1 slight return. < "I speak for him as well as for my- < self," she said. "He feels as I do." ' I received with humbleness, as I am 1 sure my wife did, these extravagant expressions of gratitude, to which, 1 however, I made no demur, because I perceived that the utterance of them 1 afforded the poor woman pleasure. To 1 * 1 T T 1 ease uer iasi moment i saiu tutu. x would continue to be her husband's friend, and a light of great happiness shone in her eyes. 1 "He "will be your faithful and devoted servant" she said, faintly, "to the hour i of his death." 1 Faithful and devoted indeed he was, < and I trusted him as I -would have ? . trusted a brother. It is necessary, also, for a proper un0erstanding of my story, that I should say something here of Mile. Ler.ormand, governess, companion and lady's 1 maid to my dear daughter Eunice. j This unusual mingling of duties was of 1 Mile. Rosalie's own arranging. She en- ( tered our service as governess to per- ? feet Eunice in modern languages, draw- 1 ing and painting. I had nothing to do iwitn tee engaging or tnc iaay, ana therefore it was that I did not see her * until she was regularly installed in our ( liouse. She was a fair lady, with languish- ( Ing blue eyes, with light hair, and eye- 1 brows almost golden in color. My ] jwife, although she confessed she had 1 not inquired, said that she was about ( twenty-two years of age. I am not a ( good judge of a woman's age, espe- 1 * cially if that woman be fair, and I 1 took my wife's word for it. * "Isn't she sweet, papa?" asked Eunice. "Too soon to pronounce," I replied, < passing my hand fondly over Eunice's 1 hair, which was dark like my wife's. j Some few weeks afterward I asked i Eunice how she was getting on with < modern languages. -v "Papa," said Eunice, "I don't think j Mile. Rosalie is very proficient in Ian- t ?uages." s "Indeed, my dear!" I said, smiling. , "But she paints beautifully, papa," i said Eunice. "Here are some of her 1 sketches." i I examined'hem and was really sur- ] prised at th&r excellence, and more j surprised at the subjects the artist had ] chosen. Moreover, they bore uninis- i takable evidence of having been paint- j ed from the life. I mentioned this incidentally to Eunice, and she immedi- ( ately ran away and returned breath- ( less. i "Oh, yes, papa!" she cried?"from the i life. I asked her, and she said it was ' the only way to produce good work." i The information deepened my sur- ; prise. They were figure subjects; a 1 rphan, too, and h*^jratitude for the aome she has found with us is boundess." "Well, well," I said, feeling somesvhat helpless, "let it be as you wish." "Thank you, dear," said my sweet tvife. "We will say "nothing of this to Eunice; it would grieve her. "And just now," she added, with a bright look, 'we must have no clouds." Later in the day I met Mile. Rosalie's frank smile with a smile as frank. She seemed grateful for the response, for she raised my hand to her lips aiid :issed it; and then, as though ashamed )f herself for this ebullition of feeling, >he turned and fled. CHAPTER II. My wife's words, "And just now we nust have no clouds," were an allusion :o a joyful event which we were humany certain would take place during the lay. Within the last two years we bad struck up a friendly acquaintance with 1 gentleman of independent fortune svho lived a few miles from Boscombe Lodge, and on the morning of the foregoing conversation with my wife I revived the following note from him: "My Dear Mr. Pardon?Unless I receive a telegram from you to the effect that you will not be able to see me, , [ shall do myself the pleasure of call;ng upon you at about 1 o'clock to discuss a matter of the deepest and ten- ' lerest interest to both of us. .With rery kind regards to Mrs. and Miss Pardon and yourself, believe me, faithfully yours, "HASTINGS CLANRONALD." There was no mistaking the purport jf this letter. We had long suspected :hat Mr. Clanronald's son Harry was 1 n -with mir dnuehter. and it had 'ormed the subject of many serious conversations between me and my vife. Eunice's heart, we saw, was lost, ; ind Harry's father was now coming :o ask her hand for his son. A peculiar :elf-consciousness on the part of Eunice convinced us that she had been informed by HarFy of the impending interview. Loving she always was, but :here was a clinging, pathetic tenderness in the morning caress, the meaning of which, having read Mr. Clanronald's letter, was clear to me?as though she was pleading to me to place no bar to her happiness. At the appointed hour Mr. Clanronald lame, and we soon arrived at an understanding that the projected union was suitable in every respect; but it was at my instigation, and not at the instigation of Mr. Clanronald, that the business aspect of the affair was postponed for future consideration. 1 had the best of reasons for tbis postponement. "There will be no difficulty,y I presume," said Mr. Clanronald, and his eyes wandered to :he evidence of wealth by which I was surrounded. "None whatever," I replied. "Eunice's great uncle, whose heir I am. is absent from England, and it will be naturally agreeable to him that he shall have a voice in the matter. He is very nn?l flir* nnctnnnomrint will lio in the interests of the young couple. ' Quite so," said Mr. Clanronald. "I am prepared to do what is necessary and proper, and you will meet ne in a like spirit?" He put tbis in the form of a question, and I replied, "You nay rest perfectly satisfied." He expressed himself so, and then we went to join my wife and daughter at luncheon. He shook hands cordially with my wife, and kissed Eunice, who knew by that sign that all was well. Sho blushed and trembled and moved closer to her mother, whose tenderness toward the de.rr child we were to lose was redoubled. Excited anil eager. Harry Clanronald came in the evening, auO. had an interview with Eunice, in which mutual 4 love found expression. Happy, saere hour! Xever, never to be forgotten i: all the after life! Harry stopped later than usual; Et nice had disappeared; cbe was waitin in the garden for her lover. "Good-night, Harry," I said. "Yo are a fortunate young fellow to hav won the heart of our darling child." "I am the happiest man in the worli sir." said Harry. "You may trust he safely to me; I will prove mysel worthy of your confidence and he love." On the following day Eunice ir formed me that she had promised Mll< Rosalie that she should remain with u until the day of the wedding: an(] moreover, had promised tbat her gov erness should be one of the brides maids. I would rather not have had i so, but I had not the heart to cros Eunice's wishes at such a happy tim of her life 4s this. "What does Harry say to it?" asked. "Harry says 'yes' to everything," re plied Eunice, with deliciou3 emphasis "He is enchanted with her. And wha do you think, papa? She is going t make my wedding dress!" "A dressmaker as well!" I exclaimed "She is a paragon, this Mile. Rosali of yours!" "Indeed she is, papa." "She can do everything, it seems." said, "except teach languages an* painting." "I don't want them now, papa." "Of course not?now that you hav Harry." "Yes, papa," said Eunice, with pei feet seriousness. I pinched her cheek. "What if th dress shouldn't fit, my dear?" "Oh, but it will, papa. Mile. Rosali declares it shall, and it will be mad weeks and weeks beforehand!" If anything could have induced m to hasten the wedding day it wouli have been the thought that we sboul< be the sooner rid of a woman to whom despite the glowing eulogiums of m; wife and daughter, I had taken an uh accountable dislike?unaccountaDie 10 the reason that I could find no jus cause for the feeling she had inspired. CHAPTER III. I must make mention of a peculiarly in my habits to which I have been sub ject from my earliest remembrance, am a somnambulist It is not my pur pose to enter into any discussion of thi fruitful theme; I am simply recordinj those facts which bear relation to m; strange story. Often in my youthful days was followed by my nurse and relatives i: the night, while I was walking in m; sleep, and carefully watched, in orde that I should not come to harm. M; wanderings were generally of a harm less kind, and sometimes afforded met riment, as on occasions when I mad my way to the larder and helped my self to the good things deposited tliere But there was one occasion when the; took a mere serious turn. I slept on the second floor of a semi detached house. In the adjoining hous resided a man?a widower when I firs became acquainted with him?with : little daughter, between whom and my self some innocent love making tool place. The father of this little girl whose name was Elsie, married again and the stepmother was not kind t the child. Indeed, when the fathe was absent from home Elsie was cru elly treated by this woman, and I use* to hear her .cries through the wal which divided the two houses. Elsi slept also on the second floor, in th room adjoining mine, and when sh was beaten in the night I could hea her appeals for mercy very clearly These sounds greatly distressed me and my child-mind was excised as th means by which I could rescue m; little sweetheart from the torture t which she was subjected. On on* rwv>fltdon business took the father fron his home for two or three weeks, am during this time Elsie's undeserve< punishment?I was sure it was unde served?was sharper and more fre quentiy administered. She showed m< the marks of the blows 011 her skin, am I remember crying excitedly: "I will kill her! I will kill her!" To be continued. London's Winter Foes* London fogs have been legislated against, have been bottled, analyzed dissected, inquired into and "sat upon' by endless committees, but we stil know no more about them than abou the aurora borealis. Only a couple o: years ago the London County Counci took them in hand. A committee o: experts was formed'to investigate th< causes, cure, distribution and all othe: eccentricities of fogs. Their repor stated that fogs could not be traced t< any special locality; that they seemec to be rather the result of general at mospheric conditions; that a Londoi "pertikler" was usually formed bj sucking in suburban fogs and mixinj them up with the pall of smoke tha Invariably hangs over central London that fogs rarely occurred when tb< temperature was over forty degree! F., and tliat tliey were most lrequen after a night ten -legrees coider thai the preceding day. I Jiave seen esti mates which place the direct and indi rect loss to London by fogs at ovei $25,000.(100 a year. One day of realli severe' fog will cause the metropolis t< consume enough gas and electricity, ii excess of her ordinary requirements to supply a town of 50.000 for a wlio!< year. Moreover, a fog means a licavi casualty list. The great fog of 1S$< increased the mortality of London In 2004 in three weeks. The fog whicl ended on January 2. ]S02, after en shrouding Loudon without interim's sion for a fortnight on end, caused ai excess of 14S4 deaths in one week.Syduey Brooks, in Harper's "Weekly. Aiwa v I'recisr. Del Valentine tells of a Kansas eler gym an he once knew wiio prided him sen on his precise and scrupulous us< of words. Onp Sunday this good mai was praying for elevating grace ant renewed working force. "Oh, Lord," he pleaded, "waken Thy cause in Tin hearts of this congregation and giv< them new eyes to see and impulse t< do. Send down Thy lev-er or leev-e; according to Webster's or Worcester'! Dictionary, whichever you use. am pry them into activity." This lawye: o..,l cm,,.* nf hlc frUinns: wlin liaPPOllPi to be there snorted just a littlo ami th< "Aneu" followed quickly and with : jerk.?Kansas City Stpr. "l lllREVFNM THE WEEK ii 1" 1 WASHINGTON. S( ? ! President Roosevelt ordered tb( I name of the training ship for midship11 | men changed from th? Chesapeake tc e i the Severn. fi | The proceedings in the case of Major '? j F. De L. Carrington, tried by court r j martial in the Philippines, have arf rived at the War Department for re r | view by the President. Major Carring j ton was in charge of the battalion ol BJ I Philippine scouts at the St. Louis Ex -y '* I hibition, and bis trial was based oc 1 charges of misappropriation of funds s [ and the duplication of accounts. The !, ! court sentenced him to dismissal. Car , >. I rington was tried by the civil autborij. J ties of the Philippines and sentenced a. 't j to sixty years and five days. s | The President was made the beneli a ciary of an act of Congress passed sis years ago granting to all soldiers"who h served out of the confines of the coun- d I try during the Spanish .war twc h months' extra pay. li President Roosevelt issued an ordei a >. calling for sweeping reforms in the d t methods of conducting the business oi b - I +>m fl/moT~n m on t ' Si Hie President has approved tlie find- s I, ings in two trials of Captain George 0 g I W. Kirkman, of the Twenty-fifth In- e j fantry, sentencing him to dismissal i from the army and confinement in the ? Fort Leavenworth (Kan.) penitentiary ^ I for three years. Kirkman was con- f 1 nected with the sensational case re- E suiting in the suicide of the wife of ar ? army officer in Omaha. ? e Secretary Morton removed the engl- d neer in charge of constructing a dry T .. dock at Charleston, S. C. c ' a e OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. s Proclamations on the part of China e retaliating upon the United States for ^ e the exclusion laws have been making ^ their appearance in the Chinese quar- " e ters about Honolulu and the other Ha2 .waiian Islands. 11 j The steamship Alameda brought a box of snakes, some of them rattle' snakes, on her last trip, for exhibition a P 1 tr* O rTrvnnliilii nnr\ 'RfFnrt'a xc-pro flt ' AU & U4U UVU. / Av.tw * l* once made to prevent them being land- ^ r ed, as there are no snakes In the isl- ^ t ands, and it lias.been a policy of long u standing to keep them out. Escapes from the zoo were feared. The reptiles a were all killed before they got through ^ the Custom House by Collector Stack- T 7 able. ? ' Chinese posters in Honolulu announce ci I anonymously that all Americans enter' ing China will be fumigated at .the porl I s of entry and must pay $5 a head to \ g get in. tl 7 f DOMESTIC. f I * 1 i Jealous of his wife, William Board- ?> 3 ! man killed her at St. Paul, Ind., as she gj y lay in bed, and then killed himself. j? r Nearly forty firemen had to be taken p y from the building of the Columbian Rope Company, at Auburn, N. Y., the t( dense smoke having overcome them. a e Rear-Admiral Sigsbee's squadron of four cruisers sailed for Cherbourg from the United States to bring home t>< " the body of Paul Jones. h y After killing her four small children, ^ Mrs. Paul Klass, at Kieler, Wis., com'* mitted suicide, ill health prompting the e deed. ? rr 1 The National Association of Credit 31 a Men at Aiempnis, xenn., eiec-Leu \j. \j. ^ - Ferguson, of Nevr York, as president. tl Is A mail train on the Lake Shore road is I, ran down and killed, near Edgertou, d i, 0., Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Brown and Mrs. V o Rathburn. S r A surveying party of twenty has left n . Seattle for Chilcoot Pass and Kotsina , River to locate the division line be- a: j tween the United States and Canada. D' Dr. W. E. Woodekid, a New York ^ City broker, was arrested in Philadel- ^ e phia, Pa., on the charge of having obe tained $2700 by false pretences. r A meeting of the Citizens' Associa' tion, of Newport, R. I., was called for f. the purpose o;? trying to secure the e peace conference for that resort. It c] y was said that twenty villas had been tl 3 offered for the use of the conferrees. T ? Thomas F. Ryan, at New York City, Q stated that he was the sole buyer of tl , the 502 shares of the Hyde Equitable * ' : stock, for which he.pail $2,500,000. 11 j Samuel Greason, a negro, who was ? ] sentenced to death as an accomplice of E" Mrs. Kate Edwards in the murder of "J "-j JLitli JLLU3 JJU.JUU, JLICIO uttaji ovi a.*. v-v ??v 3 court in Reading, Pa. lie was declared innocent on retrial. t The trustees of Otterbein University, a United Brethren college at Wester- ^ ville, Ohio, have decided upon the es- jj tablishment of a chair of philanthropy 6, ] and practical rc'igion. . n Harvey Smith, John Collier and Wil! Jackson, colored, were hanged in the cjail yard at Decafur, Ala. Troops were p present, but there was no disorder t< among the 2000 people who surrounded p the jail. T-mitli and Collier murdered tl Miss Belle Bloodwortb, of Decatur, p Jackson killed a policeman. tl Otis Botts, twenty-one years old, was E hanged at Peoria, 111., for the murder ? of his girl wife last January. j Pittsburg is to have a Soldiers' MeI morial Hall costing not less than $2,- tJ ! 500,000, and it is understood that H. C. u i Frick will give $1,000,000 toward it. ? L y fUttaiUIN. j. [ American Ambassador Conger was a; . officially presented to President Diaz I of Mexico. " All Havana was in mourning over * the death of General Cioniez. and $15,c 000 was appropriated for the funeral. The Norwegian Storthing adopted a .. reply to King Oscar's letter, the act of ' secession being upheld. t? [ In the explosion in Khantsisk. South ^ ' Russia, in the Ivan colliery, 500 per- o, 5 I sons were killed. e: 1 | Swedish residents in Norway urged * i pacific settlement uiwn King Oscar. * France agreed to an international 7 conference over Morocco. 33 J Princess Margaret of Conuaught and 7 Prince Gnstavus Adolphus of Sweden i i were married at Wirdsor Castle, Eng land. m Advices from Paris, France, said " * ! 1J ! ll l tiiar me suuiiuuii rey:irunjj; .uuiuav - was strained, but not grave, France and Germany having almost reached a J1 deadlock. Fremier Rouvier has de- 11 cided to retain the post of Minister of :,2 . i Foreign Affairs. Colonel von Wissmann, former Govi. ernor ol German East Africa, accideni tally shot himself in the head while ;>t I I -leer-stalking at Fischern, near Liet? i ion, Syria. His death was instanta- j" ? ueous. ' ? 1( ? The German steamer Tetartos was n sunk on May 30 by the Russian ausi!5 iary cruiser Don, according to advices '' just received at Lloyds, London, Eng5 land. Her crew was landed at Bata- te I via. < i* The Royal Mail Steam Packet Com- ^ 1 pany, according to a report from Lon- ^ ? don, England, will soon establish a ;c l passenger service between Southarap- :c tr>n at><1 Natv York Citv 11 rr ? ^- r 'HE GREAT DESTROYER T 3ME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT ,N THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE; ^ ! he Awful Trajredy of a Bochester Sanday Dinner?How a Peaceable, Industrious Citizen Was Transformed Into a Fiend?A "Warning to Drinkers. Ob May 20 there lived on the corner th f St Paul and Eve/green streets, in of :ochester, N. Y., a family of four, co incent Love, a young man of thirty, dc as the father, Minnie vras the young tal abstainers, while observers with 'O1 jo Russians dwell repeatedly on the t]l runken orgies of officers and men. The 111 nmorality and drunkenness in Port ta rthur are said to have been so flagmt as to be beyond description in " luropean or American journals. 'Ameri- 011 an Medicine feels, however, that it is ot; occasional drunkenness, but habit- fr al hard drinking, which does the mishief. It declares that the mental de- H irioration of "old alcoholics" is so :ell known to physicians that public jnorance in regard to it invariably of urprises the medical profession. It is j11 lso hopeful that the American nation ,lf ill take tlie lesson of Japanese sue ess to heart and jiot bestow military " laces upon chronic alcoholics, so prone > "false ideas, perverted reasoning owers, and enfeebled judgments." In I y1 ae British navy men who drink are [ romptly shelved, however different !!}: ae practice in the days of Nelson. | jf' lut it will be a long time before our * raduates of West Point and Annapolis re held up to similar standards. Even f?c lougb, as American Medicine predicts, le temperance movement is bound to in the fight with alcoholism, it will robably be decades before Abraham * ineoln's joking wish to supply every eneral with the same brand of whisey used by General Grant becomes J" n illustration of a bygone social or- l\!' er.?New York Post. ^ b!, fe Driver# Must Be Temperate. til The Illinois Milk Dealers' Associa- a" on "said things" to Chicago milk rn agon drivers the other day, and af- s-:i ir this any driver known to smoke or rink intoxicants while on duty will ,-'1, e punished by the loss of his job ;.nd l'c toulsion from the union. Temperance Note#. ] The cause of temperance lias made tv arked progress in Denmark during th< te last quarter of a century. Ei There are now* about 120,000 mom- kn irs of temperance societies in Den* ?oi iark. and the Danish Congress ap- fh; ropriates annually a large sum to j in* irther th? movement. j P?; Th? Toledo Blade states that there Prj e 7.jO saloons in that town and that ncty-five per cent, of them are owned t brewers who are risponsible for ;he r >011 violations of the laws concerning ^ io sale of liquor. ^ A Springfield (Mass.) physician who wc >inmitted suicide. after shooting two it on and attempting to kill liis be- fai otli6d, is said to have attributed liis of lirst for liquor and his homicidal ten- $1, ?ncies to the fact that his nurse in ifancy was a woman who drank indicants. ^ In New South Wales temperance aching has been introduced into the fla hools within tlie last year. In the lin her states of the commonwealth all uit is done as yet is ;o give occasional inperance lessons, and to hang up ' mperance wail sheets i:i schools, tut at : earnest agitation is being carried on og it-icors thau.ihis. HE SUNDAY SCHOOL TERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY 16. ibject: The Suffering Savior, Is a. Hi., 13 to 1111., 12? Golden Text, lia. 1111., 6? Memory, Verses 4-G?Commentary on the Day's Lesson, I. Tlie humiliation and exaltation of e Savior (vs. 13-15). The main idea the whole passage is the unexampled aitrast between the present and past 'gradation and the future glory of ihovah's Servant. II. The suffering Savior (vs. 1-3). 1. Relieved our report." The report of e prophets and the gospel message, lie world is still full of unbelief. To slieve this report is not merely to asnt to the truth of it, but to so receive that the conduct will be influenced by The Jews did not receive the report, erefore Christ was to them without omeliness." "Arm of the Lord." The in is a symbol of power, as it is the strument by which we execute our irposes. It is put for the power of jd (Isa. 51: 0; 52:10). It hence means 5d's power in defending His people, overcoming His' enemies, and in savg the soul. "Revealed." Made iowii, seen, understood. The queshis in tills verse are strong, but not tal denials. 2. "For." Tlie prophet ?\v gives the reason why the report is >t believed. "He." The Savior. Jrew up" (R. V.). The point of vision at- the time Christ's suffering were lishetf and He was entering into His ory. "-As a tender plant." He grew ) small and of no reputation, from a mily nearly extinct, like a tender ant springiug unnoticed from its root d in a barrtjn and dry iand, out of liieli nothing great was expected, md as a root," etc. The sprout which rings up from a root. Such a sprout ould lack strength and beauty. Both j ?ures depict the lowly and unattrac- 1 re character of the small though vig- ] ous beginning. "See Him." The | nner part of this verse refers to His 1 rth and childhood, the latter to His 1 st public appearance. "No beauty." j liis refers to His state of abasement. | 3. "Despised." B.v the rich and r eat. "Rejected." "Forsaken of men," nouncsd. "We laid . . faces." is appearance was such as to cause en to turn their backs or hide their ces with disgust. "Men avoided Him i though He had a disease like the >rosy." "Esteemed Him not." Failed recognize His 'worth. [II. The atoning Savior (vs. 4-0). 4. lath borne." The meaning is that e consequences of sin fell upon Him, e innocent, and that He bore His unserved sufferings as a sacrifice on beilf of, His people. "Griefs." "Sicksses."?B. V., margin. To bear sickiss is not to take it away but simply endure it. Christ endured in His /u person the penal consequences of e people's guiJt. "Sorrows." Our :ine. How did Jesus bear our griefs id sorrows? 1. In His sympathy. 2. r His healing power. "Stricken." le expression used when God visits nan with .severe and sudden sickness, pecially leprosy, which was regarded the stroke of God's hand and the rect consequence of sin. The leprosy only a strong image for such suffer?s as are the evidence of God's wrath ;ainst sin. 5. "Wouude-1," etc. But e was pierced because of our rebel>ns, crushed because of our iniquities, le strong verbs pierced and crushed e probably metaphors expressing the teful ravages of leprosy. "Bruised." iplied to the body, crushed; applied the mind, severe inward agony is imied. "Of our peace." The chastiseent needful to procure peace for us. i. "Like sheep.*' The figure of the ray sheep is.common in the Bible, leep without a shepherd, having lost eir way, are the very picture of helpssness:_and this is tie condition of an. "Hani laid," etc. rue sorrows j at would have fallen upon us be- i use of our sin fell upon Christ. But irist was not compelled to suffer for , ; He voluntarily made an atonement ^ r sin. 7. "Oppressed/' This verse ( ows the treatment He received and , w He conducted Himself under it. ? 3. "Taken from prison.1' "By oppres- j >n and judgment He was taken , ray."?E. V. There are various opln- . us here. Some think that this means nt He was deprived of proper judg- . put and trial; others that He was , ken away by death and thus finally ( leased from His troubles. 9. "Made . is grave," etc. An enigma whicn j ly history could explain. .Testis was j it to death with the wicked on the , oss, and they thought to bury Him a criminal's grave. They appointed is crave with the wicked, but by a rikiiiLC providence the same authority ive permission to a rich man. Joseph Arimathea, who provided Him with , t honorable burial in his own rock>wn tomb /Matt 27: 37-00). ' [V. The Savior rewarded and exalt- ' (vs. 10-12). The main thou?ht in , ese difficult verses is that the Servant J to be the instrument in establishing a true relipion. by removing the bur- " n of pruilt and bringing many to iliteousness. 10. "Pleased the Lord." le death of Christ was no after- | ought: yet Jehovah did not wish His 1 in pain or evil, neither did He in any ] use approve the spirit or deeds of His * imlerers. but He saw that the salva- : >n of a lost race could be reached in i nrlv-r wav. "His soul." His life. in offering." "A guilt-offering."?R.' . margin. "I-Iis seed." Th? true : iritual Israel of the future. Those ' :o by His means are converted to the ' lowledge of Jehovah. "In His hand." ' lder His government or direction. J "Satisfied." He shall see such J pssed fruits resulting from His suf- ; rings as amply to repay Him for \ em. "With tke great." Or 1 uong the great. His kingdom shall 1 le among tb? nations. "Divide the 1 oil." There shall flow to Him and r is kingdom the wealth, the strength. numbers, that the strongest nations ssoss. | Where Wealth Slops Over. Probably the most remarkable shoes er produced within recent times were r sse worn at a function in London, t igland, the other day by a lady well own in society. In keeping with a , rgeous gown she wore a pair of shoes t it were literally covered with flash? jeweis?diamonds, rubies and arls. Five hundred dollars was the ice 01 eacn siioe. , The Largest Diamond. rhe Largest diamond in the world ! it was recently found is not of the rstalline sort used as a gem. If it ?re its value would he fabulous, for is seventeen times larger than the mous Victoria diamond, the largest modern finds, which was sold foi 1 500.U00. ' ~ ? ? j Corn Cob Like a Hand. i :iiomas Bell, of Evanstcn, 111., bas a v n cob in the sbape of a buinan band, a t and witb tbumb and fingers di-sctly outlined. ' Hospital For Fisheg. rbere is a hospital for diseased fisbes , Vienna University, wb&fe tbe patbol j y of fisb is studied. A DREAMER." S 3. A. CSQESTOX. |9B I'd rather sing of Liberty, IH Though nameless to the end, SB Than fawn to prosper, and the knee H To Mammon bend. |t|fl I'd rather stand for human rights, i 19 Though to the world unknown, t 'IB[ Than walk on Fame's alluring heigh taBj For self alone. T*flS| I'd rather in a cabin dwell, Gk Unmentioned all my days, Mn Than to desert my principle 8BM For wealth or praise. H I'd rather feel some work I'd wrouj;hfcB| That -would my brother blesti, 39 Than prostitute my honest thought jgg[ For mere success. I'd rather ever hold in view gai The white Christ as my goal, B| I'd rather know I had been true gffl To my own soul, H Than be required to sacrificfl 88B My spirit s inner light, MM And give my manhood as the price To gain the height. . H A dreamer? So to you he seems \ HR Who can such notions hold? . } 1 am content to keep my dreams, I 99 Keep you your gold. 4 ; ! Finding Our Lost Stars. B| Over the dreary wastes the MaHD followed their star. It drew dear |H hem in the long silence of the nig IBS lourneys. It blazed for them like beacon of hope, alluring and assurwRS :hem as they pressed onward, ThM| tvere men of the desert, accustomed^ In gazing into the starry deeps, acew^H :omed to naming the constellatiok^B rhey belonged to the trustful chftl^B lood of humanity which can find rery near in the distant stars and toS ?reat in tiny flowers. In this vl stinctive trust and sense of safety U Magi fallowed their stars across U tvastes of sandB. fi n Then they came to the city. TlBfl ?ven camp to Herod's court. It twfl i new world. It was utterly unlike xiysterious tents of a sheik in the frH4 lom 01 uie aesen, mis turongea, g^n slotting Jerusalem. The Magi w^HS lot at home there. Yet the city wM ts spell about them. Their hearts stifled in its narrow walls; but ?harnr of its midnight and the splena^H )f ltd noon were over them. ThjflH gained access to Herod the King saw his glory. They found themselvMI it last made the ujiconscious messeH ?er of Ms crafty, cruel purpose. Th^H ost their star, too. IBfl But God kept it waiting for theiH| It length, after many days, the charHH >f the great city was lost, and Magi set out on their quest once moi^B Suddenly the dear, familiar star thH| iiey had followed and loved in t^M earlier days burst forth In clear shljH ng before them. "And when they saH| :he star they rejoiced with ezoeedijH| jreat joy." Perhaps they followed KI md loved it all the better after th^R experience in tne grcar ciiy. w The whole incident may be read l parable. We follow our star In tHB simple faith and unshaken trust BBS )ur childhood, pressing forward in tflH juest which our mother's teachin^H nade holy for us. We follow our stH9 mtil at length the great tasks of lbsorb us and we are tempted to fc^B ;et the earlier guide while we lazzled with the artificial and the gfl| n this great city of Worldly Endeavc^D SVe lose our star. 3aH But God is keeping it ready to shi^H igain for us all the time. Some dH| ye are sent out to resume the cH juest or we tear ourselves away froHB .vhat threatens to become a bonda^H rhen, thank God, the old star of chiSB rood's faith shines for us again, aH| eve take up the task gladly under Dure light. Hfl To every one who has had this fl >erience the .1oy of the Magi on findlSB heir lost star will be very clear. ThtHH :oo, have found their lost stars a SB mvp veioiced. It is the divine kindn^^H :hat keeps the star for us, and evB Eieaven rejoices with us when we fi^H )ur dear old star again.?Zion's QeraHH Mark the Bright Hour*. BB A sun-dial, in Spain, has this appflB priate motto engraved upon it: nark only the bright hours." Be ike the sun-dial. And bear in mlSH co, that there are no dark days to GflE rhe Godward side of the clouds is Hflj ivays bright. Another hint: One^Bj :he most beautiful photographs iave even seen was taken in a ra^H storm! You can make beautiful pHfl :ures at any time, if you only kn^^l low. "All the black storm clouds ife are going to be rainbowed, a^Hj shot through and through with tra^H igurlng light, and made things of md rejoicing forever." Look for silver lining and you will find it. gHB "Why Sot Rejoice? Mf?9j God is more earnest for me MB saved than I am to be saved! "IieBHj oved tlae world tnat tie gave iw ?on." He loved not the saints, jenitents, not the religious, not th^Hj ivlio love Him; but "the world," seHH ar men, profane men, hardened reb^Ba jopeless wanderers and sinners! g99 jive not a mere promise, not ac an^^S o teaeb us, not a world to ransom >ut His Son?His only begotten! BOB nueli did GoJ love tlio world, sinn^^X u?! VugE I believe I must believe ItHBjj telievo on Him who says it. How " then do otherwise than rcjciccBH The ITapiiiest. Umk Those wbo have the mos: 01 uajw :