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fed, l/ifife II o Liuirumrmjurinmi *>3 li\foo pron) ?UTJUxrijruTXLirijrirLrLr & MRS. Al TART IT. CHAPTER L Continued. The -nrhiRt rtnrtv were soon occuoied iwitb their game, but Dot so absorbingly as to prevent a good deal of talk between the deals and rubbers. The first game "was nearly over; Steinbausen bad just settled bis card?, .when, raising bis eyes, they fell upon a gentleman in civil attire certainly, but unmistakably a soldier from bis tearing, standing in the doorway opposite. While Steinhausen looked he turned and walked across the room, and the Major perceived that his right coat-J sleeve was empty from below where / Ihe elbow ought to have been. The face?a broad, strong, sensible countenance, with honest-looking torown eyes, c^emed quite familiar to Steinhansen. Another moment's thought, and fte ;water-color portrait which had interested him w) painfully during his short ibut memorable star ?t Villa Bellevue came back distinctly to hie mind's ?ye. Yes, it was the original of that wellrcmembered picture who had just passed; if so, where then was his wife or nancee? * Yon Steinhausen felt as if there had feeen no cessation in his interest and curiosity since he bad spurred hie Jborse in bitter impatience, and with a sense of defeat, away from the sleepy little village of Bergfelder, so vividly did the old feeling spring again into .being at this unexpected rencontre. , His first impulse was to call Burchardt's attention to this one-armed stranger; but he recollected in time that probably his comrade had never .seen or noticed the picture. "Pray, Herr Doctor," he said, turning slightly in his chair, "who is the gentleman who has just passed? I think I know his face." "Which?" said the doctor, throwing down the ace of heart* with a triumphant thump. "Oh, the man that ban lost his arm; there he is, talking to a lady with the Tower of Babel in curls on her head." "Oh, that man! No! I don't know him; he is a stranger; the Burgomeister has a mised gathering to-night. "He must come from a distance; he Is no Bernstadter.:' Von Steinhausen forced himself to l*ive hie ful) attention to the game. Time enough to hunt up the stranger afterward. But though Steinhausen played well amd won the game, hTs fancy teemed [Willi llllttgfS vi uitr jJiioi uuu vujujw <tures of the future. Was lie really to meet the Saxon (heroine, who had charmed him, as the jwife of another? And, if so, ho~7 would she receive liim? Looking bark .after the lapse of a few years, and in the coolness of retrospection, he confessed to himself that the liery impulse he had permitted to master him must ha\e seemed a little 2iUe insanity to the object of her adorajtiOIl. Still his heart beat quickly as he rose from ihe table the winner of nearly a Shaler (stakes were not high in BernKtadt), and looked about for some one to question. The gentleman who bad roused these anemones had disappeared. "Burc-hardt," said Major von Steinfcausen. "I wish you would try to lind out who it, is that is minus his arm. tiicugn a civilian. , "I fancy he is connected "witli our Bergfelder friends." j "Is it possible?" cried Burebardt. twith much animation. '"How! Why ?lo you think soV" "I will tell you after," returned his tfriend. "Come, let us have a look at tbe dancers." He caught a glimpse of himself as be spoke in a long glass, and thought: "My fair foe must have a good memory if she recognises ine," lor the reflection given back was of a tall ligure. considerably thinner, pafer, more ^aunt-looking than of old, with a thick beard covering the lower part of his lace. The ballroom was now ?juite full, and Ihe company therein assembled was whirling and floating to tbe sound of Ihe "Blue Danube" waliss, and for a lew minutes Burebardt and Steinhauscn looked on; then tbe former moved away to apeak to some acquaintance and Von Steinhausen, sunk in deep thought, saw the forms cf the dancers as in r. dream. Suddenly the Burgomeister <iiot.e to him. "They keep it up gayly. Hen Major.'* he said. "I thick we have a good snow of beauty. I wish you eoukl join them.'' "The fairest maiden of them a!S would he pleased to have one of the heroes of Sedan for a cavalier." "That measure is impossible for me. Herr Burfcmeister,"' returned Steiiitiausen, ?;ravely. "But tell me who is ilie gentleman I observed upstairs. a soldierly-looking man, though in ^ivil dress, who has lost an arm?" "Oh! thr.; is a Saxon neighbor c? ours?a relation of my wife's?Eerr Hauptnmnn Gherlng: he i:; here with his wife and sister. I* think, a young lady who is on a visit with them.'? "Indeed." "Yes. both handsome women." 1 , "They are dancing now. There, tnat is Fran Gliering. just pasjing with the Forst-inspector." Two ladies, each with a partner in the green forester's uniform, waltzed round at that moment, and Steinhausen's doubts were at h.st thoroughly set at rest. He would have known the Dlaint. ! or yfdow? it .EXANDER,, "XVY??W if ' rounded figure, the graceful turn of the head, the simpie coiffure, anywhere, j Her dress, too, was almost unchanged. The same description of soft, white muslin, a little more gauzy than what she wore at Bergfelder, only the black ribbons were ^one, and others, of a bright but delicate blue, fluttered in their stead. Von Steinhausen did not think the eight of her would have sent Si* keen a thrill of pleasure and of pain through his heart. So he had found her again, only to find her lost to him! He fixed his eyes upon her unobserved, and studied with intense interest lhe ^xnression of her face. It was more pensive than before? almost sad, but very gentle; and the sweet, clear, truthful eyes, what a yearning depth in their liqnid blue! She had passed, and stood with her partner opposite SteinhauseD. when Hauptmann CJehring came up, and, bending close, whispered some familiarly confidential communication, at which she looked up with a sudden bright smile, and nodded as though they perfectly understood each other. This was more than Steinhausen could stand, and, the tired, musicians ceasing their strains, he followed the dancers, who began to stream into the next room, aDd even into the entrance hall; but his eyes, in spite of himself, still singled out the attractive figure with unspeakable envy. Had he found her free, still to .be won, he would probably have been considerably less moved by her presence. Other motives might have held him hack from grasping what he now so passionately desired. That qc.et, commonplace Haupt mann! on him lie would like to wreak his vengeance. It was he who had robbed him of a possible heaven; for. with the ingenuity common to such a frame of mind, he now decided that Lies had only been "engaged," and reluctantly engaged, when he bad met her more than four years before. If this detestable cousin had not stood in the way, what might not have happened? Steinhausen left out of tae reckoning his ^subsequent occupation, the not unnatural fading of his first impression, and consequent slackness in following up the pursuit; but now? now that she was out of his reach ?he felt ready to break every law l.'Anf Vim* ^Vnm him mat nr|/t uvi n VMJ ?< . In this mood he found himself?by the gradual dispersion of the dancers as they formed fresh engagements, and returned to the large salon?beside a group who were talking gayly in the doorway leading into the dining room. It c-onsi^ted of tbe Burgomeister, resplendant in deep red satin and rich white lace; the detestable Hauptmann Ghering; Lies herself, and another, a rather pretty, dark eyed little woman, in black velvet. They did not at first notice Major von Steiuhausen. till Lies, who was speaking with some animation, and playin.T with her fan. dropped it. Steinbausen restored it to her with a deep bow. which she returned, meeting his eyes fuily. > A startled, eager, questioning expression came into hers, then she looked down, the color rising in her cheek as she twisted the silk cord of her fan nervously round her fingers. Steinbausen. with a thrill of exultation, observed that, although she did not actually recognize him, his likeness to lii? former self movrd her visibly. "Major von Steinbausen," said the Fran Burgoineister. "pray allow me to make Herr Hauptmann Ghering. lrir.pt.'' The gentlemen continued the conversation for ji few minutes, ilie Ilauptruaim expressing his regret ibat the loss of Lis arm at koniggratz had disabled him for further service and eompt-lled him to turn hi? sword into a plowshare. "Still." he addeu. "a fjtiiet home and country pursuits are not hail substitutes for a more stirring life: eh. Lies?"?looking at hoi?a look which she met w'th a bright answering smile and nod. "Far preferable." sh#> said. '"Toil know what I think or war." | "May I he permitted?" said a gray, but sJicL't and active "Obcrf Forster." my cousin, known to you. Fran Ghering?Fraulein Ghering.** continued the portly, radiant dame, with a comprehensive wave of the hand toward boih ladies, jviio court esied at the same moment; but Lies, with a bright .smile and momentarily graceful hesitation, held out her hand. "Then you are indeed the Rittmeister von Steinhausen I knew in my old home." "How Lies?*' asked the husband. "Oh. mein liefoer Otto; Have I not told thee of our Prussian invaders, ajid how rude I was?" "Ja. gewiss! but now wo all fight under one banner. "So! I am honored to make your acquaintance, Herr Major, and iiope you are quite recovered from the effect of your wound. "The Ilerr Doctor has been teliing me you fell in a benevolent effort to save a wounded Saxon officer before Sedan." "You are very good." returned Steinhansen. whoce attention was absorbed hj a thick glance from his former antagonist. glance which >puke an amount, of recognition lor the aid given to a Saxon which did not belp to steady the recipient's pulse. 1 u-.i<. not very suecvssful in my at I coining up at this moment, anu offer- r ing his arm to the little dark-eyed lady, who accepted it and walked away with him. The sound of a well-known waits now came from the salon. "Ah," cried the Hauptmann, "I promised to try this valtz with a Jittie | Backfischchen, who said she did not t mind a one-armed partner.'* So saying, he walked away, and Stein hausen was once more virtually is alone with the object cf his interest. ;,j "A Backfiscuchen," he repeated, fo!- f( lowing the current of his thoughts: ti "and how?where?is your bright little .. t>, sister Clarchen?" n "Clare-hen," said Li^s. "She is married?married three months ago, to a very sole?t. professor' of history at d Leipsic, very mnch older than herself, a and what an ordinary observer would c< think peculiarly unsuited to her; but d they ar.?, and will be. I believe, the fi happiest couple possible." o "And you?" exclaimed Steinhau.sen, fj gazing at her with an indescribable mixture of pain and pleasure. "How has it been with you all these v long years since you j'rned from me C so abruptly that autumn evening in a the salon at Villa ispjievue?- s She sighed and looked down. f "Our life has been somewhat ebei:- v ered." she replied, softly. ti "My ^ dear father's plan for raising water and turning his property into a fruitful land proved a sad, costly foil- li ure." a "We were obliged to leave our sweet <*' home " She stopped abruptly. t< "I know that," said Steinbausee. b "You were all gone when 1 revisited e Bergfelder, and it seemed like looking o on the face of the dead to be there and not find you!" "You revisited Bergfelder^ she ez- a claimed, raising her eyes to bis in much a : surprise. fl "How, when;" a **About eighteen months after ifce tbappy days I spent there," returned i 0 Steinbausen. j b " "~v ? Oiftf T r/i. I I, "juoes at sui/jiisv ,>uu lii.n. *. turned?" !1 "Yes," the said, after a moment's pause. "It does surprise me very much." ^ "Did you think " * "I had soon so much tnat was painfu] S to engross me, that I ceased to antici- 1 pate anything so plensnnt as a visit S from you, Kerr Majcr," interrupted v Lies. * She spoke in a tone of conventional * politeness. 1 "And where do the Hcrr Vater and ^ Lieb Mutter now reside?" resumed Steinhausen. "In Leipsic," she replied, with a slight, unconscious sich. "How they must miss you!" erclainied Steinhausen. a me," repeaieu uu, vuuitiauiuu, "oil, yes! but then "Bitte, rnein Herr, interrupted the Burgomeister. "Bitte, lead this fair lady to supper, the tables are set," and tne worthy man hastened on. ' Permit me," said ; teinhausen, offering his arm. "I did not anticipate so great a pleasure when I carelessly accepted j the g$od doctor's permission to partake c of this festivity; I began to think thai my evil fortune would never again per R mit my eyes to be gladdened by tbf ^ sight of you, and it is a .ioy to meet : you?you must know that." g Lies laughed. t "I am happy to bes.tow pleasure sc g cheaply." "Ay, but to receive it may oe costly/' j said Steinhausen in a low tone. 2 To this she made no reply, and they f entered the principal salon, now. aftei f the German fashion, thickly studded t with little tables, round which merrj t nartips from three to seven, or tven \ ten in number, congregated. Each table "was carried in ready j. ; decked, while tbe busy waiters g glided about laden with diver? } good things?great pike, adorned with artistically sculptured cucumber, and ^ pickled mushrooms swimming in rich , est mayonnaise, on long, slender Meis fi sen dishes; saddles of venison readj e , carved in slices, and cunningly laid c i together; fowls white as sdow, or rich. * ly, deeply, beautifully brown. Salnds t of every description; huge tur s keys served hot with cranberry t sauce; cakes in the endless profusion ^ and variety peculiar to Germany, and c , if the humble "Wum*' of everyday g life obtruded itself among the more T recherche viands, it only completed a the cosmopolitan character of the _ feast. ?To be Continued.) Foil* Bis l.rotlier and (Jets Married. Jacob Sachs and Minnie Wecbsler. both of Newark, N. J., wanted to get married, but Minnie's big brother, Jo- "t ~u *"* <XT,rtVfinnio in fpfll'SJ. ?. M-JJLI, 791IJ1.1 -W. .uiMiiiv, j. planned with Jacob iliat, big brother or no big brother, they would get mar- ? ricd. and in the night, when it was j raining, they slipped out of their home and eloped to New York. t Joseph, the big brother, followed hot a on their trail. He was unromantie ^ enough to look upon the affair as an abduction and not an elopement, and ^ he lold the police how Jacob had carried off his infant sister. With two sleuths Joseph traced the pair and had ^ them arrested. p "Why. iuy sister is only seventeen years old," said Joseph in court. "This v man abducted her. She has no right to choose a husband." 0 "Insane jealousy-;" snapped Minnie. 0 Then she counted Lack to the time ^ *he was born and proved by arithmetic v that she mast be at least twenty-three years old. ,] "And, O. Judge, won't you marry a us." cried the girl. p The judge ould and did. and Minnie n was a bride before she had time to $ realize if ?New York News. tl Some Famous Links. I) General James G. Wi'son has an in- a foresting pair of sleeve buttons. Bene- N diet Arnold gave them to General Washington when the former was in good standing in the continental army. After lie fell from grace Washington r" did not care 10 keep them, so gave a them to General Tarletou. who, in turn, gave them to an American loyalist, who gave them to General Fitz Greene Halleck, and by him they were given E j to General Wilson. w The Austrian warship Kaiserin EliZ' j abet has left Pola for Australia on a gi 1 vovage of scientific research. . .4 ?1 fgtoE /-0|! Nttf ! . Jljlpgc I A feature o!" low street Jifc in Tokio Ube "kuisha." or moxa doctor, who pplies small pads made of dried herbs > the skiu. then netting them alight, ie ensuing blisters being supposed to e most effective as a cure for various j ilments. Baron Hanoko suyt that the well-to- j o Japanese live alwut the sam^ as j .merieans. For breakfast they have j jffee from Ihe Philippines, with eon011 sed milk from Chicago, bread made j rom Minneapolis flour, a paper printed j n pulp from Wisconsin and a cigarette ! om Cairo. I When tlio present Czar was Czare- j itch ho was attacked by a fanatic in i >lsu. .Tapa'j. and two jinrikinba men ssisted in rescuing him from his asailant. They have received a pensipn j rom Russia ever since. This year it ras forwarded to ill em as usual, much j 5 their surprise. The most remarkable photographs of ghtning on record have been made by | Hamburger named Waiter, and are j eprodnced in tb? .Annaien der Physlk. "hoy show that a flash lasting eight ?n thousandths of a second is preceded y at least iivc smaller flashes separatd by four ten thousandths of a secrid. , Tliey havt' a queer way of holding notions in Japan, and these affairs re entirely without noise. The aucinuf.nr mils Tin the object to be sold nd asks for bids on it. Each bidder ben writes his highest price on a bit f paper and deposits it in a box. The ox is opened and the object given to be one who has offered the most., for A man hopelessly, lost in the bush in outh Australia. After Wandering about or four dtiys. came across the tele raph line between Adelaide and Port Jarwin. He Lad not the strength lo ^/further, but managed to break the '/ire. He then made himself as comortable as possible and waited. The elegraph repairers were sent along he line, and ihe.v cam? to the wan-1 ler^r in time lo save his life. HOW A LIONESS "GOES BAD." >errett. I)rnrU or Sober, Could Tell When It Would Happen. Drunk or sober, Sterrett knew things .bout animals that all my years of ex omi cin.iv -nf-vpr inimlif: me t "wasn't that lie got on better wilt hem tl an most, for his own lions hat d lull), whirl) is unusual. But ho hat? ome method o' interpreting their sign? hat was beyond me. When the Tigei iVincess was going to give up one oJ ier old performers because he was get ing sulky and peevish, Sterrett 'ookeo ver the troupe and said: "That one is all right, but the orn iver in the corner will bear watching.' "Why, the man talks like a fool,' | aid the Frincess. "That's ZuJka. .She'? he best actor I've got." Sterrett laughed. "Train an under tudy," he advised. "I'll give Zmkf hree wee^cs to retire from the stage She's going bad." Zuika was a very beautiful younj | ioness; one of the best trick beast? j 've ever known, and one of the verj ew that seemed to have a genuiu* tffection for the trainer. As a rule he felines don't exhibit the softer emo ions. They feel for man either indif ercnce or distaste. But this liones; ised to show digits of pleasure wiiei ier mistress entered the cagc. and I'v? een her put her muzzle up against th? tars to fawn on the (jueen. Two weeks after Sterrett \s advice o which we paid little heed (that waf vhen I knew less about him than !j ubsequently learned). I saw the lion j :ss caressing the woman at the ?;Jos? if the performance. As the Tige) ^ incess entered the cage the next day here was a snarl and a scream, a no he was done. Zulka had her. For unately some of us were near. W? >eat the annuals off?of com1.so, som* if the other boasts liacl 1o pitch on. eeing their tyrant down?and pot tht voman out with r.o worse injury tbar forolcea arm and a badly clawed back j -MeCl ure's. I Tlie Cli.vmjplon Borrower. "If you want an instance cf borrow ng carried to the limit," said the man o whom glasses are a nccessily, "just et me tell you what happened to me , o-day. 1 caino homo in a surface car J Jeside me sat a man evidently about j ay own age. 1 didn't pay much after.- ] ion to him during the first part of the j rip, for I bad a paper and was intersted' iu that. lint by and Uy I sot j iivd of reading and tucked the paper J way in my po-'-ket. T^en the man I poke. .. " 'Are you through with your paper?' | e asked. " 'For the present,' I said, 'hut I wi!J j ead it again when I get homo. Howver, if you would like to borrow it a bile I don't mind lending it.' " 'Oh. no/ said the man, *1 don't want j our paper. 1 have three of my own."no trouble is I can't read them. I ! an't see. I left my glasses at the itice. 1 thought maybe yours might nit. If you're not ,"oi? g to use them ,-ould you mind letting me try V "The very r.udacltv ol' the request ?- -w. e ..../ ..,?i ! eprivtm wi' vi iue j>u\ver *jl ivju-.u. i lid what <li<l 1 do but take oft' tbe.se I ivcions glas&e$ that not a soul but | lyself had bfen allowed to iiaudlc* i ince the day 1 bought them, and sit [ iieiv staring blankly and sightlessly I iirough the window, while my neigh- j or cocked the glasses astride his nose j nu ciiiin:v ri-uu uie cvem::*; ? , 'ew York Tress. GreiU Kcl!ef. As the pedestrian passed ^lie desert.1 lot seven masked ruen sprnnir out nd began to pummel him unmereinlly. "Help! Help!*' shouted the pedes !a?. "What .-'.re you trying to do to le?" j "Rob you!" rotor ted the leader of tlie j 'ieked gang. "Thank heaven! I-thought you were J sing to give me a eolleue initiation." j Chicago News. j *- . _ A THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. /js> Toem: A Jtefnso For the Tempted?How It Became Unfashionable to Serve Wine In Fashionable Society During tbe Hajen Adininlatr&tion. When temptations fierce assail, And 1 tremble on the blink; When my will can not avail 'Gainst the craving for the drink? "Jems, lover of mv soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly: While the nearer watere roll. While tbe tempest still is high." When the foe6 beset me t?ore, And I can no longer stand Gainst the drink shop's open door That I see 011 every hand? "Other refuge have I none, Hang? my helpless soul on Thee; Leave, ah, leave me not alone, .Still support and comfort me." When I know that Thou art near That Thou wilt not let me sink, I shall have no cause to fear, Thou wilt break the chains of drills? "All my trust on Thee is laid, I All my help from Thee I bring, Cover inr defenceless head With the shadow of Thy wing." ?National Advocat;. j ___ Temp^raTice Work For Girlv* J. CHolland wrote in Mrs. Hayes' alI bum these words: "Women only can make wine drinking unfashionable and heal the I nation of this curse?' j What did Dr. Holland mean by "women j only?" Is it true that only women can ! make wine drinking unfashionable and heal I thi?= nation of this curse? You and I need j to knoiv this first, because if only we wornj tn can do this thing why it i6 an awful re! f ponnibility unon us, each one oi us. And : ii somebody else can do it, we, like all other". would like to give that somebody else the job. Some years ago, at Washington, { Mrs. Hayes became mistress at the White | House, and it was for her, and no one else, to say what the social atmosphere ehoula be which surrounded her guests, and how they should be entertained at ner home. Well, she did an ucLeard of thing. She banished wine from nil her entertainments, with just one exception. Secretary Evarts made a fuss. He was mortified. He could not endure to have Lord and Lady EcgI liflh. ' Count and Countess French and | Baron and Baroness German come to tne White House dinners and have jioihing tit I for them to drink?not a orop of poison, j Jt was too utterly queer. So Mrs. Hayes madp one exception in favor of these foreign highnesses and allowed wiiie upon her table in their presence. But only for once. Her conscience?high-souled woman that she was?smote her for that one little cowardly compromise with wrong. She could better enaure to have Secretary Evarts and the Smiths ashamed of her than to be ashamed of herself. So she nuietly and forever prohibited wine from her table and cheerfully endured the lifted eyebrows and shrugged shoulders of the diplomats, Brit! i?h, French, Russian and all. and the short| lived hiss of "fashionable" society until ; that hiss turned into a cheer, and fashion* f able society turned round, like the spaniel j it is, and trotted on behind its mistress. It j became unfashionable to 6erve wine and to | offer wine in fashionable society while MrB. | Hayes was in the White House. I What Mrs. Hayes did in the White j House every* girl can do in her own home | if will.?Rose Elizabeth Cleveland, in the Xational Advocate. 1 I One Glaus Too Murh. The D;ike of J^rleans was tlie eldest son j ox King Louis J'ftUippe. ana me lnneruci of whatever rights hie father could trans! Jiyt. He was physically noble. His gener, ous qualities made him universally popular. | One morning he invited a few of his com! panions to breakfast, as he was about to j depart from Paris to join his regiment. ! In the conviviality of the hour he drank a j little too much wine. He was not in any j respect a dissipated man. But in that jovous hour he drink n:6t or.e glass too much, j and slightly lost tlie balance of his body | and mind. Bidding adieu to his companj ions he entered the carriage, and presently I alighting at his destination leapt .from it I and lost his balance. His head struck the | pavement. Senseless and bleeding he was | t arried into a beer-house close by and died. Thai extra glass of wine overthrew the Or| leans dynasty and sent the whole family | into esiJe. | A Dar.^erono Poison. A f'is'-ussion has t?.ken place at the ; Atademie de Medicine. Paris, as to the j poisonous qualities of absinthe, compounded as it is of essence of wormwood, com! bined with' that of aniseed, peppermint and other aromaties mixed with alcohol. M. Laborde conclusively showed that the j essence of wormwood if, in itself, a dangerous poison, producing epilepsy or allied effects. The absinthe drinker not only h?s to contend. therefore, with the poisonoux { ifeets of alcohol, but also with those of the wormwood. Jelling; the A?ylurr?n. n.- -n IT Ton,] Tommis lJ.". JO. 11. ?vanv?/, ..... - sioner of Pennsylvania, in en interview recently wiid: "Most of the < heap wliieky sold in Pennsylvania, I have discovered by analysis, is manufactured from wood alcohol and red or India pepper, the latter element giving the deadly dose the desired Vnap.' Ninety-five per cent, of the samples en far examined have shown the presence 01 wood alcohol in poisonous quantities along with the pepper.*' "No wonder/' continued the doctor, "that our asy h.jis are full.*' Deadly Ab?inth?. j Statistic* show a steadily continuing increase in the consumption of absinthe in I France. Bet-.veen 1885 and 1892 there was j- nn increase of 8.5,000 hectoliter*. From .1892 j only four years more were needed to add I another 85.000 liters to the consumption. | A recent -experiment demonstrated that ! sis, drops of essence of absinthe in three of water were as deadly to fish life | as six drops *o? prussic acid in the same | "iMittily .*:! water.?London Globe Alcohol and the Stomach. The a'.'J.ion oi alcohol on the stomach ia rhysxlogicsl. and well understood; if in ! large dose#:, muscular contractibility is arrested, flaccidity and di.'ation result. Digestion js interfered with: the food is passed on partially digested, and nndersr<puMefactixc decomposition. Sensation ] ii blunted and satiety is lost. The Crusade i.? Brief. To allow men crazed or stnpefif-1 by liqcot to convert automobiles luto ears of juggernaut is intolerable. The Woman's Christian Temptrar.ce Union members said they would use Government reports to prove that officers drink'es<?e??.*ve-ly at Governor? island posts. Selling liquor to one who is operating or about f.o operate an automobile should be severely regulated. Those road engine* are terrible enough \u the most s'uil'JV.i hand?. Siii.-c November 23. 1902. nhen the National Temperance Sonet; instiluted the "World-wide Pledge-signing Crusade.' nearly -1,000.000 cl' teniperjnee pledges have been sent out. A drunken man's horse is a pitiable object. which ought to run <i\vay. hut is generally too weary to do anything but accept abuse ::i shrinking patience. An automobile. or. the other hand, know* no wearinos?. Id a drunken hands it may bo as dangerous as dynamite. As a result of the combined forces c? temperance workers in our country .SO.OOO,t,f)0 ol' our citizens are living under prohibition. cither in State prohibitory laws or local option laws. The manufactories? in Germany are working in the cause of temperance^- reformers * 1 ?* 1 _ sor business reasons? nnvin.' io:i;iu ?i man who drinks beer is less valuable than one who uoes not. Woe to the liquor po-.rer "tint rer-fctessly destroys 300,000 American lives every year! For the saving of life among our people the downfall of the man-destroying saloon is the supreme issue of to-day. The average saioon is an evil place. There is no doubt about that. It takes the bread out of the mouths of many wives and children, and compels them to Jive under conditions unfit for human beinsw. t&Bfcfi J'VoXvCrt. .w . .1 iXuLbi! - ft THE SUNDAY SCHOOL! m f I 'NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS ! FOR FEBRUARY 26. Subject: The Miracle of the Loaves and j Fiethes, John vt., 1-14?Golden Text> John vi., 61?Memory Verses, 11, 12- j Commentary on the Day's Lesion. I. The gathering multitude (vs. 1-4). 1. "After these things." The events of the j second year, but particularly the report o? | the twelve, the murder of Johi!, and the | report that Herod wa3 inquiring for hiru. . The twelve apostles who had been sent out I over Galilee were preaching and heaiing J the sick, when, suddenly, like a flash from j a far distant eload, came the news that | John the Baptist nad been beheaded by Herod Antipas in Macherus castle. The disciples hastened to Jesus, probably at Capernaum, as chickens hasten to their mother when the hawk, hovers near. "Over the sea." From Capernaum, where the apostles met Jesus on their return, by boat, privately, to escape the crowds (Mark 6:31, 32). They all retired across the sea of Galilee to the lonely plain at the j foot of the hills near Bethsaida, just outside of the dominions of Herod Antipas. They needed thin retirement (1) for physi- , ml re?t. (21 for instruction. (3) for com- I munion v ' God. 2. "Multitude iob- I lowed." The -" ?le came from all directions. for at . . time the western and i northern shores were populous with cities I : and villages. The preaching of the apostles J had stirred the whole country. I 3.- "A mountain." The high, ground j ! near Bethsaida, which ibere closely ap- : ; proac'nes the lake. "Sat with His disci- | | pies." Read Mark 6:30-32. Here thev | could rest and report. 4. "The p&ssover.' > But because of the reason mentioned in | chapter 7: J Jesus did not attend. This was His third Passover, a year before His death. "Feast of the Jews." This was stated n for the benefit of John's Gsntile readers. Tins gospel was written in Asia Minor, among Roman custom?. "Was nigh." The fact that tbe Passover was nigh at hand, so that many must have been starting on their journey to Jerusalem j around the lake and through Perea, partly j accounts for the concourse of such multi- j tudes. ! II. Jesus confers with His disciples (vs. j 5-9). 5. "Lifted up His eyes." This was | in the afternoon, toward evening, "when I the day began to wear away" (Luke 9:12)i I 'Die .Tpwn two evenines: the first be I gan at 3 o'clock, the second at 6 o'clock, j "A great .company." He was moved with j compassiojv.and walked among the people, j teaching them many things and n?abng i ' their sick.; His disciples called His atten- j I tion to tl?e, fact that this was a desert | place, and as,the multitude had been there | since morning, it was time to dismiss the ! I congregation so the people could go and ! buv victuals, lest they faint by the way i (Matt. 14:14, 15)'. "He saith unto Philip." : He was probably the provider for the disci) pies, as Judas was the treasurer. "Whence are we to buy bread" (R. V.) Christ had j fed their souls and healed their bodies, and now He proposes to feed their bodies, : and thus show that He is able to provide , for all their necessities. 6. "To prove-' . Him.", Philip had known Jesus for more than two years, and it wa6 time that he, ; and the re?>t of the apostles, should begin to have wide conceptions of Christ's ability. "Knew what he would do." Christ proposed the question to test Philip's faith, i 7. "Philip answered." Our Lord saw | that His apostles needed lessons in faith, ! and this miracle was as much for their benefit as for the benefit of the hungry multitude. "Two hundred pennyworth.' The penny was a silver coin and was worth about sixteen cents. Tiffe value of the bread necessary would be. therefore, about I $32. Jesus said, "Give ye them to eat" j (Luke); the apostles then asked in dis- I ' ?1 - - ?a in/1 Vnitr + Vlic orronf I j JI1<J V , Ollttil nx fcv/ auu i/uj %M*0 !) >*.? I amount of bread? Jesus asked how much they had (Mark), and Andrew said, Five j'loaves and two small fishes. 9. "A lad here." The multitude bad not ' thought of their temporal necessities, so | anxious were they to see and hear Jesus, j and this lad, ''who had chdrge of the pro! visions of the company to which he be- j ; longed." had all that could be found, i ] "Loaves?fishes." The loaves were round, ; flat cakes like large crackers. Barky was ! j their poorest food. The fish were small, ! ; dried or pickled, and i'ere eaten .with j j bread, like our sardines. I III." The multnude fed (vs. 10, 11). 10. ! '"Make the men sit." In orderly ranks for ! the convenient distribution of the food. | Mark savs they sat by hundreds-, and | fifties. The men alone were arranged' in j companies and numbered, while the wornj en and children were served separately, as : Oriental custom required. "Much grass." The grass was ready for mowing at this time of the year. "About five thousand." j Besides women and children (Matt. 14:21). | There must have been 10,000 persons to ; feed. Jesus had arranged them bo they could easily be counted. 1 11. "Jegus took the loave^." Thus acting like the master of a family among tie j Jew*, who took tiie bread into his hands | 1 j to give thauks to God before an? at the j ! table were permitted to eat. Jesus had j j | one loaf for a thousand men, besh'^s the j i women, and children. We may have but i | little, but if we will give the little we have ! | to Jesus He will multiply it a thousand- I 1 ; fold and pass it back to us, and grant us i ' the privilege of passing it out to the starv- j ' ; ing, sin-burdened multitudes. ''Given | '' j thanks'.'" Jesus thus sets us an example; j j ' we should never eat without first thank- j u,0 i i ll)? UOQ lor oar iuuu, anu ?U1U( Jiiio j 1 : blessing upon it. "Distributed to the dis- j <iples." There has been much discussion j aa to just how the miracle was performed, j There is no doubt but that the food multi- I I plied all along the line. Jesus handed out ! ; to His disciples; it increased in their j . i hands as they .Sanded out to the multitude, j ' t r.nd as it was passed from qne to another | ' i the bread and li*h continued to swell in ] ( j their hands until they all had enough and | J to spare. IV. The fragments gathered up (vs. 12. 1 i 13). 12. "When?tilled." Here is or.e ' j miiaole of our Lord attested by at least ] j 500U, (probably 10,000) persons. No one ' | need ever leave Christ's table hungry. He J I is able to satisfy every demand of soul and 1 ! body. He i* the- bread of life. Whether ' we demand "little or touch" it is ar. Vasy j matter for Christ to fill us. There is a j fulness in His mercy and love that only t ) those who eat fan understand. "'Frag- f i ments." "The broken pieces which remain j 1 j over."' R. V. "That nothing be lost." . The design is to bring out the predousness | ? j of the food which Jesus had given. 13. 1 | "Twelve basket*." The word translated { ( "baskets" mean* poekets or wallets. c ' 1' -l * :rrinnw nirfln IV 1J1 14 I 1 i those men." "I'he people." R. V. r ! "The mirarle.-' About which there could j be riO doubt. "Truth." Aa expression >le* noting eertai;:tv, "That prophet." All who had seen in is wonderful miracle were t fj> profoundiy impressed with it that they ) f-vd tnere ran be no doubt but this is the e Messiah?the Prophet that should come e iji'.y the world. according to the prediction, ri Mruloal WatcTi Letrajn Thief. A Bordeaux jeweier has added to the ! gayety of Pari?iank. He met "a urettv v woman on the boulevard, later dincil with a her, after which he missed his watch and o I his companion. The watch had a most t costly music-box attachment. The jeweler I j was in the act of complaining to a nolice; man in the street about the ineft. He ad- y I milled he couldn't describe his companion | except in a hazy way. when suddenly he j heard an air from "La Traviata" as a girl j passed. "There's my watch now!" lie j cried. The girl was arrested and the waxtu was lounu in ner i A Trcliisiorlc T.inn. A preiii^tori. town ha# been diwcvercd 011 the l^luiicl oi Crete, in th? Mcditerraj ciean. Jt has been almost entirely exea! vated. The town is situated in the neigh* ' j horhood of Itu-so!akkos. an?1 seems to be f j oi the period of Kama re?. A large nuni' bev of well-preserved streets, bathrooms, > i ruins of building* and a good deal uf kcra- d i mic utensils, flower pot?, figures and P statues of men and women luivt beea a i found. ' n a Nine Buried in One Coffin. C I Tlie nine victims oi the recent Morris & i Run (Pa.) tire were buried alter funeral tj services had been held at the Polish ti Church. There was but one oofSn. as ii eight of the bodies iyere almost wholly tl i consumed. ? o< I I 4 The Heme of the Bleat. Around about me is a world, A world I cannot seeIts boundaries are infinite, Its breadths encompass me. >"'V The wonders of this blessed land Where joys eternal dwoj, Are too exalted for the words Of mortal man to tell. Mansions that glisten inthe sun. Which lights fchpt country fair, Are homes of cur beloved ones Who ne w are sheltered there. t Xo hate, nor fear, nor anger there4 No selfishness, nor greed, The only law they know is love; Sufficient for their need. The air so pure is undefiled By erring mortals' breath: ?- 1 J -liJ ttlJgei ^UOiUS tuc lavj 0 . And mortals call him Death. I do not fear the sentinel, I know my Lord is King. Oh. grave, where is thy victory * Oh, death, where is thv sting? ' ?Frank Beard, in the KamYHorn.' The Victories of the M?ek. Blessed are the meek for they shall ii lierit the earth.?Matt, v., 5. When these words were spoken by tl Son of Man?who had not where .to la His head?Imperial Caesar had but to nc to be obeyed by a hundred millions of pe pie. Behind Caesar were the prou4 legion and all the "boast of heraldry and pone of power" that went along with tbei while behind the Son of Man there wj nothing but the simple truth which 1 honed mi^ht. borne time or other, make ' all "free." Caesar and his legions and paqdecte ai palaces are a faded memory, a part of tl archaeology of things, but the Galilean stronger to-day than He was when, 20 years ago He uttered that word about ti meek. Steadily since that date the Man of lo and gentleness .and truths,has been gxo ing, while the man of powey,1 the man wi the legions back of him, ha^been dwii ling. mb The empire of arms, the'dominion M brute force, is 6lowly but sorely retrognH ing, while the kingdom of reason, of ioH and of quiet truth has been pushing to tH front. When 'Jesus announced His truth meekness it sounded very strange. It a time of storm and stress, of blood iron, of organized violence and robbe^B and in the midst of such condition of U fairs what show was there for such as w^H "meek," for such as were modest, gen^H unassuming? But Jesus knew what He was about. was talking, not wildly, but. rationally a^H well, and the urenty centuries that elapsed since He threw His,beatitude i^H the world only seem to show how well knew what He was ^Baying. Brute force and violence are but pret^B inary. When the man comes in to t^H the place of the beast for J?rute force have reason and for violence love. H The history. of'the process we call ci^H zalion is the history of the slow, steady advance'of the spiritual upon animal, the elimination of the anima), enthronement of the spiritual. Even when the most noise is being maH| when the armies are thundering and B trumpets are clanging, it will b^ found t^H it is the quiet genius of .the few thinl^l behind it all that is doing the business. Mil Power, when all is said,1 is subjecti^H not objection: a thing of the brain heart and soul, rather than of the mig^H enginery ~ panoplied with its iasignia^Mj material might. 9 This ie the greatest and grandest gen^H tion simply because it is the. fullest of of gentleness and of "sweet reasonaM| ness," jfl The old idea of the conquerer^'Vac^H through slaughter to a throne" and foifl ing his "dynasty" on the Wreck and of pillions of human lives?is fast mal^H w&y for another ides?that of the one ronouers bv good will, by the force^H truth, by the silent omnipotence of pri^H pie. . And so it has steadily gone on from^H beginning right down to tbe present. tHH the "meek"?the kind, the rational, just?have been getting more and mor^H a footing on the earth, and a-larger el^H in its true possessions. The old-time "struggle for life" still JH| on, it is true, and in. the struggle it is MS the fittest that survives, but the fittes^fH to-day is a finer thing than was the Df the long ago. There has been a great moral adva^H and the cockles of men's hearts to-day^^H warmed by the great spiritual ic^^H which Caesar never dreamt of ant^^H which the Alexanders and Dariuses n^B| snce heard. KH| The "giants 01 the Prince that tare nther in their shrine" are long since d^Hfl md the physical force that once lord^HH sver the world is beginning to be sub^^D nated to the force of mind and chan^^H tvhich wins its battles not by blows blood, but by the silent influence o^^H iwn superior excellence.?Thomas B. < jry, in the Xew York American. God'a Peace. See, then, bow faithfully the Lor^^H eadinij thee to true peace, who surrc^HH ;th thee with ko many crosses. ?alied "the peace of God which passet^^H mderstanding:" that is. which isH^H cnown by feeling or perception or t^^B| ng. All our thinking cannot attain^HC jndcrotaud it: none but those who vill take up the (msn laid on them? ried and troubled in all they fee^^^H hink and understand, afterward ej^^H ence this pps.ee.?Luther. The HdhIc of the Heart. Piety is. a much abused wcrd. but^^^Q here is a true piety as distinguishedH^M al&e piety is cWriy shown by the^^Hfi Jr. Cuyler in tlie words that foildw: "True piety is the harmony of the^^H vjt.h Gog. His will becomes the w^^^J ii? loving and obedient child, and Christian finds his haopiness in the )f Jiis own desires with what God bid^^MH o do. This is the fountain of all g^sflHj QUsic of the heart.*' Bj^H The Uiplit Kln?l of Prayer. Do not pray for rrsu'.t?. Prav for i^^Hj o achieve Uiem; not for ease, but lealthy spirit that rejoices in activit^^^H r.cray that makes mountain climbii^H^| x)ii!arauon rather than ffiat the pa^HH nr.de smooth.?Rev. Jesse K. Brenua^m Way of the Croi*. Mflfl Co whure th<?u wilt, seek what.-ovei^^^M i-ilt, t!i:u sha!t not lind a hi^ltei^H^I hove, nor a nat'cr way below than r the holy tro.'*.--Thomas a A I'our Snccess. Tlierf j? no success in all iiici* is so to be dreaded as the f getting away from God's purpc.s: -Robert E. Spear. >."eeil Not Hope. The man who is afraid of burning pick need no: Dope to brighten -Scottish Reformer. A Matter of Deeji Concern. Perhaps it is already, but if uut o be. a matter of deep concern ither Pov.-rrs as to whether they ug u?ed unconsciously as* allies bi 11 iioiding <.ft the force which [read* almost an raur-h as she <3rca^^^H nn. Russian statesmen, dome oc^HH^R re nhno?t frantic lest China i. What il keeping China out of it^^^^K van the detent of Japan, her ove^^^^H s an Asiatic maritime power aHH omplete ascendancy and triumph ia, her predominance in China ? ration and the advent of a new s^H^H he Pacific, Russia rules the wave ir can the other Powers congr^HMa hemselves?? Rev. William Asbn: delphia, I>