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i J\ POIN I r 3 BY ^ ^ ANNIE ] *j EDWARDS. CHAPTER I. 1 PJhhl HE was a woman or nearly thirty when I first saw her; J I a woman spiritless ana LM?1 worn boyoiul her years; with sorrowful eyes deepsunken; a complexion white with the very whiteness of death itself; and her hair already lusterless and thin, although of that blonde-auburn color, when all other charms of youth are faded or which, in most women, survives unchanged, dead. Yes; this was Jane Grand, as I first saw her dressed in deepest black, and walking wearily along the weary village street of Chesterford St. Mary'. But when Gifford Mohun first saw her she was in the pride and fulness of her youth; a soft-faced girl of twenty, standing beneatii the shade of broadJeaved forest trees, and with the glow of a June sunset lighting up her lips and eyes and hair with radiant gold. Gifford was the last of a long line of country gentlemen who had borne the name of Mohun, and inherited the oaks under whose shade he fell in love with Miss Grand. Few people, perhaps, are disposed to be cynical in the case of a young and handsome lad, heir to such an estate as awaited Mohun. Whether his nature was a noble'one or the reverse, Jane Grand's story will show forth. It is certain that during the two or three terms which Mr. Mohun kept (in boating, hunting and running prodigiously into debt) at Cambridge, he had just as many friends and imitators as he Jiked to reckon; and also that, when the day arrived for him to take possession of Yatton, there was scarce a dissentient opinion in the country as to the upright, generous and openliearted country gentleman which the new Mohun of Yatton promised to become. "Not a model hero, I hope!" was Jane Grand's remark, after she had been long demurely listening to the joy-bells that were ringing in honor of Gifford's birthday. "I shall never take the slightest interest in young Mohun if he la such perfection as every one seems determined to make out. Model young gentlemen are quite beyond my powers of admiration." "My dear Jane!" cried Miss Lynch, raising her hands ?knitting and allin the mildly deprecatory gesture with which for fourteen years she had been accustomed to receive the faintest departure from commonplace on the part of her pupil. "My dearest Jane, (i what a very extraordinary remark! As if any one?and above all any young man?could be perfect! I am sure it quite made my eyes fill last Sunday when Mr. Follett alluded, so beautifully, to the young heir, and all that the parish might hope and expect from his return!" "Please don't expect me to join, dear auntie," said Miss Grand. "I think I could cry a little over the return of a wrr**?TT nrA/15?ol CAM in/lfiO/l* hllf tllA OV. iTCi J j;i vuifjiii oviij inuv vu, i/u(, ?.*-w v? cellencies of the heir of Yattoa are quite too superhuman to allow of such foolishness as tears. Dry your eyes, good old lady, and put up your work, and come away with me to Yatton woods, instead of weeping any longer over the virtues of their possessor. We shall find it deliciously cool when we are once away up the hill, and the bells won't sound so unpleasantly exuberant out among the trees as they do at tiome." "And the school-feast, Jane? I promised Mr. Follett most particularly that we would not bo later than G?" "Auntie, 1 don't like school feasts. The schoolroom is always so close, and there is a combined odor of heavy buns, and hot weak tea, and brown - sugar, that makes mo famt. But you shall go. You dote on the -whole thing ?heavy buns, and Mr. Follett, and weak tea, and unexceptionable heirs, and all. Yes, you shall go and- improve your mind listening to the speeches, and I'll follow my own evil inclinations and get as far from the sound of tJbe church bells as I can. You needn't be afraid if I am not home when you are. There won't be a creature but myself in all Yatton woods to-night, and, very likely, I shall go up as far as Haldon to seo the sunset." It was Miss Lynch's custom to deiutu at Jane's lonely evening walks among the woods of Yatton; byt she only opposed a faint and conventional show of resistance on the present occasion. The noise, and heat, and windy speeches, and general fussiness and gossiping incident to all public rejoicings of the kind, were just as congenial elements to Miss Lynch's nature as they were repulsive and wearisome ones to Jane's. ^ "I can't turn you, my dear child," she remarked to Jane, as they departed balf an hour later on their different ways to the garden gate; "but I must suy I think it a dreadful pity you should miss such a delightful, such an improving occasion as this. Mr. Follett will speak, and Mr. Tennant will speak " "And Mrs. Tennant will speak," interrupted Jane, laughing, "and the Miss Tennants will smile, and look bashful, and you will all of you try to win the approval of the model heir, and flatter him, and admire him. and smile upon him to his heart's content. No one will miss me. auntie?and. in deed, I should be fearfully out of my I element in such an assembly," added the girl, more seriously. "If only Mr. Follett and good old Miss Brown were 1o be there I would go?for you know I really don't mind the smell of weak lea *nd brown sugar a bit; but a dozen or so of onr grand eounty people surrounding Mr. Gifford Mohun and making pretty speeches to him, in a very email room, is a scene in which poor Jane Grand would be completely out of place. Mind you don't lose your own heart, auntie," she cried out mer ? OR., * \ FOR HER fe FATHER'S \ IT \ SIN. \ iJt I n \f I HONOR;\ | jOTrwwTrwTfinrtrwKrwK rily after poor Miss Lynch, who, slowly making her way along the dusty village causeway, did not, certainly, look in much peril of such a catastrophe. "There has been something very suspicious about your manner for some days past, and I don't intend that Mr. Follett shall be cut out by any model young gentleman living." And then, with a gay nod of her head, Miss Grand turned into the narrow J shaded path which led from ner own garden to Yatton woods, and resolved to tronble herself no more with thoughts of village rejoicings or excellent young heirs that evening. But the reader must not suppose, in | spite of all her heterodox views conj cerning Gilford Mohun's goodness, that Jane Grand herself was fast. Fast young ladies were not as plentiful anywhere, twelve or fifteen years ago, as they are now; and poor Jane had never experienced any higher-flavored excitements than a very mild picnic or a village tea party during her twenty years of life. But, somehow, the very best and quietest women do not always affect the" best and quietest men. In her girlish days?I mean when she was fifteen or sixteen years of age?Jane had made rather a hero of Gifford Mohun to her own heart; counting the. weeks till the lad should return home for his holidays; blushing intensely when his handsome, sunburnt face first confronted hers from the Mohun pew in church; and, on one or two occasions, greatly cherishing some copies of bad verses that reached her upon Valentine's Day, and -which, from strong internal evidence (in other words, bad spelling and an outrageously schooboy hand), she felt could have come from no other pen than that of the young squire. She had long ago got over the folly of her childish fancies; indeed, during the last three years she had scarcely seen Gifford Mohun's face, one or two days being the utmost of his college vacations that he had ever spent at Yatton. One thing is certain?she would not like Mr. Mohun in his present remodeled condition; neither, in all probability, would he like her. What need was there for her to continue troubling herself about him or any other disagreeable thought while she had this cool woodland freshness round her, and tne prospect of sitting undisturbed with her book upon the moor during the whole remainder of this delicious summer evening? No doubt, at this very moment, Gifford was being smiled at, well content, by the Miss Tennants and half a dozen more grand county ladies. Aggie was just the sort of a girl for a man to fall in love with at first sight, and Mr. Tennant's guineas would help to give new luster to the rising fortune of the Mohuns of Yatton. Yes, there could be scarcely a doubt about it. Gifford would fall in love with one of the Miss Tennants?in all probablity would be married to her before another six months were over?and she, Jane Grand, and Miss Lynch would be duly patronized by the bride as "the poor people who live in the nice little cottage just outside our gates!". And, considering that she was so thoroughly indifferent to Gifford Mohun and all belonging to him, Miss Grand's bright face certainly clouded ratiier unnecessarily as she walked along. CHAPTER II. I have said that when Gifford Mohun first sawx Jane Grand Lor face was radiant witli the richest beauty of her youth, and lit up by the tender glory of a setting summer sun. I ought rather to have said that Jane Grand thus appeared to Gifford on the first occasion when lie ever looked upon her with the discerning eyes of the spirit; for, of course, he had seen lier hundreds of times before, and during many years past, with the common and uninspired eyes of the flesh. "Miss Grand, may I hope that you have not forgotten me?" Jane started guiltily, and blushed up to the roots of her hair. "Mr. Moliun, I never saw you?indeed I never thought any one was here but myself. I?I?" And then she broke down. , Gifford thought, first how wonderfully beautiful her blushes looked, shining through those clear cheeks and temples; secondly, that it was beyond all ilouht her nleasure at seeins him that had called them forth. "But you don't shako hands with mo, Miss Grand. You used always to shake hands with me when you were a little girl." She gave him her hand, her warm, ungloved hand, and looked up full into his eyes. "I am glad you remembered our old days. I thought you would be so grand and changed you would not care to speak of them now." "Grand, because I am twenty-one?" "And master of Yatton " "And your next-door neighbor," said Gifford, quickly. "We shall live from henceforth within half a mile of each other. Miss Grand, I hope we shall be good friends." "I Lope so, Mr. Mohun," said Jane, demurely. "You used to be so awfully taken up with your studies and your cottage visiting that there was 110 chance of seeing you except at church; and then, you know, you never by any chance took your eyes from your prayer book. Are you as deeply engaged now? Does the old woman with wonderful bonnets and indomitable rectitude of principle hold you in bondage yet?" "You mean Miss Lynch, my dear good auntie, as I call her still, although she is really no relation to ine. Yes, auntie lives with me always, but as my friend, my kindest friend and companion, not my governess I am past twenty now. I have done with lessons and with bondage long ago." "And spend your whole tiiue. instead of part of it, in aiding and abetting Mr. P'ollett, as you used to do?" "And spend my whole time," said Jane, with her .shy smile, "as selfishly and uselessly as any human being liv- J ing." | "Impossible!" "But I can assure you of it, Mr. Mohun. I am not near as industrious or praiseworthy in any way as I was at i fifteen. The fact is, I Lave really noth- ? ing whatever to do. I don't visit much. ^ Mr. Follett and Miss Brown and everybody else enre a great deal more for v Miss Lynch's conversation than they do t for mine; and as to. duty, I dare say I >' should like It very much indeed if it o happened to come in my way, but, un fortunately, it never does, aud so I am o idle." "What a dreadful condition of life!" "To a well-regulated mind, 110 doubt; but I am sorry to say I am perfectly contented, and never find any of my days long enough. If every hour of them -was filled with some appropriate duty?as all the hooks on educaiion say they ought to be?I am quit/? nure I should not be happier than I am in my idleness." "I am glad anyway that your idleness brings you here," said Gifford; and as he spoke he threw away his halfsmoked cigar and most unmistakably prepared himself to walk by Jane's side. "I hope you?and?Miss Lynch? ofen come here in the summer evenings, Miss Grand?" "I come here about five evenings a week, Mr. Mohun. My favorite walk? indeed I think the only very pretty walk we possess?is through the woods to Haldon. I am going there now." e "Would you mind my going, too?" p "Oh, thank you! I should be very r * * * - - * " 1 I __ giaa maeea:" uui sue i-uiuicu >uj r forcibly again. "I am only surprised T at your being here, not in the village, r on sucli an evening as this." . j( And then Gifford, with a j?ood deal of warmth, entered upon all he had gone i through since that morning in the way T of speech-making and congratulations; s and how thankful he had been, at last, to steal away by himself into the ^ woods ("little thinking whom I should a find here, Miss Grand!"); and Miss ^ Grand, her shyness gradually leaving j her, confessed that she, too, had ^ stolen away, because public festivities j oppressed her?especially festivities at r which everybody felt called upon to j make rapturous speeches about the vir- ^ tues of somebody else?and then they ^ began to laugh together over little rvhiMish ipsts of former davs; and Gif- t ford asked her, gravely, if she ever got valentines now? And, if she did, he hoped the spelling in them was better than in some that he remembered writing when he was sixteen; and, final- f ly, by the time they reached the moor, j both -had thoroughly and forever over- t come the constraint of their meeting j and were talking almost with the old t boy and girl frankness rf five years before. It is a fearfully easy thing for a man t to fall in love at twenty-one. ? Before they had sauntered together for half an hour upon the moor, Gif- * ford's pulse was beating faster anti faster with every look Jane threw to him from her soft eyes. He had ac- f knowledged to himself that she was 1 precisely the one woman above nil . other women whom it would be possible for him to love; had thought over f several of his friends who had married ? as young as twenty-one, and formed 1 rapid but strong conclusions as to the 1 wisdom of following in the same steps s without delay. Miss Grand knew nothing of the ? 13 ?~l. + flrv voin nf lior \vonu uiiu vtus vci,* lime ion- v?? ?. own charms. But, in whatever else a woman may be ignorant one thing she c always knows?the precise extent to 51 which any man has lost his hpad about t her. As Mohun lay on the smooth t heather beside the stone where she had seated herself to watch the sunset. Jane knew perfectly, and without look- j. ing toward him. how intently and with ^ what boyish, outspoken admiration his j. eyes dwelt on her face; she felt how ; his voice sank as he answered her; artd like a true, although very innocent, daughter of the common mother, Miss ^ Grand's manner grew more thoroughly ^ frank and indifferent with every grow- < lng sign of consciousness upon that of | poor Gifford. (To be Continued.) t .Unconsciously Funny Atls, 'Humor," says Mr. Crotliers, "is the frank enjoyment of the imperfect." Yes, but not of imperfect fun. And I find the advertiser most deliciously j amusing when he least aspires to be; I t frankly enjoy his laughterless and un- < conscious imperfections. "Miss Ellen Terry will positively appear in three j pieces," writes he; or "Try our patent f lamp chimney and save half your t light;" or even, "Our fish cannot be ^ approached." A correspondence school c of advertising declares in its enthusi- j astic prospectus, "You will never see , the ad-writer play the wall-flower in J' >? nnnil lor>lr 1VI1V sllOUld I . j auu, .??v ? he? I will pledge my all to find admirers for any author of unwittingly humorous advertisements. Indeed, I dare say Mr. Crothers himself would be proud to fellowship with suen an one, and "frankly enjoy his imperfections." though metliinks lie would perhaps reserve the right to order liis own affairs without assistance from so devious and humorless an intellect.?The Atlantic. Twenty-four Minutes in an Hour The Brahmins' clocks divide the day into sixty hours of twenty-four minutes each, called ghurees. Commonly a copper bowl with a very small bole in the bottom of it is placed on the surface of the water and gradually tilled. If the bowl in the bottom is correctly made the bowl sinks in twenty-four minutes. This registers the duration of the ghuree. An attendant then empI ties the basin and strikes the hour of day or night 011 the gong. t c An Indoor Rainstorm. $ One of the new plays in town nas i such a realistic rainstorm in the last i act that the audience coming out of c the theatre naturally expects to find 1 a downpour in good earnest outside. > "Why didn't we bring an umbrella?" < said oho woman on the way out the < other night. 1 "Well, it isn't raining, after all!" exclaimed another, as she reached the sidewalk to find dry streets and a clear , sky overhead.?Mew "lork Press. j i Klvers and Harbors and Good Kondn. HE advocates of the Brown( ___Jj low-Latimer Good Roads > I O bill are uot afraid of criti- ' ( Jfc cism. In fact, it is exactly 1 T*OXr what they desire, as this nil aid in getting the matter before I he people in discussion that will de- * elop the strength of the question. One . f the strongest arguments in favor of ^ lational aid to good roads is that bused < n the river and harbor appropriations, t ^he only questions seriously discussed ] sdien a river and harbor bill comes up 5 a Congress are the amount to be voted nd for what particular improvement j he money is to be spent, the general -* J ocjfoh. loiicy aireauy ueim; muiuu^uij con.r, ished. Congress has in the past fifty ^ears voted more than $400,000,000 for his purpose, and now'an annual approbation of $23,000,000 is looked upon is quite conservative. The advocates if National aid to road improvement laim that much more can be said in avor of their proposition than in favor if river and harbor legislation, and nucb less against It. Certainly no :ind of improvement would do more o promote the prosperity and the noral and intellectual upbuilding of he masses. It is also equally certain hat this great work of internal im>rovements will remain undone, to a ^reat extent, if the whole burden of xpense is left to be carried by the peo>le of rural neighborhoods. The policy of voting Fec^ral aid to oad improvement has three great ad vantages over that of voting funds for iver and harbor improvements, as folows: j First?While the money voted for the ] atter purpose is collected from the 1 vhole people.by taxation, it is neces- < ;arily expended in limited localities, ( he inhabitants of which receive the J greater part of the benefits. In fact, , i great majority of the people of the ^ Jnited States receive no direct and but E ittle indirect benefit from these im- ] irovements. On the other hand, a ( federal appropriation for road im- * >rovement would be avajlable for use * n any section. Every State and coun- j y could share in the direct benefits, . vhile large indirect benefits would } :ome to the people of all cities and ? owns. ' Second?The benefits flowing from i n appropriation for rivers and harbors * ire strictly limited to the amount of j noney voted, as r.o help is required ' rom the local communities. But'the . Jrownlow-Latimer plan merely con- j emplates that the Government shall j lelp the people who are willing to help j hemselves. No community could have I iny part of the Government aid until t t had raised a share of the funds equal ^ o its quota of the Government fund, j Thus a Federal appropriation for this . mrpose would produce benefits far ( leyond the limits of the amount voted. Third?National aid to road improve- f nent would be free from tbe"log-rolI- f ng" features of river and harbor Jegis- i ation which so often injuriously af- * ects otlier important matters in Con- 1 rress. This is true because the fund , vould be equitably distributed accord- ( ng to a general plan. The Govern- ^ npnt would simply make available a } um of money an equitable share of ' vhich could be secured by any State r county complying with certain speciied conditions. It is difficult to see low any member of Congress can logi ally vote for a river and harbor bill. :nd refuse to support an appropriation o aid in improving the highways of he country. Road Building Active. Good roads conventions have been leld in twelve Western States, and orty-six good roads associations have icen formed during the year. Reports vhich have been gathered show that rhere these campaigns have been caried on great impetus has been given A nnhlir rnnrl buildine. In the StatOS visited during the year .and in the 1 States traversed by the good roads rains previously sent out over the Illilois Central and the Southern Railvay systems, about $34,000,000 has >een raised by bond issues and direct axation, and is being expended in >ermanent road construction. Never since the days of national oads and turnpikes, the report says, las there been so much active road milding accomplished in the United states as during the last few years. Several of the States within the year lave provided highway commissions md made liberal appropriations for lie support of their work. Among hese States are Maine, New Hampshire, Illinois, Iowa and Washington, vlany of the otlier States have taken idvanced steps looking to the utilizaion of convict and county prison labor 11 road building and the preparation if road material for distribution to ho several counties and districts, tlany, also enacted that road taxes, >r at least a portion, shall bo equally evied on all properly, and further, hat the labor system be abandoned., md all such taxes be collceted in cash md expended under expert engineerng direction. There is a healthy, substantial and widespread sentiment in favor of a lermanent system of public roads in * his country, including State and * ounty roads connecting the cities and . owns and the rural districts. There . s a growing and ravoraoie senumem ^ ilso for the principle of national aid a or the building of permanent postal f ind interstate roads and national li :runk line highways. t A Huro Kope. { The biggest rope ever used for lmul- J ige purposes has just been made for a; c iistrict subway in Glasgow. It is e ;even miles long, four and five-elghtli' 9 riches in circumference and weighs1 learly sixty tons. It has been made in' me unjointed and unspUced length of j latent crucible steel. When in place it c ,vill form a complete circle around j, jlasgow, crossing the Clyde in its i ionise, and will run at a speed of t ifleen niles an hour. e There is a fish in Hawaiian waters vhich is known by the native name of f lumuluim.uuukunukukuaruaa [BE SUNDAY SCHOOL' NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR OCTOBER 29. Inbject: Power Through God'* Spirit, Zech. It.,' 1-10?Golden Text.Zech. lv., 6?Memory Verges, 8-10?Commentary on the Day's Lesson. I. Zechariah's vision (vs. 1-5). 1. 'The angel." The same angel who iad shown Zechariah his other visions 'came again." "Waked me." The )rophet had slept after the first series )f visions, and he is now aroused to be nstructed further. 2. "Behold a canilestiek." This was no doubt similar o the seven-branched candlestick of Solomon's temple, although the bowl, ;he pipes and the two olive trees were jeculiar to this -vision. The candlestick was, 1. A type of the Jewish naion, God's chosen people to shed light ;o the Gentiles. If they were willing :o carry out God's purpose they could lot fail. 2. A type of the Christian >hnr/%h (Ppv 1 '20v (11 ItS ourpojfe ,vas to give light. (2) Its material ;vas precious and costly, showing the ireciousness of the church. (3) Its >even lamps in one denote the unity of 5od's people. (4) There was a constant supply of oil, so the Holy Spirit supplies the church with the grace of. Jod. (5) The candlestick was not :he light, but held the light; it is the svork of the Christian to bold up the :rue light, which'is Christ. "All of ?old." Pure in doctTine and practice md indestructible?the true ideal of he church. -"A bowl." The fountain )f supply of oil to the lamps. This is :be emblem of Christ, through whom :he Spirit is given. "Seven lamps." rhere was only one lamp stand, deaoting the unity of God's people, but t had various branches and lamps. lenoting their multiplicity in uiiuj, ind the number was seven, the symbol )f their completeness. "Seven pipes." See R. V. Each lamp had seven pipes lonnected with the bowl. 3. "Two olive trees." The oil usuilly burned in the lamps was olive oil, pressed from the fruit of the olive iee. The olive trees, one on each side >f the lamp stand, express the source >f supply. The bowl of oil would soon ye exhausted unless a continual supply lowed into it. The trees represent an nexhaustible fountain connected with :he very nature of the Creator. The iupply of power does not come through mman ministrations, but directly from 3od. 4. "What are these." Even inspired men do not always understnnd livine teachings. It is sometimes wise :o ask questions. 5. "No, my lord." [f we would receive instruction we nu6t be ready to acknowledge our ig lorance. II. The interpretation (vs. 6-14). 6. 'Word?unto Zerubbabel." This vison was to inspire the people with#conidence in their leaders as divinely susained, and the leaders with confidence n their divine appointment to the vorb, andlo lead all to the-true source >f strength and success. "Not by night." Of thy own. Not by their arnies, for they had none. "Nor by. >ower." Authority from others. "But jy My spirit." The providence, auhority, power and energy of the Most 3igh. No secular arm, no human pruience, no earthly policy, no suits at aw, shall ever be used for the foundng, extension and preservation of My rhurch. 7. "O great mountain." This was n Igure suggesting the great work to be tccomplished and the many difficulties n the way. The opposition from his memies and the lack of zeal among lis own people had tended to discourige Zerubbabel. "Become a plain." 3e wholly removed. At that very time jod was influencing Darius to refuse :he desires of the Samaritans and give lis favor to Jerusalem (Ezra G). 'Headstone." As he had laid the founlation stone, so shall he put up the leadstone; as he has begun the buildng. so shall he finish it. "With shout ngs." Joyful acclamations. 9. "Shall also finish." An encouriging assurance to the prince of Judab. LO. "Day of small things." Zcrubba>el belonged to the day of small things. 3e did not appear like Solomon in all :is glory, but more like a common man :han a great ruler. , He seemed inferor to the governor of Samaria, and ;vas subject to the King of Persia. tVe people the past with heroes. We lream of a future full of heroes. But low blind we are to the heroes of our >wn day and our own time! This is a miversal error. "Shall see the plumnet." The perpendicular line with ;vhlch he should try the finished work." ffe is* master builder, under bod, the rreat Architect. "With those seven." Referring to chapter 3:9. "They are :he eyes o? the Lord." In contrast vith those who might be despising the lay of sigall things, the eyes, of the Lord were beholding with joy the work x.. _ 1 rr 'PKa 7 over a Saltimore, mo., sioppeu uue uuicl aorning at 2.15 o'clock. There was a >ud clap of thunder at that time, and t is supposed that the jar disturbed he batteries which run the clock aechanism. Our Orangea Sold Abroad. California oranges are now sold exensively in London, En THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE; The Saloon a Cobber?No Amount of Kovenue Can Make BoiloeM L*i>fal When It Rmno Men?A 8?Ioo? Hindrance in Temperance Work. One Monday morning I had occasion to visit a bank, writes the Rev O. W. "Scott. The receiving teller was doing business with a well groomed gentleman at the window. As I waited my turn I saw this man pass in a large pile of silver dollars, besides a big roll of bank bills. I recognized the man as a liquor dealer in our city. The record was entered and the man retired. A little conversation with the teller, who abhorred the saloon, also, revealed tbe fact that tMs keeper of a local saloon had just deposited $200. "And," said the teller, "he probably took all this in on Saturday and Sunday!" This, despite the fact that our "stringent license law," provided and en- I joined that no liquors should be sold 1 on the Lord's day! . J The saloon is a robber! The transac- s tion which I witnessed in that bank i? d only one of thousands of similar in- c ' stances occurring all over this land. ii This tendency to spend their week's t pay at the saloon on their way home b has led many corporations to change a the workmen's pay day from Saturday e to Monday. I have known some wives a of drinking men to go to the counting e rooms, and the moment their husbands were paid off secure as large a portion v as possible of the week's income before 3 the saloon robbers could lay hands on i it. One visit to a saloon often uses up e a whole week's pay. t A few days since I wa: visiting a t friend in Boston. A drunken man, g whom my friend knew, passed us. The 1 man was a wreck, and was probably g less than forty years old. * j My friend said: "There goes a man who inherited a fine business on one l of the principal streets of this city, i but in just a few years Le ran that ] business through and now works for I $5 a week. After paying his weekly j lodging bill he lives on the rest, living off the cotinters of the saloons." The liquor dealer had got all his property, and "was drawing heavily on his small weekly earnings. Yes1, the saloon is a robber. While a pastor in Pennsylvania it was carefully estimated by a reliable student of social science that the mineral income of that State at that time was $70,000,000, while the liquor bill the same year reached tin grand total of $78,000,000. This, the readers will not fail to note is, $2,000,000 more than the valuation of the entire mineral income (coal, iron, etc.) for that same year. v The presiding judge of Dauphine County (In which the State capital, Harrisburg, is situated) has stated that the county would be better to pension# every licensed liquor dealer in the county: with $1000 a year, and have them retire from business, than to accept their license fees and take the responsibility of paying the bills accruing (police, jail, court, relief, etc., etc.,) from the annual license fees paid by said dealers*. One* of the serious 'hindrances In t temperance work'is the conscienceless ^ act of respectable (?) men who rent x their property for saloon purposes. c . General John A. Dix held prop: y in 8 a certain city, and was informed by ^ his agent that he found it very diffi- r cult to rSnt the property for ordinary a business purposes, but could readily ^ rent it for a dram shop. Instant reply e came from the General. It read: "I j would rather my property should stand ( idle and empty for ail time than that ;/ it should be rented for such a purpose." ^ Noble words, and yet every moral and ^ .religious man, every man wishing the f welfare of his community ought to be j endowed with the same sentiments. Were this so the work of redeeming _ - - - - -? ??- -i-'-i- -?i tliis lana iroin uie urmn. tuwc ?uum j be greatly simplified?Ram's Horn. . + The Beer Argument Gone. ^ The New York Post, discussing the ' grave increase of the drink bill of the American people, very pertinently t says: "It has been for many years a favor- t ite observation of sociological students ^ that, in this country, the use of ardent liquors was giving place to the consumption of milder beverages. In the half century from 1840 to 1890, for in- f stance, while this same average Amer- c ican had learned to drink nine times $ as much beer as he did before, and T half as much wine again, he had made l up for this by cutting off nearly half < of his former allowance of whiskey. f "But the assertion that mild bever- s ages are displacing strong drink can t no longer fairly be made regarding XL n lire lumu Ul Aa uuuauci. J. UK. hemselves despised the foundation of lie second temple because it was likely :o be so far inferior to the first (Ezra 5:12). Their enemies despised the wall vhen it was in process of biiildipg Neh. 2:19; 4:2, 3). "To and fro." A leautiful figure, of God's oversight >ver the whole earth. 11-14. Three times Zechnriah (vs. 4, 1,12) asked as to the two olives before le got an answer; the question be:omes more minute each time. What at first calls two olive "trees" he ifterward calls "branches," as on closer looking he observes that the iranches of the trees are channels hrough which a continual flow of oil Iropped into the bowl of the lamps: ind that this' is the purpose for which he two olive trees stand beside the andlestick. Primarily the "two" re'er to Joshua and Zerubbabcl. Zerub>abe! and Jes.iua typifisd Christ as mointed with the Holy Spirit without noasure, to be King and High Priest >f the church, and to huiid. illuminate md sanctifv the spiritual temule. Twln? at Eighty Celebrate. Fifty-eight years ago Francis.F. NaeJor and his twin sister, now Mrs. Cardine Stachelroth, came to America rom Germany. They were twentywo years old. All the money they lad was $G. Twelve years later Naeter opened a house-furnishing store :t No. 473 Grand street, Brooklyn, rom which business he has aceumuited a fortune. The other night his on/1 liic ci^tpv's ^lu'Iilrpn rplfv mi ted the eightieth birthday of the wins by a dinner at the home of Mr. \Taeher, who is the brother of exudjre Charles Naeher, the president if the German Savings Bank. Three generations of the family were repre? ^ - J ~ a. i-i,. eiutfu at iuu uiijiiiri. Clock* Stopped by Thunflcr. All the clocks in the City Hall, in present conditions, ror me mat ci?ui, s years, as a matter of fact, we haw* s been consuming every year not only t aboslutely, but relatively, more spirits ^ than the year before. From 1.01 gallons per capita, the lowest figure "in j our statistical history, which was reached in 1S96, the consumption has f steadily mounted till it is now 1.48 c gallons, making an increase of 461-2 j per cent. Beer, in the same time, has gained only 18 4-5 per cent." Not Xecessary ft* jttcrticine. j Dr. Charles Gilbert Davis, the emi- r nent physician, says: "For more than c fifteen years I have pursued my professional work in hospital and private , practice, and while within the bounds g of civilization have not found it neces- r sary to administer alcohol. .1 am not at all prejudiced against its use.' Be- j yond scientific medical associations, t I belong to no temperance society. My j( action is based entirely upon scientific t tnought, observation and experience, I believe that in most, and probably t all, cases disease can be better re- B moved and surgical operations more T successfully performed without it? ( employment." Canse o 1 Kutslan Defeat. The German Emperor tells his sol- p dicrs that Russia's defeat at Mukden t was due to enervation caused by im- j morality and drunkenness. Moral: ? Let the German Army be sober and ? pure. Dr. Samuel Haekett Stevenson, the <j well-known Chicago physician, says: j "I have learned how thoroughly we can j, meet exigencies of all kinds without c the use of alcohol in any form, and that j, we have at our command rcmedie? j that are better." Edwards County, Illinois,- lias not uau a saloon for five years. There is not an almshouse or poor farm in the county, and the tax rate is less than in w any other comity in the State. There ^ is $11,<X)0 cash in the treasury. A new Court House has just been built an<3 paid for." b' , y w The organization of a W. C. T. U.. at N Athens, Greece, is reported. Purity. w Medal Contest, Mothers' Meetings and G Scientific Tempcranco Instruction wrc tc the particular lines of work to which pi the union will give ils ell'oris. x V 3 HOW MUCH I OWE. J When-this pausing world is doneWhen has sunk yon glorious son; When we stand with Christ in gm Looking o'er life's finished story; Then, Lord, shall I fully know? Not till then?how much I owe! When I stand before the throne, Clothed in beauty not my own; ' When I see Thee as Thou art, Love Thee with unceasing heart; Then, Lord, shall I fully know? Not till then?how much I owe! ?Robert M. McCheyn The Church and the World. We laboriously climbed the ^amid, /our hundred and fifty \ oto the air. The cloudless 'sky; >erfectly dry atm9sphere made it.| ible to see great distances In Jrection. To the north and west. urving river, the groups of palms/ a the distance the domes and minai >f Cairo made up a view of charm eauty peculiar entirely to that cour md that locality. To the south i ast the desert stretched away as is the eye could reach, the heated blmmering above tbe golden sand And now, looking down, we disceri vhat before we bad not dlscovei fhe fresh verdure of the river b: net the encroaching sands of the < rt in a distinctly defined line, iright green on tbe one side, all dre tarrenness on the other. Upon rround it is impossible to appreci low distinct that line is. Fromrreat elevation It was strikingly larent. The trouble with many in the cbn s that they live on so low a plane s tually that they do not ^discern ine between the church and the wo f they would but arise to their exa irivilege in Christian experience t vould see it clearly. It is there, however. It lies betwi he sweet, restful verdure of the ba! if the river of life and the dre vaste of the selfish, heartlesB, joyi ealm of the votaries of sinful pi east t is where "old things have pas iway, and all things have beco tew." It is where business method! inestionable propriety end and do ight honesty begins. It is wh Measures of misleading tendency mt away and those things that m or purity and holiness and wholesc nfluence in social life come in. That line exists as a necessity in lature of things spiritual. "For w. ellowship hath light with darkneg t is a battle line the whole length t, and it is not a difficult thing >rave men and women of God to 1 t It is possible for all in the chn o live near enough' to God to see 'jet us all come to a higher pUfo lev. o. A. Houehton. in Christian , 'ocate. In the Light of the End. *'Te have seen the end of the Loi ays the Apostle James, In fitting he misery of Job's affliction, and irges that as a reason for tjie exer< >f patience' in the midst of suffer ind mystery on behalf of all the 4 ressed. It is a beautiful and Inmli ihrase. There is one life at least, ipostle seems to say, which totjc he very bottom of misery. Could n ry be more profound than that of p ob? But life was in the hands Jod all through the trial and pi i.nd we have the advantage of see he entire process?we see the end he Lord. And that "end" was me ul, and brought the sufferer lnt< orger life. We cannot see the "end" of our 1 re are in the midst of the proa Jut of (this we may be absolutely < ain, that when the heart can say Jod, as did Job. "Though He slay et will I trust in Him," the "a rill be full of glory. Meanwhile i ur glory to trust absolutely in G o do the next thing He has gi' is to do, and to leave all the rest lis Fatherly goodness.?London Ch ian. We Mast Fit the CroM. rA lady employed an artist to ca or her in marble the figure of an ai iarrying a cross. He began with ingel, and had succeeded remarka veil, when he found that he could nake the cross fit on his back, rould he alter the cross or the fig 10 as to get- the cross to fit. He ti igain and again, but in the end he ] o give it up. w The lady then employed anotfl irtist to complete the work or ml mother. He began with the cross fl hen made the back of the figurefl What a powerful sermon is contaifl n the story of the two artists' expH nces! Our first impulse always jifl ittempt to alter our crosses to fit H >ur final experience is that we nfl earn to fit ourselves to them. 3 Jnst like God. B Little Mary was one morning rn ng with her mother in the New Tefl nent, and this was one of the vefl if the chapter: fl "For God so loved the world thatH ;ave His only begotten Son, that tA oever believeth in Him should lerish, but have everlasting life.'H Stopping for a moment in the rA ng the mother asked: "Don't H bink it is very wonderful?" The clS ooking surprised-, replied In the n^| ive. The mother, somewhat asH shed, repeated the question, to wlH hi little daughter replied: "Why,H namir.p. It would be wonderful iH Fere anybody else; but it's just fl jUU. Paul never described himself &H risoner of Rome, but always asl risoner of Jesus Christ. What a gfl his adds to life! The chain wlfl tome imposed is transformed intoH olden bracelet of a great love tokeH r. C. Morgan. H Good habits are not made on btH ays nor Christian character at H few Year. The workshop of chara^B 5 everyday life. The uneventful H oimnonplnce hour is whore the baH 5 lost or won.?Mallbie'D. Babcfl One-Arined Man's Industry. H| John Gates, of Jewell County, ho had his arm torn off in a threM ig machine, does more work with and than many a man does with ; is hardly believable how he didH ut he loaded and stacked alfalfa tH ear without help, pitched it on to B agon, pitched it off and Siacked^J ot one two-handed man in a hundM ould think he could do that. ates drives four horses to a cultiH oo rr/VAfl fl inh of 6^1 ?.\ aiiu uuco bvvv* >? ?, - _g loving as any man. H I ' Y-? . j , .1 rfirVi