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CHAPTER V. 0
Continued.
Jane j;rew morn and mote agitated,
and in Lor confusion Lei' flowers Toll
from lier hauds, Motiun picked thorn
\ir>.
"Ask mo for your -bouquet, ?Miss
Grand, cr I shall think '{hat I m:iy
kej&pjt."
Then she was forced to look up, and
give hi in all the secret of her most
fresh and innocent faee.
"Mr. Mohun, will you return it to
me? Please do?"
And she held out her iiand to Gifford.
He dropped the flowers to the ground
?lie caught her haud?her waist. The
loneliness, the hour, the utter artlessness
of-the girl's own love, had swept
away Gifford's last prunrtential scruples.
Worldly advantages, worldly
opinion, were intangible and afar;
these beautiful scarlet lips, trembling
so close to his, were iiving and warm
and present; and the concrete, rather
than the abstract, is apt to be powerful
over far stronger natures than Gifford
Mohun's at twenty-one.
"Jane!"
"Gifford!''
I doubt if anywupre, save in mildest
Tomance, a declaration of real passion
was ever prefaced by the words, "I
lore you." Verbal confession belongs
to a much calmer aiul more retrospective
stage of feeling. "Jane"?"Gifford."
What more was there for Rlobun
to ask or for her to tell?
The time went by, and they knew it
not. Mrs. Tennant?into whose willing
hand Gilford had reposed the administrative
department of the ballroomMrs.
Tennant. sore wearied by the discouraging
nature of her task, saw
dance after dance pass away, pawner
after partner enslaved, momentarily,
by her two smiling daughters (for they
can smile and dance on, these tender
innocent victims, even in their direst
moment of defeat), and still the one
human being in the house worth caring
for?the one for whom those London
dresses, tJiose wrifarhs, those
smiles bad -bcen'got ready?the heir to
Yntton?did not return. The spirits of
Mrs. and the Miss Tennants?in com
mon with those of most other mothers
and daughters there present?were not
raised when, just before snpper, Mr.
Molinn came back, with Jane Grand,
very flushed and subdued, bnt happyJooking,
upon his arm. Neither was
pnblie confidence at all heightened by
the warmth with which he rushed off
to escort the member's wife to supper,
leaving Jane to share Follett's attention
with Miss Lynch.
Did he not contrive that sh? should
sit exactly opposite him at the centre
table? Jane Grand at a centre table!
"Was there not something unmistakable
in his tone as be reached across to her
and said:
"Miss Grand, let me help you to some
chicken?"
Was there not triumph, which even
ber finished perfidy could not dissimulate,
in the glance with which she
looked up and answered:
"Thank you, Mr. Mohun, I think I
would rather have some jelly?"
< An instinctive gloom like that which,
without tangible cause, is frequently
known to overtake the political or
financial world?a feeling that the
game was up, an unknown, ignoble
enemy already iu possession of the
field, overcame the whole female portion
of Gifford's guests; for even the
youngest married woman, Avith Infant
daughters, sympathetic depression, in
seeing a poor fellow like Gifford volun
4?i i J J jr xiiitiovxL avitij.
The dancing after supper was slack.
. No one wanted to keep their carriage
"vraitlnjr ten minutes longer than it was
originally ordered; and the general
tamper and spirit of families, as thoy
<Jrove back to tlieir Iiomos, were the
reverse of those genial and lively ones
an which, some four or five hours previously
they had entered the first gales
of Yatton Park.
And Jane Grand! Through the dull,
monotonous days, through the sleepless,
weary nights, from which Jane
Sias looked back to the short-lived seaton
of her joy, she has-often striven
to recall the sensation of those intensely
happy hours that succeeded her first
knowledge of Mohun's love for her.
Striven, but in vain. She can remember
the throngs of faces, the
lights, the music?can remember the
moment when Gifford lingered aftor he
"had placed her in the carriage: and
bow Miss Lynch talked on unweariedly,
and how the vicar was singularly
grave and thoughtful as they drove
slowly home through the dim daybreak
of the overshadowed summer
lanes. But all besides?the color, the
form, the passionate essence of those
few, best hours of her existence?is.
and will ever be a blank to her.
CHAPTER vr.
' The engagement was an Accomplished
fact. Miss Lynch announced it
to her small world of village gossips;
the vicar announced it to the higher
authorities across whom he chanced
to come; Gilford Mohun Jook special
pains to announce it himself to half
the families in the county.
lie was a great deal too much enamored
of Jane's lovely face lor him to
entertain any serious misgivings as to
the wisdom of his choice: but yet a
sense that the world would say hf* was
misallying himself was ever present
with him and he chose to he the
first to communicate the news to persons
of whose good opinion lit* was
jealous. lie expatiated to such on
Miss Grand's secluded bringing up. 01:
iier grace, her feminine accomplishments.
her beauty; adding, with an
jiir of off-hand humility that was
meant to conceal n certain degree of
avoupded uridc: "And I am very giad
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J lo say sbo is not only without con- a
1 ivifh^nf mAn/iv T i.
not have borne to owe riclies to my
"wife. No woman wants any other j,
charm than beauty and youth, and ^
grace like Jane Grand's." * j,
Rnt her want of birth?her want, v
rather, oi' all knowledge of iier parents a
and of her (surviving relations?galled j,
Giffoid innrh more titan l\e chose to e
acknowledge. It would have delighted
him to out, eiliier upon her fath- c
er'K or mother's side, some one pros- ^
porous relation, some indisputably re- s
spectabb name, that could be held iu j,
reserve as a sorl of piece dr- resistance f,
against the znost stubborn inquiries of v
intimate friends. And Ihe blank reti- c
cence, both of Miss Lynch and the j]
vicar, whenever the subject of Jane's
family was mentioned, had already, in (,
the lirst week of his engagement, be- S1
come aii actual and abiding them in p
Gifford Mohun's flesh. f.
"It is a very natural feeling of Gif- 0
ford's," said Jane's soft voire. "It ,r
often spcras strange to myself that I
should be actually without a relation- n
in the world, and I can't wonder that j]
he should like to hear a little more ^
about my parents. Auntie, are you
quite sure that you have told us all
that there is to hear about them both? c.
What was mamma's maiden name?. I j,
have never oven heard that; and I am S]
twenty years of age." b
She was sitting with Miss Lynch sr.*
the vicar in the darkening bay window sj
of their little parlor?Gifford having ^
left them after tea to attend to some ir
business that required his presense at
the house of one of his tenant farmers. c,
"Don't think I am inquisitive, auntie, ^
or that I wish to hear a word more C(
than yoii like to toll me. I only feel a;
Gifford would like it better if we spoke
a little more freely about papa and n
mamma.*' C(
And she stole hr-r hand, in her gentle, ^
child-like way, round her old friend's
neck. u,
"Jane!" and Miss Lynch's voice |c
sounded so harsh that Jane drew away ^
in an instant. "Jane, no one will ever
be contented in this life with what is
best for them to know?and you and g
Mr. Mohun are like the rest! 'Tis part ni
j of tho inheritance of our fallen nature, Cj
[ child of onr fallen nature! But for a(
! Eve's curiosity, you and I would not be vj
the poor, sinful, miserable creaturcs pi
we are now." r(
"Eve's curiosity made hrr transgress 2k
a commandment, auntie. Gifford and I w
do no wrong in wishing to know?what
all people of our age should know?the tr
history of my own dead father and j1(
mother, and the nam?s of my living re- f(
Iations, if I have any."
"You believe you would be happier, a]
knowing this?" je
"I don't think it is a question of happiness,
auntie?I think it due to Gifl'ord a]
that ho should be told." w
"That is tho right way of looking at fC
it, Jane," said the vicar. "It is due to jj,
Mohun. I have been saying so to Miss Sf
Lynch for some days past. There must
be?there can be?no further concealment
from him; above all, he must p<
have nothing new to learn when you ^
are his wife." n,
"And thfnking this " stammered cc
poor Miss Lynch, nervously. sc
"Thin kin A' this." tile vicar repeated, <],
in Iris quiet voice, "we have "written to vj
your guardian. dear Jane, your joint (j
guardian with Miss Lynch, Mr. (0
Clitliero, telling him of your engage- m
incnt to Mohuu " (7;
"And lie says?" broke in Jane, eag- k]
cry. <!,
"lie says, Jane, that was your late o\
failier's wish"?the words seemed to
come unwillingly from the vicar's lips h:
?"your father's wish thai, on attain- fn
ins the age of twenty-one, or on your tl
marrying, whichever event should first c<
happen, you should hear?heal*of subjects
connected with your parents' J;
lives from his, Mr. Clithero's, own w
mouth." te
"Well?" * y<
"We haw appointed that you should"
do so. We have fixed that I should
tnt-n Tfin nn fr* T-nnrtnn to-morrow?
ami lliat you shall see Mr. Clithero." GJ
Jane was quite silent for a moment; ^
then she broke into a laugh?a low .
laugh like a child's?half tearful, half
merry, but that fell like lead on both of
her listeners' heart!?. .
"Shall I tell you what I think of j'ou? [
\ ?yos. of you, Miss Lynch, and you, Mr. f
j Follett: you are taking all this up a
great-coal more seriously than (Jifford
and I will ever do. I can quite guess
this great secret. I am not a lady by (i
w
birth. I said so-to-day to Clifford, and .
he told mo he wouid not mind, because jj
?because he eares for me for myself. ^
you see, and nothing of that sort, or,
| indeed, anything, would ever change
him to me. He snid all he wished to ^
know was the truth, so that he might, '
ai least, have an answer to give when- ^
ever any of his family asked him about j
my relations; and it he found m.v
I father had only been an lion est riling?
: miller. like Mr. (fillet, lie ?hon!d think "
my parentage a groat deal higher than !
the Miss Tennants*. (JifTord is too
noble to be ashamed of anything not .
dishonorable in itsoif."
She made (his little speech with J"
tflushing ehrckp. :irifl with a pride and 1
confidence in Mohun that smote the c
Vicar's heart with a sharp pain. His
thoughts went back to a time, fifteen
long years before, when he too had li
built with the same pride, the same A
confidence, on a like foundation of ?,<
sand. b
"Mohun is very young, my dear Jane: tl
his judgments are one sidnd." c<
"Hut all on tbe side of what is right I]
and high minded, Mr. Ifollclt." tl
"It is difiicult for a young man to I!
know exactly what is right. Whatever y
their own faults may be, very young a;
people are always uncharitable in their h
crude judgments upon others. Mohun n
lias scarcely the rich' to pass such |j
&
.r
weeping con:Ieinn:it!en as lie
pon Mr. Tennant's past conduct,
"Can any judgment lie too so
pon dishonosly, sir? Clifford set
s I do, (lie thought of money that
ecumulated in dishonor."
"Jane, be siku.t!" cried Sites Ly
Jailing up, anil looking almost an;
t tho girl's laco. '"What. right I
ou to p.:ss these judgments? 11a
rought you up to lake !his kirn
utliority upon yourself? You?
IJiild, pray for humility?pray f<
pirit that can enter into the tem
tons of oilier?. Yrs, into their t?
umptations?into their blackcst s
"Aunie, can you be really aagry
le? I was only speaking for Gif!
only said CilTord would not ear
ear what my lather was, so tha
ras only an honest, upright man.
untie,' I fori much too happy no'
e uncharitable to auy one."
The simple, unsuspecting words,
"resistible joyous voice, melted
liss Lyneh's brief harshness, if
idefd could bo called harshness, w
ras but another form of her int
nd yearning pity over ilio poor ch
;nomi*ce?so soon to be replaced
ver by the bitterest knowledge.
"May Cod keep you happy,
liild!" she whispered; and she ki
er, not with oi:e of the litile affccl
lie generally remembered to pill
efore tho vicar, but closely?all
earfully?as she had used to kiss
r'lien .7ane was first given to
barge. "May God strengthen
irough all you will have to bear!
"I feel very strong, auntie. It sc
) mo to-night as if tho very iv
nfTerings of life must have some
iuess 111 them. When you see
ice again to-morrow you will kno
nee how much you have undcrr
ly moral courage. I feel that I f
ear bravely all Mr. Clithero has tc
le and be able? though, I must
lat will bo harder?to tell it agai
fifford on my return. Had I not
'r see about that Indian rauslii
>wn, auntie? Miss Brown say
nn't be bought anywhere but at
ouse in the city, and I dare say
tiould have time to go there whci
ave done with Mr. Oiithero."
The strongest emotion (and she
Irongly moved to-sight) could ndt
er Miss Lynch wholly callous to
lestic interests. After all, Jane m
ike the history of her birthright r
aliuly than they hoped for; Gil
[oliun might take it nobly?though
mragc Bank as she thought of li
t all events there was no barm in
ng the poor child take a pattern,
light distract her thoughts to ha
jmmlssion to fulfill, and it certn
as a sin to buy new curtains v
vo yards and a half of the orij
tuslin would replace the she
tngth by the window seat, and n
ic whole set look equal to new.
Greatly to the relief of the vicar,
ad all the repugnance of a vcrj
r.ed and rather selfish nature to
Essing anything like a scene?c
ally a scene in which women ^
[ tors?greatly to the relief of
icar, Miss Lynclfs tears dried as
rospect of matching the Indian mi
>se, with cumulative clearness, i
>p mimT? jithI no further reeurr<
as mride to tho inevitable and b
t-morrow, save in arranging by t
ain they should go, and at what 1
<} should call round in his pouy cb
>r Miss Grand.
But when Mr. Follett had left t
one, Jaue herself renewed the
!Ct.
"Why did you decide so sudd
DOut my going to town, auntie?
hy did you let Gifford leave wit!
tiling him I should be away f
ame all to-morrow? He will thir
> etrango when lie calls as usual
nrts me gone."
Deprived of the vicar's moral
>rt, and suddenly brought bac4
link of the coming evil, Miss Lyn
jrvousness was so great that
>uld scarcely speak. She faltered
tract hing about not having clearly
:rstood Mr. Clithero's. letter till
car had read it to hor; and then?
ion?how they had thought- it Ik
i have no discussion -whatever ho
r. Mohun. It would snare hij
ly's painful suspense to have
riowledge or .Trne's bn&incss in ]
on until her return?until nil
. or!
"Auntie!" exclaimed Jane, rai
?r clear, serious eyes to Miss Lyn
ice, "I am to hear more lo-mor
irri I expect. Tell it to mo now
mid bear it best from you."
"You are to hear of your fat
\ne?of his life and of his death,
as his wish that Mr. Clithiro shi
'II this to you?his last wish! Su
)u would not so against that?"
1T0 he Continned.i
Ullen Kot to Talk.
Th" best of us talk too much. "
isence of power is reserve," sai
an wiio knew. Many a rcputa
as been built on silence. Many a
spoiled through rushing preruatu
ad volubly into speech. It is sal
> silent when your words wi
ound. "Faithful are the wounds
iei:d." says tiie old proverb, but
ants to hi? mighty sure one's fr
?eds (lie mounding and that we
in lifted t;> administer it. Keep
he:i your words will discourage,
ilinitcly belter to bp dumb for
lan to make one fellow bfing
I>!e to cop with life. Keep still i>
our words will incite to anger or
mifort. An incredible amount
realii is ussd in the evil practic
ying to make our friends dislike t
iends. Never speak when what
live to say is merely for '.he purj
[ exalting yourself. Shut your
itIi a key when you arc inspire*
ibble iiiconlinonlallyof yourself?:
linen IK, accompiisiniHwust, r-iau
>vo.s, hatreds, hopes r?ncl desires.
; only to Dip choice, rare friend
lie may Kpcftk of (host; things will
ecoming a fool.?Philadelphia
lin.
ftfcindtrt Holibeuia.
Very little is known of Ifobbci
fe. He appears to have been bor
msterdam in 1G38, but, as we J
w, other towns claimed (o bo
irthplace. It is probable that he
ie pupil of Jacnb van UiiysdaeJ,
srtain thai lie lived in Amstord
[C died poor, hi.v last lodging bein
id Iteosegraft, the sireet in w
einbrandt, also poor, had died f
ears before. J lis works were I
pprecialed in Holland until near
undred years after Ida death,
lost of them found their wnj to 1
lud.r-Sl. Niehaias. _ .
I ??
r BITS ? NEWS'
)rns, . c
was
WASHINGTON.
nr-h,
Ha\jng occasion lo secure twenty-five 1
ii.-m Additional officers for the Philippine
' j constabulary, Hie places paying $1100
per annnm to begin "vvitli, Captain Mc11
?* In tyre, Acting Chief of the Insular Btiy?u'
reau, invited 300 Slat<j military instiJi"
I tutcs and agricultural collegcc to name 1
ipta- candidates for the places among their ^
orst graduates. Less than twenty applica- >
ins." tions were received, the faculties of the J
with colleges attributing the lack of interest J
r 'd to the fact that their graduates were iu
" ' great demand in the business world. ^
?, . Charles A. Stillings, now of New ,
0]^ York City and formerly of Boston, ,
Mass., was appointed Public Printer '
iv tc- jjy tjie president.
Fleming D. Cheshire, who is now on j
'"c leave of absence iu Washington, has j
f1*' received his exequator from the Chi- ,
that nese Government and will proceed to <
liicli Mukden as our consul there. , \
ense -.Secretary Hitchcock ordered the dis-- , i
lild's missal from service of four clerks in <
for- the Pension Bureau accused of loan- t
ing money at usurious rates. ( t
my An order has been issued by the War <
sse'd Department creating a department of
,'j0jls military hygiene at West Point. The 1
. object is to instruct the cadets in medi- :
cine and surgery for the care of troops.
nosi -witia no intention of graduating cadets <
hcr for the medical department of the 1
her army. <
you 1
!" OUR ADOrTED ISLANDS.
lems Tim Philinnino fYimmiKSion has do- ,
orst cided to suspend the land tax in the
liap- provinces during 1900 for tlie purpose
ray of assisting impoverished planters,
w at. This action is largely attributable to
jtpd the testimony on agricultural matters
ihali S'7?n before the Congressional menial.
berB of the Taft party during their
recest tour of the archipelago. The
aJ' ordinary annual land tax does not
n *? amount to more than ?3,000,000.
. Fourteen steerage passengers, bound
1 in. for San Francisco, Cal.,.wcre left at
s it Honolulu by the steamer Mongolia beone
cause of a bubonic plague quarantine
> wei to Hawaii. . i
we Henry Kapea, the young Hawaiian
who was recently extradited from
wns London, England, on a charge of emro.n,
bezzling about $5000 in securities from
the Hawaiian Trust Company, pleaded
| Ruilty in Honolulu and was sentenced
IJr> by Judge Robinson to two years and a
noro Lialf at hard labor.
Tord nil*~ Tilitlinntnos !t irnc ror>nr*tnfl fit
JLJUt? 1 11. If fi.J
^her Honolulu, are passing through a deim?
pression unequalled in their experience,
let* caused by a sucoession of calamities?
. It the war, the rinderpest, which deve
a stroyed their carabao; the surra, which u'nly
destroyed their liorses and mules; the
,'lien cho!era\ the locusts and the typhoons.
'!n,al DOMESTIC.
ibby
aafee A French sailor was caught in New
York City smuggling a $1000 opera
who c!c3k under his blouse.
, re. Government Geological Survey hyjt
drologists are investigating wells, and
quarries in Connecticut to learn tho .J
'spo' laws that govern the occurrence of 1
vere water in crystalline rocks. * ]
the The first snow of the season in Easrt(l^e
ern Nebraska began falling, completely
jsiin covering the ground, with indications
lpon of a heavier fall. - 1
ence Robbers and citizens battled at Rich- f
lack mond, Ind., after the burglars had se- <
?hat cured $4ST>7 in cash and $SOO in checks '
aour from the First National Bank, but no '
ajse one was hurt. *
An automobile driven by Harry Olm- *
hem stead, of Hackensack, N. J., who marsub
rie^ a Native of the Vanderbilts, ?
knocked down and killed a deaf-aud- j
dumb woman in Englewood, N. J.
J rin? in flm monliin^ xphiph llP T7.1S'
JL a vau^iil 441 UiU JUUVI'IKV ? ,
" running, at Marion 0., Clifford Lusch
!iouC was being drawn under its knives
roin. -when his scalp was torn off and saved
ik it his life.
and From injuries feceived in a football 3
game at Milwaukee, Leslie Wise is
sup- dead, having fallen so that a weed was
: to thrust up bis nose into his brain,
ch's Former Governor D. R. Francis, of <
she Missouri, has been appointed special t
ont commissioner to visit forty-thre^or- \
lin. eign Governments to thank them for ;
' participating in the St. Louis Exposi- (
tion. t
?ttpr Governor Blanchard, of Louisiana, <
' met all the Marine Hospital Service at- ?
fore (aches in New Orleans, La.
11 n The' family of Lawyer Francis 0. (
1K>. K-iad, of New York City, donned
r.on- mourning for a servant who had been J
was in the household fifty-two years.
A step In the dark plunged Bruno A.
sing Bahr.a messenger boy, eleven stories
ch's down a ventilating shaft at Chicago,
row III., killing him.
FOREIGN. i
her, Trince Von Bulow talked of a new (
It trade treaty between the United States 1
ouI(1 and Germany. J
rejy Elliott F. Shepard's hope of escaping
sentence to jail in Paris seemed gone. *
The Russian Government had to ask .
Sweden to transmit the most important j
^oiio tim nnntiripiit hut no steamer 4
UiUilO 1UI U'V. ? (
Thy was available.
(1 a The German eonrt at Gotha decided
tion it was competent to try the suit for
one divorce of Prince Philip.
re!y Count Leopold, Resent of i>ippe-Dete
to mold, fan?-been confirmed in succesouid
B'on t? principality by tlie German
of a arbitration court, according to a special
one dispatch.
iend Armed brigands opened a fosilade
of rifle shots on a train that refused to j
*... Jmlt at their summons, near Alora, in ]
stl. the Province of Malaga, Spain, ono <
is passenger being wounded. j
ever . i>nssi?ti priest. Father Gnpon, >
ltss J wj)0 was (lctive in the recent Russian <
'hen troubles, is snid to have left Norway ?1
dis- to return to his own country. -i
The Chinese maneuvrcs, carried out
0 of by an army of 30,000 men, were in genheir
orai praised by tlie foreign military
you attaches, who consider that China lias
pose at last obtained the nucleus of a real '
lips army. <
[1 tr> A bomb was thrown at. 10 o'clock at
i-our night at the troops guarding the Tech- '
onfti nologlcal Institute, iu St. Petersburg. 1
Nobody was hurt. ;
thjit 'ilhe late Sir Henry Irving's collectl0).j
tion of theatrical curios and pictures
and liis library ate to be sold l>y auc- '
tion fit Christie's, in London, Kuglaud, '
under the terms of the will. 1
-A. special dispatch states that the '
mi's incident growing out of the attack on
n Admiral Train is now closnd, the gov- 1
mvi. ornor of Nankin having apologised '
"7 ami rclurnca uic oiucers men- guns.
his
A special difipntch from Milan annouiicw?
tho death of Baron Ilftimundo '
and i?'rftiio]ietti. j
,* M. PobicdonostsefT. Procurator of the ,
R 1 Holy Synod in Russia, has resigned.
i'tussian cruisers interned at French.
?' VV Chinese ami Philippine ports will reri .
'*lio dezvous at Siiigoi:. ,
'y :l The French portion of Ihc new Jltis- 5
?nri siau loan is ?120,000,000; German, .$80,- I
Sng- 000,dOO, and British Mid American. ;
.$20,000,000 each, i
???^
C1IE GREAT DESTROYS
iome Startling fact 3 about
the vice of intemperance; "
'Oa a l)mnfc"-'i Slcry Anent an 5ne!>ri?
alo Who Wa* Iiahorlns Under (la? D?>
tunion Tlia*. Dr:mkennea* is Hercdllarj
? It in Acquirer!, baju I)r. liuckirortli
Liks a good citizon 1 registered rqy
lamo at a barber siiop anil I hope to
rote tbo "straight ticket" (wbatevei
bat may mean) on Kkction Day. As
[ emerged from tiie registration office
[ mot a man who was decidcdly drunk,
l'bis is a common Pight in London, but
[ am glad to say rather a rare one in
\"cw York City. Accosting me with
nniiliarity, lie said: "I sny. boss, what
ire they giving for a vote?'" or words
:o this effect, for they were profane
n their diction. I endeavored to e::ilain
to him the great criminafity ot
>ril>ery, when the drunken man said,
fvith anothei oath: "I want to get
;ome of Unit insurance money b%ck,"
'oferring, of course, to the campaign
"und. Having a little I.eisufe for a
bat, I waylaid the man on his reurn
from registration, and endeavored
o instruct bim as to the evil of drunkmness.
"1 can't help it, boss,'' be exclaimed,
'my latner was a uruiiKuru ?uu su,
ron see, it runs in the family." .
This man was laboring under the
ieitision that drunkenness is herediavy.
Dr. Keeley, the author of the
clebrated Keeley cure, says that staisties
do not prove tiiat inebriety is
lereditary. lie says like produces like
wly under restricted conditions. If a
parent has a hare lip or a cleft palate
>r a crooked finger thrse variations
nay be transmitted. But if a man
oses his right hand by accident or yon
3111 off a dog's tail these deformities
vill not be transmitted. Nature can
jo educated, but not forced.
I have just bren talking to an officer
ivho has spent thirty years in the
irray, and on carefully considering the
mbject he said lie did not know a
ingle drunken man of liis acquaintance
irlio had had a drunken father- By a
Mirirms rninrirlence I met a man in the I
express business who was clearly the
averse for liquor, a qd I asked Jiim pf
io hnd hnd a drunken father. Ho rallied:
"We never hnd a drop of liquor
n the 110U30. I on'y became a drnnku*<l
.last Election Day." Dr. Dyed
Duckworth, a great authority on alcohol,
is of opinion that drunkenness is
>n acquired Iiabit, like many other bad
Siabits. On my way to the ofnee at 11
j'clock I went into a wfll-known cafe.
iear Wall Street, and there I saw an
iducatcd man urinking a half tumbler'
)f neat brandy. "Pouring the spirits
lown to keep fiis spirits up." You
'ould not get a pig or a donkey to
!rink half a tumbler of ueat brandy,
[t has taken the wild Indians of Arnerca
tivo or three centuries to,acqniro
he habit. Shakespeare says: "How
doth brced-V habit in'a man. Tho
labit of drinking is the result of conijanionship
and environment, but it is
iot hereditary. A drunken father may
each bis son by example to drink to
>xccss, but lie cannot transmit th<.>
IK- V -c rt
ZZlUJt lUt? 1UW2> ui UUtCUllJ. TTIlunu
rj "The R?an in the Street," for tho
Kew York Globe.
The Inspiration of Conflilrnn*.
There is nothing wyieh so helps one
io do hie best as the inspiration of
jenerous confidence. Many a .man sue ocds
because of another's confidence,
>r fails because of the lack of faith cf
lis friends. When John B. Gough firs;
iigned the pledge he found no one who
ould heiieve that he would keep it.
IVith his nevFcs shattered by liis indulgence,
and lis fatal appetite asserting
tsalf, he could not feel confidence in
limself. At the moment when liis despondency
was greatest .a gentleman
r.ade his appearance and Hie follow!'
:onvcrsation ensued: "
"Good moraing, Mr. Gough."
'"Good morning, sir."
"I saw you sign the pledge hu
light"
"Yes, sir; I did."
"I was very giad to sec yon do it.
ind ninny a young man followed your
vxample. It is just such men as you
hat wo want. And I hope you will he
he means of doing a great deal of
;ood. My office iB in tho Exchange,
jorns in and see me. I will be happy
o make your acquaintance. 1 havo
>;:Iy a minute or two to spare, but I
bought I would just call aud tell you
o keep up a brave heart. Good-bye.
Joel bless you. Conic in and" sec me."
That "spare minute" or two saved
110 cay. :Vir. uou^n iru me iusj/iiuion
of the stranger's confidence and
esolvcd not to disappoint it.
Tito Four-Mile .Lair ity Tcnnexaso.
As a result of tlio four-mile law of
Tennessee, originally passed in 1ST7
ind amended in 1HS7, saloons vroro
Iriven entirely out of the country dis;ricts.
Under the act of 18'.;;), extcncing
the provlsi^s of (he four-mile lav/
o towns of 200'y inhabitants, they were
Iriven out of twenty^ight towns in
ivbaeh they then existed. Since the
>ftssage Of the Adams law in 1!)03 they
javo been driven out of foriy ether
owns, leaving them row in only sevmteeu
cities and towns in the State>ight
over 5000 inhabitants which do
iot come under provisions of the law.
uid nine under 5COO which have not
,-ct. taken advantage of it?and leavMi?;
hem.in only twelve counties >:
;he ninety-sis.
I'nlilio FIonseB Cloned.
The London County Council have a! eady.
in pursuance of its tcmperar.c--'*
jolicy, closed 133 public housed at a
.lost, of ?330.000, and last June, on tlio
notion of Sir William Coliins, it was
lictnod to continuo that policy in regard
o the iinpavements being nuuie in
[lampstead road, where another Jars;'
;>ubHe house will be cicscd at a o<" .' !
?30.030.
Temporoncft Notrs. ,
f'he first social glass has put many ;i
)ri?lit young man into uie fiuumerser.
ilasrs.TIid
great railroad rcrporations of
very..country liave eomo to recoup.!'//
the justice and v.'isdouj of temperance
is is evidenced by tlie requirements
Lbny impose on their employe?.
Nowadays the groat industrial and
jliicr concerns employing large mini
i>.ers of men find it more ami more
necessary lo insist unon xio:i-!i<r.;ci
Jrmlcer.s and will employ no others.
-
]t'. W. Minerson is proposing a "gel
together" conference of liic various
temperance and reform organizations
)f Kansas. .
A drunken passenger threw a lighted
natch into some gasoline on the hinnch
lien liur, near Detroit, Midi., and it.
the p:inic which followed tour passei~3rs
wore drowned. Scorn anotiiei
triumph for "personal liberty."
An excellent text hook on hygiene,
written by I\2r. Renuers. has just been
published in Kelsium for ?w iu tin
;>rimary and Secondary schools. The
Liook is written in Flemish, a no
ihounds in sound information regard
ng alcohol and its effect on health.
*IN THE TIME OF TROUBLE KF. SHALL
HIDE ME."
.Lay not, my sop], thy grief too much to
keart;
When God doth empty thee He doth impart
Himself, in placc of earthly joys removed;
When lie thy love and trust in Him hath
) proved.
Lie still, my soul, nor dare to think Him
'hard,
Lest thou, by murmuring, His -work retard.
Think'st thou thy God can ever make mistake?
Or cause thee needles* sorrow to partake?
Is this thy Father's love, which once did
give
His Son to die, that thou in Him might'st
live?
He only-seeks to burn thy dross away.
Return, my soul, "return unto thy rest,"
And '^ust thy God to order whaCis best;
To Unkind arms thy welcome is most
sure,
. His heart of love hath solace firm and
pure;
Therein, e'en now, thy faith can surely
rcau
In "paths of righteousness" thy God doth
Jcad.
Artd when thou lenowest as thou here art
known.
In deep humility thou then shalt own
That what in time was grievous unto the*
Exceeding g '** 1iaH- wrought eternally.
Then rest t??- :n thy Father's choice to
day, ?
To guide thy step* jn His appointed way.
Faith and the Bible.
The word of the Lord endureth for
ever.?I. Peter, i., *25.
Perhaps the words of the Irish hymn
Trriter voice the deepest religious feelings
of to-day: t
"Change and deeay in all around I see;
O Thou who" changest not, abide with
me."
There has been a change in mental
attitude toward all things that jiertaiu
to religion. The doctr'ne of evolution
lias unveiled a new world. Ana yet it
is the same old world; we have simply
revised our opinions about it. The universe
did not break up into chaos with
the downfall of the Ptolemaic system
of astronomy. We simply awoke one
day to find .that in reality the earth, instead
Of sitting on a throne receiving
the adoration of the sun and stars, itself
paid homage and in rotation and
revolution besought the son's light and
heat and was content with the worship
of one little burnt up cinder.. Similarly,
though Charles. Darwin has
changed men's views of science and
history ~nd of all human speculation,
the facts of life remain the sama
Now some lament that their religion,
Is being taken away; that the Bible
is being destroyed as God's word to
man and its position of authority undermined;
that the Church, the sacrementa,
the creeds, the ministry no longer
hold the attention and reverence of
men, and that all authority for faith
itself is shattered. They, look back
with longing to the days when there
was no higher criticism, when there
was no questioning of the dogmas of
religion, when men believed their theologies
as they did the multiplication
table.
It would be simple truth to observe
tun.t tnose days never twiaieu, wej
ure part of an ideal Imagination. There
lias always been septicism; there have
always been questionings. "All is'
vanity and vexation of spirit" is only
one ancient testimony.
Then what must be the attitude of
the religious mind to-day? Simply to
assert more vigorously the old doctrine
of inspiration, to proclaim .with more
defiance the ok* formularies? If there
Is nothing better, nothing surer, tho
voice must grow fainter and weaker
until finally it shall die away entirely.
)''or even the supposed days of simple
faith and the unquestioning mind can
never return. You have some time,
possibly to-day, engaged in worship, iu
praise and prayer, and now you are
reading this. WLy? Because of something
alien to your nature that has
been imposed upon you by some book,
some church, some creed? No, but because
of some unmistakable fact of
your inmost being, some part of your
own nature, that finds no satisfying affinity
with any of the transitory things
of earth, and from its depths cries ont,
"O Thou who changest not, abide witlr
. me;" some hunger of the soul that discovers
no sustenance for its life escort
in communion with God.
This is tho foundation of ycur religion,
your deepest faith. No science,
no criticism, no philosophy can shaHe
it. Without it no religion would be
possible, no Bible, no church, no .rorcMr>
Ti<v>nuso it is there oil forms of
expression ere possible, yes, inevitable.
As one of these forms coniider
briefly the Bible. The main truth- is
that the Ei'ule dill not precede this
foundation faith we have just mentioned,
but blossomed from it. In the
words of one New Testament writer,
"Men spake from God, being moved by
the Holy Spirit." As their nature,
their generation, their habits of
thought permitted them to be moved.
po they were moved. And what they
I spake is of value to us not as an in|
fallible rule of faith and practice, but
j as an actual religious experience of
J men of flesh and blood alike our own.
Much we can appropriate and make
our own because our own rcligiojs
natures respond to it. Much we can
enjoy and feed on because it actur.i'y
does nourish. It goes straight to the
heart without llic aid of any theory of
inspiration.?Tiomlliy F. Humphries,
Kector of Trinity Church. South N'orwaik,
Conn., in the New Yory
Herald.
A Sermon to Self.
To work fearlessly, to follow I
estly after trulh, to rest with a childlike
confidence in God's guidance, 1o
leave one's lot williuglv aud heartily
to Ilim?this is my sermon to myself
If we could live more within sight of
Heaven, we should care less far the
turmoil of earth.?John tifl.'.sr.I
Green.
Two Are nfasonlsM'c.
He that hath slight though; ..." .-in
never has great thoughts ct
Owen.
n'liifiis Mnflp Hair fJroiT.
A vase that has interested the physicians
not a little is that of James
I''oss, of Saugus, Mass. Last February
Mr. Foss fell down a flight of stairs
at his home, striking on his spine. He
was picked up for dead. For. some
(line he did not siiow any signs of life,
but later a /aint heart bent was felt.
Prom tliat time until July 1 he lay in
an unconscious state. Before his fall
lie was baldheaded, but during liis ilFness
the hair began to grow, until now
lie has as good a crop as auy person
could desire.
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THE. SUNDAY SCIOQI
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT,
FOR NOVEMBER 26.
Subject: Abstinence For the Satco^ <
Others, I. Cor. x.,23 83?Golden Tvi
1? Cor. xj, 12?Memory Verxeg, 31-3
?Commentary on the Day's I^esson.
In verses 24-22 Pan! resumes the dil
eussion from chapter 8:13 touching th
eating of meats which had been offere
In sacrifice to idols. In the lesson "bt
fore us we have some practical dire<
tions on this subject.
I. The duty of living for others (vi
23,24). , r_,i
23. "All things are lawful." I ina
lawfully eat all kinds of food, but &
are not expedient. It would not be b<
coming ip me to eat of all, because
should by this offend and grieve man
weak minds. Though it may be at
mitted that it Is strictly lawful to ci
meatB offered to idols, yet there :ft
etrong reasons why It is inexpedien
and those reasons ought to "have th
bindfng forcg of law. "Not expedient.
And co, being Unprofitable and irijui
ious, may thereby become unlawfu
"Edify not." AH things do not ten
to build up the causs of Christ,
therefore are not.expedient 24. "Hi
owri." Let no man consult his ow
happiness, pleasure or convenient*
but let hlra ask what wlll^be for th
good of others. No rule Is laid dow
about eating;or not eating any kind c
food as a matter of importance in 1
eelf. With such things, the gospel ha
no concern. What Paul does prestirib
wolo-f/io frt f h A nffrtrtf S\<" AflM *1MA
A'ClUtco W W1C CUCUI. V/. V?Ul CUUUUUL UUU
others. .Let-every icnaa live not fc
himself, but for every part of the gree
human family with which he Is sm
rounded. "Another's wraith." "Be
each his neighbor^ good."?R. V. TBi
will cause true happiness.
n. The duty of guarding the' wed
(vs. 25-30). 25. "Is sold." The meat
of idol sacrifices were often exposed t
sale in the markets especially by th
Rriests, when they had on hand a gin
plus. To the Christian thi3 was 6
lawful as any other meat "Shan
bles." The mfeat stall# In the raarke
"Asking no question." The. Jews wer
vexed with innumerable scruples wit
respect to their eating andwere accuf
tomed to ask many questions aboi
their food, &b to where it was obtain?
how prepared, etc.; all of these scruple
ana questionings tne gospel aDoiisned
26. "Earth is the Lord's." See P?
24:1. This meat belongs to tlie Lor
and is mride for man's use. It does w
belong to the idqj, even though it ha
been offered to it.' It may therefore TS
partaken of as God's gift. 27. "Bidfeast"
This.refers to a feast in" a piTata
house. In verses 14-22 the apostl
severely rebukes the practice of eatin
at feasts in heathen temples, becaue
this w as one part of- idolatrous woi
ship. IT a pagan friend invite a Chrii
tian to hte home ta. dine he should' pa
what is set before him without vexin
his host with questions about his foot
' But there is nothing here, commande
which would require a person to eat <o
drink that whteh'is harmful.
28. *'Say unto you." That is, if on
of yopr fellow'-gvests should displn
scruples of conscience, or a heathe
should be likely to draw, the inferenc
tuat you approved of idol worswp, up
altogether alters the case. You are n
longer simply eating with thankfuJneS
the food set before yon as the gift' o
God, but the question of idolatroa
worship of idols as permissible to
Christian. 29. "For why," etc.. ThJ
verse and the next as a little obscun
The meaning seems to be that "no ma
has a right to Interfere with the libert
enjoyed by another, save so far as ifi
own conscience and conscientious cm
victions are.likely to be affected ther<
by." We must guard tho point o
yielding to another's conscience, fo
we "may by obeying a man's false 001
science confirm his self-conceit^ or cs
tablish a ftrise morality. CO.. "If I b
grace." "If I partake with thankfu
ness."-R. V.
III. The correct rule of conduct (vi
.31-33).
31. "Bat, or vdrink." The glory o
God is to be the end of all our actiom
In themselves eating and drinking ar
things indifferent, but there are ch
/>nmetonnfla in urhi/ih fltOV mov hl^ mfll
*.UU10UUliV,V^ V? "J J , ?
ters of the highest importance. In oa
own. day, for instance, the question o
using or abstaining from intoxicafln
liquors is one which ought to be deal
with on the eame principles which Piu
has .laid down in thi3 chapter. Such
question should be decided on on
ground alone, namely, whether by ui
i.ng them or abstaining from them w
shall best promote the glery of Go(
fDo all." This requires that we shfrul
filan and order our whole life in a<
cordacce with God's law. "Glory o
fiod." To live to God's glory should!)
the high aim of every individual. Thi
Is a sufficient rule to regulate ever
caan'e conscience and practice.
32. "Give none offense." See R. ^
Though you may be no Lctfcr or vfors
for eating meat or not eating, yet 1
your conduct injures others and lead
them into sin you -should'abstain ci
tirely. It is far more important the
your brother should no-t bo led hit? si
than that you should partake of mea
which you acknowledge is in itself c
no importance. This is a general prli
ciple which should regulate Christia
conduct at all time. "Jews."' Th
apostle ever avoided offense to h
kinsmen after the flesh. "Gentiles.
Crossing none of the!rproji:dice& whei
God'6 law does not require, it
33. "Please all men." lie did thi
so far a3 he could righteously. "Ma
bo saved." His' main object was 1
seek the salvation of all men. Till
??,,> *>nr? in riow y.:?lvfltion MM
nua uw ?
bles men to sot aside their owii waj
in order to uplift another. Strife ovc
non-essentials destroys rather tha
builds up ihc worlc of God.
Japan's purchnaes from the Unite
State.? in the fiscal 3*c-ar just close
amounted to $51,724,72(1. ,
i ' .
S'ivc l'e^iRionrr^ of i77w.
'JJ:e report cf Ihe Commissioner o
Pensions, at Washington, 1>. C.. fo
ihe fiscal year ended Julj^ I hist, sliou
iliat there are still fin? pensioners o
account of the War of the Itevolutioi
one of them being Esther S. Dainoi
the widow of c Revolutionary soldle:
The others arc daughters of such so
diers. Mrs. Damou is ninety-one yeai
oliL
/
Arrolint Kigrtit IKoiiIIih OliK
Eigiit months old and it fcrobat. uj
able to wall: or talk, vqi possessin
such remarkable muscular 'develci
ment of tlie arm? and shoulders tin
he can balance himself em his hand
and with heels In the air pvocee
across the room- these are among tfc
remarkable characteristics of the 60
of William Schnrs, of Denver, Col.
VTorlrt'# Olrio?t I.nwTflT. ,
David Wark, the oldest 1 '?i.sjator i
the world, died at his home in Frf<
erickton, N. II.. need 301 years and 61
months. Mr. Wark was a member <
the Canadian Senate at Ottawa, a II
office.
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