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I j % j \ A?? 3 ^ \ POIN | J&J& % 3 X c i EY J; ANNIE J EDWARDS. *'*r?r'*rtt^^*pryf*5r?t*5t*5XQi CHAPTER VII. S Continued. This was, literally, all that passed between Jane and Miss Lynch. The latter was prepared with a set-out tea, _2*h null <?nsa>.ll<HI J\C fnilflO Willi \TCil V* Jence, and sSVeraloi'hcr own 'favorite little books., ready marked at the in -which she considered apfivopria-t^J medicine for affliction to be stored; But her heart died within her. All thought of offering consolation -was chilled hack by the first sound of Jane'8 changed -voice. She scarcely dared to follow her, even to look upon her face. What if all the youth and life should have died out there as well? "Don't think me unkind, auntie," said Jane when she reached the door of her own little bedroom; and. with all her changed voice, she said this very gently -poor child, it was not in her to be aught save gentle, even in the extremity of her despair?''don't think me unkind for leaving you. auntie; but I am / very weary with tny journey, and I think it best for both of us to be'quite alone to-night." Ami she submitted meekiy to nri tne kindiy offices of love that Miss Lynch insisted upon doing for her, and attempted to eat some of the food that she set before her, and even smiled?a wan and ghastly smile?as she bade Miss- fynch good night, and promised to get to her bed at once and try to sleep. But when she was alone?when she first stood face to face with her new knowledge, in this little room that had held her in her innocent, glowing lovedreams of the last few weeks?when, standing thus, the unnatural torpor slowly passed away from her brain, and she knew, with sharp, harsh cer! 4 -XV. C <n*A C4 olm To 11A CI pq n fl R9- TitllllJ, llUUl XL \*UO one, UUHV vj *???; Gifford Mohun's promised wife, who was?what she was!?all the floodgates 1 of her soul were suddenly loosed, and she fell upon her knees and wept. (Healing tears, that easod her brain and thawed her heart; that brought her foack to her own nature ontfe. again; that left her, when the -ftiext'Sftny dawned, weftk-and wofn* nnd?pro?llw|s>. but thinking -of: Glfford's grief more than her own, praying meekly to God to temper the blow that was to fall upon him whom she counted so far dearer and more precious than herself. Throughout that night, as during the past day, no doubt ever for an instanjt , crossed her concerning the way in Vfhich her engagement with Mohun must end. If any misfortune, if any disgrace, had overtaken him, she wonld have clung to him the more, simply because he was in misfortuue and disgrace; the shame being on her side, ?i>a mutt of Prttirsfv rpnonnneo everv dairn opon Lis regard. These she I? looked upon as the facts of the ease. She did not stop to consider whether they betoken a nobler love on her part or on Mohan's. They-simply were so, and she succumbed to thera. And I suppose there are some poorly, endowed and weak-hearted women who will continue to the end of time to look upon canons like these as the orthodox thing in their peculiar system of idolatry. Let their stronger sisters, (who hold that in love, as in equity, both parties are bound by a like law?that men's love should uot demand any greater sacrifice than that of women), let their stronger sisters thank heaven that they are not as these arc, and pass on their way. No one, with even a very superficial knowledge of life, could believe that the worldnvould go on as well as it does now if all the women it contained were of the type of Jane Grand; and it is a comfort, perhaps, to know that the shrinking, the thoroughly unselfish, the meek, the dumb, the lowly of heart, are not to be met with in at all an wj alarming.propcrtion among (he present ' generation. j?n It is possible, however, as pa of a SEj -vast system, that even these--'Weaker. a? vessels are not wholly without value. B| The stately pine and solemn yew have their nses and their beauty; but the litis! tie frail eyed celandine growing at Bgf their foot has hers as well. || CHAPTER VIII. Fragile, waxen faces, tlint take ttie stamp of youth most delicately, are also those which olden quickest under ?fhe pressure of moral or physical sickness. I have myself seen such a one Jose youth and bloom forever in the space of four-and-twenty Hours of sudden mortal anguish. When Jane Grand came down to meet Gifford Moban next morning, her face was more altered by this one night of weeping than many women's would be by the wAot? n nr7 faot* onrl 'Siif. fering, of half a score of ordinary years. Mohun was startled at the alteration in ber. Miss Grand's beauty was precisely that quality with which he was . in love; and it shocked him to see the capabilities of plainness already latent in her girlish face. "Jane, are yoit ill??ray dearest Jane, what in the world is the matter with ^ jou ?" V She walked quickly to his side, and. V fcefore he had time to rise, tlirew her arms round his neck?she so shy and Teticent even of loving words!?and kissed hin?! "Gilford?I shall never marry you!" Then Gilford forgot tlie ashy cheek and hollow eyes; he saw himself about to be defrauded, by some overwhelming misfortune, of his own hopes, and lie caught her passionately, almost fiercely, 1o his breast. "Do you know what you are saying, Jane? Do you know what promises you have made?promises that no one but me can ever free you from?" "You will free me from them all." "I free you! I give up your iove! Jane, icll me what you are talking nbout! It is impossible thai you can |?e speaking in sober earnesr. You wish %> 0R. S 1 \ FOR HER k !: Xn FATHER'S I [ IT SIN. | , *_ <?? J& ? J )F \*> \\ HONOR;\ 5; > -* * ; to be freed from your promises to me? \ you wish to break off our engagement! J will never H j But just tbeu the thought struck Mr. j Mohun that, before any woman could t wish to give him up, some overpower- < fingf unfitnfcss*toJbe iVrf; wl1t*mTrst?cer- *, ,'tainfy exist upon her side: awl'he t [pnused before committing, himself to ( iwiy rash oath. . ( , "I am ready to hear you out. Jane; i but I am sure, if you knew what liorri- ] blc pain you are giving me, you would j try to tell me whatever you have got > tc say in a less cruel way than you j have chosen." She looked at him tenderly, yearning- , ly, as a mother might look at tde sick < child whose worse sufferings she would | rapturously hear, if the cup could but 1 pass from his lips to hers. "Cruel! Oh, Gifford! I would to God ( I knew any way to spare you this pain! i If I said what I did too suddenly, for- < give me. I have been tbinkiug all f night how I should break it to you best, , and now the time has come I say it ] abruptly and in the hardest words 1 could have chosen. Ob, Gifford?oh, i Mr. Mohun, if you knew what torture it is to me to have to pain you!" 11 "Mr. Mohun!' Jane, what 'are you ( thinking of? Do you'iwish already 10 . forget that you are my promised ? wife?".. ! He kissed her pale, trembling Jips; he i reassured her very tenderly?although j still without any further positive com- ] mittal of himself. i "Tell me what you have to say quick- ] ly, Jane, dearest, and tbe worst will be < over for us both." i And then he went on to whisper, but ! rather indistinctly, how impossible it < was that any circumstances whatever ! /irrnM nltnr Invo Jik#> tllpirK: and hOW ' positive lie was that 110 disclosure she 1 could make would change, in the slight- 1 est degree, the position in which they I stood to each other. 1 Instinctively ? utterly without the 1 <age{icy of any, reasoning process?Jane, 1 for the first time, knew that Mohun's 1 love was not blind, self-immolating love, like her own. She had fully re- < solved that lie should give her up. She ' had sworn to herself to accept uo sac- i rifice. however noble, that he might < wish to make. But still, human nature ' is so constituted that we can all of us 1 go through positively any etner torture 1 better than that particular one,which 1 n?t/V lol/l n in Aim mirwl flQ 1 i; liinc luivi vivrtAi in vui v right and fitting for us to bear. To < have witnessed Mohun's suffering in 1 giving her up, to have -withstood his < passionate desire to marry her in apite 1 of all, would, no doubt, have bitterly ? wrung Jane Grand's heart; but yet, I < believe, the barest, unexpected thought I that he was prepared to meet her 1 wishes, and to act wisely, smote > through every fiber of her heart and 1 brain with a far fiercer agony. She said no word to lot him know 1 what a pang of cruel disappointment 1 that soothing, commonplace whisper of his had awakened. Neither then r.or ' afterward did she admit to herself (in ' ariything like a tangible form of 1 thought) the truth that his love was i largely mixed up with selfishness, and i worldly wisdom, and disregard for her. 1 But she turned very trembling and chill < in all her frame; she loosed herself ab- 1 ruptly from his embrace; and then, 1 standing a short distance away from < him, she clasped her two death-cold little hands together, and looked into ' his face?looked at him with eyeo * whose piteous, dumb entreaty must? 1 one would think?have risen unpleas- i " 1ft! T\f ?YlAmAI?V 1 uimjr uirivi t* -111. muuuu o uiriuvi j ing a good many years of Lis succeed- i ing life. "You know what I went to London 1 for yesterday?" and as she spoke the \ agitation died down-in her voice, and * it began to take something of the hard. ] unmodulated tones with which she had ' spoken to Mr. Clithero the day before. 1 "You know what I went for? To hear the history, which I never heard before, of my parents' life." Yes, Mr. Mohun knew it. But he hoped?he felt sure?that. Jane had greatly exaggerated to herself the effect which these histories would have ' upon their own future fate. "You are very proud, Gifford?you are very sensitive in your ideas of honor; I know that from the way that ^ I have heard you speak <-f Bertha and j Allies Tennant a score of times." "But that has nothing to do with us ( now, my dear child. How does my opinion of the Tennant family concern anything that relates to your engagement with me?" "It concerns me thus far!" she cried, and all the color rushed back now to her wan face. ."It concerns me thus * far, that every time you have spoken slightly of them you have spoken so of . mp. However unwilling' you might feel to marry one of Mr. Tennant's daughters, you will?you must?feel a j thousand times more how impossible f it would be for you to marry me! Yes, Gifford, yes?it is so! Oh, my God!" "What is it, Jane?" but the tone of ( Mohun's voice was changing, and he , fidgeted nervously with his hands. "What similarity is there between your ^ position and that of the Miss Ten- , mi ntc'" I "There is ibis difference between us. j KifTord: Tbe Miss Temianis are rich anil have many friends and parents , living, and I am poor and without a relative on the earth?" She stopped short with agitation: Mohun breatlied rather freer. Whatever 1 these fearful people were that he was J going to hear about, it was a consola- i tion to think that they were at least i dead and buried. He had had a dread- i fill suspicion that the living vulgarity of some atrociously near relatives was going to be thrust upon him. i "Your friendlessness knits you closer < to me. Jane; and"?and here he felt lie < was saying something wonderfully < j -- k aagnairiraous?"it is easier to get over lie failings ol liiosc who are gone than I iniglit be, you know. if one was actually thrown -with them in one's daily ife. When people are dead one can't bink of any ol their errors 'too inrshly." Jane's eyes plowed through all their uisery at this extraordinary trait of generosity in Mr. Mohun. "I am glad you have spoker. so. Giford. it reminds mo ol how I should ipeak and how 1 should feel. Yes, I vill try never to be ashamed of them igain. As you say. their failings ihould be lightly dealt with now?for hey are dead!" And then, distinctly and without falering once, she told him. almost word or word, what Mr. Clithpro had told ler respecting her mother's birth and li story. A nameless French actress?better tameless perhaps than if she had been nore Known, wen, vnuuiuo i^uc a make an immense effort, but lie did ;ulp it down. It was merciful that the ivomaifwas a foreigneiwxtill. more-so, hat she was forgotten ant! dead. The Ireadful disclosure might have turned, nit worse:?and 1hen Jam; really ; was; ;ery beautiful (when she was looking ier best) and he was v&ry much in ove with her. and he would have been rery sorry indeed to have had lo disippoint himself With a great deal of tenderness, net nmiixed with condescension, he began o let her know that he could not aliow ier to break off their engagement, even ror sm.h a cause as she had just stated. Bnt. Jane interrupted him?interrupt?d him with passionate haste? with ooks, with words, that froze back all Gfifford's conventional speeches, all small vanity?yes, for the moment, jvon all thought of himself or of what fie felt and was going to do. "I?I can't believe it! My God, this is too frightful!'' Gilford Mohun was selfish to the rery core?self-loving. 6tlf-seebirig, selffi'pproving; 'fhirstin'g for all earthly ?ood to be centered in nmiseu: mm *iugulnrly apathetic. as a rule, to the stifFeriiif^of any-per sdmwhose sufferings happened to be necessary to bis Measures. But be was onJy a boy; and, uowever fine tbe raw material in other espects, jio boy ever possessed tbe [trim?, Ibe essential quality for n thorough man of the world?moral eailouftliess. A man must have gone through i good deal of life to be perfect master jf a very difficult situation in an instant; and Gifford had gore through very little of life, and his brain turned. ? ? ?n(?fnr onfv moment?he relt as though his voice was goiug to ">e choked with sobs, and that ho would take Jane to bis breast and bid her >tay there ft.'ever, because of the very nagnitude of the horror that had fallen jpon himself and'upon ber alike. But the revulsion of feeling came luickly; and with that first irrepressible instinct died the best chance of Gifford Mohun's life. Marry the daughter )f such a man?ally his old name to one which, since he was a schoolboy. he tiad himself heard spoken of in connection with dishonor? Hot shame at the j;ive thought of 6uch a marriage thrilled through bis veins and rose indignantly to his cheek. He felt lhat iie had been* shamefully, monstrously Jeceived. The guilt lay with those who, knowing what she was, had ever allowed him to love Jane Grand. Now jnly one course lay before him?to weak with her at onee and forever, to become the talk of all the country round, and then to get far away and Iry to live down and forget tbe shame md bitterness of all this miserable business that had been forced upon Jl 1 )Y1 Tliis?if emotion eouid. ever be truly endered by wolds?was something like wliat now passed through Gilford's heart. He did not think (that first boyish impulse over) of Jane, or of her sjrief, or of her love. He thought of wlmt he loved best?himself; and bow ]uiekest to get awny from what he hated most?his own pain. And I think, if Jane could have read his soul luring these first moments, she might -I speak with diffidence, knowinc how rooted such women nre in their fond superstitions?she might have found a :tuc1 but efficacious check to some of [lie idolatry with which, for many tears afterward, she continued to regard him. "I have been treated shamefully," he eneated, between his closed teeth. He aad started at the culminating part of Fane's story and was marching npand Jown the room, regardless of the marble face and frightened, tearless eyes :hat followed him as he marched. (To be continued.) Be in EartieKt. Make the most of your opportunities. Don't be satisfied that you'll do it to-morrow ov rest on your laurels because you did it yesterday; do it toJny. Take advantage of every opportunity tliat comes your way. Don't get iuto the way cf belittling pour chances and feeling tbey are not jig enough to botbcr over. What seems the tiniest chance may )c the nucleus of the crowning acbiev*3nent of yom- life. So you see you can't F.fford to let my opportunity slip -or fear it might jp the rigbt one. Try and put energy end interest into iverytbing you do. Work with all your heart, play with ill your heart; above all things avoid ndiffrrenee and that enemy to all jrogross?apathy. Remember, life even nt its longest is jrief, and there are thousands of splendid, wonderful things to be crowded into it. Try and economize these precious looting moments by aoing me tilings hat's most worth while. Select the pleasures th.it will bring rou greatest joy. Choose tbe work you ire most'fitted to do. Keep your eyes open; be alert; never ,ie afraid to try tilings. Eliminate "I can't" from your vocabulary and put "I'll try" in Its place. \Vholenome Food and Hanpinemi. Feed a man rightly, wholesomely and well, and liis temper, bis digestion and liis work improve. If women only -enlizcd this, wlmt a little heaven they might make of their home.?Lady Vioet Greville, in tbe London Graphic. An Austrian train thief, arrested at he Lyons station wearing stolen jlothes, calmly declared that he was a i-ollcctor of articles mislaid in railway ?arrinffes. . ? / I household -w Matters KeepioK Olive Oil. Olive oil is injured by being kept in the light. When used at <th<e table it should be put in a dark-colored bottle, and removed ,to a cool, dark place immediately after the meal ie over. Cleaning Brass. Brass that is badly tarniched may be cleaned by dissolving in ammonia a imall piece of scouring soap. Apply I his to tlie surface with a soft brush ind then polish -well with chamlos ikin. ' Two Clcnninc Kecipce. All oalc furniture looks nice if rubbed (vith beeswax 'and turpentine. Put on Ihinly and polish with a brush. A tablespoonful of sal-soda, over i which. boUiog>w,ater<is poured, in recJinmended for taking stains off coffee pots. . TVith this treatment no boiling 'is necessary.* New Tapestry Designs. Tho new designs in tapestry are more practical than tbose of last seasou. Greater attention bas been paid to the harmony of border and body material and to the blending of colors. One of the new forms of border goods is tbe reversible type, with a different border on eacb side. The Table Cover. Coverings for circular tables Lave a antral pattern which is the shape and size of the table top, and a circular border of tbe same design falls over the edges. The regulation tablecloth, nowever, plays little part these days in the dressing of the festive board, fnpmni nppnsinns. Break CALC|;i. XJMA *vi 1UU1 . fast .and luncheon cloths, centrepieces ' and doilies are much more convenient -for ordinary use. They are also less troublesome to launder. Soap-Making. As the time to make soap "will soon be here again I give my recipe which eQUiress very little labor.. 5 lbs. grease, 2y_> gallons water, ! 1 can lye. 1 usually make four times the amount - *-' ? Afinli /?on Af irrO I at out; 11 lilt'. JUiosvivc cciv.il v?ii ~ In J/& gallon of water placed in a stone jar. Boil the grease in the remaining 2 gallons of water in a large kettle for about ten minutes, then stir in the lye. The soap will soon form. Cool- and cut out in cakes.?Mrs. J. S. Davis, in The Epitomist. Hints to the Cook. When making corn-meal mush-sift a tablespoonful of flour with the meal to prevent.the mush sticking. , . In molding fancy jellies brush the inside of the mold with white of egg and the jelly will turn out easily. If boiled or roasted meat that-is to be used cold is wrapped in a moist cloth it will be more tender. When mnking gravy remove the pan from the fire while the thickening is being stirred in, and when smooth return to the fire to cook. This method prevents lumps forming. To scale fish easily pour on hot water slowly till the scales curl, then scrape quickly. Wash in several waters, having the last cold and well salted so no slime will be left. For the boiled cider of grandmother's day, without which no mince pie or fruit cake was complete, and which kept perfectly for a year or more, boll, slowly, Ave quarts 01 sweet ciner jij a porcelain #kettle,. watching,' that. 5t does not burn until reduced to three pints, turn into glass jars or bottles and seal tightly like canned fruit. Potatoes will boil more quickly if two kettles of boiling water are prepared, one of which' is poured ovei the vegetables, and after a moment the potatoes are lifted into the other kettle, and boiling will not cease. When potatoes are to be baked, if they are thoroughly heated on top of the stove (turning them once) they will bake in half the usual time.?The Pilgrim. Teach Pie?Pare and cut in halves place in a deep dish; sprinkle a little cinnamon and sugar, then sift on a lit tie -flour; cover with a nice rich crust To be eaten fresh. White Sauce?Add to melted buttei one ounce of flour and stir till smooth Pour in slowly three-quarters of a pin of cold water. Stir until it boils. Adt six drops of lemon juice, season anc strain. ivomon 1'ie?une cotiee cup 01 sugar juice and rind of one lemon, tlire< eggs, one tabiespoonful of corn sturcl dissolved in ^ little cold water; adt boiling water to fill the cup, make meringue of the whites of eggs for the top Lentils?Soak the lentils in wate over-night. Drain, and cover witJ salted boiling water. Boil for an hour drain, and cover with more boilinj water and cook until quite soft, but no broken. Drain very dry, melt a heap ing teaspoonful of butter in a fryinj pan, and, when slightly browned, pu ' in an onion cut into tiny bits. Stir fo several minutes, then turn in the len tils. Add a tabiespoonful of browue< flour, and n teaspoonful of vinegar Cook, stirring to a smooth mass, an< serve. Stuffed Cabbng??Wash a cabbag and lay it in salted water for an houi pulling the leaves apart, but not break ing them off. Then place it in salte< boiling water and cook for ten min utes. Drain, and, when cold, stand o: end and nut between the leaves i forcemeat made by mixing a cup o chopped roast meat?beef, mutton o real?with half as much fine crumbs and moistening all with weak stoch Begin this stuffing process at the cec tre of the cabbage, filling all intei stices carefully. When the forcemea is all used, press the leaves into plac and wrap the cabbage in a strip o cheese cloth. Put carefully into boi ing water and boil for a little over a hour. Lay the cabbage on a plattei carefully remove the cheese cloth, an pour over the cabbage a good brow sauce. % THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE." ~ The Saloon ie n Good Tiling For the Drink Matter ' and the Drink. Belief But a Very Toor 'Thine For the Man Who Pours tlie StnffDowa His Tliroal 3s the saloon a good Ibing? Yes, for the saloonkeeper. Yes, for the brewer. Yes, for the distiller. Yes, for the gambler. Yes, for the confidence man. Yes, for the hold-up man. Yes, for tbe criminal court lawyer. Yes, for tbe ward boss who gets Iiis weekly rake-off. Yes, for the yellow newspaper editor who gets his sensation ready-made there.x , Yes, for tbe spoilsman, who at the last moment can always defeat civic reform by buying, up the saloon's habitues. Yes, for the trapper who lives^-by snaring young ,men .and girls at the wine-room 6upper. Yes, for every brute that guised in man's garb goes out to serve his. master, tbe devil,.' and'.drags liis victims down to the bell he has made for himself. For these and tlieir like the saloon is a "good thing" eternally. But?is tbe saloon a good thing? No, for the man who drinks up his wages there. No, for the wife whose home is bare of comfort, because of the wages her husband lost there. No, for the children who breakfast on crusts and dine on crusts and go tc bed supperless because their, father spends Iris wages for arinn ana nor 101 food. No, for the butcher, who loses th wages the saloon patron might havf spent for steaks and chops. No, for the baker, who would sell Ji loaf or two of bread eyery day to ever? saloon victim if there- was no saloor to tempt him when ho went home from , work at nigjit. .. No, for the father whose son beginf to sow bis wild oats in the high li' oense ".buffet," goes.from bai^to barrelbouse and ^wipfls^up* a physical,, men tal and moral suicide. No, for the young woman who mar ries the man she loves "to reforn him." and finds out too late what hel on earth is like. No, for the taxpayer who thinks h( is getting off easy by making the sa loon pay him in license fee from five tc ten per cent, of its net proceeds, anc forgets to figure up as a part of tb< i debit side: (1) The cost of the police court; (2 jail; (3) county house; (4) fires causec by drunken employes; (5) shrinkage ii real estate values in saloon districts and (6) the loss to the community ol Jabor of able-bodied men whom the sa loon tempts to periodical sprees, oi whose drink undermined health anc poverty at length makes, them a pubji< charge; to say nothing of the boys ant girls caught by rum before (they ar< old enough, to know better/ and th< neutralizing of., all Christian en^eavoi by the ever present, ever busy i'nflu ence of its worst enemy. For these and for every healthy 'wholesome interest of every commu nity the saloon is not a good thing, bu a mighty bad thing eternally. ? If you believe this, vote against it li ?? ^ C+n+sv <ind wniiv Tiatlnn ^ UllI lUYYJi, JV Ul K) 1CIIU KUU JVU1 v<vu ill elections every time. Dethroning of Alcohol. Another potent .factor 1? the dethron ing of alcohol has been the spirit o: scientific research of recent years. Ii the great laboratories scientists hav< been carefully studying the effects o: alcoholic liquors upon the various or , gans.of,the.body, and, although the: differ in their conclusions upou somi points, the result, is..that, thoge pbysi cianfc who have most closely foIlowe< these investigations have, almost o: entirely, abjured alcoholics as a neces : sary part of'their , therapeutic-outfit 1 These elaborate studies of alcohol havi f convinced many that the nourlshinj and strengthening properties formerl] ; ascribed i.o alcoholics existed only ii | the imagination, and belong to the ei , rors of an age which had no facilltie for accurate observation. 'The fooi qualities of the grains and fruits, it i now believed by many authorities, ar destroyed in the process of making al coholic drinks. Even the stimulatinj > qualities ascribed to alcohol arfe de I nied by many, who class it among th narcotics because of its depressent ef feet.?From an Open Letter in tlio O'a tury. Glad He is Dead. Reporters called on a recent morninj at the humble home of William Clarkf of Muscatine, Iowa, who had died th previous night of delirium tremens The widow and ten children were gatb ered about the kitchen lire, wnei , asked for particulars the widow too ; pencil and paper and prepared tlie fol lowing note for the press: "Please d not say that the family deeply mouri for their dead. For years he has beei husband and father only in name. Fo r affection given, only blows and curse have been received in return. It i t better for him that he is dead and bel 1 ter for us. Now that the long dar j chapter is ended, do not make us hype crites by publishing that which is no true." j The Mogt rregflne Enemy. i In a speech before the English Ann j Temperance Association, Lord Wolst . ley said: "There are yet some battles to 1) fought, some great enemies to be er r countered by the United Kingdom, bu i the most pressing enemy at present i drink. It kills more than all our new r est weapons of warfare, and not onl I destroys the body, but the mind an the soul, also." T * Temperance Notes. * In the Protestant primary schools c r the Province or yueoec lessons ui?u temperance and health are compulsory i In Natal instruction is exteusivel given in the primary schools on th 1 laws of health and -temperance, thes being included iu the list of optiom subjects. e The Very Rev. Father Hays has bee ' stirring things up iu Australia. I - Victoria 21,358 person!! put down thei I names as total abstainers; in New ZeJ i- land 15,000 persons signal the pledg u in seven weeks. a In the colony of South Austrnii f teaching of temperance is icgularl r carricd out. The Church of Engljnd Teniperanc Society (Iocs some legitimate hraggin on itself. During (lie year 11)0 through its publication lions^. 13(5,00 * pledge cards, over :i qiiarlvr of a mil ion leaflets and <?(),(>0() tracts were sol( * There are now IH77 poisons confine in (lie Ohio penitentiary, and Rev. I ,T. Star, the chaplain of I lie inslilntioi n says that the records of tJic priso r, show that seventy-live per cent of Mi 3 prisoners owe I heir incarceration t crimes committed wlnl" under lh? u llueuce of strong drink. -- v.-. v~ jfiytiiNSgp gircCbJJfe COD KNOWS. Through ail my little daily cares there is One thought that comfort brings whene'er it tomes. 'Tis this: "God knows." He knows Each struggle that my hard heart makes, to bring My will to' His. Often, when night tim* comee, My heart is full cf tears, because the good That seemed at morn so easy to be done Has proved so hard; bat then, remembering That a kind Father is my judge, I say, "He knows." And so I lay me down with trust, ' ? That His good hand-will give me1 needed strength To better do His work in comincjdays. """ ?Harriet McEwen&SiiroVtf.^ > * . ? * Tne Building: of Character. Character may be defined as tbe IiAnufi In wliifth tvg ora +n livo fnrorcr * ^No one can buikl it for a man; every stroke must be bis cwn. And fori the rearing of ffiis perpe.tual borne of otirs we have only the few short years of our life on earth. Isjit any wonder That the first word in Peter's wonderful program for our work is "dill* , genee?" I This house of ours is to have a foundation, which Peter names next. Part of the foundation is under ground, of | course, out of sight; that is "faith." There can be no beautiful, visible . house of character without an abiding, rock-firm confidence in the great, uu> seen realities of the universe, such as , God, Christ,-Heaven, Hell, the soul ana immoriauiy. Ana pari 01 xiie L foundation is above ground, that is , "virtue," an uprightness of conduct , that all men can nee and rejoice in. Peter next enumerates "knowledge.'1 That is the framework that holds to. gether our structure of 'chara'cter. ! Many a man has "gone to nieces," as . the saying is, because he had a zeal that was riot" according to knowledge; he wanted to do'things, " but did 'nol know how. J "Temperance" comes next?"self-con j trol," as the margin has it. That is the wall, shutting out the cold, the storm, ; the robber, the wolf. Some folks thint 1 it shuts out pleasure also; but it does ) not. All the pleasure that is wortli i while may"come in through the door! ilnnfSAnAA " A n/1 -rrrlin*- /in ?n ^ J. lieu, [jaiicuvr. xxnu, >r uu.c v,u.u patience be but the floors, those Iowlj \ boards over which we tramp, tramp t tramp as we go about our daily, hum j .drum tasks.' Let not the bflards creak Cover them with ,gay carpet, so +?ba' f people may not know they are there Patience may become the most beautl f ful and comforting thing in all tin I house. "Godliness" comes next; the roof* oi course. Every house iot character s must have a side fronting HeavenI every hoUse, that is, except those mis r erable abodes that-rare-constructed ii . '-the caves of 'selfishness, burrowinj downNinto the perpetual dark! Thus, connected with the roof, comi 1 the chimney and the hearth, the symbo t of the household, and so the symbo of that characteristic which Pete; j names next?"love of the brethren.' No one can have such a character ai we are describing without loving al others that have the same character. But there is something about i house that is more beautiful even thai " the fire of the household on the hearth ? namely, the windows that let the fire 1 light out to cheer the passers-by. An< ? there is something in character mor< 1 beautiful than love of the brethren and that is "love," love of all men ^ love that reaches to Heaven and dowi e to Hell, and takes in the farthest "i rlnrlj-ocf mrnor nf tho.cnrth Are we building our house of chnrac r ter? Yes, indeed; we 'cannot helj building it; we are at work upon i overy minute. But how are we build ? ins it? That is the question. Are wi } building according to the careless die ' tates of bur "selfish fancy, or accord ? ing to that divine pattern that wai shown Peter in the holy mount??Amo; jj JS. Welle, in Sabbath Reading. ? A Revelation I~rom God. e In a conversation with Professor S F. E. Morse, the inventor of the tele ? graph. Rev. George W. Hervey aske< him this question: f "Professor Morse, when you wer making your' experiments yonder ii L* your rooms in the university, did yoi ever come to a stand, nc/t knowini what to do next?" "Oh, yes; more than once." B "And at such times, what did you di > next?" & "I may answer you in confidence ! sir," said the professor, "but it is J i* matter of which tlie public know & notliinsr. Whenever I could not see in; k way clearly, I prayed for more light." I- "And the light generally came?" o "Yes. And may I tell yon that whei Q flattering lionors came to me fron Q America and Europe on account o r the invention which bears my name s I never felt I deserved them. I liai s made a valuable application of electric ity, not because I was superior to othe k men, but solely b?oause God, \vh >- meant it fcr mankind, must reveal i t to some one. and was pleased to revea it to me." In view of these fa el*, it is not kui prising that the inventor's first messag y was, "What God hath wrought !"> Christian Union-Herald. ? Leave the Kent to God. i- Help us, each one of us in his place it In the place which is providentially al s lotted to us in life, to act well our pari . with consecrated will, with pure ai y fection, with simplicity of heart, to d d our duty and leave the rest to GodHoratio Stebbins. Life it Sacrifice. Out of the soil in which deciduoa n leaves arc buried the young tree shoot vigorously, and strikes its roots dee] y down into the realms of decay an* e death. Upon the life of the vegetabl e, world the myriad forms of higher lif il sustain themselves?still the same hi'n the sacrifice of life for life.?F. TV n Robertson. n jj. An Evidence of Zeal. i. Let me never fancy I have zeal til f. my heart overflows with love to ever; I mac. living.?Henry Marty u. a y Editor Bays a Protcctlnp Lion. When tlie timid correspondent goes t e heard the editorial lion in his den i ? Evansville. Ind., hereafter, he is likel; jj' to have more than a figurative experj I enco in lion taming. Charles P. Wolf( J* editor of the Times, in that placf ' bought a beautiful $1500 beast from d circus stranded in New Harmony. II A Lon; Thread, e The cotton factories in Lancashiri o England, spin enough thread in si i- soconds to go around the :worl<l. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR DECEMBER 17. Subject: Preparation For the MMilibj Mai. 111., 1.12?Golden Text, Ms), lit* 1?Memory Vei tei, 8-10?Commentary on the Day's LeMon. I. The coming of the Messiah <v. 1)< 1. "I." That Is, God. "My uoetfseB* ger." The New Testament clearljt shows that the mesgenger referred to here was John the Baptist. Onr Lord boro witness to John (Luke 7:27). 8e* also Matt. 11:10; Mark 1:2, 3: Luke 1} 76. "Prepare the way before Me." That Is. before the Messiah. Messengers sent before the Eastern kings pre* pared, the way for the chariots and ar? inies of their inonarchs. A "king's highway" had to be carried through tbe open land of the wilderness, vatleys filled Up and hills leveled, winding by-paths straightened, for the march of, the great army. Interpreted h*i*s spiritual application, the wilderness Was ' ;the world lying in evil. - John prepared the way for. Christ dn a moral wilder-?. jiess by preqchingrepentanoeand sh?w- " 1 - a : mrkn T awl "lDg Uie Iieeu Ui U Ofiviuui. . xuc r fcVftiom.*ye,sfeek." The Messiah whom yon v are expeetitog. "To His temple." '.Shall* .iioou be presented before the Lord Jul this- temple. He shall cleanse it from Its defilement and fill it with His glery. "Messenger of the covenant." He that comes to fulfill the great design iii reference to the covenant made witb Abraham, tbat in his seed all the families of the earth should be blessed. Christ was the "mediator of the ncw> covenant" (Heb. 9;K>) ? the "better covenant," established upon "better; promises" (Heb. 8:6-13; 10:16). "Yede" light in." They looked forward to His (. online with pleasure. II. Tbe mission and work of the Messiah (vs. 2-6). 2. "Who . may, I abide." .Who will be able to endure I tbe testing of character'His coming I will produce? They did not nnder- I stand the meaning of what they <fe* I sired; just as many desire and hope I , for heaven without realizing what theyj, must do to gain heaven. 'Like^are* 1 liner's fire." John tne Baptist said,. I "His fan is in His hand;" "He shaj* >i \baptize yop?\yith fire." In the refiner*#' fire is placed "the ore, a mixture of! good metal with rock and other materials, and the fire (1) separates the metal > from tbe dross, and (2) thus purifies the metal, but does not destroy it; bat (3) it consumes tbe dross, or so separ1 ates it that it is cast one side as re1 fuse. "Like fuller's soap" (R, V.) Soap such as we have was not kBOWtt 1 to tbe Hebrews till long after Jere ' miab's time, but they usea ass lye. ? 3. "Shall sit," etc. There is aa allusion here to the refiner sitting before : bis fire with bis eye on tbe metal. He ' kept it in the furnace until, lie knew: ! the dross to be completely removed by^ seeing his own image reflected (Roau2 8:29). "Sons of Levi." The priestarGod's ministers. "Purge." CleatfBe* f purify. "May offer," etc. A sinner, r cannot give acceptable,service to Gjxfc; The Lord lovea righteoufeness; He a< cepts only a holy heart and life (Bom." 1 12:1). v4. ""Be pleasant."' The s&ftfft I of praise, obedience and helpfulness are like sweet incense before the Lord k (Heb. 13:15, 10). 5. "To judgment'' 1 To decide on your case and condemn' 1 you if guilty. "Swift witness." Conjr ing suddenly and unexpectedly. "The sorcerers." Users of witchcraft, all in: 3 alliance with spirits of evil; the user* 1 of amulets, charms, etc., which aref really substitutes for religion. "Against J those that oppress." The gospel is ak 3 ways in favor of the poor and against oppression. "And fear not Me." This - was the foundation of all their wicked1 , ness. 6. "I changc not." God keeps * 1". TTI? His covenants wim nia pcupit. ? III. Admonitions and promised* ? blessings (vs. 7-12). 7. "From tbefl 1 days," etc. All tbroagh their hlstoryB ? they had been given to backsliding* "Return-unto Me." There was .still afl chance to repent. "Wherein." TbejH 3 did not know how far from God theyB t were. 8. "Will, a man rob God?TM Sacrilege is tbe highest of crimes. AimM - the most guilty are those claiming tofl be God's people. "Ye have." TbiaB evil is not only tbe guilt of priests, bn<B 5 of the whole nation. "Tithes." 8etfl s Deut. 18:4. "Offerings." The ilrstfl fruits?not less than oue-sistieth partH of the corn, wine and oil. 9. "Ye are curbed." With famineH find scarcity.' God had thus puuishe^H ' them for neglecting to bnild the.tem* 3 pie (Hag. 1:10, 11); now, for not mai'pfl taining the temple service. 10. "Brin^B r ?tithes." Make good your solemn enS 1 gagement with Nehemiab (Neb. 10;29)B -"IbtO the storehouse." The cbainbenH ' which surrounded th.e temple on tbrefl sides. "May bo meat." That ther? may be provision for the daily saceifl 9 fices, and for the maintenance of tbfl priests and Levi tea. "Prove Me.'H ' Take God at His word. "Windows ofl ,x'" heaven." A poetical, proi&efblal exfl ^ pression, signifying a great downpourH f ing (Gen. 7:11; 2 Kings 7:2). "PooJ you out." "Empiy out," as if GocS meant that He would empty forth Iiifl a vast reservoir of blessings. H J 11. "Will rebuke." Prevent fronH ii? /lnvonppr." The locust C'ULUlUg. J.uv , , _ "l* the canker-worms, tlio caterpillars anfl nil other destructive insects. "Fo^J your sakes." Because of My love i'o^J r you, r.nd for the sake of your prosper? ? ity. The devonrer bad been sent twM [ cause of tlieir sins, but should b^| stayed as a reward for their return duty. 12. "All nations," etc. So gre&H will be your prosi>erity and happines^B f that the fame thereof will extend nil nations, as in Scluinon's time. God*^l people do in truth live in a delightsom^B land, a land cf green pastures and sti^| , waters, of dear companiouships un^B ' delightful skies. Blessed are that pe<S pie who render lovingly to God thfl| :* things that are His own. ' "Deligb^M q some land." Your country will agaifl| be known as the-pleasant land, as was formerly called New Mdoti- Eatioe He cord. 9 g Four big pieces of watermelon i^B g four minutes was the record made b^| Nicholas Sullivan in a melon eatin^J !j match with Alexander Green and O^H e car Gibson in Baston, Md. The Ooj^H were seated in a pushcart in front the court hov*-.e and cash prizes wei^H ' offered for the successful eater auHj his nearest competitor. The stre^H was filled by a l?r?e crowd of person^B who cheered the contestants aiong. U just four minutes Sullivan had eat?^H ? lour pieces. Cibsou three, and Gree^f two and a half. Cement Taken Place of Iron. IB In the construction of a lighthou.^H f at the mouth of a river flowing :n^H n the Black Sen, it was determined th^H y 1 reinforced concrete would give a sa^B '* ing of forty per rent, with siubiii^H f? equal to bricks or ion. a . JEfl Japs Vie Paper Saucepans. r Compressed paper pulp, impregnat^M with certain salts, is moulded into tl^H b, form of saucepans, which, on accou^H x of their lightness, were used large^H ; by the Japanese army inMancburia^H ?