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iK * , | \ . t J\ POIN 1 j&j&x _ l BY \> 0 jj ANNIE \> | aj EDWARDS. 3^ra^ra^ra,w,w,5rw^r^foo< CHAPTER VIII. 0 p , Continued. < "I might have known it from the first. ! .?? J.IJ ?_ ?ll ?., + |,?,, < i^very one iuiu mr, ?ta wv?i imj could, what an idiot I was making of myself! An idiot?a cursed, headstrong: 1 fool!? 1 am served rightly now?to have ' my name mixed up in such a eompli- ' cation of infamy as this! Pray, how ( long is it"?and he stopped short, and 1 Tor the first time looked full in the 1 girl's face?"how long is it really since J you knew all this? I should greatly 1 prefer hearing the whole truth now." 1 It was an infamous, cowardly speech. ' 'As her eyes stared up, in their helpless, ' blank misery, back to his, Gifford felt 1 i?ow cowardly it was; and he almost ' ihated her?as is common to some people?for the injury he had done her by ?uch a suspicion. "Can't you speak?" he exclaimed, as 1 dier trembling lips parted, but brought 1 out no sound. "Do you wish to drive j me mad by putting on that air of cool indifference at such a time as this?" 1 I believe it is au established rule of 1 art that no hero shall ever act in an intrinsically dishonorable or cowardly manner; and as Mohun must, of neces?ity, be styled the hero of this story of Jane Grand's life?and as I have every wish to transcribe the record of the same "with doe regard to the Unities? I feel myself drawn in diverse directions by the requirements of art, and of what I consider to be truth, at this iwrticular point. Before hitting him very hard, however, I would beg of *he reader, from his own knowledge of life, to state how many men?say out of fvery hundred?would shine if placed in exactly the same position as GifTord Mohun's? To remain unshaken in his loyalty under such circumstances a man must be either -weak or most heroically 1 etrong; and Mohun was neither. Pride, ( .world respect, thirst for popularity, ? .-were, at this time especiaJly, passionately strong in him; of true moral cour- 1 age, of the higher kind of self-respect, * af a purpose and happiness beyond the 1 teach of ordinary worldly opinion, he ( kne^' nothing. He understood one 1 kind of dishonor very well?the com- * mon, vulgar kind, into which he had 3 never had any temptation to fall; and 1 lie loathed it and felt himself extreme- * 3y noble in giving up his engagement to Jane Grand. He went * through none of the conflicting 1 struggles which a man of higher nature must have sustained, even while 1 resolving to act in precisely the same 1 tway; and, in judging of the guilt of an * action, -we must?modern ethics say? * /I Art>??AA nf mAfO 1 |?0_ 1 urai Jii uiiiiu wiiai ucfeicc vi uiv??i * v sponsibility has to be accredited to the actor. To behave as heroes are expected to do, a man must have a little of the heaven of the heroic in his composition; and Mohun had none. He never did a heroic thing, or thought a heroic thought, or decidcd for any other object save what he conceived to be au immediate personal advantage in his life. The episode of his youth, containing the best germ in it, was that of which he was already at the closing ?cene? his love of Jane; and that in this he had been unworldly was simply ? owing to the fact of his being made np of the common elements of humanity?a lad who could calculate while 'falling in love being a iusus naturae of .which even this generation affords but few specimens. The homage of so young and tender a woman as poor ? Jane had made his pride succumb for r the time to personal vanity, and he * thought very highly of the victory <speaking of it to his own conscience in other terms than I have done), and bad been very seriously enamored of Jane's lovely face and bad known as much of the inner value of the pearl "worthier than all his tribe," which be was novy about to cast away, as a savage knows of the value of the piece of gold he barters for a handful of tinseled rubbish or glass beads. So much for Gilford Mohun as a hero. .We will return to him as the commonplace type of commonplace human creature that he was. "Can you speak, Jane? Can you give me any answer to what I have asked? ?or must I really think tbat?that " Gilford's manhood was spared the r further shame to which his own lips 5 were about to put it by Miss Grand's ' rising from her seat, tottering up to his 3 side, and throwing her arms around 1 his neck. She laid her head upon his : breast and sobbed there. (Spare her, t ob, Cornelia! it was for the first and t last time in this life.) She said tender f words that till this moment had never even entered her heart to say. She be- 1 sought him to have pity or her now, i so that, at least, she might have the- s recollection of bis kindness, of his generosity, to comfort her when he was 1 gone. * "You can't really believe I would f have kent all this from vou?vou can't ( really believe I ever looked in your face and deceived you. Yon only said s it in your first anger?I am sure of i Ibftt! Ob, Gifford, it is a hard trial ( for yon to bear! I Will you ever forgive i me all tbe suffering my love has i brought upon you?" t With the tact of perfect love she .sought to assign to him the part which * it was mcst possible for him to enact c wiTii self-respect?the part of an in- i jnred man who was following a stern law of duty in sacrificing feeling and ] giving up his engagement. A stronger 1 mind than Moluiu's must have seen 1 through the tender subtleness, and .? have refused to be sheltered from the : ?hav?ie of its own decision by her; but 1 be was ready, at all times, to acquiesce i in whatever made the disagreeabie part 1 of any position fall lighter on himself. | seeing this. Jane thrust her own 1 gritf out of sight, and, with the ghast- .< 3y mockery of s?!f-possessiou that i comes to the desDairinir heart at iis . \ I - < hi If al \ FOR HER . fe * \> FATHER'S I ? T % SIN: * * _ \j&J& I " F 11 SUNUK.; x U< V-1 J5 hi a1 (vorst, she played the dreary comedy w )ut; ami with" her own bands, so to speak, laid the funeral cloth decently )ver the face of her own dead love. ^ Women perform these last offices well; fl| tenderly for the living, as well as rev- S( rently for the dead. Mohun was gl softened to tears under the influence ti )f her humble, gentle words, and in n1 rtis softened mood satid things that lane's heart drew its life from during ^ ^ great many years of her own future C( life. He did not, of course, seek tG r, swerve from the cruel duty that was ^ before him: but he invented as many softening untruths about tbe future jr is his not very imaginative brain could v; compass. He would not marry, he w would not love again, he should be ai- n] ways Jane's devoted friend?and it n tvould be far too painful, too miserable, fl( for them to be together now, with all it ;he old love so fresh in their memories, tc out?af+er he had been away from ^ 5fatton a year or so?ue wouiu i-uim: p iind hope still to find that Jane kept ^ iome place for him in her regard. "I shall always love you," was Miss vi brand's answer to his longest perora- j [ion on the subject of fidelity. "I shall l)( xlways love you." b( Not a protestation more. a) It is remarkable how few words peo>le use when' they know that they gl neau to keep them. jj And Gifford stayed on?stayed on un- l til he was half frightened to find how C( very near love-making their broken ? tvords, and long regrets, and parting promises had become; then, for fear of ^ Tesb entanglement, he rose suddenly; ^ md Jane knew that her hour had !ome! ' , "I?I?shall come to see you again ^ jefore I leave Yatton," he stammered, w visbing to avoid direct leave-taking by he old subterfuge common on such oc- ^ . asions. "Miss Grand?Jane! before I S1 ;o tell me that you wholly forgive me?" jc "I forgive you wholly, Gifford. You fl] ict as every one in your position must ict. Don't think, please, if you hear ^ : am not happy, that you havo been the yl >ause. I shall do all I can to bear up, m ind I.hope-1 mean I shall try to hope ,a] -that some day I could bear to see L ,Tou at Yatton, married to some one v vorthier of you than I should have >een." ft The simple, truthful words, the lov- 0| ng, faithful eyes, pierced even Gifford dohun's conscience to the quick. g( "I shall never find any one to love ne as you have-done, Jane! I shall m lever love any woman on earth as I oi lave loved you!" And he took her to his heart and? m vhile her tears were quite dry?wept lot tears, .that more and more con- gl rinced him of the nobleness of his own lature, and of the immense sacrifice he 8( vas making to principle in giving up a) it once, and without a murmur, his un- jj enable passion for her. Most persons ey ?f the Gifford Mohun temperament are >rofoundly overcome by witnessing the utward and visible signs of their own imotions. n] When the actual moment of parting ir :ame, Miss Grand drew from her kj jreast, very calmly, the ring Gifford lad given her?the ring which she al- j eady wore hung by a piece of black ibbon around her neck. "I shall wear this till the day yon Qi ire married, Gifford! If?if any fault if ours bad broken off our engagement, j ! should have sent it back to you, but I eel -we are separated by something as Sj ;olemn as death?and 1 think it "tvill be ^ t comfort to me to keep my ring for he present." And then there were a few more pro- ? estations (upon the side where such ^ hings were needed), a few more kisses rom the lips "that should never kiss nore;" and then Mohun found himself walking alone in the fresh morning air vitli the conviction that, all things conlidered, he had got honorably and well 1 >ut of a most painfully difficult posi- vl ion; and Jane, staring blankly at the f* our walls of the sitting room where be lad left her, knew that all youth and lappiness. all hope or motive in life, . lad passed away, with him, out of her jf leart forever. tc CHAPTER IX. . i,! "And she has never cried yet," said >oor 'Miss Lynch, while the facile tears ;treamed fast down her own cheeks. ^ 'She has never cried or complained B ret. and she eats a little bit of every neal as it comes round, and gets up aj inrt crnctc hn/I nc lisnnl "Rllf RhP lv/ "v" ? n< loesn't sleep, Mr. Huntley, and her ^ iesh wastes from her; and every night, it the satne hour, the fever comes on. md lasts for the same number of jours, and then in the day she is weak ind silent and prostrate as you have ^ >een her now." j. A fortnight had worn away since the ^ lour of her parting from Gifforil, and lane was slowly passing through the j1 Irst stage of moral recovery?or dis- ^ ?ase, whichever way you like to put it -and Miss Lynch, true to the common - r superstition, was inviting the village loctor, by means of lowering medi ines, or alterative medicines, or tonic nedicines, or something, at all events, e n the shape of medicine, to assist na- C1 ure at her work. ^ "Is her pulse good, Mr. Huntley?" ^ >ho inquired, looking tip with nil the * ' ??gerness of perfect faith into the docor's fnco. n< "It is fnr from pood, ma'am," snid s' Mr. Huntley; "it is as thready and ivretcked a pulse as I ever felt in my " "ife. Miss Grand is in a very weak ^ ?tate?n very precarious state, I may ilmost say, Miss Lynch." (Mr. Huntey invariably exaggerate*! the danger it first, as heightening the merits of E lie ultimate cure.) "The low fever c< leculiar to the season is hanging about < ?! ler, and she has no strength, 110 strength whatever, of constitution to shake it off. But we will bring her tl nnnrf?never fear hut nv will lirinir ri - & .. ;r round. Keep her from this dnrm itumn air, and at the end of the week e shall have Miss Grand another perm." And at the end of the week Miss rand, under the influence of close air id quinine, had not improved; and ic told Miss Lynch decisively that le declined seeing Mr; Huntley, or king any more of his medicines. "Let the windows .stand open, auntie, ad let lino be quiet and undisturbed i I was before. You need be under :> fear for me. I shouldn't feel as I j now if I was going to die. Give icrtlme and let me alone, and I shall cover. It's not my body that is ill!" In great dudgeon Mr. Huntley took is leave, and in fear and trembling sor Miss Lynch found herself in the ivful position of nursing a patient ith intermittent fever who would ike no medicine. As time wore on, however, and isintrh th** nntnmn dnvs crew damner. art Jane more and more exposed her>lf to their influence, the fever by ow degrees gradually Trent from her. II one night she slept over the hour t which it had been used, every twenr-four hours, to seize her; and then id only two slight attacks in the )ursc of a whole week; and then, as tr as this particular symptom went, as well. "But she is weak and wasted to the ist degree," said Miss Lynch to the icar; for Mr. Huntley passed her now ith only a dignified bow in the street, tid she was forced to look to ghostly ither than to scientific knowledge for J vice about Jane. "And she takes no iterest in anything, and seems hardly > nave energy euougu xu iuuuw mc hen I rend to her. Dear, dear, Mr. ollett! how is she to be strengthened, hile she remains in the state she is?" "Not by reading aloud." said the icar, much to the overthrow of Miss ynch, who hnd at that moment not een alluding to the restoration of the Ddily woman; "listening to reading is n irritation to the temper, and an inferable strain on the whole nervous pstem of a weak person. Try to get nnc to use her needle, if she will, and, t her have all the air you can, and >ok her nourishing food, and don't ive her any advice as to what 'tis her nty to do or not to do. Above all, [iss Lynch, if you would not drive er back to her fever again, don't ircibly put the contents of any book hatever into the poor child's ears. 7hen Jane wants to read again, she in rend. "But if you would come yourself, Mr. ollett, and offer .her a little spiritual lpport? If you would oniy bring her i see the absolute necessity of making u effort?" "When Jane wants me to see her I ill come, not a day sooner," was the icar's answer. "In her present state ly consolations, and Huntley's tonics, nd your readings, my dear Miss ynch, will all be about the same serice to her. Nature will work for the sol* child in time, and we shall not >rward her efforts by any interference f ours." As nothing from the lips of a beneced clergyman could sound like herirodoxy in Miss Lynch's ears, she utely bowed before the vicar's skeptivi-nc nnrl .7rm? wns snnred heini? nut irough any more cures, bodily or ental. Mr. FoIIett had judged rightly that le would not wish to see him. She lrnnk morbidly from the thought of ?eing any strange face, from hearing ay voice but Miss Lynch's; and very ttle even of that was sufficient to jar eery nerve in her body with exquisite tin. The moral part of her nature was TOng, but the mental one was not at I above mediocrity; and she had no itellectual pleasure or pursuit of any ind whatever to fall back upon now 3d fill up the vacuity of the dull, dragng day. She could not return to the mple girlish joys that had filled her ?art till she knew Gifford; and bereft ! the prospect of happiness in marage, all life seemed to her dull, hopess, stagnant. She thought scarcely at all of the lame of her own birth during these rst weeks; and when she did think of , it was but as the cause of her eater grief?the grief that swallowed [) all others?her severance from Mouu. (To be Continued.) ' Potatoes 82190 n l'onnd. A year ago Consul Mahin reported om Nottingham, England, that a new *riety of disease-resisting potato was >lling at $2190 a pound for seed. Its Doom" is over. A contributor to the Nottingham uardian announces that ihe Eldorado now obtainable for less than a sbilng a pound. The collapse was not due i a lack of disease-resisting power i that tuber. According to one dejnent it was the hardiest seed potato 1 the market, while another consid ed it ''the most disease-resisting poito that has ever come before the ritisli public.". Last year's harvest was not good id farmers are short of money; other )tatoes fell in price, and the Eldorado as sympathetically affected: dealers ho would not pay a fancy price for it an it down." to excuse their not havig it for sale, and so on. A contributory cause of the Ezras' s loss of prestige is believed to be le extensive practice of forcing it un?r glass and taking cuttings from the oduct?a practice discountenanced by incolnshire growers generally as proncing abnormal and untrustworthy >sults.?Now York World. iviiaf n? w.inlil f.ika to See. I should very much like to sec a gnlry of pictures painted by fine-artj itics, nnd to road notices thereof ritten by real painters. I should also ke to see a play enacted by dramatic itics and hear a review of their per>rmances as penned by experienced stors. I should thoroughly delight in ich a combination of circumstances;' ut I suppose such joys are not for the lies of me.?.1. Ashby-Sterry, in Wk< ondon Graphic. Sli<?|i Opened With Ten. A "hat shop" was opened in London. iir.. by the Countess I'abKicotti. re-l ?ntly. Liveried footirc-ii baiidc%l) ound tea and cakes. In the capital of New Zealand one-* lird of a workman's or /. clerk's inline iroes ti? Ihe iaudiorl tor rent. ?! .. .. 0 1 Compressed paper pnlp, impregnated , with certain salts, is molded into the form of saucepans, which, on account of their lightness, were used largely, by the Japanese army in Manchuria. , Investigation of the properties of | mineral springs by Dr. H. Mache, of j Vienna, seems to establish the fact that j many of them have radio-activity, i which certainly points toward radium 1 as one of their curative properties. 1 i That it is a good deal of a strain on the nerves to discover gold is shown ( by the story of an Australian official, who wished to telegraph the news of the finding of the precious metal in his | district. A small boy, seeking for a I stone to throw at a crow, had picked up what proved to be a nugget of pure ' gold. fti his excitement the official ' overlooked the main point entirely and ' "wrote this: "Boy picked up a stone to J throw at a crow," and nothing more. ( If the ancient Greeks could revisit : the earth they would hardly recognize < their beautiful country, 11 me simwments made by Dr. Hennig. of Berlin, 1 can be sustained. Attica has lost the greater part of Its forests, the rainfall ' has decreased and the temperature has increased. The heat in the open air, , Dr. Hennig says, is now so great that the Olympian games of antiquity would , be virtually impossible to-day. Many other parts of the earth show similar changes. The once beautiful oasis in the Syrian desert, where Zenobia reigned over Palmyra, is now a desolate waste. In Upper Egypt, where only 100 years ago rain was abundant, drought now usually prevails. Study of the fishes on the two sides of the isthmus has led to the conclusion that in the Miocene epoch there was at Panama open communication between the Atlantic and Pacific. This period is arrived at by considering tie time that would be needed for the development of the specific differences now existing between the fishes in the opposite ocean waters, and the geological date thus fixed is made more probable by the fact that study of the fossil mammals of North'and South America indicates that the continuity of the land between the continents was interrupted1 during a large part of the Tertiary age, and was not re-established until the close of the Miocene. MAN AND NATURE. < The Struggle Between the Beast Side and the Intellect. Nature tends obstinately, Michelet thinks, to bring back toward primitive. animality,- to unmake, the civilized man. It is perhaps still her dream to have sons like her?men all nature. Humanity, in its earliest age, could Ktt Vinf thof finfl lojritimfltplv. It. had then to take possession of the world which had just been born. It engaged in sternest combat with the primitive, shaggy creatures, well armed with teeth and claws, that looked with contempt at thit 'last born of creation without claws, unprotected by hair, all naked and unarmed. To conquer these creatures man must be like them. "He also must belong to this lower world, or rathei*he must take on the two natures?that ft to say, he must needs become at once man and beast, possessed of instinctive craft as well as bloodthirsty fury. The victory, which rested decisively, at so many points of the globe, with the weaker, shows none the less the original superiority of the conquered. In the man-beast, at first controlled entirely by physical fatalities, stept already as in the chrysalis the true man, who walks upright and with his face to the heavens." *_j? -H-1- j ? 1!UU krr aiiu iuis urue xiiuu, muc uj jjluc, sot himself free. "To-day mind is decidedly the victor. To the heavy dreams of a troubled blood, to the energy of the brute, has succeeded the nervous life of delicate, intelligent sensibility; in short the higher life." But tisp beast is not d<ad; he must be .watched?International Quarterly. A Varied Career. Samuel Crowther, the oldest towncrier, has died at Droitwicb, his birthplace, at the age of ninety. His last public crying took place in May last. During his long life he had played many parts, including those of a scareboy of birds from wheat, gravel digger, bricklayer's laborer, policeman, surveyor's assistant, bailiff, auctioneer, porter, Liberal agent, volunteer and bellringer. At the time of his diamond wedding he possessed ten sons and daughters, fifty grandchildren, and twenty great grandchildren. He lived in roe reign ox nve iuuxirtn.ua, uuu nus born before Waterloo was fought. His wife, who survives him, is in her eighty-ninth year, and lives at the Coventry almshouses. ? London Telegraph. "What an Acre Will Produce. Mr. 13. T. Price, a member of the Board of County Commissioners, and one of the best-known farmers of the county, has an acre of land iu cotton, of which he is justly proud. At the begiuniug of the year he worked the plot very carefully, fertilized it well,' and has given it the very closest attention since. He has already gathered 2700 pounds of the best grade of seed' cotton, and there is yet about 200 pounds which remains to be picked.' f.i.-f J. ...Ml n 1 ac* nf "fill "JL ills H1UUU11L Mill fcJU LMU UIIICO ut WW pounds lint, which at the present market price will total $110, by no means an Insignificant sura, wlien nil things are considered.?Charlotte Observer. The Harvest Moon. The harvest moon is the moon which , fulls nearest the autumnal equiuoj^ that is, September 21-2*J. Owing to til'j inclination of the earth at that timra i the rays of the sun strike the moon si that for several nights before and al'tes the fulling it rises at very nearly tho same hour in the evening, and gives ah ' unusual period of long moonlight nights. There is no other harvest . moon, and it always occurs in September. The succeeding lunation, in Oci tober, is called the hunter's moon, but the phenomenon is briefer.?Springfield Republican. , . _ - -v-j-inir ffiE SUNDAY SCHOOL T NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS S( FOR DECEMBER 24. IM. iabjccl: The Character ?t the Messiah. * lan. U., 1-7?Ololrien Text, Matt. 1., XI -Memory Verse*, 0, 7?Commentary od the Day's tafMu. 1. Grent darkness (vs. 1,2). 1. "Nev- ] TtiielesK." A transition word from the vl lark picture of chapter 8:5-22. describug the woes from Assyrian predom* V1 nnncc to the bright dawn and consum- ln nation of the Messianic era. "Shall iot be such." The darkness shall not *0 do as great as it has been. There was i ray of encouragement for those who p r.ere ready to receive the prophet's ln ivords. "Zcbulun." Galilee was the land that principally suffered in the *? tirst Assyrian invasion. oe 2. "The people in darkness." The people of .Tudah. They were at this ^ iime under a two-fold darkness. 1. fhe darkness of outward trouble. See r1 i Kings 15:37; 16:4-8, 17; 2 Chron. iS:5-8. 2. They were in moral darkoess. Ahaz had led the people into the most abominable-practices in honor of the hea-then divinities. Finally, toward the close of the reign, he shnt up Ibe Jr peat doors of the temple (2 Chron. iovzi), discontinued me orienog oi.ju- , reuse and the morning, and evening * sacrifice, aud left the whole interior to I decay, neglect and ruin. i II. A great light (vs. 2-5). 2. "A c err oat light." The sudden change from . 4 dense darkness to the shining light _ which the prophet saw is quite remark- ? ible. What light was this-? The prom- ; ise of redemption; the prospect of the ' coming of Immanuel. 1 3. "Hast multiplied the nation." Isaiah with prophetic eye pierces the ~ centuries and sees the hosts that -would come under the reign of the Messiah ? and be numbered with the true spirit- ^ ual Israel. "And not increased." See R. V. for correct rendering. "They Joy ^ before Thee." The prophet notes it to be a religious joy because it is said to f be before God?that is, Ip His presence andiwith a grateful aeknowledgment of His benefits. ? 4. "Thou hast broken the yoke." J1 The Jews "were successively delivered 11 fvnm *<lio hnr/lonsnmo'mul ?iHifiir roke of the Assyrians, Clialdeaus, Persians J1 and Macedonians, but these deliver- " ances were only a shadow of redemption from the yoke of Satan, and that redemption seems here especially predicted as if already accomplished. "As 11 in the day of Midian." As Gideon with 113 a handful of men conquered the hosts a< of IVIidian, so Messiah, the "child" (v. ,c 6). shall prove to be the "Prince of Peace," and the small company under Him shall overcome the mighty hosts 111 of Antichrist. See the same contrast in Micah 5:2-5. a 5. "For every battle." It was the D custom of antiquity to pile the arms k' of prostrate enemies,, the spoils of less 01 viiIiip nrul their sDotted earments. into ft heap and tiien burn them. All tbftt d belongs to war shall be swept away; the war'itself'shall-die. The Messiah abolishes all war, but not until His P foes -are either sw.ept^way by His it judgments or melted "iiko penitence and won over by His love. III. A vision of the Messiah (v. 6). 6. li "Unto us." The prophet spake of the predicted blessings as if already communicated. "A Son is given." God's rl gratuitous gift, upon which man bad no claim (John 3:16). A gift of love, of ei joy, of universal fitness to our needs, As Son of man Jesus was "a child .. born," as Son of God He was a "Son j given." "Government." The ensign J of government, the sceptre, the sword, or key, was borne upon or hung from ei the shoulder. All government shall be vested in Him. "His name." A name si stands for all that the man is and has ?bis character, his principles and his property. "Wonderful." Because His nature was both human and divine, fi Whoever refuses to believe in the supernatural must .pause at the manger, fi He can go no farther. How Godhood and manhood could be knit together pi in the person of Ghrlst is beyond us. ci But things incomprehensible are not incredible. All divine works are wonderful. There are marvels enough in a drop of water to bewilder the wisest. "Counselor." One who has wisdom tl to guide himself and otfyers. Jesus tl was the embodiment of the wisdom of ti God. He was a Saviour, both God It and man, a personal revelation of d God's love, a perfect character and ex- fi ample. He is our Counselor, never A fniidirur us flstrav. but always by the f C best ways to the best ends. "Mighty a God." God the mighty One. As He H has wisdom, so Ho has strength; He is P able to save to the uttermost, and such o is the work of the Mediator that no fi less a power than that of the mighty tJ God could accomplish it. "Everlasting a Father." Expressing the divine love c< and pity for men, a love that can never a: fail for it is everlasting. "Prince of e peace." As a king He preserves, com- f< mands, creates peace. His peace both' ei keeps the hearts of Hij people and cl rules in them. ei IV. The Messianic kingdom (v. 7). b 7. "Of the increase," etc. The govern- a ment shall increase in numbers, in fi pow^r. in the completeness of its rule, tl It sha*l increase in the blessings it be- ti .stow*. It is like the powers of nature, p which are exhaustless. There is no limit to their application to the uses of man. With nil our marvelous inventions and discoveries of what nature can do, we have yet gathered but a 5 few rays from the world of light, a ? few sprays from the ocean of blessings b God has in store for man. "Throne of 11 David." To sit upon the throne of Da- ? vid means to reign over the true poopie of God. and in this sense Christ sat on David's throne. "To order it." To rule it. "From henceforth even for "1 ever." Only such a kingdom can endure. Nothing is really settled till it a is settled right. The powers of evil ^ seem very strong, but every one is ? doomed to fall before Christ. c< Hairpin Starts a Car. While a trolley car was bowling n along Main street, Orange, N. J., the fuse blew out and the car came to a dj full stop. Stepping up to the nearest f( woman passenger the conductor bor- 0, rowed a hairpin and connected the ei burned fuse with it. The hairpin b, burned out after the car had gone a jp few hundred feet, and when he en- fr tered the car again nearly every worn- j5 an in the vehicle had a hairpin to offer him. The next one carried the current pj safely, and the car proceeded to its 01 destination. a] For a N^w Chinese Army. Yin-Tchang, the Chinese Minister at fc Berlin, Germany, has been recalled "] and will be appointed to a command st in the army under General Yuan Shi tt Kai, Viceroy of Pechili. The Empire ai will be divided into twenty military tt districts, each with four regiments of ti infantry, one regiment of cavalry, an engineer corps, and artillery tn proportion. All the men will be enlisted for m nine years. ... ai _ ** Marconi's Modesty. Marconi dislikes the word "marconi* ^rarn" for a wireJess message. i i ^ i i a m Ma Umi HE GEEAT DESTBOYER y * ___________ )ME STARTLtNC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. D*n|(?roiu Trade? From the Fortieth Annnal Report of the National Temp* eranee Society?The Terrible Mortality Among Liquor Distributor*. [t has long been kDOwn to students of tal statistics and to temperance works that liquor making and selling Is e most "dangerous trade carried on any country." Even "the trade" does not attempt disguise from itself this fact?witiss Table XLVIII. of the Brewers' Imanack for England for 1808, showg the annual death rate in England id Wales for males from twenty-five sixty-five years of age engaged in rtain specified occppations. The Ages are for the years 1800, 1801 and 102, the latest returns. We set out e table in extenso, merely arranging e trades to show the increasing morlity. The figure 1000 is the average >ath ratp among the same number of nales generally," so that the occupain? nlnrwl nhrtra tho linp in tJip tflhlft ive a death rate lower and those aced beneath a death rate higher lan the normal: utborlty: Supplement to the Fifty: Ifth Report of the Registrar-Genera). .. Clergyman, priest, minister.. 533 !. Gardener 553 t. Farmer, grazier 563 t. Laborer in agricultural counties ? 669 i. Hosiery manufacture 696 i. Carpenter, joiner 783 Fisherman.. S45 L . Coal miner 935 ALL MALES 1,000 >. Hair dresser 1,009 I. Musician, music master 1,214 ? ' 1 40T >. urewei" .^,-ui !. Innkeeper, wine and spirit dealer .1,642 L. Earthenware manufacture.. .1,70G ). Inn,'hotel servant (general). .1,725 ). Flic maker 1,810 We may supplement this table by the Homing. Items from the Registrar* eneral's report: inkeeper and servant (London). .1,833 inkeeper and servant (Industrial districts) 1,043 in servant (London) 1,971 inkeeper (industrial districts).. .2,030 THE FIGURES EXPLAINED. What do these figures mean? They lean that in the occupation of clergyien life is almost twice as long as the rerage. The coal miner also live? nger than the average man. But the lir dresser does not live so long, while le brewer, the innkeeper and the innntol nervflnt n terrlhte mor ility. File making is usually regarded s a "dangerous trade," yet it iB not early so dangerous as that of an inneeper or inn servant in a large centre t population. It is a simple fact that le mortality among the classes which Istribute liquor 1s almost double the eerage mortality among the clergy. The causes of cteath are significant, ublicans without distinction of localy, compared with occupied- males, die Seven times as-fast from alcoholism. Six and one-half times as fast from ver diseases. Six times as fast from gout. Twice as fast from urinary diseases, leumatic fever, diabetes and suicide. Publicans in industrial districts die ght times as fast from liver diseasesPublicans in agricultural districts die Five times as fast from alcoholism. Six times as fast from liver diseases. Seven times as fast from gout Two times as fast from urinary disises. One and one-half times as fast from iiviuc* , Publicans in London, similarly, die Ten times as fast from alcohdlism. Three and three-fourth times as fast om liver diseases. Three and one-half times as fast om diabetes. Two and one-half times as fast from hthisis, rheumatism, fever and suide. I.Iqnor a Hindrance. Whatever the liquor barons may links or do, signs are multiplying that ie American people are tired of the affic, with its ruinous consequences, s entailed burdens of taxation and its efiance of law. The last blow comes om' a somewhat unexpected quarter, .propos of the agitation on tbe Pacific oast against the importation of Japnese laborers, it is being alleged by ie fruit growers that they cannot deend on white labor; that in the midst f the rush of harvest, when the ripe ruit must be gathered at once, or lost, ieir white laBorers will get drunk, nd lose two or three days a w!eek. In ansequence the fruit becomes soft, ud if it reaches market at all may not ren pay the freight. What a lesson >r the intelligent American! A Westrh paper suggests that the saloons lose on Sunday, so that the fruit plckrs may. report sober for Monday's usiness! It is a capital illustration of familiar fact, familiar af least to all riends of temperance and decencysat the liquor trade is a constant in?rference with and a las upon all leitimate business.?Christian Century. No Resp'ec.er of Persons. A few Sundays since the janitor of a t. Louis church committed suicide in, room adjoining the main auditorium y shooting himself while the regular lorning service was in progress. He ad been reprimanded by the pa&tor >r drinking. The day before the indent the nephew of Senator Beveridge, f Indiana, killed a man in a saloon raw!. Thus it is that we are remind1 that no place, let it be ever so sacred station in life or an individual so igh that they are at all times entirely ee from the trail of blood that the quor traffic- plants in all parts of our wntry.?St Louis Republic. o Barroom Ever in This Indiana Town A new town laid out in Southern Iniana, Dubois Co-mty, bids fair to ft rw\cif{ATi O QJ ire>er vLv;ui\v ci uui^uc le of the conditions to property own shin is that no intoxicants shall ever i sold within its confines. Tbe placc called Cuzzo and is fifteen miles om French Lick Spring. Every deed sued contains a clause that if whisky sold directly or indirectly on the remises the land shall revert to its iginal owner or his heire.?Indianjolis News. In Hoiland the Dutch teachers have ir some years had a society called the Dutch Teachers' Association," for. .udying the alcoholic question, and at' le recent congress on school hygiene t Nuremburg it was strongly urged lat children should have more instrucon on the temperance question. In Austria the Education Departent of Vienna have directed temperice lectures to be givsa frdm time to me in all St?t?- dciiools, and further, at all libraries maintained for the use ' teachers shall contain a number of >oks treating scientifically of the luirious effects of alcohol. ... 1 . A LIFE.? ^ That Kfe is scarce worth living Which knows no-lofty aim; Whieh has^io end but.plea?ure> Nor owns stern duty s claim. iWhen hands are grasping only . For -what this worla can give^ And feet seek easy pathways. - >* Tis a poor thing to live. k .J _ > -tym That Jife is not worth living <- ,V \ .\ \Vhich leads tha weak astray; ?. When hands work only evil, . .1 TVhen lips have ceased to prayy iWhen years of wasted talents v ; 'A Their fearful record give: ' With God and truth forsaken 'Tjs a sad thing to live. "Tfot life ie well worth living ; '.v filled up withnaBIe deeds, When eyes are hrmsy watching1 . To see a brother's needs; When feet run pn God's errands/ And hands swift help can give, \ ; While lips ?peak words of kindnew, It is a joy to live. ,v ' ,r -"H That life is beat worth living , -Mk Where Jesus reigns as Lord ; When hands move at His bidding. And ears attend His Word. He came?the Life Eternal? Abundant Hfe to give, v.j And following in His footsteps 'Tis a grand thingio live. ?Hester Summon ' The Basabine of B?l)cira? ' ^ Our Lord "when on earth was sot j friend only for dark days. He con! stand by the grave Of Lazarus an weep with the Borrowing sisters, hit He could also be present at thp'*re* ding at Cana of Galilee, an honors and welcome guest. In our deep realization of the soleaii mission of our Lord to this sjnfo world,'we are too apt to forget'tjtfc He came as an image and ezpresskM and embodiment of the God of < love The morose Christian is ndt likely ^ be bidden to feasts where his pfeseirt is only a gloomy shadow, and H countenance as a threatening ckrui We piay be sure that even in His hoi; purity this was /not the impress*? made by Him whose "compassions sr new every morning.'" There was sin shine about Him, or the mothers won* not have thronged around Him wit3 their little ones; the despised snifei ers would not have looked trustfully t Him for help; the outcast sinner won* not have turned to Him for pardoa. Wp seem to fancy that God mad our eyes for tears, and that from som? other power came their glad twlnklH of merriment or their expression cH Innocent joy in the midst of soctafl converse. Who wreathed the monifl with smiles that answer to smileffl Who made the dimples In tfie baby? face? Who lit the glad, lovicg l^iB In its eyes as it begins to be awa^J of the tender care of its mother?> W||H will we not remember that joy much the gift of God as sorrow, to be as freely accepted in His pr^H ence?? Churchman. B W-s A \ i. ??? MB nia Heart Wii Blfkt. flfl rA story is told of a little shepfee^B 6oy who obliged to keep v/atoH over the sheep, and so copld not jfl to church. But in his heart there greM nn n lonriru? to nrav to God. as th ^| ivere doing in church. He had, hoi ever, never been taught any pray* and so kneeling down, he began wt closed eyes and folded hands, sayij the alphabet, "A, B, C, D," and 4 to the end. v'm "What are yon doing, my Ittt man?" said a gentleman passing by.: . "Please* sir, I was praying," replie the boy. > ? i "But why aTe you saying your fc ters?" "Why," said the little fellow. ' didn't know any prayers, only i'fef I wanted God to take care of me an help me to take care of my sheep. 8 I thought if I,said all I knew -H would put it together and spell aiir wanted." . "Bless your heart, my little mai He will. When the heart speaks rigl the lips can't say wrong," said th foiitlemnn. The Flaws and tbe Workmanship. When a number of Americans weifl admiring (lie beautiful arcbltectute^H the Milan Cathedral, a chronic fcvlH finder stood criticising a slight craH Ice in one of the large pillars. He sr^B nothing else. So it is in our judfl merit of human beings and human qj deavor, one sees only the flaws, whi?H another sees the beautiful, Christ-lftH character?the -workmanship of. Holy Spirit. H All Can Help. I la human affairs the justice of | must work by human means. Mcfl are the measures of God's principle^] our morality the instrument of Justice. The ideal must become aB tual; God's thought a human thin^H made real in a reign of righteousne^^ and a kingdom?no, a comuonwcaitM ?nf -insHofi on the earth. Ton atg| I can* help forward that work.?TheMj dore Parker. Twin Dotlo. B| To Jove God and to love men twin duties, never to be disjoine^| Who best trains and disciplines hHI owu soul is full of an eager hope humanity. Who, with finest se^H forgetfulness, works and prays ai^Hj suffers for society has found the cret of personal strength and pea^H Would you learn how to hasten t^H kingdom of heaven? Yourselves ha^H 'citii in man, in duty, in God. Be Tru?. HB "Rp frnp. hA honest be faithful. just in what ycu think with yoursefl| in your inward communings and <lcJH ings with your own spirit, where one is witness but God; and yo^H words will be true of themselves a^H the temptation will hardly come to y^H to deal unkindly and unfairly wi^H your brother.?Dean Church. Hj How t?> Look. OH Look at your mercies with both ey^J at your trials anl troubles "witu nn? T T. Clivlpp mm r H Lawyer* Lom Fat Fcm. - ' H| A dispute over the division of a lar^H tract of California land, left by the Bart Smithson, was settled by tossi]S| a coin. The land was divided. In four parts, and the four heirs, wl^H the head and tail of half a dolla^H made successive selections, to the gre^H loss of the local legal fraternity. A Remarkable Dog. |B| A trained bulldog in one of the don theatres imitates, in dress a^H "make-up," Li Hung Chang, Iba^N Joseph Chamberlain and other celeb^H ties ..