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L \a^ .5 JX PON ft !? ^ X> | X < |jj ANNIE \> f|g EDWARDS, y* CHAPTER XIII. 15 Continued. "Ton are Tory generous io speak to m | Kit' Jlhe luis: MJC iuuvivu. a uu uvu ? H Jtnow how happy it makes mo that you H should still remember our old days so. gjg 3?I?never thought to,have felt again as I have done.thjs eveiling!'' fig And then followed other little broken, tender exclamations of a like foolish And inconclusive nature. Mohun thought she had taken his H- Meaning seriously; and very unpleas antly hot the thought made hiin feel. H 'As it was impossible for him to go back sow, however, he thought he might as K rwell make a desperate rush at once, K and leave the issue in the hands of V. tthe fates. * . "'We got our courtship over long ago, 0 Jane. I could say nothing now as well h as I did then?when I was a boy. In& stead of attempting to act a part I'm 9 too old for, will you try to think of me ? as I was? You have not forgotten me, B Jane??you have not forgotten all it 8 -cost me to part from you? You've got 1 that ring 1 gave you yet?" Bl . Oli/V lnnlro/1 intrt hie PYPK with SOUie JJ # UiiC IVVUVV4 ?-? ?. w ^ - - _ tting of the same piteous yearniDg that ; jou may see come over a sick man's lace when an unthinking -visitor speaks to him of the life and health to which tfce knows he shall never more come itack; then she bnrst into tears. "Do I remember you??have I got your ring still? Have I ever ceased to think of you??have I ever parted from it, day or night, since you gave it me?" And then with trembling hands she <drew her wedding-ring from her breast mnd showed it to him. "Ob, Mr. Mohun ?oh, Gifford: don't bring back ray bittferest sorrow to me?don't tempt me lor a moment to forget what must xever be forgotten! Be my triend always, and don't think I shall ever misinterpret you, or any of the friendship that you show to me! I am quite apart from the world, you know. I am Dlaced like no other woman living. We can be true friends and neighbors; but | 'bnt I shall never look for any jyore. H coidd less bear'tojarftig disgrace upon you now than I could"have done -when.. L -I first loved you, seven years ago. t Gifford, forgive me if I have in any f ;way hurt you by saying this again!" Mohun forgave her readily: indeed, if the truth must be toid, he was a great ?Ieal more relieved than hurt by her leply. He was not very passionate in anything now; and it: did not take him 1 anany moments to decide that he had *?me creditably out of a somewhat haz\ anlous position, and that he would do iwell to accept the friendship which Wiss Grand offered him. Philosophizing over it all as he walked home that sight, he became more and more reconciled to letting things remain in the e Sposition where Jane had arranged rthem. The disgrace of her parentage 3io longer influenced him as"it. "had done ."when he was a lad; he had lived Enough to rate the world's good opinion infinitely lower than his own personal tWell-being; the question that really Concerned him was. whether it would not be an intense mistake for liim to aoarry at all? Had he a taste for domestic cares and expenses? No. Had lie ever envied the condition of any married man out of his whole acquaintance? Ceftainly not. Jane might <prove a very different person, as Mrs. Moliun, to the humble, hopeless adorer, .that she wis as Miss Grand. Beside?, like the immortal Frenchman?what would he do -with his evenings, as long as he remained at Tatton, if he married her? Evenings spent like this one, it>eside the open window of Jane's little room, or loitering?Jane with him? - through the shady rides of Yatton, .would, lie felt, be inexpressively sedative and pleasant in their effect (and Gifford Lad grown -wonderfully epicurean in all things pertaining to liis own material and immediate comfort mow). In winter, if be stayed so long, fte would go to the cottage every night rwhen he had nothing better to do, and 'Jane should sing to him, or he could 3ay outstretched upon the sofa and look ait her as she worked?or to go to sleep ?just as he chose! He would have all -the best part of domestic- life, and none ^ of its annoyances. Miss Grand had decided ^xrellently "well. Friendship (strongly flavored rwith love) for a still charming woman devotedly attached to yo-i, but never Jiable to misinterpret your friendship, or lead you on into matrimony, is an I exceptional good such as falls to the . Jot of few men. How c-ouid he have been rash enough to ran the risk of exchanging this; <?alm, unfettered state <from which he eould break free at the earliest moment that he grew tired of it) lor the expensive, troublesome, nover-ending monotony of commonplace married life? Thus thought Gifford as he smoked tiis cigar during his homeward walk through Yatton woods that night. At the same hour Jane Grand, in a rapwnc tiiinkirxr nv/?r f?vPrr ?U1? U1 Vlv. ^ iword lie had utterea in the course of the evening; building castles of exalted friendship, wherein they should dwell together and be blessed; forming plans of reformation for him. of which she trusted to be the bumble but appointed agent. I am sorry to think how much more of practical sense there was in Mr. Moton's very coarse realism than in ali the romantic, self-sacrificing aspirations of that most tender and unspotted woman's heart. CHAPTER XIV. The autumn and the winter passed, and Mohun stayed on. He talked sometimes of going to town in the season; but when May came there were improvements to be made about the place <hat he wanted to look 0Yer4 and he % OR, ? v X FOR HER V I <* FATHER'S l e IT V sin. {L ^ \ J0" 8 r> )F \ ^ y; honorX : >i ?- ,? ii .,. . tl thought he should tuke to tishing again as the weather got warm; and -what, ^ after nil, was the good of going back n to the same clubs, and the saim> men. ^ and the same women, that had (lis- ^ ,pensed too much money for him during j, the last seven year? of his life? "lie jj was not a bit more weary of Limsell 0 in the country than be had used to bo, c, Jmlf his time, in London. He could dine in his shooting jacket, and be his ^ own master here, at least. And then, ^ Yatton was his: and he was beginning k to get back something of his old interest in the exercise of small feudal p power; and it was inherently grateful jv to Mr. GifTord Mohun's nature to be j liked and looked up to?as the poor T, people of his estate, true to their hored- j, itary instincts, Jiked and looked up to f( him now. Persons of the class that are always ^ ready with decided and correct estimates of everybody else's moral condition pronounced Gilford -reformed. He e, was not in tbe least reformed, if by sj that term change of nature is intended w to be expressed. Men of nearly thirty p years very seldom do change their na- B( 1?? T Tnnc cir.iT>lT7 hp<rir> I 111 X iilUV J aa\ * * 11 k" ~-c? j^j ning to find out that be bad bitberto y, missed the kind ol" life which suited ^ bim best?tbo unintellectual. lazily ac- gj tive, healthy, material Jifo of the coun- cf try. Wherever be had lived, Gifford 0] Mohun must Inevitably bave sunk to a f( tolerably low scaie of existence; but el what bad been disreputability in London "was at 1'atton idling about with bis gun oi* bis rod, and habitually S( drinking rather more than -was good for him?and gambling onlv -when any of his friends came do \ from Bo- nf hemia or Belgravia to stay with him. Jane Grand was, of course, one of the st hottest supporters of the reformation theory: Mr. Follett. not less naturally. 0, one of those who looked skeptically );( upon Mohan's change of life: and so it fell our, after a few rather sharp dis- f(1 sensions on tlie subject, tbat the vicar's ^ visits to Jane's cctrage began to grow ju extremely rare and cold. ITe always found Mohun there when ho called: (], I wlu,n IM/llllin TI751C it W<lS ?*n I (i I1U VV lie H iUVliUi * U?.v %.<V. 'simply ridiculous to think that l:e could fr be "wanted, too. Hi? fastidious gener- j1( I osity made him speak well of Lis rival (to every one save Jane); he eaiied at ^ Yatton at seated periods; he even dined S(J with Moliun, and asked him. in return, to the vicarage. But to see him famil- (}( iarly seated in Jane's little room?of ol which every object was so sacred to ca his own teart? to see Jane's eyes ap- tj, proving ol all lie said, to hear Jane's q.: praises of him when he was gone? were just pieces of flow torture that cj the Vicar of Chesterford did net feel himself called upon to endure: and. as fc I have said, his visits to Jane's cottage grew rarer than they had evei been jK since the days in which he first began yc to teach her English history when <?he n was nine years old. fr And Miss Grand?who, simple a? she was, had all a woman's acutest small jealousies in matters oT affection?Miss Grand was wound*d to the quick by q this dereliction of the man she did net love I 17I : She liked Gifford. cf course, as she in I could like no other being created, and po his society w;.s all-sufficient to lier. ac and yet?and yet?reader, don't we all su know what it is to so back to the place al where we lived when we were school- de j children? How we dream of it before- w hand, and how cur hearts throb when d.1 we first begin to recognize the old fa- c.\ miliar milestones, and the bridge at the gf turning of the road: and then, wnen wo of | arc there. how shrunk it all seems. and lie-' we wish we had let the good old [ past rest, instead of digging it tip and I staring at its pr.or, lifeless remains? < 1 so different now to whet we last re- co membered them! Well, something of ar this feeling would cotfrinually come (|( over Jane, whether she willed it or not. pj in her intercouse with GifTc*J. She did yc not kuow whether the change was in p; him or in herself; she only knew that a as change was there. Once or twice he ia came to her house after dinner, when in his utterance was not perfectly dis- Co tinct. nor his remarks very coherent: tu and lying awake at night, after such as visits, Jane had to think a very long o\ while over the old Uright vision of the n, Mohun of her youth before she conld h dislodge from her brain the visitor w 'whose eyes were glazed with wine" of y( the present. Had Mr. Follett chanced cc to call on the following morning after p( Jane had thought thus, she would, you o\ may rest assured, have been especially it " ?- Hinn AVOP U ;1CI lIMUIUlHiS iu uiii!, .IIIU iuwit ukiu v. v . Xj disposed to uphold and make much of w Gilford in bis presence. But Mr. Fol- is lett did not call, either on these or any CI other mornings; and so, not having to defend Gilford afresh, only to see him continually, both in the before and al'ter-dinner aspect of bis everyday life, p( Jane Grand was forced gradually to feel that be was not?never could be |y again?that which he was when she S1 first loved him in her youth. ([, She disallowed all such creditable feelings to herself as indignantly as she c. disallowed the fact that slip missed jji the society of that true and refined and tn honest gentleman who had been her ct sole friend and counselor during these a] last outcast years of her life (women <jj like Jane invariably consider any faint ?] dawnings of reason in their love affairs (j just in the same light that they would :,< questionings or doubts in theological i0 matters, ami strive to quench thorn ti with a.s due a horror of their own lion1?}'). She was fearfully hard and resolute when ouo or two of her female ac- b, quaintanoes hinted to her that, unless e< ari engagement was avowed. Mr. Mo- la hun ought not to go so often to the ir cottage. Had she not sworn to herself h to bo his friend for life, and should s< not his very failings and weaknesses o make her the more resolved to stand X j him now? II the iove Uisl Lad been Bvcrenct once was obangn.g f:<sl in ! jty, she Liil awa.v all symptoms of , ucb change, as only women do, and j lobiUi found ber -outinually more ! weel, more submissive, more bumble, von, to bim than she had ever been. That certain wersidpers never prosrate ifcemselvea in adoration so nbBet as ivboi. they first begin to miseot tbe existence ot flaws upon their lol was .an ides. riot at all likely to nter Gifford Mohun's brain. CHAPTER XV. One March morning Mr. Mohtm ralkeri into Jane Grand's sitting room nth a letter in his hand. Atler relievjg his feelings by one or two arniaWe xpletives not necessary to record, he hrew this letter down tipon the table, imself?his accustomed attitude?upon ic sofa, and then and there committed 11 friends who died and all friends bo wring promises out of him, Gifford fohitn, and all orphans who had the npectinence to remember such piomies afterward, to a destination not ften distinctly spoken aloud in '.be J uvs ot good society. ,1ano was not horrified. ris sue would | live been some months ago. at this ttle overflow of temper. She began to now pretty well wliat to expect from Tr Mobnii wben be was out of sorts, erhnps, poor fellow, tins east wind ritated bis nerves; be was not; so inifferent 1o weather as be used to bo ears ago: and in a niiJd and- dcprecntid tone she made a remark to this ef;et. "Ob?the east wind!'' cried Mr. Moun. On tbe strength of the old enigement and her long devotion to him, on perceive that be adopted tbe same tsy manner to her that be would have 3own to a wife or sister, "? the enst ind! I've got a letter from that fool ergu6son"8 daughter, asking me to do miething for her, and bepgins for an Qswer by return of post. I've told an .about Fergusson, I suppose, ' ' ~ ~ ynrr.%9 : - .1 . fivenT Vi VVCJJ, lievtr mum, icmi irl's cursed letter first, and- then you in tell me how you think I can pet out I it best How can I help the little >ol? What: do I know ;ibout gov nesses?" And ko on wbile Jane read the letter irougli a string of little muttered ob:rvations into which we do not care i follow him. "What do you think of it?" he cried. ? she finished. "What do you think of lis modest request, of icy humble :rvant. 'M. Fergus son?'" "Slit writes in a nice spirit, and like ie who. if she could, would make an jRcrable exertion to help her family, ifford," said Jane, meekly. "If her ither was such a friend of yours as ie states, I should lie glad if we could any .way give the poo:- child a start." "Child? Oh. she's only a child, you link!" said Gifford, looking relieved, rhen I'll teli you what I'll do?send a re-pound note by return of post for r to buy a now dross with, and icre s qji 0ihl ci h. ous?t wjiu- mc oper sort of thinp for me, and I'll ml it off by to-day's post.'' But Jane hesitated. In her intense 'Sire that Gifford should always come it well in all he did she felt herself lied upon to do something more for at fool Fergusson's little orphan i tighter. "I?I don't think she can be quite a :ild, Gifford?fifteen or sixteen, persps; and then she makes no request r money, you see, only asks you to e what influence you have in petting :r into the schoolroom of some of >ur friends or relatives. She writes very>pretty hand?so formed, and yet ee!" And to pain time .Tane took up Miss ^rgusson's letter and displayed its quisitely written pages again for ifford's inspection. As Miss Fergusson will soon appear )on the stage, a very practical actor the limited dramatis personae of tor Jane's life, her note (a not uncharteristic one) may as well be jriven in ibstance. It was written on remark?ly deep mourning paper, in a clear, lieate, pattes de mouche hand, and itli the usual liberal allowance of ishes and underlinings and notes of :clamation, by which young ladies nerally make the written exposition their joys and sorrows telling. (To Oc continued.) Hot Tor Overrents. "I'm beginning to believe the climatic nditions all over tLe Pacific Ocean . e changing," remarked Captain Saun- . ?rs, of the liner Manchuria, at Ibe St. J ralitis last evening. "In (be fifteen ' ars I have been running across the acific I never saw such cool weather ; we've been getting lately. On our st trip I wore a white suit just once, i Honolulu the weather was decidedly o! and in Hongkong people were ac- 1 ally wearing overcoats. Can you iui- | ;ine anything mere ridiculous than an 'ercoat in Hongkong? So l'ar as all j y past experiences go. an overcoat in ' ougkong is about as useful as it ! 1 oiild bo 111 the nether regions. And 1 *t people were aotualy wearing over- 1 >ats in Hongkong when we were in )rt there a month ago. Mind you. : ercoats in Hongkong! Just think of ! People actually wearing them! ver been in Hongkong? No? Oh, j ell, then, the humor of the situation . entirely lost on you."?San Francisco ( hronicle. t Axite, a Sew Explosive. Demonstration of a new smokeless >wder before officials of the British 'ar Office and Admiralty was recentgiven near Birmingham. The new ibstance is named axite, is made in ie form of flat ribbons, and is said i contain nitro-glycerin and nitro-. llulose in proportions similar to lose in M. D. cordite, with other ma- , rials added. The advantages cJaiinl and apparently justified at the trial '0 loss corrosive in effect than corte. that with equal pressure it gives eatly increased velocities, nnd that ''"""ctf ,-e /->n 11 :pk nn 1hr> rifle barrel itr uqw.m * -> v?? :ts as a lubricant. Tlie flame is vict colored, and hence loss noticeable tau that of cordite at night. Couldn't Lea-re Town. A lnwyer bad a borse tbat alwr.ys sliced wlien be attempted to cross a Mtaiu bridge leading out of the vil,ge. No amount of whipping or urgig would induce him to cross it, so e advertised him for sale. "To bj )ld for no other reason than that thil ivner would like to leave town."-* Lount Je^ett (Pa.) News. ^ p < Three human lungs?one white, one black and one gray?form an instructive exhibit in an Edinburgh museum. The first came from an Esquimaux, who breathed the pure air of the Arctic regions; the second, from a coal miner, who inhaled much coal dust; the third, from a 1own dweller., kept In city dust and smoke. Professor Simon Newcomb, in his opening address before the International Congress of Arts and Science at St. Louis, dwelt upon the debt of the world to the original scientific investigators who have opened the way. They are the primary agents in the movement which has elevated man to the masterful position which he now occupies. The example first set by the French, and afterward followed in (lcrnwny and otiier Jturopean coumriw, *.-i ploying automobiles for military purposes, has this year bern initiated in the United States. In the war game at Manassas General Corbiu used a steam oar, and in the military maneuvres in California General McArthur employed a gasoline ear. One of the latest devices for applying the three-color principle to the reproduction in a photographic transparency of the hues of nature is the invention of the Messrs. Lumiere, of Paris. Instead of using three separate color screens to produce the negative, they employ a single screen on wiich the three colors are distributed in microscopic grains. Although in many parts of tho "world the forests are receding and disappearing at a rate 'which causes solicitude, an opposite state of affairs is reported to exist in the southernmost district of the great .plains, region of Texas. On tho Edwards plateau the forests arc slowly spreading over the open lands. Most of the trees are of the Atlantic i on llxra note r>rne1 nnks IJ'ptr, ?."> trii!4r?, mv VUUU, ^v.Jk , walnuts, hickories, sycamores; but from the Rocky Mountains have come pinon pines, cedars and oaks. At the Cambridge meeting of the British Association some singular facts were presented about the influence of disease and of town life on the prevailing complexion of the population of England. Dr. F. G'. ShruksnU said that blonds are found to suffer more than brunettes from rheumatic disorders, but less from tuberculosis. Blonds also suffer more from diseases in childhood, and" consequently their number in proportion to the brunettes diminishes ij; the crowded areas of cities. The proposed new calendar of C'amille Planimariou, the French astronomer, begins the year at the Vernal Equinox (March 2]), and to every quarter gives two months of thirty diiys and one month of thirty-one days. The 365th day, set aside as a fete day, is not counted in any month, two such days following leap year. The object of this plan is to make the same dates fall always on the same days of the week and thus give a calendar that is good for any yeur. Nolion'a Funeral, 100 Yearn Ago, It has -been settled that his lordship's corpse shall not be taken down the steps in St. Paul's to the vault, as all others have been; but that it shall be }et down under the dome, where the brass grate is, the opening of which not being sufficiently large, a number of workmen are now employed to make it largo enough to let the coffin down; but it will' be some time before it is complete, as there is an immense body of stone to cut through. We do not learn that any other arrangements are finally determined upon. Mr. Mylne, the architect of the Cathedral, had proposed to Lord Hawkesbur'y, and the dean and chapter, a plan for a monument to be erected to the memory of tho hero, under the centre of the dome; but this was much objected to, on account of its disfiguring the ai* pearauce of the church. Mr. Mylne has since laid before them an ancient plan of St. Peter's, at Rome, to prove that his plan would not be n disfigurement 10 the church. He Las likewise produced an old record, in which it appoars that it was Sir Christopher Wren's desire to have a monument erected under the centre of the dome to perpetuate his memory. Should Mr. My 1 lie's plan be adopted, a large stone pillar will rise from the grave a considerable distance above the brass prate, with a very elegant colossal figure of the dec-cased oij the top of it. The Bishop of Lincoln, the dean, is expected in town in a few days, when ii chapter will be Leid, for the purpose [>f making arrangements for 1be funerRl. It is reported that a monument tvill likewise be erected in Westminster Abbey.?London Times, 3805. Flr8t to Hefnse to Obey. Mrs. Sarah J. Harper Starr, of Rellevue, was buried Tuesday in the farnly mausoleum at Zelienople, Pa., and i most wonderful life was ended. Mrs. Starr's marriage in Cincinnati >n May 22, 3S-10, it; of historical importance in ecclesiastical circles. Miss Harper was sixteen years old anil bad jeen studying in r-ollege with a view to missionary life in foreign lands. Dr. Starr, a young pnysieir.n. -was studying toward tiao same end and the couple lerided to wed. Miss Harper bad ide.'is of her own :>n the quest ion of the word "obey" in he ritual of tlrj clnnvh, and decided hat for her it should be eliminated, .'he found n friend in the Rev. Maxwell GiJaddis, assistant pastor of Morris "Impel, Cincinnati, who promised to >rait the word during the ceremony, ind she was ma.ried, but friends were neonsiderate enough to s;iy the mariage was invalid and at the next ineetng of the general conference ot' the Methodist Episcopal Church held in Cincinnati the clergyman wlio had unit ted the word was ''churched." Finally the question became generil and later when decisive action was aken the sentence "serve and obey" ;vas ordered stricken out of the matrinonial ritual of the discipline of the Methodist Church. The Methodist ^rotestant Church took the same action ater.?Pittsburg Dispatch. THE GREAT DESTROYER ' SOME STARTLING FACT5 ABOUT I THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Wnrkhifin^n nnrl Temperance?A SJrlk- ^ ine Article by Charles 8telze, Superintendent Department Chnrcli and Labor For the Presbyterian Chnrch. I'd like to drive Lome just three Thoughts with reference to the work- J jngman and the saloon. An excited visitor in my office said 1 to-day: "If I had my way. I would j compel wcrkingmen to labor twenty j hours a day, so that they could not go ( to the saloon." . ( I reminded him that it is usually the c man who works the longest hours who I drinks the hardest. Sheer exhaustion 1 drives him to the grog-shop. The second erroneous idea that is ^ being harbored by many a man is thnt j the trades unions are factors which * make for intemperance. Nothing could 1 be further from the fact. The trades 1 unions of this country have done more * for the cause of temperance and . so- 1 briety than any other purely benevolent 1 or philanthropic organization. A nnm- { her of trades unions have laws which denv assistance to any man who is j injured while intoxicated. Twenty years ago practically every labor union ; met back or over a saloon. That is . ; rarely the case to-day. Twenty years ago I could have counted scores of J drunken men at a meeting of the or- 1 ganization 1o which I belonged as a 1 mechanic. During the past two yexrs j 1 have visited literally hundreds of ' labor unions, and I do not remember } having seen a single drunken man in J the meetings. Tills does not mean J that workingmen do not get drunk, nor !hat they do not need help in the mat- s 'er of temperate living. I mean to say J with emphasis. however, that the av- ' erage labor union is an influence for * good in this direction. The best labor i leaders and practically every labor edi- J lor stands out clearly and boldly for 1 tempcrnnce reform among working- , men. ? Third. The matter of saloon substl- ? tutes. The Subway Tavern has failed. i* So will every other similar institution * I xrhi^h ;? hnspfi. nnon n paternal prin- J ciple. The workiiipman despises pat- 'J; ronage., Many a plan which appears ^ 1o he very beautiful fails because it 1 leaves out the element of human ua- F lure. The best substitute for the sa- \ loon is the home. Never will there be J? a better one proposed. To help the workingman make his home a more 1 beautiful place, should then be our F aim. How this is to be done must be s determine'! by the peculiar conditions _ which exist in each community. There , is no universal plan. He will welcome A the brotherly suggestion. T Doing all this, let us not forget his ; wife and t.hildrcn. They. too. need . sympathetic help. And when the average workingman realizes it. he will n he the first to give it.?Ram's Horn. ^ What Tippling Costs .VanliattJin. 3 The borough of Manhattan annu- e aily consumes about one hundred t thousand barrels of whisky, which ? * 4.1,/v nrvnviimore X2 nflO.OOO. To this J I'JUJSi CUC7 V.VUCUKI .*w -r~i ? item must be added thirty thousand I t barrels of other spirits, sold for 5500,- v 000; two hundred thousand eases of F champagne, for which $5,500,000 is S paid; four millions gallons of other u wines and brandies, costing $27,000,- h 000. and, last hut not least important, P five millon barrels of beer, selling for n $100,000,000. This makes a total of n $135,500,000?a sura sufficient to ere- a ate and maintain forever a great uni- h versity like Yale or Harvard. It is a a tact rather interesting to consider that, o if all of this beer and liquor were put t. into a tank, and were allowed to run h through an ordinary water tap at tho rate of a gallon a minute, the reeep- h tacle would require ninety years and d thirty-six days to empty itself.?Pear- c son's Magazine. * . t: I.ord Charles Koresford on Alcoho?. ^ At a recent meeting'in connection s J with the Malta United Temperance $ ' "*"* n A campaign, ucnerm ctui-un icuu ?i .w n ter from Admiral Lord Cliarles Beres- a ford, who, after expressing regret at a his inability to he present, said: "I j] do not believe that alcohol in any form p ever has or will do any one any good, q I am now sixty years old, and since ti I have entirely given up wine, spirits r and beer, I find I can do as much work u physically and mentally as I could f) when I was thirty. I am always well; iS always cheery; laugh at the 'downs' ? of life equally with the 'ups,' and al- p ways feel tit and in condition. If only 0 some! of the young men would try jgoing without liquor for three months ti I do ru>t believe they would think liq- f( uor irf all necessary again. Get some p of ycftir splendid young men to try it, o and 'report proceedings' after the ]< three months."?From English Letter, n in Pioneer. S Saloon-Keeper Linble. h The Indiana Appellate Court h.-.~ rcld ? that a saloonkeeper, by the illegal sale ~ of liquor, causes his customer to be- r, come drunken and quarrelsome, so that : he kills another, he, the saloonkeeper, * is liable in damages ror uie ueaiu | ? ! the murdered man. Tbe saloonkeeper's , | bondsmen are liable for the payment , of the damages in event tbe saloon- 1 keeper is not worth tbe amount of tbe "z judgment secured. {( it Lordly Koozinjr Kens. Many whisky firms of Great Britain v, advertise that tbeir brand of whisky ei is '"used in boozing ksns of the House of Lords." This is annoying h to tbe great lords who, while they li take the whisky all right, don't cure e about the fact being advertised. There u ?r<? several bars in the Houses of I'arliament where the King's lawmakers S are wont to liquidate and which pay si no excise license either. Temperance IVo.'es. New Zealand is laying olau.s in so = 4Un I f( cure a law pronmug iui ... sory teaching of hygiene and physic Iogy in the public schools, witli special l| reference to the effect of aJcoIiol and Sl. j narcotics on flip human system. jV The daily papers do not tell all the news. The reports of the Board of J. Health of Massachusetts show that I the hoard brought suit against a largo ^ j brewery for adulteration of beer, and the brewery was convicted anil fined n, $1<XK). but only one daily paper report- r...' ed the case. j 5,1 ? r> e. I A'leiu ?sPiTC*ijiry fitiiiiu/u, vi *?<--byterian Temperance Committee, wlipn asked in Synod :is to the policy of tlie ;:onnniitloe touching persuasive legislation on the foiUrol of tfio liquor fmtlir " by license, replied. "Christ < <? 11st? not to regulate, hut to destroy the ivorl:s " of the (IpvjI " This -wan llie most applauded ulleram-o of the sew ion. 141 Throv? counties in the* west pnrt of tlio Fourtwnt'i Ouiiftifssionnl District 3f the Stale ol .Missouri voted on the ioe.il option question i few days mso. I>oc.iI option eiirrietl'liy a vote of about to our. The amutieo are, Wright, Douslass and Stoiis. ta rHE SUNDAY SCHOOL NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR FEBRUARY 4. ! object: The Temptation of Jesas, Matt. It., 1-11?Golden Text, Heb. lv.. 15? Memory Verse, 4?Topic: A Study of Christ's Temptation?Commentary. I. Jesus in tie wilderness (vs. 1, 2). !. "Then." Immediately nfter His )aptism. Such are the violent alternaioiis of human experience; baptized uid tempted; approved of God and landed over to the devil. "Led up." }ur lives are so ordered that we are ;airled into places where the metal of )ur religion is tried. Temptation is )art of the divine scheme. The devil s under the control of God. Open the >age of history where you will and rou can hardly find the story of any freat, noble soul, that has not had its lour of battle with the powers of darkless. "Of the spirit." Luke says He ;vas "full of Ihe Holy Chost:" Mark Kiys, "The spirit driveth Him." A di/iue influence led Him on. "Into the wilderness." Tradition n.^ nxea upon i high ridge called Quarantania, near lerieho. "To be tempted." Christ begins His work with a personal encouner with Satan. To tempt is, literally, :o stretch out, to try the strength of. j remptation is the testing of a person, rhe three temptations of Christ were ypical ones,, comprehending all the rorms of temptation by which human lature can be assailed. They cover he same ground as "the lust of the lesh, the lust of the eyes, and the irideof life" (1 John 2:16). "The devI." "Diabolos," always in the singuar and with the definite article. 2. "Forty days*" Moses, Elijah tnd our Lord could fa6t forty days because they were in communion with iod and living a heavenly life. Luke iays He was tempted during the whole orry (lays. Aiierwaru au iiuiiyrtu. kfter tbe forty days were ended the eaction came with terrible force. II. The first temptation (vs. 3, 4). !. / "The tempter came." How Satan tppeared ,to Christ we do not know, nit if he came in bodily form it must lave been as an angel of light. "If rjiou be." Be warp" of tenaptation that omes with ah "if" in Jts mouth. "Tbe ion of God." Tbe consciousness of lis divine Sonsbip may now in a neasure have been withheld. Alone n the wilderness and weak and worn rom fasting, Satan saw his chance. Stones?bread." You . are hungry; k>w if You are the Son of God use the lower ?ou have to supply Your necesitiea and thus prove- Your divinity. 4. "It is written."- See Deut. S:3. n each case Jesus answered and deeated Satan by a proper use of the irord of God. A man who has scripure hid in his heart has a sharp sword o fight the devil with. "Not live by read alone." Human support depends ;ot. on bread, but upon God's unfailing tord of promise and pledge of all needul providential care. III. The second temptation (vs. 5-7). 'he'order of the temptations is differnt in Luke, but th'is iVimmaterial, as here is no statement that insists on ny particular' order. 5. "Taketb lim." So'far as the necessities of the rial required, yet with no power of iolence or contamination, our Lord's icrson was in his: hand. How else did lof.on -fnl-A ITim f Vl tOTYinto'Q SllirU [lit or to the mountain top? "Into the oly city." Whedon believes that His erson was transported "with the uickness of a thought, so that He is ot to be conceived as on His way at ny intermediate point." There seems ittle reason to doubt that Jesus actuiiy went with Satan to the pinnacle f the temple. "Pinnacle." Probably he royal porch built by Herod, overling the Cedrou. 0. ."If Thou be," etc. Satan presses is point. In His first reply to the evil jesus had shown His unbounded onfidence in God. Now Satan takes lira at that very point and. assumes bat if He did not oast Himself down : would show that He lacked faith in !od and that His claim to divine Sonhip was unfounded. "Cast Thyself own." Show your faith in God. .11 the world will wonder at so grand n exploit. Prove at once that You re the Son of God. "It is written." ti Psalm 01:11, 12. The devil has a ibie, but he misquotes and misapplies, 'his was a temptation to pre&umpon. 7. "It is written again." In >eut. G:1G. There is always danger in sing isolated texts. One text exlains and modifies another. The Bible ! often perverted by wicked men. Xot tempt." To tempt God is to put [im to tlie proof?to demand evidence f His power and of His will to fulfil [is promises, instead o? waiting patently and trusting. This is mani?stly wrong. The first temptation apealed to the animal appetites. This ne rises to tlie higher sentiment, the )ve of allow?tbe gratification of adliration. IV. The tbird temptation (vs. S-ll). . "Exceeding high mountain." Some igh mountain in Judca. wbere a genral yiew could be bad of the country. Sheweth ? kingdoms of tbe world." lie root of tbe tbird temptation lay in lie supposition that tbe kingdoms of lie world were tbe devil's kingdoms _ -1 ? - 1.1 .-? .x4? ft nil unit in' couiu uinpuse ui iutui. ^. All?give Thee." By this Satan eviently meant til at be would withdraw is opposition to Christ and make Him great earthly ruler. "If?worship it*." Here the devil appears in his lie character. Christ was tempted to lokifry, which is the root of all evil. 0. "tiet thee heiu'e." .Tesus parleys ith him no longer, but with authority irnmands him to go to his own place. 31. "Devil leaveth Him." Sataa a<l made the strongest effort of which e was capable and had been bafflsd at very point. "Angels." Heavenly messengers; spiritual beings of a highr order tliau man. "Ministered." upplied llitn with necessary food to upport nature. Kile liaised 227 Pound*. 1 After e.\'perinienting for a number of >:us at Cape Breton, X. S.. with rtvir.c tog, Professor Alexander Crnluiui ell succeeded in having his latest degned kite, the Frost Kins:, rise in tl.v? r and carry a weight of 227 pounds. i;s including a man weighing 1f>T? Minds and ropes and lines weighing xfv-two pounds. The kite itself eirrbs sixty-one pounds, making a 1 tnl weight of 2SS pounds. The kite ' se to a height of thirty feet and re .lined there steadily until plioto aphs were taken of it. > Died on Wtddinc Day. On th<ir diamond wedding day an j ;ed couple named Bad or, who lived , Konigswailde (Germany), and who . ere both ninety years of age. sudden fell ill. and died within an hour of , c-li other. i i Cigars For SlO.COEach. At a bazar at West Ham. London, tigland. cigars presented by the lat? r Henry Irving, with signatures at- < ched, were sold at $10.50 each. i .THOUGHTS QUlET^f^S. Aatollojcnphy of Sonl. "I wish you would take this old manuscript volume," said an old lady, to a friend, who lad a fondness for antiques. "I do not like to destroy it*: and I do not know what to do with Sw The family that left it with me is deatf,everyone. It was some old relative on ^ ancestor of theirs, I think, who wrote it. I have not read much in it, but / it is something religious." The volume proved to be of no great antiauitv. being less than a centnryii * old, but it had all the flavor of the loDja ago. It was the spiritual autobiogra-; phy of a young man. "The Gracious Dealing of God With My Soul" -was the title, and the record covered a period of twelve years. The first part of it had first been written on separate sheets, and afterward copied. "I have a number of. scraps of paper laying about; I sha>! put them together and copy them this book," said the preface. Them follows the record of his spiritual life. . His mother was pious, his father not so. He had lived a -careless youth, as he confesses, until the death of one^ of his companions and the earnest solicitude of another caused him ;t?. "reflect upon the welfare of my neverdyeing soul," as he writes it. He prayed, prayed aloud, for so he e?-| teemed it his duty, and being forbidden by his father to make bo much11 nni-co in +Via hrmco wont fnr his KPflSflTtH of devotion to the barn. But he did Dot I yet esteem himself a Christian. "I felt afraid I should lose my conviction," said the narrative, "atid I prayed that God would roll on more Powerfull conviction, and that I might not be left to hardness of heart anil blindness of Mind. I thought if 1 could get more conviction, I should have some hopes that I might yet find mercy. I read my Bible, but I got no Evidence that I had met with a change of heart." . , However, he was baptized, witnessed his confession before men, set upon doing good as God gave him iop- / portunity, and retired to his room;on Sabbath dayB, birthdays and Thanksgivings, which were practically, >t?e! only days used for writing in the jotff-' nal, to lament his "low state of mind,'*! his "dulness and stupidity," his "hardness of heart," and "unprofitableness of life." Toward the end of tb* narrative! come frequent allusions to health. The ' writer has a cough; is unable to work; ' and later has spitting of blood. There are records of hard colds and morel spitting of blood. The story was common enough in New England a century, ago, and is far too common now. And after a page which records at once a1 CTowinir trust in God and increasing physical weakness, the narrative stopa abruptly. There were pages numbered! ahead, but another hand would have been needed to fill them. [ Did the young man recover? Probably not. These are in all likelihood jthe last words he ever wrote:' "I"sayn :to myself, can it be possible that/lira }a child of God when I live so careless f and .stupid in the Cause of Christ? bpt yet I have a little glimmering hope 'that I have been born ?gain. So P pray that I shall be reconciled to the will of God in my affliction, in my infirm health, & lean upon his all-sufficient arm." There are yellow stains, upon the page, as if it had been read through: tears; and the subsequent pages bear no mark save that a few are numbered! ahead. The modern reader qlosed the book with a feeling of solemnity. He had ? seen a soul laid bare. And how hard he strove, that young man of a hundred years ago, for a blessing whichi God was more willing to bestow than he to receivt! How vain were all thesejnward str rings! How morbid! <tvac -mis Constant inlrosoection .Yet, after all, there was in it something io challenge one's respect. Here was a soul, fighting out alone the great and awful problems of cx- , istence, of duty, and of the righteous claims of God. ,"' Very different from the easy and flippant religion which is cojnmon today? Perhaps so; and it may.be that little more of the earnestness of the old time wrestling which tells its story in such a book would be worthy of modern imitation. Not in its morbid introspection, tint) in its heroic resolve to find God, however far away, and to perform duty, no matter how hard, and to strugglb upward toward the light, no matter how long the climb, is the lesson whichf the old book has for to-day.?Youth's , Companion. . | The Divine Mirror. < 'Among Rome's treasures of art is & snperb fresco by Guido, called "The < Aurora." The painting is directly, overhead, covering a lofty ceiling, and: as the beholder stands below and gazes up at those splendid clouds and majestic figures, his head swims, and the' grand effect is lost in a dizzy whir* J of the strained senses. But of recent/ ^ years a broad mirror has been placed? M under the picture, near the floor; anil " as one approaches and looks into it, ? he sees the magnificent fresco reproduced at his feet, perfect in propor- \ tion and perspective, all its beauties aiscioseu without euun tu iue uchsuku eye. . ' This is just "what the life of Christ does for us. It mirrors the character and attributes of God. i K?>ceiviiis: th? Spirit. The difference between receiving the; Spirit and being tilled with the Spirit,' is a difference not of kind, but of de-( gree. In one case the light of heaven' has reached the (lark chamber, disturb-' ing night, but leaving some deep shadows. In the other, that light has filled): the whole chamber and made every corner bright.?William Arthur. ' The Christian's Antidote. ? A Christian met another man wBo; was the picture of dcspeudency. Wheuasked what was the matter, the man said, "I have no friends: I am lonely."' "I have an antidote for that." answered1 the Christian, and he began to sing,/ I "Abide with me, fast falls the even-! | tide." The lonesome man heard him- I through, and then said: "Why. so you^ fa have. If that song is true, you have) B company ail the time."?Ham's Horn. The b'.ow of a whale's tail is tfco' ?*U/mrest animal force in thp world TJ vour *r? Otia P1?oa_ ^ Bridget O'Donnal!. a servant, tvLcn B for sixty-one years was in tlie employ fl of the family of the late John J. Crane M it 35 West Forty-seventh street. New H i'ork City, died suddenly of heart di<- fl pase in the rectory of St. Patrick's! M Cathedral. She had cone there to wit- g tiess the wedding of a friend. B A Garden City. fl John Cory, a South Wales philaiW fl thropist, has arranged for the building? fl of a garden city on his estate at Duf-J fl fryn. ^ fl J