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CHAPTER XVI. 17
Continued.
';. "'It "was her way oi looking at Gi1
ford, and speaking iso low," she oj
plained when, long afterward, sh
found a eonfulant respecting the trial
of that first evening?"speaking so Iot
and tremulous, whet},, not a minut
before, she had given loud orders t
my servents about her boxes. An
(then her hat?a modest woman, seet
iug a situation among young childrei
with a hat like that upon lker head
and her mantle trihimed actually wit
velvet, and a dress that might hav
stood alone, when she said herself tha
her mamma had scarce the comrno
necessaries of life! These were th
things that set me right as to her rea
# nature from the filst moment I sai
her."
Ami as Jane never mentioned anj
thing about Miss Fergus-son's yout
and beauty, and Gifford's evident an
warm appreciation of tbe same, it i
to be held that these petty considers
tions did not really influence her i
the opinion to which she referred.
Miss Fergusson was very lively am
pleasant at tea; and indeed during al
the rest of the evening. Quite earl,
In the entertainment she asked Mis
Grand, as a girl may ask a middle
aged woman, to call her at once b;
foer Christian name?Matty.
"It is really Mathilda, you know, bu
mamma always calls mc Matty, and
should be very glad if you would d<
so too."
mi 1 ?-ToriA foe I lmrcoir +1
, '"Auereuy matting; uauc ?
be old enough to be Matty's mother
and Gifford to think -what a natura
unaffected creature this poor neglecte<
child managed, after all, to grow up.
"How many years is it exactly sinc<
you. and Mr. Mohuu met?" said Jani
in the course of Miss Matty's little con
tinental reminiscences. "Four? five
you could not have been such a ven
young child then, after all. Four yean
ago you were "
"Nearly fifteen," said Matty, com
posedly. "I didn't look my age, did I
Mr. Mohun? I was very short mdee<
for a year after that, and poor dea;
mamma r.lways would dress us to loo!
like children of eleven. What a life i
Af norfflot Mnilnr as sill
>Y 43 O . KJJ CO VI (/v?%vvi#
said this?"oscillating between Em!
and Spa and Wiesbaden and Baden ii
summer, and Hamburg and Franklori
in winter?poor papa always playing
playing at that horrible tapis vert
whether we had money for dinner 01
not; and dear mamma still dressinj
and going to all the concerts and balls
) when I'm sure there was enough ai
home to break her heart if she hat
felt things even as much as we chil
dren. Do you know, Miss Grand, mj
sister and I have often gone round t<
the hotels at dinner time and begget
bits of broken meats. as the dishef
came out from *h<> 'table d'hote? ant
this, perhaps, at the very time whei
poor mamma wouid be dressing her
self elegantly for the Redoute in th?
evening. Such things must hav<
seemed almost incredible lo you, 1
am sure."
Mohun glanced at Jane, as much as
to say, "You see what I have told yoi
about their bringing up was true;" bin
he also looked favorably upon Miss
Matty's flushed, candid lace. Ja^ie fel
that the girl was saying precisely whai
put herself in the best position?allow
ing facts that Gilford's memory mus:
make it impossible for her to ignore
and improving them to the utmost
N Mohun had forgotten *?very syllabN
of her letter within hnIt an hour o1
reading it; but Jane tenaciously remembered
those -words: "Our happj
circle," "our dearest father and moth
or.'' and- opposed* them to the picture
of starved innocence begging brokei
meats, while unworthy parents wast-t
their substance on their own frivolity
and miserable pleasures!
That morning?nay, not an hour ag<
?Gitford, with the vision before hin
of Mrs. Fergusson and the frecklot
children, ha? been cynical, suspicious
and very near the truth in his remark!
upon what Miss Matty must have
grown up; Jane, all charity, forbear
ance, generous sentiment toward tin
friendless girl site was going to be
friend. They had seen the poor friend
less girl, ami loi sDe was iair to 1001
upon, plausible of speech and attrac
tive in manner. And.now Mr. Mohui
was disposed to like her, and to stare
well content, in lier handsome fac<
and listen, well diverted, to her livel;
foreign talk; and Jane?the mild, tin
charitable, the kindly?had ahead;
gone a long way on the road towan
hating her, and suspected a hiddei
motive or detected a palpable decei
under every one of the pretty littl<
romances her childish tonguo babble<
' forth.
Was she commonly, meanly jealou
then??she, who had always held her
sen aDove uie meie auajjiviuu ? ouv.
a feeling.
When that long evening had -worn t
a close, all Miss Matty's amusing stor
ies over, and Mohun was lighting hi
cigar previous to departure, Jane stol
out after him to the little hall, am
with .1 quiet conscious feeling of he
own despicable weakness, attemptei
to sound him on the subject so tei
ribly near her heart.
"You judged her too hardly, Gifford
She is a very nice girt, after all. am
?and unusually haudsome, Gifford, i
she not?*'
Mr. Mohun was standing under th
x porch way now. his face upraise
heavenward, and his mind evident)
deeply interested in the lighting of hi
cigar.
. "Very handsome face, has she no
Clifford? Just the style of beauty tha
is so taking at first sight?"
' Hang the thing, it's cut again!'' r(
sponded Gifford, and as Jte spoke h
applied himself to getting another v<
suvius from Jbis case. "I jbeg you
.
OR, jjj
V FOR HER %
\ FATHER'S ?
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OF ]
HONOR;\ |
panloc, Jan*1, what is it yon were saying?
The Fergusson handsome! Oh
[- -well, yes? uot bad; forward in mnnnei
c- though, just Tvbat I told you a datighe
1^r ol' Mrs. Fergusson's must be.
s Tbank you, Jane!" She was buttoning
v liis coat across his chest, in fond feai
e of the mild aic of the soft spring
o night. "My own dear Jane, so good,
d so kind?a thousand-fold above all the
c- Matty Fergussons living!"
), Then?qpd remember, be knew quite
I! well .he admired. Matty, and was on
h the eve of a flirtation with her?Mohun
e had the exceeding baseness to hold
t poor Jane's hand fondly, and even
i> press it to his lips, as he had Dot done
e for a very long time past, before he
ii left her.
v I don't think she was quite reassured,
but she tried to say to herself that she
was happy, and that she had misin11
terpreted all the looks that Gifford'fi
' v,!? annc hnfl hppn
<11 111 III !?>?> JPUftUOOUii o vjvo
s exchanging duringthe Inst three hours.
l* At all events, she went in again with
11 a strong determination to succumb 110
more to any of the torments of idle
jealousy, and was mueh more genial
1 in her tone to .Matty now, they were
y alone.than she had found it possible to
s be while that young lady was appealing
at every instant to Mr. Mohun for
Y sympathy^and'admiration.
Miss Fergusson. however, after sayt
ing "yes" and "no" at the proper inter*
vals, for about five minutes, wa6 seized
0 with the most violent intermitten fits
of yawning, and gaVe evidence of ex0
treme abstraction in her own replies.
'? "How very different some young peo1
pie are when they have not the stimu*
ins nf a man's Dresence,' thought Miss
Grand. "In another five xninutos tie
e girl would be asleep in her chair."
e Still, she "was not sorry herself of any
' excuse for escaping from the society
of lier visitor; and as Miss Matty
1 eagerly jumped at the first mention of
s going upstairs, it fell out that long
. before Mohnn had reached his own
house the'little society, so very much
' awake when he left, had retired, quite
worn out with fatigue, and with each
1 other, to the silence of their own rooms,
^ Jane to perform the accustomed pious
offices with which every day of her life,
* whether happy or disappoined, was
5 closed; Miss Fergusson to unpack her
' dresses, think over the success of this
her first evening's campaign,and finally
' write a letter to a sister of hers, Miss
' Fanny Fergusson, of Cheltenham.
; Of this letter, reader, you may, if
' you will, have the benefit. It would
' iiave been well for Gifford Mohun
could such a privilege have been, extended
to him as well.
T -> TPnrt 4>1A nf + ?) P
ntrt' JL ilUJf i' an, iu ijuc i> v< i?v
j onouiy's country, not a mile and "a half
j from Mr. Mohun of Yatton's place,
. and Mr. Mohun ol Yatton has been
[ spending" the ..evening here and has
j looked vastly flattered by my pretty
speeches to .him. j and he is a, very
, heavy-looking man of 'thirty, dressed
> like a gamekeeper, and with no man[
ners at all, and 1 should say fond of
eating and drinking, the latter pre.
eminently; and 1 do think I've got an
, excellent chance before me, and I hope
t you will be most careful in all your
, letters, when you write, ns 1 am stayt
ing with an old maid, and there is no
i saying she might not be opening some
of them by mistake. Tell dear mamma
(. her plan was an excellent one, and I
carried out everything just as she said,
j Miss Bristowe was very cool and very
> much surprised to see me at first, and
pretended quite to have forgotten that
. she had ever been to school with
r mamma; but when I brought in Lady
Churchill's name, and told her also that
papa knew Mi*. Mohun of Yatton, she
, got decently civil, and said I might
1 stop on a few days, though she couldn't
. do anything in tne way 01 recommciming
meherself. I lost no time in send5
ing the note mamma wrote to Yatton,
j and next day?will you believe it??I
] got a letter, signed 'Jane Grand,' asking
ine to come for a week, and promising
5 to do something to lielp me. (I hope
3 the something will substantial, for,
" tell mamma, I bought a hat?the new
> shape?as \ passed through Bath, and
I've only eleven and eightpence left
out of 1 lie three pounds I started with),
j Of course, 1 accepted, and I came here
. last night. Miss Grand is an old maid,
, rather snappish and suspicions, but I
should think, from the look of the
j house, with a tidy little income. I
^ suppose she is a relation of the Mohun,
2 for she calls him 'Gi fiord'?such a
v name!?and he puts his heels upon the
j sofa. Oh. Fan, what bears, what cubs,
, what Goths these English country, gent
tlemen are compared to such men as
you and I have kuown! Poor Alexis!?
I to think, after caring for him, I could
bring myself to look sweetly on such a
s being as the Yatton bumpkin!
"What a thing poverty is, and what
i it brings one to! Be sure you keep in
all you can with Lady Churchill, and if
o any one asks for me say I'm staying
? ui. ~ ..~i?"vii. TVfrkf Vnt.
s toil. She looked very suspicious at my
e dress?I saw that before she opened
J her lips; but, which character was ! to
r do, the dowdy nursery governess for
[I her. or Matty Fergusson at her best for
- Mohun? I decided I liked Matty Fergusson
the most, and that he was the
I. most important to win, au premier
(1 coup. Discrepancies of dress could be
s explained away to the woman afterward,
but nothing could explain away
e the want of good looks to a man. So
d me voila in that lovely silk Lady
y Churchill gave me, and mamma's
s clonk (so kind of her to lend it me),
and the Bath hat?tiny, and one atom
t, of scarlet in front?aforesaid. You
t should have seen them when I came in!
Mr. ' Mohun actually jumped, lie
?- thought me so handsome, and la vieille
e fille and her maid servant looked as
?- though they would shrivel up and be
;r buried, themselves and their cottage,
and China ornaments and everythinj
! under the splendor of my regal doubl
, skirt. Fan, I write nonsense, but
' don't feel in spirits. Something tell
r me That this monster with his mone
i (its all nonsense about his being ruined
, Miss Bristowe says the timber alon
' will pay all the debts in two yean
something tells me, Fan, it is going t
| be serious, and I think of Alexis
> Why are handsome, refined creature
> without a sou? And why are men wit
L money like Mr. Gilford Mohun? I mus
1 go to sleep on the question. My lov
1 to rnaromn. and if I possibly can I'!
> get some cash out of Miss G.; but i
, not, and if I see that it's necessary,
' hope she will manage to send me
I pound or two directly I write for r
; Mr. M. said something about ridin
last night, and I haven't a single pai
of riding gloves with me; besides, 1
1 a village there may be charity sermon
and all sorts of expenses that I kno^
nothing about.
"Hoping you are getting on bette
: than when I left, 1 am, my poor Far
your attached, M. F."
' "P. S.?I shall hang on here as Ion,
as I possibly can, even suppose nott
! ing serious comes. of my visit. L
vieille fille will do anything Mobu:
,l bids her, and I shall take good care h
1 won't want me to go away. M. F."
i
CHAPTER XVII.
And Miss Matty kept her word. Th
> week for which she had been orlginall;
invited passed on without any allusioi
having been made to her wishes of ot
x~ J ? no n Tini'CDVr
lilllilllg ttliipiuJ uiLii i. a.? u uuiovi^ ov .
erness; and Mr. Mohun came daily, ani
, for hours at a time, to the cottage, ani
(as far as it was possible to judge o
him by any outward indications o
manner) had not the remotest intentioi
that Miss Fergusson should go away.
With a pain above all common jea:
ousy, a pain keener than any of th
natural pangs that a woman must fee
in seeing her lover tufn to one younge
and fairer than herself, Jane looked oi
at the-progress of the< intimacy tha
was'being carried on beneath her roo
and in her very presence. It was no
GiCford Mobun alone that Matty wa
robbing her of. Her life, for years, ha<
been sustained by the thought that sh
had been sacrificed for his good. T<
have married her father's daughte
would have been to sink him in hi
own eyes and in the sight of the world
and her barren, single life had, a
least, that one happy thought to set of
its desperate isolation?she was givinj
lip all the fairer^portion of human ex
istence for his 6ake! For her to b
lonely and unloved was better thai
for Gifford, and for Gifford's children
through her, to have inherited dishonor
But what if he married Matty Fer
gusson? For what empty dream ha<
all her happiness been set aside if hi
married this girl, bred up to the knowl
odge of every evil'of continental life
and with such h parentage, both on he
father's and mother's side? Warrei
Fergusson had certainly not. died witl
the taint of a felon's name upon him
but what was the moral guilt of a mai
who fcr his own miserable passloi
could rob his own children of bread t<
the full as great as her own unhapp]
father's had been. Would not Made
moiselle Ursule Grandet, the nameles
French singer, have been as worthy ai
ancestress for future Mohuns and Yat
ton, as the crafty, unprincipled, livlnj
adventuress which she intuitively knev
Matty Fergusson's mother to be? Fo:
liprspif .Tnne felt a perfect thrill o:
shame when "she thought what she wai
and what,.all her,.life had been, an<
with what love she had loved Mohnn
and now saw the kind of woman wh<
in-very*, truth suited'him best?the tall
that amused him, the ideas so con
sonant to his own, the level where. s<
entirely and beyond all question. h<
found the most normal and genial at
mosphere for his soul to breathe,
say, Matty was not robbing her of Gif
ford alone, but of her last lingering be
lief in Gilford's worth, her reverenci
for her own fond articles of faith wbicl
until now she had held as much abovi
the sacrilege of doubt as the prayer
she put up to heaven every night an<
morning of her simple life.
She felt it to be so; and she said t<
herself:
"It is well. If Gifford can love thii
Matty Fergusson, and if my life an<
my love for him have been one mis
taken sentimental dream, it is well fo:
me to be awakened."
(To be Continued.)
Forj?ot Wlmt Electricity Was.
A Denver newspaper devotes a larg<
space in an unavailing effort to answei
n correspondent's question, "Doe!
anybody know what electricity is?'
A: somebody has observed, tbat re
minds no of a story.
"There is now in Prineville, Ore., :
lawyer who, some years ago, was :
college student bacl: East. One daj
in the classroom the subject of die
cussiou was electricity. This studen
had read all he could find in his text
book about electricity, and considers
himself primed for the occasion. Th<
professor opened the ball with this
direct question, flashed peremptorily
at this particular student:
"Mr. Blank, can you tell us wha
electricity is?"
Mr. Blank squirmed in his seat
hemmed and hawed for a time, am
finally admitted:
"I. did know, professor, but I've for
gotton."
TJivi professor gazed at the stud?P'
with an expression of unspeakabli
sorrow. Then he said sadly:
"Mr. Blank, you do not know wha
you have done. Alas! what a sad losf
to science! You are the only man tba
ever lived who has known what elec
tricity is?and you Lave forgotteu."Pnrtitiml
Orpfouian.
The Duke of Abrnzzt.
The Duke of Abruzzi is fearless. H<
has been shot over a hedge while mo
toring; he has listened while the ic<
pack cracked his ship's ribs in a
Prince Rudolph Island, and escape*
with lrost bitten fingers; he has sur
veyed the world from his balloon an<
attained points on the Alps before uu
explored.
A Wise Girl.
Dr. W. D. Grace, England's most fa
mous cricketcr, recently gave a Iittl<
girl his autograph. She returned fo
another, and in explanation said: "
gave the other in exchange for tw<
bishops." She goi her fiutfl
grajah.
h Plan to Tax Automobiles.
f|BI' " Ifgjl N Lis annua] report. sube
la iyi mitted to Governor |
11 T Stokes. E. C. ButchinsoD,
* p-| i==i State Commissioner of pub3
HH Ol lie roads of New Jersey,
a suggests a no\el plan for
dealing with automobiles?, wbicb in the
S last year or two it is claimed have
r played havoc with the improved roads
n that have been long tiro pride of Jers
seymen. The commissioner urges the
v taxing of automobiles on the basis of
their destructive power to the public
r. highways, the measure of which he
thinks should be the maximum speed
of which each, machine is capable.
? The justification for such a, method ?f
'* taxation is that owners of automobiles;
e thnnki bA ebareed, as nearly as possi- |
a ble, for tlie actual damage they flo to |
e the roads. Unless some limitation is
enforced the commissioner believes
that much of the money which has
been spent by the State in the improvee
ment of the roads will be wasted.
y The report further recommends the
n licensing of chauffeurs and uie passage
of a law prohibiting the use of armored
tires, chain tires and blowers, all of
(I which add to the destructive forces of
j the automobile. In discussing the subf
ject, Commissioner Hutrhinson say?: I
f The automobile is now a recognized
Q means of conveyance, and as such is
entitled to the use of the highways,
|. but there are certain appliances used
e upon them which arc detrimental to
] our roads. These are the armored
r tire, the;chain tire and the blower.
a The damage done to the surface of our J
t macadam< and gravel road9.by these,
f 't appliances is' so' great that the ques
- *~ nnncirlor.
t tion 01 a remeuy i& ucuuut iuu?.uv.
s able agitation all over the different
3 counties of the State.
e The temptation to get all the speed
j> possible out of any means of locomor
tion is almost irresistible, therefore no
a. one should be allowed to run a malt
chine upon our public highways witht
out first obtaining a license, granted
j after a proper examination, as a mat
jority of the accidents ere caused by
- incompetent chauffeurs. If the high
e speed machines are to be allowed upon
q our highways they should be taxed in
i, proportion to the maximum speed of
which they are capable. In other
- words, they should pay for the damage
I they do, and all. money paid into the
e State treasury for such lictnses should
. be applied to the maintenance and ropair
of our roads,
r The dust raised by an automobile
i when running at a rate of less than
i twenty miles an hour is not any worso
! than that raised by many wagons, but
i when the limit is exceeded the autortnei
nntQn DPP
I LLIUUliC UCtVlUtO tU f ?*V?OW 1AU.VW.V..
[> Many cures for the dust annoyance
j "have been suggested, as the sprinkling
- of our roads with crude oil and differs
ent Lolutions of absorbent salts. These
i will prevent the dust, but are too expensive
to be generally used. Our
I remedy, therefore, would be a strict
7. enforcement of the ..peed limit, the ab?
r olition of armored tires, chain tires
f and blowers, and a cprinkling of all
s our improved roads early in the morn1
ing :and .late In the evening. This
; would preserve the roads and would
? reduce the cost of repairs materially,
j ..at. the same time, giving us a better
- smoother and more dustless surface
a than before.
e
Sonnd In Principle and Policy.
! The proposition thai Congress shall
. appropriate money to aid the States
_ in highway construction is sound in
a principle r.nd patriotic as policy. It i6
^ not new, except that the favors of the
& general government have for many
g years been turned into other channels.
5 The aid extended to the Pacific railroads,
covering hundreds of millions of
. monev and nublic lands, a'^d the hun
J "
dreds of millions spent on rivers and
s harbors was all based upon the theory
I that the government but served its
own good when appropriating money
r to increase and improve the transportation
facilities of'the country. That
is a sound proposition, and if adhered
to by the Congress mus't lead to the
early extension, of government aid to.
the Spates in road improvement. The
* government rests upon the loyalty of
the people. The people sustain it in
' times of peace and defend it in times
of war. The people are the government.
Whatever policy will benefit
4 the people becomes a national obligation
to be observed by those entrusted
with power. Road ouiitling is a
rccognized function of government in
\ every civilized country but ours. No
' country has ever witnessed systematic
j road construction except by governv
ment aid. Our national experience is
' ample to justify the declaration that
, the States of the Union will never
have systematized road building until
t the general government leads the way
i in co-oneration with the States.
{How William) Got a Gifi.
A quarter of a century ago there
. ; lived in a Western village a gentle old
man subsisting 011 u meagre salary.
I One day lie learned that his brother
> had died in San Francisco and left him
a fortune of $50,000,000. The transit
tion was staggering, especially so since
5 it was followed by a shower of apt
peals for money from every quarter
. of globe and from persons known and
unknown to liim.
His son. who acted as his secretary,
noticed with regret that the father
seemed unable to grasp the meaning
t of his new power, and was glad to
^ have him at last evince a little iuterest
in one of his begging letters. It
I proved to be from Williams College,
J asking an endowment on the plea that
the old man's birthplace was near the
I institution.
"I'd like to do something for that
school," said he, meditatively.
"Well, I would, father, il' I were
you," his sor. encouraged him.
"I believe I will." Hie old man's
" ardor kindled. "I believe I will give
e them something handsome."
r "So you should," the son pursued.
* ''Why not?"
9 "I will. I'll give them "?he thought
* for a moment?"I'i! give them $1.00!"
?Boston Herald.
THE GREAT DESTROYER
| SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
The Mo?n06 hi New York Ar? Poor Becnnne
of Their Henvy Drink Bill?Dr.
Peters Say# That New Torkerg Spend
a Million a Day For Liquor.
Commercialism is the characteristic
disease of the American people, writes
1 lie Rev. Madison C. Peters, Church of
the Epiphany. New York, in the Sunday
World. Our Presidential campaigns
for neariy fifty years have been
waged and won on simple questions of
trade. The most successful thing for
| any party to do is to toueii the pocket
nerve of the American people. Therefore,
to make a winning case for temperance
we must array the commercialism
of America against tlie liquor
traffic.
Considered i merely as a question of
dollars and cents the liquor problem
will seme day become a burning issue
in our . polities'. Thetentirg. amount received
for tariff is approximately' $225,000,000
per annum, while the total output
of gold in this country is something
like $80,000,000 per annum, and the silver
product is perhaps $60,000,000l or,
combined, as much as the annual
liquor bill of New York City, which is
estimated at $1,000,000 a day. As an
economic question neither the tariff nor
the gold nor silver issues is in it with
the drink problem.
The ordinary expense of the United
States Government for all departments
is about $600,000,000 annually (in jlbuo
it was less than $375,000,000). That is
to say, our city's drink bill is more than
half the amount required to run the entire
Government of the United States.
It is nearly twice as large as our
! tariff revenue, more than four times
j the amount of our gold product, and
| six times as great as the entire value
of the sliver product of. the country.
The city's 'annual' drink bill is more
than one-third our National debt. It
,is two-t|iirdsras. much asjtljeitotal receipts
of our National Government, outside
of customs, and it is nearly half
the total capitalization of the National
banks of the country.
It is more than twice the salaries of
the teachers in all the public schools
of the country, and is twenty times the
income of all the Protestant foreign
missionary societies of the world,
American, European or otherwise.
Our oitv's annhal drink bill is equal
to the value of our entire mineral product,
including gold, silver, iron, copper,
zinc, lead, quicksilver and aluminum.
The amount spent-in New York every
year is equal to the value of all the
bituminous and anthracite coal produced
annually, and is nearly equal to
the vahie of all our woolen manufactures.
The number of building and
loan associations in the United States
is less tban<7000, and their total assets
about $600,000,000; or, in other words,
we spend about as much for, drink
every twenty months in this city as the
whole country does through building
and loan associations to emancipate itself
from rervitude to landlords.
The interest on the city's' annual
drink bill at-five per cent, would about
equal the income of all the universities
and colleges of the United States. The
value of the corn crop in 3905 was $1,210,000,000;
against $492,000,000 in
1895; wheat, $525,000,000, and cotton,
$575,000,000, so that we spend annually
for drink in our city nearfr one-fourth
the value of our enormoiis corn crop,
and one-third the combined value of
the cotton nnd wheat crops.
The economic aspect of the liquor
traffic should . challenge our attention.
The diversion of so vast a sum from
the lines of productive industries must
affect them seriously; $365,000,000
turned from the saloons into the channels
of legitimate trade would materially
improve our industrial condition.
Instead of'spending" $365#b0,000' a
I year in this city for drink, suppose we
turned it into channels of useful industry,
see what it would do. Fifty
million dollars extra expended for food
and provisions, what an impetus to the
grocery business all over the city!
Fifty million dollars more for clothing;
what employment would this furnish
for woolen and cotton mills, for tailors
and dressmakers! Suppose we could
put woolen dresses and underwear on
" - -* 1 5onri children
an me uruimttiuD miu
and woolen blankets on all their beds,
would not tbat create a greater woolen
boom than any tariff that could be
levied? Suppose we should spend $25,000,000
more in New York every year
for shoes, what a boom to shoe and
leather factories! One hundred million
dollars more spent for new houses,
what demand for lumber, building material,
carpenters, masons and medianics!
One hundred million dollars more
expended for furniture, what an increase
in furniture and .upholstery establishments!
Then we would still
have $40,000,000 left to build and maintain
places of amusement, where men,
women and children could spend their
evenings with profit.
Jacob Rils, in his "Battle With the
Slums," has pointed out districts in
New York where there is a saloon to
every 191 of the poulation; that is,
thirty families of poorly paid laborers
+~ enrmnrt n saloon. Whicll
UI1U IUUUCJT IV ,
requires an ordinary outlay of say $lf>
a day, or th'.rty-seven cents for each
family; thirty-seven cents a day, if
saved at four per cent., would in twenty
years build a good home in a nearby
suburb. If the money thrown away
by New Yorkers in the last teu years
had been put into homes every renter
in the city might be living in his own
house.
Neither open mints nor open mills
will do' so much to abolish poverty,
stamp out crime, insure general prosperity
and guarantee our people their
inalienable right to the pursuit of
happiness as closed saloons.
Tctnpernuce Notes,
The Government of Honduras has
prohibited the importation of whisky,
i rum and anisado iu barrels, casks or
f demijohns.
I No power of legislation and no power
I that can be obtained by labor combinations
can help the laboring ruau who
spends his money in drink.
J Patrick P. Carroll offered the Council
of Seattle, Wash., a city hall, a public
hospital and $?">,000,000 for the exclusive
right to sell liquor in that city for
+?n -ponrst -with certain restrictions.
The catechism of Socialism is brief,
1rue and easily learned. How to enrich
the people; make them sober.
Fearls die in the dark. The dramshop
lives in the dark. That is the
difference between a pearl and a peril.
The good men and women who are
devoting their time and spending tlioir
money for social reform without pointing
to the saloon as the prime cause of
poverty lire striking with a straw,
writing on Hie .surface of tlie water,
and seeking tigs where only brambles
$row.
London has one licensed drinking
place to every 43G inhabitants.
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THOUGHTS
Q uietr yfeouR.
Ax Strange Sale.
Some yearn ago p strange sale took
place in one of the, dark, hidden clefts
of the Scfcv/nnzwald. It was midnight
and a number of torches cast
their yellow *-.ra against the giant
tree^. A group of ?i?, of vud? aspect
and armed to the teeth, were seated
in a circle. One of il u stood in their
midst offering certain acticles for sale.
They were a band -of highway rob-,
hers, who had plrnderod. during the
cveivng, a traveling wagon passing
that way. According to their custom
they were now selling the booty
- ?? ?? r.i? ? ,-u.c A ftov mnnv ;i cost
A J 11 Oil?, ?w..v
ly garment anci several otlier things
bad Deen offered for so.le, while a
bottle of liquor -vas being passed
around, the salesman held aloft a New
Testament, adding m."? jeering remarks?,
whJ."h were loudly applauded.
One of the company propored that
the f-ctioneer iw.d a chapter, in order
that 1bey m.ght b. enabled to judge
the worth of the Eook. "Ihis proposition-met
.with general approval, and
in a mocking way they began to read
a chapter. There was no end to the
laughing and jeering, and it thus escaped
tneir notice that me of their
number?the oldest among them?who
was usually the foremost U:ir robberies
ano. drinking Lcuts, wac sitting
down quierly, in a contemplative mood.
His folded hand3 were resting upon
his knees, and he seemed to be absorbed
in deep thought.
And r.o wonue-, for t>e chapter
that was being read was the same
chapter his rati* ?r had read, thirty
years ago, at the family 'jtar- tne very
morning when ~e. i:i order to escape
the hands of the police, had left the
naternal home. He had never seen it
since; and hearing now these Scriptural
words, the happy family circle
seemed to stand afresh before him. Hi?
?aw all of them seated arouud the
breakfast table. His aged father sat
with the open Bible before hlui.' reading
a chapter. He beheld his mother
listening to God'a^Wprd w/tli her char-'
acteristic"earnestness, and-his broth
ers and sisters taking part in the hour
of quiet devotion, which was to consecrate
their labor and strengthen
them against the power of evil. Yes,
he saw himself, and his heart was
breaking; for since that morning he
had never prayed, and he had entirely
banished the thought of death and
I -X il- X liU V.
eitriJJljf nuui ui: unu t.
But new it seemed as if his soul
was awakened out of a thirty years'
sleep, as if the crust of ice that covered
his heart was melting under the
warm rajs of the Gospel. Each word
that hie good father or -mother had
spoken to him while he was yet a
child and a young man returned to him
in memory. Absorbed in a thousand
taoughts, he forgot what passed
around him, so'that he heard not the
mockings ?f his companions.
Suddenly hist .neighbor woke him up
Dut.oLhis reveries by a hard blow on
bis shoulder, asking him. "Say! old
3reamer, how much will you give for
that Bool;? You have more need of
it than any one of us, for you are.
without doubt, the greatest sinner iu
existence." \
"Yes. that I am," he auswered, in
an earnest tone.. "Give me the Book.
[ will pay you full value."
The morning dawned. The robbers
went to the neighboring villages to
.lispese of the spoil. The purchaser of
Ihe Bible, however, betook himself to
a solitary, hidden retreat among the
:ocks. Here he spent the whole day
and the following Bight In terrible anguish
and gnawings ot conscience.
Every now and then he laid down the
Bible, thinking that forgiveness of sin
and salvation were no longer possible
to him. But God caused the words of
peace and pardon to sink into his
ueafrt. He concluded to visit the minisI
ter of the nearest village, to have a
Mayor Tom Johnson, of Cleveland,
Ohio, alarmed at the official report that
there have been eighty-six suicides in
Cleveland in the last nine months, has
appointed a commission, -whose duty
it -will be to attempt to dissuade wouldbo
suicides from taking their own lives.
The commission is made up of Director
of Charities Cooley, W. A. Greelund, a
member of the Charity Bureau, and
State Senator-elect F. C. Howe. Every
man or woman in Cleveland who is
contemplating suicide is invited to
write n letter to tho anti-suicide commission,
and tell their troubles.
I talk Y.ith liim. He was 111117 aeier-;
mined to bid farewell to the band, and
not only give upliis shameful profession,
but also to atone, according to
law, for his former evil deeds.
The next (lay he went to the village.
There he learned that, during the
aight, the band had been captured by
a detachnunt of soldiers and lodged in
prison. Thpse tidings strengthened
liim in his. purpose. He paid the
preacher a visit and told him his whole
life's history, confessing at the same
time that he had betaken himself tc
the Saviour's Cross with all his sinful
Jeeds. The minister assured him thai
Jesus ?as rolling to accept graciously
the greatest of sinne-s if he hit turn
to Him with a broken heart, as the
only Saviour. He then requested the
minister to accompany him to the
judge, tr- whom he confessed all hi?
rrinie;- This voluntary confession
?avm his life. >11 oi his companion?
tvere condemned to die, but he ok
tained ;nercy at ?be hands of the arch
Juke, unto whom tne adventures of hi?
life had been communicated. He was
sentenced to a ten years' imprisonment,
out by means of . is exemplary
conduct are term wasshortened.so thai'
lie regained his If edom at the end of
seven years. A Ohrist.au nobleman
took him into his serv.'.e, where he
proved a blessing to his master's house
till iie -.ied in peace. With his expiring
breath he blessed his Saviour who
came i:.."> -the world to save sinners.?
Translated from the Dutci;. by Eev.
T. Hoffman, in - .hristian Intelligencer.
Preaching Power.
When Summerfield was dying he
said, Ch, now, if I could return to my
pulpit for one hour, how I coald
preach! For I have seen God face to
face. A personal acquaintanceship
with God is the source of a minister's
! power. Then sentences burn into the
minds of the hearers and inspirations
come from simple things.?Rev. Clarence
A. Vincent.
Consecration of an Old Time Saint.
0 Lord, Thou knowest what is best
for us, let this or that be. done, as
Thou shalt please. Give what Thou
wilt, and how much Thou wilt, and
when Tlion wilt. Deal with me as
Thou thinkest good, and as best
pleaseth Thee. Sot me where Thou
wilt, and deal with me in all things
just as Thou wilt. Behold, I am Thy
servant, prepared for hll things; for I
desire not to live onto myself, but unto
Thee; and oh, that I could do it worthily
ami perfectly! Amen.?Thomas a
Keinpis.
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THE ""SUNDAY SCHOOL .
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS , \
f-OR FEBRUARY 18. ,
Iflbjeri: A Day of Miracleft In C?pfrnit??,
Mark 1., 21-34? Golden Text. M?rk, I.,
34 ? Memory Veraes, 38, 34 ?TopNJ
Josdb the Great Physician. ,
T. Christ teaching witii authority1 /
(vs. 21, 22). 21. "They." Jesu? had M ;
the four disciples just called. . "iDto N.'
Capernaum*" A city on the northwest
coast of the Sea of Galilee. "Straightway."
In Mark's narrative scene follows
srene in quick succession. An
early tradition says that Mark wrote
iLiis fcuapci iia xrtriri uintiieu iif
this is made probable by its vividness
nnd the rapid sweep of the story*
"The synagogue." After the return
from the captivity synagogues sprang!
up everywhere among the Jews. The
rooms were so arranged that the peo-j
pie. who squatted on the floor, faced
the temple in Jerusalem. See 1 Kings
8:29, 30; Dan..6:10. From a,pulpit the
Scriptures were read and the address :
delivered. (Luke 7:1-10)., .."Taught." *
It* was common to 'call upon- any; suitable
persbnto speak in trfe-synagogue.
22. "They were astonished." At*
the matter, manner, spirit and authdr- ,
ity of His teaching. 3. At the range /
of His intellectual gifts.. 2. The'force
of His illustrations. 3. His acquaintance
with the human heart. .4. His
deep knowledge of the divine law.
"Authority." He . spoke as one coip- *
missioned by God, nnd He laid great
stress upon Himself. He said, "I sayiunto
yon," without quoting their <
teachers. He was, 2. Dignified. 2.
Original. 3. Convincing. 4. Consistent.
"Not as the scribes." The scribes
were without spiritual life, their manner
was cold, and, with an unholy ambition,
the 'ought their own and not *
God's glory.
II. Power over evil spirits (vs. 23- f
28). 23. "A man with an unclean *\ L
spirit." Luke says he had "a spirit otf Wt
an unclean devil" and "cried out with
a? loud-voice" (Luke 4i33). Ther& has been
much discussion regarding this 1
/'unclean spirit." Many . hold .tftat ^
. thqae-'who were said, t'p have,>'devifa'
were simply diseased people, and that.
their strong paroxysms wei only"fits."
"We cannot agree with this,
uuwever, uiiu ixjubi. iubjei niti i, uiuituiv as
it may be to understand, yet real
demons did inhabit this man and those
referred to in verse 32.
24. "Let ns alone." The devil always
desires to be let alone, and bad ' '/
men do not want to be disturbed witi?
anything good. TVe hear this cry the.
moment we undertake to deal w*.th ui*clean
things to-day, such as intemperance
and the social evil. "What have
we to do with thee?" Nothing at alt
There is no concord between Christ .
and Belial. "To desti oy us." To drive
us from our abode back to our native
place. See Matt. 8:29. "I know Thee."* J
Imagine some disease, like the ap<P*
plexy, thus addressing Christ! N<V
Christ is dealing with"devils now, and
th?y know Him well/ "The Holy One - v
of God."7 The Messiah, who has,.come
to destroy tie kingdom of the devil'(1
t-i? n n\ or h r tf
JOiiiJ a:o). &>. Jesus reuu&eu jjjiij.
He does not desire the testimony of
devils to prove His Messiahshij).
Throughout His ministry Christ rwver
for i a moment cpuntenances anything
that might be construed into a true?
with Satan. "Hold thy peace." Liter- \
ally, "be thou muzzled." It is a word
for a beast. "Come out of him-." He
speaks with authority. He will show;
who He is by casting out the deviJ.
26. "Torn him." Or convulsed him.
Luke says the devil threw the man,
and came out of him, and hurt him not
"Came out." Even the devils obey Hi? ?
word of command. 27. "What thing:
is this?" "What is this? a new teaching!"
R. V. Jesus taught by His actions
as well as by His words. What
He did was as important as whatjje
said. " "With-.authority." Christ'#'authority
and pfcwer is recognized even
by the unclean demons, and they obey<
Him.' 28. "Fame spread abroad." This
miracle was wrought in publie
aud those vbo saw it published it, and y
the people throughout all that region
were soon discussing Him.
"T TT 1! 2_ ? 1 f-^cI OOQ11
ill. nettling ill a UVLUC \r a. /.
29. "They entered," etc. Peter and
his brother Andrew, although natives
of Betbsaida (John 1:44), were now liv- v
inpr at Capernaum. Jesus, James and.
John had entered Peter's house. 3?.:
"Simon's wife's mother." Thus we see
that Peter was a married man. "Lay*
sick of a fever." Luke calls it a great * .
fever. See Luke 4:38. She was prostrated
with a burning fever. "They.
tell Him." This was really a request
for healing. They knew He could re-J
store her. s
31. "Took her by the hand." CouJdl
anything on this side the unlimited!
power of God effect such a cure? "Thej
fever left her." Christ has power.overj
disease. He can, and frequently doesJ \
heal to-day, and yet we cannot test}
the state of the souhby the health of|
the body. "She ministered." She was{
perfectly recovered and performed the)
ordinary duties of the household.
IV. Many miracles (vs. 32-34). 32."
"When the sun did set." The Sabbath ^
ended with the setting sun and theni
they brought their sick to Him. "Unto;
Him." Christ has a panacea for all' A
our aches, ills and troubles. All a suffering
world needs to do is to go tO;
Jesus. He is sun tne same jivjug,mighty
One. and is able, willing audi
anxious to deliver us l'roin the power;
of the devil. 33. "All the city." Notj
necessarily every person, but a very!
large company. 34. "Healed many."'.
Matthew says, "all that were sick."Luke
says He laid hands 011 them., .'
Jesus healed all who came, and theyj
were many. "Diseases?devils." Al
distinction is made here that we musti
not fail to notice: diseases were!
"healed" and devils "cast out" ' "Suf-!
ferod not." Sec on verse 25. This! '
had been a great day at Capernaum,
day filled with stirring events.
Apple Tree 135 Yean. (V
An apple from a tree at least 135
j ears old was brought to the American
office this week by Josiah H. Higgins,
of Ellsworth, says the Ellsworth (Me.)
American. When his grandfather,
Levi Higgins, moved from Eastham, on
Cape Cod, to Maine in 1770 he brought
with him this apple tree and set it out
on the place at Hull's Cove, in what is
now the town of Eden. There Mr.
Higgins, and his father before'him, "
V./W-K K/von nn +ll/\ nlnca n to thf* fruit. A
UVlll UUIH V" f v? ? 4 m
A No*el Target. ^1
Off Gibraltar the British Channel \
Flee*: has been practicing night tiring
at a novel target. It is shaped like M
destroyer, and is outlined with incandescent
lamps that can be switched
on or off at will from the towing boat.
The idea is to make the practice a9
realistic as possible. Out of the darkness
the "destroyer" suddenly springs,
giving the gunners only a few seconds
to take aim before she disappears
.again. .
Newspaper Reading Car*.
, The Japanese railways have intro
dated newspaper reading cars.
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