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}|Ca? " 3 j\ poin" ?V 01 jj ANNIE JJ 2 EDWARDS. CHArTER XVII. 19 lol Continued. ^ 'And on that day Matty Fergusson *' Cried till she was simply sick and faint; " and for days, and for -weeks afterward j* the girl -wandered about hollow-eyed " and -white, alongtevery allee and hillBide -where she ha'd once walked with 11 Alexis; and when she began to lose her ? freckles and wear long dresses, and; . h? ?*. o: 1U lllllt?, IU iu uaiio aiiu kv w ?.? inired, she still clung to her first, and, p as far as she was concerned, most pure 8 romance of her life, and held all men s immeasurably inferior to that of that v black-haired, taper-fingered, effeminate- c faced little Russian of her Baden days. a And for him she had shed tears, and b of his white face and tapen-fingers, as 61 compared with those of Mr. Mohun of s< Yatton, she had been thinking when Jane Grand came in. just now upon her ? dreams. And looking in Jane's agi- u tated face the thought did cross her, ? and with something of pity, that la f< vieille fille had "loved Gifford and might ~ feel toward her as she, Matty, used to feel toward the grandly-dressed ladies v who smiled upon Alexis in the Baden " ' gardens. '.-What a fool be is to marry me in- a stead of her," thought Miss Fergusson. 11 "She is of his age, and of his ways, ^ and I?well, I am Matty Fergusson, ^ and Mr. Mohun must learn to like S1 Matty Fergusson when he is married to ^ her!" Then aloud, and, for her, not un- h gently, "Miss Grand, you were very c< kind to ask me here. Thank you for your good wishes and"?and positively ei - - * * ? 1/,0C! ' 1 t( Alaily r er^ussuu w?? ml ? moo? ? hope you won't think I Lave been ^ ungrateful for your kindness." el ''How ungrateful, child?" "Miss Grand, I ani going to marry s< Mr. Mobun." ' Jane bad known that very well all ^ the afternoon; yet when the news came?put into words and spoken by Sier successor's palpable voice, not by a] her own fears?the blow was hard! ^ She walked -without a word to the fire and stood opposite it for some seconds; j?' then sbei turned around abruptly. "You love Gifford'Mohun?" 01 "I have accepted him. Ob, Miss Grand, of course I love him." . The girl's eyes faltered down under 0 the falsehood. ?! "Be a good wife to him, Matty. He a needs good companionship, and?I do 111 hope, yes, and I do ask God to bless .you, and to make you happy!" And she stepped across and positively * kissed Matty's cheek?immensely to that young woman's surprise?and neither shed a tear, nor showed any 1 more signs of agitation than by her , to ;white and trembling lips, during the remainder of that evening that they .. spent in each other's company. 1 When night came, and she "was alone, Jane took her -wedding-ring from her 1 neck, apd then, with a dVeary sense 0 of newness, and of something clean 31 * ?one out from her life, she held it be- . ttween her hands and fell to wondering -whether she would ever wear it on her re breast again or not? sp The ring had so become part of her life and of herself that it seemed to her ? ' as though no Matty Fergusson, Gifford '? Mohun even, had a right to part her * from it now. It was a memorial of her own yonth and of her own darkened p lopes, of her own purp and faithful ! love far more that it was a memorial of the man who had promised to take Matty Fergusson for his wife: and, after much of the fine casuistry which a* on every occasion so perplexed poor "j Jane's moral sense, and not a few * tears, she decided at last that she might _ keep it and occasionally look at it, T quite guiltlessly, till she died. K , "And wear it till their wedding day." 1V was her last thought, as she laid it in1" ~~ its usual resting place beside the little ie RihJp nn tipr rirpssinir (jiblc. "Wenr it tfill their wedding day, then lay it aside ,T with all other things belonging to my . ^ . youth, and only look at it at times, ; rwhen life is very hard to bear, and it "u will do me good to bring back the years ^ when I. too. had love and hope, and eomething in life worth living for, like other women!" And yet. when Jane Grand's hot eyes w ?t length found sleep that night, neither Matty Fergusson nor Gilford Mohun, (( nor any other remembrance of her jeal- ,vf ousy or of her new loss, shadowed her m - 01 clreams. She slept with .a child's worn-out * sleep till morning and then, when the distant bells of the Chesterford cluirch vl siroused her she knew that she had ! fceen walking in the fields as she had e ?sed to walk when she was a little 01 child with Mr. I'ollett, also that in her sleep she had seen again the study ? window of the liltle vi en rage shining 111 bright and peaceful in the red March ^ sunset. a i I)CHAPTER XVIII. iii The vicar's sermon that Sunday bore ? marked internal evidence of having ei ? r 1.1_ LL T? ? ~ n ,1. iieeii lifsm.v ?niifii. jiiut- vii4invi v. knew nothing at ail about good writing or good preaching, and was indeed in quite incapable of judging of (he in- s< irinsic merit of any piece of intellectual hi "work whatsoever; but she knew that ol this sermon was not taken from that ii lieap which furnished the ordinary cut t( and dried theological meat of the peo- w l?le of Chesterford, and she felt that o' lier spirit answered and her hrart ox- h panded as she looked up in the vicar's N /' face and listened to the vicar's voice. P Probably she was the only person in ti the church Avho understood Mr. Follett t; that day. Miss Fergusson, on principle, tl never listened lo sermons.and occupied w the time on the present occasion in 1 i planning her wedding outfit and calcu- si fating on the probable sum for which lier relatives might safely battle in the r: way of settlements. Gifford Mohun. w |>uried in the red curtained sauctuarv v i; 6: k OR, \ FOR HER FATHER'S r \y SIN. ?? IONOR.]\ l the Yatton pew, was, by turns, w< ering how the deuce he would | trough his first meeting with Jn nd asking himself in what fit of ut liocy he find ever been led in to pro ?e marriage to Matty. For the res le farmers, as usual, were comfortal odding in their places, the elder plo len in deep-sleep, with their hea urie<l over their arms; me youuj nes staring aloft, with the sort of < ression one might imagine in v< tupefied young gorillas, at the knot martly dressed girls -who forraed 1 illage choir in the gallery; the sch hildren alternating between vert ud resonant blows from the praj ook of the ancient women who p ided over the Chesterford Sund: chool. All the Chesterford St. Mary's c< regation at its ordinary (for I leu nmentioned the few female brthod pnsors, who, of course, found hldd jotprints of the Beast?Broad Chui -in every one of Mi*. Follett's s< >nces), all except Jane. She knew 1 icar's meaning well. She knew ev< lintest shade of that gray atmosphi lrough which to-day he bid them 1c t the picture of life. She knew ev< ote throughout that minor key 'hich he snoke of the insufficiency a ollowness of human affection and < ire. She could imagine?and he -here the vicar's words waxed fai er heart carried them out with < eeding strength?how great shall le rapture of looking on a picture irthly mists can obscure and listeni ) a Voice in whose tones there sh e no more dissonance throughout ternity. The lingering remembrance of Ut jrmon strengthened her wonderfu iroughout the interview which to lace in the course of the afterno etween Gifford and herself. Miss F usson had the grace to leave the ro< hen she heard his ring at the b( iid so, alone and face to face, the d lovers, first met under the new i ?ct in which from this time heni irth they would have to regard ea her. Gifford was excessively agitat< uch more so than Miss Grand, a ir some moments after he took 1j itstretched hand in his he was lit< ly. and without affectation, too mu oved to speak. "J was a brute, Jane!" he stammer it at last. "I lost myself altogeth< id spoKe 10 you use a curseu ui uic, nras, yesterday! Can you ever forgi e for what I have said, or?or forg ?" "Gifford, I felt then as if I worjd li! i die. I felt more cruelly -wound ian I ever did before, even in all r tter experience. But now?Gifford, >t only forgive you from my hea: it I feel it was well that you spb me of my.birth.as you did. We id. in the end, kindest to me." "Kindest to you, Jane!"?and as h md drewiback. and her steady ey sted on his, Gifford felt with iasm of jealous pain that she had i ady ceased to worship him. "Be >r you that I should insult you, aft 1 our long years of friendship? Th the crudest reproach that you cou ive devised for my punishment!" But no tone of his could soften Mi rand into agitation now. Her hea: lat had been as wax to every unrc nable wish, or word, or look of G rd Mohun's. was shut, close and col gainst this really natural and neitb lgenerous nor unfeigned remorse atty Fergusson's lover. "That blow from vou was a hard ot iflford, but it prepared me. I bett >re what was to come to me aft< ard when I once felt that you did xi no, that in all your life you had nev ally loved me!" "A harsh judgment. Jane, for a fc ords of hasty passion!" "But still, harsh or not, the judgme lat will always be mine," and Ja irned from liiin almost coldly. "J es are opened at last, and if I cou would not go back to my form indness, Giflford. You will be happi ir with Matty Fergusson than y ould ever have been with me." "You speak bitterly, Jane, but y >n't mean what you say, no, by ? m can't, you don't mean it! If I hi arried you when I was a lad, as '.ght to have done, I should be a d irent man to what I am now. Y iow that as well as I do; and y now. too. that I did love you betl inn I've ever loved any one else?bi r than I over s-hall love any worn; i earth. If you hadn't been so cc id sanctified, you would have warm i me, and have let me love you aga hen I came back here, broken a liserable, a year ago, and I shot t?ve you by my side in Yatton no id have something to look forward V ! and some chance of happinf i ray life, instead of being entangl rursed fool that I am! into this idio igagement with Matty Fergussc ?11 her!" Gifford flung himself down sullei i the arm chair beside the fire, a nuething very like tears gathered is eyes. Regarded from my own poi f view, this was just the one occasi i Mr. Mohun's life when he appear > Hip lensf advantage. His Dassi as that of a child allowed to have 1 ivn way, and then enraged becan is own way has not made him hapj till it was it natural passion?an i ulse in the direction of good. givi ikcn, by its very weakness, th iken early into cunning hands, sou iii>ir quite different to what he n< as might have been fashioned out ifford Mohun's vacillating and t table moral character. But M Irand always took the ideal, not t Uional view, of every subject U as presented to her consideration (s as also looking at the conduct kt Miss Fergueson's affianced husband); I and it really and truly seemed to her J that Gifford Mobunhad never appeared * in such a weak and despicable guise as I now. As throughout, she had loved t him unwisely; so in this last revulsion t of feeling she judged him without * equity. Having chosen Matty for his ? wife, he ought, she averred, to hold by O Matty in all things. What did it avail 5 now to make lament over his past Vf inconstancy? How could he tell that C he would have been different if he had r married her in his youth? A man's ft strength should be in himself, not de* pendent upon the outward eircumL stances of his ljfe. It was well, very jr well, for Mr. Mohun that he was to Js fall for the rest of his days into such Tt hands as Matty Fergusson's! He would not lack counsel, he would not have to 3D" complain of hesitation or over-sanctity ?et with Matty for his wife! ine I have heard that slaves, when set ter free, become cruel slaveholders; I know m" that gentlewomen, who have subt? mitted to, and rather courted, the heel of the oppressor for years, are, when the tardy hour of insurrection comes, l(*9 pitiless in their turn. The recollection of all her deserted youth, of- her .wasted w- hoDes. her recent, her still throbbing 'T love for him, swelled at Miss Grand's of heart, and steeled it against this man he Tvho?now that he had positively given oo 1 her up?would, if he could, have talked 'go covert sentiment to her?still! And so rer her voice was steady, her eyes were r*- tearless, every nerve in her face was 17- unmoved, as she pronounced the following de profundis over the passion mi- that had been the very food of her life tve during the last half-score of years: [ox "The past is dead and gone, Gifford. ten Let it remain so. We can never bring 'ch it back, and if we could I don't think en- -tve should do wisely to alter all tbat is he gone before. You would not have been ?ry happy if you had been married to me. ?re Your sense of the stain of my birth, ?ok and of what the world thinks of such ?ry a stain, would have weighed heavier in' than all the poor love and faithfulness nd that I should have brought to you. If Je- you had loved me very fervently, you re, know, you would have taken me as I nt, -was?as I would have taken you, wnatex ever ill fortune had chanced to come be upon you. But you did not; and lackno ing such love, you would have had no ng strength to support you under the disall grace of having me for your wife. I all have loved you, I think, as much as any human being can love another! Yes, I lat don't mind saying it now that all is lly over between us forever. During those ok seven years after you left me I just on spent my life in one long, miserable er- thought of you, Gifford?of you and of )m the cause that had broken off our mar*11, riage. You say I have been sanctified rro and cold since you came back to Yatis ton. Do you know that every day till ce-' the last week I looked for your coming ch just as I did when I was a girl??that I would have given up my life still to ?d, have been of the least use or happiness nd to-you? Well, you don't know all this, ler but I will tell it you now. I tell it ?r- you, and I also say?well for me that ch the past V; unchangeable, and that I am free aj?ain. Gifford, I hope you ed will be happy with Matty Fergusson, sr, and I hope while you live you will as count me as your friend." ve It was the longest speech Jane ;et Grand's lips ever put together?the longest, and certainly the cruelest. Gifke ford Mohun got quite white as he Used tened to her. Could this be Jane!?his ay Jane, who, through good and evil re, I port, through inconstancy, through dert, sertion, had ever been so utterly and ke without a struggle his slave? ill, "You love some one else, Jane, or you would never cast me off like this. I er know you too well to think you would es be so bitter with me?even after nil-my . a brutal conduct to you yesterday?if I *1- was first with you still as I used to be!" ist * Intensely mean and selfish minds do er occasionally show keenest insight in at their judgment upon noble natures. Id Till Gilford spoke out his singularly coarse view of the case a suspicion of ss her own capability of change had rt, never crossed Jane's thoughts. But as ia- he spoke a ray of light dawned upon if- her mind; and (bitterly confirming Moid, hun in his suspicions) a blush, guiltily er deep as she had ever blushed in her of young days for him, rose into her cheeks and brow, and neck. She knew le, thai another voice than Gifford's had or haunted her for months past; she knew ;r- by what standard she had mentally iot measured Gifford in his frequent shorter comings; she knew what feeling had made her linger shyly in the sunset by :w the vicarage gate. "You are very wrong to speak so, nt Gifford;" but she said this with falterne ing lips and downcast eyes. "You ly know that what withheld you will also lid withhold any honorable man from er wishing to make me his wife. You er know that your lips are the only ones ou that have ever spoken to me of love." "And you will never listen to love ou from any other. Jane?" -! She stood silent and confused, her ad face blushing still like a girl's, her I frail hands clasped with the nervous if- gesture so familiar to Gifford in the ou old days of her youthful love for him. ou He felt at this moment how fair, how :er excellent the woman was whom he had et- lost: he felt?and Matty's foot was alan ready on the stair?that he would soon>ld er marry Jane, with all her inheritance, ed at this moment, than that any other ;in man than himself should have the nd chance of possessiong her. ild "Jane!" starting to her side, "say w. only one word. Say that you love me to, better than any one else still, and I'll >ss break off my engagement with such ed people as the Fergussons?and I'll tic marry you!" >n. But Jane shrank away from his clasp, ana ner race nusneu deeper ami ily deeper. nd "Don't say these things. Gilford, they in pain me dreadfully. The time is past int ?vhen you could have made this sacrion fice with honor. Yes, the time is past!" ed "Say only what I ask you, Jane! Say on only you don't love any one but me, jis and leave the future in my hands " ise "I cannot say what you wish, Gif>y. ford. All is over between us, and?and m- I don't think you have any right to ask ng me sucn a question now. at, And Miss Matty Fergusson entered ic- the room. )w of CHAPTER XIX'. in- Repentance at the eleventh hour, iss however commendable as an abstract lie virtue, is one that avails men little in iat the majority of their practical, earthly he concerns. When the train is once fair, of ly lnid, some chance hand is generally ready to apply the match, whatever the tardy vacillation of htm who originally projected the mine. Gifford Mohun might remember all the grace, and fondness, and long suffering of Jane Grand now?might feel sharpest regret at having lost her?might feel that to call her his wife would be to Insure the abiding happiness of his life. But, in a moment of mingled pique and vanity, Gifford Mohun had given his word to marry Miss Matty Fergusson?and Miss Matty Fergusson was not a young person to allow so very large a prize as the possessor of Yatton to escape from her net. The tender love scene on poor Jane's little lawn took place on Saturday. Monday's post brought letters from Fergusson mere. She prayed that th<? man who had been fortunate enough to win her Matty's love might prove worthy of her. She cared not for the wordly possessions of Mr. Mohun; she thought of him but as of her departed Warren's friend, of her little Matty's future husband, and she longed to press .his hand in hers, and express to him the fervent outpourings of a mother's heart. ' N. B. from :Miss Fan?"And -.mamma thinks it would be a good thing for you tn o-at >inmn ns soon as nossible, be cause Cousin Hartley is here now, anil be would manage with Mr. M. about settlements, etc. You can easily contrive to make him escort you on the journey, and once here, mamma will undertake the rest." In accordance with which excellent diplomacy Mi6S Matty was seized with girlish longings to be under her dear mamma's roof at once. She was sure she had already troubled Miss Grand a great deal more than she ought to have done; but hoped, some day, to have it in her power to ask her to come and visit her in her own house, and?and (looking up under her long eyeiasnes at Gifford) how much she would like him to see mamma and Fanny, if only for a day, and did Miss Grand think there would be any harm in Mr. Mohnn's escorting her back to Cheltenham? Of course Miss Grand thought there would be no harm in the world; and of course Matty's lover had to express his desire of renewing his acquaintance with his future wife's family. The truth was, that having got so hopelessly far, Mohun felt he would rather hasten on than retard the inevitable fate into which he had been entagled; also that it irked him horribly at every hour of the day to have Jane's quiet eyes upon him during his courtship of Matty Fergusson. For Jane, she simply longed for the hour when Matty's voluble tones should cease to ring in her ears, and the little cottage should have gone back to its accustomed quiet, and she herself should have time to breathe and think over the strange new emotions which during the last few days had never ceased to throng her heart. But in deep earnest or in light' est jest, in simple country cottages or in Belgravia, when is anything dimly approximating to truth told in such matters as marriage or giving in marriage? If the most cynical minded, man living had witnessed the farewell that took place between Miss Grand and the lovers, he would. I think, have guessed little of the different positions in which these three persons really stood to each other, with so florid a decoration, of good wishes from Jane, so much of hand-pressing and kissing and tearshedding from Matty, so much rather | over-acted high spirits from Mr. Mo! hun, was that departure overlaid. (To be continued.) A Fnlthfnl Mother Bird. Three weeks ago a freight car came [onto the yards at Chillicothe, Ohio, and the railroad men-discovered on'thefootrest through which the brake protrudes at tbe end, toward the top of the car, a robin had built its nest. In | that nest waa one egg. The car had ' made a continuous trip from .Michigan and stood here a day or so, and was sent to Ripley, Ohio. Upon its return here two eggs were in the nest. It was again sent to that place and returned with three eggs. In this time j the mother bird had hatched the eggs [ out, ever following the car in its meanderings.. The railroad men had kept a strict watch upon the nest and saw that nobody molested it. Orders came to send the car to Michigan, and the men held a consultation, and it was decided to remove the nest to a nearby tree. It was carefully tied fast to the tree with strings, the mother bird watching the proceedings from a nearby limb. As soon as finished she resumed the. faithful watch of her flock. Investigation has proved that the mother bird traveled hundreds of miles in following the nest from Michigan to this part of the- country ? Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator. Be Greedy of SnnBhlnc. If by any curious chance there should be a little sunshine, be greedy therefor, writes an English physician in the London World. Protect your eyes and head ana tue oacK or your neck (the exposed part of your spinal cord, that is) and sit in it as long as it lasts. With tliese precautions sunstroke Is not to be feared, and sunlight is life to man and death to his most deadly foe. Not even the spores of a microbe can withstand direct sunshine, and the "sun bath" is a luxury to be had for nothing?or not. at fillin this country. We are beginning to discover nowadays that sunlight and the invisible rays tnat accompany it are among the most powerful therapeutic agents that we possess, and without sunlight there would be no Hvinrr thine unon the earth. Not Wlille Mules. W. F. George, of Gunn City, was in Holden Saturday. It is said Mr. George has the largest span of mules on earth, they weighing over 4000 pounds. The mules Avere raised on Mr. I George's farm and he may exhibit them here during the l?ig sale.?Holden (Mo.) Progress. Enormous Prices. The sale at Stone. Staffordshire, Eng land, of rare duplicate orchitis selectcu from the Walton Grange collection resulted in some enormous prices being realized. In the case of two orcliids the figures were- 270 guineas apiece, and others realized as much as 210 guineas and 200 guineas each. MHry'B Mifttaku. "Mary told me that she was simply fascinated by that young Fusw.ly." "Yes, she took Jiim for his rich cousin."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT ,THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE . Drink Habit of "400" Women Stir* Pastor j ?The Rev. Madison C. Peters Repeats I Pulpit Charges of Intemperance? l>e- | crease of Marrlagei Dae to the Kvll. The Rev. Dr. Madison Peters recently said to a New York American representative: "I have been into the cafes of the Astor, the Waldorl', Sherry's and other fashionable hotels, and nine -women out of ten will order drinks of the same kind that their escorts order, and quite as many of them. I have watched these women and I have wondered if they realized what those same men thought of them deep down in their hearts. "They think, mark you, I am voicing the -sentiments of the man about town when I say It?they think these same young women are all right for a time, but they would not marry such women. "And this brings naturally to mind the'thought ;why are there In this city. to-day thousands of men In their thirties and forties, men of means or of r; excellent salaries and incomes, who are not married? And why are' there 60 many instances of men marrying, as society puts it, 'beneath them?' "The answer is because so many of the daughters of their own fashionable set are given to drink, cigarette smoking, gambling (for that is what bridge whist has resolved itself into), and to kindred vices. It Is because men of the world and of society realize that such women are not fit to become the mothers of children?not fit to preside at their table and over their household. "Not many of these men, finding the women of their own circle given over to these vicious habits, go 'beneath it' and find honest young women, whose names are not in the social register,' as their helpmeets. "The cause of these conditions is largely due to the fact that the women of society have nothing to do. They are deprived of thp attention and society of their husbands; .thqy are without children and housekeeping cares, and they become .mere*pleaspre-seek- , ers, and before'they know it they are/ brought to that state of mind where all of their faculties are engaged in discovering modes of selfish enjoyment. , "If there were more children in the homes of the rich there would be less dissipation. Think of it, on Fifth avenue, from Washington Square to Ninety-fifth street, there were only fourteen children born last year. On Madison avenue, from Twenty-third to Ninetyfifth street there were only fifty-four births during the past year. These figures are eloquent. "The only remedy for thesa truly grave conditions Is for the women to find an aim that is worthy of the deepest and strongest in their natures. Any serious purpose will save women from frivolity, "We. find that these women seldom read; thfy hav.e no thirst for knowledge; they seldom cultivate their minds by study, Only the other day I was going up in the elevator of one of the most fashionable hotels of the city when I heard a young woman say to another, and it was then 9 o'clock. *1 haven't done a thing all day but play bridge.' "That is only an example of what women do with their time. I am told that the gambling whist habit has become so prevalent that women?dozens and dozens of them?go from house to house, from fashionable hotel to fashionable hotel day after day and night after night, reviving themselves by drinks of various sort^ Cf course there are those who would criticise a man of the cloth for offending his fashionable pew renters, perhaps, by telling the truth about these alarming conditions. "The?conditions are all the more grave when one considers that the entire country is influenced by the doings, of. members of the .ultra-fa'shionable circles of New York. Their every movement is heralded in the society columns and their amusements are taken as a pattern by other silly women all over the land. "When Mrs. Astor slums she has a thousand followers; if Mrs. Fish plays - - "? c ?<11 CAIIOTO I Dridge me emaiier njr >tjh xvuv.t cu.,, and if all of fashionable society drink and smoke the entire country -will feel Its vicious influence. That is where the most harm is done." Women and Glrla Excluded. Chief of Police Charles R. Wright, of Syracuse, N..Y., has issued stringent orders to the patrolmen of the city for the exclusion of all girls and women from the "stalls" or rooms connected with saloons, whether on the same floor of the building or on the floor above. All "stalls" are to be summarily removed, and- the order makes n policeman liable for any saloon o? his beat which violates the above orders. Ways of Multiplying:. Massachusetts has a law which holds a liquor dealer responsible for an accident to an intoxicated customer. Many other States have civil damage Jaws of various sorts. It would be well for Prohibition workers to look (these up and apply them whenever a good opportunity occurs. It is well to multiply trouble for the traffic in as many ways as possible?New Voice. 1 An Exhibit. V At a recent meeting of the Congregational Club of Chicago, the general seceretary said: "In one saloon on Madison street, connected with a theatre, at 7 p. m., one Sunday there were counted 485 young men, and between 7 p. m and 9 p. m? 524 more young men were seen to enter. Some of these were standing in a row six deep about a gambling table." A "Savajj*" to the Civilized. Odonka, one of the Gold Coast native chiefs, has written to a friend in London a protest aud an appeal against the importation of gin into his country by British traders. His letter concludes: "By the help of God, I am a total abstainer. I drink no kind of liquor or wine, but only pure water and tea. My country is being ruined hy driufc. Kindly tell your friends about us, and perhaps some high person of influeuce in Eiiglaml may bear that West Africa must be saved." From Bad to Worif, The production of beer in llie United Kingdom, speaking on the authority of the Excise returns, is, says the Brewers' Gazette, going from bad to worse. The record for the first quarter of the past year is, without doubt, the most depressing yet experienced, the total production iu the three kingdoms amounting only to us compared with 8,07(5,000 barrels Jn the corresponding quarter of 1004. Here is a clear drop of 407,r?72 barrels. The diminution is apportioned as follows: Eugland, 339,832 barrels; Scotland, .11-; J &32 barrels; lielftuU. 05,753 barrels. V . ' ^quuctmSur. in' HEAVENLY PEACE I love to leave life's turmoil, and, afar . . From strife of tongues, in peaceful places kneeling, Discern God's presence in the distant star And feel Hie spirit thus to mine revealing ] A Father's boundless love and Heaven's gate ajar. . '* mi I love to breathe my longings to Him there, HI To tell to Him alone my spirit's yearn- nu ing> "Ii To leave with Him thfe worry and the care, ^ And feel His promise sure the song returning, H "Thy Father loves to jear and answer ^ earnest prayer." ti th< Yet more than this I love, 'mid wildest "V roar ^ Of life's wild whirlpool 'round my spirit seething, ..j. To know my Saviour passed this way be- n tore: And feel His Spirit to my spirit breathing 2 The strength to battle on and lire forever- pri more! t)0 -W. S. W., in Ram's Horn. {hi Be Thankful For Good People. How immense is the number of j good men and good women found iu q0 the world, and how much occasion for C01 gratitude this fact gives us! There <>3 doubtless are bad people, far too many jja of them; but we are liable to forget how many good people there are. Society is full of men and women who ^ "do justly, love mercy, aud walk humbly with their God." In every community ?g we may find them?people who love 0f their kind, give handsomely out of the m pure love of giving, work faithfully, eni pray importunately, and do all in their ?<b power to nut down evil, enthrone the cjj< good, and make this world more like ^ heaven. 8p] Let us thank God for the multitudes ^ of good men and good women there ^ afe in the world, and the proportion- j^ei is greater than people think. One man 5 who jumps over Niagara makes far fer more excitement than the thousands pej who go there and do not jump. You heard all auout the man who leaped ou from the .Brooklyn ? ridge not long ago.; gpj but not one word concerning any of pe] the thousands upon thousands who 6 passed orer quietly. ' tiv This is God's world, and a good ne. wortd, and it is going to grow better rjg and better. There are.bad people in wi it, but the Bible is in it, and multitudes fai of Bible loving, soul loving Christians are in it. God Himself and the Holy th< Spirit are in it also. otl Right is stronger than wrong; good th< is stronger than evil; God is stronger an< than Satan. Chri6t is yet to "see of me the .ravail of L.S soul, and be satis- wil fied." His 'kingdom-' is to "come." 8 and His "will" is to ba "done on r-rth sea as it is in heaven." nr is to reign mo "from sea to sea, and from the river tht unto the enas 01 the earth." This Th God is our God forever and ever. Let "P us always, and especially at this sea- coi son, ."thank God and. take courage."? sto The l'l'eiasury. "C of sal Blessings Unrecognized. Some one tells the story of an Eng- en< Ilsh preacher who takes a hungry man Be into a hall with plates laid for 1460 hei persons. Here are supplies of all vil kinds in bountiful profusion. The man 6p< would like to sit down at one of these It plates. sal "Ah" said his guide, "would you be ar< thankful? Then you shall have for 12. your breakfast something quite as Cfc good as anything here, only just T^ait 2:1 until I teii you something. You can't Joj have these, for they are the ghosfi of an what you have already had. They are I the 365 breakfasts, the 365 dinners, of the 365 teas and the 365 suppers you vei had last year. They make 1460 in cit all," 13. "You don't mean to say I had all. sci those?" of "Yes; and many basketfuls of odds Be! and ends besides.1' uru Spurgeon calls providential goodness wo "an endless chain, a stream which fol- hli lows the pilgrim, a wheel perpetually tas revolving, a star forever shining, and wii leading us to a place where He is who ths was once a babe in Bethlehem." *G go< A Father's Lost Opportunity. 1 Channing, when a boy, heard Dr. jeT Hopkins preach a strong sermon on W<J the "Judgment." The boy went home. BU] thinking his father, who had heard ra^ the same sermon, would help the boy ^ to apply it and thus make ready for da] that awful scene. Instead his father trt threw himself down leisurely and be- ajg gnn to read a secular paper. The boy jigt said: "Father does not believe in the 0V4 sermon, I will not worry myself about it." He thus turned away from the ar< plain teachings of the Scripture and tj0 became the leader of New England 0{ Unitarianism. "Oh, these susceptible, .] plas-tic minds and hearts of childhood'" writes W. J. Mosier in the New York Observer. "God help all of us who jSt have the responsibility of their moulding and training to be prepared mf for the discharge of that solemn duty." Sm ga [ "IS * P Q ' A man went into a sculptor's studio and his friend, the sculptor, said, . "What do you see over la that corncr?" "Nothing but an ugly rough stone." "Ah," said the sculptor. "I almost forgot the stone. I see a beautiful angel." 'Months passed by and the frieuds again met in the studio. tb( and the sculptor once more directed ^ his friend's attention to the corner. The ugly stone was gone and there in th( its place stood the beautiful angel . standing out in alj its beauty and love- . liness. The sculptor had freed the .. angel from the ugly block. Can th^ J? Great Sculptor Jesus Christ do less with the human soul? True Humility. The only humility that is really ours 1 Is not that which wc tr.v to show be- nu fore God in prayer, but that which we ar< carry with us and carry out in our or- o'c dinary conduct.?Andrew Murray. up ??? fa< ? ws Man. / tin Man seen through his humanity be- d0 comes a tiling of transcendent value; wa the nature which iias been put of God ba( to the most gracious of all uses is a wfl nature thai ran be no more despised or niisliuudled.?A??<fr?w M. Fairhairn. Whalebone at 515,000 a Ton. j ' The price of whalebone this season has already reached the record price ge. tpf $15,000 per ton. Owing to the great wi| majority of the American whaling fleet !pr) being imprisoned in the Arctic ice, ?rt' stocks in America are said to be loav, ^.a forty-one tons being the total, accord- sia ing to one report. As a consequence. jnls quotations here have ranged as high as $13,000 a ton. On the other side of the Atlantic the stocks amount to 100 j weight short of seventeen tons, and yo* sellers refused to deal at less than v_0 $lf>.000 a ton. At this figure it is ou( said the Dundee whaling fleet will coin hei money this season. wi, : IE SUNDAY SCHOOL-: '* rERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MARCH 4* bjeet: Jtim Telia Who Are B1?m4| Matt. 1-1$?Golden Text, Matt. t4 8?Memory Verie*, 3-6?Topi ci BlbHr Secret of the Bleated Life. ' " *" . The gathering multitudes 1, "Seeing the multitudes." lltitudes referred to in verse 25 i preceding chapter. Attracted bsi 8 miracles the people came in greet rubers from all over Palestine* ato a mountain." According to tra^ ion Jesus spoke this sermon on tf are shaped hill with two topf, lich gives it the modern name of le Horns of Hattin." Hattin being i village on the ridge at its base* Pas set." The usual position for * iching among the Jews. They stood! read the Scriptures, but sat to teacb. isciples came unto Him." They oc pied a position near to Him and th* lltitude was farther away.-. < ., !. "Opened His month." The exss?icn marks the solemnity ami im- . rtance of the discourse., "Taught: ?HJ." TOie moment had> eomejnvhent i principles of the new covenant are-. be ennnciatld. : I. The character and privileges off Ki's people (vs. 3-12). These versea / 3 tain the eight beatitudes. 3. lessed." Blessed means more thm* ppy. "Poor in spirit." All the betudes are affixed to unlikely condins, to show that the judgment of irist and of the world are different* heirs is." Now at this present time., kingdom of heaven." The kingdom heaven and the kingdom of God tan the same thing, and have referee to lhat spiritual kingdom whictt rist sets up in the hearts of HI* ] lldren. 4. "They that mourn."" I lat is, those who, conscious of tbeiir " iritual poverty, mourn. "ComfortThe T^ord rnmforta bv sneakisct 1 i words of pardon and peace to theictt|fl arts. . M "Meek." Of gentle and Iong-snfing disposition; o? .peaceable tea ; - submissive, compliant, yielding. W iherit the earth.'' Under this figurer Lord promises the abuqgance of H ritual good provided for in the gos- . H "Hunger and thirst." A flgura- I e expression. "After righteous* - H ?e." The state, or quality, of beiiur fl ht with ,God. "Shall be filled." th righteousness. Everything else- |H Is to satisfy. 7. "The merciful." mi be merciful." says Erasmus, "are ffl >se who weep over the calamities or lers, who feed the hungry and clothe i naked, admonish, those in error H i pardon the offending." "Obtain H roy." As we deal with others Godt >1 deal with us. . "Pure in heart." The heart is the fl x. AU. -m?j.i ? M iU. ikA B Li in uitr auevuuua, iuc ueaueo, iuc itives, the will; with the pure heart ;se will all be pure. "S^e God.** at Is, possess and enjoy vGod- 9.. eacemakers." "Those who avoid itention themselves, and labor to rere peace wherever it is brokeri." hildren of God." God is the Father peace, and those who promote it are d to be His children. 10. "Perseted." Those who are pursued by an ;my. "For righteousness' sake." cause of right doing. "Kingdom of iven." See on verse 3. 11. "Ree." To slander; "to be abusive lr^ ?$ch or act." "Falsely for My sake.*^ must not only be false, but for HI? te; because we are Christians and ? bringing forth fruit unto holinese. "Rejoice." To be persecuted foe .rist's sake is to be crowned (Rev.! 0). ' Be exceeding glad." Leap for j< "The prophets." We are to have inheritance with the prophets. II. The duties and responsibilities God's people (vs. 13-16). In these :ses we have the "relations of the lzens of the kingdom to the world.**' "Ye." Christ's true followers, de-' ibed In the preceding verses. "Salt the earth." Salt preserves apd purli. and 8a Christians spread the ~ ths of the gospel by which .the rid 1h preserved and Durifled.- "Lost: > savour." That is. has become! / teless, and lost its saltness. "Where-! th?salted." The question implies, it the salt is entirely worthless.; ood for nothing:.'* It is not only.; Dd for nothing itself, but it actually stroys fertility. 4. "Are the light." In John 8:12 _ tus says. "I am the light of the rid." The Christian is not like the a, self-iuminous, but borrows his 78, like the moon, from a primal iree. Light is not only opposed to rkijess, but overcomes it; so the. ith and holiness possessed by the ciplets of Christ, who is the true ht, dispel the world's darkness, byjj jrcoming its ignorance and fin.; annot be hid." In the East clues ; often built on hills. The illustran vividly sets forth the high calling the followers of Christ. * .5. "A candle." Rather, "lamp," as Revised Version. "A bushel.", ither, "the bushel" (see R. V.), that the common measure found in every, wish house. Strictly speaking, the >dius4 translated "bushel,"-denoted a' .ji laller measure fQiial to about two ?| lions. "Candlestick." Rather, fl impstand." The lamps were of rthenware or metal, in the shape of ^ saucer, turned up on one side to Id the wick. Olive oil was used to rn in t'hem. The idea is that even ?n would not he so foolish as to ht a lamp and then cover it, and cer- , inly God wiH not be so uuwise as to uminate His people and then keep ?m in concealment. 1G. "Light so ine." Where Christ is in the heart e spirit of Christ will shine out in V, a life. We are commanded to shine such a manner that our good deeds 11 give glory to God. We cover our ht by pride, worldlines* and osteation; we let our light shine by living humble, holy life, and by keeping led with the love of God (Rom. 5:5). Dog Perished Saving Master, George Anderson. -who keeps a meat x irket in Brttfvusville, Pa., was i Dused the other morning at four lock by his dog, which had rushed into his bedroom aud pawed his ;e until he awoke. The building is on fire, and Anderson barely bad le to escape by leaping from a winw. The dog could not get out and s cremated. Anderson tried to rush' ck into the buildiug to save it, but is restrained. Now WlrelegH Station. ^ wireless telegraph .station which / being established at Norddeich, V, rmany, on the shore of the Nortl> ; i. is expected to do business th Germany, Austria. Switzerland, ince, Great Britain, Denmark, the later part of Italy. Sweden and Nory and smaller parts of Spain, Rusand the States of tbo Balkan penula. J "Sleep Ontdaorg/* She Sny?. ^ Urs. Blanche C. Martin, of New! rk City, advises society women, who uld be cured of nervousness, to sleep; : of doors. She says she has made bed on a cot on her own piazza, iter and summer, for five years, _j A miM