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* \ mmrnrnmmm ? i ~ f ^RIN i ^ By WALTEI | | fTCHAPTER II. 3 ! Continued. He held her tightly in his arms. VNow my dear, to-day. I have only time to get things together. I start by the 8 o'clock train, and travel day and mnof nniif "h QT'A /lc?ir 111 UUOV |/(U V HVIV, v*v?*4, | the castle of our dream"?lie smiled sadly?"and we must part at once. Courage, Katharine; it is but for a few months. And then?and then Kiss me once more, dear. Oh! kiss me. Good bye, dear?good bye." ******* The solicitor, Tom's cousin, saw him off at Charing Cross. "Remember," said Tom, earnestly, *if there should be anything left over after paying that trust money to the lieirs, and if anything should happen to me, you will give it all to Katharine. I have given l!?r your address, and she will go to you if she wants anything. Write to me about the lieirs of the trust when you find them. I am curious to know who they are. And?and? don't forget?in case you know?that letter is for Katharine, and everything that belongs to me is to be hers as well. I ought to have insured my life and made my willt but there was no time. Will you charge yourself with this, Jem?" ?> . 4,Oh, you'll be all right, old man," said his cousin, with the cheerfulness? nobody is so cheerful as the man who . Ss not going?proper to the occasion. "I wish I had your chance. Good-by. I won't forget, and I won't lose the ; letter." j "You promise then," said Tom. "I trust my girl to you." "I promise faithfully, Tom. You may trust her to me." "It is a solemn promise, Jem?" , I "A sacred pledge." Their hands met with the grasp of two men who trust each other. Then the guard waved his hand, and the train rolted out of the station, ifem Rolfe stood looking after it until | it vanished across the river. Then he r-?~ -went to the refreshment room, and had , * whisky and potash. He was one of ^ ???? tt?1 4-n nil fimoc MIU3C JUUlunj uu lii ?** IHWV.O v? thought, perplexity or forecast assist the irain with a whisky and potash, or its equivalent. Katharine-remained in the empty library. The beautiful inheritance had I Tnnished like a dream. And Tom wns gone to Egypt. She sat in the quiet room until the day drew to its close. *1 Then she got up and went softly into the hall and out into the street. And the caretaker, who was still making tea in the basement, and heard the pat-' ter of her feet and the gentle closing 1 ; f of the door, thought she was one of the . ghosts, who generally, however, do not , ^ i>egin to walk about an empty house } tintil after sunset. , ( CHAPTER III. Habeey House, Cleveland Sqtta-re. ^ Two months later. At S o'clock on ^ ft cold spring evening the drawing room | . of Harlcy House, Cleveland Square, is generally as full as you may find it all . the?year round. It is a salon of more ( * ' ' tlian common interest. To begin with, . . there are no men in it. Male visitors < are not allowed to penetrate into Hip ] drawing room of Harley House. This < removes it at once from the common j drawing'room of society. Next, the la- i dies who use this drawing room do not ] appear in evening dress: most of them, in fact, have only one dress, which < eerves them for morning and evening, i summer and winter, until it falls to ; pieces, and how it is replaced no man | knoweth. Again, in other drawing ] xooms there is idleness; but here, l'or ] the most part, there is work of some kind generally going on. And in other drawing rooms there is light and airy i talk, all about nothing, with laughing, ] singing, and little jokes such as girls j love; but here the talk is subdued in i tone, sometimes discontented, some- : times angry, sometimes exasperated. xi any uiujnis, 11 iuusi uu one <>i iue younger ladies uewly joined, and then "the rest all look tip with astonishment. As for a joke, 110 one ever made one in Harley House. If it was made, it 1 would fall flat. Hnrley House is governed by a committee of six matrons of proved virtue and religion. It is a home for ladies .who have to work for their living; in other words, for Indies who have to live cheaply. The founders recognized the*fact that a pound a week, taking one week with another, is rather more tlinn most working ladies can ever expect to earn. They have therefore ascertained the very lowest charges for lodging and meals on which the house cnn be kept up, nnd they charge the residents accordingly. Thus it has been proved by experiment that a young woman of tolerably robust appetite can be fed, not luxuriously, with jam, cake, chocolate cream, Ices and cold chicken, but sufficiently, so as to keep the machine in good working or der, for fifteen pence halfpenny a dayit is really fifteen ppnco, but the oild halfpenny Is added for luxury and the putting on of fat. The committee of Harley House therefore give the young ladies breakfast for threepence, and tea for the same; diuner is sevenpenee and supper is twopence halfpenny. For three and sixpence a girl can have a bed in a cubicle all to herself. In other words, without counting dinner, a meal which in hard times may be neglected, a young lady can live in Harley House for eight shillings and twopence halfpenny a week; so that if she is so lucky as to be making a whole pound a week; there remain eleven shillings and ninepence halfpenny to spend. If you deduct sevenpenee a day for dinner and eightpence for Sunday, there still remains seven shillings and sevenpenee halfpenny. The girl who_ cannot make seven shillings and sevenpence halfpenny a week suffice for .washing, dress, gloves, boots, amusements, religion, charity, traveling, omnibuses. literature, music and recrea . j ; ^ III * % J ^BESANT.^ ,'r ?Of?? S " ? i t! tion generally, must, be a wicked and si wasteful girl. The drawing room at Harley House <j is, of coursc, a large room, because it g belongs to one of the large houses of }j Cleveland Square, BJoomsbury. The jj curtains, the wall paper and the carpet slook as though they had done service n enough, aud might now be dismissed. g But everybody in the house knows very jr well that there"is no money to buy new f, things, and that, like the stair carpet, g which is in holes, they will probably w have to last a long time yet. Now, in n the home without rules, the ladies will ^ unite to contrive new curtains and car- n] pets and a better wall paper, and will j,, be always trying to make the place tl pretty with the little odds and ends which cost nothing but a little taste e and ingenuity. So that there will be none of the shabbiness which does unrfmihtedlv hanc over Harley House. But what matters shabbiness, since jr there are 110 men admitted? ^ The residents of Harley House are ,j, not all girls. Some of them, who have been here for a -long time, and occupy n; chairs near the fire by prescriptive jj, right, are middle-aged and even elderly, ^ Most of them, however, are quite a] young; they are a floating and uncer- C( tain class; they come because they are Vl hard up, stay a few weeks or months S] because they can not help themselves, sniff at the regulations, speak con- j temptuously of the committee, and then, if prospects brighten, hasten to jj some place where the presence of ti young men is not forbidden, and where ^ one can be out after half-past 9 without gl seeking permission beforehand and ex- e, plaining the reasons for this wild burst sj ******* p To the former class undoubtedly belonged two ladies sitting side by side, t, bolt upright, with a certain primness jyj of attitude which recalled, to those who w could remember the early days of her w Majesty's reign, memories of gover- a nesses in the forties, in tact, tney nau f? been daily governesses in the forties when they were young. Now they 8( were gray-haired, and each wore a y( little prim curl at the side, and to those who might remember the forties g they looked as if they ought to have r< a black velvet band across the fore- jj, bead with a steel buckle. They were Jressed in black, they were exactly n, alike, and they were quite clearly sis- h, ters. In their hands was some work, w but it advanced slowly. Their thin sj faces were beautiful, with the beauty p( ;iven by patience, resignation and snf- w fering? they had now found rest and a h, javen for the remainder of their days. The- regulations caused no discomfort ^ to them, because they asked for no tnale visitors, did not desire to be out ^ after half-past 0, and wanted nothing cj saore than a place where they could sit lown and meditate on the long rest ^ iwaiting them after their hard day's work. They were Miss Augusta and ^ vncs Rentripp Anspv. In the distant T time when they owned a living father they lived in a Cathedral Close, and sc their father was a Canon. y On the other side of the fireplace sat ^ mother lady, who was also clearly one )f the permanent residents. She was st ;uaut and hard of features, with dis- aj content and restlessness marked in her ?j face. She had a book in her lap, but she read very little. For her, too. the past was nearly done, and the only fu- m ture before her was that which has to 0l be reached by crossing a certain river. At a table, a buudle in her lap, sat a a, woman still young, not more than thirty, at work diligently, even fiercely, m never lifting her head from her work, ^ but sewing as if for life. Persons ex- p( perienced in such matters would have recognized that her work was of a ci eery difficult and beautiful kind, em- ^ broidery of the highest art, which should be worth largo sums of money. in She was dark, of *egula-' complexion find beautiful still, with a shapely head Sl and regular, classical features, and had cj she raised her eyes from her work you would have perceived that they were tr such as a painter loves to gaze upon w find to draw, deep and darl> and limpid. d( But they were full of sadness; there was 110 light of laughter in them; and o:; her lips there was no light of smiles. It was the face of a woman no longer happy. While she worked, her lips w moved continually, as if reproaching a) somebody?perhaps herself. The table had a few magazines and s, papers upon it. There were the Illus- ; trated and the Queen, and* certain xj harmless and godly periodicals such as ^ committees of institutions consider ^ adapted to the intellect' of lady resi- g. dents. Nobody, however, though the a; room was pretty full, was reading. Perhaps this was due to the fact that fl it was Thursday evening, so that jhe weekly papers were stale. Perhaps, however, it was because tbe people in s] the room were all tired, and cared not to do anything. Tliey were nearly all girls between J eighteen and four-and-twenty. It was for them, and not for the elder ladies. that the institution really was founded g| and 1he regulations framed, so that ^ they ought to have shown in their faces and their demeanor the liveliness of y grauiuae. .>o uuuui mej naceuic- n ful, "and all that," but tbey were ^ heavy-eyed. There were about fifteen or twenty of them; tbey were all young ladies who work, not ladies of the ballet, or ladies p of the bar, or ladies who pose upon the j( stage in lovely costumes, or ladies who ^ stand behind counters; nor were they ^ young peiious or young girls; they c were young ladies?that is, girls born E and educated in some kind of refine- t] ment, whose fathers and brothers fol- 0 lowed the pursuits allowed to gentlemen. They had nearly all come home from work by this time. In most assemblies a of girls tilers will be heard a susurrus b of universal chatter, with occasional tl bursts of merry laughter and a snatch | a of song; the most remarkable thing ti about this room was the silence of the b jrirls. A few talked. languidly in whis- > i' i fw, hut most of them sat apart and lone in silence; two or three, laid full mgth upon their backs on the sofas. ?emed contented simply to be at rest? liese were the cashiers of shops who are to stand all day; others sat 'back 1 their chairs leaning their heads upon aeir clasped hands?an attitude which etokons complete physical exhaustion. Nobody was reading, nobody was lughing, nobody was singing. The eneral depression was not due at all > the regulations of the home; it had othing to do with the committee; 4lie iris were not in the least longing to be lit after 9.30. nor were they pining for le society of young men. They were imply tired. It was about a quarter to 9 when the oor opened and another girl came in. he was a tall and beautiful girl?you live already seen her?with light curly air and gray eyes and a face full of ivpptnpss: made for love?if that leans anything, because nearly every irl's face shows the same benevolent itention of nature. Now, alas! her ice was full of trouble. The other iris' faces showed the depression hich comes ^f fatigue and monotonous rork, but there was trouble of another ind on Katharine's face. When sbe ppeared, one or two of th*?m looked at er inquiringly, and read the answer to leir question in her eyes. She sat down beside another girl, vidently they were friends, these two. "Is there news?" she whispered. Katharine shook her head. Lily, the other girl, pressed her hand 1 silent sympathy. She was a darkaired,'swarthy, low-browed girl, with eep-set eyes, black eyebrows which let, and'Spanish features, though her time was Lily, and she ought to have een fair and dressed iu white. Lily rouId have looked well in a mantilla nd in black velvet and a diamond jronet. She was born for black velet, yet by one of nature's mistakes le had to wear black stuff. "Tliere never win ds any uews, ^u.?. lou't speak to me just yet, dear." At this moment the two old ladies y the fire rose from their cbairs, and ie elder, generally known as Miss ugusta, went to the piano and bean to play. She always played every i-ening, because she thought that muc is good for the soul and for the terner and for the tired limbs, and tne ritated brain. But the music must e good, and therefore she played [endelsohn's "Songs Without Words," 'hicli go straight to the heart in a ay hardly achieved by any other uisic. She played in a quiet, oldishioned way. with the emphasis hich belonged to the time?it was a mtiraental time?when she was aung. The other old lady, her sister, Miss eatrice, began to walk aboot the >om and talk to the residents. It was er opinion that young persons can be reatly helped by sympathy and kindess, and that, being an old person erself, she might perhaps administer ords of comfort and peace while her ster was moving their hearts by the jwer of music. And, indeed, there ere times when the atmosphere was ?avy with despondency. First, she sat down beside the woman ho was so fiercely working.. "My dear," she said, "you have been orking at you business all day. Your leeks are flushed and your hand is jrning. Cannot you put away your ork for a single evening?" "No?no. I must work. I must work, he others may rest, but I must work, must work." "Why must work, clear? You are > much better off than'tbe rest of us. ou have such a handsome salary, fhy must you work?" It was known tbat this person had a ilary of three pounds a week?actuly three pounds! As much as is ven to a curate, and yet there was ) evening except Sunday when she d not work fiercely, until the last oment before the gas was turned it. "You are a Christian?" the worker sked, in reply. * "Surely," said Miss Beatrice. 'Oh, y dear, .that is a strange question, 'hat other comfort is there for a x>r woman, and what other hope?" "For those who are His. He is crufied. Those who are not His?must j crucified by themselves." It was a strange answer to be made thfl I a respecxauie uuuic >, ut. c .uv arcer emotions, including despair, are ipposed not to enter. They are exuded?^with the young men. "My dear; my dear"?-the poor lady embled at the mere strength of the ords?"you terrify me. I do not unjrstand what you mean."' (To be continued.) Black Bristle Brushes the Best. "There's a live-million-dollar fortune aiting for the man who can invent i effective substitute for boar's bris-' es,*' observed W. M. Hyland, a brush ilesman. "Some one is always trying to win jat fortune and always failing. All le best brushes in the world are lade from bristles that grow along the )ine of the Russian wild boar. Hair ud clothes brushes are made from air nearest the pelt, shaving brushes orn the hips and inferior qualities om the middle sections. "People who want good hair brushes lould observe three things. First, ny the black hair brush.' The white aired variety is just black bleached nd injured by the pleaching. Second, sk the dealer for brushes with pene ation' bristles; smoothed tops are infective. And, last, avoid silver back rushes; they are always tnade to look retty and sell. There is rarely a siler back brush on the market to-day lade of first-class bristles."?Kansas ity Star. English-Dressed Bnbus. The practice of some xiabus. the roducts chiefly of missionary col?ges, to dress in English fashion was enounced at a recent Calcutta rneetlg. The r.ijahs donned the dhoti and hudder as a protest against young (ensal doing himself up in coat and rousers. double collars and loud-col red neckties.?Allahabad Pioneer. Gentle Nature In Jupan. In Japan all animals seem to be tame nd approach man without fear; the ees don't sting, the snakes preserve leir venom, the dogs bite not. It looks s i? the spirit of kindness .and toleraion which distinguishes the race has een extended to the brute weatiou.? ;orth China Herald. - . * .. : THE FRANCES E.J MS BKBSB^BSSBf^^BKm^^SSEBit g - v M " Sk .J . Sr-,. ft ^ v. ffc M . MHBnfflM^H i&Ss* 5?L *^^3 ' ?K >v'' 'Vv nj|j|l Recently Placed in Statuary Hall at tin State of II . THE CAVITE DRYDOCK. J b; BY DAT ALLEK WILLE7. H HE tests of the floating P J|l__ Jf drydock designed by the ^ O I O United States Government " for service in the Philip- n pines have proved so sue- 01 cessful that the craft is now on its ^ way to Cavile. ti Since lis ccn-pletion it has been lying at Chesapeake off Solomon's Island. Here a:i eppomnity bus been given to thoroughly dfcicnstrate its a capacity for docking not only vessels, v. but to dock itself. In each trial the lc drydock has performed service up to p the requirements of the specifications, a The vessel selected for. the test was ti the new crulsef Colorado. It may be w needless to sny that the Colorado is ri considerably longer than any of the h battleship class, being more than 500 t( feet. tv Consequently, the weight of the'Col- tl orado, though much more, was distrib- II uted over such a greater length of the tl dock that the strain upon it as indi- c< cated by the deflection was consider- oi ably less than when the battleship a was lifted from the water; but as al- p ready stated, the deflection was no c< more than the calculations of the engineers?in fact, was not as great as that for which allowance had been made, c The most interesting of the tests by V THE (JAVIT IS 1 Water Completely Pumped Out ot far was the docking of tlie centre sec- , * tion of tbe structure by utilizing tbe pontoons at either eud. The main C psuteon is no loss than 31G feet over L all, each end pontoon being 170 feet " over all. The ends of tbe main pon- cj toon overhang the smaller ones, each li of tbe latter having an outside independent side wall high enough to al- t( low it to be sunk and hauled under the o: centre structure, literally litting around fi the centre on '.he sjiuib principal as the li familiar collapse or telescopic box, S In docking the cruiser the entire a: structure was sunk to rhe maximum ei depth in one liour ana tmrty-six mm- ei utes, but pumped out in Jess than this period, the exact time being one hour w and two minutes. Considering the size ir of the Colorado and the magnitude of ol the work involved, the time required tl was remarkably short, 'as only two tl hours and sixteen minutes elapsed c< from the time the ship was landed on b the blocks until the keel was raised t< completely out of water. The decision of the board of super- ic vising engineers was that the dock tc i3 of sufficient strength and capacity el to dock a ship of 120,000 tons displace- n ment. ni The arrangements for towing this tc great structure are of no little interest, on account of the length of the voyage and the weight and dimensions of the dock. While the framework, plating w and machinery contained represent a a .. sOrrl.t nf noot-lv 1 1 tlin? its hf?i?Tilt [ \\ above the water, its unwieldy propor- n tions, as well as draft. :r.nke it far L more diflicult to Sow in a s?a^ay than ci an ordinary oraft. The towiny flee*t d selected to take the drydoek to Manila 0 is composed of tnree United Siaies colliers. The largest of these is the Glacier, a ship of 7000 tons displace- c: ment and having engines of uOOO horse- CX VILLARD STATUE ? H s e Capitol, Washington,' D. C., by the linois. jwer. The Glacier Trill be assisted y the Caesar, of 501C tons dlsplacelent, having engines- of 1500 horseower, and the Brutus, of 6000 tons nd 1230 horse-power. Consequently, ie entire towing power will aggregate early 8000 horse-power. The smaller raft, however, will be used not only direct towing, but for steadying le dock in rough weather. Pleasnres of Caracas. Caracas is a charming place to spend vacation in. One never tires of ".itching the pack trains arriving witb >ads of coffee, cocoa or marketing roduce, or setting out with all man er of queer merchandise for the coun y estates. Then there is the market, -here one is sure to find some new va ety of fruit or vegetable, no mattci ow often lie visits it. Even more in'resting to me are the quaint houses, hich seem so many centuries behind le times, and yet present such deghtful vistas as one glances through jeir forbidding doorways. And, of mrse, there are excursions to be made a every side, tramps across the valley mong the bauana and susar cane lantations, or rp the iii!lside to see a jffee estate.?St. Nicholas. A steel chimney 2G0 feet high was reently successfully completed in South Vales. . ' 11 DUVDOCK. ' the Dock and the Vessel Raised. Generations of Teotl). Dr. Andrew Wilson, writing ii lhanibers' Journal on tho "Repairs 01 .ife," states the little known fact thai i llshes and .some reptiles suecesslrf rops of teeth are produced as the auilal requires them. "One has only to look at the array oJ ;eth in the mouth of certain specie? f sharks, or even in the jaw of a cod sh, to note that as long as the anima! ves its deutal wants are provided for irnilarly. in the case of a reptile such 3 the crocodile wa find successive gen *ations of teeth succeeding one nnoth : from below upward. "An examination of a crocodile's jaw -ould not merely show a tooth belonglg to the set in use, but below it an ther tooth ready to take the place oi le upper tooth, and below this iattoi le germ of a third. These reptiles, Ic jinrnon with many other forms, eac oast of uninterrupted generations oi :eth. "Man, on the otlier hand, when h? ises any member of his second set, ha* > hand himself over to the tender mer les of the dentist, which, howevci ecessary they may be in modern life re, like those of the wicked, entitled > be termed cruel." Country's History Forgotten, It is said that two Boston young' roraen recently went to Concord or sightseeing expedition. When the} ere show a Emerson's home it did ot impress them much, as neitJie) ad heard of him. The Alcott houst rpatcd more interest, however, as thej eoided it was the* home of Chauncej iIcott, the actor. Argentina's exports of wheat for (hi llectlar year 11)03 exceeded 113,000,4 DO bushels. ______________ -/.V" -;v . J"; THE GEEAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE Or INTEMPERANCE. la Rotten Barley Jaice s Food? Beer Moat Injurious of Alcoholic Drinks Because No Other la &'o Seductive? \ Breeder of Dullards and Defectives. A food is any substance whose nature it is to nourish the body, and repair its waste, or furnish it heat and energy without injuring it. Hence, | according to this standard definition, ; if beer contains anything that injures ] the body, it can not be a food. 4 ] H. W. Wiley, Chief of Division of < Chemistry, United States Department of Agriculture, after examining sam- ] pies of what are termed the best beers, i 'the chief varieties of which are lager 1 ibeer, ale, porter, aud 3tout, reports 1 them as containing from four to six ] per cent, of ethyl alcohol. ? i 1 The reply to the question at the head of this article will be found in ] the answer of modern science to the i question, is it the nature of alcohol to i Injure the body? < Sir Frederick Treves, Bart, LL.D., i surgeon to King Edward of England, < says: j "Tf i'c on inci/^nnct nnlcnn 4n 1 that it produces effects which seem to have only one antidote?alcohol again." ] As a poison is any substance whose i nature it is when absorbed into the ] blood to injure health or destroy life, a beverage which, like beer, contains alcohol, can not be a food in any honest use of that word, but on the con-, i trary is a poisonous liquor. < If, as some of tne brewers are now claiming, their beer contains only three < per cent, of alcohol, we need to remember that the character of a substance does not change with its quan- tity. The most disastrous quality of alcohol, its power in small quantities < to create the uncontrollable appetite for more, exists in any liquor containing three per cent, of alcohol. Thus 1 beer is a poisonous, drunkard-making drink. Professor Gruber. of Munich, Bflvs: "No nnc oan foretell whether or not he is susceptible to alcohol. He .finds out only by playing a game of i chance wit& his own life which is a dangerous experiment." Professor August Forel, the great Swiss scientist, says: "The toxic agent; the murderer of soul and body, is and remains the ethyl alcohol itself, pure or adulterated^ fin6 or coarse, concentrated as in distilled liquors, or rela- \ tively diluted as in wine, beer and cider." Professor G. von Bunge, professor of physiological chemistry, Basle, Swifz- ' erland, says: "Beer is the most in jurious of alcoholic drinks, because no 1 other is so seductive. One can ac- ! custom himself more rapidly to the < drinking of beer than of any other in- 1 toxicant, and no other so readily de- 1 Btroys the appetite for normal food and nourishment." To this testimony of science' as to | the injury alcohol does to the body which might be multiplied indefinitely, 1 should be added, its hereditary effects. Dr.,T. A. MacNicholI, New York < City, in a report of an examination of 1 the cause of mental deficiency in school children, undertaken in 1901, j for the New York Academy of Medi- : cine, said: "In prosecuting this work, 1 I was forcibly impressed by the conspicuous position occupied by alcohol as a cause of mental deficiency of chii- ' dren." He says: "Alcohol by destroying the integrity of the nerve structure, lowering jthe standing of organic relations, launches hereditary in- I fiuences which by continuous transmission gain momentum and leave their impact upon gland and nerve until mental faculties are demoralized, physical energies hopelessly impaired, 1 and the moral nature becomes degenerate and dies." > Dr. MacNicholI found that of children of drinking parents but abstain- ' .ing^ grandparents, seventy-five ?er * cent, were dullards; of the children of abstahiing parents and drinking grandparents, seventy-eight per cent, were dullards; of the children of abstaining parents and grandparents, only four per cent, were aunavas. Here is proor > that the modern saloon with its beer and other alcoholic drinks, is a breeder of defectives. Is beer a food? Modern science says ' emphatically, No, it is a poison. It ] injures the body and the mind of the : drinker and of his descendants to the second and third generations.?Mary H. Hunt, Director Bureau Scientific Temperance Investigation of the National Woman's Christian Temper- 1 ance Union. . 1 . 3 Testimony From the Bench. 1 Judge McAuley, of Kansas City, in ' committing a "plain drunk," gave utterance to the following: "If I only had my way, I would not ; only close every saloon in the county Sunday and week days, but I would [ stop the sale of intoxicating liquor in ' any shape or for any purpose whatever. I would.make it a crime to manufacture the stuff. This may be far- , . reaching, but the sentiment is justified by the sights and experiences 4n this court-room. Ninety-five per cent, of \ the cases tried here are the direct re- , suits of whisky; the other five per cent, includes morphine and cocaine fiends and a few petty grievances that come before me for adjustment." Frcm the Police Blotter. Of 42,260 persons arrested in New ; York in the second quarter of 1905, in toxication was charged against 6918, ] intoxication and disorderly conduct were jointly alleged against 2024, while ; T\]oin Ar?Tw1iir?t- was the com- I plaint in 10,938 cases. Every trade, ( business and profession was represent- i ed on the police station blotter. Of the i women arrested nearly half were married, but of the men only 9740 were 1 married, while 22,961 were single. ; Cause of Idlenens.. There are 2,000,000 unemployed men in the United States! Why? Because the United States spends at least j $1,000,000,000 per annum for intotfcht- ( ing drink. Cincinnati alone spends j $13,000,000 per annum for that alco- j hollzed water which the brewers call , "beer." Source of ftlfinr DUenaeg. j Attention of the National Pion::>- j tion of Health Club is directed to ihe j fRct that the liquor traffic is a prcv:;!- \ ent source of disease. t Alcohol and tlie Herero*. A' correspondent of the Frankfort News (Germany) who describes himself as a resident in German South- ), West Africa for the past thirty years, . .? <i,?t -in isa?; nlf>fihnl was hardly anja "? , ? known among the Hereros, of that " region. At that date every inch of ar- * able ground in their territory was * either a wheat field or a garden, and tliey were an industrious race. Now, fiorae ninety drinking shops are established in the Herero territory. The ravages of alcohol among the people d are terrible, and their habits of indus- I try have given place to idleness and o loafing. ' ^ si BrcfUt&Jl ; arc&j>xe j Some Old-Time Tryttera* bt 8. d. oobdoxj v ^ It is a striking fact that tbe men In ^ the Bible record to whom God revealed Himself most, and whom He uaed most, and through whom He gave the larger part of the Bible, were men who sacredly kept this morning tryst. That Moses kept it by God's own ar? rangement is plain from Exodus 34:2-4, with many other statements regarding this remarkable man to whom God talked face to face, and who bore Id bis person the indescribable charm of God's presence. It is probable that Joshua kept it, "j for he was Moses' most intimate associate for nearly forty years, as well as his chosen successor, and likely, caiueu UJC iiiiyie^a vi IUIVL ciuew t / *\ friendship in many habits of .life. Ex-.7. 4 . Ddus 33:7-11 and numerous references in the book of Joshua give color to this supposition. That Samuel kept It seems likely from incidents in his life which reveal that he was indeed a master hand at prayer, an a habitual early riser. David-reveals his habit in the matter in as many as eight allusions in the Psalms, some of which should have more than mere mention in this special connection. ' Fsalm 5:3, literally translated, reads: "Oh, Lord, at the dawning shalt Thon hear my voice; At the dawning will I prepare lor Thee, i And will keep watch." ' lj ' c.' jt sauu "Cause me to hear Thy loving kindness at the dawning: . j For in Thee do I trust; ?4gjl Cause me to know the way wherein 1 ^ should walk." v ?plainly suggesting that he looked to the morning hour of prayer for guidance in daily matters. , If,-as is rsug-.. . | gested by some scholars, some of these , M Psalms were written by, qthers tbaa' ' "*] David, it makes still plaltoer, the cofov . | monness of this habit among godly, men of that period.' That Solomon's early life was marked by this habit seems very probable, not only from his remarkable spiritual experiences during that time, but particularly from references in. the Song of Solomon, the book which marks the high tide of hi& inner life. See Chapter 5:2 and on, already quoted. And one cannot read carefully the ' story of the beginning aud tbeu of the after years of his career, set against v ; sach other in such sharp contrast, with- ? out the conviction p-owing and deepil.^1 iUU A ~ 1. ? 1. ~ ^ euiu? IUUL iiij? uuuu, bu ii&trjy iu mw first part, could have had no place ilk those later sadly dark years of apostacy and shame. His downfall must have dated from his inuec closet, like many another's since. ..." r-& Isaiah knew the sweetness nnd power of the morning appointment with God, as Chapter 50:4 eleayly, shows. Jeremiah adds his experience in-Lamentations 3:22-2G amid the sorrows following the destruction of the exiled nation. ' \<iy Daniel prized so highly his (rystlng time that he spent a night with the lions rather than miss speuding his customary hour with God.; He preferred the possibility of giving up bis life for God to giving up bis. daily appointment with God. . The little known prophet Habakkuk uses language in Chapter 2:1-2, revision, which indicates his familiarity; f with the morning watch hour of prayer and that his nwn mpssncps mme frt him at that time. A glance back over this list brings to mind tbe fact that these are the men to whom-God entrusted tbe writing of by far the greater part of the Old Testament. But perhaps we might omit all of these and find our greatest inspiration in the fact that Jesus Himself, "when a man down here, kept the . morning % tryst. For Isaiah 5jO:4 Is plainly prophetic of Him, as a reading of the connecting verses makes clear. And Mark 1:35 gives a very strfing corroborating insight into His inner life in tbe words: "And in the morning, r. great while before day. He rose up and went out into a desert place and there prayed."? liam's Horn. That Th?y Mar nave Life. A recent thoughtfuf writer, touching upon allegations or misleading state- * ments which are so frequently made in regard to the influence of Christian v faith and practice in dwarfing life and cramping humanity, points out that all * Christ's teaehine on self-denial meant to Him srme larger good. With the Divine Master self-repression was always a. stage to new self-repression, and "the giving of self was to result in the true finding of self."' The end wan .. 1 not to be shrinkage or attenuation, but more abundant development: "He asks for obedience, and when i we obey we discern .that in obeying - Jt Him we are obeying the law of our V awn life. He asks for service, and M when we serve we learn that His serv- V ice is perfect freedom. He asks us to lose our life, and lo, in losing it we find it."?London Christian. ;-j New Jewel*. Every new experience is like a new jewel set into our life, on which God shines and makes interpretations and revelations of Himself. And the man who finds himself going out of a dying W Fear with these jewels of experience which have burned forth from his life' cluring its months, and knowing that God in the new year will shine upon' them and reveal Himself by them, may, well go full of expectation saying, 'The Lord is at haud.". ? Phillips Brooks. 1 ' The Dental of Self. Christ's call to His disciples is this . -"If any man will come after Me let liim deny himself, and take up his i?.aco on/4 fnllrtn* \fo Tlin T rtrH riftPQ wiuoo UUU 1U11U *? jkaiv ' <vt x* vtvw :iot invite us to a duty that He liimself lias declineel. It is not a coming to a' stationary example, but a following ifter a fore-running example. This invitation assumes a unique theory of ife and one entirely contrary to the Dopular theory of our own day, in that t lays down the law of self-sacrifice / 'or the attainment of the highest an$ uost satisfying good.?Lutheran World,' J 17 Feet of Wire In HI* Midst. ^ Seventeen feet of silver wire was lsed in an operation upon Louis Thrymn, of Columbus, Ohio, who was njured internally about the chest In i street car accident, in an operation to estore displaced organs in their prop r positions, in Mount Carmel Hosplal. The Deepest Hole. The deepest hole in the earth ever. ug is the coal fields of Paruschowitz, Jpper Silesia. It extends to a depth f G570 feet, or almost a mile and a .uarter. -