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?? I / UL L < y*? ^ By WALTE1 II! CHAPTER III. 4 Continued. "Then, Miss Beatrice," said the cm broideress, "it means that I must work ?day and night?and never .*top." Miss Beatrice sighed, and went on her way. She stopped next before the 'elderly and gaunt-looking person who sat on the other side of the fire. "Are you better this. evening, Miss Stidolph?" she asked. "No, I am worse." "Was there the opening you expected?" "No, there was not. There never is for age. It is a sin now to grow old." "Oh, 110! But people do like their children to be taught by young and light-hearted women. As we grow old~ InM enma nf nnr Iiffht-llPJirted CI ?T t" 1VOC ovuiv w* vw* .q?. ? ness, do we not? And some of our pleasant looks, perhaps." "I never had any pleasant looks, or any lightness of heart," said Miss Stidolph, with a little laugh. "Life ias always been a burden to me. Don't waste time on me. Miss Beatrice. Perhaps something will turn up in the literary way. We heard at the Museum yesterday that there was work got t>y some of the ladies there, and people are all come back to town." "Yes; and your translations arc . known to be ko correct. Miss Stidolph. Oh, I am sure yOu will get some work now. And you have got Tvell through the dead season, haven't you?" When Miss Beatrice left her, the gaunt, hard-featured lady lay back in Jier chair, with something like a smile upon her face. Consolation often takes the form of subtle and crafty flattery. Miss Beatrice knew that if there was one subject which more than another afforded gratification to Miss Stidolph, it was the excellence of her translations. Other translators made blunders in grammar and mistakes in idiom. Miss Stidolph was always correct. Then Miss Beatrice went to a girl who lay upon the sofa, stretched supine, careless of what went on around her, sick to death of monotonous labor and a dull and dreary life. She bent over iier and patted her cheeks and whispered things soothing and soft to her, and kissed her forehead, so that the girl sat up and smoothed her hair and moved away to the t^ble, where she took up a book and began to read. And all this time Miss Augusta, with sympathetic emphasis, played her Mendelsohn. What with the music and the gentle .words the girls began to throw off their tiredness and to brighten up, and some of them even went so far as to talk chiffons, which is a sure ana certain sign of recovery. Lastly, the daughter of consolation came to Katherine and the girl who sat bes>Je her holding her hand. "Lily, my dear," she said to the latter, "have you heard of anything?" Lily shook her head. "I have heard of a great many things," she said, drearily, "and I have b?Qn tramping about after them. To-day it was a photographer's. He wanted a girl to sell his things, and he offered fifteen shillings a week?which wasfi't so bad. 'But the man?'' she shuddered. "There was degradation even in talking to such a man! There was a man who wanted a girl to search newspapers for something in the Museum; but that place was snapped up long before I had time to apply for it. Work is Jlke the pool, you know, that could only cure one person at a time." "Patience, dear." "I had no money for omnibuses, so 1 lad to walk all the way. Yes, Miss Beatrice, I am already as patient as the most exacting preacher can desire." 8he hardly looked it with those eyes that flashed fire at the remembrance of the photographer and the fingers that pulled the ribbon. 'Tatient? Yes, I am as patient as a man in the hands of the Inquisition. I am on the rack, and I smile, you see." But she did nqt smile. "Would you like to hear another day's experience? Yesterday I heard of two places right away in the north of London. One was a place in a school. The lady principal received me frigidly and heard what 1 had to say, and told me if the references were satisfactory I should receive twelve pounds a year for my mornings. Isn't it wogderful? Twelve pounds a year! Four shillings and eightpence a week! Allowing for holidays, five shillings a iweek!" "Oh!" said Miss Beatrice. "It is really terrible!" "She said that I had left my afternoons and evenings, so that I could easily double my money. I asked her if she thought a woman could live on ten shillings a week, and she replied that she paid according to the market value. Well, then I tried the other place. It was a draper's shop. The man, who is a bully, wants a cashier. Sh# is to work from 9 in the morning till 8.30 at night, and is to have seven shillings and sixpence a week. So 1 Je<t him without saying anything. He is a deacon of his chapel, and the chief support of the pastor, I was told. Dives was a draper who paid his cashier seven shilling? and sixpence u week." "My dear, you are greatly tried. But liave patience still. With those who have patience and never lose their hold on faith and hope, everything conies right in the end. Look at us?my sister and myself?we have been very poor. Oh, we have suffered great privations and many humiliations. When we were young I think that people were not so considerate and so kind toward their dependents as they have since? Some of thein?become." "Not Dives the draper of Stoke-Newington," said Lily. "Often we had not enough to eat. But see what happened. We adopted what we call the simple life. We lived upon fruit and bread chiefly, and sometimes vegetables. So we were enabled Ill Is fE ! R BESANT.fff ^ J III 2 to weather the most terrible storms of adversity, find now that we are ^ grown old and glad to rest, Providence 1( has sent us an annuity of fifty pounds a year, on which we can live in comfort and with thankful hearts. Pa- a tience, my dear." "It will be such a long time before r< I get old," Lily sighed. "And there *' are all those storms to get through first. And perhaps the fifty pounds a year won't come along at all when it Is most wanted. Very well, Miss ^ Beatrice, I will try to be patient; 1 P will, indeed." < Then Miss Beatrice turned to Katharine and kissed her. "My dear," she said, "when there is no news there is always hope." "The natives have brought in reports v ? * " TrnthorlnA VP II1UI mrjr iiic nmcu, plied, "with dry eyes. "Nobody thinks there is any room for hope. I went to the office of the paper to-day and saw Vl one of the assistant editors. He is a ft kind man, and the tears came into his eyes. But he says it would be cruel j1 to entertain any hope. Tom is dead! Tom is dead!" yi Then she sprang to her feet and u rushed out of the room. "Don't follow her, Miss Beatrice," ? said Lily. "She will throw herself on the bed and cry. It -will do her good, 1)1 poor thing. It would do most of us good if we could lie down every evening for an hour or two and'have a good. 7^ cry." f( ii: ? CHAPTER IV. ^ A Faithful Trustee. ft If, gentle reader, you are proposing si to embark on a career of what the t? harsh world too readily calls crime, w and judges reward -with a term of 01 seclusion, would yon rather carry it el on secretly, or would you take your st wife into partnership? It is a question bi which cannot be lightly answered, be- tc cause the answer must depend in great ai measure on the character and dispo- cc sition of the lady. For there are wives H ? i. ~ lin^ ttnfflcmon t*rhpn ?T( WUU, line tUUUClJl ouuvoutvi' u they suddenly and brazenly veer ci round and give the lie to all that they sf Lave hitherto said and taught and ol professed, are ready to aver that the in thing is the only right thing to do, and v< to cover it up with a gilding of fair ai words and pretense, so as to make it ai appear most beautiful, virtuous and w unselfish. Other wives there are again ej who can ftever be brought to see any- h< thing but the naked ugliness of the cc thing standing out in front of the writ- si ten law, and refuse any assistance, and tli ' ??>- -1 fi| gU lUtMUIIl'LIUJJ' tlliu ttSUIlliicu. You will now bear, if you Lave the hi patience to follow up this narrative, ti? what happened to a man who adopted p< a certain course of action without his fi1 wife's knowledge and consent previous- ty ly obtained. * I do not know, that is to as say, what Harriet Rolfe would have di said, or -what co-operation she would ci have afforded her husband. Perhaps g< the path which opened out before him, ci showing such vistas of case and de- pi light, might have attracted and tempt- uj ed her as well?but I do not know. Meantime it is a curious speculation d.' to think of the difference it might have co made had Harriet herself been a coneanfincr nnrtv tn t)ip lini* Aflnnted. wvu,'"0 l/%" V w s It was not a deep-laid conspiracy, hatched after long meditation and re brooding. Not at all; it grew out of small beginnings, and was developed, h< as such things often are, by the assist- w ance of unforeseen circumstances. in James Rolfe knew perfectly well that h( he would get nothing from his uncle's w will, and was not in the least surprised H when he learned its contents. The his- io tory of five years spent as an articled clerk in the office, and five more spent ai in acquiring experience at the cost of b( his patrimony, caused his uncle to re- ai solve that his nephew should be left to hi make his own way in the world. This shows what a high opinion he had formed of his nephew. Further, on several occasions he communicated this ai opinion to James. ta Therefore when Tom proposed that he should prove the will and take over h< the management of the property, James considered it the greatest piece of luck which had ever befallen him. At first he sat down, the papers be- ^ fore him, with all the zeal which one m expects of a man paid by the hour in- CJ stead of by the job, without limit as ? to time. Ho began by investigating (lie circumstances connected with the cfl trust-money, something of whicb be already knew. Next he made, as he thought, the (liscovery that the whole estate was not more than sufficient to discharge the ^ trust. b, He communicated this unpleasant t discovery to Tom as a fact about which there was no doubt. It had the immediate effect of causing Tom's de- g. pnrture for Egypt. If it had not been . for that discovery the second chapter j of this book?nay, the whole book? f would have been impossible for a aj truthful historian. Now at school the youthful James cj had never been able to add up bis sums ^ and to reduce his pounds to pence with the correctness desired by his masters. The immediate result was unpleasant; ^ the more enduring result was hatred ^ and continued ignorance of all mathematical science. Therefore, as an ac- . . countant, he blundered. And it was not until Tom was gone that he found out what a big blunder he had made. Never mind, when he returned there would be time to set him right. Six weeks after his departure there came the first alarming telegram in t? the papers. oi James Rolfe read it and changed h color. Then he reflected, and winked hi hard with both eyes. Some men turn fc red or pale or both; others fidget with ri their hands; others wriggle in their ai chairs: James Rolfe winked with both ti eyes. hi The next day and the next and the si day after there came more telegrams ci .of a similar character. > B ? "fcl. Jflh fc '"Harriet," said her husband, solemn- | r, "my cousin Tom must be dead, 'our days have passed and he has ot come back. The last fugitives who ave escaped hove returned to camp. ' lit he has not come in. Captain Mc-auchlin, of the 1155th, and Mr. Addijn, correspondent of the Daily Herald, re still missing. There is no doubt, very much fear, that Tom is dead." "Then -who'll have all the money, ames?" "There may be a -will," he replied, ally aware that there was none. "It ught to be mine, by rights. But there lay be a will." "What other relations has he?" "He has cousins by his mother's side, at the family all went to New Zealand >ng ago. By his father's side I am lie only first cousin." "Then?oh! Jem, won't you have it 11?" "We must distinguish. Harriet," he eplied, in a legal tone; "we must disnguish. I certainly ought to have ; all." "He>was engaged, you .told me." "Yes." James was reminded by the uestion or certain ihsl wurua mm <i romise. And again lie .winked -with oth eyes. "Yes, lie was engaged. 1 liall look into Lis papers, Harriet, and nd his will, if lie left one." His heart leaped up within him and is pulse quickened, because he knew ery well there was no will. The time was one of great tightness, he rent was overdue, and the landed was pressing. James Rolfe's pritite resources had well-nigh come to n end, and his practice was meager aough. It is not enough, as many ave discovered, to call yoirself a solicor, if your language, your manners, our appearance, and your general reptation fail to command the respect nd confidence which bring along the lient. James' appearance reminded le observer -of a swash-buckler in rivate modern dress. Now, rightly or rongly, people like their solicitors > exhibit a correct and sober tenor, [is.tastes led him to racing, and thereire -io billiards, the turf somehow beig the first cousin of the billiard ible. .Both are green, to begin with, e was well set up; a big, handsome jllow, with brown hair straight and iort, a smooth check, and n full inustche; the kind of a man who at forty ill have developed a figure and put 1 a double chin. His wife, whom he evated to that proud position from a all in Soho Bazaar, wap, like himself, ig-limbcd, full of figure, and comely ? look upon. There was no womi anywhere, Jem proudly felt, who >uld compare with her. In fact, when Harriet was well dressed and in a >od temper, she was a very handsome eature indeed. She would make a ilendid stage queen with her masses f brown hair rolled up under a gleamg gold coronet, a black or crimson ;lvet dress showing her white arms' id setting off her regular features id her ample rosy cheek, her broad iiite shoulders and her great blue j res. Rubens would have painted ir with enthusiasm. She must have >me from the country, for in London ich women are not grown. In other lings, besides comeliness, she was a :ting partner for James Rolfe; like m, she loved all the pomps and vanies of the world?every one?and esjcially the vanity of rich and beautiil raiment. Next, she loved the vaniof the theatre, which she regarded > the proper place to show a good ess. She also loved the vanity of lampagne, the festal drink; that of >od eating, and that of cheerful soety, where the men did what they eased and the ladies were not stuck ) and stiff. "HarrieV said her husband, a few lys later, "Tom is really dead. There in no longer be any doubt about it." "Is it really and truly certain?" "Everybody Las given him up." "Oh, Jem?and all this money! Is it ally ours? Oh!" Jem did not immediately reply, but i shut both eyes hard. Then he alked to the window, and looked out to the back garden of the villa. Then ; returned to the fire place and played ith the things on the mantel shelf, arriet waited and watched him anxusly. "Harriet," he said, I am his cousin id his solicitor. I have, therefore, ?en to his lodgings this afternoon id paid the rent, and carried away s books and papers and clothes and . erything." "Well?" "So far as I have gone?I have exnined all the papers, which did not ke long?I have found no will." "Then?oh, Jem"?Harriet sprung to ;r feet?"everything is ours!" f (To be continued.) Calves' Heads. "I was going about Cadillac Square ie other day," says a Detroit business an, "when I noticed a wagonload of lives' heads standing before one of ie markets. I began to wonder what ider the sun anybody could use lives' heads for, so I stepped into the arket and made inquiry. "Well, do you know, the?-e is really i industry in calves' head? Several en in town, and particularly one out ratiot avenue, make a business of lying them up. They prepare the ngue and brain for use as edibles, id as these are regarded as a delicacy 1 the best tables, they bring a conderable sum. Sometimes the whole ?ad, with the lower joint of the foregs and the feet are used by hotels ir table decorations. After the brain id tongue have been removed, the imaining portion is used for head leese or sausage. The bone is sold i be used as fertilizer. "My informant tohl me that about X) calves are killed every week in etroit, and each head brings about lirty and one-half cents, or a total in year of some $8000. That's a pretty itr sum to be realized on an article mt tho average person would regard 5 absolutely without value."?Detroit ews. TEyeB Drop Oar, Bat Sight Remains. A man in Berlin awoke recently in irrible pain and found Jbis left eye 1 the pillow. With the assistance of is family he put it back, but has to aid his head erect while on the street >r fear it will drop ?ut again. The ght eye fell out soon after the first . quired the falling trick, and now ie poor fellow fears that some time e will literally lose his eyes. His ght is as good as it ever was. The ise has been brought before the erlin Medical Association. , The largest grasshoppers are found In South America, where some specimens reach a length cf five inches, with a spread of wings of ten inches. The small Like of Sewalik, in Alaska, has regular tides, probably due to underground connection with the sea, and the water of the bottom is salt while that of the surface is fresii. The effcct of ultra violet rays of light on- some kinds of glass is strikingly shown at high altitudes. At a mountain station of the Canadian Pacific Railway?five thousand or six thousand feet high?green glass telephone insulators have changed to brilliant purple.' Medical authorities in France have discocered that a fairly good substitute for quinine, for uses in cases of marsh fever, *,r other malarial disease, can be concocted from the genitan. Peasants in Auvergne have long used a-sort of liquid made from that plant to combat such diseases. Many observations have convinced Mabel S. Nelson, a British psychologist, that men hear better than women, and that both men and women hear farther with the rieht than the left ear. Men are clearly superior In recognizing blue, and women are possibly superior in recognizing yellow. The consumption-prevention committees of New York and Washington are leading in a movement whose object is to discourage the sending of consump-, tives away to distant sections, such as 'Colorado or Arizona. These unfortunates are generally better off right at home, it is declared, than when sent away. None should go except those * that iave promise of definite work or that have at least $10 a week to main laiu LUCLU, UB UWCl n 10^ un. WW,.-.... tions do more harm than the cl^ate does good, the committee say. Give Your Lnngs ft Balh. Returning from the theatre via the Subway, Dr. Henry Russel], of the upper West Side, with his wife and a neighbor whom he had met on the train, -walked over to Riverside Drive at the physician's request, to "take a lung bath," as he expressed it. "Ouf lungs, quite as well as our bodies, need baths," said he. "Especially do they need a bath after we have sat for three or four hours in the impure and stale air of a theatre or a church. Then, if we could see them, our lungs would look as unsightly as the face of a coal heaver looks after a hard day's work. "Air, pure air, is tfce cleanser 01 ine lungs, and to bathe tliem the head should be thrown back, and through the nostrils pure, fresh air should be inhaled till the lungs are distended to their utmost limit. About twenty-five of the .deepest possible lungsfuls of pure air should be slowly Inhaled and exhaled. Then the pure air rushes like a torrent through all the dusty crannies and hidden, grimy corners of the lungs, and It carries out with it every impurity. "After a long sitting in a theatre's stale air, try a lung batb. You will be amazed to find how it will cheer and strengthen you."?New York Press. Boasettl'a Big Picture. When Rossetti was a student of art he one day happened to go with some-j fellow, stndents to the East End of London. There, at a wharfsida inn he saw an immense canvas on the barroom wall. After laughing at it for some time, and thus provoking the innkeeper's wrath, the following conversation took place: "Where did you get that picture?" "Oh, never mind, young man, where I got it." "What price do you set on it?" "More than you can afford!" "Indeed," said Rosetti. "Now, how much?" "Three thousand pounds," replied the innkeeper. . At this there was a loud burst of laughter from the young artists. "Do you know how much I would give you for your ?3000 picture?" "How much?" asked the innkeeper. "Three pounds," said Rossetti. "Done," said the innkeeper, prompt: ly; and to his amazement and amusement Mr. Rossetti found himself the ewner of the colossal daub.?London Tit-Bits. Make Salt From the Ocean. All the salt produced in California is obtained by evaporation from ocean water, there being out few salt springs or wells. Probably not less than twenty-five large salt plants are in operation around the lower arm of San Francisco Bay. It is estimated that the total output of -salt per year in Alameda County alone reaches 100.000 tons, while not less than 50,000 tons are annually produce*', in other parts of the State. The salt produced from sea water has no superior in world, in strength and purity. There is every grade produced, down to the very finest table salt, by certain refining processes. The salt output of California is shipped to the Northern States of the Pacific coast, British Columbia, Mexico, Central and South America, Hawaii, Japan, Russia, and even the Philippine Islands. His Last "Words. Th^ ripteetive was fond of enumera^ ing the good points in human nature. "At any. rate, -women are truthful," lie fiaid, solemnly. "I had that fact impressed on me recently, when a woman's husband had disappeared, and I was called in to try and find him. He had been missing three days when I arrived. Of course I first of all questioned Lis wife. The first thing I asked was: " 'What were the last words your husband said to you before he disappeared?' "She blushed deeply as she answered truthfully: " 'His very last words were: "Oh, for goodness' sake, shut up!'""?TitBits. By the verdict of a Brooklyn jury, a dash left out of a telegraphic message will cost the telegraph company $2200. v., 11 The Bond L?xr of Indiana. HI Rg|| SOMETIMES wonder if ? the men who made the law ch< J as it now is ever had the tir rp?? p? honor of being supervisor. 0' 1^)1 They say you must do all "J the work in forty days. I of' am working the road now. All my jn work is hauling gravel. I do my grad- su ing in the spring. Then the road bed to is well settled for the gravel. ICan I hn do the work for the money? No, I can- fr< not. Then I must tell you why. On co Monday we put four men in the pit to load the wagons, and warned out ^ ten teams to work on the roads. Some ^ of these teams were to make long co hauls, others shorter ones. In all we in should take out seventy-five loads of ar gravel, have four teams come to work, on the ones that were to make long hauls. m The result was we got out sixteen loads. Four men in the pit at $1.50 per jn day equals $6, and divided equals thir- ^ ty-seven and one-half cents a ioaci, ror m putting the gravel on the wagou... Who pc is to blame for this? It can not be the fo fault of the supervisor. On Tuesday a you have arranged for a like number of teams. Every one comes; the balance of those, that were to come on ^ Monday. Now what is the trouble? re Too many teams for the number pf pit ]a hands. You cannot send them home, of The law gives them the right to work Si the tax, for which you are to al- T< low them $3.75 for ten hours. You can 'e take the money and hire the same teams for $2.50 per day/ Mr. Cullen, my neighbor, has the county work and jjt is hauling from the same pit. Gan he gt get men? Yes, by the dozen. He bi has no 'phone, and I sometimes call on men or tell tbem wben he wants them 112 to work. Last night. I called a man; pr for him. I wanted to know of the man' what he was doing. He said not much Jo of anything. Then I said, can you pj work the roads to-morrow7 wen, ne to had not bought a farm, nor married a bj wife, and it was amusing to hear him D, tell why he could not work the roads, hi Oh! I said Mr. Cullen wants you to *? work on. the county roads. A sudden change came at that time. Yes! I promised Cullen to haul a few days gj for him. At the other end of the al 'phone he was saying "I can work for bi you at any time." tu Now to the men who made the Road S: law: "Why not give the supervisor m the same chance with the other fellow? A The railroad companies are paying men e3 in my road district $2.30 for ten hours th labor with man and team. They sell ot the work to the lowest bidder. "Come ki off and change the iaW." Or stay at rii home, and let some of the poor, ig- "Je norant supervisors make laws for a J1 while. They can do no worse, and 1 might do better.?T. M. I., in the In- as diana Farmer. he re ' a r\r urate'*1* ine i>omi "Out there in Kansas," where they tb have been very successful In keeping *e ordinary dirt roads In most excellent ^ shape by the use of a common, ordinary 1 drag, a speaker at one of their meet- w ings made the following suggestions as to how to use the drag: "Don't n< drive too fast. Don't walk; get on et the drag and ride. Don't wait for gi your neighbors to take hold; they may jj' be waiting for you. Don't bother about a tongue; it is much more trouble and expense, and is of little benefit. Don't j,. wait for the big grader to come and1 shape up your road; all you can do first Si will help to make the work of the grader permanent. Don't be particu- tl lar about material; with an axe and a T' two-inch auger almost any kind of a ? log can be made into a drag; tb'* one I used for several years is a box-elder. je" Don't try to drag with one piece; use b, two. One will scoop out the hollows "] in the road and deepen them. When tr two are used the one keeps the other up; and in a month or so the hollows tl will have filled, and become level .nnd ^ hard like the balance of the road."? * ccaij ttuucoo. ^ A National OblJrrfttlnn. #l] The proposition to have the Govern- tl ment aid the States, in the improve- w ment of highways, as embodied in the hi bills now before Congress, means only P to discharge a national obligation. The ir Government belongs to the people. In its control there is a community of in- ^ terest involved. The necessity for ?] Government aid to good roads is so a! plainly apparent that it is outside the domain of controversy. Bad roads in c< the United States cost the producing B( people $1,500,000 every twenty-four " hours. This drain is fearful; it is ( deadening the national life, and is a ^ national disgrace. Good roads develop good people. The wagon roads are the is highways along which civilization and li development move. The rural free de- d livery in our postal service is doing ^ much to awaken our Congressmen to the needs of the country roads; and gj the development of the touring automobile is bringing the urban popula- tl liattar lin/fors+nriri. tlifi llicrhWflV il needs of the nation. Every interest J of our people demands good roads, and tl we can only have them through a great. P national movement, the Government of p the United States leading the way.? Collier's. * a Town# Mode While Yon Walt, jjf In the clearings the log house is a m rarity, because the portable sawmill r goes along -with the timberman and ty slits the log into framing and boards 1b for the dwelling while you wait. And Vi the people are even in touch with the world. If they have no time to plant *a telephone poles, they nail the insulator to the itrees and run the wire through the woods. In the old days of Hie "Plains West," the town was born when the saloon, the smithshop ?.?.* enrnor isinre threw oDen their I? doors. Iu tills Northwest the conimunity springs into existence with every- fe thing ready for the daily life of its in- cjj habitants. Not only are the stores prepared for trade, but the school- be House is awaiting the children, the at church iuvites to Sunday worship and e8 it is strange if the town newspaper does not come off the press to its readers within a month or so after the ^ birth o- the future city.?D. H. Brock, iu "The Americanism of the Latft ^ West." in the Outing Magazine. - EE. SUNDAY SCHOOL TERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR APRIL B. bject: Jenn? and the Snbbatb, M^tt. xll? 1-14? Gulden Text, Kxod. xx., 8 ?Memory Versea, T> 8 ? Topic t The Lord's Day. 1. An act of necessity performed on e Sabbath (vs. 1-8). 1. "At that oe." It must have been in early suiu5r during. the harvest season, 'hrough the corn." To an American ader the word corn suggests the idea Indian corn or maize; but the word the text has reference to grain, ch as wheat, rye or barley. "Began pluck.", Tliey rubbed it in their .nds (Luke 6:1) to separate the grain Dm the chaff. This was allowable acrding to the law (Deut. 23:25). 2. 'harisees saw it." The Pharisees, bo were watching for an opportunity catch him, object to the disciples >ing this on the Sabbath day. They ireidered the plucking and rubbing the hand sufficiently near to reaping id threshing to constitute them secidary violations of the fourth comandment. "Not lawful." The Pharies extended their Sabbath regulars beyofid what Moses commanded amaI/I +VIA T>Aco5K{HftT nf Vi UCl iu ti V U1U Ilic puooiuiuij v* ansgressiOD. The worthless cliildishiss of the Sabbath rules Christ op>sed may be judged from its being rbldden to go out with a needle or pen when Friday was closing, as one ight forget to lay them aside before e Sabbath began. Thirty-nine classes work were forbidden, and each of ese had endless subdivisions. These gulations tended to make void the w, and many of them were in direct jposition to the real design of the ibbath. 3. "Have ye not read." > vindicate His disciples Christ rerred the Pharisees to a similar case corded in their own Scriptures and. ith which they should have been miliar. See 1 Sam. 21:1-8. "An ingered." Our Lord here is not ariin? for an excuse to break the law, it for its true construction. 4. "The house of God." The taber-' tele. "Did eat/' AhimeJech, the 'lest at Nod, gave David and nis mpanlons five .loaves' of the sbewead. Tbe law provided that twelve aves of bread should be put in two lea upon the table in the sanctuary, remp.in a week end then to be eaten r the priests only (Lev. 24:5-9). Now avid, fleeing from Saul, weary and ingry, had eaten this bread contrary the letter of the law. Christ's argyent was that if David could do this itbont blame it must be right for the sciples to satisfy their hunger on the lbbath day. "Shewbread." Literly bread of setting forth?that is, ead that was set forth in the sancary (Lev. 24:6-8). 5. "Profane the ibbath." Jesus continued His arguent by showing that even the law ider certain circumstances provided r the doing of that which had been ;pressly forbidden by the law. On p Siihhnlh rtflvs as wpII as on the ber'days'the priests were engaged In lling, preparing and burning the sacBces* and in performing the whole niple service. It was one of the saygs of the rabbins that there was no ibbath keeping in the temple. 6. "Greater tuan the temple." Ini much as the one who builded the >use is greater than the house. Christ fers there to His own authority and >wer. The law-giver is greater than e law. Christ was greater than the mple. 7. "If ye had known." A lowledge of the true meaning of od's word will prevent rash judgent. Jesus here charges His critics itli ignorance of their own prophets. 8. Lord even of the sabbath." Jesus )w affirms Himself grer.ter than the atute law of Moses; nay, He is eater than the Sabbath law estab- J shed by God at the creation. Thus )es He maintain Himself to be *he Carnr.^ Legislator of the world. Afr the resurrection of Christ the Jewii Sabbath wls auolished, and "the ord's day" (Hevl 7:10). or Christian ibbatb, was given us in its stead. II. An act of mercy performed on te SabDath (vs. 9-13). 10. "Hand Ithered." A case of paralysis. Such leases were considered incurable, uke say : it was bis right hand. They asked Him." From Luke we arn that they bad been watching Him ?fore they asked this question. Slight accuse." Might bring Him to ial for breaking the Sabbath. 11. "He said." Luke sayi He knew leir thought.. Jesus proceeded to anver them by drawing an argument 'om their own conduct "It it fall," :c. This was a self-evident pfoposion. Deeds of mercy and humanity Id not infringe on the Sabbath day. Pit." Cisterns dug in the earth for le purpose of holding water, into hich animals often fell. 12. "A man etter than a sheep." Christ always uts an enormous value on man. A ian is of'infinltely more consequence nd value than a brute. If tbey would low an act of kinduess to a sheep, ould they not show mercy to a man? It is lawful." This was universally llowed by the Jews themselves. 13. "Stretch forth." A remarkable Dmmand. The man might have reaped that his hand was withered and lat he could not obey, but being comlanded it was his duty to make the [Tort; he did so and was healed. Faith isregards apparent impossibilities here there is a command and promle of God. "Restored whole." A ttle before this Christ had claimed ivine authority; He now proves that [e possesses it. These two cases dejrmined what may be done on the abbatb. The one was a case of neces ity, the other of mercy. 14. "Held a council." Mark says ley called in the J- erodians who were j favor of the Roman dominion over udea. Thus did these sticklers for je law of Moses unite with its bold, olitical subverters in order to aocoinlish their designs against Jesus. Hit One Thousandth Fnneral. When Rev. Dr. Thomas E. Vassar, retired Baptist clergyman, of Eliza!tb, N. J., preached the funeral seron ovei the remains of Mrs. Jane unyon, who died at the age of nine -three, he had officiated at his one ousandth funeral service. If Dr. issar had preached an average of one ineral sermon a week it would have ken nineteen years and three months complete the number which he has tained. An JZzK Within an Egff. An egg within an egg was brought Smith Center. Mo., the other day by L. Bnswell, a farmer. The outside :g measured eight inches in circumrence the long way and seven in,es the other way. inside of this us another perfect egg, shell and all ling separated from the big egg by lout a half inch of the white of the g. Farmer Makes Cheap Ice. ice at thirty cents a ton has been ide in small tanks for some days W. M. Eaton, a farmer living near nerson, Iowa. . ============= TmCtoHTS_J^^TOti TEACH ME FATHER: Teach me, Father, how to g< Softly as the grasses grow; Hush my soul to meet the .?hock Of the wild world as a rock; But my spirit, propt with power, 0 Make as simole as a flower; Let the dry heart fill its cup, * Like a poppy looking up; ^ Let Life lightly wear her crown, Like the poppy looking down, When it? heart is fiiled with dew. And its life begins anew. Teach me. Father, how^o be Kind and patient as a tree; Joyfully the crickets croon Under shady oak at noon; Beetle, on his mission bent, Tarries in that cooling tent; Let me, also, cheer a spot. Hidden field or garden grot? Place where passing souls can rest On the way and be their best. ?Edwin Markham. . Born From Above. Is regeneration merely a development of the spiritual life from a gern> I of good which is found In the heart of ararv mnn? if thlfl were ro conver sion would be needless and the newt birth a myth. Certain reUgjous teaeh- ' ers appear to be intent on reducing re* llgion to a system of cold psychology and explaining all spiritual life and experience by a scientific process. A' professorship of religious experience has been established in one of oar American colleges, and much is said ' to-day about tbe "Psychology of the New Birth." Can the phenomena of the spiritual life be explained by psychological processes? According to the Bible the salvation of the soul from sin is a supernatural work and not a natural development; "That which is born of the flesh' is flesh, and that which is born of theSpirit is spirit." Children are taught tliat there aIfy three kingdoms of nature: the mineral*-the animal and the vegetable. We have all heard of the boy who when asked to what kingdom a certain nobleman belonged answered, "TTbe kingdom of God." Was* he not rigm? Man was created m rne linnne auu Biter the likeness of Cod, ftqd'beteDgsifotie kingdom of God. But be has:Wst \ bis citizenship In the kingdom of God by sin. How shall be be restored? By natnral development? Was a mineral ever transformed into a vegetable or a vegetable into an animal by evolution? Ministers are often severely criticised by scientific men because ot their guesses and hypotheses, and we are asked for facts. So we ask tiieman of science, not for theories, not for guesses, not for hypotheses, but for facts. Is there one fact iu the universe illustrating the hypothesis that the boundary lines between the great kingdoms of nature linve been crossed? * If thev have not been crossed by natural development, bow shall men. who is of the earth, earthy, enter into the kingdom of God? A man may be a soiendid specimen of a worldly man without any spirit- f I ual life at all. He may have a robust 1 physical frame, a girnt intellect thoi^ j ought- cultivated, he may possess e I good moral character, and not be spto I itual. There are many excellent peo pie in every community who havt made much of themselves in every rfr soect except spiritually, and a* to their spiritual nature they are dea& There is a better life, a higher life, it life which is life indeed. It is tb? life of God in the soul of man. "H? tbat hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son hath not life."?Chri* tian Advocate. j ' ; . A Villon of Gtrtrr. 1 A jonne Scotch girl, who Was taken HI in this country, knowing that sh must die. begged to be taken back to her native land. On tbe homeward voyage she kept repenting, "Oh. for a glimpse o' the hills o1 Scotland!" before the voyage was half over it evident to those who were caring foi her tbat she could not live to see t)er 4 native land. One evening, just at the suusetting, they brought her on deck. The west was all aglow with glory, and for a few minutes she seemed to enjoy th? scene. Some one said to her: "Is If not beautiful?" She answered. "Yeff, but I'd rather see tbe hills o' Scotland.* For n little while she closed her ?.ve* and then opening them again, and wit? a look of unsneakable gladness on bet face, she exclaimed, "I see thenTnooj and aye they're bonnle." Then, with ? snmrised look, she added: "I nevc< kenned before that it was the bills ofr Scoi!sr;S where the prophet saw tW * horseman and the chariots, but I . see them all, and we are almost there.^ Then, closing her eyes, she was sooif within the veil. Those beside her knew that it was not the hills of Scotland,but the hills of glory that she saw. Perhaps there are some fair hills to? ward which you are now looking, apd for which you are now longing, and you may be thinking that life will be incomplete unless you reach theaa< What will it matter if, while you arq eagerly looking, there shall burst upo$/ I your vision the King's country, and the j King Himself comes forth to meet yoq and tqke you into that life where for* * ever you shall walk with Him in white because you are found worthy.? Watchman. I Spiritual LIte* He who guides will guard. I defy the world to steal a lamb out of Christ's flock unmissed.?Alexander Peden. Sunday is the golden clasp that binds I toeether the volume of the week-.? j% Longfellow. 1 The Bible is a window in this prison of hope through which we look into eternity.?Dwight. Christianity is intensely practical. She has no trait more striking than her common sense.?Buxton. .. t The only way to be an optimist is to put the living God on the throne of the . universal with power and responsible < ity to run the world. Ir. spite of evil and wrong the eternal purpose of God moves on to fruition.?V. L. Patton. j The essential characteristic of the eternal life in the soul is the love oC truth and good, and thus of God, wha is the true and the good, and of Christ,, in whom God is manifest. This is the life of the angels, which inspires them in their ministries. It is the heavejttfy;\ tif<? va Odd Oath For Chief Justice. \ Samuel D. Weakley, of Montgomery, Ala., took tlie oath of office as Chief Justice of the Suprema Court of Alabama. In his oath he avers that he has never engaged in a duel or carried a challenge nor will he do so as long as he retains the office. Old Turtle Die*. About the time the Galspagoe Islands were discovered a young turtle was born there. He died the other day: in the Zool' gical Gardena, London, Eng. He was at least 350 years oW* ,