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r . m r I ^PwWN. f fev /?> > V ^ By WALTER MttfOf MtM 1 1 CHAPTER IV. ,5 T? . Continued. 1 f "Don't be in a hurry. There may he. j a will. The property can only be ours t if there is no will, because Tom r 'would certainly have given it to that f girl." T Harriet sunk back in her chair. j "I thought," her husband continued, T 'before he went away , that there !H7AiiM ho -nr\ mnnmr nftor fill " ?- ? J' - 1 "No money? Why? With all your uncle's fortune!" "Because it seemed at one time as If there were liabilities that would swallow up all. Why should he make a. will when he had nothing to leave? r SThere was not even an insurance; there 4s next to nothing in the bank; there ore his books, but -what are they tworth?" "No "will, you think, Tom? Then " "No 'will, I am nearly sure. But for the present we cannot be absolutely certaiu." "But then he may not be dead, after fe mil ? . "For ray own part, I have been cer- j i tain frorp the beginning lliat lie is s dead. The party were surrounded and attacked. A few escaped. When the place was visited again the other day there was nothing but the skeletons left. I have no doubt at all that he is killed." "Oh!" It was a long and rapturous Interjection. "Are you sure. Jem? Oh! And no will! Can no one take the property away from us?" "There is no will, Harriet. It will be all mine." He spoke with an authority which commanded faltb. "How much is it, Jem? Oh, tell me flow much it is." "TliWc o hnnca in Rnsspll SdiinrP. XJUC1C O U 4IVUOV 1" n ? % " beautifully furnished, where my uncle lived." ? , "Oh! but there's more than a house." t 1 ''There is property of all binds?free- j ' . (hold houses, lands, investments?which 1 come to, we'll say, fifteen hundred a 1 j year, I dare say. Harriet, we'll go at I once and live in Russell Square." ? | , "We will. Jem." c ? "We'ii ^ve up this measly little t .Villa." "" i "We will?oh! we will; and Jem? t Wear Jem?promise me you won't play ducks'and drakes with this money as f you did with your own." r "No, my dear, I will not. I've done t iwith betting, don't you fear. It's all t over, Harriet. And I say, old girl, t iwe've had our little tiffs about the a 5 T' ??? ? Vionn hnv/1 nn "5 | UlUliey, VUU i wnu nc ?c uu>u j ; once or twice." I "Once or twice only? It seems to \ me that it's been nothing but a stand- ^ I np fight ever since we got married, t ( Hardly a day but I wished myself t I * fcack at my stall in Soho Bazaar; Once f I ' or twice! And you led me to believe c I that you were so well off." g i "Well, Harriet, I was in love, yon c I know. But that's all over, and what I I | twanted to say was that it's all to be I forgotten now, just as we shall sink t jj the stall when we go into society and o I take our proper place." t ' i "Poor Tom Addison!" she sighed. "I e I Shall put on mourning for six months? r I not crape, of course, because I hate it? 1j E lint half-mourninsr for six months. | i Half-mourning is always becoming. S Poor Tom Addison! And I shall al- F ;ways be sorry that I never saw him. I t could have grieved for him so much i1 more truly if I had ever known him." t MOh! never mind that," said her lius- t band, brutally. "Sit down and enjoy n a good cry over him, just as if you e Siad known him. You'd like him back a again, wouldn't you? Nothing we ^ should either of us like better." a "Don't, Jem. Of course, it makes a (wonderful difference to us. But we may luve our feelings, and there's a proper way of talking about things." "Feel away," Jem grinned, "and talk * as much as you like, but don't talk f !him back again. Yes, you can talk, I * know, as well as the tinker who talked T ?ff the donkey's hind leg." "Then there's that poor dear girl who was engaged to him. What's become of her? I wish I'd known her, too. 1 . <?uld have called upon her and condoled with her In black silk." 1 ' out? ID a gwciiicoo auuic^uiic, x ^ believe. It's rough on her, isn't it? I hope she'll get another lover." "Lovers are not to be had for the asking, Jem. There's not enough to go round, as everybody knows, and very lew girls get more than one chance; unless, of course, they are more than commonly attractive." She smikd, feeling herself to be one of the exceptions. This conversation makes the residence of Mr. and Mrs. James Rolfe in Russell Square intelligible. It also explains why Mr. James Rolfe sat levery day in his uncle's office in New C??..r T inAAln Tnn V.i? V\n oquair, uiutvui niij, juia unxi name ur i ing put up instead of his uncle's, and c there carried on his business. When James Rolfe was an articled clerk there came to the office once a . quarter, to receive on each occasion ] the sum of seventy-five pounds, in five- t pound notes, a gentleman named Cap- ^ tfain Willougliby. He was an elderly ( man of distinguished appearance and ( excellent manners. The senior clerk ( received him, gave him his money, and . took his receipt. The -whole business j did not take more than five minutes. 1 On the last quarter day of March, commonly called lady day, Captain Wil- j loughby had not called for his money. ] James was in no hurry to find out j iwhat had become of this man and who . rwere his heirs. Indeed, he was at first ( fully occupied mastering the details ; of a complicated estate, and it must be < ?wned that he was not good at master- i ing details. Presently, things bccoin- < ing a little clearer, he began to inquire j further into this matter, and he dis- i -covered several curious and interest- i ing things, namely, first, that no ines- ] cage or intelligence had come to the < toffice concerning Captain Willoughby; l secondly, that no person had sent in ] .v. . 'nivTfflinr 111%s rJU BESANT.sff < to / 1 "T iny claim as Loir; thirdly, that no one mil inquired after the trust; and ourtlily, that Captain Willoughby's adlress was unknown. It was strange .hat if the man was dead his heirs did lot come forward. The mystery of his trust began to worry him. Where vere Captain Willoughby's heirs? Was ie really dead? If so, why had no lews been sent to the office? "The trust money," he said, presentng the case to himself, "was given to ny uncle. Here is Miss Willoughby's etter in the safe. 'Give my nephew hree hundred a year.' Aud here is the lecd which my uncle drew up to se;ure the carrying out of the trust. Che nephew did marry, there's my mcle's note at the back of the letter. 3e married an actress and she died, rlad he any children? I don't know, f he had, let them come and take ntrir muiivy. .Lin'y must kuuw wuwc heir father came for his. If there tre 110 children, the money reverts to kliss Wiiloughby's heirs. Well, let hem come and claim it. There is lothing to prove the trust but this one etter and the deed. They may have t copy, but it isn't likely, or I should lave heard of it by this time. Besides, Urs. Willoughby died seven years ago; ler will has long since been proved md her money paid over by my uncle, ler executor, to her heirs, and not a vord said about the trust in her iviU." You now begin to understand what t was that James Rolfe did. First. ie constituted himself sole heir. If mything, he said, should be left after ;he trust was paid, it could be divid;d among all the cousiiU if they came :o claim it. Until they should claim iieir share he would continue to take ind enjoy the whole. JNext, lie saia notmng to ms wne ibout the trust; he did not endeavor o find out if Captain Willoughby left tny children, nor did he acquaint the leirs of Miss Willoughby with the 'acts. As for his promise as Tegards Kathtrine, he put that away in a corner >f his brain where it was not likely o*di?turb him. And he told his wife lothing of that promise, any more han of the trust money. Conscience sometimes makes dreadul ghosts to appear in the dead of light and whisper terrifying things in he ears of some solicitors who do hese things. In James Rolfe's case here were no ghosts at all. Conscience icqu'iesced. He slept the sleep of the ust and righteous. No one knew about the trust; there vas. to be sure, the letter in the safe vith the deed, but the key of his safe was in his pocket. No one :new about the trust, or about his iromise as regards Katharine?ridicules, to think that be was going to ;lve that girl bis uncle's estate! No >ne knew except Tom Addison and limself, and Tom was dead. If be had told Harriet the exact ruth she might perhaps have insisted n the restitution of the trust money o Miss "Willoughby's heirs and she night have proposed a compromise as egards Katharine. On the other land, she might have acquiesced in ler husband's proceedings, and even ;iven bim assistance and a moral suplort. Who knows? But he did not ell ber, and she continued happy in ler great house, for the first time in ler life free from worry; now ber tusband was rich there would be no core trouble. Of course, he was honst. Honest? The doubt could not rise. A gentleman is always honest; vho ever heard of a gentleman being i rogue and a robber of orphans? CHAPTER V. Katharine. Tom was dead. The worst ir.isforune that could happen to any girl had alien upon Katharine. She had lost ler lover. In modern warfare the var correspondent runs more risks han the warrior. The latter only akes his turn in the fighting; the ormer must be always in the front; he combatants are looked after and :ept in safety; they are like the pawns if a chess board, moved from cover o cover; the correspondent has to find lis own cover. The earlier war correipondent had to keep in the rear with he camp followers and the commissariat; he picked up what information le could gather, an object of much iuspicion and some contempt. He now narches with the van, goes out with he forlorn hope, sits down in the hick of the fight with his note book ina lanes ten mens snare 01 iue duiets. Consequently be sometimes gets )icked off. The hope that the two missing Engisbmen might return was never strong md grew daily more faint, until it inally vanished quite. They were lead. There could be no longer any loubt. * ??***. The governess who knows nothing ind is only amiable and kind to the children, with a leaning in the diree:iou of religion, is rapidly dying out; he march of civilization tramples upm her. The high schools and the Cambridge colleges are making her ?xistence impossible. Therefore Katharine was happy in having obtained a jost as governess in the simple and jnpretending family of the Emptages. They lived in Doughty street, where they occupied the lower part of the aouse?that part which commands the iitclien. There were six children, all ;irls; the younirest was six and the jldest fifteen, and they were all Katharine's pupils. The bread winner was i olerk in the city; lie had, I do really aelieve, all the virtues of his profession; not one or two, but all; they ire too many to enumerate; suffice it to say that he wrote like copper plate, aid kept books with accuracy; was as punctual as the clock; never wanted my amusement; did not smoke tobacco; drank a half pint of beer with [lis dinner and another with his su? per; walked into the city and ou.t v" again?he had walked in and out for w thirty years, being now five and forty, u and liis salary now reached the very handsome figures of three hundred, at which point it would remain. Iiis father was a clerk before him; liis brothers and uncles and cousins and nephews were clerks; his wife was the daughter of a clerk; he was steeped in clerkery. In appearance he was 3 neat, clean, small and spare, with a y modest whisker of black hair; 2ie had( 51 ventured to become as bald in front ^ as if he were a partner; he believed that he had attained to a really lofty elevation on the social ladder; certainly there were fewer above than below him; and he considered his career a remarkable example of what may be effected by ability backed by 13 industry and honesty. His wife was small and neat, like & him, but she looked much more worn, because to keep six children neat and ^ respectable is work of an even more responsible character than that of a clerk in a city house. I spppose there was nowhere a harder worked woman, 11 and, fortunately for her governess, s there was nowhere a kinder-hearted s woman. 11 L e CHArTER VI. t Dittmeu Bock. li There is not much society for fam- u ilies such as this of Doughty Square; friends and relations of course there are; but there is little hospitality, and one can not expect much visiting v when the Indies of the household are * occupied all day long in keeping the a family neat and respectable to out- s ward show. The theater, with an or- r der to the upper circle, i.% the most c desired form of female recreation, d Nevertheless, the Emptagcs had one * regular and even constant visitor. He v came every morning and smoked a v cigar?of Hamburg manufacture?and 6 conversed with Mr. Emptage and the ^ ladies. He came at first with the ? view of improving his English by con- " . sversation, but, it must be confessed. v he novr came chiefly for the purpose ef s conversing with Katharine. He was a young German named Dittmer Bock. He conducted correspondence for the house, which also em- ^ ployed Mr. Emptage, in many foreign languages; he wrote letters and took down instructions in shorthand; ho drew forty pounds a year; ho lived j upon that salary, and he" presented the appearance of one who lived upon four times that salary. The young Germans who come to London in the ^ day of small things practice the small ^ economies; they share bed-rooms; they know where to go for meals of a sat- _ isfying kind, large in bulk to satisfy the Teutonic hunger, but cheap. Eigh- . teen pence a day is considered by some of the younger adventurers as an ample allowance for food; for everything not absolutely necessary a German who means to rise must wait. Dittmer was a sturdy, well-set-up ^ young fellow, actually without spec-. tacles. He had the blue eyes and the ' fair hair of his country; his manners were gentle; he firmly believed in the t /vf CI ormn r?c nvpr triiuimuua ou^cnuiuj v*. v.?. the rest of mankind. He loved dnncing, though he got none; he could sing, playing his own accompaniments, the folk songs of -which the good German n never tires; he sung them -with great 1 feeling, and in the evening when the ? largest lamp was lighted?the gas lamp ?and the children, with Mrs. Emptage and Katharine, sat at the table Saw- jj ing, and Mr. Emptage sat by the fire- ? side, his legs crossed with an even- 11 ing paper, enjoying the leisure of a , ^ gentleman who has put away care for 61 the day, it was pretty to see Dittmer ? spreading his fingers over the keys 15 and to listen while he warbled one r< after the other the ditties of the father, land. n It became the custom with the young " man when Katharine stayed until nine t( ?no one could stay later because that ? was the time for the family supper? to walk home with her as far as the door of Harlcy House. . 81 (To be continued.) s' e a Too Bendy to Suspect. There is a moral to the tale of the ^ Chicago woman who discovered an alarming letter in her husband's pocket and planned a divorce based p upon its contents. It turned out that 0 the letter was received through the B "postoffice" at a church social, and was doubtless written as a joke by one of the husband's fool friends. There is no evidence that this woman's life was unhappy. Nor is there any evidence that her husband gave her any cause to be miserable. The point is that her peace would have been undisturbed if she had not "gone through" her husband's pockets. Why should people who are getting along all right look for trouble??Kansas City Star. * I Adroit KascalH. j Some of the Chinamen of the Phil- s ippines are adroit rascals. One of c their '.ricks is in removing whisky j from a bottle and substituting vinegar c without breaking the seal. They do r this by soaking off the label and drill- e ing a tiny hole in the side of the bottle. They then take out the whisky t] and substitute a liquid similar in color, Oil up the hole and cover it with the j. label. p A Horrible Death. E A revolting form of puuisbment is ^ still practiced in Afghanistan. At the top of the Lataband Pass there was o recently discovered, by a party of Eng- f lish tourists, an iron cage containing n a shriveled human body. The cage s was suspended from a pole. The mum. o my was that of a thief who had been v imprisoned, and allowed to die of d thirst and hunger in this iron cage. E Up to-Dato I.earnlns;. 0 The phonograph has been turned to f account in the teaching of foreign lan- * guajres. In aome English schools h French is now raught in this way. f The machine delivers suitable speci- * mens of French oratory, poetry and T snnirs while the children listen and ac- s quire tbe accent. t s A I'.Ir Sounder. One invention sometimes makes an- c other necessary. A gramophone which ^ can be beard a distance of three miles s is tbe latest. Now, what is needed >s ? a sound deadener with a three-mile * range, to smother tbe noise of tbe e graiuophoue. a a t household r '. 1lL patters ' Bpd-Maklne Made Eauy. Put two loops made of strong tape r cloth, through which you- can insert our hand, on each side of a mattress, nd see how much more easily it can ( 'C lifted or turned. f c Sash Curtain*. I Here's a chance for work. ( The material should be fine muslin. < The edges should all be buttonholed. Soft, richly embroidered dots are , eautiful. j Spray designs are best liked by j ome. ] The full length is much handsomer 1 ban the half.?Philadelphia Record. < i Care of Globes and Chtinney*. Globes and chimneys crack readily u cold weather. The sudden expan-< , ion in heating is more than they can tand. To toughen them It is only < lecessary to boil tiiem ror a coupie or ] lours, after putting them in cold, salt- i d water in a kettle having a false bot- ' om. In lighting gas jets or lamps the ight should be turned low, then grad- j lally higher. " . 1 "Why FlniinnU Shrink. Flannels or any articles made of ; pool are entirely different in their ul- i imate fibers from linen or cotton or < ny vegetable fabric. The fibers are ^ piral in form, and heat ;ind cold and 1 ubbing make them draw up, while ertain strong alkalies seem to pro- j uce the 6ame effect. It is, there- , ore, nccessary that flannels should be j cashed in water of even temperature, j rrung dry and rubbed as little as posible. Rub when nejessary with the i ands, and not on a board. Do not put 1 annels outdoors to freeze in winter, ! ut hang them before the fire or in 8 farm room to dry as quickly as pos- > * ible, and they will not shrink. Oat of tbe Plck-Up Workbasket. Crocheted sachets are dainty and asy to make at oCd times. White lus? er Crochet cotton is used and the most imply stitch is satisfactory. They may be of any size or shape, ound, square, oblong or heart shaped, 'hey are made in \wo parts; the edge i finished with a border in a fancy titch, &nd after a layer of cotton, on rhich sachet powder has been sprinled, h^s been put in, they are threaded jgether with narrow vllibtn. A useful safety pin holder may be iade of odds and ends, the odds conisting of one large and three small rasa rings, the ends of three six-inch ieces cf fancy ribbon one inch wide. . Cover the rings with crochet silk in' buttonhole stitch, using d color to* latch . ?e ribbon. Fasten one end of ach of the three pieces of ribbon to tie large ring, fording the other ends < > form a point and attaching a small i Lng to each. The safety pins are attached to the mall rings, one holding large, another , ledium and the third small pins in t oth black and white. I For the traveler a washrag case is i lade of a piece of brown linen twelve J iches long by -six wide. Oiled silk is 1 sed as a lining and the edges are ^ ound with tape in any color desired. One end is turned up to the depth f four inches and the sides stitched 1 rmly together. The remaining four ^ iches form tie flap, which is fastened 4 rlth a button and loop. A small ? guare of Turkish toweling, daintily 5 vercast with cotton to match the 4 raid, is placed in the pocket, which is -1 eady for use. 3 Shadow embroidery is so quickly nd easily made that it is useful pick- ! p work and no end of dainty pillow jps and work bags and other articles side from clothes are decorated with Some of the prettiest hags on which hadow embroidery is used are made of crim, the open mesh of the material iving the very prettiest effects. With piece of scrim and some colored ?ilk nd ribbon the daintiest sort of work ags may be made at small expense. For the little guiinpes worn by chllren with their summer clothes it is articularly satisfactory. The work f beautifying such little garments is implified with the best results. \Ep IGMfMr Sweetbread:s \\^th Scrambled Eggs? j 'arooil ana cui up one sweeiuieau. teat four eggs, add one-fourth tea- i poonful 6alt, a dash of pepper, lialf a upful of milk and the sweetbread, ut two tablespoonfuls butter iu a hof hafing dish and add the mixture, stiring uutil it is of a creamy consist- ! ncy. Macaroni and Eggs?Cook macaroni ntil tender and place in a small bakag dish. Beat together two eggs and alf a cupful of milk, add salt and epper and pour over the macaroni. 5ake in the oven until the top is nicely rowned. Eggless Feather Cake?One cupful f sugar creamed with two tablespoonuls of melted butter, one cupful oi | ailk with a tablespoonful of corn- ; tareh dissolved in it, a little less than ' ne and one-fourth cupfuls of flour, rtth two teaspoonfuls of baking pow !er. Use judgment in regard to flour, i Oatmeal Gems?One cupful of oat- ' neal soaked over night in one cupful * f water. In the morning add one cup* ^ ul of sour milk, one cupful of flour, j hree-quarters tablespoonful of soda, r alf tablespoonfnl salt, one tablespoon- j ul of melted butter, two tablespoon- ; uls of sugar. Mix and bake in hot, fell-buttered gem pans. One cup of weet milk and one teaspoonful of making powder can be used instead of I our urns anu soun. Clierry Pudding?Mix together two J upfuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of j tailing powder, two tablespoonfuls of ugtr and milk enough for a soft lough. Butter teacups and drop in a ittle dough, some cherries, then dough, j nough to half fill the cups. Steam for , .n hour. Serve with any kiiid of , auce or sweetened cream. - Q - ; ' fflE SUNDAY SCHOOL J NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS S FOR APRIL 15. I Subject: Jettna' Power Over Ulseaoe ana Death, Luke Til., 1-17?Golden Text John xl., 25?Memory Verge*. 14, 15? Topic: A Great Faith and Helper. I. The centurion asks aid of Christ g vs. 1-5). 3. "Ended?sayings." The f wyings recorded in the preceding ^ iliapter and in the sermon just K jreached. "In the audience." What f, Christ said He spoke publicly. In se- e ret He said nothing (John 18:20). S( 'Into Capernaum." Where most of j, 31s mighty deeds -were performed. 6 fet His miracles failed to produce re- p jentance (Matt. 11:23). 2. "Centur- B eA?TTnn<- ? A /?flnfnrinn trnc ii x vu a ocivaui. ^ v.vuiu??vu .. ^ Roman officer, ranking with our cap:ain, who had charge of 100 men. This g ienturion, though a Gentile, was fa- r forable to tbe Jews, religiously in- 0 Mined, generous and kind. The ser- a rant was probably a slave. d 3. "Heard of Jesus." Of His. ar- a rival at Capernaum. He must have snown of His miracles before this. n 'Sent?elders." The leading men?the magistrates of Capernaum. "Beseech- B ing Him." Earnestly entreating Him. rhese elders of the Jews must have e been strongly attached to Ue cen- t turion. "Would come." They evident- ij ly thought It would be proper for Him \ o go to the house, even though the cen- u turion was a Gentile. 4. "Came to c Tesus." Distress drives to Jesus, and e Testis comes to those in distress. "In- i stantly." That is, earnestly and with- $ )ut a moment's delay. "He was worthy." This is what the elders said of r the centurion. s 5. "Loveth our nation." He was j probably a proselyte of the gate?that \ s, one of those who embraced Judaism t Dn the whole, but without becoming a i: proselyte of righteousness by accept- 'J ng circumcision. d II. The centurion's opinion of him- i self (vs. 6-S). 6. "Jesus went." He t tvas glad to go with them. He Is the Savior of the Gentiles as well as the a lews. "Sent friends." This was the t second deputation, and it is quite p likely that the centurion also came s himself. See Matt. ?:5-8. "Trouble b lot thyself." If he had known Jesus r petter he would have known that Jesus a tvas anxious to help him. "Not wor- o thy." He was only a Gentile and c thus outside of the favored nation. He regarded Jesus as a suDerior being. 7. 1 'To come unto Thee." He felt as o though he could not approach into the $ presence of one so great and so holy, d 'But ?ay in ~ word." He had prob iDiy nearci a iew monms ueiure iuia v 10w Christ had healed the nobleman's 3on when at r. distance from him [John 4:46-54). 8. "Set under authority." That is, under the authority of c >thers. He is confident that Jesus j ;an as easily send an angel to cure F this .servant of his, as he can send a .t joldier on aa errand. i III. The centurion's faith rewarded . i [vs. 9. 10). v a 9. "Marvelled at him." Tbe only t jther time when-Jesus is said to have ' I been astonished is in Mark G:6, when e He marvelled because of unbelief. Dhrist was not ignorant of the centur- 1 ion's faith, He knew all about that <3 before a word had been spoken; but ? He expressed- His admiration with a "t eiew to make it more conspicuous, n 'So great faith." Faith is that soul I jlement which enables us, to grasp a God.. It is the medium through which I &*e receive the blessings of the divine I life. "In Israel." After the return < from the captivity this term was given ! * to all Jews. 10. "Servant whole." rhe healing took place at a distance ? from Christ. He could heal by a word c ae tttoH ne hr n tmmh .X IV. The widow's son raised from the dead (vs. 11-17). 11. "The day after." "Soon afterwards."?R. V. 'Much people." Jesus was now reaching the height of His popularity. 12. "The gate." Nearly all towns and villages were surrounded by walls as a |' protection. "Carried out." With the exception of kings, all burials were Dutside the city. "Much people." Here was a large company of mournars. Nain is approached by a narrow, rocky path; there was only one en trance to the city; the two processions met on the western slope of the hillside. 13. "Had compassion." He did not wait for her to ask for help, for probably she did not know Him. Her needs and sorrows were her silent prayers. The fact that this youth was "the only son of his mother," and that 3be was a widow would convey to Jewish notions a deeper sorrow than it even does to ours, for they regarded childlessness as a special calamity, and the loss of offspring as a direct punishment for sin. "Weep not." The large company came to weep with her. 1 A '"P/vMnhAil " TJT nrn n rrn in oo in JL1. J.UUV,UCU. iJLtit aguiu, uu 144 the case of the leper, our Lord sacriSeed the mere Levitical ceremonialism, 1 with its rules about uncleanness, to a 1 higher law. "Bier." Jewish coffins 1 were open, so that the dead could be I seen; but in the case of the poorer * classes there would be no coffin, but 1 merely a board supported by two poles J Dn which the dead would be laid. "I say." Life and denth are controlled by the will of this "I." "Arise." At last death has met its Master! 15. *Began to ipeak." Which e proved that he was fuliy restored. 1G. "Came a fear." A sense of solemnity and reverential awe. "Glori- ^ f*i God." The miracle jvas witnessed by a large company of people, and (hey all recognized the hind of God on the One who could perform such mighty . deeds. "Great prophet." The Jews were at this time expecting Elijah, ^ Jeremiah, or one of the great prophets to appear. 17. "This rumor." It appears that the report of this miracle spread v throughout nil Palestine; it reached tlvj cars of John the Baptist who was imprisoned nt Castle Macherus. Now a Ptickerleta Persimmon. Persimmons without a pucker are iow being grown by the Department s if Agriculture. Owing to the objecionable feature of the old-fashioned 11 >ersImmon, which caused the lips to ? >ucker after eating, the sales have >een anything but gratifying to the s armers. To remedy this defect the s Department of Agriculture imported ome Japanese persimmons and ] rossed them with the American pro- ,] luct. A liner specimen has been pro- ^ luced, and in the near future the delartment will begin the distribution if persimmon trees which will produce s ruit guaranteed not to pucker the lips. Rijf Stioli For Roosevelt. A "Big Stick" shaped like a baseball ^ >at and six inches thick is being sent e o President Roosevelt by employes of 11 i.~ L-ni<uiiMi it- hpnrs llin nnsf. a 11 1 J W O L11 I nvi > - V . mv J narks of the towns through which it * lasses. t Ran Torpcilo Itoat by Oil. jj The United States torpedo boat Shark s luis completed a six-days' endurance 0 test of more than fifty miles with its gasoline engine. / '; ?"T' - . - * , v;..:he great destroyer" OME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. he Fate o? Farmer Giles Should Bi ? lerrlble Warninc?Lo?t In Sight of Home ? Take Care How Too Tamper With Drink. The snow was lying thickly on the round and the evening shadows were ailing, as Farmer Giles left his home a spend an hour or two at the village a!oon. When he arrived there he ound a group of kindred spirits gatkred round the bar. Amid jest and ong the drink flowed freely. At closng time Farmer Giles could not walk teadily. He staggered along, in comany with two others, until he got in ight of home, when they took a turn o the right and left him to pursue his ray alone. In bidding his companions ood-bye, however, he had turned ound, and so, instead of going straight n along the high road, he walked into field through an open gate, and wanered round and across the field, unble to find his way out again. Mrs.sGiles waited for her husband mtil 11.30, and then she decided that e must have been too drunk to walk, o had stayed at the saloon. A man passing along the road in the arly morning was startled by hearing he <;ry "Lost! Lost!" He stopped and istened, but it was dark and the cry ras not repeated. "It must have been ay fancy. How could any one be lost lose to the high road?" The man pi^rued his way, whistling and knocking lis hands to keep himself warm, for It pas freezing keenly and bitterly cold. Next morning Farmer Giles did not eturn home, and his wife sent to the aloon to inquire about him. The com anions with whom he left were next isited, and then a search was instiuted, which resulted in footsteps beng traced through snow into a field. ?here they made zigzag paths in every iirection, crossing and recrosslng, until t became hopeless to attempt to follow hem. The search party accordingly divided nd went in different directions across he field, which was a long one, and lay larallel with the road. Soon a loud bout told' that some discovery had leen made, and the rest of the party ushed to; the spot. There, seated gainst the hedge, exactly opposite his iwn door, sat Farmer Giles, stiff and old, frozen to death. * J At the inquest the man who had leard the cry in the early morning told f his hearing his last despairing cry. lo Farmer Giles perished, a victim to Irink?lost in sight of home! Take care how yon tamper with irink.?National Advocate. Who Slew Gen. Caster f There are those living to-day who an remember hofv the American peoile were horror stricken when the iress of the country published the news I hat the brave General Custer, with bis vhole company of soldiers, naa oeen nassacred fn the Big Horn massacre, nd they can remember how loud were he calls for revenge upon the Sioux ndians?and. the detaand for a war of xtermination urged. The battle that General Custer and lis brave men fought with so much [esperation was a battle having for its bject the subjection of the red man to he civilizing influences of a Christian lation. And how was that battle lost? Jot until a book entitled "Indian Fights x;d Indian Fighters," by Brady, was >ublished, was the true cause known. Drink! that is what caused the death if General Custer and the battle to be ost. In that uook the nut-or makes tna tatement tnat Major Reno, who had a orps of soldiers under his command rithin reach of General Custer, and vbo had received orders to come to his elief, was too drunk on that day to ead hia soldiers. His drunkenness vas not only his shame and the disgrace of the American army, but was he cause of the destruction of Custer ind his'entire command. This story vas published about four years ago in he Northwestern Advocate by Rev. ?lr. Thompson. General Reno conessed all that is here above stated to lis friend, Arthur Edwards, and from lim the confession was given to Rev. Ik Thnmntnn wiin TUlhlished it in the >aper. If the extermination of an irray was caused by a man who had ost control of himself through strong lrink, fresh emphasis is laid upon the :ontent!on of the temperance forces hat the army saloon should not only emain in banishment from the army xists, but the territory adjacent to all jarracks of our soldiers should be ;leared of saloons for miles about. No >ne can predict with safety that a simlar event might uot overtake some por:ion of our army in future warfare if lien who have the lives of their own nen and that of their fellow commandos at their disposal drink. Total abstinence for the men who obey ought o be the rule for the army. God hasen the day when a liberty loving peo)le shall demand that their flag shali )e protected by soher soldiers comnanded by sober officers. ? National kdvocate. John Barleycorn, Pnslliat. If John Barleycorn knocks out ? >rize-fighter at forty-two, at what age vill the business man throw up the iponge to the great champion? We are told that Bob Fitzsimmon9 vas not a drunkard. He was a steady, Irinker. Few business men are drunkirds, but many of them are steady irinkers^ A business man may go on for years irinking steadily, and if the "punch n the stomach" in the shape of unforeseen difficulties does not come he nay pull through. But who can say vhen it will come or that it will not _ a. -no * ? 2* +Vinf A ome at au.r is jl jju.i?iuic iu??. (usiness man Las a better chance to urvive the punch than the pugilist?? >t. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Crusade in Brief. New Orleans receives $151,500 from ho saloons and pays $231,374 for the upport of the police. The consumption of spirituous liqlors in Canada last year was less by 709,000 than in 1904. St. Louis receives $1,051,969 from its aloous and pays $1,002,182 for the upport cf its police force. In answer to a query Berry, formers' the English executioner, states that tot one of the 500 persons whom he ianged was a total abstainer. The working population of Glasgow pends annually in drink, on an averge. $1(5.070,250. which is three times s mucn as it pays iov rent. The Prussian Minister of Public Vorks lias ordered that in future drivrs and firemen on the State railways lust be total abstainers. Inteinper11 ce lias caused many accidents on 'russian railroads of late. 0-:t of forty-nine school children in tie lowest class at Xordhausen, Germany. the medical officer reports that nirty-eifiut had drunk wine, forty ij pirils. and all more or less beer, while ut of a class of twenty-eight girls sixsen confessed to havivg been druoU. ?1? 1& THE PRESENCE. BT A. IBVXXZ INHEfl. / Thy face I cannot see. Thy voice I do not hear, No form appears to me; Yet Thou art near. ' I feel Thee all around In love enfolding me; O mystery profound, I live in Inee! And from Thy face there shines A light upon my way: While thought of Thee divines What Thou dost say. Thy words are silences That tell of perfect peace: With heavenly calm they bless, And troubles cease. As in Thy love I lie, Yet closer would I be; Thy will be mine^that I t>e one wim xncc. ?Christian Register. . " { For Diaconragert Woikeri, \ The pastor went home heart side* To Dim it-seemed that the Sunday evening sermon had been a failure. The past week hal been a busy one. A sa<f funeral and a three days' denomina-' tional gathering away from home tauft taken up nearly all the week's time,] and caused * ariness of body and mind. As a result the evening sermon was hurriedly and imperfectly prepared. The pastor was not himselfj the congregation seemed listless and w few persons slept. The pastor was ' . discouraged, and felt that the service was a failure, and was sure that the people felt the same. But with God "strength is made perfeet in weakness." He can use the \ weakest for His glory, and turn seeming failure into success. The next evening the pastor had a call. The caller was a young man, a college graduate, who occupied an influential position as a professor in an academy. Hefhad been trying and wanted to be an ear- J nest Christian, but because of perplexities and honest doubts had cot seen his way clear to unite with a church and stand out publicly and boldly for hie Saviour. An illustration and a thought in the sermon had helped him. He saw that be could be a sincere, humble* faithful follower of Jesus and a true, consistent menber of the church in nAnnlAvlHfto nn/1 5*2 St'iLC Vi uio pci^iCAiiica uuu uvuviof : and desired to offer himself to the " church and follow his Saviour in bap? tism. After the caller left the pastor hum* bly asked Goq's forgiveness for doubt> ing that His "word shall not return -J unto Him void." but "shall accomplish that which" He "pleases." And the pastor prayed earnestly for strength to believe that work for God done the best one can do under,.the circum- ' j stances, although hurriejlly and imper* fectly performed, is never" a failure. The pastor now gives the'incident to others that it may encourage and strengthen discouraged faithful pastors and Christian workers.?Standaid. * Grace *d<1 Faltb. These words represent the part of God and the part of man in the work of salvation, writes the Rev. J. Ritchte Smith. Faith is the condition, grace the cause. We are saved by grace through faith. Grace is more than lova^ it is love to the unworthy. In this regard it may be termed the highest exercise of lo*.e, for it is love unmerited, love that is not drawn out by the loveliness of Its object, but finds its source and spring in God alone. Grace is God's love to sinners. > Faith is man's response to God's grace. Grace is in the hand that God reaches down to man, faith is the hand that man reaches up to God. *;tl Faith is "not a theological term or religious experience alone. There Is no more frequent or familiar exercise of the soul. Our life is built upon It We walk by faith; not by sight. Ail business is based upon credit. There is no interest dear to men that they do not entrust to others. We commit onr property to the lawyer, our bodies to the physician, our children to the teacher. I once heard a woman say, I know what faith in God is from my; faith in the doctor. No man pretenda to administer all his affairs In person. We trust all our fellow-men with every; interest of our lives. Why, then, mayj ? we not trust ourselves to God? * Faith lays hold of God, and, what is far more important, it gives God something to lay ho d of. When the hand of faith clasps the hand of grace, it is not our strength but His that ensures our safetv. Faith is man laying hold of God, grace of God laying hold, of man. The power in faith lies not in itself, but in its objects. It is, not faith that saves, but faith in Gofr God saves through faith. Properly speaking, faith does not save, but It S lets God save. Faith is the yielding of the soul to God that His grace may .have its perfect work.?Presbyterian H Banner. A Grtrve Mistake. When a young man is converted he is almost always, inclined at first to say, "I know I could do far more good if I was a preacher, so I'll leave my business and become a preacher of the Gospel." But very often mistakes n-e made just in this way. God may ' have given you some work to do for Him in the position in which He has i placed you which no one else could do if you were to leave it undone. We should be very careful how we wish to change from whatever position In life into which God has seen fit to put us.?Andrew A. Bonar. , Purely Subjective. All unhappiness, a.-s all hapjviness, is frnm within. For. as Saint Bernard j has said: "Nothing can work me damage but myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me. and I am never a real sufferer but by my own fault." From the kingdom of the mind issue the edicts that govern life.?Success. Ksaenre of HupplneM. Christ known. Christ loved, Christ served?yes! that is happiness. There { is none other like it in the world.?U. j 11 Morrison / \ A Plowing Contest. Captain Sycamore, who sailed th?j second of Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrocks in the race for the America's Cup against the Columbia, distinguished himself in a plowing contest! at Brightlingsea, England, recently. He won first prize. Captain Seymouc fixed a compass to his plow and wan thus enabled to steer in a straight fw? row. - ...j Japan to Tolice China. America and England iiave agreed to back Japan in policing China. I / .