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? Ill ^RIN W:By WALTEi oco T CHArTER VII. ;;v/. 7 Continued. "Dittruer"?Katharine laid her hand ?>n his arm?"understand. I can never t meet you again?unless you promise not to talk like that. Oli! Dittmer? I have his letters closc against my heart ?and?Dittmer, how can you talk to me like that?" He made 110 reply because the thing he would have wished to say was exactly the most calculated to prejudice him still further. He would have said: "Forget that man, Katharine. He is dead and can feel no more. Think that you are young and beautiful, and made for love, and listen to the wooing of a gallant young clerk jwho means to become a great merchant and to have an island all his own in the Pacific." "Good-by, Herr Bock," said Katharine. "We will part here." Then he pulled himself together as in the presence of a great danger. "Forgive me, Fraulein. I will be your brother, and you shall be my sister. I will call you Katchen; will you consent?" He offered her his hand. She took it without hesitation. "Dittmer," she said, "you shall be my brother as long as you please." "And when I am rich and have found my island you shall be the queen of the island if you like. If not, you shall stay at home and be rich?with your brother. You shall have a robe of velvet and of silk?instead of stuff If She smiled sadly. "Dittmer, it must always be a black robe, whether it is of silk or stuff." CHAPTER VIII. The Chronicle of Wasted Times. In this way did Katharine lose her situation and join the ranks of the multitude of ladies unemployed. It is a great and a doleful multi tuae; nownere can De seen sucn an array of rueful visages as where this crowd is assembled. It grows daily greater and more doleful, for reasons too numerous to relate. It consists of all those women who, having been gently bred, and for the most part rwithout expectation of labor, and therefore with no special training and no apprenticeship, find themselves perhaps without the least warning compelled to work for their living. Two of these girls were talking together in a cubicle of Harley House. One of them stood in the doorway with joined hands, the other sat on the bed. The former had been six months longer among the Ladies Unemployed than the other; she was therefore wiser than her friend. "I have averaged eight shillings a iweek," she said; "eight shillings a week. Katharine, during the whole time that I have been trying to get work I have never possessed more than a single sovereign at a time to put between me and starvation. Oh! it is (worse than the life of a slave and there is no way?except one, flf course?and lor that we have to wait so long." "Courage, Lily," said the other; 'you will find something presently." Lily shook her head impatiently. "Well," Katharine went on. "I have fifteen pounds stored up. Think of that! Fifteen nounds! It ought to keep us for more than three mouths." "No; there are boots; you may go in rags if you can hide them, but you must have boots to wear, Rnd they are frightfully dear. Besides. I am not going to be so mean as to take your money, Katharine." "How rich I thought I was," said Katharine, "when Tom aSked me before he went away if I had plenty of money, and I thought of my hoard of fifteen pounds, and told him that I had ?o anxiety at all about money, and of course I hadn't so long as I had my situation. And now he is dead." Katharine sighed. "And my place is lost. Lily, you must and shall share my money." "Oh, Katharine, you will want it all." "My dear," Katharine took her hand and held it, "we must be sisters, because of all the women in the world I do not think there are any other two ?o desolate and so friendless as we are." "I am sure there are not. I wonder iwhat we have done to deserve it." "There cannot, surely, be two other girls in the world left without any friends or relations. Fancy not having a single cousin, to say nothing of fof h AT nr hfrttlini* plcfnv I" AUIUCI VI iJUVlUCl| V1UIUCI VI OlOiVL "My father," said Lily, with u touch of pride, as if the thing showed dignity and independence, "always said that sooner than return to his relations he would sit down and starve." "Mine," said Katharine, without any yride at all, "refused to let me ever speak of my relations. You set;, Lily, we must have cousins." "And perhaps they are generous cousins who would help us?if we can 'be helped; but mine at least cannot 'be rich?I am sure they cannot be ricn. wnen iatner was in 1 iorgot to *isk iiira who they are and where they Jive." "My father." said Katharine, carrying on the comparison, "would have -told me, I suppose, where he got his money, but he fell down dead, and had no time, poor dear." "What have we done to deserve . it?" "Lily, it is always what your father does; the responsibility of a man must be terrible; it isn't only the income for his own lifetime, it is the future of Jhis children to the third and fourth generations that he has in his hands. I wonder if they ever think of it. I rwoader if our fathers, Lily, ever thought of what -would happen to their daughters when they should die." "Mine didn't. He thought about his invention, and the man who stole it jrnd made a fortune out of it He brooded over it all the time." "Mine thought about his club. Does ' ill ~ i? *$C/? ( oo?**eo????*o 4^7 to R BESANT.jfS 4 kr > ? * ^ , tr III 1,1 ai it scorn right that fathers should have tc such power? If ho fails, down they in all go, children, grandchildren and di greatgrandchildren. If ho succeeds, I up they all go together, higher and pi higher." di j "Unless they take to drink," Bald ai Lily, wisely. "If he fails, the girTs have to look tr i for work?" di "Unless," Katharine continued, oi "they get married. And there is the m chance of another father failing." te "My dear, what is the use of talking about marriage in Harley House? Love and marriage cannot come in our w way. How are we to make the acquaintance of any men? Some of the v? girls at the Museum make acquaint- te ances with the readers, but no good y< ever came of that sort of acquaintance re yet." "But, Lily, anything may happen." to "Not out of books, unless it is bad; ki in real life everything happens that ti is bad. But as for love and marriage, fT I declare, Katherine, that if we had H our hair cut off and were shut up in a ai Spanish convent, a hundred miles h< from any man, we should have a better chance of marrying than we have here?I mean we two, who have no m [ friends at all. Not the rest of the girls, in who have brothers and can go out fr with them." d( I "I have had my chance, Lily, and I have been robbed of it," said Katha- I rlne. "Yes, whatever happens you will be tli Al** VvAAn lAWfl/1 71 me uuppiei mi uaviug uwu iv>vu> is something to remember always. ObT y< it must be a wonderful thing to feel ? that a man is going to give up all his' h< life?all his work?to make you happy th and keep you in ease and comfort. It must be such a happiness just to feel cc it, as you did, for a month or two, that oi even to think of it makes me go mad with rage at the cruel fate which th keeps us locked up here out of the way of it, so that we can never, never tb meet with it." ai "Yes," said Katharine, "it is a won- to derful thiug to feel. There is no other pi happiness to compare with it?and I co have felt it. Oil!" she clasped her te hands. "I have felt it!" of "Katharine, when I am tramping ct the streets from one place to another, ap knowing beforehand that I shall be too sh late, a terrible picture arises before dr my mind, a dreadful nightmare which ha comes by day; and I see my future tii life stretched out before me plain and fo clear?perhaps your9, dear, as well, but da I hope?yes?I hope that God .will to take you first." "Oh, Lily!", "I must?I cannot help it?I must speak! The picture comes of itself ] and stays before my eyes, and I must ha tell somebody.** Katharine, I see my- to self going on like this for year after on year?all my life.", lis The girl's dark eyes glowed and cr< grew larger as she gazed intently "s upon the panoramic picture which wi rolled itself out before her. As she Pe spoke it became real to Katharine as m( well. mi "Oh. such a long life! I shall live in< to eighty. There will be no change r< until the time comes when no one will ] give me any work to do at all. And Cu then I shall go to the workhouse. I rm am always applying for places. Some- np times I get taken on, but generally I Rt am too late. Always jostling and sti pushing and fighting with other ne women. "What a life! It is yours as i0i well as mine. What a fortune for us ; tn hf> hnrn with!" nn "Lily, some change r*vill come. It must come." ti* . "No, never any change. Look at of poor old Miss Stidolpb. She is sixty wi at least, and she is no better off than of when she began?thirty years ago and tic more, after her father failed?to go out ut as a daily governess. What change has T1 ever come to her? Look at Miss An- ch gusta and Miss Beatrice; 1o be sure, is! they've got ?50 a year to live upon now. Before it came they were starving. And their father was a Canon of / a Cathedral! What a life they have led! ti{ No, Katharine, for us :.nd those like us there is 110 hope?none. I declare, is Katharine, that if there were any way ci mo T WAlllfl Vfl IV CIUJ uutl CU , A take it." es She looked about her like a prisoner v in a cell, and gasped as if for want of *n air. ce "Lily!" Se "Never enough money," she went on; never any society at all. What a life it is that lies before us! You are ex twenty-one, and I am twenty-two. S? Perhaps fifty or sixty years of it. And ai1 oh, how slowly the hands move round se the clock! Oh, how slowly the sun goes dv down!" th "Lliy, you have no right to assume 111 that things will go on just as they are Ia doing at present." a ^"No; they may be worse. Kathorino, is it right that girls should be treated so? We are born witn tne same desire for liappiness as other girls. We eould enjoy, like tliein, beau- co t if til things and lives of ease. And oh! look at us. There is not a single lady hr in this great town who invites either nj of us to her house; there is 110 chance of meeting a gentleman, unless it is the m kind of gentleman who speaks to giris m in the street. Happiness! What does jn it mean? We do not know -what it <-p] means. We are sentenced." Katherine sighed heavily. pV "What good is it to rebel?" she asked. jc "Let us accept out lot and make what we can out of it. What can we do more in the way of work?" "I should like to do nothing. We oc were made to do nothing. That is Ti why women are not able to lift any- TJ thing and to fight. It is the business at of men to work, and of women to sit ye down and enjoy the fruits of their d< labors. Besides, men like work?and ar women don't." re "What can we do, however?" bi "I can do nothing. I never was m taught to do anything. None of us xt were."- .. es - .. : : tf. . ' - ' : ^ - ' A v "Well, but?" "I can copy, I think* that is all I am ally lit for. I can copy documents, id I can go to the Museum and make tracts. I can also search. I don't ppose," she added, with candor, "that should ever find anything, but I could y, if any one wanted me to find anying. Some girls seem always able get search-work to do. But then I I iow nobody, and have got no interest, nd oh, how many there are who are ying to get the work!" "You can teach, Lily." "No"?her black eyes, which had Jen heavy and sad, flashed with lger?"No; I can not ajnd will not ach. I hate teaching. I loathe teachg. I want to kill the children; they ive me to madness. The last time tried teaching I ran away irom xue ace or I should have done something eadful. Fortunately I don't know lything. I can't add up and divide, can't tell you the capital of any couny, and I do not remember a single ite. And I've forgotten all the Kings ' Israel. Katharine, I would rather ake buttonholes for shirts than ach." "Well, dear, there are other things." "I could do clerk's work, but no one ill have me. I could write letters." "Let us be hopeful, Lily. You are ery pretty, and perhaps?who can ill? As for me, that is all over; but ju?Lily, are you sure you have no ilations?" , "I know of none. My father came ? London from the north. But I don't iow where. He brought his inyenon with him, but somebody stole it | om him, and then he became ft clerk, e lived a moody and a lonely life, ad he made no friends; but he always | >ped to make another invention." "What was his invention?" "I don't know. Something to do with achines. My father was always makg pictures of wheels. I have no lends and no money. What have I >ne, I ask again?" "It isn't what we have done, dear, told you; it is what our fathers did." Lily made as if she would say someling really severe, but she refrained. "Well," she said, mildly, "to-morrow : >u will begin the round. I only hope" she said this as one who has no >pe?"that you will be more lucky ian I have been." Then the other residents began to j me upstairs, and Lily retired to her vn cubicle, and they all went to bed. j Would you follow these two girls in j elr quest of work and bread? It was a hopeless quest, because the Ings that they would do were so few, J id there were already so many girls ! j- on/> +hoir hnrl nn friends or I UU luciii, aim wuvj ivnte interest. All that Katharine iuld do well was to undertake the aching and care of young children, or those girls with parents to whom the irriculum of the high school does not ipeal. She could bring to her task, as le had done with the Emptage chilen, affection and care such as one irdly has a right to expect for ten lies the salary. Alas! she found that r one place there were fifty candiites. And like Lily, she was always 0 late. (To be continued.) ; Looked For Wltcheci. In witchcraft lore silver seems to I ve been credited with great power disperse evil spirits. In an old book 1 the subject one reads of a "valmt Souldier who had skill in Neomancy," and who always used ilver bullets to shoot away the Itches." The evidences of such surstition are brought directly to the Jdern eye through the discovery ide by a Pennsylvania farmer. The cldent is printed in the Philadelphia ;cord. Mr. Vedderman is interested in rios, and purchased recently an old usket at a farmhouse sale. From its pearance the weapon antedates the jvolution. It was in a deplorable ite of rust, and in cleaning it the w owner discovered that it was ided. He carefully withdrew the charge, id to his surprise found instead of illets two silver shillings, dated 1781, jhtly wadded with leaves of a Bible ancient print. Beneath the coins as a small lock of hair and a piece ! paper containing an illegible quota>n. The gunpowder was coarse and idoubtedly of colonial manufacture. ie whole looks very much like n armed charge, calculated to dernoli some weird lady of the broomstick. Artificial Precious Stones. The history of the artificial produem of minerals, the first chapter of hich is as yet far from completion, certain to be one of the most fasnating and probably commercially luable works of science. The pioneer :periments of James Hall, the dedopment of the French school durg the latter half of the sineteenth ntury, the valuable researches of inarmont, Ebelmew, Daubree, and linte Claire Deville, the invention the electric furnace and the later periments of Fouque and Levy, Lairia Loerinson-Lessing, Morozewicz, id de Schultcn, all leading up to such nsational achievements as the proiction of the ruby by Fremy, and of e diamond by Moisson, have justified e belief that before many years the boratory production of gcrus will be practical commercial art. Keeping Time by Wirelesfl. Dr. Max Reithoffer, professor in the jchnical High School of Vienna, in njunetion with Herr Karl Morawctz, e government inspector of clocks, is completed a system for synchro- J zing clocks by means of wireless legraphy. The plan has been subitted to the City Council, and perission has been secured for regulatg the public clocks by this agency. Lie city clocks are to be served free r the system, but for synchronizing ivate timepieces a small fee will be vied. A Huge DonghiiTit. According, to The Cass County Dem rat, a West Alton Missourmn irameu readmore made a bet with a widow, be "wager was a Ufesize doughnut ;ainst the widow's lovel^?eventeenlar-old daughter. Trendmore had tho ugiiuut fashioned after the damsel, id to make it as sweet added a bar1 of sugar. He is now a happy 'idegroom, having won the bet and ii ~ied the model of his doughnut, Uic.i is to be sent to the Portland :hibition. ' '-*11- '-1-^- _?2?__?? :. ~.f ^^^ ousejjold 1 B^rfholomew c TT?e Up Tonr Coal Dust. ^ Housekeepers frequently find a dif- p ficulty in using coal dust so as to avoid r; waste. An excellent way is to place a o pieces of paper about ten inches long is and about six inches wide, pile coal JJ dust on it. lift carcfully and place gently on the tire. The corner of the . paper will, of course, catch fire, but the part under the coal dust will re- j main, say# Home Chat. If left undis- u turbed this will gradually burn through and improve the fire, instead of caus- t< ing the usual deadness that results si from burning coal dust. ' e u Qnalnt Old IVnil Paper* In U*e. Mural decorations of a bygone day, n when folk didn't dabble muclr in so called decorative art, are forming a a quaint background for polished mahog- n any anil rare chinR. The scenic wall -p papers found in the few old mansions d that have not been "done over" to suit c modern notion alwr.ys have been of in- T te?est (o lovers of old furniture. Now, 11 certain Keekers after odd effects are having the old wall papers reproduced. ^ The hunting scene, the impossible cas- c ties on cliffs and other subjects are r. being turned out. but the reproduc- a tious, say persons with critical eyGs, e "lacii the venerable atmosphere of the n 'really truly' antiques, no matter how closely it follows them in design."? New _ork Press. TVater as a Medicine. ^ A strip ot flannel or soft napkin, s: folded lengthwise and dipped in hot v water and wrung out .-.ud then applied d around the neck of a child that lias Cl croup, will surely bring relief in a few minutes. A proper towel folded severa! times and dipped in hot water, ^ quickly wru.ig and applied over the tl site of toothache or neuralgia will gen- I erally afford prompt relief. The treat- o - - - - - . u meut for colic Las Deen rounu to worii | u like magic. Nothing so promptly cuts c< short a congestion of the lungs, sove throat or rheumatism as hot water ' | when applied early in the case and p I thoroughly. Hot water taken freely half an hour before bediime is an ex- S( [ cellent cathartic in case of constipa- if | tion, while it has a soothing effect up- p: du the stomach and bowels. This treat- S ment continued a few months, with the addition of a cupful of hot water slow- } ly sip,)?d half an hour before each meal, with proper attention to diet, will cj cure most cases of dyspepsia. Ordi- ^ nary headaches almost always yield to h; the simultaneous applic?tion of hot lc water to the feet and back of the neck. ?-The Epitomist. Omelet Pun and Its FoatlbilKies. I ^ If omelets are frequently desired for j n( breakfast a special omelet pan should pj by all means be provided. A French si cook always keeps a pau exclusively ii: for this purpose, and, however it may ji sound to lovers of soap and water, the 111 pau is jever washed. After the omelet is cooked the pan is wiped as clean as PJ possible with crushed tissue paper and put in a dustless cupboard. Choose a a, perfectly fla\ pan, t*jr if it has a bump in the middle the omelet will never a come out well. There are almost as m many varieties of omelet as there are ol weeks in the year, a^id cuce ona learns ai how delicious a stuffed omelet is there 01 will be a nev,* vse for left-over oysters, chicken, fish, and vegetables. Fried jbacon cut in tiny cubes, minccd ham 0) or chicken, minced herbs, grated cheese, 0i nil are gocu. If a few spoonfuls of to- pj mato or oyster sauce happen to be left fc aver from dinner they may also be ai nsed. Coid curry, asparagus, shrimp, S hbster. Minced and stirred in thick C? sajce, are very good. If no tetter jV sauce i9 at hand, make this one: A J, tablespoouful of butter stirred into ^ the same quantity of flour, the yolk t of an egg, a full tablespoonful of Far- re mesan eboese, a little sweet milk, and a] - - tr sea oning 01 salt ana -ea pepper, our " tliis together ever the fire and aild ? minced meat, fisli, or whatever is to go into the omelet. J.ut as the omelet is ready \o be folded, drop the mixture oJ tn.?New* York Post. XWirspr 01 nl Salad Dressing?Particularly nice on tli vegetable salad. One pint of whipped f'j cream, juice of oue-lialf lemon, one J}1 tablespoonful of chopped parsley, pap- L per and salt to taste. Gelatine will help set the croam if for any reason it will not whin properly. Cream of Corn Soup?Put one pint oC Hi grated corn or oue can of corn into a lu double boiler; add a pint of milk and T one tablespoonful of bntler and one of . flour rubbed together; add a level tea "n spoonful of salt, a dash of pepper and as a teaspoonful of onion juice. When boiling hot serve. Apple Cake?riace a thin lay?r ol short pastry on a round baking dish ?r pinching up \he edges with the lingers ? so as to make u little leilge round the cak;?. Peel and cut in two some large apples, carefully taking out the cores Slice then: and arrange in a circle ;u around the pa:.try, one slice overlap tli ping tlu other. Sprinkle with ground cinnamon and sugar cud bake foj j ( ' three-quarters of an liour iu a stead} i oven. When coid sift powdered sugai ' over the top. 1 Clear Soup?Purchase a shin or a !og w of beef; cut the meat from the bone a0 theu cut it into small pieces; put the in, bones iu the bottom of a soup kettle1 w< put on top toe meat; to each pound ol mea^t allow one quart of cold water, in bring to boiling point and skim; sim m mer gently three hours; add an onion P1' one carrot, a little chopped celery, a lir bay loaf and twelve cloves. Simmeif gently one hour and strain. Stam)( P'' aside to cool. Remove the fat and it i< ^ ready to use. If the soup is not per fectly clear, clarify it with the whites sls of three eggs. i?i I ^.. . :HE GREAT DESTROYER OWIE STARTLINC FA-ilTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. ocktall-Drlnklng Women l'.ree<l L)pcen. prate Knee?Dr. Vetera Dwells Upon Evils He bees In Society?AVe Even Shock the Frendu "Because of the cocktail liabit among .merican women, a leading Paris paer said recently, we are breeding a ace of degenerates," was the eyepening utterance of the Rev. Dr. Mad;on C. Peters in the Baptist Church f the Epiphany, in New York City. When France preaches morality to .merica," he added, "it is time tot .mericans to take notice." The clergyman's subject was "The luties and Responsibilities of Wolen." "I know how common it is to impute ) women everything that goes wrong," aid he, "while their silent but diligenl xertions to make everything right are nobserved. The evils of which 1 peak are more common among the len than the women. But such is my egard for woman and her influence bat I believe her example for tempernee soon would correct the in tempernee on the man's side. The frequency rith which even respectable women rink in public places is a point ol ommon observation, .and the scenes 'bich shocked us a few years ago are ow passed without comment. "It is a well-known fact that so comion has the drinking habit become lint the situation to a woman in soiety is constantly a source of embar issment if she does not drinfc. There re restaurants in this city where ar xtra charge is made if the diners dc ot drink. The disastrous results ol ppling among women are known well j physicians. Experience shows thai rhile men who drink often reform iteraperate women seldom do. "The effect of alcohol on woman's rill power and sense of moral responibility is so well known that it is uniersally conceded there is a special anger to the woman who drinks. Oi ourse, no sensible man would say iat the drinking of a glass of wine in self is a sin. Wines and liquors lmve ieir legitimate uses, and may be used eneficially, but in total abstinence lies le only ground of absolute safety, and contend that were the higher classes f society 'or even our church people, oth in the pulpit and the pew, to dissntinue the moderate use of drink, rinking would be made unfashionable, )r fashion Is only another name for ublic sentiment. "Women are the lawgivers; men are ie subjects. The moral interests ot jciety are in the women's hands, and ' they lead in the right direction the rogress of the race upward is assured, urely the fact that more than ten jousand women were arrested in New ork for drunkenness last year ought > be sufficient to make the people link. The young womanhood of this ity. driven to hideous vice because of rink, and the steady growth of the abit. surely point to a deplorable outok for the Republic." German Are Heavj Drinkers. The endeavor to make man sober by ct of Parliament is not confined to lis country, for in Germany the Imerial and Prussian Governments have issed measures for the purpose of reiricting the consumption of intoxicatig liquors. Some official figures have ist been published which show how ecessary it is that some steps should e taken to Inculcate habits of tf>msrance among the people. The writer f an official article on the drink (fueson in Germany has calculated the mount of money spent each year on rink In Germany, and he takes thij rerage price of a litre of wine as one lark, of beer at thirty pfennigs and "schnaps" at fifty pfennigs. The mount of money spent on these varies drinks per head he places at fortysven marks, or, if only males over fteen years of age are considered, at iO marks. This amount for the whole ' the Empire to 2,826,000,000 marks, more than ?140,000,000. The money )ent in Germany on drink is thereire three times the cost of the army id navy together and more than ;ven times the cost of primary eduition in Germany. Its amount is aliOSt equal to that of the German naonal debt, and so the German people, r leaving off drink for a year and a /-in+h rtniil/1 naw riff tho dphf". he Germans have always had the (putation of being mighty drinkers, 3d it appears from the official statiscian that they deserve it.?London lobe. D'ftth Among; the Soldiers. A Filipino student at the University ! Chicago says that "forty-five per ?nt. of the deaths of American solers which have occurred in the army Jspital in Manila during the last five jars have been due to the liquor ibit. There were no saloons, strictly >eaking, in the Philippines prior to te advent of the American soldiers." e adds, "Since the American invasion ,-er 1200 saloons have been estabshed and all are enjoying a prosperis trade." Degrading Effect* of Liquor. It is said that not an employe in the eat distilleries in Peoria, Illinois, is lowed to drink any whisky. A proof lat liquor sellers and makers appreate the degrading effects of the arele. What other business is there iat prohibits the men engaged in it om using their own product? TJeverncea Forbidden to Employe*. Two of the Prussian State Railroad rectories (there are eleven in all) ive forbidden all employes to drink coholic beverages while on duty, lie order of the minister, in force on i lue male iiuus, <ipi?iu-u um.i iu unm en ami such station and track 111011 i affect train service. Temperance Note*. The Masonic Fraternity of Philndel1 in Lave cut wine out of all their mnuets and social functions, beginng with January, 1900. It is announced by the Presbyterians at the third Sabbath in October, Ocber 15, will be observed as Temperice Day throughout the churches of at denomination. Dr. H. \V. Wiley, of the Bureau of leniistry, declines to retract his nsrtion that eighty-five per cent, of all hisky sold over the bars of the nited States is adulterated. "Will alcohol dissolve sugar?" "It ill," replied tlie old soak; "it will disIve gold brick houses and horses and ppiness and love and everything else orth having."?Boston Champion. In a Swedish array order soldiers are stiv.cted not to drink spirits on the arch. Chocolate cakes are said to oduce thirst, while oranges and tea e considered most refreshing. The Chicago liqnoi license is if.'MO r Jinnuir ?the death-fate 10 2-10. The ill liiver. (Mass.) liquor license is "i00?$2000 -the doatii-rate. 22-J-li). i argument for low license. Quite logical as that made by the Liquor otective Association! i ' ty " o cii3r 1f*Sur. THE WAY TO PEACE. , With eager heart and will on fire I fought to win my great desire; "Peace shall be mine," I said, hut lif? 1 Grew bitter in the endless strife. ? My soul was weary and my pride | Was wounded deep; to Heaven I cried: "God grant me peace or I must die;" The dumb stars glittered no reply. Broken at last, I bowed my head, Forgetting all myself, and said: "Whatever come, His will he done;" , And in that momeDt peace was won. ?Henry Van Dyke. ^ The TrjBtinc Hour. , BY 8. D. GORDON. The advantages of taking the early morning hour are marked. One is sure of the time if taken at the day's beginning, and can never be sure otherwise that it may not be crowded out by duties or fatigue. The morning hour is more economical, because at night some of the time is absorbed in slowing down the machinery and getting the earth-sounds out of the ears before one is able to hear His quiet voice. It is the quiet hour of the day, for not | only is the outer world- still but the inner spirit is quiet. Then, too, a hit 1 of time taken then leaves its impress ' upon the entire day. And all of these suggestions may be forgotten when we remember our Master's preference. s That will surely weigh with us! At five minutes before noon daily, by " the Eastern standard time, every West* em Union Telegraph Company's instru1 ment cuts its connection, and is put in J communication with the instrument in the Naval Observatory in the city of [ Washington. At five seconds before L 12 a warning tick sounds over the - wires. When the skilled operator in the observatory sees, by his delicately ! adjusted instrument, that the sun is, for a single moment, directly over the | imaginary line of longitude passing J through the city, that moment the fact is flashed over thousands of miles of wire and every one of the company's | clocks made true. Then business is re' sumed. The work of the day is ' planned with reference to this appoint1 ment. The company's rule is to be ab; solutely accurate in the matter of time; to test that accuracy every day; ana to | test it by the standard set in the heavens. And all this purely for com' mercial purposes. Shall not we, whose ; lives are so utterly dependent upon the Master, cut clean our connections with every outside thing, at least once In ! a very twenty-four hours, and put our hearts beating in time and tune with | His heart, that He may have a chance to set aiid keep us true, and that we niny not be misrepresenting Him? A few brief suggestions foi the trysting hour crowd for space here. First: Guard jealously a quiet, unhurried spirit during the trysting time. Hurry means flurry. God is never in a ( hurry. Hurry and speed are opposite?. Nothing so hinders one's inner life as lettincr the world-snirit of hurry get into either this waiting time, 01 into one's own spirit. Second: Remember you have come to meet the Mastei. Not even for more knowledge of the Bible itself, but to , know Him better through it. To hear His voice. To realize His presence. Third: Your chief business, for a , while at least, is listening. Listening to God's voice. There are two parts to prayer?listening and speaking. Listening first. Then speaking. Keep first things first. So much prayer is , one-sided. God has such difficulty to , get men to listen to Him. What He says to us will make such a difference in what we will say to Him. Give , God a chance to be heard. Say ear[ nestly, "I will hear what God the Lord will speak." Fourth: God is an author., He hns written a book. He speaks to-day in that book. Give first place to His KaaL- rPhoi?A orn /lAnnflflcc nfhor hn/ilrs heipful and inspiring, written by godly men. Put these books down on the second shelf. Put God's book on a shelf by itself. If you have plenty of time for both?good. But give His own book the place in this quiet trysting time with Him. Fifth: Be frank and honest with the Master. His Word is certain to search your heart and life. It is a mirror, and sure to show you your mistakes and sins, and meanness, and pride, and selfishness. Let it Do not excuse and cover up and dodge. Be frank with Him. It will show you, too, His gladness to forgive, and His power to cleanse and keep. Let Him?Ram's Horn. Result ot n Kind Act. Samuel F. Jones, a prominent mission worker of Boston, says: "Do you know that little things oftentimes result in a great deal of good? One day a man, dead drunk, was lying in a gutter in my native town, and a well-known lady of the city, as she passed along on the sidewalk, seeing his face upturned to the blazing rays of the noonday sun, took out her lace handkerchief and spread it over his face. She did it for Jesus' sake. And when that man came to his senses and found who that lady was, it resulted in that man's conversion to God." Every Good Act or Word Helps. Character is made up of small duties faithfully performed, of self-denial, of self-sacrifices, of kindly acts of love and duty. The backbone of character is laid at home, and whether the constitutional tendencies be good or bad, home influences will, as a rule, fan them iirto activity. Kindness begets kindness and truth and trust will bear a rich harvest of trutn ana trust, i There are many little trivial acts of kindness which teach us more about a man's character than many vague phrases.?Smiles. Only Experience Can Explain. To obtain the control over an unru!y passion or to disencumber one's ( self of a besetting1 sin may be painful . as the plucking out of a right eye ami the cutting off of a right hand. Jesus docs not deny it: the words are His ' own. Yet His yoke is easy and His : bnrden light. How is the contradic- 1 ..r... i.fi,nCrt twn sta foments to IIUI1 Ul'L ? ceil iwv .;i. w .? V ^ -be reconciled? The answer to that j! question is the secret of the Gospel. ' and blessed are they to whom it has * buen revealed.?.Tames Stalker. ' * Anta Rroke Up a High School. The invasion of an army of ants n broke Tip for a day the third grade of n tlie Suffolk (Va.) High School, and the f teacher. Miss Elsie Urquhart, after a i losing battle between her pupils and [ the insects, dismissed school and re- 4 treated in pain and confusion and t summoned help. Principal Gates, the janitor and others continued the battle, but it was three lionrs before school opened again. A woman to;, .her says th^re "were about 200 battalions of the p ants, and each with n recognized leader p and each battalion about 5000 strong. c They came through t^e floor. t t / ' THE ' SUNDAY SCIOOlI : 1 international lesson COMMENTS , for april 29. Sobject: The Parable of the Soweft j Mark lv., 1-20?Golden Text, Lnke 111., 11?Memory Ver??, 20?Topic I ^ How to Hear the Word. I. The parable of tlie sower (v^-l4 8). 1. "Began again to teach." Tbd summer passed in a succession of ex?. citements and an unbroken recurrence of exhausting toil; He 6eems to hare spent the months in successive circuits] from Capernaum as a centre, througl all the villages of Galilee. "The sea side." The Sea of Galilee. "Greal multitude." The Pharisees had been ' laboring by base calumnies to drive , the people away from Jesus, but they still flocked after Him as much as ever. Christ will be glorified in spite of all ' opposition; He will be followed. "A ship." Jesus sat in a boat which had been prepared for Him. "In the sea." , The boat was in the sea. "On thff land." - multitude stood oil tbel si ore. 2. "Taught?by parables." A par-i able is an allegorical relation or rejHj resentation of something real in lifft ? or nature, from -which, a moral iaj drawn for instruction. Christ's *par^ ables are a comparison of spiritual things with natural in order that the1 spiritual things may be better under% stood. "In His doctrine." That is, inf His teaching. 3. "Behold- . sower.'l The animated introduction gives plaus* ibility to the view that our Lord point-i ed to some distant sower in sight scatj tering his seed. 4. "The way side.' There are four binds of ground men* <ioned. The first is the wayside where no plow had broken it up. j 5. "Stony ground." Luke says, "op-, on a rock." The rocks of Palestine J and Syria are mostly limestones, witid many flat stretches, covered with inch or so of soil. This is the second j kind of eround. "SDrang up." A thin! surface of soil above a shelf of rock . is like a hotbed; the stone keeps the I heat and stimulates the growth. Dn^ H ing the rainy season in Palestine thft growth would be rapid. 6. "Withered away." Luke says "it lacked moist-j ure." The hot sun dried up the moiirt- B ure and scorched the grain. 7. "Among B thorns." The third kind of soil wias I good, and there was hope of a harvests B but the ground was filled with pernic* B ious seeds. Thorny shrubs and plants B abound in Palestine. & "Good I ground." The fourth kind of soil w?? B rinh on/!. wpII nrpnarpd. "Snmft lift B hundred." This represents the higbeffc. degree of faithfulness. II. Why Christ taught in parable? (vs. 9-12). N : 9. "Hath ears," etc. This usually follows an important statement Intimating that he who has the discernment to understand will find the deeper! meaning. 10. "When?alone." Eithetj this explanation to the disciples was' * made later, or he withdrew a short di&? tance from the multitude so te to be ' alone. Christ evidently spoke further ( to the people on this same day. 11. "Unto you." To *ou, disciples,' who inquire, and seek to know the truth; to you who are "within" in con-! trast to those who are "without." "Toi know the mystery." The true disciple has a knowledge of the "mystery of godliness"?the mystery of the atone-< ment and the great plan of salvation^ including repentance, faith, conversion J 12. "That seeing," etc. See Isa. 6r9J lie aid not speaK in paraoies Decause He did not wish them to know the truth and see the light, but because they were in darkness and closed their; eyes to the light . III. The parable of the sower ex-j plained (vs. 13-20). 13. "Know 7ye not," etc. Jesus now proceeds to aix' swer the second question (see note on v. 10). 14. "The sower." Consider / the sower, the seed, the eoil. 1. Who-, ever preacbeth the word of God t? the people is tne sower; Jesusr Christ, the apostles, every true minister of the gospel, all whose holy example illus*' trates and impresses gospel truths. "Soweth the .word/' 2. "The seed is the wi.-d of God" (Luke 8:11). The,; soil is the -heart of man. The seed cannot grow without soil; but the life is in the seed, not in the soil. The results, however, depend largely upon AU- 1.J-J - l (.AAif 4m I lie Hi LIU. Ul CiUll ill Y> liiL'JU UJC occu AO |HX sown. 15. "By the way side." The H four kinds of soil represent four classes B of individuals. The wayside hearers B are those who do not understand be? B cause they do not pay proper attend B tion. Sin has hardened the heart; ,B Evil habits, profanity, unclean ?B thoughts have tramped it solid. "WokkB is sown." In each case the seed was good. "Have heard." All hear; God HI speaks to every person; all might heed B and become fruit-bearing Christians B if they would. "Satan cometh." Mat- B thew says "the wicked one," and Luke B says "the devil." r'' B 17. "Have no root." He did not B count the cost (Luke 14:23-33). His B emotions were touched, but his soul B .was not deeply convinced of Its right* B eousness. "Endure but for a time." B 1T71_!I_ ? ? on/1 Willie CVCi J uiiu^ 5UC0 ouiui;uiij uiAMHHi they are surrounded by good ences. Xfl 18. "Among thorns." The soil wns^H good, but was preoccupied. The thorny* H ground hearers go farther than either H of those mentioned in the former in< B trances. They had root iu themselves H and were able to endure the tribula* H tions, persecutions and temptations Hi thai came upon thorn; but still they al? lowed other things to cause them to H become unfruitful. ; Hp 20. "Good ground." Good and hon*^H est hearts. "Bring forth fruit." Who^H bring forth fruit to perfection? 1. Those who have heard aud received the word. 2. Tho?e who "keep it" (Luke 8:15); that is. o'oey the truth. 3. Those who have pure hearts (Acts 15:9)? II hearts made free from sin (Rom. G:22). II 4. Those who bring forth fruit "witiJ II patience" (Luke S:15). g| Seven Calves at ltirtb. II Seven perfectly formed calves. Dorir :o one Durham cow witliin two hours, IB ivas the unusual incident recorded at IB lie farm of M. S. Hill, in Pleasant Val- M ey, Metheun, Mass. All the calves IB lied at birth or immediately after. |J They included four bulls weighing thir- IB y pounds each and three heifers of ^B wenty-five pounds each. The cow is |M i large animal, weighing 1100 pounds. Cattlemen and veterinaries in the inity say the occurrence is uuprece-^^B lented in their experience. V.'rofe 4CS." Vi'oril*, Only f?1 Mistaken. In the .spr-ihl contests o:j typo#riters MB t the roc;?ut National business Show Hz t Chicago a woman made the record HI or the smallest number of mistakes ^B n her copy. She was Miss Elizabeth Jaker. and in half an hour she wroto BH 0S."? words, making only tifty-two mis- ^B akes. SB Fope Now 'Phones Home. HB The Italian Government has extend- B d the telephone between Iiome and HH 'adua to Riese, the Tope's native town, HH xpressly to give Pius X. the opporunity to talk with his family. ? , .