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[v ; I VLr ^ By WALTER *4 """"" I "T~ CHAPTER XIV. 14 < Continued. .. 1 "She .hasn't got nny people. She 's ; absolutely without any relations." i "No people?" ] "No. There is nobody else like her l In the "whole -world. When I was ] <aben from her she lost the only per- c son in the world who eared for her. : Poor Katharine!" : "But she roust have had parents, 1 and they must have had cousins." : "Most girls have. Mine did not. She < had a father, and his name was mi- i loughby Capel." < "Willoughby! That is strange, too. i What was he?" "He was a gentleman by profession. ] He was an idle, selfish, luxurious, use- ( less creature in reality. He had been < in the army, and he lived on some al- 1 lowance or annuity or something, the 1 . nature of which he never told his 1 daughter. Nor was she told anything i about her relations. Her mother was i an actress, but Katharine was not per- t mitted to know her name, and she died 1 in childbirth. There is the whole i story." f "It is only the beginning of one. Why 1 did the man keep his daughter in ig- J Dorance of her relations?" I "Well, you see, there is one reason ;which immediately sugests itself to ( the adult. It is based on that adult's I experience of the wickedness of human i aiature. The man must have dote i something which cut him off from the 1 family, or else perhaps all the family j ( must have done something simultaneously, and so cut themselves off from iiim. There are a good many actions ;which. are still recognized as being dishonorable even in this lax age. There are so many, in fact, that there are enough to go round a very large family, and very likely it was the cousins who disgraced themselves with one consent. But I donbt it, sir." * "Tom, it's a very curious thing, and perhaps it means nothing and is only a coincidence, but there was a fellow In my Katharine's family who was formerly in the army, and turned out a very bad hat indeed. He had to send in his papers for something he did.1 I never heard what it was, but the rest. of his family would have nothing more to do with him. He was always in debt, I know, for one thing, and he was pretty unscrupulous as to getting out of debt." ' "You would suggesr xnac xois aimu- i ble person was my Katharine's par- j ent?" i "Perhaps it is only a coincidence. Still, there are other points. This gal- t ]ant officer of ours married an actress. ?o did yours. Whether there were any j children or not I do not know. Then, j however, come the names. "Why I /should he call himself Willoughby for iis Christian name? Because it was t lis surname? Why should he call l ! his daughter Katharine Regina? Be- t " ' ' cause it was a family name? Again, it was Katharine Regina Willoughby, l my Katharine's great-aunt, who kept ' our man going. She used to say nothing about it, but it was known in the familj that she did so. Tom, I firmly s believe that your Katharine is my \ Katharine's cousin. What sort of a i man was her father to look at?" # I "He was an extremely handsome t man, tall and with regular features, 1 and was called an aristocratic-look- i k w in a: man." j "All the Willonghbys are tall and A -extremely handsome. My Katha- 1 rlne?" < "And mine as well." said Tom. ! "What color was Lis hair?" "It should have been gray, but he 1 dyed it. I suppose he kept to the 1 original color, which was a dark < brown. His eyes were brown." 1 "Good heavens, Tom! This is wonderful. I have 110 doubt at all thnt ho 1 was old Miss Willoughby's favorite* 1 good-for-nothing nephew. "What a < strange thing it is that we should < have been lugged about together over ] that accursed desert for six months, ] and that we should be engaged to two 1 cousins!" "I dare say you are right," said Tom. "But as my Katharine doesn't know of , your Kathariue. I don't see how it helps he:* at the present juncture. Stay. Good heavens! If I had known this six months ago I need never have come out at all." "Why?" "Because the fortune to which I did not succeed was to go to the heirs of ] <this very Captain Willoughby, and if you are right, it is my own Katharine, after all, who will have it! Old man, that escape which you planned and carried?out meant more than our lives, ? ? ? ? 4.V?? Tt'Amfitl mure muu mt* urtppuicoo ui iiav ??uiuvi* who love us; it meant, only I did not know it. the restoration of Katharine to her family and to her fortune. Good heavens! It is wonderful. It is truly wonderful. Here the conversation ought to have ended; the curtain ought to fall at this point. What followed was weakvery weak. "Old man," Tom went on. "If I had known that all this was involved in our getting safe to this haven of refuge, I believe I should never have pulled thrdngh with you. I should hav?? hpun too nervous. The sun would have killed me; I should have fallen down -with heat apoplexy; I should have stepped upon a flying serpent; I should have irritated a winged dragon; I should have died of that awful thirst; I could never have survived the overwhelming desire to get safe home .in order to give that poor girl back to her friends and her fortune. As for me. I've been dead for six months. She has had time to get over the shock, but she little thinks, when I do com* back, what I am bringing back with, me?besides myself." "J CHAPTER XV. Joyful Tidings. i Harriet Rolfe had never oerore this I Ill E R?% I ; BESANT. ^ 4 7M,M Ill5 ?vening felt what it means to be truly aappy. For she was as well dressed is she desired to be; that it to say, is she had learned to be, because she lever soared to the heighths of those adies who resign themselves into the lands of their artistes, but arranged, ;onsidered, designed, and chose for herself, which is much the best -way if rou have a touch of genius. Next, she ivas in society; that is to say, she sat it the head of her table, presiding )ver the first dinner party given by ifr nnil Mrs TTnnaner Rolfe? the sec >nd Christian name came in handy? n their new house. There were no ladies; but as yet Harriet had not arrived at the stage )f desiring the society of ladies. Her >wn sisters, cousins, aunts, and early 'riends could not, she knew, be asked o meet gentlemen, and besides, she iked to be the sole object of their adniration. She was conscious that few ,vomen can be certain of calling forth his admiration.' In a crimson velvet !rock with dead-gold bracelets and aecklace, with her tall and shapely igure and her comely cheek, she ook'ed indeed a splendid creature. Tames regarded her with pardonable )ride. There were four guests; one, a cer:ain baronet whose acquaintance Fames had made in a billiard, room ivhich he frequented, where the narker and the habitual players called Jim Surennery. To be called Sur;nnery must be true enjoyment of a ;itle. He was a handsome man, still roung, of five-and-thirty or so, with ather a weak profile. But his eyes vere sharp, like unto those of a huner. His private fortune was said to )e nothing at all, and his enemies declared that he lived by pyramids and .hilling pool. There were, besides, three other old 'riends of the turf and the billiai^l oom invited in order that they might?e for themselves in what magnifi:ence their former pal, once so hard ip, was now living. When Mrs. Rolfe arose, the host jushed about the bottles. But the jvening was "set dull'; no one said mything which called forth a spark of nterest. At last Sir Henry made a emark which though he did not mean t, fell like a bombshell and wrecked lie house. "I saw a War Office man just now/ le said; "he told me that they J>ave ust had a telegram about those two nurdered." "What two fellows?" asked James, luickly looking up. "Captain McLauchlin and the newsjaper chap. It seems they were jrisoners, and nave got dbck. it win )e in tbo papers to-morrow." Jem poured out a glass of port and lrank it. Then he took another?Lis 'ace was very white and his hands rembled. "The newspaper chap, Sir Henry," le said, with dignity, but huskily, 'was?I mean is?my first cousin." "Oh! I am sorry I spoke so hastily." "Not at all. The news naturally surprised me. We had all given him ip long ago. Poor old Tom! He had 10 brother, and we were brought up ogether." This was a decoration, so o spe^ik, of the truth. "To think that le should turn up again, alive and ivell?you said that both were alive ind well?and well?" "My War Office man certainly said .hat both had been prisoners and had ?scaped." "Let us hope that both are well, rhere is a girl somewhere about who tvifl be a happy woman to-morrow svhen the news comes. Not to speak 3f another woman not a hundred miles from this house." He was doinj it very well, thought the pals. They then began to talk or the strangeness of arriving home when me has been reported dead, and been given up for lost, and mourning has been ordered and worn, and wills proved?conversation during which their host winked his eyes hard many iirnes. Before they went upstairs he made a little request of tnem: "My wife," he said, "was very fond of my cousin Tom." She had never even seen him. "She is a very sensitive person? highly strung and tL.at. you know," he winked again, "and the news of his death affected her terribly. Do not breathe a word of this joyful intelligence. I will break it to her carefully to-morrow morning, so that she may not lose her night's rest." Upstairs Harriot gave her guests tea and a little music. She knew how to play simple accompaniments and had n strong, full voice of rather coarse quality, which would have done weli for the burlesque stage or the musichall, and she sang sentimental and pathetic ditties. "I do think, Jem," she said, when her guests were gone, "that when you 1 nnpfninp TAll miorllf Ul'lliy )uur uicuuo u|iouiui> jvu iui0ui do better than sit in a corner, and look as glum and grumpy as? an undertaker at his own funeral. Unless you've had too much wine." "Yes," her husband replied, 'it is all over, my dear. Now we can go back to the fun of the old days again " "What do you mean?" she asked, sleepily. "And to Stockwell again, if you like." "What rlo von mpan. Jem?" She was wide awake now. "And to the jolly old days of fighting the landlord." "Jem"?she turned quite pale, for her husband's face was serious? "Jem! for heaven's sake, what has happened? Has a will turned up?" "Worse than that." "Have you been losing the money, betting?" "Worse than that, Harriet." "What?worse?" "The very worst; the most unlucky thing in the world. Harriet, he isn't doud after all." "Not dead! Tom no*- desdl" Kbo . ^ ;' -V ' -. . ?- afc clutched tlic back of a chair -with both bands. "Not dead?" "Tom has turned up again, none the worse. Ho has only been a prisoner among the Arabs, and he got back safe. I don't quite know how long it takes to get from Suakim to London, but we may be pretty certain that he'll corer that distance in the shortest time on record." "Oh!" There was a conscientious, a heart-felt ring about the interjection. The deepest grief, the most profund despair, the most bitter helplessnessall were there. "Well. Harriet," her husband continued, "it's no use shutting our eyes. Out -we go, my dear. We needn't go just yet; when Tom comes home he shall find us keeping the house warm, because we couldn't get a tenant; and as for what we have spent, trust me for running up a bill of costs, and throwing dust in his eyes." "Jem, you are a fool." "Why, my dear?" "What does it matter about the past? It's the future?oh, my God, it is the future. What shall we do?" Jem, who had been walking abo;<: the room, sat down and faced her with a look of bewilderment. "I don't know, Harriet. If I only I pull through this business?why it's a " She understood not one word ! of what he meant. "Good heavens I ] If I pull through?it seems hardly to i matter what becomes of us after- ! wards." "We shall have to go back to the j old wretched, miserable life. Where j are we to find the money even to pay | the rent? We've got no furniture; j we've got no money; we've got no practice?oh! Jem?Jem?how are we IV n v c ; She sank into a chair and gasped. Her husband was still occupied with his view of the situation. "The future may take care of it- I self, Harriet. It's the past that I j look at. Nobody can prove that I knew ! that girl to be the heiress; thank good- j ness, that can't come out. Very well, | then?let us face the situation. Tom , was dead. Before Tom went away j he gave me a power of attorney, j Well, I am the natural heir. I advertised. for the heir-at-law of Captain Willoughby Capel, and no one replied. Then Tom was killed?I naturally succeeded?I am his only cousin, on that side Then he comes home again, I say to him, 'Tom ? my dear old Tom'?being much affected?'how glad I am to restore all to you! The heir can not be found, and you had better sit down and enjoy the fortune.' If he does, I have got the knife into | him, because the trust money ought j to go back to Miss WiUoughhy's JQeirs. If lie doel cot, he will make me the solicitor, end if I know my way about, some of that money shall stick." "Wfcfct are you talking about? What girlf What trust?" "Well, Harriet, there was no use telling you; but if you hadn't been a woman you would have asked a few , question about the sudden accession. You see, I am one of the heirs to ! Tom's estate?no one can get over that; j one of them, and the others are in . New Zealand?but it's loaded with a ! trust, and we did not know to whom that trust ought to be handed over i just when we went away. Well, you ! see, first of all, I promised Tom sol emnly that what was left when that \ trust was paid should be given to j his girl-" "You promised to give away your ! own?" n frirti 'FT<irrip'f\ It wasn't I my own. It was his. If I hadn't j promised he would have made a will i on the voyage, and given it to her. ! Eesides, I didn't put that promise into writing. Well, after Tom went away I I found that even if this trust money was paid there would be an uncommon tidy bit left. So of course I j wasn't going to regard such a promise j as binding?not likely." "Well, and did you pay the trust?" ; "No, I didn't. You see, my dear, | there's this certain fact about the ! trust, that not a soul knows anything ' about it except Tom and me. It ! should go to the heirs of a mau who is dead; if not, it would have to revert ! to the heirs of the original donor. Very j good. The awkward thing is that I j haven't paid it to either; and now ; Tom is come back and there will be ( the devil to pay." "Oh! Who is the heir?" "I found out some time ago. It is | no other than Tom's own sweetheart, j Katharine Capel. She doesn't know, I nn/i Tnm npvpr knew " "Where is she?" (To be continued.) Old Mantrap round. A mantrap lias been found in A1- j ford, Lincolnshire, England, which. \ shows the barbarity of less than a ! century ago. It is probably the largest j mantrap in existence. It is 70 inches i in length and its jaws, with teeth pro- j truding 2 inches, will open fully 2 feet | 2 inches by IS inches. Oldtime land- j lords who choose to insist upon their ! I rights in their entirety, as they often i [ did, were at liberty to plant these bar- i I barous engines about in the uuder- i I growth of their inclosed lands for 1 the benefit of any trespasser or possi- ] ble poacher who might chance to set j foot near them. Their use was abol- i islied by law in 1S2T. Will Harness Victoria Falls. ' +/V- I "Niagara was glorious umuic, iu- , day it is power; Victoria is pretty," pleads Professor Ayrtm' of the British association in Africa, where the bridge over the Zambesi River, near the Victoria falls, has just been opened. Tlaus are forming for utilizing the power of the falls, which represent about one-tlfth of Niagara's power, and fall from more than twice Niagara's height. The bridge, which was opened with much celebration, is one of the largest in the world and one of the most remarkable. It was constructed entirely in Eugland. Money in Abalones. The abalone industry is a considerable one among the Chinese of the Pacific coast. Several processes are nccessary to bring out the wonderful colorings in tho sirells, and acres of ground are devoted to curing them. This work is carried on by the Mongolian fishermen, who depend for their sole sustenance upon tb* fish of tli9 hivnlve itself. AMERICANS CROWD LONDON Millionaires Take Their Check Books and Pretty Daughters. Records For Extravagance and Dis* play Will Be Broken This Summer--AII Hotels Are Crowded. London.?The army of American millionaires has begun its annual invasion of London, with open check books and pretty daughters. This season all records for display for extravagant expenditures will be broken. The keynote of this campaign of extravagance has been struck by a man from Philadelphia, "who walked into the Carlton and said he would just take an entire floor to himself and his family. Subsequent arrivals were informed that there was no more room. The great "West End hotels are already crowded, yet the rush has hardly begun. Every steamship leaving New York is fully booked for the next three months, and so great is the desire to spend the winter profits in Europe that hundreds of tourists are cheerfully paying first-class rates for second-class berths rather than wait until the "E?ason" is ever. More money will be spent by Americans in London this summer than ever before. They are coming prepared to scatter dollars with a reckless hand, for the past year has been one of unexampled prosperity in the United States, and many men have jumped from comparative poverty into affluence. The first ambition of these people is to go abroad, and London is their first stopping place. Moreover, the millionaires of older foundation have had their fortunes enormously increased, with the money-spending mania increased in proportion/ This tendency is illustrated by the regal magnificence of the American millionaire on tour. He is 110 longer content with upper deck staterooms. He must have "royal suites." There is a greater demand for these suites, costing hundreds of dollars for the single voyage, than ever before. All the great hotels, such as the Savoy, the Cecil, the Carlton, Claridge's, the Russell and the Great Central, are crowded with Americans. Many millionaires had the forethought to engage apartments months in advance. Others, who find themselves without accommodation, are offering fabulous sums for suites with a bath. TVizvro Twill ho manu Uinrtc r\f million. aires in London in tie next few weeks ?conl and steel millionaires from Pittsburg, wheat millionaires from Chicago, millionaire financiers from New York and Boston, and from Philadelphia. MORMONS QUIT BUSINESS. Church is Belling Out Traction and Other Holdings to Capitalists. Salt Lake City, Utah.?The Mormon Church i6 going out of business. Its principal holding in Salt Lake, the Utah Light and Railway Company, is to be taken over by a $25,000,000 corporation, composed of English and American capitalists. Simultaneously the announcement is made that the Salt Lake and Los Angeles Railroad, another church property, has been sold to a local syndicate for $500,000. If this policy is completely carried out the sale of the traction interests will be followed by the sale of stocks in banks, sugar factories, the great Z. C. M. I. Department Store and many smaller enterprises, it win De noming Jess than a commercial revolution which will profoundly affect the political and social life of the State. RUSSIAN DUMA'S DEMANDS. Czar, in Order to Avoid Conflict, Will Grant Amnesty. St. Petersburg, Russia.?The Czar* In order to avoid a conflict with Parliament, is ready to choose new Ministers, the Premier excepted, from the ranks of the Duma, and has agreed to a partial amnesty. This is a great victory in the campaign for constitutional monarchy. The Duma's ten demands are as follows: 1. General amnesty. 2. Abolition of the death penalty. 3. Suspension of martial law and all exceptional laws. 4. Full civil liberty. 5. Abolition of the Council of the i Emnire. G. Revision of the fundamental law. 7. Establishment of the responsibility of Ministers. 8. Right of interpella'..on. 9. Forced expropriation of land. 10. Guarantees of the rights of trades unions. CANOEIST AND BOY DROWN. Searchers With Grappling Irons Recover Store Manager's Body. Millville, N. J.?While canoeing on Union Lake Theodore P. Clark, manager of the Millville Manufacturing Company's department store, and his ten-year-old nephew, Richard R. Lewis, were drowned. Persons who saw them noticed that thoy were handling the canoe rather awkwardly and advised them to change positions. Afterward the canoe was found floating bottom upward. Searchers with grappling irons dragged the lake and found the body of Clark. Pilots Fight in Congress. Pilots are fighting bills in Congress to abolish compulsory pilotage. Three Canoeists Lose Lives. At Lawrence, Mass., George Kahil, Salem George and Boris Andoea, three young Syrians, were drowned in the Merrimac River while canoeing. They wer\? Inexperienced in the handling of the craft and capsized in midstream. Rockefeller's Pastor Resigns. The pleas of John D. Rockefeller failed to induce Dr. Rufus P. Johnston to withdraw his resignation as pastor of the Fifth Avenue*'Baptist Church, New York City. / Lnboj^ Notes. The British Cofcnaons'has passed an eight-hour bill. Jt provides for gradual reduction of the working day in coal mines. [ An unknown ascailant beat to death Joseph Crosson, ah jron molder, at Buffalo, who hadjroue there to help break a strike. I A lockout in the Wtal industries, extending all over, Germany, begnu. Three hundred and twenty thousand men are affected. The International Brotherhood oE Woodsmen and Sawmill Workers has established a hospital at Eureka. Cal. , I : > ffPP THE GEEAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Tile Public Danger ol Intoxicating Lienor Is So Great In JEncland and Scotland That Many ClUen and Towns Are IgiuIds Large l'osters of a Warning Mature In view of the increasing interest taken by municipalities in England and Scotland in the question of public health as affected by the use of intoxicating liquor, many of the cities and large towns have decided to issue large posters in their respective areas in order to warn the people against the use of alcohol. Several of the London Borough Councils, Liverpool, Iieeds. Tunbridge Wells in England, Glasgow and Dundee in Scotlund, are among the places that have taken such action. The Trade has raised an action iu the law courts in order to arrest the spread of the movement. The following is the form of poster issued by the city of Dundee, which is typical of that issued by othei' municipalities: CITY OF DUNDEE. Physical Deterioration and Alcoholism. . The Report of the Committee, presented to Parliament by command of His Majesty, states that: The abuse of alcoholic stimulants is a most potent and deadly agent of physical deterioration. 1UKU AlCOnOIlC persuiis are Bpecmuy uuu 1C to tuberculosis and all inflammatory disorders. Evidence was pltced before the committee showing that iu abstinence is to be sought the sourc: of muscular vigor and activity. The lunacy figures shov a large and increasing number of admissions of both sexes which are due to drink. The following facts recognized by the medical profession are published in order to carry out the recommendation of the committee and to bring home to men and women the fatal effects of alcohol on physical efficiency : (a) Alcoholism is a chronic poisoning resulting from the habitual abuse of alcohol (whether as spirits, wine, or beer), which may -ever go as far as drunkenness. (b) It is a mistake to say that stimulants are necessary for those doing hard work. .(c) Alcohol is really a narcotic, dulling the nerves, like laudanum or opium. Its first effect is to weaken a man's self-control whJe his passions i*re excited; hence the number of crimes which occur under its influence. (d) For persons in ordinary health Af ^rinlrinrr oron thfl UiC PK.V.UV.C XT*. uwuujud ? ? milder alcoholic driniis apart from meals is most injurious. (e) The habit of drinking to excess leads to the ruin of families, the neglect of social duties, disgust for work, misery, theft and crime. It leads also tv the hospital, for alcohol produces the most various and the most fatal diseases, including paralysis, insanity, diseases of the stomach and liver and dropsy. It also paves the way to consumpti- n, and frequenters of public houses furnish a large proportion of the victims of this disease.* It complicates and aggravates all acute diseases; typhoid fever, pneumonia and erysipelas are much more fatal in the ..ubjects of alcohol- | ism. (f) Ibe sin? of parents who have drunk to excess are visited on the children, both morally and physically. (g) In short, alcoholism is tne most terrible enemy to personal health, to family happiness, and to national prosperity. WILLIAM LONGAIR, Lord Provost. CHAS. TEMPLEMAN, M.D., D.Sc., Medical Officer of Health. WM. H. BLi^TH MARTIN, Towa Clerk. Town Eouse, Dundee, 190C. Drinker* Take Heed. Over two millions of the best positions In the L'nited States are closed to men wno drink. In the centres of business men who are placed in positions cf trust must ue bonded by bonding companies, and not by their friends. One of the main questions :ha; a bonding company asks of one to be bonded is "Do you drink Intoxicating liquors?" and they will not bond one who is' giv;n to uriuk. The Pennsylvania Railroad tympany not only insists on Its men being sober, but insists on their keeping out of the way of temptation. Cn one division the trainmen were civen orders not to stop over night rt the end of their division at a hotel that had a bar. The hotel near the depot closed the bar because they preferred the patronage of the railroad without drink rather th: i to lose this patronage and retain the sale of drink. In Cincinnati a railroa." employe lived next door to a saioon. He was much surprised on'.* morning to get a notice from headquarters to change his place of residence cr give up his position with the railroad. The only explanation given was that the rail 'T'l not?n fnp nnT7 j'oua cumpuujr uju uui uic iu4 of its employes to be s*> closely associated with any saloon. Yet there are those who arc demanding that a saloon shall be placed in every soldier's camp. L?et Mothers, Wives, Sinter* Weep. The licensed liquor traffic flaunts its pirate flag in our faces and demands first, license; second, money; third, the boys and girls of our homes; fourth, that we shall pay all the bills resulting from the traffic, build our jails, prisons and almshouses for its product and keep our gallovfk in order on which to hang its victims. Mothers, wives and sisters may weep and moan and lament. what care the venders of licensed liquor? Temperance Notes. The University of Berlin is the first educational institution in the world to establish a course of study in alcholism. About 33,COO,000 of the people of this land are living under legal pro. ibiiioa, .in tne form or other, of the liquor traffic. In every State in our country the teaching in our public schools of physiology and hygiene, the law makes mandatory. It is not it may De taugnr, but it must. If we "spare" the saloon we are absolutely sure to spoil some boys. It is known that in England and Wales there are at least fifty mayors who are total abstainers, while in Scotland the chief magistrates of about fifty Scottish burghs, including the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, are in the same category. A recent mass meeting to consider the question of saloon lawlessness ia Beaver Dam, Wis., and to devise means to combat it, was called by the Catholic piiests, held in the German Catholic Church and the resulting law enforcement organization was headed by the priest of that church. ' THE SUNDAY SCHOOL . INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS . FOR JUNE 17. Subject: The Tran*flj?nratlon, Lnke lx., 28-30?Golden Text: Lnke ix., 35? Topic: Lemons of the Traniflgnratlon ?Memory Verges, 30, 31?Commentary I. A night of prayer (v. 2S). 2S. "AHout an eight days after." Matthew and Mark say six days. There were six full days and the fractional days at the beginning and the end making "about" eight. 'These sayings." The sayings of the last lesson. Edersheiru supposes the great confession occurred on the Sabbath, and the transfiguration on the night after the Sabbath one week later. There is no intimation as to how the intervening week was spent. "Peter and John and James." It was the same favored three who had gone with Him into the room where He raised Jairus' daughter, and a few months later these same apostles witnessed His Rgony in the garden. | "Into a mountain." The place of the transfiguration scene is unknown, but it was probably Mount Hermon, not far from Caesarea Philippi. This is the opinion of nearly all modern authorities. "To pray." It was the habit of Jesus to go alone in the night to pray. Before He chose the Twelve, and after feeding the five thousand, we see Him praying in the night. II. Jesus transfigured (v. 29). 20. "As He prayed." During His prayer. The transfiguration was the answer. "Countenance was altered." The original word is elsewhere in the New Testament rendered "transformed" (see Rom. 12:2; 2 Cor. 3:18), and is used of a spiritual change. Matthew says, "His face did shine as the sun." "Raiment became white and dazzling." R. V. Mark says, "Exceeding white a? snow." It was His inner spirit shining through the veil of flesh. III. Heavenly visitants (vs. 30, 31). 30. "Moses and Elias." Ellas is the Greek form for Elijah. This was not a vision. These persons were actually present, and tije disciples recognized them, as is evident from Peter's proposition in verse 33. This gives good ground for believing that we shall recognize our friends in Heaven 31. "Who appeared in glory." In like glory -with Jesus; with glorified bodies. May this not be. a hint as to the appearance of our resurrection bodies? "Spake of His decease." Or il/moi-tiiTo oTrtrlna frrmi the world? including, no doubt, His death. resurrection and ascension. "Which He was about to accomplish." R. V. "This conversation would enable the disciples to see the importance and .necessity of that -which was to them the greatest mystery"?the suffering and death of their Master. IV.?Three disciples behold His fclory (vs. 32, 33). 32. "Heavy with sleep." It -was in the night, and the time -when they usually slept. Our English Version implies that they fell asleep and were awakened to see His glory, while the original implies that, though heavy with sleep, they kept fully awake. "Were fully awake." R. V. Even though they may have been asleep at first, yet when He was "transfigured before -them" they were fully awake. "Saw His glory,; and the two men." They saw the brilliancy of their countenances, and the dazzling brightness of the garments. 33. "As they departed." Were departing. Peter must l?Ave RPAn tJmt thev were ready to leave. "Peter said." Eager and impulsive ns always. It was for him too brief a glimpse of the heavenly glory. "It is good for us to be here." Peter spoke the truth. The apostles would be stronger and more useful because of the divine manifestations. "Three tabernacles." Or booths, from the bushes on the mountains; such as were made at the feast of Tabernacles. He greatly desired to have the heavenly visitants remain with them. "Not knowing what he said." Peter's plans were frequently in opposition to those of his Lord. V. The voice from the cloud (vs. 3436). 34. "While He thus spake." "Here was the response to Peter's suggestion, a wise answer to a foolish prayer; denying the petition in order to grant something better." "There came a cloud, and overshadowed them." Matthew says a "bright" cloud. A cloud had frequently been the symbol of the divine presence. It was a cloud that guided and protected the children of Israel (Exod. 13:21; 14:19); a cloud that filled the temple at the dedication (1 Kings 8:10, 11); and the Lord maketh the cloud His chariots (Psa. 104:13). Peter refers to the clouds that overshadowed them on the.mount as "the excellent glory" (2 Pet. 1:17). "They feared." This glorious manifestation of God's presence caused them to tremble. It is very likely that the transfiguration took place in the night, in ? uirv ii'nrlif r\i* Phrlct'o nnnn tenance, ^he dazzling brightness of His garments, and tbe glory of tbe cloud, would bave a marked effect, because of tbe absence of tbe solar Wgbt. "Entered into." The cloud seemed to descend over them and envelop them. EO. "A voice." The voice of God tbe Father. It revealed nothing new, but confirms the old, for it was tbe same voice which had been heard at His baptism. This would show to Peter | and the apostles that they did not need 1 to detain Moses and Elijah in order to ! add to their happiness. "This is My beloved Son." Matthew adds. "In wljoni I am well pleased." "Hear Him." He is superior even to Moses. 3<>. "When the voice was past." Matthew tells us that when 1he disciples heard the voice they fell on their faces, and were sore afraid: then, recovering from the shock, they suddenly gaz<jd all around theni and saw no person but Jesus. "Kept it close." Mark says that Jesus charged them that they should "tell no man what tilings mey nau seeu, mi iue otm ui Man were risen from the dpa<l" Been Kill a MinUter. Killed by bees from his own hives, the Rev. Thomas Carlton, a Methodist minister, was found dead at Memphis, Tenu. Mr. Carlton, who was over seventy years old, was vfrell known in the circuits of Tennessee, had lived in Weakley County for more than a year. The bees were his hobby, and he made many visits to the hives. No one witnessed the attack. The cries of Mr. Carlton cause! liis wife and servants to hurry to his aid, but when they arrived he was dead. Pari* Theatres Get 88.300,000 a Year. Paris' ninety-seven theatres took in last season $8,200,000. The Opera is first in the list just published, with gross receipts amounting to ?600,000. Then coines the Opera Coraique with $300,000, and third in the libt is the Comedie Francaise, i%ith $450,000. Under the French laws more than $S00,G^O was turned over to the poor. Water From .Jordan Rlrer. 7~ A company has been formed in Berlin,-Germany, to sell water from the River Jordan for the purpose of baptism. The water is'to sell at $3.00 a bottle. _ ?jcu*-cj&?. j ft ( ^ v. > r [ = QuiETlroua HOW READEST THOU? (Luke x., 26.) " 'Tis one thing, friend, to read the Biblt through, s'^SL Another thing to read to learn to do; "Tis one thing, too, to reed it with delight, And quite (mother thing to read it right. "Some read it with design to learn to r^adt But to the subject pay but little heed; dome read it as their duty once a week, ! : But no instruction from the Bible seek. ? , , / 3 "Some read to bring themselves into repute, By showing others now they can dispute; v| Whilst others read because their neighbors do, # To see how long 'twill take to read itj through. "Some reaH *' e blessed book, they don't knov jy; It somehow happens in the way to he; Whilst others read it with uncommon care* But all to find some contradictions there. "One reads irith father's specs upon hid head, And see the thing just as his father did; Another reads through Campbell or .1 through Scott, j And thinks it means exactly what they; ';] thought. " ' yxM "Some read to prove a preadopted creed, \ Thus understand but little what they re&di /. And every passage of the book they bene ?* To make it suit that all important end. Some people read as I have pften thought, o To teach the book instead of being taught." > , iflv via raiaii Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths.?Jeremiah, M vl., 10. Every renaissance and reformation, every epochal movement that has to do with the upward development of human life, is marked by a return to old ways, strong, wholesome, clean, thax have long been neglected. "Jf.; Life's gr( moral principles, the . ] highways over which it comes to ita highest and truest development are not susceptible to change. Conditions and environments change with kaleldo- | scopic rapidity, but those things that . TTT5 + mAfol nrnlLholrKy ui WttTC IV UV TT11U iut UiViai TTV11 UVIWQ^ ^.y with character in its largest torich.? meet and development, do not change. \ Honesty is the best policy to-day, as it ever has been, and no new-made law. of commercial life can ever change it .vt Parity and decency and moral respectability are not amenable to any new. conditions of modern life. Life's con- . $j fusions, its persistent and insistent de> , % mands, require ns to look up now and again those old guile-marks by wbleb I we shaped our course in the earlier, 1 days. We instance three departments of *~ 5 life in which there is an urgent need V5 for this return to the old paths, namely, the commercial, the social and the re- ' ligtpus. If any one wishes to seek for the evidences of the need for a return to the old ways of commercial integrity let " him but note the colossal moral failures that have marked this so-called period of commercial development The youth that are entering the several callings . and vocations need to be reminded ' that there are ways that are honest ,' and clean and wholesome, and that : they are the only ways of permanence and satisfaction. What we find here we disclose again in our social life. There is a certain puerility and sterll- -U ity, a certain lack of reality and wholesomeness, about much that masquerades as social life. Impurity and Intemperance of life, whether they wear *; broadcloth or homespun, are as repugnant to the sens^ of decency to-day a* they were when our fathers and mothers danced the minuet. JLUtfltJ IB a pcwuiiai icmai ul uiiu- ira est in the old furnishings of a former generation. If we would revive their- . environments let us seek to bring back something of their character;, something of that splendid simplicity andt 'r t genuineness that marked the finer lit'e' of our Colonial days. It is needleas to say that here, as in our commercial life, there are saving remnants; that there are homes where the Rpirit of true chivalry among men and- true ?| nobility and grace among women keep pure and strong the currents of social intercourse. What we contend against is that spurious thing, that, for certain ' reasons of wealth or so-called social j prestige, exhibits no reitraiLt and practices no temperance in conduct. Again, the religious life of the twentieth century has been described as in a "transition state," and we are disrwicort fr> think* that this is lareelv so: I but what is to be the transition? Where I arc we tending? There is an almost >3 pathetic and tragic appeal to-day fot the old paths and ways of religious experience. Much as the later expositors of Holy Writ have done, and it is much, to give greater clearness to the interpretation of the Bible, there is a persistent cry that must be' heeded If the church is to prevail, for those old familiar and fundamental truths that > have to do with life and death and immortality.?Rev. James E. Freeman, Rector St. Andrew's Memorial Church, Yonkers, in the Sunday Herald. ^ > The Power of Uod. This is the greatest thing in the world. It is here, too, manifested through you and me and His living Word. When God is in His Heaven X to the minds of men they are different creatures. But if there is no God, and He, if He is, careth not fflr His creatures, then, after the philosophy of Paul, let us eat, drink and be merry, for to-morrow we die. If He reigns, however, let all the earth keep silence, ]et all men be reverent, let purity reign and lust perish. May we mr?ke God known to His people. God and the saloon are enemies. One must go. It will be the saloon; for God is eternal and immutable. , Too Wine to Preach. The man who doubts the Old Testament and refuses to preach its lessons, gets into a place where he pretend? he is wiser than the Son of God. It iai time for him then to get out of the' pulpit.?D. L. Moody. i Who Conhl Hope For Help, If God made no response except t<r perfect faith, who could hope for helpZj He is the God of sprouting seeds and'! little vital beginnings.?M. D. Babcock,' D D Zebrng For Street Car*. Lord Howard de Walden has just reJHI ceived an order for forty zebras t< draw the street cars in Zanzibar. Lore j Howard owns a zebra farm in Uganda I South Africa, where he raises and do; I mesticates the animals, which have I many advantages over mules for Afri? I can service. I Scabbard* of /.lamlnaro. I i Aluminum scabbards will supersed those of steel, wood and leather pats terns In the United States Army. The^ were Invented by Dr. F. A. Bragg, it Springfield (Mass.) dentist. J