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MAIWA'S ? i Of ALLAN QUATERMAIN'S G ra By H. RIDEF Author of "She," "King CHAPTER III. 4 Continued. The kloof "was densely wooded, but for some distance above the kraal it was free from bush, and here on the rich deep ground brought down by the rivulet were the cultivated lands, in ?xtent somewhere about twenty or twenty-five acres. On the kraal side of these lauds stood a single hut, which served for mealie stores, which at the moment was used as a dwelling place by an old woman, the first wife of our friend the headman. It appears that this old lady, having tad some difference of opinion with her husband about the extent of authority allowed to a younger and more amiable wife, had refused to dwell in the kraal any more, and by way of marking her displeasure had taken up her abode among the mealies. As the irsue will show, she was, as it happened, cutting off her nose to spite her face. Close by this hut grew a large ban yan tree. A glance at the menlie grounds showed me that the old headman had not exaggerated the mischief done by the elephants to his crops, which were now getting ripe. Nearly half of the entire patch was .destroyed. The great brutes had eaten all they could, and the rest they had trampled down. I went up to their spoor and started back in amazement. Never had I seen such spoor before. It was simply enormous, more especially that of one old bull, that had, so said the natives, but a single tusk. One might have used any of the footprints for a hip-bath. Having taken stock of the position, my next step was to make arrangements ^or the fray. The three bulls, according to the na tives, had been spoored into tue uense patch of bush above the kloof. Now it seemed to me very probable that they would return to-night to feed on the remainder of the ripening mealies. If so, there was a bright moon,-and it struck me that by the exercise of a little ingenuity I might bng one or mow? of thfem without exposing myself to any risk, which, having the highest respect for the aggressive powers of bull elephants, was a great consideration to me. This, then, was my plan: To the ripht of the huts as you look up the kloof, and commanding the mealie lands, stands the banyan tree that I Lave mentioned. Into this banyan tree I made up my mind to go. t Then, if the elephants appeared, I should get a shot at them. T nnnnnn/tArl m tt tnfnnflnilV frt fhf* headman of the kraal, who was delighted. "Now," he said, "his people might sleep in peace, for while the mighty white hunter sat aloft like a spirit watching over the welfare of his kraal, what was there to fear?" I told him that he was an ungrateful brute to think of sleeping in peace while I, perched like a wounded vulture on a tree, watched for his weJfare in wakeful sorrow, and once more he collapsed, and owned that my words were "sharp but just." However, as I have said, confidence was completely restored, and that evening everybody in the kraal, including the superannuated victim of jealousy in the little hut where the mealie cobs were stored, went to bed with ;i sense ?f sweet security from elephants and all other animals that prowl by night. For my part, I pitched by camp below the kraal; and then, having procured a beam of wood from the headman?rather a rotten one, by the way ?I set it across two boughs that ran out laterally from the banyan tree at a lieiglit of about twenty-five feet from the ground, in s'tich fashion that I and another man could sit upon it with our legs hanging down, and rest our backs against the bole of the tree. This done, I went back to the camp and had my supper. About 0 c^'clock, half a:i hour before the moon-rise, I summoned G'oho?who, thinking that he had had about enough of the delights of big-game hunting for that day, did not altogether relish the job?and despite his remonstances, gave him my eight-borte tp carry, I having the .570 express, and set out ;or the .tree. * It was very dark, but we found it without difficulty, though climbing it was a more complicated matter. However, at last we got up, and sat down like two little boys on a form that is too high for them, and waited. I did not dare to smoke, because I remembered the rhinoceros, and feared that the elephants might wind the to Imicco if they should come my way, and this made the business more wearisome. So I fell to thinking, and wondering at the vastness of the silence. At last the moon came up, and with it a moaning wind, at the breath of which the silence began to whisper mysteriously. . ' Lovely enough, in the new-born light, looked the wide expanse of mountain, jilain and forest, more like some twilight Tision of a dream, some faint reflections from a fair world of peace beyond our ken, than the mere face of garish earth made silvery soft with sleep. Indeed, had it not been for the fact that I.was beginning to find the log on which I sat very hard. I should have grown quite sentimental over the beautiful sight. But I will defy anybody to become sentimental when seated in the damp <*) a very.rough beam of wood haltway up a tree. So I merely made a mental note that 1t was a particularly lovely night, and turned my attention to the prospect of elephants. revengeI; i xr- sl iREATEST ADVENTURE. ? fir l HAGGARD. pl Solomon's Mines," Etc. al P< But no elephants came, and after waiting for another hour or so, I think Jii thai what between weariness and dis- ci gust I must have dropped into a gentle si doze. ei Presently I awoke with a start. Gobo, wiio was perched close to me. p: but as far off as the beam would allow ?for neither white man nor black likes h the aroma which each vows is the pe- (f culiar and disagreeable property of the other?was-faintly, very faintly, click- n: ing his forefinger against, his thumb. h I knew by this signal?a very favorite one among native hunters and gun- tl bearers?that he must have seen or heard something. o! I looked at his face, and saw that he 01 was staring excitedly toward the dim n edge of the bush beyond the deep green n line of mealies. a: I stared, too, and listened. tl Presently I heard a soft, large sound, h as though a giant were gently stretching out his hands and pressing back ai the ears of standing com. tl Then came a pause, and then out into tl the open majestically stalked the larg- s< est elephant I ever saw or ever shall w see. Heavens! what a monster he w??"! s< and bow the moonlight gleamed upon ti his one splendid tusk?for the other cj was missing?as he stood among the mealies, gently moving his enormous ears to and fro, and testing the wind it with his trunk! fi While I was still marveling at his girth, and speculating upon the weight a: of that huge tusk, which I swore should be my tusk before very long, out ti stepped a second bull and stood beside vs him. fi He was not quite so tall, but he c< seemed to me to be almost thicker set t< than the first, and even in that light 01 I could see tJbat both his tusks were perfect. n Another pause, and the third emerged. oi He was shorter than either of tbe ti others, but higher in the shoulder than k ? ?-1 ?i T i^ti xi.?i- ?? i n i\o. ana wueii i urn juu uiui, uo jl ^ afterward learned from actual meas- a urement. the smallest of these three si mighty bulls measured twelve reet one and a half inches at the shoulder, it 6< will give you some idea of their size. e; The three formed into line, and stood 11 still for a minute, the one-tusked bull gently caressing the elephant on the P left with his trunk. n Then they began to feed, walking forward and slightly to the right as they gathered great bunches of the ei sweet mealies and thrust them into s' their mouths. ?l All this time they were more than a hundred and twenty yards away from 11 mo (this I knew because I had paced f< the distances from the tree to various P points)?much too far to allow of my attempting a shot at them in that un- * certain light. Cl They fed in a semicircle, gradually n drawing round the hut, near my tree, in which the corn was stored and the ^ old woman slept. -* 0 rru:^ ? i + i_ _x ?_ _ j. ins wem uu tor ueiween an nour and an liour and a half, till wliat be- ? tween excitement and liope that maketh the heart sick I got so weary that I was actually contemplating a descent from the tree and a moonlight stalk. ^ Such an act in ground so open would . have been that of a stark staring lunatic, and that I should even have been contemplating it will show you the condition of my mind. .( But everything comes to him who knows how to wait, and sometimes, too, to him who doesn't, and so at last those elephants, or rather one of them, came to me. j( After they had fed their fill, which b was a very large one, the noble three n stood once more in line some seventy p yards to the left of the hut and in the edge of the cultivated lands, or in all g( about eighty-five yards from where I g was perched. Then at last the one with a single t< tusk made a peculiar rattling noise in f< his trunk, just us though he were blow- g ing his nose, and without more ado tl began to walk deliberately toward the n hut where the old woman slept. tl I got my rifle ready, and glanced np at the moon, only to discover that a Ii new complication was looming in the bi immediate future. I have said that a wind rose with the moon. Well, the wind brought rain-clouds ^ along its track. Several light ones had already for a ^ little while' lessened the light, though without obscuring it, and now two 1( more were coming rapidly up, both of them very black and dense. The first cloud was small and long, and the one behind big and broad. I remember noticing that the pair of f( them bore a most comical resemblance to a dray drawn by a very long, raw- ^ boned horse. .j As luck would have it, just as the t elephant got within twenty-five yards j or so of uie. the head of the horse-cloud floated over the face of the moon, renderlng it impossible for me to fire. In the faint twilight which remained, however, I could just make out the gray mass of the great brute still advancing toward the hut. tl Then the light went out altogether, (( and I had to trust to my ears. I heard him fumbling with his trunk, apparently at the roof of the hut. ^ Next came a sound as oi' straw being drawn out, and then f6r a little while ^ there was complete silence. The cloud began to pass. I could see the outline of the elephant; he was standing with his head c< right over the top of the hut. n But I could not see his trunk, and ^ 110 wonder, for it was inside the hut. r lie had thrust it right through the roof, and attracted, no doubt, by the smell or the mealies, was groping about A with it iuside. ri It was growing light now, nnd I got my rifle ready, when suddenly there was a most awful ye!!, and I saw the b trunk reappear, and in its mighty fold ... i le old woman who bad been sleeping t tbe hut. Out she came through tbe hole lite a ?riwinkle on the point of a pin, still rapper up in her blanket, and her cinny legs and arms stretched to tbe >ur points of the compass, and as she (1 so gave the most alarming screech. I really don't know who was the lost frightened, she or I, or tie eletiant. At any rate, the last was consideri>ly startled; he had been fishing for lealies?tbe old woman was a mere ?cident, and one that greatly discomised his nerves. He gave a sort of trumpet, and threw er away from him right Into the own of a low mimosa tree, where she ruck, shrieking like a metropolitan igine. The old bull lifted his tail, and flaping his great ears, prepared for flight. I put up my eight-bore, and aiming nstily at the point of bis shoulder or he was broadside on). 1 fired. The report rang out like thunder. laking a thousand ecnoes in me quiei ills. I saw him go down nil of a Leap, as lough he were stone dead. Then, alas! whether it was the kick f the heavy rifle or the excited bump I that idiot Gobo, or both together, or lerely an unhappy coincidence. I do ot know, but the rotten beam broke, nd I went down, too, landing flat at ie foot of the tree upon a certain umble portion of the human frame. The shock was so severe that I felt s though all my teeth were flying irough the roof of my mouth, but a!lough I sat slightly stunned for a few jconds, luckily for me I fell light, and as not in any way injured. Meanwhile the elephant began to >ream with fear a'nd fury, and at acted by his cries, the other two lme charging up. I felt for my rifle; it was not there. Then I remembered that I had rested on n fork of the bough in order to re, and doubtless there it remained. My position now -was very unpleasnt. I did not dare to try and climb the ee again, which, shaken as 1 was, 'ould have been a task of some difculty, because the elephants would ?rtainly see me, and Gobo, who clung ) a bough, was still aloft with tlie ther rifle. t /vinifi nrtt run because there was 0 shelter near. Under these circumstances I did the nly tiling feasible?clambered round ae trunk as softly as possible, and eeping one eye on tbe elephants, whisered to Gobo to bring down tbe rifle, nd awaited tbe development of tbe tuation. 1 knew that if the elephants did not ?e me. which, luckily, they were too ngaged to do, they would not smell ic, for I was up wind. Gobo, however, either did not, or, referring the safety of the tree, would ot hear me. He said the former, but I believed lie latter, for I knew that he was not nougli of a sportsman to really enjoy tiooting elephants by moonlight in the pen. So there I was behind my tree, dislayed, unarmed, but highly interested, Dr I was witnessing a remarkable erformance. When tbe other two bulls arrived, tbe mounded elephant on the ground eased to scream, but began to make low moaning noise and gently touch ae wound near his shoulder, from 'hic-h the blood was literally spouting u t. The other two seemed to understand; t any rate, they did this: ^Kneeling own on either side, they got their unk& and tusks underneath him, and, ided by his own efforts, with one reat lift got him on his feet. Then leaning against t'm on either ide to surport him, they marched off t a walk in the direction of the vilige. It was a pitiful sight, and even then : made me feel a brute. Presently from a walk, as the wounda elephant gathered himself together little, they broke into a trot, and fter that I could follow them no )nger with my eyes, for the second lack cloud came upon over the moon nd put her out as an extinguisher uts out a dip. I say with my eyes, but my ears still ive me a very fair notion of what was oing on. When the cloud came up the three ?rrified animals were heading directly :>r the kraal, probably because inpy ot coufused in the darkness, for when iey came to the kraal fence they did ot turn aside, but crashed straight arough it. Then there were "times," as the ;ish servant girl snys in the American ook. (To be contlnjed.) Germinating; Power of Weeds. To determine what can be done toard destroying weed seeds by deep lowing, the Bureau of Plant Indus y some time ago buried in the ground great many seeds represting in all 30 species, eighty-iour genera and lirty-four families. The seeds were lixed with earth, placed in porous ay pots, and buried in heavy clay sail, t depths varying from eight inches to >rty-two inches. After a year's burial the seeds were iken up and tested for germination, le results being compared with con ol samples which had been stored in loth bags in a dry room. The results indicate tnat while the ?eds of cultivated plants lose their itality, the seeds of weeds retain their owers of germination remarkably ell under such conditions. The deep[ the seeds are buried the better is ifi vUaiitv nrPKprvnd and the harder if seed cents the better do the seeds Jtniii their germinating power. However, it appears thnt many eeds can he destroyed by deep lowinjr and leaving the soil undis jibed for some time. Fill Up While It la Cheap. "Writer sold by tbe drink here. One ?nt a glass. Get it before tbc water leters are put in," is the sign in the 'indow of a downtown water sbop.? hiladelpbia Record. Tbe famous Tugela River, in South frica, is said 011 one occasion to bave sen forty feet during a single niglit. In Faris some patient person has oen collecting statistics about women lurnaliste. t Two women, in lighting a picnic fire on the slope of Waterman mountain. San Bernardino County, California, the other day, discovered asphaltum deposits. A rush followed, 20,000 acres have been located and an oil boom is in progress. Matrimonial tickets are^ supplied by the Canadian Pacific Railway to those settlers in the Northwest Terj ritory who wish to make a journey j in order to get married, and on pre| senting the return coupon and a marriage certificate a man is entitled to free transportation for his bride. The world's yearly use of postcards is enormous. Germany uses 1,161,000,000, the United States 75,000,000, Great Britain 613,000,009. As to letters, however, the United States is far ahead of all other countries. Tlia total number of letters posted here during 1903 was 4,109,000,000. A curious phenomena has been noticed in the tropics that can never be seen at higher latitudes. A mining shaft at Sombrerete, Mexico, is almost exactly on the Tropic of Cancer, and at noon on June 21, the sun shines to the bottom, lighting up the well for a vertical depth of 1100 feet or more. There are at present only 10,000,000,000 tons of iron available, and of this Germany has twice as many tons as this country, while Russia and France each have 400,000,000 tons more than the United States. This j country has at present workable de i posits of 1,100,000,000 tons, wun an annual output and consumption of 35,000,000 tons. A septuagenarian farmer, residing near Harrogate, England, boasts that during his life he has never worn an overcoat, never even possesed one. He drives his cart dally over a bleak moorland, and, despite the fact that he has been drencher, numerous times, is free from rheumatism and from colds. For the last few years he has not slept in bed, but has taken his rest in an old armchair. Some fine speciments of Chinese sounding stones have been described by a late visitor at Ch'ufu, the birthplace and burial-place of Confucius. An incense dish of stone rang with + Ka11_1 iIta +r?na r\f hrnn?P rm VlPlT>P struck with a stick, two pillars gave out a musical not? on being struck at any point, and a large tablet?three by ftve feet in area and six inches thick?emitted a note varying with the point struck. These "stone gongs" are found throughout the country, having ben known for centuries. The material is a grayish oolitic limestone, and it is said to come only from occasional veins at a quarry a fow miles from Ch'ufu. "Black Maria" is a familiar term, j with an origin more or less mysterious. It has been suggested that "Maria" really represents the old word "marinated," which meant transported, or "married," a slang expression formerly applied to persons chained or handcuffed together on the way to jail. But more attractive is the story that in the old colonial days a gigantic and brawny negress kept a sailors' boardinghouse at Boston and frequently lent her strength to the cause of law and order. Once she took three sailors to the lockup unassisted. "Send foi Black Maria," it is said, became a regular way of hinting that a mac ought to be jailed. Origin of Fear in Wild Animals. Can a fear hatch out of an egg? If a fear can hatch out of an egg what is to hinder a thought or ar idea from hatching out of an egg? If a thought and an emotion can hatch out an egg, why may not a volition hatch out of an egg? Why then, may not a complete charactei hatch out of an egg; and where is the need of experience, training and education? After about ten years of careful observation and experiment with a number of different species, I am prepared to maintain the thesis, that a specific fear cannot hatch ouc. oi a bird's egg. Given the physical con ] ditions necessary to the life and comfort of the species, hatch the eggs, and one species is as tame as any other, and will not show fear of man or anything else until it has learned by actual instruction, experience or natural inference that the object in question is dangerous. The fact remains, all the popular statements to the contrary notwithstanding, that, a grouse chick hatched in an incubator or under a hen. from an egg taken from a nest in the woods, is every whit as "tame" as n rhick of the domestic fowl; and it | remains so until it experiences something to make it "wild." A powerful motive in choosing the ruffed grouse for experiment is tjie fact that a myth has seemingly spread over the entire country to the effect that this species is untamable. ?Country Life in America. How Lous? Whales Live. "As to the age to which whales live," says Dr. True, curator of biology of the National Museum, "theje is no accurate data, but I am inclined to the opinion that some of (hem live to an age in excess of forty years. This theory is borne out by I .1-- jn isgo a UltS llJIUlUj-, Ill " luirpoon which had belonged lo a fihip (hat was sunk during the Civil War. Ten years before the ship had cruised as a whaler. The estimates that, whales to be a thousand years old are fanciful, and not baaed on nuihentic information." i THE "SUNDAY SCHOOL 'international lesson comments for august 19. Subject: The Judge, the Pharisee and the Publican, Luke xviii., 1-14? Golden Text, Luke xviii., 13? Topic:. Effective Prayer. 1. The judge and the widow (vs. 1-8). 1. "Spake a parable." In response to a question of the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God should come. Jesus gave them warnings and instruction'as to the coming, and especially as to the need of being always prepared (17:20-37), and naturally turns to the subject of prayer as a means of preparation. "Men ought." It is their "duty" to tio this. "Always to pray." The habit of prayer in private, in the family and in public should be cultivated. "Not to faint." Not to grow weary and discouraged because of the delay of the answer. Why must prayer be importunate? 1. Not because of God's unwillingness to answer. 2. To cherish and cultivate our faith. 3. To intensify our desire to receive. Prayer that is not persevering indicates a lack of faith. 2. "A judge." According to Deut. 16:18, Israel must have in all the gates or tne city ouages, wno were under obligation to administer justice, without respect of persons. See Exod. 23:6-9; Lev.l9:15. "Feared not God ?man." He was unprincipled and oared for no one but himself. 3. "A widow." A widow, without influence And unable to bribe, had little to hope from a wicked judge. "Avenge." The original means "to vindicate Dne's right." The rights of this widow were interfered with and she was asking the judge for protection. The widow is often taken as a representation of the church after Christ's ieath. 4, 5. "For a while."' These verses ?how the abandoned character of the Judge referred to. 6. "The Lord." , tThat is, Jesus. 7. "Shall not God." We are not to suppose that the character of God is at all represented by ibis judge. The great truth which iur Saviour designed, to teach is that :'men ought always to pray, and not to faint." The application of the parable may be made by contrast. I. God is not compared to the unjust j ludge, but contrasted with him. If a hard-hearted, wicked judge, who :ared for neither God nor man, but >nly for himself and his own interests, would yet grant justice on account of the perseverance of the widow, how infinitely more readily, ivill God give us the help we need. 2. And if the unjust judge does this for i poor widow, in whom he has no interest, how much more will our father grant the prayers of His own 1 ihildren. 3. And if the unjust judge will do it for the sake of deliverance from some vexation in common life, bow much more will God save His i ihildren from their adversaries. 8. "Speedily." Suddenly, unexpectedly. "Son of man cometh." I wneaon iuiqks mis cumc jjuau.u | has reference to the second coming 1 of Christ. He says: The church is a > widow in Christ's absence; she has i ?.n oppressive adversary, being the ; persecuting world, or the devil. ! "Faith." This word is sometimes ; jaken to denote the whole of true religion. II. The Pharisee's prayer (vs. 912). 9. "Trusted in themselves.!' 1 Jesus now proceeds to show another reason why many prayers are not ani hwered. The Pharisees did not trust i lo God, or the Messiah for righteous; aess, but in their own works. They vainly supposed they had themselves complied with the demands of the law o? God. "Despised others." Dis' dained, treated them with contempt. 10. "Two men." Both Jews. Two extreme cases are here chosen?a rigid, exclusive, self-satisfied member of the religious society of Israel; and a J-swish officer of the hated Roman j government. 11. "Pharisee stood." The Jews were accustomed to pray standing. The Pharisee went to the temple to pray, because it was a public place, and therefore he would have many eyes on him. "I thank Thee." His prayer is a thanking, his thanking is I a boasting, not of God but alone of t himself. At first he boldly contrasts himself with all men considering himself better than they. "Extortioners." Selfish, greedy men who take 1 away the goods of others by force and violence. "Unjust." Those who are unfair and dishonest in their dealings. 12. "I fast," etc. .The law required but one fast day in the year, the day of Atonement (Lev. 16:29). > "Tithes." A tenth. "Of all that I posi Bess." Rather of all that I require. See Revised Version. He was clothed i with phylacteries and fringes, not with humility. He felt no need of confessing sins. ! III. The publican's prayer (vs. 13, 14). 13. "Publican." One employed ! ns collector of the Roman revenue. It was the basest of all livelihoods. He felt that he was a sinner, and t shame and sorrow caused him to i look dowQ. It was usually the cusl torn to pray with uplifted hands, and with look turned'toward heaven (I ' Tim. 2:8; Psa. 128:1, 2). "Smote? 1 breast." A token of anguish and self-reproach. I am a sinner and can'' not be saved but in Thy way. . 14. "Justified." His sins were ' blotted out, and he was accepted, i "That exalteth himself." Boasts of [ his own goodness. "Abased." Shall . be brought to sbame. "That humbletb himself." By confessing bis sin 1 and unworthiness, and pleading for mercy from God. "Exalted." Lifted up from the depthc of sin. and made an heir of God. From sorrow he is admitted into the realm of praise. * Fire Costs Seven Lives. Mrs. Sarah Gobba and her six children w -e burned to death in a J fire that destroyed men uuu*** I Lafayette, Ind. SoIoraanGobba, hus, band and father, was badly burned. , The fire originated from the kitchen stove. The .'ither awakened his wife and together they rushed up the stairs to rescue the children, who were sleeping in an upper room. I Both were overcome by smoke. | Gobba managed to stagger to the window, and. in his efforts to break it open, fell through to the ground 1 below, sustaining painful injuries, | while the mother and children perished. Base Rail in the Philippines. Base ball has obtained a strong foothold in the Philippine Islands owing to the introduction and pursuit of the game over there by our EOldiers. Strikes in Germany. Year before last there were 1870 ?trikes in Germany and 120 lock* outs; last year there were 2057 strikes and 200 lockouts. ; THE~GREAT DESTROYER"" SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Striking Temperance Lectnres Delivered in Congress ? Hellish Mixture That Will Make a Rabbit Spit in a Bulldog's Face. Worse temperance lectures have been delivered by Gough and Murphy than those of Representatives Richardson and Shirley in the Pure Food debate. Doped whisky, according to the Alabama authority, runs as high as 105,000.000 gallons a year in the country's total output, leaving 2,000.000 for the real a/rticle. Eight-year-old whisiy is made between sunrise and ounset, at which rate it would take less than fortyeijht hours to produce a twentyytar-old brand. Mr. Richardson's statistics were powerfully illustrated by Mr. Shirley, who comes from the State where, according to tradition, "there is no bad whisky." The gentleman from Kentucky took a quart of alcohol, 100 proof, added a little coloring matter and some essence of bourbon to the white liquid, and then defied "any connoisseur in the House" to tell the real from the imitation article. "This hellish mixture," said Mr. Shirley, with some feeling, "will eat the intestines out . of a coyote. It will make a howling dervish out of an anchorite. It will make a rabbit spit in a bulldog's 1 face." If a precise and truthful statement ' of the ingredients of every bottle were stated on the label it is doubt- 1 ful if the consumDtion of whisky would be increased. It is rather' more likely that some capital now invested in certain distilleries would . be diverted to other industries in which larger profits could be realized. Undoubtedly such a conviction on the part of the dealers in doped whisky had its influence in the de- 1 feat of the Richardson amendment to i the Pure Food bill, which was calcu- I lated to protect the consumer against I the "hellish decoction" that* cannot -i be told from the genuine exceot by j an expert. The moral to be drawn ' , from the facts and their treatment I by the House is palpable. Either 1 be sure of your brand or don't drink whisky.?New York Press. I I Georgia Three-fonrths Prohibition, s Of the 137 counties of the State of J Georgia, 102, nearly three-fourths, are now under prohibition of the beverage sale of intoxicating liauors. I "Only thirty-five counties are "wet" in any degree. i But of these thirtyfive "wet" 1 counties, nineteen allow tne saie or | i liquor in but one place in the county, leaving but sixteen counties where license is the general policy of the county. Of these thirty-five nominally "wet" counties, twenty-one allow the Bale of liquor only in dispensaries, twelve have the old-time saloon,, while two counties have both saloon and dispensaries. In point of population, 783.864 people of the State, about one-third of the total population of 2,216,331, live in counties wholly under the prohibition policy. Besides this, 294,482 more people live in counties where temperance sentiment is so. strong that the saloon is barricaded in a single rat hole in one town or city. The Enemy of Labor. Some will say the liauor trade gives employment to labor and ?i? ~ JDf.n_ 1 1 urtJtfiLea d uciiittuu iui maici lai. x i \j~ tassor Barker says: "It purchases less material, emplovsfewer men and t pays a lower rate of wages than any i industry with which it may be equit- r ably compared. It ranks lowest in t the aggregate number of wage earn- l. ers in a list of fifty-five industries. It pays only eight per cent., for labor, l while the general manufacturer pays twenty per cent, for labor." The : United States Department of Labor " found upon inquiry that seventy-two i per cent, of agriculturists, seventy- i nine per cent, of manufactures, C eighty per cent, of tradesmen and a ninety Der cent, of railroad officials s discriminate against men who drink. 3 They Have No Saloons. " 4 "Iceland, about half the size of I Missouri, has no jail, no peniten- i . tlary; there is no court and only one | , policeman. And the very good rea- 1 son for it is that not a drop of alcoholic liquor is made on the island, ^ and its 78,000 people are total ab- . of-jinQrc? einrto thov will r?n+ normit k) bC? A iAUi kj tJiUV^/ " Jil MVb Jivi Uiib I any liquor to be imported. There is not an illiterate on the island, not a child ten years old unable to read, the system of public schools being practically perfect. There are special seminaries and colleges, several good newspapers and a printing establishment which every year publishes a number of excellent books on various lines." Such is the report brought by northern travelers of this incomparable and ideal land. ! Awful Conditions in Liverpool. Jh Liverpool there is a serious effort being made to lessen the drinking habit J in women. The licensing bench calied liquor sellers to confer, the great aim being to prevent the sale of spirits to women before 11 hi tbe morning. The growth of drun-enness among women in Liverpool is awful. A watch kept on one so-called wine shop in a weaving town on a Saturday night, showed tbat 100 women went in that p-ace alone in the hour between 10 and 11. and the same story is told in all Eng- a lish cities and towns wbere there are a factories. Throughout Lancashire there t is a terrible state of things. Temperance Notes. Another international conference to deal with the question of native f race and the liquor traffic will be held in Brussels. ^ Kcr. Father Mockler, pastor of St. Ignace Church, at St. Ignace, Michi gan, nas ciosea an tne saloons or tnat town on Sunday. Putting the San Francisco loss at ? two hundred millions, it is -only as much as the loss caused by the liquor ? business in the Uffited States for one month. t There is now almost a unlversnl conviction prevailing throughout Europe aud America that if, during the last year or two, the rank and file of the Russian Army had eaten more rice and C less horsemeat. and had drunk more h tea and less vodka, they -would be p jnucli better flgbters than they are. f< In a recent address given in Bis- G hopsgate Institution, London, Sir Victor Horsley showed that in 1862, the n London hospitals spent about 540,- ir OoO for alcohol and $15,000 for milk, in 1892, these figures were practically reversed, about $40,000 being spent for milk and ibout $15,000 for alcohol. * :c 1^1 I Fal Ailed. H A child, la a heedless way, B To earth let fall, B A seed that was hard and gray B And dry and small; B No palette of limmer knew B The fostering mould. B Yet out of its heart there grew The green and gold. B The breeze bore a song away B From gladful tongue; B It was but a simple lay, ' B And crudely sung; ' B Yet hearing, a chastened one B Forgot his pain And hope, in life undone, B Revived again. |B A soul that had heard of Him, B " The Truth, the Way, B Weak voiced, when his comradG# B came, 4 J U Essayed to pray! B| And there was the sinner bowed, B Long used to scorn! B And there to his Father, God, B A son was born! Hi The seed from an infant's hand IE At random thrown, B| T*h a ennop fhof fTia riioplnrt" winr\ Ml "V OVUg IUUV. I.U^ ITiUU ' Afar had blown, The light of a soul made free, Shed o'er sin's road; Wrought out mysteriously The will of God! :S M. A. MAITLAND. jrVj - Jf? TLe Faith That Saves. Once when I was preaching I nd* :iced a lady looking very steadily a# ne, and she 'seemed*to fetch homo \ :o her heart every word that fett from my lips. After the sermon I jvent down and asked her ifuhe <wo# a Christian. She said "No; I wiah;l# was, I aave oeen seeKiug uunsi. ius: three years, and cannot find Hiou Wbat am I to do?" *rs Said I "There must be some inUh take. He has been seeking you tot twenty years, and if you have been seeking Him, you would have me* ; Him long before now." She asked, "What am I t ? do?" "Do nothing. Just believe on th* ' lord Jesus Christ and* be saved." "I have heard that until my head iches. Everybody says Believe, Beieve, Beleve; and I am none thd wiser." I said "I will drop that word. Trust the Lord Jesus Christ as you stand lere." ? : "If I srty I will trust the Lord, will rle save me?" t "No; you might say that a thou* ;and times, and not do it Will yo? 10 it." . , : ) "I do.trust in the Lord Jesus Christ vith all my soul," she said, "and 1 lon't feel any difference." I said: "You have been seeking af* ;er feeling; you have been seeking or feeling in your heart. Now, there . s no promise in the Word of God * hat you will get feeling. There I? 10 verse from Genesis to Revelation vhere feeling is attached to salva-* ion." ' I quoted the verse: "He is abl? o keep that which I have committed i into Him." "Now," I said, "will yo* \ lot put your trust in Him? Trust "? -- ' ...... foallnora. t?bA rarft 11 III <111(1 1CL JUU1 H.Vi'uo" ?? ? ? if themselves." She looked at me about five miiH ites it seemed, but I don't suppose t was more than one; and then she eached out her hand and said: "I rust the Lord Jesus Christ this night 0 save my soul." There waB no tear, no prayer; bull here 'was a decision?I trust. g She turned to the pastor of the hurch, and calling h4m by name, said* 1 trust the Lord Jesus Christ to save uy soul." Turning to one of the el? lers, she 6aid, "I trust the Lord Jesus Jhrist to save my soul." She turned md went down the aisle, and just aft he was going out the'door she met inother officer of the church, and she aid, "I am trusting Jesus to save m$ oul." The next night she was in front f. me. I did not have to go down hat night and ask her if she love<l esus. At the close of the meeting he was the first to go into the iin ttj^v Tndm and rwhen I got Jn there he had her arm around a young ady's neck, and she was saying, "Itf s only to trust Him."?D. L. Moody* ? .. ?-' (?The Human Touch. 'A visitor to a glass manufactory raw a man moulding clay into tha jreat pots which were to be used In shaping the glass. Noticing that the noulding was done by hand he sai<f o the workman, "Why do you not ise a tool to aid. you in shaping tha flay?" The workman replied, VTbera s no tool that can do this work; wa lave tried many, but- somehow it leeds the human touch:" Is not this rue also in the Lord's work? Tha' llvine hand can wipe away every tear ind .heal every heart wound; but Ha jhooses to use our common hands?* rours and mine?to help Him. Many lick of the palsy of sin will neveu :ome in reach tif the healing power. x. -I I mless human nanas oear mem. t ^ Greatest of Blessings. I All the blessings seem to grow dim I ind become one in that greatest of I ill blessings, which is the heritage oJ I he "pure in heart who shall see God.'* I -Rose Porter. ?-? i Short Meter Sermons. They seek in vain for power who * ear all pain. Toleration may be but a synonym or sloth. He cannot reach earth wiio does not ouch heaven. Platitudes iu the pulpit make phari ;ees in .the pews. Star gazing will never malce you ihine as the stars. y The two-faced never have more than lalf an cutlook. Study of Horse Breeding. ' Professor W. L. Carlyle, of tbO olorado Agricultural College, haa een commissioned by the U. S. De? artment of Agriculture to spend jur months in England, France, ermany and Belgium, to stud# lethods of horse breeding, in con-? ection with Government expert tents now in progress at the college# Cocaine in Chicago. It Is stated that there are 70,00(1 >caine "fiendB"_ in Chicago. ? !