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MAIWA'S -3t> L i OI ALLAN QUATERMAIN'S G ^ By ' H. RIDE! Author of "She,'" "King ' '"* CHAPTER V. S Continued. "There, below that small peak. Is one place where men may pass, and one only. "Also, it can easily be Mocked from above. "If men pass not there, then must .they go rouucl the great peak of the mountain tw^ days' journey and half a day." "And hove far 5s the peak from us?' "All to-uight shall you walk and all to-morrow, and if you walk fast, at sunset shall you stand on the peak." I whistled, for that meaut a fve-andforty miles' trudge without sleep. Then I called to the men to take each of them as much cooked ele.phant's meat as he could conveniently carry. I did the same myself, and forced the woman Maiwa to eat some as we Went. ?' This I did with difficulty, for at that dime she seemed neither to sleep nor 'eat nor rest, so fiercely was she set on vengeance. Then we started, Maiwr guiding us. " After going for some half hour over .gradually rising ground we found our-selves on the farther edge of a great bush-clad depression, something like the bottom of a lake. This depression through "which "we lad been traveling was to a very great extent covered with bush; indeed, almost altogether so. except where it was pitted with glades such as that ;wherein I had shot the elephants. At the lop of this slope Mniwa halted, and putting her hauds over her eyes, looked back. Presently she touched me on the arm, and pointed over the sea of forest toward a comparatively vacent space of country some six or seven miles away. I looked, and suddenly I saw sorae,thing flash in the red rays of the setting sun. A pause, and then another quick flash. "What Is it?" I asked. "It is the spears of Wambe's Irnpi, ,and they travel fast," she answered, coolly. I suppose.that my face showed howlittle I liked the news, for she went on: "Fear not; they wil! stay to feast npou the elephants, and while they feast we shall journey. "We may yet escape." After that we turned and pushed on again, till at length it grew so dark <hat we had to wait for the rising of the moon, -which lost us time, though it gave us rest. v Fortunately none of the men had seen that ominous flashing of the spears; if they had. I doubt if I could have kept control of them. As it was, they traveled Taster than I had ever known loaded natives to go before, so thorough-paced was their desire to see the last of Wambe's country. I, however, took the precaution to march last of all, fearing lest they should throw away their loads to lichten themselves, or, worse still, the .tucks: for these kind of fellows would be capable of throwing a: ything away if their own skins were at stake. If the pious Aeneas, whose story you were reading to me the ether night, liad been a mongrel Delagoa Bay native, Anchises would have had a poor chance of getting out of Troy?that is, if h#> w.is known to have already made a satisfactory will. At moonrise we started on again. and with short occasional halts traveled till dawn, when we were forced to rest and eat. Starting once more, about half-past five, we crossed the river at noon. Then began the long toilsome ascent through thick bush, the same in which I shot the bull buffalo, only some twenty miles to the west of that spot, and not more than twenty-five miles on the hither side of Wanibe's kraal. There were six or seven miles of this dense bush, and hard work it was to get through it. Next came a belt of scattered forest, which was easier to pass, though In revenge the ground, was steeper. This was about two miles wide, and we passed it by about four in the afternoon. Above, this scattered bush lay a long steep slope of bowlder strewn ground, which ran up to the foot of the little peak, some three miles away. As foot-sore and weary we emerged on to this inhospitable plain, some of the men, looking round, caught sight of the spears of Wambi's Iujpi com-1 ing rapidly aloug not more than a mile behind us. At first there was a panic, and the bearers tried to throw off their loads and run, but I harangued them, calling out to tliem that I woukl certainly shoot the first man win did so. and that if tney would hut trust in me I would bring them through the mess. Now ever since I had killed those three elephants single-handled I had gained great influence over these men, and they listened to me. So off i*e went as hard as ever we could go; the members of the Alpine Club would not have been in it with us. We made the bowlders burn, as a Frenchman would say. When we had done about a mile, the spears began to emerge f om *he belt of scattered bush, and the whoop ot' their bearers as they viewed us broke unon our ears. Quick as our pace lin<l been before, it grew niueh quicker now, for terror lent wings to my gallant crew*. But they were sorely tired, and the loads were heavy, so Hiat run. or rather climb, as we would. Warn he's soldiers, a scrubby-Iookii g lot of men with big spears, small shield.*, but without plumes, climbed considerably faster. The last mile of that pleasing chase was like a fox hunt, we neing the for. pud always in view. .What astonished mo was the ox REVENGE JREATEST ADVENTURE. * HAGGARD. Solomon's MinesElc. \-:;.rec3?:~ieo^xx?CC3?3cc??^ traordinary endurance and activity shown by Maiwa. Sbe never even flagged. I think tbat girl's muscles must have been made of iron, or perhaps it was the strength of her will that supported her. At any rate, she reached the foot of the peak second, poor Gobo, who was an excellent hand at running away, being first. Presently I came panting up, and glanced at the ascent. Before us *vas a wall of rock about one mmureu anu iuty ieet ju ueigm, upon which the strata were so laid as to form a series of projections sufficiently resembling step* to make the nsceut, comparatively speaking, easy, except at one spot, where it was necessary to climb over a projecting angle of cliff and bear a little to the left. It was not a really difficult place, but what made it awkward was that immediately beneath this projection was a deep fissure or donga, on the brink of which we new stood, originally dug out. <io doubt, by the rush of water from the peak and cliff. This gulf beneath would at the critical point be trying to the nerves of a weak-headed climber, and so it proved in the result. After the projecting angle was passed the remainder of the ascent was very simple. At the summit, however, the brow of the cliff hung over, and was pierced by a single narrow path cut through it by water in such fashion that a single bowlder rolled into it at the top would make the cliff Quite impassable to people without ropes. Wambe's soldiers were at this moment about a thousand yards from us, so it was evident that we had no time to lose. I at once ordered the men to commence the ascent, the girl Alaiwa, who was familiar with the pass, going first, to show them the way. Accordingly they began to mount with alacrity, pushing and lifting their loads in front of them. When the first of them, led by Maiwa, reached the projecting angle, they put down their loads upon a ledge of rock and clambered over. UIlt'G up, vy uu ixicrii oiuuiuvuo on a bowlder, they could rench tbe loads which were held up to them by the men beneath, and in this way drag them up over the awkward place, whence they were ensily carried to the top. But all of this took time, and meanwhile the soldiers were coming up fast, screaming and brandishing their big spears. They were now withing about four hundred yards, and several loads, together with all the tusks, had yet to be got over the rock. I was still standing at the bottom of the cliff, shouting out directions to tbe men above, but it occurred to me tiiat it would soon be time to move. Before doing so, however, I thought that it might be well to try and produce a moral effect upon the advancing enemy. In my hand I held a Winchester repeating carbine, but the distance was too great for me to use it with effect, so I turned to Gobo, who was shivering with terror at my side, and handed him the carbine, took from him my express. The enemy was now about three hundred and fifty yards away, and the express was only sighted to three hundred. Still I knew that it could be trusted for the extra fifty yardf. Running in front of Wambe's soldiers were two men?captains, I suppope?one of them very tall. I put up the 300-yard flap, and sitting down with mv back against the rock, I drew a lonp breath to steady myself, and covered the tall man, giving him a full sight. Feeling that I was on him. I pulled, and before the sound of tbe striking bullet could reach my ears I saw the man throw up his arms and pitch forward on to his head. His companion stopped dead, giving me a fair chance. I rapidly covered him and fired the left barrel. He turned around once and then sank down in a heap. This caused the enemy to hesitate. They had never seen men killed at such a distance before, and thought that there was something uncanny about the performance. Taking advantage of the lull, I gave the express back to Gobo. and slinging the Winchester repeater over my back. I begau to climb the cliff. When we reached the projecting angle all the loads were over, but the tusks still had to be passed up. and f ???<? Aiivnff 111 t* rrnicrlit nrifl tho smoothness of their surface, was a very difficult task. Of course I ought to have abandoned the tusks. Often and often have I since reproached myself for not doing so. Indeed, I think that my obstinacy about them was downright sinful, but I always was obstinate about thinps, and I could not bear the idea of leaving those splendid tusks which had cost me so much pains and danger to come by. Well, it nearly cost me my life, also, and did cost poor Gobo his, as will shortly be seen, 10 say nothing of j the loss inflicted by my rifle on the ene| my. When I reached the projection I I found that the men were trying, with | their usualy stupidity, to hand up the tusks point first. Now the result of this was that those I above had nothing to grip except the : round, polished surface of the ivory, | and this, in the position in which they j were, did not give sufficient hold to enable them to lift the weight. ! I told them to reverse the tusks and push thein up. so that the rough and hollow ends came to the hands of the men above. This they did, and the first two were jet up in safety. 1 At this point, looking behind me, I saw the Matukus streaming up the / slope in a rough, extended order, and fV not more than a hundred yards away. | I if Cocking the Winchester, I opeaed fire on them. dnU I don't quite know how many I missed, but I do know that I never on shot better in my life. tri It was exactly like pheasant shoot- me ing nt n hot corner. I had to keep shifting myself from : 1 one to the other, firing almost with- ; Cre out getting a sight?that is, by the eye j he alone, after the fashion of tbe ex- q.( perts who break glass balls. is But quick as the work was. men tei fell thick, and by tbe time that I had emptied the carbine of its twelve cartridges the advance was for the th< moment cnecKeu. j it I rapidly pushed in some more crtr- n0 tridges, and hardly had I done so j when the enemy, seeing that we were ea about to escape them altogether, came he on once more with a tremendous yell. ca By ihis time the two halves cf the ca; single tusk of the great bull alone ! remained to be passed up. I fired and fired as effectively as before, but, notwithstanding all that I : could do, some men escaped my hail ; es, of bullets, and began to ascend the ' to] cliflf. j p0 Presently my rifle was again empty. | th< I slung it over my bnck, and draw- m< ing my revolver turned tp make a bolt bu of it. the attackers being now quite sp, close; as I did so a spear struck the cliff close to my head. The last half of the trsk was now pa vanishing over xhe rock, and I sun^ thi out to Gobo and the other man who j js had been pushing it up to vanish af- ! tei ter it. ! of Gobo, poor fellow, required no sec- ge ond in7itation; indeed, his haste was oc his undoing. , mi He went at the projecting rock with mi a bound. I tjr The end of the tus* was still project- j ,a] ing over, and instead of grasping the I ge rock had caught at it. It twisted in Lis Land; Le slipped, ' Le fell. * I ye WitL one wild shriek Le vanisLed j ap into tLe abyss beneatb, his falling body I ar brushing roe as it passed. ! Ur For :i moment we stood aghast, and \ th presently the dull thud of Lis fall ! c0 smote upon our ears. ! ar Poor fellow, he had met the fate ag whicb, as he had deel.-.red, walked as about uose in TVambe's country. nu Then, with an oath, the remaining ro man sprang at the rock, and clambered over it in safety. Aghast at the awfulness of what rj? had happened, I stood still, till 1 saw the great blade of a Matuka spear su pass up between my feet. Lj That brought me to my senses, and pe I began to clamber up the rock like be a cat. _ sy I was half way round it. ' * ev Already I had clasped the hand of mi that brave girl Maiwa. who had come W1 down to help me, the men having of scrambled forward with the ivory, an when I felt a hand seize my ankle. c "Pull, Maiwa. pull!" I gasped; and be she certainly did pull. Maiwa was a very muscular woman, p( never before did I so keenly appreciate the advantages of the physical devel- jn opment of females. She tugged at my left arm^the savage below lugged at my right leg, till I began to realize that something must Wc' ere long give way. Vfi Luckily I retained my presence of ta mind, like the man who, when a fire t0 broke out in his house, threw his mother-in-law out of the window and BC i i ni carried ijjs ujuutt'dd uu^usiuiic. My right linnd was still free, and in j wi it was my revolver, which was secured I w< to my wrist by a leather thong. j an It was cocked, and I simply held it i ot downward and fired. The result was instantaneous?and, j ev so far as I am concerned, most satis- j wl factory. | en The bullet hit the man beneath me an somewhere. I am sure I don't know th where. to At any rate, he let go of my leg. mi and plunged headlong into the gulf beneath to join Gobo. en In another moment I was on the top ' *a' of the rock, and going up the remain- j ing step like a lamp-lighter. i ur A single other soldier appeared in ! 8a pursuit, but one of my boys at the | top fired my elephant gun at him. / f?r I don't know if he hit him or only | "wi frightened him; at any rate he van- ! th ished whence he came. su I do know, however, that he very su nearly hit me, for I felt the wind of fo VI. (he bullet. | u?< Another thirty seconds, and I and tw the woman Maiwa were at the top of the cliff, panting, but safe. bu (To be continued.) w< en The Lawyer's Daughter. fog "I am a lawyer's daughter,' you ra; know, George, dear," she said, after sa George had proposed and had been ac- lir cepted, "and you wouldn't think it co strange if I were to ask you to sign a gr little paper to the effect that we are pi engaged, would j-ou?" George was too se happy to think anything strange ,1ust j:, then, and he signed the paper with a ! it< trembling hand and a bursting heart. f? Then she laid her ear upon his manly j bosom, and they were very, very hap- | j0 py. "Tell me, darling," said George, hti after a loug, delicious silence, "why Sh did you want me to sign that paper? m; Do you not place implicit confidence in 0f my love for you?" "Ah. yes," she sighed, with infinite content, "indeed I g, do. George, dear, but I have been dec-eived so many times, you know." Tj Ai Soot i"rom the Pit. It seerr/5 to me that the shortest way E, to check the darker forms of deceit is so to set watch more scrupulous against DC those wbic.i have mingled, unregarded ar and unchastised. with the current of ^ our :ife. Do not let us lie at all. Do -n not think of one falsity as 1 armless and another as sli{ ht and auother as unintended. Cast them all aside; they may be J'jbt and accidental, but they are an ugly soot from the smoke of the pj pit. for all that, and it is better that our T heart should be swept clean of them. ce without overcarc as to which is largest cu or blackest.?John Rusnir. glj StatuV>s Letters by Klectrlclty. A now stamping machine for letters lias just boon tested ct tlie Berlin Post Wl Office. The machine has been con- 00 stTuctod by the Norwegian mechanic. c0 Krag. It is operated by electricity and ta works so fast that it is saiil to stamp 1800 letters per minute, which would ai" inaUp lOS.OOO letters per hour. at pc The highest recorded temperature, e of 3000 degrees, is obtained elec- S cally. This _eat is required to (It oxide of uranium. The coefficient of expansion of con;te, of the proportions 1:2:4, by at has been determined r.s ^ (000055 for one degree F.. which c almost the same as that of un- j npcred steel, ^hich is v.0000060. \ s There is a widespread notion tha. a j air is heavier on a damp day than ? is on a dry day, but you will please J t forget that the reverse of this f troe. Smoke hangs about the rth ori a damp day because it is avier than the moist air, not be- ^ use, as many people think, the so- j [led "heavy moist air" bears upon j i i Professor Edward C. Pickering, of i 3 Harvard observatory, proposes to ( tablish an international observa- ^ ry. His committee is to be com- . sed of the eminent astronomers of j e world, who are to raise a sum of \ Dney, have a gigantic telescope i ilt and placed on the most suitable r ot on earth, ana an 10 gc .0 wofk. * In a recent article in a German per, Herr Paul Speier shows that e spontaneous ignition of zinc dust out of the question when the marial is properly packed. Wetting the material is also without danr. Ignition and explosion can only cur. in the presence of air. The '< itter is of some importance, inasuch as steamship owners somenes refuse to transport this mater!, and fire underwriters have strinnt regulations with respect to it. ? An investigation was made a few ars ago by a committee of experts, pointed by a British society of chitects, of the occasional failes of lightning rods to perform e service expected of them. The mmittee was satisfied that there e two kinds of flashes, and that ainst one no defence is possible. ; tho Cher class includes the larger imber of flashes, the use of suitable ds was recommended. Eggs, even when very fresh, ^ivo !2 to severe cases of poisoning, al- 1 ough this depends on individual * sceptibility, and according to M. ; nosier, is more apt to occur in dys- . ptics. The quantity ingested may t exceedingly minute, and the toxic mptoms : my exhibit themselves i en in a young child. Mention is \ ide of a fourteen-months-old child, 1 io, in consequence of the absorption ' an egg, had a nettle-rash eruption, | d, two weeks afterward, a second uption caused by a cream that had en given to it. I )R WOMEN: LOVE OK SCIENCE? < i tellectual Powers Could Not Compensate For Loss of Suitor. , It was Byron, whose experience j is not slight, who said that love 1 is woman's whole existence. Cer- i inly an existence without relation j lqve can never bring out what she s of best. Consciously or unconiously, deliberately following a defite decision, qr blindly falling in , th nature's larger plan, the finest imen choose the path of sentiment, i id when intellectual life lies in an- i ' her direction they pass it by. ' The greatest woman scientist who ev lived was Sophia Kovalevsky, j 10 received from the French Acad- J ay of Science the Prix Eordin, and , additional prize "on account of , e extraordinary service rendered j mathematical physics by this refirkable v ork." 1 The award was made by the Acadiy in complete ignorance of the ct that the winner was a woman. Naturally, Mme. Kovalevsky's tri ph was tremendous. "She was," ys Mr. R. C. Duncan's account, eted, honored and everywhere eeted with ovations. Her lover tnessed all this from the edge of e crowd, and, unible to accept his 1 bordinate position, retired from his it. The affair literally killed her, r she never recovered from the ow, and died, a broken creature, o years iater." We don't think much of the tover, it the story shows one reason why )men have not done much in sci ce, and why their work has often j en so mixed with that of some ale as to make it impossible to y which was whose. Perhaps Carole Herschel did discover five new mets; hut would she have been a eat astronomer if her brother had >t been a greater one, and she his cretary? How much of Fanny endelssolin's work ought to be cred;d to her more famous brother >lix? The discovery of radium was the int work of Mine. Curie and her isband: now that he is dead and e has his professorship, the world ay learn how much she is capable without the assistance and inspirion of a man. "Couldn't I do tclid if you were to teach me ins;ad of Tom?" exclaimed Maggie illiver to her brother Tom's tutor, id the indignant Tom broke in: Co, vou couldn't. Girls can't do tclid, can they, sir?" The tutor lemnly affirmed that they could it. If they can't it is because they o engaged in a work even more iportanl to livingbeingsthan squarrr the hynothenuse or crossing the ;ses' Bridge.?Collier's Weekly. Comfort in Church. The Rev. Randolph Cook, of the rst Christian Church of Tulsa, I. , made the following statement rently from the pulpit, it being cal:lated to prevent summer back- < iders. i "If any of the men present are ac- i istomed to working during the 1 eek without coats, and on chat acunt find it too hot to wear their 1 ats here this evening, they may 1 ke them off." Four men. three on tho back seat id one in the amen corner, immedieiy availed themselves of the 0?inunity to keep cool. ' . . " . rHE SUNDAY SCHOOL. | NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 10. Inbject: Josus Silences the Pharisees and SadJncees, Mark xii., l.*5-27 ?Golden Text, Mark xii., 17? Memory Verse, 27. 3. A deputation comes to Christ v. 13). 13. "They." The Phariees as a whole appointed certain ines to visit Jesus for the purpose of nducJng Him to say something that vould refute His claims as the Mesiah or that would give ground lor in accusation against Him before the government. "Certain?Pharisees." Matthew says "their disciples." Prob ibly young and zealous scholars. 'Herodians." The Herodians were a political party rather than a religous sect. "To catch Him." Mathew says "entangle Him." A meta)hor drawn from catching wild birds, t was their purpose to ensnare Him n His talk so they could expose His gnorance of the Jewish law or religon, or find grounds for legal pro:eedings against Him. II. A question concerning our luty as citizens (vs. 14-17). 14. Master, we know," etc. This was a lypocritical compliment. They hope jy their treache.ous flattery to iuluce Him to commit Himself to some ebellious sentiment. "Is it lawful?" ;tc. Caesar was a name common to til the emporors, derived originally rom Julius Caesar, the proper founler of Roman imperialism in the )lace of the old republic. The pres:nt emperor was Tiberius. The triblte was a poll tax, or levy of a denaius upon every person, imposed by he Roman Government ever since fudea had become a province. The fews detested this tai, but its legalty was supported by the Herodians. * c J I neir quesnon was so lmiucu mat t seemed impossible for Him to es:ape. 15. "Knowing their hypocisy." Jesue, who knows the hearts >f all men, saw that they were mere lattering spies, and their question >nly a crafty device of hypocrites. 'Why tempt?" Why do you seek to snsnare Me by a question that is isked, not for information, but to jet Me into trouble? "Bring Me a jenny." Literally, a denarius. 16. "They brought it." By reluiring them to bring Him the coin -le compels them to answer, tacitly, heir own question; for the Jewish abbis taught that, "wheresoever the noney of any king is current, there' he inhabitants acknowledge that cing for their lord." "Whose?imtge." The image was probably the ikeness of the Roman emperor,' Tijerius Caesar. "Superscription." rhe name and motto on the coin. 'They said ? Caesar's." Thur, ac 1 ?1 ~ +Vt/Mr wrarft (UU\Yjeu&liig Luai iucj 1151V ing to Cae3ar's authority. 17. "Render." The word render mplies the notion of moral duty toward Caesar quite as much as toward God. "To Caesar." Rather, iere, give back to Caesar. They ask, is it lawful to give? He replies, give jack. Since they accepted in the ?inage of Caesar the benefits of his jovernment, they were bound to give Dack a recompense in tribute. So long as the citizen accepts the benefit Df a government, he owes it allegance and obedience. III. A question concerning our elations in the future state (vs. 1827). 18. -"Sadducees." They were the materialists of their time. "No resurrection." They also denied the immortality of the soul and the existence of angels (see Acts 23:8). "I'ney askeu Him. meir quutuuu was full of scorn and ridicule. They intended to show from Moses' teaching that the doctrine of the resurrection was absurd. 19. "Moses wrote." In Dfcut. 25:f>, 6. "Should take his wife," etc. The children tvere to be reckoned with in the genealogy of the deceased brother. 20. "Seven brethren." This was no doubt an imaginary case. The Sadducees assume that the resurrection includes the revival of the relations now existing. 23. "In the resurrection." Which of the seven husbands should have the risen wife. 24. "Do ye not?err." To err means to wander. They do not merely make a mistake, but they wander in ignorance of the Scriptures. "Ye know not." You err because you do not know (1) the Scriptures, which affirm this doctrine; nor (2) the power of God, which is able to effect the resurrection, and after the resurrection to create a new order of thincrc in thfi new world. "Power of God." Tbe Bible rests the doctrine of the resurrection on the exercise of divine power (Acts 2G:S; Rom. 1:4; 1 Cor. 6:14). 25. "When they shall rise." That is, after they have risen from the dead?in the future state. "Nor are given." This has reference to the Jewish custom by which the female members of the family were given in marriage by the father. "Are as angels." This answer strikes at another error of the Sadducees?a denial of the existence of angels. 26. "Book of Moses." The Saducees had appealed to Moses as authority and now Jesus turns to the same source to prove His point. "In the bush." See Exod. 3:5, 15. "1 am." etc. Notice that the present tense is us?d. He cannot, be the God of non-entities, non-existences. It He is their God they are His people, r.nd, of course, must be in existent, and not out of existence. So the whole l?adducsan doctrine bro>? down. 27. "Not the God of tli? dead." Our Lord here uses ?I:e word dead in the sense of these Sr.'li;:rees with whom lie is conversing, to iisnify ectiucl. Tlans For San Francisco Hotel. ri^.nitoiv Hprirted that the JL 1? vjv un^v... ? ew Palace Hotel at San Francisco will cost $3,000,000, with 5600,000 allowed for furniture. New York a.r chitects, who are preparing preliminary plans, have been instructed to make certain alterations, which will increase the cost $200,000 over the original estimate. There are to be 700 rooms. The additional expense will be for women's and men's grilir. in the court. In nearly every respect the famous old court will be dupliAted. Yield or Cotton. The Government's cotton report in* - - - * - ~ " ?"""o/itiva violH of 11.500. ;i k: a it's a ijiua^vixv 000 bales by reason of its figures on condition and its estimated acreage of 29,000,000, as compared with the average yield per acre for the last ten years. The total acreage planted last year was 27,000,000, from which a crop of 10,800,000 bales was produced. Growth of the 'Phono. Twenty-five years ago Berlin had 193 telephones. To-day it bas 3*.000. THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Four Great Warriors Take the Stand and Give Evidence That Liqnor Dealing and Drinking Lead to Crim? .-.nd Misery. Brief evidence in regard lo the crim? of linunr dealine and drinking has been given by men of prominence in various walks of life as follows: Major-General George B. McClellan: "Had all the officers united in setting the soldiers an example of total abstinence from intoxicating liquors it would have been equal to an addition of 50,000 men to the armies of the United States." Major-General "Stonewall" Jackson: "I never use it. I am more afraid of ft th>n of Yankee bullets." General Von Moltke: "Beer is a far more dangerous enemy to Germany than all the armies of France." Count Bismarck: "The prevalent use of beer is deplorable. Beer drinking makes men stupid, lazy and incapable." Baron Liebig, the distinguished chemist: "We can prove with mathematical certainty that so much flour as can lie on the point of a table knife is more nutritious than eight quarts of the best Bavarian beet." "Beer, wine, spirts, etc., furnish no element capable of entering into the composition of the blood, muscular fibre, or any part which is the seat of the vital principle." David Livingstone, African explorer: "I Save acted on the principle of total abstinence from alcoholic liquors during more than twenty years. My opinion is that the most severe labors or privations may be undergone withi out alcoholic stimulants." Edward Payson Weston, pedestrian: "On ray long walks during over forty years in public life experience has taught me that nature should not be outraged by the use of artificial stimulants. On my walk from Portland, Me., to Chicago, I drank cold tea. On the recent walk from Philadelphia to New York in less than twenty-four hours I drank milk and cold tea. On any of these walks a single glass of wine would have made me fail. I sometimes use whisky on the soles of my feet." Story of a Jack-Knife. More than seventy years ago a young man owned a jack-knife, which he sold for a gallon of rum, and by retailing it by the glass made enough to buy two gallons, and by selling that he was able to increase the quantity he purchased. He got a barrel, then a cask, and at last a large stock, and having a turn for business and industry he became rich?and when he died left $80,000 to his " J TVm llir BUI10 ft Liu uuc uaugui.01. auv daughter married a man who spent her money, and she died. The sons entered into folly and extravagance and two died Of dissipation and in poverty. The last of the family lived for many years on the charity of those who had known him in his prosperity. He died a short time since suddenly, in a barn, w?ere he had laid himself to take a dfunken sleep. On his pockets being examined all that was found in them was a string and a jack-knife. So a jack-knife began and ended the fortune of that family. This is a true sto.ry, and the father who bought and sold rum no doubt had plenty of it in his house and oa his table. In giving and recommending it to others his sons learned to like it, and so it happened according to thp true nmverb. "What is eot on the devil's back goes under his belly." The curse of God is on ill-gotten pain, but "the blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and He addeth no sorrow with it." (Prov. 10:22).? The Safeguard. Actio a of Absinthe. At the temperance congress at Neuchatel in 1903 the French expert, Dr. Legrain, gave an interesting account of the action of absinthe poison. After three years' absinthe drinking a man becomes weak minded and full of ever increasing nervous anxiety. He grows meody, taciturn, suspicious, eccentric, untrustworthy and apt to quarrel without cause. If he continues to take the deadly liquor, his body becomes a mere automaton, and he obeys without hesitation the nuto-suggestions o? his mind, often killing, maiming arid destroying with I savage glee those nearest and dear est to him. First Day's License. It is not a surprising piece of news from the daily papers published i about Wadesboro that several young i men were staggering drunk on the i streets of that town as the first day's result of granting license to seven persons to retail liquor there. That they were sons of men who voted for barrooms gives no comfort to any good man. The awful thing about it > is that somebody has made it easier instead of harder for these young men to set their feet upon their mothers' hearts and lay fast hold ! upon the ways of ruin. ? Gastonia (N. C.) Gazette. Standard Set by Women. Judge Willard M. McEwen recently delivered an address to the Chicago Woman's Club, in which he urged that women set a higher standard of respectability for the men. vvuiutixi luigivc 1UU casnj, saiu mc judge. "A man is a drunkard, and a woman forgives him and marries him. Wo:'en are too ready to receive into their society men who are not respectable." Juvenile Temperance Societies. There are. according to L'Etoile (1u Matin, juvenile temperance societies in 2750 of the 4062 primary schools of the kingdom of Belgium. There are also 6S1 adult temperance societies iu Belgian schools, with more than 14,000 members. Rum Breeds Litigation. An English lawyer recently said that if Euglaud were to turn sober, the legal profession ould be ruined. The New South Wales House of Assembly passed by fifty-three votes to ten the second reading of the liquor act amendment bill, which provides for the total suppression of liquor licenses in a district, without compensation, on a two-thirda majority. Liquor dealers of Spring Valley, Illinois, bought out. a local paper which had been strenuously opposing them, but after six months have suspended publication oecause the people of the community won't support it v.H| I THE CHOICE. wH My Father, God, Thou knowest that ,1 EH stand Between^ two roads?the parting of thi. ways'. I .H Like Lot of old, I see before, a land ' Of pleasantness; but while I muse and Hfl gaze, } mm I hear a very still, small voice, Divine, .' .Within my soi.J, which gently saith^t IB "My child. Take heed to Me; this is no choice of Mine; - j bH By seeming beauty be thou not be< guiled." ) H And then I peered along the other way; Its narrow, toilsome, rugged, winding path; . Mm Be)-ond?a mist; the end?a golder^ day; i Now?toilsome climb; at length thQ M aftermath. His voice once more broke in upon mine EH $ar, KB "This is Mv choice. Wilt not thou walk' jfH >r?i + h \1o Along this road which seems so dark and Hj| drear?" Hfl I answer: "Lord, Thy choice mine own" BH shall be." H And so along the steep and narrow way, My Lord and I waJk daily hand in hand;! HI His gracious presence is my only stay, Hi .While I press onward to the shining Ml strand. 9| He holds my feet, He satisfies my soul, H| He cheers me on with visions of Hit ^H love; H When I am sick or tired He makes me Hfl| whole, Hp And points me npward to His home above. Bp ?Katharine A. Hodge, in London Chris- RH i Tact in Soul-Winning. H Says M. H. Lyon:?It is icterestln?r~^B to note how the Lord uses all instru- Bj ments and means to accomplish His- H purposes. In one city there was in. the high school a very bright young lady, a good student and a recognized leader among her associates. But 3UO uauic LIXJLLX a UUUiC VVllUV/Ut i Cllgious influence, and she openly avowed H herself an unbeliever and cast her influence against Christ. She would M not consent to come to any of th& H meetings and ridiculed others for go- H ing. B She lived next door to the home/ BP where I was entertained. My hostess U had told me about her, but I noticed that she had made herself scarce H around that neighbor's while I had H been there. But one morning I came H in upon her talking with my hostess H on her way to school. She had an H armful of books. Of course I said. |fl nothing to her at first about religion," H but engaged her in conversation H about her studies. H I found Latin was her favorite. S Fortunately I had in my hand a Latin M Testament I had been reading, and I H saw there was an opportunity. So H I said to her, "Here is something that D beats Cicero and Virgil." ,And I hand- H ed it to her to read, having first se- M lprtpfl fhp chanter I wanted her to see. Before she left she had translated both the tfiird and the fifteenth." chapters of John's Gospel. The ice was now broken. She came in every day and I would give her other selected passages. Soon she asked if she could not take that book home with her, and she told me afterward that she had read it that night untit almost daybreak. Naturally, then, she began coming to the services, and very soon came out earnestly for Christ. During the remainder of that series we had no more earnest worker .than she was, and when I left that city I presented her with the Latin . Testament, inscribed with Second Timothy, two-fifteen.?Ram's Horn. >, . The Imperfections of the Clmrcii. Every religious worker meets wifh! objections to the church on account of its imperfections. Such arguments are in nearly every case made by men or women who have no religious desires or feelings, and who are merelyj casting about for some excuse with TuM/?h tn nnt aside the invitation to be a Christian. These objectors bring forward a long array of faults which they see in the church. They do not like its government, or its creed. The preaching does not suit them, or the services are not to their taste. The members of the church are not at all as good as they should be, some even being hypocrites. There is in the church some one they do not like. Thus through a long list of such' criticisms runs the story of objection. Of course, it is quite a waste of time for the Christian worker to try to refute them. They are seldom made in' candor, and their makers would not admit refutation if it were accomplished. As to their criticisms, many, of them are mere matters of opinion, while others are well taken in poitt! of fact. Yet when all this has be&,. granted, it does not justify any person in refusing God's merciful offerg ^ of forgiveness and opporiuun; ??. ? discipleship. ? Pittsburg Christian H Advocate. I "What a God's Man Can Do." fl Men of God are as needful to-dayj I as when Moses stood alone with God on Sinai, or Paul in the midst of the Areopagus at Athens, and discoursed' I of the altar to "the unknown God.", H Every age must have its leaders, and as the leaders are so will the age be.' God's men, men appointed for ser-1 m vice, whose hearts are in His hands' as the rivers of waters, are the sav iours of their age, and are in the I vanguard of Heaven's worthies.? I Christian Intelligencer. I Trust and Difficulties. 1 I My brother Charles, amid the dif Acuities of our early ministry, used to say: "If the Lord would give me I wings, I would fly." I used to an swer: "If the Lord bid me fly, I should trust for the wings."?John Wesley. ? I Merely Superficial. 9 finme necnle :ooi; too much upon I tlieir religion as a varnish on lire insOisd o? a fire within it.?Dr. I St^vs. _ Tield of Cotton. 11 The Government's cotton report indicates a prospective yield of 11.500,- I 000 bales by reason of its figures\on fl condition and its estimated acreage I of 29.000,000. as compared with the ? average yield per acre for the last 8 ten years. The total acreage pianieu last year was 27,000.000, from which, a crop of 10,800,000 bales was produced. Number of Divorces. ! It is now estimated that in the past two decades there have been 1,000.000 divorces granted, with 400,0005 applications refused in this country.