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MAIWA'S
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ALLAN QUATERMAIN'S G
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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.
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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
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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.