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V ?<ihbS & <if i >gl A Tale j ^ of fAe / i--?- i-jj?I ? ? #?? ^ s\ngiu-i;iuiuii . -Sp SecretService \ M \ ' ^r,> I? i ^ CHAPTER IV. C Continued. 'After a four years' absence Mrs. Mistley's son was coming back, and the day when he had left was as fresh in her mind as ever. She could recall tfie very expression of his face as the train moved away?a handsome, boyish countenance, with a peculiar rigid purity of outline, expressive of too great a degree of refinement for comfort in _ this world. He had left England a merry, reckless boy, with no great ?ense of responsibility ill life; and now ihe was coming back a man, with a name among his contemporaries, with a definite purpose in life. Sbe won uereu vagueiy wnetner ne wuuiu utmuch changed, whether she wonld now iind him thoughtful and serious. At last there was a bustle in the station, and a troop of porters assailed the platform, arriving in the most astonishing manner from all sides. Then the great locomotive came clanking in, with a mighty sense of its own importance and general superiority over the mere local engines arouud it. A moment later Mrs. Mistley wns looking into that face she had so longed- to see. Even amid the confusion and excitement of the greeting, she j found time to marvel that there was so little change in it?a little browner, perhaps, with a hard, dry look which ?poke of great hardships borne manfully, and testified to exceptional powers of endurance. "Where is Charlie?" were Winyard's first words. While his mother was ex^ plaining that her younger son would be "detained at Greenwich until Inter in the aay^the colonel approached with Mrs. Wricbl af-his side. No form of introduction was attempted; the old soldier came forward Tyith outstretched hand, and as he tc?k Mrs. (Mistley's fingers within his, he horded .with a peculiar old-fashioned courtesy iwhich conveyed a wondrous amount of admiration and respect. "Mrs. Mistley!" he said, "I should liavc known you anywhere. "We carried a photograph of you in our dispatch case for many mgnths. I think iWinyard considered it the most precious document there." "And which," added that respectful youth, gayly," "the colonel left lying frbout one night in the rainy season, the consequence being that it all came ungummed, and nothing was left next morning to the eyes of a bereaved son but two sticky rolls of wrinkled paper. - one of which was found adhering to the person o? a native dog. How do you uo?-Mrs. wrigntr" The young fellow became sudden.'y Silent, and turned rather hastily to find the luggage. There were unshed tears In Mrs. Wright's eyes, and perhaps he . was not quite sure of himself; at all Events, he was by no means sure of the colonel, who, like many brave men, . was nfflietcd with a soft heart. Presently the two small boxes were found and placed under the care of a porter, who shouldered them both at once with ranch zeal. He saw how the 'land lay, and knew that his reward ivould be greater than his deserts. After having arranged that Mrs. Mistley and her two sons should dine rwith them in Seymour street that evening, the Wrights drove away, and mother and son were left alone together, CHAPTER V. A Bloody Mission. There is in the lamentably uninteresting parish of Lewisham a long street where the numbers of the houses attain to three figures. Standing at the end of this street, one has before cne's eyes a lesson, in perspective. No. 51 is occupied by- Mrs. Gredge, a lady who. like the blind beggar, has ?een beiter days. After the manner of elderly females of a brilliant past. Mrs. Gredge lets lodgings, and it with her / lodger that we have to do. ' T-nllrtTx? -rover nf CTlTiRAt ehflTIP in 1lie sky over the roof line from No. 48 to No. 50, and lighted up the bare parlor of No. 51 Frout street, Lewisham. The hideous -wall paper, representing innumerable baskets of impossible flowers hanging from festoons of blue ribbon attached to nothing, -was shown up in all its brilliant crudity by the searching light. Small portions of thiB flowery abomination were Ndden by framed prints, of which the poor workmanship and general vulgarity prepared ono for the information in the corner of each, to the effect that they were specimens of German enterprise. At LULU lauiu 1X1 LUC LCUUO \JI room sat a young girl. She did not look more than twenty years of age, though at times the expression of her lace was almost that of a woman of forty. From a low white forehead her dull flaxen hair rose in a soft curvo before it yielded to the black ribbon that bound it in a loop low down 011 her neck. The light rested softly on it, but failed to draw from its smooth bands any gleam of life. She wore it parted at the side and brushed well back. Her delicately cut faco was pale, and there was a neruiinrlv drawn look about her lins. which were very red. Mrs. Gredgc knewjier lodger by the name of Miss Marie Bakovitch; to many lovers of music in Loudon she was known as the Baroness de Narttille. Tho whole life of her being seemed to bo centered in her eyes. They wero intensely blue, with almost metallic gleam. Before her on the table was a newspaper which she was slowly scannaing. column by column. She followed the lina of .columns with a pencil; not.like one who is reading word for word, but as if she were ficarchins for some particular news, f i ' ' t-ifJvU/ * UNG \ Henry ^ J f rLEY )jr~? : _________ / merriman. jsT 'ly > I: 111 ^ fo. J ? the jest of the printed matter fceiDg indifferent to her. a Suddenly she laid down her pen- t cil, and looked toward the window f with expectation visible in every feature. She bad not been mistaken, i From below came the sounds of^hur- 6 ried footsteps on the> deserted pave-' iment, then the creaking ol an iron f gate. ' . . c She cculd hear the distant tinkle r of a bell, and a few moments later j | some one knocked hurriedly at her ' door. c ) "Come in!" she said, in a quiet t voice, and she leaned back in her , i chair without looiting toward tnc j 1 door. | A tall, graceful man entered the r j room. j "Marie." he said, "he has come! g 117e is in London!" E I The girl did not move nor look to- t I -ward him; her eyes were fixed on the ^ yellow sky over the roof of No. 48. _ "He has come! he is in London!" j she repeated after him, as if to force r the news into her own brain. One white hand was lying idly on the table, extended toward the young f man. e j He tooh a step forward, and raised her fingers to his lips. Then ? | he seemed to remember the shrine in the corner of the room, for he B , bowed before it, and crossed himself r ' rapidly but with reverence. v | For some moments he looked at f the fair girl in silence; she was <3 slowly pressing the hair back from y I her temples. Then be suddenly fell f on his knees at her side, and seized 1 i her two hands in his. He forced f her passionately to look at him. c "Marie! Marie!" he exclaimed in t Russian; "for the love of Heaven, c give this up! It is madness! His t life will make no difference; you can v pdo no good by the sacrifice of yours. a 1 'Think of your mother, your sister; a [think of me! You can not love me, t. or you would not hold to thiB mad . a purpose!" r | She looked down at his pale, mis- 1 | erable face with an expression which n ( any but a lover would have read as -s fatally kind and affectionate. c j "Yes, Ivan, dear," she said, in a r | faint, weary voice, "I love you. But d 1 love my country first. Oh, Ivan! 1 I will you never understand what this c i love of one's country is? I reproach ii I myself again and again for filling t I your brave heart so that there is no I room in it for patriotism. No, no; e a thousand times no! 1 can not give t 1 it up. Think you that I traveled to d | the south, then borne to holy Mos- e cow again, only to leave it in a few ' days for this doomed land, to give up t j my inspired purpose after all? No; p j it cannot be. Let me think what a must be done. I am dazed, like the i hunter who suddenly finds himself f ' face to face with his quarry. Where p i* >,* >? a "He is living -with his mother in a Eedford Palace, London. Marie, I c will warn him if you do not listen t to me. It is my duty. I must save i you at all risk." r "Ivan," said the girl, with a passionate thrill in her calm voice, "if t I thought you would warn him, 1 e should kill you now as you kneel t there! God who gave me this work a to do, will help me to execute it! Be- r sides, has he not been warned, more h than- a year ago, and he simply ig- i nores it?" ' i "Then threaten him," , said the h young man, rising and walking *to- f ward the r/indow. ^ "Threaten him!" retorted the girl, shrugging her shoulders. "You do * not know these Englishmen, Ivan. ^ i Threats are to them what oil 3s to a * J smoldering cinder?it brings out the c I fire that no one thought to be there." a For some moments there was si- s lence in the room. The young man i stood -with his hack toward his companion. He was exceptionally tall, with a slight droop in the shoulders, which fc suggested a man of thought more / than of action. c His slir.i white hands rested on p the centre woodwork of the window, t and he was gazing abstractedly at the v deserted road, parched and grass- c grown. Gradually there came life \ I into his eyes, the inward light reflect- 1 I ed from an alleviating thought with- t ! in his brain. i He turned slowly, and his eyes 1 rested thoughtfully on the young * girl's bent head for some moments. 4 "Marie," said he at length, "if I fl swear to kill him, will you marry me to-morrow? Let me call you wife for one day, and I will be willing to . take the risk of getting away when ^ ' ?when it is done. We can go to t 1 America; my art will keep us com- ( fortably there. See, I have only been in England a few days, and I have j already sold many sketches. It is a j strange w-y to win a wife, by assas- ^ sinating a man whom I cannot but j adm'.re." | "Admire!" echoed the girl. "The 1 man?the individual does not come into my i-ioughts at all. It is the work he has done and will carry on unless he is stopped; the harm he has ' done to our country. What care I *' if he be a scoundrel or a patriot, ? young or old, beloved or alone in the world? It is the same to me Ivan. 1 It is the power within him I aim at, not the man himself. You cannot realize what harm thin man can yet rir, Vrwi ,irf> half a Nihilist, and think that our country's ruin vill be brought on by a succession of emperors; they at. least are patriots. { No. no; if you men would only com- j bine, the whole world could do no r harm to us. It is the inward rot- t enness of the people's patriotism hat drags down Holy Russia!" , "Wil you let me do it?" "No, Ivan, I.cannot.... God gave me he work to do, and I must not skirk t. If He intends me to oscape when t is done, He will help me; if not, 1 vill take?what comes." Her blue eyes flashed with the ire of religious fervor, but she leaned r?rr?CQ tho tnhlo nnrl lofrl hor "hnrifl nn lis, as if to soften the cruelty of her >wn decision. The girl looked very frail and lervous as she sat in the fading light, ""here was, however, a strange, set ook about her mouth; her level, red ips were pressed together with a irmness betokening a marvelous deermination for a girl of her phyique. The young man rose from his seat .nd walked to the window, pressing be soft, straight hair back from his orehead. "If you forget your own mother," le threw back sharply over his boulder, "you cannot overlook his. Vhat*uhas she done that you should mnish her? She is no doubt proud if her son, who, after all, has done iothing but his duty, though God mows he has done that well." "I think of nothing, Ivan?I think if no one. All must be sacrified to he gocd of the country! Am I not villing and ready to risk my own ife? ' "And throw aside my love," interupted the young man. "For the holy cause? Can you not ;ive up something, Ivan? Though I aarried you, I could not make you tappy. It is not in me to be content fitb the trivial occupations of a wife .nd?a mother. I cannot rest now; olten tniuK, ivan, mat inert win uo 10 rest for me on earth." She spoke in a cold, weary voice, .s though the words were forced rom her by some superior will, not manating from her own being at all. Then he came towards her with ioth hands outstretched. ':On'ly.. marry me, Marie," he irged.'in a voice hoarse with supiressed passion. "Marry me, and all fill come right. Rest will come, and teace?ah! and love, Marie; for you lo not love me now. I can see it in our eyes. We will go away and ind a new home in a new land, 'here we can watch things from afar, or we can do no good; the sacrifice if our happiness in the cause can do mthing. It is not thus that the fate if an empire is ruled. It is in higher lands than ours; or, as some say, it fill work itself out despite emperors .nd statesmen, despite lives thrown way and homes made desolate. If here were work to do, I should be ^mong the first, you know that, Ma le. Jl is weary worts. iu pa bo dug d ife in idly waiting for a crisis that lever comes, but it is written, and ve cannot but obey. When the time omes, there will be no call for statesnen and politician?; the people will !o the work, the people will find the eadere. Ah, Marie! if you would mly listen when I tell you that this s not Work for women, these are no houghts for a woman's mind! Sverything in the past points to it, verything in the present confirms hat God will not have such work [one by a woman's hand. He will Lever bless such an undertaking." Mental resistance in woman is isually totally without respect to ihysical for'ce. The man might have .rgued and persuaded till dawn; but t would have been of no avail. The rail girl was as intention her puriose as the most de^efrniqed man, .nd.with the additional "incentive of . woman's unreasoni&l^lbelfet'in her iwii convictions, whicn wilt not lisen to the most and convincng argument, at ailder measure*.?^ The man.kneHy #t, with he stubborn dy . \ .tyiorthrn blood, he y '-*v Appeal -=?- tir V hp o ner raww../ . /> ? .ttempted to art. - . a faint eflex of the pe "r * ' '^wa leart. He-tefek^ yV. Jin. te drew iMtf tov ppng till the sd ; y U; ' ter temples tour# :: We ervently and ^1 at ainly sought ? . , But she, forV _ <o lands were pri? a /as around her, P ' y 4ng lips were cl<^ ' lung to ber argf,, r .rgument, and nd ' -v istance of one w>- - , v ' dea of yielding, y. - ' (To he coV ":T> t :$"' ._ 7' Notice of^ .s I Ad ingenious elec\ ^ las been installed by\ Utou Railway Compaq . T its stations, and ? V.y" , My rincipnl hotels in cf. hrough which its trairi* JfP ice resembles a clock inV^^-^wJce, . hand moves on a dial andn^ratea vhether tbe train is on timiyor, If not, low many hours or minutes it is late. Lll these bulletins in one togfti act sinultaneouslv and indicate tlie same act. The operator at the station conrols them all, using a device similar 0 a telegraph instrument controlled by 1 telegraph key. Publicity. The first newspaper man to exploit 'publicity" was the elder James Gorlon Bennett. You remember his fanous apothegm?"First get the news: hen make a dom fuss about it." Ha ;ot the idea from u favorite old lieij n his chicken yard, who, when she iad laid an egg, cackled wildly about' t for half an hour so that all the poul-| xy world, and other worlds, could' earn of lier important performance.?i Victor Smith, in the New York Press. Eplacopal Approbation. iishop Meade of Virginia was optn tin? adornment of churches, md also lo tbe adornment of tlie persons of liis clergy. "Good morning, Brother Brown!" he said to a young deacon. "Who curlcd Cour hair to-day?" "The Lord," replied tne young muu, svitli offended dignity. "Indeed!" said the Bishop. "It is rery well done." ' A wagonette containing a wedding wrty was upset by a motor car in Paris. The bridegroom thrashed the notor car driver, and then took him o the Dolice station. V THE SUNDAY SCHOOL NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR NOVEMBER 25. lubject: The World's Temperance Sunday, Isa. v., 11-23?Golden Text: I Cor* iv., 27?Memory Verse, 11. 1 ^kjfunous{^ E California has the smallest horse " >n the world. It is only twenty-two v Inches high and weighs seven pounds d when shod. r Mr. Peter Paulson, an American ? farmer, recently inherited a sum of t money from his mother, on condition a that he goes to church every Sunday c for the next fifteen years. The near- a est church he can attend is ten miles t from his home. ? Lion tamers frequently perfume ^ themselves with lavender. There is, ; it is said, no record of a lion ever c having attacked a trainer who had \ taken the precaution of using this t perfume. Horses are delighted with 1 certain perfumes. 1 A bank note that passed through the Chicago fire is one of the curios E preserved in the Bank of England. The paper was consumed, but the ( ashes held together, and the printing i is quite legible, and it is kept under 1 glass. The bank paid the note. * ? Having advertised as a widower in j search of wife No. 2, a man of St. j Gall, Switzerland, showed the fifty ( replies and photographs which he ( had received to his wife, and, stating * that if she did not want him there 1 were others who did, he effectively ? cured her of her "nagging" habits. . i The proposed cable to Iceland is to { be laid from the Shetland Islands to 1 Thorshavn, in the Faroe Islands, and t thence to Seydisfjord, in Iceland. 8 From the latter point there is to be a ] land line to Reykjavik. The cable is } not expected to be completed until ( the autumn. ? A Canadian farmer, noted for his 1 absent-mindedness, went to town one ( day and transacted his business with : the utmost precision. He started on ^ his way home, however, with the firm ] conviction that he had forgotten . something?what it was he could not i recall. As he neared home the con- i viction increased, and three times he 1 stopped his horse and went carefully ( through his pocketbook in a vain en- ^ deavor to discover what he had forgotten. In due course he reached j home, and was met by his daughter, ] who looked at him in surprise and i exclaimed: "Why, father, where have i you left mother?" j The fox is an excellent mouser. He j will lie and watch for a field mouse ' in the long grass like a cat, pounce J upon it, kill it with a bite and lay it < one side until he has caught another, when, picking them all up, as many as he can carry in his mouth, he will canter away with them to serve them j out to the cubs. This fact was confirmed by witnesses in Scotland who , were examined by a committee of the 1 Board of Agriculture when taking i evidence on the occasion of the plague 1 of field moles on the lowland sheep < farms in 1893. 1 BIG BUILDINGS MARKED DOWN. ; :? < Value of Great Insurance Structures j Away Below Their Cost. j The total cost of the present 1 Equitable Building in New York was 1 $18,000,000. Its present value, on 3 the Equitable's own estimate is not more than $15,000,000. Only the phenomenal growth in Broadway land , | values has saved the policyholders from a much greater loss. The New York Life's Broadway j building cost $7,121,000; the com- 1 pany now claims a valuation of only 1 $5,000,000. > ' The Mutual's main office building -j in New York cost $17,277,000; the Mutual has written off more than j $6,000,000 in the last seven years. ; Many of the foreign buildings show ' similar depreciation. The Equitable's Melbourne "adver- 1 tisement" cost $2,S64,000; the societv at nrosent eives it a value of ( only $2,000,000. ; ( The first -New Yorfc Life building ( In Paris cost $1,102,000; in 1891 the < French Government valued it at $4?G,000. The present Paris build ids cost $2,500,000; the company JK>W jives it a value of $1,300,000. The Equitable has invested $37,884,000 in its fifteen office buildings; the insurance department, in order to give them an earning power of three per cent., has placed the ; value at $26,000,000?a loss of $11,- ' 500,001). Should the properties ac- 1 tually be sold, the depreciation 1 would probably be even larger.? ; McClure's Magazine. ?. i Alcohol in Bread. ] There has been much discussion i ?bout the quantity of alcohol con- '< tained in ordinary bread as the re suit of the fermentation process to which it is subjected before baking. Evidently the quantity is small, but until recently, it would appear, c.liem- : ists have not succeeded in accurately ; measuring it. Now, however, it is . announced that Dr. 0. Pohl, by an \ elaborate process based upon the dis- t tillation of the bread to bo tested 1 in a Papin digester, has ascertained < that ordinary bread normally con- ! tains 0.753 of a gram of alcohol for J every 100 grams of bre?td, or a little ' more than seven parts in 10,000. It t is well to be precise, even in small ( things.?Youth's Companion. Brains of Great Men. Braino of great men vary very 1 much. It is found that men of en- ( cyclopedic mind have large and j heavy brains?Gladstone had to wear i a very big hat with an enormous bed of gray matter and numerous convolutions; on the other hand, men whose genius is concentrated upon one line of thought are of small brain | and, consequently, havp small heads. c Newton, Byron and Cromwell wero ^ in this class.?Kansas City Journal. I. The drunkard's feast (vs. 11, 2). 11. "Woe." Grief, sorrow, aisery, a heavy calamity, a curse. Early in the morning." When it ras regarded especially shameful to Irink (Acts 2: 15). Banquets for evelrv becan earlier than usual Eccl. 10: 16, 17). "Mays follow trong drink." That they begin and ontinue to use it from early morn ill night. Palm or date wine was, ind is still, in use in the Eastern ountries. Judea was famous for the abundance and excellence of its palm rees; and consequently had plenty if this wine. Drinking strong drink b the chief business of the day. "Till vine inflame them." Until there is ixcited, excessive action in the blood 'essele, causing them to act in excitement, in. anger, or . any evil way vhich their natures might be made o feel,'under the.unnatural pressure ipon the forces and functions of the iody. In this condition no man is ible to use good judgment, or to exscute his work correctly. 12. "The harp." A stringed initrument of triangular figure. Music vas common at ancient feasts (Amos 5: 5, 6). "The viol." An instrunent with twelve strings. "The tablet." A Bmall drum or tambourine, )layed on as an accompaniment to linging. "Pipe." The principal musical wind instrument of the Hejrews. Such as indulge in revels nust have every sense gratified, for >nly by being stimulated by such ex:itement could they at all be satisled. "They regard not." The most positive proof that such conduct is sinful. II. God's judgments on the drunkird (vs. 13-17). 13. "Therefore." Because they ignore God's warnings ind continue in their drunkenness. my peupic. ?juuau, ui 101 a^i, vi joth. "Are gone." The prophet sees the future as though it were present. "Because they have no tnowledge." Because of their foolsh recklessness in following strong Irink they make drunkards of themselves. They are contrary to wisdom. They become captives because their Drains are so ruined by excessive Irinking that they are not capable of icting the part of prudent, care'ul nen. "Honorable men are famshed." Strong drink ruins those in Honorable positions just as quickly is men of low estate. "Dried up with thirst." Both the great men ind the common people suffer alike vhen in captivity to the cruel power jf strong drink. 14. "Hell." Sheol, the place of the dead. Sheol is personified and :ompared to a ravenous beast, eager to swallow its prey. "Hath enlarged tierself." There has been so great a slaughter that the world of the dead is too narrow to accommodate all who enter there, and has to build on an addition?has to increase its capacity. "Opened her mouth." The tense in the Hebrew changes here, [t should be "and is opening her mouth." The slaughters have not leased. 15. "The mean man," etc. Its victims include all classes. Even "liie mean man" is "brought down" :o a lower level, and to the same level 'the mighty" and "the lofty" are degraded. The drunkard soon loses all self-respect, then his respect for. all that is good, even respect for God and fear of his judgments. This is to become a sccfTer. 16. "Shall be sxalted in judgment." When man's glory is all passed away God is unjhanged. Though men scorn His of fered mercy and refuse His wise counsels He is not cast down. He is exalted. "Sanctified in righteousness." Regarded as holy by reason of Hi3 righteous dealings. 17. 'Then shall the lambs," etc. When these are gone into captivity and 3wallowed up in death others shall Bll their places. III. The woes of the drunkard (vs. 18-23). 18? "Iniquity." Guilt Incurring punishment. "Cords of canity." Wickedness. Rabbins say, an evil inclination is at first like a fine hairstring, but the finishing like a cart rope. These sinners harness themselves like horses to a cart, and, straining every nerve In sin, they drag their punishments with them. 19. "Let him make speed," etc. rhey challenge the Almighty to do His worst, and set His justice at defiance. They do not believe that the judgments threatened will come. 20. "Call evil good," etc. Men resort to lying subterfuges to justify themselves in sanctioning the liquor traffic. 21. "Wise in their own eyes." Those who prefer their own reasoning^ to divine revelations, who despise or reject the gospel, or who claim to have a knowledge of it, but Ho not practice it. ' * 22. "Mighty to drink." Those who boast that they can drink more than others and yet be able to stand, rhey shall not escape the curse of arunKenness. to mmgie strong drink." To add spices to strong drink, and then count themselves strong because they can endure the effects. Their glory is their shame. 23. "Justify the wicked for reward." Who, as judges, pervert justice and for a bribe acquit the guilty. Who for the sake of votes, or political influence, or favor with the people, yote with the saloonkeeper and help make bad laws. God will punish such. "Take away the righteousness." Though a man be proved innocent, yet because he does not give i fee he is condemned by these unjust men. Misery will overtake hint, 7^-1 ? C .,/rot? "PrA^nof irvn lil'J 111 ill 5 x * Belgium's extensive cultivation of sugar beets is nearly sufficient for its 125 sugar factories and refineries. The only factories importing beets ire near the frc?iticv. The importa;ions in 1003 amounted to 317,173 ;ons, against 125,572 tons in 1904. Belgium consumes only twenty per :ent. of the sugar it produces, exporting the rest, amounting to 94,225 :ons in 1205 and 130,031 in 1904. rhe yield for 1905 was twenty per :ent. in e>:ces3 of that of 1904, due :o an increase in acreage and to bet:er crops. Cemetery Lot is a Freehold. Attorney-General Miller, of India la, has decided in the rase or a can'idate for office where real estate nvnership was a requisite of eiigibilty that ov/nership of half a lot in a :emetery made him a freeholder. Spain to IVaild 5000 Schools. Spanish Minister of Public Instrucion Gimento has announced a projict for a loan of $10,000,000 for the :onstruction of 5000 primary schools luring the next fivt years. . ... - ,? THE GREAT DESTROYER J SOME STARTLING FA CIS ABOUT THE VICE OP INTEMPERANCE. A Sweeping Verdict ? The Distinguished Dr. Mctcbnikoff Shows H How Alcohol Paralyzes the 5 White Cells of tlie Blood. Dr. Metchnikoff lately lectured in London. A considerable part of his H first lecture, delivered before a large Tj medical audience o" very great distinctioD, was devoted to a discussion of the influence of alcohol upon, immunity from, and susceptibility to, H disease?these being ultimately dependent upon the behavior of our w white cells. One wished that the abused and flouted medical pioneers, n long dead, could have been present p( at that lecture and could have heard \\ the enthusiastic and spontaneous applause with wbich that audience greeted Professor Metchnifeoff's successive sentences. The professor showed that alcohol, even in tiny dose3, paralyzes the white cells of the blood. In the presence of dele- , terious microbes ^whieh they would otherwise promptly and successfully attack and bill, the white cell3 re- t main passive and motionless. n It is an easy matter to protect rab- 0 bits against the disease known as " anthrax, but the methods which are ai ordinarily so efficient are found to fail completely if the rabbits mean- 01 while have been dosed with alcohol. ei Then, when the white cells are e<- o: amined under the microscope, they are found to be paralyzed. A host of P other microbes beside that which " causes anthrax are found to be sim- w ilarly advantaged by the paralysis P: which alcohol induces in the defend- s< ing army of the body. * a: Lastly, there is the extremely 11 striking fact that, in almost every case, the failures to check the devel- a opmenfof hydrophobia in persons u sent to the Pasteur Institute were a found to occur m ajconouc pauenis. The summary of Metchnikoff, loud- n ly applauded by a large audience ful- o: ly representative of the leaders of tl scientific medicine in this country, si was this. " tl "Besides its deleterious influence ? on the nervous system and other im- L portaut parts of our body, alcohol, tl therefore, has a harmful action on the white blood cells, the agents of o natural defense against infective mi- a crobes." it By a curious chance the post brings si me, as 1 dictate this article, a little G pamphlet upon the food value of malt P liquors. I note with interest a quo- ti tation from the late Sir James Paget, r writing in the Contemporary Review t] symposium upon alcohol, now ab- a surdly out of date. The great sur- t] geon qualifies his highly qualified h opinion by the phrase "with such evi- n dence as we have." r Well, after all these years, we have t more evidence, and it ri.&y interest g the reader and the conscientious pre- p parer of advertisements to know that a in a few months there will appear a ij new and"unique discussion of alcohol, a which is being edited, at my.request, a by the honorable secretary of the So- o ciety for the Study of InebriateB. h This work will consist of twelve ar- h tides, written by twelve oi' the most distinguished members of the medi- t cal profession in this country, and h covering as many aspects of. the tl great question which is shortiy to tl engage the attention of Parliament. p i desire nothing more than the dis- o semination everywhere of authorita- h tive medical opinion on this subject. V But 1 mean to put a stop to the quo- d tation of opinions twenty years old. If the upholders of alcohol want to invoke science, science they shall have of that draught, at any rats, they cannot drink too deep.?London 0 Daily News. f s Beer and Murder. t A whisky drinker will commit murder only under the direct excite- j, ment of liquor; a beer drinker is cap- a able of doing it in cold blood. Long observation has assured us that a ^ large proportion of murders, deliber- t ately planned and executed without tl passion or malice, with no other mo- j( tive than the acquisition of property ^ or money, often of trifling value, are t perpetrated by beer drinkers. We believe, further, that the hereditary evils of beer drinking exceed n those proceding from ardent spirits q ?first, because the habit is constant, j; and ^without paroxysmal interrup- n tions, which admit of some recuper- E ation; Bscon^jy, because Leer drink- jj ing is practiced by bcth sexes more > generally than spirit drinking; and, * thirdly, because the animalizing ten- c ilency Is more generaljy iransmruea. c I?Pacific Medical Journal. v v The Right Answer. B In an address to a temperance so- t ciety, Admiral Capps told a stor/ c which is printed in the New York a Tribune. . ... a j A man who had ruined his health r with alcohol sat looking sadly at his t wife, to whom he had made many t promises of reform. c "Jenny," he said, "you are a clever ? o woman, a courageous, good woman, a You should have married a better man than I am." o She ioolced at him, thin limbed and i: etoop shouldered, prematurely old, e r.nd ansv/ered, quietly, "I did, James." v C What They Producc. t Here is an illustration of what sa- a loons produce. In one corner of Ok- * lahoma, a few miles from the Indian v Territory nne, mere is u ssaiuuii uum which has come in four years ten * murders, sixteen assaults with Intent to kill and eigbty-one cases on the v commissioner's docket for the illegal ? introduction of whisky into Indian Territory. ? Temperance Notes. Saloon-bred crime is at flood-tide y in Chicago. x P IS Hie doctor is no match for the u drink seller. c. There are 12,000 personc in Ger- ti man lunatic asylums whose minds G have been deranged through excessive drinking. Close the saloon, shut down the brewery, and allow the distillery to If make alcohol that is fit for fuel and p: for nothing else. le Just to be a saloonkeeper is punishment. A man who cannot be proud of his job is in trouble, no matter how rich he gets. jr Georgia Prohibitionists announce jc <1 contest in 1907 for State prohibi- ol ~ ? nnA nf/~, nnm nvonorinc for fVlo ? LiUIJ, auu CM w uu IT AW* VMM a fray. There has been much activity M in Georgia during the past two years, w The educational committee of the w City Council of Berlin, Germany, has hi issued a memorandum to mothers di warning them against the practice of w giving children wine or beer, even in T small quantities. ps The per capita consumption cf *( liquor is on the increase. , pj ?. v . N:?"V- '/.>. Vvfc f v r^UGHTSFg^^ M 3 HE KNOWS. I |9 e kncwB the bitter, weary way, \ H e knows the endless striping, day bj day\ tie soula that weep, the sonls that pray, \ He knows. CjB e knows how hard the fight hath been, \ V i>e clouds that come oar lives between, \ H be wounds the world hath never seen, \ H He knows. \. B e knowB when faint and worn we ?nk \ H ow deep the pain; how near the brink \ ? dark despair we pause and shrink? ' H He knows. \ e known! Ob, thought so fall of bhssl V )r though our joy on earth we misi ( 7e still can bear itt feeling this? ; I He knows. H ?Christian Work and Evangelist. fl Prayer. I And Hannah prayed and said, etc, N -I. Samuel,, xl., 1. 9 The chapter frbm'wjtiich the above M ;xt Is taken shows clearly that Han ah's prayer was, nothfn? btit^a-byn)n -9 C praise. It follows,^neref ore, that i a Biblical sense prayer and praise ~<l re synonymous terms. Hence the I rlter of the Psalms finishes the sec- I ad book with the words "Here are I aded the prayers of David, the sob I t Jesse." I Although most, if not all, of these I rayers express only gratitude and, I lanksgiving, praise is interwoven/ I ith and implied in prayer, for both' J rayer and praise emanate from one^^fl jurce divine, namely, perfect faith* I d belief in God. The true believer fl l disclosing his heart in supplication' riB efore the Almighty proves hid hope jfl nd confidence in and dependence JS pon Him, and thus he tacitly adores 9 nd glorifies His -holy name. The E nbeliever, however, never feels the 9 ecessity of uttering words of prayer. "JB r praise. The people of Israel joined 1 ieir leader, Moses, in chanting a 51 ang of praise unto God only.'.when ' " jm aey firmly believed in Him, as it is I ild "And they believed in the I ord," etc.; "Then sang* Moses and t I le children of Israel, etc. ?- > .V.fgS The only reason why bo many ar present day hare become callous nd insensible to prayer and praise V i simply because their religion ia hallow -and their belief superficial, (od dwells not in their hearts, hence rayer never passes their lips. It is rue that such people, too, sometimes esort to prayer; for Instance, when hey are plunged into distress, when ny signal misfortune belals them, hey cry out in terror and ciespair for elp. But what a prayer! There is o hope, no faith, no humility and no esignation in such a ' prayer. Its ruitless result deteriorates and deenerates them more than ever. The rayer of the believer, however Is Iways soothing, solacing, encouragag and elevating, even though unnswered. For the supplicatoi' f?ill^ . ttribute its ineflecli^efi^ss to^ his wn unworthiness, and- thus he will J enceforth make efforts ' to Improve 3 is demeanor and sancUfyvhis life.; We should, therefore, ever strive o foster in our hearts and in the earts of our children true belief and J. he principles of true religion; then he sweet voice of genuine prayer and raise will frequently be raised in ur dwellings, as well as in our ouses of -worship.?Rev. Dr. Fallr ridaver, New York City, in the Bunr ay Herald. Love is Religion. N v : The love of a child for its parents, f husband and wife, of friend for riend, or of a man or woman for, ome favorite animal, all testify to he existence of unselfish tendencies a human nature. There is not only; _ desire to be loved, but a necessity of svlng, of going out o? ourselves and ttaching ourselves to another bpingJ In the truly- good -man, howetvef,' his disposition Is supreme; andfrinj he absence of it no one has any right, y.| o assume the Christian name. Be-' rffl ore wo have that right love must; & e our master, and no profession of ? elief in God can be sincere iff It is1 > ot shown by a generous and untaint-' i d love for our fellow-men. Thus; * lany who in these days denounce our . . Christian civilization do so with no ittle justice. Wh?n we see Christian! ations armed at all points spending oillions of money and training mil-. $ Ions of men with the express pur-* ose of setting them to destroy one ' nother if a quarrel arises, the un-' hristian character of much of our ivilization cannot be denied; When % ve so often see the wealth and lux-j iry, worldliness and selfishness, of] aembera of the richer clasies, while. l': hose by whose toil they thrive are 'ften left in large numbers to live . life of hardshin and' nrivation. we . .re sceptical as-to' the . reality of-tho eligiori which 'they profess.- They' nay feive some-little of'their surphlp<? o feed the poor; but it is not always ut of love for them, but simply out f regard to what they consider to be' . social obligation. ' ' i Surely if our civilisation or even! ur religion wererootedand grounded} love, thing3 would be very dlffernt; for he that lovethnot his brother /horn he hath seen cannot love rod whom he bath not seen. He hat loveth God must love his brother, lso. It must not be thought that ove is like a mere obligation which' rer are bound to fulfil, a law we are ommanded to obey. It is far more ban that. It is the one condition by. /hich we rise to a higher and a diiner life. It leads to the knowledge f God and to fellowship with God, or he that loveth knoweth God.? Lev. Walter Lloyd. The Fulcrum of Prayer. Self must be the fulcrum on "which our prayer will rest, but it is not the ower that lifts you heavenward. It' i by looking out, not in, by looking P, and not down, that a man esipes from the bondage of sin into le peace and liberty of the sons of od.?Washington Gladden. Be Lifted. If we do not lift up our life to the !Yel of our prayers, eventually our rayers will be dragged down to the ivel of our life.?Bishop Brent. ^ Lost Child in Wolf's Dca. Alter being lost for two days, dur- ig which the entire countryside lined in a hunt for her, t'our-yeard Margaret Schweitzer, daughter of well-to-do farmer of St. Joseph, .inn., was iouuu uuuaruieu iu a olf'3 den in the forest. The child as well and apparently contented, at 3coIded her rescuers for having riven away the "nice little doggies" ith which she had besn playing, he child said she had discovered the ith leadins into the thicket and had jllowed it, and that she had not sen cold or hungry, because she had lenty of nutE to eat. niii^t- -gm^l