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1 . /J 2 A Tale / _r xi. VAI -3 ?f ine r I i v i becretService \ ITV CHAPTER XV. 10 Continued. Winyard, who was a step behind ner, appeared almost to have foreseen the mishap, for his arm was round her before it was possible to know whether she would have fallen" or not. It was doubtless owing to the narrowness of the steps that he found it necessary to throw his right arm around her, instead of content ing himself by supporting her with his hand. "Perhaps we are," he observed, gravely, as' she recovered herself quickly and passed on. "Perhaps we are what?" she asked, keeping her face studiously turned from him, and plucking little tufts of lichen from the wall as she passed. "Foolish!" "I am, at any rate," said Lena, with a little laugh. "I never do remember that silly step. The way it tilts forward when one stands on it is most alarming. Now, I am sure you had forgotten it." "Excuse me, I remembered it." "And you did not warn me. Perhaps you wished me to tumble down or?r? r>nm & tn ATI 1111 timely end in the depths of the Broomwater." Winyard did not answer at once; he appeared to be pondering over the words before he spoke them. "Perhaps," he said, in a voice so low that Lena could scarcely hear it, "perhaps I wished to have the pleasure of saving you from all that." Then the ingenuous youth changed . " the conversation skilfully, khowing that maidens are delicate in their susceptibilities, and love little a joke that is pressed too far. That loose step, with its alarming weakness, was never again overlooked by Lena; and by some strange sinuosity of her maiden mind, abetted by her imaginative heart?an unfathomable shallow, all criss-cross currents?she came to loving it beyond its fortyseven mossy fellows. CHAPTER XVI. An Interview. The moon had bravely taken up her nightly task of sweeping clear the heavens. But there was some huge clouds that promised to strain her cleansing powers to the utmost. Winyard Mistley sat on the stone sill at His oearoom winaow, ien leei. from the ground, with his legs dangling in the darkness, and listened absently. The scene was bo lovely, the thousand night odors so sweet, that the time slipped rapidly away, while the watcher almost forgot to note its passage. He had been sitting there nearly half an hour, when at length he heard the rustle as if some one moving through the underwood upon the slope down the stream. With a last whisper of admonition to Adonis, he placed his two hands on the window-sill and threw himself far out into the darkness. He lighted softly on the mossy turf and crossed the lawn. His eyes were accustomed to the darkness, and he could recognize the form of each stately tree, drawn in sharp black filigree against the gray sky. In the shadow of the wall at the foot of the long flight of steps he soon discovered a tall figure leaning against a tree, with the leisurely patience of one who knows that his .waiting is not in vain. "* . For a moment it struck Winyard that if this man had evil intentions, nothing would be easier than to ' shoot him as he descended the steps with the moonlight shining full upon his face; but the thought was only fleeting, and untinged with any likelihood of turning to a fear. As the young Englishman approached, Ivan Meyer stepped forward, and, with an artist's ever-present love of harmless effect, raised his hat and said: "Monsieur Mistley?" , Winyard was one of those unfortunate people whose sense of humor is irrepressible?unfortunate, because it invariably strikes at the wrong moment, and because the possession of it makes one see deeper pathos in every-day life than those whose smile is slower. The incongruity of the whole affair suddenly forced itself into Winyard's thoughts, and he was thankful that his face was in the shade as he raised his hat slowly and coldly, with a truer knowledge of dramatic effect than Ivan Meyer possessed. *1 am Winyard Mistley," he explained. "It is is, perhaps, my elder brother with whom monsieur wishes to converse." It may have been that Meye7 , thought he detected a slight shade of irony in the formality of his repl>\ for he instantly dropped the cer^ monious mode of address in tb# third person. "No, monsieur, it is yourself whom I seek," he said with a nervous hesitation which did not fail to raise him considerably in his companion's estimation. "You will pardon my indiscretion, but I was hard pressed before I thought of assistance?you -can believe that?" With characteristic foresight the young Englishman began to wonder how much money he had about his person, as he bowed in acquiescence. Instantly Ivan Meyer saw that his words had been misconstrued, and he hastened to explain. "I am here," he said in a tone showing more self-assertion, "to ask a strange favor." "I will endeavor to assist you. .Monsieur " i i'.v , fe: fe ?\ .V * I \ . l< X* ?F !^?A ' | JNG \ Henry..... jSt kLEY Seton / Merriman. jcC. r y I ^ fe mvmwfwwwwwff* "Meyer?Ivan Meyer. I am a Russian by nationality, a Swede by rights ? for I am a native of the Baltic Provinces." Again Winyard bowed, and waited with some unsympathetic silence for some further information. "You know the name of Marie Bakovitch, monsieur?" "I do." "She is at present at Walso, near to here." "Do you come to me on the part of mademoiselle?" asked the Englishman somewhat coldly. "No; I come on my own account." "Indeed!" Winyard moved restlessly from one foot to the other, and by casting glances up at the clouds, down toward his own boots, and indiscriminatingly around, indicated gently that he was not desirous of prolonging an interview with this mysterious youth. Suddenly Ivan Meyer took courage, and stepping closer to his companion said passionately: "I come to you because you have ruined my life. I am the lover of Marie Bakovitch. Her love for me ?or the prospect of winning it? was the one bright spot in my existence, which has been as dark as that of every young Russian. For her I worked night and day in the hopes of one day becoming a great artist; for her sake I would willingly have thrown my life away. But for her sweet influence I would have become a Terroist, fighting a glorious battle by means so foul that God can only frown upon the righteous side and unhold the tyrant. For her' sake I forgave my father's exile, my mother's death, my own miserable childhood; and just at the moment when happiness seemed within my reach, when I felt sure of winning Marie's love, you rose upon the bright horizon of my joy; and now? now you are driving her mad. I should have hated you; at one time, I thought I did, but now I know that it is not you, but your power, that I hate. I have known of Marie's project for a year, and have ever striven to make her give it up. It is not for your sake that I have done this, but for hers;' nevertheless, I have some claim upon you. Surely I am justified in calling upon you now, in the name of all you hold sacred, to obey me?to come, now, with me to Marie Bakovitch!" "But," said Winyard, with true British calmness, "but wh?t good can I do?" "I do not know; we are in the hands of Providence; but she is forever asking for you," replied the Russian, defiantly. "For me?" "xes; m ner moments or calmness the name of Mistley is ever on her lips, and when she becomes excited she attempts to come out to seek you. I have locked her in our little sitting room, promising to come and find you. Sometimes I think she is mad, monsieur, and at other times I think I am so myself. Will you come? I have provided for everything. Marie is calmer to-night; but she never sleeps now. Mrs. ArmStrong, our landlady, has her room in an outbuilding. All Walso is asleep; it is safe." Still Winyard hesitated. Ivan Meyer evidently did not know of the meeting by the stream, he reflected; and the sight of the man she had attempted to murder might have a terrible effect upon the girl. "Is it?possible?that you think this a trap?" asked Meyer, slowly. That decided the young Englishman. "I will go with you," he said, simply. "The thought you suggest never entered my head." CHAPTER XVII. Crazed. ~ The streets of Walso were deserted when the two men entered the little town. The moon, now rapidly clearing the heavens of a few fleecy clouds that still remained, shone placidly down upon the gray stone houses with their red tile roofs. No window was lighted up, and the clean white blinds gave back the soft moonlight, and seemed to speak of healthy, quiet slumber, the reward of a hard day's toil. Meyer opened noiselessly the door of Mr3. Armstrong's cottage. "I covered the windows " he said in a whisper, "from the inside, so that one cannot see the light o.' the lamp." Winyard followed his guide into the dark passage, closing the door behind him. A moment later his companion pusnea open mat or uie tiny parlor, and a stream of light poured out on to the plain wall and oilcloth-covered floor. "Come, monsieur," he said, after glancing into the lighted room, and as Winyard obeyed he mechanically and critically noted the hideous pattern of the oilcloth upon the floor. Marie was seated near the table, with both arms resting upon its dull red cover. The soft lamp-light gleamed upon her flaxen hair, and defined her white profile against the dark wall beyond. She turned her eyes wearily toward the door as the two men entered, but there was no light of recognition in her face. It v.as at that moment that Winyard was struck for the first tin\e by the wonder of her great beauty. He had never before seen her without her list, and in the soft lizrht her lovelv supple hair had a gleam of gold upon it, borrowed from the lamp's ray?. Her light blue eyes looked darker by Llie same reason, and from the reel j i -r-,* i tablecloth there arose a pink glow which cast over her pallid face a rosy hue of life. But it rvas a soulles9 life, and the young Englishman winced as he met those vacant, pleading eyes. Meyer motioned him to stand aside in a corner near the ikon, where the tiny oil-lamp flickered little ruby shafts of light across the holy picture. Then he approached her, and said: "Marie, I have brought him." The girl took not the slightest notice; indeed, she did not appear to hear his voice, but sat gazing dreamily at her own hands lying idly on the table before her. And now the patient lover went to her side and laid his hand upon her lifeless wrist. "Marie," he whispered; speaking Russian for the first time in Mistley's presence. "My little Marie! I am Ivan?do you w>t know>me?" She slowly raised her eyes from the contemplation cf her own hands, and fixed them searchingly on his face. "Ivan!" she said at length, in a sweet, deep voice. "You have come already! Are they waiting to take me away?" "Who, my Marie?" . "The soldiers, for I have killed him?I have killed him!" Her voice died away to a whisper. "No, you have not killed him, Marie. He is here!" said Meyer, speaking slowly, as one speaks to a child. "Who is here?" ? . "Winyard Mistley. He has come at your own request!" "No, Ivan; I shot him a,t the stream. I killed him. I shall never see him again, for he is dead. I told him to stop, but he came nearer; he never took his eyes off mine?he never hesitated; and as he came?as he looked at me?I thought it was the other; He looked so brave and calm; but?but the other is bigger? bigger and braver!" When Winyard was excited, or at moments when his nerves were on tension, awaiting the time for action, he had a peculiar habit of drawing in his lips, first the lower and then the upper, as if they were parched and needed moisture. This action made his square jaw look squarer, and by sympathey his gray eves erew dogged and dark beneath the motionless lashes. All this time he had been standing in the darker corner of the little room, with keen, observant eyes upon the lovers. One brown hand was religiously executing Mr. Czerny's No. 1 five-finger exercise on the top of an old three-cornered oak cupboard, and his lips were slowly moistening each other. Perfectly calm and collected, watchful, alert, and keen, he waited his time. At last he stepped forward, and with a littl^ sign to Meyer to let him speak, he said: "No, Mademoiselle Bakovitch, you the entirely mistaken. You did not shoot me." The girl looked up at him with eyes vague at first' and wondering; but gradually the rays of a reasoning soul shone through them, and with a motion of her hand toward her soft hair over her temple, she spoke: "You?here," she. said, "you! Why have you comc? Where is the other? He does not come. I want him; not you." ' / She rose from her seat, and wandered vaguely up and down, glancing at the two men from time to time furtively, with troubled, distrustful eyes. It seemed as if reason had completely forsaken her brain, for ctia mnrmnrprl in coherently in a strangely medley of languages. After a few moments she suddenly recovered her senses, and appeared to recognize the two men again. It was a terrible sight, and even Winyard Mistley looked pale and bewildered, ^while his companion watched Marie with the dull calmness of despair. (To be continued.) Reason She Left. Aunt Emeline is the best loved woman in Saymouth, for her charity is alike of hand and heart. Like many other excellent persons, Aunt Emeline is not a church member,'but she Lj a regular attendant at the village church, which is so near her cottage as to seem under the same roof. When, at tho close of a recent sermon, the minister requested all those present who had never united with the church to retire at tho end nf servine. evervbodv was surprised to see Aunt Emeline start down tho aisle. "Aunt Eraeline," the minister called, softly, "that docs not apply to you." "That isn't why I'm going," Aunt Emeline responded, serenely. "I smell my dinner burning up."? Youth's Companion. Protect the Children. If I pierce the young leaf of the shoot of a plant with the finest needle, the prick forms a knot which grows with tho leaf, becomes harder and harder, and prevents it from obtaining its perfectly complete form. OAmafViiniy Cimllof tfllrnC flffPV OUlUCUIlilJi;, 01 H-k UWi r.Mww ? wounds which touch tho tender germ of tho human soul and injure the heart-Jeaves of the being of the child; protect it from every rough and rude impression, from every touch of the vulgar. A gesture, a look, a sound, is often sufficient to inflict such wounds. The child's soul is more tender than the finest or teaderest plant. It would have been far different with humanity if every individual in it had been protected in that tenderest age as befitted tho human soul which holds within itself the divine spark. ?F. Froebel. Parts Nearer to Borden x. New engines lo be Introduced by the raris-Orlcaus Railway arc expected to reduce the journey from Paris to .bordeaux to five hours, or at the rate of more than seventy-three miles an hour. The present time is seven hours. A wonderful pearl bearing the ic:l likeness of the late Queen Vic.lv. of England was found in a | we'er mussel in the Mississippi jiiiver near Davenport, la. ' ' ' ; , ?V- < y r" \ J ' DISCREOITS NEGRO TROOPS In Message Roosevelt Says Texas Rioters Deserved Death. Conspiracy of Silence After Blackest Crime?Act of Horrible Atrocity and Unparalleled For Infamy. \ Washington, D. C. ? President Roosevelt sent to the Senate a reply to a recent Senate resolution asking for information on the discharge of the three companies of negro soldiers because of the Brownsville (Tex.) episode. In concluding his brief for justification in discharging the soldiers "without honor," he says: "It is of the utmost importance to all our people that we shall deal with each man on his merits as a man. and not deal with him merely as a member of a given race; that we shall judge each man by his conduct and not his color. This is important for the white man,-and it is far more important for the colored man. "More evil ana sinister counsel never was given to any people than that given to colored men by those advisers, whether black or white, who, by apology and condonation, encourage conduct such as that of the three companies in question. -If the colored men elect to stand by criminals of their own race because they are of their race they assuredly lay up for themselves the most dreadful day of reckoning." The President also saj*s: "I challenge as a rights the support of es'efry citizen .of this country, whatever hi3 < color, provided only he has in him the spirit of genuine and far-sighted patriotism." The President, whose tone throughout is absolutely uncompromising, says he acted in the exercise of his constitutional power and in pursuance of his constitutional duty. . Denying that their discharge was ordered as a punishment, -the President asserts that the only adcquat? punishment for the Brownsville assault is death. He declares his keen regret at not being able to inflict that penalty. * That the shooting up of Brownsville was done by a party of from nine to fifteen negro soldiers, the President says there can be no doubt whatever, and he brands their act as one "unparalleled for infamy in the annals of the United States Army." They were the agressors from start to finish, and nothing that had occured offered in any shape or way an excuEe or justification for their atrocious conduct. After breaking from their barracks, the President says, they shot at whomever they saw moving, and Into houses where tney saw lights. They fired into houses where they must have known there were women and children. They killed a barkeeper and wounded the lieutenant of police, who lost his arm. These raiders, says the President, were not schoolboys on a frolic. Notwithstanding theiii full warning of the consequences, their comrades entered into a conspiracy of silcnce to prevent the ends of justice. So it became necessary to discharge them ' - NEGROES SUPPRESS CRIME. Seci'Ct Organization Truns Colored, Offenders Over to .Law. Galveston, Texas.?The delivery of a negro assaulter to the officers in San Saba County by members of his c^wn race has brought to light a powerful secret society for the suppression of crime. It is called the U. B.'s, is referred to as the United Brothers, and is said to have a membership of 3000 of the better element of negroes in Texas. The negro surrendered was anxious to confess. The U. B.'s had evidently had him on the rack. While prominent colored pastors are preaching reform this organization is quietly assisting the authorities. A number of mysterious confessions of crime and reforms are traced to the society. BRINGS GRAFT CASE TO HEAD. Pennsylvania State Treasurer Refuses to Pay State Capitol Bills. Harrisburg, Pa.?At a meeting of the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings State Treasurer Berry refused to approve bills of J. H. Sanr1<*renn of Phllndelnhia. for S108.000 for part of the furnishing and equipment of the new $13,000,000 State Capitol, and of Architect Joseph M. Huston for $50,000 on account of professional services. Governor Pennypacker and Auditor-General Snyder, constituting a majority of the board, voted to approve the bills, but ?the State Treasurer says he will not pay them unless ; compelled to do so by the courts. This will force the whole question of graft in the Capitol into the courts. Mexican Southern Horror. The engineer and fireman and nino passengers were killed in the wreck 3f a passenger train near Tlacocepec an the Mexican Southern Railroad, according to a dispatch from Puebla.* frtfore than twenty passengers were injured. Report 011 Japanese. Secretary Metcalf's report and the Prpsident's accomnanvins message were a severe arraignment of San ] Francisco for its treatment of Japanese. Japs Fear a Maine Disaster. The Japanese Consul at Honolulu. Hawaii, says that the visiting squadron which will arrive in Honolulu in February will not proceed to San Francisco as originally intended. A repetition of the Maine disaster is feared, he explained, owing to the alleged overwrought condition of American feeling. South Dakota's Fuel Famine. Fifty towns in South Dakota arc out of fuel, and already people are freezing to death. Army is Dwindling. In his annual report Secretary Taft : said desertion was increasing, recruiting slow and the strength of the army, dwindling. Investigating New York Life. The Grand Jury began in New York City an investigation of charges against officials of the New York Lii*1 Insurance Company. Postofflce liobber Caught. Postal inspectors have arrested L. Brown, a farmer, near Richmoii , Va., for robbing a mail box. i m, i BITS I NEWS" ; 7 WASHINGTON. Minister Grip, of Sweden, presented his letters of recall. New navy personnel plan, it is eB- Su timated, would save Government $5,000,000 in seven years. The Government will build a torpedo factory at Newport, R. I., to faiake it independent of manufacturers. en Rear-Admiral Mason, Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, urges the build- th( ing of ships to carry ammunition for an the fighting vessels of the navy. Miss Jane Addams and Miss .Mary ^ McDowell, settlement house enthusi- agc asts, asked Speaker Cannon to favor a bill to authorize the President to tllj call an international immigration : conferenbe. Professor Henry Fairfield Ofborne, of chosen secretary of the Smithsonian th< Institution, has declined the office ity because it would Interrupt thirty tli< years of investigation which he is To Just bringing to a close. th< In his annual report Postmaster- exi General Cortelyou urged a continu- Go it- rr <nr fctuue ui iuo yuiAV/j ui, ouuoubuuuo business for politics in the adminls- soi tratlon of'the department. soi President favors recommendation Rj1 for more pay for sailors of pavy. ^ . The officials a$ Washington reiter- jn ated the denial .'that any new treaty with Japan is being drafted or is even .under consideration. pa, President Roosevelt will Illustrate his special Panama Canal message, dei submitting to Congress photographs tio taken while there. - { Hi . *' V v J -*- . " r COl OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. da Senor Guma, the beat sugar statist 3lD tician in Cuba, estimates the coming ?C( crop as high as 1,524,714 tons, the *at product or 183 central factories. a The Territorial .Board of Immigra- da" tion, in Hawaii, has decided -to bring a?: 1000 laborers from Spain to the isl- ?,p. "><>= : . ?! The special message to Congress ph: urging American citizenship and th< other reforms for Porto Rico, has pat pieasea ine lsjauuerts. tut According to the proposed election law, the coming Philippine Assembly P?' will consist of eighty-one members,* *ac each representing a population of 90,- da000. The election of members of ev( the Assembly is to be held July 1, ?e! 1907, and the Assembly is to convene *>o< within ninety days after election; * **9 > 6 / wo Manila residents to the number of 1000 are having telephones installed in their hon'se^r The hello girls are Fjilltflno maidens. gel An investigation made at Bilibid, or Manila, where the ten prisoners who oni had been inoctflated from the cholera, is serum recently died, has disclosed ari< traces of plague germs in the dead An bodies. i * pei j - ' t sot DOMlESTtC. -. an Clifford Hooe, negro coachman for Augustus Hartje, was taken to the , penitentiary foi. purjury in the Hartje divorce case, while a mob clamored " for his life, in Pittsburg, Pa. At a meeting of the National Civic to Federation, New York City, Andrew eni Carnegie opposed an income tax, but gej favored a heavy , tax on fortunes at da; the death of their owners. voi The United States and jocal authorities in San Francisco have' decided- ' on a line of argument, in the Jap- vei anese educational controversy that be is expected to settle the question, in' the courts. as V*W ?* ? . *' JC- T' ' rV.. T?^j Maine's .Governor and Council have ue< decided they have no power to in- se* vestigate conditions at the Holy ?oi Ghost colony, at Shiloh.; The 'Armour Gratin .Gotapany waa wr one of those named-as memb^s of rax an alleged Elevator. Trust in a suit ^ brought In, Chicago:' r Ten year^' imprisonment and a jea .$.1500 fine were given Dr^J, D. Eggleston, at Denver, ^or counterfeit- grt Ing. . ' " ' 'i 4 . ere The late Otto Young left $400,- e.ai 000 as an endowment for the Chicago Home for Incurables. CU1 ' 4 ' VIE A member of the jury which broke . the will of Uriel H. Crocker, a wealthy lawyer of Boston, was convicted in , that city of receiving a bribe while serving on the panel; ' ^ While resisting arrest on a charge mi; of running a "blind tiger," Sanders it i Day was killed by Marshal Clay Shaw ed at New Orleans.' / iiv T*V.^v nhaat nf +Vm T"la Vntn fi lV IUU TTU^ab J iViU vi. vuv 4^M.*wvv-? -v and Minnesota is about 109,445,000 pes bushels, or less than estimated. the While waiting to take a train ter home, Peter Hoffman, of Cleveland, dropped dead at a Louisville railroad station. - ' pe{ am V, . v. FOREIGN. mc The new Spanish Cabinet was ac? cepted by King Alfonso. SP* Russia and Japan disagree over a fin treaty of commerce. rph Prince Gustav of Sweden has as- fir: sumed the regency during his father's Illness. "F Dispatches from St. Petersburg in-' En licate a fear in Russia that the de- the Bant attitude of the Japanese means ail l plan to compel abdication of Rus- dia sian sovereignty on the Amur. an( England, France and Italy have IV*1 signed a treaty guaranteeing the in- ' tegrity of Abyssinia. da, Defeated by ten votes on the ques lion of the German Southwest Africa ent oudget, Chancellor von Buelow dis- COr solved the Reichstag. cer France has ordered a battleship boi squadron made ready to sail for Mo- sto rocco at a moment's notice. 3ix The rebellion in Kiang-Se is an anti-dynastic movement which began in Ho-Nan; missionaries have not I been molested. Fili The Mexican Government has rati- in fled the treaty with the llnited States nat referring to the great irrigation dam reCl at Engle, Texas. tbe is Is Partly official sources confirm the * " report that Norway has asked several t, ? Powers to unite in guaranteeing the integrity of that Kingdom. gjQJ Emperor William promptly dis- g0j, solved the Reichstag after it rejected the his Southwest African Colonial bill. S1,e, As a result of insurance scandals gan Mutual Life lost insurance In Great Britain worth $5,000,000. Advices from Madrid said that the , Bishop of Tuy had retracted his pas- t toral letter and that the Spanish Gov- bee ernment had abandoned plans of acc prosecution. _ lje Advices from Guayaquil say that sta the rebels under Colonel Vega are COc moving to cut communication with str; Quito, and that a conspiracy has been dra discovered in that city. The exhibit of the American Insti- q tute of Social Service at Milan has , received the unusual honor of being transferred to. Rome. | j vT.r V' \ EE SUNDAY SCHOOL. TERNATIONAL LESSOX C*M. VIENTS FOR JANUARY 13 BY THE REV. I. W. HENDERSOX. bject: Man Made in the Image of" God. Gen. 1:26:2-3 ? Golden, Text, Gen. 1:27 ? Memory Verses. 2<>. 57. Having created, in order, the heavand the earth, light, Heaven, rth, vegetation, the sun, the moon, a stars, the fish, the fowl, the tame d the wild animals, God creates in in His own image, after His rn likeness. And having created m and woman God, blessing them creatures of His own heart, delivj unto them dominion over everyIng alive upon the earth. The central point of this story is at man was made in the likeness God. To him is given a similar Dugh not identical creative capac ; to him is given sight, hearing, 3 sense of sound,of taste, of touch. him. God gave the power of aught and the added power of the Brcise of a sovereign will. ' For id says "Thou shalt have dominl." God, in man, creates a pernality like unto Himself. A per-, aality not so full and not so infl:e, but a personality essentially ; same as His own. Gcd creates in as a ruler and in order to rule the likeness of God it is evident it man must partake in some jasure, at , least, of the moral ca-. cities of God. The second part pf the lesson als with the seventh day of crean, the day on which God finished^ s work. This seventh day has ne down to us as the Sabbath, the 7 of rest. Here also we find in aple language the record of great momic, physical and spiritual its. If God had not rested, if God d not by example, if we may so r, set apart the seventh ,day as.a y . of rest, wq should nevertheless, hitman beings, require one day in ren for cessation from economic es, for the recuperation of^ our ysical natures, for the culture and / cultivation of our spiritual cajlties. It is a well-known fact it too much attenton to business airs dulls the fine edge of business tver. It is an equally well-known .t that we must have at least one r'a recreation and rest out of jry seven in order to the proper ilth of the functions of the human 3y. It is a scientific physiological. it that, each, day, a busy man or' man uses up precisely one-seventh ire of vitality than is stored up for y one day's use. And as a horse, o Is worked seven daysT a week :s weary and worn out, so must we we shall also become weary, give 2-seventh of our time to rest. This the law of God written in the life f the experience of humanity, d not less true is it that the nro husbanding of our spiritual reircea demands the giving of eqital and regular portion our time to God. The soul man meeds refreshment and 'igoration as well as his body (ftmind. Especially is this so in the le of men who are, by virtue of iir callings in life, brought face face with the materialism and the iless distracting influences of our leration. Such men need a rest 1, a day of recuperation, a day de:ed to the strengthening of the ole man.. rhe following notes on the various -ses in the lesson may be found to of value: . Vs. 26. "Us." Qod is understood being surrounded by the angelic ivenly court, by cherubim and aphim, etc. "Man," Heb. Adam, a lective, common noun. "Image? >ness," somewhat synonymous, able statement of name fact; the Iter throws no immediate light an what Is the constituency of the age of God; he probably inferred it without longer description his iders would grasp his meaning. Vs. 27. "Created," the ihird ?atest formation, of God. He lated first the heaven and the rth, and secondly the conscious ?. Man was the third and by a nulative process the greatest jdiie creation. Vs. 29. "Meat," in itsr earlier ailing of "food." As it stands we ght be Led to suppose that the iter was announcing a vegetarian t as a divine decree. But however ich some of us might wish to have that way, and despite the undoubtgood points of such a system of ing, the writer Wasn't this evidentin mind. It is likely that in the iceful early days they did live on > fruits of the earth, but the wricannot be accused of making a > vegetarian argument. Vs. 30. "Beast?herb," universal ice, it would seem, ruled then ong men and animals. "Life," R. "Lining soul," animal life com n to all creatures, men included, is is not to be confused with the ritual life. vs. 61. me, la an except tuw >t and sixth days it is "a day." is indicates the importance of the st and sixth beyond the others. Vs. 2, Chap. 2. ?"Ended," R. V. inished." It seems likely that glish is unable to define just what ? writer means here. God finished His six days' wcrk with the immeite beginning o:? the seventh day, i in a certain sense He may be derstood as having finished it on s seventh day by His divine decree icerning rest. If hallowing the v is labor, then it ueems that God I not finish the work till the sev:h day was started. But if we isider "work" in the common acitation of that term then God's la must be considered to have pped with the last moment of the tli day. Protestants in Philippines. >rot;stant missionaries among the ipinos report favorable progress religious instruction among the 1 ives, and this is confirmed by the rill ciliii Uttl I cpui l sjl r* via v*. American Bible Society in those nd3. It sets forth that the comrcial, social and religious life of people there is receiving new and yerful influences from the mislary work and Bible distribution Qg on, the last year having been most prosperous in these rects since our occupation there beSlnai Boundary Settled, rhe Sinai boundary dispute be;en Great Britain and Turkey has ;n settled. The maps prepared in ordance with the agreement have >n signed and the Turkish troops tioned at Kuseimeh, which Turkey tsidered to bo the most important Viova V\oqn with# dicgli; yuiui, uuig uwu >.???. ,wn. Jerman Immigrants in Anicrica. n 1905 2S.075 Germans ernited to foreign countries, 26,006 ng to the United States. ' (f, i {m^UGHTS THE MAN WHO WON. He kept his eoul unspotted ' W As he went upon h is way And he tried to do some service For God's people day by da?; He had time to cheer the doubter v v Who complained that hope was dead;). He had time to help the cnpnle , \ When the way was rough ahead; ' He had time to guard the orphan,, and on* day, well satisfied . ; .With the talents God had given him, h4 r>1naad Ho orrta and Hum? -C'Jl He had time to see'tht beauty , That the Lord spread all around; "He had time to h&r the music ^ ^ ' In the shells the children found; He had time to keep repeating ' As he bravely worked away : "It is splendid to be living , In the splendid world to-day!" But the crowd??the .crowds that hurry; After golden prizes?said ?? ' {{$& That he never had succeeded, When the clods lay o'et his head?He had dreamed?"He was a failure," they, ' compassionately sighed; 4 For the man had lintle money in his popk* - ^-. ets when he-dfed. , , L . ^ ' f. - -Record-Herald. ) . . t 7 ' .. ' - 4 Ijacred and Secular Gospel/ . ; vv'Jg Whatsoever ye do In word or deed, fl do all in the namg of the Lord Jesus.; ?Col., ilU 17- * \The Apostle Is^eeklng to teach the Cblosslan Christians that all the re- ; i: lations and affairs of life should be permeated by th^.-Christian spirit. t ' ThqTdistlnction made nowadays be- | tween the sacred and the secular i* * false, mischievous distinction. It is working incalculable harm.' We have the pfcthetici harmful spectacle of men standing high in church circles, and yet who on the street or. in the market jflo not; Hesitate to employ Questionable business methods. H When' theS go-to church on Sony I day they say; "Let us have no ,secu* B lair things in the pulpit; we hare ! enough, ofr these things down town. H Here in ihuwh^e want repose, se- B datives and;healing balm; all ia prose doyn street, let us have poetry/ -<. up' here.' We want to sing hymns-?; -fl hear about heaven. In short, we /fl want the pute Gpspel without anjj worldly Admlxtifre." fl Now, tfte r/Bligleus man who talk# inai way nas na reugiun. ntuiguiu . Is to him mere sentiment. If it is of nq.nse to.him in the store, in the oU fl flee, in politics, it. 4s of no lise to him? H in the house of God. V What do we mean by the sacred! fl and the secular ?,.*By the sacred we I mean usually'ay -that which is assoV 'fl i elated with worship and the exercise! 9 of the religious' .feelings, while the Jfl . secular 4$ supposed to Include all I that falls outalda of this category. Granting tl^e distinction for a mo* fl ment, we note that in the history of fl civilization it is invariably the sacred' I that comes firsts The secular Is aK fl ways a later evolution. All legis- fl lation originally had a divln?^origin* fl . So of the .drama.^jThe Greek dr?,ma' fl was origigallfr a religious function:' ~*fl Its arts of painting and sculpture^ fl were immediately associated , with' , fl worship. The modern drama has ita fl roots ih the mystery plays. Archi- Ma tecture was first mainly concerned fl In thp hnilrHner of fihnrches. Lltera- '^^fl !> ture. in the early ages was confined! iH| fo theology and tbe lives of the saints. All that is best in civiliza-^^M tion, v our .liberty, political.. and ligious, oar benefits of a material^^H kind, had its rise in the domain oifl^l the dtetfiictively sacred. n| l But here comes the question, Wha^HH ! led llori the distinction? WhaflHjfl brought about tbe divorce wbich wS^^H now beljiold? jt was tbe mistake ofilH| the Church. The Church refused have anything to do with such things as would not directly minister unto I spiritual devotion and feeling. There I has been thlp going astray of the sec- I ular from the sacred. We need to> I reverse the process and find the way m from the secular to the sacred. There m must be the profounder recognition t M of the fact that at the heart of every- M thing is God.. Th.e. Christian religion must' re^HM sume tbe original relation y/hich if had with science, art, . commerce, the drama and amusement. religion is complete without a relation j[m to every, department/of'ltfe- No de ^ mtm yaruiitm gi- iuc 4io, w n?vuvu? a relation to Religion. There is no Mi science, no' amusement of a leglti*^^H mate kind, no true pleasure, no hon-fcgH orable vocation in which a properly; adjusted native may not Immediate- . ly find and enjoy God. t . .fg The hour has arrived for each man . 9 !n his place to regard himself as s' :ll berald of the gospel of righteousness and his work in life as affording op- jCB portunity for the more complete establishment of the kingdom of God upon the earth.?Rev. William C. SB Stinson, D. D., Bloomingdale Re- jW formed Church, New York City, in ill the Sunday Herald.. r Hand-Picking. /I Hand-picked fruit is the best and I hand-picking is the best way^to get I the fruit. .It is personal work that , 1 tells. It is so in religion; it is so in everything. Five minutes' private j SB personal entreaty will often accom- | plish more in winning a poul to I Christ than five months' public I preaching. Close work is effective* I When you talk to me you medn mer~ I and I know it. .Be a committoe of one.- Andrew was a committee ofc j one when he found his brother and I VT./Mi>rVit hfm tn .TMma -John followed I Ills example. When God wanted &lft i people delivered from Egypt, He did 1 not send a committee; He sent a man.; The Church is to be multiplied byj addition; and this is not by wholesale but by the addition of ones, led to Christ through the personal work ? of believers.?Rev. G. B. F. Hal-,,/" lock, D. D. ' > W. God's Plan. - j To know the will of God and how. to do it; the deepest meaDings in * 'life's experience; hOw to be' brave,; ) n*noV vnf cfrnntr* V* nnf % JCI uuaxuic, * * j VU WUD, to endure trial, yet keep sweet; how. to use time to the best advantage;-; how to select between apparently, conflicting opportunities of service;! how to love God more and more, and ^ to think no uncharitable thoughts, and to say no uncharitable things of our brethren?this It is to unda?. v stand God's clan for us. r ? i Nature Supplies Soap. Near Ashcroft, In British Colum bia, are a number of small lakes, whose shores and bottoms are covered with a crust containing borax x, nnri finrift in RHf>h rmnntlMpc; nnH nrn. portions that when cut out it serves | as a washing compound. The crust I is cut into blocks and handled in the I same manner as ice, and it is est!-* 1 mated that one of the lakes contains I 20,000 tons of this material. A Money From Opium. The British Government makes | $50,000,000 a year from its many ''I opium factories in India. I