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|^| HBiaaaita G|?! i THE CANO Villi! OR A TEE OF I I ===== By JAME I ! OBinNIM CHAPTER X. 9 1 Farewell Hope. Adair was a man who had few visitors, but as soon as he reached his rooms he shut out all possible comers. The investigation he was about to make was as delicate as it was momentous. First he made sure that there was nothing more in the blotting pad that he had purchased save the mere leaves, and also that on them there was no impress of writtfcn words which could throw any 14ght upon the matter in hand. Then he compared most carefully the memoradum he had taken from the dead man's mirror with the handwriting of the letter found in $e book. Making allowance for the fact that one was executed with the haste and inattention to catfgraphy peculiar to a "rough copy," and the other was a list of references prob ably written witn some care, ne reit confident that they were by the same hand. As for the contents of the letter they were of such importance to a certain young lady as to account for her taking any steps to prevent-' them reaching the eye of the person for whom it was intended, and of the step that had been taken he could make a shrewd guess. Although deficient in imagination Adair had a logical mind; he could follow a chain of reasoning, and therefore much more one of facts, link by link, and the conclusion he arrived at was that the letter of which Mrs. Aylett had spoken, the original of which he now held in his hand, had been stolen by Jeannette at the instance of her young mistress. He did not believe that it was Miss Aldred who had sent those flowers; it had been one far nearer to the dead man than she, though they were sent-for anything but sentimental reasons. It had been all a ruse to get possession of that compromising letter, and it had succeeded. So far Sophy's whole proceed ings were as plain to him as if he had been a witness of them. And those of the dead man were equally clear. Composition had been * o /HflR/Milf mot tor with 'Mm anrl it was probable that he had written more than one copy of so momentous a communication before he had got it to his mind. The rest he had no doubt destroyed, but this one had escaped his attention and the search of others. How thankful Miss Sophy ought to be that it had fallen into such safe hands as his. This was the letter: "As to your proposition" (a word poor Perry had spelt right, probably from his acquaintance with Euclid) "of my going to Australia, that is put out of the question, father, by a circumstance which I am about to tell you, and which will astonish you .very much. I am a married man. You will at once exclaim, 'some barmaid,' but it is not a barmaid at all, 1 ao assure you. n is a youug mu,y of good position, and an Hairess. She has twenty thousand golden sovs "of her own, or will have when she comes of age, which will be in less, than twelve months. This is pretty well, I think, for the 'disgrace of the family.' The whole matter is at present a secret; you will perhaps say, .'that means a lie,' but you will only have to look in the register of St. Aune's Church when you are next in the city, and you will find that it Is all right. She is very anxious to keep it quiet till she attains her majority. I should not have told you of r#U this but for your last letter, which has compelled me to make a clean breast of it, and it is quite contrary to my wife's wishes?think of my having a wife! how funny it sounds!?that I do tell you. She has an uncle on whom she is in some degree dependent, and of course, he will be awfully riled. It Is for you to consider what is best to be done; for my part, I shall be glad when the murder's out. Under present circumstances, as you may imagine, it isn't much of a honeymoon for me. Besides this uncle, by the bye, Sophy (that's her name) has an aunt, but she is very fond of her, and, moreover, has given us such opportunities for meeting that for her own sake therfe is little doubt that she will take our side. I think you will own that I have done pretty well for myself, and if you could manage to send me fifty pounds, or even five and twenty, which under present circumstances will, of course, be repaid all right, it would be a great convenience. As to taking' my degree, that, of course, don't matter now one haypenny, and I don't think you'll sav anv mors about Australia, since I've found the gold diggings at home." "So they had been married, had they?" mused Adair, with a cynical smile, "those two young people." \It was no wonder, then, that dull 'Adonis had shown so much jealousy on Miss Sophy's account, and had also been on so very familiar a footing with her; that little excursion in the roundabout was also explained, and the young lady's companionship at such an hour fully justified, for why should not a wedded pair walk when and where they pleased? His own suspicions as to Miss Sophy's tendency to flirtation were now shown to be as baseless as they were injurious, and everything was satisfactorily cleared up. Yes, oo if CODmOfi tfl Mr uyuu mg uuv/xvj uo dw*?vu ? - John Adair, most satisfactorily. For the first time since her husband's death Sophy wished that he could be recalled to life. In her distress and agony of mind it seemed amazing to her, as it did to the convict in his cell, that human beings should worry themselves and be troubled about ordinary misfortunes. She envied the kitchenmaid she met upon the stairs, the very charwoman tr.at came to help in the scullcry?nay, the v=ry beg gar wcnian uiai caweu jw uiuhuj meat. I iI'S WARDjj?h MOSEY MADNESS. ? I I "J ___________ CB?f ^ S PAYN. ? ? S OiiDiecxeflDsiD* It was now three days ago since she had received a certain letter with a northern postmark to the following effect: "Dear Miss Gilbert?My reason for addressing you you will find in the inclosed rough draft of a letter, which I have reason to believe never reached its destination. I came upon it by accident this morning in a bloting book at second-hand, belonging to a member of my college, lately deceased, and I lose not a moment in putting you in possession of it. In all human possibility no eye but my own has ever seen it. I need not tell you that I know how to keep the secrets of those I respect, and when you have destroyed it, you may regard it as never having existed. I am detained here upon business for a few days, but on my return to Cambridge shall hope to. have the pleasure of seeing you. Yours most faithfully, JOHN ADAIR." 1 t> nlrtfin rr\ woo o rnno-h nr\r\tr [ J. 1JO lUUVOUIC '? uo t* A VU^U wyj of her husband's letter to his father, which she had destroyed without reading it, hut the original of which she recognized at once. A mercenary, coarse communication enough, announcing his union to her without the pretense of any gratification in it, save for the fortune it conferred upon him, and which his greedy fingers were evidently eager to clutch. If she had had any illusion still left concerning him?the least hope that his love might have been reawakened ?this would have been quite sufficient to dispel them; but she had had none. His words humiliated her, but had no power to give her pain. What shocked her, terrified her and had dragged her down from that height of fancied security to the lowest depth was that other letter, which | ever since its receipt she had carried [ about in her bosom, where it lay like an asp?Adair's letter. It was not only that it showed all her precautions had been useless, and that the secret she had striven to keep with such pains and loss of self-respect was no more her own; but the terms of his communication were also terrible. Poor Sophy had, indeed, her comforter, and one of a more cheery sort than those whom Job had, in her waiting maid. Jeannette did not remind her how she had once warned her young mistress "not to boast" nor, under pretense of sympathy, did she expiate upon her misery, as it is the habit of her class to do. She took a practical view. "Well, Miss Sophy" (she always ignored the fact of her mistress* marriage, even when they were alone), "things look bad, no doubt; but they might be much worse." "Worse," murmured the unhappy girl, like an echo from some tottering ruin; "how cvould they be worse?" "Well, ma'am, you might have been so situated that you must have told the canon or got somebody to marry you off-hand, to save your character." With a flufeh and a shiver like one in a fever, poor Sophy moaned acquiescence. Untoward fate had certainly shown some mercy to her in that one particular; t^pt the stress Jeannette had placed upon the word "off-hand" disquieted her. It seemed to suggest that marriage at some time or another, though not perhaps immediately, was the only way out of the difficulty even now. "Don't talk of marriage," sue exclaimed, with bitterness. "I will never, never marry again." "Never is a long day, Miss Sophy," said Jeannette, cheerfully. "One says the same when people die, 'We shall never, never forget them;' yet somehow, one gets over it." "I hate men," continued Sopny, fiercely?"a cowardly, false, greedy race." "They're all that, miss, no doubt; yet life would be dull without 'em." j "I don't mind dullness; I desire it. Oh," she moaned, as if in physical pain, "oh for my last year of life again!" "Why, bless me, Miss Sophy, one would think you were on your death bed! If you did have it back- you would be sure to do something fool ish; it's only natural. What's the good of crying over spilt milk? Wipe it up, and start afresh. What is it that makes you so harsh with this Mr. Adair? He couldn't help finding Mr. Perry's letter; and, having found it, what was the poor young man to do? If he had said he had torn it up, you wouldn't have believed him." "No, not upon his oath, I wouldn't," was the energetic reply. "Well, there it is, you see; hit high or low he can't please you." (It was an unfortunate metaphor under the ciFcumstances; but, like a good many other folk, Miss Jeannette Perkins used quotations as they came to hand without much regard to their meaning.) "He has sent you the original document, which, if he had wished to frighten you with anything, he could nave kept and held over you. There's many a one as -would have done that, you may depend upon it." "I dare say," sighed the unhappy Sophy. Her faith in male nature was at its lowest; to her mind, all men were tyrants, and all women, who were not wise and prudent, their slaves. Still, this last view of the matter did give her a little comfort. It was really something in Adair's favor that he had given up the compromising MS. "By the bye, I do hope, Miss Sophy, as you have burnt the thing." "Why should I burn it?" she answered. desneratelv: "what's the use of taking precautions? What lias resulted from those in ray case? What has come of all my falsehoods and deceits, and theft?for I have even stooped to that?why, nothing, except exposure." "As to theft, Miss Sophy," re 1 turned the waiting maid, earnestly, "if you mean the taking of Mr. Perry's letter, that was my work, not yours, and I am quite ready to bear the responsibility of it; I didn't like tbe Job at tlie time, but tnere was no actual harm in it. A dead man's letter, about a matter that can never take place, can be scarcely considered property. And as to exposure, you must permit me to say that you are rather ungrateful to hint at such a thing; for nothing of the kind has happened. A certain gentleman has by an unfortunate circumstance been admitted into your confidence, that's all." .. CHAPTER XI. 1 c A Proposal. From the moment on which Sophy received the young scholar's letter, i with its all-important inclosure, or, t at all events, when that interview j with her guardian had been concluded, without her having had the courage to confess her secret to him, t I think she had a pretty certain con- <] viction that Adair would become her t husband. It was evidently his intention to win her, and his force of will, she was well aware, was'infl- e nitolv Rtrnncpr than her own. She r had refused to acknowledge his vie- B tory even to herself, and had fought e against her apprehensions, but with t the consciousness that she was fighting against fate, Jeannette, very wisely for the object she had in view, t had not laid so much stress upon the [ necessity of the union as upon its | conveniences and advantages. Mrs. t Adair might not be, perhaps, so pas- E sionately in love with her mistress as another young gentleman had once been; but from what had hap- f pened in that case, passion, it would t seem, went a very little way toward 3 insuring happiness in married life. ; A dinner party at the canon's had a all the effect that he had Intended it t to produce, and more. : It not only brought Sophy "out of her shell," but Mr. Mavors out of his. He called at the Laurels no less than E three times within the next fortnight ] on the transparent pretext of wish- t ing to see-the canon (knowri to be j glued to the concordance in his col- E lege rooms), and though he didn't i say anything particular to Sophy or i anybody else, looked (as Miss Aldred f privately assured her brother) ( "volumes." Nor, although he showed no unseemly haste to make sure of the victory he had gained, did Mr. John Adair let the grass < grow under his feet. Even with the power that hia knowledge of her secret gave him, he understood his task was to be no * easy one; that he had to raise not ( ft nf InHffforoTinp ^ \JLLIJ a, u^au TlVl^Ub VA. iuu>uv< v/uw, but to remove a certain sense of oppression which his previous conduct had produced. Jeannette's warning words had in this matter been very seasonable, and he had laid them to heart. From henceforth he dropped no syllable to Sophy that could have suggested mastery, or .that she was in any way under his thumb. , By this judicious course of treatment, joined to a manner of great but respectful tenderness, Adair succeeded in inducing in her a feeling of acquiescence; she began to contemplate the prospect of becoming his wife without a shudder, and even flattered herself that it was not a case of compulsion. On a certain afternoon that young lady had seen from her window Adair coming toward the house as usual, and when the door bell rang, had gone down to receive him in the drawing room. - It had\ become a thing for her to do so, when, as was generally the case at that hour, Aunt Maria was not at home. She was exceedinelv sumrised. therefore, when, | instead of Mr. Adair, the butler an- 1 nounced Mr. Mavors. He wore a graver look than usual, and for the J moment it struck her that something \ was amiss with the canon, which the tutor had come to tell her. "You've bad no bad news, I hope, J Mr. Mavors," she. said, with a little flutter at her heart. j "I hope not," he answered, smiling. "Is it so very strange, Miss ! Sophy, that I should pay you a 1 visif?" 3 "It is not a favor we are accus- [ tomed to very frequently," she an- j swered, smiling. "You are like an order of merit, Mr. Mavors, of which ' we are very proud, but which is not 1 put on save upon high days and holi- 1 days." ' ! "And then only worn on the out- ' side," observed the tutor, significant* ly. ! To te Continued. I ' Bug Blows a Whistle. A common beetle last night tem- j porarily disabled a Lake Shore locomotive pulling a west-bound passenger train, and raised pandemonium 1 along the route for twelve miles : from here to Berea. The bug managed to fall into the whistle of the engine. For an hour the whistle blew?blew demoniacal screeches, falsetto screams, drawing excited crowds to the track. It was at milking time. The cows became 1 unmanageable, and many a pail of ' milk was spilled by the otherwise 1 peaceful bossies. Horses and sheep fled in terror. The hysteric screeches made rural doctors run from the supper table. They grasped their medicine cases and raced to the railway stations ic. anticipation of a fatal wreck. The engineer, unable to stop the whistle and fearing that he would run out of steam, threw open the throttle wide and made for Berea. There the station master and engin eer almost Had a ngnt. xne iormer insisted that the noise be stopped, and the engineer yelled back in his ear that "she won't stop." The engine was run on a siding, where the railway mechanics found the big bug in the whistle.?Cleveland' Dispatch to Chicago Inter-Ocean. Tackles Itself. In a year Germany had 321 cases of murder and manslaughter and the United States 8976. In the former country ther8 was a percentage of 35.15 trials with convictions; in the ' - + ^ 1 9 laiiei <1 i;CiWCUltt5C VI. X.U. JTXHJ UUUJ browsing around in quest of food for thought might tackle this.?Philadelphia Ledger. Vladivostok gets most of its beef? [ressed and frozen?from Australia. The nutritive value of an egg is wo and a half times its weight of ow's milk. A youth of seventeen who hanged limself at Bristol, England, painted limself with green from head to foot ust before the act. Ermine is nothing more nor less han the winter coat of the weasel. ?he weasel is white in winter. In he summer it is brown. Charles Manners, the famous opera in itori hv n Tjfindnn .pt y ID l/l V>UikVU Krj w ? iert with being one of the finest .mateur milliners living, his work squaling some of the "best French Qodels. Snails are blessed with great viality. A case is recorded of an Jgyp'ian desert snail which came to ife upon being immersed in warm (rater, after having passed four years ;lued to a card in a museum. If one were asked, remarks London lealth, to name the most patient nan on earth, the reply would prob.bly be?Paul Cinquevalli. The fam>us feat of throwing up a hen's egg md catching it on a plate without^ ireaking it necessitated nine years' >f constant practice. There were some very candid per;ons in the time of George II. In L731 the Gentleman's Magazine anlounced: "Married, the Rev. Mr. *oger Waina, of York, about twentytix years of age, to a Lincolnshire ady, upward of eighty, with whom le is to have ?8000 in money, ?300 >er annum, and a coach-and-four luring his life only." LOBSTERS' CLAWS. , Various Jh'acts adoui xiieir umci* erices and Replacement. Any one who has closely observed ;he lobster has noticed that its two :laws are not alike. One is bigger .han the other, and there is a ^iffermce between them in shape. The arger claw is designed for crushing objects, and is armed with blunt ;ubercles. The smaller one is designed for seizing and holding, and is provided with teeth which are v^ll adapted for that service. ;In a ecent number of Science Professor Francis H. Herrick, of the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, jjpresents some interesting details ibout :hese members. The big claW occurrs about as freluently on the right side as o& the eft, but it has been discovered in Ish hatcheries, where the matter :ould be closely studied,, that all ot the brood of a particular female lobster are either right-handed or left-haaded. That is, the arrangenent is'determined in advance in the ;gg. \ Similarity between the two claws, :hough very unusual, is not absolutely unknown. Three cases of the kind )ut of 2430 lobsters examined have been reported by a naturalist at Wood's Hole, Mass. In these instances the claws were of the sharp toothed variety. On the British :oast, however, a specimen was found i few years ago which had two crushing claws. - . One of the most remarkable freaks Df nature is the precise manner Id which a missing claw is often replaced by a new one. With a certain species of shrimp, which is a much smaller crustacean than the lobster, it has been noticed that if the crushing claw is lost by accident or othex :ause the one which grows in its place is invariably a toothed claw! rhe shrimp then has two claws of the same kind. That phenomenon rarely occurs with the lobster, although cases are known where a crushing :law was replaced by a toothed claw. It has been suggested, therefore, that the few lobsters which hare beeD observed with two toothed claws may have had some such experience before they were caught, and had not been so equipped from infancy. The Indifferent Kich. A newspaper corespondent was talking about Father Bernard Vaughan, of London. "Though Father Vaughan's congregation," he said, "Is one of the most fashionable in the world, the good priest is always on the side of the poor. "tr? nolle +"nt-inor flnrl's net ehil dren, and I once heard him in an address tell the rich that they were responsible for the poor's faults?the drinking and so on?"saying that the poverty of the poor wasn't the result of their drinking, but their drinking was the result of their poverty. "He declared, that the rich in their indifference and careless cruelty toward the poor,'reminded him of a certain surgeon. "This surgeon, lecturing a clacs of students, said: " 'I was so excited at my first operation that I made a mistake." " 'A serious one, sir!' asked a student. " 'Oh, no,' the surgeon answered. 'I only took oil the wrong leg.' "? Washington Star. The Idle Dog. "Motor heart" in dogs is a new disease," says one of the King's veterinary surgeons. "The motor car possesses a curious fascination for dogs. They enjoy the swift motion, the exciting, scorching rush through the alias much as their masters. But the veterinary surgeon in many cases is obliged to curb this canine fondness for the car, bccause of the injurious effect on a dog's heart."?London Express. / v j/: ' THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMi MENTS FOR JUNE 9, BY THE ^ REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Subject: The Passover, Ev. 12:21-30 ?Golden Text: Ex. 12:13? Memory Verses, 26, 27?Commentary on the Day's Lesson. This Is the story of God's blood covenant with Israel in Earypt. Covenants are a feature of the historic life of the East. A bread covenant lasts for fortv years we are told. When a man breaks bread with another he is that man's friend for four decades. The blood covenant between men is an everlasting covenant. So it is here. With the shedding of the blood of the lamb the covenant of God with Israel reaches out to eternity. The lesson is replete with lessons. God gave the Israelites the covenant because they trusted in Him and called upon Him in their distress. Israel put her hope in God and she made an effort to keep in some measure the commands of God. She was caught in the whirlpool of a national and industrial and spiritual iniquity that seemed overwhelming. The people were so bowed down with the sins that were practiced against them that they were in danger of losing their courage and hope itself. There seemed to be no human way of escape. God, however, heard their cries or suffering. Tneir sorrow reached His heart. They looked to Him for deliverance. And He delivered them. Their deliverance came because, they came" to a realizing sense of their dependence on God. And we must become conscious of our need for God if we .are to enter into the covenant 'which God at a ' later day made with men in the person of Jesus Christ. It is remarkable that Egypt reaped the consequences of her own misdoings. God brought no hasty judgment to bear on these evil people. The king and the nation were warned nine times before the final and the awful consequences of their own iniquity fell upon them. And as Egypt was warned so we are warned. Sin has cumulative consequences. We do not reap the worst at first. The evil that men do is followed by consequences that are in the nature of a warning.. They are not final, in a sense. The consequences of sin are like the pains that are incidental to physical-ills. A.sick body warns in the very pain that we undergo that something is the matter, that we are reaping the consequences of physical misdoing. And so the consequences, many and varied as they are, that follow in the ^vake of sin. are warnings to us to desist. They are in a way the voice of God speaking to us through the immutable laws of His own world. Pharaoh had due notice of the consequences of his sin /against Israel, but he would not heed the warning. Sin became a habit with him and the consequences of that sin became increasingly acute and horrible. So it is with our sin. If we do not heed the early warning we may be sure that we shall reap a worse harvest of evil consequences in the-end. - ... Another noticeable thing is that the Israelites had to help themselves out of their trouble. God made the promise to them that when the destruction fell on the first born of the land He would pass them by. if their door posts were sprinkled with the shed blood of the lambs. That made it necessary that they should be helpers in the work that God was to accomplish for them. This is the divine plan and it is the only plan. If God had saved them from the general calamity without making them do something for themselves in order to make this salvation effective they would not have valued it so highly as they did. We must cooperate with-God. And in the Christian economy no man can be saved unless he is willing to co-operate 1 with God. If God did not demand that we should conform to His plane for our redemption in Christ we should not value that salvation as highly as we do: But because we are'called upon to work out our own salvation under the guidance and em* powering of God Himself we prize salvation in Jesus Christ as the greatest boon that the world holds for humanity. The three words that close the 28th verse of the lesson show why It is that Israel escaped, why the Passover is commemorated by loyal Jews everywhere to-day, why it is that this episode in the life of the chosen people of God has remained ' -?J 4- /v IK/% + *>?> f V* thot as a classic wiuie&s w tuc num vUU. God shepherds the peoples who love Him. "So did they!" That Is to say they were obedient. And obedience always has brought its reward and it always will bring its reward. We in America to-day are desirous of being released from the power of evil men and evil conditions that have made life hardly worth the living for multitudes of our people an<!P that have made us all hang our faces in shame. But we shall never enter into the promised land of the realized kingdom of God in this country until we obey God. If the Israelites had not done precisely as God had commanded there would have been no* deliverance for them. And America is no more precious to God than Israel was. And Americans are living under no different regulations than thosg under which Israel lived. To be saved we must ao as uwu tens usj i And whenever we hear a clear call of God for service or for duty it is for us not to deny the duty or the! call, but to give it supremacy in our lives. Chocolate Makers. Switzerland produces more chocolate than all other countries combined, and the Swiss consume more of the article in proportion to the population than any people in the world. The annual consumption amounts to $2,500,000, and the exports to nearly 56,000,000. The yearly export to the United States is about $1'.000,000, while England takes over $2,000,000 of concerns in the confederation engaged in the I ? ? of anrl therf* m<tnuiaui.ui c c/l _ are employed in the various factories about 16,000 persons, many of whom are women. No More Bewhiskcred Conductor?. Every conductor on the Burlington Railroad system must hereafter have a clean face. Orders have gone forth over the Burlington system that, beginning May l, all conductors must have cleanly shaven faces, wear white linen collars and ties, and that ?ach must wear a waistcoat. Sales to the Philippines. Sales of American goods to the Philippines last year were $5,459,000; to Germany $234,742,000. ' .. THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. The Chicago Evening American, Which Docs Not Pose as a Prohibition Paper, Says "Treating" is Most Blighting Curse. The Chicago Evening American ioes not pose as a prohibition paper; its testimony aa to the drink habit will be therefore the more perti' nent. it pronounccs treating as the city's "most blighting curse." It says: Treating costs Chicago $300,000 a day. Chicago's daily liquor bills are 5400,000, three-fourths of which, it is estimated by saloon keepers, is spent by men anxious to be "good fellows." If it were a crime to buy a drink for another, and the law against the crime were enforced, only one drink would be taken where four are taken now. While you are reading this statement 40,000 men are crooking Hheir arms over Chicago "rs, asking at least 40,000 other meu. "What'll you have? I'll buy this one." "What'll yoy have to drink?" is < without doubt the most commonly used expression among Chicago men, not barring comments on the weather and the "Is it hot enough for you?" tale of the dog days. This staggering sum, Chicago's tribute to the drink evil, this $400,000 that goes over the every day of the 365 days of t! , aar, would buy: .A loaf of bread big enough to build a wall around Chicago and stretch to the Atlantic coast. Sausage enough, if strung link-tolink, to connect New York and San Francisco. v Nice warm suits for 80,000 workingmen. Suits for 125,000 boys. Shoes for 400,000 shoeless school children. Four hundred thousand dollars a day for Chicago drinking! This sum is almost beyond comprehension. < This means $144,000,000 a year. Or $108,000,000 a year Is what it 1 costs the Chicago men to say: "What'll you have?" This is one-tenth of the tribute of the entire nation. The United States : spends $1,500,000,000 annually for * intoxicants. In other words, the American thirst represents an expense each 365 days equal to a sum larger than the capital stock of all the banks combined, and about one- j third of the national debt. It is estimated that about three- 1 fourths of the people are total ab- 1 stainers. ' Hence the burden of this 1 great thirst drain falls upon the 1 other one-fourth?plus the unfor- 1 tunates that happen to be dependent upon them. Thus it ia seen that each drinker spends $75 a ^ear In keeping 1 off the water wagon. ] If all these 20,000,000 tipplers ] would refrain from drinking for a 1 year and make a pot of the savings < it would start every illiterate child in | the United States on the way to a ] college education. If the drinkers of | the world'would forget liquor for a 1 year and a half they could corner the ] gold of the world, getting every 1 ounce in existence. I If every individual had consumed | his proportion of all the intoxicants since 1876 he would have swallowed 1 about 240 gallons. The proportion to aach is steadily growing, however, so < that it is now about twenty gallons for each individual. The increase is ( due to the increase of the foreign | element that drinks beer. 1 In those States where the foreign- ] born element is largest there is the l least effort to restrict the sale of in- 1 x mViisiVi fart* {a fqIron tft , cate that pure-blooded Americans have set themselves against the evil of drunkenness. The Southern States are receiving but four per cent, of the immigrants, but they are leading the crusade against the saloon.? Sabbath Reading. Visited Upon the Children. Bishop Warren tells of a father of a large family who was a drunkard. All his children except one died of the inherited curse. This one, though an abstainer, had an obstinate form of dyspepsia, attributed by physicians to hereditary influences. His children suffered from the sins of their grandfather. A daughter died of consumption, a son of delirium tremens, another son shot himself on the verge of delirium tremens. / Poser For the Anti-Prohibitionists. It has cost the voters of Maine about eight cents each to have the 1 laws against the saloon enforced in ; Maine this year. ?iow mucn wouiu i it have cost per capita to have had | i the saloons all over the State pros- J pering at the expense of the physi- 1 cal, .mental and moral well-being of the citizens of the State? Will somebody reckon that up??Portland (Me.) Express. A Momentous Decision. Judge Samuel R. Artman, of the Circuit Court of Boone County, In- ' dia, and former Speaker of the ^n- i diana House of Representatives, on ] Wednesday, February 13, at Lebanon, Ind., declared that saloon license < is illegal and unconstitutional, and ' refused license to an applicant on the < ground' that the State had no right < VU AUl UiiC lv au/ wvuj 1 A Scientific Belief. Baron Liebig, the distinguished chemist, says: "We can prove it with . mathematical certainty that so much < flour as can lie on the point of a table knife is more nutritious than eight j quarts of the best Bavarian beer." , Florida Papers Defiant. It is pleasing to note that so many of Florida's best weekly newspapers 1 are openly and defiantly fighting the < whisky traffic, and in doing it, stand ] for the moral, and best of all, for the 1 community in which they are pub- 1 lished.?Tallahasse True Democrat. Corporations Demand Sober Men. j Great corporations for business reasons more and more are demanding that the men entrusted with their interests shall not drink. 1 Temperance .^vies. The whisky habit is a mortgage on the future with interest payable every day. Ohio has local option in about 1000 out of 1371 townships; in 450 out of 76S towns and municipalities. Oregon has three counties entirely "dry," and about seventy precincts in others without licenses. The great railway systems require total abstinence of their employes. The time has come when policy as truly as principle demands that men I in public life should stand up for common morality. I H "SO THE FOLKS SAY." v JH The corse of the rums hop no mortal ca^^B tell, |K It robs men of Heaven and sends them hell: B? And yet there are many, 0 can it be, pra^HH Who vote it to license, so the folks ssvf^^H What, license the rroffshoo! do the xoll^^^l say ' It lightens their taxes, so some of the^^H think, . v '^HDj To hcense this business of selling stron^HB drink; BH So, along with the barkeeper moltitud^HH M Taking bread from the hungry, so the foDfl^H fl What, food from the starving! do the fottflH say? Vis a fell institution they each one confea^^H Cruel wrong in the wine-cup and sorry dii^HH tress; .*^M| And yet 'mid their praying'for peace da^Hj by day, There are those who vote whisky, to thflB folks say. What, vote with the brewer! do the folk^^H say? : HB * ?7> lo save men by statute is wrong, som^n| Who'll vote' to make legal the work o^H repair; |HH As though law to save men were'wora^^fl than to slay, \ And yet they are good men, so the foUaHB Bay. - What, true-hearted, good men!* can thflH folks say? HI There's a time in the future, and soci^H| 'twill he here, flQ9 When the voter and seller and vjcti& oi^H beer Bfl Will have finished life's journey, have^H spent its brief day> M And must 'fetand up together, so the ?olkl^H| say, - , - - ; UU Face tg face with the Master! 'What "Inasmuch as ye did it" whate'er it may^H be, B "To the' least of My brethren, ye did It toflNI And by this will He reckon in that judg^Hj merit day, > '. B And not by our praying, so the folks sayi^H r>__ j " j :ii .11 Dy uomg ana praying: bo win tui say. . , ?C. B. Besse, in Home Herald- ^H| The Ethics of Pain. fll Bishop McCormick's study of TPaln^H and Sympathy," though brief, isHH thoughtful. We cannot contemplate? the spectacle of nature's pain, he tellsfl us, without having it borne in nponHa our consciousness that It is in some^H sense our pain. That is what the^H Germans mean when they speak bf^H Weltschmerz,, that- world-sorrow^H which highest natures feel most often^H and most deeply. Nature, says BishopMg McCormick, but represents purselves. Her lesser children, the brute crea-Hfl tion, are inexorably bound1 togethefM with the feeling and the faith of he^H best and latest horn. "The gospel offl redemDtion is sent not only to maa^H but to every creature." Yet pain per-^H sists. Indeed, t/hen we realize th?^H tiigh degree of mental suffering that comes to brains more finely organ [zed, and nervous systems more high-BB [y keyed, It seems as though the sense Df pain had never been so keen as lt^K s to-day. What does It all mean? Mfl "Men are great," says Bishop lfc-rH|| Cormick, "according-to their sorrolre^H ind the way they bear them. Pain^H puts the finishing touches,"i a round* Ing and completing of human nature^H ind experience forever wanting In. an^H unshadowed life. "Pain is catholio^H ind cosmopolitan." The painless llteHI s shallow. "Who does not know hoift^M character is ripened by sorrow?" S?fl| pain must not make the Christian alH pessimist, but rather heroic, faithful, snduring. It "must be to lis rem-.^B sdial, educative, divine." Pafa has.HR Its origin in sic, and yet it is perfectly reconcilable with God's love v.and^H Sod's law. There ;ls nothing hostila^H which He cannot make helpful. Interwoven as it is with'sin, becomefr^H in God's hands a means of puriflQa-MB ion and redemption. Pain is teacH-^M ing us sympathy. To the'old quest-HH ion, "Is it nothing to yon, all ye tha?^| pass by?" We can answer: "Thank^B Sod, it is already something. By and I by it will be everytmng." me passer^as become the by-stander and :he by-stander the sympathizer. And so we are brought to pair^slH only panacea, the sympathy of Christ' "If we here touch religion at its most B| mystical point," says Bishop McCor-^| cnick, "the experience of all Gbrig-^| tians testifies that we touch it at its^^f most vital point." For "pain is not punitive only, but remedial also, not of anger, but of love." /This, says Bishop McCormick, is "God's fin&l les-^B son, His most intimate secret, His most uplifting revelation."?The ^B r'.hnrrhman. HI ??? '' Holding Up Christ. A gentleman wa? visiting a friend who was an ard<^|: admirer of Mr. Spurgeon, and was continually prateing him as a preacher. VJH "I have never heard him," said the^| visitor, "but nest SundayI will go and see whether he deserves the praise you bestow upon him." H So he went to the Tabernacle, and on his return from the morning ser- HT vice his host met him with the eager guestion: "Well, what do you think H of him?" "Nothing," was the reply. Then/^H seeing the look of utter astonishment fl| and sorrow on his friend's face, he IS said again: "No, nothing." |M But his eyes filled with tears of joy is be added: "All I can think of is the |H Savior he held up to us." H "* A Ka NO nner praise luuii luio wuw wv passed upon any man's preaching..? H| Cottager and Artisan. H Every Christian a Missionary. "flfl No consecrated Christian can be an Bj Idler. "As My Father has sent Me even so send I you." We are here as H missionaries, every one of us with a H commission and trust as definite as Hj the one who is sent to the heathen lands. Let us find our work and, "whatsoever our hand findeth to d9,t^l io it with our might." Our Lord will soon return and each one ol us must render an account. How have we n used our talents? Can we say we bate done our best? Remember; we H cannot deceive God.?V. G. Plymlr%?, No Smoking on the Campus. ''H The use of tobacco is to be fof- H bidden on the campus of the Universitv of Wisconsin. The regents H at a meeting instructed the facultn^| to put into effect a rule against smok-^B ing or the use of the weed in any>>H form in any of the college buildings H n" inrie Thp rpsrpnts also u: VXl LUC ftlUUHU'J. * -CJ" ordered that student publications henceforth bar all advertisements or B liquors or saloons. The regents voted_B enough money to recompense the stt?"^B dents for the loss under contracts H now to be forfeited.: -?-l H