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??cabe??ecb03a>esa?eei Si THE GANO ftti ! b or a tee of wa* uijl bv jame; |7| saMianiiai CHAPTER VIII. 7 , Continued. "He was rowing upon some branch of the river where boats are forbidden, and was caught by the chain across the stream. I must go and see the poor lad, I suppose." said the tutor, with melancholy apprehension, for his organization was delicate, or rather his mode of life had made it so, "and then telegraph to his father." "A terrible task," observed the canon. "Good heavens' if it had been my boy!" "You would have less to regret, my friend, in many ways," said the tutor, rising. The instant that Sophy found herpVio flaw tn Vtol] whirh acii aiuiic one; uxj \.\s . summoned her waiting-maid. "Jeannette, come here, I want you!" she cried, in a hoarse whisper. "You know what has# happened, of course." "Yes, indeed, miss; it's an awful thing to have chanced to anybody. I can't say I'm so sorry as I would wish to be; but I dare say, notwithstanding all that's come and gone, you feel it; one's husband is one's husband." "Hush, hush! I am not safe yet, Jenny." "Good heavens!" the waiting-maid turned pale as ashes; one woud have thought she anticipated what her mistress was going to say. "No, not safe yet. When poor Herbert left me at the mill, this afternoon. he informed me it was his fixed intention to write to his father and tell him all." "Oh, indeed!" Jeannette strove to throw some interest into her tone, but the words fell fiat. It would have been plain to any one not wrapt in other matters that the girl had expected a much more serious cofaamunication. "Do you see," continued Sophy, impatiently, "that such a letter would "Ko or. i ns-kno + A YY\ a O C iYi nil crV? llO UC AO I U1UUUO bV iUV uu tuvu^u MV had told the canon?" "It would have been if it had been written; but the poor young gentleman never got home to write it." "He did, he did," answered Sophy, with intense excitement. He went I out on the water a second time, and ! in the meanwhile that letter may have been written." "Let us hope for the best, miss; perhaps it was not written." "I have had enough of hope and fear," replied Sophy, wildly. "Oh, Jeannette, help me now, and I shall never forget it." "I will do anything in the world for you, dear mistress. But what can I do? If the letter's gone " "But it has not gone," put in Sophy, eagerly. "It may have been written, but it could not have been in time for the post. If it had been written at all, it will still be lying in poor Herbert's room. Jeannette, you must get that letter." "Oh, Miss Sophy, but I cannot, I dare not." j\ picture udu^iwcutcu itcrcii. iu her coarse but ready imagination, from which she shrank with horror, albeit she was a bold girl. "Yet, Jeannette, you have done more than this for me," pleaded her mistress, ."and with a willing mind. .You have done wrong for my sake, even though you disapproved of it, and you cannot disapprove of this. If the letter gets to its destination my secret is out. It will be almo6t as bad for me as it seemed to have been yesterday." "Nay, it will not be so bad as that, miss." "It will not be where you think it Is," said Sophy, ghastly pale, and speaking in a hushed tone; "it will be in his sitting room, on his writing table, near the window. You know his landlady, Mrs. Aylett." "Yes, I know her; to be sure, we can get at it through her. Perhaps lor a ten-pound note she may be induced to let us have the letter, and to hold her tongue." "No, no.- What! another one to share my secret, and to keep me un der her thumb for life! You must be mad to think rf it. We must give he* money, of course, but not as a tribe. Now listen to me: It .is a shocking thing, but it must be done. ,You must take these flowers?you may say they came from my aunt Maria, or even from myself; there wfl be no harm in that." "What, to put them on him! No. miss, I couldn't do it, not to save my life. I always feared him, but I fear him now ten thousand times as much. Not if you gave me a hundred pounds I eouldn't do it." "No one wants you to do it," said Sophy, earnestly. "Give them to Mrs. Aylett, she will do it; and while she is about it you will be left alone in the sitting room. While you have th? chance, lose not a moment; the letter will be in the desk or in the blotting-pad, if it has been written at all." "Very good, miss; for your sake I ?.ni an -m. *t T ?ifin 4-n r>?/xAn win uu luy ucau i win gu IU uiccii j street tiie very first thing to-morrow morning.'' "To-night.! to-night," exclaimed her mistress, wringing her little hands. "To-morrow It will be too late. To-day nothing will be touched: it always i;j so when there is to be an inquest." Sophy's reading of sensational novels had not been labor lost iu this case. "I'd rather lose my thimble-finger. Miss Sophy, than venture on such a thing," replied the girl. "Yet for your sake I'll try it. Give me the flowers." "Good Jeannette, dear Jennnette, you are the best of friends; think how I shall count the moment? till you come back agaiu." Conl'V tnnl* thr* flnTr-Arc on/1 notwithstanding the need for haste, with neat-Iiauded skill and taste arranged theni and gave them to her maid; for women's fingers are net as those of men, but will deftly work > #? o as a cat ms ? ? ma o N'S WARD: ?2 MOSEY MADKESS J - *1^ s payn: xsev laiooHiiao (T* 8 when the heart is sick with sorrow and heavy with trouble, and devise things of beauty for the tomb as if they were for the altar. For a few minutes after Jeannette's departure her young mistress sat sick at heart and already tremulous with expectation of her return; then suddenly she rose and went to her desk. It had for the first time occurred to her that therein also lay proof of her clandestine relations with the dead man; which, though indeed they did not hint of marriage, were significant enough of the affection that had once existed between them. She had never been so reckless as to write to him, either before or since their marriage. The witnesses of that ceremony, mere officials in one of the city churches and Jeann^tte herself, were now the only repositories of her secret. If Herbert had not put his threat of writing to his father into effect, or if that letter could be secured, she would be safe. But would it be Secured? It was ten o'clock when Jeannette had departed on her errand, and the sudden sound of the quarter, brought upon the wings of the north wind from some college clock, had just died away. How terrible was this time of waiting! The letters of the dead man were in her hand, and sbe was about to put them into the empty grate, previous to setting fire to them, when a sudden impulse?or the attraction of repulsion?prompted her to read them. She sat down and took them out one by one from the india-rubber band that held them together, and, as it happened, in their inverse orders as to date. There was one or two written after their marriage, appointing time and place for their clandestine meetings; but even these were not free from reproaches and expressions of disappointment as well as impatience?even threats. For the momeut, as she read, the past returned to her. Once more she i was a young girl, without experience of the world, full of tender dreams; the man of her choice had declared himself; he was the handsomest of created beings, and one of the best, though (as is always the case) there; was a want of appreciation of him in some quarters. It was only, however, necessary to know him (as she did) to love him. What a future had seemed to lie before her! At the remembrance of all those things Sophy's heart melted within . her, and she burst into tears?not because the man we knew was dead, but another man, whom, to say the | truth rin nnp hut hprsplf hart lrnnwn and because all the hopes and joys of her life had perished with him. ( As she sat with bowed head over the gray, ghostly ashes of some letters, ! Jeannette came softly into the room, j Her face was deadly pale, and her , head moved from side to side, but j not in negation: it was only that, trembling motion wtich, when their nerves are highly wrought, some wo- \ men, otherwise self-posessed, are un- ! able to repress. j "You have found it?" cried Sophy, starting to her feet. "Yes, I have found it. And when ( you have done thanking Heaven, Miss ^ Sophy (for her mistress had broken out into a most passionate expression of >. devotional gratitude), you may consider a little what I have gone through to get it. There it is. It v was terrible to have to hold it in my hand; but it is what you wanted, I ^ hope." "Yes, yes," murmured Sophy, gaz- ^ ing at the letter, the envelope of ( which was unfastened, with eager, 1 heated eyes. "This is his father's address. I have no doubt it is what I wanted; but "would you mind making sure, Jeannette? I?I hardly like to read it." It was not the notion of infringing a private right (since she had, 1 indeed, become possessed of the . thing by so doing) that caused her ' to feel this scruple, but a eel-tain 1 tenderness for the dead man himself, ^ which, now that all danger was over, began for the first time to stir with- , in her. She did not wish to have ] any new cause of dislike or dread ( against him, such as the contents of ( this missive were almost sure to prove. "Read it!" exclaimed Jeannette. "I wouldn't read it if you gave me , fifty pound. Is it not enough that . you made me steal it, with him lying dead and cold?there, there, I didn't , mean to cast it up against you, Miss Sophy," put in the girl, frightened ( at her mistress' look of horror; "it was not quite so bad as you are thinking, after all." There was silence between the two women for a moment or two. "Would you mind telline me all i that happened?" said Sophy, gently. 1 Did she mind! As if the one real guerdon of such an enterprise had < not been the right and privilege of i narrating it. As if the sole thought i which had lately buoyed her up in a sea of superstitious terror had not ] been the reflection that she would ( hereafter pose before an audience < (limited though it must needs be to one person) as the heroine of a mel- < odraraa! < She told her story with a solemn face and in a gruesome tone which, as she flattered herself, enhanced its horror. "I let myself out quietly, Miss Sophy, by the; back door, and hurried down to the street to do your bidding. It seemed to me as if every one; f met must needs know what I was bent upon, and nobody can tell 1 the shivers that seized upon me as I 1 neared my journey's end. When I 1 got to the house in Green street the blinds were down and somehow that reminded me so of what lay within it that you might have knocked me I down with a feather. However. J i rang the belJ. which was answered 1 by Mrs. Aylett herself. Perhaps she] J / - found It company, poor woman, to attend to the door, and, anyway, she seemed very pleased to see me. She told me how it had all happened, of course, and how he had been brought ? + Viie VkAOiitifnl fQOD UU <A SUCltUCI, vr 1 Lli utuumu. covered up, which gave her such a turn, she said, as she thought she should never get over to her dying day. There was nobody had been to see him, though many had called to hear if the news was true, and Mr. Mavors, the tutor, had just been and seemed frightened almost to death, t|hought there was nothing now to frighten anybody, she said, for he looked as comely as could be with his fine limbs showing through the sheet, poor fellow, and would I like to see him. 'No.' said T, thanking her kindly. 'I wouldn't like that, if , it was ever so, but I had brought some flowers from my mistress, who had known the poor younp- gentleman.' " 'Oh, yes," she said, 'she knew that,' and in such a meaning tone that it almost made my heart stop. "Then when Mrs. Aylett left me in the sitting room I lost not an instant, but ran straightway to his writing table, as you had enjoined on me, and the very first thing r saw, leaning up against the upper portion of the desk, as if waiting to be posted, was the letter, directed to his father. I thrust it in my pocket in a flash, and was ready for the landlady when she came out, close by the folding door, with the money you had given me for her. She took it, though not very willingly, saying that she did not need a present for doing what was nothing but a pleasure to her, though a sad one, and then I came home with my heart beating pit-a-pat, with the letter in my bosom, feeling like lead." Sophy rose with grateful looks and kissed the birl. "Until you brought this to me, Jeannette," she said, "my heart was lead. Though this sad matter is now over, and all belonging to it"?here she put the closed letter into the flame of the candle, and held it till it was utterly destroyed?"1 shall "hever forget the service you have done me?never, never; but we will talk of that tomorrow. It is getting late, and you must be tired enough after all. you have gone through." "Very good, Miss Sophy," returned the other, lingering at the door, "are you sure you would not like me to sleep in your room to-night?" "No, than>- you, Jeannette," answered her distress, simply, so buried in her own thoughts that she cou>d not perceive what could be plainly read in Jeannette's frightened face, that the waiting maid was saying two words tor herself and one for her mistress. To be Continued. The Craze'For Speculation in Mines. It is now coming to be realized that the real estate boom in certain quar.ers has been overdone, and attention is now being turned to the subtle attractions of mining securities. for unquestionably the get-richquick disease has overtaken high and low. These attractions have been blazoned from Alaska to Maine, from Canada to Mexico. Mors than justice has been done to the importance of recent discoveries of precious metals; tales true and tales preposterously false, yet calculated to hypnotize the ignorant, have been scattered broadsast from end to end of the hemisphere; thieving "promoters" have been sold space by the page in newspapers with pretension's to respectability, and have by this means cheated millions of women and men; and, lastly, certain brokers are not exercising the influence they admit would oe proper to discourage this pernicious species of gambling. As for the New York Stock Exchange. it is in a way aggravating the ansavory aspect of the boom by stolidly refusing to do anything itself to regulate it. yet absolutely prohibiting the respectable element on the curb (which is by no. means inconsiderable) from organizing to elevate the tone of the market and to endeavor to put a ban upon fraudulent stocks. ?Journal of Commerce. A Successful Expedient. A certain prominent minister was comnelled not Ions ago to give strict orders that while he was engaged in the preparation of his sermons his poiing son must be kept reasonably iuiet. In spite of this, however, there arose one morning a most astonishing noise of banging and hammering, which seemed to indicate that the steam-heating pipes were being knocked to pieces. Hurrying out of his study, the minister encountered his wife. "My dear, what in the world i3 Bobby doing?" he asked. "Why, he is only beating on the radiator downstairs," was the somewhat surprised reply. "Well, he must stop it," the minister said, decidedly. "I don't think he will harm it, 3ear," his wife answered soothingly; '? 1 ZM 2- ?1 1? 4U:MM t MI 211 ttiiu ix 15 iue uuiy lunio ?.uaL win keep him quiet."?The Argonau,. Fees For Technical Examination. The fees for the examinations of the German technical high schools have been fixed on the following scale: For the preliminary diploma examination. sixty marks for naturalized Germans, 120 marks for foreign?rs; for the diploma examination,^ 120 marks* for Germans and 240 marks for foreigners; for the doctor jfengineeiingexamination, 240 marks, Df which the first half is to be paid when the examination thesis is handed in. and the remainder before the arai examination is taken. The New Socialist Colony. Upio:i Sinclair's colony, "Helicon Hall," ought to make a nice vacation place for peopie tired of the world md its diversions and engrossments. But even with Editor Lewis, of the "Yale Lit.,'* to run the furnaces nightly, and a Smith College graduate for laundress and a Vassal- girl Cor chief cook, the program won't last long.?;Holyoke Transcript. The Extreme. "Colt' blooded! Why, Henry, I relieve you would actually calculate vhether or not a girl was a good lcusekeeper Tvhile' kissiDg her." ? ;3fe. * : / / y I I '1 THE GREAT DESTROYER I _____ _ , 1 60!VJE: STARTLING FACTS AliODT THE VICE OF INTEMPEKAflCE. } " ; IThp PViPnd nt rVimp A lartrp Pm. . - - BITSpEWS WASHINGTON. The President has signed the commission of Oscar R. Hundley as Federal Judge of Alabama. The Interstate Commerce Commission decided to appeal to the court to order Mr. Harriman to answer questions. President Roosevelt spoke in praise of the American soldier at the unveiling of the Rough Riders' monument in Washington. Announcement was made of the United States delegation to The Hague Conference, Joseph H. Choate heading the list. Mrs. Ida M. von Claussen, who ^declared that Charles H. Graves, United States Minister to Sweden, had grossly insulted her, sent a protest "to the State Department, demanding an abject apology. President Roosevelt will investigate charges of graft in the Commissary Department of the Panama Canal. The Navy Department has given orders to rush work on war ships and intends to have twenty-five battle ships and thirteen armored cruisers in commission within one year. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. A delegation of Cuban planters visited Secretary Taft, in Havana, to urge that the elections be postponed as lung as possiuie lu prevent, uisi uytion of credit. Governor and Mrs. Beekman Winthrop will return to this country from Porto Rico with the Taft party on the Mayflower. The Japanese and Pacific Mail 6teamers calling at Honolulu, Hawaii, are said to have made alterations in their Asiatic quarters since the arrest of Captain Going some months ago. Encouraging results have been obtained at the lepers' settlement in Hawaii by the use of extract of eucalyptus in treating leprosy. ,? DOMESTIC. Charles Emory Smith, of Philadelphia, addressed the Yale students on American expansion. Men employed as "nurse girls" in Great Barrington, Mass., have organized a union, demanded more pay and usked for time to see baseball games. C. H. Venner, of New York City, filed a suit in Minnesota asking for a receiver for tho Great Northern Railway Company. Suffering from nervous prostration Mrs. Ignatz Lowengart jumped from a sixty-foot bridge at Portland, Ore., and was killed. The Southern Conference for Education, meeting at Pineville, N. C., chose as president R. C. Ogden, of New York City. William T. Stead's plea for world peace was greeted enthusiastically at Pittsburg and the audience threw money on the floor to aid the cause. Poison, self-administered, killed Ellis E. Godlove, of Brooklyn, at Memphis, Tenn. A powder explosion at Kicnarason's coal mine, Beattyville, Ky., killed E. B. Montgomery, his tenyear-old son and Roily Hall. The United States Supreme Court sustained the validity of the Louisiana law taxing notes given in that State to the New York Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Entering a gas-filled room with a lighted lamp, M. D. Clay was killed at Atlanta, Ga., by the explosion that ensued. A shot in the head ended the life of James H. Brayton, a school principal at Chicago, despondent from ill health. A constitutional amendment increasing the pay of Assemblymen from $500 to $1000 has been adopted by the Wisconsin Legislature. > The President appointed. Daniel A. Campbell postmaster at Chicago. The Cleveland Electric Railway Company rejected the offers of the holding company and raised the price of tickets. - The Two-Cent Railroad bill has passed both houses of the Michigan Legislature. senator i< oraKer visiteu uuiumuus and rallied liis forces for the fight with Taft. Announcement was made that the Executive Committee of the Union Pacific will reduce E. H. Harriman's powers as dictator of that company. FOREIGN. M. Emile Benoist, a Paris banker, was shot and killed by a discontented customer In the office of a financial newspaper of which M. Benoist was editor. An insult by a monarchist member to President Golovin, of the Russian Duma, was promptly resented by the suspension of the offender. General Lee Christmas, an American, who was fighting with the Honduran forces, was wounded and captured by Nicaraguans. A hearing was given in Paris to Abbe Jonin, charged with inciting to rebellion from the pulpit in connection with the taking of church inventories. At a banquet on board the Numan cla in tiie harbor 01 Cartagena iung Alfonso and KingEdward pledged the lasting friendship of England and Spain. Both Radicals and Liberals in the Duma fiercely denounced the Russian judicial system, following a demand made by the Minister of Justice for the exclusion of three deputies in order to try them. M. Camille Pclletan, former Minister of Marine in France, has made tl'3 mistake of publicly declaring that the income tax is the law in the United States. Emperor William does not approve of the movement for holding a World's Exposition In Berlin in 1913, the twenty-fifth year of his reign. Consul Olivares, at Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, sent a dispatch to the State Department at Washington saying that Amapala had been surrendered by President Bonilla, of Honduras, and that the war was ended. Five thousand persons, according to a dispatch from Shanghai, are dying daily from lack of food. The relief committees are in need of money. Russia is assembling troons on the Persian frontier. Conditions in the Shah's empire are described as chaotic. The Cabinet at St. Petersburg, Russia, has rejected the American syndicate's proposal to construct a Bering Sea railway tunnel. Lieutenant-General Sir William Gustavus Nicholson will succeed General Sir Neville Gerald Lyttelton as Chief of the General Staff, and first military member of the British Army Pouncil. 4* 9 it::: AC ' portion of Prison Population is Recruited From the Saloon?It is Destructive of Social Order. / /Under this head Dr. Barker, in his very helpful book, "The Saloon Problem and Social Reform," says: "The /officials of prisons and penitentiaries and reform schools all over the country unite in testifying that a large proportion of crime is due directly to the liquor traffic. Not long since a general average of testimony gathered from 1017 keepers of county jails in various portions of the United States showed that the proportion of crime due to drink was seventytwo per cent. That the saloon is destructive of social order is abundantly confirmed by prison.statistics. The * 1. 1 V x... ?V i- V. wnoie numuer ut uasets uruugui uefore the Boston municipal criminal court for the year ending October 1, 1903, was 23,526; of. this number 17,118 were cases of drunks^ There were 8625 cases of commitments for jail offenses in Connecticut for 1902; 4617 of these were for drunkenness, and 6946 of the total, or about eighty-two per cent., by their own confession, pleaded guilty as drinkers of intoxicants. In one year there were were 82,000 arrests made in Chicago. The city prosecutor recently said: "It is true that three-fourths of the crimes of Chicago are due to liquor." The* Superintendent of Bridewell says: "Liquor is the cause of the Incarceration of eighty pet cent, of those who are committed to the Bridewell." The prison warden of Pittsburg reports: "Of 7579 convicts sent to jail during 1902, nearly every one was treated for alcoholism, while of this number 709 suffered from acute delirium tremens, seven dying." Mayor A. F. Knotts, of Hpmmond, Ind., says: "Ninety-five per cent, of all crime is caused directly or indirectly by drink. The police records of- our city show that more than ninety per cent, of all the offoncsoc rnmmittpr? arp thfl results of intemperance, and that our police force, maintained at an expense1 of $15,000 a year, is almost exclusively employed in watching and caring for men, women and children affected by drink." Hon. fi. M. Nichols, former Mayor of Wilkesbarre, Pa., with a population of '60,000 and 126 saloons, testifies thus: "During my seven years' tenure of office I have had about 7000 cases before me, and 1 am satisfied that about ninety per cent, of them were the result of drunkenness." Judge Severance says: "During my nineteen years as judge of the district I have sentenced nearly 400 people to the penitentiary, and I have traced ninety per cent, of thl? crime to liquor drinking." The report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics on the influence of the liquor traffic In regard to criminals informs us that "eightytwo per cent, were in liquor at the time of offense," and that "in eightyfour per cent, the intemperate habits of the offenders led to a condition which induced the crime." More than this that, "excluding minors, ninety-six tp every 100 were addicted to the use of liquors." Objections to the Barroom. The saloon sells poison for good cash. It impairs the health of every customer. It weakens moral power, so undermining character. It encourages its customers to drink beyond, the point of self-control, for then men more freely spend their cash. It accepts, without just equivalent, money to which the wives and children of drinkers are entitled, and does it without remorse. It contributes to criminality and vice, never to virtue and happiness. It is seldom, if ever, obedient to the laws. It contemns the law, and is, therefore, anarchistic in its spirit. It hesitates not at corrupting Leg islatures and officials of every kind. It asserts self-indulgence as its moral standard, thus obstructing the work of saving and uplifting men. It breathes out'malice and slaughter against all who oppose it. It is the greatest enemy of both God and man. Therefore, the saloon must go.?South Dakota Issue. Public Sentiment Must Do It. The Examiner,'of New York, says: "The great hope of permanent temperance reform is not in the enactment of laws, however wisely drawn they may be, but in the creation of a public sentiment that will compel the enforcement of whatever laws may be enacted. The promotion of such a sentiment, especially among the boys and girls of to-day, should be the chief aim of all advocates of , total abstinence. Every Christian home, every church, every young people's society, every Christian school, should be a centre of influence for the inculcation of temperance reform. Even the public schools, through the f fioin ot nf non'lo r?f IdaVUiU^ VI liiv iiVI \s*. beverages, are already doing much, and may do much more, to indoctrinate the rising generation in sound temperance principles. Let the good work go on." Sunday Closing at Columbus. Mayor Badger successfully closes the saloons of Columbus on Sunday, and compels them to close promptly every night at midnight. And what greatly augments the importance of this good news is the fact that when the Governor was asked for his views on the subject, he promptly and positively declared himself in favor of both Sunday and midnight closing. Kansas' Prosperity Increases. Recent reports from Kansas still Indicate that prohibition tends to increase, rather than retard, prosperous conditions. More than $1,000,000 was invested last year in banks, established for the most part in the smaller towns, and the estimated per capita wealth of the State is $SS.69 IU taaii v iiui juviuuiut, uuiiu^, securities and money in safe deposit). Only a few other States in tile Union can equal this record. Poster Plan Spreading. The policy of municipal corporations adorning the billboards with posters proclaiming the evils of the use of drink is spreading throughout England, where there are now more J than ninety cities following that policy. Ij? some cases the expense has been borne by local temperance or! ganizations or individuals, but generally by the municipality itsetf. There are now thirty-five Anti-Saloon League papers published by the different State leagues throughout the nation. .r f THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MAY 12 BY THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. Subject: Joseph Forgives His Broth* ers, Gen. 45:1-15, 50:15-21? Golden Text, Eph. 4:32?Memory Verses, 4, 5. In all the range of literature there is no single story, save that which re> lates the incomparable deeds of out Lord and Saviour, which surpasses the story of the life and the deeds ol Joseph. It has its peers, perhaps. II has no superiors. It is so very human, so entirely probable, so realistic that it compels attention and stimulates our thought. This is the fourth and the last lesson upon the life of Joseph. We find him a dreamer in the first lesson, boyishly egotistical, perhaps, before his brethren. We leave him a man of maturity, of noble qualities, a man oi delightful magnanimity, of abiding affection, of forgiveness. The magnanimity of woseph throughout his life is an inspiration It is never more inspiring than in those days when in the midst of dire famine and distress his brethren come to him for aid and succor. He mijght have been vindictive. He might have wreaked vengeance upon them in retribution for the unholy qti/1 iinhrnfhorlv fflflhlnT) In which they had treated him in the days when they were at home together. He might have killed them all and none would have been the wiser save God that he was a fratricide. But Joseph did none of these things. The sight of his brethren evidently aroused the finest instincts of his nature. All the godliness of his character shines forth as he remembers not so much that they had sold him into slavery as that they are his brethren. To be sure we notice that the more human side of his make-up also has rein in tjiis situation. He cannot refrain from testing his brethren in purely human fashion before he lets them into the secret of his identity. But in all his dealings we find that the hardness is only apparent, the sternness is only superficial. In his heart of hearts Joseph is inclined to be lenient. He has no desire utterly to humiliate his brethren. His great-heartedness is akin to the magnanimity of Jehovah. Another characteristic that the lesson pointedly sets forth is the abiding affection of Joseph for the friends/ of his youth, for even the unworthiest' of his own brethren, for Benjamin, child of the same beloved mother as himself, for Jacob his father. Busy man and rule* of a nation that he was Joseph never forgot the days of his youth, those who were near and dear to him by the ties of relationship. The cry of distress of the brethren who had so cruelly sent him. as they thought, to death, fell upon a responsive ear. ' He did not shut up his heart against them. Love for his own kin declares itself markedly in his treatment of his brethren. His heart yearns toward Jacob and Benjamin. And the closer the tie of relationship the warmer the affection. His first call is for the father who had so delighted in him. The second is for the brother whose soul( was knit to his own by the blood an& the spirit of the common mother. This shows forth in his conversation and his gifts. For every portiorf that he gives to the unworthy brethren he gives Benjamin five. Possessing the renewed comnanionshin of his humbled brethren he rests not until he has Benjamin and Jacob near his side. His affection is abiding. A third commendable characteristic of his dealing with his brethren is his forgiveness. It marks him as indeed a man of God. Many men in his position would have been proud, | haughty, unyielding, unrelenting, Many men would have evened things up. Many would have utilized the opportunity to Wipe off old scores, The baser nature of many a man would have dominated at such a crisis. The temptation for manj would have been to take as a mottc not "To err is human, to forgive divine," but. "He who laughs lasl laughs best." But Joseph was a man of God. He saw 'in the denouement the unravelling of the mystery of the vision God had given him in his youth; he saw the fulfillment of his dre&ms. This was not a situation wrought by man, it was the handiwork of God. Before the leadings of Jehovah jealousy, rancor, spleen, vindictiveness were discounted and discountenanced. This was the''opportunity of a great man to test and reveal his greatness. And Joseph acted I after the similitude of God. The prayer for forgiveness presented by his brethren was heard and affirmatively answered. These qualities that the lesson discovers to us in the life of Joseph are qualities that we ought to have individually. The lesson will be of no value whatsoever unless it impresses each of us for himself. It will be I useless unless we feel the impact of i the application in our own lives. Magnanimity is one of the things that many otherwise good people lack. | They are good at heart, but they are not great-hearted. No man can be magnanimous and be small. Like! wise no man can be magnanimous who does not consider life in the light of eternity and without having his horizon broadened, his interests enlarged, his vision deepened. So is it with abiding affection. It is no credit to a man that he easily forgets the old associations, the earlier companionships of his.life. But best of all is the capacity to forgive. That is divine. Godliness will manifest itself in a forgiving spirit. Pinichofl in Pirn Voarc Representative Charles F. Scott, of Iola, Kan., one of the party of Con! gressmen who recently returned from ! a trip to the Isthmus of Panama, said: "The people on the isthmus believe that the Panama Canal can and will be finished in about five years. It's plausible. I don't say that the ' work will be done within that length j of time, but at the rate the digging ! is being carried en now I believe it J could be. It certainly will not take a ! much longer time than five years." j Cow, Xot Girl, Was the Thief. An autopsy held at Lexington, Ky., on a fine cow owned by J. A. McCrusky, which died in agony, revealed that she had swallowed a man's shirt, a. pair of stockings and three children's garments. A warrant had been sworn out for the arrest of the servant girl 011 the charge of stealing the garments. union rire in iiaiy. A fire at Genoa, Italy, destroyed 15,000 bales of cotton and damaged several vessels. The loss was estimated at SI.OOO.OOOl. ' ' * V '" * V. 'l*y; v, 5?^7 tD&irfef O THOU COMPASSIONATE, .? How deeply comforting the tender phrase^. T^^thT"e&ter att"^ute Seem Through all life's long and dark &nd dreary; maze, Thou art Compassionate. I ' To God of Justice and of Power we turn* B When wrong or devastating blow cut?? And yet in' daily struggle needs must yearn*-^1 For one Compassionate. H [n limits of our souls we live, alone, <H And e'en our nearest may not under But all Mthe household jar within" known |M To Thee, Compassionate. H Thou know'st the many sorrowa of th*-H Wide longing, narrow opportunity? - I We bring life 8 broken toys,, as children H To one Compassionate. H We may have blundered grievously and* B Darkened Thv world we might havo- H made so bright. |9 Still Thou dost heal the heartache and the , 0 Thou Compassionate! . > fl ?May Ethelyn Bourne, in Overland H Monthly. . Christ Weeping Orer Jerusalem. And when He was come near Hebeheld the city and wept over it.~. Luke sic., 41. This outburst of grief occurred a* Jesus, rode down the leafy slope of Olivet. Jerusalem in all its'gloryf burst full upon His view. But the sentence of doom has been; traced by a mysterious hand upon thecity. This sight of Jerusalem affected Christ's heart and His heart Hte eye agdin, and throughHls tears He sobs out words of lamentation and judgment. Jerusalem had neglected the dpjr of her visitation. Impending doom hung over the city. "He wept over It." When Christ's grief.was greatest at the grave of Lazarus He wept in silence, but now He sobs aloud in. His agony. These tears Are more eloquent than speech; they tell us better than words of the extreme agony of His soul for the .doomed city. He wept because of the sin and iniquity of the people in rejecting proffered" salvation. i . Neglecting salvation alway* bring) h judgment upon individuals and' nations. It did upon Jerusalem.. In less than forty years all that Jesus-*, foretold came to pass. Titus in command of the Roman army besiegeff and captured the city. During the siege of ninety days1,100,000 Jews perished.and 97i00O? were taken prisoners. Some were sent to toil in the mines of EerVDt. others were kept to grace la captive bonds the chariot Vheels of their mighty conqueror. .. . ' What a fearful retribution for that mad cry uttered some thirty-sevep. years before at Pilate's judgment ball, "His blood be upon us and*oof children!" What a vindication hare we here of God's truth, v When God says a thing He will surely bring It to pass. He is never at a loss for instruments to fulfil Hi* decrees. He maketh the. wrath, of , men to praise Him. Many person*,. seem to think ana act as tnougn won would prove true and faithful to Hie- " promises of blessing, bat that He I would fail to perform His word of threatening and doord. His judg- J| ments are not utterances of passion, soon to pass away, as the storm from the bosom of the deep. He would' I cease to be the faithfal God, the s&me- I yesterday, to-day and forever; if'-He fulfilled them not. The very same- I principle which binds Him to be true- I to His promises compels Him to per form His words of judgment^A Lip coin Moore, D. D., Riverside Baptist I Church, Manhattan, in the New York n Herald. I Imperfect Sacrifices. fl There were those, in the days of the prophet Malachi, who brought ,I their sacrifices to God,; and greatly. fl desired that He would accept thfem. I These offerers were earnest, persever- I ing, and even tearful, in their en- I treaties. It was said of them, "And . I this ye have done, covering the altar H of the Lord with tears, with weeping I and crying out, insomuch that He re? gardeth not the offering any more. I Ye have wearied the Lord with your H words." And thus they waited long I In earnestness, and in the sadness of fl unfulfilled desire. Why did not God, I accept the sacrifices of these offers?" I Let Him answer for Himself?'"Be :ause ye offer the polluted bread.upon M My altar. Cursed be the deceivec^B which voweth and sacrifieth unto the I Lord a corrupt thing."?Phoebe' I Palmer. 8 ???? fl indulgence For the Faults of Others. M N is really a good man, al- I though he has his faults. Who has fl not? Yet, overladen as we are with I our own, which we leave uncorrected;.'* we are so sensitive and impatient towards those of our neighbor! Noth- fl ing, seemingly, can make us indul- I gent, since our own incorrigible frail- I ty does not abate the severity of our criticism upon others. fl We can often do more for other ^ men by correcting our own faults.S than.by trying to correct their6. Be V at rest, sir; let all these things flow by like the river beneath the bridge. H Do you abide in the presence of God, which will never flow away.?Fen- H slon. 9 A Pagan Virtue. fl Self-control was the noblest of the 'fl pagan virtues. Christianity has given jH us higher ideals, but self-control stilfM retains a prominent place, and de- J serves more practice than it gets.; 1 The Christian who yields to ill-tem- I per, who is cross, or depressed, ort -fl :annot control his tongue, or is lazy] or overeats, or is a slave to any minotf fl uail Jiauil, necuo sci iuusi; lu i-uuoiuci. Lhe fact that he is not yet even up ta m the pagan standard, let alone the Christian one.?Home Herald. Jolms Hopkins to Admit Women. A radical departure in the policy^! of Johns Honkins TTnivdr?lfv ot timore, Md., was made when a reso-^B lution was adopted authorizing the ^ admission of women who have takeD 1 the baccalaureate degree to graduate I courses, provided that no objection J Is offered on the part of the instruct* ors. It was said also that on no con- 9 dition would women be admitted to the undergradute classes. ^ ? Many English Vegetarians. " . There are 50,000 I England. " M , , j l?