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It r r , . ' "" Cr ; V * 4 iesiaiioiii sneaMiiaii rlrliTBECANOI B - - I An i miTP AD l i ? w VII A lWitt ML i * %? ?? __ 8 I By JAMES |7| M swiUDKai CHAPTER XVIII. 15 j**' Continued. "Well, there are no quotations yet, of course." "Why, I thought they were a-laying five or six to one against the Briarroot filly." "Tut! Your mind is always feeding on horseflesh," returned the other, contemptuously. "I meant there are no quotations on the S. S., stupid." Not till the train stopped at the ticket platform did the young gentleman in the corner begin to awaken, V? i rtVi n Tt'ifV* VOTUniTlP" flflrf ' |*T Ultil UC U1U n iiu uiuvu j v* ?0 ? stretching; one would have said that ; he had either been undergoing great bodily fatigue of late or must have been a very lazy young man indeed. No sooner had he departed from his companions, however, and found him- ' self in a cab, than all trace of Bleep!- 1 ness vanished. There was an angry \ light in his eye, and an angry ring in his voice, as he exclaimed to himself: "That man again! How strange that his cursed name is the first to meet my ear in England. What scoundrels those two fellows looked: 1 his accomplices, no doubt, in some 1 scheme of villainy. It is too late to 1 get on to-night, and I can't stop all 1 + Vi/iiitc! alnno ontiner mv heart i kUVCV AAVltAU _ out with bitter thoughts. No doubt Henny will give me a bit of supper, and?what I crave for infinitely more " ?some news of Cambridge. Her 1 husband is a clever fellow, by all ' accounts, and his advice may be 1 He put his head out of the window j and substituted for the address he had first given to the cabman that of { the Irtons' house in Maida Vale. It was past eight when the cab 1 drew up to the door; he rang the bell { and gave his card to the servant fdr 1 Mrs. Irton. Henny was still in the < dining-room, where her husband was ( smoking his after-dinner pipe (she 1 was much too good a wife and wise 2 a woman to object to the smell of to- 1 bacco). She read the card, jumped 1 up with a cry of pleasure, and ran I into the passage, where Mr. Frederic Irton heard her exclaim, tumultuous- ] ly: "You dear, good fellow!" These * words, so distressing to a husband's ear, were followed by an unmistak- 3 able kiss. The next moment she reappeared, 3 leading by the hand a very handsome { young man, looking not so much ashamed of himself as embarrassed. 1 "I owe vou an anolORV, Mr. Irton," * he began, smiling. 1 "It's quite out of the question," * said the lawyer, gravely. "The mat- c ter must go to a jury, who will assess c damages." 1 "Why, it's Robert," cried Henny; i "Robert Aldred, from India; I knew 3 he'd come," and then this extraordinary young.person, who had quite a 1 reputation for self-control, burst into tears. . * "I am very glad to see Robert," said Irton, shaking hands with the 1 newcomer warmly. "This is, indeed, friendly of you. You come to stay 1 with us, of course?" "Nay. I was going to Cambridge 1 this very night, but found I was too ( late, 60 I just looked in." ? Henny was in the passage again in 1 an instant, giving orders about his iiieeace beine taken down and car- s ried to the spare room. "You will have to stay, Aldred," said Irton, smiling. "If 1 were master here I would add 'and welcome;' but Henny presides over the establishment. This sad news of the canon has brought you over, I conclude?" "Yes; I am come on short leave instead of long; but I could not leave him to bear his misfortune alone." "I have always heard you were a good fellow, and now I'm sure of it," exclaimed the lawyer, approvingly; "sit down, and you shall have some dinner at once. In Henny's house matters were never run so finely that there was difficulty in suitably providing for an unexpected guest; and if viands were not wanting on the occasion, we may be sure there was still less lack of conversation. The three sat far into the night, conferring and discoursing on many things, and, as generally happens it? Vi tsr\ o f voIot* Vioo onrrio frrtm t V? ,TT UCU U Wi U > VI UU^ V/VU1V VU1 VUV , ends of the earth, the first topic of ^ Robert's talk was upon his latest comparatively unimportant experi- , ence in the railway carriage. "How odd it was that I should hear . of this Adair so soon, was it not?" j he said. ] "Well, a good many people are , talking about him, and none to his ; credit," replied Irton. "I have no ( doubt, as you suggest, that the men are engaged in some scheme?prob- 1 ably a nefarious one?in which he is 1 interested. I dare say it's no worse than many another in which he is mixed up. But I'll just take a note of the expected quotation of S. S. shares'." , . "And don't you think his having to find ?12,000 apparently, at some early date, was rather significant?" "Why, yes, I've got that down already," said the lawyer, dryly. "It's evident that he's approaching a crisis ?probably a very dangerous one." "He can't do my poor father any more harm; that's one comfort," observed Robert, grimly. "No, he can't do him any more harm," said the lawyer, slowly. Perhaps he was thinking of the canon's wrongs, as Robert was doing: for both remained silent for a little while, with compressed lips; or perhaps he was thinking, "Though he can't hurt your father more, he may hurt others." It was a subject of wonder to many of the canon's acquaintance that on teal suaaeii iuss Ui luriuue c&useu uy "injudicious speculation" he had not hidden iis head in some out-of-theway locality instead of remaining in a place where he has been wont to be thought so highly of. He had taken a house in Providence Terrace?which, be said, with j . A . \ .' V , . . _ A anoaiaHisaaintai* i'S WMDjlps; ffOXEY MADNESS. !ils3h I ?J 1 ; PAYN. aaaifliiaBtaiBe ? his old smile, ought to show that, not- j withstanding all that had come and < gone, he had "no bad feeling'*?a littip rnw of buildinss on Parkers ' Piece, an airy space to look upon, but "l dangerous as a pleasure ground by ? reason of the missiles, ranging from i a football to the small shot used at s rounders, always flying about. It was a very tiny dwelling; the door opened 1 upon a passage so narrow that even ? the term seemed a misnomer, since d no adults could pass one another in 1 it; when a visitor called the maid had v to back to admit him, unless?which i of course was not to be thought of? f she lay down and let him walk over her, like the stag on the precipice in t Mr. Browning's poem. One morning the canon was sitting, j as usual, in his little study, a book i on the swing desk before him but not ( at the reading angle. He kept one always open lest Aunt Maria should t look in and suspect ,him of the very vice he was at that moment indulging ? In?reverie. A great student of hu- I man nature has taught us how blessed a thing is memory, even to t the unfortunate; but it is no less true f that "a sorrow's crown of sorrows i9 remembering happier things." An Did man deep in thought is always a 1 pathetic spectacle and, upon the whole, a discouraging one. While the canon thinks?and sighs i ?there is presently a sharp ring at the bell. Visitors are few in these days, and he neither expects or de- t sires any. The little maid, who is a \ survival of the old household at the ' Laurels, is aware of that fact and f Iftals diplomatically with all comers, p "Miss Aldred is at home," she answers; which implies that the master t 3f the house Is not, without going so t far as to affirm It. On the present oc- e onKtnrfn flro {o I Jtt DIUUy UUWCYC1, kUlO OUUi.Ci AO ienied her, as Miss Aldred happens l :o be without doors. So to the strange poung man who so confidently de- t mands speech with the master she -v -eplies that he is "particularly en- j saged." "Still, I think if he knew who I vas he would see me," said the vistor gravely. "I am his son." "You're never that, sir!" cries the- li roung maid. 1 "I really am," returned the young s nan, smiling at her undisguised t imazement. 1; "Why, sir, he don't expect you nb nore than the queen. He was a- fc alking of you at dinner only last r light?not that I listens to the genlefolks' talk; but with potatoes in s >ne hand and tbe sauceboat in the v )ther, to stop one's ears is difficult, t 3e's always talking about you, but _ lot a word has he dropped about y rour coming home." u "Where is he?" inquired the young f nan in a hushed voice. i< "In his study; ;.he second door on s he right, sir.'' <. , j1 t "Is he pretty well? To see one so t inexpectedly will not hurt bim?" "Lor' bless you, no, sir; not it! It t] vill do him a world of good." c The little maid knows nothing in < egard to "shocks to the system," and :annot understand that the sight of ;o handsome a young gentleman can >e deleterious to anybody. "Don't announce me/' he says, 1 *? *' T tt* ill annnnnnA ty-? reolf " ri lylllj. X "Hi auuuuuvc Uijovti* *^nd he knocks gently at the study loor.- s The canon settles the swing desk 11 jefore him, and begins to be abtorbed in the open book. He has his ^ jack to the door and takes it for granted that the newcomer is his sis er. * ' \J a "You are come back very soon, my 1 lear, are you not?" "I can scarcely say that," answers t voice, which, though its tones are lushed and gentle, electrifies him. I lave been away for more than five o rears. "Robert? My boy?my .dear, dear >oy!" For some moments the poor canon (for all his "culture") can only reiterate these few words with their jj jne variation. ' "My boy" and "My \ iear boy." He hugs him, he kisses ? tiim, the tears roll down his with- a sred cheeks without check. Then q suddenly perceiving that his son is d ibout to betray a similar weakness a tie cries out, "Don't mind me, Rob- b art, I was getting an old man; but I you will make me young again. There i: is something to live for now." Then, S in an altered voice* he added, "Why u is it you have come back? But I t Deed not ask, alas! You have lost o your Alma, thanks to me?and there f was nothing to keep you in India, t Can you ever forgive your father?" a "My dear dad!" exclaimed Robert, e using, in an outburst of Nature's self e the old childish term, "What is there c to forgive? I come here to comfort you. Alma sent me over herself; if I hadn't come she would have thrown me over, which, I do assure you, she c has not done. 'Your father is in ^ trouble,' she said, 'therefore your .j. place is Dy nis siae. was sne not ^ right? Are you not glad to have t me?" t "Glad! Was I ever so happy be- t fore. Heaven forgive me for doubt- t ing its goodness!?that I should ever -v be happy again." a For the moment all his misfor- j tunes were forgotten. The "days in a which he had seen evil" had melted I away. vviine iuu?.iug u.i ma siaiwarii i son he seemed to derive from him some of his health and strength and looked ten days younger. "And Aunt Maria?" inquired the young man. * "Wonderful," returned his father. "You know what a good soul she al- , ways was, but she has developed into ? an angel. Not a word of reproach? nay, of regret?has ever dropped from her lips. One cannot gauge the goodness of a good woman, Robert; it is beyond man's plummet.", s The young m&n nodded adhesion. ^ "Alma is just like that-," he said. I simply. * t i.v.t?' - v,. ' . yr^A ' ' . ; - y . CHAPTER XIX. Til I ^ * Ill 111 lyUllC5*;. Mr. Mavors was very ill, and Rob?rt went over to see him. His sitting-room was a large and | landsome one, looking upon Neville's 2ourt. The door, which communicated with the much smaller bed oo'm, stood wide open. Robert took i chair in front of it, and a book to vhile away the time. All was quiet save for the coo of a pigeon on the stone balustrade outside the window ind the football of some solitary unlergr'aduate in the cloisters beneath. The book Robert had taken up was 'Plutarch's Lives,'.' a work of the lighest reputation; but notwitiitanding its attractions he had fallen nto a reverie, from which he was suddenly aroused by the words, 'Sophy! Sophy!" At first he thought le must be mistaken and that the >ound was a part of his own .day Iream?with which, in fact, the name lad been connected; but on looking lp his eyes fell upon the sick man, I low broad awake and staring at him rom the bed with stern suspicion. "Is your name Adair?" whispered Jie tutor, hoarsely. \ "No, sir," safd Robert, rising and ipproaching the bed softly. "My j lame is Aldred. I am the son of your >ld friend the canon." ? "Why are you so black, then, like he other?"- -f v; "It is the Indian sun," said Robert, miling. "I was white enough when wished you good-by five years ugo." "True; I remember now," replied he tutor. "Pray forgive a sick man's j ancles. Your father did not say"he vas expecting you." , "No;. I came home without giving lim notice." "Because he was in trouble?" "Why, yes. It struck me tnat i night be, if not of service, at least of ome comfort to him." "Just so; a good Bon," murmured he tutor, looking at the young man vistfully. '*Sons and daughters? blessed is the man that his quiver ull of them.' That is not a disputed >assage." '1 There'was a long silence, and then he same name was softly breathed hat had already fallen on the other's ar. "Sophy, Sophy! Have you seen ter?" "No, sir; I passed too rapidly hrough town, but I saw the Irtons, irho told me a great deal about her. Jo good news,-I am sorry to say." "Unhappy?" "Very; at least I fear so." "Poor girl, poor girl!" "It is not only?as you are doubtess aware, sir?that she has a bad lusband, but, unfortunately, she has ome little knowledge of the full exent of his business, which until latey has been kept'from her." "Then the poor girl knows at last," ie murmured. "What anguish, what emorse she must be enduring!" "Indeed, sir, I fear so. It has just truck me, however, that l nave Deen ery indiscreet in speaking of all this o you. I have been distressing you ?since Sophy is an old friend of ours?by telling you the very thing rhic'n I have been enjoined to keep rom my father, namely, that Sophy 3 aware of having been made the intrument of his ruin. His object hroughout has been to spare her hat knowledge." "That is so like him!" exclaimed tie tutor, with a flush on the worn heek: 'A man who bears without abuse The grand old name of gentle' man; Defiled by every charlatan, And soiled with an ignoble use.' "Young man, you are a gentle- j nan's son." | "I know it, sir," answered Robert, | imply. "If I cannot imitate him, I j ope I shall never disgrace him." "No, no, you will not do that. He rill live again in his boy." Presently, after another pause: You spoke of ruin, Robert. The exct sum which the canon had to pay wice over?one forgets these things a sickness." "It was ?15,000." "Just so. And never to have told i *' "* 1 V> i n TTTQCtorl | ier; men, puiLiue. uui. ma and to Robert, "Give my love to my Id friend." To be Continued. Labor Market. One part of the ^ world raises an ! acessant cry for more labor. The Vestern States need harvest hands, he South wants more cotton pickers nd laborers generally, the Panama 'anal Zone cannot get enough iggers, South Africa quarrels over few Chinese, Cuba seeks plantation lands to handle its sugar crops, the lawaiian Islands report a never endng labor famine, our Pacific Coast itates are in a chronic condition of mder supply of workmen in all en- j erprises. New England is worried iver its servant problem. Another lart of the world has so many laiorers that they starve in heaps. An .utomatic equilibrium in human enrgy does not exist, and possibly one ! lever will.?The Springfield Republi- j an. Eighty-four Weds Thirty. A mild sensation was recently aused in the quiet village of Old Vindsor, Berks, on the occasion of a tastily arranged wedding which took ilace at St. Peter's Church, the >ridegroom being a very old inhabiant, eighty-four years of age, anl he bride a young woman of about hirty summers. A donkey chaise vas in waiting for the bridegroom ifter the ceremony, but the bride referred to ride her bicycle both to ind from the church.?London Tit- j 3Uc ?> " i Something to Learn. "Yes, Markley came in for a for:une the other day. He's actually jot more money now than he knows vhat to do with." "Yes, there are certain people who tro anxious to meet him now and ifter that he'll know, more."?Philalelphia Press. Experiments made in Germany ihow that butter keeps best if mixed vith three to five per cent, of salt, f the-percentage of salt is over six, he result is less satisfactory. , Household Matters. 6SA ttS B& Washing Lace. Lace may be easily washed and made white again If put to soak in a basin of warm water in which soap powder has been . worked into a lather. Two or three of these warm lathers in twenty-four hours will be found to cleanse very dirty lace without rubbing. ~ ' ?> ' For Kettles. The Inside of kettles should either be dried whenever the contents have been emptied, "or they should be hung up or stood upside down in a dry place. A few drops of water If allowed to collect at the bottom of a kettle, soon cause spots or rust, and ' these in time generate into holes. _l The Ice Chest. To keep an ice chest in good con uiuou wasu inorouguiy uuce a weeit 'with cold or lukewarm water In which washing soda has -Ijeeri dissolved. If by chance' anything is still in the ice chest it should be wiped off at once. Milk and butter very quickly absorb odor and if in Ice chest with other foods should be kept closely covered. * 1 * T ' To Clean Paintings. To clean an oil painting that is covered with dirt and fly specks wipe all the dust from the painting with a soft cloth. Put a little linseed oil in a saucer and, dipping a finger in the oil, rub the painting gently. It will require time and patience, but the effect will repay you. Artists say that in cleaning a painting nothing but the ,fingers dipped in oil or in water should be used. ' To Clean Rasty Iron. | ' iron puts, Ketues, s&itues?iu iaci, any iron pieces, can be cleaned if the ! pieces are placed on a clear coal fire which has died down to red coals. This prevents smoking the articles. Only one piece at a time should be placed on the coal fire and burned until it is almost red hot. Remove with coal tongs and allow to cool, after which scrape with pot rings and sandpaper; then wash with soap suds, i ,- j t ;\x: > ,> ' > ! fv { >>' A Stove Duster. To wipe dust from a stove without soiling the hands take an old stocking, which has been discarded, place your hand in the foot .and draw the stocking over your arm. Then turn it back until you have folded it over to half its length, thus having two' thicknesses over the hand. The stocking will clean every particle of dust and dirt from the stove and your hand will be as clean after the operation as it was before. The , stocking will, of course, need to be : replaced from time to time. * *? > ' i Shabby Carpetc. To clean and brighten a shabby carpet, cut an ounce of yellow soap into small squares and make into a lather with a pint of boling water. Add to this a quart of water and one ounce of borax. Place the mixture on the range, and bring it to a boil; then remove it, and when quite cold add an ounce each of alcohol and ammonia and half an ounce of glycerine. Wipe over a small portion of the carpet at a time, and rub vigorously with si. clean flannel (which should be repeatedly turned as It gets soiled) dipped in tne mixture, until all tho spots are removed and the color revived. When you have finished you will he delighted to find how nice your once shabby carpct looks.?Washington Star. Squash Griddle Cakes.?One cup of squash (sifted), one cup of soui milk, one egg, one teaspoonful oi soda, flour to make a stiff batter. Sponge Cookies.?Beat the yolks of four eggs well and add one cupful of sugar gradually, a little salt and one cupful of baking powder. Fold in the beaten whites of the cgge and drop from a spoon in buttered gem pans. Lemon Pudding.?Break an egg into a pudding basin and beat it lightly; add a tablespoonful of baking powder and three drops of lemon. Put a greased paper over the basin and steam for one hour. Serve with jam. Hot Weather Salad.?Lay sliced j tomatoes on salad plates for as many plates desired to serve. Cover with small sections of sweet juicy oranges; serve this with a French dressing made of two parts olive oil and one part vinegar with the usual seasoning. Chocolate Pie.?Put one cup of milk over the fire in an inner boiler; when hot add three teaspoonfuls of cornstarch, wet with cold milk and a tablespoonful of melted chocolate. Beat the yolks of two eggs well with two tablespoonfuls of sugar and a pinch of salt. Add to 'the milk, etc., and flavor with vanilla. Let boil a minute or two, then bake slowly in a crust. When cold cover with a meringue made with the whites of the eggs. A Good Pish Dinner.?One pound of fish, one pound of large potatoes, flour, and lard or fat for frying. Bone the fish and cut into equal sized pieces. Pare the potatoes, and cut into thin rinds. Make a batter with flour and water, the consistency of cream. Put the fat into a pan, and when boiling dip the fish in the batter, and fry a nice brown. The fish should be wiped dry with a soft cloth. Take the slices of potato, dip them in the batter, and fry. Drain the fat off the potatoes when done. .v^ /\]fr ; y . v " '". " - "" THE CRUSADE AGAINST DRINK PROGRESS MADE BY CHAMPIONS * FIGHTING THE RUM DEMON. Is Alcohol a Food or Poison??Small Qnantitiei Are Injurious and Its Use Increases Liability to Disease?It Also Shortens Life. For many weeks the London ' T Vina r\r\f\r> nrl if n /tAlumna ft ijautcb i_i ao no tuiuuiug vw ? heated discussion of the old question whether the consumption of alcohol in small quantities io deleterious or beneficial. The discussion began with the publication in its issue of March 30 of a manifesto signed by sixteen eminent physicians to the efTect that alcohol is not only indispensable as a medicine, but is also a useful article of diet, and may be habitually taken by some people in small quantities with advantage. Upon the British Medical Temperance Association this averment had the efTect of a red flag upon a bull and caused it to lose no time in putting forth a vehement contradiction. That alcohol is sometimes valuable as a medicine is not, indeed, denied by the association, but it is maintained that other drugs which have not the drawbacks of alcohol may be even more effectual. The fact is pointed out that in large British hospitals the amount of alcohol used has been diminished by from twenty to seventy per cent, during the last twenty br thirty years, and that this diminution has been accompanied by a decreased death rate. Cited as conclusive is the experience of the London Temperance Hospital, in Which alcohol has only been given seventyfive times in thirty-three years, and in-most of those cases without saving lives, while on the other hand the death rate has been lower than at most other hospitals. As for the assertion that the moderate use of alcohol by adults is beneficial, the temperance doctors insist that the experience of several life assurance societies and friendly societies has proved that abstainers live longer on the'average and have less sickness and a quicker recovery than non-abstainers. Those who would have, the question settled by the weight of medical uuLUUiitjr aic iciuiuueu mat IU IOOJ Mr. Julius Jeffreys, himself a physician, obtained the signatures of seventy-eight distinguished members of the medical profession to a declaration. that there was no foundation for the current belief that the habitual consumption of alcohol in small quantities is beneficial to health. In 1847 a declaration that the most perfect health is compatible with total abstinence from intoxicating beverages was drawn up by three eminent medical men and subscribed by nearly 2000 practitioners in the United Kingdom an! British India. Moreover, as lately as 1903 no fewer than 634 doctors, including some of the most respected in Europe and A t * I tile u ill Levi oLtties, signeu a uiauueaiu wherein it was averred that fexperiments had proved that even small quantities of alcohol are injurious, and that it is in no sense a food; that it increases liability to disease and shortens life; that abstainers do more work than'moderate drinkers; that all the animal functions are be3t performed without alcohol, and lastly that alcohol injures offspring and leads to the deterioration of the human race, especially when it is taken by mothers.?New York Sun. Temperance Bill Boards. The policy of municipal corporations anointing the bill boards with posters proclaiming the evils of the use of drink is spreading throughout England, where there are now more than ninety cities following that policy. In some cases, the expense has been borne by local temperance organizations or individuals, but generally by the municipality itself. In some cases the corporation attorneys have declared that the cities have no statutory powers to appropriate money for such purposes, but the policy has generally been endorsed as a sanitary measure. The Congregational Church of Great Britain is improving on temperance. Forty years ago, only about 400 of its clergy were total abstainers. At the recent meeting of the Congregational Total Abstinence As{n T tiAnnnfn AtrrArl ! CJU^lttLiun ill uuu'iuu, jcpui to auuwcu. that out of nearly 3000 ministers, 2650 were known to be total abstainers. Economic Waste of Drink. The economic waste caused by drink is beyond calculation. We know little more than the values represented in the liquors and beverages produced. In the last census year in the United States, the strong drink and beer produced amounted in value to $425,504,167. Drink's wide harvest of waste in dulling genius, paralyzing business initiative and ruining homes cannot be even guessed. It is reassuring that the United States has by far the lowest per capita consumption of liquor of any nation, and that the use of strong brinks 1n this eountrv is decreasinar. "It is impossible," says Dr. Josiah Strong, "to dissociate this fact from the growing economic superiority of the United States."?New York American. Pythians Extlade Liquor Dealers. The Knights of Pythias, by a vote of two to one, have decided that hereafter no one engaged in the liquor business shall be eligible to membership in that order. The new statute reads: "He must not be a professional gambler, saloon-keeper, bartender, or dealer in spirituous, vinous or malt liquors:" Beer Drinking Declines in England. An official bulletin oT the Department of Commerce and Labor at. Washington, D. C., compiled from consular reports sent in by our representatives throughout the world, says in part: "The English are evidently giving | up alcoholic drinks more and i * * * LLLU1C. "The decline in beer has been nearly 2,500,000 barrels a year, despite the increase of 2,000,000 in population." New Temperance Movement. The National Temperance Society of New York City is inaugurating a new movement among the Sunday schools of the land which promises to be of great and far-reaching importance. The new movement is called the "Youth's Temperance Al iiance of America." Rev. Dr. Alexander Allison, the new general secretary of the National Temperance Society, is the author of the plan. lie lias given much time and thought to this matter during the last three years, and he believes this movement will have a large.part in the final solution of the ^temperance quesyea. r - , / -? . . 1|fi&ben?d Jor chei 1' loSKrHoo^lj THE LITTLE FOXES. Be thou faithful unto death, and I "will give thee a cro"sro of life.?Revelations 2:10. Christian, dost thou see them On the holy ground. How the troops of Midian Prowl and prowl around? Christian, up and smite them, Counting gain but loss; Smite them by the merit Of the Holy Cross. i Christian, dost thou feel them, How they work within, Striving, temptingj luring, Goading on to sin? Christian, never tremble; Never yield to fear; Smite them by the virtue Of unceasing prayer. Christian, dost thou hear them, How they speak thee fair? "Always fast and vigil? Always watch and prayer?" Christian, answer boldy: . "While I breathe I pray." Peace shall follow battle. Night shall end in day. Well I know thy trouble, 0 My servant true; I Thou art very weary? 1 was weary, too; But that toil shall make thee Some day all Mine own; Ana me ena 01 sorrow Shall be near My throne. ?Andrew of Crete, translated by J. M. Neale. # Misrepresentation, of Facts. Professor Townsend in one of.fcis noon addresses In Tremont Temple, Boston, lately said that sometime the "new" theology people have been remarkably successful In giving the impression that there are scarcely any advocates of primitive orthodoxy who have standing among scholars' or thinkers, and that the higher crlt-' ics; beyond dispute, are masters In the educated world. Since, therefore, the universities and schools of theology are supposed to represent scholarship, and since they are supposed to be on the side of the new theology, there is nothing to do, as we are told, but bow to the inevitable, move on with the advancing procession and yield to "the drift of scholarly opinion." , "In view of these conditions it is not surprising that a large numt^r of Christian people are in a theological mix-up, not knowing precisely what stand to take," said the speaker. "It may be of interest to show how much, or rather how little, there is to this tremendously imposing thing, called' 'the drift of scholarly opinion. It was tnen snown tnat a large majority of the theological schools of the United States are on the conservative side. Orthodox scholars and authors were mentioned, and continuing, Br. Townsend said: "Talk about all the schobls and all the scholars in America being on the side of the new theology! A ranker piece of misrepresentation than that never has been perpetrated upon an innocent and unsuspecting public. These men and other conservatives who could be named in whatever qualifies one to be a critic of sacred Scriptures will rank?and some of them a good deal outrank any of the American scholars and theologians on the radical side who in late years have been brought prominently into notice. And I include on that side such men as the late President Harper, of Chicago University; President Hyde, of Bowdoin; Professors Bacon, Ladd and Curtess, of Yale, and Professor Terry, of Garrett."?Christian Work and Evangelist. Roles For Contentment. 1. Allow thyself to complain ot nothing, not even of the weather. 2. Never picture thyself to thyself under any circumstances in which thou art not. 3. Never compare thine own lot with that of another. 4. Never allow thyself to dwell on the wish that this or that had been or were otherwise, than it was or Is. God Almighty loves thee better and more wisely than thou dost thyself. 5. Never dwell on the morrow. Remember that it is God's, not thine. The heaviest part of sorrow often is to look forward to it. "The Lord will provide."?E. B. Pusey. Sharing Christ's Borden. In the New Testament much ih said about suffering with Christ. Some people are called to suffer for Christ, but it is still better to suffer with Him. This is the way we are to take part in His great work. Nearly every great work involves much suffering. Jesus suffered even unto death to accomplish the redemption of the world. His followers are <;alled in a sense to reproduce HIb life, passion and death. Thi6 is no doubt what was in the mind of Paul, when he said- "If we suffer with Him, we shall also reign with Him." Willingness to suffer with Jesus is one of the best evidences that we are the chfldren of God.?Reformed Church Record. God Made Us For Himself. We were made for God. No work, no engrossment, or culture of natural powers, will satisfy a man who has once awakened to his heart need. Only a faith like that expressed in the great words of St. Augustine can satisfy: "Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our heart is restless till it finds rest in Thee."?Hu?h Black. There is a Vital Difference? Between being sorry for sin and being sorry you are "caught." Between confessing your sins and confessing some other fellow's. Between seeing your own faults and seeing some other person's. Between conversion of the head and conversion of the heart. Between being led by the Holy Spirit and led by your imagination. Between being persecuted for "righteousness' sake" and being persecuted for foolishness* sake.?Presbrteriau. Horseshoe Contest in Kansas. Amid great excitement and a large crowd made up of representatives of half the rural part of Johnson County, Kan., the horseshoe pitching championship of the county was decided at Merrlam, fifteen miles north of Kansas City. The team of Stanley, Kan., defeated Merriam's pride. The game had been the sole talk of the blacksmith shops, the barber cV\nnc? fVia ctayi arol cf Aroc nf hfllf 3Uvl"J ?"? w* - the villages of the county for weeks. It Is estimated that twenty oxen, fifty head of cattle and eighteen horses changed hands as the result of the contest. . ! * ... _ 1 ' THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTER NATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY 14 BY THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. ff \ } Subject: The Ten Commandment!*? Duties Toward God, Ex. 20:1* 11?Golden Text: Dent. 0:5?? Memory Verses, 1-11. This lesson and its successor deal with the ten commandment* Of all Old Testament writings these ate perhaps the best known. There areno words in all the Old Testamentmore important than these. They should he written large upon thewalls of every building in the land. Especially large and lasting upon the walls of the public buildings. They should be the guide for the guidance of the life of humanity in so far cs they meet the moral necessities of the times. For the ten commandments are eternal. They are not only the word of God but the testi mony oi t&e ripest and best nomas experience of the ages. They are valuable because they are .God's law, because they are simple, because they ;have been found efficient in the paat and particularly applicable and necessary in our own day and age. t The first commandment is to/ be found in verses 1-3. It is a call of God to undivided loyalty. There cannot be right relationship between man nnri find unlpss man' Rtanda. ready to yield fealty to God to the exclusion of every other fact and force in life. Originally and specifically it -was a call to the undivided loyalty of the Israelite to the on* true Jehovah as opposed to the rnul titude of deities that infested the ec-' clesiastlcal and theological world of that age. But in its wider significance it is a call to the service of the one true God over against the sedticHatio r\f nlaaaiii*oo am<1 i viuuo vi iuv yi^aoui auu tuv Diuv md the engrossing cares pf the life temporal. For many a; man makea money a God, or position, or power, or Intellect, or pleasure. The second command is included In verses 4-6. Given in the midst of an idolatrous age this command was especially appropriate. For Idolatry; had destroyed the finer spiritual fao-. ulties of the nations that practiced It,, lowered their conceptions of the majesty and spirituality of Jehovah and debased their religious life. The principle underlying this command,iff valid to-day. There ie great danger in any attempt to portray tae uryun-. ble and omnipotent God. In the very nature of the case it to an impossi; bility adequately to convey; however skillful we may be, any really comprehensive idea of the glory Mid per* aonality of Gpd. For God to divine. Humanity "d the works of humanity are fimce and partial. And any; litempt to convey to the mind and heart and soul, by means of purely-. finite and temporal agencies, a true conception of the infinite and eternal is hopeless and quite dangerous. Its hopelessness is inherent In its very I! impossibility. Its danger lies in the human proh " is to elevate'the visible to a pla .t, of prime Importance. The third commandment V in perse 7. And it to a good command. It is as timely to-day as it was when .. God thundered it into the . souls , of Israel. The language of, the times is In many ways a gross violation of this command. The' vocabdlary of the 3treets is so positively indecent that nnp cannot walk the thoron eh fares of any village or city In this land without having one's liner sensibilities shocked. The amount of godless talk that is prevalent in this country is positively awful. And it is not only unrighteous to nse the name of God in vain, tut it is also unmanly. Indecent and disgusting, r Every small boy and growing youth-should early learn this truth if none other that bad language is simply a confession of a fundamental Inability, to talk the language of civilize^ and decent men. The'idea that it is manly and an evidence of maturity to curse and swear and be generally, profane Is totally erroneous. A man's culture and refinement are shown not by the amount of bad language that he uses, but by the amount he doesn't use. There is no excuse for bad language. It is simply a dirty hablt( The fourth commandment may be. read in verses 9-11. It is a plea and demand for the dedication of onerseventh of one's time to the particu-lar purpose of religious and physical: refreshment. The writer personally, has no preference for any particular day as a rest day. For he .conceives that the important thing to-day la tor so remedy conditions in thiB country that men shall be able to have one day a week for spiritual and physical. refreshment. He is perfectly willing to allow individual'liberty of preference and conscience full sway when it comes to the consideration of what day in the week shall be used as the rest day. He is, however, ptiritaninollTT n<afrnur nn *Tn? nrnnflRlttfln that K.CLUJ anil vn UM wmv ..... we must so adjust present industrial conditions In America that men mar. be able, one and all, to secure one day a week for the special culture Of their souls and the best refreshment of their bodies. The fourth commandment contains another adjuration that might well be pondered by some of the laiy loafers of young men who waste their time hanging around hotel and* saloon corners instead of doing somer thing for the betterment 0/ the world and themselves. It sayB "six daya shalt thou labor." And no man 1b' really entitled to any consideration' at the hands of society unless he has' - * ihoophmH tin trt thin ID BUUie laouiuu uemuivm ? .?r command. No man really appre-vH elates the rest day who has not lab-(fl ored over against it And no man'H has any business to live on soclety^H without rendering some sort of re-'H "urn for the living. IB Canadian Railway Progress. Canada is making rapid progress H in the construction of her railways, M there being, according to the lateftH statistics issued, 21,280 miles of lineH open for traffic at the end of 1905,^1 where as ten years previously the mileage was 15,977, aDd in 1885 H only 10,773. In the year 1905 alone B iflnfi miles were added, much of the^l material for which was imported H from Great Britain. The value ofB the railway material imported intoH Canada in 1905 was over ?1,172,000. ?Engineer. H South Manchurian Railway Transfer. H Vice-Consal Charles L. Chandler, H of Dalny, Manchuria, reports thatH tbe South Manchurian Railway was H formally transferred from the Field H Railway Bureau of the War Office in H Tokio to the newly organized South H Manchurian Railway Company. H Many improvements and changes are Vnf tVi^ now mmnanir hut iviujtvitu u; <-"V- ?V... ? . i as yet none have been definitely un- BC dertaken. 9 Paris' First Boiling Alloy. Paris is to have a howling alley, Hj the first iu the French capital. - < H