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CHAPTER XIV. 12 I
Continued.
"Oh, he's welcome enough as long
he behaves himself. I don't want
to quarrel with him," wis the dogged
reply. "But I'll have no interference 1
in my affairs, if that's what he's
after. Shut the door, will you, be-,,
cause there's a draught."
Sophy closed the door as requested,
but left herself on the other side of 1
it.
- Adair received.his guest with that
mixture of warmth and deep respect
.which he always threw into his tone^
..when tho canon came to Albany
street; but, to Sophy's eye, there was
more effort in it than usual. She noticed,
too, that her guardian's manner
.was unusual?stiff and guarded. It j
.was always difficult to the canon to
conceal his feelings; but tlie remembrance
that the other was his host
enabled him to do so to some extent. 1
The dinner passed off without a 1
bite*; the topic of conversation was
chiefly Cambridge, In which there
were few discords. When Sophy left
them, and the cigars were produced,
he was certainly disposed to take a
more sanguine view of things.
Though he began rt once upon the
matter that had brought him up to 1
* town?it had, indeed, been fizzing
and seething in his brain for so many 1
hours, that it was impossible longer
to suppress it?it was without heat;
his tone was quiet and conciliatory. '
"I am come here, Adair, upon rather !
an unpleasant errand?a matter concerning
yourself, but which I earnestly
hope you will be able to explain '
to my satisfaction."
'I hope so, indeed," replied the 1
other. His lips smiled, but his brow
had darkened; his face had a resolute
yet apprehensive look, such as a man
might wear about to be attacked by
more than one assailant, but who
has his back to the wall.
"If io nnlu on advortispmpnt. in a
newspaper, but it has given me great
distress of mind. I do not wish to
recall a certain event whicfc happened
two years ago or more; you cannot
have forgotten it."
"Indeed, 1 have not, sir," put in
'Adair, quietly. "I well recollect your 1
generous conduct on that occasion to
me and mine." " !
"At all events, I showed very great
trust and confidence in you, which
you assured me would not be misplaced.
You gave me your word,
also, that under no circumstances 1
would you ever embark in any undertaking
which even the most prudent
person could call ispeculation. In
this advertisement"?he had taken
the paper from his pocket, and
pointed at the place?"I see your
name published as the director of the
Susco Railway Company, in South !
America."
"True, but in British Guiana, you 1
will allow me to add," said Adair, |
suavely.
"Good heavens! what has that to
do with it?"
"Well, if you were a man of busi- ]
ness, canon," said Adair, smiling, "I
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deal to do with it. Let me say, how- '
ever, generally, that an investment ;
in the country would be as safe as in ;
the debenture stocks of any English ,
railway; indeed, it is English. But .
as it happens, I have not even in
vested in it. For certain reasons 1
which, perhaps, you could not easily 1
understand, but which are very valid ]
and reflect no little credit upon my '
position in the city, it has been worth
the company's while to put me on its '
direction, and also to pay me handsomely
for the use of my name."
"The explanation is not satisfactory
to me, Adair," said the canon ]
flrmlv "If ia fnip T am tint a man
of business, but I know enough of
such matters to be convinced that it 1
wouldn't be worth the while of any '
isafe and stable company to do any- '
thing of the kind." Adair shrugged J
his shoulders, and smiled a pitying
.smile.
"Really, canon, I scarcely know '
what to say. I could give you chapter
and verse for everything I have !
stated about this Susco project, but
it is a long business, and if you will
not take my word "
"I have taken your word already,
Adair; your solemn promise in return,
I must needs say, for a very '
great favor, that you would never
have anything to do with speculation
?that is, risk. Do you mean to tell
me there is no risk in your being a
director of the SU3CO Railway Com
pany:
"Not one atom, not a scintilla, I
pledge you my word of honor."
The canon was staggered by the
other's earnestness and emphasis.
"Well, of course, I cannot imagine
for one moment that you are deceiving
me. I must needs believe you.
But still I do not like it. I must ask
you to withdraw your name at once
from the official list, and to give up
all connection with the undertaking."
' '\7 nwir c?i*? " t?Af nunrt/l A rl n 1' r
V Ci J f-yKJVJKJ. t on, ickuiucu nuaii ,
frankly. "Since nothing else will
satisfy you, I will do so. I shall lose
two hundred pounds a year by it, but
I need not say I would make a much
greater personal sacrifice to meet
your wishes."
"It is not, you know, on my account,"
said the canon, greatly mollified,
"that I demand this of you. It
is nothing to me whether you risk
your money or not."
It was with eyes more than naif
opened to the true character of his
former protege, and with an impression
of the domestic relations between
his ward and her husband
which save him infinite pain, that the
canon took his leave next morning as
if for the railway station. As soon as
he reached Onford street, however,
he put his head out of the cab wj'd??w
and bade the driver to take him
to Bedford Row to Lawyer Irton's.
The young solicitor gave him a
hearty welcome.
"I only wish it was my house," he
?aid, "instead of my office. .Now,
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canon, what can I do for you?"
"Well, it isn't settlements; I am
not going to be married again," said
the canon, characteristically hiding
his anxiety with a joke. "I am not
even come for legal advice, but merely
for your opinion as a man of business.
A certain friend of mine is
connected with the Susco Railway
Company, in British Guiana. What
do you think of it as an investment?"
'For yourself?"
"I don't say that. Put it as generally
as you please."
"Well, such things are not much
in our way," was the quiet reply.
"Our clients' investments (he looked
up at the yellow tin boxes that ornamented
the office walls) are not, as
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but I do happen to know something
about the Susco. If I had not a shilling
in the world, I would perhaps accept
fifty shares of such a company,
as a gift, provided they were fully
paid up; but not a hundred, because
that would put me on the direction."
"Atad why not?"
"Because my name would then be
made use of, and might induce ignorant
persons to invest in the undertaking,
which is, in my opinion, thoroughly
unsound."
"Do you mean to say it's a bubble
company?"
"That is a strong expression, and
suggestive of fraud. Let us call it
a balloon company?it is all in the
air."
"My dear Irton, you alarm me
more than I can say. John Adair,
Sophy's husband, is a director of it."
Irton shrugged his shoulders,
overweening conceit; one, in my
gret to you, canon, I can easily believe;
but surely it is not one of surprise."
"It has shocked and surprised me
beyond measure. You don't .mean to
tell me that it is Adair's practice to
mix himself up with such undertakings?"
"My dear canon," returned Irton,
gravely, "it's quite contrary to my
custom to interfere, unless I am professionally
consulted, in other people's
affairs. Moreover, Mr. Adair
and I are not on very good terms. I
would therefore much prefer you to
go elsewhere for information about
him."
"But I am here to consult you professionally.
I wish, for Sophy's sake,
to know the whole truth. Tell me
all; it will be the truest kindness."
"I can only speak from hearsay,"
returned Irton, after a moment's
pause; "but it is a matter of common
report?and has been for these many
months?that Adair is a great speculator.
That he has a finger in al
most every new-made pie, and some
of them, I am sorry to say, dirt pies.
He is a man of great ability, but of
overweening conceit; one, in my
opinion, who would never be content
with the moderate profits of a legitimate
business. It must be admitted
that he has peculiar advantages in
the fact of his money being settled on
his wife; that is always a great temptation
to such men to gamble. Ruin
can never touch him, he has always
his wife's principal to fall back on,
no creditor can claim it, and that
will insure him a certain income.
These companies are unaware of that.
He is known to be a partner in a respectable
firm and to live in good
style, and it is worth their while to
purchase his name. That is the long
;nd short of it."
The canon grew not only grave,
but gray; he looked ten years older
than he had done fiv? minutes before.
"Adair assured me with his own
lips last night that he was connected
with no undertaking except the Susco
Railway, which, moreover, he stated
to be a perfectly safe concern; 'as
safe as an English railway debenture
stock,' were his very words. Did he
deceive me wilfully, or is it possible
tie was deceiving himself?"
"If vnn rnrrmpl mf> tr> erivp vni! a
categorical reply," returned Irton,
with evident reluctance, "the latter
supposition is impossible."
"He lied to me?"
"Undoubtedly he did."
"That is enough," sighed the
canon, rising slowly from his seat
And all vigor seemed to have gone
Dut of him. He looked a broken man.
"I don't think I can come up here
again just yet, Irton," he murmured,
as they shook hands; "I may want
you to come down to me at Cambridge;
you will oblige me so far, I
know, if necessary."
'And much farther, my dear
rannn " rptjirnprt Trtnn wflrmlv. "At
any hour of the day or night you may
depend on my attending to your summons."
CHAPTER XV.
The Thunderbolt.
Sad as had been the thougnts of
Canon Aldred on bis way up to to.vn,
they were almost pleasant ones in
comparison with those which consumed
him on his return journey.
On the fourth morning, as the
canon eagerly ran his eye over the
letters lying at his room, it lit upon
a legal document.
"What the deuce is this?" he murmured,
partly because he hated law,
partly because he was annoyed at not
getting the letter he expected, and
tore it open. The contents of it were
as follows:
"Sir?We are instructed on behalf
of Wilhelmina Adair, the infant
daughter of Mr. John Adair, of Albany
street, London, to apply to you
as one of the trustees of Mrs. John
Adair's marriage settlements, dated
the 14th of June, IS?, :'or a statement
of the property subject to the
trusts of such settlement at the date
tuereui, auu ui wucii SUCH u usa inui;erty
now consists.
"We are informed that the sum c.'
fifteen thousand pounds has been
paid rut of the trust property by you
to Mr. and Mrs. John Adair.
_ "According to our view of the
?
* rtrusts
of tbe settlement, 6uch pay*
ment ought not to have been made;
and our instructions are to see that
the trust property is protected for
the benfit of our client, tbe said Wilhelmina
Adair. We must ask you to
let us have the information required
in the course of this week; and will
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communication with your solicitors,
as, if we are obliged to take pro?
ceedings to protect the trust prop*
erty, we do not wish to trouble you
personally in the matter.
"We are sir, your obedient servants,
SINE & SEELE."
The canon stared at these words,
boldly written and very legible
though they were, as though they
were some Belshazzar warning,
He felt in his heart that they
boded ruin; but he required an Interpreter
to get at. their meaning. As
his heated eyes re-perused the docu-y
ment, its own words, "we shall be
obliged if you will put us into communication
with your solicitors," suggested
to him the very person of
whom he stood in need. Hardly
knowing what he was doing, yet
afraid to trust another with such an
errand, he put on his hat and gown
and hurried to the telegraph offic%
where he wrote this message:
"From Canon Aldred, Trinity College,
to Frederic Irton: . |
"Can you come to me by nest
train? Most urgent. Reply paid."
Then he tottered back to his
rooms.
Half an hour?an hour? he spent
the time he knew not how; but not
in thinking; on the contrary, in trying
not to think. All that he dared
suffer his mind to dwell upon, lest it
should leave him altogether, was,
"When shall I hear from Irton?"
At last relief came to him; there
were steps "on the stairs, and a careless
whistle. (Little do these telegraph
boys know what messengers of
doom they are; the postman, by comparison,
is a mere valentine purveyor.)
The yellow envelope was
dropped through the letter-slip, and
the canon seized it as some starving
prisoner clutches his daily meal.
"From F. Irton, London, to Canon
Aldred, Trinity College:
"I shall be at your college rooms at-'
five o'clock."
The lawyer found him, book in
hand, to all appearance, composed
enough.
'I believe I never stood in greatei
need of advice," was the canon'?
earnest remark. 'This is the communication
received this morning
which has caused me to put you to
so much inconvenience;" and he
placed in his hands the lawyer's letter.
"Sine & Seele!" exclaimed Irton,
i glancing at the signature. "What on
earth have these gentlemen to do
with you?"
"You know the firm, then?"
Irton nodded. So far as a gesture
could convey at once assent and dissatisfaction,
the nod conveyed it. He
read the letter through without com#
ment; then observed, with extreme
gravity, "Can this be true, canon?"
"That you have paid fifteen thousand
away of Mrs. Adair's trust
monejV'
'To herself, yes; at her earnest
and repeated entreaty, in order to
make her husband a partner in his
own firm."
"Great heavens!" cried Irton,
starting from his chair, "you must
have been stark staring mad! Have
you a copy of Mrs. Adair's settle
ment?"
The canon pointed to where It lay.
"I am afraid that will not help us
much," he said, disconsolately. "I
was aware when I advanced thi?
money that I was exceeding my powers."
Irton shook his head; the gesture
was this time one of pity.- "How
could you do so?" it seemed to say,
and not, "How could you have been
such a fool?"
"There is not a word in this, I am
sorry to say," said the lawyer, presently,
tapping the document with his
Angers, "that authorizes any such
use of the trust-money as you have
put it to. I suppose what you did
was done under great pressure."
"There are poor Sophy's letters
J and the man's," said the canon, wear
I Ily. "judge tor yourseu.
The young lawyer read them
through, but with a contemptuous
lip.
To be Continued.
r Manchester Cloth Market.
A better inquiry was experienced
i in the cloth market during last week,
especially from India, which leads to
the opinion that business in the near
future will be brisker, particularly
when manufacturers are satisfied a.>
to a basis of value. Meantime the
turnover, both in light bleaching
cloths and shirtings, was rather larg
er. Chin", took fair quantities of
specials, as well as of staple cloths,
while the Mediterranean markets
purchased satisfactorily. In the yarn
market American crops were difficult
to obtain for quick delivery and consequently
full prices obtained. Other
qualities were quiet and steady,
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Bachelor Brusqueness.
An old-time English barrister was
j John Williams, a sarcastic wit and a
! bachelor with an intense prejudice
against marriage. ' His clerk one day
asked him for a holiday to get married,
and some months afterward, on
entering his chambers, Williams
found his dead body suspended from
the door. He engaged another clerk
and asked him if he was married.
"No," the clerk replied; but thinking
Williams would regard marriage as a
guarantee of steadiness, he added,
"but I am going to be." "Very well,"
replied Williams, "but understand
this?when you hang yourself, don't
do it here!"
A Georgia Definition.
Here is a Georgia youngster's definition
of thunder and lightning:
"The Thunder is Maw, readin' a
lecture to Paw, an' the Lightnin* i9
Paw?runnin' to git away from it.
But I doubt if Lightnin kin beat him
when he jumps the garden fence an'
hits the grit!"?Atlanta Constitution.
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French engineers are direct'Sg submarine
boats by wireless messages
sent to the navigating officers.
A Cleveland doctor has discovered
a new disease, the same being laryngeal
anthrax and indigenous to telephone
girls from yelling baseball
scores over the phone.
The pipe line, conveying petroleum
from Baku to the Black Sea. has
been completed. It is 550 miles
long, and is capable of passing 400,000,000
gallons of oil yearly. Another
important oil pipe line has been
built for transporting Texas and California
petroleum across the Isthmus
of Panama. It is eight inches in
diameter and fifty-one miles long.
The growing popularity of interlocking
rubber tiling is shown by its
invasion of new fields, being extensively
used in kitchens, vestibules and
bathrooms of the better sort; in fine
ocean liners, lake steamers, ferry
boats and yachts, where its non-slippery
character and the fact that it
remains unaffected by constant
wrenching strains render it very valuable,
and now it may be seen in one
of the finest cathedrals in the country
and in one of the largest of our
public art galleries.
The best efficiencies of centrifugal
pumps are supposed to have been
obtained at discharge velocities
equaling about twelve feet per second
through the discharge aperture of
the pump. Recent experiments have
shown that from pumps as large as
thirty-two inches eighty per cent, efficiency
wa3 obtained at 38.68 feet
lift, under a discharge velocity of
~l.l ieei. per sccuuu, nunc auiiic i ecent
tests on very small pumps show
gradually increasing efficiencies under
heads up to eighty-nine feet and
discharge velocities of forty feet per
second.
Hydrofluoric acid as a cleaning
agent for castings has been in general
use but a short time, being treated
a few years ago as a secret process.
Formulae for the acid containing superfluous
and innocuous ingredients
to mistify the' purchaser have been
sold for considerable sums. Anything
used in connection with this
"pickle," aside from the hydrofluoric
acid and ' water, is wholly unnecessary,
the usual formula being one
part of acid to ten of water. In
adding water, however, care ;should
be taken to know the strength of the
acid. The idea is to get a dip that
will remove the sand perfectly and
quickly, the operation requiring ten
to fifteen minutes.
HAS CIGAR BUTT MANIA.
Vienna Lawyer Disciplined For Acts
Due to New Nervous Disorder.
An eminent Viennese barister was
recently struck off the rolls for a
practice which was pronounced unseemly
and derogatory to the dignity
of his profession; namely, the habit
or picking up ana collecting tne iag
ends of cigars in public streets. It
was pleaded for the barrister that he
was suffering from a peculiar nervous
disorder.
Considerable discussion followed
in medical circles in Austria and
Germany and inquiries made by the
Tageblatt of the chief specialists in
neurotic complaints confirm the existence
of this peculiar class of nervous
derangement, which occurs
mostly in persons of superior education
and high attainments.
Cases are cited of persons otherwise
sane, of good social position,
who are unable to withstand the im
puise to piCK up diis oi paper, twigs,
corks and such things which are lying
on the pavements.
One is reminded by this story of
Dr. Johnson's alleged uncontrollable
impulse to touch every street post as
he walked through Fleet street, London,
returning if he happened to miss
one.
Why Certain Men Marry.
An editor sent out circular letters
to a large number of married men,
and asked them why they married.
Here are some of the answers:
Because I did not have the experience
I have now.
That's what I've been trying for
eleven years to find out.
I married to get even with her
mother, but never have.
. I have yearned for company. Now
we have it all the time.
I thought it would be cheaper than
a breach of promise suit.
Because Sarah told me five other
men had proposed to her.
That's the same fool question my
friends ask me.
I wanted a companion of the opposite
sex. She is still opposite.'
The old man was going to give me
his foot, so I took his daughter's
hand.
Because I asked her to have me
and she said she would; I think 3he
got me. ?
Because I tnougnt sne was one
among a thousand; now I think she
is a thousand among one.
I was lonely and melancholy and
wanted some one to make me lively.
She makes it very lively.
Prayer of a Child.
"The little hubbub that has arisen
over a supposed condemnation of
Sunday-school libraries reminds me
of an incident which occurred to a
small friend of mine," said Miss L. E.
Btearns.
"This small girl had committed
some small bit of mischief quite without
any wrong intention. Her
mother scolded her severely and told
the child that she must not only ask
her forgiveness, but she must also
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"Whereupon the little girl began
her prayer: 'O God, can't you take a
joke either?' "?Milwaukee . Free
Press.
Dr. Paul Poirier, professor of anatomy
at the University of Paris, died
almost on the day which he foretold
after diagnosing his own disease of
the liver. ,
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPEII AN CE.
The Sonth is the Section of This
Country That is Doing Most to
Lift the Curse of Drink?Silly
Traditions Shattered. ,
A tradition fondly cherished I>y
millions of Americans was rudely
shattered the other day at the Jamestown
Exposition. Every schoolboy
knows what the Governor of North
Carolina has' said from time immemorial
to the Governor of South Carolina
when these two dignitaries met.
It is a legend as firmly fixed and accepted
as the legend that the Pilgrim
Fathers actually landed on Plymouth
Rock. But at the Jamestown Fair
the Governors of North and South
Carolina only looked at each other
sternly and sadly. "I am sorry,"
said one, "but I happen to be a teetotaler."
"I am sorry," said the other,
"but I happen to be a Prohibitionist."
The Baltimore Sun can well be pardoned
for seeeing in this prosaic perversion
of an historic formula "the
passing of a civilization." It hails
the Norfolk contretemps as a sign
of the times. Half jocosely, but also
half seriously, it maintains that the
old South has now finally vanished?
that the days are gone in which conviviality
dominated in the world of
social relationships, when "the jug
marked the man and the demijohn
tut; geiiLiuiiiaii.
Ocular demonstrations like that at
the Jamestown Exposition are, in
fact, needed to uproot old notions and
open the public's eyes to the coming
of a new order. It is hard to believe,
in the face of traditions to the contrary,
that the South is to-day the
section of the country which is doing
most to lift the curse of intemperance
and to combat the crimes which flow
from indulgence in liquor. According
to the comic journal humorists,
Kentucky is populated chiefly by
"colonels," whose sole aim in life
is to prevent an under-consumption
of that State's far famed distillery
output. Yet in two-thirds of the
counties of Kentucky the sale of intoxicants
is absolutely forbidden. The
Texan is similarly pictured as a frontiersman
with a sombrero, an insatiable
thirst for liquor and an uncontrollable
passion for faro or draw poker.
^Yet Texas has just passed a rigid law
against all forms of gambling, public
or private, and has in operation a
local option system under which a
large part of the State has elected to
abolish the sale of liquor. The local
option movement has made notable
progress in many other States. In
Tennessee many towns and cities
have become "dry." South Carolina
allows its counties to choose between
prohibition and the institution of
county dispensaries. In Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisiana the
sale of liquor has been also greatly
circumscribed. compared witn sections
in which the license sysitem
rules, the South has really come
much nearer eliminating a fruitful
cause of poverty, misery and crime.
The -South's notable advance in
this respect is due in the main, perhaps,
to economical pressure. It has
in the negroes a labor class whose
efficiency would be destroyed by easy
access to cheap and maddening stimulants
and whose potency for disorder
would be dangerously magnified
by the temptations of drink. As a
measure of self-preservation, the
South is turning toward prohibition,
or that strict regulation of the sale
of liquor which will confine its use to
those least likely to be injured by it
or least liKeiy to innict in return an
Injury on the community. The South
is willing to abridge individual freedom
in order to secure greater industrial
efficiency and greater domestic
tranquility, and in so doing its
people show a sound instinct. They
are willing to turn their backs on a
tradition begotten of an older order
and well enough in its day, but which
conflicts with welfare and progress
under the altered conditions of this
era.?New York Tribune Editorial.
Who Wants the Liquor Saloon?
Who wants the saloon legalized in
Maine? Who wants the liquor traffic
to become a factor in all our State,
county and municipal affairs? Who
wants the rumsellers to set themselves
up as bosses in ward, town,
city and State management? Who
wants the degrading influence of the
saloon to offset the influence of the
churches and schools of Maine? It
is easier to tell who does not want it.
No good citizen wants it. No man
witn a iamuy 01 growing Doys warns
It. No one with the good of the community
at heart wants it. No man
with a/business which the profits of
the saloon would interfere with
i wants it. No man who lovr.s his fellowman
wants it. No one who hopes
for the welfare and happiness of the
rising generation wants it.?Portland
Express.
Against All Saloons.
A movement having for its purpose
the outlawing of every saloon
in the United States, and the placing
of them on the same legal footing
as gambling dens, will be started in
Cleveland. It is planned to make
the movement national in its scope.
The movement has for its inspiration
the decision in the case against
the granting of a saloon license to
Albert Soltau, of Indianapolis.
This decision was rendered by
Judge Samuel R. Artman, of the Circuit
Court, at Lebanon, Ind., February
13. The ruling was to the effect
that the license could not be granted
on the grounds that the State had no
right to permit anything contrary to
the best interests of health of the
people.?Indiana Farmer.
Japan May Abolish Canteen.
Marshal Oyama has been petitioned
by Hon. Taro Ando to adopt the
American system and abolish the canteen
in the Japanese army. It appears
that the regulations of the sale
of liquor to Japanese soldiers is not
sufficiently strict to do away with the
many grave evils naturally growing
out of such sale.
Texas Crusaders Busy.
Texas Prohibitionists have mired
nearly $3000 for the State campaign
of 1007.
A Test Case.
The Business Men's Association of
Creston, Iowa, reports that out of
100 men who pay their bills prompt*
ly, only three are drinking men. and
that ninety-seven per cent, or tnose
on the blacklist (those refused credit
for cause) are saloonkeepers, bartenders
and grog shop patrons. There
are twelve saloons in Creston.
The mystery as to why Kentucky
is going dry is cleared up by the announcement
that ninety per cent, of
the women of the Blue Grass country
are "blue ribboners." ~ i
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL,
INTERN ATION A L LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JUNE 30, BY THE
REV. I. W. HENDERSON.
Subject: Temperance Lesson, 1 Cor.
10:23-33?Golden Text; Ron].
14:21 ? Memory Verse, 31?
Commentary on Dny's Lesson.
The Golden Text says: "It is good
neither to eat flesh, nor to drink
wine, nor anything whereby thy
brother stumbleth." And this is the
key note of the lesson.. It is the true
Christian principle. It is the law of
life which makes us enquire not what
are our rights, but what are our duties.
Everything in this life that
God has created is for the use and
the culture of the Christian when it
is kept in its proper place. But if
in the providence of God it is necessary
for lis to give up our prerogatives
in order that * some brother
may be saved from the abuse of that
which in itself is harmless we are
admonished by the scripture and by
all the evidence of worthy experience
as Christian men and women that
we act wisest when we renounce our
rights in order that men may be
kept from sin.
The only safe rule for the individual
in America with its rush and
its hurry and its tendency to go to
extremes, is total abstinence for the
individual and total abolition of the
legalized saloon. For under present
conditions the danger too sadly is
that men shall be led out of moderate
drinking into immoderation. As our
social system is constituted to-day we
cannot gainsay the fact that the
liquor business in this country is a
positive danger to the commonwealth.
Granted for the sake of arenment
that liquor has its proper place in
the world and we must still admit
that it has proven itself to be a
treacherous enemy of the man who
is most careful and painstaking in
its use. Granted that it is a business
that has a proper place in the
economic system of this or any other
day and we are bound to admit if
we are careful thinkers that as it
is run to-day it is a real menace to
the character of multitudes of men
and the source of individual and social
wickednesses that are as unspeakable
in many of their phases as they
are multifarious.
The curse of strong drink must be
uprooted by modern civilization or it
will itself undo the mighty and glorious
progress of this age. No civilization
that is not sober can long exist.
No individual that is sodden with
strong drink can maintain his integrity
and his value to the . society of
which he is a part. No nation can
forget its responsibility to safeguard
the welfare of its citizens and long
retain a place among the powers.
Righteousness exalteth both nations
and individuals. But drunkenness is
the death, of individual and national
honor and prosperity.
The only way in which we can hope
to battle successfully against the
drink habit and the saloon is by educating
our youth. Many agencies are
at work in the effort to consummate
this meritorious achievement. Perhaps
there is none other that is so
well' fitted to accomplish this very
thing as is the Youth's Temperance
Alliance of America, an institution
of the conservative National Temperance
Society, under the guidance of
the Rev. Alexander Alison, D. D.f of
which the writer became informed
the other day. It is peculiarly happy
in its name, its leader and its plan
of operation. It is distinctly a work
for the Sunday''Schools. As such it
may be of interest to the Sunday
School reader.
The labors of this institution are
to be confined entirely to the education
of boys and girls before the age
of twenty-one. An article in the
Christian Work recently published by
Dr. Alison has this in part to say:
"If we are to solve this liquor prob1
1 in
Jem uuu eecmc to Lai tiwiiuvuvv iU
the individual as well as in the State
we must do it by votes. There is
only one way of getting these votes;
that way is God's way. In the high
moral field of temperance activity the
ways of the politician will not avail.
You cannot secure by purchase the
votes that are the outcome of conscience.
The motion'toward the polling
booth which is born of the sense
of 'ought' and 'ought not' is the motion,
that, in its action, is decided and
permanent, because it is born of principle.
It is built upon the solid rock
of character. To secure conscientious
exercise of the franchise we must
begin with the child. The boy must
be trained. The culture must not
be spasmodic; it must be steady; it
must be persistent. We must stay by
the youth at every step until he becomes
an American citizen."
Space will not permit to describe
In full the modus operandi. A perusal
of the article in the issue of the
Christian Work for April 6, page 450,
? I?I.* Tt Ic atrlrtlv in
Ililgiil L/C ?oi uuuiv. * %? ??
line with the lesson for to-day and it
is eminently the method of the
church.
The high ground of the Christian
church must always be, on everything
else as well as on the subject
of temperance, that it will refuse
to lend its sanction in any fashion
to anything that is destructive to
the morals and minds of humanity,
or that tends to defraud men of their
birthrights as the sons of God. The
church cannot afford to put a stumbling
block in the way of any man.
And it must teach its youth that
this is the will of God for private as
well as for organized life. Far better
is it that we should deny ourselves
than that any man should suffer
through our unworthiness.
If religion is not for all of a man
It is not for aught in man.
Church Boilt in Volcano.
tf pflomc Hire rarrvine the word to
X I OWUik) VM> - * -?v
the very gates of the infernal regions
to build a church in* a volcano, but
this is about what has been done on
the Island of Maui. High on the
slopes of Haloakala, the world's most
gigantic crater, there rests a tiny little
church built by the Episcopalians
of Maui. The church is about 4000
feet up the mountain side. Bishop
Restarick, the prelate for the Hawaiian
Islands, officiated at the opening
of the church, but he was, unfortunately,
unable to dedicate, for the j
church is not yet free from debt.
Beauty A'cver Washes Face.
Miss Amanda Johnson, of Webster
City. Iowa, fifty years old, and noted
for her beautiful complexion, attributes
it to the fact that for fifteen
years she has not used soap and
water on her face. Once her complexion
was far from clear and bright,
and some one told her to give up
washing her face. This she did and
the result exceeded her utmost expectations.
Now she says she won't
i was for another fifteen years.
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TRp^LriEBRST I
1 .gathered jorfbe | I
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THIS IS BLESSING, THIS IS LIFE* 9
I sav to thee, do thou repeat Jfl
To the first man thou may'st meet
In lane, highway, or open street, H
That he, and we, and all men move ' I
Under a canopy of love IS
As broad as the blue 8ky above;
That doubt and trouble, fear and pain, fl
And anguish, nil are sorrows vain; ?
That death itself shall not remain; B
limb weary ucocivs maj www,
A dreary labyrinth may thread,
Through dark ways underground be lea;
Yet, if we will our Guide obey, v.
The dreariest path, the darkest way,
Shall issue out in heavenly day,
And we, on divers shores how cast,
Shall meet, our perilous voyage past,
All in our Father's home at last.
And ere thou leave him, say thou this.
Yet one word more?they only miss
The winning of that final bliss
Who will not count it true that Love, " ,
Blessing, not cumng, rules above, , ,!
And that in it we live and move.
And one thing further make him know;
That to believe these things are so, j
This firm faith never to forego?
Despite of all that seems a^ strife
With blessing, and with curses rife?'
That this is blessing, this is lffe. >
?Archbishop ^Trench.
The Mellowing of Character.
_ It takes time to ripen character.
you cannot iorce it any more tnan M
you can force the ripening of an ap- H
pie. There must be a season of H
growth, and then a season -of mellow- H
ing?first the soft spring and sum
mer sun and dews, and rain, ttan H
the dry autumn heat and the nigfts
of frost. 19
It is life and life only that ripens fl
character, and it takes all of life to H
do it, too?the hitter and the sweet, H
the hard and the easy. Let us not H
be afraid, then, to live* however In- H
tensely! The moral coward ? thfr
man who is afraid of life, afraid; of
its depths and its heights, Its valleys H
of humiliation and its peaks of vis- H
ion, its significant ea^eriences of
whatever kind?is incapable of de- B|
veloping character. All these aro .fll
the ripening experiences of the souL-'^H
We must expect them, as the apple flj
expects the noonday blaze and the flW
midnight frost. It is childish, to
snrinic irorn tne intensities 01 me.
Why do we live, If not to meet llfe'a
requirements and bear its fruits?
It is always a sad thine to see a. I
soul yielding and breaking under the H
stress of life; a soul that complains
perpetually because it is afflicted; a I
soul that groans night and day be* |9
neath its burden; a soul that hol<fc
up ^despairing hands to God, and
cries out that it is forspent and H
crushed to earth, and can, strive no I
more. Souls are not made of such |H
stuff as this. Souls are made to en- fl
dure. Life's stress and strain are not
to. break them, but to strengthen
them. There is not one of us who I
cannot endure the discipline of life, H
no matter how hard, if he under- fl
stands what it is for, and seeks th<? W
-iJ i- -I U T* atmnlo
divine aiu m uettnug tv. iv 10
because we so often misinterpret tba I
meaning of trial that we are so weaJc
to bear it. Looked upon as mere
aimless torment, of course there is H|
no grace in suffering. No Wonder we
sink beneath the burden If we fall to |H
see the hand that placed it, and'fe*l
only as we think the grievous weight |H
purposely crushing us to earth. H
Bravery, moral bravery, courage.
under the stress of life?how sorely
we all need it. Our childishness
clings to us too long, with its shrinl:- X|
ing from all that is hard and unplea:5- Hfl
ant, its petulance, its short-sightedness,
its complaining. When we b<>* Hg
come men and women are we qot to
put away childish things? Let us
try to understand, let ue try to bear,
let us try to co-operate! Note the
oweotndKd and richness and beauty
of those characters that have always
resigned themselves cheerfully and |H
trustingly to God's will, and have
gone on mellowing and perfecting In
holiness unto the end. Such souls JH
afford some adequate explanation of
what life means, or may mean, to a. H
true child of God. They are revela- H|
tions of ourselves to ourselves; for H|
the image into whose likeness they I
have grown is a possible Ideal to
every one of us.?James Buckham$ In MB
Christian Union Herald.
The Privilege of Straggle. H
Overcoming brings the greatest joy
that a child of God can know. But
overcoming is not possible without
something to overcome; and that
something is offered to us with every
tomnfoHnn Wp WRflrV Of OUf tempti"
tions; we long to be free from ttiem;
yet if that longing were granted now
and here, we should be robbed of a HH
privilege that nothing else could replace.
Probably there are no regrets HH
in Heaven; but if there were, can we^^H
imagine a keener regret thau that
looking back at the privilege of strug-i^H
gle which belongs to every soul onH
earth along with the assurance of^H
victory through Christ, and knowing
that we were new cut forever from
the joy of resisting and conquertejc
the powers of evil?a privilege that^H
we had so often wasted when it was^H
ours? God gives us only a limited
lifetime of this tfOrt of character-making
opportunity, it is a privilege that^H
perhaps angels do not have; but the^H
- - - ?
Son of God sbarea ic wun uh. ouauh
we not rejoice in it and use it to^H
the uttermost while we may??Sun-^H
day-School Times.
How to Correct Others. HBj
It is important to wait the momentflH
of God to correct others. We may^B|
see real faults, but tbe person znay^H
not be in a state of profit by being^H
told bis faults. It is not wise to give^H
more than one can receive. This lsflB
what I call preceding the light; theH
light shines so far in advance of th^HH
person that it. does not benefit him.^H
Our Lord said to His apostles: "I^H
have many things to say to you, bnc^H
you cannot bear therti now."?Mad-Hgj
ame Guyon. mBB
Compressed Air in Iron Foundry.
Compressed air is now used in theBI
large iron foundry at the Scheneq-Mfl
tady works of the General Electrlc^H
Company for almost every operation^?
connected with the making of aaH
finished casting. Although the ma-IH
chinery in the other adjacent shopslHj
is nnpmtprt pntlrelv hv electricity. inBS
the iron foundry, where the opera-BH
tions are scattered and intermittent,^^!
compressed air was found to be ad-^H
vantageous for small power servlces^^H
The air is supplied at eighty pounde^B|
pressure by a number of electric m&^Hj
tor-driven compressors. 9HB