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MltttOBCdtCBtattl sllj THE GANt ! I I ! OR A TALE 0! fi I Bv Jam: sBtwaaBacMt CHAPTER XIX. 16 s, Continued. i "And you will be sure not to tel jhim what I have told you, sir," whis Tiprpd the vouns man, as he lean over him. , The effect of his son's presence O] (the canon was something marvelous GHis brightness and his tendernes .worked upon him for good, as tb< sunshine and the rains revive thf ^drooping flower. A sort of Indiai summer seemed to have set in witl =him; and but for his old friend's ill mess I think he would have been ai .happy as he ever was in his life though not quite in the old fashion. "You may tell your Alma. Robert,' said Aunt Maria, "that her dutifu advice to you has saved your father',1 3ife." She knew that way of puttin? it would please him better than i .'she had praised his own unselfishnesi ;in coming to England. "If you wer< not here he would hardly stand thesi distressing visits to dear Mr. Ma ;vors." And, indeed, the spectacle of hii old friend and contemporary gradu ally losing his hold upon life gav< him unspeakable pain. There wai .nothing, of course, terrible in such i t , man's decease; no haunting fears oi distrust of the All-wise and All-merci . ful. Indeed, it would have been curi . ,ous to those acquainted with the tun of thought prevailing among men o: itheir stamp at Cambridge, that be tween these two men?both beinj clergymen?the subjects so common 'ly dwelt upon under sucn circum stances were rarely alluded to. The] spoke of old times with which *the] ; , i,were conversant, rath'er than of the .unknowable; of their lifelong jK though undemonstrative) friend ship, rather than of their reunior .hereafter; of their common friends 'alive or dead. Once, however, t [something of bitterness in some re ]r . mark made by the dying man, suggested the inquiry from his companion, "You are at peace, I trust, Ma. ors, with all men?" "With all that are-worthy of the name of man," was the stern and unexpected reply. Then, as if regretting iis harshness, the tutor added, with a smile, "There is not much malice and hatred in my heart, Aldred, I do assure you?nothing, I trust, to be repented of in that way; a little envy of yourself, my friend, that's all." "How so?" "Because you have great possessions?a son, a wife." "Nay, my poor wife is dead," said the canon, soothingly, as one speaks to a sick man whose mind has gone astray a little. * f "Yes, but you have the memory ol her. Believe me, my friend, it is .veil to have such memories to dwell .upon." The canon had no prescience that he had beheld his friend for the las1 ,time when he walked home one afternoon with thoughtful step that grew mawa nnd Kunvoni 'UU^UUSUUUDIJ UlUiC 11CC auu uuv,??u? v . as he neared the little home which held his new-found treasure. On his study table, however, was a letter, the contents ot which, for t moment, put even Robert out of his mind. It was in his ward's hand/ writing, which in itself argued nothing strange (for she had never ceasec to correspond with him in a sup>pressed, mechanical fashion); it had 'not, as usual, been sent on to hire from the Laurels, but was directed tc iis present address. It must have come to Sophy's knowledge, therelore, that he had removed to Providence Terrace. Though this was s ipiece of information that might have oozed out any day, he opened the en v^Iods with no little aDDrehensior that she might have gleaned still further knowledge, and the first sentence convinced him that it was so. "Kindest and best of friends, whon I have robbed and grieved?deai guardian, -whose care and love I hav< ;rep?id by falsehood and ingratitude i-^-pity if you cannot pardon me. If ! .came to you in person (which I dan pot do, for the sight of your dear fact [would kill me; and my life, other jwise worthless, is necessary to m: jchild)?I say, if I came into you; presence and groveled at your fee jwith tears and prayers, I could not believe me, feel a greater abasemen than I do, as I sit here and writ* these shameful words. "Until recently, though fully con scious of my base behavior to you ii other respects, I was not aware of thi ruin I had brought upon you. thought that I had only lies and de ceit to reproach myself with?trans gressions that have brought thei ;own punishment upon me, and con jcerning which I thought, therefore /that I bad some sort of right?as i such a wretch as I had rights at all ?to be silent. But now I know wha an irremediable injury I have don |to you and yours, it seems to me tha no sufferings in this world can be in .flicted on me commensurate with m: offenses. That I was but an uncon scious instrument in the hands of an '/vfVtAi* In nn nv/>nea for mo for hn .for my own misdoings, I should neve have fallen into his hands. The his tory of them you will find inclosei J(there was a paper in the envel&p containing a short narrative of he first marriage, and the causes whici .had, as she thought, compelled her t make the second), and when yoi jt&ve read it, after the first shar; pain of anger and regret is over, on jsource of sorrow will be dry forever This is one of the reasons why I hav . :written to you, notwithstanding tha It has been enjoined upon me not ti do so. As you. in your great kind ness and consideration for my feel Jngs, would have hidden from me th xeal cause of your ruin, so it wa tjudged by those who knew of my ill ibehavior under your roof, that it wa best to spare you that knowledge ?ut my hope is that, though you ma; still pity me (as we pity the worst o criminals), it will be henceforth iru possible for you to feel pain upoj . $ ?0???B?ei9C?se<se?a9CCB? oui i0OM?auDSflQ?9? to { tbr oui i i/m TTT I TVT\ I a I in\ IN o WAKi) jirjTi ? C traant Dr ' MOSEY M4MESS. l|?|*Jett m taavr do " ?|tj ES PAYN. ???*T T0X UMMonicm * f* | \ ly. laeaMioniniaiicDsaf _ we an my account. I cannot ask you to for- wj] get me, because every hour must 1 bring to you some bitter reminder ]00 of the wrong I have done you; but tra t think Of me as dead, as having died tu years ago, when your Robert was my oni a playfellow. Alas! what evil may I not have done to him also?sundered g him, perhaps, from his promised 5 bride; destroyed his prospects! It is ^ei a terrible to think that not only here > ~ at home am I justly condemned and bu j despised, but that across the ocean, a f thousands of miles away, my name s must needs be held in abhorrence. 0jj( Oh, if I could be once again as I was up when Robert lert you: mere is 0f ? nothing, alas! the same with me now; th< j even my love for you, though It will y0, . cease but with my latest breath, is * something different. I feel unworthy < j to entertain it. It seems blasphemy toe . to take your name within my lips j0E 3 even in my prayers. wjj I "You will wonder perhaps when ^js * you have read the record of my life an that such a one as I should dare to sov pray. But then, dear guardian, there pr( is little Willie; when I sit by her 3 bedside with her thin, sixiall hand in jne mine, I still seem to have some link seg ^ with Heaven. It is scarcely credible, r considering her tender years, but for there is nothing her mother can teach j s * which my little darling cannot under- SUI l stand. I say it is scarcely credible, ma f but she has been made aware that for she has been the pretext for her god- ne( ~ father's ruin. She cling's to her fra- bUi [ gile life, and believes that she will yoi live to put things right. She has , questioned me a hundred times, and tor r 'when I come of age,' she says (which, , she will never live to do, and if she ^ did, it would be too late), 'I will pay <?ai [ all their money back to godpapa and Aunt Maria.' When Dr. Netfton came to see her, her chief anxiety was to mu ' learn whether she would live to be wjj twenty-one. I suppose the good doc- tap tor thought the dear child's mind was wandering, but it was as bright'and rec clear as it is pure. We have no se- C]jr crets from one another, Willie and I. me I have told you one of the reasons j ' for my writing to you, but the chief tjjj, ' is after all a selfish one?to bespeak, wa, ' should .anything happen to me, your j ( sympathies for my innocent child. I know you will never visit upon her paj even in your thoughts the sins of her gai( 'r parent, but I beseech you to try to as love her for her own sake; she Is as worthy of your love as her mother ma has proved herself unworthy. What Qri higher eulogium, alas! can I paBS upon her? Henny will take care of her, I know, if permitted to do so. But he ' Ann oloot wVin ^ L11C law tucic 10 UV/ VUW) UiUU. ff **v not : has better cause to know it than eas , yourself?is hard and cruel. Dear j ^ ' guardian, I would rather -see "Willie so dead at my feet than trust her to the yoi hands in which the law would place tim her. I will say no more upon this ; matter, for 'that way madness lies,' j " only if anything should happen which should sink me still lower in your disesteem, do not judge me too hast' ily. I am in such straits as you cani . mo not guess. "You will show to Aunt Marta an i sen what I have written; I do not ask you \ to plead with her for me. I trust to ,r' ' that tender heart of hers, whose trust I have so shamefully abused, for ? ' charity and pardon. \ "Your Loving and Penitent Ward."..^.' I ??? It. .. 1 CHAPTER XX. i an ( The Last Interview. ? For -weeks, of late, Adair had been foo . scarcely ever at home. He break- to . fasted early by himself, and left the ver i house only to return to it after its in- anc ; mates had retired to rest. Sometimes apt . he sent a telegram from his office: wit i "Shall bring a friend this evening . who will dine alone with me." Upon ; the first occasion Sophy had under- r stood this to mean th^it, though her ' i husband did not wish to see her at "rc r table, he meant her to welcome their ? ; guest in the drawing room. An un- sci( ? pleasant task enough, but one which, ^ [ however, she did not shrink from; . ? not from any notion of pleasing her ^ ? husband?for such an illusion had jn - long vanished?nor from any sense Ex] j of duty, nor even from fear of him, o{, r but from a mere mechanical impulse e(j t on which she now always acted ex- a^j , cept in matters which concerned her a]n t child. of 5 One morning, instead of leaving an( home as usual, directly he had swal- tin: - lowed his early meal, Adair sent for 0j a Sophy to the brealKast room. She e had not seen him for some days, and I even to her eyes (In which there was ^ - no wifely interest) the change in?him fro - was very remarkable. His face was v..-. 4-u : i i, ? ~ A r tuiiiiici duu uiuic iiaggaiu iuan ouc ?q - had ever seen it; it looked pale and a^( anxious, but with a certain deter- ser f mined ferocity about it like that of ] ! some hunted wolf that listens for the wj? t cry of the bounds. He had a tele- stu e gram in his hand which he had just < t received, and which he was turning - and twisting nervously. He glanced q0 y up at her white, steadfast face as she - entered the room, and then walked - to the window, keeping his back to t her. ' r "How is the child?" he said, in ^ hoarse, quick tones. ^ia i "Better; I trust certainly better, e though she gains strength very slowr ly." 1ui h "That's well," he said, with an un- an( o mistakable sigh of relief; "we must tn u leave home to-day." tio p "Leave home! You have surely not *or e the doctor's sanction for that?" "I have," he answered, positively; e "and if I had not, still we must leave t home. Please to give me your best o attention, madam, instead of asking wh - questions or making objections, soc - Something has gone wrong in the du' e city; it is useless to attempt to ex- lec s plain it?women know nothing of cui - such things?but it has become neces- do ~ ci r>\' for mo tn en ahrAQfl until ?1 b oai J 1VI vv {JV WU* VMU UUV11 ; thing has blown over. You need not y fear for the child, for she will travel " ' f with the utmost comfort. Here is Coj - some money." He thrust his hand lun 2 into his breast pocket, and pulling' doc . . V. ; ' --vik V < . V.; i t a green ffeaf of bank notes, pw one of them toward her with* t looking at it. "You may take an alid carriage for her, if you please, t you will go by the 2 o'clock train Gravesend, and wait at the Green agon Hotel for my arrival. Jeane will, of course, accompany you. you understand?" She did not reply, and he wheeled ind and confronted her impatientHis brow was knit, his features re working convulsively; he looked dous, yet furious, like a gambler o is watching his last stroke. John Adair had never been good iking, but it was curious how every ,ce of youth and culture had by s time gone out of him, leaving ly the desperado. "Do you understand me, madam?" repeated. " ?V*A firmlV '' T 11 Tl A Co, oiio auoiTuw wi tin,- , ? rstand you very well." There was no satire in her tone, t the simple truth she spoke had ar worse sting than any satire. "Then you know that I will be syed. You and Jeannette can pack all that is necessary In a couple hours, I suppose. In order that ire shall be no excuse, however, j shall have four." "It shall be as you please." This submission was too prompt, > easy, and it excited his suspicis; his mind was like a sentinel o has outstayed his watch and lost nerve. Every sound suggested alarm, and even the absence of md. He.thought that she was only >mising to obey him to gain time. "Mind you," he said, in a menac; voice, "I shall be here myself to ! that all is ready. In the mean le, I will order tne invalid carriage the two o'clock train. Though hall not accompany you, I shall be e to be at the Green Dragon. You ,y not see me, perhaps, to-night, I shall arrive late by water. You jd say nothing of that to anybody, L I wish to repose confidence in l." Across Sophy's face flitted the disted shadow of a smile. He noticed md frowned heavily. 'We are man and wife," he said, id must sink or swim together, ings have gone badly here, but ;y will go better elsewhere. We st roost elsewhere, but our nest 1 be feathered for us," and he ped his breast pocket exultingly. rhere we are going the child will over more quickly. It is the very nate which the doctor recomnds." j ' ;f he expected her to ask where 5 salubrious spot was situated, he i mistaken. Jer manner was anything but in'erent. It was plain that she was rmg attention to every worn ne 3, but her face was cold and stiff a stone. 'Have you any further comnds?" she inquired. Patient selda could have said no more, her tone jarred on his eaf. 'You speak like an automaton," answered, angrily. * "No, I have hing more to say; it %will be the ier to remember. At one o'clock rlll be here with a large carriage, that the child can lie at length. 1 will be sure to be ready by that e?" t 'I shall be ready." le went out without another word. Living on Air. i very distinct advantage about toring is that it does not give one appetite. ' Most open-air exercise ds one home as hungry as a huntand if one eats largeTy in these fs of strict regime- and restricted t, all sorts of terrible things are e to happen?at least are promI by the doctor. It is pointed out a daily contemporary uuhl wuho the good; effects Of ttifrkin'g up appetite are pirodticed by a- long ve In a motor, yet 'tha'atnpujQt of d required to satisfy what .seems be-one's- huge hunger is actually y small. The air. itself feeds one, 1 air neither upsets one's digestive >aratus nor does it supply one h adipose tissue.?London World. :>rj*? * t i Qnarternary Bears. The excavations for the underiund railways of Paris %has yielded goodly array of additions to mch archaeology, historic and sntlfic. Within the past few days i workmen came upon a mass of les, evidently once forming the ileton \)t some huge creature, and an excellent state of preservation, perts from the National Museum Natural History carefully collectall the fragments, and have been e to reconstruct from them the lost complete skeleton of the bear i + V? rv rl ?ronf me llUitlLtJIlirtly cyucu, ma uutvi, :estor of the bear of our own ie, but of at least twice the stature the brown bears of to-day. His New Study. Mr. Jecklyns had just received m his youngest son, who was in first year at college, a telegram this effect: "Dear Father: I am nit to take up a new study. Please id me $25 to pay for the outfit." He answered it at once in this >e: 'Dear John: What is tb$ dy?" Tn thp miprv rame this reioindpr; ear Father: It is gol?."?Youth's mpanion. Salmon Still Premier Fish. Salmon continues to be the preer fish industry of Eritish Colum.. In 1905 the output was 1,167,D cases, valued at $5,750,000. er 11,000,000 salmon were retred to fill .the 50,000,000 cans, i it is estimated that an equal disbution among the entire populan would have supplied 200 cans every man, woman and child in i province. *j> Slaves of Circnmstancc. We twentieth-century hustlers, ether we haDnen to be slaves of :ial, or professional, or business ty, suffer individually and coltively from the fact that the cirnstanCes of the time compel us to too much and to think too little. London World. rhere are no paupers in the Gold ast Colony, and there is neither latic asylum, reformatory, n:>r i jrhouss. ' \ v * .,* ? .V . > BITS E NEWS s WASHINGTON. ?' Louis H. Van Riper testified in the "cotton leak" trial in regard to arrangements made with E. S. Holmes for furnishing advance information of crop reports. The State Department summoned to Washington several diplomats from Central American posts with the idea of learning more about the political situation in those countries. The Interstate Commerce Commis- &< sion will investigate a report that cf the railroads have agreed to discrim- 0j inate against the immigrants travel- .. ing westward. The situation at Honduras is being handled at the i>tate Department, P' where results are looked for. cl Secretary of the Navy Metcalf en- Ic tertained at dinner 'complimentary to Le Captain Oscar Dahl, commander of tr the Norwegian warship Harald Haarlagre. * . j. < The American Railway Company w has filed suit to recover land set ^ aside by the President's proclamation Q( for the use of the Army and Navy. H b; OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. .*>3 ' ?* * ? ? * -c TJinn U VV. A. Jones, JSISHUJJ Ul Jruuu awwv, ^ has granted authority to the Spanish 9j colony, represented by Casion Espanol, to transfer the remains of g. Ponce de Leon, explorer and first ' Governor of Porto Rico, from the ^ San Jose church to the cathedral. ^ The postoffice at the naval station ^ at Guantanamo, Cuba, has been of- p] flcially named Bagley, after Ensign tl Bagley, who was killed in the Span- 0j ish-American War. C Filipino newspapers at Manila ars tl discussing the imminence of a Jap- 11 anese war. lr Emilio. Aguinaldo, the Filipino n' military chieftain, is no longer un- ^ der surveillance. He is running a shipyard near Manila. He employs w 150 men and is getting rich. He is only thirty-eight years old. M Orders have been received at Hon- ^ Olulu from the Quartermaster-Gen- ^ eral's office, at Washington, to double ^ the capacity of the Army post. a C( DOMESTIC. d Herman Schaus discovered what he w regards as a genuine Murillo painting c< in an old Pueblo mission in New ei Mexico. p It was announced that the State Board of Railroad Commissioners of Kansas had decided practically to . issue an order putting a flat tWo-cent passenger fare into effect. Colonel Henry Harrison Hale, a b prominent Confederate veteran, a tl great-grandson of President William h Henry Harrison and a second cousin Q of President Benjamin Harrison, died w at Aiken, S. C., aged fifty-nine years, ti Colonel Samuel P. Colt, at Provi- L dence, withdrew from the Rhode a Island Senatorship contest. a Senator Foraker, In a speech at J* Wilberforce, Ohio, said that the dis- " missed negro soldiers were victims of an unprecedented injustice. p The International Chiefs of Police mfioHno1 fit "Mnr f fllIf plppf- I ed as president Richard Sylvester, of ^ Washington, D. C. C( 111 health and a nervous breakdown p are ascribed as the causes for the suicide of N. D. Cobin, one of the wealthiest residents of Macon, Ga. L. P. Loree, president of tho Dela- b ware and Hudson Railroad Company, before Rutgers College graduates expressed his opinion that the republican form of government was slowly k giving way to bureaucracy. Because reflections had been cast J upon her family, Miss Deaton, armed with a pistol and buggy whip, cow- .a hided Dr. J. L. Melvin on the streets J at Ovett, Miss. . 2 Rdscoe Scofield Burton, of Peoria, *m a em4-%n A+ ?+ *V? a TTntwnraltv 1 nt1 _ 111.9 U CIUUCUI ai- I.UO wuiTVi w.wj g Michigan, was accidentally drowned e while bathing in Bass Lake. ft Mrs. John Herter, her sister, Mrs. n Myer, and the latter's three children a were drowned at Lake Sammamish, ii Washington. e< William McMillen, a prisoner, f jumped from a train at Barberton, J] Ohio, and had one leg cut off by the 11 car wh?2ls. 8 John Henry KJ.rby signed a bond ? at Austin, Texas, for ?3,500,000 in t. behalf of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, now in the hands of a receiver, jj w FOREIGN. ? The King of Siam arrived at London from Paris on a visit to King Edward and Queen Alexandra. PlflmnnrtOOii TtTOCJ f"0 I. I CUllCi uicuicuv<gau Utto IV* v^v* vv i _ explain his action in the use of force I L to restrain the winegrowers. The bodies of Calvo and Vico, two famous Spanish actors, were taken ^ to Madrid and burled in the pantheon e of illustrious men. Many theatrical t celebrities attended the ceremonies. d Battersea Rise House, London, n which was the home of William Wil- 1 berforce, the great abolitionist, has b been sold for $255,000. The Kiel regatta opened in stormy ? weather; the Kaiser reviewed nearly 1 all the warships of the German navy; about a hundred yachts were '' anchored in the bay. ? General Porter, at the second ses- ^ sion of the peace conference at The n Hague, announced that the United j States reserved the right to introduce the questions of limitation of armament and the Drago Doctrine. The German Foreign Office au- n thorized a statement that Baron 0 Speck von Sternburg would not be re- ^ called and that his health gave no t occasion for concern. Mexican authorities suppressed a manifesto, issued by Central Americans, accusing Guatemalan officials of r the murder of General Earillas. t Five men were killed in an auto- - q mobile accident about 100 miles from a Naples, one of the victims being p Prince Pescara, of the Italian nobility, and related to the Spanish royal house. Sir Robert Eond, Premier of Newfoundland, has presented a sugges- 0 tion to the British Government to submit the fisheries question to The 11 Hague tribunal. 5 An outbreak against taxation is reported at Liaoyang, China, where a demonstration was made by 30,000 persons. A battalion of sappers mutinied at I: Kieff, Russia, but other troops sup- r pressed the outbreak; the Province of Vologda has been declared in a ^ minor state of siege; a convention of a Social Democrats was broken up by the police and the delegates went to b Finland to hold their sessions. _ J. W. Johnson, the American plantation manager, from New York, fell from-a tree, said to be the largest in the world, and was lulled at Oaxaca, Mfix'fco v " ' . \ v* CORES HOUSE OF LOBDSj' " ! r ampbell-Bannerman Offers Res- j olution Curtailing Its Powers, i ' ; j Is d Effete Government Has Lost the | Confidence of the People Prom I Unpopular Measures. London.?Premier Campbell-Ban- u ?rman moved his resolution advo-' ? iting the curtailment of the power t, ! the House of Lords before the a illest House of the session. The ? tileries also were crowded, those ^esent in that part of the House in- b udlng many peers who were anxious d i observe the beginning of the at- ^ impt to reduce their power to con- ? ol legislation. ; i( The resolution Was as follows: s "That in order to give effect to the ill of the people as expressed by J3 lelr elected representatives, it is : scessary that the power of the other : ouse to alter or reject bills passed t; y th{s Hotfse should be s6 restricted _ f law. OB to secure that within the mlts of a single Parliament'the final 0 ecision of the House of Commons h lall prevail." y Replying to a question, the Premier 0 ild it was not proposed that the e solution dealing with the House of v ords should be moved In the upper a [ouse after its discussion in the a ouse of Commons had been com- f leted. He emphasized the fact that ^ le resolution embodied the principle I j f the predominance of the House of j B ommons, and said that in adopting i j, lis course they were following cer- ]( tin historic precedents. The reso- c ition itself, even if carried, would s, ot have the effect of law or procure jj le desired results. A bill would ^ a necessary, and the Government q ould exercise its discretion as to h hen it should be introduced. His [ajesty's Ministers now-only desired ti ) test the opinion of the House and ii take sure that they had the House of u ommons behind them. They held a le view that the House of Commons p lone was authorized to express the n juntry's sentiments. The Premier t! eclared that the only course open o as to recognize ungrudgingly the f institutional authority which resid- f; i In the House of Commons. e Amid loud Ministerial cheers the ti remier protested that if this author- a y should be usurped by a non-elect- r 3 House it followed that represen- p itive institutions must take! second- a ry place. The Government, he li 3ded, proposed that provision should e e made for conferences between t le House of Commons and the b [ouse of Lords when differences b rose over a bill. If no agreement t rere reached the bill should be rein- e roduced and sent to the House of ords with a declaration that, should s second conference fail to result In e n agreement, the House of Com- a ions would pass the bill over the I eads of the Lords. L s continuing, tne premier saia me ? resent Government believed that the eduction of the period of existence f a Parliament to five years would llectively prevent "an effete Governlent which had lost the country's anfldence from forcing through unopular and improper measures." LIVE WIRES KILL FOUR. oiler They Were Moving Touched Strands and Was Charged! New York City.?Four men were illed and several injured at the 'roctor & Gamble soap works at Western avenue and Richmond terace, Mariners' Harbor, Staten Islnd, when a live electric wire came 1 contact with a boiler that was eing moved out of the works on a at car. A donkey boiler and a hoisting enine wfifch have been used were loadd on a flat car to be sent to the [illiken Iron Works over the Baltilore and Ohio tracks. A number of len were pushing the flat car out lto Western avenue. The boiler is eventeen feet high, and when the ar rolled" into the street it was golg at a good rate of speed with he men pushing behind. The smoketack struck the wires. The current assed down the boiler and caught he men, throwing them more than wenty feet., William Corey and his son, Wiliam, Jr., were killed instantly, as rere two Italiaus. Patrick Bradley, f West Brighton, and several Italins were injured. WOMEN PREFER PRISON. /ynchers in Illinois Demand Punishment of "Bad Man." St. Louis, Mo.-rFive mothers from Lssumption, 111., and one girl of sevnteen are in jail at Taylorville, six ? tonm tlialr hnmofi flnd JIT"ft 11111CO Ituiu biivi* ? etermlned to stay there until the aorality of their town Is vindicated, 'hey have sent this message to their .usbands and relatives: "Do not come to us; do not try to :et bond for us until you have driven hat bad man away." The "bad man" is Alfred Bourand, whom the six women, led by .is alleged wife, Eugenie, attempted o lynch at Assumption because they elieved he was a bigamist. Tbey nust remain in jail a year if they reuse to accept bond. j Why Cows Should Jbte Tested. The Department of Agriculture anounced that a milch cow often gives ut 37,000,000 tuberculosis .germs a ay and said all cows should be 6 ested with tuberculin. ( Orchard Trial Adjourned. Harry Orchard was taken from ioise to Caldwell, Idaho, where his r rial for the actual murder of former * lovernor Steunenberg was formally ? djourned until after the trials of ! Iaywood, Moyer and Pettibone. P a BcIIoonist's Body Found. 11 The body of Lieutenant Caulfield, ? no of the officers who made a baloon ascension at Aldershot, Eng- ( and, on May 2S, was found in the , ca on weyiuuuiu. ^ i: The World of Sport. ? The New York City government a 3 paying $4,000,000 a year for tele V,nic uuao uma. Joe Walcott, the colored welterweight, ha~ come out of retirement nd agreed to fight. ? In a special trial W. T. Coholan ^ roke Yale's 440-yard record. He 2 an the distance in 0.49 1-5. ? The work of the Pennsylvania v rews at Poughkeepsie was a sur- t rise to the coaches of the other a rews. ^ G 'HE SUNDAY SCHOOL. ? / VTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR JULY 21 BY THE REV. I. W. HENDERSON. - ' ' : \ abject: The Ten Commandments, Duties Toward Men, Ex. 20:1217?Golden Text: Lev. 19:18? Memory Verses, 12-17. The commandments that impress pon us our duties toward humanity re the corollaries 9f the commandlents that tell us7of our obligations oward God. We are ordered to have lasting love and reverence for God ot only because it is a good thing to jve God for His own sake, but also ecause it is necessary that we shall e ready to learn from Him how He eslres His children to be treated, 'his lesson deals with out relationhips to m3n, individually and colectively, in the light of our alleiance to God. The fifth command, which enjoins roper respect to our earthly parents, i the basis upon which all social life 3 reared. The sense of authority'in he home and of obedience to parenal control supplies the ground ppon rhich all sane and eound civil govrnments i-ests. It rests, to be sure, n other principles. But it rests ,ard on this. And the willingness pon the part jof the child to yield bedience to the authority of the parnt implies that the parent Bhall be worthy of recognition ?nd that the uthority of the parent shall be wise nd sensible and intelligent, a control ashioned after the sovereignty which rod exercises in the world and over umanity. An obedient child preupposes a parent who Is worthy to e obeyed. And many tim?s parents Dse sight of this utterly A child annot be expected to obey an unreaonable parent. We are under no obieation to have respect for "parents rho Have no respect for themselves, rod does not call upon a child to ave love for a parent, In filial fash)n, who renders no meed of love to be child that parent has brought ato this world. A child Is not called pon to stifle its own individuality nd conform itself to the parental attern In every minute detail of its [fe. And yet some people seem to hink that their children are not honring them simply because they reuse to be run into a prearranged amily mold. Honoring one's parnts does not consist in. allowing hem to order one to do wrong, or in Uowing them to force one to do uneasonable things. Honor to one's arents consists in giving them due nd careful obedience along evary Ine that properly belongs to a parnt's rights. And most of all it enails upon the part of the parent that ie or she. as the case may be, shall e worthy of honor and wise and lnelligent in the matter of commandaent and control. * ' Thou Bhalt not kill" enjoins the ixth commandment. And you must tot only not kill your brother, but ,lso you must not take your own life, t further means that the nations hall cekse international murder and hat civil government shall cease to zecute human beings, no matter rhat their crimes may have been. It aeans also that it is murder to sell ;dulterated medicine, to sell whisky ir any other poison, to work men aid women and children to death, or o be a party to any form of murder, ie it long or short in its action,. be it eflned or vicious. The seventh commandment is esteclally in need of enforcement. No >ne who is at all solicitous about the welfare of this country can contemilate the marital infelicities that are o widespread and numerous in America without a feeling of proound fear for the harvest that soonsr or later we shall reap as a nation sxcept we are able to put a stop to he criminality that is rampant in our nidst. Humanity cannot long trifle pith the highest and holiest relations (f human life without reaping the vhirlwind. The divorce record of America is America's disgrace. Her ecord of remarriages of men and vomen who, in the eyes of God and a lecent society, are not entitled to renarriage is America's shame. And hese twin evils are a menace to the lealth and perpetuity of the nation. Some very eminent gentlemen? iome of whom rent pews in highoned churches and who are among he officiary of the organized church if Jesus Christ ? are to-day under he condemnation of the eighth comnandment. For stealing may he va lously committed. It is not necesiary to become a common pickpocket n order to be a common thief. It is lot necessary to lay one's self ope" o conviction under the provisions < he penal code In order to be a robbe. >f the vilest type, me worst cnmiuils In this land to-day are the ones vho are out of Jail. ' The ninth word of God to Mosej ind Israel hits tbe liars. And th< iars are among the meanest peopl* n the world and among those who ire denied entrance into the new Terusalem of God. The liar is one oj he hardest problems with which hunanity is called upon to deal. Yoi nay count on an honest man, but q iar is an unknown quantity. And ying is a habit. Rather I should :ay it tends to become a habit. One ie invites another. And the worsl >f the He is that sooner or later it 80 lestroys the integrity of the liar that je doesn't know what he honestly :hinks or what the truth really is :omposed of. The people who are indicated by he tenth commandment are among he world's unfortunates very often, They merit our pity. Jealouay Is an inmitigated curae to the man who Jails Into its grasp. God help the >eople who are bitten with the venom ;ting of jealousy. They are indeed :ursed. Big Meal Burst Stomach. Carl Schuster, a young German, cached Indianapolis, Ind., from Janton, O., and he brought with him uch a ravenous appetite that he iterally ate himself to death. Afer a tremendous meal, he comilained of intense pains in his stom,ch and a physician was hastily sumaoned, but in a few moments he Jed. An autopsy on the theory hat Schuster might have eaten omething poisoned, was held by the Coroner, but, instead, he found a ong rupture of the stomach, which iad caused death. The organ was a a perfectly healthy condition, and he Coroner found that the deceased ,ad eaten so heartily that his stomch had burst. Germany Lenses Kentucky Farm. The farm of William Fields, near ,exington, Ky., containing 140 acres, ias been leased with option to purhase in one year by Dr. Arnold 'rank, representating the German fovernment, and horses bought in arious parts of the country will be rained and thoroughly equipped for ItrtPnrQ Kfll n Cf QllfnnO/l I ill J OC1 V Ivv UWWig I.VIUO termany. .'. ' ..v . ' i. ..v^.X- .:VV. llAj&tok tor try dally wrge ,.i. \\'V?ffihwno fhc pfea\ant fields'(-/W, r!?*vVt Hojy Writ f rnjghr de^papvif, ^f * $ V. ?5r?I GREATHEART'S HEAVEN. A*':, 8aid Sir Greattfe&rt to hie angel, "lean djg, v and cleave and hew, ? Build me navies, cities, kingdoms, as I , will j. Yon dominion lost in Eden now is wdl- v nigh won anew, - s. ^ And I hold the earth and sea my vassal* 'WM "Yet thou whisp'rest me of Heaven, with ' its music and its peace? What have these to do with men it-, clanging noon? Let the psalms be for the weary, for thebeaten, battles cease, But for me thy summons cometh oversoon. ' "With my works I praise my Maker, ship* ; and bridges are my sorg, ,^ And for harps, a thousand thousand ai* gines beat, As I hang mine iron highways in the- ) clouds the cliffs alopg, - ' Or let in on bison-ranges seas of wheat. , V "Aye, and give me but to-morrow, and I'll shout back from the pole, , ? One to-morrow, and I'll flaunt me tuga> in air Till the eagle lags below me, and the thunder-wheel6 that roll j Now but ruin, through the skies xpjr > ships shall bear. , $ f.'x:-. "But what's left to venture yonder, in that _ j u j x:-. v. > nimsncu worm iuiu imc, . What's to win that still may challenge*, courage stern? ^ [rfL'r. Do they take their manhood with then; who this leap-life resign? Heaven? Yes; but not at noon thither turn." And the angel said: "At bedtime pleads* | the child among his blocks, v: - JiS 'Wait a bit. I build a castle tall and ) strong!' Thou bridge-builder, whom the spidorvtow V his flying cables mocks, Think not toy Heaven is only rest on<f . song. /;:-m j / -V' f.-"It is writ God's servant* serve , Hixp,..' there as here. The Morning Stat* Waits a ruler who shall be of Adam'ft kind, ' Ana when lmmanuei naetn iortn zo.^pr, mageddon's war, ^ Mightier powers than earth can miurter^ j march behind. "Fear not thou. If doing please tl^ee, ttiexqr*. are deeds beyond the sun, High adventures that shall long orithtst.. his light, And this truth shall settle in thee,, ere thjr Heaven is well begun, That up there, and here, and always^ right is might." -William Hervey Woodf, in Youth's, Com* , panion. Smashes the Idols. "Our life and service will be enriched beyond telling by enthronlngChrlst. This, of course, involves tho ' breaking of all our idols, for He will ' not share His throne with any. "When Mahmoud, the conqnerer tnrtln had tnkpn the ritv of Giiiarat he proceeded, as was his custom, to destroy the idols. There was one* fifteen feet high which its priests and devotees begged him to sparei; He-' 1 was deaf to their entreaties and sell- I ing a hammer he struck It one blow* | when to bis amazement, from the- j shattered image theife rained down j at his feet a shower of gems, pearte and diamonds?treasure of fabtuotur .J value, which had been hidden within | it. Had he spared the idol he would* j have lost all the wealth. Let us not. : spare our idols. It is to our interest , to demolish them. If we shatter them there will rain about our hearts thovatv treasures of Heaven, tho srtft? r and graces of the Holy Spiiit; but IT. we spare our idol we will miss riches* unsearchable. 1 ' "The consecrated life is a Christ-centered life, the only true centetSad. life; every other life Is eccentric? yet how often do we hear worldly . people criticising some devoted spirit- ' filling man or woman as 'so eccentric,' simply because of their loyalty to Christ their King, when all the: while it is these critics that are 'ec^ centric'?off the true centre. "?Ret; I John MacNeil. Complete Insulation. . ' The electrician cannot charge yetir body with electricity while a singlethread connects you with the ground and breaks the completeness of your insulation. The Lord Jesus cant^ot fniiv save vou while there Is one point of controversy between/you and Him. Let Him have that one last thing, the last barrier and film to a. life of blessedness, and glory will come, filling your soul.?Rev. F. B. Meyer. God's Recompense. ' *' uo right and God's recompense to you will be the power of doing more right. Give, and God's reward to ' you will be the spirit of giving more, ' a blessed spirit, for it is the spirit of God Himself, whose life . is the blessedness of giving. Love and (tod will pay you with the capacity of more love; for love is Heaven, love is God within you.?F. W. Robert son. Growth Through Resistance. We cannot explain fully the use of temptation and trial. But we do know this, that the strongest and sweetest Christian characters have come to be what they are through great tribulations. The oak tree, when storm comes, only clings the tighter to the earth?sends its roots down deeper and lifts up itself to a larger growth. The storms did not make the tree do this, but the tree did it to resist the storms. Obedience to the Uttermost. Believe in God; trust God by obedience to the uttermost; trust Him for, a way when there is no way, for light ToVton tViQra 4a nr> Htrht fnr 1fiV when n?VU VUWi v AO MV m ? W there is only sorrow, for life when you are in the midst of death, then you will find at last that faith is not only righteousness, but life and joy and peace.?T. T. Munger. Solace of Prayer, Trouble and perplexity drive us to prayer, and prayerwlriveth away trouble and perplexity.?Melancthon. Population of Egypt. Census returns show that the total population of Egypt, exclusive of nomad Bedouins, is 11,206,359, of whom 6,618,684 are maies auu 5,587,675 females. There is an increase of nearly 1,500,000 since 1897. It Rained Two Tons of Fish. This weird story comes from Independence. Mo.: "About two tonB of flsh fell during a heavy storm here. Ti>ey clogged the sewer catchbasins. flooding the sidewalks." t