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CHAPTER XXII. IS
Continued.
'After a long drive they drew up at
E house in a very modest terrace.
,where Jeannette's cousin?homely,
matronly woman, gave them a hearty
welcome. Some tea and refreshments
were put before them, of which Sophy
could hardly be persuaded to partake,
bo afraid was she of pursuit and capture.
In twenty minutes they were
again on their way, this time in bne
of these flies peculiar to the suburbs
and country towns. Their way lay
now clear of the streets, among villas
and market gardens. At la6t they
stopped at a pretty cottage, with bay
windows looking over a well-kept
lawn bordered by flower-beds, already
redolent of the spring. Little Willie
was enchanted with their color and
perfume.
"Dear mamma. I should like to
Jive here all my life," she whispered
eoftly.
"You shall live here as long as you
like, you dear." said Jeannette.
To Sophy, as to the child, though
for a different reason, the prospect
seemed too alluring to be realized.
"'It looks most sweet and quiet," she
whispered. "But shall we .be safe,
Jeannette?"
"Do you see that building yonder,
Miss Sophy, with the ivy round it?
It is only a stone's throw, and we
shall be secure under its shadow."
Even the churches were less ecclesiastical
looking than artistic. "Is it
the church?" inquired Sophy, not
.without some doubt in her mind of
the security afforded by the proximity
of the sacred edifice against the
machinations of her husband.
"The church! Lor' bless you, no,
miss. It's better nor that; it's the
police station."
A neat cheerful woman having the
appearance of a housekeeper received
them, and showed them over the cottage,
which was very prettily furnished;
the nursery arrangements
were exceptionally pleasant .and appropriate.
When tired little Willie
had been put to bed and was lying
f asleep and was watched by the two
fond women, Jeannette expressed a
hope that her mistress had .found |
things to her liking.
"I dare not say what I think," said
Sophy. "I feel as though I was looking
upon something far too restful
and beautiful to last?like sunset in
the skies. To whom am I indebted
(for this charming haven? in T^hich,
however, it is out of the question,
Jeannette, that we can remain. You
don't understand that in leaving Mr.
'Adair I have deprived myself of the
means of livelihood?"
"I am not so sure of that. Miss
Sophy; at least, those who know a
great deal more about such matters
than me are not so sure. But, however
that may be, don't you fret yourself
abopt the cost of things. Money
.will be provided?at all events for
some time to come?by one whose
greatest pleasure will be to ;.pend it
upon you.'
Sophy's face flushed to her forehead.
It had suddenly struck her
that Mr. Mavors was her unknown
benefactor, and then the shame of1
having entertained such an unjustifiable
suspicion overwhelmed her. It
was probable, indeed, that the tator
had forgotten all about her, or if he
had thought of inquiring, had heard,
perhaps, not altogether without com*
placency, that the man she had preferred
to him had turned out not altogether
the best of husbands.
"If I tell you who it is. Miss
Sophy, I shall be doing the very
1 thing the person in question?Mrs.
Johnson, as I have called her?wishes
me not to do."
"I am very much obliged to my
unknown friend, whoever she is,
Jeannette," returned sopny, resoiuteJy;
"but I cannot consent to be un'der
obligations to a stranger, or,
what is -worse, to some one who may
be returning to me good for evil."
Her mind had reverted to Aunt
Maria. It is highly improbable, of
course, that that lady should possess
the means for any such act of generosity;
but, at all events, as Sophy
,was well convinced, the will would
not be wanting to her; when we cannot
find what we search for elsewhere,
we look for it in unlikely
places.
"Well, Miss Sophy, I will do your
bidding, if you will, on your part,
listen with patience to something 1
have sot to say about myself, and
when you have heard it try your
best to forgive me."
"I have nothing, alas, to forgive \
any one, my poor Jeannette; throughout
my life things have been quite
the other way."
"You have done some foolish
things, no doubt, Miss Sophy, returned
Jeannette, naively; "and
grievously have you suffered for
them. Your marriage with Mr.
Perry was, of course, the beginning
oil- hut still vnnr misfortunes
might have ended there but for my
meddling. But for me you might
have made a clean breast of it to the
canon, and at least prevented matters
from going from bad to worse."
"No. Jeannette, no," put in her
mistress, mournfully; "I had not the
courage of it; anything seemed easier
to me than to tell the truth."
s "You were hesitating about it, Miss
Sophy, at all events, and I threw all ;
the weight I had with you into the
wrong scale. I did not know it was
the wrong one, but I ought to have
done, had not my eyes been blinded
by the glitter of gold. Miss Sophy, I
was bribed by Mr. Adair to help
him."
"Bribed! Oh, Jeannette!"
"Hush! hush! you must not kneel
to me," interrupted Sophy, greatly
agitated. 'If I have anything to forgive
you, of course, it is forgiven."
"I thank you for that blessed
word, Miss Sophy," cried the sobbing
giri. "I draw my breath for the
drst time freely for the last five
years. While life is in me, I will do
com cob o am e as as o tm
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MONEY HiDKESS. . J 8^8^
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my best to repair the misery T have
brought upon you; I "will work for
you and little Willie as no woman
ever worked before."
"You dear, faithful creature," said
Sophy, tenderly. "At present our
fortune is in the clouds, through
which, however, let us hope that
some ray of sunshine may presently!
find its way. But you have not yet
told me what you promised; how is
it we are lodged in this pretty place?
Who has made these arrangements
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IVl uui cuujiuh; ngtr uiu ?< ^
here with such ease and safety?
Who but Henny could have done it?" >
"Mrs. Irton could have done it,
Miss Sophy, no doubt," returned
Jeannette gently; "but it was so all
important, you see, that neither she
nor her husband should know anything
about your whereabouts when
Mr. Adair makes his inquiries of
them, as he is sure to do."
Sophy cast an involuntary glance
at her sleeping child and .shuddered.
"I see, of course, the absolute ne- .
cessity of that," she said; "but things
do not happen in this world according
to our necessities. "If Henny has
not been our guardian angel in this ;
matter, who can it have been? Who
is good Mrs. Johnson?"
"There is no guardian angelship
and no sort of goodness about her," 1
returned the waiting-maid, vehement- 1
ly. "All that you see here are the
mere proceeds of her wages of iniquity.
But such as she .is, she is j
I Jenny Perkins."
CHAPTER XXTI1.
The Confederates. _
When he once found "himself ]
abroad and out of the reach of im- ;
mediate danger, Irton had said of ]
John Adair that he would hold up <
his head and be himself again. Nor ?
did it require the air of the conti- i
nent to revive him. Miserable as ]
was his aspect as he slurik away j
from Eedford Row, he seemed, like i
Antaeus, to gather strength and con- (
fidence with every footfall. He had ]
been in a good many ugly holes, it <
was true; and, what was worse. Irton ]
was aware, it seemed, that he had y
been on the brink of one which, as i
compared with the rest, was at the l
bottomless pit itself. He had suf- i
fered a terrible penalty for having ]
been so near it, the thought of which t
Ko/i + ahie cni'rif hilt i
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on reconsideration, he now felt as- j
sured that there was no intention ?
on the lawyer's part to pursue the ^
matter to the bitter end. 1
This might arise, as Irton had said, 1
from an unwillingness to disgrace t
those belonging to him, or from the i
difficulty of establishing the charge; i
and if the latter the sooner he left
England, and the longer he kept ;
away .the less likely it was to be i
brought home to him. Who the wit- 1
ness of his attempted crime could
be, Adair could make no guess. Per- i
haps there had been no witness; \
though the suspicion against him
V?-o va honn ofvnncr l'nrloo^ f A 1
XiU y Uttil Obi VU^ 1UUVVU vv j
have induced the invention of such t
testimony. But it was evidently re- i
solved by his ehemies (as he termed
those whom he had wronged and (
ruined) that he should either fly the (
country or make acquaintance with 1
the dock of a criminal court; and j
there was no hesitation on his part 1
which to choose. He had already
been comtemplating flight on other t
grounds; and should he be arrested, 1
no matter on what charge, his seizure
would be the signal for half a dozen c
other prosecutions. He had long 1
been prescient of this evil day, which %
nothing but the success of the San
Sobrano scheme, which had come to e
the ground with a crash that could e
not be stifled, could have Staved off, e
and had made his arrangements ac- j
cordingly. c
As even a small income can be '
made to go a good way if we are r
deaf to the claims of others, and c
spend every penny of it upon ourselves,
so even among the ruins of j
failure there is money to be picked \
lip by the unscrupulous; and Adair, J t
as the lawyer had foreseen, had
feathered his nest pretty completely,
or, in other words, had laid his hands
upon everything that could be realised
and turned into portable prop- t
erty. Whenever he touched that (
breast pocket of his he experienced j
a pleasurable glow which with seme c
people is the substitute for all generous
emotions?the consciousness i
.of the possession of capital. For all i
that had come and gone, he still had
a complacent confidence in his own <
natural abilities. Backed by the experience
of the last five years? (
which, though acquired at great cost,
had nevertheless been paid for by .
other people's money?he felt him- 1
self capable of great commercial en- ;
terprises. These, however, would be j
of a different kind from those with
which he had hitherto been connected,
and which had failed (as he per- 1
suaded himself) by the pusillanimity
and want of enterprise of others. ]
His crwn hand and brain should for
the future direct them; and, in par- |
ticular, he would take care to sepa- ]
rate himself completely from these
coadjutors, or rather confederates, :
with whom perforce he had of late ;
consorted. He would put them to <
one more use, and then have done i
with them. 1
It was in company with one of
these?the man Dawson?that he <
*1* n c? of'Aiit t r\ Ihqva T7*n o ! ? fl f h ? f* I
very evening; and by him ail arrangements
had been made for that
purpose. Dawson was not only ]
aware that Sophy and the child were
going with Adair, but bad suggested .
their doing so. He knew all their j
circumstances, and had pointed out <
how important it was to Adair's lu- ]
; ture prospecis (in which Mr. Dawson
flattered himself he would have
some share) that he should keep his '
wife and his daughter (whom he <
playiuilv termed the goose and the 1
gosling with the golden eggs; under i
his own eye. <
"If you once leave your wife," "h?
naively said, "her own people will get
round her, and you will find at difficult
to reopen relations with her;"
and as her income was paid into her
own hands, this would be chviously
inconvenient.
There were certain circumstances
which rendered it injudicious for
Adair to be seen traveling in a railway
carriage in the dircetion of the
seacaost; while for Mr. Dawson such
a step would have been still more
hazardous. It had therefore been
settled that Mrs. Adair and the child
should journey to Gravesend alone,
while her husband and his confederate
were to drop down the Tiver at
night and join them in the -morning.
A boat manned by a crew whom they
could trust (i. e., who were well paid
for the job) was to await them at
midnight by the stairs at the bottom
of Miller street, where Dawson had
some place of business. The two
men, though united by the bond of
common interest, were far from being
on good terms; their natures
were antipathetic. Dawson was a
coarse and brutal ruffian, whose society
could not but revolt a man of
education, however morally degraded;
he enjoyed himself after his fashion,
which Adair never did, but he
was not a whit less suspicious and
cunning. It had been agreed that
they were to meet together at :a waterside
tavern in the East of London
that afternoon to make their final arrangements,
and thither now Adair
bent his steps.
Tbe rendezvous itself was characteristic
enough of one of the two
men; .a rickety erection with beetle
brows (like a villainous low forehead),
its wooden walls bulging on
the xiver and overhanging at low
tide mud and slime; the haunt ol
profligate and noisy sailors. Adair,
who though unscrupulous, was fastidious
in his way, surveyed the
place, which he had never entered
before, with a shudder of disgust
As he walked down the narrow lane
JL \y illtUL IV, lyiuicu IliC iciuiiuutivM
his heart -was full of bitterness. The
sld houses almost meeting over his
bead as they leaned forward in age
ind weakness, made a shadow above
Sim which, though there was no oth?r
point of likeness, heaven knows, J
suddenly reminded him of the time
walk at Trinity. Six years ago he
lad trodden it in cap and gown; a
nan of mark and promise, with a future
before him, and now he had belome
the companion of thieves. With
lot one pang of remorse, he felt an
jxcessive repugnance to the thing he
lad become; a pent-up fury raged
vithin him against circumstances,
'ate, whatever it was that had
)rought him to such a pass. It was
lot his own fault, of course; the
cnave out of luck is seldom aware
:hat he had chosen the very worst
ircfession in the world; he only
inows that he is "cursed unfortulate."
What most excited his wrath
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vas me raci mat nis uwu ucbu auu
?lood had deserted him. though they
lad, in fact, only escaped him. Next
0 them, he loathed the man to whom
t was necessary to disclose that huniliating
circumstance.
He found Dawson awaiting him In
1 low-windowed room looking on the
iver, smoking a pipe, and drinking
:ot brandy and water.
"Punctual, as usual, Master Jack," i
was his familiar address. "That's J
veil; sit down and have a glass."
"No; I have neither time nor taste
'or drinking. Matters are getting J
.00 hot for us, Dawson. For my
;art, I wish we were well off."
' It is always safer?which means
juick'er?to wait for night, when it
:omes to running. Besides, the men
:ave their orders, and could not be
;ot together all in a moment. What
:as happened to frighten you?"
"I have reason to believe that
here are people looking for me at
;ome."
"inrioiuii" cnirl thp other lavine
own his pipe and dropping his careess
manner. "I hope you have got
our women folk well away."
"They are not coming," said Adair,
ullenly; "they have fled the house,
ir.d I don't know where they have
;cne."
"Come, come, Mr. Adair!" ex- I
Maimed his companion, menacingly; |
'this will not "do. Miles Dawson is '
iot the man to be made a catspaw
"I tell you I Jcnow no more than
ou do where my wife has gone. I j
vish I did know. It's more my loss
ban yours, I suppose."
To be Continued.
History, on the Stump.
The story is told of an ardent poifician
who in making speeches for
?olonel Harris out in the short-grass
egion, struck a flowery period the
,:her night, and said:
"In the words of Daniel Webster,
,vho wrote the dictionary, 'Give me
ibertv or give me death!' "
One of his colleagues pulled at his
:oat and whispered:
' Daniel Webster did not write the
lictioaary; it v;as Noah."
"Noah, nothing," replied the
speaker; "Noah built the ark."?
Wiiliam Allen White, in Emporia Gazette.
The Collection Habit.
"Why are you here?" asked the
;indly visitor.
"For debt," replied the sad-eyed
prisoner. I
"For debt? Inhuman! Impossible!
And this the twentieth century!
I'll get you out."
"But this is a complicated case,"
rejoined the prisoner. "It is not for
i debt of mine. You see, the world
iwes every man a living and I was
trying to collect. Much obliged for
the tracts."
However, the visitor had passed
on.?Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Topeka Distractions.
The Colorado football team has
iiad a hard time to find time to keep
up with their studies, which they
ire supposed to do. There are too
many auracuve gins in iuiikku auu
especially at Washburn College.?To[ieka
State Journal.
When a steady tippler is prostrated
with pneumonia his chances of re:overy
are about three in ten. His
heart has been so weakened by artificial
stimulation that his vitality ia
easily depressed.
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BITS? NEWS
WASHINGTON.
Sir Chentung Liang-Cheng, retiring
Minister from China, .left to return
tp his native country.
Rear-Admiral Evans left for New
York to prepare the Atlantic fleet
for its voyage to the Pacific.
Quartermaster-General Humphrey
was placed on the retired .list at his
own request.
Secretary Taft announced that J.
B. Bishop, secretary of the Panama
Canal Commission, "would make his
headquarters on the Isthmus. t
The itinerary of the President's
trip West early in Odtober., which was
made public at Oyster Bay., -showed
that he would oat go further South
than Memphis.
Plans were announced ft>r a proposed
National Department of Fine
Arts.
Chief. Engineer Goethals in a
tentative report favored the division
of the Panama Canal work into sections
and letting contracts for them.
Secretary Taft left for a month's
vacation at Mnrray Bay.
The American Bankers' Association
presented a complaint to the
Interstate Commerce Commission
against the leading express companies
acting as bankers.
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDSCorporal
P. J. Green, <vf the Eleventh
United States Infantry, who was
shot at Holguin, Cuba, on June 28
by a local policeman while resisting
arrest, is dead.
President Roosevelt promoted Alfred
S. Hartwell from Associate to
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\juiei j usuct; ui luc pujucuic uuuii
of Honolulu, and appointed Sidney
Miller Ballou Associate Justice of the
same court.
General Smith has returned to
Manila after a month's tour of inspection
in the noithern provinces.
An Englishman returned to London
from the Philippines says the
people expect Japan to seize them.
There are 161,127 persons in the
Philippine Islands qualified to vote
(500 pesos property qualification),
and of this number only 123,937
voted at the last municipal elections.
DOMESTIC.
New York City's bond sale resulted
| In bids for ?2,121,840 of the $29,000,000
offered, being saved from
complete fiasco by fifty-seven small
bids.
Federal Judge Landis, at Chicago,
refused to recall the subpoena for
John D. Rockefeller, summoned to
give information of Standard Oil
finances in the Alton rebate case.
The Wisconsin State Assembly, by
a vote of 69 to 3, passed the Senate
resolution providing for the naming
of a United Siiates Senator by direct
vote.
Secretary Metcalf stated at San
Francisco that a squadron would
I round Cape Horn and visit that harbor.
About 1000 delegates attended the
sixteenth annual convention of the
Baptist Young People's Union at
Spokane.
Judge Edgar Aldrich, of Littleton,
N. H., was appointed master to determine
the competency of Mary
Baker G. Eddy to conduct her own
affairs.
Magnus Thompson shot and fatally
wounded Minnie Phatum at New
Richmond, Wis., and blew off the top
of his own head. The girl had refused
to marry Thompson.
Leo C. Thurman, of West Point,
Ky., arrested at Vancouver, B. C., in
April for the murder at Norfolk, Va.,
in February, 1906, of Walter P. Dolsen,
of Michigan, the victim of a
trunk mystery, has been sentenced to
be hanged September 27.
Tams Blxby, of Muskogee, I. T.,
for ten years a commissioner for the
Five Civilized Tribes, has retired. J.
George Wright, Indian inspector, suc.ceeds
him.
A jump from a moving train near
Denver, Col., killed Frank Schmelzer,
of the Western Federation of Miners,
who was going to Boise to testify for
Haywood.
. FOREIGN.
The master of the rolls of the
Kildare Street Club, of Dublin, decided
that the expulsion of Edward
Martyn was illegal.
Japanese authorities in Korea were
astonished at the appearance of a
Korean delegation at The Hague Conference,
and accuse the Emperor of
bad faith.
Sir Edward Grey said in the House
of Commons that Britain's claim
against China was based on the damages
actually incurred in the Boxer
rebellion.
The British Government demanded
of Morocco that prompt steps for the
release of Sir Harry MacLean be
taken.
Forty Croatian Deputies left the
Hungarian Parliament as a protest
against the Government's railroad
bill.
A dispatch from Eerlin said that
Japan had placed an order with the
Krupps for a number of twelve-inch
naval guns.
France took formal possession of
the new Siamese territory awarded
under the recent treaty.
The Russian'Government is hastening
to carry out the recent order for
distribution of land to peasants on
easy terms, and has ordered the relaxation
of measures against the
| Jews.
| Count Constantino Nigra, the well
known Italian diplomat, died at
Rapallo.
Horace G. Knowles, American Minister
to Servia and Rumania, who
succeed John \V. Riddle, now Ambassador
at St. Petersburg, presented his
credentials to King Peter, at Belurade.
It was announced at Rome that
the Italian Government would grant
I amnesty to all political press offendI
ers, with the exception of anarchists,
on the occasion of the centennial,
I July 4, of the birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi.
The Novoe Vremya, of St. Petersburg,
declares that secret arming is
going on in Finland, citing the recent
big seizure of arms and ammunition
in England, which the paper
says were purchased by Finns.
The Chief of Police of Tiflis, Russia,
Colonel Baladanski, shot and
killed himself with a revolver over
his mother's grave, on wnicn ne naa
previously spread his decorations. He
took his life because he had been severely
reprimanded on account of
the terrorist outrages.
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert
;Stewart has just been superseded as
jGovernor of germuda. ' ? fill.,
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THE GREAT DESTROYEI
SOME STARTLING FACTS ACOU!
THE VICE OP INTEMPEIIANCE.
Rescne of a Drunkard?Jimmic Wen
to Church, But Prosperity Came
He Took to Drink and You Knov
the Result?How He Reformed
Dr. C. L. Goodell, of New York
tells this story: "Jimmy was a mem
her of the church but prosperitj
came to Jimmy, and as he got monej
he forgot God. sHe fell into bad company
and began to drink; all his fortune,
an interest in a whaling vessel
went down Jimmy's throat until he
wasn't worth a dollar. He had t
place as salesman in the fishing business,
that was all. He hadn't been ii
a church for years, but I noticed hire
at meeting one night sitting on the
back seat. Somehow, my heart was
drawn toward the fellow, and he waf
moved by the heartfelt interest thai
he knew I had In him, so he came
, week after week. Sometimes he
would be sober and sometimes he
would be so drunk that I hardly knew
if he could get out of the church
alone.
"One Sunday night Jimmy came in
and dropped heavily down in the
back seat. I was in the pulpit and ]
said to myself, 'He has either beer
drinking more than usual or else
there is something going 'on. No,
Jimmy is sober enough so that he
knows what is going on.' After the
service was over Jimmy had taker
his place again on the back seat. ]
went to him and threw my am
around his shoulder and talked tc
him. He said: 'Doctor, I want it,
and I am going to turn over a new
leaf, but I have got to have just one
rnnro Hr-lnlr ' T caH tn VMm* 'Vnil
want something to eat, Jimmy.' He
replied: 'I guess you are right; 'l
haven't had anything to eat to-day
I had a drink this morning, and twc
or three more at noon and anothei
to-night, and I haven't had anything
to eat to-day.' I got him down to a
restaurant where they had nothing
but tea and coffee to drink. I ordered
black coffee and beefsteak, and after
he had eaten the steak and drank two
or thnee cups of coffee he began to
feel quite like himself, and he said,
"I guess I will go home now.' I said,
'I will go home with you.' At the
front steps he said 'Good night.' 1
answered, 'I will go up with you to
your room and see you tucked into
bed.' So I stepped in and tucked him
In bed and talked with him, and then
went home. When he heard my feet
echoing down the street, he said tc
himself: 'Now the minister is gone,
I will put on my clothes and go down
and have a drink and a good time.'
He got out of bed and started to put
on his clothes, when all at once he
Btopped and said: 'I won't do it; 1
am a mean man, but I am not mean
snough to do that. After the minister
was kind enough to come clear
home with me and tuck me into bed,
I am not mean enough to go back on
him.' A strange thing happened
when Jimmy woke up next morning;
for the flrst time in twenty-five years
V> i AiAn't wont anv llniinr T Mn't
UC U1UU V "UMV
explain It, but I know It Is a fact that
Jimmy didn't want any liquor and he
didn't get any. He went on day after
day, and he didn't want any liquor,
and he came into the meeting and
gave his testimony."
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The Demonizing Rum Traffic.
A striking incident of the demonizing
influence of intoxicating liquor
occurred in St. Louis. The case was
thus described in the local press:
"What a man of good and even
gentle disposition will do when under
the influence of liquor was graphically
Illustrated in a story told in the
case of Henry Laesche in the City
Hall Police Court Saturday.
"Friday evening Laesche arrived
at his home, 2340 South Ninth street,
intoxicated. He had passed the
cheerful state of hilarity and was
moody and irritable. His wife saw
that there would be trouble as soon
as he entered the room and called
her brother, A. Voges, who lives in
the same house.
"Laescne caugn: signt or ms mue
I baby girl lying on the bed. Without
a word cf warning he took up a pail
of boiling water and threw it at the
child on the bed.
"But the mother, with the instinctive
presence of mind that comes to
most mothers when their children are
in danger, threw a bed quilt over the
child while the scalding water was
6t.il 1 in the air, and thus narrowly
averted what might have been a tragedy.
"Then the husband made an effort
to strike the child on the bed. But
by this time Voges reached him and
dragged him away. In court Laesche
Bimply said that he was intoxicated
and knew nothing of what had happened.
Voges testified that he
thought his brother-in-law a good
? J ? nwnnH/iol ^om/Nnefra.
LLiUIi illiU gave a piaubivai ucmvuoi.iuUon
of his opinion by paying the $15
fine which Judge Tracy imposed."
Too Many Saloons in Glasgow.
Mr. Maclay, a leading shipowner
of Glasgow, Scotland, in appealing to
a magistrate to reduce the number of
saloon licenses in the harbor districts,
says that the districts are seething in
drunkenness, disease, misery, immorality
and crime. There are dozens of
houses in which pigs would not live,
and some of these are occupied by
people who once held good social positions.
Power of the Church.
"The Christian Church has it in its
power in the United States to drive
the traffic in ardent spirits from the
land."?Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher.
Dr. Lorenz a Teetotaler.
Dr. Lorenz, the great Austrian surgeon,
was at a banquet in his honer.
Many of the guests drank. The prin|
cipal guest, however, pushed his win
aside, untasted. Someone asked him
if he were a teetotaler. "I cannot
say that I am a temperance agitator,"
said Dr. Lorenz, "but I am a surgeon,
My success depends upon my brain
[ being clear, my muscles firm and my
nerves steady. No one can take alcoholic
liquor without blunting these
I physical powers, which mustbekepton
edge. As a surgeon I must not drink.'The
Spread of Tuberculosis.
Says a writer in the Medical Record:
"It has been proved more or
less conclusively that pulmonary
tuberculosis is spread by the agency
of public houses in Great Britain, and
this is probably also the case to a
loKcipr extent in reeard to sp.loons ir
America."
King of Beverages.
Water is the king of beverages; it
is the beverage to which all turn
when they would cure themselves ol
(he habit of consuming alcohol.
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I SUNDAY v Thoughts 1
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At l JLKNUiJiv 'A' orwoiea
1 READING. Divines. ]
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OUR LOWLY WORK NOT IN VAIN,
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( Sometime, -when all our gathered sheaves <
we lay,
' At Jesus' feet,
The trials that beset us on the way.
The burdens we hod carried all the day,
> The noontide heat,
Will be forgotten; and the rest we sought j
So sweet will be,
That we 6hall wonder how we ever thought '
The labor hard, when in His name we *
wrought 1
So fitfully. 1
What if the seed be sown with blinding \
tears,
And our hearts rend
With the swift changing of our hopes to '
fears,
Because of the slow growth throughout '
the years. 1
Of fields we tend; i
We have His word that we shall reap i
with joy i
Some happy day;
Then, when our courage fails and griefs 1
anncy, '
Let us be patient; bliss without alloy 1
Waits o'er the way. ]
Over each field of nodding golden grain
Changes have passed;
The smiling sunshine and the chilling rain, J
Twilight and dawn have come and gone
again, 1
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l So for the seed which we in weakness sow;
i God knoweth best
[ Whether dark clouds must cast their gloom
L below,
Or whether in the sunshine it may grow
At His behest;
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Our lowly work is but to scatter seed
s With lavish hand,
i Sending it broadcast wheresoe'er there's
: need,
And full fruition will make glad indeed
The barren land.
\ Then when at reaping-time we hear our
Kinc
: Bidding us come,
We shall respond with plenteous offering
; Of ripened fruitage, as with joy we sing
[ . The Harvest Home.
?Lizzie W. Price,, in Mid-Continent.
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Be Anxious For Nothing.
A very plain injunction, but how
| rew there are who go through the
daily duties of life free from a spirit
; of care and anxious thought! Let
us look at one or two reasons why
1 we should try to keep our minds free
1 from aniiety.
First of all, we are very prone to
anticipate trouble, but great solicitude
about the future shows a want
of confidence in God, who has promised
saying: "I will never leave thee,
nor forsake thee," and we have the
testimony of Joshua: "Not one thing
' hath failed of all the good things
which the Lord your God spake con- ]
cerning you."
Then anxiety keeps the mind in a
state of constant uneasiness, and
preys upon the temper, spirits and
health. It produces perplexity of
purpose, disqualifies the mind from
pursuing its ordinary duties, and often
accelerates the very evils that
are the objects of dread. It has also
a most pernicious moral, influence, as
it leads to repining, discontent, envy,
peevishness, prayerlessness and infidelity.
Man is so short-sighted that'
the very cloud he dreads may be replete
with mercy, while the object of
his desire may be like the meat
which the children of Israel craved
In the wilderness, of which they had
no sooner eaten than it became
loathsome, and numbers died with a
very great plague.
Carking anxiety makes a person
overweeningly selfish, shuts up all
the generous sympathies of the heart
and binds every thought to tne wneei
of this despotic monomania. Great
effeminacy of mind on body produces
nervousness and many moral
evils; so great anxiety debilitates the
mental and physical powers. As pulmonary
consumption wastes away
the body, so care consumes the
mind. Care in the heart is like a
worm in the bud, or, to use another
simile, distressful solicitude preys
upon the mind as a moth frets a gar1
ment.
Jesus said: "Take no thought for
your life, what ye shall eat, or what
ye shall drink; nor yet for your
body, what ye shall put on. Take
no thought for the morrow, for the
morrow shall take thought for the
things of itself. Sufficient unto the
day is the evil thereof." Cast thy
burden upon the Lord, and He shall
Bustain thee. Cast all your care
upon God, for He careth for you.
Be careful for nothing. Which of
you by taking thought can add one
cubit to his stature? If ye then be
not able to do that thing which is
least, why take ye thought of the
rest?"
Free Frow Bonds.
The divine life is a life free from
the galling bonds and fretful exactions
of self-will, free from discord
and fear; a harmonized life of trustful
power, joy and peace, which the
soul recognizes as a communication
with the immanent Lord. The law
of progress in it is a sovereign consecratedness
to the culture of insight, *
energy, sensibility and obedience, by 1
persevering exercises of thought, i
prayer, holiness and love.?William (
Mger. (
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Showers of Blessings. >
There is an ocean into which, from c
age to age, all streams of human t
consciousness and conscience and s
conviction pour themselves, and t
from which there is no outlet save t
by the windlasses of God Himself,
who sends us showers of blessings
which no present human effort caD I
account for. J
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Four Pillars For Promises.
Every promise is built upon four
pillars: God's justice, which will not ^
suffer Him to deceive; His grace, s
which will not suffer Him to forget; t
His truth, which will not suffer Him j
to change, and His power, which j
makes Him able to accomplish.?Sal- (
ter. j
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Unto All Truth. f
I ItfA trnac nnf nf nnp cipilt i
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out it returns a holy ghost, a com- 6
! Jorter, a guide unto all truth. ?
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Yankee Locomotives For France. t
The Norwegian steamship Ada
loaded seventeen locomotives for the
Orleans Railroad of France at the
Port Richmond piers, in Philadel- ?
phia, Pa., for Bordeaux. France, y1
where the entire cargo will be dis- J.
charged. The locomotives are the 6
largest ever built here and are believed
to be the largest in the United
; States. They were built along the ??
i lines of the English engines. *
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South Getting Hichcr. hi
, The South is getting richer at til? ^
rate ot $7,000,000 a day. ta
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[NTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR AUG. 4 BY. THE
REV. I. W. HENDERSON.
Subject: The Tabernacle, Ex. 40.: 113,
34-38?Golden Text, Ex?--,.d
40:34?Memory Verses, 34-35??+
Commentary.
The tabernacle that Moses set up
n the midst of the journeying peo*
?le of Israel after the commands of
Fehovah concretely and vividly ex* 4
presses and exemplifies the concep:ion
of the relation between God an<t
Israel that was dominant ?t the
:ime. It may perhaps be difficult tot
many to become very acutely Inter*
jsted in the study of the fashion of >
the tent and Its furnishings. Bui
Lhat will be largely because we fail
to grasp the underlying and .universal
religious needs and expe*
riences of which the structure in all
Its parts is an objective represenia*
tiou. The tabernacle represents In.
outward fashion the central and controlling
religious fact of all the ages
that God is in the midst of His people.
It represents the outworking of
subjective religious experiences iuto>
Dutward and material expressions,
tt symbolizes in its furnishings;
many lasting and precious spiritual
truths. We shall be foolish If we*
3o not learn spiritual lessons and per- "
:eive spiritual meanings and secure?piritual
instruction and comfort aswe
study this Scripture." The ark, theirail,
the incense, the burnt offering,,
the oil, the consecration of the priest,,
mrely the mention of each should
wpply us with suggestive thought.
In verse 2 in the authorized version
the Scripture is translated "tent
}f the congregation." The revised,
version properly translates thesfe
words "tent of the meeting." And
the change is as suggestive as it is-'
corrective. Here indeed, in a word.
is given the reason for the taberiiacle;
here in a word is described
the use to which it was to be pat
md was put by the chosen peoplejf
God. "Meeting." Here they met I
lehovah in that peculiarly sacred I
manner that was a distinguishing: I
'ftn f iim/v #-\r a! 1 (ri/Nti n avnmaatnfi ** I
LtaLUIC UJ U1C11 ICilgiUUO wiptvqocyu* ,
tfere they met Jehovah in the holiest,
ind most satisfying manner. Hereby
met God. It was indeed a place
)f meeting. A tent dedicated to*
meeting from time to time with God
Himself. It was also the place where
they gathered in the expression of
:heir common religious longings and
for the exercise in an especial manner
Df their spiritual inclinations.
Everything within and about the*
tabernacle was to be holy. All that
.vent into the serviceof God was holy.
\nd it was wise that such an empjiaste
should be laid. The Israelites had
long been living in the midst of a.
people whose religion was not what
t might have been. There wa?i every,
langer as we have seen in previous. *
essons that they would get to havei
shallow conception of religious*
;ruth and that they would place a
ight valuation upon those thing*
;hat are religiously most essential to>
mmanity. The tabernacle simply,
jxemplified to them what should be:he
hallowedness of their own lives,
[t kept constantly before them the*
ralue and the beauty of holiness. It
imphasized in no uncertain fashion
;hat only that which was puremd
undefiled was of highest use to?
lod. It stood as a constant rebuke
;o personal or national uncleanaess;
md unworthiness of mind or Heart
>r soul. They met the hallowed al- *
ar of sacrifice as they approached
;he sacred precincts of the taberlacle.
The sacrifice enforced the lesson
of personal responsibility before
3od and the need for personal conession
of sin as the primal requisite
'or entrance into the presence of
3od. As with the altar of sacrificeio
with every other bit of material
n and about the tabernacle. By a /
jrocess of association all was exemplary.
We note also that the priest whovas
to officiate in the services of the
emple was to be washed and
mointed and sanctified. And that
vas a valuable regulation. The
jriesthood of the surrounding na- _
ions were not always men of the
leepest spiritual experience or the
nost consecrated. Judging from the
previous lessons Aaron needed the
vashing and the anointing and the
:anctifying to make him properly apjreciative
of the high office to which
n God's providence he had been
railed. A clean priesthood is as
lecessary to God as a clean people
md a clean and hojy temple.
It is also noticeable that as sodn
is God's commands were complied
vith Israel entered into a new exjerience
of God. Verse 33 tells us
hat "Moses finished the work."
/erse 34 relates that "then the cI6ud
:overed the tent of meeting and the
jlory of the Lord filled the taberlacle."
Further comment is unrnfc:ssary.
All that the tabernacle was we
>ught to be ourselves. All that It
;ymbolized we as living temples
mght to exemplify. God should find
n us the sacrifice of a clean heart
md of a contrite spirit and should
>e able out of us to construct a tem- ,
)le holy to Himself. All that the tab?rnacle
was Christ is to us. May
jod give us all the vision to see
nany p'recious and helpful truths In
he lesson for the day. For in that
vhich is usually considered pretty
Iry reading we may discover much
hat is helpful and instructive and
luggestive. Under the guidance of
he Spirit of God we may have unhought
of beauties revealed to us.
Rest and AVork.
While the Master says, "Come and
est," He is sure to also say, "Gf'
md work.
Japanese Shipping Combine.
Consul-General William Martin
vrites from Hankow, China, that the
ubsidy for the steamship service on
he Yangtse River and tributaries
laving been confirmed by the Imper*
ai the .Tanan-China Steamship
/Ompanv, a combine of four old com*
>anies? has been formed, with a caplal
of $4,050,000. The new' comiany
contemplates increasing its captal
to $6,000,000. One-fifth of tha
hares may be allotted to Chines'!
lubscribers. The company opened
lusiness on April 1, and is to receive
in annual subsidy from the govern*
aent amounting to $400,000.
To Reclaim Judah Sword.
The handsome sword presented
uring the Civil War by the city of
ew York to Lieutenant Henry M.
udah and recently found in a pawn,
lop at Trenton, N. J., is to be reaimed
by the State and forwarded
) the late Lieutenant's nephew,
ienry R. Judah, in San Francisco,
he sword had been bequeathed to
ae of Lieutenant Judah's sons, whov
supposed to have pawned it. The
[story of the weapon was traced
irough the State and Federal mili