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He fancied, also, that Paul Leduc was astonished, even slightly taken aback, when he saw him. He at once assumed the manner 01 a host, and took them to a salon on the first floor, where a table was already set prepared for a meal. He desired old Battiste to bring in the dinner and offered chairs, as if he alone of the party were really at home. Antoinette sat down timidly; she kept looking at the door, evidently expecting every moment to see her father. Old Battiste slowly brought in the scanty repast and arranged it on the table. "The lady and gentleman are served," he said. in.his best manner. He had on a clean blouse, and boots instead of sabots. Arthur and Antoinette had eaten nothing since they left Lekaus, and there did not seem very much on the table for them to cat. There was bread and butter, cheese and a few winter pears. Paul Leduc said hastily: "Mademoiselle must me tired from her journey, Battiste. See if there is no meat in the larder, no soup., or even eggs." "There is no meat unless Nanon kill a fowl at once," said Battiste; "but as to an egg or two, if Mademoiselle likes. Nanon can quickly do some au gratin." "But, first of all, Battiste," said Antoinette, "will you show me where I can find my father? I cannot rest till I have seen him." The old man put down a bottle of cider on the table, and then, with a shaky hand. poured out a glass of it. He began to explain. "I have told Monsieur that Mademoiselle has come. I shouted it through the door, and, as I expected, I received no answer. My master is no longer young, monsieur et dame. He has acquired fixed habits. At this nour ne always reures iu mo iwui, it is the rule of the house that we never disturb him. Monsieur Paul only has occasionally accompanied him. He tells me he studies. It may be so." An odd frown contracted Paul Leduc's smooth brow. "We must respect the habits of old age," he said. "I am sure you will agree with me. Is it not so, my fair cousin?" "I am not sure,"' said AntoiLette. "The case is peculiar. My father wrote to desire me to come to him; he was oppressed with a feeling of nervous fear. He needed protection." "It is not wonderful," said Bwttiste. "Mademoiselle has her.rd about the dog? Ah! there was mischicf meant, I am sure of it. quite sure." "What was that? I njvec heard of it," said Antoinette. i-'aui l^eauc toia ner ine story, making light of it, and expressing it as his opinion that it was an act of revenge probably on the dog itself, which was a very fierce and unmanageable one. "Your father could hardly have been in earnest when he sought protection from a young and lovely young lady," added Paul, with a disagreeable laugh. "He sought it from his only daugh ter," said Antoinette, with a determined look. Arthur knew that such a mode of speech was highly distasteful to her, and he admired the manner in which she put an end to it. ,-I shall go in search of my father after we have dined," she said. They sat down to table. Battiste, promising to return immediately with another dish, had hurried away. "I wish I could have stayed on here,"' said Paul Leduc, presently. "It would have given me much unfeigned pleasure to have become better acquainted with you, my cousin. With my uncle I have been more fortunate. During the days that I have been staving, first at Goucy, and since the adventure of the dog's death, in this house, he admitted me to an intimacy which, I understand, is not at all common to him." "You have been staying at Goucy?" said Arthur. "Perhaps, then, you can recommend me an hotel or lodging where I can be certain of a bed tonight?'' Antoinette looked up suddenly and seemed as if she were about to speak; then she changed her mind and leaned back listlessly. But Arthur had read in her quick movement a sort of appeal to him not to desert her; but, alas! the matter was no longer in his own hands. Ho had fulfilled his own part of the transaction; he must deliver her into the hands of her own relations. Paul Leduc, who appeared to watch every movement of his guests and endeavor to anticipate their wants, answered \rthur with such ready courtesy that Arthur felt as if there must be something wrong in himself that had made him take such an unaccountable prejudice against him. '"I can not only direct you to comfortable quarters for tli^ night, but I phall have the greatest pleasure in accompanying you to Goucy and introducing you to the very good mistress of La Pie Blanch?," he said, cor-1 aQ <* i>^ G' ^ ?<*- a L5r.S2SE5ci5ESHSH=e?H5HS2SE $ LbclS'^-S^3^r"-1 'nHj^i rLgphr1^c^5"?bci5^ & 11 SCENT 5 M t SE ' SmESE 9 LSHSRSHSE-ETESHHH-ETESHSHSHSH A R 5gSH5lSH5H5cSasa5HSE5H 7 K' Sc5HH2SHSHE?SH5H5SSaEa <3 I =T3C^DC^3C73 [^3 CTpCfP 525^5552 ^ ?? DIVINING |? ROD. ?? ? L5HSHS^S5HSHSHS2SESBSHSa ? tGARET If MAJENDIE. fHHHl $ unHSHsasssHBSsasEsasasasa a LgB5T=LEH5~E5B5H5HEHSSSaSHSgl ^ a- ?-^ ?<^- ?q<?. ?i dially. 4,It is a homely, but a very good. old-fashioned inn, and the cuisine has quite a little reputation; all of the gentlemen of the town dine there regularly. The inn is always rather full, but I have retained my room there, although for the last few days I have been staying here with my uncle; but I must sleep there tonight for the convenience of starting by the 6 o'clock train to-morrow. There is a vacant room next to my own. To-morrow, I have no doubt, you will wish to succeed me in my apartment." Turning to Antoinette, he went on; "Nothing but imperative duty would have induced me to leave Mon Repos just now. But, alas! I have no choice. I travel for an important firm in Paris. I have received letters from my principal asking what makes me linger so long and desiring my return. You see, I am not yet my own master; but, nevertheless, I can assure you, my dear "ousin, that nothing would have induced me to leave ray uncle had you not been here to take my place. As for danger, a need of actual protection, that is, I am convinced, only a fancy of failing health; but com panionship, sympathy, filial care, I consider essential." He stopped, and rapidly passed his hand over his brow, on which, it seemed to Arthur, the moisture had gathered. "I am sorry that you must go," said Antoinette, courteously, but coldly. "And now, messieurs, you will forgive me, but I already reproach myself for having delayed to seek my father. Though Battiste told him I had come, he may not have heard.. Sometimes acuteness of hearing is lost." "My uncle hears as well as the youngest man," said Paul Leduc, emphatically. "Indeed!" said Antoinette, stiffly. "Then it is possible that old Battiste's voice may not be so loud as he imagines it to be." "A Frenchman's voice rarely fails him," said Paul. Then, seeing Antoinette's haughty look as she rose to leave the room, he added, hastily: "Do not be displeased with me, my cousin. I only speak thus to save you unneccessary pain. Without casting a moment's doubt on my uncle's affection for so charming a daughter, his eccentricities are great, and " "Monsieur!" said Antoinette. He shrugged his shoulders slightly, but opened the door for her to pass out with the haughty carriage of a young queen. Paul Leduc returned to the table and sat down. Arthur was thinking deeply. He did not understand why it was that Antoinette, instead of being overjoyed that she possessed a relation of whose existence she had no idea, had, on the contrary, received and treated him with a coldness and reserve which he had hardly believed to exist in her nature. He wondered whether it was only shyness, or whether she also had taken an unreasonable prejudice against him. Monsieur Leduc took out a box of cigars, pushed his chair from the table, and offered one to Arthur. ?TV?n?lr '-/mi " Via " Vm t T J. UCLLit\ JUll, I1C anonv-icu, uuw A do not smoke. Is it allowed in this room ?" Paul pointed with a sweep of his hand round the bare apartment, utterly devoid of carpet, cushion, or curtains. "Can you doubt it?" he said, with a sneer. "At least, that small privilege remains to me. I hope, bye-the-bye, that you are not too hungry. My uncle's hospitality is limited by his extreme poverty." "Indeed!" said Arthur. The dryness of his response seemed to strike Paul. "Your tone is unusual. Monsieur," he said, puffing a cloud of smoke into the air. "Surely, with evidences such as these," and he pointed to the remains of their scanty supper, "it would be difficult to believe other- j wise." "You spoke of eccentricities," said , Arthur. "Yes, that is true; and very uncom- j fortable eccentricities they are," he j said, with a short laugh. "He is very exacting. Except when alone, locked up behind two of the strongest oak doors that could be made at Goucy, be would not let me out of his sight. 1 hope my young cousin is strong and of a patient disposition. She will require both strength and patience." Paul Lcduc was singularly restless. He got up, opened the window, looked out, and shut it again; went to the stove and leant on it, walked up and down, or changed from one seat to T-T a Ko/1 n i r\r\ r\ f cnQW. auuiuvz . nu uau n, v* c*j , ivu, v/?. .. ing his upper lip; the marks of his teeth were visible on it. "Have you known Antoinette long?" he said, suddenly. "If not indiscreet, may I ask if you are an old friend of the family? Do you know Monsieur Rigaud?" "Oh, yes, I knew Monsieur Rigaud in England," answered Arthur. "I was chosen to ba his daughter's escort by his own wish?that is, he com missioned my uncle to do so. I knew all about him in England." The color seemed to fade out of Paul's face, or it might be the effect of the waning liglu. "Peste!" he exclaimed, "what a bad cigar!" and he opened the window and tossed it out. Arthur determined to speak plainly. "Monsieur LeJuc," he said, ' your uncle's poverty is only one of hi? eccentricities. "What his actual means are I cannot tell you, but I know enough of him in England to assure you, on my honor, that it would bo a great and unjustifiable injustice to permit Mademoiselle RiK;uid to suffer actual privations on the score of her father's poverty." "Ha!" sai(<. thoughtfully. "Well, I must confess that I have judged altuye'.her from appearances. My in tlmacy with my uncle Is of recei date; yours is probably much earlier, "I judge from facts that have con: to my knowledge," said Arthur, qu etly. "Your uncle has enough, s all events, for Mademoiselle Rigaud comfort. If I might venture to suj gest that you, as her nearest relatio: should endeavor to insist upon h< having at least the ordinary comfor of life " Paul interrupted. "Against thes supposed facts, Monsieur," he sail "I have the word of my uncle. E: cuse me, you have only the evident of hearsay to offer; for the momei I see no reason to doubt my uncle veracity. But, come," he added, wit a frank movement of his hands, ' give you my word that no soon< shall I have finished transacting m business in Paris, than I will at on< return and use all the influence possess with my uncle, to arrang matters here on a footing more suit; ble for the abode of a charmic young lady. My salary is excellent I have no ties. We need not inquii into the question as to whether m uncle's poverty is real or imaginarj Antoinette shall have enough." Arthur only bowed. It was into erable to him to think that she woul be dependent on the charity of th man; but his dislike to it he knew t be entirely unreasonable. Anoth< vague, uncomfortable feeling that t had seen those white, smooth hanc before, rushed into his mind. "Monsieur Leduc," he said, sut denly, "were you ever in England?" "Never," .he answered, carelesslj and looking up, he let his eyes me< Arthur's with a peculiarly franl open look. "It is only a coincidence," Arthu thought to himself. "It can be not! ing else. Paul now changed the subject t one of more general interest, an Arthur began to find him a decidedl agreeable companion. Presently the door opened and Ai toinette came in. Her eyes were red she had evidently been crying mucl Monsieur Paul sprang up to meet he with empressement. "Alas! ".he said, "I am afraid it i as I anticipated; you have not ha the happiness of embracing you father." "You were right, and I was in th wrong," she said, quickly. "I ai sorry, perhaps even absurdly disai pointed," and she tried in vain t check two large tears from runnin down her cheeks. "My uncle had doubtless closed th outer door as well," said Paul. "Yes, it is very stange," said Ar toinette. "Why should he thus bai ricade himself behind two huge oa doors? What can be the reason?" "He has a very strong, peculia dislike to being disturbed," said he cousin. "Indeed, he complained t me repeatedly that Battiste used t annoy him by poking about and ar noying him at his studies." Arthur, from his own recollectio of what had taken place in his bed room at Liverpool, had a better ide of what the real occupation of the ol miser was; but he said nothing. "My father never used to be muc of a student," said Antoinette, ab sently. "Perhaps not," answered Paul "But from what I gather, his habit must have changed very much o late; indeed, from things I hav heard him say, I have imagined i to be possible that he was engaged i literary work, and that some day w should be surprised at the productio: of the result in a complete form, suppose," he added, lowering hi voice to almost a whisper, "that yo1 have every reason to believe that ol Battiste is safe and honest." "Monsieur!" exclaimed Antoinette suddenly. She stopped herself am locked at him with a strange, dis ir>r<ir w/iiirVi somehow startlei Arthur. Paul seemed to wince unde it, for he shifted a little uneasily am then said: "You wish to ask? Heavens!" h exclaimed, so naturally that a quid suspicion that this was consummat acting flashed into Arthur's mind "Heavens! how like you are to m poor mother! Forgive me if, for i moment, the recollection the likenes recalls overpowers me." "It is quite natural," said Antoin cite, kindly. The look of distrus passed away; it was succeeded by ; kind, pitying expression. "Is it lonj since you lost your mother?" To be Contiuued. In some parts of France more cide is drunk than wine. Fattening risn on turn, Here is something new in the pro duction of meat. A telegram fror Kenosha, Wisconsin, says that peopl along Fox River, in that State, hav opened up a new industry and ar fattening fish on corn for the Chicag market. German carp, which ar plentiful in Fox River, are scoopei up in nets and placed in a big pel fenced off in a small stream. The are fed on corn and grain, the sam as hogs. It is claimed the fish tak on flesh rapidly, and it is not uncom mon to take earn from the pen weigh ing from thirty to fifty pounds. Las year the ingenious workers in th new industry sold over two tons o fish fattened in this way. This sea son they will dispose of twenty tons ?ib til ere is a guuu ucuiauu. Farm Life. The cry of "back to the farm which is heard on all sides these days sounds good enough to us, and i bound to have a salutary effect. Fan life is the most independent ecistenc and the wholesome sentiments whic sprung from the freedom of life ou of doors are the strongest safeguard of a democratic government.?Chip ley Banner. The Feminine Purse In Oklahoma. Even the dubious squaw ha learned the usefulness of the femin ine stocking. Mrs. Chiun, an Apach Indian woman at Lawton, was con cealing a pint of firewater in he stocking when detected by a police man. The policeman was a rud knave and grabbed the whisky.? Kansas City Times. Revised. When you are in Rome, he done b; the Romans. i Should Governments ' Support All Children ? 'S Dy W. E. CURTIS. The Brithh Parliament ir expected 1 to pass an act granting a pension of Jr [ $1.25 per week for every man and s | woman, rich or poor, lazy or indus' 1 -a ?1- ?? "AKav ir> tli/a TTnit^H I iriUUS, UI lilltv Ui 9 ia AiAwu 'e Kingdom who passes the age of sixty five years. When their grandfathers and grandmothers are taken care of in that way, the labor unions and , other socialistic organizations will in? sist that all children fourteen years and under shall be supported by the public treasury. "r They reason in this way: If it is lawful and proper for the State to give the children of its subjects a free education, it should provide sufficient 'e nourishment to put them in condition a~ to make the best of the instruction 'g offered them. Again, if it is proper / and lawful for the State to provide e i hooks for the education of the chill. dren, there should be no objection to ' providing boots and shoes, underclothing, jackets, trousers, dresses " and overcoats to keep them warm and preserve their health, so that they 1 can make good use of the hooks. And 0 still farther, if it is proper and lawiT ful to furnish lunches at school re!e cess to poor children, why is it not equally proper and lawful to furnish them breakfasts and dinners? ," By this process of reasoning the advocates of the State maintenance ' convince themselves that every child 5 between five and fourteen years of ' age should be fed, clothed and educated by the national government in ir order to make healthy, intelligent, l~ honest and industrious citizens of them. Tn />nri!iin Go^Hnns nf T.nnrinn and several of the provincial cities of y England noonday meals are both at public, and private expense. Last ~ year the Salvation Army, which never ' gives anything away, on the theory ' that too much generosity creates pau!r perism, sold 350,000 children wholesome lunches of bean soup and bread s for a ha'penny, or one cent in our money, each. These meals are furr nished from wagons that drive up to j the schools in the poorer districts at e recess time. The men in charge dip 11 out generous portions from enormous kettles as the children bring their 0 buckets, plates, cans, sardine boxes, e tin pans, bowls and every other -ort of receptacle they can obtain. e Every child is expected to have a copper ready to pay, but many a time j" the rule is broken when some poor J j little hungry urchin has lost his coin | or his drunken father and mother ! have failed to give nim one. T | Similar lunches of wholesome, but ^ I r\t f Vt n rtKfln matorialc cnrVi ac fiah 0 and potato pie, hash made from the 0 cheapest cuts of beef, mixed with l" rice and vegetables, pea soup, vegetable soup and oth2r healthful and ? savory food are served to school children in the manufacturing towns dur? ing the noonday recess, either free or for the lowest possible price. In some cases the funds are supplied k from the municipal or parish treas'* j uries, in other places by private subscription. ' I There is already an act of Parlias i ment authorizing school authorities * j to feed children who are insufficiente j ly nourished at the public expense * and to levy a tax of a penny a pound Q j on residential and business property e j to pay the cost. There is a clause in Q ; the act authorizing the prosecution cf * parents who fail to provide nourish8 J ing food for children that are being 11 | aducated at tho public expense, but a j I cannot find any report showing that this provision has^ever been enforced. !? The Government of Great Britain, ^ is well as the Government of the United States, is spending a great ^ deal of money to improve its breeds r of horses, cattle, sheep, swine and ^ j poultry; to increase the productive j power of its soil and the quality of e | Its crops of grain, vegetables, plants ^ i and flowers. It provides proper shel6 i ter and nourishment and care for I- ! both animals and plants, and it might y be a logical deduction to expect sima lla/ protection and nurture for the s : crops of human beings that are comj Ing along every year and are now in - | the schools for nurture and admonit tion. a ' There are 5,S2T?,043 children of 5 I school age in Great Britain and IreI land, and probably one-third of them I require or would accept Government ! aid if such a bill were passed. No r j effort has been made to ascertain ! how many families would permit their children to be fed and clothed ' rt-f nvnoricq TNT a?v nf thom | at JJUUiiV* tAptuot. ^unu; w*. i. ; would consider it a humiliating propQ ! osition. The number would probably e I depend very largely upon the manner e ! in which such maintenance were ape [ plied. No one refuses the advantages o of the free public schools, although e a very large proportion of the chiltj dren in GreaL Britain are being edun caled in private institutions. But y those details will have to be detere mined in committee after the bill is e 1 introduced into the Mouse of Com. inons. The proposition originated with the labor unions, an i i: supt ported by many politicians as well as Q humanitarians, for obvious reasons. t ' ? f No one has suggested how the money to pay this school bill is to be jf raised. If one-half the children in the kingdom accepts it, and each is allowed a hundred dollars a year for food and clothing, an increase of ? $250,000,000 will be needed in the . budget to begin with, and that is 3 probably a low estimate.?WashingQ ton Star. e ' l! Kroviiy Preferable. t It is the short piecc, bo it letter or s editorial, that catch?s the reader, i- and correspondr-nts win wish their letters to be read should never extend them beyond .a quarter of a column, and liaif that length is preferable. s Condensation is an ar(, hut it cau he acquired with a little; practice. e, Never try to see how long you can make your article, hut how short. Use r never a superfluous sentence or word. Be as brief us an intelligible statee ment of the case will allow and you _ will have ten readers where Ihc Iosjijwinded fellow will have one. ? Richmond Dispatch. The tith> <if Reverend was fust csed iu England iu 1 CD7. THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. 1907 Was a Great Tcmperancc Year ?Notable Progress Made Not Only in the United States But the 1? VSi 1U i.XI UUliUl The year 1907 was notable for the progress made in temperance, not only in the United States but the world around. This was the year of the Chinese imperial edict against opium. Prohibition made great strides in the South, reclaiming the States of Georgia and Alabama, and winning a hundred counties of Kentucky. It was seriously proposed as a Presidential issue for the Dsmocratlc party. Oklahoma entered the Union with a law forbidding the manufacture and sale (Df intoxicants. The incident of the sewers of Oklahoma City flushed with 2300 barrels of contraband beer was sufficiently novel. Two of the three counties of Delaware went "dry" at the November election. The bishops' cxcise law was a leading issue in the New Jersey compaign. Chicago added a square mile to its prohibition terri tory. Yesterday inousanas 01 employes of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad "took the pledge." The consumption of strong liquors diminished in Great Britain. The Government of Roumania is planning drastic measures to check drunkenness. The new bill regulating drink in that country makes the Bale of brandy and whisky a State monopoly and gives municipalitier control of saloons. Barkeepers become municipal employes. Bars are limited as to number and may not remain open on Sundays ?r saints' days or after 8 at night. Intoxication is punished by fine for the first offense and by a prison term for the second. Habitual drunkards are registeredt and barkeepers selling them liquor? are subject to heavy fines. As incidental to this drift towards iemperance, interviews with SaintSaens, Messenet, d'Indy, Sardou and Henri Lavedan represent these French authors and composers as deprecating the use of alcohol as a mental stimulant. Lavedan and Sardou de-t nounce it as a poison. The precei lent of Baudelaire drugging himself Into delirium at forty-ix and de Mus-' set with his "brilliant future behind him" at forty because of absinthe? and alcohol apparently no longeo holds in France.?From an Editorial in the New York World. Liquor Dethrones Reason. Scores of instances illustrating this truth come to this office every week. Here is one which made its appearance the other day: "Until about a year ago John H. I Hodges, of Durham, N. C., was looked upon as a model husband and father. He was a total abstainer, but suddenly he took to drinking and began to neglect his family. His wife argued with him, but argument and pleading alike was in vain. Wednesday night, crazed with whisky, he dragged his sick wife from her bed, and notwithstanding the most pitiful pleadings and endearing term3, shot tier to death." We read a great deal from liquor Bources about the horrors of pie, ;offee, tea and even water, in an attempt to minify the evils of strong drink. We are solemnly told that men can be intemperate on anything. Some preacher came out lately in an attack upon doughnuts as, in his enlightened opinion, equal in destructiveness to bad whisky. And the liquor journals all over the country are rolling it as a sweet morsel under their blistered tongues. Some London doctor has lately been exploited by a jertain beer-bloated lord as to the dangers of intemperance in everything. But will all these bibulous gentlemen who are trying to convince us that whisky is harmless as any, other edible or drinkable please to point out the cases where doughnuts, pie, tea, coffee?anything, but whisky, ?EQclKeS raeil pull IIJCII sita wircil Dut of bed and shoot them to death? Nothing but alcoholic drinks will do It. In the face of such records as above, the pro-liquor argument for temperance in whisky using and beer irinkiug will fall flat.?American Issue. A Comparison. "I never saw so little drunkenness In any city in the country," says Geo. L. McNutt, speaking of Brockton, Mass. Compare License I-Iaverhili with No-License Brockton. In 1895 Brockton had 900 more people than Haverhill. In 1905 it had 9000 more. The increase i'valuation in Erock toil was $13,7ai>,SU7; in jt-iaveruiii, $6,151,987?not half as much. The poor department of Haverhill, ihe smaller city, spent $90,141 more than Brockton. Haverhill's arrests for drunkenness were fifty per cent, greater. From IS 95 to 1904 savings banks deposits in Brockton increased $3,517,386, and iu Haverhill only $2,249,433.?From Poster of Brockton No-License League. License Indefensible. "Observation of the results of license, both in this country and in Great Britain, leads irresistibly to tho conclusion that it is not successful as a means of overcoming the evils of intemperance. Nothing can be! said in favor of the saloon, whether licensed or unlicensed. To raise a' revenue by authorizing the sale oi that which debases and pauperizes tho people is both unprofitable and imJ moral, and therefore indefensible.? [The late U. S. Senator John J. Infcalls. Temperance Notes. The anti-saloon sentim?nt waa he\or stronger throughout tho country than it is now. A noted physician of Paris a?:sert3 that it is impossible for a habitual 'j *r\ iinvo cnnntl children. Ul u 11 ivcvi vi iv/ ~ ~ After an exciting and hotly contested local option campaign and election, Athens, the county s?at of Ath-' ens County, Ohio, voted out her saloons on May -3, by a majority of thirteen votes. A total of 1530 votes wore cast. Bradford, Ohio, which voted in favor of the saloons two years ago, by a majority of twenty-eight, has just carried local option by a vote of IS!) to 154. There seems to be a wave of prohibition gradually sweeping over tlio country; this is especially true of tlio South. In a recent loading editorial in tlio Washington Star that paper says:) "The whole South is likely to be af-{ feclcd shortly by the Prohibition pro-! paganda. and this means that at no' distant date the? question will gvow iu National inijiortaiicfi and will ontor into the calculation o? pa;ty ir.au- j agers." THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. | INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- j MEXTS FOR MARCH 1:2. 11 Review of the First Quarter?Golden Text, John 1 :4?What tho Eleven Previous Lessons Prove? Commentary. Golden Text?"In Him wa9 life; ! and the life was the light of men." John 1:4. .J . The purpose of John's Gospel is given in John 20:31: "But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and thct believing ye might have life through His name." It was to prove that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of , God, and to prove it in sucn a way that men might believe it in their hearts and thus obtain life through ! His name. Therefore the best review of the lessons of the quarter will be , to go through the lessons one by one and find out how this great truth that i I brings life is illustrated in each lesson. In Lesson I. thiscentral truth of this Gospel is brought out in many ways. We see the pre-e:;istence of Jesus Christ as the eternal Word, "In the J beginning with God," and thus plain- ] ly declared that He was God. We set Him as the Creator of all things, th? ( One in Whom was life and Who was | the Light of men. In Jesus of Nazar- i eth this eternal Word became fles'i and the aocstles beheld His glory , glory as of the only Begotten of ths i Father. We see Him as the only be- I gotten Son of God, who fully de- j clared God in His own person as we.l i as in His words. I In Lesson II. we have John's test:- I mony received from God and certifieJ | by the visible descent of the Holy | Spirit that Jesus was the Lamb ci I God, eternally pre-existent, the Ons i | who baptized with tne Holy Ghost, I j the Son of God, j In Lesson III. we have Andrew and I Philip's discovery of Jesus as the I j Messiah, Him of whom Moses in the i ; law and prophets did write; and Na- 1 | thaniel's discovery that Jesus was the i | Son of God, the King of Israel. I In Lesson IV. we have Jesus mani- I festing Himself as Sou of God and i Ruler of God's house by driving out 1 from it those who were defiling it by 1 making the Father's house a house of : merchandise. And also Jesus testify- t i ins: to His own deity by claiming that f if they destroyed the temple of His ? body He would raise it up again. ( In Lesson V. we see Jesus as the only begotten Son of God giving eternal life to those who believe on Him, In Lesson VI. we see Jesus declar- j ing Himself to the woman as the j Christ, "I that speak unto thee am { He," and the woman of Samaria rec- c ognized Him as the Christ because ? "He told me all things that ever I s did." In Lesson VII. we see Jesus mani- ? festing His divine g'.ory in Cana of j Galilee by healing sickness at a dis- t tance by His bare word. [, In Lesson VIII. we see Jesus mani- i festing His divine power by healing a simply by His word a man who had been in his infirmity thirty and eight B j years and who was utterly helpless t J and hopeless. v1 I In Lesson IX. we see Jesus mani- t | festing His divine power and glory by i feeding 5000 men with five small ^ loaves and two small fishes, twelve t basketfuls of fragments being left ^ over after all were filled. Thi9 was a E creative act and a decisive proof of a Jesus' deity. In Lesson X. we hear Jesus de- j claring Himself to be the One who giveth everlasting life, the One whon: God the Father hath sealed, the On? j through belief in Whom eternal liff is obtained, as the. Bread of Lif* which cometh down from heaven, th< 0 One to whom coming we shall nevei j! hunger and upon Whom believing wi 1 shall never thirst. 0 In Lesson XI. we see Jesus mani-. festing His deity in healing a man ? born blind and declaring Himself the " Light of the world. c In each lesson Jesus shines out ar c j the Christ, the Son of God. Trut n | faith is built upon facts. Here ar< e I facts upon which faith can build and j P ! believing obtain life through His * | name. b ' * In the Dark Chamber. g ' We must all go there sometin.es? ^ the glare of the day is toe brilliant; I our eyes become injured a*d unabls f to discern the deiicats shades of color ; or appreciate neutral lints?the shad owed house of mourning, the shad- t! lif? t-ViiV.Vi +l,o eimlio-ht b [ has gone. Ev.t fear not; it is tha B ; shadow of God's hcind. He is leading " I thee. ^ i' The photograph of Iiis face oa.i i u only be fixed in the dark chamber. I I1 ! But do not suppose that He has cast j D [tr.ee aside. Thou art still in His e f quiver; He has not flung thee aside ~ as a worthless thing. He is only keeping thee close till the moment comes when He can send thee more j ^ swiftly and surely on some errand in j o which He will be glorified. Oh, shad- | o owed solitary ones, remember how j ji close the quiver is to the warrior, ! e within easy reach of his hand, and j lc guarded jealously.?F. B. Meyer. j e It Gives Courage. Religion gives a man courage. I , t! do not mean the courage that hates, li that smites, that kills, but the calm E courage that lcves and heals and C blesses such as smite and hate and ! kill; the courage that dares resist evil, popular, powerful, anointed evii, yet does it with good, and knows it shall thereby overcome. That is not a common quality. I think it never w comes without religion.?Theodore w Parker. Locomotives Lost at Sea. "Word was received at Paterion. N. to J., by the Cooke Locomotive Com- foj nany that sixteen locomotives built bj p, that company for the South Manchu rian Railroad were lost at sea in a st vessel that foundered off the coast ol q\ China. The engines that were !osl are part of an order of thirty-five thai the Ccoke works had for this road. Th?y wer? of the standard American size and were for passen- j g?r traffic. The locomotives, as usual I f1" wiih all foreign locomotive ship ! mcnts, were in parts and boxed. P1 Largest Locomotive Shop?. The new locomotive shops which the Grand Trunk, of Canada, system to is building at Hat tie Creek. Mich. ]a will bo among tlio largest in the (h country, 'j'ho machine simp, which tii has a length of over S'OO feet, is to be (.a built, entirely of steel, brick and ce- (]| mont. Grand Trunk officials gave an |n estimate oi' $",000,000 as the prob- - \ : ril.lo ener c.|. ? C'S I :i!!! ! ! ??! Miitisricva Ti--? ccr) Ira;!* at (iitr.) Rritaia it I'J", 191 employed Sf;7,1 ?>0 I l\ C, <tim fm# /f^llu tvmfl/? 11 It lliUw:jVuvw \NvWmonfi, rh<? ffcajanf \lclds\Jit A\'W ?oJy Writ I mUw;de5|w^f ~NO DEATH. ??? The following poem has frequently, but erroneously, been credited to Bulwer Lyt< ton. The name of the real author is given , below. Ihere is no death. The stars go down. To rise upon some fairer shore; And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown. They shine forever more. rhere is no death. The dust we tread Small change beneath the summer'* j showers ro golden grain or mellow fruit Or rainbow-tinted flowers. Hiere is no death'. An angel form Walks o'er the earth with silent tread;; Be bears our best-loved things away, And then we call them "dead." ~-J* L. McCreery. Better Truth or Truth Better. The whole matter was once put by; Mr. Spurgeon in a 2risp form when tie said: ; "We ought to make every effort in know truth better, but we must understand to begin with, that wa shall never know better truth." , This Is the true doctrine of the> jpen mind. To speak of the -evermoving revelation of God" is mis-^ leading, and also entirely untrue, if t>y it is meant that God has given tomen nothing eternal, definite and Hxed. According to this, fixed truth s to be the possession alone of thq.- < future; the men ot the present ar^* left with nothing but uncertainties, [t seems to be overlooked that such* a, state of things is a serious reflet :ion upon the goodness of God. What our age needs is to get baclf? to the unalterable facts of revela<:ion. For such facts as the Incar? lation, the Atonement, the Resurrect :ion, and the Deity of our Lord, therf ? :an be no "open mind" for the Chris*:ian. On these points the mind haf< ;o be made up, once and for all. Thesi ire the foundations, without whiclj here can be no Christian fabric. Th($ ull meaning of these facts will bfriisclosed to ub as the mind and theleart are truly "open" to them, bufl hat meaning can never be dissonant 21th the facts themselves.?London rJhrlstian. . I The Evidence of Divinity. * "O Iole," one said to the faif Jaughter of the king of Attica, !o you know that Hercules was tf* ;od?" Now mark the answer. "Be< :ause I was content the moment min^ ;yes rested on him." "He conqueredi. vhether he stood, or walked, or sat.* Just so. There is the whole story,. 'Faith cometh by hearing, and hear-' ng by the Word of God." We mai tear from the Scriptures that God-, s our Father, that He is love, an<f hat He is light?i. e., perfect justice: ,nd yet, Christians as we are, anq' iave been for many years, and despite our having filled our minds with he intellectual knowledge of Gody t/e may have to be brought back ta. he first elements of truth, and havtjo confess (oh, happy hour when we:o!)that we have never yet believed hese wondrous words in our heart of: iearts?but that from this momenflever, never can we doubt them gain. 'he Lower Cannot Create the Higher;, The passage from the natural. rorld to the spiritual world is heraetically sealed on the .natural side, 'he door from the inorganic to the* ro-onin {a cVtut nr\ minorol r?or\ nna'? . 1 gauiv^ IJ DUUb) UV UiiUVi Ul VOU t; bo the door from the natural Ul ? be spiritual is shut, and no man can pen it. This world of natural men taked off from the spiritual world byi arriers which have never yet been rossed from within. No organid* hange, no modification of environ*, aent, no mental energy, no moralEort, no evolution of character, n<r rogress of civilization, can endoW ny single human soul with the attrH utes of spiritual life. The spiritual , rorld is guarded from the world next: a order beneath It by a law of Bio* enesis?except a man be born again e cannot enter the kingdomjof Got? -Henry Drummond. coolnsl pdi iorwrc "When a Christian is "sealed" aihe property of his Master, there will e no need to ask, "Whose image an<J uperscription is this" upon th{ sealed one?" The King's, of course. Lny one can see the image. Of wh&y se is the "seal" if it cannot he seenj s the King's image vividly, permay ently stamped upon us? It is onvery Spirit-filled "sealed" believer, -McNeill. Be Not Afraid. Whatever trouble comes on you, f mind, body or estate, from within r from without, from chance or from itent, from friends or foes?whatver your trouble be, though you be >nely, O children of a heavenly Fath? * r, be not afraid!?J. H. Newman. Jesus is the Christ. The modern anti-unnst asserta m lat Jesus is a Christ. The true be* 9g ever links himself with St. John's H pistle, and asserts that Jesus is tha H hrist. There is no other.?Rev. Ar-' H lur Bourne. ffij A Famous Divine's Opinion. fey Henry Ward *Beecher said: "An H jiding civilization ha? always gone ith the Christian Sabbath, and al- 21 ays will." >1 How Few There Are! En Custom and formality draw many M i the ordinary places of worship; H it how few there are that come on fin irpose to meet with God in His wor- H lip, and to find His power in 9fl rengthening their weak faith.?Mcaeyne. SB Dcepost of Needs. ^6 Deeper than the need of men, deep- H| than the need of money, deep down1 BE the bottom of our spiritless life ia 9 e need of the forgotten secret of evailiug prayer.?Speer. BR Franco Knorniousiy Jiicii. gsn There has been made public an in- EH rviow willi Finance Minister Cailax, in J'aris, in which, contrasting HXj r> French financial situation with Hm at of other couniries, the Minister BbI lis attention to the enormous assets 9b 0 Fu ndi Government and the Cominic.s hold against their liabilities. SB Vitliin forty years," M. Caillaux de- |9R ires, "these will be increased by the |9| cheating to the local authorities ot .^^9 1 liable franchises, such as lighting, atiiig and water, and between 1950 id 1!)60 all the railroads will be- BBS me the property ot the nation," Mm I