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"Ah? then it must have be?n altogether on the nerves," said Antoinette. "He has always had every reason to believe in the absolute fidelity of old Battiste and Nanon." "All will be well now that you are come," said Arthur. "You will make it all right." "I hope so," she answered; "but the beginning has certainly been rather disheartening." Paul Leduc rose to his feet. "You are weary with your journey, by cousin," he said, "and it makes you see things en noir; andMonsieurhere, your fellow-traveler, should see his room. I think it would be well if we were to take leave. It grieves me to the heart to be obliged to go so scon, but in the course of a week I hope to be back again, and to find you safely and happily settled with your father." Antoinette stopped him. "Before you leave us, Monsieur," she said, "would you do me a favor?" "Anything that is in my power," he exclaimed. g"it is this. I want you to do me this kindness. Knock at my father's door yourself, tell him that I am longing to see him, unhappy at not being permitted to do so, and beg him to let me in, for a moment, if only to wish him good night." "I will do my best," Paul said. "I wish I could hold out any hope that my errand would be successful; but you know he is very old. FOr no one else in the world would I undertake to disturb him, but I cannot refuse you." He left the room. He had no sooner disappeared than a look of great relief passed over Antoniette's face. She caught hold of Arthur's hand in both hers, and exclaimed, in a quick, urgent whisper, "I distrust 1 him from the depth of my heart." He was greatly astonished at her . extreme emotion. "Do you not, then, believe that he 1b your cousin?" he asked. "Yes?no?yes; I don't know. Oh! Arthur, I have no one I can trust but you." "He put his arm round her. "You may trust me," he said. "You know that, do you not? Tell me everything. Have you heard anything fresh?" "Yes," she said, still holding him fast, as if to do so gave her courage. "Battiste has told me something very strauge. You were right. My father was very rich, but he has turned all his fortune into diamonds. That is the reason he shuts himself up like this. He has never known a moment free from terror since he .did it. The terror amounts to a mania. Ho conGded all to Battiste one day, and since then the poor old man says he has seemed to fear him also." She sank her voice. "He keeps them all in his room. He spends all his time count ing them. "Battiste told me that he believes no one in the world knows but himself, not Paul Leduc, he thinks, but he says that if I had not come he meant to confide the secret to him himself. He says rightly that someone ought to know." "Oh! yes, he would never fail. I am quite certain of that. He says that my father never shut himself up so early as he has since Paul came, and the poor old fellow has a fancy that he has done his best to make his old master distrust him more But I ought not to detain you," she went on, with such a sudden change of tone that Arthur turned round and saw that Paul Leduc had returned. "It was of no avail, dear cousin," he said, shaking his head. "Alas! My uncle answered me very hastily. He said he would not be disturbed; that he was busy. 'Tell Antoinette 1 will see her in the morning,' he alone answered to all my entreaties. Patience, dear cousin; to-morrow you will have'every opportunity of being with your'father, and I am convinced that in your charming society he will very soon give up his solitary habits, and will never again withdraw himself from you like this. I wish I could have done more." "Thank you," said Antoinette. "You could do nothing more. I am . satisfied of that." Paul turned to Arthur. "I am at your bcrvice, Monsieur," he said. Arthur would willingly have spokpn .a few more words to Antoinette in private., but she made a quick, nervous movement, which he understood as a negative. "Go," she said, hastily. "I have been wrong and selfish in keeping yon both so long. We shall meet tomorrow." "I will come early if I may." he said, holding her hand. "I shall count upon it." The emphatic words attracted "D mtTf o f f/-xv* f I rvr? aui o aiwiiiivii. "Ah! Mademoiselle, my cousin," bo said, as he took off his hat at the door, "if it were only in my Dower to ?'<3*. Wit'? <^. 3SO ESE?TiL^EL5H5HSHHHHHSHHSSHSH! 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They walked fast and reached Goucy before the landlady of "La Pie Blanche" had shut up her shutters. They were too late for the table d'hote, but dined together in the general dining-room very comfortably. Monsieur Leduc Introduced Arthur to his landlady as a lodger for the night, and probably a tenant for the apartment he was about to vacate on the morrow. The rooms were comfortable .and clean, their price moderate, and matters were speedily arranged. As soon as that was settled Arthur went out and asked his way to the Poste Restante, whence he expected to find a home-letter. He was not disappointed, for he found one in Tola's characteristic handwriting, much to his pleasure; for his mind had been so absorbed in the affairs of the strange family with whom he had become so rapidly intimate, that it seemed to him as if it must bo years since he had left home and all the familiar faces and influences of his former life. "Dearest Arthur," wrote Tola, "you have been gone for such a short time that you cannot expect any very great news. We are much as usual, only more so, for Janet and her attendant swain have gone to the Marsdens*. Papa is not at all well, J and talks of seeing the doctor. 1 wish he would. But I must tell you something that will amuse you. 1 fancy that Reggie has met his fate! At all events, it looks like it. The lady is a widow, and she has come to stay at Grimwood for a week. She is what would be called a fine woman; broad, large, redolent of patchouli. She is very handsome, and, I think, very stupid; but good-natured, and kind, and soft. Don't you know the sort of individual I mean? And she has two thousand a year. She rejoices in the name of Grimes? Maria Grimes?and she is about five years older than Reggie. N'importe! He thinks her the most perfect of beings, genuinely, I do believe. He met her at dinner, and took her in the first day she came. The second day they met at church, and he walked home with her. The third day he prowled miserably about the house?that is to-day. To-morrow I hear something about ruins, and a party to see them. "She has asked me to call *her 'Maria' already, which is decidedly premature; but she is a good creature, and I said I would. Aunt Betsy has sent some charming additions to Janet's trousseau, and she writes that Colonel Curtis has given her some diamonds, which enchant her, as you may imagine. I must not write any more, for I hear my everlasting name resounding through the house, and must go on to see which of the innumerables are in want of me. Your loving "TOLA." Arthur was still sitting, smiling over Tola's letter, when there came a knock at the door, and without waiting for an answer, Paul Leduc came in. "It is nearly eleven," he said, "and I am going to bed; but I thought I would give you a friendly word of advice first. Follow my example and lock your door. There are a great many other gentlemen in the house, and one of them, I am sorry to say, sometimes comes in the worse for drink. See, that is his door," pointing to the one next to Arthur's on the farther side. "It tas happened to me more than once that he has mistaken my door for his aud walked in most unceremoniously; so I locked mine afterward. Knowing this, you will not be disturbed by the sound of moving about in the night. But stay, perhaps you are a very sound sleeper?" i certainly snail ue so 10-nigm., said Arthur, yawning. "I am sleepy already, 'l nank you for your advice." "Good night, my friend, Bonne nuit," said Paul, as he left the room, shutting the door quietly behind him. Arthur sat up till midnight, intending to write letters, hut his pen did not go fast. When the clock struck twelve Arthur found that he had hardly got beyond the date of his letter to Tola, so he tore the sheet of paper, determining to postpone it till the next day, and got into bed. But the hours passed by and ho could not sleep. The clock struck three. Ho lott his uneasy bed and went to the window. It was a bright moonlight morning, not a living creature was to be se^n save a solitary cat noiselessly gliding along from shadow to shadI Ai'Mmn nma wifh fhirst. and there was no water in his caraffe. Ii: thought that a refreshing draught or cold water would enable him to go lo sleep, and with the intention of going downstairs to look for some he left his room. Tho thought struck him that he should Drobabl.v 2nd it soonest in the "room of his companion of the nlgl before, and going into the passag he knocked lightly on the door. A Ihur felt sure that it would be lockei so that he was greatly surprised whe it yielded at once to his touch, was evidently not even closed, an caused his entrance into the room t be somewhat precipitate. He bega quickly to apologize, hut the wore died upon his lips. The room wz empty, Paul Leduc was gone. The bed had not been slept in z all, and in all directions were tb signs of that final departure. Pai Leduc had evidently changed hi mind, and instead of waiting till tb morning train must have left in th night. Arthur was puzzled. Howevei it was, after all, a matter of no ver great importance. He found wate in'the room, drank it, and returned t bed. After this, Arthur Denstone slef soundly; so soundly that he did nc awaken until he was aroused by th rustling presence of two individual who had come into his room withou any unnecessary ceremony. * "See how these English sleep! one was saying to the other, and th words reached his ears and cause him to open his eyes. "Hush, Nanon, he awakes. Mor sieur," exclaimed the landlady of "L Pie Blanche," coming up to him wit an air of excitement and myster about her. "Monsieur, I hope yo will be so good as to excuse us fo venturing to awaken you, but? " But Arthur sprang up. He ha recognized old Nanon, the old wc man from Mon Repos, and the sigh of her gave him a sudden qualm o dismay. "Nanon!" he exclaimec "What is it? Has anything hai pened? "Mademoiselle Rigaud is ill? "No, no; but we are in distress Monsieur," said the old womar whose head was shaking with he agitation; "mademoiselle sent me i to ask for you, or for Monsieur Pau to come out to Mon Repos at onct and it seems that Monsieur Paul ha gone." "Yes, Monsieur Leduc has indeei gone," said the landlady. Arthur was rapidly getting into hi clothes. "Without a moment's delaj Nanon," he said; "but tell me a once, what is the matter?" "It is past eight o'clock," said Na non. beginning to cry. "The maste has always been an early riser, am yet he did not come out, and w knock, and knock, and call; and Moe sieur is all alone behind those hor rible big doors, and has been lik that since four o'clock yesterdaj when he passed me as he went ir and forbade that any one should dis turb him. But oh! Ste Marie de Anges! I wish we had paid no hee to his whims and fancies, for knoc! as we will he makes no answer, an Mademoiselle is nearly beside hersel with fright, and Battiste shakes hi head, the old imbecile, and declare he always knew how it would be som day. He says the master never an swered him last night when h shouted that Demoiselle had come but Monsieur Paul spoke to hir later, and he answered then, so h must have been all right then." "I am ready," said Arthur, wh had finished fcis toilette. At that moment a gentleman whor he had never seen before came hastil into his room. Both the women curl sied. "Monsieur Tasset, our Mayor," sai the landlady. "At your service," said Moucieu Tasset, a close-shaved, intelligenl Rooking man of about fifty years c age. "Monsieur," he said, civilly, t Arthur, "I heard of the aniiety a Mon Repos and hastened to place m services at your disposal. In case like this it is most desirable tha there should be witnesses, especiall as I understand that Monsieur Ledu is gone." "Yes. Is it not strange?" cried th landlady. "He was to have gone b the six o'clock train, but when Mi turin came for his luggage it ws gone. He must have carried it t th#> station himself." "That being the case," said Moi sieur Tasset, "I have no doubt, Moi sieur, that you wilf be glad to ha? my support, as I understand th? you are no relation to the family ? Mon Repos." Arthur accepted gratefully; he fe that it might be as well. Even i that quick moment he thought ho rapidly gossip spreads in the littl provincial place. Monsieur Tass< seemed to know all about him an his position. To be Continued. H. C. Trick's Start in Life. And yet not so very many yeai ago, not longer than most of us ca remember, Henry Clay Frick ws graduated from a clerkship in a sma store and became the owner of or coke oven and a little patch of coi land in Pennsylvania. Had thei . """"liricr fnr larp-pr thinSTi UCC11 uv JOHiiJiuQ ftv. ?.. 0w. w no understanding of the needs of growing business, or had there be no desire to be "one's own boss Henry Clay Frick to-day might hai been the same obscure grocer's clei instead of one of the men who mad through his coal and coke industr the gigantic United States Steel Co J poration a possibility. From one li I tie coke oven in Pennsylvania to moi j than 20,000 ovens in that State, ar many more that he is building j I West Virginia, more coke has bee I produced than by any single contrc iing company in the world. That 1) tie oven had grown so that up to year ago its companion ovens we: able to keep the great furnaces i the steel companies blazing night ar day. Many millions have come Frick and his associates in the cos coke and steel business, but all fro that first lonely little coke oven.Cent Per Cent. Child hood's Worst Terror. An examination of 1500 childn recently made in the west of Ameri< shows that thunder storms are by r< the worst terror of childhood. Afte ward, in the order set down, con snakes, strangers, darkness, fir death, disease, wild aitmals, polic men, water, insects and ghosts, i the fear of rats and mice girls e ceed boys in the ratio of seventy-fi' to sixteen. In boys feur begins diminish after the fifteenth year, girls after the eighteenth.?Dun? Advertiser. t YOUNGEST REIG ,re r a wl rSlsSflT ' " ' MmHfHJWWM iffl. HHDL a ) fflflfaBBfeHMMWM ' -WMmmb S ;/; SB * MH^Su^^SHnHR^HBL'..' .- BBw8^|wf&tfl DUYe Seven Years of Age, Who Recently d Rug and Curtain Holder. When beating carpets or rugs on a the line the housewife Is presented h with a problem. Each time she y strikes the rug with the beater the u rug has a tendency to slip over gradr ually to one side. The heavier the rug the greater the liability to get d out of balance. Frequently the rug '* rails oil me imu euuraj auu u>u w 4 be rebeaten. To overcome this nulslf ance and to prevent the rug slip' ping out of position after being once It ij ? ~ % v '? ^?* 1 i- adjusted, a - Massachusetts man has s devised the holder shown here. It d is made of strong spring wire, the k (Upper portion being curved to fit d ovef the rug. In connection with f the four lower corners?which, on s account of the tension of the spring s wire, are inclined to come togethe er?are prongs which force themi selves into the rug. The holder is e stronger and more effectual than ; holding the carpet with one hand and n beating with the other. The operae tor has ample opportunity to stand at a distance from the rug and swing o ,the beater with as great force as desired.?Washington Star. a y Fishy. The average man would rather pay |10 for a-fishing outfit than $5 for d pew rent.?Chicago News. tr_ GERMAN EMPER ^e . ^#^! re PRINCESS VIC id In Okapi Calf a Month Old. !Q The photograph is the first, that nas ever been taken of a living specit n ' mpn Tt was obtained by Signor Ri ,0 botti at Banibelli, in the Congo forI sst, where the okapi was originally discovered.?Illustrated Loudon Newa 1 NING MONARCH. 1 TAN, Succeeded to the Throne of Annam. , V Aluminum Paper. The manufactory of paper coated with aluminum a3 a substitute foi tinfoil has begun to assume industrial importance. Within a year th? Vickel process has been successfully . _aEBliecMn France to the metallzlng with aluminum of paper of all thicknesses, from that of cigarette paper up to that of the sheets from which postal cards arc made. Aluminum paper has the advantage over tinfoil/ in that it contains no lead. It is suitable for enveloping all kinds of confectionery, for making paper boxes, and even for wall hangings. When used as wallpaper it possesses the admirable quality of being cleanable with a wet cloth or sponge.? Youth's Companion. A Potato That Took Shape From a Bedspring. Photo by George Adams, Michigan, in Leslie's Weekly. OR'S DAUGHTER. , . .- <?' ??' ^ ^ TORI A LOUISE. | The Kiss in Japan. She was a Japanese college stuI dent, little and thin, but very graceful in her Paris gown. "The kiss," she said, blushing faintly, "was unknown in Japan fifty years ago. Now, among the aristoc- i racy, it is becoming quite renowned. Some of my people love the kiss. "Yet it comes as a great shock at first. It is so different, you know, from anything in a Japanese girl's experience. I have known maidens who fainted at a first kiss that was perhaps too Warmly tendered. Yet these very maids became afterward ardent advocates of the new Western embrace. "Frankly, I like the kiss myself. Its stimulus, its fragrance and the feeling, ns the red satin, when mouth touches mouth with a warm, soft shock?yes, frankly, I like the kiss, and I And it extremely difficult to deny any eager young man so innocent and so delightful an embrace." Los Angeles Times. London use& 30,000 tons of sugi* 1 annually for jam-makine- 1 / yj rHE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MARCH 20. Pcmpcrance Lesson, Proverbs 23:2033?Golden Text, Proverbs 23: I 32?Commit werse 81 ? Commentary. \ TIME. ? All times. PLACE.? f 7!vprvwl"iprp EXPOSITION.?I.' Six Great Evils 1 That Result From Indulgence in ^ IVine, 29, 30. Solomon here gives us i very vivid picture! of six evils that 'esult from indulgence In wine. Centuries have passed since Solomon's lay, but it is as, true in our day is it was in his that these evils pur- ? ?ue the winebibber. Note them careCully. (1) "Woe," literally, "Oh!" i. ' the intense pain that leads one to f :ry "Oh." How many "Ohs" are arising to-day from the lips of men J and women whose bodies are tortured ' with the many ills that arise from the j use of alcoholic stimulants. I can see still the man that I once carried bod- 1 ily through the streets of a city shrieking "Oh, oh, oh," in indescrib- j able agony from drink, and I see him later as I held him down with my i knee upon his chest as they strapped J him to a bed in the hospital. (2) "Sorrow," literally, "Alas!" i. e., the 1 deep seated and abiding grief that ' causes one to cl-y "Alas! alas!" This 1 sorrow of the drunkard is of innum- 1 erable forms. Sometimes it is the j pnrrnnr nf oflolnc InvoH wifp fl tlH il dren reduced from plenty to poverty. \ Sometimes it 1b the sorrow of being passed upon the street unnoticed by ' old-time friends and associates. Some- j times It is the sorrow of standing by the grave of the once beautiful and happy wife who has died of a broken j heart over her loved one's degradation. (3) "Contentions." Contentions at home, contentions in society, j contentions in the place of business, contentions on the street. Alcohol mothers most of the broils in this world. If a man wants a perpetual war let him drink. (4) "Complain- j ing" (R. V.) Wine injures the stom- \ ach and breaks down the nerves and 1 thereby spoils the disposition. The drinker soon becomes a grumbler, J and grumbler is miserable under any j circumstances. (5) "Wounds without cause." Go to the police court to-morrow morning and see the black eyes, broken noses, crippled arms and legs, chewed ears and more serious and entirely unnecessary wounds that . have come through drink. (6) "Red- 1 neBS of eyes," the sign or distempered brain and premonition of approach- ] ing insanity and death. Note that these things come from "wine," not merely from the stronger distilled liquors. "I know, of course, that there is danger in whisky and rum j and gin and such things," many are saying, "but what harm is there In wine?" II. The Only Wise Attitude Toward Wine, 31. "Look not thou upon the wine." This is total abstinence with a vengeance. Not only "don't taste," but "don't look." It is good advice, Inspired advice. If a thing ought to be left alone, leave it Alone utterly. There are many who do not j mean to sin, but they will just look at the sin. That look is fatal. Eve first looked, then she lusted, then she j ate, then she died (Gen. 3:6). Many a man and woman has taken the same I path to the drunkard's grave and the drunkard's hell. III. "At the Last," 32. "At the last." Three significant words. II men could only see the end from the beginning how many things vthey would leave undone which they now do. Before entering upon any course of action we ought niways to ask where it ends. "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is the way of death'" (chap. 14:12). The way of the wine drinker is undeniably such a way. The beginning is likely to be pleasant indeed: In the beginning it singeth like a bird, it is "at the last" that "it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder." But most of the trains on that road are through trains, and if you get on the train you are not likely to get of? until you reach the end of the line. iv. xne wine imagers j&yra a:;u i Heart, 33. "Thine eyes shall behold strange things". (R. V.) Indeed they shall. They shall see things ouc of all proper proportion, they shall see double, they shall ses snakes and monsters 'and devils. The drinking man has perverted vision, physical, mental, moral. Folly looks like wisdom and wisdom looks like folly. Right appears wrong and wrong appears right. A man who is truthful and honest and pure when sober will lie and steal and commit abomination when he has drank a little. Wine incapacitates men for business, for study, for decent living. If we take the rendering of the A. V., the verse is still true, for when the stomach is full of wine the eyes are full of lust. How many a young man (yes, and young woman) has taken his first eton in linmentinnahle vileness when all that is bad in him has been set on ! fire by a glass or two of wine. Wine is the seducer's most potent ally. But | not only the eyes are wrong, but worse yet, the heart Is wrong. V. The Wine Drinker's Brain, 34, 35. The head of the drinker reels and is stupid. He tosses to and fro as "he that lieth down in the midst of the sea" and sways back and forth as "he that lieth upon the top of a mast." It is a graphic picture of a drunkard's confused and unsteady mental condition. Furthermore, the brain is for the time insensible to injuries received and the drinking man is thus rendered incapable of selfprotection. Last of all, the drinker is the complete slave of his enemy. With full knowledge of the injury drink do^s him he cries, "I will seek it yet again." American Rug Factories in Asia. Consul-General William H. Micnael, of Calcutta, India, writes that the first consignment of rugs made in Tibet for an American carpet house, 11 and probably for any foreign house, numbered 360 rugs and was considered satisfactory. The factory was , established by an American, who is also putting up at Amritsar the largest carpet and rug factory in India. All of the products will go to one house in New York. Consumption Donuly Among Negroes. An organized movement to check tuberculosis among the colored people of Chicago, 111., was begun recently at a gathering of negroes. City Health CommissiouerEvans told the audience the death rate from tuberculosis is four times as great among colored people as among whites. 337,000 Under Civil Service. In its twenty-fourth annual report, at Washington, D. C., the United States Civil Service Commission places the number of officers and employes of the executive civil ssrvice on June 20, 1007, at approximately 337,000. | **Blt / m ? i ? f Mhctrd for rhet ?j i QUIET HOUR I \ & ? ~ >.*' !* A PROMISE. ~ 1 r- : t ?v * 'ear not, but do the thing! [eep thy head clear, hand strong Thy heart a heart of fire, t, 'o love the right, to hate the wrong; -i ind, hastened on an angel's wing, ; To thee shall come thy heart s desira -Sarah c. Grant, in Suncfay-School Timeaj . ' ' ' The Good Indian. Hear what the Spirit saith.?Rev* , ' : 29. > Au old Indian once asked of $ 'y yhita man enough tobacco to fill hl< lipe. The kindly white man put hia land In his pocket and took out a. food handful. The next day the old y ndian came to the man and gave him ?twenty-five-cent piece, saying, "Thif s yours. I found It In the tobacco hat you gave me yesterday." The man said: "Why didn't yon .' reep it?" The old Indian replied: . Oh, that is what the bad Indian laid." "Why, what do you mean?w aid the white man. The Indian said: X 'Why, It's this way with me. I am lot one Indian; I am two Indians. )ne Is good and the other bad; one at jood spirit and the other a bad spirit. Ml last night these two kept me iwake. The good Indian in me said: > Return the man his money; it Is not ; 'f rours; give it back,' and the bad In* iian in me said: 'No, no; keep iti Keep it.' They troubled me so I could aot sleep, and at last I said: 'I will "? lot keep it; I will not keep it; I will .; lot have it.' And then I felt good, toU the Great Spirit said: 'That is good;! that is good.' * ^ Now that old Indian may not have Seen consciously a Christian, but was >ne in spirit and In truth, for 44as, many as are led- by the Spirit of God. . they are the sons of God." -In us all , ;; there are the two spirits; one Is tho rood spirit; the other is a bad spirit,, 'and these," says St. Paul, "are con- ' trary the one to the other." ' | The appeal of Jesus Christ is ever to the good Indian that Is in us. He Is always saying: "See who you are;] . . j fcnow your own Father; you are God's jhild; be like Him." "Follow Me;" 'My sheep hear My voice, and I know; ? !hem, and they follow Me; and I give> them eternal ^ife, and they shall' , J lever perish, neither shall any pluck them out of My hand." These are His words, and His apostles were true to this teaching to . ! < laying:. "Live to tho Spirit and ye shall not fulfil the lusts of the flesh" ind "Hear what the Spirit saith." The sum of the matter is thlsiri ' Give the good Indian that is in thee * i chance. "Hear what the Spirit jaith," and heed His call to newness . >f life.?Rev. A. W.Snyder, St. Paul's Church, Woodside, New York City, to the Sunday Herald. Dawn at Dusk. "I will give him the morning star.* ' i ro whom is this promise given? Is it to youth? Nobody' world wonder at ;hat; youth is the time of promise. .? . But this is the promise to the old. [t is made to those who have finished V \ j their labor, as we see from verse !:;j. rwa|ty-six, "he that overcometh and fceepeth My words unto the end." It !s the man at the end of the day who Is promised the morning star. And that is a very strange thing. 'or AT/% nW/m onoolr nf a nrnmlainsr hov? IT O U1 igu ?pvuu V<. M Jfm a w . )r a promising young man. Bat howl 1 incongruous would it sound to hear )ne speak of a promising old man!j ' .' It would seem like viewing the sun- > ' , V set and saying, "What a beautiful lawn!" . , ...iv.Vl'/a Yet it is this and nothing lees than (his that is imaged here. The vet-. v; sran who has reached the goal .is promised a dawn. We could have understood how he should have been promised a golden sunset. We could aave understood how there should lava been accorded to him the joy of looking back upon his work and see* Ing that it was all very good; but to> jet the morning star at evening time, lo hear the lark in the place where :he nightingale should be, to listen in V'-d December to the voices of the spring ?it is the bloom of perfect glory.?' * ttev. George Matheson, D. D., in Bap.1st Argus. The Vision Glorious. There was once a French vessel that was four years away from homej As the ship came near the shores of 1 France, the sailors were almost unfit for service on account of their joy. As the shores grew plainer, they cried , : ,?f Dver and over, "Beautiful France! Beautiful France!" and as they drew, ttear to the wharf and saw their wive* , and mothers and children waiting foil them, they were.so helpless In their; loy and excitement that the captain bad to get others to aii in docking 1 the ship. That is one reason, doubtless, why God has hidden from us the Bight of our loved ones standing on the shore of the beautiful land to> which '.vo are going; the vision would ^ anflt ua for our duty.?Home Herald. What Revival Means. Words, like coins, become worn with use. W?o are apt to treat tho words "revival" as commonplace be-* cause of its frequen: repetition. In' its true sense it still means: A deeped knowledge of God: * greater desire to do His will; a mc. 'ntense love foif His word; a larger J-.berty in prayer;j a stronger sense of obligation in prayer; a stronger sense of obligation to our churcli; a more solemn sense of the need of the unconverted; ai greater love and zeal in service for Jesus Christ. ? Pittsburg Christian Advocate. * i Rattles in Secret. Our boldness for God before thd world must always be the result individual dealing with God in secret. Our victories over self, and sin, anq the world, aro always first foughf where no eye sees but God's.?Whiti field. What God Writes. If God writes "opportunity" on on? . 1 elde of open doors, He writes "re} Iponsibility" on the other side.?i. If Gracey, D. D. Peary's Dogs Killing Game. At Augusta, Me., Commander Peary; has been notified that some of his Esquimau dogs have escaped, presumably on the ice, f*om confinement on the island in Casco Bay and are running at large, killing deer and other game and laying themselves liable to ke xhoL llamlnirg J./UJnt>er JlarlkCt. 1 Hamburg is tbo groat lumber market for Germany, and practically all imported lumber passes through the hantfs of the bis dealers ai that place.