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CHAPTER XIX. 16 "How can I thank you?*' cried Tola, looking at him with eyes full Of overflowing gratitude. He raised her hand to bis lips: he could not help it. only saying. "I need no thanks. I would do anything for you or Arthur " The next morning early he started for Goucy, determining to travel night and day. His mind was full of the gravest misgivings as to what might have become of the man who was not only his dear friend, but Tola's passionately loved brother. Mr. Irvine reached Goucy with Ihe smallest possible delay, and. desiring to be taken to the best inn in the town, was conveyed to "La Pie Blanche." He was a very good French scholar, fortunately, so had no difficulty in understanding all that was said to him; but the story that Qis voluble landlady poured out was so extraordinary and confused that he distrusted ihe evidence of his own ears. "Monsieur has only to speak to Monsieur Tasset. our Mayor." said the landlady, tossing her head. 'Though, as to incredulity, all the world knows the siorv of Jacques Ay mar, and should not that which was true in the seventeenth century prove likewise true in the nineteenth ?eh?" Mr. Irvine had nothing to answer to this argument, but he followed her advice and asked for an interview with both tht Mayor and the Cure, and they not only confirmed the good landlady's story, but told the whole ihing with a clearness and force that left no room for doubt. Moreover, the story was now in every newspaper In France, and had created an ex traordinary sensation. The criminal had confessed his crime, and his confession, having hoon aroenteil as :in pxfenuatine oil' cumstance, had escaped the extreme penalty of the law. and was con demned to the galleys for life. "But where, then, is Mademoiselle Rigaud. and where is my friend?"' cried Mr. Irvine, becoming more and more anxious. "Mademoiselle Rigaud is still at Bordeaux,'-' said Monsieur Tasset. 'After her extraordinary mission was over she succumbed, as we all knew she must?being a young and deli cate girl?to a very dangerous brain fever. We did, all we could for her. rvenner monsieur it? v/ure. um i iuj self, left Bordeaux until everything was arranged in the most satisfactory manner. Mademoiselle Rigaud was removed to a hospital where a sep arate department is assigned to ladies of a good position. She is nursed there most assiduously by the good Sisters of the Holy Cross; and as for her poor, devoted fiance, he took a room at Le Lion d'Or.' and is 'loubtless still there awaiting her re covery. Also his presence was re (juired by the authorities, who inti mated to him that he must not leave Bordeaux uniil the legal proceedings were over and his evidence had been given."' Mr. Irvine was struck by the epi thet fiance. "1 was not aware that my friend and Mademoiselle Rigaud were afli inced," he said. Monsieur Tasset and the Cure both assured him it was a fact, and they JweJt on the extreme and unselfish devotion that Arthur had shown throughout, speaking of him with a warmth and admiration which Mr. Irvine treasured up for Tola's ben efit. That saint evening he started by the night express for Bordeaux. Mr. Irvine arrived at Bordeaux about 4 o'clock in the morning, drove straight to "Le Lion d'Or." and as it was too early to make inquiries or disturb Arthur that morning, he w?nt to bed. He was tired out from the rapid ity of his late traveling, and he did not awake from his sleep til) 10 o'clock. He rose, breakfasted in the coffee room, and asked for Arthur. He was told, to his disappointment, lhat he always left the hotel early, went to the Hospital of the Holy Cross, and very often did not return home before dusk. Mr. Irvine thought it better not to go too early to the hospital, so he sat down and wrote a long journal like letter to Tola, telling hei all the events of each succeeding day Tt was only when actually writing It down in black and white that he fully realized the strangeness- of thr stofy ho had 10 tell. Having finished his letter he took It out to post, and then made his way to the hospital and asked for Arthui Den stone. He was shown into the visitors' room, where he found already groups of people waiting about Jn a large bare apartment resembling the wait ing room of a railway station. Be fore he hail been there five minutes, the door opened and Arthur Denstone came in. Fie came forward with the stiff, uncertain look upon his face of a man who does not know whom to expect, bui at the sight of Mr. Irvine his whole face changed, he sprang forward with both bands out stretched. and with an emotion which for th^ moment rendered him speech less. "My dear fellow." cried Mr. Irvine, "what ?'i terrible time you have ben through.' "It js over now. than Gou! paid Arthur. "But oh. what oil earth brings you here? It is like a breath ot fresh air from home. How is Tola? How arc they all?" "I came in search of you. Arthur, ' said Mr. Irvine, gravely. Tola was breaking her heart abr-uf you "I have hardly had time to won der why she did not write,'' said RGARET Arthur, passing his hand over his brow, "until the last few days." "How could she write, not knowing where you were? There are several of your letters now at the Poste Restante at Gouoy." "But I wrote to-her twice, both to her and my uncle in Liverpool. My letters to To?a told her everything. I do not understand it." "What can have become of them? Poor Tola has not had one line from you. The suspense has been very great." "And you came in search of me in consequence? How good you are. Irvine. I will make close inquiries about the. letters. It is most extra ordinary." "Now. tell me first. Arthur, what is your position here?" "We have been battling for life and death." said Arthur. "The strug gle has been terrible, and we have had a terror of worse than death." He shuddered slightly. "But. it is over now." "Thank God!" said Irvine, earnest ly. "Have you been allowed to be with her?" "Yes. She is not in the hospital, but in private apartments, and un der the charge, not only of the nurs ing sisters, but of Dr. Simon's wife, a good, kind woman, who has been like a mother to us both. Now she sits up; she is very weak, but is get ting well, and I am allowed to be there frequently." Mr. Irvine, looking more closely at his friend, saw in his face traces of long-continued fatigue. He had grown very thin, and looked white and tired. "You have had a dreadful time of it," he repeated, and Arthur nodded. "She will be too tired to see you inst nnw *' hp said nresently: "but to-morrow you must come. Mean while. we may as well go back to the hotel and make inquiries about the letters."' They made the closest investiga tion. and after a time the truth came out. Arthur had employed a boy from the hotel to post his letters who had long been suspected of petty dis honesty. He had regularly cut off the stamps, and 'posted the letters down a grating, where he thought they would never be discovered, and as no inquiries were made, and no trouble came of it, ht went on doing so with impunity. "I can scarcely regret it," said Arthur, "since the result has been such a proof of friendship as your coming out in search of me.'' The next day he took his friend to visit Antoinette. They found her ly ing on a sofa in the apartment of the hospital that belonged to Dr. Simon's wife, and Mr. Irvine, when his eyes rested first upon her. thought that he had never seen a creature so fragile and so fair. Her face was still white, and so delicate that the pink color rose and died away at every movement. Her little hands seemed almost transparent, hut the great, glorious, rey eyes, which fol lowed Arthur's every movement with loving, clinging pride, showed him that love and life were strong within her. The good, fat doctor's wife took him aside and said to him. with tears in her honest eyes: "Ah. Monsieur, it is only his love that has kept her alive; he has nursed her like a mrthpr. and tripp to fulfil cverv wish siie has. May only my Victor turn out as good a young man as he is, and in all ways resemble him." As Victor was a small youth, with a large shaven black head, ami loose ly hanging limbs. Mr. Irvine could not helji thinking that the wish was de cidedly sanguine. That evening Arthur told his friend the substance of Paul Ledui :j confession. His name was. of cours?. I like all else, part of his imposture. He was a well known Paris sharper, on avIicsc track the police of both London and Paris had long been. He had long had his eye on Monsieur Rigaml, whosv transactions had re sembled those Ol the ostrich, when hiding her head in a bush she im agines herself to be hidden from her enemies. With a view to watching his proceedings he had traveled with him and Arthur Denstone from Lon don to Southampton, disguised in a grey wig and beard, and, but for Arthur* presence, he might even then have succeeded in his purpose: but an accidental turn of the con versation gave him just the clew he v anted and it became comparatively easy to personate a nephew who had never existed. The supposed Paul Led no almost pathetically protested that hf never meant to murder the old man. but owing to his extra ordinary passion for his diamonds he i was obliged to" do so in order to get I possession o! them. The deed was dune in day light. befort the arrival or ivjcHieiuuiKtiie wgauu anu Aiinur Denstoue: and in a carefully chosen moment, while the old servants were making their scanty meal, he had re moved the treasure to a place long chosen and prepared for its rccep tioii, meaning, to return when all was blown ovei to lake it away with him. But before he had long left the place a strange 1 error came upon him. and he determined at once to fly to Bor deaux and remain then hidden till ihc hue and cry were passed or rather till after the execution of old Hattiste made it safe for him to re tu rn. Art Inn snoke with srent indiirnn. lion of ili' sentimental character cf the trial, of how the so-called Paul Led no diew tear? of interest from bin audier.ce. when, with despairing gestures--. he lamented the terrible neressity that had lain upon him of destroying iwo lives, and of the sym patic shewn him afu-r all was over. Mr. Trvinc asked about the dia mond:-. and Arthur told him that all had been done with regularity and order on Monsieur Tasset's return to Go1 ?y. They had had considerable di' ulty in finding tjie charcoal burner's hut again; but having done so, Tasset put an official seal upon the case containing the stones, and it had been removed to the bank, where it was to remain until Antoinette should be well enough to give direc tions as to its final destination. "And she is getting better every day now," said Arthur, almost gaily, "tiough Dr. Simon warns me that for a long time she will need the great est care." Some days passed. Letters came from England, from Tola, both to Arthur and to Mr. Irvine. Tola did not know bow to accept the extra ordinary story that she had heard. It thrilled her with mingled interest and fear. While feeling the deepest compassion for Antoinette, she could not help showing her keen anxiety about her brother's future in every line of the letter. In a few days more came the re quest that Mr. Irvine had been quiet ly expecting. Arthur and Antoinette wished to be married at once, and begged him to perform the cere monv. There was no reason for de lay. Their position in Bordeaux was a strange and anomalous one. Ar thur could not leave her in her deli cate, nervous state, and yet it would hardly do for him to linger on for ever thus. A quiet, speedy wedding seemed the only and best solution of the difficulty. So the very day on which Janet and Colonel Curtis were married at Denstnne Court, the little English Chapel at Eordeaux witnessed an other and very different wedding scene. Mr. Irvine married Arthur and Antoinette, the only witnesses be ing the good doctor and his wife and the Sisters of the Holy Cross, who had nursed her through her long and dangerous illness, and now, with tears of emotion, dressed her for her bridal. After the wedding Arthur took his wife to Biarritz for rest and change; and Mr. Irvine went onwards, with a feeling of sadness and loneliness, to try to forget home in wandering in Spain. . - The diamonds, by Mr. Deustone's aavice. were reiumeu iu ougiauu, and the whole fortune, under his able superintendence, realized and rein vested, the income, he wrote to his nephew, being about thirty thousand a year. Arthur and Antoinette did not re main long at Biarritz. A telegram summoned him home to the death bed of bis father, and. though they traveled rapidly, they arrived too late. Antoinette bore the journey much better than Arthur had dared to hope; and, indeed, she rapidly re gained health and strength and the happiness of her new life brought back the color to her cheeks, enhanc ing greatly her beauty. The death of the old squire made a considerable change at Denstone Court. Reginald, happily married to his Mrs. Grimes, declared that he hated the place, and only wished to IK' IIU UJ Jl, itIJU ^illllUJ 1U1 luvyiuj purchased it. Janet and her husband and Reginald wondered what he meant to do; but he soon made it evident. He and Antoinette meant to make a home there with the poor widow and all the children. vPainters and upholsterers and car penters were turned in, and in a short time the whole place was trans formed. gardeners engaged, horses bought, all established on a new scale of comfort : and for the children suf ficient attendants and a good gov erness were found. One day Arthur found Tola stand ing idly at the window, with large tears rolling down her cheeks, and he put his arms around her. "What is it. my little Cinders?" he said: ' tell me about it.'' "It is nothing. Arthur; I am very happy. As for your Antoinette, she is the dearest, sweetest creature in the world, and the children love her so: and mother watches her with all her soul in her eyes." "Then what ails my little precious sister?" "Idleness. Arthur. Nothing else. Othello's occupation gone.' " Th-at afternoon a visitor arrived and asked for Tola. She went down stairs with flushed cheeks and a little quivering smile. The interview did not last very long. In n ffiw mnmonlc clio ran imftfnirs and 1 hrew herself straight into An toinette's arms. Ob. Antoinette, he wants to marry me! Fancy me! It is not possible? a Cinderella such as I have always been!" Arthur went downstair* to shako Mr. Irvine's hand and welcome him at-- a dear brother: One only stipulation Tola made, and thai was that she might carry off Letty with her. Mr. Irvine's new living, which he had accepted now, was in a large seaside place and Tola felt sure that the sea air and the rest and quiet would cure her little sister. The only individual who sorrowed Iotic nnrl dernlv over the new disno siiion of the family fortunes was pooi Aunt Betsy, who was defrauded or lb' nephew whom she had looked upon at- all her own. She did her beet to transfer her material feelings to Tommy, but she could not do it, and Anhui remained always her lost dai ling. The fatal power that had nearly cost Antoinette her life and reason had altogether passed away; but she never summoned up courage enough to return to Mon Repos. and the small property was transferred by a deed of gift to the good Mayor of Goucy: and Antoinette was not sat isfied till she had furnished the Church of Goucy with a splendid set of altar hangings of her own em broidery, which deeply gratified the Cure. As for old Battiste and Nanon, thev were well remembered, and the pension they received for life enabled them to keep a cow, pig and poultry of their own. and to repose from their labors altogether. The past faded slowly, till it seemed at last only as some horrible dream, which might or might not be real. , The End. Iron and steel pipe may be readily distinguished by a flattening test, ac cording to statements made at the meeting of the. American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers. Soft steel pipe, cut in very short lengths or rings, flattens smoothly and evenly without breaking, while \ wrought iron pipe usually fractures | at two or more places when flattened, j According to ihe American Machin- ! 1st, the greatest single consumption of brass is for condenser tubes, a battle ship alone having from 30,000 pounds to 40,000 pounds of condenser tubing in it; and owing to the cor rosive effect of sea water this tubing | must be continually replaced. The 1 material used is usually either Muntz , metal?sixty per cent, copper, forty f per cent, zinc?or else a mixture of J copper, seventy; zinc, twenty-nine, j and tin. one. The most remarkable feat of travel 1 In iho \vhnl*> hislnrv nf creation with i a single exception, is the invasion of ; Europe. Asia and the Americas by J the elephant, family, whose birth was ; in Africa. New light has been thrown I upon this interesting chapter of nat- ' ural history through the discoveries ! of the American Museum of Natural 1 History; and the paleontologist in j charge of the museum's recent expedi tion to Egypt, Professor Henry Fair field Osborn. has written fully for the Century of "Hunting the Ancestral . Elephant in the Fayum Desert." An irrigating canal has just been : completed in Hawaii. It will carry 45,000,000 gallons of water daily through sixteen miles of tunnel and j open ditch. Its purpose is primarily J to carry water for irrigation from the Waimea River to the Kehaka planta- ! tion. but on the way it will be used at two places for the development of electricity That eminent American astrou- ; oraer, Professor Percival Lowell, has become fully convinced, from photo- , Kiupus Ol iviurs, UltlCIl wcuu; at LUC Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., j and in South America by the scien tific expedition sent there, that the ! little planet is inhabited. The pic tures, in the professor's opinion, cor- ; roborate the theory of a remarkable i system of Martian canals, and so as- | sure him beyond a doubt that the ' planet is "the abode of intelligent, , constructive life." Dr. John B. Watson, professor of physiology in the University of Chi- ; cago, is said to have made the dis covery that sea gulls have a lan- ; guage of their own and think as well as talk. Dr. Watson has just, re turned from a remarkable trip of research in the Dry Tortugas Island off the lower coast of Florida, where he made the discovery. The mammoth lived in Europe? and also in America?before the Glacial Period set in; it flourished in 1 an inter-glacial time, and was driven I south as its habitat was invaded by | the snow and ice. No wild elephant has lived in Europe during the hi.s- ' toric period. The Oyster, Psychologically ]>y EI). MOTT. It is the fate of the oyster, peace ful as he is, to perish in many a broil. And how he is deviled! ; How he must submit to everyone's sauce! How delighted people ever are to ; touch him on the raw! How they love to keep him in hot ( water! What a stew he is frequently in! Poor oyster! His case is, indeed, uncommonly hard. Quiet always, mild to placidity, yet i he participates in nightly scenes of debauch and revel. He frequents midnight suppers, companions of wild roisterers of every : degree. His very name suggests irregularity of living, late hours, riotous company, unwholesome haunt.1:, unlimited pota tions. i And yet ladies and gentlemen, the highest and most exclusive, have him ' at dinner, not only without scruple, but with undisguised pleasure. There : would be a blank at the board with out him. What a creature of fate, indeed, is , the oyster! His earliest close associate :< heart less rake. Later in life welcomc guesr of the i high, the mighty, the brave, the fair, i His inevitable end and epitaph: i "In the Soup!"?From Judge. tT. S. Dowries For Titled Foreigner* j Now why does any one want to dis- j courage American dowries to titled j foreigners by taxing them! Those! dowries are not paid with money. No ' gold, pure 01 otherwise?110. nor si 1- | ver at any ratio?goes oul ot the j country in any considerable amount when a plutocratic American pays an aristocratic European handsomely for marrying his daughter. Y/hat does go out is the general products of American farms and workshops. Bui isn't that a good thing for Amer ican business and labor9 Doesn't it increase our exports? And as noth? ing is imported in payment, doesn't it expand our favorable balance 0/ trade??The Public. An Indiuninn's Kccoid. John \V Eider, of Warsaw, has ! spent consecutive nights in hit- 1 home in this city: in fact, he has never been away from home over night. and he observed his tifty-sec ond birthday anniversary yesterday. The record is remarkable, and it is doubtful whether there is another person in the county who can make a similar claim.?Warsaw Corre spondence Indianapolis News. Canada s government revenue from all sources last veai will bo moiv than $J00,000.000. In the first seven months the customs: receipts increased I sk r.nn nnn ScinOati-^cftoof II i I INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR MAY 3. fciiDject: Our Heavenly Home, John 14?Golden Text, John 14:2? Commit Verses 2, 3?Commen tary. TIME.?Tuesday night, April 4, A. D. 30. PLACE.?Upper room, Jeru salem. EXPOSITION. ? I. I Will Come Again, 1-3. The 14th chapter of John is the richest vein in the most re- ; markable gold mine in the world? i the Bible. The first clause of verse 1 ! is the keynote of the chapter, espe- ! cially of verses 1 to 27. Verse 27 j and verse 1 begin with these words. | All in between might fitly be entitled thoughts for the comfort and encour agement of believers during the ab sence of their Lord. The remaindei of the verse contains Jesus' infallible prescription for heart trouble (see ; Am. R. V.). The one who truly be- ! lieves in God and believes in Jesus ; Christ will never be troubled in heart (Is. 26:3). We can take our choice j between believing hearts and trou- j uicu iicurui. wnen iaun comes in, j. anxiety goes out. A number of spe- j cific comforting thoughts follow. The , first is that heaven, the Father's I house, is a large place with room enough for us all. as well as for ! Jesus. The second comforting ! thought is that Jesus is coming back personally to take us to that place, i The temporary separation is to be ' succeeded by eternal reunion (v. 3). He does not send for us. He comes Himself. Any one who has learned to interpret scripture by scripture i can easily satisfy himself that the coming here spoken of is the personal second coming of Christ by a careful comparison with 1 Thess. 4:16, 17. The return of our Lord has ever been "the blessed hope" of believers (Tit. 2:13). Jesus here speaks of it to j banish heart troubles, and?when Paul ; speaks of it in interpreting this pass- j age he closes with "Comfort one an- j other with these words." II. The way to the Father, 4-6. ! The third comforting thought was ! that they knew the place where He 1 had gone and how to get there. To this statement Thomas interposed a | doubt. Thomas' expression of doubt j was the occasion of some very pre- | cicus teaching. Verse 6 is one of the ! mountain peaks of scripture. It tells 1 us the way to God. Jesus Himself is j the way. We get to God through Him and no other way. That way is open lo all (ch. 10:9; 6:37). How Jesus is the way the Bible makes very plain: (1) Eph. 2:13, 18; Heb. 10: 1 A OA. /n\ t 1 . ft *9 - - %? - m " f LP, L\> , \L) iVia.ll. ll.il i JOQQ il.6', (3) Heb. 1:1-3. He is Dot only the ! ?vay, but "the truth" also. - He is ! 1 'truth" incarnate. Other messengers | of God teach us truth. Jesus is the ! ' truth. If we are then to know the ; 1 truth we must know Him (Col. 2:3: ; 1 John 17:3). He is also "the life." Jesus does not merely give life. He [ 1 is "the life." If you wish life, you , must take Him. As soon as you have ! : taken Jesus, you have life (John 5: 1 11, 12). If 3'ou haven't taken Jesus, 1 you may have existence, but you ' haven't life. If you are anxious to i know what life, real life, eternal life 1 is, look at Jesus and you will see j 1 (John 1:2). i 1 III. "He That Hath Seen Me Hath j Seen the Father," 7-11. If Jesus were ' were a mere man and not divine in a , 1 unique sense then verse 7 would be j nnnnllinor nrpcumntinn anrl V?lQcr*V?o_ j my. But Jesus had a right to say if ; they had known Me they should have i known My Father also. God perfect- I 1 ly and fully revealed Himself in I Jesus. So Jesus could say what He j did. To know Jesus is to know God. To see Jesus is to see God. To know ; Jesus fully is to know God fully, j Jesus is God manifest in ^the flesh. That was a cry of deep significance j ' that Philip uttered. "Lord, show us ; 1 the Father and it sufficeth us." Yes, . 1 that will suffice us to see God and | nothing else will. But for several j : years Philip had been looking at God ! 1 and not seeing Him or knowing Him. ! 1 There are many to this day who are j 1 just as blind as Philip. Jesus longed j ' to have Philip and the rc?3t of the ' disciples to believe that He was in the Father and the Father in Him. : ' And He longs to have us believe it ! also. His works prove it to all who , 1 have a discerning eye (vs. 10, 11). IV. "He That Believetli on Me, the ' : Works That I Do Shall He Do Also; ! ' and Greater Works Thaw These Shall ' Ho fin " vt Vfirsp 19 rnntains I another of the comforting thoughts, j They certainly do not describe the ! experience of the average Christian ; to-day. but we must not bring God's i word down to the level of our exper- ; iences, but bring our experience up to the level of God's word. Jesus i meant just what He said. We are | now by our faith united to the risen j and ascended Christ, the One who , possesses all power in heaven and on j earth (Matt. 28:18), and by reason j of this union we have power to do ! greater things than Jesus did during i the days of His humiliation. Those j to whom Jesus first spoke these words 1 saw 3000 converted in a single day j (Acts 2). That was a far greater work than any that Jesus did while j 1 on earth. Works in the domain of the spiritual are greater than works in the domains of the physical. To raise one dead in trespasses and sins t ?rfo?iior thnn tn raisp nnp nhvKirallv i t dead. It is for each of us to claim ^ our measure of this power. Verses ! g 13 and 14 tell us how. These verses j ^ tell us of the prayer that gets just ( f what it foks aud anything it asks. It c Js prayer in the name of Christ. Old Red Lion Hotel Bnrncd. The quaint old Red Lion Hotel in Hampton-on-Thames, London, ha* q had a curious end. After standing i for centuries it was condemned to I destruction in order that it might be s replaced by a modern building. It 5 was made the object of a faked con- | v flagration in order to entertain the t people of Hampton, give the local I t firemen some exercise, and inciden- t tally to provide a realistic scene for s moving pictures. After the timber v work of the old house had been well ' i< soaked with petroleum It was set alight and blazed merrily, while the firemen performed gallant deeds of rescue, which were carefully prear< , raneed. c Paintings 2000 Years Old. ' American collectors nave secured some curious Greek paintings which are said to be 2000 years old. They formed part of the famous Graf col lection, at Vienna, Austria, which is to be dispersed, and were discovered in the Fayoum district of Egypt. They date from the period of the Greek occupation of Egypt, and al though so ancient retain their colors in remarkable freshness. THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS A ROOT TUB VICE OF INTEMl'EltANCE. linilronds and .Steamboats Are Very Unsafe Wlien Left to Men Whose Faculties Are Dulled by Drink? 2o,000 Employes Sign Pledge. Not a great while ago the an nouncement wls made as an item of news that 25,000 men employed on railroads had signed the pledge of total abstinence from liquor, the rea son being that v/hen hands were dis charged discrimination was made against those who were known to be even moderate drinkers. Railroads and steamboats are very unsafe when left to men whose keenness of eye and ear is dulled by drink The vast crowds of passengers *) con stitute the traveling public ^ave a right to demand strict temperance as the rule for those who are charged with transporting them from place to place. The appeal against intoxicants has too often been based upon sentiment merely, and again and again it has been found that this was not a suffi cient lever to induce a tempted man to give up his baneful habit step onffif tf YAy . an if over me une uuu cmcij. imtu comes to a question of deliberation between losing a profitable job or holding on to it, a man may not re fuse to take and keep a pledge, par ticularly when reinforced by the good i company of great numbers of his fel- I low employes. As a safeguard against preventable j accidents temperance stands well in i the front. Mistakes ar,e made through | carelessness by veterans who many times have run a risk without mis- t adventure, as was lately pointed out \ ir. an interesting article in one of the j magazines. The writer was a signal j man of long experience, and the sum ' of his conclusions was that a large , percentage of accidents was due to a j disobedience of orders and heedless ness, usage having made engineers 1 and conductors somewhat reckless. i Granting this to be true there still i remains the undisputed fact that a weary switchman who has taken a J stimulant to keep out the cold may : forget his duty at the proper moment, j that a telegraph operator may send the wrong message from a similar cause, and that sleeping passengers may be hurled into eternity through i an error committed by somebody whose mind was not quite clear or whose judgment was temporarily clouded. If the crusade for temperance ; started among railroad men could be j indefinitely extended, a multitude of | men, women and children would have reason to thank God.?Christian Her- j aid. Public School and Saloons. With the official census figures of | Massachusetts as a basis, the Massa- > chusetts No-License League, taking j ten prohibition cities and ten license j cities for comparison, shows that in | the no-license cities an average of | eighty-eight and three-fifths per j cent, of all children between the ages of five and fifteen attend the primary | and grammar schools, wljile the per- I centage of the same class of children ! attending school in the license cities is only seventy-three?i. e.. fifteen i school children out of every eight eight, equaling seventeen out of every . 100, are deprived of education in license cities. They have to go to work earlier in life to help support j the family, and the saloonkeeper gets the money instead of the home. * TTnrthprmnrp. fortv-seven out of i every 100 boys and girls who finally j set through the grammar schools and who will enter the high school'" in | no-license cities are kept from going 1 further where license prevails. The ( : higher education they ought to re- i ceive is lost to them forever, and ] Lhey go to work in the store or fac- . ' tory.?National Advocate. j ' What Governor Hanley Thinks. The foe is the organized liquor Iraffic of America. It is an enemy : veil worth while. It has great wealth. 1 | It is adroit and cunning. It is re- j , sourceful. It touches the financial in- | terests of many men. It is desperate. It observes no law, human or divine, i i It violates legislative enactments and , | iramples upon the most solemn con- 1 ^ stitutional inhibitions. The rules of , civilized warfare are to it a meaning- , ess jingie 01 mie woras. jls guu ( Mammon. It has no religion but the , ;reed of gain; no love that the dust j , )f gold does not corrupt ; no pity that ' ivarice does not strangle. It is mar- j ihalling its forces for a conflict, the i , mpact of which will shake the land. ' J Work For Temperance. < 1 The Scientific Temperance Federa- ( :ion, at its annual meeting in Bos' j on, received reports that its collec :ion of scientific and other data on he alcohol question had been in- J :reased by the addition of more than t 1000 books, pamphlets, abstracts and t eferences. The library has been I Irawn upon to furnish information r equested by physicians, educators, j jditors. legislators, lawyers, clergy, i nen. social and temperance workers 1 n this and other countries. The sec- i etaries reported the preparation and t )ublication of more than 1,200,000 a >ages of scientific and educational : t natter relating to this special sub- ! ect. I A Tribute to the South. i v '"The wave of prohibition seems to j * >e gaining gre?.t force in the South, j * f it will spread over the North ana j 1 rVest. I. as an old Union soldier, will c tand up and say that the South has j dessed the nation more than . the '' Cortli."?Hon. Jas. H. Chase, Cash- f nere, Wash. c A (iicat Orator's Prediction. George W. Bain said recently: When people say it is impossible to 1 iuit drinking. 1 tell them we are do- * ng it down South I can remember j1 he time, twenty years ago. when the a ky of the South was black with the 1 moke of the distilleries and there i'as a saloon on every corner in every own. At that time my life was hreatened when I was delivering f emperanee lectures. But now 1 can ,< peak anywhere in Kentucky. In five ^ ears there won't be a legalized sa- ' ij ucij i:< ail the Southland. lenipcrauce i>oios. It is stated by prohibitionists that } he territory which is "dry" now in- r hides fully one-third of the entire i lobulation of the United States. e If our friends the saloonkeepers magine for one moment that irhi! ' nti-license people lavo; spcak-easies a et tlieni start up a few. In San Francisco the police figures how that there was a total of 3.'17 rrests in the city for the two prohi- t it ion months of May and June, liR'C, r s compared with J L'74 arrests for s he two following months of high icei:s*.. f THE: roua HAVE PATIENCE YET. Let patience have her perfect work.-* James 1:4. Have patient* yet! Though now by trials beset, God's hand controls the storm; He will perform. Have patience yet! Have patience yet! " Canst thou so soon forget That Jesus died for thee, On Calvary? Have patience yet! Have patience yet! Hushed be each vain regret. Christ lives. Christ reigns above; His deeds arc love. Have patience yet! Have patience yet! Why shouldst thou pine and fret? C!od will thy need supply, On Him i;ely. Have patience yet! ? Have patience yet! Thv T.nnl flntli nnt fr>rorAf_ His love, boundle?R and free, Encircles thee. Have patience vet! ?Hull) Thomas, in London Christian. Effect of Worry. "Worry kills quicker than work,* said a downtown physician. "Worry wears away the flesh by overstraining the nerves, disarranges the digestive organs and eventually affects the whole system. "But the general advice not to worry is more easily given than fol lowed. There are so many complica tions of life affecting a man or hjs family that the ability to get along without worry is a possession of the few?the exceptions. When, there fore. a physician gives the glib advice not to worry, he usually overlooks the fact that the causes of worry are not to be removed by a few. words, even though spoken by a pro fessional man. "The primary cause of old age is auxiety. of which the effects are soon notireable in impaired circulation, a drawn and pallid countenance and en feebled activity. It is a demonstrated fact that criminals and tramps rarely turn gray until very late in life, c.nd this is because they give themselves literally no care, having in general no responsibilities, or rather recog nizing none. But an ordinary man with the usual busines and family burdens can no more avoid worry than he can do without breathing."? Philadelphia Ledger. This is much more sensible than the silly prattle in which many writers indulge about the wisdom'of not worrying. You might as well tell a man who had smallpox not to let it make him uncomportable as to tell a man or woman with a naturally anx- * ious disposition and surrounded by troubles and perplexities not to ' worry. And yet, it is true that worrying is very injurious to the health. Worse * than that; it is sinful; for it springs ^ from unbelief. It is either a disbelief ^ in God's care or a revolt against His methods, eveu though there may not be conscious disbelief or conscious ? revolt. And the cure l'or this evil and wasteful disease must be sought in a recognition of the truth that it . is a sin. ' The only possible way of convert ing trials and perplexities and dif ficulties into blessings i3 to accept them as cordially as God's appoint ment for us for the moment, believ ing thar because He has permitted them they are capable of bringing us more good than harm; even-though we can see no possible good that can come out of them. A childlike trust in God will conquer worry. It is a great victory to learn to trust God in the dark. "Blessed are they that bave not seen, and-yet have believed." ?Habbath Reading. finlendor From Within. It is the only thing which makes ;he veal and lasting splendor without. Be beautiful, and you will by and by seen) so. Carve the face from within, not dress it from without. Within lies the robing room, the sculptor's workshop. Fo.- whoever would be fairer, illuminating must oegin in the soul?the face catches he glow only from that side. It is the Spirit's beauty that makes he best face, even for the evening ompany; and the Spirit s beauty is he only beauty that outlasts the work and wear and pain of life. The ;inale nraver worth nravine: in this ounection is that of Socrates: "Ye ;ods, grant xr.i to become beautiful iu he inner man. and that whatever outward things I have may he in har iiony with these within."?William ?. Gannett. Sympathy and Reverence. True sympathy is never inquisitive, t reverences the divine in human na ure too much to think to tear away he veil from the secrets of a trou >led heart. There is a delicacy and i reticence which ail self respecting ueu l'eel ;.nd reverence in the most ntimate associations with their fel ow men. There are rare and sweet uoments between kindred souls when >arriers appear spontaaeously to fall .way and mutual utterance is grant d without words. The Heart of God. Have we ever noted what kind ot lords the Bible uses to describe God s lean? asks G. H. Knight. It speaks ior only of the grace that is in it, ;ut of the riches; of srace and ex eeding riches of grace: not only of he kindness that is in it. but of the oving kindness: not only of the mer les that art in it, but of the tender oerc-iefi. J.et Patienc<? Br Thine. Xtvf-r l-f discouraged because good hing.- get ou so slowly here, and nev ; fail to do daily that good which ieo next to your hand. Do not be in hurry, but he diligent. Enter into he sublime patience of the Lord. Pious Drollery. The pious drollery and mouclcr.nu* p;niulity cf the average city ciiurch = enough to disgust ihe devil.? lev. \i. ?. trcug'ntcn, Baptist, At i'.ta Buys Medical Degree. At Detmold. Principality of Lippe, Ierr Quentin, councillor of the eigning Prince of Lippe and a prom neut member of society, purchased t degree of doctor from a meaicai ollege and used if for eleven years. The truth has just become known ind the courts convicted him. Swiss Tunnel Done. The federal railroad tunnel through he Ricker Mountains, near Lake Zu ith. Switzerland, is completed. Con duction on the tunnel, which is XT.rly five milt.- was begun cill- years ago.