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? ? ?????? I ; \t/'J<\?^/?- vt>Oj ^i'JiOAtAiivi/vl/vt/v)'y.'W\l> vt/\i;>t/\>AV\l^ II A FA! I F 1 \|y v)/vi/\J/\j/ \JfJ> vl/vj/ 1 ^wM/vJ/w^/JAlhvv'jvi/vl/v'iSl/vl/ Dv ppcnFRK CHAPTER II. 4 Continued. "But why? you must have some reason?" i "Surely we are very happy as we are!" "Hardly, as far as I am concerned. Just think, Sybil, how often do I ever see you? Why, this is the first time since that evening at the Pontifexes' that I've had a chance of being alone with you. I have to be content with catching sight of you through some confounded crush, and think : myself lucky if I get a look or a word in the course of the evening." "I think you might have seen that from the first!" she said, "but I suppose it is your nature and you can't help it, so I must forgive you. And I will tell Aunt Hilary everything this very evening!" "I can't think of letting you do i that," he said. "It ought to come i fr$m me." 1 "She gave a little sigh of very obviniie roHof "Tf vnn think it best." she said. "And when will you tell her?" "To-morrow, as soon as the sitting is over." "We shall be scolded dreadfully. I know," said Sybil, ruefully. "Still, so long as it relieves your mind? ! 'And now," she added, brightly, with ' a complete return to her original gay- ' ety, "don't let us think of disagreeables any more. I've a surprise for you. While you were persuading yourseir, I (tare say, tnai i naa completely forgotten all about you, what do you suppose I was doing for you this morning??guess." "I can't tell, I'm sure," he said, "if it wasn't slippers." "Of course it wasn't slippers," said Sybil, indignantly; "to think you've no more imagination than that. It 1 was nothing of that kind?I don't go in for it. Well, I had better tell you. I bought you a little present?you know I never gave you anything in return for that lovely ring, which I've never worn yet." "You gave me this," he said, taking the hand which was nearer to him. "Tnat aian t cost me anyiuing iu give; this is a real present?are you grateful, or will you tell me how foolish it is of me to waste my money on presents? That is what Aunt Hilary used-to say when I gave her anything. To be sure," she added, reflectively, "I always had to borrow the money from her first. But you will try to like this?" "I think I can promise that," he said; "I haven't any words to thank >-ou with." "You must wait till you see It? perhaps you won't care about it. I don't know what made me tninK you would, but I'll tell you how I came to get it. I was driving with Aunt Hilary, this morning, and we went into a little bric-a-brac shop near Oxford street, where aunt had heard of some Sherraton she wanted to look at. Well, the shop was kept by the dearest old man, who wore a velvet cap, and seemed so low spirited; and while Aunt Hilary was upstairs looking at Buhl cabinets, the old man poured out all his sorrow to me. It seems he has had nothing but misfortune for mouths, losses and breakages and burzlaries and fires?all kinds of trouble, poor thing. Well, I felt so sorry for him, particularly as I knew quite well that Aunt Hilary wouldn't buy anything?she never does; so, as I had made up my mind to get something for you, I thought I would get it there to cheer him- up a little. But all the things were so dear except one. I'm not going to tell you what it is, because you'll know very soon; but it has a little story connected with it. It was dug up a short time ago by some Captain Somebody, who had to leave the army shortly after for some disgrace he got into?so the old man told me And the ship which brought it over from India was wrecked and all the cargo lost except just that one thing, which floated safely to land wedged inside a lifebelt. So it's rather a curiosity in its way." "Evidently," said Campion. "Bat I had such a fright while I was buying it, for in the very middle who should come in but Lionel Babcock! He came smiling up in that patronizing way of his, swelling his chest out, and said, 'Well, little one, and what are we throwing our pocket money away on now, eh?' So of course 1 had to show him, and then he wanted to know what possible use could 1 find for that. And I told him T harl limiP'tit it hie Inct nhn tograph didn't do him justice, and then he went upstairs to find Aunt Hilary, and I had just time to give your address and swear my old gentleman to silence. It ought to be at your house by this time. I do wonder what you'll think when you see it!" "I shall think it my chief treasure, whatever it is. I shall keep it all my life." "But will you really, Ronald? Somehow I don't, like to think of your ever parting with it. Will you promise to keep it?whatever hap pens?" "Whatever happens," he agreed, smiling at her earnest, charming face. "Well," said Sybil, "we've had a nice long talk and only one quarrel, and now I must go, Ronald." "Not yet,"' he pleaded. "Yes," she rejoined, "now. I eoaxed aunt to drive home and leave me at the Mastermans', because I wanted to talk with that odious Alico: and I assured her I could find my way across the park alone. She said one never knows what kind of people one may nie^i, wmcu is qunc true, for I hadn't the least idea I s--houid meet you. I ought to go back nt once, or she will be feeling nervous about me. No, you mustn't walk ? "tep further with me?J forbid it. \ f<i)W) 0>v!/\J/ ?.'/\l/ vV\t> \l/ vl/ ufW^VlWww wv'M vvvO i!. \l) m <J/\l/\t/v!/U/\l/4/\J/vV\J/ vI/OaIa)/ I N I DO!. > a mctpv wtfam/wtfa!/<|w/vl/oiv|)\a&\i> i > ANbTbY. I You will have your own way to-morrow." They parted, and he watched her graceful figure till it disappeared in the dusk, and then he, too, made his way out of the park with a heart lighter than it had been when he entered. He reached the corner, aivi was a few yards from his studio, when he noticed a youth, an errand-boy apparently, preparing to cross the road with a most superflous degree of cau tion for that unrrequentea quariei, again and again when half-way across he would retreat to the, curbstone he had left, looking this way and that, as if completely demoralized by nervousness. At last he seemed to pluck up courage and made a run for it, with an uncalled for determination which mightily amused Campion; he was still laughing when an empty hansom dashed round the corner and bowled the poor boy over a few inches from the footpath. The cabman, without waiting to see what injury he had done, whipped his horse to a gallop, and was gone before Campion, horrified and shocked as he was, could stop him or ascertain his number. He could only run to the boy and pick him up and wait there while he leaned, white and gasping, against the railings of Campion's garden. When the boy could speak he said, "You'll bear me out, mister, as it wasn't none - J ;?? V* A +S-\1/4 oi my auiug; mw guv uui, i^iu me to be keerful, and I've been keerful enough?if it's broke it ain't my fault noway." _ "Never mind that," said Campion, "the chief thing "is, are ydu broken anywhere?" "I don't think as how I'm broke anywhere, though I fell all nohow; the shaft of that there 'ansom ketched me on the shoulder and sent me a-spinning. But feel o' that there parcel, sir?do it seem all right to you, through the paper? Well, that's a good thing, anyhow. If you knew the job I've 'ad a bringin' of it 'ere you'd feel for me, you would indeed! I took a 'bus at Tot'nim Court Road, and blimy if both the 'orses didn't go down! Then I took another at the Cirkis, and we got a-racing down the Edgeware Road, and run into a butcher's cart and very near turned over that time. I never see anything like it! Then sez I, 'Not any more ridin' for me,' I sez, 'I'll walk the rest.' And, would you believe it, sir?if all the kebs and 'busses and carts there was didn't seem bent on runnin' r.ver me! Never run such an erran' in all my born days! Why, I was like a old woman by the time I got 'ere, and just as I sez, 'Blame the himage!' sez I, 'I'm quit of it now!' round comes that there gallopadin' 'ansom, and over I goes like a skittle!" "I saw," said Ronald, "you weren't to blame in the least; and now you had better come with me and we'll see if you've broken any bones." "I must deliver this 'ere parcel, and get that off my mind first," said the boy stanchly, and then Campion discovered that it was addressed to himself. "Why, it must be Sybil's present!" he said, as he saw the label. It was curious to think of the perils it had run of miscarrying and even perishing; its escape struck him as a sort of special providence. He had the boy attended to and examined at once. Fortunately he had escaped with a bruise or two and a bllglll SIlUKJUg. I uevci UvAIU 11U cab,'' said Bales, "the boy's been fightin' on the way?them young raskils will get fighting?he never got them bruises in no accident!" and no argument would move him from his opinion. Meanwhile Campion had unpacked the precious parcel in full confidence of finding something with a pretty fanciful association with it, some graceful and well-chosen addition to his household gods. His spirits fell suddenly at the reality; it was a household god literally enough, being nothing more nor less than an extremely ugly Oriental idol, such as a Buddhist shrine in China or Burmah might contain. It was made of a dingy mottled kind of alabaster with a sparkle here and there under the smooth surface, thp rnhps wprp faintlv indicated bv a dull red lacquer, and it was represented squatting cross-legged with great fanlike hands on its knees. The eyes in the bread flat moonface were closed, and the general expression was one of smug and sleepy self-satisfaction?as if it were being reverently tickled by an unseen attendant. This. then, was Sybil's first present, and at the sight of the inscrutable smile on its calm countenance Campion's demon of doubt again stirred; the smile seemed to be say lug: "Now do I look the sort of thing a girl would give a lover she seriously and honestly cared for?" and the answer he gave was: "No, she has sent rae this in some fantastic spirit of mockery?not love; she has been playing with me after all." CHAPTER nr. From a Pedestal. Campion was still gloomily staring at his ill-favored gift when Bales returned from seeing the errand boy safely off the premises. "I suppose," remarked the attendant, with a dubious ar.d inquiring inflection, "I suppose as that there himage struck 3011 favnrrihlp frnm n ornamental n'int of view, or you wouldn't have spei.t your money on it, sir?" "It was a present, Bales," Raid Campion, unconsciously vindicating his own judgment at the expense of Sybil's. "And now suppose you suggest some place for this idol?how would it look on the low bookcase?"' *Jt wouldn't look no handsomer than what it would elsewhere," salfl Bales. ! "Try it on the bracket where the j Hermes is now--you had better fetch ] the steps, perhaps." j Bales fetched a pair of steps, and, bringing them to the mantelpiece, mounted laboriously, and. after deposing the reduced but faithful plaster copy of the antique, prepared to j establish the Oriental in the room of the classic divinity. He turned on the steps, holding the image out at arm's length, as he remarked with strong disgust: "Just think, now, that there's niggers so ignlrent as to fall down and worship this here old figgerhejyi? why, I shouldn't have believed " But what Bales would not have believed was not destined to appear on that occasion, for at that instant ne lost his balance and fell, accompanied or preceded by his burden. A wild clutch at the small overmantel brought the entire piece down, with its valuable load of old Bohemian glass, Venetian pottery and Roman terra-cotta, the hard won Bpoils of Campion's Continental wanderings, and Bales lay on his back in the midst of the ruin. "Well," said Campion, rather grimly, as he relieved him of the overmantel and picked him out of tho fragments, "you've contrived to come down on a rather extensive scale, Bales." Bales sat up and rolled his eyes."I've come down on the edge of a fender," he t .id. "It'll take me an hour to clear up this mess," he added, in an injured tone. "I didn't make it, confound you!" said Campion, laughing in spite of his anger; "here, get up, and collect the fragments. My Hermes smashes to atoms, I see, and I suppose the idol has come off no better." "Thp idol. sir. beine uncommon strong, has remained 'old and entire, which is more than I can say the same of my ed; my skull's all in fractions, and my brains in that state of concussion I 'ardly know what I'm a-saying of, or whether I'm sitting down or standing up. All I can say is, the next time your friend takes a fancy for sending you a present I hope he'll choose one that's easier to 'andle, that's all." But at least Sybil's gift has escaped the slightest scratch, and Ronald, in the midst of his annoyance at the wholesale destruction, was glad that he would not have to tell her that her idol was in fragments. Where should he place it now? Perhaps, after all, the studio and not the sitting-room was the best place for it, and there Sybil would see it MiVion oho r>nmo nPYt daV! he had a little Chinese pedestal round whicn a gaudy dragon curled {*p?lf, and upon this pedestal he established the idol for the present. The next morning, when he came i-i to his breakfast, it was to find a letter on his plate, the stamp and marking of which made his hands shake as he opened the envelope; he knew it contained the long-expected answer from Sybil's father, Colonel Elsworth. It was a cautious and rather hesitating letter. The colonel began by saying that, if Campion's position and projects were all he had stated them to be, there could be no reasonable objection to the match, particularly as his sister, who was a better judge of these things than he could be, had allowed them to become engaged; for he presumed that her consent would naturally have been obtained in the first place. The probability that Mrs. Staniland, too. had heard from the colonel that morning, and be hopelessly prejudiced against him, made Campion's work fitful and unsteady until the time fixed for the appointment, and ?V>n lioll nnnniinp(>d that Sybil and Sybil's aunt had arrived he felt extremely ill at ease. But Mrs.Staniland'smanner, which was the same as usual, showed him at once that she suspected nothing : : yet; the colonel must have put off writing or missed the mail, and Campion was still in time. She was a stately, handsome old lady, with iron-grey hair veined with silver, large and luminous eyes, and a complexion still unwrinkled, and tinted like a delicate apple; she spoke with a certain incisiveness, and even when she meant to be most gracious her tone was the tone of one haviDg authority. To be Continued. Cats. A cat may purr and purr, and be a villain. Once let the cuisine fall be low the proper mark, and off goes tiie ungrateful (but shrewdly) animal to stop with friends who will look after him better. That is the keynote of the feline character, shrewdness. It is the human traits iy their characters which make men call cats selfish. The motto of the cat is "Business is business." If a man takes this as his motto, and acts up to it, we call him a successful man, and we allow him to write absurd essays on "Hints to Young Lads," and so on, in our papers. But we do not honor the cat. ?London Globe. Ccok Tlad a Shock. In a North Side home the other day, a cat lost one of her nine live?, and the cook had a shock from which she did Dot soon recover. It was the cook's afternoon off, and when she had finished her work, she turned out the gas in the kitchen range, and went away leaving the oven door ajar. When she returned to get dinner, she closed the door, and started the fire. As she went on with the preparations for the meal, she heard the cat crying, and looked every possible place but in the oven to discover the animal. Finally, when the i biscuit hail "been prepared for the baking, she opened the oven door, and out fell a roasted cat.?Columbus Dispatch. Why Kings Lie Awake. A London correspondent says King Edward eats a square meal just before retiriiig. This closely resembles a clew to the origin of the saying, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."?Louisville Courier-Journal. I Nf-w York City lia.< added m.'MOO I families lo its populatioa m tho last j tUj ec j cars. Bjf 5 ' SCIENCE * J (? Asbestos sheets are being instituted under the mattresses of sleeping cars r>v? "/vmn r\f + Via folIn-Qvc nf tho TTnf t"Pf1 States to shut out the heat from the radhitors underneath. "What is said to be the largest projectile ever manufactured was made at the Krupp works for the Czar's Government. It weighed 2600 pounds. It was made for a gun which is placed in the fortifications al Kronstadt. Holland has set engineers to worfc to pump the water out of the famous Zuyder Zee and turn it into dry lan<2 When this work is accomplished there -will rise where 4000 fishermer now sink their nets farms and homes for 50,000 Dutchmen. Only flaming arc and high-efficiw cy incandescent lamps are used in th< business portions of Berlin, and nine ty per cent, of the outdoor lighting is now done with flaming arc lamps Bolh tantalum and tungsten lampi are used, but the former are seer usually in old fixtures where the lamp cannot be placed vertically. Vigorous efforts to preserve th< more remarkable animals of Africt continue. At a recent meeting of the National Preservation Society at Cap< Town, the Chief Justice, while urg ing the need.of stronger measures t< preserve the rare flora and fauna o tnat country irom exuuti-iu, asseiici that the gnu, the gemsbok, tue moun tain zebra, the eland, and the giraff* are now nearly all extinct. In connection with the Austriai governmental establishment for th< preparation of uranium product! there has been built in Joachimsthal Bohemia, a laboratory for working up radio-active substances found ii the tailings and by-products of th< uranium minerals. There will als< be erected a bathing establishment where the radio-active mine wate will be used for healing purposes. That strange African lake, Lak( Tchad, has been the subject of re Dewed attention within the past tw< years, and the fact that in a perioi of twenty years it alternately in creases and decreases in size an< depth seems to have been well estab lished. Four or five years after th beginning of the period the level o the lake becomes very low, and thei rises again to the former height. Ii 1906 the lake was v fry low. Accord ing to native recoils it was nearl; dried up between 1828 and 1833 Twenty years later the level of th' water was very high. The use of rails sixty feet long fo electric interurban railways is pro posed in connection with the con struction of a line of this characte intended for very high speeds wit! heavy cars. Regular freight train are also to be operated. The lin will be forty miles long, and the fas trains will make the run in fifty-fiv minutes, including three intermedial stops. The purpose of the long rail is to make a smooth and easy ridin; i-AAl. rtU fifrfir ?*A*. U clLft. uy ciiuiuiaixug xilij j;ci \j the rail joints as compared with or dinary thirty-foot rails. Rails of thi length have been used extensively i: street railway tracks and on the iu terurban lines of the Indiana Unio: Traction Company. In the latte case, however, it is reported that th results were not satisfactory, the cos of maintenance being unduly high. THE JAPANESE WAY. Rules For a Mass Meeting to Protcs Against Higher Taxes. The Japanese governing idea ha sometimes a directness of applicatio: which is only equalled by its sim plicity. The same spirit whic prompts a Japanese citizen to buil the front door of his house so lc that a possible burglar could not ge through it with a bundle of plunde on his back leads the Japanese officia to specify in an emergency just wha shall constitute a crime, so that th unruly may know when he trans gresses. A short time ago a new holida] Constitution Day, was decreed in Jz pan, with the idea that the commo people could pad along all togethe to some park and hold exercises 1 glorification of the event which mad Japan nominally a free governmen But the restless politicians of Tokit ever on the alert to stir up troubl< planned a monster mass meeting i Hibiya Park to protest against th alarming increase in taxation, instea of to give banzais for a constitutioi The police authorities remembere the three days of ctreet fighting tha followed the announcement of th Portsmouth peace treaty in the fa of 1905. On that occasion all th uproar was started by the barring c the gates to Hibiya Park by polic order, and within three hours th house of the Home Minister, acros the street, was burned, and peopl were being cut down in the broa avenue facing the park by the sword of the mounted gendarmes. With all these circumstances i mind the police authorities poste the following notice in prominen places about the city on the day tb? the mass meeting was to be held: No arms shall be carried by thos who attend the meeting. No kerosene oil or matches sha be carried. No elecoic car shall be burnt. The Diet buildings shall not t destroyed by fire. No members of the Diet who su] ported the tax increase bills sha bo assaulted. Happily the police prohibitior specifying what should constitut something more than a nuisance ha their effect. There v.as 110 not.New York Sun. On Being Too Good. The man who is too careful aboi: living so tiiat future historians ma say nothing ill of him is likely t kecj> them from saying anything coi cerning bis achievements. II Jl' e>unbaij-&cftool - [ i INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM | , Jlli.MS i<UK ?l.il 01. Snbjcct: Jesus Risen From tlie Dead, ^ John 20:1-18 ? Golden Text.jp R?v. 1:18?Commit Verses 15, j 3 16?Commentary. * TIME.?Morning of Sunday, April |( ' 9th, A. D. 30. PLACE.?Garden a about Joseph's tomb. 3 EXPOSITION.?I. Peter and John |j : Investigating, 1-10. All the apparent a > contradictions in the Gospel narra- |] tives would disappear if we knew all t] [ the facts in the case. It was dark in a i more senses than one as Mary hurried (j . toward that tomb in which she fancied t< her Lord lay, but the sun was soon to rise and bring to her the brightness and joy of an endless day. As soon b as Mary saw the stone rolled away g * of flu* iiafnn that i li - DUC J UU1(JCU uKf tug r, the tomb had been rifled. It never j 5 occurred to her that her Lord had f< risen and that God had rolled away | i j the stone for her to enter the empty b 5 tomb and hear about her risen Lord, i 1 Thus we often in otir ignorance and ' unbelief put a dark construction upon 3 facts that are really fraught with the p gladdest meaning. Mary was looking g ; for a dead Lord and she will shortly a t find a risen one. Eagerly did Peter |j and John ryn to the tomb that was * I reported robbed. John, being the > ' younger, reached the tomb first, but 1 3 " in gentle reverence doss not enter, | 3, > but stooped to look in. Peter, true : b f to his impetuous disposition, rushes ! a 1 right in. He sees the linen clothes j v . lying and the napkin that had been { ? about Jesus' head carefully rolled to- | r gether in a place by itself. This is Q an apparently insignificant detail, but j t Is one in which there is deep signifi- j 3 1 cance. It is not merely a proof that j ; s the tomb had not been rifled, leaving j a 3 disorder behind. It shows us that t Jesus in that supreme moment of His t r life displayed that same divine seren- | 3 itir onH MimnMa that marked His ? whole career, and instead of excitedly j p 5 snatching the napkin from His face 3 3 and hurling it wherever it might fall, ! 2 , quietly took it off and in an orderly } | r way rolled it up and laid it down in j 2 Its place. Some would have us be- : e lieve that this story is not fact but j j a fiction. Where is the master-artist j p ' that was capable of this minute but j t sublime touch of life, and not merely b 5 human life, but divine life? When j 1 1 John entered and saw "he believed." p - It was ignorance of Scripture that | b i had kept them from believing up to E . that point (v. 9). They were respon- ! f _ sible for not understanding and be- | j f lieving before (Luke 24:25, 26). II. Mary Weeping, 11-15. It was ! 3 love kept Mary lingering at the sep- | 3 ulchre, it was unbelief that kept her I * weeping. Again and again had Jesus ' n y told His disciples that He was to be . * crucified, buried, and that He should | n q 1 arise again the third day. But this J ? j was so contrary to their ideas that j E ! they could not understand it, and it j c I found no lodgment in their minds. I 3 r | His enemies remembered it (Matt. | 1: * | 27:63), but His friends did not. No j 6 - 1 wnnripr .Tesns rebuked them for their ! ' x unbelief and hardness of heart (Mark [j 16:14; Luke 24:25, 26). Mary looks c into the tomb to see if after all there - is not some mistake about it, half e hoping to see the body of i,er cruci* I fied Saviour lying there. She sees e j two angels, but she has no eyes for , e I angels, it is her Lord Himself she j s ! wants. Half in wonder and alto- i ? ! gether in protest the angels exclaim, ! j "Woman, why weepest thou?" Mary's answer is very touching, "Because . they have taken away my Lord, and I | 9 know not where they have laid Him." i n I Her faith was badly shattered, and : . I yet she still speaks of Jesus as "my j n Lord." He was a dead Lord, but she j | will go to Him. And right at her i back was the living Lord who had : come to her. The darkest hour Mary > ever knew will soon- give way to the gladde3t. Now Mary turns and looks quite steadfastly at Him, yet does not J f T T1 rtlflOP U ic tVl Qt ! I recognize mu. xiuw ucai u we are reading an actual description 1 of facts, and no skillfully constructed fiction. No one manufacturing a tale ' of the resurrection would ever have * s made it up in this way. This is life, 1 q not fancy. Jesus repeats the question ' of the angels and adds another, ' T "Whom seekest thou?" Mary's an- J Q swer to Jesus' question has in it an , 1 d exquisite touch of life and love: "Sir, ' v if Thou has borne Him hence, tell me 1 it where ThotThas laid Him, and I will ' r take Him away." > J ,j III. Mary Worshiping and Wit- , < ( nessing. The way Mary came at last ! to recognize her Lord is also deeply 1 e significant. He said just one word, I "Mary." There is a swift turp and a j glad scream, "Rabboni," and she is j at His feet, seeking to hold them fast. ! e ? ? j ? u +/V l iJUi jesus uues uui buuci uu >.u j n Him fast. There are other sad hearts ' and Mary must leave Him and hurry } to them. "Not of Me lay hold?but j 11 go." So there are times when we lie | e at Jesus' feet and rapturously em- j t brace them; but Jesus bids us rather ! ) rise and go tell others the glad truth 1 >, that has been made known to us. | u Jesus is not ashamed even after His j resurrection to call this weak band of i , disciples, so slow of faith, "My j brethren" (cf. Matt. 2S:10). He is 1 our Brother still. Jesus speaks of 1 d God the Father not only as "My il Father," but also as "My God." Noth- ! ing could bring out more clearly and j) decisively the true humanity cf the I c risen Christ. d | ;e The Tonch-Stone. The bearine of men towards the c ! sins of others is always a touch-stone ' > | of character.?Marcus Dods. Bandit Robs Her Stocking. ' At Sedalia, Mo., a mau masked with a red handkerchief attacked r Mrs. Eugene Hugenschmidt, wife of c a traveling salesman, as she stepped it from the rear door of her home at H night and after binding her hands j ancV feet, tied her to a sewing ma- j chine. The robber then took $75 ' from her stocking aud escaped. Mrs. j Hugenschmidt dragged the sewing I 1 machine to the telephone, removed j the receiver with her teeth and with , difficulty informed "central'' of what i k had happened. A policeman went to j the house and released her, but the } robber was not found. 1, mjh-ij rMUi|i orcicr. At Winnipeg. Manitoba, the Cana is dian Pacific Railway posted an open | j .( shop notice in all shope operated by ti the company from Fort William to Vancouver. Four thousand inecban- ( ics are affected. I Open Simp Order. * At Winnipeg. Manitoba, the Canaii dian Pacific Railway posted an open t ^ sho|) notice in all shops operated 1?> j J " tlic company from Fort William tc, ] Vancouver. Four thousand mecban* ' i l" ics are affected. . ? HE WARFARE AGAINST DRINK. EMPERANCE BATTLE GATFTEnS STRENGTH EVERY DAY. Iritnin's Sea of Liqaor?Over Eight ^ jiuiiuri'u milium i/unui a ii x car ; For Drinks in the "Tight" Littlo j Isle?Amazing Figures. The items of Great Britain's drink | ill for 1906 are in. It appears that I 1 that year the forty-three million eople of the United Kingdom drank 3,891,101 barrels of beer, 39,302,02 gallons of spirits, 12,328,691 allons of wine, and 15,000,000 galjns of other liquors?enough to lake a lake that would float a huu* red battleships. Taking all kinds of quors together, every man, woman nd child in the kingdom, including ifants in arms, consumed nearly hirty gallons, costing about eighteen ollars, or say ninety dollars per famy. This represents at least a quar3r of the average British family inome. For the whole kingdom the liquor ill of 1906 amounted to $809,681,29. British public opinion is torn list now by two insistent demands, ne for old-age pensions, the other ar more battleships. The great navy dvocates say that the country must ?114 nViinn + r\ /lai'wonv'o nnn UI1U IWU ouipo IU uti uiuuj a VUV| nd that it can not find money and till carry out the government's penion program. The cost of an old-age ension scheme is estimated at from 54,000,000 to $140,000,000 a year, ccording to its liberality. The most beral plan, which goes far beyond nything now proposed by the govrnment, would cost a liUle over oneixth of the nation's drink bill. A eventh part of the remainder would uild ten new battleships, which is lore than the most enthusiastic adocates of naval expansion have hought to be necessary. By coaming themselves to three hundred lillion dollars' worth t)f beer and wo hundred million dollars' worth f spirits, without curtailing their onsumption of wine or other liquors t all, the British people could have heir oW-age pensions and their batleships, too. To check any tendency to moralize t the expense of others, it may be rorth while to mention that in the ame year in which Great Britain was onsuming 1,286,710,729 gallons of iquor, we were consuming 1,874,5,409 gallons. We might say that ven these figures showed us to be linking less than the British in proortion to population, but it happens hat the British excess was all in eer. We drank over three times s much distilled spirits, when in proportion to population we should have ad only twice as much. Yet the British race is not particularly noted or abstemiousness in the matter of trong waters.?Collier's Weekly. Progress of Tempcrance. Some nrogress had 'already been aade in my boyhood to stay the ravges of intemperance. Alcoholic liquors were no longer served by farners to their laborers in tha haying ields. or by churches to attending Qinisters at ordinations. But in pite cf the Washingtonian movement ntemperance was common and repectable. Mr. Whittier told me that { n his boyhood liquor was sold at all he dry-goods stores, and that practially all the farms In the neighborlood of his home were mortgaged to >ay the liquor bills. I think that ylthin my memory all liquor selling ias been confined to specially li- I ensed liquor saloons. Rut if rtrinkin? in snrial rirrlps I ras less common than now, drunkenie39 was both a more frequent vice ind one less reprehended. I am old by college men that to-day i Irunkenness is not "good form." It | vas not bad form in the colleges in .850. I think those in my class who lad never been drunk?and they vere pephaps half the class?were ooked upon by the others somewhat is a tenderfoot is supposed to be ooked on in the pioneer settlements >f the West, and I think we some- j low had a sneaking feeling that we j acked a chapter of human experience | vhich a manly man rather ought to iave had?once. New Year's Day in <ew York City was specially devoted .0 social calling by the gentlemen on he ladies of their acquaintance; and :he ladies furnished refreshments, vhich in a great majority of cases rt a/1 nfi? a Tm a 1 aIa o orn/\r*n uciuucu vr inc. iu Liic iaic anciuuuu ind throughout the evening one who vas upon the streets was sure to neet well-dressed gentlemen decidedy the worse for liquor, and some.imes one met them in the parlor.? Dr. Lyman Abbott, in Woman's Home rompanion. Twenty-five Years of Prohibition, j "In Carrollton, Carroll County, Ga., jrohibition has been a success for nore than a quarter of a century," .aid L. C. Mandeville, of that place. 'It was in 1874, I think, that local I )ption was first inaugurated in Car- j ollton, and since that time there j vas only one short period when liquor vas allowed to be sold legally. That ;vas several years ago when the :ounty passed a law permitting it to >old by the gallon. It soon became ipparent to the people, however, that ;ven this slight concession was workng badly, for intoxication increased Umost at once, and after eight j months' trial the county was glad to return to the old system of tot?.i prohibition. I had been Mayor for sev>ral years just previous to the passage 3f the 'gallon law,' and it was apparent to me that prohibition was the jnly way to reduce drunkenness and tawlessness to the minimum. We have found by long experience that the sale of liquor works great injury :o our business interests."?From the Washington Post. Temperance Notes. However it may be as to Maine and j Kansas, declares the Charleston News | and Courier, in the South the fact is , Lhat prohibition does prohibit. To drink now it will be necessary to move to the North, dodging, of course, Maine, Kansas and North Dakota, which have already preceded Georgia in the teetotaler ranks. When Georgia cut off the liquor :rade it involved a loss to the distil- I ers and brewers of $10,000,000 year* y, and to the State in loss of revenies about $2,000,000, The saloon is the only business .hat does not advertise its results or joint to its successes. No "finished goods'" sign is put up by the liquor lealer. Look for that in the Potter's .^ield. Five years ago the men who preiicted that, in 1907, whisky would >e legally prohibited by one hundred :ounties in Kentucky would have )etn locked up as a lunatic. Business nun realize that prchibiion i-ays. One thousand men buying 1000 $10 suits is better than five saj oonkeepers and ten bartenders buy* ug ten ?4 0 s'li-.s and twenty ?13 iuiu. j ffELiGious Reading FOIt THE QUIET HOUR. THE GARDENER. Mv garden stretches to the sun, But, 0 how faint and pale to see! I love to think, when winter's done, How gay my plot will be; ! For though I can not see them thrive, tLr Gardener keeps my flowers alive. Tt, mrinff fhp lilv heds are white With little bells that ring and sing, And all green things that love the light Are just awakening. I half forgot how still and deep the Gar* dener puto them all to sleep. And when the summertime ia come, And I am happy all dcty long, The linnets, that to-day are dumb, Bear up my happy song Above the very farthest star to where th* white snow angels are. When I kneel down to make my prayer Before I in my bed am curled, I thank the Gardener for His care Of this, His tired world. Thougu I sow seeds and toil the sod, th? _ real true Gardener is God. ?Chambers' Journal. Self-Mastery. But I keep under my body and bring It into subjection.?1 Cor. 9:27. Every man is a king, and to him is given the sceptre of a kingdom. His body is full of vital forces and" hi? spirit of vast and turbulent powers. If he controls, masters, holds these well in band, his will be a successful and happy life. But if he allows ' these powers to run wild, to know no firm rein, to riot at caprice, his life will be a failure and wreck. The apostle here, first of all, calls attention to the need of bodily self* mastery. "I keep under my body.'' The body is our most excellent servant, but a tyrannous master. Its appetites and passions must be governed, subjected to discipline. That the body is largely the seat of temptation, and that, as our text says, "it must be kept under," is the secret of the value of the church season of Lent. It means that it is better to deny the body than to lose the soul. Again, keep under the heart, the affections and the temper. The heart feeds the engines of the soul and is the nursing fire that moves it to deeds. A real man will be master of his thought^, feelings and desires. That the world does not see them does not concern him. He sees them, and he will not tolerate that which is not clean, just and noble. Here it is, in this inner secret chamber, that men and women are made or unmade. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." He who keeps under discipline his impulses and affections will ue master of his words. He will not be at the mercy, of his temper. He will not speak hasty words. His outbreaks will not pain those who love him. He will bo cool under public stress, judicious ia speech, calm under trial, kind and < gentle in his home. In any test he will illustrate the Scripture, "He that ruleth his spirit is better than he that taketh a city." To a true self-mastery we must keep under the spirit of selfishness. This tendency is one of the most insidious and powerful in human nature. The great majority of people almost unconsciously lead selfish lives. Their hearts do not go out in true brotherhood. They do not enter into fellowship with need and suffering. They "pass by on the other side" of scenes of sorrow and-woe. Sir Philip Sidney, as writer, soldier onH rmirtiAr was the admiration of his age. Gut bis noblest act was when, dying from a bullet wound on the field of battle, he instantly handed the water brought to quench his burning thirst to a wounded soldier carried by, whom he saw eagerly looking ' at it, with the remark, "Thy necessity is yet greater than mine." Such fine self-repression can come alone from a discipline of obedience to the rule, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." The struggle for self-mastery is the- ? secret of individual fate. Victory of" defeat, salvation or ruin hangs on the issue. This is the temptation that puts every man, woman ana youtn u> the test, to tell of what moral stuff they are made; "It is ruin to any one," says Ruskin, "if he lets himself alone, does not keep himself under the curb and spur of discipline." So Virgil, in Dante'r great poem, first takes the poet through all the experiences of hell and purgatory, and then leaves him tobe his own guide, saying, "Master over thyself, I now crown and mitrr thee." I To gain this self-control requires a sharp fight against our lower nature, and success alone can be won with the help of God. Here religion offers her supreme aids?prayer, the Bible oti/1 tVi& nVinr^h hop iinHffc to auu kuv vu ui vuj n ? Mv. r . Heaven's altar. A perilous and wonderful course is that before every soul?life on earth, with its dangers and triumphs, and then the spirit's flight amid the stars. And the first requisite, reader, for this great venture is self-mastery, that thou hast thyself, body and spirit, all thy powers and forces, under wise and firm control.?The Rev? J. B. Remensnyder, St. James' Lutheran Church, New York, in the Sunday Herald. A Wonderful Comfort. It is a simple yet a wonderful comfort to have a second self which is a child; to possess a childhood of feeling in the midst of manhood; and, when the work of the day is passed, to lay our folded hands upon the knees of God as once vre did upon x our mother's knee, and looking up, to say, "Our Father, which art in Heaven."?Stopford A. Brooke. The Only Way. It seems selfish, you say, to enjoy your blessings wnen iueit? tweu i enough to go round among all youi fellow-beings. Why, that's the only way to make them go round.?Samuel M. Crothers. Truest Test. The true test of character is where what is borne or done must remain unknown, where the struggle must he begun and ended, and the fidelity be maintained, in the solitary heart. ?Ephraim Peabody. Canada to Speak For Herself. At Ottawa Sir Wilfrid Laurier appointed William McKenzie, of Ottawa, as Secretary for the Imperial and Foreign Correspondence of the coPrivy Council of Canada. The Dominion Government, it is believed, thus takes a step toward Canada doing business with foreign countries itself and without acting through the medium of the British authorities. Seats For Passengers. The Public Service Commission'* order for providing every stror-t cat passenger with a neat went into ctfvct in New York City.