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As he went out the page gave him & sealed envelope, which, being in no 'mood to read letters just then, he put [unread in his pocket as he strode across the park. Sybil heard the door close upon (Mm; her heart seemed to shut at the same moment, as she stood for some jtime stunned by the new loneliness ;which had come upon her. How could he have done it? What Jiad she done that he could humiliate !her like that?' And then to persist that he was innocent! He did not remember Mrs. Stanidand's letter until he was at home, tand then he opened it with an un>ea^y curiosity; from a lady of her benevolence it was slightly vindictive in its sentiments. "In case," she wrote, "you are .thinking of destroying all traces of your ill deed before the gallery is open to the public, I write to inform you that I shall permit no such thing. ,fThe picture is mine, and I forbid you to touch it or interfere with it in any ;way; and if you have a spark of gentlemanly feeling left in you, you will respect my wishes whether you arc hnnnfl tn nr not. I under stand that the portrait could not in any case be removed without a royal order, but however this is, it is my wish that it remains where it is. It ds too absurdly unlike my niece to injure her, whilst the insult to myself, .when explained, may serve to show the danger of intrusting you with similar commissions, and the ingratitude which is ever the portion of those who try to serve others. I inclose a check, though I should be quite justified in throwing the portrait on your hands after what you have done." As will be observed the fact which had chiefly impressed Mrs. Staniland ,vas the wanton introduction of that iatal idol; the misrepresentation of Sybil was a minor offense in comparison, though she was not sorry that her niece should think otherwise. Campion cursed his ill luck as he read this prohibition and tore the check which accompanied it into piecss. CHAPTER VIII. Reopened Wounds. Self-swayed our feelings ebb and swell; Thou lov'st no more!?Farewell! Farewell! ?Arnold. May was a fortnight old before Babcock had succeeded in inducing [Mrs. Staniland to keep a long-standing promise to visit bis new studio; an end which he attained by mentioning casually that he would ask Nefbelsen, tho German Chela, to meet iher. i When the time came he began to entertain misgivings that she would Steep the appointment without thinking it advisable to bring Sybil, and he saw them both enter with intense thankfulness. He was radiant with satisfaction. "Delighted to welcome you to my little workshop," he said, as he took her hand. "Do you approve?" "Very magnificent,indeed, Lionel," she said. It was a sumptuous studio, with a good deal of old armor and tapestry, skins and fan palms, amongst which an easel with all the latest improvements was doing penance, possibly for idleness, in a corner. At a Moorish arch, where he drew aside the portiere, was a little octagon boudoir with stained windows, beneath which a person of somewhat unusual appearance was seated on a divan, V'ith a patience which struck the mean between dignity and humility. Axel Nebelson was a Norwegian by birth, but had been brought up in Germany. He had been educated for the medical profession, but, having accompanied a scientific expedition to India, had there been led to abandon science for theosopby, to which his temperament?dreamy and abnormally developed in some directions? found itself powerfully attracted. Since then he was understood to have nassed much of his time in se elusion, endeavoring to prepare himself for the further ordeals necessary to complete initiation, and he was now in Englaud for purposes the nature of which no one, himself not accepted, clearly understood. He was a striking looking figure as he sat there in the dim yellow and green light. His age might have been anything between thirty an', forty; hia long biscuit-colorc' hair was parted in the middle, and fell in -6piral curls to mingle inextricably with his beard; he had pale-blue visionary eyes, with a ring of opal light round each iris, a broad innocent jpose, and r mouth which no amount of hair could invest with decision. He extended his peculiarity even to his dress, which was a long, closefilting sort of caftan, round which a broad red sash was knotied. He took the precaution to use a less unconventional garb for outdoor wear; but, even as it was, he always left u litllo crowd of his own collection 0:1 tk3 ilcorstep of any house he > vli * !/\ty \r; (i\l> >!/*?'/ M/ 0/\l/ v)/ v?> vfc v)/ J/ 0/ J/v)A6 /vii sf/wx'/ 3&W # WJ/\I/wwww iW, a; a/tfMvx!.' i'M ifcvj/WvJ/vjAt/vt/\l/w A T TTV i^V f .IN IIAJL. j C ANbltY. MWaMMMWAI/vJMO/vW/ I He started as from a vision when the others entered, but he neither rose nor offered his hand, and only sat smiling with a vague sweetness. "Here he is, you see," said Babcock, as if he was exhibiting him. "All aione in aere. "Not alone?most of the time," said the Chela, "and not hier." He spoke English with an amount of fluency that rendered him occasionally unintelligible. Mrs. Staniland, according to her wont, took complete possession of him. "Ah!" she said, with infinite relish. "That's how I like to hear you talk; now go on, don't let's waste time in trivialities. Be interesting. We never finished our delightful little chat about Karma and Nirvona. Do you know I find theosophy most enlarging for the ideas? And, positively, if I hadn't been brought up to be quite so orthodox, I should be very much tempted to adopt your doctrines. jdul j. aupijuac a jjj iuu old?" "Yes," said the Chela, with refreshing candor; "it is late now to begin." "Still," pursued Mrs. Staniland, "I like to keep up with all the new movements, and when I find one that deserves a little encouragement, I'm only too glad to do anything for it." "Matam," said the Chela, stiffly, '"theosophy is not at all in need to be, as you say, upon the back smacked." During the conversation Sybil's attention had slightly wandered. This studio recalled by force of contract another which was not magnificent; and a strong, manly face, with the keen quizzical eyes that could be so tender at a word from her, rose before her. Suppose Ronald were to come to her and beg forgiveness, suppose he insisted masterfully that he had only read her a well-needed lessnn?would she have firmness enough to maintain her grouhd? If she could only believe that he had not intended to gain his freedom, if he could but persuade her of that, she might?but, after all, there was no danger of losing her dignity as a justly offended woman?he never' would come now! "What are you looking so serious about?" asked Babcock, crossing to her side. "Am I serious? I think I was wondering why you have a grand piano. I never heard you play." "Oh, yes," he said, in a weary, high-pitched tone, "I strum a little; it is one of my lew pleasures" "if so, it was at least a simple one, for he restricted himself to one finper". won t you come ana try iu: She rose and passed in to the studio with him. "I may not do all I might, but then I have no one to inspire me, to urge me on, to care what work I produce." "No," she agreed sympathetically. "And it's too bad to expect you to do anything till you find somebody who will do all that for you?isn't it?" "You turn everything into ridicule," he said impatiently, "and yet I could show you a picture if I chose, that will prove to you that I can work when I take the trouble. "Then please do." "Once I looked forward to showing it to you?but that is all over. I cannot show it?least of all to you." "And why?" "Eecause it has been ruinod." I thought an oil painting was never hopeless! At least you could show it to me. Who knows, I might encourage you?it is probably much better than you think, and surely you need not dread my opinion." "Sybil," he said, "it is best that you should not see it?this time, perhaps, you will take my warning!" Sybil laughed mischievously. "You shall not escape like that. If you refuse me, you will not refuse Aunt Hilary, or if you do, I shall know what to think." And she went back to the octagon room, in time to hear her aunt, after questioning Herr Nebelsen closely upon the precise hue of her aura, observe, "Not really; a sort of purlisu mauve?how truly hideous; the very last color I should care to be seen in! do ten me, now, is mere anytnmg i can do to change it?" Sybil's appeal, coming at that moment, was not am,ably received. "If Lionel ha3 any hesitation in showing you his picture," she replied, "depend upon it, he has excellent reasons. I'm surprised you should condescend to press him!" "Don't be hard on a fellow, Mrs. Staniland," said Babcock. "I shall be very happy to show the canvas to you, and leave you to say whether I am not right." "This is getting mysterious," said Sybil; "so there really is a picture! Do go, auntie." Mrs. Staniland was struck by something in Eabcok's manner, and followed him into a room beyond the studio, leaving her niece to entertain the Chela. Sybil eyed him rather apprehensively as he sat there?he looked very mystic and uncanny. Presently he fixed his pale eyes upon her and said in his deep guttural tones. "You are not much interested in occultism ?you do not even perhaps believe that such things can be?" "It's no good saying pretty things to him if he really can read 4. 1 l.~ ? I ?T,yv A ~ muu^iiLS, situ uuiisiutri'eu, ana uecided upon perfect candor. "It is a good deal to believe all at once, you know," she said. "I don't pretend to understand it, but I should have thought if you had all these marvelous powers you might make some use of them." "Hniv iisp nf thpm?" hp rtpmanripri. "It isn't such a happy world surely." she said, "that there is no one in it to be saved from danger, or temptation. or misery of some sort. If you can read the future and see forces at work that we can't see, you might do so much to v:aru or help people, if you chose!" To her relief her aunt called her, r to come at once to the room where I Babcock's picture was to be seen, and she obeyed with some curiosity. " Quite rigut of Lionel 'to consider your feelings, my dear," said Mr?. ( Staniland, who was standing before J an easel on which the canvas had j Q just been placed, "but I knew you j were too sensible to mind seeing It, i and I thought it as well that you ' j should." jj "I like the landscape part, Lionel," ^ said Sybil, after examining it; "you j are not quite as lazy as I accused you of being?only," and she drew j her eyebrows together, "what does j that extraordinary figure mean in the a middle of it?and what is it sitting 8 on?" 1 I "Ah, my dear!" said Mrs. Stani- s land, with a sigh of portentous mean- n ing, "that is the point!" | "That's just the thing," said Bab- ^ cock. "That I'm not responsible for." "It was like this, my dear," explained Mrs. Staniland. "Lionel *ias been telling me 'all about it. He'd b painted the landscape, and Sieditoff o wanted it for his gallery in Bond n Street, only he thought it ought ; > a have a figure in the foreground. * Well, and bo Lionel took it to a frierd tl of his who was a good figure painter; ti Lionel has never gone in for figure painting, and he told him what an opportunity this was for him and asked him to do it, and he said he e would. And this is what he chose 0 to do?a horrid figure which is too M ridiculously absurd, hanging in the i t( air, and out of all proportion and J ^ keeping besides! And Lionel is j ^ afraid Sieditoff won't take it now, ani c if he does, he can't sell it, and he j daren't try to scrape it out or paint it over for fear of making it worse. It was a piece of jealously and deliberate spite on thi friend's part." "What a hateful, mean wretch he ^ must b. ' cried Sybil. "But why," * and then she stopped. "Do I know I - - l-~ I o him? Oh, don't say it was ut. auui. Hilary, you might, yes, you might f have spared me this!" And her short J* upper lip quiverod indignantly. "I thought it necessary it should v not be hidden from you, my dear," t said the old lady, calmly. "Then please understand, both oy you, as you are kind enough to discuss my affairs together," said Sybil, j 1< haughtily, "that it was not neces- ! n sary at all. I wanted no warning to 1' tell me that Mr. Campion is a treach- P erous friend; whatever he chooses to s do now does not concern me in the d I least, and you insult me when you c think it can!" "n And she turned away with the ges- t: ture of an offended princess. She P was very angry indeed?all the an- d grier because she had needed the s< warning only too well. a When Babcock returned to his own.. r flat after seeing his visitors off he p found Nebelsen standing before his u picture. "Like it?" he said. "w "No?not at all," replied the e Chela. "Why have you painted a i: yogi performing his japa in the yoga tl posture?" ii "I thought you would say that, i tl Poor 'little Miss Sisworth couldn't j e stand that yogi either; it upset her j t] most awfully!" ^ "Why,then, do you baint so as to upset people awfully?" demanded the Chela. "You have learned that j in India?yes?" ti "If you must know, Nebelsen, that j] idiotic Hindoo isn't my work at all; i< it was done, for some low purpose of his own, by a scoundrel named Cam- tl pion." tl "But it upset that so charming c Mees Elsvort!" v "Yes?that's a long story. But the upshot of .it is that he had almost c trapped her into consenting to marry ti him, till he played very much the a same trick upon her that he did on a me." s "I see?I see well," muttered the Chela, "it was tnat, then, which she j3 to forget desired. Tell me, where a does this Gampion live? I want to look him up and rebroach him!" t! "Von shall have the address, old a boy!" said Babcock, with much heart- c iness, and he gave it to the Chela, <j who departed with all the exaltation i of a great mission. s To be Continued. ^ p A Wonderful Clock. The Czar recently received at Pe- D terhof Palace a peasant named Franz Karass, who presented an extraordi- ? j nary masterpiece of clockwork of his own invention. The clock registers 1 the time, the months' and days' duration, day and night, the hour of sun- ? rise and sunset, and the phases of the i moon, as well as the movement of the v earth around the sun. rp'u ^ otn o nrl m irrnr P'laR.c; 1 lie liUUi JJ1UV.v> UUU A w* O"*?' are covered with black enamel and I are more than a yard high by a yard wide. The mechanism is of copper and the working is quite noiseless.' C The clock weighs 72 0 pounds. It h needs winding once in 400 days. f Karass has been working on the invention for twenty-two years in h making the design and spent six years o in constructing the works.?St. Pe- c tersburg Correspondence of the New York Sun. a q An Easy Matter. t.; The man was playing euchre with 1 the latest belle of the Mountain House, while his bride of three 0 months was trying to busy her mind ' a as well as her fingers with a piece ] 11 of embroidery. . h Suddenly the husband turned to- * ward his wife with a patronizing air. "Pardon me," he exclaimed; "I S hadn't noticed that I was between ^ you and the light." 0 "Oh, pray, don't move!" the little s woman replied. "I can see through 3 you perfectly well!"?Lipplncott's. fl The Universal Solvent. 4 g A "burglar proof" safe was robbeil by a boy In N.ew Jersey the other day. ' He opened the safe with a hairpin. . This leads to the suspicion that he is a woman in disguise. A woman can ^ do anything with that instrument.? s Cleveland Leader. c Scotch Pig Iron Exports. s This year 155,000 tons of pig c iron have been shipped from Scot- 1 land, of which the United States took v 49,000 tons, eleven times as much as v in the same period of last year.???? f ? to :sr, t Iousehold Matters. I To Iron Muslin Curtains Easily. | Tack some old, soft cotton cloth n a small board, saturate with keroene and rub' the iron well on it, ien on a clean cloth before using, here will be no trouble about stick- ! ig or rubbing up, and they can be one in half the time.?Boston Post, j Trolong Life of Shoes. < A coat ol gurn of copal varnish pplied to the soles of boots and ] hoes, and repeated as it dries until u - flll/5/1 and fVio ClirfHrp [it; puj aic iiu^u ?4.uv? vuv hines like polished mahogany, will lake the soles waterproof and make 1 hem last three times as long.?New 'ork World. Care of Coat Collars. ' My husband's coat collar always ; ecame more soiled than the rest f the garment, and it seemed well- j igh impossible to get the grease nd dirt out w.th soap and water. 'inally I tried alcohol and salt, and be collar was cleaned nicely with no ] rouble at all.?New York World. Cleaning Mildewed Cupboard. To clean a musty, mildewed woodn cupboard, put one-half a cupful ?f xalic acid crystals in a gallon of hot or?iiv hr>t taking' rare not CL LCI anu MW, VM.....0 d get any on the hands. Scald afterward with clean hot water and dry 1 open air and sun, if possible. The upboard will be sweet and clean.? ' ndianapolis News. Old Bedspreads Used. I Dressmaking at Home has a new se for old bedsteads. It is to cover 1 hem with cheesecloth or silkoline in ' ainty color to match the furnishings j f one's bedroom and tack them at , egular intervals as a comfortable i 5 tacked. The edges may be button- ( oled or bound. They are easy to < wash and make splendid quilts for I he warmer weather. 1 i To Polish a Piano. , When the piano takes on a cloudy 3ok the best way to restore it to for- < ler beauty is to pdlish it with oil of ' emon and alcohol. Have several j ieces of cheesecloth; if new they ( hnniri ho n.-flshprl to remove the , ressing. Dip a clean, dry cheese- ?' loth In oil of lemon (ten cents' worth < rill he sufficient) and rub gently on i he -woodwork of the piano. When ' olishing a piano always rub in one 1 irection. Have in another saucer ome wood alcohol and dip into this clean, dry cheesecloth; with this ub off. the oil of lemon from the | iano. With some clean alcohol sat- ] rate another clean cheesecloth and 1 rring as dry as possible. Polish the j ntire piano with this. A final polshing may be given with the palm of 1 he hand, always remembering to rub j a the one direction decided upon in he beginning. This is the method j mployed in the piano factories foi I he extremely high polish.?American ( tome Monthly. To Test Silk and Linen. Of the goods sold as "all wool". < here is not one-tenth that is genu- i le. Generally the main componenl s cotton. The for this is simnle. All 1 hat is necessary is to pull out a fe* , breads and apply a lighted match. | lotton will go off in a blaze, woo) 'ill shrivel up. ' i To distinguish pure linen from ounterfeit is c/en easier. The inending buyer need but wet her fingei nd apply it to the goods. If thej , re pure linen the moisture will pas? traight through; the spot touched j rill be soaked at once and almosl nmediately one side will be as-we1 s the other. Frauds are more numerous'in silk 1 han in any other fabric, but here ! lso the material of adulteration ie j otton. Its presence can readily be ] kcnvPTPd Draw a few threads out 'he pieces of cotton will snap ofl hort when pulled, while the silk 1 rill stretch and permit a considerable ull before breaking. The boasted silk of our grand- \ lothers that "stood ly itself" is not ; ecessarily the jest. Modern in- i enuity has devised means of giving tie poorest article the body requisite' 1 or this purpose. Shellac and other sticky substance* lixed through the fabric will prouce as stiff a silk as ever graced the 3 wardrobe of our ancestors. Such j tuff is quite worthless, however, as t quickly rots.?New York Times. Rccipes. Chocolate Sauce for Ice Cream.? J ; >ne-hal? cup water, square of choco- ) ite, one cup of ?ugar, one teaspoon* i ul of flour. Eoil. Deer Park Muffins.?Two and one- J alf cups of flour, two cups of milk. ( ne-half cup of butter, one-half yeast ; ake, whites of two eggs. Ba?.ed Apple Ice Cream.?Bake 1 nd sift six sweet apples. Add one j uart of rich cream, and sugar to aste. When the sugar is dissolved. ! reeze. Orange ar.tl Strawberry.?Peel the ranges and remove the pulp neatly nd without having any of the white lembrane left upon it; divide it intc " * *- * ?1I naiist/a au-incn pieces, saving an mc juivt. lull the berries, wash and dry them, E necessary, then cut into halves 1 let the whole aside to become chilled i Vhen ready to serve, mix the pieces f berry and orange with a little agar. Divide the fruit, atflong the lasses and pour over the juice. K:;gli.sh Dumplings.?One pint of our, one cupful ot' finely chopped uol, one (easpoonful of salt, one te:.poonful of baking powder. Mix and ift flour, salt and baking powder, idd suet. Mix to firm dough with i le water. Knead for two minutes; 1 oil out one-half inch thick. Put 1 loured cloth over a board; on it pread the crust. Fill with slicee 1 1 pples mixed with sugar and a little irmamon. Draw up crust and cloth o as to completely cover apples; ii* loth, allowing a little room to swell 1 )rop in kettle of rapidly boiling < /ater, with twist at bottom to pre- 1 enl. scorching. Koe]> ai a rapid boil J or two hours. II' water stops boilins ^ he dumplings will foe heavy. |Religious Truths\ "H-" ! From the Writings of Great Preachers. THE HUMAN AND DIVINE. D Christ, I cannot understand Thy birth?Thy wondrous mind. The power to heal the sick, and giYe Their sight unto the blind. [ cannot understand how Thou Didst walk upon the sea. Dr stilled the wind and calmed the wavei On stormy Galilee. [ cannot understand how Thou The multitudes didst l'eed, 3r raised the widow's only son, Supplying all her need. But this, 0 Christ, I understand: The sweat upon Thy brow, * 4r Thou didst toil beside the bench As men are toiling now. [ understand Thy tears of grief In lone Gethsemane; rhe drinking of the bitter cup That none could share with Thee. [ understand how thou didit feel When all Thy friends had fled, &nd sinful men reviled and placed The thorn-crown on Thy nead. [ understand Thy sufferings Upon the cursed tree; rhy pierced hands and feet and sid?, Ana that 'twas all for me. Tis this, the mingling of the two, The human and divine, That makes me call Thee Saviour?Friend, And joins my life to Thine. ?Will P. Snyder, in Home Herald. rhe Child's Dream and the Man's. A friend of mine related the fol? owing incident relative to a tine vhen his only child was dangerously 11: "One day she fell into a troubled sleep, in which it was evidect that ler dream3 were disquiet. She tossed ibout and cried aloud. Her mother Dent over her, touched her, and she nvoke. The eyes of the little sufferer jpened. She looked up into her mother's face, and oh! what a , :hange passed oyer her own, and she said, .Oh, mother dear, I have been Ireaming such dreadful things. I I ireamt that I was far away In a dark I place, and that I called and called ind you could not hear me, and did not answer. And then you touched me and I opened my eyes, and there j fou were. "The language of the child reminded me of the language of a saint, one pf the greatest that ever lived, in a prayer addressed to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, 'We sleep, Dh, our Father, in Thy tender and paternal bosom, and in our sleep we jometftnes dream that all is wrong, pnly to wake and find that all is j right. 'Nothing can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jeaus our Lord." If you are earnestly endeavoring to [ io God's will, why allow any trial or iiscouragement to disquiet you?. Four way is fully known to your heavenly Father, and for that reason no evil can come to you. Your Godlias not withdrawn Himself. He is uear yotf to comfort and strengthen. Believe it, oh, believe it, and your ?very sorrow shall be turned into that ioy which the world cannot give, neither can it take away. "Why sayest thou, My way is hid from the Lord. Hast thou not known? Hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There la no searching His understanding. He giveth power to the faint, He increased strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary; and the young men shall utterly fail. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run ^nd not be weary; they 3hall walk and not faint."?Dr. George R. Lum, in Christian Intelligencer. Trusting Jesus. His name shall be called Jesus, for He shall save His people from their 3ins.?Matt. 1:21. Oh, how sweet the name of Jesus is to one who has realized what those words mean. "Unto them that believe He is precious." _ (1 Peter 2:7.) The person that believes and claims the many promises?receives great joy. Earth has no sorrow but what Jesus can heal. Yes, Jesus is the source of all true happiness; a present help in time of trouble. When human help fails He is always near, glad to help and cheer us on the way. Oh, how we should praise the name of Jesus. May we, like the psalmist, say, "I will praise the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth, for great is the Lord and greatly to b- praised; and His greatness is unsearchable." (Psa. 145:3." ? M. S. Anderson, in Gospel Herald. The Highest Riches. Poverty is largely a matter of fancy. The real poverty is in the mind?in the mind's attitude. There fs such a thing as being rich without money. That man is rich whose mind is rich, whose heart is rich in integrity, and who has that best of all blessings, a contented mind?Christian contentment, says Dr. G. B. P. Hallock. This last great boon is gained through making the most of our little enjoyments, through making the least of our little lacks, through doing our best with our little duties?through trusting in God and doing the right. To be sure, we cannot all be money rich. Some money rich people are very poor. But we can all be millionaires of character and of faith, possessing that "godliness" which with "contentment" is a crroat <rain tho rsa.1 llftin. the hichest riches. Goodness. Goodness does not mean exemption from the common ills of life. Every life has its burdens, every heart ita own secret sorrow. We would not minimize the cares which are in- : evitable. They are not joyous, but j grievous.?Rev. A. H. Goodenough, | Methodist, Bristol. Conn. Lots the Devil In. Many a man nails up his windows at some one eln and then lets the devil himself in at the front door Hen Hatches Rrood of Snakes. Peter Wise, living near Omega, rnd.. had the surprise of his life when ho pulled a setting hen ofF the nest thai she had made in the edge of a strowsfaek. He had noticed the fowl sitting (here for some time and be%an to suspect that she was sitting on d door knob. When he lifted her instead of a brood of chickens he found i bunch of snakes, eleven liltle black fellows, each about seven inches long, ind all wriggling furiously Wisf promptly despatched the snake? and wrung the ben's neck. Wise said he had no uso for a Inn llial rmilu not tell a snake's egg from her own. | OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN. | I S REPORTS OF PROGRESS OF 'J EATTLE AGAINST RUM. Poem: Lips That Shall Not Toncli Mine?Where the Bottle is Banished?Whttt is the Secret of This Surlden Change of Front? You are coming to woo me, but not as of yore, When I hastened to welcome your ring at the door; [ For I trusted that he who stood waiting me then Was the brightest, the truest, the noblest of men. Your lips on my own when they printed Farewell," ' Had never been soiled by "the beverage of hell!" But they come to me now with bacchanal sign. And the lips that touch liquor must never touch mine. I think of tbat night in the garden alone, When in whispers you told me your heart was my own. That your love in the future should faith? fully be Unshared by another, kent only for me. Oh, sweet to my soul is'tne memory still, Of the. lips which met mine when they murmured "I will," But now to their pressure no more they incline, For the lips that touch liquor must never touch mine. 0, John! how it crushed me, when first in youi1 face The pen of the Rum Fiend had written "disgrace," And turned me in silence and tears from that breath, All poisoned and foul from the chalice of death. It scattered the hopes I had treasured tor last, It darkened the future and clouded the past; v It shattered my idol and ruined the shrine, For the lips that touch liquor must never toucu mine. I loved you, oh, dearer than language can tell, And you saw it, you proved it, you knew it too well; But the man of my love was far other than he Who now from the "tap-room" comes reeling to me; In manhood and honor so noble and right? His heart was so true and his genius so , bright? And his soul was unstained, unpolluted by wine, Bu? the lips that touch liquor must never touch mine. You promised reform, but I trusted in vain; . Your pledge was made but to be broken again; And the lover so false to his promises now, Will not, as a husband, be true to his vow. The word must be spoken that bids you departThough in silence, with blighted affection, I pine, I Yet the lips that touch liquor must never touch mine. . If one spark in your bosom of virtue remains, Go fan it with prayer till it kindle again; Resolved, with "God helping," in future to be From wine and its follies unshackled and free! And when you have conquered this foe of your soul? In manhood and honor beyond his control? This heart will again beat responsive to thine, i And the lips free from liquor will be welcome to mine. Where the Bottle is Banished. The South is going dry. Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi have won their victories. Other States are fighting with every prospect of success. The triumph has been quick and decisive In each case. Recent results in Ne.w England and the Middle West show that the temperance forces in other Darts have taken fresh courage and inspiration from the Southern victories. Prohibition is winning in many places unexpected triumphs?for nothing succeeds like success. ' What is the secret of this sudden change of front? The temperance leaders are not more brilliant than formerly. The American voter has not changed his character. The liquor business is not more loamsome?it could not be. And yet the manhood of the nation is swinging into the ranks of temperance. We believe these victories are the result of the long and seemingly unprofitable year3 when the prohibition cause was apparently at a standstill. Little was done in legislation during that period, but we are finding that much was done in education. The Southern white man was convinced that the negro and liquor made a deadly combination. It took murders and worse crimes, and the avenging mob law to teach it, but he has learned his lesson well. Employer and employes in all our cities have been convinced that a armsing worKman ib a, jjuui huirman. And all classes are learning that the liquor traffic is repulsive, expensive and dangerous. There is a lesson in all this for reformers. It is the world-old lesson that patience and industry bring victory in the long run. The long years of preparation are as necessary as the final conflict.?Home Herald. Sweeping Indictment. Hon. Carroll D. Wright, while United States Commissioner of Labor, made the following assertion: "I have looked into a thousand homes of the working people of Europe; I do not know how many in this country. I have tried to find the best and the worst, and while, as I say, the worst exists, and as bad as under any system, or as bad as in any age, I have never had to look beyond the inmates to find the cause, and in every case, | so far as my observation goes, drunkenness was at the bottom of the misI ari/l nnt 1 o 1 nrl 11 etrl'n 1 KVStem Ol* CAJ ****** , the industrial conditions surrounding the men and their families." Distillery Slops Barred. Bills are to be introduced in the Ohio legislature to prevent the use of milk from cows fed on slops from distilleries, tQ allow the health boards I of the cities to inspect the dairies ( outside of the cities. | Xo Liquor Advertisement. Eight hundred and five newspapers | are printed ir. Kansas, only twenty nf which ever mtut any liquor ad vertisemenis, and four of these i twenty are printed in the German language.?Union Signal. Tcmpi-ramce Notes. Maine has fewest "retail liquor dealers" of any State. First the occasional drinker, after that th? drunkard chained to the hot "Th^ next State to so dry will be Arkansas," says the Western Methodist. "During tlie las: yea:( poor old Prohibition Kansas incorporated more banks that any other State in ti.f Union. Prohibition North Dakota was second ar.d Prohibition Amine t!iird."?Attorney General C. W Ti-ickett ol' Kansas. ? . 3Tie | ^unbau-Scfioof ; INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JUNE 28. Subject: Temperance, Ephesians 5r 0-20 ? Golden Text, Eph. 5:18 ?Commit Verses 15, 10-?Commentary. TIME.?A. D. 62. PLACE.?Rome. EXPOSITION.?I. No Fellowship With the Unfruitful Works of Dark* ness, 0-14. The believer in Christ i* a child of light (v. 8), there can be no fellowship between light and darkness, the believer must therefore refuse all fellowship with the works oi darkness (cf. 2 Cor. 6:17)/. This settles our duty about the theatre, dance, etc. etc. These works of darkiies? bring lorth no fruit for God (Rom. 6:21). So far from having fellowship with them we should "even reprove them," i. e., expose and rebuke their badness. "Darkness1'" does much of its work "in secret," light does it* work in the open. The things done by those who are "of tie darkness" in secret it is disgraceful even to men* tion. Many sins are better undescribed. Don't let out the darkness, hut lpt In tho lieht Th#? llcrht makes everything manifest, and that whicb is thus made manifest by turning the light on to it becomes light itself (v. 13, R. V.) The believer who has any fellowship with darkness 1? asleep. The sinner is dead (cf. Eph. 2:1). God calls the sleeping believer, the one who is having fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, to awake from his sleep and arise out from among the dead, i. e., from the sinners with whom he le fellowshipping, as a live man among corpses (cf. Ro. 13:11). II. Understanding What the Will ol the Lord id, 15*17. It will not do to carelessiy take it for granted that our walk is all right unless we have looked very minutely into it. There are two kinds of walk, the walk of the unwise and the walk of the wise. In order to walk wisely we must "buy up the opportunity" (v. 16 R. V.? Marg.) As the far sighted merchant buys up all that which ne sees to be of large and constantly increasing, value, so we must lay hold of every swiftly passing opportunity of doing eoad and of erowth in the knowledge of and likeness to God. The tact that / "the days are evil" is not a reason for, discouragement, but for more earnest improvement of every opportu-' nity that offers. This is a reason for not being "foolish" (v. 17, R. V., a i very strong word, literally "without reason," senseless). The only way to avoid being foolish is by "under- , standing what the will of the Lord is." The Lord here is Jesut (vs. 2(y and 8). v HI. Filled With the Spirit, 18-20. /r Paul here takes up one especial form of folly, a fruit of darkness that has cursed every age since the days of Noah, drunkenness (Gen. 9:20-25). Perhaps Paul warns against this spe-. cial form of folly because it is the root of almost every other kind of folly. But by God's wondrous grace one who has been a drunkard may be "washed," "sanctified," "justified" and may then inherit the kingdom of God (1 Cor. 6:11). In drunkenness there is "excess" or "riot" (R. V., in:orrigibleness, abandoned profligacy). Any one who has had any experience of life knows how true this is. The drunkard becomes lost to every noble ambition and holy desire. Note that it is drunkenness, not merely with whisky and rum, but drunkenness with wine that Paul warns against and proposes as the cure for drunkenness the only sure cure, being, "filled with the Spirit." To be "filled with the Spirit" means to have the Holy Spirit take possession of the whole being (Luke 1:41, 42, 67; Acts 2:4; 4:8; 31:13, 9, 10). It Is nearly synonymous with being "bap-. tized with the Holy Ghost," excepting that the expression being "baptized" with the Spirit is never used of a second experience, while being "filled" is (cf. Acts 1:5 with 2:1-4 and 10:44-46 with 11, 15, 16). When one is "drunk with wine," wine takes possession of every faculty, and when one is "filled with the Spirit" the Spirit takes possession of every faculty. Intoxication is the devil's counterfeit' of being filled with the Spirit. The effects of being filled with the Spirit is that one is lifted on to a supernatural plane of life and activity. The best way to keep a man from having recourse to the devil's stimulation is to have him filled with God's. He that knows the wine of heaven (Is. 55:1) will not want the winu of hell. The literal force of the words translated "be filled with the Spirit" is "be getting filled with (qr in) the Spirit," i. e., be getting constantly filled. One filling is not enough, ' there must be a constant inpouring. As to how to be "filled with the Spirit" study Acts 2:38; 5:32; Luke 11:14; Acts 4:31; 8:15-17. When one is filled with the Spirit he will be full of joy and song (v. 19), there will be melody not only upon his lips, but in his heart as well (cf. Is. 65: 11). But the songs will not be the songs of this world, but "psalms and hymns /and spiritual songs." The Spirit-filled man is taken up with God and Christ (Acts 2:4, 11; 4:31, 33) and his songs will be about Christ. The Spirit-filled man will also be filled with thanksgiving (v. 20). He will he returning thanks all the 1inie (cf. Ps. 34:1) and "for all things." His Spirit-illumined soul will see something to be thankful to (iod for in everything (1 Cor. 1:4; 1 Thess. 1:2, 3; 2; IS; 2 Thess, 1:3; 2:13; Axis 5:41; 1G:25; Job 1:21). 142,000 Knssian Political Prisoners. Alexis Smirnoff, a Russian editor, who arrived in New York a few days ago. said he had come here to study economic conditions. He declared that more than half a million Russians were in exile and 14 2,000 in prison chieflv becaus? or political 01fenses, and that a large number of the exiled were becoming the victims of diseases that the Government made no aDcaren* etfnrt to rlieck. Uog 1'atrncs a I"'ivr-I*ouna l'lke. A pet water spaniel belonging to a Clear Lake (Iowa) fisherman swam out into the lake carrying around his neck a fish line, with spoon hook, attached. When he swam back to shore a fine five-pound pike was on the hook and he proudly dragged it to his master. Doctor Fined $211 For One Drink. Procuring a single drink for a thirsty friend from Massachusetts cost Dr. George B. Hunter $211, the amount ot a nne imposed at Draiuehoro. Vt., on the charce of pr?scribing liquor for other than medicinal purposes. Tho penalty for the second offense is $500.