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Accidents, small but exasperating, were continually tatung piace in ms studio; he had not a cast or study on his walls which was notpr injured or defaced In some way; and Bales, after denying the damage as long as possible, ascribed it at last to cats? though it was hard to see what the most rigid feline prudery could object to in the graceful copies from Greek or Etruscan antiquities. Campion was perpetually haunted by an unspeakably tormenting impression that he ought to do something?he did not know what?at * I a wow nvncci' n cr o n r? tVlO KJUKJXlf tuai umc nao %**?>* w.w thing Btill undone. And this would make him o restless, so nervous, irritable and captious, that uis models refused to sit to him, and his friends grew chary of looking him up. He was in his sitting-room one night, moodily smoking, and wondering whether he could summon sufficient energy to go as far as his club in the course of the evening, when Bales brought him in a foreign-looking card on which the name of "Alex Nebelsen" was printed. "Can't say as I like the looks of him myself," observed bis factotum. 441 told him, belli' a furriner, as you wern't in need of no models at present, but he wouldn't take a denial, and I caught him a-eyein' of the umbrellas very suspicious." The name did not happen to suggest anything to Campion just then, and it was late for a stranger to call. However, he was spared the trouble of deciding whether to receive him or not, for the Chela had followed Bales In and motioned to him to leave the room, which after glancing at Campion for confirmation, he did, with an air of disclaiming all responsibility for anything that might follow. Nebelsen said noticing for some moments, but only stood stiff and silent within the radium of the lamp, and fixed his eyes solemnly upon the astounded painter, who began to feel distinctly uncomfortable, and moved within easy reach of the bell. "Your guilty conscience tell you already for what I am hier!" began the Chela at last. It has not mentioned it at present," said Campion. "Hadn't' you better take a chair and tell me yourself?" "Ha!" cried Nebelsen, with a snort, "you think to make a tomfool of me with this diabolical hell's coolness. If you do not know, why do you so startled look at me?" 'My dear sir," expostulated Campion, "it is not so usual as you seem to think for me to receive distinguished foreigners in a state of obvious excitement." "I am hier, then, to tell you that your bractices must all this night to an end com. You see, I know well who and what you are!" "If you are under any impression that I'm the Patriarch Job, you may find yourself mistaken presently," observed Campion. "You are a gowardly bersecutor of beauty and Innocence?that i~ what you are!" "Let me advise you, for your own sake, not to be an ass!" "Rather would I an ass than a serpent be!" -xour tastes nave evidently been considered. Now, look here: will you be civil and come to the point, or do you want me to pitch you out of the window? What on earth do you mean by this balderdash?" "If I speak to you in balderdash," said the Chela, who seemed to attach another meaning to the term, "it is only because you baf well deserved. The other dav J was in Mr. Babcock's studio, where also came a young lady, lofely and schweet as the lily, and her name was Elsvort?have you enoff?" "A good deal too much!" crie'l Campion, whose temper was roused at last. "What right have you to mention that young lady to me! Will you leave the house at once?" "Not at all." said the Chela, with an unconscious reminiscence of Poe's raven, "you must hear. I was there when ste saw the shape you bainte:! for Mr. Babcock?now at last I preek you!" "Yes," said Campion, "ir it's any gratincation to you?you have. I'll hear you; tell me everything. She saw It, then! Well, what did she do? what d!d she say?" "I tell you only this?you will j never brevail, never?she regards you j with an unspeakable horror-agita- j tion." "Ah!" said Campion, "and?and she sent you here to tell me :.o, eh?" "No one send ine. I come on my j own hpad," said Ncbelsen. "And I am afraid you will go out i in the same way." said Campion, "un- j l#;s you can give me some reason for this interference." "Listen." said the Chela, "you do not. seem to me all gorruiit as yet. Obey the bronipting of your bedder ainchel, and let your natural hearlgootness bo!;ble up fresh again and safe you from Avitichi before tor* late. Fenounce this Faurt-gombact. this master or servant; meddle no mtfre with bar ?3!?.ck Magic!" Campion stared f.t him helplessly. "Is there anything else you would rceomros:nt me to do?" lie said; "bpI! ; my t.hoioi!gM r:*d broomstick ami ; fiiYQ up my little trip to the iuoon? j 1'v)/>(av\!/\v \tfw?}/ it/ty/itftnf/ vl/vo vmm w\wai/v/ .N IDOL I c anstey. isiss|a **? 11 1 - a ? ?11 /??n-rr *oeft?qi'n JJOU I lei aij/ laist- uein.av.j you from mentioning it." "Beware! you cannot blay with me," said Nebelsen, seriously. "I was not proposing to play with you," retorted Campion, who was gradually forgetting his annoyance. "Now can't you tell me what it's all about!" "You haf brocured som Indian yogi to help you to indimitate Mees Elsvort to betroth herself to you; you haf dabbled in magic of the left-hand side. Well, if you are mystic, I also am mystic, and behindt me is my ever-honored Mahatma, Shang Gasba. It is White Magic against tne JtJiacK ?I and my master against you and your mendicant fakir; think what chances haf yon!" "It sounds sporting," said Campion; "but, my dear, good man, you're talking arrant bosh. I'm not a mystic, I don't enter into unholy alliances with Indian beggars, I'm not acquainted with sacred mendicants; but I should not have imagined they would be of much assistance in a European love affair." The Chela passed his hand across his forehead with a bewildered air. 'You are speaking the truth," he said. "I feel it; all the time I was wondering that your aura could of 30 favorable a golor remain. Still, if it is not a voci. and you are not to blame, why did you baint a yogi In mystical meditation??where haf you seen such a thing? It is very gurious." "I've done a more curious thing than that," said Campion, "and I kno^w just as little how I came to do it." Nebelsen sat down opposite to Campion and laid a hand upon his knee. "It may berhaps be that only theosophy can supply the exblanation. Forgif me that I so hasty was, : and tell me what it is you do not understandt." There was a kind of ponderous innocence about this Germanized Norwegian which was rather engaging, ; and Campion fov.nd himself completely disarmed by it. "Shall I?" he said. "Well, it can ! do no harm, and at all events, you are sure to believe me." And he told him how cruelly and inexplicably his portrait had been altered, and how everything had been persistently i going wrong ever since. The Chela heard him with the ' deepest attention, and when he had- i finished, touched him on the breast ' with his forefinger to emphasize the ] importance of what he was going to ; say. i "There are beople who would tell 1 you in my blace that it was a case simply of ungonscious celebration. I i say?bah!" * "But you're not going to confine < yourself to that explanation?" said i Campion. < "At first I gonfess I was gombletely buzzled. Now I com to the gon- ( elusion that you are being moiestea by one of those semi-intelligent grea- ] ture of the astral light which we call ' 'elementals' whom you haf attracted ' into your neighborhood." "Ah?" said Campion, gravely. "You see, you are evidently what ' in our philosophy is termed a 'sensi- 1 tive,' and your spirit has perhaps be- ! com odylized by the aura of this dis- 1 ingarnate bersonality, this elemental, 1 until between your own astral ?art ( and disembodied spirit an identity of ] molecular vibration is at times es- 1 tablished?is that clear?" "Simplicity itself," said Campion. 1 "Is it not?" said the Chela, highly 5 delighted with his own perspicacity; 1 "and now you understand?" "But what does this thing mean s by spoiling my canvas?" demanded ] Campion. "Probably it could not itself tell * you; in these elementals there is gur- j ious blayfuiness." . "If tuat is an elemental'^ notion , of fun, I can't follow him," said Campion. "Well, Herr Nebelsen, you | have found a theory, but I want something more. I want to get at ^ that elemental and punch his head ^ and take his fun out of him. I dare say you will say that is impossible, and I'm much of the same opinion myself. But you must have some remedy to suggest?" a remedyon, jes: bjuu iuu Chela; "there is one which all initiates recognize as very goot against hostile elernentals; send to your apotheke for one?or bedder, for two ? ounces of niter, and put tnem in a plate with one ounce vitriol?it will drive him away?most like!:'." Campion could retain his gravity no-longer?he roared with laughter. "Why not beetle-poison?" he said, most disrespectfully. "My dear sir, 1 can't help it. I'm afraid you can't assist me very much, though it's kind of you to wish to try." "Let me try still more,-' said the Chela. "You laugh now: some day. perhaps, you do not laugh. On a word from you, I will blace all my occult faculties in your service. I will even?though it will probably make him very cross?with my venerable Mahatma gommunicate." Campion shook his head laughing-' Iy. "No, no, my dear Herr Nebelscn," he said. "It's only fair to tell you I can't believe in all these things. They seem to jie the merest moonshine." "Moonshine, perhaps," said the Clicla. "Only reraeber?moonshine is not less real a" sunshine." "I don't feel quite up to theosophy just now," said Campion wearily. "Suppose >ve talk of something else?" "Oil. yes, you will hear this," said Nebelsen nersuasivelv. "In Mr. Bab- < coclc's picture is an Indian yogi, and i i:: that portrait is an Indian?per- ' haps a Hsurmcse?idol. You could i ?t hat' done either one or the other. < because you haf never seen them. ? :<ow why should both ?" "F don't know whether it affects J your theory," taiu Campion, "but if i 5 I can't explain the yogi (and I confess j ' I can't) the idol can be perfectly well accounted for. I painted it from? from something I happened to have by me." "So!" said the Chela; evidently this had upset his latest theory. "You haf it stil hier?" "Somewhere. I was rearranging my things the other day, and I put it on a shelf out of the way." "May I haf it down to examine?" and Campion brought the idol fron its retirement, not with the best grace in the world, for the fact was it had been banished because he had taken a strong dislike to it. Nebelsen carried it carefully to a side table, and folding his arms, regarded it thoughtfully for some time; then he came nearer and seemed to be testing the air with his outspread fingers, and finally he turned to Campion in triumph. "At last, and this time without i doubt, I haf the glew!" he cried. "You don't say so?" said Campion carelessly. Nebelsen caushi him by the sleeve and led him up to the image. "I am going to tell you a thing by which you will be much surbrised. All your unluck and hart lines are by this blacid-seeming-gross leg caused." Campion looked at him sharply for a moment, suspecting some hidden meanine: but the Chela was Quite in nocent of any illustration to the secret engagement of which he had never heard. "I tell you," he repeated, "I haf no longer any doubt; it radiates quite pefceptibly an evil magnstism. I feel it from here." "What a funny person you are, Nebelsen!" said Campion, laughing in spite of himself. "I am not fonning, I am quite serious. What, do you not beleaf?" "Not a bit. I was brought up .'a happy Christian child,' Nebelsen, as our nursery verse says. I can't believe in a working idol." "As an idol?no. But may he not haf been so saturated with the bersonal magnetism of a very bowerful medium that he finally attains an automatic gonciousness to himself?" "I should have thought it quite improbable." "Answer me only this. Are there no oggurrences you remember which you can distinctly gonnect with that image? I beg you to be gandid." Campion reflected conscientiously. "Let me see," he said. "The boy who brought it here was run over just at the door?boys always are getting run over. My fellow Bales and I came to grief when we tried to put it up on a bracket in my room, and there was a pretty big smash, and I believe it fell down again with Bales when he was taking it to be washed." "You see," cried Nebelsen, "but there is more to tell, 1b there not?-' "Well," said Campion, reluctantly,.] "it did kill a dog certainly?at least the dog upset the pedestal, and that thing fell down and flattened tha poor brute. And oh, well, I dare say you could pick out several other coIncidences about as striking if you look me irouDie. "Seferal goincidences together an inference make. I tell you, and I am jure of It, that?In some way even I do not bretend to understand?that image is Imbued with a force which enables it to brotect itself!" "You mean to tell me you seriDusly believe all this bosh? Look here; I'll settle this at once, and then [ hope you'll let me hear no more of t. Here goes for your self-conscious image!" He took the idol by Its conical iead and jerked it contemptuously jn to the floor. It bounded In three long skips, ouck ana araice rasnion, i icross the floor, and rolled through a j large mirror which was leaning igainst the wall, and the fragments if glass cut gaping rents in some lewly stretched canvasses and finshed studies behind. Nebelsen pointed to the idol, which was smiling amidst the debris like a sleeping infant. "You call that no jroof?" he said triumphantly. Campion was amused at his obstinacy. "If you are going to see marvels in everything," he said, 'why, I could make a bowl do the same thing any day; but I suppose r'ou would call that offended dignity, ;oo. Nebelsen, I must cure you of :his nonsense, it's so bad for you. We'll try it again with a more subtle sort of outrage. Ah! I think this will lo." Nebelsen had already replaced the mage uoon a table, and CamDion ;ook a tube of carmine T.hich happened to be nea., and with his thumb Irew a broad smear across the idol's jyes, to the Chela's extreme horror. To be Continued. Queer Newspaper Names. Among the odd names which newspapers bear in various parts of the country are The Bad Axe Tribuneilepublican, The Anniston Hot Blast, rhe Wire Grass Sittings, The High -liver Eye Cpener, The Punxsu:awuey Spirit, The Klondike Nugget, rhe Hanceville Hustler, The Gate IHty Humming Bird, The Canebrake herald, The Oakman Goosequill, The Kentucky Thousand Sticks. The Alline Avalanche, The Blum Paper, rhe Blanket Gazette, The Booming 5rove Rustler, The Bowie Cross Timrnu ~ a -a?-. ? - a? r?ii? a S=>, xue AMiUUa nrruw, JL ue Ar?,ttU>as City X-Rays, The De Soto Eagle Sye, The Engharn New Leaf, The Gas ?Jty Gaslight, The Hopton Headlight, Hie Larned Tiller and Toiler, The Lyndon Current Remark, The Better Way, The Sprig of Myrtle, The Fulirum, Push, Wideawake Mouthpiece, \'ew Wrinkle, Log Cabin, Boomermg, Javelin, Tocsin, Anvil, RoundUp, Opera Glass, Meteor, Ball, Mav;rick, Coaster, Silver X-Ray, Sticker, | doming West, Fast, Word of Truth, j Light and Mathematical Messenger. ! rhe most profane name in the newspaper list is The Devil's River News | >f Texas. Not Much by the Day. The Lady?"What! thirty-eight ; :ents a dozen for eggs? Why, that's nore than three cents for one egg." i rhe Grocer?"Well, mum, you must 1 -<>raeiiiber that one egg is a whole, lay's work for one hen."?Cleve- | and Leader. It Is estimated that all the inhab'.ants of the world could .stand cor.--1 !orlably in the space of eighty miles. *\ Household /** | Matters, i To Clean the Chimney. Much of the trouble with chimneys filling up with soot may be avoided j by burning the potato parings. The ohemirai notion is such that the soot is entirely cleaned out, so there is no danger of its becoming filled up, even when soft coal is used in the stove. Zinc cut in small pieces and thrown j into the stove or furnace when the fire is burning brightly also will have j the same effect, and a handful once used in three or four weeks will keep the chimney clear and draft good, no matter what fuel is used.?American Home Monthly. Keeping Butter. If a little more butter is made than is needed for the table it can be preserved for future use in this way: Before the butter hardens, after it is thoroughly worked and salted, put it ] in a two gallon stone crock, and with a wooden potato masher pound it down smoothly, being sure to leave no air spaces. Over the butter place a large cloth and cover it to the depth of an inch with a layer of dry salt; then put on lid of crock. Whenever j there is a little butter to spare lift i the cloth and with the potato masher beat it down firmly into the first layer rf butter. The secret lies in packing I it close enough to exclude the air | I and keeping the top covered with salt. ; Butter packed in this way in June was perfectly sweet in December.? Mrs. E. G., in Ladies' World. To Use Cold Potatoes. When cold boiled potatoes are plen- J tiful cut them into small dice and mince fine an onion and a stalk of celery. Make some white sauce, mix it with the potatoes, season with salt and pepper, turn the mixture into a buttered baking dish, cover the top with buttered crumbs and bake. If, grated cheese is mixed with the white sauce, a very tasty and nutritious dish results. In some far off golden future, when home caterers have learned wisdom, cheese dishes will ! not be served at the same meal with I red meat. Under ordinary circum- 1 stances a dish such as the one de- j scribed above is substantial enough I | for the main dish of a luncheon, with no meat at an, ana u peibuus umj j thought so it would serve the same i purpose for dinner with nutritious vegetables and a nutritious dessert.? American Home Monthly. Wasbing Dclicate Embroideries. Make a good lather with soap and warm water, adding one-fourth of a teaspoonful of powdered borax to each quart of water. Place the articles in an ordinary glass fruit jar, then nearly fill the jar with the lather. Seal tightly, shake the jar a little, and place it in bright sunshine for twenty-four hours. Of course, if the weather is cloudy, the time should be allowed for. Turn the jar around occasionally, so that the sun may penetrate every part. When the time is up, pour off the lather, press the fabric gently, then rinse several time9 in clear, soft water. Return?it to the jar with more clear water, set it again in the sun, changing the water daily, until the material is white. I recently renovated a bit of fine old hand embroidery, which had become as yellow as saffron, by this method, and it was beautiful. ? Woman's Home Companion. t ' Some Points on Cake Icings. Two cupfuls of granulated sugar . and three-quarters of a cupful of sweet cream or milk boiled together for about nine minutes, then set aside to cool?stirring occasionally until cool ? and flavored with orange, makes a delicious filling for a dark chocolate layer cake. It is much richer than boiled frosting made with water and an egg. Two cupfuls of light brown sugar, 1 fhrpp-nnarters of a cunful of milk, ; one-half a. teaspoonful of cream of ,1 tartar, boiled until a little stirred on a dish is "fudgy," then when cool j flavored with vanilla, makes an icing ; similar to maple sugar. Care should be taken when boiling not to burn or boil too long. Peanut butter, mixed smooth with cream and confectioners' sugar, makes a cheap, easily made and novel filling for cake.?Mrs. F. D. M., in Ladies' World. d9oodeTWi\?!5 ifpfo led \L cBnp now to w&mp V prepabe-tttm I Pot Koast Potatoes.?Try out the : ham rind and scraps of fat that have accumulated from the breakfast ham. Have ready small peeled potatoes not , larger than an agate, and drop in the hot fat. Cover the pot and cook until tender. Frizzled Beef.?Slice off enough Jried beef to make a half pint; put trying pan on stove with two table J jpoonfuls of butter; put in beet ana I fry brown or crispy; stir to prevent Durning; put one and a half tableapoonfuls of flour in, and let brown. A.dd one pint of sweet milk. Salmon Croquettes.?Boil four good sized potatoes until well done; mash them and add one-half can salI mon. Beat one egg and add to sal, mon and potatoes. Roll some crackers and mix in. Form into small i calces and di/) them in eggs, which are well beaten, then in rolled crackers and fry in deep fat. ~ *? nno Almond surprise.? package of raspberry gelatin and half a pint of granulated sugar in one and a half pints of boiling raspberry juice from canned fruit, as this imparts a better flavor; strain it, then stand away to cool. When it is slightly stiff, stir into it half a pound of ground or rolled chocolate alrefrieator. and JiKJiiua, pin, it. in . ? when perfectly firm, serve icy cold, lurned out upon a glass dish or in , individual glass punch glasses, with one tablespoonful o? whipped cream on top of each cup. I Kit lip = - T INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY 5. I tl i: Snbjeot: Israel Asks For a King. 1 ^ Sam. 8?Golden Text, Prov. 8:1.1 j. ?Commit Verses 19, 20?Read Dent. 17:14-20?Commentary. a EXPOSITION.?I. Jehovah tells * the people the manner of the kins 0 that shall reign over them, vs. 10-18. >3 The people were eager for a king, so jj eager that they brusquely and heart- [] lessly tell Samuel that he is too old to j, be any longer fit for the place of lead- j, ership (vs. 1-5). If Samuel's feelings ^ were In the way of their ambition. r, they must be trampled upon, that is n all, no matter how faithful a ruler n Samuel had been (1 Sam. 12:3-5). j But Samuel seems to have been reap- 0 ing in part the result of his own folly. His sons were utterly unfit to be ^ : judges, dui ne maae mem juages over j, Israel. It is God's business to appoint j, judges, and not man's. The fact that B Samuel himself was a judge by divine appointment gave him no right to o make his sons judges by his own ap- r pointment. Divine gifts and offices El are not transmissable from father to son. It is a grave mistake to sacrifice jj the work of God for the interests of n our children. Fatherly ambition for ^ his sons seems to have led Samuel n astray, even with t.ia awful example f, of Eli before his eyes (cf. ch. 2:12, n 13; 3:11-14). Hundreds of years be- j fore (Deut. 17:14, 15) God had an- j] licipated the day when His people r should request a king, but He was nci p pleased with the request when it was n made (ch. 12:17). That illustrates ti the difference between what God pre- a diets and what God desires. "The h thing displeased Samuel" (v. 6). It 8 was right that it should; for it dis- e pleased the Lord as well.' But there p seems as if there was something of a :fil personal element, not unmixed zeal v\ for God's honor, in Samuel's dis- c pleasure. But he did the wisest thing 6 there was to be done under the cir- a :umstances. "He prayed unto the b Lord" (v. 6; cf. Phil. 4:6, 7). Sam- ? del does not seem to have had a word of reproach for the ingratitude of the alders until after he had talked it over with the Lord. It was not God's first choice to give them a king, but s God has a way of training His chil- c dren by letting them have their own y way and so find out by bitter experi- c ance how much better His way is (Ps. S 81:11, 12; Luke 15:12, 17). God t: was their King. In asking a human d (risible king, they had rejected the di- b vine invisible King. The real root of P their eror was essentially the same is P in making the golden calf. The desire u so common to-day for a visible human P priest and teacher to take the place ti of the invisible Priest and Teacher. P 1 Jesus, is of the same character. The " unbelieving human heart cannot walk * by faith, it wants sight. Israel's his- E tory is all of a piece, a history of failure and apostacy (v. 8). The same is tl true very largely of the history of the C professing church. God hearkened P unto their request (v. 9). The stern- c; est chastisement oftentimes that God c can send is just to let us have oui F own way, but when God does let His * willful children have their own way. o it is not without solemn proteet Cl against their folly (Matt. 23:37; l< 22:4; 21:36,37). When Israel chose tl a king it was in the face of the full b revelation of what manner the kings * should be. So men get their own h way to-day in the face of the $ clear revelation of what that way Cl involves. Samuel was in many respects a model preacher, he kept silent until he got a message from the Lord, and then he delivered it in full ci (v. 10). He spoke only what the Lord gave him to speak and he spoke an ui. mitt, it was doi a very pieas- ^ ant or a very welcome message, but it a was the one God gave him and he de- p livered it all. They thought that they c might be very victorious and joyous z and glorious if they could only have a j king, but they would find it quite dif- ii ferently (v. -18). He would bring t tears and not rejoicing. So it turned p out. What a curse to them, Israel's J kings taken as a whole, were. How g accurately God pictures the manner oi f< the coming kings. L II. "That we also may bo like all S the nations" vs. 19-22. The people E were not at all moved by God's Die- iv ture of the woes the king would bring ci upon theiu. They refused to obey p They had made up their minds and s said, "We will," and that settled it. fi When any man sets up his will against God's, then his ruin is certain. Theii hearts were fully set within them to do evil, and their whole after history shows the hitter consequences they reaped. They desired a king only to be like the surrounding nations (vs 19, 20), nnd they made the wayward- rj ness of Samuel's sons the pretext foi demanding one. God had called them to be a separate people (Ex. 33:16; i Lev. 20:24-26; Deut. 7:6). This was h a great honor (Ex. 19:5, 6; Deut. 26:IS, 19), but Israel did not like the ? place of separation. They were daz- n zled by the seen but temporal glories y arouua mem aua preierrea mem 10 t, things unseen but eternal (cf. 2 Cor. z 4:18). It Is just so with the church P to-day. We are called to be a separate people (2 Cor. G: 17; Rom. 12:2; 1 Pet. 2:9; Phil. 3:20), but the { church does not like the place ot' separation. We want to "be like all the ji nations." Samuel listened to all the a people had to say and then went and j. poured it into the ears of Ihj Lord. ^ It seems to have been Samuel's lixed ? habit, when he was grieved, to go oSt and have a talk with God about it. father of Twenty-seven Children. James Allen Monroe, a live stock n commissioner and broker, made his n family returns to the new school cen- C) sus enumerator in Chicago, annouucing that twenty-seven children were jc born to him. Eighteen are alive. He a, first became a father in I860 and soon fell into the habit. His third -j wife recently gave birth to a daugh r# ohilrli'ftn with throe* uotc ipr. r v ut?v?? V.? "?V%. V... VX ?vvu of twins counted in is the record Tor twenty years of married life attained by Mr. and Mrs. Charles; Dunston. o* !' No. 733 Wells street. t( A I'otson Mark on Vodka. The Duma committee, which lias h had under consideration the drink p question in uussm, iihs reported m hi favor of replacing the itrperiai (.-aglft In on the labels of vodka bottles by the ti Bkull and crossbones and appropriate b warnings against overindulgence. To Remove Swedenborg's Body. The body of Emanuel Swedenborg, rc after resting in the vault at the Swe- jti dish Church, St. George's-in-the-Kast, ;1] London, for 136 years, is shortly to j0 be removed to Sweden and reinterred ^ there HE CRUSADE AGAINST DRINK ROGRESS MADE BY CHAMPIONS FIGHTING THE RUM DEMON. 'he United States Derives One-third ?f Its Revenues From a CrimeProducing Poison Wliich Makes Wild Beasts of Its Victims. "Nothing could boost the prohibiten movement throughout the civil:ed world so much as the cutting of he wages of the workingman," said >r. David H. Gow, of Chicago, at the lotel Breslin. "His first step in economy, If ho Is wise man. in to stOD drinklner. It eems that everything good has hapened this year to assist the progress f the water wages on its world "ound tour. We are much more ikely to Dave national prohibition ban England, because the States can adividually cut liquor out and readust their revenue without much troule, throwing the greatest loss from evenue upon the Federal Governlent. The States don't care how luch the Federal Governmant loses, t is large enough to care for its wn Income and expenditure. "Few persons realize that tho fnited States Government derives ust one-third of its total < revenue rom the liquor tax. If every State bould go dry the Government would e deprived of more than $200,000,00 annually. It would havo to get evenue, of course, from some new ource. ine people woma suaer n. ; should happen to tax a necessity of fe. Liquor is taxed because it is ot considered necessary to a man's relfare. Thus the Federal Governlent derives one-third of it3 revenue rom a crime-producing poison, which lakes wild beasts of men and women, 'ranee has learned that its increase a crime and its decrease in birth ate is due almost entirely to alcohol, 'rohibition is no longer a merely loral question. You don't have to ell a man that it is a sin to drink lcohol. You can truthfully say to im that the drinking of alcohol is a ign of mental weakness and degenracy. He cannot keep up with the rocession, commercially, physically/ ocially, mentally or in any other -ay if he uses alcohol. I think wageutting is a good thing in some repects. It will help men to give up lcohol, and in one year they will be etter men and have more money in he bank."?New York Telegram. x -? xl. vusi 01 lilt; aniuuuD. Judge J. L. Fort, of the Twentyecond Judicial Circuit of Missouri, ertifles that during the la3t two ears of license law in the counties omposing his circuit (Dunklin and toddard), there were 185 prosecuions for felony in his court, whereas urteg the next two years, under proibition, there were only twenty-one rosecutions for felony; that is (the opulation of the two counties being pward of 50,000), one felony case er annum for every 5000 of populaion under prohibition, and one felony er annum per 600 of population rhen the saloon existed; moreover, rhile the prohibition counties of >unklin and Stoddard were prosecutig one felon per 5.000 population, tie saloon counties of Butler, Cape rirardeau, Scott, New Madrid and 'emiscot were averaging one felony ase to 600 .population. The total o? rime under prohibition, says Judge 'ort, amounts to just one-eighth of rhat it did under the saloon. Ip one f these counties 810,000 a year was Dllected by county and State for sawn licenses, and $13,000 was spent tie same year prosecuting crimes atched in these same saloons; rhereas. says he. since the saloons ave been voted out, it costs less than I 2000 a year to prosecute all crime I ommitied in that same county. Try This on Your Piano. In the list of 224 applicants for Kense to conduct saloons in Richmond re note the following: L. BiagI, Frank Bonaldi. George .ugust Boehling, Louis Baldacci, J. .. Pertocci, G. Bencianai, A. Biagi, 'eter Bonini, G. B. Chiappa, Armedo arreiri, Canepa & Baccigalupo, T. . Crescioli, P. Castelvecchi, A. Case:', . Carmicelli, M. Consani, Paul Cechli, C. F. Ciucci, A. Donati, L. Dalle, [arry Dalle-Mura, A. Dementi, Rahael Francione, Frank Femandini. oe Gianotti, E. Garzoli, Agestino illio, Otto Gragnani, W. T. Holzap;1, E. Lebolo, John Lucchesi, Peter ienzi, B. C. Metzger, A. Moschetti & on, Frank Marchetti, Paslo Michel, :. L. Moschetti, Louis Marchetti, E. ra?nani Mpnnf. C. Masssi. Mori oni & Corriere, M. Maasei, S. C. Poll, ucinelli Brothers, F. Z. PIcchi, E. anguinetti, P. Trafieri, Chasie Traeri, Paul Valdrighi, Vincent Vanni, -Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. One of God's Stalwarts. The late Bishop Fitzgerald was ona f God's stalwarts in the great battle rith the saloon. A comparatively reent appeal to the great church he 3 faithfully served indicates the ourage and faith with which he Dught in the great campaign for pro* ibition: "We are persuaded that, efore she can fully accomplish the reat mission to which we believe od has called her, she (the church) lust take a much longer step in adance, and strike far heavier blows, [er forces must be thoroughly and ermanently organized, and, com meu W1LU MUUICU 1UIKS, wunw VVUtitute the opposition. The loes of le saloon must unite against its riends. The issue must be fairly jined. The saloon has long carried ie black flag. Henceforth the church nd her allies in this particular warire must carry it, too. The battle uist; be desperately fought, and the eld of battle must be lihe field of olitics." The Koot-.ind-Brancli Method. No doubt the anti-saloon movetents of America are seizing the idea earer its centre than it has yet been ^nceived in Germany and the United iingdoni. The eradication of the salon is a root-and-branch method that ssures results once it has been made ractieable by the support and en casement of the electorate. Forbid Liquor Shipments. Congress should pass a lav/ for- i idding shipments into "dry" terri- | )ry. A great evil and unjtmt. Was Not Respected in the South. J We counsel the liquor men to study istoi.v If they cannot see that State rohihition has come in the South >lely liecause they refused to respect ical option rule in the rural counties icy are blinder than we believe saua usines:, men to be.?The People. A. Creditable itecord. In seven Massachusetts cities ar 4.>ts uuuer license wuc m.?? all lo lour and one-half times as j lany as in Hie no-license year fol?\ving or previous.?Massachusetts o-Liceuse League. LIFE'S LESSON. -U. School-days ended, tasks all done, Put the books I loved away; Work is over, victory won, Naught to conquer, day by day. Did I say it? Hard tasks ended? So it seemed long years ago, When before the bright, well tended Flowers gay appeared to grow. Flowers gay, whose beauty faded E'er I breathed their fragrance sweet. Thorn-crowned sorrows life has shaded Weary pathways for my feet. Naught to conouer? Is it so, As we pass tne toilsome years? Naught but self, and sin, and sorrow, And our faithless, blinding tears r Oft we long to hear the message Of our Father's sweet "Well done," When, within the heavenly kingdom, Work is over, victory won. ?Carabel Wardell, in the Christian Herald. The Paradise of Faith. There Is an inner Christian lif? which many church members never reach. It is an undiscovered country, around which they are sailing, looking at its shining peaks through the , lens of an open profession, but never once setting foot on its sacred soil. They know its geography and can tell i its history, and they have eaten of the fruits of the land?the figs, the olives, the pomegranates and the grapes of Eschol; they have only songs for its beauty. They are kindly disposed toward Christianity, and give of their money to support it. They utter no harsh criticism, and may most frequently be found in their pews on the Sabbath. They are not enemies to th.e truth, and would like to be in the very heart of the land where the pomegranate* and the grapes of Eschol grow. But '.they cannot bring themselves to give up the old ship and Its crew, and possibly its Ill-gotten freight and enter the paradise of faith in God. And so they sail on and on, round and round the Island of the Blessed* and through the dim lens of an empty; profession look off upon "the city that Ileth foursquare;" they "tell its towers" and "mark its bulwarks,", tmt ever feel that they are not naturalized citizens of the land. They have not yet dropped anchor and gone ashore in full surrender to the Lord of the country.?United Presbyterian. The Law <ft Success. Eoison, when perfecting the pho* nograph, found it very difficult to make it sound the letter "s." "Spe? cla, spfecla," he would speak into It, but "pecia, pecla," was the only response he got. "It was enough to try the patience of a saint," said he, "but I kept at it sixteen hours a day. tot seven long months, and at lenjtfh I conquered it." Such courageous persistency would1 guarantee success to many a religious enterprise which is abandoned simply, because of the difficulties in the way, Dare to undertake what is impossible to man but easy enough to him who lays hold of Jehovah's strength. Someone has said that if we would "obey the law of the power that wi rouid rontrol the Dower." Obedience to God Is the secret of victory. ' I Think Ever of Christ. J "To be glad of life because it give* j you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with your poe* sessions but not contented with your* self until you have made the best of them; to despise nothing in the world except cowardice; to be ?governed by your admirations rather than by your disgusts; to covet noth> ing that is your neighbor's except hit kindness of heart and gentleness of manners; to think seldom of youf enemies, often of your friends, and every day of Christ; and to spend a* much time as you can, with body and with spirit, in God's out-of-doors; these are little guide-posts on the footpath to peace."?Henry Van Dyke. Making Heaven a Bribe. Did you ever realize that Heaven is generally offered to men as a bribe for being good? It is a sort of celestial candy dandled before the baby eyes of ignorance. "If you are good, and do thus and so, I will give yon this." This may be all very well, r< and even necessary, for children, but I maintain that for mental men It is a paltry and shameful conception and proposition. Who cares for the candy of reward? Is it not enough to be bribed to do our duty, or to avail ourselves of our privileges? It i3 high time that we thought and wrought in religion as grown men, and not as credulous children.?ParPnlnit ttgi apu * uij/*-. God's Way. A little girl was being put to bed one Sabbath night, and her mother asked her how she had enjoyed the day. She had been to Sabbath school and to church, and had some Sabbath stories read to her. She replied to her mother, without prompting of any kind, "It has been a sweet day, mother. I love God." Jesus said, "Of such is the kingdom of Heaven." He would have our love to Him spring up like a bubbling fountain by the force of Inner propulsion, and the expression of our appreciation of Him and His works arise like the exhalation of a flower. ?Home Herald. Beacon Liglitp. Not a single day of your Ufe have you been out of sight of some man or woman who was walking in white in the way of the true life. It is not strange, therefore, that you have not spent much time in looking for flaws In professed disciples of Christ to encourage your skepticism or furnish an excuse for your neglect of duty. Use Sunday Properly. Every day will be Sunday by-andby for the man who makes the proper use of his Sundavs now. Alton Must Tcacu Negroes. *" After twelve years of test litigation the State Supreme Court issued a mandamus writ against the Mayor and City Council of Alton, 111., requiring them to permit Ambrose ~nd Mi3s Minnie Bibb, negroes, to attend! the Washington or any other convenient public school Having outgro. . graded school years, the Dibbs will enter high school, having prepared) for it by private tutors during the twelve years their father has been, snincr fnr flipir school ricllts. Other negro students will take advantage B of the writ issued to the Bibbs. > I