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CHAPTER IX. 9 J
Pnt tn tlio Tost.
When a young man of spirit finds
himself suddenly scorned and rejected
by the mistress he adores, hin
most obvious course is to plunge into
reckless dissipation, which may haply
reach her ears, a result of which tl-.e
advantages are too clear to need demonstration.
Nor must he omit to
rail against the false one and her sex
with all the cynicism he can command.
But Rcnald Campion, hard
hit as he was, could not have been
a young man of spirit, for he did
neither the one nor the other.
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
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.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
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JULY 5.
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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