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f J i' i vj/vvjaiajama!/ 0av\1aj aj/\jw a!a! '\!/ v'/v'? vW/ > t/\f/ la 4/^>A>AtA0\lAT/vAt/^AIK,A0vl/vl/>t>v)<\t/\tAt'\t<\lAlAt/ J A FALLE i i vv^vajaiaiamawm dy crfher CHAPTER IX. 10 Continued. -"Take care!" he cried. "It is not wise to irritate liim too far! " "That ought to draw him, if ho has the 6pirit of a zoophyte," said Campion; "but he bears it, Nebelsen, you see?'smiles as he wa3 wont to smile' ?and I still breathe! " "We shall see," was the Chela's sole observatiou. He seemed at once disappointed and relieved. "Ah, you're incorrigible!" said Campion, laughing. "Never mind; we won't quarrel about it." "You will not object if I submit the case to my Mahatma for his advice?" ?1 J "NT~1???T tit! 11 {rat fha hrnth. BB1U XNCUCIDCII. X nui vuu er who is over hier to forward a gommunication for me. And, if it is not too great an Interference with Karma and if the Mahatma happens in a goot temper to be, I shall perhaps an answer which will gonfirm my obinion receive, and be able then to tell you what you ought next to do." "Do just as you please about it, Nebelsen," said Campion. "But I can't promise to follow your directions. " CHAPTER X. Conviction. campion had quite dismissed the incident, however, by the following day when he was able to return to the study he was making for his next picture, a scene from "Christabel." The lost sense of power and delight in work came back to him. His friend Pcrceval, who looked in nhnnt this time, was sumrised by his animation. Campion, deserting the classics for romance, had chosen as his subject the first meeting of the lovely lady Christabol and the dangerous Geraldine in the wood. "I remember," said the elder artist, on being told the subject; "but wasn't it a 'midnight wood,' and hadn't one of them 'a silken robe of white, that shadowy in the moonlight shone,' if I remember my Coleridge? Why have you made 'em meet at sunset?" ? "You call that sunset! I thought I had caught rather a good moonlight effect myself." "Oh, very well; but?crimson moss and scarlet turf! Come, Campion, this is more eccentric than ever." "Crimson? Scarlet? Nonsense! Grays and greens, you mean. Why, where are your eyes, 'making the green one red' like this?" "I may be wrong," said Perceval, with a quiet forbearance that provoked Campion. "May be! My dear fellow, you are," he said. "We'll soon settle it," and he shouted down his tube for Bales, who presently appeared, as usual under protest. "Were you requiring me for any purpose in partickler?" he said. "I was just going about those frames you ordered; but, of course, if I'm wanted here I can stay." "Just come over here and tell Mr. Perceval ana me wnat stnues you as the chief color in this picturc." Bales coughed behind his hand, and looked from one man to the other. At last he said, with a feeling that it was a case for caution and periphrasis, "Well, if it was me I shouldn't leave it about loose where there was a bull!" "Are you goiug to tell me it's red! " cried Campion. "Pillar boxes is foois to it," returned Bales sententiously, and Campion dismised him impatiently. When they were alone, Perceval said kindly: "Don't let this upset you; it's overwork, that's all. Only, if I were you, I should see some one about it, you know." Campion turned a ghastly face upon him. "I see," he said; "I am color-blind, then?" "I'm afraid there's some temporary affection?bless you, it's the commonest thing in the world," said Perceval, "nothing to give way about, man. J lib I BUCK ?.U UlctlJH. i?UU WU1I.B 1UJ rt few days and see an oculist, and you'll be all right. I'll make it all right with those fellows at the club, so you needn't worry about that. By the way there was that head of Cybele of mine you wanted to make some studies of?now's your time. I'll send it over to you, only be careful with it. I had the cast taken expressly for me at Athens, and I don't believe I could gei it replaced." "Thanks," said Campion, "it's very good of you." "Don't talk rubbish! And, see here: I've taken a houseboat for the summer?it's at Wargrave just now ?why not run down for a few days? ?come with me next Saturday." "If this lasts," said Campion, "I sha'n't be able to trust myself near a river." "Pooh! it won't last. 1 shall expect you, then, and let me know about the train?that's all right; and you shall have the Cybele this evening." After he had gone Campion gave himself up to the gloomly realization of his future. Color-bliud, why it was only a degree better than total blindness. Henceforth he could trust no tints, no hue that might for the moment delight his eye, and, it he tried to place them on canvas, his palette, too, would lie to him. It was the end of his career as a colorlst, unless he could unlearn all he Vnew, and paint, as a man with no ear may play, powerless either to correct or enjoy his own performance. As he sat with his fare buried in his hands, crushed by this last blow, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and he turned to find the Chela. "Ha, Nebelsen!" he said, wildly, "you come in time to congratulate me?I've just, discovered I'm colorblind. Pleasant that for a painter, oh?" "And now at last you beleaf?" cricd Nebelsen. -Believe? In what? Oh. I see v?> vt/xtrjy 4> v?; vt/Nl/'a/v!/ >^AI/>'/,?rVl? jiw^\iAW^^At/vtWvi/^l>^^/y/\W/vW/>iAj^v v<AtAl/v1/\W/vVvtAl/0/v!AtAfAtAt/vl'^^vt/v^^^JW :n idol \!> >I/>i/\!/ \t> \!/ vl/>! A!> vl!> ^<VvV^ I 1^ AWCTPV VJ/M/M/V!/WWV?/VAVVJAVV/\7WV/ I IC ANSTE.Y. I \t /\1> st^ <tAt> v*xW At> <1> vJ> \t/ V*/\</ v>/?/vi/U/ vt> <t> 1 what you mean;" and Campio: glanced at the smeared face of th idol, which was almost pathetic in it gentle resignation. "Nebelsen, it' too ridiculous?I won't believe it!" "Have you the head so hard?" sal the Chela. "The test was yours." "I tell you this is serious; fo Heaven's sake don't drag that foolisl idol into it. Can't you let me for get!" And Campion, anxious to re move all traces of an act which, ii this last affliction, seemed so frivol ous and puerile, caught up a piece o old Venetian embroidery, which hap pened to come first to hand, am hastily wiped the idol's downcas eyes. "Now, that's done with," h said. "If I could clear my own eye aa onsilv hilt. oh. if I COUld haV thought all that!" He had com back to the Christabel agair "Green! I must be a hopeless case No one can cure me. By Jovt though, if?if I see it as it really i now, I must be cured ! But whyhow ? " And he sat down, trembling vie lently. "Good God! Nebelsen," h said, hoarsely, "you were right, afte all?it's too horrible." "Never mindt," said the Chela en couragingly, "now that the spell i reversed. Besides, I bring you a goo tiding. I haf a gommunication fror my revered Mahatma received. Th brother through whom it came foun< it this morning brecipitated in blu bencil upon this blotting-bad, an sent it on at once to me. It point out the only way for you to remov out of all your troubles, but the wa is Incldlv auite simnle. I tolt yoi my Mahatma was a clever man." Campion gave a little groan; bu after swallowing the idol, he coul hardly strain at a Mahatma. "Well what docs he say?" he asked. "I am going to read. I must tel you at beginning, his English is ver fonny. Listen! " 'Quite true,' he begins, 'the idc is the mechanism of most of you friend's sea of troubles, though you theory to account for it is the feebles fiddle-faddle and stuff of a fat-witte beetle-head.' (There is noding stii at all about my dear old Mahatma. 'Only one who was a ninnyhamme and a goose-cap would suppose tha an image could possibly be charge^ with electro-magnetism. As you hav chosen to worry me about it, I tel you plainly that the only way out o the Gordian knot with which you friend is stuck in the mud'?(I can not think where he gets all his word and phrases?nor can the brothe who sets them down)?'is at once t return the idol to the hand fror which it came. As for your idioti ' (and then he wi'ites some mor in a friently way.) "You see, it is simple and quit easy," he concluded; "only return th idol to the place you bought it atyou can do that perfectly well." "It happens to be a present," sail Campion. "To the giver, then that is bedde still!" "It's impossible, I tell you, Nebel sen. If that's the best suggestio your Mahatma can make, he might a well have left it alone." "But why? Tell me why?" "Isn't it obvious? How can I, if believe?and, heaven help me, I d believes?this cursed thing is abl to injure those who cross its path, i some unacountable way?how can send it back to some one who though sh-he was doing me a kindness in gi\ ing it?" "But if the Mahatma says it is th only way," put in the Chela. "If it was the only way to save m soul, I hope I shouldn't do it. Jus ask yourself, Nebelsen. How can tell what infernal trick it may pla if I do send it back? I couldn't b such a scoundrel to send it withou a word of warning, and if I warr would any one in his senses take i in at all? No, your Mahatma may b a very learned person?but he doesn' seem to understand European nc UUIJS. When Nebelsen had gone, Carapio sat and stared at that uncanny idc of his with growing dismay; he di not know what to think about it. H was ashamed of believing that J could harm him, and yet his experi ments had given him a sharp lessor It was an ugly thought, but h could not rid of it; he was afraid a | last to be alone in the studio with th idol, and went out for a restles stroll. On his way back he passed a floi ist's, where he bought the most ej pensive flowers he could see in th window, and arranged them after hi return in his rarest piece of potter: TJa /*ol1ftfl T? o 1 o r? rl t rvl r? Vifm t XIO VUilTU uaito, UUU VWiU AAAAIA w take them into the painting-roon "Anywhere in particular?" Bale asked. "No," said Tampion, with affecte carelessness, "it's of no consequent it doesn't matter?at least" (and h showed a slight confusion here] "now I come to think of it, you ma put it on the carved cabinet, just i front of that Indian idol. Yes, pn it there, Bales?nowhere else. An I shall dine out this evening." He came home late. Not even t himself would he acknowledge tha lie had determined to noigncr his ido if it was possible to do so and pre serve any self-respect at all. "I ma try my hand at painting tbose flov 4. ~ > ^ 4-rx1,1 u : <^i yi b LU-LilUX i U W, uu IXCtU VV1U iJlllllOVJl (hough he was not believed, "and i the meanwhile?why the deuc shouldn't they-be on that cabinet?" But somehow, before he went t his bedroom he took a light into hi rtudio. to assuro himself that Bale i l%?r1 nioiln nn micfalro fthnuJ thr> flflW "crs. TIip flowers had evidently bee placed on the cabinet; but now the lay scattered and crushed at its fco< and the pottery which had hold ther was broker: into a hundred pieces while the idol kept Its usual plac i above, with somathlns now, to Cam r pion's excited fancy, of deadly anfi implacable hostility upon its glistening countenance. As he stood there in the paintingroom. where all but that particular i corner was lost In gloom, his flesh crept at the thought that this thing I was not to be cajoled nor appeased by anything he could do?his offering was rejected with scorn. And then, in the dead silence, with the shadows shooting and contractm ing about him as the light 3hook in n I his trembling nana, uampion, irum e some impulse he could not resist, 3 spoke to this image. s "What do you want?" he said in a course whisper. "Only tell mo that. Whatever you are?be reasonable." But the ugly thing gave no reply, r no sign of relenting; and disgusted h with his own superstition. Campion >- went to bed in a state of stony <te( spair. a [- CHAPTER XI. f MystiflciMons. i- After one or two postponements, i Mrs. Staniland's projected esoteric t evening was actually about to come e off. She had often exerted herself s before for the benefit of struggling e geniuses, to whom she had been c ' e real assistance. Ill-natured people i. were apt to compare her benevolence s. to that of the fabled snark, which t, "collects though it does not subs scribe," and it was perhaps true that - her heart opened more readily than 1 ? ? * A oil mnnov fa Tint. ner puret. nuci uu, .w ? ? the only or the most valuable contrie bution In all cases, and even of money r Mrs. Staniland could be liberal when she saw occasion. i_ But It was quite a new sensation s to her to figure as the protectress of t a rising faith, which might with a a little timely assistance regenerate soe clety, and she received her friends j with deep satisfaction. "I do think," e she assured several of them, "that -J- we are going to have a mo3t interests ing evening?dear Mr. Nebelscn e hopes to be allowed to go quite bey yond the usual phenomena."' u The rooms filled, and as the chariot-wheels which bore the hero of the t evening still tarried, there was little el to distinguish the gathering from an [r ordinary evening party. Young men stood talking, with the usual convic;i tion that it was uncommonly good y of them to talk at all, down to the eager girl faces upturned to catch ,1 their utterances; here and there r some one, with an evident pride In r his social dexterity, would pick his t tortuous way through the groups * until he dropped Into the conversa I tlonal opening he desired, much as ) the marble in the game of nursery r billiards zigzags down a maze of pins, t Nebelsen was feeling a supreme exd altation at the prospect of being at e last allowed to unveil some of the II mysteries of occultism to a larger asf sembly than he had ever yet adr dressed; the brotherhood, through i- their representative, had withdrawn s their opposition; he felt himself In r so highly electrical a condition as to o be capable of producing phenomena n far more startling than any he had c hitherto ventured upon. e Conversation, after two or three rebellious outbursts, was finally e quelled. The Chela took up a posie tion on the hearthrug, from which he _ contemplated his audience through raooney spectacles with a gaze or 3 dreamy emotion. The Cbala had already started r with a rapid and enthusiastic, though slightly incoherent harangue, on the l_ stupendous powers which were to be n attained by the human will when g guided and fortified by occult training. He discoursed upon these at" such lengths that his hearers showed j slight but unmistr.kable signs that 0 their attention was wandering, e though it took Nebelsen some time n longer to discover that he was exj pected to "cut the dialect and come ^ to the 'osses." r. Then, by way of introduction to the more recondite mysteries, he obe tained sharp double raps and silvery tinkles from unexpected quarters. y It is quite possible, however, to l(. overdo bell-sounds, and it must be ,L . ... .. j owned tnat tne uneia, in ms aiuuoc pleasure at his own performances, e produced them in profusion long t after they had lost their first fresh' ness; but the flagging interest was t revived when he announced: e "Do not be frightened, anybody, but there is one of the broderhood hier in astral form upon the balgony. Now we shall be able to have a very gurious and beautiful manifestation! ? Perhaps this lady who is opposite" ' (and he bowed to Mrs. Pontifex) "will be so gracious to think zom,?? thing she has long ago lost and would : be joyful to see again?" To bo Continued. i. e Shadows. Lt A nervous man on his lone homeward way heard the echoing of footsteps behind him, and dim vision* of I lioia-up men anu garroiers uourscu " j through ..is brain. The faster he L~ walked the more the man behind ine creased bis speed, and although the IS nervous one took the most rounda' bout and devious course he could devise, still his tracker followed. At g last he turned into a chuchyard. "If he follows me here," he de^ cided, "there cau bo no doubt about ^ liis intentions." g The man behind did follow, and ( quivering with fear and rage, the ' nervous one turned and confronted n ^'Tn* t "What do you want?" he demand^ cd. "Why aro ycu following no?" "Do you always go home like 0 Hi is?" asked the stranger, "or are you giving yourself a treat to-night? j I am going up to Mr. Brown's, and ^ the porter at the station told mo to v | follow you, as you lived next door. .*_ M'rciiso my asking, but arc you going f homo at all to-night?"?Philadelphia Public Ledger. 0 The Ppc?s Agpnt in Wyoming, 0 A gang of Rod Men, dressed as Ins j dians and cowboys, held up a stage iu - I the streets of Cody last week. It | was done to advertise a dance given by the Rod Men. ? Wyoming Es- I n ; change. t, [ The annual report of the Amerb n J can Bible Society gives encouraging ; indications relative to the religious a 1 l?f/% r\ 9 tlm ITlUninrto rP h n colinnl c: | HIT wi tu v X- iiij/iuvn. i II V ?jviivv? i. ! r>nrnJlmnnt has rlonlilAfl nnv hainar Building State Roads. ' Louis E. Harrison, Eastern Division Engineer of the State of New York, > Urt+ol Tfnlplror. I is rcgistereu cti inc nui.g4 aU4v*4w bocker. "This has been New York's banner year in building State road3," said Mr. Harrison. "A comparison of the work done in 1907 and that accomplished in the previous twelve months illustrates this. In 1907 the three divisions of the engineering department constructed 385 miles of road, a feat which established a record for the State. This year the Eastern Division alone has undertaken to build 600 miles, of which 550 will be completed before winter sets in,.while the total mileage throughout the State will be in the neighborhood of 800. "State road construction has proven such a popular success that efforts were made to obtain from the Legislature an appropriation of $7,500,000. ?A/-vnm . fnr? 1111b CbllUIttLC woa vui, ui/nu w even $3,000,000, of which there is left about one-third. Ab the money Is appropriated as the obligations are incurred the shortage of cash therefore will have no effect on the work already under way, but will be used for future purposes. "New York is taking up the work on a greater scale than most of the other States. The increase in the number of automobiles has been instrumental in strengthening the demand for better roads. At the rate , at which the work is now going on the State will in a few years have a splendid system of public thoroughfares."?New York TelegramGood Roads Mileage. Indiana people will take pride in j knowing that this State stands first in the mileage of good roads. Good Roads gives the mileage of highways I in the several States named below, I and puts Indiana at the head of the j list. In a recent interview of the Hon. Martin Dodge, by the Ohio Farmer, he said to that paper that the Ohio improved roads, while not so ereat in mileaee. were better than ours in permanent character, and the Farmer adds: To show the actual position of this State, the following statistics of good road mileage are given by Mr.. Dodge, who is good authority, as he was until recently Director of the Office of Good Roads Inquiry at Washington: State Mileage of Good Roadb*. Indiana 23.S77 Ohio 23,460 Wisconsin 10,633 Kentucky , 9,486 California : S,803 Illinois 7,924 Massachusetts . 7,844 Michigan 7,025 Minnesota 6,247 New York 5,876 Tennessee 4,285 Missouri 2,733 Oregon 2,589 New Jersey 2,4 22 Connecticut 2,360 Maine 2,323 Pennsylvania 2,1G1 Tanics and Bad Roads. Every fall financial centres are upset by the enormous amount of money withdrawn to "move*the crops." For two or three months the strain is intense, and sometimes?as last fall? it is disastrous. Why the undue haste j to get the crop to market so quickly j ?only a part of it is needed for iraI mediate consumption. One of the principal reasons is the roads are generally bad throughout the winter and spring; at any rate they cannot be depended upon, so the farmers prefer to get the grain off while the roads are good, and this grand rush upsets everything. It costs nine cents per bushel per year for elevator storage alone, which entails other expenses. Grain can be i stored on the farm for two cents per | bushel. The elevator charges are j equal to a ten per cent, tax on wheat J and a twenty per cent, tax on corn and oats. This is a big and largely unnecessary tax. With good roads the farmers can store their grain on the farm and control the situation, j saving a neat little sura that is now j wasted, as well as selling their grain j to better advantage. Enormous for tunes are being made and augmented by shrewd middlemen manipulating the price of the world's food supply. The man who raises the grain and the man who eats it pay the bill. Good roads are the best remedy. Building of the Highways. By their roadways ye shall know them! There is no better index to the thrift, enterprise and good citizenship of any State or community than the condition of the country roads. Advancing civilization always finds expression in road building; upto-date roads and up-to-date citizens are always found together. With three centuries of settlement in this country, less than eight per cent, of the highways are improved. At this rate it would take nearly 4000 years to complete the work. Is it not strange that a people who have demonstrated their capacity in every other field of human activity should so signally fail in dealiug with the roads? The importance of good roads can hardly be overstated. The highways are the veins of trade and contmcrce, as the railroads are the arteries. How I important, men, that they should be good every day iu the year. i A Concise Talc. In a Tennessee court an old colored woman was put on the witness stand to tell what she knew about the annihilation of a hog by a railway locomotive. Being sworn, she was asked if she had seen the train kill the hog in question. "Yassah, I seed it.* "Then," said counsel, "fell the Court in as few words as possible just how it occurred." "Yo' I-Ionah," responded the old lady, "I shure can tell yo' in a few words. It just tooted an' tuck him." According to a Japanese newspaper, 700 frogs were killed and 2000 wounded iu battle among themselves. | Religious Truths | [From the Writings of Great Preachers. ETERNITY. Unquiet sea, that endlessly doth stretch Beyond the straining,.finite sight of man: Why dost thou toss in infinite unrest, Oh, why no far, faint shore-line can we 6can ? Full many a bark thy serried billow* _ crossed. i<ull many a sail bath spread before toa wind. Eut none hath e'ei' returned; the tempesttossed And anxious mariner do*h haven find In fairer elime, in sunny land afar. Where no storms rudely break or winds iontend. There nothing enters in their joy to mar. Who have the peace of God, which knows no end. Oh, may we. too, that stanJ with straining eye? Looking far out, where wind and wave contend? Set s.n'1 with hope to those fair lands that lie Beneath the peace of God, that knows no end. [Walter Samuel Swisher, in the Christian Register. Cantankerous Goodness. Let not then your good be evil spoken of.?Romans 14:16. Too much of the goodness of this world, is cantankerous goodness. It is a rule of universal applicable uy iuu 01 universal iruiuuiness?11 you are going to do a thing, do it! Either come in or go out. God Almighty cannot make a door to be both open and shut at the same time, (f you are going to do a thing, do it properly. Sit down and consider the :ost if you must, though it is better tc do the right in scorn of cost, not so much as considering whether there oe such a thing as cost. But when you have decided to do che right thing, do it finely, nobly, greatly. Have you decided to give? rhen give graciously, spontaneously, with open banded, whole hearted kindness, which doubles all the value if your giving. Consider: Why are ?ou helping this man at all? Why, to help him! Out of the goodness 01 /our heart and out of a wish to be ol service to him. Then how foolish tc 3o it in such a way as to spoil his happiness in receiving! How foolist 10 defeat your own object by a waj if doing things which brings you no gain and involves him in loss! There are men who have tried to do us a sindness, and they have set about It In such a fashion that we have not forgiven them yet! Give or do not give?one or the other. But if you ire to be generous, be generous genjrously, and get all the credit, all the Deneflt, all the happiness and all the nfliience for good out of it. So with all life, not merely with ;he giving of money, time or service. Have you to make a concession or accept an unpleasant position or subflit to an awkward fact or put yourself in the position of one who acknowledges error and offers frank ipology? Then do it heartily. Let dot your good be evil spoken of. Concede the point or refuse it; fight and lie in your last ditch if you think that is Christian duty. These are reasonable, consistent courses. But it !s neither reasonable nor consistent, !t is neither Christianity nor common sense to yield grudgingly and with a had grace, to submit to the humilialion of defeat without securing the self-approbation which accompanies whole heartedness, to say that you forgive while muttering under your breath that you will not forget, or to offer an apology which neither satisfies your conscience nor clears the offense. Wisdom is in this advice, the common sense of daily life. But deeper things are in it. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ is in the-* spirit which gives itself freely, pouring out its own hfe in saving and redeeming men, in making life beautiful and sweet.?The Rev. Charles F. Aked, D. D.. Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, New York, in the Sunday Herald. A Great Stewardship. Taken by itself, your life Is certainly a very insignificant affair; but placed as you happen to be placed, in the kind of universe which God bas happened to make, your life becomes of infinite importance. Foi 3od has chojcn to work out His designs, not in spite of you, but through you; and where you fail He baits. Almighty God needs you. You ?re not your own, either to be insignificant or great; but you are in the service of that which is greater than yourself, and that service touches /our life with its own grealness. It is as though you were a lighthouse keeper set to do your duty on your Dare rocK. ?jan any me ds more unpraised or insignificant? Why sit through the weary nights to kei-p your ilame alive? Why not sleep on, all unobserved, and let your little light go out? Because it is not your light?that is the point. You are not Its owner, you are its keeper. That is your name. You are a ligbt.-keeper. You are set there with this as your trust. The great design of the Power you serve takes you thus out of your insignificance.?Francis G. ?eabody. He Who Would Save Must Suffer. Soul-saving work cannot be carried on without suffering. If we are simply to pray to the extent of a pleasant and enjoyable exercise, and to know nothing of watching in prayer, we shall not receive all the blessing that we may. We shall not sustain our missionaries who are overwhelmed with the appalling darkness of heathenism; we sball not maintain the spiritual life of our own souls as it needs to be maintained.?J. Hudson Taylor. Character, The man who is narrov/ and sordid, and stingy in his youth will probably be narrow, and sordid, and stingy all his li?e. Young men should know that the greatest asset they can have in this lite is character.?The Rev. W. Courlland Robinson, Philadelphia. No Reserved iieals There. Tne people with the opera cloaks wuu't have all the Iraut seats in heaven. Child Has Five Groat-Grandpr,rents. Melva Sliafer, five month.s old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Shafer, of Washington, D. C.. enjoys the distinction of Having five greatgrandparents. Mr. and Mrs. John McNear, of Oxford, grandparents of the baby's father on the maternal side, are eighty-one and seventy-one years old. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Shafer, grandparents on the father's paternal side, are sixty-seven and sixtyfive years old respectively. The fifth great-grandparent is Mrs. Elizabeth Sparrows, of Hackettstown, grandmother of the baby's mother. A " THE WARFARE AGAINST DRINK TEMPERANCE BATTLE GATnERS STRENGTH EVERY DAY. Voting Out the Saloon?Crusaders Who Formerly Despaired Are Now Joyfully Hearing of One Victory After Another. It seems only a few years ago when the outlook for the triumph of temperance appeared discouraging, and even those who knew most about the movement and were working hardest for the suppression of the liquor traffic would sav that it would Drob ably be a generation or two before great gains could be counted. To-day these same workers are watching with pleased astonishment one victory after another over the saloon. It is like a great snowball that has started at the top of a mountain. At first it had to be formed and pushed along, but gradually it gathered more snow unto itself, and then, of its own weight, rushed onward, growing in size with every foot it covered. So it Is with the temperance movement. It is gathering momentum and drawing to itself all of the respectable elements in many communities, and is sweeping everything before it. It differs, however, from the snowball in this respect: It does not melt away, no matter how fierce the heat of the attack made upon it. It is here to stay, and here to win. The liquor traflRc is being beaten in all parts of the country. It has received its deathblow in the South, and knows it, though it is making futile efforts to appear alive in a ?few places. The Christian people in those districts may be depended upon to finish its existence, and its menace to manhood and to the homes of helpless women. A short time ago there was chron Icled upon this page the vigorous campaign in Canada and the stories of ibe temperance battles that were won. Hardly has the liquor traffic had a chance to think twice about how it could change its tactics and save itself elsewhere, than the thousands of voters of Illinois go to the polls and vote that the saloon has done enough harm, in towns in tt^at State. Not all of Illinois has "gone dry," but the list is an encouraging one. There local option was voted upon in 1150 of the 1295 townships of the State. The temperance forces made gains in all of the country districts with, perhaps, three exceptions. Some of the larger places voted for license, but the liquor majorities were greatly reduced. It is reported that the women prayed while the men were at the polls, and when the vote was announced it was found that between 1500 and 2000 saloons had been voted out of existence. It shows what can be done with the ballot, if the respectable portion of any community would work together for the common good.?Christian Herald. Texas Decision Hits Saloons. Judge Pollard, Attorney-General of Texas, has recently made a startling decision for the liquor men in that State. In answering a question regarding the new Baskin-McGregor Law, Judge Pollard declares that the law will reauire that a saloon man must have resided in a county at least two years before he can take out a saloon license. Since the wave of local option spread over North Texas the saloon men have emigrated to other counties and started anew in the business. In hundreds of cases, therefore, they will not have been residing In their present locations for the requisite two years, and, according to Judge Pollard, their licenses are invalid unless secured in accordance with this clause of the new statute. Carlyle Called It "Prating." "A nation of drunkards is even preferable to a nation of slaves," said Rev. Mr. Mangasarian in an address to a "Liberty League" in Chicago recently. But what about a nation of both drunkards and slaves! Remember what Carlyle said to the English people: "No man can oppress thee, O, free and independent franchiser! But does not this stupid porter pot op i.i o xt? _ p a j ~ v: J press iuee: i\u sun ui ausui rau uiu thee come and go, but this absurd pot of heavy wet, this can and does! Thou art the thrall, not of Cerdic the Saxon, but of thy brutal intemperance. And thou pratest of thy liberty! Thou entire blockhead!" Sobriety in Great Britain. The decline in consumption of alcoholic beverages in Great Britain, to which we have occasionally called attention in recent years, steadily continues, and has now reached a point at which it seems judicious to regard it as a decidedly significant movement which promises permanent results. There are, of course, in the records of all nations variations and' fluctuations from year to year in such matters. But when either an increase or a decline continues per sistenuy year auer year ior a cunsiuerable period, and is not reasonably attributable to any merely transient causes, it becomes worthy of serious attention.?Now York Tribune. Our Sober Sailors. Fourteen thousand American sailor boys in the great battle fleet made a most notable record for sober and orderly behavior during their visits to South American ports. Which proves that they must come from a different part of the country than their broth ers wno maice up tne American army, or else somebody is doing some tall lying about the necessity for the army snake hole, otherwise known as the canteen. Temperance Notes. In local option the opponents of the saloon have found their most effective weapon. It still retains its hold in the cities. A good deal of the spirit of '76 appears to have cropped out in the Illinois women who have enlisted to conquer the demon rum. The anti-caloon forces claim that in the recent elections in California they won in two-thirds of the town? in which the saloon question was at I issue. The government of Rcumania has projected a new liquor law, under which the right to sell drink will pass into the hands of the local communal authorities. The Chicago Great Western Railroad Company, indicted last winter 0:1 rrmnfc Hi flrffin ?T fifllo Of lidUOT on its trains and whicb pleaded guilty to one indictment in Iowa, Las paid a fine of $300. The almost uniform fate of the saloon when presented as a local issue in the country districts raises the expectation that it will eventually fuccum^ to the more slowly aroused! moral sentiment of the larger centres of Douuliition. i : Wt li -w J? f &unbdii-&cnodP ft INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR JULY 12. Subject: Saul Chosen King, 1 Samuel 9 and 10?Golden Text, 2 ? Sam. 23:3?Commit Verse 24? Read 1 Sam. 11?Commentary. ' truro?ionn r r. pt.aotc.? Mizpeh. wEXPOSITION.?I. Saul Chosen King, 17-23. Jehovah had already * pointed Saul out as the one whom He had chosen to be king over Israel (cf. ch. 9:17), and Samuel had made known this choice of God unto Saul (ch. 9:20, 21; 10:1). Now there le to be a formal and public choice by lot. Samuel called the' people together but not unto himself, "unto the LORD." They were to meet the LORD face to face that day and to hear a message from Him. Are our gatherings together unto the Lord or unto some man? The place of meeting was one that had been hallowed by former gatherings (Judges 20:1; 1 Sam. 7:5, 6). Samuel again re-, proves them for asking for a king (cf. ch. 8:7-9, 19; 12:12, 17-19). But the reproof was not Samuel's but God's. God calls to their remembrance how He had saved them and brought them up out of the land of bitterness and bondage. How gross was the ingratitude of a people that could reject such a God, and how great was their folly that they should desire some human king and deliverer Instead of Him. But their ingratitude and folly was nothing in comparison with that of those who reject aiir?V? a DoHrornr on/1 T rtrH oa Toane Christ has proven'Himself to be. It is the method of God in reasoning with men to call to their remem orance His loving kindness towards them, in order that they may see their own ingratitude and folly, in the light of His abounding grace (cf. Ju. 2:1; 6:8, 9). It was a fourfold deliverance that Jehovah had wrought for them. (1) He had brought theH* ap out of Egypt, the land of bondage, plagues and darkness. (2) He had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians; that hand had been a heavy one. And the hand out of which Christ delivers us to-day is a heavy one. (3) He had delivered them out of the hand of all kingdoms. He had brought them to civil liberty and self-government, s.nd now they very foolishly desired a king again. The only way to be delivered from the oppression of all earthly kings is to have God for our King. (4) He- " , had delivered them out of the hand of all that oppressed them (cf. Luke '1:74, 75). No earthly king could do that. Their obstinacy and folly in this matter was a foreshadowing of how men would treat Christ (cf. Acts 7:51, 52). Saihuel told them their awful guilt witnout mincing woras. ''Ye have this day rejected your God." This is a frightful indictment, but It is one that can be justly brought against every one to-day who is rejecting Christ. In the face of all God has done they still said, "Give us a >_ man. Set a Icing over us." The invisible God is not enough for the unbelieving heart. The lot was in those days one of the divinely appointed ways of discovering the mind of the Lord (Prov. 16:33; 18:18; Josh. 7:16-18; 1 Sam. 14:41; Acts 1:2426). But there is no use of the lot after the giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. When the tribe of Benjamin was taken they might have seen, had they been familiar with the Scriptures, that the choice was necessarily a temporary one; for the permanent king of Israel was to comfe from Judah (Gen. 49:10, 27). There is scarcely a sadder story in the Bible. or in history, than that of Saul. II.?How the People Received Their King, 24-27. Samuel was very enthusiastic over the man chosen. 'See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen," he cried. With far deeper meaning may we point to Jesus and say, "See ye Him whom God hath -i tt / A Q . O ? \ COOS6U V Ui. AtiB u . o vj j . tjamuui went on to say, "There Is none like him." It was true, but how much truer is it of Jesus, that there is none like Him (Song 5:10). The people were enthusiastic, too; they "shouted." But, like so many shouters, there their enthusiasm ended; the greater part of them went "every man to his house." They had a leader now, and he could do the fighting. They were like many modern churches, i they shout for the new pastor and then go home and leave him to do the fighting. Saul assumed to himself as yet no glory, he went quietly back to his humble home and waited for the call of Providence to jo his duty. It soon came (ch. 11:111). Not all the people were apathetic. There was a faithful little eompany, "a band of men whose nearts God had touched" (cf. Ezr. 1:5, R. V.). It is alv/ays the band whose hearts God has touched who do Ihe fighting and win the victories. But. there was another sort of men In Israel, "Sons of worthlessness." Their descendants still live. These men mocked. They asked questions, too. The sons of Belial are always great at asking hard questions, and their favorite question is, "how?" So these sons of Belial asked, "how shall this man save us?" That is just what the sons of Belial to-day are asking about Christ. They shqwed their contempt by bringing him no present in acknowledgement of his kingship, in the same way many to-day show their contempt for Christ. Saul showed his wisdom and humility and meekness, by being silent under slights and mockery. presiding luaer Aoonsnea. In the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Baltimore, the time-honored title "presiding elder" was abolished by the adoption of a minority report from the Revision Committee recommenftinrr that the name be changed to "district Superintendent," by a vote of 322 ayes to 210 noes. This will denote the office more correctly, since it is no longsr merely sacramental but administrative. Names cf RntlloKlifps. Socrciary Meccalf announced, at Washington. D. C., that the two battleships authorized by the new naval bill will be named the Florida and the Utah. The designation of the monitor which at present bears th? name Florida will be changed as authorized by law. There is now a battleship, cruiser or monitor for every State except Oklahoma. The next battleship to be authorized by Congress will be named Wyoming in place of the monitor of that name. Dentistry at Sen. ' *'1 A dontisi. is the latest attraction aboard the big liners. . . VciJSl