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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
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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:
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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
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(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
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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.
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