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1 A1 tKW/ f ^r'WIW/^fciww\lJ,wS^'/*J^>w>xf/\iKt>v}>vt>i^>ii>VKw4>i IIA FALLE I ?,'/ it/it/\l/ WX'AIaWA>/\l/v(/\Ja)/\); pY popncR ;J/Ui%\UwW^/Cf/NiAtiSW> BT hKtUth llliv'/OAVSlAlAI/vt/OAlA'AlAt/^KD^vrAIAlAt/Vl/ilAtAi/v1/ CHAPTER XII. IS Continued. "And where is the dear child?" continued Mrs. Stanilaud. "Oh, Lionel, when I think of what might have been but for your bravery. And is it all settled? Where did you leave her?does she want me?" "Meaning?" inquired Babuock, laconically. "Why?why, Sybil! Haven't you come from her?" "Eh?" said Babcock. "Sybil! Haven't seen a sign of her!" "Horace, what does this mean! Do try and collect voursen?tins is Mr. Lionel Babcock." The coloncl's jaw dropped as he bowed mechanically. "Then, then? who was the other fellow?" he murmured blankly. "Ah!" commented' Mrs. Staniland, in a bitter undertone, "if you have come all the way from India for this " And probably the Agricultural Hall did not contain a lady for her years and position in a worse temper. CHAPTER XIII. In Which the Luck Turns More Than Once. Perhaps, considering that Campion's conduct still required explanation, Sybil may be charged with some want of firmness in waiving the past as she did. But, setting aside the fact that it is not easy for a generous <riT?l +r> rnrv cflvnvo nnnn a maT? 1 vvr WV/ ? V.1 J T VA W upuii U UlUU) who?whatever his offenses may have been?has just saved her from imminent danger at the risk of his own life, Sybil was really too overjoyed to see Campion just then to give a thought to her dignity. It was a relief, after all she had heard, to find him so little changed; she could not look at him and believe that he had allowed any troubles, real or imaginary, to degrade him; 6he could not doubt that he loved her still as devotedly as ever. "I want to tell you," she began, with a certain effort, "how sorry I am I wrote you that horrid letter." "It was all Nebelsen's blundering," said Campion. "But you don't think now 1 ever dreamed or asking you? you of all persons in the world?to take back that idol?" "Not now. I didn't then, till?till I was obliged to believe you were trying to frighten me into coming to you. And I did come?oh, Ronald, I must tell you?I came to the studio to take it back." And she described her visit; when she came to the strange laugh Camion grew pale. "I know you were not there," she added hastily. "You were with Mr. Perceval at Wargrave, he told me. But who was it?" "If I were to tell you what I believe, you would think me mad," he said. "But, thank Heaven, you didn't go in!" "Ronald, you don't mean that you believe my idol had anything to do with it! It was a laugh I heard? a laugh like yours would be if you had grown wild and bad." "I know," he said gravely. "For all I can say it may have had some object in making you think you heard me. confound Its impudence! it's / capable of anything." "But, dear Ronald, do think what you are saying; an idol!" "I know, Sybil, I know it must sound mad?but I firmly believe there is something evil in that accursed image. And I can't help suspecting it must have some special spite against you. I confess I'm deeply thankful you were not induced to go in." "It was as clever as Red Riding Hood's wolf,'' said Sybil; "it drove me away. But I can't bear for you 4-~ j-V ^? i 1 - -c j - - iu uuvb uiesB nuinuiu iaiicies acorn i it. I wish?oh, how I wish I had never bought it for you! I can't imagine how I came to buy it," she cried, remorsefully. "It seemed just the right thing then. And now promise me?promise you won't keep it a day longer!" "Don't be uneasy, dearest, it is all right at last, though you would scarcely believe how hard I found it to shake it off." And here Campion gave her an account of his various abortive attempts to part with it. "It almost seems," said Sybil, "as if the thing had taken some dreadful liking to you." v "If it lias," said Campion, with a vindictive satisfaction, "I rather fancy I've dropped its growing attachments this time. It must be exceptionally fond of me if it retains any affection at the bottom of a canal, inside a leather bag?for that's where it is just now, Sybil. And only see how the luck turned directly. I come straight here and'meet you. Better still, your father, who I expected would be prejudiced against me, is as jolly and friendly as possible!" Sybil's eyes had a mischievous sparkle in them. "Yes, but I've been thinking," she said demurely, "that perhaps poor dear papa didn't quite gather who you were." "But he recognized me!" "Yes, as Lionel Babcock. He was to have met us here." a cioua passea over campion s face. "Babcock!" he exclaimed. "Sybil, tell me, am I in time still?" "Do yon suppose I should let you be here if you were not? But ah. Ronald, I don't like to think what I might have been driven to do in the end if I had to give up all faith in you. I nearly lost it several times, and I am sure Aunt Hilary hopes to get her own way even now." "If it never goes worse than this!" Campion was saying, and at that moment Mrs. Staniland swept into the refreshment room with the manner of a Queen Eleanor, followed by the colonel, looking as if he would very much rather not have come, while Campion felt that, alter all, the waiter's eve had its advantages. Campion rose and stood ?ij>on his defense; Mrs. Staniland drew one of the light chairs up to the table aud , I v>ij> :s>iivi>y/;?Kt/\4/^?/\Vj'^/xtAj/yl/vJ/vjAV\N/ I i v?> ilK*; ?>.v?/xU ^AlAt>\V vl/ Nti s|rvV >?f\V>J/vV I . -a. w TT"^v. /^4v ? 5 JN IUUL. j dA^iVvJ/'J/VVvfAJ/vJyviA't/O/OAVvt/vl/vf/vt/vt'vl/vj/vlAt/vl/ [ amctcv W\t/v<K'/VAV\*A?/vt)\i/\tAv\to\}>v)/ I !C ANSTEY. ^0/vV<'/vWA<At/?/0/\?Mt/^\IW sat down, while the waiter drew near expectantly. She was evidently in an extremely bad temper, which was , not improved by the necessity of ordering a cup of coffee before she could get rid of the waiter and open fire. "Well, Mr. Campion," she began, "do you think this is creditable behavior on your part?" "I have done nothing discreditable, to my knowledge, Mrs. Stafniland," he replied stiffly; "our meeting here was quite an accident, and Colonel Elsworth himself asked me to take charge of your niece." "Took you for some one else," j growled the colonel. "Sybil, you knew there must be some mistake, and you made no effort to enlighten your father; he has only been home two days and you deceive him already!" VPapa," pleaded Sybil, "I hadn't seen Ronald for so long, and then he saved my life!" "Jove, Hilary, you know," said the colonel in an undertone to his sister, "she's right there.", Mrs. Staniland was not to be mollified; it was too bad this detrimental should have turned up just when her plans seemed about to succeed. "He may have saved her life," she said; "I was not there; but even if he did he had no right to presume upon it. We won't detain you here any longer, Mr. Campion." Mrs. Staniland scarcely returned his farewell and the colonel did so with a constraint that cost him a secret effort; the young fellow might be as ineligible as possible, but he thought his sister was rather hard on him; however, he had made a mess of it and concluded to hold tis tongue till he saw his way more x j . i But Campion cared little. Sybil believed in him, and Sybil loved him still; sooner or later things would come right, he would wait now. So he dreamed as the dusk drew on, and the clock in the studio struck eight, and then nine. In half-an-hour or so he would begin to dress. It was unusually dark for the time, he thought, so dark that he could not see the clock and could scarceily believe it was no more than nine. Just then a church clock began to strike? it took a long time surely to strike nine; he counted the strokes?twelve. He lit a candle to reassure himself and then saw something which struck consternation and despair into his soul. Above the clock rose the too familiar countenance, bland and Koomino* on nwnr nf + "hlr? er V>a V?Qrl u^amiug cio v t j vi. tuiu{3 fondly believed to be smothered in the black mud of the canal! How had it burst the confines of its bag and returned thus out of the depths to confound him? It was not muddy, it was not damp, it bore no traces of its temporary seclusion? and then he missed Perceval's cast, the lovely little head of Cybele, of which he had been enjoined to be so careful. What if, from the confusion his head bad been in, or under tne strange illusion which this diabolical image seemed to shed around it at will, he had substituted the cast for the idol? That would account for its lamblike submission, for its presence here still. ' And now it was too late to go to the soiree and meet his darling that evening; the idol must have corrupted his clock and caused it to lull into a false security. His ill-luck had returned with this hideous effigy. # He felt recaptured by the old superstitious dread. What was he to do? Must he submit to this ill-omened presence in the house, and when Sybil was to bring her father there next day? How could he tell'what its malice might not suggest, and its occult resources enable it to carry out? We must leave Campion endeavoring to grapple with his revived difficulty, and return to Babcock. The colonel's mistake at the military tuurucwiiem, iiciu upset mia. land's plan, and, without telling Babcock more than was desirable, she gave him to understand that he would have to postpone speaking to Sybil till later. He was "not particularly uneasy, even though he guessed to whose care she had been entrusted; Campion must long ago have given up all pretensions or he would not have acted as he had done; most ' probably the interview was equally involuntary and irksome on both sides. The colonel came back to his seat alone, explaining that his sister had gone home with his daughter, who was feeling the shock she had received?Babcock and he watched the rest of the entertainment in company and silencd, but the invitation to dine with them that evening, upon which Eabcock had reckoned, was not given. "Didn't hit it off with him, somehow," he reflected afterward; "never mind, I've got the women on my side." He had fortified himself with a good dinner, and driven home to dress, when he found Nebelsen at the door of his flat. "Were you coming to look :ne up?" he said. "I wanted to consult you as a worldling," said Nebelsen. '"Come in, I can spare you ten minutes, and then I must dress. I'm due at the Academy soiree in an hour. Now," said Babcock, as he lighted candles, "what can I do for you?" "How is the custom in this country for a suitor who wishes a young maiden for his betrothed?does he first to the barent speak?" "All depends, Nebelsen. You've more chance with the parent if you speak to him first, but you've less chance with the girl as a general rule You don't mean to sav vou're j :;sl:ir.? for your own information? Is I his why you've got yourself up ! willi entirely new scenery and effects I ?are you in love?" I "She is so fair " said Nebelsen. "with eyes like stars, and a soul snow pure." "Yes, but, my dear chap, you cao't marry on stars and snow, don't you know. Has she got any other property?" "I do not know. I haf not ask." "Well, have you?" "Enough with what I shall gain at giving philosophy lessons to live upon with care." "Doesn't sound hopeful?take my advice, and stick to a single life." "You say that because you are a bachelor, and a despiser of all domestigated joys." "Shows how much you know about it, Nebelsen. Do you see this ticket?" and he took one from his chemneyglass. "This card is my passport to felicity; when the porter takes it, he will take my bachelor existence, too. You don't follow? Well, I'm going to meet the sweetest girl in the world at this same soiree, and I've made up my mind to ask her to have me this very evening." "And you haf no doubts what she will say?" Babcock smiled. "Well, I don't want to boast, but I fancy I've as good a chance as any other fellow. I used to be afraid of that confounded Campion, but he has done for himself now." "Campion! It is not possible that you are speaking of Miss Elsvort?" "Ah, I forgot you knew something of them; but there's no harm in mentioning names; you see, it's time I married, and she's a dear little girl; I don't see how I could do better, do you?" said Chela, in a low voice, "no* ou, and not the greatest in the land, could do better." "Glad you think so," said Babcock. "Well, of course, this is all in the strictest confidence at present. I only +r?l/1 vn? eraf vnn nut nf that rintinn LV/JU / VU WW JjVO J V/ U VUU v?* VKMV v . of yours that I was a confirmed bach- I elor! And now there's just five minutes leifc for your own love affairs. I thought, by the way, you were vowed to celibacy all your life?" "It was not a vow, only it is found that even the purest affection is rather a hindrance to occult progress, but that matters not now since I haf renounced occultism, my Mahatma, further initiation?all, all!" "You don't mean to tell me you've only just found them out?" "I believe in them just as before, only my Mahatma is becoming indolerable; you remember at Sussex Place the letter which came. Ach! you gannot fancy what was within!" "Unless it recommended you by any chance not to be a condemneJ fool?" said Babcock. "You know?but how then?" "How? Simply because I wrote it." And Babcock burst into a shout of laughter?"Scribbled it off while you were out on the balcony! Greek characters; because you knew my hand, and I didn't know your Mahatma's. Then I gave it a twist up in the air behind somebody's back?and there's one occult communication accounted for! So you took it all in, and actually went home and solemnly, renounced your Mp.hatma, and the Bounding Brothers of Thibet, and all their works on the strength of it!. Why, I made sure that you would see hrrmorh mv little inlro thrmp'h T was pretty certain you wouldn't say so at the time; it's so funny!" "Yes, it is too fon-ny!" said Nebelseir, savagely. "They will think me a worthless apostate, which will very, amusing be, and I haf renounced all hopes which made this earth life bearable. I shall be quoted in their annual rebort as a failure; all because of your fon. Ah, you are a so charming humorist, Mr. Babcock, that you will appreciate a leedle biece of physical fon in return for yours. You are to meet this yong laty at the Academy to-night?" wen, saia rsaucocn, nave you any objection?" "Yes, you do not see her to-night! Another, a rival perhaps whom you do not fear, will speak in your place, and it will not be your cause he will plead. You will not be there!" "I should like to see any one try to stop me." "You are going to see me. You may not know that in agomblishments of an electro-biological kind I am, as you would call, a high-distinguished dab. Often, only by always looking at him haf I a man from eating his dinner brevented. You think not, eh?" To be Continued. A Ditch is n Stream. Judge Clyde, of Charles City, la., has handed down a decision which he took under advisement at the March term in what is known as the Honeyfield ditch case. Honeyfield filled up a ditch that went through his farm and which had been in existence some fifty years. Honeyfield is compelled to open the ditch within sixty days, and is perpetually enjoined from filling it in again. The ditch was put in to drain some land on the other side of Honeyfield's farm, "a mile or so north of the city. The decision is in effect that a ditch when legally put in stands and is the same as any other stream of water.?Country Gentle man. Too Much For the Class. She was only a substitute teacher, still? she should have known better. "Suppose," said she in the mental arithmetic lesson?"suppose Mary has five oranges and Gladys gave her eleven more. Then, if Mary gave Winifred six, how many would she have left?" There was a long pause. "Well?." she prompted, impatiently, "it's easy enough." DUnr./* f AnrtVirtf '' ennl'n iin f Vl ?1 jt icaoc) tcaviici , opuAv i?j/ cuo | smallest girl, "we always do our Bums in apples."?New York Tribune. A Boy Topsy. Out in Downs a little Swede boy went to school and the teacher asked his name. "Yonny Olsen," he replied. "How old are you?" asked the toafhf>r. "Av not no how old ay bane." "Well, when were you born?" continued the teacher. "Ay not born at all, ay got stepmutter."?Kansas City Star. The Barbados pigs are kept as pets by many of the natives, who teach them amusing tricks and pcrrr.it them to run a" - their houses. ' Mounts For New gf-1 - ''^!53? BREAKING A NEW POLICE HORS1 HEAD- ( BURMESE BUDDHISTS. Worship of the image of Buddha : as.practiced in Burma is vividly delineated in the photograph on this page. It is the boast of the Burmese that nowhere, unless possibly in Ceylon are the teachings of the great Gautama preserved ana ionuweu with the purity that they are ii Burma. Yet taking the teachings as they have come down to us, no one can conceive of the teacher accepting or in any sense approving the rites practiced by his followers of this generation; they are so utterly a'lien to his doctrine as we conceive i'.. The Buddhists priests have their own wav of reconciling the formality, the rites and ceremonies of the worship in their temples with the Buddhism that Gautama taught, but to us it seems that it is removed from it as far as a pontifical mass in St. Peter's is from the simplicity of. a Quaker meeting. The extraordinary fact is that Gautama, born as is supposed in 540 B. BURMESE GIRLS WORSHIPING BU C.?about tb3 time that Ezra and Mehemiah were gathering their people to return to the. Holy Land by permission of Cyrus?began to declare his faith in opposition to the Brahmanism which had dominated the thought of India for more than a thousand years, should have been able to establish it single-handpd. and that in our time, twenty-five centuries later, it survives and is the creed of five hundred million human beings. As far as we can gather from the traditions that have come down to us, Gautama "revolted from Brahmanism, and like Ecclesiastes, sought spiritual peace by various means. He first tried philosophy, and then bodily austerites by which he neatly lost bi3 life. At last he made his great discovery, as he states in his sacred writings, that "To cease from sin, to get virtue, to cleanse one's own heart, ia the only way to peace. This," he said, "is the doctrine of Buddha." rp" Hociro tn makfi absolute self-surrender to God, to be utterly indifferent to the world, sustained by the inward life, "to be nothing," until finally individuality was swallowed up in the Nirvana, that was Buddha's idea as it appears to the modern student. It is difficult to understand how such a doctrine could have become corrupted into the Buddhism that kissed the toe of an image, if we had not seen men prostrating themselves before a crucifix and praying before a relic.?Christian Herald. A Tree 1200 Years Old. Whatever the age of the trees in tbis country, the Prince of Wales can assert that he has seen one in Japan twelve hundred years old. A giant pine, with its branches supported by stout props, it is a permanent sacrifipp tr> Rnddha. Kobo Daishi built a pagoda in honor of Buddha twelve centuries ago, and in front of it he set his pine as a perpetual offering, in place of flowers, which should in the ordinary course be offered. Twelve hundred years is a long period in which to trace the history of a tree, but it is only half the age of the present dynasty, and they were able to tell the prince as plain a tale of the pine tree's growth as of the descent of their present emperor.?'v. Folding Waslistand. Among recent devices patented is a folding washstand, shown in the ilI ~W7A I "A " a\w\ v///i lustration below. The device was designed principally for use in bathrooms, lavatories, etc., and is shown t r York's Police. n pWWffl "ll?"*MI v/., u ' ' ' * >- '. ; Z%i$?y': T WW^*W^WW<HH??l???NWWNWliW<?WW<W^w?iMMi 2 TO THE USE OF SADDLE AND iEAR. A Feat of Communication. The story of what may be called a remarkable feat of communication is told in Harper's Weekly. Thirtyseven years ago, it is recalled by the writer, it took Stanley nine montho of travel through the vast equatorial forests of Africa to reach Ujiji and find Livingstone. During almost his entire journey he was lost to communication with the outside world. At 12.30 p. m. on Wednesday, March 29, a cable despatch was sent through the Western Union Telegraph Company from New York to Nairobi, in British East Africa, a station thirty days' march from Livingstone's headquarters; and a reply was received through the Postal Telegraph Cable Company shortly after noon on the following Friday, an interval of less than fifty hours. The cable despatch was transmitted first to the Azore Islands, and thence to Lisbon, Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Port Said, Suez, Aden, Zanzibar and Mombasa, on the East DDHA IN THE CAVES OF BIRGYI. African coast. Thence it was senl inland to Nairobi by telegraph, and from that point was conveyed thirty miles to the house of the recipient the total approximate distance being slightly more than 10,000 miles. Owing to the difference in time between New York and Nairobi, the message lost eight,hours in transmission, and consequently was not received tili Thursday?otherwise the two days occupied by its journey and the return of the answer might have beer shortened considerably. Unique Bath Apparatus. A novel bathing apparatus, the invention of an Oregon man, is shown in the illustration below. This portable apparatus was designed to be utilized for encasing all of the human body, applying a vacuum aboul it and supplying oxygen to the bod} from the lungs only. By trfis method poison can be driven out of the system. It is also designed for use as a thermal or sweat bath and for im- J Glass uatmng uioue. > | pregnating the body with medica-1 ments. The receptacle is in the form of a huge glass howl, suflicientlj large to entirely encase the humat | body when sitting ani all of the bod) i except the head when standing. II! is made in two airtight sections.? i Washington Star. ? In position on the w.all immediately [ over the bathtub. When not in use ii , can be folded against the wall so as j to occupy very little space. The wast | basin is of the ordinary type, boiiis i supported upon brackets, which art { | pivoted 011 the wall. A hose is at i tnrhod to the spigot for supplying I water to the basin. ? Washinslor i Star. White Africans. The Berbers, who, although Afri ; ran, are as white as Europeans, are : the oldest white race on record, sayi | an explorer. They are supposed tc have come from the south of Europe in ancient days, the Dundee Advcr tiser says, and, although their lan guage ?nd customs are entirely dif- j ferent from ours and their roligior | Mohammedan, they are probablj | closely akin by descent. Blue eyes j and fair hair are not at all uncom j moil among the Berbers, and manj of them i?ave rosy cheeks and feat ures so like our own that were thej dressed io British fashion they woulr easily pass as natives o? the Dritist Isles. Tfic [I ?cinbaii-&cftoof INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMEATS FOR AUGUST 2. Subject: David Anointed at Bethle? hem. 1 Samuel 16:1-13?Goldeif Text, 1 Sam. 16:7?Commit Verses 11. 12?Read Chapter 16. TIME.?1063 E. C. PLACE.? Bethlehem. EXPOSITION.?1. The LORD Iiatli not chosen these, 1-10. It speaks well for the generosity of Samuel that he mourned over the fall of Saul (v. 1). If he had been like the majority of men he would have taken a secret if not an outspoken delight in the fact that the man for whom they had in some measure at least rejected himself turned out so poorly. "There, I told you so," he would have said, But Samuel was of a nobler mold, and grief, not exultation, filled his heart at the folly and ruin of his rival. But while it was commendable that he should be grieved at the sin and consequent rejection of Saul, it was not right that he should spend feis time in idle mourning. God had " rejected mm xrom Deing King over Israel;" another king must be sought out and consecrated to fill his place. God does not wish us to be crushed by the sins of the world and so to spend our time in morbid and useless lamentations over them, but to rise and go forward to the duties, however disagreeable, that these sins entail upon us. Saul was a king that God had provided for the people (ch. 9:16)?a king according to their choice (1 Sam. 12:13); David was a king whom God had provided for Himself?a man after His own heart (ch. 13:14). Little by little God discloses His purposes to His servant Samuel. In chapter 13:14 He shows him that He has sought out and appointed this king. In the first verse of this chapter He tells Samuel that this king is a son of Jesse, but not until the twelfth verse does He point out which son of Jesse. Hundreds of years before it had been prophesied that the sceptre should fall to Judah (Gen. 49:10). Samuel, for all his excellencies of character, was human and fallible. Like so many others in the Bible (Ex. 3:11; 4:1-10; Jer. 1:5, 6) and out of the Bible, to whora God has said "Go,"- he hesit ~d to uiiueriaKt! me WUIK ioi WUICL. uoa had commissioned him for fear of | the consequences (v. 2). When God says, "Go," we ought not to reply, ''How can I?" but to start and go, and leave God to settle the "how." "If Saul hear it, he will kill me.." j 'The fear of njan" brought "a snare" ?o Samuel in this instaace (Prov. 29:25). And how foolish that fear was. How could Saul or anybo' lse kill a man who had a work to uu for 3od? Did the Lord bid Samuel to cell a lie tip secure his safety? (vs. 2, 3). Not at all; the Lord is never put to such straits as thaf; and it augurs a lack of faith in God when we resort to falsehood or indirection to secure our ends. God simply refused to argue with Samuel the question of his going, and again bids him go, and tells him what to say and that at the proper time He will show him what to do. What Samuel was bidden to tell was the exact truth as far as it went. We are under obligations to tell the exact truth, even to our enemies, if we tell anything, but we are not under obligation to tell all we know. This is the way in which God frequently guides His servants?a stpii a timp Nntiop hnw pnrh aton F ^ " mv' -'w.vv " v^v-> ""vr is marked out by the phrase, "the Lord said" (verses 1, 2, 7, 12). Are we also taking each step according to the word of the Lord? It Is blessed to walk this way. We, too, can go on knowing that the Lord will show us what we shall do day by day, hour by hour, and moment by moment. Samuel was allowed no discretion whatever in the matter (v. 3). He was simply to listen to the voice of the Lord ai?d anoint the one He named. David was wholly God's choice. Note the difference in the language about the anointing from that about the anointing of Saul (ch. 9:16). "Anoint* unto Me," God says about David. "Anoint to be a prince over My people," He says about Saul. Samuel's hesitation about doing the Lord's will was not of long duration. T-Tp lave acirio hie foarc qtiH hie roorotc over Saul's disposal and goes and does as he Is bidden. Did not Samuel's readiness to obey God. so often exhibited (comp. verse 13), have something to do with that power in prayer for which he became famous (1 John 3:22)? "He looked on PJliab, and said, surely the Lord's anointed is before him." But he did not act upon his natural judgment, but waited for the voice of the Lord and that soon set him rignt. It matters little how men see us, it matters everything how God sees us. A pure heart is all that counts with God. That wins His favor (Matt. 5:S). Dress counts for nothing (1 Pet. 3:3, 4). Learning, worldly wisdom, power, count foi nothing (1 Cor. 1:26-28), profession counts for nothing (Mate. 7:21) II. Arise, anoint him, IMS. David, lire so many others God called, wr.s attending faithfully to his humble work when God called him (cf. Matt. 25:23). One by one the sons of Jesse had passed by until the seven had passed, and Samuel waits patiently for God's voice and says of each, "Neither hath the Lord choseu this," and at last his patience is rewarded. The voice comes, "Arise aniont him; for this is he." David was not '{ualified for the kingship until the Spirit actually came. Neithet are we qualified for service until we "receive the Holy Spirit." Tecs Left 102 Pound Slab. At Lawrenceburg, Ind., a slab of hoitey eight feet long, eighteen inches wide and four inches thick, weighing 102 pounds, was taken from the rafters in the attic of the home of Jacob F. Schaefer, a section hand. The house is located on a little knoll near the railroad bridge mat span* mc Big Miami River, and is surrounded by a honey locust grove. Schaefsr had noticed a number of boes busy about the house for sereral weeks, and, with a neighbor, made a search and found the honey. Great Fisherman Dead. Homer Dowd, New England's groat pickerel fisherman, aged seventy-nine, was found dead In a boat at Lake Garfield, Mass. He had fished all his life, and last year established a record, catching 1014 pickerel. During ufQ ho mneht about HO,000 pickerel, weighing 30,000 pounds. He used only one line and four hooks. t onrroi i*rnmn?wi. Property owners are planning tc prolong the United Scatcs control iu Cuba. BITTER WAR ON INTEMPERANCE SOLDIERS FIGHTING THIS CUI.SB GREATLY CHEERED. The Saloon and the Children?Its Ef feet Upon the Families of the Workingman is Indescribably Sad?A Barkeeper Rebuked. In a recent address S. I. Roberts*, superintendent of cotton works in Danville, Vu., said: "The effect of the ^ saloon upon children of the laborer,, according to my observation (and it is not very limited), is indescribably" sad. A few years ago, when therewere saloons in Danville, I went to the mill one Monday morning quite early, and as the operatives came intotheir respective departments I noticed a little girl and a boy, who seemed only to have been at work a few days. "The little girl looked thin and' pale, and shortly after the machinery started up she came over to where I was and said, 'Mr. Roberts, I am sc weak and feel so badly I cannot work to-day; brother and I have not had a mouthful of breakfast, and mother is at home hungry and sad.' "I said, 'What does this mean* Didn't you draw your wages Saturday evening?' 'Yes, sir,| said she. 'but (looking down at the floor, and with tears in her eyes), father has got todrinking and he spent all of our money Saturday night and did not buy us anything to eat.' I went out and ordered breakfast for them both, then I called them and said, 'You go> home and tell your mother and father, both, to come down to the mill an<f see me.' \ "They came, and I promptly said' to the father that we would not allow his children to work for us longer except on one condition. Says he. 'What is that?' I answered that the wages they made must be drawn by the mother and used by her to obtainfood r.jid clothes for the children, and that he must not touch the money or have anything to do with making the* purchases. After some hesitation, and seeing that argument was useless, he agreed. ( "A few days later I was driving- 1 along the street and a barkeeper came out of a saloon and hailed me to stop. He came up to my buggy and said, 'Look here. Mr. Roberts,, f you are interfering with, my business.' 'What,'' said I, 'I interfering withyour business? Your business ia totake the food from the mouths of dfrnmpn and r.hlldren and clothes off their backs. My business is to put them on.' He turned on his heel and' walked away." Better Off Without Saloons. Kansas City. Kan., a city of almost 100,000 population, is the largest prohibition city in the United States. It has'been represented that the towi> has "gone bankrupt" since the saloons were ordered out, that businesshas been ruined, and that people aremoving away. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Leading busi- " ness men and bankers of Kansas City, Kan., declare that business was never better than now. Miss Farrowf< city treasurer of Kansas City, said to the writer that there had never been more . cash in the city treasury than now; all judgments have been paid and the city employes are paid in cash instead of scrip as heretofore. The income of the city is just as large, despite the fact that hundreds of saloons or joints have been closed. C. L. Brokaw, cashier, of the largest bank in Kansas City, Kan., has employed from his own resources a corps* of stenographers to reply to questions about prohibition features in Kansas City. John W. Briedenthal, a prominent banker and politician, says the business and professional men arearoused at the statements sent broadcast by brewery interests, that Kansas City is suffering in a business way ~ because of the saloons being closed"Business was never better," is the general sentiment of every business man in the Kansas town. The labor ing man, as well as the business man. is realizing that the city is fan better ? ? ' im II Im. Off Wltnout Jiquor stores.? u., iuthe Christian Herald. > One oi a Long List. The Min4rva^O.) News says: "A drink known af 'orange soda' and" sold by an Iroirion dealer, was analyzed and founa;to contain 2.25 pel cent, of alcohol. The dealer was compelled to pay the Aikin tax. Neither orange nor soda entered into the combination. 'Pear cider' is another beverage which has causecF much trouble. The State dairy antf food department h?fs unearthed numerous cases." The liquor trade has many pale beverages under fictitious names that it is ready to dress up for quibblers and plant them on the shelf of a restaurant or a pharmacy. This is one of a long list. Repeating Their Folly. The liquor dealers in Tennessee and Florida who are shipping liquor river into Prohibition Atlanta under | protection of the. .law, are only re- F3 peating their folly when in Atlanta they shipped liquor under protection of law into the rural counties of I Georgia. That piece of work kicked I them out of the State, and this wil) H ultimately kick them out of the na tion.?The People. 8 Pauper Factories. H Lady Henry Somerset states th? I fact that in one district of Liverpool. in which there are no caloons, there H is but one pauper in every thousand H inhabitants. In another district, in ' which there are 200 saloons, there i? one pauper in every twenty-eight in- H habitants. It is likely that investiga- H tion would disclose similar conditions H wtirHc anr? nrpnincts Of all H i.. u.c , cities. j Temperance Notes. Missouri had eight local option counties on January 1, 3 903. On January 1 of this year there were sixty-one. Samuel L. Carleton. at one time head of the world organization of Sons of Temperance, died recently at Portland, Me., aged eighty-six years. Maine has no shop vending intoxicants openly, or advertising its business by any liquor sign; there Is no * distiller, brewer of strong beer, blendj er or rectifier in the State. Prohioition in the South is in no ?nnnim,' lint an in I way it puiiULai uiautuin, spiring movement of the masses of H I the people. It is an intellectual H awakening and a moral revolution. fflj The Italian Popular Society for the H Suppression of Alcoholism has ar- H ranged for a series of eighteen public H conferences in various parts of the country for the purpose of perfecting and developing the organization. H Men are not at 1 iberty to murder with the sword; they shall not be at ^B liberty to murder with ihe bottle. H Men are noi. at liberty to destroy homes with fire; they shall not be at ^B lii.m-ti.' tn rip?(r.ov homes with atrong diiu.lv. H