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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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."
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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. '
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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
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lustration below. The device was
designed principally for use in bathrooms,
lavatories, etc., and is shown
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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
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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.
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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.
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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