]af^
CHATTER XVL 18
Continued.
He was prepared to make even
such an ass of himself rather than
rlefc a&y harm to Sybil's dear head.
B^COck burst into a sneering
l^ugh.v "You may have pressing reasons
for getting beyond the jurisdiction,"
he said, "but I doubt If you
and the idol will get much further
than Monaco."
"Ach!" retorted Nebelsen, "even
now you do not beleaf!"
"Well," said Babcock, "there may
be a ghostly tirthankar ramping
about in Campion's studio, but we've
only your word for it!"
"It is only through two doors,"
said the Chela, "go and see for yourself,
If you dare!"
"Thanks very much," saiil Babcock,
"but it's no business of mine.
I see no necessity for moving. Perhaps
the colonel?will step down and
?ee bogie, eb, colonel?"
"I will not, sir," said the colonel,
testily; "I don't give any opinion one
way or the other?but unless I proposed
to face that tiling, I see nothing
very courageous in sneering at it
behind its back. I wish it was over
somehow."
"Let us go, Nebelsen, said Campion,
but Sybil stopped them.
"Ob, think first what you are going
to do!" she cried. "Herr Nebelsen,
how can it be right to lend yourselves
to help that idol to deceive more people.
What good can ever come of
it?"
"No goot," said Nebelsen, "it is
the only way, that is all."
"There are other ways," she rejoined,
"if you have not been mis
taken in your powers, uiuu t. juu
tell us there were magnetic currents
along which you could send things
for immense distances wherever you
wished? Why can't you send him
by one of those?"
"He does not want to go that way,"
said the Chela, "and it Is not surbrising,
for you see I haf not had
great bractice with the gurrents;
sometimes they will not altogether
vork, and the magnetical force stream
will into gontact with some oder com,
and so the bcdy which was committed
to It is not found to arrive, but instead
flies off into trackless Gosmic
space regions."
"But that wouldn't matter to us!"
said Sybil, "it would be all the better
?he couldn't do any harm in track1pr?
snare!"
"Nebelsen," said Campion, "you
know how far your powers go, but it1
seems to me this accomplishment
gives you the upper hand of the idol
altogether. Why, you can project
him where you like?to Fusi-yama,
Chimborazo, the North Pole, anywhere?and
if he goes off the track,
why, that's his affair!"
Nebelsen hung back. "I am sure
my Mahatma would not approve," he
objected. '
"If he approved of your plan, he'll
approve of this," said Campion, impatiently;
"come back with me now,
Nebelsen and do it."
The Chela pulled himself together.
"What I can do I will do," he said.
"I cannot do any more?let us go."
Without trusting himself to speak
to Sybil, Campion left the room with
Nebelsen. There was a little passage
between the door they had left and
that which opened upon the painting
room, and in this passage Campion
felt himself seized violently by the
arm, and heard Nebelsen whisper
through the gloom :
"I could not tell her," he said in
toe greatest agitation, "this thing
that she wants me to do?but?
but?"
"But what?" said Campion, as he
hesitated painfully.
"I can treaten at him, of gourse,
and if you wish it, I will?but if he
takes me at the vord?I haf quite
forgotten how It is done!"
Campion gave a short laugh.
"Well, we're In for it now, Nebelsen,"
he said dryly, "and under the circumstances,
I think I'll ask you to go in
first."
CHAPTER XVH.
Brutum Fulmen.
Campion's state of mind as he followed
Nebelsen down into the painting
room was curiously contradictory.
He could not divest himself of a feel
ing of awe at what he might i)e confronted
with in another moment; at
the same time he had an angry suspicion
that he was being made a fool
of. He could see nothing, for it was
almost as dark as night, and besides,
a large folding screen stood at the
foot of the steps intercepting his
view. Behind this screen Nebelseu
made a fresh stand. "There is yet
anoder thing," he whispered; "to
transbort that idol he must first be
in the hands taken!"
"Well," said Campion, I'll fetch it
for you, If that's all."
"But you don't understand," exclaimed
Nebeisen, "that is shust a
thing what the tirthaukar will never
hermit!"
"Well, we can't skulk behind here
much longer," said Campion, recklessly,
"let us come out in the open
and have it out with whatever it is
that's there! Never mind if you can
do the thing or not, Nebeisen, tell
him you will, and see if bluster won't
make him climb down!"
"So?I will blester as goot as I
can," said Chela, "but my plan is
bedder."
And Campion, not without a sense
of shame, came out and stepped instinctively
inside the charcoal dia
grain of the floor, "il no croyait pas,"
perhaps "mais il craignait," in spite
of himself.
Through the open north window
the sky showed a deep and murky red,
and in the intense gloom below he
^ could just make out the form of the
idol squatting on ;? chair in the corner,
its head and one shoulder
touched by such light as there was,
Jt seemed to sit there in deadly cow
aBMaUKMHtgaMUfca - iir i n.i- .
IN IDOL^ 11
i ~vr ei
posure, like some cold, venomouB
creature pausing to strike more sure- ?
ly, and though he could see no sign
of any other presence in the room,
he had a conscloushess which he n
could not account for that something 8
malign was watching there In the
shadow. ?
Nebels? seemed to have braced
his nerves completely. "See!" he
cried, with an accent almost of trl- 6|
umph, "did I not tell yoa? And now Bi
you yourself can see!"
"Wh&t? where?" cried Campion, ^
with sji Involuntary start. ?
"Tht's* in the corner?behind the
idol, floating cross ieggea in me air
as in you picture?there, with his
evil gray face and the white eyes
which so angrily roll!" ?
"I see nothing," said Campion; J.
and the Chela, gripping his friend's
wrist in his cold fingers, began to
roll out long and unintelligible 1
words, -which seemed to Campion to
have a defiant ring in them. ?
"He Is moved!" he cried, "now
you can see?you must see how he B
brandishes with his arms!"
But whether Campion's eyes saw
any clearer than before will never be *
known for certain now ? his lips ?
have ever since been sealed upon the
subject. ^
However this may be, there is at 3
least no mystery as to what took ^
place next. As the two men stood (
there, a shaft of intense light made
a purplish glare on the darkness, and
almost at the same instant the heavily
charged clouds overhead rushed
together with an explosion which
shook the earth, and the echo u
crashed, boomed, rolled, with sundry ?
capricious relapses and recoveries,
making a mad circuit, as it seemed, q
of the entire solar system, and then n
ceased abruptly with a far off metal- ?
lie clank?as though it had cannoned .
into Mars, whereupon the long stag- ?
nant air shivered and began to circulate
once more.
Campion, on whose retina the
jagged flash seemed indelibly brand- .
ed, reeled back against the cabinet
with a horrible fear that he had lost
his eyesight?but from this he was
presently relieved by seeing Sybil and
the others around him.
"Oh!" cried Sybil, piteously, "the 113
lightning has struck him?I was sure 01
it had!" but he was promptly able
to reassure them. p
"And is poor Mr. Nebelsen safe,
too?" inquired Mrs. Staniland. .
It had grown somewhat lighter .
and, on turning round, they all saw c
the Chela huddled up inside his mys- 0
i tic diagram, motionless, his face hid- 01
den in his arms.
"Oh, don't touch him!" cried Mrs. ^
Staniland; "don't let me see his face. ^
He's dead, I know he is!" ?
And the same thought seized them
all?until the Chela slowly rose with
a dazed look. "Where am I?" he e'
stammered; "ah, I remember. I haf g<
in a trance state been. Mees Elsvort,
you will is accomplished. That so ac- g
cursed idol is now safely on the top
of Cotopaxi landed. I myself haf sen U1
liim arrive. For once the current ^
has successfully worked."
"My dear good Nebelsen," said
Dabcock, from the other end of the
room, "I don't want to ask rude
questions?hut some of it at all .
events seems to have been left be- (
hind?look there!"
The chair on which the idol had
lately been placed was now a blasted
and collapsed wreck, and all around
it were scattered half-fused fragI
ments of some spar like substance.
"See," said Babcock, "this looks
like its ugly head, and here's a bit of ^
its pedestal, with a sort of tiger .
scratched on it, and there's a foot and
hand?looks as if It had got on the g(
wrong current and run into some- .
thing, Nebelsen, eh?" p
The Chelsa folded his arms calmly,
without appearing to be at all put ...
out by this slight inconsistency. "I ,
remember now more clearly," he said, g<
"the other wis a vision only. I treat- pl
ed him with Cotapaxi?and it was ni
enoff. He threw up his cardsgame,
| and In de^iair he invoked that light;
ning?and then, as you see, was shad'
dored into pieces."
j "And where is the?the gentleman a]
i himself now?" inquired the colonel, S?
who liad certainly lost some of his tc
color.
"The fake tirthankar-geist?" said
Nebelsen. "Oh, now that there is no s
longer his idol to care for, he cannot n
any more hold together. He is dis- tl
solved, degombosed, and once again it
into mighty Magrogesm reabsorbed." ti
"And a deuced good thing, too,"
said the colonel. A conclusion with tc
which few, perhaps, will be found to tl
disagree. is
What can be said of Nebelsen's c;
theory? Had the spirit of this long d
dead Indian occultist used his old t(
mastery over the powers of nature
to effect his final annihilation? Or
had lie intended to call down lightning
to avenge him, and instead been ci
hoist with his own petard? Or?an a
even more important point?had p
there ever been a ghostly tirthankar y,
at all in attendance upon that partic- n
ular idol, or was the story adapted it
to it by the dusky and esoteric Chow- Vi
kydaree Loll? These are questions t(
which everyone will decide for him- it
self according to his own inclination si
and capacity for the marvelous, and, ?(
whatever flaws may exist in Nebel- j[
sen's theory, Campion has not as yet
succeeded in finding a more plausible
explanation of his mysterious woes?
though, to bo sure, this may be due ,,
to the fact that he has never troubled ^
himself to try.
Sybil, at all events, was not in- ,,
dined just then to underrate Nebelsen's
services. She went to him and ~~
hold out her hand. "We are very
grateful to you," she said, smiling.
"It is noding," said the Chela, with fi
becoming modesty; "at least?it was a:
not moch." tc
Babcoek put on his glasses. "You'll
excuse my impertinent curiosity," he
said, "but even now I can t qiijte m
gather what it was you did do>". tl
"I did those," he said, nroudly Inicating
the shattered idci.
"Unless you mean that you ordered
le thunderstorm?in which case no
- - it ?A 1st*
oe 01 course can very wen vuuuouui.
ou," said Babcocir, "that Etrikes me
b rather a strong assertion. Come,
in't it just barely possible that that
alette knife I see on the floor thei\>
ttracted the lightning?"
"I will not reply to such absurd i
nd fanciful subbosition," said Nebel- I
an, with much dignity.
"Well, I muBt say," said the col- i
nel, who now that it was lighter and
ae storm waa already growing in the
istance, had veered round to his for*
ler incredulity, "that seems a plain
tralghtforwoard way to account for
_ Fact is, all this thunder in the
ir upset our nerves a bit, don't you
[link bo, Mr. Campion?"
Campion laid his hand on Nobelan's
shoulder. "I don^ know," he
aid; "I was frightened enough Just
ow. I can't pooh-pooh the danger
ulte so soon. I want a little more
Ime before I forget all the trouble
[r. Nebelsen took on my behalf."
"Gleichviel," said the Chela, "60
ou are safed, what madder whose is
le gredlt? But now," he added, "I j
lust say good-by, and for efer. Yes,
am going to dravel far away, to
nd my beloved Mahatma."
'I understood you weren't on speaklg
terms?" said Babcock.
"Through your monkey drick, for
time I lost gonfldence!" retorted
'ebelsen, "and even so rash and I
Lrong-headed as to renounc?Jhilm be- j
ame. My guru, who was hfrsh and j
jvere, perhaps, but nefer more than 1
deserve that was he! But," and j
ere he addressed Sybil and Campion, ;
it is a strainch thing, and you hartly ;
fill gomprehend how It could be? j
et it Is quite true. I wride a ledder, j
bround, shtiff ledder, in which I j
jrmally renounced my goot old Ma- '
atma?wbo nefer don nodlng, and 1
iis ledder I broject for myself by I
le occult telegraph. Well, will you
eleaf that, only last night, I find j
iat very same ledder in my pocket j
nopen! Mr. Chowkadaree, who is a I
reat adept, as you know, tolt me he !
as very grand reason to think it j
uite borbable as my revered guru
efer receive it all! If so, he knows
oding, and it Is all well?but, ach!
have a need to gonfess and tell him
11, and for that I must myself see i
im. Communications through a
tore advanced theosophist as Mr.
oil?well, they are not bo brlvate.
nd the Babu himself quite agrees?
e is anxious for me to go and seek
iy Mahatma for myself far away In
hibet, and he wishes very moch
lat I find him, and I also?for Thlb:
you know Is large and my Mahatia
a leedle?what you call, 6hy?I
lay haf to hunt a long while."
"And when do you start?" asked
ampion, who secretly shared the
hela's last apprehension.
"To-night?it is not good for me
ier gontending with the maleficent
>rces of so much gombined increduusness.
I long to throw myself upa
the galm bosom of Shang Gasba,
y guru, and find strength for the
)irituous tests I must some day unsrgo.
And I want to be alone and
3 some thinking. So my dear Mees
lsvort, I wish you farewell. I beaf
you are going to haf now a happy ;
irth life. And, for successive inlrnations,
it must surely be that one j
) gracious and so schweet will ever
adder and bedder Karma generate,
ut think sometimes of me as I go
[> along my thorn sprinkled climb>ad
to gomblete initiation, and par?n
me that I shall not dare, for a
me at least, to think of you!"
H# raised her hand in both of his
ad kissed It, and as he did so there
as a moisture in his pale eyes which
may be feared was not the result
! any esoteric exultation.
l lie next minuie, wiuioui ueigmuB
i take leave of any but the two lov s,
he vanished out of their lives,
id no one?unless haply the broth's
at Bombay?knows what has be>ine
of him since, or whether he is
ill stalking his somewhat farouche
ahatma in the mountain fastnesses
! far Thibet.
"Now, Mr. Campion," said Mrs.
Laniland, "a few words with you,
case!" and he left Sybil and
osssd to where the old lady stood,
ioking both grim and embarrassed.
[ see from my pass book," she beln,
"that you do not seem to have
resented the check I 6ent you for my
iece's portrait. Has it miscarried?"
To be Continued.
Advantages of Toast.
"Did you ever wonder why toast is
I ways recommended for invalids?"
lid a chemist. "The reason is that
>ast is predigested bread.
"What makes fresh bread trying
>r invalids is the starch in It.
tarch Is very hard to digest. It
ecds a good stomach to take hold of
le soggy starch in bread and change
to strengthening, stimulating dex- j
ine.
"But when you cut bread thin and
)ast it brown, the fire itself changes
le starch to dextrine. That, in fact,
; what the brown color in toast indiite3?that
the starch is gone and
extrine has taken its place."?Bosmi
Cooking School Magazine.
A Wooden Leg.
A sheep with a wooden leg Is a
uriosity at the farm of Ira Quaintnce,
in Dallas township, says the j
ittsburg Dispatch. Early in the ]
ear the sheep was struck by light- j
ing, its foot and part of the leg be- !
lg torn off. As the animal was a
diuauiu oue, V^UcUUlillH-U wutiuatu I
) try an artificial limb. He covered i
with wool, and so well d^s the j
tieep use it that people would not de- :
:ct the difference except for a slight
nip.?American Sheep Breeder.
Safety.
"Why," asked a Missouri paper, !
does Missouri stand at the head in j
lising mules?"
"Because," said another paper, !
that ? the only safe place to stand." I
nr.
In Japan every male over twentyve
years of age and paying a direct
tinual tax of ten yen ($3) is entitled
> vote.
The Russian Secret Service employs i
ore than GUOQ women. Several of!
icm draw $10,009 a yeurl
ft SCIENCE J gj !
Pure iron in the presence of pure
nvvtren Hops not rust..
The nectar of flowers from which
bees make honey contains seventy to
eighty per cent, of water, but honey
contains only about twenty per cent.
The problem of producing ice in
small quantities quickly and cheaply
has. apparently, been solved by a
French inventor, who has perfected a
machine which is cheap, simple of operation,
practically everlasting, and
thoroughly practical. It may be operated
by a belt connected with a
fcteam engine, by a small electric motor,
or by hand cranks.
To render wall paper adaptable for
washing with soap and water without
destroying the colors, make a solution
of two parts of borax and twc
parts of stick lac, shellac or other lac
In twenty-four parts of hot water
Strain the solution through a fine
cloth filter, rubbing the latter with a
eoft brush after every application till
a brilliant polish is obtained. It is
immaterial whether the paper is already
pasted on the walls or still iD
rolls.
Electricity excels all other method?
of transmission for convenience, says
the Scientific American. An electric
cable may be strung where required,
and machinery may be arranged j
in any position without reference i
to line shafting. There are in- |
stances, however, where rope drive j
will save both in first cost and in cost j
of operation, particularly when the !
process of manufacturing calls for a J
number of parallel shafts with machines
in one plane.
The connection, long suspected,
between atmospheric conditions on
earth and conditions on the sun appears
to be reasonably well established
by the investigations of Professor
Bigelow. The fact that sun-spot
areas wax and wane in an elevenyear
cycle was noted years ago, as
was the coincidence that the most extensive
was frequently marked by unusual
magnetic and electrical phenomena
on earth.
ROCKET TORPEDOES.
Germany Said to Fancy a Swedish
Military Invention.
Several years ago a Swedish army
officer devised a novel weapon. In J
consisted of a case in the head of j
which was a charge of dynamite or
guncotton. The contents were so :
placed that an explosion would follow
when the head of the missile hit anything
hard. Provision for projecting
it was made not by firing it from a
gun or forcing it under water by automatic
mechanism. It was equipped
with a charge of powder in the lower
end, which behaved like the charge
in an ordinary skyrocket. It would
force its way upward in the air by the j
violence of a stream of fire emitted
behind, or, more accurately, below.
To assist in steering it the torpedo
was supplied with a stick. When it
was to be dispatched it was mounted
on a light metal frame, which could ;
be so inclined as to give it the neces- !
sary angle.
Nothing has been heard of the in- i
vention for a long time, but a recent j
report indicates that the German War |
Department has secured the right to t
use it. The British authorities also
studied the device, but did not think
enough of it to invest. From that
fact it may be inferred that there fs :
much exaggeration in the statement
that the torpedo "is the deadliest
weapon known."
Colonel Unge, its author, was for a
time employed by the firm started by
Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. The
German cannon and armor plate constructorsi
the Krupps, are said to
have secured the right to use it in
/Miff.;/lo r\f Qn'orlon ?.Vow
UUUJULllCa UUIOIU& Vi vuvu. *??-.?
York Tribune.
Licking the Editor.
In some portions of the United
States it has always been a favorite
pastime when a man was not satisfied
with what appeared in the local
paper to go and lick the editor. Some
unwise guy imported the scheme into
the Southwest recently. It was tried
in El Paso, and the editor is still
doing business, while the man who
wanted to lick him is buried in Oklahoma.
Last week an Albuquerque
nnliremnn tried it. He was six inches
taller and weighed fifty pounds more
than the editor. The policeman was
taken to the hospital in an ambulance,
and when he recovered consciousness
the nurse gave him a
message from the Mayor announcing
that he was fired from the police
force. It is probable that the editor I
cf the Liberal and Colonel Max Frost,
of the New Mexican, are about the
only editors in the Territory whom
it would be safe for an ordinary man
to try to lick.?Lordsburg Liberal.
Don't Chew Ice Cream.
"I was in an up-town tearoom
whore the scenery is all out of proportion
to tlie amount served you,"
taid a New York clubman. "1 was
dallying with some ice cream, when
my spoon struck a common, everyday
pin in the bottom of the frozen
stuff. I pave a little wave and a waiter
slipped to my side. 'See. a pin in
this ice cream,' I said. 'Why, I might
have swallowed that.' lie took the
glass and disappeared. When he re- j
turned he reminded me of an undertaker,
he was that solemn. 'That pin
1 ninn lila ioli !- ' li<> cnirl
'Well,' I replied. 'I am sorry for that,
but it might have cost me my life,
when you come to think of it.' 'Yes.
sir,' said the waiter, meekly. Then,
'You see, sir, most of the folks that
eals here just sips their ice cream and
don't chew it.' "?New York Times.
Perhaps ;i (Jentle Hint at Hari-kari.
It was a ludicrous mistake to offer
n sword to the head of the Standard
Oil Company. Jts favorite weapon is
the rebate.?New Yrfrk livening Post.
J
oiimr^rSuit
CHILDHOOD.
To be Himself a star most bright
To bring the Wise Men to His sight,
To be Himself a Voice most sweet
To call the shepherds to His feet,
To be a child?it was His will.
That folk like us might find Him still.
?John Erskine, in the Atlantic.
The Judgment of God.
God will give you the thing for
which you faithfully work?health, '
prosperity, learning, or any other j
of His gifts. What you sow that you \
shall reap. But it does not follow
that you will be a happy man or a
good man or a man worthy of all
respect and love. For these gifts of
the spirit you must have your special
preparation. God grants us our request,
even when we pray for the
wrong things, for hard work ia
strenuous prayer. But it does not
follow that a man shall be satisfied
with the result of his own prayer.
With the splendid physique of an
athlete he may be an ignorant fellow,
out of place among cultivated |
people, embarrassed, good for nothing
outside of athletic contests. He
may be many times a millionaire, ana
yet a man of so few resources that
life means little more to him than
a good dinner and the ticker of the
stock market. He may be a famous
scientist and have classified a superb
collection, and yet the man of
him so withered and sapless that, as
Emerson said, he is only fit to be put j
in some bottle and added to his own !
collection of snakes and beetles.
The judgment of God is strikingly '
in evidence. Men have prayed,- or ;
worked, just as you wish to state it, j
merely for animal health or a mil- j
lion of money or the details of some !
science, merely for them and nothing i
more. And God has given them their j
request?and sent leanness into their
BOUl.
The severest judgment of God is _
letting people become just what they "
want to be?ignorant or grasping or ;
frivolous or even vicious. They close
their hearts to all noble, all generous, j
all broadening influences; they have i
no interest in the religious or social i
life of the day; they have neither the
scholar's love of truth nor the re- j
former's enthusiasm for humanity; j
they are living merely for money or ,
pleasure or personal culture. They j
are narrow, self-centred, ignorant, |
prejudiced, unamiable men and wo- ;
men. And what they sow they reap i
?social pleasures, good investments, i
a cultivated taste in art and music. J
God grants their requests?and sends j
leanness into their soul.?George D. !
Latimer.
How One Man Lost His Chance.
A young man, in the very flower i
of his days, once told the writer the !
following story, in answer to a ques- j
tion as to why he was not spending 1
his life for God and others.
"I was once," he said, "as you
are, a Christian worker, and service j
for God was a great delight. For j
many years I gave of my best, and i
was happy in giving, until one day ;
God called me to 'launch out in the ,
deep'?to forsake all and follow Him ;
fully. But," he continued slowly, "I ;
thought of my wife and two children,
01 my comionaoit; juumw, ui m; waging
business, of all I valued In the
homeland, and I looked up to God, '
and said 'No.' That's three years j
ago," he said, "and now?"
"Now," I echoed quickly, "what?" .
"Oh, he replied with a mirthless '
laugh, "what's the good of speaking !
about these things? I don't know j
why you should have asked me that
question; I must go." And he arose
and reached out for his hat.
"But," I answered breathlessly, i
laying my hand upon his arm, "you j
care still, don't you?"
For a moment he lifted his dark |
eye to mine, and never shall I forget
his look of remorse. "Care!" he re- j
poated hoarsely; "what's the good j
of caring now? I'm so involved in j
business and with worldly men that
I hardly dare call my soul my own. ;
"Rnth mv wife and I have backslidden, j
and never even go to church; and !
as for helping others?look, I've lost |
my chance."
Beware, render, lest you loss yours.
?Christian and Missionary Alliance. ;
The Holy Spirit Waiting.
The spirit's sensitiveness to the
worldliness and inconsistencies of I
church members Is the reason for
tne spiritual impotency of so many :
churches to-day. If an inhabitant of
Mars were to come to earth, and !
could understand our sermons and }
prayer-meeting utterances, he would j
inevitably gather the impression that j
the Holy Spirit, about whom he j
heard expressed longings and de- I
sires, lived on some planet farther 1
away than Mars, ana couia omy do ,
persuaded to come to earth at rare j
intervals, and after almost endless. :
petitioning. Why, we talk about tho
Holy Spirit and His coming into our |
churches very much as the children i
who have begun to lose faith in Him '
talk about Santa Claus. Some of us {
haven't as much faith that our prayers
for a spiritual revival will be j
answered as the ragged boy has that j
he will get the skates or velocipede '
for which he wrote a letter to Santa
Claus.
But what are the facts on which j
our hope should be based? That the j
Spirit is not on some remote planet, |
but has been sent into the world for {
the precise object of operating j
through the church. The Spirit is
kept out of his own so long as there
is not a spiritual revival in the j
1- itt? Atih* trt lift- o fin.
t/.IlUiL'll. %> C nave Kjmj cw uti, c* *1*4ger,
breathe a wish, and He is at our j
command.?Dr. Cowan.
~ I
Uegin Shining at Home,
A candle that won't shine in one j
room is very unlikely to shine in an- j
other. It' you do not shine at home,
if your father and mother, your sister
and brother, if the very cat and I
dog in the house are not the better ,
and happier for your being a Chris- .
tian, it is a question whether you
really are one.?J. Hudsor Taylor. (
Jesus at His TU'st.
Jesus was at His best in heart-to* i
heart ministration; multitudes alwayf '
thronced Him
Monument to Youug Hero.
On the monument erected to Mid- '
shipman James Thomas Cruse, at
Arlington, Va., are inscribed the
words he said while suffering from
mortal Injuries: "Never mind me;
I'm all right. Look after the other
fellows." Young Cruse was a victim '
of the explosion in the turret of the |
battleship Georgia.
Wages and l-rrinht Hates.
On the pay-rolls of the railroads of j
the United States there were lust |
year 1,072,071 employes. They re- 1
coived for their services ?l,Q7-,o$U(- j
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
ttii? riPis Of? rVTEMPKHA NfiR
JLIIIM V ivu w* ? ' ? - ?? ?
Beer or Boys ? At Least 50,000
Young Men Every Year Take
the Dreadful Path Leading to
All the Horrors of Drink.
The president of the Wheaton Cc'lege
asks: "Who are these children
who dwell in squalid and infected
homes, who live in rags, who have
no place to play and no fitting food
to eat?"
They are the children of the saloon
traffic. They are to be beggared
by it as long as it continues.
. . . We are establishing homes
for boys in all our great cities. They
are very costly, the maintenance ol
them requires large sums of money
annually. Every one knows that
these homes are needed because parents
drink up their earnings in liquor
shops. Every one who has studied
the situation knows that the supply
of homes can never overtake the
demand. The taps are flowing free,
the distilleries, breweries, wholesale
houses all are sending their deadly
+ A a tr V*V rl Q V +0 fllO mill
gllOV' UHJ UJ ?-V V4*w ?>
At least 50,000 boys every year
take the dreadful path leading to
all the horrors of the drink curse.
They may be seventeen years old or
twenty-five years old.
Many of them are boys of fathers
who are disgraced and ashamed, they
are sons of mothers whose hearts
break. Each Industrious young man,
capable and ambitious, earning $600
per year, is working capital worth
$10,000. So the liquor traffic that
destroys 50,000 boys, youths, young
men who might earn now or by and
bye $600 per year, really destroys
$500,000,000 of the best capital of
this land! This half billion lost by
drink must be added to the billion
and a half of money wasted yearly
for liquor. Each industrious, sober,
ambitious young man is worth more
to the higher industrial interests of
the land than all the distilleries and
breweries and liquor shops! A man
is more precious to God and to the
world, actually or prospectively, than
fine gold. Destroy factories, shops,
banks, business houses and sober, Industrious,
intelligent, forceful men
would build finer, stronger, more
beautiful and useful structures than
those the fire burned.
Said a general to Fighting Phil
Sheridan as they were watching
Sheridan's four children: "Phil, if
you could choose for your little son
from all the temptations which will
beset him, the one most to be feared
which would it be?"
General Sheridan replied soberly:
"It would be the curse of strong
drink. Boys are not saints. We
are all self-willed, may be full of
courage and thrift and push and
kindness and charity, but woe be tc
the man or boy who becomes a slave
of liquor. Oh, I had rather see my
little son die to-da.* than to see him
carried in to his mother drunk."?
G. H. V., in The People.
Too Late Land.
Crazed with liquor, a son?well
reared, well educated?shot his aged
father and slew himself in maudlin
sentimentality over his parent's determination
to marry again. However
well taken the young man's objections
may have been, the letter
he left was insane. But his brothers
did not suspect that he was insane on
the subject, otherwise they would
have kept him from his father.
Charity suggests that the terrible
affair should be put out of sight behind
the iron shutters of the morgue
for the forgetting of insane acts.
But a grewsome lesson will obtrude
for a few days. It is that the man
with a grievance only intensifies his
grievance tenfold?a hundredfold?
by the burning emphasis of alcohol.
Alcohol is the terrible emphasizer.
It emphasizes bitterness as much
as it exalts gayety. The small offense
becomes a deadly insult. A real injury
develops into an unreasoning
ferocity of revenge. And Too Late
Land is a bad place in which to sober
up.?A'ew x oi'K American.
A Thought For the Week.
If I were to vote for the manufacture
and sale of intoxicating liquors,
I would never see another drunken
man or widow or orphan of a drunkard,
or read of a crime of which whisky
is the cause without knowing 1
was responsible for it, or at the very
least a partner in the responsibility,
. . . Think what you are doing,
men! Think what you are letting
them do, women, when you quietly
permit them to vote "For the Manufacture
and Sale of Intoxicating Liquors."
I consider it an awful thing
to do. And I believe that if you reflect
upon the consequences of your
vote you will think so too. It may
make your son a drunkard. It may
make your daughter the wife of a
drunkard.?T. T. Hicks, Henderson,
N. C.
Feeding on Charity.
They would resent it, these rotund,
full-fed fellows, who plead for
the granting of license to hotels so
that those houses may set a better
table, if one were to point out that
they are expecting to get more food
than they pay for, but such is ths
fact. Nothing can be clearer thait
that if the price paid for the meal is
*** x *U ^ nncf the hn
sumcieut iu tu?ci mc \.w. w ....w ?~
tel, there would be no deficiency to
be made up from the receipts of a
bar. When the representative of the
traveling public, therefore, presents
his argument on the necessity of license
for hotels, it is only saying in
other words that he gets more than
he is paying for, and to that extent
is depending on charity.?The People.
Temperancc Notes.
The Alabama Supreme Court has
held both the State prohibition law
and the 9 o'clock law constitutional
and effective.
Twelve hundred of Ohio's 1371
townships and 500 of its S00 towns
are "dry;" 100,000 of Cleveland's
population live in "dry" territory.
Tho tpmnoranre Chautauqua series
which was given in nearly a hundred
important Texas towns last year, will
be repeated this year on a larger
scale and with even a better list of
attractions.
The Anti-Saloon League was organized
about lsyO, and it boasts
that it has passed prohibition or local
option in more than one-half of this
country geographically.
Have you ever noticed how and
where drunkenness has decreased?
It has been cut off as wages and prosperity
have been augmented. It has
died out where the utmost poverty
and wretchedness have died out.
Millions or victim^ of excessive
drink are not poor because they
drink; they don't drink because tney
are poor. Tlie.v are not sad in heart
jjceau:^ they drink; they drink because
they arc sad.
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I e>unbat|f$c(7odf
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM*
MENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 0.
Subject: Saul and Jonathan Slain in
Battle, 1 Sam. 31?Golden Text,.
Amos 4:12?Commit Verse 6??
j Read 1 Sam. 27; 2 Sam. 1.
TIME.?1056 B. C. PLACE.?
Gilboa.
EXPOSITION.?I. The Death of
; Saul and His Sons, 1-6. With this
I lesson we come to the end of Saul's
career, so promising in its beginning,,
so gloomy in its ending. It sadly
and solemnly instructive, as showing
how much a man may have and yet
his life prove an utter failure after
all.' He was a goodly young man?
"there was not among the children of
Israel a goodlier person than he" (1
Sam. 9:2). His father was a.
"mighty man of valor" (1 Sam.
9:1). He was humble (1 Sanu
10:22), and considerate of others(ch.
9:5). But we find him later ia
life a monster of pride, arrogance
and self-will (ch. 18:7-11; 19:1(7;
20:30-33; 22:9-19). Here we have
i a lesson of how little real worth therej
Is in merely natural virtue and how.
I easily it is transformed into devilish
, sin. But there was promise in thei
life of Saul for other reasons. God's.
\ grace was manifested to him (ch.
| 10:7-9), the Spirit of God came upon.
I him (ch. 10:10; 11:6), he undertook,
j valiant battle against the enemies of
' the Lord, and won a great victory.
I (ch. 11). So we see that a man may,
I know something of the power of the.
' Spirit, can war to a certain extent in
} the energy of the Spirit, and win vie
| tories ror (ioa, ana yet aner an, uecome
an apostate and his earthly life
j close in hopeless gloom (Matt. 7:22,.
23). Saul seems to have been a striki
ing illustration of such an one. His
! decline was step by step (ch. 13:8j
14; cf. 14:18-20). His loss of the
, kingdom was foretold at this firststep
away from God. He takes a long"
' step further downward by positivedisobedience
(ch. 15:19-23). With
j this false step his rejection from the:
' kingdom i3 declared in no uncertain .
i terms. Finally, failing to get any,
' answer from the Lord about the bat;
tie with the Philistines, he turns to
j the devil (ch. 28:6, 7), and this
j crowning act of apostasy leads to thel
awful judgment and ruin of our les1
son (1 Ch. 10:13, 14). No matter
j how often or how completely Israel
i routs the Philistines, the Philistines:
j are always sure to gather strength
! and renew the attack (v. 1). Thei
Philistines had been effectually subj
dued in the days of Samuel (ch.
r* . 1 O \ rpv, />.?.? Vti/tn
! 1 . JL OJ. 1 11C1 C was Up gigai. t ivvvt /,
i under Jonathan (ch. 14). David wins*
j a great victory (ch. 17:52), but in our
lesson the Philistines renew the war..
"And the men of Israel fled." Here
we see a change from the days or
Samuel and Saul's early days. Then
j the enemies of the Lord fled (ch.
; 7:10; 11:11). There is a return to
. the days of Hophni and Phinehas (ch.
i 4:10). The explanation is simple.^.|
Saul had disobeyed the Lord; and the*
i Lord had forsaken Saul (ch. 18:12;;
! 2S: 15-19). However mightily the
Lord might have helped us in timespast,
if we disobey Him and'He for?
i sake us, our power will be gone and
; defeat and shame certain. It seemsJ
very sad to think of the noble hearted
T ^ il. ? ~ An in tlio
JUIlctLUciil iuvuncu iix v.uo w?^?
: throw of his father. But parents alI
ways involve their children in theconsequences
of their transgressions..
; The question arises whether Jonathan
j for all his generous friendship for
! David and all his faith (ch. 14:6).
j was faultless in the matter. He knew:
| that his father was rejected and
i David chosen of the Lord (ch. 23:17)..
Ought he not to have broken with
! Saul and gone to David "without thocamp
bearing his reproach?" Heb.
13:13). He came to David as Nico,
demus to Jesus, under the cover of" /
i secrecy (ch. 23:16). So he lost his.
| place of service, as the secret disciple^
j however loyal he may be at heart,.
' always does (2 Cor. 6:15-18). What
i an inglorious ending to what mighthave
been a glorious life (v. 4).
II. The Triumph of rhe Philistines*,
i 7-10. This is what came of asking a.
' visible king instead of God (ch.
,12:12). It was all very joyful at first.
i (r?h 11*14 15). hut. thp arm of flesh.
! soon failed them. It will always be'
thus. Those who look to man rather
than God for help, will always end by
; being cursed (Jer. 17:5, 6). God leti
them have their king that they might'
learn their folly by bitter experience.
I "They cut off his head, and stripped
off his armor, and they fastened hisbody
to the wall of Beth-shan." From
< 1 Chron. 10:10 we learn further that
! they "fastened his head in the house:
of Dagon." Indignity was added tO'
; indignity. The world rejoices in nothj
ing so much as in the downfall of
| one who has been a servant of God
! (cf. Ju. 16:21-25).
III. The Gratitude and Valor of
the Men of Jabesh-giiead, 11-13
Saul had rescued the men of Jabesh|
gilead from terrible suffering and
shame (ch. 11:1-11), and they had
' not forgotten it. There is this one
bright spot in the dark record cf bis'
death. The one act to which theSpirit
of the Lord had inspired him
(ch. 11:6) brought its reward even
in his downfall, but that reward was
simply honor from man. That wasall
he sought. That was all he got
(Matt. 6:2). But the most touching .
' and lasting tribute to the memory of
Saul was that of David, whom he *t.d
! pursued with such relentless hate (2
j Sam. 1:17-27). David has nothing
i but good to say of his fallen foo.
Gave Cup of Coffee; Gets $3000.
Three thousand dollars was the reward
received by Mrs. Harvey Bartlett,
of Plymouth, Mass., for a cup
; of coffee given two years ago to a
' sick woman sitting in the coach of a
train that had stopped at the station
1 there. Mrs. tfartiett is a widow ana
i works in the station lunch-room. Her
! benefactor is Mrs. E. Lilley, of New
York City. Mrs. Bartlett saw Mrs.
| Lilley ill in the coach and made her
as comfortable as possible during th?
' twenty minutes' wait
Wall Twice Saves Town.
A double brick wall in Greenwich,
' Conn., has become famous. It is the
! party-wall between the postoffice
j building and the carriage repository
j of John Ray. it saved the entire busi!
ness section from fire recently. About
j eight years ago this wall also saved
| the town, and the two fires were aliko
i iu iiiauj act
Roeord Prohibition Vote. H
The chairman of the Prohibition B
National Committee thinks the Pro- M
j hibltion party will jioll a record vote
j this fall. Ho says that "the number H
[ of people in prohibition territory has B
' grown since 1904 from 20,000,000 ffl
| to 40,000,000." . > ffi