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\ His O' h | A PSYCH< i By S, CHAPTER II. 2 What had become of him? sh< asked nerseit, tninking at tne sam< time that he must return to releas< her, and ready to reproach him foi leaving her atone at all,- tied up ii that ridiculous manner. But where had he gone? Sh< looked out over the line, but at firs he was nowhere to be seen. Thei suddenly she spied him coming uj out of a hollow, out of earshot al ready, and walking on steadily, bu walking, alas?oh! most inexplicablt fact?walking away from her! "Les lie! Leslie!" she called again, thougl she knew he could not hear her. A swarm of flies buzzed up into th< air from the warm leaves about her o startled by the shrill and sudden cry "Leslie! Leslie!" she reiterated struggling franctically to disengagi herself, though she knew that the om effort was as futile as the other Then the impulse to struggle and cr; was over, and she drew herself u] against the post, a changed woman ii these few minutes, in a changec world! ine cana naa just caugui auuu?; butterfly. It was under his hat 01 the grass, and he was sitting besid< the hat, holding it down with botl dimpled hands in a determined way calculated to give a spectator a vas' idea of the strength of the creatun beneath. Every now and then he tilted th< hat up a little bit, and craned dowr his neck, so as to peep under, till a' last, catching a glimpse of his prize ir a moment of oblivious excitement, h< lifted the hat entirely, when th( pretty prisoner immediately spreac its painted wings and fluttered off. The child watched it for a momenl with a ludicrous expression of dismaj on his countenance, and then scrambled up and toddled on in pursuit losing his balance often on the un equal gi-ouna, ana periormiug *: much of the distance on his hands and knees as on his feet; while his mother in turn watched shim, ii watching it can be called when the eyes involuntarily convey a record oi what is passing to the brain, and write it there for the use of recollection by and by, the mind being absent at the moment, and all unconscious of the process. The child had crept and toddled by this time to the nearest line of rails, on the polished surface of one of which he now sat. He had forgotten the butterfly in the exertion of following it, and was looking about for some new object of interest when his mother called him. She did it by force of naDit ana mecnanicany: "Boykins, come to mamma.!" The boy turned to her with the beauty and innocence of an angel, and the merry mischief of a healthy little mortal on his face, and laughed. "Boykins no go to mummy," he lisped. "Mummy naughty. Mummy put in a corner." "Yes, Boykins, come to mummy. Poor mummy a prisoner." But the boy only laughed again, throwing himself back on the rail, and kicking his plump legs about. It was too good a joke this! Mamma a prisoner, papa gone, and Mr. Baby a gentleman at large! He couldn't enjoy it half enough. His mother had called him mechanically, as we have said. Her mind was for the moment paraylzed by the shock of the situation in which she found herself. She felt that something had gone wrong; she knew she was in trouble; but what was wrong, and wherefore the trouble, she had not vet been able to think. Another shock was requisite to adJust the balance of her disordered thoughts. And presently it came. Glancing away from tlie child for a moment, her eye was caught by a dark body that was rising up into the empty sky from the heath far away, low down, close to the verge of the horizon on the left. She saw it at first, as we constantly see things which bear no reference to ourselves, and offer at a glance no feature of special interest to fix our attention. She looked at it, and she looked away; but the heavy opacity of the thing had impressed itself on her retina, and glance in what direc tion sne would it was tnat sne saw darkening all other objects. Something unusual in this phenomenon made her look back to ascertain the cause of it, and the slight effort of the will this act necessitated was sufficient to rearouse her dormant mental energy. What was the thing? A pillar? A cloud? Why, both, of course! A pillar of smoke! A cloud of smoke! But how did so dense a cloud of smoke happen to be there? Coalsmoke, too, far from any human habitation, and rising apparently from the bare brown heath. Another sense helped her to answer the question for herself?the sense of hearing, upon which there now smote a rumbling sound as dull and heavy to the ear as the massive pillar of smoke had been to the eye, a sound which she had been accustomed to all her life, a familiar rush and roar, the cause of which she had not even to ask herself: but its very familiarity made it strange to her now, because of a certain new significance, and also the time and place. It was as if she had acquired another sense, which enabled her to per ceive for herself something she had ftnly hitherto heard of; and the new feature in this familiar objcct was that of danger. She was little more than a girl herself, finely nurtured, delicately bred, full of youth and health and strength, but. unaccustomed to horrors, and untried. She was bound fast to that t 'li'^raph-jjosl. so fast that the agony of the strongest impulse in life v/ould r.oi have availed to loose her. She was a mother, and her little child was rolling his sturdy limbs ?u tho iron rail not half a,dozen d 0 ill r 1 c K a < t !il| h a yards away from her, and filling tlie b 3 air with gurgles of happy laughter. c a She was a sensitive, delicate, femii nine' thing, who could not have borne | s [ IU StJfc? Llie itJctst ULLit; ticaiuic DUUCI , ^ i and she knew that what she saw b there, that long, sinuous, oscillating ]j ? object, thundering on relentlessly d t with rush and roar and grinding a i weight of hardest metal making the h j earth tremble, was a train, which in . another minute must mangle her tiny s: t human hjossom before her eyes, un- ci 5 less there was a God in Heaven or a . any power on earth to be summoned v i by her shrieks, and moved to pity by p her frantic struggles. "Leslie! Les- e: 5 He! Baby, baby! O God! O God!? d f My child!" n But neither God nor man heard her; and the child, frightened by her o a cries, sat up and looked at her, but tl a would not move, while the long train a; came on at a terrific rate, rushing si j toward him. si 3 Shriek upon shriek, shriek upon a ! shriek, the wretched mother sent up le 1 to Heaven; and the solid post to which she was tied rocked again with tl r the fury of her struggles, but the cord h i did not give an inch. It had cut b 3 through the sleeves of her summer ti i gown, and into the delicate flesh of u her arms, but she felt no physical w I pain. The awful torment of terror b 3 was upon her, and all other forms of u suffering are as nothing to it. w ? As it approached, the train uttered si i a shriek like a hideous mockery of oj t her own, which it drowned, so that st i she could not hear herself. It seemed ? ; as if its speed increased as it neared o' ; her, rushing along in a cloud of dust, ni [ It was coming?it had come?it had passed?it had vanished. And it t the poor tortured mother, a sorry, oi r disheveled figure, a ghastly caricature si . of herself as she had been only an it hour before, was still enough now. tc Her head had sunk on her breast; al j her eyes were shut. She was con- si j scious, but she could not stand; and fe j it was the cruel cord, eating further tt into her flesh as her weight sank upon tt ? it, which for the moment supported ' her. st le CHAPTER III. ot ; It was a little laugh, a tentative m 1 little laugh, only wanting an excuse st to become a cry, that roused her. a* ""Mummy frightened by the puff- w puff! Mummy frighted by the puff puff!" ei 1 She raised her haggard eyes, dully ra at first, without intelligence; but on a ri sudden a great light of joy flashed bl 1 into them, a joy which was as sharp at a pain for an instant as the fear had been. The child was still sitting on ai the rail unharmed. w 1 The train had gone by on the other > line! But the relief was little more 1U than momentary. She only recovered w from the first excess of terror in or1 der to fall into another agony of g( mind, a horrible agony of suspense. The boy would not leave the line, and the same danger threatened always U] while he remained there. m The emergency was developing a d? hitherto unsuspected strength of tj, character in her. There was little iE enough she could Jo, but what was possible under the circumstances she }a did with admirable presence of mind. She tried coaxing first of all?"Dear Boykins, come to mamma!" 1 He only looked at her. w "See, mummy has hurt her arm. go Come and kiss it and make it well." ej He looked at the arm, but seeing ar it was bleeding, drew the corners of m his mouth down into an expression ac of disgust, but moved not. jn "Mummy will cry if baby won't sh come to her." But baby turned his as resolute little head away and pretended not to hear. "I know such a nice story," the poor mother began again. The little fellow looked out ta over the heath intently, but she could sr see he had pricked up his ears. "It is ar all about a little boy who went for a ^ walk one day with his father and t0 mother?" "Like me, mummy?" the child ex1 claimed, forgetting his pretended preoccupation in the interest of this ^ erreat discoverv. I "Yes, just like you. And it was a {s beautiful, warm day, and the sun was cc shining, and the birds sung little songs to each other, and there were nc butterflies?" 0f "And what did he do?" the boy W( demanded, his interest fully aroused by this time. He was sprawling on 1 his stomach now between the rails, js with his hands folded under his chin co to raise it that he might look up at va his mother, after the manner of the cherub in the picture known as the q. Sistine Madonna. "I can't tell you what he did if you m stay there. You are too far away." j-j "No, me not," was the decided re- jn ply. "Me hear oo." w ' Then she answered in a very low voice, only allowing him to catch ca enough of what she said to tantalize jj, " him. He turned one ear, making a great attempt to hear at first, but < presently he tired of the effort. hi "Boy lirrtrr that story," he inter- UJ rupted contemptuously. lj, "Boy tell it oo." m "It was evident she must change her tactics. "Did Boykins nee the big niiff-nn ff clip liofnn "An ! other big puff-puff Is coming directly. 0i Koykins must get up at once, this b\ very moment, and come to mummy, f, els<! it will kill him dead, and mummy ni will have no little boy, and then what fr will alio do?" ni The child looked at her dreamily, "( but did not. move; and now she saw wi something in his eyes that made her C< redouble her efforts to entice him to w< her. The young rascal had nestled sn himself into an easy position. tu The warmth and stillness, with the Y< day's fatigue, were telling upon him. A genUe languor appeared in his eyes, a gathering unconsciousness of all lis external things, partial at first and M; intermittent. but presently dcscend- j in ing like a dark curtain, veiling thclfif istance, and then the nearer glimpse f gorse and fern, the bottom of his lother's dress, the bright shining alls beside him, till all the world was lotted out by the grateful, impenerable blackness, the voice that called im trembling away at the same time ato a more and more immeasurable ast, from which at last it ceased to ome at all. The child slept. But, las for the mother! Again and again she called him. ler throat was parched and sore; er voice came hoarser and hoarser; rticulation grew gradually impossile, and at last sound failed, but the hild never moved. His rosy face was turned to her, till resting on his chubby arms. He ras slightly flushed with sleep. His right lips were parted, showing the ttle white teeth between. His long ark eyelashes flickered a little now nd then as a fly lighted on his foreead or glossy, clustering curls. A lovelier child it would be imposIble to imagine, such a child as only Dines to young and happy parents; nd the mother, in a worn-out inter ai, wnen xne aesire as wen as luo ower to struggle and cry were both xhausted, found herself perusing the etails of his beauty as if it were all ew to her. While so engaged she forgot her wn position and his for a little; but ie rush of recollection caught her gain inevitably, and then her frantic truggles were redoubled, until it 2emed that if deliverance were not t hand death must come and resase her. t And it was strange that during all lis time sh^ never once thought of er husband It was evidently not a usy time on the line. Only that one ain had passed as yet. She had incied a hundred times that another as coming; but as none ever came, y degrees the danger grew less rgently present to her mind, and hen at last the unmistakable sound note upon her ears, coming in the pposite direction this time, she arted into full consciousness again -for a dull torpor had been stealing per her?as if the possibility were ew to her. The train came in sight, but she deided herself with the idea that this tie also must be on the other line, ie was so sure of it that she watched coming, and collected her strength ) make a desperate effort to attract Mention to her strange position, tie watched it until it was within a iw yards of the sleeping child, and len she saw her mistake, and it was ie last thing she did se<\ For in the same instant, and before ie could utter a sound, her senses ft her. The train swept on as the her had done, crowded with people, any of whom must have seen her anding apparently leaning at ease ;ainst the post, and any one of hom would doubtless have flown to jr assistance could they have lessed her need; but in the duBt ^ised by their rapid progress and the ish and whirl of it nothing was vlsie long enough to attract particular tention. The engine-driver saw her as ho jproached, and saw, also, a speck hich he supposed to be a summer ran of hers lying on the line, but rgot the circumstances before he as well out of sight. To be Continued. jwing Or.c Seam For Fifteen Years. "The ease with which people can :come habituated to any kind of ^interesting work, no matter how onotonous it is, may be seen every ly in any shoe factor," says a gensman connected with this St. Louis dustry. "In a shoe factory the division of bor is carried to the utmost possle extent. As a rule, one operative :rforms one operation and no more, iiere is one woman in our employ ho for fifteen years has sewed the am which begins at the right of the 'elets, runs to the top, then around id down on the other side. The achine works so rapidly that she itually spends almost as much time picking up and laying down the toe and adjusting it to the machine i is required to do the sewing, and is work she keeps up day after day ?' -'1 Vniixt. flno uii tiiu; ?ui Ring nuuio. vuv ight suppose the monotony of the sk would wear on her health and lirits, but it does not seem to do lything of the kind. She is one of e most cheerful women in the faery."?St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The Dog in "War. Another field of usefulness has ;en found for the deg in war. He already employed as a scout. He now to serve in the ambulance irps. Two French army surgeons r/e taken up the question with earjstness, pointing out the limitations human agency in collecting the ounded, of whom, after every enigement, large numbers go to swell e dismal list of the "missing." It contended that dogs of keen scent mid with proper training render Liuable aid.?New York Tribune. indlepo'.ver of Modern Lighthouses. A comparison has recently been ade of the power of the lights in rench lighthouses at various periods tiie past ttiirfcy-five years, in isn, hen only oil lights were used, the j Sliest power was e.fual to 54,000 ndle3. J11 1S.S2, when the electi* ;ht was introduced, the power rose a maximum of 820,000 candles, nee then frequent improvements ivo been made in the electric lights itil, at present, the most powerful ;hthouses project an illumination :arly equal to 3,000,000 candles. Frightened by a Lutin Name. How to warn off trespassers withit spring guns has been discovered a canny peasant in the south of ranee. Iiis woods, were invaded by it pickers. He asked a botanical iend the Latin name for the hazel it, and put up the following notice: Caution?All persons entering this nod do so at their own risk. The nrylus Avellana abounds here, as oil as other equally venomous lakes." Not a trespasser has venrod into the wood since.?New ark Tribune. A Turkish irade has been pubihed ordering the purchase of fifty nxjm Kims in uormany ana coumerrtudiiiK the contemplated order for ty French Ilotclikiss guns. Advice About Silk. A silk buyer in a department store has this advice to give in regard to the making up of silk: "Large pins or needles make permanent holes in silk fabrics, and, if extra large, break the threads; then the silk tearseasily. Putnew needles In the sewing machine before working on new silks. With old needles, only slightly blunted, the-silk Is certain to pucker and draw. "Be careful In pleating or ruffling that the iron used is not too hot. An overheated iron will crack any silk. Always wear good shields, and avoid, if possible, much trailing of silk gowns, as the fabric frays quickly." ?New Haven Register. Special Savory. Cut into half-inch square pieces an onion, a seedless green pepper, a seeded tomato, a cored apple and, if possible, a small piece of garlic. Melt a large tablespoonful of butter in 8 saucepan, add above ingredients, sprinkle over two tablespoonfuls oi flour. Lightly stir and add a pound each of raw lean veal and pork cut into one - inch squares, and half a pound seeded eggplant cut into threequarter-inch pieces. Season with t teaspoonful of curry powaer, a saixspoonful of salt, a half-teaspoonfu: of pepper and cook for ten minutes Moisten with a pint of water. Tie Ir a bunch a sprig of parsley, a sprig ol thyme, a bay leaf and place In pan Cover pan, boil for five minutes and set in oven for an hour, being careful to mix once in a while. Remove, take out boquet, arrange with boiled rice and serve.?New York World. Cleaning Paints. Oil-painted walls must be washed with soap and water, using a -sofI flannel cloth, and taking care tc wring it well before using. Use cold w^ter to finish, and dry well with linen duster. , Varnished woods should be rubbed with a chamois leather wrung out d 1 cold water, then polished with soft duster. To polish a varnished floor rut well with equal quantities of beeswax and turpentine. Another method Is to take equal parts of olive oil and spirits of turpentine, wet a soft cloth with these, rub the wood hard, ther rub with a dry cloth. This is alsc good for black walnut furniture and sewing machines. Where paint in stained with smoke some ashes or potash lime may b< .used. A soft linen cloth should be used for wiping dry.?American Cultivator. Dust Preventive. To prevent making a dust ir sweeping use moist sawdust on bare floors. If the room is carpeted, moisten a newspaper and tear it intc ^mall scraps and scatter upon the carpet before beginning to sweep. As you sweep, brush the papers along by the broom, and they will catcfc most of the dust and hold it fast. Be careful, however, not to have eithei sawdust or paper dripping wet. Ir dusting a room do not use a feathei duster, because it does not remove the dust from the room, but onlj brushes it into the air, so that you breathe it in or it settles down, and then you have to do the work ovei again. Use soft, dry cloths and shake them out the window frequently, 01 use slightly oiled or moistened cloths and wash them out when you have finished. In this way you get the Idust out of the room. Many a piece of expensive bric-a-brac has been broken by the use of a feather duster.? American Cultivator. Relishes For Meats. It is always a puzzle to know jus1 what relishes to serve with meats The Detroit News Tribune tells ol these: Witn roast Deei, graieu iiurbe radish. Roast veal, tomato or horseradisl sauce. Roast mutton, currant jelly. Roast pork, apple sauce. Roast lamb, mint sauce. Roast turkey, chestnut dressing cranberry jelly. Roast goose, tart apple sauce. Roast canvasback duck, apph bread, black currant jelly. Roast quail, currant jelly, celerj sauce. Roast chicken, bread sauce. Fried chicken, crcam gravy, corr fritters. Roast duck, orange salad. Rcast ptarmigan, bread sauce. KnJl f/\r? rriT O eflu/tQ fovfovc V/UIU UUUCU lUllgUC, VM,* WMI V or olives stuffed with, peppers. Pork sausage, tart apple sauce 01 fried apples. Frizzled beef, horseradish. Pork croquettes, tomato sauce. Corned beef, mustard. Lobster cutlet, sauce tartare. How to Pack a Trunk. It is quite an art to pack a trunk, and women may be hired for this purpose. The first thing i3 to supply yourself- with plenty of tissue paper. Put in the bottom of the trunk articles which will not be injured if wrinkled. You may put all your underwear and shoes in the bottom. Fill your shoes and slippers with tis| sue paper, or you may put your stock iags inside the shoos. On tbo top of the underwear place your heavy tailor-made suit, and above that your Ions, heavy coat. Above them lay your gowns. Fold the skirts carefully lengthwise, and then turn the top over so as to make it fit the length of the trunk. In packing waists lay the sleeves flat, in order that they may not be crushed, and stuff tissue paper into them. If you wish to take special care of any gown or waist, lav if in the Imvpr trav. Place tissue paper over and below the contents of I this tray, in the upper tray put your hats, each one covered with tissue paper, and also pack the crowns. In this tray also place your ribbons, veils, collars, ties, etc. It is unwise to pack bottles in a trunk with handsome gowns. The handbag is the best place for these.?Buffalo Courier. k igggKEMml ( As effective method or treating leprosy, especially the nervous vari< ety, has been found by Professor Dey< eke in a substance which he hai called nastin. As a result of investigation by offi. cials of the Signal Corps, airships may be used to aid in the wireless telegraph service of the Government They may also be called into use against smugglers who may try to carry on operations in flying ma' chines. A noted Belgian bacteriologist, Dr. Leon Bertrand, claims that he has ; discovered a much more powerful serum as a cure for pneumonia than that now in use. It is a bactericidal, not an antitoxic agent. In the manufacture of alcohol from ?. peat a Danish company, with one ex perlmental plant in Denmark and one : In France, has found the cost to be t about one-fourth of that made from notatoea. I *" 1 Undoubtedly the Jungfrau Railway Is the most remarkable railway in the i world, even in its unfinished state. Its projector, Herr Guyer-Zeller, aci cording to the Captain, was not an en gineer, but a financier. The story I j goes that he was enjoying a stroll . ! down the mountain path which leac'i > ! from the Schilthorn to Murren, and f j that in the course of it, with the J Jungfrau steadily in the front, the I' I inspiration suddenly came to him to 1 | scale the majestic peak with a railJ j way. J An Improved apparatus has been ! made by Dr. Fritz Lang, of Munich, i by which the inside of the stomach [ j can be clearly photographed. J HUNTING WILD HORSES. | i A Favorite Sport in New South Wales ?How the Animals Are Broken. [ Whether "brumby" is a survival of the aboriginal name for a wild horse or a corruption of "unbrand( ed" appears to be a question which philologists have left undecided, but L brumby hunting is still a favorite sport in New Sou,th Wales. Districts like the Clarence and Ste( j phens and Manning River watershed ( j are still the home of numerous I ! droves of brumbies, and hunting j them is declared to be a very exhila, I rating pastime. The first step taken } is to stake out a corral and make j all secure except a narrow entrance, which can subsequently be gated. On either side of the entrance and projecting from it funnelwise a "booby fence" is prepared. To the simple minded brumby it 1 presumably looks like a stockade, ! and pieces of fluttering cotton make it look impregnable. When this is 1 ready the young bloods, well mount1 ed, gallop out and round up the wild | horses, driving them with shouts ' and much loud snapping of stock 1 whips toward the mouth of the fun; nel. In a group of brumbies there is 1 always a leader, and when*once the hunters, have got the leader heading 1 for the corral they are pretty certain of the rest of the drove. The flut' tering cotton rags of the sham fence ' are sufficient to determine the brum! bies from breaking through the flim| sy barriers, and in less time than it takes to tell the wild horses are safe' ly corralled and the big gate shut on ! them. Then they are left for four and I twenty hours without food and water to reflect on the situation, and after ' that they can be broken in without I much difficulty.?London Standard. Story of the Newbury Coat. ! j Buckland Hall, Berkshire, wttch I was offered for sale at Tokenhouse ' j yard, was built at the beginning of the eighteenth century. A former ' I owner won fame on account of a sinj gular wager he made. It was that II he would sit down at dinner at 8 | o'clock in the evening in a coat which i was a growing fleece at 5 o'clock the I same morning. The wager was taken. Two sheep ' j were shorn, and the fleeces were submitted to all the necessary treatment, I and at night he sat down to dinner in 1 i a damson colored coat with about 100 minutes to spare. The coat and the ' articles used in the various processes to insure its completion are still preserved, the garment now being 1 known as the Newbury coat.?London Standard. Can't Sell Dirt as Potatoes. 1 ' Steps are being taken by Kansas j ! authorities to regulate the question i I of how much dirt will be allowed on I potatoes which are marketed in that State. If too much dirt is shoveled into a sack of potatoes, it means, according to the Kansas laws, adulteration of the potatoes. A ruling of this J kind has been made by the Kansas | State Board of Health. The violation comes under the pure food and health laws, which require that full net weights be given in selling foodstuff. Dirt, according to the new ; ruling, will not hereafter be perj mitted to go in as a part of the net | weight of potatoes.?American C:;>| cer. A Valuable Flock. j There was a. sudden change in the ! wind, and the pastor of the Mount j Zion Chapel saw that some of his ! parishioners drew their wraps about I their shoulders. lie paused in his i ; sermon. "jOruddcr "Wilding," he said, raising his voice and waking the old sexton from peaceful slumbers in the rear pew, "Brudder Wilding, be kind enough to close all de winders on the eas' side ob de church. De wind ha? come round, an' we cyan't afford tc lose a single lamb from dis fold b> "lrclessncss, wid an outstanding debi i'ii dis chapel, an' two families moved; 0.it o'o town."?Youth's Companion. Australia has the best hardwoods for railroad sleepers; over 800 tons nf these have recant I v bssn sbii ii?'i i ! tbeuce lo Sau Francisco. TweoJdZ^t TELL ALL YOUR TROUBLES TO JESUS. Tell all your troubles to Jesus, His sympathy reaches so wide: He well understands without telling, .. But blessed it is to confide. He holdeth you close to His bosom, And biddeth your sorrow to cease; He whispers 01 joy everlasting, He whispers of comforting peace. Tell all your troubles to Jesus, A wonderful Saviour is He; He went' to the depths of all sorrow, And knoweth the strength of your plea. Oh, surely 'twill help ycu to tell Him, And lean on the arm of His might; He promised His yoke should be easy, His burden, He said, should be light. Tell all your troubles to Jesus, Our pitiful Saviour so strong, Abundantly able to help yon, And willing to banish the wrong. Oh, deem not that you are forgotten, Though weeping your sight may bedim, But tell all your troubles to Jesus, - For there is compassion with .Him. ?Mrs. Frank A. Breck, in the Christian Herald. Would Not Slight His Work. ? A prominent judge, living nejyr Cincinnati, wishing to have a rough fence built, sent for a carpenter, and said to him: "I want this fence mended to keep out the cattle. There are some un-1 planed boards?use them. It is out | oi sigm ox me nouse, so you neea not take time to make it a neat job. I will only pay you $1.50." However, afterward, the judge, ! coming to look at the work, found ! that the boards were planed and the fence finished with exceeding neatness. Supposing the young man had done it in order to make a costly job of it, he said, angrily: "I told you this fence was to be covered with vines. I do not care how it looks." "I do," said the carpenter. "How much do you charge?" asked the judge. "A dollar and a half," said the man, shouMering his tools. "Why did you spend all thfit labor on the job, if not for money?" "For the job, sir." j "Nobody would have Seen the poor | work on it." "But I should have known it was there. No; I'll take only one dollar ,and a half." And he took that and went away. Ten years afterward the judge had a contract to give for the building of certain public buildings. There were many applicants among masterbuilders, but one face attracted attention. It was that of the man who had built the fence. "I knew," said the judge, afterward telling the story, "we should have only good, genuine work from him. I gave him the contract, and it made a rich man of him."?Home Herald. The Best Remedy. Dr. Talmage once told a story of a .soldier in England who was brought by a sergeant to the colonel: "What," says the colonel, "bringing the man here again? We have tried everything with him." "Oh, no," said the sergeant. "There is one thing you haven't tried. I would like you to try that." "What is that?" said the colonel. Said the maffc "Forgiveness." The case had not gone so far but i that it might take that turn, and so the colonel said: "Well, young man, you have done so and so. What is your excuse?" "I have no excuse; but I am very sorry," said the man. "We have made up our minds to forgive you," said the colonel. The tears started. He had never been accosted in that way before. His life was reformed, and that was the starting point for a positively Christian life. Oh, church of God, quit your sarcasm when a man falls! j Quit your irony, quit your tittle-tattle | and try forgiveness. God, your mother, tries it all the time. A man's sin | may be like a continent, but God's ! forgiveness is like the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, bounding it on both sides.?Home Herald. Counting Our Mercies. There is one kind of mental reck- i oning in which every Christian be- | liever should be proficient?and it is, j In reckoning up the mercies which a j kind Providence continually sends. ' Count your mercies, for as you do the ; mercy will grow. As sorrow brooded j over seems the worse so grace medi? | tated over appears the more lovely, j ivtmAi'/Mifl nn/1 Gainful rirQtlf llHo llJIQ atiuus auu iicipLui. viiuwvuuu MMW I sometimes been defined- as a lively j sense of favors to come, but it is cer- j tain that the very effort to recall the j favors God has shown in the past I both honors Him and prepares the j mind and heart the more intelligent- i ly and profitably to use such blessings as may yet be in store. The Glowing Coal. A pastor once visited a member of his church whose pew was more often vacant than occupied. He found him seated in Ms Home oetore a cneeriui fire. Without saying a word he took the tongs find removed a live coal from the fire and placed It alone on the hearth, watched ,it turn from , the red glow of heat to a black, charred mass. The member watched the proceedings with interest, and , finally said, "Sir, you need not say 1 a single word, I will bt! there here- j after."?H. V. Tanner. CJod Chooses Our Neighbors. We are willing to lovo our neigh* i hors if we can choose our neighbors. I riut that is just where God tests us. I He gives us neighbors whom we nat? { urally would not choose, in erder to | teach ns to act upon the real neigh- I bor rule of helping the man next us, | whoever he is. Until we do this, our I neighborliness is but a sham, not the | Christian kind.?J. R. Miller. j So Referendum For Elijah. Elijah did not nave to wait for a j referendum before he began his work , of reform.?Home Herald. Frightened to Death. A Coroner's jury decided that Fred j C. Singleton, who died suddenly in i Newport, Ky., came to his death from i natural causes and not as a suicide, j The man while under a physician's j care at his home was visited by two j officers in uniform to procure an af- j fidavit against the alleged slayers of j his father. The sudden appearance j of the officers produced heart trouble ! and in the man's enfeebled condition i /I'nieorl liic- /looth fhfe TVOO tlin toe. I tinionv of thp physician0. Insurance i to the amouut of ?G000 will be paid ; the widow. i i a ii ? wwwbbp| i srfe \ i 3 Sun&ai(-^clro;o(? 1?1 INTERNATIONAL LESSON C03I* MENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 27. Subject: Temperance, Is. 5:11-23? Golden Text, Prov. 20:1?Commit Verses 22, 23?Comments on the Lesson. TDIE.?760 B. C. and 1908 A. D- % t'LACE.?Jerusalem and all lands. EXPOSITION.?I. The Woe of Those Who Live Intemperately, 111.7. God pronounces six woes upon His people because of their Bins. Tho first woe is pronounced upon the greedy monopolist. Verse 8 gives a very graphic picture of a large class among us to-day who count themselves happy, but Jehovah pronounces woe upon them. More and more wilt this be true as time passes, even as It r>nmo to noco <n Topiiaalom The BPC ond woe is pronounced upon those who live for the gratification of appetite. The description of the drunkard In verse 11 exactly fits our own day. The rising sun sees the wretch- ? ed victim of alcohol up searching for an open saloon; he hasn't slept much and now wants a drink to steady his nerves. But he is not only up early ? but tarries late into night till wine '"*/ inflames him. He is burning the .V candle at both ends and will soon - ^ burn it out. Oqg pronounces woe f, upon every such an one. And the woe never fails to come. It Is a slg- , niflcant fact that after speaking la general terms of the ruin of Judah (vs. 1-7) such frequent references are made to drunkenness. It Is clear that the prophet Isaiah (as well as other prophets) considered Judah's , : fall (and Israel's) as due largely to intemperance (see also <$. 28:1, 7, 8; Hos. 7:5, 6. The effect of wine is te "inflame them." It inflames the stomach, the blood, the eyes, the brain, the vilest and fiercest passions of the soul and kindles the fires of hell. The man that fools with wine is fooling with a fire that has caused / the costliest conflagrations that the world has ever known. In verse 12" we have pictured the veneering of art and refinement with which drunkards seek to cover their beastliness. Music Is constantly prostituted to become the servitor of beastliness. While these ancient sinners gave themselves over to aesthetic and sensual lndul- ' gence they forgot "the work of the Lord" (cf. Job 21:11-14; Am. 6:4-6). /. One of the most serious evils of theuse of wine Is that It leads men te forget God. A fearful doom awaits / all those who forget God (Job 34:24- -U 27; Ps. 28:5; 9:17). The consequence of their Intemperance and forgetting God was that God's people ? had "gone into captivity" (v. 13). The world to-day Is full of people:S| who have gone Into the most degrad- . ing and painful captivity through the' same two causes?Intemperanc9 and forgetfulness of God. The immediate cause of captivity was "lack of knowledge." Knowledge of the truth Is liberty, ignorance of the truth is bondage (Jno. 8:32; cf. Hob. 4:6; Rom. 1:28; 2 Th2S3. 1:8). The next result of Judah's intemperance was that "Hell (or Sheol, the underworld) enlarged her desire, and opened her | mouth without measure." Hell yawns wide because of intemperance and the glory of the multitude and the pomp,, and he that rejoices among us Is descending into it. All classes are brought down by this sin (v. 15). Not only the insignificant and con- * temptible, but the great and lofty are humbled. But in the midst of all this humbling "Jehovah of hosts is exalted." He is exalted by the judgment" He brings upon the offenders . < (cf. Ez. 28:22; Rev. 15:3, 4). As He Is "the Holy One" (R. V.), His Holiness shall be manifested in the righteous judgment He brings upon offenders. As the final result of Israel's intemperance and forgetfulness of God all the splendid estates and palaces of Judah should become waste and the ' feeding place of wandering bands. This is now literally fulfilled and there is a real danger that all the present splendor of our own land shall some day become a feeding place of flocks and tramps from similar causes. TT Th/> IVnfl nf Tlinsn Win rtivft Themselves Over to Sin, 1S-23. The third woe is pronounced upon those who are so thoroughly given over to sin that they tug away at it to seo how much the> can draw (v. 18). The use of wine leads to this devotion to sin. In their enthusiasm for sin they mock at God and His Word and say: "Let God hurry up with His judgments and let Him hasten His works that we may actually see It and not merely hear about it. Let tho purposes of the Holy One of Israel of which we have heard so much actually come to pass" (v. 19; cf. Jer. .. 17:15; 2 Pet. 3:3, 4). Such mockery of God's word and God's judgments Is common among drunkards. The fourth woe is upon those who "call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light and light for darkness." This displays a determination in sin that i3 wellnigh hopeless (Matt. 12:24, 31). This complete perversion of the moral judgment often results from the persistent use of liquor. The fifth warning is one greatly needed in our day (v. 21; cf. Prov. 28:12; Ro. 1:22). No man is more likely to be wise in his own eyes than the drinking man. He laughs at all warnings against the dangers of strong drink. The final woe is pronounced upon those who pride themselves upon the amount of wine they can drink and the strong drink they can mix and "walk off with." The inspired prophet says that this Is not aa accomplishment to be_Droud of. Britons "Want to Racc Again. Unable to rccover from the shock following the failure of England's far-famed long distance runners to finish anywhere near the front in the Marathon, tho London News lias offered a $.j00 prize for a repel it ion of the race, wilii the runners of every pnnnfrrv piim'M". The News is con fident that the English runners could do better it the rare xvefe re-run. It proposes to follow (lie samp course over which John J. Hayes, the American, won the Marathon. Flit About King For Fashions. King Edward met with all sorts of annoyances in his visit to Marienbad from thr.se who seek not only to copy the King in the matter of clothes, but al3o in his walk, gestures and mannerisms. Every morning, when the King appeared on the public promenade, tailors from Paris, Berlin, Vienna. Budapest :in<! other European capitals nitieu aimui mm, making notes of his attire and sketching those suits which appear unusually smart. Meat Consumption Increases. Tlio consumption o? meat is on the ncrcasc i:i Germany. / ' k