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% If His Oti J j = ! A PSYCHOL II! = Jj| By SAR CHAPTER V. 4 I Continued. "You are very kind," she answered, simply. Then turning to Dr. Mansell, 6be said: "You have not found my husband?"' speaking in a steady, selfcontained, almost businesslike tone, which betrayed strong feeling enough, but without a symptom of tears or hysterics. "No." was the doctor's direct reply. "LordWartlebury's men have scoured the heath in all directions, but they found no trace of him there. I heard, however, at the station that a gentleman did leave by the midday train for r ? ur^ wrrtf, r* foil won nloan jliuuuuli. j1c it as ? wii mu.., v.v? shaven, regular features, thick brown hair, with a tinge of red in it, cut short behind, but curling on the forehead; pale blue eyes, deep set; and he wore a suit of summer tweed, light gray, and 3 white tie." "That is my husband," she said, quite quietly. "The fellow from whom you got your information must have had a nice faculty for observation, I should think," Lord Wartlebury observed. "Yes, apparently," Dr. Mansell answered. "But he had a reason for noticing this gentleman particularly, and that made me think that perhaps I was on the right track. It was the ticket collector that gave me the information, and he said he couldn't help noticing the gentleman because his manner was so peculiar. He .walked up and down the station while he was waiting for the train, flourishing his stick and talking at the top of his voice to everybody, and he . would insist in getting into a thirdclass carriage, although he had taken ? ?.lo'ii Vi?jr? no Illtr mJ' ' tt Hi ot'tiaoo tiwavb. w gage with hiin, either. And the man thought he had been drinking." ) A painful spasm contracted the young wife's face for "a moment. "That is very unlike my husband," Bhe said. "It must be as you say, jioctor, he has lost his senses"?an J Jpt then, turning to Lord Wartlebury, and speaking with more emotion than she had yet shown, she exclaimed: "Oh, sir, help me to find my husband!" "My dear young lady," the old gentleman answered, "nothing would give me greater pleasure." : Then there was a pause. '"I must follow him," she said at last. "That is what Dr. Mansell thought . you would wish to do," Lord Wartlebury replied. "He has inquired about the trains and finds there are none until 8 o'clock this evening, and that f is a slow one; but there is a fast one about 10, which arrives at the same !hour, and it would doubtless suit you better to go later. You will probably have arrangements to make, friends to communicate with and that sort of thing." "I am ready," she answered. "I packed my things while I was waiting for Dr. Mansell. We heard, you know, from a laborer that a gentleman had been seen going to the stav tion, and so I perpared to follow him, if he had indeed gone. But about communicatingwithour friends; what would you advise? He may only have gone to our house in London, or + r%. Awrn rtlidmhoro 1 r> whlVh PASP IU UXO VHU VUUUtVVi M, ?** ~ I shall find him easily. And I have been thinking that the fewer people who know about this?this?this? bis going away like this, the better. If it were made public it might injure him in his profession. I do not know where my own people are at this moment. They have gone abroad, and are moving from one place to another, so that I am never sure of their address; and my husband has no near relatives, except a sister, who lives in London, and whom I shall go to, or send for, as soon as I arrive, to ask her to come here and look after my boy, in case I have to be away any time. She is a very discreet person, and I can trust her. Our own servants are all here, and I shall tell them that their master has been obliged to go to London suddenly on business of importance, and that I mean to run up and do some shopping while he is busy. They know he likes me to be with him always." This last thought brought a dry sob to her throat. Were the happy, V>onnv (lavs nil nvAr? Was hpr hui ?f*" ?" ?I band to be hers no more? If she found him, would he look at her strangely, not knowing, not remembering? Oh, God! S'ue straightened herself on her seat as she uttered this bitter, inward cry, renewing her strength with the effort, and casting the distressing thought far from her. But how should she bear the hours of suspense that must elapse while she waited for the train? For the first time in all her healthy, happy life the fear of being left alone with her own thoughts appalled her. "Indeed, I scarcely think you need advice," Lord Wartlebury answered. "What you propose seems to me in every way the proper thing to do; what do you say, Mansell?" A hot flush came and went on the young man's clear skin. It was a peculiarity, this flush, in the way it came and went whenever he was moved. It was eloquent now of the sincere admiration he felt for the young creature, so cruelly placed, and yet so strong and wise in the midst of her calamity. "It seems to me," he said, "that there is only one thine Mrs. Somers has not thought of?the?eh?awkwardness, for a lady, of arriving in London alone in the middle of the night." "I had thought of that," his lordship answered, with a benign smile on his kind old face; "and as I have to go about?eh?that business, you know. Mansell, I told you of, I hope Mrs. Somers will allow me to be her escort." Ke looked very dignified, very much indeed a nobleman as he spoke, but the young lady smiled in .his face, and the smile was infectious. n< hi n( it sc HER 5E-LF OGICAL NOVEL. j ei == [ ( cz bi AH GRAND. < b] I n< "Thank you," was all she said, but V( the words were a real expression of jn gratitude. What she thought, how- ci ever, was: "He shouldn't tell stories. w He doesn't do it at all well. It is my Ci business that is his business, I know; and he knows I know it, so where is it the use? I suppose, though, I should o' have refused to let him come if he tl had put it in any other way. Well, s< his delicacy, at all events, makes up a: for his little fib." m The two gentlemen rose, and as sc they did so the horror of being left alone occurred to her. si "Oh, do not leave me!" she said, bi so earnestly that they hesitated; "at least?I mean," she faltered?"if tc you have nothing better to do, will tl you stay and dine with me?" tl And she wrung her hands, and st then she laughed; it was such a funny way to ask any one to dinner. tl "You must think me very weak- ai minded," she explained. "I can't heln it; I am afraid to be alone. If I tl have leisure to think I shall break h down before the servants, and then n they will know that something must d; be wrong." is There was now an end of all cere- b< mony between them. Dr. Mansell si sent a boat off to the yacht with i orders to send what Lord Wartlebury required to meet him at the sta- c< tion, and then the three spent the ct evening together?a, quiet evening S] certainly, but not unpleasant for the h: gentlemen, for their brave little k| hostess put off her sadness as a duty m and talked enough to have deceived them, let alone the servants, had they jy not known of the cruel anxiety which jt was gnawing at her heart. m And even they never suspected the ir sharp physical pain caused by those cutting cords and her frantic strug- w gles, which was adding the fear of w being disabled to her other miseries, though she strove not to admit the ^ possibility of such a thing even to herself. Her wounded arms might q burn and her wretched body might jr stiffen, but be with her husband be- f? fore morning she would, if she kept S( her consciousness at all. a] CHAPTER VI. al There being no sleeping cars on s? that line they were obliged to make u; the journey in an ordinary first-class tt carriage. The train was somewhat sv crowded, and Mrs. Somers thought tneir naviug u wuuic tumijoiiu^uv w aJ themselves was a fortunate accident, je She never suspected that it had yn been secured with some trouble for h< her special comfort and convenience. Indeed, everything was being done L that could be done by the most ni thoughtful kindness to make her po- n< sition easier for her, and one of the m proofs of the delicate tact with which ai she was being cared for and protect- w ed was the fact that no sense of ob- n ligation oppressed her. All this attention came as natural- m ly to her from these two strange gen- w tlemen as it would have done from di her own father and brother. tt But the jovirney did seem inter- fc minable, parts ^of it especially? yc those long stretches of time between 01 the rare stoppages, when the world a beyond the narrow limits of the car- in riage was blotted out by the im- tr penetrable darkness, and nothing oc- hi curred to mark the rate of progress, d; or even to assure the anxious, weary a one that they were progressing at all, 0] but rather the contrary, for by a a( curious trick of the senses she found sc herself fancying that they were not tt moving in spite of the rush of the grinding steel, or else that they were going back, which was worse. Lord "Wartlebury sat opposite and patiently dozed the greater part of w the time, waking up, however, when- u, ever the train stopped, and talking 0, to her with that unfailing cheerful- S[ ?t- : -t- ~ . . Lit'SS WU1UU la uuc ui cuc uiaiatLcnotics of his class, or maybe a part of sj their creed. tc Doubtless, in many cases their SI manners are idle, but in Lord War- tc tlebury's they were certainly a proof n, of loyal nature and of lofty mind, a, and he would not have forgotten them at death's door. But at seventy years of age even the most vigorous man s, must show signs of fatigue after extra exertion; and during his uneasy jv sleep Mrs. Somers noticed how worn he was, and her heart brimmed with gratitude and smote her with remorse. fc But on, and on, and on, rattle, and clatter, and rumble, shriek of whistle and rush of steam, the mighty wnnlr cnH tho n 111 vpririfr whpp] enn -I <=> [J scious of the dreadful noise at times, and conscious also of the appalling J. silence caused by the absence of hu- ^ man voice, rendering an account to ^ herself of all this, and then slipping away from it, as it were, into the =l outer darkness of a doze, into the ? sweet oblivion of snatches of sleep from which the inclination of the ^ train as it swept round a curve would rouse her with a start, and rouse her n companion, too, whose eyes met. hers as they opened, making it appear as if he had been watching her in her sleep. ? "I am afraid you are very tired." he said more than once, but quietly ignored his own fatigue when she ventured to observe it. C1 After one of these momentary v; awakenings, into full consciousness, w it always seemed as if some important incident had occurred refreshing ';i them both. Mrs. Somers would straighten herself then and look 11 about her, and it would seem as if n' thp flirlrerins' vellow lieht of tile w lamp burned brighter. 6' But she would sink back inevitably Into her old attitude, the light would fade into sickly dimness, Lord War- sc telbury's head would nod, and his m whole body sway to one side, little by little, down, down, down, till she b< almost started from her seat to save him from falling again.s? the glass, and it seemed a miracle that he t*r should have recovered himself with bj ) more sign of waking than the [ ] ilf opening of his. eyes that saw j 3t, the perfect inward vision of the i ml having for the time being re- I - 4-1% ^ rtiif Innlr 1 . au^u UIC uutciiaiu 1V.CU1V : the body. The regular beat of the machinery ould alfect her mind, shaping itself ito rhythmic measure which presltly took words to itself and betme a silent song?"When the day reaks," it said; "when the day?j reaks, and the shadows flee," but Dthing else. Over and over again her mind in)luntarily repeated it, at first findig rest and relaxation in the melanical formula, and then being earied by it because it was mechaniil, then banishing it for an instant 7 an effort of will, but glad to have back again when it returned of its tvn accord, replacing painful loughts with a monotony which was )othing once more in comparison, ad then benumbing, the cause of tore moments of blissful uncon:iousness. "When the day breaks and the ladows flee away; when the day reaks, and the shadows flee." It was with her still, and seemed > rouse her, as the train glided into , -- T ? '?? */??mfnno of 9 IT! I It; JUUUUUU I.C1U11UUO uv. ~ t ie morning, and they found them- c ;lves at their journey's end at last. f But a few minutes sufficed after ^ lat for Lord Wartlebury to see her t ad her luggage safely into a cab. "God bless you, my dear child!" t ie old gentleman said, as he shook ^ ands witih her;' "and may you-find I c latters much better than' you have j ( ared to hope when you arrive. There s a card with my address. I shall j 5 anxious to hear from you, and r lall wait in London until I find that $ can be of no more use." j f Then all of a sudden she was over- ; } )me by his great goodness. She ! t )uld not speak to thank him. but ? ie did a better thing. She grasped I is withered hand in both of hers and c Issed it fervently, and the deed was , r lore eloquent than any word. I r As the cab drove off, Lord Wartle- j v ury stood in the damp, chill morn- i , tg air, an indistinct figure in the 1 t lurky fog-bedimmed gaslight, look- i ig after it, and sighed. I j And he sighed, not because he was J ( eary, but because, with all his j ealth and greatness, he did not find | t possible to do a good deed every I t ay and reap the reward of it. |. As she rattled away .in the cab, ertrude Somers found herself entef- I r ig upon a new phase of emotion. So f ir she had felt keenly, but she had ; t :arcely thought at all, or anticipated , t aytliing that might yet happen, or j jeculated about what had occurred c 'ready, except to the extent neces- ? iry to form the few practical mcas- j t res she had adopted, and to carry j ^ lem out. Now, however, her mind ; i lddenly awoke. | ? She began to think and wonder, i id particularly , to notice every ob- J :ct she saw, as if any one of thera ? ight unexpectedly prove of use to f sr by furthering her search. She had never seen the streets of j ondon at such an hour before, and i 3w she was struck by the strange- ! ] iss of their appearance, even the < ost familiar having lost character ^ id identity by reason of the un- r onted solitude and silence which < :igned supreme. "! Here and there she passed a policean, here and there a man and oman standing close together in runken, degraded intimacy: once i le light from a cab lamp flashed ! ir a moment on the figure of a >ung girl, cowering in the deep shad- J w of a doorway, In the attitude of j breathless, hunted creature await- 1 ig its doom in helpless terror. Ger- ! ude saw the face distinctly; it lunted her afterward for many a xy, and even at the time, with such weight of anxious doubt and dread i ipressing her, she was forced to j knowledge that what she fe^t her>lf was nothing as to the misery iat she saw. I To be Continued. j Embarrassing. Some little while ago a popular | ritcr visitea a jan in umci uj mi.d , Dies for a magazine article on pris- j i life. On returning home he de- ! iribed the horrors he had seen, and ; is description made a deep impreson on the mind of his little daugh:r Mary. The writer and his off- j iring, a week later, were in a train ! igether, which stopped at a station 1 car a gloomy building. A man sked: j "What place is that?" | "The county jail," another anvered promptly. | Whereupon Mary embarrassed her i ilher and aroused the suspicion of le other occupants of the carriage 7 asking, in a loud, shrill voice: "Is that the jail you were in, l' 11 er ? ?j ndsra's Library. ? ? ! Maintaining Discipline. It is evident, by an anecdote taken j i cm the London Mirror, that there I re some persons who regard discip- ! i no as an end and not r.s a means, l ot even the seed ol' insubordination [ j ad a chance under the eye of Ser- ] iT.nt Day. " "Tention!" he cried to his squad. < Quick MarchLeft wheel! Halt! t ake Murphy's name for talking in i ie ranks." 1 "33ut he wasn't talking," protested < corporal, who was standing near. < "Wasn't he?" roared Sergeant Day. i Then cross it out and put him in the f uard-room for deceiving ine." j A UuinpiT crop. < "Ya-as," said the man from South- 1 rn Kansas. "1 rcckon that year was i liat you might call a banuer year '< itli a bumper wheat crop. W'y, do 1 hi know that Silo Edwards?neigh- i sr o' mine, Silo was?had sich a * and o' wheat on a tcn-acre field o' isn'n that ho had t' rent th' field Rxt t' 'im t' shock about half of it? asn't room fcr th' shocks on th' * round it growcd on."?Judge. ^ The German Emperor lias more 1 srvants in Ins employ than any other onarcl). Altogether they number . ^er 'J000, about two-lhirds of tliem jiug women. . A Frenchman is ;;aid to liave (lis- ^ iv.-rcd a means of firing torpedoes ? wirele.-a clectrie power. 'i \ * Imagination the Fairy Powder By WINIFRED BLACK. A little girl I know came running n from the garden the other day. 5he had two great, flapping catalpa eaves fastened to her shoulders. "See, mamma," she said; "look at ny lovely wings; now if I only could ind some fairy powder to shake on,f hem I could fly, couldn't I?" "Yes, honey," said I to th^ little ;irl I know. "If you could find some 'airy powder and sprinkle it on th )se vings you could really fly." Thr> lit-Ho iHrl 1 Irnnw Innlrod at mn vith large, trustful eyes. Her chin )egan to quiver. "It's too bad," she said, tremuously, "dat I can't find de f^iry powler wben I have such a lovely pair of vings, isn't it?" And I comforted the little girl I enow and kissed her, and then we vent out to hunt for a fairy ring in he grass and to see if we couldn't ind a toadstool where the old grasslopper who plays for the fairies to lance sits when he is tuning his iddle. That evening I dined with the rich md great. After dinner we sat on he veranda and watched the stare :ome laughing down the sky, and the Tickets chirped and the scent of the jrowing grass was sweet in the nosrils. "Let's go to the theatre," said ono >f the rich and great, and in less tian fivo minutes wa were whlzzlner >ut of the green and the perfume and he starlight, down to the noisy, illimelling town. It was hot in the heatre and we sat in tne middle of a ow of seats. The play was inane, he actors were bad, the air was stiling, and we sat and were bored until t was all I could do to keep from ushing out into the clean night air igain. And all the time at the very gate if the stifling horror we sat In was a lice, roomy automobile, and in five ninutes we could have been on our vay to the starlight and the sweet vinds and the sparkling heavens igain. I I looked at the rich and the great, ind wondered. Then all at once it :ame to me?"They have the wings," said to myself, "the great, strong, mtiring wings that money buys?but hey have not found the fairy powder ?that's the reason they cannot fly." A friend told me a little story this norning. "Yesterday," said my riend, "I supped with a millionaire; ie told me about a magnificent house le is building in a faraway city. " 'I'm spending a million and a [uarter on it,' he said. 'It is a palice, but all my friends are here, and his is the only place in which I really vant to live. However," and the milionaire sighed a deep and mournful iigh, 'beggars can't be choosers/ " I looked at my friend and smiled. "He has the wings, all right, you :ee," I said. "All he lacks is the airy powder." The fairy powder! How poor he s that lacks it. Imagination, the ove of simple things, the love of jeauty, the love of outdoors, of little ihildren and of the singing of the vaters in a free stream?he who has lot found any of these fairy powders :an never, never fly.?From the New fork American. 1 The Amiable Spider. The spider is not usually credited vith amiability of temper, and so the jroofs brought forward by M. A. Le:aillon in La Nature of its maternal iffections are the more interesting, rhe species concerned is one which nolroe Ho noct nnri wph in thp. ears of jats. The nest of one was broken >pen, the mother taken out, and an>ther female spider put in. The later on entering looked around and at wee began to close the entrance. When the mother spider is brought >ack the usurper tries to defend herlelf, and they exchange blows hrough the opening. Then the nother goes round the nest to find mother entrance. She is forced, however, by the other to retire again into :he nest. Making a third attempt vhile the mother is absent again, the asurper escapes, though hotly pursued. Assuring herself that her en>my has really gone the mother en;ers her nest, and after a while begins o close the opening. The usurper is hon placed on the nest three times, jut always retreats in haste.- A spiler, it thus appears, will readily [ idopt another nest, but will not de'end it as she would her own. If, lowever, the usurper has had posses>ession of the nest for twenty-four lours, she will not leave it voluntarily, and will defend it vigorously igainst its true owner. A spider kept rom her own nest for eight days does lot try to recover it nor show any inerest in it.?London Globe. Door Rreedina; Profitable. "The business of raising deer as a natter of profit may sound strange, jut there are a number of people in rarious parts of the country who get ucrative returns from their herds," .aid VV. G. Adams, of Washington, 3. C. "A friend of mine began raising leer in the District of Columbia over hirty years ago and has made money n their propagation. For his bucks le gets $50 each and the does bring 57f>. Deer will eat almost any kind >f grain or grass, even preferring the ankest weeds to the choicest hay. rhey should always have an abunduit supply of clear, running water. \bout the greatest item of expense '.onnected with deer is the cost of 'encing. The fawns are usually born n the spring or early summer. Does, is a rule, have but one fawn at first, )ut subsequently twins are born, and ( n rare cases triplets." ? Baltimore American. A Crowded Universe. In New Haven the committee o? a jraduating class once went to a local ieweler with a commission for a large TVinv horl in vi'aw Haqiptj ;auf)C. mv; ???v* >*? * >-> ?? ? ?vw.0? epresenting a youthful graduate surreying the univers-j. "About how largo would you like hp figure?" the Jeweler psked. "Well," said the spokesman, "we hought the graduate ought to cover ibout. three-nuartersof the badge and he universe the rest.'"?Success Magiziue. f 'V ^(pfdiojy |j for my daijy range jl Nfflmong, the plcfljnnf f ields ( M Moly Writ I might de5pany J f-j\^-Tennyson^ IAJV y, THE CITY OF GOD. Jil city throned upon the height behold. Wherein no foot of man as yet has trod. The city of man's life fulfilled in God; IBathed in all light, with opeu gates of gold Perfect the city is in tower and street; And there a palace for each mortal waits Complete and perfect, at whose outei gates An angel stands its occupant to greet. Still shine. 0 patient city on the height! The while our race in hut and hove] i dwells. Tt hears the music of thy heavenly bells, And its dull soul is haunted by thy light. Lo, oncp the Son of Man hath heard thy call. And the dear Christ hath claimed thee foi us all. ?Phillips Brooks. Parents and Children. The inflicting of punishment Is a serious and solemn thing, and although many recognize this, a large number do not, but punish carelessly with a light heart. "Punishment" means literally "pain," and should not lightly be caused by maD to his fellow-man. , To inflict punishment is tindoubt edly requisite. Those wno nave >.o be trained are certain at times to fall into error, either ignorantly, carelessly or wilfully. The punishment meted out should be less in kind, as well as in degree for the two former, than for the latter, and we ought to think carefully, and really ascertain before deciding that a fault was committed wilfully. We need a word of training* in these matters ourselves before 'we are competent to train others, and we shall probably'all be reaay to admit that we are daily learning with, and through, and from the youn^ ones whom God has put in our care. How many there are who feel these difficulties intensely, and, from being in a position of compulsory 1 authority, how many become somewhat haughty in manner or spirit, even overbearing and tyrannical! If this spirit grows upon us, we shall 1 not succeed in training, though we * may succeed in punishing those 1 under our care. A wrong spirit in us will certainly produce a wrong < spirit in them. This is probably the. secret of much failure to induce) good results from punishments. More especially doed it happen in | dealing with older girls or boys or | adults. Then we must remember that we are dealing with sinful na- , tures prone to evil, which fact we ( know by our own bitter experience. | We are dealing with human beings, with strong individual proclivities which cannot be overcome In a day." I believe that nothing will disarm j hostility and bring down a defiant spirit in boy or girl, or even child, , like a frank confession of our own difficulties or mistakes of which we may be feeling conscious?for this very good reason, that the child probably knows it as well as we do! I would suggest three rules by which to guide your actions and de-. cisions, when called upon to punish: | 1. Put yourself in the child's place by careful thought. 2. Be without any animus?very naturally caused by previous insubordination. annoyance, or insolence on the child's part. A test of one's Sincerity in this matter is to note whether the punishment or reproof gives you as much pain to administer as it does the child to receive. 3. Lastly, there is the golden advice and command of the Bible? "considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted." Let us remember that training is the work of a father? that relationship made holy by the fact and pattern of the Fatherhood of God. and therefore let us learn | from His training of ourselves how to act towards our children.?A Learner, in London Christian. ' "By This Shall AH Men Know." How are you going to tell whether 7ou are a Christian or not? Not by the fact that you are a Catholic or a Protestant, not that you subscribe to some creed that man has drawn up. We must have something better than that. What did Christ say? "By this j shall all men know that ye are My ; disciples, if ye have love one to an- j other." I used to wish when I was i first converted that every Christian j hud to wear a badge, because I would ' like to know them; my heart went i out toward the household of faith, j But I have got over that. Every hypocrite would have a badge inside of - ' - * U VlO. i thirty a ays snouiu ^uusuoim. , come popular. No badge outside, but God gives us a badge in the heart. The religion that hasn't any love Jn it I don't want; it's human. The man whose creed hasn't any love in it may let it go to the winds. "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to j another." That is the fruit of the J Spirit.?D. L. Moody. God's Cnre of the Humble. A man must strive long and might- i lly within himself before he can I learn to fully master himself, and 1 to draw his whole heart up to God. j God protecteth the humble and de- j livereth him; the humble He loveth I and comforteth; unto the humble i **- 1?? Uimcolf' nntn thp ] 711 an ne intuuciu iuuw>.?i v~ ? ( humble He giveth great grace; and after his humiliation He raiseth him to glory.?Thomas a Kempis. The Negative Beauty. The avoidance of little evils, little sins, little inconsistencies, little weaknesses, little follies, little indiscretions, little indulgences of the | flesh?the avoidance of such little ? things as these goes far to make up at least the negative beauty of a holy life.?Andrew Bonar. The One Who is in Xeed. He who has 110 passion to convert needs conversion.?A. T. Piersou. Forfu.'ies Made From Hoes. The output of honey in Texas last year was 4.9G8.000 pounds. California came next, with an output of 3,667,000 pouuds, and Mew York third, with an output of 0,422.000 pounds. Missouri was fourth, with an output of .'',018,929 pounds. Texas also stands first in the number of colmnies of i?ees, the number being 417,1000. The honey crop of Texas brings an annual revenue of ?r>00,000, the price for which it sells ranging from jeiglit to ten cents a pound. I,ii addition the beekeepers sell many thousand dollars' worth of bees each year. ( i THE TEMPERANCE PROPAGANDA CONCERTED ATTACK ON DRINK WINNING ALL ALONG LINE. Spread of Drink Habit?Women ar.d Children Victims, Says Dr. Quackenbos?Urges Legislation to Combat the World's Evil. It is the opinion of Dr. John D. Oiinrlrpnhns that: the snread of the drink habit, particularly among women and children, is a question that should receive the early attention of the legislators. The physician who through his method of treatment by auto-suggestion has cured hundreds of confirmed inebriates of the habit says that most New Yorkers, even those hardened from long experience, have little realization of the extent to which the habit is prevalent among women. One woman whom he treated for alcoholism, he says, according to her own admission, spent $125 weekly for champagne for her own consumption. "To steady her nerves" this woman always took with her a bottle of the sparkling beverage whenever she left the house. The wine,bill was going up when she came to Dr. Quackenbos for treatment. Dr. Quackenbos merely instanced this case out of many which have some to him in the course of his practice. He said that SI00 a week was no unusual figure for a woman to 3pend on champagne. Champagne is not the only beverage, however, that is undermining the physical, mental and moral health of New York women, ten or twelve of whom drink intoxicating liquors 7here only one indulged a decade ago. Dr. Quackenbos asserted that the worst feature about the spread of alcoholic drinking among all classes j A# +Vl A B^tl# AAtlOII mo/1 I TT ao iuau Jiuoi wi oiuu wuouiucu was "stuff" and nothing else. Of every hundred drinks of whisky sold in the United States to-day, he said, only one was real whisky, and a like proportion held in regard to beer and wine. The counterfeits were cleverly enough concocted to deceive even those who imagined themselves connoisseurs. The imitations were fax worse in their effects than the pure liquids, the doctor said. "I can prove by statistics," said Dr. Quackenbos, "that the effect of adulterated liquors on the brain is fifteen times worse than the pure article." Loss of memory and loss of identity were the special results of immoderate consumption of .the adulterated stuff, against the offer of which for sale the physician thinks that some radical and speedy measures should be taken by the law-making bodies.? N'ew York Tribune. Drink Slavery. / The drink habit is the pestilence that walketh in darkness, the destruction that wasteth at noonday. What man is there that hath not seen the red ruin in its path?wrecked'lives and homes and hopes and hearts, and shame and sin withal too deep for words? What community does not remember some once brilliant son, the rose and expectancy of its citizenship, by strong drink brought down to rags and to the gutter? What country graveyard whispers not its melancholy tale of some once strong vie- > tim brought low by its awful power? What man is there among my readers whose heart has not ached for some one in his own family, bone of his bone, blood of his blood, the knowledge of whose shameful drink-slavery has burned like a white-hot brand? A.nd in every neighborhood, moreover, we know also the cruelly mistreated wife whom the drunkard had vowed to love and protect, the ragged children with lives blighted by a flrunken father's neglect, and even the midnight tears of some graybaired mother with lamentations like ;hose of another Rachel for some once promising son slain by the monster \ evil against which we now go forth to battle. Small wonder that its allies have ,io word to say in its behalf, and must jhield themselves behind the glittering generalities of "personal liberty" ?nr! Mlnr>n1 Rplf-eovernment.'' Widening the Problem. The increase in the number and juantity of drugs which may be used :o prevent pain, quiet the nerves, and produce effects similar to ' those Sained by the use of alcohol widens the temperance problem. Nothing is gained and something may be lost beyond recall when a family drops :he 'use of beer and begins to take loses of cocains. Froip all quarters :ome reports of the increased use ol this pernicious drug which, with morphine and other narcotics, may easily be substituted for the more evident and grosser form of intoxi- | :atioji. Men and women throughout j tne soutn are saia to De secreny introducing among the negroes and poor whites drugs which, habitually taken, destroy both body and soul. Recovery from the pestilent influence of these drugs is even more difficult than that from the degredation caused by alcohol.?Christian Register. Adam Smith on Strong Drink. j Adam Smith, the author of "The : Wealth of Nations," whose principles j are still regarded as the standard basis of real political economy, lived over a hundted years ago. It was Adam- Smith who wrote"All labor expended in producing strong drink is utterly unproductive: it adds nothing to the wealth of the community." What the Liouor Men Really Mean. "The liquor men are echoing the old cry of 'Prohibition don't prohibit.' In their hearts they really don't fear that at all. What they do fear is that it will prohibit."?Kansae Prohibitionist. A Warning. There Is a warning for metal workers in a recent report by Dr. Biondi, of Italy, who has been investigating the combined effects of alcohol and chronic metal poisoning. He finds that workmen engaged in lead, quicksilver and antimony works in Sicily have a notably reduced ability to withstand alcohol. Ohio Xearly Won. The liquor people fear that all but Sve counties in Ohio will be prohibitory within a year. And Still the Wonder Grows. Then, one by one. the counties be gan to turn out tne liquor iiainu Bourbon went partly "dry." Now, after twenty months of local option, ninety-three counties are wholly "dry," and only four?Meade, Jefferson, Kenton and Campbell?still remain "wet" as before the passage of the law.?Harper's Weekly. On the Roll of Honor. There are a hundred places in the United States with a population ol 8000 or more which are now withci'.t H(<r;r K A*'; *"-vB ![ Tht ' I INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- H ~~ I Subject: God's Promises to David, i Chron. 17?Golden Text, 1 Kings. > 8:56?Commit Verses 13, 14? Read 2 Sam. 7 and Ps. 89. TIME.?1042 B. C. PLACE.?Je- \ rusalem. EXPOSITION.-^-l. "I have been, with thee whithersoever thou wentest," vs. 1-10. ? Nathan took it for granted without consulting God that David's proposition to build a bouse for God would be acceptable unto i Him. But God set Nathan right "the same night." In the first instance Nathan had spoken out of his own judgment, but now "the word of the Lord" came unto him. God will make His will known to those who sincere- ' <. 4y desire to know it (Am. 3:7). Jehovah speaks of David as "My servant," but refused to permit him to build a house for Him. God acceptA one kind of service from one man and another kind of service from another man. The prime reason why God would not permit David to build. His temple was because he had been a man of war and blood (ch. 22:7, 8; 28:3). Jehovah is the "God of > peace." Israel had been pilgrims, dwelling in tents and wandering from place to place; and Jehovah had v. dwelt in a tent with them. He had "walked with all the children of Israel" (cf. 2 Cor. 6:16; Rev. 2:1). God has never complained at sharing > His people's experience nor suggested to any of the judges that they should build an house of cedar for Him. God >, appreciated the love that prompted David to offer to build an house for Him, though He was obliged- to de- \ cline the offer. He had done great t things for David, exalting him from the lowliest positfon to'the most e*^ alted. It is ever God's way to etfalt the lowly to a position among the highest (Ps. 113:7, 8; Lu. $52); ' Many of those who are to-day among: the obscurest on the earth will some day sit among princes. God took David from being a ^uler of sheep to- N be a ruler of His people. Fidelity inthe humbler position had fitted him/' for the higher position. But not only ^ had God exalted David to this position. He had also "been with thee whithersoever thou wentest" (cf. t Sam. 18:14; 2 Sam. 22:30,34,38). And He promises to be with us also- ' (Matt. 28:20). He had cut off hb? enemies and made for him a great name, and that He will do for u* (Isa. 55:3). What God did for David is only a faint suggestion of what God < can and will do for all who are in ' Christ (Eph. 1:18-22), God declared to David His purpose not only regarding himself, but also regarding all Israel. This purpose of grace as an- 1 ,i nounced in v. 10 had a partial ful- 1 fillment in the days of Solomon, but. its complete fulfillment lies still In the future. It will be fulfilled to the- ( very letter (Jer. 24:6;Ez. 37:25,27; ' .J: Am. 9:14,15; Isa. 60:18; Ez. 28:24). Israel's history has been one of persecution and suffering, but it will not always be so. Its temporary triumph under David and Solomon was but a. faint type of the triumph that Js to be- ' theirs (Zech. 8:23). Prepare for the day when the Lord cometh again. n. I Will Raise Up Thy Seed Attpr Thee, 12*16. Jehovah's goodness to David would not end with his departure from thi3 world. He should sleep with his fathers, not die (cf. i . 'mess. 4:14), oui nis seeu tuat piuceeded from himself should follow him upon the throne. Two precious "I wills" are to he noted: "I will raise up," "I will establish." The immediate and partial fulfillment of thispromise was in Solomon (1 K. 8:20; 5:5; 1 Chron. 22:9, 10; 28:6-10).t But the final and complete fulfillment : is in Jesus Christ (Ps. 69:29; Isa.. 9:6, 7; 11:1-3, 10: Matt. 22:42-4*; Acts 2:30). "He shall build Me an house ' refers, of course, primarily to the building of the temple by Solomon, but that temple was only a type of the true temple or habitation of God. The seed of David who is building that is Jesus Christ (Zech. 6:12r 13; Matt. 16:18; Lu. 1:31-33; 1 Pet.; 2:5; Eph. 2:22). Of Christ's king dom God says, "I will establish His throne forever" (cf. Isa. 9:7; Lu. 1: 32, 33; Gen. 49:10; Ps. 45:?:; 72:5, 17-19; 89:33, 37; Dan. 2:44; 7:14;' 'C Heb. 1:8; Rev. 11:15). In a sense it would be true oi Solomon's kingdom that Jehovah would establish it forever (1 Chron. 28:7). "I will be His Father, and He shall be My Son" is true in the fullest sense only of Jesus (Heb. 1:5; Matt. 3:17). Yet evea this was true in a sense of Solomon (1 Chron. 28:6). "If he commit in" 1 ? t-n C/>l_ lqyity, etc., appn^s pniuaiii; iu oraon, but Jesus entered into the place of the sinner (2 Cor. 5:21), and this about the consequences of the sin of David's seed is applicable to Him (cf. Acts 13:34-37). "With the stripes of the children of men," with , paternal chastisement, would Jehovah chasten Solomon, if he went astray. Solomon did go far astray, and God chastened him and brought him back. Every child of God at some time ' needs such chastisement. Blessed is he who receives it (Deut. 8:f>; Job 5: 17; Ps. 94:19 13: Prov. 3:11, 12; Jer.30:11; Rw... 12:5-11; Rev. 3:10). God's severest chastisements of His people are entirely different from His judgments upon the world (1 Cor. 11:30-32). Was Solomon ever restored to God's favor? Verse 13 an- , swers the question. Jehovah's love to David secured the perpetuity of his house and city (1 11:13, 34-36; Isa. 37:35). wants a i<ieet ot Her Own. A special dispatch .to the London Times from Sydney says: "Aus tralia's first sight of modern battleships proved even more impressive than expected, especially to federal members, many of whom declared that the spectacle was such as to inspire the earnest hope that Australia may ere long possess, if not a similar fleet, at least a squadron worthy to be counted as an integral factor in imperial defense." Boy Foresees His Ov.n Death. "Mother, I am going to die." said Arthur Pauling, eighteen years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Pauling, of North Greenwich. Conn., as he entered the house after a six-mile walk on which he had started two hours before in the best of health. The mother could not see anything; the matter with the boy, but in a few minutes he was dead of acute dilation of the heart. Life of Li in a Hundred Volumes. The life of the' late Li Hung Chans has been published in the Chinese language at Shanghai. It is an official compilation in 100 volumes.