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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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.
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"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[
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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.
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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
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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
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: 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 ,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- H
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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.