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i his ot V = /HM a Dcvruni |j| By SAI CHAPTER VI. o I Continued. But in the more decorous parts of the city through which she passed, where the sameness of the architecture suggested a monotonous propriety. as if the people had hit upon^ one pattern for their mansions and their manners, from which they dared not trust themselves to diverge an inch, because they knew that unless they bound themselves down by iron rules there would be no depending on them?in these solitudes there were no living creatures abroad save the occasional policeman and the universal cat, something machine like in the steady gait of the former making him seem less like a human being than a part of the constructive force of ?he city; and something uncanny and not accounted for in the presence of the cats, in their flittings to and fro, in the way they peered up through area railings, or dropped on velvet paws, unshaken, from incredible heights, or wandered with confidence round ledges so narrow thai, when such small space sufficed, it would scarcely have been marvelous if they had gene cn without any foothold at all; their gambols, too. their demoniac disagreements, and the wails with which they announced the success of some of their enterprises, as if, like man himself, they were doomed to disappointment even in the gratification of their fondest hopes, realiza tion failing so far short of anticipation as to be a punishment in itself?all this, seen and suggested to Gertrude as she passed, made their presence another sign of solitude, an addition to the strangeness in which the night and stilliness had already muffled the well-known world past recognition. But still, curiously enough, she had not expected to find anything unusual at home. Her thoughts were quite busy with what she saw; her imagination had not at all outrun her rate of progress; 'and now, when the cab pulled up at her own door, it was with quite a shock that she recognized the strangeness here also. Her own home had lost the individuality that made it home. It was one of a row of tall houses with large porticos, and looked now exactly like the rest, with close-drawn blinds, hiding curtain or flower stand or other trifle that might have been familiar, without a light even in the hall, with nothing to distinguish it, in fact, except the number. She got out of the cab and stood for a moment looking up at the windows, and felt that they in turn looked down at her with a sort of answer in every pane, and in the blank, the unresponsive, the unwelcoming silence. "1-Ie has not come." She knew it in her heart before she rang, and yet she rang, and rang again, and fancied she heard a footfall in the empty house, was sure he was there, was coming, would open the door, and all would be right again directly. But oh! the change of such a return to her happy home! The contrast between this cruel uncertainty, this cohl repulse, and the tender love with which she had been received at other times; it made her feel like an outcast. "Leslie! Leslie!" she cried, and it seemed to her as if sh3 had not until that moment at all realized the full extent of her trouble. The cabman, a stout old fellow in multitudinous wrappings, with a face vhich iiad apparently assumed fat as a disguise, so completely were the ieatures oonterated by it, and a voice that resembled the squeak and rumble of his own cab wheels, had stood on the pavement watching her, and now he observed: "It seems they're all from home." Gertrude turned to him. "He may be at his chambers," she said. "Drive me there," and gave him the address. CHAPTER VII. The old man scrambled onto his box with cheerful alacrity, not disliking the job apparently, and the cab rumbled off again with its an::- j ious occupant. Her thoughts had taken a n?w i departure now. She no longer noted | the aspects of the streets as the cab ! crawled on. "He must be at his chambers." she insisted to herself, "because, where ! else can he bj?" And then the desire to find him j there became a fervent prayer that she might. There, at least, this ter- j rible uncertainty would be over, and ! she knew she could bear anything j better than suspense. The present i trouble generally seems harder io j bear than any we can think of, and | we are ever ready to change it. The cab pulled up ai last at the | door of a dingy abode in that quar- 1 ter of the city where barristers most j do congregate, and here again something unfamiliar in the aspect of the place struck her. causing her heart to sink, though it was some seconds before she knew what the trifling change was that made as great a difference in the appearance of the house as a wholly new expression would on a well-known face. It was a very trifle after all, being merely the fact that the door was shut, and she had always been accustomed to see it open. The house was dark, too. Ifer husband's chambers were on the second floor, looking into the street. The blinds were close drawn, and the whole house looked ghostlier and more deserted tnan mo omer naa aone. There was a row of hell-knob:; on the right h.ind door-jiosi. wilH different names Above, and she milled the one beneath Js<?r husband's name. It was a forlorn hope, he* might, be there; but still, when she had waited \ ? certain time, she gave uj? the at-) HER 5E.LF|| LOGICAL NOVEL. RAH CRAND. j \ [n tempt -without any feeling of sur prise. He was not there, and now, be cause she scarcely felt disappointed she thought she could not really hav< expected to find him. "But what shall I do?" she said turning in her perplexity to the cab man, who gazed at her in turn, ou of his indistinct, moon-like vague uess of features, with a calm heutral ity that was at first exasperating but there was a human being behinc that mask of flesh, a slow thinking machine, that could feel for a fellow creature on occasion, although h< recognized no difference of degree and habitually confounded aee. se: and rank, classing them all as fares good or bad, in a common category according to the way they paid. "We left a women in charge of the house," Gertrude further explained "She ought to have been there to le me in." "Well, there was no one there, I'l take my dick," the cabman said. "] know the sound of a bell in ai empty house. One human bein makes all the difference, and there's nobody here, neither." Then they both looked up at th( house for some seconds. "But what shall I do?" Gertrude repeated. "Hev you no friends?" "Oh, yes; plenty." "Then go to them as lives nearest," th? cabman disinterestedlj growled forth. "What! at this time of night?' Gertrude exclaimed. We seem tc have so many friends, and yet ir great emergencies how few there are to whom we feel entitled to appea: for special help! "I couldn't possibly disturb any one so late. And besides, how should I explain?" Then she remembered that she must not explain, which would in anj case have settled the question. "Well, miss, I should say thei that a respectable hotel would be the place for yew," the cabman further advised, with grave deliberation, "il you can get in; but I very much misdoubt it, though you hev a tidy bii of luggage. But you see, it being the season, every place is chock-full Howsumever, yew can but try." Gertrude looked up at the dingj house again. "I suppose I can do no more til] daylight," she said, thinking of hei husband. "Drive me then, please to some respectable place?the nearer the better. I am very tired.' So they rumbled away again, firsl to a large hotel close by. then tc another a little further oft", then tc three, one after another, that seemed quite close together; then on, and on and on, again, till it seemed to Gertrude as if she had been driving for ages in that cab, and would go on forever; but nowhere could she gel a room, or even a sofa to rest upon till morning. The cabman's patience seemed unending, but he stopped at last in despair, and came to the door. The darkness was paling by this time, the morning air was fresh, but keen; tiro day was4 at hand, and the gas in the streets looked belated already, and yet was missed when suddenly the lamps went out. The cabman looked at his pale fare, and felt a lameny compassion. "It's no use goin' on," he said: "but if you'd take a nap in the cab now?" Gertrude answered him with the ghost of a smile. "How do you manage yourself?" she said. "Do you go on all night like this and every night?" "Ay," was the unusually quick response. Probably the fact, as seen from her point of view, surprised him. "Only sometimes it rains," he added, "and sometimes I don't make a breakfast for the old hoss out of all I get." "Ah, then this is a gcod night's work?" she said. "Well, yes, ' he answered, as if that, too, had never occurred to him. "Where are we?" He named the locality. "Why," she exclaimed, "my sister-in-law lives here, at No. 34. How can I have ever been so stupid. 1 never thought of her. Drive me there, piease. at once." Some one opened an upper window, and looked out in answer tc the cabman's ring. "Let me in, Annie! It is I, Certrude!" she called. "Good heavensf what has happened?" she heard her sister-in-law exclaim as she left the window. In a few seconds she opened the door herself and embraced her brother's wife, but asked no questions until they wer*> alone together. "You are a good old man," Gertrude said to the cabman as she paid him. "Come for me to-morrow morning?this morning at i o'clock. 1 may have many places to go to Dring a fresh horse." Then she turned to enter the house, but stumbled, and fell fainting on the threshold. The cabman helped ?.Iiss Somers to carry her intc the dining room. They laid her on the sofa, and then ?>liss Somers showed the man out. Shf* had not questioned him oiiher, and one glance at her plain but resolute face would have accounted for her silence. She was a woman who could bide li<?r time,, and not one gnen to cry. ing over spilled milk when she saw it was spilled, and certainly not be lore she knew that there was anj occasion. "You were quite right to come tc me. dear Gertie," she said, when the latter was sensible again. "If there is any trouble?if I can help you in any waj ?if was kind of you to comc ti> me," and Genrb.de knew that she had never properly .appreciated her jteUr-iu-Jnw till now. Siio had tijought her strong; sho had known she was geed, but anything like this large, unquestioning charity, this readiness to relieve trouble without seeking or apparently suspecting cause for blame, she had been quite unprepared to find in her?or anybody, perhaps. So far, however, she had met with nothing but kindness in ner trouuie; the very cabman even was good to her; but it does so happen sometimes in cases of great misfortune? all the little worries cease, the business of life arranges itself to perfec tion, and everything comes right but the one thing needful. Yet a reason for her sister-in, law's abstinence occurred to her. ; Perhaps she knew already?he might even be here. "Is he?" Gertrude , exclaimed, jumping up from the - sofa at the happy thought. t "Is who? what?" the elder lady . asked. "Leslie?is he here?" Ob, I hope ; he is here!" i "Leslie is not here," was the dc1 cisive response. Gertrude sank back on the sofa. ; "And you must come to bed at once." c "Oh, but I must ..ell you first,'1 Gertrude protested, making an effort to rouse herself. "On the way, then?come!" ; And while she helped her to undress, Gertrude told the story. Miss I Somers heard it almost in silence. I sue was one or mose women wno 1 are born to be nurses, and instinctive[ ly knew better than to excite one who ! had borne as much already with use less comments and conjectures. When 3 Gertrude was in bed, she made her take a soothing drink and then she ; spoke decisively. "You must not puzzle your brain ? any more to-night," she said. "Go to sleep and trust me to worry and surmise enough for both of us, until you awake refreshed. Poor child, what a state your arms are in!" . "Oh, do let me talk!" Gertrude exclaimed. "I am in pain all over. ? Every muscle in my body is j wrenched, and I am a mass of { bruises. You cannot expect me to , sleep in such a state. And besides, j I may think of something if I lie awake." I But even as she spoke her eyelids drooped, and in a few minutes she , slumbered peacefully under the in\ fluence of the opiate Miss Somers had wisely given her. ( "We won't have any brain fever , here at all events," that lady said to herself as she quietly drew down the blind and went to her dressing ' room, where, as she carefully dressed . herself for the day, she certainly [ worried and surmised enough for both of them. Moon, the cabman, duly arrived p at 9 o'clock, and Miss Somers thought she might, under the circumI stances, vfenture to write to Lord . Wartlebury herself to tell him where Gertrude was, as she had promised to [ let him know. ; She sent Moon with the note to . save time, and was not exactly sur" prised when, an hour later, her but( ler announced, "The Earl of WartleI bury," and showed that nobleman into the breakfast room. ' "How kind of you!" Miss Somers , xclaimed. "I dare say you have not t even breakfasted? But breakfast is t just coming up. Do, pray, have ' some," and so they sat down together to the most intimate meal of the day, these two people who had never seen each other in their lives before; and , in ten minutes the courtly old gentleman. with his bald head, piercing eyes ana waiea mustacne, naa con, ceived a regard for this unaffected, straightforward, middleaged gentleI woman which lasted for life. She was tall and thin and largeboned, with an uncertain complexion and much gray in her coarse, abundant dark hair, and her face was plain, as we have said, but pleasant, especially when shp smiled and , showed her teeth, which were white and regular; yet, with all her disadvantages she was a more attractive woman than many better looking ones, mere Demg someuuug iu me scrupulous neatness of her dress and in the way she looked you in the face which made you know without a | doubt that she was an honest, pure| minded woman, without arriere penI see or any thought of evil?a gentlewoman, in fact. To be Continued. Oddities of Warfare. Owing to the small calibre of the | bullets used during the Russo-Japanese War many soldiers did not . know that they had been struck by them until the frenzy of an attack had passed. During the Battle of s Mukden a company of Japanese infantry, of a strength of ninety men, . attacked a Russian party holding the ! J opposite bank of the river. The at I tack was carried tnrougn witn great j spirit until the Japanese arrived unI cler the river bank, when the Russians evacuated the position, evidently believing that their fire had been without any effect. It was only then that > forty out of the ninety Japanese dis covered that they had been wounded during the advance. The company commander only made the discovery in his own case by seeing the water of . the river redden by his blood. There 1 was apparently no physical effect of . the wounds so long as the men had ; been sustained by the fury and excitement of the advance. But on seeing that they were wounded all, from . the officer downward, experienced the . moral effect of their injuries, and all i at once felt that they could advance > no further. I I fhtr Haitian Railway. i The acting British Consul-General , at Haiti reports that the Government i of Haiti has ceded to the Compagnie Nationale des Chemins de Fer d'Haiti the railway already existing from > Cape Haiti to Grande Riviere. This - line is to be extended to Hinche, and ' thence to Port-au-Prince with a - branch to Arcahie. It will be con' nected with the line which the same company is about to construct from , Gonaives to Hinche.?Engineer. ! - ? ? Killed With Kindness, i A Cbunute woman tried to commit . suicide the other day because her liusban;! wanted to send the Jamily wash to jho laundry,?Kausas ?ity J Journal, Q ^S^HOUSEHOLD^0jij 5 flATTEUJ ^Irffir Mutton Tallow Uses. Inkstains may be removed by pouring melted mutton tallow over them before putting the garments in the wash. The tallow should be allowed to get cold before the garment is washed.?New York Times. To Prevent Mold. If cans of fruit are wrapped after they have cooled from the canning process in old newspapers and placed In a cool, dry spot the new printer's ink and paper will prevent their molding, for canned fruit only too often does this.?New York Times. To Keep Salt Dry. "To prevent salt in salt cellar from becoming damp and lumpy, when filling them, put in ten or twelve pieces of rice," says Woman's Home Companion. "This will not come luruugu iue nuica iu wc wih v?i talt cellars, but will break the lumps of salt and gather the moisture; thus the salt is always'dry and fine." Removing Iron Rust. Whenever the ordinary hooks and eyes have been used on light colored frocks there are almost sure to be ppots of Iron rust as a result. The very first thing to do is to rip off the . fasteners and get the rustless kind. Then rub each spot of rust with salts of lemon and wash out thoroughly. It may be necessary to repeat this two or three times, but it is worth the trouble. If you haven't this preparation, use plain lemon juice, soak the salt in it, put it on the spot, and expose to the sun. If all of this proves useless, and the garment s of white cotton or wool, try chlorinated lime.?New York Times. * The Care of Frocks. Don't turn your frocks inside out before hanging them up. As the outside is looser than the lining, tll.s method of hanging produces creases I on/1 nntrlrlv ruins thf> Sf?t flf the skirt. If a gown is very delicate in color, put the skirt on a hanger and inclose it in a bag of blue muslin. If a sachet is attached to the hanger the skirt will be pleasantly scented. Blouses should be laid in boxes or drawers with each bow stuffed with tissue paper and the sleeves also filled with it. Cover the blouses with muslin and, if possible, do not put one directjy on top of another, says Home Chat. With a little contriving this can generally be managed by overlapping them eo that the crushable parts are free from pressure. How to Keep Eggs. . By scientific experiments a fairlj good method has been evolved. ' Suburban Life thus summarizes it: "TUAMrt efl?ai?ol mnfhnHc hi I1UC1U ai g cv/ ui uivbuwwM MJ Which eggs are kept in good condition for several months, but the most satisfactory is that of submerging them In a ten per cent, solution of silicate of soda or water glass. A pound of water glass may be secured at a drug store, and should be dissolved in one gallon of cold water and thoroughlj mixed. The eggs should be placed ip the liquid, point downward and entirely under the surface. If there is any loss by evaporation after a time this should be made good by adding a little water. This plan has been recommended because of its simplicity, and eggs sc treated will keep in good condition for nearly a year. It should be understood, however, that only fresfc eggs should be preserved. To secure the best results they should not be I A? #0 A mure tuau iweuij-iuui uuuis i(roo^TKn\g5 jEpfo. E&l <?|EtK} \L LHNP TTOW TO WM&P - PREPARE '- THEM Poach Salad. ? Stone the peaches and cut in halves. Arrange on white lettuce and put a little mayonnaise in the heart of each one; add a little whipped cream to this if you have it. Johnny Cake.?One cup cornmeal one cup flour, one cup sweet milk, one egg, one tablespoonful of melted butter, one teaspoonful salt, one teaspoonful of baking powder, one tablespoonful of sugar. Mix as thin as cake and bake in hot oven twentyfive minutes. Spanish Fritters.?Cut the crusts from thick slices of bread. Into s pint of milk stir two beaten eggs Lay each slice or Dread in tms mixture for a full minute, or until soaked through, but not broken, and fry ic deep fat to a golden brown. Transfer to a piece of brown paper to drain, then arrange on a heated platter Serve with strawberry sauce. Snowball Drops.?Make a stiff batter of two beaten eggs, two small cupfuls of white sugar, one pint 01 sweet milk, half a teaspoon each oi salt and grated nutmeg, and three I teaspoons of baking powder sifted with five cupfuls of flour. Fry by spoonfuls in deep fat that has reached the blue flame heat. When nearly cold roll in pulverized sugar. Cucumber Pickles. ? Wash small cucumbers thoroughly. Then pack Id glass fruit cans or stone jars, which-1 ever is preferred, and pour cider vin- i egar over them. Cover and put in a I r>nni ninpp This is simnle and I have I never had any of my pickles spoil. It is well to look at them occasionally, and if necessary drain off the old vin-^ egar and pour in some fresh. Walnut Stew.?Put two cupfuls of blanched walnut meats into a saucepan, cover with chicken stock aud simmer for thirty minutes; then drain and reserve the stock. Brown two tablespoonfuls of butter, stir in one tablespoonful of flour; add the drained-off stock and cook until smooth. Add the nuts, a seasoning of salt and pepper, a dusting of mace onH corvo with tomato fineers. Marriage is on the decrease in England, and the Throne says very seriously and earnestly that it is because of the suffragette citation. A School For Mothers Su^estion That No Systematic Effort is Now Mads Along This Line of Education. It is a surprising fact that, full a? our society is of clubs and federations for 'women and mothers, no systematic pffnrt is marie to educate VOUnff | mothers or future mothers in the I care of their babies, either physical ; or moral, which work occupies women for the greater part Oi their working j life, writes Edith Howe, In the New j York Evening Post. New York City, whose organized ! charity glYes advantages to the poor I often unavailable to people in moder; ate circumstances, is, this summer, i through its Department of Health I and charitable societies, sending I nurses to instruct the poor mothers I of young babies how to keep them | well. New York's high death rate is I not limited to the babies of the poor.! Ignorance in the care of babies is not ! limited to the mothers of the poor. Mothers who can afford to pay for ' instruction, lose their babies for lack , of the instruction. Mothers who are ' hungry for kindergarten methods or j bringing up children, for the elements of Froebel's "Mother Play," for I methods of punishment and moral ! treatment, based on child psychology, I can at present get that practical and i important education nowhere. ! A school for mothers should be esj tablished, whose teachers should be 1(1) trained nurses who have speciali ized in infant work, (2) kindergarti ners who have specialized in child and mother psychology. The whole i should be under the combined superi vision of some baby specialist, as ; Dr. Jacobi, Dr. Holt or Dr. Chapin, ! and of a child psychologist such as ; Miss Susan Blow or Mrs. Langzettel. The hundreds of mothers' clubs now i formed will welcome a course of lecj tures from such a school. I To women who cannot be members ! of such a class private tutor lessons | could be given, and correspondence I courses arranged for those out of ; reach. Teachers and students would i do well to take such a course, but it j is primarily intended to give practi; cal information, based on scientific , principles and the experience of authorities, in place of the unsatisfacj tory and desultory advice now given In mothers' magazines, to mothers j who want to apply it directly to their j own babies. Books and syllabi should be agreed upon in conference with | agencies caring for babies, such as I hnhv and maternity hosnltals, the Board of Health, charitable associations doing practical work with mothers. The tuition for the course should be high enough to more than cover the cost, but not high enough to exclude those for whom it is intended?women in moderate circumstances. The school should be started in such a city as New York, which is wide awake to the need of such work, and has the machinery for putting it into operation quickly and well. The work could be Inagurated with a committee consisting of a baby specialist, an expert kindergartner, such as Mrs. Langzettel, who lectures at Teachers' College, for the Froebel League, and representatives from baby hospitals and the Board of Education. The committee should have an active paid secretary, whose business it shoujd be to Interest women's clubs, parent-teacher clubs, mothers' j clubs in the churches, settlements and ; mothers' congresses to take up such I a praiiliUttl ^oicmauiv wutuv v* study. ! Elmer Elsworth Brown, Commi3j sioner of Education, said at the rej cent International Congress of MothI ers at Washington, that the term edj ucation must be interpreted by the j United States Board of Education to I include the education of mothers in j the care of their babies. If the work i were successfully started in New I York, the National Board of Educa! tion might be encouraged to start j such education in the public, high J and normal schools. The Congress of Mothers might be encouraged to carry such instruction into every State, city and town in the Union ' where its mothers' clubs are at work. ! Mothers' magazines might be en! couraged to apply to headquarters for the advice and instruction in the j care of babies circulated through | their pages. ' * a "U M I i 110 ennowmeui lor suuu a buuuui ' should net be heavy, as the tuition should make it self-supporting, and the interest on the original fund and the surplus could be used in scholarships for poor women, in engaging specialists to write the required textbooks, in founding the work in other centres. A trained nurse, on a salary of $75 a month; a kindergartner, on a salary of $100 a month, could deliver two lectures each a day for five days in the week, instruct twenty mothers' clubs, having one lecture a week alI ternating with the nurse and kindergartner. If there were thirty women in each club, and the tuition chargcd were $10 a year for each member, exclusive of the cost of the room in which such clubs were held, this would bring in $6000 a year, or, after the teachers' salaries were paid, $3900 a year profit. Were there three nurses and three kiudergartners, that sum would be trebled and would, after paying $2 000 a year to the secretary; ?2000 a year apiece fees to the baby specialist and child psychologist, asked to give some of their time to the direction of the school; $650 to stenographer, and $1500 for office rent and running expenses, leave $3500 profit yearly, which should be used in scholarships I to poor women ($500); in confer! once etpenses ($1000); advertising and exhibits ($1000), and $1000 to a specialist for preparation or remodeling of proper text-books. Ten thousand dollars a year for five years to establish the school, then, when it has proved itself, an endowment fund of $100,000, yielding $5000 a year for reserve fund and ; for establishing schools in other centres, would make the systematic instruction of motherspossiblethroughout the United States. Twenty years ago a German taught the Japanese how to make shell butto?s. Now Japan is exporting shell buttons to Germany, France and other countries. I . -a-~ 'l.lJg?^I ! - ^ . ,.i" <?>un^a:j-cx:f70c>f INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR OCTOBER 18. subject?David's Kindness to Jonathan's Son, 2 Sam. 9?Golden Text, Eph.4:32?Commit Verse 7 ?Read 2 Sam. 16:1-4; 10:24-30. PLACE. ? Jerusalem. TDIE. ? 1040 B. C. EXPOSITION. ? I. Mephibosheth in Lodebar, 1-fl. Now that David is securely settled on th9 throne, he begins to think of his dearest friend of :he clays of his trial?Jonathan. The house of Saul as a whole had been his bitterest enemies, but he will show them kindness for Jonathan's sake. The sinner is a bitter enemy to God (Rom. 8:7; Jas. 4:4), but God loves the sinner and will search him out md show him kindness for Jesus' sake. The house of Saul had sunken from its former greatness into such Dbscurity that it took some time of searching to find one of the household. A former servant of the house df Saul was better known than his children or grandchildren. The kindness that David desired to show to Home of the house of Saul was "the kindness of God." unmerited kindness and great kindness. As God had shown kindness to David, so David tvould show kindness to his enemies. Mephibosheth is a fitting tyne of the sinner; he was "lame on his feet" and so is the sinner, unable to walk jprightly in the paths of righteousness, constantly stumbling and falling; and he lived in Lodebar (which means, "no pasture"), and the sinner is without pasture, starving. God has j made the human soul on so large a | nlan that nothing can satisfy it but God Himself. We may flatter our- I selves that if we have much goods ! laid up for many years, our souls can j "take their ease, eat, drink and be ! merry" (Luke 12:19). but the human ?oul that drinks of any other well fVinn that to which .Tesus invites him will thirst again (John 4:13). It is only when he drinks of the water that Jesus gives that he never thirsts, but whosoever drinks of the water that Jesus gives shall never thirst and it will be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life (John Away from God there is no pasture, but when we return to God ind He becomes our Shepherd He makes us to lie down in preen pastures and leads us beside the waters if rest and redemption (Ps. 23:2, R. V., margin). Our David not merely sends for us, He comes for us -(Luke 19:10), and when He finds us He rejoices over us, lays us on His shoulder and brings us safely home (Luke 15:5-7). How foolish Mephibosheth would have been if when the king sent for him, ne had refused to go with the messengers, and how foolish the sinner is when the King of kings sends for him through His messenger, the Holy | Snirit, if he refuses to leave the land j of "no pasture," and the house of j bondage, to go to the King and receive the reward of the faithful. IT. Mephiboslieth at the King's Table, 7-13. When Menhibosheth came into the presence of the king he I was full of fear in spite of the purposes of love that the king had expressed (v. 3). So tue sinner is full of fear when he draws nigh to God, though God's purposes, revealed over and over again, are purposes of infinite love. To trembling Mephibo: sheth David said, "Fear not," and Ao i the trembling sinner God savs, "Fear I not" (Is.41:10,13; 43:1,2,5). There is scarcely anything God says more frequently in His Word than "Fear ! not." David gave Mephibosheth soorl j reason for not fearing, uamely, "I will i surely show thee kindness for Jona- j than's, thy father's, sake." God gives j us even better reason for nutting I fear from us, because He will show us kindness for His only begotten Son's sake (Rom. 8:32; John 14.13, 14; 2 Cor. 5:21). David not only promised to restore all the land to Saul, his father, but furthermore that Mephibosheth should eat at his own table continually, and <his is what : God invites us to do. 'o earthly ; king's table was ever so oountifully , spread as the table of the great King to which He invites every sinner to : sit down and to eat there continually, i David's kindness filled Mephibosheth \ j with a sense of his own utter un- I worthiness (v. S). He regarded him- i self as only a dead dog. When we : j see ourselves in the light of God's in- I i nnite grace, we too win see mat we i are no better than dead : in our- j selves, but by the grace of God we ' become children of God (John 1:12). David sought to relieve Mephibosheth j of all care by laying all responsibility j for looking after his large property | upon Ziba, the servant. Ziba himself i had fifteen sons and twenty servants, j but he in turn was to be servant to Mephiboshetb. God provides us with mightier servants yet, servants of no ! less dignity than the angels (Heb. j 1:13, 14). Mephibosheth was not ' only to eat at the king's table, but he j was to eat there as one of the king's son?. We sit down at God's table ! not as guests^but as a child (Rom. j S:lO, 17J. rne lesson closes witn | Mephibosheth no longer in Lodebar, [ the land of "110 pasture," but in Jerusalem, which means, "founded in j peace." And not only in Jerusalem, ; the city of peace, but continually at | the king's table. At this point the j type fails, for Mephiboshcth is still | lame on both his feet, and the re- i deemed sinner is no longer lame but j made strong in his feet, able to walk | in the paths of righteousness (Ps< 23:3; Eph. 6:10). Used Roof to Slake Coffin. When A. Johnson, a pioneer, formerly of Ham Lake, Minn., died in Northwestern Canada, there was not a board or plank with which to build a coffin. The nearest station was 106 miles away. A bachelor neighbor tore down the roof of his hut to get boards for the coffin, and went without a roof for weeks. Johnson's body was buried in the rude box, and | friends drove 212 miles to buy a coffin. The journey look them r. I week, and they thou brought the rel mains back to Minnesota for interj 'pen*., Union Pacific Has Record Day. As an indications of business conditions in the West the Union Pacific I Railroad points out that the business I done by that road in one day on the Wyoming division was the largest in the forty years of its operation. Wight hundred and eighty-throe cars of freight were moving on the mountain division on that day. JScotcli Fish Xrallic. The total quantity of fish taken by the Scotch in 1907 was 9,078.059 hundredweight, of the gross value of ?15.425,52.ri / qluE^STOUR., OUT OF CHORD. When bougn ana stem, so lately black ana bare, . . Are vital with the glow of May-tid? green, When ivith new life exultant everywhere The earth is trenching on a heaven unseen, How dread the cound of mortal misery! The din of evil in the world of men, Jars -with the harmonies we hear and see. And Being trembles with the discord then; So that, desnite divineness of the morn, , Through glorious gladness burst regretful grief. Ph! would that man were here and now , reborn! t fln/l I nut o in ?Charlotte Fiske Bates, in the Christian Register. The Greatest Battlefield. The greatest battlefield on which a man ever fought Is within himself. The greatest victories are there. Victory there is the greatest victory, possible in a man's life. All the great achievements of men outside of themselves are less than the achievements of getting mastery of themselves. Victory here meana victory elsewhere. All other problems of the personal sort are included in this: Their solution is included in its solution. There must be practical understanding' about sin, and real power over it, before there can be self-mastery. For it was sin that first stole selfmastery away. Selfishness must be seen and gripped in its subtle as well as its coarse forms, before the sweets of the finest self-mastery can be tasted. Doubt must be mastered, at least far enough to give a steady footing and steady goingv if the fragrance of self-mastery is to fill the life. Only he who sees clearly the highest ambition of life, and holds everything else strictly under, can climb the heights here. The great mastery is self-mastery. The greatest man is he who has hecome master of himself, not in the limited sense of some who do notable things on other fields, but in the finest, fullest sense. This is the most fascinating of all problems. It is a continuous problem, ever yielding to solution, yet never fully solved. For every high level reached Bhows a higher beyond, so great is the possibility lying within oneself. Man was made like God and to havft a dominion over all the lower creation. That is the Bible way of saying that he %ras to be master of his own 6elf, and through that selfmastery to be master of all creation. The man, eager to reach the highest mastery will study God, for here is the original plan for himself. He will keep in close contact with the Original. The closer that touch the nearer does he come to his own true self.?S. D. Gordon. . y Life-giving. , All good teaching is life-giving. AH good teachers are life-savers and life-enrichers. This is to be accept- , ed literally by all teachers that .as pire to teach ia His power. Preciou* to men are the remote ledges io which are imbedded the virgin gold; more precious still are the sandy stretches from which sparkle the sapphire and the diamond; but in? ^ finitely more precious to men are ' the gleaming gems of life that God'* generosity has set in the bodies of children. To see this life as His gift* to polish it until it reflects again the image of its giver, or to keep it from the beginning pure and unspotted as He kept it?this is the teacher's task. To be the holy custodian i of life, to vision it as God's precioua and expanding gift, to enrich it by contact with the laws and purposesset by Him in the world of things about us, to help it in its quest fo/ kinship in the abounding life, to lead it at last to identify itself with' the life He gave and of which It i? part?this is the teacher's goal. Its achievement is the teacher's highest reward.?M. Brumbaugh, in Sundayschool Times. Touchstone of Love. What is the touchstone of our lov? for Christ? Is it the willingness and desire to feed, in every sense, thelost sheep and the sheep of the kingdom? Often in the humblest life we find this pure love given forth at thegreatest sacrifice. Jacob Riis tells* in his "The Battle With the Slum,"" of a family of father and daughter in two rooms that had been made out of one by dividing off the deep dormer window. It was midwinter and they had no fire. He was a pedler; but the snow had stalled his push-cart, robbed them of their only other source of income, a lodger who hired cot room in the attic for a few centsa night. The daughter was not able to work. But she said, cheerfully, that they were "getting along." It came out that she had not tasted food for many days?was starving. in fact; indeed, sfte diea wunin & n year, of the slow starvation of the B tenements. She met her pastor's gen- gg tie chiding with the excuse: "Ob, H your church has many poorer than I H am; I don't want to take your H money." H Too Sublime For Theories. jfi Declining to take theories of the He unknown on trust, inan travels over 19 the way where science leads, only to find that the divine reality is too big for the creeds, too all-pervading for H the definitions, too Eublime for the M theories. And, on looking out and in H and up and on, he reverently ex- H claims, It is Thou, my Lord and my H God.?Frederic A. Hinckley. 9 Becomes a Blessing. h Every contradiction of our will, BH every little ailment, every petty dis- H appointment, will, if we take it pa? H tientiv. become a blessing; it is a K touch of our Saviour's cross; and so, though painful at the moment, la sweet and healthful afterward.?E. B. Pusey. Look to Earth First. If you would make cure of your estate in heaven you had better become acquainted with the state of thlnes cn earth. Meteor Falls in Kansas. A large meteor fell three miles north of Ellsworth, Kansas, lighting iin thr> pnnnfrv fnr nrminrl and burning brightly twenty minutes af- S| ter it struck the ground. The me< Q teor exploded when it struck the H ground and shook the town of Ells- B worth. Windows and pictures hang-' BE ing on the walls of the houses were B| shakeu, although no serious damage H was done. - H ijrent uencrai srauon. ma A $20,000,000 ternainal station H has been planned for the lines of San H Francisco. v _ _t H J