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MHZ* -* rz&>it:.. : M His O ! A PSYCH S By 5 CHAPTER XIII. 11 l Continued. *; Anu, meanwhile, the mornii . mists had cleared away. The si came out and dried the roadwaj The dust began to blow aboi Tourists and summer visitors sta ing in St. Malo began to appear ai pass?the ladles in fresh toilets, tl men with sun umbrellas, light clot Ing, and blue glasses to keep off tl glare. Gertrude had not thought of h luggage since she left her ov steamer, but seeing a trunk carrii past that somewhat resembled h own reminded her of the necessi of getting it passed through tl douane, ready to carry off with h at a moment's notice. But he ehould she manage it? She cou not leave her post, and if she se a messenger he would not know h things; besides, whom could si trust? The douane was close b , Sh? might perhaps get some one watch for her, with orders to cor and fetch her if her husband or h messenger should arrive. It wou take a little time to collect his thin ?he seemed to have more than tl bag now?and get them off the shi; would not come and go in a m ment. But no; it would be a ris anfl if sho harl tn travel nver T^nrm till the dress she stood in dropp< off, she would not run it. While she was standing on tl edge of the Quay, cogitating, si gradually became aware of a new dl comfort. For some time past si had noticed without much heedin an elderly Frenchman, evidently gentleman, loitering near her. SI had not wasted a thought upon hii but now, turning round suddenl Bhe was quite startled to find hi standing close beside her, eyeing hi with that bold, admiring glance whi( is either ridiculous or revolting to woman, according to her mood at tl moment; and it then occurred to hi that she herself was the object < his attentions. For a moment si was afraid he was going to speak her, and involuntarily she look* ' ( round for a protector. The offio to whom she had addressed herse was standing just above her, leani'i over the bulwarks, evidently watc < . .. Ing the little scene below. Gertrude wits were sharpened by the eme gency. The young man had a plea ant face, and there was something It at the moment which seemed to i dicate all an Englishman's objectic , ' . "to allow a countrywoman to be i suited, especially by a foreigner. "Do come to me!" Gertrude e claimed, and the next instant he hr vaulted over the bulwarks and wj standing beside her on the quay. The Frenchman, probably feelii himself no match for the brawi young Briton, withdrew scowling. *'I was afraid he was going speak to me," Gertrude said. wen, yes, i guess ne was," tl young man ?*pswered complacent! > well pleased with his own prowe: and not inclined to cheapen it I ' denying the necessity. "It is dreadful waiting he??," T>o< Gertrude complained, with a sort t dry sob. "Then why do you wait?" he a: swered, with the familiar gaucher of his class. "I am waiting for >my husband.' "Yes, but why not wait at a hotc and leave word where you've goi to? This is no place for a girl?I alone a lady," he added. "My husband might not come me." she answered, despondingly. "Have you quarreled?" he aske without delicacy. . "No," she replied, then looked him. His manners were unpolishe and he was rather common, not all a gentleman, in fact, but he hi a good, honest English face, and h -woman's insight urged her to tru him. She -was sorely in need of hel and here probably was just what si wanted. "I am in great trouble," si said, looking up at the young mi v appealingly. "My husband is out his mind. He imagines he is som body else, and he went away fro home suddenly, and I have followi him, and hope to be able to brii , him back without publicity. He suffering from the effects of ovc work, and wiil soon recover, the dc tor says; but he is a well-known ma a London barrister, and it would < him harm in his profession if it g into the papers. He would never made a Judgp, you know, and nt /he has every chance of the next \ , tzancy. mat is way we are so an lous to keep this quiet. Oh, if yi ; could only help me to find him!" ' ""I'm your man," he assertc / "bluntly. "And I'm glad you told n for when you weren't sure of 1 name this morning, I thought t looked fishy. I suppose he's to< another?" She nodded. "Well, I'm off duty till midnig] and I'll do anything I can." "Oh, I cannot tell you how grai ful I shall be!" poor Gertrude e claimed. "Would you mind waiti here till I get my luggage throu: the custom house I And will you se: for me at once if he comes or sen a messenger?" "All right,. never fear," was t confident response; and away s wont, returning in a very short tii with a porter carrying her box a: " bag. , Tlie young officer met her at t gangway. "You must come on board he said. "Oh. no, I can't," she replied, 1 menibering the captain. "It's the captain's orders." he e plained. "I've told him." "Oh, I hope you did not tell tb dreadful man?" "Xot such a dreadful m neither," he answered, slighi huifcjd. "You don't know the cs tain. He's aii bark but no bite, tell you." THER 5E.LF II IOLOGICAL NOVEL. SARAH GRAND. j ] Just then the captain himself appeared. "You've been six hours loitering ag about that quay alone, and in in trouble," he roared at her, "and had rs. nothing to do all the time but to it. come on board and be among friends, y- It's just your bad temper that stands id in your -way. How do you expect to he get on in the world at this rate? It's h- childish, that's what it is, and your tie little face"?waxing angrier?"is as pinched as if you'd been in want, er And likely enough that's it," he irn added, in a milder tone, as if pleased nri hv his nwn saeraeitv. "I'll stake mv er mother's love you've not had a morty sel to-day." he Gertrude looked up at him with a er wan little smile; something in the iw tone of his last remark had caused Id all that was repulsive in his loudness nt and lanky grimness to disappear, er making plain to her a man ashamed he of his own kind nature-and always y. at war with it, to hide it. ' She folto lowed him to the saloon quite conne tentedly, and he ordered breakfast iis for her, scolding all the time till at Id last she said, "It is no use pretending gS to he cross. I see you have the kind-: ae est heart on earth. You can never p; hide it again from me." His mouth p. relaxed a little at -that, and his kind ]Ci eyes twinkled. He sat down on the pe other side of the narrow table, and 2(3 after an explosion or two at the steward, and at Gertrude's small appeie tite, lowered his tone, and listened ie to her troubles like a human being. s_ She waited comfortably on deck ie under an awning till about 4 o'clock g( in the afternoon. She was not of a a worrying disposition; her mind was ie i strong and placid naturally, and she n was accordingly able to make the j/ most, 'by resting from all thought of ^ her troubles, of this brief and precious interval of quiet. She had only to wait now; ther^ was nothing a else to be done, and she recognized ie that fact and waited calmly, gatherer ing fresh strength the while for what Df might yet be in store for her. This ie blessed renewal of strength in ext0 hausting emergencies is the reward ;(j ofTiatience. We should bear up beter ' ter under our troubles if we culti,]f j vated a cheerful frame of min<| as a jg matter of habit, and forced ourselves to bo serene. Gertrude was almost ;?s able to amuse herself as she sat r_ there, watching the por-teyrs toiling s_ in the heat, and interested in the [Q groups of well-dressed people who n_ appeared and passed, or loitered m looking at the ships. Q_ But at.last the messenger arrived, a porteur from the Hotel de Bains j-_ at Dinard. Gertrude had not dared +r\ hnna thai- Vior ornnlH nnmo id ? as himself, and was therefore not disappointed,, The porteur said, "Monlg sieur Sommes" had declared that he iy had seen more pretty women and pink I parasols since he landed in Brittany to that morning than it had been his luck to encounter anywhere else in ie six months, and he meant to stay y . a week. Gertrude sigh'ed. Here s* ; again it seemed hard that even disjy ' ease could make her husband, one of the most fastidiously refined of 3r men, so far forget not only her but himself as to speak in that common way. n_! Her luggage was given to another je porteur, and after taking leave of her kind friends on the steamer, with . sincere expressions of gratitude, and ;1 the captain's name and address writj' ten in a savage hand on a huge piece e? of paper, as if the size of the writing and the sheet were intended to represent the extent of his anxiety to hear lu . of her welfare, she departed?not, ^ 1 however, without a last blowing-up, ' the worst she had had, the trouble at being that there was no carriage to ^ | be had to take her round the corner j * to the other landing stage, where the d j steam ferryboats pick up passengers gr for Dinard. st* It was with a light step and a great p sense of relief that she followed the porteurs to the quay. The prospect k i of seeing her husband again made i her heart hound. Just to see him again, just to be near him, even if e_ ! shtf might not touch him,- would be m | new life to her. And it would not be e(j , long now, she thought, looking across the strip of water to Dinard? js ten or twenty minutes at tne most. ;r_ She fancied she saw the steamer )C_ starting for St. Malo at that moment. n j The porteur put her things down on the quay and demanded payment. ot The captain had thoughtfully probo vided her with some French money, )w otherwise she would have found herra_ self in a fix; but as it wa?, she paid lJC_ the man what he asked on the spot, ou and he was off at once. The people , near her on the quay looked at each ?d, other end grinned?she wondered l0i why. but by and by when the steamer lis arrived she understood. The wretch it had left her to get her luggage on ok board as best she could. The porteui from the Hotel des Bains, who had ' charge of her husband's luggage: went on board as soon at the little steamer arrive*', also leaving her Lg_ without cerei to shift for herself. !3?_ This she cou'u vj would have done without hesitation had it been possigh ble; but her box was an unwieldj one ?lifting it was out of the quests tion?and she found when she tried (that she could not drag it, either. he She looked around for help in hei he j dilemma. The people were all hurryne I ing on their own account, and paid luj ! no heed to her; or, if they happened I to have arranged their own affairs he and had leisure to observe her, it was [/' without sympatny, ana sne aarea noi ask for heln. It was her first ex e poricn'-,e of tho woi;ld in all its hard ness and cruelty. The people aboul her professed in church to he hei brothers and sisters and to love hei Lat as themselves, and yet her forlnrr position at the moment, a wel an dressed girl, alone and unattended tly made them suspicious, and her evi tp- dent nred of help caused them tc I stand p.loof. S'1? begun to despair. '"What shal I do?" she exclaimed aloud. A.goodnatured looking, fat old bourgeois going on board at the moment caught the exclamation, understanding the Lexclamation, understanding the tone rather than the words, and seeing her#fix, suggested "Ces garcons la," and passed on. She looked in the direction he had indicated with a backward toss of his head and a shrug, and saw two lads lounging by with their hands in their pockets. She ran after them and brought them back with her. They carried her box on board in a twinkling, and then returning, placed themselves so that she could not pass them to get on board and demanding a franc apiece for their trouble. There was nothing for it but to pay them. She ought o? course to have followed her box on , board, but a number of people, late I for the steamer, had come hurrying up at the moment, and she had timidly hung back to avoid the crush. She 1 made a frantic dive for her pocket now, but as usual in these days it was not to be found, the way of modern dressmakers being to consult their own convenience in the arrangement of the drapery rather than the comfort of their clients. Nearly a minute was lost in this exasperating search, but at last she succeeded in eettine out her nurse, and having satisfied the young ruffians, turned to go on board the steamer, only to find, however, that the gangway was up and it was too far from the wharf already for her even to jump the distance. She fairly stamped with rage, and then felt inclined to laugh at her own vehemence. For, after all, as an old apple woman at a stall close by informed her, it was only a matter of half an hour, or an hour at most, till the boat returned, and it was no t^eat hardship waiting there on a warm afternoon, with the sapphire sea sparkling at her feet; Dinard, with its green cliffs and white houses rising picturesquely from the water's edge, just opposite, and St. Servan on her left?all glowing in the afternoon sunlight. Recovering herself at once, she sat down beside the old apple woman and began to talk. The old woman complimented ner on ner French, abused the young voluers who had done her su^h an ill turn, and then began to talk of her own hard life and the struggle it was since she had lost her own good man to keep body and soul together. It was not so bad at that time of the year, of course, for the heat was comfort in itself, and then it made the appetite less, so that small quantities of food sufficed, and hunger did not gnaw; but in the winter, when it froze, ah!?with an expressive catching of the breath and hugging of herself?it was indeed "la vie des miserables." But mademoiselle must pa^ don her. What did young ladies know of misery? Doubtless mademoiselle had all that heart could desire. And the old woman looked at her admiringly and without bitterness out of her big brown eyes that had once no doubt been brilliant, and still possessed a certain beauty of their own?the' beauty and pathos of patient suffering and dead hope, wasting diseases of the soul which havo their grace of expression, even as csrtain forms of bodily dpcay hav& theirs. "I have a great deal tolbe thankful for, certainly," Gertrude answered,; sady. "But I have my troubles, too, ma mere," and then she talked of her recent trials till the old woman forgot her own. She was a delightful old woman, with cap and kerchief snowy white in spite of her poverty, a blue.: serge gown just down to her ankles, and neat, strong shoes with knitted stockings. When they parted Gertrude made her rich with half a sovereign, and happy for life with a handsome gold cross, which the old woman at first refused, but afterward accepted when Gertrude demanded in return for it a daily prayer. Gertrude began to feel tired as she climbed up the steep street frdm the landing stage at Dinard into the town. Fortunately the Hotel des Baines was , close by, and there she found her luggage, the porteur having consulted the intei^sts of the house by ordering it brought up from the steamer when j he arrived with what he had beeD j j sent for. Gertrude noticed a noisy party ot ] gentlemen clambering up on coachand-four, evidently a somewhat ram- 1 1 shackle public conveyance, wbich was drawn upon the road just beyond the hotel, and after she entered she heard it rattling off. To be Continued. ( Don't Put Out the Light. In a little town in Northern Pennsylvania there is a fire department in which the citizens take great pride, j composed, as it is, wholly of volunteers. Late in April a fire broke out a) midnight. When the departmen/ j I came upon the scene only one lan- | tern could be found. Vlie smok( | was pouring out of the building, bu) i no flames appeared, and it was verj 1 darl;. ! Finally, a tongue of ?ame shot om of ono corner of the structure, and ' | the crowd chee: _>d as the man at th? nozzle directed a stream of watei ! L toward it. At this crisis, the excited | captain shouted: ' "Hey, there, Bill! Be careful 1 what you do! Keep the water of that blaze! Don't you see that's t.h< ' only light we've got to put out th< fire by?"?Harper's Weekly. Grave of the Tichbome Claimant. r While the subject of claimants o: I . titles and the estates that go witl ' [ them is in the air it is interesting t< | note that in .Paddington Cemetery | ! Willesden lane, lies the body of Ar j . thur Orton, who claimed to be Si; j I Roger Tichborne. I On his coffin he was described a: j 5 such, but his miniature tombstom j . bears merely one line, and that reads i . "No. 1472." Orton, after servinf J " many years' imprisonment, appeared on "the hajls," and died in Stai .reet, off Edgware road. ? Londoi I obe. i Care of Submarine Cables. 1 Fifty fine vessels are constant!?' , employed in laying auu icpaiinis m* - submarine cables of the world. ) Dresden has a public bathins: es ! tablishraent for dcss. / I ?1??^ I Latest News tst WlKt. Moonshiners Escape Revenue Men. Harrisonburg, Va.?After raiding and destroying a moonshine brandy distillery in Page County and allowing the operators to escape, Deputy Collector A. A. Lewis returned here. Since the recent passage of stringent laws governing dictillerieB, revenue officers declare, there are more illicit distilleries now in Virginia than at any time during the past twenty-flve years. Dr. Shirley Bragg Kills Himself. Montgomery, Ala. ? Dr. Shirley Bragg, State jail inspector and a nephew of General Braxton Brafcg, shot and killed himself. It is not known if the shooting was intention* h al or accidental. He was fifty-five years old. Killed by Hiccoughs. Cumberland, Md. ? Charles Vanmeter, aged twenty-four, who was recovering from typhoid fever, died in Cres'aptown following four days of hiccoughs. Record Barge Load of Wheat. Milwaukee. ? The steam barge1 Adam Cornelius left Milwaukee for Buffalo with a cargo of 270,750 bushels of wheat. This is the largest boatload of grain in one consignment to leave Milwaukee In the history of navigation on the great lakes. Gets W. C. T. U. Convention. Denver, Col.?The executive coupcil, of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union decided to hold waor'a >nniront inn in Omflha Neb. Doctor Dropped Dead. Spokane, Wash. ? Apparently in good health, and in the act of making, a medical examination, Dr. Edwin E. Hutchins dropped dead from heart failure beside the operating table in his office. The patient who was on the operating table rushed out and summoned a druggist, but the physician was dead. Head Cut Off by Wire. Cleveland, Ohio.?Erick Els was decapitated at the American Steel and Wire Company mills. Els was a wire drawer. While drawing the red-hot wire it broke. The end struck him about the neck and the wire, released from the tension,' suddenly colled about his neck. His neck was burned through in a few seconds by the hot wire, completely severing his head from the body. \ \ Diaz Not to Retire. ' Mexico City.?President Diaz says In an open letter regarding his rumored retirement gt the close of his present term in 1910 that the reports are unfounded. He intimates that ho will Again be a candidate. Champion Cow Puncher Killed. Port Worth, Texas.?H. "Bruce" Norton, of Quanah, Texas, champion "bronco buster", of the world, was found unconscious in the street here, and was taken to the Medical College Hospital, where he died on the*operating table. Norton's Skull was fractured, and the physicians think he was sandbagged. Banana Kills Twin Boys. ^ Lockhart, Miss.?Frank and Fred Clayton, five-year-old twins, son3 of Frank Clayton, died a few minutes apart of ptomaine poisoning from eating a partly decayed banana. The children were "playtog house" with two little girl netghflors when they found the banana. The boys drew lots for it and .Frank won, bnt he shared it with the others. The little girls, it appears, did not get any of the decayed portion. \ ???? t. -A j| BY CABLE. Gold, Tin, Copper in Congo. Brussels.?Reports received from r? t\ n laoiiar r\t tVio AmeHpan IV. u. 1YJLuuuu, icau?i expedition in the Congo, state that he has discovered rich deposits of gold, tin and copper in the Manyema district. Wants Female Army. Paris.?Dr., Madeline Pelletier, one of the leaders of the French women's political movement, is heading a petition to Parliament to pass a law enabling women to do military service. It will teach them the necessity1 for violence, in which alone their victory lies. Gymnastics and marching will do them good? Bulgaria Compensates Turkey. Sofia, Bulgaria.?The decision of Bulgaria to disband its reserves and make a financial compensation to Turkey was brought about by the presentation of what was practically an ultimatum to the Parliament by Great Eritain, France and Russia, which were supported by Germany and Italy. Honor Gcr.eral Lee in China. Amoy, China.?In 1898 a slip of ivy from General Lee's grave was planted in the grounds of the Amoy Club, and recently a bronze tablet was set in an adjacent rock by American residents of Amoy. The tablet is inscribed: "This ivy was taken I from the grave of General Robart E. Lee and planted by Vice-Consul Carrington in 1S9S." Boycott Leaders Greet Fleet. Shanghai, China.?The Chinese Chamber of Commerce, of Shanghai, has sent a message to Admiral Sperry welcoming the American fleet to China. The chamber led the boycott against American goods three years ago. Greece May Get Crete. Canea, Crete.?The four Powers protecting this island have notified the Cretau Government that they are willing to consider the demand for the annexation of the island to Greece. King Alfonso Unveils Monument. Saragossa, Spain.?King Alfonso i unveiled a monument to the defend- I ers of Saragossa in 1S0S. He waa warmly greeted by the populace. Jap Admiral Dead. Tokio, Japan.?Baron Yamamoto, one of Japan's leading admirals in the Russo-Japanese War, died here. Polish Private Schools Closed. Warsaw, Poland.?All the private Polish schools have been closed by the governors in retaliation for the attacks on Russian university stu- | dents in the streets. (V;v-v . r , ' I JhT 1 [ C? U1 (UUc| - C?U (W1 | INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM* MENTS FOR NOVEMBER 29. Subject: World's Temperance Sun- j ' day, Isaiah 28:1-13?Golden j | Text, 1 Cor. 0:27?Commit Verse 11?Commentary. 1 TIME.?725 B. C. PLACE.?Jeru- I salem. EXPOSITION.?I. The Destine tion of the Drunkards of Ephraim, 14. By "the crown of pride" Is- meant. I the city of Samaria (see R. V. and cf. iv 1R-54V Tt is here comDared to i a chaplet of flowers on a drunkard's brow (R. V.). This chaplet of flow- I .ers, says Tpaiah, "shall be trodden "under foot," because of their sin and I pride. The people of the northern kingdom as a nation are spoken of as ! "the drunkards of Ephraim." Drunkenness seerAs to have been so wider 1 spread as to have become a national sin (cf. ch. 5:11, 12; Hos. 7:5: Am. 2:6, 8, 12; 4:1; 6:6). The efTect of I their drink upon them was that they were "overcome" (literally, "smitten < down") by it. Let us not forget that it was "tire native wines of a wine- i growing district" that did this far Ephraim, and ftot distilled spirits nor adulterated poisons. Their "chaplet ! of pride" and "glorious beauty" was after all but a "fading flower." So it is with every chaplet of earthly pride < and all the "glorious beauty" of this ! present world (1 Pet. 1:24). The prophet's answer to Israel's confidence 1b, their crown of .pride was < that Jehovah had "a mighty and strong one." This "mighty and strong one" was the king of Assyria 1 (2K. 18:10-12). The Assyrians themselves were a "bloody," deceitful and rapacious people (Nah. 3:1), but 1 they were an instrument in Jehovah's hand for fulfilling ms wora ana bringing judgment upon His backsliding people (cf. Ps. 76:10). The coming of the Assyrian is described by a threefold figure: "a tempest of hail," "a destroying storm," "a tempest of mighty waters overflowing." ' The thought contained in these figures is that of widespread and overwhelming'destruction (cf. ch. 8:7, 8). Back of all this work of devastation, destruction and desplation was the wrath of God at sin (2:4-9). This destruction, etc., all came upon them "because they obeyed not*the voice of Jehovah, their God" (2 KktSiU, 12). Jesus uses a similar figure regarding those who hear, His. words . and do them not (Matt. 7:26, 27). n. Jehovah of Hosts For a Crf.vn of Glory, 5, 0. In the midst of the awful desolation of his own time, when every crown of pride and all glorious beauty is 3 fading flower, the prophet looks fdrward to "that day" (the day of the Loril's Return and manifestation).. So in the midst of present sin and judgment for sin we should look fbrWard (for comfort in our hearts and encouragement ln*our workX to LOrd'a*coming again (Tit 2:^3^2 3fet: 3:12-14, R. V.). "In that-day*' crown of glory" will take the place of. "the crown of pride," afld "'a diadem of : beauty" the'place ofthe.fading flower of his glorious oesuty." ?, TTT Thwrtncyh Wino Hnt of 111. JUA I JU^ M. MAM. Vllgu WA'-vy v? ?? the Way Through Strong Drink. 7, 8) "These also" (the people of Jerusalem), as well as ^Jphraim, "h^ve 'erred through wine and through strong -drink are out of the way." The prevailing sin of druhkennesa had reached even God's representatives, "the priest and the prophet" (cf. ch. 56:10-12; Mic. 2:11). The [ priests were especially inexcusable ' because of the plain directions of God's word (Lev. 10:9, 10;. Ez. 44:21). They were reeling through. strong drink, they were swallowed up of wine, they /were gone astray through strong / drink (see R. V., Marg.). The result,was, they utterly failed in their official acts. They reeled in vision and stumbled in judgment. Wine and strong drink confuse the spiritual perceptions and rob men of judgment. The religious teacher who indulges in them is especially culpable and utterly Incapacitated for hi* holy office. The use of wine and strong drink made their Bocial gathering filthy and disgusting. IV. How God Teaches Those YVlio Will Not Hearken to His Word, 9-13. Verses 9 and 10 may be taken as giving us the mocking answer of fho nennlp tn find's nroDliet. If we take them this way the people are represented as saying, "Whom will he teach knowledge, etc.? DOes he take us for babies lust weaned? It is precept upon presept, etc." If the prophet himself is ths speaker, then Jehovah is represented as teaching knowledge to babes and not to the self-sufficient (cf. Matt. 11:25; 21:15, 16; Mk. 10:15). These are the ones whom He "makes to understand the message" (R. V.). And the method of His teaching is "precept upon precept" (cf. Neh. 9:29, 30; 2 Chr. 36:15; Jer. 11:7). As they had not listened to Jehovah speaking through His prophets He will now speak to them through foreign conquerors (v. 11, R. V.; cf. Deut. 28:47-49). If we will not hear God's loving and patient call to repentance He will speak to us through cruel enemies. God had called them to "rest." They would not hear that call; so He now sent them conflict and destruction. He calls us also to "rest" (Matt. 11:28, oq\ urn tit ill not hour thnt rail "W a will send us destruction (2 Thess. 1:7-9). The whole secret of their trouble (and of every man's trouble to-day) was that they would not listen to God's word. Brings Relics From Africa. Dr. George A. Dorsey, a graduate of Denison College and son of Squire Dorsey, of Granville, Ohio, who set out several months ago to secure archaeological specimens in Africa, has written to his father that he has been successful, having secured more than 1000 specimens during the month of July alone. He spent some time in Egypt, India, Ceylon and Java. ^ j.,1 TTl. TT vrvina.i<.'<j in jriia xionie. Stoddard Langyher, a well known citizen of Manassas, Va., was burned to death in a fire which completely destroyed his home. Mr. Langyhe# discovered the house to be on fir*} and aroused all the members of the family in time to leave the buildins without harm. He, however, returned to the house for some important papers and the building fell in before ' he could escape. Mr. Langyhei1 ! leaves a wife and several children. Hungary Btiilds Railroads. , Hungary next year will spend 163,000,000 crowns on investments, sixty-six and a half being required for 1 the State railways. I . / - ... / h: ' f [EE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT T11U VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. twenty Reasons For Opposing tne | Saloon?A Score Multiplied by a Score Might Ee Added to the ' List Without Much Effort. -j 1. It never builds up manhood, . but tears it down. 2. It never beautifies the homo, ^ iut often wrecks It. 3. It never increases one's useful- | less, but lessens it. 4. It never allays tne passions, duc * Inflames them. 1 5. It never stills the tongue of J slander, but loosens it. j 6. It never promote purity of thought, but poisons it. * ] 7. It never empties almshouses ind prisons, but fills them. S. It never protects the ballot box, 1 but defiles it. ? 9. It never makes happy families, but miserable ones. ^ 10. It never prompts to right doing in anything, but to wrong. 11. It never prepares one for < heaven, but for hell. 12. It never diminishes taxes (with all its revenue), but increases ? them. IS. It never renders the Sabbath * quiet, but desecrates it. 14. It never protects our property i aor personal safety, but endangers 15. It never helps one to set a good insurance policy on his life, but militates against it. 16. It never creates ambition and ( thrift, but invite3 laziness, proflgacy, poverty, idleness and crime. _ 17. It never builds up the church. " but peoples the station houses, prisons and chain gangs. j 18. It never refines character nor promotes Christian grace, but is a ( destroyer of the soul. 19. It never teaches honesty andi uprightness, but invites the incendiary to apply the midnight torch. 20. It never protects a man, but robs him of his money, his family happiness, his good name, his hopes ( and all endearments of life.?Free f Methodist. t 'What He Might Have Drunk. > A well known preacher riding in a ( London omnibus was entertained by 1 a dialogue which was sustained upon f the one side by the driver and upon 1 the other by an elderly passenger. 1 / "I understand you're temperance?" 1 began the driver. ' "Yes, I'm pretty strong against 1 liquor," returned the other. "I've < been set against i,t now for thirty-five * years." 1 < "Scared it will ruin your health?" < "Yes. but *-that isn't the main i thing?" 1 "Perhaps it don't agr^e with you?" * ventured the driver. 1 "Well, it really don't agree with : anybody. But that ain't It, either. 1 The thing that sets me against it is a 4 horrible idea." i "A horrible Ide'a! What is It?" i "Well, thirty-five years ago I was sitting in a hotel in America with a 1 friend of mine, and I says, 'Let's or- 1 der a bottle of something.' And he < says, 'No. sir. I'm saving my money t to buy Government land at 7s. and i 6d. per acre, I'm going to buy to- i morrow, and you'd better let me take i the money you would have spent for 1 the liquor and buy a couple of acres < ajong with mine. I says, 'All right.' < So we didn't drink, and hfe bought me ( two acres. < "Well, sir. to-day those two acres i are right in the middle of a flourish- ] lng town, and if I'd taken that drink i I'd have swallowed a city block, a < grocery store, an apothecary's, four ] lawyer's offices, and it's hard to say j what else. That's the idea. Ain'c i' j norncie!" j < ' ' , I Surely Not, Manitoba! -f When the prohibition law of Geo?/ gia was signed by the Governor a great crowd of Georgians gathered tc ( celebrate the event, and when th< t word was passed that the act was ] law the whole multitude sang "Praist 1 God, From Whom All Blessingf i Flow." When the Chinese law' pro- t hibiting opium came into force ir j Canton that vast city put on festive i apparel, and the people followed 1 bands of music through the streets, i as though they had been celebrating J a Waterloo. When people know so < well the nature of their enemies, why I do they in any country submit to' see- i mg tneir iana occupieu ami uumiuat- i ed by them? The people of Manitoba, < who are by considerable majority op- i posed to the sale of liquor within : their borders, are, according to the < vaunts of the distillers, going to al- ' low themselves to be danced on by a i triumphant foe.?Montreal Witness. ( ] The Saloon Dragon. i The red saloon dragon stalks bold* ly, arrogantiy, defiantly and insolently throughout the land, entrenched behind and protected by, not the law. , but legislative enactments in the , guise and garb of the law. All the* , affirmations that such enactments are the law will never settle the question ' that way. They will but deepen and intensify the opposition to the in- * iquitous curse until it shall be s^ept j from the face of the earth, and then ' the saloon question will be settled, ' because it will be rightly decided. Answer This! Would you like to have a saloon ? x Tf Tint Llfc.\l UUUl IU JUUI uumo . , J would you not enjoy all you can to t have it as far away from your neigh- c bor's house as your own? Do nor , forget that we are taught in Holy ? Writ, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor ^ as thyself." This idea, carried to c its logical conclusion, means entire t prohibition. ( Temperance Notes. The liquor traffic can never be legalized without sinners, and sinners B ought :o be called to repentance? j, not "co-operated" with. t In every State in the South the sa- fl loon has demonstrated that it will f rule the people if let alone, and the c general desire to abolish the saloon j 9 resulted. j S One of the prominent liquor papers ; In a recent editorial published the | statement mat temperance mraomco > were pending in twenty-three State j legislatures. ? j c Nine-tenths of our poverty, squalor, vice and crime spring from this poisonous tap-root. Society, by its habits, customs and laws, has greased the slope down which these poor erea- C tures slide to perdition.?General a Booth, of the Salvation Army. w The great cause o: social crime ia ? drink. The great cause of poverty is [ e drink. When I hear of a family J n DroKen up anu ass iuk rausc?unun. If I go to the gallows and ask its victim the cause, the answer?drink, fhen I ask myself iu perfect wonderment, Why do not men put a stop to * this thing??Archbishop Jcbu Ire- * J A 1 y^UGHT^Fg^THg ^ QuifET^iSai^ THK NOONTIDE HOUR. iK The Fulton Street Prayer Meeting, Ne# Yorfc.j. f. , riiere was prayer in the early morning, Ere they went on their toilfome way, J y Vnd prayer in the quiet evening At the close of the weary day. 3ut what of the busy noontide, When the whirl and the rush were on-rj " rVhat time waa there that a man coukt spare To commune with the Holy One? \nd yet there waa need incessant, > For hearts that would gladly seek ?or strength to bear life's toil and care, '< Oft found they were growing weak. > 3ut one who was toiling for others. * I Whose life was o'erflowing with care, Sad faith to try, as the days passed by, The balm of the noontide prayer. \s they gathered there in that quiet room What an uplift came to all! , rhe Master waa near in tha^atmnapbert And the bleasine seemed \ to fall. t ["hey sought for the needed strength tt bear,... And they sought it not in vain. j J )h, /here was power in that noontide hour, To help in the fearful strain. ' . Ind messages came from all over the Janij k Asking prayer for the wandering ones. * t< 'Oh. nrav fnr rrnr rlainrhfora <rnn? atrnv * "Oh. pray for our wayward sons." ? Vnd the Father who hears the prayer of faith Has honored His children well; { knd the answers to prayer that wert ' > given there, Eternity only will tell. ' %: v> )h, who can count the joys that hare come -In the fifty years now flown. , ' ? ["he vstr$ngth that was given, the fore- ,Y taste? of Heaven. In that noontide hour alone? <qK Ind who can measure the power for good, Or the influence pure and sweet. ? )f the voice of prayer that has risen there w In the heart of that busy street? f -Mrs. Mary B. Wingate, in the Christum Herald. Christ's Power to Forjrire "The Son of Man hath uowec oia ?;& artlr to fprgive Bins." There is 4 ! / a miliar legend which . relates that here" once stood in an old baronUd -astle a musical instrument upon vhich nobody could play. It waa complicated in Its mechanism, an* V. luring years o? disuse the dust had gathered and clogged it, while damp- * less and variations of temperature v v lad robbed the strings of their tone. . r . Various experts had tried to repair'it, >nt without success, and when tne 1 land of a player swept over the :hoi*ds it awoke only harsh discords ind unlovely sounds. But there came y u, )ne day to the castle a man of anotfer ;r sort. - He was the maker of the ihitrument, and saw what was needed /: 'or its repair, and with loving care ind special skill he freed the wire* a rom me encumoenng oust ana ,?a lusted those that were awry and' >rought the jangling stringB into . :une, and then the hall ? r6sounded with the strains of the most exquisite nusic: * It is but a legend, but the mean-< !ng is plain. These sotols of ours are larps that hang dust-covered and dlfi:ordant, disordered by sin, .while yet he Master's bands have not found .hem. Everything Is In confusion md at cross purposes. It la only when, and not until, .their Divine Vfaker comes and undertakes the task '< )f repair and readjustment than they :an be 6et right and made capable bC :he harmonies for which 'they were jriginally created. Men weary them- f.\ selves in vain with their various ex* jedients for securing peace of mind md the sense of freedom from guilty 3nly Christ, our Divkie Maker and faster, can repair the disordered in- : strument. He, and He .alone,; haa s6wer on earth to forgive sins.?Rev. 3. B. P. Hallock, D. D.- ' , - , ?i? 4 Manners the Meek. "Thy gentleness hath made ma ^ jreat," was the testimony as well as .he experience of the Psalmist. Man-> aers having their .source in a holjj aeart are more gracious and abiding than any that are "taught" in the 3CQ0018 or cunure ana iearnmg. rne gracious manners of a really bumble j >oul are as natural aa breathing, and * iave not to be studied; but the man-. aers of "society* are generally sub- . [ect to the, will, and "put on* torfthtf 3ccasion. 0, praise the Lord, "Lot# sehaveth not itself unseemly;" It ftai 10 "superiority" in It, but is gentld ind kind. Jesus, Himself the great* ist teacher of the "inward principle,"' said, "Come, learn of Me, for I an v meek and lowly in heart." Tb| \ Shurch of Jesus Christ is the greatest school of manners" in the world* md Christian men and women ought :o be the "elite" of the land. Friends* ? et us practice a little more.?K. P.* 3 In the Nazarsne Messenger. Through a Glass Darkly.'* We must be content while hare tor "see as through a glass dar'rly," to know of things 'in part," not in their fullness; but when the da^ Dreaks, and the shadows in which we low walk shall flee away, then wd ihsiii coo rlparlv. and know more Der? .' !ectly. There shall be no mysteries ,n that world to come. There wei .hail see clearly, and shall "know. ;ven as we are known." Let >ray, then, for the increase of our aith, rather than our knowledge. -,et us seek that grace which shall ' strengthen faith through such measires of light as may be needed by; is. We are not called to the exercisd >f a blind, unreasoning faith. Though ve do not know fully, yet we do 'know in part," and sufficient for inelligent guidance, the facts stand >ut the same, clear and indisputable, o the acceptance of our faith.? Christian Work and Evangelist. The Sheet-Anchor. "'Hold fast to the Bible as the \ heet-anchor to your liberties. Write ts precepts in your hearts, and pracice them in your lives. To the inluer.ce of this Book we are indebted or all the progress made in true ivilizatioD, and to thia we must look s our guide in the future."?Ulysses !. Grant. Not a Quencher. It's hard slaking the soul'a thirst n the aalt waters of sinful amuseaeut. Fell Into the Wine Vat. B At Santa Rosa, Cal., Mrs. George !olier, wife of a rancher of Occident- ? 1, was drowned in a vat of wine. The H roman, who was visiting the winery gj n the Colier ranch, climbed to the ? dge of a large vat, partly filled with 'ine, lost her balance and fell In. Worcester Sends Gifts to Worcester. The City Council, of Worcester, England, has decided to present to he city of Worcester, Mass., two se 3 >f armor, relics of the Battle of Worcester. which was fought iu 1651.