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LADY
O!
THE SEQUEI
BV MRS. C
Lady Caroline Beaufort was supposed
to be, as life goes, an unusually
fortunate woman. It is true that
things had not always gone well with
her. In her youth she had been married
almost by force to a man unlike
herself in every way?an uncultured,
almost uncivilized, rich boor of the
neighborhood, the descendant of a
navvy who had become a millionaire,
and who inherited all the characteristics
of his race along with their
money, although he had never known
anything of navvydom, but had been
born a Scotch country gentleman with
a great estate.
It is supposed her father and mother,
Lord and Lady Lindons, believed
it to be for her real good when they
placed poor Car, fainting with fright
and horror, in the arms of Mr. Thomas
Torrance, a man whose manners
made themselves wince, though they
were forced into no such constant
contact with him, for they were far
from being wicked parents or bad
people in any way. But providence
had been good to her, and while she
was still young her husband had died.
If he did not justify Lord Lindons'
y expectations in his life, he did in his
death. For he left everything in his
wife's hands; not only had she the
excellent jointure which her settlements
secured her?a jointure without
any mean and petty clause as to
marrying again, but everything was
left in her hands?the control of the
property during little Tom's minority,
and almost every advantage which a
queen-mother could have. Tom was
a little fellow of six, so that a long
period of supremacy was in Carry's
hands, and the rough fellow, whom
she had almost hated, from whom her
very soul had shrunk with a loathing
indescribable, had done her the fullest
justice.
And then, after a very short interval,
she had married again; she had
married the lover of old days who had
been dropped, who had been ignored
when Lord Lindons came to his title
and the prospects of the family had
changed. How much Lady Caroline
knew or did not know of the developments
through which Mr. Beaufort
had passed in the meantime no one
ever discovered. She found him
much as he had been when her family
had dropped him, only not so young.
A man who had made no way, a man
without reproach, yet without success.
who had kept stationary all the
time, and was still a man of promise
when his contemporaries had attained
all that they were likely to attain.
Beaufort was poor, but Lady Car was
now rich. Ther$ was not the least
reason why they should not marry
unless he had been fantastic and refused
to do so on account of her superior
wealth. But he had no such
Idiotic idea. So that Lady Car was
considered by most people, especially
those who had a turn for the sentimental,
as a very lucky woman.
She was amazingly, passionately
happy in her second marriage?at
first. If she saw any drawbacks, she
closed her eyes to them as passionately
determined to admit nothing
that, went aeainst her bliss?but ner
haps she did not see anything. And,
after all, there was not much to see.
Mr. Beaufort was a gentleman. He
was a man of great cultivation of
mind; an excellent scholar, understanding
every literary allusion that
could be made, never at a loss for a
happy phrase or quotation, quite an
exceptional man in the way of culture
and accomplishment. He was
extremely good looking, his manners
were admirable, his character without
reproach. Nothing seemed wanting
in him that a woman could desire.
And, notwithstanding the uncomfortable
episode of her first marriage,
and the two black browed children,
who had not a feature of their
mother's, he was Lady Car's only
love, and, so far as anybody knows,
or as was ever known, she was his.
By how many devious ways a pair
may be led who are destined to meet
at last! He in various wanderings
over the world; she, in the blank of
her dreadful life, through all her
martyrdoms, had all the time been
tending to this. And now they were
lappy at last.
"No," she said, "Edward; don't let
tis settle down; I can't; a house
would not contain me. I want the
grand air, as the French say. I
K/s :
euuuiu uc luaniug uuuiuit; lsons,
I should be thinking"?she
stopped with a shiver?"of the past.
Let us go abroad. I have not been
abroad since we parted; it will look
like taking up the story where it
dropped."
Beaufort gave a half conscious
glance toward the spot outside where
the back browed children were playing.
He felt, perhaps, that it would
not be so easy to take up the story
where it had dropped; but he assented,
with quiet gentleness soothing
her. "I am always fond of wandering.
I have done little else all
J8,y life?and with you!"
"Yes, with you!" she repeated.
She was accustomed to the children
and did not think of the anachronism
of their presence at the moment
of taking up the story. "You shall
take me to all the new places where
you have been alone, and we'll go to
the old places where we were that
summer together; we'll go everywhere
and see everything, and then
when the novelty is exhausted we
shall come back and make a home of
our own. And then, Edward, you
shall be left free for your work. How
we used to talk of it that summer!
You have not done much to it yet?"
"Nothing at all," he said, with
something like a blush.
"So much the better." cried Lady
Car. "I should have been jealous
had you done it without me?you
could not do it without me. You
shall not touch a pen while we are
Away, but observe everything, and in
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CARj
Ft,
L OF A LIFE.
HIPHANT.
vestigate mankind in all aspects, and
then we'll come home?and then, Edward,
what care I shall take that you
are not disturbed?how I shall watch
and keep oft every care! You shall
have no trouble about anything, no
noises or foolish interruption, no one
to disturb you but me. And I will
be no interruption."
"Never, my love," he said, fervently;
but this was the only thing to
which he responded clearly. He had
not, perhaps, the same intentions
about that great work as once he had.
He did not see it in the same light,
but it gave him a certain pleasure to
see her enthusiasm.
Accordingly they went abroad, for
something more than the longest
honeymoon, the black browed children
accompanying them more or
less?that is, they performed certain
journeys in the wake of the pair, and
were settled here and there, at suitable
centres, with all the attendance
of skilled nurses and governesses
which wealth makes it so easy to procure?while
Lady Car and her hus- ,
band pursued their further way, never
altogether out ot reach.
The years of the honeymoon flew
like so many days of happiness, j
They went almost everywhere where
a sea voyage was not indispensable, (
for Lady Car was a very bad sailor.
They avoided everything that could ,
have been troublesome, and were
quite old married people, thoroughly
used to eacn oiner ana 10 an iaeir ,
mutual diversities of feeling and ]
ways of thinking "before they re- .
turned home. They were both vague- (
ly aware that the homecoming would j
be a trying moment, but not enough
so to be afraid of it or resist the con- .
viction that the time had come when ,
It was no longer possible to put it j
off. It was before they returned ]
home, however, in the first consulta- (
tions over their future dwelling, that :
the first real divergence arose.
CHAPTER IL i
"We must think of where we are ]
going to live," Lady Car said; "we 1
have never discussed that question. ]
The world is all before us where to <
choose?" 1
The boat lay faintly rocking upon <
the little wavelets, from which the s
ruddy reflection of the sunset was 1
just fading. The beautiful outline of i
the mountains of the Savoy side stood
out blue and half cold against the 1
glowing west, the Dent du Midi had 1
still a flush of rose color upon its
pinnacles, but had grown white and i
cold, too, in the "breath ot its great 1
bosom. Evening was coming on, and, 1
though there was still little chill in 1
the air, the sentiment of the September
landscape was cold. <
He was seated in front of her, with
his oars resting idly in the rowlocks. *
It was a lovely night, and they were i
close to their temporary home, within <
a few minutes of the shore. "Where 1
are we going to live?" he said. "Then
you don't think of going to your own i
house?" <
She started a little. He would nev- J
er have found it out had they been 1
on solid ground, but the boat re- J
sponded to every movement. It was 1
only from this that he knew he had i
startled her. for she recovered her- 1
self immediately, and said: "Would 1
you like that, Edward?" in a voice <
which she evidently meant to he as ]
easy as usual, but from which con- 1
sciousness was not altogether banished.
"Well," he said, "my love, it will
be the time of year for Scotland, and .
I suppose there is plenty of game;
but I neither like nor dislike, Car. 1
have not thought about it. I suppose
I had taken it for granted that your
own house would be the place to
which you would go." . ; *'
"I never thought of it as my own
home," she said, in a low, hurried
tone, which he could scarcely hear.
"Oh, no, no. I could not go there."
"Well," he said cheerfully, "then
of course we shall not go there. I
don't care where we go; wherever
you are there is my home. I had not
known one till I had you; it for you
to choose."
She said nothing more for a time, '
but leaned a little over the side of the j
boat, putting down her hand into the
darkening ripples. "After all, the
lake is as warm as if it were summer .
still," she said. It was she who had
introduced the subject, but something
had blown across her, a breath 1
from the past, which had taken all (
the pleasure out of it. She shivered
a little again, with a contradictoriness
of which she was unaware. !
"There must have been snow somewhere,
I think, up among the hills."
"It is you who are blowing hot
and cold, Cary," he said, smiling at
her. "I think myself it is a perfect ;
evening. Look at the last steamer,
passing along against the line of hills,
with its lights and crammed with
tourists from stem to stern. Shall we
go in? There's time enough before
it gets here, but I know you don't
like the wash."
The night was gradually stealing
into the vacant place of the day. The
steamer came on with a rush of purpose
and certain destruction, and
roused her from her thoughts to a
little nervous tremor. "I wish you
would take the oars, Edward, as you
say, and let us go in, please. I know
it will do us no harm; but?" ]
"You are frightened all the same," ;
he said, leisurely settling to the oars. ]
"It is like a spirit of evil," she i
cried.
He took the boat in, making haste i
to free her from that little nervous
thrill of apprehension, though with a i
laugh. i
He felt a fond superiority as he 1
rowed her in with a few strokes, i
amused at her sense ol danger. And
it was not till some time later, after
they had climbed a somewhat rugged 1
path to their villa among .the .trees, t
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and had looked into the room where j.|
little Janet lay fast asleep, and then y
had supped cheerfully at a table f"
close to the broad window, that the 4
subject was resumed. By this time tjjj
all the noises were stilled, a full
moon was rising slowly, preparing tc
march along the sky in full majesty ^
in the midst of the silent tranquillity q
of the night; there was not a breath sj
of air stirring, not a cloud upon the
blue heavens, which were already almost
as clear as day by the mere re- w
splendence of her coming over the q?
solid mountains, wnn tneir mauj
peaks, which "stepped along the u
deep."
They sat looking out for some time
without saying anything. Such a fC
night is in itself a sort of ecstasy, 3.
especially to those who want nothing, w
and with whom, as with the whole 5j
apparent world stretched out before
them, all is well.
"And to think we shall have to
leave all this presently and enter into
the fret and care of settling down!" ^
he said, with a half laugh. "I inter- m
rupted you, dear, to-night when .you vj
were talking of that. I suppose it ^
was that I diverted your thoughts.
Since it is not to be your Towers,
where is it to be?"
"Not my Towers," she said, with a ^
little half reproachful look at him E
and a sudden clasping together of her
lightly interlaced fingers. ?
"Well, let us say Tom's Towers;
but in present circumstances it is ^
very much the same." 3]
Once more a little shiver ran over }]
her, though there was no chill at all
in the soft air that came in from the
lake and the moonlight But her 1;
voice was a little uncertain with it, g
as If her teeth had chattered. ""Don't g
talk of It," ?he said; "I want no |0
place at all; or any quarters, but a w
house, a pretty house, just higenough m
for us and them, somewhere, wher- w
ever you would like, Edward."
"I shall like what you like," he p]
said. ^
"But that is not what I wish at all; wj
[ want you to tell me what will please
Kou. You would like to be within
reach of the great libraries, within D
reach of what is going on. No one E
;an write what is to live without be- k
[ng within reach?" N
He shook his head. "You are too tj
partial in your estimate of wha? I
im likely to do; so long as I am with- g
in reach of you?and thank God
nothing can put me out of that!?I E
lon't know that I care for anything 5i
more. ' jE
"Then, Carry, my love, do just as e]
rou please. I shall come with you, w
like Tom and Janet, to see the new ^
place. If you choose one that's very
ugly and out of the way, we will all
protest. But so far as I am concerned,
it can't be ugly while you are
here," he said, putting his hands up- 1
in hers with a tender pressure. Then
idded, with a look of solicitude, put:ing
away the cigarette he was smoking,
"Why, you are in a fever, Carry, ai
four poor little hands are like fire. 1 8(
lope yon haven't taken cold on the w
lake." h;
"I never take cold," she said, smil- bj
ng. "I suppose it is mere silliness, j h;
thinking that this time is over, and ! If
that we are going back to the ?i
vorld." i
ii mat vexes you, my aanins,
lon't let us go back to the world."
"Edward, you make me wild, you ?1
ire so indifferent! You speak as if h
nothing mattered, as if we could go I c'
)n and just please ourselves and | ol
;hink of nothing else forever." j u
"Well, my love, I tell you nothing ,
matters to me except yourself, and 1 .
lon't think the world would mind ; a1
nuch. But don't be vexed, Carry. 1 Si
know the boy must go to school and ^
ill the rest of it. We'll do our duty j P1
ike men?I mean like women, which J T
s far more thorough. And, for my i ai
part, I'm not a bit afraid of th<? j ts
ivorld. Even London I can face quite j fc
:ranquilly with you by my side, es- e'<
secially as at this time of the year
there's nobody there." o1
To be Continued. aj
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One Way. w
A story, said to be characteristic, tl
s told of an Arkansas judge. It w
seems that when he convened court es
it one of the towns on his circuit it j jt
ffas found that no pens, ink oj paper ci
lad been provided, and, upon'inquiry
t developed that 110 county funds ei
vere available for this purpose. The b<
iudge expressed himself somewhat pi
forcefully, then drew some money Ct
from his own pocket. He was about ai
:o hand this to the clerk, when a vis- c(
ting lawyer, a high priced, imported cc
irticle, brought on to defend a case
)f some importance, spoke up, in an
iside plainly audible over the room.
"WelT," he remarked, with infinite cc
jontempt, "I've seen some pretty bad fc
courts, but this?well, this is the lim- ?>
t!" lii
The old judge flushed darkly. p,
"You are fined twenty-five dollars sr
'or contempt, sir! Hand the money _
:o the clerk!" he said; when the pom- ec
pous visitor had humbly complied, he a
jontinued: er
"Now, Mr. Clerk, go out and gel sc
tvhat pens, ink and paper the courl jj.
nay require, and if there is anything ^
eft over, you can give tne gentiemar sv
lis change."?Harper's Weekly. ty
Almost Broke Up the School. st
Four monkeys escaped from JohD ai
Robinson's menagerie on Saturdas
ifternoon while the attendants were rc
'eeding the other animals. Later in 01
:he evening three of them returned c'
:o the neighborhood of the tent and h]
were recaptured, but one is still ai te
arge. Mr. Robinson offered a reward
jf $25 for his capture and return 10
The teacher has almost been com- tl"
pelled to dismiss the school on ac- *c
:ount of lack of attendance. Onl]
jne boy has been to school this week i
ind he jS a cripple.?Flora Journal.
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Kot What You Thought. u:
A man with an inflammable nos? GI
recently created excitement on th( c*
Boulevard St. Michel, Paris. He was 1"
lighting a cigarette when his nose be- H
came suddenly ignited, and it and
his beard were soon on fire. Th<
man jumped about in great pain, i?nri
was carried through a horrified ec
crowd to a druggist's shop, wher<
the blaze was extinguished. It was h(
411U+ llO llSwl Jl pplllllnir cv
mini iuuuu uiuv ?v w* 01
oose.?Detroit News.
"]
There lias lieen a revival of tlic ca
.vhaling industry. A few years age _
;ke annual industry dwindled to 150,
Of the 1100 diseases to which the
uman body is liable, according to a
erman physician, there are fortyght
peculiar to the eye.
Prtr thp hpnefit of outdoor workers
ho must have their hands free, a
erman inventor has brought out a
;nt-shaped umbrella that straps to j
le shoulders.
There are 413 species of trees
>und within the limits of the United
tates, the woods of sixteen of which
hen seasoned, are so heavy as to
nk in water.
Stones which are used by the lithoraphers
all over the world in making
)lored pictures are found in a little
istrict not more than four or five
iles long by two or three broad near
uremberg, in Germany. Quarrying
as gone on there for more than a
;ntury.
There has been patented by a Noregian
firm a process of manufacturig
colored woods. Whole stems of
reen trees are colored, the sap being
ressed out of the stem by force, and
le dye injected in its place. It is
aimed that wood treated by this
rocess is much more durable than
dinary wood, and will not warp.
The high pTice of meat is not a
ardship, but a blessing, according to
r. Bosley, Health Commissioner of
altimore. Dr. Bosley is of the opinin
that in the spring and summer,
hen the body does not require so
mch heat, meat can he dispensed
ith the greater part of the time. The
actor thinks that with meat at its
resent prices people will eat moro
jgetables x?nd he the better for the
lange. >
At a recent meeting of scientists In
ublin Professor G. Elliott Smith, the
gyptologist, said that the earliest
nown human remains found in the
ile Valley, when compared with
lose of later times, demonstrated the
ict that at a very remote period
gypt and Nubia were inhabited by
le same race which had existed in
gypt with little or no change in phycal
characteristics throughout the
itervening 6000 years until the preset
day. They had been, and still'
ere, a small people, the average
eight of the men being about five
jet three inches at every period of
leir historylie
Fee-Faw-Fums of Maniiood
By FRANK CRANE.
It Is with ghosts ay with men; some
re good and some are bad?and the
ood die young. Modern pragmatism,
lth. its steely and philistine science,
as invaded shadow land and masicred
the innocents, the gentle and
armless credulities of childhood and
jnorance^, but the fiercer kind, the
Id man-eaters, still keep their caves
id issue forth to raven among souls,
he kindly fee-faw-fums of' childood,
how many delicious shivers we
we them; the Things that stood beind
doors, that trooped into the
lurch when the congregation went
ut, that lurked in clcset corners and
nder the bed, that rustled and
wished and creaked and tapped in
le dim chamber when we lay awake
t night! They have all gone?with
anta Claus. And we miss them, for
>ar is a condiment, like cayenne
epper; a little is an excellent relish,
he zest of war is its dash of fear,
ad men flee clubdom to hunt mounlin
lions, and sail the uncertain sea
? T 4. ~ C ? T
ir mat tiugie ul tiie nerves cue -u::u
irth cannot give; and those who
ardly rise to these perils may read
' them in "The Three Musketeers"
id "Treasure Island." When we see
aw barren of the charm of awe is
lodern life, from the nursery, where
ley read science primers, to religion,
here they have banished the intersting
devil, we almost envy .the Spirualists,
those gourmets in palatable
eeps.
And now for the deadlier revlants,
those "dead ideas and lifeless
?liefs" that yet walk and chill and
iralyze this garish world. It is a
irious and startling fact, that we
*e governed, not so much by real
mvictidns, as by the ghost of dead
mvictions.?Atlantic.
Equipment For Life.
Professor Kern, superintendent of
>unty schools in Rockford, 111., has
irmulated a new commandment?
rhou shalt enrich and enlarge the
fe of the country child"?and, in
ursuance of this injunction, the
nallest county in Illinois?Putnam
-has inaugurated a new order of
lucational methods by establishing
"consolidated" school. The farm's
of Magnolia township?mostly de:endants
of sturdy Quaker stock?
ive swept all the small schools of
leir section into one large one?a
ibstantial building situated on twenr
acres of fine forest, furnished with
earn heat, gas and running water
id equipped with laboratories, li-aries,
manual training rooms, play)oms,
workshop, cloakrooms and
lice. The course of instruction iuudes
the preparatory grade and the
[gh school course, with special attntion
given to agricultural science,
>rticulture, animal husbandry, doestic
science and home economics,ie
training being such as will tend
i conserve what is best and richest
i a life distinctly rural. The eduitional
creed thus inaugurated lor
irming districts is that the country
lilt] is entillnd to everv whit as rrnnd
i educational opportunity as that
ijoyed by the most favored city
lild now attending the American
lblic schools.?Uncle Remus's?The
om'e Magazine.
One More Chance.
One day the office boy went to the
litor of the Soaring Eagle and said:
"There's a tramp at. the door mid
? says he has had nothiug to eat for
x days."
"Fetch him in." said the editor,
[f we can find out how he does it we
.n run this paper for another week."
-Illustrated Bits.
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INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
FOR JANUARY l?
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Subject: The Beginnings of the Chris* sli
tian Church, Acts 2:22?47? pis
Golden Text, Acts 2:42?Commit
6D
Verses 32, 33?Exposition. 00
TIME.?Sunday, May 28, A. D. 30. in,
PLACE.?Jerusalem. j au
EXPOSITION.?I. God Hath Made ce
Jesus Both Lord and Christ, 32-30. su
Jesus could not be held fast by death, bl:
No more can we if we are in Him. fo
David hundreds of years before had lie
caught a glimpse of the Greater David
who would go down into hade?, but fo
who would not stay there; who would di
not even see corruption, but would sa
be raised before corruption had over- a
taken His body. Peter, though an th
eye-witness to the resurrection, goes B:
to the Scripture for proof before ap- or
pealing to his own experience. (Some m
to-day think that their wonderful ex- wl
perience does away with the necessity I
of appeal to the sure Word of God.
Let all such learn wisdom from Peter, efl
But Peter's testimony had its place wl
and our testimony has its place, n?
though it is not the first place?that h?
belongs to the Word of God. Peter
and the rest were witnesses of the ful- dr
fillment of this prophecy. Their tes- Id
timony is unimpeacnaDie. mere was | p*
still another witness to the certainty ba
of the resurrection of Jesus?that fr
was the outpoured Spirit (v. 33). B<
n. What Shall We I)o? 37-40. A]
Peter told his hearers that Jesus had ^
been exalted by God to be both Lord c1'
and Christ. This fact carried home ru
by the Holy Spirit produced the deep- n(
est and sharpest conviction of sin. Cl1
No other truth is calculated to pro- 7^
duce such profound conviction of sin
as the truth concerning the glory of te
Jesus and our consequent enormous
guilt in the rejection and crucifixion
of such an one. The Spirit came to T1
them and through them convinced ?*
the world (Jno. 16:8). These con- J**
victed Jews cried out to know what jj1
they were to do. Peter's answer was
very plain, and perhaps nothing in nc
the Bible makes the way of salvation OI
and blessing plainer. (1) "Repent," ai
i. e., change their mindn about Jesus.
They were to change from that atti- j1'
tude of mind that crucified Jesus to llj
that attitude of mind that accepted
Him as that which God had exalted
Him to be, Lord and Christ. This, of P?
course, involves repentance of sin, i. ^
e., renouncing all sin. And It involves
the absolute surrender of our *r
wills to Jesus as our Lord. (2) "Be ?c
baptized." There was to be outward P1
water baptism. But there must be
tnnvA -f V> o r? flin mcro ontmor/1 fivmhftl '
< "?" < ?*< r
?there was to be the great Inward Kj'
fact for which the outward symbol ai
stood, the renunciation of sin, faith 89
in Christ and tho putting on of Jesus
Christ (cf. Gal, 3:26, 27; Ro. 6:3, to
4). Being "baptized in the name of ^
Jesus Christ" means more than hav- jn
ing some water sprinkled upon you is
(or being immersed in some water) *?
while a certain baptismal formula is
repeated. It means confession and
renunciation of sin. faith in Christ's P1
death and resurrection in our behalf, h1
Identification with Christ in His death ai
and in His resurrection. When there cc
is real repentance and real baptism ^
there will be remission of sin and p
there will be reception of "the gift of
the Holy Ghost" (v. 38). The gift of ,tb
the Holy Ghost is the blood-bought
birthright of every believer in Jesus *u
Christ. If one does not have the gift ~
of the Holy Spirit exDerimentally it
Is either because he does not claim
his birthright by simple prayer and ?*
faith (Acts 4:31; 8:15, 16), or else ct
/because he has not really made Jesus
Lord and Christ by the absolute surrender
of the will to Him and by
identification with Him in His death "
and resurrection by a real baptism of 0;
which his water baptism was a svmbol.
"The promise," i. e.. as the lan- "<
guage used and the context unmistak- ^
ably demonstrates (cf. ch. 1:4, 5: 2:
23. 38), the promise of the baptism
with or gift of the Holy Spirit?was "
for them as well as for the apostles.
III. A Model Church, 41, 42. Pet- co
er's sermon had a tremendous effect, ..
3000 were saved by it. No such effeet
had followed Jesus' own preach- j1?
in'g, and His promise that they should J,?
do greater works after His ascension
than He Himself had wrought during
His humiliation (Jno. 14:12) wasthus 10
fulfilled. And we to-day are united
with this same exalted Christ iti the
place of power at God's right hand,
and may speak in the power of this
same mighty Spirit. The inward re- J"
ception of the word was outwardly
expressed In baptism. These 3000 B<
baptisms in a day were the outcome **=
of the ten days of waiting upon God
In prayer (cf. ch.l:14). Surelythose wl
? -* i- * -i.?a mi 1 HP
td* aays naa not oeen wasiea. mw
work proved to be lasting, "they continued
steadfastly." The four things "J
In which they continued steadfastly
are worthy of note. (1) "The aposties'
teaching." There was no running
away after every new religious dr
fad that came up. (2) "The apos- m
ties' fellowship." Fellowship Is one er
of the necessities of healthy Christian cl!
growth (Eph. 4:13, 16). The one
who seeks to grow in seclusion, separ- ,B*
ated from the brethren, is doomed 'n
not only to disappointment, but worse
still, to sad distortion of character!
(3) "In the breaking of bread." They
did not neglect regular obedience to
Jesus' commandment to show His
death and to feed upon Him in tho _(
communion service. (4) "In pray- w<
ers." Just here is the point where
the average Christian of to-day de- in
parts most lamentably from the ex- ?
ample of the apostolic church.
Decision Forbids Bleach Flour.
Secretary Wilson, of the Department
of Agriculture, in Washington, *r
D. C., has announced his decision in
the bleached flour controversy, hold- en
ing that flour bleached with nitrogen
peroxide is an adulterated product s0
under the law, and that it cannot le- af
gaily be sold in the District of Columbia
or in the Territories or be
transported in interstate commerce.
Owing to the immense quantity of
bleached flour now on hand. Secretary
Wilson will recommend no pros- | th
ecution of the manufacturers or sell- i an
ers for a period ol! six months from j
date. sh
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4
TTER WAR ON INTEMPERANCE
iLDIERS FIGHTING THIS CURSE
GREATLY CHEERED.
hat Makes Idiots??One Eminent
Authority Says That Thirty-five
Per Cent, of the Feeble-minded
Arc the Result of Drink.
One of the saddest sights in this
>rld is an. undeveloped, dwarfed or
iggish. intellect. Statistics have
aced the number of defective chilen
in the United States as 180,000,
ough to make a city of nearly 200,0.
What is the cause of this alarmg
increase in idiocy? One eminent
ithority says that thirty-five per
nt. of the feeble-minded are the reIts
of strong drink. What a stuming
block this nation is placing bere
the children in the form ot the
sensed dramshop!
O mother, you whose arms are
lded about your bright, laughing,
mpled little ones, think of the thounds
of helpless infants, forced into
n almost joyless, senseless existence
rough the obnoxious rum traffic,
ich mother should say, "I am but
ie?but I am one. I cannot do
uch, but I can do something, and
iat I can do, by the grace of God,
will flo."
No matter how well directed the
tort for the idiot's development, he
ill always be handicapped, and
iver in this world will he be what
s has a right to be.
Because of the degradation of ruminking
parents in one large city,
i0,000 children, owing to their filthy
lysical and moral Inheritances and
d environments, are prohibited
om attending the public schools.
?lle Kearney, in an address at Ann
rbor, told of one of her experiences
hJl/s tnnrlnff tho Smith A1 the
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ose of one lecture a little boy came
inning toward her. "0 Miss. Kearsy,"
he cried,* stretching out bia
aws toward her, for his thin hands
ere little' more; "don't y6u think
e boys &nd girls ought to be procted
from Btrong drink?"
In a small village of Michigan
ere exists a family of nine children.
ie father is a habitual drinker. His
illdren are dull, and some of them
ive criminal tendencies. Their ona
:tle girl was an exception. This lit}
child was very pretty and appeared
)rmal up.to her second year. Later,
le afternoon her mother went away
id left her in the care of the two
rnnger boys. In her absence the
;tle girl attempted to light the gasole
stove. Her clothing caught Are
id she was burned beyond earthly
>pe when her screams brought a
isserby to her relief. Their older
>y is now in jail. For months/the
illdreq have absented themselves
om school. The teachers say they'
> not want them to attend, for their
-esence always starts trouble. This
mily can be multiplied many times,
tie boys are growing up without
tiristian training, and when they
e twenty-one their vote will count
: much as the minister's.
Physicians assert tnac in many
wns more than onp-half of the
omen to-day are incapable of nursg
their children. This incapacity
on the increase and has been found
i be hereditary. Their milk has to
; supplemented with cow's milk. It
is been found that human milk, to
eet special requirements of the
iman infant, is poorest in albumen
id richest in lactic acid. The latter
imponent Is the principle element
ied in building up the brain. Now,
Le milk of the cow is composed of
gredients in percentages that meet
ie need of the calf, and therefore
mnot be considered proper sub3tlite
for human milk for the infant
ver 100 eminent medical men have
jen engaged in scientific research to
icertain the reason for the failure
so ma,ny mothers to nurse their
lildren. Sixteen hundred famines
ire laKen lor uujevi uiuuiea tu iu?cogate
along this line. The failure
seventy-eight out of a. hundred
as found to be due to alcoholism,
nly a small percentage of the daughrs
of drinking fathers were found to
> able to nurse their children. If a
lild is not well fed, especially in inncy,
it is in danger of becoming a
ielOng victim of mental inaptitude,
will scarcely attain the success thdt
might have enjoyed had all of the
nditions been favorable.
If for no other reason than love to
ese "little human flowers," let us,
i mothers, wives, sisters and daughrs,
do all we can to take down the
ars and Stripes from the licensed
loon and wrap it around the precus
children.
Berlin's Drink Percentage.
A German physician, Dr. Hirsch:ld,
has been computing the quantiof
alcoholic drink consumed in
jrlin. Berlin possessed three years
;o 12,892 drinking shops?one for
.0 inhabitants?in addition to 301
here wine only is sold. During the
iriod the Berliners consumed 438,19,532
liters of beer, 24,704,525.
ers of brandy, and 19,956,062 liters
wine. This amounts to an average
inual consumption per head of popation
of 236 & liters of alcoholic
inV at a cost of 100 marks?a
ark being one shilling. As the avage
income of tbe Berliners, inuding
women and children, is about
!3 marks, it may be said that the
;rliner spends a seventh part of his
come in intoxicating drinks.?Lonin
Globe. '
Our Duty.
William E. Dodge believed that the
urch could so affect public sentient
that all needed legislation
juld follow; that it is the duty of
lrtstian people to use their utmost
fluence to secure right public opinQ.
Temperance Notes.
Sixty-five of Iowa's ninety counties
e "dry."
In Arkansas fifty-eight of the sevty-five
counties have gone "dry."
Major-General "Stonewall" Jackn:
"I never use it. I am more
raid of it than Yankee bullets."
Missouri's local option law has
ade forty-four of its 115 counties |
ry."
Tennessee is prohibition except the
i-ee cities of Memphis, Chattanooga i
d Nashville.
In Ohio 114 0 out of 137C townips
forbid liquor selling, as also
sixty uer cent, of the municipaliMaine
is the on'.y State that has
)re savings banks depositors than
ters. One-third of the people of
line, including women and children,
ve money in the savings banks.
Another thing we can say?if any
our ladies or children waiu to go
a neighbor's in the evening, they
without fear of being run over by
02v hoodlums. If Prohobition has
led us. we .wish it would kill every
vti in the State just as dead as we
Joliet (111.) News.
v sobered jor the I
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HEARING HOME.
A little longer?'tis the soul's appeal?
My heart as Thine, my loving Fatner, seal;
Long Thou hast borne me o'er life's bo is
terous sea?
A little longer still my helper be.
The garish day is closed; eve comes apace;
The more I feel dependent on Thy grace;
As nature fails, oh, prove Thvseli my stay.
Till earth's vain shadows shall have passed
away. >
Let my yet few remaining hours be Thine;
Heaven be more real as all things here decline;
My strength Thou wast when life's fair
glories shone;
My strength remain until the race be run.
Around my steps the dews of evening fall;
May sweeter sound the raptured heavenly
call;
The ties of earth unloose as, nearing home,
Faith ^ triumphing, I wait the welcome
I #
So let it be; a little longer, pray,
i Hold Thou my footsteps in life's narrow
way. %
The eyes grow dim, strength fails, 'twill
not be long
When mine the glorious scene, the rest-,
the song.
?C. B., in the Christian Herald.
The Discipline of Life.
Stress, strain, struggle?what a
persistent triumvirate! On every
side they strike 'us. The story of
most lives re-echoes them. Their >.
reign is undisputed, untiring, universal.
Extensively, intensively they
rule. Eipect them! Shrinking from
them does not eliminate their pres- 1
ence. Life requires them?and all
of life,, To meet them is oar part?
to conquer, our privilege. To complain,
to groan, to yield is childish.
Why despair? Why forespend?
They hurt?of course. But do not
hate them. Assert the stuff that victor
souls are made of. You are making
character. Theyhelp y6u in the >1.
making. Discipline is what counts.
Never fight that. It is "what every v
life needs. ~ They furnish it. Don't
permit them to torment you. vThat
is foolish and .enervating.
Endure! Strength of character? Pjreal
strength?will result. By them your
soul Ib proved-rand polished.
You cannot escape the finishing pro*
cess. Don't try! It is the. will of
God. It is your Father's purpose; 4
He knows the whole process of soul
refining. His way is good. Be
brave! - Have courage! You needthe
stress and strain and struggle.
It may be most unpleasant?but it is
best. r
Try to understand. Co-operate!
Sweetness, richness, beauty will be
your soul's sure recompense. Resign
yourself! A real child of Christ
must. A true child of Qod will. Such
adjustment reveals you to yourself;
explains the core meaning of life;
puts before your fellows the attainable
ideal. Be unafraid! God loves
moral heroes. So does man. Grow!
Develop! Ripen! Mellow! Live
the Intensive lite!
God is watching. Your crown i*
being set with God-cut gems. Mean* ?
time you are learning the true interpretation
of life's, only meaning. You 1
are Diluting me one euuurius turns
?character?God's hand is helping
you. Behold It ih life's stress and
strain and struggle! Get hold of thtf
Father-hand. Grip hard?and hold
on.
Know this:- He will carry youthrough.?Seth
Russel Downle, in
the Westminster.
Natural Trials.
The way in which a man' bears
temptation is what decides liis character;
yet hotf secret is the system
of temptation! Who knows what is
going on? What the real.ordeal has '
been? What its issue was? So with
respect to the trial of griefs and sorrows,
the world is again a system ot
secrecy.
There is something particularly
penetrating, and which strikes home,
in those disappointments; which are
specially not extraordinary^ and make
no show. What comes naturally, and ; t ;
as a part of our situation, has a t
probing force grander strokes have
not; there is a solemnity and stateliness'in
these, but the blow which is
nearest to common life gets the j
stroneer hold. After all, the self- I
made trial is a poor disciplinarian j
weapon; there is a subtle, masterly, J
irritant, and provoking point in the
genuine natural crossness of events; (
which the artificial thing cannot manage;
we can no more make our trials
than we can make our feelings, in
this way moderate deprivations are
in' some cases more difficult to bear
than harder ones. And so it is often
the case that what we must do as
simply right, and which would not
strike even ourselves, and still less 4
anybody else, is just the hardest
thing to do. A work of supereroga
tlon would be much easier.?Scottish V
American.
Blessings of Freedom.
I say that we have chance and right
to look for the fulfilment of prophecy,
such as our fathers never had; the a|
Improvement of the future will come "
directly and visibly in the lines which
Jesus suggests. It will be in happy
hcfmes, it will be in life not bent by
hateful toil, it will be as pure love *
binds heart to heart, it will he as aspiring
man listens to God's voice, and
in glad society, in e?sy intercourse,
wnoi'n on/7 nthpr flnp Art in
and other mutual advance, man en- e
joys God's matchless gifts. It will be
as a happp world grows happier and
happier, as a free world tastes the
real blessings of freedom.?Edward
Everett Hale.
It Must Be Right;
"He that gave me my being, and
gave His Son for my redemption, He
has assigned me this suffering. What A
He ordains who io boundless Love
must be good; what He appoints who
is unerring Wisdom must be right.
J. Harvey.
A Good Enough World.
I find no word of querulous dissatisfaction
upon Jesus' lips about the ^
world He had come into. It was a z
good enough world to live a good life
in.?Phillips Brooks.
Worried Over Taxes, Ends Life.
At Elkton. Md., Mrs. Annie Evans,
widow of Colonel Andrew W. Evans, #
U. S. A., committed suicide by hanging.
Mrs. Evans had worried a
great deal over the new assessment
law of Cecil County, which increased
the tax on securities. She feared it
would materially impair ner mcome.
Sao Paulo Bonds in London. jAk
Twenty-five million dollars of the
Sao Paulo (Brazil) coffee loan ha9
been issued in London and was quoted
at % premium. The remaining
$50,000,000 will be offered by New
York and the Continent. . a
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