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LADY -OR THE SEQUEL BY MRS. Ol CHAPTER V. 5 ii The flag so casually suggested be- J came In effect a very favorite toy, a both with Beaufort and his step-son. 0 The one "was a very ordinary little boy. Th? other a highly cultivated b man. But they seemed to take equal c pleasure in the flutter of the flag from 8 the blue and white staff which Tom b had painted *(ith so much trouble, s' and in rushing out to pull it down ? when Lady Cfii- in the little pony . ? carriage drove from the door. They sometimes tumbled over each other u in their haste and zeal to perform 0 this office. And Beau's legs were so much the longest. It gave him a g ifToot on/1 Jiief ?5tra mrflr Tnm ^ gicau auu juoi au TCIUUI. Carry was pleased, she^tes touched s< and flattered, and such canity as she ^ had was so delicately Jministered to that for some time tie little folly ?' which took the air of fiomage to her j* made her feel happy. To see the grave and gentle philosopher with a ( long swift stride almost stepping over 0 the children to get at the cord, and 8 pull up the fluttering flag, a brilliant ? piece of color among the bare trees, as she appeared with the ponies in n the little avenue. It was a little ab- 8< C( surd, but so sweet. Edward did it, she allowed herself to imagine, as he had said, for a lesson to Tom?to ? teach him thus broadly though symbolically the honor that was due to e: his mother?not to Carry individual- 9 ly, who never claimed homage, but ^ to the mother, whose claims the boy was not sufficiently conscious of. This was not at all the lesson which 1 Beaufort had intended to teach Tom ?but what did that matter? It had ' a certain effect in that way, though ' none in the way that Beaufort in- ^ tended. It did give Tom an impres- ^ sion of the importance of his mother. "Mother's not just a woman like the ^ rest," he said to Janet. "She is what you may call a great body, Jane, don't you know? There's Mrs. Howard and that sort, you don't run up flags for them. Mother's really something like the Queen?it's in earnest. Beau c thinks so. I can telj he's awful fond ^ of mother. And so am I, too." "Oh, Tom, so am I." a] "Yes, but you're just natural. You tl don't understand. But me and Beau know why we do it," said Tom. And *V4 when he got back to school if he did ** not boast so much of his place in Scotland, having acquired an uneasy v< sort of doubt of its magnificence, he ti; intimated that his parentage was not si like that of the others. "When my u] people drive from the door the flag ai rlAtnn " Via oofri "Tf'n qiiaIi fnn in uvttu, uc oaiu. it o uwu iuu rushing and getting hold of the rope tb and up with a tug, as soon as they come into the avenue. Sometimes, ct when it's been raining, the rope won't ai run. It's such fun," cried Tom, th while even Harrison Major's mouth wi was closed. The flag was beyond him. al As for Janet, she looked on staring and observed everything, and drew al many silent conclusions never per- ri; haps to be revealed. But when the holidays were over T1 Carry's anxious expectations and sus- lit pense returned again. Beaufort kept yc to his new toy even when Tom was so gone. He would interrupt his studies, hi springing up, whatever he was doing, L( to let down, to pull down or put up Cj that flag, till poor Carry's heart grew nc sick of the little formula which ac- as companied all his movements. She th began to feel that he liked to be sv disturbed, and that idling forth into b the air to perform this ceremony h? was more delightful to him than to dc get on with that work, which so far cc as she could make out, was not yet m begun. He had found more notebooks after Tom went away, but the qi note-books now began to pall a little, ju And slowly, slowly Carry's eyes be- is gan to open. She never whispered it pt to herself, but she began to under- th stand as the years went on many te things that were never put into words.- w; She became first of all very sick of th the note-books and the wonderful ri nmmber of them, and all those tantal- di izing scraps which never came to -anything. Her own little poem which d< Bhe had begun had gone no further. The dawning of genius set, but the Li dawn was still going on. It had th never come to be doing yet. Would m it ever come? Slowly, reluctantly, se this began to be revealed to her, sh broken by phases of better hope; by ai moments when she said to herself lo that she was the most' unjust woman e\ in the world, grudging her husband to the leisure in which alone great to thought can develop?grudging him th the very quiet which it had been the w desire of her heart to attain for him. b( The most unjust scorn of woman! yc not his wife and assistant, but his th judge, and so hard a one! It was yc bitter-sweet to Carry to be able thus le to condemn herself; but it did not w change the position of affairs. al One evening they were seated to* lis gether in a happy mood. It was ti summer, and it was some years after SI the incidents above described. Carry lo by this time knew almost everything hs about Beaufort, and what he could ar not or would not do. And yet his expectations were not quenched. For h< It is hard to obliterate hope in a so woman; and now and then at inter- er vale there would still spring ud little impulses in him, and for a few days sa she would forget (yet all the same in never forget) her dolorous discourses n< and certainties. It was after one of bi those elans, which had displayed be every outward appearance of being at lil work for several days, and Lady m Car's most despotic of a thousand ex- w: periences had risen again, that in the evening, in a very sweet summer yc twilight, they sat together and he watched the stars coming out over wi the tops of the waving trees. Janet, w< now grown almost to the full height, h? had been wandering about, flitting ge among the flowers, in her white frock, or not unlike (at a distance) one of the an treat white lilies which stood about Vi * V c T?-?T - I ,,,,,,,, ; ; M i1;,,,,,,,,, sui ^hj sid CAR; ? of OF A LIFE. : th< sei JPHANT. he I Ca wt i all the borders. It was early in yo uly, the time when the flowers are t their sweetest. The air was full fr? f their delicate fragrance, yet not jn< do full, for there was a little warm reeze which blew it over the whole to ountry, away to the heather and jnj orse on the Haslemere side, and wa rought back faint echoes of wilder BCC cents?the breath of the earth and f the moors. Janet had been roam>g about, never without a glance ^a irough the branches at the two fig-, mj res on the lawn. She was like one g0 f the lilies at a distance, tall for )urteen, though not tall for a full- na rown woman; and thin, too, in the ngularity of her eye, though of a ?q luare solid construction which con-adicted all previous symbols. She wa ad always an eye upon them wher- jnj ver she went. Nothing had changed er spectator attitude, not even the 1 evelopment of many tender and loyal ielings altogether unknown to the ve] liter world. So far as appeared out- jn de, Janet was still the same steady ter hamplon of her brother that she B^( ?^ v* nr koku qtlh . , au UCCU 11UXU UCX UUUJ UUJ Oj wuu g0j ot much more. The pair who were be sated on the lawn were, as always, as] )nscious of the girl's presence, which as a certain restraint upon their ms eedom. There was not between tr0 lem all the same ease that generally ex] sists in a family. Though she was uite out of hearing, they\dld not an, iren talk with perfect freedom. 0f 'hen she had gone to bed, called by; le all-authoritative nurse, of whom lig /en his mistress was a little afraid, pQeaufort drew a long breath. He ad a sort of habitual tenderness for ^ anet as a child who had grown up nder his eyes, and was one of the mc icessories of daily life. But yet to f0I as never at his ease when she was pj, ane. "How dark it is getting?" he me Ud; "the light cornea irom tne lines, jel ot from the. day; and Janet's "white cjj. ock, now she has gone, has taken Hc little away." tea "My poor little Janet!" said Lady cot ar. "I wish I could think she would dei b one of those who gave light." nei "Like the mother. It is a pity they gai re so little like you, Carry. Both los te same type, and that so much In- gri >rior. v But children are very per- pia ?rse in their resemblances, as much del } in other things." ma "Nobody can say Janet is per- pai jrse," said Lady Car, with that par- to al feeling which, though not enthu- out astic Itself, can bear no remarks cal pon the children who are its vigor; pa? id then she went back to a more wh iteresting subject. "Edward, In pai lat chapter you have just begun?" his "My dearest, let us throw all the sm lapters to the winds. In this calm Sh< id sweetness, what do we want with sat lose wretched little pictures? The ere orld, as far as we can see it, seems anc 1 at peace." ing "But there is trouble In it, Edward, i 1 the same?trouble to be set litt ght." qu< "Not much so far as we can see. lat< aere ia nothing very-wrong in our tlo tnvBTi ovorv 'nnnr npronn .1 as >u ladles call them, has half a dozen hai ift philanthropists after him to set an< m right, and we don't see the town. A >ok at all those dim lines of country, irry. What a breadth of them, and > harm anywhere, the earth almost i soft as the sky! Don't let us ?u ink of anything, but only how reet it all is. I am glad that shrub- ^01 >ry was cut away. I like to see over *ac ilf the world?which is what we are "ts >ing?as far as eye can carry; it ha< imes to much the same. May I light 80f y cigarette?" the "Edward," she cried, "it Is all vul lite true. There, is not much harm :st here; but think how much there f f in the world, how helpless the poor *bl< sople are, how little?how little the tey can do. And what does it mat- ver r that we all try a little in the ay of charity? Right principles are S10: ie only things that can set us all ght. I have heard you say a hunted times in the old days." "You have heard me say a great r ;al of nonsense in the old days." ^ici "Was It all nonsense, then?" cried C0l] ady Car?"all that was said and wjt lought there? There seemed so any splendid things we could do; car it up a standard of higher justice, ( iow a better way both to the poor op id the rich, and?other things. I ers ve the landscape and the sweet 0f 'ening, Edward, oh, so much! and fou sit and look at them with you, and fro feel all the peace around us, and esp ie quiet, and that there is no reason hy we should not be happy; but < ;tter than that I should love to see rec >u lift up that standard and show t0 , ie better way, you who can do it, aft )u who understand all the prob- me ms. That is what I wish; that is t>01 hat I have always wished?above 1, above all!" she said, clasping her mds. The affections of her sensi- * < ve nature had come upon Carry. tim ie could not contain herself any nger. "I would rather even not or ive been happy and seen you great au id doing great work," she said. 1 He stretched out his hand and took srs, which he held and caressed iftly. "They have been happy, little ithusiast!" he said. i a.n * PIP] "Don't say that, Edward!" she I id, quietly; "that was all very well I the old days, which you say were ! ?n jnsense. I was only a girl then, ! ? it now I am middle-aged and not to ! can ma ; put off in that way. I am not a :tle enthusiast, I'm an anxious wo- j an. You should not put me off i ^ ith phrases of the past." "You are always a girl, Carry, if mo >u should live to, be a thousand, ' . ; said, with a faint laugh. "If you ere middle-aged, as you say, you ould be content with results as we J 1 tve them. Here we are, we two to>tlier, with all the happiness we ice so eagerly looked forward to, I id which seemed for a time hopeless, wil iry well off. thanks to you. Able to ?s 1 ' .1 1 I rround ourselves with everything it is delightful and pleasant, be- J es the mere fact of being together, le to help pur poor neighbors in a / ictical way; thanks to you again, t so much as a crumple in our bed <> rose??not a thorn. My dear, that what you would think of if you re middle-aged, as you say." "Then let me be a silly girl as in i old times," she said, "though it cic ,s all nonsense, nothing but non- th< ise, as you say." dr; "Softly, softly," he said, taking Bh, r hand again; "let us discriminate, Yc rry. Love can never be nonsense iich has lasted like ours. My love, u must not blaspheme." "Love!" she cried. Carry's whole a ime was trembling; her heart beat- sq, j to her feet, to her fingers, in her roat. She seemed to herself only on be a sum sbeatn, the nearest woo- c0; I to that convulsive heart. There y0 .s something like?could it be *0] >rn? in the inflection of her voice, s took her by both hands, now, rowing down the cigarette which d betokened the entire care of his ]e? nd,* and drew her toward him. mething like alarm had come into > tone, and something like indlgtion, too. "Carry," he said, holding her fast. ja] !arry, what do you mean? Not it my love was nonsense which ml ? wooed from you, notwithstand- Lg I everything?not that you disist me?" The darkness is an advantage in my an interview like this. It pre- jr( nted him from seeing all that was p0 Lady Car's fface, the impetuous, ws Tible question,/the impulse of wild jr{ gpticism and unbelief, the intolerle Impatience of the idealist not to altogether restrained. Her eyes ted what her lips could not Bay. 8U by did yoa leave'me to be another ua in's wife? Why let me be stained, iubled, trodden under foot? Why pose me to all the degradations ich nobody could impose on you? a why, why? But Carry said none these things. She could not. ere are some things which the re- wJ ion of the heart forbids ever to be en t in words. She would not say it. th might have read it in her eyeB, but {u ; darkness kept that revelation im him which would have been j. >re startling than anything Beau- pc t had ever encountered in his life. ially, Carry, who was only a worn and a sensitive and delicate one, 1 into the universal feminine antimax?the foolishness of tears. w often do their irrestralnable gil irs put the deepest reasons out of fa irt, and turn the most solemn bura of the soul Into apparent foolish- "J is!?a woman's tears, which often ? In a foolish cause, but as often If] e a strong one, reducing the deep v * ef <to the level of the shallow, and icing the greatest' offender In the Ightfully superior position of the ra ,n who makes allowances for and -dons. Beaufort gathered her in- b0 his arms, made her have her cry an t upon his shoulder, soothed aftd W? med and caressed her out of her rei jsion of feeling. If anyone had Ispered in his ear what was in the ssionate heart that throbbed on shoulder! But he would have iled and would not have believed. 3 was a little enthusiast; still the rei ne young ethereal poet as ever, a C01 ature made up of lovely impulses ! sympathies and nerves and feel ;s, nis sweet carry, nis oniy love. ? 1 &iter this evening Lady Car had a ab: le illness, nothing of any conse- ?* ;nce, a chill taken sitting out too ?*' s on the lawn, a headache, prob- st y neuralgia. A little ailment el? te simple, such as ladles often re, keeping them in their rooms 1 dressing gowns for a day or two. bit woman scarcely respects herself 0 has not these little breaks from ie to time, just to show of what cei icate and fragile stuff she is made. t she emerged from her room a is le different, no one could quite tell tal v, with a different look in her Pe1 e, quieter, less given to restless ou , more composed and gentle. She 1 always been gentle, with the test manners in the world, so that i change was not apparent to the !gar. Beaufort perceived it for ^ first day or two, and/it gave him aint shock as of something invisi, some sudden mystery between im, but the feeling passed over y quietly with a conviction of the er absurdity of any such impresn. - To be Continued. ] Her Age. ad( rhe late Senator Piatt, of Connecit, enjoyed funny stories and lid tell a good many himself. Not- -et hstanding bis long public life be 'ays remembered a yarn that be doi ried from his school days. soi )ne year when the district schools ad< ined in his town one of the teach- boi , in making a record of the aged her pupils, as required by law, pDt nd that one little girl, who came a ^ m a family not noted for being pe{ ecially bright, was unable to say ca^ en her birthday came. I 3o, in order to complete her ' ords, the teacher walked two miled see the girl's mother one afternoon on< er school. Asked if she could re* mber just when her daughter was n the woman thought for somd le time, and then with a sort of e?c szled look, said: ' 'Well, the gal was born in 'tater sa^ - AT T Stil LIJCLL 2> SU1C, UUl J. L liicuiuc. ether they was a plantin' on 'em drc a-diggin' on 'em."?Boston Her- 6o1 ma ma An Invidious Call. ? Dne afternoon the proprietor 01 Pla animal store said to his young one rk: co? 'Tom. I'm going upstairs to wolf dra the books. If any one comes in ^re a live animal let me know. You sa)' i attend to selling the stuffed aniIs yourself." *7" Vbout half an hour later in came Ber gentleman with his son and asked I n if he could show him a live and nkey. To the customer's amaze- bea nt the clerk ran to the foot of the mo irs and yelled: of 1 'Come down, come down, sir; off t're wanted."?Judge's Library. in por Begin Now. ^ea ( 3.t) ie who has no vision of eternity 1 never get a held of time.?Thorn- 5?? Cerlyle. ?aI: [he Putting White Clothes Away. A housev/ife should be careful to ve all the starcb washed out of 1 ^ itnes before they are put away for 5 a winter. They should be rough y, and, if possible, protected by 6ub eets of dark blue paper.?New trk Times. A Practical Art Square. To use under the dining table. Buy T good piece of oilcloth two yards uare. table oilcloth, then a strip n bordered oilcloth to match; stitch square piece with machine; mitre an(i rners; choose a pretty pattern and don u will have a pretty square.?Bos- pra; i Post. ven of i For Pantry Shelves. Can of Turkish preserved rose be?e] ives. one Jars of small California fruits (Cf_ ice. The Quart jars of figs. bitt Whole limes put up in syrup in am rs. Pan Rut Sweet pickles of cantaloupe, home- "ut ide style, in jwo.?Philadelphia _ ? dger. R % 24; Do It at Home. pris It is not necessary to send a pongee gel )ck to the cleaners. Natural up t ngee may be washed in warm soap iter and ironed when dry. If it is 'lv? med on the wrong side it will keep j^e , new look. If the pongee Is em- Thl! oidered in colors, it may be washed the th excellent result in gasoline. Be ter re to do this where there is no wou me.?IndianapoliB News. We, ? grej Fillings For Our Sofa Cushions. ^ M spes There is nothing nicer in the way mat pillow fillings than the dried heads dier sweet clover, made doubly attrac- mai re when embroidered or outlined foui th clover blossoms. As these flow- *ear > retain their fragrance when dried, ) ere is something soothing and rest1 about such a pillow. In this re- n rd it bids fair to rival the already jjef( 5hly prized hop pillows.?Boston rag< ist by f out A Collar Case. , n?t A novel collar case for holding the jn , tie turnover collars which every wr0 rl wears nowadays is made of buck- a w m. It is about six Inches wide and rest' o feet long, and is bound all round prie ribbon. Inside are two bands of mar k elastic of the same color, and un- tea5 CQIn meath these the collars are slipped. ^ ie advantage of .his case is that it Jen es not crush when thrown intc Etat awers with other articles, the buck- muc m being firm and unyielding. The neei se is rolled up and tied with a rib- the! n fastened to one end. The collars doc1 d cuffs intrusted to its keeping are lour irranted to keep unwrinkled till idy for use, which is more than ] en^. a be said for most such cases.? ) jieg iston Post. mar God Hint For Papering. obe; In papering any room it should be membered that light is the first nsideration, and that the paper ^0I ist be chosen accordingly. lont Prtro TxrhJto in the host rhnire when eom ipecially light room Is wanted, as it ! booi sorbs only about fifteen per cent. *ar the light thrown upon it. Dark ?en, on the other hand, is the greatconsumer of light, absorbing about rp^e ;hty-five per cent. witi Next to white as a light-producer thei 3 the soft pastel tints and light ject les, which absorb from twenty to enty-five per cent, of the light; ?ut ;n comes orange, at thirty per it.; apple and gray greens, almost :y per cent., and the popular brown almost as bad as dark green, as it ! shiv ces up about sixty-five to seventy > exp< r cent, of the light it should throw , It ii t.?New York Press. serji guil Ft Milk Mixed Mush.?To make mush I one-quarter of a cup of sweet gt?ov lk to the water in which mush is pet< be made and ft will brown much velc ;ter. dres Venison Steak.?Pry until almost do f le in a small piece of butter. Sea1 with salt and pepper, and then tjjej i a cupful of sweet cream. Let riOU 1 until it thickens. exp< Potato Pancake.?Grate six raw tbe ;atoes; when grated add one egg, san^ ablespoonful of flour, and salt and )per. Fry the same as any pan- jjol' te. These are fin# with fried ham. He Cheese Cakes.?Line little patty and is with pastry, then put in bottom God ; dessertspoonful of any kind of " BAroohorrv is the hpfit I :atri vc feuu?jv.w\,i * j ? n put in a spoonful of any kind cake mixture. Feather cake is r >d. Vig Salmon Fritters.?Take the bits of mon that are left and chop fine, r in two well beaten eggs, and ^ ip this in hot butter and fry a SW01 den brown. Cold meats and rice stat y be used in the same way, and it was kes an excellent breakfast dish. and JtuiTed Eggplnnt.?Halve tender nt, scoop out contents, leaving a Bpn .'-half inch wall. Chop the inside, as jf k ten minutes in boiling water; 000. in; add to pulp three tablespoons a m nd crumbs, one tablespoon butter, whe: t and pepper, one-half an onion iced, two tablespoons mixed ham. I shells, bake twenty minutes, and Ol ve as a side dish. mer' Salted Beans, French Style.?Wash {^or [ soak over night one quart of ns; put on to boil, boil up once, re- yjat ve from fire, put one teaspoonful eties baking soda into them, then wash gro? thoroughly with cold water, place The the pot with one-half pound salt cattl k, one teaspoonful of salt, one ping teaspoonful of mustard, one * lespoonful of brown sugar, one -A-1 d-sized tomato, one onion, one- ^aln f an English pepper, leaving out .at seeds. Bake all day. circi1 ? f THE Hit &unbai|-^?cftoof cow ERNATIONAL LESSON COM- If IENTS FOR FEBRUARY 14. Ho * Yes, ject: The Apostles Imprisoned, i y0 Acts 5:17-42 ? Golden Text: Matt. 5:10?Commit Verses 19, ? 20?Commentary on the Lesson. yc IME.?A. D. 30-35. PLACE.? Ho isalem. ? rf IXPOSITION.?I. The Arrest and yo ivery of the Apostles, 17-24. The I 1 3tles had prayed for deliverance^ that signs and wonders might be ~ rxf Tnanc on/1 4Vi4o If VC c ill iuc uaiuc ui uvouo, auu buiu ? * rer had been very literally and 0f r fully answered, but this display >ower had awakened the jealousy y increased hate of the Sadducees. man or company of men has ever Yo a filled with the Spirit that some- : else was not filled with jealousy r. ch. 13; 45; 17:5; Matt.-27:18). u jealousy in this case was very jf er. It went even to the point of :sting the whole apostolic com- You y and casting them into prison. while the ecclesiastical authori- Th were against them, God and His els were for them (cf. Heb. 1:14, Qod 7.; Ps. 34:7; Dan. 3:11-25; 6:22Acts 12:7-11). The strongest Da on doors are no barrier to an anof God. It is impossible to lock ;he man whom God would have at * rty (Prov. 21:30). With the derance came the command to go ?Cai stand and speak in the temple to people all the words of this life. i required great courage under jj. circumstances, but to disobey af- gcej( such a remarkable deliverance cian Id have been gross ingratitude. subj too, have been delivered by so fUu. it and glorioua a deliverance that D" 'ould be gross ingratitude not to here it all the words of this life, no retu ter how great the peril.- The obe- ^ad ice pf the apostles to God's com- ^osr id was very prompt; daybreak id \hem in the temple. It is to be b0u, ed that there are some of us who, grea' ve were shut up in prison for A iching Jesus, would keep still if but jnci^got out of the fix. * be v f. Peter and tfte ouier Apostles jjjj-g, are the Sanhedrim, 25-32. The gj ; ol the Sanhedrim was" tempered ?soc ear, and they brought them with- ujar violence. The high priest dare wm ask how they got out. Neither once he ask, as on a former occasion, ^hieli what name the miracles were <jev ugbt (Acts 4:7-12). Peter found mor ay to testify for Jesus and His per irrection. The one point the high and st made was that they'had com- j00(] idea them that they should not dow h in thia name. The high priest wjth that in spite of the prohibition of if ecclesiastical court they had filled one isalem with their doctrine. This : on F emunt of the high priest was very jsm_ :h to their credit. Men are much flam Jed to-day who will follow in trie r steps and fill all places with the neys :rine of a risen and divine Sav- Whe . What matters It what the most BOft usi assembly on earth commands char }od commands something difTer- the ? Peter did not say it is our priv- Whi< e to obey God against the com- Bary id of men, nor "We ought to obey char rather than men," but "We must and Y God rather than meh." In that they ist" there is the secret of blessed- wat( > and power. We ought to be obe- a it to all properly constituted au- upon ity, ecclesiastical and civil, as enty ; as it does not conflict with the rece mandments of God, but just as By * as 44- Ar*t\a w/l aYinnlH turn JL oTrar 1 as 1U UUtO TTV ouwuivt ku* u M www. OTgi to human authority and "obey crea The council had bidden thera if to teach in this name, but God thes said, "Go and speak" (v. 20). acs, high priest further charged them who 1 trying to bring Jesus' blood upon and n. They pught not to have ob- seen ed to that, for they had said, "His vita] id be on us" (Matt. 27:25). With- vice any fear of their stern looks anc? be, ' lied threats Peter looked them in ance eye and said, "The God of our iers raised up Jesus, whom ye r and hanged upon a tree." It j ered their claim to authority, it )sed the enormity of their guilt. JL , 3 noticeable how Peter in all hi? e(, c nons rings the changes on the Ka^ t of man as seen in his treatment t] lim. "To be a Prince and a SavThis is the twofold office of exalted Christ. The two offices" earn ogether. If we wish Him as Sav- . , we must take Him as -Prince, j if we wish Him as Prince, we _Ie it take Him. as Saviour, j There ?hr two other things linked together his verse: "Repentance and for- worj npoe nf sins." One cannot be had lout the other (Lu. 13:3, 5: 24 "fi". Acts 2:38; 17:30). 'Repentance J,"; ere said to be the gift of the ex- * d,Christ (comp. ch. 3:26; 11:18; 31:31-33; Ez. 36:26: 2 Ti. 2: . It Is a gift He is willing to be- p F r upon any one who wishes it (2 r 0 ;r 3-9). There is something mar- y ius in Peter's skill in the adises recorded in the Acts and we veil to study them carefully. Let In earn from them above all else (1) Gree ;xpose to men 'the blackness ol c~nt' r guilt in the rejection of the glo- dimt s Son of God. (2) When we have aboi] >sed their guilt, to open to them Paid door of salvation through this very e Jesus. Peter and the other cust< sties were not the only witnesses replj :he resurrection of Christ. The bay v Spirit also was a witness. And tbe * is a witness still. He comes tc N?e ! gives His witness to all who obey two . that is. surrender their will ab- now tely to God (cf. Jno. 7; 17; Jno. and 15, 16, 26; 15:26). comi chasi Right. in te ight is slowly but surely march* on, ultimately to claim its owi* Das "Rooky" Heir to $100,000. Tli n hour after James L. Dixon wa9 Tc n in as a recruit in the United tail i es Marine Corps at Chicago he an o apprised that his father had died from left him $100,000. Dixon said Cour vould "stick for the big show," a na prepared 10 go 10 me inauuc uiuu acks at Washington, D. C.. just ful a ! he had never heard of the $100,- quen Ancil C. Dixon, the father, wag saloo erchant tailor at San Francisco, strtcl re he died. ful r a na Cactus Still Minus Thorns. fRcial reports on the first sums field cultivation of the Burbank nless cactus have been made pubThe average results are pro- to hi iced successful. The report says ^ot s the fears that the thornless vari- tor, 1 i would revert to the old habit of aepe: ring thorns have been dispelled. n^y use of the plant as a fodder for stead e seems to have been established. HQ110 cal p Icn's Egg Nearly Ten Inches. ; Marysvllle, Ohio, William Mcloun has a hen which laid an egg is nearly ten inches in its longer unnii imference, and } -: '' '".tf ' *r,'> /'?. f v . V- - t' > J?i* *5r j * r;^ T'.;i \-,v7V- ; vv*" ; TEMPERANCE PROPAGANDA CERTED ATTACK ON DRINK INNING ALL ALONG LINE. If You Knew. you knew the dreadful story of that sparkling cup you're draining. w it drags a man from virtue down to dark perdition's brink, and wrecks his brain and body, leaves no trace of good remaining? u would never dare to touch a drop of the accursed drink. iu knew the crime it genders, how it makes a man a devil, ... w it prompts to deeds of evil such as mina could hardly think; u knew the sickening scenes that mark the drunkard's midnight revel? : vntiM noupr tnnph a rlrnn nf f.ViP accursed drink. m knew the grief, the anguish, if you heard the bitter crying the piteous, pleading hearts now doomed in black despair to sink, ou saw that host of victims on Rum's bloody altar dying, t u'd swear to never touch a drop of the ^ accursed drink. c u knew how many souls were hasting J on to woes infernal, you knew how Jiell rejoiced as each a form staggers o'er the brink? 1 would pledge your sacred honor at the throne of the Eternal 6 at you'd never, never stain your soul r with the accursed drink. ^ forgive the man or woman who by 1 thoughtless word or doing c re uphold the glittering wine cup! Let a that man or woman think ( he who thus approveth hath become with guilt accruing partaker in the evil of the soul-destroying drink. . t rlton Emerson Snell, in Ram's Horn. ( A Blot on Our Civilization. c is only In the report of Dr. 1 eth, the Bridewell house physi- I , but it is so tremendous on this \ ect that we quote it nearly In y uring my three years' experience I , there have been only eight men J rned with delirium tremens who * been previously treated in our 1 lital for the same complaint. The 8 ber of' people that die of alco- a 3m outside our institution is 1' ,ter than tbe public suppose. Icohol is not a food, or beverage, v a medical remedy, and should * ised as such under a physician's v ction. [sty per cent, of drinkers are s ial drinkers" who have no partic craving for alcohol, and who * not take a drink, when alone, ? i in a month, but on account of r surroundings and friends have sloped a habit of taking two or e drinks a day; the other forty b cent, drink because they like it tl try to make it replace water and a :, and they are on a straight c n-hill road for delirlnm tremens " i all its fatal complications. b the "social drinkers" could see w of the hundreds of autopsies held ti lersons who have died of alcohol- b ?see the congested brain, the in- a ed and bleeding stomach of gas- a catarrh, the heart, liver and kid- t i undergoing fatty degeneration, v re the once firm tissues are now Ji and flabby, and tbe secondary e iges of cirrhosis (an increase of connective tissue of an organ) g :h replaces the vital cells neces- b for their proper functions, the e tges in the walls of the arteries, * of the nerves and spinal cord, tl would be satisfied with pure b ?r for the balance of their lives, p Icohol, direct and indirect, is re- t isible for the commitment of sev- h -five per cent, of the prisoners we u ive at the House of Correction, n temperance, I believe that the p age life of our race would be in- o sed fifteen to twenty years. o the advice of one who has seen e e unfortunates die raving maniwith their horrible delusions? ii has followed them to the morgue performed "posts" on them; and the degenerated changes In their I organs, is worth taking, my ad- summed up in three words would * Leave alcohol alone."?Tempert Advocate. ? f J Prohibition and Prosperity. 6( i Emporia and its suburbs 12,000 tl ile live, who are probably the e t prosperous people in the Unit- g States?taken as a whole. For v, sas is the most prosperous State ci lie Union to-day and Emporia is y largest town in Kansas without e loon, so that every dollar that is p ed in this community is spent t< something which adds to the real fort and the happiness of the peo- t( There is no economic loss t< ugh saloons or gambling places in yi town. Every man in town is a H cer. Every day's work piles up d prosperity. So in addition to its le ictions as an industrial centre, tl loria is known all over the West w city of beautiful homes. This a] ue because the money of the peo- w s not diverted from their homes. 01 om the Blue Book, issued by c< i County, Kansas. hi i r tv Saves His Whisky Dimes. G one of the dry goods stores of 61 H County, Ky., a gentleman rely paid a small amount, all in is, and afterwards purchased it $3 worth of goods and also jc for them in dimes. As dimes are scarce, the merchant asked his * jmer where he got so many. His r was that he had sold a load of to W. R. Noe and had received 'ull amount ($10) in dimes. Mr._ ;i says he was in the habit of taking j is drinks of whisky every day, but he gives his wife two dimes a day pi abstains from drink. Since he pi nenced the practice he has pur2d a horse for $90 and paid for it gr :n installments all in dimes, and paying for his hay in dimes still st dimes left. dc e Saloon Not a Natural Right. > sell intoxicating liquor at re- th is not a natural right to pursue it. rdinary calling. This is quoted Ca the opinions of the Supreme ba t of Indiana. The saloon is not pe tural right because it is not an ce tary calling, because it Is harmmd dangerous to society, consetly an unlawful business. The ?n lifpnsp sfjitiite- instead of re ling or limiting a natural ot* law- , igbt, is the means of legalizing ^ tural wrong. qr i Great Surgeon's Testimony. Lorenz, the Austrian surgeon, ning wine at a banquet tendered th im in New York, said: "I can. oC ay that I am a temperance agita- jn jut I am a surgeon. My success to ds upon my brain being clear, muscles firm and my nerves tj ly. No one can take alcoholic ja, rs without blunting these physi. qc owers, which I must always keep 3ge. As a surgeon, I must not tri e beverage liquor traffic is an- th tigated moral, . social, financial w? political evil. th ' 1 r.' &?: -- -V-;. ': W^WMi \l A\phr><rJ?? forny dally raqfl* |||| wVwnwffc, the pfeajonf fields A? Holy Wrif I { ?* . ? ? STtoWSj i 1 , * -"*W? ; SOME DAY, ' A kindly nurse shall come some day To us with solemn mien, and say, " 'TiB time to to to bed and sleep. And we, mayhap, shall sigh or weep To leave our playthings and oar play* And pray a longer while to stay. But she. unheeding our alarms, Shall fold us close within her arms, Until upon her mother-breast We sink at last to sleep and rest, And wake to read in Angel eyes . * v Our welcome sweet to Paradise. ?Zitella Cocke. As to Revivals. The churches are looking forward i o the time of revivals. There may. . ie a few exceptions, but not maniy.' V Some pastors are getting ready, and lot a few are anxiously looking' ior he coming of the favored time, and > isking what they can do to prepare or It. The best way, and indeed the jnly^V-'! uccessful way, to get ready for a eal and permanent revival is to use X\ aithfully the regular means of grace. %i Phe pastor who wants to see the work . if God promptly and surely advanced imong his people should give earnest ittentlon to his own message and vork. He should make sure that he eaches the hearts of the people with he simple b'lt all-powerful message % Jod has givet him. 'With plainness* r iut in love and tenderness, he should teclare the whole counsel of God, ? vara men of sin and- danger, and >oint them to the Lamb of God. faithful pastoral work should be lone. The church should rally to the sap>ort of the pastor, and use the stated : neans of grace to edify believers and mpress the unsaved. These means aithfully employed will so<?n lead/to uch an interest in religious matted nd such a quickening of the spirfthaV C * ife of the church that special meetngs will be demanded, and the re? . 1 TrO 1 will >)A n t-? *?B? ti*ti uo . au awwuiyuaucu ia^u u>.; \>r the pastor there is no better ad- < 1ce than Paul gave to Timothy; Preach the Word; be instant In seaon, out of season; reprove, rebuke,, short with all longsuffeHng and dOcr, rine."?Pittsburg Christian Advoate. The Glory in the Cloud. Phillips Broqks once preached ft ermon from the text, "Who passing trough the valley of weeping make it well." He said there were two way* v f treating sorrow. One may say, This that I have to'bear >Is hard* ut the clouds will br^ak and there r Mil come better days. Corapensa-v > ion is in store/for me. It may not! e in this world; but some time It wllF 11 be made up to me." Or hie maj -r^ ay,-"X . will do Just1 what Scripture ells me to do. x I will make of' Aj: alleys of weeping well-springs of oy. I will turn sadness intc occaions of rejoicing." The apostle says, "In everything ive thanks." Assuredly we cannot e thankful for everything, but lit v very experience that comes to Dt ? re may find some reason for; giving 4 lanks. When Jeremy Taylor's house ufl ad been plundered, all his worldly ossessions squandered, his family 'I urned out of doors, he congratulated. J lmself that his enemies had left him 9 the suu and moon, a loving wife,. Wk lany friends to pity and relieve, the 9 rovidence of God, all the promises a f the Gospel, my religion, my hope- 9 f Heaven and my charity toward my'-^H nemies." ? Can you see the glory of the Lord ;?H i the cloud??-The Standard. ? A Personal Interest. > - Do you know your Father? Have ou found God your Father? Have 1 ou learned to shape all those mighty | Drees ana laws wmcn constitute tniftniverse as a personal being to yourslf, to approach Him with the conjiousness that He hag a personal bought, an individualizing knowl- , dge of you? Have you learned to o to Him saying that you -want to be 'ith Him, and therefore y<jn have ame to pray, not in order to urge our little petitions tfpon Him as a laim, but in order to use your little etitions as a chain that binds you ) Him? Have you learned to come to Him; ) exult in the sense of His presence; ) feel the breath of His Spirit upon ou? Have you learned to cast upon [im the care and burden of your ally life, just as in childhood yoa ift to your parents the clothing and le food, knowing that it would be ell? Has He become your Father, [ways seeming loftier, and yet alays nearer and dearer? If so, and ot otherwise. Jesus Christ' has ac)mplisbed His work in you. "Beold, what manner of love is this that V e should be called the children of -j od.'"?Rev. R. F. Horton, in Pittsurg Christian Advocate. "*" ' The Root of Spirituality. Spirituality issues from God-con:iousness. God is with us. God is here because He wants to be ith Wis r-'hllrlroTi God is not here as a detective, but > our Deliverer. / God calls no man to a solitary displeship. The God whom he follows always with him. God's being predicates His omni esence, and His omnipresence is the ' edge of His help. God is not the great critic, but the eat Companion, the Comforter. God's omnipresence is our conant opportunity to get help.?Lon>n Sunday-School Times. Sublime Patience. Enter into the sublime patience of p. e Lord. Be charitable in view of God can afford to wait; why nnot we, since we have Him to "fall ick upon? Let patience have her irfect work and bring forth hep lestial fruits.?G. MacDonald. Eemcmber the Sabbath. The interests of the Sabbath are ^ e interests of the poor; the enemies the Sabbath are. the enemies of e poor.?Professor George Adam. ? uith. United States Sells Shoes Abroad. ~i According to a consular statement J e growth of exportation from 350,- 1 >0 pairs in 1878 to 6,500,000 pairs 1908 has brought the United States * the head of the list of boot and oe exporting nations of the world.' le exportations of boots and shoes gt year was valued at nearly $12,? 10,000. m Cuba in liood Shape. Governor Magoon has returnedr 3m his tour of the eastern part e Island of Cuba. He says he Is ill satisfied with the' conditions ere.