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.*? LADY on THE SEQUEL BY MRS. O CHAPTER VI. i < Continued. 1 "Shall you both like it so very much? Then," said Lady Car, sit- ' ting straight up with a look of pale ! resolution in her face which did not ' seem called for by such a simple de termination, "then, children, you 1 shall ge?" 1 "Hurrah!** cried Tom, "that's the jolliest' thing I've heard for long; 4 that's exactly what I want! "'I want to know it," he cried; ""I do want to 1 . ' know it before I go there and settle down." 1 Lady Car turned her eyes upon him 1 with a wonderful inquiring look. 1 Nothing, indeed, could be more nat- 1 ural. Yet to hear that some one 1 would go there, not for holidays, but 1 to settle down, oppressed poor Car- ! ry's soul. She faded into whiteness, 1 as if she was fainting. It seemed to her that his father looked over Tom's ] shoulder?the lather whom the boy was so like?his living image, as peo r?A\f oa foil on/1 rf^nri cr ' plU DCT1U, Iiut OV tan UUU gnuufcj, L/uu with the features and the eyes and the aspect, which poor Carry had so feared. "Beau!" cried both the young people in one voice, "Oh, I believe it's 1 his doing, Tom! He must have a hand in it! Beau, next holidays we ' are going to the Towers. . Mother ; says so. We are going next holidays to the Towers." "Your mother is full of sense," said Beaufort, who had just come in. "I knew that she would see it to be the right thing to do." ; Poor Carry! She felt as if she could not bear it, this sacrifice of all : her own feelings and wishes. She 1 said to herself that she could not do 1 it; that before the time came she must die! And perhaps there was a ' forlorn hope that this was what : would happen in her heart as she sat 1 and saw her husband and her chil- ; dren rejoicing over the tea table? % most naturally, most justly, she j knew; at least it was but natural and just so far as the children were con- I ; cerned. ! She had to give great orders and ' \ - make many arrangements about the ! opening up of the house. It was so 1 long since it had been shut up. Tom had been only six, and now he was j seventeen and a half. She wrote to 1 , her sister Edith and to Edith's hus- 1 band, John Erskine, as well as to 1 the pastor on the estate and the ser- ' vants who were in charge. And * there were a number of things sent 1 from town "to make it habitable." 1 To make it habitable! She could not ? help the feeling that this was what 1 he would have liked least of all, 1 when she remembered the wonder- 1 fully costly catafalques of furniture ? qf which he had been so proud, and 1 the decorations that would make poor * Edward miserable. Edward did not 1 mind the fact that it was his money 1 which made Easton so comfortable; * but to put up with his wardrobes and ? sideboards?that was a different mat- ( ter. Even in her humiliation and c in the much greater troubles she had ? to occupy her, she could not help a 1 j j 4.? il: i_ ^ o m j a i_ ai t snuuuer 10 iuiuk uj. auwara in uie midst of all those showy relics of the 1 past. Eleven years had not dimmed 1 her own recollection of her own sur- c roundings. She remembered with an * acute recollection which was pain * where everything stood, and sent de- * tailed directions as to how all was " to be altered. "Dear Edith, do see t that everything is changed. Don't ? let anything look as it used to do. It 1 would kill me if the rooms were left " as they were," she wrote to her sis- ' ter. "Do?do see that everything is ' changed." 5 Perhaps it was by dint of having 1 thus exhausted all feeling and fore- * 'stalled all Amotion that when she 1 did find herself at the Towers at last * it was almost without sentiment of> any kind. . Edith had carried out her consigne. very well, and she was standing under the much mediaeval c doorway to receive her sister when c Lady Car drove up. The sisters had not net for a long time?not for several years, and the meeting in itself did much to break the spell. Carry awoke with wonder and a little relief to find herself next morning in her old house, and to feel that she did not mind. Torrance did not meet her at his own hearth: he did not look at her from the balcony: he did not follow her about the corridor. She was very much relieved after all her imaginary anguish to feel that the reality was less dreadful than she had feared. And it was something to see the children so truly happy. The quiet little Janet, who said so little, was quite roused out of herself. She became almost noisy, rushing with Tom from the top of the tower to the very cellars, going over everything. Her voice mingled shrill in the hurrah with which Tom contemplated the flag of which he had dreamed, the sign of his own domination in this house of his father's, which was to the boy as if it had been the shrine of the noblest of races. "I see now," he said, "that rag at Easton was all a sham, but this is the real thin<? " "This is the real thing,'' said Janet, s decisively; "the other was only non- 1 sense." They had not been twenty- s four hours in the place before they 1 ? had seen, and as they said, recog- 1 nized, everything. All their upbriug- < ing in scenes so different, all the as- t sociations of their lives, seemed to |f go for nothing. They were intoxi- ' cated with pleasure and pride. A < couple of young princes restored to ? their kingdom would not have nc- 1 cepted their grandeur with a rr?ore 1 ur^oubting sense that they had it i i last recovered their rights. I 1 The house soon filled with visitoot j I and company?guest:? who came for > sport, and guests who came for curi- > osity, and the great country people * / who were friends of the Lindons, and j 1 the smaller people who were friends 11 'TO. * CAR; . OF A LITE. LIPH ANT. 5f Torrance. And with both sorts of ihese visitors Carry could not help seeing?or perhaps she only imagined it?i hat though her husband and herself were treated with great curiosity, it was Tom who was looked to with the chief interest He was the future possessor of all. Though she had enLire sway in the house as she never had before, yet she was nothing but a shadow, as she had always been. A.nd the children would have liked if possible to ignore her, too. As for Tom, he got altogether beyond her control. When he was not shooting, taking upon himself premature airs Df the master, he was riding about the country as his father had done, going to all kinds of places, making acquaintances everywhere. He cams home on several occasions, after a day of roaming, with red eyes, half-falling, half-leaping, off his horse, making his entrance audible by all the tumult of rough revilement, calling loudly to the servants, discharging oaths at them for imaginary delay. + ^Viic V? o nnnnor! T.oHv I JL1C ill LliliC lUlO JUU\aj Car only suspected it with alarm, which everybody about stilled as best they could, getting the young culprit out of the way. "The matter? there is nothing the matter," Beaufort said, coming to her, a little pale, but with a laugh. "Tom has lost his temper. He is vexed with himself for being late for dinner. I'll have a talk with him by and by." "Is that all, Edward?" she said. "What should it be more?" her husband replied. But on another occasion, as evil luck would have it, Tom made his entrance just as a party, a large one, in which his place was vacant, was sweeping across the hall to dinner, and his mother, who came last, had the full advantage of that spectacle?her son, standing all bespattered, unsteady, his dull eyes fierce with angry light. "Hallo, mother! I'm a bit .ate. Never mind, ['11 come as I am." he cried, steadying himself, beating his muddy boot with his whip. Lady Car threw an anguished look at the new butler, who stood splashed and indifferent at the, floor. There was not even an old' servant full of resource to coax the foolish, wretched boy away. She had to go in and sit down smiling at the head of the table, and entertain her guests, not knowing any minute whether the boy might not burst in and make his shame visible :o all. In the miflst of the sounds of ihe dinner-table, the talk, and the -ing of the knives and forks, and the movements of the servants, other sounds seemed to reach her ear of oud voices and noise outside. She lad to hear it all and make no sign, )ut talk, that her neighbors on each side might not notice, with what was ilmost noisiness for Carry. Perhaps, hough it seems more horrible at such i crisis to be in the midst of the comjulsory make-belief of society, it is letter for the sufferer. She kept up, md never winced till the dinner was >ver, and the endless tune in the Irawing room after, and all the ;uests gone?those who were from he neighborhood to their homes, hose who were in the house to their ooms. Then, and only then, did she lare to breathe, to give way to the levouring anxiety in her mind. She lad bidden her husband liGc, go!" to he smoking room, or anywhere with he last guests, and she was alone rhe whole house had been changed; he old furniture displaced, all its associations altered; and yet in that noment everything came back again ?the catafalques of old, the vulgar ?pienaors, me oia areamy surrounaugs. The boy! the boy! She thought she saw his father come out before ler, as she had feared to see him all hese years, saying with his oil brutal augh, "Your boy; none of yours, tfine! mine!" CHAPTER VII. Beaufort behaved very well at this risis of domestic history. He. shook )ff his usual languor, and became at ;nce energetic and active. What he ;aid to Tom remains undisclosed, but le "spoke to'' the boy with great orce, and even eloquence, represent,ng to him the ruin entailed by cer,ain bad habits, which more than >ther vices, probably worse in Ihem;elves, destroy a man's reputation and legrade him among his fellows, rhough he was himself a man over efined in his ways, he was clever jnough to seize the only motives vhich were likely to influence the uder nature of his stepson. And hen he went to poor Carry, who in his home of evil memories sat like a ?host surrounded by the recollections )f the past, antl seeing forever before ler eyes the disordered looks and jxcited eyes of her boy. He was not, ilas' ihe son of her dreams, the :hild wnom every mother hopes for, vho is to restore the ideal of what a nan should be. Many disappointnents had already taught Lady Car hat her son had little of the ideal in linj, and nothing, or next to nothing, jf herself; hut. still he was her son. tnd to think of him as the rude and /iolent debauchee of the countryside ;eemed more than she could bear. Beaufort came in upon her miserable seclusion like a fresh breeze of comort and hope. This was so far from lis usual aspect, that the effect was loubled. Tender he always was, but o-day he was cheerful, hopeful, full >1 confidence and conscious power. 'There must be no more of this," he :ried. "Come, Carry, have a little onrage. Because the boy has been a 'ool once?or even twice?that is not o say that iliere is anything tragical n ii or that he is abandoned to bad laliitH It is probably scarcely his 'suili at all -a combination of circum ;i;ir:WH Nobody s fault. indeed. imiif nil)} man, forgetting he was a joy, persuading him out of supposed io3pitality to swallow something the joy's head could not stand. How was I I r? -- the boy in his innocence to know that he could not stand it? It is a mere accident. My love, you good women are often terribly unjust and sweeping in your judgments. You must not from one little foolish misdemeanor judge Tom." "Oh, Edward!" she cried, "judge him! my own boy! All that I feel is that I would rather have died than seen than look, that dreadful look, in my child's face." "Nonsense, Carry. That if. what I call judging him. You should never have seen it; but as for rather dying ?would Tom be the better for it if he had lost his mother, the best influence a boy??" She shook her head, but how to tell her husband o? the specter who had risen before her in the house that was his, claiming the son who was his, his heir, and not Carry's, she did not know. Influence! she had been helpless by the side of the father, and in the depths of that dreadful experience Carry foresaw that the son, so like him, so moulded upon that man whom she had feared to the bottom of her heart, and alas! unwillingly hated, had now escaped her, too. There are moments which are prophetic, and in which the feeblest vision sees clear. He had escaped her, if, indeed, he had ever acknowledged any influence of hers. As a child he had been obliged to obey her, and still as a youth the influence of the household?that decent, tranquil, graceful household at Easton?which henceforward Tom would compare so contemptuously with his own "place" and the wealth which was soon to be his?had kept him in a fashion of submission. But Tom had always 1 ? 1. J M 4. V.I-. A?> mltu ATTAO f n luuiieu at ins mucuei nnu cjc o iu which defiance lurked. There had never been in him anything of that glamor with which some children regard their mother, finding in her their first ideal. It had always been a weariness to Tom to be confined to the restraint of her society. When they were children even, he and his sister had schemed together to escape from it. She was dimly aware that even Janet?these things are hard for a mother tp realize, but there are moments when they come upon her with all the certainty ot fate. Her,influence! She could have laughed or wept. As it was with the father, so would it be with the son. For that moment at least poor Carry's perceptions were clear. But what could she say? She said nothing; not even to Eeaufort could she disclose that miserable insight which had come to her. Your own children?how can you blame them to another, even if he is your husband? How say that, though so near in blood and every tie, they are alien in soul? How disclose that sad intuition? Carry never said a word. She shook her head; not even perhaps to their own father could she have revealed that discovery. A mother's part is to excuse, to pardon, to bear with everything, even to pretend that she is deceived and blinded by the partiality of love, not to disclose the profound and unalterable discourage raent with which she has recognized the truth. She shook her head at Beaufort's arguments, leaving him to believe that it was only a woman's natural severity of judgment against the sins with which she had no sympathy. And by and by she allowed herself to be comforted. He thought that he had brought her back to good sense and the moderation of a less exacting standard, and had convinced her that a boyish escapade, howevei blamable, was not of the importance shfe thought. He thought he had persuaded her not to be hard upon Tom, not to reproach him, to pass it over as a thing which might be trusted to his good sense not to occur again. Carry did not enter into any explanations. She had by this time come to understand well enough that she must not expect any one to divine what was in her heart. Meanwhile Janet, who was vaguely informed on the matter, and knew that Tom was in disgrace, though not very clearly why, threw herself into his defense with all the fervor that was in ner nature, one weni ana sai by him while he lingered over a late breakfast with all the ruefulness of headache. '"Oh, Tom, what have you done?" she said. "Oh, why didn't you come in time for dinner? Oh, where were you all the afternoon? We were looking for you everywhere, Jock and I." "Jock was an Erskine cousin, the eldest of the tribe. "What does it matter to you where I was?" said the sullen boy. "Tom! everything matters to me," said Janet, "and for one thing we couldn't make up our game." To be Continued. Most Popular Name For Brides. Ana was the most popular name for brides in 1907. The Maggies, the Marys, the Kates and the Rosies, all of whom have in past years carried off the honor, must bow to Ann. Thomas C. Smith, the application clerk of the marriage license bureau, has for years kept a record of the most popular names'of brides, and his records for 1907 show that there have been more brides with Ann as a handle to their names and surnames than any other. Katie carries off second honors j > ana jviar.v, once su pupuiip, unneu back to the seventh place. In 3 90G Maggie won first place, but now she takes third place. Mr. Smith places the ten most popular brides of 1907 in their respective standing as follows: Ann. Kate. Maggie, Elizabeth. Sarah, Carrie, Mary, Rosa. Emma and Clara.? Philadelphia Bulletin. Prompt. "T'isro ic nn fnniichnpss nlimit re . ^ _ iigioji in Southwestern Missouri," said a St. Louis man. "I had occasion, recently, to visit a town in that section, and, while waiting the pleasure of the president of the bank I had business with, caught sight of the following notice posted on the door of a church across the way: " 'There will be preaching here next Sunday, Providence permitting; and there will be preaching here whether or no on the Sunday following upon the subject. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, and he that believeth not bhall be damned at 11.30 a. m.' "?Harper's Monthly. THE SNAKES OF THE INDIAN EMPIRE. Major Wall's Valuable Wor in Identifying Venomous Rep tiles. If you hear the word "snake" 1 India, "cobra" instantly and natui ally comes to your mind, as the cobr is generally supposed to be the mos deadly of all snakes in India. Y< there are other snakes which are eve more dangerous, and it seems that tl cobra must descend from the hig pedestal on which he has been place and do his basking on a back seat. India offers a limitless field for tt study of snakes?both real and lmaj inary?the latter are innumerableyet there are few Anglo-Indians wfc have made especial study of these ii terestin* and important reptiles, < contributed any original matter c the subject. Moat of the Indian res dent's information about poisonoi reptiles of the country is derive from books written by Europeans s home, whose observations have bee confined to glass-jar or museum spec mens. Recent research and investigatioi have given the medical professic much moreknowledgeof snake venoi than it possessed formerly, and tt unfortunate sufferer from snake-bi has a fair chance of recovery now; days if he has instant and lntelligei treatment, and the medical attendai knows the species of snake which di the biting. The poison of the con mon krait is twice as virulent as thi of the cobra, while that of the mo common cf sea snakes is eight tim< more deadly. With increased know edge of snake venom a more ration; treatment through antivenene hi been introduced into practice, but l~ jineanHal +VlO+ fha QftonfUnP' TlhVS iO COOCUbiai buu V I.UV ? Q x ? ? cian should correctly identify ti snake which caused the trouble, i that the strength of his poison m: be known and treated accordingly. The Indian Medical Service h: produced a specialist in ophiology ] Major F. Wall, the only Anglo-India of note who has made sufficient stud . of the subject to be considered a firs hand authority. For several yeai Major Wall has contributed to tt pages of the journal of the Bombs Natural History Society and else where a series of well written an admirably illustrated articles on Ii dian snakes, which should tend to ii crease common knowledge of the: enemies of man. Major Wall has recently collecte these articles, and, with an ihtrodu tory chapter, has published them in brochure. He gives clear descri] tlons of the thirty-four species of po sonous land snakes of India, Burma and Ceylon, in nearly every case su] plemented by illustrations which gi\ the chief distinguishing characteri; tics of each. Illustrations and text are so con prehensive that identification of an particular species becomes ea3y, hov ever mutilated the snake may ha^ been by its captors. The little vo ume will doubtless become a tex 1 1, Tr^on ni<n/>HHnnprs an uuua UiliVXif) xuviit*** others, who, after mastering Majc Wall's simple system of identiflcatioi may place any poisonous snake in ii proper place, and in a case of snak< bite prescribe the required treatmei for that particular species. Majc Wall has done a great deal to fami iarize the people of India with the snakes, and it would be well were h example followed in other countrie inhabited by poisonous snakes.?S. I M., in the New York Post. The Canny Scot. Scotsmen are noted for their cai niness, and a story told by a Lanes shire commercial traveler, who w? up in Aberdeen a few days ago, shov that the men beyond the Tweed ai still worthily upholding their reputi tion. The traveler in question wf asked by a prospective buyer to sul scribe to the prize fund for the loci golf tournament. He parted with Ave shillings, an as he was interested in golf he r< marked that he would lik^ to be kej informed of the progress of the ioui naraent so that he could look out fc the result. "Oh," said the customer, as 1j picked up the five shillings and place it securely in his pocket, "ye needn dae that. The tournament was he! last Saturday." This was rather a staggerer for tl latest contributor to the prize fuui but he retained curiosity enough t inquire who had proved the happ winner. The guileless solicitor for sul scriptions was quite undaunted, hov ever. "The winner?" he said coyl: "Oh, just maser."?Tit-Bits. Avoid the Evil Eye. Very curious to the Occident! mind are some of the ways of Arabi and other Mohammedan countrie A traveler says: "One of the objec; of the most anxious solicitude fc Mohammedan parents is the shielc ing of their children from the ev eye; any person expressing admiri tion for a child except by pious ejac. lation or the invocation of blessins upon the prophet fills the heart ( the parent with apprehension. Whe children are to be taken into tfc street their faces are often eve smeared with mud or greasy sul stances lest their comeliness shoul attract attention, and in order tin the person of the child itself shoul escape attention gaudy and glitterin ornaments are hung about it, an written charms sewn into leather mi dallions suspended from its neck." Patlcresivki's Diet. Prior to his appearance at a concei Paderewski would not thank one fc a piece of the finest turkey or for th most toothsome Christmas puddiu ever made. On a concert day he eal nothing until it is concluded excei one soft-boiled egg. When it is ovt he takes a hoarty meal, which he ei joys thoroughly, as his appetite i excellent, although he is so absten ous. During the concert he drinks soda lemonade made without suga: It need hardly be said that this 1 net intended as a stimulant. Afte the concert he permits himself a dra] ' of some malt beverage,?Tit-Bits, * [ ^ * 5unbdi|^>cficol . in * INTERNATIONAL LESSON O r" MENTS FOR FEBRUARY 28 a 3t it Subject: The Gospel in Samnria, j n 8:4-25?Golden Text, Acts ie ?Commit Verses 14, 15?-C mentary on the Lesson. TIME.?35-37 A. D. PLACJ Samaria. EXPOSITION.?I. Baptized Y =" the Holy Ghost as Well as With A ? er, 14-17. The apostles gladly io ceived the intelligence tnat tne i- spised Samaritans had received )r Word of God. They sent their )n best men to foster the work. P ? and John on their- arrival found none of the converts had received ^ Holy Spirit. Certainly among ld company of baptized believers tl it were some regenerate persons, bu sn are distinctly told that "as yet i- Holy Spirit had fallen upon non them." They were precisely in ls position of many Un the church day. They had believed the t] 1 concerning the kingdom of God m the name of Jesus Christ, and ie been baptized, but they had not te ceived the Holy Spirit as a dist a- and definite personal experience, it important did the apostles regar nt that believers should receive the 1 1(j Spirit that the first thing they fctt ed to was this. They evide " thought that the way to obtain ir Holy Spirit was by prayer (v. 15 st Luke ,1.1 -13). It whs now years a ?s Pentecost, and still we find the a 1- ties praying for the Holy Ghost, ai cannot improve upon their met ls The reception of the Holy Spiri' jt these Samaritan converts was sc , thing so very definite and mai that Simon saw it. It has been ie gued from the fact that the apos 50 laid their hands upon them that :y Holy Ghost can only be given by laying on of an apostle's hands, ig "as the apostles are no longer 1 [n us the gift of the Holy Ghost is for to-day." This is strange 1 ' and contradicts plain Scripture te ly ing, for it was not an apostle, t_ merely "a certain disciple," who rs hands on Saul when he received ie Holy Ghost (Acts 9:10, 11). ty household of Cornelius received ?_ Holy Ghost without the laying o ^ any one's hands (ch. 10:44). Samaritan believers did not hav spend weeks "waiting for their ] a" tecost." It came the moment 3e conditions were fulfilled. It wa: everywhere in Acts after Acts 2:(] id II. Baptized With Water, bat c- regenerate, 18-25. Simon desire a buy the power of imparting the I Spirit. His heart was so thorou, ~ corrupt with selfishness and cc ousness that he would turn God's into a way of unholy gain. ' P- brought a stern rebuke and v re warning. It is all yery Bolemn. s- there not to-day those who are 1< ing and praying for the baptism 1 j. the Holy Spirit for their own agg dizement or gain? An evang y once spoke on the baptism with Holy Spirit. A pastor as he wa: re home with him said, "That is 1- what I need. . I must have the t- tism with the Holy Spirit. I am d getting $1200 a year. 'If I had )r baptism with the Holy Spirit I bel I could get $1500." That was fri ' ful, but this pastor only put plain words what many another 2" dimly felt aud for this reason. longed and prayed for the gift. >r all such ponder the solemn word 1- vs. 20-23. Such a view of the ma [r reveals an irreverence toward is and a selfishness so profound a make pardon almost impossible j 22). The one who thinks that G gifts can be purchased Tyith mc does not know God nor the metl of His grace. All of God's gifts gifts indeed. They are not to be chased, but received (Is. 55:1; E i- 6:23; Eph. 2:8; Rom. 11:6). Si: had believed Philip's doctrine ls had been baptized with water (v. : JS but he was an unregenerate man, heart was not right in the sigh God, and he had no part nor lo this matter. The only one who part or lot in the matter of the >- of the Holy Ghost is the one wl il heart is right in the sight of God Heb. 1:9; Acts 5:32). It mat . U + Ha TnViafViAr nnr hfiorte ora rin-h a " i th^ sight of man, the question is, "" our hearts right in the sight of ( ?t We need forgiveness not only for r" outward acts, but also for >r thoughts of our heart. Simon wa the visible church, but neverthe te be was "in the gall of bitterness ,d the bond of iniquity." There is |a gall so bitter as the gall of sin. T1 , is no bond so strong as the bom iniquity (John 8:34). Simon did want to draw near to God himseli ie asked Peter to pray to the Lord for 1 3, He does not appear to have beer ;o sorry for his sin as he was frighte ,v at the possible penalty. Accordin, tradition Simon did not repent, became an enemy to the Gospel. 3" apostles did two things?they t< J- fied of what they themselves kne\ y- the Lord (cf. Luke 24:48; Acts 1 and "preached the Word of the Lo; The word translated "preach" m? "spoke." They did not preach mons, but just talked the Word I the Lord. Notice carefully wha was they talked, not their own id ia but the Word of the Lord. On tl 3- way back home they took opportu: ts of declaring the good tidings in >r villages of the Samaritans thro 1- which they passed. Their prejud il were breaking down rapidly. Tl method of preaching is worthy of i tation, just talking the Word of Lord and declaring the Gospel ( 's ennri newtO n Lived With Broken Neck. ie At a Coroner's inquest at Atlai n Ga., into the death of Frank Car a- sixty years old, it was testified t d his neck was broken seventeen ye , ago and he had lived without seri inconvenience from the accidi Carter died of apoplexy. When S police found his neck was broken t d suspected foul play and ordered 3- inquest. The testimony that his n I had been broken seventeen years | acceuted as satisfactory. X?car to Drink Milk. In Boston, Mass., Professor P. Harwood, of the Massachusetts St )r Dairy Bureau, told a convention milk producers that there had b g a decrease of 10,500,000 quarts Da the amount of milk consumed in ,t State during 1907. He attributed T decrease to the alarm over the ac j teration in nwlk. and said the m important thing to be done was IS bring about a restoration of c fidence. a r* Uncle Sam Owns One-fifth. '3 The forests owned by the Gove ment cover one-fourth of the tc it forest area, and contain one-fifth all the timber standing. "1 BITTER WAR ON INTEMPERANCE ? v SOLDIERS FIGHTING THIS CURSE I GREATLY CHEERED. The Unconquerable King. , The friends of old King Barleycorn DM? Are looking mournful and forlorn; I. And well, say. I, they may? For look'ee, there's a plan new-grown To oust the old King from his throne I And pluck his crown away. \ets To 8:6 It started with the C. T. U., Of , And, laws-a-mussy, how it grew! W om" Just like man's thirst for drink; And disaffected subjects cried: "Old Barleycorn must step aside? Ai Hi.? We want another King!" Tc Vith Of course, pretenders soon arose, Tc Vat- And which will win out, goodness knows? A/ re_ H The long lines never stop; j But those whose friends seem least afraid TV ~r" Are gallant young Prince Lemonade tne Ana Princess Ginger Pop. Tc very Tc eter To throw out poor King Barleycorn Or that They plot away from night to morn, the From soon to very late; So this They'll get him yet, but this is plain: , Though he may oe expelled or slain, Tc &ere Hell never abdicate. twe ?Richmond Times-Dispatch. Mi the Fc Compensation. to- As is known to all our readers the ruth all absorbing question agitating the and temperance people of England tohad day, is the demand of the liquor deal- f? re- ers for compensation in cases where 111 ;inct the magistrates refuse to renew H- ex So censes. The Rev. G. Armstrong, a d it Wesleyan Methodist preacher of Eng- n ioly land, in an able article printed in the ne end- Methodist Temperance Magazine, ge ntly turns the tables upon the liquor men m the when he says: "Justice demands Pr ; of. that the publican should compensate st ifter the State for the unspeakable dam- eij pos- ages his trade has inflicted upon it." , We The following are some of the , hod. items of the bill which hejsays the J? t by nation might fairly lay against the ime- traffic: *ked Item 1.?Damages for the deterior- in ar- ation of property in the neighborhood jties of the license. Fr the Item 2.?Compensation to employ- j the ers for all that they lose on Mondays, jH and and at other times, through the ab- 111 fvitb sence of tippling workmen from their .. not work. ogic Item 3.?Compensation to employ- ? ach- ers for muddle-headed work done by !n DUt uouajf numuueu. laid Item 4-?The cost of the support of th'e all drink-produced paupers and pau- cn The per-lunatics. > ? the Item 5.?The cost of policemen, *n n ol judges, prisons and criminal pro- 05 The cedure,' as far as they are due to S? e to drink. > J* peil. Item 6.?Compensation to families * the for death and sickness of members s so of the family caused by drink. Item 7.?Damages for all drinkTjn. causied accidents, shipwrecks and the m d to "ke. ? joly item 8.?Damages for all skilled e ghly workmen whose education has been m: iVet? costly to the community, and who ge gift have not given .the number of years' , Phis service in return that might have - . wfu] been expected from them, in conse ^re quence of their premature death w. arig- through alcohol. Wit{j If the State allows this traffic, ran- which has acquired such swollen co elist wealth by meani of an unearned in- ?e the crement, tc go soot free with what it Iked has sot, the trade ought to consider PJ ju6j that it has been treated with iherciful w bap. magnanimity. nc now Does the liquor traffic clamor for this Justice? ^ had better take care how jeve it utters that jirayer, lest God should ^ ?ljk answer it! wnat aoes tne jaw or 77 into ^od say is 3ustIce f?r the ox that ha<1 gored, and for the owner who know- f ingly kep.t it? Does the liquor traffic , Let as* for justice? Then justice let it. p1' s in be! Justice for broken hearts, for ei? lttei desolated homes, for commercial dis- WJ q0(j aster, for the manufacture of pau- ev t pers, lunatics, incapables and crim- ?.? CV Inals. Justice for myriads of little od.g children perishing in hunger and c mey squalor, and reared in filth, disease an 10dg and moral corruption, to be the are scourge of society. Does the liquor co traffic ciaim its due compensation? W( .qhj" What is it? The curse of the right- an. mon eous ^od' whose uttermost wrath w! and rests upon all systems that make YJ ,0) i traffic of the manhood which is so 1 ' precious in His sight that He has re oeemed it with the blood of His or/n r. S?qt in has ' ve gift Good Advice For Everybody. it? aose No one. will charge Field and al" (ci. stream with being a prohibition or- be ff8 gan. The advice that journal gives HI t m on the drink question is all the more he ?a^e valuable, especially to those who fol- co .rod. ]0W 6p0r,ts in northern woods in the pr winter time. It says: iti Alcoholic liquor is generally worse fa s In than useless in the woods, except in an lIess the most extreme cases. Hot tea will fri and do anything that brandy or whisky ov 1 no will do as a stimulant, and do it a ex lere whole lot better, and it is easy to o? i ?* carry a sufficient amount in your mi not pocket to last a week on the trail. In efii so. cold weather especially you should mi use no liquor on the trail, as it leaves be 1 so you more susceptible to cold after its th ne? temporary effects have passed than pr g to yOU were before. In zero weather tea pr but iS a nfe saver and liquor is a kiHer. tli The I very few mountain men of experl- Ai wti; ence carry liquor, even though they th v o" be habitual users of it, preferring tea bl< &;, as a cold weather drink in the cold, co r(*- thin air of the high country, and use su sans it freely. Tea can be made in a few Sc ser" minutes under almost any circum' ?" stances, and will brace you up wont ^ derfully at the finishing end of a hard eas, trip in -coid weather. hpir in. . lie aity va the Not Logical. r ugh Some say that, though moderate ha ices drinkers, they are loyal followers of of heir the Saviour of mankind. Can this Bti imi- be true if they continue to drink that f0 the which ruins many thousands of .those a the for whom He died? Ai A Novel Campaign For Temperance. nta, Right has always been on the side ter,' ?* the temperance forces, but in days atl hat past the saloons have often had the tu: ;ars most effective tactics, and the tactics It ous rather than the righteousness of the mi Bnt. cause nave prevailed. To-aay, tins foi the can no longer be said. The methods ? hey which have served the saloons so well the in the Past have been adopted by the eclj temperance forces and have been was cleaned up and purified and made to u_ serve the cause of righteousness. ,iQ Chief among these, perhaps, is adver- _-fl Using. ph II. :at6 Questions For Pastors. ?' Have you a Temperance Commiteen tee? . Do you occasionally have special t*10 , temperance meetings? rjl the How many of your members are r~ . pledged to total abstinence? ? os* Will you try to get your members ? t? I to sign a simple total abstinence : ou- | pledge? se At Fort Plain. NT. Y., Alfred Bil- Is rn. ; lington, a veteran of the Civil Wan D( ital ' murdered his son after both had been 0j drinking heavily together. Rum ancj in affection cannot thrive side by side- } is til ?- - 1 gjjhcredjorfbe f IQUETHOOI^I MARTHA OR MAitY. cannot chooBe; I should have liked at much 1 i sit at Jesus' feet,?to feel the touch Hirj kind, gentle hand upon my head hik- drinking in the gracious words H* said. id yet?to serve Him! Oh, divine en* ploy! ? minister and give the Master joy! bathe in coolest sprines His weary feet id wait upon Him while He sat at meat* -v orship or service?which ? Ah, that il best ? which He calk me?be it toil .->r re?t; r \ i labor for Him ip life's busy stir, seek His feet a silent worshiper. let Him choose for ub. We are not Htronc i make the choice. Perhaps we ahouM go wrong, ' istaking zeal for service?sinful sloth ir loving worship?and so fail of both. ?Home Herald. It is Hard to Be Rich and Good. ' ? Why should material prosperity aft ct unfavorably the righteousness ofV e people? Is it not reasonable t* pect that those on whom , a benefl? nt Creator has showered His bounty an unusual degree should be drawn arer to Him and become more dillnt in their obedience to His com^ andments? The bounty of Hit ovidence calls for larger gratitude, ronger faith, more constant obedice. What shall we think of a sod ic has been highly favored by hi* v ther and granted every wish tnrng away from that father to spend 1 s substance in riotous living? Yet is it not true as a rule that ose who have received most are the ost ungrateful? Do not the sons luuuigem pareuui uneu iuiu uui dly? Have not the children of xury eroerally made shipwreck of . e? The same is trne of nations, jundance brings luxury, luxury bets corruption and corruption en da ruin. Mr. Wesley had hard work persuade the people called Metbosts to live as well in prosperity a? , ' ' ey did la adversity. His doctrines- , ade men upright and industrious/ dustry and integrity were followed ...' r prosperity, and prosperity almost . 4 rtalnly caused religious decline* . any of the followers of Mr. Wesley came prosperous, and prosperity ex-* ted its natural effect' on their lives. 3 found a remedy. He adopted, and ; ; omillgated three rules: Firsts ake all you can; second, save/ all iu can; third, give all 70a can. iring strictly to theee rules anyone^ ay become prosperous without danr to his spiritual life.-" The- American people have reason* be on their guard against the. ruli* nich has overtaken other nations, e hear much boasting of nnparal* i lied prosperity. We see evidences the increase of luxury which such nditions begets. We cannot help eing the overwhelming corruption 't llowing upon the heels of great* osperity and national indulgence, hat shall the end be? America is it a land of destiny iti such a 'sense to be exempt from the operation of e unalterable law that "whataosver man soweth that shall he also reap. 3 that soweth to the flesh, shall of e flesh reap corruption.". The times caU for larger liberality, r deeper gratitude, for more comete consecration. We are not/own5, but stewards. We have nothing lich , we . have ^aot received. For ery talent we must all give ac? unt. Much will be receiyed from ose who have received much. If urches grow wealthy, preachers lass money, bishops lay up treases upon the earth/ Christians heme sordid and covetous, while the )rld lieth in wickedness and ignorce, no dignity or sacredness of office 11 save anyone from that word lich is so terrible in the pa^abler 'hou fool."?Christian Advocate. When Refining Was Needed. (add knows just when specially se? re affliction is needed.'and He times ! sending accordingly. We may not ways feel that He has chosen the at .time; but we may safely trust im in this. Two men Tyho ;jore avy responsibilities, and who had me to a time so Critical that their ocer discharge of those responsibiles meant the difference between ilure and success for themselves id many others, were both con- ' jnted, borne down, and well-nigb ercome, by entirely unforeseen and traordinary affliction. Asking each her why God had seen best to perit this added burden, when their iciency in His service so plainly deluded that they should be at their* 4 st, the only reasonable conclusion ey could arrive at was that God had obably done this in order to im- -c ove the quality of their work at a ne when quality was most needed, id the outcome seemed to justify^ ' ; eir belief. Gjd plans nothing but essings for us all; but unswerving nfldence in His love !r. our only re title to the blessing.?Sundayhool Times. f One Sin. Never trifle with one sin. It la :e a little cloud which, as a poet .s said, may hold a hurricane in its asp. The next sin you commit may ,ve a mighty effect in the blighting 4 your life. You do not know the reams that may flow from that untain; for sin is a fountain?no( mere act, but a fountain of evil.? ldrew A. Eonar. \ Piety a Means. Piety is not an end, but a means of taining the highest degree of cul- ' re by perfect peace of mind. Hence is to be observed that those who ike piety an end and aim in itself r the most part become hypocrites* Goethe. Cleaning Up. A cleaning up should be a cleaning * , and not a moving around. It will t mean anything, as a whole, toovel up a load of filth from one ice and simply move it to another, Phipps Owns Great Island. I By the recent transfer of the title . : the former residence of Charles B| r*wrtnf TelonH noqr Wvannla L/l J t KJL UI cat 40?auu, ass., on the south side of Cape Coq i Henry Phipps, the steel magnate f New York and Pittsburg, acquire# ill possession of the island, contain g about 800 acres. This is one oj Le largest individual holdings of ashore property in .the State. Great 4 land is an island in name only an<$ )t in fact, and boldly projects fa< to Vineyard Sound. It has an enor?^^H ous water frontage and a large covered with woods, which at^DK^B "1