The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, April 07, 1909, Image 2

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

f s?? 'ir^'-.r 1irJSiJ!nrlhdL:rJuirJL]r'Sr' gTc By MRS. . <^H5HSSSHSH5HSHSHSH5HS Hi CHAPTER VI. 10. i'ursuit. Glynn had known some rough times in his life, but a stupendous calamity such as had now overtaken him can only happen once in an existence. Little more than twelve hours before he had thrilled at Elsie's touch, and dreamed of winning her love! Why had he not accompanied her 10 her house, and seen her safely within her father's door. After a hideous night, during which he did not attempt to undress. Glynn was early next morning at the Rue de L'Eveque. Lambert looked less terribly agitated than he was the day before, hut he had an exhausted, stupefied air, as if nature could not hold out much longer. He was dressed and ready to go out. however, and as he was too soon for the appointment with M. Claude. Glynn accompanied him to see Madame Davilliers. They found her still much agitated. She received Lambert with affectionate sympathy, but talked in a strain Hlvnn Tha r?Viof Ho cuat luauu^u&u v*?j ttu, a i*v v?*v* w la surete had evidently communicated to her his own belief that Elsie had fled willingly. 'It is not for me to judge the habits of other nations," said madame, "but the results of such freedom as is permitted to young American girls cannot fail to be fatal! That dear Elsie was an angel of goodness and purity, brought up by those holy ladies of the convent, and all the more likely to be led away, because of her extreme innocence." "Do you mean to say that you think my child, my jewel, my pride, is to blame? that any one living could lead her astray?" almost screamed Lambert, stung from his despairing apathy into angry excitement. "Dear monsieur, I only blame your system, not its victim!" "You are premature in your con elusions, said uiynn witn com aispleasure. "Within twenty-four hours she will no doubt be discovered, and all that seems inexplicable explained." 'I trust it may he so, monsieur; meanwhile I agree with the excellent M. Claude that the affair should be kept as secret as possible; rumor will make everything worse than it really is, and for the sake of " "Adieu, madame; mine is too terrible an affliction to leave room for thought about appearances!" cried poor Lambert, turning away. "Poor unhappy father! all things may be pardoned to him," said Madame compassionately to Glynn, who bowed silently and followed his distracted friend. Arrived at the bureau de la surete, Glynn remained outside, slowly pacin cr t Vio c?+ rnaf o r? rl V> A n'Qi'fft/1 lug kliv .3 11 Ltl. I UUU n UilU '? tk I LVU ; somewhat to his surprise he saw Deering come out from a different door to that by which Lambert had entered. He was accompanied by a man in uniform, and walked briskly away, in the same direction in which Glynn was sauntering; but as they were considerably ahead of him, it was useless to attempt pursuit. He wished Lambert would voluntarily confide to him the secret of his enmity to Deering. He felt an unreasoning conviction that the extraordinary disappearance of Elsie was in some w-ay connected with it. Time went slowly, painfully; but at length a sergeant de ville approaching, saluted him, saying, "Will monsieur give himself the trouble to enter? M. Le Chef wishes to speak to him." Glynn followed readily, and found Claude alone. "Monsieur Lambert awaits you 'in an ante-chamber," said the grave chef; "you will soon be at liberty to join him. Meanwhile you will have no objection to answer a lew questions." He proceeded to put a few leading queries as to Glynn's position and occupation, the origin of his acquaintance with Lambert, its renewal, his knowledge of Deerlng and Vincent, and their connection with father and daughter. The astute chef "was courteous though searching, aud having meditated for a moment or two. said, "I should recommend your advising your friend to confide every circumstance connected with his daughter to me. He is keeping something back, and that something nullifies all our efforts." "J think he must have told you everything, especially connected with his daughter." "There is small chance of success if he does not." "I suppose VOU have no intelli gence as yet?" said Glynn. "Tliis is all we have discovered," said Mr. Claude, throwing open the doors of a large armolre, or clothes press, and there hung, in ghastly mockery, the pretty white ball dress which had so delightfully become the wearer, its bouquets of wild flowers crushed and flattened, and a long revolting stain of half-dried mud along one side of the creamy silk. "Good God!" exclaimed Glynn, starting back horror-struck. "Where ?where did you find this?" "One of our men found it near (he Pont do I/Alma early this morning See! here is where the lace and knot of ribbon were torn away. There is no other mark of violence. The intention evidently was to throw the parcel (it was tightly rolled up) into the Seine; but it fell short, and the river was low. You recognize the dress?" "Yes; and now?" "This proves nothing," said the imperturbable M. Claude. "The dress was deliberately thrown away, either to divert attention on a wrong scent, or simply to get riu of an encumbrance." 'Then you have not advanced since yesterday?" "Kot much. I have founA Ui.if w 1EHEESE5ZS2SHSE5HSZSH5H5S> ( " % ! >?? ? ??????? m i .ambert 1 j lysfcery? I ! ALEXANDER. 5HSH5HSHSESESHSE5ESHSaS3^ . Vincent is at Bordeaux, but alone." ' "And have you eeen M. Deering?" < said Glynn, quickly. i "Yes," returned M. Claude, looking < at him for an instant. "He came to 1 seek tidings of the missing young < lady, in whom he seems deeply in- i terested." "You do not. then, believe that any 1 great crime has been committed, he < faltered. "All things are possible, but I hope that before many days are over you 1 will hear from the young lady her- i self. I believe it' is an unusually J clever case of elopement. I have communicated with the English po- < life- hut" ? an plnrmpnt' fibrils'? ( "they have fewer facilities than we. ^ My telegram yesterday was too late ( to oatch the Dover mail boat?not < that I think it was of much conse- 1 quence, for '' ! His reason was never uttered; a ' tap at the door interrupted him. He '< rose, took a dispatch from the hands ? of a messenger. Closing the door. he read it, and then with a grim 1 smile, said: 1 "My suspicions are not far wrong. i The young lady is safe and well at Bordeaux?and not alone." 1 'What does your employe say?" 3 cried Glynn, not much comforted by the announcement. "Read for yourself," said M. 1 Claude, handing the telegram to him. Glynn eagerly scanned the lines. ! "Young English or American lady ' answering to description arrived here ' last evening: is staying at The Lion d'Or, on the quay. Has been visited 1 bv the cantain of an American steam er and another man. Father must come at once and identify her, or she 1 may escape." "This is some mistake," said Glynn ] the words dancing before his eyes. ' "This cannot be Miss Lambert." "It is most unlikely that my col- i league at Bordeaux should be in err- 1 or. He is one of the shrewdest em- J ployes of the surete. At all events 1 we must inform the father." He rang, and desired that M. Lam- 2 bert should be recalled. Glynn was infinitely touched by the dulled, help- ( less look of the once bright, alert 1 Lambert. He watched him read the ( telegram, and an expression of pleas- ? ure gleamed in his eyes. "This is a chance, anyhow," he exclaimed. "Of course I'll go. When 1 is the next train?" The detective watched him curiously. "But, Lambert," exclaimed Glynn, in English, "you surely do not believe this can be your daughter? You do not think that delicate, tender creature would fly from you to meet men of whom you know nothing?" "Maybe I do," said Lambert, "and maybe I don't. Drowning men clutch at straws. I'll go, anyway." He swayed slightly as he spoke, and caught Glynn's arm. "It is more than he can bear/' said M. Claude, with a rare gleam of feeling. I will telegraph to my colleague to meet you at the Gare. Tho mail train leaves at six. You will be in Bordeaux about noon to-morrow. You will, I trust, need no further a i sistance from my department. I wis>" a you good morning, gentlemen." ? He opened the door politely, ai.d they went forth. * "Lambert," said Glynn, as he sup- i ported his friend's unsteady step?, r "you are not fit to travel alone. I a will go with you." r "I'm better," returned Lambert, t withdrawing bis arm, -"and I thank a you from the bottom of my heart; a but I'd rather go alone. If?if?oh! J great heavens:?She mightn't like to r see you, Glynn. No, no," with in- d creasing decision, "I would rather go i alone, and I will send you word what t I find. You have been wonderfully i good to me, and you know what she was?is. Why do I despair? If? 1 oh, if," with sudden fury, "I ever i get my grip on the infernal villain that drove lier to this, he'll have seen the last of light, and go down to darkness forever. There, i don't know what I am talking about. My c head seems all wrong." 1 "You had better let me go with t you, Lambert. Believe me, you are c not fit to go clone, and you must keep t wen, at any rate, im you recover or t rescue your daughter." t "Recover her! Ay, that I will," a standing still suddenly. "Do you think I'm not proof against every- t thing till I find her? and then?and then, when she is eafe, I have done c my work, and I'll rest?ay, rest well c and long. But I'll make this jour- i ney alone." There was nothing for it but to j give up all thoughts of persuading \, him. The hours which succeeded, how 1 slowly, yet swiftly, they dragged i their torturing length! i Still, fast or slow, the hours went c by. Glynn was finally overcome with p fatigue and sleep, so enjoyed a few 1 hours of blessed oblivion. F He woke with a startled sense of I I wrong-doing in having forgotten even !i for a moment the awful uncertainty i (hat had laifl its curse upon him, and collecting liis thoughts, remembered a hi:; surprise at not having received s i telegraphic message from Lambert. True, he might not have succecdedat a once in 'seeing his supposed daugh- I ter. t pnnimnni^ri/inn I however, before be sallied forth to renew <tio restless round of yesterday "Oflieer mistaken. A fresh track. v Am off (o Marseilles. Will write." ^ In a sense this was a relief; but Marseilles? that seemed (ho most unlikely place to find (he object of their search. However, all places were un- b likely. Lambert had better keep al hand in Paris. I-Ie would write and beg him to return. I Glynn had taken his hat and was l i at the door, when some one knocked, c ind Deering entered, well dressed, :col. distinguished-looking:, as over, jut. with a somewhat, haggard aspect, ind a set, sinister expression about ii6 mouth. 'I suppose you have heard nothing 'resh? no discovery of any clue to :he whereabouts of Lambert's daughter?" he asked. "Nothing. Her father went down t ,o Bordeaux yesterday at the sugges- * [ion of M. Claude to identify a girl i iescribed as resembling Miss Lam- I jert. I have just had this telegram s from him." t "Ha!" said Deering, on reading it, ; 'I doubt if Lambert will afford M. Claude much assistance. I fancy some of his raffish associates have carried otT the young lady, .mrt he is , too much in their power to be very , earnest about discovering or punish- | ing them." I "Have you suggested this idea to , the chef de la surete?" asked Glynn | :oldly. "Why should you think so?" "Because he talked to me of Lambert's concealments as militating igainst the success of the search, just ( iftc-r you left him." < Deering's brows met in a fierce, | juick frown, and then resumed their | ordinary haughty composure. "Yes; ( [ thought it well to warn him. I am j 2ven now endeavoring to sift a curi- | 3us story about Lambert; it may be | true, but I am a good deal concerned j it this disappearance of his daugh- | ter, and I think so are you. She is ( i fascinating morsel of female flesh, ind it is maddening to see the prize rou had marked for your own carried | Dff under your very eyes. Really j there is no line deep enough to | fathom a woman." . "I never marked Miss Lambert as < my own," said Glynn angrily. "I object to your mode of mentioning her. [ do not believe that Miss Lambert left her home willingly, unless decoyed by false pretences." "Be that as it may, I would give a ijood deal to know where she is. I i believe she is in England; she was brought up there, I believe. Well, I :ross to-night, and will set the police 1 it work so soon as I get to London. Shall you be much longer here?" "My movements are uncertain," returned Glynn stiffly. "You'll wait and assist the be- \ reaved father, I presume," said Deering, with an unpleasant smile. "By ' :he way, Vincent has returned, and is awfully cut up about the affair. Vincent was, I fancy, a suitor; might j lave been a decent match for Miss ' Lambert; he is a shrewd fellow. But r'ou are in a hurry, 1 will not detain ' ,'OU." 1 He bid Glynn "good-morniner" with 1 a ? . lurious friendliness, and left him ' lalf-maddened with torturing waves ' )f doubt, which seemed rising on all 1 ;ides, { Another lone miserable day. ' No letter from Lambert, and fail- [ ire iu an attempt to see the chef de a surete completed the day's trials. The fourth morning brought Lam- ' )ert's promised letter. The girl sup- 1 josed to resemble Elsie was a rouged ' nodeste, with dyed hair and rather jood blue eyes, the only real point of esemblance. "The reasons for his jxpcdition to Marseilles were too nu- I nerous for a letter," Lambert wrote. 'He had some faint hopes of sue- < :ess, and would tell all when he re- | urned, if Glynn was still in Paris." < f! how could he tear himself away ill this cruel mystery was cleared , ip? I In the porter's lodge, as he passed i >ut, Glynn found a police agent with i i message?Could he come soon to he Bureau de la surete? Me le chef j vished to speak with him. I Glynn's reply was to hail a fiacre, i ,nd making the agent come with him, | Irove at once to the bureau. "So the coin missaire at Bordeaux i vas mistaken," said M. Claude. "That | s the difficulty of descriptions, even ( >hotographs sometimes deceive. I im having several copies made of ( nademoiselle's, and shall send them o the principal towns." He paused, | md looked at Glyun. said: "I do not i ipprove this demarche to Marseilles; 1 ? >f. Lambert should have confided his | casons to us. He cannot work in- , lependently; but he will make noth- , ng by his journey. Were he here? here is a fresh and more hopeful re- , tort from Bruges this morning." "And it is?" exclaimed Glynn, j eaning forward in his chair, quiver- ( ng with anticipation. s To be Continued. i Daily Life in America. At a recent dinner in London the j onyersation turned to the subject of ynching in the United States. It was he general opinion that a large per:entage of Americans met death at he end of a rope. Finally the hosess turned to an American who had aken no part in the conversation, ma saia: "You, sir, must have oftefc seen hese affairs?" "Yes," he replied, "we take a kind if municipal pride in seeing which ity can show the greatest number of ^ ynchings yearly." . "Oh, do tell us about a lynching , ou have seen yourself," broke in ' lalf a dozen voices at once. "The night before I sailed for Engand," said the American, "1 was giv- ' ng a dinner at a hotel to a party of ( ntimatc friends when a colored wait- ( !i* spilled a plate of soup over the J town of a lady at an adjoining table. * Phe gown was utterly ruined, and the ( ntiemen of her party at once seized 1 ire waiter, tied a rope around his ( ieck, and at a signal from the injured c ady swung him into the air." * "Horrible!" said the hostess with l shudder. "And did you actually j ee this yourself?" "Well, no." admitted the American ipologetically. "Just at that moment ' happened to lie down stairs killing he chef for putting mustard in the dauc mange."?Life. The first Farmers' Alliance Conrention In Liberia, Africa, was re- I ently held at Monrovia, the capital. is a result, the African Agriculural World, published iu that city, ays that Liberia's agricultural reources are to be developed. a Mrs. Sarah Lamb, of St. Pancras, t -.ondoii, remarked on her recent a 0 4 th birthday that she "wouldn't j iiiad livinc ber life over again." j cmKDMfcnumcmaurmnBxrrssmawmyrtrm u To Hold Sheets. Sheets will stay in piece on the matress by sewing three large buttons >n the head end and foot end of the icd. on the under edge of mattress, f the same size sheet is to go on sither side of bed sew loops of white he same distance apart.?New York Tournal. Care of Piano. Don't place your piano, if you ?*alue it, near the windows. The varying temperature will in time play lavoc with the strings,' etc. Another 3ad position is where one e?d will be aear the fire and the other exposed .0 the draft from tike door or window. ?New York Journal. Washing the Dishes, Dish-washing need be done but )nce a day. If dishes are cleaned with the pliable blade of a palette lenife they can be put away in neat riles and washed as one task. There ire dish-washers which save the aands and require no towels in dryng, the dishes being rinsed and left :o dry. One of my maids told me :hat the castles of Ireland, the part from which she hailed, were supplied with Ideal kitchens equipped with racks where dishes were left to dry. rhe china and glass were of the finest kind, there was a large quantity in ioth and this nrocess kept the nieces bright. Why do we still cling to the 3ish towel??Betty Bradeen, in the N'ew Have Register. A Great Help. If you wish never to fail to get light pot-pie, have a shallow steamer made that will fit inside the kettle ind come up just even with the top. rhe liquor will boil up over the dumplings, but they are not submerged, which makes them heavy. To bake two kinds of bread or cake in a tin, fit a section of heavy cardboard crosswise in the centre of a brick-shaped tin, or better, get a tinner to solder in a piece of tin. With the card-board, which should be well greased on both sides, only bread or cake can be baked, but with the tin, meat may be cooked in one partition, beans or a vegetable in the other. Akin to this is the divided spider, :o use with a hand coal-oil stove. It las three tin receptacles, each with ;over and handle, so shaped that they fit together in the shape of a ^nMnr TV TV. o f Aon Kn lini'laH in nnn o )[;iuci iuual tuu wc i/uncu iu vuv, u vegetable in another, and in the :hird, water be heating for tea and iish-water. Any one of these can be -emoved when the contents are done. Fhis is a great help in winter, as well is in summer when one does not wish ;o keep up the fire in the kitchen stove.?Sarah E. Wilcox, in The Country Gentleman. For the Home Sewer. Don't stitchj the pleats on a skirt jefore first trying the garment on. Don't expect any skirt, coat or 3ress to look well unless thoroughly pressed while in the course of construction and when completed. Don't dampen silk when pressing. \ moderate hot iron, with cloth or [)aper between the garment and the iron, when the pressing is done on :he right side, should be used. Don't double the materials in making folds for trimming skirt; cut :hem singly, allowing enough extra ft'idlh for a very narrow hem at the :op and bottom. Don't stitch skirt seams all in one Jirec-tion. The bias side should be field uppermost, which means that :he scams of half the skirt should be stitched from top to bottom and the )ther half from bottom to top. Don't attempt to stitch long seams, Mas, or bias against a straight seam, without basting. A basting stitch saves a great many fulling up of materials and puckering up of seams, svhich any amount cf pressing canlot do away with. Don't forget that a snipping or lotching of the seams here and there, jarticularly with a selvage edge forming one side of the seam, will couneract the shrinking tendencies when seams are dampened and pressed. When the selvage shows a puckered )r drawn effect in the goods it is bet:er to cut it away before starting the garment.?Pittsburg Dispatcl* Cheese Walls?fieat the cheese unil melted to the consistency of chewug gum, then mold to the shape of m oval bon bon and press a nut meat n centre. Chickcn Broth.?Take an old fowl (it makes better broth than a young jne, if not too old), weigh it and :ut it into small pieces, removing the skin and cracking the bones well. Proceed as with "stock." Next day, jr when thoroughly cool, take oi'f he fat, and to each one and one-half luarts of stock allow a tablespoonful >f raw rice. Proceed as with mutton jroth. Add a little parsley. Currant Cake.?OnD cup butter, wo cups sugar. Beat together, then idd one egg, one cup unll:, one cup lour, then one egg, one cup flour, hen one egg. one cup Hour, then one ;gg, one cup flour, one teaspoon ream tartar, one-halt' spoon soda,r lutmeg and currants. This makes no loaves in one. Put currants in he other one Pour eggs in all. I Ham nml Tomatoes.?When there s a little meat left ou a ham bone, i l palatable dish can be made from t. Take six good sized tomatoes .nd hollow out tne ceutres. Fill with inion and ham, chopped fine, and a ew bread crumbs. Season with salt ind pepper. Cover the opening on op with a thin slice of ham, and drop . spat of butter on each. Bake in iuttered tin pan until tomatoes are one. THE TEMPERANCE PROPAGANDA CONCERTED ATTACK ON DRINK WINNING ALL ALONG LINE. The South Rushing Rapidly to Prohibition?Putting a Tight Crimp About the Liquor Traffic?Finds in This Method Salvation. Gradually local option practice in the Southern States is merging into general prohibition?-and this is a country where Individual liberty ie held particularly dear and where the use of alcohol was not long since almost universal. Those who wonder at it are people who have never lived in the Southern States and had intimate association with Southern people. The South is putting a tight crimp about the liquor traffic, not because it is, generally speaking, more moral or more enlightened than other sections, but as a means of salvation. Prohibition there may be likened to the resort to vaccination. The latter form of inoculation is complex and life is lost through tetanus or health is impaired through the introduction of other diseases common to the human species. But even before people became aware of the risks, they accepted vaccination because they saw that it limited the terrors of a disease that was once a terrible plague. The South, stunned by the catastrophe of the war, lay dormant for a time. It was impoverished and education languished. Its enterprising young men grew weary of its Umita< tions and went away, and only the more listless stayed at home. There was a disposition among the lowe* strata to seek consolation in drink, and that appetite, coupled with a gen< eral poverty, made the South a country of moonshine stills. A portion of the colored race, eafe enough under natural conaiuons, uecame u puoii? menace when it could indulge in liquor. The awakening has1 been rapid, and the remedy is applied with a thoroughness that is surprising to people who do not appreciate the mainsprings of it. It seems an unreasonable enforcement that forbids the sale of liquor on a buffet car of a through train, but there is a reason, and the Statea which make such regulations speak with authority. The riot which mad0 such a stir in Atlanta a few months ago was the cause of a more general awakening, and apparently the time is approaching when the retail liquor traffic will be almost entirely suspended in the States where it has been a menace in recent years.?Detroit News-Tribune. Stop the Best Saloor.s. Probably you would say, "Break up all these filthy and low haunts, all these places where the habitually intemperate, the degraded, the wretchedly poor congregate, and let these beverages be sold only in respectable places and to respectable people!" But is this really the best plan? On the contray, it seems quite reasonable to maintain that it is better to sell to the intemperate than the sober, to the degraded than to the respectable, for the same reason that it is better to burn up the oM hulk than to set fire to a new and splendid ship. I think it worse .to put the first glass lo a young man's lips than to crown with madness an' old drunkard's lifelong alienation?worse to wake the fierce appetite in the depths cK a generous and promising nature than to take the carrion of a man, a mere shell of imbecility, and to soak it in a fresh debauch. Therefore, if I were going to say where .the license should be granted in order to show, its efficacy, I would say?Take the' worse sinks of intemperance in the city, give them the sanction of the law, and let them run to overflowing. But shut up the gilded apartment where youth takes its first draught, and respectability just begins to_falter from its level.?Dr. E. H. Chapin. Alcoholism's Terrifying Increase. The French Academy of Medicine, considering alcohol and its relation to children, listened to the report of a long examination undertaken in Normandy by Dr. Brunon, of Rouen, who said alcoholism is increasing in that part of France in terrifying proportions. Alcoholic drinks are frequently given there, even to suckiing babes. When the children are ill, alcohol is the first remedy given, even in cases of convulsions. Women, particularly, have taken more to alcohol, which accounts for the increase in alcoholism among children. At the present time the mode is for youth to take absinthe, and in this is involved the greatest danger. Many young men, sometimes three-fourths of the whole number drawn to appear for examination for the army, are more or less drunk, while fifteen to twenty mayors, with flushed faces, assist in the examination. The effect is that Normandy, which a century ago supplied ^he majority of the army's cuirassiers, to-day cannot furnish men of the required height, and alcoholic trembling is frequent among the young soldiers. The Curse of Labor. Cardinal Gibbons has said: "The great curse of the laboring man is intemperance. It has brought more desolation to the wage earner than strikes, or war, or sickness, or death. j It is a more unrelenting tyrant than the grasping monopolist. It has causcd little children to be hungry, j and cold, to grow up among evil as- i sociates, to be reared without the. knowledge of God. It has broken up more homes and wrecked more lives than any other cause 011 the face of the earth." Temperance Notes. A tippling Christian is a teacher of tippling. South Carolina will probably pass a rigid prohibitory law. In North Carolina intoxication of railroad employes while on duty has been made a misdemeanor, punisti I auif at iuu uioticiiuu ui wie tuuii. | Judge J. L. Fort has submitted an j amendment to the constitution of Missouri to the Legislature, which is intended to bring the State under ' prohibitory law. There are two sides to the saloon question?the side that wants to put down the saloon, and the side that wants to put down what is in the saloon. James T. Ban.ard, in the Templar, says: "Fifty years of temperance agitation in the United Slates has resulted in reducing the annual per capita consumption of alcohol by just one half-pint." Heinrich Charles, the well known editor of Nationale Prosperiat, New York, is "boosting" a campaign of education in favor of temperance among tho Corcuau residents o? the United Stales. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR NOV. 3 IJY Till] REV. I. W. IIENDKItSOX. Subject: The Ciiies of Ilffiigo, Joshua 20:1-0?Golden Text, l's. C2:7 ?Memory Verses, 2, :> ? Commen hi ry on the Day's Lesson. The cities; of refuge illustrate an;! enforce upon our minds the sanctity of human life. That is their largest open meaning. By analogy there may be found in them a type of the safety that is to be found in the Lord Jesus Christ for the soul of the sinner. The first lesson is quite obvious. The second is so only as we are cognizant of the part that Jesus plays in the life of the man whos.' soul is released from the bondage ot sin unto death and vitalized by that Spirit to possess whom is eternal life. The lesson illustrates the value, and the importance of human life. It shows us that Innocent blood should not be spilt, that even a murderer is entitled to other consideration than that given him by a bloodavenger. It emphasizes the truth that even the life of a murderer is precious in the eyes of God. There was need of the cities of refuge in the days of which the lesson treats. The blood-avenger, the nearest of kin to a slain man, went hot on the trail of any man who, however unwittingly, had taken the life of his relative. A man who had been unfortunate enough to become embroiled in an unpremeditated at ifttn. uyuu uuuiucr <tiiu iiau uuue uuu fatal Injury could always couut upon the Immediate revenge of the bloodavenger. Vengeance was the first thing which he mieht expect. Avenge and then investigate. But avenge j first. The cities of refuge afforded a proper and necessary opportunity to escape ill-advised vengeance. They gave a man who was not really bad at heart a chance for his life. They impressed upon the mind of the murdfxsr that he had taken life and thereby had forfeited to some extent his full rights in society. They impressed upon the murderer the importance of his own life to society. They made the blood-avenger to understand that even a murderer has rights. We are enlarging the rights of men in our time. We no longer have the blood-avenger except in isolated instances. We are denying to individ uals the right to eiecute the laws that properly belongs to the province of society as a whole. We are insistent that a man shall have a trial for his life whether he be guilty or not. And we are gradually beginning to question the good sense of taking the life of any man as an act of social vengeance. Some day we shall understand that national vengeance is as senseless, in the last analysis, as private vengeance. And war will cease. The lesson also affords us an analogy of the refuge we may find in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. It is to Him that we may flee for comfort and for a chance to live nobler and more beautiful lives when we have fallen into sin. Of course we know that we do not have to flee to Him to oscane thp nnhnlv wrath nf ft ranri clous God. For God is not anxious to engage in the role of a blood avenger. But sin when we have fallen into its dominion will utterly confound and destroy us if it have its way. The escape from that death Is i to be found in Jesus Christ. He is our city of refuge. God's providence gives us the benefit of every doubt and counsels us to flee to Him. Within Him we may find safety and security. i Even a? the cities of refuge were conveniently situated so that the , manslayer might easily find them, so Jesus is within easy reach of every I soul who needs the consolation of | abiding within Him. He is not far off from every one of us. Any man, 1 regardless of his previous condition of servitude to sin, may enter into Him and find in Him salvation. Like' wise even as the murderer had to stay in the city of refuge in order to receive the benefits of the deliverance ; that the city offered, so must we abide in Christ. To go out of His dominion is to re-enter the dominion of sin. Likewise as the manslayer was cer tain of the reality of his deliverance and his safety while he was in the city so should we he sure of our safety while wc are in Christ. To doubt Him is ungracious. It is treasonable. To have fears while under His protection is to doubt the goodness and the word of God. Every man needs Christ as his refuge. The greatest consciousness that man possesses next to his consciousness of his divine lineage is the consciousness of his sin. If sin had its way we should be annihilated. It could not fce otherwise. Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. That is law. It Is justice. It is the law of God. The fruit of sin is death. And the ultimate way for a man to secure release from the dominion of the death that Is the result of sin is to flee to Christ and to abide within Him. For when a man is in Christ Jesus he is a-saved man. There can be no question about it. The fact is absolute. It is the will of God. There is no experience so satisfying as the experience of abiding within Christ. And Christ not only affords us refuge. He also ministers comfort and grants us the peace that is heavenly. He is not only a guard but a guide. He is not only a refuge. He is a rock. j 9 Spy Out Your Heart. | Take the candls of God's word and | search the corners 01 your neari.-' ! tohn Mason. Whisky and Consumption. Whisky neither cures nor prevents consumption, according to the anuual report of the Henry Phipps Institute, of Philadelphia, which says: "It becomes more and more manifest that all extreme views upon thi3 subject will have lo be abandoned. That alcohol neither prevents nor cures tuberculosis Is evident from the number of alcoholics who have como for treatment, ami that it docs not strongly predispose to the disease seems to stand out prominently from I the vast preponderance of non-alcoholics among the applicants. Neither can it be shown that, the children of alcoholics are more prone to tuberculosis than the children of non-alcoholics. '' Ship Rails (o Australia. The United Stales Steel Products fixport Company, which has charge .if Uio foreign business of the United States Steel Corporation, secured a contract for 10,000 tons of steel rails lo bo shipped to Australia for the extension of the Victorian State Railway system. Ttio corporation also secured a contract for heavy girder rails far use in New Zealand. These contracts wero secured in I he face of Uritish and European comnetlUoa. Religious Reading FOR THE QUIET HOUR* ~=w^~ THY LOVE. Thy love, dear Lord, I crave. Thy blood my soul must save. My Bins remove. Oh, wash them all away, ; And let the light of day , Thy kindness prove. In sorrow's darkest night, While round faith's beacon light Thick cloud.? increase, Keep me from sinful fear; Then in Thy love appear, And brir** ine peace. Thy love is all 1 ask; With it will ever}' task A pleasure be. My love, my life T give To Thee, who now doat live, But died for me. Transcendent love was Thine, To give Thy life for mine, And die for all. This love, dear I/ord, I crave;. This love my soul must save; I hear Thy call: ? "Come unto Me, ye blest. Come, and your pouIs shall rest; In ?Me abide. Then shall your cry be slillcd; Your hearts with love be filled, Be satisfied." ?C. G., in the Christian Herald. j Christian Tranquillity. That ye may study to b? quiet.?I. Thessalonians. 4:11. Anxiety involves extreme pain. .11 comes from the same root as anguislj. The pain, however, is not physical but mental, and for that reason a)I the harder to bear. How prevalent in society is this form of mental pain! How infrequent is a tranquil face! Anxiety seems to be a kind of hysteria to which Americans are peculiarly susceptible. In suicide, at least, we seem to be in a fair way of outstripping the rest of the world. Some Hindus that Professor James was H cVinrtMntr ohnnf Pomhrirlo'A r^mQrlrAil" ' upon the strained faces of Americana and their distorted limbs, in contrast to Oriental placidity and grace. They said that it was the custom of Hindus to retire at certain times every day. to relax their muscles and meditate on- eternal things. Has Christianity cure for anxiety? The Christian is tranquil as regards provision for the future. He provides for the future, but without anxiety. Over and over Christ bidsHis disciples be not anxious. This i does not mean that we are not to work hard and lay up against a rainy, day. But it divests work of the fuss and fret that impair our vigor and disqualify us from doing our best. The Scriptures teach that righteousness is the parent of comfort. Seek first the Kinkdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. The universe is on the side of the man who does right. Exceptions to this are only apparent. The life of the Individual is too short for the principle to work itself out completely, so that It stands out more clearly, in the history of a family or of a nation. It is not only provision for the future that is apt to make us anxious. We worry over our past. Now the Christian revelation provides a drug for these painful memories. We learn, like St. Paul, to forget the things which are behiad. We cannot change the past, but we believe . that all our sins are forgiven because of God's unconditional love, revealed in Christ. Our very sins then become stepping stones. They, prevent presumption. They fill us with sympathy for the erring. We love God because He first loved us. Our work, too, often make3 us anxious. We thirst for recognition or else we erieve over the meaere and inconspicuous results of all''our efforts. But the value of our woifc is determined not by the bulk of the result achieved but by the spirit in which the work is done. It is only, as we go deep into the work itself,without thought of the consequences, that we vitally affect the lives of others. Besides, the chief value of our work is that it promotes ample and symmetrical self-development. God thinks more of a man than of his work. The work may be wood, hay or stubble, in the end burned up, but the man is saved, so as by, fire. We are employed by our great Master to work by the day, not bythe piece. Every day should have its ritual, and it is more important to live by rule than to accomplish some great result. This is the secret of "toil unsevered from tranquillity."" The supreme crises of life are an even more fruitful source of foreboding than our past or our work of provision for the future. The mind i# infested with thoughts of bereavemeut and poverty and sickuess and old age and death. Here again the Christian is claimed by faith in the love of God. Providence is only another name for the love of God which anticipates these crises, so that when we arrive at them we see the traces of the Father's hand that ha? arranged them for us beforehand, either lightening the burden or strengthening our shoulders to bear it. Some of these things we may never have to experience at all; and why should we allow ourselves to suffer them in imagination We have no right to occupy the mind with unpleasant things. The imagination has power to mass untoward events so as to produce the effect of their occurring simultaneously. Real evils come to us one by one, and grace is promised for each day'? { need.?Rev. Edward Judson, Memo- \ rial Baptist Church, New York, is the Sunday Herald. What is Your Life Woi-tli? The season of vacations, conventions and assemblies brings to the thoughtful Christian a time of introspection and balancing of spiritual accounts, nas xne lire neeu nnea with the really important? has one's idea of life proved to be a workable theory? of what use has the life been as it has interwoven with countless other lives? what have other people been obliged to think of us? are we i*Hre that our life has had the right tnertd? is it the Christian life? ??Pacific. Baptist. iStreet Car Hug Fiiictl. Joseph Neager, charged with being a "street oar hog," was fined $2T> and costs on his plea of guilty in court, in Clayton, a suburb of St. Louis. John P. Slough and two children were rid ing on the front seat of a car and Neager and some friends forced them out of it. National Bank Capital. * There were in existence in the Uuitcd States at the closo of business August 31, 6582 national banking associations, with authorized capital stock of $904,404,775.