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LADY o THE SEQUEI BY MRS. C V U t H H M M M * < M > t CHAPTER XII. 14 Continued. Presently she became able to yo DUt, to'be drawn in a chaise along the sands, or away in the other direction to the line of the eastern coast, with -.11 J+O nnpinnc rn^lrc nnr? pnvpc. AbOllt ail HO VUi 4WUO ? vv?u V.? ten days after her arrival in St. Andrew's Lady Car made one of these expeditions accompanied by Beaufort and Janet. They took her in.her little vehicle as far as it would go, and then she walked a little down to the shore, to a spot which she recollected in her youth, where a grassy bank of the close short seaside grass bordered a ridge of broken rocks higher than the level of the beach. Over this line of rocks there was a wonderful view of the little town isolated upon its headland, with The fine clus-1 ter of the ruined cathedral, the high square tower of St. Rule, the gray heap of the destroyed castle, and the little port below, set in the shining sea; and great breadths of the blue firmament banded with lines of pearly cloud. Here Carry sat down to rest tvhile her companions went further od the coast to the curious little bay with its bristling rocks where stands O n i n ^ 1 n 1 o f r <jrnnntr t V) P Hie iauiuuo ui'iuuiv., iviv v?v sea-pools by some gigantic Norman of the north. The wide air, the great sky, the sense of space and freshness, and separation , from all intrusive things; and, on the other hand, the picture made by that cluster ot human habitations and ancient work of man defaced and worn, standing in the rays of the afternoon sun. which streamed over it from the coast, made a perfect combination. The ridge of red rocks and piled .stones which cut. off all vulgarities of the background and relieved in warm color against the gray headland and the wonderful blue sea, made the foreground of the picture shut in Lady Car's retreat, though the coast road wound on behind her, communicating by a rocky passage, almost like a stair, with the sands below. Lady Car seated herself upon me grass. dub uiu uul tare even to sketch; all her old pursuits had dropped from tier. She was content to sit still, with her eyes more often upon the wide line of the horizon than on any intermediate point, however attractive. There was a sort of luxury of the soul in that width of stainless silent air which required nothing, not even thought, but filled her with a faint yet exquisite sense of calm. The peace of God?did she dare to call it so? Certainly it passed understanding. That she should sit in this beatitude in a calm so complete, with so many?oh, so many? things to make her anxious and to make her sad. Still so it was. She did not know how long she had sat there in that wide universe of sea and sky when her attention was first called to voices underneath the ridge of rock. The sands beyond were on a lower level, and it might well be that people underneath might discuss the most private affairs without any thought of possible listeners above. Carry had heard the murmur of the voices for seme time before she took any heed of them, or distinguished one from another. These tones she presently observed were very unlike the peace all around; there was a sound of conflict in them, and now Q nrl tVlon a Kmlr on rtAi a on if 4V.a iaiav* u. Ui VIVC11 XAVJV^ as 1L Lilt; woman sobbed. For it was apparent at once that the two './ere a man and woman, aDd soon that there was some controversy between them. When Lady Car began to awaken out of her dream of caim to become aware of these two people below and in discussion or quarrel which was every moment increasing in intensity, she did not perhaps know how to make her presence known, or rather, perhaps, it was something in the sound of one of the voices which bewildered and confused her. At first she thought with a vague trouble it was a voice she knew. Then she started from her grassy seat with a horrible sensation, as if she were hearing over again, though not addressed to herself, one of those mocking, threatening, insulting floods of words which had once been the terror of her life. Torrance! Had she lived to hear him speak again? She had escaped from all imagination of him in this beautiful, and distant scene. What was it that like a terrible wind of recollection, like an hour come back from the miserable past, made her hear his voice again? She had risen up in her dismay and alarm, almost with an impulse of flight, to get out of his way, lest he should find her again, when an impression almost more terrible still made her pause and hold her throbbing breast with both hands. She turned her face toward the rock with a faint cry, and sank down again upon the grass. There could be no doubt that it was a man speaking to a woman over whom he had almost absolute power, a husband to a wife ?or, perhaps?but Carry knew no other relationship than that which permitted such tones, and when her first irrational panic was over she became aware that it was the voicc of Tom. To whom was he speaking? She did not ask what he was saying. She could not hear the words, but she knew them. A woman who has once borne such a storm rpencniioc it again. To whom couid Tom speak in that voice of the supreme??mocking, threatening, pouring forth abuse and wrath. To whom did the boy dare to speak so? He had no wife. The voices grew Jouder; the two seem to be parting: the man hurrying away, discharging a volley at his companion, as he left her. the woman weeping, following, calling him back. Lady Car sat breathless, her terrified eyes fixed on the path behind, up which ?he heard him coming. "Go back. I tell you: I have nothing mor?' to eai ;<j you." hs cried. 1 CAR; re. L OP A LIFE. JLIPHAINT. His countenance flushed with rage; appearing above the edge of the rocks, while he half turned back waving the other away, brought confirmation certain of Lady Car's fears She rose again and made a step toward him, tottering in every limb as in other days, when his father had beaten her to the ground with suet another torrent. But to whom, tc whom was the boy speaking? She cried out in a voice of anguish: "Tom!" He started in his turn so violentlj that he stumbled on the rocks anc almost fell. "Mother!" he cried, instinctively. Then.turned round with a hoarse roar of "Back! Back!" curs ing himself for that betrayal. "Tom, what is it? To whom were you speaking? Answer me! To whon did you dare to speak like that?" 44What are you doing here,?" he said. "Listening! I never knew yoi to do that before, mother?come along! this isn't a place for you." ?1 -?*?-? onoQUnc "'lO W IIU UI WCIC V u U 01J^uniuc Tom?" "Me? I was speaking to nobody; there's some sweethearts or some' thing carrying on down there. I don'l meddle with what is none of my con' cerns. Come along! I am not g'oinj to leave you here." He seized her arm to draw hei away, and Lady Car saw that his rag( had turned to tremor. He looked al her from under his lowering eyebrows with that fierce panic which is sometimes in the eyes of a terrified dog ready to fly at and rend any one "I am not going from here till mj husband comes for me?nor till ] know what this means," said Lad) ~ A U1I O-r,^ uar. one was iremunug an utu, ?u<. her heart so beating that every wile throb shook her person. But she was not afraid of her son's violence. Anc other steps were drawing near. A: Lady Car leaned upon a corner of th< rock supporting herself, there grad ually appeared up the ascent a young woman in very fine but flimsy attire her face flushed with crying anc quarreling, dabbing her cheeks with i handkerchief like a ball all gatherec up in her hand. The impression oi bright color and holiday dress so in consistent with the violent scene through which she had been passing and the probably tragical circum stances in which the unhappy gir stood, threw a sort of grotesque mis ery into the midst of the horror. a0h!" cried the newcomer, "h( called you his mother, he did! If yoi are his mother, it's you most as ] ought to see." "Hold your'cursed tongue,"' criec Tom, beyond himself, "and get of] with you! I've told you so before You're not fit to speak to my?to ? lady. Go! go!" "You think it grand to say that,' cried the girl, evidently emboldened by the presence of a third party, "bul you must just give it up. I'm not ashamed to speak to any lady. I'vt done nothing to be ashamed of. I'v( got my marriage lines to show and mj wedding ring on my finger. Look al that, ma'am,'' she cried, dragging ? glove off a red and swollen hand. II was with tears, and trouble, and excitement that she was so swollen and red. She thrust her hand with, indeed, a wedding ring upon it, in Ladj Car's face. "Look at that, ma'am; there can't be no mistake about that.' "I must sit down; 1 cannot stand,' said Carry. "Come here, if you please, and tell me who you are." "She's, not fit to come where you are. I told you to go," said Tom "Go, and I'll send somebody to settle ?you've no business here." "If she's your mother, Frank, ] won't deceive nobody. I'm Mrs. Fran cis Lindons, and I've got my marriage lines to show for it. J I'm nol ashamed to look anybody in the face I've got my marriage li?" "Mrs.?what?" said Lady Car. "Mrs. Francis Lindons. I nevei thought but what he meant honorable. And my own mother was at the wedding and everything right. He wants to say now that it's no marriage; but it is?it is. It's in the register all right where we signed ir the vestry. Oh, Frank, I know you're only talking to frighten me, but you; mother will make it all risrht." Lady Car and her son exchanged but one glance?on her part a look of anguished inquiry, searching his face for confirmation of this tremendous statement; on his, the look of s fierce but whipped hound, ready tc tear any one asunder that came near yei abject in cbnscious guilt. Tht mother put her hand to her breasi as if to hide where the bullet had gone in. She said in a voice interrupted by her quickened breathing: "Excuse me a little, I am not verj well, and tell me everything?tell me the truth. Did you say that you were?married to this young gentle man? "She'll say anything," cried Ton: hoarsely. "She'll swear anything, She's not fit to come near you. Gc away, I tell you, curse you?you shall have everything you want if you gc away." "Ee silent, Tom; at present she has me, not you, to ansyer. Tell me?' "You cal! him Tom.'1 said the young woman, with surprise. "It's perhaps a pet name?for he said he was Frank Lindons, and that's 011 my cards that I got printed?and that's who I am. and I can bring witnesses. My marriage lines. I've got 'em in the hotel where I'm staying. If you're his mother, I'm iiis wife, and he can't deny it. Oh. Frank! the lady lookskind. Don't deny it, don't deny it! She'll forgive you. Don't deny the truth." "The? truth," cried Tom, forgetting himself in his heat. "You can sec how much truth is in it by the name she tells you?and I wasn't of age till last week." cried the precocious ruffian. with a laugh which asaiu was like the fierce bark of the whipped i hound. All Lady Car's senses had come back to her in that shock of thisi?orror. "You married her?in the name of Francis Lindons?thinking that, and that you were under age would make it void. If you've anything to say that I should not believe this, say it quick, Tom?lest I should die first and think my boy?" She leant back her pale head against the rocks, and one of those spasms passed over her which had already scared the household at the } Towers, but the superior poigDancy 1 of the mental anguish kept Lady Car ' from complete unconsciousness. She ! heard their voices vaguely contend ing through the half-trance; then slowly the light came back to her ' eyes. The youitg woman was kneeling beside her with a vinaigrette in 5 her hot hand. "Oh, smell at this, do! it's the best thing in the world for a 1 faint. Oh, poor lady! I wish I had 1 never said a word rather than make ! ! her so bad!" Lady Car opened her eyes to see the stranger kneeling' with an anxr ious face by her side, while Tom I 1 stood, lowering, looking on. It( crossed her mind that perhaps the 1 1 boy would have been glad had she . died, and this disclosure been buried , I with her. The stab of this thought 1 } was so keen that she came completely 1 to herself, restored by that sharp 1 remedy of superior pain. 5 "I do not think she is bad," she 1 1 said faintly. "I think she has an - 1 * 1 i? +V.O+ frnia?" ' ' I llULieSL ItttC. lUUi, 1 d cuac u u?* "It's all a piece of nonsense, moth- ( ei, as I told you. It was just to please J her. She was not too particular?to ' have the show of a wedding, that was 1 all. She knew very well?" ' t "I'll tear your eyes out," she cried, ; - "if you speak like that to me! Ob, J ' lady! we're married as safe as any , clergyman could marry two people." 1 "You fool!" cried Tom, "there's no : i such person as Frank Lindons. And i t I wasn't of age." The young woman looked at him 5 for a moment confounded. The color J I left her excited face, she stood staring , i as if unable to comprehend, then, as r her senses came back to her, burst i [ into a loud fit of sobbing and crying, ' throwing herself down on the grass. I I "Oh, oh, <?h!" she cried, sobbing and I rocking herself. "Oh, whatever shall J s I do? Oh, what will become of moth- , I er?" Then rising suddenly to her | 3 knees she caught Lady Car's dress. | ; "Oh, lady, lady! you've got a kind i - face; do something for me; make him I do me justice; make him; make him 1 ?oh, my God, listen to him!" cried 1 the girl, for Tom, in the horrible j triumph he thought he had gained, | was pealing forth a harsh laugh?a , sort of tempest tone, of exultation over the two helpless women, at his I feet. Eeaufort, with Janet at a little dis- 1 tance behind him, came suddenly j ' upon this strange scene. He thought . at first that his wife was ill, and hur- ( ried forward anxiously, asking,"What ( is the matter?" He saw Carry palo I as death, her mouth drawn, her eyes I dilated, leaning back against the I rocks holding the hand of a girl un- ' known who knelt beside her, while ] Tom, who had laughed, stood over ' the pair with still that mirthless | grimace distending his lips. I "Edward." Ladv Car said. "I have i ' something to ask you; something at i I once before you ask me a question. ' t A marriage under a false name?is t that no marriage? Tell me,?tell me ( ; quick, quick!" , ; "What a strange question!*' he j r said. "But I know nothing about i t marriages in Scotland. You know I i people say?" t "It was not in Scotland. Quick, 1 - quick!" ] I "A marriage?when a false name ( is given??meaning to deceive?" ' She said "Yes" with her lips without any sound, a faint flame as of ' shame passing over the whiteness of ' her face. Tom thrust his hands into i his pockets and screwed his mouth as J if he would have whistled, but nd^ i sound came. The girl faced round, always upon her knees, a strange intruder into that strange group, "I don't understand why you should ask mo such a question. The marriage is good enough. The law doesn't permit?" "Not if the man is under age?" "He can be imprisoned for perjury if he has sworn he is of age?as some fools do; but what in the world can you want with such information as that?" "Edward," said Lady Car, with 1 some difficulty, her throat and lips being so dry, "this is Tom's wife."' To be Continued, i > J Blazed Her Way. ' I There is a story about Alasu.i ar.a . ;..s people in which is mentioned a ' 11 man who chose a bride from among : I some of the Indian tribes up toward 5 [ the Chilcoot pass. He took her to I h large city, Montreal perhaps, and - j leit her in a splendid hotel while he j >: went out to see some one about a , j do^i;. She missed him sadly. She sat ; i :it the window looking out on the : j street four stories below. Solitude I became intolerable. She decidcd to find her husband. There was an elevator, but she didn't care for it. Soft' ly as moccasins could carry her she :' issued forth. When she had gono i J nut a bellboy saw queer marks on the j balusters and door casings. The In1 dian bride had blazed her way with , 1 :i tomahawk so that she could find ' . ! her way back. The Indian bride was | > ! merely living up to her education, : 1 ! for it is very necessary to know how ' lo blaze a trail in Alaska. ? Judge Not. j Never pass final judgment on any ( ;, one from first impressions. We aro i ; i all such creatures of limitations. | i Eyes are faulty, and the elements oi i ' character which elude us often more ' i than compensate for the faults we [ see. Look again, look deeper. You | s will be surprised at the number of 1 1 ! stars in the night sky if you look j ! . long enough. Most people have more ! ! virtues than are soon by snap vision, j I5e charitable and patient. Do not | 11 spoil your world by peopling it with . ( imaginary beings. 1 1 Hitherto the French President's , ] ? rook has always been a man, but M. j i Fallieres has employed a woman. ( I Visitors say her uishes eurv.es? thoss j i ;?!' tl'e bt.-'C i COOPERS CONVICTED; PEM 20 Hi Defense Claims Mistrial Because of the Previous Disagreement DEFENDANTS OUT ON BAII Jury First Stood Six For Mnrdei- ii First Degree, Five For Secom Degree, One For Acquittal ? Sharp Goes Free. Nashville, Tenn.?Guilty of mur der in the second degree with twent: years' imprisonment as the penalt: was the verdict of the jury in th< case against Colonel Duncan B Cooper and his son, Robin Cooper charged with the murder of formei United States Senator E. W. Car mack. The jury acquitted John D. Sharp co-defendant, the day before. Immediately the defense moved t< set aside the ver<??ct because of th< verdict of disagreement of the pre vious day, and asked the Court t< declare it a mistrial. Judge Har Baid he would listen to arguments 01 this motion later. He then fixed th< defendants' bonds at $25,000 each which amount was acceptable to botl Bides. The verdict, coming as it die upon the heels of Foreman Burke'i declaration of the day before, "'thai we are hopelessly tied up as to t.h< Coopers," was a decided surprise. me jurors looKea worn oui, anc when the Court remarked: "I thant you, gentlemen, for your patience anc devotion to the State and dismisi you to your homes and your persona avocations," the entire twelve mei sprang from their seats as one mai and hurriedly left the courtroom The defendants and their counsel re mained to complete the bond prelim inaries and the motion for a nev trial. The first bondsman to arrive was John J. Greener, who signed for $10, 000 on each bond. Walter 0. Parmei arrived and signed for the balance. "I will sign for a million for these men," he remarked. The jurors were not inclined t< talk, but one of them said: "On the first ballot we acquittec John Sharp and disregarded the con 3piracy theory. On the same balloi we stood six for guilty for murder ii the first degree, with mitigating cir cumstances, five for murder in th< second decree with twentv vears th* maximum penalty, and one for ac guittal. The ballots for two dayi showed the same result. Then th< man who voted for acquittal wen aver to murder in the second degree but demanded that only ten years b< assessed." The Cooper-Sharp trial just endec lias been one of the most remarkable murder cases in the history of the South. Because of the prominence 3f the victim and the popularity o! the defendants in the State of Tennes see, the case has been watcbed witl ?reat interest not alone in the little courtroom where the proceeding! have been going on, but throughout the country. Ex-Senator Edward Ward Carmaci was shot and killed by Robin Coopei in a street of Nashville on Novembei J last. The shooting was the outcome ot scathing editorials which appearec in The Nashville Tennesseean, o1 which Carmack was editor. These jditorials attacked the political meth ads and character of Colonel Duncai hooper, the father of Robin. What brought more interest int< the case was the fact that Colone Cooper gave Carmack his start ii public life. Colonel Cooper, after be Ing mustered out of the Confederal service, went to live in Columbia. Ii the same town also resided Carmack then a young lawyer, doing som< newspaper work. Seeing the'abilit: 3f the young man Colonel Cooper then owner of the Nashville Ameri :an, took Carmack on his paper, mak ing him chief of the editorial staff. DIES IN WIFE'S ARMS. Politician Taken to Her Home bj Mistake After Voting. Edwardsville, 111.?Three yeari igo John Grebel, a merchant here separated from his wife because sh< Dpposed his political views. Aftei dragging himself from bed to vote ii i primary election, he was carrie< to her home. She first closed th< 3oor in his face, but on his pleadinj cry took him in and an hour iater h< died in her arms. Grebel was fifty-four years old, an< all his life had been a partisan. H< roted the Democratic tick'et regularly and almost always without chance o success. *~ DEATH OF WOMAN ORGANIST. Tifnlncp "PTrvnr Af#A1 k71JLA!VZ) JUUVIWS ?V tuv ? Starting Communion Music. St. Louis, Mo.?Mrs. George A Wheeler, organist of the Gibsoi Heights United Presbyterian Church jnded her last communion as she fel 3ead while playing the opening hymi Df the service. With a smile of greet [ng to the choir, she had turned t< the song and started the introductioi when without a murmur she sanl lifeless to the floor. At the same moment Mrs. Wheele; fell from her seat her daughter Adele sixteen years old, stepped into th( choir loft to take her place amonf the singers. The daughter, believing tier mother had fainted, helped t< carry her into the pastor's study. Farm Exports Reduced. Of the approximately $500,000,001 reduction in the country's foreigi commerce in 1908. compared witl that of the preceding year, nearl: $400,000,000 was in the trade accus tomed to pass through Atlantic ports New Blow at Missouri Railroads. The Attorney-General of Missour In a statement issued at Jeffersoi City says that the State will take ac tion at once to stop Missouri rail roads from owning and operating coa mines. Newsy Paragraphs. The price of copper metal declinec to the lowest point it has touched ir abov t a year. Hereafter the English languagf will be taugnt in an me ijuuui schools of Guatemala. Sir James Grant, vice-regal physi ;iau in Canada, said the most impor Lant question in North America was the utilization of general sewage, fol [owing Japan's example. An investigator said Italian emi ^ration officials did not watch care> fully where the country's criminali iveDt. I 4 ^bercdjertbe. w i j quiet hpoi^ij RESURRECTION. Little brown buds on the tips of the trees, Swaying about in the icy-cold breeze, "Wrapped up so tightly you scarcely can freeze, j Are ye the heralds of Spring? ' Little brown bulba buried de^p in the ground, Sending your leaves through the clods that suround, Quietly working, with never a sound, Blooms to perfection bring. f if Little brown chrysalide, hidden from sight, Waiting for sunshine's beneficent might, Soon to burst forth into radiance bright, Gladsome as bird on the wing! I Dearly loved sleepers, laid down. in the earth! Buried with you all our light-hearted mirth! Ye, too, are waiting a glorious birth, ' Christ's Resurrection to sing. t Kim nf Tf iVV>t pnncnpao eViinn 3 through our gloom! Teach us that Life only sleeps in the tomb. Soon to awake in more glorious bloom. Since Thou hast vanquished Death's sting. Shine in our hearts, blessed Sunlight ol love. Lighten our darkness, as earth-lights re move, Waiting Thy promise to come from above, Joyfully Springtime to bring! ?A. M. L., in London Christian. Oar Unconscious Influence. Are there not many persons who find in the theatre precisely that kind of recreation and rest which is most useful for the discharge of their dailj work? "It may he," said Mr. Spurgeon, I "but I don't know any of them. You see, I live in a world apart from all these things, and so do my people^ We'argue this way: Granting it perfectly safe and profitable for mysell to go to the theatre; if I go, a great number of those will go to whom it will do positive harm. I will not be responsible for alluring by my example into temptation, which but for my self-indulgence they would entirely escape. "I will give you an instance of how I this works out. When I go to Mon I aco. the erounds of the sramblins: hell t there are the most beautiful in the i world. I never go Dear them, and why? Not because there is any dan3 ger of my passing through the gar J dens to the gambling tables. No; but a friend of mine once related the fol3 lowing incident to me: H " 'One day Mr. Blanc met me, ?nd t asked me how it was I never entered ? his grounds. "Well, you see," I said, 3 "I never play, and as I make no returns whatever to you, I hardly feel I justified in availing myself of the ad3 vantage of your grounds." "You make - a great mistake," said Mr. Blanc. "If it was net for you and other respect' able persons who come to my grounds I should lose many of the customers 1 who attend my gambling saloons. Do 3 not imagine that because you do not ' play yourself yen do not by your pres-', t ence in my grounds contribute materially to my revenue. Numbers of 1 persons who would not have thought c of entering my establishment feel 1 themselves perfectly safe in following i j you into my gardens, and thencd to J the gambling table, the transition is ' easy.'" 5 "After I heard that," continued ' Mr. Spurgeon, "I never went near the 1 gardens. And the same argument applies to tne tueaires. ?ran mail j Gazette. | The Higher and Lower Criticism; j "There came wise men from the , East to Jerusalem, saying, Where ia He that is born King of the Jews? | Fcr we have seen His star. * * * , [Herod] demanded of them where Christ should be torn." (Matt. 2':1, 2 and 4). Here are two inquiries of very much the same nature, so 'far as words are concerned. The wise men and Herod both ask about the child Jesus, and ask in nearly identical terms. What is the difference? It . lies in the motive. The wise men inquire that they may bring their gold; Herod inquires that he may kill. 3 There is a reverent, and there is i, an irreverent, spirit of inquiry. There 5 is a criticism which comes from love, t and a criticism which comes from 1 lovelessness. There are two reasons 3 why I may wish to study a difficulty; 1 I may want to clear it away, or I may > want to deepen it. The wise men 2 were the one; Herod was the other. It is not the subject of inquiry that 3 makes it either good or bad, it is the i spirit in which it is done. Why do ( you pole over a blot on the manu1 script? 13 it because you want to take it out, or is it because you hope it will spoil the writing? There are things wlufh "the angels desire to look into;" there may be students among the angels in all r worlds. But if I desire to look into a thing that I may find it dark, if J wish to investigate on the chancf j that I may discover a flaw, I belong, not to the camp of the angels, but tc j the camo of Herod.?George Mr.theson, D. D. I _ j Vanguard of Christ. ) Missionaries in the foreign field are { the front rank men in the army of Christ. Unless we be branded as disr loyal or cowardly, we. who stand behind them, are bound to keep them : well supplied with arms and ammuni> tion, even though we may not be > called on personally to fill up the gaps " > often made in our firine line.?Dr. Alfred Rowland. Also True in Religion. Winston Churchill's recant dictum, thai "Nobody ought to have everything till everybody has something." is as true in the religious as in the economic sphere, and yields a sufficient reason for foreign _missions. if there were no other.?Kev. William H. I Findlay. I . The Real Trouble. Probably most of the difficulties of trying to live the Christian life arise ) from attempting to half live it.? Hturv Drummoud I Roads to Gridiron Alberta. The Government, at Alberta, Canada, guaranteed the bonds on a railway running from Edmonton to Fort i McMurray on the Mackenzie River, ! promoted by a Kansas City capitalist, at $20,000 a mile. The Government also guarantees 850 miles of Can adian Northern Railway branch lines i and 5 00 of Canadian Pacific branch lines, all in Alberta, at $14,000 a mile. The total aid given to railways . in Alberta at one session of the Legis. lature was $27,500,000 in bond guar! antee. The intention is to gridiron the province with railways. I'll I'IBI ? ill I?11 y Sfe J Sunbati-<?5cftooP i I INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMEXTS FOR APRIL 25. Subject: The .Gospel in Antiocli, Actg 11:19-30; 12:23?Golden Text, Acts 11:26?Commit Verses 22, 2:??Commentary on the Lesson. TIME?A. D. 42, 43. PLACE.? Antiocb. EXPOSITION.?I. Great Revival at Antioch, 19-21. It took years for them tf> learn that the Gospel wa3 for men of every nati?n. But while these early Christians had not as yet learned all things, they bad learned some things well: (1) what to preach ?"the Word;" (2) how to preach? "speaking the Word" (R. V.). They just talked the truth in a natural, unstilted, conversational way. (3) Wbc ought to do the preaching?the :ank and file of the church, for "they that were scattered abroad" were not the apostles (comp. ch. 8:1). God had led on step by step; first, Jews, then Samaritans, then Jewish proselytes but at last genuine Gentiles. The first missionaries to the heathen were just ordinary lay Christians, win bad gotten so full of the truth as it is in Jesus that they could no longer follow the slow lead of the authorities in the church, but were forced to break the bonds of Jewish prejudice and narrowness and speak out to the perishing Gentiles. The movement was of God and soon carried the whole church with it. The word for preaching in v. 20 is not the same as in v. 19. It means "telling good tidings." Those good tidings which they told are summed up in three words?"the Lord Jesus." They did not expend their strength in attacking heathen superstitions and immoral practices. They told the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ. There is no proof that these men bad the hand of bishops, presbytery or council upon them, but they had "the hand of the i Lord with them." The great secret | r,t 4a Vifiro I 01 success in uunsimu nuia ID uvi<. indicated. The outcome of the hand of the Lord being with them was, "a great number believed and turned unto the Lord." Statements similar to this abound in the Acts (v, 24; 2:47; 4:4; 5:14; 6:7; 9:31, 35, 42; 12:24, etc., etc.). We would do well to ask why the Gospel does not make the same uniform headway to-day. The answer, in part at least, is suggested in Acts 2:42; 6:4; Acts 1:8; 8:4. The faith of those converts in Antioch proved its genuineness by its effect ? they "turned unto the Lord." What is meant by turning unto the Lord is indicated by 1 Thess. 1:9; Acts 26:18, 20. We have in these verses a very clear setting forth of God's part, the worker's part, and the convert's part. In repentance and conversion. The workers preached the word, the Lord Jesus (vs. i?, cm). II. Barnabas Follows Up the Work, 22-24. As' soon as tidings of the Gentile revival at Antioch reached Jerusalem there was great interest there. They sent one of their best men to investigate and co-operate. "He was a good man." It is far more Important that a man be good than that he be brilliant if he is to edify young converts. He was also "full of the Holy -Ghost." He was also "full of faith," and no man that is not need undertake the work of instructing and developing young converts, especially converts, from heathenism so dark as that in Antioch. He was free from the love of gold (ch. 4:36, 37). He was free from personal ambition and jealousy in his work (vs. 25, 26). He was very sharp-eyed to see the sincerity and promise of a young convert (ch. 9:27!). "When he was come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad." Barnabas was in sympathy with Gad and His work. It is sad to say that not a few who see the grace of God wrought through other hands than their own, are mad, and try to belittle it. Note the character of the working of God's grace fn Antioch: it was a grace that could be "seen." We need more of this visi ble grace in our churches to-day. war- i riabas knew just what to do. Exhor- I tatlon was Barnabas' forte (ch. 4:36, R. V.). His exhortation was precisely that which should be given to all young converts. It is not enough to "turn unto the Lord," they must "cleave unto the Lord" or continue in the Lord. This must be done with "purpose of heart." There is always much in the way of persecution or worldly allurements of one kind or another to draw a young convert away from the Lord, and unless they cleave to Him with fixedness of purpose, there is little hope. III. The Ministry of Barnabas and Saul at Antibch, 23-30. Barnabas showed his largeness of spirit in still 1 another way. He said to himself, I "This is just the place for Saul. I will go get him." For a whole year Barnabas and Saul worked together in Antioch, and their work was greatly blessed. Their ministry consisted I _ cvef om n t ip inrii]- I largely in icavuiuj,, ,nikv.u?..v cation of revealed truth. The disciples got at this time the name by which they are beat known since? Christians. The name was given to them by others (perhaps in contempt, cf. ch. 26:28; 1 Pet. 4:16). It was a glorious name and they clung to it. The real prophetic gift was manifested in the church (vs. 27, 28; cf. ch. 21:10, 11). The self-sacriflcin^ j love of this young but rapidly grow- I ing Gentile church in Antioch to their Jewish brethren in Judea is very touching. No sooner did they hear of the hard times coming than they determined to send relief "unto the brethren that dwelt in all Judea." Taft Interests King Victor. Edmun^ Billings, of Massachusetts; I Samuel Pariah nf Npw Vnrk- fMtv and I William Hooper and Nelson Gay, of Boston, who have been engaged in distributing American relief to the Calabrian and Sicilian earthquake sufferers, were received in private audience bf King Victor Emmanuel, at Rome. The King showed much interest in the assumption by William H. Taft of the duties of the Presidency. Prenchcd of Death; It Came. ' "No one of you can tell at what | hour death will come," said the pas- i tor of tUe Presbyterian Church at Poland, Ohio, in opening his sermon, i Hardly had he spoken the words when Mrs. Matilda Williams fell from I her seat, dead of heart trouble. > The j service was brought to a close with a prayer by the pastor. i Oldest Iowa Resident Dead. At Des Moines. Iowa, Mrs. Ruth McPherson, who died at the advanced age of 102 years, was the oldest person in Iowa, and was born in Tevson Countly, Virginia. August 22, 1907. f I OUR TEMPcRANCE COLUMNTH REPORTS OF PROGRESS OP THlljJ BATTLE AGAINST KUM. ____2?* "No! No!" M There's a very small word, but some folks^JH are so weak, " That they find it a terrible hard one to^H| speak; BB Though one syllable only, at tipes theyMB are slow, When asked, "Will you just take a drinkf^^^B to say "No!" fl^Hj There's many a drunkard who reels througbj^B the street, ' J With jrnin all on fire and with staggering^^H Who would never have looked such a pic-^BH ture of woe I I If, when first asked to drink, he had boldly^HE said "No!" H Some say "No!" so faintly, we cannot but^^H guess, That N. 0, in their ccse means Y, E, S,BB If we d live sober lives, we decision should show, ^H| And reply in .fiim tones, unmistakably,HI "No!" SHH Now, all who aTe here, heed the word,^H| though so small.- \ When invited to drink, you'll be safe from^H its thrall, 9^B And onward in health and prosperity go, Protected and savfed by one syllable, aN<JI*',^BB Inside Information. KB Rev. M. C. Hawks, D. D., dropped into a car seat with a good looking,. but flashily dressed man. He got^B into conversation with him, and final- ^B ly, discovering that he was a travel-BH ing man, asked:' "What is your line?" H "Liquors." SB ocqu vvcoi; "Yes." HH "Travel any in prohibition States?^ "Oh, yes." j. mm "I presume the'honest truth is yoa HB sell about as much liquor in prohibition States as in any other?" I ''Not much, we don't." W f"Oh, come now?you know better. B| Of course, you do not want to giro away your friends. The fellows are |H doing an illegitimate business, of H course, and you ought not .to \tell of it, but you quite likely feell nearly as much liquor in Kansas and the prohi- H| bition counties of other States, as yoa HI do in license States." ^9 "Well, not on your life; I do not I'll sell more whisky in three cities? in Wisconsin than I did in all the the prohibition States where I hare been. It stands to reason that a customer of ours is not going to lay ln'avery large stock of our goods when & State officer can come in any day and take his goods and pour them into the gutter. He'd.be a fool to do it, and we don't ^xpect it. If this pro- ' hlbition nonsense goes much further' I'll be out of a job. What's your line?" "I'm a Methodist preacher." "Well, elder, I'm not going to takeit back now, because it is true. If I had known you were a minister, of that church especially, I might have spoken with more caution, but It Is, nevertheless, true what I said. T will sell more whisky right here in Wisconsin in three cities than I could possibly sell in three of the prohibition States, with the exception of one city in the West, and that has gone gone dry lately, and will no longer be-s a promising field."?American Issue, His Sign Down. A* disheveled man. ihuch the worse fo.r liquor, staggered out of a Maine "speak-easy" and laboriously propped himself against the door. For a while he owlishly surveyed me passere-oy. Suddenly his foot slipped and he collapsed in a heap on the sidewalk. A moment later and he was snoring. . A hurrying pedestrian paused, reflectively surveyed the fallen man for a few seconds, and then poked hi? head in .the door. "Oh, Frank," he.called. "Frank. Come out here a minute." Presently the proprietor of the* joint, smoking a fat cigar, emerged. He blinked in the bright sunlight. "Hello, Hud," he said, pleasantly. "What's up?" < Hud jerked his thumb toward the ! slumberer on the sidewalk. "Yer sign has fell down," he ex? plained, and briskly resumed hiswalk uptown.?Everybody's Magazine. . ! u Berlin's Booze. A German physician, Dr. Hirsch* field, has been computing the quantity of alcoholic drink consumed in Berlin. Berlin possessed three years ago 12,892 drinking shops?one for 610 inhabitants?in addition to 301 where wine only is sold. During the period the Berliners consumed 438,939,532 litres of beer, 24,704,525 litres of brandy and 19,956,062 litres of wine. This works out an annu&L average consumption a head of ther population of 236% litres of alcoholic drink, at a cost of 100 marks, a mark being one shilling. As the-,' average income of the Berliners, including women and children, is about 6S3 marks, it may be said that the Berliner spends a seventh part of his income in intoxicating drinks.?Lond~n Globe. The Young Man Who Drinks.' The time is coming fast, indeed . has already arrived, in our commercial life, when a young man who has habits of intemperance is narrowing very rapidly the possible range of openings in which he may make a living. Across the Years. There must be no bargains, no compromises, no trades. We must close up our ranks, keep step with the music of "Home, Sweet Home," and press forward to certain victory. ?John B. Finch, 18S7. Train the Moral Sense. The victory for total abstinence can come not by legislative enactment alone, but by the training of the moral sensa of individuals, until they make ud their minds that, for their own sake and the sake of others,, they will resolutely abstain from I'quor. The laws of man may closfr the doors of the saloons; only a new heart, awake to the requirements of he Lord Jesus Christ, can drive out lust and appetite.?Forward. A Hard Pair to Beat. The Liquor Dealers' Club of Chi* cago, at a recent meeting, declared that to beat temperance reform, it will be necessary to drive the ministers and the women out of the fight. "If the minister preaches prohibition in ;he pulpit; if women, as in Philadelphia, will march the streets, singing "Onward, Christian Soldiers,' * there's no force that can beat a fight like that." * A wry face may be made1 cheaper than a rye face, and is more easily cured.