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LADY ( THE SEQUE BY MRS. CHAPTER XIII. 15 She never knew how she was taken home. A horrible dream of half conscious misery, 01 areaaiui movement when all she wanted was to lie down and be still, of a confusion of sight and sound, things dimly seen in strange, unnatural motion, voices all broken into one bewildering hum, always that sense of being taken somewhere where she did not want to go, when quiet and silence was all she desired, interposed between the rocky plateau of the shore and her room, in which she opened her eyes in the evening in the waning light to find Janet and her maid by her bedside, her windows wide open to admit the air, and Beaufort in consultation with the doctor at the other end of the room. She had opened her eyes for a minute or two before anything settled into its place, and she perceived fully where she was. She lay in great weakness, but no pain, remembering nothing, feeling the soft, all-enveloping peace which had been round her like a mantle, covering all fvain 44 A VA mil fhorD lici nuuuuo agarn. v> j vu v**w my dear, and is that Edward?" she said. And it was not till some time after, till the soft shaded lights were lit in the room and all quiet, and Beaufort seated by her bedside reading to her, that she suddenly remembered what had passed. She put out her thin hand and grasped him by the arm. "Edward, was that true?" "What, Carry? Nothing has happened but that you have been ill a little, and now you are better, my love, and you must be quiet, very quiet." "It is true," she said, with her fingers clasping his arm. "My son did that; my son.1' "It is put all right," said Beaufort; "there is no deadly wrong done. And the girl is very young; she can be trained. Carry, my love!" "Yes, I know. I must keep quiet, and I will. I can put everything out of my thoughts now. God has given me the power. But he meant that, Edward." "God knows what he meant," said Beaufort. "He did not realize. Half the harm these boys do is that they never realize?" "You say women are often unjust. 'Would men?look over that?" He got up from his chair and put ^down his book. "You must not question me," he said, "you must not think of it at all. Put it out of your thoughts altogether, my dear love. You must think of the rest of us?of me, and poor little Janet." He added, after a moment, "no one need ever know.1' Certainly Beaufort was very kind. He behaved in all this like a true gentleman and a true lover. He would have plucked, but altogether the sting iof that great wound had it been possible, and he was quiie unaware of the other stings he had himself planted, undermining her strength. She looked up.at him, lying there in her weakness, with her beautiful smile coming back, the smile which was so soft, so indulgent, so tender., so allforgiving, the smile that meant despair. What could ?he do more, that gentle, shipwrecked creature, unable to contend with the wild seas and billows that went over her head? What had she ever been able to do? Janet, who did not know what was the meaning of .it all, but had vague, horrible fancies about Tom which she could not clear up, went out next day by herself in the bright August morning to get a little air. She had enough of her mother in her to like the sound oi me sea, ana to oe sootnea oy it. And the half-comprehended incidents of the previous night and the alarm about Lady Car's state had shaken Janet. She thought, with the simplicity of "her age, that perhaps if she went away a little., was absent for an hour or so from the room, that her mother would not look so pale when she came back, and Lady Car's smile went to Janet's heart. It was too like an angel's, she thought to herself. A living woman ought not to be too like an angel. Her eyes kept filling with tears as she wandered along, looking out upon the sea. But gradually the bright air and the light that wan in the atmosphere and the warmth of the sunshine stole into Janet's heart and dried the tears in her eyes. She went into the green inclosure of the ruined castle and sat down upon the old wall looking out to sea. She could see the place where she and Beau had come upon that strange group among the rocks. She had not made out yet what it meant. As she sat there gazing out and lost in her own thoughts and wonderings, a voice suddenly sounded at her ear which made her start?"Oh, my bonnie Miss Janet," it said, "have I found you at last?" Janet turned slowly around aghast. The color forsook her face, and all strength seemed to die out of her. She had known it would . come one time or other. She had steeled herself for such a meeting every time she had been compelled to leave the shelter of the Towers; but now she was far away, in a place which had no association with him, surely?surely she should have been safe now. And yet she had known beiorehand, always known, that some time this would come. His voice sank into her soul, taMng away all her strength and courage. What hold Janet supposed this man to'haV?.over her who could tell? She-'feared^lj^ir as if he had it in his pcfwer to car/y her away against her will or do some dreadful harm. The imagination of a girl has wild and causeless panics as well as gracious visions. She trembled before this man with a terror which she did not attempt to account for. She turned round slowly a panicstricken. colorless .face. "Whyv what is th? matter with you, my bonnte JittJ? Jady? Are ye feared for me?'' CAR; 5R. L OP A LIFE. OLIPHANT. "Oh, Mr. Charlie," said Janet, "don't speak to me here. If anybody were to see you! And mother? mother is in great trouble already. i Oh, don't speak to me here!" "Do you mean you'll speak to me in some other place? I'm well content if ye'll do that?|ome place where we'll be more private, by ourselves. Ye may be sure that's what I would like best." "I did not mean that," said Janet, in great distress. ""Oh, Mr. Charlie, don't speak to me at all! I am very unhappy?already." "It will not make you more un"happy to speak to an old friend like me? And who has made you unhappy, my bonnie lady? I wish I had the paying of him. It'll be that loose of a brother of yours." "How dare you speak so of iny brother?" cried Janet with momentary energy, and then she began to cry, unable to restrain herself in her' acitation. "Oh, go away! If you please, will you go away?"" "And do you want to hear no more of the pony?" said Charlie Blackmore. "She's as "bonny a little beast as ever stepped, and fit to carry a Princess? and Miss Janet Torrance. I've kept my word. She's just been bred like a princess, without doing a day's work. I've kept her, as I said I would, for you." "Oh, I hope you do not mean that," tried Janet. "Oh, Mr. Charlie, I hope it was not my fault! * I was very, very young then, and I did not know there was any harm in it. Oh, I hope you have not kept her for me!" "What harm was there in it?" he said, putting his hand on her arm, which Janet drew away as if his touch had been fire. "Come now, Miss j Janet, you must be reasonable. There [ was no harm in it more than there is a little crack by ourselves, be iv\ceu )UU auu lxicr. Janet shrank into the corner of the ; seat away from him. "There was . harm," she said, "for I never told . mother; and there is harm now, for , if any one I knew were to come here and see us I would die'of shame." "No, my bonnie lady, you would , not die; that's too strong," said Elackmore. "And do you know it's ] not civil to draw away like that? < When we met in the Easton road you J were not so frightened. You gave me , many a glint of your eyes then, and j many a pleasant word. And do you mind tjie long rides we had, and you j as sorry when they were over as me? , And the miles that I rode to bring \ you the pony and give you your pleas- J ure, though you turn from me now?" ^ "You were very kind, Mr. Charlie," ^ said Janet in a trembling voice. t "I am not saying I was kind. I f would not have done it if I had not liked it. But you were kind then, j Miss Janet, and you're not kind now." > "I was only a child," cried Janet; "I never thought. I know now it was j very silly?oh, more than silly. If I ^ beg your pardon, oh, Mr. Charlie, will M s 3 1 I you iurgive Hit, nuu auu ICOIC mc alone?" "And what if that was to break my heart?" he said. "Ereak your heart? Why should it do that? Oh, no, up, it would not do that; you are only laughing?" "Me laughing! What if I had taken a* fancy, then, for a bit of a small girl, and set my heart upon her, but kept out of the way for years not to see the bonnie little thing till now that you're woman -grown and understand? And all you say is to ask me to leav* you alone! Is that a kind thing to say?" "Mr. Charlie," said Janei desperately, "I can hear by your voice that you're not in earnest; and as for taking a fancy, I was only a child, and that would mean nothing. And the whole of it was just?just sport to ( you, and it is for a joke you're doing it now." "Joke? It's no joke," he said. "I know what you think; you think I am not gentleman enough for you. But I'll have plenty of money, and your father, if he had lived, would not have turned me from his door. Hallo! who's there?" he cried, starting up as some one hit him sharply on the shoulder. Janet, looking up in fresh alarm, felt a mingled rush of terror and relief when she saw over Blackmore's head the lowering countenance of Tom. "T eov PViQrli'^ or at nut of that " said Tom. "I'm not going to stand this sort of thing, you know. I may . be going to the dogs myself, but my sister sha'n't. Be off, I tell you, and leave her alone." "Am I the dogs, Mr. Tom? No such black dogs as you're going to, my friend. Keep your good advice for yourself, and don't intrude where you're not wanted. We can manage our affairs without you.'' "By Jove!" cried Tom, "if you speak another word to my sister, I'll i pitch you over the cliff!" XiiitCKiuure uegitu iu ictugn wjlii an exasperating contempt ? contempt which exasperated Janet, though Tom. too, had touched the same note of the intolerable. She sprang up hastily, putting out her arm between them. "You are two men," she said, "but Tom is not much more than a boy. and you are quarreling about me that wants nothing in the world so much as to get away from both of you. Do you hear me? I would not vex mother,'' Janet cried, "for all the men in the world. Oh, can't you see that you are like two fools wrangling over me?" "Let him take himself off, then," said Tom. "And let him hold his tongue, the confounded young scamp!'' cried the other, "that dares to challeuge me? when he knows I could lids him within an inch of his life." v. Tom was half mad with disappointment and In: h'-ation. He "/as very proud iu oi& way, with ibe mingled 1 PATRIOTISM IN KOREA. Vhere Men Would Be Run Over Just to Warn Their Emperor. Out of Korea comes a story of the anatical devotion shown to the shad>w Emperor of the land by those of ?is subjects who still resent the rule >f the Japanese and view each move j >f .their virtual masters with deep luspicion. In this instance several mtriots were willing .to let them* telves be run over by a railroad train f only his Majesty might be warned >y their death that he was flying into i trap set for his feet by Prince Ito. A month ago the Emperor anlounced that he was going .to leave 3eoul and take a trip to Fusan, the 1 nost easterly city of the peninsula tnd wholly a Japanese settlement. * This was an .unprecented thing for , he Emperor to do, since for countless , jenerations Korean Kings and Em- 1 jerors had been content to sit in the i 3all of Congratulations in the Mul- c jerry palace at Seoul and let subjects 1 !rom other parts of the land come to j ;hem to pay^them homage. Despite he protests of the patriots Prince j :to, who was engineering the trip, , uled and the Emperor set out over i ;he Seoul-Pusan railway to visit the ? leaport at the other terminal. 1 It became known by the Koreans 1 ilone the route that the Japanese bat- J pride of the peasant and the nouvean riche, the millionaire and the j (Scotch) clown. He had meant, after I -\ he had "had his fun," to have settled down when his time came, and to have married a lady like his mother. Without imagination, or sense, or f principle, or restraint of honor, he c had pursued the reckless career of his 1 mind, too precipitate and eager in c pursuit of pleasure to leave time to < think, even if he had been able to ? think. The abominable treachery of I which he had intended to be guilty 6 had not touched his conscience, not I having appeared to his obtuse under- t standing as anything worse thap z many "dodges" which other fellows adopted to get what they wan;^J. i And it was with a rage and humilia- i tion unspeakable that he found him- 1 self?he, the son of the man who had i married Lady Caroline Lindons, mar- 1 ried in his turn to a girl from a little t Oxford shop, a little shop girl, a com- t mon little flirt, less than nobody, not ] so good by ever so many grades as ] his mother's maid. To find that he 1 had married her when he meant only 1 to deceive her, and made her mistress t of the Towers, which was as Windsor t Castle to Tom, and put her in the 1 place of Lady Car, was gall and bit- i terness to him. His conscience had t given him little trouble, but his f wounded pride, his mortification, his humiliation were torture to him. He e had come out raging with these fur- t ious pangs, eager to find something, 1 anything, with which he could fight t and assuage his burning wrath. To 1 pitch Charlie Blackmore over the e cliffs, even to be pitched over them 1 himself, and roll down the sharp < rocks and plunge in the cold sea be- 1 neath felt as though it would be a J relief from the gnawing and the rage < within. l "Come on, then!" he cried, furious; t "I'll take no hiding from any man if ; he were Goliath. Come on!" I "Mr. Charlie," cried Janet, putting 1 out her hand, "if it's true, you may 1 do one thing for me. One thing I ask .1 you to do as If you were the best ] gentleman in the world, and I will i think you so if you will do it; leave ( me to him and him to me. And good- t by; and neither say you like us nor ? hate us, but just gc?oh, go! Do you ? hear me?" she said, stamping her 1 foot. "I ask you as a gentleman." She had caught her brother by the 1 arm and held him while she waved 1 the other away. < "That's a strong argument," said t Blackmore. He was moved by what 1 she said, and also by common sense, ] which told his suit was folly. "If i we're fools, you're now, Miss Janet ' 1 Tnrfon/io " Via oalrl mMfh ft Ifllich 1 :o me now. i ve cnoKea mat ienow s off, that's one thing, and he'll never r iare to speak to you again. But ae ? [or me, I'm done, and I'll never lift s ny head any more." j "Oh, Tom!" Janet cried. She was j :oo much excited by her own affairs t :o turn in a moment with this new c jvolution of his?but that panting cry j 3ore any meaning according to the a aearer'3 apprehension, and he was too ieep in his own thoughts to need v more. ^ To be Continued. a t In America One Hour. ^ Because he forgot to tell,his wife t he had placed a very valuable dia- c mond ring in an old snuffbox which they left behind, Janos Van Cleef, t formerly of Amsterdam, and in the near future of St. Louis, sailed yes- t terday on the Kronprinz Wilhelm, g one hour after he and. his wife had arrived on the Holland-American liner Ryndam. I The Ryndam arrived at Hoboken 3 at 8 o'clock, and Van Cleef was the r ' o first passenger ashore. An hour later he was on the deck of the big Kronprinz waving good-bye to his wife on ^ the deck of the Ryndam, a few piers above. When he reaches the other side Mr. ^ Van Cleef will hasten to Amsterdam, and expects to be detained there just 1 one hour, when he will hurry to the nearest seaport, and continue his interrupted journey to St. Louis. He will then have crossed the ocean three times in a month.?New York Times. C t An Overbalanced Want. <1 The vicar of a large country town P in England visited a parishioner, a 3 widow, seventy-five years old, who t had had ten children, all of whom ex- e cept one daughter had married and ; c left her. Now this daughter also was t about to be married. The old lady would then be left quite alone, and t the clergyman endeavored to sympa- a Ihize with her. "Well, Mrs. Higgins," g he said, "you must feel lonely now, s after having had so large a family." e "Yes, sir," she said, "I do feel it 'one- h some. I've brought up a large fam- n 11 J, tillu neit; 1 aiu jiving aiuuc. au | ? 1 hisses 'em an' I wants 'em; but I | v misses 'em more than I wants 'em." p ?Bellman. v I r Great Trek of Caribou. The greatest herd of caribou ever , reported ir the Yukon is now reported moving southward across the head of Sixty Mile River, 100 miles west of Dawson. The herd has been crossing there for nearly thirty days. It is estimated that 200,000 caribou Vi have crossed already. The end of the . mammoth procession is not in sight. There may be half a million or even a larger number in. the great moving herd.?Tacoma Ledger. It is the opinion of the supporter.1.; I w nf the Queen Victoria Clergy Fund in ] London that the minimum wage of 1 & the cleigy should be at least ?1OU0. ' a ?. 'which is more than I thought. What! i am I to turn my back upon a man ] that's clenching his neives at me? i Well, maybe you're right. There's t none in the county will think Charlie t Blackmore stands in fear of Tom Tor- 1 ranee. Yes, Missie, you shall have i pour will. I'm going?good-by to both him and you." ? "Do you think I'll let the fellow go iike that?" cried Tom, making a step ifter mm; but pernaps his fury reii it the sight of the might and strength c af the retiring champion?perhaps it c vas only the wretchedness in his mind j :hat fell from the burning to the t freezing point. He sat down gloom- E ily, after having watched him disap- c pear, on the bench from which Charlie Blackmore had risen. <] "I don't care what becomes of me, j Ian," he said. "I'm done. Nothing c that ever happens will be any good g .leshlp Azuma was at anchor in the | larbor of Fusan, and that a part of he welcoming ceremonies that were ;o occur in Fusan was to be a lunchson to the Emperor on board the ship, immediately the rumor grew to the jonviction that as soon as Prince Ito lad the Emperor safely on the Vzuma's deck anchor would be hoist*d and the last of the line of Korean ulers would be whisked off to Japan, here to die in a dungeon. Perhaps the simple Koreans had lome justification for believing that :he crafty Resident-General would ike to execute a coup like that; cerAinly the hand of the Japanese had nade such startling moves on the mperial chess board at Seoul that jven a duplication of the murder ;hat was done in the Mulberry palace tome years ago at the Instance of a Tapanese Minister would not seem mprobable to the Koreans. s At any rate the Emperor had his s uncheon on board the battleship in f Tusan harbor and was put safely back j1 >n his own territory again. During ? :he course of the luncheon Prince a [to made conversation by telling the c )uppet ruler that he had learned that b it Taiku, one of .the large towns on ? Jtie line of the railway, a party of mtriots, convinced that the Emperor 1 vas going to his doom, had deter- ? nined to lay themselves upon the ( ails as his train approached the sta- z ;ion. They had believed that by this t ict of sacrifice their monarch might b >e made to see that he was approach- C ng Immediate danger. , f The patriots had been dissuaded by i i very material Japanese policeman. ? ?????? t Coin Cariosities. i Among the early Roman copper t :oins was one that weighed nine and ine-half ounces and must have ( >roved inconvenient small change for v he Roman ^matron when she went f ihopping. China of all countries, an- i lent and modern, exhibits the great- ( !St variety in the matter of coins. 9 The earliest money on record, about f 5000 B. C., consisted of shells and , :owries. The cowry was used for ? imall change, while tortoise shell ind purple cypraea shells, the latter t anging in size from a few inches to a l foot and a half in length, repre- 4 iented money of a higher value. A' f lecrease in the supply of shells and ncreasing prosperity called for a % nore handy medium of exchange, and v :asb, the coin with a square hole t n the centre, came into existence f ind remains in use to this day. i $ Amone the earlier Chinese coins | J ?as one of porcelain about three- J luarters of an inch in diameter and I quarter of an inch thick, bearing he legend "Eternal Prosperity." A ery curious knife money was at one ime used in the State of Tsi. It was if copper, shaped like a bill hook, .bout seven inches long and fitted at he end with a ring. During periods if metal scarcity in China iron, lead, in, baked earth, grain, silk, and hells have been used as a circulating nedium. In Japan an iron coinage, begun ibout 1636, has existed up to the iresent day. A curious coin made of i mixture of silver and copper was ong in use in Japan. It varied in ize from a small pea to a large bean. ,ead coins were also used there for ive centuries. Glass was employed ,s a substance for coin for many cen uries in Egypt, while wooden money ^ s mentioned in many of the Buddhis- . ic writings. s ( Who Supports the Wife? ] Rev. Anna Howard Shaw and Mrs. j Charlotte Perkins Gilman had a de- , ate the other day in New York, the [uestion being, "Do husbands sup- i iort their wives?" Rev. Anna Shaw i aid that they did not, but that in his semi-civilized country in thirtyight of the States the title to the hildren rests, not in the mother, J iut in the father. Women cannot sgally possess their own children nor heir own clothes. The more work woman does the less her husband ives her. Mrs. Gilman said that if a \ tenographer earning $25 a week i married an invalid and he stayed e tome and did the work while she 'v * ? nonnlp "u/nn 1 ri sav ^ HciUt? LUC iuuuoj, ^w|/.v ? he supported him, and logically the * fife doing the same thing was sup- ^ orted. The audience, however, c oted in favor of the proposition of s )r. Shaw. E Example in Fractions. Six-year-old Ray's school teacher ras endeavoring to give some very c imple instructions in fractions. She a dded: "If Jane has six eggs and * ses half of them to bake a cake, t 'hat part will she have left?" Quickf came the answer: "The shells!" t -Delineator. I t !>I1IK I'liiuuceiTi Ji'uuii i iuuh. i A union of 18.000 milk producers j rho supply Chicago is in contempla- j, on. It is hoped to form a close or- f anization to regulate the price of t lilk and to buy feed and supplies on I co-oneratiYe plan. 3k l[ Sunbai)-G?cftoof j F i I INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS Fj)R MAY 2. \ * I Subject: Paul's First Missionary ^ Journey-Cyprus, Acts 13:1-12 ?Golden Text, Mark 16:15? Commit Verses 2, 3?Comments, j TIME.?45 A. D. PLACE.?Aniioch, Salamis, Paphos. , EXPOSITION.?I. Barnabas and v 3aul called by the Holy Spirit, set ipart by men, sent forth by men and 1 Sy the Holy Spirit, 1-4. The church it Antioch had five "prophets and :eachers" worthy of mention by " lame. This early Gentile church be- * :ame a fountain of light and life to nany other places. The Holy Ghost spoke to them "as they ministered to ] ;he Lord and fasted." If we would spend more time and strength in ninistering to the Lord and in fast- 1 ng, we would have more frequent . ind clearer leadings of the Spirit. A Spirit-filled mind rarely accompanies l in over-filled stomach. Greater similicity in our living would be condu:ive to a clearer perception of the nind of God. It is not said how the 1 Spirit spoke, whether in an audible roice, or silently, in the inner re:esses of the heart, but He spoke in j in unmistakable way. It was no rague, uncertain impulse such as nen sometimes call "the voice of the ' Spirit." He is ready to speak to-day, f we will supply the proper condiions and listen. It was the Holy Spirit's work to call; it was man's vork to recognize the call, and net he called apart for the work. Those } vho ignore ordination by man are as ^ inscriptural as those who ignore a ]j :all by God. But it was "for the * vork whereunto" ..the Spirit called ( hat they were to be set apart. Too 1 iftPTi wp spt rrtPTi anart. for a. work ^hereunto the Spirit never called hem. Spirit called men are a great leed of our day. We have far too oany men whom men have called; tr, worse yet, who have called themelves. Every step / in that early :hurch was taken in prayer. It was irayer to which men gave themselves o heartily that they withdrew themlelves even from their necessary ood to pursue it (v. 3). The promptless with which this church obeyed he Spirit's command is worthy of loie. ne naa aemanaea me oeai .nd they gave them up without a urmur. They would have liked to lave kept Barnabas and Saul, but the Spirit called them elsewhere, and they sent them away." But. while hey sent them back of it all they rere really "sent forth by the Holy Jhost." Wonderfully sqggestive and nspiring words these. With what onfldence a man can go forth when te can confidently affirm, "I have ieen sent on the errand by the Holy rhost!" He may not know just irhere he Is going, or just what he is o do, or just what awaits him. No lirections seem to have been given as o where they were to go; so they nade straight for the nearest port nd thence for the old home of Barnalas (ch. 4:36). II. Triumph of Saul, filled with he Spirit, over Elymas, Full of all xuile and all Villainy, 5-12. They rere true to their commission, "they 1 ireacnea me wora 01 iioa. lviaujr a t aan has been sent forth by the Holy ( Jhost who has afterward forgotten ( irhat he was sent to preach; and so a nission that was divine in its origin ( las come to nothing in its execution, f there was ever a day in which their i sample needed imitation. It is to- i lay, when men are preaching any- ( hing and everything but "the word if God" (comp. 1 Thess. 2:13; 2 Tim. \:2). Opponents of the gospel, who aalie great pretensions and do amaz- j ng things, are not at all new- One \ teed not be frightened because men t vho make astonishing claims, and | vho display extraordinary gifts, arise ( o lead men astray. It was so in the | irst days of the church's history, and ( ret the church went right on, in face , ?f this apparently dangerous opposi- , ion. The "theosophists" and "Chris- , ian Scientists" of to-day are no more j langerous than the Simons and Ely- 1 nas of early days. Spirit-filled men , vere needed to oppose and confound hem then, and Spirit-filled men are ( leeded to oppose and confound thera . low. The proconsul, Sergius Paulus, < ;ave good proof that he was indeed j 'A man of understanding;" "he ( :alled unto him Barnabas and Saul, j ind sought to hear the word of God." ( fVhatever claims to prudence and visdoin and common sense a man nay make, he is not "a man of unlerstanding," if he is not desirous "to lear the word of God." Elymas did lot give up without a fight. The 1 levil never does (2 Tim. 3-8). His , ;hief business is turning men aside 'rom the faith (v. 8; cf. Cor. 4:3, 4; [,uke 8:12). But the opposition of Slymas for all his marvelous powers , ;vere vain, for he had run up against i Spirit-filled man. Paul had been i 311ed with the Holy Spirit soon after , lis conversion (ch. 9:17). But now , i new emergency arises, and there is . i new filling for the new need. We lught not to be content because we liave once, or fifty times, known what it was to have the Spirit of God come rushing upon us and taking possession of our minds, and giving us | tvords of wisdom, boldness and power \ to utter. As each new emergency arises we should cast ourselves upon Him anew. Paul's words are very severe and very searching. They expose the depths of the infamy of Ely- , mas. Plainness and boldness of , speech is a characteristic of a Spirit* ' filled man (Acts 4:31; Eoh. 6:19). t Must Label Inferior Fish. As many packers put up "hump>ack" and "dog" salmon under fancy 1 arts? pq! 1 +Via-rrt sinnoiim taux^s uuu I.UU0 ocii ua^ui iu wuouiu!rs who believe them to be superior s rarleties, the Department of Agricul- v ure at Washington, D. C., ordered hat these fish when canned should be s abeled with their common names. c The decision also says that the fish ommonly known as lake herring hould be so called, but not desig- ! lated "wbitefish." . ... ... ? I Uniform Parcels Post Soon. ( The parcels post service to foreign ountries practically became uniform t ;fter March 1, with a postage rate of [[ welve cents a pound and a weight " Imit of eleven pounds. Japan and C Sweden, however, decided not to dopt the eleven-pound weight limit c intil the next month, and France, I longkong and Denmark are expected e o conform in a short time. * Oil From Plstacclilo IVuts. The island of Mauritius has a new J' odustry?the manufacturing of oil rom pistacchio nuts. It sells for * hirty-three cents a quart as a substi- 1 ute for olive oil. a ? dir HE CRUSADE AGAINST DRINK ROGRESS MADE BY CHAMPIONS FIGHTING THE RUM DEMON. "Off the Wagon Again." dreamed that I dwelt in an isle of cracked ice, In the midst of a lake of champagne, Vhere bloomed the mint julep in meadows green, Amid showers of litbia rain. reclined on a divan of lager beer foam, With a pillow of froth for my head, Vhile the spray from a fountain of sparkling gin fizz Descended like dew on my head. Trom far away mountains of crystalline . ice, A zephyr, refreshing and cool, ]ame wafting the incense of sweet muscatel, That sparkled in many a pool. Hy senses were soothed by the soft, purling song Of a brooklet of pousse cafe, That rippled along over pebbles of snow To a river of aosinthe frappe. ["hen, lulled by the music of tinkling glass From the schooners that danced on the deep, . dreamily sipped a highball or two, And languidly floated to sleep. Vnd then I awoke on a bed of rocks, With a bolster as hard as a brick, wrench in my back, a rack in my head, And a stomach detestably sick. With sand in my eyes ana a grit in my throat, Where the taste of last evening still clung, ind felt a bathtowel stuffed into my IUUUVU Which I afterwards found was my tongue, ind I groped for the thread of the evening before, In a mystified maze of a brain, Until a great light burst upon me at last, "I'm off on the wagon again." Getting Away From Oneself. David Grayson writes an interview vith a drunkard in the American Magazine. The drunkard explains vhy he sometimes wants liquor, and Hr. Grayson tells how men who nev>r touch liquor are sometimes just is much intoxicated. The drunkard is speaking: "Every day I work, work, work. I lave friends, but somehow I can't ;et to them; I can't even get to my vife. It seems as if a wall hemmed ne in, as If I were bound to a rock ivhich I couldn't get away from. I im also afraid. When I am sober I enow how to do great things, butv I :an't do them. After a few glasses ?I never take more?Iv not only mow I can do great things, but I !eel as though I were really doing ;hem." "But you never do?" "No, I never do, but I feel that I :an. All the bonds break and the vail falls down and I am free. I can eally touch people. I feel friendly md neighborly." He was talking eagerly now, tryng to explain?for the first time in lis life, he said?how it was that he iid what he did. He told me how beautiful it made :he world, where before it was miserable and friendless, how he thought )f great things and made great plans, tiow his home seemed finer and bet:er to him, and his work more noble, rhe man had a real gift of imagina:ion and spoke with an eagerness and ;loquence that stirred me deeply. I iroo almnst r>n the nnint nf flslrfnc lim where his magic liquor was to found! When he finally gave me in opening, I said: "I think I understand. Many men [ know are in some respects drunkirds. They all want some way to es^ :ape themselves?to be free of their )wn limitations." "That's it! That's it!" he ex:laimed, eagerly. We sat for a time side by side, sayng nothing. I could not help thinkng of that line of Virgil referring to juite another sort of intoxication: 'With voluntary dreams they cheat their minds." "Instead of that beautiful unity of hought and action which marks the Inest character, here was this poor :ragedy of the divided life. When, 'ate would destroy a man it first sepirates his forces! It drives him to :hink one way and act another; it entourages him to seek through outward stimulation?whether drink or iches, or fame?a deceptive and unworthy satisfaction in place of that :rue contentment which comes from unity within. No man can be two nen successfully. < "Most of us," I said finally, "are in some respects drunkards. We don't ?ive it so harsh a name, but we are lust that. Drunkenness is not a mere natter of intoxicating liquors; it ;oes deeper?far deeper. Drunkenaess is the failure of a man to con:rol his mind." A Little Sermon on Drink. In the first place, it is injurious jhysicaily, mentally and morally. In the second place, it deceives its victims to all kinds of perils. Thirdly, it invariably leads to other sins. In the fourth place, it exposes its victims, and that without exception. Fifthly, there can be no question :hat it weakens the will. The one who takes one glass is not as able ~ +V10 caonnil na ho was to rft !use the first. Sixthly, the only safety is in total ibstinence. Seventhly and lastly, in order to secure total abstinence for certain, the jrohibition of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages is a neceflity. The Battle in Illinois. The members of the Illinois State liquor Dealers' Association have igreed to raise $100,000 to defeat my local option bill that may be inroduced in the Legislature. Tempcrance Notes. Wisconsin has 650 towns where iquor selling is prohibited. It is the duty of every total abtainer to discourage drinking everywhere. The clients of the bum factory eem to supply more than their share .f nofpnno for thp bomb factory. Here's what is meani *oy cause and (ffect: "The county jail in Macon, iio., is empty for the first time in wenty years." Macon County has >een "dry" since July 1. ? Kansas ?ity Times. The liquor laws are said by some o be ahead of public s??:timent. That," responds the Boston News, is what's the matter with the Ten Commandments, too." It develops that the tax of two ents per barrel which the United Jrewers' Association recently decidd to place on beer is to create a und with which to fight prohibition. So far-reaching is the saloon's evil nfluence that in some instances the aw against the traffic hats failed, for he reason that the corrupting influnce of the dram shop at times eaches the inner precincts of justica ad subverts all law. ' -'Ti " ' I WE LAT US DOWN TO SLEEP* H We lay us down to sleep, g| And leave to God the rest; MB Whether to wake and weep aH Or wake no more be best. f iWhv vex our souls with care? 8H The grave is cool and low? XI ntfA Mfft 1 jfrt n/> loii* *io*t ric xuuuu iuc d\j inu hh That we should dread to go? JH ,We've kissed love's sweet, red lipt?, M And left them sweet and red; MM The rose the wild bee sips flfl Blooms on when he is dead. Some faithful friends we've found, BH But they who love us best, MB [When we are under ground Hfl Will laugh on with the rest. H No task have we begun O But other hands can take, H No work beneath the sun ffj For which we need to wakt jHI Then hold us fast, sweet death, H[ If so it seemeth best EH To Him who gave us breath That we should go to rest. IH |We lay us down to sleep, Our weary eyes we close;' H [Whether to wake and weep H s Or wake no more. He knows. HH ?Louis,i Chandler Moulton. |H Ways of Praying. n Some time since we Indicated seven 9| different ways of giving: "The selfish H way, equal way, proportionate way, etc." It has often Occurred to u? I that the Word of God hints man? B ways of praying also, ahd their men- I tion may show their defect and neces* sary lack of prevailing power. Fox H instance: H 1. The formal way?when prayet H Is a mere form of words, with little o* H no heart, or when it is simply due to H the force of habit which has '^st -it* H real motive power. ?| i. me nurriea way?iiasieimiy ' through it as a disagreeable and irk* some duty?a duty, Indeed, but not * delight, and tq be dismissed as quick* ly as may be. 3. The selfish way?when the rea> motive is to consume the coveted blessing upon ourselves?in some * *y to promote our own selfish adva .wage or pleasure. 4. The impulsive way?praying at the feeling prompts, and when w? feel so inclined?without any definite plan of prayer in our lives, or devout habit 6. The faithless way?with no ripa* dependence on the promises of God, or confident expectation of receiving; what we ask or seek. J 6. On the contrary, there is the thoughtful way, seeking to meditate upon God, and intelligently under* stand both the nature oi prayer an<T the -good we seek. 7. The earnest way?with the at tention of the mind and the desire o! the heart absorbed in asking, with adetermination to persevere, j 8. The trustful way?coming in the sDirit of a child; first believing that God's promises justify prayer, H and then that we are coming to a- fl Father both able and willing. , H 9. The consistent way-?that is, H living as we pray, and so walking* fl with God as to be in the way of bless- fl ing, and by fellowship with Gpd in? fl viting it. fl 10. The spiritual way?so cultl* I vating acquaintance with the Hoi? fl Spirit that He can and does breathe B in us first the desires we breathe out- fl in prayer. M It is easy to see why we so often* fl fall, and how we may succeed.?Mis- fl sionary Review of the^Worid. R Just Criticism is Good. fl Higher criticism has come to des- fl Ignate a higher form of modern un< fl belief. But when thus used the term* I is misleading. Criticism both hlgbei fl and lower is a perfectly legitimate SB process for studying the Bible?the , B former having to do with historical" fl and literary features, while the lattei fl deals only with the text. It is the 'B ?A??i,io)nno whirh certain students- H WiiWiuotvuw) nsa.WM have come to as a result of their study of the Bible by the hlghez methods, to which the term "higher criticism" is now usually applied, M This is wrong; higher criticism leads H as many to believe the Bible as it I leads to disbelieve it; the former are H believers and the latter are unbe 1 levers, that is, infidels; thus, "high er infidels" and "higher infidelity" 4 I would be more correct, certainly eas- ? ler to be understood, appellatives for both sucb critics and the conclusions of themselves and those whom they I are wont to speak of as "all schol? I ars."?Detroit News-Tribune. I Big Results From Small Things. I When man would raise a shelter I against the weather what prepara- fl tion of materials, what scaffolding fl and crowds of workmen, what I trenches and heaps of rubbish. But I when God would do the same, He takes the smallest seed that a new born child might clasp in its feeble I hand, deposits it in the bosom of the 9 earth and from that grain He pro* I duces a stately tree. To effect great I results by imperceptible means, such gs i??r nf nr>A ?TVAubiener. | is luc ia IT w / , Rabid Illiberalism. I must confess that the most rabid illiberalism I have ever known has been among those who boasted that they were of the liberal school in theology. An intolerance that is based upon contempt for the old view of things is just as bad as a tolerance that is based upon fear of the new View of things.?Rev. A. J. Haynea. Small Things. _ The gentle traits, the modest qualities, the quiet tastes, the unobtrusivedeeds, the unselfish attitude, the little attentions?it is just these small things which render our life fragrant, giving genuineness and character toour religion. In Bad Taste. . It is little short of blasphemy to make devotion an occasion for display. Fine prayeis are generally very wicked prayers.?Charles Spur* geonLease Involves 560,000,000. ' The directors of the Wisconsin Central Railway Company authorized a refunding first mortgage of $60,000,000, of which $36,000,000 is reserved to refund existing bonds and equipment obligations. The remainder will be issued during the next fifty years, undef proper restrictions. The rectors also*authorized the lease of the railroad and property to the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Ma- r rie Railwav for ninety-nine years. Sixty Languages Spoken. Sixty languages are in every day use in Freetown, Sierra Leone.