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l{|888888?8888?8?8?8888888 llTHElH01 f ^&88||g88S8888888888888; ^JtheIIS CHAPTER I. 1 m sfa Over the distant moor hung a soft welter of summer rain. Suddenly a sunbeam flashed across the wet fringes of the clouds, and lo! they re blossomed into a splendid rainbow! J"e Jacqueline lay amid the tall fern and the pink petalled daisies, and ?t watched the prismatic colors change ' and dissolve, but her thoughts the ^ while were three thousand miles m away. he The Cornish shore stretched before her eyes line a rare picture. Along the far horizon line the white ? 0 0 wings of outward bound vessels flit- . ted. Below the cliffs the restless Atlantic chafed and boomed, its myrir.d waves twinkling in a smother of sun- ^ Bhine. Jacqueline had seen those same cliffs in stormy weather, when the terrific surf diished upon them . In thunder claps, ard the fog horn at > the light, house wailed like the spirits . of the lost in the legend of Saint D6 Brendon. But to-day soft airs pre- ? vailed and perfect peace. The rare butterflies, peculiar to Cornwall, hov- ^ ered in the bracken; the jackdaws bad come out of their crannies, and . with the gulls, were circling about 1 ennohino !k mnil /*ort inltpf? (U OUiiOUlUV* *.A iUUi* VM& V jvivvm along the road, and near by, in a pa field bright with sea pinks, a flock of * -sheep fed tranquilly, watched by a sagacious sheep dog. In the distance w! Saint Michael's Mount lifted its pic- ' turesque beauty to the sapphire sky. Jacqueline lay in the fern, her smooth brows contracted, an open 0 letter in her hand. Not of England . was she thinking, nor this sleepy cor- ai aer of Cornwall. Her heart was far ca across the sea, amid the narrow ' streets of her native city. With fev- r' erish intentness she began to read ber letter anew. It ran as follows: "TTnr five vonrc tcp hnvp hppn Tiart ed, Jacky. and I am famished for the OT| Bight of your face, the sound of your " voice. The Wingates are most kind, but their kindness cannot fill the :aching void.' En passant, Miss Wingate lately told me that her brother a ! was once poor mamma's lover. This m' accounts for his goodness to me in sei our ^unparalleled family misfortunes. Often I had wondered why he took 'C1 me to his house and heart, when Aunt Bradshaw carried you away to Europe. He says I am like mamma, fei while you, though twice as handsome, j? are of another type. My lint locks and blue eyes appeal to Mr. Wingate, 8" and yoar dark beauty stirs the fam- ga lly pride of Aunt Bradshaw. So it qu was fortunate for both of us that we ?r< are born contrasts. I feel certain j]a * that the pittance left at mamma's ~? death must now be quite exhausted; de yet Mr. Wingate declares that enough ^ri remains to provide for me indefinitely, and that I must never, never re< think of myself as a dependent. Miss C01 Wingate, you know, is very deaf, and SDD when I try to question her upon the &n subject, her infirmity increases to ^r' such an extent that she cannot, or w ... - I tip will not, understand anytning i may -<= 6ay. Certainly Mr. Wingate has managed superbly if he has made the income of a few hundred dollars (for that is all that remained to us when y? mamma died), educate, clothe and Ja keep me for the last five years. Sometimes I long to ask a few questions of Dc Teddy Craven, who knows, I think, a great deal of Mr. Wingate's private y? affairs; but Teddy has a way of red- le* dening to the roots of his stiff brown tei hair, and growing so uncomfortable generally when I talk to him, that it cr< seems cruel to seek enlightenment to in that direction. Besides, he is not lo< such a simpleton as he looks, and I su think he could evade me quite as ^ skillfully as the others do. He is Tfc Mr. Wingate's clerk, and he comes Al 4a Inn/tVi Ar a r\T O V rhocc 111 UCiC UllCU IU IUUVU U1 vw J/1UJ VUVWU with Miss Wingate. Only last night, lal Jacky, we were dining out with friends of the Wingates. There were Br several strangers ui tiic ?.able. You co know I 'have keen ears. During the second course I heard a whisper: s" " 'I that pretty blonde the girl te' whose father shot himself?' Then the low reply, "Yes, after he had been *h robbed by his dearest friend. His cr' wife died heart broken. The other da daughter was adopted by a wealthy ly relative who lives abroad. This one Mi is cared for by the Wingates. Both an the girls were left paupers.' he '"I need not tell you, Jacky. that I fcund no further pleasure in that din- yo ner. Charity is bitter even when dis- re galsed by kindness and love. My mind yo i| made up?I will no longer live on Mi the bounty of the Wingates, but seek cu work, and become self supporting, di: like a true girl of the period. Surely an a modest advertisement in some high- st< viaos uaiijr journal win noi OC Wlin- Wi out results, and when I secure a sit- m uation in any respectable employ- yo merit that corresponds with my lim- if ited capabilities, you shall be duly in- se formed. I rejoice that you, as Aunt be Bradshaw's heiress, are provided for. One, at least, of the orphan paupers, dr to which the woman at the dinner be table alluded, has a future before re her. I have read in the society news nc of the sensation you recently made m at ? Loudon ball?how you outshone ui all other women present, antj^ capti- Bi vated some Scotch lord! It seems h that you are now known as the new American beauty. Oh, Jacky, I am Hi proud of you! I hope Aunt Brad- SI uhaw will not marry you to a for- ju eign husband, for then I should feel re that a new barrier had been set up br between uk. and already we are widely sundered. See what a selfish to beast 1 am. dear' ? though T cannot lii have you myself J h'-gnirt?;'; you to cjtlieri. I"orgi\b your poor, forlorn pi Doris, who loves you with her whole heart." j Ei Tears shone on Jacqueline's black lashes. She folded the letter and th rose up from the fern. She was u or giii of quick impulses, and already pc fcer f&solution was formed. j o: "Dear, darling Doris!" she mur-! w ! II I IW?W?M? B8888888gS?888888^ jseIonIi 8888888888?8888?88?f 1 >LANIDjgg| | ured. "Now, home to Aunt Bra<Jaw. to lay the case before her." She had wandered far afield this orning, and doubtless her captious lative was already seeking her. To turn to the old manor house by the idge. instead of the high road, was shorten the distance by a mile, at ast. Jacqueline, anxious to begin e business which now confronted r, determined to try the way failiar to the Cornish native. A dge in Cornwall is composed, not green growth, but of stones, broad ough at the top to form a dry and nvenient footpath. The one.chosen ? 1.11 uv Jacqueline was cruuiui:ug wnu ;e, and difficult of ascent, but the nerican girl scrambled l'ghtly to e top, and walked airily away over e rough path, her pretty summer ess fluttering in the wind, her soft, xk hair blown in disorder about r temples. So absorbed was she her own thoughts that she did not rceive a blonde, bloomy-faced ung man advancing over the same otway from the opposite direction. too, seemed lost in meditation, d the pair were actually confront% each other, before either man or jman became aware of it. Both used, surprised, ill-pleased. No Cornish hedge is broad enough enable two pedestrians to pass thout trouble. Jacqueline waited th a lofty air, but- the blonde man ide no movement. "I fear," she said, coldly, "that one us must jump down." He lifted bis hat, but with a cerin ungraciousness that did not espe the girl. "Permit me to give ice to you," he answered, and opped to the ground. Jacqueline wed like a duchess, and continued r way along the hedge top, never )king back. "How horrid these Englishmen s!" she thought; "he did not like do tnai. The house occupied by Aunt Bradaw stood in its own grounds, near sleepy little market town, with the jor undulating behind it, and the i plainly visible from its ancient tes. By the advice of her physans, Mrs. Bradshaw had left Lonn and its gaieties in the very height the season, and with niece and vants had journeyed to this spot, search of rest and quiet. The izabethan house, built of gray ine, was surrounded by an immense rden full of century-old pear trees, inces and medlars, espaliers, cov;d with ripening fruit, divided the gged walks. Wall flowers and uble stocks ran wild in the borrs; and Portugal laurel, ash and jwn beech filled all empty spaces. Jacqueline found her kinswoman :lining in an easy chair, in a wainsted sitting-room near a window lothered in ivy and china roses. A ay-haired, high-featured woman, essed with great elegance, and aring an air of languor and fa;ue. Decidedly a grand dame. As cqueline opened the door, Mrc. adsbaw turned querulously. "At last!" she said. "Where have u been, this unconscionable while, c?" "I went off to the cliffs to read iris' letter," answered Jacqueline. "Could not you read it indoors, u absurd child? I, too, received ters?here is one from Lord Month." She drew a closely written eet from an envelope that bore a ;st. "He is seeking some pretext visit Cornwall?I am sure we may )k for him soon. Ah, my dear, I spected you had made a conquest e night of Lady Swayne's ball, lis is certainly the day of the rierican girl. Monteith has a place Norfolk, and a deer forest in Scotid?'* "He also has a bald bead, Aunt 'adsbaw, and crow's feet at the ruer's of his eyes," interrupted cqueline. "Oh, dear Aunt Bradaw, let us not talk of Lord MonIth." She stood up, straight and tall, !n e low-ceiled room?a beautiful ec^ure, certainly, with her big, rk eyes and creamy skin, and softrumpled coils of blue-black hair, rs. Bradshaw was proud of the girl, d, after her own fashion, fond of r, also. "Very well," she answered, "with ur face, and the dot which you will ceive from me, I am certain that u can make a better match than onteith, even. Shake up these shions, my dear?I Will write and scourage him from coming here, d as soon as this Cornwall air rejres me we will go to Invernesshire, lere some American friends of ine have a moor; and after that, u shall see the Dieppe races, or, you like, Trouville in the bathing ason, or Homburg?you have never en to Homburg"? "Aunt Bradshaw!" Jacqueline ew a step nearer the speaker, and .'Id out. Doris" letter. "Will you ad this? Oh. please?please make ) more plans for me! It grieves e to tell you?you will think me an lgrateful wretch, but, dear Aunt radshaw, I must go home?my iart is breaking to see uoris!" Aunt Bradshaw grew stiff in every nb. Her countenance changed, le took the letter mechanically, a?lsted her nold-rimmed glasses, and ad it through. Then her wrath oke forth. "Home!" she said, in a withering ne, "you have no home, Jacquele!" "It b home wherever Doris is." eaded the girl. Consternation appeared in Mrs. radshaw's face. "Is this my reward, Jac. for all ,e care and money I have lavished 1 you? You to leave me now? Im>ssible! But." bitterly, "what can le ecpect of the daughter of a man ho first Hung away a fortune, and then Killed himself like a coward, leaving wife and children to face the world alone!" j "Dont' say such things of ray father," entreated Jacqueline. "He did not fling away his fortune?he was betrayed and robbed. And when he killed himself his trouble had driven him mad?as mad as any maniac in a padded cell." 1 "Enough of your father!" answered Mrs. Bradshaw. sternly, "Doris is a weakling, like him, though she has her mother's face. But you, I thought, was of different mould. Listen to me, Jacqueline; the 7/oman at the dinner table spoke truly? Doria is a pauper, living on the charity of the Wingates. What, then, has she to share with you? Only her poverty. Does she not tell you in this letter that she is seeking employment? Be sensible, child?you now have nothing in common with vour sister. For five years she has been separated from you?leave her , still to her good friends, the Win gates. Doubtless they will continue to care for her, and she will marry Mr. Craven, the clerk, who is 'not ' such a simpleton as he looks.' But you, Jac?I have another path ; marked out for you. Remain with me and I will make you my sole heiress?leave me now, and I will dis- , own you?I will never see you again, i and of my possessions you shall not ! receive one penny." Tears gathered in Jacqueline's ! eyes?her lips trembled. "For your money I care nothing, j Aunt Bradshaw; but you have been ' most kind and generous; and in op- ; posing your wishes and wrecking your plans for my future, I feel like , a thankless beast. But Doris is alone and unhappy. She is my sister?her j claim is stronger than any other. I cannot help it?I must go to her, | and at once!" Something in the white, young i face made Mrs. Bradshaw's heart j sink. Her dreams of social triumphs ! for her niece?of a brilliant, titled j marriage, toppled like a house of , ' o ^IsonnAint. '/ Uttl US. OJLJJtXi 11U5 TT J CJU uio?i/pu*uvment, she stormed, coaxed and en- ! treated?in vain. Jacqueline re- ' mained firm. Then Aunt Bradshaw j changed her tactics, and fell back J among her cushions with an air of exhaustion. "My dear," she said, sadly, "let us not talk of this matter any more to-day?Heaven knows it is serious enough to demand plenty of thought! Wait until to-morrow before you make your final decision. Now, Marie shall dress me and you must order the * pony carriage for our morning ride." Jac made no demur. Her heart ; was heavy. She was quite willing to i postpone the struggle for a few | hours. The two were soon rolling ' along the highway in the genial sun- : shine, talking of everything but the subject which filled the thoughts of each. Just at the entrance of the market j town a brawling river came tumbling down from the moors, and on the stone bridges which spanned it, Jacqueline descried a male figure in tweed, leaning against the parapet, and gazing absently into the flood below. She gave an involuntary j start. "There is the surly Englishman j that I met on the top of the hedge," j she said. She had just been relating j the incident to Mrs. Bradshaw. The , latter put up her glass. "That man is not English," uhe answered, with visible annoyance. "He is your own countryman, Jac. Who would have thought to encounter him here? There are some things in life that will not stay bur- J ied." "Do you know him?" asked Jacqueline. "Yes?that is?perhaps he will not , see us. Touch the pony with the 1 whip, my dear." Jacqueline obeyed; but as she did J so the man on the bridged turned, i and looked straight at the carriage. I Recognition unmistakable appeared j oft his face?seeing which Mrs. ' Bradshaw assumed her society manner, and the fat pony came to a stand. "My dear St. George," said Mrs. Bradshaw, holding out a delicately glOVCU llitUU, vvnai. a ucuguuui out- , prise. I did not know you were in England." To be Continued. 7^ Destruction Caused by Eata. Consul Maxwell Blake sends from ' Dunfermline an extract from a Scotch newspaper on the destruction caused by rats, as brought out by a deputation from the Incorporated Society for the Destruction of Vermin. Headed by Sir James Crichton Browne and the Duke of Bedford, they waited upon Lord Carrington at j the offices of the Board of Agriculture to urge him to appoint a commission to inquire into the subject of the destruction caused to crops by ! rats. The extract reads: "The depu- ' tation pointed out the enormous dam- | age done by rats, which amounts, on > a most moderate ' computation, to j ?15,000,000 per annum in Great Britain. This is arrived at by allow- j ine only one rat to a cultivated acre ; of ground. Assuming that each rat \ does, damage to the extent of one ' farthing a day, this works out on the forty million acres of land at the figure mentioned. Sir James Crich- , ton Browne incidentally stated that i two million people died of plague in India, and said it had bee.i proved that the rat was the chief cause of trhe spread of infection. It was also stated that the expenditure on rat poisons in the United Kingdom ' amounts to ?250,000 per annum. ! which is considered many times more than would be required properly to exterminate the vermin if the cam- ! paign were systematically conduct- 1 ed."?Daily Consular Reports. Time's Changes. The captain was receiving the new j middy. "Well, boy, the old story, I i suppose, fool of the family sent to sea?" "Oh, no. sir,' piped the boy, j "that's all altered since your day."? I London News. | A colored man up at Leavenworth j has broken the record for living under difficulties. A surgical operation showed that he had lived a week with a blod clot in his brain as large as a man's hand. 'the pulpit. A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY R DR. ROBERT J. KENT. Theme: Home Training. ri Brooklyn, N. Y.?It -was baptismal tt Sunday at the Lewis Avenue Congre- ze gational Church, and after baptizing cc six children, the Rev. Dr. Robert J. sf Kent, the pastor, preached a sermon w on "Home Training," taking for his E text, Deuteronomy 6:7: "And thou sc shalt teach them diligently unto thy T< children, and shalt talk of them es when thou sitteBt in thy house, and B when thou walkest by the way, and hi when thou liest down, and when thou ' tt risest up." Dr. Kent said: to The sacrament which you have if witnessed this morning is either full dl of beauty and vital significance, or" w it is utterly devoid of all meaning |e\ and power; a mere empty form. Which it is depends upon the spirit ;,h< of intelligent, sincere consecration eg that is present in, or absent from the tc hearts of these parents. The falling f of a few drops of water on a baby's SI head, while the minister utters a ai sacred formula may have no value 0i whatever. We do not believe that I there is any magical influence in the J rite of baptism. Everything depends ' m fVizi iinHorotanflinc hv those I o. who consecrate their children, of the j m meaning of the baptismal vows, and i ^ upon their resolve to keep those vows j yt faithfully. What are * the sacred *r2 promises made by the parents? in They solemnly pledge themselves fr to do all in their power to bring up their children in Christian nurture. y( They promise to teach their children, as soon as they shall be able to un- te deratand, the meaning of this act of g| consecration. Little children ask curious questions about sacred ^ things. It is the parent's duty and u] privilege to explain why they bring ,jj their children to church, and set u] them apart in this formal way. They ai 6hould tell them of the Heavenly SJ Father's love, of the nobility of the 0j Christian life, of their earnest prayer m and wish that they may have their jj( part in bringing in the kingdom of q, God, and that the sacred promise they made in church they must strive cl to keep. Children can thus be made e, to see that father and mother are lo under a holy obligation to lead them j,, Into the knowledge of their Lord and cg Saviour. Parents promise, too, that cj they will instruct their children in i gl the Scriptures, teaching them the egreat eternal principles of life. They ^ promise to pray with them aad for n( them. Many a child has never heard its father's or its mother's le voice in prayer; one of the most gc precious memories of childhood is thus lost. And finally they promise to set an example of piety and godliness before their children. In a word ' the whole personality is pledged tc the Christian training of the child. These baptismal obligations can- I not be satisfactorily met by sending j j the boy or girl to Sunday school foi j ? an hour Sunday afternoon during thf I years of childhood. Christian nurturt j is a matter of years, requiring th< j highest wisdom and a Christ-like pa- j In tience. The daily training in th< ; home is necessary. Right here is 1 where the finger of emphasis needs j lii to be placed in our time. Never in I in the history of the world was so mucb j o! thought given to the welfare of the T child, and yet something is evident- J si ly lacking. There is a large and in- i w creasing literature devoted to the in- j is terests of childhood, books and mag-: tt azines are discussing all sorts of j ti questions pertaining to the physical, j ol mental and moral education of our i te boys and girls. There are societies at for preventing cruelty to them. One ; is of the reforms earnestly urged to-day j se is adequate legislation to prevent ! m the cupidity of employer or parent ! si from sending children to work at too j SI earlv an aee. The juvenile delin- i B quent has engaged the attentions of f in wise and philanthropic men. The ! sc children's courts have come into be-! cl ing, and growing out of them is the i ol Big Brother movement. The public i 8! school has been developed to a high I vr point of efficiency; an army of trained J i< educators, many of them gifted spec- w ialists, are devoting their best time p< and thought to the education of the tfc young; the kindergarten is being es? f tablished everywhere. The health' of the children i6 carefully guarded; everything is being done to save them i from the devastation of epidemics. I R There is a growing demand for more I ,, playgrounds for them; we have all j P; kinds of organizations among the i " children themselves. Then there is ; the Sunday school, with its multi- j plying methods, and Its host of j ?! teachers and its vast literature. Surely the thoughtful world is . aroused to the value of the child. ? And yet, no careful and candid ob* nrver can say that there is not 01 something wrong. Something id C(: missing. There is a lack of reverecce, of obedience, of respect for law. " The home is not doing its part, and cc nothing can atone for neglect of p< home training. A very thoughtful book, recently published, in discussing the question of juvenile deltaqvency has found the cause of the Ci trouble mainly in the lack of home- j y training, and the most promising , ]0 remedy suggested is the provision of j ai homes with their wholesome influ- I tu ~ YTTV. ~ 4-* nn/tntiminA I .1 tJUL.'S. VVUttLCVCl ICUUQ IU uuuciiiiiuc gj the homo is therefore to be deplored; C? and there are many such tendencies. cc The frequent change of residence iD the great city is one; the prevalence of divorce is another; and the constant pressure of business and social intf rests is the worst. There is lit- li tie time left in many a home for the j S> cultivation of companionship be- j bi twetn parent and child. Parental ! w privileges and duties of supreme ira- I tt portance are neglected. j tt But when these duties are faith- : 1c fully and lovingly performed, they result in unspeakable blessing to the child, to the State, to the church. No more valuable work is being J p( done to-day than the quiet, unob- h, served training of children in the j g. principles of Christian living within 1 the home. | That training is tho finest *hins ; ve we can give our children. It is the j J)e richest fruit of our love. I ja We all look forward to the time i when they shall leave our home and 1 ,j( face the duties and temptations oi I Qf iLcuvtr inc. Happy is that father, that mother. | fil who can lie down at night with an j untrobuled heart, knowing that wher- i v< ever their son or daughter may be, if he or she is fortified against the th perils of life by the principles in- St stilled in the heart through years of wise, loving nurture in the home. eT This is the demand, too, that the ej market place is making on the home. w Business cannot be carried on except on a basis of confidence, and confidence rests on character. We may . praise smartness, we may admire its shrewd tricks and clever devices; re but we all know that the greatest oc asset <in business is character. ar PC OUR TEMPERANCE COLUMN. ! I EPORTS OP PROGRESS OF THB BATTLE AGAINST RUM. i A Ringing Utterance. An utterance which has the right : ng, and which finds a response in j ie hearts of thousands of good citims who might not have had the ' lurage to make it, or J,he grace of . >eech to put it so well, is the reply j hich Bishop Hoss, of the Methodist , piscopal Church, South, made to , ime politicians and newspapers in , snnessee friendly to the liquor inter- j its, when they intimated that the j ishop had no right to say what he i id been saying about the traffic, and I lat it would be to his advantage and j the profit and credit of the church j the Bishop should leave off med- i ing with politics. These are the | ords in which the Bishop made an- j ver to the suggestion: "My citizenship is a part of my in- I ;ritance. It came to me from hon- ! X and stout-hearted men who helped ! i build this mighty commonwealth. j or the proper use of it I am re- j )onsible to no man or set of men j id will not surrender it on the clam-ous demand of subsidized news- J ipers or impertinent politicians . I Crack your whips, gentle- i en, as loudly as you please, but be j ire to crack them over the heads of ' en who desire some favor that you { now, or dread some penalty that | )u can inflict; but do not make the I ish and foolish experiment of try- | g to crack them over the heads of ee Tennesseeans who want nothing I lat you have, and fear nothing that I ju can uu. Possibly the liquor war has enred upon a new phase by the United :ates Brewers' Association having jund its members to sell no beer to jalers whom any brewer has placed ider a ban. But we shall sound no | rge for the Anti-Saloon League atil more is known about the bau id the placing of it. Doubtless, a r6tematic and general weeding out j ! undesirable patrons is one of the | oves needed to rehabilitate malt i guors and all who traffic 1n them. | ertainly, the gravest evils of alco- ; 31. direct and indirect, are those of i leap spirituous beverages, "red j re," "Black Joe," and less euphon- j us variants of fusel oil. Those * ewers see clearly who have advo- j ited separate licenses for the two i asses of beverages, and- also the isling of but one sort of license to j Lch saloon. Even vith this arrange- j ent, however, the beer saloon will j 3t vindicate itself so long as the ! acklisting of disreputable bars is i ft to individual brewers, as the Asiciation seemingly leaves it. Free impeititon will operate in the future ! in the past; each brewer, fighting ird for profits, will turn a lenient re upon his own bartenders and cus mers. But once let a National or a < :ate committee sit as moral judge, ith rnwpr tn restrict the sales of 1 Association members, and the j nodel saloon" would materialize, if ever can at all.?Evening Post. (temperance and Poverty in Albany j County. Few Albanians would like to be- ! eve that there is more drunkenness j i .this county than in other counties ' New York State similarly situated, here seems no good reason why ich should be the case; neithei ould they like to believe that there a greater amount of poverty in lis county than in such other coutes. The report of the State Board ! Charities "for the year ending Sepimber 30, 1907, sets forth facts rel;ive to -intemperance and pauper- | m in our city and county which : iem to indicate that we are in a i uch worse condition in these re- j >ects than the other counties of the i :atp containing second class cities, j eginning October 1, 1907, and end- J g September 30, 1908, 466S per- J ins received aid from the public larities department in the county ' Albany because of intemperance; 39 of those helped were children ! hose parents were intemperate; j 580 were women whose husbands ere Intemperate, and 2208 were jrsons who had become paupers irough their own intemperance.? I rom the Albany Citizen, May, 1909. Result of Blind Pigs. Recent investigations from Little j ock showed that there are more j ind pigs in Little Rock and Argon- j >, the two most strongly license i ties in Arkansas, than in any other ' >mmunity in the State. There are t iventy-nine saloons and fifty-six ; ind pigs in these two towns. In 190S there were 312 convicts in I ie Arkansas penitentiary, who came ! om seventeen license counties, and j lly 252 from the fifty-eight dry unties. In proportion to the pop- J ar vote for Governor in 1906 only : penty-seven per cent, should have j >me from the wet counties, but the ;r cent, is actually fifty-five. The Powerful Saloon. Theodore Roosevelt, when Police ammissioner of the city of New j ork, said; "The most powerful sa- : onkeeper" controlled the politicians ; id the police, while the latter in j irn terrorized and blackmailed all ! ;her saloonkeepers. If the Araeri- 1 in people do not ontrol it, it will introl them." Testimony of a Merchant. One of the oldest dry goods estab- j shments in Xenia, Ohio, recently \ five out the statement that their 1 jsiness during the past three months I as better than in the forty years of i leir existence, and they attribute' lis increase to there being no sa- | ions in the city. ? Temperance Notes. A saloonkeeper was recently ap- 1 Dinted by Mayor of Pittsburg a;! j sad of the Department of Public j ifety. A liquor lobby at Albany at one mo acknowledged before a commit- j ,e of tbe Legislature that it hail ex- j jnded $100,000 to influence legis-1 tion. The Prohibitionists of Iowa are en- i savoring to raise a campaign lund ! ' twenty-five thousand dollars for j *09-10. and have reached the first , fteen hundred. Don't be too severe on those who jte "wet" in their city or county you are regularly doing the same n'ntr in fp?ard to the whole United ;ates of America. Mayor Rose says that the liquor .estion is bigger than that of slavy. And yet there are those who i cpect to settle it off to the side, j ithout disturbing the even tenor of j >.rty politics. The distiller rides in a steam yacht, e wholesaler in an automobile, the j tail dealer in a carriage, but the insumer of the liquor is pulled j ound by the hair of the head by a ' >liceinan.?Atchison Globe. Sfc ! &urifeciu-&dm{ ; INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM- < MENTS FOB OCTOBER 10. Subject: Paul a Prisoner?The Plot, j . Acts 22:30-23:35?Golden Text: ] Ps. 9:13?Commit Verse 11? ! Commentary on the Lesson. TIME.?A. D. 58. PLACE.?Jerusalem. j . EXPOSITION.?I. The Plot of the ; .Tews to Murder Paul, 12-15. It " looked very dark for Paul, and if Paul ! had been at all like most men he ' would have had a heavy heart. But ! , in the night the Lord appeared to His , faithful servant to cheer him. Possi- I . bly Paul had been tempted to think j that he had made a mistake in com- | ing to Jerusalem against the protests I of his friends. What Jesus had said to him was sufficient to banish all 1- ii ? *v.?* Uo Ponl HUCI1 inuuguts <xa tiiai. iuiu ^ ??. , to "be of good cheer," and that as he had borne testimony concerning Him . at Jerusalem, so must he also bear testimony at Rome. Evidently the , Lord approved heartily of Paul's tes- j , timony at Jerusalem. It is clear also J , that those who fancy that Paul was j' headstrong in goin? to Jerusalem, . and was following his own wishes i and not the leading of God in doing so, are altogother misjudging him. j Quite likely Paul's appeal to Caesar at a later day (ch. 25:11) was sug- j \ gested by the words that the Lord spoke to him at this time. A dan- , gerous conspiracy and plot was form-. 1 ing against him. But God was, as ( He always is, beforehand with Hie : comfort and preparation for the cri- ( sis. Human friends sometimes comfort us after the trial has arisen, but , it is God who comforts us before the , need appears. The conspiracy was i strong and apparently dangerous. No less than forty men were in it. They . were determined men, willing to go i any length to compass their purpose. : They would not even stop at murder, j and would put aside everything? \ even eating and drinking?until this 3 one thing was done. They fancied j that they were the viceregents of God on earth, and had a right to put those , whom they saw fit to regard as God's | enemies out of the way, even without j legal process of any kind. There is , no more dangerous man than the man , fornioii 4hot 4f Is tnr him to indzf TTUU Jiauvivo a v iu .. J who are God's friends and who are His foes, and that he himself is ap- ] pointed of God to be the executioner 3 of God's judgments. Doubtless these 1 conspirators thought that they would , be doing God a service in putting \ Paul out of the way (Jno. 16:2), a , solemn warning to all in any age whc would take the judgments of God into their own hands. This was not , the only time that Paul was the ob- , ject of such infamous plots (ch. 25:3; , 9:23, 24: 14-5, 6; 20:19; 2 Cor. 11: , 32. 26, 32, 33). The plot was well ( laid. It seemed certain of success i But it failed utterly. Why? God , (Ps. 2:1-4; 64:1-10; Isa. 89:10).. Paul was just as safe after this plot , was formed as he was before (Rom. 8: 31). Forty desperate men, backed ; up by the powers that be. and in { league with the devil himself, can ap^ parently accomplish a good deal Id this world, but they are utterly powerless against God. They cannot kil> ( in Jerusalem a man whom God has ( appointed to go to Rome and beai witness of Jesus there. Paul was fol. lowing again, very closely in the road , his Master walked in having such a plot formed against mm (Mate. zo: , 4). That the conspirators thought il ; a perfectly proper and pious thing that they were doing is evident from ; their disclosing it t,o the priests an<? elders (cf. Jer. 6:15; Hos. 4:9). They j sought the co-operation of the priests, and got it. II. God's Exposure and Defeat ol 1 1 the Plot. 16-22. It required no mir- j 't acle to defeat the plot of the Jews j . But the defeat was of God just ae! . much as if the whole course of nature > had been stopped. The plot leaked ; out and got to the ears of a relative | of Paul. Very likely he did not sym- . pathize with Paul's views, but he re- j 1 coiled at the thought of his being as- j 1 sassinated. Paul's enemies were ] caught in their own counsel (cf. Jot i 1 5:13; 1 Cor. 3:19). This scheme to! overthrow God's purposes and word j i had failed utterly (cf. Prov. 81:30; < Lam. 3:37). Paul had faith in God, I 1 but that did not prevent his taking j : judicious precautions to defeat the 1 wiles of his enemies (Matt. 10:16), ] The captains and colonel both had oc> 1 casion to fear Paul (ch. 22:25-29). They were both eager to do something to gain his favor. Probably! : when the colonel took the young man i so courteously by the hand and led j ; him to one side he hoped he had come i to suggest a bribe for Paul's deliver-* i ance (cf. ch. 24:26). Thus his fears and his cupidity worked together with other things to secure Paul's i rescue (cf. Rom. 8:28). The plot not i < only failed, it resulted in furthering j God's plans and fulfilling His word. ! It started Paul on the road to Rome, I and brought him into Caesarea, where he had the opportunity of bear- ; ing witness for Christ before Felix. , Festus, Agrippa, Drusilla and Ber-< , nice. It resulted also in that imprisonment to which we owe so many pre-; \ cious epistles. Again God made the] ' wrath of men to praise Him (Ps. 76: / 10). It is not. at aJl likely that the j ronsDirators kept their word about I . not eating or drinking until they had ; killed Paul. From the Talmud we learn that in such a case the rabbis ! had power to absolve them. So will every plan that is formed against God's faithful servants fail, even , 1 when it seems to succeed (Isa. 54/ ' 5 | < * (). .Lohster Famine Imminent. At Newport, R. I., everybody in the cottage settlement is eating lobsters. I At Narragansett Pier and* the other society resorts there is the same demand. A famine was threatened. The Clambake Club got a supply daily from off their clubhouse, and J. Piorpont Morgan secured all he needs at his Graves Point clubhouse. The | wholesale price was advanced five j j cents, making lobsters eighteen cents j a pound at wholesale and the supply i VPrv chnrf. | Turtle a Sure Rat Trap. A rat caught by a snapping turtle was a novel exhibit at a restaurant at . Schuylkill, Pa. The rat was loitering around a swill barrel when suddenly J the live trap was sprung J Jersey Tunnels Popular. More than 500,000 persons used j ? the McAdoo tunnels between lower j * Manhattan and Jersey City in the j first week of ilieir ooenins. Costly Docks at Rio. f The construction of the docks at ] Rio de Janeiro has already cost over ^ $57,000,000. i i I ?????? ?^ Religious Reading, FOB THE QUIET HOUR. PIONEERS. * I Db, crc?8 and crown of thorns, the world' reward Of Christ-like service! God's divines* 5 sons Must walk alway the nigged path that . runs Steep to Golgotha; theirs the faces marred By tears, theirs loving hands most deeply scarred, And for their ears the mob's blood-ox that stuns With stormy blame; and long the blind world shuns y. yJ rhe gates of Progress by their strength unbarred. / J": Set wrong not such with pity!?souls sublime In vast achievement must so toil, alone! The life of ages measured by their own. Iheir shame bears fruit of honor for all time; # t rheir dungeon's taper guides the feet that climb: They make the scaffold glorious like a throne. ?Stokeley S. Fisher. ' Moral Power. Endued with power from on high. ?Luke 24:49. Power is something every man wants. We are all struggling to get out of the rank of the nobodies into the rank of the somebodies. Money is power, and in its pursuit men tear open mountains and sail wide seas and toil ear4y and late. Knowledge is power, and to possess , it men read books and excavate buried cities and make experiments In the laboratory and exhaust the brain with perplexing thought. Social position gives power also, and there are those who will make any sacrifice and endure any humiliation to see their names printed in some exclusive list Df first citizens. The struggle for power is as old as Lhe race. Man 1s inferior in physical strength to many of the animals, but holds dominion over Jhem all. He won his position by annexing power, mklAk Via oil n Kam t Vim 4m VT UlVsJJL UO XUU-UU . OUUUt 1 UliU * lUk, abundance. Prom humble begin- . aings he has multiplied 'power almost Infinitely. His achievements with, expanding steam and flashing lightning and magnetic current* surpass .iV", the dreams of Aladdin. The earth has an inexhaustible endowment of material force. In the beginning God equipped it with exhaustless energy. We have learned to command this force. We have taught this energy to serve us. The result is our material civilization. But man is a spirit. His higher life demands something more than millions of horse power. He needs to wield a moral force surpassing all : material force. He is called to the task of annihilating weakness and sin as he has annihilated time and space. The earth is full of moral energy; 4 There has been manifested through the ages a power which makes for righteousness, which Impels this world from darkness into light. It is the power from 00 high. It is the spirit of holiness. All the currents of yS life are moving in one direction. The universe goes on to Defection. As we have annexed the material, 90 we may annex the moral power. In both cases knowledge and obe dience are the keys which unlock toe storehouses of energy. We have discovered the laws which govern the forces of nature. We work In harmony with these laws, and nature is our servant. If we oppose them they crush us. So ?we must learn the laws of God and obey them. We n^ust bring ourselves into harmony with :? ' the forces of righteousness. The power from on high enters the^ heart of the good man. Then .he 4s Invincible. He can stand like Atha- ;,!i nasius against the world. He is free from doubt. He knows not fear. He? (i draws strength from the inexhaustible fountain of strength. In evipry controversy he can say, "They that are for us are more than they that are against us." He knows that one with God is a majority. ? Thomas Reed Bridges, D. D., South Church, New York, in Sunday Herald. The Blessings of Salvation. It Is an appreciable and enjoyable thing to have tbe blessings which the sun gives, There io such a thing as possessing salvation, and tbe blessing of salvation, but the best of all is to have the Blesser in whom all these are fonnd. "He that spared not Hia own Son, but delivered Him up for usall, how shall not He with Him also freely give us all things?" The great* er always includes the lesser; if you have the Son, you have also His benedictions. It is important to enjoy the streams that fertilize tbe land, but bettor still to have tbe fountain from whence they enanate. As the streams are dependent upon the fountain for supply, so also the temporal blessings resulting therefrom are dependent upon the fountain more than upon the streams. So the means of grace and the blessings of salvation are wholly and absolutely dependent upon Christ for efficiency and pei?petuity. In the Place of Quiet. Mark tells us that "without a parable" Jesus did not speak, at one period at least, unto the Jews, and that 'when they were alone, He expoundsd all things to His disciples." There ire great advantages at times in solitude. The soul aloof from mankind that it may be alone with God is in the way to receive great and inspiring revelations. But the solitude 1 with God is meant to prepare for the service for men, and the things which Jesus Christ expounds to His own i:i the retiracy of the inner circle are matters which concern active duty in society as well as individual culture }f soul. Christianity the Fonndation. A cupola or a lightning rod you nay have, but a foundation you must laver, and that foundation is Chrisianity. Christianity furnishes the 'oundation, and no man can get on veil without it.?Rev. T. E. Bartlett. Plain Dealings. Only by plain deaNng can parents ind teachers be able to influence the ife of a boy toward the things tor; vhich a boy was made.?Rev. H. TV klusselman. Shoots Wasps. One of the most accurate marksmenn the world is Lord Walsingham, who s able to shoot wasps on the wing. This feat requires a marvelous eye ind the steadiest of hands. To jractice on wasps and other Insect shooting he had a miniature rifle ipecially constructed. He also holds he record for an unsurpassed grouse iag, for, after shooting single-.'iandd for 15 hours, he had aocounted tfor ,070 grouse. On another occasion, vith 1,100 cartridges, he accounted for 142 birds. ...